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MAGAZINE
SPRING 2010
The Write Stuff
By the time this issue o
DePauw Magazine
reaches you, I will benishing up my second year atDePauw. Tese rst two years havefown by, and I am constantly amazed by how much has takenplace here on campus. But I remainocused on how much more I know we want to achieve or DePauw.Quite simply, we are continuinga comprehensive review o whereDePauw is and where it can go.Much has already been accomplished. Most notably, we havemanaged to navigate our way through an extraordinarily challeng-ing economic environment while maintaining the highest possiblequality educational experience or our students. Tis is no smalleat, and we have managed it because every segment o the DePauw community has pulled together to make it so.Te challenges or higher education in this country are not over,o course, but our strength in coming through these times willdepend upon our ability to look beyond the immediate challenges tothe years and decades ahead, and in xing our vision on how DePauw will continue to develop and thrive throughout that longer uture. We must continue to build on our strengths i we are to ensure thatthis very special school will be around to provide grateul students with a DePauw education 100 years rom now. We have an oppor-tunity to build on existing strengths to be a liberal arts college andschool o music o national and international reach and reputation.It is hard to believe that it wasthree years ago that I wrote in thesepages about my new role as chairo DePauw’s Board o rustees. Atthat time we aced the dauntingtask o searching to identiy thenew DePauw president, our rstin more than 22 years, who wouldlead DePauw orward into a new period o its history. oday, despiteall the stormy uncertainty o thelast ew years, DePauw is poised tomove orward into this still-young century with renewed energy andstrength, rmly establishing its place as one o our nation’s very nestinstitutions o higher education. As DePauw anticipates its 175th an-niversary in 2012, we can refect back through our long history withpride, and we can look orward with bold ambition and a determinedresolution to ensure that DePauw grows ever stronger.It has been my great honor to serve DePauw as chair o theBoard o rustees these past three years. When I stood on the stageand perormed my role as chair at the inauguration o our new president, I was deeply moved by the powerul sense I had o beinga part o the history o this remarkable school, o being a part o something enduring, something grand, something greater thanmysel. It was a special moment. We have had much to celebrate over the past two years, romthe successes o our recent graduates in charting their post-DePauw careers, to our national coverage as a place where students receiveindividual attention and are prooundly nurtured, to our increasesin applications or admission, to our post-season play in multiplesports, and on and on. Tere is an excitement on our campus, aeeling that we are all engaged in a special period in the history o this place. Now is the time to push orward.Our aculty have voted in and are still considering changes toour curriculum designed to better support student development intheir our years here, and the aculty’s work will continue through thesummer and into the all. We have also identied some immediateand longer-term improvements that must be made to our physicalenvironments, and we are developing a strategy that will better com-municate, across the nation and the world, all that is most wonderulabout DePauw. DePauw is poised to take a bold step orward. You, the alumni, are very much a part o this, and I need tothank you again, all o you who have shared your hopes and dreamsor DePauw, who have come out to meet with me, visited campusand supported our work here. We are entering into an exciting time together, and I am deeply grateul or all that you have done to bring us to where we aretoday, and or all that I know we can accomplish together. Brian W. Casey
From President Brian W. Casey From the chairman o the Board o Trustees
Tose o us who carry DePauw with us into the world are all, o course, part o something greater than ourselves, just as DePauw is apart o us. Our DePauw experiences are a part o the history that lin-gers in Greencastle, surviving all supercial changes and the passageo years, and DePauw will always be refected in the good its gradu-ates do in the world. My experience as chair has taught me many things, but most o all it has reminded me how very good it is to beconnected to DePauw. I hope that you, reading these words, will nda way to stay engaged with today’s DePauw. For all the troubles o the world, DePauw remains a most wonderul place. As has been the caseor nearly 175 years, today’s DePauw is a place o transormation, o young people striving to become the best adults they can be. It is aplace o energy and discovery. It is a git to us and the world. At the April Board meeting, the rustees o the University elected anew chair. Te uncertainty o these times continues, and my successor who begins service in October o this year, and DePauw, will need tocount on your continued support, your ideas and your pride in ourschool. I rmly believe DePauw’s best days lie ahead. Please join me in watching and supporting DePauw’s optimistic uture.
R. David Hoover, ‘67
Spring 2010
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DePauw Magazine 1
Table
of Contents
DePauw at Copenhagen
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Te DePauw experienceprovides students with moreacademic engagement
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Environmental studies atDePauw will expand
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Kiplinger’s
ranks DePauw among top 50
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DePauw among best at providingstudents with globalexperience
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WGREreceives award or broadcastexcellence
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Studentsexperience Winter erminternships and serviceprojects
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Media Fellowsgain work experience
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DePauw again named toCommunity Service HonorRoll
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UndergraduateEthics Interns support work o Te Prindle Institute
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Internships providehands-on experience orManagement Fellows
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Student newspaper staf recognized with ICPA awards
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Icons o DePauw
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Faculty Bries
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News of theUniversityAlso in this issue
Alumni Programs 28Class Notes 36DePauw profle
10
Gregory L. Schwipps ’95
Faculty perspective: We’re not just writers, we’re teachers
12
Ka’Lena Cuevas ’10
Student perspective: Creating work that is ‘smarter andgreater’ than ourselves
Alumni spotlights:14
Micah Ling ’03
16
Chinonye Chukwu ’07
18
Abby Chew ’02
20
Nicholas Kindelsperger’05 and Blake Royer ’05
22
Catherine Calabro ’06Charles Ballinger ’57
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amara Beauboeu-Laontant
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Anne HustedBurleigh ’63
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James B.Cash ’57
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imothy G.Collins ’80
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Harold J.Cook ’40
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im J. Groeling’92
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Beth Felker Jones’98
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Barbara Kingsolver’77
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Roger B. Nelsen ’64
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Duane S. Nickell ’80
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Kent A. Ono ’87
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Scott W.Rasmussen ’86
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David H.ripp and Wesley W. Wilson
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Feature:The Write Stu RecentWords
DePauw Magazine
Spring 2010 • Volume 73 • No. 3
Alumni share theirexperience and network with students duringon-campus program
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Attorneys andPhysicians Weekend
(Cover image: Larry Ligget)
Larry G. Anderson
,editor
765-658-4628
landersn@depauw.edu
Richard Fields
,University photographerphotographicservices@depauw.edu
Kelly A. Graves
,designer, assistant directoro publicationskgraves@depauw.edu
Donna Grooms
,class notes editordgrooms@depauw.edu
Larry G. Ligget
,editorial assistant,photographerlarryligget@depauw.edu
Jennier ClarksonSoster ’88,
executive director o alumni relations765-658-4208 jsoster@depauw.edu
DePauw Alumni Association Ofcers Janet L. Johns ’85,
president
Marcus R. Veatch ’75,
vice president
Sarah RobertsHoughland ’65,
secretary
Sta
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