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Deans' Holiday Gift Guide

We asked DePauw's three school deans to recommend books and media they've enjoyed from alumni and faculty this year. 

practical insights based on completing over 130 deals over 25 years working in investment banking. This easy to access book provides an understanding of the deal mechanics and how to maximize value and position an organization for success through the sale process. I recommend this to anyone interested in investment banking, private equity, strategy, negotiations, and entrepreneurship.

Leading Diversity for Competitive Advantage: The Twelve Strategic Competencies 

by Peter Linkow ‘67

As a student of strategic management I am always looking for ways to understand how companies can establish sustainable competitive advantage. I have long valued diversity in organizations and experienced how diversity catalyzes innovation and creativity and leads to more effective decision making. This book by Peter Linkow '67, provides a structured and practical handbook on how to think about diversity and provides strategic models, tools, and templates to allow organizational leaders to leverage diversity as a driver of organizational performance. Peter is a frequent writer, speaker, and consultant on business strategy, change management, and diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy. He will spend time this January working with DePauw students completing a winter course focused on leadership.

Dancing with the Tiger 

by Lili Wright

Venturing into fiction, I had the pleasure of meeting Emeritus English Professor Lilli Wright at a charity event in Greencastle supporting the arts. I was fortunate to walk away with new connections, a basket of bourbon, and a new author to follow! Great writing and a compelling story await the reader.

Adams uses a reflective autoethnographic interlude to tell the story of finding a collection of love letters of a well-educated Jewish-American couple who lived their lives against the backdrop of the Jazz Age, Great Depression, and Prohibition. 

Read My Plate: The Literature of Food

by Debby Geis 

Who doesn’t think about the interplay of food and tradition during the holiday season? In this work, Professor Geis uses her talents for analyzing literature to consider the literal and figurative “plates” in the works of Allen Ginsberg, Jhumpa Lahiri, Suzan-Lori Parks and others to address how dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion and social class affect what narrators and characters eat.

Beethoven Diabelli Variations, Op. 20[cd]: (Baton Rouge, LA: Centaur Records)

by May Phang  

Professor Phang is known for her imaginative and compelling performances described as “vibrant”, “colorful” and evocative which she brings to her interpretation of the Diabelli Variations.

Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York 

by Dr. David Gellman 

In Liberty's Chain, Professor David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. 

How to Blow Up A Pipeline

Directed by Daniel Goldhaber, written by Dr. Jordan Sjol (Faculty in Film and Media Arts) and Ariela Barer. 

Set primarily in West Texas, the film follows a fictional group of eight young individuals who decide to blow up an oil pipeline at two key locations. This heist movie explores the moral validity of extreme actions in addressing the climate crisis, the question of terrorism, and the use of property damage and sabotage as activist tactics.

Philanthropy in Action

Emily Jones Knuth '99 leads, serves and gives for DePauw

Emily Jones Knuth '99 (pictured second from left with her family) recently took advantage of DePauw's Giving Tuesday campaign on November 28 to make a generous donation for the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics. In addition to being an alumna, Knuth is also associate director of the Prindle Institute on DePauw's campus. 

"‘Give now to better tomorrow’ is one of the reasons why my husband Dennis and I annually give to DePauw," she says. "As an alumna, my own DePauw experience, thanks to the faculty and staff who nurtured and helped me develop personally and 

professionally along the way, was so impactful and has led me to seek mission-driven work and life. Now as a staff member, I want to provide a similar caring and inspiring environment for today’s DePauw students."

Emily adds, "Another reason we give is to honor my family’s close ties and involvement with the university since its beginning. My great, great, great, great grandfather, Rev. Benjamin Jones, was one of the Putnam County residents who gave $100 to help found Indiana Asbury College (DePauw University) in Greencastle in 1837. Since then, over 25 Jones-family relatives have attended DePauw. As my dad likes to say, “DePauw’s a big deal in our family!” I am here because my grandparents met at DePauw during the late ‘30s and early ‘40s."

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Giving Campaign Results

1,400+ Donors

$460,000+

Giving Tuesday November 28, 2023

50+ Donors

$25,000+

Thanks to all who supported the DePauw student experience!!!

Celebrating the life of Professor Emeritus Robert Stark 

Robert Stark, Professor Emeritus of Biology, as well as a devoted father and grandfather, passed away November 27 in Tucson, Arizona. Bob came to DePauw in 1981 as an Assistant Professor of Zoology (the department was later renamed to Biological Sciences) and retired in 2009, although he taught again in spring 2010 to fill in for a colleague who was on leave. Professor Kevin Kinney shared the following:

At DePauw, he flourished in his pursuit of scientific inquiry. He loved sharing his passion for neurobiology, taxidermy and marine life with students. Known as an encouraging mentor, a fair department chair and a devoted teacher, he capped off his career as a recipient of the prestigious Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Tucker Jr. Distinguished Career Award in acknowledgement of his outstanding service. Read More...

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