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INSIDE<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> Review<br />
Winter 2011<br />
Volume 14, Number 2<br />
The <strong>Truman</strong> Review is distributed to alumni,<br />
parents and friends. Its mission is to maintain<br />
ties between the <strong>University</strong>, its alumni and all<br />
other friends.<br />
BOARD OF GOVERNORS<br />
John W. Siscel III, chair<br />
Kenneth L. Read (’73), vice chair<br />
Karen Haber, secretary<br />
Cheryl J. Cozette<br />
Mike Greenwell (’83)<br />
John Hilton (’02)<br />
Matthew W. Potter (’96)<br />
Mark S. Wasinger<br />
Michael Zito (’92)<br />
Luke Freeland, student representative<br />
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT<br />
Troy D. Paino<br />
MANAGING EDITOR<br />
Deanna Rood<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
Teresa Wheeler (’84)<br />
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR<br />
Katie (Svoboda) Best (’00)<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Tim Barcus (’89)<br />
SPORTS<br />
Tyler Madsen (’08)<br />
Kevin White (’96)<br />
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS<br />
Brad Chambers (’86)<br />
Amanda Goeser<br />
Travis Miles (’99)<br />
Kevin Minch<br />
Becky Pike<br />
Jennifer Riebold<br />
Denise Smith (’79)<br />
Heidi Crist Templeton<br />
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION<br />
BOARD OF DIRECTORS<br />
Jessica (Neighbors) Hill (’99), president<br />
Mike Wilson (’92), vice president<br />
Jim Cherrington (’85), past president<br />
Denise Smith (’79), secretary<br />
Von Abbott (’79)<br />
Sue Alexander (’78)<br />
Erin (Lesczynski) Church (’02)<br />
Kent Donaldson (’90)<br />
Keith Epperson (’82)<br />
Sharon (Hogan) Husmann (’83)<br />
John Mathis (’66)<br />
Ellen (Hoelscher) McLain (’87)<br />
Eric Olsen (’82)<br />
A. David Peppard (’80)<br />
Stacey (George) Sifton (’00)<br />
Sarah (Donnell) Theriault (’03)<br />
Vid Vidyasagara (’92)<br />
Tanner Williams (’02)<br />
Janys (Murphy) Zimmerman (’55, ’58)<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> Review is published three times each fiscal year<br />
by the Advancement Office, <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />
McClain Hall 205, 100 East Normal Avenue, Kirksville,<br />
MO 63501-4221.<br />
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COVER STORY:<br />
A Taste of <strong>Truman</strong><br />
Lifelong learners of all ages traveled<br />
to campus last summer for the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s inaugural “Taste of<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>,” a three-day-long educational<br />
experience open to the general public<br />
that features unique lectures by top<br />
professors as well as exclusive activities.<br />
The theme of “i<strong>Truman</strong>Now Playing: Homecoming 2010”<br />
proved to be well-suited for the traditional celebration that<br />
brought alumni and friends home again last October.<br />
Making It Official: The Installation Ceremony<br />
for <strong>University</strong> President Troy D. Paino<br />
Not long after the fall 2010 semester began, <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> celebrated the installation of Troy D. Paino as the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s 16th president.<br />
2 Around the Quad<br />
7 Focus on Students<br />
8 Five Minutes with Patricia Burton<br />
22 Class Notes<br />
39 <strong>Alumni</strong> News<br />
42 Foundation News<br />
46 Sports<br />
ON THE COVER:<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> invites alumni and all other lifelong learners<br />
to sample the liberal arts experience that <strong>Truman</strong> is<br />
known for by spending a weekend on campus as part<br />
of the new “Taste of <strong>Truman</strong>” educational program.<br />
TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY<br />
Advancement Office<br />
Editor, <strong>Truman</strong> Review<br />
McClain Hall 205<br />
100 E. Normal Ave.<br />
Kirksville, MO 63501-4221
High Marks<br />
Of the many recent high-profile<br />
rankings the <strong>University</strong> has<br />
received, students deserve much<br />
of the credit for <strong>Truman</strong>’s sixth place<br />
listing on Washington Monthly’s list of the<br />
nation’s best master’s universities. The list<br />
rates schools based on their contribution<br />
to the public good, with student service<br />
as one of the three criteria.<br />
Other recent accolades for the<br />
<strong>University</strong> include the No. 1 ranking<br />
from U.S. News and World Report. For<br />
the 14th straight year, <strong>Truman</strong> has been<br />
recognized as the top public university in<br />
the Midwest Region. U.S. News and<br />
World Report also ranked <strong>Truman</strong> No. 8<br />
overall in the “Best Regional Universities”<br />
category among both private and public<br />
institutions that provide a full range of<br />
undergraduate and master’s programs.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> is the only Missouri school listed<br />
in the top 10.<br />
The Princeton Review also included<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> on its “2011 Best Colleges:<br />
Region by Region,” and Forbes ranked<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> at No. 70 on its national “Best<br />
Buy” list. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance<br />
magazine (Feb. 2011) lists <strong>Truman</strong> as<br />
31st on its exclusive survey list of 100<br />
best values in public colleges that<br />
“deliver a stellar education at an<br />
affordable price.”<br />
On Board<br />
In August 2010, the <strong>Truman</strong> Board<br />
of Governors welcomed its newest<br />
member, Michael A. Zito (’92),<br />
who was appointed as an out-of-state,<br />
non-voting member. Zito manages the<br />
Washington, D.C., law office and<br />
commercial receivables practice group<br />
of Lathrop & Gage.<br />
A <strong>Truman</strong> alumnus, Zito received his<br />
bachelor of arts degree in history with a<br />
minor in military science from <strong>Truman</strong><br />
in 1992, and he earned a juris doctorate<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> of Missouri School<br />
of Law in Kansas City in 1996.<br />
While at <strong>Truman</strong>, he was involved in<br />
the Reserve Officer Training Corps,<br />
Delta Theta Phi historical honor society<br />
and Alpha Kappa Lambda social<br />
fraternity.<br />
Since 1991, Zito has served in the<br />
United <strong>State</strong>s Army Reserve, where he<br />
currently holds the rank of major in the<br />
Judge Advocate General Corps. He is a<br />
member of the American Bar Association<br />
and the Commercial Law League.<br />
Conversation and Coffee<br />
in the Library<br />
Anew cafe that opened in Pickler Memorial Library this past fall<br />
provides a place where patrons can buy food and drinks, read, study,<br />
socialize and relax. Jazzman’s Cafe and Bakery adds a quality<br />
study/reading space to the library and is part of a larger plan to create a<br />
Learning Commons that will provide a one-stop consolidated service area<br />
for library and technology assistance.<br />
As students seek more collaborative-style workspace for projects, <strong>Truman</strong><br />
is adapting existing areas to accommodate groups of students. Located on<br />
the first floor of the library, the new cafe provides a central gathering spot<br />
for students in an informal environment.<br />
Renovation and furnishing of the cafe space was funded by the 2009-<br />
2010 <strong>Truman</strong> Parents Project, and coffee service and equipment were<br />
provided by Sodexo capital improvement funds.<br />
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Taking the Lead<br />
Maj. Jim<br />
Tenpenny,<br />
the new head<br />
of <strong>Truman</strong>’s ROTC<br />
Program, began his duties<br />
as professor of military<br />
science in June 2010.<br />
Tenpenny comes to<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> from<br />
Fort Hood, Texas, where<br />
Maj. Jim<br />
Tenpenny<br />
he served as the operations officer for the<br />
1st Cavalry Division’s Assault Helicopter<br />
Battalion. In April 2010, Tenpenny<br />
completed a yearlong deployment to Iraq.<br />
Tenpenny oversees <strong>Truman</strong>’s ROTC<br />
Program, which was recently recognized<br />
for producing the most commissioned<br />
officers to the National Guard for the<br />
state of Missouri.<br />
“As the new guy coming in, I don’t<br />
want to change anything that has already<br />
made this the best program in Missouri,”<br />
Tenpenny said. “We want to keep it<br />
flowing smoothly and improve it as well.”<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> Offers New Master’s Program<br />
Starting with the Spring 2011<br />
semester, <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
began offering a new master’s<br />
program designed for individuals wanting<br />
to advance personal and professional goals.<br />
The Master of Arts in Leadership program<br />
can help anyone contemplating a change<br />
in career, seeking to add an emphasis to<br />
prior professional credentials and experiences<br />
or just wanting to excel in their<br />
current career. The program will help<br />
participants acquire a greater<br />
understanding of how to lead and navigate<br />
organizations and how to build successful<br />
relations within and among organizations.<br />
The Master of Arts in Leadership<br />
includes a solid theoretical foundation in<br />
personal and organizational leadership,<br />
plus experiential learning consisting of<br />
simulations, case studies and internships<br />
that will enable students to progress from<br />
the study of leadership to its application<br />
and practice. Graduates will have<br />
completed a specialization area designed<br />
to advance the individual’s personal<br />
leadership goals. Sharing perspectives with<br />
a diverse group of traditional and nontraditional<br />
peer learners with a variety of<br />
academic and professional backgrounds<br />
will enhance the learning experience.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>: There’s<br />
an App for That<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> has<br />
introduced TruTouch, a free<br />
application for Apple products<br />
including the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad<br />
that provides convenient one-touch access<br />
to a variety of information about <strong>Truman</strong><br />
for current students, prospective students,<br />
alumni, faculty, staff and members of the<br />
general public. The application, which was<br />
developed by Chad Mohler, professor of<br />
philosophy and religion, is available for<br />
download from Apple’s iTunes App Store.<br />
Through TruTouch, one can find people<br />
on campus and contact them via phone or<br />
e-mail; search Pickler Memorial Library or<br />
MOBIUS for items, e-mail search results<br />
and make MOBIUS requests; check<br />
Kirksville weather; read the Index, <strong>Truman</strong><br />
Today and the <strong>Truman</strong> Review; navigate<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> with the campus map; discover<br />
upcoming <strong>Truman</strong> events and e-mail event<br />
details; search <strong>Truman</strong> student organizations,<br />
view organization websites and<br />
e-mail organization contacts; look up<br />
campus offices; enjoy campus photo<br />
galleries and e-mail images or save them to<br />
the photo album; and watch YouTube<br />
videos from <strong>Truman</strong>-related channels.<br />
The TruTouch application requires iOS<br />
3.1.3 or later. The direct link to the<br />
application is itms://itunes.apple.com/us/<br />
app/trutouch/id396451472?mt=8. For<br />
more information about TruTouch go to<br />
http://appsolutelyfun.com.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> on Facebook<br />
Become a fan today at<br />
http://www.facebook.com/<br />
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<strong>Truman</strong><strong>State</strong><strong>University</strong>National<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong>Association<br />
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Bronze Metal<br />
Anew sculpture funded by a combination of an outright<br />
gift from Margarita Heisserer and a gift in<br />
kind from Larry and Candy Young now adorns the<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> campus. “The Dance,” a 10-foot bronze sculpture, was<br />
sculpted by Larry, a nationally known artist who blends<br />
contemporary forms with classical compositions that capture<br />
the human spirit.<br />
“This sculpture gift to <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> is meant to<br />
kindle creative energies that fuel a campus culture alive with<br />
civility, truth and learning that keeps students’ spirits dancing,”<br />
said Heisserer. “I hope ‘The Dance’ will also raise the aesthetic<br />
awareness of the campus, provoke motivational thinking and<br />
communing among the students and faculty, and perhaps even<br />
stimulate the giving of other such gifts to the <strong>University</strong>.”<br />
Margarita, assistant to the vice president for academic<br />
affairs 1979 to 1992, and Candy, professor of political science<br />
at <strong>Truman</strong> 1980 to the present, share a common bond tied to<br />
a critical turning point in the <strong>University</strong>’s history. Both were<br />
working for <strong>Truman</strong> during the mid-1980s when the<br />
institution’s mission was changed from a regional comprehensive<br />
university to a statewide public liberal arts and<br />
sciences university.<br />
When the mission change occurred, Margarita was serving<br />
as the administrative assistant to Darrell W. Krueger, then vice<br />
president for academic affairs at <strong>Truman</strong>. She vividly<br />
remembers being given the opportunity to prepare a planning<br />
document under the auspices of then <strong>University</strong> President<br />
Charles McClain, Krueger and Peter Ewell, of the National<br />
Center for Higher<br />
Education Management<br />
Systems. The official “Five-<br />
Year Planning Document”<br />
outlined the plan for the<br />
implementation of the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s bold new<br />
mission and reflected the<br />
discussions, meetings, goals<br />
and dreams of every segment<br />
of the <strong>University</strong><br />
community.<br />
Candy, who has taught at<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> for the past 30<br />
years, also considers being<br />
part of the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
transformation that occurred<br />
A bronze sculpture titled “The Dance” was<br />
installed on campus between the Library Clock<br />
in the mid-1980s as one of<br />
Tower and the Student Union Building.<br />
her most memorable experiences<br />
at <strong>Truman</strong>. Having<br />
one of her husband’s sculptures placed on campus marks yet<br />
another memorable occasion.<br />
In addition to being an artist, Larry is a two-time Olympic<br />
medalist with the distinction of being the only American to<br />
win a medal in long-distance racewalking. Larry has always<br />
been fascinated with both ballet and modern dance, and in the<br />
mid-1960s, he took up modern dance and racewalking to stay<br />
in shape. While racewalking became his primary focus, he<br />
discovered that dance was a great way for him to cross train.<br />
When he enrolled in college at the age of 28, he was training<br />
to make his second Olympic team. It was then that he met<br />
Candy, and the two danced together in a touring dance group<br />
for the college.<br />
“Candy’s career at <strong>Truman</strong> and my daughter’s graduation<br />
from <strong>Truman</strong> both make the placement of ‘The Dance’ very<br />
special. I hope that it contributes to the <strong>University</strong>’s liberal arts<br />
mission and gives all members of the <strong>Truman</strong> community a<br />
chance to experience art on a daily basis,” said Larry. “It was<br />
the strength of this connection that persuaded us to donate<br />
this sculpture with Margarita Heisserer.”<br />
The sculpture was installed on campus on Aug. 13, 2010,<br />
and an unveiling ceremony took place on Sept. 17, 2010, in<br />
conjunction with the Presidential Installation of Troy D. Paino.<br />
Candy Young, Margarita Heisserer, Larry Young and Sydney Young (’10)<br />
at the dedication of “The Dance” sculpture.<br />
Cape Air Offers Flights To and From Kirksville<br />
Cape Air, Kirksville’s newest airline, offers three daily flights between Kirksville Regional Airport and Lambert-St. Louis International<br />
Airport. Reservations may be made by visiting the Cape Air City Ticket Office at 102 E. Washington in downtown Kirksville or by<br />
calling 1-866-Cape-Air (1-866-227-3247). Visit the Cape Air website at www.capeair.com.<br />
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Orchestra + Classic Rock Band<br />
Many young people today know the classic rock<br />
group Kansas from the popular Guitar Hero<br />
and Rock Band hit, “Carry On My Wayward<br />
Son.” Far from their living-room televisions, 85 students<br />
of the <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Orchestra joined the band<br />
to bring this and many other songs to life in front of a<br />
crowd of 2,500.<br />
Kansas joined with presenting sponsor D’Addario &<br />
Company, Inc., the world’s largest musical products<br />
accessory manufacturer, to embark on the 2010 Collegiate<br />
Symphony Tour. The objective of the tour was to raise<br />
funds for university music programs.<br />
“Receiving the support of D’Addario seemed like such<br />
a natural tie-in,” Kansas drummer Phil Ehart said. “Most<br />
of us in the band use their gear, and I know you’ll find<br />
their products on college campuses across the country.”<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> was one of six institutions to take the stage<br />
with Kansas in this unique opportunity. As a result of<br />
participating in the tour, the <strong>Truman</strong> Music Department<br />
will receive $2,000 in scholarships and $3,000 in<br />
equipment compliments of the D’Addario Foundation, as<br />
well as a percentage of merchandise sales from the night of<br />
the performance.<br />
The concert took place Oct. 9, 2010, at the St. Charles<br />
Family Arena in St. Charles, Mo., and featured a full set<br />
of songs. During the show, Avery Bright, a graduate<br />
student in music, had the unique opportunity to perform<br />
one-on-one with Kansas violinist David Ragsdale.<br />
Jay Bulen, chair of the <strong>Truman</strong> Music Department, feels<br />
his students benefitted from the concert in many ways,<br />
most notably the learning experience of playing in front of<br />
a large crowd with such a high caliber of talent. “Our<br />
students got to play for Larry Baird, who did the arrangements<br />
for Kansas when they played with the London<br />
Symphony,” Bulen said. “He’s the best in the industry.”<br />
Bulen also hopes the <strong>University</strong>’s new contacts with<br />
D’Addario will provide students with internship opportunities<br />
in the music industry.<br />
For many of the Orchestra’s 85 members, the event<br />
provided an opportunity to play in front of family and<br />
friends. Five members are natives of St. Charles itself, with<br />
another 27 from St. Louis County and even more from<br />
the nearby area.<br />
Members of <strong>Truman</strong>’s St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter<br />
provided a meal for students at the Little Hills Restaurant<br />
in St. Charles between rehearsals.<br />
The Family Arena was the final venue for the<br />
Orchestra’s three-day recruiting tour, which included stops<br />
at Quincy Senior High School, Ladue Horton Watkins<br />
High School and Fort Zumwalt East High School.<br />
Fish Tales<br />
Seniors Spencer Clark<br />
and Mike McCarthy<br />
took second place at<br />
the National Guard FLW<br />
College Fishing Central<br />
Regional Championship,<br />
Nov. 4-6, 2010, on Lake<br />
Monroe in Bloomington,<br />
Ind. Their three-day total of<br />
11 bass, weighing 23 pounds Spencer Clark and Mike McCarthy<br />
14 ounces, took home a<br />
prize of $25,000. Half of the winnings will be donated to <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> to be used at its discretion, while the other half will go<br />
directly to <strong>Truman</strong>’s fishing club.<br />
This ranking also qualified Clark and McCarthy for the national<br />
tournament to be hosted by Murray <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> on Kentucky Lake,<br />
April 7-9, 2011. At nationals, the fishermen will have the opportunity to<br />
win $50,000 for the <strong>University</strong> and $50,000 for their club.<br />
National Guard FLW College Fishing is a nationwide competitive<br />
bass-fishing program open to all full-time students at four-year<br />
colleges and universities. It consists of 20 qualifying events, five<br />
regional championships and the national championship. The college<br />
tournament is hosted by FLW Outdoors, named after Ranger Boats<br />
founder Forrest L. Wood. Each team represented in the televised<br />
regional championship had team shirts and boats provided by Ranger.<br />
From the Convention Floor<br />
Front row, L-R: Sharon Roettger Duggan-<br />
Jinga (’90), Doug Erwin (’91, ’92), Carol<br />
Grindle Swinderman MacArthur (’92),<br />
Katie Rucinski (’00), Abigayle Richardson.<br />
Back row, L-R: Jennifer Forrest-James<br />
(’93), Michael Hachmeister (’92), Justin<br />
Seiwell (’08), Cara Hurst (’07)<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> students, faculty<br />
and alumni were wellrepresented<br />
at the Speech<br />
and Theatre Association of<br />
Missouri Convention at the Lake<br />
of the Ozarks on Sept. 25, 2010.<br />
Barry Poyner, professor of<br />
communication, and Abigayle<br />
Richardson, a <strong>Truman</strong> student,<br />
presented the research paper,<br />
“Preparing Students for<br />
Academic Audiences,” and<br />
Richardson was awarded a<br />
scholarship from the association<br />
for her desire to teach communication<br />
on the secondary level. <strong>Truman</strong> alumna Katie Rucinski (’00)<br />
helped lead a session “Fuel Up for Fall—Speech/Debate.”<br />
In addition, a number of alumni made presentations at the awards<br />
banquet including Doug Erwin (’91, ’92), Jennifer Forrest-James (’93)<br />
and Michael Hachmeister (’92), who serves on the Speech and<br />
Theatre Association of Missouri Board of Governors. Forrest-James<br />
and Hachmeister presented an award to their administrators from<br />
Parkway South in St. Louis, who have been supportive of the arts.<br />
“It was gratifying to see several former students taking active roles<br />
at the convention,” said Poyner.<br />
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<strong>Truman</strong> Recognized for<br />
Fulbright Winners<br />
For 2010-2011, <strong>Truman</strong> was acknowledged by The Chronicle of<br />
Higher Education as a top producer of U.S. Fulbright students.<br />
The <strong>University</strong> ranked second nationally among master’s institutions,<br />
with a total of four Fulbright students. <strong>Truman</strong> tied with six other<br />
institutions across the United <strong>State</strong>s and finished one behind the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Portland, which featured five Fulbright students. Of<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>’s 11 Fulbright applicants, six were offered the award; however,<br />
two recipients ultimately declined. The Fulbright Program is the U.S.<br />
government’s flagship international educational exchange program.<br />
Chemistry Program Among Top<br />
Producers of ACS-Certified Graduates<br />
The <strong>Truman</strong> Chemistry program tied for 20th place nationally for<br />
the amount of American Chemical Society (ACS)-certified degrees<br />
awarded in the 2008-2009 time frame. <strong>Truman</strong>’s total of 32<br />
certified degrees exceeds all but one of the Ivy League schools as well as a<br />
number of highly regarded liberal arts schools. <strong>Truman</strong>’s program alone<br />
awarded approximately the same number of accredited degrees awarded by<br />
the entire rest of the MIAA conference (33) and just two less than the<br />
combined total (34) of all four <strong>University</strong> of Missouri campuses.<br />
Accountancy Students<br />
Rank Ninth Nationally<br />
According to the most recent reports released by<br />
the National Association of <strong>State</strong> Boards of<br />
Accountancy, <strong>Truman</strong>’s master of accountancy<br />
students ranked ninth in the nation for the percentage<br />
of students passing all four parts of the May 2009<br />
Certified Public Accountant exam on the first attempt.<br />
This achievement puts <strong>Truman</strong> students in the<br />
company of those from Wake Forest <strong>University</strong>, the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Michigan and Notre Dame <strong>University</strong>.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> also surpassed Loyola <strong>University</strong> of Chicago,<br />
Marquette <strong>University</strong> and Texas A&M <strong>University</strong>.<br />
For the past five out of seven years, <strong>Truman</strong><br />
students have ranked in the top 10 in the nation.<br />
Seventy-one percent of the <strong>Truman</strong> students passed all<br />
four parts on the first attempt, compared to the<br />
national average of eight percent.<br />
Delta Sigma Pi Named Most<br />
Outstanding Chapter in the Nation<br />
This past October, the <strong>Truman</strong> chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, a professional<br />
fraternity for men and women pursuing careers in business,<br />
was selected as the Most Outstanding Chapter in the nation. The<br />
award is given to the chapter that best exemplifies the purpose of Delta<br />
Sigma Pi, and chapters are evaluated on professional activity, community<br />
service, fundraising, academics and other criteria. The Iota Nu Chapter<br />
of Delta Sigma Pi has claimed the National Most Outstanding Chapter<br />
Award nine times, which is more than any other chapter.<br />
Boost in Student Enrollment<br />
With a total enrollment of 6,035 students for the 2010-2011<br />
academic year, <strong>Truman</strong> currently enjoys the highest enrollment<br />
it has seen in five years. Final enrollment figures indicate the<br />
number of first-time freshmen increased by more than five percent, and<br />
the number of full-time students is up by more than three percent.<br />
“To increase every aspect of our enrollment speaks volumes about the<br />
quality and affordability of a <strong>Truman</strong> education,” said <strong>University</strong> President<br />
Troy D. Paino. “Students and their parents are paying closer attention to<br />
every detail of their college decision, and <strong>Truman</strong> has such a great<br />
academic reputation and relatively low cost that it cannot be overlooked.”<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> students come from 35 states and 43 countries. More than 75<br />
percent are Missouri residents, with students from Illinois, Iowa and<br />
Kansas comprising the largest number of out-of-state students.<br />
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During the summer after my junior year of high school, a<br />
program called Students and Teachers as Research Scientists<br />
(STARS) set me up in the laboratory of researcher Sam Wang<br />
at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. As I headed off<br />
to college last fall, I kept in touch with everyone at the<br />
Danforth Center and applied for the Undergraduate Research<br />
Internship Program.<br />
Home from winter break, I dropped off my completed<br />
application at Danforth, chatting with an alumna from both<br />
my high school, Cor Jesu Academy, and <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>. Later that winter, she sent me an e-mail explaining<br />
that a manager at Monsanto Company was seeking an intern<br />
who showed previous commitment to plant science. She<br />
promptly forwarded my application, and I received the<br />
acceptance call while on the Catholic Newman Center Spring<br />
Break Service Trip. The manager explained that since<br />
Danforth had recommended me, my application rose to the<br />
top of his pile.<br />
At Monsanto, I joined the Corn Yield Nitrogen Team based at<br />
the Chesterfield Village Campus. Researchers on this team focus<br />
on the development of genetically engineered corn. Basically,<br />
genetic engineering involves taking a copy of a gene from one<br />
organism and placing it in the genome of a different species.<br />
Through these techniques, researchers on my team aim to<br />
enhance nitrogen-use efficiency of corn, so farmers can apply less<br />
nitrogen to their crops and still maintain a high yield. Applying<br />
less nitrogen to crops is such a crucial step to decrease the 13<br />
million tons of nitrogen currently being consumed in the U.S.<br />
each year, according to the Monsanto Facts Database.<br />
Additionally, nitrous oxide emissions contribute to global climate<br />
IF YOU HAVE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES<br />
you would like to offer to <strong>Truman</strong> students, please contact<br />
the <strong>University</strong> Career Center, careers@truman.edu,<br />
(660) 785-4353, http://career.truman.edu.<br />
Bridget Waller shown at the 240-acre Monsanto Biotechnology<br />
Research Farm in Jerseyville, Ill., where she snipped leaf samples<br />
from corn stalks; the samples were frozen in liquid nitrogen to<br />
preserve them for analysis.<br />
change. I kept<br />
these goals in<br />
mind as I conducted benchwork<br />
research ranging from molecular biology to<br />
biochemistry.<br />
Outside of the laboratory, I received a fellowship to attend<br />
the 12th World Conference of the International Association for<br />
Plant Biotechnology (IAPB) held in conjunction with the 2010<br />
Society of In-Vitro Biology (SIVB) at the America’s Center in<br />
downtown Saint Louis, Mo.<br />
During lunches and poster sessions, I interacted with leading<br />
scientists, inquiring about their cutting-edge biomedical and<br />
plant science research and about their lives in Egypt, France,<br />
China, Germany and Uganda.<br />
Not only did the internship provide a unique opportunity to<br />
explore biotechnology research in an industry setting, but I also<br />
had the chance to understand the corporate culture of<br />
Monsanto’s agricultural business. Lively intern orientation<br />
presentations touched on everything from diversity in the<br />
workplace to public affairs. And the culmination of the<br />
internship included a strategic priorities speech by CEO Hugh<br />
Grant and an afternoon of intern PowerPoint presentations.<br />
I was so blessed to have a <strong>Truman</strong> alumna guide my<br />
application in the right direction and wish the same for other<br />
students.<br />
Just think if all alumni who are reading this article joined the<br />
<strong>University</strong> Career Center’s BulldogNet mentor program and<br />
listed their company’s available internship and co-op positions<br />
for undergraduate students.<br />
And what if alumni encouraged their companies to consider<br />
all students for internship opportunities, not simply juniors and<br />
seniors? Many underclassmen make up for the lack of<br />
experience with curiosity and a determination to succeed.<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> involvement with the <strong>Truman</strong> Career Center,<br />
coupled with this change in mindset, could rush in a new wave<br />
of undergraduate summer internships.<br />
Take a chance on <strong>Truman</strong> interns. I bet they’ll deliver.<br />
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Patricia S. Burton, professor of philosophy,<br />
has been a member of the <strong>Truman</strong> faculty<br />
since 1987. She received a bachelor of<br />
arts in mathematics and a master of arts<br />
in philosophy from the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Georgia, and she earned her doctor of<br />
philosophy from the <strong>University</strong> of Texas<br />
at Austin.<br />
I love learning. I learn best in conversation with others who<br />
think differently than I do. Even when teaching courses that I<br />
have taught for decades, there is always a new way of<br />
presenting the material, a new way of questioning the primary<br />
texts and new ways of relating the philosophical concerns to<br />
my students’ lives. This keeps me thinking about philosophy<br />
in fresh ways.<br />
Patricia Burton carries<br />
the <strong>University</strong> Mace at<br />
official events such as<br />
commencement.<br />
I teach philosophy and classical ballet. I teach formal logic as<br />
a four skills foreign language class with a lot of reflection on<br />
human communication and models of learning thrown in. I<br />
love teaching the history of philosophy courses because it<br />
allows me to re-think perennial questions with contemporary<br />
insights. It also gives me a chance to re-read primary<br />
sources. I like letting students read whole works so that they<br />
can see how a philosophical literary work can teach when<br />
seen in its entirety. The return to Classical Ballet in 2005<br />
began as a way to think through the theology of the<br />
Christian mystery of the Incarnation and has been a truly<br />
rewarding route to walk the talk of balanced embodiment.<br />
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First of all, I teach students. I am never just passing<br />
along facts, interpretations or methodologies. I want to<br />
find a way for individuals to make the material their<br />
own through our interactions. I teach subjects I truly<br />
love to people I sincerely care about in a way that I hope<br />
can improve their lives. People might think I teach “dry”<br />
subjects. But what can be more exciting than talking<br />
about truth, justice and beauty while looking at concrete<br />
examples in our own world of experience?<br />
I need to break this into two sections.<br />
(1) First there are the moments of pure joy. The day I<br />
defended my dissertation was one of those. It was just<br />
FUN! I really enjoyed my research, I truly respected my<br />
committee members and I was delighted to be back in<br />
Austin to talk about where my research was leading me<br />
beyond the dissertation into new areas. It was also<br />
wonderful getting to say thank you to my mentors for<br />
all they taught me about teaching.<br />
Another period of pure joy was the series of events<br />
connected with May graduation in 2010. We were<br />
getting so much good news about Andrew McCall’s<br />
plans for Oxford, all of our Fulbright scholars’ details for<br />
their overseas adventures and good news about other<br />
fellowships and grad/law school acceptances. Add to that<br />
all of the festivities for the Honors Scholar Medalists,<br />
the Academic Award Ceremony and Commencement<br />
itself, and my face was sore for a week just from so<br />
much smiling. Commencement was especially fun<br />
because so many friends of the <strong>University</strong> were helping<br />
us celebrate. The time spent with Darrell Krueger,<br />
Charles McClain and Troy Paino that week filled me<br />
with enough optimism that I won’t need a refresher for<br />
at least five years.<br />
(2) Each teaching or advising award has been<br />
monumental. They are always tied in my mind to student<br />
achievements. I still remember all of the members of the<br />
Ancient Philosophy class who were there the day<br />
President Magruder walked into Kirk Building 304 to<br />
give the first Walker and Doris Allen Award. I think of<br />
Mark Hadley, Kay Anderson and Jenn Janesko when I<br />
think of the William O’Donnell Lee Advising Award.<br />
They graduated long ago, but they helped me not only be<br />
a good advisor, they helped me so much back when I was<br />
the director of the General Honors Program, I now know<br />
how to help other faculty members better. I doubt I<br />
would have been considered for the ODK Faculty Hall of<br />
Fame or the Board of Governors’ Resolution of<br />
Commendation if it weren’t for the success of Andrew<br />
McCall, Sydney Young, Grant Berry and Cody Sumter. I<br />
am not saying I had anything important to do with these<br />
wonderful students’ successes; I am merely pointing out<br />
what I said before: I teach individual students, and they<br />
push me to keep learning.<br />
I started college at 16 as a theatre major and graduated<br />
in under three years with a degree in mathematics.<br />
Because of spending my teen years in college and grad<br />
school, I never became interested in driving and so have<br />
never had a driver’s license.<br />
I really don’t try to separate work from recreation<br />
anymore. I love every aspect of my job and even my<br />
leisure activities seem to feed into trying to teach better<br />
and think more carefully about philosophy. My idea of a<br />
self-indulgent Saturday morning is getting out the works<br />
we are reading in class in their original languages,<br />
grabbing some lexicons, a cat and a bunch of pillows<br />
and doing careful word study tied to the influences on<br />
the authors we are reading. Since my husband also<br />
teaches philosophy, even talking about sports can lead to<br />
a discussion of human excellence like you might find in<br />
a work by Plato. I am doing less non-<strong>Truman</strong> related<br />
activities in recent years because of health issues, but in<br />
the past I was a lot more visible in the community.<br />
Kirksville is a close-knit community and so it offers so<br />
many opportunities to walk the talk of <strong>Truman</strong>’s liberal<br />
arts values. I have enjoyed volunteering in the local<br />
schools, singing in my church’s choir, hanging out in the<br />
public library, running in local distance races and<br />
encouraging all sorts of dancers.<br />
Read charitably, act deliberately and love wisely. v<br />
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President Troy Paino and <strong>Alumni</strong> of the Year<br />
Sharron (Bailey) Quisenberry (’66) and Larry Quisenberry (’66, ’75)<br />
Distinguished Service<br />
Award recipient<br />
Jeannette (Toth) Harris<br />
(’71, ’78)<br />
Distinguished Service Award<br />
recipients Debra (Fortenberry)<br />
Nichols (’80, ’01) and<br />
David C. Nichols<br />
Young <strong>Alumni</strong> of the Year Rudy Arredondo (’02) and<br />
Alice (Moore) Arredondo (’02) and their daughter, Avery<br />
Parade Grand Marshal Marietta (Jonas) Jayne (’41)<br />
Jerry Wollmering (left), director of athletics, presented Roger Johnson (right)<br />
with a plaque in recognition of Johnson’s support and active involvement<br />
in the <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Athletics Hall of Fame.<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong>, families and friends packed<br />
the Georgian Room in the Student Union Building<br />
for the <strong>Alumni</strong> and Friends Celebration/Hall of Fame Banquet.<br />
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Golden <strong>Alumni</strong> Reunion Diana (Le Fevre) Vittetoe (’59, ’80), Ruth (Milhoan) Deskin (’49), Jack Bowen (’58,’61), Nelda (Rudy)<br />
Billups (’60, ’63), D. Ruth Speck (’60, ’63), Kriss Philips (’60), Doris Nelson (’60), Francis “Bucky” Walter (’48, ’51), Linda (Funk)<br />
Hudnall (’60), Jolene (Underhill) Pink (’47), Carolyn Mulford (’60), Bob Morrow (’60), Patricia (Roberts) Hunt (’59), Carolyn (Bowles)<br />
Frick (’60, ’75), Carol (Fox) Hays (’59), Arleta (Boone) White (’60), Doris (Pickens) Bohon (’43). Middle row, L-R: Barbara (Kerls) Maddex<br />
(’58, ’75), Bill Deskin (’48), Gina Carter (’82), Melba (Cokerham) Bowen (’61), Patsy (Short) Harrington (’63), Patricia (Flinchpaugh)<br />
Spicer (’59), Judy (Paradise) Nelson (’59), Virginia (Keethler) McNabb (’57, ’64), Georgia (Warner) Walter (’48), Edie (Ford) Erzen (’49),<br />
Martha (Reinhard) Frazier (’56), Victor Childers (’55), Sue (Brimer) Magruder (’55, ’77), Bev (Hull) Gallatin (’49), Octa (Ayers) Phillips<br />
(’55, ’65), Evelyn “Myrle” (Bastian) Borgers (’59), Margaret (Prince) Chott (’63), Elizabeth (Hildmann) Rash (’83), Janys (Murphy)<br />
Zimmerman (’55, ’58), Bill Minor (’42). Back row, L-R: Stan Frazier (’56), Stan Kerr (’49, ’51), Virgil Egli (’60), Larry Harrington (’60),<br />
Dean Rosebery (’41), Ken Curtis (’51), Morris McNabb (’57, ’68), Dick Erzen (’49), Norm Frazier (’56), Jack Magruder (’57), Ellen<br />
Murphy (’62, ’65), Harry Gallatin (’49), Joe Hasenstab (’60), Larry Magee (’60), Virgil Chott (’60, ’65), Jim Rash (’57, ’64), Bill Carter<br />
(’55, ’60).<br />
Reunion for the Classes of 1969, 1970 & 1971Seated,<br />
L-R: Geraldine (Toth) Ready (’70), Cindy (James) Schoenauer (’71),<br />
Jeannette (Toth) Harris (’71, ’78), Ron Hopphan (’70), Jane Watkins<br />
(’70, ’75), Cindy (Searce) Stephens (’70), Karna (Kruckenberg)<br />
Schofer (’70). Middle row, L-R: Sharlene Taylor (’70), Cindy (Walter)<br />
Willcox (’70), Naomi Spinelli (’70), Pat (Holm) Burch (’70), Joneane<br />
(Smith) Parker (’70), Roberta (Shreffler) Still (’70), Carolene<br />
Robinson (’70), Alice McEwen (’70). Back row, L-R: Mary Beth<br />
(Justice) Overton (’71), Lee Moody (’70), Jean (Johns) Sidwell (’71),<br />
Steve Justice (’70, ’81), Cheryl (Skow) Smith (’70), Jim Robinson<br />
(’70), Nancy (Tague) Platz (’70).<br />
Reunion for the Classes of 1979, 1980 & 1981Seated,<br />
L-R: Mirella (Doctorian) Jones (’80), Jeanne (Krautmann) Frailey<br />
(’81), Brenda Wisdom (’80), Julie (Magruder) Lochbaum (’80),<br />
Debra (Allen) Hotujac (’80, ’81). Middle row, L-R: Mary Fine (’80,<br />
’87), Jackie Schroder-Jens (’80), Janelle (Potts) Ewigman (’81), Trudy<br />
(Drummond) Hedgpath (’80), Debbie (Fortenberry) Nichols (’80,<br />
’01), Cindy (Gerdes) Mallonee (’79), Rochielle (Goulette) Lawson<br />
(’79). Back row, L-R: Joyce (Held) Manley (’79), David Ewigman<br />
(’81, ’84), A. David Peppard (’80), Patrick Dolan (’79), Greg<br />
Rieman (’79, ’80), Dan Slattery (’81), Deb (McIntosh) Slattery (’80).<br />
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Reunion for the Classes of 1984, 1985 & 1986Seated,<br />
L-R: Chris (Hare) Barnes (’86), John Goodwin (’85), Janet (Yearns)<br />
McClaskey (’84), Melody (Mann) Chambers (’85). Standing, L-R:<br />
Keith Barnes (’85, ’05), Jim Cherrington (’85), Mike McClaskey<br />
(’85), Tania (Hart) Cook (’85), Brad Chambers (’86).<br />
Reunion for the Classes of 1989, 1990 & 1991Seated,<br />
L-R: Sandy (Burnau) Roll (’90), Janeen (Bienlien) Wakeland (’90),<br />
Laura (Byrne) Cibulka (’89), Chris Kapeller (’90), Sallie (Schiel)<br />
Vanderhoof (’90), Jill (Winner) Salmon (’89), Torie Linn (’89). Middle<br />
row, L-R: Tracy (Burckhardt) Meiners (’90), Shonda (Miller) Cook<br />
(’90), Debbie (Wolfmeyer) Henderson (’90), Chris Lepski (’89), Susi<br />
Buckman (’90), Mary (Grimm) Berger (’90), Angie (Hamm) Kellogg<br />
(’90). Back row, L-R: Chris Cordes (’89), Brian Beauchamp (’89),<br />
Kent Donaldson (’90), Mike Persell (’89), Shane Salmon (’90), Scott<br />
Evanoski (’89, ’97), Andrew Long (’90), Tim Barcus (’90).<br />
The winning team at the 23rd Annual Bulldog Classic Golf<br />
Tournament: Chad Lane (’95), Duane Heller (’87), Todd May<br />
and Chris Schulze (’95).<br />
President Troy Paino demonstrated his school spirit<br />
by allowing his hair to be colored purple during the<br />
half-time show at the football game.<br />
Spike helped the cheerleaders get the crowd pumped up<br />
at Stokes Stadium.<br />
SEE MORE PHOTOS from Homecoming 2010 online at<br />
http://alumni.truman.edu/Homecoming2010/Photos.asp<br />
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NOT LONG AFTER THE FALL 2010 SEMESTER BEGAN, <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> celebrated the installation of Troy D. Paino as the <strong>University</strong>’s 16th<br />
president. In keeping with the theme of “Celebrating Community” selected<br />
for the historic event, the official ceremony was held in Baldwin Auditorium<br />
on Sept. 17, 2010, before an assembly of students, faculty, staff, former<br />
presidents, current and past members of <strong>Truman</strong>’s governing bodies,<br />
members of the local community, and delegates from higher education<br />
institutions, as well as President Paino’s family and friends.<br />
Isaac Robinson III, president of Student<br />
Government, welcomed guests and praised the<br />
Board of Governors for choosing President Paino<br />
to lead the <strong>University</strong>. “When you ask what they<br />
[students] think of the decision to hire him as our<br />
university’s 16th president, the answer is always<br />
short, simple, to the point and always consistent<br />
and that answer is ‘the best–the best person<br />
suited to do this job at this pivotal time in<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>’s history; the best person to listen to and<br />
act on the concerns of students; the best person<br />
the Board of Governors could have hired at this<br />
time,’” said Robinson, “and I couldn’t agree with<br />
them more.”<br />
James Guffey, president of the Faculty Senate and<br />
professor of mathematics, served as emcee and<br />
acknowledged distinguished guests, and another<br />
member of the faculty, James D’Agostino, assistant<br />
professor of English, took to the podium to<br />
present In Command of Irregulars, a poem he had<br />
written in honor of the occasion.<br />
Among the guest speakers was Tracy R. Paino,<br />
brother of President Paino, who serves as executive<br />
chair of the Departments of Church Leadership,<br />
chair of the Student Ministries Department, codirector<br />
of the Center for Youth and Leadership<br />
and Professor of Youth Studies at North Central<br />
<strong>University</strong> in Minneapolis, Minn. Tracy Paino offered<br />
a humorous glimpse into the personal life of<br />
President Paino, and then on a more serious note,<br />
spoke about the importance of following a sense of<br />
call i n one’s life. “My brother–little brother Troy–not<br />
only are we proud of him, not only is he in a place<br />
where he is fulfilling the call that he has in his life<br />
that I think will benefit this institution, but he’s also<br />
a man of integrity, he’s a man of character, he’s a<br />
man of passion and vision, and we are proud to<br />
introduce him as a family to you,” said Tracy Paino.<br />
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Isaac Robinson<br />
Dominic Armstrong<br />
James Guffey<br />
James D’Agostino<br />
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Tracy Paino<br />
True Men<br />
Joe Gow<br />
Another guest speaker was Joe Gow, chancellor of the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Wisconsin-LaCrosse, who applauded <strong>Truman</strong>’s choice of his friend and<br />
colleague as president. Gow told about how he became acquainted with Troy<br />
Paino while serving as a dean at Winona <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in Minnesota, the<br />
institution where President Paino began his academic career. “You learn a lot<br />
when you’re a dean,” said Gow. “The people who lead the programs and<br />
departments … you better have people you can trust because they know a lot<br />
more about how it works than you do … and Troy was certainly someone that<br />
I could not only trust but could confide in, and I found that he was always<br />
dedicated to what is best for students and the classroom experience,” said<br />
Gow. “And I think we are both very proud that we served at a time when<br />
money was pretty tight, and we managed to protect the classroom experience<br />
… you have the right person for the challenging times that we’re in because he<br />
certainly knows what matters at a university.”<br />
The presentation of the Presidential Medallion by then-vice chair of <strong>Truman</strong>’s<br />
Board of Governors, John W. Siscel, III, was followed by President Paino’ s<br />
installation speech. During his remarks, President Paino reflected on the<br />
values he has devoted his life to that are also represented by <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>–the value of an education rooted in community, the value of the<br />
liberal arts and sciences in the life of our democracy and the twin values of<br />
opportunity and excellence.<br />
“I stand here before you to celebrate <strong>Truman</strong> as a place that offers our<br />
students, faculty and staff a community that together is able to face a challenge,<br />
pursue truth, solve problems, make mistakes, extend grace, offer support and<br />
provide service to others in our earnest attempt to live meaningful, purposeful<br />
lives,” said President Paino. “At <strong>Truman</strong>, one finds a place where a state of<br />
independence is achieved by broadening our intellectual, spiritual and human<br />
connections, by understanding our interdependence.”<br />
Quoting A. Bartlett Giamatti, former president of Yale and commissioner of<br />
Major League Baseball, President Paino described a liberal arts and sciences<br />
education as teaching “the interplay of freedom and order that shapes an<br />
individual and a society.” More to the point, Paino said a liberal arts and<br />
sciences education strives to order the mind so as to set it free. “It is<br />
through this liberation of the mind that we make medical and scientific<br />
breakthroughs, unleash entrepreneurial impulses, protect the environment,<br />
ameliorate poverty’s effect, test the limits of human potential, find the<br />
capacity to forgive, create and appreciate beauty amid the cruelty and<br />
brutality of this world, and better understand the depths and variety of<br />
human experience.”<br />
In his speech, Paino also provided some inspiring words for how he plans to<br />
lead the <strong>University</strong>. “Every day we must get up and reflect upon our mission<br />
and values and ask the questions: Are we doing our job? Are we living up to<br />
the high standards we have set? Are we living up to the twin pillars of access<br />
and excellence in everything we do? Do we offer opportunities for all<br />
deserving students, regardless of race, class, religion or place of origin?”<br />
said Paino. “At <strong>Truman</strong> it is deeply embedded in our culture to not rest on<br />
our laurels, to ask those challenging questions, to continuously assess our<br />
institutional behaviors, not to feel self-satisfied and prideful, but to stand<br />
as a testament to our commitment to access and excellence.”
A CARBON-NEUTRAL EVENT<br />
The Presidential Installation for Troy D. Paino was a carbon-neutral<br />
event, underscoring <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s commitment to<br />
environmental sustainability. The President’s Sustainability Action<br />
Committee (PSAC) at <strong>Truman</strong> was formed by President Paino in<br />
September 2010 in response to the Sustainability Initiative developed<br />
by the campus community and signed by then President Darrell W.<br />
Krueger on April 23, 2009. “The ultimate goal of the committee is<br />
to help <strong>Truman</strong> endure and be a more sustainable place in the future<br />
than it is today,” said Jon Gering, PSAC chair and dean of the school<br />
of science and mathematics.<br />
John W. Siscel, III<br />
The Presidential Installation and its associated travel, lodging, building<br />
use and activities produced 23,744 pounds of carbon dioxide, an<br />
amount equivalent to the carbon dioxide produced through the<br />
combustion of 1,211 gallons of gasoline. The carbon dioxide outputs<br />
for the event were offset by the purchase of 18 megawatts of<br />
Renewable Energy Certificates by Judi Schweitzer (’89), a <strong>Truman</strong><br />
alumna and member of the committee. The revenue from the<br />
purchase of the certificates helps fund the expansion of clean energy<br />
facilities, as well as the advanced technological research and<br />
development of alternative sustainable power sources.<br />
“...a liberal arts and sciences<br />
education strives to order the<br />
mind so as to set it free.”<br />
Presentation of the Presidential Medallion<br />
—PRESIDENT TROY D. PAINO<br />
Musical accompaniment for the installation ceremony was provided<br />
by the <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Wind Symphony One conducted by<br />
Dan Peterson. The event also showcased the talents of Dominic<br />
Armstrong, a 2002 <strong>Truman</strong> alumnus who led in the singing of the<br />
“Star-Spangled Banner,” and a musical interlude was performed by<br />
the True Men a capella group.<br />
In addition to the installation ceremony and reception, a series of<br />
campus and community events were held to celebrate the special<br />
occasion including a Gala President’s Concert; a <strong>University</strong> and<br />
Community Band Fest; dedication of “The Dance” outdoor<br />
sculpture; a 5K Run/1 Mile Walk with President Paino and his wife,<br />
Kelly; a Presidential Tree Planting Ceremony and a Community<br />
Service Event. v<br />
See video, transcript of President Paino’s speech and<br />
more at http://president.truman.edu/Celebrating_Community.asp.<br />
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Lifelong learners of all ages traveled to campus last summer for<br />
the <strong>University</strong>’s inaugural “Taste of <strong>Truman</strong>,” a three-day-long<br />
educational experience open to the general public that features<br />
unique lectures by top professors as well as exclusive activities.<br />
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They came from as far away as Virginia and from as close as Kirksville. For some, it<br />
had been decades since they set foot in a classroom. For others, the classroom<br />
experience only ended a few years ago. For everyone, the inaugural “Taste of<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>,” on June 11-13, 2010, was a weekend to remember.<br />
Launched by the <strong>Truman</strong> Institute, <strong>Truman</strong>’s new incubator for innovative and entrepreneurial<br />
educational opportunities, and developed in cooperation with the Office of<br />
Advancement, “A Taste of <strong>Truman</strong>” offered participants a choice of five great classes from<br />
a list of 10 prepared by some of <strong>Truman</strong>’s most honored professors. Sessions were<br />
punctuated by great meals, planned activities and a reception sponsored by the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter.<br />
Some participants went for the full college experience, electing to stay in <strong>Truman</strong>’s newlyconstructed<br />
West Campus Suites residence hall. “Fortunately, the partying was kept to a<br />
minimum, and no student advisors were called to remind them of the rules,” said Kevin<br />
Minch, director of the <strong>Truman</strong> Institute.<br />
Faculty were encouraged to present the great lectures they had always wanted to give–and<br />
they all delivered. Some classes revived popular <strong>Truman</strong> courses, such as “Film, Form, and<br />
Sense,” taught by Cole Woodcox, professor of English and chair of the English & Linguistics<br />
Department. Other course offerings focused on unique areas of faculty expertise and<br />
emerging research, such as “Becoming Osiris: Preparing the Egyptian Dead for<br />
Eternity,” presented by Sara Orel, professor of art history, and “Amazing<br />
Maize: Computer Science on a Corn Cob,” taught by Jon Beck,<br />
professor of computer science. Other topics included the<br />
Korean War, environmental sustainability, the art of<br />
Venice and the history of the Christmas holiday.<br />
Each presenter was a former recipient or nominee<br />
for one of <strong>Truman</strong>’s major teaching, advising or<br />
faculty excellence awards.<br />
Participants<br />
visited Pickler<br />
Memorial Library’s<br />
Special Collections,<br />
where they worked<br />
with centuries-old<br />
historical artifacts<br />
and learned how to<br />
use the archives for<br />
family and<br />
historical research.<br />
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“In many respects, this first group of<br />
faculty presenters was a ‘dream team’ of<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> professors,” noted Minch. “A<br />
number of participants commented on<br />
the important role individual faculty in the<br />
program played in their learning<br />
experience while at <strong>Truman</strong>, while others<br />
recalled how similar these faculty were to<br />
great professors they experienced in the<br />
past.” One participant commented, “I had<br />
high expectations when I signed up, this<br />
far exceeded those expectations.”<br />
Outside of class, participants were treated<br />
to organized activities throughout the<br />
weekend, including a tour of the new Ruth<br />
Warner Towne Museum and Visitor’s<br />
Center and a visit to Pickler Memorial<br />
Library’s Special Collections, where they<br />
worked with centuries-old historical<br />
artifacts and learned how to use the<br />
archives for family and historical research.<br />
“Stars and S’mores,” a stargazing and<br />
bonfire event had to be cancelled due to<br />
unpredictable weather conditions but is<br />
back on the schedule for 2011.<br />
Jackie Paulson (’03, ’05), a <strong>Truman</strong><br />
alumna who teaches in Boonville, Mo.,<br />
said she took away a renewed sense for<br />
furthering her educational experiences. “It<br />
was refreshing and nostalgic to be back in<br />
the classroom again and made me yearn<br />
to finish out that course, without the<br />
assignments, of course,” said Paulson.<br />
“There’s a certain level of academic<br />
discussion and reflection that occurs at<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> that I have yet to really find again<br />
since graduating—it was simply nice to be<br />
in that environment once more.” While<br />
on campus, Paulson ran into two of her<br />
former students, who were registering for<br />
their freshman year at <strong>Truman</strong>. “The<br />
emotions on their faces said it all, I could<br />
see the apprehension and excitement,”<br />
said Paulson. “It almost felt like a rite of<br />
passage and closure for me—it’s now their<br />
turn to make <strong>Truman</strong> their own, and I<br />
hope they cherish it as much as I did.”<br />
If books and tours weren’t enough for<br />
everyone, the event also provided an<br />
opportunity for a little romance involving<br />
a tradition popular among <strong>Truman</strong><br />
couples. One evening while walking<br />
through the Sunken Garden, Paul<br />
Quisenberry (’04) got down on one knee<br />
and proposed to his girlfriend, Jennifer<br />
Miller (’05). “She turned around and saw<br />
me on one knee and started crying while<br />
I opened the ring box,” said Quisenberry.<br />
“I put the ring on her finger and stood up<br />
and we hugged and I said, ‘is that a yes?’<br />
to which she replied ‘yes.’” They plan to<br />
get married in May, and the wedding<br />
party will include four other <strong>Truman</strong><br />
alumni: Lindsey (Bowles) Duesterhaus<br />
(’04), bridesmaid; Steve Fifield (’04), best<br />
man; Tommy Estlund (’01, ’03),<br />
groomsman; and Laura Hahn,<br />
groomswoman.<br />
Minch says that given the overwhelmingly<br />
positive response from the inaugural<br />
“Taste of <strong>Truman</strong>,” the <strong>University</strong> has<br />
planned the second “Taste of <strong>Truman</strong>,”<br />
which will be held on campus June 24-26,<br />
2011. A whole new slate of courses taught<br />
by enthusiastic professors is being offered,<br />
and participants will also be treated to<br />
several exclusive activities outside the<br />
classroom. In addition, an optional<br />
continuing education credit for<br />
K-12 teachers has been added to this<br />
year’s program. For more information,<br />
visit the <strong>Truman</strong> Institute on the web at<br />
http://institute.truman.edu/taste.asp. <br />
Paul Quisenberry (’04) proposed to Jennifer Miller (’05) in<br />
the Sunken Garden while on campus.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> professor Sara<br />
Orel presented a lecture<br />
on the religious and<br />
practical aspects of the<br />
afterlife for an ancient<br />
Egyptian.<br />
One of the activities<br />
included a tour of<br />
the Ruth Warner<br />
Towne Museum and<br />
Visitor’s Center.<br />
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Mother and daughter,<br />
Mary Wodtke and<br />
Jackie Paulson (’03, ’05),<br />
attended the 2010<br />
“Taste of <strong>Truman</strong>” together.
Taste of <strong>Truman</strong>: June 24-26, 2011<br />
Early registration of $150 is available<br />
until May 27th. Registrations received<br />
between May 28 - June 20 will be<br />
charged a $50 late fee. Teachers<br />
seeking continuing education credit<br />
will be charged an additional $25.<br />
Registration forms are available at<br />
http://institute.truman.edu/taste.asp<br />
or may be requested by calling<br />
660-785-5406.<br />
The Aperitif:<br />
Marco Polo’s Venice<br />
Dr. Julia DeLancey<br />
Marco Polo’s travels with his father and<br />
uncle ultimately took close to 25 years,<br />
and the city of Venice had a powerful<br />
effect on the family’s need and desire<br />
for trade and travel. This richlyillustrated<br />
lecture and discussion will<br />
explore the beautiful city of Venice,<br />
working to construct a sense of Polo’s<br />
origins, as well as how the city of his<br />
birth may have affected his family’s<br />
wandering existence.<br />
“You Are Getting Very<br />
Sleepy….”: Exploring the<br />
Facts, Myths, and Benefits<br />
of Hypnotherapy<br />
Professor Sal Costa<br />
Hypnosis’s long history is plagued by<br />
misconceptions, both about the<br />
methods used to conduct hypnosis, as<br />
well as the impact hypnosis has on a<br />
subject’s behaviors. This session<br />
focuses on developing a greater<br />
understanding of the science and<br />
technique behind hypnosis by<br />
introducing participants to basic<br />
concepts while encouraging active<br />
participation in safe and fun interactive<br />
demonstrations and hypnotic<br />
procedures. Participants will leave the<br />
course with a new appreciation of the<br />
role hypnosis can play in stress<br />
management, relaxation, sleep and<br />
even memory retention.<br />
A Rising Dragon: China from<br />
Marco Polo’s Time to Market<br />
Dr. Huping Ling<br />
How did China emerge as a political,<br />
economic, and military giant in the East<br />
from “A Sleeping Dragon” just three<br />
decades ago? How would the rising<br />
China pose challenges to the rest of<br />
the world? This fascinating lecture will<br />
guide you through the journey Marco<br />
Polo took in the 13th century, and<br />
investigate China’s unique geographic<br />
features, rich cultural heritage, complex<br />
political and social institutions, and<br />
especially its recent astonishing<br />
economic success. The course<br />
combines lecture with documentary<br />
clips, updated eye-witness photos and<br />
student discussions.<br />
The Art and Science of<br />
Digital Photography<br />
Professor Priya Kambli<br />
As high-end technology becomes<br />
increasingly affordable to the average<br />
user, the opportunity for nearly anyone<br />
to take excellent photographs with a<br />
digital camera is rapidly improving.<br />
Participants in this seminar will learn<br />
basic principles of digital camera<br />
operation. Participants will have the<br />
opportunity to practice new skills<br />
during the session. Participants will<br />
need a digital camera to enroll. You do<br />
not need to be a skilled photographer<br />
or own an expensive camera to participate!<br />
Medieval Images of the Exotic:<br />
Travel Manuscripts and Their<br />
Representations of the Other<br />
Dr. Christine Harker<br />
The manuscripts of Marco Polo’s 13thcentury<br />
travels have long been known<br />
as gems of the art of the familiar and<br />
the unfamiliar. While some of the most<br />
vivid examples of medieval travel<br />
manuscripts, the Marco Polo books are<br />
not alone. The often elaborate illustrations<br />
of medieval travel books remain<br />
as vibrantly colored and startling in<br />
their images of the Strange and Foreign<br />
today as they were over six centuries<br />
ago. This lecture will introduce the<br />
subject of the Medieval Book and its<br />
remarkable decorations, focusing on<br />
the concepts of how medieval Europe<br />
imagined a world beyond their<br />
borders: strange, exotic, monstrous<br />
and exciting.<br />
Understanding RNA:<br />
Implications for Everything<br />
from Extraterrestrial<br />
Life to HIV<br />
Dr. Maria Nagan<br />
Most people have heard of DNA. A<br />
molecule known as RNA is very similar<br />
but has more versatile properties than<br />
its DNA cousin. RNA can exist as one<br />
strand and fold like a string into almost<br />
any shape. This flexibility is why some<br />
infectious viruses are made of RNA,<br />
such as Ebola, HIV and H1N1 flu<br />
viruses. These properties also make it a<br />
good candidate for the beginnings of<br />
life on earth and possibly other<br />
planets. In this session, we’ll be<br />
introduced to RNA, watch animations<br />
of molecules working together in the<br />
cell and discuss where RNA science is<br />
going in the near future. No prior<br />
science knowledge is required, just<br />
enthusiasm.<br />
Celestial Navigation and<br />
the Travels of Marco Polo<br />
Dr. Matthew Beaky<br />
During his 24 years of travel Marco<br />
Polo journeyed over 15,000 miles by<br />
land and sea and was recognized by<br />
the Kublai Khan himself as a person<br />
“well skilled in the practice of<br />
navigation.” Without the benefit of<br />
GPS, Polo navigated by the technique<br />
of dead reckoning and by observations<br />
of the sun and stars, often employing<br />
tools and techniques learned from<br />
Arab and Indian sailors. This lecture<br />
will discuss the fundamentals of<br />
celestial navigation and describe navigational<br />
instruments in use in Marco<br />
Polo’s time such as the quadrant, the<br />
astrolabe and the nocturnal. A special<br />
focus will be on how and why the<br />
altitude of the Sun and stars changes<br />
and how that information is used to<br />
determine a ship’s position at sea.<br />
Nancy Grace and the<br />
Motherhood Critics<br />
Dr. Linda Seidel<br />
The Nancy Grace show, with its vilification<br />
of mothers (and other family<br />
members) who fail to protect their<br />
children, would seem to have little in<br />
common with books like The Mask of<br />
Motherhood (1999), Perfect Madness:<br />
Motherhood in an Age of Anxiety (2005)<br />
or Bad Mother (2009), which describe<br />
the near impossibility of mothering<br />
well under current conditions in the<br />
U.S. Nonetheless, taken together,<br />
Nancy Grace and the motherhood<br />
critics show that mothers have been<br />
largely abandoned by a society that<br />
would rather punish them than support<br />
them in achieving success. Anyone who<br />
has ever experienced the challenges of<br />
motherhood, watched or supported a<br />
mother or marveled at the accomplishments<br />
of parenting will enjoy—and be<br />
provoked—by the discussion of this<br />
session.<br />
The Silk Road:<br />
A Musical Caravan<br />
Professor Shirley McKamie<br />
During Marco Polo’s legendary travels,<br />
he encountered rich musical traditions.<br />
For more than one thousand years, the<br />
vital trade route between Europe and<br />
the exotic East had led travelers<br />
through regions with sophisticated<br />
musical cultures. Much of the Silk Road<br />
music itself is unfamiliar to Western<br />
listeners. This lecture will make use of<br />
the recordings, images and research<br />
available through Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road<br />
Project and the Smithsonian and will<br />
present background and context for<br />
the unique regional songs and instrumental<br />
pieces representing the lands of<br />
the Silk Road. Categories for study<br />
include the following: court or classical<br />
music, nomadic songs, festival music,<br />
and religious ceremonies.<br />
A Taste of Persuasion:<br />
The Rhetoric of Food<br />
Dr. James Cianciola<br />
Rhetoric was the means of education in<br />
the ancient Greco-Roman world. It is<br />
an art that deals with what we know<br />
and how we know it. In this session,<br />
participants will use the critical skills of<br />
rhetoric to explore some ways in<br />
which American culture thinks about<br />
food. Why has food TV become so<br />
popular? How is food marketed to<br />
different audiences? Is there a<br />
relationship between the aesthetics of<br />
food and the enjoyment of food? How<br />
has food moved from a bare necessity<br />
to a cultural commodity? How is food<br />
tied to self image? Through multimedia<br />
presentation and lecture, participants<br />
will explore these questions and more.<br />
The Great Silk Road of Central<br />
Asia: Then and Now<br />
Dr. Ryan Kennedy<br />
After September 11, Americans took<br />
greater interest in the affairs of Central<br />
Asia. The region, however, has<br />
influenced the fate of empires for<br />
centuries. From about 1813 to 1907,<br />
the United Kingdom and Russia<br />
jockeyed for influence, a competition<br />
that was famously labeled “The Great<br />
Game.” Today, China, Russia and the<br />
United <strong>State</strong>s continue this competition<br />
for influence in what some have<br />
labeled “The New Great Game.” This<br />
lecture will cover the rise of the great<br />
Central Asian empires, followed by the<br />
region’s role as the battleground for<br />
international powers. We will discuss<br />
the region’s current importance in oil<br />
politics, human rights and the war on<br />
terrorism. We will also ask whether<br />
the popular characterization of Central<br />
Asia’s current international role is<br />
accurate.<br />
Big Brother IS Watching —<br />
Cybersecurity and You<br />
Dr. Renee Wachter<br />
Information about you enters the vast<br />
and intangible world of the data stream<br />
every day—from birth certificates to<br />
medical records to what you bought on<br />
Amazon last week. You rely on<br />
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and<br />
MySpace to keep up with friends and<br />
loved ones, but you’re also providing<br />
opportunities for others to learn more<br />
about you than you intend. As this<br />
profile of your online activity grows, so<br />
do the threats from identity thieves,<br />
snoops and companies who want to<br />
sell you something. Sprinkled with a<br />
small dose of public policy discussion,<br />
this session will provide participants<br />
with an overview of Internet and<br />
computer privacy, practical steps to<br />
protect themselves and their families<br />
and strategies on how to live a more<br />
anonymous online life.<br />
Making Interdisciplinary<br />
Linkages in the K-12<br />
Classroom: Pulling it<br />
all Together<br />
For continuing education<br />
credit participants only.<br />
Dr. Paul Yoder<br />
In an age where state tests and<br />
discipline-specific outcomes can play a<br />
defining role in the structure of our<br />
interactions with students, linkages<br />
between different disciplines can<br />
sometimes be lost, and the opportunity<br />
to challenge students to think creatively<br />
about the “big picture” can be missed.<br />
This session is designed to facilitate<br />
discussion about the subtle and not-sosubtle<br />
linkages that can be made among<br />
the wide range of topics covered in the<br />
Marco Polo track. More broadly, participants<br />
will discuss creative ways to<br />
bridge content taught across a range of<br />
different disciplines, to inject an added<br />
layer of interest and excitement to their<br />
teaching. Participants will devote some<br />
time to planning their for-credit<br />
curricular projects alone or with teams<br />
of colleagues.<br />
For more detailed course descriptions,<br />
professor bios, application forms and<br />
more information, visit<br />
http://institute.truman.edu/taste.asp.<br />
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1946<br />
Lucille (Hockett) Alley (’46), Zionsville, Ind.,<br />
taught for 38 years and retired from Orange<br />
Unified in Orange, Calif., in 1984. She has a<br />
son, Chris; lucille.alley@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Mary (Prather) Banghart (’46) is retired and<br />
lives in Hannibal, Mo. She has a son, Charles,<br />
and a daughter, Karyl.<br />
1948<br />
Eldon Banks (’48), Albuquerque, N.M., retired<br />
from Brown Construction Co. as an office<br />
manager. He has two daughters, Anita and Luann.<br />
1951<br />
Marlin Field (’51) and Lois (Wiendt) Field<br />
live in Hillsdale, Mich. They celebrated their<br />
61st wedding anniversary and have a daughter,<br />
Marla, and two sons, Gary and Kenneth.<br />
1957<br />
Frank Colton (’57, ’59) and Linda (Elam)<br />
Colton (’61) live in Kirksville, Mo. Frank<br />
taught for nine years at the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Kentucky and was an administrator at ATSU for<br />
20 years until his retirement. They have two<br />
daughters, Catherine and Caryn, and a son,<br />
Matthew; fcolton@sbcglobal.net.<br />
1959<br />
Gene Gardner (’59) and Mary Ann (Bloss)<br />
Gardner (’56, ’57) live in West Des Moines,<br />
Iowa. Gene is an executive liaison to the Board<br />
of Trustees at Black Hawk College in Moline, Ill.<br />
Mary Ann retired as an executive secretary.<br />
They have two daughters, Lana and Lisa, and a<br />
son, Lance.<br />
1960<br />
Jane (Thomas) Bowden (’60, ’76) and Patrick<br />
Bowden (’62), celebrated their 50th wedding<br />
anniversary. They live in Adrian, Mo., and have a<br />
daughter, Jacqueline, and a son, David.<br />
Larry Magee (’60) is retired and lives in Middle<br />
Amana, Iowa; innmagoo@southslope.net.<br />
1962<br />
Margaret (Schindler) McCarty (’62),<br />
Columbia, Ill., retired from teaching at the<br />
Columbia High School in 1994. She and her<br />
husband, Harold, have two sons, Harold Jr. and<br />
Mark, and two daughters, Laveta and Kim;<br />
mmccarty@htc.com.<br />
1964<br />
Evelyn (Jacobs) Burroughs (’64, ’69) lives in<br />
Oakland, Calif. She has a son, Christopher.<br />
1965<br />
Alfred Naimo (’65, ’66), Northvale, N.J.,<br />
retired from the Waldwick School System after<br />
teaching for 37 years. He now coaches cross<br />
country and track at Bergen Catholic High<br />
School. He and his wife, Mary, have two sons,<br />
Alfred and Anthony, and a daughter, Mary<br />
Beth; mlnaim0@yahoo.com.<br />
1966<br />
Patricia (Johnson) Diehl (’66), Elko, Nev.,<br />
retired on June 30, 2010, as the office manager<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> of Nevada School of Medicine<br />
Outreach Center. She and her husband, Dean,<br />
have two sons, Jeffrey and Brian;<br />
diehl2360@gmail.com.<br />
Francis Libe (’66), Washington, Iowa, is retired.<br />
Larry Marsh (’66), Florissant, Mo., has directed<br />
the German Culture Center and taught<br />
German at the <strong>University</strong> of Missouri-St. Louis<br />
since 2000. He continues to conduct the<br />
Northwinds Concert Band and directs plays<br />
and musicals for the Hawthorne Players. He<br />
and his wife, Kim, have a son, Christian, and a<br />
daughter, Eleanor; larry.marsh@att.net.<br />
Larry Quisenberry (’66, ’75) and Sharron<br />
(Bailey) Quisenberry (’66) live in Ames,<br />
Iowa. Larry is a program coordinator at Iowa<br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Sharron is vice president for<br />
research and economic development at Iowa<br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Jane (Cunningham) Woods (’66), Bowling<br />
Green, Mo., is the development director for<br />
The Foundation for Pike County Memorial<br />
Hospital. She has a daughter, Stefanie.<br />
1967<br />
Donald Dorrance (’67) and Linda<br />
(Rowland) Dorrance are retired and live in<br />
Davenport, Iowa. They have a daughter, Tiffany,<br />
and a son, Chad; dddorrance@aol.com.<br />
George Pinnell (’67), Diamond Bar, Calif., is<br />
the owner of George Pinnell Golf Academy. He<br />
and his wife, Michelle, have two sons, Duncan<br />
and Jim.<br />
Edward Porter (’67), Neosho, Mo., retired in<br />
April 2010 after 38 years in general medicine<br />
practice with the last 34 years in Neosho.<br />
1968<br />
Craig Bennett (’68, ’70), Ellisville, Mo., is<br />
retired and works part-time. He and his wife,<br />
Debbie, have a daughter, Christine;<br />
crb322@sbcglobal.net.<br />
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Nancy (Dominacki) Czubara (’68),<br />
Bettendorf, Iowa, retired from medical assisting<br />
in a family practice office and is now enjoying<br />
her free time trying new activities such as<br />
painting, drawing and line dancing. She and her<br />
husband, Nic, have a son, Scott, and a<br />
daughter, Phyllis; sweetpeanjh@aol.com.<br />
Marti (Acuff) Koch (’68), Gallatin, Mo., taught<br />
English and worked as an elementary and<br />
secondary school counselor in Missouri and<br />
Illinois public schools for 25 years and as a<br />
diagnostician for the Northeast Missouri Special<br />
Ed Coop for four years. She was also an<br />
administrative assistant in the Development<br />
Office at Saint Paul School of Theology in<br />
Kansas City, Mo., for four years, while her<br />
husband, Bill Koch (’67), attended seminary.<br />
Bill retired as pastor and district superintendent<br />
at United Methodist Church. They have a<br />
daughter, Kristin, and two sons, Paul and<br />
Matthew; martikoch46@gmail.com.<br />
Edward O’Connor (’68) is retired and lives in<br />
Greeley, Colo. His hobbies include<br />
woodworking and home-built aircraft (building<br />
and flying his homebuilt RV-8 aircraft). He and<br />
his wife, Lisa, have two daughters, Staci and<br />
Ashley; edwardoc@mac.com.<br />
Edwin Phelps (’68, ’70) and Donna (De<br />
Jong) Phelps (’67) live in Sun Prairie, Wis.<br />
Edwin retired from Kraft Foods as director of<br />
human resources. They have a daughter,<br />
Annette, and a son, Andrew.<br />
1969<br />
Virginia (Burk) Bryan (’69), Axton, Va., is a<br />
correctional rehabilitation institutional<br />
counselor for Green Rock Correctional Center.<br />
She and her husband, Leonard, have two<br />
children, Thomas and Wyoma.<br />
Shirley (Brookshier) Liebenow (’69),<br />
Cheyenne, Wyo., retired from Fort Morgan<br />
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(Colo.) Schools as a high school business teacher.<br />
She spends part of the year in Mesa, Ariz.<br />
Monty Morgan (’69), Lake Mary, Fla., is the art<br />
director for Ligonier Ministries. He and his wife,<br />
Linda, have three children, Zachary, Nathan<br />
and Myles.<br />
Elsie O’Bryan (’69), Wasilla, Alaska, is a<br />
paraeducator with the Matanuska-Susitna<br />
Borough School District.<br />
1970<br />
David Moore (’70), Aurora, Ill., is retired.<br />
Elizabeth (Taylor) Sauer (’70) and Patrick<br />
Sauer (’76) live in Kansas City, Mo. They have<br />
a son, Christopher. Elizabeth writes: “I’m<br />
enjoying retirement, traveling, reading and<br />
spending time with our four grandchildren.”<br />
Al Wilson (’70), Camdenton, Mo., is selfemployed<br />
in real estate leasing and<br />
development. He and his wife, Nancy, have<br />
three children, David, Jennifer and Michael.<br />
1971<br />
Rosemary (Cornwell) Ball (’71), Allyn,<br />
Wash., is retired. She and her husband, Daniel,<br />
have a son, Andrew, and a daughter, Karen.<br />
Gene Bruner (’71), Downing, Mo., is a facilities<br />
specialist for Qwest Communications.<br />
Donald Cummings, St. Louis, Mo., retired as a<br />
sergeant with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police<br />
Department.<br />
Darwin Henderson (’71, ’72) was promoted<br />
to full professor at the <strong>University</strong> of Cincinnati.<br />
He teaches courses in children’s literature,<br />
multicultural literature and emergent literature.<br />
Tony Mitchell (’71), Beacon, N.Y., is a science<br />
education consultant. He and his wife, Ann<br />
Marie, have two children, Melanie and Meara.<br />
Beverly (Jones) Moore (’71, ’72) lives in<br />
Kirksville, Mo. She has a son, Shane, and three<br />
daughters, Debra, Carol and Cheryl;<br />
beverlyjmoore@cableone.net.<br />
Mary Beth (Justice) Overton (’71), Ankeny,<br />
Iowa, retired as a detective with the Polk<br />
County Sheriff’s Office. She has a daughter,<br />
Amy; justicemb@peoplepc.com.<br />
Mike Ritze (’71) was re-elected as a representative<br />
to the Oklahoma <strong>State</strong> Legislature. He<br />
maintains a family medical practice in Broken<br />
Arrow, Okla., and has delivered 2,000 babies.<br />
Kathy (Finch) Schneider (’71), Grandview,<br />
Mo., retired from working for the state of<br />
Missouri as a criminal defense investigator. She<br />
has a son, Nicholas.<br />
John Smith (’71, ’80) and Shah (Cole)<br />
Smith (’80) live in Maryland Heights, Mo.<br />
John is the director of The Strategic Learning<br />
Group LLC. They have four children, Charlotte<br />
(Smith) D’Alfonso, James Durbin, Benjamin<br />
Evans Smith and Kathryn (Smith) Lange.<br />
Barbara (Martin) Taylor (’71), Kenosha,<br />
Wis., works part-time as an administrative<br />
assistant for Care Net Family Resources. She<br />
and her husband, Ian, have a daughter, Jillian,<br />
and a son, Sean. Barbara writes: “Jillian<br />
graduated from high school. Sean is active in<br />
soccer and basketball. We have not been<br />
traveling as much with two in high school<br />
but active in service to ministries within a<br />
one-day drive;” barbkgtchr@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Benita (Wiesemann) Vaughn (’71),<br />
St. Charles, Mo., retired from the Francis<br />
Howell School District in May 2009 and now<br />
works part-time as a psychological examiner for<br />
Francis Howell testing gifted and ELL students;<br />
pbvaughn01@hotmail.com.<br />
Lynnette (Yagel) Yearns (’71), Warrensburg,<br />
Mo., is a library tech. assistant at <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Central Missouri. She has two daughters, Laura<br />
and Lana, and two sons, Spencer and Clayton.<br />
1972<br />
Marylee (Stark) Bigham (’72) is retired and<br />
lives in St. Peters, Mo. She and her husband,<br />
Ben, have a daughter, Amy, and a son, Derek;<br />
maryleebigham@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Richard Grugin (’72, ’76) retired after 33 years<br />
in public education, most recently as principal<br />
of Lyons Middle School in Clinton, Iowa. He<br />
moved to North Liberty, Iowa, and is a skills to<br />
employment workforce consultant for<br />
Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids<br />
and Iowa City, Iowa.<br />
Celeste Knierim (’72, ’73), Columbia, Ill.,<br />
retired from St. Louis CC/Meramec as associate<br />
professor of health and physical education.<br />
Ken Marlin (’72), Anamosa, Iowa, retired from<br />
the Anamosa <strong>State</strong> Penitentiary as a correctional<br />
supervisor. He has two sons, John and James.<br />
Brick Schnobrich (’72), Casey, Iowa, is the<br />
owner and president of the Insurance Store<br />
Ltd. He and his wife, Carol, have two<br />
daughters, Amy and Tracy; brick@netins.net.<br />
1973<br />
Rick L. Elkin (’73) and Cathie (Lingle) Elkin<br />
live in Cumming, Iowa. Rick is a senior hospital<br />
account specialist for Eli Lilly and Company.<br />
Cathie is the administrative assistant for the<br />
CIO of Geolearning.com. They have three<br />
children, Christopher, Cari and Timothy.<br />
Bob Gibson (’73), Higginsville, Mo., is a sports<br />
reporter for Higginsville Advance. He and his<br />
wife, Sara, have six children, Brian, Timothy,<br />
Jeff, Brett, Matt and Katie.<br />
Becky Harris Wilson (’73, ’73), Overland<br />
Park, Kan., is president of WDS Marketing and<br />
Public Relations.<br />
Greg Lloyd (’73), Kirksville, Mo., is the owner<br />
of Lloyd Dist. Co. Inc.; glloyd@marktwain.net.<br />
John Quinn (’73) is retired and lives in Merry<br />
Hill, N.C. He and his wife, Sally, have two sons,<br />
Jason and Ryan; johngq50@gmail.com.<br />
Pamela Wares (’73, ’83), La Plata, Mo.,<br />
recently retired after serving the Marshall Public<br />
Schools as an educational diagnostician for 20<br />
years. She has a daughter, Jacey Wood, and a<br />
son, Garett Wood.<br />
1974<br />
Rocky Aschbrenner (’74), Fort Madison, Iowa,<br />
retired after working as a counselor for more<br />
than 34 years at the Iowa <strong>State</strong> Penitentiary. He<br />
and his wife, Sherry, have a daughter, Lacey,<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> alumna Christine C. Wells Eason<br />
(’92) (on right) represented <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> at the inauguration of Webster<br />
<strong>University</strong> President Elizabeth Stroble.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> was among 60-plus other institutions<br />
represented at the inauguration held<br />
on Sept. 25, 2010, in St. Louis, Mo.<br />
and a son, Evan; r.aschbrenner@gmail.com.<br />
Denise (Lynn) Brown (’74, ’78), Gibbs, Mo.,<br />
retired in May 2010 after teaching 35 years in<br />
the Adair County R-2 School in Brashear, Mo.,<br />
and has taken on a new career as a freelance<br />
writer. She and her husband, Ricky, live on a<br />
farm outside of Kirksville. Her daughter,<br />
Christina Teter, is a 2000 <strong>Truman</strong> graduate.<br />
Bob Duckworth (’74), Monument, Colo., is<br />
retired. He and his wife, Doris, have two<br />
daughters, Annette and Renee, and one son,<br />
David.<br />
Ione (Graham) Good (’74, ’75) and Charles<br />
Richard Good (’73) live in Montrose, Iowa.<br />
They have two sons, John and Charles.<br />
Larry Hunt (’74, ’82), Linn, Mo., is a retired<br />
teacher and serves as a part-time adjunct at<br />
Columbia College and Lincoln <strong>University</strong>. He and<br />
his wife, Elaine, have three daughters, Elisha,<br />
Meredith and Olivia; hunt152@yahoo.com.<br />
Rick Riley (’74), Kirksville, Mo., is vice president<br />
of Smith, Moore and Company. He and his<br />
wife, Shirley, have three daughters, Rachel,<br />
Katherine and Sarah.<br />
Marcy Thomas (’74, ’81), Fayetteville, N.C.,<br />
retired after 36 years of nursing and 29 years<br />
of active duty and civil service in the Army<br />
Reserve. Marcy would like to hear from those<br />
she knew during her college years;<br />
marcy.thomas@ymail.com<br />
1975<br />
Anita (Moritz) Glascock (’75) and Daryl<br />
Glasock (’74) live in Jefferson City, Mo. Anita<br />
retired from teaching second and third grade at<br />
Jefferson City Public Schools. They have three<br />
daughters, Melanie, Lindsay and Angela<br />
(Glascock) Bulawski (’01).<br />
David Hawk (’75, ’82), Bloomfield, Iowa,<br />
retired in 2010 after 35 years of teaching<br />
middle school instrumental music, the last 33<br />
years at Davis County Community School in<br />
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Bloomfield; dhawk@netins.net.<br />
Nicholas Mikus (’75, ’86), Owens Cross Roads,<br />
Ala., is the owner of Nick’s Ristorante. He<br />
retired from the U.S. Army (active duty in 1994<br />
and civilian service in 2009). He and his wife,<br />
Sherry, have two children, Natalie and Tiffany.<br />
Debra Sue Smith-Larson (’75), Fruitland,<br />
Md., is a family and consumer sciences teacher<br />
at Wicomico High School/ Wicomico Board of<br />
Education.<br />
Shelli (Forshee) Weidlein (’75), The<br />
Woodlands, Texas, is a special education<br />
teacher at Magnolia High School.<br />
1976<br />
Donald Hackmann (’76, ’76, ’77), Mahomet,<br />
Ill., is an associate professor of educational<br />
leadership at the <strong>University</strong> of Illinois at<br />
Urbana-Champaign. He and his wife, Tamara,<br />
have two children, Tyler and Jordan.<br />
Greg Miller (’76) lives in Ottumwa, Iowa. He<br />
has three children, Brian, Michael and Kristi.<br />
1977<br />
Jay Brakensiek (’77), Gendora, Calif., had his<br />
biography accepted by Marquis Who’s Who<br />
for inclusion in the 2011 Who’s Who in America.<br />
He is an environmental health and safety officer<br />
at Claremont Graduate <strong>University</strong>;<br />
jay.brakensiek@alumni.cgu.edu.<br />
Tom Palmatier (’77), Fort George G. Meade,<br />
Md., is a commander/conductor with the U.S.<br />
Army Field Band. He and his wife, Shirley, have<br />
a daughter, Gabrielle.<br />
Rick Post (’77) and Donna (Clinefelter)<br />
Post (’79) live in Wytheville, Va. Rick is a<br />
water plant operator for the New River<br />
Regional Water Authority. Donna is a<br />
homemaker; nemo77@webva.net.<br />
1978<br />
Pat (Haile) Hays (’78), Little Rock, Ark., is<br />
vice president/general counsel for Vestcom<br />
International Inc. She and her husband, Joe,<br />
have two children, Nicholas and William.<br />
Gary Schulte (’78) lives in Concord, N.H.<br />
After serving local United Church of Christ<br />
congregations in Old Monroe and California,<br />
Mo., he became the conference minister of the<br />
New Hampshire Conference of the United<br />
Church of Christ in 2006. He and his wife,<br />
Deborah, have two sons, Jesse and Matthew;<br />
gmschulte@myfairpoint.net.<br />
Donald Watt (’78) and Mary (Forthaus)<br />
Watt (’79) live in Saint Louis, Mo. Donald works<br />
for Sigma Chemical Company. They have four<br />
children, James, Elizabeth, Jennifer and Michael.<br />
Gary Wittenmyer (’78), Bowling Green,<br />
Ohio, is an adjunct commercial art instructor at<br />
Owens Community College. He and his wife,<br />
Suzy, have two children, Tyler and Alison.<br />
1979<br />
Leonard Fagan (’79) lives in O’Fallon, Mo.;<br />
Lfagan509@gmail.com.<br />
Gregory Robinson (’79), St. Louis, Mo., is a<br />
clinical psychologist in the Department of<br />
Pediatrics, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center (St.<br />
John’s Mercy Children’s Hospital-Child<br />
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Development Center). He and his wife, Nancy,<br />
have two daughters, Grace and Abbey. Gregory<br />
writes: “Grace O’Shea Robinson began <strong>Truman</strong><br />
as a freshman Aug. 21, 2010.”<br />
1980<br />
Dorothy (Jones) Barton (’80), Tollhouse,<br />
Calif., is an ICWA social service coordinator for<br />
Big Sandy Rancheria. She and her husband,<br />
Timothy, have two children, Miranda and<br />
Clarissa; fourbartons@netptc.net.<br />
Jay Benson (’80) and Vicki (Richardson)<br />
Benson live in Kirksville, Mo. Jay is the owner<br />
and managing member of The Benson Law<br />
Firm LLC and was elected to the Executive<br />
Committee of the Missouri Association of Trial<br />
Attorneys (MATA). Jay has served on MATA’s<br />
Board of Governors since 1997 and has<br />
practiced law in Kirksville since 1984. Vicki is a<br />
realtor associate with Heritage House Realty<br />
Inc. They have a son, Quinn, and a daughter,<br />
Lara; jbenson@bensonlawfirm.com.<br />
Susan (Lammert) Filla (’80), Saint Peters,<br />
Mo., writes: “Our daughter, Annie, graduated<br />
magna cum laude from <strong>Truman</strong> in May 2010<br />
with a BA in communication disorders. She and<br />
her sister, Laura, are grad students at St. Louis<br />
<strong>University</strong>.” Susan is a teacher assistant with<br />
United Services for the Handicapped;<br />
sfilla@centurytel.net.<br />
Debra Houston (’80), Ottumwa, Iowa, retired<br />
from the Ottumwa Community School District as<br />
a secondary counselor after 35 years of service.<br />
Kimberly (Reyes) Rumbough (’80), Plano,<br />
Texas, is a stay-at-home mom. She and her<br />
husband, Roy, have a son, Michael. Kimberly<br />
writes: “Favorite TV show-Mad Men; dog lovercurrent<br />
dog Gracie (black Lab). Love going to the<br />
movies. Favorite restaurant PF Changs. New for<br />
2010-learning how to golf and play the flute.”<br />
Chris Wehr (’80), Houston, Texas, is an<br />
instrument technician with Austin Industrial.<br />
Susan (Williams) Williamson (’80),<br />
Hannibal, Mo., is the owner of Hannibal<br />
Montessori Christian Preschool. She and her<br />
husband, Perry, have three children, Richard,<br />
James and Ashley.<br />
1981<br />
Juan Berrios is self-employed and lives in<br />
Pfliugerville, Texas; jhbstx25@yahoo.com.<br />
Jane Bischoff (’81), Garfield Heights, Ohio, is a<br />
math tutor for A+ Professional Tutoring Service.<br />
Richard Bowers (’81), Joppa, Ala., is a general<br />
engineer with the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile<br />
RD & E Command. He and his wife, Susan, have<br />
three children, Jason, James and Joshua.<br />
Ken Clark (’81) lives in Phoenix, Ariz.;<br />
ken.clark.753@gmail.com.<br />
Rick Mangun (’81), New Lenox, Ill., retired in<br />
2007 as applied arts chairman at Riverside<br />
Brookfield High School. He and his wife,<br />
Kathleen, have three children, Jennifer,<br />
Christopher and Robert.<br />
Joe Walker (’81), Jefferson City, Mo., is an<br />
accountant with the Missouri Department of<br />
Agriculture. He and his wife, Janet, have two<br />
children, Courtney and Adam.<br />
1982<br />
Suzi (Hopper) Beck (’82), Chillicothe, Mo.,<br />
teaches middle-school family and consumer<br />
sciences for the Trenton R-9 School District.<br />
She and her husband, David, have four<br />
children, Stephen, Ethan, Juliane and Orren.<br />
Janet (Vorholt) Cooper (’82) and Charles<br />
Cooper (’84) live in Greentop, Mo. Janet is a<br />
correctional officer at the Adair County Law<br />
Enforcement Center. Charles is the owner of<br />
Countryside Service. They have a daughter,<br />
Stephanie.<br />
Bryan Fessler (’82), Muscatine, Iowa, is vice<br />
president, personal banking, for First National<br />
Bank-Muscatine. He has two children, Jared and<br />
Jenna.<br />
Randy Lierman (’82), Chesterfield, Mo., is a<br />
portfolio strategist with Newton Capital<br />
Management in London. He and his wife, Paige,<br />
have a son, Garrett, and a daughter, Brooke;<br />
randy_lierman@newton.co.uk.<br />
Ellen (Klein) Predaina (’82), Spring Valley,<br />
Ohio, is director of information services for<br />
Kettering Health Network; Ellen@predaina.net.<br />
Peggy Schoen (’82) retired from International<br />
Monetary Fund. She lives in Silver Spring, Md.,<br />
with her husband, Scott Simmer, and has a<br />
stepson, Reid; pschoen329@gmail.com.<br />
Kelley (Alden) Stuck (’82) joined the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Missouri System as the associate<br />
vice president of total compensation.<br />
Patricia (Guile) Swann (’82) was promoted<br />
to dean of business and justice studies at Utica<br />
College in Utica, N.Y.<br />
Margene (Brocka) Van Horn (’82) joined<br />
Central College in Pella, Iowa, as a visiting<br />
instructor of exercise science.<br />
1983<br />
Beverly (Reed) Berry (’83, ’83), Ozark, Mo.,<br />
is manager of applications in information<br />
systems for American National Property and<br />
Casualty Company. She and her husband, Alan,<br />
have three children, Erin, Briana and Jarrett.<br />
Peggy (Stuhlman) Fusselman (’83) and<br />
Michael Fusselman (’85) live in Moberly,<br />
Mo. Michael is the prosecuting attorney for<br />
Randolph County, and they have three<br />
daughters, Kelsey, Eryn and Taylor.<br />
Angie (Chiu) Guenver (’83), Glendora, Calif.,<br />
is an insurance broker. She and her husband,<br />
Patrice, have two children, Audrey and Joshuah.<br />
Roma (Nelson) Jones (’83), Salem, Mo., is an<br />
assistant administrator at Dent County Health<br />
Center. She and her husband, David, have five<br />
children, Brooke Beeson, Blake Beeson, Mark<br />
Jones, Melissa Jones and Mikel Jones.<br />
Karol (Hales) Kleine (’83) Blue Springs, Mo.,<br />
is an elementary counselor for the Fort Osage<br />
School District. She and her husband, Peter,<br />
have four children, Andrew, Bridget, Anthony<br />
and Thomas; karolkleine@gmail.com.<br />
Bill Landolt (’83) and Lisa (Reynolds)<br />
Landolt (’83) live in Arlington, Texas. Bill is a<br />
detective for the City of Arlington, and they have<br />
two children, Keegan and Kyle. They write: “Kids<br />
off to college. Bill working in the Sex & Domestic
Crimes Unit at Arlington Texas PD anxiously<br />
awaiting retirement or winning the lottery.”<br />
Mike Lanser (’83, ’85), Sheboygan, Wis., is<br />
president of Lakeshore Technical College. He<br />
and his wife, Lori, have two children, Andrew<br />
and James.<br />
Robert Carl Mueller (’83, ’83), Lee’s Summit,<br />
Mo., is an administrative law judge for the Missouri<br />
Division of Worker’s Compensation. He and<br />
his wife, Jill, have two sons, Garrett and Grant.<br />
James Preston (’83) and Rachael (Gibbons)<br />
Preston (’84) live in Jefferson City, Mo. James<br />
is senior director of development at <strong>University</strong><br />
of Missouri-Columbia. They have three children,<br />
James, Katherine and Rebecca.<br />
Jim Risner (’83, ’86), Culpeper, Va., works for<br />
the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acq, Log<br />
& Tech) as a Pentagon liaison for PEO Ammo.<br />
He was elected as a member of the Culpeper<br />
Town Council. He and his wife, Lori, have two<br />
children, Natasha and Jacob.<br />
Ellen (Wand) Sabin (’83) lives in Dallas, Texas.<br />
She and her husband, Steven, have two sons,<br />
Nicholas and Jacob.<br />
Greg Summers (’83) and Teri (Brain)<br />
Summers (’83) live in Buford, Ga. Greg is a<br />
solutions leader with Hewlett Packard;<br />
summers_g@att.net.<br />
1984<br />
Ron Braver (’84) joined Grant Thornton LLP as<br />
a director in the Forensic Accounting and<br />
Investigative Services Chicago practice.<br />
Todd Holcomb (’84) was named as the interim<br />
president of Western Nebraska Community<br />
College.<br />
Carlos Norton (’84), Cabo San Lucas, Mexico,<br />
is a sales representative for Hotel Pueblo<br />
Bonito Sunset Beach. He and his wife, Maria,<br />
have two daughters Maripily and Ava;<br />
carlosnorton@hotmail.com.<br />
Thomas Stemmler (’84) is a media operations<br />
manager for WSTM-TV in Syracuse, N.Y.<br />
1985<br />
Lisa (Szabaga) Clemons (’85), Champlin,<br />
Minn., is a senior inventory research specialist<br />
for Target Corporation. She and her husband,<br />
Gregory, have a daughter, Alexandra;<br />
lisa.clemons@target.com.<br />
Kari (Ditmars) Donahue (’85), Sellersburg,<br />
Ind., is a web developer at <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Louisville, JB Speed School of Engineering. She<br />
and her husband, Michael, have four children,<br />
Andrea, Kassandra, Tyler and Mitchell.<br />
Karen (Miller) Estep (’85), Lincoln, Ill., is<br />
associate dean and director of teacher<br />
education at Lincoln Christian <strong>University</strong>. She<br />
and her husband, James, have two sons, Budd<br />
and Dylan, and a daughter, Dovie;<br />
kestep@lincolnchristian.edu.<br />
Lane Evans (’85), Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is a<br />
field auditor for the state of Iowa;<br />
levans1@mediacombb.net.<br />
Lorry (Jacobson) Kohls (’85), Clermont,<br />
Iowa, is a self-employed photographer with<br />
Kohl’s Photography. She and her husband,<br />
Progressing with the Times<br />
Terry, have a son Taylor, and a daughter, Olivia;<br />
kohlslorry@gmail.com.<br />
Heather (Bruce) McDorman (’85) was named<br />
vice president for marketing and communications<br />
at St. Charles (Mo.) Community College. She<br />
serves as the 2010-11 national president of the<br />
National Council for Marketing and Public<br />
Relations. She and her husband, Bob, have a son,<br />
Liam; mcdorman.hm@gmail.com.<br />
Tammi (Reed) Reynolds (’85), North Liberty,<br />
Iowa, is a rater associate with United Fire<br />
Working his way from Missouri to<br />
California, Les Dunseith (’80) has<br />
enjoyed a rich career in the<br />
journalism industry. Dunseith is the current<br />
graphics editor for The Los Angeles Times,<br />
having previously served as a news and copy<br />
editor, assistant copy chief and copy chief<br />
during his 20-plus years at the newspaper.<br />
Dunseith’s shift from writing to layout<br />
resulted from his newspaper’s increasing need<br />
for design talent. “I found that my skills were in<br />
demand, so I was able to kind of naturally<br />
progress that way,” Dunseith said.<br />
In 2010, Dunseith’s graphics team won a<br />
Sigma Delta Chi award for their Obama<br />
inauguration layout in an annual competition<br />
sponsored by the Society of Professional<br />
Journalists. The intricate layout was<br />
constructed using 3-D software and handdrawn<br />
illustrations, involving collaboration<br />
from designers across the country.<br />
Dunseith considers this project a once-ina-lifetime<br />
opportunity due to its historical<br />
significance. He credits the layout’s success to<br />
the opportunity to plan well in advance.<br />
“This is a case where we came up with a nice<br />
idea, and as it evolved it just kept getting<br />
better,” he said.<br />
Under his direction, the Times’ graphic<br />
department has received more than 20 awards<br />
of excellence since 2005. He has also participated<br />
in much Pulitzer prize-winning<br />
coverage and earned recognition from various<br />
regional, statewide and national journalism<br />
and public service award programs.<br />
Dunseith feels extremely fortunate to work<br />
for a respected newspaper like the Times.<br />
“Even though newspapers have struggled and<br />
our paper itself is maybe not as aggressive as it<br />
was at one point at covering certain types of<br />
stories, we’re still very dedicated to doing<br />
important journalism,” he said.<br />
Along with his full-time newspaper career,<br />
Dunseith also teaches editing and computerassisted<br />
design courses at the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Southern California.<br />
His interest in working with students<br />
originated during his stint as the faculty advisor<br />
of the <strong>Truman</strong> Index in the ’80s. Dunseith<br />
enjoys being challenged by and receiving<br />
feedback from students. “It’s a nice reality check<br />
interacting with people who are just learning<br />
about journalism, because their perspective is<br />
different from what mine has been after 25<br />
years of doing this,” Dunseith said.<br />
While at <strong>Truman</strong>, Dunseith was involved<br />
with a variety of social, academic and professional<br />
organizations and also served as editor<br />
in chief of the Index. “One of the great things<br />
I found in Kirksville is that I had many<br />
opportunities to do lots of things. There’s<br />
competition and great smart people there but<br />
there’s not so much competition that you<br />
don’t feel like you can contribute,” he said.<br />
Dunseith believes <strong>Truman</strong>’s unique<br />
environment allows motivated students to<br />
take advantage of their time at <strong>Truman</strong>. “If<br />
you try hard and you persevere, you’re going<br />
to have an opportunity to do some things<br />
while you’re a student there that you’re proud<br />
of and that you’ll be proud to show off to a<br />
potential employer,” Dunseith said.<br />
Jennifer Riebold<br />
Group. She and her husband, Kevin, have two<br />
daughters, Kelsey Landhuis, and Shaina<br />
Landhuis and a son, Travis Landhuis.<br />
John Rowe (’85), Saint Charles, Mo., is a technical<br />
support team lead with the Monsanto Fund.<br />
1986<br />
Johanna (Houser) Betters (’86), Ashland, Ill.,<br />
is a customer advocate with Blue Cross Blue<br />
Shield. She and her husband, William, have two<br />
children, Phoebe and Molly.<br />
Gregory Blakemore (’86), Columbia, Mo., is<br />
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the owner of Blakemore Cleaning and<br />
Restoration. He and his wife, Danielle, have<br />
four children, Logan Shryock, Sydney Shryock,<br />
Karley Blakemore and Mera Blakemore.<br />
Donna (Schaeffer) Dickson (’86), Parker,<br />
S.D., is an account specialist for Citibank. She<br />
has a son, Evan.<br />
David Mount (’86), Lithia, Fla., retired from the<br />
U.S. Army after 24 years of active service and<br />
is a defense contractor at MacDill AFB. He and<br />
his wife, Carla, have four children, Brandon,<br />
Dakota, Victoria and Valentina;<br />
dmount15@aol.com.<br />
Glenn Peitzmeier (’86), Colorado Springs,<br />
Colo., is a lieutenant with the Douglas County<br />
Sheriff’s Office.<br />
1987<br />
Gary Belcher (’87), Kansas City, Mo., is the<br />
head boys’ basketball coach and math<br />
instructor at Kearney High School.<br />
Brian Chamberlain (’87) can be reached at<br />
drbrian1@hotmail.com.<br />
Glen Doak (’87), Bellbrook, Ohio, is owner of<br />
CADnet LLC. He has three children, Kelsey,<br />
Skylar and Riley; glendoak@yahoo.com.<br />
Mark Lippert (’87), Spring Valley, Ill., is vice<br />
president of sales and marketing for LaSalle<br />
County Broadcasting. He has a daughter,<br />
Callista; 6mmc63@yahoo.com.<br />
Jim Lumsden (’87), Farmington, Mo., is a PSR<br />
specialist for Community Counseling Center.<br />
He has four children, Kristin, Kimberly, Andrew<br />
and Jacqueline; jflums@hotmail.com.<br />
Nancy (Pollvogt) Roth (’87), Labadie, Mo., is<br />
a veterinary technician/anesthetist at the St.<br />
Louis <strong>University</strong> School of Medicine. She has<br />
three children, Megan, Nathaniel and Michaela.<br />
Christopher Scala (’87), Fenton, Mo., received<br />
an MBA from Webster <strong>University</strong> in 2009 and<br />
is a managing supervisor, financial systems, with<br />
Ameren Services Co.<br />
1988<br />
Christine (Laird) Bogart (’88), Waynesville,<br />
Mo., works for the state of Missouri. She and<br />
her husband, Joseph, have a son, Jonathan.<br />
Mark Edington (’88), Atlanta, Ga., is a human<br />
resources manager for Emory Healthcare;<br />
medington@hotmail.com.<br />
Dawn (Antiporek) Hammack (’88), Lizella,<br />
Ga., is self-employed as an Ignite Independent<br />
Association energy marketer.<br />
Cheryl (Emge) Ingram (’88, ’90), Marietta,<br />
Ga., is a senior vice president, chief accounting<br />
officer and controller for Turner Broadcasting<br />
System Inc. She and her husband, Jack, have a<br />
daughter, Katherine.<br />
Thomas Richardson (’88), York, Pa., is a CADD<br />
manager for Dawood Associates. He and his wife,<br />
Nicole, have two children, Jesse and Sydney.<br />
Shawn Schwartz (’88) and Laureen<br />
(Timm) Schwartz (’87) live in Saint Paul,<br />
Minn. Shawn is vice president of LifeTrac, Inc.<br />
They have a daughter, Renee.<br />
Brad Snow (’88), Colorado Springs, Colo., is a<br />
LTC, Medical Operations, Logistics, and Plans,<br />
for US Northern Command. He and his wife,<br />
Laura, have four children, Patricia, Jimmy,<br />
Bobby and Mikey.<br />
Lynn Ann (Jackson) Vest (’88), Boonville,<br />
Mo., is a neonatal nurse practitioner at<br />
Overland Park Regional Medical Center. She<br />
and her husband, Kelly, have two children,<br />
Jackson and Katherine.<br />
Steve Wells (’88), Advance, Mo., is head<br />
basketball coach at Zalma R-V. He has a son,<br />
Joseph.<br />
1989<br />
Joy (Adams) Falotico (’89), Northville, Mich., is<br />
vice president, global marketing, for Ford Motor<br />
Credit Company. She and her husband, Michael,<br />
have two daughters, Natalie and Nicole.<br />
Joann (Ruddy) Frye (’89) is a lieutenant<br />
colonel in the Nurse Corps, United <strong>State</strong>s Air<br />
Force. She and her husband, David, have two<br />
daughters, Samantha and Anna.<br />
Mary Beth (Kuehl) Heimendinger (’89),<br />
Scarville, Iowa, is an office support/<br />
phlebotomist with Albert Lea Medical Center/<br />
Mayo Health System. She and her husband,<br />
David, have two children, Adam and Zoe.<br />
Bart Meyers (’89) is a physician in the U.S. Army.<br />
Randy Roberts (’89), Hastings, Minn., is the<br />
membership sales director for Hastings YMCA. He<br />
and his wife, Beverly, have two daughters, Rachel<br />
and Danielle; ranbev.roberts@embarqmail.com.<br />
Sandra (Burnau) Roll (’89) is a client services<br />
manager for Firstsource Financial Solutions LLC.<br />
She and her husband, Don, have a son,<br />
Garrett, and reside in Cedar Hill, Mo.;<br />
sandy.roll@na.firstsource.com.<br />
1990<br />
Steve Benson (’90), Lebanon, Ill., is assistant<br />
vice president of JP Morgan Chase Dealer<br />
Commercial Services. He has two children,<br />
Lauren and Abbie; t6569sb@yahoo.com.<br />
Teresa (Roberts) Brown (’90), Eldora, Iowa, is<br />
a family practice physician. She and her husband,<br />
Chris, have two children, Seth and Sarah.<br />
Teresa (Stupka) Davidson (’90) works parttime<br />
as a nurse practitioner at <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She writes: “The<br />
other part of my time I spend as a missionary<br />
with Horizon International. I lead medical<br />
mission trips to third-world countries. Anybody<br />
want to go?” She and her husband, Jay, have six<br />
children, Kylie, Heath, Jacob, Caleb, Samantha<br />
and Micaiah; lifewideopen@me.com.<br />
Jerry Frans (’90), Cairo, Mo., is a sales<br />
engineer for Orscheln Products LLC. He and his<br />
wife, Deborah, have three children, Alicia,<br />
Danielle and Tyler.<br />
Orinthia Montague-McGhee (’90), Edina,<br />
Minn., received a PhD from the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Missouri-St. Louis in 2010 and is dean of<br />
students at Normandale Community College;<br />
rintymon@gmail.com.<br />
Victoria (Peter) Moreland (’90), Hazelwood,<br />
Mo., is a substitute teacher for the Hazelwood<br />
School District. She and her husband, Kirby,<br />
have two children, Blaine and Nathaniel;<br />
vicki_moreland@alumni.alphaphi.org.<br />
Anne (Mc Kern) Oswald (’90), Olathe, Kan.,<br />
is owner of Sir Speedy Printing and Marketing<br />
Services. She and her husband, Greg, have two<br />
children, Taylor and Graden.<br />
Julia (Harrison) Seibert (’90), St. Charles,<br />
Mo., served as a public health nurse for the St.<br />
Louis County Department of Health for nine<br />
years, then worked in the field of clinical<br />
research for the last four years, two years in<br />
ob-gyn research at Washington <strong>University</strong> and<br />
two years in oncology research at Barnes<br />
Hospital/Siteman Cancer Center. She is<br />
working with the director of Developmental<br />
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Therapeutics at Siteman Cancer Center to get<br />
patients on Phase I oncology clinical trials. She<br />
and her husband, Raymond, have four children,<br />
Aleksander, Nicholas, Analise and Emilie;<br />
jseibert@dom.wustl.edu.<br />
1991<br />
James Adkins (’91), Saint Peters, Mo., is the<br />
district administrator for the <strong>State</strong> of Missouri-<br />
Board of Probation and Parole.<br />
Jon Bartleson (’91, ’91), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is<br />
vice president, finance and accounting,<br />
treasurer, for SecurityCoverage Inc. He and his<br />
wife, Joelle, have two children, Tyler and Grant.<br />
Chad Boore (’91) and Danna Jo<br />
(Rosenkoetter) Boore (’92) live in<br />
Bloomington, Ill. Chad is COO-Medical<br />
Network Services at OSF St. Joseph Medical<br />
Center. They have three children, Arden,<br />
Addison and Amaris.<br />
Linda (Scheffer) Ehler (’91), O'Fallon, Mo., is<br />
CFO of Hartwig Inc. She and her husband,<br />
Ron, have three children, Ryan Campbell, Molly<br />
Campbell and Emily Campbell.<br />
Allen Engel (’91), Overland Park, Kan., is an<br />
internal audit manager for Farmers Insurance<br />
Group. He and his wife, Tamara, have two<br />
children, Kurtis and Aubrey.<br />
Kelley Marie Shull (’91), El Prado, N.M., is a<br />
development officer at Holy Cross Hospital.<br />
She and her husband, Ric Tredwin, have a son,<br />
Ezra; kelley_shull@yahoo.com.<br />
Wendy (Bender) Stelly (’91), Frisco, Texas, is<br />
a fifth-grade teacher at Frisco ISD.<br />
1992<br />
Doug Hare (’92), Liberty, Mo., is vice president,<br />
regional administration manager, with UMB Bank.<br />
Kassaundra Hester (’92), Flossmoor, Ill., is<br />
associate director of payroll at the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Illinois. She has two children, Rashaan and Jayden.<br />
Melissa (Stark) Hinkle (’92) and Eric<br />
Hinkle (’92) live in Hutchinson, Kan. Melissa is<br />
director of marketing and public information at<br />
Hutchinson Community College. They have two<br />
children, Brian and Sabrina.<br />
Michael Justice (’92), Shawnee, Kan., is the<br />
owner of Marathon Computing. He has two<br />
children, Brian and Timothy.<br />
Charles Katz (’92), Scottsdale, Ariz., is an<br />
associate professor and director of the Center<br />
for Violence Prevention at Arizona <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>. He and his wife, Keri, have three<br />
children, Nicholas, Zoe and Sloane.<br />
Brenda (Williams) MacLellan (’92), Liberty,<br />
Mo., owns Bead Browsery, a bead store. She<br />
has had two designs published by Bead & Button<br />
Magazine and was a semi-finalist in Swarovski<br />
Crystal’s International Design competition,<br />
professional division, in 2007. She and her<br />
husband, Russell, have two children, Jackson<br />
and Kate; bmaclellan@aol.com.<br />
B.J. Pumroy (’92) was named director of<br />
athletics at Shepherd <strong>University</strong> in<br />
Shepherdstown, W.V.<br />
Liz Root (’92), Maitland, Fla., is principal/owner<br />
of Bedford Cost Segregation;<br />
eroot@bedfordcostseg.com.<br />
Sketchpad Warrior<br />
For Kristopher Battles’ (’91) most recent<br />
deployment with the United <strong>State</strong>s<br />
Marine Corps, his instructions were,<br />
“Go to war, do art.” As a combat artist, Battles’<br />
duties vary from those of a typical Marine,<br />
although he served as a Marine Reservist in the<br />
late 1980s and re-enlisted in 2006 to join the<br />
art and military spheres of his life.<br />
Battles remembers hearing about the<br />
Combat Art Program when he first enlisted.<br />
He had even met with a combat artist and<br />
seen the work of former Marine Artists in<br />
Residence at various bases and in offices. At<br />
the time, Battles thought it sounded like a<br />
great position, but didn’t pursue it any further<br />
until 2005 when he came across a blog by a<br />
Marine Corps combat artist stationed in Iraq.<br />
He decided to go out on a limb by e-mailing<br />
the current combat artist to explain that he<br />
was a former Marine and a current artist.<br />
Battles exchanged photos of artwork with the<br />
combat artist, who asked if he could pass<br />
them on to his superiors.<br />
Shortly thereafter, he was contacted about<br />
re-joining the ranks; this time as an artist.<br />
After talking with his wife, Kelly, and passing<br />
his physical, Battles re-enlisted in June of<br />
2006, was called to active duty in September,<br />
and then deployed in October and was on his<br />
way to Iraq for a combat art tour.<br />
While deployed, Battles experiences life as<br />
a Marine and makes art based on that<br />
experience. “The scenes are usually what we<br />
like to call ‘slice of life’ images, and can depict<br />
anything that a Marine might do or experience<br />
over there,” Battles said. “From life in a<br />
Forward Operating Base to a combat patrol, to<br />
a flight in a CH53 helicopter.”<br />
Many of Battles’ deployment pieces are<br />
sketches and watercolors, while his studio pieces<br />
are more geared toward oils and even clay for<br />
Rachel Thomas-Wilson ('92), Los Angeles,<br />
Calif., is an English teacher at Manhattan Beach<br />
Middle School.<br />
Gretchen Vaughn (’92) and Bob Hartzell live<br />
in Saint Louis, Mo.; grvaughnlaw@yahoo.com.<br />
Dionne Wilson (’92) is a lieutenant colonel and<br />
assumed command of the Denver Army Recruiting<br />
Battalion in Denver, Colo., on June 16, 2010.<br />
1993<br />
John Adams (’93), Saint Louis, Mo., is a staff<br />
interpreter with Deaf Inter-Link.<br />
Joe Bambenek (’93) was ordained a Catholic<br />
priest for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and<br />
Minneapolis (Minn.) on May 29, 2010, and is<br />
now serving as an associate pastor at the<br />
Nativity of Our Lord Parish in St. Paul, Minn.<br />
Kristopher Battles (’91)<br />
shown sketching at<br />
Combat Outpost Falcon<br />
in Ramadi, Iraq, in<br />
December 2006. Photo<br />
by Marine Lt. Col.<br />
Kurt Wheeler<br />
larger “finished”<br />
pieces. One can find<br />
many of Kristopher<br />
Battles’ pieces in the<br />
National Museum of<br />
the Marine Corps in<br />
Quantico, Va.<br />
“It is really<br />
rewarding when<br />
family members of<br />
Marines deployed<br />
overseas write or call<br />
me and tell me they<br />
appreciate what I’m<br />
doing, and that their<br />
son or daughter was<br />
in a particular place I<br />
sketched, or maybe<br />
even the subject of<br />
one of my works,”<br />
Battles said.<br />
He also has<br />
civilian pieces in the<br />
<strong>University</strong> Residence<br />
and various offices<br />
around the <strong>Truman</strong><br />
campus.<br />
While at <strong>Truman</strong>,<br />
Battles enjoyed his<br />
involvement with Campus Crusade for Christ<br />
and the Art Club, in addition to talking art in<br />
the Art Lounge or Student Union Building.<br />
Today, the father of three spends free time<br />
with his children and reading on his Kindle.<br />
When time allows, he also enjoys shooting on<br />
the range and sketching and painting his<br />
landscape paintings in oil.<br />
To learn more about Battles and his works,<br />
visit his blog, “Sketchpad Warrior,” at<br />
kjbattles.blogspot.com.<br />
Amanda Goeser<br />
To see ordination pictures, go to<br />
www.frjoeordination.info.<br />
Cynthia (Wilson) Dooley (’93) and Craig<br />
Dooley (’92) live in Wilmette, Ill. Cynthia<br />
works in marketing/public relations at Cannon<br />
Frank A Design Corporation. They have three<br />
children, Payton, Piper and Cecilia.<br />
Candace Flatt (’93), Charleston, Ill., is a<br />
budget analyst at Eastern Illinois <strong>University</strong>. She<br />
has two children, Evan and Eli.<br />
Julie (Hostetter) Foster (’93) moved to<br />
Columbia, Mo., in 2009 to work at <strong>University</strong><br />
of Missouri Health Systems as a charge data<br />
analyst (nurse auditor). In October 2010, she<br />
transferred to a newly-created position as a<br />
business technology analyst at the Missouri<br />
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Orthopedic Institute. She has a daughter,<br />
Angela; jhfoster60@gmail.com.<br />
Tony Frost (’93) and Kristin (Jaskiewicz)<br />
Frost live in Saint Louis, Mo. Tony is an<br />
assistant professor at Saint Louis Community<br />
College-Meramec. They have a son, Holden.<br />
Stephanie (Taliaferro) Greenwood (’93),<br />
Kansas City, Mo., is a senior media relations<br />
manager with Sprint. She and her husband,<br />
Alex, have a daughter, Caroline.<br />
Brian Johanpeter (’93), Mattoon, Ill., is an<br />
information technology director for the City of<br />
Mattoon. He and his wife, Michelle, have four<br />
children, Kaleb, Arielle, Victoria and Mayla.<br />
Kristina (Martin) Martin (’93, ’95),<br />
Tonganoxie, Kan., is a diagnostician for the Park<br />
Hill School District; martink@parkhill.k12.mo.us.<br />
Christopher Oppliger (’93), Overland Park,<br />
Kan., is an assistant consulting actuary for<br />
Actuarial Resources Corp; coppliger@kc.rr.com.<br />
Paul Popiel (’93) and Julie (Sweeter) Popiel<br />
(’93) live in Lawrence, Kan. Paul is director of<br />
bands at the <strong>University</strong> of Kansas. They have<br />
two children, Nicholas and Keith;<br />
paul.popiel@gmail.com.<br />
Jon Van Nevel (’93), Tampa, Fla., is a hospital<br />
manager at Tampa Veterinary Hospital.<br />
1994<br />
Jason Buschjost (’94) and Wendy Jill<br />
Hagedorn-Buschjost (’94) live in Jefferson<br />
City, Mo. Jason works in pharmaceutical sales<br />
for Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals. They<br />
have two children, Griffin and Jacie.<br />
Todd Fitts (’94), Atlanta, Ga., is the founder<br />
and CEO of Improveat LLC.<br />
Kristen (Nisbet) Guehne (’94), Saint Louis,<br />
Mo., is an operations supervisor for Investment<br />
Manager. She and her husband, Dan, have a<br />
son, Jacob.<br />
David Lissauer (’94) and Sara (Ward)<br />
Lissauer (’95) live in Overland Park, Kan. David<br />
is a teacher at Merriam Park Elementary School.<br />
They have three children, Leah, Anna and Isaac.<br />
Sally (Deen) Mackey (’94) and David<br />
Mackey (’93) live in Columbia, Mo. Sally is a<br />
senior software developer for Missouri<br />
Employers Mutual. They have three children,<br />
Luke, Lindsey and Liam.<br />
Robert Tesdahl (’94), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is<br />
an assistant manager for Aegon USA Inc.<br />
Think green<br />
To make the most out of our limited<br />
resources, the <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Association<br />
will be utilizing e-mail and the Web site to<br />
provide news and invitations to alumni. You<br />
can help by making sure we have your<br />
preferred e-mail address. Please provide us<br />
with your e-mail address and any other<br />
updated information by using the form on the<br />
inside back cover of this magazine or go<br />
online at http://alumni.truman.edu/<br />
and look for the “Update <strong>Alumni</strong>/<br />
Contact Info” link.<br />
Jeffrey Tomschin (’94), Royal Oak, Mich., is<br />
vice president of human resources for Phillips<br />
Service Industries Inc. He is SPHR, GPHR, CBP<br />
and CCP certified by the HR Certification<br />
Institute and the WorldatWork Society of<br />
Certified Professionals. Jeffrey is also immediate<br />
past president of the Human Resources<br />
Association of Greater Detroit.<br />
Larry Ullman (’94) and Jessica Meredith<br />
Currall (’95) live in <strong>State</strong> College, Pa. They<br />
have two children, Zoe and Sam.<br />
Cheryl (Van Hoose) Weaver (’94) and<br />
Lance Weaver (’93) live in La Grange, Ky.<br />
Cheryl works for JPMorganChase. They have<br />
two children, Grady and Chase.<br />
1995<br />
Chelle Adams (’95), a Business Advisory and<br />
Internal Audit Services partner at RubinBrown,<br />
was selected to participate in the St. Louis Business<br />
Diversity Initiative’s Fellows Program, a year-long<br />
leadership program designed to enhance and<br />
address the interests and developments of talented<br />
diverse professionals in the St. Louis region.<br />
Faith Baker (’95), Des Moines, Iowa, is a<br />
paralegal with Wasker, Dorr, Wimmer and<br />
Marcouiller PC; fabaker13@peoplepc.com.<br />
David Bourdon (’95), Carlsbad, Calif., is a<br />
senior scientist-biomarker discovery with Life<br />
Technologies. He is an avid triathlete currently<br />
training for Ironman Arizona.<br />
Christian Boyd (’95) and Karen Selbert<br />
(’94) live in O’Fallon, Mo. Christian graduated<br />
from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., on<br />
May 30, 2010, with a doctor of ministry in<br />
congregational mission and leadership and is<br />
the new church development pastor for<br />
Presbytery of Giddings Lovejoy, Presbyterian<br />
Church (USA). Karen is a principal veterinarian<br />
at the Troy, Ill., branch of Hawthorne Animal<br />
Hospital; selbertboyd@yahoo.com.<br />
Michele (Lehmann) Burns (’95, ’98) and<br />
William Burns (’95) live in Moorhead, Minn.<br />
Michele is an academic advisor at Minnesota<br />
<strong>State</strong> Community and Technical College.<br />
Lynn (Biberdorf) Carter (’95, ’98) was<br />
permanently professed as a Sister of Penance in<br />
the Secular Franciscan Order on April 18, 2010.<br />
She has a son, Nolon, and a daughter, Rosie.<br />
Cynthia (Pahl) Cobb (’95, ’97), Bolingbrook, Ill.,<br />
is a stay-at-home mom. She and her husband,<br />
Mark, have two children, Rachel and Ethan.<br />
Amy Jean (Schlemper) Fifer (’95, ’97),<br />
Kansas City, Mo., is a language arts teacher<br />
with the Pleasant Hill R-III School District.<br />
James Heidenreich (’95), Springfield, Va., is a<br />
military analyst and planner for L-3<br />
Communications. He and his spouse, Blake<br />
Aronson, have a daughter, Gabrielle.<br />
Bradley Hulse (’95), Oak Grove, Mo., is an<br />
estimator for JE Dunn Construction Company.<br />
He and his wife, Amy, have two children, Skyler<br />
and Logan.<br />
John Ketcherside (’ 95), Virginia Beach, Va.,<br />
received a degree in the history of land warfare<br />
from American Military <strong>University</strong> in 2010 and<br />
works in logistics with the U.S. Marine Corps.<br />
He and his wife, Kara, have a son, Alexander.<br />
Frances (Davis) Lennix (’95) is self-employed<br />
and lives in Chicago, Ill.<br />
Mark LePorte (’95), West Des Moines, Iowa, is<br />
an operations manager for Wells Fargo. He and<br />
his wife, Christa, have two children, Sydney and<br />
Mason; mleporte@q.com.<br />
Brian Patrick Morton (’95) and Robyn<br />
(Reed) Morton (’97) live in Terre Haute, Ind.<br />
They have two children, Alex and Ian.<br />
Jennifer (Jackson) Satterfield (’95), Lee’s<br />
Summit, Mo., is a homemaker. She and her<br />
husband, Chris, have two children, Aidan and<br />
Landry.<br />
Carman Visnich Hernandez (’95, ’96) and<br />
her husband, Armando, announce the birth of<br />
Christopher Armando on Dec. 16, 2009. They<br />
also have a daughter, Natali;<br />
mexicoteacher@hotmail.com.<br />
1996<br />
Tyson Bragg (’96) and Cheryl (Gabriel)<br />
Bragg (’94) live in Lake Saint Louis, Mo. Tyson<br />
is a human resources manager for Enterprise<br />
Rent-A-Car.<br />
Matthew Bramon (’96), Olathe, Kan., is a<br />
senior analyst with U.S. Central Credit Union.<br />
He and his wife, Krista, have a son, Aleczander.<br />
Kathy (Burger) Butler (’96, ’98), Lee’s<br />
Summit, Mo., is a principal at Independence<br />
School District-Mill Creek Elementary.<br />
Mark Cross (’96), Sugar Grove, Ill., is the<br />
owner of Redzone Group LLC , and<br />
owner/operator of two of the leading Jersey<br />
Mike’s Subs stores in the countryJersey<br />
Mike’s Naperville and Jersey Mike’s<br />
Auroraand a third store which opened in<br />
Lisle, Ill., in September 2010. Mark also coaches<br />
varsity running backs at Naperville Central High<br />
School. He and his wife, Rebecca, have three<br />
children, Ryan, Kellan and Gavin.<br />
Rachel (Kapke) Dold (’96), Kansas City, Mo., is<br />
a stay-at-home mom. She and her husband,<br />
Christopher, have two children, Mary and Henry.<br />
Courtney Dryer (’96, ’97), Grain Valley, Mo.,<br />
is a reading recovery teacher with the Oak<br />
Grove School District.<br />
Deborah Engle (’96, ’97), Durham, N.C., is<br />
director of assessment and evaluation at Duke<br />
<strong>University</strong> School of Medicine.<br />
Nathan Forrest (’96), Ballwin, Mo., works in<br />
the technology department for the Kirkwood<br />
School District. He and his wife, Cailin, have<br />
three children, Jackson, Brady and Maria.<br />
Pat Granada (’96), Chicago, Ill., is a medical<br />
social worker for the orthopedic/surgical unit<br />
at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital;<br />
p_granada@hotmail.com.<br />
Darwin Harris (’96), Los Angeles, Calif., is an<br />
actor/voiceover actor for CBS Television;<br />
www.darwinharris.com.<br />
William Keller (’96), Grover, Mo., is director<br />
of program management for Thomson Reuters.<br />
He and his wife, Joanna, have two children,<br />
Audrey and Aaron.<br />
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Newsmakers<br />
Harry Gallatin (’49) was<br />
enshrined as part of the<br />
inaugural Mid-America<br />
Intercollegiate Athletics<br />
Association Hall of Fame.<br />
Gallatin played basketball<br />
between 1946-48 on what a<br />
majority of <strong>Truman</strong> supporters call the greatest<br />
two teams in the history of the sport at the<br />
university. He was a two-time All-MIAA<br />
selection and scored 816 career points in just<br />
two years of play. Gallatin made the NBA All-<br />
Pro Team in 1953-54 and 1954-55 while playing<br />
with the New York Knicks.<br />
Paul Wilson (’59), of<br />
Shelbyville, Mo., has been<br />
selected as the 2010<br />
Northeast Missouri<br />
Livestock Person of the<br />
Year. He was inducted into<br />
the Missouri Livestock<br />
Symposium’s Hall of Fame<br />
at the 2010 Missouri<br />
Livestock Symposium this past December in<br />
Kirksville, Mo. Paul has been an active livestock<br />
producer and advocate for livestock producers<br />
and livestock production in general.<br />
Photo courtesy Toni Moore Photography<br />
Judy (Mac Bain) Alter (’64), of Fort<br />
Worth, Texas, was inducted into the Texas<br />
Literary Hall of Fame in October 2010. Judy<br />
serves as director of Texas Christian <strong>University</strong><br />
Press and is a novelist and author of books for<br />
both adults and young readers.<br />
Helen<br />
(Breidenstein)<br />
Fenlon (’64) and<br />
Bob Fenlon (’65),<br />
of Mexico, Mo.,<br />
Photo courtesy The Mexico Ledger were honored with<br />
the Stribling Community Service Award<br />
presented by the Mexico Area Chamber of<br />
Commerce. The Fenlons are both partners in<br />
Fenlon and Fenlon, Attorneys at Law.<br />
Dennis Crabtree (’70) received the Iowa<br />
Lions Ralph A. Whitten Service Award at the<br />
Iowa Lions <strong>State</strong> Convention in Des Moines,<br />
Iowa, on June 5, 2010.<br />
Paul Copenhaver (’73) of<br />
Moberly, Mo., has been inducted<br />
into the Missouri Bandmasters<br />
Association’s Hall of Fame. The<br />
MBA Hall of Fame selections are<br />
based on exemplary service and<br />
dedication to music education<br />
and bands in Missouri. Copenhaver has taught<br />
bands at all levels in the Moberly Public Schools<br />
from 1973-2006 and is the band director at<br />
Moberly’s St. Pius X School. He is also the<br />
assistant conductor/principal trumpet of the<br />
Columbia Community Band, performs on<br />
trumpet with the Show-Me Brass Band and the<br />
Harmonium Brass Quintet.<br />
Sandra D. Feemster (’82) was named<br />
“Teacher of the Year” for the <strong>University</strong> City<br />
(Mo.) School District. She has taught in the<br />
district for 23 years and currently works with<br />
fifth and sixth graders as a teacher for science,<br />
math, and reading.<br />
Keri (Nowlin) Tipton<br />
(’89), of Columbia, Mo., was a<br />
finalist for the Columbia Daily<br />
Tribune 2010 Business Woman<br />
of the Year Award. The<br />
awards program recognizes<br />
women who exemplify the<br />
highest standards of the<br />
Columbia business community. Keri is<br />
president of Bucket Media Inc., a media buying<br />
firm that was named as a finalist for the 2010<br />
Small Business of the Year Award presented by<br />
the Columbia Chamber of Commerce.<br />
Bob Hall (’90) was named<br />
Educator of the Year by the<br />
Missouri Middle School<br />
Association. Hall teaches<br />
eighth-grade algebra, prealgebra<br />
and math projects and<br />
applications at the Kirksville<br />
Middle School.<br />
Steve Willott (’91, ’92)<br />
received the Presidential<br />
Award for Mathematics and<br />
Science Teaching. Winners of<br />
this Presidential honor receive<br />
a $10,000 award from the<br />
National Science Foundation<br />
to be used at their discretion<br />
as well as an expenses-paid trip to<br />
Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony<br />
and several days of educational and<br />
celebratory events, including visits with<br />
members of Congress and science agency<br />
leaders. Willott teaches Advanced Placement<br />
Statistics and Calculus at Francis Howell North<br />
High School in St. Charles, Mo.<br />
Sue (Eschelmeyer) Carter (’94) was<br />
selected as one of San Diego Metropolitan<br />
Magazine’s “40 Under 40,” which recognizes<br />
the achievements of young business and civic<br />
leaders in the San Diego, Calif., region. She was<br />
also appointed by then Gov. Schwarzenegger to<br />
serve with CaliforniaVolunteers, the state<br />
commission on volunteering.<br />
Anna (Worrell) Baker (’99), Wichita, Kan.,<br />
was selected as a member of the “40 Under<br />
40” Class of 2010 by the Wichita Business<br />
Journal. The publication recognizes outstanding<br />
young professionals for their business success<br />
and their contributions to the community.<br />
Baker is a senior commercial analyst with<br />
Intrust Bank NA.<br />
Amanda White (’99) was selected to<br />
receive a “Future Leaders” fellowship awarded<br />
by the Theatre Communications Group, a<br />
national organization that strengthens,<br />
nurtures and promotes professional not-forprofit<br />
American theatre. In “Future Leaders,”<br />
emerging leaders in all areas of theatre are<br />
mentored by accomplished theatre professionals<br />
at a host theater. Starting in January<br />
2011, White is spending 18 months serving as<br />
the associate artistic director for the William<br />
Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kan.<br />
She is working with Peter Ellenstein, the<br />
artistic director of the Inge Center, who is<br />
mentoring White in running a successful<br />
professional rural theatre organization through<br />
collaborations with volunteers, community and<br />
educational organizations.<br />
Elizabeth “Lizzie”<br />
Schuerman (’00),<br />
an associate with Tabbert<br />
Hahn Earnest & Weddle, LLP,<br />
was selected as the 2010<br />
Indianapolis Bar Association<br />
Young Lawyer of the Year. As<br />
committee chair of the Young Lawyers Division<br />
Bar Enhancement Committee, she organized<br />
well-attended and highly praised quarterly<br />
luncheons including a judges roundtable,<br />
mediator’s roundtable, and a financial planning<br />
session. She has also volunteered on the Go<br />
Green committee and participated in<br />
community beautification projects with Keep<br />
Indianapolis Beautiful.<br />
Dominic Armstrong (’02)<br />
made his debut in September<br />
2010 with the New York City<br />
Opera in the New York City<br />
debut of Leonard Bernstein’s<br />
final opera, “A Quiet Place.”<br />
He also sang at the Installation<br />
Ceremony for <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
President Troy D. Paino on Sept. 17, 2010.<br />
Alicia Busse (’03) has been included in the St.<br />
Louis Business Journal’s “30 Under 30” Class of<br />
2010. The award recognizes top young leaders<br />
for their accomplishments as business and<br />
community leaders. Busse is a compensation<br />
manager for Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.<br />
Andrew Greiner (’08, ’09)<br />
successfully completed the<br />
Uniform CPA Exam and was<br />
among 16 recipients honored<br />
with an Excel Award. The<br />
award is granted to Illinois<br />
CPAs wh o achieved a total<br />
average score of 90 or more and completed all<br />
four parts of the exam within two consecutive<br />
testing windows and were in the top five percent<br />
of the scores of those who completed all the<br />
requirements in Illinois. Medals are awarded to<br />
those with the top scores in the state.<br />
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Lyle Mann (’96), Mexico, Mo., is a financial<br />
manager for Beacon Street Construction LLC;<br />
lylemann1974@yahoo.com.<br />
Chris Mikkelsen (’96) and Jennifer<br />
(Burkhart) Mikkelsen (’96) live in Saint<br />
Charles, Mo. Chris is vice president of<br />
marketing for Wells Fargo Advisors. They have<br />
two children, Tyler and Katelyn.<br />
Mark Mlynarczyk (’96), Potomac, Md., is a<br />
public policy director for MEDImmune. He and<br />
his wife, Cheryl, have two children, Roman and<br />
Sarah; mlynarczykm@medimmune.com.<br />
Jennifer Nilges (’96) was appointed assistant<br />
principal at Ritenour High School in St. Louis.<br />
Eric Roadman (’96), Lee’s Summit, Mo., is an<br />
optometrist at Summit Lakes Eye Care. He and<br />
his wife, Betsy, have two children, Andrew and<br />
John; eroadman@hotmail.com.<br />
Jennifer (Marriott) Sackson (’96), Saint<br />
Louis, Mo., is director of sales and marketing<br />
analytics for Peabody Energy. She and her<br />
husband, Timothy, have a son, Owen.<br />
Scott Sifton (’96) was elected to the Missouri<br />
House of Representatives and began serving his<br />
two-year term on Jan. 5, 2011, representing the<br />
96th <strong>State</strong> House District, which is located in<br />
South St. Louis County.<br />
Jason Truesdell (’96) and Melissa (Jost)<br />
Truesdell (’96) live in Manchester, Mo. Jason<br />
is senior vice president, partner and associate<br />
counsel at Fleishman-Hillard Inc. Melissa is a<br />
homemaker. They have two children, Corey<br />
and Hannah; Truesdej@fleishman.com.<br />
Kathryn Wheeler (’96) lives in Camdenton,<br />
Mo.; pharmdkathy@yahoo.com.<br />
1997<br />
Ruth Anne Beutler (’97), New York, N.Y., is a<br />
staff nurse in the Emergency Department at St.<br />
Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan, N.Y.;<br />
ruthanne07@gmail.com.<br />
Brian Drake (’97) and Kristin (Meyer)<br />
Drake (’97) announce the birth of their third<br />
child, Zachary, born on June 4, 2010.<br />
Steven Greiner (’97) and Erin (Willey)<br />
Greiner (’97) live in Ventura, Calif. Steven<br />
works in business development/strategy for<br />
HDS. They have three children, William, Gavin<br />
and Annie.<br />
Laura (Sheridan) Miles (’97), Eielson AFB,<br />
Alaska, and her husband, John, have a son, Emmet.<br />
Paula (Kliethermes) Richard (’97, ’99),<br />
Iberia, Mo., is a fiscal coordinator for Missouri<br />
Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual<br />
Violence. She and her husband, Mark, have two<br />
children, Grady and Chase.<br />
Brian Schoppe (‘97) and his wife, Julie,<br />
announce the birth of their second child, a<br />
Great Texas<br />
Chefs<br />
By Judy (Mac Bain)<br />
Alter (’64)<br />
In Texas, “chef”<br />
covers a wide range<br />
of cooking styles.<br />
Included here are<br />
chefs who are<br />
heavily influenced by classical training,<br />
but there are also chefs who take<br />
Southwestern cuisine to a state of high<br />
art, chefs who specialize in Tex-Mex and<br />
others who cook the traditional dishes of<br />
the interior of Mexico and who bring<br />
new innovative touches to Mexican<br />
cuisine. There are even winery owners<br />
who combine their passion for fine wine<br />
with a passion for fine food. And what<br />
picture of Texas cooking would be<br />
complete without chuck-wagon cooking?<br />
This small book is not a comprehensive<br />
study of Texas chefs. Because of<br />
size limitations, many of the state’s best<br />
have been omitted with regret. The<br />
chefs on these pages were chosen to<br />
represent the styles of food available to<br />
the discriminating diner. Most but not<br />
all have cookbooks available. All but<br />
two have restaurants that beckon the<br />
Texas palate.<br />
The Epic of<br />
Kelefaa Saane<br />
By Sirifo Camara<br />
(author),<br />
Sana Camara<br />
(translator/editor),<br />
Associate Professor<br />
of French<br />
This powerful<br />
and popular epic<br />
honors the legendary warrior prince of<br />
Kaabu and Mandinka cultural hero,<br />
Kelefaa Saane. A standard of the griot<br />
repertoire, the epic of Kelefaa Saane is<br />
customarily taught to young performers<br />
at the beginning of their careers. Sirifo<br />
Camara’s masterful recitation was<br />
recorded in Dakar in 1987. It has been<br />
transcribed in Mandinka and is<br />
translated into English here for the first<br />
time. The epic, as it describes Kelefaa’s<br />
life and exploits, relates what it means<br />
to be Mandinka. Kelefaa’s extraordinary<br />
prowess and virtue derive from the<br />
political, social, moral, and theological<br />
founding myths of the Mandinka<br />
people. This beautiful and engaging<br />
performance provides a unique<br />
perspective on the intellectual and<br />
literary heritage of West Africa.<br />
Silver Smoke<br />
By Monica<br />
Leonelle Crupe<br />
(’06)<br />
Siblings Pilot<br />
and Brie van<br />
Rossum are exiled<br />
to Honolulu after<br />
their mother’s<br />
tragic death<br />
thrusts them into the paparazzi circus<br />
ring. It is there that Brie meets the<br />
Hallows, a superhuman race descended<br />
from archangels, and discovers the<br />
shocking secrets of her past that put her<br />
family’s lives in jeopardy. Meanwhile,<br />
Pilot meets a mysterious girl who helps<br />
him research an ancient feud between<br />
two Hawaiian families and tries to<br />
figure out why his best friend Rykken is<br />
acting so strange lately.<br />
13 Treasures:<br />
Book One<br />
By Ethan<br />
Dempsey (’99)<br />
High school<br />
senior Evan<br />
Snowden loves his<br />
eccentric<br />
grandfather more<br />
than anything.<br />
Grandpa Kent is an adventurer, a man<br />
who seeks to answer history’s greatest<br />
mysteries. To Evan he’s a man of<br />
wonderful stories. It’s these stories that<br />
have enthralled and captivated Evan for<br />
years. But a vicious attack on his<br />
grandfather plunges Evan and his best<br />
friend, Charlie, into a world of intrigue,<br />
danger, and unimaginable discovery. A<br />
world that Evan has only known in the<br />
voice of his grandfather. Until now.<br />
Capital<br />
Cooking<br />
Cookbook<br />
By Lauren<br />
DeSantis (’03)<br />
Capital Cooking<br />
Cookbook features<br />
a delectable<br />
collection of recipes exploring the<br />
culinary riches of our nation’s capital.<br />
The companion book to the TV series,<br />
Capital Cooking with Lauren DeSantis,<br />
highlights cooking traditions of<br />
regional cuisine from around the<br />
country as well as international dishes.<br />
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Grassroots School<br />
Reform: A<br />
Community Guide to<br />
Developing Globally<br />
Competitive<br />
Students<br />
By Kent A. Farnsworth<br />
(’79)<br />
Grassroots School Reform<br />
argues that significant<br />
education reform will not come from state or<br />
federal policy change, but from locally stimulated<br />
initiatives that reclaim responsibility for selecting<br />
committed leadership and force states to grant<br />
greater local autonomy. Using as a blueprint<br />
exemplary charter schools, Farnsworth argues<br />
that public policy must extend chartering<br />
privileges to all schools and allow them to pursue<br />
excellence without the restraints of state and<br />
federal restriction.<br />
Dr. Seth’s Love<br />
Prescription:<br />
Overcome<br />
Relationship<br />
Repetition Syndrome<br />
and Find the Love<br />
You Deserve<br />
By Seth Meyers with<br />
Katie Gilbert (’05)<br />
The landscape of love is<br />
littered with people injured by love time and time<br />
again. And so they hobble from one bad<br />
relationship to another. But it doesn’t have to be<br />
that way. Noted psychologist Seth Meyers, PsyD—<br />
aka Dr. Seth—has developed a foolproof four-step<br />
cure for Relationship Repetition Syndrome (RRS).<br />
With this book, you can avoid making the<br />
same mistakes in your love life over and over<br />
again. With behavioral exercises and questionnaires<br />
designed to reveal the RRS behaviors that<br />
sabotage love, you'll learn why your relationships<br />
have failed, and how you can love more wisely—<br />
and happily—the next time.<br />
Armed with Dr. Seth’s unique love action plan,<br />
you can put the pain of dead-end relationships<br />
behind you and find true love that lasts—forever<br />
cured of RRS!<br />
Replaying the<br />
Renaissance: Essays<br />
on Shakespeare,<br />
Jonson, and Others<br />
By the late Arnold<br />
Preussner, Professor of<br />
English<br />
This book is a collection of<br />
essays on diverse works of<br />
English Renaissance<br />
literature. In 40 essays, some previously<br />
published, others developed out of conference<br />
presentations, Replaying the Renaissance offers<br />
insight into how a genuine Renaissance man<br />
views his world.<br />
Though Shakespeare and Ben Jonson are<br />
featured in about half of the essays, others<br />
explore comic practices from the Greek<br />
playwright Aristophanes through film directors<br />
Woody Allen and Nora Ephron. The breadth of<br />
Preussner’s interests comes out in essays<br />
highlighting beast fables, marriage conventions,<br />
gender coding and even political wisdom. They<br />
cover 35 years’ worth of reflections on human art<br />
and human nature.<br />
Replaying the Renaissance is dedicated to<br />
Preussner’s wife, <strong>Truman</strong> professor Alanna<br />
Preussner, and to their daughter Amy. The cover<br />
was designed by Rusty Nelson, chair of the<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> Art Department.<br />
Mexico, Missouri:<br />
Our All-American<br />
City in the American<br />
Century<br />
By Donald R. Shire (’57)<br />
This 128-page pictorial<br />
history about Mexico, Mo.,<br />
is a compilation of more<br />
than 450 photographs<br />
donated by the public, individuals and several<br />
local institutions and businesses. The photos and<br />
accompanying narrative depict eras such as<br />
Mexico’s business district in the early 1900s; the<br />
All-American City recognition presented by Look<br />
magazine in 1954; the visit by 27th President<br />
William Howard Taft; the city’s cattle industry;<br />
Mexico’s railroad and airway systems, as well as<br />
its automotive arena; the African-American<br />
community; the city’s various schools, the<br />
Mexico Christian Seminary for Girls, the<br />
Missouri Military Academy, McMillan High<br />
School and Garfield School; the former Miss<br />
Missouri Debbye Turner, who became Miss<br />
America in 1990; A.P. Green, and the city’s other<br />
brick refractories; Mexico’s rich Saddlebred<br />
history, the famous trainer Tom Bass, and the<br />
equestrian team that captured a bronze medal in<br />
the 1952 Summer Olympics; among many more.<br />
Capturing Jonathan<br />
Pollard<br />
By Ronald Olive (’76)<br />
Jonathan Jay Pollard, an<br />
intelligence analyst working<br />
in the U.S. Naval<br />
Investigative Service’s Anti-<br />
Terrorist Alert Center,<br />
systematically stole highly<br />
sensitive security secrets<br />
from almost every major intelligence-gathering<br />
agency in the United <strong>State</strong>s. Ronald J. Olive, the<br />
author of this book, was the assistant special<br />
agent in charge of counterintelligence in the<br />
Washington office of the Naval Investigative<br />
Service who led the whirlwind investigation<br />
against Pollard. Olive interrogated Pollard and<br />
garnered the confession that led to his arrest in<br />
November 1985 and eventual life sentence.<br />
During the 20-plus years that Pollard has spent<br />
in prison, many questions have arisen about the<br />
case because it never went to trial and so much<br />
information surrounding it remains classified.<br />
Most of the books and articles that have been<br />
written about Pollard denounce his life sentence<br />
as unjust.<br />
This book tells the other side of the story. It is<br />
an account from deep inside the espionage<br />
investigation that gives details of Pollard’s<br />
confession immediately following his arrest and<br />
describes Pollard’s interaction with the author<br />
before and during the time suspicion about his<br />
activities was mounting. Revealed are countless<br />
other details that have never before been made<br />
public. Calling the Pollard story an extreme case<br />
of a counterintelligence failure, Olive writes that<br />
mistaken assumptions and leadership failures<br />
enabled Pollard to ransack America’s defense<br />
intelligence long after he should have been fired.<br />
The author hopes the vital insights his book<br />
offers will serve as a lesson in history and prevent<br />
similar problems in the future and provide an<br />
antidote to the uncertainty that has fueled<br />
speculation, rumor, and lies surrounding the<br />
Pollard case.<br />
The Coconut Club<br />
By Ken Ralls (’62)<br />
This is author Ken Ralls’<br />
final novel in the McKay's<br />
Island series. Writing the<br />
series has opened countless<br />
doors to many new and<br />
renewed friendships for<br />
him. It has resulted in a love<br />
of creating paper mache<br />
creatures and objects to be used at his book<br />
signings, school presentations, and civic group<br />
presentations.<br />
The Great<br />
Midwestern Gin Mill<br />
Particular Vol. 1<br />
By Michael Kitzman<br />
(current student)<br />
This slim volume contains<br />
33 short stories. Among the<br />
stories are “The Ballast of<br />
Professor Barnum’s Balloon,” “The Golden Seas,”<br />
“A Conversation Between Friends” and “A<br />
Postcard From The Atlantic.”<br />
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daughter, Zoe, born on June 18, 2010;<br />
brianschoppe@yahoo.com.<br />
Danielle (Porter) Smith (’97), Edwardsville,<br />
Ill., is vice president, human resources, for<br />
TheBank of Edwardsville. She and her husband,<br />
Michael, have two children, Evelyn and Derek.<br />
Tami (Poehlman) Smull (’97, ’98), Saint<br />
Charles, Mo., is vice president of The St. Louis<br />
Trust Company.<br />
Carrie Stock (’97), Longmont, Colo., is an<br />
eighth-grade teacher and coach for the St. Vrain<br />
Valley School District.<br />
Laura (Hoechst) Swisher (’97) married<br />
Adam Swisher (’97) in May 2009. Laura is a<br />
research patient coordinator/professional at<br />
the Washington <strong>University</strong> School of Medicine;<br />
lhoechst@gmail.com.<br />
Jon Tavares (’97), Kailua, Hawaii, is a regional<br />
manager for Standard Parking Corporation. He<br />
and his wife, Michele, have four children,<br />
Meghann, Jon, Oren and Paul.<br />
Patrick Wheeler (’97) and Teresa<br />
(Cunningham) Wheeler (’93, ’94) live in<br />
Leander, Texas. Patrick is director of IT services<br />
for Kinesis Survey Technologies. Teresa is a<br />
homemaker and homeschool mother. They<br />
have four children, Nicole, Alexander,<br />
Nathaniel and Gabriel.<br />
1998<br />
Lara Blake Bors (’98) joined the Levy Law<br />
Office in Garden City, Kan., after working for<br />
the Finney County Attorney’s Office.<br />
Justin Hettick (’98) is a research chemist for the<br />
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in<br />
Morgantown, W.V. Amy Jo (Kruger) Hettick<br />
(’98) teaches chemistry at Morgantown High<br />
School. They celebrated the birth of their first<br />
child, Samuel Liam, on Dec. 16, 2009;<br />
jhettick@cdc.gov and ajhettick@gmail.com.<br />
Craig Hudson (’98) and Sara (Hannah)<br />
Hudson (’97) live in Jerseyville, Ill. Craig is a<br />
<strong>State</strong> Farm Insurance agent. They have four<br />
children, Hannah, Sally, Josie and Kate;<br />
craig@craighudson.com.<br />
Mason Keller (’98) and Rebecca (Hennekes)<br />
Keller live in Saint Louis, Mo. Mason was<br />
promoted to the rank of lieutenant with the Saint<br />
Louis County Police Department in May of 2009.<br />
They have three children, William, Adeline and<br />
Zachary; mkeller@stlouisco.com.<br />
Jim Lorenz (’98), Ballwin, Mo., is a project<br />
manager for MasterCard. He and his wife, Erin,<br />
have two children, Paige and Kate.<br />
Susan (Senger) Mason (’98) and Kurt<br />
Mason (’98) live in Kansas City, Mo. Susan is<br />
an education facilitator at the Kansas City Zoo.<br />
Kurt is a physical therapist at <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Kansas Medical Center. They have two children,<br />
Mark and Erik; masons88@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Tina (Phipps) McCulloch (’98), Jefferson<br />
City, Mo., works in the accounting department<br />
at Jefferson City Medical Group PC. She and<br />
her husband, Shawn, have two children, Laney<br />
and Race; tmcculloch@jcmg.org.<br />
Patrick Monaghan (’98) and Amy (Berg)<br />
Monaghan (’98, ’99) announce the birth of<br />
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their fifth child on June 18, 2010. Madison joins<br />
Brendan, Kyleigh, Mackenzie, and Emma.<br />
Jennifer (Bowling) Morris (’98), Plano, Texas,<br />
is manager of recruitment and employment for<br />
The Medical Center of Plano.<br />
Bonny (Young) Moseley (’98) and Alex<br />
Moseley (’98) live in Independence, Mo.<br />
Bonny is a store manager for Coldwater Creek.<br />
Alex is a senior solution designer with Cerner<br />
Corporation. They have two children, David<br />
and Katharine.<br />
Michael Myerson (’98), Lake Zurich, Ill., is a<br />
police officer with the Palatine Police<br />
Department; mmyerson50@att.net.<br />
Julie (Major) Reardon (’98) and John<br />
Reardon (’97, ’99) had their first child, Vivian<br />
Paige, born on July 15, 2010. Julie works in loan<br />
servicing at <strong>State</strong> Central Bank in Keokuk,<br />
Iowa. John teaches at Clark County R-I High<br />
School in Kahoka, Mo.<br />
Katie (Weyforth) Vanlandingham (’98) and<br />
her husband, Andy, announce the birth of their<br />
daughter, Avery, born on Jan. 27, 2010;<br />
ktweyforth@hotmail.com.<br />
1999<br />
Crystal (Williams) Clayton (’99) and<br />
Nicholas Clayton (’98) live in Fresno, Texas.<br />
Crystal is director of Student Services, Rice<br />
MBA Program, at Rice <strong>University</strong>. They have a<br />
daughter, Vivianne.<br />
Ethan Dempsey (’99) and Kim (Fried)<br />
Dempsey (’98) live in Four Seasons, Mo. Ethan<br />
teaches sixth grade in the Eldon R-I School<br />
District, and recently published his first novel, 13<br />
Treasures: Book One (see “Bookshelf” section).<br />
Debra (Hunt) Dieterichs (’99) lives in<br />
Arvada, Colo., and has two children, Abigail<br />
and Paul; colorado.debbie@hotmail.com.<br />
James Fraraccio (’99), Fenton, Mo., is an<br />
accounting supervisor for Enterprise Holdings Inc.<br />
He and his wife, Michelle, have a daughter, Emma.<br />
Rachel Hack (’99) joined the Software and<br />
Information Technology Association of Kansas<br />
as its president.<br />
Amber (Willard) Hinsley (’99) and Scott<br />
Hinsley (’98) live in Saint Charles, Mo. Amber<br />
is a professor at Saint Louis <strong>University</strong>. Scott is<br />
an editor with Brad Lachman Productions. They<br />
have a daughter, Alexandra.<br />
Melissa Kendrick (’99, ’00), Monroe City, Mo.,<br />
teaches second grade at Monroe City<br />
Elementary.<br />
Beth (Nelson) O’Keefe (’99) and<br />
Christopher O’Keefe (’97) live in Columbia,<br />
Mo. Beth works for Shelter Insurance<br />
Company, and Christopher works for AAA;<br />
parthenos69@hotmail.com.<br />
Natalie Parks (’99), Smyrna, Ga., is a senior<br />
psychologist at Marcus Autism Center.<br />
Chrissy (Sooklall) Teske (’99), St. Louis, Mo.,<br />
is an attorney with RaboAgrifinance;<br />
jcsooklall@gmail.com.<br />
Matthew Tucker (’99) and Karen<br />
(Hentchel) Tucker (’98) live in Byrnes Mill,<br />
Mo. Matthew is vice president of AFWC Inc.<br />
They have two daughters, Kaitlyn and Hannah.<br />
2000<br />
Molly (Zuroweste) Albart (’00), Arlington,<br />
Texas, is director of apartment life at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Texas at Arlington. She and her<br />
husband, David, have three children, Cooper,<br />
Jackson and Marcus.<br />
Laura (Van Byssum) Brickey (’00) is a district<br />
marketing manager for The Coca-Cola Company,<br />
focusing on the Smartwater and Vitaminwater<br />
brands. She and her husband, John, relocated to<br />
Houston, Texas, with their twin daughters (born<br />
in 2008); laurabrickey@yahoo.com.<br />
Eldron Burbridge (’00), Chicago, Ill., received<br />
a master’s in accountancy from DePaul<br />
<strong>University</strong> Kellstadt Graduate School of<br />
Business in 2009 and is a controller for the<br />
Golden Apple Foundation.<br />
Lawrence Chui (’00, ’02), Saint Paul, Minn.,<br />
received his PhD in accounting from the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of North Texas in 2010 and is an<br />
assistant professor of accounting at the <strong>University</strong><br />
of St. Thomas; lawrence.chui@stthomas.edu.<br />
Haley (Smith) Crellin, Marshfield, Mo., is the<br />
clinic director for Ideal Image. She and her<br />
husband, Kyle, have three children, Olivia,<br />
Augustus and Haden.<br />
Katie (Lampe) Hoevel (’00, ’02) and Kurt<br />
Hoevel (’00) live in St. Louis, Mo., and have a<br />
daughter, Lily, born on Feb. 25, 2010. Katie is a<br />
speech pathologist with the St. Louis Special<br />
School District. Kurt is an accountant for the<br />
St. Louis Cardinals.<br />
Kristen Marsh (’00), St. Louis, Mo., is an<br />
executive/project assistant for HBD Construction<br />
Inc.; bookworm_chica@yahoo.com.<br />
Tracie (Adams) Moore (’00) and Jeffrey<br />
Moore (’00) live in Saint Louis, Mo. Tracie is a<br />
principal at Hilltop Public Solutions, and they<br />
have a daughter, Betsy.<br />
Joseph Morgan (’00), Kansas City, Mo., is a<br />
senior chemist with the Midwest Research<br />
Institute. He and his partner, Alisha Amann, have<br />
two children, Josie Morgan and Ashton Amann.<br />
Melissa Mulvaney (’00, ’02) is studying<br />
acupuncture at Jung Tao School of Classical<br />
Chinese Medicine in Sugar Grove, N.C. She and<br />
her husband, Joseph, have a son, Willem.<br />
Kristin (Virag) Munson, Godfrey, Ill., is a<br />
retail operations supervisor for Carrollton<br />
Bank. She and her husband, Jay, have a son,<br />
Soren; kmunson78@gmail.com.<br />
Michael Murawski (’00, ’00) and Bryna Rae<br />
Campbell (’99) live in Saint Louis, Mo.<br />
Michael is the school services director at the St.<br />
Louis Art Museum. They have a son, Holden.<br />
Meredith (Boyt) Naughton (’00) and her<br />
husband, Blake, announce the birth of their<br />
first child, a daughter, Kennedy, born on Dec.<br />
7, 2009. They live in Philadelphia, Pa.;<br />
mznaughton@gmail.com.<br />
Andrew Roth (’00) and his wife, Amanda,<br />
announce the birth of their son and second<br />
child, Aidan, born on Aug. 23, 2010. Andrew<br />
earned his MBA from the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Missouri-St. Louis in May 2010 and is a manager<br />
of eligibility operations for Express Scripts. He
eceived the 2010 North County<br />
Incorporated’s 30 Leaders in their 30s Award.<br />
Frederick Wolfmeyer (’00), St. Louis, Mo., is<br />
a realtor with Prudential Alliance, Realtors. He<br />
and his wife, Katherine, have two children,<br />
Alyssa and Zachary; fwolfmeyer@pruall.com.<br />
2001<br />
John Ayres (’01) is now counsel at Amgen Inc.<br />
in Thousand Oaks, Calif., after spending the<br />
past four years at the law firm of Latham &<br />
Watkins LLP in Chicago, Ill.;<br />
john.ayres13@yahoo.com.<br />
Kim (Harris) Fanning (’01), New Albany, Ind.,<br />
is self-employed. She and her husband, James,<br />
have a son, Lucas.<br />
Mary (Kristensen) Gustin (’01) is pursuing a<br />
graduate teaching license in English as a second<br />
language (ESL) at Minnesota <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in<br />
Mankato, Minn.<br />
John Haney (’01) and Katie (Barth) Haney<br />
(’02) live in Plano, Ill. John is a senior systems<br />
engineer with Lextech Global Services. They<br />
have two children, Samantha and Everett.<br />
Peter McVey (’01), Lenexa, Kan., received his<br />
MBA from Baker <strong>University</strong> in 2010 and is a<br />
treasury services officer, product development,<br />
for Commerce Bank NA;<br />
peter_mcvey@hotmail.com.<br />
Sandy (Tenbrink) Peterson (’01),<br />
Chesapeake Beach, Md., is a mathematical<br />
statistician for the U.S. Census Bureau. She and<br />
her husband, Alan, have one child, Casey.<br />
Becky (Russell) Quinn (’01) is a fellows mentor<br />
for the <strong>University</strong> of Missouri. She works with<br />
the Southern Boone School District in Ashland,<br />
Mo., mentoring two first-year teachers. She has<br />
three children, Colton, Aubrey and Elliot;<br />
rebeccasuequinn@yahoo.com.<br />
James Roach (’01) received his master of divinity<br />
degree from Covenant Theological Seminary in<br />
St. Louis in 2009. He was united in marriage with<br />
his wife, Courtney, on Oct. 11, 2009.<br />
Amy Sanders (’01) started her fourth year as<br />
an assistant professor of law and mass<br />
communication at the <strong>University</strong> of Minnesota.<br />
She is the co-author of the legal casebook, The<br />
First Amendment and the Fourth Estate, which will<br />
be published by Foundation Press in 2011;<br />
sandersa@umn.edu.<br />
John Shepard (’01), Manchester, Mo., is an IT<br />
project manager at Monsanto. He and his wife,<br />
Mary Ellen, have two children, Hannah and Lucy.<br />
Paul Stock (’01), Chesterfield, Mo., is a<br />
research fellow at the Center for the Study of<br />
Agriculture, Food and Environment at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Otago. He and his wife, Colleen,<br />
have two children, Liam and Audrey.<br />
Jacob Stutzman (’01) and Phyllis (Shelley)<br />
Stutzman (’01) announce the birth of their<br />
first child, Annora Rose, on July 1, 2010.<br />
2002<br />
Lori (Garfield) Chenot (’02) and Marc<br />
Chenot (’02) live in O’Fallon, Mo. Lori is a<br />
part-time executive response specialist for<br />
CitiMortgage. Marc is a financial advisor with<br />
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. They<br />
Milestone Birthdays<br />
Lucy<br />
(Schooler)<br />
Hall, a<br />
1967 <strong>Truman</strong><br />
alumna,<br />
celebrated her<br />
102nd birthday<br />
on July 27, 2010.<br />
Born in 1908, she<br />
spent her career in<br />
education,<br />
teaching in Mercer County in northwest<br />
Missouri. Following her graduation from high<br />
school in Princeton, Mo., Lucy began her<br />
teaching career in 1927 in a one-room schoolhouse.<br />
In spite of the times, she received a<br />
bachelor degree from Northwest Missouri<br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in 1939 and a year later<br />
married her husband, Bill Hall. Bill lost his<br />
hand in a farm accident in 1961, and Lucy<br />
made the decision to attend <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> to pursue a master’s degree so she<br />
would have job security and be able to<br />
provide a higher income for her husband and<br />
three daughters. In 1967, after attending<br />
classes at night for five years while teaching all<br />
day and driving several times a week more<br />
than 150 miles roundtrip to take night classes,<br />
Lucy received her master’s degree in special<br />
education/counseling. She taught full-time<br />
until 1976 and retired to help launch a<br />
preschool. She continued to live in Princeton<br />
until age 94 and now resides in a retirement<br />
community in Columbia, Mo. She remains<br />
have two children, Sophie and Belle;<br />
marc.chenot@nmfn.com.<br />
Tina (Sippely) Chidster (’02, ’03), Louisiana,<br />
Mo., is a special education teacher for the<br />
Louisiana R-II School District. She was accepted<br />
into the Education Specialist with Principal<br />
Certification Program at William Woods<br />
<strong>University</strong>. She and her husband, Michael, have<br />
two children, Michael and William.<br />
Cassandra Dominick (’02) is a graduate<br />
assistant at the <strong>University</strong> of Arkansas and is<br />
working toward her PhD in counselor<br />
education; http:knitthehellout.com (blog);<br />
dominick@uark.edu.<br />
Leena (Phadke) Fry (’02, ’04), Kansas City,<br />
Mo., is an attorney with the Social Security<br />
Administration.<br />
Jennifer (Robinson) Glover (’02) and<br />
Timothy Glover (’00) have two children,<br />
Charlotte and Edith.<br />
Darryl Harvey (’02), Knoxville, Tenn., is a<br />
defense contractor/investment real estate manager.<br />
Heather (Stalling) Ockenfels (’02) and<br />
active, exercising, utilizing her computer,<br />
cooking, writing hundreds of letters per year<br />
and pursuing her passion of genealogy. Her<br />
caregiver, Joan Pottinger says she is amazed<br />
daily by Lucy’s vast memory of people and<br />
places. Recently, Hall has modeled nude for<br />
Pottinger’s daughter, photographer Anastasia<br />
Pottinger and painter Jane Mudd.<br />
Madeline<br />
Harding<br />
Higby<br />
(’34) celebrated<br />
her 100th birthday<br />
on Nov. 20, 2010.<br />
Both Madeline<br />
and her mother,<br />
Lenora (Pettingill)<br />
Harding,<br />
graduated from<br />
Kirksville <strong>State</strong> Teachers College/<strong>Truman</strong>.<br />
Madeline says she loves square dancing, being<br />
with nature and Robert Redford. She credits<br />
Ivory Soap and Pond’s Cold Cream for her<br />
youthful glow and her secret to longevity is<br />
“all things in moderation.” She taught at the<br />
Masonic Home, an orphans home, in Fort<br />
Worth, Texas, where she would bring her<br />
third-grade students to her home and<br />
celebrate their birthdays by baking one of her<br />
famous angel food cakes. Madeline is always<br />
the last one out on the dance floor doing the<br />
Cotton-Eyed Joe with her family and is<br />
known for making a “mean whiskey egg nog.”<br />
Daniel Ockenfels were married on Sept. 6,<br />
2009, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They live in<br />
North Liberty, Iowa, and Heather works for<br />
Intermec.<br />
Dan Schmidt (’02), Kansas City, Mo., is a<br />
senior auditor for Mize, Houser, and Company,<br />
P.A. He is also the owner of The Emerging<br />
Business CFO. He and his wife, Gina, welcomed<br />
their first child, a son, Britton James, born on<br />
May 17, 2010; danschmidt@hotmail.com.<br />
Shannon (Westemeier) Wagner (’02) is the<br />
director for the Learning Strategies Program at<br />
Bishop Machebeuf High School.<br />
Jake Willrich (’02), Sherman, Texas, is an assistant<br />
football defense coordinator at Austin College.<br />
He and his wife, Erin, have a son, Payton.<br />
2003<br />
Jennifer Anderson (’03), St. Louis, Mo., is a<br />
productivity consultant with Edward Jones.<br />
Daniel Appelbaum (’03) and Jamie<br />
(Bateman) Appelbaum (’03) live in Overland<br />
Park, Kan. Daniel is a mechanical engineer for<br />
HNTB Corporation. They have a daughter, Mia.<br />
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Nishant Jayant Bhajaria (’03), Portland, Ore.,<br />
is a software developer with WebMD.<br />
Tracy Fuller (’03), St. Charles, Mo., is a Peace<br />
Corps volunteer.<br />
Melissa (McHenry) Judson (’03) and<br />
Matthew Judson (’02) live in Chapel Hill,<br />
N.C. Melissa is a neurocritical care nurse practitioner<br />
with Neurosurgical Associates.<br />
Stacey (Dabney) Kaden (’03, ’04) and Ryan<br />
Kaden (’02, ’03) live in Pea Ridge, Ark. Stacey is<br />
pursuing a PhD at the <strong>University</strong> of Arkansas in<br />
Fayetteville. Ryan is a social studies teacher at<br />
Purdy Middle School. They have a son, Jaxon;<br />
staceykaden@hotmail.com.<br />
Howard McAuliffe (’03), Kirkland, Wash., is<br />
executive director of North Grand<br />
Neighborhood Services.<br />
Lisa Mueller (’03, ’04) was promoted to a<br />
manager position with the Assurance Services<br />
Group at RubinBrown in St. Louis.<br />
Lauren (Sladek) Nehlsen (’03), Elgin, Ill., is<br />
manager of International Student Services/Study<br />
Abroad at Elgin Community College. She was<br />
elected as membership secretary to the Illinois<br />
Consortium of International Studies and<br />
Programs and was selected as a national trainer<br />
for the NAFSA: Association of International<br />
Educators Trainer Corps. She and her husband,<br />
Jeff, have a son, Henry.<br />
Valery Webb (’03) moved to Kansas City, Mo.,<br />
and is a CNM for the Women’s Healthcare<br />
Group.<br />
Johanna Westin (’03), Champaign, Ill., is a<br />
clinical case manager at The Pavilion Foundation<br />
Hospital; jcwestin@gmail.com.<br />
2004<br />
Jennifer (Allen) Anderson (’04) and Justin<br />
Anderson (’05) live in Lansing, Mich. Jennifer<br />
is a teaching and research assistant at Michigan<br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Al Caniglia (’04) is a foreign service officer<br />
with the <strong>State</strong> Department and is serving his<br />
first tour as a vice consul in the U.S. Embassy<br />
in Belmopan, Belize; alcaniglia@yahoo.com.<br />
Matt Finke (’04, ’05) was promoted to a<br />
manager position with the Assurance Services<br />
Group at RubinBrown in St. Louis.<br />
Taylor Hall (’04) has joined the Corporate<br />
Practice Group of Greensfelder, Hemker and<br />
Gale PC in St. Louis, Mo.<br />
Marc Heinecke (’04) was hired as Texas A&M-<br />
Kingsville’s strength and conditioning coach.<br />
Gretchen (Ott) Hertz (’04, ’05) teaches third<br />
grade for the Edwardsville (Ill.) School District.<br />
Michael Hertz (’03) is an attorney with Lucco<br />
Brown Threlkeld and Dawson LLP. They have a<br />
daughter, Margaret; gretchenhertz@gmail.com.<br />
Jeffrey Lange (’04) and Julia Lange (’04) live<br />
in Saint Charles, Mo. Jeffrey received a PhD<br />
from Kansas <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in 2009 and is a<br />
post-doc student at Washington <strong>University</strong>.<br />
They have a daughter, Hannah.<br />
Vanessa Lyn Lincoln (’04), Brookfield, Mo., is an<br />
administrator with the Chariton County Health<br />
Department and is pursuing a master’s degree<br />
in public health nursing through the <strong>University</strong><br />
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of Missouri-Columbia. She and her husband,<br />
Julius, have two children, Will and Jocelyn.<br />
Jessica (Hancock) Martinez (’04) and Michael<br />
Martinez (’03, ’04) live in Ballwin, Mo. Jessica<br />
works for Trane; jessicamartinez614@gmail.com.<br />
Keith Ratliff (’04), Warrensburg, Mo., is a<br />
customer service representative with <strong>State</strong><br />
Farm Insurance.<br />
Emily Sims (’04), Las Vegas, Nev., is an editor<br />
for Travelated.com; emilycsims@gmail.com.<br />
Amy Tripp (’04), Austin, Texas, is a policy<br />
analyst for Sunset Advisory Commission;<br />
artripp@gmail.com.<br />
Christopher Wang (’04), Kansas City, Mo., is<br />
a resident physician at <strong>University</strong> of Missouri-<br />
Kansas City.<br />
Kristen Wargin (’04), St. Louis, Mo., is a<br />
physical therapist for PRORahab.<br />
John Woodward (’04) and Lindsay (Baker)<br />
Woodward (’04, ’05) live in Ankeny, Iowa.<br />
John received his PhD in plant biology from<br />
Cornell <strong>University</strong> in 2010 and is a senior<br />
research associate for Pioneer Hi-Bred.<br />
2005<br />
Audrey (Keith) Armstrong (’05), Lynnwood,<br />
Wash., is a French translator for SSAI. She and<br />
her husband, Aaron, have a son, Malachi.<br />
Jaimee Conley (’05) received her JD/MBA<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> of Missouri in May 2010,<br />
and she also received a Certificate of Dispute<br />
Resolution. She lives in St. Louis and works for<br />
Express Scripts.<br />
John Crossett (’05) and Erika (Wolf)<br />
Crossett (’07, ’08) live in Blue Springs, Mo.<br />
John is an associate attorney with Lathrop and<br />
Gage LLP; jacrossett@gmail.com.<br />
Angela Epplin (’05), St. Louis, Mo., works in<br />
human resources for Mid-America Transplant<br />
Services; angela.epplin@gmail.com.<br />
Allison (Schmidt) Grammer (’05) is the<br />
director of development for the As We Forgive<br />
Rwanda Initiative.<br />
Nick Kremer (’05, ’06) was named dean of<br />
education for the American Legion Missouri<br />
Boys <strong>State</strong> Program.<br />
Hoang Ta (’05), Hanoi, Vietnam, is a manager<br />
with <strong>State</strong> Capital Investment Corporation;<br />
hoangtd@scic.vn.<br />
2006<br />
Sara Bobbitt (’06), St. Peters, Mo., is a<br />
therapist at Edgewood Children’s Center;<br />
SBB434@yahoo.com.<br />
Kathryn Carlson (’06), Phoenix, Ariz., is a<br />
speech language pathologist for Fiesta Pediatric<br />
Therapy Inc.; katemcarlson@gmail.com.<br />
Sarah Kertz (’06), Waltham, Mass., is<br />
completing her psychology internship at<br />
Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital in<br />
Belmont, Mass.; sarahkertz@gmail.com.<br />
Bethany Lueckenhoff (’06), Blue Springs,<br />
Mo., is a professional school counselor for the<br />
Blue Springs School District.<br />
Rob Moore (’06) and Stefanie (Schroeder)<br />
Moore (’06) were married on May 1, 2010.<br />
Members of the bridal party included Best Man<br />
Jake Kilgore (’06), Michelle Carter (’07),<br />
Bibi Estlund (’06), Tommy Estlund (’01),<br />
Greg Beitling (’06), Suzy Beitling (’06),<br />
Matt Deckard (’06) and Sally Deckard (’06).<br />
Pamela (Bird) Rizza (’06), Lee’s Summit,<br />
Mo., received her doctor of medicine degree<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> of Kansas in 2010 and is a<br />
family medicine resident physician at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Missouri-Kansas City. She and her<br />
husband, Shawn, have a daughter, Kathryn.<br />
Paul Scruggs (’06, ’07), Olathe, Kan., is a<br />
substitute teacher for the Blue Valley School<br />
District.<br />
2007<br />
John Atwell (’07), Kansas City, Mo., is a general<br />
accountant for Garmin International Inc.<br />
Jennifer (Bingaman) Blank (’07) married<br />
Tyler Blank on July 24, 2010. She works for the<br />
Olathe (Kan.) Public Library District.<br />
Emily Chadwick (’07), Nashville, Tenn., is a<br />
program coordinator for Hospital Hospitality<br />
House of Nashville.<br />
Rachal Everhart (’07), Boulder, Colo., is a<br />
speech language pathologist with Pediatric<br />
Speech Therapy Associates;<br />
nicole.everhart@gmail.com.<br />
Brandon Foster (’07), Jefferson City, Mo., is a<br />
claims specialist I for the Missouri Division of<br />
Employment Security.<br />
Paula Hodges (’07), Jefferson City, Mo.,<br />
became the political director for the Missouri<br />
National Education Association in April 2010;<br />
paulajhodges@gmail.com.<br />
Elizabeth Plog (’07), Springfield, Ill., received a<br />
master of education from the <strong>University</strong> of Illinois<br />
at Urbana-Champaign in 2010 and teaches sixthgrade<br />
reading at Arlington Public Schools.<br />
Kelly Rowe (’07) is a PhD student at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Iowa Hospital and Clinics and had<br />
her first scholarly article published in the<br />
journal, Neuropsychology. The article is titled<br />
“Self-paced timing detects and tracks change in<br />
prodromal Huntington disease;”<br />
kcrowe123@gmail.com.<br />
Joseph Smith (’07), Chesterfield, Mo., is a<br />
mathematics teacher at Imagine Academy of<br />
Careers Middle School; jls700@truman.edu.<br />
Andrew Smolik (’07) is pursuing his MBA at the<br />
Olin School of Business at Washington <strong>University</strong><br />
in St. Louis; smolik.andrew@gmail.com.<br />
2008<br />
Jenifer Calandra (’08), Lincoln, Neb., received<br />
her master of arts in journalism and mass<br />
communications from the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Nebraska-Lincoln in 2010 and works in<br />
public/media relations and outreach for Charlie<br />
Brown’s Kids.<br />
Becky (Hadley) Cutright (’08) married Mark<br />
Cutright on May 22, 2010, in St. Louis. She is a<br />
candidate for a master of liberal arts degree at<br />
Washington <strong>University</strong> in St. Louis and is the<br />
public relations manager at The Repertory<br />
Theatre of St. Louis.<br />
Meredith (Wells) Dean (’08) and Michael<br />
Dean (’08) were married on July 10, 2010, in
T R U M A N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y<br />
I<br />
really want to work with children...I hope to excel<br />
in my career from all the valuable skills<br />
and information I have learned at <strong>Truman</strong>...This<br />
scholarship is helpful in covering some of the costs<br />
and relieving some of the stress that taking loans<br />
causes now and in the future.<br />
— REBEKAH WEICKEN (’11)<br />
Nursing Major, <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
2010-2011 Alice McEwen Scholarship Recipient<br />
Step 1:<br />
Determine type of<br />
scholarship fund<br />
A named endowed scholarship is<br />
a permanent fund. The principal<br />
of the fund is invested to produce<br />
income and an award is made<br />
from the interest earned. An<br />
endowed scholarship fund can be<br />
created with smaller gifts and<br />
added to over a period of time or<br />
it can even be established with a<br />
planned gift. At this time, the<br />
minimum for endowment of a<br />
named scholarship is $15,000. A<br />
number of endowed scholarships<br />
have been established through a<br />
combination of outright gifts,<br />
pledges and planned gifts. Endowed<br />
scholarships are permanent and will<br />
continue to provide assistance to<br />
students indefinitely.<br />
With named annual scholarships,<br />
the full amount of your gift<br />
is awarded to a student or<br />
students. Naming an annual<br />
scholarship requires a gift of<br />
$1,000 or more. For this type of<br />
scholarship, a four-year<br />
commitment is suggested. Some<br />
donors chose to award annual<br />
scholarships while building an<br />
endowed scholarship fund.<br />
Step 2:<br />
Establish<br />
scholarship criteria<br />
As a scholarship donor, you<br />
choose the name of the<br />
scholarship as well as the criteria.<br />
The Office of Advancement staff<br />
is available to help you create the<br />
criteria for your scholarship.<br />
Endowed and annual scholarships<br />
Creating a named scholarship through the<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Foundation is one<br />
way you can assist students and leave a legacy<br />
to <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>. It’s also a very<br />
meaningful way to honor family and friends.<br />
Creating a named scholarship is easy!<br />
at <strong>Truman</strong> are awarded to<br />
deserving students based upon<br />
area of interest, geographical<br />
origin, leadership potential,<br />
merit, financial need, academic<br />
achievement and/or other<br />
criteria.<br />
Step 3:<br />
Make a gift<br />
Gifts can be made to the <strong>Truman</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Foundation by<br />
check, cash, credit card or stock<br />
transfer. An outright gift will<br />
allow you to receive immediate<br />
tax benefits in the year you make<br />
the gift. In the case of<br />
appreciated securities, you may<br />
also avoid capital gains taxes.<br />
You can also choose to provide<br />
for your scholarship in your<br />
estate plans. Estate gifts or<br />
planned gifts are an easy way to<br />
establish a scholarship without<br />
affecting your current income or<br />
assets. The <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Foundation has a<br />
planned giving officer who can<br />
assist you with details.<br />
Step 4:<br />
Make a difference!<br />
Major contributors of a<br />
scholarship fund are notified<br />
annually when the scholarship<br />
recipient has been selected and<br />
are informed of the name and<br />
hometown of the recipient, as<br />
well as the amount of the award.<br />
Recipients often write a thankyou<br />
note to the donor, and in<br />
some cases, the recipient and<br />
donor are able to meet.<br />
Office of Advancement<br />
Becky Pike, Manager of Foundation Scholarships<br />
bpike@truman.edu<br />
Brad Chambers, Planned Giving Officer<br />
bchamber@truman.edu<br />
McClain Hall 205<br />
100 E. Normal Ave.<br />
Kirksville, Mo. 63501-4221<br />
Telephone: (800) 452-6678 or (660) 785-4133<br />
Fax (660) 785-7519
Meredith’s hometown, Washington, Ill. They<br />
write: “Meredith and Mike now reside in Iowa<br />
City, Iowa, and love it there;”<br />
meredith.lm.dean@gmail.com.<br />
Joshua Holt (’08), Kearney, Mo., was licensed<br />
as a registered nurse as of July 2, 2010, and<br />
works at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Mo.<br />
Christopher Honts (’08), Mt. Pleasant, Mich.,<br />
is a graduate research assistant at Central<br />
Michigan <strong>University</strong>; chrishonts@gmail.com.<br />
Emily (Kiddoo) Kelchen (’08) lives in<br />
Madison, Wis.<br />
Allison Meadows (’08), Cambridge, Mass., is a<br />
curatorial assistant at the Peabody Museum,<br />
Harvard <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Chukwuedozie Nwozo (’08), Stockbridge, Ga.,<br />
received a master’s degree in human resource<br />
management from Webster <strong>University</strong> in 2009<br />
and is a courier for The Keenan Law Firm.<br />
Regina Plummer (’08), Kansas City, Mo., is<br />
attending the Kansas City <strong>University</strong> of Medicine<br />
and Biosciences-College of Osteopathic Medicine.<br />
Cody Pusateri (’08), De Pere, Wis., is the<br />
resident director at St. Norbert College;<br />
cody.pusateri@gmail.com.<br />
Jennifer (Mueller) Roades (’08) and<br />
Andrew Roades (’08) were married on Aug.<br />
14, 2010, in Manchester, Mo.<br />
Addison Schopp (’08), Warrensburg, Mo., is<br />
director of chapter development for Sigma Tau<br />
Gamma Fraternity Inc.<br />
Chelsea (Brown) Wire (’08) and Philip<br />
Wire (’08) live in Bowling Green, Mo.;<br />
chelsea.wire@gmail.com.<br />
Jessica (Lufkin) Zaegel (’08) and John<br />
Zaegel (’08) live in Englewood, Colo.<br />
2009<br />
Willa Dawson (’09) was hired as a leadership<br />
consultant by Sigma Kappa Sorority in March<br />
2010 and lives in Clemson, S.C.<br />
1920s<br />
Lydia Maurine (Minor) Barnhouse (’29), of<br />
Marceline, Mo., died Aug. 12, 2010. A retired<br />
school teacher, she had taught at Aledo, Ill.;<br />
Plevna, Mo.; and East Park in Moberly, Mo.<br />
1930s<br />
Florence (Cassity) Miller (’32), of Arlington,<br />
Va., died June 14, 2010. Following college, she<br />
lived in Kirksville and worked for the Rationing<br />
Office, part of the Federal Office of Public<br />
ALUMNI<br />
Michelle (Gaasch) Gallagher (’09, ’10), St.<br />
Louis, Mo., is a teacher for the Clayton School<br />
District; michellegaasch813@gmail.com.<br />
Nicole Hagstrom (’09) and Scott Schmidt<br />
(’09) announce the birth of their first child,<br />
daughter Sofia, born on Nov. 10, 2009.<br />
Meredith Harrison (’09) lives in New York,<br />
N.Y.; mere.harrison@gmail.com.<br />
Kortney Holeman (’09) lives in North Kansas<br />
City, Mo.; kortneykaree@gmail.com.<br />
Dustin Mayfield (’09), Columbia, Mo., is a<br />
graduate student at the <strong>University</strong> of Missouri-<br />
Columbia; dustinrmayfield@gmail.com.<br />
Nicole Meltabarger (’09, ’09, ’10) lives in<br />
Springfield, Mo.<br />
Lindsay Rudolph (’09) is attending Western<br />
Illinois <strong>University</strong> to complete an MS in biology;<br />
rudolphlindsaykay@gmail.com.<br />
Kristyna Speraneo (’09, ’11), Florissant, Mo.,<br />
is an elementary strings teacher with the<br />
Ferguson-Florissant School District.<br />
2010<br />
Katharine Aherne (’10), Cary, Ill., is an insurance<br />
support specialist for Assurance Agency.<br />
Christine Nichole Anderson (’10), Saint<br />
Louis, Mo., is a temporary receptionist/school<br />
secretary for National Garden Clubs, Inc.<br />
Kaitlin Anderson (’10), Burlington, Iowa, is a<br />
district executive for Boys Scouts of America.<br />
Patrick Felling (’10), St. Louis, Mo., is an<br />
international accountant for Monsanto;<br />
pmf156@truman.edu.<br />
Jonathan Holden (’10), Chicago, Ill., is an<br />
analyst for Lazard.<br />
Catherine Lee (’10), Houston, Texas, is the<br />
assistant director of admissions at the Art<br />
Institute Houston.<br />
Timothy Weaks (’10) is attending Saint Louis<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s School of Law.<br />
Assistance during World War II. Her next<br />
position was as the administrator of the Kirksville<br />
Osteopathic Hospital for several years before<br />
taking the same position at the Osteopathic<br />
Hospital in Davenport, Iowa. Following the death<br />
of her husband, Karl Miller, she moved to<br />
Washington, D.C., and after completing a short<br />
course in hotel management, she became the<br />
resident manager of Capital Park Apartments.<br />
She ended her working career in 1980 as the<br />
bookkeeper for the United <strong>State</strong>s Capitol<br />
Historical Society. During her assignment, she<br />
volunteered in the White House Correspondence<br />
Office for the Reagan Administration.<br />
Vera Marie Newcum (’33), of Newport<br />
News, Va., died July 31, 2010. She worked for<br />
the USO, entertaining troops and organizing<br />
activities following World War II and during the<br />
Korean War. She traveled all over the world<br />
and received several commendations from her<br />
former military groups, including Syngman<br />
Rhee, former president of South Korea, and<br />
many from Ft. Jackson, Columbia, S.C. She<br />
retired from the USO and worked for Girl<br />
Scouts of America and the YWCA, then<br />
volunteered at the Riverside Regional Medical<br />
Center in Newport News and for Hospice.<br />
1940s<br />
Lola Mae (Riddle) Bono (’41), died July 17,<br />
2010. She taught in a one-room school in rural<br />
Missouri while attending the <strong>University</strong> and spent<br />
her full senior year as a regular student on<br />
campus. After graduation came Pearl Harbor,<br />
prompting her to go to Washington, D.C., to do<br />
her part for the war effort. There she worked at<br />
Marine Headquarters in the Pentagon. She later<br />
moved to New York where she raised her family<br />
and was an active volunteer. She worked at Lord<br />
and Burnham Corporation for many years.<br />
Margaret “Peggy” (Cochran) Cline (’41),<br />
of Columbia, Mo., died Aug. 4, 2010. She<br />
began her career in education teaching in rural<br />
schools in Randolph County from 1935 to 1941.<br />
She taught one and one-half years in Kansas<br />
City Public Schools and 17 years in Columbia<br />
Public Schools. At the request of Columbia<br />
Public Schools, she became certified for<br />
counseling elementary children and developed<br />
the elementary counseling program for the<br />
Columbia School District; she was the coordinator<br />
of the program until she retired in 1978.<br />
Ercil Ewing (’48) died Jan. 2, 2010, in La<br />
Mirada, Calif. He had taught briefly before<br />
relocating to southern California and was a<br />
school principal for 25 years in Whittier, Calif.<br />
Following early retirement, he became active in<br />
selling and managing real estate in California.<br />
Ellen (Terhune) Miller (’44), of Chillicothe,<br />
Mo., died Oct. 6, 2010. She retired from the<br />
Chillicothe School District.<br />
Stanley Rudy Sadich (’49), of Columbia, Mo.,<br />
died Aug. 22, 2010. He was a U.S. Navy veteran<br />
serving during World War II. He was recruited<br />
and played semi-pro baseball for three years for<br />
the St. Louis Browns. Afterward, he began<br />
teaching in the public school system in Illinois,<br />
where he was instrumental in establishing the<br />
Little League baseball program in Lawrenceville,<br />
Ill. Stan continued in education and retired from<br />
the Columbia Public School System, where he<br />
taught for more than 20 years, ending his career<br />
at Hickman High School as the COE instructor.<br />
He also owned Columbia Driving School and<br />
taught countless students to drive.<br />
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1950s<br />
Charles B. “Buzz” Adams (’57), of Aventura,<br />
Fla., died Oct. 4, 2010. While attending <strong>Truman</strong>,<br />
he had his education interrupted to serve in the<br />
United <strong>State</strong>s Army from March 3, 1953 to May<br />
25, 1956. After serving in the Army, he returned<br />
to <strong>Truman</strong> and graduated in 1957. He then<br />
enrolled in law school at the <strong>University</strong> of Missouri<br />
and graduated in 1962. He returned to Kirksville<br />
to practice law until his retirement in 2004. While<br />
practicing law, he served as the Adair County<br />
prosecuting attorney and Kirksville city attorney.<br />
After his retirement, he moved to Florida.<br />
Carmen Leslie Barber (’56, ’71), of Quincy, Ill.,<br />
died Jan. 9, 2010. She taught high school English<br />
and art at ACCHS in Effingham for 17 years.<br />
After moving to Canton, Mo., she taught at the<br />
junior high school in Quincy, Ill.<br />
Chester L. Boren (’54), of Centralia, Mo., died<br />
June 22, 2010. He served as superintendent of<br />
Centralia R-VI schools from 1963 to 1986. He<br />
received the Missouri Association of School<br />
Administrators Award of Merit for Outstanding<br />
Leadership in 1983. He served as president of the<br />
Northeast District Teacher’s Association and<br />
served as an assessor for the Missouri Department<br />
of Elementary and Secondary Education’s<br />
Leadership Academy. He received the Outstanding<br />
CTA/MSTA School Administrator Award for the<br />
1985-1986 school year. Upon his retirement from<br />
the Centralia R-VI school district, he received a<br />
resolution from the Missouri <strong>State</strong> Senate. In<br />
1986, Centralia Middle School was renamed<br />
Chester Boren Middle School in his honor.<br />
H. Ronald Huber (’51), of Laguna Woods, Calif.,<br />
died May 8, 2010. He served in the Army during<br />
the Korean War. A long-time resident of<br />
Riverside, he was retired from A.M. Lewis and<br />
was active in the community.<br />
Bertha B. McClaskey (’53, ’57), of Milan, Mo.,<br />
died May 31, 2010. Throughout her life, she was a<br />
strong advocate for public education. She taught<br />
English and business in Bloomfield, Iowa, and<br />
Hannibal, Unionville and Trenton, Mo., public<br />
schools for 15 years. In 1967 she began work at<br />
the Missouri Department of Elementary and<br />
Secondary Education as director of school data,<br />
living in Jefferson City for 23 years until<br />
retirement. In this role she worked tirelessly to<br />
improve public education in Missouri and was<br />
proudest of her role in supporting legislation that<br />
created base teacher salaries and the teacher<br />
retirement system. At the time she was promoted<br />
to director at DESE, there were few other<br />
women at that level, and she consistently<br />
championed women’s rights and issues in the<br />
workplace. She also worked on numerous federal<br />
projects and task forces for the U.S. Department<br />
of Education. Upon retiring in 1990, she moved<br />
back to Milan, and during the last 20 years, she<br />
worked diligently as a community volunteer,<br />
including roles on the Public Housing Board,<br />
Health Board, PEO, Milan Public Schools, Old<br />
Timers Reunion and countless other initiatives.<br />
James Wesley "Wes” Sanders (’55), of<br />
Sedalia, Mo., died May 4, 2010. Excelling in<br />
several sports, he was chosen as one of the top<br />
20 best basketball players in the USA and signed a<br />
professional baseball contract in 1950 with the St.<br />
Louis Cardinals. He enjoyed 34 years of teaching<br />
and 23 years of athletic coaching along with many<br />
years as a referee. He retired from the Sedalia<br />
School District in 1988.<br />
Russell Columbus Vannoy Jr. (’55) died July<br />
30, 2010, in Buffalo, N.Y. He began teaching<br />
philosophy at Buffalo <strong>State</strong> College in 1960 and<br />
retired in 1994.<br />
William Leroy Walker (’54), of Winona Lake,<br />
Ind., died Dec. 14, 2010. He served a one-year<br />
internship in Orville, Ohio, at the community<br />
Osteopathic Hospital and relocated with his family<br />
to Rittman, Ohio, where he practiced as a family<br />
physician and enjoyed functioning as the team<br />
doctor for athletic teams. From August 1969 to<br />
June 1971, he and his family moved to the Central<br />
African Republic where he served as a missionary<br />
doctor with the Grace Brethren Church. He<br />
decided to become a full-time medical missionary<br />
and moved his stateside residence to Winona<br />
Lake, Ind., where he shared a home with another<br />
physician–alternating two-year missionary terms<br />
and trading homes so as to supply medical care<br />
on the field at all times. After retiring from<br />
missionary work in the early 1990s, he continued<br />
his private practice in Warsaw. He served as chief<br />
of staff at Kosciusko Community Hospital in the<br />
1990s. Semi-retired, he helped Med-Stat become<br />
a useful part of the medical system, serving as a<br />
physician there.<br />
Gene Walter Weber (’54, ’57), of Valencia,<br />
Calif., died April 12, 2010. He was a member of<br />
the Hannibal, Mo., National Guard and taught<br />
music in small schools in Missouri before<br />
becoming superintendent of schools in Lone Jack<br />
and Pleasant Hill, Mo. He was an educator for 40<br />
years, culminating by serving as vice president of<br />
Phillips County Community College in Helena, Ark.<br />
1960s<br />
Margaret Evelyn Lucille (Jackson) Boyer<br />
(’63), of rural Gorin, Mo., died Sept. 4, 2010.<br />
She began her teaching career at South Liberty<br />
School in Scotland County, Mo., and started a<br />
4-H Club. She taught for five years at her home<br />
grade school and later for many years at Gorin<br />
Community Schools. At age 101, she was<br />
inducted into the Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame.<br />
Patti Leach (’68), of Fort Madison, Iowa, died<br />
Aug. 29, 2010. She lived in Lansing, Ill., for 40<br />
years and taught for 37 years at Lansing School<br />
District 158, retiring in 2005. She was elected to<br />
Lan-Oak Park District in 1973, serving for 20<br />
years and served as president, vice-president<br />
and commissioner. She served on the Lansing<br />
Village Planning and Zoning Board and won a<br />
seat as a village trustee where she served as<br />
chairman of the Aviation Committee and was<br />
appointed chairman of the Lansing Youth<br />
Center in December 1996. She spearheaded<br />
renovation of a vacant building for a safe-haven<br />
for the communities’ graduating fifth- through<br />
eighth-grade students. In 1975, she co-founded<br />
the Lansing Girls’ Softball Organization. She<br />
served on the school board in Lansing following<br />
retirement.<br />
Lois Verene McClanahan (’69), of Columbia,<br />
Mo., died April 24, 2010. She taught for the Ft.<br />
Scott Bible School in Ft. Scott, Kan., for two<br />
years and for the Shawnee Mission School<br />
District in Overland Park, Kan., for 14 years.<br />
She was a life member of the National<br />
Education Association, the <strong>Alumni</strong> Association<br />
of Northeast Missouri <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, and the<br />
Kansas City College and Bible <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Association. Lois lived many years in Overland<br />
Park, Kan. In her retirement years, she lived in<br />
Arizona until her health necessitated her<br />
moving closer to family members. For the past<br />
five years, she lived in Columbia.<br />
Helen Janell (Turner) Mundell (’69), of<br />
Brookfield, Mo., died April 27, 2010. She had<br />
worked for the Brookfield R-3 School System<br />
and Clawson Trucking.<br />
Jean Elizabeth (Phillabaum) Ponder (’68),<br />
died Nov. 10, 2010. After high school<br />
graduation, she worked as a file clerk at<br />
ALCOA before joining the Women’s Army<br />
Corps (WAC) during World War II, where she<br />
became a medical nursing aide. Later on, she<br />
worked in the Kirksville District<br />
Superintendent’s Office for years. She also<br />
worked with the USDA Soil Conservation<br />
Service and Farm Bureau.<br />
Jerry Dale Reece (’61), Normal, Ill., died Dec.<br />
13, 2010. He was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air<br />
Force, assigned to Tactical Air Command. He<br />
served in England during the Korean War and<br />
continued to stay active in the Air Force<br />
Reserve after the war. He was recalled to active<br />
duty during the Berlin Wall crisis and was<br />
stationed at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base<br />
during that time. He was a flight instructor for<br />
many years. He was the owner/operator of an<br />
industrial sharpening business and retired in<br />
1998. He then became an active volunteer at<br />
BroMenn Regional Medical Center, serving as a<br />
patient escort and tour guide.<br />
Gordon Glenn Roxberg (’63), of Denmark,<br />
Iowa, died Feb. 10, 2010. He was a teacher and<br />
an administrator for the Fort Madison<br />
Community School System. He was the vice<br />
principal at Fort Madison High School for 16<br />
years and the principal at Fort Madison Middle<br />
School until he retired in 1999. He was<br />
currently driving a bus for Trailways and enjoyed<br />
farming.<br />
Neil Francis Sheldon (’66), of Marshalltown,<br />
Iowa, died Aug. 23, 2010. After receiving his<br />
undergraduate degree, he served in the United<br />
<strong>State</strong>s Army during Vietnam from July 1968 to<br />
February 1970. After his service, Neil returned<br />
to college and received his master’s, then taught<br />
school for a short time before working as a sky<br />
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Faculty & Staff<br />
The 2010 Bulldog Reunion and golf tournament was held in Nashville, Ill., last June. Pictured, front<br />
row, L-R: Bulldog Assistant Football Coach Jay Davis, Isaac Carter/grandson of Billy Carter (’55),<br />
Brad Carter (’78), Bulldog Head Football Coach Gregg Nesbitt (’80, ’87), Jerry Meyer (’69, ’70), Jim<br />
Dattilo, Dickie Ray (’65), Brian Carter and Athletic Director Jerry Wollmering. Row two: TJ Jackson,<br />
Mike Jaffy, Lou Coco (’67, ‘70), Nick Katsaras (’63, ’65), Jim Willet (’68), Al Schif (’56, ’61) and<br />
Jack Jones (’62, ‘63). Row three: Gene Ball (’69), Pat Elliott (’69), Paul Comer (’68), Bob Brown ,<br />
Billy Carter, Coo Coo Jarrett (’53), Mel Loncaric (’55, ‘58), Mike Bielic (’71), Bill Hammack and<br />
John Glore (’65). Back row: Rusty Braudrick (’68, ’82), Tom Kahl (’70), Bob Bradley (’55), John<br />
Kennedy (’68), Bill Richerson (’ 53, ‘54), Barry Deist (’67, ‘68), Steve Garrett (’69), Larry Johnsen,<br />
Wayne Schroeder (’68) and Larry Crooks (’69). Also present, but not pictured: Don Sparks (’56, ’59),<br />
Dave Martin (’67), John Newcomb (’68), Bill Seman (’68), Pat Butler (’69), Dennis Sissom (’64,<br />
‘65) and Pete Cirrintano (’69).<br />
marshal for the United <strong>State</strong>s Customs. From<br />
1975 until 2006, Neil worked with the USDA<br />
until his retirement.<br />
Ron Villars (’66), of St. Louis, Mo., died Aug. 9,<br />
2010. He was a former coach and teacher at<br />
Soldan High, <strong>University</strong> City High, and Cardinal<br />
Ritter College Prep.<br />
1970s<br />
Virginia Louise (Coder) Carlstead (’72), of<br />
Palmyra, Mo., died Sept. 21, 2010. She taught in<br />
the Palmyra public schools for many years and<br />
retired in 1990. She was an active member of<br />
several civic and professional organizations,<br />
especially the Hannibal Regional Hospital<br />
Auxiliary.<br />
Frederick Tannehill Curry (’73), of<br />
Winchester, Kan., died Feb. 9, 2010. After 20<br />
years of service, Frederick retired from the U.S.<br />
Army as a major. He continued to serve our<br />
country, working with the African Union and<br />
the United Nations, training Peacekeepers for<br />
Humanitarian Assistance in Africa.<br />
Janis A. Ewens (’74), of Center, Mo., died July 4,<br />
2010. She taught in the Ralls County R-II School<br />
District at Center Elementary for 25 years,<br />
teaching the last few months from her wheelchair,<br />
until health problems forced her to retire.<br />
Dennis Ray Helm (’76), of Louisiana, Mo.,<br />
died Oct. 21, 2010. He spent several years in<br />
the mortgage and personal banking industry in<br />
Albuquerque, N.M., St. Louis and Pleasant Hill,<br />
Ill. He spent the last 24 years of his career as<br />
the manager of the Pike Shop in Bowling Green.<br />
He also served in the National Guard.<br />
Linda Ivah (Christy) Miller (’70), of Kansas<br />
City, Mo., died Jan. 8, 2010. She taught at a<br />
Christian academy in Kansas City for a time and<br />
was employed with the IRS.<br />
Thomas Nicholas Walsh (’76), of Hannibal,<br />
Mo., died March 17, 2010. Throughout high<br />
school and college, he was a successful competitive<br />
long-distance runner. He loved music and<br />
played drums in several groups, most recently<br />
with Sonny Settles in Quincy, Ill.<br />
1980s<br />
Monique Schooler (’85), of Gardner, Kan.,<br />
died Aug. 25, 2010, at her home. She was a<br />
graduate of Princeton (Mo.) High School and<br />
earned a certificate in graphic arts at Northeast<br />
Missouri <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>/<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>. She attended NMSU with her sister,<br />
Jane Schooler (’87). Monique worked at Stouse<br />
Incorporated in Gardner, Kan., for more than<br />
20 years.<br />
Elaine Doak died Oct. 17, 2010. Since 1993, she<br />
was a librarian and archivist at <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>. At the time of her death, she was<br />
head of Special Collections and Archives and<br />
acting curator of the <strong>University</strong>’s museums.<br />
Arnold W. Preussner, of Kirksville, Mo., died<br />
June 2, 2010, after a long battle with cancer. He<br />
served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the<br />
Vietnam War. During his long career as a college<br />
professor, he taught at Yankton College in South<br />
Dakota, Washburn <strong>University</strong>, and the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Kansas before coming to <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> in 1988. While at <strong>Truman</strong>, he taught in<br />
the Missouri London Program in England. In May<br />
2010, he retired from the faculty and was<br />
awarded emeritus status. He was a dedicated<br />
scholar and teacher who published many<br />
academic articles, including reviews of theatre<br />
performances and scholarly texts. His book,<br />
Replaying the Renaissance, was published in 2010<br />
by Naciketas Press. He received a Lilly<br />
Foundation Fellowship to study individualized<br />
learning systems in Puerto Rico and also was<br />
awarded NEH Fellowships for study at Brown<br />
<strong>University</strong> and the <strong>University</strong> of Southern<br />
California. In addition to his many academic<br />
achievements, he was a gifted musician and a<br />
classically-trained pianist who also played rock<br />
and folk tunes, played the guitar and sang.<br />
Friends<br />
Travis Welker Freeman, a philanthropist,<br />
volunteer, and businessman/investor of Brashear<br />
Mo., died July 30, 2010. Travis lived in Tulsa,<br />
Okla., for 47 years, Santa Fe, N.M., for nine<br />
years and Brashear, Mo., for five years. He was<br />
active in and contributed to the success of each<br />
community in which he lived. He was a generous<br />
person with various interests which he pursued<br />
not only through his financial support, but also<br />
with his gifts of time and enthusiasm. After the<br />
death of his wife, Lucia, Travis relocated from<br />
Santa Fe to Brashear to be near his daughter Teri<br />
and her family. He took particular interest in<br />
both <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> and A.T. Still <strong>University</strong>, the<br />
Adair County Public Library and the Brashear<br />
School District. He served as platoon<br />
commander and executive officer LCI of the<br />
Underwater Demolition Team for the United<br />
<strong>State</strong>s Navy. His Naval experience peaked his<br />
interest in the world, and his inquisitive nature<br />
inspired him to visit all 50 states and more<br />
than 100 countries on all seven continents.<br />
Send obituaries to<br />
Office of Advancement,<br />
McClain Hall 205,<br />
100 E. Normal Ave.,<br />
Kirksville, Mo. 63501.<br />
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<strong>Truman</strong> Travel<br />
Deals to Alaska<br />
Join other <strong>Truman</strong> alumni and friends<br />
who have already signed up for the<br />
2011 <strong>Truman</strong> Travel Program. This<br />
year, the <strong>Truman</strong> Travel Program is<br />
offering two travel options in August:<br />
1) an Alaska Cruise (eight days/seven<br />
nights), and 2) an Alaska CruiseTour with<br />
land travel (15 days/14 nights).<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong>, friends and all other members<br />
of the <strong>Truman</strong> community are invited to<br />
participate in these trips organized by the<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Association. Also, start<br />
planning ahead for next yearthe <strong>Truman</strong><br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Association is organizing a trip to<br />
Ireland for 2012.<br />
For pricing and other details, visit<br />
http://alumni.truman.edu/TravelProgram.asp<br />
or contact Denise Smith, (660) 785-4133,<br />
dlsmith@truman.edu.<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Leadership Conference<br />
During Homecoming last fall,<br />
alumni leaders from around the<br />
country gathered on campus on<br />
Oct. 15, 2010, for the <strong>University</strong>’s <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Leadership Conference. The objective of<br />
the annual conference is to bring alumni<br />
together to share ideas for strengthening the<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> alumni network.<br />
Organized by the <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Board of Directors, the 2010 conference<br />
featured a number of speakers from the<br />
<strong>University</strong>. Kevin Minch, director of the<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> Institute, shared information on “A<br />
Taste of <strong>Truman</strong>,” a three-day-long<br />
educational experience that is open to the<br />
general public, and Candy Young, professor<br />
of political science, spoke about <strong>Truman</strong>’s<br />
new master’s degree in leadership. Polly<br />
Matteson, assistant director of the Career<br />
Center, and Katie Vanderhoof (’08), career<br />
coordinator, teamed up to provide Web<br />
demonstrations on services available<br />
through the <strong>University</strong>’s Career Services.<br />
Several caucuses were also offered as part<br />
of the conference including “Maximizing<br />
Chapter Events by Utilizing Your<br />
Resources” presented by Kent Donaldson<br />
(’90) and Vid Vidyasagara (’92), “The<br />
Importance of <strong>Alumni</strong> Organization” led by<br />
Stacey (George) Sifton (’00) and A. David<br />
Peppard (’80), and “Social Networking,”<br />
presided over by Stacy Tucker-Potter (’02).<br />
The conference addressed topics such as<br />
hosting and promoting events that speak to<br />
the interests of all<br />
alumni no matter<br />
where they reside.<br />
“Across the<br />
country, <strong>Truman</strong><br />
alumni are hosting<br />
events to engage<br />
people not only in<br />
social activities but<br />
to continue to<br />
educate everyone<br />
about the many<br />
challenges public higher education institutions<br />
are facing in Missouri,” said Tanner<br />
Williams (’02). “Our alumni are important<br />
to our future, and even though we are not<br />
on campus anymore, having a local/regional<br />
connection to one another strengthens our<br />
ability to support <strong>Truman</strong> and future<br />
graduates. Whether it’s a Freshman Sendoff,<br />
a Ronza social event or an Alaskan<br />
Cruise, <strong>Truman</strong> alumni are coming<br />
together to remember what is great about<br />
our university and discussing how we can<br />
help support its future.”<br />
Denise Smith, director of alumni<br />
relations, gave special thanks to the Chapter<br />
Development Committee made up of<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Board members Donaldson,<br />
Peppard, Sifton and Vidyasagara for their<br />
role in planning the 2010 conference.<br />
Save the date for the next <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Leadership Conference on Friday, Oct. 7,<br />
2011, during Homecoming weekend.<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Chapters Receive Recognition<br />
During the <strong>Alumni</strong> Leadership<br />
Conference held on campus during<br />
Homecoming 2010 in October,<br />
several of <strong>Truman</strong>’s alumni chapters received<br />
special recognition.<br />
The Outstanding Chapter of the Year<br />
Award was presented to the Iowa <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Chapter with the Mid-Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Chapter named as runner-up. The<br />
Outstanding Chapter Awards are selected by<br />
the <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Board’s Executive<br />
Committee which is comprised of Jim<br />
Cherrington (’87), Jessica (Neighbors) Hill<br />
(’99), Denise Smith (’79), director of alumni<br />
relations, and Mike Wilson (’90).<br />
“These awards serve as a testament to the<br />
dedication of our exceptional alumni<br />
leaders,” said Smith. “This year, the points<br />
for the Outstanding Chapter of the Year were<br />
very close between several chapters.”<br />
In addition, Honor Chapter Status awards<br />
were presented to eight of <strong>Truman</strong>’s 10<br />
alumni chapters. Status is awarded based<br />
on points earned for chapter events,<br />
membership goals and reporting procedures.<br />
Honor Chapter Status Awards were<br />
presented to the following chapters: Arizona,<br />
Chicago, Iowa, Kansas City, Mid-Atlantic,<br />
Mid-Missouri, Northeast Missouri and<br />
St. Louis.<br />
Shown L-R: Iowa <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter members Jane<br />
Watkins (’70, ’75), Crystal (Sourwine) Baldwin<br />
(’82) and Kent Donaldson (’90) were on hand to<br />
accept the 2010 Outstanding <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter of<br />
the Year presented by <strong>Alumni</strong> Board member<br />
Tanner Williams (’02).<br />
Winter 2011 39
Food for Thought<br />
The <strong>Truman</strong> Iowa <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter participated<br />
in a Meals from the Heartland<br />
Packaging event at Hy-Vee Hall in Des<br />
Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 5, 2010. Meals from the<br />
Heartland is a non-profit organization composed<br />
of volunteers who package meals for delivery to<br />
starving people around the world. “<strong>Truman</strong><br />
alumni, family and friends worked together at two<br />
tables, and in less than two hours, we packaged<br />
approximately 10,000 meals,” said Chapter<br />
President Cindy Spiker (’93). “It’s an amazing<br />
projectin four days, the Iowa community<br />
packaged more than 4 million meals.”<br />
Brent Rauch, a 2005 <strong>Truman</strong> grad was one of<br />
the organizers of the Meals from the Heartland<br />
event in Des Moines. “He stopped by our tables<br />
Black <strong>Alumni</strong> Reunion<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong>, students and friends gathered in<br />
St. Louis on Nov. 27, 2010, for the<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> Black <strong>Alumni</strong> and Attendees<br />
Scholarship Reunion at the St. Louis Airport<br />
Hilton. The guests enjoyed an evening of<br />
networking and dancing with special guest<br />
<strong>University</strong> President Troy D. Paino.<br />
Sponsored by <strong>Truman</strong>’s Multicultural Affairs<br />
Office and the Office of Advancement, the<br />
event was organized by committee members<br />
Kevin L. Jones (’90); Michelle McClure (’95);<br />
Denise Smith (’79), director of alumni<br />
relations; Dwyane Smith (’84) and Bertha<br />
Thomas, assistant dean of Multicultural Affairs.<br />
Proceeds from the event benefit the Black<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> and Attendees Scholarship, which was<br />
established in 2006 to provide support to<br />
to thank our team for participating in the event,”<br />
said Spiker. Other alumni attending the event<br />
included: Cindy (Barnes) Moeller (’86), Gerald<br />
Hollingsworth (’67), Cara Graziano (’09), Jamie<br />
(Stone) Ginkens (’70), Andrew Greiner (’08, ’09),<br />
Cyndy Lammert (’72) and Aaron Ely (’08, ’10).<br />
underrepresented students at <strong>Truman</strong>. Each fall,<br />
a scholarship is awarded to an incoming<br />
freshman student at <strong>Truman</strong> selected from the<br />
pool of applicants by a <strong>University</strong> scholarship<br />
committee.<br />
Joseph Smith (’07,<br />
’09) and Jeremy<br />
Mapp (’10) were<br />
among the guests<br />
attending the<br />
Black <strong>Alumni</strong> and<br />
Attendees Reunion<br />
in St. Louis on<br />
Nov. 27, 2010.<br />
40 <strong>Truman</strong> Review
Calendar of Events for <strong>Alumni</strong> and Friends<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
23 Jefferson City, Mo.<br />
Mid-Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: <strong>Truman</strong> Basketball at<br />
Lincoln <strong>University</strong><br />
23 Washington, D.C.<br />
Mid-Atlantic <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Ice Skating on the Mall<br />
MARCH<br />
3 Columbia, Mo.<br />
Mid-Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Accepted Student Event<br />
3 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter:<br />
Lyceum Event & Reception<br />
12 Phoenix, Ariz.<br />
Arizona <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Annual Banquet<br />
17 Kansas City, Mo.<br />
Kansas City <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Social Hour/Networking Event<br />
24 St. Louis, Mo.<br />
St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Social Hour/Networking Event<br />
28 Jefferson City, Mo.<br />
Mid-Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Legislative Reception<br />
29 Jefferson City, Mo.<br />
The <strong>Truman</strong> Showcase/Kirksville Day at the Capitol<br />
APRIL<br />
1 <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> National Spirit Day<br />
(wear your Northeast/<strong>Truman</strong> apparel)<br />
8-9 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Board Meeting<br />
10 Urbandale, Iowa<br />
Iowa <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Iowa Ronza Night<br />
21 Kansas City, Mo.<br />
Kansas City <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Social Hour/Networking Event<br />
21 St. Louis, Mo.<br />
St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Social Hour/Networking Event<br />
29 Mexico, Mo.<br />
Mid-Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Reception at<br />
Missouri Military Academy<br />
MAY<br />
4 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Senior Picnic<br />
7 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Spring Commencement<br />
14 Burlington, Iowa<br />
Iowa <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Burlington Bees Baseball Game<br />
14 Dallas, Texas<br />
Dallas <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Annual Banquet<br />
19 St. Louis, Mo.<br />
St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Social Hour/Networking Event<br />
21 Kansas City, Mo.<br />
Kansas City, Mid-Missouri & Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Chapters: Cardinals vs. Royals Game & Tailgate<br />
JUNE<br />
11 Des Moines, Iowa<br />
Iowa <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Iowa I-Cubs Game & Tailgate<br />
11 St. Louis, Mo.<br />
St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Scholarship Golf Tournament<br />
16 St. Charles, Mo.<br />
St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Social Hour at Little Hills Winery<br />
24 Kansas City, Kan.<br />
Kansas City <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: T-Bones Game<br />
(MIAA Conference Night at the Ballpark)<br />
24 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter:<br />
Social Hour with the Taste of <strong>Truman</strong><br />
24-26 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Taste of <strong>Truman</strong><br />
JULY<br />
8 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Scholarship Golf Scramble<br />
8 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: 19th Hole Social Hour<br />
21 Des Moines, Iowa<br />
Iowa <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: All-Student Send-off<br />
30 St. Louis, Mo.<br />
St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Cardinals vs. Cubs Baseball Game<br />
AUGUST<br />
7 St. Charles, Mo.<br />
St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Freshmen Send-off<br />
9 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Student Send-off<br />
14 Kansas City, Mo.<br />
Kansas City <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Freshmen Send-off<br />
24 <strong>Truman</strong> Travel Program:<br />
Alaska Cruise and Land Tour (15 days/14 nights)<br />
31 <strong>Truman</strong> Travel Program:<br />
Alaska Cruise (8 days/7 nights)<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
1 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Bulldog Football<br />
Home Opener & Pregame Social Hour<br />
4 Des Moines, Iowa<br />
Iowa <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Iowa Meals from the Heartland<br />
Service Project<br />
17 Lee’s Summit, Mo.<br />
Kansas City <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Wine Tasting<br />
OCTOBER<br />
7 <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> National Spirit Day<br />
(wear your Northeast/<strong>Truman</strong> apparel)<br />
7-9 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Homecoming<br />
11 St. Charles, Mo.<br />
St. Louis <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Wine Tasting/Officer Elections<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
11 Kansas City, Mo.<br />
Kansas City <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Boulevard Brewery Tour/Tasting<br />
15 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Northeast Missouri <strong>Alumni</strong> Chapter: Awards Banquet<br />
& Scholarship Silent Auction<br />
DECEMBER<br />
14 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
Senior Pizza Party<br />
17 Kirksville, Mo.<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Winter Commencement<br />
All events subject to change.<br />
Get details on all upcoming alumni events!<br />
Visit http://alumni.truman.edu or<br />
call (800) 452-6678.<br />
ALUMNI<br />
CHAPTERS<br />
Arizona Chapter<br />
Vid Vidyasagara (’92)<br />
trumanaz@yahoo.com<br />
Chicago Chapter<br />
Nicole (Ragusa) Higgins (’95)<br />
tsuchicago@yahoo.com<br />
Colorado Chapter<br />
Denise Smith (’79)<br />
dlsmith@truman.edu<br />
Dallas Chapter<br />
Rob Flanagan<br />
rob@flanagan.com<br />
Iowa Chapter<br />
Cindy Spiker (’93)<br />
iowaalumni@truman.edu<br />
Kansas City Chapter<br />
Alice (Moore) Arredondo<br />
(’02)<br />
kcalumni@truman.edu<br />
Mid-Atlantic Chapter<br />
DeAnn Malone (’93)<br />
eodbrt@gmail.com<br />
Mid-Missouri Chapter<br />
Tania (Hart) Cook (’85)<br />
midmoalumni@truman.edu<br />
Northeast Missouri<br />
Chapter<br />
Von Abbott (’79)<br />
vabbott@truman.edu<br />
St. Louis Chapter<br />
Jason Turk (’02)<br />
jason.turk@gmail.com<br />
ALUMNI<br />
CLUBS<br />
Florida Club<br />
Denise Smith (’79)<br />
dlsmith@truman.edu<br />
Houston, Texas Club<br />
Tanner Williams (’02)<br />
tannerwilliams@gmail.com<br />
Springfield, Mo. Club<br />
Carrie (Powell) Kleinsorge<br />
(’77, ’81)<br />
ckleinsorge@logrog.net<br />
Upper Midwest Club<br />
Denise Smith (’79)<br />
dlsmith@truman.edu<br />
ALUMNI<br />
RELATIONS<br />
Director of <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Relations<br />
Denise L. Smith (’79)<br />
(800) 452-6678<br />
(660) 785-4174<br />
dlsmith@truman.edu<br />
Winter 2011 41
Bright Minds Bright<br />
Futures Campaign Update<br />
$27.2 Million and Counting<br />
This past year, <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> celebrated the<br />
“Bright Minds Bright Futures”<br />
campaign by hosting regional events all<br />
around the country, and thanks to gifts<br />
large and small, the comprehensive<br />
campaign has raised more than $27.2<br />
million to date. With less than five<br />
months remaining before the end of the<br />
campaign on June 30, 2011, alumni,<br />
friends, parents, faculty and staff still<br />
have time to participate in the campaign<br />
as it rolls toward the $30 million goal.<br />
“<strong>Truman</strong> is meeting the demands of<br />
a rapidly changing world with a<br />
competitive, diverse, and innovative<br />
academic program that also prepares our<br />
students to be engaged and socially<br />
responsible leaders of our<br />
communities,” said Campaign Chair<br />
Chuck Foudree (’66). “For <strong>Truman</strong> to<br />
reach its full potential, all of our<br />
constituents must invest in our students<br />
and in our mission of becoming the<br />
premiere liberal arts and sciences<br />
university in the nation.”<br />
Since the 1980s, <strong>Truman</strong> has experienced<br />
a gradual decrease in state<br />
appropriations, and recent and<br />
projected declines in state funding have<br />
intensified the need to expand <strong>Truman</strong>’s<br />
endowment. Gifts made to the<br />
campaign will help sustain the<br />
innovative curriculum, maintain small<br />
class sizes, retain exceptional professors,<br />
and provide activities and special events<br />
that enrich the <strong>Truman</strong> experience for<br />
today’s students.<br />
Visit the campaign website at<br />
campaign.truman.edu and make a gift<br />
today!<br />
Campaign Chair Chuck Foudree (’66) (left) shown<br />
with Angela Green (’97) and Kevin Selzer (’05) at<br />
the regional event held in Denver, Colo.<br />
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Honoring a<br />
Famil Legac<br />
Linda Miller (’70) and her husband, Tim<br />
Duperron, teamed up with Linda’s brother,<br />
Jim Miller, to add to the family’s legacy at<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> through the creation of the<br />
Lou and Rita Miller Endowed Scholarship. The<br />
three <strong>Truman</strong> supporters donated $50,000 to the<br />
“Bright Minds Bright Futures” campaign to establish<br />
a new scholarship named in memory of Linda and<br />
Jim’s late parents.<br />
Lou Miller and Rita Clark were both born in<br />
Edina, Mo., in the 1920s, and the two became high<br />
school sweethearts. During World War II, Lou served<br />
as a naval aviator and flew torpedo bombers from the<br />
decks of the USS Bonhomme Richard and the USS<br />
Saratoga in the Pacific Fleet. After Lou returned from<br />
the war in 1946, he and Rita were married, and the<br />
couple resided in California for a short time, before<br />
moving back to the Miller family farm in northeast<br />
Missouri. They then settled in Kirksville where Lou<br />
began a career with Southwestern Bell Telephone<br />
Company that eventually spanned nearly four<br />
decades. Rita worked as a telephone operator, a<br />
homemaker and an accomplished seamstress.<br />
Both Lou and Rita are remembered for their<br />
devotion to their family, friends and church, as well<br />
as their service to others, so when the donors were<br />
seeking a way to honor the couple, a scholarship<br />
that would assist students was a logical choice. Since<br />
the Miller family has strong ties to northeast<br />
Missouri, it’s also fitting that the scholarship named<br />
in honor of Lou and Rita will benefit students from<br />
Knox and Adair counties.<br />
Lou and Rita’s daughter, Linda, is an alumna and<br />
longtime supporter of <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>. She<br />
retired from a long and distinguished career with<br />
Ford Motor Company, where she served as director<br />
of manufacturing for Powertrain Operations, and<br />
she is especially interested in supporting students<br />
who are studying mathematics and computer<br />
science. Linda believes the education she received at<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> gave her the foundation for her many<br />
successes, and she is committed to passing along the<br />
benefits of a <strong>Truman</strong> education to future generations<br />
of students.<br />
devotion<br />
A Family’s<br />
to education<br />
Inspires $1 Million Estate Gift<br />
Mike and Janet (Yearns) McClaskey<br />
have achieved distinguished careers,<br />
and the couple plans to share their<br />
success with future generations of <strong>Truman</strong><br />
students through a $1 million estate gift to the<br />
<strong>University</strong>. The McClaskey Family<br />
Endowment Fund will strengthen the<br />
<strong>University</strong> by providing an annual resource to<br />
benefit the teaching and learning environment<br />
within the School of Arts and Letters.<br />
Mike and Janet were both raised in<br />
northeast Missouri, and the McClaskey family<br />
has a deeply-rooted association with <strong>Truman</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Mike’s grandmother Beulah<br />
(Caldwell) McClaskey attended the <strong>University</strong><br />
back when the institution was known as a<br />
Normal School. His mother, Martha (Jones)<br />
McClaskey, a 1949 <strong>Truman</strong> alumna who<br />
devoted her life to education, taught English<br />
at <strong>Truman</strong> from 1959 to 1978 and has a<br />
humanities scholarship named in her honor.<br />
Mike's father, Bill McClaskey, graduated from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> in 1956, and Mike’s aunt,<br />
Bertha McClaskey, was a 1953 graduate.<br />
Following the example set by his family,<br />
Mike attended <strong>Truman</strong> where he earned<br />
bachelor of arts and bachelor of science in<br />
education degrees from <strong>Truman</strong> in 1985. His<br />
wife, Janet, received a bachelor of science in<br />
education degree from <strong>Truman</strong> in 1984, and<br />
they each went on to earn master’s degrees<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> of Missouri-Columbia.<br />
Over the course of his career, Mike has<br />
accumulated more than two decades of<br />
experience in the information technology<br />
industry, and he now serves as senior vice<br />
president and chief information officer for<br />
DISH Network. Janet pursued a career<br />
teaching English and currently teaches at<br />
Metro <strong>State</strong> College in Denver, Colo.<br />
By including <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in<br />
their estate plans, Mike and Janet are carrying<br />
on the family’s legacy of learning as the<br />
McClaskey Family Endowment Fund will<br />
benefit future generations of <strong>Truman</strong> students.<br />
Mike McClaskey (’85)<br />
and Janet (Yearns)<br />
McClaskey (’84)<br />
Bill McClaskey<br />
(’56)<br />
Bertha McClaskey<br />
(’53, ’57)<br />
Martha (Jones)<br />
McClaskey (’49)<br />
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Green Estate Gift of $525,000<br />
Boosts Scholarship Support<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> has received a $525,000 gift<br />
from the estate of Charles and<br />
Venita Jean (Lancaster) Green. The<br />
couple’s generous legacy will be used to<br />
create the Charles B. and Venita Jean<br />
Green Scholarship, ranking it among the<br />
five largest endowed scholarships<br />
established through the <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Foundation. Through their<br />
generous gift, the Greens have ensured that<br />
students can follow a path similar to the<br />
one that connected each of them to the<br />
<strong>University</strong>.<br />
Charles was born on a farm near<br />
Downing, Mo., while Jean grew up on a<br />
farm near Memphis, Mo. Both attended<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>, and Jean earned a bachelor’s<br />
Jean (’64, ’68) and<br />
Charles Green<br />
degree in<br />
1964<br />
followed by<br />
a master’s<br />
degree in<br />
1968. After<br />
they<br />
married,<br />
Charles and<br />
Jean lived<br />
near<br />
Downing<br />
before<br />
moving to the Memphis area. Jean passed<br />
away in August 2004, and Charles died<br />
five years later.<br />
The couple’s strong ties to northeast<br />
Missouri are reflected in their scholarship<br />
which is designed to benefit students who<br />
graduate from public schools in Scotland<br />
and Schuyler counties. In addition to<br />
helping students from northeast Missouri,<br />
the Charles B. and Venita Jean Green<br />
Scholarship aims to help serious students<br />
who might not otherwise be able to afford<br />
the opportunity to pursue their education<br />
at <strong>Truman</strong>. As a highly selective university,<br />
all <strong>Truman</strong> students are well-prepared, and<br />
in accordance with the donors’ wishes, the<br />
Charles B. and Venita Jean Green<br />
Scholarship will assist students who rank<br />
in the middle tier of the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
admission requirements.<br />
Vera and George Heinze Leave<br />
$280,000 Estate Gift to <strong>Truman</strong><br />
Through the estate of Vera and George Heinze, <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> will<br />
receive a gift of $280,000. In compliance with Vera’s wishes, this generous gift<br />
will be used to create an endowment to benefit Pickler Memorial Library.<br />
A <strong>Truman</strong> alumna, Vera (Hopp) Heinze was dedicated to supporting her alma mater<br />
throughout her lifetime. Following a <strong>University</strong> event in the fall of 1999, she wrote, “No<br />
words can really express the wonderful time I had last Saturday. To see such a large<br />
group working for the same goalto raise <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> to the very highest<br />
levelwas fantastic.”<br />
Vera graduated from <strong>Truman</strong> in 1946 with a<br />
bachelor’s degree in education after she completed nine<br />
years of summer coursework. She was a dedicated<br />
teacher in Kahoka, Mo., where she taught second grade<br />
for 45 years in addition to teaching third grade for one<br />
year. Vera and George were married more than 50 years<br />
before Vera’s death in March 2004. George passed away<br />
in March 2010.<br />
This substantial gift from Vera and George is a fitting<br />
tribute to that cooperative spirit as the “Bright Minds<br />
Bright Futures” campaign propels <strong>Truman</strong> to realizing<br />
its potential as the premier liberal arts and sciences<br />
university in the nation.<br />
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Supporting <strong>Truman</strong> through a Deferred Gift<br />
After graduating from a small high<br />
school, Eugenia (Ritchie) Crain<br />
discovered <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
was ideal for hershe found a small college<br />
with high standards and devoted faculty<br />
members who displayed a genuine interest in<br />
the progress of their students. A 1942<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> graduate, Eugenia also taught at<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> from 1970 to 1972, and she says she<br />
has enjoyed a long and pleasant association<br />
with the <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Eugenia’s husband, the late Aven L.<br />
Roberts, was also a graduate of Northeast<br />
Missouri <strong>State</strong> Teachers College. He received<br />
his bachelor of arts degree in 1937 and a<br />
bachelor of science in education degree in<br />
1941, and he served in the United <strong>State</strong>s Navy<br />
for two years (1943-1945). He always praised<br />
the <strong>University</strong> and its faculty for the quality<br />
education he received. Both Eugenia and her<br />
husband received higher degrees and taught in<br />
Missouri schools for a combined 60 years.<br />
“It is necessary to support our schools as<br />
the success of our democracy is dependent<br />
upon an educated public,” said Eugenia, who<br />
established a charitable gift annuity with a<br />
$100,000 gift to <strong>Truman</strong>. This contribution<br />
will provide further support for the Aven L.<br />
Roberts and Eugenia (Ritchie) Roberts Crain<br />
Scholarship, an award that Eugenia<br />
established in 2002 to provide scholarships<br />
for students in accounting or mathematics<br />
from Adair or Boone counties in Missouri.<br />
By enhancing the scholarship fund<br />
through a charitable gift annuity, Eugenia is<br />
not only assisting students pursuing degrees<br />
at <strong>Truman</strong>, she is also ensuring an enduring<br />
legacy at <strong>Truman</strong> that allows her to receive<br />
fixed payments throughout her lifetime.<br />
WRC Celebrates 20th Anniversary with<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Endowment Drive<br />
Agroup of like-minded women started<br />
the <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Women’s<br />
Resource Center (WRC) in 1990.<br />
Today, the center, which provides<br />
information and programming about<br />
women’s and gender issues, consists of both<br />
male and female students who contribute to<br />
the center through scholarship service hours,<br />
work-study or by volunteering. To celebrate<br />
the center’s 20th anniversary, the WRC<br />
launched an endowment fund drive in<br />
October 2010.<br />
Designed to insure the continued growth<br />
and success of the WRC, the endowment<br />
will provide additional funding to expand<br />
programming for the center, pay for<br />
pamphlets and other media to educate<br />
students on what reproductive health<br />
resources are available, or to pay a counselor<br />
to provide the first ever sexual assault support<br />
group at the WRC.<br />
“Being part of the Women’s Resource<br />
Center provided friendship, support and a<br />
personal foundation like no other experience<br />
during my years at <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>,”<br />
said Michelle Reichert (’90), co-founder of<br />
the WRC.<br />
In addition to monetary donations, the<br />
WRC is accepting donations of feminist books,<br />
CDs and movies to add to the WRC’s library.<br />
Locker Room Serves as Tribute to<br />
Legendary Basketball Coach<br />
To honor and recognize Willard Sims’ significant contributions to <strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>, alumni and friends showed their appreciation for the former basketball coach<br />
by contributing to the Willard Sims Locker Room Fund. The campaign raised $25,000<br />
which was used to purchase and install a set of 20 wooden lockers and make other renovations<br />
to the locker room which is located in Pershing Arena.<br />
A <strong>Truman</strong> alumnus, Sims served as a coach at <strong>Truman</strong> for<br />
nearly a quarter century. He led teams to more than 300 wins<br />
in his career at the <strong>University</strong>, including MIAA championships<br />
in 1978-79 and 1980-81. He retired as the men’s head<br />
basketball coach in 1995 following his 24th season.<br />
Parents Project<br />
Raising Funds to<br />
Outfit Multifunctional<br />
Learning Space<br />
The 2010-11 <strong>Truman</strong> Parents<br />
Project is the initial phase of a<br />
two-year project designed to raise<br />
funds to outfit the Planetarium in<br />
Magruder Hall with digital projection,<br />
lighting and sound systems. The project<br />
was selected based on feedback from<br />
students, faculty and administration<br />
indicating that the completion of the<br />
Planetarium and Multimedia Theater was<br />
considered a high priority.<br />
The vision for the project includes<br />
not only using the Planetarium and<br />
Multimedia Theater in science education<br />
and astronomy observation, but also<br />
using it for many other liberal arts<br />
courses, musical performances and<br />
theater presentations. The project aims to<br />
provide students with the opportunity to<br />
explore innovative and hands-on learning<br />
outside the traditional classroom<br />
furthering the <strong>University</strong>’s commitment<br />
to offer a unique “<strong>Truman</strong> experience.”<br />
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FALL RECAPS<br />
Bulldog Football<br />
The first season under new Head<br />
Coach Gregg Nesbitt (’80, ’87)<br />
showed improvement in all areas as<br />
the Bulldogs finished the season with a<br />
4-7 overall record and were 2-7 in the<br />
MIAA. It was two wins more than the<br />
previous season while the Dogs had the<br />
most rushing yards in 13 seasons and<br />
allowed the fewest rushing yards by an<br />
opponent in 14 years.<br />
Junior defensive back Michael Elliott<br />
headlined the Bulldog contingent on the<br />
all-conference team with his first, firstteam<br />
selection. Elliott was one of eight<br />
players selected to the all-MIAA team by<br />
league coaches after leading the Bulldogs<br />
with 91 total tackles and being named<br />
both the conference and D2Football.com<br />
National Player of the Week following his<br />
performance in the Bulldogs 37-34 victory<br />
over Emporia <strong>State</strong> on Oct. 23.<br />
Senior quarterback Phil Davis led the<br />
team in both rushing and passing in 2010<br />
as he threw for a career high 1,502 yards<br />
while gaining 833 yards on the ground. It<br />
was the most rushing yards by a Bulldog<br />
since Jerard Leverson ran for 1,015 in<br />
2003. Davis’ top target was freshman<br />
Dallas Grier who caught 33 passes for 548<br />
yards, the most by a Bulldog receiver since<br />
Andrew Blakely in 1999.<br />
The Bulldogs started the season 2-0<br />
with non-conference wins at St. Joseph’s<br />
(Ind.) 23-13 and Southwest Baptist (33-<br />
30) before falling on the road at Fort Hays<br />
<strong>State</strong> 34-9. The Bulldogs struggled against<br />
three straight nationally-ranked opponents<br />
in Northwest Missouri (44-10), Central<br />
Missouri (38-14) and Missouri Western<br />
(29-7) before rebounding for a<br />
Homecoming victory over Missouri<br />
Southern 23-6.<br />
Before a regionally televised game on<br />
Oct. 23 at Emporia <strong>State</strong>, the Bulldogs<br />
scored 13 points in the final 4:47 to rally<br />
for a 37-34 victory over the Hornets. It<br />
was the first fourth-quarter comeback since<br />
2001 for the Bulldogs.<br />
Washburn ended the two-game winning<br />
streak with a 45-12 win at Stokes Stadium<br />
the following week. At Pittsburg <strong>State</strong>, the<br />
Bulldogs nearly capped off another<br />
comeback but a last-second field goal was<br />
missed in a 17-14 loss to the Gorillas.<br />
The season finale was a game to behold.<br />
Before another regional television audience<br />
in Kirksville, the Bulldogs scored 28 points<br />
in the third quarter, highlighted by<br />
Tremaine Millender’s 96-yard kick return,<br />
and 61 points in the game. However,<br />
Nebraska-Omaha had the ball last and<br />
scored with 30 seconds remaining to<br />
squeak out a 62-61 win over the Bulldogs.<br />
Cross Country<br />
Sophomore<br />
Karen Grauel<br />
became the<br />
first <strong>Truman</strong><br />
women’s runner to<br />
capture the<br />
individual title at<br />
the MIAA Cross<br />
County<br />
Championships in<br />
November and was<br />
the only Bulldog to Karen Grauel<br />
compete at the Division II Championships<br />
in Louisville, Kentucky in December.<br />
Grauel finished 78th at the national race.<br />
The women’s team was ranked<br />
nationally in the Division II Cross<br />
Country Coaches Association poll for most<br />
of the year behind three first-place finishes<br />
in four regular season events. Dani<br />
Dell’Orco placed second overall in the first<br />
team meets before ending her season with<br />
an injury while Grauel picked up the slack<br />
with a first overall finish at the Gary<br />
Stoner Invitational in early October.<br />
Grauel took home the MIAA crown<br />
with a time of 21:18.1 and was joined by<br />
Anne Ratermann on the all-MIAA<br />
women’s cross country team.<br />
The men’s team placed second overall<br />
in two of their first three meets and<br />
garnered some regional rankings heading<br />
into the MIAA championships. Senior<br />
Adam Kell earned conference runner of<br />
the week honors following a second place<br />
overall finish at the season opening Les<br />
Duke Invitational.<br />
Kell, along with Joey Walls and John<br />
Venner, earned all-conference accolades as<br />
the Bulldogs finished a strong fourth at the<br />
conference meet held in Hays, Kan. Kell<br />
placed ninth overall with a time of 24:44.2,<br />
while Walls was 13th and Venner 20th.<br />
At regionals, the Bulldogs once again<br />
got a strong showing and placed fourth out<br />
of 15 teams for a berth at the national<br />
race. It was quite an improvement as the<br />
team finished 16th the previous year.<br />
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Women’s Soccer<br />
The <strong>Truman</strong> women’s soccer<br />
team finished its season<br />
11-4-5 and reached the<br />
NCAA tournament for the ninth<br />
time in program history. The<br />
Bulldogs won at least 10 matches for<br />
the 16th straight season and had six<br />
players named to all-MIAA squads.<br />
Junior Megan Buri and<br />
sophomore Olivia Hayes each<br />
returned to the NSCAA all-region<br />
unit for the second straight season,<br />
Men’s Soccer<br />
The <strong>Truman</strong> men’s soccer team<br />
concluded its 2010 season<br />
with a 12-3-2 overall record<br />
and reached the NCAA tournament<br />
for the first time since 2005 and<br />
ninth time overall.<br />
A quartet of Bulldog seniors—<br />
Scott Biggerstaff, Matt Kimball,<br />
Bobby Larkin and Dan Meagher—<br />
highlighted <strong>Truman</strong>’s first-team<br />
selections on the NSCAA all-region<br />
squad, as the Bulldogs received more<br />
first-team honorees than any other<br />
with Hayes garnering second-team<br />
honors and Buri being named to the<br />
third team. Hayes (6) and Buri (7)<br />
combined for more than half of<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>’s total goals on the season.<br />
In addition, Buri became the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s 94th student-athlete to<br />
be named an Academic all-American<br />
and the first women’s soccer player<br />
since 2005, as she was recognized on<br />
the ESPN Academic All-America<br />
second-team.<br />
The duo of Buri and Hayes<br />
headlined four first-team all-MIAA<br />
selections, as they were joined by<br />
junior Amy Schnoes and sophomore<br />
Kelsey Twellman. Freshman Suzanne<br />
Pelley picked up second-team<br />
honors, while junior Jaclyn<br />
Schumann was named to the<br />
honorable mention squad.<br />
The Bulldogs return all 11 starters<br />
for the 2011 season.<br />
program in the region. It marked the<br />
second straight season on the first<br />
team for Larkin, who led all NCAA<br />
men’s soccer players across each<br />
division with 1.06 assists/game and<br />
tied for the NCAA-high with 17<br />
total assists. Larkin also went on to<br />
earn second-team all-American<br />
recognition by Daktronics.<br />
Meanwhile, Kimball led the<br />
Bulldogs with 12 goals and 27 total<br />
points, while Meagher added eight<br />
goals and three assists. Biggerstaff<br />
earned his accolades as part of<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>’s defense, which posted a<br />
0.92 goals-against average and eight<br />
total shutouts on the season.<br />
Sophomore Andy Chapman was a<br />
first-team all-region pick by<br />
Daktronics and coupled his play<br />
with a second-team selection on the<br />
Academic all-district squad.<br />
The Bulldogs graduate six seniors<br />
but will return six starters for the<br />
2011 season.<br />
Fall 2010 <strong>Truman</strong> Honors<br />
(By Sport)<br />
Cross Country<br />
All-MIAA – Karen Grauel (Individual Champion),<br />
Adam Kell, Anne Ratermann (HM), Joseph Walls<br />
(HM), John Venner (HM)<br />
MIAA Runners of The Week –<br />
Adam Kell (Sept. 14), Dani Dell’Orco (Sept. 28),<br />
Karen Grauel (Oct. 12)<br />
Football<br />
Don Hansen All-Super Region Four Team –<br />
Michael Elliott (Third Team)<br />
All-MIAA – Michael Elliott (First Team),<br />
Ryan Ploesser (Second Team), Anthony Freeman<br />
(HM), Patrick Blackwell (HM), Tremaine Millender<br />
(HM), Dallas Grier (HM), Dan Tweeton (HM)<br />
D2Football National Player of the Week –<br />
Michael Elliott (Oct. 19)<br />
MIAA Players of The Week –<br />
Michael Elliott (Oct. 19 – Defensive),<br />
Derek Koon (Oct. 19 – Special Teams)<br />
Men’s Soccer<br />
Daktronics All-American – Bobby Larkin<br />
(Second-Team)<br />
NSCAA All-Region – Scott Biggerstaff<br />
(First Team), Matt Kimball (First Team), Bobby<br />
Larkin (First Team), Dan Meagher (First Team)<br />
Daktronics All-Region – Bobby Larkin<br />
(First Team), Any Chapman (First Team),<br />
Matt Kimball (Second Team)<br />
Women’s Soccer<br />
ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-American –<br />
Megan Buri (Second Team)<br />
NSCAA All-Region – Olivia Hayes (Second Team),<br />
Megan Buri (Third Team)<br />
All-MIAA – Amy Schnoes (First Team), Megan<br />
Buri (First Team), Kelsey Twellman (First Team),<br />
Olivia Hayes (First Team), Suzanne Pelley (Second<br />
Team), Jaclyn Schumann (HM).<br />
MIAA Players of The Week – Beth Bystrom<br />
(Sept. 7), Jayne Grishman (Sept. 21), Emily Bozdeck<br />
(Oct. 19)<br />
Volleyball<br />
AVCA All-American – Megan Sharpe (Third Team)<br />
Daktronics All-Region – Allison Barker (Second<br />
Team)<br />
AVCA All-Region – Megan Sharpe (First Team)<br />
All-MIAA – Megan Sharpe (First Team), Allison<br />
Barker (Third Team), Ashley Petak (Third Team),<br />
Molly Sinclair (HM), Casey Bruno (HM)<br />
AVCA National Player of The Week –<br />
Molly Sinclair (Sept. 6)<br />
MIAA Player of The Week – Molly Sinclair<br />
(Sept. 6), Allison Barker (Sept. 27)<br />
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Senior Golfer on a<br />
Hot Streak<br />
Senior Jennifer<br />
Lawson closed out her<br />
fall season by winning<br />
the individual title at<br />
three straight<br />
collegiate tournaments.<br />
Lawson beat<br />
out 126 golfers while<br />
Jennifer Lawson<br />
shooting a three-over<br />
par 147 at the Illinois Wesleyan Fall Classic<br />
then edged out 87 more competitors the<br />
following week at the Millikin (Ill.) Fall<br />
Invitational with a 147 score.<br />
The next week in tougher conditions,<br />
Lawson went three for three with a 156 twoday<br />
total at the <strong>University</strong> of Nebraska-<br />
Omaha Fall Classic. She finished the fall<br />
season with a 78.3 scoring average.<br />
The women finished first as a team at the<br />
Mount Mercy (Iowa) Four-Ball tournament<br />
and second at both the Illinois Wesleyan and<br />
UNO Fall Classic.<br />
New Look for<br />
Bulldog Tennis<br />
Courts<br />
This past summer as<br />
part of the Student<br />
Athletic Fee projects,<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> renovated<br />
the six main courts<br />
on the south end of<br />
campus. The newlook<br />
courts got their<br />
first action as both teams held tournaments<br />
in weekends in September.<br />
The Bulldog women finished the fall<br />
season with a 2-1 record in dual matches<br />
while the men posted a perfect 4-0 mark.<br />
Both teams will begin the spring portion of<br />
their schedule in February.<br />
Nesbitt Inducted<br />
into Hall of Fame<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> Head Football<br />
Coach Gregg Nesbitt<br />
(’80, ’87) was inducted<br />
into the Missouri High<br />
School Football<br />
Coaches Association<br />
Hall of Fame in<br />
December. The 1980<br />
Gregg Nesbitt <strong>Truman</strong> graduate was<br />
the head coach at both<br />
Columbia-Hickman and Hannibal High<br />
Inside Sports<br />
Schools and just completed his first year as<br />
coach of the Bulldogs.<br />
Nesbitt began his high school coaching<br />
career in his native Hannibal in 1984 where<br />
he led the Pirates to three straight state<br />
playoff appearances from 1987-1989. In<br />
1990, Nesbitt returned to <strong>Truman</strong> to join<br />
Eric Holm’s staff as linebackers coach and<br />
defensive coordinator of the Bulldogs.<br />
Nesbitt left in 1993 to take over one of<br />
the state’s premier high school programs at<br />
Hickman. Over the next 13 seasons, the<br />
Kewpies would rack up six Missouri Class<br />
Six playoff appearances and the 2004 state<br />
championship. In 10 of those 13 years,<br />
Hickman was ranked in the top 10 in<br />
Missouri’s largest football class with 95<br />
students receiving college scholarships and 42<br />
named to Missouri’s all-state teams.<br />
He was named the 2004 Missouri Coach of<br />
the Year by the Associated Press, the National<br />
Federation of High School Sports regional<br />
coach of the year and was a nominee for the<br />
NFHS National coach of the year award.<br />
In 2006, Nesbitt moved back to the<br />
collegiate ranks as defensive coordinator and<br />
secondary coach at Central Methodist<br />
<strong>University</strong> and the next year went to the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Central Missouri in<br />
Warrensburg. Last December, he returned to<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> to lead the Bulldogs.<br />
Swim Program Sees Changes in<br />
Midseason<br />
During finals week, the men’s and women’s<br />
swimming team were dealt a setback when<br />
Coach Mark Gole resigned to take on a<br />
similar position at William Jewell (Mo.)<br />
College leaving the program without a coach.<br />
Director of Athletics Jerry Wollmering,<br />
aided by many leads by alumni of the<br />
program, was able to quickly fill the position<br />
in a matter of weeks by<br />
Jennifer Godlewski, a<br />
1994 graduate of<br />
Illinois <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>. Godlewski<br />
took over the program<br />
for the start of the<br />
spring semester with<br />
both the conference<br />
and national championship<br />
meet in the<br />
Jennifer Godlewski<br />
offing.<br />
“We are very fortunate to find someone<br />
of Jennifer’s ability and passion for the sport<br />
of swimming in such a short time to fill in<br />
on an interim basis,” said Wollmering.<br />
“Once the word of Coach Gole’s departure<br />
was out, Jennifer was one of many leads we<br />
received through our supportive and enthusiastic<br />
alumni of the program.”<br />
Godlewski completed her masters’ degree in<br />
sports management at Illinois <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
and had served as a graduate assistant coach<br />
for the Redbirds for the past year and a half.<br />
During that period, five school records and<br />
one pool record were broken, marking the<br />
most records set in a single season in 15<br />
years. She assisted with daily workouts, facilitated<br />
home meets and was key in marketing<br />
swim lessons and swim camps.<br />
“It is an honor to complete this season for<br />
<strong>Truman</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>,” said Godlewski.<br />
“There are strong academic and swimming<br />
traditions here that make this opportunity<br />
exciting for me. These student-athletes are<br />
very committed and resilient, and I have all<br />
the confidence that they will overcome the<br />
adversity presented to them. Together, we<br />
will complete another successful season.”<br />
Kansas City<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Encouraged to<br />
Come Cheer on<br />
the Bulldogs<br />
The second MIAA<br />
Titlefest will kick off<br />
this March in Kansas City with eight<br />
conference championships to be decided in<br />
the Kansas City metro area.<br />
Titlefest will begin with the men’s and<br />
women’s postseason basketball tournament<br />
on March 3-6 at historic Municipal<br />
Auditorium in downtown KC. Both Bulldog<br />
basketball teams look to be in Kansas City<br />
this season with many conference games yet<br />
to be played in January and February.<br />
The men’s and women’s golf championships<br />
will run April 17-19 in the metro<br />
area while the men’s and women’s tennis<br />
championships will take place at the Country<br />
Club Plaza April 22-23. The MIAA Softball<br />
Tournament will run May 5-7 at the Blue<br />
Valley Sports Complex in Overland Park<br />
while the Baseball Tournament will take<br />
place May 12-15 at Community America<br />
Ballpark in Kansas City, Kan.<br />
For information on when the Bulldogs<br />
will play, follow <strong>Truman</strong> online at<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>Bulldogs.com.<br />
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April<br />
5 Kohlenberg Lyceum Series:<br />
Leonardo Suarez Paz’s<br />
“Romance de Tango”<br />
12 Student Research Conference<br />
(evening classes only)<br />
16 Junior Showcase Visit Event<br />
25 Spring Break<br />
29 Last Day of Classes<br />
February<br />
24 <strong>University</strong> Conference<br />
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March<br />
2 First Block Classes End<br />
3 Second Block Classes Begin<br />
3 Kohlenberg Lyceum Series:<br />
“Bus Stop” (Montana<br />
Repertory Theatre)<br />
7-11 Midterm Break<br />
19 Senior Showcase Visit Event<br />
May<br />
2 Final Exams Begin<br />
4 Reading Day<br />
6 Final Exams End<br />
7 Spring Commencement, 2 p.m.<br />
June<br />
4 May Interim Ends<br />
6 Eight-Week Summer Classes<br />
Begin<br />
11 Joseph Baldwin Academy:<br />
First Session Begins<br />
24-26 Taste of <strong>Truman</strong><br />
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