Board of Visitors
Ronald Caltabiano became dean of
Butler University's Jordan College of the Arts in July 2011. An
accomplished composer of contemporary classical music, Caltabiano
earned his bachelor, master, and doctor of music degrees from The
Julliard School.
He started his career as a music assistant to Aaron Copland
(1985-1989) in Peekskill, N.Y. Among ensembles commissioning and
performing his music are the San Francisco, Dallas, and Cincinnati
symphony orchestras, the BBC and Hong Kong philharmonic orchestras,
the Emerson and Juilliard string quartets, the Fires of London, and
the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. He comes to Butler after
teaching at the Manhattan School of Music, the Peabody
Conservatory, and San Francisco State University, where he was also
associate dean.
Committee Chairs
Barry Hohlfelder (BS,
'66), Board of Visitors Chair
Pam Blevins Hinkle ('83),
Board of Visitors Assistant Chair, Butler Community Arts School
Committee Chair
Richard Miles ('87 &
'91), Alumni Committee Chair
Karen Sheely ('86),
Development Committee Chair
Jerry Toomer, Membership
Committee Chair
2012-2013 Board
Christopher Beltran
Co-founder of
Passageways
Christopher Beltran is an energized entrepreneur with a
particular passion for working with amazing people building
high-impact companies that move the world forward in a positive
way. Mr. Beltran is co-founder of a successful
industry-leading software company, Passageways, which he started
out of his dorm room at Purdue University and turned into an
industry-leading internal corporate management software for CEOs,
Board Members, and Operations Groups in over 6 countries. His
company also was recognized by Inc. 500, for being the 27th fastest
growing software company in the country.
Christopher is also involved in the humanities, receiving the
Governor's Award for Tomorrow's Leaders by the Indiana Humanities
Council. Christopher was an organizer of the inaugural
TEDxPurdueU event as well as the inaugural TEDxIndianapolis
event. Christopher is the longest-standing mentor for
entrepreneurship high school kids at the Purdue Entrepreneurship
Academy and has taught at Purdue University graduate-level
entrepreneurship.
Christopher is from McAllen, Texas and moved to Indiana to
attend Purdue University. He resides in Carmel, Indiana and
is actively involved in the technology startups and investment
community in Indianapolis.
He currently serves on the boards of several software startups
in a variety of industries and has previously done work for Purdue
University's IBM WebSphere-based portal implementation, Purdue
University's Discovery Park Research Center and Prudential
Financial Real Estate. He holds a bachelor of science from Purdue
University.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Beth St. Clair
Principal in
ActUp
Beth St. Clair, an independent consultant who has worked
extensively with the Butler Community Arts School, is the newest
member of the Jordan College of the Arts' Board of Visitors.
St. Clair is the principal in ActUp, where she uses "applied
improvisation"-the principles improvisational actors use on
stage-to help businesses improve team communication, leadership and
customer service.
Working with the Butler Community Arts School (BCAS), which
provides free- and low-cost music education for Indianapolis
children while giving Butler students the opportunity to learn to
teach, she devised a plan to increase community awareness of BCAS
and its programs.
St. Clair moved to Indianapolis a year ago after marrying a man
from the city. She grew up in southern California and graduated
from University of California-San Diego. After college she moved to
Washington, D.C., where she worked for about five years for an
organization that gave small grants to community-level agencies
fighting AIDS.
She decided she needed professional development, so she moved to
Bloomington, Ind., and earned her MBA at Indiana University. Then
she moved back to D.C. and worked for Deloitte as a management
consultant for seven years.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Edgar Davis
Past Executive in Residence,
Butler University College of Business, retired from Eli
Lilly
A retired Vice-President of Eli Lilly and Company, he is a
Trustee of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and has served on
several boards of community and national arts and educational
organizations.
Ed is a graduate of Kenyon College and Harvard's Graduate School
of Business. After retirement, he was a Fellow and Visiting
Scholar in business-government relations at Harvard and Oxford
Universities. He is a trustee-emeritus of Kenyon College.
At Butler, he has served as an Executive-in-Residence in the
College of Business and as an instructor in the University Honors
Program.
Giving Philosophy:Edgar Glenn
Davis has long championed the fine arts as an essential element of
a liberal arts education and a fulfilling life. He considers
philanthropy to be a highly personal initiative to advance the
public good by the giving of one's talents, time, and material
resources to organizations with a demonstrated potential to
significantly advance the quality of life for others. Thus, his
interest in the Jordan College of the Arts is in recognition of the
extraordinary quality of educational opportunities provided by the
College to students, citizens, and community service and
educational organizations.
Rob Estka
President, Special
Markets
Rob Estka has been President of Special Markets, Inc for over
nineteen years. Prior to his work at Special Markets he
gained management experience at Philips Consumer Electronics.
Rob received his Master's in Business Administration from the
University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor's of Science in Broadcast
Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Craig Gigax
President, Meridian
Music
A native of Carmel, IN, Craig Gigax is the second-generation
owner of Meridian Music Company. Craig bought Meridian
Music Company in 1995 from his mother after the death of his father
and its founder, Richard Gigax. Craig attended Carmel public
schools as well as Ball State University and Northwestern
University.
Craig worked in various sales and management positions within
the semiconductor industry in both the Chicago and Minneapolis
areas before relocating his family to Carmel in 1995 to operate and
manage Meridian Music Company. Craig and his
Minnesota-native wife have 3 grown children and are also the proud
parents of 2 Portuguese Water Dogs, Bentley and Yogi.
Craig has been active in the music industry and in the Central
Indiana Arts community through Board service with NAMM (National
Association of Music Merchants), the American Pianists Association,
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Carmel Symphony Orchestra, the
Indianapolis Opera and the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler
University.
Craig's involvement with JCA goes back several decades - as a
high school French Horn player, he studied with Harry Michaels at
Butler University and played under the baton of Jackson Wiley in
the Central Indiana Youth Symphony Orchestra. The role
JCA played in forming Craig's love of the arts led him to become
involved as chairman of the first Board of Visitors.
Giving Philosophy:As the owner of
Meridian Music Company, whose success depends upon an interested
and motivated arts community, Craig strongly believes that he has
an obligation to support those organizations with demographics and
patrons which closely resemble his.
Rebecca Paul Hargrove (BS '70; MS
'75)
President and CEO, Lottery
Tennessee
An Indianapolis native, Rebecca Paul Hargrove is President and
CEO of the Tennessee Lottery. She holds a bachelor's and
master's degree in education from Butler University, and in 1998,
received its Robert Todd Duncan Alumni Achievement Award. She
began her career working in local television news, advertising and
promotions in Indiana and Illinois before being tapped in 1985 to
lead the Illinois Lottery. Under her management, Illinois
Lottery sales climbed to more than $1.3 billion annually. In
1987, she moved to Florida to launch the Sunshine State's lottery
where she set industry records for first-year sales. After
that, she worked as a consultant, developing strategic plans and
advising lotteries across the U.S. and abroad.
In 1993 Paul was asked to start up the Georgia Lottery; during
the first year of operation, she again set new industry sales
records, and during her 10 years there, more than $6 billion for
education and scholarships for students attending pre-Kindergarten
programs, state colleges and universities was generated.
Paul was selected as the Tennessee Lottery's first President and
CEO in September 2003. After starting ticket sales three
weeks ahead of schedule on January 20, the Tennessee Lottery closed
its first fiscal year of five months and 12 days by transferring
more than $123 million to the state's education fund - roughly 40%
more than the initial goal of $88 million. By March 2005, gross
ticket sales had surpassed $1 billion after one year and seven
weeks. In 2004, Business Tennessee magazine named her to the Power
100, a list of Tennessee's most powerful people.
Paul's resume includes a long list of lottery industry, business
and civic accomplishments. She has served as president of the
International Lottery Association and the North American
Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, and as vice chairman
of the Public Sector Gaming Study Commission. She was the
recipient of the 1998 Peter O'Connell Lifetime Achievement Award by
the Public Gaming Research Institute and in 2005 was named as one
of the first inductees to the Public Gaming Research Institute's
Lottery Industry Hall of Fame. In 1998, she was named The
Georgian of the Year by the Georgia Association of Broadcasters,
the first woman to receive the prestigious award. The
J. Whitney Bunting School of Business of Georgia College named Paul
the 1996 Executive of the Year; in 1994 she was named Entrepreneur
of the Year by the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni
Association and is a recipient of the Corporate Leadership Award
from the Georgia Association of Minority Entrepreneurs.
Nora Hiatt
Public Radio producer
Nora Hiatt, who produces the syndicated public radio show "Sound
Medicine," has joined the Jordan College of the Arts' Board of
Visitors.
Hiatt grew up in Indianapolis, went to Brown University, and
then came back home. She worked as a TV news producer in the first
part of her career and, over the year, has been active in the
Nature Conservancy, ACLU of Indiana, the Orchard School, and
Washington Township schools.
For the past 10 years, she has produced the radio show "Sound
Medicine" for WFYI-FM, Indianapolis' public radio station. "Sound
Medicine" airs on all Indiana public radio stations and 10-20
others around the country. It's also available as a podcast.
Hiatt, whose experience is in
communications and PR, acknowledges Butler's own expertise in those
areas, but said she looks forward to finding ways to help Butler
ArtsFest grow after its inaugural season
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
Pam Blevins Hinkle ('83)
Board of Visitors Assistant Chair
Butler Community Arts School Committee Chair
Director, Spirit & Place
Festival
Pam Blevins Hinkle is director of the Spirit and Place Festival
(www.spiritandplace.org), a major civic collaboration managed by
The Polis Center, part of the IU School of Liberal Arts at
IUPUI. A native of Franklin, Indiana and a 1983 graduate
of Butler University, Hinkle formerly was executive director of
Sweetwater Art Center and special projects director for the
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania from 1987 to
1992. In the late 1990s, she founded The Hinkle Group,
Inc., a consulting practice that provided grant writing, funding
research, program development, and strategic planning services for
cultural and historical organizations, libraries, faith-based
organizations, social service and civic agencies, educational
institutions, as well as health and human service
organizations.
A recipient of the 2003 Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship awarded
by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, Hinkle is also a singer,
choral conductor, and instrumentalist. She has led
college, church, and community choirs for 18 years, including 13
years as artistic director of the Indianapolis Women's
Chorus. Presently, she is the choir director for the
Midwest Unitarian Universalist Summer Assembly (since 1998),
teaches music improvisation at the Indiana Women's Prison, and is a
member of THIN AIR, a five-piece ensemble that creates
fully-improvised performances.
Giving Philosophy:Pam notes, "For
me, music is a ministry ... a ministry that sustains my spirit, a
ministry that connects me to other others and to the sacred, a
ministry that transforms individuals and communities. The roots of
this lie in my childhood church where I sang hymns, in my high
school where I experienced the joy and camaraderie of ensembles,
and in my Butler years where I performed some of the great
choral/orchestral masterworks. I gladly support and serve on the
JCA Board of Visitors, teach at the women's prison, and lead
workshops. Some call this 'giving back,' but I think it's really
'giving forward.' When I help others discover the profound beauty
and sacredness that lies within them, I am securing that sacred
beauty for the future."
Barry Hohlfelder (BS, '66)
Board of Visitors Chair
Retired Television Producer,
NBC
A two time Emmy Award winning television producer, Barry
Hohlfelder retired from NBC- Universal after nearly 37 years
producing and writing news and sports programming. Barry earned his
B.S. degree in Radio/TV, with a minor in Drama, from Butler in 1966
and immediately joined the staff of channel 6, WFBM-TV, in
Indianapolis as a producer/director. In 1969 he returned to Chicago
producing news programs for the CBS owned station WBBM-TV.
WNBC-TV lured him to New York in 1972 to produce "The Sixth Hour
News" from 30 Rock. Later that year, Barry transferred back to the
NBC owned Chicago station, WMAQ-TV, producing news and sports. He
co-created a half hour sportscast in the mid 70's, "Sportsunday"
which continues its run today. His first Emmy came for on-camera
work broadcasting championship high school football in 1979. Later
that year he joined the NBC News Chicago Bureau as a network field
producer for "NBC Nightly News" and "The Today Show". His News and
Documentary Emmy was awarded in 1982 for a "Nightly News" series,
"College Sports: The Money Game".
Barry returned to WMAQ-Sports in 1986 and created "Speedsunday",
a popular weekly motor sports news segment. In addition to chairing
the JCA Board of Visitors, joining the CCOM Board of Visitors,
serving as vice president of the Alumni Association Board of
Directors, Barry is a member of the Ovid Butler and Butler
University Heritage Societies and is a licensed foster guardian for
rescued Golden Retrievers in Northern Illinois. His philosophy of
giving to the university is simple.
Giving Philosophy:"My Butler education is the foundation of a
career I dreamed of from the day I arrived on the Fairview campus.
If my contributions help keep dreams alive for future generations,
my life will have been well spent."
Alfred Ironside ('85)
Director of Communications, Ford
Foundation
Alfred Ironside has been Director of Communications at the Ford
Foundation since January 2006, where he guides a sophisticated
strategic communications unit that supports the foundation's
diverse programs in the U.S. and in ten regions around the
world.
He joined the foundation from the United Nations, where he
served as Spokesman for Countries in Crisis and then as Chief of
Media Relations for UNICEF. Over nearly seven years, Mr. Ironside
traveled from East Timor to Ethiopia, North Korea to Liberia,
acting as spokesman on breaking news and sensitive issues affecting
children and women. Prior to joining the UN, Mr. Ironside was a
member of the editorial team that launched the English edition of
Ha'aretz, Israel's leading newspaper, in conjunction with the
International Herald-Tribune in 1998.
Mr. Ironside began his career as a news reporter at radio
stations in Indianapolis and Philadelphia. In the late 1980s he
spent three years in the U.S. Foreign Service as a press officer
stationed in East Berlin, where he won commendation for his work
during the Berlin Wall crisis. In the early 1990s he helped launch
and served as Managing Director for the first Western advertising
agency in Bulgaria, and in the mid-1990s he spent four years as a
disaster spokesman for the Red Cross.
A native of Philadelphia, he holds Bachelors' degrees in both
political science and journalism from Butler University in
Indianapolis, and a Master's in Media Administration from the
Newhouse School and the Graduate School of Business at Syracuse
University.
R.K. Kelley ('87)
Director of Entertainment,
Walt Disney World Entertainment
R.K. Kelley has worked with The Walt Disney Company for
twenty-four years in the entertainment field. Prior to
Disney, R.K. received a Bachelor's of Science in Arts
Administration from the Jordan College of the Arts at Butler
University.
Dr. Erik Lindseth
Professor, IUPUI History
Department
Dr. Erik Lindseth is a senior lecturer in the Department of
History at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana
University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, where he teaches
European, Renaissance and Reformation, Scottish and English
History, History of Education, and History of the Book at. He
received his B.A. degree from Wabash College, his Ph.D. form
Edinburgh University and his M.L.S. from Indiana University.
His research interests include early Indiana libraries and
literary circles, 19th century German immigration to Indianapolis,
books/printing/publishing, and numismatics. He is active as
the director of conservation and restoration at National Library
Bindery Co. of Indiana.
Publications: "The True Greeks, 1846-1900" in Tau of Beta Theta
Pi: 150 Years at Wabash (1997).
Alicia McMahon ('97)
Brand Marketing Manager,
Firestone Building Products
Alicia McMahon has a broad range of marketing strategy and
public relations experience. Prior to joining Firestone
Building Products in 2008, she was the Director of Marketing for
one of the largest cardiology practices in the U.S., responsible
for an extensive re-branding effort. McMahon also managed
corporate public relations for a number of clients with two
different Indianapolis-based ad agencies and later served as the
Executive Director of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra.
In her role of Brand Marketing Manager at Firestone, McMahon is
responsible for increasing Firestone's brand effectiveness in the
marketplace through corporate advertising, branding, public
relations, and media relations activities. She works
specifically with trade media to build greater awareness of
commercial roofing and building envelope products.
McMahon received a B.A. in Communications and Journalism from
Purdue University and a Masters in Music Education from Butler
University. She has 3 children - a daughter who graduates
from the University of Notre Dame in May and two boys in high
school. Her husband is also a Butler grad. She currently
serves as a member of Butler's Jordan College of the Arts Board of
Visitors.
Richard Miles ('87 & '91)
Alumni Committee Chair
Vice President, Audio Services and
TV Programming, WFYI
Richard Miles graduated from Butler not once, but twice, with
bachelor's ('87) and master's ('91) degrees in what was then Radio
& Television. From 1987 till 1999 he helped manage Butler's
radio and television stations WAJC and WTBU, and taught in the
department. In 1999, he transitioned to WFYI (PBS) as part of the
WTBU-WFYI television joint operating agreement and has been
there ever since. He is currently the Vice President for
Interactive Media and Content Strategies, which means he works with
the folks in programming and operations who pick and schedule the
content from PBS, NPR, BBC, APM, PRI and others, including local
shows, to create the channels, stations and Web sites that WFYI
offers to the community.
Richard is an active leader, serving on several boards including
the Public Television Programmers Association, WEDM-FM (Warren
Central High School), Y-Press, the Lacy Leadership Association,
Butler's new College of Communication's Board of Visitors and of
course here at JCFA. Richard is obsessed about soccer, particularly
the English Premier League, loves old radios, and good food! He
lives in Indianapolis and has two daughters.
Giving Philosophy:Richard's
giving philosophy is that time and talent is as valuable as
treasure. Find where you can be of use, and be
there!
Jenny Mobley ('87 &
'89)
Adjunct Instructor, School of
Music, Jordan College of the Arts
Jenny Mobley received her Master of Music Education degree from
Butler University; she has an undergraduate degree from Butler and
another from Indiana University and has done post-graduate work at
Indiana University and The Juilliard. A pianist, she has
taught privately for over 20 years, has been an instructor at
Butler since 1987 and was the founder and director of the
Indianapolis Piano Academy. She has performed in Bloomington, IN
with the Chamber Music Association and Town Theater and was also a
keyboardist with the Bloomington Town Theater Orchestra and
Bloomington Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Mobley has conducted workshops for IPTG and IPTA and is a
member of Pi Kappa Lambda, MTNA, IMTA and GIMTA, and has served on
the Committee on Independent Studio Teaching of The National
Conference on Piano Pedagogy.
Diana Mutz
Community
Volunteer
Diana Hartley Mutz graduated from Vassar College in 1985 with a
bachelor's degree in psychology, and she earned her M.B.A. from
Indiana University's Kelly School of Business in 1989. She
has been a stay-at-home mom for most of her career, home schooling
both of her children. Her community volunteer work has
included volunteering on political campaigns, serving two terms as
Precinct Committeeman, working on Conner Prairie Alliance, and
spearheading neighborhood beautification projects. She has served
her alma mater as President of the Indiana Vassar Club and as Chair
of the Indiana Vassar Alumnae/i Admissions Committee. As a
high school student, Diana studied flute with a Butler professor,
and she is now a fledgling harp student with Butler adjunct Wendy
Muston. A balletomane, Diana faithfully curled her daughter's
hair for six seasons of Butler's The Nutcracker, where her daughter
danced in the children's cast.
Giving Philosophy:Diana believes
strongly that giving her time and financial resources to JCA is a
fruitful way to extend the benefits of Butler into the Indianapolis
community.
Michael O'Brien
President, Printing
Partners
A University of Wisconsin graduate with a dairy background,
Michael O'Brien began his career as a dairy extension agent with
the American Peace Corps in Punjab, India. Upon returning to the
United States, O'Brien worked in agricultural marketing for
companies including Countrymark Cooperative, Elanco Products
Company and Central Soya where he was responsible for both
communications and marketing. In addition, his career includes
agency experience working for Trent-Jones, Inc. in Princeton, NJ
and Bader Rutter & Associates in Milwaukee, WI.
Following the birth of their son, Patrick, in l987 he and his
wife, Jackie Nytes, bought an Insty-Prints franchise in
Indianapolis. Within ten years the business had expanded to four
locations and sales increased more than tenfold. Before
discontinuing the franchise in 1999, Printing Partners was the
largest multiple-unit Insty-Prints in existence.
Today, O'Brien and his partner, Joel O'Brien, operate Printing
Partners from two Indianapolis locations. During a period of
industry consolidation, Printing Partners has made significant
investments to become a G-7 Master Printer and to acquire FSC and
ISO certification.
Throughout its history Printing Partners has been known for its
generous support of the arts and in 2011 Americans for the Arts
recognized Printing Partners as one of the top ten companies in the
United States in terms of art support.
O'Brien currently serves on the boards of CICOA Foundation,
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Indianapolis
School of Ballet, University of Wisconsin Alumni Club of
Indianapolis and St. Joan of Arc Church Pastoral Council.
Fred Schlegel
Attorney, Faegre Baker
Daniels
Fred Schlegel has extensive experience in utility rate and
other regulated activities. He practices before the Indiana Utility
Regulatory Commission, Legislature, Court of Appeals and Supreme
Court. His expertise involves electric, water, gas and sewage
disposal utilities and financings as well as litigation and rule
makings. Fred regularly advises privately and municipally owned
utilities and users of their services. Mr. Schlegel received
his B.A. degree, with honors, from Northwestern University, and his
J.D. with distinction from the University of Michigan Law
School.
Karen Sheely ('86)
Development Committee Chair
Taxpayer Advocate Service,
Technical Liaison
Karen A. Sheely, CPA, graduated from Butler University in 1986
with a Bachelor of Arts in Flute Performance and a Bachelor of
Science in Business Administration. In 1995, she completed
the requirements for a degree in Accounting and became a Certified
Public Accountant. She began her career at the IRS with an
internship in personnel and subsequently held the positions of Tax
Auditor, Revenue Agent, Taxpayer Advocate Service Technical
Advisor, Local Taxpayer Advocate for Indiana, and Senior
Examination Technical Liaison for Systemic Advocacy. Karen
has been detailed to the IRS National Office as the Director of Tax
Account Operations and Director of Immediate Interventions and
currently holds the position of Technical Advisor to the Executive
Director of the Office of Privacy, Governmental Liaison, and
Disclosure (PGLD). Karen was awarded the 2003 Outstanding CPA
in Government Award by the Indiana CPA Society for outstanding
service as a CPA in Government. In January 2005, she was
awarded the National Taxpayer Advocate Award for service and
leadership. Karen has been the Principle Flutist for the
Carmel Symphony Orchestra since 1986 and serves on the board.
She is an avid Zumba dancer, yard edger, scuba diver, Brown County
Indiana dweller, and traveler.
Giving Philosophy: Karen says, "I
attended Butler University on a scholarship and consider giving
time, talent, and treasure to Butler a way to pay this gift
forward. Thanks to Butler, I am able to integrate the Arts
into my daily life. I had the wonderful opportunity to share
my Butler experience and what makes Butler special at the Annual
Scholarship Breakfast. I challenged the scholarship
recipients to remember and support the Butler Scholarship Program
and then come back and tell their story."
Marianne Tobias
Program Annotator,
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
A native Hoosier, Marianne Williams Tobias attended Harvard
University, where she accompanied the Harvard Glee Club and was
pianist for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. She graduated
cum laude in 1962 with a degree in European History, focusing on
national socialism and communism.
Marianne continued her musical education at Longy School of
Music, where she received an Artist Diploma in 1967. She
spent the next 19 years in St. Paul, MN, earning her M.F.A. in 1973
and her PH.D. in 1977 from the University of Minnesota, where she
also taught; she also worked for Dominick Argento. After her
children were born, she worked at St. Paul Academy and Summit
School and for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. After
returning to Indianapolis, Marianne continued post-doctoral work
with pianist Menahem Pressler, Distinguished Professor at the
Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
Besides music, Marianne has collected a diverse resume of
experiences. In Boston, she worked as an assistant producer
of WGBH's The French Chef, working directly with legendary chef
Julia Child. She also spent two years working with Harvard
Professor Robert Albion in American History courses as an
illustrator for sailors on Polaris submarines. Having earned
a Legal Translation Training Certificate in Spanish from the
University of Chicago in 2008, Marianne translates personal
documents and recently gave tours in Spanish at the IMA's Sacred
Spain exhibit.
Marianne is the author of Classical Music Without Fear: A Guide
for General Audiences and co-author of Opera for All Seasons: 60
Years of Indiana University Opera Theater, from the Indiana
University Press. Currently, she is working on two books: a history
of Crown Hill Cemetery and a celebratory biography of David
Higgins, set designer at the Indiana Opera Theatre at Indiana
University's School of Music.
Employed by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as their
resident musicologist and writer of program notes, Marianne has
frequently collaborated in concert with ISO musicians, and since
2009, has also written program notes for the Ensemble Music
Society. Zach de Pue (ISO concertmaster), Geoffrey Lapin (ISO
cellist), and Marianne were recently appointed as Trio in Residence
for the new concert hall at the Old Centrum.
Always ready for a new endeavor, Marianne began studying the
cello in 2009 and recently completed Veterinary Technology
School. She works part-time at the Cat Care clinic, and at
the heart of her daily life are Patches and Isabel, both "rescue
kitties." She has 2 children, five grand children and five
step grandchildren.
She serves on the Boards of the Indianapolis Symphony, IMA, Indy
Baroque, Indiana Landmarks, Crown Hill Foundation, and over the
past five years has rotated off 10 other boards in Indianapolis,
Philadelphia, and Cambridge, MA.
Marianne says, "The board of Visitors at Butler gives an
opportunity to link into a fascinating University right in my back
yard. I see Butler as a city asset as well as a place of
learning, and as a citizen I hope it will flourish. As an
"outsider" I hope to bring perspectives from other arts
organizations to the Board of Visitors which might be of use to
them in their strategic plans, in their concepts of the school and
its activities, and to provide a link to the Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra (where I work) which could be helpful."
Giving Philosophy:First of all:
you have to feel good about the request and confidence in the
institution making the ask. Engage yourself in an institution
or cause only when you have emotion or respect for it. Try to
engage in the future of an organization as well as the present. A
gift is something for the future, and if that future idea or plan
has merit: then join in making it happen. The giving does not
have to be money, but I am aware this is keenly important in making
anything emerge in our modern society. Budget your own giving
carefully..... try not to get carried away!
Jerry Toomer
Membership Committee Chair
Executive in Residence, College of
Business; Retired, Dow Chemical Company
In this professional career, Jerry has worked closely with key
leaders to design effective strategies that clearly link individual
and team effectiveness to total organizational performance.
With 30+ years as a Human Resources Executive, Educator, and
Psychologist, he has effectively worked with a wide range of
individuals and work groups in achieving their professional and
personal goals in complex organizations.
At Butler University, he has been actively involved in the
development of a "Real Life, Real Business" curriculum and also
serves as an Executive Partner in the College of Business as well
as an Adjunct Professor in the MBA program.
Jerry's academic credentials include a Bachelors Degree in
Psychology from Wartburg College and a Ph.D. in Counseling
Psychology from the University of Iowa. For over 25 years,
Jerry worked at The Dow Chemical Company and Dow AgroSciences,
where he held senior leadership positions in Human Resources.
He was a key member of Dow executive management teams that have
successfully completed several corporate mergers, acquisitions,
restructurings and global diversification initiatives. His
effective blend of teaching experience, executive coaching &
consulting skills and highly successful corporate work experience
has provided a basis for sound, fundamental transition
management.
Jerry's particular areas of expertise are Executive Coaching and
Consulting; Not-for-Profit Leadership Development; Human Resources
Strategy; Family Business Succession Planning; Mergers,
Acquisitions, Restructuring and Global Diversification; and
Leadership Selection & Development.
Giving Philosophy:Jerry Toomer's
passion for music and the arts extends back to his youth. In
high school and college he was part of several choral groups: "as a
small town kid, it was my ticket to expanding my horizons in
getting to know a wide range of people, and to travelling the US
and the world. Now that I have time to give back to the
Indianapolis and Butler communities, I find that the JCA is a
perfect fit."
Anna White
Retired, Executive Director,
Young Audiences of Indiana
Anna Seim White is a magna cum laude graduate of Augustana
College, Sioux Falls, SD, with a degree in music and English.
She earned her M.M. degree from the University of Minnesota in
American Literature and Piano, and studied at the Aspen School of
Music and the University of Michigan. She served as an
Associate and Assistant Professor at Chadron State University and
at the University of North Dakota.
After moving with her husband, Jim, to Indianapolis, Anna taught
private piano and began giving time as a volunteer with a number of
arts organizations. Serving first as a volunteer for the arts
education organization Young Audiences of Indiana, she subsequently
served as its Executive Director. During her tenure, a number
of YA collaborations were developed with Butler University,
including an Artist/Intern program and a Summer Arts Institute for
Teachers and Artists.
Anna has served as chair of the Board of Governors of the
Indianapolis Museum of Art, as president of its Alliance and the
Contemporary Art Society; she presently serves as a Trustee and a
member of the Collections and Nominating Committees. She is
also a board member of MIPB (WFYI). Anna served as chair of
the International Violin Competition from 2002-2006, and continues
on the board, and also served for a number of years on the boards
of the Indianapolis Symphony, Dance Kaleidoscope, Indiana Youth
Institute and the Arts Council of Indianapolis.
In addition to being named a Sagamore of the Wabash, Anna has
received the ARTI Award from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and
the NUVO Cultural Vision Lifetime Achievement Award.
Timothy Wright '73
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Trevor Yager
President and CEO,
TrendyMinds
Trevor Yager began his career in 1995 while in college by
founding TrendyMinds Inc., a full-service advertising/public
relations/interactive firm. He earned his bachelor's degree in
psychology from Anderson University and less than a year later
signed a contract with Tony Stewart to work with the professional
racecar driver's public relations team handling online sales,
marketing and advertising engagements. Trevor went on to work with
various motor sports sponsors, team owners and sanctioning bodies,
including The Home Depot, MBNA Bank, Emerson Electric, Dewalt,
Coca-Cola, Circuit City, Shell, Pontiac, NASCAR and Joe Gibbs
Racing.
In 2000, Seurat, a CRM solutions company, asked Trevor to become
principal of motor sports sponsor relations and develop a Web
portal that would enhance entertainment for fans while increasing
sales and marketing for Seurat. The process Trevor developed led to
several similar consulting engagements.
The next year, Trevor led TrendyMinds into a consulting
relationship with LexisNexis and a $1.6 million dollar interactive
solution implementation that combined product development,
marketing, sales and an employee intranet.
Next up was Spirit Systems in Medicine, a disease management
software company for which Trevor built the marketing and
communications department. In addition, Trevor has consulted for
and owned portions of several start-up entities dealing in
technology, real estate development, restaurant and
entertainment.
Today, he provides various levels of strategic planning,
business development, marketing and technology guidance and support
to Starbucks, Kevin Harvick Racing, Indiana University Health and
other local, national and international clients.
In 2009, Junior Achievement recognized Trevor as one of Indy's
Best & Brightest. In 2010, the President of the United States
and the First Lady invited Trevor to the State of the Union. Also
in 2010, Trevor was appointed to the Indiana Arts Commission by
Governor Mitch Daniels. He is a board member of the Damien Center,
a past board member of the American Cabaret Theatre, and is a
member of the Fall Creek Place Homeowners Association.
Board of Visitors
Consultant
Mark Foglesong