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UE Magazine is distributed toalumni and friends through the Officeof University Relations, University ofEvans ville, 1800 Lincoln Avenue,Evansville, Indiana 47722. Change ofaddress notification should be sent to theOffice of Alumni and Parent Relationsat the same address. The University ofEvans ville operates under a nondiscrimi-natory policy with regard to race, color,creed or religion, national origin, gender,sexual orientation, age, or disability.

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EditorLucy Himstedt

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Associate EditorAndrew Carter ’07

Student EditorDanielle Weeks

DesignerSusan Heathcott ’78, M’80

TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURES

6 SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT

7 CALLED TO ACT

8 COMMUNITY IMPACT

9 HEAD OF THE CLASS

10 FINDING THE WORDS

14 I♥UE MEMORIES

DEPARTMENTS

2 CAMPUS CONNECTIONS

4 UE NEWS BRIEFS

11 WHERE ARE THEY NOW? UE ARCHIVES

12 ACES IN ACTION

16 CLASS NOTES

27 IN MEMORIAM

29 GET CONNECTED, STAY CONNECTED

2012 Winter CommencementCongratulations, graduates! This is just the beginning. UE is unquestionably a lifelong relationship.

Keep your classmates and professors posted on your personal and professional milestones and accomplishments.

CONNECTING ALUMNI • TRANSFORMING LIVES

UE Connect

Don’t forget to connect with alumni in your field of interest

or where you live. www.evansville.edu/alumni/ueconnect.cfm

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National HonorsEvery fall, colleges and universities across the nation hold their

collective breath in anticipation of the U.S. News & World ReportBest Colleges rankings. The 2013 rankings, released in September,showed the University of Evansville holding steady as one of the top10 regional universities in the Midwest – and one of the region’s besthigher education investments.

UE maintained its ninth-place standing in the “Best RegionalUniversities: Midwest” category, which ranks approximately 150 universities in 12 states. The University also kept its #3 position on the list of “Great Schools at Great Prices” in the Midwest, andwas named an “A-Plus School for B Students” among Midwestregional universities.

“While we know that numbers alone can’t capture the full University of Evansville experience, we’re pleased to maintain ourstature as one of the Midwest’s top universities,” said UE presidentThomas A. Kazee. “Particularly noteworthy is our ‘Great Schoolsat Great Prices’ recognition. Our commitment to offering a high-quality education at an affordable price is evident in our announce-ment of The Big Freeze, our tuition freeze and four-year lock-in for current students and the incoming class of 2013.”

UE’s other recent honors include ranking #36 in WashingtonMonthly’s list of master’s-granting universities (out of 682 nation-wide), being named one of 153 “Best in the Midwest” universities byThe Princeton Review, and ranking #318 on Forbes’s list of “America’sTop Colleges.” The University was also named one of the nation’smost “Military Friendly Schools” by Victory Media/G.I. Jobs andmade the President’s 2012 Higher Education Community ServiceHonor Roll, which recognizes exemplary commitment to serviceand volunteering. �

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Recalculating the FutureThe standard sequence of college calculus classes lasts three semesters.

But what if there were a way for students in various majors (from biology toeconomics) to learn important topics typically taught in the third semesterof calculus, which many of these students cannot fit into their schedules?

Dave Dwyer and Mark Gruenwald, UE professors of mathematics, havereceived a three-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundationto examine this possibility. The grant is one of 30 awarded out of over 400proposals submitted to the NSF’s TUES program (Transforming Under-graduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)for extending and broadening the work of successful pilot projects related toundergraduate STEM education. It is one of only two such grants awardedfor projects related to mathematics.

The grant supports the second phase of Dwyer and Gruenwald’s Rese-quencing Calculus project, which builds on work that was funded by a$150,000 NSF grant awarded in 2009. The current phase of the projectentails completing a three-semester textbook, testing and assessing the text-book and the sequence at four other universities, and campaigning forbroad and sustained adoption of the revised sequence.

“A close look at the order and choice of topics in the mainstream calcu-lus sequence is long overdue, especially in light of the ever-increasing role ofmathematical and statistical modeling in fields such as chemistry, biology,and economics,” said Dwyer. “For too many students and at too many insti-tutions, mainstream calculus sequences as they exist now are a poor fit.”

Gruenwald added, “Our approach more closely connects calculusinstruction with its application in STEM fields, and it facilitates deeper andearlier exposure to both upper-level math courses and upper-level courses inSTEM disciplines where calculus is applied.” �

Every year, civil engineering seniors put their skills to the test byworking to solve a real-world problem. This year, the seniors are tak-ing on two separate projects: one with the Evansville areaTrails Coali-tion (ETC), and one with G.O. Ministries in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Evansville riverfront is a popular location for walking, run-ning, and biking as it is, and seven civil engineering students plan toimprove it by constructing an 8-mile trail from the riverfront to New-burgh. This trail will run along the I-164 corridor, and it will even-tually extend to Angel Mounds. After completing diligent surveywork, the students presented multiple trail options to the ETC inthe fall, and the final design will be completed this spring.

Another group of civil engineering students – along with businessand mechanical engineering students – are taking their skills overseas.

In August, these students spent a week in the capital city of Mongo-lia. By working with the team of G.O. Ministries missionaries settledthere, the students recognized the need to refurbish two buildingsinto a top-of-the-line housing facility and training center for craftbusinesses. In May 2013, all of the students will present their designsand plans to G.O. Ministries, which will then put their plans intomotion.

“When students experience and serve a vastly different culture,they often return home with an increased sense of social responsibil-ity and a passion for using their skills and knowledge to help others,”said associate professor of mechanical engineering John Layer, whoaccompanied the students. “They see the impact they can have on theworld, and they start the academic year with a new motivation.” �

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BRIEFSUE NEWS

World RenownedAnthony Beavers, UE professor of philosophy and director of cognitive science,

received the 2012 World Technology Award in Ethics at a ceremony in New YorkCity last October.

The World Technology Awards are presented in association with TIME, Fortune,CNN, Technology Review, and Science and go to the “peer-nominated, peer-elected, most innovative people in science and technology,” according to theWorld Technology Network.

Beavers was recognized for his work in moral theory, which attempts to showhow and why existing ethical frameworks are insufficiently suited to the informa-tion age and why ethicists need to develop alternatives.

Thirty World Technology Awards are presented each year in various categories,ranging from the arts to education to health and medicine. Notable past recipi-ents include former vice president Al Gore, Linux operating system developerLinus Torvalds, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Facebook leaddeveloper and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg.

UE alumni and friends are invited to honor an educator whomade a difference in their lives: a favorite teacher, most challeng-ing professor, or other role model.

All gifts made to the Educators Honor Roll will support theSchool of Education, providing faculty and students with profes-sional development, notable speakers, and additional resourcesfor opportunity-rich experiences in education.

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To recognize an educator, please contact Abigail Werling, UEdirector of gift planning and capital support, at 812-488-2272 oram275@evansville.edu. �

A Literary Legend to Visit Evansville

This spring, the University will host one ofAmerica’s most versatile and accomplished writ-ers. Thanks to a $10,000 grant sponsored by theEfroymson Family Fund, the Department ofCreative Writing will bring world-renownedauthor Joyce Carol Oates to UE for a two-daysymposium dedicated to her life and work.

Oates is the author of more than 100 books,including the national bestsellers We Were theMulvaneys and Blonde and the New York Timesbestsellers The Falls and The Gravedigger’sDaughter. She has been nominated repeatedlyfor the Nobel Prize and currently serves as theRoger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of theHumanities and Professor of Creative Writingat Princeton University. In 2010, PresidentBarack Obama awarded her the NationalHumanities Medal.

Oates’s visit to the University is not only agreat learning opportunity for creative writingstudents and faculty but is also a culturallyenriching experience for everyone in the com-munity. “A visit by Joyce Carol Oates, madepossible by the Efroymson Family Fund, will bea significant event in the history of UE, and anextraordinary opportunity to raise awareness ofthe critical importance of the arts in our lives,”said William Baer, UE professor of creativewriting.

The symposium will feature a public readingby Oates on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in EykampHall in UE’s Ridgway University Center. Oateswill host a question-and-answer session, and theevent will include several scholarly panels. Plansare still being finalized.

April is still a while away, and Oates hasplenty of works from which to choose; why notselect one of her titles and visit one of herworlds before she visits the University? �

Professeur de L’annéeCathy Fraley was named the collegiate-level Teacher of the Year

for 2012 by the Indiana chapter of the American Association ofTeachers of French.

The award was presented in November during the Indiana For-eign Language Teachers Association conference in Indianapolis.

Fraley’s academic interests include courses in language, busi-ness French, and French culture.

Top RankedAgainst stiff competition from student veteran organizations

around Indiana, UE VETS won the SVO Hall of Fame Competition,held October 27 in Indianapolis and sponsored by the MilitaryFamily Research Institute at Purdue University (MFRI). UE wasthe only private college or university selected to compete in theevent.

Army veteran Jariah Besing, a civil engineering major fromFrancisco, Indiana, and Army Reserve member and Iraq veteranHayli Cingle, a criminal justice and sociology major from Lan-disville, Pennsylvania, presented on behalf of UE VETS, discussinghow the organization provides support and outreach to veterans,current service members, and their families as they transition fromthe military to college and beyond to the workforce.

“The University of Evansville is an example of what an SVOshould be,” said Michael Dakduk, a competition judge and exec-utive director of Student Veterans of America. “Not just in Indi-ana; they are a national example of what SVOs can aspire to be.”

Innovation EncounterAn interdisciplinary team of five UE students brought home

first-place honors in the Innovation Encounter competition heldin October at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield,Michigan.

Innovation Encounter is a team competition for inventiveproblem solving. Teams from seven universities were tasked withcreating a product for a real-world company, Masco Corporation, tointroduce into a specific market sector. (To protect the company'sintellectual property, participants may not divulge details aboutthe products).

Students on the winning UE team were accounting major LanDo, global business major Andrea Cadavid, nursing major BrennaSiscoe, and mechanical engineering majors Vaughn Ahlf and JustinJackman. Jerrilee Lamar, assistant professor of nursing, and RickDeer, director of the UE Center for Intensive Experiential Educa-tion, coached the team.

Teachers on the Honor RollIn honor of its 140th anniversary, UE’s School of Education has

created the Educators Honor Roll, which recognizes the service ofeducators who have made a profound impact in the Evansvillecommunity and throughout the world. This permanent recognitionwill be displayed in Graves Hall.

The display was unveiled with the first 18 honorees duringhomecoming events in November. (See page 14)

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New Leader for Enrollment Services

With the new year came a newvice president for enrollment ser-vices. Shane Davidson joined UEfrom Hardin-Simmons University inAbilene, Texas, where he served asvice president for enrollment andmarketing management. Davidsonhad been with Hardin-Simmonssince 1997 where he began asassociate vice president for enroll-ment services. In 2006, he waspromoted to vice president forenrollment management, and in

2010, he successfully merged the school’s marketing and communica-tions and enrollment management offices.

At Hardin-Simmons University, Davidson’s accomplishments included a14.2 percent increase in new, first-time undergraduate students from 2006to 2011, a 48 percent increase in admission applications since 2003, andan 18.9 percent increase since 2004 in the number of new HSU studentswho graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes.

His 20-year career in higher education includes the positions of directorof financial aid, financial aid counselor, and assistant registrar at WaylandBaptist University in Plainview, Texas, and director of university services atHoward Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.

Davidson holds a Doctor of Education degree in higher educationadministration and leadership from Baylor University, a Master of BusinessAdministration degree in management from Wayland Baptist University, anda Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Howard PayneUniversity.

“I’m very excited to join the University of Evansville family,” Davidsonsaid. “UE has a great track record of success, established academic pro-grams, and outstanding students and faculty. I look forward to leading theUniversity’s enrollment efforts.”

UE Hires Vice President forMarketing andCommunications

Donald L. JonesM’83, an alumnusand former adjunctfaculty member, isnow the University’sfirst vice presidentfor marketing andcommunications. He is responsible for overseeing theUniversity’s brand

strategy, marketing, public relations, and communications.He began work at UE this past December.

Jones previously served as vice president of marketing for MSW Research, a New York-based company that countsDisney, Intel, P&G, L’Oreal, Kraft, and MillerCoors among its clients.

Jones brings vast professional experience in strategicleadership, branding, marketing and communications, mediarelations, electronic communications, and more.

“We have a great story to tell at UE, and Don’s consider-able experience and energy will better enable us to let theworld know what a remarkable place this is,” said UE presi-dent Thomas A. Kazee.

Jones earned a Master of Business Administration degreefrom the University of Evansville and a Bachelor of Sciencein marketing from Indiana University. He has taught graduate-level courses in strategic planning and marketing at UE.

“As a UE graduate, I have witnessed personally how theUniversity of Evansville faculty and staff deliver a distinctiveand personally life-changing experience that prepares everystudent for success in a global marketplace,” Jones said. “I look forward to sharing with students and their familiesthe opportunities to change the world they can expect fromjoining the UE family.”

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using their gifts for ministry, their vocational goalsbecome clearer.”

Joyner said his practical experience in the field ofministry has given him a realistic expectation for hisfuture career. “My view of ministry isn’t a romanticnotion like it might have been,” he said. “By spendingso much time at Neu Chapel, I know what it’s likewhen the job you’re called to do isn’t what you feellike doing that day.”

Colleton graduated in May and is currently spend-ing a year studying for the MCAT, submitting papersfor publication, and continuing her senior thesisresearch in the aquatics lab under the guidance ofLora Becker, associate professor of psychology. Col-leton’s project involves studying fetal alcohol syn-drome treatments on zebrafish, with the eventual goalof finding a homeopathic treatment that people canpurchase over the counter.

“Shemikah has a great aptitude to make careerconnections, and she is fearless when it comes to ask-ing for advice,” Becker said. “She has the backgroundknowledge and resources that make it easy for collab-orators to say yes. This ability comes from her strong

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Beyond the Classroom

“UE taught me to be confident in whatever I do. Here, you can take an idea and pursue it to whatever lengths you want. It’s because of this environment that I’ve gotten to thispoint. I can find motivation and set my own goals – not just the ones in the syllabus.”

family connections and challenges she has workedthrough in classes at UE.”

Although she’s on the path to medical school, Col-leton calls herself “not your average biology student”– she also owns a cake pop business, KakePops byKashari, with her sister, freshman Keziah Colleton, anaspiring attorney majoring in psychology and legalstudies.

“UE taught me to be confident in whatever I do,”Colleton said. “Here, you can take an idea and pursueit to whatever lengths you want. It’s because of thisenvironment that I’ve gotten to this point. I can findmotivation and set my own goals – not just the onesin the syllabus.”

Called to Act

On his first weekend as a University of Evansvillestudent, Nick Joyner found his way to a pew in NeuChapel for one simple reason: He wanted to attendchurch but didn’t have a car. What began as a tempo-rary solution became a safe haven and a second familyfor Joyner, now a senior. Since that Sunday morningmore than four years ago, the religion and psychologymajor has become a familiar face at Neu Chapel as aworship leader. He has also embraced opportunitiesto put his academic interests into practice off campus,from preaching at a national festival to advocating forsocial justice issues in front of Evansville city govern-ment leaders.

After attending Neu Chapel services for a year,Joyner became more involved as a sophomore by vol-unteering as an usher and acolyte. He developed astrong mentoring relationship with Chaplain TamaraGieselman, who invited him to help lead worship,write liturgy, and occasionally preach during Univer-sity Worship services. She also encouraged him toparticipate in the local Festival of Young Preachers(taking place February 16, Founders Day weekend, inNeu Chapel) and the national event (held this year inAtlanta, Georgia) that brings together young preach-ers from various Christian denominations.

“By leading the liturgy and preaching on a regu-lar basis in Neu Chapel, Nick’s experiential learninghas helped him find his voice and become more con-fident in a formal worship setting,” said Gieselman.“When students are given opportunities to practice

Every semester, students’ schedules include a building and a room number for each

class – but that room is only the beginning. Some of the most powerful, transformative

experiences, from internships to research projects, happen outside the classroom. For

some students, that means preaching in front of a congregation or designing their own

biology lab spaces; for others, it means teaching poetry to middle-schoolers or helping a

nonprofit organization apply for grants. Here are the stories of five UE students whose

educational experiences have been transformed by hands-on learning.

Scientific Achievement

Shemikah Colleton ’12 may have graduated last May, but the biologyand psychology double-major still logs at least 20 hours a week on campusin a small, little-known room tucked away in the Koch Center for Engineer-ing and Science: an aquatics lab filled with tanks of darting zebrafish.

The lab, which Colleton designed and set up herself, represents the latestin a series of impressive research projects she has undertaken since enrollingat UE. Originally from Puerto Rico, Colleton moved to Newburgh, Indi-ana, as a teenager with her family. She has always loved science (her fatheris a pathologist, her mother a veterinarian), and she chose UE because shewanted a challenging academic program close to home that would prepareher well for medical school.

The summer after her freshman year, Colleton had her first experiencein a professional laboratory setting as an intern at Bristol-Myers Squibb, apharmaceutical manufacturer in Mount Vernon, Indiana, where she workedfor three summers.Her first task was to calibrate and format a new programfor a machine that studied three-dimensional images of tissues. Colletonadmits she was timid and unsure the first summer, but by the next year,“I was more confident and mature enough that I really understood whatI was doing.”

It was that project that earned Colleton a spot in the Society of Toxo-logic Pathology’s 2012 annual symposium in Boston, Massachusetts. Aftersubmitting an abstract of her paper, she was selected to give a poster pre-sentation as part of the conference’s Young Investigators Award competi-tion. Colleton finished fourth among the 28 presenters, mostly medicaland doctoral students.

During her third summer at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Colleton tackled anew task: investigating why a drug had not been successful by determiningthe location of a particular receptor. Colleton solved the problem – thereceptor wasn’t where it was initially believed to be – and presented herfindings in a teleconference to the company’s vice president of researchand development in New Jersey.

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counseling, testing, and referral services, as well as aone-on-one counseling program that helps clientsmanage and reduce their HIV risk factors.

With these three successful proposals, UE studentshave generated $145,817 in secured funds for localnonprofits – and the project is only in its second year.

“We know that many nonprofit agencies are short-staffed and struggle to find the time to conduct

research, gather the materials they need to requestfunding, and write a detailed grant request,” said CarlaDoty, director of UE’s Center for Adult Education.“Through the PSA program, students have the oppor-tunity to make a difference in the community and thenonprofit world while getting valuable hands-on expe-rience, and we’re thrilled to see those results coming sosoon after the launch of the new capstone project.” •

Joyner also credits Dianne Oliver, chair ofthe Department of Philosophy and Religion, forinspiring his passion for social justice issues. “Herclasses helped me understand the Bible and whatto do with it – how to live a life of meaning,”he said.

During his time at UE, Joyner has foundedthe Ace Advocates student organization, volun-teered with local nonprofits such as Impact Min-istries and Metro Christian Center, and partici-pated in Congregations Acting for Justice andEmpowerment (CAJE) meetings, in whichEvansville congregations encourage elected offi-cials to address a specific issue related to socialjustice. The organization’s recent successesinclude establishing a community dental clinicand expanding public transportation to a corri-

dor where jobs are available but inaccessible tothose without cars.

“Being in the community has given me aconcrete understanding of the abstract ideas Ilearn,” Joyner said. “There’s a practice to talk-ing about religion in a classroom, and for me,that looks like working with the poor and thevoiceless.”

When reflecting on his time at UE, Joynerthinks of the biblical story of Abraham beingcalled away from his comfortable home intothe wilderness. “I’m not the same person I waswhen I got here,” he said. “By studying religionand psychology, I study what makes a personhappy, healthy, and well-adapted. That’s whatI’m becoming.”

“Being in the commu-nity has given me aconcrete understand-ing of the abstractideas I learn. There’sa practice to talkingabout religion in aclassroom, and forme, that looks likeworking with the poorand the voiceless.”

“Through the PSA program, students have the opportunity to make a difference in the community and the nonprofit world while getting valuable hands-on experience, and we’rethrilled to see those results coming so soon after the launch of the new capstone project.”

Community Impact

Grant writing, statistics, and applied research are just a few of the topics covered in the University of Evansville’s Master of Science degree inpublic service administration, offered through the Center for Adult Educa-tion. But unlike most graduate programs, students in the PSA programwere not required to complete a thesis project – that is, until David BothastM’10 and Alicia Harris ’02, M’08 proposed a new way for students todemonstrate their skills while benefiting the community.

Their proposal inspired a new PSA capstone project, which requiresstudents to write and submit a grant proposal for a nonprofit agency in theTri-State area. Under the leadership of adjunct faculty members Bothastand Harris, PSA graduates who now teach in the program, the first cohortof students who completed the project generated nearly half a milliondollars in grant requests for 12 organizations. Kyle Foli M’12 was the first PSA student whose proposal received fund-

ing. In April 2012, he submitted a grant proposal to the Indiana Depart-ment of Education to benefit Dugger Elementary School in Dugger,Indiana, where his child attends school. Just 24 hours later, he receivedword that the IDOE granted the entire $34,873 he requested through agrant program supporting rural and low-income schools. The funds willhelp the school expand its use of technology by purchasing iPads forteachers and providing professional and curriculum development.

In October 2012, Jim Martin M’12 made a proposal to benefit MarianEducational Outreach, which received $25,944 from the Welborn BaptistFoundation. The funds will benefit the Technology in Touch project, whichhelps students with special learning needs be academically successful in highschool and better prepared for post-secondary education by using tech-nology such as the Kurzweil 3000 tool, which speaks text aloud, allowingusers to create and edit documents as well as study by taking notes, sum-marizing, and outlining text. Such adaptive technologies have beenproven to benefit a student’s long-term ability to learn and communicate.

In November, Eric Alexander M’12 worked to help the AIDS ResourceGroup receive $85,000 from the Indiana State Department of Health forHIV education and prevention services. The grant will support ARG’s

Head of the Class

When it comes to educating future teachers, ChuckWatson ’68, chair of UE’s School of Education, believesthe best way to learn is by doing. “The research onteacher development is very clear,” he said. “The morepre-service field experiences a person has, the more suc-cessful he or she is as a beginning teacher.”

For UE education students, that approach meansbeing placed in a local classroom beginning their fresh-man year – unusual among education programs – toobserve veteran teachers and occasionally tutor smallgroups of students. As the future educators progress intheir training, they spend half days teaching during their

entire junior year (usually while taking several coursesat UE), and spend one semester of their senior yearas full-time student teachers.

Senior Mitch Mowrer, an elementary educationmajor from Columbus, Indiana, said that as a fresh-man, his first stint in a local school was an eye-open-ing look at the teaching profession. “At first, I thoughtbeing an elementary school teacher would be a pieceof cake,” he admitted. “But I learned how teachershave to constantly keep their eyes on everyone. I alsosaw how each student’s cultural background changesthe way he or she learns.”

During her freshman year, Kensi Sauley, asenior elementary education major from Madison,

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The University of Evansville’s more than 150 year history can be found tucked away on the firstfloor of the Clifford Memorial Library. A virtual treasure chest of documents, books, and photosaccumulated through UE’s long history are kept there in the UE Archives.

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New Language endorsement and volunteers as an English tutor ata local church. Mowrer completed his student teaching during thefall semester, and hopes to teach kindergarten after graduation.

Watson estimated that by the time UE students graduate,they will have spent 1,000 hours in school classrooms, which oftenleads to job offers since principals and school leaders have seen UEstudents work in various settings with diverse students.

“I can see the benefits of that experience from looking at internsand student teachers from other schools,” Mowrer said. “UE stu-dents have so much more opportunity to be out in schools earlyon, so the preparedness that we have is really evident.”

Sauley, who will have completed four internships by the timeshe graduates, agreed. “I have so much experience with differenttechniques and teaching styles,” she said. “You learn best how toteach by doing it, not sitting in a classroom.”

Indiana, worked with several students who needed extra help withreading and writing. “It was a little intimidating at first,” she said,“but the experience was well worth it. By the time I got to juniorblock, I was much more prepared and knew what to expect.”

Sauley’s junior block classroom included one child with spe-cial needs, which taught her “how to be inclusive,” she said, “howyou can differentiate yet incorporate students into a classroomwithout making them feel separate.”

While UE’s education program requires students to assumesignificant responsibilities in local classrooms, Mowrer and Sauleyemphasized that they don’t have to go it alone; classroom teachersand UE faculty members provide supervision and guidance. “Ourprofessors always have answers to questions,” Mowrer said. “Theyhave really high expectations, but they want to see you succeed.”

Sauley is currently student teaching and hopes to teach thirdgrade after graduating in May; she is also earning an English as a

“I have so much experience with different techniques and teaching styles,” she said. “You learn best how to teach by doing it, not sitting in a classroom.”

SWIP) sends trained UE students to Evansville mid-dle and high schools and community organizations toteach creative writing to underserved students. SWIP,established in Fall 2011 with a $21,000 grant from theBall Brothers Foundation Venture Fund, servedaround 1,200 students at 10 schools in its first year.

“Creative writing addresses multiple IndianaDepartment of Education academic standards byoffering enjoyable ways for students to improve theirvocabulary, critical analysis skills, and reading compre-hension,” said Rob Griffith, associate professor of cre-ative writing and faculty codirector of SWIP. “Only35 percent of secondary schools nationwide offer cre-ative writing courses, so there is a great need for pro-grams like SWIP.”

For UE students like Russell-Pope, who hopes toeventually teach writing at the university level, SWIPoffers a taste of what it’s like to lead a classroom.Teaching fellows are required to attend monthly train-ing sessions, prepare lesson plans, and accomplish spe-cific teaching objectives during their school visits.“We treat this like an internship,” Russell-Pope said.

For both UE students and the teens they teach,Russell-Pope believes the greatest reward of the pro-gram is the confidence gained in finding new ways toexpress themselves. “Writing has helped me find myvoice,” said Russell-Pope, who, in her short time as acreative writing major, has published work in five lit-erary journals. “I never could talk about the things Iwrite about; I can just let my feelings and emotionsonto the page. For the age group we work with, it’sso important to find that kind of outlet.” �

Finding the Words

During her junior year at the University of Evans -ville, Jessica Russell-Pope took a creative writing classon a whim – and the decision changed her life. “Iloved the atmosphere of writing classes,” said Russell-Pope, an Evansville native now double-majoring inpsychology and creative writing. “You really get toknow your classmates and professors.”

As a student codirector of Student Writers of Indi-ana, a new program in UE’s Department of CreativeWriting, Russell-Pope’s goal is to inspire the same loveof writing in local teenagers. The program (known as

The Archives does not just containofficial files and papers. There are alsomore unusual relics in its collection –such as a 90-pound teapot.

“The teapot is huge,” said archivistKathy Bartelt. “It could serve 850 peo-ple.” That’s a big tea party!

Given to the University by SilasIchenhauser, a trustee from 1921 to1925, the teapot was manufacturedaround 1890.

Other unique treasures in theArchives collection include totem poles that were

purchased from the same company asthe Wooden Indian now showcased inthe UE Bookstore window. There arealso Evansville College sweaters, minia-ture Methodist Episcopal hymnalsfrom the mid-1850s, and George S.Clifford’s “Map of Circles.” Cliffordworked to relocate Moores Hill Col-lege to Evansville and drew the mapto illustrate that Evansville was theonly Indiana city without an accred-ited institution of higher learningwithin 50 miles.

A great deal of Moores Hill his-tory is preserved in Archives. Thereare yearbooks, photos, student newspapers, trustee minutes, and records of attendance and grades.The Evansville College and University of Evansville erasare also represented with complete sets of the LinC andCrescent, catalogs, and more. (If you are so inclined, anddig long enough, you can show your children a yearbookphoto of your big hair look from the ’80s).

Bartelt noted that these records can actually be helpfulto alumni. For example, a UE graduate pursuing anotherdegree might need a description of a course taken yearsago, and a catalog from that year would contain thatinformation.

Current UE students use Archives, too. Barteltexplained that archaeology majors working on the TinCity excavation site on campus look through Crescentnewspapers from that era to get information.

Much of the archived material is of interest to thegeneral public as well.

Sometimes Bartelt gets genealogy questions frompeople whose ancestor studied or taught at Moores Hill.“We look through the volumes to see if we can find thenames,” she said.

There are also often inquiries about the Karl KaeKnecht cartoon collection donated to Archives in 1962.Knecht was a well-known editorial cartoonist for the

Evansville Courier from 1906 to 1960.The cartoons are often used as illus-trations in history books.

UE athletics is another populararea of inquiry. Writers and filmmak-ers come for information on the 1977plane crash that killed the UE men’sbasketball team and coach. Archivesalso has scrapbooks of sports articlesfrom the mid-1950s to mid-1970s thatmany researchers have used.

Whatever the question or topic ofresearch, Bartelt is happy to assist.

“Our philosophy,” she said “is thatwe want to help as much as we can.”She’s also happy to

receive your help in building the Archives. Remember the old idiom, “one man’s trash is another’s treasure.” If you run across Moores Hill College, Evansville Col-lege, or University of Evansville memorabilia, don’t throw it away; there just might be a home forit in the Archives. �

For more information about the Archives …Kathy Bartelt can be reached at 812-488-2486 or kb4@evansville.edu.

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In her work with the Storm, Rojan sat directly behind the team bench and providedassistance to her boss during the game. Her duties included taping athletes prior to games,running rehabs during the contests, and administering laser therapy. Though she was notable to make road trips with the team, the Summer Olympics presented Rojan with anequally great opportunity.

Since Rojan’s internship lasted from the opening day of training camp in April throughAugust 15, her experience with the Storm included the Summer Olympics. Leading up tothe games, basketball teams from four countries convened in Seattle for exhibition contests.The United States, Canada, China, and Japan each played some of their exhibition gamesin the area, and Rojan was able to work directly with these athletes.

“That was a really neat experience. Being able to work with athletes and trainers fromfour countries is very unique. It was neat to see how they did their jobs and how trainingis done in other countries,” Rojan said.

During this time, Rojan was able to demonstrate her leadership skills. The WNBAtook a two-week break for the games, and Rojan’s boss used that time to take a vacation,so Rojan took over parts of his job while he was gone. Throughout her entire internshipexperience, she offered suggestions and ideas for therapy, but during the break, she wasin charge of organizing an entire rehab program for a player who was working throughan injury.

While her official work with Seattle ended in August, Rojan worked with the Storma month later. On September 12, the team traveled to Indianapolis to take on the Indi-ana Fever, and they invited her to the game. She assumed her old position, got to workwith everyone at her first road contest, and helped keep the athletes healthy. With hercareer goals in front of her, Rojan would not have it any other way. �

Every year the Missouri Valley Conference recognizes the school whose student-athletes combine for thehighest grade point average. For five years in a row, Creighton held that honor. But the Aces put that streak toan end. The University of Evansville has been recognized during the 10th year of the program with the MVC’s2011-12 All-Academic Award.

It was presented as a surprise during the yearly Heritage Federal Credit Union Student-Athlete AcademicHonors Breakfast last fall. Toward the end of the program, every player in the room – representing all of theAces’ teams – was asked to come to the stage where the award was presented by Patty Viverito, senior associ-ate commissioner of the MVC. Commissioner Doug Elgin from the MVC’s St. Louis headquarters had alsotraveled to Evansville.

Cross country runner Shelby Cron made these comments to the MVC on behalf of the student-athletes.“This event really epitomizes all that we stand for as student-athletes ... We are going to try to become doctorsand try to become lawyers, and to be recognized by the Missouri Valley Conference as the best institution inthe conference for academics is a bigger honor than any that we could receive in competition. ... For everyoneto be recognized for all the hard work they are putting in is truly an honor.”

“At Evansville, we take pride in our academics,” senior basketball player Colt Ryan told the EvansvilleCourier & Press. Ryan posted a 3.31 GPA while averaging 20.5 points per game to earn MVC Scholar Athleteof the Year honors last year. “I think [the award] says a great deal about the type of people we have here andthe type of character they have.”

Dedicationto the Aces

Future Some of the biggest cheers of last fall’s

homecoming celebrations came not on themain courts and fields of Aces’ teams, but onthe practice courts. The dedication of the newFifth Third Bank Basketball Practice Facilitywas one of the showcase events of the weekend.

Head basketball coaches Marty Simmonsand Oties Epps, along with players from boththe men’s and women’s teams, joined ShellyKirk of Fifth Third Bank in celebrating theofficial opening.

Kirk read the following statement fromJohn N. Daniel Jr., president and CEO of FifthThird Bank, Southern Indiana, and chairmanof the Athletics Committee of UE’s Board ofTrustees. “Fifth Third Bank is proud to be apart of this dedication. Not only is the FifthThird Bank Basketball Practice Facility a majorstep forward for Aces athletics, but also for theUniversity of Evansville as a whole. This facil-ity marks the first phase in the master plan toupdate and renovate the campus. Fifth Thirdis excited and pleased to be a part of historythat will continue to impact UE, its students,faculty, and the community into the future.”

The opening of the $3.6 million, 25,000-square-foot facility, marked the first phase ofthe University’s new campus facilities masterplan. The facility is located on the west side ofUE’s Carson Center and was funded entirelyby private donors. The practice facility includesgym space, men’s and women’s players’ lounges,and offices and storage areas for basketballcoaching staff.

“Less than eight months after announcingthe Fifth Third Bank Basketball Practice Facil-ity, we’re thrilled to show off the completedfacility,” said John Stanley, UE director of ath-letics. “The Fifth Third Bank Basketball Prac-tice Facility will help us recruit outstandingathletes, support the men’s and women’s bas-ketball players already enrolled, and benefitall students at the University of Evansville bycreating more space in the Carson Center,”Stanley added. “We’re very grateful to FifthThird Bank and all project donors for theirsupport of this beautiful new facility and ofPurple Aces athletics.” �

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“We are proud of the work that each and every one of them does on a daily basis in theclassroom and on the field,” said UE director of athletics John Stanley. “This award proveswhat most of us have already known – that student-athletes at the University of Evansvilleare top-notch people, students, and athletes.”

UE’s 13 MVC sports and 214 student-athletes combined to post a grade point averageof 3.284 for the 2011-12 academic year. An impressive 78.9 percent of the student-athleteshad a GPA of 3.0 or better during the spring 2012 semester. Nearly 10 percent of theathletes had a 4.0.

“This award speaks well to Evansville; the faculty, the student-athletes, and coaches.It is a tremendous achievement when you consider the quality of our schools across theboard,” Elgin said. “This was a tremendously uplifting event to see. To see the faculty,student-athletes, and staff turnout was great. What an image it was to have all of thosestudent-athletes up there on stage. It is what we’re about in the Missouri Valley.” �

MVC Champs of the Classroom by Lucy Himstedt

With sports careers, getting a foot in thedoor seems to be the toughest part. Estab-lishing that connection while working on adegree is even tougher, but senior AshleyRojan excels at both. Her experienceworking at the University of Evansvillehelped her secure a professional intern-ship in the summer of 2012.

Rojan, a Seattle native, came to UE because of the University’s physical therapy program. “The University ofEvans ville has a great program that fit my needs perfectly. I received direct entry into the PT program while also beingable to major in athletic training,” Rojan said. “Most schoolsdo not offer both options, so things have been perfect.”

In addition to her classes, Rojan works as an athletictrainer for the Purple Aces men’s basketball team. Last year,she interned with the WNBA’s Seattle Storm as a trainerwith their squad.

“One of my old coaches knew the athletic trainer withthe Storm, and that led to a phone interview and eventuallythe job,” Rojan said.

The collegiate and professional sports environments mayseem vastly different, but Rojan did not find that to be thecase. While there were some obvious differences, her primaryduties were the same. “I learned a lot more manual therapysituations and was able to bring a lot of that experience back[to UE] after working in that environment,” Rojan said.“One main difference is that at UE, I am a student and theathletes are my peers. Professionally, it was different since itwas the athlete’s job and livelihood; but aside from that, itjust came down to doing what we needed to keep the ath-letes on the floor and healthy.”

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MemoriesHOMECOMING 2012 REUNION WEEKEND

Larry Humes ’66, Mr. Indiana Bas-ketball 1962, UE championship team1964-65 member, and his brothersand a nephew were honored by theCity of Madison, Ind., with a streetnamed for their family. From Main to5th Street is now called Humes Way.He and his brothers Willie, Kenny,and Louis “Junebug” and nephewHoward “Bugs” played an importantpart in the history of Madison Con-solidated High School basketball asplayers from 1958 to 1974. Larryretired as a school counselor from theIndianapolis Public School Systemseven years ago.

Jerry Linzy ’66, M’73 was awardedthe SiSeymour Award by the Associa-tion for Healthcare Philanthropy(AHP) for outstanding contributionsto the development profession onbehalf of nonprofit hospitals andhealth care systems throughout NorthAmerica. Jerry is a senior managingpartner and chief operating officer ofChicago and Boston-based JeroldPanas, Linzy and Partners, one of thelargest firms in the US offering cam-paign services and financial resourcedevelopment. Throughout his career,Jerry is credited with having raisedmoney on behalf of more than 300hospitals, and other institutionsamounting to nearly $2 billion. Jerrywas the recipient of the University of

Evansville’s Edie Bates Alumni Volun-teer Service Award in 2004. He alsohas worked to create two endowmentsin memory of faculty members bene-fitting the University of Evansville, forwhich he served as a trustee and aspresident of the alumni association.

Richard Hume Werking ’66 hasretired after more than 20 years aslibrary director and professor of his-tory at the United States NavalAcademy in Annapolis, and he wasrecently named professor emeritus.Before his tour at the academy, heheld librarian and teaching positionsat Lawrence University in Wisconsin,University of Mississippi, and TrinityUniversity in Texas. He earned anMA and PhD in American historyfrom the University of Wisconsin andan MA in librarianship from the Uni-versity of Chicago. Most of his teach-ing has dealt with the history of USforeign relations, especially the earlyCold War, subjects that sparked hisinterest while he was a student in col-lege thanks to a stimulating coursewith longtime UE professor Tom Fid-dick. He has served as a foundingmember of the teaching committee ofthe Society for Historians of AmericanForeign Relations and as the electedchair of the College Libraries Sectionof the American Library Association.His parents, F. Woody Werking andMary Werking, taught for many yearsin UE’s Department of Modern Lan-guages, and his sister Catherine is amember of UE’s class of 1968.

1967

Head AgentsJean Coyle, Dianne McCarty

Rev. Jean M. Coyle ’67, PhD issupply pastor at Unity PresbyterianChurch in Temple Hills, Md.

John Shatzer ’67 has found muchjoy in his recent marriage to Geor-ganne Harmon of Nashville, Tenn.

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1930s1934

Mary Belle (Hopkins) Estes ’34celebrated her 100th birthday June 1,2012, in Albuquerque, N. Mex.,where she resides.

1950s1954

Head AgentsWilliam Knapp, Karl McClure

1955

Head AgentJohn Koehler

1956

Head AgentJohn Conaway

Class AgentsJoanne Bailey Detlef, Loretta (Beldon) Hoevener, Susan (Chenoweth) Olesen, Lewis Plane, James Schreiber

1957

Head AgentsLowell Foster, Tom Lukens

Class AgentPaul Wargel

Carolyn (Conaway) Barnett ’57has closed her store, Carolyn’sFashions in Evansville, Ind., andretired. She was in the fashionindustry for 36 years and became anatural at knowing a person’s size ata glance. Before entering the fash-ion world, Carolyn taught Englishin Henderson, Ky., for 20 years.She plans to devote more time toher grandchildren, communityefforts, and personal interests.

1958

Head AgentsJames Barney, Robert Love, Maurice Rohleder

Class AgentsDavid Kishline, Raymond Wright,Allen Stremming, Carol (Spiegel)Yeker

1960s1961

Head AgentRonald Miller

1962

Head AgentJack Kinkel

1963

Head AgentJanice (Elmendorf ) Schmidt

Stanford Singer ’63 and his wifeLenna DeMarco, both have articlespublished in a recent film historyanthology entitled American ClassicScreen. Stanford’s subject is Charles“Buddy” Rogers, a popular filmactor from the early to mid-1900s.Lenna has an interview with Fred

Astaire choreographer Hermes Pan.Stanford and Lenna are retired col-lege teachers living in Sun City, Ariz.

1964

Head AgentSamuel Kershaw

Class AgentWayne Boultinghouse

1965

Class AgentRuss Grieger

Bud ’65, M’68 and Ginger (Stein-hauer) ’76, M’80 Garland cele-brated their 50th weddinganniversary by renewing their vowsat Blue Grass Methodist Churchwith their family. They also cele-brated with a trip to Key West, Fla.They are the parents of two sonsand five grandchildren. Both areretired teachers from EvansvilleVanderburgh School Corporationand now teach at Ivy Tech Com-munity College.

1966

Head AgentRobert Zimmermann Sr.

Class AgentCharles Van Vorst

Grover Cleveland ’66 retired inMay 2012 as professor emeritus fromMetropolitan State University. He andhis wife Sheryl (Fell) ’68 are enjoyingtraveling and taking care of their sonJeff Cleveland’s ’03 twin children.

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Representatives from all four sororities (and some husbands too) workedto beautify the front lawn of the sorority building on Lincoln Avenue.Thanks to: Front row L to R: Pam (Yarger) Wiseman ’65, Carol (Vaught)Cates ’67, Back row L to R: Colleen (Wedeking) Dubber ’67, Bonnie(Schrader) Rehnquist ’64, M’78, Mary Jane (Overby) Smith ’69, Dar-lene (Harrison) Madden ’67, M’80, Debbie (Galloway) DeLong ’73,Jan (Walsh) Baize ’65, Gayle (Pruz) ’73, M’75 and Bob ’73, M’77Rogers, and Phil DeLong. Not pictured: Jane Koch ’71, M’73.

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1975

Head AgentKarin (Parker) Heinicke

Terry White ’75 sought the office ofstate senator in Indiana Senate Dis-trict 50 in November 2012. Terryand his wife of 35 years, Zenda(Sisson) ’80, live in Newburgh andare the proud parents of two daugh-ters, Khali ’07 and Shandli ’12 andare UE Parents Council co-chairs.

1976

Wayne Johnson ’76 started a newcompany in Beijing – Enruikang(Enable) Ag Tech Consulting. Thecompany is based near China Agri-culture University and does techni-cal service research and diagnosticwork for swine and poultry farmsthroughout China.

Sue Hartig Summers ’76 receivedthe highest honor presented by theEvansville Bar Association, the JamesBethel Gresham Freedom Award, onLaw Day 2012. The Gresham awardrecognizes a lawyer who has distin-

guished him or herself in activitiesand a career elevating respect for thelaw and promoting our freedoms.She was the first female judicial offi-cer in Vanderburgh Circuit Court in1979, city attorney for the City ofEvansville, and executive director for26 years for the Legal Aid Society ofEvansville Inc. before stepping downto staff attorney at Legal Aid in2012. She received the special Ser-

to retire from a full time law prac-tice and join her husband Geraldin a safety and security consultingfirm, Integrity Security ProtectionLLC, and practice law as HartigLaw LLC. She can be reached atgesah94@wowway.com.

1977

Head AgentPaula (Fischer) Alles

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Robynn (Schlundt) Van Horne ’68and her husband Bill have bothretired from their jobs in Chicagoafter 31 years. They have movedback to Evansville to be near familyand enjoy retirement.

1969

Lloyd Shaffer ’69 has been pro-moted to southern regional salesmanager for Mitchell, Lewis &Staver, a leading distributor ofpumps and water related productsfor the western United States.

1970s1971

Head AgentMark Pillar

Class AgentsBob Clayton, Bruce Epmeier,Rebecca (Knight) Isley

1972

Head AgentDaryl Buente

Nancy (Worden) Aulenbach M’72,assistant professor of English at Sul-livan University in Louisville, Ky.,has published her third novel in thetrilogy A Vampire Trilogy throughIUniverse under her penname N.E.Tovell. The first book, Harbors of theUndead, received an editor’s choiceaward by Computer Times and afinalist award from the NationalINDIE excellence awards sponsoredby NIEA. The second book,Tides ofthe Undead, was published with aneditor’s choice award from IUni-verse. The final book, Isle of theUndead, was released in May 2012.All books can be viewed on Ama-zon.com, at the author’s blogavampiretrilogy.authorexpress.com,and at goodreads.com.

Lu Porter ’72x was a finalist for the2012 ATHENA Award in Evansville.She is the executive director of theEvansville African AmericanMuseum. She is on several boards

in the community including Lead-ership Evansville, Ivy Tech CollegeState Foundation, Evansville Cele-bration of Diversity DistinguishedLecture Series, Indiana HousingCommunity Development Author-ity, and ECHO CommunityHealth Care Centers.

1973

Head AgentRichard Fulmer

1974

Class AgentsPat Edwards, Rita Jo Gauck

Scott Shrode ’74 was named vicepresident of institutional advance-ment at Northland College in Ash-land, Wisc. He most recently wasvice president of institutionaladvancement and church relationsat Lenoir-Rhyne University inHickory, N.C. Before that he was

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John continues to work at Vander-bilt University School of Medicinein medical simulation, and Geor-ganne continues her published andhonored poetry.

1968

Head AgentRonald Angermeier

Class AgentRobert Harper

David Barclay ’68, M’71 retired asEnglish teacher and intramuralcoach from the Evansville Vander-burgh School Corporation after 44years of service. His wife Marcia(Miller) ’70 retired as social workerfrom the Evansville State Hospitalafter 32 years of service. The couplecelebrated their 42nd weddinganniversary on August 29, 2012.They have two sons and onegrandson.

vant Leader Award from LeadershipEvansville at its Celebration of Lead-ership Awards in 2012. The YWCAnamed her as one of its honorees in2011 in its “100 Years, 100 Women”celebration. Sue was also a finalistfor Evansville’s 2012 ATHENAAward. She is the daughter of thelate Marvin E. Hartig ’48 and Patri-cia Hartig. Sue was diagnosed withmultiple sclerosis in 1992 and plans

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Marjorie Z. Soyugenc M’731940-2012The University of Evansville Alumni Association Board ofDirectors is posthumously honoring UE trustee and alumnaMarjorie Soyugenc with the Distinguished Alumna Award.

She earned her MBA from the University of Evansville andher undergraduate degree from Illinois Institute of Technol-ogy in Chicago. She had been a member of the University’sBoard of Trustees since 1995.

Marj retired in 2008 after serving as executive director andCEO of Welborn Baptist Foundation for nine years. Underher stewardship, the foundation awarded more than 400grants totaling more than $24 million, primarily to non-profit organizations connected to health care. The founda-tion’s assets grew to more than $120 million, from the original$90 million, making it the largest private foundation in southwestern Indiana.

Prior to the foundation, she was president and CEO of Welborn Memorial BaptistHospital from 1986 to 1999, when the hospital was sold to the St. Mary's HealthSystem. She was credited with bringing such innovations as LifeFlight helicoptermedical services and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to Evansville.

In 2009, Marj was inducted into the Evansville Regional Business Hall of Fame. She was also a past recipient ofthe prestigious ATHENA Award and received the Sagamore of the Wabash Award.

Marj was chair of Evansville Metal Products and a director at Old National Bancorp. She served on the Boardof Directors at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from 2000-2005. In addition to her passion for UE, she wasalso involved in many other local organizations and agencies including Southwestern Indiana Mental HealthCenter, Youth First of Evansville, Rotary International, and WNIN Tri-State Public Media.

Marj was passionate about tending to her rose garden and to her friends. She planned and hosted many extrava-gant dinner parties, including sharing hers and Rahmi’s own 50th anniversary wedding with a celebration forfamily and friends at the Bellagio Las Vegas. She was an avid reader and enjoyed traveling around the world.

Marj led by example; she was not one to direct or boss. Her values were unquestionable – stability, commonsense, graciousness, hard work, honesty, strong ethics, good morals, and devotion to family. Many people wereshaped and influenced by her life, love, and vitality.

Marj is survived by her husband of 53 years, Rahmi Soyugenc, who is an alumnus of the class of 1959; daughter,Perihan Soyugenc and son, Altay Soyugenc; brother, Donald Zurstadt (Barbara); brothers-in-law, EmrullahSoyugenc ’73 (Maryann ’71, M’73) and Emin Soyugenc ’76; cousin, Barbara Sprinkle ’64 (Richard ’66, M’72);and many nieces and nephews.

Marj died on November 28, 2012, at the age of 72. A celebration of her life was held in Neu Chapel onDecember 1.

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1986

Head AgentRichard Ludwick

1987

Head AgentTracey (Maddox) McCord

Elizabeth (Skola) Davis ’87 movedto Columbia, Md., joined theColum bia Orchestra, and is nowprincipal cellist for the HowardCounty Ballet Orchestra. She is alsoprogram assistant at The MedicalMusical Group, a chorale and sym-phony orchestra based in Washing-ton, D.C., whose primary membersare doctors, nurses, and others frommedical centers and schools all overthe US. MMG’s mission is to per-form music with a message of heal-ing, hope, inspiration, andpatriotism at home; and peace andinternational friendship overseas.Also, concerts highlight healthcauses. This photo is from a June 13,2012, MMG concert at PeabodyConservatory in Baltimore, Md.Singer Deana Martin is on the left,and Elizabeth, principal cellist forthis concert, is on the right.

Kathy (Sloan) Wood ’87 is now arealtor with Century 21 Scheetz inZionsville, Ind.

1988

Head AgentsRonald Freson Jr., James George

Class AgentStephen Viola

Charles Tashiro ’88 has been thefacility manager at SWI, a smallwarehouse in Columbus, Ind., forthe past two years. The warehousesupplies steel wire coils used incold-forged parts to Japanese automotive manufacturers.

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Sondra Matthews ’77, founder of the Evansville African AmericanMuseum, was recognized with ascholarship/grant in her name. Thepurpose of the fund is to educatethe employees, board members, andvolunteers of the museum by pro-viding financial aid for them toattend conferences, classes, or work-shops to increase their knowledgeabout museums.

1979

Ann (Tretter) Boeglin ’79 earned aMaster of Science in nursing fromBall State University in May 2012.She has been teaching in the nurs-ing programs on the Jasper, Ind.,campus of Vincennes University forthe past five years. She and her hus-band Denny and family reside inHuntingburg, Ind.

Lana Burton M’79 served as presi-dent and director of the EvansvilleAfrican American Museum Inc.(EAAM) for the last five years. Shewas honored with a full-page thank-you on the back of the Our Timesnewspaper October edition. Thespecial thanks came fromW. HaroldCalloway M’75, current presidentand board member of the EAAM,and Sondra Matthews ’77, founderof the EAAM and publisher andowner of Our Times newspaper andWangari’s Cards and Books.

Matthew Seeger ’79 is currently thedean of the College of Fine, Per-forming, and Communication Artsat Wayne State University. He hasbeen a faculty member and admin-

’80. They have five children andfour grandchildren.

1982

Tom Heaton ’82 was one of fivepanelists participating in the religionsection of Humanities Night onSeptember 26, 2012, at UE’s Ridg-way University Center. Since 2000,Tom has worked to make a differ-ence in the lives of the Guatemalanpeople. He helped the working poorthrough the sales of fair trade craftsthrough a nonprofit he formed callMayan Traditions. Profits from thesales of the crafts were returned toGuatemala to help orphanages andchildren’s related ministries. In thefall of 2008, United Methodist Indi-ana Conference bishop MichaelCoyner appointed Tom to do workwith the poor of Guatemala. Inspring 2009, Tom formed MissionGuatemala, a United Methodistrelated ministry that operates aclinic and a preschool feeding pro-gram in San Andres Semetabaj,Guatemala. Prior to being calledinto ordained ministry, Tom servedas an advertising officer for a localbank. He earned his Master ofDivinity from Christian Theologi-cal Seminary in Indianapolis, Ind.

Marni Lemons ’82 is now thedeputy director of communicationsfor the Family and Social ServicesAdministration in Indianapolis, Ind.

1983

Jim Michaels ’83 was honored withan article about him in Chicago’sDailyHerald.com about HerseyHigh School graduates entitled“Hersey grad a super natural atproducing TV shows.” Check outwhere Jim has been since graduationat: www.dailyherald.com/article/20121002/entlife/710029967.

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Craig Savage ’83, CPA, was recentlypromoted to corporate director ofaccounting services for Curtiss-WrightCorporation in Fort Mill, S.C.

Judy Seitzinger ’83 is currently work-ing on a Master of Social Work at theUniversity of Southern Indiana. Herdaughter, Laura ’09, is also a UEgraduate. Judy formerly served onUE’s Parents Council and lives inLawrenceville, Ill.

1984

Head AgentJoel Sauter

Class AgentThomas Johnson

1985

Head AgentDoug Kanet

Melissa Buller ’85 has joined TheFund Raising School (TFRS) at theCenter on Philanthropy at IndianaUniversity as associate director. Shewill be working with curriculumdevelopment, the marketing cam-paign, and eventually teaching forTFRS. She previously held the posi-tion of director of finance andadministration for VDS RacingEngines Inc. Melissa’s higher educa-tion career began as an admissioncounselor at UE, right after gradua-tion. Since then, she has worked inundergraduate admission at IndianaState University, Washington Univer-sity (where she completed a master’sdegree in human resources), andIndiana University. Melissa is enter-ing her second year as cub master forDanville Cub Scout Pack 310. Hernephew is a Webelo. Melissa andher family live in Danville, Ind.

istrator there for 29 years. Hisresearch interests are crisis and riskcommunication. He has workedwith the United States Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, theNational Center for Food Protectionand Defense, the National Centerfor Border Security and Immigra-tion, and the International CrisisCommunication Group. OnSeptember 25, 2012, Matthew gavea public lecture at UE entitled TheConsequences of Crisis: From Ruinto Renewal. The event was spon-sored by the UE Department ofCommunication.

1980s1980

Head AgentMike Schopmeyer

Class AgentBeverly (Guidara) Hudnut

Arnell Hill ’80 retired November2012 after 35 years as a humanresources professional with theDepartment of the Army, theDefense Finance and AccountingServices, and the National Archivesand Records Administration wherehe completed his career as the HRofficer for the agency. Arnell plansto work on creative writing projects,be a volunteer, travel, and spendquality time with his wife Terry.Arnell and Terry were married inMarch 2012.

Jacques Williams ’80 has beenmarried 35 years to Yulanda (Smith)

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Steve ’86 and Kathie BuggCurrent Residence: Newburgh, Indiana

Career Highlights: Kathie and Steve Bugg live in New-burgh, Indiana and have been active in their communitiesover the past 25 years. They celebrated their 25th weddinganniversary February 12, 2013. Their son Jeremy anddaughter-in-law Stacie live in Greenwood, Indiana.

Kathie is the office manager at Expressway Dodge, Chrysler,and Jeep in Evansville and has more than 25 years of account-ing experience in the automobile and banking industries. Shewas born in Chicago and raised in northern Indiana. Kathieis the president-elect of Historic Newburgh Inc. and has beentrichair of the Wine, Arts, and Jazz Festival, volunteer coor-dinator for the Ghost Walks, Fiddler Festival volunteer, andthe official recorder for the Fireworks. In 2009, Kathie andSteve were named Volunteers of the Year for HNI. She is amember of the Reitz Home Guild and supports the preserva-tion of the Reitz Home Museum. Kathie is a current boardmember of the Warrick County Community Foundationand serves on the grant committee. She also volunteers atMesker Park Zoo events, and Steve serves on their board.

Steve is a graduate of the ProCon Leadership Institute and isthe chief marketing and member service officer for HeritageFederal Credit Union. He has more than 25 years of execu-tive level marketing and sales leadership experience in thebanking and telecommunication industries. Steve has spokenat numerous financial educational conferences regardingcommunity service and has published works about sales andmarketing leadership techniques. He serves on the Reitz Home Museum Board of Directors, is cochair of themembership committee, and volunteers for activities. Steve also is a board member of the Evansville ZoologicalSociety Board of Directors and is a member of the finance committee. He is a volunteer for Historic NewburghInc., serving as a trichair for the fireworks (and as a guest emcee for the 4th of July parade); Wine, Arts, andJazz Festival volunteer; Fiddler Festival ticket taker; and a guide for the Ghost Walks. Steve is a board memberof the Roberts Stadium Foundation Board d/b/a Corridor of Champions in Evansville. He also serves as a boardmember for his homeowner’s association and is a proud member of the Sons of the American Legion, Post 44in Newburgh.

UE Alumni Activities: Steve attended Harlaxton while a student at UE and is a member of SAE and DeltaSigma Pi. He and Kathie have both been active volunteers for UE for more than 10 years. They have participatedin many Alumni Association events; their volunteer activities range from student check-in, handing out T-shirtsat the Evansville premiere of Bernie, scooping ice cream for the freshmen at the president’s house, and beinghosts for events such as homecoming.

Kathie has served on the board of the Neu Chapel Society, where you can typically find her bringing the studentshome cooked food. She is always willing to volunteer for UE, especially when it comes to taking care of the stu-dents or supporting recent graduates. She invites them into her home for holiday meals, just like family. Kathieand Steve typically volunteer for the same events both at UE and in the community.

Steve is a board member and the president of the Harlaxton Society Board of Directors. He volunteers for manyHarlaxton events and is a Harlaxton representative serving on the Alumni Board of Directors and committeeassignments. He serves on the Neu Chapel Society Board of Directors and the Purple Aces Club Board of Direc-tors and is the Men’s Basketball liaison and a volunteer for membership recruiting and fund-raising. He also isan interviewer for potential students seeking additional scholarships, a volunteer for the graduating senior event,and a Men’s Basketball Blue Ribbon committee member as well as marketing committee chair/marketing con-sultant volunteer for the athletics department. Steve is a Young Alumni mentor through UE Connect, and thisis his 25th year as Homecoming Committee chair.

In the Tri-State, you will typically find Steve and Kathie attending fund-raising events for charities, bowling,or walking for causes.

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Susan (Eckert) Elkington ’93was a finalist for Evansville’s 2012ATHENA Award. Susan beganworking at Toyota Motor Manufac-turing, Indiana in 1998 as an assem-bly specialist as part of a team pre-paring for the start of production atTMMI and production of its firstvehicle, the Tundra full-size pickuptruck. She later became generalmanager of assembly. In January2011, she was promoted to vicepresident of administration. Sheserves the Evansville community asa board member for the EvansvillePhilharmonic Orchestra, the Japan-American Society of Indiana, Evans -ville, former board member of GirlScouts of Raintree Council, and UE’sEngineering Advisory Council.

Walter Lambert ’93 accepted theposition of supervisor of instructionwith the Warrick County SchoolCorporation, Boonville, Ind.

1994

Mark Hisle ’94 owns and operatesMark’s Fireworks Outlets and Mark’sMattress Outlets in Indiana, Ken-tucky, and Tennessee. He has morethan a dozen mattress stores andabout 45 to 50 fireworks stores sell-ing his Really Good Stuff brand offireworks. He has his own staff inChina that works continuously onthe fireworks quality control. Dur-ing fireworks season, Mark sells hisself-designed fireworks through hisstores and throughout the nation.He attributes his drive and compet-itiveness to his experience as a mem-ber of the UE basketball team.

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1995

Todd Matteson ’95 was promotedto rank of associate professor of artat Lourdes University in Sylvania,Ohio in 2011. He was namedChairperson of Art in 2012. Hewon second place in 3D Divisionof Northwest Ohio Open SummerArt Show Exhibition at BowlingGreen State University.

Thank you,UE Volunteers

Jerry Baum: A British ExperienceBetty Barning

New Parents Council Members2012-13Matthew and Nancy AndrewSimeon and Judith AnthonyKevin and Rhonda CookRoyce and Renee HawsMark Jones ’90Joseph and Stephanie SchroederLarry and Nancy TeppenDonald and Lisa Willis

New Parents Council Commit-tee Assistants 2012-13Craig and Tracy Pease

Family Weekend 2012 Parent VolunteersJoyce Abad Penny Harris Debra Kanet ’81Cindy Kissel ’84Melynda and Richard ’86 Ludwick

Kris McGill ’82Deb Diersen-Schade Dana WantlandMarianne Wenzel

UEAAA Family Day in the ParkTamara Anderson ’81Lana Burton ’79Joan Finch ’57Birdie Harrison ’03Yvonne Johnson ’61, M’73Marisa Knox ’99Watez Phelps ’01, M’04Bettye Poole ’02, M’04Ella Johnson Watson ’82

SOAR SessionsEllen BagwellJanet Heldt-Bass Brian ’84 and Beth ’84 HigginsMelynda and Richard ’86 Ludwick

Debi MartinTeri PughCathlyn SamuelJerrold and Monique Ware Terry ’75, M’78 andZenda ’80 White

UEAAA Welcome ReceptionPlanningPatricia Outlaw ’86Bettye Poole ’02, M’04

UEAAA and Friends Aces Basketball MentorsDavies Bellamy ’82, M’84Ella Johnson-Watson ’82*Earsier KelleyDarin Lander ’03Rachel MayesAlyssia OshodiSafiya Payne ’10 Watez Phelps ’01, M’04Derrick Stewart

UEAAA ZPC Scholarship Luncheon PlanningBettye Poole ’02, M’04Michael Woodard ’70

Orientation Leaders ReunionCommitteeMegan Ahern ’02Jamie Bandy ’09Ali ’97 and Ryan ’98 Cotton Dave Edwards ’92Angie ’04 and Rick ’01 KribsFelicia Mainella ’90Megan Sicard ’10

Phi Mu 60th AnniversaryReunion CommitteeLauren Burch ’08Carol Cates ’67Sylvia DeVault ’85Andrea Dickens ’02Sarah Estell ’84Cindy Kissel ’84Sally Lambert ’91Darlene Madden ’67, M’80Bonnie Rehnquist ’64Johanna Rusk ’92Ella Shelton ’52Julie Smith ’83Mary Jane Smith ’74Emily Specker ’01Beth Speer ’97Barb Steedman ’72Michaela Tussey, studentAndrea Wallace ’06Pam Wiseman ’65

Class Reunion Committees2007Emily Sights Fife Erica Garleb Danielle Washington Bruce Weisman

2002Glenn Babb Josh and Heather Bisher Clay Havill

1987Tracey McCord

1972Daryl Buente

1967Jean Coyle Dianne McCarty

1989

Wally Paynter ’89 received theWillie Effie Thomas DevelopmentAward from Evansville mayor LloydWinnecke ’82 at the Mayor’s Diver-sity Awards on September 19. Wallywas presented this award for hisleadership in the Tri-State Allianceand the AIDS Holiday Project(www.aidsholidayproject.org).

1990s1991

Head AgentsRobin Greenlee, Rachel Manno

Rachel Manno ’91 married FrankDeDomenico on July 6, 2012, inBuffalo, N.Y. The couple resides inNorth Tonawanda, N.Y.

Jennifer Thomas ’91 was the 2011recipient of the Chaney Distin-guished Professor Award. BelmontUniversity presents this outstandingteacher award annually at springcommencement. Faculty, students,and administrators are involved inthe nomination process. Jennifer isan assistant professor of biology.

1992

Head AgentBradley Seitzinger

1993

Head AgentWalter Lambert

Save the DateApril 19 Creative Writing Lecture:

Joyce Carol Oates

May 4 Baccalaureate and CommencementA big thank you goes out to the volunteers listed below for theirassistance with University of Evansville programs and events.

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2013 Y OUNG A LUMNUS AWARDREC I P I EN T

George Day ’95Major at UE: Economics

Hometown:Hatfield, Indiana

Current Residence:Newburgh, Indiana

Current Occupation:Senior Vice President,Corporate Lending Exec-utive, Old National Bank

Career Highlights:Shortly after graduatingfrom UE, George joinedOld National Bank as acommercial credit analystbefore moving to cashmanagement and then to commercial equipment leasing. In late 2008after managing ONB’s Commercial Equipment Leasing Division formore than 10 years, George was promoted to senior vice president, cor-porate lending executive, where he currently leads a team of five corpo-rate relationship managers for the Evansville region of Old NationalBank. He was recognized as one of the 20 under 40 in the September2012 issue of Evansville Business Journal.

Family/UE connections: George began dating his wife, Davena ’95,at Harlaxton. Together they have two children: Their daughter, Skylar,is 10 years old and son, Addison, is 7. For the past six years George hasbeen a volunteer coach for the Newburgh Youth Soccer League.

UE Alumni Activities: George has served his alma mater by takingthe following leadership positions: cochair, along with his wife Davena,of the Harlaxton Society Board of Directors for over eight years; trea-surer of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni Board for many years; and mul-tiple terms as treasurer of the UE Theatre Society board. He andDavena have been theatre adopt-a-student parents for nine years. In 2009, George received the Barbara St. Clair McKenna Award, the highest award bestowed on a Theatre Society volunteer.

Favorite UE Memory: “I have many fond memories of my time at theUniversity – golf, my fraternity, all the friendships I made, but withouta doubt my fondest memory was my semester at Harlaxton College. Itwas without question the most transformative time of my life. Experi-encing life abroad and the different cultures was incredible. I alwaysremember what Suzy Lantz (then Harlaxton coordinator) told us allbefore we left: ‘When you go abroad, try to not be a tourist, be a trav-eler.’ The message being to experience the culture, don’t just see thesights. This is a message you can apply to everyday life, and is one thatI try to live by today.”

UE Connect IndianapolisReception Larry Mackey ’73

Alumni Speakers on CampusGuy Banta ’73Stewart Goodwin ’71Richard Johnson ’69Jason Pitt ’07Barbara Price ’66Jack Schriber ’70Matt Seeger ’79

Baldwin Wallace UniversityInauguration RepresentativeGlen Schriefer ’57

Health Careers Fair 2012Virginia Combs ’73Kylen Gray ’11Mary Beth Holbrook ’95Brian Kelly ’96Tara Neth ’10Stephanie Pfeil ’96Rhonda Sutton-Forston ’99Dan Underwood ’06

Year of Service ForumJamie Bandy ’09Karol Farris ’09

Humanities NightSarah Burns ’06Larry Van Camp ’77Alissa Fricke ’12Tamara K. Gieselman ’95Amanda Gould ’07Tom Heaton ’82Holly Higgins ’04Bo Johnson ’01Alyssa Key ’12Kaman Law ’12Keith Leonhardt ’89Kay Pechin ’85Rev. Kurt Stone ’86Matthew D. Stultz ’96Laura Summers ’11Heath Tuley ’07Aaron Paul Wilson ’11

Submit information:Online at www.evansville.edu/alumni/keepingintouch

E-mail to alumni@evansville.edu

Postal mail to University of Evansville • Office of Alumni and Parent Relations 1800 Lincoln Avenue • Evansville, Indiana 47722

Bettye Poole ’02, M’04 was pre-sented the 2012 Woman of the Yearin Community Service Award bythe New Hope Missionary BaptistChurch Women’s Ministry inEvansville. She is also on theNational Board of Directors for theNational Association for the Edu-cation of Homeless Children andYouth (NAEHCY). She is the onlyresident of Indiana on that board.She presented at a NAEHCY con-ference in Albuquerque, N.M., inthe fall. Her topic was Early Child-hood Education: Key Strategies forSchool Success.

Angelia (Jo nes) Zielke ’02 and herhusband Jason welcomed their firstchild, daughter Coraline Marie,born April 27, 2012. Angelia is thedirector of student success andretention at Marian University,Indianapolis, Ind. The familyresides in Indianapolis.

2003

Head AgentsBo Gebbie, Rebecca Odle-Paxton

Class AgentsAbigail (Good) Falloon, Jennifer(Laue) Gilmore, Katie (Howard)Manuel, Justin O’Neal

Rev. Sean Johnson ’03 was ordaineda deacon in the United MethodistChurch on June 9, 2012.

2004

Head AgentFlo Ruwersma

Class AgentsJerry Berg, Randy Scherer, Diane (Roelandt) Watkins

Megan (Meyer) Blomenberg ’04and husband Justin welcomed theirsecond child, Ella Jean, on April 12,2012. She joins 5-year-old AvaJanelle. The family lives in Seymour,Ind. Megan is a physical therapistat Klaes Clinic in Seymour, Ind.

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1996

Jennifer (Johnson) ’96 and Troy ’95Kost have been married 16 years andhave six children: Austin (13), Trevor(12), Dylan and Rebecca (9), Myka(2), and Levi (1). Jennifer is a happystay-at-home mom who home-schools their children. She is churchtreasurer and a licensed ministerwith the Assemblies of God. Theycurrently reside in Iowa.

Kristy (Powell) Quinn ’96 was pro-moted to regional account managerfor trade retail at Abbott DiabetesCare in May 2012. She and her hus-band Tim welcomed a son, GavinAlexander, on March 25, 2011.Gavin joins brothers Elliott andCooper. The family resides in Hanson, Ky.

1997

Head AgentC.W. Raines III

Class AgentRuthie Shekell

1998

Head AgentJustin White

Class AgentsAndy Burnette, Janet Eggers,Thomas Fischer, Amanda Quesenberry, Kristi (Barnes) St. Amour, William Teague

Michele (Thurston) ’98 marriedJesse Metcalf on March 3, 2010. Shegraduated with a master’s degree inthreat and response management(disaster management) from Univer-sity of Chicago in June 2010. Sheand Jesse adopted a son, Caleb (bornApril 15, 2011), in fall 2012. Theywelcomed the birth of their sonPaul on July 12, 2012.

Maria (Russell) Morris ’98 wasamong the 20 Under 40 in theEvansville Business Journal Octoberissue. She currently serves as mar-keting liaison at HealthSouth Dea-coness Rehabilitation Hospital. Herjob involves communicating howthe hospital can help the generalpublic. She also works with doctorsexplaining the services HealthSouthcan offer their patients. She has apassion for helping seniors that goesback to her earlier career workingfor Home Instead Senior Care.

1999

Head AgentLeslie (Sams) Ashley

Chris Drew ’99 recently coedited ananthology on creative writing peda-gogy, Dispatches from the Classroom,which was released in November2012 by Continuum Books. Morerecently, he was the recipient of theAssociation of Writers & WritingPrograms (AWP) Intro JournalsAward in Creative Nonfiction forhis essay, Four by Eight, which isforthcoming in Quarterly West.

2000s2000

Head AgentStephen Hawkes

Christopher Cecil ’00 received theUnited States Attorney’s Award fromthe Office of the United StatesAttorney for the Southern Districtof Indiana on September 13, 2012.

He received this award for his out-standing contribution to a prosecu-tion resulting in a guilty plea in acriminal case. He serves as a detec-tive trooper for the Indiana StatePolice.

Anne (Reed) ’00 married Eric Langeon January 28, 2012. She works as achaplain at Norton Hospital andKosair Children’s Hospital.

Christy (Simon) Pitney ’00 andher husband Paul welcomed LukeAlexander on October 13, 2011.Luke joins big brothers Joshua (5)and Nathan (3). The family lives inWildwood, Mo.

Marshall Ray ’00 and his wife Juliawelcomed their daughter Elizabeth(Eliza) Katherine on September 7,2012. Eliza joins her big brotherPatrick (5) and big sis Hilary (18months).

2001

Head AgentsCorey Murphy, Jed Nelson

Class AgentSarah (Bittinger) Thoene

Joel Hagen ’01 married RebekahBillings in December 2011. He alsostarted a as copywriter and contentmanager at Chief, a manufacturer

of commercial AV equipment inEden Prairie, Minn., where hewrites press releases and socialmedia copy.

2002

Head AgentStacey (Golec) Paul

Class AgentNathan Charnes

Lonita (Taylor) Bennett ’02, anEvansville Vanderburgh School Cor-poration academic literacy coach,was invited back to the Data WiseSummer Institute at Harvard Grad-uate School of Education in Cam-bridge, Mass. Lonita was a teachingfellow and learned from Harvardfaculty and Data Wise developers.She began teaching two years agofor WIDEWorld, an innovative pro-fessional development programbased at the Harvard GraduateSchool of Education.

James Maloney ’02 has been namedphysical medicine manager at St.Mary’s Medical Center. As part ofhis new position, he will work withSt. Mary’s Warrick RehabilitationDepartment.

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Patricia KishlineCurrent Residence: Evansville, Indiana

Current Occupation: Retired

Career Highlights: Patti is retired from Bristol-Myers Squibb asmanager of nursing education. Throughout her 35-year career, sheheld a variety of positions, including human resources, sales adminis-tration, and flight operations administrator for D. Mead Johnsonin the Corporate Flight Department. The last 20 years were spentin professional services, developing corporate educational programs,resulting in the establishment of a national education network forpediatric nurses and the Mead Johnson Nutrition Perinatal NursingResearch Grants program.

This involvement led to the development of national educationalprograms that improved management skills of perinatal nurses atthe bachelor’s level. With the support of nursing scholars, Patti cre-ated, developed, and executed annual perinatal research symposia,thus enabling nurses to conduct investigations into the care ofmothers and infants, while fostering an alliance between industryand those developing new nursing knowledge.

As a direct result of several years in this leadership role, Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society ofNursing, recognized Mead Johnson Nutrition with the Archon Award, putting the company in the long list ofesteemed winners such as Jonas Salk, C. Everett Koop, and Elizabeth Dole. Mead Johnson was the first formulacompany to be granted this honor. Patti was elected as an honorary member of Sigma Theta Tau in 1995. Sheserved three consecutive, two-year terms as a director on the Foundation Board. Acknowledging her service tothe society, she was declared a Virginia Henderson Fellow and awarded the Billye J. Brown Fellowship.

UE Activities: Patti has been a donor and active volunteer at the University for nearly 35 years. She is a memberof the Neu Chapel Society Board of Directors and has supported the efforts of the chapel since 2010. She regu-larly attends Sunday morning worship service there. She established the Bob Hudson Memorial and Thomas M.Kishline Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded annually to an exercise science and sports studies major witha 3.0 GPA. She is also a member of the UE Theatre Society and was a major donor to the U•Envision 2010 capi-tal campaign. As a long-standing member of the President’s Club, she is optimistic, engaged, energetic, andalways responds positively to requests to serve the University either as a volunteer or donor.

Other community involvement: Patti’s interests go beyond her involvement in the fields of nursing and nutri-tion. She is also involved in the New Harmony Theater, USI’s Arts & Humanities, the Philharmonic Orchestraand Guild, and the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science.

When not involved with one of her many volunteer efforts, she enjoys traveling; reading; gardening; knitting;listening to the soothing jazz sounds of Wynton Marsalis, Coleman Hawkins, and Chris Botti; and sipping aglass of good wine. Her favorite University of Evansville non-credit class is Introduction to Italian, whichprompted her to add an app to her iPhone.

Todd Giganti ’00 organized a gathering of Sig Ep alumni. More than 60alumni participated in the annual golf outing this past fall in Indianapolis.

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Christina (Girten) Hison ’04 hasbeen happily married to Joe for closeto four years. They are the proudparents of Joey (2) and Braydon(almost 1). They reside in Tampa,Fla. Christina is a registered nurseand CCRN at Tampa General Hos-pital, working in the Trauma Inten-sive Care Unit. Christina is currentlyworking toward the completion ofher Master of Science in nursingwith a concentration in acute carenurse practitioner.

Ishmael Manyonga ’04 passed theVeterans Representative Certifica-tion Test September 2012.

2005

Head AgentSam Giesting

Class AgentsJimmy Funkhouser III, Shirley Lewis

Lindsey Cravotta ’05 married RyanMaloney on May 5, 2012, in Frank -lin, Tenn. Lindsey is currently work-ing as the assistant director ofstudent services for 10 premiumgraduate programs in the RobinsonCollege of Business at Georgia State

University. Her top responsibilitiesinclude matriculating new students,

managing program schedules, andworking with faculty and topadministrators on building nation-ally-ranked programs. The coupleresides in Atlanta, Ga.

Windi Hornsby-Troyer ’05 marriedJoe Troyer in November 2011, andgave birth to a daughter, MargaretQuinn in December 2012. Thefamily lives in Southport, Ind.

2006

Head AgentAndrea (Stalcup) Wallace

Class AgentRachel Swan

Heather Elam ’06 served threeyears as the assistant dean of studentsat Harlaxton and is now the crosscultural experience coordinator atCarroll University, Waukesha, Wis.

Jeff Fontaine ’06 joined Q10 QuestCommercial Capital Corp. as a loanofficer and is responsible for gener-ating new business for the firm.Prior to joining Q10 Quest, he wasa sales and account manager forHealth Carousel, LLC. Jeff currentlyresides in Cincinnati. An avid ath-lete and former Evansville KiwanisClub “Male Athlete of the Year”award winner, he enjoys playingbaseball and golf in his free time.He also serves as a committee mem-ber for the American Cancer Soci-ety Cincinnati Golf Classic.

Sarah Slight ’06 married DannySama on April 7, 2012, in RivieraMaya, Mexico. The wedding partyincluded fellow UE alumnae RachelSwan ’06 and Jana Kramer ’06.Sarah and Danny live in Chicago,Ill., where she works at ChicagoShakespeare Theater and he worksat Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Rachel Swan ’06 married DanielPruksarnukul on June 2, 2012, inNew Orleans, La. The weddingparty included fellow UE alumnaSarah Slight ’06. The couple residesin Washington, D.C., where bothwork on the administrative side ofprofessional theatre.

2007

Head AgentLiz (Lewis) Riffert

Class AgentsLisa Ballard, Ashley Henke,Kirsten Payne, Emily (Sights) Fife,Bruce Weisman

Anna (Everitt) Hargis ’07 hasaccepted the position of executivedirector of Big Brothers Big Sistersof the Ohio Valley. She invites youto check them out online atwww.bbbsov.org.

Colleen (Morales) Lahti ’07 waspromoted to education outreachprograms coordinator and TulsaBallet II Company manager inAugust 2011. She enjoys workingwith at-risk youth and giving themthe opportunity to experience thefine arts.

Warren Noe ’07, M’08 and HopeCruz ’11 met at UE while bondingover their love of University of Ken-tucky sports. When they met in2010, Warren walked Hope home toher house off Rotherwood. As theycrossed UE’s front oval they sangthe UK Cats cheer to echoes all overcampus. From then on, they weremeant to be. They were engagedChristmas 2011, and will be marriedMay 11, 2013. Hope has a new roleat Vanderbilt University as a con-tract specialist, and Warren is pro-gram director of the YMCA ofMiddle Tennessee. They reside inNashville, Tenn.

Jason Pitt ’07, honors psychobiol-ogy graduate, returned to UE inSeptember 2012 to present a CrickLecture on his dissertation work“Role of Astrocytes in warding offAlzheimer’s synaptotoxins.” He iscurrently a post-doctoral fellow inthe Chan Laboratory.

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2008

Head AgentAlyssa Turner Cairns

Class AgentsShanelle (Lambert) Rauh, Krystle Working

Amanda Gastreich ’08 was hired asvolunteer services manager by Habi-tat for Humanity, St. Louis, Mo.

Cynthia Knudson M’08 has joinedthe US Foreign Service as a consularadjudicator in the world’s busiestUS consulate, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Stephanie Pier ’08 was promoted tocompliance manager at ReferenceServices Inc. in March 2012.

Erin Wilhelmi ’08 made her big-screen debut playing the role ofAlice in The Perks of Being aWallflower, starring Emma Watson.The film hit theaters nationwide inOctober 2012 and is slated forDVD release in February 2013.

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IN MEMORIAM

Vera (Shane)Thompson ’39received the University’s Medalof Honor duringSpring Commence-ment in May 2008.

Vera (Shane) Thompson ’39Chicago, IllinoisMargaret (Eades) McKinney ’41Evansville, IndianaOlive (Coleman) Parkhurst ’43Richmond, KentuckyDolores L. (Bumb) Sousley ’43Gas City, IndianaMarian (Edwards) Vance ’43Newburgh, IndianaMary Helen (Blue) Aldridge ’44, M’70Tell City, IndianaEugenia (Davis) Kuster ’46xEvansville, IndianaMargaret (Condit) Wilder ’48Sierra Vista, ArizonaJohn M. Culbertson ’49Mount Prospect, IndianaWilliam A. Hopkins ’49Evansville, IndianaCarl F. O’Daniel ’49Evansville, IndianaJerry Pasek ’49Evansville, IndianaPaul W. Schmidt ’49Evansville, IndianaRussell Shrode ’49Lakeland, FloridaWilliam J. Beckman ’50Evansville, IndianaHarold Lodato ’50Evansville, IndianaMary K. Patry ’50Paducah, KentuckyJo Ann (James) Niehaus ’51Carmel, IndianaJohn Schaus ’51Evansville, IndianaO. Franklin Beumer ’52, M’82Evansville, IndianaHoward E. Blesch ’52Lawrenceville, IllinoisJoseph H. Fisher ’52xCamp Hill, PennsylvaniaPatrick H. Fleming ’52Portals, New MexicoMarybeth (Page) Wiggins ’52, M’74Evansville, IndianaRobert W. Lautenslager ’53Greenfield, Indiana

Beverly (Robinson) Stevens ’54xFresno, CaliforniaDorothy (Schmitt) Kratz ’58Evansville, IndianaCharles Laubscher ’58Evansville, IndianaJames R. Major ’58Evansville, IndianaSusan (Kolb) Mayer ’58Jacksonville, North CarolinaJohn C. Martin Jr. ’59Newburgh, IndianaKenneth M. Milburn ’60xNewburgh, IndianaAlton E. Horlock Jr. ’61Evansville, IndianaWilfred Weinzapfel ’61Jasper, IndianaGladys (Thomas) Postlethweight ’62, M’67

Evansville, IndianaWilliam C. Osborne ’63Davenport, IowaDelbert Pace ’63Cadiz, KentuckyWilliam Whitmore ’63, M’76Evansville, IndianaMary Lou (Hafele) Froehle ’64, M’74Petersburg, IndianaElbert L. Pace ’64, M’68Cadiz, KentuckyR. Edward Coleman ’65Chapel Hill, North CarolinaLois (Storckman) Epler ’65, M’71Mount Carmel, IllinoisHarold W. Martin ’65xNewburgh, IndianaGarey Patmore ’65Newburgh, IndianaPeter Golightly ’66Queen Creek, ArizonaMargaret (Yuska) Elliott ’67Seminole, FloridaJack Hockman ’67Evansville, IndianaNellie (Wilmarth) Steinmetz ’67Newburgh, IndianaMark G. Booth ’68Indianapolis, IndianaGregory R. Barrett ’69Lenoir, North CarolinaRobert L. Brannon Jr. ’68Evansville, IndianaThomas Michael Pullin ’69Normal, Illinois John Bennett ’71Evansville, IndianaSandra (Bunes) Richards Colvard ’72Indianapolis, Indiana

Robert Skinner ’72, M’75Newburgh, IndianaRobert L. Tucker ’72Ft. Wayne, IndianaLaureen (Jarek) Vee ’72Barrington, IllinoisDeloris (McConnell) Whitney ’77, M’78

Boonville, IndianaCyrilla (Eberhard) Goedde M’74

Evansville, IndianaEarl J. McGrath H’75Tucson, ArizonaLois (Timmons) Brink ’76, M’83

Patoka, IndianaMary (Timmons) Case ’76Newburgh, IndianaNeil Barnett ’77, M’83Evansville, IndianaMargery Shaw H’77Evansville, IndianaGary W. Sullivan ’77Sabina, OhioBrian Harper ’80Boynton Beach, FloridaGilbert W. Sherman M’81Chesterfield, MissouriJoEvelyn Clark ’82Evansville, IndianaJames G. Riggs ’82xEvansville, IndianaJoan (Audas) Belt M’84Clarksville, TennesseeMurray M. Taylor M’84Germantown, IndianaKelly Hurt ’85xEvansville, IndianaPriscilla L. (Gisvold) Dunbar ’87

Newburgh, IndianaJackie Bellamy ’88Denver, ColoradoArianne P. Lowell ’88Gaithersburg, MarylandRichard Lichtefeld ’90Morganfield, KentuckyGeoffrey W. Keller ’08Brentwood, Tennessee

Friend of UE:Helen LichtenbergerEvansville, Indiana

Emeriti Faculty:Larry W. Colter ’61, M’64Bozeman, MontanaEdward C. SusatEvansville, Indiana

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2009

Head AgentGretchen Otness

Katie Aldred ’09 is currently work-ing toward a PhD in biochemistryat Vanderbilt University. She receivedthe Leon W. Cunningham Awardfor Excellence in Biochemistry forher work on bacterial type II topoi-somerases. The award is given to atop third year graduate studentbased on publication record, grades,and recommendation letter. Underthe guidance of Neil Osher off, she isstudying these enzymes in an effortto understand the mechanism offluoroquinolone resistance so thatrational design of antibacterials tocombat resistant infections can beaccomplished.

Evan Copeland ’09 is the new aca-demic auditor for the College ofLiterature, Science, and the Arts atthe University of Michigan.

Beth (Gion) ’09 and Keith Fehren-bacher were married on September1, 2012. They live in Bloomington,Ind., where Beth is a 2014 KelleySchool of Business MBA candidate.

Bryan Hart ’09 graduated last sum-mer with a PhD from the Universityof Illinois Urbana-Champaigndepartment of microbiology. He isnow a postdoctoral associate withthe Duke University Human Vac-cine Institute, where he is conduct-

ing research on HIV vaccine devel-opment. He is engaged to JeannineGeorge.

Joanna (Lehman) Hill ’09 and herhusband are celebrating the fallarrival of their second bundle ofjoy, Calloway Hudson. They alsohave a two-year-old son. Joannaworks as a registered nurse at Well-star Kennestone Hospital. Thefamily resides in Woodstock, Ga.

2010s2010

Head AgentJessica Ray

Katie Weihbrecht ’10 was a coauthor of a cell biology paper inthe prestigious Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences. PNASis one of the world’s most-cited mul-tidisciplinary scientific serials, pub-lishing cutting-edge researchreports, commentaries, reviews, per-spectives, colloquium papers, andactions of the academy. Katie is athird year genetics PhD student atthe University of Iowa, where sheworks in a lab that focuses on cil-iopathies, disorders that can affectmultiple organ systems.

2011

Class AgentsJames Freeman, Brooke Robinson

Jonathan Harvey ’11 earned aMaster of Arts from the ShakespeareInstitute in Stratford-Upon-Avon,England. While studying abroad, hereturned to Harlaxton to give talkson continuing education in Eng-land. He is currently working inWashington D.C. and keeping incontact with other UE graduates.

Kavon Lacey ’11, former UE bas-ketball player and graduate assistantfor the team last season, was pro-moted by UE’s men’s head basket-ball coach Marty Simmons ’87,M’93. Kavon is now director ofbasketball operations for the PurpleAces. He arranges travel, works ongame film, and helps with aca-demics. Kavon replaces LuciousWagner ’05, also a former UE bas-ketball player, who now works forthe Evansville Basketball Academy.

2012

Class AgentBlair Wissinger

Kelyn Alexander ’12 and AnnaSalzman ’12 are both employed onthe USS LST Ship Memorial, whichis often docked in Evansville, Ind.Kelyn serves as lead archives assis-tant. Anna is lead office assistant.These positions are funded througha National Park Service grant.

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Matt Williams Lobby DedicationUE Campus, Shanklin Theatre • October 19

Patricia H. Snyder Concert and Lecture SeriesSheryl WuDunn, coauthor of Half the Sky

UE Campus, Ridgway University Center • September 27

Institute for Global Enterprise PresentsCalvin Klein

Indianapolis and Evansville • October 24

Reception to Support the Browning-Miller Advancement of Archaeology Endowed Fund

Melvin Peterson Gallery • November 9 Holiday Pops ConcertVictory Theatre • December 4

UEGET CONNECTED • • STAY CONNECTED

Men’s Basketball Pre-Game GatheringLegends of Notre Dame Restaurant

and Alehouse PubNotre Dame, Indiana • November 10

Lindsay Biggs ’12is happy to announce that on June25, 2012, she successfully obtaineda job at Louis ville Stoneware inLouisville, Ky. She graduated witha Bachelor of Science in art with aconcentration in ceramics, so she isthrilled to have been so blessed tofind a job at a ceramic manufactur-ing business. She is responsible forstamping all the logos, recipes, andimages onto the handmade warebefore it moves into the art depart-ment to be glazed.

Ryan Cramer ’12 accepted theposition of marketing specialist atthe Evansville Courier & Press,Evansville, Ind.

Sendy Mohammed ’12 joined theUE staff as an admission counselorin the UE Office of Admission.

Lierin Holly-Falzoni ’09 and hergraphics company, Zombie CricketStudios, designed a game app thatwas demonstrated on the UE cam-pus in November. The app simu-lates an archaeological excavation.Lierin has agreed to donate 5 per-cent of the profits from the app toa Department of Archaeology andArt History scholarship to supportstudents going to archaeologicalfield schools. Look for Archaeology!in the Apple and Android stores.

Gretchen Otness ’09 was hired as the youth director of WillmarUnited Methodist Church in Will-mar, Minn. She is also a recruitingintern with CTI Music Ministries,where she previously toured withtheir full-time teams as a vocalistand keyboardist, traveling the States,Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, andHonduras.

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