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Volume 47 Issue 3 • WINTER 2014
MAIN COURSE
The Power of Food 2
Pros and Cons of What You Eat
The Language of Food 4
Personal Essay
The Philosophy of Food 6
Personal Essay
The Business of Food 8
Is it Changing How You Live?

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Athletic Nuggets 14
Food as Fuel
Campus Tidbits 16
Expo, Etiquette, Renaissance and more
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I belong to a group that meets weekly to discuss food. There are five of us,
and we come together because we’re each interested in learning more about the
nutrients in food—or lack of—so we can make better choices about what we eat.
To organize our discussions, we selected a book that provides the science of
foods by not only exposing the vitamins, minerals, proteins and fibers in foods, but
also strips away the marketers’ messages so we can comprehend the contents of
what we are eating. In a world of packaged and processed foods, we no longer feel
we are armed with the best information concerning nutrition and how our bodies
benefit or are harmed. We want to know more, we want to be in charge of our
choices and not be ruled by habit or marketing ploys. In other words, we want to
change the way we think about food.
This issue of USI Magazine brings you a selection of thought-provoking, food-
related stories intended to expand your understanding of the role food plays in all
of our lives. In the features section—renamed Main Course for this issue—we’ve
done something different. Instead of staff-written stories only, we invited two
faculty members to share their personal perspectives of food. Other features
investigate how the food industry impacts our lives, and discuss the impact
certain foods have on our bodies.
Among athletes, food is a priority. To sustain their bodies for peak
performance they not only have to eat the right foods, but a lot of it. In this
issue, learn what it takes to fuel USI’s runners and softball and basketball players
so they can keep setting records and scoring points.
The deeper we indulged in the food theme, the more food stories we found.
We were overwhelmed with campus content that had food connections. It seems
food consumes us even when we aren’t directly consuming it. Campus Tidbits
(aka Campus News) offers an appetizing array of items illustrating the University’s
efforts to combat hunger, pair art and food, provide etiquette education and
introduce foods from other cultures.
My food group wants to learn how to think differently about our food choices
but, as the editor of USI Magazine, I simply want to bring you an assortment of
tasty choices to feed your mind. Bon appétit.

uring times of high anxiety many of us seek comfort in sugary and high-carb foods such as
ice cream, chocolate, macaroni and cheese, pasta, candy and nachos. Frazzled from stress at the
office or impending finals, people often turn to caffeine and sugar for an energy boost that helps
them focus.
But Beth Young, USI instructor in food and nutrition, says caffeine and sugary foods offer only
a very brief boost of energy followed by a quick crash, noting, “If you religiously consume caffeine,
your body is not going to have that reaction to it. But if you’re someone who ordinarily has moder-
ate or low amounts of caffeine, you could see that jolt of focus and your energy level might be up a
bit. You’ll see that benefit only if you don’t have a high tolerance to it.”
The lift from sugar is similarly fleeting. “When you consume sugar, you get that energy rush
because your body metabolizes it and breaks it down really quickly. So you do get that surge of
energy, but shortly after, you crash.”
To keep energy levels consistent, it helps to eat regularly spaced meals and snacks through-
out the day. “Every three to four hours, have a snack or a small meal like a piece of fruit and peanut
butter, yogurt or trail mix—something with calories, but also protein and fiber. That will keep you
sustained until your next meal, so you don’t get hungry and make poor decisions.”
Protein and fiber provide sustaining energy because they help the body “stretch out” the
process of digestion. “It takes longer for the body to break down proteins, and it can’t
fully break down fiber, so the body has to work harder. The food stays in
your system longer, and you don’t get that spike and crash. You
get more stabilization of blood sugar and energy levels.”
So instead of a candy bar and a soft drink, Young
recommends grabbing an apple with some peanut
butter. “You’re going to get natural
sugar and fiber from the apple,
and if you put some natural
peanut butter on it, you’re
getting a good protein
and a good healthy fat
with it. You’re going to
get energy from the
carbs—from that natural
sugar—but then the pro-
tein and the fiber are going
to help stretch that snack out a
bit. And, if you use a natural pea-
nut butter—one mixed with flaxseed
oil—you can get some Omega-3s.”
There is evidence to suggest
that adequate consumption
of Omega-3 fatty acids, anti-
oxidants and vitamin D may help
lay the groundwork for improving
memory, focus and general health as
we age. Young recommends all three be
included in our diets for long-term health. “The
solid research and data on the benefits of nutrition are at the
extremes of the age span,” she says. Research shows a strong
correlation between fatty acids and brain and eye development
in infants up to age three, and there is evidence to suggest that
adequate consumption of Omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants and
vitamin D may help lay the groundwork for improving memory, focus
and general health as we age.
Omega 3s can be found in fatty fish, walnuts and flaxseeds. Young says unless you
are pregnant, people can safely consume two servings of fatty fish such as salmon or mackerel per
week without worrying about the toxic effects of mercury consumption. “Generally, with about two
servings per week, you’re going to be OK with the mercury levels and also get enough Omega-3s.”
Antioxidants are another essential nutrient. They help correct damage from free radicals, which
cause disease and inflammation in our bodies. “If you consume lots of brightly colored fruits and
vegetables, you’re guarding yourself against damage from environmental stressors.”
The final nutrient to consciously include in our diets is vitamin D. Nation-wide, many people
are discovering they are vitamin D deficient due to minimal exposure to the sun.
“There are certain geographic regions that may be more susceptible to a defi-
ciency in the vitamin due to the decreased level of sun exposure in the winter
months,” Young said. A deficiency in vitamin D affects bone health. There
aren’t many food sources of vitamin D, but they include fortified dairy
products and mushrooms that have been exposed to ultraviolet light.
When the sun is out, Young advises getting 15 to 20 minutes of expo-
sure on your arms and legs without the use of sunscreen to allow
for the body to absorb the vitamin. “That’s enough for the day.”
So what’s the best way to see an immediate improvement
in energy levels and focus? Exercise. “Exercising and staying
active increases blood flow, those feel-good hormones get
released and that’s going to help sharpen your attention
and your mood is going to be better,” Young says.
D
By Wendy Bredhold ʼ98
exercising right eating
POWER
of Food:
The
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Icome from a family of cooks. My abuelita, as I affectionately called my
maternal grandmother, was an indigenous Otomi woman whose passion was food.
She prepared each dish from scratch. Born in the valley of Jilotzingo in the State
of Mexico, abuelita’s homeland was surrounded by blue cornfields, maguey plants
(Mexican agave), Castilian rose bushes and aromatic Mexican herbs like epazote,
spearmint and eucalyptus. In this natural environment, the private language my
mother learned and spoke with abuelita was not Otomi, but the language of food.
Growing up, I watched my mother and abuelita converse around the table in
an atmosphere of flavors, aromas, colors and textures, sharing a bond that shaped
and impacted my life forever. Abuelita’s kitchen, although rustic and modest, was a
sanctuary. It resounded with the ringing of the molcajete (the Mexican version of the
mortar and pestle), and food preparation was a daily ritual in front of the charcoal
burner. On top of the burner, clay cooking pots of varied sizes and big wooden spoons
were locked in a continuous dialogue with the skilled hands of abuelita. Aromas
emanated from this lively scenario, bringing together my family, both nuclear and
extended, every weekend, on high holidays and for funerals.
The Language of Food:
every cuisine tells a story By Norma Rosas Mayén
I still remember my mother helping abuelita kill and clean
a guajolote (turkey) to make Mexican mole, seasoning moronga
made of the turkey blood, frying buñuelos (crispy flat bread topped
with brown sugar syrup infused with cinnamon sticks and orange
peel), making huitlacoche quesadillas (a handmade fresh tortilla
filled with edible corn fungus aromatized with epazote), seasoning
rabbit or snake on a bed of pipian (a sauce made of pumpkin seeds)
or gathering gusanos de maguey (a type of worm that grows under
the maguey plant).
If someone entered my abuelita’s kitchen and asked what she
was cooking, she would answer, “Todo lo que hay en la milpa, corre
y vuela, va a la cazuela” (All that grows in the cornfield, runs and
flies to the pot). Both language and food underwent a symbiosis of
humor and wisdom because her passion for cooking was so great
that no matter what she prepared we loved.
When abuelita passed away, for the first time her kitchen
was silent. But, the spirit of her food, anecdotes, recipes
and know-how migrated to my mother, who became
the guardian of our culinary legacy that remains alive
and unchanged in the kitchens of my family, including
mine. She pounded, hollowed, stuffed, wrapped, fried,
steamed and baked as her mother had taught her.
Because she was the oldest of our nuclear family,
everyone sought her advice, especially when it
came to food preparation.
One of our family’s most important
celebrations is El Día de la Candelaria (the
Feast of Our Lady of Candelaria, also
known as Candlemas Day). It falls on
February 2, 40 days after Christmas,
and is a fusion of pre-Columbian
traditions and Catholic beliefs.
For Catholics, it represents
the “Presentation of Jesus at the
Temple.” For indigenous Mexicans,
including Otomi, February 2 marks
the midway point between
the winter solstice and the
spring equinox.
A week before El Día de la Candelaria, the women in my family
would convene to carry on abuelita’s tradition by preparing huge
quantities of food: Mexican barbacoa (lamb slow-cooked in a hole in
the ground, covered with maguey leaves), tamales wrapped in banana
leaves and capirotada (Mexican bread pudding made with cinnamon,
brown sugar syrup, cloves, raisins, bread and cheese), to name a few.
My mother and her sisters would pride themselves on their
cooking skills, and were happy to spend hours in the kitchen and on
the patio preparing a festival of dishes. They cooked in company—
chatting about daily events, gossiping about the neighborhood,
singing Argentinean tangos, sharing secret recipes and, from time
to time, indulging in a cup of tequila or mezcal (a distilled alcoholic
beverage made from the maguey plant). In doing this, they echoed
and recalled abuelita’s favorite sayings: “Para todo mal, mezcal,
y para todo bien también” (For everything bad, mezcal; for
everything good, the same) or, “De golosos y tragones están
llenos los panteones” (The cemeteries are full of gluttons
and people with a sweet tooth).
My mom learned to cook in the same way she
spoke to my grandma; shoulder to shoulder, repeating,
imitating, laughing, practicing, discovering and always
inventing something new. They developed a secret code
of communication through the preparation of food, bring-
ing comfort and delight to my family’s table. This secret
language was documented in their recipes, creating
tangible memories; an endless feast for my family.
Both my mother and abuelita are gone, but each
time I visit these recipes, I reestablish that deep-
rooted relationship in a vivid way, and I see
myself—the woman I have become—
a bit more clearly through the foods
they created.
Knowlege for Life—Norma Rosas
Mayén came to USI in 2008 as an assistant
professor and became an associate profes-
sor of Spanish in 2013. In an effort to share
her family’s culinary traditions, she created the USI
Cooking and Culture Lessons, a program that teaches
cultural diversity through food. The program, with the
support of the Hispanic Student Union, Latinos Unidos,
the Nutrition Department and the College of Liberal Arts,
has been embraced by students, faculty and staff, as
well as members of the Evansville community. It has
enlightened the USI family with valuable knowledge of
food and culture and original recipes.
Guillermina Mayén Quezada and Felipe Rosas Mayén, parents of Norma Rosas Mayén, stop along the road to prepare breakfast
on their way to the sanctuary of Our Lady of San Juan de Los Lagos, December 25, (circa) 1963. It’s still a tradition in Mayén’s
family to visit the shrine on Christmas day.
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It’s always interesting to note people’s reactions when I tell
them I’m a vegan. Some are curious, some are surprised and more
than a few look at me like I’m some exotic species of bird. But, the
reaction that interests me most is when people get defensive. They
seem to assume that my dietary choices are a judgment upon theirs.
Maybe they assume I’m looking down on them because they’ve made
different choices than me. Maybe they don’t like being reminded how
horribly animals are treated in the factory farms that produce 99
percent of our meat, dairy and eggs. Maybe they don’t want to think
about it.
I don’t blame them. I didn’t want to think about it either, but
once I started thinking about it I couldn’t stop. I was 15 years old
when it dawned on me that the substances I’d so thoughtlessly put in
my mouth had once been living, thinking, feeling creatures. I couldn’t
reconcile professing to love my dog and cat—Kismet and Flash—
while, at the same time, participating in the torture and killing of pigs,
chickens and cows. Those animals were, in all morally relevant ways,
the same as the four-legged members of my family. So I decided to
become a vegetarian.
My parents didn’t understand. They assumed it was a rebellious
phase and that I would grow out of it. Many years passed before they
stopped furtively putting meat on my plate when I wasn’t looking.
By the time I left for college they realized it was likely to stick. In
graduate school, I decided to pursue my Ph.D. in philosophy. My food
convictions had grown stronger, and I decided to do my dissertation
on Aristotle and animal ethics.
Philosophers are a contentious bunch, both by disposition
and by training. Yet, despite hardly ever agreeing on anything, there’s
a broad consensus amongst moral philosophers that the way we
treat animals in our food system is not just immoral, but morally
indefensible. Despite hundreds of articles criticizing factory farms,
there are scarcely any defending the practice; and, no scholar takes
any of those seriously.
While the percentage of vegans among moral philosophers is
higher than in the general populous, an animal-free diet is still far
from common. Even those of us who specialize in understanding
morality don’t do a very good job at abiding by our own self-
professed moral standards. That goes for me as much as anyone,
which again is why I don’t condemn others for their choices.
I’d known for years that the treatment of dairy cows and laying
hens was just as torturous as that of pigs and beef cattle. My
own moral standards committed me to giving up not just meat,
but dairy and eggs, too. Still, I consumed dairy and eggs.
Aristotle taught me that becoming a better person is
about learning better habits; conditioning myself to do a
little bit better every day. I gradually phased animal
products out of my diet and learned to replace them
with non-animal-based products.
The
Philosophy
of Food:
a question
of habitBy Garret Merriam
I made the full switch from vegetarian to vegan, giving up dairy
and eggs, when I married my wife. She not only encouraged and
joined me in my decision to give up all animal products, she also
became an excellent vegan chef. For my part, I got a lot better at
shopping. I learned how to read labels and where to find the best
vegetables. I sought other like-minded people in the area to foster a
support network. I became a faculty advisor to the vegetarian club at
USI where I help coordinate veggie potlucks and other related events.
I’m still far from living up to my own moral standards. I do
occasionally eat cheese, or products made with eggs. Sometimes this
is by accident, but in full honesty, sometimes I do it knowingly, when
I just lack the time or energy to find a vegan alternative. Many people,
regardless of their own dietary standards, think this disqualifies me
from owning the label “vegan.” They may even suggest the alternative
label of “hypocrite.”
And I suppose that’s only fair. But I doubt that any of us truly live
up to our own moral standards 100 percent of the time. For me, being
a vegan isn’t about some unattainable standard of purity or moral
perfection. Rather, it is about trying my best to make my decisions
align with a simple principle, one which I think almost all of us share:
I don’t want any living creatures to suffer just so I can have a few
moments of pleasure. I honestly don’t see how anyone could reject
such a principle, nor do I see how that principle can but help to
commit us to a cruelty-free, animal-free diet.
Plenty of people will tell you that, given the size and scope of
institutionalized moral problems such as these, no one person can
make any real difference to the world at-large. Perhaps they’re right.
I really don’t know, but neither do they. This kind of thinking is not a
reason but an excuse, one that allows us to do something we know
deep down we shouldn’t. There’s already far too much pain in this
world. None of us need to add to it any more than we already do.
Whether or not you can change the world is uncertain, but it
is undeniably true that you can change yourself. You can refuse to
make excuses. You can refuse to be a party to the unimaginable
cruelty involved in transforming emotionally sensitive creatures into
products, into things, into meat. You can choose to cultivate better
habits. You can try eating a little less meat, a little less dairy today,
and a little less still tomorrow. Before long, you’ll find you’ve given it
up entirely and you’ll be surprised that you don’t really miss it.
I know I was.
Knowlege for Life—Dr. Garret Merriam is an associate professor of philosophy who came to USI in 2008. He teaches
Introduction to Ethics, Bioethics and Business Ethics, as well as Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science and the
History of Philosophy. He received the 2013 USI Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching by New Faculty and is the 2014
H. Lee Cooper Core Curriculum Teaching Award winner.

Until recent years, there’s been but one way to shop for
groceries: go to the store, select items from the shelves, pay for
them at a checkout counter and carry them home. Today, however,
grocers are vying to recreate the way we shop by offering options.
Big or small. Physical or virtual. Home delivery, store pickup or do-
it-yourself. No matter which format or shopping experience today’s
consumers choose, one thing is certain: the business of food is
changing, and with it the way we live.
Stores once maintained modest footprints and stocked only
food or food-related items. But in 1962 that changed when large
discount stores such as Walmart, K-Mart and Target came along.
They introduced entrées and appetizers that went far beyond basic
staples, and consumers could now shop for lettuce and lingerie
under one roof—roofs that today span up to 200,000 feet, or 666
football fields.
These colossal stores stomped across America obliterating
mom-and-pop shops that had catered to families’ needs for
generations. The big-box stores’ lure was irresistible for shoppers
who, at the time, fed families on annual incomes averaging $6,000,
as they offered deeply discounted choices. Smaller retailers couldn’t
compete and shuttered their shops.
“When that happened, people lost that local connection
with others, where they felt they knew the person they were doing
business with and they knew you. That sense of community was
now gone,” said Dr. Antonina Bambina, USI assistant professor
of sociology and Honors Program director. With the extinction of
neighborhood shops came a reverberation that would be felt for
FOOD:
The
is it reshaping the way we live?By C. L. Stambush
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generations. “Urbanization caused a big loss for children. With
corner stores gone, they had one less option to learn to be
responsible on their own and negotiate small decisions, such as
which streets to take and where to cross.”
Some 50 years later, the cleaver is now poised over the necks
of big-box stores and their fate is on the butcher block thanks to
the Internet and smart devices; rather than going to the store, it’s
coming to us. “Shopping for food is changing, and technology is
impacting that tremendously,” said Stacy (Jobe) Dye ʼ96, vice
president of client experience at SIRS—Strategic Intelligence
Research Services based near Cincinnatti, Ohio.
Grocery shopping online is easy as companies such as
Instacart, Peapod, Amazon Fresh and WalmartToGo will now collect
your food based on an electronically-submitted order and deliver
it to your home. Instacart sends a personal shopper to the store to
fill the order, but Peapod, Amazon Fresh and WalmartToGo have
picking warehouses in which workers wear devices that tell them
which products to gather. “They pick it, scan it and move on,”
Dye said. “The ordering system is very smart. Employees will pick
multiple orders at one time, then separate them. This allows them
to stand and pick a section, say canned goods, at hundreds of items
per minute.”
The downside of someone selecting your food is that produce
might be bruised or goods could be nearing their expiration. When
consumers select their own food, they can root around in the apple
bin for the most appealing one.
Beyond the possibility of receiving bruised items, there’s the

question of decision making and substitutions. “Who decides what
type of banana you like?” Dye said. “This is very subjective. Some
people like them very ripe and others not so.”
For consumers who cannot succinctly express their distinct
likes and dislikes on order forms, who aren’t detail oriented or
who fail to be brand-specific, the outcome can be frustrating. But
what if you are specific? Dye said her boss, while on a West Coast
trip, placed an order with WalmartToGo that included Johnsonville
sausages. “They sent him some sort of sausage, but it was not what
he was expecting. He was disappointed. Because of automated
picking, it’s a lot easier for them to substitute or not get it exactly
the way you want it.”
Online shopping is not yet for the masses. Retailers
primarily target Millennials, upper-income and college-educated
people because the ordering process requires computer skills.
“These people are tech savvy and have disposable income to
afford the delivery fees,” Dye said, noting that the industry is not
yet efficient enough to offer the service at a low cost; delivery fees
can be as high as $16 per order, and that doesn’t include tipping the
delivery person.
Home delivery, however, may not be convenient for everyone
either. After all, you have to be home to receive it; much like wait-
ing for any service. To combat both these nuisances, stores that
offer personal shoppers are beginning to incorporate curbside
pickup. All you do is swing by the store on the way home and get
it. In Asia, Tesco (a multinational supermarket chain) offers South
Korean consumers the ease of cybershopping, with deliveries that
are precision-timed, by creating virtual stores in subway stations.
Shoppers scan the items they want using smart phones. By the time
the person arrives home, the order is there.
But what if you love cooking and loathe shopping? Don’t
worry, there’s an app for that. Tech companies such as Blue Apron,
Plate and Chefday! offer Web and mobile food-ordering services
to consumers by delivering chef-inspired “meal kits.” The dinners
arrive in refrigerated boxes with pre-measured ingredients and
recipe cards, allowing consumers to prepare “home-made meals
from scratch.” without the hassle of crafting and concocting them.
Bambina said meal kits are not new and have always been
intended to help make busy lives more manageable by saving time
in the kitchen. Kraft® introduced its macaroni and cheese in a box
in 1937, marketing it as “a meal for four in nine minutes for an
everyday price of 19 cents.” 1
Today’s kits require a subscription that cost $60 per week,
for which customers receive on average three meals feeding two
people. The companies aren’t marketing to the typical homemaker
yet, instead they’re appealing to a select demographic of young,
East Coast urbanites living in places like Manhattan. Bambina said
this group spends most of their time out and about, and are too
busy to cook or sit down together for a meal. They can afford these
pricey meals and the convenience makes it worth it to them.
“The companies are offering a high-quality, semi-homemade
meal people can actually make, allowing them to eat more nutri-
tiously with less time in the kitchen,” Bambina said. “Those are the
two things that population wishes they could do better, and doing
so probably makes them feel better.”
Venture capitalists are betting meal-kit companies will deliver
a great return on investment, and investors have sunk $50 million
into Blue Apron. According to the Wall Street Journal online, the
company delivers 600,000 meals a month, yet each week it offers a
measly six meal choices. “If a hundred—or a thousand—families are
eating the same thing, if retailers are streamlining our meals, then
we as a nation are losing some of our diversity,” Bambina said. “It
standardizes the way we live.”
Dye doesn’t believe technology will be the death of physical
grocery stores. “There’s so much talk about online grocery shop-
ping, but I think people still want a traditional grocery store. People
like the experience. They like to touch and feel their food. There are
colors and smells and samples. There is so much more to shopping
than going online and picking out toilet paper,” she said. “There is a
place for both, it’s just trying to figure out what role each will play in
the shopping experience.”
While brick-and-mortar stores are unlikely to disappear, Dye
said they are beginning to shrivel in size. In 2013, Walmart began
building Neighborhood Markets—122 of them across the nation as
opposed to 72 new super centers. Ironically, this new homogenized
version resembles mom-and-pop stores of yesteryear, as these new
markets stock mainly food plus a small section of drug-store items.
“Little is the new big,” she said, “and has been for several years.
1
The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink

Not every grocery retailer, however, is heeding the trend and
trimming the fat in an attempt to corner the market on conve-
nience. Kroger (the nation’s largest chain of grocers) is beefing
up its footprint by incorporating Marketplace within their walls,
offering shoppers the opportunity to purchase a pair of shoes
when they venture in for milk. It’s a strategy Dye isn’t sure will work
but admits she has succumbed to the convenience. “I was there on
a store visit and had been looking for a specific type of shoe.
It was an impulse
buy, and here I
am with a pair of
shoes purchased
at Kroger.”
Both large
and small retail-
ers are doing
everything in
their power to
capture consum-
ers’ attention.
“Retailers have to
provide people
with the basics:
quality products
and value for their
money. But they
also have to earn
consumers’ trust,
and make shop-
ping an enjoyable
experience,” Dye
said. “I think if a retailer can meet all four of these points, regard-
less of what format they have, they will be successful in business.”
Larger stores are implementing niceties to make the shopping
experience enjoyable and the store a destination. To improve the
atmosphere, musicians are hired to play live music, ice cream
stands are popping up at the ends of aisles or Saturday barbecues
smoke briskets over applewood.
Small stores, on the other hand, don’t have the space for
such inducements, so they’re focusing on convenience. The busy
lives of people today mean many want to get in and out of stores
as quickly as possible. To help them accomplish this, stores are
creating meal solutions by putting bananas next to cereals, or
salad dressings, croutons and bacon bits alongside leafy greens.
But what’s next? Will retailers convert the descriptor signage
on aisles from baking goods and spices to breakfast, lunch and
dinner? “Retailers are trying to think of these things but it’s hard to
merchandise a large store that way,” Dye said. “This is more of an
option for smaller stores, although I don’t think it will become the
norm. A store like Trader Joe’s could pull something like this off
but it’s not opera-
tionally feasible
for a traditional
supermarket.”
Today, people’s
lives are busier
than they were
half a century ago.
To accommodate
that, the grocery
industry strives
to understand
how they shop
and fill the niche.
“Traditional stores
have an advantage
over online because
over time, people
have decided how
they shop in stores,”
Dye said. “They
know how to satisfy
customers in a way
online stores don’t.” The unspoken word at the end of that sen-
tence is “yet,” but the question remains: How will your life change
in the process, and what choice do you have?
Knowlege for Life — Stacy (Jobe) Dye graduated from the Romain College of
Business with a degree in business administration knowing she had a solid
foundation no matter what career path she took. While at USI, she had the
opportunity to partner with the owner of a local business through her Small
Business Consulting course, and she credits that experience with giving her
great insight into all aspects of the business world. She got her start in mar-
keting research when she found a position through USI’s Career Placement
and Internships. She’s since spent 18 years in the consumer research industry
focusing on food retailing and consumer package goods.
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Athletic Nuggets
The Food of ChampionsBy Ashley Watson
Toni Braun
Junior, Pre-Elementary Education
Softball
“I used to drink six sodas a day,
justifying I could because I’m an
athlete. I would think, ‘I worked
out really hard today so I can
eat this or drink that,’ but you
can’t say that every day
because it adds up.” Cutting ‘pop’
out of her diet, however, allowed her
to become leaner and faster,
something necessary for the 4-11
infielder. “Instead, I drink a lot of
orange juice and water. I tend to feel
better, more awake (oddly), and my
skin is clearer. I also lost 20 pounds
from cutting out pop.”
There’s a saying: “You are what you eat.” This is especially true for athletes whose game and event performances depend on their
bodies converting food into fuel. For them, calories are the name of the game. But replenishing the thousands burned while running a
10,000 meter race or practicing for three hours on the basketball court, requires not only an awareness of what they eat, but managing
when they eat as well. The Screaming Eagles are no exception. Below is a sampling of what, when and why a few USI athletes choose to
eat what they do.
Zach Watson
Junior, Finance
Men’s Basketball, Track and Field
“I feel better when I don’t eat fast
food, but that doesn’t always
happen. It’s easy to pick up a
quick meal in-between class,
practice or conditioning. I don’t
have time for a lot of little snacks,
so I have to eat big meals.” When
he does have time for a snack,
however, he tries to eat as
healthy as he can. “I have
tried to incorporate
fruit into my diet as
much as I can.
” He strategically
consumes calories
that will turn into muscle as
his workouts continue through
the season. “Sometimes when I
want a snack I’ll eat an apple with
either peanut butter or Nutella.”
Tyler Pence
Senior, Elementary Education (Mathematics/Special Education)
Men’s Cross Country, Track and Field
Julia Kohnen
Master of Business Administration
Women’s Cross Country, Track and Field
and formerly Women’s Soccer
“When I played soccer, I could eat bigger
portions. Now, I am hungry every two to three
hours and have to eat smaller and more
frequent meals. I don’t really eat that much
meat, so getting protein from other sources is
important to me. I eat a lot of peanut
butter: pretzels and peanut butter,
apples and peanut butter. It’s my
weakness.” Protein is included in
every meal. “For lunch, I’ll make
a salad the night before. It is
usually spinach with chicken,
tuna, avocado or beans.”
“When you’re running that many
miles, you worry more about
being underweight than
overweight. Sometimes we’re
just not eating enough.” Because
Pence runs 110 miles a week, he
has to eat 6,600 calories per
day just to maintain his current
weight. “I don’t skip meals,
ever. Pasta is pretty big for the
whole team. The day before a
meet, Coach Hillyard takes us all
out for a meal to load
up on carbs.”

Campus Tidbits
Despite the 430 billion pounds of food
annually available to American consumers,
23.5 million people live in food deserts,
meaning they don’t have access to basic
nutrition such as fruits and vegetables.
Geography, sociology and politics play a
role in what is and isn’t available, leaving
some urban and rural town dwellers with-
out access to fresh, affordable and
nutritious food.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has multiple measures for
defining food desert, the most basic being
distance. If a rural area is more than 10
miles from a supermarket or an urban
setting is more than one mile, then people
living in those locations are in food deserts.
Evansville, Indiana, has several, but USI’s
Food and Nutrition Department partnered
with Welborn Baptist Foundation, St. Mary’s
Hospital and Deaconess Hospital in a pilot
program to address the issue by creating a
mobile produce market called FAVE (Fruits
and Vegetables Evansville).
Every Friday for eight weeks in the
months of March and April 2014, food and
nutrition students transported
fresh fruits and vegetables to
three sites—Glenwood
Leadership Academy, Kennedy
Towers and Buckner Towers—
and sold items at cost to those
community members. The
produce was purchased from
funds provided by both hospi-
tals through Piazza Produce
and delivered to USI via Sodexo.
Forty-five food and nutrition
students from advanced nutri-
tion classes participated in the
pilot by not only selling the
produce, but also providing
cooking demonstrations.
“As part of the class, each week stu-
dents had to develop a recipe using one
fruit or vegetable and create a brochure
illustrating the nutritional value of the dish,”
said Dr. Julie McCullough, associate profes-
sor of food and nutrition and chair of the
program. “They then demonstrated how to
prepare the food. We were working with an
area that was almost a complete desert.”
The pilot program confirmed there
was a need for such a service in those
areas. McCullough said that in the future
the hope is that buying and selling the
produce will be taken over by a local non-
profit, and that USI food and nutrition
students will continue to participate by
volunteering and providing food prep
demonstrations to educate residents in
local food deserts on more nutritious
eating habits.
Feeding the homeless
The United States government provides basic food staples for non-profits such as
United Caring Service’s (USC) Day Shelter in Evansville, Indiana, to serve thousands of
meals a month (over 12,000 in July 2014) to the homeless. Shelter cooks are a cadre of
volunteers who prepare three meals a day, seven days a week, and dream up menus
centered on what is available in the kitchen. But given the scope of meal planning, and
the consistent core of volunteer cooks, ideas are bound to dry up and offerings may
become routine, especially if the available foods don’t vary. To help make better use of
all the resources available and ensure those who UCS served received nutritious meals,
Lee Ann Shafer, academic programs manager/advisor in Outreach and Engagement
and board member at UCS, reached out to USI’s Food and Nutrition Department for
help and got more than she bargained for as three service learning projects evolved:
a cookbook based on the shelter’s food inventory, videos on food safety and body
mechanics to educate volunteer cooks, and a study of plate waste to investigate the
nutritional gaps confronting the population of homeless individuals.
This past spring, students collected recipes based on what was in the pantry
and walk-in cooler at UCS. “They looked for recipes that used common produce
items—potatoes, tomatoes, bananas, oranges, green beans, apples, carrots, legumes,”
said Elizabeth Ramos, instructor in food and nutrition. “These recipes were then
extended—to allow quantities of approximately 150 servings per meal—and were
incorporated into a UCS cookbook.” Ramos collaborated with Dr. Julie McCullough,
associate professor of food and nutrition and chair of the program, and Beth Young,
instructor in food and nutrition.
Eating Indiana
Every state has several species of
edible plants that are native to it, and
southern Indiana is rich with edible
options. Amelia (Stoltz) Wildermanʼ03,
a naturalist at Harmonie State Park in
New Harmony, Indiana, leads a course
for Outreach and Engagement twice
a year that teaches people how to
forage for food in their “backyards.”
Participants explore the woods around
campus to learn how to identify,
collect and cook obscure delicacies.
For more information, call Outreach
and Engagement at 812-467-1989 or
800-467-8600.
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Food Deserts
(left to right) Molly Schulz, dietetics major, and Kristen Taylor, kinesiology major and nutrition minor

Campus Tidbits
1,000 bowls crafted and filled to feed the hungry
You didn’t have to be talented or even an artist to be
part of a USI-sponsored community-wide ceramics project
aimed at combating hunger, you just needed a willingness to
help others. For the third year in a row, USI students, faculty,
staffandmembersoftheEvansvillecommunitycollaborated
to “throw bowls” for the Empty Bowls Project, a nation-wide,
grassroots event. At USI, 350 volunteers made more than
1,000 bowls this year (last year it was 800) under the leader-
ship of Alisa (AL) Holen, assistant professor of ceramics in the
College of Liberal Arts, an event she’s organized at USI since
2012. “The ceramics program invites groups from the com-
munity to learn how to ‘throw’ bowls on the potter’s wheels.
Students in Ceramics 1, 2 and 3 courses become their ‘teach-
ers,’” said Holen.
The one-of-a-kind creations are then fired in USI’s kilns
before being transported to the site of the one-day event,
which is the first Saturday of each November. This year, it was
held at Kirby’s Private Dining, which provided the space for
free.Eachbowlcost$10andcamewithfreesoupprovidedby
TwilightBistro(adowntownEvansvillerestaurant),Woodbine
and Perfectly Fresh.
Studentsintheceramicscoursesselectedhunger-based
charities to receive the proceeds. “The first year, the money
was split between Tri-State Food Bank and United Caring
Services,” Holen said. “Last year, we wrote a check for over
$7,000 to United Caring Services.” The 2014 event generated
$10,300 and 100 percent of the proceeds went to non-profits
UnitedCaringServicesandAuroratoprovidenutritiousmeals
for those in need.
“Potters…we’re all about food,” Holen said.
International food expo
Come February, long tables are rolled into Carter Hall and laden with exotic
foods from around the world for USI’s International Food Expo hosted by the
International Club. Students as far away as Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, Zimbabwe
and El Salvador, cook up cultural dishes from their homelands to share their culinary
food traditions with the community and bring awareness of the diversity of foods
in the world. They don’t do it alone, however, Sodexo Food Services helps them by
translating recipes meant to feed five into individual samples for 500, and ordering
the ingredients. Once the students are ready to cook, they sign up for time in the
Loft’s kitchen, but first they’re prepped on food safety. A maximum of three students
are allowed in the kitchen at a time since it is business as usual for the Sodexo staff.
Most years, there are between 25 and 28 international foods on the tables, but
they’ve squeezed in as many as 30. Tickets cost $10 in advance or $12 at the door.
This year the expo is February 20, 2015, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
In the early 1990s, Nancy Bizal, instructor in business com-
munication, witnessed something that spurred her to act. She was
at a USI Alumni Association dinner and saw two of the University’s
most accomplished, well-dressed students awkwardly spooning
food into their mouths with their fists wrapped around the handles.
She thought, “Oh, I can do something about that” and incorporated
Dinnerview into a required course in the Romain College of Business
titled Career Planning and Professional Development. This particu-
lar segment of the course teaches students the art of the dinner
interview, as it’s common for job candidates who reach a certain
level in the interview process to meet with potential employers over
a meal.
Being interviewed can be uncomfortable, but not knowing
which fork to use could be paralyzing. Bizal wanted to ease students
nerves while increasing their chances of being hired by teaching
them dining protocol. “I don’t want them to have to be thinking
about what they are doing with the utensils but rather why they are
there,” she said, “which is to answer the question: Why should we
hire you?”
Bizal offers multiple dining lessons each semester, guiding
groups of six students per meal through three-course dinners in
which they navigate the use of a spoon, three forks, two knives and
three beverage glasses. The course objective, however, extends
beyond using the right fork. During the salad course, Bizal addresses
touchy issues such as the use of cell phones during dinner, what
to do if you don’t like a food offered and the importance of writing
thank-you notes after the interview.
Janet Johnson, director of Alumni and Volunteer Services, is a
certified etiquette trainer who offers Dinnerview courses campus-
wide to departments or clubs when asked. She likens the benefit
of good manners and making a good first impression to building
a personal brand. “It’s easier to maintain an outstanding brand,
even if you have some slips, than repair or recover from a bad
brand.”
Food etiquette: learning to navigate a Dinnerview

Makeover feeds eagle spirit
Just in time for the celebration of the University
of Southern Indiana’s 50th Anniversary, USI revealed
a proud new look for its mascot Archibald (Archie) T.
Eagle, on October 17, and introduced a new Archie’s Jr.
Varsity Club for kids.
The eagle has been a University of Southern Indiana
tradition since 1970 when the mascot was introduced
at the first game of the 1970-71 basketball season. By
1978, students decided that the mascot needed a name.
So, the Activities Planning Board, Student Government
Association and the student newspaper (The Shield)
held a contest. The winning name was Archibald T. Eagle
(T. stands for “The”). He is now affectionately known
as Archie.
As part of the evolution of the USI brand in 2014,
focus groups were conducted with students, faculty,
staff, alumni, donors, community members, coaches,
athletes, varsity club members and retirees. A chorus
of voices echoed that Archie is a force of USI spirit that
needs to be more fully supported. As an ambassador
for USI and its nationally-recognized athletic
programs, it was suggested that he shed
the cartoon look and take on some of the
characteristics of the athletic teams—
strong, competitive and tough.
With that in mind, and in the
interest of involving the USI community,
Archie’s new look was put to a vote. Nearly
5,000 voted, and his makeover resulted in
a proud, refined eagle
that maintained the
original coloration of
the brown feathers
and gold beak and
legs, and donned
the school colors of
blue, red and white in his
apparel.
The new Archie’s Jr.
Varsity Club is for younger
Screaming Eagles fans and future
USI students—a fun way for kids to
be part of USI Athletics. Membership
in the club is $10 per child for the first
three children and $30 for a family of
four or more children.
For more information visit
USI.edu/archie.
Campus Tidbits
Competition out
of the closet
Each year, USI’s Staff Council holds a food drive to
collect non-perishable food and personal care items to give
to those in need. The University’s various departments com-
pete to collect the most items and win the trophy. This year,
a total of 3,661 necessities were donated by faculty, staff and
students to help those in need.
Competing Departments
College of Nursing and Health Professions: 1,243
Social Work: 1,188
Library: 433
University Division: 213
Wright Administration: 180
Other Competing Departments: 104
Non-Competing Departments
Business and Engineering: 111
Foundation: 105
Chemistry: 48
Biology: 36
Archibald Eagle’s Food Closet opened
its doors on November 16, 1992. It was the
brainchild of Sandra Lawrence, former
director of Health Services. Lawrence
recognized the financial need and lack
of transportation for some students.
The initiative was co-sponsored by
the Social Work Club. A start-up
grant of $250 from the Student
Government Association
was used to initially stock
the closet and it has been
maintained through dona-
tions from USI employees,
community and campus
food drives. The goal of the
food pantry, in Lawrence’s
words, was “Having a food
pantry on campus seemed
a way to provide temporary
assistance, foster a caring
atmosphere and promote
wellness on campus.”
The food closet is located in
the Recreation, Fitness and Wellness
(RFW) Center. Those in need simply
come to the front desk with a USI ID
and ask for Archie.
The holiday season has historically been an occasion
for a sumptuous feast and good cheer. Families and friends
gather around tables laden with platters of sizzling meats and
bowls heaped with steaming vegetables only to be outdone by
decadent deserts.
For 45 years, USI’s Chamber Choir has been reenacting a
resplendent 15th-century European feast called the Madrigal
Feaste. The evening is a scripted event with processionals and
music accompanying each item on the menu. The gala is open to
the public and tickets are in much demand as the event includes
What do Cheez Whiz, Chinese sweets and pomegranate punch have
to do with art openings? Plenty, according to Katie Waters, professor
of art and director of USI’s McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries. Since
2008, Waters has been selecting and pairing food to match art exhibits to
create a multi-sensual experience for art lovers.
Refreshments are chosen to reflect the look and theme of each art
exhibit. Andy Warhol’s iconic 1960s art featuring Campbell’s® Tomato
Soup labels inspired Waters to offer cheese puffs and electric blue
punch, but for Huili Yin’s Chinese ink paintings and stamp designs, trays
of Chinese sweets and bubble tea were presented. Bubble tea, also
known as pearl milk tea, has tapioca balls in it for extra chewiness.
“We always strive to create a stimulating and sensuous experience
for our reception attendees, delighting their eyes with remarkable art
and gratifying their tastes with artistically chosen food and drink,”
Waters said.
not only a lavish meal but “dancing and merriment on a grand scale”
too.
This year’s five-course feast included a freshly tossed garden
salad topped tomatoes, cucumbers and drizzled with a choice of
two dressings; a steaming goblet of wassail (mulled cider); a hot
bowl of beef barley soup; his majesty’s roasted chicken crusted with
herbs, new potatoes seasoned with butter and parsley, an array of
baby fall vegetables and a dinner roll with pats of butter. For des-
sert, bread pudding simmering in rum sauce was served with fresh,
aromatic coffee.
Art of food — refreshingly creative
Eat like a king at the royal Renaissance Madrigal Feaste
In Northern Light: The Expatriate Art of David Kegel and Paul
LaJeunesse. “The paintings and photographs are all neutrally toned,
so we sustained that understated and sophisticated look with all
white and black refreshments.” – Katie Waters

Campus Tidbits
19th century bones illuminate diet
USI’s Archaeological Field School unearthed artifacts from the Harmony Society’s
“long-lost dorm” last summer in New Harmony, Indiana, when students excavated the
Harmony Society’s Dormitory No. 1, built in 1817 and torn down in 1858 for reasons
unknown. The foundation of the dormitory kitchen was discovered adjacent to the dormi-
tory. Sifting the soil, students found animal bones, pottery, glass, fish scales, stoneware,
buttons, straight pins and decorated pottery. “These were the remains of daily life,” said
Dr. Michael Strezewski, associate professor of anthropology, who leads the field school.
“You could tell something about the residents’ diet based on what was found there—the
animal bones showed they ate a lot of pigs,” he said. “There is a lot of history on this spot,
and it’s never really been investigated.”
The Archaeological Field School is a six-credit summer course designed to give stu-
dents experience in archaeological field methods through participation in a site excava-
tion. Students learn basic excavation techniques, mapping and artifact identification.
An 1824 survey map created by William Pickering identifies the location of the dormitory, which stood next to the current site of the Working Men’s
Institute. Measuring approximately 40 by 70 feet, it served as a dwelling for Robert Dale Owen and David Dale Owen after Robert Owen, their father,
purchased the community from the Harmonists in 1825.
Faculty foodies
Did you know…?
Several faculty in the College of Nursing and Health Professions
have taken to raising their own backyard chickens in an effort to
eliminate chemical additives from their food. “Backyard chicken-
keeping has boomed across the country and, more and more,
people are interested in knowing where their food comes from to
avoid genetically modified organisms (GMO) and additive-laced
foods,” said Christine Thompson, coordinator of clinical simulations.
Dr. Jennifer Titzer, assistant professor of nursing and Dr. Kevin
Valadares, associate professor of health services; both have their
own flocks.
Dr. Eric McCloud, associate professor of biology, has a hobby of
tracking temperatures of briskets and the smoking chamber around
them. The data he’s collected in the four briskets he’s experimented
with to date clearly demonstrates what barbecue folks call “the
stall,” in which the temperature of the meat plateaus for several
hours and then resumes increasing.
Famous among the faculty for their culinary skills are Michael
Aakhus, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, who is renowned for his
cooking at open-invitation dinner parties; David Bower, president of
USI Foundation, for his baked goods; and Jill Kinkade, instructor in
English, for her lengthy history of food connections, including own-
ing the Lady Day Café in downtown Evansville, shadowing a French
pastry chef in New York, and belonging to a Thursday night supper
club.
In honor of USI’s 50th Anniversary, the
Varsity Club, founded in 1970 by enthusiastic
Screaming Eagles fans, has concocted a
recipe book to raise funds for student athletic
scholarships.
The Varsity Club, coaches, USI faculty,
staff, retirees, students and friends of the
University contributed their favorite recipes
that were then arranged into categories
representing USI’s athletic teams.
The cookbook also will includes photos
of USI’s current and former athletes, coaches
and Varsity Club events.
The book will be available in the
summer of 2015 at a cost of $25. To learn
more, visit gousieagles.com/varsityclub.
Varsity Club cooks up a book
Off and Running Appetizers
Men’s and Women’s Track & Field
Golf on the Greens (salads)
Men’s and Women’s Golf
Side-out Veggies
Volleyball
Gram Slam Entrees
Baseball and Softball
Fast Pitch Casseroles
Softball
We’ve Got the Beat (heart healthy)
Men’s and Women’s Cross Country
Slam Dunk Brunch and Breads
Men’s and Women’s Basketball
Love those Desserts
Men’s and Women’s Tennis
Beverages with a Kick
Men’s and Women’s Soccer
Fan Fun – This and That
Cheerleaders, Dance Team, Mascot
Slow Cooker Recipes
Coaches’ Favorites
Photo:ChristineThompson

Campus Tidbits
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students impacted
The thoughtful estate planning of Richard G. and
Shirley W. James nearly two decades ago provides
scholarships to USI students with financial need today.
You too can benefit USI students and programs for
decades to come. Include the University of Southern
Indiana Foundation in your estate planning.
For more details, contact
David A. Bower at
812-464-1918
or bower@usi.edu.
SAVE THE DATE
Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal
Reserve, will speak at USI on March 23 as part of the
Romain College of Business Innovation Speaker Series.
This is the College’s second guest speaker in the series,
established to deliver thought-provoking talks on cam-
pus. The first was T. Boone Pickens in spring 2013. The
event is free and open to the public.
Feeding curious minds
The folks in USI’s Center for Education Services
and Partnerships like to use food to get students
thinking about math and science as part of the
Super Summer Enrichment Programs. For the past
25-plus years, the center has provided learning
opportunities for hundreds of children ages 4 to 14
by offering a selection of one-week classes involv-
ing art, science, writing, robotics and cooking for
children. “Most classes try to incorporate food in
some way because learning makes kids hungry,”
said Jaclyn Dumond, manager of school partner-
ships in the center.
This past summer, Cooking and Computing
taught fourth- through sixth-graders how to inte-
grate math, science, art and technology as they
mixed ingredients, discovered facts about food and
nutrition, baked, taste-tested and created their own cookbooks. Older students, seventh- through
ninth-graders, explored what made dough rise, why lemon juice kept apples from turning brown
and why eggs turned white when cooked in The Chemistry of Food.
Other years, students investigated the differences between solids and liquids by making
homemade ice cream and butter in Messy Edible Science or cooked up pizza, bread and chocolate
in Kids in the Kitchen. “Kids love it,” Dumond said. “They love getting in the kitchen. Often they eat
what they’ve cooked in less time than it took to prepare.”
For more information visit USI.edu/supersummer, or call USI’s Outreach and Engagement at
812-464-1989 or 800-467-8600.
Meal Madness serves up food and fun for campus groups
In the spirit of recent hit television shows like the Food
Network’s “Chopped” and “Iron Chef America,” teams of USI stu-
dents gathered this fall for some friendly—and tasty—competition
in Meal Madness, a showdown of culinary talent sponsored by USI’s
food service provider Sodexo.
Teams were challenged to
prepare an entrée and an appetizer
for a panel of judges, in front of
a host of spectators. Presented
with a basket of six ingredients,
students were required to use at
least three of those in each of their
dishes. Basket ingredients included
chicken breast, graham crackers,
figs, habanero peppers, Mountain
Dew and mint.
To make things more interest-
ing, USI’s mascot, Archie, dropped
by to introduce two mystery ingre-
dients: Hershey’s chocolate in the
appetizer round and Doritos in the
entrée round.
This was the first year USI’s
Sodexo put on an event like Meal
Madness, a national competition aimed at getting students more
involved on campuses. “It’s a national event; we just found a few
ways to make it our own—adding Archie and choosing some of the
special ingredients,” said Megan Hubbard, customer service special-
ist with Sodexo.
Five teams competed in the event, including Alpha Kappa Psi
(co-ed business fraternity), the Vegetarian Club, Chinese Club, Rugby
Club and the Sodexo Student Board of Directors. Each team had
20 minutes to prepare an appetizer and 30 minutes for the entrée.
Everything necessary to prepare the dishes was provided, including
cutting utensils, cooking materials and a common food pantry
stocked with fruits, vegetables, pasta and grains, and other
secondary ingredients.
During the timed competition, Sodexo employees also were
on hand to supervise and answer any questions while judges made
their way from table to table,
asking questions and observing
the cooking.
Judges included USI faculty,
staff, coaches and students.
At the end of the day, Megan
Newhouse-Bailey, cooking solo
and representing USI’s Vegetarian
Club, was served the honor of
Meal Madness champion, earning
campus culinary bragging rights
as well as a prize package made
up of an AMC movie gift card,
Walther’s Golf and Fun gift card
and USI Dining Dollars.
In the appetizer round,
Newhouse-Bailey presented a
spinach salad tossed in a dress-
ing of Mountain Dew reduction,
figs, habaneros, olive oil, lemon juice and caramelized onions. The
plate was topped with a jerk-spiced tofu “crouton” and sprinkled
with chocolate shavings. For the entrée, she whipped up a potato,
onion and pepper hash; crusted tofu coated with graham cracker
and Dorito crumbs; and a mint chimmichurri drizzle. She livened the
plate with zucchini medallions.
“I love watching competition shows on the Food Network,”
said Newhouse-Bailey. “I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 12 and
a vegan since I was 14, so I learned to cook for myself early on. I’m
delighted that I got to participate, and honored to have won.”
USI Magazine earned a gold medal
in the 2014 Pride of CASE V Awards
Program. The 2014 Entrepreneurs
issue was selected as best of its
class in the Excellence in Feature
Writing Series category. CASE is
the Council for Advancement and
Support of Education, a world-
wide organization for university
communications professionals.
This was our first entry into the
prestigious competition and we
are thrilled to be recognized for
our efforts.
Spring 2014
ENTREPRENEURS
Photo: Alyssa Smith/The Shield
(left to right) Keegan Odney, Derek Hollinger
and Meredith Feagley
Megan Newhouse-Bailey

1970s
James Jaquess ’71, management, is an
attorney/senior consultant at Link Resources in
Panama City, Florida. He is a globally recognized
consultant to the energy industry, including
nuclear, fossil and renewable power generation.
James is an executive with 41 years of experi-
ence in power generation, project and business
development, marketing, corporate acquisitions,
project management, regulatory compliance
and construction.
Roger Griffin ’72, business, owns Brucken’s
Restaurant Equipment and owned Lorenzo’s
Bistro for nearly 10 years. “We specialized
in artisan breads and used a $40,000 oven
imported from France. Thanks to ISUE (USI)
and my business degree, I have had
a good career.”
Susan Hansen ’75, elementary education,
has been elected Regent of the Captain Henry
Vanderburgh Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution in Evansville.
William Dieckmann ’78, political science/
sociology, is a director of missions and lead
intervener with the Palmetto Crisis Intervention
Team at Columbia Metro Baptist Association in
Columbia, South Carolina. He has devoted his
life to serving others, taking a strong initiative
for the homeless in Columbia. For all of his
involvement and support he was presented the
Key to the City by the Mayor of Columbia and the
Order of the Silver Crescent Award by the
Governor of South Carolina.
1980s
Michael Head ’80, finance, was elected vice
chairman of the 2015 Indiana Bankers
Association Board of Directors in Evansville.
Randy Haaff ’84, finance, is a financial advisor
with Raymond James in Evansville. He received
a Certified Financial Planner designation from
the College of Financial Planning.
Larry Baysinger ’85, mathematics, is director
of human resources at Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dale Carter ’87, political science, began a
career in country radio in 1979 at WROZ in
Evansville, Indiana. He moved to WKDQ during
his college days at the University of Southern
Indiana, and took a job at WYNG in 1984, becom-
ing program director at only 21 years old. The
following year, he won the Beasley Group’s
Program Director of the Year award. In 1992, he
moved to WWYZ in Hartford, Connecticut, set-
tled into his current position as program director
and morning show co-host at KFKF in Kansas
City, Missouri. In 2011, he was inducted into the
Country Music DJ and Radio Hall of Fame. He
also is a District 1 City Councilman in Blue
Springs, Missouri, and the stadium voice for the
Kansas City Chiefs.
Tracy Zeller ’89, accounting, president and
chief executive officer of Tracy Zeller Jewelry,
was awarded the 2014 Richard A. Schlottman
Business Person of the Year Award by the
Southwest Chamber of Commerce in Evansville.
1990s
Phil Coudret ’90, accounting, has been named
vice president of credit administration for
Commerce Bank in Evansville.
Tim Fulton ’91, electrical engineering technolo-
gy, ’06, Master in Industrial Management, has
been promoted to engineering electrical
distribution manager at Vectren Corporation
in Evansville.
Brenda Lechner ’92, dental hygiene, is a
licensed dental hygienist at Flannagan, Kizior,
Young Family Dentistry in Jasper, Indiana.
Kelly Pace ’92, political science, is co-owner
of Pacetre Bake & Brew in Evansville.
Jason Carroll ’95, social science teaching, is an
account manager at Commonwealth Technology
in Evansville.
William Centifanto ’96, English, ’01, Master in
Education, has been promoted to locomotive
engineer with CSX Transportion in Evansville.
Rachel Mayes ’97, Master of Business
Administration, has been named Alcoa global
packaging controller in North America. In her
new role, she will be accountable for the
financial operations of both Alcoa facilities in
Indiana and Tennessee.
Doug Allison ’99, Master in Education, is super-
intendent at South East Fountain School
Corporation in Veedersburg, Indiana.
Alumni Treats
More events at USI.edu/alumni
Alumni Council
2014–2015
Officers
Jennifer Titzer ’00 M’10 D’13
President
Randall Haaff ’84
President Elect
Autum Byrd ’01 M’03
Secretary
Sally Gries ’02
Treasurer
Kyle Wininger ’01
Immediate Past President
Ronald Romain ’73
Alumni Trustee
Tarrie Kendall Crist ’94
Indianapolis Chapter
Brian Pauley ’00
Louisville Chapter
Allyson Breeden ’98
Claudine Fairchild ’01 M’05
Chad Fetscher ’00 M’05
Neil Fortwendel ’05
Mandi Fulton ’06 M’10
John Havill ’04
Karen Hellenberg ’07 M’08
Charlene Kaufman ’09 M’12
Andy Lemon ’05
Kacheyta McClellan ’10
John Raisor ’03
Samantha Sawyer ’11 ’13
Kenneth Schnautz ’11
Ashley Schultz ’10
Hunter Slade ’07
Eileen Weber ’98
University Staff
Janet Johnson M’05
Director of Alumni and
Volunteer Services
Sarah Harlan ’10
Assistant Director of Alumni
and Volunteer Services
Deb Schmuck
Senior Administrative Assistant
Alumni and Volunteer Services
January 4 Varsity Club’s Alumni Soup and Hotdog Supper
Physical Activities Center, Room 200,
following the Men’s Basketball game
January 15 USI Eagle Hour
Sald World Grill and Bar, 5-7p.m.
January 17 Greater Indianapolis Alumni Chapter Pizza Gathering
University of Indianapolis Nicoson Hall,
between Women’s and Men’s Basketball games
February 6 Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Dinner
Carter Hall, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
February 7 USI Homecoming 2015
Physical Activities Center, Room 200,
following the Men’s Basketball game
March 26 Breakfast with the President
Carter Hall, 7:45-9 a.m.
March 26 USI Eagle Hour
Turoni’s Pizzery Brewery, 5-7 p.m.
April 11 USI Day at the Zoo
Mesker Park Zoo Botanic Gardens, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
April 19 Spruce Up
USI Campus, 1-4 p.m.
May 1 USI Graduate Commencement, USI Campus
Alumni Graduation Reception, University Center East
May 2 USI Commencement, USI Campus
Alumni Graduation Reception, University Center East
May 12 USI Alumni Association Annual Meeting
University Center West, Room 206
C A L E N D A R O F E V E N T S
All alumni are invited to attend these events.
Send us your updates so we can share your successes in USI Magazine:
USI.edu/alumni/update
Email: alumni@usi.edu
Stay Connected
We know you’re always on the move
but we’d like to stay connected…
Dan Tuley ’81, political science,
has perfected a marinade he and his
brother Mark have been cooking up for 12
years, and they now sell Bad Ass Marinade
(or Tuley Brothers Marinade, depending on
where you buy it) in various Indiana stores
and on their Bad Ass website.

Thinking Inside the Box
By John Farless ʼ98
While contemplating where to offer the
nouveau fare, a friend and mentor asked
if he’d considered a food truck. He hadn’t,
but decided to attend an upcoming large
annual food truck festival in Indianapolis.
Waiting in line at one of the trucks, Naidu
and Mo met Tyler Wald, a kindred spirit also
investigating the option of opening a food
truck. They exchanged information, recon-
nected a short time later and purchased a
truck off the Indianapolis Craigslist. Four
months later, they opened for business.
Naidu and Wald split the duties of
day-to-day Spice Box operations. Mo is less
involved. She was a medical student when
the business started, and now is a full-time
resident at St. Vincent Hospital.
Spice Box debuted in downtown
Indianapolis during Super Bowl XLVI—the
first time the city had hosted the event.
“It was a hectic and stressful way to launch
a business,” says Naidu. “But it was a
success, and there was no looking back.
Having confidence and a degree from a
respectable school like USI allowed me to
go into business situations knowing how
things worked, or at least how they should
work,” he said.
Feet wet and spirits high, they held an
official grand opening a week later at Sun
King Brewery in downtown Indianapolis.
They marketed via social media and utilized
Sun King’s prominent brand presence.
Today, Naidu sites Twitter as the number-
one reason for Spice Box’s success and
continued expansion. Through market
research and trial and error, they find the
best locations and the truck is sought after
by hungry foodies across the city.
Spice Box offers traditional (with
mom’s twist) and authentic dishes, but
served in a more convenient way—for
instance, packaged in naan wraps (Indian
flat bread). “Quality is important, but we
made it convenient,” says Naidu.
A little over a year after the Spice Box
food truck got going, a sit-down, brick and
mortar establishment was added inside
City Market. Locating in the City Market was
a conscious decision. When Naidu’s family
first came to Indianapolis, City Market was
one of the first places they came to visit.
“It was a cool experience, and I fell in
love with it,” he says. Today, the area has
become the epicenter for the city’s winter
and summer farmers markets—a great
place to find fresh and interesting ingredi-
ents for Spice Box recipes.
“With some ingredients, quality makes
all the difference,” Naidu says. Eggs are one
of those ingredients. Spice Box gets all of its
eggs from a local vendor, Walker Hatchery
of Greenwood, Indiana—a small family busi-
ness. “I use local whenever possible and I’m
able to change our menu based on what’s
available. Last week, we had goat tacos.
The goats were from a farm in Connersville,
Indiana. I not only know the farmer, I know
the process behind how he raises his goats.”
Today, between the truck and the
restaurant, Spice Box employs nine people,
including two trained chefs. “Our entire
team is knowledgeable about food,” Naidu
says. “And, we make sure our customers
know that when they support us, they’re
also supporting local farms and agriculture.
It makes them feel good about the food
they’re eating.”
For now, Naidu is pleased to see
the business grow organically. He’ll expand
as the need or opportunity arises, and
he says growing too fast can feel heavy
and might prevent him from focusing on the
important things. “I’m keeping it simple and
day-to-day, and just focusing on
the food.”
Spice Box crew: Ty Wald, Paul Dantan, Nitin Naidu,
Chris Worman, Clinton Corbin
Entrepreneurs often are encouraged
to look “outside the box” when developing
new ideas. But, for Nitin Naidu ’00, suc-
cess meant looking—both figuratively and
literally—inside the box. The 37-year-old
entrepreneur and self-proclaimed foodie is
the co-owner of the wildly successful Spice
Box food truck in Indianapolis, Indiana
Spice Box, which began as a food truck,
and now includes a sit-down location, has
been featured on the Food Network and in
the Indianapolis Star, and was ranked one
of Indianapolis’ best new restaurants in
2013—the only restaurant included with a
price point below $10.
Naidu comes from a business-minded
family; his parents managed a hotel owned
by his aunt in Indianapolis. “We all
have an entrepreneurial mindset,”
he says. When he was 7, his family
emigrated to Greencastle, Indiana,
from Dandeli, India, a small town
along the southeast coast of the
state of Karnataka near Bangalore.
Food is a major part of Indian
culture, and that part of Naidu’s
heritage traveled with him through
his mother’s cooking—renowned back
home by family and friends. It also was
something that stuck in the back of his mind
as he entered his professional career.
When it came time for Naidu to choose
a college, it was an easy decision. A degree
in business administration would prepare
him to manage the various aspects of
running a business. USI offered several
things he was looking for—a great value, an
opportunity to get away from home and a
beautiful campus. What he got was much
more than that. His education laid the foun-
dation for the day he would merge his two
passions—food and business.
“USI has top-rate professors and I
could always talk to them—they were acces-
sible. I felt like my education was in their
best interest,” he said. “One of my favorite
classes was Organizational Behavior. It
taught me interpersonal communication
skills and the value of business roles, both
internal and external.”
With college behind him, he moved
to Denver where he worked for U.S. Bank
and met his wife Mo. They later moved
back to Indiana. Naidu continued working
in banking and the couple was living a cor-
porate lifestyle. “It was a great experience
and rewarding,” he says, “but my passion’s
always been food—at work I was always
thinking about what I would eat for lunch.”
He knew he wanted to own a business
one day but couldn’t envision how he could
lucratively involve his love for food. People
always told him that his mom’s food was
great, and “In the back of my mind, I’d
always felt that way too,” he said. Noodling
on the notion of business and food, he
asked his mother if she’d ever considered
doing anything with her food. She was
hesitant at first. “I think she said something
like ‘get back to work,’” Naidu jokes. But
eventually she wrote out all of her recipes
which have become the backbone of his
business today.
That lit the fire under the pan, and in
2011 he and Mo decided to act. He realized
he had a unique and marketable product
and created a business plan around his
mother’s recipes. “The best part about her
food is that you can eat it every day and not
feel guilty,” he says. “It’s not too rich, and
there’s a balance between healthy
and tasty.”

Rob Goodge ’99, business administration, has
been promoted to receivables management and
customer billing manager at Vectren Corporation
in Evansville.
2000s
Kathleen Kremer ’01, English, is a client
services manager at Reference Services, Inc.,
in Evansville.
Julie Rathgeber Hope ’02, art, has joined
Tucker Publishing Group as a graphic designer
in Evansville.
Eric Jost ’03, accounting, ’04, Master in
Accountancy, has been named executive
director of finance at St. Mary’s Health Center
in Evansville.
Shaun Angel ’04, business administration,
and his wife Molly opened Upgrade Café in
Newburgh, Indiana, a cold-pressed juice and
smoothie bar that also offers organic coffee,
teas and food options. “We still believe that
eating real food in whole form is the way to go
the majority of the time; however, incorporat-
ing a juicing or smoothie regimen into our lives
helps fill the void of nutrients that we are miss-
ing from not eating enough fruits and vegeta-
bles, especially the micronutrients,” Shaun
said. “Juicing can help serve as the real whole
food multivitamin and mineral for people who
are wishing for better health. Regular juicing
helps increase energy, detoxifies and can help
with weight, not because it’s juice necessarily,
but because a person is eating real food—many
pounds of produce in a quantity they would
not, and probably have not, ever eaten.”
Stephanie Biggs ’04, elementary education, is a
sixth grade teacher at Bluegrass Middle School
in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Charles Pride ’04, finance, ’08, post baccalau-
reate certificate in accountancy, ’09, accounting
and professional services, ’13, computer infor-
mation systems, was promoted to data analyst
for the Indiana State Board of Accounts in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Allen Collins ’05, electrical engineering technol-
ogy, has been promoted to engineering electri-
cal distribution manager at Vectren Corporation
in Evansville.
Andrew Clevenger ’06, economics, accepted
the position of government relations team lead
at First Advantage in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lora Arneberg ’06, economics and international
studies, is working on a master’s degree in
gastronomy from Boston University. “It’s an
incredibly interesting program that focuses on
food’s wider role in society rather than just
cooking. It’s rooted in anthropology, history,
archaeology, sociology and more.”
Robert Saladin ’07, sociology, is the owner of
A-1 Power Equipment in Newburgh, Indiana.
Julie Cline ’08, marketing/public relations and
advertising, was named manager of integrated
operations support for WOW! in Evansville.
Andrew McGuire ’08, accounting and profes-
sional services, is an assurance manager at
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Trent Martin ’08, elementary education, is
a third-grade teacher at Luce Elementary in
Richland, Indiana, who, along with a co-worker,
applied for a grant so students could
grow food in a garden. “We built our own
greenhouse where the students help raise 36
different types of herbs every year. Not only
are these students learning about raising crops
and herbs, but they also are learning about
sustainability and overall wellness.”
Andrea Phan ’09, nursing, is a registered nurse
at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville.
Jason Williams ’09, Master in Business
Administration, has been promoted to
operations manager at Vectren Corporation
in Evansville.
2010s
Juanita Jones Musich ’10, business, is the
senior administrative associate in the President’s
Office at USI.
Jennifer Rathgeber ’10, public relations and
advertising, has been named assistant media
buyer at AXIOM in Evansville.
Alexandria Stout ’11, health services, is an
onsite health coach/wellness coordinator of
The Boeing Company in Renton, Washington.
Taylor Dennis ’12, marketing, joined Golf Plus
as a sales associate in Evansville.
Alumni Treats
PERUUSI Alumni Association trip
May 16–26, 2015
Tour Highlights
Come with us as we travel to Peru and explore some of the world’s greatest archeological treasures
at Machu Picchu, Cuzco and Lima. While we’re there we’ll dine on exquisite Peruvian cuisine that
combines diverse native ingredients and indigenous dishes with international culinary influences.
Essential Experience
• Arrive at Machu Picchu via the famed
Vistadome train
• Explore the “Lost City of the Incas”
• Investigate local ways of life while in the
Sacred Valley
• Immerse yourself in Cuzco, a city that blends
Inca and Spanish colonial influences
• Absorb the ancient heritage in the “City of
Kings,” a UNESCO World Heritage site
Please Join Us!
Call Ken Meyer or Tracy Wilson at LifeStyle Tours, 812-682-4477, with your travel questions.
You also may contact Janet Johnson at USI at 812-464-1924 or alumni@usi.edu.
Joining the trip will be Michael Aakhus, expert faculty representative, and dean of the
College of Liberal Arts.
Proceeds from alumni travel fund scholarships for USI students.
alumni.usi.edu
Hannah Jay ’12, art, has been promoted to art
director at Tucker Publishing Group in Evansville.
Kelli Vincent Rainey ’12, business administra-
tion, has taken the position of clinical applica-
tions analyst II at Deaconess Health Systems
in Evansville.
Cortlin Sawyer ’13, computer information
systems, has joined Kitch Schreiber as a web
developer and a member of the company’s
Interactive Media and Web Development team
in Evansville.
Carly May ’14, accounting and professional
services, has joined Harding, Shymanski Co.
Inc. as a staff accountant in Evansville.
Brittany Brasel Skeels ’14, accounting and
professional services, has joined Harding,
Shymanski Co. as a staff accountant
in Evansville.
Kari Weinzapfel ’14, public relations and
advertising, has taken the position of
publications and events coordinator at
Deaconess Foundation in Evansville.
Contact Janet Johnson
at 812-464-1924 or
alumni@usi.edu.
Are you
interested
in becoming
a mentor?
“I was fortunate to have been paired
with Janet who demonstrates a great
work ethic and has helped me in more
ways than I could have imagined. I hope
I will one day do the same.”
—Alexa Bueltel ’16, majoring in
management with a human
resources concentration
“Having had several great mentors over
the course of my career and life, I firmly
believe it’s important to share what
I’ve learned while challenging Alexa to
reach her goals.”
—Janet Heldt Baas ’85, Senior Vice
President and Old National
Bank Foundation President
Jessica Rinks ’02, political science
and Spanish studies, is the owner
of Purple Leaf Farms on the outskirts
of Chicago. The farm focuses on annual
vegetable, herbs and flower crops, and offers
a box of produce each week in its affordable
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
summer program.
Matthew R. Mings ’14, political science, has owned a traditional farm, organic farm
and popcorn company, as well as served as former agricultural adviser and relief
worker to non-profits internationally (operating in West Africa).
He’s currently operations manager for a premium grain facility
in the Louisville area. As a world traveler, Mings believes “food connects people
from varying backgrounds across the globe like nothing else. It is the universal language.
From a bustling boulangerie in the Montmarte of Paris, to a smoky Irish bar,
to a decrepit cart in the deserts of West Africa, to my favorite
spot in Evansville, food is the great equalizer which can unite strangers
by the tastes, sensations and fulfillment it brings, allowing strangers to
become friends and friends to become family.”

Alumni Treats
Betty Rice in the University Home kitchen in 1983. Betty is the wife of Dr. David L. Rice, USI’s first
president. She loves to cook and was known to cook for the entire USI family when the couple
hosted University events at their home.
Cooking Up Education
Take Your USI Spirit on the Road!
Ask for a USI license plate at your local Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
when you order a new plate.
The plate costs $25 and is a tax-deductible contribution supporting the
Alumni Scholarship Endowment.
For more information, contact Alumni and Volunteer Services at
812-464-1924 or alumni@usi.edu.
Get rolling today with a collegiate license plate!
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EAGLES
The University of Southern Indiana is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2015.
The festivities begin in early January and last through the end of the year, commemorating USI as an institution
of educational excellence. Marking five decades of hard work, dedication, achievements and successes will be a
series of events: lectures, historical displays and alumni events on campus and in the community. A special
Signature Event will be during the 50th Anniversary Celebration week, September 14-20. We hope you’ll join us
for a year of celebration.
For more information on anniversary happenings and opportunities to share your stories and memories, visit
USI.edu/50
Marriages
Jennifer Rice ’03, Master of Business
Administration, and John Guzman, March 15,
2014.
Stephanie Ulrich ’05, elementary education,
’14, Master in Education, and Zakary Tanner,
July 12, 2014.
Lori Blackford ’06, marketing, and Joseph
Underwood, May 3, 2014.
Jillian Myrick ’08, mathematics, and Timothy
Scheirer ’08, biology, October 12, 2013.
Jessica Dughaish ’09, communication studies,
and Dale Roos, April 26, 2014.
Samantha Brescher ’10, dental hygiene, and
Matthew Kuzemka ’10, political science, June
14, 2014.
Jessica Gatewood ’12, nursing, and Alex
Goeckner, October 18, 2014.
Kelsey Kreke ’12, accounting, and Brian
Spillman ’12, marketing, September 13, 2014.
Cara Emmert ’13, nursing, and Dean Stuckey,
June 28, 2014.
Natasha Gravenhorst ’13, nursing, and Eric
Deig, May 10, 2014.
Alissa Piekarski ’13, management, and James
Wallace ’12, geology, June 7, 2014.
Logan Wagler ’13, management, and Brooke
Wittmer, September 27, 2014.
Births and Adoptions
Andrea Oxley Shanks ’95, accounting, and
Donald welcomed Abigail, July 11, 2014.
Ann Bittner VanWinkle ’07, business adminis-
tration, and Mark welcomed Holly Marie, July 21,
2014.
Jason Goodwin ’07, social science teaching,
and Jaqueline welcomed Matthias Abraham,
July 13, 2014.
Sara Browning Ridlen ’08, nursing, ’12, Master
in Nursing, and Aaron Ridlen ’08, economics,
welcomed Matthew Owen, August 19, 2014.
Megen Hauser Brown ’10, nursing, ’13, Master
of Nursing, and David welcomed Conner Allen,
July 20, 2014.
Shannon Painter Eickhoff ’12, nursing, and
Jonathan Eickhoff ’11, engineering, welcomed
Jace Kent, July 26, 2014.
In Memoriam
Michael Murray ’73, social science, of Cadillac,
Michigan, died October 9, 2014. He was retired
from the insurance field. Mike enjoyed playing
pickle ball at the YMCA.
Betty Sue Roth ’76, elementary education, of
Evansville, died August 26, 2014. She was a
teacher at several schools before retiring in 2002.
She had a passion for hiking and completed
1,600 miles of the Appalachian Trail, which she
aspired to finish.
Betty McClarney Schmitt ’74, English, of
Evansville, died September 15, 2014. She was
director of Evansville Protestant Home and
Newburgh Health Care for many years and
taught at Ivy Tech.
Ruth Reising Moore ’78, elementary education,
of Evansville, died September 15, 2014. She was
a lay teacher at Saint Agnes Catholic Church and
a program director at St. Vincent de Paul Day
Care.
Paul Koester ’78, business administration/eco-
nomics, of Evansville, died August 29, 2014. He
was a retired carpenter and a veteran of the
Vietnam War.
Tammi Lattner ’87, marketing, ’96, occupation-
al therapy, of Evansville, died August 27, 2014.
She was an occupational therapist with
Evansville School Corporation and also worked
at Saint Mary’s feeding clinic.
Debra Arnold Busler ’89, Master in Education,
of New Harmony, died July 28, 2014. She was a
teacher for 30 years.
Janice Kissel Williams ’89, computer informa-
tion systems, of Evansville, died September 30,
2014. She retired from Welborn Hospital.
Dana Kay Birchler ’05, nursing, of Georgetown,
Kentucky, died October 8, 2014. She was a regis-
tered nurse at Clark Regional Hospital.
Karen Buchser Elpers ’92, post-baccalaureate
certificate in accountancy, of Evansville, died
July 13, 2014. She worked in the accounting field.
Rick Davis ’93, communications, of Evansville,
died September 8, 2014. He was active in local
politics and recently worked as a financial advi-
sor for Edward Jones.
Faculty/staff in Memoriam
Thomas Boyd ’79, accounting, of Evansville,
died August 8, 2014, at West River Health
Campus. He joined USI’s Bursar office in 1969; in
1983 he became bookstore merchandise man-
ager before retiring in 1989. Prior to joining USI,
he served four years in the US Navy and 20 years
in the US Coast Guard. He loved to work puzzles,
go bike riding, travel and read.

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