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Dear Alumni and Friends,
By the time this issue of the LINK is in your hands, we will have celebrated our 123 rd
commencement,
culminating another year of progress and achievement in so many areas. We are very pleased, for example, that
main campus and Cincinnati Branch enrollment grew at record levels, that technology resources expanded to
include wiring all residence halls to the campus network and automating Watson Library, that U.S. News and
World Report rated Wilmington in the top tier of liberal arts colleges in the Midwestern region and that there
were more alumni gatherings in more locations than in previous years. The connection between the last two
accomplishments is the focus of this letter.
It has been a real joy to visit with alumni and friends during the past year. The number of planned events has
increased significantly as we spent time in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Indianapolis,
Florida, Arizona and, of course, Ohio. During our visit to Baltimore, one alumna, upon realizing that there is
a relationship between alumni support and our U.S. News rating, urged us to publicize that fact more widely.
She was referring to our discussion of the method used by U.S. News to assign point values to the variables
they believe are associated with institutional quality. Most of them are academic, including class size, student -
faculty ratio and freshmen retention. Understandably, these variables are weighted most heavily in determining
point totals. Also considered, however, is the percent of alumni who contributed in the previous year. The
number, expressed as a percentage of all alumni, is used as an approximation of alumni loyalty. So in a very
direct way, alumni can play an important role in helping Wilmington College sustain its top tier rating.
How are we doing on the alumni loyalty measure? The short answer is that there is room for improvement.
Among the other colleges in the top tier, we posted neither the highest nor the lowest percentage. We currently
average between 18 and 20 percent of our alumni contributing each year. The national average for colleges like
Wilmington is about 30 percent. Obviously, we lag behind the national average by about 10 percent, a gap we
would like to close in the years ahead.
With your support we can continue to make progress, improve learning and make a difference. With your
support we can help students develop the academic skills and personal values so necessary for making a living
and making a life. With your support we can realize our strategic vision for the new century. An important by­
product of your support is that it will help to keep our rating as a top tier Midwestern liberal arts college.
Thank you so much for your interest, your loyalty and your support. I hope to see many of you during this
year's Alumni Reunion Weekend when we will focus on the visual and performing arts. It will be a wonderful
opportunity to renew friendships and see firsthand the positive change marking our path to the 21 st
century.
Best wishes,
Daniel A. DiBiasio
President

"Mosaic of the Air"
The Simon Goodman Memorial
Carillon is both a visual campus
landmark and an aural one. This
past year, Barbara Dennis '99 has
engaged on a mission to make
this treasure an integral part of
College life. This photo shows
the largest of the 35 carillon bells.
It is traditional for large bells
to be given names. This one is
ornelius Jansenius."
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features
International Harvester
Barry Rodeheffer is becoming a
familiar site in foreign airports. The
WC junior has taken his education
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n the road.
Global Perspective
Alumna Lucy Steinitz is dealing with
one of the world's most daunting
problems as she and her family are
ready to start their third year living
|(f " ica
Freedom Summer
This June marks the 35 lh
anniversary
of a turning point in the American
Civil Rights Movement. Wilmington
College has a connection to that
stone event.
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Hooked on Phonics
I ing
80 - year - old Betty Jane Probasco
retired from classroom teaching after
35 years, but her passion for educat -
children still burns brightly.
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FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON COLLEGE
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Sports News
Class Notes
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ief
Community
Enlightened and
Entertained by
Spring Programs
Public programs hosted by the College
during the spring 1999 semester took audiences
on journeys: to 19th century slavery in
America and the tragic legacy of Cambodian
genocide; into the brilliant minds of
Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen; in tribute
to the diversity of our world and campus
community; and through centuries of music
by such artists as Mozart, Brahms and the
Beatles.
This semester's Issues & Artists Series
included a one - woman show in which actress
Kathryn Woods depicted Sojourner
Truth, the slave turned abolitionist and
women's rights activist.
"When I was a slave, I hated white
Seniors Karie Shelton and Ivan
Mihajlovich perform a scene in WC
Theatre's production of Henrik Ibsen's
classic play A Doll's House.
Actress Kathryn Woods
portrayed 19th century abolitionist/
women's rights activist Sojourner Truth
in a dramatic Issues & Artists Series
presentation at the College.
people," Woods said as she started her performance.
Her bitterness toward those of
European descent was tempered when
Quakers aided in her escape of slavery.
Also, her faith in God ultimately allowed
her to judge each person on the content of
their character.
Also featured in the series, Cambodian -
American Loung Ung gave a multimedia
presentation titled "Wars End, Landmines
Don't." In her native Cambodia, the Khmer
Rouge murdered an estimated 1.7 million of
her countrymen, including her parents, two
siblings and 25 other relatives. A legacy of
the Cambodian "killing fields" includes
some six million landmines buried throughout
the countryside.
She said there are 50 million landmines
in 30 countries. An international ban on
landmines was signed by 133 nations, one
of which was not the United States, which
claims it requires them to fortify the border
between North and South Korea.
"Pol Pot guarded the borders with these
sentinels of death," she said. "The mines
don't care if the foot that steps on it are
soldier, farmer or child—in 70 countries,
you don't know if the next step you take will
be your last."
This year's multi - faceted Black History
Month celebration opened with the College's
annual tribute to the memory of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. in which the Rev. Damon
Lynch Jr., of New Jerusalem Baptist Church
in Cincinnati, said African - American people
need to recapture the sense of community
that helped propel them to great victories in
the Civil Rights Movement.
"As black folk, we've lost something,"
he said. "We've lost a sense of togetherness,
a sense of rallying around one another, a
sense of community.
"I remember once upon a time when we
were colored," he said in calling upon black
people to rediscover their past and build
for their future. "We did more when we
were colored than when we were Negro,
black, Afro - American and African - American.
Then we did more with less and now we
seem to be doing less with more!"
Another highlight of the program was
the music provided by Tamara Rollins '77,
along with the College Chorale and Bible
Missionary Baptist Church Gospel Choir.
On the theater front, graduating seniors
Karie Shelton and Damon Hatten, both of
whom have been principal actors during
their days at WC, contributed swan song
performances in the production of Ibsen's
A Doll's House, which was under the

direction of Wynn Alexander. Later in the
semester, students in Alexander's course on
Chekhov presented a theatrical salute to the
Russian playwright titled Painting Chekhov:
A Russian Tapestry, under the direction of
Grant Peelle.
The Boyd Art Gallery hosted exhibits by
area high school students, as well as paintings
and monotypes by Kentucky artist Ivan
Schieferdecker, while the community also
had an opportunity to view traditional
Japanese dance in a program presented
by visiting Japanese scholar Yoichi
Nishimoto's wife, Yoshiko, and dancers
Sanae Kawamorita and Toshiki Sakurai.
The Wilmington College Chamber
Orchestra, under the direction of Robert J.
Haskins, performed Bach's Brandenburg
Concerto No. 3 and Mozart's Concerto for
Piano and Orchestra No. 17, the latter of
which featured piano soloist Barbara
Dennis '99.
The annual Spring Pops Concert was
highlighted with the College Chorale's
popular music salute to the 100th anniversary
of the birth of Duke Ellington, and the
College - Community Chorus' performance
of Brahms' love song waltzes. Those groups
were under the direction of Catherine Roma
and Elizabeth Haskins '73, respectively.
Also, the Collegium Musicum, directed by
Elizabeth Haskins, gave a noon hour
concert featuring 16th century music for
voices, recorders and percussion.
Finally, the third annual Quaker Lecture
Series featured a presentation by Quaker
scholar Alan Kolp, pastoral leader at First
Friends Meeting in Richmond, Ind. His address,
"Seek and You Shall Find," centered
upon spirituality as the religious dimension
of the human quest for knowledge and truth.
Quake Brings Out
Volunteer Spirit
Eighty members of the campus community
grabbed rakes, shovels and trash bags
as they participated in a day of community
service at the sixth annual Quake in April.
The event was organized by Tara Lydy
'96, coordinator of service learning, and
included students working at: Camp Joy
Educational Center, Clinton County
Homeless Shelter, Caesar Creek Pioneer
Village, Denver Park, Clinton County Family
Health Center, Adopt - A - Highway (Ohio
134 and U.S. 68), Clinton County Animal
Shelter and Wilmington College's Hazard
Arboretum.
On the heels of the Quake, Lydy spearheaded
a campus community relief drive
to assist victims of the devastating killer
tornado that destroyed homes in Hamilton,
Warren and Clinton counties.
The Aggies' 41" annual Livestock Judging Contest brought more than a thousand high
school students engaged in 4 - H and Future Farmers of America to Wilmington, where
they honed their judging skills in preparation for upcoming fairs and other competitions.
Pictured maneuvering swine is Aggie Dan Lyden.
Athletic Training
Program Well
on the Road to
Accreditation
All indications are that Wilmington
College's athletic training program will become
fully accredited by the National Association
of Athletic Trainers when NATA's
Joint Review Committee on Educational
Programs in Athletic Training meets in
October.
Jeff Wimer, assistant professor of
athletic training, said the College's
program came through a site visit in
February with flying colors. In fact, WC
was in compliance in every area examined
by the team.
"It's very rare for programs seeking initial
accreditation to be in compliance with
every standard and guideline," he said.
"Wilmington met all these standards and
guidelines the first time—this pretty much
assures us that we will become accredited
this fall."
The College will be among select company
as fewer than 100 schools in the United
States have fully accredited athletic training
programs, which will be required by 2004.
Wilmington expects to join seven other
accredited schools in Ohio, including
Marietta, Mount Union, Capital, Ohio Northern,
Bowling Green, Toledo and Ohio State.
"National accreditation is a prestigious
honor for our College," Wimer said. "It
gives further validation to the campus community,
as well as our alumni, prospective
students and potential employers, that we
have a very strong program in athletic
training."
Another indication of the program's
strength is the 104 WC alumni who are
certified athletic trainers.
Indeed, alumni were part of the accreditation
process, as they, along with faculty,
administrators, Kettering Medical Center
personnel and current students ranging from
freshmen to seniors were interviewed by the
site visit team. Prior to the February visit,
the College submitted more than 800 pages
of documentation in support of its candidacy
for accreditation.
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Soldiers of Peace
Symposium Highlights War
Resisters' Role in WWII Legacy
A virtually unknown part of the World
War II story is that of the war resisters
whose pacifist convictions resulted in their
incarceration while the world witnessed the
horrors of a global conflagration.
Larry Gara, Wilmington College's emeritus
professor of history, was one of those
men whose nonviolent, pacifist convictions
prohibited him from participating
in any manner with the United
States' war effort in response to German
and Japanese aggression.
There were others.
Indeed, some 6,000 avowed war resisters
were imprisoned during the Second World
War. A microcosm of their plight can be
found in the stories of 10 resisters featured
in the newly published book, A Few Small
Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell
Their Stories (Kent State University Press).
A Few Small Candles, which was edited
by Gara and his wife, Lenna Mae, chronicles:
the circumstances that led to the resisters'
resistence of military service, their terms in
prison during the war years and how those
experiences have shaped the subsequent 50 -
plus years of their lives.
Seven of the men featured in the book
attended a reunion in Wilmington in April,
the featured event of which was a Global
Issues Symposium before an attentive, standing
- room - only audience in the McCoy
Room. The event was covered by C - SPAN
Network, which plans to broadcast it May
29 and 30 on C - SPAN IPs Book TV
program.
The seven book contributors who participated
in the symposium were: Gara,
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David Dellenger (also a defendant in the
celebrated Chicago Seven trial), Ralph
DiGia, Arthur A. Dole, John Harvey Griffith,
George M. Houser and Lawrence H.
Templin.
Gara said the war resisters are all dedicated
to nonviolence as an "active force" in
resisting violence—and that concept goes
well beyond the flash point that was World
War II.
"It's not only a question of being opposed
to war, but being opposed to injustice,"
said Houser, a white man who was a
founder of the Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE) in the early 1940s. The group engaged
in nonviolent, direct action—sit - ins,
protests and boycotts—as it demanded justice
and civil rights for black Americans.
"It was long before Martin Luther King
and the Montgomery bus boycott," he said.
"We inaugurated the first freedom rides and
we began to shake the foundations of Jim
Crow (laws)."
Even in prison during the war, many of
the resisters were fighting for social change.
DiGia recalled he and other war resisters in
federal prison held a hunger strike protesting
segregation of the prisons' dining halls.
The strike was a success and inmates of all
races became more integrated.
"There weren't many victories in prison,
but this was one," DiGia said.
"At that time, everything in the federal
government was segregated, including prisons
and the army," added Gara, who also
was active in promoting equal treatment for
incarcerated African - Americans. "We tried
to do something about it in our own way."
"Social change will not come unless you
live it," Dellenger said. "Who will be the
Rosa Parks of this generation? I think there
is more hope than people realize."
Templin said seeking to change minds
and laws by nonviolent means is a "revolution,"
and he cites the examples Gandhi and
the American Civil Rights Movement.
"Fighting back is the whole point of nonviolence."
Griffith looked at the history of violent
conflict from a perspective as old as time
and as vast as the universe. "From the Big
Bang to the present, there is nothing disconnected—we're
all connected.
"If A hurts B, then B is apt to return hurt
to A or C," he said. "The good news is the
reverse—compassion—also works. I will
try to not pass on hurt. I will try to pass on
compassion."
That poses the question: Can nonviolence
work in a world with people like
Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein and
Milosevic? What would have happened if
the United States had not entered World
War II? Their answers were philosophical
and spiritual in nature.
"I don't think a pacifist has to have an
answer for every war situation," Houser
said. "Hurting does not cure hurting; healing
does."
As a start, he said people have to believe
in the "possibility" of peace, freedom and
justice even in the most impossible circumstances.
If that belief is manifested by the
masses into nonviolent action, the hope is it
will spread throughout the world and eventually
prohibit tyrants from coming to power
in the first place.
As Gara said, "Our message is one of
hope—that there are alternatives to
violence!"
— Randy Sarvis

Too Good a Town?
Prof Writes Book on Myth
of Small Town America
Wilmington College's Edward G. Agran
published a book earlier this year on how the
virtues of small - town America have been
packaged and re - packaged to almost mythical
proportions.
In "Too Good a Town ": William Allen
White, Community, and the Emerging Rheto­
ric of Middle America (University of
Arkansas Press), he examines the life of
White, whom he describes as the "Walter
Cronkite of print media in the first half of the
20th century."
White was the popular editor/publisher
of the Emporia (111.) Gazette who praised
the virtues of small town America in syndicated
editorials and articles in popular
magazines at a time when the Industrial
Revolution was fueling the rapid growth of
urban areas.
Agran, associate professor of history,
said White professed the best of small town
America—security, friendliness, sense of
community, strong family structure—should
be incorporated into the urbanization of
America.
"He saw America in small town images
and believed all Americans could relate to
those images," Agran said. "Can we take the
best of small town values and transpose
them upon an urban environment?"
Indeed, Ronald Reagan did a masterful
job of evoking those images throughout the
country and, in turn, endearing himself to
the American people, Agran claims.
"Reagan spent eight years in the White
House stressing the need to reassert 'old
community values,' emphasizing such qualities
as thrift, charity, neighborliness and
trust," he said. "The president implied these
values were rooted in the nation's past, in
the more close - knit communities of yesterday,
as in his own hometown of Dixon,
Illinois."
In spite of his perceived fondness for
Dixon, Reagan only returned to his hometown
once during his presidency, that for a
campaign photo shoot.
"At Thanksgiving, the cameras rolled as
he and Nancy sat down to homespun fixings
on the Santa Barbara ranch; while at New
Year's, the shutters were closed as the first
couple partied in star - studded Palm Springs,"
he said.
To the former president's credit, the
American people could relate to both the
"Hollywood Reagan and the Dixon, 111.,
Reagan," Agran said, noting he came to
represent both Americas: he was a champion
of the rhetoric promoting traditional
family values, yet, at the same time, he was
divorced, a member of a dysfunctional family
and had kids with drug problems.
"Ronald Reagan sang the swan song: a
B actor could play one last sentimental,
small - town scenario in Washington," Agran
said, "while Bob Dole, a real American
hero, was pilloried in the (1996) presidential
campaign for harking back to his smalltown
roots—it didn't sell!"
Bill Clinton's claims of a poor boy' s past
in a town called Hope were shrugged off
by a cynical populace, but he was elected
anyway.
"We really do seem today to be moving
far away from a small - town idyll that most
Americans could genuinely in some fashion
relate to not so long ago," Agran said. "We
live in another world. Rural America had its
day and the small town had its century."
But Agran is not that quick in disposing
of the small - town myth. Like Norman
Rockwell's paintings, White's vision of
America was true, if only for an instant in
fragmented pieces strewn across the national
landscape. Andy Griffith's Mayberry
lives in moments, albeit ones often shrouded
by those more unseemly ones that often
define modern America.
"We all are, in some fashion, middle
class at our core; and we all are, as we have
been for the past century, in search of community,"
said Agran, noting he is telling not
only White's story but his own.
"My own understanding of place, my
own values and where I have placed myself
over the years clearly inform and influence
this story," he said.
Agran grew up in the 1950s and 60s in
Studio City, Calif., but he yearned for a
place that possessed White's "conceptual
sense" of community.
"When I was a child, I daydreamed,
strangely enough in retrospect, about an
idyllic life in an Ohio small town," he said.
"My idea of the good life rested in a Middle
Western idyll: large elms, front porch, very
green, comfortably old, pleasantly shaded,
with neighboring homes not too close, and
certainly not too distant."
Via Aspen and Boulder, Colo.; Madison,
Wise; and Danville, Ky.; he wound up in
Wilmington and currently Madiera, an old
Cincinnati suburb that consciously retains a
small - town identity, he said.
"When I was a child, I day­
dreamed, strangely enough
in retrospect, about an idyllic
life in an Ohio small town.
My idea of the good life rest­
ed in a Middle Western idyll:
large elms, front porch,
very green, comfortably
old, pleasantly shaded, with
neighboring homes not too
close, and certainly not too
distant." —Edward Agran
Over the years, Agran has realized it's
not the "place" as such that counts, but how
it is situated within one's idea of what
matters.
"For me, this small town (Madiera),
assuages my interest in the simple life," he
said. "And oddly enough, it strongly resembles
the small town I, in fact, inhabited
in Studio City, smack in the middle of Los
Angeles' suburban expanse."
— Randy Sarvis
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Campus
by Randy Sarvis
Music Major Seeks
to Reclaim 'Campus
Tradition and Legacy'
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"Barbara's playing of the Simon
Goodman Memorial Carillon has struck a
chord with the campus community, which
now better understands the significant part
of Wilmington College's heritage represented
by the Carillon," DiBiasio said.
"She has shown that the Carillon is a
living, vital and unique piece of our campus,"
he said. "I'm confident this year's
students, in particular, will grow to appreciate
it even more when they return to campus
as alumni. Also, in addition to the College
community's enjoyment of Barbara's
numerous mini - concerts, I know many visitors
to campus this year have appreciated
her fine playing as well.
"We're looking forward to Barbara's
continued close involvement with the College
commun i ty and Cari 1 Ion after her graduation,"
he added.
Dennis' association with the Carillon
goes back to the mid - 1970s when she was
employed as a secretary in President Robert
Lucas' office.
"The Carillon was silent then (on a regular
basis)," she said, noting the programmed
clock that, for many years, played on the
hour and at 10 minutes before the hour was
permanently on the fritz. "I'm a musician
and keyboardist, so I was interested in playing
it; however, I wasn't very proficient—I
didn't have the technique yet."
That came more than 20 years later when
Dennis studied under renowned carillon -
neur Larry Weinstien, a professor at Wright
State University and carillonneur of the
Deeds Memorial Carillon in Dayton. Also,
this summer, before the ink has barely
dried on her Wilmington College diploma,
she will attend the 57" 1
Congress of the
Guild of Carillonneurs of North America
to continue to refine her technique.
Speaking of her diploma, Dennis took
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Barbara Dennis at
the Carillon console.
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the scenic route in attaining it.
Years ago, she started a degree program
at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,
but ceased so her husband, Wilmington attorney/chief
public defender Joe Dennis,
could pursue his legal studies. Shortly after
one of their two children, Luke, started at
Wittenberg University in 1996, Dennis
"got caught up in the excitement" and decided
to continue her degree program at her
hometown school, Wilmington College—a
place she knew well.
"Wilmington College's always been a
part of my life. The library had a wonderful
collection of classical music, so WC for me
was an escape from high school," Dennis
said, noting she began taking pipe organ
lessons from WC professor Robert J. Haskins
when she was in seventh grade.
Also, as a high school student, she provided
piano accompaniment for the College
Chorale's precursor known as the Chamber
Singers. Since returning to school, Dennis
has served as accompanist for the Chorale
and College - Community Chorus, in addition
to performing in various ensembles.
"I wasn't willing to spend two hours each
day commuting to the Conservatory, and I
felt Wilmington College, with Jim Haskins,
had what I needed," she said about her
decision to resume her studies.
Dennis excelled at WC—she maintained
a perfect 4.0 grade point average and graduated
summa cum laude this year as a member
of Green Key Honor Society. She received
the 1999 Academic Excellence
Award in Music this spring and is listed in
Who's Who Among American College and
University Students.
With her degree in music increasing her
visibility as a teacher, Dennis plans to expand
her private lessons and continue teaching
as an adjunct faculty member at WC.
"If there's an opportunity, I would enjoy
teaching carillon at the College," she said.
"Hopefully, the Carillon will be played by
many individuals over the years—including
me!"
Carillon Is
Campus Treasure
Forty years ago this spring, the
Wilmington College Board of Trustees
authorized the construction of a 60 -
foot tower on the north end of Collett
Mall that would house possibly the
most unique gift the College ever
received—a 35 - bell carillon.
The gift was given by Bessie Goodman
in memory of her husband, Simon, a
Wilmington businessman. Dedicated
in I960, the Simon Goodman Memorial
Carillon features 35 bells that were
cast in Holland at the request
of Pope Pius XII and rung at the
Vatican's pavilion at the 1958 Brussels
World's Fair.
The bells weigh 6,500 pounds with the
largest one weighing 1,100 pounds and
the smallest 20 pounds.
At the College's Baccalaureate ceremony
this spring, Albert Meyer was
honored for serving 36 years as campus
carillonneur—and he's still going
strong! Others who have played the
instrument include music professor
Robert J. Haskins and 1999 graduate
Barbara Dennis, who played regularly
during the 1998 - 99 academic year as
the centerpiece of her WC Excellence
Award project.
Dennis would like to see an endowed
fund established that would provide for
regular maintenance of the Carillon, in
addition to purchasing carillon music,
updating the keyboard, adding bells to
increase the range to four octaves and
enhancing its capacity and audience
reach by starting a Carillon concert
series. Her ultimate hope is a new
programmed clock would be installed
so the Carillon could alert students at
the top of the hour they are late for
class—and gently remind faculty to let
students out of class at 10 minutes
before the hour.
Class gifts from those classes having
reunions this year have been earmarked
for the Carillon.
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Ag Student Tailors Major
for International Experience
mington College junior Barry R.
Rodeheffer is becoming a familiar site in the
customs areas of some of the world's major
airports. Last year, the agriculture major
from Union City spent two months studying
in China; now, beginning in July, he will
spend the next year in Germany.
Rodeheffer received word this spring he
was accepted into Germany's prestigious
Budestag Study Abroad Program. He is
among a select group of 60 Americans
who will enhance their international perspectives
on such subjects as education,
business and—in Rodeheffer's case—
agriculture.
"I thought I was unbelievably lucky after
I interviewed for the Budestag at the University
of Michigan and I learned I made the
top 130," he said, noting many of those in
the program are graduate school students or
older. "I was jumping up and down for joy
when I found out I was one of the 60 selected
to go to Germany!"
The program is set up so he will start with
two months of intensive German language
training, followed by four months learning
about agriculture in Germany and capped
off with a six - month internship.
Rodeheffer, who will stay with a German
family for at least 10 of those months, said
the Budestag program covers all expenses
except his transportation to Washington DC
and spending money.
"Right now, I don't know anything about
German agriculture, but the more I don't
know the more I will learn—I feel I'm going
in there on a whim and a prayer," he added.
"This kind of experience opens your eyes to
so much."
And he should know. Last spring, he
spent two months participating in a program
at the Chinese Academy of Agriculture,
where he learned about that country's agricultural
systems—and how they are able to
feed more than a billion people.
China proved to be an exercise in contrasts
and similarities for Rodeheffer—and
the similarities did not end when he visited
China's version of Wal - Mart, known as
"Woo - Mart." But it was the contrasts he
noticed first.
"There's a huge gap as to who has money
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in China and who doesn't," he said. "In
riding the bus from the airport, I saw mules
pulling wagons being passed by shining
new Lexus cars."
He recalled China's agricultural quota
system was being phased out while he was
in the country, as traces of capitalism seemed
to fly in the face of communist policies.
Rodeheffer explained farmers were required
to produce a specified quota of rice
that was sold to the local government for use
in that town. Many farmers began growing
a very high yield, but poor quality, rice.
With the high yield crop covering their
quotas, the farmers grew "good" rice on the
side for themselves—and a little extra profit.
He said the Chinese cannot be blamed for
wanting to improve their financial position
in order to better provide for their very large
families.
"I realized many of the same things that
are important to us are important to Chinese,"
he said. "The main difference is the
government—it's really amazing how similar
the people are."
Going to China sparked Rodeheffer's
by Randy Sarvis
interest in international agriculture marketing,
which is now his tailor - made major at
WC.
"The experience gave me a better understanding
of cultural differences and how I
might be able to adapt these differences to
my interest in international agriculture," he
said. "When I got back from China, I knew
I wanted to go abroad again soon!"
It wasn't long before WC agriculture
professor Monte Anderson encouraged him
to apply for the Budestag program.
Anderson has known Rodeheffer since
the student was seven years old; indeed, the
professor calls him his "youngest recruit
ever." Rodeheffer accompanied his father,
who used to be president of the Process
Limestone Association, at PLA's Ohio Farm
Science Review booth visited by Anderson
each year.
"I watched Barry grow up," said Anderson,
who noted Rodeheffer best exemplifies
the student who takes advantage of the type
of opportunities offered by a small school
like Wilmington.
"He's been very proactive in his
Barry Rodeheffer, pictured here on the College farm, claims, "Before coming to WC, I
heard a lot of good things about Wilmington's ag program and I was impressed when
I visited campus. I got to College, saw opportunities and realized it was time to buckle
down. It's been a great experience!" He believes it all might have been predestined
anyway: "Look at my name, Barry Rodeheffer—/ had to be an agriculture major!"

education," he said. "He understands what
is needed for him to be successful in the
careertrack he selected. At Wilmington, the
opportunity exists for students to expand
their horizons and do things beyond what's
simply required—and Barry's doing that.
"He has matured very quickly," Anderson
added. "Barry said, 'This is where I'm
going and this is how I'll get there.' He
wants to see what's out there."
And if "out there" is China, Germany or
his internships with Monsanto and American
Cyanamid, then Rodeheffer will embrace
the experience for all it's worth.
"I love being an American and there's
nothing like coming home, but the experience
we had in China set up a love for
exploring and seeing what else is out there,"
Rodeheffer said.
"You've got to get out of your comfort
More and More
Students
Studying Abroad
Five years ago, only a handful of
Wilmington College students were studying
abroad; however, there are indications
this might be changing, says Neil Snarr,
professor of social and political studies and
director of international education.
"I haven't met a student who spent time
abroad who didn't think it was beneficial,"
he said, noting that "exploring uncharted
waters" can be a valuable part of a student's
education.
In spring 1998, six students spent the
term overseas (one in Italy, two in China and
three in Great Britain). This spring, two
students spent the semester in Spain and two
in England.
Beyond programs for a full semester
abroad, a number of shorter trips have been
or are being sponsored by the College. These
also present students with opportunities for
academic credit.
Snarr led a group of students and others
on a trip to Mexico over Christmas break
and, in March, Lew Marcuson, professor of
English, and Wynn Alexander, associate
professor of theater, took more than a dozen
students on a theater tour of London. In
May, Bill Kincaid, professor of mathematics,
will lead a group of students on an
zone if you truly want to succeed in life,"
he added. "Push the envelope—you'll
find you can do a lot more than you thought
you could."
excursion to Iceland,
the site of where he
was engaged in a
Fulbright program
some years ago.
Also, this May,
head coach Mike
Wallace and his
coaches, with academic
help from
June Townsend, associate
professor of
modern language,
will take several
dozen football players
to Spain, while
head women's basketball
coach Jerry
Scheve, associate
professor of business
administration, with
academic assistance
from New Zealander
John Scott, assistant
professor of agriculture,
will take the
women's basketball
team to Australia.
For short trips in
the spring of 2000, there are tentative
plans for groups to go to Africa and the
Caribbean.
Snarr said the College is a member of the
Midwest Consortium for Study Abroad,
Barry Rodeheffer is
pictured in front of the
Gamma Phi Gamma
house near campus. A
member of the Gobblers,
he said pledging the
fraternity has been one
of his most fulfilling
experiences since coming
to WC. Spending a year
in Germany means he
will not graduate with his
class next spring—he '11
finish in December 2000
or spring 2001. "1 guess
I'm not in a big hurry to
get out of College," he
said. "I like it too much,
the fraternity and friends
and everything."
Seven Wilmington College students accompanied two faculty
members (and a spouse) on a trip to Mexico over Christmas
break. During the nine - day excursion, they became acquainted
with Mexico City—possibly the largest metropolitan area in the
world—and had an opportunity to visit San Juan Teotihuacan,
which in 600 A.D. was one of the six largest cities in the
world and the largest in the Americas. Pictured (l - r) at the
Teotihuacan Pyramid are: (FRONT ROW) Jennifer Johnston,
Jeremy Ritter, Elana Bailey; (BACK ROW) prof. Neil Snarr,
Tyler Watson, Sherry Johnson, Donna Smith, Misty Kiser,
Ted Ripperger and chemistry prof. Kelly Ripperger.
which offers special programs in a number
of countries. The popular Vienna, Austria,
trip Bob and Helga McCoy started on campus
some years ago is part of this program
and available to WC students.
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y Randy Sarvis
Alumna following
parents' mantra about
helping others
H ow does a Jewish woman from New
York City who attended a Quaker college in
Ohio end up advising the Roman Catholic
Church in Namibia, Africa, on issues
related to the HIV/AIDS pandemic?
When you throw in the facts that she is
married to a German and they adopted two
children from Guatemala, in addition to
having spent time in Russia, the Ukraine,
Poland, Israel, Latin America and seven
African nations, it becomes apparent Lucy
Y. Steinitz possesses a unique global perspective
on life.
Steinitz, a 1972 Wilmington College
graduate, said religion has been a common
thread of her life story.
"One of the unifying themes seems to be
a fascination I have about the role of religion
in society," she said. "Deep down inside, I
hold the conviction very strongly that, if
used right, religion and religious institutions
can have an enormously positive
impact on people's lives."
Her professional career offers proof of
that.
She served for 15 years as executive
director of Jewish Family Services in central
Maryland and now she has joined the
Namibian Catholic Bishops Conference to
organize a national response to HIV and
AIDS in that southwest African nation that
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has the third highest HIV infection rate in
the world.
"My parents always taught me to live life
to its fullest, and to give something back to
the world—and therein, to find meaning for
myself in what I am doing," she said, noting
her Wilmington College experience also
played a key role in her interest in helping
others.
"I was 17 when I came to Wilmington
College from a high school of 5,000 students
in New YorkCity," she said. "I wanted
a change of atmosphere—I got it!
She recalls the late 1960s as a time when
values were questioned and chaos reigned
across many college campuses nationwide.
"Amidst the turmoil, Wilmington was
a refuge, a quiet place where you could
find a listening ear and a helping hand,
where individuality was encouraged and
where you could embark on a road of discovery—well
beyond your academic
niche—to a journey of self - inquiry and
personal identity."
Following her graduation in 1972,
Steinitz earned her master's degree from
Brandeis University and later a doctorate in
social service administration from the University
of Chicago (her 1980 dissertation
was on the theme: "The Role of the Church
in the Social Welfare of the Elderly." While
studying, she held part time social work and
teaching jobs, and co - edited a book by and
about children of Holocaust survivors.
Steinitz met her husband, a German
mathematician, while on a camping trip in
Pictured in Namibia's
Kalahari Desert are
Lucy Steinitz; her
husband, Bernd
Kiekebusch; and their
children, Sergio, 10,
and Elsita, 12.
The children attend
Windhoek International
School and Bernd
is working on the
ountry's Y2K problem
and computerizing
the personnel
records of the
country's largest
government ministry.
Iceland. She and Bernd Kiekebusch were
married in a ceremony officiated, in part, by
WC's professor emeritus T. Canby Jones,
"with whom I have always had an especially
close relationship," she said.
Her interest in promoting prison reform
for women and reforming health - care subsidies
for the elderly was deterred when the
1980 national elections were swept by
Republicans, whom, she claims, were particularly
unsympathetic to those issues.
"With Ronald Reagan at the helm, there
was no longer any role for me in or around
government," she said. "This brought me
back to the Jewish community from whence
I came."
Steinitz soon became executive director
of Jewish Family Services in Baltimore.
She explained the agency provides a wide
range of residential, mental health, educational
and support services, both within the
Jewish community and beyond. Their main
population groups were children, the aged
and adults with disabilities. During her 15
years leading Family Services, its budget
increased from $2 million to $7.5 million
and more than 250 employees.
The position provided her with travel
opportunities to Russia and the Ukraine,
where she conducted a needs assessment for
the Jewish community; Poland, where she
developed a social work exchange; and to
Zimbabwe, where she and her husband
served as volunteers for three months with a
rural water - and - land cooperative.
"Traveling brought the family together

(their two children, Elsita and Sergio, accompanied
them to Africa), with close and
inevitably wonderful encounters among both
animals and humans that we never before
could have imagined," Steinitz said, noting,
after 15 years, she felt it was time to go in
another direction career - wise.
"We decided, why not pack up everything,
go for it and move to Africa, our first
love, and see what we can do?" she said.
"Easier said than done, but fortune shone
our way."
In 1997, she found a volunteer job with a
new juvenile justice organization in
Windhoek, Namibia, and, soon afterwards,
Bernd found work with the country's Ministry
of Basic Education and Culture. Steinitz
also got involved in other projects: a study
of old age homes for the Ministry of Heath
and Social Services, the nation's first study
of orphans for UNICEF and the development
of a resource book on "how to help a
needy child," listing what government and
private organizations in Namibia can offer.
'"Not much' is the answer, but anything
helps," she said.
Steinitz noted that, increasingly, HIV/
AIDS has emerged as southern Africa's
number one issue. Indeed, her orphan study
revealed 80 percent had become orphans
due to AIDS, which affects one adult in
four.
"With this terrible pandemic, when one
parent dies of AIDS, the other is sure to
follow," she said. "While most orphans are
currently being cared for by extended family
members, our research demonstrated that
almost half of these adults are themselves
either old or sick—after they die, what will
happen to the children?
"Namibia has high hopes for the future,
but AIDS could kill all that, if not held in
check."
Last year, Steinitz joined the Namibian
Catholic Bishops' Conference to organize a
national response to HIV/AIDS, which is
known as Catholic AIDS Action. She started
out by instituting awareness and prevention
programs, while, at the same time, focusing
on care for the afflicted: providing spiritual
counseling and home - based visitation, and
to help those with AIDS prepare for the care
Lucy Steinitz is pictured with Namibian bushman children. She and her family have
spent the past two years in the south African nation of Namibia, where Steinitz is
working with an HIV/AIDS ravaged population on issues surrounding the pandemic.
of their loved ones after their death.
Also, they have teamed with the government
in a major "stay in school" campaign
geared toward the orphans.
"The challenges are certainly there," she
said about her work. "Doing this might
seem like an odd turn of events for someone
like me, but this all fits in with my parents'
philosophy of trying to make the world a
little better place."
Steinitz's says the work is rewarding and
her family enjoys living in Namibia, an arid,
sparsely populated country about twice the
size of California with open, rocky terrain
similar to areas of Nevada and Arizona.
While Namibia boasts more than 20 tribal
dialects, since its independence in 1990, the
official language of government and commerce
is English.
"The air is clear with sunshine 365 days
a year, though summers can get very hot,"
she said, noting most houses have neither
heat or air conditioning.
"By reducing our needs and simplifying
our lives, we find ourselves with more time
to enjoy each other and count the many
blessings that are ours," she said. "We don't
know what the future will bring—we' 11 have
been here two years in June and hopefully
two will become more—but we wouldn't
have missed this opportunity for the world!"

Wilmington's connection to
FREEDOM
SUMMER'
WhenJuli an Bond was on campus last
fall at the Westheimer Peace Symposium,
he spoke of how black Americans did not
really march to freedom: rather, he said,
"We worked our way to civil rights through
the difficult business of organizing,
by knocking on doors and by registering
voters."
Thirty - five years ago this summer, a
Wilmington College student traveled to
Mississippi with other students to work with
the Civil Rights Movement and assist in an
African - American voter registration drive.
Three of those civil rights workers did
not return alive.
1999 marks 35th anniversary
of turning point in American
Civil Rights Movement
by Randy Sarvis
The story of the Ku Klux Klan murders
of Andrew Goodman, 20, James Chaney,
21, and Michael Schwerner, 24, is chronicled
in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning and
was apivotal moment in what became known
as 1964's "Freedom Summer."
Then a Wilmington College senior, Carol
Kornfield '65, whom professor emeritus
T. Canby Jones today describes as "number
one in terms of peace activism on campus at
the time," was a veteran of two summers
spent registering voters in Georgia. The
summer following her junior year, she had
plans to work in Mississippi, so she left her
home in New York City first en route to
training sessions in Oxford, Ohio, a staging
point for civil rights workers heading south.
"Andy Goodman, a few others and I left
New York," said Kornfield, now a grandmother
who heads the emergency psychiatric
unit in New York City's Department of
Social Services.
"We were all going down to Mississippi
together and, on the way to Oxford, we
spent the night in Wilmington and went to
Campus Quaker Meeting on Sunday," she
recalled.
Kornfield and her colleagues were well
received at the Campus Meeting. In fact,
both Jones and professor emeritus Larry
Gara recall this aspect of Wilmington
College's connection to Freedom Summer.
"I remember discussing nonviolence with
Carol Kornfield (second from left) helped organize a campus vigil in 1964 calling for speedy passage of the Civil Rights Bill in
Congress. She recalls the "culture shock" of leaving New York City to attend college in Wilmington; however, "I have no regrets—
1 received a wonderful education, " she said. "Many on the faculty were sympathetic to the Civil Rights Movement and later the peace
movement. " Others identified in the photo include T. Canby Jones (fourth from left) and Kelvin Van Nuys, a religion and philosophy
faculty member (sixth from left). The vigil was held at the Goodman Memorial Carillon. Note Twin Ash Hall in the background.
12 SPRING 1999

Andrew Goodman," Gara said. "He was
aware of the fact he was going into an area
where he might be in danger—less than a
week later, he and the others were dead."
The group left Wilmington College on
its way to the campus of Western College
for Women—now part of Miami University
in Oxford, where they joined 800 others in
trainingforcommunity organizing and voter
registration.
"After receiving training in Oxford, we
drove south—I eventually went to Greenwood
in the Mississippi Delta and Andy
went to Meridian, where he was to work
with James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner."
On June 21, the three civil rights workers
drove to nearby Longdale, Miss., to see a
firebombed black church. Upon their return,
a Neshoba County sheriffs deputy
pulled them over allegedly for speeding.
They were thrown into jail in Philadelphia,
Miss., only to be released later that night. An
investigation revealed the sheriff and deputy
sheriff were in cahoots with local Klansmen
who abducted and murdered the civil rights
workers.
Goodman and Schwerner were each shot
through the heart and Chaney, an African -
American from Meridian, was savagely
beaten and shot three times. Their bodies
were buried in an earthen dam and their
station wagon was burned and dumped
near a swamp. The nation's attention was
focused on Mississippi while law enforcement
authorities searched for the young
men. Acting on an informant's tip, the FBI
discovered the bodies after 44 days.
"We were in Greenwood when we heard
they disappeared," Kornfield said. "We
didn't believe what the cops said, that they
were released from jail and left town.
"None of our people would leave a jail at
night in the South—it was too dangerous,"
she added. "At that time, we knew they were
dead."
The deaths of Goodman, Chaney and
Schwerner were a turning point in the Civil
Rights Movement. Major civil rights legislation
introduced by the Johnson Administration
would be passed in Congress that
summer and white America became more
sympathetic and outraged.
"Their murders mobilized people even
more," Kornfield said, noting the nation's
eyes were now on the spectacle of this
American apartheid. "Now there was a
Mickey Schwerner, 24 James Chaney, 21 Andrew Goodman, 20
tremendous amount of attention being paid
to voter registration and the Civil Rights
Movement.
"Black kids and other black people had
been killed all the time, but this was two
white college students—it made people sit
up and take notice," she added. "We knew
about the lynching and murdering of blacks,
but I don't think any of the white kids
working in the South believed it could happen
to us.
"There was a feeling we were immortal—until
then."
Some of Kornfield's experiences in the
South were chronicled in an article written
in a 1965 issue of Friends Journal by
Warren Griffiths, professor of history and
government at Wilmington College at the
time. It was based on letters Kornfield wrote
to him while she worked in Georgia and
Mississippi.
This excerpt was written shortly after her
arrival in Mississippi.
"Here we see not only with our minds,
but with our hearts, the real meaning of
freedom," she said. "We see the real essence
of what this country may someday become.
Today I escorted the first group of potential
voters to the courthouse. These people know
what it means to be an American, and realize
completely what the ballot really means—
and what it takes to win it."
Another letter was written from jail
after Kornfield and others were arrested for
picketing.
"My first moment of panic came as I
stared into the blank eyes of those many
policemen armed with cattle prods, billy
clubs and helmets," she wrote. "I joined
hands with two Negro girls on the way to the
paddy wagon, and we shouted, 'Freedom,'
realizing for the first time what it meant."
After the jail experience, she wrote
insightfully about seeing the black community
begin to organize.
"It is a beautiful thing to watch fear being
whittled away, to see people for the first
time realize their power as human beings, to
see where they fit in as part of the world,"
she said. "I'm so grateful to be alive and
involved right now. To be even a small part
of this revolution for humanity is such a
privilege."
Some three - and - a - half decades later,
Kornfield echoed those sentiments as she
recalled Freedom Summer.
"Absolutely, we made a difference," she
said. "It's a wonderful feeling to know that
and I wouldn't trade that experience for
anything—we were truly lucky and truly
blessed to have been able to do this."
But Kornfield stresses in Griffiths'
article the real heroes of the fight for civil
rights were the African - Americans themselves.
"These are the real Americans, these
people of Mississippi and their brothers and
sisters all over the South—my brothers and
sisters—who are fighting, living and dying
for their birthright," she said. "These people,
not the summer volunteers, are the real
story. We will leave. They will stay where
they were born, trying time and again to be
recognized as human beings."
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"You can't always
fit the child to the
curriculum; some -
S H E ' S H O O K E D O N H E R O W N B R A N D O F times you have t o
Even though she retired from teaching
in 1985, Betty Jane Probasco '39 is still
working hard to create ways for children to
learn.
Probasco, 80, taught for 35 years, including
more than two decades in the Centerville
Schools. A 1939 graduate of Wilmington
College, Probasco did not like the idea of
teaching children to read by sight.
"I didn't feel right using that method, so
I came up with my own way using phonics,"
she said. "Over the years I tried to determine
what was good for the children and came up
"In my opinion, there is no
reason why there should be
illiteracy. You can teach any
child how to read if you find
the right way."
— Betty Jane Probasco
with a way to teach kids to read that was
easy, fast, fun and unforgettable."
What she came up with is known today as
"Pro Hart Phonics." According to Probasco,
herprogram will work for any child, whether
they be gifted, at - risk or even deaf.
"I used different creative characters and
stories over the years and shared them with
my daughter (Jane Eckhart), a first grade
teacher at Driscoll Elementary in
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Centerville," Probasco said. "She finally
told me to write all these ideas down and that
is how the program came about as it is
today."
The program uses an animal character
and story for each letter of the alphabet and
includes a kit with construction paper and
patterns so the children can make their own
animals.
"The spelling cards teach them to make
the letters such as Allie Ant and Buffy
Butterfly or Uncle Hip Hop the rabbit and
his umbrella," Probasco said. "They start by
learning letters and sounds and move on to
writing the letters and then sentences and
stories. It also fits with other subjects, like
math or science."
Each child also receives a mirror so they
can watch how their mouth, teeth, lips and
tongue move to make words. Probasco also
included her own writing paper that has full
and dotted lines to help the child write the
letters. She adds that, even if children are
not ready to write, even three - year - olds can
use the speech cards to learn correct speech
patterns.
To illustrate how well the students have
remembered the subjects, Eckhart described
Betty Jane Probasco sits with her reading
kit and spelling cards from her reading
program "Pro Hart Phonics." She
believes any child can learn to read if
the subject is presented in the right way.
fit the curriculum
to the child."
— Betty Jane Probasco
a recent field trip to Cox Arboretum.
"The children saw some large insects
built by an artist and said 'there's Allie Ant
and Buffy Butterfly'," Eckhart said. "The
children have been very enthusiastic about
the characters and the results have been
amazing. They get practice not only with
letters and sounds, but shapes, patterns and
more."

Probasco describes her creation as a
developmental program.
"There are building blocks and the students
can just keep going with it. They learn
short vowel words, and the "magic e" and
how it changes with way a word sounds,"
she said. A taped song is also included for
each animal that her granddaughter, a
Kettering music teacher, helped write.
"My children and all six grandchildren
have been involved in making this happen,"
Probasco said. "It is very rewarding to see
his come to fruition. I like knowing this is
helping children and this is a program any
teacher, parent or tutor could use. In my
apinion, there is no reason why there should
be illiteracy. You can teach any child how to
ad if you find the right way."
Eckhart also is proud of her mother's
accomplishments.
"You would not think at 80 she would
be starting a business, but my mother was
a great teacher and has created a wonderful
program. We are all very proud of her,"
she said.
This story was written by Shelley Smith,
writer for the Centerville - Bellbrook
Times. It appears courtesy of Suburban
Newspapers of Dayton.
Fire Guts Gobblers' House
Two nights after 115 Gamma Phi Gamma
alumni attended the fraternity's 92rd
Anniversary Reunion, fire gutted what has
served as the center of the Gobblers' activities
since 1984. They plan to rebuild or
renovate the gutted structure at 673 Fife
Avenue, located just
north of the College
grounds.
No one was hurt
in the April 26 blaze,
however, the fraternity
lost half of its
memorabilia and the
five Gamma Phi
Gamma brothers residing
at the residence
had most of
their personal belongings
destroyed,
according to Larry
Droesch '87, chairman
of the
fraternity's alumni
organization.
"We were
lucky—everybody
was safe," he said.
Droesch said the
organization's insurance
will cover
the building and fraternity
- owned appliances
and furnishings, but not individuals'
personal property. Apparently, only two
of the residents had renter's insurance.
He said a fund has been established to
assist those students through the Gamma
Phi Gamma Foundation (donations can be
sent c/o: Fire Victims, GPG Foundation,
P.O. Box 668, Wilmington, OH 45177).
"The College has been very gracious in
its support," Droesch said, noting arrangements
were made for the displaced students'
room and board, as well as special academic
considerations since the fire occurred during
exam week. Also, the Delts and Student
Government Association were accepting
donations on behalf of the Gobblers.
While the exact cause had not been determined
at press time, some speculate a spark
from the gas hot water heater ignited some
materials in the basement laundry room.
After smoldering for some time, clothes and
an old mattress caught on fire. At about 8:50
p.m., Gobbler Troy Duncan happened to
glimpse flames when walking past the room.
He and the other nine brothers in the house
at the time attempted to put out the fire with
an extinguisher and buckets of water,
Droesch said.
Flames, which quickly engulfed the
Wilmington Fire Dept. Captain John O'Rourke (right) and
another firefighter inspect damage to the Gobblers' kitchen after
the April 26 fire was extinguished. Also pictured is sophomore
Jeremy Ritter, a resident of the house who was allowed to return
to his room that night to salvage any of his belongings. While
Ritter lost many of his possessions to fire, smoke and water
damage, he, like most of his brothers was especially upset about
losing their house. "There's so many memories in this house; so
many people put time and money and effort into it, " he told the
Wilmington News - Journal. "Now it feels like we lost everything. "
mattress, spread to the basement ceiling,
where a natural gas line from outside converged
at the gas meter. When heat melted
the solder and caused the gas meter to fail,
gas was released and quickly ignited, creating
a blow torch affect that allowed the fire
to" spread rapidly.
Damage was extensive to the main floor,
basement and much of the upstairs rooms.
The fraternity recently completed major
improvements to the house, including a new
kitchen, furnace and central air, new washer/
dryer, inside painting, new windows and
roof, and, only four days before the blaze,
new carpeting was installed throughout the
house.
Droesch is confident that, with the insurance
settlement and alumni support, the
fraternity will again have a house.
"We plan to rebuild on the same site
or another site," he said. "The Gobblers
have been here 92 years; we're not going
anywhere!"
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Winter sports round - up
The 1998 - 99 season was bittersweet for the Quakers. While the
men's basketball team had a down year, the wrestlers placed 14th
in the nation, women's basketball won the Heartland, a high jumper
was national runner - up and, in its first year, the swim team sent a
member to nationals.
WRESTLING
The 1998 - 99 season changed the way
Quaker fans talk about the WC wrestling
program. Conversations that used to contain
just the names Grammes and Keller, have
now expanded to hold names like Ray,
Wallace and Estell.
Gone are the talks of the one - man show
and mutterings of rosters with more holes in
them than an old pair of gym socks.
This past season the Quaker wrestling
team, under the direction of fifth - year
coach Jim Marsh, shed its callow label and
replaced it with a tag that reads, "beware."
The Quakers put together the school's
best season ever and finished tied for 14th in
the nation at the NCAA Division III Championships
held in Ewing, New Jersey.
On the road to the Championships, the
Quakers placed third in the Heartland
Collegiate Championship Duals and had
three individual champions. Junior Corey
Rudnick was the champion of the 133 -
pound class, senior Bryan Ray was champion
at 174 pounds and freshman Corey
Estell claimed the heavyweight title.
The following week, three WC wrestlers
tore up regional competition and qualified
for the national championship. That trio
included Ray, Estell and freshman Jimmy
Wallace, who wrestled in the 149 - pound
bracket.
At the NCAA Championship, Ray, who
wrestled his final two matches with a broken
nose, earned a third place finish. His only
loss came to the eventual champion, John
Newman of St. John's. Ray wrapped up his
season with an overall record of 43 - 1 and
established the new WC mark for career
wins with a 116.
Not to be outdone, Wallace made quite
an impression, too. He was pinned in his
16 SPRING 1999
Bryan Ray takes control of
his opponent during the
Heartland Conference
Championship Duals. Ray,
a 174 - pound senior, finished
third in the nation at
the NCAA Division HI
Championships. He had
a 43 - 1 record this season
and set the WC standard
with 116 career wins.
first national match, but came back to win
five of his next six matches and took home
a fifth place finish. Because Wallace and
Ray both placed in the top eight in the nation
they were named Ail - Americans. Wallace
completed his first season of collegiate wrestling
with a 26 - 5 record.
Estell couldn't produce the results of his
teammates, but like Wallace, he has three
more shots at making to the championships
again. Estell lost his first two matches by a
combined five points and was eliminated
from the tournament. His freshman campaign
closed with a 24 - 9 record.
In addition to team's physical prowess,
Quaker junior Todd Mustain showed what
the team could do academically. Mustain, a
141 - pounder with a 19 - 16 record, placed
forth at the regional and met the GPA
requirements to be named an Academic
Ail - American.
The Quakers had a dual record of 11 - 8.
SWIMMING
With low expectations in its first year of
existence, the fledgling swim program
proved to make more than one splash this
season.
Basing its first year on wins and losses
just wouldn't be fair, but the WC program,
under the direction of coach Trip Breen,
gave a couple of opponents a run for their
money. The women's team even collected
its first win, a 91 - 72 victory over Hiram on
Dec. 16.
Throughout the season times were
trimmed down, personal bests were repeatedly
smashed and records were set at almost
the same pace.
However, the biggest waves came from
the wake of senior Jason Keith. The Cincinnati
native clocked in at a season - best 58.30
in the 100 breaststroke and at 2:08.69 in the
200 breaststroke. Both times were quick
enough to qualify him for the NCAA Division
III Championships held at the University
of Minnesota.
All qualifiers for the national meet were
eligible to compete in three events, so Keith
chose the 200 IM as his third event.
In the trials of the 200 IM, Keith checked
in at 1:58.64, missing the cut for the finals
by four seconds. The next day, he competed

i his specialty, the 100 breaststroke. In the
trials, Keith clocked in at 58.99, the 17th
best time out of 30 competitors. However,
ds time was not good enough to make the
cut, which was set at 58. 73.
The next day, the same thing happened to
Keith. He put up a respectable time in the
200 breaststroke (2:09.05), but just failed to
make the cut (2:08.29). In those two breast -
stroke events, Keith missed climbing out of
the trials and into the finals by a combined
1.02 seconds.
SPORTS
Jason Hennekes drives around a Manchester
defender. Hennekes received an honorable mention
to the All - Heartland Conference Team after
averaging 10.0 points per game and leading the
Quakers with 48 three - pointers this past season.
Just the flavor of national competition in
the program's first year of existence speaks
volumes. In less than a year, a group of
swimmers arrived for their first practice,
jelled into a team, battled together in competition
and set the foundation for the
program's future.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
The 1998 - 99 season opener turned out to
be a foreshadowing of a long season for the
WC men's basketball team. In that contest
the Quakers trailed Muskingum by as many
as 10 points in the second half. The Quakers
hustled to get back in the game and even
took a four point lead in the final minutes,
but their lead disappeared when Muskingum
hit an 18 - foot shot at the buzzer to win the
game, 60 - 58.
Good effort, but no stogie. That was the
story line in the majority of the Quakers'
games this season. The squad scratched and
clawed all season long, but rarely got to sit
back after a game and inhale the scent of
victory. A 3 - 22 record was all that remained
when the smoke cleared.
Jason Keith swims in
the first home meet for
the new WC swim
program. Keith, a
senior, went on to
qualify for the NCAA
Championships in
both the 100 and 200
breaststroke.
Two of those wins came in conference
play, where the Quakers finished seventh
with a record of 2 - 12.
The team played a slow - down, grind - it -
out, defensive style of basketball in one of
NCAA's quickest and toughest Division III
conferences. Slamming the brakes on opponents
' offenses worked for the most part, but
WC just couldn't get its own motor started
on the offensive end.
The Quakers averaged 62.2 points per
game, while giving up 73.9. In the shooting
department, WC shot 42 percent as a team,
while opponents connected on 47 percent of
their shots.
Dan Shardo and Jason Hennekes led the
team in scoring. Shardo, a sophomore forward,
averaged 10.4 points a game and also
contributed 4.1 rebounds per game.
Hennekes, a junior guard, was the Quakers'
outside shooting threat. He averaged 10.0
ppg. Freshman Matt Vehorn was the team
leader on the boards, pulling down 5.1
rebounds per contest.
The season came to a close when the
Quakers were eliminated in the first round of
the HCAC tournament by Anderson,
78 - 61.
Hennekes and junior Jason Phipps were
awarded All - Conference honorable mentions.
Phipps averaged 7.8 points and 4.0
rebounds per game. He also led the team in
steals and blocked shots.
INDOOR TRACK
Head coach Ron Combs continues to
have the track program running in the right
direction. The 1999 indoor season was a
success both at the team level and at individual
levels.
Of course the highest level reached was
5' 8 Vi". That was the height that senior Nyhla
Rothwell cleared in the high jump at the
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The WC women's basketball
team poses after
beating Franklin 79 - 71 in
the Heartland Conference
tournament final. The
Lady Quakers went
20 - 5 overall this season
and won the conference
with a 10 - 2 mark. It was
the third straight 20 - win
season for the team.
(SPORTS, cont.)
NCAA Division III National Championships.
Her leap earned her a second place
finish.
During the regular season, Rothwell
achieved a level that may have never been
reached before. At the Big Red Invitational
at Denison University, Rothwell cleared
6' 0" in the high jump. Some NCAA officials
believe that was the first time any women at
the Division III level reached the six - foot
mark. Records are only kept in championship
meets so there is no positive way to
claim her accomplishment a national record.
That 6' 0" jump also qualified her for the
U.S. Track and Field Indoor Championships
held in Atlanta. Rothwell competed
against the nation's best, including American
record holder Tisha Walls. Although
she didn't place at the event, it was a once -
in - a - lifetime experience that she won't soon
forget.
Rothwell qualified for the NCAA Indoor
Championships in every year of her four -
year stay at Wilmington. In 1997 she was
national champion with a leap of 5'6'/2".
On the men's track, sophomore Kevin
Lucas hit a provisional time in the 400 with
a run clocked in 49.65 seconds. His time set
18 SPRING 1999
Senior Nyhla
Rothwell clears the
high jump bar on
her way to a first
place finish at
the Wilmington
Invitational. During
the indoor season,
Rothwell was
runner - up at the
NCAA Division III
Championships.
a WC record, but wasn't quite good
enough to get him to nationals.
On the team level, the Quakers competed
in just two events that were scored
and both were held at Ohio Northern
University. The first time around, the
WC women's team placed fourth and
the men placed fifth. The second time
around, the Lady Quakers took home
the first place trophy by recording a
record - high 180 points. The men's team
remained consistent and finished in the
fifth spot again.
The Lady Quakers finished the indoor
season ranked 17th in the nation.
WOMEN'S
BASKETBALL
The Lady Quakers added another
gem to their chain of 20 - win seasons. A
20 - 5 record this year marks the third
consecutive time the WC ladies have
reached the mark and over those three
seasons the team has a combined record
of 60 - 14.
The string of sparkling seasons has
been directed by ninth - year coach
Jerry Scheve, who owns a 146 - 79 record at
Wilmington.
The 1998 - '99 campaign began with great
expectations as the Lady Quakers were picked
to win the Heartland Conference. A few bumps
in the road caused some worries, but eventually
the WC ladies won the conference with a 10 - 2
record.
By winning the conference they were awarded
aNo. 1 seed and a first round bye in the postseason
tournament. In the second round of the tournament,
the Green and White machine rolled over
Bluffton, 83 - 71, to set up a championship game
with Franklin.
The Lady Quakers avenged a regular season
loss to Franklin by winning the tournament title
in a 79 - 71 game.
Four school records and six HCAC records
were broken by this year's team. It led the
conference in 11 different statistical categories
and even ranked highly in national statistics.
WC was second in the nation in rebounding
margin (+12.2) and sixth in the nation in scoring
offense (81.0 ppg).
It seemed the team had all the credentials to
keep the season going, but the NCAA selection
committee decided against handing the Lady
Quakers a bid to play in the Division III national
tournament.
Josie Eilerman, the HCAC's Most Valuable
Player, led the Lady Quakers in scoring (17.6)
and in rebounding (7.3). Her inside game complemented
Heather Meranda's outside game.
Meranda, the HCAC Tournament MVP, tied for
the team lead in three - pointers made and was
second with a scoring average of 16.4 points
per game.
Both players made the HCAC's All - Conference
team and will return next year for a shot at
a tournament bid. In the meantime, the Lady
Quakers will keep themselves occupied by preparing
for their May trip to Australia.

y Merle Boyle
CLASS NOTES
About class notes
The LINK is interested in learning more about your accomplishments and other
newsworthy items. Please direct information and photographs to: Class Notes,
Pyle Center Box 1313, Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH 45177. Class
notes may also be submitted electronically on the Wilmington College website:
http://www.wilmington.edu/forms/Alumni%20Registration%20Card.cgi
Materials submitted may be edited for clarity or length. When reporting the
death of an alumna/us, please send a copy of the obituary, which should include
the date of death. If possible, include the names and class years of any survivors
who attended Wilmington College. Deadline for the next issue is June 15, 1999.
ZRT S. BRAVARD retired as the
director of library services of the Stevenson
Library at Lock Haven University of
Pennsylvania effective Jan. 1, 1999. He
joined the library staff in 1963 as the head
technical services librarian. In 1970, he was
appointed director of library services, a
position he held for 28 years. Bravard and
his wife, Cynthia, reside in Lock Haven, Pa.
The Rev. RICHARD H. LEWIS was a
fellow in residence at the University of
the South, Sewanee, for two weeks in
March 1999. He has been the rector of
Trinity Church, Boonville, St. Paul's,
Constableville, and St. Mark's, PortLeyden,
New York, since 1993.
BILL and CLARICE '60 PIERSON
celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary
on Dec. 20, 1998, with a special Hawaiian
vacation.
JERALD ROBERTSON was recently
appointed by the Hamilton County Conservancy
Court to the Board of Appraisers
of the Mill Creek Valley Conservancy
District. He also has been appointed to the
Community Advisory Committee of the
Brownfields Port Authority of Cincinnati
and Hamilton County. Jerald is currently in
the process of completing the requirements
at the UK Extension for certification as a
Master Gardener.
GORDON LEE BOGGS is the program
manager for the investigation and
remediation of leaking and underground
storage tanks in California. He is employed
by the Water Quality Control Board—State
of California.
STANLEY PLUMLY has been awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram - Merrill
Foundation Fellowship, and a National
Endowment for the Arts grant. His newest
book, The Marriage in the Trees (Ecco
Press, 1997), is a finalist for the Lenore
Marshall Prize. Plumly received his master's
degree from Ohio University in 1968. He
edited the Ohio Review from 1970 - 75 and
the Iowa Review from 1976 - 78, and is
currently a professor of English at the
University of Maryland, College Park.
BRIAN G. FROCK is currently a group
leader at the University of Dayton Research
Institute for a multi - year research effort
intended to improve the U.S. Air Force's
ultrasonic and X - ray CT imaging capabilities.
He is also a program manager for an
Air Force sponsored, multi - corporation
effort aimed at reduci ng catastrophic fail ures
in Air Force jet engines.
JOHN HOSLER, Clinton County Department
of Human Services director, was
sworn in as the 1999 president of the Ohio
Human Services Directors' Association
(OHSDA). As president, he will serve as
the association's liaison to the State Dept.
of Human Services and the County
Commissioners' Association of Ohio.
GEORGE FORD retired from his position
with the Trot wood - Madison City Schools
effective Dec. 31. He began his career in
education with the Dayton City Schools
where he worked for nine years before
joining Trotwood - Madison as its high
school's assistant principal. He will be
leaving his post as director of staff and
community relations at the school district
where he has worked since 1976. The Dayton
City School District employs his wife, Edith,
as a career specialist. The Fords have a son,
Kirk, a daughter, Tonya, and a granddaughter,
E'Taja Rachelle.
GARY MITCHNER, chairperson of
English at Sinclair Community College, has
been named by the Ohio Bicentennial
Commission to serve on its Literary Ohio
committee, which is one of the professional
volunteer groups responsible for planning
activities to mark Ohio's bicentennial in
2003. Mitchner's poetry has been published
in the Paris Review and his first book of
poetry will be published in 1999.
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Wilmington
College
Charitable Gift
Annuities
When Leo McCoy and his
friends hauled the Rock to campus
in 1906, they probably had
no idea of the significance of the
gift they were making to
Wilmington College. Dedicated
to "the spirit of youth" in 1935, it
has also come to represent a spirit
of permanence on the College
campus.
A charitable gift annuity at
Wilmington College is as solid
as the Campus Rock. It is a simple
but effective way to make a gift
to your College as well as to
guarantee yourself income for
life!
A gift annuity is a financial
agreement between one or two
people and Wilmington College.
Those individuals receive income
based upon their ages at the time
they set up the annuity. Annuity
payments can be deferred to some
point in the future, in which case
the rates paid will be even higher!
A deferred gift annuity can be an
excellent way for younger alumni
to supplement their retirement
income.
There are other benefits when
you establish a gift annuity. If
SOLID AS
THEROCK
ONE BENEFICIARY TWO BENEFICIARIES
Age Rate Age of Both Rate
60 6.7% 60 6.4%
65 7.0% 65 6.6%
70 7.5% 70 6.8%
75 8.2% 75 7.3%
80 9.2% 80 8.0%
85 10.5% 85 9.0%
90+ 12.0% 90+ 10.6%
you itemize your deductions,
you will be eligible for an immediate
tax deduction in the year
that you set up the annuity. In
addition to that, part of the income
you receive from the annuity will
be tax - free for your entire life
expectancy. At the time the annuity
terminates, the amount remaining
will be added to the
College's endowment and produce
income for the College's use in
perpetuity.
A Wilmington annuity is easy
to qualify for and easy to set
up. The minimum age for establishing
an annuity at WC is 60
years old; the minimum amount
is $2,500. If you want specific
details about a gift annuity for
yourself, then complete and return
the inquiry card.
Just remember - the Rock will
always be there and so will your
gift annuity! When you establish
a gift annuity today, you plan for
your own future security and
the future of Wilmington College
as well.
PLEASE NOTE: Charitable gift annuities
are available to residents of
most states. Wilmington College
does not render tax, legal, accounting,
insurance or investment
advice. Please consult with your
personal professional advisors to
determine if a charitable gift annuity
is right for you.
W I L M I N G T O N C O L L E G E GIFT A N N U I T Y I N Q U I R Y C A R D
Name Class Year
Address
Phone
Please send information about this type of annuity:
H One beneficiary Two beneficiaries I Deferred
I am interested in establishing an annuity in the amount of $_
I would like to receive my payments:
Li Annually Semi - annually Quarterly
City/State/Zip
Date of Birth _
Complete for a two - beneficiary annuity:
Name
Date of Birth:
Please send information about a deferred gift annuity with payments beginning at age
L Please have a representative contact me to further discuss a Wilmington College gift annuity.
Mail completed form to: Samuel D. Marble Heritage Society, Wilmington College, Pyle Center Box 1307, Wilmington, Ohio 45177.
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(CLASS NOTES, cont.)
Since that ti me, he has served as a national
refinance coordinator, legal affairs
coordinator and general counsel (1994 -
98). Foster is a life - long resident of the
Wilmington area and a graduate of
Capital Law School. He serves as
Wilmington School Board president and
is an active member of the Ohio Bar
Association, Corporate Section Board of
Governors and Clinton County Bar
Association.
VICKY CARPENTIERE RASOR is
presently working in Cardiac Rehab at
Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. She
received a master's degree in exercise
physiology in 1990. Vicky and husband,
MARC '87. have two sons: Brendan, 6 -
1/2, and Blake, 4.
JEFFREY D. SAFFER is entering his
seventh year of employment with the
Ohio Department of Youth Services,
currently working as a parole officer
specialist on the near west - side of
Cleveland, Ohio. He and his wife,
Natasha, have a daughter, Natalia.
STANLEY WERTZ is currently
teaching agricultural education at
Western Reserve High School in Huron
County. He also raises beef cattle on his
14.5 - acre mini - farm and sells freezer beef
to friends and neighbors. He and his
wife, Cathie, have two children: Amanda,
3, and Sarah, 1.
ROBERT BREWSTER is working
for DKM Construction in Piketon,
Ohio. He and his wife, ANGIE '90 have
three children: Lynsie, 6, Brandon, 3,
and Erin, 1.
AMY BRANDT BROCK works at
Silmar Resins in Fort Wright, Ky., a division
of Interplastic Corporation, as the
senior lab technician on nights. GREGG
BROCK is employed by David T. Smith
in Morrow, Ohio, as a kitchen projects
manager. They have a dog named Angel
and a cat, Chester.
CHERYL REINDL - JOHNSON
been named coordinator of
22 SPRING 1999
has
the
Quaker Emeritus Luncheon
Celebrates Alumni History
More than 100 alumni, emeritus professors,
current students and College staff gathered
at Wilmington College April 12 for the
first annual Quaker Emeritus Luncheon.
The Quaker Emeriti is an organization that
was started two years ago to honor those
alumni who have been associated with the
College for 50 years or longer.
Receiving their Quaker Emeritus medallions
were: Margaret (Beaver) Arnold '41,
Kenton Atwood '36, Betty (Knight) Benham
'41, Helen (Spence) Carr '37, Beryl Carter
'42, Rosemary (Becker) Carter '41, Mary
Cochran '47, Richard B. Curtis '48, Donald
Davis '41, Helen (Hodson) Davis '40, Jean
(Benham) French '37, Anna (Richmond)
Harman '42, Barbara (Brandon) Hazard '37,
Ruth (Haines) Hussey '47, Robert McCoy
'42, David McKeever '33, Phil Nagley '46,
Mary (Green) Parrett '41, Edwin Payne '41,
Jane (Furnas) Payne '42, and Letha
(Roberts) Tuttle '46.
The emeriti professors who attended the
lunch to award the medallions were: Margaret
"Pat" Dailey '48, Hugh Heiland, T. Canby
Jones, Robert McCoy '42, Sterling Olmsted,
Fritz Plinke and Gifford Zimmerman.
Before and after lunch, people had a
chance to browse through a display, provided
by College archivist Ina Kelley, that
included original yearbooks from the 1930s
and 1940s. The program for the luncheon
included reminiscences from Jane (Boring)
Dunlap '43, Mary Lou (Collins) '41 and
Harry' 39 Ertel, Dr. C. Nelson Melampy '42
and Robert Bogan '34.
The guests heard two songs performed
by the College Chorale under the direction
of Catherine Roma.
Most of all, long - time College friends
enjoyed having the opportunity to chat and
visit with each other on an early spring day.
It was as though no time at all had passed
since they had last seen each other, and
conversations that began 50 - plus years ago
continued uninterrupted.
95 - year - old Margaret "Barney" Arnold
'41 asked if any of the alumni attending
the Quaker Emeritus Luncheon ever took
voice lessons from her. She was overjoyed
to learn James Steel '46 had, indeed,
studied under her tutelage—and he
is still
singing!
Professor emeritus T. Canby Jones presented Betty Benham '41 with her Quaker
Emeritus medallion at the Quaker Emeritus Luncheon in April. Benham, who was one
of the 21 who received their medallions at the luncheon, is among the 184 alumni who
have been officially designated as Quaker Emeriti since the program's origin in 1997.

Leadership Project Results
in New Livestock Trailer
Pictured with the newly delivered livestock trailer are: (l—r) Chasitie Herman, project
leader; Kellee Ziegenbusch, who handled the finances; Mark Brown, Barrett Farm
manager; Adam Graham, student crops manager; and agriculture professor Monte
Anderson.
24 SPRING 1999
Chasitie Herman led a fundraising effort
that resulted in securing enough gifts to purchase
a new livestock trailer for the Agriculture
Department.
Herman, a junior agriculture major from
Edon, is enrolled in the College's leadership
program, which requires a project that utilizes
a leadership component in its success.
"I asked (agriculture professor) Monte
Anderson what would help the ag program,"
she said. When she learned that a new trailer
was needed, Herman began an organized
fundraising campaign that focused on last
summer's agriculture reunion.*
After presenting her case for support
to alumni, students, faculty, parents, ag - related
businesses and other Friends of Agriculture,
the money started rolling in. The $9,200 trailer
was essentially paid for less than a year after the
campaign began.
"I'm impressed that a student carried this
through from an idea to the actual delivery of
the trailer," Anderson said. "The campaign she
organized and carried out was very well conceived
and implemented."
To thank the donors for their gifts, Herman
gave them a photo taken of the trailer surrounded
by scores of grateful ag students and
faculty members.
* She was assisted by the College
Advancement Office.

Alumni Council Elections Set This Spring
Five positions on the Wilmington College
Alumni Council are to be filled for the
1999 - 2001 term. The declared candidates
are: Kay (Kitson) Carey '65, Lee Grotevant
'98, Doug Moshier '84, Marci Schaefer '92
and Tammy Smith '98.
Carey resides in Sabina and retired in
1996 after 30 years as a teacher in the East
Clinton School District. She also taught
freshman English at Southern State Community
College and currently is a receptionist
for Drs. Debo and Del Mauro in
Wilmington.
A member of Alpha Phi Kappa sorority,
Carey received a 1992 Alumni Citation for
Education Award from the WC Alumni
Association and, also that year, was named
Outstanding Educator for East Clinton
Schools. She is the mother of three children.
Grotevant is a graduate of WC' s Evening
College program with a bachelor of arts
degree and a major in management. He
works at Airborne in Wi 1 mington. Grotevant
is a Vietnam War veteran, a life member of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars and serves as
historian for the local American Legion
Post.
He and his wife, WC's library director
Jennilou, have three grown children.
Moshier majored in health education and
athletic training while at Wilmington, where
he was an active member of Gamma Phi
Gamma fraternity. He has been the athletic
trainer and a teacher of health education at
Franklin Heights High School since 1997.
A member of the Ohio and National
Athletic Trainers associations, he serves his
community as a scout master with Boy
Scouts of America, and as a member of the
London Area Baseball Council and Madison
County Board of Mental Retardation.
Moshier and his wife, Jody, are the parents
of three children.
Schaefer is a special education teacher
at Fayetteville High School and resides
in Hillsboro with her husband, Eric, and
Kay (Kitson)Carey '65 Lee Grotevant '98 Marci Schaefer '92 Tammy Smith '98
Council Proposes Constitution Revisions
The Alumni Council spent much of this
winter improving the Alumni Association's
constitution.
While many changes involved minor
tweaking and tightening, the major revisions
include:
• Changing the name from "Alumni Association"
to "Alumni Community."
• Converting the structure from a 16 -
member body with only half of the
council elected to a 15 - member body
that is fully elected.
• Moving from two - year terms of office
all beginning and ending in the same year
to staggered three - year terms such that
five positions will end each year. The
members may still sit for total of two
terms and are elected each spring to
begin serving in June.
• Quarterly meetings will be replaced with
four business meetings, an annual meeting
at Alumni Reunion Weekend and a
cursory meeting at Homecoming.
• A new mission statement.
• Council Committees have been updated
to reflect the current structure being used
and encourage non - council member
volunteer participation.
The document is open to comment and
suggestion by members of the alumni body.
The proposed constitution can be found
on our website
or can be mailed to you by sending a self -
addressed stamped envelope to the Alumni
Office. We would be happy to fax you the
four - page document. Call (800) 3451 - 9318
ext. 427.
Approval will be considered at the
Council's annual meeting on June 4, during
Alumni Reunion Weekend festivities.
their son, Cole.
At WC, she studied secondary education
and was active with Alpha Phi Kappa sorority,
serving as vice president, rush chair and
community service chair. Also, she was a
resident assistant at Austin - Pickett.
Smith graduated a year ago with a major
in business administration and a minor in
agriculture. A member of Delta Theta Sigma
sorority who served as its president (1997)
and vice president (1996), she was the 1998
DTS Sister of the Year and 1998 WC Greek
Woman of the Year. Among her honors
while at WC, she received the 1998 Robert
Lucas Presidential Leadership Award and
the 1998 Charles Ping Student Community
Service Award from the Ohio Campus
Compact.
She is a member of the DTS Sorority
Alumni Advisory Committee and the WC
Alumni/Student Planning Committee. Smith
works in research and development with
Procter & Gamble.
ALUMNI COUNCIL
1 9 9 9 ELECTION
BALLOT
Candidates
(vote for not more than five):
() Kay (Kitson) Carey '65
() Lee Grotevant '98
() Doug Moshier '84
() Marci Schaefer '92
() Tammy Smith '98
() Write - in candidate
(Please include write - in candidate's
name, class year, phone and address
if known).
Please complete the ballot and
return (Office of Alumni Relations,
Pyle Center Box 1313, Wilmington,
OH 45177) by May 31. The Alumni
Council wants to build an alumni
community of which you can be
proud. Your vote helps make that
possible.
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