There is a reason master colorist/stylist Jacob Neal is celebrated by many athletes. It is what landed him guest appearances on Good Morning America, The Other Half, and E! Fashion Emergency. It is also what led him to become a spokesperson for Clairol for eighteen years. The reason is this: Jacob Neal understands professional sportswomen need gorgeous-looking hair that can stand up to all kinds of weather, a lot of strenuous movement and a generally frenetic lifestyle. His low maintenance, high-performance philosophy accomplishes this with precision-cut hair styles that look great at the start, grow out in manageable proportions, and lend themselves to complete styling control and versatility under almost any circumstances.

Jacob earned his degree in Ohio at the Columbus College of Art and Design and credits this training for giving him the eye for form, shape, and balance that has made him a legend among female sports stars. His name has adorned prestigious salons around the country, from his first at Hilton Head Resort in South Carolina to the Sherry Netherland Hotel in New York and to his ultimate salon in Columbus, his "jumping-off point" to anywhere in the country that his clients summon him.

Jacob works as a fashion and beauty consultant for ABC affiliate WSYX-TV, where he performs makeovers every week. His ability to teach others quick and easy-to-master techniques for controlling and managing their own hair has made him popular in teaching sessions for hairdressers and consumers around the country.

Jacob will discuss current hair trends and even some Dancing with the Stars since he has experience as a ballroom dancer.

From WexArts.org:

Christopher Bedford, who joined the Wexner Center’s curatorial team in late 2008, curated Six Solos, Hard Targets (a multimedia show exploring sports and masculinity), and Mark Bradford, the first museum survey of the artist's work, which toured the country. He also curated Human Behavior: Nathalie Djurberg and Pipilotti Rist: The Tender Room, a newly commissioned site-specific installation. He has also organized a small Susan Philipsz show and an Alyson Shotz project for the Wex.

For the two years prior to joining the Wexner Center, Bedford was with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as assistant curator in the Department of Contemporary Art. Bedford is working on various projects with Chris Burden, as well as an exhibition of Paul Sietsema’s work for the Wexner Center in 2012. Before going to LACMA, Bedford served as a curatorial assistant and then consulting curator in the department of sculpture and decorative arts at the Getty Museum in L.A.

Along with co-curators Jennifer Wulffson and Kristina Newhouse, Bedford was the recipient of the 2008 Fellows of Contemporary Art Curators’ Award for the exhibition Superficiality and Superexcrescence. Bedford has published essays, book reviews, editorials and exhibition reviews in a variety of publications, including The Burlington Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Tema Celeste, Frieze, The Art Book, and more, as well as numerous essays in anthologies and exhibition catalogues. He is currently working on edited volumes for Duke University Press and Sculpture Journal, and is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles-based contemporary art journal X-TRA.

A citizen of the UK, Bedford holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College and an M.A. in art history from Case Western Reserve University, and is at work on his PhD in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. At Ohio State, he serves on the Arts & Memorials public art committee.

From ColumbusMag.com:

Every football-season Saturday for the last several years, Columbus has been infected by the never-ending smile and equally happy disposition of former Ohio State wide receiver Demetrius Stanley. A commentator for WSYX’s Buckeye Football Fever show, Stanley is known for his flashy suits and realistic opinions on sports that some OSU football fans never want to hear.

“Sometimes I say something about the team that might get a fan upset because they think I’m rooting against Ohio State,” Stanley says. “I always want to see Ohio State win just as much as they do—I’m just trying to be unbiased and do my job.”

His stake in Ohio State started when his father moved to Columbus so he could coach under Earl Bruce, which led to Stanley spending a lot of his childhood around The Shoe and seeing a lot of scarlet and gray.

“I remember when I was really little seeing this tailback, Keith Byars, practicing.” Stanley says. “His legs looked like two big tree trunks to me—the guy was huge. It was around that time that I realized that I really wanted to play for OSU.”

As a star at Thomas Worthington, Stanley made his dream come true when he decided to go to OSU. By staying in the city that he had called home for most of his life, every home game became even more meaningful—he was playing for OSU and for Columbus.

After stints with the Miami Dolphins, the Canadian Football League and the Arena Football League, injuries made Stanley focus on finding another career outside of football. He found that in personal training and is a principle owner of SNAP fitness in Grandview Heights.

“Growing up here and playing for Ohio State, this city has been very, very good to me,” Stanley says. “I don’t see myself leaving anytime soon.”

Cara Simpson Logsdon and Angela Mugler of re*dress LLC:

Cara Simpson Logsdon graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Communications and Art History. After graduation, she moved to Dallas to begin her career in the retail industry, buying the American collections of designer sportswear. for Neiman Marcus, Cara moved back home to Columbus to work in merchandising at Abercrombie & Fitch, and then transferred to their market research department, running focus groups for the female brands. Her favorite shopping partner is her baby girl, Evelyn. Along with Angela Mugler, Cara co-founded Re*Dress, serving customers with fashion consultation and personal shopping services.

Angela Mugler is a graduarte of Ohio University, with a minor in retail merchandising. She began her career nio Columbus at Abercrombie & Fitch as a merchandiser. She then moved to San Francisco, working for both Levi's and Gap Japan as a merchandiser. Realizing her desire tobe closer to family, Angela moved back to Columbus and found herself back at Abercrombie & Fitch, this time leading the market research / focus group team. She practices styling daily on her one-year-old twins, Luke and Anabelle.

Dena Logan knew at an early age that she had a passion for food. She credits her Greek grandmother who introduced her to new flavors and techniques with her desire to explore the culinary world. After winning the first cake decorating contest she entered, Dena knew she needed more training and went to the Wilton School in Chicago for their Master Cake Decorating Class. Since that time, Dena has studied with many of the great pastry chefs including Nick Malgieri, Maida Heatter, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Flo Braker, Earlene Moore and Wendy Kromer. Dena assisted at the La Belle Pomme Cooking School run by Betty Rosbottom at the original Lazarus Department store while she was an assistant buyer in cookware. She is currently a cooking instructor at Sur La Table at Easton Town Center in Columbus, OH.

Sue Doody, owner of Lindey's Restaurant in German Village and author of As the Table Turns, will address the UA Women's Club on Friday, April 16 at 1:00 pm.

A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, Sue taught public school, catered and taught cooking classes from her home before opening Lindey’s in 1981.

Sue’s passion for cooking was fueled in classes with Betty Rosbottom at La Belle Pomme, with Lisa Gallat at A Matter of Taste, at Nancy Jeffrey’s Good Things cook store, and at Columbus State with chef Carolyn Claycomb. But as her son Rick Doody, the CEO of Bravo! Development Inc., remembers, “When WOSU began to air The French Chef, I remember Mom and Dad ran out to buy a new television so we could have one in the kitchen, so Mom could cook right along with Julia, reading ahead in Julia’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking so she’d have everything ready the moment the program began.”

The Columbus Dispatch’s Grumpy Gourmet wrote, “Since…opening night—I have referred to Sue as the ‘Ella Brennan of Columbus .’ (If Ella’s Commander’s Palace exists in 2031, it will be on a barge tied dockside in Baton Rouge , and the original Palace in New Orleans will be a spawning reef for the fishes.) German Village and Columbus are on high ground, like the Doody legend.”

But beyond the admiration for her amazing skills in the kitchen, Central Ohio and the restaurant community have long recognized Sue Doody for her humanity and compassion. “I believe I’ve always had a true feeling about people,” Sue says, in her new book. “I’ve never treated my staff as if they were merely employees. I want to know about their families and their life outside of Lindey’s—as well as their life here. But I also hope my interest in them communicates that I hope they will treat our guests with similar interest and compassion.” Sue and Lindey’s have been supporters of and patrons to nearly every nonprofit in the Columbus , with particularly generous contributions to Action for Children, Columbus Symphony, BalletMet, Opera Columbus, and the Columbus College of Art and Design.

Andrew Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Cellar Holdings, LLC, which owns two Diamond Cellar retail jewelry locations in Columbus, Ohio, Bruce G. Weber Precious Jewels in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Donoho’s Jewellers in Houston, Texas. Andrew has been involved in the jewelry industry since the early 1970’s. He is actively involved with each store and finds his passion in merchandising and marketing.

DIAMOND CELLAR

The Diamond Cellar was founded in 1947 as a trade shop serving jewelry retailers in Columbus, Ohio. Over the past sixty years it has grown to be one of the finest jewelry stores in the country, with two stores serving central Ohio. The flagship store is a 23,000 square foot, three-story building which encompasses the manufacturing and design facility as well as administrative offices. The second store is 9,000 square feet and opened in 2001 in Eaton Town Center, an open-air lifestyle center in northeast Columbus.

Dr. David Schuller graduated from Rutgers University (B.A.) in 1966 where he was named a Henry Rutgers Scholar in Biological Sciences and was president of the Nu Beta Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. He graduated with honors from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and has held Head and Neck Surgical Oncology fellowships at The Pack Medical Foundation with Dr. John Conley in New York City and a Facial Plastic Surgery Fellowship at the University of Iowa. He joined the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health in 1976.

In early 2008, he was named Vice President for Medical Center Expansion and Outreach after leading the Ohio State cancer program for 20 years. This new role allows him to focus on the planned expansion of the university's medical center which will dramatically increase the physical size of its patient care services and enhance the intellectual environment for accelerating research. Schuller was initially appointed in 1988 as Director of the NCI- designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute and served in that dual capacity for 10 years. He continued as director and chief executive officer of The James for the next 10 years while also serving as deputy director of the cancer center. In 2008, he was named CEO Emeritus of The James and Director Emeritus of the Comprehensive Cancer Center.

He also serves as the Medical Director of the Ohio State University Power to Change Lives Campaign.

Dr. Schuller's academic appointments include being Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He served as chair of that department for 21 years until he retired from that leadership position in 2005. He specializes in head and neck surgery and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery and served as an American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology from 1989-94. His early research as a resident focused on the treatment of childhood croup and resulted in changing the standard of care for treatment of airway obstruction in this disease. His current research interests focus on the development of novel therapeutic strategies for head and neck malignancies. He was one of the first clinical researchers to demonstrate the efficacy of chemotherapy and was part of the leadership team of investigators who conducted a national trial that showed dramatic improvement in survival for the 2nd most common malignancy in the world. His research also involves the development and evaluation of new surgical approaches for both extirpation and reconstruction. He was appointed to the John W. Wolfe Chair in Cancer Research in 2004.

He was also Chair of the Residency Review Committee in Otolaryngology from 1989-91. He is a member of several Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery honorary societies including election in 1989 as a Director of the American Board of Otolaryngology, serving as President from 2002 to 2004. In 1995, he was elected to the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum which is an international honorary research society. He reestablished the Head and Neck Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group in 1983 and served as its chair for twenty years. Dr. Schuller was instrumental in organizing the National Cancer Institute Head and Neck Intergroup and served two separate terms as Chair. He currently serves as co-chair of the NCI Head and Neck Steering Committee. In 2003, he was named a Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Dr. Schuller has been honored with numerous visiting professorships nationally and internationally, including being the featured speaker for the 2007 Japan Society of Head and Neck Surgery. He is the recipient of numerous honors including the Edmund Prince Fowler Award of The Triological Society and Presidential Awards from the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and the American Head and Neck Society. Schuller was the recipient of the first annual John Peter Minton, MD, Hero of Hope Research Champion Medal of Honor awarded by the Ohio Division of the American Cancer Society. Schuller is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed journal publications and 47 book chapters/monographs as well as editor or author of nine medical textbooks. The recognition of his expertise is evidenced by his selection numerous times for inclusion in Good Housekeeping's "The Best Cancer Specialists in the USA," American Health and Woodward/White's The Best Doctors in America, the International Who's Who in Medicine, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Medicine and Health, Who's Who of Professionals, Who's Who Registry of Business Leaders, and Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.