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Summer 2011
Beyond HeidelbergDear Alumni and Friends,
To Heidelberg and Beyond was the theme of
the recent Alumni Weekend held on campus.
We remembered the past 50 years of the U.S.
space program and recalled the personal
and professional experiences of our alumni.
Alumni have done and continue to do
amazing things in their careers and in service
to others.
The impact of a Heidelberg education
and the alumni who earn those degrees is
illustrated through the stories in this magazine
of alumni working to meet individual and
societal needs in their home towns and
throughout the world. These individuals
represent only a small portion of the alumni
who go beyond what is expected of them on
a daily basis.
As we begin a new academic year, we
are excited about the opportunities for
alumni to become involved with regional
chapters and networks of alumni committed
to strengthening Heidelberg’s academic
programs. There is a place for each person
to share ideas and to become active with a
chapter and/or a network.
We congratulate the members of the Class
of 2011 on earning their degrees and wish
them well in their lives beyond Heidelberg. We
rejoice with the members of the Class of 1961
celebrating their 50th reunion and are proud
of the individuals they have become.
Message from the Associate Vice President for InstitutionalAdvancement & Alumni Relations
Kathryn L. VenemaPresident Robert H. Huntington
VP for Institutional Advancement & University Relations James A. Troha
Associate VP for Institutional Advancement & Alumni Relations
Kathryn L. Venema
Editor Angela J. Giles
Director of Marketing & Creative Services Audrey R. Burkholder
Creative Designer Ryan M. Gushue
ContributorsMorgan A. Hawley, Lisa A. Swickard,
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2 Secret agent man From CIA to academics
4 Alumni humanitarians Serving the planet
10 Faculty perspective Breathing life into Adams Hall
30 Water world Lab’s outreach is extensive
Areas of Interest
12 News @ the Berg
18 Alumni Weekend
25 Alumni Notes
31 Athletics
Heidelberg | Spring & Summer 2011 | Volume 43 | Issue 2
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The best way to understand espionage is to sit in an African café and try to recruit a Somali war lord to betray his country and tribe to help Americans. Tom
Newcomb has been there, done that. After nearly a quarter century in public service – including serving as a buck sergeant with the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War – he’s opted for the more serene, less risky job of university professor.
The bowtie-clad Newcomb joined Heidelberg’s political science and criminal justice faculty in 2009. He traded the halls of the White House for the walls of a classroom and people such as Condoleezza Rice for college students eager to learn about the adventures and rewards of public service.
Initially, Newcomb, the son of college professor parents, worked as a trial lawyer in his home state of Minnesota, but grew bored with “trying to find the redeeming value in defending corporations or in making rich corporations richer.”
He yearned to continue serving his country as he had done during his military days. He joined the CIA and, after several months of training, was assigned overseas, where he conducted clandestine Cold War, counter-terrorism and war-zone operations in five stations in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.
In essence, Newcomb was committing espionage overseas. It was usually dangerous, often improvisational – and great fun, he says.
Newcomb returned stateside in 1995 and continued with the CIA as assistant general counsel, representing the agency in civil litigation and in prosecutions of CIA employees for espionage and other crimes. Later, he was named to the serve the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where he drafted and negotiated the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 and the Public Interest declassification Act of 1999.
“I always had a good job and didn’t want to leave. But each call was a call to serve the country, and who can say no to that?”
The sense of mission and meaning derived from service drove Newcomb to answer the Department of Justice and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court call to become its legal counsel. The pinnacle of his public service career came when he was appointed special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and worked alongside then-Secretary of State Rice in the White House.
Of his public service career, Newcomb says, “I loved it at the time. I never wanted to leave it, but I always knew there was another life for me out there – on a small campus, in a small town, with a small farm.” He and his wife, Dee Jackson, also a former CIA agent, have found that at Heidelberg and in Tiffin.
The White House’s loss is Heidelberg’s gain. After a semester as a Fellow at Harvard, Newcomb found his way back to his higher ed roots. His students are now the beneficiaries of his experiences.
He tossed the customary lecture teaching technique out the window and replaced it with the more authentic role modeling method. Throughout Newcomb’s CIA training, it’s how he learned the most. He sets up scenarios, often dressing in character and encouraging his students to be the performers. Their response to his instruction has been overwhelmingly positive.
In addition to content in courses such as Art and Espionage, Intelligence Operations, National Security Investigations, War and Peace and American Government, Newcomb has a zest for imparting the lessons and value of public service to his students, and mentors those who take a leap into that career. “I hope the message filters down. It’s nice if someone wants to be president. But it’s meaningful if someone wants to bring clean water to the upcountry of Ghana,” Newcomb says.
In other words, selfless service gives significance to life, whether in public service, with the government or with non-governmental organizations.
Or in the classroom.
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Ops are about risk. If you’re not at risk, you’re not doing your job.
Sometimes risk is physical, but
it is almost always political as well. If you screw up, you might find
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Washington Post.
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Brian Hadley, 8̌8 Cardboard for a cause
Brian Hadley, ˇ88, is a jokester who loves to tell people he majored in “nuclear physics and interpretive dance.” In college, the fun-loving Hadley was known as “Captain
Heidelberg,” a character he created. Now he chuckles when he says his new nickname is “The Lord’s Prayer Guy.”
It all started when Hadley was attending a Bible study at his church in Charlotte, N.C. “We were studying the Lord’s Prayer, and I learned that it is actually structured where every word means something,” he recalls. “I wanted to do something for the homeless here. I was thinking about the Lord’s Prayer and I had all this cardboard left over from some work that had been done at my house. I started writing the Lord’s Prayer on the pieces of cardboard, one word at a time.”
Hadley picked up the stack and tossed it into his car. At the time, he owned his own company and traveled extensively to three states. When he encountered a homeless person, he’d offer him/her $5 in exchange for being photographed holding a section of cardboard. At the end of his quest, when each word of the Lord’s Prayer had a face, Hadley hired a graphic artist to compose the photographs into a poster.
He had the posters printed and proceeds from their sale were given to Samaritan House, an organization started by his Rotary club. Samaritan House provides health care to the homeless when they get out of the hospital,” he says. “It’s a place of respite before they have to go onto the streets again. In that time, we try to give them enough skills and leverage so they can stop being homeless.”
Since the poster debuted, it has been a highly sought-after item, earning more than $7,000 for Samaritan House. But just as important to Hadley, it has spawned similar projects to help the homeless in other areas.
“I always wanted to do something good,” he says in all seriousness. “But goodness is not a destination. God can use us to do good things even in our most imperfect state. I will not tell people I was inspired by God. I got a call and I answered it. I’ve done something that will far outlive me. Now I tell people to go do your good thing. It’s not what you believe, it’s what you do.”
Joe Worthy, 0̌8 Activist, mentor, leader
For a senior Honors course on the Holocaust, students were assigned to spread the word about modern-day genocide. Joe Worthy, a senior at the time, chalked statistics about
Sudan on campus sidewalks, but snow washed away the chalk.
Although he showed pictures of his work to professor Dr. Kate Bradie, her message was that no one saw it. So he had to redo his work. “That was where it really clicked for me. Activism doesn’t matter if it’s done in vain.” says Worthy, ’08. “I realized I had a passion for service. I realized that it needs to be a lifelong commitment.”
As long as he remembers, community service has been a part of his life. But his personal discourse began in high school, when he served as a mentor for underprivileged people. Today, Worthy has a mature, enlightened view of helping others – or more accurately, teaching them to help themselves. “I’ve always had the urge, always felt a responsibility. As a young person, you do things and don’t really know what it means.”
Worthy, a Cleveland native, graduated from Heidelberg in 3½ years with plans to head to law school. Instead, he opted to serve with the City Year program in Boston. City Year corps tutors and mentors a diverse population of underserved youth to stay in school and stay on track; they also work to transform schools and communities. It was with City Year that Worthy was introduced to the concept of “citizen service.” In his second year with City Year, he was promoted to project leader.
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Worthy moved on to the Education Resource Institute, where he worked with Success Boston, a college completion initiative aimed at dramatically increasing the number of Boston Public Schools students completing college. He guided his cohort of 35 students to get ready, get in and get through college and proudly witnessed a marked increase in their GPAs.
During his second year with City Year, Worthy landed at Harvard Law School for a summit titled Dismantling the ‘Cradle to Prison Pipeline,’ a program that provides preventive supports and services, and reduces detention and incarceration of children who are entering the criminal justice system at alarming rates.
A challenging but stimulating semester at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and a chance meeting at the summit with Children’s Defense Fund administrator Barbara Best produced Worthy’s new job with the CDF, where, in the spring, he became the national coordinator of youth leadership development.
Currently, he is recruiting young people 18-30 who will mobilize at the Alex Haley farm in Tennessee as they train to be organizers, advocates and leaders in their communities. “We’ll be training 5,000 young people over the next five years. One-half of them will be young black men.”
Worthy is developing the program from the ground up from his home base of Washington, D.C. “With the backing of an institution, that will make it hopefully more powerful,” he says.
Public service “has become my passion,” Worthy says. “If you can reach people’s hearts, that’s how you reach capacity.” The secret is empowerment. “Your service should be to empower others, not be a crutch.”
Those at Heidelberg who knew Worthy as a student knew he was destined for greatness. He was a tenacious, action-oriented student, a consensus builder with an unstoppably upbeat attitude. He has carried those same qualities into his career.
“I should be working to put myself out of a job … working so these issues aren’t problems any longer,” he says. “This is the lifestyle I’ve chosen. I want to be part of something bigger.”
The poster is available at charlotteposters.org.
Heidelberg graduates have been making contributions
to humankind for more than 150 years. In this series,
Editor Angie Giles and freelance writer Lisa Swickard
interviewed alumni spanning six decades to learn what
inspires them to lives of service.
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Jessica Gard, 0̌3 Life-saving work
She may not be working in the trenches, but Jessica Gard’s contributions through service are nonetheless important. For the 2003 grad, service “is just what you do.” Gard, who
moved to Great Falls, Mont., from Nashville recently, has served on the board of her local YWCA for the past four years. Last year, she chaired one of the non-profit’s largest fund-raisers, Salute to Women.
While her volunteer work involves attending many meetings and planning events, her organizational skills are an asset not only to the YWCA but also to the Animal Foundation of Great Falls, which is working to build a new shelter to better serve the homeless animals of the community.
If the notion of service was nurtured within Gard as a youngster, it was reinforced at Heidelberg. The music industry Honors student was active in Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, theatre and Berg Events Council. As a member of the Euglossian Society, the Greek community’s commitment to service was emphasized as a lifelong philosophy.
Service reinforces Gard’s personal philosophy that “the well-rounded person is not someone who just works or contributes intellectually.
“The complete person is someone who actually goes out and helps,” said Gard, whose philanthropic activities also include leading the choir at her church and teaching a money management class.
The YWCA’s largest endeavor is operating a domestic violence shelter, supported in part by the Salute to Women fund-raiser. Although bylaws preclude board members from hands-on involvement with clients, feedback she receives from women whose lives have been changed through employment, education or finding a home is all the reward she needs.
“To know we’re not only helping women change their lives but literally helping save lives is just amazing.”
Jennifer Tangeman, 0̌8 Hands-on change
Service work doesn’t produce a fat paycheck or lofty status. That hasn’t dissuaded Jennifer Tangeman. Living in a tent on an airport tarmac or carrying telephone poles up
a mountain didn’t phase her, either. The 2008 grad has found practical ways to make a difference.
Following graduation Tangeman signed on with Americorps National Civilian Community Corps, completing more than 2,000 hours of service in disaster relief, unmet human needs, education, the environment and homeland security.
Tangeman’s 10 months with Americorps took her to all corners of the country. Her team’s first assignment was to conduct a door-to-door needs assessment among victims of Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas.
“In a lot of cases there were no doors left to knock on,” she recalls. Her team helped match residents to available resources and distributed food and other provisions.
In New Orleans, Tangeman was among 1,000 volunteers who organized school libraries and repaired or re-established school facilities. In the tiny village of New Harmony, Utah, near Zion National Park, the team created hiking and biking paths up a mountain, installed fencing and did landscaping. “Our group of 12 carried telephone poles along the trails to build bridges for people and horses,” she explains.
While the work in Utah was back-breaking and the conditions primitive, the group’s assignment in Anchorage, Alaska, was more playful. Working with the Boys and Girls Clubs, Tangeman taught science to young children and chaperoned outdoor field trips such as white-water rafting around a glacier.
“It might not sound like much, but just being there every day with the kids had an impact,” she says. “A lot of the kids lived at the homeless shelter or in poverty and had parents in jail.”
At Heidelberg, the political science major found her niche studying social policy and human rights issues. She began to understand the depth of injustices and unmet needs, and decided to act. During a semester at American University in Washington, D.C., she completed an internship at the National Coalition for the Homeless. Currently a graduate student at The Ohio State University, Tangeman plans to become a licensed social worker in medical or hospital social work.
Service always will be a part of her life. “It can be jading,” she says. “Some people just don’t care and those who might don’t feel empowered to help. My job is to find real and practical ways to make a difference. Anyone can recognize horror or hope for change for an instant, but finding a way to make change happen is the real job.”
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Jeff Stinehelfer, 6̌7 Rewards multiplied
“There is a world out there of great need,” says Rev. Jeff Stinehelfer, 6̌7. He should know. The retired UCC minister has been reaching out to the suffering and less
fortunate since he was a sophomore at Heidelberg.
Stinehelfer’s interest in mission and outreach began when he traveled to Ryder Memorial Hospital in Puerto Rico to volunteer during the summer of 1965.
“That became the theme for my ministry,” he says. “Virtually every year I would take a group of youth on a work tour.” Those tours have ranged from assisting the underprivileged to disaster relief.
Since the 1970s, Stinehelfer has taken groups of youth to an orphanage in Reynosa, Mexico; back to Ryder Memorial Hospital; Appalachia; the Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota; and Honduras.
The most heart-wrenching, yet rewarding trips, however, have been within the borders of the United States. Stinehelfer’s group traveled to Big Thompson Canyon near Loveland, Colo., where a flood caused some of the most prolific damage in history in 1976.
“We were there the next year with 35 kids, cleaning up,” he recalls. “Those kids were exposed to families who had literally seen their loved ones washed out of their grasps from the 20-foot wall of water that came down the canyon.”
The same was true of the people they encountered during five trips to Biloxi, Miss., following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, where they worked with the Back Bay Mission to rebuild homes.
“I always make sure our group has sensitivity to the fact that we are volunteers,” Stinehelfer stresses. “We are the servants. You have to respect the culture. And the people are so grateful for somebody who cares. So often, you work all day at their home and at the end of the day, they’ve got a meal cooked for you in the backyard.”
Even though he is retired, Stinehelfer, who now lives in Olney, Md., is organizing this year’s trip to Appalachia. The reward from a lifetime of service has been two-fold. Besides assisting those in need, he’s watched the youth in his parishes grow as human beings.
“I have kids who are now 50 years old who tell me that experience was the turning point in their lives,” he says. “That’s why you do it. People are suffering and we can reach out to help. The reward is a lot more than you give.”
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Bill & Grace Brinker, 5̌1 Vision of hope
For more than 40 years, Dr. William and Grace (Stuckey) Brinker traveled the world. But the 1951 Heidelberg graduates didn’t spend long, romantic nights soaking
up the cultures of Paris or Vienna. Instead, Bill and Grace chose to spend their time in remote villages devoid of running water, or in areas where political unrest has been a way of life for generations.
Their chosen path ultimately ensured the gift of sight or offered life-altering prosthetic eyes to nearly 90,000 people across the globe.
The ophthalmologist and the ocularist say they got involved in the missions simply because they wanted to offer eye care to those who couldn’t afford it. They’ve been affiliated with three mission organizations over the years, but the most recent — the Eye Care Project — was started by the couple as an ecumenical group comprised of about 50 volunteers, a handful of whom include ophthalmologists, optometrists, doctors and nurses.
Their many journeys have taken them from the isolated villages of El Salvador to the political hotbed of Israel/Palestine, where the Kent, Ohio, couple witnessed first-hand the ravages of man’s inhumanity to man.
Ed Hernando Peddling for a cure
Cancer has touched nearly all of us. Ed Hernando, ’89,
decided to take matters into his own hands – and feet. For
the fourth consecutive year this October, Hernando will be among a team of 25 cyclists who will bike 1,500 miles from Miami to Austin, Texas, to raise awareness and funds for cancer research.
The training is as grueling as the weeklong race, but Hernando keeps it in perspective. “Over the years, I had been working hard and living each day just like everyone else,” he says. “Until all of a sudden, a friend was diagnosed with lung cancer and died within a month. … I thought about how many friends I have known who have suffered and passed on from some form of cancer, like our beloved Millie Alberts (former Business Office employee at Heidelberg).”
About that time, Hernando heard about the group organizing the Ride to Austin, which originates in Greenville, S.C., with a new leg in Miami (Hernando’s home) this year. He made a commitment then to do his part in the search for a cure.
Hernando is a triathlete, but that’s not a requirement for the ride. “Some of the riders haven’t been on a bike since they were kids, but they lost someone to cancer or know someone who has it, and so they train and ride to Austin.” Those individuals motivate Hernando to battle through the six-hour shifts putting pedal to pavement.
Over the past three years, Hernando has dedicated his ride to friends and family lost to cancer or those currently dealing with it. “The toughest part is to see or hear stories about children with cancer. No child should be dealing with this,” he says. “They should be outside riding their own bike or playing kickball.”
To date, Hernando and his fellow riders have raised more than half a million dollars for the cause. “This has turned into something much bigger and more positive (than we thought) that can help thousands of people,” he says. The potential to make a difference inspires him.
“Whenever I have a tough day at work or on the bike and I want to stop, I think of all of those people in the hospital who would give anything to be riding a bike or be healthy again. … There is nothing I can complain about. No excuses.”
“In Israel, soldiers were shooting at children. They used rubber bullets and would hit the eye,” Bill recalls. “Instead of letting them be treated, they’d take the children out into the desert and put them into concentration camps for months sometimes. The eye would just shrivel up.”
While Bill would treat severe cases of disease and infection in an attempt to preserve a patient’s sight, Grace was working her “magic” with those who had already suffered the devastation of losing an eye. She spent literally decades fitting countless individuals with prosthetic eyes, giving those who had suffered from disease, accidents or senseless violence a certain semblance of normalcy.
One of the remarkable aspects of the Eye Care Project is that the bulk of the work is done with donated supplies. “You do it with cast-offs,” Bill explains. “Doctors and hospitals will donate medicines that are getting close to the expiration date, but that are not yet out of date.”
Although the Brinkers no longer travel with the group, they remain an active part of it. They spend the first Saturday of each month sorting through bags or boxes of used eyeglasses in preparation for the next mission.
Bill and Grace’s mission trips have redefined the word “vacation,” while their vision of hope and dignity has opened a lot of eyes throughout the world.
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t’s often said that home is where the heart is. Right in the heart of the Heidelberg University campus stands the new home of the School of Business—Adams Hall. Though the cornerstone
reads 1913, the building seems brand new to me. With its sleek interiors, spacious classrooms and state-of-the-art technology, the remodeled Adams Hall offers the corporate-like environment well suited to a business school.
But as beautiful as it is, the business faculty knew from the start that Adams Hall had to be more than technology, bricks and mortar. We wanted it to become the academic home for our students.
When Adams Hall opened its doors last fall, it was the students who brought the building to life. From the very first day, they clustered around flat-screened TVs in the lobby, watching the latest business news or enjoying a half-hour of Sports Center with friends. They sprawled across overstuffed chairs scattered throughout the building, hugging books or laptops to complete their latest assignments. They took over conference rooms to practice presentations or collaborate on projects.
On any given day, as I walk the halls of Adams, I encounter young minds fully engaged in the excitement of learning. Classrooms ring with the sound of students brainstorming ideas for marketing
plans, polishing analytical skills for the latest CFA competition or debating business strategy in their capstone course. As I enter my economics classroom, I call out my usual opening question, “What’s on your mind?” to get the day’s discussion rolling.
In faculty office suites, students frequently stop by for help with assignments or to scribble out class schedules as they wait for registration advice. And late into the night, students gather in the spacious open area of the fourth floor to cram for exams or write last-minute papers.
With our polished new academic home came a polished new curriculum as well. During the months of remodeling for Adams Hall, the business faculty engaged in some academic remodeling of our own. As the class of 2014 arrived in the fall, we unveiled an updated business curriculum featuring a greater variety and depth of course work — a curriculum dedicated to the pursuit of excellence.
As the academic year drew to a close and students drifted away for the summer, Adams Hall stood quiet. And now, after just a few short months, the halls have come to life again, echoing the excitement of a new school year and welcoming back young vibrant minds to their Sweet Alma Home.
Economics Professor Dr. James Chudzinski, the senior faculty
member in the School of Business, shared his reflections of dreams
realized during the first full year in the new Adams Hall.
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Above Left: President Rob Huntington delivered
a keynote address at the Model UN Conference
in San Francisco in April, the first president of a
participating university to do so.
Above: Dr. John Owen, Dr. Jo-Ann Lipford Sanders
and Dr. Daryl Close received research, teaching
and humanities awards in February.
Left: The largest-ever graduating class, at 344,
became alumni on May 14-15.
Below: Students traveled to New Orleans for
service work as part of the Alternate Spring Break
trip in March.
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Above: Former AT&T President Betsy Bernard
presented her Seven Golden Rules of Leadership
in The Patricia Adams Lecture Series in March.
Left: Trustees Doug Stephan, 6̌8, and Tony
Paradiso, H 0̌4, at the new Media Communication
Center April 1.
Below: Faculty and staff were honored for
milestone years of service in February.
Bottom left: Author Doug Stone, Harvard
Law School classmate and friend of Dr. Susan
McCafferty, visited Heidelberg for an inspiring
guest lecture on his book, Difficult Conversations:
How to Discuss What Matters Most.
Top Right: Biology professor Dr. Ken Baker presents the results
of his study at the annual Faculty Research Symposium in
February.
Bottom Right: Members of Nu Sigma Alpha were among a
large contingent of students, faculty and staff who volunteered
to help with flood cleanup after excessive rain and snow melt
flooded parts of the campus in March.
Below: The Class of 2011 presented its banner at the annual
Senior Reception, hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations,
prior to graduation.
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New center to promote wellness
Heidelberg University has begun traveling down the “Road to Health” – good medicine for those seeking to achieve healthier lifestyles and prevent chronic illnesses. The
cornerstone of this comprehensive new initiative is a new health and wellness center, projected to open in the fall of 2012.
In June, the Board of Trustees gave the administration the nod to continue with the final phases of planning for the center, to be constructed onto the south end of Seiberling Gymnasium.
Upon the successful conclusion of a fund-raising campaign, ground will be broken this fall for a 22,000-square-foot addition
to Seiberling along with renovated space inside. The $4.1 million facility will include space for future academic programs in health science, faculty offices, fitness areas, a nutrition prep and service area, multi-purpose activity space and a health and wellness technology suite.
The center will be named after Heidelberg alumni Cliff and Mary Saurwein, classes of ’27 and ’32, who, through an estate gift, provided lead financing for the facility. It was the Saurweins’ desire to provide a place where the entire campus community could exercise, stay fit and gather to promote good health.
Overall, Heidelberg’s “Road to Health” initiative is designed to improve and enhance the health and well being of all members of the campus community and contribute to the advancement of health and wellness in the greater Tiffin area. The new center will complement existing community health, wellness and recreation resources, such as the Tiffin YMCA.
“Together, our two organizations (Heidelberg and the YMCA) will create a full range of health and wellness opportunities for the campus and the community,” said Dr. Jim Troha, vice president for Institutional Advancement and University Relations. “The potential for this collaboration is really exciting.”
University honors ‘difference maker’ Andrew Kalnow
Andrew Kalnow, the second-longest serving member of the Board of Trustees, was honored in June with
the Trustee Distinguished Service Award.
Presenting the award, President Robert H. Huntington called Andrew “a difference maker” who has made significant contributions in his professional life, to the Tiffin community and to Heidelberg. “His difference making cuts across all aspects of his life,” the president said.
As a trustee, Andrew sets high expectations for performance and achievement, challenges the people and ideas around him to make them better and asks probing questions to discover new insights and opportunities.
Appointed to the board in 1987 after the death of his mother, Jane Frost Kalnow, who also was a long-serving trustee, Andrew manages part of the university’s endowment, devoting significant time and energy to this effort. Among his many contributions to Heidelberg, the Kalnow family established the Jane Frost Kalnow Professorship in the Humanities, presented annually since 2000 to foster educational excellence in the humanities and strengthen the liberal arts beyond bricks and mortar. Additionally, he established the new Summer Program in German and European Studies, an opportunity for Heidelberg students to create a bigger and broader gateway to international learning. The first class of students traveled to Germany this summer.
Kalnow is the president and founding general partner of Alpha Capital Partners in Chicago, the CEO of National Machinery Global Group and the president of National Machinery.
“He works tirelessly, constantly, with a great deal of heart and passion and humbleness,” said board chair Sondra Libman, 6̌7. She added that Andrew “believes very strongly in Seneca County, in Tiffin and in Heidelberg University.”
Following on the heels of their successful siblings, two new alumni networks have been formed, and are forging ahead
with programming to keep alumni with similar majors and interests connected with Heidelberg.
Friends of Heidelberg Education and the Berg MBA Network have joined the well-established Friends of Heidelberg Music and Friends of Beeghly Library as part of the Office of Alumni Relations Branded Cities Project.
Alumna and retired school administrator Betsy (Rezash) Gorrell, ’78, has stepped forward to coordinate the Friends of Education Network. Assisting her are Tiffany (Grine) Boehler, ’09, marketing coordinator; Jan (Kirby) Wycuff, ’90, Alumni Council liaison; and Mary Long, ’89, finance and records coordinator. Gorrell, who has been a member of the Alumni Council as well, represented the newly formed network in April as the keynote speaker for the Kappa Delta Pi education honorary induction ceremony.
Meeting officially for the first time during Alumni Weekend, the group planned a fall welcome of new education students at Heidelberg for their first program.
“We are thrilled with the support of the volunteers who have stepped up to bring
the new networks to life,” said Ashley Helmstetter, director of alumni chapter development. “With their positive energy and dedication, we’re looking for great things in the future, ultimately to benefit our students.”
During the summer months, the Berg MBA Network, centralized at the Arrowhead Park campus but open to all MBA alumni, has been working with Helmstetter to identify leadership and begin to work on programming for the coming year.
The two newest networks have excellent role models in the 10-year-old Friends of Heidelberg Music and the 7-year-old Friends of Beeghly Library, both with highly committed officers, bylaws and established annual programming.
Led by Ed Ayers, ’71, Friends of Heidelberg Music has helped with significant improvements to the Department of Music, from facilities to equipment to programming. The group’s ultimate mission is to support, promote and help maintain the high level of music education.
In years past, the group has assisted with capital campaigns for Brenneman Music Hall and helps fund special programs each year, including a picnic to welcome first-year students and another for graduating seniors.
Alumna Donna Overholt, ’57, is president of the Friends of Beeghly Library, a group that gathers throughout the year for book discussions and other programs and activities. Its signature event, the Edible Books Fest, is held annually each spring. The group serves as a catalyst to encourage gifts and donations to enhance the library’s collections, facilities and programs.
All of the networks welcome new members throughout the year. Friends of Heidelberg Music and Friends of Beeghly Library charge small membership fees to support their programs and initiatives.
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Give me an H, give me an E, give me an I … Just as a
year-in- review video captured the energy and spirit
of 2010-11, two former cheerleaders dusted off their
red, orange and black uniforms to demonstrate they still have
the spirit during Alumni Weekend June 24-26.
Dort Chandler and Bill Grotefend, both from the Class of 1961,
were among more than 500 alumni who returned to campus to
reconnect with friends, rekindle old memories and reminisce
about their college days. The weekend focused on alumni
successes and achievements during their years since graduation.
Following the video with his own reflections on the past year
at the annual luncheon, President Robert H. Huntington said
he has a clear understanding “that we have a community of
people who are passionate, who are engaged, who care and
who love this place, each other, what it stood for and what it
will stand for going forward.”
The university is gaining momentum and progressing around its
two strategic goals of improving Academic Excellence and
the Student Experience. “If we only do those two things, we
win,” President Huntington said. Clearly, though, Heidelberg
is doing much more to add value to its overall product. “Our
success ultimately will be measured by student success,
graduation and retention.”
Initiatives to ensure student success – including Adams Hall
and the Media Communication Center last year, the new
Residence Life & Learning Hall and University Commons
opening this semester, the upcoming Saurwein Health
and Wellness Center and the new Faculty AIM Hei Student
Mentoring Program which launched in August – speak to
added value. The president told alumni the university will take
on challenges and move forward.
“I ask you to be equal to our commitment to make Heidelberg
even better than before, to elevate our value to students, to
make a difference and matter,” he said.
Alumni enjoyed the traditional menu of activities during Alumni
Weekend. Kicking off the weekend was the annual Heidelberg
Heritage Society Recognition Dinner. Board of Trustees
members, on campus for their annual summer meetings,
joined Heritage Society guests – those who have designated
Heidelberg in their estate plans – for dinner and fellowship.
The annual Remembrance Tree Planting ceremony was
held Saturday morning. This year’s tree, a Metasequoia
glyptostroboides “Gold Rush,” was planted in front of the
Bryenton Honors Center in memory of 29 friends and 197
alumni who died in the past year.
Row 3 (L-R): Barbara Nye Darr, Roberta Chaney Farinet, Barbara Biegert Williams, Addie Ann Pizedas Lambarth, Ronald Wagner, Laurinda Bate Milheim, Amber Reiderer Tetlow, Sandra Bleckrie Hess, Fred Weber, Felix Tryby, Dick Gross, Bob Armstrong
Row 4 (L-R): Benjamin Wherley, Charles Bolton, Duane Warns, Ron Crawford, Bill Grotefend, Merlin Getz ’60, Rodney Schaffter, John Kerstetter, John Porter, Ra Walker, Ralph Ballenger, Chuck Bryan, Gary Bryenton
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ClASS Of 1961Row 1 (L-R): Dorothy Dickey Blackburn, Barbara Fields, Dorth Worthman Chantler, Evelyn Swan Hinkle, Sylvia Tobicash Stull, Judy Werner Coppersmith, Bill Decker, Carol Skaza, Linda Radloff, Shirley Summers Long, Jean Leibengood Wagener, Lucy Lather
Row 2 (L-R): Judy Tucker Fink, Diane Bloom Burks, Howard Weaver, Marlene Wright Mercurio, Nicholas Kovalevsky, Judy Belohlavek Howell, Yuksel Oktay, Wade Roby, Jack Yost, David Hertzer, Roger Russell
For more information on the AIM Hei program,
please visit www.heidelberg.edu/aim-hei.
ALUMNI WEEKEND 2012JUNE 22-24
Year in review video at www.heidelberg.edu/newsevents/2011/reunion
A year ago, President Robert H. Huntington met with the Class of 1961 Reunion Gift Committee to discuss ways the class could engage with the university and make it stronger. The class, led by committee co-chairs Gary Bryenton and J. David Hertzer, aimed high and responded in a big way.
At Alumni Weekend, Bryenton, Hertzer and class president Dick Gross announced the class had contributed or pledged a total of nearly $2 million over five years in honor of their 50th anniversary. In large part, the class’s gift will underwrite and endow Heidelberg’s new Faculty AIM Hei Student Mentoring Program, which is launching this fall.
Bryenton recalled the genesis of the class gift. “What we learned (from President Huntington) was sobering. About 60 percent of our students return as sophomores and only 50 percent of the original freshman class is around for graduation.”
The committee decided, based on retention and graduation numbers, to support the AIM Hei program and “encourage students to turn off their technology and embrace the experience of campus life and community,” he said.
When all of the dollars have been counted, more than $200,000 will have been given or pledged to underwrite the program and a nearly $400,000 endowment created to sustain it.“While our focus for AIM Hei has been on academic and career mentoring, we firmly believe its success will be rooted in building
relationships between faculty mentors and students. These personal connections are the hallmark of a Heidelberg education,” President Huntington said, adding that with its primary goal to create a richer learning experience inside and outside the classroom, the program supports Heidelberg’s two strategic goals: enhancing Academic Excellence and improving the Student Experience.
In addition to AIM Hei, members of the class have supported major capital projects, academic programs and scholarships in recent years. Those gifts and bequests, plus those designated for AIM Hei, total $1.918 million.
50tH rEUNIoN gIFt SUPPortSENDOwS NEw MENTORING PROGRAM
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ClASS Of 1946Row 1 (L-R): Yuji Morita, Jettie Dell DuBois, Mary Ellen Wickham Schaff, Jean Young Egbert, Stacy Symanski Krammes
Row 2 (L-R): Dr. Kenneth Davison, Elizabeth “Bartie” Bartholomew Jones
ClASS Of 1966Row 1 (L-R): Kay Snyder Harger, Diana Cramer Gassman, Barbara Gnagey Loughead, Karen Meyer Keros, Marilyn Hirschler Bishop
Row 2 (L-R): Thomas Dorr, Leo Loughead, Paula Smith Crum, Diana Brown Letourneau, Eunice Parker Kolczun
Row 3 (L-R): Larry Rice, Mary Ellen Dye Coulter, Ron Fetzer, Scott RenningerClASS Of 1951
Row 1 (L-R): Jean Hoffman DeWitt, Don Behm, Carolyn Currey Rogers, Patricia Printzenhoff Rankin
Row 2 (L-R): Joanne Stoerker Klueter, Ruth Zimmerman Bertolino, Jack Bertolino, Patricia Moldenke Lutz, Marvel Ruth Munro, Elaine Tewart Barth, Eleanore Stock Kinney
Row 3 (L-R): Arnold Klaiber, Bill Wickham, Ed Arbogast, Jack Heter, Carl Kinney
ClASS Of 1971Row 1 (L-R): Candy VanValkenburgh Ziegler, Caroline Bell Lucas, Sue Yager Snavely, Mary Ann Willson Basinger, Laila Sprogi Zvejnieks, Susan Shepp Zimmerman
Row 2 (L-R): Pete Emmons, Dick Ries, Jay Giles, Bob Hayward, Ed Ayers, Diane Palliser Szabo
ClASS Of 1956Row 1 (L-R): Betty Werner Feather, Imogene Kuenzli Orts, Marjorie Derby Riley, Marda Gephart Dewey, Dawn Gilbert Reilly, John Wacker, Marcene Werner Busch, Joyce Bucher Blackmore, Carolyn Good Bahnsen
Row 2 (L-R): June Hirschfeld Hegemier, Dorris Prugh Keen, Carol Maier Dybo, James Dewey, Don Schumaker, Twyla Joachim Baker, Peggy Walenta Kuttler, Stuart Stearns
Row 3 (L-R): Millie Miller O’Brien, Pat Himes Snowden, Ken Rankin, Bill Goodwin, Bruce Miller, Tom Riley, Charles Warren, Richard Kuttler, Allen Vordermark
ClASS Of 1976Row 1 (L-R): Jeanne Demmer Hartzog, Ellen Ewing, Mary Palmstrom
Row 2 (L-R): Ann Kiewit Bonar, Sandra Nutter Gonzalez, Cristie DeBuhr, Laura Harrell, Joy Norris Wierzbowski
Row 3 (L-R): William Bonar, Mark L’Italien, Tod Gorrell, Randall Wilcox, Barbara Nicolas Merryfield
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BEyOND HEIDElBERg, AlUMNI MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR
CHOSEN PROfESSIONS, THEIR COMMUNITIES AND THEIR AlMA
MATER IN DISTINCT WAyS. THE TRADITION Of RECOgNIzINg
THEIR ACHIEvEMENTS HAS CONTINUED DURINg AlUMNI
WEEKEND EvERy yEAR SINCE 1971.
Dr. Ferris and Dorothy Ohl, ’36 and x ’44Alumni Service AwardFor more than 70 years, the Ohls have been intricately intertwined with Heidelberg music. Many of their professional melodies have played out on campus stages as the beloved duet has demonstrated dedication to students, faculty and alumni through the years. Dr. Ohl, the long-time director of the Concert Choir, directed more than 1,000 performances and led tours across the U.S. and Europe. Mrs. Ohl was the mainstay as piano teacher and accompanist for the choir and countless faculty, guest and student recitals. During Dr. Ohl’s tenure, the number of music majors grew exponentially. He directed The Messiah at Heidelberg about 40 times. In their retirement, the Ohls have remained active in the life of the university as long-time members of the Fellows Organization and directing the Alma Mater on many special occasions.
Harriet Stiger Liles, ’44Career Excellence AwardA Renaissance woman, Liles – through her work as a local historian, genealogist, researcher and author – has resurrected the stories of many forgotten residents of Dade County, Fla. A founding member of the Genealogical Society of Greater Miami and former president of the Florida State Genealogical Society, she authored more than 50 articles and in 1996, her first book for Miami’s centennial. Years earlier, she began work on her most significant project when she encountered an abandoned cemetery in Dade County. For 20-plus years, she worked to identify and document its 200 inhabitants, and in 2008, Liles released her award
winning book about her endeavor, Pinewood Cemetery, Coral Gables, Florida: A History with Pioneer Biographies. Today, she continues her historical research and writing.
Theodore and Jane (Hoernemann) Hieronymus, ’65 and ’64Outstanding Alumni AwardAs students, they were members of the first Singing Collegians, a prelude to a life and love of music that spilled over to Heidelberg. Ted, the vocal music director at Mentor (Ohio) High School, and Jane, a choreographer and teacher in Sandusky and Mentor, have been recognized multiple times for their professional accomplishments throughout the state and nation. They found a seamless way to combine service to their students and their alma mater. Over the years, Ted has been personally responsible for recruiting many students to Heidelberg. The couple recently created a scholarship to help Mentor students attend. Since 2003, Ted has served as a member of the Board of Trustees. Their community has also recognized their contributions, naming them Citizens of the Year in 2003.
Barth/Tewart FamilyLegacy Family AwardWhen Richard Barth, ’50, and Elaine Tewart, ’51, met at Heidelberg, little did they know the legacy their love story would create. Richard, a banker, and Elaine, who stayed at home to raise their children and then began a 24-year teaching career, are the stalwarts of their Heidelberg legacy that spans three generations. Elaine’s brother, Calvin, ’53, graduated from Heidelberg, as did their son, David, ˇ75. Three Barth grandchildren also chose Heidelberg, as did a granddaughter-in-law. Granddaughters Heidi Barth, ’02, married Jason Clemens, ’02; Gretchen Barth-Moyer, ’04, and Liesl Barth, who will graduate in December, are carrying on the family’s legacy. Their brother, Ryan, married Erica Dietzel, ’03. Their careers span such fields as media, ministry and education.
ClASS Of 1981Row 1 (L-R): Terry Osborne, Cynthia Beeler Gilliland
Row 2 (L-R): Peggy La Bine Racke, Heidi Goetz Martin, Ann Doering Wren, Jane Walker, Ilsa Bucher Grieser, Barbara Kay
Row 3 (L-R): Tina Foco Burtch, Terry Dodgson McConnell, Ellyn Ruthstrom, Linda Nogalo, Jaimie Orr, Gary Orians
Row 4 (L-R): Scott Haskins, Natalie Johnson Wittmann, Marianne Rudisell Watts, Jonathan Watts, Tim Huffman, Patrick Chaney, Alan Corey
ClASS Of 1986Row 1 (L-R): Reggie McCartney Pratt, Rhonda Pence, Jill Trusnovic
Row 2 (L-R): Tom Hedrick, Julie Hartigan, Diane Heilman Ehrman, Debbie Herczog Olson
Row 3 (L-R): Lisa LaDu, Jim Ehrman, Kim Davis Vitchkoski, Sharon Koechling Hedrick
ClASS Of 1991Row 1 (L-R): Christine O’Connor, Bryan Smith, Kathleen Russell Wedig, Jenny Hawkes Jenkins
Row 2 (L-R): Melissa Wales, Danielle DeMuth, Mary Siegle Milazzo, Amy Kagy Watson, Becky Shepherd Smallwood
Row 3 (L-R): Kerri McDonald, Kim Stull, Julie Jaeger Dawson, Melissa Andrick Cimo, Tracy Canavan-Dallmeyer A W A R D W I N N E R S
Dr. Ferris and Dorthy ohl Harriet Stiger Liles theodore and Jane Hieronymus Elaine (tewart) Barth and David Barth
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1949Betty (Priestaf) Siefert, Oconto Falls, Wis., has been attending classes for retirees at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay.
1950Tippy Anne (Christman) Brown, Fountain Inn, S.C., is a retired veterinarian technician who lives on a 50-acre farm complete with 11 horses.
1960John Rinehart, Bay Village, Ohio, is now retired.
1961John Porter, Washington D.C., recently was featured in the American Association for Career Education Quarterly for his 50-plus years of service to education. John has served as assistant director of guidance and counseling for the District of Columbia Public Schools, where he developed school counseling programs. Designated a Master Career Counselor by NCDA, John has received more than 120 awards and commendations from community and professional organizations, including the D.C. City Council.
1962L. Eugene Startzman, Berea, Ky., has published two new books, a phone poem book subtitled Simple Gifts, and a children’s book, Take Me to Your Feeder. He collaborated with his son, Michael, to illustrate the second title, a collection of poems for young readers.
1963
The Hon. Richard Warren, Lima, Ohio, was the winner of the 2010 Ritter Award presented by the Ohio State Bar Association. The award recognizes the accomplishments for attaining and promoting the highest level of professionalism, integrity and ethics which improve the judicial system. Judge Warren co-founded the WORTH Center and initiated the Re-Entry and Sex Offender program for felony offenders. He is also a member of the Ohio Supreme Court Committee on Professionalism.
1964
Thomas Pieper, North Canton, Ohio, received the Zeisberger Heckewelder Award presented by the Tuscarawas County Historical Society. Thomas serves on the board for the restoration of Fort Laurens and recently penned a book about the subject that started while he was a student at Heidelberg. The book is being published by Kent State University Press.
1967Gary Chambers, Studio City, Calif., has authored the book Concise Guide to Workplace Safety & Health: What You Need to Know When You Need It, designed for professionals and the lay public. Gary is a consultant about workplace safety and health.
1970Paulette Stephens, Tiffin, director of the Wood County Department of Job and Family Services, has been recognized as the Ohio Job and Family Services Directors Association 2010 Outstanding Director of the Year. Paulette has 37 years of public service, including her work at the Wood County agency for the past 25 years.
1974Tim Dunn, Concord, Ohio, retired as the head of cataloging for the Geauga County Public Library after 30 years. His book, The Bob Dylan Copyright Files, 1962 - 2007, was recently published.
1976Roberta Taliaferro, Peninsula, Ohio, recently left her position as the vice president of clinical services at a community mental health center in Cleveland.
1979Gary DeVault, Wooster, Ohio, was awarded the 2010 State Service Award for Distinguished Educator of Art Education by the Ohio Art Education Association. Gary is the fine arts consultant for Tri-County Educational Service Center, serving the school districts in Ashland, Holmes and Wayne counties.
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Do you know the hymn that begins,
“Blessed be the tie that binds our
hearts in Christian love?” Its sentiment means more to me than ever. As I considered my bequest
to Heidelberg for faculty development, I’ve been struck by the ties that bind me to this tremendous
place: Family, faculty colleagues and classmates. An independent thinker as a child, I knew in
elementary school that I would go to Heidelberg following in my siblings’ steps, despite pressure later
on to attend other institutions. I never regretted keeping this family tie. Six years after graduation, I was
invited back to Heidelberg to teach piano, organ and theory. As the department grew, I flourished.
I had my dream job and I loved the students I taught. Now, as a member of our Reunion Class
Gift Committee, I have enjoyed reconnecting with my classmates in stimulating, mind-stretching
and nostalgic ways. Because the ties that bind me to Heidelberg are among the strongest loves I
possess, I opened my heart in thanksgiving and decided it was time to give back. My connection to
Heidelberg has been the greatest blessing of my life and I want future faculty and students to benefit
from an institution that continues to fill a needed mission in higher education.
dR. cATHeRINe THIedT, ’62Professor Emerita of Organ, Piano and Theory
The Tie ThaT binds
For more information, contact Jim Minehart, Director of Planned Giving419.448.2060 | [email protected]
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Laura (Short) Schrock, Findlay, Ohio, a clinical supervisor and instructor with Bowling Green State University’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders/Speech and Hearing Clinic, has been elected president of the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Deb Zawacki, Columbus, has completed her doctoral degree.
1985Daniel Davis, Palm Springs, Calif., is the new executive director for Hallmark Cheviot Hills Assisted Living Community in the Culver City area of Los Angeles.
Robert Geib, Pleasanton, Calif., has joined NET Inc. as executive vice president. NET negotiates and optimizes IT agreements for Global 2000 organizations and has managed more than $50 billion in spending for clients. Robert is accountable for global client services, sales and channels.
Robert Witt, Cashtown, Pa., has been named executive director of the Children’s Aid Society at the Southern Pennsylvania District Church of the Brethren’s annual conference. Robert has spent most of his career working on behalf of children, serving as executive director of Ohio Boys Town Inc., an Ohio agency that offers residential, transitional living and therapeutic group homes to abused and neglected youth.
1992Tammy (Eavers) Metcalf, Kettering, Ohio, received her master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Dayton and is pursuing principal licensure in Ohio.
1999Rachael (Patt) Meier, Fishers, Ind., operates a photography business, Simple Heart Photography, full time from her home.
2000Lynelle Garn, Sandusky, Ohio, recently joined the team at Fremont Memorial Hospital Center for Mental Health. Lynelle is a counselor, working with children, adolescents and adults, including couples and families. She specializes in mood disorders, marital counseling, Christian counseling, parenting and women’s issues.
Ty Schwamberger, Stow, Ohio, has edited a new book, Fell Beasts, now available for pre-order. For information, contact him at www.tyschwamberger.com.
2001Carrie Benedict, Strongsville, Ohio, graduated from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and is now with the law firm of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP in Cleveland. Carrie is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Securities Group.
Michael Passerrello, Elyria, Ohio, has been named head football coach at Firelands High School in Oberlin, Ohio.
2002Shannon Armstrong, Grand Rapids, Mich., graduated from Michigan State University’s advanced plastic surgery residency program. He is pursuing further training in hand and microsurgery at the Buncke Clinic in San Francisco, and will be a clinical faculty member at Stanford and UC-San Francisco medical schools.
Erin (Doran) Salzer, Columbus, received the Central Ohio Education Association/National Education Association Accolade Award in recognition of exemplary service on a Central OEA committee. She will serve as the chair of the OEA’s convention planning committee for the 2011-12 year.
2003
Morgan Kolis, North Royalton, Ohio, has been named the recipient of the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Crystal Apple Award, honoring educators who have inspired, challenged and supported their students. Morgan is a special education teacher at Hilton Elementary in Brecksville.
Amber (Boetefuer) Peariso, Toledo, Ohio, accepted a new position as a chemist at NAMSA in Northwood, Ohio.
2005Krystal Jones, San Antonio, Texas, is the media relations manager at the San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau.
2007Katherine Jones Kennedy, Cleveland, graduated from Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and will complete a family medicine residency at Fairview Hospital.
Joel Monroe, Arlington, Va., completed a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Washington, D.C. He is pursuing his doctoral degree in clinical psychology and working on several publications.
Ashley (Shorts) Ruedisueli, Medina, Ohio, completed her master’s degree in education (school psychology) from John
Carroll University in 2009. She is currently a school psychologist for the Tri-County ESC.
Jared Wolf, North Ridgeville, Ohio, has been promoted to senior audit manager in the Ohio State Auditor’s Office.
2009Keenan Jones, Denver, finished his first year of law school at the University of Denver in the top 10 percent of his class.
Amelia Ryba, Silver Lake, Ohio, received her master’s degree in child development and family relations from East Carolina University. She works as a therapeutic staff support at a nonprofit organization in Pennsylvania.
2010Kevin Endres, Cincinnati, is a volunteer wrestling coach for Glen Este Middle School. He also is performing with the
Barbership Harmony Society and is an assistant director for the Delta Kings Barbershop Chorus. In addition, he is pursuing his master’s degree in special education.
Lynnette Perez, Parsons, Kan., is currently studying at the University of Sheffield in England for a master’s degree in European historical archaeology with an expected completion date of September 2011.
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1944Tom Stinchcomb married Joan Garrison on Jan 8, 2011. Tom previously taught physics at Heidelberg. The couple currently lives at Kenwood of Lakeview, Ill., a senior living facility.
1974Christine Heer married Jerry Dill in May 2010. The couple resides in Naperville, Ill.
1999Sara Creque married Troy Thomas on Aug. 28, 2010. Sara is an aquatic ecologist. The couple lives in Pleasant Prairie, Wis.
2002Ann Taylor married Kevin Verde on Aug. 14, 2010. Ann is an RN working in oncology at Summa Health System. They live in Akron, Ohio.
2003Ryan Wason married Jeney Housel on Nov. 27, 2010. They live in Alpharetta, Ga.
2004Jennifer Bingle married Robert Frost on March 12, 2011. Jennifer is a teacher at Horizons Elementary School. They reside in Davenport, Fla.
2006Deena Strausbaugh married Matthew Houser on April 26, 2011. They reside in Wooster, Ohio.
2007Brandon Gilbert and Michelle Weekly, ’08, were married on March 21, 2009. They live in Spotsylvania, Va.
Katherine Jones married Ryan Kennedy in March 2011. They reside in Cleveland.
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1989Ms. Jennifer Edwards and Ms. Ashifa Jiwa, Toronto, Ontario, a son, Zain Edwards Jiwa, born Sept. 6, 2010.
1993Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Williams, Columbus, a son, Max Gavin Kellish-Williams, born in August 2010.
1994Dr. Nathaniel Long and Tracie Bourquin, ’95, Dublin, Ohio, a son, Kaeden, born in August 2010.
1998Mr. and Mrs. Joseph (Erica Crysler) Creech, Cleveland, a daughter, Sarah Marie, born April 8, 2010. Photo 1
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy (Tricia (Fischer) Luck, Avon Lake, Ohio, a son, Alexander Michael, born Sept. 3, 2009. Photo 2
1999Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Bruck, Belford, N.J., a son, Jake Donato, born March 17, 2011. Photo 3
Mr. and Mrs. Chad, ’01 (Polly Stepleton) Cooper, Tiffin, a son, Finnegan Hook, born Jan. 5, 2011.
Mr. and Mrs. Brian (Rachael Patt) Meier, Fishers, Ind., a son, Luke Joseph, born Dec. 11, 2010. Photo 4
2000Mr. and Mrs. Chad (Carrie Hoy) Hyacinth, Miramar, Fla., a son, Nathan Kerwin, born Feb. 3, 2011. Photo 5
Mr. and Mrs. Michael (Tracy Wright) Amerine, Brandywine, Md., a son, Evan Dominic, born Oct. 17, 2010.
2001Mr. and Mrs. Jeff (Michelle DiVito) Huston, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a son, Cooper, born Jan. 13, 2010.
2003Mr. and Mrs. Kevin (Heidi Roll) Lofton II, Tiffin, a son, Jared Michael, born Feb. 22, 2011.
2004Mr. and Mrs. Bob (Gretchen Vencl) Obrovac, Fairlawn, Ohio, a son, Nolan Thomas, born March
28, 2011.
2006Mr. and Mrs. Christopher (Megan Gifford) Scholtz, North Ridgeville, Ohio, a son, Carter Thomas, born Oct. 22, 2010. Photo 6
2009Mr. and Mrs. Shawn (Morgan Harrigan) Shriver, Tiffin, Ohio, a daughter, Madelyn Jo, born Nov. 23, 2010. Photo 7
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1934Anna Marie (Borer) Stansfield Reichlin, Tiffin, died Jan. 26, 2011.
Grace (Weaver) Gudaitas, Livingston, Mont., died Feb. 12, 2010.
1936Dorothy Davis Ebel, Grandview Heights, Ohio, died June 3, 2011.
1942Marjorie (Ganshow) Beck, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, died Jan. 10, 2011.
1944Mary (Miller) Henning, Spring Lake, Mich., died Dec. 4, 2009.
1945Edward Haddad, Parma, Ohio, died Nov. 15, 2010.
1947Gladys (Lober) McNey, West Chester, Pa., died Oct. 26, 2010.
Jane (Cartwright Gousha) Fausey, Gibsonburg, Ohio, died April 21, 2011.
1948William “Bill” Sheely, Tiffin, died Feb. 13, 2011.
Albert Young, Springfield, Ohio, died Nov. 19, 2010.
1951Harvey Eikenbary Jr., Fostoria, Ohio, died March 31, 2011.
Shirley (Miller) Hahn, Cincinnati, died Dec. 15, 2011.
Helen (Goodin) Hoerger, Midland, Mich., died Feb. 7, 2011.
Jerry Travers, Brecksville, Ohio, died June 14, 2010.
1952Jean (Good) Behm, Republic, Ohio, died May 28, 2011.
1953Walter Blackwell, Warsaw, Ind., died Feb. 2, 2010.
Paul Schultz, Martinsville, N.J., died Nov. 8, 2010.
1955Carol (Metger) Tasse, Greenacres, Fla., died Jan. 23, 2011.
1956Fred Fuerst, Fripp Island, S.C., died Dec. 22, 2010.
Thomas G. Scheufler, Sandusky, Ohio, died June 2, 2011.
1958David Newell Harbaugh, Bay Village, Ohio, died March 5, 2011.
1959Roger Liston, Johnsburg, Ill., died April 22, 2011.
1962Robert “Bob” Gilmore, New Philadelphia, Ohio, died March 2, 2011.
1965Mark Brinson, Durham, N.C., died Jan. 3, 2011.
1966Kenneth Weir, Princess Anne, Md., died Jan. 27, 2010.
1973Dr. Kenneth Martin-Shultz, Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, died March 16, 2011.
1974Susanna (Jessee) Murbach, Valrico, Fla., died Jan. 2, 2011.
1976Raymond Yingling, Sandusky, Ohio, died Jan. 19, 2010.
1977Michael Blazek, Warren, Ohio, died Feb. 23, 2011.
1986Harlan Ray Riley, Elyria, Ohio, died Oct. 6, 2010.
2001Paula (Molnar) Fels, Oregon, Ohio, died March 7, 2011.
FRIENDS
Liang Dezhong, Nanhai, Tianjin, China, died in March 2011.
Samuel Creed Gholson, Dallas, died Sept. 12, 2010.
Dr. Bruce Carl Klopfenstein, Dacula, Ga., died Feb. 8, 2011.
Donald Meracle Jr., Kenosha, Wis., died Feb. 21, 2010.
Mary Beth Nepper, Tiffin, died March 6, 2011.
Dr. Arthur R. Porter Jr., Tiffin, died April 29, 2011.
Dr. Martin Reno, Findlay, Ohio, died March 22, 2011.
Alumni RememberedFor additional obituary information, please visit
www.heidelberg.edu/alumni/alumnimagazine/memoriam.
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In the world of water quality, there are ripples and then, there are currents. The work produced by Heidelberg’s National Center for Water Quality Research extends far beyond its Gillmor Science
Hall lab, creating a wave of data, resources and services useful for audiences as diverse as farmers to scientists to government officials.
The lab, founded in 1969, is a leader in chemical and biological research across a variety of habitats and water sources. Its staff, 10 members strong, is frequently sought out as experts on the status of water quality, the effects of water quality on aquatic living systems and future implications for the availability of healthy, usable water.
In the past five years, NCWQR staffers have given more than 100 presentations to the scientific, agricultural and educational communities. “A lot of our presentations are oriented to farmers or conservation groups, not only to scientists,” says lab director Dr. Ken Krieger. “We present scientific information but put it in terms that the general public can relate to in their daily lives.”
Because of Heidelberg’s proximity to Lake Erie, much of the lab’s work involves the Lake Erie watershed. Location provides collaborative opportunities with colleges and universities, government agencies, the agricultural industry and private organizations.
The essence of the lab’s perspective of outreach is this: Only knowledge that is shared can be applied.
Krieger and Dr. David Baker, ’58, the lab’s founder and director emeritus, have built a reputation such that the media frequently seek their expertise, and they readily respond. “Science sitting on the shelf, just for scientists, will have very limited value,” Krieger says. “When it’s relayed to the public, to policy makers or managers or citizens, that’s when change for the better can happen.”
Each spring, the staff is frequently asked about the condition of Lake Erie and the problematic growth of algae. “The reality is, people are nervous about the lake now and its condition,” says Baker. With fertilizer (especially phosphorus) runoff from fields
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to streams to rivers and eventually the lake, the lab’s data are invaluable for predicting the severity of water quality issues. The lab has made outreach a permanent part of its work, irrespective of the topic or geographic region they are researching. The small-college setting at Heidelberg promotes an ideal balance of research and outreach. “We are free to do the research and do the extension that goes along with it,” Krieger says. “That’s a real advantage for us. We go directly to the public.”
The “public” might be a Girl Scout troop taking a field trip to learn how bugs reflect the quality, water chemistry and habitat of a stream or a congressman learning about the spectrum of the lab’s work. “It doesn’t matter how old a person is. If they haven’t been exposed to this kind of information, it can be eye-opening,” Krieger says.
Some of the NCWQR’s extension is less public, but equally valuable. Baker, Krieger and Dr. Pete Richards routinely author articles that appear in scholarly publications. Twenty of the most current articles are posted on the lab’s website, along with extensive data sets and user guides from more than 35 years of water samples as part of the Heidelberg Tributary Monitoring Program.
The lab also reaches out to everyday citizens, making available cooperative well testing programs with counties and individuals extending beyond Ohio to other states that include analyses of nitrate, pesticides, metals and volatile organics. Services to test lake and stream service water also are available.
Since its founding, the NCWQR has been solely supported by research grants, contracts and donations. In addition to its research and outreach activities, the lab continues to be part of the recruiting and education process at Heidelberg, offering coursework in applied environmental chemistry, water pollution biology, aquatic ecology and geographic information systems.
“Through our outreach programs, we help to educate our students and the community with regard to what we do,” Krieger says. “We are always looking for more effective ways to do those things that are in line with the mission of the university.”
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“Sandy has been a rock,” says Hallett. “Being around her motivated
me to get back to school and get my degree so we could have the family that we wanted. She has been with me through thick and thin.”
As his career has moved him to the sidelines, Hallett has worked to impart the values of community and looking at the bigger picture in life. These beliefs come from raising his sons. TC has been around college athletics his entire life and is a great big brother to Ryan, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2½. Sandy has made it the family’s mission to raise autism awareness, creating SALSA, the Seneca Autism Learning and Support Association. She also joined forces with her friend, Nikki Wisor, to write a book, How Our Children with Autism Raised Us as Parents: The Ninety-Nine Jobs Needed to Raise Kids with Autism.
The Halletts’ involvement in raising autism awareness has strengthened
their ties with the Seneca County Opportunity Center, the school Ryan attends. Hallett has encouraged his team to reach beyond their comfort zones and give back to those that may not have the same advantages. His football players are frequent volunteers at the center.
“Anytime you get students to interact with those with disabilities, it gives them a bigger sense of pride,” says Hallett. “People with disabilities are not different. They are us. They just process things differently. The students get an opportunity to be a part of something much more than themselves.”
Being a part of something bigger than one’s self is what drives Hallett. “It’s about appreciating what you are given and striving to excel beyond all expectations.”
These beliefs were instilled by his parents, but really came to life when he met Sandy and they began their life together with TC and Ryan.
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BEYOND THE SIDELINESTHE MAKING OF A COACH
By Morgan HawleyI n his first four years at Heidelberg, head coach Mike Hallett has built a football
family that extends to the campus community, and reaches out to the Tiffin community and an amazing group of individuals at the Seneca County School of Opportunity.
Hallett credits his own family and the values of hard work and dedication drilled into him by his parents for his motivation to take Heidelberg’s football program to the next level.
“I have had a lot of life experiences that fuel the fire in me,” says Hallett. “Being at Heidelberg, with its great tradition and history, and in the Ohio Athletic Conference offer an opportunity and a challenge to compete at the highest level.”
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challenge would not be possible without his wife, Sandy,
and sons, TC and Ryan. As a former swimmer at Kent State University, Sandy knows what it takes to be successful in collegiate athletics. If anyone can motivate and inspire Hallett, it is Sandy.
It’s hard for Hallett to imagine where he’d be without her support. “Being a former college athlete, she understands the demands. She is unbelievable, taking care of the boys and making things come together as a family. I kind of walk in the whirlwind that she has created. And she is an amazing person for all the things she does. She makes my life so much better and much easier.”
Growing up in Orrville, Ohio, sports was an integral part of the culture. Hallett played for three state championships and a final four team. He suited up for Kent State University for a year, but when the coaching staff left, he returned home to launch his own coaching career at age 19. It was a decision that shaped his career. With Sandy’s encouragement, he returned to school to finish his degree.
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