Meet Our Leaders and Partners

Dianna Rhyan, Director	Susan Hawkins-Wilding Assistant Director
Thomas Tierney, Advisor Pre-Health Program	Joyce Howard, Administrative Assistant

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is a group of faculty, staff, and students who help direct the Lilly Project at the College of Wooster.

To see the agendas for Steering Committee meetings, go here.

Members of the Steering Committee:

Richard Bell, Department of Philosophy
Carolyn Buxton, Associate Dean of Students
Jessica DuPlaga, Interim Director of International/Off-Campus Study
Iain Crawford, Vice President of Academic Affairs
Shila Garg, Dean of the Faculty
Grant Cornwell, President
Charles Kammer, Department of Religious Studies
Dianna Rhyan, Lilly Project Director
Lisa Kastor, Director of Career Services
Kent Kille, Department of Political Science
Susan Hawkins-Wilding, Lilly Project Assistant Director
Linda Morgan-Clement, Interfaith Campus Minister
Nicola Kille, Lilly Project ReIntegration Coordinator
Rebecca Schmidt, Director of Stewardship, Office of Development

Who Wrote the Grant?

Two individuals were instrumental in all aspects of The College of Wooster’s proposal to the Lilly Endowment, Charles Kammer and Linda Morgan-Clement.

Charles Kammer	Linda Morgan-Clement

Wooster’s Lilly Project for the Exploration of Vocation was written after discussion and consultation with over eighty members of the Wooster community, including faculty, staff, administrators, students, alumni, and members of the Board of Trustees.

The following people contributed time, ideas, advice, input, or attended Lilly workshops during the development of this proposal.

Judith Amburgy-Peters, Chemistry
Eugene Bay, Trustee
Richard Bell, Philosophy
Robert Blair, Registrar, Sociology/Anthropology Emeritus
Denise Bostdorff, Communication Studies
David Brown, Director of Residential Life & Housing
James Burnell, Economics, Urban Studies
Paul Edmiston, Chemistry
Karen Edwards, Assistant Dean for International Student Affairs
Rose Falkner, Director of Off-Campus Study and International Programs
Thomas Falkner, Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, Classics
Shila Garg, Dean of Faculty, Physics
Jennifer Goetz, Physics
Nancy Grace, English
Jon Grinnell, Biology
R. Stanton Hales, President
Barbara Hampton, Writing Center/First Year Seminar
Charles Hampton, Mathematics
Peter Havholm, English, Comparative Literature
Kurt Holmes, Dean of Students
Ronald Hustwit, Philosophy
Charles Hurst, Anthropology/Sociology
Tricia James, Grant Development Administrator
Michelle Johnson, Communication Studies
Charles Kammer, Religious Studies
Lisa Kastor, Director of Career Services
Dianna Kardulias, Classics
Matthew Krain, Political Science
Henry Kreuzman, Philosophy and Pre-Law
Emily Leachman, Grant Writing Administrator
Linda Morgan-Clement, Henry Jefferson Copeland Campus Minister
Peter Mowrey, Music
Anne Nurse, Sociology
Sara Patton, Vice President for Development
Rebecca Schmidt, Director of Stewardship
Susanne Scholz, Religious Studies
Elena Sokol, Russian Studies
Mark Steiner, Communications
Gordon Tait, Religious Studies Emeritus
Thomas Tierney, Philosophy, Political Science, Pre-Health
James Warner, Economics
Yvonne Williams, Political Science and Black Studies Emerita
Mark Wilson, Geology
Walter Zurko, Art

Naveed Ahmad, ‘04
Adam Anthony, ‘04
Clinton Braganza, ‘03
Scott Chouinard, ‘04
Kim Christensen, ‘02
Jonathan Eischen, ‘02
Laura Fothergill, ‘03
Ehtesham Haque, ‘03
Claire Long, ‘05
Molly Malany, ‘02
Chuck Nusbaum, ‘02
Shoshana Raskas, ‘05
Kay Ritchey, ‘04
Elissa Wilk, ‘05
Marta Zaborowski, ‘03

James Christianson, pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ
Betty DeBerg, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Northern Iowa
Philip Gehman, Dean of Students, Columbia Theological Seminary
Thomas W. Gillespie, President, Princeton Theological Seminary
James Hudnut-Beumler, ’80, Dean and Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, the Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
Elizabeth McLean, Associate Pastor, First Presbyterian Church
Carroll Meyer, Pastor, Westminster Presbyterian Church
Alan Nathan, Pastor, Zion Lutheran Church
James Pallante, Dean, The J.A. Panuska, SJ., College of Professional Studies, University of Scranton
Dianne Reistroffer, Dean of the Seminary, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Sherry Sparks, Director of Admissions and Vocations, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Lewis Weeks, President, Union Theological Seminary/PSCE
Hoyte Wilhelm, Associate Pastor, United Methodist Church of Wooster
John E. Wilson, Dean of Faculty, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary