The Skinny on Physical Activity

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Ball State
alumnus
A Ball State University Alumni Association Publication / January 2012 / Vol. 69 / No. 4
The Skinny
on Physical Activity
New Year’s resolution: get
physically fit. Want in? Read
how you can take the steps to put
exercise in your daily routine and
get advice from Ball State experts
in the field
INSIDE: Virtually the Same: The Face of Online Learning, page 20
editor’s note
Generational Differentiation
It’s interesting looking back at a list of commonly used generational nomenclature used by our
society to lump groups of people together. The first half of the 20th Century has some particularly
good ones: the Greatest Generation or the G.I. Generation, the Silent Generation, and the Baby
Boomers. Then, apparently, we got lazy ... first came Generation X, then Generation Y—the
Millennials—followed by the current generation—those born since the turn of the century
generally referred to as Generation Z.
I have to admit, as an X, I’m a little fond and jealous of those who consider themselves to be
a part of the Greatest Generation. Perhaps the lack of creativity and use of letters, X, Y, and Z
(is Generation AA next?), is one of the reasons why those in older generations may have negative
feelings about the current generations now in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.
Surrounded by students and their stories, I think students today get a bad wrap. Sure, there exist
those who act with a sense of entitlement and lack of humility, but in what generation does this
not exist? Last I checked, Bernie Madoff was not a part of Gen X, Y, or Z. In May 2010, The New
York Times magazine ran a story titled “The Why-Worry Generation.” In it, author Judith Warner
describes Gen Y as “entitled whiners who have been spoiled by parents who overstoked their selfesteem, teachers who granted undeserved A’s and sports coaches who bestowed trophies on any
player who showed up.”
But read the pages of any university magazine, and you’re likely to find stories of students
making a difference in their communities, in the lives of others, and in the world. That holds
true in this issue of the Ball State Alumnus, where we share with you stories of hope and change,
including a student-athlete’s inspirational story of survival and giving back and a group of high
school students and teachers who have saved lives and profoundly impacted communities in Haiti
(page 34).
Jessica Myrick explores, for all generations, how change in your physical activity and overall
fitness can have a lasting impact on your life as you age, beginning on page 26. In “The Skinny
on Physical Activity,” Myrick talks with Ball State faculty and professionals in the fields of physical
fitness and exercise and offers tips on how you can make that elusive New Year’s resolution more
than a passing phase.
Beginning on page 20, we explore how the nature of learning is changing. Ball State is an
industry leader in developing and implementing hybrid learning opportunities for students—
undergraduate and graduate programs alike—to include both in-class and online learning.
Managing Editor Celeste Booth talks with Ball State faculty and staff about the developments, the
changing landscape, and innovations taking place in learning.
Also in this issue, we present the news and headlines from campus, including David Letterman’s
return to campus to speak with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the legacy left behind by retiring
women’s swimming and diving coach Laura Seibold-Caudill, Ball State’s third Rhodes Scholar
finalist in two years, and the story behind the mysterious life and death of a Ball State jazz
trumpeter.
Finally, we profile alumni headliners and share your notes of success, life changes, and new
directions in your professional careers in Alumni Connection beginning on page 39.
Jon Gorman
Director, Alumni Communications
[email protected]
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January 2012
The learning landscape for students in K-12 and higher education is changing, with
more students opting for or being required to accept hybrid schedules and online
learning. Page 20.
features
20 Virtually the Same
The Face of Online Education
By Celeste Booth
28 The Skinny on Physical Activity
By Jessica Myrick
departments
0ii Editor’s Note
34 Philanthropy: A Family’s Passion for Giving
36 Celebrating Beneficence: Dots in Blue Water
eye on the ball
04 Letterman Returns to Campus
06 Student-Athlete Shares Story of Survival
09 Physics, German Double Major Named
Rhodes Scholar Finalist
on the cover
Ball State
alumnus
A Ball State University Alumni Association Publication
/ January2012 / Vol.69 / No.4
The Skinny
New Year’s resolution: get
physically ﬁt. Want in? Read
how you can take the steps to put
exercise in your daily routine and
get advice from Ball State experts
in the ﬁeld
INSIDE: virtually the Same: the Face of online learning,
Maintaining exercise
routines and physical
fitness as you get older
is a difficult task for
many. Ball State faculty
and staff offer advice
to get you kickstarted
today. Page 28.
12 Memorial Concert Takes on New Meaning
18 Fully Immersed: Opening up the Realm of Possibilities for Students
alumni connection
40 Events Around Indiana and Beyond
Alumni Leaders: 2012 Alumni Council
42 Class Notes
page 20
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eye on the ball
Uttamlal “Tom” T. Shah, MM83DA87, (standing and leaning back
against the stair railing at the top right of the photo) spent much of
his life after Ball State in the shadows working for the CIA. In early
2011, those shadows were lifted by an Associated Press report.
For more, see page 12.
04 Letterman Returns to Campus
06 Student-Athlete Shares Story of Survival
08 Cardinal Rule: Women’s Swimming & Diving Coach Leaves
Behind Long Legacy of Leadership
09 Physics, German Double Major Named Rhodes Scholar Finalist
12 Memorial Concert Takes on New Meaning
18 Fully Immersed: Opening up the Realm of Possibilites for Students
On Dec. 2, 2011, (left to right) Dr. Jo Ann M. Gora, David Letterman, ’69, and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow spoke at a
capacity-filled Emens Auditorium on trends in higher education, media, and politics.
Letterman Returns to Campus
Since 2007, one of Ball State’s
most famous alumni, David
Letterman, ’69, has made three
high-profile return trips to
Muncie. During his visit in 2007,
Letterman was on campus for the
dedication of the state-of-the-art
media facility that would be his
namesake, the $21 million David
Letterman Communication and
Media Building. In September
2010, Letterman returned as a
participant in the David Letterman
Distinguished Professional Lecture
and Workshop Series, established
by the university in 2008, speaking
with Twitter co-founder Biz
Stone at a capacity-filled Emens
Auditorium.
On Dec. 2, 2011, Letterman
returned to campus for the 13th
presentation in the Letterman
lecture series, inviting MSNBC’s
Rachel Maddow for a conversation
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on the political climate and issues
in today’s media. After her talk
with Letterman, “The Rachel
Maddow Show” was broadcast
live from campus, about which
Maddow recognized the state-ofthe-art facilities made available
to her for her show, saying, “You
guys have really good TV and
communications facilities here.”
After being introduced by Dr.
Jo Ann M. Gora, Letterman strode
on stage in a dark suit, dark shoes,
and signature light gray socks. The
crowd provided a standing ovation
and mobile phones and cameras
were raised high to record the
event.
Following a few minutes of
taking aim at himself in his typical
self-deprecating manner, Letterman
introduced Maddow to the
audience, offering two thoughts.
One, “I’ve never seen someone talk
as much as this woman.” And two,
“I know there are probably a lot of
people as smart [as her], but I know
there’s nobody smarter.”
Letterman and Maddow
took their seats on stage before
discussing topics including the
political climate of our country,
described by Maddow as an
inadvertently hilarious period in
our history; the Republican field of
candidates for president; Maddow’s
AIDs activism; the economy; and
words of wisdom for today’s college
student.
But first, Letterman invited Gora
back to the stage for an impromptu
conversation about the events at
Penn State University, Syracuse
University, and the University of
California–Davis.
Regarding Penn State and
Syracuse specifically, Letterman
asked Gora for her opinion as
eye on the ball
a highly respected university
president, to which Gora
responded, saying, “They only
did the right thing after they were
forced to do the right thing … It’s
a great reminder that people didn’t
have the right value systems.”
She also offered her opinion
that athletics should not be the
dominant culture of the institution.
As the conversation shifted
into Maddow’s wheelhouse,
Letterman was curious about how
the continuing Occupy Wall Street
protests were affecting the political
landscape, to which Maddow
suggested that the 99 percenters’
goal is not to elect officials, but to
change the conversation. “It’s less
about pitching new people,” she
said, “but more about pitching new
questions.”
Maddow added that the heated
dialogue and protests are a result
of the fact that representative
democracy is not doing a good
job solving problems for this
generation.
Maddow took the opportunity
to turn the table on Letterman and
ask him what it is he wants out of
the political system, particularly for
his son, to which Letterman offered
an elegant and poignant response
that would define much of the rest
of the conversation.
In referencing the widespread
criticism of Rick Perry’s position
of allowing children of illegal
immigrants to qualify for instate tuition at public universities
and colleges in Texas, Letterman
suggested that Perry, through an
act of humanity and support of
children who’ve been brought to
the U.S. by no fault of their own,
should be recognized, not vilified.
“I want that influence removed
from my son’s life,” said Letterman.
Maddow responded, offering her
opinion that there needs to be a
shift toward celebrating humanity.
“Politics should be inspiring; it
shouldn’t be vicious.”
This led to a conversation about
which Maddow said she never gets
asked about. Letterman asked her
to tell her Mississippi story, to
which Maddow offered that she
has been an AIDs activist since her
upbringing in San Francisco. She
suggested she wasn’t smart enough
to do treatment activism (getting
drugs approved), so she looked for
an opportunity where she could
win. She found that opportunity
through trying to get conditions
improved for those with HIV in
Alabama and Mississippi prisons,
which segregated those who tested
positive for HIV into wards where
they were provided no health care,
no opportunity for parole, and no
access to the prison’s programs.
In closing, Maddow and
Letterman returned to the subject
of wanting to rediscover national
pride in and respect for the political
system. Maddow said, “The
political system has to be capable of
solving problems, and the problem
isn’t that ‘the other people suck.’”
Letterman offered that while
many of the current candidates in
the Republican field for president
seem pathetic and laughable, at
least they have the courage to get
in the game. Maddow responded,
saying that it is a noble thing to
serve or offer up yourself to serve
your country as a public servant.
Maddow closed the show by
offering two suggestions, which
she wishes she had thought about
while she was in college, to the
students filling Emens Auditorium.
First, she suggested that students
really prioritize their romantic
lives, suggesting it shouldn’t be at
the top of the priority list. Second,
she said that studying history and
philosophy is underrated. “These
will stimulate your brain; they
will help you make decisions from
rotating your tires to whether or not
you’ll be able to get into heaven,”
said Maddow. “They will make you
a more effective person in your life.”
The presentation’s format was
indicative of the lecture’s innovative
nature with no talking points, no
teleprompters, and no prepared
questions. It was just three people,
including Gora who sat on stage for
the entire conversation, having real
conversations about real subjects
affecting real people. l
—Jon Gorman
this just in
Ball State and Indiana
University have entered
into an agreement that will
allow students who have
earned a master of science
degree in adult education
from the IU program in
Indianapolis to transfer up
to 30 credit hours toward
a doctor of education
degree in adult, higher, and
community education from
Ball State.
Ball State Alumnus / January 2012 5
Student-Athlete Shares Story of Survival
For Richmond, Ind., native Ashtyn
Brown, attending Ball State and
competing with the women’s golf
team fulfilled a life-long dream.
“This is what I always wanted to
do,” says Brown. “I never looked
anywhere else. I never talked to any
other coaches. I never sent anything
anywhere else. I just put my mind
to coming here.”
Now, firmly planted on campus
as a freshman student-athlete, her
ambition and passions are leading
her down new paths. The fact that
she’s even at Ball State is a miracle,
and she’s begun sharing her
miraculous story with others.
“My greatest accomplishment
… is being able to share and hope
that people are getting something
from it.” Brown’s opening up about
her past began when, a few weeks
into the team’s fall season, Coach
Katherine Mowat suggested she sit
down, take as long as she wanted
if she was comfortable, and tell her
teammates her story, and that’s
what she did.
“I was diagnosed [with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia] when
I was six, and relapsed when I
was eight,” explains Brown. The
diagnosis resulted in two and a
half years of chemotherapy, plus
radiation after her relapse.
While undergoing treatment,
Brown met Justin Cross, a men’s
golf student-athlete at Ball State,
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who would provide inspiration
in her life despite the fact that he
lost his own battle with leukemia.
“The fact that we were fighting the
same thing, and that he was older
and a male figure, I looked up to
him,” says Brown. “He was always
somebody that I could look up
to. It’s harder without him today
because I know that he would know
exactly how I was feeling, and he
would know exactly what to say.
He was my hero.”
It was because of Cross that
Brown set her sights, even at eight
years old, on Ball State.
Sharing her story has led to
attention that she didn’t expect.
Brown has appeared on the Golf
Channel Radio Network and on
a Golf Channel television special
that aired on Thanksgiving Day.
In November 2011, Brown served
as an ambassador for the PGA
Tour’s Children’s Miracle Network
Hospitals Classic golf tournament
in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
It was the Children’s Miracle
Network ambassador experience
that she says opened her eyes to the
impact she could make by sharing
her story with a larger audience.
“It was just life changing,” she
explains. “On Tuesday, we were
doing filming, and they were like,
‘Oh, just go jump on, you can play
a practice round,’” she retells. “The
front was backed up, so we just
acted like we knew what we were
doing and we jumped on 10, and
one of the Disney guys said, ‘Hey,
there are a couple of cool guys up
there, do you want to go play with
them?’”
The two cool guys ended up
being professional baseball players
eye on the ball
with the Tampa Bay Rays, B.J.
Upton and James Shields. She
would later meet their teammates
David Price and Johnny Damon, as
well as numerous other celebrities
and pro golfers. “They just wanted
to be around me,” she says. “If I
can impress them, then maybe I can
really make an impact.”
As an ambassador, Brown
qualified to play in the pro-am
tournament. Paired with PGA pro
Carl Paulson on day one, Brown
finished tied for second. On day
two, she was paired with Ben
Martin, and was surprised to find
Coach Mowat cheering her on,
having flown to Florida to provide
Brown with additional support
from home.
Her focus is now squarely
on giving back the support that
she never went without. “My
community stepped up and did
so much for me, Riley Hospital
for Children did so much for
me,” she says. “I’m at an age now
where I can start stepping up,
doing something about it, doing
something for others going through
it; being here because my other
friends aren’t. So, I’m here for
them; I have to make this work.
“I think the perspective of
children, they are fighters,” she
explains. “It makes me want to
be around them. I never, ever
thought I was on my deathbed. I
just thought I felt a little weaker
that day; that I’d wake up the
next morning. I never went to bed
wondering if I was going to wake
up. I know my parents did. I know
there were nights when my doctors
felt that way.
“Golf keeps things in perspective
for me,” she says. “When I’m on
the golf course, not only do I love
it, but I have to remember who
I’m representing. I’m representing
myself, my team, my university,
my coach, and whoever else is
watching.”
Now, thanks to Brown’s
inspiring story, a much larger
audience—including kids struggling
with their own illnesses, and adults
looking for inspiration in Brown’s
generation—is watching. l
—Jon Gorman
Wells, Bullington Among
Hall of Fame Picks
On Feb. 3 at the Ball State University
Alumni Center, Ball State career
basketball scoring leader Bonzi Wells,
’98; former number one baseball
draft pick Bryan Bullington, ’10;
outstanding softball athlete Amy
Doyle, ’99, whose name appears 22
times on the school’s single season
and career top-five records lists; and
former MAC gymnast of the year Laura
(Szcepanski) Scudder, ’00, will be
inducted into the Ball State Athletics Hall
of Fame. Additionally, the 1949 football
team, the only one in school history to
log a perfect season, outscoring their
opponents 276-71, will be inducted as a
team into the hall.
Perfect Score From Black
Coaches Group
Ball State University received an ‘A’ from
the Black Coaches & Administrators.
According to the Hiring Report Card
for NCAA FBS and FCS head football
coaches, “Communication, search
committee, and time frame were
grading categories where institutions
generally earned either an ‘A’ or ‘B’
grade.”
Further, “An overall ‘A’ indicates that
the institution is actively seeking the
best people for the position, including
people of color, who meet the school’s
job description criteria.
“This year, Ball State University and
the University of North Texas earned a
perfect score,” the report says. “Each of
these schools will receive a certificate to
congratulate them on their commitment
to diversity.”
Athletes Score Well in
NCAA Report
In the latest NCAA Graduation Success
Rate Report, Ball State’s 438 studentathletes received an overall 3.064
grade-point average on the school’s
4.0 scale in 2010-2011. Fourteen of
the school’s 19 programs managed an
average 3.0 GPA or more, while every
team tallied at least an average of 2.56.
Also presented in the report, Ball
State’s athletics programs graduated 73
percent of its student-athletes in a sixyear period beginning with the freshman
class of 2004-2005, 13 percent higher
than the general student body freshman
class entering the university in 20042005.
Eight Football StudentAthletes Honored
Senior defensive back Sean Baker
and sophomore outside linebacker
Aaron Morris were selected to the AllMid-American Conference first team;
while junior middle linebacker Travis
Freeman, sophomore offensive guard
Jordan Hansel, senior defensive tackle
Nathan Olie, senior wide receiver Briggs
Orsbon, and punt return specialist Jamill
Smith were selected to the second
team. Junior punter Scott Kovanda was
named to the third team.
this just in
Muncie has topped the 2011
College Home Listing Report of
most affordable college towns
with an average home price
of $107,346, ranking second
in the United States among
Football Bowl Subdivision
schools, according to Coldwell
Banker Real Estate.
Women’s Volleyball Earns
Tournament Bid
The Cardinals finished the season
with a 25-7 win-loss record and
played and lost to Louisville (238) in the opening round of the
2011 NCAA Division I Women’s
Volleyball Championship.
Ball State, which was playing
in its eighth NCAA tournament
and first since 2002, finished with
a 12-4 record in Mid-American
Conference play and earned an atlarge bid.
Kara Bates led the team with
a 3.25 kills-per-set average, while
Kelsey Brandl led the team’s
attackers with a .338 hitting
percentage, while posting a teamhigh 50 aces. On defense, Ball State
held its opponents to a .186 hitting
mark. l
cardinal rule
Women’s Swimming & Diving Coach Leaves
Behind Long Legacy of Leadership
Coach Laura Seibold-Caudill will
retire from her post as head coach
of Ball State University’s women’s
swimming and diving program
following the conclusion of the
2011-2012 season. As a two-time
Mid-American Conference Coach of
the Year, Seibold-Caudill, has led her
teams to great success in both the
pool and the classroom.
“I have been the head women’s
swimming and diving coach for the
past 33 years at Ball State, which
has been like a second home for
me. While at Ball State, I met my
husband of 30 years, Bill Caudill,
and we had two terrific children
together who went on to become
successful athletes at Ball State.
Swimming and diving, along with
the thrill and excitement of being
involved in collegiate athletics, have
always been a passion of mine. I
will forever remember the wonderful
relationships and experiences that
I have had with the nearly 600
student-athletes I’ve coached.
I want to thank the many coaches
and administrators who have made
my success at Ball State possible.
I am very thankful for the wonderful
friendships that I have made with so
many people and fellow coaches at
Ball State, especially my colleague,
Bob Thomas, head men’s swimming
and diving coach.
I hope to stay in contact with my
athletes and keep them committed
to the program. I want to continue to
see the team succeed and hope that
I can be of help in the future as I will
continue to reside in Muncie.” l
—Jessica Myrick
eye on the ball
Tuitions Savings Scholarships Announced
Ball State officials announced
in November 2011 that a $500
Completion Scholarship will be
awarded to Indiana students on
track to earn their degrees within
four years. The Completion
Scholarship is one of four measures
being implemented at the university
to save students money, remove
impediments and help students
complete their degree requirements
in four years, and maximize the use
of university facilities.
Students who take advantage of
these initiatives will typically save
about $6,000 during the course of
their studies, according to a news
release from the university.
“The Completion Scholarship
and time-to-degree initiatives
demonstrate our commitment to
Hoosier families,” says university
President Jo Ann M. Gora. “Our
goal is to remove obstacles and
reward student success on the path
to a high-quality four-year degree.”
Hollis E. Hughes Jr., ’65MA73,
president of the Ball State Board of
Trustees agrees, saying, “Ball State
is a student-centered university.
We’ve searched for and removed
impediments that slow our students
on their paths to a degree. I’m
particularly proud that we have
found solutions that preserve
immersive learning and a relevant
education that prepares Ball State
graduates for the challenges of the
21st century.”
Other measures being
implemented at the university to
affect this goal include reducing the
number of credit hours required for
most degrees, encouraging hybrid
schedules, and making summer
classes more affordable.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels
supported the comprehensive
approach. “This is another example
of Ball State working hard to save
students money while providing
high-quality degrees,” he says. “The
university’s approach offers several
meaningful ways to graduate faster,
at a lower cost. This is the kind of
thinking we need for the state to
meet its higher education goals.”
All told, these initiatives will save
Hoosier students more than $5.5
million annually. l
Physics, German Double Major Named Rhodes
Scholar Finalist
Ball State senior Will Jay,
described by his German professor
Ron Warner as one of his most
“unforgettable students” in more
than 45 years, is Ball State’s third
Rhodes Scholar finalist in two years.
The prestigious award recognizes
about 80 scholars worldwide and
provides them the opportunity to
do graduate work for up to three
years at Oxford University in the
United Kingdom.
“With the focus of
Ball State’s physics
program at the
undergraduate level,
I’ve been afforded
opportunities here that
I wouldn’t have gotten
at other schools where
the research emphasis is
in graduate work,” says
Jay.
Jay has a cumulative
grade point average of
3.99, is a Goldwater
Scholarship recipient,
and would like to
focus his graduate
studies on theoretical
or mathematical
physics. His career
goal is to earn
his doctorate,
conduct
research in
quantum field
theory or
elementary
particles,
and teach at
the university
level. l
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this just in
Dara Conway, a senior interior
design student, won first place
in the national Aging Means
Business Student Design
Contest for her design of a
product that relieves back pain
through a brace that applies
heat as well as a vibrational
and massaging mechanism to
encourage muscle relaxation.
Lillian Michael received
honorable mention for a knife
featuring an ergonomic handle.
Ball State instructor of music
performance and jazz pianist
Amy Rempel recorded and
released “Chatter” through
Rattle Records in 2011.
Ball State’s chapter of the
National Society of Collegiate
Scholars has received the Gold
Star Award at the 2011 NSCS
Convention in San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
Tony Constello, Irving
Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Architecture at
Ball State, has been honored
by the Indiana Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects
with a Jury Special Recognition
Award for his submission,
“Design Education Through
Newspaper Journalism.”
Soccer to Improve Relations
Between U.S., Jordan
Ball State faculty, led by Lindsey
Blom, a physical education
professor, licensed soccer coach,
and co-author of the book,
“Survival Guide for Coaching
Youth Soccer,” will use a $212,000
grant from the U.S. State
Department to support Soccer
for Peace and Understanding
in Jordan, a two-year program
designed to strengthen ties between
the United States and Jordan.
The project calls for American
youth soccer coaches traveling
to Jordan this month to conduct
coaching clinics and assist coaches
in running clinics for their youth
athletes. Jordanian coaches will
visit Indiana for a 14-day cultural
sport and peace exchange in May,
followed by an American repeat
visit to Jordan in early 2013 to
conduct another round of clinics.
“Despite close, bilateral
relations at the governmental level,
Jordanians and Americans do not
always view each other’s nations
in the most positive light,” says
Blom. “Because nothing is closer
to the Jordanian heart and psyche
than soccer, linking Americans and
Jordanians through the world’s
most popular sport is a useful,
indirect way to teach peacemaking
and conflict resolution. This
will not only create individual
friendships, but also improve
coaching proficiency in both
nations.” l
A. Umit Taftali Scholarship Created
In recognition of A. Umit Taftali,
’85—a native of and resident of
Turkey—Richard Emens and
Beatrice Emens Wolper have
contributed $25,000 to create a
scholarship recognizing Taftali’s
commitment to the university and
foundation.
The scholarship recognizes
outstanding incoming freshmen
who have participated in, and
provided leadership for, academic
and extracurricular activities
within their high schools and local
communities. Preference will be
given to a student pursuing a major
in finance, however, in the absence
of a student who meets this initial
criteria, the fund may support
any of the Emens Scholarship
recipients.
Taftali is a member of the
Ball State Foundation board of
directors, has been named an
honorary citizen of Muncie, is a
recipient of the Miller College of
Business Award for International
Distinction (1999), and provided
the lead gift for the construction
of the A. Umit Taftali Center for
Capital Markets and Investing at
Ball State. l
eye on the ball
English Professor Wins Poetry Prize
says Neely, whose writing of the
book was supported by two grants
from Ball State as well as “a great
community of writers at Ball State.”
According to David Walker, one
of the editors of Oberlin College
Press who also judged the entries,
“There were at least a dozen
manuscripts in the pool this year to
which we would have been happy
to award the prize, and choosing
among them was extremely
difficult.
“But Mark Neely’s stood out
for its exuberant imaginations, its
meticulously shaped sense of form,
its constantly surprising yet utterly
American voice,” explains Walker.
“The book alternates between
complexly layered prose poems and
elegantly refined lyrics, developing
a really exhilarating rhythm.” l
Cover art courtesy of Mark Neely
Ball State Director of Creative
Writing Mark Neely’s first book,
“Beasts of the Hill,” won the
FIELD Poetry Prize and will be
published by Oberlin College Press
in March.
Neely’s poems have appeared
in Boulevard, Indiana Review,
Salt Hill, FIELD, North American
Review, Columbia Poetry Review,
and Barrow Street, among
others. He is also the author of a
chapbook, “Four of a Kind,” which
won the Concrete Wolf chapbook
contest and was published in 2010.
“Winning the prize validates
all the work I’ve put into writing
this book during the last six years,”
Beasts of the Hill
Mark Neely
alumni profile
During a national period of economic
weakness, Jim Wainscott, ’79, is one
of the many business owners facing
the everyday challenge of keeping a
company afloat.
“Like many other manufacturers, we are now in our fourth
consecutive year of the long, slow economic recovery. The
nature of our business is cyclical and we have endured
economic downturns in the past – but nothing quite as deep
or as long as this,” says Wainscott.
As president, CEO, and chairman of AK Steel, a
world leader in steel production, Wainscott has ridden
a roller coaster of economic strength and weakness
since his promotion in 2003. AK Steel reached its peak
production results in 2007 and 2008, exceeding $900
million in earnings before interest taxes and appreciation
and amortization (EBITDA). In 2009-2010, the EBITDA
dramatically dropped to $150 million.
In the manufacturing industry, Wainscott says dependence
on raw materials makes liquidity uncontrollable to an extent.
“We control what we can with a lot of things, but the
price of products is set by the market. That’s a function of
supply and demand in the economy in general. We
don’t own iron-ore, so we have to buy it. China has
been going gangbusters, hence the demand for raw
materials like iron-ore. The cost has sky-rocketed;
quadrupled.”
Despite the tough economic times, Wainscott
maintains the golden rule vision upheld by AK Steel
over its century-long life span.
“It may sound a bit cliché, but it’s been my
experience that if you take good care of your
people, including your current employees and your
retirees, and serve your customers better than your
competitors, all things are possible,” he says.
AK Steel produces carbon, stainless, and
electrical steel. Although currently in a time of
distress, Wainscott is confident in an industry
prevalent to our nation’s economic roots.
“It doesn’t sound like the sexiest business, but
it’s always been a great challenge and opportunity.
We need to make steel and we need to manufacture
things. Manufacturing is the backbone of our
economy.” •
—Michelle D. Johnson
Memorial Concert Takes on New Meaning
After graduating from Ball State,
Uttamlal “Tom” T. Shah,
MM83DA87, was, like many other
graduates, looking for a job. With
a bachelor’s degree from Berklee
College of Music in Boston, Mass.,
and a master’s degree in music and
performance and a doctorate in
music history from Ball State, Shah
had a wide range of possibilities.
None of the offers that came his
way were very good, according
to Larry McWilliams, professor
emeritus of music performance
at Ball State, who once employed
Shah as a graduate assistant.
His family members noticed an
ad in the Cincinnati newspaper for
United States State Department
jobs, and for whatever reason, Shah
responded to the ad, according to
McWilliams.
“He took one test, he took
another test, and he took another,”
recalls McWilliams. “And these
were weeks apart; Cincinnati,
Louisville, Indianapolis, Chicago,
Detroit. And each time, it was
more clandestine.” According to
McWilliams, Shah eventually asked
his interviewers for clarification.
“And he says, ‘Hey, six weeks now,
what are we doing?’”
“They said, ‘Well, we’re glad
you noticed,’” says McWilliams.
“‘We’ve got something we want to
talk to you about. You are a perfect
candidate and we would love to
have you in the CIA.’”
McWilliams considered Shah
like a son. Phone conversations
with Shah, his wife Linda (Grise)
Shah, ’85, and his parents have
helped McWilliams put the pieces
of his mysterious life and death
together. That’s why the events of
Aug. 7, 1998, still hurt and still
create more questions than answers.
Secretary of State Madeleine
K. Albright, in a press release on
Aug. 8, 1998, issued a statement,
saying, “I am deeply saddened to
confirm the deaths of 11 Americans
as a result of the bomb attack on
Larry McWilliams (far left) hired Tom Shah (far right) to serve as a graduate assistant in 1980. In 1998, Shah was
killed in the United States embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya.
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our embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on
August 7, 1998. All were embassy
personnel, or their dependents,
who gave their lives in the service
of our country.” At the end of the
statement, Albright listed those
who passed away as a result of the
bombing, and the last entry is for
“Tom Shah, Political Section.”
Secretary of Defense William
Cohen made a promise on Aug.
13, 1998, in remarks at the White
House. “We pledge here today that
neither time, nor distance can bend
or break our resolve to bring to
justice those who have committed
these unspeakable acts of cowardice
and horror. We will not rest.
We will never retreat from this
mission.”
President Bill Clinton recognized
Shah as, “a Foreign Service
member who was an extraordinarily
accomplished jazz musician and
devoted husband.”
Between Shah’s departure from
Ball State in 1987 and his passing
in 1998, McWilliams remained
in contact with Shah, although he
acknowledges that the contact grew
less and less frequent as time went
on.
“I knew he was in an
administrative position [following
his graduation at Langley, which
McWilliams attended],” says
McWilliams. “After a year in D.C.,
they wanted to send him to Cairo,
Egypt. He did that for a year and
ended up back in D.C. for a year.
Then they wanted to send him to
Damascus, Syria.
“He’s going here and there,”
recalls McWilliams. “He’d call me
and send me stuff from Russia,
Africa. He said, ‘I’m real busy, I’m
just chasing stuff down.’”
Larry McWilliams shared his passions for trumpet and life with Shah during the years
they knew each other. “He was kind of like a son to me too,” says McWilliams.
According to McWilliams, from
pieces of information he’s put
together from those exchanges with
Shah, his wife, and his family; and
a report published in early 2011 by
the Associated Press, Shah was a
senior officer who was a part of the
“Iraq Operations Group, the CIA
team that ran spying campaigns
against Sadam Hussein’s regime,”
says the Associated Press report.
Both the Associated Press report
and McWilliams identify Shah as
the officer who was charged with
meeting a senior Iraqi official in
Kenya. “Looking back at it now,
I say, somebody knew, somebody
was following him because they
knew what he was on to,” explains
McWilliams. “Because supposedly,
[Shah] was part of the Saddam
Hussein business and the Osama
Bin Laden business. I’m certain that
somehow or another, [the enemy]
got to him.”
But, according to the Associated
Press, “Shah’s death did not stall
his mission. The Africa Division
pressed on and confirmed that the
Iraqi source was legitimate, his
information extremely valuable.”
The report says the Iraqi official
defected and was re-located to the
United States with a new identity.
Following Shah’s death,
McWilliams, who served as a
pallbearer at Shah’s funeral,
approached Shah’s parents about
setting up a memorial scholarship at
Ball State. They agreed, and “Now
we have a Tom Shah memorial
scholarship offered every year,” says
McWilliams.
This year’s Tom Shah Memorial
Jazz Scholarship Award Concert
on Feb. 8 at Sursa Performance
Hall, recognizing the scholarship
winner and the fallen CIA officer,
will take on a different tone given
the Associated Press story revealing
Shah’s career, his work with the
CIA, his untimely death, and
his impact on the global war on
terrorism. l
—Jon Gorman
Ball State awarded honorary doctor
of law degrees to Indiana Sen. Luke
Kenley and U.S. District Court
Judge Tanya Pratt at its annual
winter commencement held on
Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.
“Senator Kenley and Judge Pratt
have made untold contributions
over many years of public service,”
said Ball State President Jo Ann M.
Gora. “These two lifelong Indiana
residents have made a significant
difference in the lives of their
fellow Hoosiers. They are excellent
examples of what our students
can aspire to, with hard work and
dedication.”
Kenley, has more than 35
years in local, state, and recently,
national affairs. Pratt was the first
African-American to hold a federal
judgeship in Indiana history. l
this just in
Robert Jones, an H.H. Gregg
Center for Professional Selling
sales team student, advanced
to the World Collegiate Sales
Open finals, taking place Feb.
23–25 at Northern Illinois
University.
‘The Circus in Winter’ Performs
at Regional Festival
The run for “The Circus in
Winter” pushes on as the immersive
learning project was the featured
performance, closing out the
weeklong Region III Kennedy
Center American College Theater
Festival on Jan. 7 in Champaign, Ill.
The original musical is one of
eight productions selected for the
2012 regional festival from a field
of 40 to 50 entrants from colleges
and universities in Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, and Wisconsin.
As a regional finalist, “The Circus
in Winter” has the potential to be
recognized as one of the best student
productions in the country at the
national Kennedy Center American
College Theater Festival in April.
The adaptation of Ball State
English professor Cathy Day’s novel
by the same name follows the lives
of Indiana stable owner Wallace
Porter and the crew of talent he hires
when purchasing his own circus.
Its creative team includes theatre
professor and director Beth Turcotte;
students of the Virginia B. Ball
Center for Creative Inquiry; Ben
Clark and Alex Kocoshis, musical
directors; Christopher and Justin
Swader, set designers; Andy Catron,
’95, as guest lighting designer;
Maggie Cissell, costume designer;
Tyler Smart, sound designer; and
Erin Spahr, choreography.
“This is an opportunity for those
of us involved with ‘Circus’ to
say thank you for all the support,
guidance and faith we’ve been
given—from the university and
President Jo Ann M. Gora to the
Virginia Ball Center, our donors,
our department, and, of course,
Cathy Day,” Turcotte says.
To raise funds for the festival,
Ball State’s Department of Theatre
and Dance sponsored a benefit
performance of “The Circus in
Winter” at 7 p.m. on Jan. 2 in
University Theatre.
Bill Jenkins, department chair,
describes “The Circus in Winter”
as one of the most successful
productions ever staged at Ball State.
“Its entire run of shows was sold
out,” he says. “Everybody I spoke
to who saw it described it as terrific,
and I’d say, all-around, it’s one of
the best things we’ve ever done.”
Clark said the remaining creative
team hopes festival distinction will
help market the production when
they enter it into new musical
festivals this spring. “We’ve made
it a point to see through the full
potential of the show, and I think it
has a good shot to be professionally
produced,” he says.
Thirty-five Ball State students
attended the regional festival,
participating in workshops,
attending lectures, and watching
productions. l
Honorary
Degrees
Awarded
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Vol.69 / No.3
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above: theta chi alumni participate in
the 2011 homecoming Parade, oct.
8.
below (left): students perform dance
and lip sync routines during air Jam.
(right) the black
student association was the independent
and overall Winner of air Jam, during
which students
tied their acts to the theme, “it’s a bird
... it’s a game ... it’s homecoming.”
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Food for
Thought
Farmers and educators
weigh in on how to
live healthily and
sustainably
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Dedication: David Owsley
Museum of Art
business
INSIDE: Marketing your
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to success page 22
“The A Campaign” A Ball State
student’s life-changing journey
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Feature Articles
Going Social
Food for Thought
By Jon K. Gorman
Also inside the November issue:
By Jessica Myrick
From Page to Stage
G o i n
g S o c
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Do you eat locally, organically, or mindlessly?
by Jessica Myrick
Chesterton Wizard of Oz Festival
Animated Film Makes it to Film Festival
Ball State Ranks in Top Ten
Recent Grad Wins Architecture Award
Vernacular Memorials
Ball State University Foundation Celebrates
60 Years of Service
Marketing and advertising
considerations for emerging media to
affect your company’s bottom line
by Jon K. Gorman
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Your Letters to the Editor
I’m looking forward to seeing the
online Alumnus when I get to a
public wireless site.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid to try
looking at it from home. I clicked
on the link, saw that the entire
page was flash content, swallowed
hard and then clicked again. Then I
waited, and waited, and waited for
the page to load.
As someone who lives in rural
Indiana with satellite-based Internet
service, and a strict daily download
limit, I’ve found that flash content
not only loads very slowly, but also
quickly exhausts my daily limit. I’m
sure your content is good. Just wish
I could see it.
—Greg Rice, ’74
I do not enjoy reading this online—
consequently, I don’t read it.
—Elaine Geeting, ’64MA67
Do you send out any hard copies of
the Ball State Alumnus? If so, will
you please put me on the mailing
list? In the past I have enjoyed
reading it and keeping informed
about my alma mater. However, I
do not at all enjoy reading it online.
I find it cumbersome and simply do
not read through it.
—Phyllis H. Scholp, ’64
Editor’s response: A few years ago
the decision was made to change
the schedule to three printed and
three electronic editions per year.
They alternate in the schedule every
other month, thus, you’ll receive a
printed edition in January, May, and
September; and an electronic edition
in March, July, and November.
The delivery and presentation of
the electronic edition is something
we’re constantly striving to improve.
Additionally, we continue to try to
find a balance between new and
old media delivery channels of the
magazine, and the number of printed
versus electronic editions continues to
be discussed.
I am very dismayed that a magazine
for the alumni of a major university
in the business of preparing
photojournalists for the real world
would use istock images throughout
the magazine. It is bad enough
National Geographic Magazine
uses Corbis, Getty, and a myriad
of other stock agencies when they
have their own stock agency to
draw photographs from. Ball State
University Journalism Department
has the ability and the quality to
provide any photographic service
to you. Shame on you for going
the easy way and looking up the
cheapest kind of stock to use for
your purposes. Sincerely,
—Brian Gordon Green, ’76
I just read the BSU MAGAZINE
via the computer and found it
most energizing, informative,
and my PRIDE was enhanced,
indeed. Great idea, money-saver
as well as fun, especially, the
MUSIC CAMP VIDEO. GO
CARDINALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
—Ms. Darrell Cascio, ’84
Retired Educator
Can you make the print larger? It
would really help!
—Diane West
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Seeing
Eye to Eye?
Ball State program aims to
develop professionals equipped
to support teachers working
with children with special
education needs, including
those with autism spectrum
and social and communication
disorders
INSIDE: Work-life balance: the Ultimate Juggling act, page 26
Your article “Seeing Eye to Eye” in
September 2011 was an excellent
report of the online project to
provide distance learning for
persons committed to serving those
who have an autism spectrum
disorder.
However, I feel it was a very
unfortunate oversight that the last
paragraph on page 19 identifying
resources involved in meeting the
communication needs of these
special children neglected to
mention school speech, language,
hearing clinicians, and Ball State’s
outstanding training and clinical
service programs offered by the
Department of Speech Language
Pathology and Audiology.
Congratulations to Dr. Susan
Wilczynski for the important work
she and her associates are doing.
—Robert G Showalter, ’52MA57
Lake Tippecanoe
Professor Emeritus
Department of Speech,
Language and Hearing Sciences
Purdue University
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We Welcome Your Letters
Great article! As a former
undergraduate and graduate of
BSU in Special Education, I am so
proud!
—Linda Hillsamer, ’74
In short, this is one of the best ASD
articles for school staff, parents, and
those with ASD I have ever come
across! Thank you!
—Shawn Marie Balay, MA09
The alumni profile about author
Stephen W. Hines featured in the
September issue of the Ball State
Alumnus was interesting, but it has
raised a question with me about
proper writing conventions. Isn’t
it still correct to underline titles of
books?
As an educator, that is what I
teach my students. Yet all of the
books mentioned in this piece were
notated with quotation marks.
Am I missing something?
Shouldn’t someone writing for a
university publication be aware
of this rule, or is it simply poor
editing?
I would appreciate your
response.
—Janis Stewart
Editor’s response: Our primary
source for the style and editing choices
for the Ball State Alumnus magazine
is The Associated Press Stylebook.
In its rule for composition titles, it
says:
“Apply the guidelines listed
here to book titles, computer
game titles, movie titles, opera
titles, play titles, album and
song titles, radio and television
program titles, and the titles of
lectures, speeches and works of
art.
–Capitalize the principal
words, including prepositions
and conjunctions of four or
more letters.
–Capitalize an article - the, a,
an - or words of fewer than four
letters if it is the first or last
word in a title.
–Put quotation marks around
the names of all such works
except the Bible and books that
are primarily catalogues of
reference material.
You dared to venture into a most
controversial subject in your May
2011 issue.
You carefully stay within the
professional bounds of propriety.
What can you do but rehash the
litany that is already in the box?
It is not for lack of ideas that
childhood education is in disrepute.
It is most unfortunate that
educators are in a marriage of
convenience with politicians and
therefore with taxpayers. This
compromises the objectivity of
Your feedback is important.
The Ball State Alumnus
invites letters to the editor.
We reserve the right to edit
all submissions for clarity
and space. Contact us at
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educators in any serious discussion
of reforms.
I wrote of my change of heart
about reforms to my former
classmate, President Bob Bell,
back in 1982. President Bell
neither agreed or disagreed with
my observations. He found them
“interesting.”
Teachers have abandoned
their power to their union nonprofessional thugs, and therefore
have lost their credibility.
—Cloyce Avey, ’39
Photo by Celeste Booth
fully immersed
Students, faculty, and staff present the work and outcomes of their immersive learning projects at the Building Better
Community Fellows Summer and Fall 2011 Showcase, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.
Building Better Community Fellows: Opening
Up the Realm of Possibilities for Students
On Dec. 7, 2011, more than 200
students, representing 16 teams
from six of Ball State’s colleges,
participated in a showcase of their
work during the summer and fall.
Facilitated by Ball State’s Building
Better Communities Fellows
program, the students applied,
were selected, and participated
in semester-long immersive
learning projects for community
partners which targeted Ball State
specifically for professional support
and services.
According to Kelli Jo Huth,
director of the Building Better
Community Fellows Programs,
the program is what connects
community partners with Ball
State students through immersive
learning.
“We are funded, in part, through
the Lilly Endowment,” explains
Huth. Lilly’s major goal is to keep
more Hoosier graduates in the
state, according to Huth, so they
approached the Ball State Career
Center several years ago. The goals
were to put students in contact with
Indiana businesses, give them more
opportunities to explore the kinds
of job opportunities available to
them in Indiana, and provide them
with real-world experiences that
they could add to their resumes.
“Three years ago, the program
transferred into Building Better
Communities,” says Huth. “In the
initial days, students were actually
paid to go out, but that doesn’t
really fall in line with the immersive
learning model, so now they earn
credit for participation, and we still
offer support services to the teams
throughout.”
The support services include
vital skills and training to prepare
students who may or may not have
ever been inside a boardroom.
These sessions cover things like not
talking on cell phones, no texting
during a meeting, what a student is
expected to wear, and how to talk using appropriate
forms of communication
However, Huth’s main role is to help facilitate
the interactions between community partners,
faculty, and students. If a business or a nonprofit organization leader hears about Ball State’s
immersive learning initiatives, sees the commercials
or a newspaper article, or hears about a successful
project from someone else, they have an easy and
accessible conduit to teams of faculty and students
who can address operations or fill specific needs.
“My job is to go and find an appropriate faculty
mentor who has the time and the willingness to
lead a project, and then recruit an appropriate
student team for that,” says Huth. Support services
are then provided throughout the lifespan of each
project.
One of the greatest benefits to the students
involved in an immersive learning project is
learning about different disciplines, according to
Huth. “If you’ve worked with marketing majors
for the whole of your education, you speak that
language, but you may not be
able to communicate well with
Summer/Fall Showcase: Projects & Community Partners
other people who you are going to
work with after you graduate from
Camp Adventure Environmental
Indiana Youth Institute: Positive
college.
Learning Center Marketing
Youth Development through Sport
“For students, and I’ve heard
Strategy
Indiana Youth Institute and New
Muncie Community Schools Adventure
Resource Group
them say this over and over again,
and
Environmental
Learning
Center
Jarden Home Website Video
it just gives them a new way to
CASA—Volunteer Training and
Production
think about the education they’ve
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Jarden Home Brands
received so far; a way to apply it
Appointed Special Advocates
Muncie Convention and Visitors
practically,” explains Huth. “It
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Bureau Video Development
Special Advocates
Muncie Convention and Visitors Bureau
gives them a vision for what their
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The Face of Online Education
By Celeste Booth
These days, online education isn’t a
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foreign, unfamiliar term. You won’t
be met with a quizzical look and a
raised eyebrow if you say you’ve just
finished your master’s degree through
an online program. And despite the
still-common skepticism that online
courses do not provide the same
level of quality as traditional classes,
a recent study published by the U.S.
Department of Education found that
not to be the case; online learning
proved to be just as, if not more,
effective as in-class instruction.
Undoubtedly there is a plethora
of reasons why one course might
be more effective than another,
whether online or in-person, but
given all the technological resources
available these days, it makes sense
that online learning can be extremely
effective. The most logical use of
online learning is at the graduate level
when coursework can be integrated
effectively with work demands
and family life. Yet as younger and
younger students engage in online
courses, to the point where some
states even require high school
students to have taken an online
course in order to graduate, it begs the
question of where online learning best
fits in educational settings. Is online
the future of education, or simply
an alternative form of learning that
meshes well with the modern lifestyle?
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For decades now, universities and
colleges have successfully offered
online classes and programs. These
days, the total population enrolled
in one or more online course has
surpassed the 6 million mark,
according to Inside Higher Ed.
As major universities put some of
their best or most popular degrees
online, not only are they opening
up to an even larger audience
around the nation, but are giving
other educational institutions a run
for their money where geographic
boundaries or constraints no longer
exist. Yet, as these more established
programs continue to grow and
improve, a more recent trend in K-12
schools has taken foot. Evergreen
Education Group reports that as
of the 2010-2011 academic year,
around 250,000 students were
enrolled in full-time, virtual schools.
Through online courses, elementary
students are fulfilling their grade-level
requirements without ever having
to step into a physical classroom.
Benefits seen by parents and children
alike include scheduling flexibility,
challenging courses that their local
school might not provide, or aligning
learning styles with delivery method.
As online learning becomes more and
more accessible to K-12 students,
expectations build that these same
opportunities will be available at the
undergraduate and graduate levels.
Yet even with these advantages,
online learning at such a young age
raises many valid concerns. And
because it is such a new trend, it is
too early to know what the long-term
effects will be. Parents and educators
alike worry that children will miss out
on learning important social skills,
how to understand and interact with
different types of personalities, how
to work in a group or participate in
a group discussion, and how to be
a risk taker. Going hand-in-hand
with these concerns is a 2010 study
from the Colorado Department of
Education that compares the results of
standardized test scores from full-time
online schools and traditional schools
in grades three to 10. The result?
Online students failed to score higher
than traditional students even once.
Regardless, there is no indication
that the influx of online students, and
course offerings, is heading anywhere
but up. In fact, enrollments in online
learning are increasing at a rate of
46 percent a year, according to the
International Association of K-12
Online Learning (iNACOL). The
current available data indicates that
by the year 2019 around 50 percent
of high school courses will be given
online, reports iNACOL.
There is, however, an offshoot
of both traditional and online
learning that has demonstrated to
be significant; hybrid schools. These
schools take the best of both worlds,
combining the flexibility of the
online format with some required
in-class hours to complement.
Although this approach may not be
a fit for everyone, test scores from
various hybrid charter schools have
shown that their students perform
to the same level, and sometimes
outperform, their competitors.
Rocketship Education, located
in California, is a small chain of
hybrid charter schools serving lowincome families for kindergarten
through grade five. Only a few years
old, Rocketship Education’s schools
outperform all surrounding schools,
and rank in the top 10 schools in
Santa Clara County that serve lowincome students. The students in
these charter schools receive both
one-on-one time with a personal
computer as well as one-on-one time
with a teacher. Founded in 2006,
Rocketship Education does not have
a long history, yet the early signs of its
success cannot go unmentioned.
As the search to find the perfect
educational setting for one’s child is
an ongoing pursuit, the checklist
is no longer limited to, “public,
private, or homeschooling,” but
“public, private, homeschooling,
hybrid, or online?” For some
parents, it may not even be a
question. Online learning is simply
not a style they want to embrace.
For others, however, it may be an
additional resource that works for
their particular situation. However,
parents may want to proceed with
caution. A recent article from the
Wall Street Journal, titled “My
Teacher is an App,” pointed to the
fact that schools nationwide have
been facing tough budget cuts, and
some schools have been able to
reduce costs by moving online. One
must use good judgment to assess
whether this educational move is in
one’s child’s best interests.
Although there is still much
uncertainty regarding online schools
below the college level, especially at
the elementary age, higher education
offers a different perspective.
Students have matured, they lead
much more independent lifestyles,
and based on one’s individual
needs, an online class might be
just the ticket. A great example of
how a university has successfully
implemented online courses into
already successful programs and
departments is seen right in our own
backyard.
How Ball State has grown online
Within the past five years, the
enrollment of online courses at Ball
State University has grown 108
percent, reaching a total of 7,468
students in the 2010-2011 academic
year. The university now has more
than 300 courses available online
and is working to develop more.
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fashioned way,” using paper and pencil. These days (below) students tote
around laptops to use in class, at home, or on the go. As computers have
become such a mobile device, today’s students can complete their classwork
virtually anywhere.
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The two divisions that have been
at the forefront of this expansion are
Teachers College and the School of
Nursing.
Dr. John Jacobson, dean of
Teachers College and professor,
helps clarify how it all began.
“We saw that as online was being
developed by other universities and
other providers that our enrollments
were starting to dwindle,” Jacobson
explains. “So there was a decision
that was made by Ball State Teachers
College back in the early 2000s
that we would bring in some of our
master’s degrees online. That kind of
jump-started our distance education
here and our faculty diligently
Dean of Teachers College and
Professor Dr. John Jacobson
worked on developing courses and
degrees.”
Teachers College began growing
its online courses and converting
face-to-face degrees into online.
In fall of 2009, Teachers College
received Indiana Commission for
Higher Education approval for a
completely new master’s degree
in applied behavior analysis that
would originate as a fully online
program. “That same year we also
got our master’s degree in secondary
education approved to go online,”
says Jacobson. The popularity of the
applied behavior analysis program
was immediate as enrollment in
this master’s program totals more
than 400 students. In fact, the
enrollments in special education
graduate programs as a whole have
increased by 259 percent during the
last six years. This would include
two master’s degrees and three
graduate-level certificates.
“I can say without any reservation
that it’s the online programing
that’s impacted our enrollment
so dramatically, and we really
are very pleased about that,” says
Jacobson. “This fall alone our
graduate enrollment increased by
673 students over last year to nearly
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Communications, School of
Extended Education Nancy
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Associate Coordinator of
Extended Education and Progam
Evaluation Connie McIntosh
2,000 students now enrolled in
graduate online programming. With
online, it allows us global access to
students, and indeed we have people
who are starting to recognize and
enroll in our online programs that
cross the state boundary … it’s not
just Indiana, but it’s more than
40 states and six foreign countries
enrolled now in this one master’s
degree program in applied behavior
analysis.”
Jacobson adds that Teachers
College is now developing and
bringing online certificate programs
designed to help educators develop
specific skills and understanding
such as working with children who
are gifted, who are autistic, or who
need specific help in reading. A new
certificate program launched this
fall targets charter school leaders in
helping them develop the necessary
knowledge and skills to effectively
lead their schools. Another certificate
in the works is one in community
college leadership that will help
prepare the leadership needed for
the rapidly expanding community
college system in Indiana.
As Teachers College has helped
pioneer online learning at Ball State,
other colleges within the university
have started to bring some of their
own courses online. “We are seeing
that the majority of departments
and every college has put up degree
programs, certificates, or courses,”
explains Nancy Prater, director of
marketing and communications,
School of Extended Education. “We
have the 11th largest online master’s
in nursing program in the country;
a lot of people don’t realize that.
Our MBA program has nearly 250
MBA students. Nearly 60 percent
are online only, so it’s more than
half of the MBA program right now.
There’s public relations, interior
design, and lots of other different
pockets of programs, too.”
Although Teachers College
currently has the highest enrollment
of online students, the School of
Nursing has a well-established
program that boasts around 500
students in its graduate programs
alone. The school also offers a
fully online RN to BS track, which
gives individuals who did their RN
licensure in a two-year program the
opportunity to come back and earn
their four-year diploma. Also offered
are both a master’s program (with
Interim Assistant Provost
for Learning Initiatives and
Associate Professor of
Management Dr. Jennifer Bott
Assistant Professor of
Educational Leadership Lori
Boyland
Professor of Elementary
Education Dr. Susan Tancock
two different tracks) and a doctorate
in nursing practice. All courses are
fully online, and when students are
required to do clinical experiences,
they are conducted wherever they
are located in the United States.
Because most of the students are
already working professionals, the
online format really lends itself well
to their personal schedules so that
they can balance a course load and
job at the same time, while receiving
a quality education. “With our
clientele, all of them are registered
nurses depending on what degree
they have, so this is really a positive
format for them because RNs have
a great variety of schedules they
can work … so they can get online
when they want to in order to get
their assignments,” explains Connie
McIntosh, ’89, associate coordinator
of extended education and program
evaluation. “I think for students, it’s
not only the convenience, but that
they know they are getting a good
education that will allow them to
have the confidence to pass their
certification exams.”
What makes these courses tick?
“When we do have state licensing
exams, our students do very well,
so there is no difference,” says
Jacobson. “We have a 100 percent
success rate.” Jacobson believes that
there are many advantages, such
as the diversity of the students,
to online learning that give a
more enriching and worthwhile
experience to all participants. A great
advantage that Ball State has, is that
because it already has some very
well established programs, putting
them online isn’t so much about
recreating the wheel as it is about
bringing a solid program into a new
format that can reach and benefit
even more people than before.
Dr. Jennifer Bott, interim
assistant provost for learning
initiatives and associate professor
of management, has been working
with the Integrated Learning
Institute (iLearn) at Ball State,
which is focused on helping faculty
develop and implement courses to
go online. An instructional design
team, headed by Richard Edwards,
lead instructional designer, works
with professors to find the best ways
to engage, interact, and teach classes
online. “These are professional
services that we hope –and really
we’re requiring– faculty use their
services to make great online
courses, full of meaningful studentto-student and faculty-student
interactions.”
Ball State’s already strong
programs, combined with
professionals who can assist faculty
members to make a high-quality,
online course, and professors who
are passionate about what they
teach, exemplify why online courses
are increasingly popular. “The
biggest impact Ball State can have
is to produce high-quality courses
that are academically rigorous,
because ultimately that will ensure
that those degrees mean something
on the other side,” says Bott. “We
want to [retain students] through
quality, making sure they get a good
education just like you would when
you come to campus.”
But what’s it really like?
As a professor, planning an online
course is a whole new way of
thinking. As a student, an online
course may require an entirely new
outlook on time management.
Lori Boyland, assistant professor
of educational leadership and
Teachers College Outstanding
Teaching Award recipient of 20102011, has transitioned to teaching
online courses at Ball State. “It’s
been different for me because I’m
a real people person and I miss the
one-on-one interaction and the live
discussions,” Boyland says. “To
assist with that, I’ve really tried to
do a lot to connect with my students
in terms of having them tell about
themselves and doing a lot with the
discussion board, which is where we
post different issues.” Boyland caps
her classes at around 20 students,
which helps her and the students get
to know each other, and gives her
the opportunity to be able to answer
and give the appropriate attention to
each individual, thereby maintaining
a higher quality. “My students
tell me again and again how they
appreciate not just getting a grade
but also getting feedback,” Boyland
adds.
In addition, Ball State has
equipment and software available
that really adds to the quality of the
course. “The technology we have
available now through the David
Letterman studio is awesome. I
can use an overhead, I can use my
PowerPoint, I can show things, I
can use music, incorporate video
clips, it’s just so cool what we can do
now,” says Boyland.
Boyland feels one of the
greatest advantages, however, is
for her students. “It’s much more
convenient for them, it is much
more accessible to them,” she says.
“Our students are typically teachers,
who are all over the state, and we
have students from other states
as well; I’ve even had students in
Germany and out of the country.
This is, in part, one of the main
reasons students choose to go online
for a higher degree; the flexibility
offered by an online program is
unparalleled.
Dr. Susan Tancock, ’84,
professor of elementary education,
who are really committed to learning
the online format and trying new
things.”
Tancock admits it is harder for
her to get to know her students
in an online course, but it’s far
from impossible. The advantages,
however, seem to outweigh the
I think our enrollment tells the story.
We offer no face-to-face in our graduate
program; nobody would sign up for it.
It just doesn’t exist anymore; the whole
program is online. I think the demand of
the students will drive the market.
was at the forefront of bringing
online courses to the Teachers
College. In the summer of 2001, she
transformed one of her traditional
classes to be the first offered online.
Now, nearly 11 years later, the entire
master’s program in elementary
education has gone online. “I think
our enrollment tells the story,” says
Tancock. “We offer no face-to-face
in our graduate program; nobody
would sign up for it. It just doesn’t
exist anymore; the whole program
is online. I think the demand of the
students will drive the market.”
The attractiveness of the online
class isn’t just due to the flexibility
it offers, but the quality of those
teaching the courses. “I think why
our enrollment has grown is because
we have really good instructors,”
reflects Tancock. “You can’t just
put a course online, there has to be
a good instructor behind it. So I
think that’s why our program has
been successful, because we have
excellent teachers in our department
negative aspects. Tancock finds her
responses to student questions and
discussions are more thoughtful as
she can take her time to formulate
the best response for each situation.
In addition, she finds discussions to
have more depth. “The discussions
are richer online than they would be
in class,” she says. “Nobody can sit
there and say nothing; you have to
be involved in the online discussion.
And [the students] get a chance to
think before they respond.”
What Tancock hopes to see more
of, however, are hybrid courses.
She believes the mix of teaching
methods is something students
both show great interest in as well
as responding well in personal
outcomes. “Of all the research that
has been done, the hybrid format
is [how students] report learning
the most,” Tancock says. She adds
that she hopes there will be more
opportunities to see this hybrid
format at the undergraduate level.
From the student’s eye
Two of Tancock’s graduate students
were able to provide some helpful
insights as to why they chose an
online degree, and where they see
the future of education heading.
Amanda Cleary, MAE11, and
Katie Bransteter, ’06MAE11,
both elementary school teachers,
agree that, like Boyland concluded,
flexibility is one of the greatest
advantages online courses offer.
“Some of the biggest advantages
of online learning for me were
accessibility and flexibility to
complete coursework from any place
and at any time,” says Bransteter.
“Because of this, I had more time
to implement the instructional
strategies I was learning from my
online classes to my 2nd grade
classroom the next day and try
it.” Bransteter also says that part
of the reason she preferred an
online setting was that, having a
more reserved personality, she was
more comfortable participating in
discussions online. Even though it
was online, Bransteter found she was
able to build strong relationships
with professors and communication
was easy.
When asked if online courses are
less, the same, or more effective than
traditional face-to-face classes, both
Cleary and Bransteter agreed they
had the same effectiveness. Cleary
states that she believes it really comes
down to a matter of “you get what
you put in.” Bransteter adds, “The
effectiveness of any class, whether
in class or online, also depends on
the instructor and how well he or
she communicates with students.”
Both these observations are valid
points and help to echo the reality
that, as online tends to be a very self-
motivated style of learning, the more
you actively engage in the material
and put in the extra effort to get to
know your online peers, the easier it
will be to achieve the goals you wish
to attain.
Cleary and Bransteter were
both asked if they thought online
courses should be implemented in
high school and elementary school
settings. The conclusion? Online
courses at the high school level could
be a logical option, but elementary
education should mainly be kept
to traditional in-class teaching. “I
think that online classes should
not be implemented in elementary
grades, but online work should be
required,” says Cleary. “I believe
that students at a young age need
social interaction, differentiation,
and multi-intelligences need to
be respected in the classroom. If
elementary schools moved to an
online version, there would be a lack
of these ideals.” She ends saying,
“Elementary students also need to
feel they are part of a classroom
community and that they are cared
for and loved by their teacher. This
would be difficult to do online.”
Finally, Cleary and Bransteter
were asked what their ideal method
of learning would be, if work,
family, and other constraints
were put aside. “Hybrid,” answers
Bransteter. “Online,” responds
Cleary.
Where do we go from here?
When it really comes down to it,
the things that matter most are
whether a student is inspired by
their lessons, whether a student is
showing a greater understanding
for a subject, and whether a student
can, years later, look back and say,
“Yes, I really did benefit from that.”
W.B. Yeats once said, “Education
is not the filling of the bucket, but
the lighting of a fire.” So whether
that fire is lit in a classroom or on
a screen, what counts is that the
student is able to find the spark that
will allow them to be trailblazers in
whatever they choose to do in life. l
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the Numbers
75% of school districts had
one or more students enrolled
in an online or blended learning
course
250,000
students are
enrolled in full-time cyberschools
30%
of higher
Nearly
education students now take at
least one course online
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states now require some
online learning in high school in
order to graduate
80%
of parents believe that
the Internet helps teenagers do
better in schools
Ball State
Online enrollments have
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during
increased by
the past five years
7,468 students are enrolled in
one or more online course
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Evergreen Education Group, The Sloan
Consortium, and Ball State University
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The
Skinny
By Jessica Myrick
Getting physically fit … it’s
on your list, right? Well, if
not on your list of New Year’s
resolutions for this year, it’s a
pretty safe bet that it has been
before or will be in the future.
Perhaps previous plans to start
exercising have failed to gain traction
because the demands and expectations
you placed on yourself were too high?
Americans vow to start exercise
programs each new year with the
hopes of spurring weight loss, toning
up, or simply living healthier. And
while local fitness facilities often
experience a spike in traffic at the
beginning of each new year, the
subsequent decline in attendance
by mid-February is indicative of the
popular health-related resolution’s
place among Time magazine’s top
10 commonly broken New Year’s
resolutions—as well as a telling
indicator of our nation’s current
struggle with obesity.
According to the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, 37
percent of adult Americans are not
physically active. Only three in 10
reportedly achieve the recommended
weekly amount of physical activity
for adults. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention report that
physical inactivity combined with
poor diets have left about one-third
of adult Americans obese. Obese
individuals, those having a body
mass index of 30 or higher, are at
increased risk for developing chronic
health conditions such as coronary
heart disease, stroke, certain types
of cancers, and type 2 diabetes. And
with three out of five Americans
carrying around an unhealthy amount
of excess weight, obesity rates show
no sign of slowing down.
Burden of Diabetes Among Adults
in Indiana, a study released by Ball
State University’s Global Health
Institute, finds that the number of
Hoosiers diagnosed with diabetes is
also on the rise. The study reports
that the number of diabetes diagnoses
jumped from 3.8 percent of the state’s
population in 1993 to 9.8 percent
today. Another 5.6 percent of adult
Hoosiers report being borderline
diabetic. Kerry Anne McGeary,
GHI director and Phyllis A. Miller
professor of health economics in
the Miller College of Business,
reports that diabetes, a major cause
of heart disease and stroke, is the
seventh leading cause of death among
Hoosiers. “The increase over the
last two decades can be attributed to
poor lifestyle choices, inactivity and
poor nutrition,” McGeary says. “This
disease is one that Hoosiers should try
to avoid to the best of their abilities.”
“You only have one chance at
living your life and you must do it in
the body you have,” says Dr. David
Pearson, MS79PhD87, associate
chair of Ball State’s school of physical
education, sport, and exercise and
Men’s Health magazine contributor.
“The amazing thing about your
body is that it is never too late to
improve it. Stress it with exercise
and moderate, realistic expectations,
and it always improves.” Exercise
alone, however, is no silver bullet
says Pearson. “Don’t forget that you
also have to improve your nutrition.
It really is a matter of eating less and
exercising.”
Get Moving
“Our bodies were designed to move,”
says Dr. Lenny Kaminsky, Ball
State professor of exercise science,
coordinator of the university’s clinical
Professor of Excercise Science,
Coordinator of Ball State’s Clinical
Exercise Physiology Program, and
Director of the Clinical Physiology
Laboratory and Fitness Center, Dr.
Lenny Kaminsky
Assistant Professor of Exercise
Science, Dr. Paul Nagelkirk
exercise physiology program, and
director of the university’s clinical
physiology laboratory and fitness
center. “If our bodies don’t move,
things tend to go wrong with the
body. To use the body regularly in
movement or physical activity is
important. There’s a whole host of
chronic diseases that are associated
with the lack of regular physical
activity.”
Dr. Paul Nagelkirk, assistant
Associate Chair of Ball State’s
School of Physical Education,
Sport, and Exercise, Dr. David
Pearson
Dr. Pearson addresses a few of
the common challenges beginning
exercisers face:
Challenge/excuse:
Not enough time to workout
in addition to work and family
obligations.
Dr. Pearson:
“That excuse is just that, an excuse.
You must make time. Get up earlier
or cut out the hour-long lunch.
One thing that I would avoid is the
temptation to think you can work
out at home…very few people have
the will power to train at home.
Nearly all home exercise equipment
is abandoned during the first six
months and ends up in a yard sale or
as an expensive clothes rack.”
Challenge/excuse:
Can’t afford a gym membership or
cost of personal trainer.
Dr. Pearson:
“Then just get up off the couch and
walk around your neighborhood or
go walk in a nearby mall. As you get
‘hooked,’ many of your costly habits
will disappear and you might have
some extra money to join a facility to
increase the intensity and variety of
your workout.”
professor of exercise science at Ball
State, adds that by avoiding exercise,
one allows aging to take effect more
quickly. “A lot of what exercise
does—without characterizing it as
a fountain of youth, because it is
not—is create some adaptations in the
body that really mimic youthfulness,”
Nagelkirk says.
“It helps maintain bone density,
which we tend to lose as we age.
It helps maintain muscle mass and
integrity of muscle, which we lose
as we age. Exercise can help you
maintain flexibility, which you lose as
you age. There’s evidence that exercise
will help you maintain brain function.
So, with so many things we associate
with aging, exercise really offsets
it,” Nagelkirk explains. “It either
slows down the process or in some
cases, can even reverse it. That’s why
exercise is so important. It can help
you live longer and more importantly,
live better.”
If visions of military basic training
or episodes of “The Biggest Loser”
come to mind when thinking about
adding exercise into your life, take
heed. The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services reports
that significant health benefits can
be obtained by including a moderate
amount of physical activity in one’s
life. Moderate daily physical activity,
as recommended by the Health
Department, can substantially reduce
the risk of developing or dying from
cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes,
and certain cancers.
Get Started
The U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services issued the first set
of Physical Activity Guidelines for
Americans in 2008. These guidelines,
similar to the commonly known
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, are
the first comprehensive guidelines on
physical activity ever to be published
by the federal government, and
will be updated every five years.
America’s youth, adults, seniors,
and people with special conditions
are encouraged to use the guidelines
as a primary source of information
regarding the amount, types, and
intensity of physical activity needed
to achieve health benefits throughout
life. A downloadable version of the
guidelines is available at
www.health.gov/paguidelines.
Referencing the guidelines,
Kaminsky says, “Generally, what we
would advocate for our population
is that all adults—and there may be
or are some exceptions for the senior
citizen population or people who have
some chronic health issues—get a
minimum of 150 minutes per week of
moderate intensity types of activities.
If you added up and looked at maybe
30 minutes, five days a week, that
comes up to 150.” And it doesn’t
have to be completed all at one time
during the day, says Kaminsky.
Exercise in bouts of at least 10
minutes is acceptable. Activities such
as biking slowly, canoeing, dancing,
gardening, tennis (doubles), walking
briskly, and water aerobics are all
considered moderate-level activities
according to the Health Department’s
Physical Activity Guidelines.
“If people are busy and [150
minutes per week] is challenging for
them, if they exercise more vigorously
they could cut that in half basically
to 75 minutes a week,” Kaminsky
advises. Vigorous activities suggested
by the guidelines include aerobics,
basketball, jumping rope, martial arts,
jogging or running, soccer, swimming
laps, or tennis (singles).
“
People of all types, shapes, sizes,
and abilities can benefit from being
physically active. If you have a
disability, choose activities that work
with you. Talk with your health care
team about the amount and types of
activities that are right for your ability
and condition.
”
– 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
Simply walking 30 minutes, five days a week, can greatly improve
your health.
Strength training is also
considered an important element
of the recommended basic level of
physical activity for adults. “Just
for maintaining muscle health, we
recommend two days a week of
strength training,” Nagelkirk says.
“We would like to target all the
major muscle groups in the body.
I’m sure you might envision going
to the gym and doing bench presses,
but that’s not really what we are
talking about. It certainly could be
that if that is what you what you
wanted, but it doesn’t have to be.
It’s really anything that involves
contracting muscles against a
resistance.”
Recommended strengthening
activities include push-ups on the
floor or against the wall, sit-ups,
lifting weights, or working with
resistance bands. Common grocery
items such as bags of rice, cans of
soup or bottled water can be used
instead of weights or bands. Refer to
the guidelines to learn more about
the areas of the body to target as
well as the number of repetitions to
complete for each muscle group per
each strength training session.
If more definitive improvement
is desired—if weight loss is a goal or
you want to improve your physical
fitness—the more exercise, the
better. “You should definitely start
with the bare minimum and build,”
advises Nagelkirk. “For healthy
people who are really trying to
maximize the benefits of exercise, we
recommend gradually working up to
as many as five days a week, and as
much as an hour at a time.” While
acknowledging that such an amount
is a substantial commitment,
Nagelkirk adds, “That [amount]
will accelerate weight loss and will
dramatically improve your muscle
function and muscle tissue. The
more you creep up toward the top
of that [spectrum], the more benefits
you realize.”
Motivation
Unfortunately, the health benefits
associated with even the most basic
level of being physically active often
go overlooked. Many New Year’s
resolutions, or attempts to start
and maintain exercise programs,
are derailed by a handful of alltoo-familiar reasons—or excuses,
as some would argue. Not having
enough time to workout in addition
to work and family obligations,
not knowing how to exercise
effectively, or not having enough
money to join a gym or purchase
exercise equipment are all common
roadblocks faced by beginning
exercisers.
So, what exactly is the key to
finding the motivation to get
Physical Activity Guidelines
and Health Benefits per the
Department of Health
moving or stay active?
“For my exercise behavioral
colleagues, that is the million dollar
question out there,” Kaminsky
says. “We are all driven a little
bit differently. We have different
complexities in our lives—family,
work challenges. To me, I think it
comes down to making a personal
choice. Consider how important
personal health is and then once you
have that as an important thing and
what you are going to value in life,
then I think it becomes a little easier
for people to say, ‘Ok, I need to
make sure that on a weekly basis, I
get that 150 minutes in.”
“I find the key to staying
motivated is to set realistic goals
for yourself,” Pearson says. “Almost
everyone I talk with has too great
of expectations of what exercise will
accomplish after many years of poor
nutrition and lack of exercise.”
Motivation and success in
sticking with a program can also
be increased by participating in
activities that one really enjoys doing
and finding an exercise partner
with similar goals. “It is easy to let
yourself down and not workout,
but much harder to let someone else
down by not showing up,” Pearson
adds.
Quality of life
Nagelkirk, Kaminsky, and
Pearson agree that while it will be
challenging at times, there is no
better time than the present to make
good on your New Year’s resolution
to start exercising. Move beyond the
resolution, and make exercise a part
of your mindset during most of the
days of the new year.
“If you have any motivation
to start doing this, don’t wait,”
Nagelkirk urges. “Ignore all the
barriers that are in front of you. Do
something now. It can be something
small. You just have to commit and
say ‘I’m going to make this part
of my routine.’ It can’t be because
there’s a wedding you have to go
to in a month. It has to be that you
want [exercise] to be a part of your
lifestyle forever, because you want it
to help you maintain all those health
benefits forever. Start now. Don’t
stop. It doesn’t have to be a huge
commitment, but it does have to be
something you want to keep up for
the rest of your life.”
“Beyond the health benefits,
there are quality of life issues and
how you feel just on a regular
basis,” Kaminsky adds. “I think
it is important to start as early as
you can. You’re going to miss out
on those things the longer you
wait to start.” Kaminsky warns
individuals not to get caught up in
the behavioral trap of waiting until
“life gets easier.” He says, “Go back
to setting your priorities and having
personal health as a primary thing
on that priority list. If you do that, I
think people would really find that
their quality of life is better. They
will feel better. They may be more
productive at work. They may be
more engaged in things they enjoy
in life. Physical activity can be fun.
It’s not a dreadful thing.”
“While engaging in lifelong
exercise may not prolong your years
significantly,” Pearson says, “It most
definitely will improve the quality of
those years.” l
Health benefits from physical activity
•
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•
•
•
•
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A lower risk of the following:
Early death
Heart disease
Stroke
Type 2 diabetes
High blood pressure
Adverse blood lipid profile
Metabolic syndrome
Colon and breast cancer
Prevention of weight gain
Weight loss when combined with diet
Improved cardiorespiratory and
muscular fitness
Prevention of falls
Reduced depression
Better cognitive function in older
adults
Recommended moderate-level
activities
Goal: At least 150 min. per week/work
up to 300 min. per week
• Biking slowly
• Canoeing
• Dancing
• Gardening
• Tennis (doubles)
• Walking briskly
• Water aerobics
Recommended vigorous activities
Goal: At least 75 min. per week/work up
to 150 min. per week
• Aerobics
• Basketball
• Jumping rope
• Martial arts
• Jogging or running
• Soccer
• Swimming laps
• Tennis (singles)
Strengthening activities
Goal: At least twice a week/work up to
three times a week
• Push-ups
• Sit-ups
• Lifting weights
• Working with resistance bands or
using common grocery items instead
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philanthropy
A Family’s Passion for Giving
It started with a phone call from a
student.
Mike Johnston, ’77MA81, and
his wife Jackie Johnston, ’64MA67,
made the decision to give back and
pay it forward to future students
when a Ball State Phonathon
student contacted Mike asking for
a donation. His initial pledge of
$5 has now grown to thousands
and created a ripple effect of giving
throughout the family.
Mike met Jackie in high school
and she enrolled at Ball State.
Mike also attended Ball State
where it took him 15 years to earn
his bachelor’s degree by taking
only evening classes and elective
correspondence courses; he paid his
own way through school by working
a full-time job outside the university
and not taking out any student
loans. Coming from working class
backgrounds, they were the first
in their families to graduate from
college, prompting their decision to
give back.
“Every dollar counts” is a phrase
that Mike has lived by all of his life,
it’s a part of who he is, how he was
raised, and what he hopes to pass
on to future generations. From an
early age he has set aside money for
Mike and Jackie Johnston.
his church and other charities within
his yearly budget. After their initial
donation the Johnstons kept giving
to a variety of different causes within
Ball State, but when their sons Greg
Johnston, ’89, and Todd Johnston,
’91MS92, received scholarships that
paid for their education they decided
to establish one themselves.
In 2004, the Michael L. and
Jacqueline J. Johnston Family
Scholarship was created to
provide scholarships and faculty
development funding for those in
the Miller College of Business and
the Department of Family and
Consumer Sciences with business
minors or majors.
Giving in her own way
Jackie, a former teacher, gives back
in a way of her own. In 2006,
she founded the Back to School
Teachers Store in Muncie, a free
store for teachers in Delaware
County.
“The greatest part is seeing
first year teachers come to shop,”
Jackie said. “They don’t really have
a lot of money, or materials for
their classrooms. The nonprofit
organization provides teachers the
tools to teach and children the tools
to learn.”
Philanthropy filters through
the family
Greg and Todd continued this
common spirit of philanthropy
themselves, crediting it to their
parents’ guidance as they were
growing up and the emphasis on
being a part of a bigger community.
Beginning in elementary school,
they learned lessons in saving and
giving from a variety of experiences
in the real world, as Mike puts it.
“The boys went on youth group
work missions through our church
to help the poor. Exposure to the
real world made them realize ‘you’re
not rich, but you’re also not that
poor,’” he said.
While growing up, Greg and
Todd were interested in taking
music lessons. After sitting down
and figuring out the cost for a year’s
worth of lessons at $5 per week,
Mike, Jackie, and the boys came up
with a plan. They could choose to
practice five days a week and their
lessons would be paid for in full,
but for every day that they missed
practice they would have to pay out
$1 with their own money.
“After a while, not practicing
started to cost them. That’s when
they learned the real value of
working and earning what they
wanted,” Mike said.
When they were young children
their downtown church was
damaged in a gas explosion. Todd
and Greg saved their pennies for
weeks to help fund a pipe organ
repair campaign for their church.
One Sunday, they brought all the
pennies they had saved and gave
them to the pastor to help repair the
pipe organ, knowing that they were
helping with what they had.
“We were both very proud of
how many pennies we saved even
though it was not a lot of money,”
Todd said. “It was nice to hear the
organ music again and I know that
we had a part in it.”
These lessons stuck with them as
they became Eagle Scouts, graduated
high school, and eventually came to
Ball State. When Greg got his first
job out of college, he called his dad
to ask for the budgeting spreadsheet
that he used so he could plan out his
own expenses.
“That’s when I knew that it had
sunk in,” Mike said.
A Legacy of Giving
(above) Todd and Joelle
Johnston family.
(right) Greg Johnston.
The spirit of giving
and the next
generation
Those same lessons
are now sinking in for the four
children of Todd and his wife Joelle
Johnston, ’92. Following the same
budgeting plan as their dad, they
split their weekly allowance into four
different coin banks: spend, save,
invest, and donate.
“Charitable giving has become
a regular part of their lives,” Todd
said. “When our children are older,
we will encourage them to use
their estate plans to make altruistic
donations to causes that hold a
special place in their hearts.”
Joelle’s involvement with the
bell tower restoration campaign
at their Connecticut church bears
a resemblance to the early giving
history of Todd and Greg. Having
set up a change jar in the vestibule,
their children and other members of
the congregation are able to donate
in whatever ways that they can.
“The children are looking
forward to the bell ringing in the
new tower knowing they had a part
in it. As parents, it makes us proud
to see our children realize their
pennies really do add up to make a
difference,” Todd said.
The Johnston family has
personified the ‘pay-it-forward’
lifestyle that has come to define
them. When asked what he tells
the new students who receive his
family’s scholarship, Mike says,
“When you get your first job, donate
at least $5 to Ball State. It’s less than
the price of a pizza.”l
—Steven Walsh
Michael Gregory Johnston lived a life of
dedication, hard work, and giving back
to the community. When he tragically
passed away in 2007, he left a sizeable
estate gift to his family’s scholarship at
Ball State as well as a prized collection
of artwork.
A successful business owner, Greg
planned a $1 million gift of life insurance
to the Michael L. and Jacqueline J.
Johnston Scholarship fund, which
provides financial assistance to incoming
freshmen enrolled in the Miller College of
Business. Greg epitomized the desirable
traits of Johnston scholarship recipients,
including high leadership qualities,
creativity, and interest in achievement in
a business field. Currently nine scholars
have benefitted from the endowed
scholarship.
Greg was a fan of artist Keith Haring,
and he often purchased pieces of his
artwork as he traveled for business and
pleasure. He collected more than 28
pieces including limited editions, silk
screens, acrylic on canvas, photography,
and posters and even got a tattoo of
one of his favorites, “Radiant Baby.”
His parents, Mike and Jackie, bought
the collection (valued at $47,000) from
his estate in 2008 and donated it in
his memory to Ball State University
Libraries. Today the artwork is enjoyed
by more than 4,000 students, faculty,
alumni, and others who visit the Bracken
Library each day.
Other members of the Johnston
family will also leave their legacy at Ball
State through generous planned gifts:
Mike and Jackie Johnston
l
Deferred gift annuities. Mike
and Jackie originally made gifts to
establish 11 deferred gift annuity
contracts with the Ball State
University Foundation. These deferred
annuity contracts would pay them
extra retirement income at very
attractive rates starting at dates in
the future. This income would be
fixed and guaranteed, backed by the
assets of the Ball State foundation.
The residual of these annuities
following the payment of lifetime
income was designated to create
the Michael L. and Jacqueline J.
Johnston Family Scholarship fund.
Later, the Johnstons determined
that they would not need the income
from the deferred gift annuities
and decided to terminate all the
contracts. These terminations
allowed their donations to endow the
Johnston Family Scholarship fund to
pay awards now.
l
l
Bequests in their wills. The
Johnstons have also included a
charitable bequest in their wills to
their Johnston Family Scholarship
fund. A portion of their estates
will go to the fund to help it grow
and provide more funding for
scholarships and as a hedge against
inflation.
Johnston Family Donor Advised
Fund. The Johnstons have created
a donor advised fund with Cardinal
Funds, Inc., a program of the
Ball State University Foundation.
A donor advised fund allows the
family to support a variety of Ball
State programs as well as other
community charitable organizations
that the family chooses each year.
At the passing of the final family
member who advises the fund, the
residual of their donor advised fund
will be donated to the Johnston
Family Scholarship Fund.
Todd and Joelle Johnston
l
Bequests in their wills. Todd and
Joelle have also included a charitable
bequest in their wills to the Johnston
Family Scholarship fund. A portion
of their estates will go to the fund
to help it grow and provide more
funding for scholarships and as a
hedge against inflation.
For more information about gift
planning, contact Phil Purcell, JD,
vice president for planned giving and
endowment stewardship, at
[email protected] or 888-235-0058
(toll-free) or visit
www.bsu.edu/bsufoundation.
celebrating beneficence
A child in the village of Chambrun, Haiti, where a South Adams High School team of students and teachers helped to
purify water and save lives.
Photo courtesy of michael baer
Dots in Blue Water
It began simply enough, with a
single question by a high school
sophomore. Following three deadly
hurricanes that struck Haiti in
2008, South Adams High School
physics teacher Michael Baer,
MAE01, was sharing with his class
the tragic and widespread effects of
the storms.
“When these hurricanes hit,
it created a lot of rainwater that,
with no vegetation to hold the
topsoil, basically ran down from
the mountains across this area
and created in this little village
floodwaters about nine feet deep,”
explains Baer who learned about
the effects of the flooding from a
former student going through the
process of adopting a Haitian child.
“For school children, the only
place to escape was on top of the
[school] roof,” Baer explains.
“Floods came through, they were
above that level, and they were all
safe. Three days later, they were still
on top of the roof. A lot of the kids
there were HIV-orphaned children
who lived with local people in the
village of Chambrun. These were
elementary school-aged kids whose
thinking was, at that time, ‘I’m
hungry, I’m thirsty, nobody cares
about us,’ and so several of them
simply slipped into the water. They
gave up hope, dropped off the edge,
and were swept away.
“And so, the headmaster of this
school went around with his pickup
truck after the waters receded
and collected 30-some bodies of
these school kids out of a school
population of about 100,” Baer
adds.
So, Baer’s friend and former
student simply reached out, asking
for him and others he knew to pray
for the community.
Baer learned that one of the
greatest needs following the storms
was for purified water. He learned
that there were ladies taking all
of the children in the village and
walking sometimes up to three
hours each way to Port-au-Prince,
bringing back as much water as
they could carry, typically a five
gallon bucket on top of their heads,
and hauling all these kids back and
forth every day to get that water.
“So, everybody is tired and worn
out, everybody’s sick from drinking
the impure water, and so, it’s a
desperate need.”
Baer, who teaches “Earth and
space and physics and chemistry
kinds of stuff,” as he explains it, was
talking with his students the day
after he got this email describing
the situation, using it as a teaching
opportunity for his students. “This
is why you reclaim your topsoil,
take care of your vegetation,” he
recalls. “This is why you don’t
create floodplains. This is why you
don’t strip off your vegetation.
“At any rate, as we were
discussing this, one of the young
ladies in my class, she was a
sophomore at the time, raised her
hand and said, ‘Mr. Baer, we do all
these science labs in this class, could
we learn the same stuff and come
up with a way of helping a village
or a school purify their water?’
“Sometimes, you just get those
questions that give you pause
because you know, depending upon
how you answer may change a life,
and so I said, ‘I don’t know, but
we’ll find out,’” Baer says.
The three-tank water purifier installation in Bouzie to contain a cholera outbreak.
Photo courtesy of michael baer
It was a $500 award from Ball State Teachers College
that funded all the initial equipment purchased to start
the project. “We could not have gone there without
that grant, so that was the springboard that started
everything,” says Michael Baer, MAE01.
With that one question, Baer
approached the school’s principal,
explaining the situation and
suggesting that it was a “wonderful
learning opportunity to get outside
the classroom and make a global
impact.
“I’m not sure I was really asking
permission,” explains Baer. “I was
just saying this is what I’m going
to do. I told him that I was going
to use every Friday and just call it
a lab day toward this water project.
And as the kids started researching
to find out what pollutes water,
somebody came across a quote by
Amy Dillard that described a little
girl describing a lot of people who
drowned in a flood. The sevenyear-old girl was telling her mom,
because the girl had lost several
playmates; she said, ‘Yes mom, I see
lots and lots of dots in blue water.’”
For a year, the class had its dots
in blue water Fridays. Groups
were formed around the needs
of the project: a group dedicated
to research, a group focused on
developing a prototype for a water
purification system, a group which
worked on convincing people to
invest in changing a community,
and a group dedicated to
publication and promotion.
Momentum was growing, and
then tragedy struck again in 2009
when an earthquake in Haiti made
international headlines.
“We weren’t going to be able to
do much in terms of Haiti because
celebrating beneficence
TEACHERS who traveled in 2011:
Michael Baer, MAE01
Alissa McMillan, ’11
Kristi Geimer
J.D. Keller, ’09
Myron Schwartz
Josh Roby, ’98
Jeffrey Lehman, ’08
Ashley Koons, ’07
STUDENTS who traveled in 2011:
Gregg Buuck
Kylie Cisney
Kara DeLong
Caylie Yoder
Mallory Eicher
Lindsey Graber
Kara Siddons
Samantha Schwartz
it was in such disarray, but the
next school year, I went to my
superintendent, and said ‘We’ve
not dropped this project, so we’re
going to revisit that,’ and so we
did,” explains Baer.
At this point, the project was
focused on sending a representative
group of students and teachers
to this community in Haiti with
the purifiers the class worked to
develop and improve—which were
capable of filtering and treating to
drinkability up to 55 gallons in a
single minute.
The project grew school wide to
include grades K-12. “Our language
departments got involved doing
some translations for us, helping us
look at the Haitian culture,” Baer
explains. “Our music department
focused on some Caribbean music
just to kind of support [the efforts
of the class]. Every single grade up
through sixth grade got to have
their own presentation, learn about
the purifier, and learn how they can
help to support it. Middle schoolers
designed T-shirts, and the music
department helped us focus on a
fundraising concert.
“So, last summer, in June 2011,
we took eight students and went
to this community in Haiti and
installed five purifiers,” says Baer.
The group installed one in the
village of Chambrun, and one
on the roof of the school so that
gravity could be used to help pump
the water into a series of drinking
fountains for the students.
“On the very day that we visited,
we found out that there was a
cholera outbreak up the mountain
from us in a really remote village,”
says Baer. “A lot of times, in these
remote villages, cholera, because it’s
just such a swift moving disease,
can wipe out an entire village
population. They had already
contracted 300 cases of cholera and
there had already been five deaths.”
It was suggested the South
Adams group consider helping the
mountain village.
“Within three days [of installing
a three-tank purifier in the village],
we found out that there had been
20 more cases of cholera, there had
been no new deaths,” Baer explains.
“And then within about a week, it
was down to zero deaths, zero new
outbreaks, and everyone was in the
process of recovering.
“We were in the right place
at the right time,” says Baer.
The other two purifier systems
were installed at a school and a
retirement facility for elderly people
in Port-au-Prince.
“This year, we’ve expanded the
number of students that we’ve
offered to take,” says Baer. “After
going through applications, we
have now offered positions to travel
with us to 26 high school students,
and with them, will be about eight
teachers. We’re also partnering with
a couple of other schools. We’ve set
ourselves up as a mentoring school
to help others do this.”
Two trips to Haiti are planned,
and trips to India and Uganda are
being considered. Additionally,
a purifier has been sent to and
installed at a school in Liberia
where the South Adams students
trained students from Trine
University who were already
planning a trip.
What began as an opportunity to
teach science-based principles has
resulted in a worldwide relief effort.
“It has changed the complexion
of our school,” says Baer. “Our kids
came back with a totally different
view of the world, a totally different
view of needs versus wants, and
our school continues to support
it because they feel like this really
advertises what our school really
values, which is authentic learning.”
The significant impact has been
the result of a single high school
sophomore being brave enough to
raise her hand and ask what she and
her classmates could do to help. l
—Jon Gorman
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of dots in blue
water.
alumni connection
Men’s head football coach Pete Lembo addresses Ball State alumni
and friends who gathered on Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 at Rock Bottom
Brewery in downtown Chicago, Ill.
Photo by kate webber
40 Events Around Indiana and Beyond
40 Alumni Leaders: 2012 Alumni Council
42 Class Notes
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State
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/ January
2012
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State
Alumnus
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Alumni professional
societies:
Journalism: The Journalism
Alumni Society’s awards committee
will meet at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 24 at the Alumni Center.
The Journalism Alumni Society’s
board of directors will meet at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28 in the
board room of the Alumni Center.
MCOB: The Miller College of
Business Alumni Society’s board
of directors will meet at 3 p.m. on
Tuesday, Jan. 17 at the Alumni
Center.
MCOB will host its annual
Dialogue Days on Thursday and
Friday, Feb. 23-24 at the Whitinger
Business Building. For more
information, contact the alumni
association.
NREM: The Natural Resources
and Environmental Management
Alumni Society will host its annual
Internship & Career Fair on
Thursday, Jan. 26 at the Alumni
Center. Set up for exhibitors begins
at 10 a.m. followed by lunch at 11
a.m. The fair is open to patrons from
12-4 p.m. For more information,
contact the alumni association.
A meeting of the NREM Alumni
Society’s board of directors will take
place immediately following the
Internship & Career Fair at 4:30 p.m. at the Alumni Center.
Nursing: The Nursing Alumni
Society Alumni Award committee,
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Alumni events are hosted throughout the U.S. To
view the Alumni Association calendar, visit bsu.edu/alumni/events.
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and scholarship committee will meet
on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 4:30 p.m. at
the Alumni Center.
At 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.
9, the board of directors will meet
in the board room at the Alumni
Center.
Alumni constituent
societies:
Black Alumni: The Black Alumni
Constituent Society’s board of
directors will meet at 2 p.m. on
Saturday, Feb. 25 at the Alumni
Center.
Alumni chapters:
Adams-Wells: The Adams-Wells
Alumni Chapter board of directors
will meet at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday,
Feb. 12 at The Bowling Center
located in Bluffton, Ind.
The chapter’s annual family
bowling outing will follow from 2-4 p.m. at The Bowling Center.
For more details, contact the alumni
association.
Indianapolis: The Greater
Indianapolis Area Alumni Chapter’s
board of directors will meet at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 at the
Northside Knights of Columbus.
The chapter’s annual Casino
Night event is Saturday, March
3 from 6:30-10 p.m. at the
Northside Knights of Columbus in
Indianapolis. For more information,
contact the alumni association. Michiana: The Michiana Alumni
Chapter’s board of directors will
meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 30
alumni leaders
2012 Alumni Council: New Leadership
Robin L. Sparks, ’89
Vice Chairman
Kimberley A. Stout, ’82
Chairman
Terry R. Coleman, ’84
Past Chairman
Photo courtesy of kim stout
Alumni Events
Around Indiana
and Beyond
Frederick E. Cox Jr., ’74
Chairman Elect
James A. Andrew, ’71
Vice Chairman
Jennifer J. Budreau, ’84
Vice Chairman
Larry W. Metzing, ’70
Vice Chairman
R. Wayne Estopinal, ’79
Ball State University Foundation
representative
New at-large representatives include
Gwendolyn Adell, ’74, Christopher
J. Courtney, ’88; Pamala V.
Morris, ’69MAE71; and Lana D.
Manikowski, ’97.
The alumni association membership,
leadership, and staff would also
like to extend our sincere thanks
and appreciation for the time and
passions of retiring members of
the council as of Dec. 31, 2011:
Edward M. Sitar III, ’94, and
Stephanie M. Walton, ’92.
Upcoming Events
at the Joseph C. Rice Administration
Building in Elkhart, Ind.
Northeastern: The Northeastern
Indiana Alumni Chapter’s board
of directors will meet at 6 p.m. on
Tuesday, Jan. 10 at Mad Anthony’s
Munchies Emporium in Fort Wayne,
Ind.
The chapter invites area alumni to
attend a Mad Ants basketball game
and reception on Friday, Feb. 3 at
the Allen County War Memorial
Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind. The
reception will be from 6-7:15 p.m.
Tip off is at 7:30 p.m. For more details
and pricing information, contact the
alumni association.
The chapter will host a TGIF party
on Friday, Feb. 24, from 5-7 p.m. at
Columbia Street West located at 135
W. Columbia Street in Fort Wayne,
Ind. There is no admission fee, and no
reservations are required.
Northeastern Indiana alumni
are invited to an outing at Science
Central, located at located at 1950 N.
Clinton St., in Fort Wayne, Ind., on
Sunday, March 4 from 1-4 p.m. For
more information, contact the alumni
association.
Alumni reunionS:
Class of 1962: The Class of 1962
social committee will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at
the Alumni Center.
Women’s Basketball: Ball State
women’s basketball alumni are invited
to attend a reunion on Saturday, Feb.
18 at the Alumni Center. A reception
and dinner will begin at 6 p.m.
Alumni are invited to attend the game
on Sunday, Feb. 19 where they will
be introduced at Worthen Arena. For
more information, contact the alumni
association.
alumni connection
Tuesday, Jan. 10
Sunday, Feb. 12
Saturday, Jan. 14
Adams-Wells Alumni Chapter family
bowling outing, Bluffton, Ind.
Northeastern Indiana Alumni Chapter
board of directors meeting, Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Alumni Council meeting, Alumni
Center
Tuesday, Jan. 17
MCOB board of directors meeting,
Alumni Center
Wednesday, Jan. 18
Class of 1962 social committee
meeting, Alumni Center
Tuesday, Jan. 24
Journalism Alumni Society awards
committee meeting, Alumni Center
Thursday, Jan. 26
NREM Alumni Society Internship &
Career Fair, Alumni Center
NREM Alumni Society board of
directors meeting, Alumni Center
Saturday, Jan. 28
Journalism Alumni Society board of
directors meeting, Alumni Center
Monday, Jan. 30
Michiana Alumni Chapter board of
directors meeting, Elkhart, Ind.
Friday, Feb. 3
Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame
Induction, Alumni Center
Deadline for Legacy Scholarship
applications
Mad Ants Basketball Game Outing,
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Thursday, Feb. 9
Outstanding Nursing Alumni Award
committee meeting, Alumni Center
Nursing Scholarship Committee
meeting
Nursing Alumni Society board
meeting, Alumni Center
Adams-Wells Alumni Chapter board of
directors meeting, Bluffton, Ind.
Saturday, Feb. 18
Ball State Women’s Basketball Alumni
Reunion, Alumni Center
Sunday, Feb. 19
Ball State women’s basketball
reunion, Worthen Arena
Thursday & Friday,
Feb. 23-24
MCOB Dialogue Days, Whitinger
Business Building
Friday, Feb. 24
TGIF Party, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Saturday, Feb. 25
Black Alumni Constituent Society
board of directors meeting, Alumni
Center
Tuesday, Feb. 28
Orlando-area Alumni Reception
and Dinner, contact the Ball State
Foundation for details
Wednesday, Feb. 29
St. Petersburg-area Alumni
Luncheon, contact the Ball State
Sarasota-area Alumni Reception
and Dinner, contact the Ball State
Thursday, March 1
Naples-area Alumni Luncheon,
contact the Ball State Foundation for
details
Saturday, March 3
Greater Indianapolis Area Alumni
Chapter board of directors meeting,
Indianapolis.
Greater Indianapolis Area Alumni
Chapter Casino Night, Indianapolis.
Sunday, March 4
Science Central Outing, Fort Wayne,
Ind.
Alumni Legacy Scholarship
The Ball State University Alumni Association
selected 50 students to receive the 2011 Legacy
Scholarship. Scholarships are awarded to students
who are the children or grandchildren of Ball
State alumni in appreciation of alumni who have
contributed to the enrichment of Ball State through
active membership in the alumni association.
The annual deadline for scholarship applications
is Feb. 3, 2012.
Applications are available by download from the
university website at www.bsu.edu/alumni, or by
calling the alumni association at 888-I-GO-4BSU.
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In Memoriam
Ruth L. (Young) Brogneaux,
’33, Bloomington, Ind.,
Nov. 18.
Mary E. (Green) Ayres, ’36,
Middletown, Ind., Oct. 25.
Howard E. McKinley, ’37,
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 4.
Alice (Roudebush) Crider,
’39, Charlottesville, Ind.,
Oct. 7.
Alberta I. (Walton) Ritchie,
’39, Muncie, Ind., Oct. 30.
Margaret G. (Sirois) Hayden,
’47, Plymouth, Ind., Sept. 19.
Edgar B. Coleman, ’48,
Muncie, Ind., Nov. 10.
J. Mark Love, ’48, Fort
Wayne, Ind., Oct. 29.
Howard Lykens, ’48MA57,
Yorktown, Ind., Oct. 31.
Mary A. (Goodlander) Miller,
’48, Wabash, Ind., Sept. 17.
Barbara S. (Cochran) Bilby,
’49, Indianapolis, Ind.,
Sept. 20.
Martha (Stephenson)
Weaver, ’49, Fort Wayne,
Ind., March 24.
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|1940| |In1950
Memoriam
In Memoriam
2011-2012 Alumni Association Legacy
Scholarship Recipients
Front Row: Alyssa Remaly, Amanda Bye, Nichole
Sleeper, Margaret Armstrong, Rachel Janitz, Lauren
Coleman, Haley Swartz, Emily Probst, Hannah Burton,
Ellen Forthofer, Rebecca Howard, Danielle Ketner, Faith
Menkedick, Shelby Leichty, Hanna Dittrich, and Amy
Anderson
Back Row: Lindsey Irelan, Karsen Corn, Whitney
Rodeffer, Andrew Scanlon, Ellie Nowak, Kimberly
SerVaas, Garett Cates, Randy Ruble, Josh Burton, Jacob
Smith, Ellen Collier, Anna Pasquali, Audrey Rees, and
Katherine Vellenga
Betty (Bevier) Broyles, ’40,
Muncie, Ind., Oct. 21.
James A. Rowe, ’40, Oxford,
Mich., Sept. 30.
Mary J. (Howard) Brewer,
’41MA65, Fairmount, Ind.,
Oct. 15.
Betty K. (Fidler) English,
’41MA73, Rushville, Ind.,
Nov. 1.
Kathryn L. (Ellis) Lutz, ’41,
New Albany, Ind., Oct. 27.
Charles W. Gale, ’43,
Anderson, Ind., Nov. 17.
Vivian A. (Hyman) Toney,
’43, Saint Charles, Mo., June 9.
Opal P. (Owens) Cervantes,
’44, Wilmington, Ohio,
Nov. 17.
Elizabeth A. Hughes, ’44,
Branford, Conn., Oct. 5.
O. Melvin Kendall Jr., ’45,
San Diego, Calif., Aug. 5.
Charles R. Lamey, ’45,
Doris V. (Cleaveland)
Chance, ’46, Kalamazoo,
Mich., Oct. 14.
Ellis R. Smith, ’46, Clackamas,
Ore., March 21.
John L. Campbell, ’50, New
Haven, Ind., Oct. 31.
R. Wayne Quate, ’50,
Noblesville, Ind., Oct. 26.
Lois T. (Paris) Beesley, ’51,
Delphi, Ind., Sept. 23.
Doris M. (Shawhan) Carrol,
’51MA66, West Des Moines,
Iowa, Oct. 7.
Harry D. Helms, ’52, San
Jose, Calif., Oct. 1.
Jack L. Jordan, ’52MA62,
Mildred M. (Fansher) Wolf,
’52MA58, Union City, Ind.,
Nov. 16.
F. Don Carl Jr., ’53, Port
Orange, Fla., Nov. 18.
Joseph R. Hartley, ’53,
Carmel, Ind., Nov. 13.
Warren T. Jeffers, ’53MA57,
Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 22.
Grover A. Smith, ’53MA60,
Elkhart, Ind., Oct. 28.
Marian B. (Ehlen) Bumbalek,
’54, Houston, Texas, Oct. 17.
George W. Clauson, ’54,
South Bend, Ind., Oct. 31.
William L. Ferguson, ’54,
Massillon, Ohio, Oct. 30.
Bettylee Isenberg, ’54,
Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 26.
alumni connection
Katherine McEndarfer, ’54,
West Townsend, Mass.,
Sept. 30.
William H. Ast, ’55,
Gainesville, Fla., July 31.
Catherine J. Hummel, ’55,
Elk Grove, Calif., May 22.
K. Joe Pickard, ’55, West
Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 9.
Jan E. (Madill) Ray,
’55MAE63, Muncie, Ind.,
Oct. 31.
Carolyn R. Powers, ’56, Oro
Valley, Ariz., Sept. 9.
Patricia A. (Brooks)
Williamson, ’56, West
Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 4.
Carl L. Heinlein, ’57,
Danville, Ind., Oct. 5.
Mary G. Knote, MA58,
Dunkirk, Ind., Oct. 26.
Sandra L. (Day) Myers, ’58,
Anderson, Ind., Oct. 10.
Robert A. Brundage, ’59,
Black Mountain, N.C., Aug. 2.
William E. Clark, ’59,
Lometa, Texas, Oct. 15.
Robert E. Marshall,
’59MA63, Naples, Fla.,
Nov. 20.
Richard L. Sacilowski, ’59,
Sarasota, Fla., Oct. 3.
Helen M. (Gillespie) Wilkins,
’59, Naperville, Ill., Oct. 24.
|1960|
News
Larry K. Greenwalt, ’65,
Zionsville, Ind., chairman of
the board at Greenwalt CPAs,
Indianapolis, was named
by Indianapolis Monthly a
Financial Planning Five Star
Wealth Manager.
Steve R. Imler, ’69, Carmel,
Ind., Business Award of
Achievement recipient (1998)
and Miller College of Business
Alumni Board member, joined
Sikich as partner following
the merger of Ent:Imler with
Sikich LLP, a nationally ranked
top 50 public accounting and
consulting firm.
In Memoriam
H. Kent Achors, ’60,
Monticello, Ind., Nov. 7.
Richard H. Allspaw, MA60,
Monroe, Ind., Oct. 22.
Wendell E. Jones, ’60MA63,
Fort Myers, Fla., Oct. 25.
Robert S. Swihart, MA60,
Peru, Ind., April 2.
Roger E. Hardacre, ’61, New
Castle, Ind., Nov. 9.
Margaret L. (Richey)
Harmon, ’61MA66,
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 15.
Lynn E. Pequignot, ’61, Fort
Wayne, Ind., Oct. 12.
Clyde J. Remmo, ’61MA67,
Venice, Fla., Nov. 14.
Mable F. Bevington, MA62,
Saint Joe, Ind., Oct. 14.
Richard N. Booher, ’62,
Seymour, Ind., Oct. 20.
John E. Lewis, ’62, Alliance,
Neb., Jan. 13, 2010.
Walter R. Bortz, MA63,
Ames, Iowa, Oct. 10.
Freda C. (Oehlman) Chael,
’63, Kouts, Ind., Sept. 16.
Donna L. (Huber) LaRocca,
MA63, Anderson, Ind.,
Sept. 26.
Barbara L. (Ice) Smith, MA63,
Petoskey, Mich., Oct. 19.
Joan C. (Barshes) Evans,
’64MAE69, Yorktown, Ind.,
Nov. 9.
Kathy L. (Seegers) Hooks,
’64, Gary, Ind., Oct. 15.
Lanita A. (West) Jensen,
’64MAE69, Goshen, Ind.,
Sept. 25.
Martha A. (Shinabery)
Stuckenberg, ’64, Anaheim,
Calif., Nov. 10.
Donald F. Ashby, ’65MA70,
Brown Deer, Wis., Oct. 8.
Eleanor K. (Smith)
Brumfield, ’66, Greenfield,
Ind., Oct. 29.
Phillip S. Lingeman, ’66,
Brownsburg, Ind., Nov. 13.
Judith L. Morton, ’66,
Brownsburg, Ind., Nov. 7.
Ann L. (Peters) Sutton,
’66MA75, Zionsville, Ind.,
Oct. 10.
Cordelia M. (Funderburg)
Browning, ’67, North
Manchester, Ind., Nov. 12.
Judy A. (Pollard) Pence,
’67MAE70, Richmond, Ind.,
Oct. 9.
Ralph W. Rickner, MA67,
Marion, Ind., Nov. 5.
Richard T. Surowiec, MA67,
La Porte, Ind., Nov. 10.
Rosanne M. (Miller)
Zirkman, ’67MAE76,
Springfield, Ohio, Aug. 18.
Paul D. Burton, ’68, Port
Orange, Fla., Oct. 3.
Linda S. (Wilson) Ings, ’68,
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 7.
Sharon D. (Purtee) Miller,
’68MA73, Knightstown, Ind.,
Oct. 22.
Gerald D. Francoeur, MA69,
Muncie, Ind., Oct. 12.
|1970|
News
Marianne (Welty) Berlin,
’72MA74, Avon, Ind., received
the Martha Lea and Bill
Armstrong Teacher Educator
Award for 2011–2012.
William E. Mihalo,
’73MA74, Munster, Ind.,
returned to Northwestern
University as a senior high
performance computing
systems engineer.
Richard A. Young, ’73,
Indianapolis, Ind., a senior
partner and chair of the
management committee with
Kightlinger & Gray, LLP was
appointed to the Indiana Pro
Bono Commission by Justice
Randall T. Shepard.
Cynthia K. (Killion) Booth,
’78, Indianapolis, Ind.,
executive director of Child
Advocates Inc., has been
named the winner of the Viola
J. Taliaferro Award by the
Indiana State Bar Association.
Booth was nominated by the
association’s Civil Rights of
Child Committee for her work
on behalf of children.
Steven C. Moniaci, ’79,
Houston, Texas, is the director
of athletics at Houston Baptist
University.
Alfred K. Flowers, MA76, Washington, D.C., retired as deputy assistant
secretary for budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Financial Management and Comptroller. At the time of his retirement,
Flowers was the longest-tenured active-duty service member in the Air
Force and the longest-serving active-duty African American in the sixdecade history of the Defense Department. Flowers is the recipient of the
Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the
Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, the Defense Meritorious Service
Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Joint
Service Commendation Medal, the Air Force Commendation Medal with
silver oak leaf cluster, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Air Force
Achievement Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Global War on Terrorism
Service Medal, and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
In Memoriam
Wayne M. Cox, ’71, Union
Mills, Ind., Dec. 31, 2010.
Franklin H. Paddock,
’71MAE74, Connersville, Ind.,
Nov. 8.
Barbara A. (Grafmiller)
Rohrs, ’71, Hicksville, Ohio,
Nov. 11.
Francis K. Scheets, PhD71,
Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 12.
Jane E. Ulrich, ’72, Aliso
Viejo, Calif., Nov. 15.
Dennis P. Barnes, MA73,
Warsaw, Ind., Nov. 18.
William M. Bellinger,
MAE75, Indianapolis, Ind.,
Oct. 6.
George E. Harvey, MA75,
New Palestine, Ind., Nov. 11.
Stancil D. Hunt, MA76,
Fayetteville, N.C., May 30.
William G. Reynard Jr., ’76,
Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 11.
Howard L. Barrs, MA77,
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dec. 27,
2010.
Donald E. Bivens,
’77MA80PhD89, Muncie,
Ind., Nov. 20.
Mary M. Duquaine, ’77,
Lakewood, Colo., Oct. 9.
Peggy J. Nauyokas, ’77,
Michigan City, Ind., Sept. 22.
Debbie A. (Crable)
Dye,’78MAE85, Windfall,
Ind., Nov. 2.
Gail M. Hill, ’78, Fishers,
Ind., Oct. 12.
Audye M. Johnson, ’78,
Donald W. Pagos, ’78,
Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 3.
Thomas E. Potter, ’79,
Chicago, Ill., Oct. 9.
alumni headliner
Only a few hours after the last bell
rings on Friday nights at Sheridan
High School between September and
November, fans begin reserving seats
to support their Sheridan Blackhawks football team.
One man, Larry “Bud” Wright, ’63—whose name also
emblazons the side of the stadium located just northwest
of Indianapolis in Hamilton County—has patrolled the
home sidelines as head coach since 1966.
Wright originally attended Ball State for business, but
his mother persuaded him to pursue other interests.
“I went to Ball State not going into education, but
after two years, my
mother talked me
into teaching,” says
Wright. “So, I went
into education, and I
knew that if I was going
to teach, I wanted to
coach.”
After graduating,
Wright began teaching
at North Miami High
School and was an
assistant football coach. After two years, Wright took
a job as head coach at what is now North Newton High
School, where he collected his first win. After just one
year, Wright decided to take a position as head coach
at Sheridan High School, where he would achieve
considerable success, leading his teams to 371 wins,
two ties, and 161 losses by the end of the 2011 season.
During the 2011 season, Wright won his 369th game,
beating the
previous
record
holder for
the most
career
football
coaching
victories
in Indiana.
Although
Wright had
achieved a
once-in-alifetime accomplishment, his focus remained on his team,
not the individual accomplishment and acclaim.
“Really, I didn’t give much thought to it,” says Wright.
“We were in the playoffs and I was more interested in
trying to develop the team and help reach their goal
instead of a personal record.”
Being able to help his players and former students
develop, reach their goals, and focus on life after high
school is the most rewarding part of his job, Wright says.
Wright plans on coaching next season, but is not sure
what will happen once the season ends. When he does
retire, he knows exactly how he will spend his days.
“I will spend some time fishing and going to different
athletic games of Sheridan and others,” says Wright. “I
enjoy athletics in general, so I will spend a lot of time still
watching sports.” •
—Alex Burton
Photos Courtesy of Larry “Bud” Wright
alumni connection
|1980| |1990|
News
Robert J. Holley, ’81,
Plainfield, Ill., was appointed
special agent in charge
of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s Indianapolis
division. Holley previously
served as a section chief in the
counterterrorism division at
FBI headquarters.
David A. McDaniel, ’81,
Carmel, Ind., Business Award
of Distinction recipient
(2009), joined Sikich as
partner following the merger of
Ent:Imler with Sikich LLP, a
nationally ranked top 50 public
accounting and consulting
firm.
Michael L. Fuller, ’88,
Denver, Colo., is district
sales manager for Reynolds
Advanced Materials, Denver.
In Memoriam
Rudolph Mannie, ’80,
Brian D. Kline, ’81,
Huntington, Ind., Oct. 15.
Brandon K. Brewer,
’84MA89, Indianapolis, Ind.,
Oct. 7.
David E. Hale, ’84, Union
City, Ind., Oct. 13.
Stephen M. Prosser, ’84, Villa
Park, Ill., Oct. 6.
Patricia M. (Young) Hall,
MA86, Muncie, Ind., Oct. 4.
Gary L. Bench, ’87, Little
Chute, Wis., Feb. 27.
News
David K. Floyd, ’90,
Fort Wayne, Ind., joined
OrthoWorx, Warsaw, Ind., as
chief executive officer.
Nancy M. (Gitschlag) Dick,
’91MA93BS99, Las Vegas,
Nev., is the author of “Amanda
Goes to Las Vegas,” a romance
novel that is sold at Xlibris.
Robert E. Lamothe, ’93,
Fort Thomas, Ky., fair and
responsible lending officer
with Fifth Third Bank, has
been promoted by the board of
directors to officer.
Joseph C. Garza, ’94,
Terre Haute, Ind., a mass
communications specialist
1st Class, has completed a
10-month deployment with
the U.S. Navy in the Horn of
Africa as public affairs officer at
Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti.
Lori K. Rader Day, ’95MA01,
Chicago, Ill., won grand
prize for her short story,
“Layers of Love,” in a Good
Housekeeping magazine
contest.
G. Joseph Modlin, ’97,
Houston, Texas, is a company
member of Jane Weiner’s
Hope Stone Dance Company.
Modlin taught Gyrokinesis on
Friday, Oct. 21 at Ball State.
Jeffrey L. Stickler, ’97MA09,
Muncie, Ind., was hired to
teach middle school social
studies fulltime at Hoosier
Academy Muncie.
Tara A. (Herrli) Antonucci,
’98, Osceola, Ind., is employee
relations manager at 1st Source
Bank.
Marriages
Bart M. Roberts, ’98MM05,
to Jennifer (Thiel), Granger,
Ind., Nov. 12. Roberts
works for the South Bend
Community School
Corporation as band director.
In Memoriam
Brian J. Seyer, ’90, Goshen,
Ky., Nov. 3.
Carolyn N. (Young) Colvin,
MA91, Straughn, Ind.,
Nov. 16.
Mark A. Zeek, ’92, Muncie,
Ind., Nov. 18.
Brian M. Eckstein, ’95,
David R. Rahe, ’99, Muncie,
Ind., Nov. 1.
|2000|
News
Camille S. (Scott) Bridges,
’02MA04, Indianapolis, Ind.,
is an eighth grade computer
teacher at Wilson Middle
School, Muncie, Ind.
Benjamin A. Peine, ’03, a
Louisville, Ky., meteorologist
and co-anchor on WHAS11
TV, the ABC affiliate in
Louisville.
Mattie L. Solomon, MAE03,
Fishers, Ind., authored
“Missing Link?” a book about
conversations with parents
regarding their perspectives
concerning the educational
process of their children and
their role in it.
Nicole D. Voges, ’03,
Chicago, Ill., is editor-inchief of Healthcare Executive
magazine, a publication of
the American College of
Healthcare Executives, and
serves as editorial manager
of the communications and
marketing department.
Joseph T. Marcum, ’04,
Indianapolis, Ind., has accepted
the position of director of sales
with Con-way Freight located
in Richmond, Va.
Stephanie L. Sipe, ’05,
Chicago, Ill., was promoted
to manager of global digital
communications for Starcom
MediaVest Group, and has
moved to China where she will
be leading communications out
of the Beijing office.
Christopher T. King, ’07,
Columbus, Ohio, operations
manager for E.E. Ward
Moving & Storage, was
accepted to participate in a
five-month leadership program
conducted by the American
Moving & Storage Assocation.
Kristin M. Sartor, ’07,
Astoria, N.Y., started a new job
as an email marketing manager
at Gerson Lehrman Group in
New York City.
Kyle C. Flood, ’09,
Washington, D.C., has been
appointed by the White
House to serve the Obama
administration as a confidential
assistant to the general counsel
of the U.S. Department of
Education.
alumni headliner
Traveling to places in Asia, Africa, and Europe
seem like a dream for most people, a dream
that never really develops into a reality, but for
Greg Constantine, ’92, it
is not only his reality, it is
his career.
Constantine is a self-taught
documentary photographer for Nowhere
People, an organization helping to give
a voice to stateless people all over
the world. He has traveled to places
such as Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh,
Kenya, the Ivory Coast, and many
more, documenting the faces of those who, essentially, exist without
nationality.
As passionate as Constantine is about his work, his sights were
not always set on his current path. He graduated from Ball State’s
entrepreneurial program with the goal of opening his own record store.
“At that point, becoming a photographer and pursuing a career as
(top) A map of West Africa is drawn in chalk on the
a documentary photographer was the farthest thing from who I was
wall of a home in a remote village in southwestern
and what I envisioned,” says Constantine. “I had some great jobs in
Côte d'Ivoire. The nationalities of hundreds of
the music business after graduating from Ball State, but looking back,
thousands in Cote d'Ivoire are in question.
they were all jobs, not careers that at the end of the day I felt gave me
a true sense of purpose.”
(bottom) In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the
Galjeel were stripped of their Kenyan identity
In 1998, Constantine quit his job in New York City, cashed in his
documents and evicted from their land. All forms
401k and traveled to Asia for seven months. After realizing what a
of identification were taken from this 43-year-old
profound impact the trip had on him, he determined he wanted to
Galjeel woman as part of a screening process to
see more. He returned to another job in New York City for a year and
identify irregular migrants from Somalia. Now her
a half, saving up money until 2000 when he traveled from Beijing to
children have no identification either.
Istanbul. On this trip, he realized the issues of social injustice would
provide the inspiration for his interest in storytelling, and after a few years, he figured
out that photography was the vehicle with which to share them.
“I fell in love with the creative process of taking photographs, but more importantly,
I also fell in love with the process and challenges involved when constructing a visual
story,” says Constantine.
His first story for Nowhere People was in North Korea, photographing children
who had no proof of identity or citizenship. After this project, Constantine spent years
creating relationships with organizations to share his goal, many of which have helped
fund his work.
Constantine has received several journalism awards and has been published all over
It is estimated that up to four
the world. Nowhere People has an exhibition traveling around the world through 2013.
million children in Côte d’Ivoire
It will be shown in Geneva, London, the UN headquarters in New York City, the Kennedy
have not been registered and do
Center in Washington D.C., Madrid, Vienna, and Nairobi. Constantine recently published
not have birth certificates. One
his first book of an inter-related series, “Kenya’s Nubians: Then & Now.”
hundred children in a remote
settlement near Duekoué have
Constantine hopes that his work with Nowhere People will give a face to the
no documents. Their parents are
stateless people around the world and will help find a solution for a very real problem.
from the North and are often
To learn more about Constantine and his work, visit www.nowherepeople.org. •
labeled as ‘foreigners.’
—Alex Burton
Photos Courtesy of Greg Constantine
alumni connection
Marriages
Leanne R. Waters, ’00, to
Jeffrey J. Coyne, Greenwood,
Ind., Dec. 20.
Jessica F. (Kerman),
’07MA10, to Dustin J.
Sparks, ’09, Bluffton, S.C.,
June 4. Jessica started a new job
at BFG Communications in
Hilton Head, S.C.
Rachelle E. (Richert),
’08MA10, to Landry J. Bates,
’08, Mooresville, Ind.,
Oct. 23, 2010.
Heidi J. (Krillenberger),
’08, to Michael Brugh,
Woodbridge, Ill, Aug. 6.
Dessa J. (Rattray), ’08, to
Noah A. Plants, ’07, Cedar
Lake, Ind., Nov. 12.
Emily A. (Cliver), ’08MA11,
to Jacob A. Roth, ’09,
Greenwood, Ind., Nov. 5.
Chelsea R. (Anderson),
’09MA10, to Matthew S.
Hernley, ’09, Indianapolis,
Ind., Aug. 27.
New Additions
Brandi M. (Abbott) Bates,
’00, and her husband James,
Plainfield, Ind., a daughter,
June 29.
Louis R. Hill Jr., ’01MS02,
and his wife Christina A.
(DeBruler) Hill, ’01MA03,
Walton, Ky., a daughter, April
28. Louis was awarded the
2011 “Service to Kentucky
Association of Mapping
Professionals” at the state GIS
conference in Frankfort, Ky.
Melissa K. (Libke) Foltz,
’03, and her husband Josh A.
Foltz, ’03, Fort Wayne, Ind., a
daughter, Oct. 10.
Erin K. (McIntosh) Redding,
’03, and her husband Vincent
G. Redding, ’01, Noblesville,
Ind., a son, Sept. 12.
Tina D. (Walters) Arnold,
’04, and her husband Matthew
D. Arnold, ’03, Indianapolis,
Ind., a son, June 30.
Shawna M. (Wilson)
Spaulding, ’05, and her
husband Cory Spaulding,
’06MBA09, Fishers, Ind., a
daughter, Sept. 19.
Sarah M. (Atkinson)
Rentschler, ’06MA11, Family
and Consumer Sciences Award
of Achievement recipient
(2010), and her husband
Nathan, Brownsburg, Ind., a
son, Oct. 3.
Danielle M. M. (Benefiel)
Forshtay, ’07, and her husband
John, Swansboro, N.C., a son,
Oct. 13.
In Memoriam
Alicia A. Lambert, ’04,
Connersville, Ind., Oct. 7.
Jermell D. Willaims, ’08,
Pendleton, Ind., Oct. 27.
Anthony W. Humphrey, ’09,
Bunker Hill, Ind., Oct. 17.
Lee A. Meyer, ’11, Maineville,
Ohio, an intern architect
with Engineering Ministries
International, Costa Rica,
was part of a team of 17
architects and engineers from
North America who went to
Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic to design a retreat
center for the Christian
Community of Restoration.
Justin M. Verbeten, ’11,
Libertyville, Ill., is a staff
accountant at BKD, LLP’s
Indianapolis office.
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