| 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. |