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TIFFIN UNIVERSITY<br />

SPRING / SUMMER <strong>2012</strong><br />

TIFFIN UNIVERSITY FALL / WINTER 2010<br />

A Magazine for Alumni &<br />

Friends of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>


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t<br />

Lisa Williams<br />

Editor<br />

Dear Alumni and Friends of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />

We enjoyed commencement <strong>2012</strong> in the Heminger Center (dedicated<br />

in May) in honor of Gary and Jane Heminger and their families<br />

(see story on page 15). This year’s commencement included<br />

a marriage proposal, which added to the celebration of a new<br />

beginning.<br />

Calling All Greeks!<br />

In this issue, I have invited you to share a memory or photo (or<br />

both) about Greek Life at TU. I have included a few scanned photos<br />

from the Tystenac and the Periodic Summary (photo quality is a<br />

little sketchy) as it is my intent to create an exchange from past to<br />

present in this issue as well as future issues. It all began with a call<br />

from a former Sig and DSK member (Class of 1961) who took the<br />

time to share some memories and send me a photo of the official<br />

DSK key he still proudly owns.<br />

In Closing<br />

As we prepare for a new year, we have made new and exciting<br />

friendships, said goodbye to employees who have been with us a<br />

long time and hello to new faces arriving in their place. Change is a<br />

constant theme on a college campus—especially at TU. You will see<br />

for yourself in the pages ahead.<br />

I look forward to hearing from you.<br />

Lisa Williams<br />

Editor of <strong>Challenge</strong> Magazine<br />

Executive Director of Media Relations & Publications<br />

Photographer<br />

Editor’sNote<br />

How to send news to <strong>Challenge</strong> Magazine:<br />

Mail: Print out the Tell Us About Yourself form<br />

from the website - www.tiffin.edu (Click “Alumni”),<br />

Click “Stay Connected” - and mail to:<br />

Lisa Williams, 155 Miami Street, <strong>Tiffin</strong>, Ohio 44883<br />

Call for interview appointment or story idea:<br />

Lisa Williams at 419.448.3444<br />

Email: lwilliam@tiffin.edu (send a photo!)<br />

Contributing Photographer: Zeng (Simon) Lei<br />

Contributing Writers: Geoff Schutt, Elaine Warnecke,<br />

Jessica Huffman<br />

Graphic Designer: Mary Ann Stearns<br />

SPRING / SUMMER <strong>2012</strong><br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> is a place where<br />

we challenge our students<br />

to become all they are capable of becoming.<br />

Hence, the name of the magazine.<br />

4<br />

Commencement<br />

14<br />

CampusScene<br />

15<br />

Heminger Center Dedication<br />

18<br />

President’s Club<br />

26<br />

Tent City<br />

44<br />

AlumniScene<br />

51<br />

ClassScene<br />

55<br />

In Memoriam<br />

57<br />

SportsScene<br />

If this issue of <strong>Challenge</strong> Magazine is addressed to<br />

someone in your household who has moved, please notify<br />

the Alumni office by calling 419.448.3323<br />

or email KoehlerS@tiffin.edu.<br />

Contents<br />

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Graduates <strong>Challenge</strong>d:<br />

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams<br />

and live the life you have imagined!<br />

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<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> celebrated the<br />

he worked in the Pentagon as Aide to the<br />

opening of the new Heminger Center<br />

Chief of the Naval Reserve. He earned a<br />

on Saturday, May 5 with more than<br />

bachelor’s degree from the <strong>University</strong> of<br />

3,000 guests on hand to recognize<br />

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA<br />

700 plus graduates, representing both<br />

from Harvard <strong>University</strong>. The speaker is<br />

undergraduate and graduate students,<br />

also an author and a noted photographer.<br />

during its 124th Annual Commencement.<br />

His portfolio includes photographs from<br />

The Heminger Center, named for<br />

unusual locations like Antarctica, Everest,<br />

Gary and Jane Heminger, was the site of<br />

Papua New Guinea, and at the edge of<br />

an historic occasion for the university. Previously,<br />

the ceremonies were held in the<br />

During his speech, Michel encour-<br />

space (aboard a U-2 Spy Plane).<br />

Gillmor Student Center, but because of<br />

aged the new TU graduates to become<br />

TU’s extraordinary growth in recent years,<br />

risk-takers, and not to be afraid to fail<br />

the new facility with its expanded space<br />

along the way. “Fear is the silent enemy<br />

Christopher Michel<br />

offered the graduates, their families, and<br />

of the extraordinary. We live in a world where<br />

special guests a day to remember.<br />

people, especially the most brilliant among<br />

Entrepreneur and investor, Christopher Michel, delivered us, go to remarkable lengths not to fail,” he said. “We’re<br />

the keynote address. “I am absolutely thrilled to be here taught to mitigate disappointment by playing by the rules, lowering<br />

our expectations, and fitting in, and, the true cost of that<br />

today, at this great university in this fabulous new building,”<br />

Michel remarked. “It’s a moment I won’t ever forget.”<br />

‘highly reasonable’ approach is nothing short of breathtaking.”<br />

Michel’s message to the graduates was what he called<br />

Michel used his own background to demonstrate the<br />

the secret to great achievement.<br />

need for risk-taking and also the need to resist fear of failure.<br />

“Confidence and ethics are everything,” he said. “Not<br />

Near the end of his enlistment in the Navy, Michel was<br />

your resume, not who you know, not where you live – not encouraged by a shipmate to enroll in Harvard Business<br />

even your IQ. Sure, those things are important, but what is School. “I was a 29 year old Navy vet from rural Illinois. And<br />

more important is having the confidence to passionately pursue<br />

our highest calling. Probably no one articulated this idea The vast majority of my class was Ivy League graduates who<br />

from the moment I showed up, I knew I was in serious trouble.<br />

better than Henry David Thoreau. He encouraged each of us had worked on Wall Street. They had lived and breathed<br />

to ‘go confidently in the direction of our dreams – and to live business, and were on campus playing to win. If that wasn’t<br />

the life we have imagined.’”<br />

bad enough, the school had a forced bell grading curve. My<br />

Michel’s business acumen has been widely noted. He is classmates seemed so much smarter and more sophisticated<br />

one of three individuals featured in the book by Bill Murphy than me – and they probably were.”<br />

entitled The Intelligent Entrepreneur: How Three Harvard<br />

But one day, he said, a guest speaker changed his way of<br />

Business School Graduates Learned the 10 Rules of Successful<br />

Entrepreneurship (Henry Holt, 2010).<br />

was a bearded, shaggy-haired guy whose first words were,<br />

thinking, and indeed, his future. “Standing before us that day<br />

He currently heads Nautilus Ventures, a seed venture ‘I’m an entrepreneur.’”<br />

fund. Prior to Nautilus, he founded Military.com in 1999,<br />

The speaker was Dan Bricklin, who had been a student<br />

which is an online portal for service members, veterans and in the late 1970s at Harvard. During first-year accounting,<br />

their families. In 2007, he created Affinity Labs, which runs a he had an epiphany, imagining a better way to manipulate<br />

portfolio of online professional communities.<br />

numbers using digital rows and columns on a PC.<br />

Prior to his business career, Michel served as a naval<br />

“Dan literally created the spreadsheet, the predecessor<br />

flight officer in the U.S. Navy. While on active duty, he flew of today’s Excel,” Michel said. “Dan’s product, Visicalc, was<br />

as a navigator, tactical coordinator and mission commander one of the most important software applications in the history<br />

of personal computing. It was one if the main aboard the P-3C Orion aircraft. Following his operational tour,<br />

reasons


people bought PCs in the early 1980s. But unfortunately for<br />

Dan and Visicalc, Lotus created a superior product and put<br />

him out of business.”<br />

Bricklin’s theme for his talk was about the courage to<br />

take risks, Michel recalled. It was about taking chances in life.<br />

“And, in the fullness of time, that creating something that<br />

wouldn’t exist without your vision feeds the soul. Dan might<br />

not be the richest person in the world – but he changed the<br />

world. For him, it had been about meaning, not money. He<br />

had found success even in failure.”<br />

By 2001, Michel experienced his own taste of failure. He<br />

was the 31-year-old founder of his first company, Military.com,<br />

the social networking site for the military community that<br />

he described as Facebook meeting the Chicago Tribune for<br />

those who served our country.<br />

Military.com had grown by that time to nearly 100<br />

employees and raised almost $30 million in capital. “For an<br />

all-too brief period, we were dot-com darlings,” Michel said.<br />

“I had no idea what I was doing, but my experience at school<br />

had given me the confidence to go out there and try. I was<br />

flying high for the first six months but then it all fell apart.”<br />

When the Internet bubble burst in dramatic fashion, the<br />

company wasn’t able to raise more capital. Michel was forced<br />

to cut costs, and dramatically so. “We went from a hundred<br />

people down to 25. Military.com was losing a million dollars<br />

a month. Then things went from bad to worse. One of my<br />

board members called and asked me to resign so he could<br />

bring in ‘professional management.’ Within a few weeks, the<br />

new CEO showed up and basically asked me to stop coming<br />

to work. That hurt.”<br />

But the professional CEO the board hired didn’t succeed<br />

either. “After good advice from a friend, I proposed to the<br />

Commencement<br />

ClassScene<br />

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Commencement <strong>2012</strong><br />

board that I return as CEO and either shutter the company or<br />

sell it to someone who would at least allow the service to continue,”<br />

Michel said.<br />

The board brought him back on board. The company still<br />

cut more jobs and was down to a staff of 10, yet it generated<br />

enough advertising revenue to cover its costs. A year later,<br />

Michel was able to sell the company.<br />

He took the lessons he learned and started another<br />

company, Affinity Labs. “This time around, we made far fewer<br />

mistakes and were rewarded with a quick acquisition,” he said.<br />

From there, Michel created Nautilus Ventures, the successful<br />

seed venture fund he runs today.<br />

Through risk-taking and failure, Michel had found success.<br />

The most important thing, he said, was not giving up.<br />

Michel shared what he sees as the five simple rules that can<br />

lead to achieving one’s dreams. Collectively, he said, they address<br />

the areas of risk, failure, ethics, and success.<br />

Michel then challenged the <strong>2012</strong> graduates, and also reiterated<br />

the quote from Thoreau: “If an average Navy guy from<br />

Illinois can use these five rules to stumble his way to becoming<br />

an entrepreneur, what can you do I’m betting a whole lot<br />

more. So take a chance. Move to where the action is. Swing for<br />

the fences. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and<br />

live the life you have imagined.”<br />

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Christopher Michel’s<br />

Five Simple Rules of Success<br />

1. We’re entrepreneurs of our own lives. “My<br />

friend, Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, deserves<br />

the credit for this important idea,” Michel noted.<br />

“Whether you are starting your own business or working<br />

in an existing organization or leading your own<br />

family, you have the choice to either play by someone<br />

else’s playbook or objectively consider your own path.<br />

We grow up being taught countless rules. Our brains<br />

have been programmed to keep us on the straight and<br />

narrow. But not all rules deserve to be followed blindly.<br />

There is almost always a better way to do something.<br />

And those that find it are disproportionately rewarded.”<br />

2. Confidence is a choice: life rewards those who<br />

believe in themselves and have high expectations. “A<br />

few years back, I was at<br />

an event with a wellknown<br />

entrepreneur in<br />

Silicon Valley,” Michel<br />

said. “He held degrees<br />

from Illinois and Stanford.<br />

He said something really<br />

profound – that there<br />

was little difference in the<br />

quality of education he<br />

received at both schools,<br />

but there was a world of<br />

difference in what expectations<br />

the graduates had<br />

for themselves.”<br />

3. Without risk, there is no gain. Michel smiled at<br />

the graduates. “Heck, I didn’t make that up,” he said.<br />

“It’s <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s own motto. If you hedge, take<br />

the well-traveled route, play it safe, you will miss out.<br />

You’ve got a great degree from a great school. Set<br />

your sights high and reject mediocrity in every form.”<br />

4. Most people overstate the risk of failure. “The<br />

amount of trouble you can get into for not paying your<br />

credit card bill is infinitely higher than failing as an entrepreneur.<br />

It’s part of the American spirit,” he remarked.<br />

“We love people who take big bets, regardless of the<br />

outcome. In the fullness of life, we almost never regret<br />

the things we did – only the things left untried.”<br />

5. Don’t embarrass your mother. Michel said:<br />

“Never, ever do anything that violates your principles<br />

of right and wrong. One of my heroes, former Secretary<br />

of the Navy Gordon England often says, ‘The gray<br />

zone is black, so stay on the white side.’ You can’t get<br />

better advice than that.”<br />

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TU Honors<br />

Academic Excellence<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Academic Honors Ceremony,<br />

held in April, honored 176 graduating seniors with the award<br />

of Academic Distinction for earning a grade point average<br />

of 3.5 or more.<br />

Nineteen undergraduate students were presented<br />

with the Excellence in the Field of Study Award (earning a<br />

grade point average of 3.5 or more) as chosen by the faculty<br />

both for their academic performance and their contributions<br />

to learning and life on campus.<br />

Thirteen graduate students were honored with the<br />

Excellence in the Field of Study Award. Recipients of this<br />

award were selected by full-time faculty in each academic<br />

school. The criteria for consideration of the award include a<br />

perfect 4.0 GPA and notable contribution to the field of study.


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She Said ‘YES’<br />

A TU graduate said she knew she<br />

and her boyfriend would get engaged, but she<br />

didn’t know it would be immediately after she<br />

received her management degree.<br />

Shanice Alexander, a volleyball player, was<br />

led to believe she and two teammates were<br />

going to receive gifts from a coach after the<br />

commencement ceremony. When a blindfold<br />

was removed after she got outside, she saw her<br />

boyfriend, Marquis Russell, a sophomore at Ohio<br />

Dominican <strong>University</strong>, kneeling in front of her.<br />

“Shanice Terrae’ Alexander, would you be my<br />

wife” he asked her. She said”Yes,” he stood up<br />

and they embraced as people clapped and cheered.<br />

Alexander said she thought she might have<br />

been about to receive balloons or flowers, and she was confused because she<br />

didn’t know why she was being taken outside. When the blindfold was removed,<br />

she saw the crowd but didn’t see Russell until she looked down.”I wanted to hit<br />

him because he tricked me,” she said.<br />

Russell, a sergeant in the U.S. Army’s 718th transportation battalion who returned in October from a deployment to<br />

Kuwait, said he and Alexander had talked about getting married, and he knew she was going to accept his marriage proposal.<br />

“The whole time during commencement, I was shaking,” he said.<br />

“This is the happiest day of my life so far,” Shanice said.<br />

This article appeared, in part, in The Advertiser-Tribune


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Heminger Center Dedication<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s newest building was named in honor of<br />

Gary and Jane Heminger in recognition of their generous<br />

gift for construction of the state-of-the-art facility and their<br />

many other positive contributions to the <strong>University</strong>. The public<br />

was invited to a dedication ceremony in May.<br />

Dr. Heminger was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws<br />

degree by <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> and has served on TU’s Board of<br />

Trustees since 1991 and as the Chairman of the Board since<br />

1996. A 1976 TU graduate, he is employed as President and<br />

CEO of Marathon Petroleum Corporation. The Hemingers<br />

designated the facility as a tribute to their parents, Glen and<br />

Doris Heminger and John and Virginia Alleman, their brothers<br />

and sisters, and the community of <strong>Tiffin</strong>, Ohio. This building<br />

will serve as a center for the pursuit of wellness, health, and<br />

friendship.<br />

About the Heminger Center<br />

The building includes an indoor track and four multi-purpose<br />

courts for basketball, volleyball, and tennis. The other large<br />

portion has artificial turf and will be used for practices by the<br />

TU football, soccer, lacrosse, baseball, and softball teams, in<br />

addition to intramurals, club sports and other recreational activities.<br />

The middle section of the facility has coaches’ offices,<br />

locker rooms, an athletic training room, two classrooms, and a<br />

food court.<br />

The opening of the Heminger Center is the final component<br />

of TU’s nine-year quest to transform the former Rosenblatt<br />

property into <strong>University</strong> use. TU partnered with federal,<br />

state, and local governments and agencies to bring more<br />

than $30 million in enhancements to the <strong>Tiffin</strong> community. The<br />

Heminger Center is the centerpiece of Share the Pride. Build<br />

on Tradition – A Campaign for <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>, a $12 million<br />

capital campaign.<br />

In addition to the benefits that the new building will provide<br />

for <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> students and employees, it will also<br />

be available for use by area schools and community groups<br />

and for conferences, trade shows, and other activities.<br />

CampusScene<br />

Left to right: Erin Hazelton,<br />

Ohio Department of Development;<br />

Mike Grandillo, <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>;<br />

Laura Rees, URS;<br />

Lenny Clouse, Clouse Construction;<br />

Gary & Jane Heminger (holding key);<br />

Mike McKim, URS;<br />

Paul Marion, <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>;<br />

Richard Kirk, Alvada Construction<br />

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Heminger Center by the numbers<br />

Heminger Center<br />

Dedication<br />

Gary Heminger<br />

• 2003: <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> begins working with the<br />

owners of the Rosenblatt Scrap Yard, the State of<br />

Ohio, and URS Corporation to begin clean-up of<br />

the Scrap Yard.<br />

• $300,000: The amount of the grant received by TU<br />

to fund an environmental study and clean-up efforts.<br />

• $750,000: The amount of the Clean Ohio Grant<br />

received by TU.<br />

• $1,000,000: The amount of the US EPA Grant<br />

received with the help of US Senator Sherrod Brown.<br />

• 2010: Construction begins.<br />

• 3.5: The number of acres under roof.<br />

• 235: The number of individual, 14” diameter<br />

concrete piles that extend more than 30’ below the<br />

level of the floor.<br />

• 25: The number of Olympic-sized swimming pools<br />

that could be filled with the concrete used for the<br />

Recreation Center.<br />

• 9,834: The number of tons of crushed limestone<br />

used as a base to pour concrete floors, sidewalks,<br />

and asphalt parking.<br />

• (More than) 60,000: The number of concrete<br />

blocks and bricks used on the exterior and interior<br />

walls of the building.<br />

• 1,420: Gallons of paint used.<br />

• 25+: The number of miles of wire installed.<br />

• 35,000+: The number of square feet of sheet<br />

metal used.<br />

• 6,000+: The number of linear feet of copper, steel,<br />

and ductile iron pipes used.<br />

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<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> named its tennis courts in memory of<br />

P.M. Gillmor, loyal friend and trustee of the university.<br />

Mr. Gillmor was an active tennis enthusiast and it is<br />

appropriate that the tennis courts are named in his<br />

memory.<br />

This recognition was made possible by The Old<br />

Fort Banking Company and the Gillmor Charitable<br />

Foundation in support of Share the Pride. Build on<br />

Tradition, A Campaign for <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> President Paul Marion presents the Gillmor<br />

Tennis Court photo to The Old Fort Banking Company in<br />

June. Left to right: Board Member Julie Gillmor, Board<br />

Chairman Diane Krumsee, TU President Paul Marion, Bank<br />

President Michael Spragg


CampusScene<br />

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President’s Club <strong>2012</strong><br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s President’s Club dinner was held in April. Membership into the President’s<br />

Club is $1,000 to $4,999. This year’s club represented a total of 90 members. Each year,<br />

TU celebrates new members, 10-year, 15-year, 20-year and 30-year members.<br />

20-year member Tom Miller and<br />

26-year member Dr. John Milllar<br />

New members<br />

Julie & Lonny Allen<br />

12-year members<br />

Mary & Mike Baltzell<br />

19-year members Tom & Margaret Burns<br />

and 13-year member Laura Mays<br />

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2-year members Dr. Gene &<br />

Melissa Crutsinger<br />

New members<br />

Dr. Robert & Angie Dornauer


15-year member<br />

Blythe Friedley & President Marion<br />

16-year members<br />

Joe & Eloise Granata<br />

CampusScene<br />

ClassScene<br />

New members<br />

Lori & Scott Hall<br />

6-year member<br />

Mary Lewis<br />

17-year members<br />

Bill & Jean Hertzer<br />

Development Staff Sandy Koehler<br />

& Lori Bentz<br />

6-year members<br />

Dr. Jim & Bernie Wilson<br />

New members<br />

Elise (Pfefferle) & Drew Harley<br />

Entertainment by<br />

TU musical group InBetween<br />

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Community<br />

Easter<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Student Government hosted<br />

the annual Christi Thomas Memorial Easter<br />

Egg Hunt in April. The hunt has been a popular<br />

offering of the student government for many<br />

years and, because of a generous donation by<br />

the Thomas family, it is named in honor of their<br />

daughter, Christi, who succumbed to neuroblastoma<br />

in 2006. Each year, <strong>Tiffin</strong>-area children and<br />

their families are invited to hunt for brightly colored<br />

surprise-filled eggs and to enjoy a special<br />

appearance of TU’s Dragon and Easter Bunny.<br />

International Dinner -<br />

A World of Dragons<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> held its annual International<br />

Dinner in March. This year’s theme<br />

was “A World of Dragons,” in honor<br />

of the Chinese year of the dragon, the<br />

TU mascot, and dragon legends from<br />

around the world.<br />

Featured were cuisines from across<br />

the globe with recipes submitted by the<br />

students and employees of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />

Entertainment included performances<br />

by TU international students and<br />

music by the Cleveland Chinese Music<br />

Ensemble.<br />

Today, there are more<br />

than 100 international<br />

students attending<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

representing 28<br />

countries. The countries<br />

represented include:<br />

Australia, Bangladesh,<br />

Belgium, Brazil,<br />

Cameroon, Canada,<br />

Central African Republic,<br />

China, Colombia,<br />

Estonia, France,<br />

Germany, Jamaica,<br />

Japan, Jordan, Mexico,<br />

Nepal, Nigeria, Norway,<br />

Pakistan, Russia, South<br />

Africa, Spain, Trinidad &<br />

Tobago, Uganda, United<br />

Arab Emirates, United<br />

Kingdom, and Venezuela.<br />

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School of Business<br />

TU Partners with<br />

Lima Central Catholic<br />

High School<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> and Lima Central<br />

Catholic High School will begin a College<br />

on Campus program (a partnership<br />

where students can earn both high<br />

school and college credit without leaving<br />

their school) beginning in the fall.<br />

The program is similar to <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>’s existing partnerships<br />

with <strong>Tiffin</strong> Calvert High School, <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

Columbian High School, Mohawk High<br />

School, Buckeye Central High School,<br />

and Clyde High School.<br />

High school options with colleges<br />

are growing more and more popular<br />

with students, and for good reason—it<br />

allows high school students the unique<br />

opportunity to understand the college<br />

experience with no cost to the student<br />

or their family.<br />

Unlike other post-secondary<br />

programs that require students to<br />

travel and attend classes on the college<br />

campus, the innovative partnerships<br />

with <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> have the<br />

advantage of keeping students at<br />

their own high school where they can<br />

remain active in the life of their school<br />

while earning both high school and<br />

college-level credit. It is also safer for<br />

the student as they are not required to<br />

travel to the <strong>Tiffin</strong> campus during the<br />

school day.<br />

Schumacher Appointed<br />

to Board of ECBE<br />

Dean of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s School of<br />

Business Dr. Lillian Schumacher was<br />

appointed to the European Council for<br />

Business Education (ECBE) Board of<br />

Directors.<br />

In 2005,<br />

TU was the<br />

first U.S.<br />

institution<br />

of higher<br />

education to<br />

receive accreditation<br />

from this<br />

Dr. Lillian Schumacher<br />

European<br />

agency. In<br />

2010, the ECBE re-accredited <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>’s (TU) School of Business<br />

for a five-year period, the maximum<br />

amount of time the ECBE offers its<br />

accreditation. TU’s School of Business<br />

is also accredited by the Accreditation<br />

Council for Business Schools and<br />

Programs (ACBSP).<br />

More information about the ECBE<br />

is available at www.ecbe.eu/.<br />

A Global Mindset<br />

A workshop at <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> exemplified<br />

the <strong>University</strong>’s continuing dedication<br />

to global education.<br />

Dr.<br />

Mansour<br />

Javidan,<br />

Garvin Distinguished<br />

Professor<br />

and Director<br />

of the<br />

Thunderbird<br />

Dr. Mansour Javidan<br />

Najai Global<br />

Mindset Institute<br />

in Phoenix, Arizona, conducted<br />

a workshop for TU professors interested<br />

in becoming certified to administer,<br />

interpret, and debrief the Global<br />

Mindset Inventory (GMI) that Javidan<br />

developed as part of his work for the<br />

Institute. Eight TU professors and two<br />

professors from Indiana Tech participated<br />

in the day-long training session<br />

that included an analysis of their own<br />

GMI’s prior to the workshop.<br />

“GMI is the ability to influence<br />

people who are different from you,”<br />

says Javidan. “It is a person’s attitude<br />

toward diversity of thought and action.”<br />

THE GMI emerged as a means to<br />

measure a person’s intellectual, social,<br />

and psychological capital in this regard.<br />

Javidan praised <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />

increased commitment to its own<br />

globalization process by remarking on<br />

the number of international students<br />

on the <strong>Tiffin</strong> campus as well as the<br />

reach of TU’s MBA program in Eastern<br />

Europe and Asia.<br />

New Major in Global<br />

Leadership<br />

TU will offer a new Global Leadership<br />

major beginning fall semester.<br />

The purpose of the Bachelor of<br />

Business Administration Global Leadership<br />

Honors major is to offer students<br />

a unique, honors-based program in<br />

one of the critical management arenas<br />

of the 21st Century. The program will<br />

have a business base with an interdisciplinary<br />

core curriculum and a required<br />

minor program to insure that students<br />

have both leadership and discipline<br />

skill sets sought by employers and<br />

graduate schools.<br />

The Global Leadership Honors<br />

major is seen by the School of Business<br />

as its first program to<br />

distinguish <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> from<br />

the offerings<br />

of most<br />

other business<br />

programs. The<br />

emphasis on<br />

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School of Business<br />

interview admission to the program and<br />

a required study-abroad or other country<br />

internship experience will provide TU<br />

graduates a competitive advantage in<br />

both the workplace and graduate school<br />

admissions.<br />

More information about the application<br />

process is available through<br />

Dr. Teresa Shafer, Associate Dean of<br />

International Programs and Professor of<br />

Management, at TShafer@tiffin.edu.<br />

First Annual Business<br />

Summit<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’ School of Business<br />

held its first annual Diane and George<br />

Kidd, Jr. Lecture Series in Business in<br />

February.<br />

This speaker series was established<br />

in 2002 by the Trustees of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />

Dr. Ellsworth Friedley, and alumni<br />

and friends of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> honoring<br />

the 21 years of service to the <strong>University</strong><br />

by George and Diane Kidd.<br />

Its purpose is to expose students,<br />

faculty and the general public to business<br />

practitioners who will excite them<br />

about business and its role in society. It<br />

is meant to expand the horizons of the<br />

participants.<br />

Summit to Success was a<br />

Triumph<br />

In addition to the Business Summit, TU’s<br />

Business Club held their first annual<br />

Summit to Success, an all-day event<br />

“preparing today’s business students for<br />

tomorrow.”<br />

The<br />

day kicked<br />

off with a<br />

keynote<br />

presentation<br />

from Dr. Robert<br />

Hisrich,<br />

Director of<br />

the Walker<br />

Dr. Robert Hisrich<br />

Center for<br />

Global Entrepreneurship<br />

at the Thunderbird School<br />

of Global Management. Hisrich is an<br />

expert and author on entrepreneurship<br />

because of his personal experience in<br />

the field. He has been involved in the<br />

founding of over a dozen companies<br />

and created academic and training programs<br />

in several countries and several<br />

top corporations.<br />

Summit Participants<br />

Hisrich outlined the four aspects of<br />

being a global entrepreneur. He talked<br />

about a business’s infrastructure, an entrepreneur’s<br />

idea, the capital necessary for a<br />

business endeavor and the person behind<br />

it all, the entrepreneur himself/herself.<br />

He pointed out that business<br />

starters have several key characteristics<br />

including; opportunity recognition and<br />

understanding of the business environment;<br />

a visionary mindset and flexibility;<br />

persistence and the ability to live with<br />

failure; and the capability to build strong<br />

relationships.<br />

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Dr. Robert Hisrich,<br />

Dr. George Kidd, Dr. Diane Kidd<br />

The inaugural keynote speaker was<br />

Dr. Robert D. Hisrich, The Garvin Professor<br />

of Global Entrepreneurship and<br />

Director of the Walker Center for Global<br />

Entrepreneurship at the Thunderbird<br />

School of Global Management.


ParticipatION in Local<br />

Coalition<br />

The <strong>Tiffin</strong> Charitable Foundation, Inc., in partnership<br />

with <strong>Tiffin</strong> Tomorrow, <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> and Heidelberg<br />

<strong>University</strong> kicked off a New Business Plan<br />

Competition in January at the National Theatre at<br />

the Ritz, in <strong>Tiffin</strong>.<br />

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Stir Crazy<br />

Applications were made available to anyone<br />

over the age of 18 with a serious business plan<br />

and a commitment to doing business in downtown<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong>. The competition had 12 applicants.<br />

Students from <strong>Tiffin</strong> and Heidelberg Universities<br />

evaluated applications and the chosen<br />

applicants were invited to attend a series of workshops<br />

addressing business planning, finance, legal<br />

structures, marketing, and communication.<br />

The winner, Stir Crazy Family Play Park, a children’s<br />

play area that is similar to a Chuck E. Cheese’s<br />

restaurant, was announced in April. Vanessa Cook,<br />

who is planning Stir Crazy, won first year’s lease payments<br />

of up to $10,000 for her business.<br />

Marketing Professors Present<br />

at Conference<br />

Members of the TU Marketing Program presented<br />

papers at the Association of Marketing Theory<br />

& Practice Conference in March in Myrtle Beach,<br />

SC. Assistant Professors Danielle Foster and Kellie<br />

McGilvray, and Matthew Rheinecker, Manager of<br />

Financial Aid for Ivy Bridge College presented<br />

“Technology and Social Media: Classroom Tools<br />

for Educators.” Drs. Perry Haan and Laura Mays,<br />

and <strong>Tiffin</strong> MBA Romania alum Michelle Dietrich<br />

presented “Student Perceptions of European Job<br />

Mobility and the MBA in Romania.” Haan also<br />

chaired a session on Sports Marketing and was a<br />

conference reviewer.<br />

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School of Criminal Justice &<br />

Social Sciences<br />

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Students Represent TU at Model NATO<br />

Conference<br />

By TU Student Katherine Fairhurst<br />

For the past four years, members of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Global<br />

Affairs Organization (GAO) have represented the university<br />

at the annual Model NATO Conference in Washington, D.C.<br />

Participation in Model NATO is one of the major highlights of<br />

the GAO’s activities.<br />

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, is a<br />

military alliance of 28 nations with a<br />

number of partnerships with other<br />

nations, and it stands as a central international<br />

institution that continues<br />

to transform and address the needs<br />

of the current international scene.<br />

Model NATO offers students an<br />

exciting opportunity for experiential<br />

learning and professional development.<br />

The annual conference<br />

brings together not only students<br />

from many different U.S. collegiate<br />

institutions, but also from Canada<br />

and Europe.<br />

Each school represents a different NATO member nation<br />

at the conference. TU students represent Estonia, a small<br />

Eastern European country that borders Russia. In preparation<br />

for the conference, students visit the embassy of the country<br />

they represent. This affords students the opportunity to gain<br />

first-hand knowledge about the foreign policy interests of a<br />

country. This year’s visit to the Estonian embassy in Washington,<br />

D.C. was particularly beneficial to TU’s Model NATO<br />

team, as many important issues were raised, and the visit<br />

fostered a better understanding of the role we would play at<br />

Model NATO.<br />

Model NATO was hosted by Howard <strong>University</strong>, Kent<br />

State <strong>University</strong>, and Converse College. The conference<br />

began with opening remarks and a keynote address by Antonella<br />

Cerasino, Head of NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division,<br />

Countries Section. The North Atlantic Council successfully<br />

reached consensus and passed the final communique, which<br />

is the product of the hard work of every student involved in<br />

the simulation.<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> is fortunate to offer students the opportunity<br />

to experience the NATO simulation, and Model NATO<br />

grants students exposure that not many schools enjoy.<br />

Participation offers students the chance to expand<br />

their leadership and public speaking skills, to learn about the<br />

inner workings of NATO as an organization and international<br />

alliance, and to practice diplomacy, decision-making, and<br />

negotiation. NATO is built around the concept of consensus,<br />

and the simulation pushes students to discuss current issues<br />

and to develop agreeable solutions. Model NATO also gives<br />

students exposure to individuals who might help shape their<br />

futures.<br />

The GAO has taken great strides since its establishment,<br />

and the student members welcome<br />

support as they seek to advance the<br />

organization’s interest in fostering<br />

an increased awareness of our role<br />

in the international context. The<br />

organization’s student members<br />

anticipate continued growth and participation<br />

in the annual International<br />

Model NATO conference, and they<br />

hope to pursue involvement in other<br />

conferences in the near future, such<br />

as Model United Nations. Those of<br />

Katherine Fairhurst us who participated in Model NATO<br />

this year are very proud of what we<br />

accomplished and believed we gained invaluable professional<br />

development by being a part of the experience.<br />

Editor’s Note: Katherine, class of <strong>2012</strong>, dreams of a job in<br />

hostage negotiation and wants to help people in the field<br />

of national security and criminal justice. Her hometown is<br />

Dayton, Ohio, and her major was Government & National<br />

Security.


National Criminal Justice Honorary<br />

The <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> Alpha Epsilon Kappa Chapter of Alpha<br />

Phi Sigma (APS) inducted 16 new members into the national<br />

criminal justice honorary society in December.<br />

APS recognizes academic<br />

excellence of both undergraduate<br />

and graduate students of<br />

criminal justice. Its goals are to<br />

honor and promote academic excellence, community service,<br />

educational leadership, and unity. APS is the only criminal<br />

justice honor society which is a certified member of The Association<br />

of College Honor Societies and affiliated with The<br />

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.<br />

“<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s local chapter of APS has set their<br />

expectations for excellence higher than the national standard.<br />

This was a conscious decision by TU’s criminal justice students--<br />

to bring attention to <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s outstanding criminal<br />

justice programs and its most scholarly students,” says Dr. Jeff<br />

Stockner, Professor of Criminal Justice and APS Advisor.<br />

Mock Crime Scene<br />

Two victims were on the ground, bullet casings were scattered<br />

around the yard, guns were nearby and yellow tape was<br />

stretched across the scene.<br />

It was another day in the life of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> students<br />

learning about various situations within the criminal justice field.<br />

Don Joseph, an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice<br />

and a Sergeant at the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office, and<br />

Scott Blough, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and<br />

Security Studies, led students in a criminal investigations class<br />

through an exercise in drawing sketches of the mock crime<br />

scene in April.<br />

“Now they’re actually putting practice to the theory—our<br />

goal is to give students real experience and to have them turn<br />

in a crime scene sketch,” Joseph said.<br />

Students took measurements of the crime scene and<br />

made rough sketches while participating in the activity, and<br />

they were to draw nicer sketches later.<br />

“They’ll list out the measurements,”<br />

said Joseph.<br />

Additionally, TU students<br />

visited John’s Welding<br />

& Towing to learn how to<br />

process a vehicle involved<br />

in a crime or accident. The<br />

activity involved students dividing<br />

into teams to inspect<br />

a previously wrecked green<br />

four-door Saturn. The car had<br />

mud on its tires, deployed<br />

airbags, scratches and a bent<br />

rim. Students were asked to<br />

examine the car, do blood<br />

analysis and scrape some of<br />

the paint.<br />

TU Professor Michael<br />

Lewis, a retired police officer,<br />

said people assume the car had been involved in a crash<br />

but questioned whether there was more to the story. There<br />

are a lot of variables if there is no body or if there is no one<br />

to talk to, he said. “Sometimes, things aren’t always as they<br />

appear,” he said.<br />

Lewis told students a vehicle is mobile, and investigators<br />

need to see how it ended up at its current location. “We<br />

have to look beyond where this is at,” he said.<br />

This article appeared, in part, in The Advertiser-Tribune<br />

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The Operations Director for Franklin County Coroner’s<br />

Office, Timothy Fassette, spoke to students about forensic toxicology<br />

and its application in the field in March. Fassette had attendees identify<br />

the cause of death from several toxicology reports to demonstrate how one<br />

should not assume things and fully investigate every possibility.<br />

He recommended that students do four things to prepare themselves for<br />

a career in forensic toxicology. Fassette told those in attendance to, “always<br />

check out every possible situation” when investigating a death. He also<br />

advised them to learn as much about chemistry, pharmacology, investigations<br />

and pathology as possible. Finally, he told students to, “never stop learning”<br />

by going to conferences, seminars and training during their career.<br />

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26 | SPRING / SUMMER <strong>2012</strong> | CHALLENGE<br />

One Week in May<br />

Graduate Students Study Different<br />

Cultures<br />

It was a cold night for early May. The temperature was already<br />

dropping when a group of TU graduate students gathered<br />

behind the Main Classroom Building at <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

and set about erecting a makeshift “tent city” in anticipation<br />

of experiencing the challenges of homelessness.<br />

A few of the students in Dr.<br />

Elizabeth Victor’s Cultural Competence<br />

class were lucky enough<br />

to shelter themselves from the<br />

elements in actual tents. Others<br />

scoured the city for the huge<br />

cardboard boxes that they called<br />

“home” for the night. There<br />

were no campfires to keep them<br />

warm, and no food from 3 p.m.<br />

Dr. Elizabeth Victor<br />

until the following morning.<br />

No one was complaining,<br />

though. In fact, these students in the Forensic Psychology<br />

Program seemed grateful. That Thursday night was the<br />

culmination of a trip earlier in the day when the students<br />

volunteered at Toledo’s three main homeless shelters, where<br />

they encountered the real faces of those who had fallen on<br />

hard times.<br />

It had been a long, whirlwind week. Each day, the class<br />

journeyed to a different area of Toledo to experience firsthand<br />

the cultures and religions that, in most cases, were far<br />

different from their own.<br />

“This week is what we call<br />

immersion experiences. They go<br />

places and learn by doing,” said Dr.<br />

Victor, who organizes the field trips<br />

annually. “The goal is to help them<br />

develop an awareness of other cultures<br />

and other types of people that<br />

they may never have been exposed<br />

to, whom they may be working with<br />

in the future. Every year it’s something<br />

different.”<br />

This year, the week began with the students<br />

visiting the Shared Life Studio in Toledo,<br />

where they met the artists — all of whom have<br />

developmental disabilities. They also attended a seminar<br />

about the effects of poverty and homelessness, presented<br />

by Bridges Out of Poverty.<br />

“All of this teaches them how to deal with people of<br />

different incomes, so that when the students get out and<br />

are working in the community, they know the kinds of things<br />

to look for and what to do,” Victor explained. In the afternoon,<br />

Dan Wilkins, an advocate for the disabled, spoke to<br />

the students about disabilities.<br />

After each session, the students were treated to a meal<br />

at an ethnic restaurant.<br />

Throughout the week, the students also experienced<br />

different forms of religions by attending an Islamic mosque,<br />

Jewish synagogue and Hindu temple. They also heard a<br />

presentation from Darlene Newburn, Director of the Ohio<br />

Civil Rights Commission, who talked about discrimination<br />

cases based on race, gender, and religion.<br />

The diversity training continued on Wednesday, when<br />

GLASS — the Gay/Lesbian and Straight Supporters from<br />

TU — spoke to the class. The students also heard from a<br />

woman from India, who explained the cultural differences<br />

between India and the U.S., and offered information about<br />

how to deal with people from East Asian cultures.<br />

On Friday, the students took a potluck-style meal to the<br />

Oaks, Toledo’s homeless shelter for women and children.<br />

They also volunteered at the Cherry Street Mission (the men’s<br />

shelter) and at the Sparrow’s Nest, the shelter for women.<br />

Many in the group seemed touched by the open-arms<br />

reception they received at the shelters.<br />

“They were very open with their stories. Many of those<br />

encountered had suffered from drug addiction and mental<br />

illness. There were different components that brought them<br />

to where they are at today,” said Lily Cardona, who plans to<br />

go to law school after she graduates<br />

in December. “It’s been a long week.<br />

We’ve had a lot of experiences that it<br />

would have taken a long time otherwise<br />

to have gotten.”<br />

Dr. Victor explained that,<br />

besides the hands-on work, the<br />

students are required to complete<br />

online assignments. Then on Friday,<br />

it was time to break camp and do<br />

presentations.<br />

“They have to create their<br />

own agency and make it culturally<br />

competent. This is one of the courses that are required for<br />

licensure,” Dr. Victor said. “We give them the tools, they<br />

build their house. We do this every year. I like it because it<br />

brings out the best in everyone.”<br />

Information on the value of the experience can be<br />

found at: www.carmelitereview.org/issues/v48n4/10.php<br />

For additional information, contact Dr. Elizabeth Victor,<br />

419.344.3804.


Tent City Participants<br />

Below are a few testimonials of those<br />

who participated in the Tent City<br />

Project<br />

Monica Rae<br />

Crimmins<br />

Fostoria, Ohio<br />

From taking this<br />

Cultural Competence<br />

class, Monica<br />

said, “This class taught me that it is<br />

not alright to fear a person based on<br />

what the media shows us. We see<br />

splashed all over the news the negative<br />

that makes us fear and misunderstand<br />

those that live in our country<br />

who are not originally from here. I<br />

learned that we are all the same...human<br />

beings no matter what. Extremists<br />

aside, we all need the same thing,<br />

want the same thing and live for the<br />

same thing, peace.”<br />

Monica chose TU because,<br />

“It was one of only three Forensic<br />

Psychology programs in the nation<br />

and had a great reputation…not to<br />

mention, close to home.”<br />

When asked what she will remember<br />

most about her TU education,<br />

Monica said, “I will remember<br />

my classmates and professors. If all<br />

the knowledge from the books were<br />

to seep out of my head, I would still<br />

remember them as the most positive<br />

experience I have had at TU. Without<br />

their guidance, support and the<br />

students acting as a cheering section<br />

for each other, this time would have<br />

been much more than the heart could<br />

bear.”<br />

Monica’s Ideal career goal:<br />

One of two things: State or Federal<br />

Prison Warden<br />

Monica Rich<br />

Clyde, Ohio<br />

According to<br />

Monica, “There<br />

were so many things<br />

I learned during this<br />

class and trying to limit it to one main<br />

thing is difficult. I guess I would have<br />

to say that the one that impressed me<br />

the most was the visit to the Mosque.<br />

I did not know how much their belief<br />

and my religious beliefs were similar.<br />

They believe in only one God but<br />

call him Allah. Our beliefs in regards<br />

to abortion are the same. I found<br />

our differences very interesting. The<br />

reason they separate the women<br />

and men is to avoid distraction from<br />

their prayers and devoted attention<br />

to God. They put their foreheads to<br />

the ground to acknowledge that they<br />

came from dirt and they will return to<br />

dirt when they die. The Imam gave<br />

each of us a Quran and when I have<br />

time I will be reading it to learn even<br />

more about their beliefs.”<br />

Monica chose TU because of the<br />

Forensic Psychology program and<br />

for the easy commute. “I took a tour<br />

of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> with my daughter<br />

when she was looking at colleges.<br />

She was looking at the Forensics<br />

Program and I found it very interesting<br />

and thought it would be great to do<br />

this kind of work.”<br />

When asked what she will remember<br />

most about her TU education,<br />

Monica said, “The thing I will<br />

remember the most about my <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> education is how helpful the<br />

professors are. I have found them to<br />

be very helpful, friendly and willing to<br />

help connect you with future employers.<br />

Although I like all my professors,<br />

my mentors are Dr. Liz Victor and Dr.<br />

Steven Hurwitz whom I will stay connected<br />

to after graduation. I was the<br />

oldest in my undergrad classes and<br />

now I am the oldest in my graduate<br />

classes and I find it great that my<br />

experiences and my opinions are welcome.<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> was the best<br />

choice I made and has been a very<br />

rewarding experience.”<br />

Monica’s Ideal career goal:<br />

“Utilize my degree is to start a program<br />

for teen and pre-teen victims<br />

of crime to help them rebuild their<br />

self-esteem and self-confidence. I<br />

used to work for a juvenile detention<br />

facility and a young man that was<br />

incarcerated there told me his story of<br />

how he had been molested and then<br />

he in turn molested his own brother.<br />

I saw him on the Marshall’s most<br />

wanted list about 2 years ago and<br />

it was for molesting children. He is<br />

back in prison and his brother is now<br />

a sexual predator. I want to break the<br />

cycle so that victims don’t become the<br />

perpetrator.”<br />

Marisa Matas<br />

Newton Falls,<br />

Ohio<br />

From taking this<br />

Cultural Competence<br />

class, Marisa<br />

said, “I come from a<br />

small town where the race is predominately<br />

Caucasian, so, I did not have<br />

much exposure to other cultures. I<br />

am an avid reader, yet a book cannot<br />

compare to real life experience.<br />

What I think this class has taught me<br />

the most was to accept everyone for<br />

whom they are, and those stereotypes<br />

that exist are never true. There is<br />

always another side to the story, we<br />

all are more alike than we think, and<br />

if we could get people to realize this<br />

then the world would be a happier<br />

place. I also learned that sleeping in<br />

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a box when its forty degrees outside<br />

is awful! I wouldn’t wish that type of<br />

lifestyle on anyone.”<br />

Marisa chose TU because, “I had<br />

originally started off in the Forensic<br />

Psychology Program and it was the<br />

only <strong>University</strong> in Ohio to house this<br />

program. They also have an excellent<br />

School of Criminal Justice and Social<br />

Sciences.”<br />

When asked what she will<br />

remember most about her TU<br />

education, Marisa said, “Truthfully, I<br />

will remember specific professors--<br />

Elizabeth Victor and Steve Hurwitzprofessors<br />

who really care about you<br />

as an individual. I cannot begin to<br />

count the number of times Dr. Victor<br />

has gone to bat for me with classes<br />

and transfers. They care about you<br />

as the individual not about statistics<br />

of the school rates. This experience<br />

here is one of a kind they strive to<br />

make you your best and give you the<br />

resources to do it. I will truly miss <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>.”<br />

Marisa’s ideal career goal:<br />

“Upon graduation, I plan on entering<br />

the Ohio Investigative Unit and eventually<br />

transferring into the Federal<br />

Bureau of Investigation. I am intrigued<br />

by the criminal thought process and<br />

will truly be satisfied working where I<br />

can practice this.”<br />

Tammy R.<br />

Hardy<br />

Pemberville, Ohio<br />

Tammy said, “This<br />

class reinforced that<br />

ultimately, we are<br />

all alike. No matter what religion (or<br />

lack thereof); race, economic class or<br />

disability, our hopes and dreams are<br />

all alike…the desire to improve ourselves<br />

and live in peace. Just because<br />

a person may be dealt a harder life<br />

does not make them less of a person.<br />

I really learned that judgment is left to<br />

those who preside in court rooms not<br />

to people for people. Until you walk<br />

a mile in someone else’s shoes (or<br />

freeze in a tent for a night), you cannot<br />

possibly know how they feel and you<br />

will NEVER know what they thought or<br />

believe unless you ask them.”<br />

She chose TU because, “TU’s<br />

CJ Program is one of the few in the<br />

country and it is close to home.”<br />

When asked what she will remember<br />

most about her TU education,<br />

Tammy said, “I will definitely<br />

remember this Tent City experience<br />

and the Cultural Competence Class. I<br />

have completed a bachelor’s degree<br />

and a master’s degree and have never<br />

participated in anything like it. It was<br />

exhausting, but well worth it.”<br />

Tammy’s ideal career goal:<br />

“Complete assessments for any number<br />

of psychological requirements/<br />

entities.”<br />

Angelica<br />

Trumpower<br />

Republic, Ohio<br />

Angelica said that<br />

she learned that,<br />

“Everyone would<br />

just like to live in a world of kindness<br />

and mutual respect. This course<br />

was an eye-opener. The inequality<br />

that groups of individuals face daily<br />

is unacceptable. If we are to be the<br />

“melting pot” that we call ourselves,<br />

then we need to light the fire on the<br />

stove, because right now we are still<br />

distinctly separated components.”<br />

She chose TU because, “It is one<br />

of the only universities that provide<br />

a master’s-level program in criminal<br />

justice that is seated.”<br />

She said she will remember, “I am<br />

a seedling,” as Dr. Victor says.<br />

Angelica’s ideal career goal:<br />

“To apply to law school. I would like to<br />

do prosecutorial work and work with<br />

the District Attorney’s office. I would<br />

also like to teach coursework at the<br />

adjunct level, and possibly as a fulltime<br />

faculty later.”


Mackenzie<br />

Overmeyer<br />

Columbus Ohio<br />

Mackenzie said, “I<br />

learned so much<br />

from taking the<br />

cultural competence course and I<br />

honestly feel that everyone would<br />

benefit from taking a course like this.<br />

We were fortunate enough to meet<br />

many people from different backgrounds<br />

and walks of life. Our class<br />

met individuals from different religious<br />

affiliations such as: Hindu, Muslim,<br />

Jewish, and Wiccan. We talked to<br />

people from different backgrounds<br />

and groups, such as individuals<br />

from homeless shelters, Glass (Gay,<br />

Lesbian and Straight Supporters), an<br />

individual from The Disability Center,<br />

and a lady from India. This class was<br />

an enriching experience and I feel<br />

more open and welcoming of other<br />

cultures. I look forward to taking what<br />

I have learned and applying it to my<br />

everyday life. I will also help educate<br />

others on the wrongs of discriminating<br />

against groups of people and the hurt<br />

it causes. With open minds we all can<br />

get along better and learn from one<br />

another.”<br />

When asked why she chose TU,<br />

she said, “I honestly chose TU because<br />

it was close to home. I really like<br />

living in Columbus.”<br />

Mackenzie’s ideal career goal:<br />

“I change my mind weekly about<br />

what I want to do with my degree.<br />

Right now I am a behavioral aide for<br />

autistic children and I absolutely love<br />

it. I know I want to go on to get my<br />

Ph.D., and I am considering getting<br />

into mental health law--that would<br />

be a way for me to help families with<br />

mentally disabled kids.”<br />

Lillian<br />

Cardona<br />

State of<br />

Connecticut<br />

Lillian said, “The<br />

experience of this<br />

class was amazing! Words cannot<br />

truly do justice to the knowledge that<br />

I gained from the class. Dr. Victor is<br />

fantastic! Perhaps one of the most<br />

important elements of my entire experience<br />

is that we, as a society, continue<br />

to make the mistake of labeling<br />

individuals and with these labels, we<br />

try to define the essence of who they<br />

are instead of seeing the totality or<br />

the essence of who they are as a race,<br />

people, and culture. When all is said<br />

and done, we are more alike than we<br />

are different and we should embrace<br />

the differences in people and see it as<br />

strength and not as a weakness.”<br />

She chose TU because, “TU<br />

offers a master’s level program in the<br />

concentration of Forensic Psychology<br />

and, after researching, the program is<br />

considered a very good one. Also, the<br />

Saturday schedule worked very well<br />

with my schedule.”<br />

When asked what she will remember<br />

most about her TU education,<br />

Lillian said, “I will remember the<br />

knowledge gained, of course, and the<br />

wonderful individuals (i.e. classmates,<br />

professors) with whom I’ve had the<br />

privilege of crossing paths.”<br />

Lillian’s ideal career goal:<br />

“I plan on attending law school upon<br />

graduating from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

with my master’s degree in Forensic<br />

Psychology.”<br />

Tent City participant<br />

Matt Beham<br />

Tent City participant<br />

Steffany Stoeffler<br />

Tent City participant<br />

Sean Davis<br />

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TU Junior Wins Essay<br />

Contest<br />

Bryce<br />

Fredrick<br />

TU student Bryce Fredrick, Castalia,<br />

Ohio, won the <strong>2012</strong> International Association<br />

for Intelligence Education<br />

Essay Contest, Undergraduate Division.<br />

His essay, entitled “eIntelligence<strong>University</strong>”<br />

came about after researching<br />

virtual education for the intelligence<br />

field. After encountering some roadblocks<br />

because of changes in virtual<br />

education, Bryce found a program at<br />

Duke <strong>University</strong> that ties every virtual<br />

university into one community.<br />

“What I found was eye-opening<br />

to me, and made me wonder what the<br />

future holds for students in the intelligence<br />

field.” Bryce began to examine<br />

how future technology balances theory<br />

and practice and realized what he<br />

found in eIntelligence<strong>University</strong> was<br />

the way to go. He proceeded to dive<br />

into the virtual effect of becoming immersed<br />

into the game and then nothing<br />

else matters.<br />

Bryce compared and contrasted<br />

the successes and failures of virtual<br />

technology and highlighted the importance<br />

of using experts around the<br />

world. “As I noted in my paper, Bill<br />

Gates believes that expertise requires<br />

10,000 hours of deliberate practice to<br />

master a skill. He also states that you<br />

have to be open-minded and fanatical<br />

to keep going. What I found was the<br />

real-life training applied to Gates’s idea<br />

and the encouragement, challenge and<br />

support of the training by the students<br />

would be most beneficial.”<br />

Bryce was invited to present his<br />

paper in May, at the Association’s National<br />

Conference in Washington, D. C.<br />

Student Michael McVety<br />

is Honored<br />

The Ohio Correctional and Court Services<br />

Association (OCCSA) selected TU as the<br />

recipient of its Dr. Lamar Johnson Scholarship.<br />

The $500 scholarship award is traditionally<br />

given to recognize the outstanding<br />

achievements of a criminal justice<br />

program offered by an Ohio university.<br />

The OCCSA is the Ohio Chapter of the<br />

American Correctional Association.<br />

“During the discussions about<br />

which <strong>University</strong> to select for the scholarship,<br />

several OCCSA Board members<br />

mentioned<br />

that they had<br />

staff who<br />

graduated<br />

from <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>.<br />

The board<br />

felt that due<br />

to the positive<br />

experience<br />

we col-<br />

Mike McVety<br />

lectively had with students and faculty<br />

from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> that <strong>Tiffin</strong> would<br />

be a fine selection for the scholarship,”<br />

remarks Bernie Rochford, Executive Vice<br />

President of Oriana House.<br />

In particular, several OCCSA board<br />

members, who work in various positions<br />

throughout the Ohio Department of<br />

Rehabilitation and Corrections, spoke<br />

highly of TU because of the excellent<br />

work of the many department employees<br />

who are TU alumni from both the<br />

bachelor’s and master’s criminal justice<br />

programs, according to Rochford.<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> nominated student<br />

Michael McVety to receive the $500<br />

scholarship. McVety, along with TU<br />

faculty members Dr. Gene Chintala and<br />

Professor Scott Blough, attended the<br />

OCCSA’s annual meeting in November<br />

where the scholarship was awarded.<br />

SAAB Members Attend<br />

Conference<br />

More than 200 Student African American<br />

Brotherhood (SAAB) members<br />

from Northwest Ohio and Michigan<br />

arrived on the <strong>University</strong> of Toledo’s<br />

campus to participate in a conference<br />

last fall.<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s SAAB Chapter<br />

conducted an activity that allowed the<br />

brothers to understand the significance<br />

of the core values.<br />

SAAB is an organization committed<br />

to access for and success of at-risk<br />

males in high school and college, with<br />

a clear vision and a passion for delivering<br />

outstanding results. The organization<br />

assists men of color to realize<br />

and achieve their fullest potential by<br />

fostering a “spirit of caring” and providing<br />

positive leadership within their<br />

community.<br />

Students Attend Ohio<br />

Parks and Recreation<br />

Conference<br />

Over thirty sports and recreation<br />

management students participated in<br />

the Ohio Parks and Recreation <strong>2012</strong><br />

Conference and Trade Show at Kalahari<br />

Resort in Sandusky, Ohio, in February.<br />

The conference included educational<br />

programs focusing on leadership,<br />

planning, administration and career<br />

advice for a future career in Parks<br />

and Recreation. Recreation directors<br />

from around the state conducted mock<br />

interviews and mentoring sessions.<br />

Students were able to interact with<br />

over 100 industry vendors such as<br />

Turfgrass, Mid-West Golf, <strong>Challenge</strong>r<br />

Sports, and the Cincinnati Circus Company<br />

who participated as exhibitors.


Students also attended sessions<br />

and networked with recreation managers<br />

and directors from around the state<br />

and hosted educational sessions on<br />

fundraising, communication strategies,<br />

economic survival, skateboarding outreach,<br />

and<br />

background<br />

checks for<br />

recreation<br />

and park<br />

employees.<br />

Keynote<br />

presenters<br />

were Jack<br />

Hanna, host<br />

Jack Hanna<br />

of “Jack<br />

Hanna’s Animal Adventures,” and Joe<br />

Haas, CEO of Kalahari, who has resort<br />

experience spanning seven countries<br />

on three continents.<br />

instructors visited the Garden District,<br />

St. Louis Cemetery I, museums, a national<br />

park, the Lower Ninth Ward, and<br />

attended jazz and blues shows. They<br />

shopped at the French Market and ate<br />

local delicacies, including gumbo, fried<br />

chicken, jambalaya, beignets, muffelettas,<br />

po’boys, crawfish, alligator, and<br />

much more.<br />

Las Vegas<br />

Costa Rica<br />

Fifteen students and employees visited<br />

Costa Rica last summer. The trip<br />

was organized by Dr. Teresa Shafer,<br />

Professor of Management and Associate<br />

Dean of International Business<br />

Programs.<br />

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Students Going Places<br />

New Orleans<br />

During spring break, TU students visited<br />

New Orleans for a five-day culmination<br />

of the course, America’s Historic<br />

Cities: New Orleans, Tradition and<br />

Rebirth. They were able to gain handson<br />

knowledge of many aspects of New<br />

Orleans culture, history, entertainment,<br />

and fine dining. Professors Vincent<br />

Moore and Michael Herdlick provided<br />

their expertise.<br />

The 16 students and the two<br />

Students in front of one of the<br />

Mardi Gras displays at the<br />

Presbytere (Louisiana State Museum)<br />

Six Hospitality and Management majors<br />

and five faculty and staff members<br />

visited Las Vegas in March. Their trip<br />

began with a drive to Red Rock Canyon<br />

to hike and view the picturesque landscape<br />

prior to attending the convention’s<br />

“Welcome Kick-Off Party” at<br />

Caesars Palace Resort.<br />

The convention included keynote<br />

speaker Pauly Shore, who shared his<br />

40 year history with the world famous<br />

Comedy Store. After the speaker, the<br />

group was free to roam the Tradeshow<br />

Floor. Most of the attendees saw many<br />

celebrity appearances such as: Toby<br />

Keith, Andrew Dice Clay, Ne-Yo, Coolio,<br />

and Dennis Rodman.<br />

Carol McDannell, Director of<br />

Career Development, attended this<br />

year’s conference and said, “This conference<br />

was a wonderful networking<br />

opportunity for all the <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

students who attended. They were able<br />

to network with experienced professionals,<br />

learn about the hospitality<br />

management industry, and get a taste<br />

of a large-scale event.”<br />

Students<br />

who took the<br />

trip as a class<br />

were required<br />

to attend class<br />

prior to the<br />

trip, keep a<br />

journal about<br />

the trip, complete a PowerPoint presentation<br />

of the key highlights of the<br />

trip surrounding the goals of the class,<br />

and write a comparative analysis paper<br />

when they returned to earn the credits.<br />

The experience was designed to<br />

motivate students to become more informed<br />

global citizens. The adventurers<br />

participated in an East to West coast<br />

tour of the Central American nation.<br />

They visited San Jose, Braulio Carrilo<br />

National Park, a banana plantation,<br />

Tortuguero, a village school, canals,<br />

Sarapiqui, hot springs, Lake Arenal, La<br />

Fortuna Waterfall, volcanoes, Guanacaste<br />

and beaches on both the Caribbean<br />

and Pacific. They also got to<br />

know the Ticos (natives) in Tortuguero<br />

while visiting the village school. Group<br />

members attended class and played<br />

soccer with the children of Tortuguero.<br />

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Thailand, Cambodia &<br />

Vietnam in 2013<br />

TU is sponsoring an 11-day tour of<br />

Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in<br />

May of 2013.<br />

The tour is being coordinated by<br />

Dr. Jonathan Appel, Associate Professor<br />

of Psychology and Criminal Justice. It<br />

is open to students, faculty, staff, family<br />

and members of the general community<br />

and can be used for college credit.<br />

Among the tour highlights are<br />

visits to Bangkok, where participants<br />

will enjoy a boat tour along the Chao<br />

Phraya River and Thonburi Klongs and<br />

visit the Grand Palace; an excursion<br />

to Ayutthaya, including the summer<br />

palace of King Rama IV; a visit to Siem<br />

Reap with special stops at Tonle Sap<br />

Lake and Ta Prohm and Preak Khan<br />

temples, as well as Angkor Wat and<br />

Angkor Thom; Ho Chi Minh City and<br />

the Reunification Palace and War<br />

Remnants Museum; the Cu Chi region;<br />

and Cai Be, where tour participants will<br />

experience a floating market.<br />

The cost (between $4,000 and<br />

$4,300) includes three meals daily,<br />

hotels with private bathrooms, tours,<br />

round-trip and internal flights, and land<br />

transportation. Payment plans are<br />

available through Education First (EF)<br />

College Study Tours.<br />

More information is available<br />

through Education First College Study<br />

Tours at its website, http://www.efcollegestudytours.com/preview-tour.<br />

aspxgt=1063348, or by contacting<br />

Dr. Appel at TU at 419.448.3285 or via<br />

email at appelj@tiffin.edu.<br />

Hisrich Elected to TU<br />

Board of Trustees<br />

Dr. Robert Hisrich, the Garvin Professor<br />

of Global Entrepreneurship and Director<br />

of the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship<br />

at the<br />

Thunderbird<br />

School of<br />

Global Management<br />

was elected<br />

to <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>’s<br />

Dr. Robert Hisrich<br />

Board of<br />

Trustees in<br />

May.<br />

Hisrich is a world-renowned expert<br />

and author on entrepreneurship, as<br />

well as a global entrepreneur who has<br />

been involved in the founding of more<br />

than a dozen companies including H&B<br />

Associates, a marketing and management<br />

consulting firm. He has authored<br />

or co-authored 26 books. He has<br />

also written more than 350 articles on<br />

entrepreneurship, international business<br />

management and venture capital,<br />

which have appeared in such journals<br />

as The Academy of Management Review,<br />

California Management Review,<br />

Columbia Journal of World Business,<br />

Journal of Business Venturing, Sloan<br />

Management Review and Small Business<br />

Economics.<br />

Grandillo Named President<br />

of Lakeland College<br />

Michael Grandillo, TU’s Vice President<br />

for Development and Public Affairs,<br />

was named the 15th president of Lakeland<br />

College in Wisconsin.<br />

His career in higher education<br />

has included working in admissions at<br />

Ohio Northern <strong>University</strong>, leadership<br />

roles in admissions and development<br />

at Heidelberg <strong>University</strong>, and the past<br />

17 years as Vice President for Development<br />

and Public Affairs and as an<br />

adjunct<br />

instructor at<br />

TU.<br />

He<br />

earned a<br />

Doctor of<br />

Philosophy<br />

in Higher<br />

Education<br />

Mike Grandillo<br />

and Italian<br />

Renaissance<br />

History from The <strong>University</strong> of Toledo,<br />

a Master of Science in Education from<br />

The <strong>University</strong> of Dayton, and a Bachelor<br />

of Arts in Political Science from<br />

Ohio Northern <strong>University</strong>.<br />

He spent 17 years on <strong>Tiffin</strong> City<br />

Council, including a year and a half as<br />

its president.<br />

Grandillo led the funding and<br />

development of <strong>Tiffin</strong>’s campus,<br />

including the completion of real estate<br />

acquisitions that added 110 acres and<br />

the construction of 11 new buildings, a<br />

nature preserve, an athletic complex, a<br />

retirement village and the expansion of<br />

three existing buildings.<br />

A published historian, Grandillo<br />

has special academic interest in the denominational<br />

movement in higher education,<br />

the Italian Renaissance and the<br />

American Presidency. He has authored<br />

numerous articles and presentations<br />

related primarily to student success,<br />

admissions<br />

policies and<br />

development.<br />

In<br />

2010, he<br />

published<br />

the definitive<br />

institutional<br />

history of<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>,<br />

“Onward to<br />

the Dawn.”<br />

President Paul Marion<br />

presents Mike and Nancy<br />

Grandillo with TU’s official<br />

chair at a reception in their<br />

honor in June.


New Deans<br />

Schumacher Named<br />

VP for Development &<br />

Public Affairs<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> announced Ron<br />

Schumacher as its new Vice President<br />

for Development & Public Affairs.<br />

Schumacher<br />

was<br />

named Vice<br />

President for<br />

Enrollment<br />

Management<br />

of <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> in<br />

2010 after<br />

serving<br />

Ron Schumacher<br />

seven<br />

years as Vice President for Enrollment<br />

Management at the <strong>University</strong> of Saint<br />

Francis in Indiana.<br />

Prior to his position at Saint<br />

Francis, Schumacher worked at <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> for eight years, including five<br />

years as Director of Undergraduate<br />

Admissions. He earned a bachelor’s<br />

degree from Allegheny College and an<br />

MBA from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>, and he is<br />

currently working on a doctoral degree<br />

from Bowling Green State <strong>University</strong>.<br />

Schumacher has been active in<br />

community service, as well as serving as<br />

a member of a number of professional<br />

organizations, including the National<br />

Association for College Admissions<br />

Counseling, the National Association of<br />

Intercollegiate Athletics, and the Ohio<br />

Association of Collegiate Registrars<br />

and Admissions Counselors.<br />

Hall Named VP for<br />

Human Resources and<br />

Campus Services<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> named Lori Hall as Vice<br />

President for Human Resources and<br />

Campus Services. Mrs. Hall has been<br />

with <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> since 2000 serving<br />

the <strong>University</strong> as Director of Human<br />

Resources, Equal Employment Opportunity<br />

Officer, and faculty member.<br />

In her<br />

new position,<br />

Lori will<br />

oversee<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />

Office<br />

of Human<br />

Resources,<br />

Student<br />

Lori Hall<br />

Affairs, Food<br />

Service,<br />

Bookstore, and Mail Center. Prior to<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Lori served as Assistant<br />

Vice President and Banking Center<br />

Manager for Fifth Third Bank of <strong>Tiffin</strong>.<br />

Wyden Named<br />

VP for Finance and<br />

Administration<br />

Leon Wyden was named TU’s Vice<br />

President for Finance and Administration.<br />

Prior to his employment with <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>,<br />

Wyden<br />

served as Associate<br />

Vice<br />

President of<br />

Finance and<br />

Planning at<br />

Upper Iowa<br />

<strong>University</strong>.<br />

He is a Certified<br />

Public<br />

Leon Wyden<br />

Accountant and previously served as<br />

Deputy Controller at Howard <strong>University</strong><br />

in addition to 28 years in senior finance<br />

positions at several companies in Michigan.<br />

He earned his BBA in Accounting<br />

from the <strong>University</strong> of Detroit.<br />

At TU, his duties will include serving<br />

as the university’s chief fiscal officer<br />

and as a member of the President’s<br />

Cabinet. He will also supervise the positions<br />

of Director of Facilities, Executive<br />

Director of Information Technology<br />

Services, Controller, Director of Budgets<br />

and External Accounts, Financial<br />

Coordinator, and the Heminger Center<br />

Manager.<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> has named Annette<br />

Staunton as Dean of Academic Support<br />

Programs and Chief Retention Officer,<br />

Jeremy Marinis as Dean of Admissions<br />

and Financial Aid, and Michael Herdlick<br />

as Dean of Students.<br />

Annette<br />

Staunton<br />

will oversee<br />

the Registration<br />

and Records<br />

Office,<br />

Academic<br />

Advising,<br />

Career<br />

Services,<br />

Annette Staunton<br />

the Student<br />

Success Center, Success Coaches, Disability<br />

Services and Retention. She has<br />

been with <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> since 1991<br />

serving in multiple director positions in<br />

the Graduate Office, Adult & Continuing<br />

Education Office, Operations,<br />

Financial Aid, Registration & Records<br />

and Retention. She earned a Bachelor<br />

of Business Administration and an MBA<br />

from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />

“I am looking forward to this new<br />

and exciting opportunity as Dean of<br />

Academic Support Programs and Chief<br />

Retention Officer” said Annette. “<strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> has assisted me in pursuing<br />

my educational and career goals<br />

- Thank you!”<br />

Jeremy<br />

Marinis will<br />

oversee<br />

Undergraduate<br />

and<br />

Graduate<br />

Admissions,<br />

Student Services,<br />

Adult<br />

and Transfer<br />

Jeremy Marinis<br />

Admissions,<br />

Online Bachelor’s Degree Admissions<br />

and Student Services, Financial Aid,<br />

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New Deans<br />

International Admissions, International<br />

Student Services, Admissions Operations<br />

and the Call Center. He earned a<br />

Bachelor of Business Administration degree<br />

from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> and a Master<br />

of Arts in Education from the <strong>University</strong><br />

of Findlay. He is currently pursuing<br />

a Doctorate of Philosophy in Higher<br />

Education from the <strong>University</strong> of Toledo.<br />

Prior to joining TU’s admissions team,<br />

Marinis coached for TU’s football team.<br />

“I am extremely thankful to <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> for this new opportunity,”<br />

Marinis said. “It is my goal to build upon<br />

the positive momentum at <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />

and continue <strong>Tiffin</strong>’s innovative<br />

approach to enrollment management.”<br />

Michael<br />

Herdlick will<br />

supervise<br />

the daily<br />

operations<br />

of the Student<br />

Affairs<br />

Division and<br />

will continue<br />

to serve as<br />

Michael Herdlick<br />

Director<br />

of Institutional Research. He earned a<br />

Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from<br />

Malone <strong>University</strong> and a Master of Science<br />

in mathematics from New Mexico<br />

Tech. Prior to his employment at <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>, Herdlick served in various<br />

roles at a large commercial environmental<br />

laboratory as a Quality Assurance<br />

Manager and Vice President of<br />

Laboratory Operations. He has served<br />

TU as a faculty member since 2001<br />

and also served as the NCAA Faculty<br />

Athletic Representative.<br />

“I am honored and humbled to<br />

have been selected as the next Dean<br />

of Students of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>,” said<br />

Herdlick. “My family and I are very<br />

grateful for this wonderful opportunity<br />

and tremendously excited for the<br />

future.”<br />

Good Morning World<br />

Lawyer & Author David Stewart<br />

Lawyer and author David Stewart presented “American<br />

Emperor—Aaron Burr’s <strong>Challenge</strong> to Jefferson’s America”<br />

in February.<br />

After practicing law for more than 25 years, David<br />

Stewart turned to writing history (though he still practices<br />

law). Stewart’s latest work is American Emperor, Aaron<br />

Burr’s <strong>Challenge</strong> to Jefferson’s America, an examination<br />

of Burr’s remarkable Western expedition, an undertaking<br />

David Stewart<br />

that shook the nation’s foundation at a time when those<br />

foundations were none too solid.<br />

Stewart is President of the Washington Independent Review of Books, an online<br />

book review.<br />

Cardinal Stritch <strong>University</strong><br />

Dean Dr. Peter Holbrook<br />

Dr. Peter Holbrook, Cardinal Stritch <strong>University</strong>’s Dean, presented<br />

“In the Blink of an Eye: Why Leaders Make Foolish<br />

Ethical Choices & What Can We Learn from Them,” in<br />

April.<br />

Dr. Holbrook’s expertise includes board development,<br />

organizational leadership and change, program<br />

development and evaluation, service, strategic thinking<br />

Dr. Peter Holbrook<br />

and planning, succession planning, and teams. In the<br />

blink of an eye, leaders can find themselves compromised<br />

by making foolish ethical choices that forever change the course of their lives. While<br />

we never think it can happen to ourselves, how do we really know


Art, Music and Theatre<br />

The Diane Kidd Gallery<br />

Through the leadership of Diane Kidd, the original <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> Art Gallery opened in Franks Hall in 1994. From her<br />

initial vision, the gallery has grown to become the spacious<br />

and light-filled Diane Kidd Art Gallery in the Hayes Center for<br />

the Arts. It is one of the finest exhibition spaces in the area,<br />

a drawing card for art lovers in northwest Ohio and beyond.<br />

More information about The Diane Kidd Gallery and upcoming<br />

shows can be obtained by contacting Marsha Pippenger,<br />

Gallery Director, at marsha.pippenger@gmail.com<br />

Calvert Student Show<br />

The gallery presented “Coordination of Creative Scenes,”<br />

featuring artworks by students from <strong>Tiffin</strong> Calvert High School<br />

in the first exhibition of the <strong>2012</strong> calendar year.<br />

The exhibition was a collection of 2-d works that vary<br />

in medium,” according to Marla Shultz, Calvert art instructor.<br />

“The media included photography, charcoal, paint and<br />

mixed-media. Included was a collection of drawings of the<br />

Seneca County Courthouse. The students preserved the<br />

courthouse in charcoal drawings that brought the beauty of<br />

the structure to life.”<br />

Burning the Maples<br />

Artist Holly Hey paid tribute to<br />

her father, Don, in “Burning the<br />

Maples,” at the gallery’s February<br />

exhibition. Don Hey spent<br />

time in the woods gathering<br />

wood to heat the family home<br />

and for carpentry and craft<br />

projects. Part of the installation<br />

recreated a scene from the artist’s<br />

childhood.<br />

action. Whether<br />

working with<br />

the surface of a<br />

painting or with a<br />

theatrical space,<br />

he integrates his<br />

vocabulary of images,<br />

texts, schematics,<br />

sounds,<br />

and objects into a<br />

variety of inventive<br />

compositions.<br />

Smith, Nelson & Smith Art<br />

Annual Student Exhibition &<br />

Senior Reception<br />

The April art show featured an exhibition<br />

by TU art students combined<br />

with a special reception recognizing<br />

this year’s graduating seniors.<br />

The student art show featured<br />

work from regular undergraduate<br />

courses in drawing, painting, and<br />

design, as well as a special exhibition<br />

of advanced undergraduate<br />

portfolio projects and creative<br />

thesis projects from TU’s Master of<br />

Humanities program. While the subject matter was eclectic,<br />

the work exhibited represented the best of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />

art program.<br />

CampusScene<br />

Burning Maples<br />

Apparitions, Remixes, & Fault Lines<br />

The March exhibit, “Apparitions, Remixes, & Fault Lines,” was<br />

presented by nationally recognized artist Nelson Smith.<br />

Earning widespread recognition as a painter, designer,<br />

composer and theater artist, Nelson Smith is a recent Ballinglen<br />

Arts Foundation Fellow and Senior Artist-In-Residence<br />

in Painting and Drawing for the Oregon College of Art and<br />

Craft. His work reveals his ongoing exploration of relationships<br />

between diagrammatic language, objects/images, and<br />

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Music<br />

Hip Hop Producer to Serve as<br />

Artist-In-Residence<br />

TU’s Music Department<br />

announced<br />

that hip hop producer,<br />

J Rawls, will<br />

serve as Artist-In-<br />

Residence. Rawls<br />

will join the TU<br />

Music Department<br />

as it launches its<br />

first coursework<br />

J Rawls<br />

for the new major<br />

in Professional Music; the only commercial/popular music<br />

performance degree in Ohio.<br />

During the <strong>2012</strong>-13 academic year, he will present twelve<br />

convocations and workshops focusing on hip hop, music<br />

production, and music industry related topics. These free<br />

lecture-demonstrations will be open to all TU students and<br />

the general public.<br />

His Columbus-based production company and record<br />

label continues to make an impact in the national hip hop<br />

scene. He is in high demand as a DJ for top clubs and private<br />

functions around the country. Rawls holds a bachelor’s degree<br />

in business from the <strong>University</strong> of Cincinnati, a master’s<br />

degree in education from Ashland <strong>University</strong>, and is pursuing<br />

a doctorate in higher education administration from Ohio<br />

<strong>University</strong>.<br />

For more information about TU’s Music Department,<br />

please visit www.tiffinmusic.com or email gig@tiffin.edu.<br />

YouTube Sensation to Attend <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong><br />

A young singer whose performances<br />

have earned her YouTube channel<br />

more than two million views<br />

will attend <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> this fall<br />

to pursue a degree in Professional<br />

Music.<br />

Heather Traska, 18, has generated<br />

enormous internet buzz for<br />

her singing and her elaborate<br />

Heather Traska<br />

videos, which feature advanced<br />

multi-screen editing and Broadway-caliber<br />

costumes, makeup and hair design. All done with<br />

one microphone, camera and laptop, and produced from her<br />

tiny bedroom in a small Wisconsin town.<br />

She has enrolled in TU’s new bachelor’s degree program<br />

in Professional Music, which is one of just a handful of commercial<br />

music performance programs in the nation, and the<br />

only one of its kind in Ohio.<br />

TU’s ProMusic degree also uniquely allows students to<br />

combine music performance with media production as a primary<br />

area of study. Traska will study in both voice and video<br />

editing and design, as well as courses in music composition<br />

and arranging, recording studio production, and performance<br />

on guitar, bass, drums and keyboard.<br />

Self-taught as a singer, arranger, recording engineer and<br />

video editor, Traska’s viral YouTube creations includes an a<br />

cappella medley of Disney songs that got her noticed worldwide,<br />

and was featured in an article in The Huffington Post.<br />

In the eight-minute video, she sings lead and background<br />

vocals to 13 songs from animated Disney films, and recreates<br />

costumes and makeup of 30 different characters.<br />

Traska’s videos can be seen at www.youtube.com/<br />

heathertraska. Information about <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s ProMusic<br />

Degree can be found at www.tiffinmusic.com/majors/<br />

promusic/,or from the TU Music Department at gig@tiffin.<br />

eduor 419-448-3366.<br />

ProMusic Festival<br />

TU’s Music Department hosted its annual ProMusic Festival<br />

in April at the Ritz Theatre in <strong>Tiffin</strong>.<br />

More than 30 school bands,<br />

choirs, vocal jazz groups, and pop<br />

a cappella groups participated in<br />

this two day event and professional<br />

artists presented concerts<br />

each evening.<br />

Included was the Denverbased<br />

band, Euforquestra. This<br />

seven member group played<br />

“high intensity global dance music.”<br />

Euforquestra is a percussion<br />

and horn driven blend of modern<br />

music that fuses Afrobeat, reggae,<br />

dub, funk, rock, soca, and<br />

highlife with traditional sounds<br />

from Cuba, Brazil, West Africa,<br />

and beyond. Euforquestra was<br />

joined by TU’s groups, Sound<br />

& Silence, which blends rock,<br />

R&B, and hip hop styles, and,<br />

The InBetween, which plays a<br />

crowd-pleasing mix of rock, funk,<br />

and soul.


The vocal group, M-PACT also returned to <strong>Tiffin</strong> to<br />

showcase its new lineup and music. The six-member all-star<br />

a cappella ensemble is comprised of some of the most successful<br />

professional singers in Los Angeles. The group has<br />

the smooth soul of Stevie Wonder, the percussive power of<br />

Stomp, the funk and drive of Earth Wind and Fire, the hip<br />

licks of Take 6, and the brass bite of big band; all created by<br />

the human voice alone. M-PACT was joined by TU’s a cappella<br />

groups, Up in the Air and Higher Ground.<br />

Rock Shock<br />

The Concert Production Team hosted its annual Rock Shock<br />

Concert in April during <strong>Spring</strong> Fest weekend. Featured<br />

CampusScene<br />

<strong>Spring</strong> Concert<br />

TU’s annual choir and band spring concert was held in April.<br />

Comprised of 100 students, The <strong>University</strong> Choirs performed<br />

traditional choral and contemporary popular music for mixed<br />

choir, women’s choir and men’s choir. McKayela Collins conducts<br />

the women’s choir selections and Brad Rees conducts<br />

the mixed and men’s choir pieces.<br />

bands included Ebins Flow, The Farther I Fall, and Let It Happen.<br />

Also featured was <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Sound & Silence, The<br />

InBetween, Higher Ground, and Up in the Air. The event also<br />

included games and raffles as well as a cornhole tournament.<br />

The Gospel Choir, directed<br />

by TU Alum Nellene Arnett,<br />

performed several contemporary<br />

gospel selections and the Chamber<br />

Arts Ensemble (a modified<br />

concert band instrumentation)<br />

performed selections from the<br />

silver screen.<br />

The TU Kids Choir, directed<br />

by Ali Rees, performed a variety of popular songs and the<br />

TU Crew Dance Team performed dance pieces in a variety<br />

of styles, including modern, jazz, hip-hop and lyrical. The TU<br />

Crew is directed by Erika Handru and Sarah Raber.<br />

Theatre<br />

Get Witch Quick<br />

The TU Dragons Den Players presented Get Witch Quick by<br />

David Rogers in March in<br />

the Osceola Theatre. The<br />

play is about Craft College,<br />

a finishing school for<br />

witches. Although it looked<br />

normal, draperies opened<br />

and closed mysteriously,<br />

books flew through the air<br />

unaided, and a student is<br />

believed to have turned<br />

into a dog on the eve of<br />

graduation! The only nonwitch<br />

in the school is Steve,<br />

a substitute teacher who<br />

did not even know that it<br />

was a school for witches.<br />

In the play, he started to<br />

fall in love with a talented<br />

young scholarship student,<br />

but another student (the<br />

kind that gives witchcraft a<br />

bad name) put a spell on<br />

him to make him fall in love with her. The scholarship student,<br />

however, learned some witchcraft of her own!<br />

“Replete with crystal balls, wands, and cauldrons, the<br />

play delights the growing number of people who enjoy mystique<br />

and magic in their entertainment,” remarked Dr. Mary V.<br />

Grennen, Director of Theatre Arts.<br />

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Technology<br />

Virtual Student Orientation Program<br />

TU deployed a virtual student orientation program that,<br />

starting with the school’s distance learning population, will<br />

allow the <strong>Tiffin</strong> staff to be more efficient and effective and to<br />

provide more convenience to it students.<br />

The university partnered with technology and marketing<br />

solutions provider Hobsons to customize the program with<br />

school-specific needs and answers to provide student online<br />

orientation with 24/7 availability. Hobsons’ online system<br />

allows students to walk through customized and school- specific<br />

orientation steps for such procedures as registration,<br />

scheduling, financial services, advisors’ meetings, health care,<br />

and campus familiarity.<br />

The program will help staff members as well as students<br />

in providing convenience in addressing questions that<br />

specifically concern TU, such as attendance policy, resources,<br />

programs, and services.<br />

TU Mobile App Launched<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> launched TU Mobile, a free application to<br />

help iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, and Blackberry devices<br />

connect with the <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> campus from anywhere<br />

in the world.<br />

The app is currently available for<br />

download at the Apple iTunes App<br />

Store , the Android Market, and is<br />

available to view through a mobile<br />

browser at http://www.tiffin.edu/m.<br />

TU Mobile allows students, parents,<br />

alumni, employees, and friends<br />

to access:<br />

• News, including official<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> media releases and<br />

athletic news.<br />

• Events, featuring access to TU’s academic calendar<br />

and current list of public lectures, performances, student<br />

activities, and many more campus events.<br />

• Directory, including contact information for all <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> campus departments.<br />

• Campus Map, featuring a list of buildings and places<br />

of interest.<br />

• Athletics, including access to game schedules and<br />

scoring results for TU Dragon sports.<br />

• Admissions, information for future students including<br />

tuition, TU FAQs, and campus visit schedule form.<br />

• Photo Gallery, featuring photographs of the TU campus.<br />

• Giving to TU, providing access to TU’s secure, online<br />

giving form.<br />

• Weather, providing access to up to date weather forecasts<br />

for <strong>Tiffin</strong>, Ohio.<br />

To learn more about TU mobile visit www.tiffin.edu/mobile.<br />

Faculty<br />

Hurwitz Named Liaison of the Year<br />

Award<br />

Dr. Steven Hurwitz, TU’s Professor<br />

of Psychology and Criminal Justice,<br />

was selected by The Washington<br />

Center for Internships and Academic<br />

Seminars to receive the <strong>2012</strong><br />

Liaison of the Year Award in recognition<br />

of his dedication and support<br />

of The Washington Center on <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>’s campus.<br />

The Liaison of the Year Award Dr. Steven Hurwitz<br />

recognized Dr. Hurwitz’s efforts to<br />

recruit, screen, monitor, and debrief students who participate<br />

in the Center’s internship programs as well as demonstrate his<br />

wholehearted commitment to ensure qualified students have<br />

access to The Washington Center’s significant life-changing<br />

opportunity.<br />

“Steve, you have been a model in so many ways,” said<br />

The Washington Center’s Senior Vice President Dr. Eugene<br />

Alpert, “as an energetic, creative, and dedicated liaison at<br />

your institution, you have made the most out of the financial<br />

support for your students and utilized the aid to enhance<br />

the national visibility of your students. Washington Center<br />

recruiters who visit your campus are always energized by your<br />

enthusiasm and concern for your students. “<br />

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic<br />

Seminars is an independent, nonprofit organization serving<br />

hundreds of colleges and universities in the United States<br />

and other countries by providing selected students challenging<br />

opportunities to work and learn in Washington, D.C., for<br />

academic credit.<br />

Student Testimonial on Dr. Steven Hurwitz<br />

Sean Szpak, a Homeland Security and Law Enforcement<br />

major said, “Dr. Hurwitz deserves this honor. I have had the<br />

great fortune to have him as a professor and as my liaison for<br />

the The Washington Center (TWC) program. Dr. Hurwitz has<br />

a very approachable personality and will do whatever he can<br />

to help students succeed in and out of the classroom.<br />

Since my freshmen year, Dr. Hurwitz has mentored and<br />

prepped me for TWC. Each time I would go to his office, he<br />

would give me any advice, paperwork or any other items I<br />

need to help me gain admittance to the program. Going to<br />

Washington was a major goal of mine and Dr. Hurwitz helped<br />

me make that a reality.<br />

I was the first student from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> to do an internship<br />

with the U.S House of Representatives: Office of the<br />

Sergeant At Arms/ The United States Capitol Police. When<br />

Dr. Hurwitz contacted me with the news, I could tell he was


just as excited as I was for such an accomplishment. I am so<br />

lucky I was able to have such a strong supporter to help me.<br />

Thank you and congratulations Dr. Hurwitz. You deserve such<br />

a great honor.<br />

Editor’s Note: Sean’s long-term goal is to end up in<br />

Washington D.C or New York City with a counter terrorism or<br />

intelligence division within the Federal Bureau of Investigations.<br />

“There is no doubt that <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> has prepared<br />

me with practical skills and knowledge that will help me have<br />

successful career in this field.<br />

Grennen Presents Paper<br />

Dr. Mary Grennen, Assistant Professor of English and Director<br />

of Theatre Arts presented a paper titled “The Nature/Nurture<br />

Dichotomy of Ibsen’s Nora Helmer” at the Mid-Atlantic Popular<br />

and American Culture Association’s conference in Philadelphia.<br />

The paper brings to light the intersection of Nora Helmer’s<br />

character with a decidedly destructive environment--the<br />

male-dominated Victorian society and its chauvinistic attitudes<br />

that spawned a ubiquitous self-effacement of females.<br />

Dr. Grennen cross-referenced Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s<br />

story “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a commentary on<br />

the Victorian notion of the frailty of the female mind, as well<br />

as Carl Jung’s theories of the psyche and the structures of<br />

personality, in which he pointed to an “irresistible compulsion<br />

to become what one is, just as every organism is driven<br />

to assume the form that is characteristic of its nature.” Nora’s<br />

choice to abandon both husband and children is the only one<br />

she has to achieve what Jung called life’s main goal.<br />

She earned a doctorate in Dramatic Literature, Theory,<br />

and Criticism and has been a member of TU’s English department<br />

since 2006.<br />

Six Faculty Members Promoted<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> promoted Scott Blough, Mary Grennen, Laura<br />

Ketter, and Nancy Sullivan to Associate Professor and Kevin<br />

Cashen and Rhonda Gilreath to Assistant Professor.<br />

Scott Blough has been promoted to Associate Professor<br />

of Criminal Justice & Security Studies. He earned a MCJ from<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> and a BBA from Mount Vernon Nazarene<br />

College. His areas of expertise<br />

include: Computer Law Enforcement,<br />

Grant Writing, Corrections,<br />

Criminal Justice and the Mentally<br />

Ill, Prison Standards, National<br />

Security, and Terrorism.<br />

Mary Grennen was promoted<br />

to Associate Professor of English.<br />

She is also TU’s Director of Theatre<br />

Arts. She earned a Ph.D. from<br />

Scott Blough<br />

Union Institute & <strong>University</strong>, an MA<br />

from Washington College, and a<br />

BA from Fordham <strong>University</strong>. Her<br />

areas of expertise include Dramatic<br />

Literature and Theatre.<br />

Laura Ketter has been<br />

promoted to Associate Professor<br />

of Computer Information Systems<br />

and Management. She earned an<br />

MBA from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> and a BA<br />

from Bowling Green State <strong>University</strong>.<br />

Her areas of expertise include:<br />

Ethics, Business Information<br />

Systems, Cross Cultural Communication,<br />

Digital Divide, Knowledge<br />

Management Systems, Information<br />

Systems, Management, and Freshman<br />

Year Experience.<br />

Nancy Sullivan was promoted<br />

to Associate Professor of Marketing.<br />

She earned both her MBA<br />

and BBA from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

and her AAB from Lorain County<br />

Community College. Her areas<br />

of expertise include: Accelerated<br />

Learning, Adult Students, Marketing,<br />

Organizational Behavior, Organizational<br />

Communication, and<br />

Organizational Management.<br />

Kevin Cashen has been<br />

promoted to Assistant Professor<br />

of Criminal Justice & Security<br />

Studies. He earned an MA from<br />

Naval Postgraduate School, a MCJ<br />

from <strong>University</strong> of Alabama, and<br />

a BA from Ohio State <strong>University</strong>.<br />

His areas of expertise include Law<br />

Enforcement Management and<br />

Writing/Reviewing Law Enforcement<br />

Policy and Procedure.<br />

Rhonda Gilreath has been<br />

promoted to Assistant Professor of<br />

Accounting. She earned her BBA<br />

and MBA from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />

Her areas of expertise include:<br />

Accounting Information Systems,<br />

Individual and Corporate Taxation,<br />

and Accounting Analysis. She is<br />

also the Director of Outcomes Assessment<br />

for <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />

Dr. Mary Grennen<br />

Laura Ketter<br />

Nancy Sullivan<br />

Kevin Cashen<br />

Rhonda Gilreath<br />

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Faculty<br />

Bowlus Elected to WGTE-TV Advisory<br />

Board<br />

Faculty member Dr. Bruce Bowlus<br />

will be lending his expertise to<br />

WGTE-TV for a new documentary,<br />

set to air this fall. Professor of History<br />

for <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Bowlus is<br />

serving on the advisory board for<br />

the production of a documentary<br />

history of the War of 1812. “Often<br />

referred to as the Forgotten War,<br />

Dr. Bruce Bowlus<br />

the War of 1812 finally resolved<br />

territorial issues with Native Americans<br />

and the British dating back to the 1783 Treaty of Paris,<br />

which ended the American Revolution,” Bowlus remarks.<br />

“Many of the important engagements in the war took place<br />

on and around the southern Great Lakes – an important<br />

oversight that the producers hope to bring to the attention of<br />

viewers around the country.”<br />

In addition to his advisory work with WGTE, Bowlus<br />

shared other research on the Great Lakes when he presented<br />

a paper at the annual meeting of the Association of Great<br />

Lakes Maritime History in Toledo. The paper was based on<br />

his recently published book, Ore Transport on the Great<br />

Lakes: the Development of a Delivery System to Feed American<br />

Industry.<br />

He recently had a book review essay published in this<br />

spring’s issue of Business History Review.<br />

Introduction to Criminal Justice – 7th<br />

Edition<br />

McGraw-Hill Higher Education has published the seventh<br />

edition of TU Professor of Criminal Justice Keith Haley’s<br />

textbook, Introduction to Criminal Justice. The book is coauthored<br />

with Robert M. Bohm.<br />

According to Leslie Oberhuber, Executive Marketing<br />

Manager-Criminal Justice for<br />

McGraw-Hill Higher Education, “Introduction to Criminal<br />

Justice is the perfect text for students who are interested in<br />

pursuing a career in criminal justice and for those who simply<br />

want to learn more about the criminal justice system.”<br />

Dr. Law Presented Two Papers<br />

TU faculty member Dr. Fang-Mei Law presented two research<br />

papers at the Academy of Criminal Justice Science Annual<br />

Meeting this year. Law is an Associate Professor in TU’s<br />

School of Criminal Justice & Social Sciences.<br />

The first paper, “Validating<br />

the Index of Sense of Self-Control<br />

in Recovery for Drug Offenders,”<br />

introduced the framework and<br />

application of this research in drug<br />

treatment program evaluation.<br />

The second paper, “Who is<br />

in Charge of Your Recovery The<br />

Effectiveness of Reality Therapy<br />

for Female Drug Offenders in Taiwan,”<br />

had a two-fold implementa-<br />

Dr. Fang-Mei Law<br />

tion. The first was the development of a 12-week reality drug<br />

treatment program. The second included an evaluation that<br />

was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the program for<br />

female drug offenders in Taiwan. For both articles, Dr. Law’s<br />

co-author was Dr. Gwo-Jen Guo of the National Changhua<br />

<strong>University</strong> of Education in Taiwan.<br />

Shafer Presented at Conference<br />

Dr. Teresa Shafer, Professor of<br />

Management and Associate Dean<br />

of International Business Programs,<br />

co-presented “What Don’t You<br />

Know about Your Adult and Online<br />

Programs--A Case for Higher<br />

Education Analytics,” at the 117th<br />

Annual Higher Learning Commission’s<br />

Conference on Quality in<br />

Higher Education.<br />

Dr. Teresa Shafer<br />

The presentation focused on<br />

the need for institutions to know and measure activities related<br />

to their adult and online programs. Many colleges and<br />

universities only think they know what is happening, when<br />

in fact, most know very little and can prove even less. Given<br />

the current environmental drive for accountability, institutions<br />

must find ways to track and measure every facet of their<br />

operations, from recruitment and lead generation activities,<br />

through retention and graduation rates. This presentation<br />

reviewed data as well as best practice standards in using that<br />

data to improve programming.


Bereza Presents Research<br />

Dr. Matt Bereza, Assistant Professor<br />

of Psychology and Counseling<br />

at TU, presented his research,<br />

“Direct to Vendor Relationships:<br />

Strengthening Communities<br />

through Local Foods” at a conference<br />

in June at New York <strong>University</strong>.<br />

The research was presented<br />

with the assistance of TU undergraduate<br />

students Chase Barnes,<br />

Dr. Matt Bereza<br />

Kevin Collins, Gabriel McConn,<br />

Jaclyn Meyer, and Selina Rumschlag.<br />

During the 2010-2011 academic year, Bereza and his research<br />

group conducted interviews with local growers of food<br />

and those who sell local foods to the public.<br />

“The focus of the interviews was to explore and describe<br />

how the local growers and sellers come together to<br />

create what is called Direct to Vendor routes,” said Bereza.<br />

“These routes are important to the local food community<br />

because they avoid<br />

the for-profit,<br />

and often times,<br />

inefficient largepurveyor<br />

model.<br />

The research<br />

demonstrated that<br />

those involved in<br />

growing and selling<br />

local produce noticed<br />

an increase in customer satisfaction when Direct to Vendor<br />

routes were used,” he said.<br />

Bereza plans to continue this line of research in the<br />

future by looking at how local food organizations have been<br />

reclaiming urban space to better community nutrition.<br />

Collins and Chiara Present<br />

Dr. Teresa Collins and adjunct instructor Nancy Chiara<br />

presented a session entitled “Collaborative Teaching in the<br />

Online Environment” at this year’s Annual Conference of the<br />

Kentucky Society<br />

for Technology in<br />

Education (KySTE).<br />

Arguing for greater<br />

use of team-teaching,<br />

the Partnership<br />

for 21st Century<br />

Skills states that<br />

“successful professional<br />

development<br />

initiatives for education include fundamental characteristics<br />

that are widely accepted including tapping teacher expertise<br />

through co-teaching.”<br />

As team-teachers, Collins and Chiara documented<br />

their experiences teaching several online graduate research<br />

courses for <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Master of Humanities and<br />

Master of Education programs. The KySTE session presented<br />

best practice strategies illustrating how pairing well-matched<br />

instructors in online courses provides students with an enriched<br />

learning experience.<br />

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TU’s Hospitality Club and Career<br />

Development Office host a Business<br />

Etiquette Seminar each spring. The seminar is<br />

an educational and entertaining evening, where<br />

Mrs. Susan Marion provides an informative presentation,<br />

featuring dining etiquette and professional interview<br />

topics. Students enjoy a fine dining meal and earn<br />

co-curricular credit.<br />

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TU Alums Making a Difference<br />

At a Christmas party two years ago, four friends opened their gifts and saw an<br />

opportunity to make a difference in their community.<br />

“After we opened the gifts, we looked at each other, and said ‘This is really<br />

nice, but we can do something else,’” said Nancy Sullivan, a faculty member at<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>. “We all knew we each gave in different ways to different charitable<br />

causes, and we said it would be nice if we could do something together.”<br />

Nancy Sullivan, Marcia Miller, Libby Thuning, and Susan Bowers met ten<br />

years ago, having a forged a friendship while each was pursuing a master’s<br />

degree at TU. Their busy lives have led them to strive to raise money for Lorain<br />

County charitable organizations.<br />

The foursome founded 100 Women Who Care About Lorain County, an<br />

organization that hosts meetings five times per year for the benefit of local<br />

charitable organizations. At each meeting, the women who attend nominate<br />

different charitable organizations from Lorain County. The attendees then vote,<br />

and then sign checks to deliver to the organization with the most votes.<br />

Bowers said that in combining many different individual donations for one<br />

large donation, it makes the women feel they are making a greater impact.<br />

This article appeared, in part, in The Morning Journal<br />

From top to bottom,<br />

Susan Bowers, Nancy Sullivan and Libby<br />

Thuning, along with their friend Marcia Miller,<br />

founded 100 Women Who Care About Lorain<br />

County two years ago. The group meets five<br />

times a year to decide on a local charitable<br />

organization to which to contribute.<br />

Photo by Anna Norris<br />

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ClassScene<br />

Commencement 50 Class Year<br />

Point. Click. Give.<br />

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of their graduation from TU, the<br />

Class of 1962 was invited to be our guests at the commencement<br />

luncheon and join the graduation procession with the Class of <strong>2012</strong>.<br />

Affectionately referred to as our “Golden Grads,” Harry Burd and<br />

Ted Weaver, (pictured with TU Alumni Director, Celinda Scherger)<br />

represented the Class of 1962 at the commencement ceremonies.<br />

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Let the Games Begin<br />

Both Men’s and Women’s Soccer Alumni took the field in April and then filled the bleachers to cheer on the home team.<br />

A reception capped off the day’s festivities.<br />

Women Basketball Alumnae gathered for a<br />

mini-reception in January.<br />

Men’s Basketball Alumni suited up for a<br />

fun-filled game in February.<br />

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Football Alumni made good use of the indoor turf in the Heminger Center with a game of flag football. Following the game,<br />

the group enjoyed a luncheon and tour of the new Heminger Center.


Greek Life at TU:<br />

From Beginning to Now<br />

BEGINNING<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> was founded in 1888<br />

and the first Greek organizations were<br />

established in 1922.<br />

The Athenian and Delta were<br />

literary societies that included both students<br />

and faculty. Their main contribution<br />

to the university was their function<br />

as social clubs. They held events similar<br />

to today’s Greek organizations at <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> such as dances, speakers,<br />

and debates.<br />

In 1936, two more literary societies<br />

were introduced: Alpha and<br />

Epsilon Nu Omicron. In 1939, the four<br />

were combined into Delta-Alpha and<br />

Athenian-Ep Nu.<br />

The first official fraternity at <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> was Sigma Omega Sigma<br />

established in 1924 and the first sorority<br />

was Theta Sigma Chi established a<br />

year later. In the 1930s, two more sororities<br />

were added: Kappa Delta Phi<br />

and Alpha Iota. These first societies<br />

established the pledging traditions that<br />

persist today.<br />

Delta Sigma Kappa was organized<br />

in the year 1935 as a secret<br />

co-educational honorary fraternity. Requirements<br />

for membership in DSK in<br />

1935, as well as today, are scholarship,<br />

leadership, personality, and the ability<br />

to serve. Its purpose is to work for the<br />

betterment of educational facilities at<br />

TU and to help students become<br />

an active part in many of the school<br />

sigma delta sigma<br />

organizations and activities, helping to<br />

promote better cooperation. Members<br />

were given a key and revealed during<br />

their senior year.<br />

Through the decades, fraternities<br />

and sororities have come and gone.<br />

Each one has left an impact on those<br />

who found acceptance, family, purpose,<br />

guidance, and fun while involved<br />

in a Greek organization.<br />

Now<br />

Today, on <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s campus,<br />

there are seven Greek organizations,<br />

four sororities and three fraternities.<br />

Men can join Phi Theta Pi, Omega Psi<br />

Rho, or Theta Eta Omicron. Women<br />

can join Alpha Iota, Gamma Chi<br />

Alpha, Sigma Delta Sigma, or Zeta Pi<br />

Beta. Phi Theta Pi has been a part of<br />

TU since 1950 and is the oldest fraternity<br />

on campus.<br />

The Delta Beta Chapter of the Phi<br />

Theta Pi fraternity is a group of men<br />

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ClassScene<br />

ZETA’S<br />

ALPHA’S<br />

THETA ETA OMICRON<br />

OMEGA PSI RHO<br />

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Greek Life at TU<br />

concerned with international business<br />

and commerce, as well as encouraging<br />

scholarship, loyalty, and cooperation<br />

among the members. Each year, the fraternity<br />

hosts the OSU vs. Michigan party,<br />

the Super Bowl party, and an annual<br />

Halloween and Black and Red party. The<br />

fraternity provides plenty of opportunity<br />

for TU students to socialize and have<br />

some fun. They believe that “fraternity<br />

life is not the enjoyment of special privileges,<br />

but an opportunity to prepare for<br />

wide and wise human service.”<br />

“Being a Phi has helped me develop<br />

confidence, maturity, commitment,<br />

leadership, and the determination to<br />

succeed,” said fraternity President Gabriel<br />

Burke. “I wanted to be president<br />

because I want to keep this fraternity<br />

moving forward and be a role model to<br />

younger brothers, and help cement my<br />

legacy.”<br />

Omega Psi Rho was founded in<br />

2005 at TU. Members believe that life is<br />

not only about free spirit, but also about<br />

leadership, discipline, maturity and<br />

camaraderie among peers, school, and<br />

community. With its spirit and camaraderie,<br />

they have instituted several signature<br />

events including the Wing Eating<br />

Contest, 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament<br />

and Slam Dunk Contest, Rho Dinners,<br />

and support for Aids Awareness.<br />

The newest fraternity on campus<br />

is Theta Eta Omicron. They were<br />

founded in 2009 and based on the<br />

motto, “Equality through Diversity.”<br />

“We are accepting of everyone and<br />

their differences,” said President Jacob<br />

Simon. “We see diversity as strength<br />

and use it to our advantage.” Each<br />

year, this group hosts a Call of Duty<br />

Tournament and Raffle. They also help<br />

with a few local charities.<br />

“Being an Omicron means that<br />

you have another system of support for<br />

all your endeavors,” said Simon. “It has<br />

helped me become more flexible and I<br />

have learned that even though something<br />

may not go as you planned, the<br />

result could still be an amazing product.”<br />

Alpha Iota is an international business<br />

sorority that has chapters affiliated<br />

with leading schools and colleges<br />

across the United States. The Delta<br />

Beta chapter at TU was established<br />

in the 1930’s. The sorority stresses the<br />

importance of scholarship, loyalty, and<br />

cooperation among all members. They<br />

are very focused on community service<br />

and have partnered with the American<br />

Red Cross to hold two blood drives<br />

during the academic year. Along with<br />

these blood drives, other signature<br />

events are Bingo Nights and support<br />

for Autism Awareness.<br />

Gamma Chi Alpha sorority was<br />

founded in 2001 and its core principles<br />

are education, public service, and<br />

leadership development. Signature<br />

Gamma events are the “Think Pink”<br />

Breast Cancer Awareness Gala, suicide<br />

prevention/awareness vigil, and Adopt-<br />

A-Soldier.<br />

“Being a part of this group means<br />

I will have sisters forever and friends<br />

until the end,” said President Brittany<br />

Wills. “At any time I can call one of my<br />

sisters and they will be there for me no<br />

matter what.”<br />

Originally founded in 1987, Sigma<br />

Delta Sigma sorority has strong ties<br />

to the community. They encourage<br />

individuality while still coming together<br />

as one unified sisterhood. Their annual<br />

event is Take Back the Night that promotes<br />

an end to domestic violence and<br />

aids those who are struggling with it.<br />

Members also visit the Children’s Hospital<br />

and nursing homes on holidays to<br />

give out cards.<br />

President Kelly Graham said, “Being<br />

a Delta has allowed me to let people<br />

in my life. These women are some<br />

of the most caring and respectable that<br />

I have met. No matter what, no matter<br />

the disagreements, we bounce back to<br />

be there for each other and that has to<br />

LIVING IT UP<br />

PHI THETA PI<br />

KAPPA DELTA PHI<br />

KAPA DELTA PHI


SIGMA OMEGA SIGMA<br />

STAG LINE<br />

ALPHA IOTA<br />

HAROLD’S CLUB<br />

GREEK NIGHT 1975<br />

be the best feeling there is.”<br />

Zeta Pi Beta, the newest sorority,<br />

was established in 2010 and focuses<br />

on acceptance, true sisterhood, female<br />

empowerment, and giving back. The Zetas<br />

host the Amazing Dragon Race and<br />

work with the Salvation Army. They also<br />

host the popular Jell-O Wrestling tournament<br />

to raise money for St. Jude’s.<br />

“Being a member of Zeta Pi Beta<br />

has helped expand my horizons because<br />

I was never really a social person,<br />

but now I get out more,” said President<br />

Kelli Neubauer.<br />

Fraternities and sororities also<br />

work together on campus. Phi Theta Pi<br />

partners with their sister Greek organization,<br />

Alpha Iota, for events each year.<br />

Omega Psi Rho and Gamma Chi Alpha<br />

also complete on-campus events on an<br />

annual basis.<br />

Delta Sigma Kappa (DSK) is an<br />

honorary co-educational fraternity that<br />

still works toward the betterment of<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> by secretly initiating<br />

creative and constructive projects for the<br />

advancement of the <strong>University</strong>’s interests<br />

and students. No one was available for<br />

interview because it is a secret.<br />

The young men and women of<br />

each fraternity and sorority strive to<br />

make a difference on a personal, local,<br />

and national level. Their experiences<br />

together shape who they are and the<br />

atmosphere of the TU campus.<br />

AlumniScene<br />

ClassScene<br />

Calling All Greeks<br />

If you were a member of a Greek<br />

organization at TU, we would love to<br />

publish your story, memory or photo<br />

with caption in the next issue(s) of<br />

<strong>Challenge</strong> Magazine.<br />

Email Lisa Williams at<br />

lwilliam@tiffin.edu, and in the<br />

meantime, enjoy some of the past…<br />

photos scanned from earlier issues<br />

of The Periodic Summary and The<br />

Tystenac!<br />

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7 Day Hawaii Cruise<br />

tiffin university’s alumni & friends<br />

February 23, 2013<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> is pleased to announce that our next cruise will<br />

be aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines Pride of America and will be<br />

a 7 day Hawaii cruise, round-trip from Honolulu.<br />

Cruise America’s paradise in style, with 14 restaurants and<br />

9 bars and lounges, excellent family accommodations, spacious<br />

suites and plenty of balconies – perfect for whale watching,<br />

witnessing Kilauea Volcano or taking in the dramatic views of<br />

the Napali Coast. From the moment you step into the Capitol<br />

Atrium, with its soaring Tiffany-glass dome and grand staircase,<br />

you’ll know this is a spectacular cruise ship providing the best<br />

way to island hop Hawaii.<br />

The ship will depart from Honolulu and include ports of<br />

call in Honolulu, Maui (Kahului), Hilo (includes an evening sail by<br />

Kilaueu Volcano), Kona, and Kauai (with an afternoon cruise of<br />

the Napali Coast).<br />

Cruise pricing starts at $1,299 (USD) per person excluding<br />

taxes, fees and fuel supplement charges.<br />

President and Mrs. Paul Marion will be your hosts for this<br />

voyage, and <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> will sponsor other special events<br />

and private parties making this a truly unique experience.<br />

For reservations or further details, please contact Lauren at<br />

Norwegian Cruise Lines toll free at 877-416-9722, ext. 4373 or by<br />

direct call to 954-514-4373 or by e-mail at ladiaz@ncl.com.<br />

Be sure to mention the <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> special offer!<br />

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Email lwilliam@tiffin.edu<br />

1940’s<br />

Lucian Huss, Class of 1949, <strong>Tiffin</strong>,<br />

Ohio, and his wife, Lucy, celebrated<br />

their 60th wedding anniversary in<br />

February. Lucian served in the Army<br />

during World War II. He retired in<br />

1989 from Philips ECG as a supervisor<br />

of cost control. Lucy retired from<br />

Meridian Bank in 1996. They are the<br />

parents of two daughters, Veronica and<br />

Christine, and three sons, Stephen,<br />

Michael, and Jay. Additionally, they<br />

have eight grandchildren and one<br />

great-grandchild.<br />

1970’s<br />

Phil Harris, Class of 1971, has been<br />

elected chairman of the board of directors<br />

of the Community Investors Bancorp,<br />

Inc. and the First Federal Community<br />

Bank. He has served on the<br />

bank’s board of directors since 1992.<br />

He retired from Timken in 2008 as<br />

general manager of logistics services.<br />

In addition to his service on the bank<br />

board, he is active in the Crawford<br />

County community. He is a member<br />

and past president of Bucyrus Rotary,<br />

a member of the board of directors of<br />

the Crawford County Crippled Children<br />

and Adults organization, a member<br />

and past president of the Y Men’s Club,<br />

a member of the board of directors of<br />

Bucyrus Community Hospital, a member<br />

and past president of the Junior<br />

Achievement Board, a member and<br />

chairman of the trustee committee of<br />

the Bucyrus United Methodist Church,<br />

a member of the Elks, and a member<br />

of the United in Harmony. Harris and<br />

his wife, Marilyn, have three married<br />

children and eight grandchildren.<br />

Steve Micheli, Class of 1979, Alpharetta,<br />

Georgia, was promoted to<br />

vice president, fabrication, of ACG Flat<br />

Glass North America Inc.<br />

1980’s<br />

Larry E. Hoffman, Class of 1986,<br />

Bluffton, Ohio, has been named senior<br />

vice president of the First National<br />

Bank of Pandora and will maintain his<br />

current role as chief financial officer.<br />

Hoffman joined the bank as CFO in<br />

2011. He has been a certified public<br />

accountant for more than 24 years.<br />

Hoffman is a member of the American<br />

Institute of Certified Public Accountants<br />

and the Ohio Society of CPAs.<br />

He and his wife, Marcy, have three<br />

children.<br />

1990’s<br />

Paul K. Smith, MBA 1995, was<br />

recently named president of Hafele<br />

America Co. He will oversee all of<br />

the Hafele Group’s operations in the<br />

United States. Paul joined the company<br />

in 2011 after a successful career<br />

at Haworth, Inc. where he served as<br />

vice president. Prior to Haworth, he<br />

served in management positions with<br />

General Electric Company and Whirlpool<br />

Corporation.<br />

Jeff Beard, Class of 1999, Pickerington,<br />

Ohio, and his wife, Michelle,<br />

welcomed twin sons, Elijah Quinn and<br />

Tucker Lee, in 2011.<br />

Clara Ramirez Kassner, Class of<br />

1999, and her husband, Brent, are the<br />

parents of a son, Paxton Mateo.<br />

2000’s<br />

Chris Barbuto, Class of 2001, and<br />

Hilary French Barbuto, Class of 2002,<br />

Heath, Ohio, welcomed a baby boy,<br />

Dominic Thomas, born in 2011. He<br />

writes, “Our daughter Talia is very<br />

excited to have a baby brother”.<br />

Ryan Henry Brookes, Class of 2001,<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong>, Ohio, was married in 2011. He is<br />

a project manager for <strong>Tiffin</strong> Scenic Studios.<br />

His wife, Christine, is employed<br />

in the sales department at Lace and<br />

Elegance, <strong>Tiffin</strong>, and as an administrative<br />

assistant for Advanced Limo, <strong>Tiffin</strong>.<br />

Kipp Huntsberger, Class of 2002,<br />

Troy, Ohio, and his wife, Erica, welcomed<br />

a baby girl, Karli Mae, in 2011.<br />

Carol Folkman, MBA 2002, has been<br />

appointed Vice President of Client<br />

Services for Care to Care; a URAC<br />

accredited Radiology Benefit Management<br />

Company. She has spent the<br />

past 20 years developing and successfully<br />

managing client relationships,<br />

national sales and marketing programs,<br />

contracting, product, and clinical<br />

programs. She has served in executive<br />

leadership roles at EvergreenRx, Walgreens<br />

Company, Caremark CVS, DMI<br />

Transitions, and the Cleveland Clinic<br />

Health System.<br />

Monica Welch Gerhart, Class of<br />

2003, married Shawn Gerhart in<br />

February.<br />

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Scott M. Langenderfer, MBA 2003,<br />

Bucyrus, Ohio, completed his certification<br />

as an enrolled agent to represent<br />

taxpayers before the Internal Revenue<br />

Service. He has been an associate<br />

of Mizick, Miller & Company since<br />

2000. He is a<br />

member of the<br />

Ohio Society of<br />

Certified Public<br />

Accountants,<br />

the National<br />

Association of<br />

Enrolled Agents,<br />

and the Ohio<br />

State Society of<br />

Enrolled Agents.<br />

Scott is a<br />

Scott<br />

Langenderfer<br />

member and treasurer of the Lincoln<br />

Avenue Church of Christ, treasurer of<br />

the Wynford Education Foundation,<br />

Inc., treasurer/secretary of the John Q.<br />

Shunk Association, serves as a board<br />

member of the Bucyrus Area Chamber<br />

of Commerce, and a member of the<br />

Bucyrus Kiwanis Club. He and his wife,<br />

Amber, have three sons.<br />

Sarah McGraw Greenberg, Class<br />

of 2003, was recently appointed as<br />

Director of the development division<br />

for NeighborWorks America. She<br />

joined the company in 2007 from the<br />

National Trust for Historic Preservation<br />

where she helped create the nation’s<br />

first certified Community Development<br />

Financial Institution focused on the<br />

revitalization of historic properties and<br />

neighborhoods. After graduating from<br />

TU, Sarah earned a master’s degree in<br />

community planning from the <strong>University</strong><br />

of Maryland. She also completed<br />

the Rutgers <strong>University</strong> fellowship<br />

program for mid-career leaders in community<br />

development.<br />

Leslie Waechter, Class of 2004,<br />

Wheeling, Ohio, was hired as the Human<br />

Resources<br />

Director for<br />

the city of<br />

Wheeling. The<br />

position entails<br />

handling benefits<br />

and pension<br />

information,<br />

and resolving<br />

any personnel<br />

issues that<br />

may arise. In<br />

Leslie<br />

Waechter<br />

addition to her new position, she is the<br />

head volleyball coach at Wheeling Park<br />

High School. She has been married<br />

for five years to, Kris Waechter, Class<br />

of 2003. He is a deputy with the Ohio<br />

County Sheriff’s Department.<br />

Rodney Biggert, MBA 2005, Oak<br />

Harbor, Ohio, was recently appointed<br />

as the new Adult Services Director of<br />

the Opportunity Center.<br />

Betina Nicklas, Class of 2005,<br />

Clearfield, Pennsylvania, was appointed<br />

by the Clearfield County Commissioners<br />

as the director of Veteran Affairs.<br />

She currently<br />

serves in the<br />

Army National<br />

Guard and is<br />

assigned as a<br />

motor transport<br />

operator<br />

and carries a<br />

paralegal specialist<br />

military<br />

Betina Nicklas<br />

occupational<br />

skill. She was<br />

deployed to Iraq in 2009. Betina’s husband,<br />

Lawrence, served in the United<br />

States Marine Corps. He was stationed<br />

at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and<br />

deployed to Iraq twice. He currently<br />

works for SAIC as a small arms technician<br />

and ammunition supervisor for a<br />

CENSECFOR learning site at Camp<br />

Lejeune.<br />

April Hall, Class of 2006, was hired<br />

by Western Illinois as head volleyball<br />

coach. Last year, she served as assistant<br />

coach at Northern Kentucky<br />

<strong>University</strong>. She is currently working<br />

toward her master’s degree in general<br />

mental health counseling.<br />

Rachel Ann Garofolo, MBA 2007,<br />

Cleveland, Ohio, is the Coordinator of<br />

Marketing Services for the Cleveland<br />

Browns.<br />

Elise Pfefferle Hanley, Class of 2007,<br />

married Drew Hanley in 2011. Elise is a<br />

Product Scheduler for Marathon Petroleum<br />

Company. Her husband, Drew,<br />

is a teacher for Fostoria City Schools.<br />

They live in Findlay.<br />

Aaron Kissling, Class of 2007,<br />

Fremont, Ohio, has been hired as an<br />

Ottawa County Sheriff’s detective. Previously,<br />

he worked as a police officer in<br />

Put-in-Bay and as a private investigator<br />

in Mechanicsburg. He joined the Oak<br />

Harbor department in 2009.<br />

Jaclyn Burton Pessell and Ryan Pessell,<br />

Class of 2007, Findlay, Ohio, were<br />

married in 2011. Jaclyn is a teacher<br />

for Arcadia Elementary. Ryan is an<br />

insurance agent for Hitchings Insurance<br />

Agency.<br />

Benjamin Steyer, Class of 2007, <strong>Tiffin</strong>,<br />

Ohio, was married in 2011. He is<br />

employed at Steyer Seeds LLC, <strong>Tiffin</strong>.<br />

His wife, Whitney, is currently pursuing<br />

her master’s degree in occupational<br />

therapy from the <strong>University</strong> of Findlay.<br />

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Tell Us About Yourself<br />

Kathy<br />

Durflinger,<br />

Class of<br />

2008,<br />

Huron, Ohio,<br />

was appointed<br />

by<br />

Magruder<br />

Hospital as<br />

vice president<br />

Kathy Durflinger<br />

of nursing.<br />

She and her husband,<br />

Richard, have four adult children and<br />

three grandchildren.<br />

Terry Grice,<br />

Class of<br />

2008, Montville,<br />

Ohio,<br />

was promoted<br />

from<br />

sergeant to<br />

chief of the<br />

Montville<br />

Township Police<br />

Depart-<br />

Terry Grice<br />

ment. He<br />

joined the department in 2003 and has<br />

supervised some high profile cases.<br />

Grice has developed an innovative<br />

traffic diversion program for juveniles<br />

and serves as director of the Medina<br />

County Police Athletic League. He is a<br />

member of the advisory board for the<br />

Medina County Juvenile Court, and is<br />

a member of task forces on youth violence<br />

and domestic violence. He and<br />

his wife, Cindy, have two young sons.<br />

She is the principal at Waite Elementary<br />

School.<br />

Tiniel Pinion, Class of 2009, married<br />

DeWayne Nickler in 2011.<br />

Sonia Troche, MBA 2009, Rocky<br />

River, Ohio, has been named executive<br />

director of the Hispanic Alliance,<br />

a non-profit organization working with<br />

Cleveland’s Latino community. Before<br />

taking on her new position, she worked<br />

in marketing and public relations for a<br />

business consulting firm in Texas.<br />

Anthony Wise, Class of 2009, <strong>Tiffin</strong>,<br />

Ohio, was married in 2011. Anthony<br />

is an accountant for Capitol Aluminum<br />

and Glass Corp in Bellevue and<br />

his wife, Jessica, is a registered nurse<br />

at Elmwood at the <strong>Spring</strong>s in Green<br />

<strong>Spring</strong>s.<br />

Gary Gerard, MH 2010, Michigan<br />

City, Indiana, works in sales for Rich<br />

Products Corp in Buffalo, New York.<br />

Lindsey Hafley, Class of 2010,<br />

Strongsville, Ohio, was married in 2011.<br />

She is an auditor with Amtrust Financial<br />

in Independence. Her husband, Michael,<br />

is a project designer with Richard<br />

Fleischman + Partners Architects in<br />

Cleveland.<br />

Nanci Kosanka, Class of 2010, Fremont,<br />

Ohio, was appointed as interim<br />

director of human resources at Terra<br />

Community College. She has worked<br />

at Terra for five years.<br />

Jordan Miller, Class of 2010, Fredericktown,<br />

Ohio, was married in 2011.<br />

He is an agronomist at Central Ohio<br />

Farmers Co-op in Mount Vernon. His<br />

wife, Heather, is a pharmacist at Med-<br />

Central Health Systems in Mansfield.<br />

Kaitlin Kalb, Class of 2011, Warner<br />

Robins, Georgia, married David<br />

Schindler in 2011.<br />

Krista Plummer, MBA 2011, joined<br />

the staff of Northwood <strong>University</strong><br />

as an assistant athletic director and<br />

senior woman administrator. Her<br />

main job will be focusing on compliance<br />

rules for athletes. “I do a lot with<br />

the academic officers, making sure<br />

that students have an opportunity for<br />

study tables,” she said. “I’ll watch the<br />

grades and alert coaches if we need<br />

to try and get someone into tutoring<br />

and pick out problems before they<br />

happen.” A major portion of her job<br />

is making sure that all athletes are eligible<br />

in accordance with NCAA rules.<br />

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TU Specialty License Plate Program<br />

If you are an Ohio resident, you can show pride in <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

through the Collegiate License Plate Program sponsored by the State of Ohio.<br />

The cost to participate in the program (in addition to any normal renewal fees)<br />

is $35 annually. Of this $35 fee, $25 is directed to <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> in the form<br />

of a charitable donation to the General Scholarship Fund in your name.<br />

Due to a change in the Drivers Privacy Protection Act, Ohio Revised Code 4501.27,<br />

the release of personal information will not be provided without written consent by the individual. Therefore,<br />

you must provide proof of your participation in the collegiate license plate program in order for <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> to<br />

recognize your contribution to the TU General Scholarship Fund.<br />

If you have questions regarding the Collegiate Plate Program, contact TU’s Alumni Relations Office at 419-448-3313 or your<br />

local Bureau of Motor Vehicles.


InMemoriam<br />

1920’s<br />

Kenneth G. Wetzel, Class of 1938, Virginia Beach, Virginia,<br />

passed away in February. He was a chemist for research and<br />

development at Basic Inc. for 37 years; retiring in 1977.<br />

Paul Seitz<br />

Paul Seitz, Class of<br />

1929, passed away in<br />

2011, in Vero Beach,<br />

Florida. Born in<br />

Republic, Ohio in<br />

1909, Paul was a<br />

resident of Fort<br />

Pierce for the past<br />

21 years, formerly<br />

of Fort Wayne, Indiana.<br />

Prior to retirement, he was<br />

the CEO of May Stone and Sand Co.<br />

in Ft. Wayne for many years retiring<br />

in 1984. He spent his working career in the limestone/sand/<br />

gravel industry. Paul gave freely of his time, money and<br />

expertise in supporting <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> (Seitz Hall is named<br />

in his honor), Indiana Institute of Technology, Trinity English<br />

Evangelical Lutheran Church, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and<br />

Lakewood Park United Methodist Church.<br />

Seitz Hall<br />

1930’s<br />

Elmer L. Warnement, attended TU in 1931, <strong>Tiffin</strong>, Ohio,<br />

passed away in January. He was a mail carrier in <strong>Tiffin</strong> for 27<br />

years. After that, he sold real estate for Jim Wilson Realty for<br />

17 years. Elmer, an avid bowler, enjoyed competitive bowling<br />

until his 90th birthday.<br />

Robert Flack, Class of 1937, formerly of Fostoria, residing in<br />

Greenville, S.C., passed away in January. He retired in 1981<br />

from Union Carbide Corporation in Fostoria with 38 years<br />

of service. He was a 1935 graduate of Jackson Liberty High<br />

School, and 1937 graduate of <strong>Tiffin</strong> Business College. He was<br />

a U.S. Navy Veteran during WWII.<br />

Carl “Manfred” Harlett, Class of 1938, <strong>Tiffin</strong>, Ohio, passed<br />

away in 2011 He retired in 1981 after working as the general<br />

manager at <strong>Tiffin</strong> Metal and at Pettibone. Manfred enjoyed<br />

hunting and fishing. He was a collector of Zane Gray novels<br />

and was a well-known winemaker.<br />

1940’s<br />

Doris Honsberger Everhart, Class of 1941, Chesterfield,<br />

Missouri, formerly of Sycamore, died in 2011.<br />

Dale Walcutt, Class of 1941,<br />

Ft. Myers, Florida, passed away<br />

after a brief illness. Dale graduated<br />

from <strong>Tiffin</strong> Columbian High<br />

School in 1938 and from <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

Business <strong>University</strong> in 1941. He<br />

had a 39-year career in sales and<br />

service of hot and cold forging<br />

equipment with National Machinery<br />

Company in <strong>Tiffin</strong>.<br />

Christena Preston-Sertell Johnson,<br />

Class of 1948, Findlay, Ohio, passed away in January.<br />

1970’s<br />

Duane W. Bauman, Class of 1973, Williamsport, Pennsylvania,<br />

passed away in April. He served in the Vietnam War<br />

and U.S. Army. Duane was employed by United Concordia of<br />

Williamsport.<br />

1980’s<br />

Robert Fisher, Class of 1981, Green <strong>Spring</strong>s, Ohio, passed<br />

away in March. He was employed by Taiho Corporation and<br />

worked up until the day before his death.<br />

1990’s<br />

Christopher Peck, Class of<br />

1991, <strong>Tiffin</strong>, Ohio, passed away in<br />

May. Chris worked at the Seneca<br />

County Youth Center. He enjoyed<br />

playing baseball and bowling,<br />

and was an avid Cleveland sports<br />

fan. Chris was a 1978 graduate of<br />

Calvert High School and earned<br />

a bachelor’s degree in Criminal<br />

Justice from TU.<br />

Dale Walcutt<br />

Christopher Peck<br />

David W. Hamilton, Class of<br />

1996, Tucson, Arizona, passed away in 2011. He was a<br />

former employee of Hayes Albion in <strong>Tiffin</strong> and Sherwood<br />

Plastics in Fostoria. David was a passionate Ohio State and<br />

Cleveland Indians fan and he loved to travel.<br />

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InMemoriam<br />

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Student<br />

Taylor Funk, a Student who Left an Impact<br />

Taylor Funk, a 22-year-old <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> senior, passed<br />

away in January--just about a month after being diagnosed<br />

with leukemia.<br />

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s<br />

about learning how to dance in the rain,” is a quote displayed<br />

on Funk’s Facebook profile.<br />

It’s safe to say that Funk lived by that quote each day<br />

and made the people around her see how they could too.<br />

Those who knew Taylor described her as compassionate,<br />

optimistic, selfless, genuine, kind, and giving.<br />

Throughout her time at<br />

TU, Funk studied Hospitality<br />

and Tourism, was an officer or<br />

active member of Circle K, a<br />

community service organization,<br />

Business Club, and the<br />

Hospitality Club. She continuously<br />

volunteered at Kiwanis<br />

Manor, a local assisted living facility.<br />

She also held on-campus<br />

Taylor Funk<br />

jobs including a student worker position in the School of<br />

Arts and Sciences and a peer leader position for a freshmen<br />

seminar class.<br />

“While working on the Operation Evergreen Project<br />

that sent 2,500 Christmas ornaments to troops overseas,<br />

her humor and cheerful attitude made the day fun,” said<br />

Dr. Gene Chintala, faculty advisor of Circle K. “She reiterated<br />

the idea that if you work hard and enjoy what you do,<br />

others will follow you.”<br />

Jeanie Fisher, Administrative Assistant for the School<br />

of Arts & Sciences said, “Some of my fondest memories<br />

were when we would share baking and decorating ideas<br />

with each other,” Fisher said. “The way that Taylor impacted<br />

my life personally was her positive attitude, beautiful<br />

smile, and the way she enjoyed people and loved life.”<br />

She is fondly remembered by many of her peers at<br />

TU. Seniors Sharlene Anderson, Jessica Milligan, and<br />

Matthew Taylor recalled what it was like to live with Funk.<br />

“We always played pranks, had water fights, played<br />

in the snow, and played the piano in the Performing Arts<br />

house,” said Anderson.<br />

Anderson smiled as she spoke about the rare occasions<br />

when Funk would be angry or upset about something<br />

and they would seclude themselves in a closet and<br />

talk things over.<br />

“We’d pick random weekends where we’d just listen<br />

to a bunch of fun dance songs, play games, run around<br />

the house, and just have a blast,” said Matthew Taylor.<br />

It was common knowledge to all who knew her that<br />

she was very carefree, lighthearted, and always in search of<br />

some fun.<br />

“My fondest memory of Taylor was when we thought<br />

we were the only people home so we loudly played music<br />

from the 70’s and danced around like fools. And then we<br />

realized one of our downstairs roommates was home, so<br />

we went to his room and started messing with him,” said<br />

Milligan. “In this whole process, we decided to take a road<br />

trip at 11 p.m. to his mom’s house and Taylor refused to<br />

get out of the car in her pajamas.”<br />

Junior Emma Sipes fondly remembered Funk’s ability<br />

to always make people laugh.<br />

“She was always smiling. I don’t know that I ever saw<br />

her in a bad mood. Her happiness was intoxicating. Being<br />

around her made you want to smile and be in a better<br />

mood too,” said Sipes.<br />

The impact Funk left on many people’s lives will last a<br />

lifetime.<br />

“She helped me to learn to not care about what people<br />

think of you, taught me to keep an upbeat personality,<br />

and to look for the good in each day,” said Anderson.<br />

Matthew Taylor said,“She was an absolutely wonderful<br />

person and she will be terribly missed.” He believes he<br />

was made into a better person because of Funk’s presence<br />

in his life.<br />

“She was the most positive influence in my life and I<br />

will never forget that,” said Milligan.<br />

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Baseball<br />

An incredible stretch run put the Dragons in the GLIAC Tournament<br />

for the first time. Sitting in ninth with three weeks left,<br />

TU won 14 of its last 16 games to finish tied for fourth. <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

went 20-16 in the GLIAC and was 25-26 overall. It was the final<br />

season for head coach Lonny Allen who won 444 games in 21<br />

years at the helm.<br />

Senior Pat Curtin<br />

was Second Team<br />

All-Region and GLIAC<br />

Co-Player of the Year,<br />

leading the GLIAC in<br />

triples and second in<br />

batting average with<br />

.392. He also became<br />

the third Dragon to<br />

have 200 hits in a<br />

career.<br />

Helldobler, who was second team in 2009 and honorable<br />

mention in 2011, started 43 of the 44 games in which he<br />

played. He had five doubles and two triples, scored 21 runs,<br />

drove in a team-high 29 runs and batted .338. Helldobler became<br />

the fourth Dragon to have 200 hits in a career. He also<br />

holds the career record for assists<br />

Curtin and Helldobler earned regional honors as well.<br />

Helldobler was the only GLIAC player named to the ABCA All-<br />

Midwest Golden Glove team. Curtin was named to the ABCA<br />

and NCBWA All-Midwest Region first teams and the ABCA<br />

All-Midwest Region second team.<br />

Softball<br />

It was a season of tough losses as the Dragons finished 17-15<br />

in the GLIAC and 27-25 overall. <strong>Tiffin</strong> came out of the gates<br />

firing, winning nine of the first 11 games. TU lost 10 games by<br />

two or less runs.<br />

Freshman Payton Denman was named to the All-GLIAC<br />

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Senior Pat Curtin earned first team honors at outfield,<br />

was second team at starting pitcher and was the Co-GLIAC<br />

Player of the Year. He was joined on the first team by senior<br />

Val Helldobler (3B). Joining Curtin on second team was<br />

senior Jordan Chiero (1B) and junior Ryan Williams (Outfield).<br />

Honorable mention went to senior Jordan Liette (Pitcher) and<br />

junior KC Weber (Catcher).<br />

Curtin is the first four-time All-GLIAC selection for TU,<br />

earning honorable mention in 2009, second team in 2010<br />

and first team the last two seasons. At the plate, he had four<br />

triples, scored 29 runs, drove in 18 runs, stole 11 bases and<br />

batted .404. Curtin led the league in triples and was second<br />

in batting average. He also became the third Dragon to have<br />

200 hits in a career. On the mound, Curtin was 5-1 with two<br />

complete games and two saves, struck out 31 batters for a<br />

team leading 3.49 ERA in 38.7 innings.<br />

Senior Amanda Temple<br />

completed her softball<br />

career with a strong<br />

.392 average, 56 hits,<br />

and 34 RBI, all team<br />

highs. She earned her<br />

third consecutive All-<br />

GLIAC citation.


second team while sophomore Caitlin Houk and senior<br />

Amanda Temple earned honorable mention. Denman had<br />

seven doubles and two home runs, scored 11 runs, drove in 13<br />

and batted .292.<br />

Houk had eight doubles, one triple and three home<br />

runs, scored 13 runs, drove in 30 and hit .298. Temple had<br />

10 doubles, four triples and two home runs, scored 25 runs,<br />

drove in 35 runs and batted .407.<br />

Women’s Lacrosse<br />

Freshman Jessica Bombard and junior Alexandria Quast led<br />

NCAA Division II in four categories during the <strong>2012</strong> season.<br />

The Dragons finished the season at 3-14, with six losses by<br />

less than five goals.<br />

Quast scored 82 goals with 22 assists for 104 points in 17<br />

games. She led the country in goals per game (4.82) and total<br />

goals. This is the second straight year that Quast led in gpg<br />

and both numbers rank among the top 10 in NCAA DII history.<br />

As a team, the Dragons had a school record 370 ground<br />

balls which equated to 21.76 per game, among the top 25 in<br />

the country. TU set the single game record for ground balls<br />

with 52 against Alma College. <strong>Tiffin</strong> also broke the singleseason<br />

record for saves with 245.<br />

Men’s Tennis<br />

Junior Luiz Carvalho<br />

earned his third<br />

consecutive All-Conference<br />

tennis selection,<br />

competing primarily<br />

at first singles and first<br />

doubles. He had 8<br />

singles victories and 11<br />

doubles wins.<br />

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Junior Alexandria<br />

Quast was named the<br />

Division II Independent<br />

Women’s Lacrosse<br />

Player of the Year,<br />

finishing the season as<br />

the nation’s leader in<br />

goals scored with 82<br />

and goals per game<br />

with 4.82. This is the<br />

second straight year<br />

she has led the nation<br />

in goals per game.<br />

In addition, she was second in ground balls per game (4.18)<br />

and third in points per game (6.12) and total points (104).<br />

Bombard finished with a record of 3-13 with 237 saves<br />

(school record, top 15 in NCAA DII history) and a 15.44 GAA<br />

average in over 928 minutes. She led the country in saves per<br />

game (14.81) and total saves. Bombard set the school record<br />

for saves in a game with 21 against Notre Dame College and<br />

#14 Gannon.<br />

Quast was named the NCAA Division II Independent<br />

Player of the Year, one of four players to be honored. Quast<br />

was joined on the first team by Bombard. Earning second<br />

team honors was sophomore Elyse Braun (33 goals) and allfreshmen<br />

honors went to Bombard and Alexis MacMillan (29<br />

goals, 25 assists).<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> reached new heights during the 2011-12 season. The<br />

Dragons won a school record 14 matches, twice as many as<br />

they had won the season before. In addition, they qualified<br />

for the GLIAC Tournament for the first time ever.<br />

Luis Carvalho and Leonid Vladimirov earned All-GLIAC<br />

honors. Carvalho, a third-time selection, won 8 singles<br />

matches along with 11 doubles matches. Vladimirov finished<br />

13-8 at doubles, the second highest wins on the squad. He<br />

was also 8-4 in singles for TU.<br />

Brian Coffman led the squad in single wins as he went<br />

14-7 on the season. Andres Torres was right behind him at 12-<br />

7. In doubles, Torres led the team with 14 victories.<br />

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Outdoor Track & Field<br />

Five athletes competed at the NCAA Division II National<br />

Championships. Overall, TU had five national qualifiers, broke<br />

13 school records and had 93 additions to the top 10 list.<br />

For the men, Travis LeFlore was seeded fifth in the high<br />

jump, one of two automatic qualifiers. His school record jump<br />

of seven feet, one inch was done at the Hilltopper Relays.<br />

LeFlore was second at the GLIAC Championships, his fourth<br />

straight top four finish.<br />

Sophomore Lynzi Daughenbaugh scored a school record<br />

3587 points to place eighth at indoor nationals, becoming<br />

just the second NCAA DII all-american in school history.<br />

Senior John Pemberton<br />

qualified for<br />

the NCAA Division II<br />

National Championships<br />

in the shot put<br />

after finishing third at<br />

the GLIAC Championships.<br />

Lynzi Daughenbaugh was seeded 13th in the pentathlon.<br />

Her school record score of 4900 points was done at the<br />

Larry Ellis Invitational. Daughenbaugh was third at the GLIAC<br />

Championships.<br />

At the GLIAC Championships, <strong>Tiffin</strong>’s women scored 74<br />

points to place third. Kayla Ellks had a strong meet as she<br />

was second in the triple jump and third in the long jump.<br />

D’Wanda Ford was runner-up in the long jump. Third place<br />

performances also came from Daughenbaugh (heptathlon)<br />

and Gerhardt (discus).<br />

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John Pemberton was seeded seventh in the shot put. His<br />

best put this season is 57 feet, 7.50 inches at the Shamrock Invitational.<br />

Pemberton was third at the GLIAC Championships.<br />

Emmanual Grembo was seeded 12th in the 100-meter<br />

dash. His school record time of 10.47 was done at the GVSU<br />

Last Chance Meet. He won the 100m dash at the GLIAC<br />

Championships. Grembo qualified as part of the 400m relay<br />

team last year.<br />

At the GLIAC Championships, the TU men’s team scored<br />

99 points to place fourth. Grembo became the first Dragon to<br />

win the 100m dash at the league met. He was also third in the<br />

long jump. Runner-up performances came from Zach Cernansky<br />

in the 110m hurdles and LeFlore in the high jump.<br />

For the women, Katie Gerhardt was seeded sixth in the<br />

discus. Her school record toss of 167 feet, four inches was<br />

done at the GVSU Last Chance Meet. She was third at the<br />

GLIAC Championships. Gerhardt was also seeded 16th in the<br />

shot put. Her school record put of 47 feet, 6.25 inches was<br />

done at the Hilltopper Relays. Gerhardt was among the top<br />

eight at the GLIAC Championships.<br />

Men’s & Women’s Golf<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s men’s golf team hit another memorable<br />

milestone with their selection to the NCAA Midwest/South<br />

Regional at Jefferson City, Missouri. <strong>Tiffin</strong> finished the regular<br />

season as the sixth seed in the Midwest Region. Only Ferris<br />

State (2nd) and Grand Valley State (4th) were ranked higher<br />

amongst GLIAC schools in the region.<br />

The men’s golf team enjoyed one of their best seasons<br />

ever in 2011-12, placing fourth or higher in six different tournaments.<br />

They won the Great Lakes Regional, while also winning<br />

the Kyle Ryman Memorial. They finished second at the GLIAC<br />

Championships and also took second at the Findlay Invitational.<br />

A trio of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> golfers, including Head Coach<br />

Darby Roggow, was named to the <strong>2012</strong> All-GLIAC squad.<br />

Senior Dillon Klein earned his third consecutive Second<br />

Team All-GLIAC citation, while junior Blake DeBruyn also<br />

earned his second consecutive conference honor. DeBruyn<br />

jumped from Honorable Mention in 2011 to a Second Team<br />

pick this year. Klein led the team with a 74.07 average while


Junior Blake DeBruyn<br />

earned his second<br />

consecutive All-Conference<br />

honor in men’s<br />

golf, jumping from<br />

Honorable Mention in<br />

2011 to a Second Team<br />

pick this year.<br />

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DeBruyn was next at 74.71.<br />

Freshman Tyler Maranville also was named Honorable<br />

Mention All-GLIAC, finishing his first season with TU with a<br />

75.21 average.<br />

After helping guide the Dragons to one of the best years<br />

in school history, Roggow was named GLIAC Coach of the Year.<br />

He coached three All-GLIAC performers this season, helped<br />

lead TU to the NCAA Midwest/South Regional, while also finishing<br />

second at the GLIAC Championships.<br />

In women’s golf action, the team finished 8th at the GLIAC<br />

Championships held at Midland, Michigan.<br />

Deborah Landis was the top finisher for the Dragons,<br />

shooting 82-94-84 for 260. Jaycee Garrow was next with 280<br />

while Allison Soviak had 285. Abby Martin followed Soviak<br />

closely with 287, while Lauren Harris was fifth with 329.<br />

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Men’s Basketball<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> finished the 2011-12 season at 7-12 in the GLIAC and 15-<br />

14 overall, its first winning season since 2005-06. The Dragons<br />

went on a tear, winning 10 of their last 14 games. Among the<br />

victims were Findlay and #23 Hillsdale, the first win over each<br />

team in at least 20 years.<br />

Sophomore Joe<br />

Graessle earned All-<br />

GLIAC Second Team<br />

honors. He averaged<br />

17.9 points, 3.5 assists<br />

and 1.3 steals a game<br />

while hitting 3.1 triples<br />

a game, setting new<br />

school records with 91<br />

3-pointers made and<br />

252 treys attempted.<br />

Over the last two years, <strong>Tiffin</strong> is the third most improved<br />

program in NCAA Division II.<br />

Senior Karl Finley became the first Dragon to earn All-<br />

GLIAC first team honors. He averaged 19.9 points and 3.1 assists<br />

per game while hitting 51 3-pointers. Finley was second<br />

in the GLIAC and 24th in the country in scoring. For his career<br />

he was seventh in three-point percentage (.381) and ninth in<br />

scoring average (17.4).<br />

Sophomore Joe Graessle earned All-GLIAC second team<br />

honors. He averaged 17.9 points, 3.5 assists and 1.3 steals a<br />

game while hitting 3.1 triples a game. Graessle set the school<br />

records with 91 3-pointers made and 252 treys attempted and<br />

was 12th in the country in three’s made per game.<br />

Iman Johnson became the second straight TU player<br />

to be named Freshman of the Year. He joins Graessle who<br />

won the award last year. Johnson averaged 7.1 points, 6.3<br />

rebounds, 1.6 steals and blocked 1.5 shots a game. He was<br />

fourth in the GLIAC and 69th in the country for blocked shots<br />

and his 43 blocks is a new school freshman record.<br />

Women’s Basketball<br />

It was the Year of the Dragons as <strong>Tiffin</strong> finished third in the<br />

GLIAC (14-5) and was 21-7 overall. In addition to setting<br />

the school record for wins, TU finished ranked eighth in the<br />

Midwest Region, just missing a trip to nationals. In the GLIAC<br />

tournament, <strong>Tiffin</strong> beat Hillsdale 68-58 before losing in the<br />

semifinals, 53-39 to Ferris State.<br />

Senior Mandy Jaeb earned her third consecutive First<br />

Team All-South honor as well as her third selection to the All-<br />

Defensive Team. Jaeb’s senior season had numerous milestones,<br />

including eclipsing the 1500 point barrier. Jaeb is only<br />

the second player in TU history to accomplish the feat. Jaeb<br />

Mandy Jaeb earned<br />

her third consecutive<br />

First Team All-GLIAC<br />

honor and her third All-<br />

GLIAC Defensive team<br />

honor this season as<br />

she helped lead <strong>Tiffin</strong>’s<br />

women’s basketball<br />

team to a new school<br />

record with 21 wins.<br />

Jaeb finished her<br />

sensational career with<br />

1,585 career points.<br />

also set a new career free throws record and maintained her<br />

school record for best free throw percentage.<br />

Junior Jessica Harris earned her second consecutive Second<br />

Team selection. She led the Dragons in rebounding with<br />

9.2 per game and was third on the team in scoring. She also<br />

led the team in blocks.


Indoor Track & Field<br />

Lynzi Daughenbaugh (pentathlon) and John Pemberton (shot<br />

put) earned NCAA Division II All-American honors for the<br />

Dragons. Overall, TU had six national qualifiers, broke 18<br />

school records and had 86 additions to the top 10 list.<br />

For the men, Pemberton placed third with a school record<br />

put of 57 feet, 7.75 inches. He was the highest individual<br />

finisher in school history. Travis LeFlore cleared six feet, 9.50<br />

inches to tie for eighth place. The tie breaking system moved<br />

him to ninth, just missing All-American honors.<br />

At the GLIAC Championships, the Dragons finished<br />

fourth with 83.50 points. Justin Ware won the 60-meter dash<br />

to lead a 1-2-3 finish for TU. Just behind Ware were Deven<br />

Keene and Emmanual Grembo. Additional top three performances<br />

came from Antonio Combs in the triple jump (2nd),<br />

Colin Fisher in the 3000 (2nd) and Grembo in the long jump<br />

(3rd).<br />

For the women, Daughenbaugh scored a school record<br />

3587 points to place eighth. During the competition, she<br />

broke the school high jump record by clearing five feet, eight<br />

inches. Daughenbaugh is just the second NCAA DII All-American<br />

in school history.<br />

Ashley DeWitt just missed All-American honors, placing<br />

ninth in the 20-LB weight. Additional competitors were Katie<br />

Gerhardt (shot put) and Marielle Segbor (triple jump).<br />

At the GLIAC Championships, <strong>Tiffin</strong> scored 53.75 points<br />

to place sixth. The Dragons received runner-up performances<br />

from Kayla Ellks in the long jump and Segbor in the triple<br />

jump. Third place finished came from Daughenbaugh in the<br />

pentathlon, D’Wanda Ford in the long jump and Meghan Gill<br />

in the high jump.<br />

Wrestling<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> made tremendous strides in its second season of intercollegiate<br />

competition. The Dragons placed fourth at the<br />

GLIAC Championships. At the Super Regional II meet, TU had<br />

two wrestlers qualify for nationals.<br />

Steven Pastor – 133 LBS<br />

In his opening match, Pastor had a dramatic 5-3 win<br />

over the number two seed, Eric Mateo (Central Missouri). He<br />

scored a takedown in the final ten seconds to gain the win. In<br />

the quarterfinals, Pastor needed just 1:05 to pin Daniel Karlskin<br />

(Truman).<br />

Freshmen Steven Pastor joined teammate Jake Cramer in<br />

placing among the top four in Super Regional competition<br />

to qualify for the NCAA Division II National Wrestling Championships.<br />

This is the first time the Dragons have qualified<br />

for nationals.<br />

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In the semi-finals, Pastor pinned Cullen King (King College,<br />

the number 6 seed) 24 seconds into the third round. In<br />

the final, he put up a tough battle falling 14-9 to the number<br />

one seed, Michael Magaha (Limestone College). Magaha was<br />

ranked eighth in the country.<br />

Jake Cramer – 174 LBS<br />

After losing his opening match, Cramer beat William<br />

Ressel (Central Missouri) 8-2. In his next wrestleback match,<br />

against Ryan Gregory (Belmont Abbey), Cramer was dominating<br />

the match. Eventually, Gregory was disqualified giving<br />

Cramer the win.<br />

On the second day, Cramer beat Bryce Sopko (Limestone<br />

College) 7-2. In the third place match, he beat GLIAC foe<br />

Bryson Hall (Ashland) 8-3.<br />

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Equestrian<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s equestrian program had two of its alumni<br />

excel at the Western Semi-Finals at the <strong>University</strong> of Findlay.<br />

Alison Dittman placed 2nd and advanced to National<br />

competition in Raleigh, North Carolina, and TU’s other competitor,<br />

Elizabeth Buskey, placed 7th.<br />

<strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s equestrian squad had five Regional<br />

qualifiers. To qualify for Regionals, riders had to accumulate<br />

36 points over the season. The Dragons posted two riders in<br />

Hunt Seat and three in Western.<br />

In Hunt Seat, Lauren Burdin (Sophomore) placed first in<br />

her class, beginner walk trot, advancing her to Zone competition<br />

in Morehead, Kentucky. Kelly Dobbs (Junior) placed 3rd in<br />

her class, Walk/Trot/Canter.<br />

In Western competition, Abby Russell (freshman) placed<br />

4th in Open Reining. Francesca Moody (Junior) placed 4th in<br />

Intermediate Horsemanship, while Lindsey McKibben (Junior)<br />

also competed in Novice horsemanship.<br />

The Dragons also had two alumni competing in regional<br />

competition--Alison Dittman and Liz Buskey. Alison placed 1st<br />

and Liz placed 2nd, advancing them to semi-final competition.<br />

Lonny Allen Steps Down as Head<br />

Baseball Coach; Joe Wilkins<br />

Takes Over<br />

Lonny Allen stepped down as <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> Head Baseball<br />

Coach, with assistant coach Joe Wilkins taking over as the new<br />

Head Baseball Coach. Allen will continue to serve as <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>’s Athletic Director.<br />

Allen recently finished his 21st<br />

season at the helm of the program.<br />

Counting his days as a student-athlete<br />

for the Dragons, he has been<br />

associated with the program for 24<br />

years. After taking over in 1992, Allen<br />

helped the team post a winning<br />

record in just his second season,<br />

going 17-15 in 1993. One staple<br />

of Allen’s teams was heavy hitting,<br />

as the offensive record books<br />

Lonny Allen<br />

were rewritten numerous times during his tenure. With 444<br />

career victories, no other Dragons baseball manager has won<br />

more games. The Dragons have been remarkably consistent,<br />

posting 20 or more victories in 14 of his seasons. In <strong>2012</strong>, the<br />

Dragons also qualified for the GLIAC Tournament for the first<br />

time in school history.<br />

“It is with mixed emotions that I give up coaching baseball,”<br />

said Allen. “This move will help me focus more on being<br />

Athletic Director. Being a head coach is very time-consuming,<br />

and I never could have done it without the help of (assistant<br />

coaches) Joe Wilkins and Kurt Rammel. I also could not have<br />

performed all my duties as Athletic Director without the help<br />

of my staff in the athletic department. With the development<br />

of the Heminger Center and other projects, this allows me to<br />

have a more hands-on role. Most importantly, I would like to<br />

thank President Marion for allowing me to serve in both capacities<br />

and also for giving me this opportunity to focus<br />

more specifically on my duties as Athletic Director.”<br />

“This is a great opportunity for me,” said<br />

Wilkins. “Coaching here at <strong>Tiffin</strong> was my first taste<br />

of coaching and I have been able to coach at different<br />

institutions around the country. I have learned<br />

a lot from all the different coaches I have worked<br />

with and look to put that knowledge to use with<br />

the Dragons.”<br />

Joe Wilkins recently completed his fourth<br />

season as an assistant coach for the Dragons.<br />

He has an extensive background in baseball. Joe<br />

spent the 2010 season as an Assistant at Pepperdine<br />

<strong>University</strong> in Malibu, CA.Wilkins’ responsibilities included<br />

training the catchers, helping to develop the offense and


coaching first base. Prior to that<br />

he spent the 2009 season as the<br />

Catching Coach at Wake Forest<br />

<strong>University</strong>. Prior to his hiring at<br />

Wake Forest, Wilkins spent more<br />

than a year working at the Floridabased<br />

IMG Academies where he<br />

worked under former Cleveland<br />

Indians bench coach Ken Bolek as<br />

Joe Wilkins<br />

the full-time catching instructor.<br />

He also has coaching experience<br />

with the Delaware Cows and the Stark County Terriers of the<br />

Great Lakes <strong>Summer</strong> Collegiate League.<br />

Wilkins played professionally for three years, spending<br />

time in the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks’<br />

farm systems. He led the Northwest League’s Yakima Bears in<br />

hitting in 2002.<br />

A four-year letterwinner at Ohio State, Wilkins was<br />

named second team All-Big Ten during the 2002 season and<br />

also earned Most Outstanding Player honors at the 2002 Big<br />

Ten Tournament after hitting a walkoff home run vs. Indiana.<br />

The Buckeyes won two Big Ten regular season championships<br />

and advanced to three NCAA Tournaments, including a<br />

Super Regional appearance in 1999, during Wilkins’ collegiate<br />

career.<br />

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Wilkins graduated from<br />

Ohio State in 2005 with a degree in human ecology and a<br />

specialization in consumer affairs. He earned his master of<br />

business administration in 2007 from <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Wilkins<br />

was a two-sport student-athlete at Dublin Scioto High<br />

School, where he was an all-state selection in both baseball<br />

and football.<br />

“Our immediate goal is to get back to the GLIAC<br />

tournament,” said Wilkins. “Just getting a taste of that this<br />

spring gives us motivation for next year. We also want to start<br />

making a mark in the region, trying to take the program to<br />

the next level. We also look to get even more involved with<br />

the community.”<br />

“I am confident the program will be in good hands<br />

under Joe’s direction,” said Allen. “He is ready to take the<br />

program to a new level.”<br />

Written by Shane O’Donnell, Director of Sports Information<br />

Olympic Academic Experience<br />

Twenty-one students and scholars from across 13 states<br />

will board planes and trains for the transcontinental trip<br />

to London as part of the <strong>2012</strong> <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> Olympic<br />

Academic Experience.<br />

While at the <strong>2012</strong> Games, the TU contingency will<br />

participate as official volunteers for two of the Olympic<br />

Reunion Centers and will engage in a special program<br />

with Olympians and underprivileged children from one<br />

of the poorest boroughs in London. Two-time Olympic<br />

sprinter Francis Dove-Edwin of Sierra Leone (Africa) who<br />

resides in London is the catalyst to create special opportunities<br />

for participants of the TU Olympic Academic<br />

Experience.<br />

The group connected via a Facebook page, which<br />

includes members of the TU contingency who traveled<br />

to China and Greece for their Olympic excursion.<br />

Graduate student, Beth Clark, is making her second<br />

trip, proving that the allure of the Olympics and success<br />

of the TU program are valuable experiences. The<br />

general advice from former participants is to be open<br />

to random, unexpected opportunities that make the TU<br />

Olympic Academic Experience an adventure like none<br />

other.<br />

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ONWARD to the DAWN<br />

A History of tiffin <strong>University</strong><br />

By MiCHAEl ANtHONy GRANDillO<br />

“Michael Grandillo has done a<br />

masterful job in bringing this history to<br />

life. His work adds greatly to the history<br />

of Ohio and higher education and<br />

reminds us how important independent<br />

colleges and universities, such as <strong>Tiffin</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>, are to our state and country.“<br />

—Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator for Ohio<br />

“In the years between the Civil War and<br />

World War II, the for-profit business college<br />

that would become <strong>Tiffin</strong> extended access<br />

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—Stephen G. Katsinas, Professor of Higher<br />

Education, Director of Education Policy<br />

Center, <strong>University</strong> of Alabama<br />

“Michael Grandillo’s definitive history of <strong>Tiffin</strong> <strong>University</strong> is a delight to read. For historians<br />

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liberal arts and sciences. I trust this book will one day serve as a plumb-line for future generations<br />

who want to understand this transformative experience in higher education in the United States.”<br />

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—John Oliver, Emeritus Professor of History at Malone College and Editor of Cradles of<br />

Conscience: Ohio’s Independent Colleges and Universities<br />

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