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Calling home

We’re your hometown team for engineering education, research and business.

A National Title — Ranked 18th in the nation for graduate engineering programs by The Princeton Review.

The Home Field — A 40-acre, multi-building complex with computing facilities ranked among the best in the state.

The Players — More than 2,600 quality undergraduates and 350 graduate students; for example, the fall 2009 freshman class had an average GPA of 3.68 and an average ACT score of 26.

Coaching Staff — More than 100 faculty and staff members who receive more than $10 million in annual research funding from local, state and national sources.

Innovative Training — One of 8 engineering colleges nationwide with mandatory co-op programs, an entrepreneurship focus for incoming freshmen, and a capstone course that challenges seniors to design and produce solutions for real-life clients.

Scouting Rookies — Reaching out on site, offering an “Introduction to Engineering” course at area high schools for college credit.

Commentator Praise — Commended for its co-op program, alumni/industry involvement, effective advisory councils, and student communication skills, and accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).

Learn more about The University of Toledo College of Engineering All-Stars. Call 419.530.8000 or visit allstars.utoledo.edu.

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We’re your hometown team for engineering education, research and business.

A National Title — Ranked 18th in the nation for graduate engineering programs by The Princeton Review.

The Home Field — A 40-acre, multi-building complex with computing facilities ranked among the best in the state.

The Players — More than 2,600 quality undergraduates and 350 graduate students; for example, the fall 2009 freshman class had an average GPA of 3.68 and an average ACT score of 26.

Coaching Staff — More than 100 faculty and staff members who receive more than $10 million in annual research funding from local, state and national sources.

Innovative Training — One of 8 engineering colleges nationwide with mandatory co-op programs, an entrepreneurship focus for incoming freshmen, and a capstone course that challenges seniors to design and produce solutions for real-life clients.

Scouting Rookies — Reaching out on site, offering an “Introduction to Engineering” course at area high schools for college credit.

Commentator Praise — Commended for its co-op program, alumni/industry involvement, effective advisory councils, and student communication skills, and accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).

Learn more about The University of Toledo College of Engineering All-Stars. Call 419.530.8000 or visit allstars.utoledo.edu.

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Volume 58, Number 1

Fall 2010

Executive EditorCynthia Nowak ’78, ’80 [email protected]

Associate EditorVicki L. Kroll ’88

Contributing WritersChris Ankney ’08 Meghan Cunningham Dennis Bova Jon Strunk ’04, ’09 Deanna Woolf ’05, ’10

Graphic DesignerErin Lanham

Principal PhotographerDaniel Miller ’99

Creative DirectorMichelle Hoch-Henningsen

Toledo Alumni is published three times a year in Fall, Winter and Spring by The University of Toledo Alumni Association and the Office of University Communications.

Vice President, External Affairs/Interim Vice President, Equity and Diversity/PublisherLawrence J. Burns

Associate Vice President, Alumni/PublisherDan Saevig ’84, ’89

Office of Alumni Relations StaffAnsley Abrams-Frederick ’92 Sue Fandrey Amanda Schwartz Marcus Sneed ’07 Dianne Wisniewski

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Betty, Chinese-American

Betty, UT graduate student, aspiring HGTV interior decorator, foodie who’s up for anything, hard rocking music lover, furniture rearranger and doodle dabbler

Learn how UT is working to get beyond the labels and diversify what we think about diversity at utoledo.edu/diversity

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“Home is where the heart is”

Whenever I return home from a business trip, my husband Tom tells me that where we live is just a house without me there, that it is the care and love I show him (and our dog Casey) that make it a home. This sense of home is the same comfort that draws us to spend special occasions and holidays with our family and loved ones. They know, love and accept us for who we are, even with all our idiosyncrasies.

This issue of Toledo Alumni Magazine showcases a number of our alumni and in what they have found comfort and home, whether it be music, service, the family farm, memories or others. The role of their education at The University of Toledo and its long-term positive impact on their lives is unquestionable.

It is this same feeling of home and comfort that your Alumni Association continues to strive for on your behalf. Closing out the past June 30 fiscal year, the Alumni Association hosted more than two

hundred events in our community and around the country. Our membership remains strong at more than fifteen thousand members. We continue to integrate the College of Medicine and College of Law affiliates into the UT Alumni Association. Our objective is to communicate and engage you with your University by keeping you informed on what is happening on campus and inviting you to share in the activities of your affiliate, chapter and the Association. We are here for you, our alumni.

We also continue to reach out to our student population, making calls to prospective students on behalf of Enrollment Services and engaging current students through UT Student Alumni Association activities. During our students’ years at the University, it is imperative that they feel comfortable and feel that they belong at this home away from home. Professors, staff and the Alumni Association provide a sense of home for our student family during this journey.

It is a pleasure and honor to serve as your UT Alumni President for 2010/2011. I look forward to meeting you at a future event and invite you to come home for Homecoming on October 2.

Constance D. Zouhary CPA, ‘81 President, The University of Toledo Alumni Association

The University of Toledo Alumni Association Officers and Trustees

President Constance D. Zouhary ’81

First Vice President Don Warner ’76

Second Vice President Paul Toth ’88, ’01

Secretary David D. Dobrzykowski ’95, ’99

Treasurer Terri Lee ’92

Past President W.H. “Chip” Carstensen ’72, ’74

Executive Director Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

One-Year Trustees Bernie Albert ’68 Marie Latham Bush PhD ’83, ’00 Elizabeth Davis ’97, ’06 Dana Fitzsimmons ’76 Elizabeth Grothaus ’93, ’98 Philip Miller ’71, ’88 Tamara Norris ’87, ’06 Sharon Speyer ’85

Two-Year Trustees Laurie L. Adams ’86 Jean Austin ’92, ’99, ’03, ’05 Bernard G. Barrow Sr. ’70, ’72 Mike Malone ’79 Catherine Martineau ’77, ’81 Jay Pearson ’91 John M. Rudley PhD ’70 Tamara Talmage ’99 Thomas Wakefield MD ’75, ’78 Joe Zavac ’89, ’92

Three-Year Trustees Angelita Cruz Bridges ’97, ’97, ’00 Robert Buchman ’06 Stu Cubbon ’81, ’98 Brad Kozar ’80

Student Alumni Association Amit Goyal

On the cover: Home: It’s where the heart hangs its hat

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Autism is an overwhelming diagnosis for parents and families who receive it, notes Sherry Moyer, executive and research director of UT’s new Center for Excellence in Autism: “You’re talking cradle-to-grave care. At some point, one parent might have to quit a job to care for the adult child because there are no services and the child can’t be left alone. They have to choose between planning for retirement or planning for their child’s lifetime care.” That’s the underserved need behind UT’s first coordinated autism program, part of the Department of Pediatrics. As Moyer explains, “Our primary focus will be on building a network of services in the region, focusing on the entire life span of services — because everybody grows up, kids become adults. When they do, the number of available services is much smaller.” Professionals in the field, she notes, talk of “a coming tsunami, a million and a half children with autism who will become adults in the next seven years or so. We need to be prepared.” Recognized by state service organization OCALI (Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence), the center receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Autism center poised for ‘coming tsunami’

Moyer, who became director in February, says that the center will allow UT to take a leadership role: “We will do everything we can to help support the growth of services, research and advocacy, because just as important as service delivery is the regulatory and legislative support for those services.” Building on existing services will be vital, she adds, giving special praise for the Autism Society of Northwest Ohio. She’s especially excited about the potential for research synergies: “Education, occupational therapy, medicine, psychiatry, biology, pharmacology, social work, physical therapy — there won’t be many UT departments not playing an active role in collaborations.” As the mother of an adult son with Asperger syndrome, Moyer understands the lifetime of challenges facing parents of a child with autism. “Everything we do today for the youngest child sets the stage for how well that person will be adjusted as a teenager and adult,” she says. Ten years down the line, she sees the UT Center for Excellence in Autism as being a medical destination: “When people around the country think of the life span of autism and the need for successful navigation of resources, I want them to think, ‘Oh yeah — we’ve got to talk to UT.’”

Professors and students mingle it up.

Sherry Moyer

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The 2009-2010 academic year was shot through with the centenary celebration for UT’s largest college, Arts and Sciences. Special events and renowned guest speakers marked the event, along with the recognition that the college’s sailing was sometimes less than smooth. Founded by UT President Jerome Raymond PhD on August 18, 1909, the college was born at a time of great uncertainty. Many doubted if the University itself could survive — or if it was even a legal entity. Hanging by a thread, the institution had little funding, no physical buildings, and it was not clear who controlled its fate.

But the University — and Arts and Sciences — persevered. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the college grew, especially after the G.I. Bill brought thousands of veterans to campus. While some questioned the place of a liberal arts college in a time when most Americans were stressing science and technology, Dean Andrew Townsend PhD defended the importance — and employability — of students with broad liberal arts backgrounds.

His words have legs still, with recent college upheavals relating to curricula and academic standards often putting faculty at odds with administrators. Despite changes and challenges, though, the college’s goals have not changed much from those stated by Raymond in 1909: “The work of the College of Arts and Sciences tends to hold all students to higher standards of breadth and thoroughness and promotes the general tone and character of all university study.”

— Deanna Woolf, University Marketing

More years, more success

Hands-on scientists. Todd Crail, UT graduate student in biology, and Tim Bollin (Ed ’87, MEd ’97), science teacher at TECHS, collect sediment samples from Lake Erie, watched by UT engineering graduate student Hanna West (Eng ’09) and Wendy Wilson, Start High School science teacher. Back in a lab at UT’s Lake Erie Center, Tamara Smith (A/S ’95), a science teacher at Rogers High School, performs a water analysis. Their chance to study an environmental microcosm created by warm-water discharge from the Bay Shore Power Station came through the National Science Foundation-supported GK-12 Program, which pairs UT graduate students with local K-12 science teachers for summer projects at the Lake Erie Center. A second learning opportunity, IMPACT, is funded by the U.S. Department of Education to allow teachers of grades 4-12 the chance to earn a master’s degree in biology within two years. This year’s class ran for two weeks in June, with more than two dozen pairs of hands getting elbow-deep in science.


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Errata. Catherine Schrein, above, profiled in a Spring 2010 feature, received her master’s degree in environmental management from Montclair State University. And in Spring Class Notes, the Melissa Hasenmeier wedding party’s academic degrees should have read OTD. Apologies all around for the errors.

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Go online, get interactiveToledo Alumni Magazine (The Online Version) is getting noticed! We’ve logged hundreds of visits — keep ’em coming as we keep you engaged with more talk-back, additional photos and videos. Visit toledoalumni.org/magazine.

High school students in Ohio and Monroe County, Michigan, now are eligible to participate in the Blue and Gold Scholar Award Program, part of the UT Guarantee.

The expansion covers hundreds of school districts for any Pell Grant-eligible high school seniors with at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA. Under the program, UT covers the remaining tuition costs after Pell and state grants are applied to a student’s bill. The award does not apply to room or board. Once at UT, students must maintain a 3.0 GPA and complete a minimum of 30 credit hours each academic year to ensure renewal. The scholarship is renewable for four years.

According to Kevin Kucera, UT associate vice president for enrollment services, many districts throughout Ohio had expressed interest in being added to the program. “Now that we’ve had a chance to evaluate the impact of this year’s Blue and Gold Scholars, it’s clear this expansion is in the best interests of UT, as well as those of students and families across Ohio,” he says. “The unique element of the Blue and Gold Scholar Award is the combination of need and academic achievement.”

For more information, contact the UT Office of Undergraduate Admission at 419.530.UTUT (8888) or visit www.utoledo.edu/admission/scholarships/bluegold.html.

— Jon Strunk, University Communications

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Faculty were the focus at a spring ceremony at the Toledo Hilton where a number of awards were distributed. The 2010 Outstanding Teacher Award went to: Sharon Barnes PhD, associate professor of interdisciplinary studies in University College; Paula Dupuy PhD, professor in the Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology in the College of Health Science and Human Service; David Meabon PhD, associate professor of higher education in the Judith Herb College of Education and director of the John H. Russel Center for Educational Leadership; Brian Randolph PhD, professor of civil

university professors honored

Front row, from left, Meabon, Reid, Randolph and Vonderembse. Back row, Barnes, Dupuy, Sherry and Ragu-Nathan. Insets: Blumenthal, Hassoun and Najjar.

engineering and associate dean of undergraduate studies in the College of Engineering; and Mark Sherry PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Recognized with Outstanding Researcher Awards: Robert Blumenthal PhD, professor of medical microbiology and immunology and director of the Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics; Ezdihar Hassoun PhD, professor of pharmacology in the College of Pharmacy; Sonia Najjar PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and director of the Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research; and T.S. Ragu-Nathan PhD, professor of information management and chair of the Information, Operations and Technology Management Department. Recipients of the Edith Rathbun Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement: Neil Reid PhD, associate professor of geography and planning and director of the Urban Affairs Center; and Mark Vonderembse PhD, chair of the Finance Department and director of the PhD Program in the College of Business Administration.

Protective mom. Belle, the adult female peregrine falcon who with her mate Allen has been making a nest atop the University Hall Tower since 2007, buzzes a member of the Ohio Division of Wildlife crew who came to campus in May to band the three falcon chicks that hatched weeks earlier. One male and two females came through the banding process with names — Rane (for the late Dr. Arroyo of the Department of English), Sen (after the heroine of Hayao Miyazaki’s movie Spirited Away) and Freyja (a Norse goddess with a winged cloak) — and perhaps with memories of being carefully wrapped and toted by strange, unfeathered creatures. You can watch the drama at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdkTX1PyimQ.


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painkiller in a teacup

Green tea is already the subject of innumerable articles claiming all kinds of medicinal qualities for the beverage.

However, if rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is preventing tipplers from holding their tea cups without pain, UT

researcher Salahuddin Ahmed PhD has some good news for them. His work on a green tea compound called

epigallocatechin 3-gallate (EGCG) is already showing great promise, via experimental settings and animal

models, in reducing the joint inflammation associated with the debilitating disease. The focus of his team’s efforts

includes both EGCG and green tea extract that could be taken as a dietary supplement, with additional potential application to the cardiovascular problems that usually

develop in RA patients. That’s quite a pick-me-up.

Fat: all in your brain?

Here’s the skinny (and fat) on a communications breakdown. UT researcher Jennifer Hill PhD, assistant

professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and a member of the Center for Diabetes

and Endocrine Research, focuses on the functions of neurons that produce POMC — a known feeding

suppressant in both mice and humans — in the brain cells of mice. Previous studies tried to cause obesity in

mice by deleting receptors for leptin, a protein produced by fat cells, on POMC neurons. They were partially

successful. Hill’s research removed insulin receptors as well, creating a dramatic effect on glucose production by the liver. The double deletion seems to prevent the

hypothalamus from signaling the liver to stop producing after-meal glucose, resulting in a condition called

hyperinsulinemia, which also affects fertility.

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Young and clusteredWhatever travels in packs — people, wolves, YouTube videos that go viral — tend to fall apart in relatively short order. Applying that same notion to star clusters is almost revolutionary, but it’s the theory of Rupali Chandar PhD, UT assistant professor of astronomy, who received a National Science Foundation Career Award to test her idea that the universe’s widely observed star clusters, massive and densely packed, aren’t destined to be longtime close companions. Chandar and her team are finding many huge young clusters that are only millions of years old, but few that are older. So either there was an extreme ramp-up in the formation of these star clusters during the last 0.1 percent of the universe’s existence, or — like the stars of Hollywood — they split up.

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Bookingfor interactivityCollege textbooks have always been weighty matters, literally and figuratively, but even the most subject-comprehensive text is of little use if it’s not comprehensible by students. Michael Peeters PharmD, clinical associate lecturer in the UT College of Pharmacy, was lead researcher on a study that added student input to the selection process for a pharmacotherapeutics curriculum textbook. By applying aspects of the educational field to the study — Gregory Stone PhD of UT Foundations of Education was part of the team — the research revealed noteworthy differences between how students interacted with textbooks and how faculty (typically the people who choose textbooks) anticipated they would. The results point toward methods for ensuring that textbooks are more readable — and that students are more engaged.

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Home. Is there a more evocative concept — whatever the word might be — in any language? Expelled from home at birth, we fitfully return to the womb throughout life. When life ends, we speak of going home. (“Home is the sailor, home from sea/And the hunter home from the hill,” as one globe-wandering poet put it.)

The people you’ll meet in these stories seem to possess an inner compass that helps them locate home even when away from it. If there’s motto for life they seem to hold in common, it might be this: At any given time, home is where you’d rather be.

Homing in on home


— by Cynthia Nowak with Chris Ankney


Home is where the need is

Is service to fellow humans passé? ... “It’ll rise again when people see that serving others has many benefits other than just a good gut feeling.”



It was the grocery store running out of American

money that saved them.

So says Glen Stewart (A/S ’71), Tennessee regional minister for the Christian Church Disciples of Christ, who was leading a ten-person mission to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last January. “In Haiti, people change money at grocery stores because banks can fail,” he explains. He’d just been told by the store’s manager that no American currency would be available that day. Disappointed, he herded his souvenir-hunting group into their waiting van: “It’s rare that I get pushy, but that day we were late for dinner.”

He’d just seated himself in the van and was reaching to pull the door shut when he was thrown to the floor.

“I didn’t know what was happening,” recalls Stewart. Another passenger cried out, “This is an earthquake! Get out and away from buildings!”

“That clicked,” Stewart said. He jumped out and led his group to the center of the parking lot. When he turned back to make sure they were following, he saw the three-story grocery collapse. A choking billow of dust and debris shrouded Stewart, his church members and their Haitian driver.

Thoughts of home in Nashville were swallowed up as well during those terrifying moments. It would be three days before the Americans — by then hungry, dirty and bedraggled after sleeping outside their demolished

guest house, then on the floor of the U.S. Embassy — boarded a flight carrying nothing but the clothes they wore when the quake began.

He’s eager to return. “Many of us want to help rebuild, but it won’t be for a while,” says Stewart, who’s tallied thirteen Haitian missions. “Our international ministries office has told us that trips to Port-au-Prince are off indefinitely. The only people they need in Haiti right now are medical professionals, those who can operate heavy machinery, and public health officers.”

Though he’s anticipating more of the trips he calls joyous, his stateside work has its own rewards. “Pastor of pastors” for some sixty-five congregations means “keeping congregations whole and healthy, keeping pastors in their pulpits healthy and whole and spiritually directed,” he says.

It’s never dull: “I’ve had churches go to court, my office has been sued.” His many successful reconciliations buoy him over the tough times, though he takes only partial credit: “If I tried to do this without God’s help, without spiritual support of Scripture and prayer, I would fail mightily and often.”

Is service to fellow humans passé? The pastor muses, “It comes in waves. It’ll rise again when people see that serving others has many benefits other than just a good gut feeling.”

One Stop Market after quake, its first floor buried; Stewart’s arm is visible on right, pointing group toward their van.

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Devastating earthquake

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Church group one day prior to quake


Eight months have passed since Haiti’s nation-ravaging

earthquake. Though most of the visiting medical teams have returned home, the needs that summoned them still plague island residents.

Ihor Suszko DDS (A/S ’76, A/S ’77) knew the score long before the temblor, having first visited Haiti in 2000 to provide direct oral care. “When it comes to the level of care needed in the cases we see, it’s acute care, it’s crisis care,” says the Vermilion, Ohio, dentist. “Something occurs: a tooth fractures, there’s an infection, there’s pain and people seek help.”

Seeing the Western-medicine model butting up against longstanding, intractable conditions, he had an epiphany. “Typically, the North American health-care worker, whether a physician or dentist, has the attitude of ‘We’re going to arrive with our entourage and fix all your problems for you by showing you how we do things back home,’” he says. Not recognizing what’s realistic in developing nations, he notes, can set up doctors for defeat.

An alternative occurred to him: Put the strongest efforts into strengthening Haiti’s own dentists. The idea crystallized when Suszko returned to Haiti the following year with his friend Ken Maslinski, connecting professionally and personally with Haitian medicos Ron Theano and Joseph Louis Jr. of the North Dental Association in Cap Haitien.

Aiming for mouth-to-mouth

resuscitation

Their combined efforts bore fruit — the Cap Haitien Dental Institute (CHDI), which received 501 (c) 3 status in 2006.

“We learned very quickly from our host friends that we needed to be thoughtful in how we presented help. Rather than undermine them, we need to empower local physicians and dentists, educate them, help them,” says Suszko, who’s also an assistant professor in the dental hygiene program at Lorain County Community College.

Another key component of CHDI, he says, is community-based prevention: “Any physician will tell you that a dollar spent on prevention will save you a hundred dollars in curative treatment down the line.” In every village they visit, dentists engage young people in the idea of preventive oral medicine.

Selling North American volunteer dentists on prevention can be a challenge, he adds: “It’s more glamorous to do surgical procedures. Basic community-oriented preventive care is tedious and no one likes doing it. That’s part of the problem — when we go to Third World countries, people want to do the exotic treatments, but to make something work, it’s often not like that.”

Suszki remains up for any and all such challenges. “You can’t get discouraged,” he says. “You take the successes, no matter how small they are.”


Suszko and team in action


A sizzling Texas heat is searing the sweat from musicians and

staff on a windswept school football field. It makes a July day in Ohio feel chilly by comparison. Yet it’s been a regular professional venue for pharmacist Nicole Crase PharmD (Pharm ’00, PharmD ’02) for the past four years.

The Englewood, Ohio, resident — who maintains a day job with Family Health in Greenville — volunteers as medical coordinator for the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps of Casper, Wyo., as they spend their summer months on the competition trail. “I marched in a drum and bugle corps myself, so I know,” she says. “The kids, staff and volunteers are on the road from May through August, and it’s very time-consuming and expensive to find medical care at urgent cares and emergency rooms.”

She began volunteering with the Troopers when a friend became their director; she subsequently joined the Drum Corps Medical Project, created by several physicians to support Drum Corps International (known as “Marching Music’s Major League”).

A typical day mixes sleep-sapping routine with medical crises that range from sinus infections to heat stroke. She dispenses over-the-counter meds, handles the minor injuries and arranges transportation for the major ones.

Oh yes — and there’s kitchen duty, helping prepare the daily meals and snacks that sustain the full complement of a hundred and sixty-five kids and adults. The kitchen is housed inside one of the big rigs that follow the Troopers’ buses as they crisscross the continent.

The corps can travel for fifteen thousand miles and visit up to thirty states. Crase sets the record straight, though, on the amount of sight-seeing: “I see the country one football field at a time, or one urgent-care center at a time.”

It was a desire to experience a simpler life that led her to join a medical and dental mission to Jamaica in February, part of a team treating patients at clinics that at times lacked electricity or running water. “We had children who walked miles to get medicine and they didn’t even own a pair of shoes. Or elderly people who waited hours in eighty-degree heat for twenty Tylenol tablets to ease their pain,” she recalls.

“I’m only a small piece in a very large puzzle to change the world,” says Crase, who’s on a waiting list for travel to Haiti. “My pharmacy education’s opened doors to go out into the world to serve others.

“I hope others realize that our life mission isn’t about a job. It’s knowing the contribution you want to leave behind.”

Pharmacist walks dusty trails

to help, heal


Drums and water with Troopers, smiles with Jamaican patients


Fred Grimm (MBA ’77), co-founder of the D.O.V.E.

(Development of Vietnam Endeavors) Fund, opens a photo album. Pictures spill out: brightly painted new schools in the Vietnam countryside, Fred and fellow volunteers meeting with local residents or passing out gifts to children.

In every shot of Fred and the smiling Vietnamese children who benefit from the schools, no one’s grin is wider than Fred’s.

There’s a lot to smile about, he says of the nonprofit organization comprised largely of Vietnam veterans like him: forty-three schools built, medical clinics, freshwater projects, scholarships, with 100 percent of donations going directly to the work.

It’s a shared passion, he notes: “Ten years ago I was at a Toledo Rotary meeting with [the late] Chuck Oswald and Do Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam. The two of them gave a talk about how they built a school in Vietnam. I spoke with them afterward, along with five or

six other [Vietnam War] veterans. We all thought it would be nice if we could build one more school.”

Then another, and another — mainly in Quang Tri province, which saw some of the heaviest fighting in the war. (When the fighting ended, only eleven of the province’s villages remained standing, of an original three thousand.) D.O.V.E. consults with the Vietnamese government to identify areas of need, Grimm says. “I work directly with the Department of Foreign Affairs; they’re good friends now. When we visit a proposed school site, we talk to people, get a feeling for how many kids will attend.”

A combat engineer in Vietnam, he was wounded in 1969, then sent home. “But the experience stays in every soldier’s mind,” he says — which brings him to a secondary benefit.

“When you go to Vietnam with a bunch of vets, it’s very healing. Now when I think of Vietnam, I think of the kids in a school or on a playground, the teachers being so happy, and the families with access to fresh water.

“One fellow I know took medication for years to treat PTSD. We went right through the area where his group was overrun by the NVA [North Vietnamese Army]. He said, ‘They’re

Vietnam revisited — and reborn

building houses there now.’ In the minds of most vets, nothing has changed in forty years. But he told me that that one day was worth more than all the medications he’s ever taken.”

Grimm won a Jefferson Award earlier this year, but says, “It’s really a D.O.V.E. award rather than a personal one. We’re doing great things in Vietnam.”

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“Now when I think of Vietnam, I think of the kids in a school or on a playground, the teachers being so happy, and the families with access to fresh water.”



Home is where the child is

“It broke my heart; I wanted to help the child and started to look for ways.”



One child, hurting. One mother, suffering along with

him. Though halfway across the globe, their voices reached the ear of neurosurgeon Azedine Medhkour MD, associate professor of surgery at UT Medical Center.

Medhkour begins the story. “You know how people today are using YouTube for everything. A friend of mine called and asked if I could look at a video: The mother is from Algeria and she’s asking for help for her son.”

The son is Ayoub Hamdi, who was born with hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and a serious birth defect: myelomeningocele, a type of spina bifida. It’s left his spinal cord exposed under the skin of his lower back, creating a tumor the size of a grapefruit. He’s now fourteen months old.

Medhkour, who was born in Algeria, continues. “His hydrocephalus was treated, but doctors there wouldn’t touch the lumbar area with the sac containing spinal nerves because they feared leaving the boy paralyzed. It broke my heart; I wanted to help the child and started to look for ways.”

He knew that Ayoub’s condition was easily treatable: “It is not so rare that the surgery cannot be performed if you have all the necessary tools. But the doctors may also lack the specific training that deals with pediatrics, plus the modern technology that allows us to salvage the nerves during this type of surgery.”

First, a call to the American Algerian Scientists Association: How to bring Ayoub to the United States for the surgery? Naturally, there’s a certain amount of red tape, but also terrific

cooperation. “We needed a place to do the surgery,” Medhkour says. “Because we’d lost inpatient pediatric service at UTMC, I proposed [Mercy] St. Vincent Medical Center, where I also do surgeries. UTMC was gracious in allowing the surgery, but also in providing the services of other doctors.” They’re Marlene Welch MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery, her partner, Timonthy Janiga MD, and resident Brian Smith MD.

Ayoub and his mother arrive; it isn’t long before the boy is in the medical team’s hands. “The surgery was untangling the nerves from the sac; if it had been done earlier, it would have been easier,” recalls Medhkour.

After several rough days in ICU, Ayoub begins improving. “Everyone involved put their hearts into it,” says Medhkour. “The nurses in the pediatric ICU, the director of the Pediatric Clinic.

“They not only treated him in the ICU, they got him into physical therapy, got him a wheelchair for free and many presents to take home. The mother could not contain her joy. I think this is good not only for the family but for us and for America — to show that when we care, we care to the maximum, with no expectations for a return.”

It’s the physician’s way of giving back to both his native country and the place he now calls home, he says. “It’s showing that the people of America are not the way they’re often described overseas. Rather, there are warm hearts and caring human beings. I’ve told many of our diplomats that the best way of winning over others is to show this aspect.”

Ayoub’s surgery is behind him now. Medhkour visited him and his family in Algeria this past December and reports

Dalila Hamdi traveled from Algeria so her son Ayoub could receive free surgical treatment offered by Dr. Azedine Medhkour.

The physician and the mother’s plea

that the boy is doing well: “The best is that before the surgery he was just having a flicker of movement in his legs. He now raises both legs up in the air. With the help of braces, he’ll be able to walk, which the family was told would never happen. Before the surgery, he wasn’t given much of a chance for life. He’s a very smart kid, too.”

There are many more Algerian children like Ayoub; Medhkour would like to see them helped, at least two each year. The UTMC’s continued support is helping make that possible, he says. He has plans to build a hospital in Algeria as well: “So we can take an entire medical crew who might stay six months at a time, then when they leave, everyone there knows how to perform various surgeries — and not just in pediatrics.”

One tough mission, he knows. But he has Ayoub’s smile and eager wave to remember. “Bringing that joy for me was a source of great happiness, something that no dollars could ever match.”

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Home is where the memories are

Home is where the memories are “But Summer knew I’d always be there for her. It was she and I in this world together, relying on each other.”



She feels as if she’s worked all her life. She’s been an administrator at

a secretive government research facility. She successfully negotiated the seismic cultural differences between freewheeling California and rural Georgia. She’s been challenged as a single mom and rebuilt her life multiple times.

She sees herself as spiritual, competitive, driven toward excellence and fairness — despite many sleepless nights.

But ask the recently retired Diane Connors (Bus ’75) to share her hard-won wisdom and she gives a rueful laugh. “I’ll tell you the story and you can decide,” she says.

Growing up a Navy brat, Connors moved from one base to another as the family followed John Connors’ career transfers. By the time Diane was in high school, Lemoore Air Station in California had followed more than a decade in Florida. “Our parents instilled in us that there are always changes. You had to adapt and balance pretty quickly,” she recalls.

Thus, she knew that once she finished high school, the family would move to another posting in Alameda. “But the morning after graduation, I was awakened by the moving van packing us up. I was devastated.”

Racism was faced in the same head-on way, she says. “I think the Navy was the last branch of the military to fully integrate, and though my dad didn’t like the treatment, he dealt with it.

“My mother, Ellen Ralls Connors, was the first black teacher in Lemoore. We had gone from a segregated situation [in Florida] into an integrated, very diverse one.”

While a student at California State University and working at the Navy Exchange, Diane met a young man from Toledo. They eventually married and

moved east, where he had a scholarship at the UT College of Law. Diane finished her senior year at UT while working in the law library. “Our date nights were spent studying,” she recalls.

The marriage dissolved after fourteen months. “It was tough, but I picked myself up and carried on,” she says. She returned to California, earning a graduate degree and working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the city-size research facility near San Francisco.

“I loved it,” Connors says of her sixteen years in purchasing, five as a senior contract administrator. “As a buyer among several commodities, I purchased machine tools and I was there for the transition from manual to computerized machining. Exciting times.”

Founded in response to the Cold War, Livermore was then overwhelmingly male. Connors was the fourth woman hired and the first black woman in her department. To become knowledgeable, she took the extra step of shop training so, she says candidly, “I’d know which part of the machine to be looking at.” The extra mile became habitual.

It was a habit that sustained her when her only child, her daughter Summer, was born in 1989. Four years later, she and Summer moved to Georgia. Again, she regrouped, adjusted and rebuilt, working as the Douglas County Board of Commissioners’ first black department director.

“Professionally, I had to earn respect going in. I knew my stuff in regard to government purchasing, so I mixed intelligence with understanding each department’s mission to get a buy-in from everyone.”

As a single mom, she was bringing Summer to the office long before the

Regrouping, rebuilding and really loving life

Home is where the memories are “But Summer knew I’d always be there for her. It was she and I in this world together, relying on each other.”

practice was mainstream. “If she had an ear infection, I’d bring her in with her pillow, blanket, her medicine, her lunch and put her under my desk. I didn’t want it ever felt that I was using her as an excuse.”

Her work ethic wasn’t easy on either of them, she says: “But Summer knew I’d always be there for her. It was she and I in this world together, relying on each other. She’s a strong young woman, bright and beautiful inside and out; I’m so proud of the woman she’s turned out to be.”

Today she’s married to Charlie Banks: “a wonderful man, a retired State Trooper. My mother moved in with us, so we have an extended family.” Diane was glad to retire but is already looking for consulting work; old habits die hard.

To stay fresh, she earned advanced professional certification. “I’ve learned that you should enjoy what you do as a career, work at being your very best and of course have passion for what you do,” she says.

“I know life isn’t fair, but in my world I want fairness. It’s how I conducted my business dealings, lead my life and want for my daughter’s sake. You get out of life what you put into it. Think positive, pursue happiness and love God.”

Sure sounds like wisdom.

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It’s a long way from Toledo to upscale Wiltshire Boulevard in

Los Angeles, a long time from WSPD radio’s Uncle Jules Blair’s Amateur Hour at the age of eight to a successful Hollywood career that’s still going strong six decades later.

But when Shirley Mitchell, whose acting resume includes stints on I Love Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Red Skelton Show, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and Petticoat Junction, sorts through her memories, she doesn’t sentimentalize.

“I knew I was going to be an actress when I was eight,” she says. “At thirteen I got on a bus and went to Detroit for an audition. I mean, when you want to be an actress, you’re going to be it no matter what.”

That same year she received a summer scholarship from the Lakeshore Theatre Colony in Massachusetts. “My parents didn’t want me to go alone, but Jean Miller, my Scott High School teacher, came to my house and said to them, ‘If you don’t let her go you’ll be making the mistake of your life.’ And so they let me go!”

It was a tough summer. “I was lonesome, I was homesick, I got there and found that in addition to the scholarship I had to give them a hundred dollars. I didn’t have a hundred dollars, so I waited tables.” Like many actors before and since those lean Depression days, the teenager poured coffee, juggled dirty plates and kept learning her craft.

Although she enjoyed her studies at the then-Toledo University a few years later and acted in several theatre productions, wider vistas beckoned.

“I went to Chicago determined to be a radio actress,” she says. “I promised my parents if at the end of two weeks I didn’t have a job I’d come back to finish college and become a teacher.”

In two weeks she had a job, appearing on the summer replacement for Fibber McGee and Molly — but the show was relocating to sunny California. Mitchell didn’t hesitate: “I said to the producer, ‘If I come to California will you use me in the show?’ He said he thought so.”

That was enough for Mitchell. “I went to my parents and told them I’d saved some money — I had seventy-five dollars — and I was going to California to be on The Ransom Sherman Show.”

Boarding the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe steam train that ran between the Windy City and Los Angeles, she quickly learned how “The Scout” earned its no-frills reputation. “Four days and four nights,” recalls Mitchell. “You slept sitting up; it was murder.”

Mitchell was befriended by a fellow-sufferer to whom she confided her quest and the fact that she had no place to stay in Los Angeles. “She told me, ‘You come to my house and spend the night, then my husband and I will drive you around and find you an apartment.’ Can you believe that? That’s precisely what they did!”

Exhausted, dusty, heat-disheveled but exhilarated, Mitchell placed a call as soon as she reached a phone. “I called Ransom Sherman and said, ‘Can you use me this week? I’m here.’

“And he said, Yes. That was it! From then on I kept working, kept getting better and better shows, sometimes doing three and four a day.”

Hollywood: a love story

As radio segued into television, she was ready. “Of course I wanted to be part of it, and because I had been on all the radio shows, they used me on TV. That was when I went on Lucy.”

Besides Lucille Ball, Mitchell rubbed wardrobe-enhanced shoulders with Rudy Vallee, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, many others. “I was one of the busiest actresses, an ingénue, very pretty and very young,” she says. “It was the late 1940s and there were still servicemen who’d go crazy when I’d walk on stage, because we’d do the shows as though we were in a theatre.”

Did the success go to her head? “No,” she says emphatically. “I was too grateful for what I had. I never felt I deserved it; it was part of paying my dues.”

She adds of those days, “It was fabulous. It was a very loving time, everyone loved everybody else. We all got along, we were a very select group and we knew it. The money wasn’t great, but we didn’t care.

“It’s a totally different world now, twice as hard. And not loving at all.” But she’s still immersed, still working, says the widow of composer Jay Livingston (“Silver Bells,” “Que Sera Sera,” “Buttons and Bows” and many others). “I’m still out there auditioning, doing grandmother voice-overs. I don’t want to do any more on-cameras. For voice-overs you don’t have to wear makeup — you just get in your car, drive over, read the lines and leave.”

Asked for a summing up, she pauses, then laughs, two notes deep in her throat. “I’m just glad to be here. Still.”

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“I promised my parents if at the end of two weeks I didn’t have a job I’d come back to finish college and become a teacher.”


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Home is where the honor is

Home is where the honor is

“I’m always amazed that a thing of concrete, bronze and marble can become a very special place.”



“Sometimes when you go by the site, you’ll see groups of people,

mostly men, obviously veterans, just standing at the wall. Some lean on it, overlooking a plaque, some leave notes.”

Vern Snyder, vice president for institutional advancement, isn’t talking about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. — the emotions he’s observed arise at the UT Veterans’ Plaza, located between University Hall and the Memorial Field House.

The site honoring members of the U.S. armed forces and veterans of all wars was dedicated November 11, but its genesis stretches back to 2004, when Richard Perry EdD (Ed ’48, MA ’50, EdD ’64), UT professor emeritus of educational leadership, sent an e-mail to then-UT President Dan Johnson.

“My wife [Barbara Rondelli Perry] and I had worked with Waite High School to create a smaller memorial honoring the men and women from Waite who gave their lives in wartime. I thought it was a wonderful thing,” says Perry, a WWII veteran.

Though the WWII memorial wall at the west entrance to Gillham Hall has been part of the University since 1952, Perry felt that a more inclusive tribute would be worthwhile. Johnson

agreed — but, notes Perry, the wheels of academia tend to turn slowly.

Slowly but steadily. In addition to Perry (whose check for five thousand dollars showed his commitment), the UT Board of Trustees and the Veterans Service Commission of Lucas County lent their support, as did (following the 2007 merger) UT’s new president, Lloyd Jacobs.

The stipulated private funding came from individuals and organizations in the community. Among them: donated time, materials and services from fifteen local construction firms working on the project. “The president told Vern that he’d never seen a campus project that created so much goodwill toward the University,” Perry recalls.

Today the plaza already seems a longtime UT feature. “It appears to me to be an intensely personal place for veterans and their families — as it should be,” Snyder says. “And from what I’ve observed of students, they don’t run through, they don’t skateboard there, they don’t goof around. They stop and read the plaques; they’re curious.

“I’m always amazed that a thing of concrete, bronze and marble can become a very special place.”

Perry puts it more poetically: “There’s a light that shines from that memorial and it’s going to shine for a long, long time.”

To learn more about honoring friends and family members, contact the UT Foundation at 419.530.7730 or check utoledo.edu/offices/advancement.

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Home is where the farm is

“To be able to take care of people and know that every day is going to be unpredictable — that was attractive.”



Maybe it’s the flank-steak flatness of the landscape around Middle

Point, Ohio (where the greening crops irresistibly suggest corn-fed cattle). In the horizontal setting, Matt Owens MD (MED ’05) stands particularly tall.

Tall and rooted. The three-hundred-acre farm he and his wife Crista (along with their two children) call home has been owned and worked by his family for generations. But before returning to the small-town U.S.A. he loves, Owens cultivated a career far removed from combines and irrigators.

“I didn’t plan to be a farmer,” he says. “My dad and grandfather worked hard at it at night after their regular jobs, but as a kid I had allergies that limited my time outside.

“But the more I looked into medicine, the better it sounded. To be able to take care of people and know that every day is going to be unpredictable — that was attractive. I’m not the kind of person who can do the same thing day after day.”

After completing his zoology degree at Miami University — where he and Crista met — he was recruited to the former MUO by Mary Ann Myers MD, then dean of admissions. “It was the first year of the early acceptance program [Med START],” Matt says. “It was the dean’s idea to recruit Ohio

students excelling in undergraduate programs, get them early acceptance in medical school and hopefully keep them in the state.”

Today, Drs. Owens and Myers — who’s profiled on Page 38 — share a rehab unit at St. Rita’s Hospital in Lima. “She was a wonderful mentor who convinced me to look into becoming a rehabilitation doctor,” Matt says.

During his Columbus residency, Matt and Crista — by then married — made plans. “We wanted to come back and live in a small town, send our kids to a small school district where we could be a part of the community,” Matt says.

Another draw toward home was an interest-free loan offered by the Academy of Medicine in Lima and Allen County to qualified medical students willing to locate their practices in one of the county’s three hospitals.

They’ve come home in every way, Matt says: “I work at a wonderful hospital with the technology, staff support and intangibles you’d find at a big-city facility. At the same time, I really enjoy the break that farming gives me. And I like the kids growing up on the farm.”

So how are his plowing skills these days? “My dad’s in charge,” Matt says. “When he tells me to run the tractor, I run it; when he tells me to stop, I stop.”

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Home is where the heart is — really!

Home is where the heart is — really!“I always knew I wanted to go into specialty care; I love the intellectual challenges that go with it.”



Brian D. Soriano MD (MED ’96) might not sport his heart on his

sleeve, but you’ll find the hearts of others — kids, specifically — daily on his mind. On the cardiology staff of Seattle Children’s Hospital for the past three years, he balances clinical with research in helping to heal some of the country’s youngest patients.

“I always knew I wanted to go into specialty care; I love the intellectual challenges that go with it,” says Soriano, an assistant professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Pediatrics who also works in UW’s Center for Clinical and Translational Research.

He sees himself as both a pediatric cardiologist and a diagnostician, “trying to figure out multiple systems and tease out the root cause of disease processes or pathology.”

On the hospital floor, that means facing special challenges: “In adults, you’re dealing with acquired diseases: coronary artery disease, valve disease, high blood pressure.

“In pediatric cardiology, much of the field involves congenital heart disease, where the baby might be born with half a heart and you’re faced with how to treat the condition medically, coordinate care with cardiac surgeons and get the patient through childhood — maybe even an adult life — with a structurally challenged heart.”

Aside from cancers, he knows, a heart problem is probably the medical issue parents fear most, and having his own twenty-month child adds a personal layer to each face-to-face encounter with family: “It makes it a little tougher at times, but hopefully it makes me a better doctor, too.”

As do his sub-specialties in noninvasive imaging, including 3-D echocardiography and cardiac MRI. “The department’s expertise is expanding, and with additional research, 3-D echo is getting a foothold in clinical medicine,” he says. “It’s not meant to be a substitute for traditional echocardiography, but to complement it.”

Collaboration is another plus, he notes: “Pediatric care is a huge team effort that includes primary care providers, cardiologists, surgeons, nurses, social workers, nutritionists.”

And for the future? “The biggest challenge is that now that we’ve been able to help kids survive into adulthood, how are we going to decrease morbidity? Parents ask, ‘How long will my child live? Will he go to college? Have children? Will she be able to play sports?’ The future will see us resolving lifestyle questions as well as developmental issues, because for some of our patients, the quality of life is significantly impacted.”

And, he says, families invariably rise to their children’s challenges: “They wouldn’t trade their kids for the world.”

Exactly the way he feels about his career.

Small hearts, big challenge

“I always knew I wanted to go into specialty care; I love the intellectual challenges that go with it.”

Brian Soriano with 11-month-old Chase, born with congenital heart disease. She’s already undergone two open-heart surgeries as an infant and will require at least one more to keep her heart working.

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Home is where the heart is — really!

Home is where the music is

“What really ignites the band? They pride themselves on their performance. The camaraderie is good”



The life of a small-town band director isn’t much different

from its parallel in a big city — except in the level of impact. For Ben Pack (Ed ’05), band and music director with the North Baltimore School District, the impact reaches way beyond the kids he teaches. Mention his name to just about any resident of the crossroads northwest Ohio community and they not only know of him, they know him.

“Ben’s a tremendous asset to the school system and a constant ambassador to the community,” says Bob Falkenstein PhD (MEd ’01), North Baltimore High School principal. “He’s developed the band into the best in the league, doing a lot with a small budget. Recently he came to me with a proposal for a new music course at the junior high level. He’s taken that on, along with all his other duties, because it’s best for the kids.” As well, Ben was recently elected president of the North Baltimore Education Association.

Pack spends much of his “off season” directing summer band camp. On a scorching July day in the field behind the high school, sunblock is the predominant scent; aurally, a rehearsal of “Thriller” competes with air-horn-braying trains barreling past at the CSX depot just yards away. Baton working feverishly, Ben’s not distracted: “We’re significantly further ahead, playing and marching, than we’ve ever been,

and the kids have retained everything from last year,” he says during a break, sounding pleased.

The new $175 million CSX Intermodal Yard in North Baltimore is big news; the band’s already been part of it, playing at the groundbreaking and meeting with Ohio Governor Ted Strickland afterward. They take such high-profile performances in stride, Ben notes. “What really ignites the band is how seriously they take their playing. They pride themselves on their performance.”

The teacher in him grins when he adds, “The camaraderie is good; nobody fights with each other.”

Is he thinking back to his own student days? An alumnus of the UT Marching Band, Ben plays trombone and clarinet, abilities on display when he and the band add to the sounds that fill Main Street during North Baltimore’s summer festival.

Such community connections with the band run deep. As practice continues to fill the air with brass, passersby wave or pause to listen. A spry North Baltimore resident (“I’m seventy years old and I still enjoy every day I’m given,” he says jauntily) stops his bicycle to listen to the band blast through the school fight song. As the spirited piece ends with a flourish, the man wipes a tear from his eye and confesses, “Makes me do that every time I hear it.”

Director makes music that carries



The Johnny Knorr Orchestra is fifty this year, but diminishment

isn’t on the dance card, says orchestra leader Jerry Knorr (Eng ’66), who’s been playing with the group since his father founded it.

“My father’s eighty-nine now, and he’s been gradually retiring,” says Knorr, who besides playing clarinet and sax has been leading the orchestra for the last five years. “I was very fortunate; when I entered the professional field I was playing with my dad on one side of me and my uncle on the other.”

In fact, Jerry is a third-generation musician; his grandfather tickled the ivories in silent-movie theatres. “I wanted to be part of that, so I started learning the piano when I was five,” Jerry adds.

As a then-Toledo University student in electrical engineering, he performed in the concert and marching bands — and made time to attend the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, studying musical arrangement and writing for shows whose lineups included Duke Ellington and Mel Torme.

When his engineering degree opened a door onto the emerging computer era

— in which he established a satisfying career — Jerry’s commitment to the orchestra was still jivin’ and jumpin’. It was an unforgettable time, he says, working with musicians Tex Beneke and Warren Covington, singer Helen O’Connell — the list grew with the years to encompass musical luminaries from Tiny Tim to Bob Hope.

Life on the road meant gigs as chilly as ice extravaganzas and as sumptuous as the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Circuses were spangled venues where friends included animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams and high-wire artist Karl Wallenda. “In fact,” Knorr recalls, “we played accompaniment to the Wallendas’ seven-person human pyramid just a week before they had their catastrophic accident in Detroit.”

Rock ‘n’ roll was calling for revolution, but the Johnny Knorr Orchestra continued swinging to big band and revolutions around the dance floor — with audiences eager to listen. “The songs from the ’thirties and ’forties have melodies that you go home whistling,” Jerry notes. “They stick in your mind.”

The audience is foremost in the orchestra’s mind, he adds: “We’ve always played for the people, the dancers. Today, the crowds aren’t what they used to be thirty or forty years

Miller time and more

ago, but people still love to dance, and now there’s the increased interest in ballroom and Dancing With the Stars.”

Most often, dancers find the band at their summer venue, Centennial Terrace in Sylvania, getting in the mood with an extensive musical library. Seamlessness is the orchestra’s hallmark, Jerry says: “That’s one of dad’s philosophies: When you hire the Johnny Knorr Orchestra, you know the product you’re going to get.” Nevertheless, he says, the dozen musicians manage to surprise each other: “Nobody plays exactly the same two times in a row. That keeps it fresh.”

Fresh and always a family product, he adds. “Dad was out in front for many years, but I was always right behind him, as was my wife and my mother behind the scenes. We’ve been blessed.”

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The audience is foremost in the orchestra’s mind, he adds: “We’ve always played for the people, the dancers.”



Home is — where?“I really didn’t have anything but the Lord. I probably would have gone crazy if I didn’t have my faith.”



“Olympian. Bobsledder. Stuntman. Model. Christian.”

That’s the career biography on his Twitter profile (twitter.com/brockkreitzburg), but Brock Kreitzburg (Ed ’98) is so much more than 140 characters.

They don’t tell how after competing with the U.S. bobsled team in the 2006 Winter Olympics he had to undergo two hip surgeries to avoid probable career-ending injuries.

They don’t tell how, despite a lightning-fast recovery and nonstop workout regime, he didn’t make the team for the 2010 games in Vancouver.

And they don’t tell how not making the team crushed his plans for the future, exhausted his income, and eventually led to him being buried alive.

“When I didn’t make the team, it was a really, really difficult time for me,” Kreitzburg says from his current home in Los Angeles. “Everything important to me was stripped. I had no idea what I was going to do.”

A Hollywood studio connection gave Brock the opportunity to perform stunts for television shows: NCIS-Los Angeles, 24, Castle and CSI: NY. In the last, viewers saw him buried in concrete. Stunting eventually became the much safer job of stunt rigging — but none of it seemed right.

“It was really just something to buy some time until I figured out what I was going to do,” he says. “I don’t know if I see myself doing stunt rigging or stunts for much longer; I don’t want to be crippled when I’m sixty.”

In hopes of getting out of surgery-related debt, Brock now freelances as a fitness model for exercise equipment — just another of the familiar quick and icy turns in his life. He is used to them, after all; the start of his world-class bobsledding career was almost as accidental as its finish.

After his UT graduation, he knew he was going to do one of two things: play in the NFL (a Rockets wide receiver, he’d made second team all-MAC in 1997) or go to a seminary. During his second year of seminary in Boston, Kreitzburg realized he missed competing. The U.S. bobsled team happened to be recruiting through his favorite gym.

“The only thing I knew about bobsledding at that time was from Cool Runnings,” he says. “But I gave it a shot and made the national team my first year.”

Through it all — the bobsledding career that took him to the world stage in Turino, Italy, the surgeries that emptied his wallet and sidelined his plans, and the grueling recovery — Kreitzburg says it was the relationship he built with his faith while in seminary that helped him the most.

“I really didn’t have anything but the Lord. I probably would have gone crazy if I didn’t have my faith. I realize that so far I’ve kind of lived a blind, self-serving life, but my main goal right now is to get out debt. Eventually, I want to give back and start helping others.”

In the meantime, Kreitzburg will rig stunts, pay off debt and hope that faith will ultimately lead him home.

— Chris Ankney, University Communications

Seeking new course after sliding off track


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class notes


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1930sBeatrice (Cohen) (Stohl) Goldman (Ed ’39) wrote in to share the news of her move to Pharr/McAllen, Texas, in the historic Rio Grande Valley.

1940sValden F. Farnham (Eng ’48), Columbus, wrote his memoirs after questions by his children inspired him to put pen to paper; in a year he filled 12 legal pads. Now printed and bound for family and friends, the story includes the Great Depression and service in WWII. Contact him at [email protected].

Walter Pagels (Eng ’48), San Diego, famed water gardener, was profiled in the March/April issue of POND Trade Magazine.

1950sBarbara (Stedman) (Bus ’52) and Phillip J. Zeller (Ed ’52), Junction City, Kan., celebrated their 55th anniversary. Barbara was honored by the American Red Cross for her 32 years of volunteering at Irwin Army Community Hospital, Fort Riley. Phillip was named to the Greater Fort Riley Partnership Council, a group representing various constituents of the surrounding community. He also became an honorary member of the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club chapter at Fort Riley, recognizing his efforts on behalf of the U.S. Army, from which he retired as a brigadier general.

1960sFranklyn Olmstead (Ed ’61), Erie, Mich., who competed in the 24th National Veterans Golden Age Games, held in June in Des Moines, Iowa, won bronze medals in the freestyle swimming and shot put events. A combat veteran of the Korean War, he also competed in the discus throw.

Larry Rochelle (Ed ’62, Ed Spec ’80) has a new Palmer Morel mystery out: The Nunnery, set

in New Orleans and featuring a Bourbon-Street-meets-Hollywood set piece.

Herbert Woodward Martin (A/S ’64), poet-in-residence and professor emeritus of English at the University of Dayton, was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters in June by Wright State University for his work on 19th-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Also in June, the Dayton Philharmonic released a CD of William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1 with Martin as narrator. And a new University of Dayton postgraduate fellowship in creative writing and diversity was named in Martin’s honor.

Ronald C. Brown (A/S ’65, Law ’68), professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law, was awarded a grant from the U.S.-China Legal Cooperation Fund to conduct a series of workshops in China to produce “An Implementing Platform for China’s New Draft Social Security Law.”

Frances R. Liles (A/S ’65), Richmond, Va., was elected to the board of governors of the Virginia Genealogical Society for a term ending in 2012.

David P. Miller (Bus ’66, MBA ’68) joined realty company The Danberry Co. as vice president, corporate development, bringing more

than 30 years’ real estate and finance experience to the newly created position.

Alyce Segall (Ed ’69), Phoenix, who began her education career in Cleveland, is teaching third grade at Park Meadows Elementary School, home of the Soaring Seagulls. She and her husband Stewart Segall PhD (Bus ’68), who’s president/owner of Segall Consulting Services, took a recent trip to Spain where they happily noted all references to Toledo. Both are members of the Desert Corvette Association.

1970sAnthony Capozzi (Law ’70), who maintains a law practice in California, was named by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Commission of Judicial Performance, the independent state investigative agency. Capozzi


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Larry McDougle EdD (EdD ’71), who served as interim president of Owens Community College for six months, was named president in June by the college’s board of trustees. He stipulated an initial one-year contract.

R. Jeffrey Bixler (Law ’72), now retired, received a 2010 Access to Justice Award, which honors legal aid and pro bono work in northwest Ohio.

Michelle (Stohl) Gluck (Ed ’73) is living in Sun City, Ariz.

Ronald McCracken (Univ Coll ’73), president of business development firm RJM Associates, headquartered in Easley, S.C., was

inducted into the Environmental Industries Association Hall of Fame, recognizing his many years in the waste service and equipment field. Prior to the 2007 founding of his current company, Ron was president of RJM Waste Equipment Co.

Robert E. Wisniewski (Law ’73) was awarded the Exemplary Partnership Award by Phoenix College of Arizona.

Viswanadham Puligandla PhD (PhD ’74) co-authored a book, Portable Consumer Electronics: Materials, Packaging and Reliability, published by PennWell Books in May. The retired principal scientist for Nokia Research Center is an adjunct faculty of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. This is his second book; he’s also authored numerous technical papers.

Robert A. May MD (UTCTC ’75, Univ Coll ’79, MED ’82), medical director of the respiratory care program at UT, was presented the annual Albert H. Andrews Jr. MD Award by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) for service to the professional community. The U.S. Air Force veteran and former flight surgeon also served as president of the NBRC board of trustees.

Alan Sankin (Law ’75), vice president, tax and treasury at Dolby Laboratories Inc. in San Francisco, was awarded the Tax Executive Institute’s first pro bono service award for his volunteer work with Lawyers for One America in San Rafael, Calif.

David A. Stohl (Bus ’75) is a business analyst with the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg.

The vibrant Portland and New York jazz scenes were a good fit for Kelly Broadway-houk (a/s ’03), but beckoning her was the opportunity to study with a legend. So it was back to the Midwest in 2000 to hometown Toledo to learn from jazz great Jon Hendricks, University of Toledo Distinguished Professor of Jazz. “What you learn from Jon is jazz history and about the music, and you’re able to listen firsthand to world-class scatting,” she says. “I learned so much about music theory and vocalese.” Vocalese, Hendricks’ specialty, adds lyrics to instrumental songs and replaces instruments with vocalists. Hendricks helped Broadway-Houk feel more comfortable with the music style, which she includes in her own performances. While she sings everything, Broadway-Houk really does love jazz. “Jazz is an acquired taste. It awards the musician with freedom of expression through improvisation,” she says. “Once I discovered the power behind jazz technique and its liberating vocabulary, nothing else could satisfy me musically. Working with Jon Hendricks and his jazz ensemble at UT provided me with the assurance that jazz is more about giving than receiving. It must be revered if it is to be understood and appreciated.” Broadway-Houk’s love of music comes from a childhood with Barbra Streisand’s Funny Girl, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour and her sister playing Motown nonstop. But nobody knew she could sing until an eighth-grade choir performance when she had her first solo. She’s come a long way since then; check kellybroadway.com.

Her 1995 CD, Kelly Broadway in Concert, was recorded in Portland Ore., (where, she says, the jazz is heavenly) and gained considerable regional airplay. And yes, Broadway is her real name; she added the Houk when she married her husband, Scott. A sojourn in Manhattan saw her singing in jazz clubs that included the Village Vanguard, Birdland and The Blue Note. With three CDs under her belt, the most recent From My Heart, and with a live-concert disc in production, Broadway-Houk is now embarking on a project to become a headliner for cruise ships. After a decade of singing with a jazz quartet for Royal Caribbean/Celebrity Cruise Lines, she’s working to become a featured guest entertainer for all cruise lines with her new act, “Kelly Broadway Sings and Swings,” featuring popular works of American composers and a tribute to Judy Garland. “Singing for people, it really validates me. I hope that I’m entertaining people and I hope I’m making them happy,” the vocalist says. “I hope I have found what I am supposed to be doing.” View a clip at www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ro-hy-wnU

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a nightmare diagnosis. Mary ann Myers MD (a/s ’79, res ’91) lived it. A physiatrist (rehabilitation physician) who treats MS patients, she notes, “They can’t say to me, ‘You just don’t get it.’ Well, I do. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.” Myers was a first-year medical student at Ohio State and pregnant with her first child when she was diagnosed with MS. “I had to take a leave of absence,” she says. “I was unable to walk, I couldn’t get up from the couch by myself. On a good day I had just enough energy to get dressed or to shower.” She was lucky. “God blessed me beyond words; I got better,” she says. “I went back to medical school, graduated and completed a four-year residency [at the former MCO] in physical medicine where I got to work with Dr. Nemunaitis, Dr. Elmer, Dr. Koffman and others. They were fabulous; I learned so much.” She’d already found her career, she says: “Early on I knew I wanted to be a physician, but after returning to school I found out there was a specialty that pays attention to function. If something is broken, we fix it with a prosthetic limb or a brace or other special equipment. All those things make it easier to get back into the world. “When I realized there was a profession like that, it was for me.” It still is. Today she sees MS and Parkinson’s patients at a multidisciplinary clinic within St. Rita’s Medical Center in Lima, Ohio. Other patient conditions include head and spinal cord injuries, amputations and hip fractures. Many days, Myers works on Easy Street, part of the hospital’s inpatient rehab unit, where patients can safely negotiate an apartment, a car, a grocery, bank, church — even a garden shed — to practice the skills of everyday living. “The whole goal is to get you back home,” Myers says. “Easy Street is just part of patients’ therapy, which occupational therapists include in a full routine.” The rehabilitation team approach means everyone celebrates patient victories: “Some of the happiest days are when patients are able to do what the rest of us take for granted: being able to swallow after the feeding tube comes out, or tying their own shoes. It’s a huge day and we get to share it with them. “When I think how bad my own condition was almost thirty years ago, getting right into the very basics of other people’s lives and helping — it makes me happy.”


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Craig Fisher (A/S ’76), senior concept artist with Chicago-based learning company Healthy Interactions, had an exhibition, “The Intaglio Universe of Craig Fisher,” this summer at the Works on Paper Gallery of Sinclair Community College in Dayton.

Michael Beazley (A/S ’77, Law ’80) was named city administrator for Oregon. Previously, he’d been administrator for Lucas County.

David J. Spiess (Bus ’78) was named to the Sylvania Hall of Fame by the Sylvania Academic Excellence Foundation. He’s a consultant with SeaGate Benefits and a member of the Sylvania Board of Education.

Fred Weber (Bus ’78), Hamler, Ohio, joined Fifth Third Bank as a mortgage loan originator, working at the One SeaGate office, Toledo.

1980sBarbara Floyd (A/S ’80, MA ’82, MPA ’89), UT professor of library administration, university archivist and director of the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, received a surprise visit from a Pi Kappa Alpha delegation who presented her with a floral bouquet in appreciation of her research assistance in the fraternity’s recognition of two beloved faculty advisers: Howard Bowman PhD and Nicholas Mogendorff PhD. Biographies of the two, based on her research and written by Phillip Zeller Jr. (Ed ’52) and Philip Brunskill (att. 1950s), were presented to the UT archives.

Dominick J. Graziano (A/S ’80, A/S ’80, Law ’83) was selected to the 2010 Florida Super Lawyers list as well as the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel list.

Mark J. Albrechta (Law ’81), who practices law in Tampa, Fla., was elected to the board of directors of the Family Justice Center of Hillsborough County Inc., a presidential-initiative collaboration project that provides centralized services to domestic violence victims.

Stephen M. Dane (Law ’81), a partner with Relman, Dane & Colfax, was sworn in as president of the Toledo Bar Association, taking the reins in July.

Darrick E. Antell MD (MED ’82), assistant clinical professor of




surgery at Columbia University and New York cosmetic surgeon, joined the editorial board of Consumer Guide to Plastic Surgery, an independent resource publication.

Christopher M. Knight (Bus ’82) was named superintendent of schools in the 19-county Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo. Previously, he was founding principal of the academy of St. John’s Jesuit. He and his wife, Brenda, have two sons.

Lt. Col. Michael Masiker (Univ Coll ’82), Maumee, is serving a one-year deployment as logistics director for the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan.

Teresa Fedor (Ed ’83), Ohio State Senator representing the 11th District, was recognized with the Legislator Advocate award by the Ohio Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs, honoring her work in the areas of education, human trafficking and immigration.

John Gulas (Law ’83) was named president and CEO of Farmers National Banc Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Farmers National Bank of Canfield (Ohio). He’s been with the company since 2008 as COO.

Manju Hegde (MS ’83) was appointed corporate vice president, Fusion Experience Program with the California-based multinational semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc., identifying applications for AMD’s forthcoming Fusion family of accelerated processing units. A previous vice president for visual computing firm Nvidia, he co-founded Ageia Technologies.

Ray Mueller (Bus ’83, MBA ’90), Elyria, was promoted to vice president, finance, and corporate controller at Medical Mutual of Ohio.

Brian P. Infalt (A/S ’84, A/S ’84) is working as a GDS system analyst at online travel reservation giant Expedia in Bellevue, Wash.

Michael O’Mara (Law ’84) joined crisis communications specialists Hennes Paynter Communications in Cleveland as vice president.

Joseph Pavamani (MA ’84) is senior lecturer in the Institute of Communication of Manipal University in the state of

Karnataka, India, also teaching an English course at Vijaya College. He lives with his wife and daughter in a suburb of Mangalore.

Derek S. Davey (A/S ’85), Toledo, graduated from Boston University with certification in genealogy. He conducts professional genealogical searches for individuals and legal firms.

Nanette Tertel (A/S ’85), a Toledo dentist, was named by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to the Dentist Loan Repayment Advisory Board, which encourages dental practice in underserved areas.

Joanne Cafiero PhD (MEd ’86, Ed Spec ’88, PhD ’95), a specialist in strategies for communicating with nonverbal people, presented a literacy workshop under the auspices of the Anne Carlsen Center for Children in Jamestown, N.D., for educators who work with autistic individuals.

Robert Friess DO (A/S ’87, Ed ’87), an anesthesiologist and member of the medical staff of St. Luke’s Hospital, Maumee, since 2005, was named chief of staff.

Carol A. Wedding (Eng ’87), president of materials and electronics firm Image Systems Technology, Toledo, was granted a patent for a plasma tube antenna, assigned to the company.

Kimberly Danes (Univ Coll ’88), gift planning director for the Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Services Foundation, was

named a certified fund raising executive by CFRE International, which offers the only internationally recognized baseline professional credential for philanthropic fundraising executives. A founding member of the United Way Women’s Initiative, she serves on the board of the Toledo Area Planned Giving Council.

David J. Ludwick MD (Res ’89), medical director and a primary surgeon for Ludwick Eye Center, opened a new office in Waynesboro, Pa., making three in the practice.

Ming You MD, PhD (PhD ’89), former MCO faculty member, accepted an offer from the Medical College of Wisconsin to become director of the MCW Cancer Center, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, senior associate dean for cancer research, education and clinical care, and the Joseph F. Heil Professor in Molecular Oncogenesis. Previously, he was at Washington University in St. Louis as professor of surgery

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and director of chemoprevention at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center.

1990sDaniel M. Klein (Law ’90) joined Toledo real estate investment trust group Health Care REIT Inc. as vice president, asset management in the Medical Facilities Group.

Satish Reddy (MEng ’90), a chief engineer with NASA at the Lydon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, was awarded the agency’s Silver Snoopy Award for his efforts to secure a safe return of Space Shuttle Endeavor after its protective tiles were damaged, and for resolving design problems in shuttle cameras that monitor spacewalks.

James DeMatteo (Law ’91) started his own law office in Buffalo, N.Y., concentrating on personal injury and criminal defense.

Steve Hudkins (Bus ’91), LaSalle, Mich., acquired Prudential Michaud Realtors in Monroe. He’s been a realtor since 1988.

Elizabeth Raitz Cowboy MD (MED ’92, Res ’96) joined med-ical service company Ad-vanced ICU Care in St. Louis

as director of virtual ICU. A national presenter in telemedicine technolo-gy, she serves on the eICU Research Institute Executive Steering Committee and as a board member for the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Anthony Hopkins (UTCTC ’93, Univ Coll ’95), who works at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, wrote in to say that he’s doing well and to thank the UT community for their “prayers, love and support.”

Deborah Piotrowski (Ed ’93, MEd ’00) became the first woman superintendent of Xenia (Ohio) Community Schools. Previously, she was superintendent of Millcreek-West Unity Local Schools; in December, she’ll receive her education doctorate from UT.

Scott McMeans (Univ Coll ’94), administrative director of planning and improvement at health care network Holy

Family Memorial Inc., Manitowoc County, Wis., joined the board of directors for Shady Lane Inc., a private, nonprofit care facility.

Robert Shin-dell (Ed ’95), lecturer and consultant in the field of ad-ministrative and organizational management, took on the role

of the Career Doctor with an on-line site, ILostMyJob.com, for people who’ve experienced a ca-reer interruption.

Mark A. Beers (Bus ’96) joined Honolulu ocean transport and lo-gistics company Alexander & Baldwin Inc. as manager, corpo-rate planning.

Previously he’d been with a subsid-iary, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., as assistant controller.

George Mergen (UTCTC ’96, Bus ’97) was named director of marketing for the Automotive Racing Club of America, a motorsports sanctioning body based in Temperance, Mich.

Jenny Goldberg (A/S ’97) joined Aly Sterling Philanthropy LLC, Maumee, as a senior consultant,

following a decade working in the nonprofit sector.

Andrea M. Kimball (Law ’97) joined the Kansas City, Kan., office of Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal in their litigation practice.

Jill Valiton McIntosh (Law ’97) was promoted to director, human resources/labor relations with Kroger Co. in Cincinnati.

Brian L. Soller (Univ Coll ’97) joined Heartland of Wauseon (Ohio) as an administrator of the nursing and rehabilitation center.

Joshua R. Bills (Law ’99) was elected partner at Lane, Alton & Horst, Columbus, Ohio, where he conducts his civil litigation practice.

Adam P. Henneman (AHHS ’99, HHS ’02) completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill.

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2000sStacy N. Lilly (Law ’00) opened her law office in Philadelphia to exclusively serve the needs of other attorneys and law firms

with their litigation practices.

Kurt McClurg (MEd ’00), head athletic trainer and health educator at Maumee High School, was named to the Ohio Athletic

Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame in May. He’s been instrumental in the development of the athletic trainers section of the Ohio occupational therapy, physical therapy and athletic trainers board.

James R. Perry PhD (PhD ’00), assistant professor of mathematics at Owens Community College, Perrysburg, was chosen to serve as deputy national executive director for the Ohio/Midwest region of Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honor Society.

Charlie Christensen DO (Res ’01) joined Mackinac Straits Health System in St. Ignace and Mackinaw City, Mich., as a pediatrician.

Matthew Fettman (Pharm ’03) was installed as president of the Ohio Pharmacists Association. He practices at Davies Pharmacy in Canton and serves as a consultant with several outpatient surgery centers.

Kevin Secrest PharmD (Pharm ’03, PharmD ’05), clinical coordinator and manager of Ryan Pharmacy & Orthopedic Supply in Toledo, was installed as a trustee of the Ohio Pharmacists Association, representing District 2.

Amy Biros (A/S ’04), Walton Hills, Ohio, graduated in the spring with an MBA from Lake Erie College in Painesville.

Karin Green (Bus ’04, MBA ’08) was hired as account coordinator/social media specialist by Fruchtman Marketing, Toledo.

Samantha J. Younker (HHS ’04) was hired as a bankruptcy associate with the Janvier Law Firm PLLC in Raleigh, N.C.

Shelly Musshel Kennedy (Law ’05), staff attorney for Lucas County Judge James Jensen, was sworn in as president of the Toledo Women’s Bar Association

Matt Meindl (A/S ’06) was hired as a videographer/editor at the Ohio State University Medical Center. He also teaches at the Columbus College of Art and Design, and his short film, Inside Out/Side One, won the Best Experimental Film award at the 2010 U.S. Super 8+Digital Video Festival held at Rutgers University.

Karl E. Strauss (Law ’06), in-house legal counsel for Mercy Health Partners, Toledo, received the Community Service Award

for Attorneys 40 and Under at the Ohio State Bar Association District 4 annual meeting.

Leah Rongakis (Bus ’07, MBA ’09) completed her MBA degree at UT.

Courtney J. Trimacco (Law ’07) joined the Cleveland office of Reminger Co. LPA.

Nicole Camp (Bus ’08), running her first marathon, took first place in the 2010 Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon women’s race. She works at Lincoln Electric.

Timothy Burkhard (Law ’09) joined the Farmington Hills, Mich., firm of Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith

as an associate with the business and corporate practice group.

Matthew Coffman (Law ’09) joined Elsass, Wallace, Evans, Schnelle & Co. in Sidney, Ohio, as an associate.

James M. Duffy Jr. (Bus ’09) was appointed admissions adviser with the Jack Welch Management Institute at Chancellor University in Cleveland.

Leah Hawk (A/S ’09) joined Toledo company Fruchtman Marketing as media coordinator.

Andrea Hefflinger (Bus ’09) is the new director of the Henry County (Ohio) Arts Council in Napoleon.

Michael S. Hill (Law ’09) joined the Gallagher Law Firm, which has offices in Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids.

Dennis House (Bus ’09) is the new interactive media director at Fruchtman Marketing in Toledo.

David R. Hudson (Law ’09) joined the Sandusky and Toledo offices of Reminger Co. LPA.

Scott Perry (HSHS ’09) was hired as an organ procurement coordinator for CORE (Center for Organ Recovery and Education) in Pittsburgh.

Erin Kennedy Vella (Law ’09) joined the Toledo law firm of Cooper & Walinski.


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Marriages & Unions

Ajay Patel (A/S ’98) & Rachel Wilkins. He’s a benefits analyst with The MetroHealth System. Cleveland.

Brent Barkett (HHS ’05) & Lisa Ficke (DMC ’08). Cincinnati.

Brian Heitmeyer (HHS ’06) & Courtney Bellmann (NRS ’09). They’re both registered nurses, working at St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima.

BirthsRobert Shindell (Ed ’95) and his wife, Christy, Austin,

Texas, welcomed the birth of their first child, John “Jack” Preston, in April.

Rebecca C. (Ravas) Doubler MD (A/S ’97, MED ’00) and her husband, Eric, welcomed the birth of their daughter, Megan Christine, in June 2008. She, brother Kevin and the family live in Avon, Ohio. Rebecca is chief of anesthesiology and medical director at the Premium Surgery Center in Elyria.

Gerald L. Trepkowski (Law ’02) and his wife, Rose, Silver Spring, Md., welcomed a new daughter, Natalya Irene, in June.

James Schaller II (Law ’03) and his wife, Janelle (associate

general counsel, UT Office of Legal Affairs), Perrysburg, announce the birth of their first child, James Benedict, in May.

Christina M. (Zalecki) (Pharm ’03, PharmD ’05) and Joshua Scharf (Eng ’04), Columbia Station, Ohio, announce the birth of their first child, Noah Austin, in February.

At first, it sounds like a dream job: Wow! Work in the Florida Keys! Plenty of 9 to 5 sunshine! Connect with nature! Yes, yes and yes, but codie-Marie Miller (a/s ’08) knows that the fantasy job — coordinator for the Exotic Strike Team Program of Florida’s Institute for Regional Conservation (IRC) — comes with some very gnarly requirements. “It’s not a job for people who don’t want to work hard or don’t want to sweat, especially in a place as humid as south Florida,” she says of her invasive-plants-eradication work. “My team and I are constantly crawling through thick vegetation, or we’re on the ground, or standing up against some poison-wood tree to saw down another tree. There are fire ant hills — I’m horribly allergic to fire ants. You have spiders, bugs, mosquitoes, no-see-ums. It’s not an easy job; it takes patience and endurance.” It’s still the kind of job the environmental science grad knew she’d wanted since she was growing up in the gentle rural hills outside Wooster, Ohio. “There was lots of outdoor rambling, lots of animals, I was in 4-H,” she recalls. “From very early on I knew I’d work outdoors. And I loved science, except for chemistry.” Today she appreciates the science behind IRC’s philosophy: “They work to restore an entire region such as south Florida rather than take a piecemeal focus on the charismatic creatures like the spotted owl and polar bear. That’s one of the big things about our work: It’s so concentrated in one area that it has a chance to make a real impact.” Others agree. Support from federal stimulus funds, the state of Florida and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service allowed IRC to expand its size. So the science meets the pavement — soil, rather — when Miller’s strike force team does a seek-and-destroy on invasive plants. Walking in straight lines through a designated area, they search meticulously for the invasive of the day. “It’s a kind of surgical tech crew that removes everything from a seedling to a full-sized tree with minimal damage to the site,” she says. There’s office work as well, of course, but it’s all part of what Miller views as a mission more than mere job: “To me, nature is a wonderful webbing and weaving and meshing of so many different relationships that we can’t begin to fathom. I feel I’m doing my part keeping them surviving.”

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1930sGuinevere (Kuehnle) Keely, Toledo, att. 1932-1935, April 3 at 95. Roy S. Davisson, Fremont, att. 1935-1937, Feb. 7 at 96. Reynolds Shepard, Toledo, att. 1938-1941, Dec. 11 at 89. **Regina (Baker) Caddell (A/S ’39), Greenville, N.C., March 25 at 92.Russell A. Frautschi, Rossford, att. 1930s and 1940s, May 14 at 89. Dorothy L. (Spraggins) Gail, Toledo, 1939-1943, April 8 at 89.

1940sRobert I. Levison (A/S ’40), Sarasota, Fla., April 17 at 92.G. Frances (Dunigan) Overberg (Ed ’41), Toledo, June 13 at 91. *Donald R. Engler (Eng ’42), Seguin, Texas, April 11 at 90. *Charles L. Stephens (Bus ’42), Toledo, April 2 at 90.**William C. Fotoples (Eng ’43), Napoleon, May 3 at 88. *Howard V. Sommers (Eng ’43), Toledo, March 17 at 89.Jean M. (Koder) Boesel, Toledo, att. 1944-1946, 1960s, May 3 at 83. Edna M. (Leonard) Roth, Monroe, Mich., att. 1944-1948, March 16 at 85. James C. Vick, Toledo, att. 1944-1948, 1950s, May 8 at 83.George W. Barry, Scottsdale, Ariz., att. 1946-1950, March 31 at 86. Leeland Pete, Toledo, att. 1946-1949, March 25 at 85. Familiar to many as a longtime radio commentator for UT football, as a student he was a quarterback with 23 touchdown passes and four letters; he also won letters in baseball in 1947 and 1948. He was inducted into the Varsity T Hall of Fame in 1986.Harry F. Young PhD (A/S ’46), Reston, Va., March 30 at 84.**Virginia B. (Cone) Cleary, Los Alamos, N.M., att. 1948-1951, Jan. 30 at 79. Frana R. (Romp) McQuillin (A/S ’48), Elyria, Ohio, March 16 at 82. Peppers member, president of Pi Gamma Mu.

1950s*Philip B. Barger Sr. (Bus ’50), Toledo, March 13 at 84.David J. Damas PhD (A/S ’50), Burlington, Ontario, April 14 at 83. Tadeusz “Ted” Kozlowski (Eng ’50), Toledo, May 2 at 87. Ernest J. (Pietrykowski) Peters (Bus ’50), Toledo, March 11 at 83.**Leon Suber (Eng ’50), Worthington, Ohio, May 25 at 87.Robert H. Vorhees, Sylvania, att. 1950s, April 23 at 83. *Phyllis J. (Dale) Brewer (Ed ’51), Toledo, April 14 at 80.

Rev. Jack E. Henshaw (A/S ’51), Glasgow, Ky., March 27 at 82. Arthur “Jibby” Jibilian (Bus ’51), Fremont, March 21 at 86. His profile in the Winter 2008 issue of Toledo Alumni Magazine focused on his experiences as a member of the OSS team that rescued more than 500 U.S. pilots during WWII.James H. Smith (Ed ’51), Fayette, Ohio, June 4 at 85. H. Griffin “Griff” Watkins (A/S ’51), Toledo, May 19 at 81. Collegian staffer while at UT. Paul E. Proudfoot (Eng ’52), Toledo, March 25 at 80. Shirley J. (Stuart) Carroll (Ed ’53, MEd ’82), Whitehouse, June 23 at 78. Felix Leruth (Eng ’53), Toledo, April 9 at 83.**Albert Y. Sing (Ed ’53, MEd ’59), Royal Oak, Mich., April 8 at 82.Warren H. Tollefsrud (Eng ’53), Toledo, May 30 at 89.**Paul E. DeSalvo (Eng ’55), Worcester, Mass., May 23 at 81. Jean P. Binkley (Ed ’56), Bradenton, Fla., March 14 at 75. Floyd D. “Don” Henry (Ed ’56), Carlsbad, Calif., March 6 at 80. Sigma Alpha Epsilon member.James V. Halteman (Ed ’57), Lake Havasu City, Ariz., Feb. 26 at 75.John L. Twells (Bus ’57), Huron, Ohio, May 20 at 76. Tau Kappa Epsilon member.John C. Guyon PhD (MS ’58), Carbondale, Ill., March 17 at 78. **Joseph P. Hanley II (Bus ’58), Toledo, April 6 at 77. Lettered in football 1952-1953. Varsity T Club member, Alumni Association trustee 1988-1990.Gussie L. Hawkins (Ed ’58, MEd ’72), Toledo, May 4 at 74. Delta Sigma Theta, Phi Delta Kappa member. James M. Ruddock (Pharm ’58), Catawba Island, Ohio, March 6 at 74. Kappa Psi, Rho Chi, Blue Key member. Ira Burton Spice (Bus ’58, MBA ’71), Temperance, Mich., May 17 at 79.**William H. Shapiro MD (A/S ’59), Rutherfordton, N.C., May 20 at 73.

1960sWalter P. Draheim (Ed ’60), Maumee, March 18 at 80.Robert E. Momsen (MEd ’60), Toledo, May 25 at 80. Charles D. Yerkes (Eng ’60, MEng ’64), Temperance, Mich., May 12 at 78.Carol (Shupp) Sebold (Ed ’61), Camden, Maine, June 7 at 71.*John M. Tighe (Bus ’61), Perrysburg, June 14 at 74. Willard F. Pelger (MEd ’64), Toledo, May 15 at 81.Dennis M. Marsh, Oregon, att. 1965-1968, June 22 at 62. Theodore S. Sautter (A/S ’65), Toledo, May 1 at 67.

Ross D. Patton, Holland, att. 1966-1969, April 11 at 62.Magdalene R. (Hecklinger) Fischhaber, Oregon, att. 1967-1973, March 25 at 82. Alex J. Katafiasz, Toledo, att. 1967-1969, May 5 at 61. **Robert E. Maley Jr. (A/S ’67), Toledo, May 21 at 64. Phi Kappa Psi member. Ruth A. (Jeffery) Oviatt (Ed ’67), Kent, Ohio, May 4 at 87. Margaret (Lyons) Reiter (Ed ’67), Galion, Ohio, April 12 at 90.Ruby T. Peoples (MEd ’68), Toledo, April 27 at 89. Alpha Kappa Alpha member.George J. Ball (Ed ’69), Oregon, May 14 at 72. Kappa Delta president. Arlene L. Baird (Ed ’69), Toledo, April 1 at 73.Jimmy D. Hauser (Ed ’69), Huron, Ohio, May 23 at 64.

1970sLinda D. (Shepard) Engwert (Ed ’70), Toledo, June 7 at 61. Andrew J. Kundrath (UTCTC ’70), Rossford, April 15 at 62.*Robert L. Mooney (MBA ’70), Seminole, Fla., July 24, 2009 at 86. Myrtle J. (Leffel) Voyles (Ed ’70), Toledo, May 22 at 84. Pi Lambda Theta member. Geraldine “Gerie” (Curl) Knauss (MEd ’71), Bowling Green, April 22 at 87. Don J. Martin Jr. (Bus ’71), Toledo, March 18 at 62. Stephen A. Dubendorfer (Ed ’72), Land O’ Lakes, Fla., June 13 at 60. Ronald A. Kazmierski (UTCTC ’72), Toledo, March 31 at 78.Linda (Shea) Rice, Novi, Mich., att. 1972-1974, June 7 at 56. Thomas F. Zachman (A/S ’73, Law ’79), Windsor, Colo., June 3 at 59. Mary E. (Anderson) Usher (Ed ’74), Hilliard, Ohio, April 15 at 58. Douglas N. Carney (Bus ’76), Whitehouse, April 14 at 56.Roland R. “Ron” Elwing (Eng ’76), Genoa, May 18 at 62. Part-time UT engineering technology instructor since 2006.Larry E. Funk (Univ Coll ’76), Galion, Ohio, March 29 at 59. Yvonne M. Johnson (MS ’77), Chesterfield, N.C., Feb. 20 at 62.James E. Goranson (Law ’78), Sylvania, June 22 at 58. Larry Kaczala (A/S ’78, Law ’83), Ottawa Hills, June 8 at 53. Charles Rohrs (Ed ’78), Toledo, May 26 at 62.

1980sKim Marie Hripko-Jacob PhD (A/S ’82, MEd ’83, Ed Spec ’85, PhD ’94), Liberty Twp., Ohio, May 13 at 49. UTCTC admission representative from 1985 to 1987.

Sandy (Korcsog) Schmollinger (UTCTC ’82, Univ Coll ’86), Toledo, April 27 at 55.Donald A. Brower Sr. (Bus ’83), Maumee, May 13 at 53.Wyndolyn L. Snell (Bus ’83), Toledo, May 20 at 49. Jeanne H. Hoffmaster (Univ Coll ’84), Holland, April 24 at 69. Glenn Carpenter (Univ Coll ’85), Lambertville, Mich., April 26 at 62.Jeffrey M. Dreier (UTCTC ’85, Eng ’86), Oregon, June 1 at 46. Donald J. Dreps DDS (A/S ’85), Swanton, April 4 at 59.Ted J. Kranz (UTCTC ’85), Millbury, Ohio, June 6 at 46. Sharon R. (Stretchbery) Lestage (MEd ’85), Perrysburg, April 27 at 73.Harry M. Humeniuk MD (MED ’86), May 11 at 52.Janice L. (Emmick) Baden (Ed ’88, MEd ’90), Rossford, June 14 at 64. *Jean “Lougene” (Stone) Brown (Ed ’88, MEd ’93), Toledo, May 26 at 65. John F. Frederick (Bus ’88), Toledo, May 24 at 52. Keith A. Keisser (Univ Coll ’89, Law ’93, MBA ’00), Toledo, May 3 at 54.Charles E. Moss Sr. (UTCTC ’89, Univ Coll ’92), Toledo, May 17 at 55.

1990sJohn E. “Jack” Perkins Jr. (UTCTC ’90, Ed ’93), Toledo, April 1 at 59. Interim coordinator in UT Affirmative Action Office from 1994 to 1996.**Kenneth J. Herwat (Bus ’91), Toledo, May 3 at 82. Also attended 1946-1950. Marilyn S. (Cooley) Flessner (Ed ’92), Troy, Ohio, May 19 at 60. Christine (Kloesen) Ball (UTCTC ’93), Fredericktown, Ohio, May 9 at 40. Debbika (Roy) Wilson (A/S ’94), Greensboro, N.C., March 3 at 39.Mary A. (DeFriece) Walters (UTCTC ’95), Millbury, Ohio, June 6 at 36. Allison L. (Bugbee) Badgley (Ed ’97, MEd ’02), Oregon, May 19 at 35. Janzara L. (Keatley) Donnelly (UTCTC ’97, UTCTC ’97), Toledo, March 23 at 59.*Roy L. Bean (A/S ’98), Toledo, April 15 at 60.Mattie N. Lincoln (AHHS ’99, HHS ’02), Toledo, June 21 at 36.

2000sCraig M. Modrowski (Univ CollA ’02), Toledo, March 23 at 32.Rebecca L. Zibbel (MBA ’05), Toledo, May 5 at 32.Steven G. Guerrero (A/S ’07), Toledo, May 15 at 28. Michelle M. (Nau) Novelli (ABM ’08), Wooster, Ohio, Jan. 8 at 48.


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Faculty, Staff & FriendsRane Ramón Arroyo PhD, professor of English, May 7 at 55. He joined UT in 1997, teaching creative writing and literature. The author of 10 poetry books, seven published plays and a book of short stories, Arroyo’s writing awards included the John Ciardi Poetry Prize, the Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Named in May as a UT Distinguished University Professor, he also served on the board of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.Rita M. Blaine, Toledo, June 9 at 88. From 1968 to her 1982 retirement, she was clerk stenographer and secretary, in the offices of Faculty Senate and Planning. James L. Brown, Scottsville, Va., first president of Solar Cells Inc. (later First Solar Inc.), April 16 at 80. A member of the President Club, he served on the UT Foundation board of trustees from 1990 to 1996, holding the title of vice chair from 1993 to 1995. He was named to the emeritus board in 2002. In 1992, the College of Business Administration honored him with its Pacemaker Award. Thomas H. Brown Jr. MD, Napoleon, clinical professor of orthopedic surgery who helped originate the Orthopedic Residency Program, March 17 at 88. His first volunteer faculty appointment was in 1969 as a clinical associate in orthopedics in the MCO Department of Surgery. He was later promoted to clinical assistant professor, then clinical professor in 1996, also serving as UT team physician for many years.Enedina Delgado, Toledo, MCO housekeeping worker from 1978 to 1994, March 15 at 79.Gloria A. (Dzingleski) Dittmer, Toledo, MCO custodial worker from 1970 to 2005, June 9 at 83.Rao V. Dukkipati PhD, Mechanicsburg, Pa., visiting associate professor of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering in 1997, Feb. 11 at 65.Barbara L. Fuller, Maumee, MCO health unit coordinator from 1980 to 1995, June 9 at 71. William E. Gumenik PhD, Coconut Creek, Fla., who retired as professor emeritus of psychology in 1988, April 16 at 77. He joined UT in 1963 as assistant professor of psychology, was promoted to professor in 1970 and named emeritus at his retirement. A Faculty Senate member, he created the basic undergraduate experimental psychology lab course, closely participating in the development of

the undergraduate research training program. Elaine L. (Kuhman) Johnson, Sylvania, a longtime secretary to the dean in the College of Law, May 15 at 90. Promoted to office manager in 1967, she retired in 1978.Jan A. (Adams) Kistler, Toledo, former MCO medical technologist, June 10 at 74.Robert Livengood, Traverse City, Mich., on the MCO faculty from 1980 to 1989, March 30 at 71. Associate professor and director of the Physical Therapy Program, he briefly served as acting dean of the College of Allied Health. When he left MCO, he was that college’s associate dean for administration. In 1992, a scholarship in his name was established for physical therapy students.Ann W. Locher RN (A/S ’77, NRSG ’95), Sylvania, clinical nurse specialist who coordinated the Ryan White Program at UTMC since it was first funded in 2000, June 6 at 58. An AIDS-certified RN, she opened northwest Ohio’s first grant-funded HIV testing clinic in 1985. She was nationally recognized for her work in HIV education and treatment, also receiving the Outstanding Alumna Award for Distinguished Service from the UT nursing alumni affiliate in 2008. Agnes (Neumann) Metzger, Toledo, May 7 at 93. She joined UT in 1957 as an addressograph operator in the Alumni and Placement Office, later becoming a supervisor. She retired in 1978. Phyllis A. Mothershed, Toledo, MCO clerical specialist in Intensive Cardiac Care from 1967 until her 1997 retirement, April 10 at 66.Helen L. (Growsky) Perkins, MCO food service worker from 1989 to 1999, April 9 at 71.John “Jack” Tansey MD, Ottawa Hills, att. 1938-1939, clinical assistant professor in MCO Department of Pediatrics from 1970 to 1991, April 24 at 89. Richard S. Thatcher, Oregon, UT health and safety coordinator from 1987 until his 2008 retirement, April 22 at 66. * Member of the UT Alumni Association** Lifetime member

the christmas tv companion(1701 Press, 2009) Joanna Wilson (A/S ’90, MA ’92)

Oh what fun it is to read about cult TV Christmas classics! While visions of Charlie Brown’s forlorn tree and Rudy lighting the way dance in your head, Wilson offers alternative holiday viewing options — emphasis on “alternative.” The 146-page book wraps up and presents some of the craziest, creepiest and cheesiest Yuletide specials, shows

and movies of the small screen. From Santa wannabes that ride in a hog-drawn sleigh or gun down the naughty to three ghostly pizzas that visit Sonny Bono a la A Christmas Carol, ’tis the season to read about TV to make spirits bright, conjure up a fright or keep you laughing all the way through the holidays.

— Vicki L. Kroll

a rough ride to redemption: the Ben Daniels story

(University of Oklahoma Press, 2010)Robert K. DeArment (A/S ‘52) and Jack DeMattos

When it comes to the famous characters of the Wild West, Ben Daniels doesn’t come to mind. He should, say the authors, experts in the history of that place and time, west of the Mississippi between the end of the Civil War and the start of World War I.

Daniels embodied its spirit of adventure, independence and occasional lawlessness. He stole government mules, fatally shot a man in the back and spent time in a Wyoming penitentiary. He later became a lawman, for a time even in charge of a prison. Daniels also distinguished himself in battle with Teddy Roosevelt’s famous Rough Riders regiment. TR was impressed and for the rest of his life helped advance Daniels’ law-enforcement career. A treat for serious Old West fans. [DeArment’s Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West Vol. 3 also was published by UO this year.]

— Dennis Bova

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