2016 MONMOUTH COLLEGE CALENDAR
TEACHING EXCELLENCE A CONTINUING LEGACY 700 east broadway monmouth, illinois 61462 www.monmouthcollege.edu 12|15 4200
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee…” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dear Friends: From our first acquaintance with Monmouth, Lobie and I were impressed with its tradition of empowering young people for lives of learning, leadership, and service. This year’s calendar pays tribute to that tradition through the stories of just a few of the many faculty and staff who established that legacy in the past, who nurture and enhance it today, and who will carry it forward to even higher levels of accomplishment in the future. We could have drawn from a deep pool of examples, for no matter what our particular titles or job descriptions might be, each one of us who is privileged to work at Monmouth College is an educator, contributing powerfully to the guided growth of our students. The strength of this tradition is further demonstrated in the number of Monmouth alumni who return to serve the College. In this calendar, four former faculty members and two current faculty are Monmouth alumni. When Lobie and I travel to meet with alumni around the country, we’re often asked, “Are there faculty members like Doc Kieft, Bernice Fox, or Eva Cleland? Staff members like Jean Liedman, Woody Ball, or Glen Rankin?” We say proudly and loudly say “Yes!” Their names are different, but they are here, now, serving and leading. Many of you will recognize the couple in the photo that Lobie and I are holding. Between 1974 and 1979, President DeBow Freed and First Lady Kitty Freed guided the College with grace, dignity, and a sense of duty. As Kentucky natives, we share their southern roots, and like Lobie, Kitty holds a BFA degree and a great devotion to the arts. We are proud to be the most recent link in that legacy of service that stretches back to David Wallace.
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
Thank you for your continuing support of Monmouth College. Let the turning of the pages of this calendar serve as a reminder of how your gifts of time, talent, and treasure make possible this continuing tradition of leadership, commitment, and service. All the best,
President Clarence R. Wyatt and First Lady Lobie Stone
Clarence R. Wyatt President
A 20-year veteran of the Art Department, Stacy Lotz (left) holds both an M.A. and MFA in sculpture. As chair of the department, she recently presided over the hiring of its newest faculty member, Tybre Newcomer, whose specialty is ceramics. “He’s much more than a functional potter,” Lotz said. “His functional work is outstanding, but it’s the sculptural work that really blew us away.” Both artists are admirers of the work of Professor Emeritus Harlow Blum, whose teaching career spanned from 1959 to 1999, and who continues to produce innovative collagebased art from his home studio in Monmouth.
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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The 2015 recipient of Monmouth College’s prestigious Hatch Teaching Award, Ken Cramer (left) is a noted authority on animal behavior and ecology, with attention to environmental issues. One of Monmouth’s most innovative faculty members in student study-travel courses, he has led student scientific expeditions from the boundary waters of Minnesota to the Galapagos islands. His new colleague, Eric Engstrom, is a botanist with a Ph.D. in biological science from Stanford, who is one of three new faculty hired to administer Monmouth’s new food security initiative. The biologists follow in the footsteps of the late John Ketterer, whose distinguished 33-year career in the department was punctuated by a legendary wit.
PHOTO: GEORGE HARTMANN
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Madge Sanmann was a 1921 Monmouth College graduate who decided to pursue a Ph.D. following the untimely death of her husband. After a career that included teaching and social work, she joined the Monmouth sociology faculty in 1949, heading the department until her retirement in 1969. Her signature teaching method involved sending students into the local community to conduct research. Steve Buban, who currently chairs the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, came to Monmouth in 1977. Originally a math major, he decided that sociology gave him better insight into understanding the social turmoil of the late 1960s. A recipient of the Hatch Award for Distinguished Service, he has chaired Faculty Senate and has been active in community service. Megan Hinrichsen joined the department in 2015. An anthropologist working at the intersection of cultural and biological anthropology, her research has focused on the impacts that social and economic life have on health, nutrition, and overall wellbeing in Latin America and the United States. PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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1 2 3 4 5 Spring Break begins at end of day
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Daylight Saving Time begins
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St. Patrick’s Day
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Easter break begins at end of day
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27 28 29 30 31 Easter Sunday
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Good Friday College closed
Jean Liedman, a 1927 Monmouth graduate, taught speech for four decades at her alma mater, and also served as dean of women. During her tenure, she would serve as faculty adviser to a future chair of the Communication Studies Department, Lee McGaan ’69, who has taught at Monmouth since 1986. A former U.S. Army psychology specialist, McGaan earned his Ph.D. in organizational communication. He has chaired numerous faculty committees and currently focuses on coordinating student internships and curriculum to enhance civic engagement. His new colleague in the department, Lori WaltersKramer, was recently recognized for working to transform a Fundamentals of Communication course from a public speaking format to a broader approach, emphasizing both civic engagement and information literacy. (Photograph taken in Monmouth’s new FM broadcast radio station studio.)
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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Earth Day
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Pi Beta Phi founded at Monmouth College (1867)
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Hugh R. Beveridge ’23, who taught mathematics from 1929 until his death in 1961, carried on a teaching legacy established by his Monmouth professor, Alice Winbigler, who handpicked him to be her successor. Today’s chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Marta Tucker, joined the Monmouth faculty in 1983. The recipient of the Hatch Award for Distinguished Teaching, she has also served as associate dean. Her newest colleague, Andrew Ylvisaker, came to Monmouth in 2015 from Iowa State University, where he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics, conducted research in algebraic logic, and taught undergraduate math.
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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Cinco De Mayo Reading Day
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A gifted violinist and music educator, Heimo “Hal” Loya had been director of the Sibelius Male Chorus of Chicago when he joined the Monmouth faculty in 1936. Over the next 37 years, he would bring the college orchestra to regional prominence, organize a marching band and chair an expanding Music Department. Since 1986, Carolyn Suda, an accomplished cellist and clinician, has continued to expand Monmouth’s musical reputation as director of its renowned Chamber Orchestra. Matthew Wanken, the newest member of the music faculty, conducts both the Monmouth Winds and the popular Fighting Scots Marching Band.
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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26 27 28 29 30 Last day for 2015-2016 Monmouth Fund contributions
As the Pattee Professor of Political Economy and Commerce, Ken McMillan (left) brings a diverse set of experiences to the teaching of business and economics. With degrees in agricultural science and agricultural economics, he worked as an assistant to the president of the Illinois Farm Bureau, as a personal assistant to a U.S. Congressman and as chief speechwriter for the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, before being elected to the Illinois State Senate. He first joined the Monmouth faculty in 1989. Emeritus Professor Rod Lemon (center), a 1963 Monmouth College graduate, also brought an agricultural background to his teaching and research, having been raised on a sixthgeneration family farm, which he continues to operate in retirement. Considered one of the founding fathers of the department, he spent 31 years in the classroom, while also serving as an internationally respected analyst on natural gas and energy issues. The newest member of the department, Ramses Armendariz (right), specializes in the economics of food security and international trade. He hails from Mexico, where he did his undergraduate studies.
PHOTO: JEFF RANKIN
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For more than two decades, Tom Sienkewicz (left) has continued the work of his predecessor, the late Bernice Fox, in teaching the Classics at Monmouth with a passion. After having been honored last year with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Illinnois Classical Conference, he earned the 2015 Hatch Academic Excellence Award for Distinguished Service. The Minnie Billings Capron Professor of Classics at Monmouth, he also serves as chief executive and financial officer of The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, the journal of which is published at Monmouth. The newest member of the department, Bob Simmons, shares Sienkewicz’s energy and enthusiasm. In his first year on the faculty, he organized a highly successful Classics Day last spring, featuring more than 25 events such as ancient military demonstrations. Professor Fox taught Classics at Monmouth from 1947 until 1981. Her collection of classical artifacts is displayed in the Capron Classics Room in Wallace Hall.
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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A recipient of Monmouth College’s Hatch Academic Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching, Craig Watson (right) has been a member of the English Department faculty since 1986, specializing in American literature, modern fiction and poetry. David Wright (left), who joined the department in 2013, is a widely published poet with a scholarly interest in how poets engage with the communities in which they live. Eva Cleland, who taught in the department from 1923 to 1977, is remembered by generations of Monmouth students for the vivacity and enthusiasm she brought to the study of English literature.
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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A changing of the guard occurred in 2002, when Monmouth’s longtime director of theatre Jim De Young retired, and the title was transferred to his former student, Doug Rankin ’79, who has taught in the Theatre Department since 1988, specializing in technical theatre and digital technology. Currently active in regional management of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, he recently led an effort to create a cuttingedge student design lab in Wells Theatre. His colleague Emily Rollie, who joined the department in 2013, has a passion for acting, directing, and children’s theatre. One of her first initiatives was the development of an annual theatre festival, in which students write, create and stage a series of short plays within a period of just 24 hours.
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Homecoming Weekend Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Columbus Day
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Yom Kippur Fall break begins at end of day
Kappa Kappa Gamma founded at Monmouth College (1870)
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Mentoring Day
Since 1984, Ira Smolensky (left) has brought a unique perspective to the Department of Political Science. The Brooklyn, N.Y., native began his education working in a series of blue-collar jobs, including a bagel bakery and an auto parts warehouse. With his philosophy of teaching grounded in practical, real-world examples, it is not surprising that the Hatch Distinguished Teaching Award recipient has written hundreds of passionate letters on behalf of his students seeking employment or applying to graduate school. He follows in the tradition of Carl Gamer, who taught in the department from 1946 to 1965. An ordained minister, Gamer was an outspoken pacifist and a champion for civil rights, who was not afraid to speak his mind on controversial issues. Nathan Kalmoe (right), who joined the department in 2014, specializes in U.S. politics, using quantitative and qualitative research to analyze voting trends. He is currently writing a book on partisan voting and violence in the American Civil War.
PHOTO: JEFF RANKIN
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20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Thanksgiving break begins at end of day
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Thanksgiving Day College closed
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The Rev. Dr. Teri McDowell Ott has occupied the pulpit of Dahl Chapel and Auditorium as college chaplain since 2011. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), she previously served as a church pastor in North Carolina. At Monmouth, she has dedicated her efforts to expanding the religious and spiritual life programs on campus, including the development of an ambitious new initiative called the Lux Center for Church and Religious Leadership, designed to nurture and equip students to become servant leaders.
The Rev. Dr. B. Kathleen Fannin served as chaplain from 1998 until her retirement in 2010. The holder of a Ph.D. in ministry from Wesley Theological Seminary and an author of a number of books on worship and meditiation, she is credited for having revitalized the College’s religious life program after a period of years in which the chaplaincy had stood vacant. Under her guidance, Monmouth received a Campus Ministry of the Year Award from the National Campus Ministry Association.
The Rev. Dr. Stafford Weeks became Monmouth’s chaplain in 1959. He taught full-time in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department through 1986 and part-time until 1990, while also four stints as dean of the College. Prior to his death in 2009, the building which currently houses the department and the office of the chaplain was named Weeks House in his honor.
PHOTO: KENT KRIEGSHAUSER
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College closed through January 2, 2017
Christmas Eve Hanukkah begins at sundown (through January 1, 2017)
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Christmas Day
Kwanzaa begins (through January 1, 2017)
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2016 tax year ends