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SPRING 2003

The Magazine of Wright State University

VOLUME VIII NO. 2

Raising the Barfor Teaching Excellence

F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T ’ S D E S K

Managing EditorDenise Thomas-Hoskins,Associate Director of Publications,Office of Communications andMarketing

EditorConnie Steele,Office of Communications andMarketing

Photo EditorStephanie James Ely,Office of Communications and Marketing

DesignTheresa Almond,Office of Communications and Marketing

AlumNotesMindy Homan,Office of Communications and Marketing

Contributing WritersJohn Bennett, Stephanie James Ely,Bob Noss, Jordis Ruhl, Connie Steele,Jennifer Wilder

Contributing PhotographersRoberta Bowers, Dan Dickson,Jim Gilmore, Greg Glass, Clark Jones,Deb Leclere, Michael Leschisin,Chris Snyder, Jim Witmer,Stephen Wright

Community is published two times ayear by the Office of Communicationsand Marketing, Division of UniversityAdvancement, with the support of theWSU Alumni Association. Distributionis to Wright State alumni, faculty, staff,and friends of the university. Submitinformation, comments, and letters toCommunity editor, Office of Communi-cations and Marketing, Wright StateUniversity, Dayton, OH 45435-0001 ore-mail [email protected]

On the cover:Wright State teacher intern, RomenaGarrett, in her Xenia High Schoolbiology class.

Spring 2003VOLUME VIII NO. 2

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President, Wright State University�

ON THE WEB www.wright.edu/

President JohnKennedy oncesaid, “Ourprogress as anation can be noswifter than ourprogress ineducation…Thehuman mind isour fundamentalresource.”

In theclassroom, teachers are the single most important factor in equippingyoung people to achieve their potential, to succeed in college, and tohave the skills and knowledge to shape a secure future for us all.

As demonstrated in the cover story of this issue of Community,Wright State University is breaking new ground in preparing teachersto succeed in this vital role.

For example, as a leader in the education of tomorrow’s teachers,Wright State was one of only three universities in the state chosen toestablish the Ohio Board of Regents’ Ohio Teaching-LearningInitiative. Wright State is sharing its innovative teaching methodswith the nearly 50 other institutions that prepare teachers in Ohio.

Even before the College of Education and Human Servicesrevamped its teacher preparation program to prepare graduates fornew licensure standards, education alumni were making an impact.Three times, WSU graduates have been honored as Ohio Teacher ofthe Year; another teacher received a White House Award forExcellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

This issue also highlights alumni who are making their mark inother areas, as evidenced by our 2003 Outstanding Alumni Awardsand the Alumni Association’s Achievement Awards.

The Wright State story is told through its programs of excellenceand outstanding alumni. I invite you to read the following pages andsee for yourself how they work together to improve the humancondition.

D E P A R T M E N T S

C O V E R S T O R Y

INSIDE

F E A T U R E S

6 RAISING THE BAR FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE

The College of Education and Human Services graduated the first class from its newly revampedteacher licensure program this June. Wright State’s program to meet Ohio’s new, tougherstandards for teachers has produced a crop of highly sought-after new teachers.

2 UNIVERSITY NEWS

20 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS

22 2003 OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARDS

26 ALUMNOTES

30 ATHLETICS

10 ARTS & LETTERS DAILY

As managing editor of the internationally esteemed Web site Arts & Letters Daily, Tran HuuDung is true to the site’s motto: Veritas odit moras, “truth hates delay.”

11 MATTERS OF THE HEART

Associate professor of nursing Kristine Scordo teaches women how to take control of the rangeof symptoms that accompany mitral valve prolapse syndrome.

12 WHAT WE WANT AND WHY WE WANT IT

Philosophy professor William Irvine investigates desire’s role in the human experience.

13 UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF THE HUMAN GENOME

Wright State University and five collaborative partners have been awarded $9 million by theOhio Biomedical Research and Technology Transfer Commission.

14 TAPPING TECHNOLOGY’S FUTURE TO EXPLORE THE PAST

Marjorie McLellan, associate professor of history and director for Wright State’s public historyprogram, is investigating how the Internet can transform the way history is experienced and taught.

16 THE GREEN MENACE

Wayne Carmichael, professor of aquatic biology/toxicology, testified before the House ScienceSubcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards on the threat that harmful algalblooms pose to Lake Erie.

18 TOMORROW TAKES FLIGHT: THE CAMPAIGN FOR WSUProfiles, stories, and updates about Wright State’s most ambitious public fundraising campaignsince its founding.

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U N I V E R S I T Y N E W S

From Invention to Marketplace

Gasper NamedExecutive in ResidenceThe Raj Soin College of Business is

hosting WSU alumnus David Gasper (’78B.S.B.), founder and chairman of the boardof Gasper Corporation, to serve asexecutive in residence. In this post, Gasperteaches an MBA course, critiques papersand presentations prepared by MBAstudents, meets with undergraduatebusiness students, and helps identify areacompanies that may benefit from researchand services offered by the Soin College ofBusiness.

Gasper began his career as a softwaredeveloper at NCR Corp. With a $500investment, he later started GasperCorporation, which today providesbusiness automation software that drivesmore than 20 percent of Automated TellerMachines around the world. In 1999, NCRpurchased the company as a wholly ownedsubsidiary.

Model UN Students Maintain Winning Record

Wright State University faculty, staff,and students presented their latest researchefforts to an audience of regional businessand government representatives during“From Invention to Market 2003” in May.Along with showcasing university researchin DNA software analysis, gene expression,brain research, information security,medical imaging, bone density analysis,metal forming, and others, the event alsooffered informational seminars addressingkey issues in the technology commercializa-tion process, including licensing andentrepreneurship.

The aim of the technology showcase was

to increase the visibility of WSU researchamong the Ohio business and economicdevelopment communities. Also featuredwere a series of seminars dedicated totechnology commercialization and entrepre-neurship. The unique seminar componentincluded such topics as an overview ofpatents, trademarks, copyrights, and tradesecrets; an introduction to the technologytransfer and licensing process; communica-tion management and intellectual capital; thefederal patent system; and resources forsmall business development.

The showcase was sponsored by WrightState’s Office of Technology Transfer.

For the 24th consecutive year, WrightState University students earned awardsduring the National Model UN Conferenceheld in New York City in April. WrightState was one of only three universities toreceive four top awards during theconference. Nearly 3,000 students repre-senting 181 colleges and universities from14 different nations participated in asimulation of the U.N.’s committees andagencies.

Wright State students representingNorway received Distinguished Delegationand Outstanding Position Paper awards.

Students representing the International Savethe Children Alliance also earned anOutstanding Position Paper award, alongwith an Honorable Mention award for thedelegation.

WSU President and Mrs. KimGoldenberg again traveled to New York Cityto meet with and encourage the teammembers. Faculty advisors for the team areDonna Schlagheck, professor and chair of theDepartment of Political Science, and LauraLuerhmann, assistant professor of politicalscience.

President and Mrs. Goldenberg met with members of WSU’s Model UN team in New York City to offer words ofpraise and encouragement.

David Gasper

Lake CampusExcellence Award

The Association of Career and Techni-cal Education (ACTE) named the OfficeInformation Systems program at the LakeCampus as the 2002 recipient of theNational Programs of Excellence inBusiness Education Award.

The campus has had over 200 nationalwinners in the ACTE competitions. In fourout of six years, a Lake Campus student hasbeen awarded the National Post-SecondaryBusiness Student of the Year, and ACTEmembers have held a number of state andnational offices

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SuccessThe annual ArtsGala event attracted more than 400 visitors and raised $105,000 for

need-based WSU arts scholarships for area students. WSU theatre, music, and art studentsdisplayed their talents, with the Dayton Daily News reporting, “The Creative Arts Center wasbursting with energy, talent, creativity, and fun.” Major sponsors included Wright-Patt CreditUnion, Morris Home Furnishings, Dayton Daily News, WHIO-TV, and Meijer.

Earns “All-American” Ranking

The Guardian, Wright StateUniversity’s weekly student newspaper,earned the “All-American” ranking, thehighest rating possible from the NationalAssociated Collegiate Press (ACP). This isthe 10th time in the last 12 years that theGuardian has earned this ranking.

A sample of Guardian issues from the2001–2002 academic year earned “mark ofdistinction” ratings in coverage and content,photography and graphics, layout anddesign, and leadership.

The Guardian was commended for itsbroad coverage of campus news, newsjudgment, arts reporting, and design. Editorfor the 2001–2002 issues of the Guardianwas Alf Butler. The faculty mentor for theGuardian is Jeffrey Alan John, associateprofessor of communication.

New Family NursePractitioner Program:

Online, AnytimeWright State is meeting the region’s

need for specialized nurses with advancededucation by offering its Family NursePractitioner Program online for the firsttime this fall.

Beginning this September, WSU willoffer an innovative Web-based program,funded through a grant from the UnitedStates Department of Health and HumanServices, Bureau of Health Professions,for nurses pursuing either a first orsecond master’s degree as a family nursepractitioner.

“By adding the flexible online option toour selection of traditional course offer-ings, Wright State meets the unique needsof those R.N.’s on the front lines whoalready have time commitments,” saidMargaret Clark Graham, professor ofnursing and director of the Family NursePractitioner Program.“And our instructors work closely withtheir students to locate clinical sites closeto home.”

For more information about WSU’sonline Family Nurses Practitioner program,contact Graham at (937) 775-3194 or go towww.nursing.wright.edu/newstudents.


A R O U N D T H E Q U A D


University Art Galleries’ spring exhibit of early flyingmachines by French artist Jacques Henri Lartigue was onloan from the Association des Amis de Jacques HenriLartigue, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication,Paris.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair ofAfro-American Studies at Harvard

University and director of the W.E.B.DuBois Institute for Afro-American

Studies, spoke during the university’scelebration of the life and legacy of

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

19th Annual International Friendship Affair hosted students from 70countries who shared their culture and traditions with the campus and Dayton

community. WSU President Kim Goldenberg and wife, Shelley, joinedstudents in the celebration.

Millett Hall Reconnect, a celebration and reunion held in February, brought together alumni,faculty, staff, and friends of the College of Liberal Arts to showcase the renovation of the building.

Highlighting the two-story atrium is fiber-optic lighting and the mobile sculpture Round Dance.

WSU’s Dance Ensemble’sannual spring production.

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Hopkins Named ProvostWright State University named David

R. Hopkins, provost, effective July 1.Hopkins is replacing Perry Moore, whowas promoted to senior vice president inOctober 2002.

Hopkins comes toWSU from Indiana StateUniversity, where heserved as senior associatevice president foracademic affairs. He alsohad served as interimdean of the School ofBusiness, where he ledthe development of a proposal thatgarnered $20 million from the LillyEndowment.

“Dr. Hopkins is highly regarded as ateacher, scholar, and academic leader,”said Kim Goldenberg, Wright Statepresident. “He had the overwhelmingsupport of the search committee, whichincluded leadership from the Board ofTrustees, deans, faculty senate, AAUP,staff advisory councils, and studentgovernment.”

As provost, Hopkins will reportdirectly to the president in overseeing andguiding the university’s academic schoolsand colleges, and nationally fundedresearch centers and institutes. He willalso coordinate the university divisions inconsultation with the senior vice president.

Management Team TopsTwo teams of students from the Raj Soin

College of Business won top awards inOrlando in April at the 19th Annual NationalCase Competition sponsored by the Societyfor the Advancement of Management. Thegraduate student team finished first in thenation among 30 participating colleges anduniversities, and the undergraduate teamfinished second among 30 colleges anduniversities.

Teams were required to analyze a caseentitled, “Palm Computing, Inc., 2002: Howto Survive in the Crowded PDA Market.”They were required to determine a strategicvision; recommend steps to improve thecompany’s performance; and prepare astrategic plan for the next three to five years.

MBA ShowcaseStudents and faculty from Wright State

University’s Raj Soin College of Business,along with representatives from localbusinesses and nonprofit organizations,recognized projects completed by WrightState MBA students during the first MBAShowcase in April.

Student projects came from a variety ofMBA classes and academic departments.The projects assisted both large and smallcompanies and nonprofit organizations.Some of the projects included• A policy manual audit for Standard

Register’s human resources department,delivered in an electronic format to beuploaded to a Web site;

• An assessment of Miami Valley Hospitalfor the Malcolm Baldridge NationalQuality Award Criteria;

• A marketing plan and financial plan forWe Care Arts, a nonprofit organizationthat helps people with special needscreate art;

• Development of conflict managementtraining materials for human resourcesexecutives and training professionals atElder-Beerman Stores Corp., GasperCorporation, LexisNexis, and TheReynolds and Reynolds Company;

• Market research and a marketing plan forA&E Powder Coating of Springfield, todetermine if the company can marketpowder coated pails imported fromMexico.

NCR Partner■ NCR Corporation named the Raj Soin

College of Business as one of 17 partneruniversities from which the company willrecruit new employees with degrees inaccounting, finance, and managementscience and information systems. NCRchose the schools for the quality of theirprograms and for the company’s previoussuccess in recruiting and retaininggraduates. Other universities selected aspartners include Ohio State, Miami, Indiana,and Purdue.

Nursing Partnership■ The College of Nursing and Health received

one of 12 grants awarded by the OhioLearning Network to increase online nursingprograms. With its $221,000 grant, WSU willwork with Wilberforce University and CentralState University to develop 16 graduate-credit online courses leading to licensure asa registered nurse and/or a Master ofScience degree.

Prime Site Award■ The Ervin J. Nutter Center has been named

a 2002 Prime Site Award winner for the thirdyear in a row by Facilities & EventManagement magazine. The Nutter Centerreceived the award based on a variety offactors, including seating, customer service,quality of staff, convenience of location, andtechnological capabilities.

National Ranking■ For 2002, the School of Medicine ranked

20th in the nation in public health/preventivemedicine awards from the National Institutesfor Health. With over $4.6 million in NIHawards in this category, Wright State rankedahead of such schools as Ohio State,Stanford, and Georgetown.

International Participant■ Patricia Renick, associate professor of

teacher education, was one of 35 educatorsfrom around the world invited to participatein an international roundtable on inclusiveeducation held at Pembroke College inOxford, England. Renick presented onWright State’s innovative programs forstudents with disabilities to faculty membersfrom such universities as Michigan, PennState, California-Berkeley, and Harvard.

David R. Hopkins

N E W S O F N O T EAthletic Training Major

Wright State’s athletic training programgained approval as a full-fledged major bythe Ohio Board of Regents in April.

Housed in the College of Education andHuman Services, the program also can leadto licensure in both athletic training andteaching.

The program focuses on six areas:injury prevention; recognition, evaluationand assessment; immediate care; treat-ment, rehabilitation, and reconditioning;organization and administration; andprofessional development.

For more information about WrightState’s athletic training program, contactthe program’s director, Tony Ortiz, at(937) 775-3827.


B y C o n n i e S t e e l e

Revamped teachereducation programprepares grads tomeet Ohio’s newstandards forlicensurefor Teaching Excellence

RAISING THE BAR

The time: 9 o’clock on aFriday morning. Theplace: a biology lab atXenia High School.Romena Garrett, aWright State teacher

intern, walks among the groups ofstudents huddled over the preservedstarfish splayed out in dissectingtrays. The groups are in variousstages of peeling away the creature’stough outer layer to reveal thefeathery digestive glands and its

water vascular system that resemblesa plumber’s snake.

“Oh, this is a good one,” saysGarrett, holding up the underside of alarge specimen for the entire class tosee. “Look at how the stomachprotrudes from the mouth? It showshow a starfish digests its food.”

She’s been at the school since 6:30a.m., and like most days, she won’tleave until around 4:30 in the after-noon. In between, she’ll have guideda total of four classes through lab

dissection exercises, walked anotherclass through a review session for anupcoming test, and used two “free”periods to refine her lesson plans andtutor students.

“I’ve really valued her as a teammember,” says Pat Stanley, Xeniahigh school biology teacher andGarrett’s supervising teacher. “Shehas a vast knowledge of biology and agood rapport with the students…she’sreally challenged them. Romena’salways finding new ways to use the


Web and computers. The kids arereally tuned into that.”

For the past year, Garrett has beenenrolled in Wright State’s graduate-level Adolescent to Young Adultteacher education program. To do so,she’s had to juggle the demands offamily with student teaching andeducation classes at Wright State.

When she wraps up her finalweeks at Xenia High School in June,she’ll have a master’s degree, joiningover 50 others graduating from

WSU’s newly revamped teacherlicensure program. This inauguralclass is the culmination of a majorreworking of the college’s teacherpreparation program to meet Ohio’snew, tougher standards for teachers.

Liking Kids Is Not Enough“The accountability and standards

movement has changed the landscapeof teacher educa-tion,” said GregBernhardt, dean,College of Educa-tion and HumanServices. “Theemphasis is on ateacher’s knowledgeof the subject beingtaught. It’s said thatthe world’s knowl-edge base doublesevery 18 months.Therefore, a lot ofwhat a teacherstudies in college isout of date 10 yearslater. It’s a dualchallenge: keeping current withteaching practices and in the subjectyou teach. Today, liking kids is notenough to be an effective teacher.”

Setting higher standards promptedOhio to adopt the licensure model forteachers, starting in September 2002

when it stopped issuing teachingcertificates.

Under licensure, a greater empha-sis is placed on a teacher’s knowl-edge of the subject being taught. Toobtain a license, teacher candidatesmust pass additional and morerigorous tests than with the oldcertification credential. In fact, thetests are some of the toughest in thecountry. In order to renew a license,

practicing teachersmust also be as-sessed for contentknowledge andteaching practicesevery five years. Thenew credential alsorequires a morefocused and in-depthcontinuing educationplan completedevery five years anda master’s degree bythe end of their 10thyear of teaching.

Such changesprompted education

colleges across the state to overhaultheir programs. Wright State tookthe lead in 1998 by establishing aprofessional school model thatrequires students preparing to teachfourth through 12th grade to firstcomplete a bachelor’s degree inthe area he or she plans to teach.

“The classroom teacher is thesingle most important factor in

student achievement.” GregBernhardt, Dean, College of

Education and Human Services.

“It’s said that theworld’s knowledgebase doubles every18 months. There-fore, a lot of what ateacher studies incollege is out of date10 years later.”

Wright State teacher intern, Romena Garrett, in herXenia High School biology class.

Greg Bernhardt, Dean


Actual teaching knowledge is gainedat the graduate level. This comesfrom both education classes at WrightState and an intensive field experi-ence which puts students in theclassroom starting that first week.Much of the year is spent at oneschool, working with one teacherand the same students.

“I wouldn’t have wanted it anyother way,” says Garrett, who firstearned a bachelor’s degree in biology.“To be the most helpful to mystudents, I wanted to first be firmlyrooted in science, especially if I wasgoing to teach high school students.They can come up with some toughquestions and I didn’t want to say,‘I’ll have to get back to you on that.’I was confident that the master’sprogram would give me the skills Ineeded to convey that knowledge inan interesting way.”

A Model for Higher StandardsOhio Governor Bob Taft recog-

nized Wright State’s lead in preparingteachers for the next century: In 2000,he tapped WSU as one of only threeuniversities in the state to helpestablish the Ohio Board of Regents’Ohio Teaching-Learning Initia-tive. As a result,Wright State willshare its innova-tive teachingmethods with thenearly 50 otherinstitutions thatprepare teachers inOhio.

Higher stan-dards in theclassroom beginsin the educationcollege itself, explains Steve Hansell,chair of the Department of TeacherEducation. “Our education students

have some of the highest grade pointaverages in the university. Theaverage undergraduate GPA of astudent admitted to our program was3.09 for the 2001–2002 year, and theaverage graduate GPA was 3.14.”

Under the new state mandates,universities are“graded” on howwell their gradu-ates perform onsubject area andteaching pedagogytests, with resultspublished annuallyin an institutional“report card.”Teacher prepara-tion programswhose graduatesdo not “make thegrade” will be

placed on probation and, if noimprovement is evident, state ap-proval will be withdrawn. Since the

“They can comeup with some

tough questionsand I didn’t wantto say, ‘I’ll have

to get back to youon that.’ ”

“Oh, this is a good one,” says Garrett, holding up the starfish for the entire class to see. Garrett often puts in 10-hour days in the classroom.

Romena Garrett


mandate was first instituted, WrightState grads have consistently met andin most cases exceeded the state ofOhio’s performance assessmentcriteria.

First to HireAccording to Hansell, the new

standards have made Wright Stategrads highly sought after by schooldistricts.

“Our graduates tend to be hiredbefore others because they come intothe classroom with a year’s classroomteaching experience. Plus, theyalready have the master’s degree.”

Indeed, even before she graduated,Garrett had a job lined up for this fall:in April, she received a job offer toteach science at Fairborn HighSchool.

“In my 28 or 29 years working inadministration, she was the most wellprepared I’ve ever seen for aninterview,” said Ron McDermott,Fairborn High School assistant

principal. “Herknowledge ofteacher practicesand use of technol-ogy, her student-oriented approachto instruction…youcould tell that sheput a lot of effort inplanning at Xenia,even though shewas just a studentintern. We felt wehad to make anoffer beforesomeone else snatched her up. She’sgoing to be a wonderful addition toour science department.”

“A Good Teacher”In fact, taking a fun approach to

learning is what Xenia freshmanAaron McKenzie likes aboutGarrett’s teaching style. “She’s agood teacher. She makes thingsinteresting.” He cites a demonstration

in which Garrettused Tupperwarebowls to showhow living thingsare classified.

“Each one fitinside of a biggerone. Like theanimal kingdom.It made it easierto understandand easier toremember.”

Tougherstandards for

teachers benefits everyone, saysBernhardt. “Reforming teachereducation will reform public schoolsand produce higher-performinggraduates. That translates into higher-quality college students, which inturn means more highly skilledworkers. Our success in the nextcentury depends on the teacher inthe classroom.”

“Our graduates tendto be hired before

others because theycome into the class-room with a year’s

classroom teachingexperience.”

Garrett finds new ways to use the Web and the computer to make biology more interesting to her students.

Steve Hansell, Chair,Teacher Education


If you’ve ever read an articleon the Web that piquedyour interest so much thatyou forwarded it to some-one with similar taste, youcan understand some of

Tran Huu Dung’s motivation.Dung, associate professor of

economics, wakes each morningbefore 5 a.m. and makes his waydown to the basement of his River-side home, where he filters throughthe first editions of America’s topnewspapers on the Internet, lookingfor the quirky, the surprising, themost stimulating, and thought-provoking stories.

Managing editor of Arts &Letters Daily, the internationallyesteemed Web site purchasedrecently by The Chronicle of HigherEducation, Dung is true to the site’s

motto: Veritas odit moras, “truthhates delay.” By the time he standsbefore his first class of the day atWright State, his terse summaries ofthe day’s well-chosen articles areuploaded, linked, and waiting for themore than 60,000 readers that accesswww.aldaily.com from around theworld each day.

A Thinking Person’s Web SiteAs gray as a foggy morning, Arts

& Letters Daily can also be as daunt-ing to wade through. Sixty percent ofthe site’s readership, according toDung, are Ph.D.’s, and the site has areputation for being the thinkingperson’s Web site.

Scroll far enough down the pageand you’ll find a link to a “Dilbert”cartoon, but the majority of the copy-heavy page is crammed with links to

articles, reviews, and editorials fromthe far left, right, and everything inbetween. With links to 20 newspa-pers, 78 journals and magazines, 31book reviews, and 58 columnists,Arts & Letters Daily is a time-savingfilter to the best of the Internet.

“A Pithy Summary”Dung and his editor, Denis

Dutton, a philosophy professor at theUniversity of Canterbury inChristchurch, New Zealand, whobegan the site in 1998, volley e-mails back and forth numerous timeseach day before they settle on thethree—or six, if it’s a weekend orMonday—new items that will go upon the day’s page with their signa-ture, pithy summary.

“The nicest accolade we’vereceived,” said Dung, “was from theNew York Times, which called ourpage ‘the must-read of the globalintelligentsia.’”

An engineer by training and awriter with a keen interest in litera-ture by avocation, Dung the econo-mist also manages Web sites de-signed for students and faculty ofeconomics. Both his site offeringnews and reports on internationaleconomics, www.wright.edu/~tdung/traderead.htm, and his sitelinking readings in economics formanagers, www.wright.edu/~tdung/manageread.htm, have becomepopular hits at colleges and universi-ties across the United States and inGreece, Chile, Hong Kong, andSingapore.

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THE QUIRKY, THE SURPRISING, THE THOUGHT PROVOKING

PROFESSOR IS WEB SITE MANAGING EDITOR

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MATTERS HEARTASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF NURSING TEACHES WOMEN TO TAKE CONTROL

Most Common Symptoms

of MVPS:

■ Chest Pain■ Fatigue■ Palpitations, Extra Heart Beats, Forceful

Heart Beats, Pounding Heart, HeartFlutter

■ Lightheadedness, Dizziness■ Shortness of Breath■ Anxiety and/or Panic Attacks■ Headaches

Controlling MVPS:

■ Avoid caffeine or other stimulantdrugs. This includes drugs that containepinephrine or ephedrine.

■ Avoid sugar. Highly sugary foods suchas candy bars, pastries, and doughnutstend to worsen MVPS symptoms,especially when eaten on an emptystomach.

■ Avoid foods that contain amines andnitrates. These include chocolate, agedcheese, citrus fruit, and alcoholicbeverages, especially beer and wine.

■ Increase intake of magnesium.Studies show that magnesium defi-ciency may play a role in MVPSsymptoms.

■ Stay well hydrated. Scordo recom-mends a daily minimum of eight 8-oz.glasses of water.

■ Avoid crash or fad diets. These canworsen MVPS symptoms.

■ Increase level of exercise.

These are the types of complaints that Kristine Scordo has been listening to for years. They come primarily

from young women who soon realize they aren’t having aheart attack, they don’t have a disease, and they aren’t crazy.What they do have is a constellation of symptoms with aname—Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome (MVPS).

Many people have been diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse. This is theoften-inherited condition in which the mitral valve in the heart buckles back intothe left atrium during the heart’s contraction. A physician might call it a heartmurmur or a click.

But much less understood is the intense range of symptoms that can accom-pany this condition. And that’s where Scordo comes in.

An associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health, Scordo is thedirector of Wright State’s Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, and also isthe author of Taking Control: Living with Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome.Thanks to a two-year, $143,000 grant from the Department of Health andHuman Services, National Institute of Nursing Research, Scordo continues tostudy MVPS.

“Our research has shown that MVPS symptoms can be controlled verysuccessfully through moderate changes in diet and activity,” says Scordo. “Butthe biggest challenge is just getting the word out.”

Many with MVPS have endured one misdiagnosis after another, and areoften labeled with hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), chronic fatigue syndrome,or even multiple sclerosis. Those correctly diagnosed with mitral valve prolapseare mostly told by their doctors, “It’s nothing to worry about.” But incapacitat-ing symptoms keep sufferers searching for an answer.

“So many women who have this are treated like second-class citizens,” saysScordo. “Now we know how to take control and feel better.”

For more information about Scordo’s research or how to purchase TakingControl: Living with the Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome, visit her Web site at:www.nursing.wright.edu/practice/mvp/mvppage.htm

“My heart would race, I couldn’t catchmy breath, and my chest would hurt – I wasconvinced I was having a heart attack!”

“Why am I so intensely tired all the time?”

“Whenever I was stressed out, I’d have theseterrible panic attacks.”

“My doctor kept insisting it was all in myhead.”

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Kristine Scordo


When philosophyprofessor WilliamIrvine told an

acquaintance that he was writinga book about desire, she asked,“Oh, is it a romance novel?”

Such narrow views of thesubject don’t surprise him. Infact, it’s what spurred a two-yearresearch project on desire,investigating its various formsand manifestations—fromromantic desire to the desire forwealth, fame, immortality, social status, power, and eventhe will to live. He has looked at how cultures and reli-gions deal with desire, its impact on society, and itsconnection to fulfillment and happiness.

Irvine explored the topic with students in a winter classhe taught entitled Desire, a Philosophical Investigation.

“Desire animates the world,” he says. “Falling in love isone of the most powerful human emotions. It’s a perfectexample of how a desire can arise without our will orconscious thought. We don’t reason our way into love, andwe typically can’t reason our way out. Our intellectualweapons stop working.”

Besides examining what philosophers through the ageshave said about desire, he looked into what variousreligious traditions have said about the topic—fromBuddhists, Taoists, Catholics, and Hindus to the Amishand Sufi mystics. “In the end, all religions address theproblem of controlling desire,” he concludes. His study ledto other disciplines: he researched what neurologists havediscovered about the chemical processes in the brain thatstimulate desire. And he drew on theories of evolutionarypsychologists who say we are “hard wired” to have certaindesires.

While it might seem that Irvine’s research falls moreunder the realm of psychology, he says it’s actually a wayto put a modern spin on the study of stoicism, a branch of


philosophy that says achievingtranquility is one’s highestcalling and the only way to truehappiness. But in order to dothis, one must take control of hisor her desires.

“The usual view of philoso-phy is that it doesn’t connect upwith real life. I wanted to take atopic and show how it connectswith the everyday lives ofpeople.”

In his course on desire, Irvinestrives to make his students aware of the forces that seek tomanipulate our desires: from advertisers who create anappetite to consume to politicians who create a desire forpolitical change by stirring up dissatisfaction amongvoters.

Also generating much discussion was the topic ofinsatiability.

“Desire begets desire. Certain desires served us wellwhen we were living on the plains in Africa 20,000 yearsago,” he explained. “For example, when you came across afat source, you ate all you could because you didn’t knowif you’d be eating caterpillars for the next six weeks.”

Or, he says, those not content with the status quo—whowere always seeking out better hunting grounds, forexample—would be more likely to survive.

“But today, we can fulfill many of our desires. Look atour material desires, they seem to be boundless. A goodexample is the increase in bankruptcies in our country.

“Part of what it is to be civilized is to fightevolutionary’s hard-wired urges,” he says, “to realize thatto give in to some urges won’t make for a happy life formodern times. For the 21st century, the key to happiness isto learn to appreciate what you have.”

Editor’s Note: Irvine’s most recent book, whose working title is Desire:What We Want and Why We Want It, is in the final stages of editing.

& Why We Want ItWhat We Want

WRIGHT STATE PROFESSOR INVESTIGATES DESIRE’S ROLE IN THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

William Irvine


Now that the humangenome has beenmapped, the real workbegins. In the years

ahead, genome research promises tolead to breakthroughs in diseaseprevention and treatment, pharma-ceutical innovations, and tremendousadvances in community health.

In Ohio, much of that work willtake place among a group of partnerswho recently were awarded$9 million by the Ohio BiomedicalResearch and Technology Transfer(BRTT) Commission. The collabora-tive partners—Wright State Univer-sity; University of Cincinnati; theChildren’s Hospital ResearchFoundation (Cincinnati); Procter &Gamble Pharmaceuticals; Acero,Inc.; and the Air Force ResearchLaboratory at Wright-Patterson AirForce Base—will use this generousaward to develop core facilities at thepartners’ research centers, includingfunctional genomics and bio-informatics programs at WrightState.

A National CenterRobert E. Fyffe, co-principal

investigator on the award, servesWright State as the director of theCenter for Brain Research andassociate dean for research affairs inthe School of Medicine. He believesthis regional partnership, called theGenome Research InfrastructurePartnership (GRIP), will establishOhio as a national center for genomic

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research, while advancing WrightState’s research efforts as well.

“The BRTT award will have animmediate impact on Wright Stateresearchers,” says Fyffe. “It willenable us to continue to invest in corefacilities at Wright State that cancontribute significantly to the growthof the partnership. Those core facili-ties will also help faculty be morecompetitive with their individualresearch projects.”

A ComprehensiveInfrastructure

Creating that “comprehensiveresearch infrastructure” is the firstgoal of GRIP. Its other goals are touse the infrastructure to conduct basic,clinical, and pharmaceutical research;create an educational program in thegenome sciences; and generatecommercial products from the re-search.

Another important aspect of GRIPis the collaboration with researchinstitutions in both the public andprivate sectors. “Collaborations areimperative,” says Fyffe. “GRIP canpursue significant new researchdirections that no single partner couldmanage by itself.”

At Wright State, Fyffe’s ownresearch into the structures andfunctions of the brain and nervoussystem beautifully illustrates hiscommitment to collaboration. Hecurrently is working with Queen’sUniversity in Kingston, Ontario,Canada, to study traumatic spinal cord

injury. He’s working with the Austra-lian National University to analyzenerve cell structure and function andwith Emory University on a studyrelating to the effects of nervedamage on spinal neurons.

“All this collaboration adds to thetotal body of knowledge and mayhave relevance to a number ofdiseases,” says Fyffe. “Any therapeu-tic gain will come from a combina-tion of many people’s research. Thisis the essence of fundamental re-search—hoping your findings andinsights will be applicable to othersystems.”

Robert E. Fyffe


As Daytonians wereringing out the old onNew Year’s Eve in 1899,they were also ringing in

a new era of innovation and change,much of which was taking place rightin their hometown.

In just a few short years, two Daytonbrothers would introduce the world topowered flight; Charles Ketteringwould invent the electric starter; theNational Cash Register Companywould institute ground-breaking socialand welfare programs for its employ-ees; Dayton would introduce the citymanager form of government; and thecity’s flood prevention projects wouldcome to serve as a national model forpublic works.


Experiencing history: Wright State project investigates Internet’s potential

Today, it’s the Internet that ischanging the way people learn andcommunicate in the 21st century. Bytapping into Dayton’s past, MarjorieMcLellan, associate professor ofhistory and director for WSU’s publichistory program, is investigating howthe Internet can transform the wayhistory is experienced and taught.

Interacting With HistoryThe result is an interactive, Web-

based multimedia history exhibittitled “Making Progress: Living andWorking in Ohio’s Miami Valley,1890–1929.” McLellan said theexhibit will go online in stages,integrating stories and images

TO EXPLORE THE PASTFUTURETAPPING TECHNOLOGY’S

contributed via an online forum. Thefirst phase, or virtual gallery, of theexhibit, subtitled “The Good Life,”will be online later this summer andwill be accessed via the MontgomeryCounty Historical Society Web site:http: www.daytonhistory.org.

The project is funded through a$40,000 grant from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities(NEH) and matching support fromthe Montgomery County HistoricalSociety and Wright State’s Collegeof Liberal Arts, Special Collectionsand Archives, and Center for Teach-ing and Learning. The idea is to useonline forums, streaming video andaudio, and other innovative multime-dia technologies to explore the

Images below are from the NCR Archives at the Montgomery County Historical Society


Miami Valley during a pivotal time inhistory.

Dayton’s Dramatic Story “With so much interest in 1903

and the Wright brothers, there’s still alot of dramatic and distinctive thingsabout the Miami Valley that need tobe told, including the themes that stillresonate today,” said McLellan.

By clicking on images of Dayton,the Miami Valley, and neighboringcommunities, the viewer can visitactual sites from Dayton’s past. Forexample, one location will introduceJacob Moskowitz, a foreign labor

contractor who recruited Hungarianimmigrants and established twoworker colonies in Dayton, oneknown as the Kossuth Colony, or“Little Hungary.”

Online forums will be moderatedby humanities scholars and historiansas well as encourage viewers tocontribute their own stories anddigitized images. In the schools,students will be invited to delve intodifferent aspects of local history andadd their own pages to the site.

“Our project will serve as amodel, advancing our understandingof the potential of the Internet to

Marjorie McLellan, associate professor of history and director for WSU’s public history program

engage the public with history,” saidMcLellan. We’re looking at theInternet’s potential to attract newaudiences and to engage the public innew ways.”

(Partners on the project are students inWSU’s Public History Program; DawneDewey, head, WSU Special Collections andArchives; Nancy Garner, WSU Departmentof History; Bryan Beverly, Jeff Hiles, WSUCenter for Teaching and Learning; ClaudiaWatson, Mary Oliver, Montgomery CountyHistorical Society; Floyd Thomas, NationalAfro-American Museum and Cultural Center,and Sheila Darr, Central State University.)


The national and internationalreputation of Wright StateUniversity’s Wayne

Carmichael as an expert on toxiccyanobacteria has caught the atten-tion of Congress as it wrestles withhow to protect our nation’s drinkingwater.

As harmful algal blooms (HAB)have been recognized to threaten

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fresh as well as marine waters,Congress now finds it must cast itsnet of legislation wide enough toprotect the Great Lakes as well asoceans. In March, the House ScienceSubcommittee on Environment,Technology, and Standards heardtestimony on the proliferation ofHABs in the Great Lakes, andparticularly in Lake Erie.

Carmichael, a professor of aquaticbiology/toxicology in the Departmentof Biological Sciences and associatedirector of the Environmental Sci-ences Ph.D. program, has studiedtoxic cyanobacteria, commonlyknown as blue-green algae, for morethan 30 years. He was one of fiveexperts testifying on the increasedthreat that HABs pose to Ohio waters.

Professor takes on toxic algae threatening Lake Erie


“Blue-green algae in Lake Erietakes many forms, ranging frommassive accumulations of cells thatturn the water’s consistency to athick, viscous paste, to dilute, incon-spicuous, but highly toxic popula-tions,” said Carmichael. “Worldwidethey cause mass mortalities of wildand domestic animals and farmed fishand shellfish as well as humansickness and death. The effects ofHABs on reservoir, lake, pond, river,and stream ecosystems remain poorlyunderstood, but are clearly significant.”

A Global Threat“Cyanobacteria can live almost

anywhere, and the toxins theyproduce have been implicated inincidents occurring in virtually everycorner of the earth,” addedCarmichael. In the mid-1990s, thegovernment of Brazil enlisted hishelp in determining what was respon-sible for the mysterious deaths of 55Brazilians. Carmichael discoveredthat the water used in their hemodi-alysis treatment was contaminatedwith toxins produced by some of the40 known species of blue-green algaeknown to be toxic.

Carmichael, who served on theWorld Health Organization TechnicalGroup that developed guidelines forcyanobacteria toxins in drinkingwater supplies, also helped revise thedrinking water guidelines andregulations for the 165 million peopleof Brazil.

He directs Wright State’s interna-tionally recognized lab for theproduction of cyanobacteria, andprovides assistance to public healthagencies in the isolation and cultur-ing of the organisms. He also investi-gated the impact of cyanobacteria onthe food chain in Lake Erie for theOhio Sea Grant program and theLake Erie Protection Fund.

Lake Erie on the BrinkThe Lake Erie shoreline makes

Ohio part of the largest fresh waternavigation system in the world—theGreat Lakes. Considered one ofOhio’s most valuable natural re-sources, Lake Erie “frequentlyproduces more fish for humanconsumption than the other fourGreat Lakes combined,” according tothe Ohio Sea Grant. “The lakeprovides drinking water to 11 millionpeople each day. It also supports thelargest sport fishery in the GreatLakes and the largest freshwatercommercial fishery in the world.”

Tightened pollution laws helpedLake Erie recover from the effects ofphosphorus-laden pollutants thatdepleted its oxygen and turned thelake into a “dead zone” in the 1970s.After a period of recovery, Lake Eriewas invaded by non-native zebramussels in the 1980s. This invasivespecies continues to colonize,changing the ecosystem and leadingto levels of phosphorus that supporthigher populations of HABs.

An Encouraging PictureCarmichael is encouraged by the

actions of agencies such as theEnvironmental Protection Agency,the Centers for Disease Control, theU.S. Geological Survey, and theNational Oceanographic and Atmo-spheric Administration, which, hesays, “recognize the threat the HABspose to fresh water in the UnitedStates and promote the managementand mitigation of the blooms.

“The future health of Lake Eriedepends on cooperation betweenofficials, government scientists, andacademics in a sustained attack onthe problem of HABs. The rate andextent of progress from here willdepend upon how well differentfederal agencies can work together,how much funding support is pro-vided, and how effectively the skillsand expertise of government andacademic scientists can be targetedon priority topics.”

Wayne Carmichael testifying before the HouseSubcommittee on Environment, Technology, andStandards.

L A K E E R I E

Wayne Carmichael with cultures of cyanobacteriain his Wright State biology lab.


C A M P A I G N R E P O R T

TOMORROWTAKES FLIGHTThe Campaign for Wright State University

FROM THE OIL BUSINESS TO THE TOY BUSINESS

For this 1976 graduate of the Raj Soin College of Business, it’s all fun and games when he’sat work. As Chief Financial Officer for Houston-based DSI Toys, Inc., Robert Weisgarber isresponsible for all of the accounting, finance, and administrative activities of the company,which produces toys that are sold worldwide.

a year at Price Waterhouse, Rob went to work for a divisionof Baker Hughes as a financial analyst and later assistanttreasurer. When the oil bust hit Houston, Rob’s jobdisappeared. Twelve years, and several corporate positionslater, Rob finally landed at DSI Toys, Inc. as CFO.

“I thought then,and I still think today,

that I got an excellenteducation at Wright State,”

said Rob. “For me it was a veryinvigorating and stimulating

environment. It has served mewell in both my professional and

personal life.”

The Weisgarbers want to ensure thatfuture generations of students are afforded

the same kind of stimulating experiencesthey had at Wright State. Toward that

end, Rob and Ann have established,within their estate plan, endowedscholarships to supportstudentspursingcareers inaccountingand theliberal arts.

A graduate of WSU’s highly rated accountancyprogram, Rob decided not to go the traditional route ofworking for a Big Eight firm after commencement.Instead, he wanted to get into the oil business, thinkingthat sounded much more glamorous than a CPA firm.Subsequently, he accepted a position with ExxonCompany as an internal auditor. Afteralmost three years with Exxon,Rob left the company to furtherhis education with an MBAdegree.

Upon graduation fromHarvard in 1981, he and his wife,Ann Wall Weisgarber (‘76 B.A.),returned to Houston and Robstarted a short career withPrice Waterhouse.

“The ironicaspect of my timeat PW was that Iended up at aBig Eight firmafter all,”said Rob.But thatwasn’t tolast long.After just

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CAMPAIGN COMMITMENTS REACH $37 MILLION

As of April 30, 2003

Purpose of Support Commitments

Scholarships $5.6 million

Faculty Development $4.6 million

Facility Improvement $9.8 million

Program Support $17.4 million

Source of Support Commitments

Alumni $2.7 million

Corporations and Organizations $14.9 million

Foundations $3.3 million

Friends $16.5 million

Snapshot of GivingIncluded below is a sampling of recent gifts and

commitments from community partners to the Campaignfor Wright State University. Thank you to all of the alumniand friends who have provided support to this importantfundraising effort!

Appalachian Geophysical Services LLC: $10,000 ingeological equipment to the College of Science andMathematics

Dayton Heart Hospital: $22,500 to fund initiatives inthe School of Medicine and College of Nursing andHealth

Delphi Automotive Systems LLC: $18,000 inequipment to the College of Science andMathematics

Electrical Manufacturing and Coil Winding: $18,000to the College of Engineering and Computer Science

Huffy Corporation Foundation: $22,000 to support theCollege of Liberal Arts’ theatre production programand Festival Playhouse renovation

Key Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge, Inc.: $12,500 tosupport Athletics

The Mead Corporation Foundation: $10,000 toestablish an apprentice program in the School ofMedicine

Merck & Company, Inc.: $20,000 gift to the School ofMedicine’s Community Health Fund

Paralyzed Veterans of America, Inc.: $10,500 foradapted recreation and athletics initiatives

Pharmacia Corporation: $11,300 to fund surgeryprograms in the School of Medicine

SBC Foundation: $12,000 to the Summerbridge pre-college program in the College of Liberal Arts

WSU LEGEND ESTABLISHESENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP

This past fall was the first time that WSU legend,Dr. Frank Stickney, had missed teaching an academicquarter since joining the university full-time in 1972.In addition to being a dedicated faculty member, Dr.Stickney also has been a dedicated financial supporter ofWSU, contributing to the university since its First AnnualGiving Drive in 1974. In his most recent act of generosity,Dr. Stickney has endowed a scholarship for students in theRaj Soin College of Business through a charitable giftannuity. The Professor Frank A. Stickney Scholarship willbe awarded to undergraduate junior and senior studentsmajoring in management. In addition to this most recentscholarship, in 1989 Dr. Stickney’s late wife, Barbara KirkStickney, also established a scholarship fund for studentsmajoring in management.

Step back in time to 1903, when the Wright brothershad just unlocked the mysteries of powered flight, thefirst World Series captured the heart of America, silentfilms made their world debut, and Ohio enjoyed itscentennial celebration of statehood.

On Saturday, October 25, 2003, the WrightState University Libraries, with the support of itsFriends and the WSU Foundation, will present AnEvening in 1903. Please plan to join us at the PaulLaurence Dunbar Library for this unique HeritageSocieties event filled with period entertainment,historical exhibits, and an auction featuring an artifactfrom the original 1903 Wright Flyer.

For information, please call (937) 775-2251.

An Evening in 1903

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2003 Alumni Association Achievement Awards

Wright State Alumni Make a Difference!On Friday, May 16, the Wright State University Alumni

Association recognized four outstanding alumni at its annualAlumni Achievement Awards in the WSU Creative Arts Center.More than 100 attended the celebration that began with achampagne reception in the Art Gallery, followed by the awardsceremony. Wrapping up the festive evening was a performance

of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award-Winning theatre productionHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

The Alumni Association is proud of the accomplishments ofthese fellow alumni and of their continued support of the univer-sity through their accomplishments. The following alumni werepresented and honored with these awards.

Recent Graduate AwardKevin DeWine (’96 M.B.A.)State Representative, 70th HouseDistrict

The Recent Graduate Awardacknowledges the accomplishments ofalumni who have graduated within the

past 10 years. These alumni have quickly excelled in the variousaspects of life after college by demonstrating outstandingaccomplishments in their professional careers, impressivevolunteer service, and/or noteworthy involvement in professionaland service organizations.

Representative Kevin DeWine is currently serving his secondterm in the Ohio House of Representatives. He represents the70th Ohio House district, which includes the Fairborn, Beaver-creek, and Xenia areas of Greene County, where he also servesin many capacities such as a youth sports coach and oncommittees with the Fairborn and Beavercreek City Schools.

Volunteer Service AwardChris Murphy (’78 B.S. Ed.)Director, Office of Student Services,WSU College of Education andHuman Services

The Volunteer Service Award isconferred on alumni whose continued

significant donation of time and talent has contributed to theprogress and development of the Wright State University AlumniAssociation.

Chris’s volunteer efforts range from an alumnusrepresenting WSU to Chicago area prospective recruits tohelping raise monies for numerous worthy causes, such as polioeradication through Rotary International and Xenia TornadoRelief Fund. He has also been a tireless worker on behalf of theuniversity’s United Way campaign.

Distinguished Alumni AwardLarry Klaben (’77 B.A.)President and CEO,Morris Home Furnishings

The Distinguished Awardrecognizes graduates who have

attained a significant level of achievement in their chosen field.Nominees should demonstrate a positive impact on a local,state, and/or national/international level and have high integrityand character.

Upon graduating with a degree in urban affairs fromWright State, Larry Klaben worked as a congressional aide toCongressman Tony Hall and while residing in Washington,D.C. later earned a master’s in public administration. Currently,under Larry’s leadership, Morris Home Furnishings has grownto become one of the Dayton region’s 100 largest businesses.

African American AlumniSociety Award of ExcellenceWilliam Gillispie (’70 B.S.B.)Visiting Instructor, Urban Affairs,African and African American Studies,WSU College of Liberal Arts

The first-ever African AmericanAlumni Society Award of Excellence distinguishes alumniwho have attained a significant level of achievement in theirchosen field and have demonstrated a positive impact on alocal, state, and/or national/international level.

William Gillispie has served the Dayton community for hisentire public service career and he was part of the leadershipteam that initiated revitalization efforts in downtown Daytonincluding Fifth Third Field, RiverScape, new housingdevelopment, and the Schuster Performing Arts Center.

With his brothers Goodloe and Eric, he recently established ascholarship for students in the Raj Soin College of Business.


A L U M N I A S S O C I A T I O N

Upcoming Events

Don’t Miss the Fun!• FRIDAY, JULY 4:

Alumni Association participates in theFairborn 4th of July Parade.Volunteers needed! Bring the family andreceive a free tee-shirt for volunteering.

• FRIDAY, JULY 11:Dayton’s Air Show Parade. Volunteersneeded!

• FRIDAY, JULY 11:Dayton’s Black Cultural Arts Festival.Volunteers needed!

• SUNDAY, JULY 20: Our Dayton Dragons Game Event. Costis only $5 per person (what a bargain) andincludes a ticket to the game (on the lawn)AND a $5 food voucher. This is a greatopportunity for a family outing! Join usat Fifth Third Field to see the DaytonDragons in action! Only 100 tickets areavailable, so act fast!

• SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 11, 12:Homecoming 2003

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HOMECOMING 2003

OCTOBER 10, 11, AND 12

Golf Anyone?It’s not too early to mark your calendars for Monday, September 8, whenthe Alumni Association presents the 27th Annual Alumni Association GolfOuting at the Beavercreek Golf Club.

Not only is this a chance to catch upwith old and new friends for somefriendly competition, the event alsobenefits the Alumni Association’sLegacy Scholarship Program. Registra-tion and lunch begin at 11:00 a.m. withthe shotgun scramble starting at 1:00p.m. Join us for the awards ceremonyimmediately following play.

A prize of $10,000 awaits the lucky player who scores a hole-in-one!There will be four BIG prize holes in all, as well as prizes for the first, second,and third place teams; the longest drive; and closest to the pin. Of course, wehave some great door prizes as well. Remember, the outing is limited to 144players, so register early by calling (937) 775-2620. The registration deadlineis August 22, 2003.

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A cheer went up for WrightState’s Spirit Unit at thefirst annual Spirit Awards/

Reunion Banquet held May 9, inthe Nutter Center’s Berry Room.

Calling the Spirit Unit a “classact,” unit coordinator JoyceWhitaker shared highlights of theteam’s successful year. At thenational championship, the cheer-leaders were named sixth bestDivision 1 squad and the danceteam was honored as seventh bestDivision 1 team in the nation.”

Wright State is honored to havethe six-time Conference CheerleadingChampions, the three-time Confer-ence Dance Team Champions, theConference Mascot Champion, andholds both the Partner Stunt and StuntGroup titles.

Individual Spirit Awards presentedat the banquet were:

RAIDER AWARDto cheerleaders Heather Gartner,Rob Stricker, and Jessica McNewand dancers Heather Dregalla andBrooke Yoder.

MOST VALUABLE PLAYERAWARDto cheerleaders Eric Correll and AjaStreets and dancer Tiffany Bogard.

MOST IMPROVED AWARDto cheerleaders Kristen Branham andDavid Schmitz and dancer SiennaSchenk.

First Ever Spirit Awards/Reunion

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Linda M. Barney (’85 M.D.)School of Medicine

Linda Barney is assistant professor in WSU’sSchool of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. She alsoserves as the associate program director in GeneralSurgery at Miami Valley Hospital and chair of theMiami Valley Hospital Department of Surgery.

Her special interests include surgical education,trauma/critical care, surgical endoscopy, and surgicalultrasound. Her responsibilities also include supervising and traininggeneral surgery residents and oversight and quality assurance forgeneral surgical outpatient clinic activities.

In both 2000 and 2001, Barney was awarded the Miami ValleyHospital Resident Teaching Award. She has been published in theSurgical Educator’s Handbook and the Manual of Surgical Objectives 4thEdition. She also serves on the Association of Surgical EducationCurriculum Committee and is the Young Surgeons Committee chair forthe Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.

Barney is currently certified in pediatric advanced life supportand as an advanced trauma life support instructor. Her professionalaffiliations include the American College of Surgeons, the Societyof Critical Care Medicine, the Association of Women Surgeons, andthe Association for Surgical Education.

Barney earned her undergraduate degree from George WashingtonUniversity in Washington, D.C.

Favorite WSU Memory: “Watching the metamorphosis of my medicalschool contemporaries and present-day students and residents as theydevelop into extraordinary physicians.”

Best Advice: “Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln

Favorite Book: My Grandfather’s Blessings, by Rachel Naomi Remen,M.D. (A must read for anyone in the healthcare field!)

Erik T. Bork (’89 B.F.A.)College of Liberal Arts

Erik Bork is a filmmaker and a 2002 recipient of both the Emmy andGolden Globe Awards for the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, whichfollowed an army unit across Europe during World War II. Bork was asupervising producer of the $120 million, 10-part series that wasproduced with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Previously, Bork wonan Emmy Award for producing the HBO miniseries From the Earth to theMoon with Hanks.

After graduating from Wright State, Bork moved toLos Angeles, where in 1992 he got his first big break asa producer’s assistant on the Emmy Award-winningtelevision series Picket Fences. Bork was working in the20th Century Fox temp pool when he was assigned tohelp Hanks’ production company move into an office onthe Fox lot. Hanks hired Bork as a full-time assistantduring the filming of Apollo 13, then promoted him to adevelopment executive position after reading some of his work.

In 2002, Bork received the Distinguished Alumni Award fromWright State’s Department of Theatre Arts. For the occasion, Hanksrecorded a video congratulating Bork on his accomplishments. Bork iscurrently serving on WSU’s National Alumni Advisory Council. He isalso writing two movie scripts for HBO.

Favorite WSU Memory: “When my film, Springs, which was filmed inYellow Springs, was finally finished and premiered at the Little ArtTheatre. It was sold out.…”

Last Book Read: How to Be Good, by Nick Hornby

Future Plans: “…continue in the path of a writer who wants to produceor direct his work, moving into feature film writing. I would one day liketo direct something I’ve written.”

M E E T O U R 2 0 0 3 O U T S TA N D I N G A L U M N IIn keeping with a tradition that started four years ago, a celebration of Wright

State alumni achievement was held on February 1. The event was sponsored bythe WSU Alumni Association, who hosted a brunch and awards ceremony forthe guests of honor and their families. The day also included cheering on themen’s basketball team to a victory over Youngstown State, 80-68.


Yolanda B. Brooks (’89 Psy.D.)School of Professional Psychology

A clinical and consulting psychologist,Yolanda B. Brooks began her careeras a physical medicine andrehabilitation occupationaltherapist, specializing inneurological disorders. In1992, she began her consult-ing company, InnovativeAdaptations, specializing inassessment, training, andtechnical assistance in accordance with theAmericans with Disabilities Act.

At a symposium in 1996, Brooks facilitateddiscussions on choosing an agent and stressmanagement to a team of National BasketballAssociation (NBA) rookies. She then beganproviding consultation to family members ofprofessional athletes and created psychologi-cal profiles of NBA draft candidates. She alsobegan to develop innovative programs toaddress life adjustment issues once playersentered professional sports.

Her efforts caught the attention of formerprofessional football player Calvin Hill. Shethen became a consultant for the NationalFootball League’s Dallas Cowboys, focusingher in-house program on financial planning,substance abuse, and personal and profes-sional development for younger players andtheir families.

Brooks has authored many articles andcompleted many professional presentations.Her most recent article, “Lives of Womenof Color Create Risk for Depression,” waspublished in Women News.

Favorite WSU Memory: “My graduation whenfamily and friends chartered a bus and traveledfrom Virginia to surprise me at the ceremony.”

Best Advice: “Listen to your heart, but knowyour head.”

Favorite Quote: “If you give a man a fish, youfeed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish,you feed him for a lifetime.” Chinese Proverb

Annette K. Clayton (’86 B.S.E.G.)College of Engineering and ComputerScience

As president of Saturn Corporation inSpring Hill, Tennessee, a subsidiary of GeneralMotors (GM), Annette K. Clayton is responsiblefor the Spring Hill and Wilmington, Delaware,Saturn plants. She overseescontinuing productionimprovements, the growth ofthe Saturn portfolio, and hasbeen a leader in implementingGM’s global manufacturingsystems in North America.

Clayton first joined theautomotive manufacturing industry in 1983as a co-op student with the Moraine, Ohio,assembly plant. In 1992, she became theassistant superintendent of production, andtwo years later was promoted to area managerof body operations in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Shelater was named assistant plant manager atFort Wayne, and then plant manager at GM’sOshawa, Ontario, truck assembly plant.Through these positions, Clayton played animportant role in the launch of the original andredesigned midsize Chevrolet Blazer, GMCJimmy, and Oldsmobile Bravada sport utilityvehicles.

In 1992, Clayton earned her master’sdegree from the University of Dayton. Shecompleted the London Business Schoolexecutive program in 1997.

Clayton is a member of the College ofEngineering and Computer Science AdvisoryBoard. During a recent visit to Wright State,she was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, theengineering honorary society, as an EminentEngineer.

Best Advice: “An I-can attitude is the first stepto success.”

Favorite Quote: “Those who cannot rememberthe past are condemned to repeat it.” GeorgeSantayana

Future Plans: “Continue to learn those things Idon’t know and teach those things I do know.”

John Hassoun is senior vice president forthe Information and Space Sector at Veridian.In this post, Hassoun leads strategic planning,legislative affairs, sales, marketing, andproposal development activities for a sectorwith 600 employees and $70 million inbusiness.

Hassoun joined Veda Incorporated (nowVeridian) in 1993 as the program manager forhuman systems integration,a program that supported a variety of clientsin the Departments of Defense and Transpor-tation. He later became areamanager for systemsintegration operation, wherehe reorganized the operation,established relationships, andexpanded into internationalmilitary and commercialsegments.

In 1996, Hassoun received Veda’s highestleadership award, and three years laterreceived the same award from the engineeringdivision of Veridian. Through Hassoun’sinitiative, Veridian teamed with Wright State tobring the 12th International Symposium onAviation Psychology to Dayton in 2003. Also,he has been working with the Department ofPsychology to explore research partnershipsto help expand the Human Factors andIndustrial/Organizational Psychology Ph.D.program and establish Dayton as a center forcognitive systems engineering.

Favorite Wright State Memory: “The last yearof graduate school: it provided me with theopportunity to excel and find myself.”

Best Advice: “Treat others the same way youwant to be treated.”

Favorite Book: Ender’s Game, by Orson ScottCard

John Hassoun (’83 B.S., ’86 M.A.)College of Science and Mathematics


Joyce Marrs (’91 B.S.N.)WSU-Miami Valley College of Nursingand Health

Joyce Marrs is an oncology staff nurse atthe Medical Oncology-Hematology Associa-tion in Dayton. Marrs administers chemo-therapy and is responsible for patienteducation information for a private practicephysician’s office.

Marrs has also provided nursing care forneonatal, nursing home, andhome care patients since1981. She previously workedat the Miami Valley Hospitalin the neonatal intensive careunit. Marrs has also beena case manager and pre-admission reviewer forCatholic Social Services/PASSPORT inSidney, Ohio. She provided home assessmentfor clients and prepared care plans for bothhome and nursing home care.

Marrs’s professional activities includeserving as president of the West Central OhioChapter of the Oncology Nursing Society(ONS) and affiliate membership in theAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology. Shereceived the 2002 ONS/Pharmacia Excellencein Oncology Nursing Private Practice Award.Currently, Marrs is a graduate student atWright State, on the acute care nursepractitioner tract, and is a research assistantfor Kristine Scordo, associate professor in theCollege of Nursing and Health. They areconducting research on mitral valve prolapsesyndrome that is funded by the NationalInstitutes of Health.

Favorite Quote: “Yesterday’s answers havenothing to do with today’s questions. Life canonly be understood in reverse but must belived forwards.” (Although I am not a fan ofhard rock music, my older son is. He shared

Ron Marshall (B.S.B. ’76)Raj Soin College of Business

Ron Marshall is CEO of Nash FinchCompany, a Fortune 500 company and one ofthe largest wholesalers in the country, servingmore than 2,200 independent supermarkets,military commissaries, and other institutionalaccounts in 30 states. Nash Finch also ownsmore than 90 stores underthe Econofoods, Sun Mart,and Family Thrift Centertrade names. As CEO,Marshall oversees thecompany’s more than 12,000employees and more than $4billion in annual sales.

Before joining Nash Finch, he served asexecutive vice president and CFO of PathmarkStores, Inc., a leading grocery retailer withannual sales of $3.7 billion serving the Mid-Atlantic states. Marshall also served as seniorvice president and CFO of Dart GroupCorporation, a retailer of groceries, auto parts,and books. Before that, he was vice presidentand CFO of Barnes & Noble Bookstores, Inc.

Marshall currently sits on the board ofdirectors for the Food Marketing Institute andthe Wright State University Foundation. Heserves on WSU’s National Alumni AdvisoryCouncil and is also a commissioner on thePresident’s Commission for Special OlympicsMinnesota.

In his spare time, Marshall is a skilled pilotand a certified scuba diver. He has completed

Cynthia A. Wells-Lilly (’92 M.S.)College of Education and HumanServices

Cynthia A. Wells-Lilly is vice provost anddean of students at Messiah College inGrantham, Pennsylvania, an undergraduateresidential college with anenrollment of 2,900 students.Previously, Wells-Lilly heldseveral positions in WrightState’s Office of ResidenceServices, including interimdirector, associate director,residence educationspecialist, and community director. She hasalso held WSU internships in the ServantLeadership and Student Orientation/RaiderAlcohol Awareness programs.

Wells-Lilly is the author of a book chapterin Creating Campus Community: In Search ofErnest Boyer’s Legacy, and has been selectedby Messiah College as the Ernest L. BoyerFellow. During this sabbatical year, she willcontinue her study of Boyer’s works and bothwrite and teach about the development ofcampus community.

this quote from a group called Megadeth.)

Favorite Wright State University Memory:“When Nan Davis walked for the first timefollowing her spinal cord injury.

Last Book Read: Last Man Standing, DavidBaldacci

several marathons and carried the WinterOlympics torch.

Favorite WSU Memory: “The faculty memberswho were role models and prepared me for theinternship program. I did so well that I washired right after graduation.”

Best Advice: “Always treat people withintegrity, honesty, and sincerity. Across thelong term, building credibility with people isthe way to be successful.”

Last Book Read: John Maynard Keynes: Fightingfor Freedom, 1937-1946, by Robert Skidelsky


Richard M. Wegmann (’82 M.B.A.)School of Graduate Studies

Richard M. Wegmann is chairman and CEOof BusinessLabs, a provider of leading-edge e-Commerce and enterprise business manage-ment solutions to mid-sized companies in themanufacturing, distribution,and service industries.

As a division of DigitalConcepts, Inc., BusinessLabshas implemented numerousdesign and developmentprojects for commercialenterprises. The company provides expertisein the implementation of workgroup technolo-gies, particularly solutionsbased on Lotus, Microsoft, and IBM productsand systems.

In 1992, Wells-Lilly received the OhioCollege Personnel Association’s AnnualProject Award. The Dayton Area AIDS TaskForce also honored her with the President’sAward for Outstanding Service.

Currently a Ph.D. candidate in highereducation at The Ohio State University, Wells-Lilly earned her bachelor’s degree in psychol-ogy and religious studies from OccidentalCollege.

Favorite Wright State Memory: “....riding withRowdy Raider on a golf cart greeting newWSU students!”

Best Advice: “Seek to find what you love andwhat inspires your imagination...and wrapyour life’s work around that....”

Favorite Book: The Lovely Bones, by AliceSebold

Wegmann continues to serve Wright Stateas a member of the Wright State UniversityFoundation Board of Trustees. He is a lifetimemember of the Wright State UniversityAlumni Association and has assisted with theCorporate Appeal in various capacities.Wegmann has also provided guidance andinput on the undergraduate and graduateprograms of the Raj Soin College of Business.

Wegmann serves on the boards of severalcommunity organizations, including theDayton Ballet, the Engineering and ScienceFoundation, the Rotary Club of Dayton, andthe Electronics Equipment Manufacturer’sGroup. He is also a member of the ArmedForces Communications and ElectronicsAssociation, where he received a meritoriousService Award in 1994.

Favorite Wright State Memory: “Receivingthe 1999 WSU Alumni Association’sDistinguished Alumni Award.”

Favorite Quote: “The inherent vice ofcapitalism is the unequal sharing of bless-ings; the inherent virtue of socialism is theequal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill

Future Plans: “To continue to balance family,work, social, and volunteer activities.”

Mary Pat Zitter (’80 B.A. )WSU Lake Campus

Mary Pat Zitter is judge-elect of the MercerCounty Probate Juvenile Court. Zitter hasexperience in criminaldefense, domestic relations,probate, and juvenile law.Over the past 14 years, shehas represented clients inProbate/Juvenile, CommonPleas, and Municipal Courts.Zitter also represented thecounty in child support matters for 14 years.

Active in both the legal and Mercer Countycommunities, Zitter was appointed by theChief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court to theLegal Needs Assessment Committee. Sheserves on the Mercer County ExtensionAdvisory Committee and the Mercer CountyRevolving Loan Committee. She is currently aLaw Library Trustee for the Mercer County BarAssociation, chair of their Continuing LegalEducation Committee, and was the BarAssociation’s first woman president.

Zitter is dedicated to helping students,having helped judge the high school mocktrial, and she has worked with the county job-shadowing program for youths. She is an avidpromoter of the Coats for Kids Program, andreceived the 2001 Humanitarian Award fromthe Red Cross’s Clara Barton Award forOutstanding Women in Mercer County.

Favorite WSU Memory: “Studying by the lake.It calmed classroom jitters.”

Best Advice: “It’s never too late to pursue yourdreams.”

Favorite Book: Heidi. It presents all of life’sissues, good and bad, in simple terms, withhope.


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Chronicling the Aviation Century

Dan Patterson (’76 B.F.A.) was among the featuredspeakers at a flight symposium entitled “Aviation in Artand Culture,” held at Wright State in April. Through art,

photography, music, and dance, the symposium explored howthe arts have depicted aviation’s impact on society. Patterson,who owns his own commercial photography studio in Dayton,is also an internationally recognized aviation photographer. Atthe seminar, he talked about his latest project, The AviationCentury, a multi-volume work being produced in partnershipwith Ron Dick, a retired Royal Air Force Air-Vice Marshaland aviation author. Patterson traveled around the world tochronicle the people and machines that changed the worldthrough powered flight.

“I not only photographed and researched the evolution ofthe mechanics of flight, I also photographed and interviewedaviation icons as well as those whose lives were deeplytouched in some way by the development of the airplane,”explained Patterson, who traveled throughout the U.S. and tosuch far away places as England, Paris, Rome, Poland, andSweden to research his subjects.

In the final stage of editing, the final work will includeover 1,000 pages and over 300 portraits. The first book of thefive-volume set, The Early Years, is scheduled to be in thestores the end of June of this year.

Dan Patterson lectures at aviation symposium

CLASS OF 1969Ruth A. White (B.S.Ed.), a retiredkindergarten teacher, coordinated aproject to gather audio and videostories about Tipp City, which hasbeen scripted into a play for a 2003production.

CLASS OF 1970William Gillispie(B.S.), joinedWSU’s African andAfrican AmericanStudies (AFS) as aVisiting Instructorin the Departmentof Urban Affairsand Geography

through Spring Quarter 2003. In addi-tion to his teaching, he assisted inseveral other efforts, including collabo-rations with the Bolinga Black CulturalResources Center and building rela-tions with the external community.

Gillispie is among the first AfricanAmericans to graduate from WrightState. And, as a student during thedecades of great societal changes,William and other pioneering AfricanAmerican students successfullyfought for the creation of the BolingaBlack Cultural Resources Center,whose doors first opened on January15, 1971.

After 31 years of service, Gillispierecently retired from the City of Day-ton as Deputy City manager. TheDayton Chapter of the National Fo-rum for Black Public Administratorspresented Gillispie its Marks of Ex-cellence Award, and the City of Day-ton established a Top Flight Award inrecognition of his service as a men-tor to numerous student internsduring his tenure there.

CLASS OF 1972John E. Bucher (B.S.), director ofinformation technology at OberlinCollege since 1997, recently receiveda lifetime achievement award fromSIGUCCS (Special Interest Group onUniversity and College ComputingServices).

Karen Wolf (B.S.Ed., ’81 M.Ed.) isone of 7,886 elementary and second-ary school teachers nationwide whoachieved National Board Certificationin 2002, according to the NationalBoard for Professional TeachingStandards (NBPTS) in Arlington,Virginia. Karen teaches business atWest Carrollton High School, and

has been teaching for over 21years.

CLASS OF 1973Susan J. DeLuca (M.Ed.) wasnamed vice president, human re-sources for The New York TimesCompany regional newspapergroup. In her new role, DeLuca willbe responsible for leading the hu-man resource initiatives, includingselection, performance manage-ment, succession planning, anddevelopment, for the Group’s 15newspapers. She joined The NewYork Times Company in 2001 asdirector of organization and execu-tive development. Previously, sheworked with start-up and Fortune500 companies.

CLASS OF 1974Tim Toops (M. Ed., ’83 Ed.S.) andhis wife, Connie Toops (’92 M.S.),reside in Sarasota, Florida. Tim is aprofessor at Florida Southern Col-lege in Lakeland, Florida, and wasrecently promoted to coordinator ofelementary education. Also, herecently presented a paper entitled“Using Literature to ReinforceReading Skill Teaching.”

CLASS OF 1975Sonya Calhoun Burke (M.S.) retiredfrom the Dayton VA after workingas the associate chief to nursingservice for long-term care and nurs-ing home care unit.

Tom Carlisle(M.B.A.), profes-sor of industrialengineering tech-nology at SinclairCommunity Col-lege, was namedone of threehonored as Out-

standing Industrial TechnologyFaculty Members by the NationalAssociation of Industrial Technol-ogy (NAIT).

Karen A. (Brannan, Peters) Evans(B.A., ’77 M.A.) earned a Ph.D. inpsychology from Walden Universityin 2001. Recently, she became alicensed psychologist in Ohio, spe-cializing in geropsychology. Herdaughter Katie Brannan graduatedfrom Wright State University’sSchool of Nursing in June 2002.

Theodore J. Randall (B.A.) recentlyretired after working on the B-2Bomber for six years at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He ismarried to Alice (Hitt) Randall (B.A.’83).

CLASS OF 1977Mary Ann Terrell Raizk (M.Ed.)recently self-published a children’sbook, Happy Birthday Ohio, in honorof Ohio’s bicentennial in 2003. Thebook includes a linear history of the

state and is aimed at upper elemen-tary students. Mary Ann’s daughterfully illustrated the book. Contactinformation about purchase andother information can be obtained atwww.happybirthdayohio.com. MaryAnn has also taught at BlanchesterLocal Schools for 29 years.

CLASS OF 1978Mary A. Connolly (M.Ed.) wasawarded the NISOD (National Insti-tute for Staff and Organization De-


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Alumna Uses Art to Spread Antismoking Message

Smoke, Die Young

Barb Weinert (’98 B.F.A.), an artist and associatedirector for graphic arts services in Wright State’sPrinting Services, decided to make something positive

come out of tragedy.Weinert organized an art exhibit entitled “Smoke. . . Die

Young” that not only honors the memory of her husband,Dave Weinert, who succumbed to lung cancer two years ago,but also sends thought-provoking images to youngsters andadults about the dangers ofsmoking. The artwork hung inWright State’s Student Union ArtGallery for two weeks this spring.

Contributing artists includeWeinert as well as family andfriends of Dave, Girl Scout Troop#39 of Yellow Springs, andselected works by sixth, seventh,and eighth graders from St. Luke’sSchool. Art works includepaintings, sculptures, photography,and collages.

Weinert hoped that by invitingstudents to enter pieces in theexhibit, the antismoking messagewould be reinforced in the minds of the young artists as well.

“For several years, Dave and our family spoke to youngpeople about the adverse effects of smoking,” says Weinert.“As much as Dave wanted to live, he still had the relentlesscraving to smoke. He was addicted to cigarettes to his dyingday.”

Weinert says spreading the antismoking message didn’tend when the exhibit came down. She is seeking grant fundingto support further exhibits and to take her message to otherschools. “We have to get them when they’re young. By thetime they’re in high school, they’re hooked. Using art to helpspread the message has been like therapy for me and myfamily. It’s been part of our healing process.”

Barbara Weinert

velopment) 2002 award for teach-ing, learning, and leadership excel-lence. She also received a Ph.D. in2000 from The Ohio State Univer-sity.

Rita (Mulligan) McNabb (B.S.B.)works as a revenue agent groupmanager for the Internal RevenueService. Rita recently served as thetreasurer of the Pendleton, Indiana,youth soccer association. She iscurrently treasurer of “Hear Indi-ana,” a statewide nonprofit organi-zation supporting speech by deafand hearing impaired children.

Michael Solimine (B.A.) recentlygave a distinguished alumni lectureat Wright State University aboutreforming Ohio’s judicial electionprocess. He received his law de-gree from Northwestern UniversitySchool Law School and clerked forFederal District Court Judge WalterH. Rice from 1981–84. He is cur-rently the Donald P. Klekamp Pro-fessor of Law at University of Cin-cinnati Law School.

CLASS OF 1979Beverly J. (Hansgen) Caven(B.S.Ed., ’83 M.Ed.) has beenteaching for 24 years; 19 yearsteaching the handicapped. In 2001she changed from teaching pre-school handicapped to high schoolhandicapped students. She cur-rently works at Clark County Edu-cational Service Center as a multidisability teacher.

Steven Winteregg (M.M.) had hismusical piece, To Fly Unbounded,featured at the Dayton Philhar-monic Orchestra. His piece waspart of the premier of a series ofcommissioned works commemo-rating the centennial of the Wrightbrothers’ historic achievementduring the orchestra’s first Classi-cal Series concert of 2003.

CLASS OF 1984Scott A. Brotherton (B.A.) residesin Charlotte, North Carolina, wherehe is employed as a vice presidentwith Wachovia Corporation. He andhis wife, Stephanie NealBrotherton, have a daughter, SofiaMichele.

CLASS OF 1985Nancy T. Goodman (M.S.) is a visit-ing assistant professor for TexasA&M University in the School ofNursing and Health Science in Col-lege Station, Texas.

Jeffrey Joseph (B.S.) received amaster of public administration fromthe University of Dayton in December2002. He currently works at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a con-tracting negotiator.

Iris L. Langley (B.A.) was licensed asa minister at New Life Church inColorado Springs, Colorado, in Octo-ber 2002. She serves as an outreachdirector at the New Life Church.

CLASS OF 1986Michael C. Reynolds (B.S.E.G., ’90M.S.E.G.) served as the Wright StateUniversity Alumni Association Presi-dent from 1998–2001. Since Novem-ber 2002, he has served as the assis-tant dean for the College of Scienceand Mathematics.

CLASS OF 1988M. Dana Harriger (M.S., ’92 Ph.D.),associate professor of biology andchair of the physical and life sciencesdepartment at Wilson College, inChambersburg, Pennsylvania, wasselected for inclusion in the 2002Who’s Who Among America’s Teach-ers.

Laurel Lampela (M.Ed.) accepted aposition as an associate professor inthe Art Education Program at theUniversity of New Mexico, where sheteaches undergraduate and graduatecourses in secondary art methods,studio art in the school, and the his-tory of art education. She is also co-editor of a new anthology, From OurVoices, in which art educators andartists speak out about LGBT issues.Previously, she was an associateprofessor in the department of art atCleveland State University.

CLASS OF 1989Karen Jean Hunt (M.A.) is the direc-tor of the John Hope Franklin collec-tion of African and African Americandocumentation at Duke University inDurham, North Carolina.


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Nancy Feld (L) and Wanda Coalson

CLASS OF 1990Anita E. Jones (M.Ed.) is a retiredteacher from Dayton Public Schools.She currently works as a mathemat-ics consultant.

Joletta McQuinn(B.S.B., ’93M.B.A.) was re-cently promoted tovice president ofhuman resourcesat Setzer Corpora-tion. She has beenemployed at SetzerCorporation since 1997 and formerlyheld the position of manager ofhuman resources.

Bret Spinks (B.S.B., ’92 M.B.A.)joined Cobra Compliance Systemsas vice president, sales and market-ing, in 1992.

CLASS OF 1991Zella Falcon Cook (M.Ed.) is ateacher for the gifted at New Leba-non Schools. Zella and her husband,Stephen Cook, have two sons whoboth attend Wright State University.Ben graduates in June and Ian is asophomore studying film.

Four hands, one piano—it’s a musical genre that requiresa unique melding of talent and style as well as an almostpsychic connection between the two performers.

So it’s not surprising that for the piano duo of Nancy Feld(’84 B.A.) and Wanda Coalson (’78 B.M.), four-hand pianoalso serves as an apt metaphor for an enduring friendship thatgoes back to when they were nontraditional students atWright State in the late seventies, working on their musicdegrees.

The two returned to Wright State last March to performoriginal four-hand compositions by Brahms, Schumann,Dvorak, Debussy, and Barber. Their performance was thesecond in the Department of Music’s Steinway DedicationConcert Series.

Feld, who is the more physically animated in herperformance style, plays primo—or treble part of thekeyboard. Coalson plays secondo—or the bass part of thepiano—a role that requires her to keep pace with and respondto the ebb and flow set by Feld. At times, their hands maytouch or even cross each other.

“I kid her and tell her she’s the ‘primo donna’ of our duo,”says Coalson with a laugh. “My mission in life is to keep upwith her.”

But don’t let the good-natured kidding and laughter beliethe fact that these two are serious musicians.

While both teach privately from studios in their homes,they’ve honed their four-hand piano skills by getting togetherevery Thursday night for the past 10 years for three- to four-hour practice sessions.

As a result, they’re making a name for themselves in theregion, with invitations to perform at the Foreign LiaisonOfficers Ball at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, StiversSchool for the Performing Arts, the Dayton Opera Guild, andfor various professional teacher organizations. They also wereinvited to perform in Bonn, Germany, in a salon recital thatreceived excellent reviews from local papers.

Jacqueline Grieshop-Halburnt (B.A.,’98 M.A.) was recently promoted toassistant town manager for the townof Avon, Colorado.

James R. Harding (B.A.), employedas a partnership specialist for theDivision of Vocational Rehab in Talla-hassee, Florida, was the only disabledperson to be highlighted in the WSUNews. Also, he recently became en-gaged to Kate West with an antici-pated marriage date in the spring of2004.

CLASS OF 1993Kelly (Kuhlman) Brown (B.A.) wasinducted as president of DaytonKiwanis Club. She is the second fe-male president in the club’s 87 yearhistory. She works for Time WarnerCable as a government affairs man-ager.

Gina (Burch) Kundan (B.F.A.) com-pleted her master’s degree in socialtheory from Hamline University in St.Paul, Minnesota. She is currentlyworking as a program advisor for thediversity and cultural centers at theUniversity of Minnesota. She alsoprovides lectures, seminars, andworkshops to local schools and busi-nesses on topics such as: cross-cultural communication, inclusion,history of the race concept, affirma-

Alumna Chronicles Life of a MentalHealth Heroine

Rosezelle Boggs-Qualls (’79 B.A. ), a graduatein social work, co-wrote Walking Free: The NellieZimmerman Story, which

tells the story of a woman whowas wrongly institutionalizedin a state mental healthhospital up until she was 71.Zimmerman went on to attendcollege, become a well-knownlecturer, and an award-winning life skills instructor ata group home for deaf andblind teenage boys.

Boggs-Qualls lecturedabout her more than four yearsof research on the book at alecture on campus in April,sponsored by the Departmentof Social Work.

Rosezelle Boggs-Qualls

Four Hands, One Piano,and Two Best Friends


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Saturn President Visits Alma Mater

Annette K. Clayton (’86 B.S.), president, SaturnCorporation, and a College of Engineering andComputer Science (CECS) graduate, visited Wright

State last January. Besides sharing her insights with studentsabout success and career opportunities in engineering, shewas inducted into the engineering honor society, Tau BetaPi, as an Eminent Engineer. Tau Beta Pi is the second oldestGreek-letter honor society in America. It was founded in1885 to recognize outstanding students and professionalswho display both distinguished scholarship in technicalfields and exemplary character. She was joined by fellowhonor society members, WSU President Kim Goldenbergand CECS Dean James Brandeberry.

From left: Shelly Goldenberg, President Kim Goldenberg, Annette Clayton, andJames Brandeberry, dean, College of Computer Science and Engineering.

tive action, and attracting diversity.She lives in Minneapolis with herhusband, Jitendrapal, and their twochildren, Amandeep and Simran.

CLASS OF 1994Kimberly A. Bird (B.A.) works as amarketing communications ac-count manager for The Reynoldsand Reynolds Company. Sheserves as president of the Daytonchapter of International Associationof Business Communicators. She isalso a 2000 graduate of AntiochMcGregor, with an M. A. in busi-ness.

CLASS OF 1995Todd Calaway (B.A.) is employedas the Montgomery County PublicDefender Staff Attorney. He is alsothe head coach for the OakwoodHigh School debate team.

CLASS OF 1996Christopher A. Royse (B.A., ’99M. H.), since 2000, has worked forthe Science Applications Interna-tional Corporation’s (SAIC) ThreatReduction Support Center (TRSC),which supports the defense threatreduction agency’s cooperativethreat reduction directorate. Hecurrently serves as the deputy taskleader of the SAIC-TRSC BWPPPsupport team, managing a staff ofsix U.S. personnel with expertise inbiosecurity, biosaftely, biologicalscience research and development,environmental engineering, demo-lition, and information technologyas well as 15 subcontractors lo-cated in Russia and Kazakhstan.He recruits worldwide Ph.D.s inthe biological sciences to serve inthe FSU with former SovietBioweaponeers on collaborativeresearch projects working towardspublic health and force protectiongoals. Royse taught a course, as

an adjunct professor at the GeorgeWashington University in the springof 2003, about securing the work-place against the threat of weapons ofmass destruction.

CLASS OF 1997Mark T. Franks Jr. (B.A.) has re-cently opened his own mortgagecompany.

Kevin Rettig (B.S.B.) and his wife,Anjeanette, left their jobs, sold theirhouse and cars, and embarked on aone-year adventure around the worldstarting June 2002. The San DiegoUnion Tribune did a story on the trip,and published a monthly column,entitled “Roamin’ Holiday”, written bythe Rettigs. Additional photos, journalentries, and information can be foundat www.anjeanette.com.

CLASS OF 1998Heidi Sue Coblentz Goodman(B.S.B.) is currently working as ahuman resource recruiter for NationalCity Bank. Heidi and her husband,Robert Lee Goodman Jr. (’98, B.S.B.),have a one year old son, Robert LeeGoodman III.

Joshua M. Sullenberger (B.A.) is theexecutive director of the PrebleCounty YMCA, which is currentlyopening a new full facility YMCA inEaton.

Robert (Bob) Tyndall (B.A.) gradu-ates from Bethany Theological Semi-nary in Richmond, Indiana, with aM.Div. in May 2003. He is currentlyserving as a chaplain at Good Samari-tan Hospital in Dayton.

CLASS OF 1999Billy Ray Osborn (B.S.B., ’00M.Acc.) was recently promoted tocontroller at Stolle Machinery. He andhis wife, Dawn Osborn (’95 B.F.A.),reside in Dayton.

Scott McPherson (B.A.) has beenchief editor for a sports news pro-gram on the Sunshine Network inTallahassee, Florida, since 2000.

CLASS OF 2000Donald Jason Lansdale (B.A.) servedon the external committee for theMillett Hall reopening, and was a

guest speaker for PLS 430 – Home-land Security during winter quarter2003. He works as a field marketingmanager for NCR Corporation.

CLASS OF 2001William A. Cicora (B.S.Ed.) has beenteaching at Spinning Hills MiddleSchool for two years. He is also afirst year head coach for the swimteam at Stebbins High School.

Darrell R. Clark (B.A.) is currentlyworking as a graphic artist/restora-tion specialist at SPORCH (Societyfor the Preservation Of RomanCatholic Heritage), where he special-izes in restoring art works for theRoman Catholic Church.

Lynne D. Graves (B.A.) is currentlyteaching at an alternative school inSpringfield, Ohio, and attendingAntioch University pursuing a gradu-ate degree.

Brian A. Guy (B.S.) recently obtaineda Master of Science degree fromCentral Michigan University. He iscurrently a manager of sales, service,and logistics at Eurand.

Jeanette E. Skow (M.A.) recentlybegan law school at the University ofCincinnati in the U.S. Air Force’sfunded legal education program.

CLASS OF 2002Danielle Blue (B.A.) works as a out-reach specialist for Project Impact.She has recently become engagedand married.

Jill K. Campbell (B.S.B.) is em-ployed as a technical manager at TheReynolds and Reynolds Company.Jill and her husband, Ron Campbell,have a son Connor.

Becky S. Coons (B.S.N.) is currentlyworking as a staff nurse at MiamiValley Hospital. Becky and her hus-band, Michael Coons, have two sons.

Eric M. Leckey (B.S.) resigned fromhis position in the Office of the Sec-retary of the U.S. Department ofEducation, and assumed duties as anAssociate Director of Homeland Se-curity at the White House in February2003.


A T H L E T I C S

There’s a great fan base hereat Wright State,” says PaulBiancardi. “The university

as a whole is starving to turn theprogram around. There’s greatinterest here.”

Biancardi, hired in April asWright State’s sixth basketballcoach, believes Wright State is readyto move to the top of the HorizonLeague. With the strong base ofsupport within the university andthroughout the community,Biancardi sees better times ahead forthe program.

Biancardi is no stranger to suc-cess. As an assistant to Jim O’Brienat Boston College and Ohio State,Biancardi helped coach teams toconference championships and deepinto the NCAA tournament. HoopScoop Online named Biancardi thetop assistant coach in the nation forhis coaching and recruiting talents.

As recruiting coordinator at OhioState, Biancardi helped recruit twoclasses that were ranked in thenation’s top 20 by Hoop Scoopmagazine and Van Coleman’s FutureStars magazine.

When asked what his pitch wouldbe to potential student-athletes,Biancardi replied, “come to WrightState to turn the program around andbe part of something special. There’sa great fan base here and in thesurrounding areas. There’s tremen-dous interest within the university forthe basketball program and you’llreally enjoy your experience atWright State.”

Biancardi has also been an assis-tant coach at Boston University,Suffolk University, and Salem StateCollege. He is a 1985 graduate ofSalem State, where he was a four-year basketball letterman and teamcaptain his senior year. Biancardireceived the James Twohig Award

for outstanding contributions, charac-ter, and sportsmanship.

Recently, Biancardi was inductedinto the Pope John XXIII HighSchool Athletics Hall of Fame. Hehas served on the advisory board tothe Kids Funds in Boston and beenrecognized by the Boston CityCouncil and East Boston AthleticBoard for his community contribu-tions and professional success.

In the press conference after hishiring was announced, Biancardimentioned the Wright brothers’willingness to chart new territory inorder to achieve new heights.

“I plan on drawing from all mypositive experiences over the courseof time to lead Wright State Univer-sity in a direction we can all be proudof athletically, academically, andsocially,” Biancardi said. “We willalways strive to improve, and indoing so we will push ourselves tothe top of the Horizon League.”

Biancardi Named Men’s Basketball Coach

Paul Biancardi, Wright State’s new men’s basketball coach, was the center of attention during the press conference announcing his hiring. While Dayton Daily News reporterDave Lance interviews him, Biancardi’s daughter Katerina records the moment for the family album.

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After a 12-35 regular season record, little was ex-pected from the WSU softball team as they enteredthe Horizon League tournament as the eighth seed.

However, the team picked the right time to get hot, reelingoff four straight wins over higher-seeded opponents to earnthe league title and their first appearance in the NCAAtournament.

Trailing by one and down to its final out in the champion-ship game, a three-run home run off the bat of first basemanStephanie Salas carried the Raiders to a 7-5 win over theCleveland State Vikings, setting off a unexpected celebration.

The Raiders delivered the big hit throughout the tourna-ment and the seventh was no different as they scored fourtimes to take the win. With one out, Price had an infieldsingle and one out later, third baseman Becky Babin kept theinning alive with a hit up the middle.

That brought Salas to the plate and the sophomore crusheda three-run home run to left center to put WSU up 6-5. WrightState then added another run as right fielder Lauren Boggssingled, moved up to second on a throwing error and third ona wild pitch and, after designated player Sandra Breibywalked, both Boggs and Breiby pulled off a double stealto make it 7-5.

It was then left up to Kristin Bultinck, the Horizon LeaguePitcher of the Tournament, as she retired the side in the orderin the seventh to pick up the save for Jacqueline Goosenwho picked up the final out in relief of Bultinck in the sixth.

In the NCAA tournament, the Raiders traveled to AnnArbor, where they defeated Missouri before beingeliminated.

Softball Team Earns Improbable NCAA Bid

WSU Studies Athletics Program

W right State has begun aone-year, campus-wideeffort to study its athletics

program as part of the NCAA Divi-sion I athletics certification program.Specific areas the study will cover areacademic and fiscal integrity, gover-nance, rules compliance, and acommitment to equity, student-athletewelfare, and sportsmanship.

The certification program is to helpensure integrity in the institution’sathletics operations. It opens athletics

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to the rest of the university commu-nity and to the public. Institutions willbenefit by increasing campus-wideawareness and knowledge of theathletics program, confirming itsstrengths and developing plans toimprove areas of concern.

The committee responsible for thestudy includes Wright State PresidentKim Goldenberg, committee chairJames Brandeberry, dean of theCollege of Engineering and Com-puter Science, WSU faculty and staff

members and athletics departmentpersonnel. Within each area to bestudied by the committee, theprogram has standards, calledoperating principles, which wereadopted by the Association to placea “measuring stick” by which allDivision I members are evaluated.The university also will examinehow the activities of the athleticsprogram relate to the mission andpurpose of the institution.

Kristin Bultinck

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Former Raider StandoutFoils Attack

Former WSU baseball playerBrian Anderson and nowpitcher for the Cleveland

Indians made national news last Aprilfor something other than his pitchingarm: He and fellow Cleveland pitcherCarl Sadler strong armed a pursesnatcher in San Francisco. The twowere eating in a restaurant acrossfrom their hotel when the attackoccurred. They caught up with thethief after a two-block chase, bring-ing him back to the restaurant, wherethey returned the purse to its owner.The incident turned out to be a boonfor the several police officers whoresponded: they were gifted witheight game tickets from the pitchers.

Anderson was quoted as saying“They picked the wrong restaurantwith a couple of athletes who are on alosing streak.”

Golfers Win Horizon League

Down five strokes heading into the final round of the Horizon League GolfChampionships, the Wright State golf team rallied to claim the title by theslimmest margin in league history. After counting the scores of the top fourplayers, Wright State and Butler were tied. The tiebreaker was the score of eachteam’s fifth golfer, and Brandon Judy’s score gave WSU the tiebreaker and thetitle.

With the league championship, the Raiders advanced to NCAA tournamentplay in Manhattan, Kan. Senior Jesse Hutchins was selected as the HorizonLeague Player of the Year. Fellow senior John Schones joined Hutchins on theall-league team. Sophomore Marty Miller was chosen as one of two Newcomersof the Year. Head coach Fred Jefferson rounded out the WSU honorees as hewas named Coach of the Year. He tied a record for most Coach of the Yearhonors as 2003 marks the fourth time he has received the honor after winningthe award in 1996, 1997 and 2000. Overall, it is Jefferson’s fifth honor as he wasnamed the Mid-Continent Conference Coach of the Year in 1993.

The Wright State UniversityAthletic Hall of Fameinducted five new members

in June, bringing the total number ofHall of Fame members to 42. Se-lected by a vote of athletic depart-ment staff and coaches, the newmembers are baseball player AlfredoBatista, former women’s basketballcoach Pat Davis, tennis player DaveMcSemek, golfer John Traugh, andformer men’s basketball coach RalphUnderhill.

“This is a special class of induct-ees,” said WSU Mike Cusackdirector of athletics. “All of themhave made an tremendous impact onthe Raider family.”

Batista, who played from 1983 to1986, posted a .351 career batting

average, hitting.369 as a juniorand .348 as asenior. He ranks asthe top homerunhitter (40) and RBIproducer (183) in school history.

Davis was the women’s basketballcoach from 1976 to 1990 and com-piled a career record of 187-172. The1987 squad went 24-6 and advancedto the NCAA Division II Tourna-ment.

McSemek played tennis in theearly 1980’s and won the team MVPaward each year. As a sophomore, heposted 17 singles wins and 20doubles wins and in his junior yearcollected 20 wins in singles play and18 wins in doubles.

Traugh, team MVP three of hisfour years, was named a third-teamDivision II All American. He holdsthe school record for individualtournament titles in a season with fiveand in a career with 11.

Underhill, head coach from 1978to 1996, posted a record of 356-162while leading the Raiders to sevenDivision II NCAA Tournaments andthe Division I Tournament in 1993.He was named the National Coach ofthe Year in 1983 when the Raiderscaptured the NCAA Division II title.

Hall of Famers Inducted

I never realized that I could make such an impact on theresearch taking place at Wright State just by including theuniversity in my will.

As a nurse and former faculty member, I know how

difficult it sometimes can be for nursing faculty to

establish important research programs. And in an

era plagued by nursing shortages, the education of

tomorrow’s nurses and the pursuit of clinical

research have never been more important.

That’s why I decided to include Wright

State in my will and establish the Lovetta

and Bertram Blanke Endowed

Professorship in Nursing Research.

My late husband and I had long been

supporters of the college because over

the years it has done an outstanding job

of educating people of all backgrounds.

I am a firm believer that we must never cease

to learn, to study, and to read. One of

the most important gifts we can give

to others is education. By simply

including a provision in my will, I

know that Bertram and I are

providing this gift to future

generations.

Lovetta Blanke

Retired Nurse, Dayton Public Schools

If you are interested in seeing the kind

of impact you could make at Wright

State, please contact the Office of

Planned Giving at (937) 775-2251.

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Outstanding ArchitectureWright State’s campus architecture is getting noticed: it was cited in the book Educational Environments, published by the Society ofCollege and University Planners, which highlights outstanding architecture and design from colleges and universities around the nation.The publication notes that the WSU campus “possesses a genuine and appealing sense of place.” The Millett Hall renovation projectreceived the Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture from the Dayton Builders Exchange. The university shared the award with thearchitectural firm of Levin Porter Associates, Inc.

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