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An alumni publication <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> winter 2006, vol. 6 no. 3<br />
Putting the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> into Historical, Current<br />
and Future Perspective
BOARD OF GOVERNORS<br />
PRESIDENT<br />
Lawrence H. Fick ’63, Columbia, MO<br />
VICE PRESIDENT<br />
Deleta Parmley Williams ’84, Warrensburg, MO<br />
SECRETARY<br />
Jennifer Hill Nixon ’73, Warson Woods, MO<br />
MEMBERS<br />
Anthony Arton, student rep., Warrensburg, MO<br />
Delores J. Hudson, Warrensburg, MO<br />
Palmer R. Nichols II ’64, Jefferson City, MO<br />
Richard Phillips ’65, ’67, ’72, Lake Tapawingo, MO<br />
Michelle Patterson Wimes, Kansas City, MO<br />
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT<br />
Aaron Podolefsky, Warrensburg, MO<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
Campus Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5<br />
Athletics Today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8<br />
Alumni Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19<br />
Cover Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-18<br />
Development Today. . . . . . . . . . . 20-24<br />
Class Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-31<br />
UCM TODAY<br />
Published by the Office <strong>of</strong> Alumni Relations<br />
& Development and the Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Relations. Send comments and feedback to<br />
cmsupr@cmsu.edu or call 660-543-4640.<br />
Editor . . . . . . . . . Dalene Abner<br />
Designer . . . . . . . Brian Lynch ’04<br />
Photographer . . . Bryan Tebbenkamp ’03<br />
Writers. . . . . . . . . Jeff Murphy ’76 hs, ’80, ’95<br />
Mike Greife ’74<br />
Class Notes . . . . . Tina (Tock) Bell fs ’85-’87<br />
Contributor . . . . Jenne Vanderbout<br />
alumni events<br />
For more about alumni events, visit www.cmsu.edu/alumni. To RSVP, email alumni@cmsu.edu or call 660-543-8000.<br />
Campus: Mules Basketball Pregame, Thursday, Jan. 18<br />
Gather in the Multipurpose Building alumni room to cheer<br />
our teams before they face Fort Hays State <strong>University</strong>,<br />
5-7 p.m. $5/adult, $2.50/ages 5-12. RSVP by Jan 12.<br />
Lee’s Summit: UMC Summit Center Open House, Friday, Jan. 26<br />
Join us for this reception, meet university administrators<br />
and see our newly expanded facilities. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.<br />
Appetizers and wine. RSVP by Jan. 19.<br />
St. Louis: Schlafly Brewery, Friday, Jan. 26<br />
Join area alumni and friends for dinner in the Club Room at<br />
the Tap Room. 7 p.m. $20 per person. RSVP by Jan. 19.<br />
Lee’s Summit: Monday, Jan. 29<br />
Join us at Tanner’s to hear about UCM athletics at 6:15 p.m.<br />
Learn all <strong>of</strong> the exciting news about the teams and our<br />
outstanding student athletes. Coaches will be available to<br />
answer questions. No RSVP needed.<br />
Houston, TX: Mules Baseball vs. Rice Owls, Feb. 2-3<br />
UCM Mules Baseball returns to Texas for another Battle <strong>of</strong><br />
the Diamond. Watch the web for details.<br />
Washington, D.C.: Thursday, Feb. 8<br />
All area alumni mark your calendars to gather with alumni<br />
and friends. Watch the web for details.<br />
Kansas City: Crown Center, Thursday, Feb. 8<br />
Come ice skating with UCM alumni and friends. Skating<br />
begins at 5:30 p.m. Refreshments will be provided<br />
throughout the evening. $6/adult, $3/ages 5-12.<br />
RSVP by Feb. 1.<br />
Campus: Harlem Gospel Choir, Friday, Feb. 9<br />
Gather with alumni and friends for a pre-performance<br />
reception in the Ward Edwards Atrium, then walk over to<br />
Hendricks Hall to enjoy the Harlem Gospel Choir, one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
pre-eminent gospel choirs in the world. Reception, 6 p.m.<br />
Performance, 7:30 p.m. Cost for the reception is $5/adult;<br />
$2.50/child ages 5-12. RSVP by Feb. 2.<br />
Kansas City: MIAA Basketball Reception, Friday, March 2<br />
Back the Mules and Jennies during the MIAA Tournament,<br />
then attend our reception from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the<br />
Muehlebach Tower at the Downtown Marriott for one <strong>of</strong> our<br />
most popular alumni events.<br />
Overland Park: New Theatre Restaurant, Friday, March 9<br />
The proclaimed “best dinner theatre in the country” brings<br />
Broadway’s Farah Alvin in I Do! I Do! It is a comedy, a<br />
musical and so much more. Reception is at 5 p.m., dinner<br />
at 6:30 p.m. $35/adult includes reception, meal and show;<br />
additional cost for dessert and alcohol. RSVP by March 2.<br />
Kansas City: Lidia’s, Friday, April 6<br />
Enjoy Chef Lidia’s Italian cuisine, then explore Kansas City’s<br />
art world via the First Friday Crossroads Art District Tour.<br />
Reception, 5:30 p.m.; galleries open at 7 p.m. $10/person.<br />
RSVP by March 30.<br />
Sedalia, MO: Ivory Grille, Tuesday, April 17<br />
Join alumni and friends at the Ivory Grille at the historic<br />
Bothwell Hotel for a reception in the Banquet Room.<br />
Reception starts at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $15 per person.<br />
RSVP by April 10.<br />
Campus: Mules Baseball Tailgate, Tuesday, April 24<br />
Gather before the Mules vs. Lincoln baseball game at<br />
Crane Stadium for a pregame barbeque. 5 p.m., tailgate;<br />
6 p.m., game. Cost is $5/adult, $2.50/ages 5-12.<br />
RSVP by April 17.<br />
Kansas City: Royals vs. Cardinals Baseball, Thursday, June 14<br />
Tailgate at Brancato’s Bullpen and enjoy this cross-state<br />
rivalry. 5:30 p.m., tailgate; 7 p.m., game. $35/adult,<br />
$25/ages 4-12. RSVP by June 1 as seating is limited.<br />
Kansas City: Worlds <strong>of</strong> Fun, Saturday, June 23<br />
Kick <strong>of</strong>f the summer with an exciting day at this 175-acre<br />
playground. Barbecue dinner in Tivoli East Picnic Pavilion,<br />
5-6 p.m. Regular admission and dinner, $22; child or senior<br />
(age 3 and older and under 48” in height or 62 and older)<br />
admission and dinner, $12. RSVP by June 15.<br />
Kansas City: Starlight Theatre, Thursday, July 12<br />
Join us at Starlight Theatre for the Broadway musical, Sweet<br />
Charity. Backstage tour will be given before the show.<br />
Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Cost $30/adult, $25/ages 5-12.<br />
RSVP by July 5.<br />
Campus: 50-Year Reunion, Friday and Saturday, May 4-5<br />
All members plan to attend this annual event. The Class <strong>of</strong><br />
1957 will be <strong>of</strong>ficially inducted into the 50-Year Society.<br />
Watch your mail for details.<br />
Phoenix, AZ: Tuesday, March 6<br />
All area alumni mark your calendars to gather with alumni<br />
and friends. Watch the web for details.<br />
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IN THIS SECTION<br />
• Prime Number Guys Set<br />
Another World Record<br />
• UCM Honors Brooks with<br />
Honorary Degree<br />
• Campus Organizes<br />
Pandemic Flu Team<br />
• American Democracy Project<br />
Engaging Campus<br />
• Expert’s Visit, Ancient<br />
Human Discovery Coincide<br />
• Students’ Action Earns<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor National Award<br />
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UCM Receives NSF Grant<br />
for Scholarships<br />
As a generation <strong>of</strong> baby-boomers nears retirement age, the need for new<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essionals entering the fields <strong>of</strong> mathematics, computer science and<br />
actuarial science continues to grow. UCM’s Department <strong>of</strong> Mathematics<br />
and Computer Science received a boost toward meeting that need with a<br />
$499,520 grant from the National Science Foundation that will provide<br />
annual scholarships for UCM students.<br />
UCM was one <strong>of</strong> 110 colleges and universities to receive the grants<br />
out <strong>of</strong> 372 proposals submitted nationwide, and the only four-year<br />
university in the state <strong>of</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>. The funding will enable the department<br />
to <strong>of</strong>fer $4,000 annual scholarships for 28 students pursuing degrees in<br />
mathematics, actuarial science or computer science at UCM over the next<br />
four years. The scholarships are available to incoming freshmen, transfer<br />
and current students and are renewable each year, dependent upon<br />
funding.<br />
According to Xiaodong Yue, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> computer science and<br />
a member <strong>of</strong> the grant administration team, UCM met criteria put forth by<br />
NSF to receive the grant.<br />
“We were required to show academic ability among our students,<br />
and we had to demonstrate the financial need on our campus,” Yue<br />
said. Assistance in gathering the data was provided by the UCM Office <strong>of</strong><br />
Student Financial Assistance and the Office <strong>of</strong> Admissions. The Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Mathematics and Computer Science provided data on its graduation rate<br />
and retention rate among its students, as well as data on the qualifications<br />
<strong>of</strong> the faculty and the content and scope <strong>of</strong> the department curriculum.<br />
In addition to the scholarship funding, recipients also will be assigned a<br />
faculty mentor and participate in scholar groups. Peer mentoring, academic<br />
advising, pr<strong>of</strong>essional development activities and career services and<br />
counseling also will be provided. The scholarships will be made available<br />
to applicants with academic ability and who demonstrate financial need<br />
through completion <strong>of</strong> the Free Application for Federal Student Aid<br />
(FAFSA). Graduating high school seniors must have an ACT composite<br />
score <strong>of</strong> 24 and a minimum grade point average <strong>of</strong> 3.2. Currently enrolled<br />
UCM students also must have a minimum 3.2 GPA.<br />
“This scholarship opportunity will help our department recruit and<br />
retain a greater number <strong>of</strong> students for our majors in computer science,<br />
actuarial science and mathematics,” said Ed Davenport, chair <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Mathematics. “With this financial assistance and the<br />
mentoring that our department will provide, we hope to better prepare our<br />
students who will be entering a highly technological work force.”<br />
Xiaodong Yue, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> computer science, led campus efforts to obtain the NSF grant.<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
Prime Number Guys Set<br />
Another World Record<br />
Lighting struck twice for two<br />
UCM math pr<strong>of</strong>essors whose<br />
research with prime numbers is<br />
gaining them national recognition.<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
math researchers, Steve Boone,<br />
interim dean <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Arts<br />
and Sciences, and Curtis Cooper,<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> computer science,<br />
discovered the largest known prime<br />
number for the second time in nine<br />
months Sept. 4. The 9.8-million<br />
digit number was found in a<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Communication<br />
lab in the Wood Building. The<br />
discovery is part <strong>of</strong><br />
a world-wide<br />
research project through the<br />
Great Internet Mersenne Prime<br />
Search. UCM has been participating<br />
in the GIMPS research for nine<br />
years, with more than 700<br />
computers across campus running<br />
the GIMPS s<strong>of</strong>tware.<br />
A Mersenne prime is part <strong>of</strong> a<br />
rare class <strong>of</strong> prime numbers named<br />
after French monk Marin Mersenne,<br />
who studied them more than 300<br />
years ago. The discovery is the 44th<br />
known Mersenne prime and came<br />
close to receiving the $100,000<br />
prize from the Electronic Frontier<br />
Foundation for finding the first<br />
10-million digit prime number.<br />
“We’ve had a lot <strong>of</strong> support<br />
from everybody across campus. The<br />
administration, faculty and all the<br />
people at Information Services have<br />
been really helpful,” Cooper said.<br />
“Even though the prime number<br />
has Steve and my name on it, it is<br />
really a whole UCM effort.”<br />
UCM Honors<br />
Brooks with<br />
Honorary<br />
Degree<br />
The UCM<br />
Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Alvin Brooks Governors<br />
awarded<br />
prominent Kansas City civic leader<br />
Alvin Brooks an honorary doctorate<br />
during graduate commencement<br />
ceremonies Dec. 15.<br />
In 1974, Brooks became the<br />
first African-American to serve<br />
on the university’s governing<br />
board, then the Board <strong>of</strong> Regents.<br />
Since then, he has assisted with<br />
the development <strong>of</strong> the annual<br />
Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration,<br />
constituent relations on campus<br />
and in Kansas City, and promoted<br />
the campus in the KC metro area.<br />
Brooks’ career reflects a life<br />
dedicated to civic service and<br />
the Kansas City community. He<br />
founded the broad-based grassroots<br />
community organization<br />
known as the Ad Hoc Group<br />
Against Crime, and became its<br />
president in 1991.<br />
Along with being a tireless<br />
advocate for civic participation and<br />
a champion for youth involvement,<br />
he also served on the President’s<br />
National Drug Advisory Council.<br />
Campus Organizes<br />
Pandemic Flu Team<br />
Could the bird flu hit campus?<br />
It’s a tough question to answer,<br />
but one that is being discussed at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
as colleges and universities across<br />
the country initiate pandemic flu<br />
planning.<br />
Under the leadership <strong>of</strong><br />
Michelle Hendricks, director <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>University</strong> Health Center,<br />
UCM recently established its own<br />
pandemic flu committee. The<br />
group is chaired by Rebecca Steckel,<br />
assistant director <strong>of</strong> university<br />
American Democracy Project Engaging Campus<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>’s involvement with the<br />
American Democracy Project has brought a<br />
number <strong>of</strong> guests to campus with the intent<br />
<strong>of</strong> creating opportunities for intellectual and<br />
experiential understanding <strong>of</strong> civic engagements<br />
for students.<br />
Attorney and author William H. Colby<br />
visited to talk about his most recent book,<br />
Unplugged: Reclaiming our Right to Die in America.<br />
Colby represented the family <strong>of</strong> Nancy Cruzan<br />
in the first right-to-die case heard by the U.S.<br />
Supreme Court.<br />
UCM’s Art Center Gallery, in conjunction<br />
with the project, sponsored the exhibit, Raise<br />
Your Voice!, featuring the works <strong>of</strong> more than 75<br />
artists from Warrensburg and across the country.<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> alumnus Ryan Ballard<br />
presented a puppet theater performance, Dr.<br />
Razzamataz the Stupendous and His Mystical<br />
Medicine Show, using special effects and<br />
pyrotechnics to deal with socially relevant issues.<br />
Ballard is a pr<strong>of</strong>essional artist, pyrotechnician<br />
and educator who received a Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Fine<br />
Arts in 2001.<br />
Prior to Hurricane Katrina, he taught for<br />
the Talented Visual Arts program in Orleans<br />
Parish. After losing everything in the hurricane,<br />
he relocated to Colorado Springs and now has<br />
rebuilt what he lost.<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
Animal science major Tiffany Bauer is one <strong>of</strong> several students in the new “Pick a Heifer” program.<br />
health services and includes<br />
representatives from across campus<br />
who are meeting regularly to help<br />
develop the most effective response<br />
possible to this type <strong>of</strong> public<br />
health emergency. Their plan,<br />
when finished, will become part<br />
<strong>of</strong> the institution’s overall crisis<br />
management effort.<br />
Selvidge Named an Editor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Religious Encyclopedia<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> religious studies,<br />
Marla J. Selvidge, has been invited<br />
to become an editor <strong>of</strong> a new<br />
encyclopedia on women and<br />
religion tentatively entitled, Women<br />
and the Bible, an Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong><br />
Exegesis and History <strong>of</strong> Culture. She<br />
also has been invited to Italy to<br />
help plan the volume.<br />
Selvidge is the 1999 winner <strong>of</strong><br />
the William H. Byler Distinguished<br />
Faculty Award. She has published<br />
nationally and internationally in<br />
the fields <strong>of</strong><br />
biblical studies<br />
and feminist<br />
interpretation.<br />
The project,<br />
which will<br />
bring together<br />
scholars from<br />
Marla J. Selvidge<br />
throughout the<br />
world, will feature analysis on the<br />
stories about women in the Bible<br />
and focus on discovering women<br />
in history, hymns, legal texts,<br />
iconography and more.<br />
Freshman Class Sets<br />
New Decade Record<br />
The largest freshman class in<br />
more than a decade contributed<br />
to a two percent jump overall in<br />
undergraduate students at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> for<br />
the fall 2006 semester.<br />
“We are excited about the<br />
quantity, quality and diversity <strong>of</strong><br />
this year’s class,” said Matt Melvin,<br />
assistant provost for enrollment<br />
management.<br />
“It is a testament to the quality<br />
academic programs <strong>of</strong>fered, the<br />
university’s commitment to help<br />
students find employment upon<br />
completion <strong>of</strong> their studies and the<br />
incredibly hard work <strong>of</strong> a dedicated<br />
enrollment services staff,” he said.<br />
Graduate and undergraduate<br />
enrollment totaled 10,711, <strong>of</strong> which<br />
1,592 students were first-time,<br />
degree-seeking freshmen, up from<br />
1,575 the previous year.<br />
Undergraduate enrollment<br />
totaled 8,970, a 153-student<br />
increase from 2005. Other numbers<br />
included a 10 percent increase in<br />
students entering the university<br />
with composite ACT scores <strong>of</strong><br />
22-26; a 12 percent increase in<br />
minority students; and improved<br />
four- and five-year graduation rates.<br />
Championships, Mock<br />
Shows Occupy Students<br />
It’s been a good show season<br />
for the UCM cattle show team.<br />
UCM’s Simmental bulls earned<br />
championship awards at the<br />
Ozark Empire Fair, the <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
State Fair and the American Royal.<br />
UCM agriculture students also are<br />
learning the basics <strong>of</strong> handling and<br />
showing cattle as participants in the<br />
“Pick a Heifer” program through<br />
the Agriculture Club in UCM’s<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Agriculture.<br />
Jason Scales, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> agriculture, explained that some<br />
<strong>of</strong> UCM’s agriculture students have<br />
little to no experience in working<br />
with cattle.<br />
Students work with one <strong>of</strong><br />
10 donated heifer calves for 20<br />
hours. Participation is open to any<br />
student, with the majority <strong>of</strong> the<br />
participants majoring in agriculture<br />
programs.<br />
At the end <strong>of</strong> the three-week<br />
program, students showed their<br />
calves at a “mini American Royal.”<br />
The grand prize is the chance to<br />
go on a trip with UCM’s national<br />
award-winning cattle show team.<br />
Expert’s Visit, Ancient<br />
Human Discovery Coincide<br />
Paleoanthropologist Donald<br />
Johanson announced to the world<br />
the discovery <strong>of</strong> a 3.3 million-yearold<br />
pre-human skeleton Sept. 20<br />
while at UCM. The news was so<br />
significant that it made the cover <strong>of</strong><br />
the November National Geographic<br />
magazine.<br />
Johanson visited campus to<br />
talk about his historic discovery in<br />
1974 <strong>of</strong> the fossilized remains <strong>of</strong><br />
the oldest known human ancestor<br />
named “Lucy.”<br />
The newest discovery,<br />
made by Ethiopian<br />
anthropologist Zerensenay<br />
Alemseged, has been<br />
nicknamed “Lucy’s baby.”<br />
Also called the Dikika Baby,<br />
the three-year-old remains<br />
come from the dawn <strong>of</strong><br />
humanity and are believed<br />
to hold the clues to the<br />
origin <strong>of</strong> childhood. They<br />
are the most complete<br />
ancient infant ever found.<br />
“This is going to allow<br />
us to have extraordinary<br />
insight into the growth<br />
and development <strong>of</strong> this<br />
species,” Johanson said.<br />
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Students’ Action Earns<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor National Award<br />
Joseph J. Ryan, Ph.D., chair <strong>of</strong><br />
UCM’s Department <strong>of</strong> Psychology,<br />
epitomizes the teacher/scholar<br />
model promoted throughout the<br />
academy, and<br />
now he has<br />
been nationally<br />
recognized.<br />
The American<br />
Psychological<br />
Association<br />
<strong>of</strong> Graduate<br />
Students, Joe Ryan<br />
the largest<br />
group <strong>of</strong> psychology graduate<br />
students worldwide, awarded<br />
Ryan the Raymond D. Fowler<br />
Award for his outstanding<br />
contribution to the pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
development <strong>of</strong> students.<br />
“I was real surprised,” Ryan said,<br />
noting that his former students<br />
nominated him through another<br />
university APAGS chapter.<br />
Pipe Organ Dedicated to<br />
Retired Music Pr<strong>of</strong>essors<br />
The 47-year-old pipe organ<br />
in Hart Recital Hall has played<br />
a pivotal role in the musical<br />
development <strong>of</strong> Frederic W. Homan<br />
and William E. McCandless.<br />
Recently, the Department <strong>of</strong> Music<br />
dedicated the 13-rank, 11-stop pipe<br />
organ to the two emeriti faculty<br />
members in honor <strong>of</strong> their UCM<br />
music education careers.<br />
The 3.3 million-year-old Dikika Baby holds new evolution<br />
clues. Photo courtesy <strong>of</strong> National Geographic magazine.<br />
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IN THIS SECTION<br />
• A Rare Moment This Fall<br />
• ‘Golf Digest’ Lists Crane as<br />
Nation’s Top CEO Golfer<br />
• Steveners Fund Wrestling<br />
Scholarships<br />
• Anderson Named Division II<br />
Scholar-Athlete <strong>of</strong> the Year<br />
• Jennies Presented Athletic<br />
Letters at Homecoming<br />
UCM Volleyball Coach<br />
Peggy Martin Reaches<br />
1,000 Victories<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> Jennies Volleyball Coach<br />
Peggy Martin didn’t expect her 1,000th win to come this year<br />
— giving her an NCAA Division II national first.<br />
With a tough schedule and the loss <strong>of</strong> a few key players,<br />
Martin thought that, if anything, this would be a growing year<br />
for the Jennies to mature and build chemistry together.<br />
Yet, the Jennies won all season long and, for the 29th<br />
straight time, finished with at least 25 wins. And on the night<br />
the team extended its winning streak to 10 games — a game<br />
against Northwest <strong>Missouri</strong> State <strong>University</strong> — Martin reached<br />
the unexpected milestone.<br />
The win reminded Martin — whose record stands at<br />
1,000-260-8 in her 31 seasons at UCM — <strong>of</strong> how consistent<br />
her Jennies have been over the years.<br />
“I think 1,000 is huge. It means perseverance, and it means<br />
doing it a long time,” she said. “As I’ve joked, I wouldn’t still be<br />
doing it if we weren’t winning. The winning is important.”<br />
She led her team to at least 25 wins for the 29th straight<br />
season and has won or shared 19 Mid-America Intercollegiate<br />
Athletic Association titles since the league began sponsoring<br />
the sport in 1982.<br />
Martin’s teams have also made a Division II record 24<br />
straight NCAA Tournament appearances in a row.<br />
“Coach Martin’s 1,000th win is monumental,” UCM<br />
Athletic Director Jerry Hughes said. “Not many, if any, coaches<br />
reach that milestone, and she’s done it. It’s great for her, the<br />
program and the university.”<br />
Going back to the fall <strong>of</strong> 1975, Martin has watched Jennies<br />
volleyball grow into what it is today.<br />
“Going from not even having real volleyball standards<br />
to where we are today is phenomenal,” she said. “To see the<br />
progress we’ve made is awesome. Not only did I grow up with<br />
the program, but the whole program <strong>of</strong> women’s athletics grew<br />
up with me. I’ve been blessed in every facet <strong>of</strong> my career as a<br />
young girl playing sports to now being a rather older woman<br />
and still coaching.”<br />
— Daniel Barber ’07<br />
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A Rare Moment This Fall<br />
For possibly the first time<br />
ever, UCM’s fall sports were<br />
all nationally ranked in early<br />
September. The Jennies volleyball<br />
team was ranked at #10, the Mules<br />
football team at #24, the Jennies<br />
soccer team, making its first<br />
appearance in the rankings in the<br />
school’s history, at #15, and the<br />
Mules and Jennies cross country<br />
teams at #24 and #14, respectively.<br />
‘Golf Digest’ Lists Crane as<br />
Nation’s Top CEO Golfer<br />
Jim Crane ’76, honored during<br />
homecoming as a distinguished<br />
alumnus, claims another<br />
distinction — Golf Digest’s best<br />
corporate golfer <strong>of</strong> the year.<br />
Crane, founder and CEO <strong>of</strong><br />
Houston-based EGL Eagle Global<br />
Logistics, has a .8 handicap. Part<br />
owner <strong>of</strong> Pebble Beach Golf Course,<br />
he has won titles at Nantucket Golf<br />
Club, Lochinvar Golf Club and<br />
Northgate Country Club.<br />
The former Mules baseball<br />
standout and UCM Athletic Hall<br />
<strong>of</strong> Famer grew up caddying at<br />
Norwood Hills Country Club in<br />
St. Louis and remembers playing<br />
for free on caddy day.<br />
Now he finds the golf course<br />
conducive to business. “If you<br />
can’t close in four hours, you can’t<br />
sell,” Crane told Golf Digest <strong>of</strong><br />
opportunities afforded by the game.<br />
Crane is a newcomer to Golf<br />
Digest’s top CEO golfers’ list, which<br />
covers Fortune 1000 companies.<br />
This is the magazine’s fifth biennial<br />
rankings.<br />
Steveners Fund Wrestling<br />
Scholarships<br />
UCM alums Marc and Beverly<br />
Stevener have established two<br />
scholarships for members <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Mules wrestling team, the Herbert<br />
A. Luippold Memorial Scholarship<br />
and the Marc Stevener Wrestling<br />
Scholarship.<br />
Beverly established the Marc<br />
Stevener Wrestling Scholarship<br />
in honor <strong>of</strong> her husband, Marc, a<br />
Mules wrestler from 1970-1973.<br />
It will be awarded annually to the<br />
most improved Mules wrestler.<br />
Beverly, who was a grapelette<br />
from 1971-1974, established the<br />
Herbert A. Luippold Memorial<br />
Scholarship in honor <strong>of</strong> her father.<br />
It will be awarded annually to a<br />
Mules wrestler who shows promise<br />
<strong>of</strong> leadership and service.<br />
Anderson Named Division II<br />
Scholar-Athlete <strong>of</strong> the Year<br />
UCM All-American Kristin<br />
Anderson was named the 2006<br />
NCAA Division II Scholar-Athlete<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Year, becoming the first<br />
athlete in UCM history to receive<br />
the distinction. She held a 3.97<br />
undergraduate cumulative GPA and<br />
was a standout track and field and<br />
cross country athlete.<br />
Anderson is a two-time<br />
national champion, winning<br />
the 5,000-meter run at the 2006<br />
NCAA-II Indoor Championships<br />
and the 3,000-meter steeplechase<br />
at the 2005 NCAA-II Outdoor<br />
Championships. She is currently<br />
pursuing her master’s degree at<br />
UCM, competing internationally<br />
toward earning a spot on the U.S.<br />
Olympic team.<br />
Jennies Presented Athletic<br />
Letters at Homecoming<br />
At this year’s homecoming<br />
women athletes who played at<br />
UCM prior to early 1972 received<br />
athletic letters that only male<br />
athletes could receive at the time.<br />
The Celebrating Women’s<br />
Athletics reunion brought back<br />
Jennies sophomore forward Landri Schmitt helped the UCM soccer team earn its first trip ever to<br />
the NCAA tournament.<br />
hundreds <strong>of</strong> former Jennies who<br />
obtained their well-deserved letters.<br />
Women who competed in<br />
sports before anybody paid much<br />
attention deserve credit for making<br />
today’s competition what it is, said<br />
Jennies Volleyball Coach Peggy<br />
Martin to The Kansas City Star.<br />
In 1972 Title IX <strong>of</strong> the federal<br />
Education Amendments outlawed<br />
discrimination on the basis <strong>of</strong><br />
gender in American schools that<br />
received federal funding.<br />
The women athletes who<br />
played prior to Title IX played<br />
purely for love <strong>of</strong> the sport, as<br />
the games they played were<br />
un<strong>of</strong>ficial and records were not<br />
usually kept, Martin noted.<br />
She added that scholarships<br />
and university funding also did not<br />
factor into women’s sports.<br />
Mules’ Baseball Assistants<br />
Get Recruited to the Majors<br />
With success comes opportunity.<br />
The UCM baseball squad had 15<br />
players in the minor league ranks<br />
since 2000, and it was just a matter<br />
<strong>of</strong> time before its coaches started<br />
getting those opportunities.<br />
Assistant Coach Kevin Cullen<br />
has taken a position as a<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essional scout with the<br />
Cleveland Indians in Dallas, TX. He<br />
joined the UCM staff this summer<br />
after a stint at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>. Former Mules assistant<br />
Steve Miller also has joined a<br />
major league team as a scout with<br />
the Toronto Blue Jays in Chicago.<br />
Miller was the Mules hitting coach<br />
and recruiting coordinator for the<br />
past three seasons.<br />
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Colorado Mountain Tops are Familiar Scenes to Mitchell<br />
Mike Mitchell believes in<br />
goals, even when they take<br />
decades to achieve. His latest<br />
is one day perhaps to climb a<br />
20,000-foot peak, the earth’s<br />
highest, Mt. Everest.<br />
After climbing 100 14ers<br />
— mountains that exceed<br />
14,000 feet, including all<br />
55 in Colorado, some over<br />
and over — you get a sense<br />
that Mitchell has the kind <strong>of</strong><br />
determination and drive to<br />
accomplish anything.<br />
This summer at the age <strong>of</strong> 50, Mitchell spent<br />
a dozen weekends traveling across the state and<br />
climbing in not-so-great weather to notch <strong>of</strong>f the<br />
last 16 14ers he had yet to ascend.<br />
Mitchell discovered his love for climbing after<br />
he graduated from UCM. As a member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Mules wrestling team, he had a strong drive to<br />
compete. When he finished his degree in 1979<br />
and no longer wrestled, he went in search <strong>of</strong> a<br />
new activity to channel that spirit and energy.<br />
He started running marathons and triathlons<br />
to keep in shape and fill that drive.<br />
When he and his wife, Verna, who graduated<br />
from <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> with an education degree,<br />
moved to Colorado, they found a different kind<br />
<strong>of</strong> challenge.<br />
“We saw the mountains,” Mitchell said.<br />
After reading about the Rockies and hearing<br />
people talk about the 14ers, Mitchell and Verna<br />
climbed the most famous one, Longs Peak, in<br />
1979. It’s the mountain people see when they<br />
enter the state from the east.<br />
“I decided I wanted to keep picking at them,”<br />
Mitchell said <strong>of</strong> the<br />
other 54 14ers. He set<br />
a goal to climb them<br />
all — first by age 30,<br />
then by 40 and finally<br />
by 50.<br />
“I love the<br />
mountain climbing<br />
and the views, and the<br />
feeling when you get<br />
on top. I’ve never really<br />
lost my love for it.”<br />
He climbed his first<br />
mountain with his dad and has since passed on<br />
that love to his friends and family. He took his<br />
son, Zach, up in a backpack as an infant. When<br />
he was three, Zach climbed his first 14er, Culebra<br />
Peak. Mitchell is sure that may be a record.<br />
If mountaineering seems difficult, it’s because<br />
it is — hard and dangerous. Mitchell keeps in<br />
shape by running five to eight miles a day, four<br />
times a week and hiking the rest <strong>of</strong> the time. He’s<br />
run 37 marathons, including one up Pike’s Peak<br />
— no mean feat.<br />
Even being in good physical shape,<br />
mountaineering requires a good knowledge <strong>of</strong><br />
climbing.<br />
“The only learning curve was how to find a<br />
route and stay on it. Longs Peak is a good first<br />
difficult peak because the route is very easy to<br />
spot,” he said. “On many <strong>of</strong> the 14ers, the route<br />
is not marked. You have to be able to find the<br />
right route or you can get yourself into a whole<br />
lot <strong>of</strong> trouble. What is a difficult climb can turn<br />
into a nightmare if you get <strong>of</strong>f and get on the<br />
wrong route.”<br />
The drive and determination that Mitchell<br />
Mike and Verna Mitchell and their younger son, Cory,<br />
came to Warrensburg to visit Zach, then a UCM student<br />
and Mules football player.<br />
has shown throughout his life comes in some<br />
small part from his time spent at UCM.<br />
Mitchell, originally from St. Louis, came to<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> on a wrestling scholarship and<br />
also because <strong>of</strong> the industrial safety program.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> his most memorable college moments<br />
came on the wrestling mat in Iowa, and it has<br />
stuck with him ever since.<br />
“My friend, who was a 134-pounder, was<br />
getting ready to wrestle and his opponent looked<br />
like he was my size, around a 190-pounder.<br />
“Well, his opponent took <strong>of</strong>f his warm-up<br />
top and warm-up pants, and then he took <strong>of</strong>f<br />
his legs. And he walked out there on stumps,”<br />
Mitchell said. “It was just amazing that this guy<br />
could wrestle in college with no legs. It made an<br />
impression on us that incredible things can get<br />
done by people if they just stick with it,” he said.<br />
Mitchell has always been an outdoorsman,<br />
and he knew that UCM was a great place to go<br />
to school. He even helped to convince his first<br />
cousin, Mules golf head coach Tim Poe, to study<br />
at UCM.<br />
“I told him what a great campus and great<br />
education it was. And he’s a great outdoorsman<br />
so I told him about all the hunting and fishing<br />
and all the things you can do. We loved Pertle<br />
Springs,” Mitchell said. His son, Zach, also<br />
earned a degree from the safety management<br />
program while playing football at UCM.<br />
Next spring, Mitchell hopes to put Mt. Rainier<br />
on his list <strong>of</strong> 14ers. Where his drive takes him<br />
after that is unknown, perhaps he’ll find time for<br />
a 20,000-foot mountain, but he certainly has the<br />
determination to do incredible things.<br />
— Daniel Barber ’07 and Dalene Abner<br />
Mike Mitchell ’79, succeeded this summer in climbing all <strong>of</strong> Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains, a goal he had for the past 30 years. Here, he stands atop Capital Peak, which he considered the toughest.<br />
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IN THIS SECTION<br />
• UCM Alumnus Dale<br />
Carnegie Named to Hall <strong>of</strong><br />
Famous <strong>Missouri</strong>ans<br />
• Medicine, Insurance,<br />
Education: Meet Doctor<br />
Do A-Lot<br />
• Name Has Changed...but<br />
Essence and Traditions<br />
Haven’t<br />
• Aton Maintains Watchful Eye<br />
for Public Hazards<br />
• Safety Alumna Leads<br />
Nationally Recognized Team<br />
alumni today<br />
Judge Believes in Helping Others,<br />
Donates Kidney to a Stranger<br />
As a five-year-old, Peggy Richardson knew she wanted to<br />
be a lawyer. She never wavered from that goal, finishing high<br />
school in Tipton, MO, a bachelor’s degree in history and<br />
political science from <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>, and a law degree from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>.<br />
Now an associate judge for the 22 nd Judicial Circuit in<br />
Moniteau County, Richardson ’80 has found a way to help<br />
people. It was in the last two years that she also reached out to<br />
a person in need when she donated a kidney to someone she<br />
has never met.<br />
After doing her own research, she registered as a donor with<br />
the Mid-America Transplant Service in St. Louis. Following<br />
a battery <strong>of</strong> physical and psychological tests, she donated a<br />
kidney in 2005. She has yet to meet the recipient <strong>of</strong> her kidney.<br />
“I feel like I gave her the chance to live a long and<br />
productive life, and that’s all the recognition I need,”<br />
Richardson said. “I don’t want her to feel she owes me<br />
anything. Doing something you are led to do is a blessing.”<br />
One <strong>of</strong> 12 children, Richardson grew up on a farm in rural<br />
Moniteau County. The family didn’t have much, but her thirst<br />
for a college education led her to UCM, where scholarships and<br />
work study made it possible for her to get a degree.<br />
“Going to college was a marvelous experience for me,”<br />
she said. “Political science seemed like a preparation for law<br />
school, and I love history.”<br />
She has fond memories <strong>of</strong> lectures by William Foley,<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor emeritus <strong>of</strong> history, who “brought history to life.” She<br />
also cites the mentorship <strong>of</strong> James Young, pr<strong>of</strong>essor emeritus <strong>of</strong><br />
political science, as important to her education.<br />
As a student, she worked for Harold Sampson, dean<br />
emeritus <strong>of</strong> graduate studies and extended campus. Under<br />
Sampson’s tutelage, she learned about the importance <strong>of</strong><br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essionalism and compassion in dealing with people.<br />
“Encouragement is the greatest natural resource we have,”<br />
Richardson said. “I always received encouragement from my<br />
parents and my family, and the encouragement I received while<br />
I was a student at UCM allowed me to be where I am today.”<br />
Peggy Richardson<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
His common sense advice on living a productive<br />
life brought success and happiness to millions. In<br />
recognition <strong>of</strong> his own lifetime <strong>of</strong> successes, <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> alumnus Dale Carnegie, renowned author <strong>of</strong><br />
How to Win Friends and Influence People and developer<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Dale Carnegie Course, was inducted into the Hall<br />
<strong>of</strong> Famous <strong>Missouri</strong>ans at the <strong>Missouri</strong> State Capitol in<br />
Jefferson City in September.<br />
A bronze bust <strong>of</strong> Carnegie was unveiled by<br />
university and state <strong>of</strong>ficials and representatives <strong>of</strong> Dale<br />
Carnegie Training during a ceremony in the chambers<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Missouri</strong> House <strong>of</strong> Representatives. The bust,<br />
created by Columbia sculptor Sabra Tull Meyer, will<br />
be permanently displayed in the third floor rotunda <strong>of</strong><br />
the capitol.<br />
Rep. David Pearce, who represents UCM and<br />
Warrensburg in the <strong>Missouri</strong> House <strong>of</strong> Representatives,<br />
was a driving force behind the recognition. In keeping<br />
with the tradition, Pearce, standing in for Rep. Rod<br />
Jetton, speaker <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Missouri</strong> House, met with Meyer<br />
at her Columbia studio to approve the clay model <strong>of</strong><br />
the bust. The two met again at the Elegius Bronze<br />
Foundry in Kansas City.<br />
Two life-size busts were created from<br />
the clay sculpture. One was placed in<br />
the capitol, and the second is staying<br />
on campus. In addition, 25 miniature<br />
bronze busts were cast for future use<br />
by the university.<br />
A native <strong>Missouri</strong>an, Meyer earned<br />
Master <strong>of</strong> Arts and Master <strong>of</strong> Fine Arts<br />
degrees from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>.<br />
Her work includes bronze portrait busts<br />
and life-size torsos, as well as smaller<br />
sculptures. Her recent commissions<br />
include several works in various<br />
locations for the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> and other campuses<br />
and locations throughout the<br />
state.<br />
Working from photographs<br />
provided by the Arthur F.<br />
McClure II Museum and <strong>University</strong> Archives at UCM,<br />
Meyer created the clay sculpture. A wax replica <strong>of</strong> the<br />
sculpture was created, from which a mold was created<br />
for the bronze pour at the foundry.<br />
In September, Meyer delivered the sculptures to the<br />
UCM campus. President Aaron Podolefsky accepted<br />
the bronze likenesses <strong>of</strong> Carnegie on behalf <strong>of</strong> the<br />
university in an informal ceremony.<br />
During the formal installation ceremony several<br />
days later in Jefferson City, Podolefsky acknowledged<br />
that Carnegie was among the most distinguished <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>’s alumni and the first recipient <strong>of</strong> the<br />
university’s honorary doctoral degree in 1955.<br />
“Dale Carnegie’s successes are representative <strong>of</strong> the<br />
circumstances <strong>of</strong> so many <strong>of</strong> our students who start<br />
their college careers coming from modest origins,”<br />
Podolefsky said. “His life is a perfect example <strong>of</strong> the<br />
belief that it’s not where you start out that makes a<br />
difference, but it’s what you do that counts.”<br />
Podolefsky noted that Carnegie entered State<br />
Normal School No. 2 seeking to “fit in.” He became<br />
active in the speech and debate society and was elected<br />
sophomore class president. He attained a teaching<br />
certificate and embarked on a lifelong career teaching<br />
others what he had learned.<br />
“Dale Carnegie’s daughter, Donna Dale Carnegie,<br />
has told us that her father credited his education<br />
as being essential to his success,” Podolefsky said.<br />
“Nothing makes us more proud than to be held as an<br />
example to UCM students. This famous <strong>Missouri</strong>an<br />
now is an inspiration to all.”<br />
Michael Crom, executive vice president <strong>of</strong> Dale<br />
Carnegie Training and Carnegie’s step great-nephew,<br />
noted that Carnegie’s mother wanted her sons to have<br />
a college education, prompting the family to move<br />
from Carnegie’s birthplace <strong>of</strong> Maryville to a farm near<br />
Warrensburg.<br />
“Dale Carnegie was a humble man, and he would be<br />
amazed at the honor bestowed upon him here today,”<br />
Crom said. “It is fitting and lovely that he came home<br />
to the capitol <strong>of</strong> the state he loved.”<br />
— Mike Greife ’74<br />
This bronze bust <strong>of</strong> Dale Carnegie can be seen alongside<br />
such influential persons as Mark Twain, Josephine Baker,<br />
Thomas Hart Benton, Walt Disney and Harry S Truman.<br />
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alumni today<br />
Medicine, Insurance, Education: Meet Doctor Do A-Lot<br />
Dr. Bill Bradshaw is a physician<br />
with flair.<br />
He served as a private<br />
practitioner in Clinton, MO, for 25<br />
years, dean <strong>of</strong> the medical school<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> for<br />
10 years, and most recently, the<br />
regional vice president <strong>of</strong> medical<br />
affairs at Blue Cross/Blue Shield,<br />
Kansas City.<br />
Bradshaw said he enjoys the<br />
medical pr<strong>of</strong>ession because it<br />
gives him the opportunity to help<br />
people. Bradshaw Hall on UCM’s<br />
campus is named for Bill’s mother,<br />
Pearl, who was an influential<br />
faculty member in the education<br />
department.<br />
Coming from a family <strong>of</strong><br />
educators, Bradshaw said going<br />
into the medical field seemed like<br />
a natural fit. “I had a desire to go<br />
into the medical pr<strong>of</strong>ession from<br />
a very early time in life,” he said.<br />
“I saw it as an opportunity to serve<br />
humanity.”<br />
Dr. Bill Bradshaw sports his newly acquired<br />
Distinguished Alumni medallion in the 1995<br />
Homecoming Parade.<br />
In 1975 Bradshaw suffered from<br />
a heart attack that forced him to<br />
quit his private practice in Clinton.<br />
However, his appointment to<br />
the faculty in the medical school at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> and his<br />
eventual promotion to dean <strong>of</strong> the<br />
school gave him the opportunity to<br />
continue to serve in his pr<strong>of</strong>ession<br />
as well as educate others.<br />
As vice president <strong>of</strong> medical<br />
affairs with Blue Cross/Blue Shield,<br />
Bradshaw worked with Medicare<br />
and other healthcare facilities to<br />
ensure the handling <strong>of</strong> any kind<br />
<strong>of</strong> medical problem that would<br />
present itself to the insurance<br />
company. Bradshaw retired from<br />
Blue Cross/Blue Shield in 1995.<br />
All in all, the doctor said he’s<br />
satisfied with his career.<br />
“I’ve enjoyed it,” said Bradshaw.<br />
“It’s been a good ride.”<br />
The UCM community agreed<br />
with Bradshaw and in 1995<br />
awarded him the Distinguished<br />
Alumnus award, the most<br />
prestigious honor the university<br />
gives its graduates. Bradshaw<br />
said receiving the award was a<br />
nice honor and he enjoyed the<br />
recognition.<br />
Despite his success as an<br />
educator and a representative for<br />
Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Bradshaw’s<br />
heart was in working with people<br />
directly.<br />
“My only regret is that I had to<br />
leave private practice too early,” he<br />
said. “I got overworked and I over<br />
extended myself.”<br />
But Bradshaw doesn’t dwell on<br />
what could have been. The doctor<br />
said he’s had a “great life” and<br />
enjoys what time <strong>of</strong>f he can get<br />
working with his computer and<br />
dabbling in amateur photography.<br />
Bradshaw said he’s, “semiretired”<br />
but continues to practice<br />
medicine, filling in for physicians<br />
all over the Midwest who go on<br />
vacation, continue their studies<br />
or otherwise need a temporary<br />
replacement.<br />
Bradshaw lives in North Kansas<br />
City with his wife, Dorothy, who<br />
graduated from <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> as<br />
well.<br />
— Michael Bradshaw ’05<br />
T H E N E W<br />
MULE LEAD TEAM<br />
It’s <strong>of</strong>ficial — members <strong>of</strong> the UCM Alumni Association’s Mule Lead Team are <strong>of</strong>f<br />
and running, ready to spread the word about their alma mater while providing an<br />
important link to UCM for thousands <strong>of</strong> alumni.<br />
Thirteen <strong>of</strong> the 23 members arrived on campus Sept. 16 for training with the Alumni<br />
Association Board <strong>of</strong> Directors. After meeting with UCM President Aaron Podolefsky<br />
and receiving an overview <strong>of</strong> the structure <strong>of</strong> the university, Mule Lead Team members<br />
worked with UCM Office <strong>of</strong> Alumni Relations staff to set goals for the coming year.<br />
After recruiting alumni from <strong>Missouri</strong>, the <strong>of</strong>fice plans to expand the teams nationwide.<br />
New members <strong>of</strong> the UCM Mule Lead Team attended a training session held in conjunction with the UCM Alumni<br />
Association Board <strong>of</strong> Directors meeting. Among those attending were, left to right: Fred Liggett, Bob Merritt, Kelly<br />
Burnley Miller, David Jerome, Randall Barry, John Bennett, Bill Smart, Kari Monsees, Carmen Lock, Todd Dyer, John<br />
Jamison and David Nelson.<br />
MULE LEAD TEAM MEMBERS:<br />
• Randall Barry ’86<br />
Carrollton, MO<br />
• John Bennett ’83<br />
Joplin, MO<br />
• Monica Bolin ’89<br />
Liberty, MO<br />
• Jon Borlin ’94<br />
Troy, IL<br />
• Trey (Fred) Buckley ’00<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
• Todd Dyer ’86<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
• Kathlyn Fares ’64<br />
St. Louis, MO<br />
• Amee Hamilton ’98<br />
Oak Grove, MO<br />
• Lynn Hicklin ’63<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
• Dan Huggins ’70<br />
Florissant, MO<br />
• John Jamison ’65<br />
Rolla, MO<br />
• David Jerome ’81<br />
Neosho, MO<br />
• Fred Liggett ’93<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
• Carmen Lock ’05<br />
Sedalia, MO<br />
• Warren Lovinger, Jr. ’73<br />
Nevada, MO<br />
• Bob Merritt ’57<br />
Blue Springs, MO<br />
• Kelly (Burnley) Miller ’96<br />
Prairie Village, KS<br />
• Kari Monsees ’90<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
• David Nelson ’73<br />
Marshall, MO<br />
• Bill Smart ’69<br />
Ionia, MO<br />
• Tim Springer ’93<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
• Pat and Kay Woolley ’62<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
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alumni today<br />
UCM TODAY<br />
AT THE PARADE: Former Jennies returned to campus for a special reunion.<br />
AT THE PARADE: Tau Kappa Epsilon alumni got together for some fun and business.<br />
AT THE PARADE: Tony Tetley ’67 and retired<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor John Belshe ’57<br />
AT THE PARADE: Jerry<br />
Burgoyne ’58 and wife, Kathy<br />
AT THE PARADE: Erin Leenerts ’06; Karen Hibdon ’79, ’83;<br />
Lorisa Pennell ’02; Rachel Davis-Brown ’01, ’03<br />
AT THE PARADE: Time to share photos<br />
UCM’s First Homecoming<br />
AT THE PARADE: Karle Via Caine ’75, Jayne Collins Swercinski ’78, LeaAnn Rice Sprague ’77, Brenda Taylor Merryfield ’77,<br />
Paula Pierce Brennan ’81, Pam Walker Thorp ’81, Cathy Angotti Althaus ’80, Janet Bailey Wilkerson ’78<br />
AT THE GAME: Former drum major Joe Smith<br />
AT HALFTIME: The Alumni Band joined the Marching Mules.<br />
CROWNED KING AND QUEEN: Anna Boone and<br />
Zach Greenleaf<br />
RECOGNIZED AT HALFTIME: Members <strong>of</strong> the 1956 Mules football team<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
alumni today<br />
Events Engage Alumni,<br />
Friends, Families<br />
AT LES BOURGEOIS: Ted ’66 and Billie Litton, Susan ’74 and Bob Feiten<br />
AT LES BOURGEOIS: Joy Mistele ’75, ’83;<br />
Barbara Binger ’52; and George Binger ’55<br />
AT BLUE SPRINGS BARBECUE: Rusty ’97 and<br />
Katie Brown with daughter, Mandy<br />
AT LES BOURGEOIS: Dolores Harlan-Burger ’59, Morris Burger, Marchea Malone Klang ’52 and<br />
Bill Klang<br />
AT HOLY-FIELD WINERY: Jean ’69 and Diann<br />
Cooper<br />
YOUNG ALUMNI HAPPY HOUR AT 75TH STREET BREWERY: Katie Huff ’96; Brock Lewark ’99, ’01; Lauren Funk ’05; Andrew Gates ’05;<br />
Sarah Lewark ’02; Susan Lewark ’02; Marc Skahan ’05; Patrick Crawford ’06; Daniel Wooston ’06; Jamie Jennings ’03; Kristin Muchowski ’05;<br />
Joe Pryor ’03, ’05; and Amy Baysinger ’09<br />
Touchdown Tent Visits Ray-Pec, Platte City<br />
AT HOLY-FIELD WINERY: Dotty and Jerry ’62<br />
Dredwell<br />
AT RAY-PEC: Dave Ceule ’03<br />
AT RAY-PEC: Robert and Juline<br />
Norman ’02<br />
AT PLATTE CITY: Alicia, Chris ’93 and Tatum G<strong>of</strong>orth<br />
AT PLATTE CITY: Janet ’72 and Larry Leachman<br />
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alumni today<br />
UCM TODAY<br />
Aton Maintains Watchful Eye for Public Hazards<br />
Elizabeth Aton<br />
When chemical materials<br />
explode into massive fireballs,<br />
Elizabeth Aton takes note.<br />
Such an accident happened last<br />
year when a depot, which bottles<br />
gases such as propane, oxygen and<br />
acetylene, suffered huge explosions<br />
southwest <strong>of</strong> downtown St. Louis.<br />
The plant was shut down, but<br />
Suzanne Marshall Broussard ’83<br />
met the challenge <strong>of</strong> her 23 years<br />
as an industrial safety pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
when hurricanes Katrina and Rita<br />
hit the Gulf coast in 2005.<br />
As manager <strong>of</strong> the Occupational<br />
Safety and Health Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> DynMcDermott Petroleum<br />
Operations in New Orleans, she<br />
and her crew <strong>of</strong> safety pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />
supported the evacuation and<br />
re-entry <strong>of</strong> three petroleum storage<br />
sites in the natural disasters’ wake.<br />
DynMcDermott is contracted<br />
to manage and operate four<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Energy petroleum<br />
reserve sites on the Louisiana and<br />
Texas coasts. The facilities currently<br />
store reserves <strong>of</strong> 688.5 million<br />
barrels in leached salt dome<br />
caverns.<br />
Their dedication and expertise<br />
have been rewarded with two<br />
major industry awards during the<br />
past year. DynMcDermott received<br />
the Malcolm Baldridge National<br />
Quality Award in late 2005 from<br />
the U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Commerce,<br />
and most recently the company was<br />
luckily none <strong>of</strong> its 70-plus<br />
employees was seriously injured.<br />
Explosions <strong>of</strong> this magnitude<br />
raise questions about a company’s<br />
ability to handle volatile materials.<br />
That’s where Aton comes in.<br />
The UCM alumna is deputy<br />
commissioner <strong>of</strong> the St. Louis<br />
City Local Emergency Planning<br />
Commission.<br />
Although Aton couldn’t<br />
comment on the bottling<br />
explosion, she said that people<br />
aren’t aware <strong>of</strong> the potential<br />
hazard some materials in their<br />
communities can pose. Aton, whose<br />
post at the LEPC is voluntary, said<br />
that the landscape <strong>of</strong> hazardous<br />
materials handling is changing as<br />
new technology and materials are<br />
developed. This state <strong>of</strong> transition<br />
leaves most people unsure <strong>of</strong> how<br />
some industrial materials may<br />
affect their communities. Aton said<br />
the LEPC is designed to bridge this<br />
information gap, set standards for<br />
named recipient <strong>of</strong> the Robert W.<br />
Campbell Award for 2006 from the<br />
National Safety Council.<br />
The Baldridge Award is the<br />
nation’s highest presidential<br />
honor for performance excellence<br />
and quality achievement and is<br />
presented annually<br />
to organizations that<br />
distinguish themselves<br />
through management<br />
excellence and<br />
continuous<br />
improvement. The<br />
award is based upon a<br />
set <strong>of</strong> stringent criteria,<br />
one <strong>of</strong> which is the<br />
company’s safety and<br />
health compliance and<br />
involvement.<br />
The Robert W.<br />
Campbell Award is an<br />
international award<br />
recognizing companies that have<br />
demonstrated that safety, health<br />
and environmental excellence<br />
contribute to business excellence.<br />
Companies from 21 countries<br />
participate, and DynMcDermott is<br />
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companies that handle dangerous<br />
chemicals and hold any in violation<br />
accountable.<br />
“The average citizen has<br />
something <strong>of</strong> a toxic phobia,” Aton<br />
said. “It’s a requirement that<br />
LEPCs be able to respond to the<br />
community so that if individuals<br />
are unsure about their situation,<br />
they can ask, ‘What’s here? What are<br />
the plans?’”<br />
Aton, who also holds a<br />
Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Science degree in<br />
Chemistry, said the presence <strong>of</strong> an<br />
industrial hygienist with an LEPC<br />
is a rarity. She said it’s difficult<br />
to find someone with the proper<br />
credentials who will volunteer and<br />
work in a pro-bono setting.<br />
Since earning a Master <strong>of</strong><br />
Science degree in Industrial<br />
Hygiene from UCM, Aton has<br />
worked in many environments,<br />
including the medical and<br />
aerospace industries.<br />
“The course work at <strong>Central</strong><br />
the first company with fewer than<br />
1,000 employees to receive the<br />
award.<br />
Broussard is quick to give credit<br />
to her team members for their<br />
part in winning the awards, noting<br />
that employees made it happen.<br />
The awards came<br />
as a culmination<br />
<strong>of</strong> several years<br />
<strong>of</strong> improvement,<br />
following scheduled<br />
on-site visits by<br />
evaluators. She<br />
also indicated the<br />
Robert W. Campbell<br />
Award reflects<br />
DynMcDermott’s<br />
corporate<br />
commitment to<br />
industrial safety.<br />
“I’m very<br />
proud,” she<br />
said. “Our people have made<br />
safety, health and environmental<br />
excellence a part <strong>of</strong> our corporate<br />
culture at every level <strong>of</strong> the<br />
organization.”<br />
With a bachelor’s degree<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> was well thought out<br />
and was a good foundation for<br />
an individual to be valuable to<br />
whatever employer they’re working<br />
for,” she said.<br />
Aton has been successful<br />
in applying her education and<br />
experience to help the greater good<br />
but admits there’s a lot <strong>of</strong> work to<br />
be done. Local, state and federal<br />
governments do a sufficient job <strong>of</strong><br />
keeping companies in check, she<br />
said, but ultimately citizens must<br />
prepare themselves for incidents<br />
such as the bottling explosion.<br />
“Every day, we are getting<br />
better at recognizing the potential<br />
dangers to public health beyond<br />
just something that’s released into<br />
the air from a smokestack,” she<br />
said. “[We’re] recognizing that<br />
there could be other emergency<br />
situations, so public health<br />
knowledge ... is something that is<br />
very necessary.”<br />
Safety Alumna Leads Nationally Recognized Team<br />
Suzanne Marshall Broussard<br />
— Michael Bradshaw ’05<br />
in English and library science,<br />
Broussard was seeking a new<br />
career path when she took two<br />
safety sciences classes to see how<br />
she liked the field. Due in part to<br />
the influence <strong>of</strong> her father, Robert<br />
L. Marshall, dean emeritus <strong>of</strong><br />
the university’s former School <strong>of</strong><br />
Public Service and a pioneer <strong>of</strong><br />
its nationally recognized safety<br />
sciences program, she was familiar<br />
with the safety pr<strong>of</strong>ession. She<br />
earned her degree in 1983.<br />
After working for SRS<br />
Technologies in New Orleans,<br />
Broussard joined the configuration<br />
management department at Boeing<br />
Petroleum Services. She then<br />
transferred to the systems safety<br />
engineering group.<br />
Broussard supervises a staff <strong>of</strong><br />
seven safety and industrial hygiene<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essionals. She has overseen<br />
implementation <strong>of</strong> new programs<br />
and “best practice” standards that<br />
have made DynMcDermott a leader<br />
in safety among Department <strong>of</strong><br />
Energy contractors.<br />
— Mike Greife ’74
You can find them chipped and worn on a<br />
break room table or perched as collectibles<br />
on an <strong>of</strong>fice shelf. <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> mugs<br />
have special meaning to alumni throughout the<br />
world who proudly use and display them. Sure<br />
to become nostalgic treasures, they represent a<br />
tiny piece <strong>of</strong> history. With the university’s recently<br />
adopted new name, mugs — like pennants,<br />
decals, sweatshirts and countless other items<br />
— symbolize another era <strong>of</strong> transformation in the<br />
university’s 135-year history.<br />
An Historic Day<br />
Leading the charge for the new name was<br />
President Aaron Podolefsky, who will not soon<br />
forget the first time he <strong>of</strong>ficially used <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> in a public setting.<br />
The day was Sept. 20, several hours after<br />
the Board <strong>of</strong> Governors unanimously reached<br />
a historic decision to change the institution’s<br />
34-year-old moniker. The president addressed<br />
about 900 people who were in Hendricks Hall<br />
to hear a speech by famous paleoanthropologist<br />
Donald Johanson. As the president began his<br />
formal introduction, his words, “Welcome to the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>,” were greeted with<br />
a thunderous roar <strong>of</strong> applause.<br />
For Podolefsky, such positive response helped<br />
set the tone for what he believes is an exciting<br />
new era for the institution, which along with a<br />
new name, has adopted a new vision. These days,<br />
the president has many opportunities to articulate<br />
what these mean, whether he’s visiting with<br />
campus constituents, legislators, alumni or others<br />
who have a strong interest in UCM. It’s something<br />
he does with contagious enthusiasm.<br />
“The name is like an anchor. It really<br />
symbolizes all the other things that are going<br />
on — the quality changes, the focus,” he insists<br />
passionately. “All <strong>of</strong> these things are encapsulated<br />
in the name. And, now we are reminded everyday<br />
that we are the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>.<br />
That’s a powerful, powerful symbol <strong>of</strong> what’s<br />
going on.”<br />
Why This Name<br />
So why was UCM selected? The university<br />
received legislative approval for the name change<br />
during the <strong>Missouri</strong> General Assembly’s 2005<br />
session. The legislature gave the institution’s<br />
governing board until August 2007 to determine<br />
whether or not to adopt by majority vote the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> as its new name.<br />
Podolefsky saw the name change as an<br />
opportunity for exploration. Not long after he<br />
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became the university’s 14th president in July<br />
2005, he appointed a broad-based task force,<br />
which spent a year researching and gathering<br />
feedback from alumni, friends, students, faculty<br />
and staff.<br />
“We had tremendous dialogue on campus.<br />
We had a great committee that drafted a white<br />
paper on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities<br />
and threats. I asked them to do this not in terms<br />
<strong>of</strong> a popularity survey, but as a way to envision<br />
the future and consider how this moves the<br />
institution forward,” Podolefsky said.<br />
Support for the change included the Alumni<br />
Association Board <strong>of</strong> Directors and Foundation<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors; governing groups for students,<br />
faculty, administrators and staff; and athletics.<br />
Roger Wilson, president <strong>of</strong> the Alumni<br />
Association, said in a position statement that the<br />
name change is a “natural part <strong>of</strong> the university’s<br />
evolution as it seeks to fulfill a new vision.” He<br />
added that the name “‘<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>’ preserves the historical traditions <strong>of</strong> the<br />
school while strongly positioning the institution<br />
for the future.”<br />
Podolefsky said “State” was dropped<br />
because it tends to have a more local or regional<br />
connotation. By not having state in its name,<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> hopes to extend its boundaries<br />
in terms <strong>of</strong> national perception.<br />
A New Vision<br />
The new name complements the new vision,<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficially adopted as: “The university aspires to<br />
become a nationally recognized, comprehensive<br />
“The name change provides<br />
a crucial ingredient in fulfilling<br />
this new vision by symbolically<br />
representing our emergence as<br />
a national-level comprehensive<br />
university.”<br />
— President Aaron Podolefsky<br />
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university that delivers a world-class<br />
university education by providing a<br />
small-college learning environment<br />
coupled with large-university<br />
opportunities.”<br />
“The name change provides a<br />
crucial ingredient in fulfilling this new<br />
vision by symbolically representing<br />
our emergence as a national-level<br />
comprehensive university,” Podolefsky<br />
remarked.<br />
He expanded on the vision<br />
components, noting, “Being<br />
nationally recognized means<br />
that people know us as a quality<br />
institution that is fulfilling its mission.<br />
We want to retain our student focus,<br />
primarily serving as an undergraduate<br />
institution delivering a high-quality education.”<br />
He said that under the Carnegie Commission<br />
on Higher Education’s classification system,<br />
which describes institutional diversity, UCM<br />
solidified its status as a “comprehensive”<br />
university many years ago. It will continue to<br />
<strong>of</strong>fer a wide array <strong>of</strong> undergraduate and graduate<br />
programs in many different disciplines, plus<br />
achieve a balance between teaching and research.<br />
Becoming “world-class” is a benchmark,<br />
Podolefsky said. He is convinced the university<br />
can provide as good an education as any school<br />
in the country. This is partially evidenced by the<br />
many outstanding alumni who have succeeded in<br />
their pr<strong>of</strong>essional careers.<br />
“It’s a sense <strong>of</strong> pride and a<br />
sense <strong>of</strong> target. When a faculty<br />
member prepares a class or<br />
advises a student or when a<br />
department chair thinks about<br />
his or her job here, I want them<br />
to think about what they do to<br />
provide a world-class university<br />
education.”<br />
Offering a “small-college”<br />
environment, or more personal<br />
touch to learning, is one step<br />
toward achieving this target,<br />
he said.<br />
What’s important,<br />
Podolefsky added, is that<br />
students believe they are<br />
getting the attention they need<br />
from faculty and staff, and that the university<br />
cares about them.<br />
Just because the institution <strong>of</strong>fers a smallcollege<br />
atmosphere doesn’t mean opportunities<br />
are limited. Similar to larger universities, UCM<br />
already <strong>of</strong>fers a breadth <strong>of</strong> programs — about 150<br />
<strong>of</strong> them — plus depth <strong>of</strong> faculty, who are actively<br />
engaged in their academic disciplines. They can<br />
also involve students in meaningful research and<br />
projects to a greater degree than faculty at much<br />
larger institutions, Podolefsky pointed out.<br />
“Often, when one goes to a large research<br />
university, you might find that students who get<br />
that kind <strong>of</strong> attention are mostly the graduate<br />
students. So, we have the best <strong>of</strong> those worlds,<br />
President Aaron Podolefsky after the<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Governors unanimously<br />
approved the name change.<br />
where the undergraduates are the focus <strong>of</strong> our<br />
research and engagement,” he noted.<br />
Future about Action<br />
Podolefsky emphasized that it is not the<br />
institution’s name or vision that truly matters,<br />
but what the institution does. This sentiment<br />
was echoed by new provost and vice president<br />
for academic affairs, Y.T. Shah, who spoke to the<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Governors in October about efforts to<br />
help make the new vision a reality.<br />
He said six task forces are in place considering<br />
how to meet new institutional goals. They are<br />
looking at areas ranging from requiring higher<br />
ACT scores for admittance and streamlining<br />
curriculum, to determining whether or not the<br />
current five-college system is adequate.<br />
“We have to increase quality, image and<br />
internal processes and make sure we take<br />
advantage <strong>of</strong> opportunities in the markets<br />
nationally and internationally,” Shah noted.<br />
Larry Fick, Columbia, president <strong>of</strong> the Board<br />
<strong>of</strong> Governors, guided the group through the<br />
voting process when the new name was adopted.<br />
The board also adopted the language <strong>of</strong> the new<br />
vision statement earlier this year.<br />
“I am happy to be a member <strong>of</strong> the Board<br />
<strong>of</strong> Governors during these exciting times,” Fick<br />
said. “I am looking forward to the Name Change<br />
Transition Team presenting their branding<br />
and marketing program to take advantage <strong>of</strong><br />
everything that is new and exciting for UCM.”<br />
FAQs from Alumni<br />
The name change to UCM has prompted<br />
questions from alumni, including these most<br />
frequently asked:<br />
Q. Who’s paying for the cost <strong>of</strong> making the<br />
name change?<br />
A. Costs are being paid from private and<br />
corporate gifts. No state appropriations or<br />
tuition monies are being used to fund the<br />
unique expenses associated with the change,<br />
except for operational supplies that are<br />
purchased on a periodic basis and consumed or<br />
used within one year.<br />
Q. Can alumni who have CMSU diplomas<br />
obtain a UCM diploma?<br />
A. Yes. A plan to produce UCM diplomas<br />
is being developed through the Office <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Registrar. The new diplomas should be available<br />
after Jan. 1, 2007. Students who graduate in<br />
December 2006 and May 2007 will receive<br />
both a CMSU and UCM diploma. After that, all<br />
diplomas will say UCM.<br />
Q. Can I get a class ring or diploma frame<br />
with the new name?<br />
A. The university anticipates a high demand<br />
for diploma frames and class rings with the new<br />
name. Through Spring 2007, individuals can<br />
order rings and frames through the <strong>University</strong><br />
Store that have either UCM or CMSU on them.<br />
Q. How should I reference the university<br />
on my resume?<br />
A. That is up to you. You may want to refer to<br />
both names for a couple <strong>of</strong> years. For example,<br />
B.A. Degree in Theatre, 2005, <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
State <strong>University</strong> (now <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>). As the UCM name becomes more<br />
widely known, you could drop the reference to<br />
CMSU.<br />
Q. If I request a transcript, how will the<br />
institution’s name be referenced?<br />
A. Currently, all transcripts say CMSU on<br />
them, but they are stamped with a note that<br />
indicates the university <strong>of</strong>ficially changed its<br />
name to UCM on Sept. 20, 2006. The Office <strong>of</strong><br />
the Registrar will continue to use the existing<br />
supply <strong>of</strong> special pre-printed transcript paper<br />
with CMSU on it. When the supply is depleted,<br />
it will be replenished with new transcript<br />
paper bearing the new name. This must be<br />
accomplished prior to August 2007.<br />
Q. How will the name change affect<br />
traditions?<br />
A. The Name Change Transition Team is<br />
looking at all <strong>of</strong> the university’s traditions,<br />
including cheers, fight songs and the alma mater<br />
song, to determine possible, if any, changes.<br />
Q. Does the name change affect the<br />
institution’s status as an NCAA Division II<br />
school?<br />
A. No. There are no plans to change athletic<br />
divisions as the result <strong>of</strong> the new name.<br />
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From its humble beginnings with seven<br />
faculty members and 58 students, the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> has evolved<br />
over the past 14 decades, taking on four new<br />
names that reflected changes in both mission<br />
and vision. Retracing these monikers reveals<br />
glimpses <strong>of</strong> the campus and the nation during<br />
times <strong>of</strong> institutional transition. It also sheds light<br />
on traditions, which, like institutional names,<br />
frequently change.<br />
The Birth <strong>of</strong> Normal #2<br />
The same year the first major league baseball<br />
game was played and the Great Chicago Fire<br />
was etched into front-page headlines, higher<br />
education planted new roots in <strong>Missouri</strong>. With<br />
the opening <strong>of</strong> the State Normal School, Second<br />
District May 10, 1871, a tradition <strong>of</strong> higher<br />
education was born in Warrensburg.<br />
Normal No. 2 was one <strong>of</strong> two institutions<br />
created in the state in the late 1800s to produce<br />
teachers for the public schools <strong>of</strong> post-Civil War<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>. Classes first met in the Foster School at<br />
the corner <strong>of</strong> Maguire and Grover streets.<br />
Amidst much fanfare, the cornerstone for the<br />
main campus building was laid Aug. 16, 1871.<br />
Old Main, as it was later known, became the<br />
educational centerpiece on the original 16-acre<br />
plot donated by Melville U. Foster.<br />
As additional buildings — and a training<br />
school — sprung up on campus, the seeds for<br />
new traditions were planted. Athletic programs<br />
emerged, beginning with the first football team,<br />
and the first campus newspaper was initiated. The<br />
Normal Student was adopted as the institution’s<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficial news organ in 1915, although publications<br />
by faculty and other groups date back to 1878.<br />
School spirit was captured in songs. In 1908,<br />
Frederick Abbott wrote the words and music<br />
to Dear Old Normal Number Two and in 1910<br />
composed for the senior class, Farewell to Normal<br />
Number Two. During 1917-1918, alumni president<br />
Pauline Humphreys presented the Alumni Song,<br />
using words written several years earlier by<br />
alumnus Mamie Stewart, and sung to the tune <strong>of</strong><br />
Auld Lang Syne.<br />
As World War I progressed in Europe in 1915,<br />
bad luck struck Normal No. 2. An electrical<br />
fire March 6 engulfed four <strong>of</strong> the campus’ six<br />
buildings, including Old Main. The institution<br />
wasted no time rebuilding, and there was cause<br />
to celebrate that same year when Normal was<br />
accredited as a four-year teachers’ college. This<br />
paved the way for a name change in 1919.<br />
The Birth <strong>of</strong> CMSTC<br />
By the time Normal No. 2 became <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> State Teachers College, it had<br />
produced 8,165 men and women who<br />
were licensed to teach in <strong>Missouri</strong> public<br />
schools and had grown to an enrollment<br />
<strong>of</strong> 422 students. It also was an exciting<br />
period nationally and internationally.<br />
In 1919, the League <strong>of</strong> Nations was<br />
founded, and the Treaty <strong>of</strong> Versailles was<br />
signed ending World War I. A measure<br />
also was passed that no doubt would have<br />
pleased alumna and temperance leader<br />
Carrie Nation had she lived to see it; the<br />
18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution<br />
was ratified, prohibiting alcohol in the U.S.<br />
It was a time <strong>of</strong> institutional firsts. The<br />
Mule mascot was adopted in 1922, and the<br />
traditional academic processional was launched<br />
with the 52nd commencement exercises in<br />
June 1927. History also was being made on the<br />
football field Oct. 11, 1929, as the Mules played<br />
the first football game in <strong>Missouri</strong> under lights.<br />
Distance learning got a start when music<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor Paul Utt used radio waves to broadcast<br />
the first music course for credit from station WOS<br />
in Jefferson City. News about his accomplishment<br />
was well publicized in the campus newspaper,<br />
which became known as The Student with the<br />
name change to CMSTC.<br />
The school song changed with the new name,<br />
as well. A $10 prize was shared by two graduates<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Class <strong>of</strong> 1923: Pauline Sloan, who penned<br />
the words, and Edith Pritchett, who wrote original<br />
music for Our Alma Mater.<br />
Athletic director Jerry Hughes shares his letter jacket, a favorite CMSC memento.<br />
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A timeless piece <strong>of</strong> UCM history, Selmo Park looks much the same today as it<br />
did during the 1950s when the university obtained the historic home.<br />
With World War II in progress, the college<br />
was designated as a Navy V-12 training site in<br />
1943, providing military training to 950 <strong>of</strong>ficer<br />
candidates over the next two years.<br />
In 1945, convocation remarks by Ben Couth,<br />
an 1897 Normal No. 2 graduate, seemed to<br />
foretell the institution’s future: “This college had<br />
a vigorous youth and today possesses the vital<br />
energy to go forward to greater achievements.”<br />
Becoming CMSC<br />
While Winston Churchill warned about an<br />
“iron curtain” falling over Soviet-dominated<br />
eastern Europe and the United Nations General<br />
Assembly met for the first time, CMSTC embarked<br />
on its third name.<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> State College became <strong>of</strong>ficial<br />
in 1946 following state legislation a year earlier<br />
that authorized institutions to drop “teachers”<br />
from their names. Just as the war had changed<br />
traditional male and female work roles, it also<br />
had affected higher education. Although teacher<br />
education remained a major function <strong>of</strong> CMSC,<br />
the college began to <strong>of</strong>fer a broader liberal arts<br />
education as well as prepr<strong>of</strong>essional curricula,<br />
vocational-technical studies and graduate studies.<br />
The following decades saw tremendous<br />
student growth and a campus building boom.<br />
President George Diemer, 1937-1956, predicted<br />
that the college would one day have a student<br />
union, a laboratory school building,<br />
education building, music building,<br />
applied arts and sciences buildings,<br />
and dormitories that would ensure<br />
good living conditions for students.<br />
Diemer’s vision — much <strong>of</strong> it made<br />
possible under his successor, President<br />
Warren C. Lovinger — became reality<br />
by the time the institution celebrated<br />
its 100th anniversary in 1971.<br />
Diemer’s prediction didn’t<br />
include a new airport or a new<br />
song, but they came anyway. The<br />
words to <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>’s current<br />
Alma Mater were written in 1963 by<br />
Carole Grainger Walter Gilbody, a<br />
university administrative employee, with music by<br />
William Stoney, a former music faculty member.<br />
Warrensburg businessman Max B. Swisher<br />
donated Skyhaven Airport to CMSC in 1967.<br />
The CMSU Evolution<br />
In 1972, the last ground units were leaving<br />
Vietnam, Pong began the video craze, and<br />
Don McLean’s American Pie topped the pop music<br />
charts. Meanwhile, the campus said “bye, bye” to<br />
CMSC and celebrated reaching “university” status.<br />
With the change, the student newspaper<br />
became the Muleskinner, and new traditions<br />
like separate commencement ceremonies for<br />
baccalaureate and graduate degree candidates<br />
emerged. It also began a tradition <strong>of</strong> honoring<br />
outstanding alumni with recognition awards<br />
in 1978, and a tradition <strong>of</strong> giving with the<br />
establishment <strong>of</strong> the CMSU Foundation in 1979.<br />
The new name triggered another era <strong>of</strong><br />
expansion. The campus student population<br />
hovered close to 11,000. Construction projects<br />
included the Multipurpose Building, new football<br />
and baseball stadiums, Smiser Alumni Center,<br />
James C. Kirkpatrick Library, KMOS-TV’s 2,000-<br />
foot-tall digital broadcasting tower, the Maastricht<br />
Friendship Tower, and extensive renovation to the<br />
student union and the Ward Edwards Building.<br />
Many new graduate and undergraduate<br />
programs were added. The university entered<br />
numerous agreements for international study<br />
opportunities and embraced a statewide mission<br />
in pr<strong>of</strong>essional applied sciences and technology.<br />
As technology brought images <strong>of</strong> the war in<br />
the Persian Gulf to living rooms, the university<br />
took advantage <strong>of</strong> digital know-how to reach out<br />
to students by developing a strong web presence,<br />
sponsoring online courses and programs, and<br />
educating via interactive television. It also<br />
expanded its physical presence to cities like Lee’s<br />
Summit, where <strong>Central</strong>’s Summit Center was<br />
enhanced to accommodate nearly 900 students.<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
State legislation in 2005 authorized CMSU to<br />
adopt the name, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>,<br />
if approved by August 2007 by a majority<br />
vote <strong>of</strong> the Board <strong>of</strong> Governors. Following<br />
a historic board vote on Sept. 20, 2006, the<br />
campus welcomed the new moniker, symbolic<br />
<strong>of</strong> the school’s transition from a regional state<br />
institution to a comprehensive university with a<br />
vision to become nationally recognized.<br />
In October, as President Podolefsky unfurled<br />
a banner with the new name during the<br />
homecoming parade, and the Marching Mules<br />
spelled out UCM for the first time on Vernon<br />
Kennedy Field, new traditions were being born.<br />
With a new name, new vision and 135 years<br />
<strong>of</strong> educational progression, only one question<br />
remains unanswered: What will alumni remember<br />
about UCM?<br />
— Jeff Murphy ’76 hs, ’80, ’95<br />
Name Change Prompts Sales<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the busiest places impacted by<br />
the university’s name change has been Elliott<br />
Union’s <strong>University</strong> Store. Director Charlie Rutt<br />
said the day after the new name was announced,<br />
retail sales topped $51,000, considerably above<br />
normal. Sales during homecoming were double<br />
that <strong>of</strong> other years. He attributes much <strong>of</strong> this to<br />
people buying remaining CMSU merchandise,<br />
which carries a significant discount. “There<br />
has been good interest in the new product,<br />
and we’re ordering more on a daily basis,”<br />
Rutt said. In the future, customers can expect<br />
a much wider selection <strong>of</strong> UCM apparel at<br />
the store, as well as new items such as a UCM<br />
holiday ornament, a legacy shirt that has the<br />
institution’s current and previous names,<br />
window decals — even mugs.<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
The Name Has Changed…<br />
but Essence and Traditions Haven’t<br />
This year’s homecoming<br />
theme, Moving Forward and<br />
Giving Back, could not have<br />
been more appropriate. It was<br />
the perfect theme — for a perfect<br />
week <strong>of</strong> celebrating our history<br />
while embracing our future. From<br />
the outstanding Distinguished<br />
Alumni to the many reunions<br />
that took place over the weekend,<br />
Homecoming 2006 was extremely<br />
special to a lot <strong>of</strong> people.<br />
The weekend kicked <strong>of</strong>f with<br />
the highest honor our university<br />
bestows to its alums, the<br />
Distinguished Alumni Award and<br />
the International Distinguished<br />
Alumni.<br />
This year’s recipients — Joe<br />
Vandepopuliere, Jim Crane and<br />
Don Nissanka — were three<br />
incredible stories that epitomized<br />
what a work ethic, ingenuity,<br />
risk taking and an unwavering<br />
dedication to a chosen field will<br />
yield.<br />
All three individuals were from<br />
three different eras <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>. They were so humble, so<br />
deserving and supported by proud<br />
and loving family.<br />
This ceremony, this celebration<br />
<strong>of</strong> life and accomplishment, was<br />
simply a perfect way to begin the<br />
homecoming weekend.<br />
Yet the celebrations and<br />
connections didn’t stop there.<br />
Throughout the weekend,<br />
the UCM Alumni Association<br />
helped organize and support<br />
Roger Wilson ’88, president,<br />
Alumni Association Board <strong>of</strong> Directors<br />
reunions <strong>of</strong> organizations, majors,<br />
fraternities/sororities, athletic teams<br />
and campus employees. Some<br />
14 groups reunited to enjoy the<br />
campus again, reminisce about<br />
their experiences and reconnect old<br />
friendships.<br />
Some <strong>of</strong> the reunions included:<br />
math/physics, agriculture, nursing,<br />
1960s theatre, Theta Chis, Alpha<br />
Gams, Elliott Union employees,<br />
1956-58 Mules Football, 1986<br />
Mules Football and the largest<br />
reunion <strong>of</strong> all, Women in Athletics.<br />
What a wonderful opportunity<br />
to embrace your memories <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>!<br />
During halftime at the game,<br />
I watched a father, Jim Dahman,<br />
who played Mules football from<br />
1956-58, take the field with his<br />
son, Doug, a member <strong>of</strong> the 1986<br />
team. What an incredible legacy!<br />
What a great story <strong>of</strong> connecting<br />
generations and families together!<br />
Now whether you consider this<br />
wonderful institution as UCM,<br />
CMSU, CMSC, Teachers State<br />
College or Normal #2, be proud <strong>of</strong><br />
its history and traditions. Be proud<br />
<strong>of</strong> “your” story/relationship with<br />
the university. More importantly, be<br />
proud <strong>of</strong> this university’s direction,<br />
vision, leadership and future.<br />
The campus, the energy and<br />
excitement are still there, and they<br />
continue to grow. Be a part <strong>of</strong> it.<br />
Organize your group or<br />
reconnect through a reunion on<br />
campus. It doesn’t have to be<br />
during homecoming; just do it!<br />
It is a relationship that is worth<br />
your effort, that is worth your<br />
time. Believe in that and continue<br />
to believe in the gift we all<br />
share— that <strong>of</strong> being alumni <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>.<br />
In December, my tenure<br />
concludes as president <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Alumni Board <strong>of</strong> Directors. I have<br />
been extremely honored to serve<br />
you, our alumni.<br />
Your alumni board, with the<br />
support <strong>of</strong> the Office <strong>of</strong> Alumni<br />
Relations and Development, has<br />
and will continue to create an<br />
excitement, an energy and an<br />
alternative organization designed<br />
to embrace an environment<br />
<strong>of</strong> connection, education and<br />
relationship building.<br />
alumni today<br />
Legacy Scholarship<br />
Recipients Named<br />
The UCM Alumni<br />
Association has announced<br />
Legacy Scholarship recipients<br />
for the 2006 freshman class.<br />
They are Mark Bendorf,<br />
son <strong>of</strong> Suzanne (Gouldsmith)<br />
Bendorf ’81; Ryan Blakenship,<br />
son <strong>of</strong> Janice Kay Blankenship<br />
’81, ’92; Vincent Dyer, son <strong>of</strong><br />
Marilyn Dyer ’83 and Michael<br />
Dyer ’81; Kyle Eichler, son <strong>of</strong><br />
Debra (Garrison) Eichler ’83,<br />
’90; Megan German, daughter<br />
<strong>of</strong> Gerry Heins ’79; Jaime Kidd,<br />
daughter <strong>of</strong> Bradley Kidd ’81<br />
and granddaughter <strong>of</strong> Verlyn<br />
Hursh ’63; Austin Lynch, son <strong>of</strong><br />
Cathy Joan Barr ’78; Virginia<br />
McNeive, daughter <strong>of</strong> Patrick<br />
McNeive ’81, and Holly Wright,<br />
daughter <strong>of</strong> Gene Wright ’72.<br />
Alumni Board<br />
Election Results<br />
The results have been<br />
tabulated for the annual<br />
Alumni Association Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Directors. Elected to threeyear,<br />
at-large terms were Paula<br />
Barry, Blue Springs, MO; Carol<br />
Lotton Hassler, Warrensburg;<br />
Nancy Lynde Welty, Columbia,<br />
MO; and Mike Sutherland,<br />
Warrenton, MO. Elected to<br />
a three-year term as young<br />
alumni representative was Jake<br />
Lotspeich, Warrensburg.<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors, The Alumni Association <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
PRESIDENT<br />
Roger Wilson ’88<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
VICE PRESIDENT/<br />
PRESIDENT ELECT<br />
Jesse West ’87<br />
Leawood, KS<br />
PAST PRESIDENT<br />
Chris Small ’87, ’89, ’92<br />
Grain Valley, MO<br />
ELECTED DIRECTORS<br />
John Culp ’65, ’69<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
H. Spencer Fricke ’70<br />
Marshall, MO<br />
Mary Griffith ’59, ’74<br />
Greenwood, MO<br />
Steve Harmon ’85<br />
St. Louis, MO<br />
Keith Hendrix ’67, ’71<br />
Jefferson City, MO<br />
Margaret Herron ’87<br />
Lone Jack, MO<br />
Leeann Jones ’88<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
Rebecca Klein ’71, ’74<br />
Belton, MO<br />
Judith Noland ’62<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
DIRECTORS EMERITI<br />
Monica Bolin ’89<br />
Liberty, MO<br />
Cynthia Bowman ’81<br />
Leawood, KS<br />
Dolores Burger ’59<br />
California, MO<br />
SueAnn Carter ’64<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
C.A. (Cass) Cassing ’51<br />
Raytown, MO<br />
Russ Childress ’62<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
Jerryl Christmas ’86<br />
St. Louis, MO<br />
Julia Consalus ’50<br />
Surprise, AZ<br />
Ron Culp ’71<br />
Overland Park, KS<br />
E. Robert Eastin ’62<br />
St. Louis, MO<br />
Tom Goddard ’61<br />
Lake Tapawingo, MO<br />
Glenda Goetz ’70<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
James Goodrich ’62<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
C. O. Green ’43<br />
Sedalia, MO<br />
Randy Jadlot ’75<br />
Mesa, AZ<br />
Larry Keisker ’61<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
Lloyd Kaiser ’73<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
Mark Leicht ’78<br />
Manchester, MO<br />
Mike Lord ’64<br />
Montgomery City, MO<br />
Scott Loveland ‘85<br />
Springfield, MO<br />
Mary Anne Marshall ‘45<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Vivian McGraw ‘67<br />
Sunrise Beach, MO<br />
Amy Merritt ‘83<br />
Lenexa, KS<br />
Jonna Merritt ’56<br />
Blue Springs, MO<br />
Bob Moore ’86<br />
San Antonio, TX<br />
Palmer R. Nichols II ’64<br />
Jefferson City, MO<br />
Mary O’Reilly ’73<br />
Hazelwood, MO<br />
Richard Phillips ’65, ’67, ’72<br />
Lake Tapawingo, MO<br />
Dorothea Renno ’57<br />
Higginsville, MO<br />
Rob Ruth ’75<br />
Southlake, TX<br />
Ron Scott ’73<br />
Jefferson City, MO<br />
Judith Simonitsch ’74<br />
Independence, MO<br />
Karen Sipes ’71<br />
Berryton, KS<br />
Paulette Strader ’72<br />
Jefferson City, MO<br />
Janie Thacker ’75<br />
Overland Park, KS<br />
Dick Thomson ’61<br />
Maryville, MO<br />
Steve Thurmon ’69<br />
Blue Springs, MO<br />
Mike Wackerman ’81<br />
Camdenton, MO<br />
Harvey Wadleigh ’52<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
Rosalee Welling ’58<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Jim Whitfield ’50<br />
Independence, MO<br />
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS<br />
Aaron Podolefsky<br />
<strong>University</strong> President<br />
Paul Page<br />
Vice President for<br />
<strong>University</strong> Advancement<br />
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development today<br />
IN THIS SECTION<br />
• Nothing Average about<br />
Henry’s Wish for Scholarship<br />
• Beulah McFarland<br />
Scholarship Created<br />
• Slave, Politician and<br />
21st Century Inspiration<br />
• Family’s Sweater Gift<br />
Reveals Connections<br />
FAMILY’S HOLIDAY GIFTS FUND MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP<br />
The Blackman family has a solution to holiday<br />
commercialism. Instead <strong>of</strong> buying expensive<br />
presents for each other, they select a charity to<br />
help. Last year, they used their gift money to start<br />
a scholarship at the university. They chose UCM<br />
because it is the alma mater <strong>of</strong> their parents,<br />
Robert and Nancy Blackman.<br />
They started the charity idea three years ago at<br />
a daughter’s suggestion. Family members always<br />
managed to return home every Christmas, even<br />
when scattered on both coasts.<br />
It wasn’t always easy to bring home presents,<br />
especially long distances. One year a daughter<br />
who lived abroad and would have had to clear<br />
her presents through customs suggested pooling<br />
the money they would spend for gifts and helping<br />
a charity. The suggestion was a hit with this civicminded<br />
family.<br />
“The idea was to spend less and take half <strong>of</strong> it<br />
and give it to a charity,” said Bob.<br />
They set some rules: gift amounts were to be<br />
kept anonymous and no political charities. The<br />
organization had to be <strong>of</strong> broad interest, neither<br />
liberal nor conservative.<br />
Also, they would take turns selecting the<br />
charity, starting with the oldest family member.<br />
That individual would have to justify the charity<br />
selection.<br />
The first year, the oldest family member, Bob,<br />
chose Habitat for Humanity. The second year<br />
was Nancy’s pick, Heart to Heart International.<br />
“It’s a global humanitarian relief organization<br />
that started in Olathe when we lived there,” she<br />
explained.<br />
Last year, the suggestion originated with the<br />
youngest daughter Susan’s significant other, John<br />
Clarke. The thoroughbred horse breeder from<br />
Saratoga Springs, NY, had never visited campus or<br />
Warrensburg.<br />
“It was my turn to select the charity, and<br />
I thought what could be better than to start a<br />
scholarship with Bob and Nancy’s alma mater,”<br />
he said.<br />
The Blackmans met each other as students at<br />
UCM in the early 1950s when both took the same<br />
music class in the Dockery Building. They fell in<br />
love and got married.<br />
Bob used his music degree to launch a career<br />
in education. Nancy taught elementary education<br />
before they started a family.<br />
Following Bob’s retirement from a 30-year<br />
career as guidance counselor for Olathe High<br />
School, the couple moved back to Warrensburg.<br />
Bob also continues to “moonlight” in various<br />
bands and combos.<br />
Starting a UCM scholarship for an<br />
instrumental music student has been a family hit.<br />
“This has been a really personal thing for us,<br />
and we’ve all been excited,” Bob said. “We think<br />
this year was a real winner. What we each give is<br />
anonymous, and we hoped to have enough for<br />
one scholarship. We were really excited to be able<br />
to fund two.”<br />
Music students Jennifer Newberry and Julie<br />
Newsome were the recipients.<br />
“This scholarship means a lot to me,” said<br />
Newberry, a first-generation college student from<br />
Moberly, MO. Raised by a single parent, the bass<br />
clarinet player has never been able to afford her<br />
own instrument. The junior is majoring in music<br />
education and hopes to have a career as a college<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor, directing band or giving private lessons.<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
development today<br />
Nothing Average about Henry’s Wish<br />
to Help Students through Scholarship<br />
Although her life was tragically<br />
cut short in a June 2003 motor<br />
vehicle accident, Catherine “Katy”<br />
Henry once dreamed <strong>of</strong> being able<br />
to help other students to achieve<br />
their educational goals. Today, her<br />
wish has been realized through the<br />
presentation <strong>of</strong> the first Katy Henry<br />
“Average” Student Scholarship at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>.<br />
The initial award was presented<br />
during the fall 2006 semester to<br />
Alyson Rene Campbell, a broadcast<br />
media major from Florissant,<br />
MO. It is made possible through<br />
an endowed scholarship fund in<br />
Henry’s memory which her family<br />
and sorority sisters established<br />
through the UCM Foundation.<br />
“The term ‘average’ is<br />
misleading,” noted Joy Mistele,<br />
a development <strong>of</strong>ficer for the<br />
Harmon College <strong>of</strong> Business<br />
Administration. “The scholarship<br />
honors the memory <strong>of</strong> a young<br />
woman who enthusiastically<br />
embraced life and, with her<br />
infectious joy, raised the spirits <strong>of</strong><br />
all who knew her.”<br />
She added, “Academic<br />
endeavors are necessary<br />
requirements in succeeding in one’s<br />
life, but it was Katy’s love <strong>of</strong> life,<br />
wonderful humor, and engaging<br />
personality that are the qualities <strong>of</strong><br />
this scholarship. It is only named<br />
‘average’ because that is what Katy<br />
wanted to call it.”<br />
The scholarship provides a<br />
lasting legacy to Henry’s strong<br />
ties with UCM and her special<br />
connection to her sorority sisters.<br />
The St. Louis area native was<br />
a member <strong>of</strong> Alpha Omicron<br />
Pi sorority while attending the<br />
university.<br />
Campbell exemplifies the type<br />
<strong>of</strong> student that the award targets.<br />
Broadcast major Alyson Campbell, the first recipient <strong>of</strong><br />
the Katy Henry “Average” Student Scholarship, believes<br />
in working enthusiastically and studying diligently.<br />
winter 2006<br />
To be eligible, an individual<br />
must be a female undergraduate<br />
student at UCM for at least one<br />
year, and an active member <strong>of</strong> a<br />
sorority. They must have a grade<br />
point average <strong>of</strong> 2.5 to 3.25<br />
on a 4.0 scale, and be active in<br />
intramural sports, philanthropic<br />
activities, community<br />
involvement and/or campus<br />
involvement.<br />
In her application letter,<br />
Campbell said that her<br />
grades are not always the<br />
best indicator <strong>of</strong> the way she<br />
approaches college life —<br />
always working enthusiastically<br />
and studying diligently.<br />
“Do I understand how<br />
fortunate I am to have the<br />
opportunity <strong>of</strong> a higher<br />
education? Yes, but I realize<br />
that my grade point average<br />
is not what defines me. What<br />
defines me is my ability to<br />
be a balanced, determined,<br />
and active woman in today’s<br />
society. I have learned<br />
that my best may not be<br />
portrayed in the classroom<br />
but rather in extracurricular<br />
activities,” she said.<br />
In addition to her<br />
coursework, Campbell is<br />
active in her sorority, Alpha<br />
Sigma Alpha, a participant in<br />
intramurals, and numerous<br />
philanthropic and public<br />
service activities.<br />
Beulah McFarland Scholarship Created<br />
A lifetime <strong>of</strong> dedicated service<br />
to the education <strong>of</strong> young people<br />
has been commemorated with<br />
the Beulah McFarland Teacher<br />
Education Scholarship at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>.<br />
Robert and Barbara<br />
Boppenmeyer McFarland <strong>of</strong><br />
Horseshoe Bay, TX, created the<br />
$50,00 endowment in honor <strong>of</strong><br />
Robert’s mother.<br />
Born in Oklahoma in 1907,<br />
Beulah Knoles McFarland came to<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> with her family in early<br />
childhood. She grew up in Clinton,<br />
MO, and earned a bachelor’s degree<br />
in English from UCM in 1941.<br />
She started her teaching career<br />
in rural schools in Henry County,<br />
taking time out to raise her family.<br />
She completed a 33-year career<br />
as an English teacher in Clinton<br />
junior and senior high schools.<br />
Robert and Barbara are<br />
graduates <strong>of</strong> Clinton High School,<br />
and Robert earned a Bachelor <strong>of</strong><br />
Science in Education degree in<br />
physical education from UCM in<br />
1957.<br />
The first scholarship will be<br />
presented during spring semester<br />
2007. The recipient must be a<br />
freshman and a graduate <strong>of</strong> Clinton<br />
High School with plans to pursue a<br />
degree in teacher education at UCM<br />
and show promise <strong>of</strong> leadership,<br />
service and a strong desire to enter<br />
the field <strong>of</strong> education.<br />
New Web Features Make<br />
Giving Easier<br />
New features on the UCM<br />
Foundation web site make it<br />
easier for alumni and friends<br />
to make a gift. Donors can set<br />
up automated withdrawals<br />
from their checking or savings<br />
account by downloading an<br />
electronic funds transfer form.<br />
Also, an online feature allows<br />
donors to search for their<br />
employers to see if they <strong>of</strong>fer a<br />
matching gift program.<br />
Check out both on the web<br />
at cmsu.edu/foundation.<br />
Frazelle Receives First<br />
Waller Scholarship<br />
Rhonda Frazelle, a<br />
single mother <strong>of</strong> three, has<br />
spent a lifetime providing<br />
encouragement and leadership<br />
for those around her. After<br />
starting her career as a mental<br />
health pr<strong>of</strong>essional, she<br />
became a counselor in higher<br />
education. Frazelle was named<br />
the first recipient <strong>of</strong> the Mary<br />
E. Warren and Elgeva Waller<br />
Education Administration<br />
Scholarship. She is pursuing an<br />
Ed.D. degree through UCM’s<br />
cooperative program with the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> while<br />
teaching full time at State Fair<br />
Community College.<br />
The scholarship was created<br />
by a gift from Norris and<br />
Fran Waller in honor <strong>of</strong> their<br />
mothers. Waller retired from<br />
UCM as associate vice president<br />
for academic programs and<br />
services. Norris retired from<br />
teaching secondary industrial<br />
arts.<br />
Rhonda Frazelle, left, with scholarship<br />
donors, Norris and Fran Waller.<br />
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Slave, Politician and<br />
21st Century<br />
I n s p i r a t i on<br />
Blanche Kelso Bruce<br />
When Rob Madden ‘05<br />
graduated from <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
with a bachelor’s degree in political<br />
science and priceless insight into<br />
his own heritage, he created the<br />
Blanche Kelso Bruce Scholarship to<br />
honor the legacy <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> his own<br />
ancestors and to encourage young<br />
people to make a difference.<br />
Madden created the scholarship<br />
after tracing his family’s roots to<br />
Bruce, the first African-American<br />
elected to the U.S. Senate during<br />
the post-Civil War reconstruction<br />
era. As he prepared to enter the<br />
field <strong>of</strong> education, Madden felt<br />
creating a scholarship in the<br />
name <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> American’s most<br />
inspirational African-Americans<br />
was an appropriate way to<br />
honor his ancestor’s legacy while<br />
providing opportunities for future<br />
students.<br />
Madden became a teacher when<br />
a nephew began experiencing<br />
problems in ninth grade. He<br />
currently teaches history at Hogan<br />
Preparatory Academy, a Kansas City<br />
charter school sponsored by UCM.<br />
He travels after school each day to<br />
Washington High School in Kansas<br />
City, KS, to coach his nephew’s<br />
team in wrestling, a sport Madden<br />
participated in at UCM.<br />
He began researching<br />
African-American history as a<br />
student in UCM’s Africana Studies<br />
program, from which he was<br />
the first to graduate. When the<br />
details in the history began to<br />
match his grandmother’s stories,<br />
he realized the importance <strong>of</strong><br />
Bruce’s legacy, not only to his<br />
country but to his family.<br />
“I began to learn about Blanche<br />
Kelso Bruce when Dr. Yvonne<br />
Johnson loaned me a copy <strong>of</strong> the<br />
book Black Aristocrats,” Madden<br />
said. “Blanche Kelso Bruce and his<br />
wife were on the cover <strong>of</strong> the book.<br />
I know the story <strong>of</strong> his successes<br />
inspired me, and I think it’s a story<br />
that young African-Americans need<br />
to hear today.”<br />
The youngest <strong>of</strong> 11 children,<br />
Bruce was born in 1841 in Virginia.<br />
An intelligent and ambitious<br />
child, he was educated by the tutor<br />
hired to teach his master’s son. He<br />
escaped slavery at the beginning <strong>of</strong><br />
the Civil War by fleeing to Kansas,<br />
where he attended Oberlin College.<br />
He later purchased an abandoned<br />
Mississippi plantation, amassing a<br />
real estate fortune.<br />
In 1874 Bruce became the first<br />
African-American to be elected to<br />
the U.S. Senate by popular vote.<br />
As a Republican representing<br />
Mississippi, he advocated civil<br />
rights for African-Americans,<br />
Chinese immigrants and even<br />
former Confederates.<br />
In September 2002, the U.S.<br />
Senate unveiled a portrait <strong>of</strong> Bruce<br />
in the Old Senate Chamber in<br />
Washington, D.C. In attendance<br />
was one <strong>of</strong> Bruce’s relatives, Norma<br />
Rozell <strong>of</strong> Kansas City.<br />
During Madden’s junior year<br />
at UCM, his uncle, Kansas City<br />
author and journalist Phil Dixon,<br />
encouraged him to attend an event<br />
where he could meet Rozell.<br />
“She’s the family historian,”<br />
Madden said. “It was through her<br />
that I have learned a great deal<br />
about our family’s connection to<br />
Bruce’s rise from slavery to prominence in U.S. history<br />
inspired Rob Madden, right, to start a scholarship to<br />
assist UCM students in achieving their dreams.<br />
Bruce. She had the details that<br />
helped me determine that he is my<br />
great-grandmother’s great-uncle.<br />
We’re still doing research on even<br />
more family connections.”<br />
Photos <strong>of</strong> Blance Kelso Bruce<br />
and Bruce’s mother are displayed<br />
in Madden’s classroom. Madden<br />
tells the story <strong>of</strong> Bruce’s rise from<br />
slavery to prominence in U.S.<br />
history as an example <strong>of</strong> what can<br />
be accomplished with vision and<br />
determination. He believes it’s a<br />
valuable lesson for his students,<br />
although some initially have a hard<br />
time relating to the world in which<br />
Bruce made his mark on history.<br />
“That’s why I felt it was<br />
important to start the scholarship,”<br />
Madden said.<br />
He made an initial donation<br />
<strong>of</strong> $500, hoping that others will<br />
contribute toward the $10,000<br />
needed to endow it. Interested<br />
donors should contact the UCM<br />
Foundation, 660-543-8000 or by<br />
email at giving@cmsu.edu.<br />
— Mike Greife ’74<br />
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Family’s Sweater Gift Reveals Connections<br />
Vivian Richardson, archivist, accepts the letter sweater gift from Ruth Oetting and her children, Betty and Vaughn.<br />
As Ruth Oetting and her<br />
children began sorting through<br />
family mementos in the attic <strong>of</strong><br />
Oetting’s Raytown, MO, home,<br />
they came across the letter sweater<br />
that her husband, Albert Dietrich<br />
Oetting, wore as a <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
State Teachers College athlete.<br />
After discussion, Mrs. Oetting<br />
and her daughter, Betty Oetting<br />
Morris ’53 ’74, and her son, Vaughn<br />
Oetting ’62, made the trip to<br />
Warrensburg to present the sweater<br />
to UCM’s Arthur F. McClure II<br />
Archives and <strong>University</strong> Museum.<br />
Albert Oetting earned a Bachelor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Science in Education degree from<br />
UCM in 1927 and a master’s degree<br />
in school administration from the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Kansas. After starting<br />
his career at Raytown High School<br />
as a physical education teacher<br />
and football coach, he became the<br />
principal. He agreed to take the job<br />
for the same salary he was paid as<br />
a teacher, a necessity that allowed<br />
schools to keep operating during<br />
the Depression.<br />
Oetting then was named<br />
superintendent <strong>of</strong> the Raytown<br />
School District, a position he filled<br />
until 1945. After a one-year hiatus<br />
from education, he returned to the<br />
Raytown School District to retire as<br />
a middle school science teacher.<br />
Oetting’s children followed<br />
in his footsteps, also becoming<br />
educators. Betty Morris retired from<br />
the Raytown School District as a<br />
high school physical education<br />
teacher, and Vaughn<br />
Oetting taught physical<br />
education at William<br />
Chrisman High School in<br />
the Independence School<br />
District. Bob Oetting<br />
completed a doctoral<br />
degree at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>-Rolla, where he<br />
also was a member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
faculty.<br />
According to Morris,<br />
presenting the sweater<br />
to the McClure Archives<br />
was an appropriate way<br />
<strong>of</strong> sharing the family’s<br />
commitment to education<br />
and UCM.<br />
“It was in a trunk, in<br />
mothballs,” Morris said.<br />
“It means a lot to us, but<br />
we felt that it belonged in a place<br />
where it can be<br />
enjoyed by others.”<br />
Albert Oetting’s 1927 Rhetor<br />
senior portrait, left, and his<br />
Mules basketball letterman<br />
photo, right<br />
Charitable IRA Rollover a<br />
New Way to Support UCM<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> alumni have a new<br />
opportunity to support their<br />
alma mater and its new vision<br />
as the result <strong>of</strong> the Pension<br />
Protection Act <strong>of</strong> 2006.<br />
This new law applies to<br />
donors who have saved income<br />
in a tax-deferred individual<br />
retirement account — either<br />
traditional or Roth — and who<br />
meet specific requirements.<br />
They can make a gift directly<br />
from an IRA if the gift is<br />
$100,000 or less, if it is made<br />
on or before Dec. 31 <strong>of</strong> 2006<br />
and 2007, the donor is age<br />
70 ½ or older by the date<br />
<strong>of</strong> distribution, the gift is<br />
transferred from an IRA, and it<br />
is made outright to the UCM<br />
Foundation.<br />
FujiFilm Makes Gift<br />
A cooperative effort<br />
with UCM’s Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Technology and Fujifilm<br />
Sericol USA, Inc. will bring<br />
state-<strong>of</strong>-the-art technology to<br />
the graphic arts technology<br />
management program.<br />
Fujifilm provided majority<br />
funding toward the purchase<br />
<strong>of</strong> a $230,000 four-color<br />
flexographic narrow web press<br />
with four-station ultraviolet ink<br />
cursing capability.<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> Foundation, Inc.<br />
PRESIDENT<br />
Joseph E. Good ’82<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT<br />
Jack C. Dillingham ’74<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT<br />
Glen A. Carter ’81<br />
Dallas, TX<br />
SECRETARY<br />
Sandy Russell<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
TREASURER<br />
Dan Power ’73<br />
Hutchinson, KS<br />
DIRECTORS<br />
Vicki Terry Brady ’86<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Jeanne L. Crane ’79<br />
Chesterfield, MO<br />
V. Lynn Graybill ’70<br />
Madison, WI<br />
Kristi L. Kenney ’75<br />
Clinton, MO<br />
Thomas A. King ’44<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Robert M. Merritt ’57<br />
Blue Springs, MO<br />
Keith Province ’80, ’92<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
Robert B. Ruth ’74<br />
Southlake, TX<br />
Meridith Sauer ’96<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Dan Scotten ’60<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
Patty G. Smith ’88<br />
Liberty, MO<br />
James A. Tivis ’65<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Kenneth Weymuth ’78<br />
Cole Camp, MO<br />
Dale M. Zank ’71<br />
Marshall, MO<br />
DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE<br />
Michael L. Cunningham ’73<br />
Georgetown, TX<br />
Vance A. DeLozier ’71<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Timothy J. Doke ’74<br />
Austin, TX<br />
William A. Rankin ’82<br />
Sammamish, WA<br />
Charles E. Simmons ’61<br />
Houston, TX<br />
Susie Wetzel<br />
Clinton, MO<br />
James R. Whiteman II ’42<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Edna Mae Whitsitt ’46<br />
Odessa, MO<br />
DIRECTORS EMERITI<br />
Richard A. Baile ’42<br />
Houston, TX<br />
Weldon R. Brady ’64<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Dolores F. Burger ’59<br />
California, MO<br />
Steve D. Burmeister ’73<br />
Independence, MO<br />
Julia Ann Consalus ’50<br />
Surprise, AZ<br />
John A. Dillingham<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
Ann M. Elwell ’75<br />
Nixa, MO<br />
A. L. Folkner ’52<br />
Tubac, AZ<br />
Joey K. Ford ’76<br />
Chicago, IL<br />
Daniel R. Frederickson ’68<br />
Ventura, CA<br />
Dan A. Fults ’55<br />
Escondido, CA<br />
Robert E. Gunter ’56<br />
Prairie Village, KS<br />
Hugh A. Hanna ’58<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Adrian Harmon ’43<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Debra A. Harmon ’72<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
Linvill L. Hendrich ’50<br />
Gig Harbor, WA<br />
John S. Hollyman ’34<br />
Shawnee Mission, KS<br />
Thomas B. Hollyman ’40<br />
New York, NY<br />
James A. Hooker ’58<br />
Lake Ozark, MO<br />
Doris Houx Kirkpatrick ’40<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Charles G. Kuhn Jr. ’51<br />
Carrollton, MO<br />
Marvin J. Max ’51<br />
Shawnee Mission, KS<br />
James R. McDowell ’62<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
Danny M. Moore ’70<br />
Lenexa, KS<br />
Linda Stahl Moore ’67<br />
Lake Winnebago, MO<br />
Jerry Osborn ’66<br />
Camdenton, MO<br />
R. Wayne Payne ’51<br />
Houston, TX<br />
James H. Pendleton ’55<br />
Leawood, KS<br />
Janis C. Reding ’57<br />
Grain Valley, MO<br />
John A. Romito ’69<br />
Leawood, KS<br />
Lise R. Shipley ’82<br />
San Antonio, TX<br />
Blanche Stahl ’32<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
Gordon A. Stahl ’60<br />
Clive, IA<br />
David L. Steward ’73<br />
St. Louis, MO<br />
Sally Virgo ’82<br />
Overland Park, KS<br />
James W. Waller ’59<br />
Mission Hills, KS<br />
R. Michael Webb ’67<br />
Elk Mound, WI<br />
Rosalee B. Welling ’58<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Benoit Wesly<br />
Maastricht, The<br />
Netherlands<br />
James R. Whiteman ’42<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS<br />
Aaron Podolefsky<br />
<strong>University</strong> President<br />
Deleta P. Williams ’84<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Governors<br />
Representative<br />
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR<br />
Paul A. Page<br />
Vice President for<br />
<strong>University</strong> Advancement<br />
winter 2006<br />
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Nigerian Alum Honors Mother through Scholarship<br />
Charles Olaiya, who earned a Ph.D. from the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Tulane, honored his mother by recently starting a<br />
scholarship through the UCM Foundation.<br />
Dixie Laval knows how to make<br />
an impression. She’s spent decades<br />
earning a national reputation as<br />
a photographer who excels in<br />
animal portrait<br />
and window light<br />
studies.<br />
Laval has made<br />
a distinguished<br />
career <strong>of</strong> recording<br />
moments <strong>of</strong><br />
history in<br />
photographic<br />
images as well<br />
as sharing her<br />
technical skills with others.<br />
Now, at the invitation <strong>of</strong> UCM’s<br />
photography program, she<br />
has donated 26 <strong>of</strong> her original<br />
prints to the J.C. Kirkpatrick<br />
Library’s Special Collections.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Janet Bonsall said the<br />
gift <strong>of</strong>fers a wonderful opportunity<br />
for students.<br />
“This collection allows our<br />
students to experience the textural<br />
and aesthetic value <strong>of</strong> original<br />
photographic prints while<br />
Growing up in Nigeria<br />
fatherless from the age <strong>of</strong> six,<br />
Charles Olaiya ‘93 faced great<br />
odds when it came to pursuing<br />
higher education.<br />
Through the love, support<br />
and encouragement <strong>of</strong> his<br />
family, he got the education<br />
he needed to realize his<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essional goal.<br />
Today, he honors the<br />
family who made this<br />
possible with a scholarship<br />
that will help students<br />
particularly from Nigeria<br />
and New Orleans to realize<br />
their educational dreams.<br />
Currently living in<br />
Richland, WA, and serving<br />
as a scientist with the U.S.<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Energy, Olaiya<br />
has created the Alice Fayemi<br />
Foundation Award. The award<br />
is named for his mother,<br />
whom he gives much credit to<br />
his success.<br />
Award-Winning Photographer Donates Images<br />
studying the style <strong>of</strong> renowned<br />
photographers,” Bonsall said. “As<br />
we move into a digital world and<br />
rely on the digital image, students<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten experience the work <strong>of</strong> great<br />
photographers only through a<br />
In establishing the scholarship,<br />
he noted that there is a sense<br />
<strong>of</strong> hopelessness among young<br />
blacks in Africa and in inner-city<br />
America as the result <strong>of</strong> poverty<br />
and declining public health. The<br />
spread <strong>of</strong> AIDS and other diseases<br />
faces Africans, while people in<br />
New Orleans must deal with severe<br />
economic hardships and healthrelated<br />
problems following the<br />
aftermath <strong>of</strong> Hurricane Katrina.<br />
Olaiya hopes his financial award<br />
for students will make a difference.<br />
As he stipulated in the<br />
scholarship agreement, the<br />
“purpose <strong>of</strong> the award is to<br />
encourage deserving black students<br />
to enter a career in industrial<br />
hygiene or public health with<br />
the expectation that these young<br />
people will return to their origins<br />
to aid in alleviating poverty and<br />
health issues that are overwhelming<br />
Africa and U.S. inner cities.”<br />
The first award will be presented<br />
Renowned Kansas City photographer Dixie Laval recently contributed 26 original prints to the J.C.<br />
Kirkpatrick Library Special Collections.<br />
computer monitor or published<br />
materials. This generous gift<br />
provides a wonderful opportunity<br />
for our students to get hands-on<br />
contact with original prints, which<br />
is becoming more rare in today’s<br />
during the spring 2007 semester.<br />
To qualify, an applicant must<br />
be an incoming graduate student at<br />
UCM pursing a degree in industrial<br />
hygiene, and have a minimum 2.5<br />
grade point average on a 4.0 scale.<br />
The applicant must also be either<br />
an international student from<br />
Nigeria or from a U.S. inner city,<br />
preferably New Orleans. They must<br />
express an interest in returning to<br />
the inner city or African homeland<br />
to work and encourage others to<br />
seek higher education.<br />
Olaiya’s special interest in New<br />
Orleans came while pursuing his<br />
doctor <strong>of</strong> science degree at the<br />
Tulane <strong>University</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Public<br />
Health and Tropical Medicine,<br />
where he graduated in 2006. He<br />
also studied industrial hygiene at<br />
UCM, getting a master’s degree<br />
in 1993, and at the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Texas, San Antonio, where he<br />
earned a bachelor’s degree in 1990.<br />
—Jeff Murphy ’76 hs, ’80, ’95<br />
electronic environment,” she said.<br />
Laval started her career in the<br />
late 1940s with Leo Stern Studios<br />
in Kansas City. She opened her<br />
own studio in Raytown, MO, in<br />
the late 1960s, and later worked<br />
as a supervisor and laboratory<br />
consultant for Meisel Photochrome,<br />
Custom Color Corporation and<br />
McDonald International. She also<br />
has taught in a variety <strong>of</strong> venues,<br />
developing several educational aids.<br />
In 1984, Laval received<br />
the designation <strong>of</strong> Master<br />
Photographer from the Pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
Photographers <strong>of</strong> America. She<br />
also served as president <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Greater Kansas City Chapter <strong>of</strong><br />
the Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Photographers<br />
<strong>of</strong> America in 1976, as well<br />
as president <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Photographers <strong>of</strong><br />
America from 1994 to 1996.<br />
In 2003, Laval was named a<br />
Fellow by the American Society<br />
<strong>of</strong> Photographers. The master<br />
photographer’s work is still featured<br />
in national advertising.<br />
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To have your latest news<br />
in our class notes section,<br />
please fill out the UCM<br />
Alumni Information Form<br />
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Today, Smiser Alumni Center,<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>,<br />
Warrensburg, MO 64093.<br />
class notes<br />
From left: Sarah Brockes ’03,<br />
James and Kristan Morris ’03<br />
enjoy an alumni dinner social at<br />
Les Bourgeois Vineyards, one <strong>of</strong><br />
mid-<strong>Missouri</strong>’s premier cultural<br />
and recreational attractions.<br />
See more pictures from events<br />
sponsored this fall and winter<br />
by the UCM Alumni Association,<br />
including Homecoming 2006, on<br />
pages 12-13.<br />
Reconnect with classmates and<br />
meet new friends at one <strong>of</strong> our<br />
events this spring. Check out<br />
what we have planned on page 2.<br />
1940-1949<br />
Alice (Searfoss) Allen ’47 resides<br />
at 130 W. Brown Rd. #101A, Mesa, AZ<br />
85201.<br />
1950-1959<br />
Jim Paull ’56 resides at 1722 S.<br />
114th E. Ave., Tulsa, OK 74128 and his<br />
email address is jpaull20@cox.net.<br />
James Claypool ’58 resides at Rt. 2<br />
Box 2282, Wheatland, MO 65779.<br />
1960-1969<br />
Stephen Cooper ’62 and his wife,<br />
Deborah, reside at 25181 Panarama<br />
Lane, Versailles, MO 65084, and email<br />
is spcoop777@earthlink.net.<br />
Richard Anderson ’64 has been<br />
appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt to the<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> Sheriff Methamphetamine<br />
Relief Task Force. He resides in DeKalb,<br />
MO, and is sheriff <strong>of</strong> Platte County.<br />
Marvin Mitchell ’64 and<br />
his wife, Barbara, reside at 249<br />
Walnut Ave., Grand Junction, CO<br />
81501, and their email address is<br />
mmitchell@gvpoweresports.com.<br />
Jerald Gooch ’65 resides at 6932<br />
NW 78th Terr., Kansas City, MO 64152.<br />
Nile Brown ’66 resides at 1904<br />
Karlton Way, Excelsior Springs,<br />
MO 64024, and his email is<br />
nilgil@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Donald Cheever ’66 was elected<br />
associate circuit judge for Webster<br />
County, MO, effective Jan. 1, 2007. He<br />
and his wife, Linda, can be reached at<br />
P.O. Box 65, Marshfield, MO 65706.<br />
Don and his son, Brian, recently<br />
attended the Ryder Cup in Ireland.<br />
Robert Haberle ’68 resides<br />
at 44 Dillmont Dr., Smithtown,<br />
NY 11787. His email address is<br />
misouritraveler@excite.com.<br />
Connie (Drake) H<strong>of</strong>stetter ’68<br />
retired after 36 years in the propane<br />
gas business, including 33 years with<br />
Bixler Gas Company and three years<br />
for MFA Oil, Inc. She and her husband,<br />
Donald ’71, reside at 118 Briar Lane,<br />
Box 581, Tipton, MO 65081, and email<br />
is ch<strong>of</strong>stet@earthlink.net.<br />
Cynthia Matson ’68 and her<br />
husband, Gordon “Buzz” ’61, ’68,<br />
reside at 424 N. Grand, Oberlin,<br />
KS 67749.<br />
Sharon (Foster) Beaty ’69 is a<br />
teacher. She resides at 307 E. Green St.,<br />
Clinton, MO 64735, and her email is<br />
sharon_beaty2000@yahoo.com.<br />
Sandra Larm ’69 resides at 17259<br />
Tezcuco Court, Boonville, MO 65233.<br />
Duane Schmidt ’69 resides at 2635<br />
Arrow Ridge Place, Lincoln, NE 68506.<br />
His email is schmidt_1@alltel.net.<br />
1970-1979<br />
Audrey (Marshall <strong>Winter</strong>meyer)<br />
Ellis ’70, ’72 and husband, John, reside<br />
at 7227 Woodcrest Ct. N., Keizer, OR<br />
97303, and email is afwellis@aol.com.<br />
Thom Reece ’70 resides at 403 E.<br />
2nd St., Appleton City, MO 64724 and<br />
email is kaubiz@hialoha.net.<br />
Esther (Wood) Snellings ’70 spent<br />
25 years in the food service industry<br />
and now works with preschool children<br />
at Kindercare Learning Centers, Inc.<br />
in Stanley, KS. She is working on her<br />
master’s degree in early childhood<br />
education. She and her husband,<br />
James, reside at 614 Kensington,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64124, and email is<br />
snelwoo@aol.com.<br />
Paula (Kelly) Barrows ’71 works<br />
for The Coca-Cola Company managing<br />
their global database technology<br />
environment. She has been in the<br />
information technology field for the<br />
past 30 years. She and her husband,<br />
George, reside at 415 Morgan Falls Rd.,<br />
Apt. 1004, Atlanta, GA 30350, and her<br />
email is paulabarrows@aol.com.<br />
John Hagler ’71 retired in 2003<br />
as an Air Force Reservist and in<br />
2006 after 25 years as a chemical<br />
dependency counselor. His email is<br />
ozarkridgerunner@cox.net.<br />
Thomas Ladage ’71 and his wife,<br />
Karen (Wade) ’71, reside at 7 Heritage<br />
Way, Oxford, AL 36203, and email is<br />
ladaget@bellsouth.net.<br />
Linda Wright ’71, ’72 retired in<br />
June from Area Education Agency #16<br />
in Burlington, IA, as a speech-language<br />
pathologist in the public schools,<br />
29 years in Iowa and five years in<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>. She resides at 1812 S. Main,<br />
Burlington, IA 52601, and email is<br />
linwrigh@interl.net.<br />
Toni Clark-Moulthrop ’73 retired<br />
from the U.S. government after<br />
30 years <strong>of</strong> service; her husband,<br />
Michael, also served 30 years with the<br />
government. They reside at 1105 Allen<br />
St., Montoursville, PA 17754. They are<br />
enjoying retirement by remodeling<br />
their home, traveling and spending<br />
time with friends and family, including<br />
their eight grandchildren.<br />
Mary Jane (Beck) Pietsch ’73 is<br />
a program manager at the National<br />
Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health in Bethesda, MD.<br />
She is an instrument-rated private pilot<br />
and a retired school administrator. She<br />
has two sons, Brian, 22, and Brad, 19.<br />
She resides at 6904 Race Horse Lane,<br />
Rockville, MD 20852, and her email is<br />
mary_j_b2003@yahoo.com.<br />
Sue (Wade) Stauffer ’74<br />
and her husband, Stephen ’75,<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
reside at 1357 W. 100 South,<br />
Franklin, IN 46131. Email is<br />
sue@stauffersdreamgarden.com<br />
and their web site address is<br />
www.stauffersdreamgarden.com.<br />
Morey Sullivan ’74 is deputy<br />
director <strong>of</strong> information technology<br />
operations for the state <strong>of</strong> Kansas. He<br />
and his wife, Patti, reside at 2526 SW<br />
Santa Fe Ct., Topeka, KS 66614.<br />
John Deubler ’75 resides at 4575<br />
South Landing Dr., Marietta, GA 30066<br />
and his email is onceanite@msn.com.<br />
David Kaup ’75 works for AT<br />
Systems Security as branch manager for<br />
the south Texas area. He resides at 314<br />
Red Haven Dr., Highlands, TX 77563.<br />
His email is dekaup@yahoo.com.<br />
Sheila (Willbanks) Wade ’75 and<br />
her husband, Kent, reside at 16001<br />
Kessler, Overland Park, KS 66085 and<br />
her email is swade2@kc.rr.com.<br />
Ernest Wasmer ’75 and his wife,<br />
Tricia, reside at 3405 SW Lois Lane,<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO 64082 and his email<br />
is aptinc@yahoo.com.<br />
Susie (Hammond) Blood ’76 is a<br />
communication therapist at the State<br />
School for the Severely Handicapped.<br />
She and her husband, Mike, have seven<br />
children: three are college graduates,<br />
one is still in college, one is in high<br />
school, one is in junior high school and<br />
the youngest attends third grade. The<br />
family resides at 800 SE Lea Dr., Lee’s<br />
Summit, MO 64081, and her email is<br />
sblood@kc.rr.com.<br />
Ron Warden ’76 is associate<br />
technical fellow at Boeing in St. Louis.<br />
He works on cockpit display designs for<br />
military and commercial aircraft. He<br />
and his wife, Kathy, can be reached by<br />
email at rkwarden@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Mary (Kroencke) Hamill ’77<br />
resides at 305 Stonebridge Dr.,<br />
Longwood, FL 32779, and email is<br />
marykhamill@global-5.com.<br />
Daniel Scott ’77 was appointed to<br />
the <strong>Missouri</strong> Southern District Court <strong>of</strong><br />
Appeals. He is a partner in the law firm<br />
<strong>of</strong> Copeland, Scott & Brown in Joplin,<br />
where he practices general civil law.<br />
Brad Thomas ’77 resides at 1327<br />
Easton Ct., Liberty, MO 64068, and his<br />
email is badbwad@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Ann (Sutherland) Durst ’78 is a<br />
stay-at-home mom to her four children,<br />
Juliann, 19; Kari, 16; and adopted sons,<br />
Omar, 15, and Mike, 12. Her husband,<br />
Neil, is a computer systems analyst for<br />
ALCOA. The family resides at 1252 Old<br />
Concord Rd., Monroeville, PA 15146,<br />
and email is ann@superlumen.com.<br />
Victor Titus ’78 and his wife,<br />
Debby, reside at 6040 Bayhill,<br />
Farmington, NM 87402, and email is<br />
big_daddy_titus@yahoo.com.<br />
Kevin Gaines ’79 and his wife,<br />
Elizabeth, reside at 8481 Yorkshire<br />
Lane, Fort Myers, FL 33919, and email<br />
is kevin@efgaines.com.<br />
Scott Smith ’79 is the education<br />
director for the <strong>Missouri</strong> Division <strong>of</strong><br />
Youth Services. He can be reached at<br />
PO Box 1881, Jefferson City, MO 65102.<br />
Donna Ullrich ’79 is certified as an<br />
etiquette consultant by the Etiquette<br />
and Leadership Institute <strong>of</strong> Athens, GA.<br />
She and her two partners have formed<br />
the company, Protocol Consulting<br />
Group, Inc., to provide etiquette and<br />
protocol services to individuals and<br />
organizations. She is also a member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Michigan-Flint<br />
communications and visual arts faculty.<br />
1980-1989<br />
Randy Cole ’80 has been appointed<br />
by Gov. Matt Blunt to the <strong>Missouri</strong> Fire<br />
Education Trust Fund. He resides in<br />
Jefferson City, MO, and is fire marshal<br />
for the state <strong>of</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>.<br />
Mark Kasselhut ’80, ’91 is assistant<br />
director <strong>of</strong> technology for the Delphi<br />
Center <strong>of</strong> Teaching and Learning at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Louisville. His email is<br />
markkasselhut@yahoo.com.<br />
Joe Tybor ’80 retired from<br />
General Motors in January. His wife,<br />
Stephanie (Miles) ’82, is teaching<br />
pre-kindergarten for Greene County<br />
Schools. She received her master’s<br />
degree in early childhood education in<br />
2000. They reside at 123 Brittany Dr.,<br />
Gray, TN 37615.<br />
Bobbette (Ward) McDonald ’81<br />
and her husband, Bill ’81, reside at<br />
4165 Hidden Rock Road, Colorado<br />
Springs, CO 80908, and email is<br />
bobbettejmac@aol.com.<br />
Ken Davis ’82 completed the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Homeland Security Law<br />
Enforcement Protection Instructors<br />
course at the Center for Domestic<br />
Preparedness, Anniston, AL. He is now<br />
certified to instruct law enforcement<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficers in personal and community<br />
protection measures in the event <strong>of</strong> a<br />
chemical, biological or radiological<br />
incident. He resides at 1317 Division<br />
2007 MIAA Basketball Championships<br />
Show Kansas City your<br />
UCM spirit!<br />
Join us for one <strong>of</strong> our<br />
favorite events!<br />
March 1-4, 2007<br />
Municipal Auditorium<br />
For more information,<br />
w w w. t h e m i a a . c o m<br />
St., Vicksburg, MS 39180, and his email<br />
is davi2554@bellsouth.net.<br />
Stuart Howser ’82 resides<br />
at 1908 Allen Dr., Jefferson<br />
City, MO 65109, and his email<br />
is tresmariasdaddy@yahoo.com.<br />
Jimmie Jones ’82 and his wife,<br />
Shelly (Kulcke) ’86, reside at 408<br />
Dockside Dr., Slidell, LA 70461, and<br />
email is jones_jimmie@hotmail.com.<br />
Eileen Moore ’83 resides at 19<br />
Sydney St., Brampton, Chesterfield, S40<br />
1DA, United Kingdom. Her email is<br />
eileen1960@hotmail.com.<br />
Tracy Estes ’84 and his wife,<br />
Allyson, announce the birth <strong>of</strong> Clara<br />
Nalanie, July 12. She has a sister,<br />
Myleah, and a brother, Miles. Their<br />
email is tracy.estes@us.army.mil.<br />
Shannon Holcomb ’84 is director<br />
<strong>of</strong> education for the American College<br />
<strong>of</strong> Technology in St. Joseph. He and his<br />
wife, Kate Ladesh, reside at 2922 Jules,<br />
St. Joseph, MO 64501, and his email is<br />
holcomb_shannon@yahoo.com.<br />
Shahid Hussain ’84 can be reached<br />
at PO Box 480907, Los Angeles, CA<br />
90048.<br />
Bill Jensen’84 and his wife,<br />
Kathryn, reside at 716 Northwood Ct.,<br />
Manitowoc, WI 54220.<br />
Diana Cordova Elliott ’85 is<br />
president <strong>of</strong> the Basalt Regional<br />
Heritage Society. She is still taking<br />
photos and writing when not being<br />
mom to Dane and Mari. She, her<br />
husband, Brad, and children, reside at<br />
0081 Lewis Lane, Basalt, CO 81621, and<br />
email is dee@bearchitect.com.<br />
Tony Lawson ’85 appears in the<br />
film, All The Kings Men, released this<br />
September. He also was in last year’s<br />
Dukes <strong>of</strong> Hazzard movie. He is a real<br />
estate appraiser. He and his wife,<br />
Connie, have three children: Kyle, 15;<br />
Nicole, 8; and Riley, 4. The family<br />
resides at 42181 Greenfield Crossing,<br />
Prairieville, LA 70769, and email is<br />
ynotnoswal@cox.net.<br />
Suppata Chensmudsin ’86 resides<br />
at 297/2 Sunpawut Rd., Bangna,<br />
Bangkok 10260, Thailand, and email is<br />
natnymph@hotmail.com.<br />
Corey Crossen ’86 and his wife,<br />
Kathy, reside at 10704 N. Campbell St.,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64155. His email is<br />
ccrossen@kc.rr.com.<br />
Gene Hilger ’86 and his wife, Betty<br />
(Salisbury) ’88, reside at 7650 N.<br />
Rodeo Dr., Ellettsville, IN 47429, and<br />
email is ehilger@insightbb.com.<br />
Linaya (Buglewicz) Sartain ’86<br />
resides at 208 NW Cody Dr., Lee’s<br />
Summit, MO 64081, and her email is<br />
bugga@kc.rr.com.<br />
Sherri (Grove) Watson ’86 and<br />
her husband, Steve, announce the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> Caleb Edwin, Feb. 10, 2006.<br />
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He joins Joshua, 12; Michaela, 8; and<br />
Adina, 6. They reside at 16630 Weir<br />
St., Omaha, NE 68135, and email is<br />
sdandslwatson@earthlink.net.<br />
John Amos ’87 recently graduated<br />
from Graceland <strong>University</strong> with<br />
a Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Arts in Elementary<br />
Education. He teaches fifth and sixth<br />
grade math at Lone Jack Elementary.<br />
He resides at 506 NE 6th St., Apt. A,<br />
Blue Springs, MO 64014, and email is<br />
jamos@lonejackc6.net.<br />
Tom Evans ’87 and his wife,<br />
Carleen, reside at 19612 M Circle,<br />
Omaha, NE 68135, and email is<br />
taevans24@hotmail.com.<br />
Cindy Wise Freer ’87 is a<br />
guidance counselor at an alternative<br />
school in Lebanon, TN. She has two<br />
children, Matthew, 11, and Bethany,<br />
5. The family resides at 203 High St.,<br />
Alexandria, TN 37012, and email is<br />
manci341@yahoo.com.<br />
Stephanie (Staples) Collins<br />
’88 can be reached by email at<br />
sr23collins@netscape.net.<br />
Roger Wilson ’88 and his wife,<br />
Cynthia (Barker) ’89, have four<br />
children: Keegan, 13; Kahlea, 11; Blake;<br />
and Brett, 7. They reside at 4007 Day<br />
Flower Ct., Columbia, MO 65203, and<br />
email is rogcin4@mchsi.com.<br />
Douglas Oyer ’88 resides at<br />
102 Brookridge Dr., Harrisonville,<br />
MO 64701, and email address is<br />
jeepdrvr2000@yahoo.com.<br />
Tammy (Trout) Bremer ’89, ’96<br />
is a reading specialist in the North<br />
Kansas City School District. She and<br />
her husband, Kevin, have two boys,<br />
Kyle, 13, and Ryan, 6. The family<br />
resides at 9105 N. Kentucky Ave., Kansas<br />
City, MO 64157, and email address is<br />
tbremer@kc.rr.com.<br />
David Nicholson ’89 resides<br />
at 1306 Dianne Dr., Bloomington,<br />
awards and honors<br />
IL 61704 and email address is<br />
david.nicholson@verizon.net.<br />
Barbara (Dean) Zibits ’89 and her<br />
husband, Alan, reside at 532 Darmouth<br />
Crossing, Wildwood, MO 63011.<br />
1990-1999<br />
Thresea Rhoads ’90 resides at<br />
19996 Hwy. EE, Sedalia, MO 65301.<br />
Alecia (Evans) Stultz ’90 is<br />
assistant director for retail dining at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Kansas. She and her<br />
husband, Richard, have two sons,<br />
Xander, 4, and Kade, 1. The family<br />
resides at 1109 Layton, Olathe, KS<br />
66061, and their email address is<br />
kcallykt@comcast.net.<br />
Greg White ’90 resides at 700<br />
Willow Lake Circle, Apt. 131, Virginia<br />
Beach, VA 23452, and his email is<br />
dawg06@aol.com.<br />
Leon Maberry ’91 resides at<br />
249 Hidden Creek Circle, Lizella,<br />
GA 31052, and his email is<br />
lynmaberry@yahoo.com.<br />
Elizabeth (Jirovsky) Peery ’91 and<br />
her husband, Chad, have four children:<br />
Shea, 7; Camden, 4; Michael, 2; and<br />
Kyle, 10 months. The family resides at<br />
141 Struthers Place, Seward, NE 68434.<br />
Valerie (Faust) Cowan ’92 and<br />
her husband, Kevin, reside at 2865 N.<br />
Wilderness St., Wichita, KS 67226, and<br />
email is valcowan@cox.net.<br />
Rashid Riaz ’92 can be reached by<br />
email at navrash@hotmail.com.<br />
Don Kennedy ’93, ’99 is head<br />
s<strong>of</strong>tball coach at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>-Rolla. He was an assistant<br />
s<strong>of</strong>tball coach at <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> for<br />
11 years. He resides at 2179 Tenbrink<br />
Dr., Rolla, MO 65401, and his email is<br />
kennedon@umr.edu.<br />
Kristina (Smith) Kennedy ’93 and<br />
her husband, Chris, announce the birth<br />
<strong>of</strong> Quinn Edward, April 21, 2006. The<br />
family resides at 190 St. Regis Lane,<br />
Florissant, MO 63031, and email is<br />
kds3434@aol.com.<br />
Michelle (Schwentker) Kincaid ’93<br />
and her husband, Chuck, reside at 25<br />
Pershing Circle, O’Fallon, MO 63366,<br />
and email is michellestygers@aol.com.<br />
Debbie (Hagerman) Massman ’93<br />
and her husband, Rick, have twin girls,<br />
MaKayla and Malana, who celebrated<br />
their first birthdays Oct. 27.<br />
Jontae Middleton ’93 was hired by<br />
the City <strong>of</strong> Overland Park, KS, to help<br />
finalize and then manage the 80,000-<br />
square-foot Overland Park Community<br />
Center scheduled to open in fall 2007.<br />
Jeffery Owen ’93 resides at 10205<br />
NW 85th St., Kansas City, MO 64153.<br />
His email is jeffery653@yahoo.com.<br />
Keith Preising ’93 is assigned<br />
to the National Counterterrorism<br />
Center. He is involved with many<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Intelligence Community<br />
reform initiatives and Weapons<br />
<strong>of</strong> Mass Destruction Commission<br />
recommendations.<br />
Andrew Schultz ’93 owns a video<br />
production company focused on<br />
medical surgery procedures and also<br />
runs a podcasting and presentation<br />
studio. He has three-year-old twin<br />
boys. He resides at 3200 6th Ave., #105,<br />
San Diego, CA 92103, and his email is<br />
andrew.schultz@mac.com.<br />
Kelly Tyler ’93 resides at<br />
7011 Falls Reach Dr., #403, Falls<br />
Church, VA 22043, and email is<br />
kellyetyler@hotmail.com.<br />
Paulette (Hackman) Wilkinson<br />
’93 and her husband, Scott 93,<br />
reside at 1600 Tide Water Dr.,<br />
Columbia, MO 65202.<br />
Dawn (Halford) Zehner ’93 is a<br />
pre-kindergarten teacher and attends<br />
Lindenwood <strong>University</strong> to obtain<br />
her master’s degree in elementary<br />
education and teaching certification.<br />
She resides at 1613 Meyer Dr.,<br />
St. Charles, MO 63303, and email is<br />
dawn_zehner2002@yahoo.com.<br />
Majid Ahmadi ’94 and his wife,<br />
Sanaz, reside at 290 Motaharee St.,<br />
Suite A, Tehran, 15886, Iran, and email<br />
is info@hajiahmadi.biz.<br />
Dana (Reithmeyer) Carnes ’94,<br />
’96 and her husband, David, in his<br />
14th year in the Air Force, reside at<br />
8829 Brookridge Dr., Anchorage, AK<br />
99504 on Elemendorf AFB. Her email is<br />
ldcarnes_2000@yahoo.com.<br />
Julia (Jonson) Cohn ’94 works<br />
part time for WGN-TV 9 in Chicago.<br />
Her husband, Jim, works for Orbitz for<br />
Business. They previously worked in<br />
Orlando. Julia was at WKMG TV as a<br />
producer, and Jim was a TV sportscaster<br />
and in public relations. They have<br />
two children, Nathan, 4, and Abby, 2.<br />
The family resides at 4817 Kings Way<br />
West, Gurnee, IL 60031, and email is<br />
juliacohn@aol.com.<br />
Michael Foster ’94 resides at 1113<br />
Anderson, Warrensburg, MO 64093,<br />
and his email is mfoster@cmsu.edu.<br />
Jill (Simmer) Grasmick ’94 and her<br />
husband, Eric, announce the birth <strong>of</strong><br />
Cheyenne Mae, Aug. 11, 2006. She joins<br />
sister, Savannah Rose, 5, and brother,<br />
Gavin Henry, 2. The family’s email is<br />
imjill@hotmail.com.<br />
Kristi (Ligon) Griggs ’94, ’96 and<br />
her husband, Frank ’96, announce<br />
the birth <strong>of</strong> son, Thyme Alexander.<br />
The family resides at 459 Keeney Dr.,<br />
St. Charles, MO 63304, and email is<br />
kgriggs72@yahoo.com.<br />
Warren Jackson ’94 and his wife,<br />
Alcinia, reside at 5192 Trailbend Dr.,<br />
Florissant, MO 63033, and email is<br />
warrenjackson@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Damon Lewis ’94 resides<br />
at 305 Baldwin, Belton,<br />
1950-1959<br />
Howard Bell ’54 was honored in<br />
September as a Distinguished Retired<br />
Educator by the <strong>Missouri</strong> Retired<br />
Teachers Association, for leading<br />
efforts that benefited the Raytown<br />
schools. His leadership as president<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Raytown Retired Teachers and<br />
School Personnel Association was also<br />
recognized. He also has retired from<br />
Kiwanis International after 50 years<br />
<strong>of</strong> public service, including 47 years’<br />
perfect attendance. He and his wife,<br />
Zelia (Zulauf) ’52, enjoy traveling<br />
and reside at 4545 Wornall Rd., #612,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64111, and email is<br />
hrdzebl@sbcglobal.net.<br />
1970-1975<br />
Patrick McLaughlin ’75 received<br />
the Dean’s Award at Northwest<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> State <strong>University</strong> for his<br />
outstanding role in research. The<br />
College <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences and the<br />
Melvin and Valorie Booth College <strong>of</strong><br />
Business and Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Services<br />
reward distinguished contribution in<br />
research, teaching and service. He is<br />
associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor and chair <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Accounting, Economics<br />
and Finance at NMSU.<br />
Dave Good ’76 is a pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> marketing at Grand Valley State<br />
<strong>University</strong> in Michigan. He was recently<br />
nominated for the second time by the<br />
university for U.S. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Year. He resides at 222 Oakshire Ct.<br />
NE, Ada, MI 49301, and his email is<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>dg@comcast.net.<br />
1990-1999<br />
Bob Ahring ’93 was honored in<br />
September with the Clarence M. Kelley<br />
Meritorious Service Award during<br />
the annual training conference <strong>of</strong> the<br />
FBI National Academy Associates,<br />
Kansas/Western <strong>Missouri</strong> chapter. He is<br />
president <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Missouri</strong> Peace Officers<br />
Association as well as the director<br />
<strong>of</strong> public safety at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>.<br />
Will McKnight III ’97 has been<br />
named to the 2005-06 editions <strong>of</strong><br />
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers<br />
and received the National Honor Roll<br />
Outstanding American Teachers’ Award.<br />
He teaches junior high social studies<br />
at Windsor Junior/Senior High School<br />
and is a member <strong>of</strong> the National<br />
Council for the Social Studies. He is<br />
working on an MSE in Curriculum and<br />
Instruction at UCM. He and his wife,<br />
Jennifer, can be reached by email at<br />
mcknight77@excite.com.<br />
Former Faculty<br />
Edith Brooks, pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the<br />
laboratory school from 1948-1972,<br />
celebrated her 100th birthday Oct. 15.<br />
She resides at Willow Care, 328 Munger<br />
Lane, Hannibal, MO 63401, and her<br />
email is willowar@tutera.com.<br />
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MO 64012, and his email is<br />
damon.lewis2239@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Ruth Schnakenberg ’94<br />
resides at 9039 NE 103rd St.,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64157.<br />
Jo Leigh Wagoner ’94 has joined<br />
the law firm <strong>of</strong> Armstrong Teasdale<br />
LLP as an associate. She is a member <strong>of</strong><br />
the litigation department and focuses<br />
her practice in the areas <strong>of</strong> explosion,<br />
fire and electrocution litigation. She<br />
is also a certified instructor for the<br />
National Fire Academy. Only six<br />
attorneys in the nation are qualified to<br />
teach the interviewing-interrogation<br />
techniques and courtroom testimony<br />
course that she teaches. She is an active<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Missouri</strong> Bar, Kansas<br />
Bar Association, U.S. District Court,<br />
Western District <strong>of</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>, the U.S.<br />
District Court for the District <strong>of</strong> Kansas.<br />
Angie (Hathaway) Baratta ’95 has a<br />
master’s degree in elementary education<br />
and national board certification. She<br />
teaches third grade in Millard, NE.<br />
Her husband, Don, is a computer<br />
programmer at Peter Kiewit. They reside<br />
at 14741 Sahler St., Omaha, NE 68116,<br />
and email is mizdayspa@aol.com.<br />
Wendy Coleman ’95 married<br />
Michael Pastrick in May. They reside at<br />
5819 W. Patterson, Chicago, IL 60634.<br />
Kimberly (Stamm) Ellis ’95 works<br />
for SAVVIS, Inc. as a design circuit<br />
engineer. She and her husband, Kevin,<br />
live in the Wentzville, MO, area and<br />
their email is kellis160@charter.net.<br />
Todd Gregory ’95 and his wife,<br />
Angela (Breshears) ’93, reside at 2413<br />
Amarillo Dr., O’Fallon, MO 63368, and<br />
email is coachtodd@charter.net.<br />
Trons Grimes ’95 resides<br />
at 1 W. Campbell Ave., #1002,<br />
Phoenix, AZ 85013, and email is<br />
bluehoop7@aol.com.<br />
Amos Johnson III ’95 is the<br />
director <strong>of</strong> educational programs for<br />
the National Center for Fathering. His<br />
work with fathers has been recognized<br />
nationally in Today’s Father magazine,<br />
the front page <strong>of</strong> the Los Angeles Times<br />
and in the June issue <strong>of</strong> Ebony. He has<br />
been a motivational speaker for 16<br />
years and has served as co-host and<br />
special guest on radio stations around<br />
the nation including HOT 103 Jamz<br />
in Kansas City. He and his wife, Carri<br />
(Cherry) ’99, can be reached by email<br />
at ajohnson@fathers.com.<br />
Brad McAllister ’95 works at St.<br />
Jude Medical Center in Scottsdale,<br />
AZ. He and his wife, Jennifer, have<br />
three-year-old twin boys, Aiden and<br />
Avery. The family resides at 1645 N.<br />
Ananea, Mesa, AZ 85207, and email is<br />
mcallisterwb@aol.com.<br />
Kevin Parr ’95 is a Lieutenant<br />
(Junior Grade) in the U.S. Navy<br />
Reserve. He is an information warfare<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficer assigned to Navy Information<br />
Operations Command in St. Louis. His<br />
civilian employment is loss control<br />
specialist at MARCIT in Kansas City<br />
and risk management consultant.<br />
He resides at 703 NW Baytree Circle,<br />
Grain Valley, MO 64029, and email is<br />
parr64029@yahoo.com.<br />
Stephanie (Thompson) Smith<br />
’95 and her husband, Todd, reside<br />
at 16819 Highland Ridge Dr., Loch<br />
Lloyd, MO 64012, and email is<br />
steph@intellimanage.com.<br />
Lori (DeBoer) Sturman ’95 and<br />
her husband, Eric, reside at 16264<br />
Fullerton Meadows, Wildwood, MO<br />
63011, and email is loreli100@aol.com.<br />
Stephanie (Miller) Terrono ’95 and<br />
her husband, Kevin, announce the birth<br />
<strong>of</strong> Mallory Christine Jan. 13, 2006.<br />
Stephanie is a people consultant for<br />
Ernst & Young, and Kevin is a technical<br />
architect for Cerner Corporation in<br />
Kansas City. They can be reached by<br />
email at millest6@yahoo.com.<br />
Donald Burchard ’96, ’98 and his<br />
wife, Dana Hoover ’96, ’98, reside at<br />
117 W. Gay, Warrensburg, MO 64093,<br />
and email is burchard_1@charter.net.<br />
Aimee (Inzerillo) Crosby ’96<br />
can be reached by email address at<br />
aimeec@wideopenwest.com.<br />
Todd Gann ’96 and his wife,<br />
Melissa (Porter) ’94, reside at Rt. 3 Box<br />
66A9, Marshall, MO 65340.<br />
Bradford Hepler ’96 received a<br />
Ph.D. in Sociology in August from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Maryland. He is an<br />
adjunct instructor at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Maryland, College Park, MD.<br />
Amy Napier ’96 resides at 7811<br />
England Dr., Overland Park, KS<br />
66204, and her email address is<br />
amy.napier@doc.mo.gov.<br />
Drenda (Walker) Neptune ’96<br />
and her husband, Joe, welcomed<br />
Kolt David, Aug. 23, 2006. He has a<br />
brother, Chase Christopher, 3. The<br />
family resides at 19656 CR 100, Dawn,<br />
MO 64638, and email address is<br />
dneptune@mail.brookfield.k12.mo.us.<br />
Kevin Sanders ’96 is the repair and<br />
maintenance manager for Premium<br />
Standard Farms in Princeton, MO. He,<br />
his wife, Chrystal, and son, Zachery<br />
Cole, 2, reside at 1105 Lake Manor<br />
Dr., Trenton, MO 64683, and email is<br />
kevin.sanders@psfarms.com.<br />
Jason Schell ’96 and his wife,<br />
Bobbie, announce the birth <strong>of</strong> Kate<br />
July 21, 2006. She joins sister, Emma,<br />
1. The family resides at 2400 E. 25th<br />
St., Vancouver, WA 98661, and email is<br />
nwroyalsfan@msn.com.<br />
Jan (Jacobs) Shaw ’96 and her<br />
husband, Kenneth, reside at 8402 W.<br />
85th St., Overland Park, KS 66212.<br />
Grant Shelnutt ’96 is a<br />
telecommunications engineer for<br />
Sprint/Nextel in Overland Park,<br />
KS. He resides at 4612 Bell Street,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64112, and email is<br />
gshelnutt@yahoo.com.<br />
Jen (Pickert) Shoars ’96 and her<br />
husband, Jason ’97, announce the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> Jillian Addison Sept. 6. She<br />
joins brothers, Jackson and Garrett.<br />
The family resides at 322 1st St. SW,<br />
Waverly, IA 50677, and their email is<br />
fightinfires@juno.com.<br />
Scott Alvested ’97 and his wife,<br />
Tresina (Begemann) ’96, announce<br />
the birth <strong>of</strong> Trinity Jannae Dec. 8, 2005.<br />
Scott is the marketing coordinator for<br />
Comcast Cable in Independence and<br />
Tresina is the early childhood special<br />
education teacher in the Odessa R-7<br />
School District. The family resides at<br />
5380 Hwy. M, Odessa, MO 64076, and<br />
email is salvested2@yahoo.com.<br />
Roger Carroll ’97 and his wife,<br />
Anna, reside at 3220 Holly Ridge,<br />
Baldwinsville, NY 13027, and email is<br />
roger.carroll@us.army.mil.<br />
Staci Gower ’97 resides at 1319A<br />
NE 39th St., Kansas City, MO 64116.<br />
Her email is cmspitch@hotmail.com.<br />
Becca Lentz ’97 resides at 710 Ft.<br />
Henry, Belleville, IL 62221, and her<br />
email is r_lentz@hotmail.com.<br />
Nicol (Noteman) Mancini ’97<br />
has two children, Joshua, 2, and<br />
Joseph, 1. She can be reached by email<br />
at copwife5@hotmail.com.<br />
Scott Nance ’97 and his wife,<br />
Jill, reside at 5246 NE 5th St., Des<br />
Moines, IA 50313, and email is<br />
drscotty@mchsi.com.<br />
Eric Walkenbach ’97 resides at 1001<br />
Northeast Dr., Apt. 2, Jefferson City,<br />
MO 65109, and his email address is<br />
eanw74@yahoo.com.<br />
Julie (Gerdes) Westermeyer<br />
’97 and husband, Todd, announce<br />
the birth <strong>of</strong> Ryan Aug. 7, 2006.<br />
He joins sister, Ellie, 3. The family<br />
resides at 3546 Boeuf Lutheran<br />
Rd., New Haven, MO 63068.<br />
Harold Boomer ’98 is working<br />
for IBM. He resides at 8209 Harris Ct.,<br />
Raytown, MO 64138, and his email is<br />
haboomer@yahoo.com.<br />
Laura Frasher ’98 and her partner,<br />
James Tarr, have a son, Luke, 2. Laura<br />
is an instructor at Metro Business<br />
College in Jefferson City, MO. The<br />
family resides at 2215 Hillsdale Dr.,<br />
Jefferson City, MO 65109, and email is<br />
frash56@yahoo.com.<br />
Doug Hafer ’98 and his<br />
wife, Sarah, can be reached at<br />
doughafer@yahoo.com.<br />
Rebecca (Hamilton) Jones ’98<br />
owns a home-based scrapbooking<br />
and stamping business with Close<br />
To My Heart. Her husband, Paul,<br />
is a B-1 Bomber pilot in the U.S.<br />
Air Force. They have three children,<br />
Annemarie, 3, and twins, Marshall<br />
and Emily, born in March. The<br />
family resides at 5118 Crystal Creek,<br />
Abilene, TX 79606, and their email is<br />
paul_rebecca_jones@yahoo.com.<br />
Tamara Jones ’98 can be reached by<br />
email at tamara6110@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Dawn (Hodges) Miller ’98, ’00 and<br />
her husband, Scott ’96, reside at 1710<br />
Pfitzer Rd., Normal, IL 61761, and their<br />
email is smillerd@msn.com.<br />
Jessica (Ramirez) VanMeter ’98<br />
and her husband, Tom, welcome<br />
Nicholas Michael Ramirez, March 26,<br />
2006. He joins brother, Christian. The<br />
family resides at 202 NE Lamplighter<br />
Lane, Blue Springs, MO 64014, and<br />
email is tjvanmeter@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Cathy (Thessing) Volner ’98<br />
and her husband, Scott, have two<br />
children, Addyson, 3, and Caroline, 4<br />
months. They reside at 619 Brighton<br />
Ct., Rolla, MO 65401, and email is<br />
cmthessing@yahoo.com.<br />
Dawn (Richter) Wilking ’98 and<br />
her husband, Karl, announce the birth<br />
<strong>of</strong> Kyle Michael Lorenz, July 17, 2006.<br />
He was welcomed home by sister,<br />
Kimberlin. Dawn is finishing her MAT<br />
degree and will student teach this<br />
spring. The family resides at 30 Barkley<br />
Dr., Waynesville, MO 65583, and email<br />
is dawnr13@yahoo.com.<br />
Stephanie Adams ’99 married Jeff<br />
Greiner in June. She teaches eighth<br />
grade language arts in Dekalb County,<br />
GA. They reside at 261 Meadows Dr.,<br />
Loganville, GA 30052.<br />
Bryan Campbell ’99 is an<br />
exploration geologist at remote<br />
sites throughout Alaska. He can<br />
be reached at P.O. Box 110162,<br />
Anchorage, AK 99511. His email is<br />
zyzzx2003@yahoo.com.<br />
Jared Duley ’99 resides at 5330<br />
Walnut Vista, San Antonio, TX 78247,<br />
and email is dules822@yahoo.com.<br />
Wayne Kasper ’99, ’01 is sports<br />
editor <strong>of</strong> the Westside Star newspaper<br />
in Laurie, MO. He can be reached at<br />
P.O. Box 741, Tipton, MO 65081 or<br />
sports@charterinternet.com.<br />
Jamie (Hicklin) Ledgerwood ’99<br />
and her husband, David ’99, reside<br />
at 5751 NE Timber Hills Dr., Lee’s<br />
Summit, MO 64064.<br />
Darrell Lunsford ’99 works as a<br />
senior project engineer for Clayco’s<br />
St. Louis <strong>of</strong>fice.<br />
Durand McNutt ’99 is a lead<br />
supervisor for Daimler Chrysler Corp.<br />
in Fenton, MO. He completed a<br />
Master’s <strong>of</strong> Business Administration<br />
degree at Webster <strong>University</strong> and is<br />
working on a master’s degree in finance.<br />
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He resides at 4576 Behlmann Farms,<br />
Florissant, MO 63034, and his email is<br />
dm587@dcx.com.<br />
2000-2006<br />
Carrie (Schleif) Alcorn ’00 owns<br />
and operates two child care facilities,<br />
works as a consultant to the state <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> for disability benefits and is<br />
a speech language pathologist in the<br />
Ozark School District. She and her<br />
husband, Bryan, have two girls, Rian,<br />
23 months, and Kori, 9 months. Bryan<br />
is a real estate appraiser in southern<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>. The family resides at 2903 N.<br />
30th St., Ozark, MO 65721, and email<br />
is carrieslittlerascals@yahoo.com.<br />
Yasheen Blevins ’00 resides at 9624<br />
Lilly Jean Dr., Woodson Terrace, MO<br />
63134 and can be reached by email<br />
address at yblevins@stlouisco.com.<br />
Jay Brewer ’00 resides at 33 N.<br />
Water St., Apt. A, Cape Girardeau,<br />
MO 63701, and his email is<br />
brewermo@yahoo.com.<br />
Carolyn Clark ’00 married Jim<br />
Brown Aug. 5, 2006, in St. Charles,<br />
MO. They live in Kirkwood, MO, and<br />
can be reached by email address at<br />
cmckmc@yahoo.com.<br />
Isaac Cole ’00 and his wife, Hilary<br />
(Graff) ’03, ’04, announce the birth <strong>of</strong><br />
Meredith Lillian June 25, 2006.<br />
Mary Ellen (Fox) Davis ’00, ’03<br />
and her husband, Dwane, reside at<br />
2317 NW Kensington Ct., Blue Springs,<br />
MO 64015.<br />
Emily (Roe) Driscoll ’00 and her<br />
husband, David, reside at 3404 Snow<br />
Leopard Dr., Columbia, MO 65202.<br />
Jennifer (Brewer) Hardin ’00 and<br />
her husband, Nate, can be reached by<br />
email at jhardin0515@yahoo.com.<br />
Wes Harris ’00 and his wife, Kelly,<br />
announce the birth <strong>of</strong> Alayna Joy on<br />
Aug. 8. She joins Amy Elizabeth, 3. Wes<br />
is a Kansas City, MO, police <strong>of</strong>ficer. The<br />
family resides at 1509 NW Reiger Rd.,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64118, and email is<br />
wgh15330@yahoo.com.<br />
Eldred Kingery ’00 is president<br />
and CEO <strong>of</strong> Calvin Community, a<br />
Presbyterian retirement community<br />
in Des Moines, IA. His wife,<br />
Charla (Oshel) ’00, is owner and<br />
manager <strong>of</strong> Cornerstone Interiors.<br />
They reside at 28495 R. Avenue,<br />
Adel, IA 50003, and email is<br />
ekingery@calvincommunity.org.<br />
Ronda Sims ’00 can be reached by<br />
email at rsimstudio@yahoo.com.<br />
Bobby Stone ’00 and his wife,<br />
Nicole (Jennings) ’99, announce the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> Clara Marie, March 4, 2006.<br />
Bobby is a farmer, and Nicole works<br />
at <strong>Missouri</strong> Veterans Home in Mexico,<br />
MO. The family resides at 38738 Aud<br />
Rd 642, Laddonia, MO 63352, and<br />
email is farmer_stone@msn.com.<br />
Bob Bennett ’01 resides at 142 E.<br />
Dade 92, Greenfield, MO 65661 and<br />
email is got2bassfish@yahoo.com.<br />
Brooke Dixon ’01 resides at<br />
709 B Cedar Dr., Warrensburg,<br />
MO 64093, and email address is<br />
msbrookedixon@yahoo.com.<br />
Brian Dobrynski ’01, ’02 and<br />
Jessica Henss married Sept. 23, 2006.<br />
They reside at 92 Shadow Crossing,<br />
Collinsville, IL 62234. Email address is<br />
brian.dobrynski@rubinbrown.com.<br />
Bobby Guffey, Jr. ’01 and his wife,<br />
Trisha (Carver) ’01, announce the birth<br />
<strong>of</strong> Gage Swenson Michael March 1,<br />
2006. Trisha is assistant principal at<br />
Maple Park Middle School. The family<br />
resides at 9800 North Skiles Ave.,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64157, and email is<br />
btguffey@hotmail.com.<br />
Tonya (Ratliff) Lepert ’01, ’03 and<br />
her husband, Kelly ’03, announce the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> Meadow Elizabeth, Feb. 24,<br />
2006. The family resides at 1501 SE 3rd<br />
St., Lee’s Summit, MO 64063 and email<br />
is trat91@yahoo.com.<br />
Jake Lotspeich ’01 lives at<br />
711 Burlington Rd., Warrensburg,<br />
MO 64093. His email address<br />
is lotspeich013@earthlink.net.<br />
Gary Minkler ’01 and his wife,<br />
Kimberly (Petersen) ’02, announce the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> Madison Victoria Oct. 7, 2006.<br />
The family resides at 3868 W. Parkridge<br />
Circle, Springfield, MO 65802.<br />
Bill Rector ’01 resides at 104 Olde<br />
Hickory Circle, Bonaire, GA 31005 and<br />
email is billrector@bellsouth.net.<br />
Teresa (McCaslin) Reffit ’01<br />
and her husband, Steven, reside at<br />
10577 Goddard #401, Overland<br />
Park, KS 66214, and email is<br />
sweetroset2001@yahoo.com.<br />
Bob Bloomberg ’02 was promoted<br />
by the <strong>Missouri</strong> Highway Patrol in<br />
September to the rank <strong>of</strong> major and<br />
designated commander <strong>of</strong> the Technical<br />
Services Bureau. The 27-year patrol<br />
veteran and his wife, Suzan, have one<br />
daughter, Katy. They reside at 300 Troy<br />
St., Jefferson City, MO 65109.<br />
Kimberly Carr ’02, ’06 is the<br />
FACS teacher for North Harrison R-III<br />
High School in Eagleville, MO. Her<br />
husband, Paul ’04, ’06, is president <strong>of</strong><br />
New-Acts Productions in Chilhowee,<br />
MO. They reside at 12020 Ginko St.,<br />
Eagleville, MO 64442, and email is<br />
wolf_kasmoire@yahoo.com.<br />
Leslie H<strong>of</strong>fman ’02 graduated<br />
in July from Bennington College in<br />
Vermont with a master’s degree in<br />
teaching a second language. Her email<br />
is shawneesunshine@yahoo.com.<br />
Sarah Hymes ’02 and Matt<br />
Osborne ’04 were married Aug. 26,<br />
2006, and reside in Lee’s Summit,<br />
MO. Sarah is an actuary with Assurant<br />
Employee Benefits, and Matt is a project<br />
estimator for PCI Dahmer. Email<br />
addresses are sarah.hymes@gmail.com<br />
and matt.osborne@pcg.com.<br />
Jenn Kay ’02 is the in-house graphic<br />
designer for InkCycle & LaserCycle, Inc.<br />
Her email is jennkay@gmail.com.<br />
Sarah Manzeske ’02 is director<br />
<strong>of</strong> student activities at Roosevelt<br />
<strong>University</strong> in Chicago. She resides<br />
at 3345 N. Marshfield, #209,<br />
Chicago, IL 60657. Her email is<br />
mmtml@yahoo.com.<br />
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Shaunita Sharpe ’02 resides at<br />
14302 Riverfront Dr., Florissant,<br />
MO 63034. Her email address is<br />
sjsk99@mizzou.edu.<br />
Sarah Brockes ’03 resides at<br />
233 Brockes Lane, St. Thomas, MO<br />
65076 and her email address is<br />
sm4smiles@hotmail.com.<br />
Janel (Scanlan) Brown ’03 and her<br />
husband, Scott, reside at 2030 Skyline<br />
Dr., Pacific, MO 63069.<br />
Gina (Bohnert) Custer ’03 and her<br />
husband, Nathan, reside at 668 Marco<br />
Lane, Ogden, UT 84404 and email is<br />
ginab7@gmail.com.<br />
Luke Hutsell ’03 and his wife, Kerri,<br />
reside at 676 Royal Crest Way, O’Fallon,<br />
IL 62269.<br />
Chris Morris ’03, ’04 and his wife,<br />
Wendy (Nagel) ’03, announce the birth<br />
<strong>of</strong> a daughter, Lucy Aug. 21, 2006. They<br />
reside at 3017 SE 2nd St., Blue Springs,<br />
MO 64014.<br />
Nixon Opondo ’03, ’06 resides<br />
at 35580 Margaret St., #112,<br />
Romulus, MI 48174. Her email<br />
is nxo97520@cmsu2.cmsu.edu.<br />
Beth (Blackburn) Owens ’03 and<br />
husband, Sean ’03, can be reached by<br />
email at b_blackburn19@yahoo.com.<br />
Jacob Parr ’03 resides at 10015 W.<br />
53rd St., Merriam, KS 66203. Email is<br />
jakeparr800@yahoo.com.<br />
Abid Rahman ’03, ’05 can be<br />
reached at abidur@hotmail.com.<br />
Kevin Vollmer ’03 and his wife,<br />
Jennifer (Fink) ’03, reside at 506<br />
Brown St., Union, MO 63084.<br />
Dana Fecho Al-Hilali ’04 and her<br />
husband, Mohamed, announce the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> their first baby, Afnan, Jan. 1,<br />
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2006. They can be reached by email at<br />
hidana@yahoo.com.<br />
Bri Devereaux ’04 resides<br />
at 750 E. Northern Ave., #113,<br />
Phoenix, AZ 85020, and his email is<br />
bri.devereaux@phoenix.edu.<br />
Emily Haines ’04 and her husband,<br />
Jamie ’98, announce the birth <strong>of</strong><br />
Jamison Lee April 19, 2006. The family<br />
resides at 1605 NE Oak Tree Dr., Lee’s<br />
Summit, MO 64086, and their email is<br />
hainesemily@hotmail.com.<br />
Maggie (Bezy) Hansford ’04 and<br />
her husband, Richard, announce the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> Sebastian Thomas June 1,<br />
2006. The family resides at 7202 Adams<br />
St., #10, Forest Park, IL 60130.<br />
Teresa (Maples) Hoey ’04 and her<br />
husband, Jeff, can be reached by email<br />
at thoey@murlin.com.<br />
Na Liu ’04 resides at 308 Chun<br />
Zhong Rd., Xin Zhuang, Shanghai,<br />
201108, China, and email address is<br />
na_liu2008@yahoo.com.<br />
Jessica (Hayes) Lynch ’04 and her<br />
husband, Brian ’04, reside at 16412<br />
Crackerneck Rd., Independence, MO<br />
64055.<br />
Jamie Hovis ’04 resides at<br />
4640 Duncastle Rd., Apt. 1F,<br />
Fayetteville, NC 28314, and email is<br />
jamiehovis@hotmail.com.<br />
Phil Reeder ’04 is doing the<br />
afternoon drive on WFGE-FM in<br />
Murray, KY. He resides at 801 Murray<br />
Place, Murray, KY 42071, and his email<br />
is phil@philtheair.com.<br />
Melea Standfast ’04 resides at 128<br />
Deity Dr., Fenton, MO 63026.<br />
Eric Swartz ’04 and his wife,<br />
Sarah (Howerton) ’05, reside<br />
at 16200 E. 48th Terr., Apt. 414,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64136, and email is<br />
cmsumules@msn.com.<br />
Noah Tallant ’04 owns BigKane<br />
Enterprises. He and his wife,<br />
Suzette, reside at 208 N. Main St.,<br />
Chilhowee, MO 64733, and email<br />
is mr_prez@hotmail.com.<br />
Jennifer (Brittin) Taylor ’04 and<br />
her husband, Russell, reside at 28008<br />
E. 239th St., Harrisonville, MO 64701,<br />
and email is jenn81sweet@yahoo.com.<br />
Nate Tracy ’04 and his wife,<br />
Camille, reside at 483W 200N,<br />
Blackfoot, ID 83221, and email is<br />
nctracyfamily@hotmail.com.<br />
Amy (Hanavan) Broeker ’05 and<br />
husband, Nicholas ’03, live at 709 Iron<br />
Horse Dr., Warrensburg, MO 64093.<br />
Shannon Cary ’05 resides<br />
at 1270 <strong>Missouri</strong> Ct., Apt. 720,<br />
Liberty, MO 64068, and email is<br />
beautifulblueyz@hotmail.com.<br />
Teri Hackman ’05 resides at 1107<br />
Olive St., Higginsville, MO 64037.<br />
Matthew Lotspeich ’05 resides<br />
at 711 Burlington, Warrensburg,<br />
MO 64093, and his email is<br />
lotspeich01@earthlink.net.<br />
Steven Martin ’05 is a full-time<br />
criminal justice instructor at Des<br />
Moines Area Community College in<br />
Ankeny, IA. He worked the previous<br />
22 years at the Mt. Pleasant, IA, Police<br />
Department. He resides at 1634 NW<br />
College Ave., Ankeny, IA 50023, and<br />
email is slmartin10@dmacc.edu.<br />
Kelly (Graber) McCully ’05<br />
resides at 11222 N. Nashua Dr.,<br />
Kansas City, MO 64155 Her email is<br />
angelgirl_7_2000@hotmail.com.<br />
Shelly Mendoza ’05 resides at 601<br />
W. Clark, G3, Warrensburg, MO 64093.<br />
Email is tortillamiracle@gmail.com.<br />
Alyssa Morrow ’05 is a first grade<br />
teacher in the Raymore-Peculiar School<br />
District. She resides at 6912 Chapel<br />
Terr., Belton, MO 64012, and her email<br />
is alyssaanne@linuxmail.org.<br />
Jody (Gutzman) Williams ’05 and<br />
her husband, Robby, reside at 803 W.<br />
Hwy. 32, Bolivar, MO 65613, and her<br />
email is jodycmsu@yahoo.com.<br />
Amanda (Reafleng) Drake ’06<br />
resides at 1821 Ridgehaven Ct., #5,<br />
Lincoln, NE 68505.<br />
Julie (Porrett) Elkins ’06 and her<br />
husband, Benjamin, reside at 402<br />
Sunset Blvd., Knob Noster, MO 65336<br />
and email is julie_ap@hotmail.com.<br />
Casey (Gehm) Hansen ’06 is in<br />
media sales for Meyer Communications.<br />
She resides at 1517 E. Whiteside,<br />
Springfield, MO 65804. Email is<br />
casey_hansen77@hotmail.com.<br />
Jessica Lamano ’06 can be reached<br />
by email at jalamano@yahoo.com.<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
in memoriam<br />
Brian Richard Delaney<br />
Brian Richard Delaney, 48, Kansas<br />
City, died Aug. 15, 2006, at his home.<br />
The 1976 Warrensburg High School<br />
graduate received a bachelor’s degree in<br />
commercial art from UCM in 1979.<br />
Delaney co-owned his own<br />
business, The Fox, which he had sold<br />
recently preparing to move back to<br />
Warrensburg. Survivors include a<br />
mother, three sisters, a brother, a niece<br />
and nephew, and numerous friends.<br />
Janet McReynolds<br />
Janet McReynolds, 67, Belleville,<br />
IL, a UCM graduate who served as<br />
president <strong>of</strong> Racial Harmony, died<br />
Sept. 25, 2006, from cancer.<br />
McReynolds earned a master’s<br />
degree and specialist’s certificate in<br />
sociology in 1968 from UCM. She had<br />
served on the board <strong>of</strong> Racial Harmony,<br />
a group that promotes understanding<br />
and tolerance, since 1991.<br />
Survivors include a housemate and<br />
friend, her parents and two sisters.<br />
Trinita Meehan<br />
Trinita Meehan, 85, <strong>of</strong> Monett, MO,<br />
UCM pr<strong>of</strong>essor emeritus <strong>of</strong> reading,<br />
died July 2, 2006.<br />
She joined <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>’s<br />
faculty in 1974<br />
as an associate<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
reading and head<br />
<strong>of</strong> the special<br />
education,<br />
guidance and<br />
counseling<br />
department. She Trinita Meehan<br />
retired in 1985 as a<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> reading in the curriculum<br />
and instruction department.<br />
Meehan earned bachelor’s and<br />
master’s degrees from Clarke College<br />
in Iowa and a doctorate in general<br />
education from Indiana <strong>University</strong>. She<br />
taught 15 years at the Primary Teacher<br />
Parochial School in Kansas City, MO.<br />
Survivors include several nieces<br />
and nephews, and a special friend,<br />
Bette Cooke.<br />
Rachelle J. Robinson<br />
Rachelle J. Robinson, 34, internship<br />
coordinator for the Harmon College <strong>of</strong><br />
Business Administration, died Oct. 27,<br />
2006, after a lengthy illness.<br />
The daughter <strong>of</strong> William Ross and<br />
Sue Coen Ross, she grew up in Lamar,<br />
MO, and was a 1990 Lamar High<br />
School graduate. She was married in<br />
1992 to Jeffery Robinson, who works at<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> as legal <strong>of</strong>ficer for the<br />
UCM Foundation. He survives along<br />
with their two daughters.<br />
Other survivors include her parents,<br />
a sister and brother, grandmothers and<br />
numerous nieces and nephews.<br />
Jack Stuligross<br />
Jack Stuligross, who taught at<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> before joining the<br />
faculty at Hartwick College in Oneonta,<br />
NY, died Oct. 2, 2006.<br />
He earned a bachelor’s degree<br />
in economics and a master’s degree<br />
in business administration from the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Detroit. He worked as<br />
an accountant for General Motors and<br />
industrial economist for the Federal<br />
Reserve Bank in Dallas before pursuing<br />
a teaching career.<br />
After earning his doctoral degree in<br />
1971 from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Oklahoma,<br />
he came to <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong>. He also<br />
taught at Carroll College in Waukesha,<br />
WI, before Hartwick. He served as<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> economics there until his<br />
retirement in 1998.<br />
A strong advocate <strong>of</strong> international<br />
understanding, he also taught<br />
economics to community and political<br />
leaders in China, Russia, South Africa,<br />
Ukraine and Kazakhstan. During his<br />
lifetime, he visited 46 countries on<br />
four continents.<br />
He is survived by his wife, Katherine<br />
Melcher, five sons, 10 grandchildren<br />
and a brother and sister.<br />
Edgar E. Summerlin<br />
Edgar “Ed” Summerlin, 78,<br />
Staatsburg, N.Y., a 1951 <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Missouri</strong> graduate, died Oct. 10, 2006,<br />
in New York. So prominent was the<br />
liturgical jazz music pioneer that<br />
his obituary appeared in The New<br />
York Times.<br />
A composer and tenor saxophonist,<br />
Summerlin founded the jazz program<br />
at the City College <strong>of</strong> New York,<br />
directing it in the 1970s and 1980s. He<br />
was active in the avant-garde scene <strong>of</strong><br />
the 1960s and performed with such<br />
leading jazz figures as Eric Dolphy and<br />
Ron Carter.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> his earliest works was<br />
Requiem for Mary Jo, which he wrote<br />
in 1959 after the death <strong>of</strong> his ninemonth-old<br />
daughter. He composed<br />
jazz services for a range <strong>of</strong> faiths<br />
and settings.<br />
Survivors include a wife, two sons,<br />
two grandchildren, two brothers, a<br />
sister and a former wife.<br />
1920-1929<br />
Ada Stephens Duke ’27<br />
St Louis, MO<br />
1930-1939<br />
William H. Bliss ’32<br />
Fresno, CA<br />
Grace A. Strobel-Eslick ’33<br />
Lohman, MO<br />
Treva A. Baier ’37<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
Elizabeth L. Boosinger ’38<br />
Knob Noster, MO<br />
1940-1949<br />
George F. Bailey ’41<br />
Curryville, MO<br />
Frances E. Weigand ’41<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
Ewald W. Turner ’44<br />
Pendleton, OR<br />
Florence E. Becker ’47<br />
Independence, MO<br />
Joseph H. Nesbit ’47<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
1950-1959<br />
Earle H. Funk ’50<br />
East Peoria, IL<br />
Raymond L. Lesh ’50<br />
Independence, MO<br />
Vaughn S. Henderson ’55<br />
Iowa City, IA<br />
Alice W. Creach ’57<br />
Camdenton, MO<br />
Lowell E. Garner ’57<br />
Champaign, IL<br />
Robert P. Pritchett ’57<br />
Kansas City, KS<br />
Nancy L. White ’57<br />
Jefferson City, MO<br />
1960-1969<br />
Robin L. Hicklin ’62<br />
Charleston, MO<br />
Ronald G. Stegall ’62<br />
Haworth, NJ<br />
Leona M. Kohler ’63<br />
Kingsville, MO<br />
Dennis J. Eldringh<strong>of</strong>f ’64<br />
Mount Freedom, NJ<br />
Doris F. Hyde ’66<br />
Versailles, MO<br />
Ruth L. Patterson ’67<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
Carol Beth Martin ’68<br />
Eldon, MO<br />
Verna B. Wagoner ’68<br />
Oak Grove, MO<br />
Diane L. Black ’69<br />
Lake Lotawana, MO<br />
George V. Fisher ’69<br />
Beverly, MA<br />
1970-1979<br />
Mildred L. Bigler ’71<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
James D. Buttram ’71<br />
Independence, MO<br />
Marilyn L. Frizzell ’72<br />
Chillicothe, MO<br />
Larry S. Abraham ’73<br />
Nevada, MO<br />
Don L. Bowman ’74<br />
Camdenton, MO<br />
Sarah M. Hollowell ’74<br />
Sacramento, CA<br />
Ruth A. Koroch ’75<br />
Lee’s Summit, MO<br />
James G. Browning ’76<br />
Shawnee, KS<br />
Michael A. Duckworth ’76<br />
Springfield, MO<br />
William M. Skillman ’77<br />
Liberty, MO<br />
David L. Spires ’77<br />
Peoria, AZ<br />
1990-1999<br />
Michael L. Hartwick ’91<br />
Belton, TX<br />
Former Students<br />
Bobby J. Barnhart<br />
Lafayette, CO<br />
John Steven Barrett<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
Charles Byrd<br />
(unknown)<br />
Fredrick DeWitt<br />
(unknown)<br />
Amanda Eaton<br />
(unknown)<br />
Kathryn Fairchild<br />
La Habra, CA<br />
Henry Louis Heerman<br />
Springfield, MO<br />
John Michael Kelly<br />
Holden, MO<br />
Letha M. Marker<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
College High Alumni<br />
Audrey Dyer ’43<br />
Mesa, AZ<br />
Friends<br />
Erin L. Allen<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Thomas E. Arnold<br />
Holden, MO<br />
Hilda M. Baron<br />
Jefferson City, MO<br />
Meave Carl<br />
Sedalia, MO<br />
Pablo Castillo<br />
Cole Camp, MO<br />
Bette L. Cooke<br />
Monett, MO<br />
Harold Eastman<br />
Mexico, MO<br />
Susan M. Estill<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
Virginia L. Etheridge<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
Eunice Fuehring<br />
Concordia, MO<br />
Anita L. Gibbs<br />
(unknown)<br />
Udell Hayes<br />
Marceline, MO<br />
Richard L. Hays<br />
Blue Springs, MO<br />
Frances W. Jaeger<br />
Boonville, MO<br />
James Judah<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
Wilma King<br />
Preston, MO<br />
Wanda Kinkade<br />
Marshall, MO<br />
Harold Momberg<br />
Fayette, MO<br />
Jacqueline E. Morehead<br />
Warrensburg, MO<br />
Mary E. Newman<br />
Lake Winnebago, MO<br />
Dorothy Yaeck Pace<br />
Columbia, MO<br />
Nellie R. Pace<br />
Glasgow, MO<br />
Dorothy Louise Pickering<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
Sumi Powell<br />
Springfield, MO<br />
Irene Ranabargar<br />
Blackwater, MO<br />
Michael J. Reed<br />
Boonville, MO<br />
Cecil R. Riley<br />
Centertown, MO<br />
Sibyl A. Robertson<br />
Warsaw, MO<br />
Richard K. Smith<br />
Boonville, MO<br />
Allen B. Soper<br />
Slater, MO<br />
Ellen E. Turner<br />
Huntsville, MO<br />
Meghan J. Wilson<br />
Kansas City, MO<br />
winter 2006<br />
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UCM TODAY<br />
Curry’s UbiDuo ®<br />
Opens Communications for Deaf<br />
“This is it,” exclaimed Jason<br />
Curry. “This is going to change the<br />
world.”<br />
Curry, one <strong>of</strong> the first deaf<br />
students to graduate from UCM in<br />
1993, was standing in the kitchen<br />
looking at an image his father,<br />
David, had sketched in black<br />
marker on a white board. They had<br />
finally conceived a solution to years<br />
<strong>of</strong> frustration.<br />
It was April 2001, when the two<br />
were eating at a<br />
restaurant in<br />
Independence, MO, that they<br />
decided there had to be a better<br />
way to communicate face-to-face<br />
than sign language. Four years<br />
and $30,000 later, they obtained a<br />
patent on their idea, aided by the<br />
Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies<br />
and Development at UCM.<br />
In between, David and Jason<br />
founded sComm, Inc., and received<br />
two grants from the National<br />
Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health for feasibility<br />
testing and prototype production.<br />
Today, Jason is president<br />
<strong>of</strong> sComm, and the Currys are<br />
marketing the revolutionary<br />
communication device. The<br />
business has been honored as<br />
<strong>Missouri</strong>’s 2006 Technology<br />
Company <strong>of</strong> the Year.<br />
The device is called UbiDuo.<br />
Ubi stands for ubiquitous, meaning<br />
everywhere, and Duo refers to<br />
two people talking face-to-face. At<br />
about six pounds, the UbiDuo is<br />
a two-screen, two-keyboard device<br />
that allows for face-to-face, realtime<br />
communication between a<br />
deaf or hard-<strong>of</strong>-hearing person and<br />
persons who are hearing, without<br />
the help <strong>of</strong> an interpreter or sign<br />
language.<br />
“Being deaf myself, the Ubi has<br />
had a major impact on my life,”<br />
said Jason. He believes that once<br />
UbiDuo enters the lives <strong>of</strong> people<br />
who are deaf or hard <strong>of</strong> hearing,<br />
the landscape <strong>of</strong> communication<br />
will shift.<br />
At UCM, Jason earned a degree<br />
in business administration and was<br />
the first deaf student to be in Sigma<br />
Nu fraternity.<br />
“Those were the best five years<br />
<strong>of</strong> my life, and I will never forget<br />
it. There is nothing that beats the<br />
experience at UCM,” he said. “The<br />
university allowed me to be a real<br />
person and be myself with everyone<br />
on campus. <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong><br />
changed my life. It gave me an<br />
opportunity to grow and become<br />
mature on my own and be my own<br />
man. I was given a chance to just be<br />
a student who went to class without<br />
any barriers.”<br />
The nine years after graduating<br />
were a rocky road for Jason.<br />
“I didn’t experience any barriers<br />
to social communication until I left<br />
for the real world,” he explained.<br />
“After college, no one could sign.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the biggest challenges<br />
I had was simply getting hired<br />
“There is nothing that beats the<br />
experience at UCM.” — Jason Curry,<br />
1993 alumnus and UbiDuo inventor<br />
and having to prove to hearing<br />
people that I could do the job as<br />
well as anyone else.” He broke<br />
new ground, <strong>of</strong>ten as the first deaf<br />
person hired.<br />
There are 24 million deaf or<br />
hard <strong>of</strong> hearing Americans, and it<br />
is Jason’s dream to see all <strong>of</strong> them<br />
become free to communicate.<br />
He plans to sell 20,000 UbiDuo<br />
devices each year for the next three<br />
years, expand sComm’s <strong>of</strong>fices to<br />
downtown Raytown and hire 30<br />
more employees, many <strong>of</strong> whom<br />
will also be deaf.<br />
“I knew inside my heart that<br />
people like myself who are deaf<br />
desperately needed the UbiDuo,<br />
and I knew that at some point it<br />
would become a part <strong>of</strong> our lives. I<br />
didn’t expect it to spread so quickly<br />
by word <strong>of</strong> mouth, and I think the<br />
reason it did is that people have<br />
a need for it in their lives and it<br />
will forever change the way they<br />
communicate.”<br />
For Jason, the struggles in<br />
communicating after he left UCM<br />
are now a distant memory.<br />
— Daniel Barber ’07<br />
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