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Seal cams reveal
underwater secrets
Why do some Antarctica fur
seals have video cameras
attached to the tops of their
heads? Researcher Kiersten
Madden ’02 can explain
everything.
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The Senior Inquiry
advantage
Shared inquiry among
faculty and students is
nothing new at Augustana.
Find out what makes the
college’s new Senior Inquiry
program different.
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COVER STORY
‘Do what you love’
Dr. David Walton ’98 is com­
mitted to bringing health
care to the impoverished in
Haiti. This commenced
during his Augustana years
and became clear when he
went to Harvard Medical
School. Dividing his time
between Boston and Haiti
is difficult, but as he says,
“The medicine is the same;
it’s just the path that is
different.”
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Rivers run through it
Augustana students and
professors traveling to India
for an international term is
certainly something new. Dr.
Bohdan Dziadyk, professor
of biology, highlights three of
the 16 diverse locations the
group experienced during its
5,000­mile tour of India.
In the news
President’s Message | 2
Campus News | 3
Sports News | 10
Alumni News | 39
Calendar | 47
CoveR PHoTogRAPH
Dr. David Walton ’98
Contents
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Summer 2007 | Augustana Magazine

Message from President Steven Bahls
A community of achievement
When a community is intentional about inviting
new members to share their creativity, insight and
intellect, achievement tends to be the result.
Augustana Magazine | Summer 2007
As Garrison Keillor reminds us at the end of his weekly
monologue on A Prairie Home Companion, the town of Lake
Wobegon is a place where “all of the children are above
average.” The grin, which often greets those words, emanates
from their illogic—it’s not possible for everyone to be
above average, is it?
At Augustana College, I think a strong case can be made
that it is. This magazine offers a wealth of evidence in
support of that claim, as it shines a light on the remarkable
achievements of our students, faculty and alumni. And yet
this magazine is only one slice, one very brief glimpse, of
all that is above average about Augustana and its people.
What role might place play in encouraging the extraordinary?
A recent conversation with a colleague has
helped me to see the ways in which a community can foster
achievement. Dr. Ian Harrington is an assistant professor
of psychology who joined the Augustana faculty in 2005. In
talking with people he’d studied with in graduate school and
as a post­doctoral fellow, he gained a new appreciation for
one of Augustana’s more distinctive qualities.
Apparently, many of his former colleagues, now young
faculty members like himself at institutions around the
country, are surprised by the extent to which he has been
welcomed by, and become engaged with, his campus community.
Some of his core experiences here at Augustana
are more or less foreign to his contemporaries, and this
includes having his moving van met and unpacked by most
of the psychology department’s faculty and a few of its
students despite the 100­degree heat of the day. During
his two years on the faculty, it seems that being invited by
his colleagues in psychology to share new ideas and being
brought in to the governance structure of the college are
both experiences quite different from those of his graduate
cohort.
The community that Dr. Harrington has experienced
is the sort that encourages achievement. Through the
Auditory Perception Laboratory he’s established at
Augustana, students are not just learning about the ways
in which we experience the world through sound, they’re
adding to what is already known. He’s also working with
the department to establish a neuroscience concentration
within psychology, an achievement that might take years at
the large state universities where many of Dr. Harrington’s
classmates are employed.
When a community is intentional about inviting new
members to share their creativity, insight and intellect,
achievement tends to be the result. evidence for that
can be found, I think, in the very existence of the Auditory
Perception Lab and the neuroscience discussion.
But that’s not the only sort of achievement a place like
Augustana seeks to foster. As I was preparing this message,
a note crossed my desk from Ann grove, coordinator of the
local affiliate of World Relief, an organization that helps
refugees settle into new homes. In it, she offered “heartfelt
thanks for bringing fine students to the Quad Cities, educating
them to be global citizens, and sharing them with the
community.”
She then told the story of a five­year­old girl from
eastern Africa whose parents had started new jobs that
required weekend work. Three Augustana students have
been helping this family, including taking care of the child
when her parents’ weekend work schedules overlap.
Another student took it upon herself to transform World
Relief’s bare window, which fronts a major thoroughfare
in Moline, into a veritable billboard for the agency and
its work.
grove wrote about another student who spotted a need
to reorganize a mass of paperwork that had piled up at the
office, and took it upon herself to do just that. Still other
students helped a new refugee shop for clothing, passing
along more than a few tips on affordable fashion in the
process.
What I find intriguing is that these efforts are largely
outside the many volunteer opportunities made available to
our students on a regular basis. Rather than being part of
a formal partnership, these students and other members
of the campus community simply became aware both of a
need and of their own resources of mind, spirit and body
to address it. Because Augustana is a community made
up of such individuals, it is a community in which the extraordinary
becomes commonplace.

Philosopher wins music award
As a regional judge for the BMI Foundation’s John Lennon
Scholarship songwriting competition, Dr. Rick Jaeschke
annually reviews original compositions from throughout
the state of Illinois. When he heard Augustana senior Kyle
Ferguson’s entry last fall, he knew it had potential.
“John Lennon wrote about things that mattered to
people,” says Jaeschke, assistant professor of music
education. “A lot of pop music today is about nothing. This
was different.” Jaeschke’s role in the competition comes
with his responsibilities as state chair for the Illinois Music
educators Association Collegiate Division, a position he
assumed in 2005.
Ferguson, a philosophy major, was shocked to learn last
April that his entry, titled “Don’t Forget to Breathe,” tied for
second place in the national competition, good for a $5,000
scholarship he’ll use when he enters a Ph.D. program at
the City University of New York later this year. The contest
for songwriters between the ages of 15 and 24 attracts
scores of entries from the nation’s elite music schools; two
of this year’s winners are enrolled at Boston’s Berklee
School of Music.
Ferguson is the first award­winner from Illinois in
the 10 years since Yoko ono established the scholarship
competition in conjunction with the BMI Foundation.
With the exception of two years of classical training at
Illinois State University, Ferguson is a self­taught guitarist,
which is why he describes his playing as “unorthodox, but
instinctive.” In fact, the only music course Ferguson took at
Augustana was the “Art of Listening” during fall term of his
senior year. And instead of a pick, he uses a fingernail.
His award­winning entry was influenced by his study of
philosophy. originally titled “Notes from a Solipsist,” the
piece considers, and responds to, the belief that only those
things with which we have direct experience can be said to
exist. Ferguson changed the song’s title at the suggestion
of contest organizers, who urged him to draw from the
song’s chorus to find a title that would be more accessible
to a mass audience, presumably one not made up of
philosophy majors.
“I tried to deal with the abstract in concrete terms,” says
Ferguson. “The verses present solipsism as a condition, and
the chorus is kind of a response to that.”
From a musical standpoint, the song’s basic arrangement
for guitar, cello and voice belies the depth of its subject
matter, Jaeschke says. “That’s one of John Lennon’s
legacies,” he adds. “That you and your guitar are just fine.”
The song features physics major Tim Bowling ’07
on cello. Ferguson and Bowling were Seminary Hall
roommates when they first came to Augustana, and have
remained close friends since.
To hear Ferguson’s “Don’t Forget to Breathe,” visit BMI
Foundation’s website at www.bmi.com/news/entry/534910.
New townhouses honor Parkander ’46
Two Transitional Living Area (TLA) townhouses being
built on campus this summer will be named the Dorothy
Parkander Residence Center. Parkander is a 1946 graduate
who taught in Augustana’s english department from 1947
to 1996.
“The college named the townhouses in her honor
because of her lifelong commitment to great teaching,”
says Steve Bahls, Augustana president. “Known as a tough,
but compassionate, teacher, she brought the likes of Homer
and Milton alive to a generation of students. Those who
were privileged to be her students will never forget her
contributions to their lives.”
Campus News
Not many philosophy
majors win national music
composition awards, but
Kyle Ferguson ’07 did.
Summer 2007 | Augustana Magazine

Campus News
Augustana will be able to
house the entire junior class
in TLA residences once
two townhouses on Delstat
bluff are completed in mid-
August.
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The Parkander townhouses will be located on Delstat
bluff, one block west of the newly constructed Duane R.
Swanson Commons residence hall. The brick exterior of
the building will be similar to Swanson Commons, while
the interior layout will match existing TLA residences. The
two three­story buildings include a total of 56 beds; each
building will comprise seven “quad” townhouse­style units.
“Building residential facilities on this bluff is one of the
recommendations of the campus master plan,” says Paul
Pearson ’74, Augustana’s vice president of business and
finance. “The project was authorized at the January Board
of Trustees meeting with the expectation of a mid­August
completion date. Despite the extremely tight development
and construction window, this will be a high­quality facility
for the benefit of the juniors housed there, the neighborhood
and the entire campus community.”
Augustana’s residential life program is designed to help
students move from living at home with their families to
living independently as members of a community by the
time they graduate. Students in TLA housing receive fewer
services and are more responsible for maintaining their
quality of living.
The college has long had the goal that all of its juniors
would live in TLA residences. When the Parkander townhouses
are completed, Augustana will be able to offer TLA
housing to an entire junior class, which usually numbers
between 550 and 600 students.
Pearson says the college is borrowing funds to finance
the $2.7 million project, and will then pay off the loans using
room and board fees from the new residences. Part of the
project also is being funded by donations.
Augustana’s ‘Funniest Video’
Sure his name is well known on our campus, and he’s
no stranger to public appearances, but we bet you didn’t
know he’s also a television star. In March, College Chaplain
Richard Priggie ’74 made his television debut (as far as we
know) in an episode of “America’s Funniest videos” on ABC.
In the 2003 video, Priggie attempts to officiate a wedding
ceremony in Ascension Chapel featuring a ring bearer who
takes his job a little too seriously. groom Adam West says
he met his bride, Kim Painter ’01, during her senior year at
Augustana. His son, Collin, served as the overbearing ring
bearer, three years old at the time of the wedding. (To check
out the video, go to www.youtube.com and search for
“priggie.”)
After years of officiating weddings, Priggie says the
flower girl and ring bearer are always the biggest variables
in a wedding. “You just can’t predict what they’re going to
do,” he says.
Priggie has never watched “America’s Funniest videos,”
but he thinks keeping good humor about wedding mishaps
is a healthy thing, and he’s enjoyed all of the phone calls
and e­mails he’s received from alumni who saw him on
the show.
Mayer named Rome Prize Fellow
Augustana’s Dr. Thomas Mayer has been awarded the
Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post­Doctoral Rome Prize of
the American Academy in Rome. The American Academy
in Rome is one of the leading American overseas centers
for independent study and advanced research in the fine
arts and the humanities. Through its annual Rome Prize
fellowship program, the Academy supports up to 30
individuals in various disciplines. Rome Prize Fellows are
chosen by juries of experts who review past work and the
proposed project of each applicant.
“With this award, the American Academy of Rome recognizes
Dr. Mayer’s enormous contribution to Renaissance
Studies as well as the value of his planned study of galileo,”
says Dr. Jeff Abernathy, vice president and dean of the
college. “I’m delighted for him that he has been recognized
alongside scholars from Harvard and Berkeley and Yale:
such is his contribution to his field. And for all his achieve­

ment as a scholar, Dr. Mayer maintains his commitment to
the growth and learning of Augustana students first.”
Mayer, a professor of history, provided the following
synopsis of his planned research project:
“galileo did himself in. True, he had help, whether from
Paul v and Urban vIII, the Jesuits, the Dominicans, the
Congregation of the Index or even the Inquisition, but his
fate was still largely his own fault. My research focuses on
his two trials before the Roman Inquisition, first in 1615–16
and again in 1632–33, the second phase resulting in his
condemnation for publishing a book in which he argued that
the sun was the center of the universe.
“Unlike most previous approaches, my research does not
assume the outcome was inevitable. Nor does it assume
that philosophical, scientific or even theological issues
were necessarily determinative. Instead, it takes a legal
and political approach, starting from the odd fact that three
of the ten cardinal inquisitors in 1633 refused to sign his
sentence. That one of these was the cardinal nephew and
number­two man in the Inquisition immediately suggests
that personality was a major issue.
“Since both of galileo’s investigations also contained lots
of legal oddities, examining the Inquisition’s procedures
(which have almost been ignored until very recently) leads
to a much different picture than the still dominant view
that galileo was a victim of intolerance and superstition. In
both phases of the trial, the pope’s role turns out to be vital.
But equally, at both times, Paul and Urban had to at least
bend—if not break—the rules in order to bring galileo to
book. He gave them both plenty of provocation.”
Mayer will be in residence at the American Academy in
Rome during the 2007­08 academic year.
Bahls honors Moore’s leadership
As noted in the winter issue of Augustana magazine, the
college’s student body adopted an academic Honor Code
designed to foster responsibility and promote the academic
integrity of students’ work. Jessica Moore ’07 served as
chair of the 10­member Honor Code committee during the
2005­06 academic year.
This May, Augustana College President Steve Bahls
presented Moore with the esbjörn Award for extraordinary
Leadership. “Jessica displayed remarkable leadership as
head of the Honor Code committee,” Bahls says. “Without
her, the Honor Code’s creation and implementation wouldn’t
have been possible.”
The esbjörn Award is not an annual award; it is
presented to a senior at the discretion of the president
as circumstances merit. Moore is the first recipient.
In leading the Honor Code committee, Moore says she
learned about working with people from various places and
positions on Augustana’s campus. “I learned how to listen to
differing viewpoints and then attempt to create something
that will make everyone happy,” adds Moore, a psychology
and sociology major. “Most importantly, I learned about
communicating—getting your point across to different
audiences.”
The esbjörn Award recognizes a student whose record
of leadership has been exemplary and also persistent
during the student’s four years on campus. Moore’s other
leadership positions include: scholarship chair for greek
Council; leadership roles in her sorority, Chi Alpha Pi;
community advisor for Residential Life; and senator in
the Student government Association.
The award is named in honor of Lars Paul esbjörn,
Augustana’s founding president.
For the past five years, members of the Augustana community have walked
the hallowed halls of another institute of learning, Longfellow Elementary
School. This past academic year, Helene Romb ’80 Patton from Augustana’s
Development Office left work at noon every Thursday to volunteer at Longfellow,
located just minutes from campus. As part of the Adopt-a-School Program
sponsored by Modern Woodman of America, faculty, administrators, staff and
students have volunteered in various ways at Longfellow through the years.
Volunteer opportunities range from helping at special events such as ice cream
socials to tutoring and mentoring children one-on-one or in small groups. “It’s
exciting to see the light bulb go on when a child gets something,” says Patton,
who always helped in her own children’s classrooms when they were young.
ASHLeY BIeSS ’09 PHoTo
Jessica Moore ’07
Summer 2007 | Augustana Magazine

Campus News
Bookstore open 4/
Need an Augustana sweat-
shirt for your pooch? An
Augustana onesie for a
former classmate’s new
baby? Visit Augustana’s new
online bookstore through
the “Resources” link at
www.augustana.edu/alumni.
Clothing, gifts, software and
general-interest books are
now available for purchase
online. (Or if you’re in the
neighborhood, Runestone
Bookstore in the College
Center is now open from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every
Saturday when school is
in session.)
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Summer reading for Class of 0
This summer Augustana’s incoming first­year students
will be reading and contemplating The Sunflower: On the
Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal,
a survivor of the Nazi death camps.
The personal narrative, accompanied by nonfiction
essays, deals with several topical issues, ranging from the
contemporary debate on torture to the age­old debate on the
necessity of forgiveness, according to Aaron Schroeder ’09,
member of the Augie Reads committee. It also deals with
disparate systems of cultural and religious values.
In the first third of the book, Wiesenthal describes his
harrowing encounter with a dying Nazi SS officer. The officer
confesses a terrible crime against a Jewish family, and
then asks Wiesenthal to forgive him for his sins. In a critical
passage at the end of Book one, page 98, Wiesenthal writes:
“You, who have just read this sad and tragic episode in my
life, can mentally change places with me and ask yourself
the crucial question, ‘What would I have done?’”
In the final two­thirds of the text, essayists including
Desmond Tutu and Albert Speer, Hitler’s minister of armaments,
each attempt to answer what he or she might have
done or what any of us ought to have done under these
circumstances.
A cross­section of Augustana faculty and staff will lead
small­group discussions on The Sunflower with first­year
students during orientation weekend. During the 2007­08
academic year, some academic departments will sponsor
programming related to the themes of the book.
From parchment to pixels
Come one, come all to the edible Book Festival, where book
lovers will sculpt “books” out of food, compete for prizes and
then eat their tasty tomes.
This culinary competition is one of a series of events
planned for The Year of the Book “From Parchment to
Pixels: Celebrating Books” on the campuses of Augustana
and Davenport’s St. Ambrose University during the 2007­08
academic year.
“Books are the bedrock of civilization,” says Margi Rogal,
reference librarian and coordinator of Augustana’s Year of
the Book celebration. “For over 5,000 years, whether made
of clay, animal skin, papyrus or cotton, books as physical
objects have been the means for recording, preserving and
transmitting the knowledge amassed by humankind. In
addition to recording knowledge, books have contributed to
knowledge, shaping their surrounding cultures as much as
being shaped by them.”
To kick off the celebration this fall, John Buchtel, curator
of rare books at The Johns Hopkins University, will visit St.
Ambrose to discuss how texts’ physical forms affect and even
mold their meanings and impact. At Augustana, Buchtel’s
keynote address will explore why books matter and reflect
on the influence of a book such as the Bible as a publishing
phenomenon. In a later forum, he will discuss book collecting
and hold an “Antiques Roadshow”­type event in which he
will evaluate people’s books.
other campus events during the year will include:
• Papers written by faculty and students on such topics as
children’s book publishing, book germs and the censorship
history of Ulysses will be published in a book by east Hall
Press.
• Panels open to the community will examine the book
and its place in the three faiths of Judaism, Christianity and
Islam.
• A time capsule book created by the campus community
will be deposited and preserved in the library’s Special
Collections.
• Workshops about making books and journals will be
offered.
• Book collections owned by members of the Augustana
community will be displayed in the library.
“As the physical book of our day moves over to accommodate
the explosion of digital text, which brings into
question the future of the book, it’s an opportune time to
explore and celebrate the history, culture and art of the
book which is still very much with us,” Rogal adds.
‘What’s In Your Computer?’
Name the Augustana graduate who discovered how to
produce pure silicon in quantity so it could be used to make
computer chips and electronic elements. Need a clue? He’s
the uncle of edward Hamming Chair in geography Dr. Norm
Moline ’64.
Ah yes, Uncle Marcus.
C. Marcus olson ’32, to be exact.
Decades ago, while working at DuPont, olson discovered
the process that stumped other scientists—the purification
of silicon to the degree that it could be used in microelectronic
elements. Without olson’s creativity and persistence,
the development of the computer might have taken a
different path.
“Silicon is the basic raw material of which are built the
transistor and the integrated circuit and, indirectly, the
computer and everything else made from microelectronic
elements,” olson wrote in Invention & Technology magazine,
spring/summer 1988. “Before any of those marvels of the
age could be manufactured, there had to be elemental
silicon; specifically, there had to be hyper­pure silicon. Until
the 1940s, there was no way of obtaining hyper­pure silicon
in quantity; it was my good fortune to find the untrodden path
that led to an answer.”
Not long ago, Susan Korneich Wolf, associate curator of
the Augustana Fryxell geology Museum, was asked to
develop an exhibit for the Tredway Library. Her connections
with the geology museum led to the exhibit “What’s In Your

Computer? From Mineral Resources to electronics.”
“People often are surprised at the stuff the earth is made
of and how it constitutes the electronic elements we depend
on every day for our technology needs,” she says.
Wolf was aware of olson’s amazing discovery, but it was
Dr. Mel Peterson who walked in her office with a copy of the
1988 article explaining the process written by olson himself.
(Wolf says Peterson, planetarium director emeritus, is
known for his remarkable memory and propensity to
collect things.) This article became a central component
of the exhibit.
During the exhibit’s opening reception, Moline talked
informally about his uncle and his significant contribution.
Today, at 95 years old, olson lives in a retirement center
in Solomons, Md., about one hour south of Washington,
D.C. “He’s still intellectually alert and enjoys reading about
and discussing a wide range of topics and issues,” reports
Moline.
BSU students ‘Follow the Drinking Gourd’
Members of Augustana’s Black Student Union (BSU) brought
the Underground Railroad to life for students from Rock
Island’s Lincoln Intermediate Academy last February. As
characters in the play “Follow the Drinking gourd,” nine BSU
members portrayed the strength and courage of escaping
slaves and those who helped them find freedom. At the same
time, they demonstrated how astronomy and theatre can be
combined to help us understand our history.
Susan Kornreich Wolf, associate curator of the Augustana
Fryxell geology Museum, asked Dr. Scott Magelssen,
assistant professor of theatre, to join her in this project a
year ago, and he agreed. Wolf adapted “Follow the Drinking
gourd” from the short story The Drinking Gourd by F.N.
Monjo, and Magelssen directed the play.
About 100 third­ and fourth­grade students visited
campus to see the play, visit the Fryxell Museum and see
a planetarium show, where they learned about the role of
constellations in guiding escaped slaves to freedom in the
north. After a general overview of the night sky, Planetarium
Director Dr. Lee Carkner showed his audience how stars
in the Big Dipper—the Drinking gourd—align to point to
the North Star. Carkner and Dr. Mel Peterson, planetarium
director emeritus, hosted nearly 800 students from 16 local
schools during February’s Black History Month.
The field trip then moved to the John Deere Lecture Hall,
where students Florence osisanya ’09, Rodney Stewart ’10,
Tavares Williams ’07, Chris Donelson ’10, Imari Hanserd ’09,
William Hatchet ’10, Colin overton ’09, Kai Frazier ’10 and
Lisa Johnson ’09 performed “Follow the Drinking gourd.”
The story of escape on the Underground Railroad featured
a young boy, Tommy, who helps his father hide a slave family.
Cast members answered questions from their audience after
the performance. The Q&A session included predictions on
whether the family in the play found freedom, and thoughts
on the question of breaking the law vs. doing what is right.
As the students left the building, they were met with a challenge
from Augustana’s Tavares Williams: “See you here in
10 years.”
Once, twice, (almost) three times a winner
Sixty­eight colleges and universities competed in the
Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
12th Annual National Collegiate Conference in Detroit earlier
this spring. Skilled and creative students from around the
country competed in a variety of computer­science contests,
and Augustana came out on top not once, but twice—and
almost three times.
“This was a great conference for our students and for
Augustana,” says Beth Weber ’03 Whitty, AITP’s advisor.
“our students got a chance to showcase their skills and
make contacts with future employers, and Augustana
received some wonderful national recognition. I’m so proud
of AITP for all their accomplishments.”
Undaunted by teams from Purdue and Brigham Young
universities as well as the University of Iowa, University of
Texas and a host of technical colleges, Augustana students
demonstrated the advantages of a liberal­arts experience.
In the Application Development Contest, 48 teams of
students were required to write software based around the
inventory and sales for a business. Augustana’s Brad Isbell
’07 (computer science and music), ossian Mogensen ’09
(general studies) and Tim Shearhouse ’08 (computer science
and mathematics) earned first place in this competition.
In the PC Troubleshooting Contest, no fewer than 121
teams had to complete a written test, and then repair a
computer for the finals. Augustana placed first, with Isbell
and Rob Stoltz ’08 (computer science and business) taking
the honors.
“The best part of the experience was lining up my own
Members of Augustana’s
Black Student Union
performed a play about
slaves’ journey to freedom
for nearly 100 elementary-
school students who visited
campus during Black History
Month.
Summer 2007 | Augustana Magazine
AMY PeARSoN ’09

Campus News
While earning her degree
in vocal music education,
Colleen Callahan ’07 wrote
“Treble Clef Rap” to help
elementary-school children
learn the names of the notes
within the treble clef. Here’s
how it begins:
Alright everyone let’s get to
our places,
Today we’re gonna talk about
lines and spaces.
Now here’s a treble clef, also
known as G,
Cause that’s where the sign
does a little loopy.
We have four spaces and five
lines.
They each have names that
go with a rhyme.
It starts at the bottom and
goes to the top,
But the notes keep going,
yeah they don’t stop….
Augustana Magazine | Summer 2007
skills with the skills of those around the country to see
where I was, and what I needed to improve upon,” Isbell
says. “The conference also helped me identify unique skills
that I have, which will enable me to apply them later in life.”
out of 21 competitors, Jake Wietting ’09 (physics) scored
an impressive second place behind Boise State University in
the Business Intelligence Contest. The students were asked
to use gIS (geographical Information Systems) software
and statistical software to devise a solution for marketing
a business.
Having potential employers in attendance was important
for some students but not Isbell because he already knew
he wanted to stay in the Quad Cities after graduation. “However,
I did talk to a few companies, and I think that helped
my confidence when I went to my interview over at WQAD­
Tv [Moline] where I’ve been hired,” he says.
Rap songs teach musical notes
After watching a group of sixth graders struggle to identify
the names of the notes within the treble clef, Colleen
Callahan ’07 wrote the “Treble Clef Rap.” Her success with
this rap inspired her to write two more: one for the bass
clef and one for the alto clef. The three raps teach children
how to remember the names of the notes for bass, alto and
treble clefs using the rhythms of rap poetry.
“These raps are a product of my love of word play and
a fervent desire to teach music,” Callahan says. “I’m
continually trying to come up with new and inventive ways
to reach students at their level before hoisting them higher
into the world of musical learning.”
The vocal music education major also developed an
article, “Note Naming Raps,” over two years while working
with children in music classrooms and ensembles. Last
spring, her article was published in The Scroll, the Illinois
journal of the American String Teachers Association.
Callahan is the first Augustana student to be vetted by
this journal, which reaches the majority of string teachers
and performers in the state of Illinois, according to Dr.
Janina ehrlich, associate professor of music.
Registration goes online
It was just a matter of time—and software. Augustana
students are now registering for classes online, using a
product from Datatel called Colleague.
Students are issued an account, which provides access
to their historical academic information. They are also given
a registration time (determined by their class standing)
when they can log into the system and begin to build their
schedule. once in the system, they can search for classes
that fit their academic requirements by time, course and
professor. After selecting a schedule that works, students
submit it for processing.
Benefits include (1) no more long lines or having to
leave class to register, (2) full access to registration anywhere
with Internet access, and (3) instantly updated
class availability.
But the most powerful tools are yet to come, according
to Chris vaughan, director of Augustana’s Information
Technology Services. This fall the Colleague degree audit
module will be available, and when used with the registration
module, students and advisors will have more information
at their fingertips than ever before.
“Students will be empowered with the necessary tools
and information to play a much more active role in shaping
their academic experiences,” vaughan says.
McMillan, Voiland earn national titles
Ted McMillan ’09 brought home two national championships
to end his sophomore year, and senior Meghan voiland ’07
capped her Augustana career with a national title at the
NCAA Division III outdoor Track and Field Championships
in May.
McMillan cleared 69 in the high jump, just one inch
higher than the runner­up, to grab his first national title
of the meet. He was fourth in the high jump at the national
meet a year ago.
McMillan must have enjoyed standing on top of the
winner’s platform because the day after winning the high
jump, he blew away competitors in the 400 intermediate
hurdles.
The chemistry major broke away from the field early and
finished strong with a time of :51.50, the best in the nation at
the Division III level this year and also a new record for Titan
Stadium in oshkosh, Wis. He also broke his own school
record of :52.30 and was close to the U.S. olympic Trials
qualifying standard of :51.00. Not bad for a guy who only had
the sixth best time before the meet started and qualified for
the finals with the fourth best time.
The top eight competitors in each event at the national
meet receive All­America recognition. In just two years,
McMillan has earned a total of six NCAA Division III All­
America certificates, four in the high jump (two indoor and

Ted McMillan ’09 Meghan Voiland ’07
two outdoor) and two in the 400 intermediate hurdles
(outdoor).
on the same day McMillan earned his first national
championship, Meghan voiland grabbed the pole vault title
after clearing 12101/4. She placed third in the triple jump
with a leap of 398 the following day.
voiland has been a standout track­and­field performer
throughout her Augustana career. She is a nine­time NCAA
Division III All­American, with eight certificates in the pole
vault (four indoor and four outdoor) and one in the triple
jump.
This winter voiland set an NCAA Division III record in the
pole vault with a clearance of 1211. This spring she was
named the Most outstanding Field Performer in the College
Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) outdoor Track
and Field Championships when she won the pole vault and
the triple jump, and placed second in the long jump and 100meter
hurdles.
voiland also received a $7,500 NCAA postgraduate
scholarship this spring. She is one of just seven NCAA
Division III female athletes who were named among the 58
winners nationwide. In order to qualify, a student­athlete
must have an overall grade­point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00
scale), and have performed with distinction as a member of
the varsity team in the sport in which she was nominated.
With an impressive 3.86 grade­point average, the biology
major was a member of the omicron Delta Kappa national
leadership honor society and Mortar Board, a national
society for scholarship, leadership and service. She was an
academic all­conference selection in track and field and a
member of the U.S. Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches
Association all­academic team in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
voiland is only the 20th athlete in Augustana history to
win an NCAA postgraduate scholarship.
00 Jaeke Award winners
This year’s recipients of the Harold T. and violet M. Jaeke
Award are Mildred Brooks, facilities; Maxine Bultynck,
office personnel; Dr. David DeWit, faculty; Liesl Fowler,
administration; and Anna Leone, food service. The Jaeke
Award recognizes excellence in service among Augustana
faculty, staff and administration. Selection of recipients is
based on nominations that are reviewed by a committee of
faculty, students and Dr. Jeff Abernathy, vice president and
dean of the college.
RecycleMania hits campus
For the first time, Augustana participated in the national
10­week RecycleMania Per Capita Competition earlier this
year. Augustana ranked 62 out of 175 universities and
colleges. Among the seven Illinois colleges that participated,
Augustana brought home first­place honors with
21.16 pounds of recyclable material per person on campus.
It was a good start, say those in charge of Augustana’s
recycling program, as they begin planning for next year’s
competition.
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Sports News
Team highlights by Dave
Wrath ’80, assistant director
of athletics/media and
alumni relations, and Adam
Strand, assistant sports
information director. Photos
by Steve Woltmann. For
complete stats and sched-
ules, visit www.augustana.
edu/athletics/.
Winter 006-0
Men’s Basketball
Head coach grey giovanine
won Coach of the Year hon­
ors after leading his team of
overachievers to the College
Conference of Illinois and
Wisconsin (CCIW) title for
the second year in a row.
Using a combination of
tough, hard­nosed defense
and consummate team play,
the vikings confounded all
the “experts” en route to a
22­6 overall record and an
11­3 mark in the CCIW. Five
seniors formed the nucleus
of the team: Drew Wessels,
Nate Swetalla, Shaun Rose,
Pat Brusveen and Joe
Caricato. Wessels was a
unanimous first­team all­
conference selection, while
Dain Swetalla ’09 and
Katie Engwall ’0 George Gogonas ’ 0 Josh Snodgrass ’0
Jordan Delp ’08 were named
to the second team. Delp
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and Dain Swetalla led the
vikings in scoring.
Women’s Basketball
Kim Rymer ’07 was voted
MvP and Katie engwall ’09
received Most Improved
honors this season. Rymer,
a guard, was the only player
to start all 25 games. She
led the team in rebounds
and was third in both assists
and steals. engwall started
three games and came off
the bench in the other 22
contests to spark the
vikings’ offensive attack. She
was consistent at the free­
throw line, knocking down
72.6 percent (53­73). The
vikings finished its first
season under head coach
Bobbi endress with a 4­21
overall record and a 1­13
mark in CCIW play.
Men’s Indoor Track &
Field
Final ranking? Nothing less
than 12th in the nation. For
their team’s outstanding
performance, Head Coach
Paul olsen and his assis­
tants were named Coaching
Staff of the Year in the CCIW.
Ted McMillan ’09 earned All­
America honors in the high
jump for the second year in
a row. The 1600­meter relay
team of McMillan, Kyle
ekberg ’09, eric Peekensch­
neider ’10 and Dillon Smith
’09 set a school record of
3:19.15, breaking the 19­
year­old mark of 3:19.40 set
by Joe Butler, Mike Wallace,
Dennis Fraikes and Darin
Davis. The 1600­meter relay
team qualified to compete in
the NCAA Division III cham­
pionship meet.
Women’s Indoor Track
& Field
Let’s call it the season of
sevens. Seven school re­
cords fell as the vikings
closed out the year ranked
seventh in the NCAA Division
III. Meghan voiland ’07 main­
tained her perfect record in
the NCAA pole vault, earning
her seventh All­America
certificate in as many
national meets. She and a
competitor set a record at
the NCAA meet by clearing
12’111/2” but voiland finished
second in a jump­off. Team­
mate Theresa Suwannapal
’07 raced to seventh place in
the 55­meter hurdles at the
NCAA meet. voiland was
voted the team’s MvP. In
addition to her All­America
honors in the pole vault, she
was the team’s best per­
former in the triple jump and
close to that in the 55­meter
hurdles.
Men’s Swimming
The vikings finished fourth
at the CCIW championship
meet, climbing two spots
from last season’s finish. A
victory at the eureka Invita­
tional was a season high­
light, with three swimmers
winning individual titles:
Jason Perine ’09 in the 100
breaststroke, Dan Betz ’09 in
the 50 breaststroke and eric
Zike ’10 in the 50 backstroke.
The lone upperclassman on
the team, Carl Jannusch ’07,
leaves Augustana in ninth
place on the all­time list in
the 200 freestyle. He is also
10th in the 100 backstroke in
the all­time standings.
Augustana has fielded a
team in men’s swimming
since 1930, making it one of
the most established sports
in Augustana varsity
athletics.
Women’s Swimming
After recovering from a bro­
ken neck that occurred last
summer, Ramsey vens end­
ed her sophomore season in
style, winning a title in the
100 breaststroke at the CCIW
championship meet. As a
team, the vikings placed
fourth. vens also placed sec­
ond in the 50 freestyle, and
teamed with Megan Daily ’10,
Stefanie Leafblad ’09 and
Ashley Casper ’09 for a
third­place finish in the 400
medley relay. It was vens,
Casper, Jackie grendzinski
’10 and Sara Hlavin ’10 earn­
ing third in the 200 medley
relay. Head coach Jake
Anderson is now 7­10 in dual
meets, with three fourth­
place finishes at the last
three CCIW championship
meets.
Wrestling
Senior Mike Kerr ended his
wrestling career by becom­
ing just the 19th member of
the 100­victory club. Kerr, at
165 pounds, led this season’s
vikings with a 29­17 record.
He placed third in his weight
class at the CCIW tourna­
ment. John Parkhurst ’07
placed second at 197
pounds, george gogonas ’10
was third at 125, and Brian
Kerr ’09 was third at 184. As
a team, the vikings took fifth
in the CCIW tournament.
Despite being injured half­
way through the season,
Ryan McMurray ’07 finished
his career with a 117­52
record, which puts him in

a tie with Jesse Kennedy ’97
for 15th place on the
Augustana all­time win list.
Spring 00
Softball
eight school records fell in a
30­14 campaign as Augusta­
na made its third NCAA
tournament appearance in
the last four years and the
fourth time in school history.
Lorena Cernetisch ’07 won
Player of the Year honors in
the CCIW as the vikings also
won the conference for third
time in the last four years.
From her leadoff position,
Cernetisch hit .432 with 63
hits in 148 at­bats while
scoring 48 runs. To top it off,
she fielded .937 at the de­
manding shortstop position
with just 10 errors in 158
chances. Samantha Knox ’07
earned ESPN—The Magazine
Academic All­America hon­
ors. She batted .348 with 47
hits in 135 at­bats while
scoring 31 runs. Pitcher
Jordan Huff ’08 ended the
year with an 8­1 record and
posted an earned­run aver­
age of 1.56 with 105 strike­
outs in 94­1/3 innings. Head
Coach Kris Kistler, in her
eighth season at the viking
helm, has a record of 238­
John Wagle ’0 Lorena Cernetisch ’0 Keli Coleman ’0 (left) and Ainsley Fedler ’ 0 Pat Brusveen ’0
109­2. She is 77­35 in CCIW
play. Kistler and her assis­
tants were named CCIW’s
Coaching Staff of the Year
this season.
Women’s Track & Field
At the NCAA outdoor Track
and Field Championships,
Meghan voiland ’07 won the
pole vault and placed third in
the triple jump (see pages
8­9). Marissa Banks ’10 also
earned All­America recogni­
tion by placing third in the
discus with a toss of 142’5”
and sixth in the shot with a
mark of 44’3”. The vikings
placed ninth in the nation
with 25 points. That came
on the heels of a season that
had them ranked eighth in
the final NCAA Division III
national dual meet poll.
Five school records fell
during the season in which
Augustana took second in
the CCIW championship.
Head Coach Fred Whiteside
and his assistants were
named CCIW’s Coaching
Staff of the Year.
Men’s Tennis
The vikings scored a 7­2
victory over rival Illinois
Wesleyan in the third­place
match of the CCIW tourna­
ment to end the season on
a high note. overall, the
team netted a 12­16 record,
with a 3­2 mark in CCIW
play. Tom goebel ’08 and
Rafael Romero ’08 competed
at the top of the lineup for
the second straight year.
The duo also played at No. 1
doubles most of the season,
compiling a 5­10 record.
They are tied for ninth all­
time with 18 doubles victo­
ries over three seasons. The
team selected greg Ruth ’09
as Most Improved Player
and Chris Mullin ’10 as
Newcomer of the Year.
Men’s Golf
eric Johnson ’08 ended the
season by winning an indi­
vidual title at the CCIW
championship meet. He fired
rounds of 72­82­74­79 on
his way to victory. Johnson
is the 15th golfer in school
history to win the crown.
overall, Johnson averaged
77.7 strokes per round and
earned three Top 10 finishes
during the season. His team­
mates recognized him as the
Most outstanding Player, as
well as the Most Improved
golfer. As a team, the
vikings won sixth place at
the CCIW championship and
ended the year ranked 99th
out of 231 Division III
schools, according to golf­
stat.com.
Men’s Track & Field
Ted McMillan ’09 won two
national titles (see pages
8­9) as the vikings end a
remarkable season with a
eighth­place finish at the
NCAA outdoor Track and
Field Championships. Jon
Sebby ’07 grabbed ninth
place in the javelin, just
missing out on All­American
honors. At the CCIW champ­
ionships, Augustana took
second place behind peren­
nial power North Central.
Individual event winners
were McMillan in the 110­
meter hurdles (:15.37) and
400­meter hurdles (:54.02);
Brad Holehan ’08 in the
3,000­meter steeplechase
(9:13.21); David Winston ’07
in the high jump (6’2”); and
Sebby in the javelin (196’7”).
The team voted McMillan
MvP on the track while
Sebby took home the MvP
honor for field events.
Baseball
Led by Marc Blakeley ’08, an
All­American leadoff man
who put up incredible offen­
sive numbers, and fueled by
a solid defense and a gritty
pitching staff, the vikings
won 13 of its first 14 games
and compiled a 35­14 overall
record. It was the third time
in three years that Head
Coach greg Wallace’s play­
ers have won more than 30
games and the sixth time in
the last nine years. The team
battled back through the
loser’s bracket to reach the
championship games of both
the CCIW and NCAA Division
III Central regional. Blakeley
batted .448 and broke four
individual school records
(runs, hits, home runs and
at­bats). He earned first­
team NCAA Division III All­
America honors from the
American Baseball Coaches
Association and second­
team honors from D3base­
ball.com. His 90 hits led all
of NCAA Division III. Besides
Blakeley, six other vikings
hit over .300, including John
Wagle ’09 at .376. Three
pitchers each won seven
games: eric Knott ’08,
Brandon engle ’07 and Matt
erickson ’10. The team fin­
ished the season with a 22nd
ranking in NCAA Division III.
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Coach Johnsen retires after 0 years
In his quiet yet determined manner, Larry Johnsen served the Augustana athletic department, and primarily the
vikings’ football teams, for the past 20 years. Whether he was asked to coach defense or offense or even lead the team
as head coach for a season, the program never skipped a beat. Fellow coaches describe him as “a rock of stability.” •
“Whether it was guiding the program to a CCIW championship and NCAA national playoff berth during the challenging
times of Coach Schmulbach’s illness or the changes in leadership during his tenure, Coach Johnsen’s consistency—
grounded in the principles of hard work, fundamental development, a team­first attitude and integrity—kept the foot­
ball ship afloat and ‘riding high’ for over two decades,” says Jim Barnes ’81, vikings’ head football coach. • During his
time at Augustana, Johnsen was an integral part of a viking program that compiled an overall record of 154­46 for a
winning percentage of .770 and a mark of 121­24 in the CCIW for a winning percentage of .834. • But Johnsen was
about more than just winning. “The principles and character he stamped on this program will serve Augie football well
into the future,” Barnes adds. “And the ripple effect of the hundreds of lives he mentored and positively influenced, in­
cluding my own, will send better citizens, husbands and fathers out into the families and communities of our world.”
1951
2007
Was it really 56 years ago?
They were known as the Fabulous ’51ers. Augustana’s 1951 baseball team boasted the
college’s most successful year on the diamond to date with a record of 10­2, thanks in part to
some, well, fabulous hitting. Bob Brunell ’52 averaged .500 for the season, followed by four
teammates slugging .400 or above.
As a result of the efforts of Richie erickson ’51, several members and friends of the team
returned to campus last April for a special reunion. In addition to those pictured below, at left,
Dale Baraks ’53, edwin Blaser ’50, Dr. Bill Johnson ’51, Louis Nachbauer ’52 and Dr. Ken
Tillman ’54 attended the reunion.
A dinner reception at the Wilson Center and a Saturday afternoon doubleheader at Brunner
Field at the Duane R. Swanson Stadium gave the former vikings an opportunity to share
favorite memories of their time at Augustana.
erickson says the weekend reunion held many wonderful experiences, including a guided
tour of campus by Kai Swanson ’86, executive assistant to President Steve Bahls. But
talking with teammates he
hadn’t seen in 56 years about
their playing days and unforgetable
coach, Lenny Kallis, was
certainly the highlight. “Lenny
Kallis seemed to me to make
everything and everyone he
touched a little bit better,”
erickson says. “He accomplished
extraordinary things
with ordinary players.”
, left to right: Richie erickson ’51, Jack Kidder ’52, Bob Brunell ’52, Wally Soderstrom
’53, Dick Jones ’51, Bill Barclay ’53, Jim Weigand ’52 and Dave Hopley ’54.
00 , left to right: Richie erickson ’51, Jack Kidder ’52, Bob Brunell ’52, Wally Soderstrom
’53, Bill Barclay ’53 and Dave Hopley ’54. (Dr. Jim Weigand ’52 did not attend the reunion and
Dick Jones ’51 is deceased.)
IAN FLeTCHeR ’09
SPORTS ShORTS
• The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW)
awarded senior basketball players Drew Wessels and Kim
Rymer the Jack Swartz Award in recognition of their athletic
and academic excellence during the winter sports season.
Wessels was a business administration major and carried a
3.53 gPA. Rymer had a 3.58 gPA with majors in psychology,
biology and pre­physical therapy.
• Both the National Association of Basketball Coaches
and D3hoops.com named Drew Wessels to the All­Midwest
Region team. In addition, he was one of 10 finalists for the
annual Jostens Award, which is given to the NCAA Division
III player who best combines athletics, academics and community
service.
• The National Wrestling Coaches Association selected
seniors Mike Kerr and John Parkhurst for the NCAA Division
III Wrestling Scholar All­America team. Kerr majored
in german, finance and international business and had a
3.18 gPA. A psychology and speech communications major,
Parkhurst also carried a 3.18 gPA.