Defying the Ordinary

Individuals Who Defy the Ordinary Defiance College alumni demonstrate leadership abilities and significant accomplishments within their chosen professions. • James Amstutz ’72, president, Ohio Power Tool • David Behrend Jr. ’86, supervisory criminal investigator, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center • William Bishop ’73, president, Associated Insurance Agencies • Pamela Borton ’87, head women’s basketball coach, University of Minnesota • Dean Colwell, D.O., ’64, vice president, medical affairs and chief medical officer, Doctors Hospital, Columbus, Ohio • Mark Klein ’76, chief executive officer, State Bank and Trust • Richard Mourdock ’73, Treasurer, State of Indiana • Barbara Silvis ’72, vice president/manager loss prevention, FG Global • Shaune Skinner ’75, president and project manager, ASC Group, Inc.

Uncommon Outcomes
Defiance College graduates are making an impact in their communities, across the country, and around the globe.


• Marjane (Evans) Baker ’65 has been active in education and local conservation efforts for years, including a campaign to plant 1,000 trees in a naturalized area, for which she was honored by Friends of the Rouge River. She has taught workshops for Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality and has won numerous awards, including Educator of the Year in Social Studies, and an Everyday Hero award.

• Eric Isham ’03 and Patrick Weber ’03 joined Teach for America, the exemplary national service program that sends recent college graduates to teach for two years in the poorest urban and rural school districts in the country. Upon graduation, Eric and Patrick were assigned to the Quitman County School District in the Mississippi Delta. Patrick also visited South Africa in 2007 on a Fulbright Group Project Abroad Program.

• Maggie Maloy ’01, overcame incredible odds physically and emotionally as a teenage victim of a violent crime. She came to Defiance College where she excelled as a student-athlete and received the first-ever NCAA Inspiration Award. Maggie now helps other crime victims as a victims’ advocate for the Bucyrus, Ohio, Prosecutor’s Office.

• Marc ’80 and Wendy (Kirkland) Overlock ’80, are making important contributions to the Nashville, Tennessee, community through their professions and volunteerism. Working with Catholic Charities, Wendy has overseen four different programs, dealing with caregiver support, Hurricane Katrina relief, and food outreach. Marc is with Nashville’s General Hospital and has raised more than $5 million through grants and private donations to assist indigent and uninsured patients in getting needed healthcare. He also serves as a board member with Nashville’s affiliate Susan G. Komen for the
Cure Foundation.

Many Defiance College graduates contribute in meaningful ways to the world of scholarship and/or teaching.

• Jayne R. Beilke, Ph.D., ’69, professor of secondary and foundations of education, chair of the Department of Educational Studies, Ball State University

• Robert Head, Ph.D., ’76, president, Rockford College

• Shelby Pierce ’73, chair, communications and humanities, Owens Community College

• R. Scott Warren, Ph.D., ’65, professor emeritus of botany, Connecticut College

• Frank Witzmann, Ph.D., ’76, professor of physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine

• Paul Yon ’70, retired archivist, Bowling Green State University