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1980s<br />
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Kimberly A. Strough-Wingo ’89: The friendships<br />
created on the FC campus with other<br />
students and professors have had a lifelong<br />
impact. Dr. Lloyd Hunter performed our<br />
wedding ceremony 18 years ago. Marilyn<br />
Leap, who worked in the development office,<br />
was one of my most cherished friends until<br />
she passed away due to breast cancer in the<br />
late ’90s. <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong> wasn’t just a place;<br />
the people we encountered made lasting<br />
impressions. Dr. David Carlson and Dr. David<br />
Chandler taught me to think critically about<br />
my faith and values. Dr. Rodney Hood taught<br />
me that effort counts. As I think about my<br />
own daughter, who is entering her high<br />
school years, I want her to have similar<br />
college experiences — those that will inform,<br />
challenge, shape and build her into a vibrant,<br />
thriving person. Thanks, <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong>!<br />
’90s<br />
Tracy (Lovins) Martin ’92: The most influential<br />
professor I had at <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong> was the<br />
late Alicia Pianca. Not only did she teach me<br />
Spanish to the best of her abilities, but she<br />
also taught me how to be an excellent, caring,<br />
demanding and dedicated teacher. For that<br />
gift I shall always love, respect and admire her.<br />
After college, she and I maintained a friendship<br />
and collegiality that encouraged me to<br />
think and expand my horizons in ways I never<br />
thought imaginable. She was a wonderful<br />
friend who would take the time to share<br />
triumphs and tribulations, whether they were<br />
of a personal or professional nature. Because<br />
of her, I have become the teacher I am today,<br />
and I hope that I can do justice to the legacy<br />
that she left to FC students during her tenure.<br />
Bob Braman ’93: My visit in the spring of<br />
1989 all but “sealed the deal” of my wanting to<br />
be a part of the <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong> community.<br />
I realized that while I was considering schools<br />
as large as IU and Evansville there was<br />
something about a true campus community<br />
that intrigued me. Now, 19 years after my first<br />
visit and 15 years since my graduation, I still<br />
am convinced that I made a great decision in<br />
attending <strong>Franklin</strong>. The opportunities that<br />
still impact my life today include intimate<br />
classroom settings valuable to a great liberal<br />
arts education, a close Greek community and<br />
the ability to give service to the city of <strong>Franklin</strong>.<br />
Kristi (King) Guse ’93: On Aug. 25, 1990, in the<br />
<strong>Franklin</strong> Room at the Greek Welcome Dance,<br />
I met a great guy named Cary Guse ’94. Nearly<br />
seven years later, on Aug. 9, 1997, I married<br />
him in the college chapel. Blue and gold were<br />
our colors, and the Rev. Cliff Cain, the chaplain<br />
during our years in college, officiated. We have<br />
many individual and shared memories around<br />
campus, but I’ve still never been kissed in the<br />
Wellhouse at midnight!<br />
Holly (Hardman) Johnston ’93: My <strong>Franklin</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> memories began in the fall of 1989,<br />
and I continue to make more memories<br />
each year. I can’t name them all, but here<br />
are some highlights: Serenading, Pi Phi<br />
ceremonies, Pi Phi gazebo, sorority rush,<br />
turkey cutlet night at Saga, talking for hours<br />
in Elsey hallways, G-42, football road trips,<br />
study tables (ha!), fraternity parties,<br />
Homecoming, late night study sessions<br />
with my PE/Rec buddies, Jenny Johnson-<br />
Kappes ’72 for helping me graduate, getting<br />
married to Chris Johnston ’90 in the chapel,<br />
Bell Game tailgating over the past <strong>20</strong> years,<br />
Pi Phi alumni activities and football<br />
games with my kids and husband.<br />
And last but certainly not least . . .<br />
great friends that last a lifetime!<br />
Marti (Dorrel) Schrock ’93: My<br />
favorite FC memory is when the<br />
water was out in Cline Hall for a<br />
week. I lived in Johnson-Dietz (“the<br />
new dorms”). My roommates and I<br />
created a sign-up sheet for people to<br />
take showers in our bathroom. Our<br />
suite was on the third floor, and we<br />
could see people coming across the<br />
mall from Cline, wearing robes and<br />
carrying their towels and shower<br />
buckets.<br />
Ellen (Prohaska) Brunner ’94: The <strong>Franklin</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> faculty and staff helped me pursue<br />
my interests to find the best possible career<br />
for me. I now am in my 15th year of a career<br />
that started at <strong>Franklin</strong> and continued to<br />
develop because of the experiences I had as<br />
student. Thank you, <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong>!<br />
Mike DeArmitt ’94: During Grizzly Grand Prix<br />
weekend in 1993, some guys who lived on the<br />
third floor in Hoover Hall had the bright idea<br />
to create a homemade hot tub. At the time,<br />
each floor of Hoover had bathrooms with one<br />
interior room for showering. The room had<br />
six shower heads and one drain, and you<br />
entered by stepping through an open doorway<br />
that had a ledge a few inches high. The guys<br />
turned all the showers on hot and plugged the<br />
drain, creating a hot tub that was as deep as<br />
the ledge was high. They decided they wanted<br />
to make it deeper so they took the doors off<br />
the fire extinguisher cabinet in the hallway<br />
and used them to block the gap above the<br />
ledge. The water increased to about three feet<br />
deep! Most of the third floor residents were in<br />
the hot tub, living it up and having a rowdy<br />
time (Remember, it was Grand Prix weekend).<br />
At some point, either they got tired of playing<br />
in the hot tub or the RA made them stop.<br />
Instead of unplugging the drain and letting<br />
the water drain slowly, they took down the<br />
fire extinguisher doors that they had used to<br />
block the doorway. As soon as they did that, a<br />
wall of water went rushing through the now<br />
unblocked doorway, into the hall and all<br />
through Hoover. There was even water<br />
dripping from the ceiling down into the<br />
basement!<br />
Dave Dunkle ’94: I will never forget returning<br />
to a campus covered in toilet paper and<br />
attending an impromptu late-night pep rally<br />
after the 1991–92 men’s basketball team<br />
defeated Grace <strong>College</strong> for the District 21<br />
basketball championship. The NAIA National<br />
Championship also was exciting because the<br />
college held a lottery for seats on the fan<br />
buses to the games at Tarleton State University<br />
in Texas. Classes were suspended for a couple<br />
of days so <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong> could be wellrepresented.<br />
Even though we didn’t win<br />
the championship, the experience was<br />
unforgettable.<br />
Cary Guse ’94: As I reflect back <strong>20</strong> years on<br />
those wonderful college days, what strikes me<br />
most is there is not one single memory that<br />
stands out above all others. I recall many great<br />
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