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Muskingum College Bulletin • Spring 1998
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Congratulations graduates
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BULLETIN
SUMMER99
M U S K I N G U M
VOL. 90, NO. 3
COVER: Muskingum
College collected photographs and memorabilia
from Muskies’ romantic moments for a cover photograph by Sharon Walker.
Cover design by Jim
George. Sweetheart Stories
are featured on pages 18
and 19.
STAFF
JOHN CHARLTON
Editor
JANICE TUCKER
Director of Public Relations
BOBBY T. LEE
Sports Information Director
JIM GEORGE
Web Manager
SHARON WALKER
Secretary/Photographer
STACEY DRAGOSIN ’00
News Notes Editor
JUD ELLERTSON
SUSAN ELLIOTT
COURTNEY COWGILL ’00
SHANNON RIFEY ’00
APRIL HOFF ’02
THE DAILY JEFFERSONIAN
Editorial/Photography Assistants
C O L L E G E
A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
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While bricks and mortar and academic rankings are important to any educational institution, it is the people who make Muskingum College unique.
This issue of The Bulletin focuses on some of those
people — people who are proud of their association with
Muskingum College, people who take an interest in
In this Issue
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Muskingum students, faculty and staff and people who
are proud to call themselves “Muskies.”
Sweetheart Stories, page 18, feature the tales of
Muskies who met on campus, became involved in relationships and eventually decided to spend their lives together. Because they chose to attend Muskingum, their lives were changed in ways they
never imagined. The places they frequented, whether the Delta House, the lounge of
Kelley Hall, or Brown Chapel, became special places on a special campus. Those places
will always remind them of the meaningful relationships that started at Muskingum.
While Muskie sweethearts take a piece of Muskingum with them when they move
on, professor Robert Munkres (story on page 8) continues
to keep on giving, even after his retirement following
nearly 40 years at Muskingum College. He has helped
students earn degrees and, in many cases, helped them
choose and gain acceptance to law school. Munkres is
just one example of the quality of professors at
Muskingum — professors who care for and take an interest in their students.
Another former professor, Dr. John Neptune ’42 of San
Jose, Calif., recently established a Professorship in Fine
Arts as a memorial to his wife, Ruth Dorsey Neptune,
who was on the Muskingum faculty from 1944 to 1947
(story on page 5). John and Ruth met at Muskingum when John was teaching in the
chemistry department. The Neptunes held their experiences as students and faculty at
Muskingum with the highest regard. John felt a fitting memorial to Ruth and her interest
in the arts, was a professorship that would recognize and reward the importance and
value of high quality teaching in the undergraduate programs at Muskingum College.
Tom and Karen Forschner met on campus and praise the values they gained while at
Muskingum. Those values helped them persevere during rough times in their lives.
Those values have also driven the couple to start the
Lyme Disease Foundation and educate the nation about
the tickborne disease (story on page 14). As an example, Tom, faced with an ultimatum from his boss,
chose to quit his job rather than sacrifice time with his
family. A decision, he said, that was not hard to make.
These personal stories, and many more like them,
make Muskingum College unique. Bricks and mortar
and ratings in magazines can distinguish a college, but
what makes Muskingum special is the people who care
about and take an interest in each other and change the
lives of those with whom they come in contact.
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Muskingum College Bulletin • Summer 1998
—John Charlton
Editor
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SUMMER99
ADMINISTRATION
DAVID R. SKEEN, Interim President
MATTHEW P. ELLI, Vice President for Development
RON MAZEROSKI, Director of Alumni Relations
ALUMNI COUNCIL
BULLETIN
M U S K I N G U M
C O L L E G E
A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
FEATURES
Gordon F. Litt ’80, President
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Sue Osborne ’66 Abraham, Eileen McComb
’80 Adams, Henry D. Bullock ’77, Cheryl
Hetrick ’86 Carpenter, Charles Gratz ’57,
James R. Gray ’74, Jeffrey L. Harper ’83, Joan
Spillman ’51 Hoon, Karen Steuart ’62 Howell,
Stephanie Crawford ’91Kollasch, Gordon F.
Litt ’80, Jane Marshall ’75, Ron Mazeroski
’79, Betsy Patton ’81 McBeth, Nikki L. Montgomery ’94, Doug Palmer ’59,Shannon Prince
’00, Ann McKay ’61 Randles, Louis Reid ’00,
Ann Richards ’70, Kathy Kerr ’86 Ross, Nancy
Davis ’66 Settles, David J. Tarbert ’90, Shirley
Kimmel ’51 Wagner, James R. Wilson ’72
Commencement 99
Stories and photos highlighting all of the
festivities on May 9.
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Prof. Munkres retires
Long-time political science professor and
pre-law advisor retires.
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Alumni Weekend 99
Wedding vows and Distinguished Service
Awards given.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Hal W. Burlingame ’62, President
Gerald L. Draper, ’63, Vice Chair
Dennis D. Grant, ’62, Secretary
Craig W. Anderson, Dennis C. Berkey, Jaime
Bermudez, Judson E. Blaine, Larry A. Caldwell,
Philip Caldwell, William A. Cooper, William T.
Dentzer Jr., Ruth Ann Duff, Robert E. Fellers, C.
William Fischer, R. William Geyer, Annie Castor Glenn, John H. Glenn Jr., Ruth Champlin
Hefflin, Richard O. Johnson, Carl F. Kalnow,
Robert P. King, Charleen Kirkpatrick, Gordon F.
Litt, Allen E. Loomis, Rachel Longaberger,
Myron E. Moorehead II, Jane Power Mykrantz,
Larry A. Normansell, Walter E. Offinger, Robert W. Patin, Emily Pilcher, Charles J. Ping,
Merle Rife Jr., Kim Gage Rothermel, Anne
Marshall Saunier, Miriam G. Schwartz, David
R. Skeen, Gordon E. Spillman, Branko Stupar,
J. Stark Thompson, Jacqueline Dudek Woods
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DEPARTMENTS
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In this Issue
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Development Update
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Athletics
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News Notes
Including class reunion photos, 1939-1984.
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Commencement is always a special time for
Muskingum graduates. This year was no different as graduates celebrated on May 9.
1. Muskie Matt Beyeler shares a moment
with graduate Mandy Carleton; 2. Graduates
process into the Recreation Center for the
commencement ceremony; 3. Leah Allen
models commencement wear; 4. Grads thank
their parents in different ways; 5. David
LeMay, right, shares a hug with a fellow
graduate; 6. Josh Tuck, right, receives his
diploma from Interim President Dave Skeen;
7. Scott Will and Danielle Fadeley have their
picture taken by a friend.
Donors thanked by scholarship recipients
“One way alumni and friends of
Muskingum College make a difference in
the lives of current students is by providing
scholarship money,” said Matt Elli, vice
president for development. “This year,
Muskingum students had the opportunity to
thank those alumni and friends for their generous donations.”
According to Elli, Muskingum formalized a
portion of its ongoing program of recognizing
and communicating with donors by creating a
Stewardship Program. The Stewardship Program is focusing initially on endowed scholarships.
The program, which began during the
1998-99 school year, features information
from the college to donors and their families
about how their gifts are being used at
Muskingum and an annual financial report
updating them on the endowed program.
Scholarship recipients also contacted donors. An annual luncheon provides an opportunity for donors and their families to
meet scholarship recipients and representatives from the college. The inaugural event
on March 30 included 90 donors, families
and students.
Annie Glenn inducted into
OFIC Hall Of Excellence
Anna (Annie) Castor Glenn, a graduate of
the class of 1942, was inducted into Ohio
Foundation of Independent College’s Hall of
Development Update
Excellence on March 25. Annie is a nationally known advocate for children, the elderly
and persons with disabilities.
She is a member of the advisory board for
the National Center for Survivors of Childhood Abuse and serves on the advisory
board for the National First Ladies’ Library
as well as the advisory council of the National Institutes of Health.
After spending the first 53 years of her
life suffering from a significant speech impairment, Mrs. Glenn successfully completed in 1974 a speech therapy program at
Hollins College in Roanoke, Va., and today
is a role model and an inspiration for everyone who wishes to achieve their personal
best.
She received the first national award of
the American Speech and Hearing Association, an honorary degree from Muskingum
College, and the Distinguished Service
Award from the Muskingum College
Alumni Association. Along with her husband, John H. Glenn, Jr., Annie serves on
the board of trustees of the college. She was
honored in 1998 with a special appointment
to the faculty as “Distinguished Alumni Fellow in Speech Communication.”
The Hall of Excellence was established in
1987 to honor alumni of Ohio Foundation of
Independent Colleges (OFIC) member insti-
tutions whose lifetime achievements exemplify the traditions, ideals, strengths, and
values of private higher education. Since the
inception of this program, five Muskingum
alumni have been selected as inductees.
Annie and John are the only married
alumni couple to be inducted into the Hall
of Excellence. Other Muskingum alumni in
the Hall of Excellence include: Philip
Caldwell ’40, retired Chairman of the Board
and CEO of Ford Motor Company; John
(Jack) Hanna ’69, Director Emeritus, Columbus Zoo; and Charles J. Pilliod ’41, retired Chairman of the Board and CEO,
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
No other Ohio independent college has
more inductees in OFIC’s Hall of Excellence than Muskingum.
Ingram-White Castle
Foundation helps fund
‘Project Continued Success’
The Ingram-White Castle Foundation recently awarded Muskingum $10,600 in support of “Project Continued Success.”
This project is designed to help students
with learning challenges maximize their potential as they approach the employment
world. Muskingum’s program for learning
disabled students is nationally recognized
for its high quality and innovative approaches to providing service.
The Ingram-White Castle grant will help
fund exploration in internships; creation of
networking opportunities; special guidance
in writing resumes, interviewing and other
tasks; and provide opportunities to bring
successful Muskingum graduates back to the
campus to offer insights into their job
searches and careers.
’98-99 was a successful
fund-raising year
Shirley Kimmel ’51 Wagner, second from right, talks with scholarship recipients Kris Kreinbihl, Carrisa
Menapace and Tonya Galliher at the Stewardship Luncheon.
Fiscal year 1998-99 proved to be a successful period in fund-raising for
Muskingum. More than $3 million was recorded as contributed from all external
sources between July 1, 1998 and June 30,
1999. Gifts were received in the following
areas: $1,013,655 for budgeted unrestricted,
current student financial aid, and capital
projects; $650,901 for restricted and designated projects; $1,202,857 for endowment;
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Muskingum enjoys successful fund-raising year
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and $178,000 in annuities and trusts. As of
June 30, 1999, the market value of
Muskingum’s endowment was approximately $49 million.
Bequests benefit Muskingum
During the 1998-99 fiscal year, 24 gifts
were received by Muskingum as estate gifts,
bequests and/or transfer of trusts from
Muskingum alumni and friends. The gift
average was $21,085. Each gift benefits the
programs and people of the college.
Bequests were received from the estates
of Esther Baird ’27, McMurray, Pa.; Hope
M. Burke ’43, Newport Beach, Calif.;
Helen Chapman, friend, Zanesville, Ohio;
Vera Malone Conrad ‘25, Richmond, Va.;
Gladys Dunlap ’32, Columbus, Ohio; Mary
Erskine ’21, St. Clairsville, Ohio; Cuyler N.
Ferguson ’27, Erie, Pa; Cora Jerrow ’35,
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Elinor R. Keefer ’32,
Scranton, Pa.; Allen C. Knowles ’24,
Parma, Ohio; Harriet Lawler, friend, Mt.
Vernon, Ohio; Gertrude Lane Magee, friend,
Cliffside Park, N.J.; Dorothy H. McConnell
’26, St. Clairsville, Ohio; William P.
Moorhead, friend, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Edna M.
Redd ’62, Cambridge, Ohio; Ruth J.
Rosensteele, friend, Wheeling, W.Va.;
Alice Schember, friend, Jeffersonville, Ind.;
Theodore Stine, friend, Washington, Pa.;
Thoburne Stone ’34, Cincinnati, Ohio;
Christine Watt ’24, Minnetonka, Minn.;
Martha Wing, friend, Woodlands, Texas.
Fine arts professorship
presented on Heritage Day
More than 130 Heritage Roll of Honor
members met on campus at the remodeled
and expanded Thomas Hall dining room for
the recognition banquet during the 1999
Alumni Weekend.
The Heritage Roll of Honor recognizes
those who have included the College in their
estate plans through a will bequest or one of
our life income plans. Thirty-three new
members were recognized this year.
Dr. John Neptune ’42 of San Jose, Calif.,
was recognized for his establishment of a
Professorship in Fine Arts as a memorial to
his wife, Ruth Dorsey Neptune, who was a
member of the Muskingum faculty from
1944-1947. John and Ruth met at
Muskingum when John was teaching in the
chemistry department. The Neptunes left
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Muskingum in 1947 to do
graduate work and teach at the
University of Wisconsin. In
1955, John then took a job at
San Jose State University
(SJSU), where he retired in
1990, as professor of chemistry. Ruth passed away in October 1990. John continues to
teach part time SJSU.
Both John and Ruth held
their experiences as students
and faculty at Muskingum
with the highest regard. John
felt a fitting memorial to Ruth
and her interest in the arts,
was a professorship that
would recognize and reward
the importance and value of
high quality teaching in the
undergraduate programs at
Dave Skeen, interim president, and John Neptune ’42 announce
“The Ruth Dorsey Neptune Distinguished Professorship in Fine Arts.”
Muskingum College.
For many years, John and
Ruth supported Muskingum through several
Mary Sheetz, Springfield, Ohio; Janice
planned giving programs. These plans have
Tucker, New Concord, Ohio; Robert M.
been directed toward funding an endowed
and Jane Bullock Warner, Ann Arbor,
professorship. John continues with his anMich.; James R. and Susan Wilson, New
nual gifts and has established provisions in
Concord, Ohio; Robert and Karen Winn,
his estate plan that will complete the funding
Murrieta, Calif.;
of “The Ruth Dorsey Neptune Distinguished
Deceased members: Rev. J. Donald
Professorship in Fine Arts.”
Almes, Henry Ayers, Katherine Ayers, Olive Baker (Mrs. Homer Baker), Roberta
Banker, W. Hughes Barnes, Elizabeth
21st Annual Heritage Day
Blake, James Blyth, Herbert W. Buck, John
celebrated during
Cain, George D. Conrad, Anna Blanche
Alumni Weekend
Crawford, Dale W. Dickson, Mary
The College has been remembered in the
Catherine Futhey, Rev. Dr. Paul Gillis, John
wills of new members of the Heritage Roll
G. Hepler, Mary Irvine, Cora Laverna
of Honor in 1999. They include:
Jerrow, Mary Lucille Johnson, Allan
Donald and Louise Barton Berg, Amherst,
Knowles, Grace Lacey, Harry G. Lacey,
New York; Lois Cain, Bay Village, Ohio;
Hilda N. Laub, Helen Kyle Leitch, Mary E.
Rhonda Campbell, Brecksville, Ohio; John
Loomis, Beaton Pettengill, C. Merril Ross,
and Gwen Patriquin Datt, Great Falls, Va.;
Alice Schember, Byron Steen , Rev. Hugh
Carolyn Dickson, Cambridge, Ohio; James
Stouppe, Wilda Thompson, Dr. Arthur
Floyd Felumlee, Jr., Zanesville, Ohio; John
Wills, Monta E. and Martha Robinson
and Suella Chinn Habbersett, Rochester,
Wing, Ann Laughlin Yeates, Gayle Cain
New York; William and Cheryl Heilman,
Zenk.
Ringoes, N.J.; E. William and Betty
Heritage Club members: Jane Carr,
Hamilton Henschel, Cleveland, Ohio; Mary
Gerald Cavanaugh, John Kolpitcke, MargaHepler, Clearwater, Fla.; Evelyn Ingham
ret Webb.
Holmes, Gibsonia, Pa.; Irwin E. and Janet
Gray Jennings, Medina, Ohio; Eugene B.
(Editor’s Note: Development Update was
Jester, Canton, Ohio; Martha Keil, Dayton,
compiled by Matt Elli with contributions
Ohio; Carole Marie Kreger, Sagamore Hills,
from Chuck Walker, director of planned givOhio; Mary Deibel Kreienberg, Pittsford,
ing, and Susan Dannemann, director of anN.Y.; Mark Osmond, West Chester, Pa.;
nual giving.)
Kyle Riggs, Washington, Pa.; Ken and
Glenn urges graduates to become involved
Annie Castor Glenn, a 1942 graduate of
Muskingum College, urged 226 graduating
students to “involve yourself in some type of
public service,” during her address at the
154th commencement ceremony at
Muskingum College. Both she and her husband, former U.S. Senator and astronaut
John H. Glenn Jr., were recently appointed
as distinguished alumni professors at
Muskingum.
“When I say public service, I am not just
talking about politics or government, although they are two top types of public service,” Mrs. Glenn said. “To me, public service is much, much broader. It can encompass virtually any skill, any talent or any
ability that you possess.”
As an example, Mrs. Glenn spoke of her
own life where she was limited by severe
stuttering, a speech impediment she has
since overcome.
“I couldn’t imagine speaking in public, but
I could still play the organ and I played the
organ at every chapel on every military base
where we were assigned,” Mrs. Glenn said.
She went on to talk about volunteering
for charity and suggested that graduating
students get involved.
“For you, the possibilities for service are
virtually endless. You can help out as a little
league coach, you can tutor at schools, you
can help out at a senior citizen centers or a
nursing home, you can teach Sunday school,
you can become a Big Brother or Big Sister
or maybe you can prevent another Littleton,
Colorado, just by listening to students and
helping to direct their life,” Glenn said.
“Only when we serve others are we serving
the best that is in ourselves.”
At a special ceremony after commencement, Senator Glenn announced that he
would turn over his boyhood home to
Muskingum College. The home will be
moved from its location on Friendship Drive
to the eventual site of the John and Annie
Glenn Historical Site and Exploration Center which is planned for downtown New
Concord.
Rachel Longaberger, president of the
Longaberger Company’s Foundation and a
Annie Glenn enjoys the applause following her
commencement address.
Muskingum College trustee, presented a
check from the company for $50,000 to be
used for the Glenn museum, which brings
the total of financial commitments for the
site to approximately $700,000.
Schnitkers ‘noted’ for dedication to Muskingum
During the 154th commencement exercises at Muskingum College, Wilbur and
Kay Schnitker were presented with honorary
degrees in recognition of their dedication to
the college.
In 1992, during the 50th anniversary of
the Schnitkers’ association with the College,
former President Samuel W. Speck commented, “excellence in musical performance
Kay and Wilbur Schnitker after receiving their
honorary degrees during the 1999 commencement ceremony.
at Muskingum College and Schnitker recitals have been synonymous since 1942, when
Katherine and Wilbur became part of the
music faculty.”
Now musicians-in-residence, the
Schnitkers continue to perform singly and
together in a variety of concert settings.
Wilbur Schnitker followed his undergraduate education at Carthage College with
graduate study at the University of Michigan
and extensive study at the Eastman School
of Music. He has worked with such notable
pianists as Arthur Loesse, Johanna Harris,
Cecile Genhart, Jose Echaniz and Arnold
Schulz. He earned national prominence during the 1970 bicentennial celebration of
Beethoven’s birth, performing the entire
cycle of 32 Beethoven sonatas for piano
from memory during a two-week period.
Katherine Schnitker followed her
Carthage College undergraduate education
with graduate study at Northwestern University, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the
University of Michigan. Katherine also studied with Dorothy Lane of Chicago, at the
Eastman School of Music, and at the University of Toronto. Her commitment to
teaching was exemplified by a constant
search for ways to help students. One idea
turned into a new development in keyboard
education, which enabled students with
sightreading problems to help themselves.
As scholars, the Schnitkers possess a
reputation for intellectual curiosity and research, often discovering new information
about composers and their works. As educators, Katherine and Wilbur have kept pace
with the generations of students whose lives
they’ve touched, taking a personal interest in
their students’ lives and in their musical development.
The Schnitker partnership began on the
campus of Carthage College where they
were student musicians. Over the years, their
discipline has become legendary. Wilbur has
been known to spend the intermission of one
performance practicing for another.
Both can claim wide dimension as
keyboardists and as individuals. An accomplished organist, Wilbur has performed
Bach’s complete Orgelbüchlein, rarely heard
in its entirety. Katherine is an accomplished
pianist and harpsichordist and has presented
recitals on both instruments. She has also
been cited for her civic and philanthropic
work in the region.
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Munkres retires after 39 years
By Janice Tucker
Director of Public Relations
When asked about the ups and downs of
his 39-year teaching career at Muskingum
College, Professor of Political Science Robert Munkres explains that he has lived a life
relatively unmarked by personal peaks and
valleys.
He preferred to travel a path where stability and consistency guided his way.
This spring, Dr. Munkres, who started in
1960, retired from Muskingum where he
taught political science, history, chaired the
political science department and served as
the pre-law advisor. He will continue to
teach an occasional course.
His colleagues agree that his career has
been one of consistency. “Bob delivers the
same product today in his classroom that he
delivered in 1960,” says Ransom Clark,
vice-president for academic affairs, and a
former colleague in the political science department.
Another colleague, Dr. Lorle Porter,
emeritus professor of history and regional
historian-in-residence, says that Dr.
Munkres’ “depth of knowledge in constitutional law and political science, when married to his breadth of knowledge in history,
is hard to match.”
That breadth is represented by Munkres’
double major in both political science and in
history at Nebraska Wesleyan University
where he graduated as valedictorian of his
class and with “highest distinction.” He
went on to the University of Nebraska where
he received both a master’s and a doctoral
degree, and where he says that “breadth”
was encouraged.
After graduation from the University of
Nebraska, he spent three stints (1956-58) as
a seasonal ranger-historian with the National
Park Service at Fort Laramie National Historic Site.
Munkres’ service as pre-law advisor and
his course for pre-law students helped many
Muskie graduates successfully prepare for
law school, according to Dr. Porter.
Professor Munkres was a member of the
Board of Directors of the Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors (MAPLA) for nine
years and was president of this group of prelaw advisors from some of the best colleges
and universities in the midwest. During his
23-year association with MAPLA, he was a
frequent presentor in such areas as training
and certification, as well as being a frequent
contributor to the organization’s newsletter.
Munkres admits to a few high points at
Muskingum, some of them involving his
role in bringing notable speakers to campus
as a result of his presentation of a paper at a
Conference on the History of the Brule
Sioux People sponsored by the Tribal Council of the Rosebud Reservation.
Later conversation reveals that he has
taught some 4,000 Muskingum students during his career. And he continues to be
sought out by academic publications and by
Dr. Robert Munkres, left, is interviewed in 1979 at Independence Rock for a PBS series.
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Dr. Robert Munkres at his home in New Concord.
media as an expert on the history of the
American west.
In 1979, he gave an interview at Independence Rock southwest of Casper, Wyoming,
for the mini-series “Hidden Places Where
History Lives.” Nebraska Educational Television filmed the series which was broadcast
nationally in 1981 on PBS. He has also appeared on 70 segments of an educational
program for children which was broadcast
on WBNS-TV in Columbus. The segments
covered stories of the Oregon Trail, great
Indian leaders, and the Plains Indians. He
has also appeared on WHIZ-TV in
Zanesville.
Munkres’ publications read like a travel
guide to the west. He once wrote more than
50 columns, titled “Wandering the West” for
The Daily Jeffersonian, Cambridge.
Among his publications is a book,
“Saleratus and Sagebrush: The Oregon Trail
Through Wyoming” (1974). He has contributed chapters to books about pre-law advising and on Indian history. His articles,
which number more than 160, have appeared in journals such as The National
Tombstone Epitaph, The Chicago Westerners Brand Book, Wyoming Annals, The English Westerners’ Tally Sheet, The Overland
Journal, and Journal of the West.
In addition, he serves or has served on the
editorial boards of four journals.
Munkres’ work appears on numerous web
sites about western history and he is a contributing historian for the Oregon-California
Trails Association’s web site.
Munkres and his wife, Jeannette, plan to
continue their travels throughout the west
and will continue to live in New Concord.
Alumnus archives South African history
By Stacey Dragosin ’00
Inspired by experiences while at
Muskingum College, Brian Williams ’88 is
now helping others make history as part of a
team of specialists who are archiving South
African history.
Williams, who is an associate archivist
with the Bentley Historical Library at the
University of Michigan, explains that he was
initially motivated towards his career as an
archivist while at an event at Muskingum.
“As a history major, I was at a retirement
event for Dr. William Fisk. I happened to sit
between two of his former students who
were working as archivists (Bob Warner
’49 and Galen Wilson ’78),” Williams said.
“As a young history major, I was uncertain
about what I would do with my degree.
Hearing those two alumni go on about
archiving was very convincing, and was a
key event in determining my career choice.”
Williams also gives credit to his time
spent at Muskingum as a student. “As a
whole, I’ve always felt I owed a lot to
Muskingum’s history department. I had
some wonderful courses from professors
(Robert) Burk, (Taylor) Stults, (David)
Sturtevant, and Fisk. An alumni trip to Russia with Professor Stults in 1989 was also
useful in learning the nuances of international travel,” Williams added.
Those nuances later paid off as Williams
recently traveled to South Africa.
In an effort to preserve South Africa’s
past, Williams and the team of specialists
from the University of Michigan spent time
in South Africa organizing the archival materials of the decades-long liberation movement. Williams began working with archivists at the University of Fort Hare in Alice,
South Africa in March of 1998 and continued into June and returned again this year.
“It was really exciting being there during
the elections. It made our project seem more
significant,” Williams said of his 1999 visit.
The excitement of the elections helped to
ease Williams’ disappointment in missing a
visit by Nelson Mandela by a mere hour. “It
definitely would have been a unique opportunity to have seen him.”
The mission of the group is to organize
the eclectic jumble of materials gathered
from around the world, to create “finding
aids” to facilitate public access and to equip
Fort Hare’s staff to manage the collection in
the future.
According to Williams, South Africa has
no established archival training program.
Because of this, the process was as new as
the archives.
“The project was to be more than just a
group from Michigan processing these
records. We were also attempting to give
staff and students at Fort Hare the capacity
to sustain these efforts and further develop
the archives,” said Williams. “Through formal and informal presentations, we outlined
archival principles and procedures and explained what we were doing.”
The staff training included introduction to
the Internet and the values of its information. Instruction was focused on professional
use, but Williams tells that the temptation to
surf the web could not be avoided.
“I fear I may have set them back several
years when they got an inkling of some of
Brian Williams
the less essential things available on the
raise international awareness of the evils of
web,” he said.
apartheid, the records also reflect internal
The archives include records of the politipower struggles and the minutiae of running
cal parties and organizations involved in the
an office — utility bills, insurance policies,
overthrow of apartheid. Along with these
leases, purchase orders and even junk mail,”
records, there are also personal letters from
he said. “Sorting the wheat from the chaff
leaders like former South African President
was part of our task.”
Nelson Mandela; newsletters and video
Williams hopes that the team’s effort in
tapes. There were even letters from singer
organizing this important part of South
Paul Simon about possible concerts in South
Africa’s past will be useful to researchers
Africa.
and can benefit all.
Much of the material the group is organiz“Hopefully, through projects like ours in
ing came from abroad. Because political
the archives, the struggles of the liberation
parties like the African National Congress
movement will be understood in their hisand the Pan African Congress of Azania
torical context,” he said. “By preserving the
were banned in South Africa for the past
past, we remain optimistic that it can inform
three decades, parties operated in exile from
the future of what has come before, leading
locations like London, New York, Dar-esto greater understanding between all races.”
Salaam, Tanzania and Cairo.
In 1990 when the ban
was lifted, parties came
home and brought their
material with them. Many
of the records came back
in four-foot trunks and
weren’t touched until the
team started going
through them.
“Virtually none of the
material in the trunks was
in folders,” Williams said.
“It was as if the contents
of filing cabinets had simply been dumped into the
trunks and shipped off.”
“While the documenta- Brian Williams sorts his way through boxes of documents that record the
tion illustrates efforts to
history of South Africa.
9
AWARD
WINNERS
Muskingum student-athletes
Following is a listing of
Muskingum student-athletes
who earned awards on the
conference, regional and
national levels during the
1998-99 academic year.
Grandey, Segner and Schramm earn All-American status
CROSS COUNTRY
• Men’s and Women’s
Teams: Academic AllAmerica teams (U.S.
Cross Country Coaches
Association)
• Dan Forbes: Academic
All-America (U.S. Cross
Country Coaches
Association)
• Gary Fries: All-Great
Lakes Region, all-OAC
• Nick Jordon: All-Great
Lakes Region, all-OAC,
all-Ohio
• Jeanette Krebs:
Academic All-America
(U.S. Cross Country
Coaches Association)
• Liz Snyder: Academic
All-America (U.S. Cross
Country Coaches
Association)
• Chad Wright: All-Ohio
Muskingum College’s spring student-athletes proved
their commitment to learning by earning national and
conference academic honors.
Three Muskies — baseball first baseman James
Grandey, softball pitcher Jen Segner and No. 1 golfer
FOOTBALL
• Josh Boyer: First team
Academic all-OAC
• Jon Corwin: First team
Academic all-OAC
• Micah Fuchs: Honorable
mention all-OAC
• Eric Goddard: First team
all-OAC, first team
Academic all-OAC, second
team GTE Academic allDistrict IV
• James Grandey: First
team all-OAC, first team
Academic all-OAC, second
team GTE Academic allDistrict IV
• Brad Heady: Second
team all-OAC
• Zack Howard: Second
team all-OAC
• Ryan McLane: Honorable
mention Academic allOAC
• Eric Peterson: Second
team all-OAC
• Scott Ray: Honorable
mention all-OAC
• Scott Will: Second team
all-OAC
By Bobby Lee
Athletics
Mike Schramm — were tabbed for GTE Academic AllAmerica honors by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Grandey, who graduated magna cum laude with a
bachelor of arts degree in elementary education on May
9, became just the third student-athlete in the history of
Muskingum’s baseball program to achieve first team
Academic All-America status. Jim Nicholson (1983)
and Brad Wilkins (1986) were the other Muskies to be
first team Academic All-Americans.
Segner, a biology major with a 3.83 grade-point average, claimed a position on the second team. She is the
second student-athlete in the history of Muskingum’s
softball program to earn Academic All-America recognition, following Kate Titus, who was a second team
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Schramm
Segner
selection in 1990.
Schramm, a mathematics and computer science major
with a 4.0 GPA, was selected to the third team of the
spring at-large squad which includes student-athletes
from track and field, lacrosse and tennis.
The good news is all three Academic All-Americans
will return to the Muskingum campus in the fall.
Grandey has accepted a position as a graduate assistant
coach in the football and baseball programs. Segner and
Schramm will be back for their senior years.
In addition to the national honors, Grandey, Segner
and Schramm headed up a list of 10 Muskies selected to
the Academic all-Ohio Athletic Conference teams by the
conference faculty representatives. Track athletes Jon
Corwin and Linda Newton were tabbed for first team
recognition. Baseball’s Brad Mercer, track athletes Dan
Forbes and Jeff Holzhauer and softball players Adi
Fawcett and Carla Kampschmidt all received honorable
mention status.
Muskingum’s spring teams had fine seasons on the
courts, fields and tracks to compliment the work done in
the classroom. Here’s a brief look at how the Muskies
fared.
Softball
Muskies win OAC title,
host NCAA regional
MEN’S SOCCER
• Steve Crawford:
Honorable mention allOAC
• Dave Goede: Honorable
mention all-OAC
• Derek Hone: First team
all-OAC
WOMEN’S SOCCER
• Sarah Dimmerling:
Honorable mention allOAC, second team
Academic all-Ohio (Ohio
Collegiate Soccer
Association)
• Jennifer Gastrich: First
team GTE Academic AllDistrict IV, first team
Academic all-OAC,
honorable mention
Grandey
Catcher Brad Mercer led the Muskies from behind the plate
and at the plate as he broke the school single-season record
with a .486 batting average.
The softball team solidified its position as one of the
top programs in the Central Region this spring.
Just a year removed from a fourth-place finish at the
NCAA Division III Championships, the ’99 Muskies —
which featured two juniors, four sophomores and four
freshmen in the starting lineup — swept its way to Ohio
Athletic Conference regular season and tournament
championships. Muskingum earned the No. 1 seed and
hosting rights for the NCAA Central Regional Tournament, where the Muskies finished runner-up. Overall,
the Lady Muskies compiled a 39-7 record.
Achieving such lofty success wasn’t easy.
Muskingum opened the season against regionally and
nationally ranked competition during its spring break
trip to Orlando, Fla. and came home with a 5-5 record.
perform on and off the field
The Lady Muskies returned home, regrouped and
went on an amazing 33-game winning streak.
Muskingum won all 18 of its regular season OAC
games, becoming just the third team in conference history to complete an undefeated regular season.
“This season has been a tremendous ride,” coach
Donna Newberry said. “We set a (Muskingum) season
record with 39 wins and had the longest winning streak
in the nation at 33.”
Thanks to the success, the Muskies received their
share of postseason honors. Segner earned first team allregion and all-OAC laurels for the second consecutive
year. The Marysville native turned in another recordsetting season, improving her single-season records for
wins (33) and strikeouts (97). She allowed just 45
earned runs in 241.2 innings of work for a 1.30 earned
run average. With a year of eligibility still remaining,
Segner already holds the Muskie career records for victories (77) and strikeouts (265).
First-year second baseman Shelly DeLucas, from New
Concord and John Glenn High School, and sophomore
center fielder Tangi White received first team all-conference and second team all-region honors. DeLucas led
the team with a .387 batting average and 14 doubles.
White was second on the team with a .369 batting average. The Mount Vernon native clubbed nine doubles and
a triple and drove in 17 runs.
Catcher Shelli Manson, a first-year player from
Covington, was named first team all-conference after
batting .273 with nine doubles and 21 runs batted in.
Junior left fielder Adi Fawcett and first-year third
baseman Megan Monsman both received second team
all-conference recognition. Fawcett, from Utica, batted
.320 with nine doubles, five triples, three homers and 19
RBI. Monsman, from Northfield, led the Lady Muskies
with 24 RBI.
First-year designated player Tami Anglin was named
to the OAC all-tournament team after the first homerun
of her college career lifted Muskingum to a 2-1 win over
Mount Union College in the championship game.
Golf
Schramm gains all-OAC honors
Schramm, a junior from Heath, took medalist honors
as the top individual at the John Carroll Invitational and
all-Ohio Athletic Conference honors by locking into a
tie for ninth place at the conference championships.
Schramm’s individual success and leadership pushed
the Fighting Muskies to a fifth-place finish out of 13
teams at the John Carroll Invitational and a seventh
place finish in the OAC.
The future looks bright as some young student-athletes received experience. First-year golfer Joe Fisher
from Huber Heights averaged 80.3 strokes in nine
rounds.
Academic all-Ohio (Ohio
Collegiate Soccer
Association)
• Shannon Prince:
Honorable mention
Academic all-OAC
• Vanessa Warnock: Third
team all-Ohio, second
team all-OAC
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
• Head Coach Bea Zicha:
AVCA Great Lakes
Region Coach of the
Year, OAC Coach of the
Year
• Lindsay Larrick: Second
team all-OAC
• Carrie Lyons: First team
GTE Academic AllAmerica, all-Great Lakes
Region, OAC Player of
the Year, first team allOAC, first team Academic
all-OAC
• Annie Rome: All-Great
Lakes Region, first team
all-OAC
• Anne Smith: First team
Academic all-OAC
• Alyson Taylor: First team
Academic all-OAC
• Kristen Vejsicky: AllGreat Lakes Region,
second team all-OAC,
second team Academic
all-OAC
MEN’S BASKETBALL
• Chester Mullet:
• Christian Toombs:
Second team all-OAC
First baseman Carla Kamschmidt takes a throw at first base as
the Muskies record yet another ground-ball out.
Baseball
Muskie offense continues
to smash school records
The 1999 baseball season was supposed to have less
emphasis on offense because the bats were changed for
safety reasons.
The changes didn’t affect the baseball team at
Muskingum College. Several Muskies edited the school
record book as the squad compiled a 23-18 overall
record and a 10-8 Ohio Athletic Conference mark.
Mercer, a sophomore catcher, claimed single-season
records for batting average (.486), hits (69), runs scored
(59), doubles (21) and runs batted in (56). He received
first team all-OAC honors for his effort.
Grandey became Muskingum’s all-time leader in
homeruns when he blasted a three-run shot in the opening game of a doubleheader against John Carroll University. The Greenfield native posted 23 dingers in a
Muskie uniform, two more than Shannon McComb
(1995-98). He drove in 44 runs during the ’99 campaign,
moving him into second all-time at Muskingum with
109. Grandey also was tabbed for first team all-OAC
honors by the conference coaches.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
• Kawanah Gwinn:
• Wren Lorek: Second
team all-OAC
• Bobbi Pomeroy:
INDOOR TRACK
• Homer Atkins: All-OAC
(55-meter dash), school
record (200-meter dash),
NCAA provisional qualifier
(55-meter dash)
• Mike Fountain: school
record (4x400 relay)
• Augusta Halker: All-OAC
(55-meter hurdles), school
records (three events:
long jump, 60-meter
hurdles, 300 IM hurdles)
• Jeff Holzhauer: school
• Rajat Khanna: school
• Louis Reid: school
• Liz Snyder: All-OAC
(1,000 meter run), school
record (1,000-meter run)
WRESTLING
• Wade Chapman:
(Division III National
Wrestling Coaches
Association)
• Jamie Dodson:
Wrestling Coaches
11
Association)
• Tim Hancock: All-OAC
(runner-up at 133 pounds)
• Billy Hockaday:
Wrestling Coaches
Association)
BASEBALL
• Brad Barclay: Honorable
mention all-OAC
• James Grandey: First
team GTE Academic AllAmerica, First team allOAC, first team Academic
all-OAC (unanimous
selection)
• Brad Mercer: First team
all-OAC, first team GTE
Academic all-District IV,
honorable mention
Academic all-OAC
MEN’S GOLF
• Mike Schramm: Third
team GTE Academic AllAmerica, first team
Academic all-OAC, allOAC
SOFTBALL
• Head Coach Donna
Newberry: OAC Coach of
the Year
• Tami Anglin: NCAA
Central Regional alltournament team, OAC
all-tournament team
• Shelly DeLucas: First
team all-OAC, Second
team all-Central Region
• Adi Fawcett: Second
team all-OAC, OAC alltournament, honorable
• Carla Kampschmidt:
Second team all-Central
Region, OAC alltournament, first team
GTE Academic all-District
IV, honorable mention
Academic all-OAC
• Shelli Manson: First
team all-OAC
• Megan Monsman:
Second team all-OAC
• Jen Segner: GTE
Second team Academic
All-America, First team allOAC, First team allCentral Region, OAC alltournament, first team
GTE Academic all-District
IV, first team Academic
all-OAC (unanimous
selection)
• Tangi White: First team
all-OAC, Second team allCentral Region, NCAA
Central Regional alltournament
WOMEN’S TENNIS
• Tracy Karr: all-OAC
(runner-up at No. 1
singles)
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Muskingum athletes shine in the
Senior center fielder Brad Barclay received honorable
mention all-conference honors after hitting .362 with 12
doubles, four triples, three homers and 27 RBI.
A player to watch in the future is infielder Tim
Matheney. The first-year student-athlete from New Concord hit .331 with seven doubles, four homers and 33
RBI.
Not to be outdone, the pitching staff had its share of
good outings. Junior Eric Smith of Upper Arlington
posted a 2-2 record with a 3.08 earned run average and
four saves in 18 appearances.
Sophomore Jason Gatewood, a product of Maysville
High School, led the Muskies in wins (seven) and innings pitched (69.1). He started nine games, completing
three.
Junior Chris Scisciani posted six wins in 63 innings of
work. He had four complete games with two shutouts.
Outdoor track and field
Women attack school records
Muskingum College may not have had the number of
student-athletes of some of the other teams in the Ohio
Athletic Conference, but the Muskies made the most of
the athletes on the roster.
On the women’s side, Muskingum broke eight school
records and sent sophomore sprinter Augusta Halker to
the NCAA Division III Championships. Halker, from
Columbus Grove, lowered the school record in the 400
IM hurdles to 1:03.05 to finish 11th in the nation. Along
the way, Halker claimed all-Ohio and OAC titles in the
400 IM hurdles and was the runner-up at both meets in
the 100-meter hurdles.
Sophomore Kawanah Gwinn edged Halker for the
OAC 100-meter hurdles title. Gwinn, from Columbus,
lowered the school record in the event to 15.27 seconds.
Sophomore Heidi Endebrock played a role in two
school record performances. Endebrock, from Madison,
broke the school record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase
(12:28.15) and ran the third leg of the 4x800 meter relay
team that earned all-conference honors with a thirdplace finish of 9:54.20. The other members of the relay
squad were Kelly Krueger, Bonnie Behm and Liz
Snyder. Endebrock also earned all-OAC honors by finishing third in the 3,000-meter run (10:59.90).
First-year athlete Tricia Simpson set a school record
of 35’ 10” in the triple jump to finish second at the OAC
Championships and earn all-conference status. Simpson,
from Heath, provisionally qualified for the NCAA meet
with a long jump of 17’ 11”, but she did not make the
cut to compete in the national meet.
Newton, a junior, and sophomore Dana Morehead
broke records in the throwing events. Newton claimed
the school mark in the javelin with a mark of 107’ 11”,
while Morehead threw the hammer 75’ 5”.
Not to be outdone, the Muskie men earned their share
Muskingum College sophomore hurdler Augusta Halker
advanced to to the NCAA Division III Nationals in the 400 IM
Hurdles.
of awards. Junior sprinter Homer Atkins was the allOhio champion in the long jump (22’ 1”) and the OAC
champion in the 100 meters (11.2 seconds).
The Muskie 4x400 relay team of junior Louis Reid,
first-year Charlie Amlin, and sophomores Jeff
Holzhauer and Rajat Khanna earned all-Ohio and allconference status by finishing as the runner-up at both
meets. Reid, Khanna, Holzhauer and Atkins claimed allOAC status with a runner-up performance at the conference meet.
In addition to his role on the relay squads, Khanna
earned all-OAC recognition by finishing as the runnerup in the 400-meter dash (49.70 seconds).
Junior distance runner Nick Jordon claimed both allOhio and all-OAC laurels in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. He was third in the all-Ohio meet (9:52.21) and
second at the conference meet (9:37.78).
The lone school record set by the men came in the
hammer throw, where senior Jon Corwin snapped a
throw of 90’ 3”.
Women’s tennis
Karr finishes second in OAC
Led by junior Tracy Karr, the women’s tennis team
finished fifth in the OAC. The Lady Muskies compiled a
4-4 record in duals against conference opponents.
classroom and on the field
Karr, from Portsmouth, posted a 9-3 record at No. 1
singles. She advanced to the championship match at the
conference tournament with straight-set wins over opponents from Otterbein and Ohio Northern.
In addition to Karr, sophomore Lori Clark of
Zanesville posted a 7-4 record at No. 4 singles, while
senior Heidi Garinger of Columbus went 6-5 at No. 5
singles and sophomore Amanda Turner of Reynoldsburg
was 4-3 at No. 6 singles.
Men’s tennis
Muskies beat rival Marietta
The men’s tennis team struggled with a lack of depth.
However, the Muskies rallied to beat arch-rival Marietta
College.
Senior Mike Pachmayer won a hard-fought 6-0, 4-6,
6-2 victory at No. 6 singles, and teamed with classmate
Ryan McLane to win 7-5, 6-4 at No. 3 doubles.
Muskies to join Athletic Hall of Fame
Caldwell, Hooker, Thomas, Moore to be honored at Homecoming
The Ohio
Athletic
Conference’s
top offensive
back in football in 1976,
the school
record holder
in the
women’s discus,
Muskingum’s
all-time scoring leader in
men’s basketball and a
Dave Caldwell carries the ball on his way
five-time
to winning the Mike Gregory Award in
NCAA pole
1976.
vault champion
make up the four-person class slated for induction into
the Muskingum College Athletic Hall of Fame.
The class of 1999 includes two-time first team allOAC football honoree Dave Caldwell ’77, three-time
OAC outdoor discus champion Denise Hooker-Morgan ’89, men’s basketball All-American Andy Moore
’92 and track and field standout Chad Thomas ’93.
The four former Muskie greats will take their place in
the Hall of Fame during Homecoming festivities on
Saturday, Oct.16.
Dave Caldwell earned the OAC’s Mike Gregory
Award as the most outstanding offensive back in the
conference in 1976 after rushing for 646 yards and two
touchdowns. A two-time first team all-OAC selection,
Caldwell made Muskie history in 1974 when he became the first sophomore to rush for more than 1,000
yards in a season. He gained 1,025 yards to finish second in the OAC in rushing. His son, Ryan, will be a
senior wide receiver on the Muskie football team this
fall. Caldwell is the varsity football coach at
Beallsville High School.
Hooker
Thomas
Moore
Denise Hooker-Morgan was a four-year letterwinner
in the track and field program from 1986-89. She was a
three-time All-American, placing seventh in the discus
at the NCAA Championships in 1987 and eighth in
1986 and ’89. Hooker-Morgan won the OAC outdoor
title in the discus three times and the conference outdoor title in the shot put in 1986. Her mark of 143’ 10”
in the discus still stands as the school record.
Andy Moore is one of the most decorated players in
Muskingum men’s basketball history. He was a threetime first team all-OAC selection, a two-time OAC alltournament honoree, a first team All-American as a
senior and the recipient of Muskingum’s William G.
Moore award as the outstanding male senior athlete.
Moore still holds Muskie records for most points in a
season (559 during the 1990-91 season) and career
(1,871), most field goals made in a season (210, 90-91)
and career (684), and highest free throw percentage in
a career (.843).
Chad Thomas was a five-time NCAA champion in
the pole vault, winning indoor titles from 1991-93 and
outdoor titles in ’92 and ’93. He also received AllAmerica honors in the long jump when he placed third
at the 1992 NCAA outdoor championships. Thomas,
who earned all-OAC status 26 times, racked up the
most total points in the men’s field events at the 1993
OAC Outdoor Championships by scoring 20 points
with wins in the pole vault and long jump. He still
holds indoor school records in the pole vault (17’ 0-1/
4”) and long jump (24’ 1-3/4”) and outdoor school
records in the pole vault (16’ 8”) and long jump (24’ 71/4”). Thomas followed Moore as the recipient of the
William G. Moore award in ’93.
TRACK & FIELD
• Charlie Amlin: all-Ohio
(4x400), all-OAC (4x400)
• Homer Atkins: OAC
champion (100-meter
dash), all-OAC (two
events: 100 meter dash,
4x100), all-Ohio
champion (long jump), allOhio
• Bonnie Behm: All-OAC
(4x800 relay), school
• Jon Corwin: First team
Academic all-OAC, school
record (hammer throw)
• Heidi Endebrock: allOAC (two events: 3,000
meter run, 4x800 meter
relay), school records
(two events: 3,000 meter
steeplechase, 4x800
relay)
• Steve Fabina: school
record (4x800)
• Dan Forbes: Honorable
mention Academic all-OAC
• Gary Fries: school
• Kawanah Gwinn: OAC
champion (100-meter low
hurdles), all-OAC, school
record (100-meter high
hurdles)
• Augusta Halker:
Competed at NCAA
Division III outdoor track
and field championships,
OAC champion (400 IM
hurdles), all-OAC (two
events: 100 meter high
hurdles, 400 IM hurdles),
all-Ohio champion (400
IM hurdles), all-Ohio (two
events: 100 meter high
hurdles, 400 IM hurdles),
school record (400-meter
hurdles)
• Jeff Holzhauer: All-OAC
(two events: 4x100 and
4x400 relays), all-Ohio
(4x400 relay), honorable
• Jon Hostasa: school
• Nick Jordon: All-OAC
(3,000-meter
steeplechase), all-Ohio
(3,000-meter
steeplechase)
• Rajat Khanna: All-OAC
(three events: 400 meter
dash, 4x100 and 4x400
relays), allOhio (4x400
relay)
• Kelly Krueger: All-OAC
• Dana Morehead: All-Ohio
(hammer throw), school
record (hammer throw)
• Linda Newton: First team
Academic all-OAC, school
record (javelin {new})
• Louis Reid: All-OAC
(two events: 4x100,
4x400 relays), all-Ohio
(4x400 relay)
• Tricia Simpson: All-OAC
(triple jump), all-Ohio
(triple jump), school
record (triple jump),
NCAA provisional qualifier
(long jump)
• Liz Snyder: All-OAC
• Chad Wright: school
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Vanderhoof-Forschner follows worthy path
Muskie alumna and husband wage war against Lyme disease
By John Charlton
Assistant Director of Public Relations
The path of life anticipated by recent college graduates isn’t always as smooth as
imagined in those early post-graduate years.
For Muskingum College alumnus Karen
Vanderhoof-Forschner ’74 and her husband
and fellow Muskie, Tom Forschner ’72, the
path has been littered with obstacles and
challenges.
“Not everyone has a clear-cut, easy path,”
said Vanderhoof-Forschner. “What it comes
down to is learning values that you can use
to be self-sufficient and make your way
through a complex world. These are the kind
of values we received from Muskingum.”
That path for the Forschners became incredibly complex in January of 1985 when a
pregnant Karen came down with what was
thought to be a bad case of the flu.
Symptoms, which included a fever, dizziness and stiff joints, persisted and, in approximately six weeks, a red circular rash
appeared on her leg. Doctors dismissed the
rash as a bug bite and the swelling as a pregnancy complication.
By the time their son, Jamie, was born in
early July, six weeks before his due date,
Karen was confined to a wheelchair with
severely swollen joints and heart palpitations. She was diagnosed with Lyme disease. She believes she was infected by a
tick while clearing brush at their home in
Connecticut.
While Karen’s health began to improve
with treatment, Jamie, who appeared to be
healthy at birth, suffered from swollen
glands, severe vomiting and respiratory
problems.
After two years, visits to several specialists and their various diagnoses, Karen and
Tom faced the fact that Jamie might only
have a few weeks to live. They realized that
if Jamie was going to get help, it would have
to come from them.
Karen, convinced that Jamie also had
Lyme disease, confirmed what she suspected
in the winter of 1986 when she received
Jamie’s positive blood test. At that point,
she declared war on the illness that had affected her and her son.
One of the problems she attacked in the
health care industry was a lack of knowl-
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Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner leads a workshop
about Lyme disease during Muskingum College’s
Alumni Weekend in June.
edge and a lack of awareness about Lyme
disease. In 1988, with the support of researchers who were looking for a home for
their research, the Forschners started the
Lyme Disease Foundation (LDF).
Shortly after setting up the foundation, the
CBS television news show “20/20” taped
and aired a segment about Lyme disease.
“The show suddenly gave a name to a disease millions of people had,” VanderhoofForschner said. “The show gave a phone
number and address and we received 10,000
phone calls and pieces of mail in the next
two days. The foundation became the focal
point for an explosive change in awareness.”
The foundation established a board of directors with medical, business and political
professionals as well as Lyme disease patients. The LDF began hosting scientific
conferences where researchers could present
their findings. Both the board and conference were designed with the idea of presenting opposing views.
“We made sure that when we had a presentation in one area, we would counter with
a presentation of an opposing view,” said
Vanderhoof-Forschner. “We wanted to encourage debate. Often times, doctors would
have dinner together following the debate,
return home and redefine their research, start
over, come back the next year and present
again.”
The conferences also served as a way to
disseminate information to the public. Research that would normally take five to 10
years to be published was now reaching the
public almost immediately.
“The conferences brought the public, media and business all together. We would
have beginning research and the opposing
research presented and everyone would
know it,” Vanderhoof-Forschner said. “Science made a huge leap forward and we felt it
was appropriate to empower everyone to
make good decisions about their health.”
Informing the public is one of the tasks
that motivated the Forschners to keep going.
“I believe people have a unique responsibility to give back to society regardless of
financial benefit,” said VanderhoofForschner who has logged more than 22,000
volunteer hours. “I think you have to do it.
Call it an inner-drive. It doesn’t matter if
you’re met with controversy or have to fight
huge progress blocks.”
Even that motivation was called into question in 1991 when Jamie, after five years of
chronic illness, died.
“When my son died, I didn’t know if I
could keep going,” Vanderhoof-Forschner
said. “We were hoping to find solutions for
him and others at the same time.
“We took the opportunity to re-assess and
think about the millions of people affected
by Lyme disease. We realized we needed to
continue making change,” VanderhoofForschner added.
The foundation, considered by many the
foremost scientific nonprofit organization
dedicated to finding solutions to tick-borne
disorders, now publishes and distributes two
to three million brochures per year, takes
more than 270,000 hits a month on its web
site (www.lyme.org), and 60,000 calls per
year on its hotline (800-886-lyme). It has
produced two award-winning television programs, “The Faces of Lyme Disease” and
“Dr. Ticked-Off and His Tick Patrol.”
Vanderhoof-Forschner recently received
The facts about Lyme disease:
symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
By Jennifer Keller
Special to the Muskingum College Bulletin
Contracting Lyme Disease is pretty
straightforward — you are bitten by a deer
tick that carries a bacterium known as B.
burgdorferi. The diagnosis and treatment,
however, are often more complicated.
Approximately 100,000 cases of Lyme Disease have been reported to the Centers for
Disease Control since 1982 and it is more
prevalent in certain parts of the United
States, due to large numbers of deer tick
hosts — white footed mice and deer. Symptoms of what is now known as Lyme Dis-
Protect yourself from
Lyme disease
The following are ways you can protect
yourself and your family from Lyme Disease:
• Know the area — some areas have a
greater incidence of Lyme Disease including the northeastern coast, the upper Midwest, northern California, and the Oregon
coast.
• Wear long sleeves and pants with bottoms tucked into your shoes or sealed
with tape or rubber band.
• Wear closed-toed shoes or boots.
• Wear light colored clothing that has a
tight weave — ticks are more easily spotted on light colors.
• Pull back long hair.
• Spray clothes with insect repellent
containing either DEET or Permethrin
(follow directions on container carefully).
• Stay on clear paths away from shrubs,
tall grass, and trees.
• Spot-check frequently for ticks on
clothing that may be crawling toward exposed skin on the head and neck.
• Remove and wash clothes after being
in a tick-infested area.
• Conduct a “tick check” from head to
toe — baby deer ticks are the size of a
poppy seed and adult deer ticks are the
size of sesame seeds.
• Educate yourself about the Lyme Disease vaccine.
ease were first recorded in medical literature
more than 100 years ago but were not identified as a single disease until 1975 following
an outbreak in Lyme, Connecticut.
Symptoms
Infection occurs when an infected deer
tick attaches itself to a person’s body in
search of blood. Bacteria are released into
the body and cause a rash (in 80-90 percent
of cases) at the affected site. As the bacteria
move away from the initial site, a larger rash
forms in a circular, oval, or triangular shape.
Often, the rash closer to the initial site becomes paler as the bacteria moves outward.
Occasionally, the rash takes the form of a
target, with concentric rings often paler in
the center. At this stage, the disease is characterized as early, localized.
If the rash goes undetected and therefore
untreated, the bacteria continue to migrate
and settle in various body tissues. Symptoms
vary according to the area of the body in
which the bacteria settle. More common
sites include the joints, brain, and heart but
also targeted are the eyes, muscles of the
limbs and trunk, and liver. Once this migration of bacteria occurs, the disease is characterized as early disseminated.
The brain is an especially attractive place
for the bacteria because there they are protected from the immune response in the
blood stream by the blood/brain barrier.
The onset of neurological symptoms usually occurs weeks to months after the initial
bite. During the disseminated stage, these
symptoms include headache, stiff neck,
drooping of one side of the face with inability to control facial muscles (Bell’s palsy),
numbness or tingling in extremities, and occasionally a stroke-like syndrome.
Symptoms of other affected areas during
this stage include two or more rashes other
than the site of the original bite, joint pain
and tenderness, pain down the arms or legs,
enlarged glands, sore throat, slowed pulse,
visual changes, fever of 100 to 102 F, and
severe fatigue.
Should the disease continue to go untreated or if the first treatment is ineffective
or incomplete, the disease advances to the
late stage. Symptoms of this stage include
A deer tick, like the one pictured, carrying the
bacterium B. burgdorferi can infect a person with
Lyme disease.
arthritis of one or two large joints, disabling
disorders or the brain and spinal cord, and
loss of sensation in arms and legs. It is important to note that the disease is still treatable in the late stages although symptoms
may continue long after treatment has
ended.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of Lyme Disease can be
difficult, especially if the disease has progressed from the early, localized stage. The
characteristic rash seen initially is rather
unique and recognizable and an accurate
diagnosis can be made. The problem emerges
when the rash is not noticed and the disease is
allowed to progress past the initial stages
causing symptoms that mimic many other illnesses. Taking a full medical history and testing the patient’s blood for specific antibodies
are necessary for a proper diagnosis.
Treatment
Various antibiotics, either oral or intravenous, are used in the treatment of Lyme Disease and controversy remains as to the most
efficient and effective drug. The use of oral
antibiotics is indicated for early, disseminated, and late stages of the disease provided
there is no evidence of nervous system involvement. Intravenous antibiotics are used
in treating all three stages and are specifically indicated in heart, eye, or nervous system involvement or when oral antibiotics are
not effective.
If you have symptoms of any stage of
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Wedding vows renewed, alumni honored
In addition to renewing old friendships
during Alumni Weekend, alumni returning
to campus were able to renew their wedding
vows.
In a special wedding service in the
college’s Brown Chapel on Friday evening
of Alumni Weekend, several Muskie
couples again pledged their love to one another as Jerry Beavers, college minister,
issued the vows.
One couple, Christopher ’93 and Noel
Schardine ’93 Nethers, celebrated their fifth
anniversary during Alumni Weekend while
Richard ’49 and Lorena Campbell celebrated their 50th anniversary.
“We were pleased to offer an opportunity
for Muskingum couples, both young and
old, to renew their commitments to each
other,” said Ron Mazeroski, director of
alumni relations.
The Dick Simcox Big Band performed at
a “wedding reception” on the Quad following the service. A wedding cake was cut and
served.
More than 600 alumni, families and guests
visited campus during the annual Alumni
Weekend. Activities included a trip to The
Wilds, a nature walk, a walking tour of New
Concord, a golf outing, a fun run, workshops
and class meetings.
“The college enjoyed seeing alumni participate in Alumni Weekend activities,”
Mazeroski said. “The purpose of the weekend is for alumni to visit with friends and to
have a good time.”
A good time was had Saturday at the
Alumni Banquet highlighted by the presentation of Distinguished Service Awards, the
Muskingum alumni, left to right, Helen Towle ’48
Richey, Gordon Spillman ’69 and George Richey
’47 talk during Alumni Weekend.
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highest honors
awarded by the
Muskingum College
Alumni Association.
Samuel Alvin
Bell, class of 1931,
Samuel W. Speck,
class of 1959, and
Karen VanderhoofForschner, class of
1974 were presented with the Distinguished Service
Awards in recognition of outstanding
contributions in
their fields. The
Distinguished SerRichard ’49 and Lorena Campbell celebrated their 50th anniversary during
vice Awards were
Alumni Weekend while Christopher ’93 and Noel Schardine ’93 Nethers,
presented by
celebrated their fifth anniversary. Both couples participated in a ceremony to
Alumni Council
renew their wedding vows.
President Gordon
Litt, class of 1980.
He was involved with the First PresbyteBell was selected as a “man of steel and
rian Church in Middletown, Ohio, where he
service.” Following his graduation from
served as a Deacon and elder. He served as a
Muskingum with a degree in chemistry and
Republican Committeeman, on the board of
math and a master of science from Massadirectors of the Middletown United Way, on
chusetts Institute of Technology in 1933,
the advisory board of the Salvation Army, a
Bell worked for Armco Steel until his retirevolunteer with Doty House, on the board of
ment in 1976. He assisted in the developdirectors of the Middletown Senior Citizens’
ment of several innovations in blast furnace
Advisory Council, on the Butler County
technology.
Health Planning committee, on the executive
After working as a furnace tender helper,
committee of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of
a metallurgical assistant and as a research
Middletown and on the original committee
assistant, he advanced to the position of rethat planned the Mt. Pleasant Retirement
search engineer and transferred to the blast
Community. He and Mary Eleanor, his wife,
furnace and raw materials section in 1951. It
now reside in Columbus.
was there he assisted in Armco’s pioneer
Following his retirement from Armco, he
research in the use of taconite iron ore.
worked with the Giant Step program in
Bell also assisted in the development of a
Middletown, a program that assisted people
successful coal injection program and the
with emergency housing problems. He also
first use in this country of an underhearth
served as president of the Middletown
cooler for a carbon hearth blast furnace. He
Kiwanis, and delivered Meals on Wheels.
is the co-holder of several patents in blast
He has made the service ethic he received
furnace technology.
at Muskingum the guiding principle in his
At the time of his retirement in 1976, he
life. He passed this ethic on to his children
was manager of the Raw Materials and
— including two Muskingum alumni, Susan
Smelting Division of Armco Steel. He conBell Williams ’59 and Samuel Pierce Bell
tinued to consult internationally for several
’64 — as well as his grandchildren — two
years following his retirement.
Muskingum alumni, Brian Andrew Williams
Bell is a registered professional engineer
’88 (featured on page 9) and Michael Bell
in Ohio and was active for many years in the
’96.
American Society for Metals and the AmeriSpeck served as Muskingum College’s
can Institute of Petroleum, Mining and Met19th president from April 1988 until March
allurgical Engineers.
of 1999, when he accepted an appointment
during annual Alumni Weekend
as the director of the Ohio Department of
Natural Resources.
Under Speck’s leadership, the college
completed the largest fund-raising campaign
in its history which included commitments
for four professorial chairs, and a number of
physical improvements and expansions on
campus. In 1996, Muskingum introduced an
unprecedented $4,000 tuition cut as part of
the college’s strategic plan.
During Speck’s tenure, the college saw
enrollments reach the highest figures in recent decades. Muskingum was repeatedly
ranked as a “best buy” among liberal arts
colleges in the Midwest by U.S. News &
World Report. Muskingum was consistently
ranked among the nation’s top college “values” by MONEY magazine’s “Guide to Best
College Buys” and by Peterson’s as one of
the nation’s top colleges for science.
Other accomplishments include the addition of a graduate program in education and
a $2.5 million computerization of campus
which enables students to connect from their
residence hall rooms to the world via the
Internet.
Speck is past chair of the East Central
College Consortium, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio
(AICUO), and the Ohio Association of
Economists and Political Scientists. He
served on the board of the Ohio Foundation
of Independent Colleges (OFIC) and on the
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Policy Analysis Commission. He continues to serve as a member
and secretary of the board of The Wilds and
a member of the board for the Cambridge
Savings Bank and CAMCO Financial Corporation.
Prior to becoming president of
Muskingum, Speck served as associate director of the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency
(FEMA) where
he served as a
chief delegate
to NATO’s
Senior Civil
Emergency
Planning
Council, as a
member of the
U.S. delegation
to the United
Nations Vienna
conference on
Chernobyl, and
on the Board of
Governors of
the American
Red Cross.
Speck had a
13-year career
in Ohio government service. ComDistinguished Service Award recipients, front row, left to right, Samuel Alvin Bell,
mencing in
class of 1931, Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, class of 1974, and Samuel W. Speck,
1971, he
class of 1959, were recognized by the Alumni Association for outstanding contributions in their fields. Awards were presented by, back row, Alumni Council President
served three
Gordon Litt, class of 1980, and David Skeen, interim president.
terms in the
Ohio House of
Representatives where among other laws, he
graduate, he earned both his master’s and
authored Ohio’s Strip Mine Reclamation
doctoral degrees in government from
Act. He was elected State Senator in 1976
Harvard University. He began his teaching
and re-elected in 1980. He served as party
career at Muskingum in 1964 and served as
whip and chair of the Senate Energy, Natuchair of the political science department
ral Resources and Environment Committee
from 1969 until he entered the legislature.
and the Unreclaimed Strip Mined Lands
Speck and his wife Sharon Anderson ’60,
Board. He also served as a member of the
reside in Columbus.
Ohio Power Sitting Board and as a member
Vanderhoof-Forschner has dedicated her
and vice chair of the National Conference of
life to saving lives by founding the Lyme
State Legislative Energy Committees. As
Disease Foundation (story on page 14).
state senator, he authored Ohio’s Public
Also at the Alumni Banquet, the 50th reUtility Reform Act.
union class of 1949 presented a check for
A summa cum laude Muskingum College
$1.2 million to Muskingum College.
Vanderhoof-Forschner follows worthy path
the Muskingum College Alumni
Association’s Distinguished Service Award
during the college’s Alumni Weekend. The
Forschners, including five-year old daughter
Christy, visited campus where VanderhoofForschner presented a workshop on Lyme
disease.
“We didn’t have clear sailing,”
Vanderhoof-Forschner said. “Tom didn’t
become a partner at the biggest accounting
firm and I didn’t become the super, multimillion dollar, international consultant in the
insurance industry. We ended up becoming
advocates for our son and our family. And
we became people who can make change for
a whole lot of other people. That is a worthy
way to spend our lives.”
Lyme disease curable
when treated early
Lyme Disease, seek medical attention immediately. Disease that remains untreated until
later stages can result in symptoms that linger for months or even years and occasionally there is permanent damage. However,
when diagnosed and treated early, Lyme
Disease is almost always curable.
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To illustrate how romantic Muskingum
College is, the Bulletin requested your
“Sweetheart Stories.”
We asked you to tell us how “Muskie met
Muskie” and fell in love. How he proposed,
how she won his heart, and if they lived happily ever after. We wanted to find the most
romantic place on campus and hear the
sweet and endearing stories that go with
those places.
You responded in fine fashion. Here is a
sampling of Muskingum College Sweetheart
Stories:
Delta House ‘freezer’
“The most romantic place at Muskingum
after I met Alan Travis ’62, was any place a
piano could be found. The most romantic
times, however, were senior year when I
lived in the Delta House which, at that time,
was located on Bloomfield Road, later renamed Friendship Drive, in honor of John
Glenn,” wrote Fiona Henderson ’62 Travis.
Deltas from that era may remember the
unheated sun porch affectionately known as
the “freezer.” The freezer housed the only
piano that was available
for Alan to play on a
regular basis. It was an
old upright that was out
of tune, but that never
mattered. She remembers hours of listening as
he played just for her
while she huddled in a
blanket in the Delta
Freezer.
They were married
August 18, 1962 with
many Muskingum
friends in the wedding
party.
Alan continues to play
the piano every day;
only now it is a Steinway
baby grand housed in a
much warmer location
than Delta House. Fiona
is still his main audience
and claims he is also a
much better pianist today.
However, 38 years
later, the memories of
the “Freezer” continue to
Alan ’62 and Fiona Henderson ’62 Travis dressed for their wedding. Many make it the most romanMuskies participated in the ceremony.
tic place at Muskingum.
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So much so that on their 35th wedding
anniversary, Fiona surprised her husband by renting the top floor of the
Hyatt on Capital Square where she
knew the suite had a grand piano. She
packed his musical “charts” and when he
met her there after work, there was a framed
sign on the piano saying “From the Delta
Freezer to the top of the Hyatt; you’ve come
a long way!”
Fiona Henderson ’62 and Alan Travis ’62.
‘Star Trek’ girl in the lobby
“One day in the fall of 1988, when I was a
freshman at Muskingum College and David
was a senior, I was walking through Kelley
Hall to go to class, while David was talking
on the pay phone. He saw me and said I
looked like the girl on ‘Star Trek.’ I had
never seen ‘Star Trek’ before, and I thought
they all looked like the character Spock. I
was offended and told him he was weird.
The next day I got a telephone message from
him. He invited me to come over and watch
‘Star Trek’ with him, so I could see for myself that it was a compliment and not an insult. That was the beginning of what has
been the most wonderful 11 years of my life.
The most romantic memory of our days
on campus was a winter Sunday morning.
There was an ice storm and all the trees
were covered with ice. David and I went for
a walk, holding hands and feeling like we
were in a dream world. We walked to the
spoon holder and just sat and marveled at
the beauty that God had created. That was
the moment I knew I wanted to spend the
rest of my life with him.
David graduated and took a teaching position with Lorain City Schools. We dated the
next three years, while I finished my education. I won’t forget the long lines for the
mailroom, waiting for a telephone, the late
nights spent staying up and studying because
I wanted to see him for the weekend, and all
the love letters that we wrote in those three
years. We both saved every one of them.
In December 1990, I finished my degree
and moved to Lorain to be with David. We
were married that next August.
We now have two wonderful children,
Brandon, 7, and Seth, 3. Muskingum not
only gave us an excellent education, but also
soul mates for eternity. Thank you
Muskingum for giving me the greatest part
of my life, my husband.”
David Muck ’88 and Randi Porter-Muck ’91
The football player
and the majorette
Brown Chapel one of the most romantic
places on campus? Impossible. But that’s
where it all started.
Bob “Powerhouse” McNeill was not only
a varsity football linebacker for three years,
president of his class in his junior and senior
years, and a member of the Muskingum
players, but he was also one of the biggest
gamblers and playboys on campus.
That all dramatically changed in the fall of
1941 when he suffered a concussion while
playing football. He was carried off the field
during Muskingum’s victory over Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pa.
The injury turned into a nervous breakdown
and Bob had to drop out of college.
On Easter Sunday, in April of 1942, Bob
was “born again” in a field a half-mile beyond his home in New Castle, Pa. He returned to Muskingum that fall and hosted
evangelistic services in Brown Chapel on
Sunday afternoons. The whole campus
Jeanne Schaefer ’43 and Robert McNeill ’43 pose
for their engagement picture.
couldn’t believe what had happened and
many, out of curiosity, came to the meetings
to see this former sinner preach.
Enter the majorette. Jeanne Schaefer was
from Beaver Falls, Pa., a small westernPennsylvania town made famous as the
home of Joe Namath. But many years before
Joe Namath, Jeanne had made a name for
herself. She could be called, “Jeanne the
First.” She was first head majorette and the
first person to ever use a lighted baton in the
state of Pennsylvania. As a freshman, she
was the first female to lead the Muskingum
College band, and she was the first female in
history to earn a Varsity “M” sweater when
J. Knox Montgomery presented her with the
award at a special chapel service.
Although she had been leading the
Muskingum band on the field the day Bob
was injured, she had only known the football
player as a fellow student. Now she must see
and hear for herself what had happened to
this athlete.
Jeanne and her friend Nancy Butcher
came every Sunday afternoon to the services
at Brown Chapel. “Powerhouse” not only
told the audience about the Lord Jesus, but
he kept noticing the pretty majorette in the
third or fourth row every Sunday afternoon.
Soon he was walking back to the F.A.D.
House with her and then asking her to accompany him to preaching assignments to
nearby towns.
In 1943, Bob had graduated from
Muskingum College and was enrolled in the
U.S. Naval Chaplaincy program at Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary. This did not stop his
return to the Muskingum campus every
weekend to see the majorette who was in
summer school.
On the evening of June 21, the former
football player invited the majorette to play
tennis above the football stadium. There
wasn’t much tennis — the score was love
something, or maybe love-love. Suddenly,
Bob pulled an engagement ring from his
pocket and shouted across the tennis net,
“Will you marry me and be a preacher’s
wife?”
Instead of jumping over the net as tennis
player do, Jeanne ran through the net. This
was one tennis match that ended up with
both sides winning.
They were married on March 31 in 1944,
a day before April Fool’s Day. They now
have four sons and two daughters and 11
grandchildren.
After 55 years of happy wedded life we
can say that God has certainly blessed be-
Kenneth and Myrtle Jean White ’43 Kettlewell ’43
at graduation in 1943.
yond all dreams the union of the football
player and the majorette,” said the majorette.
Bob ’43 and Jeanne Schaefer’44 McNeill
The “falling in love
at Muskingum” story
“As providence would have it, Myrtle Jean
was social chair of the YMCA and I had the
same position with the YMCA. Along came
the February event ‘Cupid’s Carnival.’ Why
not go to the dance together? That was our
first date, February 14, 1945.
A few dates later, I persuaded Myrtle Jean
to bake a cake and we would have a midnight party. But she was president of the
Kianu Club. How would she get out after
hours? Mrs. Knapp, the housemother,
would know.
She had friends who would handle the
details. So over on the hillside where Thomas Hall is now, we ate cake in the moonlight.
By commencement time, we knew we
were in love. As we strolled around the lake
the night before graduation, I gave her my
4-0 key and we were engaged to be married.
She went back to Columbus to teach second
graders. I went to Pittsburgh Seminary to
prepare for the ministry.
We were married June 7,1947. Three
children...nine grandchildren...parishes in
Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio...travels
with church groups to Brazil, the Holy
Land, England, Oberammergau...and now
back in New Concord in retirement. We celebrated our Golden Anniversary in 1997
with a reception in the College Drive Presbyterian Church.”
Kenneth ’45 and Myrtle Jean White ’45
Kettlewell
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NEWS
NOTES
Muskingum Alumni and Friends
This edition of “News Notes” includes
information we received up to June
23, 1999. If you don’t see your information in this issue, please look for it
in the next one—we encourage you to
continue sending us information and
pictures about what you are doing,
weddings, additions to your family,
etc. Thanks!
ducted in her honor, and all of her children were in
attendance.
1942
Annie Castor Glenn was one of four individuals
to be honored at the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges’ Evening of Excellence, March 25,
1999. She was inducted along with three others
into the OFIC Hall of Excellence. The OFIC
Evening of Excellence honors outstanding alumni,
corporate donors and scholars of its member institutions.
Glenn also received a special appointment to
the faculty at Muskingum as a “Distinguished
Alumni Fellow in Speech Communication.”
Along with her husband, astronaut and retired
Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. ’43, she serves on the
Muskingum College board of trustees.
She is the daughter of the late Dr. Homer ’18
and Margaret Alley ’17 Castor. Her sister is Jane
Castor ’44 Hosey.
1945
Updates
1933
Zula Whitehall was recently featured in an article
in the East Liverpool Review as one of the residents at Rivendale Personal Care Home. The article highlighted her as one of Sen. John Glenn’s
school teachers when he was a boy in New Concord, Ohio.
1934
Marion McMurray Packer was recently recognized for her many years of faithful service as
youth choir director, and for the past 20 years as
director of the handbell choirs. Marion has served
First Presbyterian Church, Martins Ferry, with her
music ministry for nearly 50 years.
The ceremony included reflections from former
choir members representing each decade since
1952 when Marion organized the Youth Choir
Program.
A reception following the service was con-
Class of 1934 (left to right) Margaret Miller Erbey,
Katherine Foreman Wolf. Alumni Weekend photo.
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Dr. Kenneth Kettlewell was recently honored for
more than a half a century of service as a Presbyterian minister in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania
by his legion of friends, the congregation and officials from Cambridge City Hall.
Kettlewell has served as interim pastor for four
years at Second Presbyterian Church, Cambridge,
which recently merged with the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Cambridge. Kettlewell completed
his work with Second Presbyterian on June 13,
1999.
In honor of the occasion, a $5,000 donation was
made to the “Ken and Jean Kettlewell Scholarship
Fund” at Muskingum College.
Kettlewell was ordained in 1947.
Kenneth’s wife is Myrtle Jean White ’45
Kettlewell and his brother Rev. Charles
Kettlewell ’61.
1949
James (Jim) Caton is currently practicing medicine in a family practice
in Zanesville, Ohio. He
has been at the practice
since 1978, when he
finished serving as a
United States Air Force
flight surgeon. He also
serves as a senior flight
surgeon FAA, which he
has been doing since
1961. In addition, Caton
is president-elect of the
Muskingum County
Medical Academy.
Caton and his wife Diane have three children, including Mark Caton ’76, and Matthew Caton ’78
Frances (Fran) Sengleitner Pinhey was recently
featured in the Washington Post for her appointment as an assistant coach to the Coast Guard
Academy’s baseball team. Pinhey has been playing
and coaching various sports for decades. She retired three years ago from coaching tennis, field
hockey and softball at Mitchell College, ending a
35-year career.
Her husband, Donald Pinhey ’52, who is in his
32nd year as baseball coach of the Coast Guard,
recruited her as an unpaid hitting coach.
1952
Suzanne Rucker Tate was a featured author at the
International Reading Association’s 44th annual
convention, San Diego, Calif. She spent three days
in May at the huge event, meeting school teachers,
librarians and other reading specialists from around
the world. As a featured author, she shared billing
with Bruce Coville, Avi, Jerry Spinelli and other
internationally known children’s book authors.
As part of her featured author duties, Tate presented a workshop on her book, “Tammy Turtle,”
to primary school teachers. Tate is the author of 21
books in the Suzanne Tate’s Nature Series published by Nags Head Art. The series won a 1998
Teachers’ Choice Award from Learning Magazine.
She has also started a history series. The first
book in that series, “Holly from Hatteras: A Tale
of Saving Lives” was published last fall. The second book, “Helping the Wright Brothers: A Tale
of First Flight Helpers” will be available this fall.
1954
Dr. Vincent Miller Jr. retired in January 1999
from his professorship at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania (IUP). He was also honored by IUP
for 35 years of faithful service. He first served as
an associate professor and since then as professor
of geography and regional planning. He was recently the author-editor of “Technology, Landscape, and Arrested Development: Essays on the
Geography of Marginality.” This monograph was
published by the department of geography and
regional planning and IUP as part of the on-going
PIMA (Planning in Marginal Areas) series of discussions of the marginal areas of the world.
Miller, along with a Swedish geographer, Dr.
Gustafsson, was co-founder of a group of European and American marginal area specialists that
have worked together for 10 years. He has lectured
or presented papers in Canadian, Irish, Scottish,
Swedish, French, Swiss, Czech, and Jamaican universities.
Miller also continues as director of research of
Miami-based Ministries in Action (MIA), where he
monitors and oversees the Project Ebenezer phase
of MIA’s work in the Caribbean. Project Ebenezer
is responsible for guiding MIA’s village development work in that area.
1957
Ellen Beagle Tomoser retired on February 1, 1998
from the Pueblo County Department of Social Services in Pueblo, Colo. where she was a child welfare caseworker for 28 years and eight months. Her
prior work included six years of related work with
children and their families.
1965
Dr. Larry Smith was awarded the 1999 Ohio Poetry Award presented by the Ohioana Library Association.
Smith is a poet and professor of English at
Bowling Green State University’s Firelands College. The $1,000 Helen and Laura Krout Memorial
Award will be presented on October 23 at the
Ohioana Day ceremony in Columbus.
He is the author of seven books of poetry, two
literary biographies on poets Kenneth Patchen and
Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He wrote and co-produced
two docu-drama video programs with area filmmaker Tom Koba on Ohio poets James Wright and
Kenneth Patchen. His novel, “Working It Out,” set
in Lorain, Ohio, appeared last year from Ridgeway
Press.
Smith has been teaching writing, literature and film
classes at BGSU-Firelands College since 1970.
Dr. Elizabeth Swanson is currently teaching in
the department of education at Rollins College.
She attends the Barry University School of Law
with the intention of specializing in exceptional
education law. She resides in Winter Park, Fla.
1966
1968
Dannie Fouts was honored with the Rotary Club
of Circleville’s Service Above Self Award.
Fouts is president and owner of Hummel & Plum
Life Insurance Agency, Inc. He is a chartered life underwriter through the American College and is a member of Columbus and National Associations of Life
Underwriters, American Association of Health Insurance Agents, Central Ohio State Planning Council,
Tri-County Estate Planning Council and as president
of Hummel & Plum, and has qualified since 1979 for
Key Club, a select group of insurance professionals
representing the Cincinnati Life Insurance Co.
Fout’s wife is Muskingum graduate Ester Case
’66 Fouts.
Steve Newman retired after 30 years of teaching
special education at the high school level. He is
now working part-time for a health care agency
securing workers and clients.
He recently became a grandfather .
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1969
Cynthia McAllister Johnson has been appointed
treasurer of the St. Bernard-Elmwood Place City
School District in St. Bernard, Ohio. She has been
with the district for 26 years.
Robert Porter has recently retired from his posi-
tion as a teacher, advisor and coach at West
Holmes. Porter’s first year was spent teaching current events and world history. The following year,
he switched to teaching American history, a job in
which he remained for 25 years. During that time,
he also advised the West Holmes history club and
student council, coached football, girls and boys
track, golf and basketball.
Muskingum College historian-in-residence and
emeritus professor Lorle Porter is his sister.
Dr. R. Blair Reynolds recently co-authored a
book titled “Naked Under the Blue Sky.” The book
deals with process theology and mysticism. The
book was published by New World Press.
Jean McGinley Carnahan was recently featured
in the Canton Repository for her work as an online
counselor for multiple sclerosis patients. Being a
multiple sclerosis patient herself, she has also created a website for patients and their friends and
relatives.
Her e-mail address is [email protected] and
her web address is http://web.tusco.net/ms/
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Rev. Dr. Clifford Cain was awarded tenure at the
April meeting of the Franklin College board of
trustees. He is dean of the Chapel and a member of
the philosophy and religion department.
His wife is Louise Lueckel ’74 Cain and his
sister is Janetta Cain ’74 Anderson.
1973
Sherie O’Ryan Ragan recently received her master of arts degree from Southwest Missouri State
University. She has been teaching English and
theatre in Florida for the past 20 years and recently
moved to St. Louis to teach at a private school.
1974
Rusty Roberts has been selected to a national research team to study the “Effects of Training Frequencies on the Retention of Cardiovascular Fitness.” The research will be published upon the end
of the project.
Roberts is an educator at Meadowbrook High
School, Byesville, Ohio, as well as a marathon
runner and former track and cross country coach.
He has completed more than 100 marathons along
with the Pike’s Peak Marathon and has run across
the state of Ohio four times.
Larry Ray was appointed CEO of I-OPT, Inc.
(Institute for Organizational and Personal Transformation). He presently serves as a mediator for the
United States Postal Service and American University MBA program. He graduated from law school
in 1977.
Janice Swain Katynski, an agent with the
Worthington office of HER Realtors, has become a
member of the 1998 Columbus Board of Realtors
$5 Million Club. After Muskingum, she graduated
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East Tennessee State University. He lives in the
Johnson City area with his wife, Dr. Natalie Olsen,
and their daughter, Karen, 10.
Lynn Fawcett has been promoted to vice president/auditor by the board of directors of Park National Bank.
Lynn is treasurer of the board of Licking-Knox
Goodwill Industries, a board member of Friends of
Citizens with Disabilities and a member of Newark
Kiwanis. He is an elder in the Utica Presbyterian
Church.
Lynn is married to Jeanne Fierstos ’82
Fawcett and his sisters are Dr. Shayne Fawcett
’83 Fixari, Adelyn Fawcett ’00 and Tierra
Fawcett ’88.
1982
Scott Burkholder has been named head basketball
coach at Northland High School after working as
an assistant coach at Teays Valley High School,
and Capital, Otterbein and Ohio Wesleyan universities for 13 years.
He has also been the baseball coach at West
High School for the last 13 seasons.
Two Muskingum College Alumni have accepted positions with Ohio Governor Bob Taft, center. Tom
Johnson ’71, left, was named director of budget and management while Samuel W. Speck ’59, former
president of Muskingum College, was selected as director of the Ohio Department of Naturaral
Resources.They assumed their posts earlier this year.
from Hondros College, a private professional
school for real estate associates.
1976
Steven Hollon has been named the new administrative director to Ohio Chief Justice Thomas J.
Moyer. He had been serving as the administrator
for the Second District Court of Appeals in Dayton
since 1995.
Hollon had also been offered a judgeship on the
Butler County Common Pleas Court. He said that
the decision between the two positions was an
“agonizing” one.
1981
William Tereshko was named coach of the year
for the sport of golf in the Heartland Collegiate
Athletic Conference. He is the chairperson of the
physical education department at Hanover College
in Indiana and works as an assistant football coach.
Tereshko resides with his wife Lynne and their
three children in Madison, Ind.
Martin Olsen M.D. was recently appointed chair
of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at
Kevin Dunnette is a teacher, coach and athletic
director at New Miami High School near
Hamilton, Ohio. Dunnette teaches English and
coaches varsity boys’ basketball, varsity girls’ volleyball and varsity boys’ and girls’ track. He is also
the youth minister at his church, Community
Christian Church, Hamilton.
1984
Deanna Dysert was named to a management position
with Lucent Technologies Inc., near Boston, Mass.
She is responsible for managing the creation,
development and delivery of all technical and
training documentation for BroadBend products
engineered by the Natick-based department of the
signaling systems interoperability within the data
networking systems business at Lucent.
1979
William Ganon is now in his 13th year as national
sales director at Newsweek. He sells advertising
packages and partnerships. His first experience
selling ads was with the Black and Magenta.
1980
Kyle Kanuckel was appointed to the Private Industry Council by the Coshocton County Commissioners for a term ending June 30, 2002. He currently serves as superintendent of River View Local Schools.
As a Private Industry Council member,
Kanuckel provides assistance in the planning, marketing and evaluation of the job training activities
for the Coshocton area and specifically those activities at CORC Job Training. The goal is to provide education, training and employment opportunities for individuals, improving the quality of the
available work force for local employers.
Class of 1939 (row 1, left to right) Martha McCrory Dietz, Katherine Roy Short, Margaret, Taylor
Courtwright, Ruth Myers Mark, Betty Grace Garrison Cupoli, Alberta Muhleman Adams, Elizabeth
Wallace; (row 2) Lillian Bender Russalesi, Ralph R. Hawthorne, Glen D. Muirhead, Ralph G. Wells,
Homer L. Shaw, Verne Orndorff, Maurice Orndorff, Charlotte Curtis Love. Alumni Weekend photo.
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Dysert lives in Newton, Mass. with her daughter, Natalie.
Brenda Trumbo Milleson was awarded an allexpense-paid trip to Aruba for being one of the
nation’s most successful independent consultants
with PartyLite Gifts, Inc., the world’s leading sales
marketer of candles and candle accessories.
She is married to Muskingum graduate Greg
Milleson ’83.
1985
Valerie Perkins was recently promoted to the rank
of sergeant at the Cambridge Post of the Ohio State
Highway Patrol by Colonel Kenneth B. Marshall,
superintendent. At her new rank, Perkins will assume duties as an assistant post commander at
Cambridge.
She joined the patrol in May 1992 as a member
of the 123rd Academy Class and received her commission the following November. She served a
year at New Philadelphia before transferring to
Cambridge in 1994.
She received a Certificate of Recognition for
performing lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a crash victim on Interstate 77 in Noble
County.
Her sister is Veronica Perkins ’90 Parks and
her brother is Edward Perkins ’95.
1987
Mark Hays has recently been promoted
to district business
development manager
with Republic Industries. He will be directly responsible for
all the Business Development offices in the
North/Northeastern
United States. The
main focuses of the
offices are customer
relations and e-commerce. Republic Industries is a Wayne
Huizenga-owned company and is currently
the largest new car
retailer in the world.
Hays has been with the
company one-year
previously serving as
the manager for
AutoNation USA,
Beavercreek, Ohio.
He and his wife,
Andrea Satariano ’92
Class of 1944 (row 1, left to right) Mary MacDonald Russell, Ruth Ann
Hutchens Ramsay, Wilma James Jordan, Bess Bedell Fisher; (row 2) John
McMillan, Jane Castor Hosey, Margaret Martsolf Nelson, Rama Groves Steen,
John W. Copeland. Alumni Weekend photo.
McCoy participates in Yanamono Amazon Expedition
By Stacey Dragosin ’00
Doris Lee McCoy ’51 was one of 13
members in the Yanamono Amazon Expedition who recently conducted ethno-biological field research on Yanamono Island
and littoral areas of the Amazon River.
This area is home to the Yagua Indians
who reportedly make the most potent
curare in the Peruvian Amazon. A Shaman
of the Yagua demonstrated to the group
how he cures illness both medically and
emotionally.
The group began their adventure south of
Miami, Fla., flying to Iquitos, Peru. They
proceeded to the Zungarococha Amazon
Lodge near Iquitos and then traveled by
boat 50 miles down the Amazon to
Heliconia Amazon Lodge to set up their
expedition headquarters.
McCoy explained that the group had the
honor of carrying Explorer’s Club Flag
number 162. Carrying an Explorer’s Club
Flag on expedition is an honor and privilege that is shared with many well-known
members such as Admiral Byrd, Sir
Edmund Hillary and Charles Lindbergh.
Numbered Club Flags are awarded on
loan to members who are taking an active
part in a non-commercial expedition benefitting exploration and science and is con-
sistent with the spirit of original exploration.
McCoy videotaped and took still pictures
for a 25-minute video for use in local Explorer Club chapters and other locations.
In addition to exploring, McCoy is a noted
career woman having interviewed more than
1,200 successful celebrities, politicians, entrepreneurs and athletes. She compiled her
findings into her book “MEGATRAITS: 12
Traits of Successful People.” Interviewees in
the book include: David Rockefeller,
Charlton Heston, Ted Turner, Mary Kay,
Gregory Peck, Sandra Day O’Connor,
Norman Lear, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald
Ford. She is currently working on a fourvolume book series which will share more of
the information she obtained in interviews.
McCoy speaks internationally on the traits
of successful people and management styles.
She has found success in television producing and directing the “Changing Woman”
television series where she discussed the art
of balancing successful careers with family,
friends and future goals. The show features
interviews with first ladies Betty Ford,
Rosalyn Carter, Ladybird Johnson, and other
celebrities such as Helen Hayes, Walter
Cronkite and Lee Iacocca. She also produced
20 television specials titled “Today’s Family” and a 16 program TV series, “Effective
Communication” used for instruction in busi-
Doris McCoy ’51, right, receives a gift from members of the Yagua Indians.
ness, law enforcement, hospitals and educational industries. In addition, the TV special, “Women of the World,” featured her
interviews with United Nations delegates
from Asia, Europe, Africa and the United
States.
She is actively involved with The
Explorer’s Club, Charter 100 and National
League of American Pen Women. She also
enjoys long distance swimming and hiking.
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Kristi Morland Griffiths recently earned national
board certification in early adolescence English/
language arts in the field of teaching and was honored by Gov. Bob Taft and Sen. George Voinovich.
She currently teaches sixth grade in Gahanna.
Her sister is Melanie Morland ’85 Harrison
and her brother is Gregory Morland ’87. Rob’s
brother is Romy Griffiths ’92.
She and her husband, Rob Griffiths ’90, who is
a territory manager for Fisher Scientific reside in
Gahanna with their two children, Mitchell, 4, and
Abby, 2.
Class of 1954 (row 1, left to right) Wilma Butt Gilkey, Marilyn Hood Bohn, James “Jake” Taylor, Margery
Thomas Watson, Nancy Nolin Mast, Mary Linn, Rhoda Campbell, Herb Kraft, Martha Hawthorne Black,
Julia Krichbaum Swan, Janice Naumann Brown, Alice Stoner Henderson, Jean Finney McFarren, Betty
King Rinald, Vincent Miller, Janette Gordon Weldon, Charlotte Baird Lobaugh, Corinne Leister Cowden,
Bob Cowden, Irin Alice Poellot, Margaret Bischoff Strang, John Bohn. Alumni Weekend photo.
Hays, live in the Dayton, Ohio area.
1988
Sean Logan was named to the wall of fame of
United High School in the category of outstanding
service.
He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in May 1990 from Columbiana County. He
served as state representative since that time and is
the ranking minority member of the energy and
environment committee.
Logan also serves on the ethics and election
committee, insurance committee, and commerce
and labor committee in the legislature. He is an
active member of the First United Methodist
Church in Wellsville; VICTOR Handicap Support
Group; Guilford Lake Ruritan; Sons of the American Legion; Buckeye Boys State Alumni Association; Sandy and Beaver Canal Association; and the
Ohio High School Athletic Association’s sportsmanship, ethics and integrity committee.
He currently is attending Capital University
Law School.
Robert Ludwig was promoted to research and
development manager of Columbia Chemical, the
Brunswick manufacturer of zinc and tin plating
additives. He directs all research and development
for the plating industry and will lead the
company’s hazardous communications program.
He has been in research with Columbia for five
years, most recently as senior chemist.
1989
Jonathan Graham has joined
PriceWaterhouseCoopers as a principal consultant
in their management consulting services practice.
He previously spent more than four years as a management consultant in the Cleveland office of
McKinsey & Co. and was vice president of marketing for a local chemical company.
He is married to Jennifer Bubb ’90 Graham
and is the son of John Graham ’63.
Stephen Hale has accepted the head football
coaching position at Groveport Madison High
School, a Division I school in the Columbus area.
He has moved with his wife, Jill, and two children, Jake and Jordan, to the Columbus area.
Dr. Alicia Matthews, faculty member at the University of Chicago, was awarded an $800,000 grant
from the National Cancer Institute to support her
research in cancer treatment decision making. The
project, “Information Seeking and Treatment Deci-
Muskingum coaches to make mark on D-1 gridiron
By Bobby Lee
Two former Muskingum College football players will help control the gridiron
fortunes at Division I institutions this fall.
Darrell Hazell ’86 will direct the running
backs at West Virginia University, while
Tyson Veidt ’96 will coach the defensive
backs at Indiana University.
Hazell moved to WVU after spending
the last two seasons at the U.S. Military
Academy where he coached the Army tight
ends and split ends. He also was selected
for a summer internship in 1998 with the
National Football League’s Oakland Raiders.
His coaching résumé includes stints at
Oberlin College, where he launched his
career as running backs coach, Eastern Illinois, the University of Pennsylvania and
Western Michigan University.
There was a time that Hazell, a threetime all-Ohio Athletic Conference selection
and Muskingum Athletic Hall of Fame in-
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Hazell
Veidt
ductee in 1993, thought he would never
break into the coaching profession.
“Actually, I have to credit coach (Jeff)
Heacock for my being a coach,” Hazell
said. “There was a time late in my college
career that I thought I would never coach.
Coach Heacock sat down and talked with
me and had a big influence on the direction my career would go.”
Veidt joins another Muskie, defensive
coordinator Jon Heacock ’83, at IU. Veidt
played four years as a defensive lineman at
Muskingum, graduating with a degree in
pre-physical therapy. He returned to
Muskingum as a student assistant coach
and did post-graduate work.
Veidt has noticed a change in pace since
making the jump to the Big Ten Conference.
“Everything is a lot more fast-paced
here,” Veidt said. “(The student-athletes)
are here 12 months out of the year. The
hours are a lot longer because there’s always something to get done.
“It was nice to have (spring practice)
because I was able to adjust to the defense
and the players,” he added. “The intensity
of the practices was neat. There were seniors who had never won the spring game,
and they were hungry.”
Veidt, prepared for the coaching world
from his experience at Muskingum, hopes
to remain at the Division I level.
“I couldn’t have asked for any better
preparation,” Veidt said. “There’s no question the things coach Heacock demands put
me in position for this opportunity. Coach
Heacock always demands perfection and
never lets you slide by. I was never afraid
to ask him a question.”
sion Making in African American Cancer Patients,” is
focused on exploring racial and cultural predictors of
treatment, decision making and emotional outcomes.
1993
Dr. Johanna Crane and her husband Eric A.
Scharrer will be moving west to begin a shared
faculty position in chemistry at the University of
Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. Crane currently
teaches at Alfred University in Alfred N.Y. and
Scharrer teaches at Franklin & Marshall College in
Lancaster, Pa. They were married on August 1,
1998 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
John Saccoccia was recently named assistant vice
president of state fund services by the Frank Gates
Service Co. of Dublin. He has five years of experience in the workers’ compensation field. Prior to
joining Gates, he was a claims supervisor with the
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.
In his new position, Saccoccia will supervise
the state fund claims teams and support staff. He
has been with Frank Gates for more than a year
and previously served as claims supervisor.
Vijit Malik is currently working with ABN Amro
Bank in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
His brother is Muskingum graduate Ranjit Singh
Malik ’87.
Kathryn Thomas Dailey ’93 earned her master of
education degree in community/agency counseling
from Ohio University on June 19, 1999.
Paul Dailey ’93 is her husband.
1990
Dan Oswald, head track coach for Cambridge
High School, was named East Central Ohio
League Coach of the Year for track.
Alicia Crouch Packard has completed her
master’s degree from Kent State University. She
received her degree on May 16, 1999 by completing the coursework for a master’s in library and
information science.
Her sister is Jennifer Crouch ’93.
Mark Ulbrich has been named head football
coach at Riverview High School.
His wife is Teresa Hupp ’88 Ulbrich.
1991
Gary Mazeroski was recently featured in
Hardball Magazine for his career as a baseball
player as well as a minister. He currently plays for
the Lebanon Mets in the Susquehanna Valley (Pa.)
Men’s Senior Baseball League 30 and over division. He works as a drug addiction counselor for
troubled kids and has also renewed his ties to professional baseball through an organization called
Baseball Chapel. Mazeroski serves as a volunteer
chaplain for the Harrisburg Senators.
His brother is Ron Mazeroski ’79.
1994
Jody Stoldt has been named commercial loan officer for First Federal Savings Bank of Dover.
He will be responsible for assisting the existing
commercial banking program as well as new business development in the area, including business
loans, deposits, and cash management services. He
has five years of experience from National City
Bank where he was an area lending officer.
He and his wife Nicole Griesen ’95 Stoldt,
have a son, Logan.
1995
Danielle Logsdon has been hired as the downtown
manager for the Village of Genoa. The village was
awarded a $400,000 grant which she was hired to
utilize.
Gwen Dorman McHenry graduated from the
Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in June, 1999.
She was married to Eric McHenry in April of
1996. She plans to practice veterinary medicine in
Ohio. He works for Alliance Data Systems as a
production support analyst.
The couple resides in Columbus, Ohio.
1997
Alysia Wright was promoted to assistant manager
of First Federal of Lakewood. She will be responsible for assisting in
the daily operations of
the North Ridgeville
branch, while counseling customers about
current loan and savings products.
Wright joined First
Federal of Lakewood
in 1991 as a teller in
the Lakewood office
and has served as a
savings counselor and
financial counselor for
FFL.
Robin King Mayhugh has been named director of
audit and vice president of BancFirst Ohio Corp.
Mayhugh most recently served as assistant vice
president for credit administration and is also a
certified public accountant and part-time instructor
at Muskingum Area Technical College.
Lisa Ridenour Marton earned her master of education degree in education administration from
Ohio University on June 19, 1999.
Her husband is Scott Marton ’91, her mother
is Kathleen Kaser ’70 Ridenour, her father is
John Ridenour ’68, her grandfather is Dr. Harold
Kaser ’41 and her grandmother was the late
Winogene Foster ’42 Kaser.
1992
Shannon Mayfield Chapin was initiated as a member of Tau Pi Phi National Business Honorary Society,
Franklin University division. She will be sitting for the
National CPA Examination in November. She is currently a tax professional at Greene and Wallace CPA
firm in Columbus, Ohio.
Lori Sailer Tornes and her husband Keith have
moved to Hartsville, S.C. Keith has accepted a new
job with Sonoco. She has resigned from teaching to
stay at home with their daughter, Hannah, and son,
Joseph.
Class of 1959 (row 1, left to right) Marlene Houze Swope, Suella Chinn Habbersett, Barbara Larrick
Lent, Nancy Jo Hart Whittington, Jane Morris Kimbler, Lorma Weaver Hill, Betsy Roberts Zimmerman,
Barbara Gilmore Applegarth; (row 2) Louise Ondo Warner, Carol Williamson Kinsley, Bernice Herrmann,
Sonya Mugnani Wilt, Carol Kistler, Nancy Clarke Thompson, Jean Kappler Robinson, Michael Hamilton;
(row 3) Sam Speck, Douglas E. Palmer, Gary Lent, Tom Vanderslice, Hugh Robinson, Dick Thomas,
Richard L. Kurth, Stan Frye; (row 4) Joyce Shaffer McClelland, Mollie Montgomery Brunner, Carole Keith
Peterson, Susan Bell Williams, Carole Klostermeyer Roberts, Carol Robinson Turkaly, Ann Hill Thomas,
Joanne Boyd Beranek, Sue McCall Taylor; (row 5) Pete Diehl, Bill Thompson, Christine Henderson
Visnich, Judy Swartz Allan, Ken Sharp, Emmanuel Hyde, Donald Blanchard. Alumni Weekend photo.
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effrey Talbert was named head football coach at
East Canton High School by the Osanburg Local
Board of Education. He also serves as the head
boys track coach.
Hills Dairy Farm in Salem, N.Y.
She leaves her daughter, Marion Ferguson ’51
Williams and her granddaughter, Pamela Williams ’74 Peters.
James Johnson received his master of education
degree in computer education/technology from
Ohio University on June 11, 1999.
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Emily Lange is currently the director of marketing
and client services of Midwest Seafood. She is
living in Cincinnati.
Heather Kubli is currently the assistant director of
public relations and fund development at Volunteers of America in Columbus, Ohio.
1998
Jared Farley was admitted to Miami University’s
department of political science and awarded a
graduate assistantship for the 1999-2000 school
year.
Deaths
1923
Wilda Thompson, April 7, 1999, Middletown,
Ohio.
She was treasurer of Muskingum College for
many years and retired in the 1960s. After her retirement, she and her sister, Winifred, traveled to
various parts of the world including the Soviet
Union during the Cold War when very few visitors
were allowed. In the early 1970s they moved from
New Concord to Mount Pleasant Retirement Village in Monroe, Ohio. She was a member of the
Presbyterian Church of Monroe.
She was preceded in death by her mother Ethel
Martin Thompson and her sister M. Winifred
Thompson ’23.
1924
Isabel Stewart Ferguson, May 7, 1999, New
Wilmington, Pa.
She was a house wife and the owner of Scotts
Dr. Earl Ford, November 1998, Torrance, Calif.
After receiving his master’s degree in 1928 and
Ph.D. in 1933, Ford gained employment as a professor and taught mathematics, chemistry and
physics at Wooster College, UCLA, El Camino
College, Compton College, Pepperdine University,
and California State University Dominguez Hills.
He furthered his career as an engineer and was
employed by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. for
14 years, Nortronics Co. for four years, and retired
from Logicon Co. in 1972. The focus of his career
was participation in the development of computer
programs for space exploration. Ford also had a
love for the game of tennis and was a long time
member and employee of the West End Racquet
and Health Club in Torrance.
Surviving are his wife, Erma; three daughters;
four grandchildren; and many loving friends.
He was the brother of the late Mary Alma
Ford ’31 McCance.
1927
Virginia Iddings Taylor, December 19, 1998, Flushing, Ohio.
She was a teacher in Blaine and Lafferty, Ohio.
She owned Taylor Hardware and Variety Store with
her husband for 35 years.
She was a member of East Richland Evangelical
Friends Church, the church’s missionary society and
Bannock Club. She was a 50-year member of Flushing Garden Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry
Lee Taylor ’27, a grandson, and two brothers.
Surviving are two daughters including Elizabeth
“Libby” Taylor ’58 Brokaw, nine grandchildren; 11
great-grandchildren; a brother, and several nieces.
Ruth Breckenridge Hughes, April 2, 1999, Dayton, Ore.
She was a retired teacher.
Class of 1964 (row 1, left to right) Lori Cedik Patin, Fred K. Carson, Judy Spillard Walker, Mary Phillips Arnett,
Dixie Hayes Heck, Joan Davis Walker, Virginia Dau Driscoll, Stephen Price, Lance Brown, Sandra Paradis
Dawson, Joan Beitler Geil; (Row 2) Bob Patin, Beverly Hopwood Paoli, Larry Marshall, Carolyn Faunce Nixon,
Bonnie Glick Kugler, Bill Walker, Susan Heckler Henderson, Nancy Houze Shephard, Tom Hudgin, Marty Hooper
Eisenstadt, Alan Dawson, P. Gus Geil; (row 3) Ann Wilson Neel, Virginia Price, Christine Reynolds Hamilton, Susan Endean Alvarez, Carol Sager Knox, Dan Nixon, Warner Kugler, Bob Henderson, Paul Shepherd, Darlene
Hazlett Perak, Dave Barnes, Bob Bryson, Bob French, Larry Humm.Alumni Weekend photo.
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As a student teacher during her time at
Muskingum, she taught John Glenn, which gave
her local media attention last fall during Glenn’s
orbit.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Lois
Breckenridge ’26 Covell and her brother Curtis
Breckenridge ’32.
Grace Hesseltine Sackett, March 13, 1999,
Dekalb, Ill.
She was a teacher.
1928
Judge C. Merrel Ross, June 3, 1999, Coshocton,
Ohio.
He served as probate judge and juvenile judge
of Coshocton County.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret Honk
’31 Ross; his daughters, Julia Ross ’62 Osborn,
Jane Ross ’68 Parrish, and Dr. Joanna Ross ’73;
and a son, Rev. Dr. John Ross ’64.
Martha Simpson Lubold, March 3, 1999, Indiana, Pa.
She was a retired teacher.
She is survived by her sister, Isabel Simpson
’28 Parkinson.
1929
Rachel Karnes Forgrave, February 12, 1999,
Lake Ann, Mich.
She was a devout Presbyterian.
She leaves her husband, Malcom C. Forgrave;
two daughters, Dr. Sonja Forgrave ’59 Stewart
and R. Annette Forgrave ’61 Schneider; a son;
and a sister, Harriett Karnes ’32 Machamer.
She was preceded in death by her brothers,
Rev. H.R. Karnes ’26 and Dr. Lowry Karnes
’30; and a sister, S. Ruth Karnes ’33 Young.
Halleck Secrest, April 7, 1999, Caldwell, Ohio.
After graduating from Muskingum, he went on
to earn his master’s degree in school administration
at The Ohio State University where he was a member of Phi Delta Kappa. He began his educational
career as principal and coach at Prospect High
School. In 1937, he became superintendent of
Prospect Schools and in 1945, returned to his native Noble County as county superintendent of
schools. He had this position for 28 years until
retiring in 1973.
Secrest was president and chairman of many
educational associations during his career. He was
a life long member of the United Methodist
Church. He served as chairman of the administrative board for many years and taught Sunday
school for 30 years in Caldwell. He was district lay
leader of St. Clairsville for 16 years and a member
of the annual conference.
He was also involved in many community activities such as the Caldwell Lions Club, Noble
County Chamber of Commerce, Councils on Aging, and all Masonic bodies, having recently received a 70-year pin as a Blue Lodge Mason. He
was a member of The Eastern Star, having served
several years as worthy patron. He was a member
of Noble County RTA, Noble County Human Services board, Buckeye Hills Regional Advisory
Council and AARP. In 1965, he was able to fulfill
his dream of flying and owned his own plane for
many years.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary.
Surviving are a daughter and son-in-law; a son
1934
Mary McWilliams Richey, May 2, 1999, New
Concord, Ohio.
She was a teacher of speech, English and general science.
She leaves two sons.
Arthur Smock, December 5, 1998, Cortland,
Ohio.
He is survived by his wife, E. Muriel Hoffman
’35 Smock.
Martha Meitzer, April 10, 1999, Cambridge,
Ohio.
She was a retired teacher from the Cambridge
School District.
She leaves three nephews and three nieces.
She was preceded in death by three brothers
and three sisters.
1935
Rev. Fred Morris, June, 1999, Sebring, Fla.
He was a retired minister.
Class of 1969 (row 1, left to right) Mary Jane Barkey Baker, Rika Hess Wadsworth, Catherine Peters,
Gloria DeSellem Robinson, Becky Kifer Jones; (row 2) Jan Lodwick Marshall, Linda Herriott Dietz,
James C. Wadsworth, Gordon E. Spillman, Jerry Marshall; (row 3) Chad Morris, Ernie Dietz, Jim
Schmotter, Nate Lang, Tom Lesher. Alumni Weekend photo.
and daughter-in-law; six grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren.
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Martha Robbins Erb, March 18, 1999.
She was a registered nurse and homemaker.
She is survived by her husband, George A. Erb;
two daughters, including Muskingum graduate M.
Lenore Erb ’55 McIntosh; a son; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Dorothy Brown Lewis, May 15, 1998, St.
Clairsville, Ohio.
She was a retired school teacher, having taught
in Flushing and St. Clairsville, Ohio.
She is survived by her daughters, Judith Lewis
’61 Craig and Patricia Lewis ’63 Fox and a son.
1931
Rev. J. Donald Almes, May 26, 1999, Clarinda,
Iowa.
Following his graduation from Muskingum
College, he attended the Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary. He graduated in 1934 and was ordained to
the Gospel Ministry at Taylorstown, Pa. An active
Presbyterian minister for 43 years, Almes, who
received an honorary degree of doctor of divinity
from Sterling College in 1949, served in
Taylorstown, Pa.; Middletown, Ohio; Wichita,
Kan.; and Clarinda, Iowa. Following his retirement
in 1973, he served four churches as interim minister.
He is survived by two sons including David
Almes ’59 and his wife Annette Browning ’58
Almes; two granddaughters; four great-grandsons;
and a sister.
Rev. Almes was preceded in death by his wife,
Katheryne Metzger ’31 Almes, whom he married
in 1934.
Elizabeth Rankin, April 29, 1999, Cambridge,
Ohio.
She was a retired teacher and part-time sales
person of Compton Encyclopedias. She was a past
honoree by the American Association of University Women as an Outstanding Woman of the
Community. She was a member of the
Westminster Presbyterian Church.
She served as May Queen in 1931 at
Muskingum.
She leaves two nephews; a niece; five greatnephews; a great-niece; and 15 great-great nieces
and nephews.
She was preceded in death by two brothers.
Paul Ranson Sr., April 16, 1999, Charlotte, N.C.
He was a graduate of the Columbus Art School,
Columbus, Ohio, as well as Muskingum. He was a
charter member of the Wesminster Presbyterian
Church in Charlotte where he taught adult Sunday
school for many years and also served as an elder.
He is survived by two daughters; two sisters,
Ruth Ranson ’36 Gault and her husband, Dick
Gault ’36, and Mary Neal Ranson ’48 Mills;
three daughters-in-law; three step-daughters; 17
grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Neal
Ranson ’07 and Mary McCreary ’07 Ranson;
his first wife, Lillian Schwab Ranson; his second
wife, Elisabeth Carson ’31 Anderson Ranson;
three sons; a grandchild; two aunts, Eva
McCreary ’13 Darrah and Grace McCreary
’13; and an uncle Ralph McCreary ’06.
1933
Helen Clark Coffield, April, 1999, St. Clairsville,
Ohio.
Paul Mechem, May 3, 1999, Bethesda, Ohio.
He was a retired teacher and principal at Chestnut Hill, Bannock, Morristown and Bethesda
schools and was a member of the Bethesda United
Methodist Church.
He leaves two daughters, Shirley Mechem ’55
Falck and Janet Mechem ’58 Schwartz; eight
grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his wife Anne
Brown ’25 Mechem; his second wife, Faye Turner
Mechem; his third wife, Wilma Bolon Mechem; a
brother; and a sister, Thelma Mechem ’23 Besse.
Mary Wise, April 1, 1999, Winchester, Ore.
She was a teacher for 42 years, teaching 20
years in Barnesville, Ohio. She and her sister, the
late Helen Woods ’34, ran a kindergarten together
for 12 years in Winchester. She was a member of
the Wilbur United Methodist Church.
She leaves two nephews.
John Wilson, December, 1998, Washington, D.C.
He was retired after working as a publicist for
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, as a script writer for
NBC, and an editor for Voice of America.
He was preceded in death by his wife Bernice
Dickinson Wilson.
1937
John Sears, June 14, 1999, Winter Haven, Fla.
He was a retired quality control inspector with
the United States Department of Agriculture. He
was a Mason for 60 years and served as a corporal
in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Sears is survived by his wife, Audrey Sears; a
daughter; and two grandchildren.
1938
Harry Wayne Mallett, June 5, 1999, Caldwell,
Ohio.
He was a retired school teacher, having taught
in Fulda and Caldwell for 36 years. Following his
retirement he was a substitute teacher.
He owned and operated a beef cattle farm near
Carlisle, Ohio for many years. He was a former
member of St. Michael Catholic Church, Carlisle
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and he was a member of St. Stephen Catholic
Church, Caldwell.
He is survived by his wife, Clara Rose (Schehl)
Mallett; four daughters; 14 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers
Hugh Mallett ’26 and Purcell Mallett ’26.
Dr. Arthur Wells, February 14, 1999, Cambridge,
Ohio.
After graduation from the University of Cincinnati Medical School, he practiced as a proctologist
in Cincinnati. He served on the surgical staff at
Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati and for a
period was on the Cambridge Hospital staff.
He leaves his wife, Ruth McFarland Wells;
three children; a sister-in-law; six grandchildren;
two nephews and a niece.
He was preceded in death by a brother and a
granddaughter.
1939
Ray Yocum, October 11, 1998, Norcross, Ga.
1940
1941
Ruth Tupper Godemann, February 7, 1999,
Germantown, Tenn.
She was a retired teacher and house wife.
Herbert Buck, June 4, 1999, Springfield, Ohio.
He was the assistant county superintendent for
Clark County Schools and served on the state
board for Ohio Retired Teachers and as district
director of the American Association of Retired
People. He served in the United States Air Force
during World War II and was a member of the 10th
Air Depot Group Association. He was a member of
the First United Presbyterian Church and the Fraternal Order of Eagles 397. He was an avid bowler
and golfer.
He is survived by his wife, Irene Elizabeth
(Covington) Buck; three sisters; five step- children;
three grandchildren; eight step-grandchildren; three
great-grandchildren,; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by a daughter; and
two brothers.
George Messerschmidt, June 15, 1999, New Concord, Ohio.
He was a retired masonry contractor and a
World War II Marine veteran, serving in the South
Pacific. He was an avid fisherman and a member
of Cambridge Bible Church and Bricklayers Union
Local 44.
Surviving are his wife, Georgia Clevenger
Messerschmidt; a daughter; five sons, including
Charles Fred Messerschmidt’ 71 and Timothy
Messerschmidt, a friend of Muskingum College;
two step-daughters; a step-son; 26 grandchildren;
several great-grandchildren; a very special niece;
and several other nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his first wife,
Charlene Hartley Messerschmidt; two brothers;
and three sisters, Geneva Messerschmidt ’31
Sailor, Helen Messerschmidt ’32 MacMillan,
and Mary Messerschmidt ’38 Ashcraft.
Class of 1974 (row 1, left to right) Bridgette Turner, Melinda Swank Young, Karen VanderhoofForschner, Mary Dunfee Roe, Gretchen Rish Phillips, V.K. Schneider Ziegler, Joyce Wonnacott Barrett,
Joy Witek Amick; (row 2) Leigh C. Martin, Nancy Bannister Roberts, Diane Doeringer Boster, Mary
Clayton Wichterman, Terri Walls Marratta, Susan Marks Williamson, Beth M. Waggenspack; (row 3) Tim
Waibel, Marsha Sleesman Waibel, David Holdridge, Kathy Kreppner Graham, Barbara Nery Senkovich;
(row 4) Paul Kulp, Bob Thorne, Bill Bonnett, Deb McWilliam, Joyce Beams Willis, Gayle Lavelle Miller,
Gladys Dusterdeck Mitch, Becky Englert Dennis; (row 5) Michael Landrum, Walter Sherman, Jane
Mitchell Schaefer, Cherie Smith Bell, Linda Collani Leach, Sue Stitt McIlvried, Debbie Long Connell,
Linda Day Morrow, Jeff Zellers; (row 6) Ted Rademacher, Jim Gray, Dave Markley, Larry Graham,
Donivan Stir, Rich Martinelli, Bob Good, Mark “Barney” Mattern, Bob “Bucky” Pope; (row 7) Gary Ferber,
Don Barrett, Grover Mollineaux, Mike Grilliot, Tom Young, Mike Thomin, Wade Duym, Keith Conning,
Grant Shoub. Alumni Weekend photo.
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Byron Steen, May 6, 1999, Caldwell, Ohio.
After attending Muskingum, he received a certificate in guidance from Ohio University, Athens.
He earned a master’s degree in education from the
University of Pittsburgh and administration qualifications from The Ohio State University.
He retired from Caldwell High School, where
he was a business teacher, guidance counselor and
principal for 38 years. After retirement, he taught
social studies at the former Guernsey Catholic
Central High School in Cambridge for three years.
He was a probation officer with the Noble County
Probate Court.
He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving in the
CBI Theater of War, stationed in India. He was
also a member of the Sharon Lodge 136 for more
than 50 years and served as secretary for 33 years.
He was a member of Grand Council Royal and
Select Masons and was past illustrious master. He
was a member of Cumberland Chapter 116 Royal
Arch Masons, Cambridge Commandery 47, Knight
Templar, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Cambridge and Shriners Aladdin Temple of
Columbus. He was also a member of White Shrine
of Jerusalem, Rosa Shrine 8, Zanesville, Amazon
Chapter 30 Order of Eastern Star of Caldwell and
past Noble grand and past secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Olive Lodge 259,
Caldwell.
He was a chapter member of Caldwell VFW
Post 4781, a member of the Noble County Retired
Teachers Association, a life member of Ohio Education Association and a member of the Metropolitan Housing board. He was a member of the Noble
County Chamber of Commerce.
He leaves his wife, Rama Groves ’44 Steen; a
brother; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by two sisters and
two brothers.
1944
Lois Offenhouer Eldridge, September 26, 1998.
She was a housewife and served as a church
receptionist.
1946
Mary Loomis, March 18, 1999, Conneaut, Ohio.
A voice student at Muskingum College, she
also studied voice with John O. Samuel, former
director of music at Baldwin Wallace College.
After graduating from Muskingum, she earned her
nursing degree from Western Reserve University.
a librarian.
She is survived by a daughter; four grandsons
and two great-granddaughters.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
Richard Lunan ’47.
Wilma Zimmerly Phillips, March 12, 1999, Baltic, Ohio.
She retired from Canton Public Schools, where
she was a teacher, in 1975. She was a member of
Westchester United Methodist Church and a member of the Retired Teachers Association.
She leaves two step-sons, a grandson and a
great-grandson.
Harold Dean Phillips.
Class of 1979 (row 1, left to right) Megan Wills Sedaghat, Jean Montgomery Nass, Randy Duncan, Lori
Hawkins Foley, Steve Overholt, David Spillman, Nanette Jones Hoeck, Kimberly Thiers, Geri Douglas,
Linda Gress Cope, Karen Markley Schmidt, Mike Berichon, Lisa Oakley Rucker, Paul Hudson, Leslie
Conger Smith, Tom Tykodi, Judi Kocher, Ron Mazeroski, Linda Vetter, Doug Wheat, Sheree Englehardt,
Doug Henshaw. Alumni Weekend photo.
1948
She was welfare director of the city of East
Cleveland from 1951 to 1956; a supervisor of
nurses at MacDonald Hospital in Cleveland and
Geauga Community Hospital in Chardon and a
staff nurse at the Ashtabula County Nursing Home.
She also worked as a staff member of the Red
Cross for five years.
She taught nursing as an instructor at Mt. Sinai
Hospital, and Kent State University from 1970 to
1976 and was an assistant professor of nursing in
the associate degree nursing program at Kent State
University, Ashtabula Branch.
She was a member of the master singers of
Cleveland, Geauga Lyric Theater Guild and the
Conneaut Community Center. She performed in
plays in Conneaut, at the Madison Rabbit Run
Theater and sang a leading role in the Ashtabula
Rev. John Stoner, April 23, 1999, Canton, Ohio.
After Muskingum, he graduated from Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary and Kent State University
and was a World War II Army veteran.
He served Presbyterian Churches in Pennsylvania and Ohio for 38 years, retiring in 1983. He was
an elementary teacher having taught at Canton City
Schools, Sandy Valley School District and Jackson
Township School District, retiring in 1984. He was
a member of Muskingum Valley Presbytery and
Presbyterian Church (USA).
Surviving are, Marjorie Graham ’49 Stoner,
his wife; a brother; a sister, Martha Stoner ’50
Snyder; and a special friend.
He was preceded in death by his parents, John
Stoner ’18 and Sara Welch ’21 Stoner; a son; and
a daughter.
Arts Center production of Menotti’s opera “The
Medium.” She sang with the Ashtabula Choral
Music Society, and was a member of the First
United Methodist Church and its choir. She was an
active member of the former MacDowell Music
Club, the Friends of the Library and served as regent of the Mary Redmond Chapter of Daughters
of the American Revolution. She loved to cook,
garden and travel.
She is survived by a sister, Susannah Loomis
’50 Sherman; a brother; and a nephew.
1947
Beverly Cooke Lunan, October 24, 1997, Chattanooga, Tenn.
She worked as a physical education teacher and
Hepler provided students safe passage to education
Standing on 50-foot piers in the middle
of the College Lake is College Lake
Bridge. The bridge, the main footpath from
the residence halls to the academic buildings on the campus quad, symbolically
serves as “the bridge to education” for
most Muskingum College students.
In 1996, a generous contribution by John
G. Hepler ’39 made possible the renovation
of the bridge.
Hepler passed
away May 6, 1999
in Clearwater, Fla.
His dedication to
his alma mater
will continue to be
appreciated each
day as students
cross the College
Lake Bridge to
attend classes.
In addition to
Flowers were placed on
Muskingum,
the College Lake Bridge Hepler, who lived
in front of the plaque recognizing Hepler’s contri- in the Pittsburgh
area much of his
butions to Muskingum
during alumni weekend.
life, devoted time
to family, church and numerous charitable
endeavors. He was involved in fund-rasing
for many local and national charities, including the United Fund, and the promotion of
scholarships at Pittsburgh schools via the
U.S. Steel management organizations.
Hepler was awarded the Muskingum College Alumni Association’s Distinguished
Service Award in 1983. His introduction for
the award said, “No other person in recent
history has, in such an unobtrusive fashion,
given time and energy to the college the way
John Hepler has, and few trustees have
served as long and with such distinction.”
Hepler became a member of the board of
trustees in 1963 and was granted emeritus
status in 1979.
After graduating from Muskingum College, Hepler enrolled in the executive management program at the University of Pittsburgh. During World War II, he served as a
Navy Lieutenant in submarine duty. Receiving his discharge in 1946, he worked the
next five years in the sales division of the
Electronic Boat Company, now General Dynamics Corporation.
In 1951, he began a long association with
John Hepler stands on the College Lake bridge.
the U.S. Steel Corporation as a buyer in the
purchasing department. He was named assistant to the vice president for purchasing
in 1960 and in 1963 became director of
purchasing for steel operations. In 1973 he
became corporate director of purchasing, a
position he retained until his retirement in
1979.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Norton,
whom he married in 1944; a son, John; and
a daughter, Leslie Reynolds.
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Roberta Banker, March 26, 1999, Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio.
She began her teaching career in a one-room
country school and transferred to the Akron School
System, where she remained until retirement. She
was a life member of the Ohio Education Association, the National Education Association and the
Summit County Retired Teachers Association. She
was past president of Delta Kappa Gamma.
Roberta was a member of the Northminster
Presbyterian Church, where she served as a trustee
and on the Christian Education Committee. She
served as a volunteer at Akron City Hospital, Taylor Memorial Library and Senior Citizens Craft
Bazaar.
She leaves a sister, Mary C. Banker ’32; a
niece; and many nieces and nephews.
1949
Thomas Reynolds, May 28, 1999, Lucasville,
Ohio.
He served on the USS Wisconsin in the U.S.
Navy during World War II. He was a certified public accountant and a lifetime member of the Ohio
Society of Certified Public Accountants. In 1956,
he co-founded the firm of Richards and Reynolds,
which is presently known as Reynolds & Company
Certified Public Accountants.
Reynolds was known for his intelligence, wit
and unique laugh. His hobbies were golf and a
distinct dedication to community service. As a 43year member of Kiwanis, he served as president
and received the Legion of Honor award. He
served as president of the Portsmouth Junior
Chamber of Commerce and received their Distinguished Citizen award. He was a member of the
Portsmouth Area Chamber of Commerce and of
the Elks. He also served on the Portsmouth City
School board.
He served as president of Scioto Memorial
Hospital Association during the construction of the
hospital. He was a founding member, president and
treasurer of the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center. He served as treasurer of the National
Church Residences board of trustees.
Reynolds was dedicated and committed to the
growth and enrichment of Shawnee State University. He had enjoyed teaching accounting courses
there prior to his appointment in 1992 by Governor
George Voinovich to the Shawnee State University
board of trustees.
He was a member of Second Presbyterian
Church, Portsmouth, where he was a member of
the session and a deacon.
He is survived by his wife, Kay Reynolds; two
daughters; two sons; two step-daughters; two sisters, including Ruth Reynolds ’51 Janovich; and
seven grandchildren.
the church, she
served at
Northwood
United Presbyterian Church in
Wilkinsburg.
Her final work
was at
Aspinwall
United Presbyterian Church.
She was a
longtime member of the
American Guild
of Organists and
brought her
musical skills to
the music and
worship committees of Pittsburgh
Presbytery. She
was a teacher of
music at church Bobbie Sellen Ferguson, Lois Ferguson McIlvaine, Marge Brown Sims and Joyce
and throughout Cosby Stokes, all members of the class of 1953, get together every summer for a
the community. visit. They also send a round-robin letter which they started 46 years ago.
Ms. Ralston
volunteered with Penn Hills Service Association
gallons of blood to two local hospitals.
and Monroeville Mall Ministry.
After Muskingum, he did some graduate work
She was the daughter of the late Lois Giffen
at Ohio University, Walsh College and Rio Grande
24’ Ralston and Howard Ralston ’25.
College. He taught in the public schools for 36
She is survived by a brother, several cousins
years, the last 23 (1972-1995) at Zanesville High
and several nieces and nephews.
School where he taught business education.
He is survived by his wife, Sandra Hannahs
Bennett; one son; two grandsons; two first cousins;
1959
and several second cousins.
Earl Bennett, June 5, 1999, Zanesville, Ohio.
He was preceded in death by his mother, A.
He was a member of Trinity United PresbyteMabel Stewart ’29 Bennett and father.
rian Church, serving as head usher for 14 years,
teacher of the Crusaders Bible Class for 24 years
1964
and lay minister. He was also a member of
Westwood Baptist Church, Ohio Retired Teachers
Thomas Dorosky, June 6, 1999, Anaheim, Calif.
Association, American Association of Retired PerA popular government and civics teacher at
sons and Gideons International. He donated 16
Loara High School in Anaheim, Dorosky was
James Master, March 14, 1998, Parma, Ohio.
He was a teacher.
1950
Robert E. Lee, June, 1999, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
He was a teacher.
1951
E. Anne Ralston, February 24, 1999, Penn Hills,
Pa.
She directed choirs and served as organist at
Hebron United Presbyterian Church in Penn Hills
for nearly 30 years. Prior to her years of service at
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ASTP (Army Special Training Program) (row 1, left to right) Alice Jones Cochran, Mary MacDonald
Russell, Riley Hall, Beverly Funte, Anna Tucker Bond; (row 2) Leon Walters, Bob Cochran, Bob Russell,
Susan Hall Parker, William Funte, Angus Bond, William McClelland. Alumni Weekend photo.
committed to helping his students meet his high
expectations. He was recently selected as one of
five national recipients of the Close Up
Foundation’s Linda Myers Chosen Award for
Teaching Excellence in Civic Education. He was
also named Loara’s teacher of the year.
Dorosky attended Muskingum College as a
wrestler and earned a master’s degree at Marshall
University. He and his high school sweetheart,
Mary Arnold, moved to Anaheim in 1966 when he
joined the staff at Loara. They celebrated their 34th
wedding anniversary the day before he died.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a
daughter; a son; his mother; a sister and a brother.
1967
Sue Ellen Kichline Hicks, April 18, 1999, Upper
St. Clair, Pa.
She was a nursing school teacher.
She is survived by her husband, David Hicks
’67.
1968
Edna Watson Bond, February 28, 1999,
Byesville, Ohio.
She retired after 25 years of teaching at
Byesville Elementary. She was a 60-year member
of the Pleasant City United Methodist Church, a
50-year member of the Order of Eastern Star 227,
and Noble County Retired Teachers Association
and Sharon Grange.
She leaves a son; a daughter; a brother; two
sisters-in-law; six grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren.
William E. Bond, and a grandson.
He was a member of
the New Concord United
Methodist Church,
Brooks Bird Club in
Wheeling, W.Va., and the
New Concord Lions
Club. He was recipient of
the Melvin Jones Award
for community service
and service as a Lion.
He is survived by his
two sons, David Barnes
’58 and Duane Barnes
’60; four grandchildren;
five greatgrandchildren;
and a sister-in-law,
Karen Benz ’60 Barnes.
He was preceded in
death by his wife,
Henrietta Osborne
Barnes; four sisters; and
three brothers.
Marriages
1968
Candace Alcorn was
married to Timothy J.
Class of 1984 (row 1 left to right) Beth Dobson DaLonzo, Kelly Clevenger
Loncharich.
Graham, Mark Gibson; (row 2) Peggy Shutt Frank, Cindy Cooper Rose, Bill
Timothy is the presiEmling, Don Gilliland.
dent and chairman of the
board for Snelling &
wedding were Hollie Hayhurst ’87 Lashley, Amy
Snelling Inc., an international employment corpoHayhurst ’90 Zuress, Todd Brown ’92, Carol
ration specializing in temporary staffing and perHayhurst (Muskingum staff member) and Anmanent placement. Candace has decided to keep
drew Ruetz (Muskingum staff member).
her maiden name.
The couple resides in Urbana, Ohio.
The couple resides in Colleyville, Texas.
1969
1984
1993
Lois McCollam Young, February 24, 1999, East
Liverpool, Ohio.
She had been working at Beaver Local Middle
School as a seventh and eighth grade language arts
teacher.
She was a member of the Yellow Creek Presbyterian Church, where she participated in the chime
choir, worship committee and was clerk of session,
an elder, pianist and organist. She also volunteered
at the Beaver Creek Church Camp and the chaplaincy program at the East Liverpool City Hospital.
After Muskingum, she earned her master’s degree at Kent State University. She served as an
advisor to the Beaver Echo School Newspaper and
was a member of the band boosters. She was a
member of the National Education Association and
was a judge for the Odyssey of the Mind competition. She also helped raise foster children.
She is survived by her parents; her husband,
Richard G. Young; two daughters; and four brothers including her twin.
Erik Haley was married to Stuart Koblentz ’85
on May 15, 1999.
The couple met in 1981 while attending
Muskingum College and, after losing touch, renewed their friendship in Columbus in 1997. Other
Muskies in attendance included Matthew Gibson
’85 and professor Taylor Stultz and his wife, Jan.
John Swank was married to Alison Travis on September 19, 1998.
John is director for Cohanzick Zoo of
Bridgeton, N.J. and Alison is executive director for
Main Street Association of Merchantville, N.J.
The couple resides in Bridgeton.
Emeritus Faculty/Staff
W. Hughes Barnes, July 12, 1998, Zanesville,
Ohio.
He was a graduate of Marietta College and Indiana University. He taught sciences for 42 years at
Noble and Tuscarawas county schools, the Ohio
University-Zanesville, Bethesda and Good Samaritan nursing programs, and at Muskingum College from 1948 to 1974. Many recall him for his
interest in our pioneer heritage and in educating the
community in nature study, especially birds.
1988
Kelly Mast and Dave Duling were married on
May 1, 1999.
Brother of the bride, Will Mast ’92, was in the
wedding.
Kelly is a unit director for Boys & Girls Clubs
of Toledo and Dave is in fine wine sales in Toledo.
The couple resides in Toledo, Ohio.
Kathleen (Kathy) Wasil and Michael (Mike)
Gunter were married on May 29, 1999.
Kathy works as the circulation desk supervisor
at Watson Library at the University of Kansas.
Mike is the technical facilities manager for
Oldfather Studios at the University of Kansas.
The couple resides in Lawrence, Kan.
1991
James “Chip” Weisgerber and Tara Simmons
’97 were married on June 12, 1999.
Included in the wedding party were sisters of
the groom, Shawna Weisgerber ’93 Hinkle and
Melanie Weisgerber ’01. Other Muskies at the
John Edwards and Ruth Craig were married on
May 15, 1999.
John was voted Piedmont District wrestling
coach of the year for 1998-99.
1994
Deborah (Debbie) Lingle and Scott Gluck ’95
were married on June 27, 1998.
Muskie grads in the wedding party were
Cheryl Brenner ’94 and Michelle Ingram ’94
Olesen.
Debbie is a kindergarten teacher for the
Broward County School District, Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla. Scott is the marketing manager for the DoralRyder Open, a PGA Golf Tournament, Miami, Fla.
The couple resides in Weston, Fla.
Kim Posthumus and Michael Caronchi were married on January 9, 1999.
Muskie grads in the wedding included Megan
Dominish ’95 and Amy Wolf ’94.
Kim received a master’s degree in journalism
from Northeastern University in 1996. She is now
an assistant vice president and editor in the marketing department at Tucker Anthony Inc., a full service brokerage firm in Boston. Michael is an archi-
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included Lyn Boardley ’99, Erin Newburn ’99,
John Lehman ’97, Todd Fusner ’99, Jason
Bidinger ’97 and Aaron Nichols ’98.
Eric is employed at Cintas and Amanda is employed at Safe Tran of Louisville, Ky. The couple
resides in Louisville, Ky.
Brian Scharff and Amanda (Mandy) S. Holdren
were married on April 24, 1999.
Brian works for Cawley & People Funeral
Homes in Marietta, Ohio and is currently serving
his apprenticeship to become a funeral director.
Mandy is an administrative assistant for Marietta
Automotive Warehouse.
The couple resides in Marietta, Ohio.
Esther Murphy’ 28 Nicholson and Wallace
Pew ’31 were two of the oldest alumni to visit
during Alumni Weekend in June.
tect with Bruner/Cott & Associates in Cambridge,
Mass. The couple resides in Boston, Mass.
1996
1978
Wendy Cook and her husband recently adopted an
eight-year-old daughter, Azsha.
She will be joining her siblings Elsa, 11, and
Jesse, 7.
1979
Zachary Edward was born to Danielle and Don
Mason on January 8, 1999.
Zach’s uncle is Muskie Michael Mason ’78.
1998
1980
Brian Diamond and Mary Nader were married
on May 8, 1999.
Muskingum graduates Kelli Coleman ’96 and
Casey Russell ’98 were in the wedding.
Katie Rose was born to Sheri and David Jones on
May 3, 1999.
The family resides in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Dawn Axline was married to Jason Conrad on
April 17, 1999.
Dawn is a first and second grade teacher at
Glenford Elementary. Jason is a farmhand for J.
Kenneth Miller Farms.
Muskingum graduate Sara McIntosh ’98
Glaser was in the wedding.
The couple resides in Rushville, Ohio.
1995
Gwendolyn Diener and Denver S. Mills were
married on February 22, 1999 in Coeur D’Alene,
Idaho.
A reception in Ohio on May 29, 1999 was attended by the following Muskingum graduates,
Jen Clifford ’94, Danielle Logsdon ’95, Bobbie
Jo Raver ’97, Missy Diener ’96, Jennifer Selva
’96, and Lynn Garber ’94.
The couple resides in Spokane, Wash.
brothers Andy, 13, and Tim, 5. Her grandmother is
Mary Brettel ’51 Scott.
Births
1975
Emily Susanna was born to Mark and Ruth
Neumann ’76 Scott on March 26, 1998.
She joins sisters Ellen, 17, and Hannah, 9, and
1981
Christopher Ronald was born to Jack and Joan
Hamilton Klier on January 22, 1998.
He joins two sisters, Courtney and Rachel. His
aunt is Muskie graduate Mary Hamilton ’83
Anderson.
Joan works as an obstetrics nurse at a Natrona
Heights doctor’s office and Jack is an industrial
engineering manager at United Parcel Service.
1982
Jocelyn Amber was born to Jamie McBurney on
May 22, 1999.
Her grandparents are Robert ’57 and Mary
Lou McCombs ’57 McBurney. Her uncle is Robert McBurney ’79.
Keep honking if you’re a Muskie!
Barrett Hileman and Elaine Cochran ’98 were
married on May 15, 1999.
Bradley Van Sickle and Kathy Baronas were married on May 8, 1999.
Muskingum graduate Dan Swearengin ’97
served as best man.
Kathy is a speech pathologist with the Toledo
Hearing and Speech Center and Bradley is in the
MD/Ph.D. program at the Medical College of Ohio
in Toledo. The couple resides in Toledo.
1997
Emily Workinger and Kenton Hostetler were
married on May 8, 1999.
Emily is a social worker at Greencoft Health
Care. Kenton is an energy consultant for Crystal
Valley Heating and Air Conditioning.
Natalie McMahon and Robby Rice were married
on November 7, 1998.
Natalie is employed with First National Bank,
Zanesville, Ohio and Robby is employed with The
Daily Jeffersonian, Cambridge, Ohio.
The couple resides in Cambridge, Ohio.
Eric Darnley and Amanda Jacob were married
on October 10, 1998.
Muskingum graduates in the wedding party
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of vehicle registrations for the special Muskingum College License plate be at
least 100 by the end of 1998. We surpassed that goal while some other institutions in Ohio were dropped. The final mandated number is 150 by the end of
this calendar year. We need a few more to join for this academic scholarship
support program to be locked in.
The annual contribution fee is $35. The college receives a majority of that back
to support academic scholarships. Show your Muskie pride: Visit your Bureau
of Motor Vehicles or call 1-800-589-TAGS.
Colin Justice was born to Jeffrey and Mary Beth
Rickabaugh Merklin on August 18, 1998.
He joins two siblings, Meredith, 7, and
Jonathan, 4.
Jeff is a partner in the general practice,
Marysville law firm of Allen, Yurasek and
Merklin, where he specializes in domestic relations, personal injury and medical malpractice. He
also handles all the firm’s trial work. Mary Beth
cares for the children and serves on the library
board of the Marysville Public Library.
The family resides in Marysville, Ohio.
1984
Maggie Lynne was born to Jim and Eileen
Mahoney Rucki on January 6, 1999.
Maggie joins three siblings, Emily, 9; Molly; 8
and Robbie, 5.
The family lives in Fairview Park, Ohio.
Twins Ethan Joel and Elijah Jordan were born to
Michael and Amy Jo Littleton Strode on September 6, 1998.
They join their siblings, Benjamin, 13; Elizabeth, 11; Rachel, 10; Lydia, 8; Noah, 7; Abigail, 6;
Hannah, 5; Susanna, 3; and Julia, 2. Amy stays at
home to home school their children. This school
year Benjamin started to public school. Michael is
CED for Athens and Hocking Farm Service
Agency.
1985
Stephen Ott and Sharon Miller ’86 Ott adopted
three children, Zachary Alexander, 9; Paulette
Alexis, 6; and Jonnie Renee, 4.
They join a brother, Nathan Frederick, 7.
Stephen is a client relationship manager with
Centrobe in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Sharon works
part-time as a senior rating analyst with Capital
Blue Cross in Harrisburg, Pa.
The family resides in Shiremanstown, Pa.
1986
Kate Marie was born to Christopher Stone and
Dawn Desiderio ’87 Stone on April 7, 1999.
Chris received his second master’s degree from
Ashland University and is employed in the Canton
City Schools as the assistant principal of the
middle school.
Stephen Joseph was born to Kim and Lee Walko
on December 30, 1998.
Lee is working with Amer Cunningham
Brennan Co. in Akron as a partner doing transactional work. Kim returned to KeyCorp following
her maternity leave. She is an executive assistant to
the president of Key’s operations subsidiary, Key
Services Corp.
Elizabeth Francis was born to Philip Wilden and
Tamara Francis Wilden on December 30, 1998.
She joins Rebecca, 6, and Andrew, 3. Her
grandmother is Juanita Dolick ’61 Wilden and
her aunt is Denise Wilden ’95.
The family lives in Seville, Ohio, where Philip
pastors the Seville United Methodist Church.
1989
Twins Dalton Allen and Marlo Alexis were born to
Steve and Sheryl Starr Taylor on April 9, 1999.
They join a brother, Dakota, 6, and a sister,
Mallory, 4. An older brother, Matthew is deceased.
Both Steve and Sheryl are teachers at Garfield
Elementary in Cambridge City School District.
Steve teaches sixth grade and Sheryl teachers third
grade.
Maya Elyse was born to Lisa Randles Norris and
Timothy Norris ’90 on December 29, 1998.
She joins her brother, Payton Timothy, 5. She is
the granddaughter of Donna Mallett ’62 Randles
and her uncle is Steven Randles ’85.
Lisa and Tim are both employed by Zanesville
City Schools. Tim is a middle school math teacher
and coaches the varsity soccer program at
Zanesville High School. Lisa, who earned a
master’s degree in education from Muskingum in
1996, is a kindergarten teacher with the Zanesville
Even Start Training Program. The family resides in
Zanesville, Ohio.
Amanda Grace was born to Warren K. and Sharon
Bauer Adams on February 6, 1999.
She joins two brothers, Austin Keith, 3, and
Eric Paul, 1.
Zachary Stewart was born to Todd Scherer and
Beth Stewart Scherer on February 26, 1999.
Zachary’s grandfather was the late Bill Stewart
’57.
Todd was recently promoted to senior account
executive at United Parcel Service in Columbus.
He finished his third season as the head coach of
the Upper Arlington High School ice hockey program. Beth teaches first grade for Columbus Public
Schools. The family lives in Upper Arlington.
1990
Jennifer Leigh was born to Jason and Julie Clarke
Linsey on July 25, 1998.
She has an older brother, Benjamin Clarke, 2.
Jason works for CINTAS in Louisville, Ky.,
and Julie is taking time off to raise their children.
The family resides in Louisville, Ky.
Megan Elisabeth was born to Edward Bebout, Jr.
and wife Deidre.
Dana Marie was born to Nancy Goss Norris in
October, 1998.
She has an older brother, Blake Parker, 2.
Nancy was recently promoted to marketing
telecommunications specialist at Alliance Data
Systems in Gahanna.
1987
1991
Emily Therese was born to Michael and Caroline
Maynard Lenzo on October 31, 1998.
She has an older sister, Elizabeth who is five.
Caroline is a full-time elementary counselor in
Manchester School District. Michael is an assistant
principal at Dodge Middle School in Twinsburg,
Ohio.
Megan Gail was born to Michael Drinski and
Kathy Schlernitzauer ’92 Drinski on March 17,
1999.
Michael is a manager with Media One in telecommunications and high speed data serving the
Detroit area. Kathy is teaching for the Farmington
Hills Schools.
The family resides in Novi, Mich.
Jonathan Robert was born to Amy and Rev. Rob
Dauber on April 7, 1999.
He joins a brother, Adam, 2.
Rob is currently serving as pastor of Trinity
United Methodist Church in Logan, Ohio.
Andrew Jack was born to Michael and Amy
Guckian Schafer on April 3, 1999.
Amy is a second grade school teacher in the
Xenia School District.
Rachel Ann was born to Kathy and Todd
Huffman on March 19, 1999.
Twins Stephanie Marie and Kyle Blaise were born
to Peter and Dana Brescia Gibson on February
10, 1999.
Their aunt is Muskingum graduate Katherine
Brescia ’90 and their uncle is John Brescia ’92.
The couple resides in Warren, N.J.
Taylor Nicole was born to Chad ’92 and Nona
Barrick Massie on May 17, 1999.
She joins a sister, Erika Lindsey, 3.
1992
Elizabeth Helen was born to Douglas and Kimberly Forgrave Purkey on April 16, 1999.
Her uncle is Kevin Forgrave ’91 and her aunt
is Deborah Purkey ’88 Scott.
1993
Kiara Jalene was born to Darin and Kelli Starrett
Williams on April 20, 1998.
Kelli graduated with her master’s degree in
education in May 1999 and teaches kindergarten at
Zanesville City Schools.
Molly Grace was born to Brian and Stacie
Tennant Madill on February 27, 1999.
Seth Richard was born to Jane Perry and Gary
Shier ’96 and on April 2, 1999.
He joins a sister, Kathleen, 2.
The family resides in North Canton, Ohio.
1994
Zachary Evan was born to George and Jennifer
Smith Wilson on October 6, 1998.
Zachary’s uncle is Muskingum graduate Greg
Smith ’89.
The family resides in Fort Wayne, Ind.
1995
Abigail Marie was born to Kevin ’96 and Jill Archer Witucky on April 12, 1999.
Kevin is an English teacher and girls’ basketball and track coach at Fort Frye High School and
Jill is a business/computer teacher at the Washington County Career Center.
The family resides in Churchtown, Ohio.
Madison Rae was born to Christine Pulley and
William “Matt” McGee ’97 on April 8, 1999.
Her grandfather is Kenneth McGee ’70, her
aunt is Danielle McGee ’96 and her uncle is
Vance Pulley ’98. Her great-grandmother is Vera
Kirkland ’38 Duff.
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1996
Luke David was born to Dave and Danyell Miller
Rager on March 17, 1999.
Danyell is a marketing manager at The Factory
Link, Inc. in Mt. Vernon, Ohio and Dave is employed at Cooper Cameron in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
They will reside in Gambier, Ohio in September
after the completion of their new home.
1997
Lane Andrew was born to Lance K. and Darla
Hanby ’99 Deal on June 1, 1999.
Lane’s aunts are Laurie Deal ’93 Blosser and
Leslie Deal ’01.
Jennifer Lynn was born to Douglas and Diane
Hockman on March 4, 1999.
She joins Tyler, 3.
Diane completed the master’s degree in education at Muskingum and is currently on family leave
from Hilliard City Schools.
The family resides in Hilliard, Ohio.
Muskingum College Alumni Weekend was once again a success.
Many alumni came back to visit including: 1. Animals 8 entertained at
the Alumni Banquet; 2. Dick Simcox
’74, director of the Dick Simcox
Band, dances with an alumna during an Alumni Weekend reception;
3. and 4. Helen Reskovac ’49
Goulet and Helen Baird ’49 Branyan
recreate their senior recitals for
classmates; 5. Ron Mazeroski ’79,
director of alumni relations, talks on
the phone; 6. Many alumni renewed
their wedding vows during a special
service in Brown Chapel; 7. Herb
Kraft ’54 and a friend relax during
Alumni Weekend; 8. Hope Johnson
’47 Wilcoxon, Martha Moore ’40 and
Janice Castor ’48 Heston walk
across the Quad during Alumni
Weekend; 9. Jean Caulton ’47
Crawford and Mary Lou White ’49
Cowen wave at friends; 10. Melinda
Swank ’74 Young talks with friends;
11. Ester Murphy ’28 Nicholson,
right, has a corsage pinned on by
her daughter prior to the Alumni
Banquet; 12. Interim President Dave
Skeen talks with Carolyn Dickson
and Dawn Dickson Cappecci at the
Heritage Banquet.
Saturday, October 16, 1999
9 a.m.
1-5 p.m.
8 p.m.
8:15 p.m.
9:45 p.m.
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M-Club Breakfast &
Hall of Fame Recognition,
Kelley Hall Dining Room
9 a.m.-noon Registration for classes of ’89 and ’94,
Tent on the Quad
9 a.m.-1 p.m. Registration, Tent on the Quad
9:30 a.m.
Alumni Band Rehearsal, Paul Hall
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Picnic Lunch, Tent on the Quad
Noon
Class of ’89 Meeting,
Bottom of the Center
Class of ’94 Meeting, Top of the Center
12 p.m.
Parade
12 p.m.
Muskie Women’s Soccer vs. John Carroll
1:10 p.m.
Pre-Game Football Ceremonies,
McConagha Stadium
1:30 p.m.
Muskie Football vs. Ohio Northern
Friday, October 15, 1999
4 p.m.
Post-Game Reception
Honoring 1999 Hall of Fame Inductees and
Registration,
1939, 1949, 1950 OAC Football Champs
Montgomery Hall, Room 118
and 1979 OAC Wrestling Champs,
Coronation, John Glenn Gym
Recreation Center Atrium
Varsity Revue, John Glenn Gym
10:00 p.m
Entertainment, John Glenn Gym
Reception, Recreation Center Atrium
For more information, call the Alumni Relations office at (740) 826-8131.
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The Muskingum College Class of 1949 celebrated their 50th reunion during Alumni Weekend in June. Class members in attendance
include: (row 1, left to right): Margery Roe Perrin, Lois Copeland, Wilhelmina Hawthorne Jay, David R. Markley, Margaret McFadden
Markley, Glenys Rauschenberger Fee, Helen Coffman Jones, Marjory Jones Fredlund, Robert Warner, Alice White MacConnell, Norma
McCully Thomas, Martha Hall Carson, Shirley Leeper Biegler, Helen McClure Gregg, Jean Wise Fedderson, Helen Reskovac Goulet;
(row 2) Gwen Patriquin Datt, Mary Lou White Cowen, Paul Cowen Donald Williams, Alice Cowen Shaver, Norma Murphy Huth, Louise
Goehring Wilcoxon, Dorothy Todd Hartmeyer, Lois Balph, E. Jane Nixon Vickers, Margaret McBride Nichols, Eula Persons Sabock,
Shirley Kemerer White, Ray Harr; (row 3) John Datt, Mary Murdock Corry, Williard Crawford, Norma Faye Magneson, Carolyn West
Jones, Ruth Adams Willis, Lillian Cline Miller, Beryl Sell Krauss, E. Jane Bullock Warner, Dorothy Forsythe Deibel, Jean Sourbeer
Maynard, Marian Roe Miller, June Kinsey Stemple, Betty Hamilton Henschel, Bill Henschel; (row 4) Patricia Woodruff Bruner, Lucille
Becker Sharp, Bette Shaw Christman, Joann Evans Paxton, Elizabeth Wilson King, Helen Haley Beams, Helen Baird Branyan, Bonnie
Reynolds Martin, Esther Grace Louis Waddell, George Waddell, Barbara Praker Mead, Kenneth Nolin, Martha Kerr Sprout, Donald R.
Jameson, George Valentine, Betty Ellis Jenkins, David Hogg; (row 5) Bill Wilcoxon, Jim White, David R. Bixler, Richard "Dick" Campbell,
Hobart Neff, Walter Hales, Wilma Kissel Doll, Joan Lane Gray, Robert Gray, Richard C. Mattingly, Don Sharp, John Noran.
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Right— John and Annie Glenn
pose for a picture prior to the
1999 Commencement processional. The Glenns, recently
appointed to faculty positions,
participated in commencement
activities for the first time in their
new roles. Mrs. Glenn was the
keynote speaker for graduation.
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