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Hooked on research

by Sarah Briggs Editor’s note: Albion students regularly conduct independent research in virtually all of our academic departments.

The following article focuses on some of the students who pursued research in the sciences this past summer.

Over the course of his summer research, Albion student Nick Whitney, ’00, learned not only to swim with sharks, but to enjoy it. Whitney accompanied biology professor Jeff Carrier on a three-week mission to the Florida Keys in June to continue Carrier’s studies on nurse shark reproduction, growth and migration. Whitney’s responsibilities included hand-netting small, juvenile sharks and pulling them into a sea kayak for measuring and tagging. Larger animals were also fitted with special transmitters so that Whitney could follow their movements and determine their daily activity patterns. It was challenging work—made even more so on days

when the ocean swells rose to four feet and on one occasion tipped him and his gear into the water. Since relatively little is known about shark physiology and behavior, Carrier emphasizes that each new finding is valuable and assists efforts to preserve these animals. A visit by a Discovery Channel crew to film the research in the Keys for a “Shark Week” segment underscored the groundbreaking nature of the project.

“It was by far the most amazing experience I’ve [ever] had,” Whitney says. Being out in the wild and actually handling the animals, he adds, has convinced him to pursue a career in biological field research. (continued on p. 4) J. CARRIER PHOTO

While he was a summer research assistant for Albion biologist Jeff Carrier in the Florida Keys, Nick Whitney assisted with weighing, measuring and taking blood samples from young nurse sharks, and then tagging them for follow-up in ongoing growth studies. Pictured at rear is Carrier’s research partner, Wes Pratt.

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Science is a discipline best learned by doing. While regular lab assignments may introduce students to the actual process of scientific research, there’s no substitute for conducting an investigation on your own or working alongside a faculty member on a continuing project.

The opportunities for intensive research experiences have greatly expanded at Albion in recent years, thanks to increased funding available from newly created endowments and to growing numbers of undergraduate research programs sponsored by the National Science Foundation and other organizations. Last summer, 19 science students held paid summer research positions on campus, and many more pursued such activities at research universities and medical centers across the country. (See accompanying box.)

Through research, students learn to define a problem, design appropriate experiments and become familiar with new techniques and equipment. They have to think critically about their work, assess their results and then report on their conclusions.

Albion chemist Craig Bieler explains that for student researchers, one of the more difficult hurdles is determining “where do we take this project next?” Students readily follow instructions, he says. It’s another matter to set a course of action and then to modify that course of action as you go along, based on your findings. “You have to learn how to interpret results,” Bieler says, “and

when things don’t make sense you need to see it and deal with it.”

You have to be constantly on the alert for unexpected developments. Bieler had been working with student researcher Gabrielle Bielak, ’99, for several weeks on creating and testing a polymer that has the capacity to conduct electricity and then looking at ways to make this substance adhere to glass and other surfaces. Since these polymers may have future applications in computer circuitry and other electronic instrumentation, both corporate and university labs are currently pursuing this research. A major breakthrough came purely by accident. As Bielak passed a light beam through a solution containing the polymer, a black ring formed around the sides of the cylinder. In examining it, she found she could remove the ring in one long strand.

Tests showed that the strand was indeed the polymer they were seeking and that it was quite conductive. If Bielak hadn’t recognized the value of what she first thought was merely a waste product, an important discovery would have been lost.

Researchers often encounter physical challenges as well as mental ones. Experiments don’t always fit neatly into an eight-hour day, meaning that the work often continues into the night and over the weekend. As Nick Whitney found out, research can also mean hauling

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Gabrielle Bielak monitors the progress of a polymerization reaction during her research with Albion chemist Craig Bieler. Bielak was one of seven chemistry students involved in on-campus projects this summer with support from faculty and student research endowments. Several other chemistry majors landed off-campus positions under National Science Foundation grants at major universities.

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all your drinking water with you when your island home has no fresh water supply and bathing in ocean water populated by nurse sharks and barracudas. (“It occurred to me that the noise I was making [while washing] sounded a lot like a struggling fish in the water,” he recalls.)

In spite of the hardships, many of the students have become “hooked” for good on research. Matt Heinz, ’99, was one of 100 students selected for a summer medical research program at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston this past summer. Assigned to a lab at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, he studied cells that are critical to immune system functions in mammals.

After isolating cells with a particular type of DNA, he then cloned two genes found in that DNA. The work was satisfying both personally and professionally—it was rewarding, he said, to know that his findings might someday contribute to more effective treatments for human diseases such as leukemia. “I really enjoyed the type of research I was doing,” Heinz says. “I would ride the elevator with patients [at the Texas Children’s Hospital] being treated with gene therapy techniques for cancer and other illnesses. It was nice to see that going on while I was researching [future gene therapies].”

Heinz intends to enter a combined M.D./Ph.D. program after graduating from Albion.

On occasion, scientific research tests your patience as well as your brain power. The students involved in summer projects begin to understand that productive research takes months, if not years. And they come to see that their work is actually just one piece in a much larger puzzle. Pre-veterinary student Janna Muccio, ’00, learned that patience is indeed a virtue in a study she conducted under the supervision of Albion chemist Andy French. French and Muccio this summer attempted to identify a pheromone that male funnel-web spiders use to immobilize female spiders during mating.

What French anticipated would be a “three weeks-andout” project may in fact stretch out over the next two years. Isolating the pheromone was much more difficult than they had thought, French explains, and the entire process will take extensive chemical analysis—to say nothing of the several generations of spiders that must be propagated to provide subjects for further testing.

Research frequently underscores for students the interdisciplinary nature of science today. French and Muccio’s study of spider pheromones is a classic example of how “biology and chemistry come together to explain behavior,” French says. From a practical standpoint, Muccio’s work involved not only analytical chemistry but numerous lessons in the biology of spiders from infancy to maturity. The care and feeding of the

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baby spiders especially tapped her ingenuity. “They were running away in terror from the fruit flies we gave them to eat,” Muccio says, so she had to work out a new diet through trial and error. Seeing and responding to changing conditions will be essential later on in her professional life. As French explains, the observational skills Muccio has developed in this particular project will serve her well in a veterinary medicine career where unusual behaviors can often signal a disease state.

Developing technical expertise with a wide range of laboratory instruments and procedures also contributes to the learning experience. Biology major Andrea Lindley, ’99, devoted her summer to tracking the paternity of 50 offspring from three different litters of nurse sharks, under the guidance of Albion biologist Ken Saville. The pair used a range of molecular genetics techniques to assist Jeff Carrier with his work on shark mating behavior (described earlier in this Janna Muccio (right) worked with Albion chemist Andrew French (left) on identifying a pheromone that male funnel-web spiders use to immobilize female spiders during mating. French estimates it may take two years to arrive at the final results. The research allowed Muccio, a pre-veterinary student, to combine her interests in biology and chemistry.

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Albion science students conducted research on campus and at locations across the country this past summer. Here’s a sampling:

Student: Arthur Bragg, ’99 Sponsoring institution: University of Southern California (National Science Foundation grant) Nature of research: Quantitative investigation of the nature of weak chemical bonding interactions.

On-campus Student: Jennifer Bujdos, ’99 Albion faculty mentor: Russell Clark (Geology) Nature of research: Development of a three-dimensional model of the Southwest Albion Quadrangle using geographic information systems (GIS).

Student: Kevin Chalut, ’99 Sponsoring institution: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University (National Science Foundation grant) Nature of research: Study of signal cross-talk between optical detectors on a large array that studied the issue of nuclear fragmentation.

students chosen for the Mayo Clinic program out of 1,000 applicants, Shaltis has now entered the University of Michigan under a combined degree program in biomedical engineering.)

Student: Julie Vecchio, ’99 Sponsoring institution: Hornpoint Laboratory, University of Maryland (National Science Foundation grant) Nature of research: Marine research on characteristics of benthic phytoplankton.

Student: Nader Warra, ’99 Sponsoring institution: Wayne State University Nature of research: Biochemical study of the effects of mercury toxicity on the immune system by analyzing white blood cell response to various levels of mercury.

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Student: Paul DeRose, ’99 Albion faculty mentor: Kenneth Saville (Biology) Nature of research: Analysis of DNA repair in Drosophila melanogaster.

Student: Paul Gale, ’99 Albion faculty mentor: Clifford Harris (Chemistry) Nature of research: Organic chemistry project involving oxidation of ketones and ethers on KMnO4/Al2O3.

Student: Heather Heinze, ’99 Albion faculty mentor: William Bartels (Geology) Nature of research: Excavation and analysis of Eocene fossils of early reptiles and mammals in the Red Desert, Wyoming.

Student: Michelle Lesperance, ’00 Albion faculty mentor: Dale Kennedy (Biology) Nature of research: Study of responses of house wrens during nestling period to songs of neighbor and stranger wrens (conducted in Whitehouse Nature Center).

Student: Suzanne Porter, ’98 Albion faculty mentor: Scott Dillery (Mathematics) Nature of research: Exploration of an optimal control model in exercise physiology (used to optimize pacing over a longdistance race).

Student: Rebecca Salus, ’99 Sponsoring institution: U.S.D.A. Human Nutrition Research Center, in affiliation with New England Medical Center, Boston, MA (National Institutes of Health grant) Nature of research: Biochemical study of muscle depletion (sarcopenia) in HIV patients vs. healthy controls.

Student: Rebecca Sameck, ’99 Sponsoring institution: University of Oregon (National Science Foundation grant) Nature of research: Inorganic and physical chemistry project involving multilayering and characterization of self-assembled thin films with nonlinear optical properties.

Student: Phillip Shaltis, ’99 Sponsoring institution: Departments of Biomedical Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (Dr. Scholl’s Foundation grant) Nature of research: Computer science project on the development of motion correction methodologies for magnetic resonance images.

(Note: Albion physicist David Kammer and Shaltis presented recent findings from their artificial intelligence/robotics research at the April 1998 meeting of the Michigan section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. One of 30

(Right) After excavating fossils of early reptiles and mammals in Wyoming this summer, geology major Heather Heinze is now examining and cataloging her finds.

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article). By isolating a particular gene in both the mothers and the offspring, Lindley was able to make some inferences about whether or not the pups in a given litter had been fathered by more than one male (as a result of a multiple mating event). While the procedure is similar to the one used in human paternity testing, it has been employed only recently in other animal populations, and it appears only one other research group in the United States is using it for shark population studies. Having this background in molecular genetics gives Lindley an advantage as she heads on to a medical career. “I’ve seen an in-depth aspect of genetic research that a lot of people haven’t,” she says, “in a field that’s expanding rapidly.”

The research experiences brought the students into daily, direct contact with their mentors, many of whom are leading researchers in their fields, as well as with fellow students who share similar interests. At Baylor College of Medicine, Matt Heinz worked closely with a rising star in the gene therapy field, and he traded insights with other students in his program from Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Stanford. He still smiles at the memory of a staff reception where he was singled out for a toast after he cloned his first gene. The seven

Andrea Lindley used molecular biology techniques to study nurse shark genetics, as part of a larger project on shark mating behavior.

Working under the guidance of Albion geneticist Ken Saville, she plans to report on her findings through an honors thesis and a presentation at the College’s annual Elkin R. Isaac Student Research Symposium. chemistry students doing research on campus this summer met every Friday with the department faculty to talk about issues and problems and to share their latest successes. And their relationship continued after work—the whole group also went on picnics and trips to the beach. As Andrea Lindley observes, the professors’ enthusiasm for their subject becomes contagious. “They want you to understand the subject like they do.”

Many of the students will use their summer research as the basis for honors theses and will report on their work at the College’s annual Isaac Student Research Symposium and at regional or national professional meetings in their field. And some will be listed as coauthors of journal articles published by their faculty mentors.

New College Vision promotes Foundation for Undergraduate Research To provide increased research opportunities for students in all disciplines, Albion plans to develop a new Foundation for Undergraduate Research. A key component of the College Vision introduced by President Peter Mitchell during his inauguration last spring, the foundation’s roles might include: coordination of existing research programs and development of new ones, preparation of grant proposals for research funding, and assistance for faculty as they incorporate research methods in their teaching.

Carrying out a significant piece of research and writing a senior honors thesis is already a primary feature of the College’s Honors Institute, now in its 22nd year. Additionally, under the Student Research Partners (SRP) program, up to 12 Honors Institute freshmen are invited to participate in a faculty research project for a year, and at the end of that time they may continue that research for a second year or choose a different project. Currently 11 freshmen and seven sophomores are involved in the SRP program .

Beyond the Honors Institute, many students each year pursue independent research projects under the guidance of individual faculty members, and others engage in research off-campus with think tanks, governments, national and private laboratories, universities, and libraries and museums in major U.S. cities and around the world.

Essentially, the Foundation for Undergraduate Research would build on this existing base by facilitating short- and long-term research, bringing together faculty and students who share a particular research interest, and sponsoring campus visits by leading scholars. Recent capital campaigns have established endowments to support faculty and student research, and students can now apply for summer fellowships

made possible through gifts from Richard Bethune; James Hyde, ’34; Bruce and Peggy Sale Kresge, both ’53; family and friends of Robert J. Gardner, ’64; the Dow Chemical Co.; and the Pharmacia and Upjohn Foundation. An endowment honoring Elkin “Ike” Isaac, ’48, underwrites an annual student research symposium and a lecture on research or the creative process. Finally, Theodore Stringer, ’71, and Ruth Stringer have created the Kenneth Ballou EndowD. TRUMPIE PHOTO ment to provide equipment and supplies for student researchers in biology, and Timothy Wirt, ’70, made the lead gift for the John Crump Endowment to support student and faculty research in chemistry.

The Foundation for Undergraduate Research might help administer and add to these endowed funds.

Planning for the Foundation for Undergraduate Research will continue during the 1998-99 academic year, and will be presented in April 1999 to the Board of Trustees as part of the implementation proposals for the Vision as a whole.

Senior physics major Andrew Gleason, ’99, studies a computer simulation of the photodetachment/photoionization system he is helping to construct. The apparatus is a joint venture by faculty from the University of Toledo, the University of Nevada at Reno and Lund University in Sweden, along with Albion physicist David Seely. When complete, the apparatus will be used to study processes of electron liberation from atoms and ions by light.

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Matt Heinz was one of 100 students selected nationally for the 1998 Summer Medical and Research Training (SMART) program at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. As part of his studies on the DNA in mammalian immune cells, he was able to clone two genes. His work contributed to human gene therapy research under way at Baylor College of Medicine.

For more information on current faculty and student research, visit the World Wide Web pages listed below.

In some cases, you may want to look at the personal pages, available within the departmental sections, created by individual faculty members. www.albion.edu/fac/biol/ www.albion.edu/fac/chem/ (see also: www.albion.edu/ fac/chem/resrch.htm) www.albion.edu/fac/geol/ www.albion.edu/fac/math/ www.albion.edu/fac/phys/

There are less tangible benefits as well.

Unlike laboratory exercises, where the answers are predictable, original investigations offer a “sense of discovery,” notes Ken Saville. “The most important thing students get out of research is the sense that what they’re doing has never been done before.” And having a full summer devoted entirely to research is invaluable, observes Craig Bieler, especially for students planning to go on to graduate school. “The students know that they’re learning a lot . . . and having fun doing it. It’s an experience you can’t replace.”

Camp inspires curiosity about our world

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Smelling sludge at the Albion wastewater treatment plant . . . observing plants growing along the Kalamazoo River’s edge . . . hearing frogs croaking and insects buzzing in Whitehouse Nature Center . . . feeling the frigid waters of Lake Michigan on a hot summer day.

Albion area schoolchildren made full use of their senses in a novel science camp organized by Albion College’s Education Department this summer. The laughter and excitement that accompanied each new discovery showed that even learning about serious subjects can be just plain fun.

“One of the problems with science instruction is that it is often reduced to a set of formulas . . . or a cookbook on how to do something,” says co-facilitator Reuben Rubio, in explaining how the Albion approach differs from more traditional methods. The College’s program To learn about the uses of the river, the campers made their own poles reduces science to its essence: “curiosity about why the from saplings and then studied the fish they caught with them. world is the way it is and trying to figure out how it While focusing on scientific methods and discoveries, the works.” camp had lots of room for creativity. Children in the Plants The eight-day camp held every August is actually part of a required course that Albion elementary education students take and Animals group talked about the characteristics of various plants, and then drew life-size pictures of themselves as a plant prior to their student teaching, but from the reactions of the of their choice. The plants selected revealed what the students collegians and their young charges, it’s hard to tell who had learned about the subject matter as well as what they had learned more from the experience. learned about their own personalities. The Geography and “We were almost like students right along with the Geology group created Deepheart River, a model watershed children,” notes Pam Choate, ’99. “We were with them [both] made from collected rocks and plants, to demonstrate what as a peer and a teacher.” they had learned about river dynamics. The Local History Using the nearby Kalamazoo River basin as a living group visited an archaeological dig of an Indian site near the laboratory, the 24 youngsters and their teachers were divided river and made clay models of artifacts found there. All of the into five groups that focused on the history of the area, its youngsters were asked to record impressions of their experigeography and geology, pollution issues, the uses of the river, and the plants and animals found in and around the water. The ences in a daily journal, as well as to express themselves during videotaping of the various activities. daily activities, all planned and led by the College students, The camp also included field trips to a gravel pit to study dealt with scientific questions but approached those questions rock strata and learn about ancient rivers and lakes, to Pinehill from the distinctive viewpoint of each group. The campers Lake to test water quality near the river’s origin and to the learned to make observations and record their findings as scientists do, equipped with their own “science kit” including a municipal treatment plant to examine the condition of wastewater as it is returned to the Kalamazoo River. The class calculator and magnifier. Using more sophisticated instrualso spent a full day traveling along the river to the point ments provided by the College, they carried out a series of experiments in water chemistry, botany and geology.

The summer science camp students recorded in watercolor their observations of the Kalamazoo River’s plants and animals. where it empties into Lake Michigan. Along the way, they studied vegetation on the river banks, and looked for sources of pollution and other physical changes in the river system.

One of the rewards of the program, says Pam Choate, was to see how the youngsters became engaged with the subject matter. “[We could] watch them explore and discover . . . see them doing and not standing back silent and passive.”

Technology played a major role in the camp from the first lesson-planning to compilation of a multimedia “scrapbook.”

Lesson planning was carried out with PIViT (Project Integration and Visualization Tool) software, which permits individual teachers to plan their lessons and then integrate them with others’ plans for a total team effort. The multimedia scrapbook, which includes photos, illustrations, video, music and sound effects capturing the camp’s sights and sounds, was created by the College students using Hyperstudio software. It is available on the World Wide Web site for Albion’s Ferguson Center for Technology-Aided Teaching and Learning (http://educate.albion.edu) and is being shared with other elementary teachers as well as college and university faculty who work with prospective teachers.

The summer science camp, now in its seventh year, is one of many programs that led to the hiring of all of Albion’s 1998 graduates with elementary teacher certification. Reuben Rubio (e-mail: rarubio@albion.edu) is the director of the Ferguson Center for Technology-Aided Teaching and Learning. The other facilitator for the summer science camp was Mary Ellen Newton, adjunct instructor in the Education Department.

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Campus ‘grande dame’ gets a new look

by Sarah Briggs Goodrich Chapel, that “grande dame” presiding over the campus’ northern entrance, has an elegant new look.

From the newly landscaped front plaza to the auditorium’s gleaming hardwood performance stage to the ground floor’s bright, functional rehearsal areas—the chapel has been transformed following a year-long renovation completed this past summer.

New landscaping around Goodrich Chapel’s front facade brightens what had been an austere main entrance. The building is now barrier-free both from the street level and the lower-level parking area.

(Right) The Music Department office suite, named in honor of the Hetler family, is now centrally located within the chapel to better serve campus visitors and current students alike.

“The whole atmosphere is lighter,” notes Maureen Balke, Music Department chair. “When you think how many hours music majors spend here, that is an incredible improvement.”

Constructed in 1958, Goodrich Chapel has housed the Department of Music since 1973. During its 40-year history, the building had undergone only limited

structural and cosmetic changes, and those had never addressed the structure’s shortcomings as a music rehearsal and performance space. Finally, through the recently concluded Albion Campaign for the Generations, gifts from alumni, parents and friends, along with major grants from the Kresge and Weatherwax Foundations, provided the $2.5-million needed for the renovation. The most radical changes D. TRUMPIE PHOTOS have occurred in the Music Department’s quarters on the lower level.

“Before, the ground floor was dark, labyrinth-like,” Balke explains. Now, following faculty and student input, the spaces have been designed for their intended purpose, and the planning included a concern for acoustics as well as creature comforts.

Before the renovation, noises from individual practice rooms, classrooms and rehearsal halls would literally spill out everywhere. A percussion practice would drown out the symphony recording being played for a Music Appreciation class next door or a soprano working on an aria would interfere with the saxophonist rehearsing nearby.

Thanks to more thorough sound-proofing and an improved floor plan, those problems have, for the most part, been eliminated.

“There are fewer practice rooms overall,” Balke says, “but the quality is better, and they’re more versatile.”

Among the new features made possible by the renovation is a grand piano practice studio for students specializing in keyboard performance. Three of the department’s Steinway grand pianos were rebuilt during the past year, and one of those is available in the practice room. Eventually, a computer synthesizer studio will be installed with workstations equipped to support students in music theory and composition courses.

The main rehearsal room on the floor, named for Robert and Katherine Benedict Hargreaves, both ’36, has been enlarged, and its acoustics have been improved. The primary music classroom was named in honor of trustee William Ritter, ’62.

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Music student Andrea Carollo practices on one of several grand pianos that were refurbished during the past year, thanks to an anonymous gift. Year-round air-conditioning and humidity control will ensure a longer life for these and other expensive instruments housed in the facility.

Finally, the Music Department office, previously tucked away in a hard-to-find corner on the main floor, has been moved to the ground floor and is readily accessible from the chapel’s main entrance and parking lot. The new office suite is named in honor of Bruce and Iva Hetler through gifts from friends and family led by their children, Gwendolyn Hetler, ’61, and Robert Hetler, ’64, both former choir members.

The spacious lounge areas just outside the office were high on the students’ priority list for the renovation.

“We appreciate the [new] furniture and lounges a great deal,” says Glen Hipple, ’99. “They give us an opportunity to socialize or just relax in the middle of long practice sessions. . . . [The Music Department space] doesn’t feel like the basement of a church any more—it really feels like a music school.”

On the chapel’s main floor, the chancel/stage area has been completely reconfigured. Gone are the choir loft and the bay for the organ console. With those changes, the chancel area has been opened up, and the stage itself enlarged to accommodate full-sized musical ensembles, including visiting symphony orchestras. Creative staging arrangements for combined vocal and instrumental ensembles are also possible. The Moeller pipe organ is being refurbished this fall, and the console will now be stored in a compartment at the back of the stage when not in use.

Albion’s Symphony Orchestra performs on the new, full-sized stage in the Goodrich Chapel auditorium.

The auditorium continues to serve as the site for many College ceremonial occasions and for the Albion First United Methodist Church’s worship services.

“As well as improving the acoustics, the new stage makes it possible for the first time to seat the orchestra correctly, which means they can hear each other much better, and can get used to the standard layout of a professional orchestra,” notes Colin Jagger, the College’s Symphony Orchestra conductor. “With the orchestra growing in size and quality, this is particularly important as we start to tackle bigger pieces which would have been close to impossible in the old hall.”

Albion choral director Doug Rose believes the renovated chapel will help Albion be more competitive in attracting new students. “It’s a more civilized place . . . a more welcoming place,” he contends.

Several lounge areas on the ground floor attract students throughout the day and encourage informal conversations among students and faculty. “The atmosphere is more enjoyable and comfortable,” notes Jennifer Lantzy, ’00.

Faculty offices, both in the chapel proper and in the tower, were completely refurbished during the renovation. Choral director Doug Rose offers individualized instruction right in his studio/office using a synthesizer linked to a computer. The high-tech gear has many applications in ear-training, composition and other aspects of music education.

Visitors to Goodrich Chapel can instantly see that Albion College’s music facilities now are keeping pace with the high standards that have long been evident in its teaching and performance.

The Goodrich Chapel renovations described in the accompanying article were part of a $4-million music drive within the recently concluded Albion Campaign for the Generations. The drive, which also included music scholarships and an endowed professorship, was chaired by trustee William Ritter, ’62, with David Strickler, professor emeritus of music, as honorary chairman. As the campaign drew to a close, it was announced that the endowed professorship would be named in honor of Strickler, who served as choral director at Albion from 1943 to 1976. (See related story in the accompanying Report of Appreciation.) Future improvements planned for the chapel include acoustical and lighting enhancements in the auditorium and remodeling of the entrance lobby and other public areas on the main floor.

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Five join board The following individuals were recently elected to the Albion College Board of Trustees.

■ David Barrett, ’64, is Anson L. Clark Professor of Urology at the Mayo Clinic. He holds leadership positions in several national and regional professional organizations for urologists and surgeons. At the Mayo Clinic, Barrett is chairman of the Department of Urology and a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. Recently, King Hussein recognized Barrett’s skill with the Jordanian Medal of Honor. A graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine, Barrett is also a decorated veteran of the U.S. Air Force. The recipient of an honorary degree from the College, he has been honored with membership in the Athletic Hall of Fame and with a Distinguished Alumni Award.

Barrett and his wife, Sibley Burleson Barrett, ’66, live in Rochester, Minn.

■ Melanie Gamble, ’98, is a graduate student in public health at the University of Michigan. She represents students and young alumni on the board. As a student, Gamble held leadership roles with United Voices of Albion College and Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, and was a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs and Black Student Alliance. She also completed internships in business and health care and studied at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Gamble graduated from Albion College with majors in mathematics and religious studies.

■ Joel Manby, ’81, has served as president of Saab Cars USA since 1996. Saab Cars USA is the largest of Saab Automobiles’ 48 worldwide markets, accounting for one-third of the parent company’s total sales. The recipient of an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, Manby worked for General Motors, Saturn and Team Management Co. earlier in his career. He spent three years as vice president of General Motors Overseas Distribution Corp. At Albion, Manby was valedictorian of his class and a Rhodes Scholarship finalist. He received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and has since been inducted into Albion’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Manby, his wife Marki, and their three children live in Atlanta.

■ Judy Dow Rumelhart is an accomplished vocalist, actress, producer, director and

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volunteer. She was associate producer of the Tony-Awardwinning Broadway show, Sweeney Todd. The president of Peninsula Productions, Rumelhart has produced many regional shows as well. A graduate of Schuette Denison University and the University of Michigan, she has appeared with more than a dozen U.S. and Canadian symphony orchestras. As a volunteer and fundraiser, Rumelhart has worked with hospitals, the University of Michigan President’s Advisory Board, and numerous arts groups. She received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Michigan School of Music. Rumelhart and her husband Donald live in Ann Arbor.

■ William Schuette is a Michigan state senator representing the 35th district. He currently serves as chairman of the Senate Economic Development Committee.

Schuette’s public service career began in 1984 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After three terms in Congress, he was named director of the Michigan Department of Agriculture. Schuette is a member of Albion’s Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service Visiting Committee. He and his wife Cynthia have two children and live in Midland.

Planning for a model 21st-century community begins in Albion The city of Albion is poised to become “a model community for the 21st century,” thanks to Albion College President Peter Mitchell and other community leaders and citizens who began work this summer on a visioning process for the city’s future.

Fresh from his task of leading the College through a visioning process, Mitchell is chairing the community’s vision committee.

“The people and technology that Albion already enjoys can catapult this city into national prominence,” he says. “We need to take the best from previous plans, add to it our dreams of today, and shape the direction for Albion in the future.”

A 16-member committee was assembled over the summer and has begun work on the

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vision plan for Albion. The committee includes city, business, education and religious leaders, with seven at-large community members who were nominated by the residents of Albion and its surrounding townships. The group expects to produce a final vision document by early 1999.

“We as individuals set goals, and it makes sense that we as a community should do the same,” says Judy Fetzer Dobbert, ’69, superintendent of Albion Public Schools and a member of the committee. “This process will help us choose the best vision for all of us.”

Peggy Meyer Sindt, ’73, executive director of the Albion Economic Development Corp., and trustee William Stoffer, ’74, CEO of Albion Machine and Tool Co., are also members of the committee.

There was plenty of drama on stage and off when an Albion College troupe traveled to perform at a European theatre festival this summer. Engine failure forced an emergency landing in Newfoundland. In Germany, they nearly lost a troupe member when she and the props she was carrying couldn’t get off the overcrowded train. After her rescue, the group missed the connection to their destination in Odense, Denmark, and spent the night in the train station. Nonetheless, the show went on. Under the Albion students learned firsthand about the challenges of direction of Albion theatre performing medieval theatre when they presented the 15thprofessor Tom Oosting, nine century work, St. Guglielma, during the Ninth International Albion College students gave Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of two performances of Antonia Medieval Theatre in Odense, Denmark. The play was staged Pulci’s play, St. Guglielma, translated by English professor outdoors, as was typical for medieval drama.

James Cook.

The students participated in the Ninth Oosting describes St. Guglielma as a International Colloquium of the International feminist view with a Roman Catholic twist: Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre, essentially, it says, “‘Women . . . our only safe with support from the city of Odense, the domain is to join the church and become a College’s Office of Academic Affairs and a nun.’” gift from an anonymous Albion College “We’re going to leave the people of alumnus. The Colloquium invited only two Denmark with a play that none of them have American collegiate groups to perform this ever even seen and probably never read year and the other group, from the University before,” said Oosting, before leaving on the of Michigan, was unable to go. “It’s nice to trip, “and that will be a unique dramatic [have] opportunities like this at Albion experience.” This proved to be true not only College,” says David Galido, ’01, a theatre for the audience, but for the actors as well, major who played the King of Hungary in who appreciated the educational aspects of the St. Guglielma. The festival included only one performance. “I liked performing outdoors, other student troupe, from Spain, and and studying a medieval play,” says Walton. professional companies from Great Britain, “It was nice to expose myself to a different the Netherlands and Denmark. kind of theatre than what we do here, Beyond the rigors of just getting there, something I may never get the chance to do performing at the Colloquium presented the again.” group with many challenges. Most of the group had had no experience performing outdoors before, let alone having to project over the noise of nearby businesses and streets. The acting also had to hold the interest of an audience in which many people did not understand English. “There were Never Seek to Tell Thy Love is the title of an [people] who came up before the scenes and album released this summer, featuring vocal explained in Danish what was going on,” music professor Maureen Balke, accompanied explains Claire Walton, ’99, a biology and by former Albion piano instructor Narciso theatre major.

Solero. The pair has worked for several years “I was surprised at how many people on the CD which consists of poetry about love stopped to watch us,” says Galido, who set to music. Half of the selections on the CD estimates that 200 people watched each are compositions by Anthony Taffs, professor performance, even the one held in the rain. emeritus of music at Albion. During the “It wasn’t just the [people] attending the 1940s, Taffs wrote songs set to the lyrics of conference who came to the play, but a whole poetry written by William Blake, Edgar Allan bunch of local people,” says Walton.

Poe and others, and 13 of those songs are The Albion performers rose to the included on the CD. The other selections are occasion and “were letter perfect,” recalls songs written in German with music by James Cook. “When I arrived at the conferJoseph Marx. The Marx songs are varied, ence the morning after the play, the particiincluding poems translated from French to pants moved a standing ovation for the students and vote of thanks to Tom and me for German, a Japanese rain song and a tribute to a Chopin waltz. “Every aspect of love, we’ve making the performance possible.” covered,” says Balke. The CD is available St. Guglielma was written by the 15thfrom the Albion College Bookstore and from century Italian nun Antonia Pulci, much of Balke. whose work has been translated by Cook. At the Colloquium, he presented a paper on his research on Pulci and her contemporaries.

Cook’s translations of her plays have been published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Opening Convocation: Wilson discusses ethics of genetics research Gene therapy researcher James Wilson, ’77, gave the keynote address for this year’s Opening Convocation Sept. 3.

Also celebrated during the day was a major gift to the College library, with the inaugural Marilyn Crandell Schleg Library Lecture given that afternoon.

Wilson’s speech focused on the complex scientific and ethical questions surrounding genetic research today. President Peter T. Mitchell (right), and chemistry professor Robert While he was on Armstrong (left) discuss current directions in science education at campus, he also met Albion with James Wilson, ’77, prior to the College’s Opening with the faculty and Convocation Sept. 3. Wilson was the keynote speaker for the event. staff who are now designing the College’s Foundation for Undergraduate Research, a key element of the new College Vision.

Wilson is director of the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and an internationally known researcher on gene therapies that could spell the eventual cure of cystic fibrosis and similar birth defects. He is president of the American Society of Gene Therapy. Following his Albion visit, he flew to Los Angeles to be a featured spokesperson with Jerry Lewis on the annual Labor Day telethon for muscular dystrophy where he discussed a potential cure through gene therapy.

Robert Warner, former archivist of the United Also during the ceremony, an honorary States, gave the inaugural Schleg Library doctorate in business management was Lecture Sept. 3. conferred on Arnold Langbo, chairman of the A love for libraries that prompted an Albion College Board of Trustees. Langbo alumna and her father to endow the was recognized for his important contribuStockwell-Mudd Libraries with a College tions to many College projects, including the archivist position and a related lectureship Kellogg Center and the Langbo Trustees’ culminated Sept. 3 in the inaugural address of Professorship. Parent of two Albion graduthe Marilyn Crandell Schleg, ’58, Library ates, he is chairman and CEO of Kellogg Lectureship. With her father, Richard Company in Battle Creek.

Crandell, Schleg has also endowed the Two endowed professorships were Marilyn Crandell Schleg Library Archivist awarded for the second time. The A. Merton position. This endowment will support a fullChickering Professorship in Biology went to time archivist position serving the College and Dan Skean, associate professor of biology.

West Michigan Methodist Conference The professorship will aid his ongoing research on tropical plants. The Royal G. Hall archives, both of which are housed in the Stockwell-Mudd Libraries.

Professorship in History was re-awarded to The Marilyn Crandell Schleg Library Geoffrey Cocks, professor of history, who Lectureship provides for visiting archivists, will continue his research on Nazi Germany, preservationists, curators and other material the Holocaust and the social history of illness.

Turner earns coaching award For the third time in his career, Albion College basketball coach Mike Turner, ’69, has been named Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. This award reflects Turner’s leadership of the 1997-98 team, which had a 20-8 season, a postseason tournament championship and a berth in the 32-team NCAA Division III Tournament.

“I think this is a great honor because it reflects how well our players responded to the challenges of this season,” says Turner of his award. “We really played hard—winning 12 of the 13 games that were decided by six points or less.”

Turner joined the College’s basketball staff as an assistant in 1970 and was named head coach in 1974. He enters his 25th season with a 346-236 career record at Albion and the longest career of any active collegiate head coach in Michigan.

Honored at the convocation were Arnold Langbo (third from left), Albion’s board chairman, and faculty members Geoffrey Cocks and Dan Skean (both at far right). Langbo received an honorary doctor of business management degree, and Cocks and Skean were named to endowed professorships. They are pictured with Vice President for Academic Affairs Jeffrey Carrier, convocation speaker James Wilson, ’77, and President Mitchell.

Marilyn Crandell Schleg, ’58, and her father Richard Crandell (both seated) created endowments for a library lectureship and an archivist position at Albion. Also pictured are: (from left) President Mitchell, Edward Schleg, and Mrs. Schleg’s sister and brother-in-law, Marlene and Arthur Francis. They were all on hand for the first Schleg Lecture. historians to lecture on archival and library topics and work with the Albion College community. The inaugural lecture was given

by Robert Warner, retired professor and dean of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Michigan.

Warner, a former archivist of the United States and head of the Bentley Historical Library, discussed “What is Past is Prologue.”

Schleg is a former medical librarian and holds a master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Michigan. “I have always worked in libraries,” she explains. “[My father and] I wanted to do something for Albion because Albion did so much for me.”

College named ‘Best Buy’ Albion College is one of only 300 institutions in the nation included in Barrons’ Best Buys in College Education, 5th edition. Institutions are selected, according to the publisher, because they “give students and parents the best value for their education dollar.” The 720-page paperback, released this summer, also includes information on academic programs and campus life, along with comments from current students. In reporting on the academic climate at Albion, the guide quotes a first-year student as saying: “The [faculty’s] ‘open door’ policy is great. At any

time my professors are willing to talk with me about papers, my future, or the noon faculty basketball game.”

A senior observes, “The ownership I have taken over my own education is the most beneficial thing that Albion has given me.”

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New faculty and staff named Academic Affairs ■ John Beusterien and Carmen Pereira Muro, assistant professors of foreign languages. The pair will jointly teach Spanish language, conversation and literature. A Detroit native, Beusterien earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from the University of Michigan before enrolling in a master’s program in Spanish language and literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Pereira, who holds a bachelor’s degree in geography, art history and history from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, first came to the U.S. as a teaching assistant for Wisconsin’s program.

Beusterien holds a doctorate from Wisconsin, and taught Spanish last year at Colby College.

Pereira expects to finish her doctorate this year.

■ Lisa Chavez, assistant professor of English. A specialist in creative writing and contemporary literature, Chavez has focused on the experiences of mixed-race women authors in 20th-century American literature.

Her first book of poetry, Destruction Bay, is scheduled for publication this fall. Chavez holds an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. She is finishing a doctorate at the University of Rochester.

■ Kathy Purnell, instructor of political science. A political theorist, Purnell’s interest lies in the analysis of political conflict theories and phenomena such as the formation of racial, gender and other identities. In addition, Purnell is interested in studying languages (she speaks four) and was coproducer of a successful public-access television show on poetry, a project she hopes to duplicate in Michigan. A native of New York City, Purnell is a graduate of Harvard University and is completing her doctorate in political theory at Cornell University.

■ Thomas Wilch, assistant professor of geological sciences. Researching paleoclimate change, the glaciologist has made six trips to Antarctica. This winter, he will spend approximately six weeks there, studying the ice sheet around a westernAntarctic volcano, 1,000 miles from the nearest encampment. A graduate of Macalester College, Wilch holds a master’s degree from the University of Maine and a doctorate in geology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

■ David Vellenga, director of the Carl A. Gerstacker Institute for Professional Management. Vellenga has significant experience as a college administrator and faculty member at several American institutions, and served as a visiting researcher or lecturer at schools in the Netherlands, Hungary and Scandinavia. A graduate of Calvin College, Vellenga holds an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois and a doctorate from Pennsylvania State University.

■ Yi-Li Wu, assistant professor of history.

Wu will continue Albion’s strong tradition of Asian history studies. A scholar of the history of medicine in 19th- and early 20th-century China, she is one of a small group of American scholars who have researched source materials on this topic in China. She is currently outlining a book on the interaction of Chinese women and Western medicine in

19th-century China, including the story of two Chinese women who received medical degrees at the University of Michigan during the 1890s. A native of Virginia, Wu is a graduate of the University of California and holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University.

Enrollment Management ■ Robert Johnson, vice president for enrollment management. A nationallyrespected expert on higher education marketing, Johnson spent nearly 20 years in academic affairs, student affairs, advancement and enrollment management with Mercy College/University of Detroit Mercy. Johnson began his academic career as a political science professor; he holds master’s and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, as well as a bachelor’s degree from Alfred University.

■ Dawn Benson, senior associate director of admissions. Benson will recruit prospective students in Macomb County, northern Oakland County, the Grosse Pointes, Detroit and Dearborn. Benson was employed by University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) for the past seven years, most recently as its director of freshman admissions. She has a bachelor’s degree from University of Dayton and a master’s in counseling from UDM. ■ Sharon Crawford, director of admissions.

Crawford has worked previously in admissions at Northern Kentucky University and Miami University in Ohio. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication systems and a master’s degree in education from Ohio University.

■ Bettina Fiumano, admissions representative. Fiumano will cover southeast Michigan, including Jackson, Ann Arbor and the Downriver area of Detroit. A graduate of Michigan State University’s James Madison College, she holds a master’s degree in Russian and East European studies from Indiana University.

■ Amanda Konkle, campus visits coordinator. She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Western Michigan University, and is an Albion native.

■ Erika Soby, admissions representative.

Soby returns to Michigan after three years coordinating Greek affairs, women’s programs and residence hall operations at Ohio Wesleyan University. She will cover the Grand Rapids area, Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in college student personnel from Bowling Green State University.

Institutional Advancement ■ Erika Luft, assistant director of alumni and parent relations. A graduate of Millersville University with a degree in English, Luft recently moved to Albion from Lancaster, PA. ■ Jo Nielsen, director of corporate and foundation relations. A member of the College’s Institutional Advancement staff since 1994, Nielsen previously served as assistant director of development and coordinator of advancement services.

■ Thomas Raven, ’97, associate director of alumni and parent relations. Raven joined the Alumni Office as assistant director in 1997.

Kellogg Center earns Award of Excellence A winner with the campus since it opened its doors in the fall of 1996, Albion’s Kellogg Center has charmed the critics, too. “This building will look good 200 years from now. . . .

The Kellogg Center succeeds,” enthused judges for the National Commercial Builders Council (NCBC) of the National Association of Home Builders. The NCBC recently announced its 1999 Award of Excellence winners, with the Kellogg Center taking the Grand Award for Institutional Renovation and Expansion among commercial projects of comparable size.

The College contracted with MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni Architects, Inc., of Pittsburgh to design the Kellogg Center while also renovating Dickie Hall—two buildings which are now incorporated into one. “In less sensitive hands, the combination would have proved fatal to the integrity of the chapel,” said NCBC judges of the Kellogg Center.

“Instead, we see a successful and respectful relationship that preserves [tradition] and shows the best of contemporary design.”

The NCBC Awards of Excellence program recognizes achievements in the national commercial building industry for design, market appeal, energy efficiency, challenges faced during building, and overall success of the project. Albion College received its award this fall, and will again be acknowledged at the 1999 International Commercial Construction Exposition in Dallas.

The Kellogg Company provided a $6-million gift covering most of the costs associated with the Kellogg Center.

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The walls of the old Administration Building came tumbling down in August, as the site was cleared to make way for a new, larger student and administrative services building. Many architectural features of the old structure, including two mosaics that reflect its days as the College library, have been preserved and will be incorporated into the new building.

Student Affairs ■ Latrina Denson, residence hall director for Whitehouse Hall, Dean Hall and the Gerstacker International House and wellness education coordinator for the Health Center.

A native of Louisiana, Denson holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in community counseling from Northeast Louisiana University.

■ Drew Dunham, assistant dean of student affairs and director of campus programs and organizations (CPO). A member of the CPO staff since 1993, Dunham has been director of CPO since 1997. He is a graduate of San Jose State University, and holds a master’s degree in music education from the University of Northern Colorado, where he is finishing a doctorate in college student personnel administration.

■ Gerald Parker, interim chaplain. A resident of Ann Arbor, Parker has served parishes in Grass Lake, Ann Arbor, Chelsea and Saline, and has most recently held leadership roles within the Detroit Annual Conference. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Business School, and holds an M.Div. from Garrett Theological Seminary and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

■ Lawrence Tucker, first-year experience coordinator and residence director for Wesley Hall. Tucker has four years’ experience in residential life and also has been involved in several tutoring and community service activities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in social science and is working toward a master’s degree in adult and lifelong education from Michigan State University.

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The 1998 balloting for the Alumni Association Board of Directors resulted in the election of first-time members Ellen K. Carlson, ’95, O. James Clark, ’51, and Gregory L. Eastwood, ’62. Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, who had served for the past year following a resignation from the board, was elected to a full three-year term, and June Luke Dempsey, ’54, was appointed by the board for a second three-year term. Their terms will extend through June 30, 2001.

Newly elected as board president is Susan Stuewer Bensinger, ’70, who succeeds Carolyn Carr Christ, ’57. Other new officers include: David L. Neilson, ’66, vice president for on-campus activities, and Jess Womack, ’65, secretary. The entire roster for the Board of Directors appears elsewhere on this page.

Ellen Carlson is a third/fourth grade teacher in the Albion Public Schools. Since her graduation she has been certified in educational technology by Michigan State University. An active member of the community, Carlson serves on the Grant Proposal Committee of the Albion Civic Foundation and is a member of the Albion Community Theater. She was also a recipient of the Kellogg Professional Development “Excellence in Education” Award. For the past three years, she has been a cooperating teacher with Albion’s Education Department and has served as the advisor for the Kappa Delta sorority.

Upon graduation, Jim Clark began his career in the Midland Public Schools, while earning a master’s from Michigan State University. He served in the Midland schools for 40 years, first as a teacher, then as a principal and finally as director of curriculum

and instruction before retiring in 1991. An active member of the United Methodist Church in Midland, Clark has served as a delegate to the Detroit Annual Conference and as a member of Eastwood the Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry. He has been president of both the Midland Community United Way Fund and the Community Foundation and has been involved with many other civic groups. Clark received the College’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1987. He is married to Marilyn Matthews Clark, ’57, and they have four children, Lucinda, ’78, Dan, ’81, Tom and Marilyn Sue. Greg Eastwood is president of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, which includes the College of Medicine, three other colleges and University Hospital. He received his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University.

Earlier in his career, he served at Harvard Medical School, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and was dean of the Medical College of Georgia. He has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other organizations in the U.S., China, Japan, Britain and Europe. Eastwood has also assisted with the Alumni Office’s Externship Program. He is married to Lynn Marshall Eastwood, ’64.

Leaving the board this year were: John O. Sebastian, ’67, Brent E. Simmons, ’71, and Kurt G. Yost, ’79.

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Alumni Association Board of Directors Your Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomes your comments. Feel free to discuss your concerns with them at board meetings or at any other alumni gatherings. The board roster below became effective July 1, 1998.

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Terms expiring in 2000

Susan Stuewer Bensinger, ’70, president; 4688 Nowak Rd., Gaylord, MI 49735 Virginia Banner Wheeler, ’84, vice president for off-campus activities; P.O. Box 369, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411 David L. Neilson, ’66, vice president for oncampus activities; 1624 Greenleaf, Royal Oak, MI 48067 Jess Womack, ’65, secretary; 2906 Nichols Canyon Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Carolyn Carr Christ, ’57, immediate past president; 614 Jennings Landing, Battle Creek, MI 49015

Robert D. Brower, ’69; Rockford James L. Curtis, ’87; Chicago, IL Beverly B. Hannett-Price, ’58; Bloomfield Hills

Terms expiring in 1999

Peter T. Mitchell, ’67, president, Albion College William K. Stoffer, ’74, alumni trustee Ben E. Hancock, Jr., vice president for institutional advancement Marcia Hepler Starkey, ’74, director of alumni and parent relations Zachary L. Rorabaugh, ’99, Student Alumni Association president

Elizabeth Bacon Grodhaus, ’80; Dublin, OH William C. Lauderbach, ’64; Midland Dale V. Springer, ’62; East Lansing Anna VanBruggen Thompson, ’80; St. Joseph, MN Sarah L. VandenBout, ’95; Northville

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Even with the emergence of new technologies, often there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a few hours spent with a great book. In response to frequent requests from alumni asking for faculty suggestions on compelling new books, we are providing the following recommendations, along with some brief comments from our faculty “reviewers.” We start with fiction and memoirs in this issue and, in the winter edition, will include offerings in the social sciences, natural sciences and fine arts. Most of the books listed have been published since 1995. Enjoy!

Fiction Martin Amis, Night Train In this existential detective story (a “whydunit,” not a “whodunit”), Amis explores the emotional devastation that suicide leaves in its wake. The novel is narrated by a female police detective working in an unnamed American city who is investigating the death of her best friend, a woman scientist who seemed to have everything, yet also seems to have taken her own life. In the course of her investigation, detective Mike Hoolihan (Amis’s choice of a male name for his female character is intentional and part of the gender inversions that characterize the novel) discovers many secrets about her friend, and some about herself as well. (James Diedrick, English) Peter Carey, Jack Maggs A luminous, haunting novel set in the Victorian London of Charles Dickens. The title character is a foundling, brought up as a thief, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia. When the novel opens, in 1830, he has reversed his fortunes and returned to London to execute an intricate plan of vindication and vicarious renewal. As in all great quest narratives, however, the journey is far more important than the arrival. Peter Carey manages something that even Dickens failed to produce in Great Expectations—a convincingly happy ending. Read it before it becomes a film. (James Diedrick, English) Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid Hughes is Britain’s poet laureate, and here he translates some of the best-known stories from Ovid’s great mythological treasure house, the Metamorphoses: Echo and Narcissus, Venus and Adonis, Hercules and Deinira, Bacchus and Pentheus. Hughes has chosen tales of passion for his collection, and Ovid represents passion in its most thrillingly extreme forms: as obsession, possession, and radical physical change. Hughes’ translations employ unrhymed verse and vigorous language. The entire book deserves to be read aloud over several evenings. (James Diedrick, English) * * * Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.

Since being released from a Nazi concentration camp 40 years ago, Erwin Siegelbaum has been riding trains. What keeps him going is a mission to collect Jewish memorabilia that survived their owners who were victims of the Holocaust. He is also driven forward by the hope that he will one day find the Nazi officer who murdered his parents—and then have the strength to kill him. Appelfeld provides a haunting exploration of the mind of a survivor.

Eight years old when he witnessed the murder of his mother by the Nazis, he has been writing about the Holocaust for over 40 years. He now lives in Israel. (Frank Frick, Religious Studies) Joseph Skibell, A Blessing on the Moon Although Skibell has written numerous short

stories that have appeared in literary journals and is the author of plays that have been produced around the country, this is his first novel. It tells of Chaim Skibelski, a successful Jewish businessman, husband and father.

Chaim was shot, along with other Jews from his shtetl, by one of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen.

Instead of resting peacefully, Chaim wanders the earth and encounters a world that is both absurd and familiar. Through all this wandering Chaim manages to find hope and compassion in the strangest of circumstances, discovering real human compassion beneath the propensity for violence. (Frank Frick, Religious Studies) * * * Elizabeth Grover, Unravelling A novel about a woman in 19th-century New England who works in a textile mill before retreating to a hermit-like, but very interesting, life in a cabin in the woods. (Molly Mullin, Anthropology and Sociology)

Memoirs Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land A beautifully written memoir of field work in Egypt in the 1980s and 1990s combined with an account of the author’s historical research on a medieval Jewish merchant from Tunisia, who lived in Cairo and India, and the merchant’s slave, who was from India.

(Molly Mullin, Anthropology and Sociology) *** Russell Kirk, The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict Kirk—a Michigan scholar who lectured at Albion from time to time—stands for “the permanent things” in literature and politics, philosophy and religion. He discusses Edmund Burke, Flannery O’Connor, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, etc. His critique of “Behemoth University” will confirm your choice of Albion. (William Gillham, Religious Studies) Thomas C. Oden, Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements Oden defends classic Christian thought and practice against various trendy movements in church bureaucracies, seminaries, and specialinterest politics. We need friends from past centuries to bring balance and perspective to a number of current temporally ethnocentric enthusiasms. (William Gillham, Religious Studies) Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power Thatcher’s second volume of memoirs chronicles her early life and education—the roots of the philosophy and spiritual orientation which guided her political career, as she advanced toward 11 years as prime minister of Great Britain. In the last part of her book, she reflects on the rewards of virtue, the blessings of liberty (from Burke and Hayek, to the Christians of Poland), and the threat of utopian collectivism in schemes for a European federation. (William Gillham, Religious Studies)

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The deadline for class notes appearing in this issue of Io Triumphe was July 31, 1998. Notes received after that date will appear in the next issue.

George, ’53, and Virginia O’Dell Reed, ’46, divide their retirement between their Duck Lake cottage and their villa at the Terra Ceia Bay Golf and Tennis Club in Florida. They have three daughters, Karen Reed Messing, ’70, Ann Reed Schluter, ’82, and Susan Reed Muzquiz, ’87.

Class news 30-39 Vyda Mumby, ’34, has been honored with the creation of the Vyda Mumby Educator Recognition Award, offered through the Marshall (MI) Community Foundation by William Stookey, one of Mumby’s former students. Vyda began teaching in Marshall in 1934. She became a full-time principal in 1961, serving as principal of Crary, Pierce, Shearman and Gordon schools. She administered two schools concurrently with Gordon School as the constant.

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E. Robert, ’40, and Margaret Ann McKee Beers, ’39, and had their sixth annual meeting with Dale Butler and John McNair and their wives and Marshall Strickler at Ocala in February 1998.

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Eleanor Peterson Millard, ’48, served for several years as a delegate from the Florida Annual Conference of the United Method Church to the Florida Council of

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In “Bravo to Britons,” our intent is to highlight the noteworthy, the unusual and the entertaining. We welcome submissions from all quarters. The only requirement is that an Albion alumnus/alumna must be involved in the story.

Send your nominations, clearly marked for “Bravo to Britons” to: Editor, Io Triumphe, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224. If an item is not received by the deadline for one issue, it will be held for possible inclusion in the next. The editor reserves the right to determine which submissions are selected for publication.

Churches and four years as its recording secretary. Eleanor has completed studies for the master gardener program. She lives in Kissimmee, FL. George L. Miller, ’48, retired in 1992 from the staff of E. W. Seaholm High School in Birmingham, MI, and continues to substitute at that school about two days a week.

Jenella Smith-Emelianov, ’48, was part of a VIM team (Volunteers in Mission) that traveled to Bolivia for two weeks in August to help a Methodist church in Santa Cruz. She lives in Port Huron.

50-54 Mary Lou Gartung Dove, ’50, will take a group of students and teachers to Scandinavia. She and her husband, Vernon, have also taken groups to England, Scotland, Spain, Italy and Greece. She’s also had an opportunity to visit German relatives in northern Germany near Brunswick. The Doves live in Macon, GA. Bentley Lenhoff, ’51, was recently honored with Ohio’s William Lyden Arts Humanitarian Award for “lifetime achievement in the arts” and was recognized for his contributions as a community leader. Now retired, Lenhoff and his wife Nancy reside in Birchwood just north of Harbor Springs.

Mary Ellen Deckert Riley, ’51, Andy Field Hagadone, ’51, Louise Hoffs

Homecoming news and notes The Winter 1998-99 edition of Io Triumphe will cover Homecoming and the reunions for classes ending in “3” and “8.” Reunion class notes will also appear in that issue.

Peppel, ’51, Maxine Nebergal Jacobson, ’51, Susie Smith McKinley, ’51, and Fran Young Wilson, ’51, enjoyed a reunion at a cottage in the Petoskey-Harbor Springs area for a few days the last week of May. This event began 49 years ago when they all went to a house party at Louise’s family’s cottage in Macatawa. They continued going there each year until they graduated. They plan to meet again next spring to celebrate the anniversary of that first house party.

Elwood Bender, ’53, and his wife Mary Lou retired in 1997 from Muskegon Community College. They spend the winter months at Ft. Myers Beach, FL. They have traveled to all 50 states and 21 foreign countries.

Robert M. Bollman, ’53, practices law in the firm of Bollman & Lesser in Lake

Forest, IL. He and his wife Joy divide their time between Illinois and Savannah, GA, where golf is available year-round.

Maribeth Magel Petteys, ’53, has been doing demonstration talks on being the “Skimpy Traveler” for the past 20 years.

She resumed teaching five years ago and also guides students on European tours.

She lives in Canton, MI. Kenneth W. Edwards, ’54, was named professor emeritus in 1992, but was on interim retirement until 1997 at Colorado School of Mines. Ken and wife, Evelyn Gwinn Edwards, ’55, moved to Prescott, AZ, in 1994, and he teaches part-time at Yavapai Community College. They have found many interesting and enjoyable things to do in retirement.

Donald D. Finlayson, ’38, this year received the Plessner Award, one of the most prestigious awards from the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS). More than 300 physiciandelegates representing 14,000 physicians statewide gave him a standing ovation as he received the award. Don is a retired physician, currently living with his wife, Catherine McLeese Finlayson, ’38, in Brimley in the Upper Peninsula. A 1941 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Medicine, he returned to his hometown to establish a private practice after service as a Navy physician during World War II. He also volunteered as a medical educator, served as school physician at Lake Superior State University and was a preceptor for medical students. Past president of the Chippewa-Mackinac County Medical Society, he was a member of the MSMS House of Delegates for 22 years and also served on the board of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians. Active in his church and many service organizations, he was a school board member for 16 years. He and his wife also have established a music scholarship at Albion College.

Following his retirement from Northern Michigan University last spring, Maynard Bowers, ’56, (right) recently donated the Bowers Bryophyte Collection to Albion College. The 3,000 specimens in the collection include at least 2,000 species of mosses and liverworts from North America and Scandinavia, representing a lifetime of collecting by Bowers. The donation will increase the holdings of the Albion College Herbarium from 10,000 to 13,000 specimens. Bowers, who holds a master’s from University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from University of Colorado, was a faculty member at NMU for 32 years. He is pictured discussing his research with Albion biologists Jeffrey Carrier (left) and Dan Skean. Skean is the curator of the Herbarium and may be contacted at 517/629-0525 or by e-mail at: dskean@albion.edu.

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C. Barbara Carne Riehl, ’54, has retired from the University of Michigan where she was a lecturer in the Mathematics and Statistics Department and directed the remedial mathematics program. Her career in mathematics education began at South Redford Schools and spanned 44 years. She and her husband Don plan to travel, spend time at their northern Michigan home, and enjoy their four grandchildren.

55-59 Virginia Renshaw Snell, ’55, retired from Southwest Michigan Library Cooperative in September 1995 after 14 years there as secretary/bookkeeper. She has taken two cross country Amtrak trips plus two auto tours of the Far West to visit her daughter in Nevada. She visited her college roommate and now sister-inlaw, Dorothy Snell Rimawi, ’55.

Virginia’s current activities include library volunteer, AAUW, reading, knitting and music. Her e-mail address is: snellginny@aol.com.

Joanne Friedrich Yinger, ’55, teaches at University of South Florida at

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Sarasota, and at Manatee Community College, Bradenton, FL, in early childhood education.

Marilyn Lewis Coller, ’56, was recently promoted to store manager of the Orem, UT, TJ Maxx Store. She has been with the company for over four years.

Luella Elly Short Tupper, ’56, and her husband Wally, retired in Jan. 1998 and moved to their new home in Traverse City. “Retirement is great and we love it!” They plan to spend a couple of months in their winter home on Jekyll Island, GA. Douglas Huggett, ’57, and wife Ann are enjoying their retirement by going to Elderhostels and officiating at track meets. The live in Waukesha, WI. Winthrop B. Yinger, ’57, received a doctor of ministry degree from Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO, May 22, 1998. He is now serving in a team ministry in Sun City Center, FL, as minister of program and pastoral care.

Judith Butler Davis, ’58, is a member of Evergreen Bed and Breakfast and resides in Farmington Hills. Her e-mail address is: edjudy@juno.com.

Betsy Sturm Gauss, ’58, retired in June 1997. She and her husband went to Florida for three months last winter and liked it so much that they bought a lot and will be building a permanent home in Oakwood, Lake Wales, FL. They’ll be moving in November.

Richard A. Lawrence, ’58, runs a company called Darber Lift Systems in Lawrence, MA, and will run its western office from San Diego. He married Nancy Tyning on Jan. 11, 1997. They are planning to make their home in San Diego where their only grandchildren live.

Betty Lou Greene Borland, ’59, retired in June after serving 18 years as the district director of special education for the Crane Elementary School District in Yuma, AZ. Her husband, Kenneth E. Borland, ’59, retired a year ago. They plan to continue their many activities in the Yuma Community.

60-64 Mike Dant, ’60, has retired after 38 years in education, mostly in Arizona.

He and his wife Joyce, an artist, live at 6 Juego Court, Santa Fe, NM 87505. He hopes to continue writing.

Karleen Strayer Pettis, ’60, and her husband, Warren, retired to northeastern Vermont. Karleen served as a substitute teacher in the Ostego County schools while her husband was a pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Gaylord.

Gary Robertson, ’60, was elected to the Board of Directors of Michigan State Medical Society. He was elected president of the Tri-Cities Family YMCA in Grand Haven where he has a private practice.

Kay Bueschen Atkins, ’61, received the Rotarian of the Year from the Noon Rotary Club in Athens, OH. She recently chaired the 75th anniversary celebration for the club. In January Kay was honored by the Athens County commissioners for her 25 years of work with Planned Parenthood of Southeast Ohio. She began as an educator and has served as CEO for 23 years. Kay is the mother of three and the grandmother of six.

J. Theodore Everingham, ’61, has resigned as vice president, general counsel and secretary of General Host Corporation and Frank’s Nursery & Crafts, Inc., to establish a businessoriented law practice at 19251 Mack Ave., Suite 580, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236. (Telephone 313/885-2555).

Ted and his wife Marcia recently moved their residence to 1302 Yorkshire Rd., Grosse Pointe Park 48230 (telephone 313/885-1808). Their e-mail address is: Ted_Everingham@compuserve.com.

David S. Hickman, ’62, chairman and chief executive officer of United Bank & Trust, Tecumseh was elected first vice president of the Michigan Bankers Association at the group’s annual convention on Mackinac Island. He will serve a one-year term. He has been active in banking industry affairs as a member of the association’s executive and legislative councils, and bank management committee.

Carole Evans Alm, ’63, has been selling residential real estate in Houston for 20 years. She recently moved to John Daugherty Realtors.

Robert Franseth, ’63, runs a bottle capping company called TCG Technologies, Inc. He acquired the business in 1997 from a German company that was going to shut down its American division. Robert resides in Charlotte, NC.

Send to: Editor, Io Triumphe, Office of Communications, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224; or via e-mail to: classnotes@albion.edu. Be sure to include your full name, class year, address (geographic and e-mail) and telephone number in your e-mail message.

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Mark A. Hector, ’63, is professor and training director of the Ph.D. counseling psychology program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is also the 1998 national singles champion, golden masters division of the national Paddleball Association.

David Johannides, ’63, has recently retired from hospital management after 33 years. His new address is 603 Rothburg Lane, Louisville, KY 40243.

His e-mail address is: johannid@couriernet.infl.net.

Martha Wittenbach Mattson, ’63, is the author of Amazons, the Forgotten Tribe, a book on several orientations, now being used by the Episcopal Church in San Diego to further understanding of several orientations. (See bookwire.com for more information.)

Chuck St. Louis, ’63, became the 26th president of the Florida Association for Media in Education in 1997. The 1,400 members who elected him into office are comprised mostly of school library/ media/technology specialists. Now in his 35th year as an educator, Chuck is currently the supervisor of instructional materials for Manatee County Public Schools in Bradenton, FL. His e-mail address is: stlouisc@gate.net.

Judy Slick Williams, ’64, just returned from a year at the American School Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico, where she was head librarian at the high school. Also on the faculty were Jack Lawrence, ’64, and Beth Morely Lawrence, ’65. Her new address is: 3 Stuart Dr., Old Greenwich, CT. 06870.

Her phone number is 203/637-9900, and e-mail address is: wms@ ghs.lhric.org.

65-69 Georgia Wilson Marsh, ’65, recently retired from a 30-year career as counselor/educator. In May, she was the guest speaker at Marshall’s first 1998 Michigan Week, the mayor’s prayer breakfast gathering on spiritual awareness. Georgia is very active in community and professional organizations, and in the United Methodist Church. She and her husband, John, have a daughter, Elinor.

Nancy Adams Andrews, ’66, and Gene Muenchausen, ’67, were married Aug. 2, 1991. Gene is the owner of Baron Industries, Madison Heights. Nancy is currently retired from contract furniture sales. Nancy has a daughter and a son, and Gene one daughter. Nancy and Gene reside at 18326 Riverside Dr., Beverly Hills, MI. Larry Downs, ’66, and his wife Judith owns and manage Identity Marketing Group, a Coldwater, based distributor of corporate identity products.

Robert Krumm, ’66, has written his fourth book, The Pacific Northwest Berry Book. Now available from book stores and Falcon Press Publishing.

Robert has been photographed for a Gore Tex ad. The two-page color photo has been carried in major fishing magazines for the past year or so. He lives in Sheridan, WY. Dianne Doten Morrison, ’66, and husband Dick recently moved to Battle Creek, following Dick’s appointment as Albion district superintendent in the West Michigan Conference of the United Methodist Church. Dianne became pastor of Gull Lake United methodist church July 1. Their address is 334 Watkins Lane, Battle Creek 49015.

Kathryn Nan Wells Little, ’67, just received her Ph.D. in anthropology. Her dissertation topic was: “Science Education with or for Native Americans: An Analysis of the Native American Science Outreach Network.”

Loren E. Musilek, ’69, is a sales associate at the Charlevoix office of Coldwell Banker Schmidt Realtors.

Previously he was co-founder/partner of Future Pak Ltd. in Farmington Hills, a contract pharmaceutical packaging firm.

He served as the company’s vice president and treasurer for more than 20 years.

Linda McGregor Wheeler, ’69, is completing her bachelor’s degree at the University of Albany, State University of New York. She is director of marketing and public relations at the School of Business at Albany, overseeing production of publications, advertising, public relations and graduate student recruitment, as well as writing and editing the alumni newsletter.

70-74 Judith Miller Cova, ’70, became a widow in November 1997. She volunteers in the Women’s Information and Referral Center in Oakville, Ont. She enjoys cross-country skiing and vegetarian cooking.

H. Curtis Lind, ’70, works in the claims department for Allstate Insurance, and also is in the Army Reserve. He received his commission as a second lieutenant in 1978 after being enlisted eight years. After many assignments, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in June. Lind lives in Novi.

Dan C. Deligianis, ’71, has been practicing ophthalmology since 1984.

After Albion he attended the University of Athens School of Medicine in Athens, Greece. He then worked at St. John Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He has a daughter and a son and lives in Grosse Pointe Shores and Port Huron.

Linda Arnold MacMillan, ’71, has moved to Cumberland Center, ME. Her husband Bruce brought his communications consulting and training business with him, and Linda is looking for opportunities for business development/ project management in communications.

Linda’s email is: lamvcg@aol.com.

Eli, ’72, and Chris Brott Buzas, ’72, live in Longmont, CO. They own Colorado 1st Properties where Eli is the broker. They have three children. They are both very active volunteering at their church and the high school, where Eli is the president of the education foundation. They moved to Colorado in 1991 and love it.

Rolfe L. Hillman, III, ’72, wrote a book review of America in the China Relieve Expedition that was published in the March 1998 Marine Corps Gazette.

Rolfe’s article, From Tuscan Red to Olive Drab: The Norfolk & Western Railway in WWI/WII, was published in the winter issue of the Norfolk and Western Historical Society’s magazine The Arrow. Rolfe bought and is restoring a 1966 Pontiac GTO Convertible. He lives in Arlington, VA. Thomas H. Carnwath, ’73, has been named vice president for information technology services (ITS) at Widener University. He continues to serve as assistant to the president, a position he has held since 1991. Carnwath directs the implementation of the University’s new network infrastructure as computing labs and academic classroom spaces are upgraded with the next generation of workstations. Carnwath, his wife, J. Babette, and their two children, Emily and Theodore, reside on Cheltenham Rd., Westminster, Wilmington, DE 19808.

John R. Rose, ’73, lives in Fairbanks, AK, and is still knocking around the state hassling the wildlife, and enjoying it. His e-mail address is: carlijrr@mosquitonet.com.

Carol Hulett, ’74, was recently honored by the Girl Scouts of Macomb County as a 1998 Woman of Distinction. Carol was the first female resident physician in orthopedics at Wayne State University.

Today, she runs a private practice in Clinton Township and continues to be one of only a few women in the Macomb County area to specialize in orthopedic surgery. She is also the team physician for Mt. Clemens High School.

Walter McCarthy, ’74, was recently appointed chief of vascular surgery at Rush Presbyterian- St. Luke’s Hospital and Cook County Hospital in Chicago.

He received a master’s degree in epidemiology from Harvard University in 1997.

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Excerpted from The Idaho Statesman, Dec. 30, 1997, this article profiles Jim Everett, CEO of the Boise, ID, YMCA. It’s difficult to stop Jim Everett, ’74, when he gets on a roll telling stories of kids who have been helped through YMCA programs. In between breaths, Everett can go from a wide smile to a bit choked up, as he tells their stories.

“I want to create more safe places for kids to go,” the 45-year-old Everett said.

“Kids do need safe places to go. They need places they can hang out and a place where they’re welcome. We say: ‘C’mon, you’re welcome here.’

“Everybody is going to belong to something. You can belong to a sports team or a gang. We need to get every kid exposed to as many different things as possible so they find something they enjoy.”

Everett decided in college that he wanted to be a teacher and coach, preferably a swimming coach. He started teaching science and math at a rural school in Ohio when a local YMCA called him to offer him a swimming coach position.

The 22-year-old Everett accepted, thinking it would be a stepping stone to a high school or college swimming coach position.

“I had no intentions of staying at the YMCA,” Everett admitted.

“Now I can’t imagine doing anything else.”

Two years later, he was transferred to the Boise YMCA in a similar position. He gradually moved up the YMCA ladder until he moved back to Michigan in 1983 to serve as CEO of a small YMCA. “It was a great experience,” he said. “There was a lot of racial tension in the town, but the ‘Y’ was the one place you saw people coming together. That was neat to see.”

He returned to Boise in 1987 as CEO. Ten years later, he runs a business with a $7-million annual budget, 600 employees and 13,000 members. He has no trouble with the number business, but he’d rather talk about the people business.

He’s a Big Brother and tries to promote that program. Everett never tires of telling stories about kids coming from broken homes and finding friends at the YMCA. He doesn’t blame the parents, just praises the kids.

Two brothers—ages four and six—are currently in the YMCA childcare center. The 4-year-old couldn’t count to 10 and couldn’t get past “C” in the alphabet. They were living with their parents, who were heavy into drugs and alcohol, Everett said.

When the grandparents gained custody of the children, they turned to the YMCA for help. The boys have been a personal project of Everett’s [ever since].

“They’re excited about helping out around here and being part of it,” Everett said. “They’re making so much progress. They’re soaking everything up. It all goes back to giving kids a safe environment with adults who care. That’s what it’s all about.”

Debbie Peggs, ’74, has just become certified as a Microsoft systems engineer. She lives in Alpharetta, GA. Douglas A. Pippenger, ’74, has been promoted to a dealer at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. His wife LouAnn is now secretary to the casino controller at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino. Their oldest son, Jonathan,

graduated from Adrian College. Their son Joshua got married in June in Battle Creek, and their youngest daughter graduated from high school in Las Vegas.

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Albion’s children’s children Yet another generation of alumni legacies joined the Albion College family this fall. Listed below are the 25 new students with parents who are also alumni.

Of course, we also have many entering students who have alumni relatives other than their parents. Thanks to all of you for helping the Albion tradition continue.

Kristen J. Barazsu Lawrence J. and Patricia Carlson Barazsu, ’69

Douglas O. Meyer Howard O., ’68, and Anna Meyer

Cristine J. Batzer James M. Batzer, ’65

Christian V. Miles Jeffrey S. Miles, ’76, and Mary Litscher Molhoek , ’75

Emma F. Buell Barbara Van Fleet Wood, ’68

Lindsay M. Miller Jonathan S. and Bonnie Martin Miller, ’69, ’70

Robert I. Bullen James R., ’67, and Cecelia Bullen

Katharine A. Murphy John M. and Ann Cleland Murphy, ’69, ’70

Rachel A. Carlson Robert and Barbara Mader Carlson, ’77

Colleen M. Park Denise Cortis Park, ’73

Derek C. Chandler Jerry J., ’65, and Kari Chandler Gabrielle R. Charest Clarence R. Charest, Jr., ’74 Christina E. Dabringhaus Gus, ’81, and Barbara Dabringhaus

Paul A. Rahn David P. and Nan Sawyer Rahn, ’69 Travis A. Rundle Craig S., ’74, and Ann C. Rundle Justin B. Stilwill Richard F. and Catherine Harrison Stilwill, ’74, ’75

Marcia L. Fraile Robert J., ’66, and Ann L. Fraile

Phillip A. Symons Samuel M. Symons, ’70, and Meridith Edson Symons, ’68

Michael C. Friggens Thomas G., ’71, and Mary T. Friggens

Tania A. Thompson David G., ’66, and Sandra Thompson

Katie C. Lighthall C. W. and Linda Vermuelen Lighthall, ’73, ’74

Benjamin W. Upward Geoffrey C. and Meredith Browne Upward, ’72, ’73

Bryce J. Marquis Ronald F. Marquis, ’69

Allison B. Worrell Patrick J., ’74, and Mary A. Worrell

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Julie Brigham-Grette, ’77, a geologist at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, led a team of researchers last spring to a remote frozen lake in Eastern Siberia where they collected sediment cores that may offer clues about past climate changes in the Arctic region. It took BrighamGrette four years to gather the permits, funding and equipment needed for the trip to Elgygytgyn Lake, the site of a meteorite crater formed 3.6 million years ago. The 15-mile wide Julie Brigham-Grette, ’77, (right) draws a water sample crater is one of few known on from Elgygytgyn Lake in Eastern Siberia last spring. the Arctic tundra, making it “absolutely unique in terms of offering a climate archive,” Brigham-Grette told the Environmental News Network in a June 1998 World Wide Web article. Camping on the surface of the frozen lake, the crew drilled through seven feet of ice and then lowered their equipment through 540 feet of water to collect sediment cores from the lake bottom. By examining these sediments for traces of early plants and microscopic crustaceans, Brigham-Grette can reconstruct the climate conditions extending back 30,000 to 40,000 years and track the pace of climate change. She hopes eventually to obtain cores that reach even farther back in the geologic record.

Emily B. McCarthy Thomas P., ’72, and Ellen B. McCarthy

75-79 Share the “Albion Experience” with a young person you know Albion alumni and parents play an important role in the recruitment of every freshman class. By completing the form below, you can help us identify promising students.

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Lynn Labick, ’75, is now living in Pittsburgh, PA, and working for Christian Dior Cosmetics as an account manager covering western Pennsylvania and upstate New York.

Gail Lemanski Reich, ’75, is in her fourth year of full-time private practice as a psychotherapist in Daytona Beach, FL. Gail has been doing treatment for 20 years with a variety of populations and at different locations. Gail and husband Tom, have been busy traveling when not working. Gail welcomes hearing from classmates and her old friends in Kappa Delta.

M. Stanton Michels, ’76, anassistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Hawaii, supervises and teaches medical students and residents both in the hospital and in outpatient clinic settings. He is medical director of the physicians who do both adult and child sexual abuse examinations.

Kelly Miller, ’77, is CEO of Miller Exploration Co. In 1978, he signed on to the family business (then headquartered in Allegan, MI). The company moved to Traverse City in 1985. The company has been involved in oil and mineral exploration in Northern Michigan and in the South.

Harry Rick Otis, ’77, reports his company has received the distribution rights for Nissan Forklift North America for the state of Sonora, Mexico. This

now gives them distribution rights for Sonora & Baja Norte & Sur, Mexico along with Imperial and San Diego Counties of Southern California and Yuma County, AZ. They also distribute Clark Material Handling Products in San Diego and Imperial County, CA, plus Baja Norte & Sur, Mexico. They are allowed legal rights in Mexico thanks to their Mexican sister company SEMMSA. They employ 70 people and will report over $15-million in revenues in 1998.

Greta Dickerson Reade, ’77, started a new contract position in Jan. 1998 at General Motors in Pontiac. She is assigned to the “Vehicle Timing Group” in the full-size truck group. She and her husband Michael, are both involved in their neighborhood association. Both of their daughters, Janice, 13, and Corin, 10, are doing well.

Jane Stephenson, ’77, recently started a new job as a medical writer for Pharmaceutical Research Associates in Lenexa, KS. She enjoys expanding her perennial garden, while continually trying to keep her dogs out of the garden. Jane recently went back to school, and is spending her evenings working on an M.B.A. at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, MO. Leslie Gates Nichols, ’78, has been working with educator’s retirement plans and various insurance plans in the metropolitan Grand Rapids area for the past 10 years. She has just finished 16 years with Horace Mann Insurance Co., working full-time and raising two children. She says she and her husband are “very busy but enjoying every day!”

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Rick, ’78, and Kathy Gannon Salomon, ’78, experience a “heart change” while living in North Carolina.

They changed from being just church attenders to believers with true faith in Jesus Christ. Becoming believers changed everything in their lives for the better. They love sharing with old friends the story of how this happened.

Their address is 325 31st Ave. NW, Hickory, NC 28601.

Linda Plankenhorn Schellhaas, ’78, of Falling Waters, WV, has been selected for inclusion in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America 1998. Linda is president of Quality Review, Inc., a consulting firm, and Creative Alternatives Publishing.

She is married to Robert W. Schellhaas, a retired Army chaplain, and has three stepchildren. In her spare time Linda enjoys caring for many domestic and barnyard pets.

Belinda Bishop Sears, ’78, graduated from University of Missouri School of Medicine in May 1997, and began residency in internal medicine in July 1997 at University Hospital and Clinics.

She married Scott Sears on Nov. 29, 1997. Scott is currently completing his fourth year at the University of Missouri School of Veterinary Medicine. They live in Centralia, MO. Roy Annett, ’79, has been named the new director of development for DeMattia Development in Plymouth.

Annett joined with DeMattia after working since 1984 for Kojaian Management Corp. In his new position, Roy will be responsible for promoting DeMattia’s expanded design/build capabilities and leasing options to new clients and markets.

Bruce, ’79, and Kathleen McGowan Broquet, ’82, are back in Anchorage, AK, and loving every minute. Bruce has accepted a position as director of finance. Kathleen is working part-time as a mortgage underwriter. The kids are all doing well.

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Steve Knight, ’79, received his M.B.A. from Creighton University in Dec. 1997.

He graduated with honors, with a 3.9 average in his M.B.A. courses. Steve and his wife Joni have three children: Casey, 12, Kimberly, 9, and Matthew, 3.

Steve is the controller for the Sisters of Mercy Omaha Province. They live in Ralston, NE. Laura Kelley Trubak, ’79, is working on her master’s. She is also working as student activities coordinator at Ivy Tech State College. In addition she is serving as academic advisor for Tulis Community Schools. Son Andrew is entering college and daughter Becca is in junior high. She would love to get e-mail from old buddies at: lnkel@aol.com.

80-84 Susan Reeves Beyer, ’80, has accepted new responsibility in Product Development at Comshare, Inc. in Ann Arbor.

Susan’s new role as Director of Financial Applications Product Management is to understand customers needs, technology trends and the market, both today and in the future, to specify innovative financial applications that will be produced by development teams.

Comshare is a leading vendor that specializes in financial application software to help CFO’s manage their business, make better decisions and increase productivity. Susan, her husband and three children reside in Saline. Susan can be reached at: sbeyer@comshare.com.

Susan Bowker Lawrence, ’80, a single mom raising three children, was promoted to director of the new community music school of The Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra. She is also soloing with area symphonies and performing in a professional chamber trio. Susan teaches applied piano at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek.

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Jeffrey Greenman, ’81, has recently become vice president and academic dean, as well as professor of Christian ethics, at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto, a transdenominational theological school founded in 1976. He has served on the seminary’s faculty since 1996.

Tyndale is Canada’s largest seminary with over 500 students. Jeff also received his Ph.D. in ethics this year at the University of Virginia and has published articles on medical ethics and about the history of Christian ethics.

After graduating from Albion, he spent two years at Merton College, Oxford University, and then worked for two years in government and politics in Washington, DC, before attending seminary at Regent College in Vancouver, BC, receiving a master of divinity degree in 1988. Later he spent three years as Canadian executive director for African Enterprise, a Christian agency working in leadership development and racial reconciliation in urban Africa. He resides in Ajax, Ontario, with his wife Janet, a pediatrician, and their two children, Emily and Andrew.

Meggen Urka Nagy, ’80, moved to Tampa, FL, last spring. In her new position she is responsible for implementing the financial module of the SAP system for Havatampa, Inc. Her husband is employed by Mintek, Inc., which makes bar-coding equipment.

Her daughter Sarah will be entering kindergarten. If in the area, contact me at 813/627-0697 ext. 1422 or 1-800/5598598. Her e-mail address is: murka@havatampa.com.

Julie Priest Skelton, ’80, recently graduated with a master of health science degree in physical therapy from the University of Indianapolis. She continues to work for the Monroe County Intermediate School District and resides in Belleville, MI, with her husband, Michael, daughter Jennifer, 15, and son Scott, 11.

Dean Drougas, ’82, married Barrie Britt in Lexington, KY in November 1996.

Dean is a director with Silicon Graphics in California. Barrie is an equine veterinarian associated with one of the world’s leading equine clinics. In March 1998, the couple celebrated the birth of their son John.

William E. Gray, ’82, has joined the law offices of Denis F. Jodis, P.C., with offices in Hudson and Adrian, as an associate. He received his law degree from University of Detroit.

Rob Sisson, ’82, has authored a new, Banking Outside the Box: The Business Owner’s Banking Bible. He previously issued a collection of poetry and short fiction, Asylum. He and wife Theresa welcomed twin sons on June 5, 1997.

Benjamin and Nathaniel have yet to exhibit any affinity for golf or basketball, but their appetites for literature appear voracious. The Sissons live in Plainwell.

Mary Kay Schueneman Cavazos, ’83, was ordained an elder in the United Methodist Church in the West Ohio Conference by Bishop Judith Craig June 8, 1998. She is now serving High Street United Methodist Church as an associate pastor in Springfield, OH. Her husband, Tony Cavazos, ’84, is pursuing the order of permanent deacon in the United Methodist Church. They would enjoy hearing from friends via e-mail at: revmkc@ameritech.net.

Maureen Donohue Krauss, ’84, moved back to Michigan. She

Region. She is still living in South Bend, IN. William C. Robson, ’86, formed a partnership with Terrell Brace, on March 10, 1997 in Howell. He lives in Grand Rapids.

can be reached at 248/ 608-8886.

85-89 Suzanne L. Tanguay, ’85, has worked in research and development at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, OH, since 1991. She is a senior scientist (analytical chemist) in health care technology (OTC pharmaceuticals).

Kathy Kingsmore Hoffa, ’86, was recently promoted to branch manager at West Banking Center, NBD Bank, North

William, ’88, and Nicole Brownson Buller, ’89, are greatly enjoying life with their daughter Lucille, who turned one-year-old this June. William has changed jobs and is now a research scientist with Nichols Research Corp., working alongside fellow Briton, Phillip Koppers, ’93. Nicole is on leave without pay from the Food and Drug Administration to be at home with their daughter. The Bullers live in Bethesda, MD. Britons may e-mail them via email at: bbuller@erols.com and nbuller@erols.com.

Susan Carter, ’88, is the executive director of the Lansing Area Safety Council. Susan succeeded her father in this position six years ago, having worked with the Safety Council since

Join the Briton Career Connection Have you been looking for a way to give back to your alma mater? Consider joining the Briton Career Connection. The Career Connection provides the opportunity for you to share your knowledge regarding the working world with Albion College students. Your advice and expertise are invaluable to students at this stage of the career planning process.

As a participant in the Career Connection, you agree to have your contact information released to students wishing to gain information on your career field or educational path. The Office of Career Development maintains and monitors the use of this database to ensure it is utilized to its potential. This is not a job service. Students are instructed not to ask for a job with your company, but rather to ask for advice and information.

We encourage you to become involved and assist current students.

Simply follow the instructions below to become a partner in this program.

The Briton Career Connection If you wish to make a connection directly with students by becoming involved in this important service, please send the following information.

You can e-mail lbogardus@pci.albion.edu, call Career Development at 517/ 629-0332, or clip this form and mail to: Office of Career Development, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224.

Name ________________________________________________________

Debra Stanton, ’83, has become the pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Millersville, located on the Millersville University campus, near Lancaster, PA. Her e-mail address is: pastords@lancnews.infi.net.

Class year _____________________________________________________

Gregory J. Winicki, ’83, and wife Rosemary moved into their new home in Rockford, MI, with their two children, Kendra, 4, and Austin, 2. They would love to hear from alumni in the area.

Gregory is currently working as a labor relations specialist for Meijer, Inc., in Grand Rapids. He has been with Meijer for 14 years.

Job title _______________________________________________________

Major ________________________________________________________ Additional education/degree _______________________________________ Type of industry ________________________________________________ Business name _________________________________________________ Business address ________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Business telephone ______________________________________________ E-mail address _________________________________________________ Optional information: Home address __________________________________________________ Home telephone ________________________________________________

■ Please indicate whether you prefer to be contacted at work or home.

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high school. She completed her master’s degree in labor relations while working there. Under her leadership the LASC has developed a strong relationship with the safety and training division of Consumer and Industry Services (CIS).

Michelle Owens, ’89, recently left Starr Commonwealth and accepted a management position with Huron Technologies, Inc., in Leslie. Huron Technologies is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals used in plastics, rubber and urethane molding. She would love to hear from old friends at 14117 24 Mile Rd., Albion, 49224 or email at: MichL15622@aol.com.

Rebecca Sands, ’89, is currently a second-tour flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, serving in Rota, Spain until July 1999. She ran her first marathon in Paris this April in 4:22. She would love to hear from fellow alumni via e-mail at: rth1ras@rth10.med.navy.mil.

90 David Schafer, ’90, has accepted the position of assistant curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He is supervising the repatriation of Native American human remains from New England, New York and the Middle Atlantic states. He is also planning to supervise the repatriation of the Southeastern and Midwestern collections. His e-mail address is: dschafer@fas.harvard.edu.

Matthew Troyer, ’90, is acting professionally in the Detroit area. He has one more year at the Hilberry Theatre and then plans on heading west to L.A.

91 W. Scott Banfield, III, ’91, has been named an assistant director of development at Culver Clubs International for The Culver Academies and Culver Summer Camps. He will oversee the organization, coordination, growth and activities of Culver Clubs. Scott is a 1987 graduate of Culver Military Academy and joined the development staff in 1996. He was previously an insurance adjuster with Crawford and Co. in Chicago and Columbus, IN. He resides in Culver with his wife Laurie.

Eric Halonen, ’91, is the director of planned giving at Michigan Tech University. His mailing address is 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton, MI 49931.

His phone number is 906/487-3325, and his e-mail address is: ehalonen@mtu.edu.

92 Arthur, ’92, and Kristen Benninger Gray, ’92, live in East Grand Rapids.

Kristen teaches special education at Jenison High School and Art is the vice president in corporate banking at Comerica Bank in Grand Rapids.

Scott Kenney, ’92, has recently taken a new position as physician practice manager at Memorial Healthcare Center, of Owosso. He is a 1994 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, with an M.B.A. and master’s in healthcare administration. He resides with his wife, Elizabeth Weisenbach, ’94, in Okemos.

Jennifer Ann Price, ’92, has moved back to the Midwest from Baltimore.

She is anxious to reconnect with Albion friends in Chicago.

93 Kelly Jenkins, ’93, received his Ph.D. in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego and will be working for a biotech company, Diversa Corp., in San Diego.

Sonia Singh, ’93, has completed a master of public health degree in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She is just beginning her Ph.D. studies in the same field at the same school.

94 Kevin Bohnsack, ’94, has been selected for the Family Practice Residency Program, a service of Marquette (MI) General Hospital. Residents are selected for admission based on certain requirements, such as dedication to family practice and primary care, desire to treat a wide variety of patients, and emphasis for promoting preventative care. Kevin earned his medical degree from Northwestern University.

Laura E. Corwin, ’94, earned her master’s degree in library and information science and an archival certificate from Wayne State University in 1997.

She currently works on a number of personal and public archive collections, including the papers of a Detroit City Council member and a former antique and classic automobile collector.

Eileen Hebets, ’94, won the Student Research Award at the 14th International Congress of Arachnology/American Arachnological Society Meeting for a

presentation about her doctoral research.

Eileen is a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.

Jennifer C. Maxam, ’94, graduated from Michigan State University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine on May 7, 1998. She will begin her internship/ residency at St. John Hospital, Detroit, in pediatrics. Jennifer has spent the last three months in Malawi, Africa in pediatrics at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. She would like to hear from any friends. Her e-mail address is: maxamjen@pilot.msu.edu.

Megan J. Murray, ’94, was recently appointed as the city of Albion’s new human resources director. She resigned as Albion College’s associate director of alumni and parent relations in June 1997 after having worked for the College since 1995.

Elizabeth Weisenbach, ’94, has completed her second year of law school at Detroit College of Law. In her first year she made the semi-finalists round for Oral Argument Competition, finishing in the top 18 of 215 competitors. She also served as liaison for the Women’s Law Caucus her first year, and was elected president for her second year. This summer she was clerk for Judge Paul Gadola in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan. She currently resides with her husband, Scott Kenney, ’92, in Okemos.

95 Ed, ’95, and Sherri Nemacheck Biocic, ’95, opened their own full service, soft cloth car wash in Saurville, WI. They hope this will be the first of many. They also spend time with their 14-month-old son, Joshua. The would love to hear from fellow classmates via e-mail at: biocic@juno.com..

Anderson Brockway, ’95, is currently working as a firefighter/paramedic in Sylvania, OH. He recently he began teaching at the Medical College of Ohio in the Paramedic Training Program.

Zachary Constan, ’95, and Diane Jackson, ’96, are currently residing in the Lansing area while studying for their Ph.D.s at Michigan State University and planning for their spring 1999 wedding.

Their e-mail addresses are: constanz@pilot.msu.edu and jacks282@pilot.msu.edu.

Nicole DuPraw, ’95, is completing her third year at Northwestern University Medical School. She is contemplating a career in pediatrics or obstetrics/ gynecology. She would love to hear from her friends during this busy year.

She can be reached at 215 E. Chicago, Apt. 1013, Chicago, IL 60611, 312/7871967, e-mail at: briton@nwu.edu Tracy Keppel, ’95, has completed her graduate study at the University of Wisconsin— Milwaukee, Professional Theatre Training Program. She is stage managing at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival this summer and will be stage managing for Next Act Theatre in Milwaukee in September.

Nicole S. Kramer, ’95, graduated in June from the Ohio State University with a master’s degree in women’s studies.

She is currently residing in Columbus, OH, and enjoying life!

Kimberly Dawn Maciag, ’95, completed residence in the London Law Program in London, England, and received her J.D. degree from the University of Detroit Law School in May 1998. In the fall she will begin an M.B.A. program.

Charles Marentette, ’95, was married on Aug. 16, 1998 and then entered an M.B.A. program at Cornell University.

Charles interned over the summer for Delphi.

Jon R. Ritterbush, ’95, will graduate with a master’s in library and information science in May 1999. He lives in Champaign, IL. Brian J. Schultz, ’95, works for Yazaki North America, a Big 3 automotive supplier. He has moved to Novi to be closer to his new job. He plans to return to school to get his M.B.A. Brian would

Come on out

for some hoops!

The annual reunion for all former women’s basketball players is planned for noon, Saturday, Jan. 23, 1999.

All alumnae are invited for a game of hoops prior to the varsity game with Alma later in the afternoon. More details will be coming soon. If you have questions, call Coach Cathy Henkenberns at 517/629-0516 or e-mail: chenkenberns@albion.edu.

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love to hear from his friends from Albion and can be reached at 31234 Shorecrest Dr., #25207, Novi, 48377 or via e-mail at: bschult1@yazaki-na.com.

96 Jennifer Arbogast, ’96, received her master’s in public administration last year at Syracuse University. She is currently employed with the Central Arizona Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. She would love to hear from her friends at 10,001 N. 7th St., Apt. 215, Phoenix, AZ 85020. Her e-mail address is: love2fish@hotmail.com.

Holly Bringman, ’96, has just completed her first year as director of vocal and instrumental music at Suttons Bay Public Schools. Holly teaches band and choir for grades 5-12 and has about 200 students. Suttons Bay is located 15 miles north of Traverse City on the Leelanau Peninsula.

Neal Erickson, ’96, is currently living in West Branch teaching middle school.

Max Kort, ’96, is employed as an auditor with Ernst and Young, LLP, in Detroit.

Paul Ogg, ’91, is pursuing his Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Iowa. He married Kristen Mitchell, ’98, in June 1998 in Wesley Chapel.

98 Benjamin Engelter, ’98, holds the new position of sports information assistant and games manager for athletics at Albion College. A two-time MVP for Albion’s cross country team, Engelter holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and management.

Weddings Loren Smith, ’59, to Ann Crawford on Oct. 16, 1993. They live in Taos, NM, where Loren is active in Taos Community Chorus. He is a consultant to startup and Fortune 100 companies.

Mary Ann McNamar, ’63, to Robert Earl Greeves on June 14, 1998 in Sterling, VA. Mary Ann is employed as counsel at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Washington, D.C. Her husband was formerly the chief information officer of the Department of Energy, and retired as captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He is currently the president of Serendipity Consulting, an intergovernmental policy consulting firm. The couple resides in Bethesda, MD.

Sally Cotter, ’73, to Ned Nielsen in January l997. Sally joined King & Spalding law firm in Atlanta as a partner in April 1998 and practices ERISA and employee benefits law. She is on the executive committee of the American Cancer Society-Metropolitan Atlanta.

She enjoys gourmet cooking, travel, boating and skiing with her husband and stepson. Her e-mail address is: snielsen@kslaw.com.

Michigan State University and is a sales manager at Rainsoft Water Treatment in Wixom. The couple lives in Lake Orion.

Fred Fuller, ’74, to Karen Willard on Nov. 22, 1997 in Yale. Benno Bonkowski, ’74, was the best man. Fred is St. Clair County drain commissioner.

Karen is the state representative for the 82nd legislative district.

Mahesh K. Nayak, ’92, to Sharan Pai on Dec. 24, 1997 in Mangalore, India.

Albion alumni at the wedding reception in Grosse Pointe included Brian Henderson, ’92, Chris Sale, ’92, Matt Jordan, ’92, Dave Thewes, ’92, Lu

Joseph S. Calvaruso, ’78, to Donna Jean Maxwell on Nov. 15, 1997 at Bellemont Manor. Joe has an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University and is the senior vice president of Shoreline Bank in Galesburg. Donna has a B.A. in finance from Western Michigan University, and is a work measurement analyst for First of America Bank.

Tracie Glover, ’92, to Matthew Kilbane, ’92 on June 13, 1998 in Centerville, OH. Albion alumni in attendance included Noelle Giguere, ’92, Neil Protter, ’92, and Brian J. Karam, ’90. The couple resides in Centerville.

Fung, ’92, Scott Bennett, ’92, and Andy Lukasik, ’92. Mahesh was recently appointed assistant attorney general for the State of Michigan. They live in Farmington Hills.

Craig L. Leinbach, ’93, to Abby J. Suchodolski, ’94, on Oct. 11, 1997 in Bay City. Albion alums in the wedding party included Burke Groom, ’94, Anthony Duprey, ’93, and Wendy Winn Gorman, ’94. Craig works as an accountant at Drake, Watters & Brieger, P.C. in Jackson. The couple resides in Lansing.

Jennie Crankshaw, ’94, to Robert Koeper in New Bremen, OH, on Sept.

27, 1998. Bridesmaids included Jessica

Sorbera Gray, ’94, and Nicole Isackson, ’94.

Kristen Kane, ’94, to Eric Metcalf on May 9, 1998 in Chicago. Kristen works at ABN AMRO, Inc., as a sales assistant, and Eric is a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. They reside in Westmont, IL. Deanna R. Wiggle, ’94, to Tom Tafelski. They reside in Dearborn.

Their phone number is 313/791-0687.

Megan Manning, ’95, to Michael Knuble on July 11, 1998. Albion alumni in the wedding party were Sarah Vandenbout, ’95, Barbara Shipley, ’95, Amy Peters, ’95, and Meredith

Wedding Album See accompanying notes for details.

John Dziuba, ’80, to Kathleen Fedon on March 25, 1998. The wedding was held at the home of Hans and Nancy Dziuba Schuler, ’76, in Marshall, MI. Officiating at the ceremony was Judge John Brundage, ’54. The couple resides in Rochester Hills.

Mary L. Judd, ’88, to Mike Hazen on May 9, 1998 in Chicago. Albion alumni in attendance were Beth Judd Cripe, ’86, Dillon Dalton, ’91, Matt Davis, ’88, Mary Jo LeFevre, ’89, Cindy Larkin Kazee, ’88, Beth Jarvie McCaghy, ’88, Christie Maurer Fiorini, ’88, Karen Ford Simon, ’88, Mary Sue Martin Vorbrich, ’88, John Tol, ’88, and William LeFevre, ’88.

They live in Chicago. Their e-mail address is: mjhazen@hewitt.com.

Lynne Marie Sheren, ’89, to James Michael Sakanich on March 7, 1998 in Birmingham. Lynne is property manager for the John Buck Co. in Chicago. James is a graduate of Indiana University and is a commercial broker at CB Commercial Real Estate in Chicago.

Mary Judd, ’88, and Mike Hazen on May 9, 1998.

(Front row, left to right): John Tol, ’88, William LeFevre, ’88. (second row) Mary Jo Yaklin LeFevre, ’89, Cindy Larkin Kazee, ’88, Beth Jarvie McCaghy, ’88, Mary Judd Hazen, ’88, Mike Hazen, Christie Mauerer Fiorini, ’88, Karen Ford Simon, ’88, Mary Sue Martin Vorbrich, ’88. (third row) Matt Davis, ’88.

Michelle LaFleur, ’96, and Mitch Taylor, May 30, 1998.

(Front row, left to right): Mike Jehle, ’96, Troy Helmick, ’97, Heather White, ’96. (back row) Holly Cabana, ’96, Jennifer Wolf, ’96, Rachelle Fichtner, ’96, Michelle LaFleur Taylor, ’96, Kris Fekete, ’96, Lisa Moore, ’97.

Beverly Lucas, ’91, to Michael Todd Propst on Jan. 3, 1998 in Joliet, IL. Albion alums in wedding party were: Joanna Doute Olson, ’91, Krista Miller Farris, ’91, and Cathie Critchett Lane, ’89. Beverly earned a J.D. degree in 1997 from the University of Illinois College of Law in Urbana.

She is an attorney with Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel and Hetlage in St. Louis. Michael graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is working toward a master’s degree in marketing research at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

Melissa McCoy, ’91, to Alan Fuller on Feb. 28, 1998 in East Lansing. Melissa is employed as an investment banker with McDonald & Co. Securities in Birmingham. Alan is a graduate of

Beverly Lucas, ’91, to Todd Propst on Jan. 3, 1998. Cathie Critchett Lane, ’89, Beverly Lucas Propst, ’91, Joanna Doute Olson, ’91, and Krista Miller Farris, ’91.

Craig Leinbach, ’93, to Abby Suchodolski, ’94, on Oct. 11, 1997.

(Front row, left to right): Pam DeNicola Groom, ’93, Wendy Winn Gorman, ’94, Abby Suchodolski Leinbach, ’94, Keri Ivan Church, ’93, Amanda Fisher, ’94. (back row) Scott Park, ’84, Paul Rhude, ’94, Burke Groom, ’94, Craig Leinbach, ’93, Kevin Watters, ’93, Anthony Duprey, ’93.

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Manning, ’99. They couple lives in Caledonia, MI. Daniel Pask, ’95, to Heather Fischer in Kaua’i, Hawaii on May 1, 1998. They reside at 120 Remsen St., #1A, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Dan’s e-mail address is: danpask@aol.com.

David M. Solis, ’95, to Lisa Maureen Reagan on Dec. 27, 1997. Albion alumni in attendance were Neil Silverman, ’95, Christopher Talsma, ’95, Sara Handley, ’95, Mark Lewis, ’95, Ahmad Mohammad, ’97, Patrick Drueke, ’95, and Carrie and Craig Langbo, ’95. David began a new position with Merrill Lynch’s International Private Client Group as a financial consultant in July 1997. He and his wife now reside in Coral Gables, FL, and can be reached by e-mail: dsolis@pclient.ml.com. David would love to hear from fraternity brothers, classmates and professors.

Joyce E. Stuckey, ’95, to Jason Doan on Jan. 3, 1998 in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Several Albion alums were in the wedding: Jenn Miller Heisler, ’95, Sandie Schultz Ferguson, ’95, and Jean Kwiecinski Lauer, ’95. Joy is pursuing a Ph.D. in immunology, and Jason is pursuing a career in secondary education. They can be reached at 318 Island Dr., #5, Madison, WI 53705, 608/ 233-8013.

Benjamin Wade, ’99, to Jenny Risner, ’98 on June 2, 1998 at Victory Park in Albion. Jenny plans to earn her master’s degree in landscape architecture while Ben plans to earn a master’s in physical therapy.

Michelle LaFleur, ’96, to Mitch Taylor on May 30, 1998 in Escanaba. Albion alumni in attendance included bridesmaids Rachelle Fichtner, ’96, and Holly Hay Cabana, ’96, groomsman Mike Jehle, ’96, Heather White, ’96,

The Albion Network Edgar M. Alvarez, ’73, would love to hear from the “Twin Towers Gang” on how they are doing. He can be contacted at: 3141 Fox Run Dr., Grapevine, TX 76091; e-mail address: october1951@hotmail.com.

Roderick A. Moore, ’77, is looking for former roommate, Bruce Springer, ’75. Rodney can be reached at 208 N. Cameron St., Sterling, VA, 20164, 703/450-

1017(h) and 703/383-3695(w).

His e-mail addresses are: rod_moore@tds.com (w) and dburrows@erols.com (h).

Laura Ann Cordin Barone, ’78, would love to hear from friends.

Her address is 4338 N. Monkey Hill Rd., Oak Harbor, WA 98227. Her e-mail address is: lab@hotmail.com.

Her phone number is 360/675-1631.

“The Albion Network” is a cross between want ads and the “personal” ads sometimes run in newspapers or magazines. If you would like to locate a long lost friend or if you need to contact your fellow alumni for any other reason, this is the way to do it—free of charge. The next Io Triumphe will be mailed in December.

Name __________________________________ Class year _____________ (Please print name)

Street _________________________________________________________

Kris Fekete, ’96, Jennifer Wolfe, ’96, Lisa Moore, ’97, and Troy Helmick, ’97.

Aaron Lee St. John, ’96, to Jill Carmi Parsons, ’97, on July 12, 1997 in Plainwell. The wedding was officiated

by Rev. Linda Farmer-Lewis. Albion wedding party members included: Renee Kreger, Visual Arts secretary, Kristen Rahn, ’97, Kimmi Dukes, ’97, Matt Berris, ’97, Adam Rogers, ’96, Cal Lee, ’95, Brad Emmons, ’97. Several Albion College faculty attended.

Baby Britons Elizabeth Louis on Nov. 9, 1997 to Craig, ’76, and Deborah Carson Bennett, ’76. She joins sisters, Carol, 3, and Anne, 13, and brother, Brian, 16.

They live in Battle Creek.

Annelise Irene on Jan. 27, 1998 to Bill Comai, ’79, and wife Kerri. She is their second child. They live in Battle Creek.

Matthew Leonard on Nov. 28, 1997 to Roger and Cindy Price Lemmer, ’80.

Proud aunt is Mary Price Shaw, ’79, and proud uncle is Len Price, ’77. Their home is in Holland.

Patrick Thomas on June 18, 1997 to Phillip and Kathleen Haines Savich, ’80. He joins his brother, Christopher John, 3. The family lives in Sault Sainte Marie, where Kathy and Phil own and operate Eastern Upper Peninsula Title Co. Hannah Felice on Jan. 28, 1998 to Mike and Anne Sullivan Causey, ’81. Anne has down-sized her business as a mental health counselor to part-time in order to be at home with their new daughter.

Mike recently began a new career with Hewitt Associates, a human resources firm. They reside at 1408 Brummel, Evanston, IL 60202.

Justin Paul Saleh on March 24, 1998 to Paul and Becky Sarya Saleh, ’81. He joins siblings Laura, 9, Eric, 7, and Anna, 5. The family lives in Santa Monica, CA.

City _____________________________ State _______ ZIP _____________ E-mail address _________________________________________________ Wording for ad to appear in “The Albion Connection”: (Keep to 60 words or less. If you want your address to appear in the ad, be sure to include it in your ad copy.)

Send to: Editor, Io Triumphe, Office of Communications, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224; or via e-mail, to classnotes@albion.edu. Be sure to include your full name, class year, address (geographic and e-mail) and telephone number in your e-mail message.

Brian Charles on June 17, 1998 to Mark and Laurie Wills Fitzgerald, ’82. The Fitzgeralds reside in Northbrook, IL. Brianna Patrice on April 1, 1998 to Eric, ’82, and Debra Caudel Lipp, ’83. She joins sister Jessica, 8, and brother Steven, 6. The Lipps moved in June 1998 to Philadelphia. Eric has a new job of internal audit and risk manager for GMAC Mortgage. Deb left her position as information technology manager for Magic Line, Inc. to be “career mom.”

Bradford James on Nov. 21, 1997 to William Petchauer and Anne PlattPetchauer, ’82. He was welcomed by brother Grant, 4. Anne is market vice president-sales for Browning Ferris Industries in Northern California. Bill is director of business and finance for the

San Jose State University Foundation.

They welcome e-mail and visitors.

Their e-mail address is: petchauer@aol.com.

Mary Margaret (“Maggie”) on March 3, 1998 to Susan Ryan, ’83, and Al Block.

Maggie joins brother Matt, 4, sister Shannon, 3, and yellow Lab, Macy, 7.

The family has recently moved their home and office north of Boston to Boxford, MA. Sue and Al own a marketing consulting and communications firm serving the financial services industry. Their new address is: 6 Powderhouse Lane, Boxford, MA 01921; phone: 978/887-4212; e-mail: susanb2802@aol.com.

Colin Howard on June 16, 1998 to Patrick and Ginny Sullivan Van Blaricom, ’83. He joins brother Justin, 4, and sister Lindsay, 2. Proud relatives include Mark and Cindy Frable Sullivan, both ’82, and Andy and Jennifer Sullivan Youngs, both ’87.

The Van Blaricom family resides in Naperville, IL. Maeghan Patricia on May 11, 1998 to Tim and Maureen Higgins, ’84.

Maureen will be returning to work at Maine Medical Center where she practices as an oncology social worker.

The family resides in Gorham, ME. Jack Everett on June 2, 1998 to Jeff and Shawn Basso Monro, ’84. He joins his sister, Taylor Anne. Proud aunt is Jennifer Basso Blank, ’90. Jeff is an account executive in the National Sales Division of Tenneco Automotive.

Shawn is an independent consultant in the field of nutrition. Friends can reach them at 6641 Lochmoor Ct., Clarkston, MI 248/620-7448.

Emma Elizabeth on May 29, 1998 to Barbara Panzl, ’84, and Steven Maxwell. The family resides in Walla Walla, WA, where Barbara works as the associate dean of students at Whitman College. Friends may contact her via email at panzlba@whitman.edu.

Sarah Beth on May 22, 1998 to Blair Swain and Beth Benson-Swain, ’85.

She joins sister Katie, 4. The family lives in Boulder, CO. Beth can be reached via e-mail at: boulderbbs@aol.com.

Sterling Thomas on May 15, 1997 to Thomas and Tracey Hueston Bray, ’85.

Sterling joins sister, Elyse, 3. Tracey has returned to work at EDS part-time where she does project management consulting. The Bray family resides in Marietta, GA. Their e-mail address is: tntbray@mindspring.com.

Rachel Elizabeth on Jan. 10, 1998 to Steven, ’86, and Kari Joss Hume, ’85.

The Hume family lives in Farmington Hills.

Liza Rachel on Nov. 16, 1997 to Michael and Amy Smith Kahn, ’85.

Amy left her career in advertising to be a full-time mom. Michael is employed by DDB Needham. The family lives in Chicago.

Kendall Marie on Feb. 19, 1998 to Donny, ’85, and Carla Welch Luberto, ’86. Kendall joins sister Jordan, 5, and brother Matthew, 3. They live in Okemos.

Scott Andrew on June 14, 1998 to Jim and Barbara Sayre McWilliams, ’85.

He joins Danny, 5, and Maggie, 4. Barb is now a stay-at-home mom and welcomes notes from Albion alumni.

They reside in Okemos.

James David on Oct. 8, 1997 to Daniel and Sarah Schoppe Daitch, ’86. He joins big sister Carolyn, 5. Ann MacKenzie, ’60, is the proud grandma.

The Daitches reside in South Lyon.

Natasha Karina on May 28, 1998 to Michael and Valerie Jones Graves, ’86.

She joins brother Ian, 6. The family lives in Lincoln, NE. Mike is a research fellow at the University of Nebraska working with algal viruses. Valerie is with the USDA studying herbicideresistant genes. They can be e-mailed at: vg62152@navix.net or vgraves@unlinfo.unl.edu.

Olivia Amore on April 15, 1998 to Jim and Beth Nichols Petipas, ’86. The family resides in Bedford, MA. Nicholas Vincent on April 29, 1998 to Dan and Ruth Blendea Ranks, ’86. He joins older sister Abigail, 2. Proud relatives include aunt Kathleen Blendea, ’90. The family resides in Novi.

Jacob Rolland and Benjamin Robert on July 17, 1997 to Bruce, ’87, and Karen Oswald Bethards, ’87. Proud uncle is David Bethards, ’81. Bruce, who received his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1992, works in marketing for the Quaker Oats Co. in Troy. Karen received her M.A. in higher education from Michigan State University in 1994, but left her position at Oakland University to stay home with the twins!

The Bethards are currently relocating from Rochester to the Chicago area.

Joseph Tate on June 4, 1998 to Steve and Sara Cline Majoros, ’87. Joe joins big brothers, Max, 6, and Jack Henry, 3.

Proud grandparents are Jack, ’56, and JoAnn Britton Cline, ’57. The Majoros family lives in Farmington.

Madelyn Louise on June 2, 1998 to John Stoddard, ’87, and Louise Kirk, ’90.

Madelyn joins big sister, Carolyn, 2.

John is an attorney with Krisor and Associates in South Bend, IN. Louise works part-time as an attorney with May, Oberfell & Lorber in South Bend.

Richard Maxwell on May 2, 1998 to Richard, ’88, and Sheryl Boardman Bone, ’88. The Bone family lives in Chicago.

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Griffin Patrick on Nov. 29, 1997 to Christopher and Bridgette Klym Murray, ’88. He joins big sister Bailey and big brother Matthew. The family resides in Grosse Pointe Farms.

in Ovid. The Verhelsts can be reached at 8926 Laurena Dr., Ovid, MI 48866, home phone number is 517/834-2960 and the church telephone is 517/8342573.

Daria Christine on April 27, 1998 to Julie French-Bloomfield, ’90, and Stephen Bloomfield, ’89. Daria was delivered by Betty Lasich, M.D., ’86.

Julie received her M.A. in counseling from Northern Arizona University (NAU) in August 1996 and is an ombudsperson for NAU. Stephen received his M.Ed. in counseling from NAU in August 1997 and is the coordinator of Greek life at NAU. Julie and Stephen moved to Flagstaff in July 1994 and love living in the mountains!

Mia Alexandra to Charles and Melissa Campbell Christ, ’92. They live in Whitefish Bay, WI.

Ethan John on June 11, 1998 to Heather and John Dunlop, ’89. The family resides in Portage.

Kent Morgan on Feb. 5, 1998 to Kent and Fran Whittaker Katnik, ’89. Mom is still teaching seventh and eighth grade at the Alexander Dawson School. The Katniks can be reached at: 362 Owl Dr., Louisville, CO 80027. Fran’s e-mail address is: fkatnik@dawsonschool.org.

Sofia Ireland on May 31, 1998 to Shawn and Judy Montenegro Smith, ’89.

Sofia joins sister Gabriella. The family lives in Birmingham.

Bridget Katherine on May 5, 1998 to Brian and Kendra Mutchler Sullivan, ’89. Her sister, Erin, is now 2. Other alumni in the family include Bridget’s grandmother, Jill Gardner Breneman, ’62, her uncle Michael Mutchler, ’86, and her great aunts Nancy Gardner Robinson, ’59, and Ann Gardner Batchelder, ’74. Kendra continues to work part-time as a physician assistant in the historic Amana Colonies. Brian is in his last year of internal medicine residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Elizabeth Jane on May 28, 1998 to Matthew Ahearn, ’90, and Amanda Dozeman-Ahearn, ’91. She joins big brother Samuel Fraser. They live in Holland.

Abigail Paige on July 11, 1998, to Dennis, ’90, and Amy Johnston Hackett, ’91. Their home is in South Lyon.

Emma Katherine on March 5, 1998 to Keith and Karie Shoskey Simon, ’90.

Proud grandparents are William R., ’63, and Judy Homchis Shoskey, ’64, greatgrandmother is Marie Kuhn Homchis, ’40, and aunt is Amy E. Shoskey, ’88.

The Simon family lives in Milwaukee, WI. Isaac Hampton on Jan. 28, 1998 to Craig and Weatherly Burkhead Verhelst, ’91. Weatherly is the pastor of Middlebury United Methodist Church

Nicholas Scott on May 20, 1998 to Scott, ’92, and Michele McDonald Tinson, ’92. Their home address is 4337 Arbour Dr., Commerce Twp., MI 48390.

Brett Michael, Jr., on Jan. 13, 1998 to Brett, ’95, and Jessica Stearns Salamin, ’95. Brett teaches eighth grade science at Novi Middle School, and Jessica teaches ninth and tenth grade English at Fowlerville High School. The family resides in Brighton. Proud relatives include uncle Christopher Stearns, ’97. Their e-mail address is: bsalamin@fc.novi.k12.mi.us.

Obituaries Elizabeth Wheatley Northrup, ’20, on June 28, 1998 in Southfield. She was a nursing and music graduate of Albion and a member of the Sorosis musical society, which would join Kappa Delta sorority in 1924. She is survived by three children, including Mary Elizabeth Siebert, ’52, and Ralph T. Northrup, Jr., ’57, 13 grandchildren, including William A. Siebert, ’77, and Randall Edward Siebert, ’78, and 14 great-grandchildren.

Violet McCredie Hamilton, ’24, on May 11, 1998 in Roscommon. She taught school for 12 years in the Jackson schools. The recipient of a master’s degree in library science from the University of Michigan, she also worked as a librarian at Saginaw High School until her retirement. In 1937, she married Elmer Hamilton of Bay City.

She is survived by a sister-in law, brother-in-law, many nieces and nephews and their families.

Mildred Fitch Asselstine, ’26, on May 15, 1998 in Flint. She was a math teacher at Flint Central High School for 43 years, retiring in 1970. A member of Court Street United Methodist Church, she taught Sunday School for 40 years.

She obtained her master’s degree from Columbia University. In 1971 she married Norman Asselstine. She is survived by a step-daughter and stepgrandchildren.

Ada May Adams Koontz, ’26, on June 18, 1998 in Indianapolis. A homemaker, she was involved in the United Methodist Church, Daughters of the American Revolution and Crossroads Rehabilitation Center. She is survived by daughter, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Hollis J. Quinlan, ’27, on March 17, 1998. He was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Louis E. Roberts, ’27, on June 14, 1998 in Tampa, FL. He obtained a business degree from Western Michigan University in 1928, and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army, 1942-1946. Louis was the business manager and superintendent of schools for Adrian Public Schools from 1950 to 1967 and later taught at Ferris State University. He is survived by his wife, Leda Jean, two daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

William H. Snelling, Jr., ’28, on April 27, 1998. He is survived by his wife Irma residing in Stanton, CA. Alice F. Campbell, ’29, on May 18, 1998 in Sarasota, FL. She began her medical practice at the age of 29 in Albion and continued until her retirement in 1972. As a general practitioner, Campbell’s practice was largely devoted to obstetrics and pediatrics. She also was employed as physician for the McGraw-Edison Co. and Starr Commonwealth for many years. She is survived by three children, five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Esther Schott Zander, ’29, on April 17, 1998. She began a long teaching career at Berkley High School in 1929, retiring in 1973. She married William Zander on Feb. 11, 1939. The recipient of a master’s degree from Wayne State University, she was honored as educator of the year by the Berkley City Council in 1990. Esther spent the last two years of her life in Montana with her nephew and his family.

Theodore A. Bergman, ’30, on May 17, 1998 in Lynchburg, VA. He became the vice president and treasurer of Phillips Business College in Lynchburg in 1935 and then served as lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He later taught at Lynchburg College and then served as vice president and treasurer from 1958 until his retirement in 1972. He was active in the Baptist Church and was a past president of Rotary. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Mana Fauber Bergman, three children and two grandchildren.

Elsie Angela Eaton Danby, ’31, on June 28, 1998. A resident of Green Valley, AZ, for 28 years, earlier in her career she taught high school math and was a school counselor in Adrian. Later she was a partner in a realty company.

Elsie was active in adult literacy programs and the Episcopal Church.

She is survived by her husband, Leslie, a son, grandson and two great-grandsons.

Jane Edwards Norton, ’33, on May 17, 1998. She married John Comstock Norton in 1935. The recipient of an M.S.W. degree from the University of Michigan, Jane served as a social worker for over 20 years. She was active in the League of Women Voters, the Congregational church and sat on the boards of many community organizations. She loved music, reading, gardening and traveling. She is survived

by three daughters and sons-in-law, five grandchildren, a sister and brother-inlaw, and two sisters-in-law.

Catherine Newton Sheridan, ’33, on July 3, 1998 in Saugatuck. She was a first-grade teacher in the Ironwood school system for many years before retiring in Saugatuck in 1971. Her past affiliations include Alpha Chi Omega sorority, Eastern Star, Saugatuck/ Douglas Historical and Allegan County Republican Women. She is survived by her two children, their spouses, 10 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Judith Tench Weinmann, ’33, on June 18, 1998. She married Frederick Weinmann on Jan. 28, 1933 in Albion.

She taught in elementary schools in Ypsilanti and Sarasota, FL. She is survived by two daughters, eight grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren, a sister and many nieces and nephews.

Wilfrid Haughey, Jr., ’35, in January 1977 in Norwalk, CT. A World War II veteran, he is survived by his wife of 58 years, Jean Ayers Haughey, ’35, four children, seven grandchildren and a great-grandson.

Mary Louise King Lathrop, ’36, on May 14. 1998 in Santa Fe, NM. After graduation from Albion, she married Charles Frederick Lathrop, Jr., ’36, and moved to Detroit and later to Lancaster, CA. The Lathrops retired to Santa Fe, NM. She is survived by her husband, son, two grandchildren, a twin sister, and many nieces and nephews.

Charles S. Tapert, ’39, on Jan. 20, 1994.

Sheldon H. Mills, ’42, on July 31, 1998 in Bellaire. The recipient of a master’s degree from Michigan State University, he taught in several school districts in northeast Michigan and finished his career in Bellaire where he retired in 1979. Sheldon also maintained a cherry and peach orchard for 25 years. He is survived by his wife Olga, two sons, and three brothers.

William Marker Steele, ’43, on May 24, 1998 in Flagstaff, AZ. After graduating from Albion, he served in World War II. He graduated from Wayne State University Medical School and completed his internship and residency at Detroit Receiving Hospital.

Bill practiced orthopaedic surgery in Traverse City and later in Flagstaff. He is survived by his wife, Sandra, four daughters, 10 grandchildren and two sisters.

Richard A. Wanty, ’49, on April 17, 1998. A lifelong resident of the Milan area, he served in the Navy Air Corps during World War II and was a member of Sigma Chi and American Foundrymen Association. He is survived by his wife, Jane Ann, six children and their children.

Charles W. Ricker, ’50, on April 24, 1998 in Oak Ridge, TN. The recipient of a doctorate in nuclear science from the University of Michigan, Ricker was a physicist who worked in the Instrumentation and Controls Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1976 until he retired in 1993. He served as chairman of the Albion College Department of Physics from 1965 to 1975. During this time he was also special assistant to NASA’s Office of Manned Space Flight, where he was involved in the development of a science education program for astronauts. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa. He received Albion’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Helen L. Ricker, ’73, two children, a grandson and a sister.

R. Bruce Early, ’62, on June 16, 1998 in Grand Rapids. He received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in music education from Michigan State University. Bruce served as chair of the Music Department at Aquinas College and acted as the jazz director for the college. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and was a member of several state and national music educators associations. He was survived by one daughter; his parents; a sister, Melinda Early Goff, ’65; and two nieces including Sally Goff, ’98.

E. Michael Krieg, ’62, on July 16, 1998 while in St. Lucia. A lifelong resident of Grosse Pointe, Michael earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan, with a specialty in orthopaedics. He became a Naval flight surgeon and served in both the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War. In addition to his medical career, Michael also earned a law degree from Detroit College of Law. He was a lover of animals and participated as an active member of both the Michigan Humane Society and the Michigan Anti-Cruelty Association. He also enjoyed sailing and travel.

Survivors include his wife, Carol Byrne Krieg, ’64, his mother and three children.

James H. Yeomans, ’62, on June 15, 1998 in Albion. A Birmingham native, he was very active in his career in industrial sales and marketing where he was an independent manufacturing representative. He was a member of the Albion First United Methodist Church, where he served on several church committees, and he was head usher for 10 years. He enjoyed reading, history and playing softball. He is survived by his wife, Carol Olsen Yeomans, ’65, a daughter, a son, grandchildren, a sister and brother.

Kathleen Kramp Devenney, ’73, on July 13, 1998 in Marshall. She was employed by Boshears Ford. Prior employment included Michigan National Bank and Boley, Jackson and Associates. She married Larry Devenney in 1971. Kathleen enjoyed camping, fishing, boating, cooking and spending time with her family. She is survived by her husband Larry, two children and her mother.