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FRANKLIN COLLEGE 

autumn 2009 

R E P O R T E R

If you know of outstanding young men and women who are motivated to succeed and prepared to put learning into action, please contact 

us online at www.franklincollege.edu or toll-free at (888) 852-6471. The Admissions Office is ready to help high school juniors and seniors 

or college transfer students discover what Franklin has to offer. 

Thank you to the following students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends for making referrals and helping the class of 2013 achieve an 

outstanding enrollment of 345. 

Don Adams ’67 

Thurman Alvey ’96 

Niki (Staggs) Barker ’91 

Alexander Barr 

Kyle Beatty ’04 

Mandy (Ray) Bechert ’89 

David Bedwell ’03 

Brittany Beehler ’07 

Holli Terrell-Bemis ’83 

Jeff Bond ’94 

Haley Bourke ’08 

April Branstetter 

Darvel Buck 

Nancy Busenbark ’79 

Daneen Butler ’03 

Phillip Butler ’01 

Jack Byrum ’51 

Jacob Carlson ’12 

Robert Carter ’84 

Nicole Cherry ’07 

Ann (Bridges) Colaco ’96 

Will Conoley ’12 

Chris Conoley ’90 

Martha Cragen 

Jeffery Craige 

Aaron Daniels ’12 

Wayne Daugherty ’61 

Stefanie Davis ’95 

Laura DeBaun ’06 

Jake Deckard 

Joshua Deckard ’05 

David DeWitt ’85 

Dan Doles ’82 

Robert Doles ’57 

Barbara (Schaefer) Doles ’56 

Ray Dorulla ’78 

Richard Dunn ’50 

Dustin Eck ’07 

Katie Ellis ’07 

Lisa Evans ’84 

Shane Fallis ’91 

Melissa Farrow ’98 

Jenna Foreman 

Paul Galbraith ’08 

Elizabeth Galbraith ’12 

John Gasser ’96 

Melissa Gerline-Clagg ’07 

Karen (Shurcliff ) Girgis ’91 

Jamie (Michael) Goodwin ’01 

Wendy (Shuler) Hagn ’86 

Julie Hamlin ’07 

Brian Harbin ’99 

Melissa (Clark) Hardman ’98 

Patrick Hartnett ’85 

R.J. Hartsfield ’08 

Amy (Rasmussen) Hensley ’94 

Nicole Hensley ’08 

Dean Hickerson ’12 

Heather Hicks ’07 

Chad Hunter ’97 

David Hunton ’73 

Larry Johns ’87 

Shelly (Hainey) Jones ’94 

Theresa (Wright) Kapitan ’83 

Dana (Engleman) Kean ’95 

Keith Kilmer ’95 

Jamie Kolkmeier ’96 

Annette Kolkmeier ’04 

Chris Kramer ’08 

Sandy (Wilhite) Kyle ’86 

Chris Lakes ’04 

Wendy (Jones) Lamm ’89 

Mark Lemmons ’85 

Elizabeth (McDonald) Lyon ’82 

Lisa Mahan ’88 

Shaun Mahoney ’97 

Jessica (Lilpop) Mahoney ’86 

Sarah (Boyd) Mahoy ’04 

Andrew Mapes ’07 

Heather McAlister ’97 

Megan McCain ’08 

Larry McWhorter ’77 

Keith Mitchell ’56 

Ashley Monfreda ’08 

Mark Montgomery ’78 

Angie Morris-Stevens ’94 

Leann Moss ’87 

Richard Mousty ’85 

Joseph Neeley ’05 

Lisa (White) Nobbe ’96 

Emily Norcross ’08 

Paul Nugent ’57 

Dustin Orr ’12 

Pat Orr ’93 

Amanda Pfaff ’08 

Richard Pfifer ’87 

Mary Ellen (Ullrich) Pfifer ’87 

William Pfifer 

Rachel Phillips ’07 

Melissa Pierson ’93 

Amber Powers ’04 

Dave Ranard ’86 

Mark Regnier ’84 

Brad Riley ’80 

Marcy Robbins ’08 

Lindsey Roberson ’06 

Liberty (Patton) Roberts ’97 

John Roberts ’77 

Tyler Roell ’10 

Robin (Close) Roy ’89 

Lee Saunders ’90 

Betsy Schmidt ’85 

Ross Schulz ’07 

Toby Schulz ’98 

Rebekah (Flake) Scott ’03 

Chassitey Scott 

Greg Scudder ’03 

Andy Seward ’86 

Gayle Sheets 

Elizabeth Shertzer ’06 

Jay Sichting ’90 

Jeremy Skura ’01 

Leonard Smith ’63 

Jessica Smith ’06 

Melvin Smith ’57 

Jill (Carter) Snyder ’87 

Patrick Spellman 

Joel Spriggs ’04 

Robin (Haag) Spurgeon ’88 

Angie (Morris) Stevens ’94 

Paul Strack ’10 

Kevin Summers ’96 

Dave Syphers ’89 

Lissa Talbert ’08 

Joel Taylor ’92 

Tina (Spicer) Tracy ’98 

Renee (Dewey) Trotter ’80 

Randall Tucker ’53 

Michael Urban ’82 

Jake VanWagner ’07 

David Verdeyen ’06 

Steve Vernasco ’80 

Tandy Waddick-Weaver 

Melissa Lakes ’04 

Joanne (Schafer) Weddle ’58 

Lucy (Allen) Wilson ’53 

Francisca (Duron) Wilson’84 

Gina Wininger ’05 

Amy Martin Wiser ’96 

Tom Wiser ’95 

Bob Witham ’89 

Dedra Wood ’93 

Trena Yaden 

Pam Jewell Yates ’81 

Vernon Zike ’72

48 Alumni and friends share favorite college 

memories in this compilation of humorous tales, 

poignant testimonials and random recollections 

honoring the college’s 175-year anniversary. 

contents 

Features 

4 Homecoming brings hundreds to campus during four days of events 

View photos of alumni and friends, class reunions, awards presentations, football game 

highlights and traditional events. 

17 New faculty join the Franklin family 

Get to know Franklin’s new full-time faculty members, and learn about their record of 

excellence, leadership and service. 

20 Varsity men’s soccer program celebrates 25th anniversary 

Learn about the program’s history, coaches and top student-athletes. 

21 Annual Report 

Join the college in recognizing donors for their generous financial gifts and loyal support. 

60 Franklin talks tech with Intellagirl 

Catch up with social media expert Sarah Smith-Robbins ’96 and learn how she’s helping 

people to become more productive and creative with technologies. 

Departments 

60 Technology coach and social media expert 

Sarah Smith-Robbins ’96 talks about life in 

the digital age and a career in the pink. 

4 Campus News • 17 Faculty/Staff News • 19 Sports • 48 Alumni News 

FRANKLIN COLLEGE 

R E P O R T E R 

Autumn 2009, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 3. 

Published in spring, summer and autumn 

by Franklin College, 101 Branigin Boulevard, 

Franklin, Indiana 46131-2623. Printed in 

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Franklin College Reporter, 

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Franklin, Indiana 46131-2623. 

Reporter Staff 

Editor: 

Amy (Kean) VerSteeg ’96 

Director of Public Relations: 

Deidra Baumgardner 

Sports Information Director: 

Kevin Elixman 

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orientation and national origin in any of its 

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in compliance with Title IX of the Federal 

Educational Amendments of 1972, of Executive 

Order 11246 and Revised Order No. 4 of the 

Civil Rights Acts of 1964 as amended in 1972 and 

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. 

On the Cover: 

Nia Wilson ’12 cheers for the Grizzlies during 

the Homecoming football game. 

COVER PHOTO BY KAYLA LEWIS ’11 

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1. Cluster reunion attendees representing the 

classes of 1954–62 seated in row one are: 

Sandra (Finchum) Larrison ’59, Charlene 

(Theall) Frellick ’59, Donna Gregg ’59, 

Charlotte (Shepard) Sharpe ’59, Joella 

(Boyer) Patterson ’59, Joe Van Valer ’59, 

Joseph Lee ’59, Pam (Herring) Hicks ’56, 

Marge (Reasoner) Coble ’59 and Louis 

Osterman ’58. Seated in row two are: Mary 

Margaret (Partenheimer) Webb ’59, Charles 

Cragen ’59, George Anderson ’59, Janet 

(Golba) Keller ’59, Henry Volk ’59, John 

Foist ’59, James Strietelmeier ’59, Richard 

Sharpe ’56 and Jean Ann (Ash) Porter ’60. 

In row three are: Sue (Van Antwerp) Spencer 

’55 , Sue (Miller) Davis ’56, Jan (Johnson) 

Spencer ’61, Billie (Doades) Furnish ’60, 

Barbara (Gamble) Anderson ’60, Robert 

Coble ’57, Robert Williams ’51, Edward 

Siegel ’54, Betty (Wonn) Chastain ’60, Sally 

(Thiesing) Earl ’62, Marilyn (Zellers) Williams 

’57, Jerrie (Henry) Suckow ’59 and Ann 

(Martinez) Mahan ’58. In row four are: Lloyd 

Spencer ’57, Morris Davis ’57, Ray Spencer 

’57, Roger Furnish ’59, Jack Chastain ’59, 

Elmo Carver ’59, Dan Wonn ’59, Robert 

Frellick ’54 and Stephen Suckow ’60. 

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2009 Homecoming 

Homecoming brought hundreds of alumni back to Franklin College, Oct. 15–18, for three days of special gatherings. 

The traditional football game, privy burning and class reunions were a bridge to the past while other activities provided 

the chance for alumni to experience Franklin in new ways. Alumni may never forget attending the 175-year anniversary 

fireworks display after the Hail to Franklin Dinner, seeing two parachutists descend onto the football field with the 

American flag and game ball before kick-off or joining friends for a stroll through the exhibit of historical college photos. 

Whether it was your first Homecoming or your 50th, we’re so glad you were “home” with your Franklin College family. 

Here’s a glimpse of your activities: 

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2. The John Dame Society recognizes individuals celebrating alumni status of 50 years or more. New members 

are inducted during Homecoming each year. In row one are: Jerrie (Henry) Suckow ’59, Donna Gregg ’59, 

Sandra (Finchum) Larrison ’59, Charlene (Theall) Frellick ’59, Joella (Boyer) Patterson ’59, Betty (Packard) 

Voris ’59, Joseph Lee ’59, Caryol (McColley) Ribble ’59, Marge (Reasoner) Coble ’59. In row two are: Joan 

(Roler) Norman ’50, Bud Carr ’59, Ken Tull ’58, George Anderson ’59, Elmo Carver ’59, Robert Wilson ’59, 

Charles Cragen ’59, Jack Chastain ’59, Henry Volk ’59, Jim Strietelmeier ’59, Leah (McCombs) Hooker ’54 

and Martha May Newsom ’49. In row three are: Robert Frellick ’54, Bob Smith ’50, Jim Vandivier ’49, 

Bob Coble ’57, Calvin Davis ’49, Roger Furnish ’59, Bill Andrews ’49, Janet (Golba) Keller ’59, Jack Scott ’49, 

Connie (Richardson) Van Valer ’59, Rosejane (Pruitt) Smith ’49, Joe Van Valer ’59, Virginia “Ginger” 

Johnson Lewis ’49, Carole (Esserman) Thurston ’59, Virginia “Ginny” (Joyce) Rouse ’49, Mary Margaret 

(Partenheimer) Webb ’59, Manuel Guerrero ’59, Bob Doles ’57, Pam (Herring) Hicks ’56, Barbara 

(Schaefer) Doles ’56, Doris (Brown) Alexander ’53, Marilyn (Zellers) Williams ’57, Dallas Campbell ’49, 

Joanne (England) Spears ’49, Barbara (Frellick) Campbell ’49 and Gyneth (Wilson) Fredbeck ’49. 

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3. Split end Adam Mellencamp ’10 heads up field as 

his team watches on the sideline during the Grizzlies’ 

50–23 Homecoming football rout of visiting HCAC rival 

Anderson University. 

4. This panoramic photo, taken from atop the Von Boll 

Press Box, shows a packed Faught Stadium and 

surrounding areas bustling with reunion tents, tailgaters 

and plenty of Grizzlies’ fans. 

5. Franklin College President Jay Moseley and his wife, 

Candace, stand with “king” Jon Bush ’10 and “queen” 

Amanda McIntosh ’10 after presenting the two with 

their Homecoming crowns. 

6. The Old Gold luncheon brought together alumni 

who graduated in 1959 and previous years. Those 

celebrating 50 or more golden years of alumni status 

in row one are: Jerrie (Henry) Suckow ’59, Donna 

Gregg ’59, Sandra (Finchum) Larrison ’59, Joella 

(Boyer) Patterson ’59, Betty (Packard) Voris ’59, 

Joseph Lee ’59, Caryol (McColley) Ribble ’59 and 

Marge (Reasoner) Coble ’59. In row two are: Bud 

Carr ’59, Ken Tull ’58, George Anderson ’59, Elmo 

Carver ’59, Robert Wilson ’59, Charles Cragen ’59, 

Jack Chastain ’59, Henry Volk ’59 and Jim 

Strietelmeier ’59. In row three are: Roger Furnish ’59, 

Janet (Golba) Keller ’59, Connie (Richardson) 

Van Valer ’59, Joe Van Valer, Carole (Esserman) 

Thurston ’59, Mary Margaret (Partenheimer) Webb 

’59 and Manuel Guerrero ’59. 

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1. Class of ’64 reunion attendees 

are: Susan (Mills) Stretchberry, 

Sam Alford, John Orr, Bob 

Baldwin and Marty (Mohr) 

McCarty. 

2. Class of ’69 reunion attendees 

in row one are: Nancy Peters, 

Linda (Perry) Philpott, Ann 

(Miller) Smith, Jane (Totten) 

Galin, Cynthia (Winters) Nowka, 

Candy (Barnes) Pierce, Christine 

(Wroblewski) Raleigh, Susan 

(Staab) DeVoss, Janice (Bursie) 

Ruszkowski, Nancy (Drake) 

Spiker and Bob DeVoss. In row 

two are: Mike Ruszkowski, David 

Dick, Mike Ehringer, Wayne 

Galin, Steve Smith, Bob O’Neill, 

Mike Hall, John Buerger, Marty 

Cuddyre and Molly (Green) 

Cuddyre. 

3. The 2009 Athletic Hall of Fame 

inductees are John Holden ’92, 

former basketball player, Stephanie 

Kramer Bot ’95, former basketball 

player, and Elmer Britton ’66, 

former football player and coach. 

4. A. William Carson ’61, John 

Chiarotti ’67 and Stephen D. 

Leonard display their Alumni 

Council Awards, which were 

presented during the Hail to 

Franklin dinner. Carson received 

the Distinguished Alumni Award. 

Chiarotti earned the Alumni 

Citation for Lifetime Achievement. 

Leonard was named an Associate 

Alumnus. 

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5. Class of ’74 reunion attendees in row 

one are: Annette (Atkinson) Moore, 

Chris (Watts) Anderson, Connie 

(Baker) Searcy, Peggyann Moore and 

Helen (Kunkel) Dwyer. In row two are: 

Dan Moore, Greg Rice, Christi Fields, 

Dee (Arnette) Dickerson, Sandy 

(Jones) Wright, Mark Herzog, Jeff 

O’Brien, Jim Wedding, Dave Lett, Kent 

Tresslar and Steve Fisher. 


one are: Cheryl (Michel) Chojnacki, 

LuAnn (Young) Edwards, Kathy Tucker 

and Nancy A. Busenbark. In row two 

are: Lisa K. Rosenberger, Lisa (Kitchen) 

Butt, Paula Mitchell and Mark Loyd. 

In row three are: Willard Moore, Chris 

Sokolek, Cheryl (Smith) Cutshall, 

Elaine Crabtree, Lisa (Heath) Fisher 

and Joe Walters. In row four are: Randy 

Pease, John Markwalter, Holly 

(Fergason) Pease, Nancy (Glover) 

Carr, Doug West and Jon Robison. 

7. The traditional privy burning takes 

place after the Hail to Franklin Dinner 

on Friday night. Students and alumni 

gathered to watch near the corner of 

Monroe and Forsythe streets. 


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1. Class of ’89 reunion attendees in the 

first row are: Kimberly Strough-Wingo, 

Teresa (Elkin) LeBeau, Angela (Carlton) 

Suski, Rachel (Sheeley) Muzzillo, 

Amy (Anderson) Godby, Lori (Allison) 

Vaughn and Bob Witham. In row two 

are: Dave Childres, Bryan Werner, 

Amy (Sebree) Crawford, Rex H. Brattain, 

Wendy Jones Lamm, Andrew Baldwin, 

Libby (Cummings) Terhune and 

Troy Vaughn. 


one include: Melanie (Parris) Zeiner, Pam 

(Anderson) Burpo, Kim (Lafary) Bemis, 

Marty Gardner, Amy (Breedlove) 

Walker, Patrick Collier, Melani (Smith) 

Weed, Cindy (Stewart) Harcourt and 

Dean A. Hicks. In row two are: 

Todd Bemis, Nancy (Hathaway) Vandell, 

Trich (Ison) Foreman, Dave Wehmeier, 

Chris Ernstes, Dave Poppino and 

Dan Swain. In row three are: Art Bicknell, 

Fred Scott, John Carnes and Lynn Zook. 


3. Homecoming includes the traditional Roy E. Tillotson Alumni Golf Tournament at Hillview Country Club. Dan Rose ’96, Bryan Oberholtzer ’96, Eric Dodds ’00 and 

Shaun Mahoney ’97 were among the 124 participants. 

4. With the Grizzlies and Ravens tied in the second quarter, the cheerleaders look toward football fans in the bleachers and encourage a show of school spirit. Pictured are 

Natalie Snyder ’13, Brooke Gilbert ’11 and Sarah Gerkin ’13. 

5. Class of ’94 reunion attendees in row one are: Allison (Butler) Spegal, Michelle (Miller) Hoggard, Nicolina (Cobo) Kurek, Ellen (Prohaska) Brunner and Diana 

(Daugherty) Wilson. In row two are: Tyler Knight, Erik Arkenberg, Dave Dunkle and Cary Guse. 

6. Running back Ethan Cook ’13 stiff-arms a would-be Anderson University tackler after taking a handoff from quarterback Nathan Ellis ’12 (left) in Franklin’s victory over 

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1. Class of ’99 reunion attendees in row one are: Monica (Coons) Anderson, Meg (Tucker) Sullivan, 

Brooke (Wagoner) Worland, Jenny (Norton) Mowrey, Jocelyn (Pollock) Taylor, Tara Taylor, 

Abby (Sanders) Warren, Allyson (Heminger) Sever and Matthew Simpson. In row two are: Andrea 

Shirley, Doug Black, Kizzy (Smith) Becker, Mandy (Gallion) Prenger, Elisabet (Somer) Murray and 

Mike Sever. 

2. The Franklin College Grizzlies raise their helmets in celebration of a football victory over Anderson 

University. The final score was 50–23. 

3. The Homecoming hospitality suite includes a large display of historic photos, enabling alumni and 

friends to take a walk through college history. 

4. Several fans withstand the 48-degree game day with bare chests to show allegiance to their home 

team. These football fanatics are Jon Weaver ’12, Barry Swigart ’13, Kris Knoblock ’13, Michael 

Cooper ’13, Bryant Wagner ’13 and Matt Hamm ’11. 

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5. Class of ’04 reunion attendees in 

row one are: Nicole (Stutler) Luhman, 

Sarah (Boyd) Mahoy, Ashley (Morris) 

Holzhausen, Natalie (Coers) Mathes 

and Molly (Crone) Frische. In row two 

are: Jennifer Bennett, Trisha Taylor, 

Chris Holzhausen, Daniel Frische, 

Matt Callen and Jessica (Irrgang) 

Zepik. 

6. Several former and current theater 

majors tailgate before the game. 

In front are Alycyn Pratt ’08 and 

Magen Kritsch ’08. Behind them are 

Zach Morris ’11, Brittany Burkett ’10, 

Kelly Lynch ’11, Abby Copeland ’09 

and Kevin Whittington ’07. In the 

back are Kole Christian ’12, Brandon 

Clark ’12, Ben Fisher ’10, Leslie 

Chaney ’10 and Josh Dickey ’12. 

7. The cheerleaders’ reunion drew a 

large crowd of cheerleaders past and 

present. Pictured in the first row are: 

Jessika Osborne ’12, Katlyn Kling ’12 

and Brooke Gilbert ’12. In the second 

row are: Lindsay Letner ’11, Natalie 

Snyder ’13, Allie Paul ’12, Kati 

Graber ’13, Sarah Gerkin ’13, 

Kathleen Spencer ’10, Megan 

Mattingly ’11, Emily Grant ’11 and 

Brittany Lemons ’13. In the third row 

are: Sara (Beeson) Smith ’07, 

Marty (Mohr) McCarty ’64, Jill 

(Carter) Snyder ’93, Tammy (Allison) 

Honeycutt ’88, Donna (Beeler) 

Manley ’74, Peggy (Bond) Thompson 

’73, Marcia (Busenbark) Kinderman 

’75, Nadine (Dellekamp) Shepler ’61, 

Annette (Dellekamp) Boyle ’60, 

Nancy Peters ’69, Nicole Hensley ’08 

and Heather (Wright) Reynolds ’08. 

In the fourth row are: Mary Ellen Pfifer, 

Kelly (Spanier) McMahon ’87, Becky 

Albano-Miller ’78, Marilyn (Brackman) 

Dunn ’59, Ondrea Elkins ’08 and 

Christy Goodman ’10.

PHOTO BY RENEE KEAN ’06 

AROUND CAMPUS 

Living legacies 

Following in the footsteps of relatives who are attending or have graduated from Franklin College is a family 

tradition for many students. Within a family, the custom may even span multiple generations. Each student — 

past or present — represents the family’s Franklin College legacy. This fall, 31 new students who proudly carry 

on their family legacy and share a place in Franklin College history gathered for a photo. 

Class of 2013 legacy students seated in the front row are (relatives’ names are in parentheses): Daniel Morris (Grandmother, Helen List 

Crawford ’61; Grandfather, John “Jack” Morris ’61), Ellen Sichting (Father, Daniel Sichting ’85), Amber Mahan (Aunt, Daneen Butler ’03), 

Jenna Daugherty (Grandfather, Wayne Daugherty ’61; Sister, Natalie Daugherty ’10), Kinzie Caudill (Uncle, Greg Erdman ’78), Keri 

LeBeau (Mother, Teresa Elkin LeBeau ’89), Miriam Flake (Sister, Rebekah Flake Scott ’03), Samantha Pierson (Aunt, Melissa Pierson ’93) 

and Sarah Seward (Father, Tom A. Seward ’86; Grandfather, Tom G. Seward ’54; Uncle David Seward ’91). 

Standing in the middle row are: Natalie Snyder (Mother, Jill Carter Snyder ’87; Father, Rodney Snyder ’87), Mackenzie Church (Greatgrandfather, 

William Church ’34), Matt Brems (Mother, Nora Lowe Brems ’87; Father, Bill Brems ’87), Kristina Dunn (Uncle, Rob Ray ’80; 

Cousin, Kyle Ray ’11), Shannon Beatty (Brother, Kyle Beatty ’04), Bethany Sinkhorn (Brother, Alex Barr ’09), Kye Durbin (Cousin, Tim 

Stearns ’87), Payge Liggett (Sister, Katie Ellis ’07), Tyler Schmidt (Aunts Betsy Schmidt ’85 and Maleta Fisher Schmidt ’96), Emily Tucker 

(Grandfather, Randy Tucker ’53), Tyler Kelly (Sisters Barbara Kelly ’11 and Lindsey (Kelly) Estep ’07; Brother-in-law Mickey Estep ’08), 

Ashley Roell (Brother, Tyler Roell ’10), Becca White (Mother, Cheryl Deckard White ’86), Sara Talbert (Cousin, Lissa Talbert ’08), 

Lydia Robertson (Brother, Ben Robertson ’08) and Isaac Pollert (Mother Cheryl Slone Pollert ’87; Father Tom Pollert ’91). 

Standing in the back row are: Rain Tuley (Sister, Anna Tuley ’12), Nick Stoia (Cousin, Maggie Nuttall ’05), Justin White (Aunt, Becky 

Nichols Skirvin ’93; Cousin, Sean Beeson ’09; Cousin, Corey Beeson ’12), Tyler Heavin (Aunt, Karen Nelson Heavin ’96), Alec DeWitt 

(Father, Dave DeWitt ’85; Sister, Ashlyn DeWitt ’10) and Todd Clark (Aunt, Karen Shurcliff Girgis ’91). 


College earns governor’s award 

PHOTO BY DENISE SZOCKA 

Pictured in the front are: Tom Patz, manager for organizational development and safety, Thomas Easterly, 

commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Carmen Alejo ’11 Green Team 

student leader, Ray Pena ’12 Green Team student leader, Lisa (Combs) Fears ’89, vice president for 

planning, plant and technology, and Rick Bossingham, assistant commissioner of IDEM’s Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Technical Assistance. In the back are: Les Petroff, food service director, Mark Lecher ’00, 

director of plant operations; Alice Heikens, biology professor, Betsy Schmidt ’85, director of development 

research, and Larry Bridges, superintendent of grounds. 

By Samantha Parker ’11 

Pulliam Fellow 

Franklin College has received an Indiana Governor’s Award for Environmental 

Excellence in recognition of its campus composting program. 

During a ceremony held on Sept. 10 at the Indiana University Purdue University- 

Indianapolis campus, Indiana Department of Environmental Management Commissioner 

Thomas Easterly presented the award to college representatives Tom Patz, project manager 

for organizational development and safety, and Lisa (Combs) Fears ’89, vice president for 

planning, plant and technology. 

Through the college’s award-winning composting program, yard and appropriate 

cafeteria food waste was collected and deposited into bins located on campus. Faculty 

members integrated the program into their courses by asking students to keep statistics 

and data to determine what combination of brown and green materials resulted in the 

fastest breakdown of materials and what produced the best nutrient-rich compost. 

Compost harvested from the bins was used in landscaping around campus. 

The composting efforts resulted in 50 tons of waste being converted, saving the college 

approximately $6,500 in vendor fees and landscaping materials. The composting program 

is just one example of the college’s comprehensive commitment to campus “greening,” 

said Patz. Other efforts include installation of energy-saving lighting, green classroom 

practices, native tree planting, recycled material purchases and student and community 

educational program development. 

“We are thrilled that Franklin College has received this recognition from the governor’s 

office,” said Patz. “Our campus Green Team is a wonderful example of the collaboration 

that occurs at Franklin College in an engaged, talented and active community of lifelong 

learners.” 

The Green Team is a voluntary committee of student leaders, alumni, faculty and 

staff who influence how decisions are made and resources are allocated to achieve the 

institutional goal of climate neutrality. The college president and his cabinet members 

also are involved. 

Trayless dining helps 

support campus greening 

By Amy (Kean) VerSteeg ’96 

Editor 

Returning students may have noticed 

something missing from the dining hall 

the first time they had a meal in the Napolitan 

Student Center — plastic trays. Sodexo food 

services introduced the trayless dining 

concept at Franklin College in August. 

According to food service director 

Les Petroff, the college has seen a reduction 

of about 1,000 gallons of water usage per 

week since the change was implemented. 

The amount of detergents and electricity 

needed for clean-up also has been reduced. 

Over the long run, dining overhead should 

reduce as the need to purchase or replace 

trays diminishes. 

Sodexo Inc., parent company of Franklin’s 

student dining services, began challenging 

college campuses to go trayless in 2008 as 

part of a corporate commitment to reduce 

water, waste and negative impact on the 

environment. In the first year, the company 

reported that 150 of its 600 campus clients 

retired their trays, which calculated to be a 

savings of about 200 gallons of water a day 

per 1,000 meals served. 

In a press release, Tom Post, president of 

campus dining for Sodexo Inc. said, 

“Campuses that have tossed the trays also 

report reduced food waste.” 

Some colleges cite that trayless service 

also has helped decrease over-eating among 

students because they opt to keep socializing 

during mealtime rather than leave the table 

to get more food. 

According to the USDA, Americans waste 

almost 25 percent of all food produced 

annually in the United States, every person 

generates 1.3 pounds of food waste daily 

and food waste accounts for 12 percent of all 

U.S. landfill material. 


AROUND CAMPUS 

Empowering girls in 

math, science, technology 

More than 30 participants took part in 

a summer camp created to empower girls 

to excel in math, science and technology. 

The Girls in Power Camp, sponsored by 

the Franklin College AmeriCorps program 

and Johnson County Community 

Foundation through a grant written 

by Annie McEwan ’09, was held on the 

college campus July 13–16. 

“It is important to encourage young 

women to develop an interest in science 

and technology for future career paths as 

well as to learn that they can be successful 

in these areas,” said Jann Johnson, college 

director of professional development and 

AmeriCorps. 

Some highlights of the camp activities 

included a Rube Goldberg exercise in 

which Franklin College AmeriCorps 

volunteers helped the girls make a 

complex device to perform a simple task, 

a hands-on learning session led by Society 

Student responds 

expertly thanks 

to training 

his physical therapy. 

PHOTO BY ETHAN LEFFEL ’11 Lindsay Letner ’11 helps Jacob Crow ’11 with 

of Women Engineers volunteer Denise 

Curtis and an interactive project in 

forensic science conducted under the 

supervision of Gina Ammerman, 

professor of forensic science for Indiana 

University-Purdue University Indianapolis. 

The girls also attended a learning session 

with Franklin College Technology Trainer 

Vicki Mast. Guided by Mast, the girls 

made their own movies with the theme 

“Women Who Make a Difference.” 

Each day of the camp was dedicated to 

introducing the girls to role models and 

resources that could inspire them to 

succeed academically in preparation for 

college and a career. Along with promoting 

science, math and technology, the 

camp also presented information to help 

the girls make informed choices about 

healthy lifestyles and building self-esteem. 

“Through the discussion of these topics 

and other planned activities our hope is 

By Cathleen Nine ’11 


For most students at Franklin College, 

move-in day is a time to worry about arranging 

the furniture. For Lindsay Letner ’11, it 

was an entirely different experience. Letner 

was driving from her home in Bloomington, 

Ind., down State Road 44 when she spotted 

something out of the ordinary. 

PHOTO BY ETHAN LEFFEL ’11 

that the girls came away with not only 

exciting knowledge about careers but also 

a more positive attitude about themselves,” 

said Kristen Stout ’11, Girls in Power 

Camp coordinator. 

“I saw two guys standing on a dangerous 

corner of State Road 44, and another was 

lying on the ground; it didn’t look right,” 

said Letner, an athletic training major. 

Letner, unsure of whether to stop for 

three strangers, initially drove past the 

accident but decided to turn around and 

offer help to the injured man, Randy 

Lowe. He and two friends were on a 

50-mile bike trip from Greenwood to 

Morgantown. The three men were 

experienced bicyclists who often rode 

together. Lowe crashed when a dog ran 

into the road and hit his bike; he was 

severely injured in the crash. 

Drawing from her experiences from 

inside and outside the classroom, 

Letner approached the injured man 

and evaluated his condition, with the 

help of the other two men. 

“I did a quick assessment that I learned 

from my athletic training,” Letner said. 

“We made sure he didn’t need an 

ambulance.” 

However, the three decided Lowe 

should be transported to the hospital. 

Letner, whose car was loaded down with 

things for her dorm room, made room 


Girls in Power Camp participants brainstorm about 

how to use different types of simple machines to pour 

water into a cup without using their hands. 

for Lowe. She drove him to Johnson 

Memorial Hospital, where she had 

previously served a college internship. 

When they arrived at the hospital, Letner 

explained the situation to the triage 

nurse, telling her Lowe appeared to have 

a broken hip and collar bone. Lowe was 

treated at the hospital for broken ribs, a 

concussion and broken collar bone, and 

a pin was placed in his hip. 

After the accident, Lowe’s friends 

remembered that Letner said she was 

an athletic training major at Franklin 

College. They tracked her down through 

the school to send her a thank-you note. 

The note congratulated Letner on being 

a first responder to the accident, a 

comment that particularly sticks with her. 

“It was my first time to be a first 

responder to something,” said Letner. 

“That was pretty cool.” 

Bicyclist Donald Lauer said he was most 

impressed that Letner turned around to 

help out strangers. 

“She couldn’t have been nicer,” said 

Lauer. She is a great ambassador for 

Franklin College. She spoke well for 

herself and her school.” 

New course to focus on women in leadership 



Franklin College realized women were crucial to the education 

equation just eight years after the college’s inception, when it became 

the first co-educational college in Indiana and the seventh in the 

nation in 1842. That catalyst for leadership and social action had a 

profound effect on changing the landscape of Franklin College, 

where today the student enrollment is approximately 50 percent 

women, and the leadership positions of Student Congress President, 

college board of trustees chair and college vice president for planning, 

plant and technology are held by women. 

Women’s contributions, then and 

now, at Franklin College and around 

the world, are the foundation for the 

Leadership Department’s new 

“Women in Leadership” course that 

will be offered this spring. 

“We will discuss historical attitudes 

toward women in power positions as 

well as the extensive current research 

on women in leadership,” said Bonnie 

Pribush, director of leadership development 

and course instructor. “We 

will also talk about the personal skills 

necessary for success in leadership 

today, and the impact of cultural 

differences.” 

The “Women in Leadership” course 

evolved from a program last year that 

required the college’s major scholarship 

winners to meet periodically with 

the leadership department director 

and work on developing leadership 

projects that engaged them with the 

college community. The three recipients 

for 2008–09 were all women, and 

they were inspired by their opportunity 

to meet current board of trustees 

chair Susan Johnson DeVoss ’65, the 

first woman in Franklin College history 

to hold the position. The course was 

developed in response to the students’ 

interest and their suggestions made 

during the program. 

The “Women in Leadership” course 

will be offered in two formats: A onecredit 

version for Franklin College 

students and women in the community 

will consist of four weekend workshops, 

one reflection discussion and 

a paper. An additional two credits will 

be offered to traditional Franklin 

College students who will meet during 

a regular class to discuss class readings. 

Four speakers have been selected to 

lead workshops: The first is Linda 

Carli, an associate professor of 

psychology at Wellesley College and 

co-author of Through the Labrynth — 

The Truth about How Women Became 

Leaders. Carolyn Davis, president of 

Alliance Coaching and an executive 

coach and leadership consultant, is 

the second speaker. The third speaker 

is Ethlie Ann Vare, author of Mothers 

of Invention. Vare will speak to the 

Franklin College community in 

March as part of the college’s 175th 

anniversary convocation series and 

Women’s History Month celebration. 

The fourth is Juana Bordas, president 

of Mestiza Leadership International 

and author of Salsa, Soul and Spirit. 



AROUND CAMPUS 

Lugar urges education reform, direction in Afghanistan 



U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar kicked off the 

Franklin College 175th anniversary convocation 

series on Sept. 20 with a lecture 

focused on education reform and the 

future of American troops in Afghanistan. 

“I still believe that the educational 

system in our country remains an area in 

great need of bold reform and courageous 

leadership and vision,” said Lugar. “The 

issues may be different than during my days 

Former Lugar interns include Cathleen Nine ’11, 

Amanda (Personett) Shelley ’07, Colleen 

Merkel ’07, Wayne Stanley ’08, Rochelle Revor 

’08, Zach Watson ’10 and Renee Estridge ’11. 

Kayla Cash ’11 is the current Franklin College 

intern in Washington, D.C., this semester. 

on the [Indianapolis] school board [in the 

1960s], but our country currently faces an 

enormous challenge in strengthening and 

adapting our educational system to meet 

higher standards, improve accountability 

and increase our country’s competitiveness 

internationally.” 

He cited that Indiana’s high school 

graduation rates range from 13.3 percent 

to 99.3 percent, with the average hovering 

around 70 percent over the past several 

years. 

He also noted that the U.S. doesn’t 

stack-up internationally; 40 years ago, 

America had the best graduation rates in 

the world. Now, the U.S. ranks 18th. 

“Estimates show that if the gap in 

performance were closed, the GDP 

would be 1.3 to 2.3 trillion dollars higher,” 

Lugar said. “This number represents a 

staggering 9–16 percent of our Gross 

Domestic Product. Consider, in the midst 

of the current financial crisis, what such a 

boost would mean to the economy.” 

Lugar said one key to raising the 

standard of American education is to 

ensure that teachers meet minimal 

requirements for the subject which 

they teach. Lugar said he will try to 

champion education reform efforts at a 

federal level. 

Journalist promotes peace, builds schools 


Editor 

The co-author of the New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s 

Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time was a guest lecturer in October. 

Journalist Greg Mortenson spoke to a full house in the Spurlock Center 

gymnasium during his lecture, which was part of the college’s 175th anniversary 

convocation series. 

Mortenson’s book tells the story of his attempt to reach the peak of K2 in 

1993. After a failed attempt, he was exhausted and disoriented and wandered 

away from his group into the most desolate reaches of northern Pakistan. 

Alone, without food, water or shelter, he stumbled into an impoverished 

Pakistani village where he was nursed back to health. 

Lugar also touched briefly on America’s 

involvement in Afghanistan, saying 

President Obama faces a major political 

problem within the Senate. 

“There are a number of members 

questioning what our objectives are in 

[Afghanistan] quite apart from whether 

we ought to have more people there,” 

said Lugar. “[Some suggest] Al Qaeda 

may be in 10 or 20 places.” 

Lugar said one solution filtering 

through the Senate is a mobile force 

comprised of land, water and air forces 

stationed across the Middle East in 

hospitable locations. 

Since 2004, Lugar has partnered with 

Franklin College on an intern program, 

giving journalism students the opportunity 

to work with the press team at his office 

in Washington, D.C. One past participant, 

Wayne Stanley ’08, joined Lugar’s Fort 

Wayne, Ind., press office as a full-time 

staff member upon graduating from 

college. Stanley and several other former 

interns attended Lugar’s recent lecture. 

The college’s convocation series will 

continue through April. To view the 

full schedule of speakers go to 

www.franklincollege.edu and click on 

the anniversary logo or request a brochure 

at (317) 738-8185. 

New York Times best-selling author Greg Mortenson autographs 

Three Cups of Tea for Natalie Snyder ’13 while DeAmber 

Jaggers ’13 waits her turn. 

While recovering he observed the village’s 84 children sitting outdoors, scratching their lessons in the dirt with sticks. The village 

was so poor that it could not afford the $1-a-day salary to hire a teacher. When Mortenson left the village, he promised that he would 

return to build them a school. Since then he’s made his life’s work a humanitarian campaign to help the children of Pakistan and 

Afghanistan. To date, Mortenson has helped establish 78 schools. 

During his lecture, the audience had a chance to ask questions about the book and hear Mortenson’s message about how character 

and determination really can change the world. 


Jamie Bromley, assistant professor of 

psychology, teaches general psychology, 

theories of personality and abnormal 

psychology. She holds a doctorate in 

counseling psychology from the University 

of Akron and a master’s degree in 

psychology from Duquesne University. 

Her bachelor’s degree in psychology is 

from the University of Dallas. 

Karen Burgard, assistant professor of 

education, teaches educational psychology, 

geography and social studies methods. 

She currently is pursuing a doctorate in 

interdisciplinary education and history. 

She holds a master of arts in education 

from University of Missouri-Kansas City 

and a master of integrated humanities in 

education from Rockhurt University. 

Her bachelor’s degree in education is 

from University of Missouri-Columbia. 

Jamie Bromley Karen Burgard Kevin R. Burke 

Heather Clifton Nicolas Crisafulli Lynn Fletcher 

College welcomes new faculty 

Kevin R. Burke, assistant professor of 

fine arts in music, teaches music history 

and music theory courses and serves as 

coordinator of instrumental music. He 

currently is preparing to defend his 

dissertation for a doctorate in musicology 

from the University of Cincinnati, College- 

Conservatory of Music; he holds a master 

of music degree in music history from 

the same institution. His bachelor of 

music in French horn performance is 

from Appalachian State University, Hayes 

School of Music. 

Heather Clifton, laboratory coordinator 

for the Natural Sciences Division, teaches 

general chemistry laboratory courses. She 

holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in 

chemistry from Ball State University. 

faculty/staff NEWS 

Thirteen distinguished full-time faculty members joined the Franklin College family in August. Like 

Franklin’s outstanding returning faculty members, they share a deep commitment to preparing students 

for significant careers through the liberal arts. Please join the college in welcoming these full-time 

faculty members: 

Nicolas Crisafulli, lecturer of fine arts, 

teaches acting, theater appreciation and 

public speaking. He holds a master of fine 

arts degree in theater directing from the 

University of Memphis and a bachelor’s 

degree in theater arts and political science 

from Presbyterian College. 

Lynn Fletcher, assistant professor of 

biology, teaches introductory biology for 

non-majors and biology for education 

majors. She holds a doctorate in 

neurobiology and behavior from Cornell 

University. Her bachelor’s degree in 

biological sciences is from Mount Holyoke 

College. 


faculty/staff NEWS 

Casey Hayes, assistant professor of fine 

arts in music, teaches the Franklin College 

choral ensembles, music appreciation 

courses and private voice lessons. He 

holds a doctorate in music education 

from New York University. His master’s 

degree in choral conducting and his 

bachelor’s degree in music education 

are from Butler University. 

Heather Mollé, assistant professor of 

mathematics, teaches a variety of math 

courses, including functions and models, 

calculus, quantitative reasoning and 

differential equations. She is currently 

pursuing a doctorate of philosophy in 

mathematics from the University of Iowa. 

Her bachelor of science degree in mathematics 

and physics, and her bachelor of 

arts degree in mathematics are from 

Truman State University. 

Casey Hayes Heather Mollé Dianne Moneypenny 

Christine Nemcik Randall Smith Kristin Wasielewski 

Dianne Moneypenny, instructor of modern 

languages, teaches Spanish 100- and 

300-level courses. She is currently pursuing 

a doctorate in Spanish literature from 

the University of Kentucky. She holds 

a master’s degree in Spanish from the 

University of Louisville and a bachelor’s 

degree in biology and Spanish from 

Indiana University Southeast. 

Sarah Mordan-McCombs, assistant 

professor of biology, teaches principles 

of biology, anatomy and physiology, 

genetics and molecular biotechnology. 

She holds a doctorate in biology from 

Notre Dame University. Her bachelor’s 

degree in biology is from DePauw 

University. 

Christine Nemcik, assistant professor of 

history, teaches courses in the liberal arts 

core curriculum, including The Self in 

Society: Thinking, Reading, and Writing 

Critically and The Past and Present: 

The World Since 1750, as well as courses 

in Latin American history. She holds both 

a doctorate and master’s degree in Latin 

American history from Indiana University. 

Her bachelor’s degree in history and 

German is from Illinois Wesleyan 

University. 

Sarah Mordan-McCombs 

Randall Smith, assistant professor of 

political science, teaches Introduction to 

International Relations, International Law 

and Organizations, Social and Political 

Thought, Climate Change and You: 

Making A Difference and American 

Constitutional Law. He holds a doctorate 

in political science from the University of 

Illinois at Chicago and a master’s degree 

in political science from the University of 

Illinois at Springfield. His bachelor’s 

degree in political science is from Quincy 

University. 

Kristin Wasielewski, assistant professor 

of modern languages, teaches a variety 

of French courses, ranging from 

intermediate- to career-level as well as 

advanced grammar and composition. 

She also teaches Introduction to French 

Culture. She holds a doctorate, master’s 

and bachelor’s degrees from the 

University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

She taught part-time at Franklin College 

for six years prior to accepting a full-time 

appointment this academic year. 


Franklin College coach, athlete honored together 

By Rick Morwick 

Johnson County Daily Journal staff writer 

Reprinted with permission. 

For a host of reasons, Ruth (Doub) 

Callon ’52 is a legendary figure at Franklin 

College. A retired coach and professor, 

she essentially created the women’s 

athletics program at the school and 

devoted most of her adult life to fostering 

statewide playing and teaching opportunities 

for female athletes. 

But of all her achievements at Franklin, 

one stands out for its uniqueness. 

In 1976, she successfully persuaded 

the state’s first Miss Basketball, Judi 

Warren ’80, to continue her playing 

career at Franklin College. 

Warren played four standout seasons 

for the Grizzlies before embarking on a 

successful high school coaching career 

that included guiding Carmel to a runnerup 

finish in the 1995 state finals. 

Thirty-five years later, Callon and 

Warren, who both are members of the 

Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, remain 

close friends. 

And fittingly, they are among the 

women honored on July 30 during the 

Indiana Fever’s “Inspiring Women Night.” 

During the Fever’s game against the 

Connecticut Sun, 15 female sports and 

community leaders from central Indiana 

were recognized in a halftime presentation. 

Legendary University of Tennessee 

women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt 

was the guest speaker. 

Callon, 79, relished the opportunity to 

share the moment with her former star 

player. 

“I’m proud and humbled to be recognized 

with Judi,” said Callon, a lifelong 

Whiteland resident. “She’s done such an 

excellent job being the first Miss 

Basketball. 

“She had a genuine care and respect for 

the girls she coached. Anything she does, 

she does to the best of her ability.” 

Warren, 51, was equally delighted to 

share the halftime spotlight with Callon, 

who coached the Grizzlies from 1962–83. 

“Ruth Callon is the reason I went 

there,” said Warren, who was named 

Miss Basketball and the state’s first female 

Mental Attitude Award winner after 

leading Warsaw to the state championship 

in the inaugural year of the IHSAA girls 

basketball tournament. 

Despite her success on the court, 

Warren was ready to hang up her hightops 

and pursue a degree in education at 

Ball State. 

But her plans changed after a series 

of conversations with Callon. 

In 1976, only two Indiana colleges 

offered scholarships for women’s basketball. 

Indiana State was one of them. 

Franklin College, an NAIA member at 

the time, was the other. 

“(Callon) was pretty persistent and 

encouraged me to come down to 

Franklin,” Warren said. “Once I did, I was 

pretty much sold.” 

Warren, a multisport athlete at Warsaw, 

started four seasons on the Grizzlies’ 

basketball and field hockey teams. 

After college, she embarked on a 

20-year head coaching career that 

included stops at South Dearborn 

(1980–81), Maconaquah (1982–1988) 

and Carmel (1988–2000). 

Warren retired from coaching after 

the 2000 season but still teaches 

elementary physical education in the 

Carmel school system. 

“(Callon) was definitely an inspiration 

to me for going into coaching,” Warren 

said. “She’s very genuine and very 

caring for anyone who needs a hand 

for anything. 

“She’s always there to help.” 

Besides coaching and teaching at 

Franklin, Callon was a pioneer in the 

overall advancement of girls and women’s 

sports in Indiana. 

When she began coaching and teaching 

at the college in 1962, women’s athletics 

were highly unorganized and lacked a 

governing body. 

Callon changed that by leading a 

committee that formed the Indiana 

Collegiate Women’s Sports Organization. 

Besides providing women’s college 

teams with their own league, the 

sports 

organization drafted uniform rules and 

eligibility for member schools. 

In addition, Callon was one of the first 

in Indiana to establish skills camps and 

summer basketball camps for high school 

junior and senior girls. In 1973, she served 

on the IHSAA’s first girls advisory board, 

which laid the groundwork for the creation 

of the girls state tournament series. 

Despite her tireless efforts, Callon insists 

the credit for leveling the playing field for 

females belongs to countless individuals 

whose names won’t be mentioned during 

tonight’s halftime ceremony. 

“There are a lot of women who did as 

much or more than I did,” said Callon, 

who enjoys gardening and is active in her 

church. “God worked things out. 

“Now the girls can play and play under 

the right conditions with good officiating. 

I never in my wildest dreams thought that 

women would play professionally.” 

Judi Warren ’80 and Ruth (Doub) Callon ’52 

stand on the basketball court to be recognized during 

the Indiana Fever’s “Inspiring Women Night.” 


PHOTO BY FRANK MCGRATH, INDIANA FEVER

PHOTO BY KEVIN ELIXMAN 

sports 

Franklin men’s soccer head coaches: 

1984–87 — John McLachlan 

1988–90 — Ray Lord 

1991 — Brian McManus ’89 

1992 — Rahim Elghamni 

1993–96 — Tom Pollert ’91 

1996–99 — Bob Boucher 

2000–05 — Maurice Schilten 

2006–present — Shaun Mahoney ’97 

Franklin’s individual honorees: 

NAIA scholar-athlete 

1988 — Dan Markham ’89 

All-Indiana collegiate athletic 

conference first team: 

1989 — Mike Sage ’93, Kelley Lasek ’90 

1991 — Cory Robertson ’95, 

Mark Susemichel ’92 

1994 — Andy Glover ’98, 

Kristofer Scheid ’97 

All-Heartland collegiate athletic 

conference first team: 

2001 — Dominic Favia ’02 

2003 — Howen Hernandez ’04, 

Andy Pickett ’07 

2005 — Jacob White ’06 

2007 — Michael Harwood ’09 

2008 — Rocky Legge ’10 

Participants in the 2009 alumni vs. students soccer game included in row one: Andy Pickett ’07, 

Joe Copeland ’05, Jacob White ’06, Kevin Smith ’03, Howen Hernandez ’04, Jody Tooley ’04, 

Rob Bush ’08, Ben Robertson ’08 and William Stafford ’99. In row two are: Michael Harwood ’09, 

Ben Jarvis ’08, Joe Stack ’09, Justin VanHorn ’06, T.J. Davis ’06, Nick Rensing ’09, Daniel 

Schuetz ’97, Gavin Teevan ’99, Brian Davis ’95, Ryan Brodfuehrer ’90, Kelley Lasek ’90, 

Brian McManus ’89, Tom Pollert ’91 and Chris Morlock ’93. 

Men’s soccer celebrates 25 years 

By Kevin Elixman 

Sports Information Director 

The 2009 fall season marked the 25th for the Franklin College varsity men’s soccer 

program. The team celebrated its anniversary with a game in late August between its 

current members and an alumni team, featuring Grizzly players from throughout the 

program’s history. 

Despite reaching the quarter century mark, soccer is the second youngest program 

within men’s athletics. Only men’s swimming, which began intercollegiate competition 

this academic year, is newer. 

Franklin College fielded its first men’s soccer team in 1984 under Coach John 

McLachlan. The Grizzlies posted a 1–11–1 record that season. 

In his first year as head coach, Maurice Schilten coached Franklin to its only winning 

season (10-9-0) in 2000. The team was 1–18–0 the previous year. Franklin also made its 

first Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament in 2000. The fourth-seeded 

Grizzlies fell to top-seeded Anderson University 3–1 at Anderson on Nov. 1, 2000. 

In Schilten’s final season, Franklin won North Central College’s annual Sal Vaccaro 

Tournament for the first time in 2005. 

Tom Pollert ’91 was the second former Grizzly soccer player to become the program’s 

head coach, after Brian McManus ’89. Pollert’s son, Isaac Pollert ’13, who joined the 

team this season, is the first second-generation soccer player at Franklin College. 

Shaun Mahoney ’97, now in his fourth season, is the third former Franklin player 

to take the head coaching reins and is determined to build a winning program after 

coaching at the high school level for 10 years. 

Regardless of the team’s accomplishments on the field, Mahoney wants more for his 

athletes than wins; he encourages excelling in academics and building camaraderie with 

teammates as part of their experience. 

“We want them to leave with a sense of the values of the college and to have a sense 

of self-discipline. We want soccer to be an extension of the learning experience,” said 

Mahoney. 

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2008–09 Annual Report 

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Message from the board chair: 

Dear Alumni and Friends, 

Over the past fiscal year, hardly a day has gone by when the 

board of trustees has not thought about Franklin College’s 

finances. Chances are you and your family spend significant 

time looking at your own financial picture. 

Like donors, the board of trustees deliberates extensively 

about financial decisions. We take the trust and faith put into 

our collective hands very seriously, and we look to Franklin’s 

history of honorably serving students through wars, 

recessions and economic good times as a guiding principle 

for our efforts. In a similar way, individual donors reflect on 

the value of their Franklin experiences as a guide for giving. 

We are very grateful that the fiscal year fundraising results 

indicate the high value supporters place on their college 

experience; fundraising for the Franklin Fund totaled 

$643,400, which exceeded 

the goal, and alumni 

participation reached 

28 percent. We sincerely 

thank you for your loyal 

support during a difficult year. 

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Your support was significant 

to the board of trustees’ work 

in doing what we believe is 

best for Franklin College. We 

are proud of our fiscal year 

accomplishments: 

The board of trustees approved an increase in Franklin’s 

tuition by less than 4 percent and a budget that will give 

raises to college employees next year. The incremental tuition 

increase helped stabilize enrollment and enable advocacy 

for those students whose college of choice is Franklin. 

Employee raises are vital to retention and recruitment to 

ensure continuation of the caring work that Franklin’s faculty 

and staff do on behalf of students every day. 

The board of trustees also collaborated with Franklin’s 

employees and students during the process of crafting and 

modifying a Campus Master Plan, which, coupled with a more 

comprehensive Franklin College Plan, will provide a blueprint 

for our actions for the next 10 to 15 years. We will keep you 

involved and informed every step of the way as we put into 

place plans and programs to meet future needs. 

As always, the board of trustees operates with a commitment 

to serving students, recruiting and retaining outstanding 

faculty and staff, securing the quality of the liberal arts and 

spreading the word about the Franklin College experience. 

As we work toward building Franklin’s endowment, 

increasing the Franklin Fund for Student Scholarships, 

recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty and enhancing 

college programs and facilities, the need for your continuing 

support will be of high priority. Thank you for being our 

partner and enabling us to look at Franklin’s future with 

confidence. 

Sincerely, 

Susan Johnson DeVoss ’65 

Board of Trustees Chair 

Message from the president: 

Dear Alumni and Friends, 

Franklin College is a sound and strong institution, poised to face the 

challenges as our nation continues working through tough economic times. 

Franklin, as it has historically, perseveres because of its people. Individuals — 

past and present — who have invested their hearts and minds in Franklin 

College are our greatest resource. 

Franklin is doing well in these difficult times 

because of the quality and character of our 

supporters, those who believe in our college 

mission and are committed to serving students. 

Franklin’s supporters care deeply about 

preparing men and women for significant careers 

through the liberal arts. Moreover, Franklin’s 

supporters know that learning to think for 

oneself, to communicate clearly, and to work with, 

for, and on behalf of other people is the true path 

to a life of excellence, leadership and service. 

Franklin’s career-focused liberal arts experience 

coupled with a stable enrollment of approximately 

1,000 is integral to effectively fulfilling our 

mission. We’re the perfect size for what we do, 

making education genuinely interpersonal and 

enabling the college to deliver transformative 

learning experiences for students. 

In these uncertain economic times, the backbone of Franklin College is fiscal 

integrity. The Council of Independent Colleges Composite Financial Index 

compares 740 colleges in terms of the sufficiency and flexibility of resources, the 

management of debt, the performance of assets, and the results of operations. 

A score of three is considered the threshold for financial health. In the last six 

years, Franklin’s scores have progressed from 5.6 to the current 8.6. 

While we’re proud of Franklin’s tremendous progress, there’s still much work to 

do. We hope you’ll join us in securing the future of Franklin College. 

A key strategy for the future is the Campus Master Plan, crafted collaboratively by 

faculty, staff, students, alumni and trustees. The plan will guide our thinking 

about facilities and grounds for the next 10 to 15 years. As the Campus Master 

Plan is integrated into the overall Franklin College Plan, we will explore ways to 

fulfill our distinctive mission more effectively. With your help, we will ensure that 

Franklin College remains accessible to the students we serve well. 

Eleven current students are featured in this Annual Report to provide you with 

a glimpse of the outstanding young people your financial gifts assist; they are our 

future, the men and women who will go on to make a difference in the world. 

Among the same pages are favorite stories told by 11 alumni, whose memories 

of Franklin’s past serve as an important record of college history. 

Then and now, it’s Franklin’s people who make this a great time to be a Grizzly. 

Thank you for supporting Franklin College and our students. 

Sincerely, 

Jay Moseley 

President

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Accounts receivable, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,031,758 

Pledges receivable, net of allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $376,918 

Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $67,782,191 

Inventories, prepaid expenses and other assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $556,363 

Investments in plant, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $50,895,901 

Bond issue costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $170,968 

Cash surrender value of life insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $343,558 

Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $125,439,252 

LIABILITIES 

Accounts payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $415,660 

Accrued payroll and other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $560,041 

Borrowings under lines of credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,400,000 

Long-term debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,401,335 

Advances from federal agency for student loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,852,203 

Liabilities under charitable annuity unitrust agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $806,769 

Capital lease obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $126,525 

Deferred tuition; fees and deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $298,319 

Funds held for campus organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $116,746 

Total liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,977,598 

NET ASSETS 

Unrestricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $60,403,697 

Temporarily restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,788,638 

Permanently restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $36,269,319 

TOTAL NET ASSETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $108,461,654 

TOTAL LIABILITES AND NET ASSETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $125,439,252 

REVENUES 

Auxiliaries 14.8% 

Investment Income 11.1% 

Miscellaneous 0.8% 

Tuition and fees 61.9% 

Contributions (including pledges) 11.3% 

Student services 15.8% 

Institutional support 7.9% 

Academic support 9.6% 

Fundraising 4.0% 

Statement of Financial Position 

June 30, 2009 

Endowment Investment 

The Franklin College Endowment is invested according 

to the policy adopted by the board of trustees. 

An investment committee directs and reviews the 

endowment fund policies and performance. 

The market value of the endowment investments totals 

$69,891,700, as of June 30, 2009. The majority of the 

funds are maintained in the endowment pool; others 

are invested individually due to donor restrictions. 

Eighteen investment firms are retained to manage the 

endowment pool funds. The endowment pool, which 

has a balance of $68,041,935, is invested as follows: 

Cash and cash equivalents 4.2% . . . . . . . . . . $2,852,945 

Bonds 3.5% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,402,225 

Bond mutual funds 14.1% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,623,156 

Stocks 3.4% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,304,863 

Stock mutual funds 37.6% . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,557,068 

Alternative investments 29.0% . . . . . . . . . . $19,721,678 

Real estate 8.2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,580,000 

Other endowment funds are separately invested per 

instructions of the donor. These funds total $1,849,765. 

The endowment also includes life income and annuity 

funds with a market value of $1,247,672. 

EXPENDITURES 

Auxiliary enterprises 12.3% 

Instruction 23.5% 

Student aid 26.9% 

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Mary Alice (Wagner) Medlicott ’45 

“My experiences as a student took place during the exact 

years of World War II, 1941–45. 

The morning after the attack on Pearl Harbor, we had 

a special college convo, led by then-president William 

Gear Spencer. “Prexy” was usually a strictly formal 

speaker. That time, however, he became quite emotional, 

actually shedding tears as he, who was himself the father 

of five sons, observed that we could expect that men of 

the campus would be called into service and things in 

general on campus and in our society would be changing. 

And change they did! Shortly thereafter, the men began 

leaving for service, and the women were by far in the 

majority. While we continued with campus activities and 

traditions, there was a definite change, a sullenness 

that pervaded all of campus life. One of my very clear 

memories is of girls rushing to pick up their mail 

between classes, where they would sit and cry as they 

read letters from their boyfriends who were in service. 

What a challenge to professors who were desperately 

trying to teach! 

Social events changed. Dinner dances, for instance, had 

often been held in Indianapolis, but with the rationing of 

gasoline, out-of-town events were either canceled or 

moved back to local places. Like the rest of the country, 

we experienced shortages. Women on campus, for 

instance, unable to buy nylon hosiery, resorted to 

smearing beige-colored cream make up on our legs. 

When word would come that the local clothing store 

had a shipment of nylons, we would rush downtown to 

try to buy some, usually limited to one pair per person. 

It was a sobering time, but somehow we were able to 

forge happy memories, and the togetherness that we 

experienced was conducive to forming bonds of 

friendship that have lasted through the years.” 

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LEADERS FOR LIFE 

Recognizes alumni and friends with 

cumulative giving to Franklin 

College of $1 million. 

† Drs. Otto and Effie Behrens 

Dr. and Mrs. V. Von Boll 

Drs. Clifford and Paula Dietz 

Dr. Margot Lacy Eccles 

Carolyn Thurston Holden 

Dr. and † Mrs. Robert A. 

Johnson 

Ruth Lilly 

Harry F. McNaught, Jr. — 

Franklin Tech Park 

Drs. James T. and Sandra Mock 

Napolitan 

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE 



College of $500,000 or more. 

The Circle also honors those who 

have made arrangements through 

their bequests to remember the college 

with a gift of more than 

$750,000. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gregg W. Happe 

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hoover 

Mr. Frank and † Dr. Joyce Tull 

Hutcheon 

† Mr. Denzil and Dr. Mary 

Margaret Webb 

Dr. and Mrs. Thorp L. Wolford 

AMBASSADORS CIRCLE 



College of $250,000 or more. The 

Circle also honors those who have 

made arrangements through their 

bequests to remember the college 

with a gift of more than $500,000. 

† Mr. and Mrs. William S. 

Hamilton 

Gene and Mary Lou Henderson 

Mark and Carmen Holeman 

Dr. and Mrs. Wil B. Nelp 

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Peterson 

† deceased 

Rod J. Ratcliff 

† Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. 

Van Nuys 

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. 

Vandivier 

FOUNDERS CIRCLE 

Recognizes alumni and friends 

with cumulative giving to Franklin 






† Dr. and Mrs. Hugh K. Andrews 

Mrs. Nancy H. Auld 

Mrs. Evelyn H. Blanford 

Marian D. Callon 

Mrs. Pauline DeVore Crump 

† Dr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Curnutt 

Jay M. and Susan J. DeVoss 

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Dickinson 

† H. Dean and Vera Evans 

Christine S. Fields and 

Jack Borgerding 

Mr. and Mrs. Irvin L. French 

Mr. and Mrs. John Grimmer 

Stephen D. & Susan Klein 

Leonard 

Elaine and Ted Marston 

Patsy Hughes McKee 

Alexander R. Mehran 

Mr. Bohdan Mysko 

† Ms. Marie Pitcher 

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Potter 

William J. & Vicki Receveur 

Ruth A. Schwieger 

† Vern and † Libby Sheldon 

Dr. and Mrs. James E. Spicer 

Ms. Jennifer D. St. Martin 

Mr. Tom St. Martin 

Dr. and Mrs. Donald W. Tharp 

Dr. and Mrs. John D. Tharp 

Mr. Dan K. Thomasson 

Mr. Douglas L. Tillman 

Mr. Frank D. Tull 

Mr. Joe N. and Dr. Constance 

Richardson Van Valer 

M. Max Wesemann 

Arch and Charlotte West 

R.W. and Jean Peterson 

Winkler 

THEN 

&NOW 

SCHOLARS CIRCLE 








John and Beth Auld 

† James R. and Lou Taylor 

Axelberg 

Drs. Leonard and Teresa 

Bissonnette 

Mr. and Mrs. Reinhard 

Bockstette 

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Brown 

Jack M. Byrum 

Daniel and Gloria Castro- 

Hearn 

John M. Chiarotti 

Mary Ann Collier 

Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Coverdale 

Carol R. Dennis 

Lloyd L. and Susan O. Douglas 

Mr. Kenneth O. Dunn 

Mr. and Mrs. W. Richard Fisher 

Mr. and Mrs. James Frische 

Kathy M. Giovanini 

Dr. and Mrs. Boyd E. Haley 

† Dr. David A. and Pam Hicks 

Helen and Lee Hodgen 

Randall O. Kahn 

Myrna M. Killey 

Nolan R. Lackey 

Eunice Killen Lyman 

Lucille Dodgson Mayo 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Pauszek 

Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Powell 

Harve and † Joyce Rawson 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rea 

Lorelei and Pete Redding 

Jane Hoffmeister Repp 

Dr. Elizabeth Richardson Ruben 

Robert D. and Janet E. Schafstall 

Mr. and Mrs. William R. 

Scherer, Jr. 

Bud and Ruby Schooler 

Miss Edith E. Smith 

Dr. and Mrs. John M. Spears 

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. Spencer 

Mr. and † Mrs. Randall Tucker 

† Dr. and Mrs. Dallas J. West 

Mr. Alson and Dr. Theressa 

Wright

OLD MAIN SOCIETY 




Society also honors those who 

have made arrangements through 

their bequests to remember the 

college with a gift of more than 

$50,000. 

Joyce K. Allen 

Joni M. Anderson 

Tom and Susan Armor 

J.R. and Janet Bishop 

Jerry A. and Linda A. Brown 

Dr. and Mrs. John C. Buhner 

Pete and Ann Cangany 

Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Colburn 

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Collier 

Dr. and Mrs. Forest Daugherty 

Dr. and Mrs. Marvin E. DeBoer 

Robert A. and Susan K. DeVoss 

C.W. and Constance Eggers 

Dr. and Mrs. Keith Ernst 

Max R. Fitzpatrick 

Mary Jane (Lilly) Flaningam 

† Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. 

Giddens, Sr. 

Dr. and Mrs. Robyn Goshorn 

Betty Mitchell Goss 

Mr. and Mrs. Ted R. Grossnickle 

Mary Lu Bergdoll Hanson 

Dr. and Mrs. Carroll Hasewinkel 

† Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. 

Hathaway 

John R. Hauser 

Randall K. Hindman 

† Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hinnefeld 

Susan Stum Hott 

Dr. J. Thomas Howald 

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. 

Huddleston 

Mr. and Mrs. Needham S. Hurst 

K&F Industries, Greg Kroot, 

Barbara Lee 

Joe and Marilyn Lain 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold K. Lawson 

Dr. William F. Lincoln 

Ann Martinez Mahan 

Chancellor and Mrs. William 

Bryan Martin 

Donald and Vicki Fulmer 

McComb 

† Dr. and Mrs. John M. McKain 

Larry and Carole McKinney 

Martha May Newsom 

Richard and Joan Norman 

Dr. Donald Orlosky 

James L. Oxley 

Dr. and Mrs. Leon Pacala 

Dr. and Mrs. Robert O. 

Peckinpaugh 

George W. Pendygraft 

Mr. and Mrs. William L. 

Percifield 

Ms. Anna Lou Pickett 

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Ogden 

Powell; † Hubert Hunter 

Ogden 

† Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. 

Raymond 

Linda Gates Sabo 

June and Karl Schubert 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Smith 

Jane (Dungan) and John Sohn 

David W. Tharp 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Treibic 

† J. David and Jane Vandivier 

Mike and Janet Wadsworth 

Nancy (Zellar) Weber 

Mr. and Mrs. David K. 

Wilkinson 

Mike and Dawn Zolnierek 

PRESIDENT’S CLUB 




Club also honors those who have 




Dean J. Abplanalp 

Gil and Rita Abplanalp 

Sharon C. Ackerson 

Carol L. Allen 

George and Barbara Gamble 

Anderson 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. 

Andrews 

† Dr. Gardner P. Ashley 

† Jack V. and H. Louise Austin 

Kevin M. and Ann Kutch 

Barton 

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. 

Beardsley 

Bryan A. and Linda Sue Beeler 

† Worth and Marilyn Bennett 

Mrs. Barbara R. Bernard 

Diana S. Black 

Mr. and Mrs. William Black 

Joel Blanton 

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Blizzard 

Gregory M. and Susan Boll 

† Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe Boyer 

Mr. Thomas W. Boyer 

Donald P. Bozell 

William J. and Nora E. Brems 

Kristy K. Brown 

Donna Calvin Browne 

Earl and Nancy Burkholder 

Samuel D. and Alaine M. Bush 

Ruth Doub Callon 

Dr. Hollace D. Chastain II 

Mr. and Mrs. Todd P. Check 

† Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Chupp 

Nolan and Marian Cooper 

William E. and Karen L. Cox 

† Mrs. Mildred B. Crafton 

Dr. Brad N. Crawford 

Brad and Julie Davis 

Dr. Calvin D. Davis 

Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Davis 

Mr. and Mrs. David A. Denslaw 

Robert Desatnick & Margo 

Bennett 

David and Lori DeWitt 

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Dickerson 

Raymond J. Dorulla 

Mr. and Mrs. James V. Due 

Mr. Robert E. Dunlap 

Mr. and tMrs. Jack V. Early 

Mr. William H. Elett 

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Fairfield 

Ms. Lora L. Fitch 

Mr. Richard W. Fitch 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Flaks 

Prof. Emerita Susan Fleck and 

Dr. David Wantz 

Mr. Richard L. Flecker 

Lt. Col. Robert I. Foist 

Mr. Randolph L. Foxworthy 

Mel and Gyneth Fredbeck 

Ruth E. Freese 

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Furnish 

Dr. and Mrs. H. Posey Gaines 

Marjorie J. Gilkey 

Dr. Kenneth Goldberg and 

Maryka Matthews-Goldberg 

Mr. and Mrs. Hal J. Goodwin 

Gerald and Hetty Gray 

Dr. Karin M. Gray 

E. Lynn Grayson and Joseph 

Madonia 

Mr. Larry and Dr. Susan Griffith 

† Mr. Robert J. Guerine 

Dr. and Mrs. Cary M. Guse 

† Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Hamilton 

Mr. Jason Harris 

Mrs. Tom Harris 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Harrison 

Dr. John V. Hasewinkel 

Mr. and Mrs. Dwight P. Heath 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Heiney 

Chris and Tana Henry 

Don and Carol Hicks 

Denny High 

Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hogan 

† Mrs. Cecil Houze 

Mr. Rocco F. Iacobelli 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. 

Inskeep 

† Dr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Jacobs 

Mike and Sandy Jarvis 

Merrill L. Johnson 

† Mr. and Mrs.William P. Jones, Jr. 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Judy 

Mrs. M.J. Jurgenson 

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry T. Justus 

† Mr. and Mrs. Howard Keller 

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Kelly 

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Kenny 

Marilyn Beaman Kerner 

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. 

Keucher 

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Koenes 

John Krull and Jenny Labalme 

Mrs. Helen J. Kwiatkowski 

Mr. and Mrs. George L. Laflin 

Dr. and Mrs. George V. Launey 

Dr. and Mrs. R.S. Lehman 

Dr. and Mrs. Yu-long Ling 

Lincoln H. Linscott 

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Loomis 

G. Michael Loveall 

Dr. Jay C. Lumsdon 

Mr. and Mrs. B.R. Mace 

Mike and Susan Maguire 

Noel and Rosemary Marquis 

Donald E. Martin 

Mr. Byron K. Mason 

Charles W. Maxwell 

Arthur K. Mayfield 

Eugene C. Mayfield 

Mr. and Mrs. Rolla McAdams 

Dr. and Mrs. G. Howard McCain 

Dr. F. Timm and Marty McCarty 

† Maurice & Georgie McCarty 

John and Ann McClain 

Joseph F. and Susan McConnell 

Dr. Jean E. McGrady 

Dr. and Mrs. W. Jones McQuinn 

Dr. Thomas P. Mengelt 

Dr. and Mrs. Dean Mesologites 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Barton Meyer 

Charlotte H. Meyers 

Dave and Patty Mickel 

KaAnne Morris 

Dr. and Mrs. James G. Moseley 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Moser 

Mr. Herman O. Mullikin 

John and Cheryl Mullin 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Myers 

Phillip B. Nason 

Rev. and Mrs. Louis G. Nelson 

Mr. and Mrs. John Norton 

Drs. Paul and Helen Jean M. 

Nugent 

Katey Humphries ’11 

Campus activities: Resident assistant for Johnson and Dietz residence 

halls, religious life intern, College Mentors for Kids vice president, freshman 

Bible study leader and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship member. 

Most influential professor: Susan Crisafulli, assistant professor of 

English.“She cares so much for her students and makes a purposeful 

effort to let them know it. She spent hours meeting with me about 

the papers I was writing for her class, but even more getting to know 

me and listening to what I had to say. She challenged me in so many 

ways, and I cannot thank her enough for that!” 

Most memorable FC moment so far:“The 2009 Uganda Winter Term 

trip. Our group worked on the Kiyamba Primary School with the 

organization Building Tomorrow.To see how hard our team worked 

and how much love we all had for the people of Uganda are two 

things I could never forget.” 

Favorite campus hangout:“I love when the seasons change from 

winter to spring and everyone brings their blankets outside to study.” 

Hobbies:“Traveling and photography are my way to de-stress!” 

Five-year plan: “I am currently unsure of my five-year plan, and slowly 

I am learning that this is OK. I know that I am passionate about serving 

people, and I dream of being a world changer, but I do not know 

where these interests are going to take me.” 

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Joe Van Valer ’59 

“At a Franklin College term registration I encountered 

professor I. George Blake, who was my counselor. I had 

been so wrapped up with the fear that I did not learn 

everything and couldn’t do everything upon graduation 

from high school that there was a complete absence of 

any idea of what a college student could or should do. 

Professor Blake gave me a mountain of information about 

all of the steps that college students should relentlessly 

pursue. Then, he got to the really important matters, 

which were not really advice but orders to pursue! 

I was told to major in history (he taught history) and 

become an SAE (he was an SAE), and if I encountered 

any difficulty I should immediately contact him. 

Professor Blake’s home was only three houses from the 

SAE house and generally I talked with him very often, 

and he initiated most conversations. He offered a 

considerable amount of advice as well as direction. 

He also treated me quite well in the classroom. 

Another memorable person on the staff was Dr. Mary 

Owen. She instilled my love of history as well as the 

importance of knowing about our evolution and how 

we moved forward to where we are. An overwhelming 

amount of information was directed to students in a 

matter to create the desire to pursue more. She taught 

us the value of historical study and understanding. I will 

never forget that history continues, and its study shall 

remain as an extremely valuable and interesting pursuit.” 

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Mr. and Mrs. Jim Obergfell 

Michael W. O’Dell, M.D. 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Park 

Robert M. and Kelli DeMott 

Park 

Mr. and Mrs. David 

Partenheimer 

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. 

Pauszek 

Dr. James L. Pease 

Dr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Penn 

† Mrs. Martha R. Peters 

Nancy Peters 

Mr. Gary A. Peterson 

Mr. Douglas L. Pett 

Eleanor Greer Phillips 

Kerry and Cindy Prather 

Bob and Bonnie Pribush 

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Ramey 

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory B. 

Raymond 

Steve and Linda Richards 

Jack and Jackie Richmond 

Mrs. George Wm. Ritteman 

Judith Fowler Robbins 

Ken and Karen Robideau 

James S. Rodway 

Mrs. Patricia Montgomery 

Rohleder 

Wade A. Roth 

Dr. and Mrs. Frank E. Russell 

Marjorie L. Salmassy 

Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Sanchez 

Helen Sargent 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schnepf 

Ron and Kathleen Schutz 

Todd and Denise Shuck 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Shymkus 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Skillman 

John and Barbara Snepp 

Mr. and Mrs. Lyman A. Snyder 

Christina M. Sokolek 

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F. 

Spencer 

T.H. and Doreen W. St. Clair 

Mr. and Mrs. William Stamper 

Jean Balfour Stevenson 

Mr. Robert N. Stewart 

Dr. and Mrs. Willis W. Stogsdill 

Clifford and Lavonne 

Strachman 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. 

Stumpf, Jr. 

Dr. Edwin E. Stumpf 

Mrs. Samuel Sutphin 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard V. Swindle 

Donald J. Tingle 

Dr. and Mrs. L. Eugene Ton 

Rev. and Mrs. George Tooze, Jr. 

Robert and Catherine Turner 

Pat K. Van Valer 

Elizabeth Vandivier and David 

Dreyer 

Louise Vandivier 

Victoria A. Vandivier 

Ann J. Weber 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weiss 

Terry Tull Wells 

Doug and Patti West 

Daniel Wheeler and Susan 

Wakefield 

Mr. and Mrs. Gene A. White 

Jay Dee and Kelly Bowen 

Wickliff 

B.C. Williams 

Roger J. Wolford 

Stephen T. Wolford 

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wynne 

Samuel L. Yount 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. 

Zabaronick 

HORIZON SOCIETY 

The Horizon Society recognizes 

those individuals who have 

included the college in their estate 

plans. 

Gil and Rita Abplanalp 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Armor 

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Auld, Jr. 

Dr. and Mrs. Noel C. Baker 

Dr. Effie Behrens 

Mr. and Mrs. A. Todd Bemis 

† Mr. and Mrs. Worth Bennett 

Mrs. Barbara R. Bernard 

Ms. E. Jane Betts 

Miss Mary E. Bland 

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Brems 

Ms. Kristy K. Brown 

Mrs. Donna Calvin Browne 

Dr. and Mrs. John C. Buhner 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Butt 

Mr. Jack M. Byrum 

Mr. William Carson 

Mr. and Mrs. Todd P. Check 

Mr. John C. Clancy 

Ms. Lillian S. Cook 

Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Coverdale 

Mrs. Pauline DeVore Crump 

Mrs. Beverly E. Curnutt 

Mr. Loushon C. Curtsinger 

Dr. and Mrs. Forest Daugherty 

Rev. Fred M. Daugherty 

Mr. Brad M. Davis 

Dr. Calvin D. Davis 

Drs. Clifford and Paula Dietz 

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Douglas 

Mr. Alan R. Doyle 

Mr. Kenneth O. Dunn 

Mrs. Martha R. Eberhardt 

Mrs. Betsy Ellis 

Rev. and Mrs. Dewey R. Findley 

Mr. and Mrs. W. Richard Fisher 

Mr. and Mrs. Max R. Fitzpatrick 

Mrs. Mary Jane Flaningam 

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Furnish 

Mrs. Kathy M. Giovanini 

Ms. E. Lynn Grayson 

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Grimmer 

Mr. and Mrs. Ted R. Grossnickle 

† Mr. Robert J. Guerine 

Mr. Gregg W. Happe 

Mr. John R. Hauser 

Dr. and Mrs. Eugene L. 

Henderson 

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher 

Henry 

Ms. Terri C. Hiers 

Mrs. Carolyn T. Holden 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Holeman 

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hoover 

Dr. Robert A. Johnson 

Mrs. Sarah Jeffress Jolly 

Mr. Charles A. Jones 

Dr. Richard B. Judy 

Dr. Jerry T. Justus 

Ms. Myrna M. Killey 

John L. Krull and Jennifer R. 

Labalme 

Mr. and Mrs.Walter Krumwiede 

Mr. William C. Legan 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Leonard 

Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Lutes 

Mr. Arthur Lyday 

Ms. Shirley A. Lyster 

Dr. and Mrs. G. Howard 

McCain 

Dr. Edwin S. McClain 

Ms. Patsy A. McKee 

Mrs. Charlotte H. Meyers 

Mr. Herman O. Mullikin 

Dr. Michael E. Myers 

Dr. Wil B. Nelp 

Ms. Martha May Newsom 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard D. 

Norman 

Ms. Melanie J. Norton 

Mrs. Marjorie D. Pauszek 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. 

Pauszek 

Dr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Penn 

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Percifield 

Dr. and Mrs. Herbert A. 

Pigman 

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Potter 

Mr. Phillip O. Powell 

Mr. and Mrs. Kerry N. Prather 

Dr. Harve E. Rawson 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Rea 

Capt L. Michael Ream 

Mrs. Anne T. Ritteman 

Mr. James S. Rodway 

Dr. Phillip J. Ruffalo 

Mrs. Marjorie L. Salmassy 

Mr. Irvin C. Schooler 

Mrs. Ruth A. Schwieger 

† Mrs. Mary E. Sheldon 

Mr. and Mrs. Todd A. Shuck 

Miss Edith E. Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Lyman A. Snyder 

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. Spencer 

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Spiker 

Ms. Jean B. Stevenson 

Mrs. Kathryn Stewart 

Mr. William H. Stewart 

Mr. Andrew E. Stoner 

Mrs. Marilyn K. Strebe 

Mr. James D. Strietelmeier 

Mrs. Charlotte H. Taylor 

Dr. Donald W. Tharp 

Mr. John F. Thurston 


Dr. Bryan J. Van Deun 

Mrs. Kathleen Van Nuys 

Joe N. and Constance 

Richardson Van Valer 

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. 

Vandivier 

Mrs. Wallis G. Wake 

Dr. Mary Margaret Webb 

Dr. Merrill M. Wesemann 

Mr. and Mrs. Gene A. White 

Mr. Arthur C. White 

Mrs. Jean P. Winkler 

Dr. and Mrs. Thorp L. Wolford 

Mrs. Karen Ann Wolter 

TRUSTEES, PAST AND 

PRESENT 

Dean J. Abplanalp 

John W. Auld Jr. 

Effie Behrens 

Reinhard W. Bockstette 

V. Von Boll 

William R. Brown 

Peter T. Cangany Jr. 


Glen E. Coverdale 

Deborah Hill Davis 

David A. Denslaw 

Robert A. DeVoss 

Susan Johnson DeVoss 

John R. Dickerson 

Robert E. Dickinson 

Clifford H. Dietz 

James V. Due 

Kenneth O. Dunn 

Margot Lacy Eccles 

Constance Andrews Eggers 

Christine S. Fields 

W. Richard Fisher 

Irvin L. French

James M. Frische 

Robert Garton 

Alice Gill Goshorn 

John E. Grimmer 

Boyd E. Haley 

Eugene L. Henderson 

Pamela Herring Hicks 

Worthe S. Holt, Jr. 

James E. Hoover 

Stephen L. Huddleston 

Needham S. Hurst 


Robert A. Johnson 

Ted L. Marston 

Byron Mason 

Larry Mason 

Donald R. McComb 

James T. Napolitan 

Wil B. Nelp 

Leon Pacala 

Joseph M. Perkins Jr. 

John D. Peterson 

Herbert A. Pigman 

James R. Potter 

Philip L. Powell 

Jane Hartley Pratt 

William J. Receveur III 

Jane Burns Repp 

Rafael S. Sanchez, Jr. 

William F. Schafenacker 

Robert D. Schafstall 

Robert C. Shook 

Robert G. Smith 

Robert N. Stewart 

Patricia Tomlinson Stogsdill 

James D. Strietelmeier 

Dan K. Thomasson 

Douglas L. Tillman 

L. Eugene Ton 

George Tooze Jr. 

Randall Tucker 

R. Martin Umbarger 

Constance Richardson 

Van Valer 

Thomas G. Vandivier 

Robert M. Weiss 

Arch C. West 

Susan Wohlmuth Williams 

Thorp L. Wolford 

Theressa Ellis Wright 

DONORS BY CLASS 

Franklin College annually 

recognizes donors who make 

gifts to the college. Membership 

at these levels must be renewed 

annually for recognition. Corporate 

matching gifts and gifts made 

through a donor’s company are 

also counted toward the giving 

society. 

Gold Key 

Gifts of $10,000 or more 

1834 Circle 

Gifts between $5,000 and $9,999 

Ben Franklin Circle 


President’s Circle 


Belltower Society 

Gifts between $500 and $999 

Wellhouse Society 


Blue and Gold Club 


1926 


† Beulah Holcomb Mardis 

1931 


† Kathleen Burton Andrews 

1932 


Louise Kelch Vandivier 


Vivian Dickson Stout 

1936 

1834 Circle 

Arch C. West 


Elizabeth Dewar McClain 


T. E. Veale 

Grizzly Club 

John E. Fix 

1937 


Edwin L. McClain 


Beatrice Bradley Ferrell 

THEN 

&NOW 

Grizzly Club 

Beulah Butz Baker 

† Martha Kerlin Poe 

1938 


Pauline DeVore Crump 

Richard R. Rea 


Margaret Wise Skomp 

1939 


Robert L. Foist 


Rupert T. Ferrell 

Mary Richardson Gillespie 

William F. Schafenacker 

Grizzly Club 

Martha Carlock Green 

Virginia Patterson Nutting 

1940 

Gold Key 



Hermann R. Henry 


Ruth Roadcap Overocker 

Grizzly Club 

Rosemary Chappell Winters 

1941 


† Robert J. Guerine 


Myron C. Knauff 


Mildred Korte Roese 

Annabelle McAlpin Spencer 

Edwin E. Stumpf 

Grizzly Club 

Miriam Williams Fox 

† Jane McAnelly Hougham 

Herbert A. Wise Jr. 

1942 

Gold Key 

† Harry W. Carmichael 


† Robert R. Williams 


Jackson W. Bosley 

Rachel Saunders Henry 

Andrew Helms ’10 

Campus activities: Member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, Education 

Club, Earth Club and previously Student Congress. 

Most influential professor: Jenny Johnson-Kappes ’72, 

PE professor emerita and former director of women’s athletics. 

“Even though she retired last year, she taught during my first three 

years at FC. She was always there when I needed help with anything, 

and she pushed me to try a little harder and to find my true potential.” 

Most memorable FC moment so far: “I’ll never forget the first time 

I stepped onto campus for a visit. FC just felt like the right place 

because of the size and welcoming nature.” 

Favorite campus hangout and why: “I enjoy hanging out in the 

Napolitan Student Center because it is such a great place to run into 

friends and professors or just relax and study.” 

Favorite class and why:“The basketball and volleyball officiating class 

because it provided me with IHSAA certification to be a referee, and it 

was really fun. Plus, refereeing has been a great way to make a little 

extra money.” 

Hobbies: “Listening to music and watching movies.” 

Five-year plan:“I hope that in five years I will be teaching PE or health 

classes to the youth of America.” 

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Andrea Butler Tian ’93 

“Most of my best FC memories might seem pretty 

mundane, but they were significant because they made 

up my memory of college as a whole: dropping by my 

friends’ dorm rooms, hanging out in The Key, studying 

in the library, rubbing Ben’s nose for good luck before a 

big exam and late night Taco Bell runs. All of these are 

part of the mosaic of my years at Franklin. 

One of my most significant memories, though, is going to 

China as the result of a travel scholarship. That two-week 

trip changed my life. It was not my first choice of places 

to go; I think it was ultimately selected by the group’s 

facilitator, Cliff Cain, professor of philosophy and 

religion, as the most economical way for the three of us 

who received scholarships to utilize them. But after two 

weeks in China, I knew I wanted to see more, and, after 

graduation, I spent three years there teaching English 

to adults, college students and middle school students. 

I met my husband there and have traveled back again to 

visit a few times. My life is different, and I have a different 

view of the world because of that original trip. I’m so 

grateful that Franklin College provides opportunities for 

students to travel the world.” 

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Richard B. Blackwell 

Mary Jane Lilly Flaningam 

Ruth Kerlin Ramsey 

Kathleen Lisman Raymond 

Beulah McGee Roegge 

Margaret Dill Schmuller 

William F. Smith 

Grizzly Club 

Robert E. Hougham 

Marjorie Padgett Houghton 

John W. Townsend 

1943 


Martha Lewis Keucher 

Edwin S. McClain 


Paul F. Hasel 

Betty Lambert Schrepferman 

Grizzly Club 

Marcia Maish Spencer 

1944 


Margaret Dillard Boyer 

Robert O. Peckinpaugh 


Florence Culver Hesser 

Grizzly Club 

David M. Browne 

Ila Dunn Olson 

Jean Frellick Roberts 

Charles L. Wolff 

1945 


Edith E. Smith 


Constance Andrews Eggers 


William A. Fisher 

Mary Alice Wagner Medlicott 

Patricia Montgomery Rohleder 


Edith Clouse Keller 


Mary Butler Girard 

Robert C. Hathaway 

Mary Pruitt Mozingo 

Marilyn Anders Shull 

Grizzly Club 

Doris Smitha Silver 

THEN 

&NOW 

1946 


Barbara Browne Bernard 

Donald W. Tharp 


Wendell D. Keller 


Mary E. Bland 

Kenneth V. Dodgson 

David D. Girard 

Gene McCurry Kneeburg 

Grizzly Club 

Carol Larson Browne 

Betty Nugent Crews 

Betty Breunig Dukes 

John E. Hasel 

Doris McCullough Loomis 

Helen Deming Thomas 

Jean Browne Turner 

1947 


B.C. Mills Williams 


Katherine Huffman Ditmars 

Grizzly Club 

Janet McKinney McCain 

Maxine Smith Rich 

Bettie Wright Sewell 

Jane Leach Stillman 

1948 


Mary Lu Bergdoll Hanson 


Marilyn Force Bennett 

Donald E. Williams 


Russell L. Abel 

Charles H. Green 

Joan Tash Henning 

Raymond L. King 

Joan Minner Melloan 

John E. Ogden 

Mildred Jones Rosenberg 

Grizzly Club 

Barbara Randall Coltman 

Aloha Yarian Freeland 

Annis Lambert Poland 

Ruth Yoshino Uyeno 

1949 

1834 Circle 

Jean Peterson Winkler 


Calvin D. Davis 

Betty Mitchell Goss 



H. Louise Patterson Austin 

† Jack V. Austin 

Rosejane Pruitt Smith 


Marian D. Callon 

Barbara Frellick Campbell 

Dallas W. Campbell 

Leon Pacala 

C. Jack Scott 

James R. Vandivier 


Joann Kinzie Draughon 

Gyneth Wilson Fredbeck 

Pauline Helt Hackett 

Virginia Joyce Rouse 

Wayne Schrepferman 

Helen R. Settles 

Joanne England Spears 

Grizzly Club 

Norma Raker Denny 

Patricia Miller Gillett 

Hallie J. Hamilton 

R. Lillian Parmelee Hollis 

C. Edward Jones 

Charles W. Kitchen 

Virginia Johnson Lewis 

G. Howard McCain 

Constance Kakavecos Riggs 

Ruth Cooley Sample 

Margery McCullough Secrest 

A. Arlene Montgomery Spencer 

1950 

1834 Circle 

Marvin E. DeBoer 



Thomas G. Vandivier 


Joan Roler Norman 

Richard D. Norman 

Phillip O. Powell 

M. Jane Dungan Sohn 

Charlotte Heath Taylor 

David W. Tharp 


Robert G. Smith 


Richard P. Morrison 

M. Maxine Church Wheeler


Phyllis Taylor Abel 

† Philip W. Beck 

Carl Blessing Jr. 

Anna Norman Byers 

Edwin E. Campbell 

Janice Miller Cooper 

David B. Ditmars 

Sally Lewis Dodgson 

Willis Dunker 

Richard L. Dunn 

Joan Comstock Field 

Charles W. Hackett 

Phyllis Smith Hale 

Wendell G. Mason 

Harold J. Shymkus 

Grizzly Club 

James G. Denny 

William B. Green 

Elisabeth Braker Mann 

O. William Tutorow Jr. 

Martha Dimke Winters 

1951 

1834 Circle 

Glen E. Coverdale 

G. Carolyn Scudder DeBoer 

Wil B. Nelp 


Kenneth O. Dunn 


Jack M. Byrum 

Shirley A. Lyster 


Robert N. Stewart 


Loyd G. Smith 


Edward E. Glowski 

Anndora Boyer Laflin 

Doris Townsend Wilkinson 


† Claris E. Altic 

Elizabeth Shuck Bush 

Mary-Margaret Quinn 

Chellberg 

Barbara Doell Dunker 

Owen M. Field Jr. 

Joseph E. Gwinnup 

Carol Lambert Haynes 

Constance Munro Kiser 

Bonita McCracken Mart 

J. Kenneth Mart 

Gerald E. Martin 

Gareth B. Matthews 

Donald Orlosky 

Paul B. Powell 

Grizzly Club 

Carroll Hart Harden 

John E. McGinness 

Paul W. Ruth Jr. 

1952 

1834 Circle 

Lucille Dodgson Mayo 


V. Von Boll 

Mary Lou Beatty Henderson 


Elaine Harrison Marston 


Jane Hartley Pratt 

James H. Scott 

Helen Carr Slemons 

Chester L. York 


Charline Harrell Bulpitt 


Jean Kelham Ferguson 


Marilyn Beaman Kerner 

George L. Laflin 

Martha Campbell Teets 

James L. Wickey 

David K. Wilkinson 


Barbara Yoder Altic 

Lillian Pomeroy Bridenhager 

Susan Foulk English 

Joan Mendell Gates 

Jack L. Hocker 

Frank H. Knight Jr. 

Martha Thurston Lallathin 

Joan Rose Martin 

Patricia Kelly O’Brien 

Lenna Smith Ransburg 

Barbara McKinney Welch 

Grizzly Club 

C. Cameron Calvert 

Edward F. Clark 

Robert P. Colgrove 

Margaret Novikoff Cox 

Gordon Daugherty 

George P. Gray 

George B. Kimsey 

Frank K. Martin 

Beverly McClintick Mills 

Jeanne Fee Parks 

R. Thomas Parks 

Barbara Davis Smith 

Dean L. Thomas 

Marjorie Beck Waters 

Martha Hanes Ziegler 

1953 

Gold Key 

Nancy White Auld 


† James R. Axelberg 

Lou Taylor Axelberg 

Randall Tucker 


Forest Daugherty 


Doris Brown Alexander 

Dorothy Churchill Allen 

William A. Anderson 

G. Kenneth Gates 

Betty Curry Haskett 

Philip L. Hawkins 

Melba Harlan King 

Roger A. MacDonald 

James T. Murphy 

Mary Beth Newsom Shymkus 

Sarah Asher Smith 

Edgar A. Speer 

Betty Pavy Walker 

Grizzly Club 

Burl W. Clark 

Paul W. Gilmore 

Harold G. Gilmour 

Marilyn Webb Hoch 

Sarah Martin McGinness 

Phillip Nason 

Audrey Beecher Rostal 

† Janice MacLean Ruth 

Jeanne Wyckoff Steinkamp 

Robert N. Switzer 

1954 


Jane Teeters Vandivier 


Veronica Pacala Evans 

Alvin George Fisher Jr. 


Tom G. Seward Jr. 

Barbara Tapp Snepp 

John A. Snepp 


Charles A. Bridenhager 

Robert R. Brown 

Robert S. Frellick 

Betty Jo Hinant Hocker 

Leah McCombs Hooker 

Paula Wengel MacDonald 

Alfred L. Pike 

Lewis E. Robbins 

Kathryn Forrester Stewart 

William R. Suckow II 

Anne Cooley Wilkerson 

Grizzly Club 

Mary Hungerford Brooks 

Dorothy Varney Cunningham 

Lois Hanes Deputy 

Robert L. Desatnick 

Dewey R. Findley 

Marilyn Hibbs Gray 

Mary Wood Lareau 

Willu Wise Martin 

J. C. Moffett 

Edward A. Siegel 

Sarah Allen Walters 

Samuel A. Webb 

1955 

Gold Key 

Betty Schmidt Pigman 


1834 Circle 

Sue VanAntwerp Spencer 


Maxine Meyers Fisher 

Richard E. Heiney 


Thomas D. Mitchell Sr. 

Beverly Hendrickson Sterling 


W. Richard Fisher 


Margaret Noble Cislak 

David G. Handy 

Walter L. Howard 

Joyce Gordanier Knight 

Nelda Mulholland Morley 

Carolyn Gitzen Schluck 

Nancy Conklin Uriarte 

Roy G. VanWye 

Patti Spahr Wellman 

Grizzly Club 

J. Paul Barnett 

Ardith Whipple Brackett 

Marjorie Cragen Crews 

Margaret Cox Gilmour 

Martha Trunnell Kelley 

Frank H. King Jr. 

Billie Snowball Lebrock 

Martha Cole Sabo 

John H. Schooler 

Lois L. Spellman 

Susan Archibald Stone 

Nellie Mann Trobaugh 

1956 

1834 Circle 

Anna Lou Lawson Pickett 

Elizabeth Richardson Ruben 


Sally Henry Heiney 


Raymond C. Andrew 

Sue Miller Davis 

A. Thomas Quindlen 

Ralph L. Sterling 


Marsha Neal Daugherty 

Max R. Fitzpatrick 

Sandra Scott Grant 

Bonnie Thompson Miles 

Ariel Palma ’12 

Campus activities: Franklin College Latino Advocacy Awareness 

Association vice president, Black Student Union, College Mentors for 

Kids, Up ’til Dawn and The Green Team. 

Most influential professor: Sara Colburn-Alsop, associate professor 

of Spanish.“She guided me a lot during my freshman year through 

academic and personal situations. Even though she is a professor, we 

also have established a friendship.” 

Most memorable FC moment so far:“When I was forced to dance in 

front of my class during freshman orientation.” 

Favorite campus hangout: “I like hanging out in the Napolitan 

Student Center atrium because there are usually other people around 

and there are many resources available nearby.” 

Favorite class: “Spanish 331: Uncovering Latin America, Knowing the 

Unknown by Sara Colburn-Alsop. It was a challenging class, but much 

of the information has stayed with me. Now I have a lot of knowledge 

about Cuba, Columbia and Bolivia and the social, cultural and 

economic problems that these countries face.” 

Favorite things to splurge on: “Art supplies, anything from paint to 

brushes to canvas to sketch books.” 

Five-year plan: “I see myself just getting out of graduate school and 

starting my first job, which I hope will be in the field of anthropology.” 

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William C. Ziegert ’44 

“I have two lasting impressions of Franklin College. 

The first is the feeling of permanency that the faculty, 

campus and buildings and especially Old Main gave to 

me the first time I visited in 1940. 

The second memory is the feeling of indecision and 

instability caused by World War II. As yearbook editor, 

I still remember the frustration of shortages — no film 

or flash bulbs for the photographers, a shortage of quality 

paper and a loss of key staff members who left for the 

armed services. The culmination was my call to active 

duty in early March when everything was up in the air. 

If it hadn't been for Margaret Huffman, assistant editor, 

and the other women, it is probable there would not 

have been a 1943 Almanack. 

I didn't graduate from Franklin because World War II 

interfered, and I was able to use my wartime experiences 

to get a degree from the University of Chicago. 

Nevertheless, the two and one-half years I spent at 

Franklin well prepared me to prosper and to enjoy 

my life of 87 years to-date. 

I still have fond memories of many students, professors, 

administrators and others. Two that stand out in my 

memory are “Doc” Heath, who I recall did not have a 

doctorate but was one of the best teachers I ever 

encountered, including my later professors at the 

University of Chicago. The other individual was 

Dean Cady, who spent many hours helping students 

get deferments and preferred military assignments.” 

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Lohman Atwood 

James R. Carey 

Barbara Schaefer Doles 

Wayne E. Dunbar 

Catherine Weldy Hatfield 

Pamela Herring Hicks 

Helen Risley Lee 

Helen Jean McClelland 

Nugent 

Frederic E. Oyler 

M. Virginia Spaulding Pagel 

James E. Pender 

F. E. Roberts 

June Stewart Roberts 

Martha Garner Sass 

William W. Scheeley 

Richard B. Sharpe 

Marilyn Major Strebe 

Grizzly Club 

L. R. Deputy 

Raymond A. DeTournay 

Ioleen Claibourn Erdman 

Lawrence Kellogg 

Howard L. Murphy 

Trevor Max Wolfe 

1957 

1834 Circle 

Lloyd R. Spencer 


Joe A. Lain 

Marilyn Wertz Lain 


Arthur H. Turner 


Morris W. Davis 

Richard A. Harrison 

Jerry T. Justus 

Donald W. Lambert 

William C. Legan 

John N. McClain 


Carol Carlson Allen 

Robert S. Coble 

Beatrice Wilson Fisher 

Shirley Dine Mendenhall 

Phillip J. Ruffalo 

Raymond F. Spencer 

John R. Tresslar 


Robert Allbritten 

Donna Mohr Brown 

Carol Bristow Cornell 

Donald G. Cornell 

Robert T. Doles 

Alfred M. Gibbens 

Loretta Kellams Gibbens 

Betty Reid Grubb 

Richard L. Grubb 

Frank P. Johnson 

Richard B. Judy 

E. Sue McKinney LaMastus 

Esther Ramsey McElheny 

Richard K. McElheny 

Carmelita Essex Moore 

Paul T. Nugent 

Betty Jo Powell 

Melvin L. Smith 

Einar M. Syvertsen 

T. Marilyn Bicknell Trout 

James G. Volk 

Marilyn Zellers Williams 

Edward A. Wilson 

Grizzly Club 

Larry K. Clark 

A. Raymond Featherngill 

Harlan G. Haymaker 

L. Marlene Mitchell Jackson 

Ronald L. Pardieck 

Judith Babcock Roland 

Elmer D. Strautman 

1958 


John D. Baker 

Ann Martinez Mahan 

Linda Kern Moore 

Gene A. White 


Frances Edgar Lambert 

Ann Dixon McClain 

Roger A. Schroder 

John F. Thurston 


Janice Deputy Kelly 

Richard Kendall 

Michael R. Matsey 

Donal L. Mendenhall 

Eddy M. Teets 


Alanson T. Abel 

Bernard E. Admire 

Morris L. Beck 

Eleanor Voss Brinkman 

Sharon Meek Burke 

Marya Betner Butler 

Virginia Voss Craft 

Dana P. Deer 

Ann Grahame DeVore 

Roger E. DeVore 

Lola Honn Erwin 

James E. Hall 

Judy Wilhelm Hall 

Frank Hiday 

Max E. Kelley 

Nancy Eagleson Klemme 

James W. Miller 

Louis H. Osterman 

C. Norman Pash 

Janet Stewart Pash 

Robert L. Pierce 

Irvin C. Schooler 

Theodore L. Schuck 

James R. Templeton 

Thomas T. Thomas 

Sarah McClain Unzicker 

Grizzly Club 

Marvin Beaman 

Pat Black Benge 

Jane Essex Clark 

Judith Mull Clark 

James C. Cooley Jr. 

Fred M. Daugherty 

Richard T. Depp 

Jane Ray Downey 

Martha Roth Eberhardt 

James J. Gabbard 

Wheeler T. Harden 

Lyndal McCullough Hartwell 

Robert K. Hartwell 

Betty Smith Lower 

Betty Sanderson Mills 

Mary Unger Mosson 

Shirley Bumbalough Murphy 

Ransom A. Norris 

Glenn Rowdon 

Sherry Pennington Rowdon 

Carolyn Lukens Scheuer 

Joyce Thomas Verhagen 

Margaret Taylor Walden 

Joanne Schafer Weddle 

1959 

Gold Key 

Constance Richardson 

Van Valer 

Joe N. Van Valer 

Mary Margaret Partenheimer 

Webb 


George F. Anderson 

Elmo B. Carver 


Patricia Hattabaugh Carman 

Charles L. Cragen 

Jerrie Henry Suckow 


Marjorie Reasoner Coble 

Roger Furnish 

† Malinda Hardin Kendall 

Lauralee Solomon Matsey 

James D. Strietelmeier 

Henry F. Volk 

James W. Wright 


Jack E. Chastain 

Thomas E. Foley 

Charlene Theall Frellick 

Joretta Webb Grass 

R. K. Greathouse 

Donald L. Jones 

Janet Golba Keller 

Evelyn Hastings Kriek 

Joseph C. Lee 

Roger A. Newman 

Joella Boyer Patterson 

Martha Gardner Pierce 

Caryol McColley Ribble 

Howard A. Ribble Jr. 

Charlotte Shepard Sharpe 

Sandra Jones Stephenson 

Marilyn Shelton Thomas 

Lynda Webb Vogler 

Vicco H. VonStralendorff 

Robert L. Webb 

Barbara Hipple Wilson 

Grizzly Club 

Martin J. Carr Jr. 

Marjorie Claytor Daugherty 

Donna J. Gregg 

Leo R. Jonas 

Lawrence D. McCory 

Lee B. McFerrin 

Harold D. Mulholland 

Don E. Sichting 

Frank Skinner 

Carole Esserman Thurston 

Betty Reed Voris 

Leslie Edward Walden Jr. 

1960 

Gold Key 

Sandra Mock Napolitan 


Barbara Gamble Anderson 

Don P. Hicks 

John S. Kenny 

Jane Burns Repp 

Charley F. Robertson 


John A. Beard 

Thomas P. Cummings 

Sue Ferguson Schroder 

Stephen W. Suckow 


Charles E. Benson 

Gail Smith Benson 

Richard N. Foster 

Billie Doades Furnish 

Marjorie Cooper Geho 

Beulah Deppert Schrader 

Patricia Tomlinson Stogsdill 

Raymond E. Webster Jr. 


James R. Bailey 

Noel C. Baker 

Betty Wonn Chastain 

Mary Evans Collier 

Linda Vandivier Cummings

Paul F. Gray 

Samuel G. Hicks 

Donna Myers Minnick 

Elizabeth Bales Templeton 

Samuel L. Yount 

Grizzly Club 

Phyllis Beaman Baker 

Annette Dellekamp Boyle 

Arthur H. Brebberman 

Wanda Parsley Bunge 

Annette Templeton Everling 

Curtis D. Furnish 

Annette Goldman Harden 

Joe E. Harlan 

Marilou Toborg Harper 

Ronald T. Harper 

Frank W. Haskett 

Jean Harris Leger 

Coralie Nickell Martin 

Sandra Harper McFerrin 

James Newkirk 

Edward L. Runyan 

Joyce Hayes Runyan 

Martha Adams Sichting 

1961 

1834 Circle 

J. R. Bishop 

Janet Patton Bishop 

William R. Brown 


Carol Buffenbarger Hover 


William E. Earl 


William Carson 

Larry L. Garrett 


Donna Calvin Browne 

Willis F. Cheesman 

Johnnie Marie Graham Foster 

Janice Johnson Spencer 


Kenneth C. Fallis 

Joyce Spencer Gill 

Leo J. Hine 

Gerald C. Lindsey 

Dan S. Maddock 

Grizzly Club 

Louise Boyer Beaman 

Rexford J. Carpenter 

Joanne Strietelmeier Daniel 

William N. Disbro Jr. 

Kay Smithey Findley 

C. Diane Distel Fouch 

Breck Marion 

Grace Angel Marion 

Jerry B. McGinnis 

William K. Slayback 

Gene Smock 

Wallis Meredith Wake 

1962 


Michael J. Hover 


Leonard L. Bissonnette 

Sally Thiesing Earl 


Jerry N. Barlow 

Sue Handy Beard 


Nancy Kivett Cassel 

Joan Lawson Wills 


Deanna Tanselle Baker 

E. Jane Betts 

Marilyn Brackman Dunn 

Max E. Gill 

Joan Morris Gray 

† C. Robert Lawson 

Linda Suhre O’Connor 

Marjorie Smith Pauszek 

Joe R. Peden 

Kenneth L. Sherfick 

Joyce Atkins Utterback 

Charles F. Vanderbeck 

Grizzly Club 

Michael E. Alexander 

Lorna Britan Arnot 

Gerald R. Durham 

Miriam Miller Durham 

Susan Seward Fogle 

Katie Daniels Franz 

Kenneth Freeland 

Ernest R. Keucher 

Georgia Bullard Long 

Jerrell F. McCullough 

Beatrice Meade Miller 

Jerry W. Miller 

J. Dennis Mock II 

JoAnn Watt Mock 

C. Edmund Mulholland 

Virginia Neese Rickles 

Ray E. Vaughn 

Russell D. Williams 

Dorothy Wright Zavodsky 

THEN 

&NOW 

1963 

Gold Key 

Boyd E. Haley 


F. Timm McCarty 

Carol Summers Tumey 


Alice Gill Goshorn 

Joyce Thompson Heckman 

Betty Delay Hyatt 

C. Donald Miles 

Margaret Parker Riddle 


David R. Dobbins 

Charles E. Herriman 

Judith L. Schaefer 

Nancy Zellar Weber 


James R. Cornelison Jr. 

Sara Abbott Crippen 

Carolyn A. Cunningham 

Edward M. DeLong 

Patricia Amour Embling 

Stephen B. Fisher 

Daniel L. Foldenauer 

Betty White Freeborn 

Sandra Coning Harants 

Khalaf E. Khalaf 

Roberta Wickens McGinnis 

L. Gene Perry 

David L. Porter 

John S. Robey 

Douglas D. Rohrer 

Myrna Miller Sausser 

Thomas C. Schuemann 

James R. Stewart 

Paul E. Sturgell 

Roland A. Vasconcellos 

Grizzly Club 

Udo Blum 

Jon C. Dalton 

Nancy Stout DeHart 

Patricia Hendricks DeLawter 

Janice Greene Durham 

Max W. Ernest 

Russell H. Ferrill 

Ann Davison Garbett 

Larry V. Gividen 

Milo G. Gray Jr. 

Suellen Fitzgerald Hartley 

Rebecca Redmon Irvin 

Sandra Stroup Martin 

Janet Wheeler McDuffey 

Richard D. Powell 

Aaron Hommell ’11 

Campus activities: 89.5 WFCI radio programming director, Student 

Congress treasurer and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity philanthropy 

chairman and chaplain. 

Most memorable FC moment so far: “Some might mention a 

football game (FC vs. North Central 2009), a basketball game (1999 

NCAA tournament run) or receiving a good grade on a test or 

assignment that has been challenging (passing my final math course 

in college). But, for me, the most memorable moment would probably 

have to be the first night I stayed in Elsey Hall. It was a sense of 

accomplishment that I had made the first step into adulthood. 

Then, like now, Franklin was my home.” 

Favorite campus hangout: “Shirk Hall, probably because I am a 

journalism major and spend most of my time there.The only other 

spot that compares is the quiet lounge on the top floor of the 

Napolitan Student Center.That room is perfect for mid-afternoon 

cram sessions or just relaxing with a smoothie from Jazzman’s.” 

Hobbies: “I am an avid music fan. I probably have more than 5,000 

songs on my computer and probably a couple thousand more on CD, 

waiting to be transferred. Sports are my other passion. I enjoy football, 

basketball, baseball, rugby and soccer — just about anything I can get 

my eyes on.” 

Five-year plan:“I would like to be working as a communications 

director for high school or collegiate sports.” 

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Sarah (Baker) Stephenson ’98 

“One of my proudest college memories is of bringing 

together many students who normally wouldn’t have 

participated in Homecoming. 

During my junior year, the Independents were given 

an opportunity to go it alone during the traditional 

Homecoming activities. (The fraternity we were paired 

with was banned that year.) 

So, I helped organize the GDIs. We traded the frat 

house for the Hoover/Cline entrance. Our theme was, 

“It’s our ‘Indepents’ Day, So We Are Painting The Town 

Blue and Gold.” We made a comet and spaceship to 

hang in a tree, put a “Lasso the Comets” banner up 

at the football field and brought pop can noise-makers 

to the pep session. 

I remember standing on a chair in the Hoover/Cline 

lounge prior to the pep session, trying to teach everyone 

the words to the college fight song. It must have worked 

because the next day we were awarded the Spirit Stick — 

a huge accomplishment for a group that wasn’t an 

official campus organization. We also won the Best 

Banner Award.” 

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Ronald C. Richardson 

Barbara Moulden Rominger 

Lee C. Ryker 

Karl M. Taylor 

Victor L. Toloday 

1964 

Gold Key 

Irvin L. French 

1834 Circle 

Jay M. DeVoss 


Marty Mohr McCarty 


Richard E. Veleta 


Sam P. Alford 

C. Thomas Billings 

Linda Slinkard Dobbins 

Johnny Suchovsky Herriman 

Barbara Azbell Sanders 

Ronald L. Wilson 


Robert E. Baldwin 

Al A. Harants 

Bonnie K. Johnson 

David Keech 

Donna Palmer Keech 

Richard D. Kloepfer 

Sue Brown Lockmiller 

Rosemary Herndon Marquis 

Ann Runyan McKinney 

Peter C. McKinney 

Patricia Moorman 

John F. Orr 

Marilyn Ruffalo Ross 

Shirley McCalla Stewart 

Susan Mills Stretchberry 

Sally McNeely Sturgell 

Betty Brunauer Updike 

Graham Updike 

Janice Brown Vasconcellos 

Andrew R. Zajac 

Sue Thompson Zajac 

Grizzly Club 

Connie Schirm Barnes 

Stephen M. Belkin 

Jane Devening Brumitt 

Nolan Cooper 

Julia Garfield Curtis 

Beverly Exley Dalton 

Jon C. Geuder 

E. William Hallett Jr. 

Patricia Rissler Hallett 

Dorothy Palm Hammond 

Paul R. Hayes 

J. Thomas Howald 

Linda Hicks Leone 

Gordon C. Lewis 

Robert M. Martin 

Kathie J. Meredith 

Philip A. Milner 

Janet Cox Payne 

Sara Chorley Saunders 

Linda Daniels Schlagenhauf 

Margaret Lewis Wohler 

James A. Younkin 

1965 

Gold Key 

Candace Poindexter Treibic 

Donald A. Treibic 

1834 Circle 

Susan Johnson DeVoss 


Robert D. Schafstall 


John C. Clancy 

Linda Drake Kenny 

Harold K. Lawson 


Diana S. Black 

Kathryn Miller Britton 

C. Randall Riddle 


Gordon A. Bardos 

Tamara Hickson Bardos 

Karen Dunlap Berman 

Lora Wolf Fitch 

R. Steven Keck 

Gary N. Kemp 

Mike A. Maguire 

Susan Bright Maguire 

Robert A. Strong 

Larry M. Trueblood 

Mary Jane Phillips Trueblood 


Ann Childs Beatty 

James R. Beatty 

Janet Wysong Gough 

Barbara L. Litterer 

Noel E. Marquis 

Richard J. McCloskey 

Sarah Voorhis McMath 

Amy Hadley Nance 

Carol Mellencamp Rohrer 

Larry E. Ross 

Grizzly Club 

Daniel Benitez 

Susan Christianson Bradford 

THEN 

&NOW 

Karen Johnson Capps 

Robert S. Conner 

C. Jane Delaney Cragen 

Arlis Dailey-Fisher 

Christina Johnson Hilkert 

Rosalie Henderson Hooton 

Robert D. Kirlin 

Shirley Vincent Koepper 

Norman J. Layton 

Linda Allen Myers 

Diane Klepper Olkusz 

Ronald K. Peters 

William G. Straus 

Merry Thompson Wright 

1966 

1834 Circle 

Beverly Parker Curnutt 


Janet Edmondson Schafstall 


Charles W. Baker 

Elmer Britton 

Susan Owens Douglas 

Ann Gresley Weber 

Stephen M. Wroblewski 


Charles R. Bentz 

Richard K. Clore 

† Pamela Wheeler Keck 

Jack R. Scherer 


Karen Jameson Ferrill 

Wilma Dewar Foster 

Douglas D. Fulmer 

Richard L. Hendricks 

Judith Kinder-Smith 

J. Stephen McIntyre 

Charles J. Myers 

Donald M. Potter 

Virginia Green Poyner 

Deborah Brooke 

Schuemann 

G. Edward Smith Jr. 

C. Dayton Titsworth 

Patricia McCoy Vest 

Kenneth W. Young 

Grizzly Club 

Walter Carroll 

Delbert R. Cragen 

Charles M. French 

Marcia Smith Graves 

Sharon Smith Gray 

Ray J. Hamilton 

Patricia Jones Lybrook

Meredith W. Price 

Judith M. Roscoe 

Fred T. Swift 

Margaret Mailath Wilson 

1967 


John M. Chiarotti 

Jerry D. Petro 


Robert D. Epstein 

Richard L. Flecker 

Charles T. Stumpf Jr. 

Susan Wohlmuth Williams 


Donald P. Bozell 

James A. Dykhuizen 

George E. Klinger 

Keaney L. Sloop 

Susan Dunn Sloop 


Patrick M. Bajdek 

Susan Reed Bajdek 

Ronald L. Cole 

Robert E. Hempel Jr. 


Alan B. Appleton 

Thomas A. Clere 

Judith Conquest 

Richard J. Edwards 

Carol Lee Gucluyildiz 

† Cynthia Ann Parks 

Paul R. Perry 

Carolyn Broman Riefe 

Beth Sadler Robey 

Grizzly Club 

D. Eileen Foist Bennett 

Betty McKinley Bourquein 

J. Terry Frey 

G. M. Fulkerson 

Frederick S. Ghanayem 

R. Stephen Gookins 

Maxine Coon Harden 

Ann Phillips Hershman 

Juanita Hadler Israel 

Ronald W. Nichols 

Francis D. Schill 

1968 


Reinhard W. Bockstette 


David R. Coffin 

Charles W. Maxwell 

Thomas P. Mengelt 


J. David Hollingsworth 


G. Michael Loveall 


Lynda Clendenning 

Margaret Knight Ehringer 

Edeltraud Steiniger Fisher 

Richard W. Fitch 

Scott N. Fitkin 

Victoria E. Grady 

John B. Hachman 

Sarah Killen May 

John W. Spiker 

William J. Williams 

Grizzly Club 

Virginia Triassi Capostagno 

Judith Benjamin Johnson 

Dana S. Klinck 

Keith E. Miles 

Philip D. North 

James E. Overmyer 

Cheryl Barnard Weseman 

1969 

Gold Key 


Susan Staab DeVoss 


David A. Denslaw 

M. Jo Eck Jurgensen 

Dean Mesologites 


Linda Hicks Beeler 

Nancy Peters 

Christine Raleigh Wroblewski 


M. Jane Cragen 

Jane Totten Galin 

Wayne H. Galin 

W. Steve Witty 


Evelyn Schueller Brunner 

John E. Crews 

Michael A. Ehringer 

Michael L. Hall 

Victor A. Kiplinger 

Robert L. O’Neill 

Candace Barnes Pierce 

Janice Bursie Ruszkowski 

Michael A. Ruszkowski 

Nancy Drake Spiker 

Grizzly Club 

Brenda Harmon Aldorisio 

Walter Aldorisio 

J. Steven Brackney 

Katie Jones Brown 

John R. Buerger 

Sharon Roloson Daniels 

David B. Dick 

Marilyn Douglas Ferguson 

Cynthia Winters Nowka 

Ann Miller Smith 

Ronald Lee Smith 

Stephen A. Smith 

Bryan J. Van Deun 

Patricia Gray Walls 

1970 


S. Jeffrey Burt 

Douglas L. Tillman 


Katherine J. Hibbs 


Lynda Esposito Cole 

Susan J. Egloff 


Susan Miles Atkinson 

Edward W. Bentz 

Robert C. Harrod 

Susan Klein Leonard 

Kathleen York Marshall 

Samuel T. Ogle 

David E. Overmyer 

Peter G. Phelps 

Robert S. Rogers Jr. 

Lyn S. Thorsen 

Richard D. Towsley 

David L. Vaughn 

Grizzly Club 

Dorthy Humble Antle 

Linda Dornburg Burch 

Mary Quinnell Holeman 

Louise Gibbard Loffredo 

Frederick B. May 

William F. McCarthy 

Donald G. Mullen II 

Sue Hadley Sergeant 

Sharon L. Zuber 

1971 


Lincoln H. Linscott 

Earl L. Stanfield Jr. 


Judith Orahood Royal 

Stephen T. Wolford 

Robert L. Yarnall 


Philip N. Heller 

David P. Shaw 

Daniel J. Sigler 


W. Russell Ashworth Jr. 

Richard R. Bro 

Philip K. Brown 

James A. Emerich 

David B. Hall 

Mark B. Kevitt 

Lloyd E. Long Jr. 

Veronica Mapp-Jenkins 

James T. Marshall 

Donald R. McComb 

Vicki Fulmer McComb 

Robert E. Mustard 

Michael F. Petti 

Janet Butcher Rose-Young 

Joyce Byer Shook 

Robert C. Shook 

Deborah Ridinger Smith 

Stephen L. Smith 

Wayne D. Superczynski 

Linda Barteck Unsworth 

William R. Unsworth 

Grizzly Club 

William J. Callahan 

Robert H. Conlon 

Catherine Cannon Drew 

Lois Smith Engebretson 

John G. Mazzei 

Cathleen Wardlow McBeath 

James A. Menser 

Jennifer Buck Menser 

Daniel P. Miller 

David L. Musgrave 

Elizabeth Campbell Pyle 

Ernest L. Richmann III 

Peter J. Rinaldi 

Rita Jan Shirley 

Jan Slusmon 

Jeannette Wulfhorst Zets 

1972 

1834 Circle 

James R. Potter 


William J. Receveur III 

Theressa Ellis Wright 


Stephen D. Hougland 

Paul E. Levett 

James L. Pease 


Anita Gonzalez Clem 


William A. Anderson 

Geoffrey H. Doughty 

Margaret A. Height 

Virginia Johnson-Kappes 

Rodney A. King 

Jacqueline Seward McHarry 

Sharon Wilson Owens- 

Hoffman 

Beulah Tally Porter 

Charles F. Rengier 

Shelley Sewell Rogers 

Ronald A. Rzepnicki 

Cynthia Schroeder Schaffner 

Michael A. Taylor 

Ratina Burkhead ’12 

Campus activities: Pi Beta Phi sorority,Wave 3 president, Psychology 

Club’s campus and community relations officer. 

Most influential professor: Diane Black, leadership department 

secretary, elementary education field supervisor and adjunct professor 

of religion. “To have her as a mentor during my first semester in a new 

environment definitely helped me adjust to college. She seemed like 

she really cared and believed in me. She also made me believe I can do 

anything I want in life.” 

Most memorable FC moment so far: “I’ve met people who will 

forever be a part of me, and I’ve learned the real value of knowledge. 

I know I will be prepared for whatever life has in store for me because 

Franklin has given me the confidence and courage to succeed in 

anything.” 

Favorite class and why: “Philosophy. I loved how challenging it was 

and how much critical thinking the topics required. It made me go 

outside of my own opinions and consider others.” 

Favorite things to splurge on: “Books! I could spend hours in Barnes 

& Noble.” 

Five-year plan: “Graduate from college with a degree in psychology, 

sociology and women’s studies. Move to Chicago and attend DePaul 

University for a master’s degree in women’s studies. I eventually want 

to work with women dealing with domestic violence.” 

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G. Kenneth Gates ’53 

“My memories include going through the registration 

process with Miss Virsfel Roe, registrar and faculty 

secretary, and signing the paper saying we would not use 

alcoholic beverages while at Franklin College. After all, 

the college motto was Christianity and Culture. But, on 

that first Saturday night, there I was at the Independent 

Men’s house with the guys when we heard a big noise 

over on the campus. Someone said, ‘Oh, it's a meeting 

of the Privy Council, let’s go over in awhile.’ 

We did, and there in front of Bryan Hall was a big 

bonfire, right in the street! It was a farmer's real privy 

set on fire. Women were watching from the dorm 

windows, and frat guys were lined up behind the fire, 

left hands over the shoulder of one another, like a 

chorus line, right hand out in front with a can, and 

they were singing ‘Onward Christian Soldiers.’ So much 

for the first week of Christianity and Culture! 

I also recall that on the day of final exams, if you missed 

one, you could be released from the college. But, there 

was a pretty girl who said, ‘Let’s go study that first hour.’ 

So I did, with her. Then, later, going up the stairs in 

Old Main, or ‘The Gut,’ I met students coming down. 

They asked, ‘Where were you?’ The exam was in the 

first hour, and I had missed it! 

I went right up to the office of professor Herr and 

tried to explain. ‘Did you talk to anyone about the 

questions?’ ‘No.’ ‘Can you take the exam right now?’ 

‘Yes.’ I went and sat in an empty classroom; nobody 

was ever so relieved to be able to take a final exam!” 

34 

Michael G. Webb 

Paul L. Willson III 

Grizzly Club 

James B. Davidson Jr. 

William N. Espy 

William J. Friedrich 

Barry J. Hearin 

Stephen E. Ricks 

1973 

Gold Key 

June Maple Schubert 

1834 Circle 

Gregg W. Happe 


Thomas W. Boyer 


Philip L. Powell 


Jane T. Jakoubek 


James W. Cooper 

Jean Kirsnes Jones 

Gregory B. Raymond 


Lyman L. Benner Jr. 

Vernon A. Biederman 

Roberta Rich Cash 

Michael J. Fiorini 

Jane Stedman Hendricks 

Margaret Zinz Jantzen 

Joel S. Rodkin 

Adam R. Smith 

Terry R. Smith 

Robert T. Thomas 

Grizzly Club 

Benjamin Daniel Fawcett 

Dan P. Fell 

James E. Henninger 

Mark C. Klene 

Molly Chapman Kresler 

David P. McGregor 

M. Pegge Markwalter Mirus 

Barbara S. Otte 

Larry C. Powell 

Dong T. Tran 

Gail Atchison Tucker 

Daniel E. Wagner 

Jean Campbell Waltner 

David J. Zawisha 

1974 

Gold Key 

Christine S. Fields 


Doris Arnette Dickerson 


Mark H. Murray 

Jacqueline Funke Richmond 

Robert M. Weiss 

Karen Sturdy Yarnall 


Steven A. Cohen 

Brian C. Dorris 

Keith R. Fleming 

Teresa Deem Goodwin 

Kevin E. Kane 

Linda Schiesser Kane 

Randy R. Racine 

Thomas H. Wilson 


Christen Watts Anderson 

Max Bassler 

Charles R. Hadley 

J. David Lett 

Raymond J. Matlosz 

Daniel E. Moore 

Connie Baker Searcy 

Douglas M. Sheets 

William M. Thompson 

Kathleen Krieger Westerfeld 

Jay D. Wickliff 

Grizzly Club 

Barbara Hughes Bender 

Jeffrey L. Brown 

Jeffrey R. Craver 

Rhonda Robertson Craver 

Janis Latella Fiedler 

Keith A. Fiedler 

Walter J. Jones Jr. 

Mark W. Mellencamp 

Ellen Bailey Miller 

Annette Atkinson Moore 

Peggyann Moore 

Kenton L. Tresslar 

James H. Wedding 

Stephen A. Welchans 

Sandra Jones Wright 

1975 


Jay E. Hunsucker 


David R. Abel 

John R. Dickerson 

Kathleen Hodgen Schutz 


James R. Combs 

Donald L. Hunton 

Robert L. Murphy 

Gary B. Pate 


Mary Jo McClelland 


Derrick Anderson 

Bobbie R. Braggs 

Robert J. Feemster 

Thomas E. Martin 

Bruce L. Records 

Penny Nail Records 

Paula J. Wood 

Victor L. Zacharie III 

Robert M. Zerr 

Grizzly Club 

Edwin R. Faught 

Jody Fitzgibbon 

Rebecca J. Heck 

W. David Lyon 

Barry A. Maxwell 

R. Anita Miller 

Richard W. Ranlet 

Judith Trowbridge Schlicker 

1976 


Marcella Shanks Abel 

John W. Auld Jr. 

Robert D. Heuchan 


Beverly Fuller Murphy 


Arnold E. Brown 

Karen Esposito Greenslade 

Ralph L. Greenslade 

Sue Alexander Krukemeier 

Stuart A. Mathis 

Gary W. Roupp 

Daniel B. Wheeler 


Andrew E. Henderson 

Jamie Speas Shuel 

Stephen A. Teets 

Connie Allen Wininger 

Ronald L. Wininger 

Grizzly Club 

Mark P. Axelberg 

Debbie Jones Derrico 

Thomas A. Derrico 

Dedra K. Montgomery 

Sheila A. Moore 

William E. Smith III 

Ellen M. Somers 

Thomas R. Tudor 

Phil E. Wagoner 

R. Thomas Wilson 

1977 


Patricia Branstetter West 


Jennifer Dietz St. Martin 

Linda Mullendore Krevda 

Becky Tames Rosenberger 

Scott J. Rosenberger 


Daniel J. Lavalli 


Chris D. Gronning 

Judith Claycombe Mathis 

Susan L. Wakefield 


Tom Andress 

Cathelen Cutler Batuello 

G. Daniel Callon 

Jean Everett Cohoon 

Dennie D. Cooke 

Nancy Allin Cooke 

Thomas H. Deer 

Brad C. Emons 

John M. Loffredo 

Gerald C. Maguire 

M. Boyd Mozingo 

Charles E. Ray 

William R. Schwab 

Karla Anderson Thomas 

Grizzly Club 

Kim Johnson Bereman-Hinz 

Jim E. Connell 

Debra Waltz Cummins 

Teresa Hagee Duffey 

Paul S. Fedorchak 

Deborah S. Fraley 

Julie Dygert Frey 

Sharon Murphy Hood 

Mark A. Humes 

Rebecca James Lawrie 

Deborah Moore Pinnick 

Mark S. Scheumann 

Nancy Yoder Scheumann 

Terri Zuffa Wagoner 

1978 


Brad N. Crawford 

Raymond J. Dorulla 

Mark Harrison 

Neil M. Krevda 


John V. Hasewinkel 

Mary Jo Lane 


Laura Hudson Loveall 


Rebecca Albano Albano-Miller 

Scott A. Cohoon 

Mary Meyer Gates 

Mark E. Hagans 

Darrell R. Heuchan 

Kimberly Murray Hunter 

Stephen C. Hunter 

Randall T. Lewis 

April Mann Mozingo 

Judy Johnson Ray 

Brian D. Smith 

J. Grant Tucker 

Nancy Boarman Turner 

Roger J. Wolford 

Patricia Auld Zachidny 

Grizzly Club 

J. Scott Armacost

Luann Williams Colin 

Robert L. Colin 

Steven H. Coppess 

Joie Wildman Curtis 

Joseph M. Dallas 

John C. Duffey 

Jeffrey J. Lawrie 

Nancy Nichols Moredock 

David M. Ozbun 

Jeff Pinnick 

Richard F. Robison 

Barbara Rutan 

Kate B. Seifert 

Mark A. Young 

1979 


Douglas B. West 


Mark Bolinger 

Kenneth H. Inskeep 

K. Mark Loyd 

Jean McErlane McGrady 


Nancy A. Busenbark 


Nancy Glover Carr 

Debra L. Denslaw 

Timothy L. Garner 

Lawrence E. Gates 

Steven H. Rogers 

Gregg C. Sciarra 

Terrance J. Vick 

Kevin R. Widdison 

Grizzly Club 

Terri Carpenter Benefiel 

David G. Christian 

Mark D. Elliott 

Marsha Brooks Guerard 

Susan Rider James 

Timothy A. McCullough 

Sherry Inlow Rumble 

Kathryn M. Tucker 

Karen Brown Walsh 

1980 

Gold Key 

Peter T. Cangany Jr. 


Chizuko Kudo Bolinger 

Robert M. Park 


Denise Marulic Dorulla 

William M. Dorulla 

Thomas W. Hasewinkel 


Keith J. Moenter 

† Robert W. Ray 

Richard C. Richmond III 

Diana Wilhite Urban 


Glen A. Baker 

W. Scott Brown 

Gregory R. Cataldi 

Kathryn Valentine Farrington 

Timothy E. Fuller 

John A. Hartnett Jr. 

Karen Melvin Kolodzej 

Cynthia J. Lester 

Cynthia Heflin Pelo 

Rodger L. Pelo 

Kevin M. Stephenson 

Grizzly Club 

Robert J. Borkowski 

Richard C. Braessler 

Gwen Deprez Brown 

Rebecca M. Buening 

Pamela F. Dorsey 

Karen Lawson Franklin 

Gary L. Kiesel 

Vickie S. Kirby 

Sandi Robinson Poyer 

Michael J. Schaefer 

Melinda Macy Sell 

Beth Vandivier Stuckwisch 

1981 


Michael W. O’Dell 


John L. Krull 

Kelli DeMott Park 


William E. Cox 

Brian L. Meeke 

Thomas H. Mueller Jr. 

Randall K. Reece 


Amy Taylor Carlton 

Timothy M. Dant 


Patricia Wroblewski Abbott 

Jeffery C. Atwood 

H. William Avery 

William D. Farrington 

C. Mikel Hudson 

Kevin L. Yoas 

Grizzly Club 

Bradley A. Angle 

Stacie Fisch Crozier 

Judy Culver Fedorchak 

THEN 

&NOW 

Rebecca Horstman-May 

Joseph P. Lesko 

Carmen Collier Madsen 

Jeffrey E. Madsen 

Beth Berry Reilly 

Kevin A. Stevens 

Diane K. Timbrook 

1982 


Joni M. Anderson 

James V. Due 


Illene Jaynes Roggensack 


Brent A. Peters 


Bradley K. Burpo 

Gregory L. Eaton 

Mary R. Roehrs 

Lisa E. Sellers 

David R. Such 

Michael J. Urban 


Vincent V. Burpo 

Daniel T. Doles 

Kimberle Smith Menz 

David H. Muth 

Robert G. Smith II 

Grizzly Club 

Jennifer Barton Basey 

Gordon W. Cox 

Betsy K. Dunbar 

Shelley Murnan Gies 

M. Ellen Richert Huddleston 

William Gary Lewis 

Nancy G. Liston 

Elizabeth McDonald Lyon 

Cathy Newport Wood 

Dean R. Wood Jr. 

1983 


E. Lynn Grayson 

Diane E. Horvath 


Stephen R. Gregorios 

Brian R. Nanavaty 


Brian S. Adams 

Lee Ann Hadley Baldridge 

Carolyn Mittermaier DiPaolo 

Matthew L. Galbraith 

Christina Chastain Goldsberry 

Phillip J. Schneider Jr. 

Juan Hyde ’11 

Campus activities: Member of Black Student Union,Tau Kappa 

Epsilon fraternity and college radio station WFCI. 

Most influential professor: Steve Comiskey, lecturer of English. 

“His teaching style and personality made his class very enjoyable. 

I never missed one of his lectures.” 

Most memorable FC moment so far: “Winning the campus 

Organization of the Year Award with the Black Student Union.” 

Best life advice ever received: “Everything is OK in the end, if it’s 

not OK, then it’s not the end.” 

Favorite campus hangout and why: “The back porch at the TKE 

house.We have a basketball court that is frequently in use.” 

Favorite things to splurge on: “Shoes.” 

Hobbies: “Listening to music, playing basketball and hanging out 

with friends.” 

Five-year plan: “Graduate from Franklin College and work in the 

broadcast industry, either radio or TV. I’m hoping to land a job in 

Indianapolis after graduation, but I’d like to move down near 

Atlanta after I’ve established myself in my career.” 

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Shannon (Cerajewski) Walker ’04 

“My new student mentor group was amazing. Matt 

Worland ’02 and Diane Black, leadership department 

secretary, elementary education field supervisor and 

adjunct professor of religion, led us. There was nothing 

those two wouldn't do for our group. They were the 

perfect mix of fun to keep us engaged and straight talk — 

to keep us in line. I always looked forward to going to 

mentor group, and I formed some of the best friendships 

that I still cherish to this day. 

Later, I had the chance to become a resident assistant 

and absolutely loved it. The women on my floor would 

gather in the hallway on many nights and just talk until 

the wee hours. I even came home one day from class to 

find my door covered in toilet paper courtesy of my 

beloved residents. It was all in good fun. I enjoyed all 

the silliness and the serious talks alike. It felt good to 

know that I could be a support for those women, like 

others had been for me. As the years went by and they 

were no longer my residents, I was so proud of how 

involved they became on campus and how they took 

on many leadership responsibilities.” 

36 

Grizzly Club 

Jerry A. Garau 

Maureen Hoffman-Wehmeier 

Kim Adams Lesko 

Cheryl Hoffman Miles 

Mark Murdock 

Vicky Higbie Newsom 

P. Rugger Smith III 

Kimberly Wheeler Stoddard 

D. Kirt Verhagen 

Sharon Park Wilson 

Thomas R. Wilson 

Steve Wray 

1984 


Patrick A. Collier 


A. Todd Bemis 

Kimberly Lafary Bemis 

Jennifer D. St. Clair 


Pamela Anderson Burpo 

Juli K. Shields 


Arturo Bicknell 

John L. Carnes Jr. 

Martin J. Gardner 

Andrew H. Hoffman 

Melanie Parris Zeiner 

Grizzly Club 

Debra L. Deeter 

Patricia Ison Foreman 

Jeffrey G. Giesting 

Dean A. Hicks 

Lee Ann Nay Hoy 

Michael B. Pinnick 

David K. Records 

Teresa Melgard Robinson 

Amy Breedlove Walker 

David A. Wehmeier 

Timothy J. Williams 

J. Michael Willis 

J. Douglas Winnefeld 

1985 


Richard Mousty 


Denise Zeyen Shuck 

Todd A. Shuck 


Patrick J. Brennan 

Carla S. Holt 

Jeffrey L. Kent 

Michael E. Myers 

Betsy Jo Schmidt 


Bill D. Foreman II 

Rebecca Smith Jones 

Brian J. Lenahan 

Drew L. Wildman 

Grizzly Club 

Curtis R. Henry 

Deborah Pilley Messinger 

Lori Hadley Robinson 

1986 


Robert Karl Bultman 


Devin D. Anderson 

Hollace D. Chastain II 



Wendy Shuler Hagn 

Kristine Bertram Wood 

Simon Kwok-Wai Wu 



Dennis D. Hicks 

Andrew E. Stoner 


Barry J. Ehle 

Dawn M. Hurlbert 

Timothy R. Jones II 

Tenna Boone Pershing 

Robert H. Satnan 

Denise Stauffer Wildman 

Grizzly Club 

David W. Bridges 

Susan Irwin Brown 

Gloria L. Crowell 

Christina Smith Harmeyer 

Eric J. Heppner 

Gary L. Hutchins 

William Russell Morris 

Erin Hinkle Records 

Kelli Van Valer Stropes 

1987 

1834 Circle 

Philip Blaine Arington 


Nora Lowe Brems 

William J. Brems 

James Wesley Cunningham 


Todd P. Check 

THEN 

&NOW 

Paul R. Fischer 


Stephen M. Gardner 

Larry P. Johns Jr. 

Joseph G. Schifano 

Michael A. Snyder 


Sally K. Brown 

Thomas R. Curren 

Melissa Porter Fast 

Rodney J. Graham 

Richard W. Morris 

David R. Poling Jr. 

Susan Crooks Poling 

Rita Baldwin Priddy 

Grizzly Club 

William A. Becker 

Curt A. Cavin 

Sara Ballard Earles 

Bruce W. Foreman 

Patricia Braun Fox 

Paula Berling Henry 

Susan Salapski-Guzek 

R. Jill Carter Snyder 

Rodney L. Snyder 

1988 


Teresa Boone Smith 

Valarie Andrews Zufall 


Julianne Butler 

Angela Rodgers Conoley 

Cheryl Brown Garner 

Bradley D. Jones 

Lisa E. Mahan 

Kevin T. Murphy 

Frank L. Muzzillo 

Grizzly Club 

Michelene Bumbales Becker 

Gary L. Cox 

Ann Chester Endres 

Jean Buis Everage 

Tanya Kitchen Holman 

Suzanne Yount Maher 

Melissa Williams Miller 

Lucien M. Perras 

Nicholas S. Schoening 

Pamela A. Schumann 

Eric A. Scudder 

Elizabeth A. Snively 

Thomas S. Solomon 

Robert F. Susemichel 

Angelina Hughes Walls 

Dianna Abbott Wilmoth

1989 


Lisa Combs Fears 

William S. Gourley 

Brian F. McManus 


Brian K. Lawson 

Valeri Liby Lawson 

Michael A. Moore 

Bob A. Witham 


Lisa Wilson Arnold 

Amy Sebree Crawford 

Rachel Sheeley Muzzillo 

Andrew S. Roesener 

Lori Allison Vaughn 

Troy L. Vaughn 

Bryan P. Werner 

Grizzly Club 

Debra K. Belden 

Rex H. Brattain 

Courtney Steele Cleghorn 

Cindy J. Fliss 

Amy Anderson Godby 

Julia Graham-Edwards 

Lori Bruns Holt 

Lora Paul Manion 

Randy D. Meyer 

Julia Alberts Puckett 

William T. Utterback 

Rhonda Andrews Walters 

1990 


Kelley C. Lasek 


Jenny Koenig Morrison 

Melanie J. Norton 


Christopher J. Conoley 

I. Lorie Bear Lux 

John D. Lux 

Kathy Bennett Murphy 

Scott D. Nowling 

Kimberly Seals Parks 

† Timothy L. Robison 

Grizzly Club 

Robert E. Belew 

Shannon J. Blount 

Gregory A. Kirkland 

Christina Wilson Lucas 

Bradley J. Monts 

Andrea Taylor Reed 

Kelly Guilfoyle Schoening 

Sonya Powers Tickel 

Kimberly Petty Valera 

J. Jeffrey Van Valer 

Michelle Diekhoff Veerkamp 

Paula Cook Wales 

1991 


Paul D. Sargent 


Dawn Calhoun Holt 

Jeffrey W. Holt 


William F. Brinkman 

David B. Glass 


Mark W. Chambers 

Shane R. Fallis 

Susanne Hill Fallis 

Reece A. Mann 

Trudy A. Smith 

Grizzly Club 

Cynthia Connelly Baxter 

Debra Billings-Mastrian 

Donald J. Burgener Jr. 

Yolanda Hattabaugh Burgener 

Jeffery A. Griman 

Carla Ogle Hammer 

Cynthia S. Kendall-Wright 

Mary Laura Malinka 

Cheryl Gaschk Miller 

Karen Lineberry Monts 

Sarah Mohney O’Brien 

Timothy A. O’Shea 

Marshall E. Royalty 

Rebecca Wey-Tsy Sun 

1992 


James S. Rodway 


Elizabeth Baker Sánchez 

Rafael S. Sánchez Jr. 

Elizabeth Ingram Sargent 


Brad M. Davis 


Jon S. Almeras 


Nicole Bumgarner Barrett 

Hope Hershberger Chambers 

Tina Leigh Coachys 

Susan Dankanich Fero 

John J. Holden 

Laura Hannah Holden 

Melissa Myers Jones 

Melissa J. McIntosh 

Kelly Wells Schneider 

Grizzly Club 

William D. Belew 

Dagrun R. Bennett 

Chris A. Cherry 

Dianna Wilkins Cox 

Aaron L. Franks 

Amy Moulden Griman 

Sharon Todd Hollowell 

Susan Vaught Kirkland 

Steven J. Miller 

John A. Myers 

Susan Schnepf O’Shea 

Kristine Keith Raney 

Charley A. Scarber 

Mark R. Susemichel 

Debbie Kramer Suttman 

David P. Vandivier 

Franki L. Zile 

1993 


Kristina King Guse 


Patrick Walsh Orr 


Martha Dorrel Schrock 


John Aaron Howald 

Ginger Hudson Liemohn 

Cherilyn Worm Williams 

Grizzly Club 

Jennifer Weales Bostic 

Robert L. Braman 

Douglas T. Burker 

Cristi Richards Cherry 

Karen Teresa Coffman 

S. Chris Coulston 

Jennifer Stone Doty 

Julie Ann Eckerle 

Daniel J. Goens 

Melissa Kaiser Henderson 

Elizabeth V. Jones 

Jennifer Martin Kwiatek 

Stefanie Paulus Lowrey 

Jennifer Geil Maupin 

Ruth McClelland-Nugent 

Hope Sullivan McMickle 

Merri Moore Smullen 

Sariah Coons Morgan 

Laura Leann Norman 

Casey Gragg Patterson 

Jennifer Miller Pratt 

Kellie Metts Prigian 

Kristen Chiarotti Prusiecki 

Michelle Alexander Scarber 

Marcus Schloemer 

Matthew B. Schnepf 

Andrea Butler Tian 

Angela Hatton Trimnell 

Jennifer Callahan Wilson 

Paula S. Winkler 

1994 


Cary M. Guse 


Mark R. Rosenthall 


Bradley D. Bolinger 

David Hake Dunkle 

Christopher Alan Lynch 


Patricia Cobo Kurek 

Jenny Persinger Sego 

Chad R. Sievers 


Jennifer Adams Giddens 

Michael David Pecen 

Ellen Prohaska Brunner 

Ronald E. Rogers 

Andrew Charles Shultz 

Grizzly Club 

Erik Vonn Arkenberg 

Claudia Heritier Braman 

Jennifer Whitis DeArmitt 

Michael P. DeArmitt 

Jane Ellynn Edwards 

Cary D. Hargis 

Deborah Hagist Hargis 

Sheila Dougherty Harmon 

John David Henderson 

Tyler G. Knight 

Greg Edward Long 

Yolanda E. McBride 

Douglas D. Miller 

Melinda Keith Miller 

Lora Peavey Peters 

Jennifer Morecraft Ridge 

Jenny Vinson Rozzi 

Allison Butler Spegal 

Angela Morris Stevens 

Michael Brent Susong 

Kurt Michael Terrell 

Derick E. Wilson 

1995 


Anthony M. Gambaiani 

Jennifer Joefreda Lippens 


Jared W. Stagner 


Catherine Stonebraker 

Caldwell 

Bradley E. Coy 

Brenda Thom Ferguson 

Jason L. Ferguson 

Angel Bates Fischer 

Diana Meer Jacob 

Matthew H. Jacob 

Kristine E. Meyer 

W. Shane Robbins 

Daniel J. Sigler Jr. 

Eric J. Stevens 

Grizzly Club 

Amy Heavner Bastin 

Brett A. Bastin 

Brian W. Davis 

Elizabeth Kuka ’11 

Campus activities: Student Congress secretary, new student mentor, 

Admissions Office Fellow, Franklin College Latino Advocacy and 

Awareness Association and Habitat for Humanity. 

Most influential professor: Kathy Carlson, English professor.“She is 

an amazing person and teacher. She encourages and inspires students 

to achieve their personal best both inside and outside the classroom. 

I have been fortunate enough to have professor Carlson for two 

semesters, and I honestly looked forward to class every day. Not only 

do you learn about English in her classes, but you also learn valuable 

life lessons.” 

Most memorable FC moment so far: “As a new student mentor last 

year, I watched students in my group get adjusted to life on campus, 

succeed in classes, become involved in athletics and organizations 

and grow to love FC as much as I do.” 

Favorite campus hangout: “My friends’ rooms . . . just to talk or watch 

our favorite TV shows.We have a set schedule for whose room we 

meet in on what night. It is so much fun!” 

Favorite things to splurge on: “Purses are my vice!” 

Five-year plan: “I am majoring in Spanish and minoring in leadership, 

and after graduation I hope to have a job where I can utilize both 

of those skills. I’m not exactly sure what is in store for me, but I am 

keeping an open mind.” 

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Amanda (Personett) Shelley ’07 

“Attending Franklin College remains one of the greatest 

decisions I ever made. My first memory of FC goes back 

to my sophomore year of high school when I attended 

an editor’s workshop through the Indiana High School 

Press Association. I went home and told my parents that 

I was going to Franklin College. They laughed at me, 

saying that we couldn’t afford it. I sure showed them. 

While I understand that I did my part to make the most 

of my experience at FC, it wasn’t hard to do. The things 

I shared as part of a recent young alumni panel that 

brought me back to campus didn’t graze the surface of 

the number of things that I learned while at Franklin, 

both personally and professionally. Not only did Franklin 

serve as my place of residence for four years, but among 

the faculty and staff I found a home and family that 

I’ll never forget. In addition, I can specifically link every 

professional success I’ve had to the connections I made 

or the things I learned while at FC.” 

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Natalie Ryan Davis 

Stephanie Wildman Flondro 

Mary T. Goebel 

Kimberly Minick Jeffers 

Kelly Coffing Maharaj 

Daniel J. Paul 

Chad E. Ridge 

Kimberly Wall Riordan 

Melissa Roetker Rouzer 

Jenny Vinson Sherrill 

Kristie L. Sweeney 

Christopher S. Vance 

J. Thomas Wiser 

Emily Habel Wood 

1996 


Jeffrey R. Lippens 

Jessica Lillpop Mahoney 


Thurman V. Alvey III 

Brady J. Lory 

Rebecca Rude Ogle 


Nancy Powers Crimmins 

Kelly Smith Fulford 

Gary L. Griner Jr. 

Misty Livengood Horsley 

Rachel Peden McCarty 

Maleta Fisher Schmidt 

Daniel L. Siewers 

Ariana Cole Stevens 

Amy Kean VerSteeg 

Joshua C. Wilson 

Grizzly Club 

Kevin J. Bley 

Suzannah Watson Brouwer 

Betsy Means Davis 

Jennifer Marshall Donovan 

Heather L. Judah 

Joshua J. Kinnick 

Todd A. Lucas 

Jennifer Lynn Martin 

Amy Kline Miller 

Dennis L. Myers 

Ellen Poe Rasor 

Jenifer Collier Schloemer 

Tracy L. Stephenson 

Kevin L. Summers 

Brandi Pearcy Terrell 

James M. Tish 

Lori Jones Tish 

Angela Dollens Turnmire 

Lisa Megel Vogel 

THEN 

&NOW 

Jennifer Schornick Williams 

Amy Martin Wiser 

1997 


Sonya Baker-Hallett 

Shaun J. Mahoney 


Adam R. Decker 

Kendra Gardner Decker 


Timothy J. Ayler 

Kristi R. Bruther 

Angela Brown Coy 

Daryle J. Fulford 

Christine Treibic Holcroft 

Leslie M. Saunders 

Grizzly Club 

Heather Hammons-Landwerke 

Blank 

Chad E. Bobb 

Michael A. Brouwer 

Kristen Gratzer Hass 

Marion Dixon Jordan 

Daniel C. McGrew 

Heather Willis Neal 

Daniel J. Noah 

Mary Helton Phillips 

Daniel B. Schuetz 

Richard J. Shagley II 

Malissa A. Spurlock 

Shawn J. Taylor 

Andrew S. Wilson 

Derick S. Witty 

Jesse D. Woodson 

1998 


Amy Lynn Belisle 


Christopher L. Bennett 

Casey Smith DeArmitt 

Joshua C. DeArmitt 

Matthew Lee Goff 

Conway L. Hershberger 

William Curt Holcroft 

Grizzly Club 

Robert Winters Ater 

Jarrod Hadley Brett 

Andrea Dryer Campbell 

Ryan S. Cripe 

Matthew Scott Fitzgerald 

Melissa Clark Hardman 

Kathleen M. Hossom 

Brian D. Murray 

Leslie Lux Myrick 

Stephanie Brown Paul 

Kelly Scribner Piercy 

Jason Andrew Scheele 

Michelle Rudolph Smith 

Sarah Baker Stephenson 

Josiah Samuel Temples 

Kathryn Suzanne Wilson 

Andrea Cardinali Woodson 

Wynita M. Worley 

1999 


Aimee Black Alyea 

Kory Todd Bell 

Michelle Singer Bloomer 

Deana Baker Haworth 

James K. Whitehouse II 


Yancy B. Cottrill 

Brian D. Harbin 

James Johnson 

Wendy Myers Preilis 

Andrea G. Shirley 

Carrie Johnson Sorensen 

LouAnna Engle Tolliver 

Brooke Wagoner Worland 

Grizzly Club 

Tracey Coulston Bledsoe 

Lisa Fradette Keener 

Daniele Roth Larrison 

Derek D. Lautenbach 

Donna Lagler Lounsbery 

Jennifer Norton Mowrey 

Elisabet Somer Murray 

Erin Beikman Pipkin 

Rachel Sharp Ramey 

Cameron D. Savage 

Allyson Heminger Sever 

Michael Sever 

Matthew J. Simpson 

Kristen Hoopes Smith 

William C. Stafford 

Margaret Tucker Sullivan 

Gavin Hamilton Teevan 

Dawn Robinson-Decot Warren 

Dawn Wesseler 

Tiffany Jonas Wilson 

2000 


Lindsay Michelle Hadley


Brett Michael Haworth 


Paul Douglas Buening 

Karenna Anne Dickerson 

Andrew Kennard Foster 

Barton James Hunter 

Jaclyn Lee Linkmeyer 

Joseph Edward McGuinness 

Grizzly Club 

Cara Peterson Adams 

Casey J. Adams 

Susan Lester Carey 

Douglas Anthony Haessig 

Jason C. Hogan 

Kraig S. Kincaid 

Megan Spaulding Laker 

Mark A. Lecher 

Cirsten Beekman Lewis 

William Bradley Rumple 

Zachary A. Shroyer 

James Wine Sigler 

Brian P. Sullivan 



Susan Buerger Buening 

Jeffrey P. Goedeker 

Matthew S. Hickey 

Megan Richardson Hickey 

Kyle R. Hobbs 

Nathan A. Mathis 

Heather R. Meek 

David Michael Stonehouse II 

Grizzly Club 

Jeffrey Scott Arthur 

Kristen Symmes Bixler 

Laura Farner Bridges 

Tara Hunter Childs 

Wade M. Coggeshall 

Amanda Kean Denton 

Brandi Renae Foster 

Brent Lynn Glasgow 

Megan Murphy Haessig 

David M. Hallgarth 

Susannah Bridges Hallgarth 

Jill Kirchner Harms 

Russell C. Harms 

Lisa Harmon Hogan 

Kurt V. Laker 

Jeffrey M. Pipkin 

Patrick L. Senn 

Jennifer Smith Setser 

Sarah Willis Shroyer 

Jennifer Weyer Skura 

Jeremy D. Skura 

LeAnn Gerkin Stidham 

Christina Miller Summers 

Anne Marie Heile Suttmann 

Andrea Lippens Teevan 

Victoria Lynn Valent 

Jack A. Waggoner Jr. 

Rebecca Meyer Walter 

Sam L. Waterson 



Kevin A. Allen 

Bradley A. Rateike 


Elizabeth Jukes Sappenfield 

Jacob W. Sappenfield 


Joshua Ryan Adams 

Matthew C. Faulkner 

Sarah Cummings Faulkner 

Marissa Knecht Goedeker 

Tiffany Barton Hendrix 

William E. Hiday 

Joseph D. Hougland 

Megan Sarah Marrinan 

Elizabeth Voors Moore 

Mathew D. Worland 

Grizzly Club 

Brian K. Alsip 

Lee Inabnitt Blazer 

Leah Pickerell Coggeshall 

Marcus Jarrod Davis 

Adam D. Dollarhide 

Heath D. Ewing 

Kristin Dane Ewing 

Natalie Sponsel Hopkins 

Andrea White Kincaid 

Matthew D. Maple 

William Eric Meek 

Sarah D. Pace 

Erin Ponder Ponder 

Eric S. Shields 

Nicole Welchko St. Martin 

Amanda Dawne Teltow 

Yoko Ueno 

April VanEpps 

Tara Borgman Ward 

Laura Johnson Waterson 



Rebecca McCaslin Iten 

Janet Mitchell Schantz 


Craig J. Bland 


Bradley J. Goedeker 

Robert Brent Holman 

Allison O. Huffman 

Neil Anthony Rauh 

Grizzly Club 

Erica Bishop Alsip 

David Lewis Bedwell 

Joseph R.A. Belser 

Megan Engle Ciaccio 

Jill Rateike Curry 

Matthew R. Dorsett 

Jeffrey Christopher Fairbairn 

Kevin Thomas Lackman 

Abigail Ann Larrison 

Tara Kitchen Layne 

David Andrew Miretti 

Nichole Helton Moore 

Kelly Gettinger Morgan 

Hillary Bellman Sanders 

Suzanne Thompson Stafford 

Kendra Brynne Stinson 

Catherine Conradt Waggoner 

Amy Miller Wilmer 

Douglas R. Wolf 



Audra Ferguson-Allen 


Emily Moses McDowell 

Brett A. Widner 

Grizzly Club 

Jennifer S. Armstrong 

Thomas David Baird 

Julia Milligan Callen 

Matthew T. Callen 

Dustin M. Case 

Andrew McClain Clotfelter 

Erin Ashbrook Davis 

Jessica Renee Dunham 

Dustin Howard Faulstick 

Daniel J. Frische 

Molly Crone Frische 

Howen F. Hernandez 

Shannon Michelle Land 

Shanon G. Layne 

Sarah Boyd Mahoy 

Kindra Moorman Maple 

Matthew L. McCutcheon 

Erin Esserman Meek 

Ryan T. Moore 

Kimberly Anne Pauszek 

Amber Leigh Powers 

Ashley Kremer Spray 

Trisha J. Taylor 

Craig A. Thompson 

Joseph L. Tooley 

Shannon Cerajewski Walker 

Amanda N. Waltz 

Ryan D. Withem 

Keith D. Witty 

Adam M. Zborowski 



Clinton L. Whitson 


Joshua D. Chastain 

Alan C. Hensell 

Michelle Miller Hiday 

Betsy Hummel Loeks 

Jared J. Sabelhaus 

Casey E. Taylor 

Amber Hicks Weatherford 

Tyler L. Weatherford 

Grizzly Club 

Donald E. Aldrich 

Katherine Sheehan Alexander 

Erica Parsons Birkle 

Justin Buck Brown 

Jennifer Piland Cataldi 

Terry L. Coy 

Jillian L. Delaney 

Andrea Merkt Fullbeck 

Chelsea S. Hendon 

Kristin Shayln Owens 

Rebecca L. Rominger 

Jessica A. Scheidt 

Natalie Rae Sealover 

Ashley Sherwood-Heller 

Aaron Bradley Sweet 

Angela Mapes Turner 

Stephanie Lynn Wagner 

Amy Thurston Waltz 

Kylie A. Weichman 

Jessica Hope Wilson 

Amy Coleman Withem 

Laura Ostermann Wolf 

Mary Hirschy Zier 



Adam C. Isenburg 


Jennifer Nebesny Whitson 


Nathaniel Taylor Aker 

Angela Rayphole Chastain 

Clayton W. Darlage 

Grizzly Club 

James Robert Alexander 

Katherine Swart Coy 

Bryston W. Cutter 

Thomas James Davis 

Kathryn E. Fledderman 

Christy Ramsey Goen 

Jill Coy Hamilton 

Kristen Nichole Hewett 

Renee N. Kean 

Mitchell Thomas Manley 

Whitney Faith Niswander 

Sara L. Papas 

Katherine Ann Reynolds 

Nathan C. Roberts 

Stacy Michelle Roe 

Tasha Moores Stahly 

Mallory Street Sparks 

Justin F. Van Horn 

Ryan Hendryx ’12 

Campus activities: Resident assistant for first floor west in Elsey Hall 

and student assistant for the men’s basketball team. 

Most influential professor: Kathy Carlson, English professor.“During 

the fall semester of my freshman year, she pushed me to work hard 

and do my best. That encouragement carried over to other classes, 

which has helped me to get better grades.” 

My most memorable FC moment so far: “Seeing the Grizzlies beat 

the Hanover College football team during the 2008 Victory Bell game.” 

Favorite class: “The biology classes are my favorite because of what 

they teach about life and the components that make up nature, and I 

enjoy the labs because they give me the chance to learn firsthand 

about biological processes.” 

Hobbies: “Soccer, basketball, football, tennis-ball, golf, fishing and 

being outdoors.” 

Five-year plan: “After I graduate from college with a degree in 

secondary education and a biology minor, I would like to teach at 

the seventh- or eighth-grade level and coach basketball at a small 

high school.“ 

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David A. Denslaw ’69 

“It is somewhat ironic that my most valued experience as a 

Franklin College student occurred during a period when 

I was away from the FC campus. The first semester of 

1968, I participated in the Washington semester program 

in Washington, D.C. Program components included 

sessions with and presentations by such notable figures 

as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Sen. Jacob 

Javitz (New York), Sen. Mark Hatfield (Oregon), Rep. 

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (New York), Special Counsel to 

President Lyndon B. Johnson Harry McPherson and 

Black Panther Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, 

among others. The opportunity, through Franklin 

College, to study in our nation’s capital at a time so 

intensely impacted by the continuing Civil Rights 

Movement, the Women’s Rights Movement, the 

Vietnam Anti-War Movement and the Presidential 

campaign of 1968 (resulting in the November election 

of Richard M. Nixon over Democrat Hubert H. 

Humphrey and Independent George C. Wallace) 

provided me with an experience that creates exciting 

and thought-provoking memories to this day.” 

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David Alan Verdeyen 

Jeremy Scott Votaw 

Holly N. Wehr 

Jacob S. White 

Robyn Burns Witty 



Rachel Lawson Coats 

Ryan Mitchell East 

Grizzly Club 

Austin E. Andrick 

Brittany Lane Beehler 

Timothy W. Bush 

Sarah L. Coffey 

Katherine Marie Douglas 

Megan Elizabeth Dykes 

Lindsey Kelly Estep 

Timothy Andrew Fish 

Lorraine Diane Fisher 

Erika Hanaway Fritz 

Ty E. Fritz 

Matthew N. Goen 

Josef Samuel Kapitan 

Megan K. Knoll 

John Michael Lett 

Michelle Elizabeth Lilly 

Sarah Louise McCann 

Heather R. Nolte 

Sara Allen Reagan 

Hilary Nicole Rebber 

Amanda Personett Shelley 

Jason M. Sims 

Shannon McMurray Sims 

Andrew J. Stahly 

Nathaniel James Starling 

Dustin Todd Vaught 

Joshua Alan Wagner 



Christopher John Kramer 

Andrew M. Mapes 

Patrick A. Yokovich 

Grizzly Club 

John Douglas Andrews 

Elizabeth Nicole Bassler 

James Robert Bush 

Michael Thomas Collier 

Ondrea Renee Elkins 

Michael L. Estep 

Clarence R. Glenn 

Joshua Philip Hatton 

Nicole Ann Hensley 

Grace Surface Howell 

Matthew James Hoyt 

Benjamin Andrew Jarvis 

Everett Eugene Johnson III 

Ryan William Johnson 

Nicholas Harold Kerr 

Magen Marie Kritsch 

Jamie Elizabeth Mathews 

Georgia Kaye Meeker 

Ashley E. Monfreda 

Bethany Ann Odom 

John Christian Postel 

Franklyn Charles Pottorff 

Alycyn Elizabeth Pratt 

Christopher John Pribush 

Justin Matthew Richey 

Patrick Kyle Roberts 

Erin Marie Scott 

Dana Lynn Sease 

Wayne M. Stanley 

Kathryn Rose Tewell 

Peter M. Till 

Katherine Lynn Vogel 

Laura Elizabeth Wagner 

Jordan Duane Waltz 

Marci Cathleen White 

Haley Blair Wise 

Benjamin M. Wyatt Jr. 

Elizabeth Allen Wyatt 

2009 

Pledge to Stay Connected is a 

fundraising program of the 

Student Foundation. The program 

encourages seniors to keep in 

contact after they graduate and 

to make a four-year financial 

commitment to the college. 

Ben S. T. Ahlbrand 

Jennifer D. Andrick 

Sara Ann Banta 

Candace Rebecca Beatty 

Lauren Joy Bobbitt 

Joel Stephen Chrobak 

Daphne Dawn Deem 

Bradley M. Ebach 

Mark Daniel Engleking 

Amanda R. Fletcher 

Paul Michael Galbraith 

Jeremy Michael Gale 

Elizabeth Rae Gearhart 

Kayla Lucille Golden 

Nathaniel L. Hampton 

Chelsea Marie Harwood 

Jasmin M. Hashi 

THEN 

&NOW 

James Kyle Jennings 

Emily Dawn Jones 

Kaleb Michael Kerr 

Raye-Lynn D. Kreiger 

Christi Noel Law 

Catherine M. Lewinski 

Heather Ann Limp 

Samantha Ann Macy 

Cory Mahon 

Melissa Anne McEwan 

Nathan Alan McGuire 

Nicholas Wood Miller 

Cassandra Gayle Mitchell 

Amanda K. Morris 

Megan Nicole Myers 

Nathaniel Ray O’Neall 

Justina Marie Peters 

Stephanie Radtke 

Nicholas J. Rensing 

Stephanie Elizabeth Rhoades 

William Paul Richardson 

Joseph Clyde Riley 

Franklin Tyler Roe 

Mary Katherine Rogers 

Emily Elaine Ruch 

Marlene Elizabeth Russo 

Karle M. Schaefer 

Whitney Jo Sedam 

Lyndsey Jo Shaw 

Carey S. Shea 

James Matthew Swienconek 

Caroline Ann Thielking 

Katie Rose Tolley 

Lauren Ashley Trisler 

Jennifer Lynne Wadsworth 

Jeffrey Scott Wagerman 

Jennifer Nicole Walters 

Jehri Ann Wampler 

Jenna Christine Yarnell 

Rachel Ann Yeager 

Sarah Rene Zeigler 

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI 

Effie Behrens 



Clifford and Paula Dietz 


John and Barbara Grimmer 

Ted and Marcia Grossnickle 

Helen and Lee Hodgen 

James E. Hoover 


Needham S. Hurst

Frank Hutcheon 

Bill and Margo Martin 

Carole L. McKinney 

James T. Napolitan 

Richard M. Park 


Kerry N. Prather 

Doreen W. St. Clair 

Dan K. Thomasson 

Dr. George Tooze Jr. 

Karen S. Wade 

Elna N. West 

R. G. Wirey 


HONORARY DEGREE 

V. Von Boll 


Clifford H. Dietz 

Paula Dietz 

Kenneth V. Dodgson 


H. Posey Gaines 

Boyd E. Haley 

Robert H. Hammond 




Nolan R. Lackey 


William B. Martin 

Gareth B. Matthews 

Larry J. McKinney 

William Ted Murphy 

Wil B. Nelp 

Leon Pacala 


Phillip Philbrook 


Frank E. Russell 

Donald Shuler 

Connie Sutton 

L. Eugene Ton 


ALUMNI COUNCIL 

Doris Brown Alexander 

Sam P. Alford 

Marjorie Reasoner Coble 

Patrick A. Collier 


Adam R. Decker 


James V. Due 

Veronica Pacala Evans 

Sarah Cummings Faulkner 

Anthony M. Gambaiani 

Robert D. Heuchan 

Leah McCombs Hooker 


Kurt V. Laker 

Susan Klein Leonard 

Janet Wheeler McDuffey 

Keith J. Moenter 


Patrick Walsh Orr 

Becky Tames Rosenberger 

Stephen A. Teets 

Donald A. Treibic 

Michael J. Urban 

David P. Vandivier 

Sam L. Waterson 

Douglas B. West 

Gene A. White 

W. Steve Witty 


PARENTS 

Mr. & Mrs. William J. Acklin 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas B. Andrews 

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher 

Appelhans 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Applegate 

Mr. & Mrs. Rob Bachek 

Mr. & Mrs. Dale Banta 

Mrs. Deidra Baumgardner 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Bede 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Blair 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bontrager 

Mr. & Mrs. David Borgman 

Mr. & Mrs. David Bowers 

Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Bradner 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Brannon 

Mrs. Kelly Braun 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brewer 

Mr. & Mrs. Randy Brown 

Mr. & Mrs. John Bryant 

Ms. Jacquelyn Buckler 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Burgeson 

Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Burns 

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley K. Burpo 

Mr. & Mrs. James G. Bush 

Mr. & Mrs. Dave Byrdwell 

Mrs. Karen Cartmell 

Dr. and Mrs. John Jay Cash 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Catron 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Chauvette 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Clunie 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael W Coffey 

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. 

Conoley 

Mr. Gordon W. Cox 

Mr. & Mrs. David Crawley 

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Crothers 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Darland 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Denny III 

Mr. David A. Denslaw 

Mr. Richard DePlanty 

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Dever 

Mrs. Vickie L. Dowden 

Mrs. Susan Dowell 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Drake 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry A. Drane 

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Duffey 

Mrs. Vanessa Dunkley 

Mr. & Mrs Michael W. Durphey 

Mr. & Mrs. Duane Ebach Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Keith Elder 

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory W. Ellis 

Mr. & Mrs. Tim Endicott 

Ms. Charisse Farrell 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Foreman 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fowler 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Franklin 

Mr. Michael Friedman 

Mr. & Mrs. Adam Fulper 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. Galbraith 

Mr. Matthew L. Galbraith 

Mr. & Mrs. William R. Gale 

Mr. & Mrs. William Garriott II 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gearhart 

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Geary 

Mrs. Virginia George-Nelis 

Mr. & Mrs. David Golden 

Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Gomez 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Graman 

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Grayson 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Greer 

Mr. & Mrs. John Hancewicz 

Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Harold 

Harmon 

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Heiden 

Dr. and Mrs. Philip N. Heller 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Helmsing 

Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Helvie 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J Henkle 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hicks 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Higgins 

Mr. & Mrs. Wendell Hill 

Mr. & Mrs. William Hojnacki 

Mr. & Mrs. Meredith Hole 

Mr. & Mrs. Danny Howard 

Mr. & Mrs. Derek B. Howard 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Huls 

Mr. & Mrs. Nick Ilickovich 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Jackson 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie Jacobs 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Johnson 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Jones Sr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James Jones 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Jones 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Kaminski 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Kaylor 

Mr. & Mrs. Greg L. Keinsley 

Ms. Catherine Kelly 

Dr. and Mrs. Nazir A. Khatri 

Mrs. Brenda Kiger 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Kimmerling 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Kirk 

Mrs. Janet Kitchin 

Mr. & Mrs. Ken Kling 

Mr. and Mrs. Neil M. Krevda 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Kuka, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James Lahrman 

Mrs. Mary Lainhart 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Lawrie 

Mr. & Mrs. Todd Lehfeldt 

Mr. & Mrs. John Letner 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Lettinga 

Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Lewis 

Mr. & Mrs. George Lewis 

Mr. & Mrs. James Lippold 

Mr. & Mrs. William Lynch 

Mr. & Mrs. John Mahoney 

Mr. & Mrs. Eric McCombs 

Ms. Christina McCord 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald McIntosh 

Ms. Jill McQuillen 

Mrs. Brenda Mellencamp 

Mr. & Mrs. Glen Melton 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mendez 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Mescall 

Dr. and Mrs. Dean Mesologites 

Mr. Gerald Miller 

Ms. Gretchen Miller 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Miller 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. 

Montague 

Mr. & Mrs. Garry D. Moore 

Mr. & Mrs. Rick Moran 

Mrs. Gena Ann Morris 

Mr. & Mrs. William Mousa 

Mr. Thomas H. Mueller Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. David L. 

Musgrave 

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Nine 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff O’Connor 

Mr. & Mrs. George Odom 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Olds 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Oliver, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel O’Rourke 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Orr 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Pate 

Mr. & Mrs. Dana Payne 

Mrs. Tina Pennington 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Pinnick 

Mr. & Mrs. Neil Planalp 

Mrs. Melinda Pollock 

Mr. Steven Polz 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Powe 

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Pribush 

Mr. & Mrs. Jay Purkhiser 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Qualls 

Mr. & Mrs. Dirk Raderstorf 

Mrs. Martha Radtke 

Mr. & Mrs. James Ratliff 

† Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Ray 

Jennifer Richardson ’12 

Campus activities: Tri Delta sorority member, Student Association in 

Support Of Multiculturalism (SASOM) historian, Black Student Union 

vice president, Franklin College Latino Advocacy and Awareness 

Association, Multicultural Partners Program mentor and Admissions 

Office ambassador. 

Most influential professor: English lecturer Carolyn Rodkey.“I had 

two courses with her freshman year, and she really encouraged us to 

be critical thinkers, not just in the classroom but in all aspects of life. 

Her classes helped open my eyes to new cultures and helped me to 

develop a new mindset when looking at the world beyond college.” 

Most memorable FC moment so far: “Meeting Ambera Siggers ’11. 

My transition from ’top-dog’ senior in high school to ‘bottom of the 

totem pole’ freshman in college would not have been as easy without 

her. Ambera gave guidance as a mentor, and her willingness to include 

me with her friends made me feel welcomed at the college and 

motivated me to get involved and become a strong leader on campus.” 

Favorite things to splurge on: “Shoes. I own 200- plus pairs!” 

Five-year plan: “I plan to be working part time at the Indiana 

Heart Hospital while taking courses in a graduate program to 

obtain my master’s and doctoral degrees. My goal is to become a 

psychologist who specializes in behavioral care for youth in juvenile 

detention centers.” 

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Jamie Rodway ’92 

“My favorite memory of Franklin College is one that is 

still a work in process. Franklin isn’t just a particular day 

or person or event. It’s a memory that is alive, growing, 

evolving and surviving within me. 

Sure, I remember when the men’s basketball team went 

to NAIA nationals and students covered the campus in 

toilet paper streamers to celebrate. And, who could forget 

watching Reece Mann ’91 pass for more than 500 yards 

in a single football game? 

But, I also enjoy the memories of sitting on a sunny 

mall, ice cream cone in hand, talking with a friend or 

debating with a teacher in Old Main, sure that I was right, 

learning that education is more than details in a book. 

My memories also include beautiful friendships, studying 

at Hamilton Library, biscuits and gravy Tuesdays at Saga, 

student government, lunches with Dr. Gardner Ashley 

(professor of French), creating a store called Poor 

Richard’s, euchre at 2 a.m., trustee meetings and the 

list goes on. 

To me, Franklin College is a collection of thousands upon 

thousands of unique memories that have come together 

over the years to become a beautiful mosaic. I wouldn’t 

trade it for the world, and I’m eternally grateful.” 

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Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Redding 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Reinbold 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger Rensing 

Mr. & Mrs. Dean Rhoades 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Rhodes 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Ridge 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Roberts 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Rodenhuis 

Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Rothkopf 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Rowles 

Mr. & Mrs. Pete Rupp 

Ms. Sharon Rust 

Mr. & Mrs. Dale Schenkel, Jr. 

Mrs. Linda Schlie 

Mr. & Mrs. Craig 

Schneckenberger 

Mr. & Mrs. Jon Schroeder 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Schuetz 

Mr. and Mrs. John Searcy 

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Shideler 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Shields 

Mr. & Mrs. Neal Singco 

Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Smith 

Mr. Roger Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Sparks 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Stack 

Mr. & Mrs. David Stephens 

Mr. & Mrs. William Sullivan 

Mr. & Mrs. Raleigh Swango 

Mr. & Mrs. Rick Taylor 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Thrasher 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Tierney 

Ms. Kimberly Townsend 

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Tucker 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Urban 

Mr. & Mrs. Tracy Vianco 

Mr. & Mrs. Terry Wagerman 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Wagner 

Mr. & Mrs. Jackie Waldroup 

Mr. & Mrs. Craig Walters 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Warner 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Warner 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Welti 

Mr. & Mrs. James Wheat 

Mr. & Mrs. Tony L. White 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger Williams 

Mr. Bruce Wilson 

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Wilson 

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Wise 

Ms. Mary Beth Wood 

Mr. Max Woodbury 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wright Sr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Yarnell II 

FACULTY AND STAFF 

Linda J. Airey 

J. Scott Armacost 

John Axe 

Denise Baird 

William W. Barrett 

Ann Kutch Barton 

Deidra Baumgardner 

Robert E. Beasley 

Paul Beczkiewicz 

Kirk Bixler 

Diane Norton Black 

Amanda Boyers 

Raymond M. Bragiel 

David G. Brailow 

Nora Lowe Brems 

Jarrod Hadley Brett 

Larry Bridges 

Sharon Kay Bridges 

Mark S. Britner 

Steven K. Browder 


Douglas T. Burker 

G. Daniel Callon 


David C. Carlson 

Kathleen D. Carlson 

Gregory R. Cataldi 

Barbara Chambers 

David H. Chandler 

Robert L Cheek 

Jennifer Clady 

Barbara Cohoon 

Karen Cole 

Dennis A. Cripe 

James R. Curry 

Carol M. Davis 

Marcus Jarrod Davis 

Barbara J. Divins 

Daniel T. Doles 

Ruth E. Dorrel 

Janet Dowty 

Kim K. Eiler 

J. Kevin Elixman 

Ondrea Renee Elkins 

Lisa Combs Fears 

Brenda Thom Ferguson 

Susan B. Fleck 

Ruth E. Freese 

Timothy L. Garner 

Virginia George-Nelis 

Douglas G. Grant 

Marcia Grossnickle 

Wendy Shuler Hagn 

Ellis F. Hall III 

Sherri Hall 

Alice Long Heikens 

Cynthia A Helmich 

Christine J Hendershot 

Tiffany Barton Hendrix 

Nicole Ann Hensley 

Alan P. Hill 


J. Thomas Howald 


Jay E. Hunsucker 

Jason B. Jimerson 

Janice F. Johnson 

Ryan William Johnson 

Virginia Johnson-Kappes 

Bradley D. Jones 

Renee N. Kean 

Nazir A. Khatri 

Gary L. Kiesel 

John L. Krull 

Anne Kuka 

Mark A. Lecher 

Yu-long Ling 

Donna Lagler Lounsbery 

Christina Wilson Lucas 

Lisa E. Mahan 

Shaun J. Mahoney 

Carole L. McKinney 

J. Barton Meyer 

Kristina K. Moede 

Beth A Moore 

Jay Moseley 

Helen Jean McClelland 

Nugent 

Paul T. Nugent 

Christopher A Nunn 


Thomas E. Patz 

Simone Pilon 

Maureen Pinnick 

William J. Pohley 

Cynthia E. Prather 

Kerry N. Prather 

Bonita L. Pribush 

Samuel B. Rhodes 

Lora F. Roberts 

Terri Green Roddie 

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Carmelita Rosengarten 

Elizabeth Jukes Sappenfield 

Paul D. Sargent 

Janet Mitchell Schantz 

Betsy Jo Schmidt 

Martha Dorrel Schrock 

Ronald L. Schuetz 

Josiah P. Sears 

Tandy L. Shuck 

Roger Smith 

Bryan Spetter 

Doreen W. St. Clair 

Margee M Stamper 

Emily A. Stauffer 

John Nelson Stevens 

Gordon Strain 

Shawn J. Taylor 

Kathryn R. Tewell 

Roger L. Thomas 

Carol Summers Tumey 

Amy Kean VerSteeg 

Vicco H. VonStralendorff 

Angelina Hughes Walls 

David M. Weatherspoon 

Katherine M. Wehner 

Gene A. White 

Dedaimia Storrs Whitney 

Jennifer Nebesny Whitson 

Emily Habel Wood 

Kristine Bertram Wood 


Benjamin M. Wyatt Jr. 

Judy Yarnell 

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Gold Key 

Mr. Jack Borgerding 

Ms. Carol R Dennis 

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1834 Circle 

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Mrs. Joyce K. Allen 

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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Armor 

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Mr. Chad Wolfe 

Mr. Alson Wright 


Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Aldrich 

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Mr. Alan Carl 

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Knobel 

Mr. & Mrs. Dewayne Mason 

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Nelson 

Mr. James M. Pinnick 

Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Slusser 

Mr. Michael W. Waddick 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Wertz 


Gil & Rita Abplanalp 

Mr. & Mrs. David L. Bates 

Rev. Joel Blanton Sr. 

Mrs. Lynnette Browder 

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Brown 

Mr. Michael D. Carter 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Conoley 

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Mrs. Julie A. Deeg 

Mr. & Mrs. John B. Ditmars 

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Mr. & Mrs. Russell Fritz 

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Mr. & Mrs. Ronald B. Lankford 

Mr. & Mrs. B. R. Mace 

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Mr. & Mrs. R. J. McConnell 

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Rev. & Mrs. Louis G. Nelson 

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Mr. Mark Parker 

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Mr. & Mrs. Barry L Richmond 

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Sharpe 

Mr. Larry D. Smith 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard V. Swindle 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. 

Swinehamer 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Taylor 

Mr. Joe Theobald 

Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Waterson 

Dr. Mark D. Williams 

Mr. Stephen J. Wray 


Mr. James R. Admire 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scott 

Alspach 

Mrs. Lynette Elizabeth 

Andrews 

Ms. Edna Appel 

Mr. Michael Arnett 

Ms. Earleen M. Ashbrook 

Mr. Chet Aubin 

Mr. Larry Baker 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Banschbach 

Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Barcus 

Mrs. Amy L Barger 

Ms. Sheila Barr 

The Hon. Kevin M. Barton 

Mr. Byron C. Bayne 

Mr. Wesley A. Beal 

Mrs. Norma Bellman-Jones 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald K. Bitter 

Ms. Jill M. Bode 

Ms. Henriette K. Bolly 

Ms. Virginia Bonomini 

Mr. & Mrs. Devon J. Bontrager 

Mr. James Brock 

Mr. & Mrs. Ivan D. Brooks 

Mr. & Mrs. Glenn A. Brown 

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Mr. & Mrs. Ole Albert Carlson 

Ms. Barbara P. Catron 

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Mr. & Mrs. George R. Cochran 

Ms. Lucille Cockerham 

Ms. Marian L. Colvin 

Mrs. Nancy A. Conoley 

Mr. Harlan G. Copeland 

Mrs. Hester Coward 

Mr. & Mrs. Steve R. Cox 

Mr. Jeffrey David Crawley 

Ms. Vickie E. Daulton 

Col. Mark S. Davis 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Doherty 

Mrs. Sherry L. Doles 

Mr. Jeffrey A. Dollens 

Ms. Linda Dollens 

Ms. Esther F. Dolson 

Ms. Jimpsie Doyel 

Rev. George R. Duncan 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Eiler 

Mr. Eddie B. Ellis 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Engle 

Dr. Scott J. Findley 

Mr. & Mrs. Chester Flynn 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Foster 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Frazee 

Mr. Melvin N. Fredbeck 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Freeman 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Freimuth 

Mr. & Mrs. Robin Gahimer 

Dr. & Mrs. Philip George 

Mr. Don D. Glesing 

Mr. Jeff Gore 

Mr. & Mrs. James R. Grayson 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Grimmer 

Ms. Cathy J. Hamm 

Mr. & Mrs.John D. Hann 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Harmon 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Hass 

Ms. Yvette Hauser 

Mr. Richard Adam Hayes 

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Herrmann 

Mrs. Henrietta Heuchan 

Ms. Jodie R. Heydon 

Mr. & Mrs. James M. Hicks 

Mr. & Mrs. James C. Higdon 

Mr. & Mrs. James H. Higgins 

Mr. & Mrs. Rich Hoffman 

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hollenbeck 

Mr. & Mrs. N. David Honnigford 

Ms. Carolyn O. Hood 

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Horvath 

Mr. & Mrs. Kurt D. Hunt 

Mr. & Mrs. Royce Hunt 

Ms. D. Jean Hutchens 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hutchens 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Jarvis 

Mr. & Mrs. L. David Johnson 

Mr. Phillip S. Jones 

Mr. & Mrs. Ray A. Jones 

Mr. Michael E. Justice 

Mr. Tim Kappes 

Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Kauffman 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Keller 

Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kelly 

Mr. James H. King 

Mrs. Judith Davis Kirkland 

Ms. Anne L. Knapp 

Ms. Deborah A. Knerr 

Mr. & Mrs. Jed E. Lange 

Mr. Geoffrey S. Lapin 

Mr. & Mrs. Carl Leck 

Mr. William R. Ledyard 

Ms. Barbara J. Lee 

Mr. & Mrs. George E. Leonard 

Mr. Joseph Leonard 

Mr. Stephen Leonard 

Ms. Mary M. Lett 

Mrs. Yuriko Ling 

Mr. Todd Linville 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas K. Lobdell 

Mr. & Mrs. David Lucas 

Mr. Jerry Maguire 

Ms. Susan A. Mann Hitchcock 

Ms. Kathleen E. Martin 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry P. Martin 

Mr. Ronald E. Mattingly 

Mr. Jay D. May 

Mrs. Nancy McCay 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick McEuen 

Mr. Dan Meiners 

Mr. George Melloan 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Merkley 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Miller 

Mr. Paul Miller II 

Ms. Suzanne Miller 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. 

Millspaugh 

Mr. Mike Momberger 

Mr. David Mongan Sr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Don E. Morgan 

Ms. Judith Mousa 

Mrs. Jack Mullendore 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Murphy 

Mr. & Mrs. William Joseph 

Murphy 

Mr. & Mrs. William R. Murphy 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack E. Nies 

Ms. Jean Ann O’Rourke 

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Paris 

Mr. John R. Park 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Pelz 

Mr. & Mrs. Garland D Perry 

Mrs. Marian Pohley 

Mrs. Jama Pryor 

Ms. Lorie Ray 

Ms. Shawn Reardon 

Mr. Ned Rees 

Tyler Roell ’10 

Campus activities: Member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Student 

Foundation, Interfraternity Council executive board and cross country 

and indoor and outdoor track teams. 

Most influential professor: Bonnie Pribush, director of leadership 

development.“Even though I’ve never had her as an actual professor, 

she was my freshman year adviser and my fraternity’s adviser as well. 

Over the last few years, she has always been there for me when I’ve 

needed guidance. She has helped me become the leader that I am.” 

Favorite campus hangout: “My room at the Phi Delt house.There are 

few places where a group of guys can hang out with no TV, no music 

and no computers for hours on end, just talking about random events 

in life, and not get sick of each other. My room is that place for me and 

my brothers and friends.” 

Favorite class: “Calculus II. John Boardman, associate professor of 

mathematics, and the people in the class made it very enjoyable, 

and the late-night study sessions and board races made studying fun.” 

Five-year plan: “I would like to be teaching math at the high school 

level, after possibly traveling around the country working as a field 

consultant for Phi Delta Theta’s international headquarters. Right now, 

teaching algebra II or geometry seems very appealing. Also, I would 

love to coach, preferably track and cross country.” 

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Leah (McCombs) Hooker ’54 

“As a music major, my most special memories at 

Franklin College involved being in the concert choir. 

Each year we made 40 to 50 appearances and spent 

our spring vacations on a tour bus for many fun-filled 

miles. Many lifetime friendships were made traveling 

to Washington, D.C., Buffalo, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., and 

several cities in between. 

The most exciting trip was to Miami, Fla., on an 

airplane furnished by an alum. We were invited to 

sing for the 1954 Kiwanis International Convention. 

It was a thrilling experience to receive a standing 

ovation from more than 10,000 people. We were very 

proud to be goodwill ambassadors for Franklin College.” 

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Ms. Martha Reitz 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Revor 

Ms. Gail Richards 

Mr. David S. Richey 

Mr. P. Neil Riley 

Mrs. Anne T. Ritteman 

Mrs. Heather Robbins 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Roberson 

Ms. Kim L. Roberts 

Ms. Jennifer Rogers 

Mr. & Mrs. Elmer L. Rohrbacher 

Mr. Larry Rothenberger 

Mr. Charles E. Ryker 

Ms. Darlene Scarlett 

Ms. Sandy Schrink 

Mr. & Mrs. William M. Scott 

Mr. & Mrs. Duane E. Sears 

Mr. & Mrs. David Sease 

Ms. Sue Selvio 

Mr. Steve D. Shaul 

Ms. Doris E. Sheeks 

Mr. & Mrs. Matt A. Shockley 

Mr. & Mrs. Jay E. Shumaker 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Siewers 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sigler 

Ms. Grace E. Sikes Scering 

Ms. Stacey L. Sink 

Ms. Marianne Smith 

Mr. Michael Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. 

Snellenbarger 

Ms. Zonda A. Stead 

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. 

Stegemann 

Ms. Judith A. Stegemann 

Mrs. Kathy Stolz 

Mr. Robert W. Strickland 

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Stutler 

Mr. Bill Sumansky 

Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Swick 

Ms. Carla M. Taylor 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Taylor 

Ms. Barbara V. Thibault 

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Thrasher 

Mr. Walter A. Vanderbush 

Mr. & Mrs. Danny D. Vaught 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Robert 

Wade 

Mr. Gary M. Wade 

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Wagoner 

J. Page Walker 

Mr. Joseph P. Waltermann 

Ms. Sue S. Webb 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry White 

Mr. Ronald D. Wildman 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Winger 

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Winkler 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allen Young 

Grizzly Club 

Ms. Vicky Able 

Mr. & Mrs. Lance Adams 

Ms. K. Jane Adcock 

Ms. Ann M. Alexander 

Mrs. Janet P. Alexander 

Mrs. April Allen 

Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Amos 

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Mrs. Gayle Arnold 

Mr. & Mrs. William F. Arnold 

Ms. Barbara M. Babb 

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Mr. & Mrs. Steven Barton 

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Ms. Tricia E. Bechman 

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Mr. Robert C. Eiler 

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Ward 

Mr. & Mrs. E. Wayne Esserman 

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Mr. & Mrs. Steve Phillips 

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Mr. Matthew Joseph Prusiecki 

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Mr. & Mrs. David Ray 

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Ray 

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Ms. Nancy Remke 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald L. Renner 

Mr. & Mrs. Burdette Richard 

Mr. Chad M. Riddle 

Mr. & Mrs. Doug Roederer 

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Rolfes 

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Ms. Donna Jean Rueff 

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Mr. & Mrs. Roger Scheele 

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Ms. Mary Schenkel 

Ms. Patricia R. Schenkel 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Schleter 

Miss Angeline R Schroeder 

Ms. Abby N. Scott 

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Scribner 

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Mr. & Mrs. Fredrick A. Server 

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Mr. & Mrs. Todd L. Shideler 

Ms. Elizabeth A. Shipley 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Shoemaker 

Mr. & Mrs. H. Wesley Shupert 

Ms. Lynne Sidkey 

Ms. Donna Sue Sipe 

Mr. Ron Skipton 

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Mr. & Mrs. John M. Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Snyder 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Soendlin 

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert Souchon 

Mr.& Mrs. Kenneth B. Spencer 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry R. Spindler 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Spray 

Mr. Swede Steigerwald 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Norman Stevens 

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Ms. Mary Jean Stroh 

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Mr. & Mrs. Rolla Thomas 

Mr. David P. Thompson 

Mr. John M. Thompson 

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Tierney 

Ms. June E. Uphaus 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Utterback 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Vaal 

Mr. & Mrs. William R. Van 

Deman 

Mr. Bruce Vanderporter 

Ms. Josephine Volz 

Mrs. Lilo VonStralendorff 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian P. Walker 

Mr. & Mrs. John Wm. Walker 

Mr. & Mrs. David Ward 

Mr. & Mrs. Layne Warren 

Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Welch 

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Wesseler 

Mr. Jesse Westmeyer Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Whalen 

Ms. Carol F. Wheat 

Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Whitaker 

Mrs. Ruth E. Whitbeck 

Mr. Roy M. White 

Mr. & Mrs. Terry Whittington 

Mr. & Mrs. David Scott Wilbur 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wilde 

Mr. & Mrs. David Wilkerson 

Mr. & Mrs. Nathan S. Williams 

Mr. Carey Willis 

Mr. & Mrs. David Wilson 

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Wilson 

Mr. John E. Wolfarth 

Mr. & Mrs. James Wong 

Mr. Michael C. Wood 

Mr. & Mrs. Rory L Wray 

Mr. & Mrs. David L. Wright 

Mr. & Mrs. Marty Young 

PLANNED AND 

MEMORIAL GIFTS 

Bequests 

Harry W. Carmichael 

Sylvan W. Tackitt 

Memorials 

Eleanor Andrews 

Mr. and Mrs. William Black 

Gardner Ashley 

First Baptist Church 

Mr. John M. Chiarotti 

Mrs. Hester Coward 

LTC (Ret). Robert L. Foist 

Ms. Carolyn O. Hood 

Ms. Allison O. Huffman 

Mrs. Joella Boyer Patterson 

Dr. Simone Pilon 


Ms. Betsy Jo Schmidt 

Mr. Andrew E. Stoner 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. 

Suckow 

John Auld, Sr. 

The Hon. K. Mark Loyd 

Jack Austin 

Bentley Commons 

Homeowners 

Ms. Estolle T. Gross 

Leon Babcock 

Ms. Barbara Humphrey 

Mrs. Jane Vandivier 

Norma Lipton Brailow 

Dr. David G. Brailow 

Mr. Ellis F. Hall III 

Dr. Alice A. Heikens 

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. 

Huddleston 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Barton Meyer 

Dr. and Mrs. Jay Moseley 


Prof. Bonita L. Pribush and 

Dr. Robert Pribush 


Beth Chupp Browning 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Bates 

Rev. James E. Dye 

Ms. Patricia L. Failey 

Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. Palamara 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Poole 

Ms. Mary Jean Stroh 

Ms. Barbara V. Thibault 

Mr. and Mrs. John Wm. Walker 

Mrs. Sarah M. Walters 

Ann Mullendore Copeland 

Mr. Harlan G. Copeland 

Lisa Gatz 

Ms. Heather R. Nolte 

Marge Gilkey 

Mr. Robert D. Epstein 

David Hicks 

Col. Jeffrey L. Kent 

J. Alan Holman 

Mrs. Pamela Herring Hicks 

Margaret A. Hommell 

Mrs. Angela M. Turner 

Luella A. Hopkins 

Dr. Carolyn A. Cunningham 

Edna Agnew Houze 

Psi Association of Delta Zeta 

Mrs. Doris J. Alexander 

Mrs. Traci L. Baumgartner 

Ms. Kristy K. Brown 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Doles 

Ms. Martha May Newsom 

Dr. Helen Jean Nugent and 

Rev. Dr. Paul T. Nugent 

William P. Jones, Jr. 

INOK Investments, LLC 

SourceCorp 

Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Beeler 

Ms. Rita J. Borchert 

Mrs. Carol G. Chappell 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Chastain 


Mr. Victor E. Childers 


Dr. and Mrs. Philip George 

Mr. and Mrs. N. David 

Honnigford 

Mr. and Mrs. Bart Kaufman 


Suckow 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. 

Swinehamer 


C. Robert Lawson 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Alton 

Raffi V. Balian 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Bessler 

Ms. Joan Bogetto 

Ms. Jean R. Boghossian 

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. 

Boone 

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Costello 

Ms. Dorothy A. Felix 

Ms. Ruth M. Ferry 

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Fields 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce V. 

Holderead 

Mr. and Mrs. D. T. James 

Mr. and Mrs Leonard Kolada 

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Pulek 

Mr. Christopher Rowan 

Ms. Marie Rudick 

Ms. Susanne Sell 

Rev. Kenneth L. Sherfick 

Mr. and Mrs. Merrill W. Strayer 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Szostak 

Mr. and Mrs. C. Vitalie 

Ms. Marsha Wilkins 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. 

Williamson 

Worth Bennett 

Mr. Richard B. Blackwell 


Mr. and Mrs. Matt Jarvis 

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. Martin 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. 

Morrison 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nurre 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. 

Spencer 

Mr. and Mrs. David Wilkerson 

Edna Parker 

Mr. Mark Parker 

Alicia Pianca 

Mr. David A. Denslaw 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Kurek 


Robbie Pribush 


Joyce E. Rawson 

Dr. Steven K. Browder 

Robert Ray 


Molly Carrier ’10 

Campus activities: Member of Tri Delta sorority,Wave 3, AmeriCorps 

and new student leadership seminar mentor. 

Most influential FC professor: Kathy Carlson, English professor. 

“The first class of my college career was with professor Carlson. 

She immediately calmed any fears I was having about whether I could 

handle college courses. Her passion for learning was obvious every 

day, even in the 8 a.m. class! She helped me cultivate my own love of 

learning, which is something I hope to pass on to my future students.” 

Favorite campus hangout: “Saga is the best place to catch up with 

people.” 

Favorite class: “Leadership in Inner-City Missions with service-learning 

coordinator Doug Grant and campus minister David Weatherspoon 

during Winter Term of my sophomore year. It made me realize that 

people come from so many different walks of life and that I want 

to do everything I can to help those, especially children, who are 

less fortunate.” 

Five-year plan: “Graduate from college with an elementary education 

degree and work in a school in central Indiana. At some point, I also 

would like to work for a nonprofit organization that works with 

low-income families.” 

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Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Sheldon 

Scott Sheldon 

Mr. Tom G. Seward, Jr. 

Mr. William R. Suckow II 


Suckow 

Mrs. Jane Vandivier 

Linda Snyder 

Wall Family Trust 

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Brems 

Mr. Ronald W. Randall 

Mr. Michael A. Snyder 

Mildred and Richard Suckow 


Suckow 

Ruth Tanner 

Ms. Donna Jean Rueff 

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Rueff 

Dr. Dallas West 

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hoffman 

In Honor of 

Stephanie Mae Gahimer 

Mr. and Mrs. Robin Gahimer 

Alice Heikens 

Ms. Sara L. Reagan 

Dr. J. Thomas Howald 

Mr. Andrew M. Mapes 

Paul Johnson 

Miss Magen Marie Kritsch 

Bob and Marilyn Kuhn 


Bart Meyer and Family 

Miss Dana Lynn Sease 

Rebecca Rude Ogle 

Mr. and Mrs. Russell R. Rude 

Mary Jane Pratt 

Miss Alycyn Elizabeth Pratt 

John and Jeanne Wagner 

Miss Laura Elizabeth Wagner 

Fred Witzig 

Mr. John Christian Postel 

Gregory Zentz 

Mr. Justin Matthew Richey 

CHURCHES 

American Baptist Women’s 

Missionary Flat Rock 

Association 

Amity Baptist Church 

Amo Baptist Church 

Anderson First Baptist Church 

Avoca Baptist Church 

Bedford First Baptist Church 

Big Walnut Baptist Church 

Bluffton First Baptist Church 

Calvary Baptist Church 

Church of the Master 

Clinton First Baptist Church 

Columbus First Baptist Church 

Congregation of the 

Covenants 

Culbertson Baptist Church 

Denver First Baptist Church 

Elizaville Baptist Church 

Faith Baptist Church 

Federated Church 

First Missionary Church 

First Presbyterian Church 

Franklin First Baptist Church 

Freedom Baptist Church 

Fredonia Baptist Church 

Garfield Park Baptist Church 

Greenwood First Baptist 

Church 

Judson Women’s Mission 

Society 

Kent Baptist Church 

Lebanon First Baptist Church 

Liberty Baptist Church of 

Tipton 

Little Blue River Baptist 

Church 

Madison First Baptist Church 

Meadowbrook Church 

Miami Baptist Church 

Michigan City First Baptist 

Church 

National Ministries — 

American Baptist Churches 

New Bethel Baptist Church 

Plainfield First Baptist Church 

Richmond First Baptist Church 

Rushville First Baptist Church 

Second Mt. Pleasant Baptist 

Church 

Shelbyville First Baptist Church 

Southport Baptist Church 

Sullivan First Baptist Church 

The Baptist Temple 

Unity Baptist Church 

Vincennes First Baptist Church 

Washington First Baptist 

Church 

FOUNDATIONS, 

CORPORATIONS 

AND OTHER 

ORGANIZATIONS 

(M) denotes companies that 

matched gifts from alumni and 

friends 

Abbott Laboratories Fund (M) 

Albemarle Corp. (M) 

Allen Whitehill Clowes 

Charitable Foundation 

Allied Technologies Food 

Equipment 

Amco Elevators 

American Telephone & 

Telegraph Foundation (M) 

American United Life 

Insurance Co. (M) 

Amos-Hill Associates, Inc. 

AT & T Services, Inc. 

Auto Addict, LLC 

Barnes and Noble 

Bentley Commons 

Homeowners Association 

Bloomfield State Bank 

Blue River Foundation 

Bose McKinney & Evans LLP 

Bradley Financial 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Corp. (M) 

Browning Day Mullins 

Dierdorf 

Brown’s Furnishings and 

Carpet, Inc. 

C & T Design & Equipment Co. 

C. James & Mary Lou Wilson 

Charitable Trust 

Cama Enterprises, Inc. 

Champe Enterprise Inc. 

Chevron Texaco 

Chubb & Son (M) 

Citi Foundation (M) 

Citizens for Garton 

City of Franklin 

City Securities Corp. 

Clarence & Inez Custer Trust 

Clawson Communications 

Clemens J. Smith Charitable 

Foundation, Inc. 

Coca Cola Bottling Co. (M) 

Community Foundation of 

Madison & Jefferson Co, Inc 

Community Involvement In 

Learning, Inc. 

Cragg Family Endowment 

Fund 

Cream Hill Foundation 

Crowe Horwath LLP 

Crystal Springs Grain, LLC 

Cutsinger and Schafstall 

Dave’s All-American Pizza & 

Eatery 

David W. Wantz & Associates 

Dayton Foundation 

Depository, Inc. 

Dew Sprinkler Service, Inc. 

D.J. Angus Scientech 

Educational Foundation 

Duke Energy Midwest 

Charitable Giving 

Edinburgh/Trafalgar Family 

Health Centers 

Edward Jones 

Eggers Woods Attorneys at 

Law 

Elba L. & Gene Portteus 

Branigin Foundation 

Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation (M) 

Embarq Management Co. 

Endress and Hauser Inc. 

Ernst & Young LLP (M) 

Esperanza Ministries, Inc. 

E. Thomas Arington Family 

Foundation 

Experian (M) 

Expert Eye Care Edinburgh 

Exxon Education 

Foundation (M) 

Farm Bureau Insurance Co. 

Federal Insurance Co. (M) 

Fiorini Sales Unlimited, Inc. 

First Merchants Corp. 

First National Bank 

Flinn & Maguire Funeral Home 

Floyd Kresge Trust 

Franklin Boys & Girls Club AAU 

Franklin Chamber of 

Commerce 

Franklin Community Schools 

Franklin Insurance Agency 

Franklin Parks & Recreation 

Franklin Printing Service 

Franklin Technical Park 

Associates, LLC 

Free Enterprise System , Inc. 

Gannett Foundation (M) 

Gibraltar Design 

Girls Inc. of Franklin 

Goodrich Corporation 

Partners in Giving Plan (M) 

Gordon Cox Design 

Greater Greenwood Chamber 

of Commerce 

Harmon Family Chiropractic PC 

Hass, Vandivier & Norris 

Heartland Community Bank 

Heron Printing Co. Inc. 

Home News Enterprises 

Hoosier Gasket Corp. 

Hoosier Times 

IBM International 


Independent Colleges of 

Indiana Foundation 

Indiana Department of 

Environmental Mgmt. 

Indiana Masonic Home 

Indianapolis Diversified 

Machining 

Indianapolis Press Club 

INOK Investments, LLC 

Internet Hospitality Group 

Irwin Financial Foundation (M) 

Irwin Union Bank (M) 

Irwin Union Foundation (M) 

IU Financial Management 

Support 

J. P. Parker Co. 

Jackson County Bank Trust 

John Jay Cash, DDS 

Johnson & Johnson (M) 

Johnson County Adult 

Probation 

Johnson County Community 

Foundation 

Johnson County Development 

Corp. 

Johnson County Garden Club 

Johnson County Treasurer’s 

Office 

Johnson County Youth 

Services Bureau, Inc. 

Johnson Memorial Hospital 

JWG, Inc. 

K and B Distributors, Inc. 

T-Shirt Express 

Kappa Kappa Kappa 

KeyBank National Association 

LabCorp (M) 

LDI, Ltd. 

Legends of Franklin, LLC 

Lewis and Wagner Attorneys 

Lilly Endowment Inc. (M) 

LOI Limited Partnership 

Lumberjack Medical Inc. 

Main Source Bank 

Main Source Financial Group 

Operations Center 

Marathon Ashland 

Petroleum, LLC 

Matlock Ford 

Maurer Family Foundation, 

Inc. Mickey’s Camp for 

Women 

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation 

Inc. (M) 

Metropolitan Life 


Midway Services, Inc. 

Mongan Construction 

Management Co. 

Morgan Stanley 

Mueller Auto Sales 

Mueller Insurance Agency 

Mutual Savings Bank 

N. K. Hurst Co. 

Neal Paint and Wallpaper 

Store, Inc. 

Nicholas H. Noyes Jr. 

Foundation 

Nina Mason Pulliam 

Charitable Trust 

Norfolk Southern 


Northern Trust Co. Charitable 

Trust (M) 

Norton Grain Corp. 

Oakley Automotive, Inc. 

Old National Bank 

Onspot Foundation, Inc. 

Oxford Financial Advisors 

Corp. 

Peabody Energy (M) 

Pepsico Foundation (M) 

Pershing Sanders Morris Harris 

Petro’s Culligan of Johnson 

County 

Pharmacia Pfizer 


Potter Color and Supply 

Principal Financial Group 

Foundation Inc. (M) 

Pro Industries 

Proctor & Gamble Fund (M) 

Prudential Insurance Co. (M) 

Psi Association of Delta Zeta 

Quizno’s Franklin 

R & K Powell Enterprises, Inc. 

Raymond James & 

Associates, Inc. 

Realm Construction Co. 

Red Line Graphics, Inc. 

Sallie Mae Fund (M) 

SBC Foundation (M) 

Schwab Charitable Fund 

Scott Funeral Home, Inc. 

Scottee Cleaners, Inc. 

Scripps Howard 


Shell Oil Co. Foundation (M) 

Shiel Sexton Co. 

Shuck’s Financial Services, Inc. 

SIA Foundation, Inc. (M) 

Siemens Building 

Technologies, Inc. 

SMA Services, Inc. 

SourceCorp 

Southside Youth Council, Inc. 

St.Thomas Clinic 

State Employees’ Community 

Campaign 

State Farm Companies 



Attorney 

Stuart & Branigin 

Tara Treatment Center, Inc. 

Templeton Coal Company, Inc. 

The Fifth Third Bank (M) 

The Newslink Inc. 

The Willard 

Third Sector Innovations, Inc. 

Titsworth & Co. 

Toyota USA Foundation (M) 

Trafalgar Country Gardeners 

Triple Impact 

United Way of Johnson 

County, Inc. 

USA Funds United Student 

Aid Funds, Inc. (M) 

Van Valer Law Firm 

Vectren Foundation, Inc. 

Verizon Foundation (M) 

Virginia G. Piper Charitable 

Trust 

Wal-Mart Distribution 

Center #6017 

WellPoint Foundation 

Associate Giving 

Program (M) 

Wells Fargo Bank (M) 

Wiley & Sons, Inc. (M) 

Willard G. Pierce and Jessie M. 

Pierce Foundation (M) 

William R. Hearst Foundation 

Williams Hewitt Barrett & 

Wilkowski, LLP 

Woodbury & Co. 

WSW Champs 

Xcel Energy Foundation (M)

2008–09 Franklin College Executive Staff 

Dr. James G. Moseley President 

Dr. David G. Brailow Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College 

Bryan Spetter Vice President for Finance 

J. Barton Meyer Vice President for Institutional Advancement 

Alan P. Hill Vice President for Enrollment and Marketing 

Lisa R. Fears ’89 Vice President for Planning, Plant and Technology 

Ellis F. Hall, III Dean of Students 

Kerry N. Prather Director of Athletics 

Franklin College Board of Trustees 

Executive Committee: 

Susan Johnson DeVoss ’65 Chair of the Board 

Dr. Stephen L. Huddleston (’06) Immediate Past Chair 

Dr. Clifford H. Dietz (’86) Secretary 

The Hon. Robert D. Schafstall ’66 Treasurer 

Dr. Theressa Wright ’72 Vice Chair and Chair, Academic Affairs Committee 

Mary Ann Collier Vice Chair and Chair, Student Affairs Committee 

Philip L. Powell ’73 Vice Chair and Chair, Physical Facilities Committee 

Dr. V. Von Boll ’52 (’03) Vice Chair and Chair, Development/Public Affairs Committee 

The Honorable Robert D. Schafstall ’66 Vice Chair and Chair, Finance Committee 

Christine S. Fields ’74 Vice Chair and Chair, Trusteeship Committee 

Dr. Margot Lacy Eccles (’02) Vice Chair and Chair, Enrollment Management Committee 

Dr. James T. Napolitan Vice Chair and Chair, Investment Committee 

James V. Due ’82 Vice Chair and Chair, Audit Committee 

William R. Brown ’61 Vice Chair and Chair, President’s Committee 

Trustees: 

Dean J. Abplanalp Franklin, Indiana, senior vice president, Investments, Raymond James & Associates, Inc. 

John W. Auld Jr. ’76 Franklin, Indiana; president, Franklin Insurance Agency 

Dr. Effie J. Behrens (’05) Fort Wayne, Indiana; civic/community leader 

Reinhard W. Bockstette ’68 Berlin, Germany; director, pcSOFT GmbH, Senftenberg, Germany; programme executive, Executive Conversation, Inc., Seattle, Wash. 

Dr. V. Von Boll ’52 (’03) New Hudson, Michigan; retired chairman and chief executive officer; Cummins Bridgeway, LLC 

William R. Brown ’61 Indianapolis, Indiana; retired general counsel and secretary, American United Life Insurance/One America Financial Partners, Inc. 

Peter T. Cangany, Jr. ’80 San Antonio, Texas; partner, Ernst & Young, LLP 

Mary Ann Collier San Francisco, California; director, Cisco Systems, Inc. 

Deborah Hill Davis ’86 Fishers, Indiana; principal, Triad Public Relations, Inc. 

Robert A. DeVoss ’69 Carmel, Indiana; retired partner/president, Retirement Management, Inc. 

John R. Dickerson ’75 Indianapolis, Indiana; director, Indianapolis Facility Center, U.S. Homeland Security-Customs & Border 

Susan Johnson DeVoss ’65 Fort Wayne, Indiana; retired vice president of human resources, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York 

Dr. Clifford H. Dietz (’86) Franklin, Indiana; retired chairman of the board, Engineered Models Corp. 

James V. Due ’82 Chicago, Illinois; senior vice president, Northern Trust Co. 

Dr. Margot Lacy Eccles (’02) Indianapolis, Indiana, vice president, LDI, Ltd. 

Christine S. Fields ’74 Indianapolis, Indiana; general counsel international operations, Eli Lilly and Co. 

James M. Frische Trafalgar, Indiana; retired chairman and chief executive officer, Digital Audio Disc Corp. 

Robert D. Garton Columbus, Indiana; vice president, professional development, Ivy Tech Community College 

John E. Grimmer Trafalgar, Indiana; chairman, Grimmer Industries 

Pamela Herring Hicks ’56 Greenwood, Indiana; civic/community leader 

Dr. Worthe S. Holt Jr. Fishers, Indiana; health care administrator/physician 

James E. Hoover Indianapolis, Indiana; president, Hoover Family Foundation 

Dr. Stephen L. Huddleston (’06) Franklin, Indiana; attorney 

Byron K. Mason Indianapolis, Indiana; attorney, Baker & Daniels 

The Rev. Dr. Larry D. Mason Indianapolis, Indiana; executive minister, American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky 

Dr. James T. Napolitan Chicago, Illinois; commodity trader, Chicago Mercantile Exchange 

Dr. Wil B. Nelp ’51 (’67) Seattle, Washington; professor emeritus of medicine and radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine 

Joseph M. Perkins Jr. Carmel, Indiana; senior counsel, Cummins Inc. 

Philip L. Powell ’73 Greenwood, Indiana; president and owner, Allied Technologies Food Equipment, Inc. 

William J. Receveur III ’72 Louisville, Kentucky; president, Realm Construction Co., Inc. 

Jane Hoffmeister Repp ’60 Naples, Florida; civic/community leader 

Rafael S. Sánchez Jr. ’92 Franklin, Indiana; general assignment reporter, WRTV Channel 6 

The Hon. Robert D. Schafstall ’66 Franklin, Indiana; Franklin City Court judge, Cutsinger & Schafstall 

Dan King Thomasson Washington, D.C.; retired vice president, Scripps Howard Newspapers 

Douglas L. Tillman ’70 Indianapolis, Indiana; retired associate general counsel, Eli Lilly and Co. 

The Rev. Dr. George H. Tooze Jr. Indianapolis, Indiana; retired senior minister, First Baptist Church of Indianapolis 

Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger Bargersville, Indiana; adjutant general of Indiana, Indiana Army and National Guard 

Dr. Constance Richardson Van Valer ’59 Greenwood, Indiana; retired physician 

Susan Williams ’67 Indianapolis, Indiana; president, Indiana Sports Corp. 

Dr. Theressa Wright ’72 Indianapolis, Indiana; senior director — Medical Global Patient Safety — Early Phase Medicine, Eli Lilly and Co. 

Honorary Trustees: 

Dr. Robert E. Dickinson (’88) 

Dr. Eugene L. Henderson ’50 (’74) 

Needham S. Hurst 

Dr. Robert A. Johnson ’40 (’84) 

Dr. Ruth Lilly (’03) 

Dr. Ted L. Marston ’51 (’92) 


Robert G. Smith ’50 

T. Randall Tucker ’53 

Dr. Thomas G. Vandivier ’50 

Dr. Thorp L. Wolford (’98) 

Franklin College alumni have class year following name. Franklin College honorary degree recipients have award year in parentheses following name. 

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ALUMNI NEWS 

Brings back memories 


Editor 

The college’s milestone 175th anniversary 

inspired a yearlong project dedicated to 

documenting favorite Franklin memories. 

Through this magazine, periodic newsletters, 

the Web site and Homecoming mailings, the 

college encouraged alumni and friends to 

share their stories. The result is a treasure 

trove of college history that anyone with ties 

to Franklin may enjoy reading. Thank you to 

everyone who contributed, and especially 

thanks for keeping the spirit of Franklin 

College alive! 

’40s 

Rosemary (Chappell) Winters ’40: I fell in love 

with Franklin when I attended the Indiana 

High School Press Association conferences. 

Having gone to a large high school in a city, 

I found Franklin’s small-town atmosphere and 

friendly campus very appealing. During my 

four years, I got to know most of the students, 

and many of the professors became my 

friends. I also met my future husband, Robert 

H. Winters ’38. I especially loved the spring 

dances at Heflen’s camp and dancing to the 

jukebox at The Nook. There was also a beautiful 

pink dogwood that I admired on campus. 

Margaret Ann Boyer ’44: My favorite professor 

for all time, and not just Franklin College, was 

Curtis Kirklin. He was integrity personified. 

He knew what he expected from the teachers 

he was training, and he expected them to 

measure up to those expectations. He gave his 

last class lecture on the principles of integrity. 

I’ve never heard a more perfect lecture. After 

all these years, I still remember it. 

Robert O. Peckinpaugh ’44: One of the 

highlights of my years at Franklin College 

occurred during my sophomore year. I was 

informed that I should report to the office of 

the president. I had no idea why I was asked 

to do that. I dutifully appeared at his office, 

only to be ushered directly before President 

William Gear Spencer himself. Much to 

my surprise, he invited me to be a charter 

member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity 

that was being formed on campus. I would 

not have known how to say no under those 

circumstances! The Delta chapter of Theta 

Kappa Nu had been granted a charter on the 

Franklin College campus in 1925. It became 

inactive during the Great Depression years 

of the 1930s. In 1939, Theta Kappa Nu was 

absorbed by Lambda Chi Alpha. The original 

charter remained inactive. In April 1942, 

the Franklin College charter was activated as 

the Kappa Gamma Zeta chapter of Lambda 

Chi Alpha with the initiation of 20 men who 

became charter members. I was one of them, 

Kappa Gamma 13 and the treasurer. The 

original members of the Delta chapter were 

given Kappa Gamma numbers following our 

charter member ID numbers. 

’50s 

Frank H. Knight ’52: During my college years, 

Miss Edna Agnew, Bryan Hall director and 

assistant professor of English, was, in my 

mind, the general in charge of the physical 

and spiritual welfare of the single women at 

Franklin! In 1954, I began dating a freshman 

from Roselle, N.J., a minister’s daughter. 

We were pinned in the fall of that year. 

I went on to theological school in Boston 

while Joyce (Gordanier) ’55 continued her 

education at Franklin. We married in June 

of 1954, but Joyce had one year of schooling 

left, and at that time only single women were 

allowed to live in Bryan Hall. The dilemma 

was brought to Miss Agnew’s attention and 

after speaking to Franklin College President 

Harold Richardson she got the OK for 

Joyce to be the first married woman to live 

in Bryan Hall. Thanks to Miss Agnew and 

President Richardson for that decision! Joyce 

and I have been married now for 55 years. 

Lucille (Dodgson) Mayo ’52: During a spring 

break around 1950, professor Guy Baker 

took the college choir to Washington, D.C., 

stopping at several churches along the way to 

give concerts. One night in the middle of a 

song the lights went out, leaving the sanctuary 

in total darkness. Immediately, the professor 

began snapping his fingers to keep the tempo, 

and the choir continued singing without 

missing a beat. I continue to be amazed 

at his quick thinking and the students’ 

composure. 

Chet York ’52: Franklin College has been 

a driving force in my success. My cousin, 

Bob McClain ’48, led me to enrolling. I give 

thanks to Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity for 

helping me in my academic and social affairs. 

The professors were outstanding. I will 

always remember the good times and good 

education. 

Sue (VanAntwerp) Spencer ’55: A very 

special memory is that of the concert choir 

performing for Kiwanis International in 

Miami, Fla. We were so well-trained that 

I wasn’t even nervous about singing a solo 

in front of 5,000 people. 

Tom Quindlen ’56: I loved Franklin and am 

exceedingly grateful for all it did to prepare 

me for a life filled with happy and enduring 

memories. Having grown up in the city of 

Philadelphia and attended a large high 

school, I wanted a small liberal arts college. 

While at Franklin, I experienced many firsts: 

A ride in the rumble seat of a Model T Ford., 

milking a cow on a 300-acre farm, watching 

an Indy 500 race and visiting Cuba before 

Castro ruled. In my freshman year, the track 

team was almost extinct, so after an SOS from 

the coach, my roommate, a Navy veteran, 

and I volunteered. He was made the only 

pole-vaulter on the team, and I was made 

the only mile runner. What a laugh! Another 

funny memory I have is of helping another 

member of the Independent Men put a young 

professor’s VW Bug on the auditorium stage 

during the middle of the night. What an 

interesting convocation the next morning! 

Wayne E. Dunbar ’56: The invitation I recently 

received for the cheerleaders’ reunion at 

Homecoming caused some serious flashbacks 

to when I was a cheerleader. I recall the time 

I made some “cat calls” about the cheerleaders 

“spirit” during a basketball game, and the 

response was, “If you think you can do better 

then try out.” I took the challenge, tried out 

and had a great time. I also remember the 

cheerleaders in those “olden days” were in 

charge of organizing the Fall Leaf Rake. 

Helen Jean McClelland Nugent ’56: In days of 

yore, before the 1985 fires, Old Main was in 

bad condition. Fourth floor was closed and 

students were forbidden to enter. Naturally, 

some defied the ruling. One Sunday evening, 

three friends went for an early evening walk 

and stopped to sit awhile on the steps of 

Old Main. The bravest of the three suggested, 


“Let’s go up to fourth floor and see what it’s 

like.” The second reluctantly agreed, while the 

third, a confirmed coward, argued that it was 

a bad idea. Naturally, the coward was chosen 

to lead the group up the staircase. Upon 

reaching the door, the coward proclaimed it 

was locked and started back down. The leader, 

however, tried the door and found it unlocked 

and easily opened. The trio found a treasure 

trove of Franklin College memorabilia: A large 

slate board in a former classroom with names 

and initials of those who had visited the 

forbidden area before, old cane chairs with 

sagging seats and deflated basketballs with 

scores of Grizzly wins over larger and betterknown 

schools, during the years of Griz 

Wagner’s teams. Finally, the coward 

announced she was leaving and started down 

the stairs. The other two followed, grumbling 

about scaredy-cat spoil sports. When they were 

halfway down the stairs, a gust of wind from 

the forbidden fourth blew the door shut with 

a slam. The coward, who had been in the lead, 

was nearly knocked down the steps as the 

other two rushed to exit the building. This is 

a true story. I should know. I was that coward! 

William C. Legan ’57: I was against going to 

Franklin College because I lived in town. 

With the persuasion of my parents, who were 

paying the tuition, I finally enrolled. One 

great memory is that of meeting my future 

wife, Zana McKeny ’59, at Franklin College. 

We were married for 43 years and raised four 

adult children before she died. It took me 

several years to focus and graduate. Actually 

I did not understand the significance of my 

education until I was near retirement age. If it 

had not been for the professors at Franklin 

College, especially Dwight Heath, I would not 

have done well in my teaching career of 38.5 

years in public school education. I am now 

remarried to a wonderful lady and living in 

New Albany, Ind. I thank Franklin College for 

giving me a wonderful education, friends for a 

lifetime and memories to savor. 

Lloyd “Buzz” Spencer ’57: A favorite memory 

of mine is when professor J. Daniel Kocker 

directed Our Town and chose me for the 

role of George, a major character in the 

play. There were two performances, and I 

made it through without forgetting my lines. 

A lifelong interest in theater was started by 

that role. 

Constance Richardson Van Valer ’59: 

There are so many memories, including 

Dr. Mary Owen’s excellence as a professor. 

She turned me into the student (in her 

classes) that I should have been. It wasn’t 

until many years and four children later 

in medical school that I became the 

kind of student she was looking for. 

Looking back over the many years since 

I think it probably was much harder 

on my dad, Harold Richardson, to be 

president of the institution I graduated from 

than the other way around. I remember after 

a particularly rebellious episode in my junior 

year, he wrote me a letter about two hats he 

wore, one as president of Franklin College 

and one as my father. He expressed such 

understanding and pride in me that I couldn’t 

have had more resolve to do better if I had 

been taken to the woodshed. I would give a 

great deal to have kept that letter. I am now 

privileged to march at commencement with 

the college board of trustees. I wear dad’s 

mortarboard, which fits me perfectly but 

which I modified slightly to be appropriate 

for a doctor of medicine. Then, there was 

meeting Joe Van Valer ’59 and our next 

50 years together . . . 

’60s 

Marjorie (Cooper) Geho ’60: One evening near 

the end of my sophomore year, I sat alone in 

the dimly lit Zeta Tau Alpha sorority suite 

and reflected upon the past two years before 

entering Western Reserve University in 

Cleveland, Ohio, to complete the final three 

years of my nursing degree. It was a nostalgic 

time with another sorority down the hall 

singing softly and our lilting song, “I Hear the 

Call of Zeta,” drifting through my mind. 

When invited to share a memory of Franklin, 

I found that, indeed, Franklin College is the 

memory. College is a tapestry of memories: 

The sense of belonging to a special campus 

community, meeting classmates who would 

become dear, lifelong friends, sitting under 

the tutelage of a knowledgeable, caring and 

accessible faculty who nurtured my Christian 

faith and did not seek to undermine it, 

helpful staff members, the privilege to be 

among Elsey Hall’s first residents (even 

removing sanding equipment, etc., from our 

room before my roommate and I could move 

in), congenial camaraderie in the dorms 

gracious family-style dining with an upperclassman 

as the hostess at each table, growth 

through participation and leadership in 

organizations, Privy Council, working on 

Homecoming floats, May Sing, Christian 

Fellowships, the East Coast spring choir tour, 

gathering around the stairwell between classes 

in Old Main and the gracious welcome I know 

is always waiting for me, to name a few. I have 

been asked why I feel an enduring loyalty to 

Franklin College when, although I returned 

in 1961 to receive my diploma, I was only 

on campus two years. The answer is in my 

tapestry of treasured memories and “Hearing 

the Call of Franklin,” my alma mater, forever 

echoing in my heart. 

Revenna Singleton Richardson ’60: Some of 

my most precious memories from my FC years 

include standing in line for food at the 

cafeteria, which was an old army barracks, 

while ironically “Canadian Sunset” played 

over the speakers. I also remember finding 

the painter’s ugly shoes in our room at night 

(they were left in a different room each day), 

Bible study in the housing area for married 

students, College Fellowship meetings and 

meals at the Presbyterian church, wearing 

hats, white gloves, dresses and high heels to 

church and walking from the dorm to the 

Baptist church, raking leaves on campus, 

building floats for the Homecoming parade, 

working in the library and being privileged to 

know Hester and Robert Coward, baby-sitting 

for Dr. and Mrs. Bullington, standing around 

the railing in Old Main while waiting for 

classes to begin and making friends that have 

lasted for nearly 50 years. 

Michael Alexander ’62: One morning in 

October 1961, several SAE fraternity members 

awoke to find that the large moose head that 

hung in the hallway leading to the dining area 

was stolen! All year we searched and asked 

classmates if they knew the whereabouts of 

our beloved moose. Nothing turned up. 

Then, sometime in May 1962, a mysterious 

phone call was received. The caller told where 

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drove west to U.S. 31, where in the median we 

found our moose head. Ol’ moosie looked 

none worse for the wear. We were glad to get 

it back. It remains in the SAE house today. 

Jerry Barlow ’62: One particular class (a one 

semester class, in fact) that has helped me 

since college is linguistics. That class has 

helped me understand words — even foreign 

ones — through all of my travels, crossword 

puzzles and many other experiences. Who 

knew? 

Larry Sells ’63: When I think back on my 

happy days at FC, the thing I remember most 

is a small group of friends who were at the 

heart of my experience. They challenged 

me, gave me support when I needed it and 

frequently made me laugh. We have lost 

Art Jones ’63, who is deeply missed. After 

all these years I still remember what these 

men and women meant to me when we were 

students at Franklin together, and I remain 

deeply grateful. 

Noel Marquis ’65: Two favorite memories 

immediately come to mind because they are 

still part of my life today. First, I met my future 

wife, Rosemary (Herndon) ’64, in creative arts 

class. Second, I began teaching a History of 

Rock and Roll class in 1973 as part of the 

Winter Term schedule. Rose and I are 

currently in our 44th year of marriage, and 

I am still teaching a rock and roll course, 

which is now one semester long and includes 

videos, movies and documentaries as visuals 

instead of vinyl and books, but the intent is 

still the same. 

Betty (McKinley) Bourquein ’67: My favorite 

Franklin memory is singing “Goin’ to Kansas 

City” with Jay and the Americans. (I am NOT 

a singer.) Other happy memories include 

panty raids, burning of the privy, spring skip 

day when we all went downtown to the park 

and the courthouse, eating as we proper ladies 

should in the basement of Elsey Hall and all 

the fun we had living in the dorm. Some of 

the saddest memories are when Kennedy was 

assassinated and we watched the services on a 

small TV in the basement of Elsey Hall, the 

night the SAE house burned and the night 

of the protest when Dr. Klick suffered a 

heart attack after some of the students hung 

him in effigy. 

’70s 

Mike “Gus” Callan ’71: I majored in elementary 

education and regrettably did not finish my 

senior year. I dropped out during student 

teaching, with only one semester to go. I’m 

sure some would call me an idiot, but I 

sometimes think God had another need for 

my teaching skills. During my 20-year career in 

Fire Service and serving as captain of the fire 

department in my hometown of Wallingford, 

Conn, I trained fire fighters and the public in 

fire safety, hazardous materials and emergency 

response. In 1991 I left the Fire Department 

and now provide instructional training in 

safety, chemical and emergency response. 

Franklin College professor Thelma Tsismanakis 

greatly influenced how I approach my work 

every day. I can’t remember how many times 

I have quoted Dr. Tsismanakis in saying, 

“Everything is a learning experience!” I lived 

it every day as a fire officer. Franklin did make 

a difference. 

Gary Cooper ’74: I initially attended Franklin 

College for one main reason — to play football. 

I almost always did just well enough in 

academics to get along until corporate finance 

class with instructor John Chiarotti ’67. I spent 

most classes (especially the morning ones) in 

a trance-like mental state, but when one poor 

soul got hit in the head with an eraser and 

chalk for sleeping in finance class I woke up. 

In addition to being a teacher, Chiarotti was 

the defensive football coach and, needless to 

say, I started paying attention. 

Pam (Howard) Gibson ’74: One of my favorite 

memories is of Terri (LaVecchia) Neale ’75, 

Terry (Sadowicz) Wieneke ’75 and me singing 

“Johnny Be Good” — the only song we knew, 

I think — in the Tri Delta suite! I loved 

everything about sorority life, and I think of 

my Tri Delta sisters often! I also remember 

some great times at the SAE house and some 

really great “True Gentlemen.” Spring Fever 

Day and the raft race will never be forgotten! 

Connie (Baker) Searcy ’74: Being a math 

major during my four years, I, of course, spent 

a lot of time with professor Rodney Hood. 

Who could forget him riding to campus for 

classes and then riding home on his rather 

rickety old bicycle? Also, he was always covered 

in chalk dust from all his writing on blackboards. 

Another thing I have not forgotten 

is how gracious many professors were with 

gatherings of students in their personal 

homes. I remember spending time at the 

homes of Dr. and Mrs. Hood, Ms. Pianca for 

Spanish activities, and Dean Richard Park. 

I have always thought Franklin had such a 

beautiful and friendly campus. FC made a 

great impression on me when I came for my 

first visit many years ago and still does every 

time that I am there. 

Sharon (Isenhower) Trisler ’77: I applied to 

Franklin College and several state schools 

when I was a high schooler, but FC believed 

in me and took a chance on me. My parents 

were divorced, and my mom had no money. 

Imagine her astonishment when I found a 

college who wanted to give me the aid I 

needed to attend. Thank you, Franklin 

College, for the impact you have had on 

my life. Not only did I prepare for my 

professional future, I also met my future 

husband, Jeff Trisler ’77. We are celebrating 

our 30th wedding anniversary this year. 

We have four children, including Lauren 

Trisler ’09, who just earned her Franklin 

degree. Franklin is for life. Thank you. 

Larry Drake ’79: My favorite memories include 

“traying” on winter days in Province Park, 

playing volleyball on Dame Mall during lazy 

fall afternoons, having a food fight in Saga, 

smelling the limburger cheese that someone 

stuffed into a heating and cooling vent and 

retaliating for several weeks after “war” was 

declared between rooms on opposite ends 

of the residence hall. I also remember 

commenting to my RA in my junior year 

that my birthday was going to be the next 

day. When I woke up the next morning, the 

whole campus seemed to be aware of it. 

Chris Sokolek ’79: I was very active in CCF. 

I held various leadership roles at different 

times, but one of the things I really enjoyed 

was helping with publicity for our events and 

fundraisers. At one point, our organization 

“adopted” a foster child to assist, and I was 

put in charge of the publicity to raise money 

for the “Sharon John Campaign.” I remember 

making posters with construction paper and 

using a manual printing press. 

’80s 

Kathi (Park) Bubb ’84: “Unstick thy mind from 

the present day. Let it come with us, let it fly 

away . . . ” Thus began the Franklin College 

Madrigal Dinner over a quarter century ago. 

Starting in 1977, under the direction of music 


professor Sam Hicks, a group of dedicated 

singers rehearsed, wrote scripts, built sets, 

made costumes, created the menu (sometimes 

cooked) and set up the facility for the annual 

Christmas dinners that attracted faculty, staff, 

students and members of the community. 

Each dinner transported the audience to the 

Middle Ages through food, entertainment and 

song. The dinners were originally held in the 

basement of the college chapel before it was 

remodeled — who can forget the duct tape 

that was needed to hang curtains on the 

concrete block walls? The dinner then moved 

to various locations over the years but kept 

its menu of wassail, “boar’s head” and figgy 

pudding and its tradition of beautiful a 

capella singing. These are great memories 

I share with my siblings and their spouses, 

Ruth (Park) Gallagher ’78, John Gallagher ’78, 

Bob Park ’80, Kelli DeMott Park ’81, 

Lynn (Park) Cruser ’81, Jim Cruser ’82, 

Shari (Park) Wilson ’83 and Tom Wilson ’83. 

We all participated in the Madrigal Singers 

together for more than six years. 

Hetty (Schott) Gray ’84: Because I love old 

buildings, I enjoyed all my classes in Old 

Main. The night it burned, I drove back to 

campus and watched as the firefighters fought 

the blaze. After the renovation, I was thrilled 

with the result! What a lovely, welcoming 

building. How lucky alumni are to have had 

an administration dedicated to preserving a 

piece of Franklin College heritage. 

Nancy (Hathaway) Vandell ’84: I remember a 

lot of SAC events, but one night a group of 

us went up to the fifth floor of Main to see if 

the rumor was true about someone hanging 

himself up there. We found a rope tied to a 

rafter that had been cut off. It convinced me. 

Kristy Brown ’86: I have many favorite 

memories of my days as a student at Franklin 

College, but I particularly remember May 

Sing. This was an opportunity for the Greek 

organizations to pull together a musical 

presentation. If I remember correctly, it was 

hosted on a Sunday afternoon. Parents and 

family members came to watch, and all of 

the Greek organizations participated, putting 

a lot of effort into the theme, music and 

choreography. It was always great to see those 

performances and cheer for one another! 

Wendy (Shuler) Hagn ’86: I have many great 

college memories — a (small) dance in Cline 

Circle was a freshman orientation weekend 

“big” event in 1982. I also recall when several 

students had an impromptu mud wrestling 

tournament on Dame Mall (after the 1985 

fires)— messy fun! Times spent in PJs in the 

lounges of Elsey Hall with “just the girls,” 

“Dateless Wonders of America” events (Friday 

night gatherings in our Tri Delta sorority suite 

for those sisters who did not have dates) and 

sorority rush were fun experiences for a girl 

who grew up with only brothers! And friends 

with cars, nice ladies at Franklin First Baptist, 

Brown’s Regal Market (open 24 hours), JB’s 

Pizza King, Nick’s “Sweet Retreat,” all-campus 

bowling and movie nights were vital to an 

out-of-state student’s survival! 

Nora (Lowe) Brems ’87: A lot of my memories 

from my student days at FC are shaped by the 

fires that occurred in 1985. This memory 

sticks out to me because it was a turning point 

of sorts. A month after the Bryan Hall fire 

stunned the campus community, Old Main 

burned. My then-boyfriend and now-husband, 

Bill Brems ’87, and I helped carry student 

academic records from Old Main to the home 

of professor Tom Howald. It was such a 

poignant moment in time because it touched 

the very essence of what an academic 

institution is built to do — educate students. 

We were educated that day, not only on the 

importance of joining in to help save the 

integrity of the academic records, but we were 

educated on life and the bumps and curves 

that you encounter on your journey. In some 

ways it was a surreal experience, but it taught 

me so much about humanity, loyalty and 

giving back. At the risk of sounding trite, this 

was a turning point in my life that confirmed 

for me the vitality of Franklin College and the 

legacy that would coin the phrase, ‘rise from 

the ashes like the mythical Phoenix,’ aptly 

spoken by Former President and Chancellor 

William Bryan Martin. 

Sally (Bray) Brown ’87: Since I lived in 

Franklin, I worked for the physical plant for 

several summers. There were two or three of 

us summer helpers at any given time. For our 

work, we had two riding mowers; one was a 

tractor with a belly mower, and the other was 

a very “modern” Toro. We also had one or 

two push mowers, when we could keep them 

running! Still, we kept Elsey field, the football 

field and campus looking pretty good all 

summer. At that time, the physical plant was in 

a building across the railroad tracks; it leaked 

and had water standing in it. The walls were 

wet and rotting. When it rained or we caught 

up on mowing, we painted inside or hauled 

and moved things around campus as needed. 

One summer, before the Old Main fire, we 

shoveled “droppings” from the third floor, 

where pigeons made their home because it 

was open and in horrible repair. It was a hot 

and stinky job, but we did it with little fuss. 

I also remember living in Elsey Hall, with no 

air conditioning and unreliable heating in 

the winter. We shared just two phones on 

each floor! Still, I wouldn’t trade my college 

years for anything. I loved FC then and even 

more now as an alumna of 20-plus years. I 

drive through the campus on my way to work, 

lunch and back home again every day, and it 

always fills me with a great sense of pride. 

Amy (Sebree) Crawford ’89: My roommate, 

Julia (Alberts) Puckett ’89, had known 

Dr. Lloyd Hunter, professor of history, before 

attending college so when it was finals week, he 

and his wife always invited us over for dinner. 

It was a great opportunity to be off campus for 

a bit of study relief and to enjoy hospitality and 

fun stories of a wonderful family. One time I 

had already taken my final in Hunter’s class, 

and we went to dinner where I walked in and 

found my graded blue book waiting in my 

chair. Years later, after I graduated, Hunter 

officiated at my wedding. His encouragement 

through my life and his role modeling are 

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Kimberly A. Strough-Wingo ’89: The friendships 

created on the FC campus with other 

students and professors have had a lifelong 

impact. Dr. Lloyd Hunter performed our 

wedding ceremony 18 years ago. Marilyn 

Leap, who worked in the development office, 

was one of my most cherished friends until 

she passed away due to breast cancer in the 

late ’90s. Franklin College wasn’t just a place; 

the people we encountered made lasting 

impressions. Dr. David Carlson and Dr. David 

Chandler taught me to think critically about 

my faith and values. Dr. Rodney Hood taught 

me that effort counts. As I think about my 

own daughter, who is entering her high 

school years, I want her to have similar 

college experiences — those that will inform, 

challenge, shape and build her into a vibrant, 

thriving person. Thanks, Franklin College! 

’90s 

Tracy (Lovins) Martin ’92: The most influential 

professor I had at Franklin College was the 

late Alicia Pianca. Not only did she teach me 

Spanish to the best of her abilities, but she 

also taught me how to be an excellent, caring, 

demanding and dedicated teacher. For that 

gift I shall always love, respect and admire her. 

After college, she and I maintained a friendship 

and collegiality that encouraged me to 

think and expand my horizons in ways I never 

thought imaginable. She was a wonderful 

friend who would take the time to share 

triumphs and tribulations, whether they were 

of a personal or professional nature. Because 

of her, I have become the teacher I am today, 

and I hope that I can do justice to the legacy 

that she left to FC students during her tenure. 

Bob Braman ’93: My visit in the spring of 

1989 all but “sealed the deal” of my wanting to 

be a part of the Franklin College community. 

I realized that while I was considering schools 

as large as IU and Evansville there was 

something about a true campus community 

that intrigued me. Now, 19 years after my first 

visit and 15 years since my graduation, I still 

am convinced that I made a great decision in 

attending Franklin. The opportunities that 

still impact my life today include intimate 

classroom settings valuable to a great liberal 

arts education, a close Greek community and 

the ability to give service to the city of Franklin. 

Kristi (King) Guse ’93: On Aug. 25, 1990, in the 

Franklin Room at the Greek Welcome Dance, 

I met a great guy named Cary Guse ’94. Nearly 

seven years later, on Aug. 9, 1997, I married 

him in the college chapel. Blue and gold were 

our colors, and the Rev. Cliff Cain, the chaplain 

during our years in college, officiated. We have 

many individual and shared memories around 

campus, but I’ve still never been kissed in the 

Wellhouse at midnight! 

Holly (Hardman) Johnston ’93: My Franklin 

College memories began in the fall of 1989, 

and I continue to make more memories 

each year. I can’t name them all, but here 

are some highlights: Serenading, Pi Phi 

ceremonies, Pi Phi gazebo, sorority rush, 

turkey cutlet night at Saga, talking for hours 

in Elsey hallways, G-42, football road trips, 

study tables (ha!), fraternity parties, 

Homecoming, late night study sessions 

with my PE/Rec buddies, Jenny Johnson- 

Kappes ’72 for helping me graduate, getting 

married to Chris Johnston ’90 in the chapel, 

Bell Game tailgating over the past 20 years, 

Pi Phi alumni activities and football 

games with my kids and husband. 

And last but certainly not least . . . 

great friends that last a lifetime! 

Marti (Dorrel) Schrock ’93: My 

favorite FC memory is when the 

water was out in Cline Hall for a 

week. I lived in Johnson-Dietz (“the 

new dorms”). My roommates and I 

created a sign-up sheet for people to 

take showers in our bathroom. Our 

suite was on the third floor, and we 

could see people coming across the 

mall from Cline, wearing robes and 

carrying their towels and shower 

buckets. 

Ellen (Prohaska) Brunner ’94: The Franklin 

College faculty and staff helped me pursue 

my interests to find the best possible career 

for me. I now am in my 15th year of a career 

that started at Franklin and continued to 

develop because of the experiences I had as 

student. Thank you, Franklin College! 

Mike DeArmitt ’94: During Grizzly Grand Prix 

weekend in 1993, some guys who lived on the 

third floor in Hoover Hall had the bright idea 

to create a homemade hot tub. At the time, 

each floor of Hoover had bathrooms with one 

interior room for showering. The room had 

six shower heads and one drain, and you 

entered by stepping through an open doorway 

that had a ledge a few inches high. The guys 

turned all the showers on hot and plugged the 

drain, creating a hot tub that was as deep as 

the ledge was high. They decided they wanted 

to make it deeper so they took the doors off 

the fire extinguisher cabinet in the hallway 

and used them to block the gap above the 

ledge. The water increased to about three feet 

deep! Most of the third floor residents were in 

the hot tub, living it up and having a rowdy 

time (Remember, it was Grand Prix weekend). 

At some point, either they got tired of playing 

in the hot tub or the RA made them stop. 

Instead of unplugging the drain and letting 

the water drain slowly, they took down the 

fire extinguisher doors that they had used to 

block the doorway. As soon as they did that, a 

wall of water went rushing through the now 

unblocked doorway, into the hall and all 

through Hoover. There was even water 

dripping from the ceiling down into the 

basement! 

Dave Dunkle ’94: I will never forget returning 

to a campus covered in toilet paper and 

attending an impromptu late-night pep rally 

after the 1991–92 men’s basketball team 

defeated Grace College for the District 21 

basketball championship. The NAIA National 

Championship also was exciting because the 

college held a lottery for seats on the fan 

buses to the games at Tarleton State University 

in Texas. Classes were suspended for a couple 

of days so Franklin College could be wellrepresented. 

Even though we didn’t win 

the championship, the experience was 

unforgettable. 

Cary Guse ’94: As I reflect back 20 years on 

those wonderful college days, what strikes me 

most is there is not one single memory that 

stands out above all others. I recall many great 


moments, but mostly as I think about those 

days a collage of memories flood my brain. 

Baseball road trips with brown bag lunches 

and spring breaks in Daytona Beach were 

special. SEB events with comedians like Carrot 

Top and singers like Mike Rayburn remain 

fond memories. Bowling and privy burnings 

were other highlights. How could one forget 

waking up one morning to see a blizzard of 

toilet paper encompassing the entire campus 

or seeing Ben painted yet another color? My 

fondest memories may be the laid-back afternoons 

on Dame Mall and the meals at SAGA, 

just hanging out and being with friends. 

Ultimately, however, I think my favorite FC 

memory is about people. FC is where I met 

my wife, Kristi (King) ’93, and where I made 

some lifelong friends. It’s the students, 

faculty and staff who made FC special for me. 

John D. Henderson ’94: My experiences as a 

student-athlete were some of the best times 

of my life. I came to Franklin College not 

knowing who I was or what I truly wanted 

to do. I only knew I wanted to be part of a 

team and continue to compete. I joined the 

varsity basketball team as a freshman and was 

happy that coach Handley was gracious 

enough to allow me to play. I worked hard for 

three years to make the starting lineup. It was 

by no means easy to accomplish. In the spring 

of my junior year I was able to put all the 

things I’d learned together to compete hard 

and beat Hanover. Franklin had not had a win 

over Hanover in three years! That win helped 

me realize many goals I had set for myself. 

I felt like I was finally able to call myself a 

student-athlete. More importantly, it made 

me feel like I was finally a leader on the team. 

Those principles of hard work became the 

cornerstone of my job as a leader with the 

City of Franklin Fire Department. 

Mary Goebel ’95: I have many favorite 

memories, but there are a few with the 

common theme of food. I met one of my 

good friends, Cindy (Ennis) Placek ’94, 

one evening our freshman year when we 

both happened to be walking out of Elsey 

Hall, heading over to the campus center for 

dinner. We somehow started talking. Years 

later we are still good friends and always will 

be. I also remember waking up late on a 

Sunday morning, after a long, fun Saturday 

night, and rushing over to get some sausage 

gravy and biscuits in the nick of time before 

the line closed. My only option for dinner 

on Sunday nights was something good and 

greasy from The Key; I had no car, and it was 

cheaper than ordering pizza! 

Jennifer (Marshall) Donovan ’96: Some of 

my favorite memories include spending late 

nights in Shirk Hall editing “Inside Franklin,” 

the SEB guest hypnotist who always made 

students do funny things on stage, decorating 

the fraternity houses during Greek Week, 

spending Saturdays in the fall at football 

games, meeting friends whom I hope to have 

for a lifetime, seeing my bid from Zeta Tau 

Alpha being slid under my door in Elsey Hall, 

Grizzly Grand Prix weekends, dancing in the 

windows of Johnson Dietz, going to sorority 

formals and hanging out with friends at The 

Willard and Mike’s. 

Susan (Neal) Lynch ’96: My favorite memories 

are of meeting great people who I am still 

friends with, making waffles in Saga on a lazy 

Sunday morning and feeling the energy and 

pride we shared on Homecoming weekends. 

I still get those feelings when I come back for 

Homecoming! 

Jennifer Martin ’96: I remember senior year 

gathering with the first floor gals in Dietz 

Center lounge to watch everybody’s favorite 

two shows, “Friends” and “ER.” We didn’t 

watch TV any other time, but we all stopped 

what we were doing to hang out and catch 

our favorite dramas. 

Jane Mitchell ’96: In April of 1994, I had to 

leave FC due to declining health. During the 

next fall, on my first weekend of freedom after 

surgery, I headed down to FC. I was able to 

sneak into Saga (The college social capital!) 

and see everyone. It was an overwhelming 

experience. The looks on people’s faces were 

of pure shock. I don’t know that I have ever 

had so many hugs in such a short amount 

of time! I’m sure I was looking about 200 

percent better than the last time many had 

seen me. After Saga, I went to the ZTA suite 

for the last night of Greek Rush (The sappiest 

of nights). That is when I became completely 

emotional, not believing that I had made it 

back to FC. It was hard to imagine how 

things could be so much the same, yet change 

so drastically at the same time. The next 

morning, I found my sorority sisters gathered 

on the doorstep of the apartment where I 

was staying for the weekend. They were having 

a serenading parade to introduce the new 

pledges. It was an unbelievable weekend 

for me, and it made me that much more 

motivated to get back to FC to finish school. 

Let’s face facts; it’s the people who make 

Franklin so special. 

Sarah Smith-Robbins ’96: I took knitting 

and weaving during Winter Term one year 

with Kathy Carlson, English professor. We 

spent the whole month knitting, drinking 

tea and looking out the windows of Old Main, 

watching the snow fall. I learned so much 

more than how to knit a sweater. It was a 

great experience. 

Lori (Jones) Tish ’96: Some of my most 

cherished Franklin College memories include 

hanging out with friends and roommates 

Jennifer (Eroen) Shamsaie ’96, Kim (Reckers) 

Drook ’96, Cara (Riley) O’Connell ’96 and 

Jennifer Martin ’96, participating in Tri Delta 

events, spending late nights in Shirk Hall, 

strolling through campus on a beautiful 

autumn day, traveling to the southwest 

during Winter Term 1994, delving into 

photography with journalism professor Susan 

Fleck and learning about public relations and 

advertising from journalism professor John 

Ellerbach. Of course, another treasured FC 

memory includes meeting, dating and getting 

engaged to my now-husband Jamie Tish ’96. 

Amy (Kean) VerSteeg ’96: One of the things I 

remember most about college is dorm life. 

After having grown up in a rural area, where it 

took 15 minutes by car to get, well, anywhere, 

I quickly came to appreciate the convenience 

and fun of having friends just a dorm room or 

a couple of floors away. Even the typical dorm 

noises — slamming doors, laughter in the 

hallways, music blaring — were a novelty to 

me. Franklin College was the first place I truly 

experienced a sense of community, and for 

that I’m still grateful. 

Adrienne McGee ’97: I loved living in Cline 

Hall, the supposed “quiet” dorm. Even though 

my room was on the third floor and the stairs 

got a little old, the crazy mix of people living 

in that dorm was so fun. You truly never knew 

what you would see down the hall as you came 

out of the stairwell. That’s how college should 

be — people of all cultures and ages and 

walks of life just hanging out. And to this very 

day, every time I hear “Heart-Shaped Box” by 

Nirvana, I think instantly of the lounge at the 

end of that hall. MTV was always on in that 

lounge, and that was the year of Nirvana. 


ALUMNI NEWS 

Leslie Saunders ’97: It’s a small thing, really, 

but I think about it a lot: When I was at FC, it 

was common to see Gardner Ashley, retired 

French professor, wearing his beret and sitting 

on a campus bench in good weather, or eating 

at Saga or setting up an easel somewhere, 

painting. I had no idea at that point how old 

he was or how long he’d been retired or even, 

frankly, what he had taught. I just remember 

wondering how much you have to love the 

place you worked to want to spend your 

retirement there, sitting in the sun, painting a 

scene you’d probably painted a dozen times 

before. I’ve yet to work anyplace that would 

inspire that kind of loyalty, but I can see why 

FC would. 

Douglas Black ’99: I remember Grizzly Grand 

Prix, senior year. The SAEs had four men 

capable of competing in the Tour de France. 

Unfortunately, we KDRs had a couple of 

“Average Joe” cyclists. We still managed a 

respectable second-place finish. If we’d only 

trained a little harder . . . 

Rick Etienne ’99: One of my favorite memories 

happened during football practice in the 

mid-’90s. Benji Betts ’99 was warming up, 

doing drop-backs with the quarterbacks 

when one of the managers ran into him with 

a golf cart. After we saw he was hardly injured, 

we all had a good laugh. The image of him 

getting hit is still stuck in my head more than 

a decade later. 

Melissa (Goebel) Morris ’99: I remember 

setting the alarm on Sundays so we wouldn’t 

miss brunch. We’d go to eat biscuits and 

gravy and somehow end up hanging out for 

an hour in Saga. Then, we’d go back to our 

rooms and try to study before something 

more fun distracted us. 

Elisabet (Somer) Murray ’99: Being selected 

for an accounting internship with the Johnson 

& Johnson subsidiary in Switzerland is one 

of my best memories. I spent six great weeks 

there and traveled on the weekends to 

surrounding countries. 

Tiffany Wilson ’99: A spring break trip to 

Israel in 1997 and a Winter Term trip to 

Greece in Winter Term 1998 are some of my 

favorite memories. Those trips sparked my 

love for travel, and I have now visited a total 

of 15 countries and 46 states! But nothing will 

ever compare to hiking in the Judean desert, 

being baptized in the Jordan River, hiking up 

to the Parthenon and eating real baklava 

and gyros. Thank you, Dr. Cain, for being 

our tour guide during both trips — they 

were both awesome experiences I will 

treasure always. 

’00s 

Michelle (Singer) Bloomer ’00: During Winter 

Term in 2000, I took the “Walking Tour of 

London” course, led by professor Doreen 

St. Clair. We had an unbelievable experience. 

We researched the history of the city, created 

a project and presented our findings in the 

weeks leading up to the trip. From riding on 

the tube and watching famous musicals to 

taking tours and visiting massive cathedrals, 

it was a memorable adventure. 

Heather Meek ’01: During my sophomore 

year (98-99), we literally lived through the 

Elsey Hall renovation. My roommate had 

strategically chosen a room for us at the front 

of the building so we could have the best view 

of a certain fraternity’s legendary, late-night 

human-pyramids on the lawn. Little did we 

know at the time, the new addition would be 

built right in front of our windows! It was 

an adventure though, halls, and, more 

crucially, bathrooms were closed; and noisy 

construction workers were never further 

than a few feet from our room. Somehow 

in all the chaos, those of us sandwiched in 

Elsey-2-middle bonded closely together. 

Mike Hutsell ’01: My favorite memory would 

have to be my time served as sports editor of 

The Franklin and my time broadcasting games 

on WFCI. While I was there, we were able to 

cover the men’s basketball team in the 

Division III national tournament twice, 

including a road trip with some cohorts to 

Grand Rapids, Mich., where the Grizzlies lost 

an overtime classic against Calvin College. I 

was also given the chance to write a column 

in the paper that allowed me to have my own 

voice heard on a weekly basis, giving my 

already inflated ego a little bit of a boost 

every week. The time I spent on both of 

those endeavors only reiterated that journalism 

was what I wanted to do for a career. 

Eric J. Woodke ’02: I had the opportunity to 

be a part of Lance Marshall’s first four years as 

head baseball coach of the Grizzlies. Our first 

year, 1998, was very memorable, but one we 

would like to forget as the wins were few and 

far between. In spite of the rough beginning 

to his era, in five years coach Marshall took 

the team to a school record with 32 victories 

and the first HCAC crown. I will never forget 

washing uniforms in Atlanta, Ga., not having 

a field, pumping water for 10 hours, coach 

Marshall going nose to nose with former 

Hanover baseball coach Dick Nailer and 

having to shave before I could take the 

mound. It wasn’t always easy, but it was always 

fun. I would like to thank coach Marshall and 

his wife, Jaime, all the former players for their 

support, the current players for their passion 

and especially the guys from 1998 to 2001 

who had a part in laying the foundation for 

this great program. Coach Marshall is truly a 

leader in action who inspires, innovates and 

shapes the world. 

Jill (Rateike) Curry ’03: One of my most 

memorable experiences happened during a 

Winter Term class in Mexico. Daneen (Butler) 

Larrison ’03 and I were living with a host 

family during our culture and language 

immersion course. We were home alone one 

afternoon, and the world started shaking. 

Daneen quickly jumped to the ground 

near a bed to protect herself while I simply 

sat in disbelief. The earthquake was a new 

experience for both of us. Following the 

quake, we walked with wide eyes outside to 

the neighborhood courtyard where all the 

neighbors reassured us but cautioned us of 

aftershocks. Daneen and I, in our broken 

Spanish, felt better talking to the local 

experts. To this day we laugh and remember 

our earthquake experience. Next time, maybe 

we will both react better and stand under a 

door frame. 

Jessica Dunham ’04: The day I met my 

“bestest” friend, LaCinda (Bray) Stephens ’04, 

is my favorite memory. I was visiting my 

boyfriend when I met LaCinda, who had gone 

with him on a Winter Term trip. She was a 

huge fan of the Mooresville Spotlighters, 

which I had been a member of in high school. 

She showed up at my boyfriend’s room one 

night to meet me, and she acted like I was a 

big celebrity. Within a year, we became Delta 

Gamma sisters and best friends, and we have 

been ever since. 

Erika (Thomas) Peggs ’04: I remember all 

the good times we had on soccer team road 

trips and at practices. I also remember fun 

times hanging out in our dorm rooms and 

at Jefferson Street Lounge. 


Trisha Taylor ’04: It’s hard to name just a few. 

I had a really great time at college, including 

late nights with friends, inside jokes shared by 

the softball team and even some funny 

moments from my time as an RA. And how 

could I forget getting caught in the shower 

during one of Elsey Hall’s infamous fire alarm 

evacuations! It was also nice to share time at 

Franklin with my brother, Casey Taylor ’05. 

Jessica (Irrgang) Zepik ’04: My favorite 

memories are just the times I shared with 

friends. Now that I’m out of college, I realize 

what a blessing it was to get to live with my 

best friends for four years of my life. Some of 

the memories that stick out the most are the 

Homecoming festivities, Greek week events 

and performing with the FC Dancers. 

Anne (Durham) Smith ’05: My husband 

attended college elsewhere, but he knew 

of the traditions surrounding the Franklin 

College Wellhouse. So, in January 2001, 

he took me there, slipped a ring on my 

finger, dropped to a knee and proposed. 

Clint Whitson ’05: The first date I ever had 

with my wife, Jennifer Nebesny ’06, was won 

through the Delta Gamma Date Auction in 

Custer Theatre. The women of Tri Delta 

had nominated her as their representative to 

be auctioned. When I saw her on stage she 

looked very nervous, so I decided to rescue 

her. The bidding went back and forth, back 

and forth . . . $50, $75, $100. Finally, with one 

last attempt, and with the help of several of 

my TKE brothers, I shouted, “$200!” All the 

other bidders dropped out, and I won. 

Our date was dinner at Olive Garden, and we 

hit it off right away. That auction was held in 

September 2003, and we were married in June 

2008. It was certainly a worthy investment! 

Laura (Ostermann) Wolf ’05: Some of my 

favorite FC memories include meeting my 

now-husband, Doug Wolf ’03, wading through 

the middle of the “Franklin River” on Dame 

Mall, having fun with my ZTA sisters, doing 

homework in the grass, getting to meet guest 

lecturer Coretta Scott King during a catering 

function I worked. Franklin provided so many 

wonderful memories that it’s hard to summarize 

them; I wouldn’t trade them for anything! 

Renee Kean ’06: My favorite FC memory is of 

going with all the women in my Delta Gamma 

pledge class to Wal-Mart a couple of days after 

we received our bids. We picked out fabrics, 

paints and sweatshirts to create our first letter 

shirts down in the basement of Elsey Hall. 

It was amazing how well we all got along 

for not having known each other very long. 

It helped us to realize that we were in the 

right place, with the right people. We were all 

pretty much inseparable throughout college, 

and we are still close friends. 

Noelle Steele ’06: I remember sitting in media 

ethics class, watching as professor Joel Cramer 

stood up front and took the usual ribbing 

about his looking like the mirror image of 

musician Eric Clapton. The next day a student 

brought in a magazine cover featuring 

Clapton so Joel held it up and lifted one 

eyebrow to emulate the musician’s exact 

expression. The class couldn’t get enough. 

Had Joel just squeaked out the first few lines 

of “Layla” it would have been complete! 

Sarah Coffey ’07: From my first day on campus 

to my last day as a student, much of my 

college life revolved around great times 

shared at Saga. Freshman year was the 

renovation period, and many great stories 

were shared next to a temporary plywood 

wall by the dessert bar. During the subsequent 

years I often joined the lunch line at 

11 a.m. and then stayed until 2 or 3 p.m. 

The socializing seemed to last forever. Every 

student complains at one time or another 

about the cafeteria food, but after having 

graduated and now living on my own I would 

take the food back any day so that I could 

once again have the wonderful times in Saga. 

It was the best “family sit down dinner time” 

I could have asked for — one big, happy 

Franklin College family! 

Megan Cummings ’07: My first Sunday on 

campus freshman year, I went to chapel 

where I sat beside none other than President 

Moseley and his wife, Candace. That made a 

big impression on me, knowing they were so 

available and visible to the student community. 

We chatted for a bit, and it made me feel like 

I was an integral part of the campus. 

Laura Marcou ’07: Thinking back on my 

college memories, I am always reminded of 

the day when I moved from Cincinnati and 

made Franklin my home. My father was sure 

I had found the best school ever when he 

witnessed the faculty, staff and students so 

efficiently moving all of my things into my 

room in a matter of minutes. The generous 

spirits and welcoming faces we met that day 

are what made Franklin such a wonderful 

home for those years. Near the end of my 

senior year my dad lost his battle with 

cancer. The notes of encouragement from 

classmates, cards from faculty and staff 

and overall love and support from the FC 

community were unbelievable. I couldn’t 

believe the number of Franklin faces that 

took the time out of their lives to be with 

my family for the funeral in Cincinnati. 

From the day I moved in, to the day I moved 

out, Franklin was such a wonderful home 

away from home for me. 

Annie Wantz ’07: I loved going to my New 

STeP meetings on Thursday mornings as a 

freshman. We talked about hard-hitting issues, 

and I felt like I had a “family” I could open 

up to. My mentor was very understanding and 

had great advice. I don’t think my freshman 

year would have gone so smoothly without 

the support of my New STeP group. 

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Anthony Ankney: I remember my grandfather 

taking me to my first college football game 

ever, and it was at Franklin College. I remember 

I could not wait until Franklin scored because 

I was ready for the cannon to go off. 

Hank Nuwer: I co-advise the student 

newspaper at Franklin College. So recently, 

I drove Evan Shields ’10, then one of the 

editors, to North Carolina to pick up a 

national award he had won for statehouse 

reporting. Well, as we gunned along a busy 

Ohio highway, I slammed on my brakes and 

pulled onto the shoulder. As Evan gaped in 

amazement, I slipped between the semis and 

plucked a box turtle off the highway. I was 

afraid the poor thing was going to get turtle 

waxed for sure. Wide-eyed lest I end up with 

tire tracks on my white tee shirt, I tucked the 

terrapin under my arm like Randy Moss 

sprinting for the goal line. I scooted over the 

guardrail on the opposite side and scampered 

down the embankment to leave Mr. or Ms. 

Turtle (we never were formally introduced, 

and I am biology-challenged when it comes to 

terrapin body parts) on the side of a stream. 

When I returned to the car I saw Evan was in 

shock. When we returned to Franklin, Evan 

told a few people and now I have a nickname, 

“I Brake for Turtles.” 


ALUMNI NEWS 

Alumni Council members pictured in the first row are: Pat Collier ’84, Misty (Livengood) Horsley ’96, Janet (Wheeler) McDuffey ’63, Doris (Brown) 

Alexander ’53, Debbie (Hill) Davis ’86, Kristi (King) Guse ’93, Ann (Martinez) Mahan ’58, Becky (Tames) Rosenberger ’77 and Martha (May) 

Newsom ’49. In the second row are: Steve Witty ’69, Adam Decker ’97, Bob DeVoss ’69, Tony Gambaiani ’95, Sarah (Cummings) Faulkner ’02, 

Brooke (Wagoner) Worland ’99, Kristy Meyer ’95, Joella (Boyer) Patterson ’59, Sam Alford ’64 and Doug West ’79. In the third row are: D.J. Sigler ’95, 

Don Treibic ’65, Andrew Stoner ’86, John Dickerson ’75, Steve Teets ’76, Mike Hall ’69 and Keith Moenter ’80. 

Other Alumni Council members, who are not pictured, include: Vera (Pacala) Evans ’54, Bob Heuchan ’76, Kurt Laker ’01, Susan (Klein) Leonard ’70, 

Jennifer Pittman ’00, Mike Urban ’82 and Gene White ’58. 

10 things you need to know about Alumni Council 

■ The Franklin College Alumni 

Association is a group for all graduates 

and former students; membership is 

implicit and free. The association 

provides a variety of benefits and 

services that help alumni maintain 

connections to Franklin and fellow 

graduates. 

■ The Franklin College Alumni 

Association was formed in June 1855 

and began with just nine graduates. 

■ The Alumni Council is an elected group 

of volunteers who represent and give a 

voice to the Alumni Association. 

■ The council has 30 elected members 

and three appointed members, who 

also serve as representatives to the 

board of trustees. 

■ The current council includes 18 men 

and 14 women, who represent 

graduation classes ranging from the 

1940s to the 2000s. 

■ Twenty-seven council members are 

affiliated with a Greek organization, 

and six are independent. 

■ Council members engage in projects, 

programs and activities that help 

support the Franklin College mission of 

preparing young people for significant 

careers through the liberal arts. 

■ There are four sub-committees of the 

council: 

■ Admissions — Members assist in 

student recruitment. 

■ Alumni career networking — 

Members look for ways to engage 

alumni in career networking, not 

just with young alums, but with the 

entire alumni base. 

■ Development — Members help the 

Office of Institutional Advancement 

with efforts to raise awareness of the 

Franklin Fund and other college 

priorities. 

■ Greek Alumni Council — Members 

are investigating the formation of a 

GAC to help strengthen the Greek 

system at Franklin College. 

■ The Alumni Council maintains an 

annual 100 percent participation goal 

in giving to the Franklin Fund. 

■ The Alumni Council reviews a slate of 

nominees every spring. If you’d like to 

be considered for future membership 

or want to nominate someone for 

consideration, please use the online 

form at www.franklincollege.edu or 

call Margee Stamper, alumni relations 

director, at (317) 738-8167. 


Minister leads parishioners in 

knocking down walls, social barriers 



A weeklong community service project 

recently helped repair homes and 

relationships in one small Hoosier town. 

For the Rev. Rebecca Horstman May ’81 

it was a truly moving experience. 

“It felt incredible,” said Horstman May. 

“Truthfully, I am a preacher without words 

when it comes to this. People cared. They 

cared enough to give their money and give 

their time. That made a huge impact on 

the community and on our church family.” 

Situated in Elizaville, Ind., a small 

pinpoint in the center of the state, EBC 

has a congregation of 30 — on a good 

Sunday. 

“As a church, Elizaville Baptist has a 

small membership and a huge heart,” 

Horstman May said. 

Members of the EBC congregation 

extended their hearts and helping hands 

this past July to collaborate with Faith, 

Hope & Love, an organization that seeks 

to break down walls of separation between 

churches, races, social classes, government 

leaders and educators to unite people. 

Throughout the week, FHL volunteers, 

the EBC congregation and various 

members of 16 other church congregations 

worked at five different sites in Elizaville 

to restore homes. Community members 

donated thousands of hours of work to 

the project. 

“Every member of Elizaville Baptist 

contributed in some way to Faith Hope & 

Love Week, and we could not have done it 

otherwise,” said Horstman May. 

As the community worked together 

to make physical reparations to Elizaville, 

the community also went through a less 

tangible makeover. 

“We didn’t just knock down old buildings,” 

said Horstman May. “We knocked 

down walls that separated people.” 

“Before Elizaville’s transformation, it 

was a rural community where people had 

grown distant and no longer knew their 

neighbors. As time had passed it had 

become run down,” said Horstman May. 

“Now it’s a different place.” 

Horstman May never took a Franklin 

College class on how to unite a community. 

She didn’t take notes on how to initiate 

neighborhood-wide change. But, the 

college provided her with a foundation 

for the faith, leadership and passion that 

she has since made a lifelong practice. 

During college, Horstman May was 

involved in Zeta Tau Alpha, FC Singers, 

Campus Christian Fellowship and Kites, 

a former women’s ensemble. After 

graduating with a degree in psychology 

and sociology, Horstman May faced an 

economic climate much like today’s — 

finding a job in her career field was tough. 

So, she worked as a substitute teacher for 

a semester while continuing to look for 

other work. In December 1981, she 

married and moved to Bloomington, Ind. 

In the spring of 1985, as her husband 

neared graduation from the Indiana 

University School of Music, Horstman May 

began thinking seriously about seminary, 

something she’d hoped to do someday 

after graduating from Franklin College. 

Then, one day while she was at work, 

a familiar Franklin College friend, trying 

to find his own way, bumped into 

Horstman May. 

“At work one day a man came up to 

the desk to ask for directions and it was 

[Franklin College professor of religion] 

David Carlson,” said Horstman May. 

Carlson had served as a mentor for 

Horstman May during her college years 

and had officiated at her wedding. 

“After spending a few minutes catching 

up on what was going on in our lives, 

David asked why I wasn’t considering 

Christian Theological Seminary in 

Indianapolis,” recalled Horstman May. 

“I started at CTS in January and lasted 

about one year before I was persuaded to 

change my degree to a master of divinity.” 

The Rev. Rebecca Horstman May ’81 leads 

worship at Elizaville Baptist Church. 

Horstman May finished seminary in 

1991 and was ordained at Indianapolis 

First Baptist Church in 1992. In December 

1994, she accepted the call to EBC. While 

at the church, she has served as president 

of the region board of American Baptist 

Churches IN/KY and has served on the 

ABC National Ministers Counsel. 

Horstman May pushed for her niece 

Kara Edens-Magner ’11 to attend Franklin 

when she was considering her college 

options. Edens-Magner followed her 

advice, along with the advice of her cousin 

Susannah (Bridges) Hallgarth ’01. 

“My relatives who are alums of Franklin 

College definitely had an impact on my 

decision to attend,” said Edens-Magner, a 

religious studies major. “After I made the 

decision to attend Franklin, they went to 

the bookstore and bought me Franklin 

gear for my high school graduation.” 

Though family ties may have played into 

her decision to come to Franklin, it is the 

same caring environment that Horstman 

May experienced that tells Edens-Magner 

she made the right choice. 

“Franklin’s outstanding faculty and 

staff have supported my faith as well as 

encouraged me to continually question 

commonly accepted assumptions about 

life and beliefs,” said Edens-Magner. 

“Franklin has prepared me for a life 

of faith and service by educating me and 

equipping me with life skills to deal with 

social injustices.” 


Marketing 

exec strikes 

gold with 

“corny” idea 


Editor 

It didn’t take long for Arch West ’36 

to start chipping in merchandising ideas 

after he went to work for the Frito Co. 

(later Frito-Lay) in 1960. One of his 

product innovations fused the texture of 

a potato chip with the flavor of a corn 

chip and featured a distinct shape; the 

triangular tortilla chips better known 

today as Doritos ® hit the market in 1962. 

As West tells it, the product name 

preceded the invention of the snack. 

“When the head of the legal department 

and I made a trip to Mexico City to register 

the Frito name for international sales, 

we began looking into how to associate 

the Spanish language with the products. 

We’d also been mulling over ideas for a 

chip that wasn’t quite yellow or brown, 

but somewhere in between. The Spanish 

word ‘oro,’ meaning gold, seemed 

to fit,” said West. 

Spanish helped form the full name 

Doritos, ® and with that the “little bits 

of gold” were on their way to being 

invented and test-marketed. 

The first Doritos ® were made in a 

laboratory, where baking experiments 

were conducted with three types of corn. 

Once West and the team found the right 

combination of ingredients, a small, 

privately-owned company in California 

was selected to produce the snacks for 

test-marketing in San Diego. 

“The Nielsen Report indicated not 

only strong sales but repeat purchases,” 

said West. “We had to move fast after 

that because word was getting out to 

our competitors.” 

A lot about Doritos ® has changed 

since the Frito Co. introduced the original 

product 47 years ago. According to the 

company Web site, there currently are 

13 flavors, with mini-sized chips and 

reduced-fat varieties also available. 

West’s two favorite flavors, by the way, 

are the Classic Nacho Cheese and Ranch. 

One thing that hasn’t changed about 

the chip is its unique shape, which 

was chosen as the “sensible” solution, 

said West. 

“We found that cutting sheets of dough 

into triangles yielded more products than 

could be achieved with circles. In other 

words, triangles reduced the amount of 

leftovers. We also thought triangles were 

the best shape for dips.” 

If supply is a reflection of demand, 

then consumers must agree that Doritos ® 

are ideal. It’s practically impossible to walk 

down the snack aisle of any retail location 

without seeing a display. For West, it’s a 

sight that never gets stale. 

“When I go into a supermarket, I still get 

a kick out of seeing Doritos. ® I think, ‘That 

was my idea, and it’s still going.’” he said. 

West’s success at the Frito Co. followed 

several other executive positions, which 

perhaps wouldn’t have been possible 

without his first job after college. 

“My mother’s brother was vice president 

of a dairy company with a facility in 

Wisconsin, and he invited me to take a 

position there and start expanding on 

my abilities,” said West. “I worked in 

warehousing and transportation and 

then in cheese quality control.” 

West, who’d earned his bachelor’s 

degree in business management, found 

the behind-the-scenes work satisfying. 

“I’d never had much interest in going 

and punching typewriter keys,” said West. 

“I was more excited about marketing and 

the ideas and creativity involved in making 

a product to sell.” 

Just as West was starting to find a career 

niche in the food industry, civic duty 

called, and he enlisted in service with the 

U.S. Navy. After an honorable discharge, 

he returned to the food industry and 

landed a position with Standard Brands, 

the parent company of Tender Leaf ® tea, 

Royal ® gelatin and Blue Bonnet ® 

margarine, among others. 

Many times West was transferred to a 

new city to take on fresh assignments for 

Standard Brands; he spent time living and 

working in Philadelphia, Chicago and 

Kansas City. 

“I never got bored. The company 

kept me moving around to different 

departments. I had the chance to work 

in finance, sales, raw materials and 

acquisitions.” 


“When I go into a supermarket, I still get a kick out of seeing Doritos., ® 

I think, ‘That was my idea, and it’s still going.’” 

Along the way, he also met his future 

wife, Charlotte. The couple had started a 

family by the time Standard Brands 

offered a product management position 

at its Manhattan headquarters. 

“I was the V8 ® juice product manager,” 

said West. “It had been developed by a 

company in Terre Haute (Ind.) and being 

a Hoosier I already knew a little about it.” 

West’s skillful management of the 

V8 ® product line caught the attention 

of headhunters who recruited him as a 

sales manager for Comstock Foods, 

an applesauce maker in upstate New York. 

After that, West went to work for Lever 

Brothers, makers of soaps and cosmetics. 

Next, there was the advertising and 

public relations agency of Young & 

Rubicam, where he managed the JELL-O ® 

account. 

Soon after, a headhunter 

representing 

the Frito Co. called and 

invited West to lunch with 

the company president and the 

chairman. The possibility of working 

for an innovative snack company 

sounded intriguing, but there was 

one troublesome issue. 

“Frankly, I had no idea then what a 

Frito was,” recalled West. 

However, it didn’t take long before 

he hit the ground running as vice 

president of marketing, sales and 

advertising. He, Charlotte and their four 

children moved from the East Coast to 

Texas, where the Frito Co. had headquarters. 

After a long career of managing 

the Doritos ® brand, West retired from 

Frito Co. as the executive vice president 

Arch West ’36 and his wife, Charlotte, pose at the Well House during a visit to campus in the 1990s. 

ARCHIVAL PHOTO 

and a member of the board of directors, 

but he didn’t stop working. 

He took a reservist position with FEMA 

and spent 10 years working on-call as a 

coordinator of disaster recovery centers. 

He and Charlotte traveled to cities 

coping with crises and worked with 

local government officials to help set up 

communication centers, train volunteers, 

educate victims about FEMA services and 

distribute essential goods. 

At almost 95, West says he enjoys “taking 

it easy” these days. However, he still finds 

time to exercise daily and enjoys reading 

magazines and watching movies. Once in 

awhile he reminisces about college, too. 

“I still look back at Franklin for 

rewarding me with the knowledge to 

carry on after I graduated,” said West. 

“I think I would have been lost at a big 

school; Franklin was my style. The classes 

were small, and even the professors who 

didn’t have me in class knew my name. 

I goofed off sometimes, but the 

professors were fair; they looked out 

for the students.” 

According to West, some of the 

neighbors in his retirement community 

attended universities with enrollments of 

30,000 or more students. He enjoys telling 

them about his little alma mater in the 

Midwest. 

“I’m really proud of Franklin College. 

I brag about it to my neighbors,” he said. 

West served on the Franklin College 

Board of Trustees from 1966 to 1975 and 

attended his 60th class reunion over 

Homecoming weekend in 1996. 


FC talks 

tech with 

Intellagirl 

Sarah Smith-Robbins ’96 

stands back-to-back with her 

avatar, Intellagirl. 


Editor 

She’s a self-described “researcher, 

academic, writer, speaker, marketer, mom 

and geek.” She spends her time blogging, 

researching and traveling to speak to 

groups about Second Life, virtual worlds, 

Web 2.0 technologies and “general digital 

coolness.” She’s also a Ph.D. candidate 

and digital coach who helps people use 

available technologies to become more 

productive and creative. In the past two 

years, she’s lectured on social media at 

conferences in Brazil, Finland, the United 

Kingdom and the United States. 

She’s “Intellagirl” Sarah Smith- 

Robbins ’96. 

We recently caught up with Smith- 

Robbins after the Independent Colleges 

of Indiana Sixth Annual Instructional 

Technology Summit, where she was 

keynote speaker. We asked her to take a 

few minutes to share her perspective on 

social media, ideas about technology in 

higher education and thoughts on the 

Franklin College liberal arts experience. 

Our Q&A session follows: 

FC: Tell us about your alternate identity — 

Intellagirl. Who is she, and why is she 

important to your work? 

I wouldn’t say that Intellagirl is an 

alternate identity but rather my 

nickname or logo. My maiden name 

is Sarah Smith. Fifteen years ago 

when I created my first e-mail address 

“ssmith” was already taken. After a few 

years, I got tired of trying to find new 

user names and came up with 

Intellagirl. At first, it was just a 

handy nickname, but when I 

began working in Second Life, 

Intellagirl became a person, 

my avatar. Since then, my 

pink streak and nickname 

have become really effective 

personal branding. 

(Editor’s note: Avatars are 

computer users’ representations 

of themselves; they can be either 

pictures or personalities associated 

with a screen name.) 

FC: How did an English major end up 

making a career in the information 

technology field? 

It’s a bit of a misnomer to say that I’m 

in “IT.” My doctoral work is in rhetoric, the 

art and study of persuasive communication, 

which I think is key in just about all areas 

of life, from personal relationships to 

education. Because most communication is 

now mediated by some kind of technology, 

I became intrigued by how technology 

changes how we communicate and 

especially how we learn. 

When I graduated from Franklin 

College I went on to work at a technology 

publishing company, and I became 

more interested in how technology was 

changing the way we all work. I got to 

work with dozens of tech authors who 

were immersed in the industry, and I 

made some great contacts. When I went 

on to the University of Indianapolis for 

my master’s degree I focused on English 

higher education, and I guess all the bits 

came together. 

FC: What are some of your duties as 

senior director of emerging technologies 

for Indiana University’s Kelley Executive 

Partners? 

My primary duty is to help develop 

technology-augmented education 

programs for executives at Fortune 

500 companies. I’ve created alternate 

reality games using iPod touch and 

Twitter as well as social media tours to 

help large companies learn to leverage 

Web 2.0 tools to increase employee 

learning and satisfaction. (Editor’s note: 

Web 2.0 examples include social-networking 

sites, video-sharing sites, blogs, etc.) I’m also 

responsible for helping the Kelley School 

of Business make decisions about 

implementing new technologies for the 

graduate and undergraduate programs. 

FC: Your career shows a consistent overlap 

between work in the fields of education 

and information technology. What can you 

tell us about the correlation? 

IT is now inseparable from any area of 

our lives. From the cars that we drive to the 

phones in our pockets we’re surrounded 

by technology, and all of these tools change 

the way we live and how we learn. 


Higher education seems to be the front 

line of the change simply because we now 

have students entering into college who 

can’t remember life before the Internet, 

and they’re being taught by instructors 

who are still, on the whole, trying to 

acclimate to the technology’s influence 

on the way we learn and socialize. I’ve 

been fortunate enough to straddle that 

divide and find ways for instructors to 

embrace and understand technology while 

also encouraging the next generation 

to be responsible and productive with 

their tools. 

FC: Who was your most influential FC 

professor and why? 

English professor Kathy Carlson. She 

taught me everything from how to knit, 

to how to learn, to how to survive away 

from home. She is an incredible teacher 

for so many reasons, and I still strive to be 

as good as she is. 

FC: One of the topics you lecture on is 

Second Life. Why are you a proponent? 

(Second Life is a 3D virtual world where 

users can socialize, connect and create 

using voice and text to chat.) 

I’m a proponent of student-centered 

learning and of learning experiences that 

put focus on the learner rather than the 

teacher; the old “guide on the side” rather 

than “sage on the stage” idea. 

FC: In what ways can the mainstream 

benefit from participating in Second Life? 

Second Life is a really creative space full 

of interesting people doing interesting 

things. It’s certainly not a tool for everyone, 

but if you’re a creative type you’ll 

find a lot to hold your interest. 

Right now, in the current economic 

crisis, places like Second Life are more 

important than ever for business because 

virtual worlds offer an alternative to 

expensive travel. You can be “with” your 

colleagues without ever boarding a flight. 

And more than video conferencing, in 

Second Life you can simulate business 

situations, conduct international focus 

groups and even have a little fun while 

you work. 

FC: What are the biggest misconceptions 

people have about social media? 

That it’s just too hard to learn unless 

you’re young. I can’t tell you how many 

people have told me, “I’m too old to 

learn this stuff.” I just don’t accept that 

excuse. 

The other misconception is that social 

media tools somehow change the way we 

think. There’s no new human behavior 

here. People have always networked, 

shared information, looked for new 

friends, passed notes. Now we just do it on 

“Don’t be afraid. You can’t break the Internet so jump in and try 

something. Create a Facebook account or try out Twitter. 

You’ll be amazed how useful it all can be.” — Sarah Smith-Robbins ’96 

Facebook, with text messages on our 

phones and by writing blogs. 

FC: How does your Franklin College 

liberal arts background help in your 

career? 

I think one of my best strengths is my 

fast, creative problem-solving. No matter 

whom I’m talking to, I’m able to understand 

their concerns and interests and 

provide insights into their issues. I simply 

wouldn’t be able to think this way if I had 

only a narrow education. My liberal arts 

background means that I spent a lot of my 

undergrad program learning how to learn 

and learning how to adapt to new ideas. 

FC: Of all the tech gadgets you own, which 

is your favorite? 

My iPhone, by far. It’s not only a great 

phone, but it’s practically replaced my 

laptop. I love how flexible it is. If I need a 

new tool (calculator, language translator 

or level to balance a shelf), I can just 

download an app. Plus, it’s a great social 

tool that helps me connect to other 

people, no matter where I am. 

FC: What gets you most excited about 

technology? 

I’m most excited by technologies that 

bring people together: games, mobile and 

social networks, all of the tools that allow 

us to communicate with one another 

efficiently in new ways. 

Currently, I’m most interested in 

augmented reality, ways to overlay data in 

physical spaces such as augmented maps 

with friends’ restaurant recommendations 

that signal when I’m near the the right 

place or a camera overlay that gives me 

historical information about an important 

building while I pan across it with my 

phone. Rather than being stuck at a desk 

to use these tools, they’re in my pocket, 

in context to the spaces I’m in and the 

people who are around me. 

FC: What are three easy things anyone 

can try today to become more tech savvy? 

1. Don’t be afraid. You can’t break 

the Internet; jump in and try something. 

Create a Facebook account or try out 

Twitter. You’ll be amazed how useful it 

all can be. 

2. Find a technology that is actually 

useful to you. Whether it’s a new phone, a 

GPS in your car, an instant messaging tool 

that makes it easy to talk to coworkers . . . 

find a tool that makes your day easier or 

more interesting. Match the technology to 

your lifestyle rather than the other way 

around. 

3. Talk to people around you about the 

technology that they use. Whether it’s 

your kid, your boss or a student, find out 

what tools people you know are using and 

what they like about them. It’s a great 

place to start. 


PHOTO BY AMY (KEAN) VERSTEEG ’96 


Editor 

Kelli DeMott Park ’81 has been entering 

her work into the Johnson County 4-H 

Fair for years, but her 2008 painting of an 

Indiana cornfield stirred up more than a 

ribbon. It invoked nostalgia. 

“I have an emotional connection to 

cornfields” said DeMott Park. “I grew up 

on a farm, and I love the way a cornfield 

looks and smells. I like the way it sounds 

when the breeze rustles the stalks, and it’s 

my favorite food.” 

What surprised DeMott Park about that 

particular painting was the response it 

brought from a former Franklin College 

faculty member. 

“After the fair I ran into Lynne Schuetz, 

who had been my college speech teacher. 

She told me how much she’d enjoyed the 

painting and how emotional it’d made her. 

Kelli DeMott Park ’81 stands with two 

paintings featured in her “Plant Life of the 

Heartland” exhibit. 

Cornfields seed idea for painting series 

That made me think about other crops and 

plants and the ways they are integrated into 

our lives, from childhood pastimes to the 

change of seasons,” said DeMott Park. 

That interest culminated in a series 

of paintings called “Plant Life of the 

Heartland.” DeMott Park, currently in her 

26th year as a teacher at Franklin 

Community High School, where she is art 

department director, earned an $8,000 

Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity 

Fellowship to fund the project, including 

the purchase of supplies. She spent 

approximately seven weeks over the 

summer photographing various plants that 

she referenced for a series of 10 paintings. 

DeMott Park said, “I never had to leave 

Johnson County. Many of the plants were 

along the road where I live or within 

walking distance. Others were nearby. 

The peony painting is based on a flower 

from my dad’s yard, and the tulip poplar 

was in my in-laws’ neighborhood.” 

DeMott Park didn’t set out only to paint 

the flora; she also, as part of the fellowship 

agreement, went about collecting personal 

stories to include in the exhibit. 

“I sent an e-mail to probably 700 people, 

including friends, co-workers and church 

members,” said DeMott Park. “Interestingly, 

almost all who responded were women. 

I think perhaps more women grew up 

playing with plants and flowers than did 

men, and so they have more associated 

memories,” said DeMott Park. 

Many people shared memories of tying 

stems of Queen Anne’s Lace together to 

make crowns and using maple seeds as 

helicopters, said DeMott Park. But, not 

all the responses were poignant; some 

were humorous. A few people even shared 

their dislike for particular types of flora, 

noting reasons like allergies. 

“Even my father teased me about 

getting paid to paint weeds,” she said. 

DeMott Park’s collection of 13 paintings, 

including three completed prior to the 

fellowship, and selections of the public 

commentary were exhibited in back-toback 

shows in August at the Johnson 

County Museum of History and the 

Johnson County Public Library. Her 

final exhibit was at Franklin College in 

November. 

“It’s been great fun to share my work 

in this community and to see so many 

familiar faces in attendance,” said 

DeMott Park. “With the Lilly grant to 

fund receptions, it’s really helped make 

each exhibit a social event.” 

In the past, DeMott Park has shown 

her work at a gallery in Seymour, Ind. 

She also participated in the Franklin 

College alumni art show over 

Homecoming weekend in 2007. 

“I think it’s important to show my 

paintings because I want my students to 

know that art is my passion. Art isn’t just 

something I ask them to do; it’s something 

I constantly work at, too.” . 

DeMott Park patterns her teaching style 

after former Center Grove High School 

art teacher Karen (Sturdy) Yarnall ’74. 

“She was my inspiration. I’d been 

drawing since age 4, but after I had class 

with Karen I knew I wanted to become an 

art teacher.” 

For DeMott Park, Franklin College was 

the place to fulfill the first step in meeting 

that goal and preparing for graduate 

school at Indiana University, where she 

obtained her master’s degree. 

“My liberal arts background helps 

make my job easier,” said DeMott Park. 

“As a teacher, students tend to have the 

expectation that you should know the 

answer to everything. Obviously, that’s 

impossible, but it certainly helps to know 

about a variety of subjects. 

“And, too, there’s so much emphasis 

in today’s curriculum on integrating 

subjects; it’s important to understand the 

connections between art and other course 

topics. You can’t be a good teacher unless 

you’ve completed classes in things beyond 

what you teach.” 

Perhaps DeMott Park would agree that 

along the way you also need to stop and 

smell — or paint — the roses. 


The ’50s 

Don Dilmore ’50 and his wife, 

Marie (Case) ’53, had a busy 

summer. They celebrated their 

59th wedding anniversary on 

Aug. 16, 2009. The couple also 

celebrated their 14th year of 

residence at their Montgomery, 

Texas, home. Don reports that it’s 

the longest they’ve ever lived in 

the same house. Summer also 

marked the publication of Don’s 

fifth book, Adult Report Card — 

We are Failing our Children. It tells 

how adults and churches can 

start making a difference in 

children’s lives. His soon to be 

published sixth book, Danny’s 

Red Jacket, is based on the 

adventures of a 12-year-old 

during the 1930s. 

Samuel G. “Jerry” Hicks ’59 

was inducted into the Indiana 

Football Hall of Fame on 

May 3, 2009. 

The ’60s 

Laima Druskis ’69 recently 

showed two pieces of her photographic 

work in the YoloArts 

“Art Farm” show at Gallery 625 

in Woodland, Calif. Laima has 

been a visual consultant and 

commercial photographer in 

the West Coast area since 1997. 

Her photography has appeared 

in Financial World Magazine, 

Time Magazine and educational 

publications for Simon & 

Schuster and major universities 

on the East Coast. 

The ’70s 

Russ Ashworth ’71 served as 

acting assistant secretary for 

administration with the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture from 

January 2009 to June 2009, when 

President Obama’s nominee for 

the position was confirmed by 

the Senate and sworn into office. 

In this position, he served 

Secretary Tom Vilsack as his chief 

administrative adviser. He and 

his wife, Jan, live in southern 

Maryland. 

Beth (Campbell) Pyle ’71 recently 

completed her doctorate in 

education at Illinois State 

University and began a faculty 

position at Western Kentucky 

University this fall. Her teaching 

position is in the department of 

kinesiology, recreation and sport 

in the physical education teacher 

education program. 

Geoffrey Doughty ’72 recently 

had his 21st book published, 

New York Central’s Through 

Passenger Service, Challenge 

and Retreat 1950–1967. He is in 

his 35th year as Maine Public 

Broadcasting’s radio voice for the 

Portland Symphony Orchestra. 

He serves as director of safety 

and loss control for the New 

Hampshire Motor Transport 

Association. 

Karen (Sturdy) Yarnall ’74 

was selected the 2009 State of 

Delaware Art Teacher of the Year. 

She is the fine arts department 

chair at Newark High School and 

resides in the city of Newark. She 

is married to Robert Yarnall ’71, 

and they have three children. 

Kimberly Shaver-Hood ’78, Ph.D., 

has been appointed interim 

superintendent of Blackstone- 

Millville schools in Massachusetts. 

She has served as assistant 

superintendent since April 2008. 

She previously served as the first 

principal of the Frederick W. 

Hartnett Middle School, which 

opened its doors in August 2003. 

Kevin Widdison ’79 received 

first place in the category of 

Best Writing during the annual 

convention of the Oregon 

Newspaper Publishers Association 

on July 16 and 17. He also 

received a second-place award 

in the category of Best Editorial. 

The awards came in the division 

for daily newspapers with 

circulations between 10,000 

and 25,000. Kevin is city editor 

at the Daily Courier in Grants 

Pass, Ore. 

The ’80s 

Valeri (Brown) Marks ’80 has 

been named chief executive 

officer of Hire Velocity in Tampa, 

Fla. The company provides 

recruitment and hiring services 

for small to medium-sized 

businesses. Previously, she was 

president and CEO of New 

Homes Realty in Tampa and 

prior to that she was president 

of the interactive media services 

division of Ameritech. 

Kerry “Pete” Keener ’84 has just 

been granted GS-11 status with 

the federal government. Pete is 

a project manager at Walter 

Reed Army Medical Center in 

Washington, D.C. Pete lives in 

Charles Town, W. Va., and enjoys 

hiking the The Appalachian Trail 

in Harpers Ferry. 

Bob Bultman ’86 works for HILTI, 

an international manufacturer of 

tools and anchors. He is the local 

process expert of pricing and 

works in the western hemisphere 

office. HILTI tools and team 

members were instrumental 

during the rescue and recovery 

efforts at the Murrah Federal 

Building in Oklahoma City after 

the bombing and at the World 

Trade Center and Pentagon 

after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. 

Bob is a long-time volunteer with 

Habitat for Humanity. He resides 

in Kiefer, Oka. 

The ’90s 

Janice Bullman ’90 has been 

named conservation development 

specialist for the Indiana 

Association of Soil and Water 

Conservation Districts. 

CLASS NOTES 

Valeri (Brown) Marks ’80 

Bob Bultman ’86 shows off his custom-made Franklin 

College cowboy boots, featuring the athletic logo. 

“During one of my training classes at work, I had to 

give a brief talk about myself. I used my boots to show 

the FC logo and discussed the role the college played 

in my life and still does. I always take pride in telling 

people a little about FC,” said Bob. 


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CLASS NOTES 

Trena Paulus ’91, Ph.D., recently 

received tenure and was promoted 

to associate professor at the 

University of Tennessee. Trena in 

the educational psychology and 

counseling department, where 

she researches aspects of online 

learning environments. 

Becky (Coy) Katsaropoulos ’92 is 

a registered nurse and currently 

a stay-at-home mom. She and 

her husband, John, have five 

children. The family resides in 

South Bend, Ind. 

Chandrika Fonseka ’94 earned 

her master’s in business administration 

for human resource 

management and marketing 

from the University of Manipal 

India. 

Tony Gambaiani ’95 recently was 

one of eight bankers from six 

states recognized as a “Rising Star 

in Banking” by the Northwestern 

Financial Review. Readers from 

across the Midwest nominated 

bankers who have distinguished 

themselves by their accomplishments, 

both in their banks and 

communities, and are poised to 

make significant contributions to 

the industry for years to come. 

Andy Bass ’96 and his wife, Jenni, 

are the parents of a daughter, 

Deborah Claire, born on Sept. 9, 

2009. She is the couple’s fourth 

child. Andy teaches and coaches 

football and baseball at Greenwood 

High School. He recently was 

honored at the IHSBCA North- 

South All Star Series. The family 

resides in Greenwood, Ind. 

Karen (Nelson) Heavin ’96 

was elected one of three new 

directors of the Putnam County 

Community Foundation in June 

2009. She also serves Warren 

Township of Putnam County 

as a trustee. Her previous 

experience includes working as 

a traveling financial field 

consultant for International 

Dairy Queen and working as a 

fundraiser for an economic 

development corporation in 

Illinois. She is active in numerous 

civic organizations and the 

Cloverdale Methodist Church. She 

and her husband, Dr. Anthony 

Heavin, live on a cattle farm with 

their sons, Garrett and Brock. 

Rachel (Peden) McCarty ’96 

and her husband, Cullen, are the 

parents of a daughter, Josie Anne, 

A very Franklin family 

George Anderson ’59, a retired real estate agent, and his wife, Barbara (Gamble) ’60, a 

retired teacher, are proud that their three daughters are Franklin College graduates. Now, a 

third generation of the family is attending Franklin. Elizabeth Burpo ’10 and Laura Burpo ’12 

are the daughters of Brad Burpo ’82 and his wife, Pam (Anderson) ’84. Pam is a fifth-grade 

teacher with Lebanon Community Schools, and Brad is vice president of Clear Channel Media. 

Kim (Anderson) Arrowood ’87 is a PE teacher with the Tippecanoe School Corp., and her 

husband, Derek, is superintendent of Sheridan Community Schools. They have two children, 

who attend Tippecanoe schools. Amy (Anderson) Godby ’89 is a kindergarten teacher with 

Lebanon Community Schools, and her husband, Jeff, is an owner of Godby Home Furnishings. 

They have two children, who also attend Lebanon. George and Barbara say they are hoping 

the younger grandchildren might someday choose Franklin. 

born on March 12, 2009. She is 

the couple’s first child. Rachel 

was the Monroe County historian 

and absentee voting supervisor 

for Monroe County and is now a 

homemaker. Her husband 

co-owns Smithville, a telecommunications 

company. The family 

resides in Ellettsville, Ind. 

Heather Willis Neal ’97 recently 

began a new position as deputy 

chief of staff at the Indiana 

Department of Education. 

She previously served as the 

Indiana governor’s public access 

counselor. She and her husband, 

Davey, have two children and 

reside in Indianapolis. 

Scott Sherry ’97, Whiteland High 

School head baseball coach, was 

recently honored at the IHSBCA 

North-South All Star Series. 

Jarrod Brett ’98 recently accepted 

a newly created position with 

Franklin College, coordinator of 

student achievement. In this role, 

he focuses on student retention 

and helps the individuals who are 

at risk of an incomplete college 

career due to financial hardship 

or poor academic performance. 

He is in his seventh year as 

assistant men’s basketball coach 

at the college, where he’s also an 

adjunct history teacher. Jarrod 

and his wife, Jennifer, reside in 

Franklin. 

Amy (Powers) Telscher ’98 and 

her husband, Jim, are the parents 

of a son, Nathaniel Charles, born 

on June 19, 2009. He joins a 

brother, Ben. The family resides 

in Cincinnati. 

Jeff Carroll ’99 is a first-year law 

student. He and his wife, Kelley 

(Kennedy) ’99, reside in Ann 

Arbor, Mich. 

Libby (Wasilchuk) Clem ’99 and 

her husband, Shannon, are the 

parents of a son, Robert Jameson, 

born on Oct. 26, 2008. Libby is a 


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special education teacher at 

Maconaquah High School, and 

Shannon left teaching to help his 

father with the family motorcycle 

business. They reside in 

Logansport, Ind. 

Dustin Close ’99 and Hillary 

Spike married on July 18, 2009, 

during a garden ceremony in 

Indianapolis. He is the business 

manager for Clarke Engineering 

Services in Fishers, Ind. She is an 

associate with the law firm of 

Barnes & Thornburg in 

Indianapolis. They are living in 

Indianapolis. 

Melissa (Padgett) Hayes ’99 and 

her husband, Brian, are the 

parents of twin boys, Hudson 

Michael and Asher Padgett, born 

on July 22. The family lives in 

Mount Clemens, Mich. 

Patsy (Garrett) Koepke ’99 and 

her husband, Steven, are the 

parents of a son, Noah Ray, born 

on June 24, 2009. 

Eric Richards ’99 recently joined 

Indianapolis-based Little Red 

Door Cancer Agency as director 

of development. 

The ’00s 

Kristin (Black) Beck ’01 and 

her husband, Clint, are the 

parents of a daughter, Kelsey 

Rose, born on Aug. 13, 2009. 

She joins a brother, Tyler. The 

family resides in Whiteland, Ind. 

Megan (Smeltzer) Rogers ’01 

and her husband, Stuart, are the 

parents of a son, Noah Stephen, 

born on July 15. He joins a 

brother, Cameron, 6. The family 

lives in Columbus, Ohio. 

Amanda (Vaught) Crismore ’02 

and her husband, Jared, are the 

parents of a son, Clay Everett, 

born on Dec. 5, 2008. Both 

Amanda and Jared are teachers 

at Martinsville East Middle 

School. The family resides in 

Martinsville, Ind. 

Jasmine (Hansen) Schwartz ’02 

and her husband, David, are 

the parents of a daughter, Zeely 

Jade, born on Nov. 9, 2008. She 

joins two brothers, Noah and 

Matthew. The family resides in 

Greenwood, Ind. 

Erika (Craig) Johnson ’03 is a 

senior buyer for Hendricks 

Regional Health in Danville, Ind. 

She will graduate from Indiana 

Wesleyan University with her 

master’s degree in December 

2009. 

Tanis (Gibbs) Monday ’03 is 

the Putnam County Museum’s 

associate director. She and her 

husband, David, have a son, 

Gustus, 3. The family resides in 

Greencastle, Ind. 

Justin Roberts ’03, a lieutenant, is 

the company fire support officer 

with the 5th Brigade Combat 

Team, 1st Armor Division at Fort 

Bliss, Texas. 

Jennifer Bennett ’04 is living in 

Bogotá, Colombia, working for 

Chevron. 

Dan Frische ’04 and his wife, 

Molly (Crone) ’04, are the parents 

of a son, Mason James, born on 

May 13, 2009. Dan recently joined 

the Franklin College Institutional 

Advancement Office as an 

advancement associate. He 

previously was a territory manager 

with JMC Sales & Engineering. 

Molly works for Community East 

Hospital as an athletic trainer. 

The family resides in Trafalgar, 

Ind. 

Chris Lakes ’04 and his wife, 

Melissa (Weaver) ’04, are the 

parents of a son, Zachary 

Christopher, born on July 26, 

2009. Chris teaches special 

education students at 

Southwestern High School, and 

Adventures in Asia 

Amanda Fletcher ’09, Dana Sease ’08, Wendy Gould ’08, 

Lauren McCombs ’10 and Jennifer Phillips ’06 wear Franklin 

College T-shirts during a night on the town in Seoul, South 

Korea. Wendy lives in Hanam, South Korea, where she teaches 

English to elementary students. Dana lives in Kuji, Japan, where 

she teaches English to elementary students. Amanda, Lauren and 

Jennifer made a special trip to Asia over the summer to do some 

sight-seeing with their college friends. 

Melissa teaches at Shelbyville 

High School. Melissa also recently 

completed a master’s degree in 

education. The family resides in 

Shelbyville, Ind. 

Terry Kinnett ’05 and Danielle 

Gibbs ’06 married on April 25, 

2009, in Franklin, Ind. They are 

living in Franklin. 

Ashley Malloy ’05 is working as 

an athletic trainer for Faulkner 

University in Montgomery, Ala. 

Nisha (Craig) Riggs ’05 and 

her husband, Adam, are the 

parents of a son, Landon, born 

on Sept. 2. He joins a sister, 

Sophie. The family resides in 

Eagle Mountain, Utah. 

Lindsay Baker ’06 and Tim 

Cooper ’04 married at Our Lady 

of the Greenwood Catholic 

Church on July 10, 2009. Alumni 

in the wedding party included 

Lindsay Schilling ’08, Ryan 

Skirvin, Jason Schilk ’04 and 

Jon Buck ’05. After a honeymoon 

to Negril, Jamaica, they are 

residing in Indianapolis. 

Kara Campbell ’06 is serving as 

the head athletic trainer for 

Huntingdon College in 

Montgomery, Ala. 

Dan Frische ’04, wife Molly (Crone) ’04 and son Mason 


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Jennifer (Searcy) 

Andrick ’09 and 

husband Austin ’07 

CLASS NOTES 

Chelsea (Tovissi) 

Harwood ’09 and 

husband Michael ’09 

Christina (Lane) 

Toler ’06, Suzanne 

Lane ’05 and Sean 

Toler ’06 


PHOTO BY AMANDA WILCHER 

Christina Lane ’06 and Sean 

Toler ’06 married on May 29, 

2009, at St. Mark’s Church. Other 

alumni involved were maids of 

honor Suzanne Lane ’05, Chelsea 

Airey ’07 and Emily (Crowe) 

McClain ’05. After a honeymoon 

in Riviera Maya, Mexico, they are 

living in Indianapolis. 

Christian (Myers) Loy ’06 works 

for Arc of the Ozarks and runs a 

group home and independent 

living facility for adults with 

physical and mental disabilities. 

She and her husband, David, 

reside in Ozark, Mo. 

Heather Peters ’06 completed 

her master’s degree in physician 

assistant studies from the 

University of Saint Francis in 

Fort Wayne, Ind., in August. She 

recently accepted a position with 

Clarian Cardiovascular Surgeons 

and resides in Indianapolis. 

Sarah (Shipley) Richardson ’06 

and her husband, Matthew, 

recently purchased their first 

home and are residing in 

Waverly, Ind. Sarah is in her third 

year as communications officer 

for the Community Foundation 

of Morgan County. 

Chelsea Airey ’07 received a 

graduate assistantship at Indiana 

University Purdue University– 

Indianapolis. She is working 

for the department of 

neighborhood partnerships, 

writing grants and helping build 

relationships with churches and 

other organizations. 

Austin Andrick ’07 and Jennifer 

Searcy ’09 married on July 25, 

2009, at Richardson Chapel on 

the Franklin College campus. 

Others involved were bridesmaids 

Candace Beatty ’09, Cait Conoley 

’09, Megan Gushwa ’08 and 

Katie Stephens ’10 and best man 

Matt Goen ’07. After a honeymoon 

in Cancun, Mexico, they 

are residing in Indianapolis. 

Austin is a kindergarten teacher 

for the Christel House Academy. 

Jennifer is working for the PR 

agency o2ideas, with Honda 

Manufacturing of Indiana as her 

primary client. 

Tim Fish ’07 was a volunteer for 

NBC Sports during its telecast 

hours for the final round of the 

U.S. Senior Open at Crooked 

Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Ind., 

this past August. 

Athletic trainers’ showdown 

Their work as athletic trainers for rival college football teams recently gave 

former classmates Ashley Malloy ’05, of Faulkner University, and Kara 

Campbell ’06, of Huntingdon College, the chance to work at the same arena — 

on opposing sides of the field. During the second annual Capital City Showdown 

in Montgomery, Ala., Campbell’s Huntingdon Hawks defeated Malloy’s Faulkner 

Eagles 21–7. Both women graduated from Franklin College with degrees in 

athletic training and then completed graduate assistantships at Troy University, 

earning master’s degrees in sport and fitness management. 


Tiffany Henderson ’07 and Jason 

Franklin married on May 15, 

2009, at Valle Vista Country Club 

in Greenwood, Ind. Tiffany is a 

graduate assistant at Ball State 

University. Jason is employed 

with Weaver Popcorn, where he 

is the Canadian sales manager 

for Trails End. They reside in 

Muncie, Ind. 

Amanda Personett ’07 and Brad 

Shelley married on June 27, 2009. 

After a honeymoon trip to 

Gatlinburg, Tenn., they are 

residing in Indianapolis. Amanda 

is working as the public relations 

and marketing coordinator for 

Special Olympics of Indiana. 

Casey Wells ’07 and Nathan Dilley 

’09 married on June 20, 2009, at 

Richardson Chapel on the 

Franklin College campus. They 

are residing in Franklin, Ind. 

Ryan Begerman ’08 and Kayte 

Russell ’08 married on May 31, 

2009, at Dunaway’s restaurant 

in downtown Indianapolis. 

Kayte is working as registrar for 

The Chef’s Academy. Ryan is 

entering nursing school. After a 

honeymoon in Hilton Head, 

S.C., they are residing in 

Edinburgh, Ind. 

Rick Brennan ’08 was an umpire 

over the summer for the 

Northwoods League. He plans 

to attend umpiring school again 

in January. 

Rachel Kinkoph ’08 and Noah 

Weddle married on June 27, 2009 

at Amity Baptist Church in 

Franklin, Ind. They are living in 

Franklin. 

Ben Wyatt ’08 and his wife, 

Libby (Allen) ’08, are the parents 

of a daughter, Eloise Diana, 

born on Aug. 27, 2009. Ben is 

an administrative systems analyst 

for the Franklin College information 

technology department. 

Libby is an ISTEP remediation 

teacher at Clark-Pleasant Middle 

Participants in the college’s alumni and friends’ trip to the Shakespeare Festival include in row one: Marc Hagn, Wendy 

(Shuler) Hagn ’86, Sherri Hall, Joella (Boyer) Patterson ’59, Virginia Percifield, Sue (VanAntwerp) Spencer ’55, 

Carol Chappell and Lloyd Spencer ’57. In row two are: Ellis Hall, Ben Schuetz ’09, Lynne Schuetz, Ron Schuetz, 

Rick Shields, Joanne Shields, Bob Doles ’57, Barbara (Schaefer) Doles ’56, Bill Percifield and Joan Ewing. 

College offers second annual trip to Canada’s Shakespeare Festival 

By Wendy (Shuler) Hagn ’86, Director of Church Relations 

A group of 20 Franklin College alumni, parents and friends attended the internationally renowned 

Stratford Shakespeare Festival in southwestern Ontario, Canada, from July 30–Aug. 2. Members of 

the group carpooled in several vehicles. Although they arrived in the town of Stratford at different 

times, they made plans for dinner together that Thursday evening at The Parlour, a pub specializing 

in high-quality food. 

While in Stratford, the group also enjoyed three festival plays, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of 

Being Ernest, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. During free 

time, many in the group browsed at shops, enjoyed scenic boat rides, attended concerts or leisurely 

strolled through art galleries, gardens or numerous other attractions around town. One couple 

with the college group opted to camp while in the area, and another individual chose to spend 

an afternoon investigating Stratford by city bus. 

The entire group met up again for dinner on Saturday at Othello’s restaurant, and several also 

enjoyed conversation on an outdoor patio at The Boar’s Head Pub late one evening. Except for those 

who camped, the group stayed at the Arden Park Hotel. The group departed on Sunday morning. 

Several individuals jokingly credited the Franklin College signage on their vehicles as the reason they 

experienced such ease getting through customs during their return. 

The four-day trip was led by Ellis Hall, Franklin College dean of students, and Sherri Hall, assistant 

professor of education. This was the 57th season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, which runs 

from April through October each year. It was the second consecutive year a Franklin College alumni 

and friends trip to Stratford had been offered by the Franklin College Alumni Office. The Halls also 

lead an annual trip to Stratford for students every October. 

School. The family resides in 

Greenwood, Ind. 

Adam Dunigan ’09 has joined 

the Franklin College information 

technology department as the 

student and event technology 

coordinator. 

Kailee Fouch ’09 is working as the 

communications and marketing 

coordinator for Alpha Gamma 

Delta International Fraternity. 

She resides in Indianapolis. 

Michael Harwood ’09 and 

Chelsea Tovissi ’09 married 

on June 12, 2009, at St. Lucas 

Church in Evansville, Ind. He is 

employed with Rose Brick and 

Materials, where he works as a 

dispatcher and sales rep. After a 

honeymoon in Playa Del Carmen, 

Mexico, they are living in South 

Bend, Ind. 


OBITUARIES 

The ’30s 

W. Edwin Threlkeld ’39 died 

Sept. 12, 2009. During his 

Franklin College career, he was 

a member of Sigma Alpha 

Epsilon and lettered in football 

and baseball. He was employed 

as a metallurgist at American 

Bearing Corp., and he was 

consulted by the Secret Service 

regarding developing atomic 

energy. He was a member of 

Southport Presbyterian Church, 

Mystic Tie Lodge and 

Indianapolis Valley of Scottish 

Rite. He was an avid golfer and 

race fan. He was a resident of 

Greenwood, Ind. Survivors 

include his wife, Helen, a son, 

four grandchildren and five 

great-grandchildren. 

The ’40s 

Harry Bertram ’41 died 

Aug. 17, 2009. He was a veteran, 

who served under Patton’s 

3rd Army. He was awarded the 

Bronze Star in the Battle of the 

Bulge. He worked for 33 years 

at Allison-GM as a tool and die 

maker. He was a member of 

Monument Lodge, the Scottish 

Rite and the Shrine Clown 

Association. He was a resident of 

Indianapolis. Survivors include 

his wife Roberta, four children, 

13 grandchildren and 16 greatgrandchildren. 

J.W. Patterson ’41 died July 5, 

2009. While at Franklin College, 

he was a member of Sigma Alpha 

Epsilon. He worked for 45 years 

in retail credit and retired in 

1983 from Weinstock’s, a 

department store. He loved 

golfing, swimming, playing bridge 

and being with family. He was a 

resident of Sacramento, Calif. 

Survivors include his wife, 

Mary, two sons, two stepsons, 

six grandchildren and four 

great-grandchildren. 

John Richard “Dick” Russell ’46 

died July 11, 2009. While at 

Franklin College, he played 

football for the Grizzlies. He later 

owned and operated Dalmbert 

and Co. He was a member of the 

Kiwanis, Greensburg Country 

Club, Elks Club and Sons of 

the American Legion. He was a 

resident of Greensburg, Ind. 

Survivors include a sister, four 

stepdaughters, six grandchildren 

and four great-grandchildren. 

Barbara “Bobbie” (Harkless) 

Easterday ’47 died April 24, 2009. 

She was an agent with 21st 

Century Realty Group. She was 

a member of the First United 

Methodist Church of Noblesville, 

where she participated in the 

bell and choral choirs. She was 

interested in scrapbooking, 

playing the accordion and 

making candy. She was a resident 

of Noblesville, Ind. Survivors 

include three daughters and 

five grandchildren. 

Phyllis Marie (Ester) Cummings 

’48 died April 20, 2009. During 

her time at Franklin College, she 

was initiated into Zeta Tau Alpha; 

the organization awarded her a 

50-year membership pin in 1995. 

She graduated from Franklin 

with a bachelor’s degree in 

sociology. She and her husband 

co-owned Cummings Standard 

and Cummings Auto Service for 

46 years. She was a resident of 

Boise, Idaho. Survivors include 

her two children, five grandchildren, 

two stepgrandchildren 

and 11 great-grandchildren. 

Leon Pacala ’49, Ph.D., died 

Sept. 9, 2009. He was an 

ordained minister of the 

American Baptist Churches and 

had served 11 years as executive 

director of the Association of 

Theological Schools (ATS) until 

his retirement in 1991. Prior to 

accepting the leadership role 

at ATS he served in various 

leadership roles, including 

president of Colgate-Rochester 

Divinity School, dean and 

professor of religion at Bucknell 

University and assistant professor 

of philosophy and religion at 

DePauw University. He had 

served on Union Theological 

Seminary’s Board of Trustees 

since 2000, bringing his vast 

experience in theological 

education to Union’s educational 

policy committee. He also served 

on the Franklin College Board 

of Trustees from 1967–80 and 

1998–2001, and he received an 

honorary doctorate of letters 

from Franklin College in 1987. 

He was a resident of Rochester, 

N.Y. Survivors include his wife 

of 19 years, Virginia, three sons, 

two stepdaughters, one stepson, 

eight grandchildren, eight stepgrandchildren. 

His sister, Vera 

Evans ’54, is a current member 

of the Franklin College Alumni 

Council. 

Joseph Siegel ’49 died June 26, 

2009. He held a master’s in 

business administration from 

Miami of Ohio University. He 

joined RCA Corp., a predecessor 

to GE, in the early 1950s, and 

he retired from the company as 

a skilled-labor relations executive. 

He enjoyed playing tennis, 

balloon tossing with his beloved 

dog, J.R., and watching the 

Philadelphia Eagles play football. 

He was a resident of Medford 

Lakes, N.J. He was preceded in 

death by his wife, Marge, and 

son, Mike. Survivors include a 

son and a daughter and two 

grandchildren. 

The ’50s 

Worth Bennett ’50 died Jan. 28, 

2009. He was a member of Kappa 

Delta Rho. He also was a World 

War II veteran who served in 

India with the U.S. Army Air 

Forces. He worked at Farm 

Bureau Insurance for 37 years 

and retired as personnel director 

in 1987. He was a member of 

Hopewell Presbyterian Church 

and Hillview Country Club. 

He enjoyed gardening, golfing, 

fishing and spending time with 

his family and friends. He was 

a resident of Whiteland, Ind. 


Marilyn, three children and 

four grandchildren. 

Robert J. Henselin ’50 died 

July 5, 2009. He was a veteran of 

the U.S. Army. He made a career 

in the textile industry, retiring 

from Penn Emblem Co. in 1995. 

He and his family were founding 

members of All Saints Catholic 

Church in Dunwoody, Ga., and 

he worked tirelessly on the 

pastoral board and other 

committees. He also volunteered 

with the Meals on Wheels 

organization and the Atlanta 

Lawn Tennis Association. He 

was a resident of Dunwood, Ga. 

Survivors include his wife of 57 

years, Mary, two daughters and 

three grandchildren. 

William G. “Bill” Fateley ’51 died 

July 30, 2009. During his Franklin 

College career, he was president 

of the Science Club and a 

member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon 

and Alpha Honorary Society. 

He also participated in track. 

He graduated from Franklin with 

a degree in biology. He pursued 

graduate studies at Northwestern 

University and received his 

doctorate in physical chemistry 

from Kansas State University. 

He also engaged in post-graduate 

studies at the University of 

Maryland and University of 

Minnesota. He was a research 

fellow at the Mellon Institute 

and later became a chemistry 

professor at Carnegie Mellon 

University. In 1965, he received 

an honorary doctorate of science 

from Franklin College. In 1972, 

he returned to Kansas State 

University as a chemistry professor 

and later became head of the 

department. He retired in 1997 

as a distinguished professor. He 

was well known in the academic 

community, having served as 

editor-in-chief of the Journal of 


Applied Spectroscopy, and he was 

a pioneer in Hadamard 

spectroscopy. He was founder 

and president of D.O.M. 

Associates, a research and 

development firm, and he was 

co-founder of Plain Sight 

Systems, a company developing 

applications for spectroscopy. 

He received many awards for 

his work including an honor 

for helping develop a new type 

of diabetes glucose monitor. 

He wrote for more than 350 

publications, including his 

humorous memoirs, Science or 

Fiction (the 10% solution). In 2008, 

he was recipient of the Franklin 

College Distinguished Alumni 

Award for his professional 

accomplishments. He was a 

resident of Green Valley, Ariz. 


Wanda, three children and 11 


Leon W. Babcock, Jr. ’54 died 

April 15, 2009. He was a retired 

Major General of the U.S. Air 

Force. He entered into service 

in 1954 and became a pilot. 

In 1969, he was assigned to the 

433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron 

in Thailand and flew 500 combat 

hours while on assignment. He 

returned to the U.S. in 1971 as 

chief of the 20th Air Division 

weapons branch at Fort Lee Air 

Force Base in Virginia. The 

following year he served on the 

Joint Chiefs of Staff, as chief of 

the North American Branch, 

Western Hemisphere division, 

and took command of the 

Keflavik Naval Air Station in 

Iceland in 1978. In 1982, he 

was named deputy commander of 

the 6th Allied Tactical Air Force. 

He was a resident of Bainbridge, 

Ga. Survivors include his wife, 

Valda Ann, two sons and three 


Roland R. “Rudy” Barron Jr. ’54 

died Aug. 13, 2009. While at 

Franklin College, he played 

football and baseball and was a 

member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 

He was a veteran stationed in 

Germany. He was co-owner of 

Borden Veneer in Charlestown, 

Ind. He was also a partner at 

Stemwood Inc. in New Albany, 

from where he retired. He was an 

active member at Redeemer 

Lutheran Church, and he loved 

to fish and be with his family. 

He was a resident of Clarksville, 

Ind. Survivors include his wife, 

Sandra, two sons, and three 


Francis E. “Gene” Spahr ’57 

died Dec. 10, 2008. He was a 

U.S. Navy veteran who served 

from 1948–52. Over the years, 

he worked for RCA, P.R. Mallory, 

Emhart and the Naval Surface 

Warfare Center, from which he 

retired in 1996. In his later years, 

he enjoyed doing crossword 

puzzles. He attended Community 

Congregational Church. He was 

a resident of Whiteland, Ind. 

Survivors include his wife of 

55 years, Beverly, two sons, a 

daughter and two grandsons. 

The ’60s 

Robert F. Carpenter ’60 died 

June 21, 2009. He was the son 

of Floyd and Artie Carpenter 

and was born in Indianapolis. 

He worked as a broker for the 

Indiana Grain Division of Farm 

Bureau for many years after 

serving in the Korean War. He 

was an avid Chicago Cubs fan 

and had a lifelong passion for 

baseball; he coached the 

American Legion teams for many 

years. He also enjoyed listening 

to music and was very fond of 

Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack. 

Survivors include his wife of 50 

years, Shirley, a son and three 


James Bennett ’62 died July 19, 

2009. He was a retired attorney, 

judge and former assistant 

prosecutor for Gallia County, 

Ohio. He was involved in his 

community as past president of 

the Gallia County Bar Association, 

member of Fortville and 

Gallipolis Lions Club and 

vice-president of the Classic 

Ragtime Society of Indiana. 

He also was an active member of 

Mount Comfort United Church 

in Greenfield, Ind., and formerly 

Grace United Methodist Church 

in Gallipolis, Ohio. Survivors 

include his wife, Kathryn, two 

children and two grandchildren. 

Mildred M. (Delks) Hollins ’64 

died May 20, 2009. She had been 

an elementary school teacher 

and a homemaker. She enjoyed 

reading, doing crossword puzzles, 

knitting and gardening. She was a 

member of Eastern Star and The 

Circle. She was of the Methodist 

faith. She was a former resident 

of Indianapolis and Columbus, 

Ind. She was preceded in death 

by her husband, George. 

Survivors include three children, 

six grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren 

and two great-grandchildren. 

Rex E. Richards ’64 died Sept. 

15, 2009. He was a farmer first in 

White River Township and later 

in Plymouth, Ill. He was a member 

of First Christian Church in 

Beardstown, Ill., and a former 

member of Mount Pleasant 

Christian Church, where he was 

a deacon and trustee. He served 

on the White River Township 

Advisory Board and White River 

Township Fire Department 

Board. His family was his passion. 

He was a resident of Plymouth, 

Ill. Survivors include his wife, 

Sheila, two children and seven 


Thomas C. Bryant ’65 died 

June 17, 2009. He attended 

Franklin College, where he 

was a member of Sigma Alpha 

Epsilon. He graduated from 

Indiana University School of 

Law and studied engineering 

at Purdue University. He was an 

attorney and later worked in real 

estate. He enjoyed traveling and 

being active in many Christian 

organizations. He was a resident 

of Juno Beach, Fla. Survivors 

include two brothers. 

The ’90s 

Timothy Lee Robison ’90 died 

June 27, 2009. While at Franklin 

College, he was a member of 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a 

Grizzlies’ football halfback 

known for his blocking skills. 

He coached football, cross 

country and track and field at 

Brown County schools before 

becoming the athletics director 

at Indian Creek High School in 

Trafalgar, Ind. He was pursuing 

his principal’s license at Indiana 

University. He was an avid 

bicyclist and weightlifter. He was 

a resident of Morgantown, Ind. 


Cathee, and two daughters. 

Friends of the College 

The Rev. Edwin Tuller died 

Aug. 26, 2009. He served as 

general secretary of American 

Baptist Churches USA from 

1959–70, and during that time 

was heavily involved in the civil 

rights movement. He helped 

open the doors for greater 

participation by people of color 

in ABC USA. His public advocacy 

efforts also included sitting 

behind Dr. Martin L. King Jr. 

at his famous “I Have A Dream” 

speech at the Lincoln Memorial 

in 1963. Tuller was a graduate 

of Brown University and Colgate 

Rochester Divinity School and 

did graduate work at La Faculte 

Libre de Theologie Protestante 

in Paris, France. He also held an 

honorary doctorate of divinity 

from Brown University and an 

honorary doctorate of laws from 

Franklin College. He was a 

resident of Pittsburgh, Pa. 


Check this out 

Personal checks featuring the 

Franklin College name and Old Main 

bell tower are available through banks 

that use Deluxe Corp. printing services. 

Choose blue, yellow or green safety 

paper, and specify cut number 81692 

for the Franklin College design. Be sure 

to ask about availability at your bank. 

Additional ordering information is 

available at www.deluxe.com or 

(800) 335-8931. 

Hit the road with 

school spirit 

Franklin College license plates 

provide great visibility for our 

institution, support the student 

scholarship fund and identify you as a 

proud member of the Franklin family. 

To purchase or renew a plate, you 

must be an Indiana resident and make 

a tax-deductible contribution of $25 per 

plate to the college. Alumni, students, 

parents, employees and friends are all 

encouraged to show their school spirit 

with a college plate. 

The license plate form is quick and 

easy. View instructions and download a 

form at www.franklincollege.edu in the 

“Alumni and Friends” section or call 

(317) 738-8050 to request a form. 

Let’s see how many Franklin 

College plates we can put on Indiana’s 

roadways! 

Ask the Planned Giving Guy 

Q: What kind of assets can I use to establish a 

planned gift? 

PGG: The three most popular assets for setting up your planned 

gift are cash, securities (such as publicly traded stock, 

bonds or mutual fund shares) or real estate. Two great 

assets that many people overlook when establishing 

planned gifts are retirement plans and life insurance 

policies. You can direct a charitable distribution from the 

balance remaining in your retirement plan (IRA, 401(k), 

Keough, etc.) after your lifetime, or gift a paid-up life 

insurance policy, or you can make Franklin College the 

owner and beneficiary of a new life insurance policy. 

Q: My elderly parents could use some additional income. Can I use a planned gift to 

provide additional income for them? 

PGG: Yes. A gift annuity is an excellent plan to create additional income to meet the needs of a 

family member. The beneficiary of a gift annuity need not be the donor. You may name 

anyone (parent, sibling, friend or employee) as the beneficiary of a gift annuity. 

You may be caring for a parent or relative with after-tax dollars. It may be more 

advantageous to transfer some cash or property to a gift annuity and have the annuity 

payments made directly to the parent. The income will be taxed in the parent’s lower tax 

bracket, but you, the donor, receive a current income tax deduction that reduces your income 

tax liability. The age of the annuity payment recipient, rather than the age of the 

donor, determines the annuity rate, tax deduction and tax-free amount of the annuity 

payments. 

Q: I am not rich. Are planned gifts really meant for me? 

PGG: Many people are surprised by what they do own. Wealth is not necessarily measured by what is 

in one’s bank account. One may live in a very modest home but own land, stocks, tangible 

property, collectibles, art, life insurance policies, etc. Each of these assets may be a way for you 

to make a significant charitable gift and realize tax savings. You may also benefit from the 

additional income generated by certain types of planned gifts such as a charitable gift annuity. 

The minimum amount needed to establish a Franklin College gift annuity is $5,000. 

The additional income from this type of gift could provide extra financial security needed 

for an enjoyable retirement. 

Have another question? Phone or e-mail the Planned Giving Guy, Paul A. 

Beczkiewicz, director of advancement and planned giving, at (317) 738-8045 or 

pbeczkiewicz@franklincollege.edu. 


Pauline DeVore Crump ’38, 

Horizon Society member 

Occupation: Homemaker, wife and mother of three. 

“I earned my degree in biology and planned to do lab 

work in bacteriology at Methodist Hospital, but after I 

married it was important to me to raise a family and be 

available for the children. I also volunteered at different 

times with the American Heart Association, American Lung 

Association, Tri Kappa and my church.” 

Family Ties: Granddaughter Laura (Crump) Lancaster ’94, 

nephew Roger DeVore ’58 and niece- in-law Ann (Grahame) 

DeVore ’58 

Most influential professors and staff: “There was none 

better than Dr. Deppe (Charles A.). He was a fantastic 

biology teacher. He just knew how to make everything easy 

to understand, and he had that teacher way of knowing 

when he needed to explain something further. I don’t 

think he ever dismissed a class without making certain 

everyone understood the information. I can still picture 

him sitting on the front of his desk, letting his legs swing 

while he lectured!” 

Advice you’d give to current Franklin students: “Realize 

you’re in college now. Yes, you should have fun with your 

friends and enjoy your freedoms, but make your education 

the priority. Go to class. Study. Work hard. You’ll never 

regret doing your best.” 

I’m proud to be an alumna because: “I think Franklin 

College is a terrific school. You can accomplish anything 

there you want. You can get good preparation for a career 

or graduate school, whichever you choose. I would send 

anybody to Franklin College; I’m very serious about that. 

A student could try any other school in the U.S. and not 

find better than Franklin.” 

Alumni involvement: Crump has attended Homecoming 

numerous times since her graduation. She also attends 

the President’s Dinner and Scholarship Luncheon, 

when possible. She is founder of the Ross and Pauline 

DeVore Crump Endowed Scholarship for students. 

Franklin College is included in my estate plans because: 

“It’s worthwhile and deserves my time. I want to see the 

college keep going for another 175 years. I also want to 

see to it that there are plenty of young people with good 

educations to help run the world. We need young people 

with strong character and intellect to help get the U.S. 

through the messes of today. We can help prepare them 

for that tremendous responsibility with a good liberal arts 

education.” 

Life today: “I’m active with the senior center. I belong to a 

walking club. I enjoy baking with fruits and vegetables from 

my garden. I didn’t start traveling until I was 69, but I’ve 

since been to every continent.” 

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Meet Samantha Parker ’11, one student 

who’s enriching the college community 

through excellence, leadership and service 

Campus activities: Founding president of International Association 

of Business Communicators at Franklin College, assistant residence 

hall coordinator for Hoover-Cline, Wave3 vice president and peer tutor. 

Most influential professor: “Richard Erable, English professor, and 

Ray Begovich, journalism professor, have most impacted my FC 

experience. Dr. Erable recognizes my individual potential and pushes 

me to succeed in and out of the classroom, and Dr. Begovich’s courses 

have been the most thought-provoking, challenging and rewarding of 

my college career.” 

Most memorable FC moment so far: “During the annual Pulliam School of 

Journalism awards banquet, I received the Marilyn A. Leap Scholarship, 

which funds a student’s trip to a professional conference. I remember 

sitting in the back of the room and hearing my name, but not knowing 

why because it was such a surprise. Thanks to the scholarship, I had the 

chance to attend IABC’s ‘Communications Rocks’ conference in 

Cleveland, Ohio, in October.” 

Best life advice ever received: “Speak your mind, even when your voice 

shakes.” 

Favorite campus hangout: “The Cline Hall porch. My friends and I have 

sat and talked there for hours. I have a lot of special memories because 

of that porch!” 

Favorite things to splurge on: “I’m addicted to coffee, and I make it 

every morning, but after a long day, there’s nothing I want to do more 

than go splurge on an iced venti soy caramel macchiato from 

Starbucks.” 

Hobbies: “I love to read — novels, magazines, blogs, pretty much 

anything. I also have a passion for being outdoors. I love to canoe, 

whitewater raft, camp and bike.” 

Five-year plan: “I’ll graduate from FC with a bachelor’s degree in 

journalism-public relations and women’s nonprofit management 

(an independent major), with a concentration in business. Then, 

I’ll pursue a graduate degree at the Center on Philanthropy in 

Indianapolis and work in nonprofit management.” 

Get to know more Franklin students through profiles like these in the Annual 

Report, beginning on pg. 21. 

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