| Dixon's second season long overdue (Springfield News-Sun © 12/25/2008) One by one, they file into the training room inside Wittenberg's HPER Center: Rachel Dixon, Carrie Dyer, Katie Gardner, Kellsea Vasileff, Victoria Leali and Kristin Donawerth. They call themselves the Knee Girls, which explains the heavy smell of Icy Hot in the room. |
| Witt students socialize service dogs (Springfield News-Sun © 12/21/2008) Lauren Bryant promised herself she would not get attached to the golden retriever puppy placed in her care in September. But as the Wittenberg University senior planned to go home for Christmas vacation last week, the thought of returning N'Sync to 4 Paws for Ability brought tears to her eyes. |
| FEATURED AUTHOR: Carla Sarratt (Wittenberg Alumna) (SORMAG's Blog © 12/15/2008) A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Carla Sarratt currently calls Charlotte, North Carolina her home. After graduating from Wittenberg University, she used her degree to teach high school English for five years. It was in her last year of teaching that she combined her love of literature and her experiences as a high school student and teacher to give birth to the Carter G Woodson High School series. |
| Women's hoops, abstract art form coach's yin, yang (Springfield News-Sun © 12/14/2008) Wittenberg University women's hoops coach Sarah Jurewicz brings new meaning to the phrase "the art of coaching." In her second year on the bench for the Tigers, Jurewicz has temporarily ramped up the pursuit of one of her two life passions - basketball - while pulling in the reins on the other. |
| Book traces Wittenberg history (Springfield News-Sun © 12/10/2008) The back cover of William Kinnison's "Wittenberg: An American College" ($34.99 Xlibris) reports a telling fact: "Half of all the colleges founded before the Civil War did not survive." Why did Wittenberg? In part because of Ezra Keller's choice of Springfield as its home, Kinnison said. |
| Witt theater prof wins state award (Springfield News-Sun © 12/5/2008) Corwin Georges, chairman of the Wittenberg University theater and dance department, has been named one of eight winners of the 2009 Governor's Awards for the Arts in Ohio. |
| Private-College Presidents Discuss the Economy (Chronicle of Higher Education © 11/24/2008) As the economy unravels, colleges and universities find themselves facing big challenges. The Chronicle spoke with the presidents of four private institutions, including Mark H. Erickson of Wittenberg University, and asked them what they're doing to cope. |
| Choose Ohio First Scholarships Available
(Springfield News-Sun © 11/21/2008) Wittenberg University and Clark State Community College are among eight Miami Valley institutions now accepting applications for Choose Ohio First Scholarships - part of $3.94 million in state funding for students currently in, or preparing to enter the STEMM fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. |
| Inauguration Tickets Excite Locals
(Springfield News-Sun © 11/20/2008) It just may be the hottest ticket in town. And some locals practically already have tickets to President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration in their hot little hands. Courtney Davenport, 19, is a native of Springfield at Ohio State University. An Obama supporter, Davenport secured her tickets to the Jan. 20, 2009 event by participating in the University Presidential Inaugural Conference. |
| Greater Good More Important Than Personal Inconvenience
(Springfield News-Sun © 11/09/2008) Reduce your carbon footprint - the current slogan for fighting global climate change, up close and personal. But which carbon footprint? We humans participate at two levels in adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, now in carbon dioxide "overload": one universal (and natural) to all life on earth, the second distinctively human. |
| Witt Volleyball in NCAA Photo Gallery
(Springfield News-Sun © 11/14/2008) Photos from the NCAA Division III regional quarterfinal game against Muskingum at the Pam Evans Smith Arena on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. |
| Wittenberg Opens High-Tech Geek House
(Springfield News-Sun © 11/06/2008) Wittenberg University, one of the first schools in the nation to offer a computation science minor, has opened a Geek House - a tech-rich building designed to allow students to unleash their imaginations. |
| Going 'Trayless'
(The Luthern © November 2008) Cafeteria trays-piled high with plates and beverages or used as makeshift winter sleds-may soon be a thing of the past on college campuses. "Trayless" dining halls are the latest trend in the "greening" of higher education. |
| Witt Fans Can See Tigers on TV, Internet
(Springfield News-Sun © 10/24/2008) The question of whether Wittenberg football is ready for prime time won't be answered this week. But how about 2 p.m. on an NFL Sunday afternoon. The Tigers' 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, game against Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh will be televised 24 hours later on ESPNU. Carnegie Mellon paid to have its homecoming game aired on the network. |
| Biologist Defends Evolution: 'Theories are Built on Facts'
(Springfield News-Sun © 10/14/2008) The battle over evolution isn't finished, evolutionary biologist Ken Miller told a crowd of more than 350 people at Wittenberg University. The author and scientist spoke about evolution and intelligent design Monday night, Oct. 13, at the Bayley Auditorium, as part of the university's 2008-09 Witt Series, and far more people turned out for the lecture than could fit in the small auditorium. |
| Wittenberg Boosts Efforts to Strengthen Community
(Springfield News-Sun © 9/28/2008) Universities teach, right? They're educational institutions and that's their primary directive and what we expect them to do. They take kids out of high schools and teach them what they need to know to make their way and thrive in a complicated world. "Having light, we pass it on to others," is the lofty motto of Wittenberg University here in Springfield. |
| Wittenberg Opens Center for Civic Engagement
(Springfield News-Sun © 9/24/2008) Wittenberg University has used its motto "Having light, we pass it on to others," as its model for robust student community involvement. The university on Wednesday, Sept. 24 unveiled a way to narrow the focus of students' community service into specific areas it believes can have the greatest impact in the community. |
| Remembering 'The Little General'
(Globe and Mail © 9/18/2008) Most of them were on the phone Thursday, chatting to one another about the loss of their teammate and friend. "All the old Roughies," former Saskatchewan Roughriders player Bill Baker said, "we've been talking about Ronnie and having some laughs." |
| Lancaster Will Always be a Rider
(Canada Leader-Post © 9/19/2008) Just months before his death, Ron Lancaster marvelled at his lengthy love affair with a league -- and a country -- that were initially foreign to him. |
| Wittenberg Investment Gets Wall Street's Attention
(Springfield News-Sun © 9/13/2008) Wittenberg University caught the eye of Wall Street after the university's investment club bucked a down-trend in the market to see an impressive return on their investments. |
| Maurer Reflects on Time of Magic
(Springfield News-Sun © 9/13/2008) Several times a week, Dave Maurer leaves his room at Eaglewood Village and heads out in his red Ford Focus - just him and his memories on a driving tour he knows as well as any playbook. |
| Wittenberg University's Wall Street Connection
(Main Street © 9/03/2008) College students in a classroom did what many on Wall Street cannot: Beat the Market. In eight years, a small group of Wittenberg University students saw returns on a $50,000 grant increase by more than 50%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500, the club's benchmark, is down more than 13%. |
| Expectations Soar for Tigers in 2008
(The Springfield News-Sun © 8/31/2008) The temperature soared past 90. Practice ended. The players headed to the locker room. Some didn't even get that far before stripping off their pads and uniform tops and hopping in a trash can full of cold water. |
| Tigers at Home with High Expectations
(The Springfield News-Sun © 8/28/2008) By now, Wittenberg University volleyball coach Paco Labrador is used to high expectations. He just wishes, for once, his Tigers could live up to the highest of them and win that elusive NCAA Division III volleyball title. Witt, ranked fourth in the preseason poll, will have to reload if it wants to make its fourth straight Final Four appearance. The Tigers lost their super-senior class to graduation. |
| Wittenberg Senior Revels in Democratic Convenstion
(The Springfield News-Sun © 8/29/2008) When Hannah Johnson returns to Wittenberg University next week, she's going to "hit the floor running." The 20-year-old president of Wittenberg's Democratic Party has recharged her Obama campaign batteries after attending the College Democrats of America convention in Denver this week. |
| Witt Junior is a March of Dimes Inspiration
(The Springfield News-Sun © 8/27/2008) He was 9 months old when his grandmother first pulled him in a little red wagon during the annual March for Babies. Betty Keller of Springfield was involved in March of Dimes for 20 years before grandson Jeremy was born with spina bifida or "cleft spine," a birth defect characterized by the incomplete development of the brain, spinal cord and/or meninges. |
| Nextbook at Wittenberg
(The Dayton Jewish Observer © 8/25/2008) You won't hear discussions about Archie and Jughead. No, the Nextbook reading series entitled Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel at Wittenberg University's library in Springfield beginning this month will illustrate that comic art is no laughing matter. |
| Freshman Arrive at Two Miami Valley Universities
(WHIO Dayton © 8/22/2008) It's been an exciting day for thousands of Miami University students. Over 3,000 new students and their parents packed the campus Thursday morning for freshmen move-in day. The class of 2012 has already surpassed the university's goals. This year's class has over 3,00 students which is over 200 more than the original target. |
| Wittenberg Welcomes Class of 2012
(Springfield News-Sun © 8/21/2008) Eshini Panditharatna's mother is taking her daughter's first day of college rather hard. As her 18-year-old daughter settles into her new life at Wittenberg University, Panditharatna's mother will be boarding a plane home - to Sri Lanka. |
| WittNation Builds Web Mileage for Alumni
(Springfield News-Sun © 8/19/2008) More than 800 Wittenberg University alumni attended recent events hosted by WittNation cross-country tour, according to university officials' estimates. |
| Wittenberg 'GEEK House' to House Tech Toys (Dayton Business Journal © 8/15/2008) When students return to Wittenberg University this fall, they will have new sandbox to play in, only the goal will be to experiment with technology instead of building castles. |
| Road Trip for Alma Mater (The Chronicle of Higher Education © 8/11/2008) This summer, three recent graduates of Wittenberg University who work in the university's advancement office hit the road in a van to meet alumni across the country and videotape their stories. The "Witt Nation" tour stopped in 17 cities and covered more than 8,000 miles. Brian J. DeSantis, a 2007 graduate and assistant director of the Wittenberg Fund, shares stories from the 21-day trip. |
| Wittenberg, Wabash Favored (The Cleveland Plain Dealer © 8/09/2008) Wittenberg and Wabash emerged as preseason favorites Friday in the North Coast Athletic Conference's preseason football balloting. In the media balloting, both teams compiled 227 points. Wittenberg, 8-2 overall and the NCAC runner-up in 2007, took the top spot in the coaches' poll. |
| Tigers, Wabash are NCAC Football Co-Favorites (The Springfield News-Sun © 8/09/2008) There is no overtime in preseason voting. Wittenberg and Wabash will have to wait until Oct. 18 to settle things. The North Coast Athletic Conference football coaches tabbed the Tigers as the preseason favorite on Friday, Aug. 8, at Oakhaven Golf Course, but for the first time ever, there was a tie in the media poll. |
| Columbine Survivor: 13 Victims Deserve the Headlines (The Springfield News-Sun © 8/06/2008) Rachel. Daniel. Dave. Kyle. Steve. Cassie. Isaiah. Matthew. Lauren. John. Kelly. Corey. Daniel. The 13 victims of the 1999 Columbine school shooting should be the names in headlines and pictures, Marjorie Lindholm, a Columbine survivor told a room full of Clark County and other area educators, counselors and emergency personnel at Wittenberg University Tuesday, Aug. 5. |
| Maxwell's Equations For Dummies? (Electronic Design © 8/01/2008) I know an engineer who never bothered to memorize Ohm's law. She says that when she needs it, she can always derive it from Maxwell's equations. On the other hand, despite the fact that I aced my "fields" course as an undergraduate all those years ago, I can barely recognize Maxwell's equations when I see them on a t-shirt. |
| Wittenberg Students Promote City (Springfield News-Sun © 8/01/2008) Young adults from Covington, Cleveland, Columbus and Kentucky have fallen in love with Springfield. They want you to, as well. On Thursday, July 31, six Wittenberg University students presented a proposal to help the city promote itself, not to the outside world, but within. |
| Witt's Waddle Teaches Football in Germany (Springfield News-Sun © 7/24/2008) It wasn't exactly a recruiting trip, but Andy Waddle made sure he spread the Wittenberg University name around in a country that knows Wittenberg as a city. Waddle, entering his third season as the Tigers' defensive coordinator, traveled to Germany from June 17-28 to work as an instructor at the Kaiserslautern Youth Tackle Football Camp. |
| Witt Professor Enjoying Book's Success (Springfield News-Sun © 7/21/2008) Dan Fleisch had reason to be worried about how well his newly published book would sell. He had heard that for every equation an author adds to a book, sales drop exponentially and Fleisch's book was based on nothing but equations. |
| Bonar, Sine Share the Lead (Springfield News-Sun © 7/20/2008) Wittenberg University will soon play host to a dialogue event at the end of July that aims to find solutions to end disparities in minority health. The event, labeled a "Local Conversation on Disparities in Minority Health," will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Univeresity to Host Minority Health Care Event (Dayton Business Journal © 7/18/2008) Wittenberg University will soon play host to a dialogue event at the end of July that aims to find solutions to end disparities in minority health. The event, labeled a "Local Conversation on Disparities in Minority Health," will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Wittenberg Alumni on an Outreach Roadtrip (WDTN NBC Dayton © 7/11/2008) Wittenberg University alumni are on a summer road trip. They'll be driving all over the country, greeting and lending a hand to volunteers, who are doing good from coast to coast. Four alumni left in a van at noon on Friday. Alumni donated the van, paid for the decorations on it, and also paid for the gas. Others will be joining them along the way. |
| Comic-Con 2008 Sunday July 27th Schedule is out! (Geek Tyrant © 7/11/2008) Venkman Here and I got the Comic-Con 2008 Sunday July 27th schedule! All of us that go to the Con know that Sunday is Kids day! Yay! But it dosent mean there are some other cool things to check out! So here is the list! |
| Wittenberg Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Alumni Relations Cross-Country Tour (Ohio.com © 7/11/2008) In an age of instantaneous communication, there is no substitute for face-to-face contact. That personal touch has made Wittenberg a leader in liberal arts education for more than 160 years, and it is the driving force behind a first-of-its-kind alumni relations cross-country tour called Witt Nation. |
| Wittenberg Hits the Road for 18-City Tour (Springfield News-Sun © 7/11/2008) Eighteen cities, 7,000 miles, 25 days. That's what Wittenberg University staff members hope to cover during a cross-country road trip that embarked for Cleveland, Friday, June 11, and will touch two oceans before returning home Aug. 2. |
| University Gets $1.5M to Establish Program (Springfield News-Sun © 7/03/2008) Wittenberg University has received $1.5 million to establish an endowed chair in entrepreneurship. Alumni Robert E. and Lynn Noble Ness said they were inspired to establish the Ness Chair in Entrepreneurship after hearing the university's recently adopted strategic plan. |
| Wittenberg gets $1.5 million endowment from UA couple (Columbus Business First © 7/02/2008) Wittenberg University will expand its entrepreneurship programs with the help of a $1.5 million endowment given by an Upper Arlington couple to the school. The endowment from Robert Ness and wife Lynn Noble Ness will enable the Springfield university to establish the Ness Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and expand its management program. |
| $3.94 million going to scholarships (Dayton Daily News © 6/28/2008) Eight Miami Valley colleges and universities will share $3.94 million in funding for scholarships in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine, also referred to as STEM. |
| Geological Study Gets $46,300 Boost at Wittenberg (Springfield News-Sun © 6/27/2008) Quality equipment and extensive field experience are crucial in the area of geological study. Wittenberg University will offer the best of both to its incoming geology students this fall, thanks to a National Science Foundation grant and the Mad River. |
| Fate Hands Witt Hoops 11 New Recruits (Springfield News-Sun © 6/26/2008) Wittenberg men's basketball coach Bill Brown and his assistants can run wind sprints the entire offseason in the recruiting game. Sometimes, though, as even Brown admitted, it comes down to "fortune and fate." That explains how several of the 11 players in Wittenberg's 2008 recruiting class ended up picking the Tigers. |
| Six to be Inducted into Wittenberg's Hall of Honor (Springfield News-Sun © 6/26/2008) Six Wittenberg University greats will be inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Honor during 2008 Homecoming Weekend ceremonies, Oct. 10-12. |
| PPM America Names Jim Young Chief Investment Officer (PPM America © 6/23/2008) PPM America (PPMA), an institutional investment advisory services provider with approximately $78 billion in assets under management1, has promoted Jim Young to Chief Investment Officer. In this role, Mr. Young, 42, will oversee all portfolio management and public fixed income functions in addition to retaining his existing responsibilities. Mr. Young is also the chairman of firm's Credit Approval Committee. |
| Dayton Schools Picks Interim Superintendent (Dayton Daily News © 6/20/2008) The Dayton school board on Thursday night, June 19, named Kurt T. Stanic interim superintendent, a transitional post that could last a full school year. Stanic, who last year retired as superintendent of North Olmsted schools near Cleveland, was a unanimous choice, board President Yvonne Isaacs said. |
| Witt Adds 40 Freshmen to Roster (Springfield News-Sun © 6/18/2008) They come from as far away as Hilmar, Calif., and as close as South High School. They range in size from 290 pounds to 152, from 6-foot-4 to 5-4. The 40 players differ in many ways, but they share one important trait - they all chose to play college football at Wittenberg University in the fall. |
| Group Tracks Creatures in Ohio Caves (WDNT Dayton © 6/18/2008) A group of researchers is spending the summer taking an inventory of everything that lives in Ohio caves. Wittenberg University biology professor Horton Hobbs is leading the 2-year, statewide census funded by $30,000 from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
| Beetles, Bats and Blind Crickets (The Columbus Dispatch © 6/17/2008) Bill Stitzel ditched his "Guano: Breakfast of cavers" sweat shirt, knotted his do-rag and strapped on elbow and knee pads. The Springfield mechanic and three fellow cavers were suiting up in front of a faded red barn near their camp site, preparing for an early morning hike. |
| Youth Tennis Rebirth on Tap? (Springfield News-Sun © 6/11/2008) It appeared as if a giant swarm of insects had descended onto the courts at Wittenberg University's Albright Tennis Complex on Tuesday, June 10. In reality, what had descended on those courts was hope. |
| Interim CEO Smith 'Radiates Strength' (The Charlotte Observer © 6/03/2008) Wachovia's chairman and interim chief executive, Lanty Smith, has experience ranging from textiles to law, from medical device research to merchant banking. Smith has served on the Wachovia board for more than 20years. He became chairman last month, replacing Ken Thompson after dismal earnings, and now is the full-time chief until a new CEO is on board. |
| Phillis Hired as Troy High Principal (Red Obrit © 5/27/2008) Troy High School's new principal is no stranger to the halls of the school. Ron Phillis, who has 30 years experience with the Troy City Schools as a teacher, coach and administrator, was hired May 12 by the Board of Education as high school principal, effective Aug. 1. He will be paid $105,000 a year under a two-year contract. He replaces Eric Herman, who has been principal for two years while also serving as director of secondary education/ technology. Herman will return to the director's post fulltime. |
| Collaborative to Fund E-Text Equipment for Students with Disabilites (Springfield News-Sun © 5/22/2008) It takes between 40 and 50 hours to convert one university textbook into an electronic form useful to students with disabilities. Until recently only four local universities and colleges had the equipment and personnel to tackle the tedious process for their students: Wright State and Wittenberg University, the University of Dayton and Sinclair Community College. |
| Local Circles Members Rely on Allies to Forge Ahead (Springfield News-Sun © 5/22/2008) Melissa Perkins is a 29-year-old mother looking after two daughters, 10 and 12. She has two sons who don't live with her, an uneven work record and a history of drug addiction. Perkins said she is also something else: The head of a circle and "a person working on getting out of poverty." |
| Longtime Employee to Take Reins (Schaumburg Review © 5/22/2008) Nancy Robb, High School District 211's associate superintendent of instruction and a 28-year veteran of the district, is the district's next superintendent of schools. The Board of Education announced Robb's promotion May 15. She will succeed retiring Superintendent Roger Thornton on Jan. 1. |
| The Springfield News-Sun's North Top Male Athletes (Springfield News-Sun © 5/18/2008) The Springfield News-Sun's North High School Top Male Athletes. No. 1 Greg Murphy (1972) -- Drafted by the New York Mets in 1976 and played two years in their minor-league system. Played basketball and baseball at Wittenberg University, and was selected to the school's hall of fame. |
| Couts, Thrasher to be inducted into Hall of Fame (Urbana Daily Citizen © 5/13/2008) Urbana High School graduate Ed Couts and West Liberty-Salem graduate Al Thrasher will both be inducted into the Ohio Hoop Zone Hall of Fame Saturday night at the Columbus Convention Center. |
| Carter Looks Forward to Leading Gahanna Lincoln (Columbus Local News © 5/13/2008) Lincoln High School students will greet a new principal this fall who is no stranger to the district or the high school. Dwight Carter, currently principal at Middle School East, will take the place of Principal Mark White. |
| Dist. 211 Names New Superintendent (Daily Herald © 5/16/2008) She's spent 28 years working at Palatine-Schaumburg High District 211, and starting in January Nancy Robb will lead the state's largest high school district and its 13,000 students. |
| Grandfather Graduated after 56 Year Hiatus (Springfield News Sun © 5/9/2008) Ken Wells had two thoughts when he watched his son's 1999 graduaton from Ohio State University. "I was very proud,of course," Wells said," but at the same time, I was thinking 'I wish I could have done the same thing.'" |
| Springfield Must Continue Revitalization Course, Pennsylvania Mayor Urges (Springfield News Sun © 5/9/2008) Closed manufacturing plants, brownfields and a university in town. It might sound like Springfield, but that also describes Bethlehem, Pa.That's why the Center City Association asked Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan to speak at its annual meeting Thursday, May 8. |
| Funds Keep Legendary Coach Alive (Springfield News Sun © 5/6/2008) Etched into the wooden floor in the lobby of Wittenberg University's historic Recitation Hall is the motto, "Having Light We Pass It On To Others." There was no more fitting place to award the first two Pam Evans Smith '82 Memorial Scholarships on a beautiful spring day on the campus Monday, May 5. |
| Rotary Honors Outstanding Teachers (New Carlisle Sun © 5/1/2008) The New Carlisle Rotary presented the Outstanding Teacher Award to three local teachers Tuesday afternoon. The winners are Elizabeth Beaty, fourth grade teacher at Northwestern Elementary; Cindy Macasek, fourth grade teacher at New Carlisle Elementary; and Danielle Romine, second grade teacher at Medway Elementary. |
| Local Painter Finds Rich Palette South of the Border (Springfield News Sun © 5/1/2008) After eight years, Jack Osbun still doesn't drink the water. But the retired Wittenberg University art professor knows a thing or two about risk - he regularly drives his car into Mexico. "Your insurance isn't any good," Osbun explained. "You have to buy Mexican insurance." |
| Most Challenging Opponent (Batesville Herald Tribune © 4/28/2008) Loyal Bishop played three sports in college, earning seven varsity letters and induction into the Wittenberg University Hall of Honor. Aside from losing several teeth from jarring hits - Bishop returned kickoffs for the Tigers' football team - he emerged with no lifelong injuries or chronic pain. |
| Wittenberg University Could Add to Campus (Springfield News-Sun © 4/23/2008) Wittenberg University could add more than 5 acres to its campus, if city commissioners approve rezoning the land. Springfield city commissioners held a public hearing and first reading to rezone two former school buildings and a vacant lot to educational campus district. |
| Disease Transforms Ex-Athlete Into Activist (The Columbus Dispatch © 4/10/2008) On a summer morning in 1997, Christian "Chris" Hill woke up partially blind in one eye. The athletic 27-year-old figured he had injured himself playing soccer. "I thought, 'Oh, I scratched my cornea.' " Medical tests proved otherwise: He had multiple sclerosis. |
| Junior Service League Honors Three for Outstanding Community Service (Springfield News-Sun © 4/10/2008) Gretta Runyan thought spending the winter in Florida was great and that turning 70 would be the highlight of her year. Then the Junior Service League called to say she and two others - Mary Lu Noonan and Lori Bartell - would receive the league's first awards for distinctive service. |
| Wittenberg Creates Community Projects with Federal Funding (Springfield News-Sun © 4/10/2008) Wittenberg University will use more than $1.3 million in federal funding to create programs to benefit the university and the community. The funding, approved by legislators in December for a five-year cycle, is expected to be released to the school before the next fiscal year, which starts July 1. U.S. Rep. David Hobson, R-Springfield, sponsored the earmarks that will permit one existing program to continue and create two new community projects... |
| Wittenberg Alumnus, Bill Martin, "A Very Successful Businessman" (The Michigan Daily © 4/9/2008) Michigan athletics is big business. The University of Michigan Athletic Department has a budget of $74.5 million and projected revenue of $87.4 million this fiscal year. Last summer, Adidas and the University inked in an 8-year agreement worth $7.5 million for the company to supply apparel to Michigan's 25 athletic teams. The new basketball coach makes $1.3 million a year with bonuses for reaching the NCAA Trounament and an extra $150,000 for winning it. |
| The Beaux Arts Trio Performs at Wittenberg University (The New York Times © 4/8/2008) In the early part of the 20th century piano trios were glamorous for all the wrong reasons. Mostly, they were occasional collaborations of star soloists: Cortot, Thibaud and Casals, for example, or Rubinstein, Heifetz and Piatigorsky. As chamber groups in the best sense, these trios had nothing on the great string quartets, groups that rehearsed intensively and preformed almost as a single organism. |
| Joshua Benoit, Class of 2005, Teams up with Wittenberg Prof. Jay Yoder |
| Milestone Win Comes in the Midst of Streak for Witt's Hall |
| Wittenberg Lifts up Empty Bowls Serving Meals for Food Pantries (Springfield News-Sun © 4/1/2008) For $12 you can fill your belly and help feed the less fortunate at Empty Bowls fundraiser at Wittenberg University Thursday, April 3. From 4 to 7 p.m., in the atrium of Joseph C. Shouvlin Center for Lifelong Learning, 737 N. Fountain Ave., diners can choose a hand crafted ceramic bowl and fill it from a buffet line of bread, soup and salads. |
| Wittenberg University Teams up with Eyes Wide Open Worldwide Project (Springfield News-Sun © 3/30/2008) Living on a lake is unlike anything most Americans will ever experience but it's a daily life for some Cambodians. "It was like nothing I've ever seen ... It's hard to actually put into words," said Ty Fischer, executive director of Eyes Wide Open Worldwide. Fischer and his children's photography program went to Cambodia for the second time this last fall for a photo festival and to work with nine children there. |
| Simulation Exercise Shows Challenge of Living with Poverty (Springfield News-Sun © 3/28/2008) Students participating in the Community Action Poverty Simulation at Wittenberg University Thursday night, March 27, were asked to cope with a number of challenging fictional scenarios. Judging from some of the students' random comments, the simulations cut very close to reality: "I need some money for the mortgage, lots of it," one person said. |
| Wittenberg Alumnus and Hall of Famer Charlie Green Giving Back in Big Ways (The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Inc. © 3/25/2008) 2002 National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Green of Wittenberg University (Ohio) has lived a Jimmy Stewart-like "wonderful life." From a three-sport star in football, basketball and baseball at Milton-Union High School in Dayton, Ohio, to a professional football career in Boston (New England) Patriots and Oakland Raiders, Green stood out as shining star in the world of athletics. |
| A Cellular Calling for Wittenberg Alumnus (Located towards the middle of this article) (Springfield News-Sun © 3/24/2008) Sometimes a single title can announce someone's status as a star in his field. For C. Fred Fox, it's chairman of the executive committee of the University of California Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program. The 1956 graduate of Springfield High went on to Wittenberg University, attended graduate school in physiological chemistry at Ohio State University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Chicago. |
| Witt Grad Leslie Coaches Title Team (Springfield News-Sun © 3/23/2008) SPRINGFIELD - It had been a long time since Greeneview and Wittenberg graduate Josh Leslie had led a team to the state's final four. So when the former Catholic Central boys basketball coach who led the Irish to the state semifinals in the 1996-97 finally got a team back to Columbus last weekend, he knew there was one thing he was going to do. |
| Wittenberg Senior to Speak at International Conference in Montreal (Springfield News-Sun © 3/22/2008) SPRINGFIELD - Justin Rheubert thinks he might be one of the few undergraduates to take part in an upcoming international science symposium. His Wittenberg University professor believes Rheubert will likely be the only undergraduate author to speak. |
| Congressman Hobson, Class of 1992, is Wittenberg's Commencement Speaker (Springfield News-Sun © 3/21/2008) SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Congressman David Hobson will deliver the keynote speech at Wittenberg University's 163rd Commencement exercise, on May 10. The Rep. legislator from Springfield is serving his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives and will retire in December. His 25-year experience as an influential policy maker made him a timely choice for this year's commencement speaker, said senior class president Mark Preston. |
| Wittenberg to Award STEM Scholarships (Springfield News-Sun © 3/19/2008) SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Wittenberg University has been given $338,400 for scholarship awards to science, technology and engineering majors, as well as others in mathematics, medicine and related education fields. The scholarships, also known as STEM, named after science, technology, engineering athematics/ medicine disciplines, will be awarded over the next five years. |
| Irish Senior Purnell Named Miss Basketball (Springfield News-Sun © 3/18/2008) SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - After 20 years, the Clark County Coaches Miss Basketball award finally has a name - the Pam Evans Smith award. Catholic Central senior Leslie Purnell was named the 2008 Pam Evans Smith Clark County Miss Basketball at the 20th annual Coaches All-Clark County Girls Basketball banquet at Wittenberg's Shouvlin Center on Monday, March 17. |
| Springfield Trumpeter Releases Obama Music Video (Springfield News-Sun © 3/18/2008) SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - When Dean Simms recorded a song in honor of Sen. Barack Obama, it was nothing new. Campaign songs are about as old as campaign lies. But what the Springfield funk trumpeter did is new ground for an American election - he uploaded his own music video on YouTube. |
| Joshua Benoit, Class of 2005, Teams up with Wittenberg Prof. Jay Yoder (Newswise Medical News © 3/17/2008) Their gentle nature, large size, odd sounds and low-maintenance care have made Madagascar hissing cockroaches popular educational tools and pets for years. But the giant insects also have one unfortunate characteristic: Their hard bodies and faces are home to many mold species that could be triggering allergies in the kids and adults who handle the bugs, according to a new study. |
| Field Hockey Athlete joins Fight against ALS (NCAA © 3/14/2008) As a defensive specialist for the Wittenberg field hockey team, Erin Berger is used to shutting down opponents. Off the field, Berger is applying that same tenacious "D" to a devastating condition that can lead to paralysis and death. The sophomore psychology major with a pre-med concentration also is a standout in the classroom, so perhaps it's no suprise that Berge became familiar with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis while studying neurological disease as a part of a physiology course. |
| Survivor of Hiroshima Bombing to Speak at Wittenberg (Springfield News-Sun © 3/11/2008) SPRINGFIELD - Sachiko Masuoka was 22 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. On Friday, the 85-year-old survivor of the bombing will reflect on her experience during a panel discussion to be held at Wittenberg University's Kissell Auditorium in Koch Hall. An exhibit titled "Under the Mushroom Cloud: Reflecting on the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Magasaki," will be on display at Wittenberg's Thompson Gallery until April 12. |
| Poet Billy Collins Reads Selections of His Books at Wittenberg (Springfield News-Sun © 3/10/2008) SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - His first name is not William, nor even Bill, but Billy, bringing to mind a rookie shortstop digging into the batter's box rather than the cliched figure of a self-absorbed poet lurching painfully towards the abyss. That's appropriate. The poetry with which Billy Collins has made his name invariably beings with its feet firmly planted in the common American experience. |
| Wittenberg Students work together with Habitat Home in Mullins (South Carolina Now (SCNow.com) © 3/7/2008) At first, 20 college students from Springfield, Ohio's Wittenberg University were in Mullins to help build the 29th Marion County Habitat for Humanity house. Now students from Lake Forest College, Illinois, have continued their work and started some of their own. |
| Witt Freshman Changing Loyalties (Springfield News-Sun © 3/1/2008) SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Matt Lord drank plenty of tea growing up, but that's not why he will be wearing the jersey of the under-19 English national lacrosse team this summer. Lord's dad, Mike, was born in England, and that connection was enough to get the Wittenberg freshman from Pickerington a tryout with the English team in February. Lord completed in front of the English coaches in Philadelphia and was selected from the team. |
| Wittenberg Alumnus, Matthew Shay, Franchise Association President Gains CEO Title (International Franchise Association © 2/21/2008) WASHINGTON, DC - Matthew R. Shay, president of the International Franchise Association since 2005, has been promoted by the board of directors to assume the additional duties of chief executive officer of the 48-year-old organization. "The international Franchise Association and the franchising industry as a whole is extremely fortunate to have the visionary leadership of Matthew Shay," said IFA Chairman Michael M. Isakson. |
| It's "Wild Wind" at Wittenberg University (Springfield News-Sun © 2/21/2008) SPRINGFIELD- A cultural exchange is a good way of letting people know they're more alike than they think. Especially theater people. As Wittenberg University theater professor Jimmy Humphries points out, any of his students could go overseas to any theater and focus lights. Xiaoqing Hu of Beijing has been brought to campus to direct 21 students in a Chinese play, "Wild Wind." |
| Wittenberg Professor Gives Insight on Pianist Rachmaninoff (Springfield News-Sun © 2/18/2008) "A very tall, grave gentleman ... of irreproachable correctness and sobriety steps without smiling upon the stage. He seats himself at the piano and plays. He does not smile once through the whole occasion. In no way does he gesticulate or parade. All that he communicates he says with two wrists and 10 fingers, without the raising of an eyebrow." |
| Wittenberg - Wooster Rivalry is one of the Best (Springfield News-Sun © 2/16/2008) SPRINGFIELD - Dan Russ had the desire, the experience and the conditioning. "I could have gone right in the game, at least for a few minutes," Russ said. All Russ lacked as he watched the Wittenberg-Wooster game Jan. 19 in Springfield was the eligibility. The former Tiger used his last season in 2006 - and he made the most of his four years, socring 1,476 points - but what he wouldn't have given to play the Scots one more time. |
| Wittenberg Alumnus, Kent Nord, Running to Help the Helpless (The Tribune © 2/15/2008) Kent Nord says he wants to become Seneca County Juvenile and Probate Court judge to protect those who can not speak or protect themselves. "Based on all my experience I have something to offer not only to adults but to those citizens who can't speak or protect themselves, that's the children," Nord said. He graduated from Wittenberg University in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in history and political science. |
| Wittenberg Students Sharpen their Manners at Etiquette Dinner (Springfield News-Sun © 2/12/2008) Wittenberg University seniors, alumni and corporate sponsors learned Tuesday night that they'll never get a second chance to make a first impression. Amid aspiring and established professionals at an etiquette dinner sponsored by the university, etiquette expert Cathi Fallon explained that showing up to an event without an RSVP is not acceptable, neither is the wet-fish handshake nor the left-side nametag. |
| Wittenberg Alumnus, Eddie Ford, North League's First Black Head Coach in Boys Basketball (Springfield News-Sun © 2/10/2008) SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - When Eddie Ford was hired as North's basketball coach in 1989, he was the first black head boys basketball coach in the 10-team Western Ohio League. Ford never played for a black coach as a star player at Dayton Roosevelt High School and Wittenberg University. Don Henderson, North's first head basketball coach, hired Ford in 1979. He moved up the ranks of the Pathers' program from there. |
| Wittenberg Grad Returns to Discuss Hollywood Career (Springfield News-Sun © 2/07/2008) For about an hour Thursday night, Wittenberg University students were able to get career advice from a producer from the television drama ER, an award-winning playwright and former Wittenberg graduate who wrote for the show The West Wing. Lauren Schmidt, a 2000 Wittenberg graduate and writer for The West Wing, talked to students at Witt's Ness Family Auditorium about how she began her career, the difficulties of writing a show and the not-so-glamorous side of Hollywood. |
| Wittenberg Remembers Coach with Renamed Arena (National Collegiate Athletic Assiciation © 2/05/2008) Just eight months after losing women's basketball coach Pam Evans Smith to cancer, Wittenberg remembered her tenure at the school Saturday by renaming its arena in her memory. A number of Smith's former players attended the dedication ceremony, which featured remarks by President Mark H. Erickson and Wittenberg athletics administrators and coaches. |
| Retired Wittenberg Professor Shares His Love of Archeaology (Springfield News-Sun © 2/04/2008) You never know where it will be. You never know when something will strike them. You never know what children will run across that forever changes their lives. Seated at a table in his Forest Hills home, Bob Morris remembered the day it happened to him. |
| Wittenberg Dedicates Arena to Pam Evans Smith (Springfield News-Sun © 2/03/2008) SPRINGFIELD- Wittenberg Univeristy remembered one of its greatest leaders inside the HPER Center on Saturday. A ceremony was held to offically dedicate the gymnasium in honor of former women's basketball player and coach Pam Evans Smith on Saturday before the women's basketball game against Wooster. |
| Alumnus Thomas "Tom" M. Stauffer on guest list for First Lady's Box at State of Union (Washington Post © 1/28/2008) Tom Stauffer began his leadership of the American University of Afghanistan in December 2006 when he was appointed president, CEO and professor of management. In March 2005, First Lady Laura Bush visited the site for the American University of Afghanistan and announced a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to launch the institution. |
| West Virginia names Mullen, Wittenberg class of 1990, offensive coodinator (Charleston Daily Mail © 1/25/2008) It became offical Thurdsay evening. Bill Stewart announced the expected appointment of Jeff Mullen as offensive coordinator and quaterbacks coach for Stewart's new coaching staff at West Virginia University. |
| Christopher Weinrich, Wittenberg Alumnus, Nominated as Teacher of the Week (Orlando Sentinel © 1/24/2008) Classes: "I teach ninth-grade research and inquiry skills for success in college and 12th-grade Advanced Placment micro-and macroeconomics, as well as other levels of economics at Seebreeze High School. Education and experience: I received my bachelor's degree from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and my master's degree from Stetson University. I have been teaching at Seebreeze since 1994. |
| Wittenberg University Welcomes MLK Convocation Keynote Speaker Lani Guinier (Springfield News Sun © 1/22/2008) To Lani Guinier, both the preacher and the president deserve credit for passing civil rights legislation, but an unsung group also deserves credit. Without the inspiration and lobbying of Martin Luther King Jr. and without the sponsorship and signing of President Lyndon Johnson, the bills wouldn't have become law, Guinier told about 900 people Monday at the Wittenberg University Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation. |
| Wittenberg's Strategic Plan for Expansion (Springfield News Sun © 1/10/2008) Landlocked Wittenberg University would grow more than 50 percent if it reached an agreement to purchase Springfield Regional Medical Center, Fountain Boulevard campus. The 163-year-old university, sitting on 95 acres, recently purchased five acres on East College Avenue and is looking to purchase another four acres on East McCreight Street. If it can firm up the acquistion part or all of the 37-acre hospital, it would increase its footprint by 13 acres. |
| Wittenberg Alumnus Brian Agler Named Head Coach of Storm (WNBA.com © 1/09/2008) Brian Agler is the new coach of the Seattle Storm, Storm Chief Operating Officer Karen Bryant announced today. Agler was introduced at a news conference in Seattle. Agler is the third coach in Storm history, which begins its ninth season at Key Arena this summer. He will also assume the role of director of player personnel. |
| Wittenberg Academic Wins Peace Award (Dayton Daily News © 1/03/2008) Most people know the peace movement did not being with the Iraq war, but if they think it began in the late 1960s, they need to think again. Peace movements came and went in the 19th century, but they became more organized before WWI, said Wittenberg University Professor Emeritus of History E. Charles Chatfield. In December, Chatfield was presented the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Peace History Society. |