Betty deHebreard HILTON HEAD ISLAND Betty deHebreard was born September 21, 1942, to Herman and Dorothy Prange in Indianapolis, IN, a first generation American, which she was so proud of. Her German heritage and German family remained a dominant point of pride throughout her entire life. It was in kindergarten where she met her future husband Pete. They went on their first date in junior high school and would have been married for 57 years on January 18, 2021. After graduating from Southport High School, she attended Indiana University, where she graduated with a B.S. in Business Education. She was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. The lasting friendships she made at Alpha Chi continued throughout her life with regular, lively reunions in Arizona, South Carolina, and Michigan.
Law School In Memoriam 2020
As we reflect on this year, we want to remember those we lost from the law school family in 2020. If you know of any other law alumni who passed away this year but are not on the list, please email Jordan Burgess at jburgess1@udayton.edu.
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Robert Jeff Dodson, 59, of Evansville, Indiana, passed away on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at Deaconess Midtown Hospital.
Jeff was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania on December 10, 1960 to Robert Allen and Jeane (Stevens) Dodson. He graduated from North High School in 1979. Jeff earned a bachelor s degree from Indiana University in 1983 and went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the University of Dayton in 1986. While at IU, Jeff was the president of his fraternity, Indiana Beta Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon. In 1986, following his graduation from the University of Dayton, Jeff married Candice Garnett, the love of his life. Jeff was a well respected attorney and owned his own firm, Dodson Law and Titl
December 12, 2020
Most of Indy’s south side doesn’t look much different than it did 30 years ago fast-food joints, tidy ranch homes, and strip malls. But if you drive down Madison Avenue near Southport Road and look closely, you might notice a cluster of signs written in Burmese. Asian supermarkets and restaurants dot the landscape. Burmese accountants and real-estate agents have hung their shingles. It’s an unusual pocket of diversity for the south side, which for years was overwhelmingly white.
Since 2000, waves of Burmese refugees have been fleeing ethnic and religious persecution in their home country and seeking asylum in the United States. Burmese Chin, a mostly Christian minority group, have chosen Southport as their new home. Today, almost 20,000 Chin live on the south side, making it one of the largest concentrations of Chin people outside of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Access to employment, low housing prices, and an abundance of Christian churches appealed to them, a