Io Triumphe! A magazine for alumni and friends of Albion College

VOL. LXVII, NO. 4

ALBION COLLEGE

SPRING 2003

Published for alumni, parents and friends of Albion College

Taming the storm Strategies for restoring public trust in corporate America

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‘Ethical conduct never takes a day off’ As Albion’s Carl A. Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute for Professional Management celebrates its 30th anniversary year, I am reminded that venerated professor E. Maynard Aris often said that the most important words in that program’s title were not “professional management” but “liberal arts.”

The problems that have beset corporate America in the past two years have given more credence than ever to his view.

Liberal arts colleges provide an ideal setting not just for learning the “how-to’s” of business but the “why’s” and the “what if’s.” Done well, a liberal arts education causes students to think about the impact of their actions—on their own lives, on the people with whom they associate, and on the organizations of which they are a part—and encourages them to think carefully about doing what is right and not merely what is expedient. Those considerations should be an integral part of corporate life, though, sadly, that is often not the case.

Within this broader context, the Gerstacker Institute last month sponsored a symposium, “Ethical Leadership in Business: Defining It, Living It, Meaning It.” The speakers included Edmund Jenkins, ’57, retired chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board; Patrick McDonnell, organizational change expert and author of Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven: Six Steps to Organizational Excellence; Edward Reiter, senior chairman of Sky Financial Group, Inc.; and William Ritter, ’62, senior minister of the First United Methodist Church of Birmingham. (The proceedings of the “Ethical Leadership in Business Symposium” will be available shortly at: www.albion.edu/gerstacker/.) The symposium topic was the inspiration for the cover story in this edition of Io Triumphe.

As you will see from the alumni and faculty comments that are included here, recent corporate misconduct has prompted genuine concern among those who work in and study the business community and a call for a renewed commitment to high ethical standards. Charles Raphael, ’68, a retired banking executive, put it this way: “Ethical policies define the principles a company stands for—in other words, its culture. In my experience, culture is that combination of values, behaviors and beliefs that guides a company’s conduct. The cases of Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, Tyco and K Mart, to name a few, all were failures of culture. Most of all, they were failures of leadership—of character. Corporate leaders need to ‘walk the (ethical) talk’ by creating—and being visible champions of—a culture that promotes, and indeed rewards, ethical behavior in dealings with employees, customers, shareholders, suppliers, regulators and the investment community. Strongly committed companies reinforce the importance of ethical conduct in as many settings as possible—internally and externally. In this way companies keep ethics very visible. And in doing so they remind their constituencies—and themselves—that ethical conduct never takes a day off.”

On the following pages, you will read thoughtful commentaries on the state of business ethics today and learn how Albion addresses this subject with students. I think you will find these perspectives insightful and challenging.

—Sarah Briggs, Editor

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Straight talk about ethics Io Triumphe asked both corporate insiders from among Albion’s alumni ranks and College faculty members involved in teaching and research on business management for an assessment of the current status of corporate ethics and strategies for change. As you will see, they had many interesting insights to share.

The root of the problem First of all, let’s recognize that the Enrons of the world do not represent the mainstream of corporate America.

They are the exception. But the overriding question is: What created these scandals? What drove this kind of behavior in the first place? The answer in my view: compensation-based systems that spiraled out of control. The irresistible urge to preserve outrageous reward packages triggered ever-increasing levels of unethical conduct. The goal: “make the numbers” at any cost.

Companies should establish a performance appraisal and reward structure that sets goals that are both aggressive and achievable. Those committed to real results (vs. “manufactured” ones) set targets that can be met by playing within the bounds of ethical conduct. The impossibly high growth rates that many CEOs establish often lead to crossing the line.

Is genuine change taking place? I believe recent scandals have served as a wake-up call for all companies to reexamine their practices. They are looking at accounting/audit policies and procedures, board roles and decision-making structures. . . . I’m not yet persuaded, however, that we’ve seen any real reform in the compensation arena. Time will tell.

In an ideal company, the leadership believes you must commit to ethical conduct—and live it. And executives do that by consistently making decisions that are in the best long-term interests of their company, even when that does not benefit them personally.

Charles Raphael, ’68 Executive Vice President/Retail Delivery (retired) BankOne Corp.

Investors beware As news broke about the recent business scandals, much of the media coverage focused on stock pricing and corporate earnings. Maximizing share value is an appropriate goal. The problem in most businesses right now is too much emphasis on maximizing current profits. That is a short-sighted goal. Enron and the other companies that made the headlines had phenomenal short-run profits because they were doing things—some of them improper or even illegal—to maximize those profits. Obviously, those actions were not in their long-term best interest. Companies need to get back to focusing on share value, as opposed to current-year profits.

I find it hard to be sympathetic toward many of the people who were investing in these companies that are now in trouble. People made a lot of money on these stocks . . . they were right there for the ride up and

only when the ride headed down did they cry foul. To the extent that there’s a silver lining, it may be that now people will investigate their choices a little bit more. When investors are more vigilant, that will deter unethical behavior. Admittedly, it is hardest for the small investor to detect problems in a company—the transactions are so complex.

The regulations that have now been implemented should go a long way toward restoring people’s confidence. It may just take time. Even with all the new rules in place, people are still skeptical—they are saying, “Let’s see if we can go a year without some big scandal, and maybe I’ll believe it.” It’s good that people are more aware.

Jon Hooks Professor of Economics and Management Albion College

The need for honest communication Top corporate leaders need to be open to hearing the truth/straight talk from their staffs. Often, staff members feel obligated to “sugar coat” or to provide partial information—in other words, to say what they know the executive wants to hear rather than what they really want to say or should say. Corporations committed to the letter and spirit of ethical practices are those that are genuine, honest, straightforward and forthcoming in their day-to-day operations and human relations.

Carolyn Aishton, ’64 Vice President, Corporate Programs (retired) Avon Products, Inc.

Walking the talk In an ethical business, virtuous words are matched by virtuous deeds. For example, in the 1960s many major American companies quickly adopted the rhetoric of equal employment opportunity (EEO). Xerox Corp., however, moved more rapidly than most other businesses to implement an EEO policy, giving wellqualified blacks a chance to work in professional and managerial jobs. The corporate commitment to nondiscrimination came right from the top—the CEO of Xerox made it clear that previous discriminatory practices had to be rooted out and that lower levels of management would be evaluated, in part, on their effectiveness in implementing EEO. This was an instance in which issues of social justice and corporate responsibility came together for a highly successful result.

Gregory Saltzman Professor of Economics Albion College

Hard lessons I believe that most businesses are managed ethically.

However, one needs to understand that business people, by training and out of necessity, have to focus on the bottom line. How will any activity ultimately affect the survivability of the business? The hard lesson that unethical business people are learning is that unethical conduct ultimately affects the bottom line adversely and can threaten the survivability of the business. Top management has to ensure that operating ethically becomes a core value of the business, that policies and practices regarding ethical conduct are put in place at the highest levels and that the failure to follow them by anyone is cause for discipline up to and including termination.

Jess Womack, ’65 Senior Corporate Counsel (retired) ARCO Associate General Counsel Los Angeles Unified School District

No simple answers In the wake of the accounting and corporate governance scandals of recent years, business and other professional schools have increased the emphasis on ethics in the courses they offer, as have professional organizations in their continuing education classes.

While I applaud this increased focus on ethical and legal responsibilities, it is important to remember that these activities are not new. Business ethics has long been part of a business school curriculum, and education on appropriate standards and responsibilities has always been part of the efforts of professional organizations.

While it makes a good sound-bite, it is wrongheaded to blame recent corporate scandals entirely on a “decline in morality” or an “increase in greed,” implying that future problems can be prevented by somehow raising morality or decreasing greed. From a public policy standpoint, preventing or reducing such corporate scandals in the future requires a much deeper understanding of their root causes. Flawed ethics and greed certainly have played a role. But the fundamental causes lie in a combination of market and economic forces, laws, professional standards and government regulation (or misguided changes in laws, standards or regulations) that created powerful incentives for corporate officers to behave as they did. Recognizing these underlying factors does not excuse the many ethical and legal lapses that did occur, but it is important to understand that the causes of recent scandals are varied and complex. It is difficult for me to believe that any of them would have been prevented by executives taking one more course in business ethics.

Carol Leisenring, ’68 Co-Director, Financial Institutions Center The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Encouraging individual responsibility At a liberal arts college like Albion, we are fortunate that we can discuss ethical issues in depth with our students. Even though I don’t teach business ethics per se, in my accounting courses I cover not only the accepted standards in accounting today but also cases of corporate misconduct and the aftermath of such misconduct. For example, in my auditing class last fall, I asked my students to prepare oral presentations examining the deceptive reporting practices and outright fraud that led to some of the recent scandals.

This exercise was every bit as important to my students’ auditing education as the material in our textbook. They may face similar situations in the work world at some point in their lives, and they should be ready with a response. They also need to understand the personal consequences involved, should they engage in such questionable practices.

I believe educators do have an important role in this area. While recent federal legislation has led to some critical reforms, government oversight of corporate behavior is not the complete answer in effecting change. It is much more a matter of individual responsibility. We must give those who are entering business management today preparation that will guide them in acting ethically in the future.

Gaylord Smith Professor of Economics and Management Albion College

Restoring the public trust Corporate scandals have damaged the business community in the U.S. and globally—the only question is how deeply, and how permanently. CEOs recognize that world markets have been altered, and not for the better.

At PricewaterhouseCoopers, we recently conducted a survey with global CEOs that indicated they are engaged with the issue of restoring public trust and improving corporate governance. Less clear is any consensus on how to achieve these goals. . . .

Many recognize it will take a concerted effort to regain public trust. Management must be driven by integrity, boards must be truly independent, analysts must be driven by what is real vs. what will maintain share prices for their parent company portfolios, auditors must show courage and real dedication to serving shareholder interests vs. protecting relationships with management, and investors must make buying decisions on the basis of diligent research and not the whim of “get rich quick.”

In the recent past, people may have focused solely on restoring trust with shareholders/investors. Now a broader group of stakeholders is being addressed.

Enron showed that employees, pensioners, strategic partners, charities and many others all need to know the “state of the business.” And today, under models that include responsibility to the broader community, the circle is extended to the “global and general public,” and even to future generations.

Private ethics and public corporate integrity are indivisible. What matters in the end are the actions of people, not just their words. Doing the right thing cannot be compromised. . . . Without personal integrity, there can be no public trust.

Richard Baird, ’78 Global ABAS Partner, Operations Leader PricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P.

A conversation with Bill Ferguson, ’52 After a 43-year career in corporate management, Bill Ferguson retired in 1995 as chairman and CEO of NYNEX, a global telecommunications company that has since merged with Bell Atlantic and GTE to form Verizon. The observations he offers here come from a recent interview with Io Triumphe.

On the hallmarks of an ethical company What distinguishes an ethical business is whether the stakeholders—the customers, the shareowners, the employees, the vendors and the public in general— believe the company has an instinct to act ethically.

The best example I can think of goes back to the Johnson & Johnson Tylenol contamination issue. After the company quickly and openly recalled the product, even though the company didn’t believe it was at fault, the world was convinced Johnson & Johnson would act ethically in virtually every situation in the future.

Companies that are strongly committed to ethical practices have a written code of business conduct. That code has been developed over time with employee and vendor input and is constantly updated. The company should have an ethics officer—someone who helps the CEO assess and lead the ethics effort. That person should also interact with other ethics officers around the country and even around the world and should stay on the cutting edge of ethics issues.

Employees should have a way, with anonymity, to ask questions about ethics and to report breaches in the code of business conduct.

Ultimately, responsibility for the corporate ethics policy should be assigned to a committee of the Board of Directors. That committee should report periodically to the rest of the board, assessing the effectiveness of the ethical practices within the company. That information should be published in the proxy statement and the annual report. This public disclosure forces the company to be up front about its ethical standards.

On the role of top management in setting ethical standards Adherence to ethical standards should be one of the criteria in the evaluation of employees—from the CEO on down. Top management sets the example. Employee perceptions are critical, and the CEO needs to be conscious of any actions that might suggest impropriety in the eyes of the employees, even if he or she is, in fact, acting within ethical guidelines.

You have to involve employees in looking for the ethical pitfalls and get problems and issues out on the table. When I was CEO at NYNEX, we had a highly publicized incident involving questionable conduct by some of our employees in purchasing. We used that as an opportunity to totally reexamine our ethics codes.

We rewrote our codes, with the help of the employees, and then trained extensively on the new standards.

With constant vigilance and updating, the “codes we live by” have served Verizon very well in these turbulent times.

Bill Ferguson, ’52

On the relationship of ethical conduct and corporate success Ethics is much more than following the law. It really is having an instinct for doing the right thing. Are you truly being open and honest with your shareowners and customers? The customers and the shareowners make the final judgment—over time they will come down on the side of the ethical corporation. If you look at the companies that have succeeded or failed over the past 10 years, you can see that it’s the ethical corporations—the corporations that have made the right judgments—that continue to do well. Overall, the ethical behavior of the corporation is a winning formula.

On the need for greater accountability Following the ethical lapses at Enron, WorldCom and others, CEOs must take the lead in restoring confidence and trust in corporate America. It will take time, and all of the employees have to be enlisted in this effort. One difficulty we have right now is the issue of executive compensation. CEOs are viewed as helping themselves to a disproportionate slice of the corporate pie, and this is being perceived as unethical. Corporate leaders need to keep thinking about public perceptions and respond appropriately.

The increased attention being given to the issue of accountability is causing corporate America to make significant changes. Any director of a public corporation today should be demanding that management provide accurate information and clear reporting. The directors I’m in contact with are being much more active and aggressive, and taking their responsibilities far more seriously. They recognize the personal liability they have if they are not fulfilling these responsibilities. They have a new standard of performance now that they have to meet. All of that is very good and can do nothing but help. The higher standards being set by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board are also helpful, but ultimately you have to affect behavior inside organizations to bring about lasting change.

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Philosophy professor Gene Cline uses real-world examples to demonstrate the difficult ethical questions business people may face in the course of their careers.

Putting ethics to the test As we all discover at some point in our lives, it’s one thing to talk about ethical principles and quite another to live by them. Philosophy professor Gene Cline blends these theoretical and practical considerations in the business ethics course he has taught in Albion’s Carl A. Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute for Professional Management for the past 12 years. Following a model adopted at the Harvard Business School, his course uses the case study approach to demonstrate the ethical dilemmas that business people face in carrying out their day-to-day responsibilities.

In the following interview, Io Triumphe asked Cline to reflect on the relevance of the course and the practical guidance it offers to future business leaders.

While the well-publicized ethical breaches at corporations like Enron and WorldCom have brought renewed attention to the issue, Cline contends all business managers—regardless of the level of their responsibility or field of specialization—must be prepared to deal effectively and appropriately with the moral questions that will inevitably come their way.

Io Triumphe. In your business ethics course, how do you show students that philosophy has immediate and practical applications in the workplace?

Cline. I interject philosophy when it can give a meaningful context to what we are studying. My students and I read actual cases from Harvard Business School files in which individuals face ethical dilemmas. For example, these employees might have been asked to falsify damages to cover shipping costs on a big sale, gain proprietary information for a client in legally questionable ways, sign off on partnerships that are designed to conceal what the company is doing, or bill clients for services never performed. At an institutional level, companies might use their political clout to gain unfair competitive advantages.

Michael Hardimon’s work on role responsibility is a core reading from philosophy that I introduce in this course. Hardimon argues that signing up for complex roles (as a manager, accountant, consultant, etc.) means that you have to count the responsibilities that come with the role as yours. However, he adds that taking on a professional role does not engulf or erase other responsibilities. Most interesting roles are not self-interpreting or transparent; one can put one’s stamp on performing those roles well. So students are asked to put themselves into the shoes of those who are described in our cases, and they are asked to recommend an ethical course of action and to defend it against criticisms.

At a more general level, we also have responsibilities as citizens and as human beings, and it is often hard to see how to properly balance our obligations. In some cases, it is very difficult to be both ethical and realistic at the same time, and this makes the cases and the issues that they raise of genuine moral interest.

I also bring in material from other philosophers such as Amartya Sen and Elizabeth Anderson whose views on motivation, individual choice and social justice are quite intriguing when studied in the context of the business environment.

Q. How do you help students appreciate the strengths and limitations of a manager’s personal values in guiding his or her business decisions?

A. In discussing cases about personal managerial obligations, students present their solutions to the whole class and then we have at it. Some members of the class take on roles as tough-minded but often amoral realists, and others take on more morally stringent roles. Some students rely on faith as a basis for their sense of integrity, and some on their commonsense view of folk ethics. These are all tested against philosophical views for consistency and plausibility.

Sometimes an act that is justifiable in a particular case is obviously not fit to guide us as a rule. In some of the cases we look at, there appears to be no good way out of a dilemma. Every proposed solution seems to create new dilemmas. In analyzing these situations, students are encouraged to form meta-ethical beliefs about which values trump which, given the inevitability of painful trade-offs.

Q. What troubles students most during your discussions?

A. I have asked students if they’d keep secret an impending layoff that affected a close friend. This scenario forces them to weigh their loyalty to the company against their loyalty to a friend. When I posed this question to my class this semester, 23 out of 27 students said they’d tell the friend even if it was clearly their managerial responsibility not to do so.

They said things like “You can say without explicitly saying” and so forth. They’re absolutely right, in a way, but in doing so they are also in violation of their role obligations to their employer! It bothers them that the world won’t work out neatly so that they can keep all of their felt obligations in perfect harmony.

More institutional questions are raised by other cases, as with the stealing of proprietary information from a competitor as a shortcut in product develop-

ment, the circumvention of environmental laws by legal maneuver to minimize production costs, the use of political influence to stifle competition, and advertising in a manner totally independent of price and quality. With these and many other issues, students’ loyalties are divided depending upon which positions they take. There are systematic ways to think morally about these issues apart from a self-interested stance, and these need to be teased out and discussed. Classical act and rule utilitarianism become relevant here, for instance. Even when a more systematic treatment is given, however, there is sometimes no obviously right solution.

Q. How do you address the need to understand the spirit underlying a particular law or a corporate code of conduct?

A. Very often the interesting personal issues have little to do with law, partly because we wouldn’t want the law to regulate every transaction or decision. I find students do see the law as a brake on their behavior more often than ethics, which can be disappointing.

We spend a good deal of time discussing the difference between merely avoiding liability and thinking seriously about right and wrong.

As far as the law goes, it makes business possible by specifying and enforcing property and contract, establishing a uniform commercial code, supporting a currency and a monetary policy, and providing rules for who makes and changes the rules themselves. It is never really a question of business versus law per se, but a series of questions about working within (and around) some law or set of laws.

Q. Why is it imperative for students to have this introduction to business ethics?

A. One of my colleagues once remarked to me that ethical behavior comes easily in ordinary times, but what counts is your stance in times of crisis. I’d like to reverse that. People who behave honestly and with integrity in ordinary times are, as a matter of character, more likely to be honest in times of crisis. If ethics were emphasized regularly—ethics in the wellthought-out way that philosophers conceive of it— we’d be far better off. We’d look hard for the best available solution, recognizing that finding a perfect solution may not be possible. As with any reasonable exploration of complex empirical issues, we usually get better but never arrive at perfection. It has always struck me that we have no general ethics requirement at the College, but the Gerstacker Institute does. I think it would be good for all of us to think about ethics regularly and systematically (and not just in the form of our preferred local and relativist sense).

Q. What do you most want students to take away with them from a business ethics course?

A. I hope that they have a firmer sense of the relevance of ethics, a better sense of themselves, and an appreciation of the immense gravitational force created by modern corporations. It would be good for students to develop a defensible sense of their own values that will allow them to leave the business world a better place. It would be even better if that sense allowed them to flourish.

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but the greatest of these is love Since adopting her daughter Jaclyn from China, Cindy Schmidt Champnella, ’80, has devoted herself to the cause of international adoption. She has chronicled her efforts to find homes for orphaned children in a new book.

By Cindy Schmidt Champnella, ’80 Women who grew up in the 1970s as I did were weaned on the notion that career success could be ours—we believed we could climb the corporate ladder with the best of them. As I entered college, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do in a career, but enrolling in Albion’s Professional Management program (since renamed the Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute for Professional Management) seemed to be a great way to find out.

From the first kick-off dinner at Bellemont Manor, I congratulated myself on my wise choice. The support, guidance and genuine concern of the advisers in the program were wonderful. But the friends I made—they were the true prize. How else would I have gotten through calculus and John McConnell’s economic theory classes? Instead of cutthroat competitors, my fellow classmates were the first ones to offer use of their typewriter when mine jammed, to share notes and offer study groups. What I could not have known then was that many of these friendships, solidified over latenight study breaks, would continue on to this day.

But an Albion education did not allow me to focus too narrowly. There were plenty of opportunities in the liberal arts curriculum to pursue other interests. I found myself captivated by Len Berkey’s sociology courses.

I can still remember the swell of pride I felt when Anthony Taffs read one of my freshman English compositions aloud and solemnly pronounced me a writer. But I shook off these other interests—I was too pragmatic to be caught up in dreams that would not lead to income.

In 1980 I headed out into the business world, sure that corporate success was soon to follow. And for many of my Pro-Man friends, it did. I get dizzy when I contemplate their achievements. Some of my closest friends now hold key executive positions at major corporations and have somehow managed to do it with class and integrity and balance while still finding time to laugh with me exactly the way we did in Wesley Hall so many years ago.

But for me, it didn’t work out that way. Early on, I shifted my focus to the non-profit sector, sure that I would find fulfillment in being part of value-driven organizations. Unfortunately, what I found was the opposite. I regretted that I had spent so much time in Business Ethics passing notes to the cute boy seated next to me, instead of preparing myself for the ethical dilemmas I quickly faced. I had lots of days when I wanted to throw my keys down and walk out the door.

But the heavy price of that action made me terrified of acting on principle. Instead, I sat and watched and played the game of corporate restraint. And the wrong of it all—not just others’ behavior, but now my own— ate away at me.

And so by the time Jaclyn came into my life I had long ago stopped believing that we each have the power to change lives. Instead, I lived the way that many of us do—working, parenting and doing all the other chores involved in day-to-day living—without looking either right or left. My husband and I adopted Lou Jiao, whom we call Jaclyn, at the age of four from China. It was, perhaps, our small attempt to give something back. But I quickly learned that visiting a Chinese orphanage is one of those “be careful what you wish for” experiences. I had naively assumed that I would go there and then come back and resume my old life. The Chinese have a saying: “The journey of discovery comes not from seeing new lands, but from seeing with new eyes.” For me, this proved true. My old life was over.

On her third day as my daughter, when the shock of it all had begun to fade and Jaclyn could find her voice again, she told me, through our Chinese guide, that she had a baby. At first I was horrified. How could a child have such responsibility? Surely there was not a world, even here, where children mothered children? But, sadly, from the start there was no disputing the truth of her words. It was on that day that she first asked for help in finding a mama for “her” little boy, Xiao Mei Mei. What I didn’t know then was that it would continue for every day after.

And then we saw it for ourselves. We brought Jaclyn back to the orphanage to say goodbye to her baby. She pushed through the throng of excited children to claim his hand. She scrutinized his appearance and gently fixed his pant leg and fussed over his tiny shirt. He was, without a doubt, the most pitiful child I had ever seen. He locked his sad eyes on hers and desperately held onto her hand. And then when we had to go, tears streamed silently down his face as he said goodbye to the only mother he knew—a fouryear-old child. Jaclyn’s comforting rocking and loving caresses of this child, barely a head shorter than she, were excruciatingly painful to watch. Seeing it, I knew that this is what it feels like when your heart breaks.

And as delighted and joyful as Jaclyn was once she settled into her new life, she carried with her always a secret sadness. She treasured pictures of Xiao Mei Mei and studied them each morning and night with such a heavy heart. Living with her was like living with a very short mother who has had her baby wrenched from her arms. He was never far from her thoughts— they permeated both times of joy and times of sorrow in our house.

Jaclyn asked everyone she knew to help bring her baby here. She had no idea what a difficult request it was. Identified adoptions, where an adoption of one particular child is requested, are not permitted by the Chinese officials. In a manual paperwork system involving 200,000 children, such adoptions are nearly impossible to attempt. And that was only on the Chinese side of the equation—there were obstacles on the U.S. side too. And so, I didn’t even seriously consider it.

But when Jaclyn had exhausted herself, asking every person she knew for help and not seeing any promises being made in return, she looked to God. The request to bring her baby here was, predictably, the first prayer she uttered. I had always thought of faith as a lifelong process of revelation when in truth it is believing in something you cannot see or understand. I am not sure what she believed, but she did believe this: God would help her find Xiao Mei Mei a mama.

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zest for life and hopefulness were contagious. She And, over time, hearing her prayers, listening to her threw herself into everything like she truly expected pleas, changed me. good things to happen. And if she could believe, how I felt like an idiot for not understanding that he could anyone whose life she touched not respond? belonged here sooner. I had foolishly thought that After a time, she made me believe too.

Jaclyn’s devotion to him would fade, and she would And she had the most important thing of all: love. get on with her new life. But that was before I really That she survived all that she had with her heart intact knew her. is one of the true miracles I’ve witnessed in life. And if And then an amazing thing happened. I began to love really means that you cannot be happy when you write about her pleas—daily e-mails to a small circle know of the suffering of someone you love, it becomes of friends and family. Almost overnight the circle the greatest force of all. grew. I soon got letters from people all over the world When I see Jaclyn’s baby today I am always who were praying for Xiao Mei Mei and offering their reminded of the power that each of us has to change a support in any way possible to bring him here. And life, to make a real difference. The things that Jaclyn finally the story reached some who were in influential had, we all have. Because of Jaclyn I came to realize positions.

I still have to pinch myself when I say this— fifteen months later Jaclyn marched into her former orphanage and claimed her baby. He immediately took her hand, locked his eyes on her face and followed her out. His name is now Lee, and he is Jaclyn’s cousin—he was adopted by my sister.

When Jaclyn came to America she was four years old. She didn’t have a dime. She didn’t know anyone—she had no connections. She couldn’t read or write.

She couldn’t even speak English. She didn’t have any of the things that we associate with power.

But she also didn’t have fear. Because she didn’t know the difficulty of what she was asking, it was always a matter of At the orphanage in Gualing, Jaclyn (above, left) had when. And her faith in taken under her wing a two-year-old boy, whom she me, her trust that her called Xiao Mei Mei (pictured next to her). Jaclyn’s mama could do this one drive to find a new home for “her baby,” in spite of thing, made me forge huge obstacles, eventually resulted in his adoption by ahead without being her American aunt and uncle. The two children, now frozen by the fear that it cousins, still share a special bond. was too difficult, by the fear that I would fail her.

What she had was persistence or maybe just plain old stubbornness.

Someone once told me that every quality that I that the regrets I had about my life so far were not struggle with in this child was, at one point, integral to about all the bad things that had happened, but about her survival. And her strong will is one of them. She all the good things I could have made happen and made me realize how many times in the past I had just didn’t. given up when things seemed too tough.

And I was determined to change. I have devoted the Jaclyn had faith in God and in people and in the last few years to promoting international adoption— future. Here was a child who had been hurt and cold recruiting families, helping with paperwork and and hungry and neglected and institutionalized. A child speaking in various forums about our shared responsiwho would have every reason to think that the world is bility for the world’s children. And my partner in all of an ugly place. But she didn’t. Her radiant smile and this? Deb Mero Morse, ’80, one of my Professional Management classmates. Ironically, she was just about the only person I didn’t try to recruit as an adoptive parent. She already had a full life with two biological

children, an executive-level job and a busy husband starting his own business. She now has two daughters from China, as I do. When I tire, she picks up the pieces. People often ask us when they see us together if we are sisters. And if a sister is a person who supports you in all that you do, who shares your dreams, who consoles you on your darkest days—the answer then is “yes.”

And, Dr. Taffs, guess what? I’m now a writer too.

As I got to know Jaclyn, as the events of her past unfurled, the words flowed out of me. I could not hold them in; to not write her story would have been impossible.

And that’s how The Waiting Child came to be. I finally realized that Jaclyn had a powerful story to tell.

She needed me to write it for her, but it is not my PHOTOS COURTESY OF C. CHAMPNELLA story at all. It is a story of pain and suffering and almost unbearable grief.

But it’s also a story of love and hope and triumph. I hope others will be touched by it, inspired by her life and changed, in some small way, by hearing her truth.

I know, because of Jaclyn, my life will never be the same.

My Professional Management education did not lead me to a big stock portfolio. What I got instead was so much better—an education that sparked my interest in so many different areas, the first person who encouraged me to write, the priceless friendships that have sustained me, a soulmate in what is now my life’s work. When I count my money, I sometimes fall a little short. But when I count my blessings, I feel like the richest person on earth.

The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another by Cindy Champnella (St. Martin’s Press, March 2003) is now available through Amazon.com, Walmart.com and Barnes and Noble. The Waiting Child has been excerpted by Ladies Home Journal and featured on NBC’s “The John Walsh Show.” All of the proceeds from the book are designated for the Half the Sky Foundation (www.halfthesky.org) to help children in Chinese orphanages. Champnella lives with her husband and three daughters in Farmington Hills and may be reached via e-mail at: CChamp3273@aol.com.

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It’s elementary: Student volunteers make a difference at local school

By Erin Laidlaw, ’04 For Steve Gordon, “going to class” could mean one of two things. Most days, class is a lesson in supply-and-demand curves or the benefits of trade.

On Thursdays, however, Gordon—a junior economics/management major who is vice president of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and a Briton baseball player—departs the fraternity house, baseball field and college classroom for the world of crayons, lunch boxes and multiplication tables at the Albion Open School, where he is a mentor for thirdgrader Anthony Maddox.

“Going to see Anthony is something I always look forward to,” says Gordon, who is the current student coordinator of the mentor program. “It is worthwhile just to see him make progress and listen to his stories. I always walk away with a feeling of accomplishment.”

More than 60 Albion College students like Gordon spend an hour or more each week at the Open School, where they are paired with first- through fifth-grade students who can benefit from some one-on-one support.

“For my kids it is a really important relationship,” says Peg Mitchell Turner, ’69, kindergarten teacher at the Open School and co-founder of the mentor program. “It is a critical piece of the puzzle for these children to regularly see someone in college who is successful, values education and can be looked up to as a role model.”

One of the greatest challenges in elementary education today, according to Turner, is for teachers to provide individual attention to each child. Ben Feeney, ’02, an economics/ management major and former Briton basketball player who now works for the international marketing agency DraftWorldwide in Chicago, hoped to address that

challenge when he and Turner developed the volunteer mentoring program in 1999.

After a basketball game that year, Feeney was talking to Turner—who is married to men’s head coach Mike Turner, ’69—about how he had volunteered in a kindergarten classroom during his senior year of high school.

Peg Turner asked him if he would be interested in helping in her classroom.

“I thought to myself, ‘A chance to color, play games, read Dr. Seuss and have recess,’—I’m in,” says Feeney.

Most of the mentors in the program help students with writing—a skill that many elementary school students struggle to master, according to Turner.

“Gathering and processing information and working through the writing process are things the kids need to be able to do, but to strengthen these skills, one-on-one attention is necessary,” she says.

The objectives of the mentor program, however, are not exclusively academic. Some teachers have certain mentors work with students to further develop their social and behavioral skills.

“The mentors provide a very different relationship than school personnel,” says Laurel Weinman, ’01, who now works for the College as an admissions representative. “We aren’t teachers—we’re friends. Mrs. Turner is pretty deliberate about who is matched with whom because each mentor serves a different purpose and has a different role for each individual child.”

Turner said she has noticed marked and widespread change among the students at the Open School who spend time with a mentor.

Not only do the elementary students progress academically, but, she says, their behavior shows significant improvement. Furthermore,

as a result of the individual attention, the youngsters start to perceive themselves as people who matter to someone else.

“It is amazing how a little compassion and support can translate into an increase in selfesteem, better class participation, higher reading levels and a greater willingness to learn,” Feeney says. “When students feel more confident, they perform better. It was our hope to provide that confidence.”

Turner said students ask her every day when their mentors are returning, and that they are eager to spend time with their older friends. “We have a lot of fun together,” says Andre Reese, a fourth-grader at the Open School, of his mentors Laurel Weinman and Chad Brent. “They make my work easier.”

Today, volunteers from all areas of Albion’s campus, including about 19 staff members, visit the Open School each week.

Weinman, a former Briton basketball player who majored in English and speech communication, became involved last May when the Admissions Office volunteered to continue working with the children whose mentors had left Albion for the summer. Additionally, education professor Suellyn Henke took one of her classes to work with the elementary students every Thursday during fall semester.

Several of those students have continued as mentors with their same child this semester.

The time the volunteers spend with the students typically is devoted to completing

assignments or reviewing material that the students find difficult. Sophomore English major Teresa Liedtke usually goes over stories that her student, Brittany, is preparing for writing workshops. Gordon and Anthony tend to read together or practice Anthony’s penmanship. Then after about 30 minutes, when the child’s attention span is exhausted, the pair will set the work aside for something more enjoyable. Weinman and Andre like to challenge each other’s deductive abilities over a game of “Guess Who.” Liedtke frequently brings a snack to share with Brittany.

“I really love to work with Brittany,” says Liedtke. “Even though I’m busy with classes, homework and clubs, working with the mentor program is only a half-hour a week and the rewards when I see Brittany smile are endless—they make my heart warm and give me motivation to work harder to be a good teacher and to influence younger children in the right direction.”

Feeney continues to tout the rewards of the program.

“The one thing that makes this program work is when a child full of curiosity, energy and enthusiasm tugs on your hand, pulls you close, puts his or her arm around you and says, ‘I’ll see you next week,’” Feeney says.

“All of us who have served as mentors have had that or a similar experience, and I think we would all say that the amazing kids we get to work with are what spurs this program on.”

Well-traveled Student groups have had opportunities to travel around the globe recently, showing once again that an Albion education truly is “without borders.” In addition to the locations pictured below, students in the Organization for Latino/a Awareness (OLA) went to Las Flores, Honduras to carry out building repairs and visit with children OLA has helped support since 1999. Another student group, Wayfarer’s International Group for Service (WINGS), built a shelter and volunteered at the Tropical Science Center in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

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(Right) Seven members of English professor Steve Bailey’s First-Year Seminar, “Vietnam: Then and Now,” traveled throughout Vietnam during the semester break in January. In Hanoi (where they are pictured), they visited many historical sites, including the infamous “Hanoi Hilton,” where American prisoners of war were incarcerated from 1964 to 1973. They also visited Friendship Village, serving children with birth defects caused by the herbicides used during the war. A day hike on a path through ankle-deep mud, crossing footbridges 50 feet above the ground, took the students through several Hmong villages and gave them yet another view of Vietnam. “I had to throw my shoes away,” said one student. “But it was beautiful—the mountains and the fields and the people in their colorful clothes.”

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(Above) The Geology Department’s annual regional geology field course took 11 students and three professors to Hawaii over spring break. They studied the volcanic and coastal processes that have formed the landscape. Here, Billy Howland, Jen Swindlehurst and Lauren Nelson (pictured in foreground) examine day-old lava on the big island of Hawaii.

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New book explores ‘a nation seeking to define itself’

By Jake Weber In doing the research for his first book, Albion history professor Tom Chambers found himself in a Virginia bathhouse that was once a retreat for Thomas Jefferson. “The water’s naturally 98 degrees, and you float, because it’s so dense with minerals and natural carbonation. I was looking up, and I could see the sky through the open roof. It was really amazing.”

Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at NineteenthCentury Mineral Springs is the result of Chambers’ research, and was published this past fall by Smithsonian Institution Press. On the surface, says Chambers, the book is about the development of mineral springs resorts in Virginia and New York, from the Colonial period through the Civil War. Its importance, however, is in discussing “social and economic changes and how they affected society and culture through the development of a leisure/elite class,” he says.

Chambers focused on these mineral springs because of their significance as places where the rich and influential in both Northern and Southern society could meet one another. “The Southern and Northern elites were very much alike. Even up to the Civil War . . . the richest [Northern and Southern] families had more in common with each other than with their fellow [residents],” says Chambers.

To make his argument, Chambers’ book incorporates business records, paintings, letters, diaries, advertising and architectural plans to show the similarities. “I’m challenging the idea that the Civil War was inevitable, and that North and South were different, which upsets some of my fellow historians.”

Records from several New York and Virginia resorts during this period indicate that prominent families frequently traveled long distances and across regional boundaries to enjoy the spas.

Chambers writes, “[The spas] attracted people as diverse as the Manigaults from South Carolina and Van Rensselaers from New York; Southern author John Pendleton Kennedy and Northern critic Washington Irving; rival politicians Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren; influential women Mary Boykin Chesnut and Catherine Clinton; escaped slave Harriet Jacobs and Southern nationalist Edmund Ruffin; wealthy businessman and author Clement Clark Moore (best known for his poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”) and middle-class professor of optics Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson; industrialists like Cornelius Vanderbilt and social critic Henry James; and even, after the Civil War, former enemies Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.”

This clientele, he continues, traveled to the springs “for one basic reason: the springs were fashionable. Fashion created a culture where people came together from far and wide, South and North, and intermingled throughout the nineteenth century. In the process they created the basis of an American aristocracy and, more importantly, a common national leisure culture.”

The resorts were also at the cutting edge in terms of economic changes, according to Chambers. “Mineral springs resorts embraced the Market Revolution. . . . They balanced their shaky finances by commodifying water and selling it year-round, and were heavily involved in promoting transportation improvements. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Southern resorts proved far more

History professor Tom Chambers’ new book, Drinking the Waters, looks at the impact of 19thcentury mineral springs resorts on American social and economic development. Chambers says the resorts, which attracted some of the nation’s most prominent families, were the first to market water as a commodity and adopted other innovative business practices. innovative in their business practices—for instance, pioneering a version of the modern time-share cottage—and were more heavily involved in the market than presumptions of an agrarian, pre-modern South would have us believe.”

The cover of Drinking the Waters features one of Chambers’ most exciting research finds, an 1845 daguerreotype of the White Sulphur Springs hotel and grounds that he uncovered in the University of Virginia library. “It’s a wonderful piece of early photography, and the earliest image of any of these resorts anyone has ever found,” says Chambers.

Chambers notes another serendipitous highlight of his research, the opportunity to have lunch with legendary golfer Sam Snead at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia.

“The archivist there knew Sam loved to talk history,” says Chambers, who recalls Snead, then in his eighties, as being very sharp and good company. “He knew so much about the

Rushdie will keynote Isaac Student Research Symposium Famed author Salman Rushdie will offer the keynote address at this year’s Elkin R. Isaac Research Symposium Thursday, April 24.

Best known for his novels Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses, Rushdie has championed intellectual freedom in his books and in essays and opinion columns published in the popular media.

In addition to his eight novels, Rushdie has authored several books of short stories and essays, and his fiction and nonfiction have been included in numerous anthologies. His writings have been translated into more than 30 languages. Rushdie’s latest book, Step Across This Line, will be the subject of his Albion presentation. A collection of his journalistic writings from 1992-2002, the book centers on themes of religion, culture and politics in an age of rapid modernization.

Midnight’s Children (1981) received Britain’s top literary award and has since been adapted for the stage by London’s Royal Shakespeare Company. The stage version’s North American premiere occurred at the University of Michigan in March 2003.

The Satanic Verses (1988) won the Whitbread Award and unleashed an international furor. In response to the novel’s criticism of fundamentalist Islam, Iran’s

Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning Rushdie to death.

Rushdie was forced into hiding for nearly 10 years, but still continued to write. He published two well-received novels during this period, including The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995). The government of Iran lifted the fatwa in 1998.

The Elkin R. Isaac Research Symposium is a day-long celebration of undergraduate research at Albion. Students present the results of their research during four concurrent sessions planned throughout the day April 27.

A complete schedule for the symposium is available on the World Wide Web at: www.albion.edu/library/isaac. In addition, the College’s Honors Convocation is planned for that same morning at 10:40 a.m.

On Wednesday, April 23, psychologist Denise Cortis Park, ’73, will offer the Elkin R. Isaac Lecture based on her studies on aging and memory. Park is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a scholar in UIUC’s Beckman Biological Intelligence Group. Her primary research interest is in understanding the effects of age-related changes in memory function, on both the individual and the collective levels. She received a 2002 American Psychological Association

Distinguished Contribution Award to the Psychology of Aging and a 1997 Albion College Distinguished Alumni Award.

All of the Isaac Symposium events are open to the public.

Alumni and friends Rushdie of Albion College are welcome to attend. There is no admission charge for the Salman Rushdie lecture, but tickets are necessary. To reserve tickets, please call the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 517/ 629-0448.

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Greenbrier too. It was a lot of fun, although I never had a chance to ask for golf tips!”

Fresh on the heels of Drinking the Waters, Chambers is looking over proofs for his second book project, a Fodor’s travel guide to the original 13 colonies, to be published in June 2003. He wrote the chapter on New York and the book’s introduction, outlining the key tourist spots as well as giving a general overview of the regional history of that period. “I like [the Fodor’s project], because it allows me to reach a much bigger audience,” says Chambers.

Drinking the Waters is available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

News in brief ■ Albion’s Foundation for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (FURSCA) is featured in the March 2003 CUR Quarterly, a national publication of the Council on Undergraduate Research. The article, which focuses on FURSCA’s summer research fellowship program, is one of seven such articles in the journal on summer research at higher education institutions across the country. Each year, Albion awards summer fellowships to about 70 students who take part in a 10-week program of full-time individual research with a faculty mentor. In addition to projects in the natural sciences and mathematics, FURSCA has supported projects in psychology and other social sciences, the humanities, and the visual and performing arts.

■ Senior Lily Sacks is one of eight college students across the state to receive a 2003 Venture Grant from the Michigan Campus Compact. Sacks will use the $1,300 grant for further developing her Young Mothers Project, which will offer training on parenting skills for young mothers in the Greater Albion area. The College will partner with several community organizations to provide a positive learning environment for both mother and child. Michigan Campus Compact promotes service learning and civic engagement among students at the state’s colleges and universities.

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Men take league basketball championship with record 22 wins

By Bobby Lee Albion College is a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and NCAA Division III. Find Briton sports on the Web at www.albion.edu/sports.

Men’s basketball: Back in November, no one believed Albion would be a factor in the race for the league championship. After all, the Britons were trying to replace seven players (including a two-time first-team AllMIAA selection) who had graduated the previous spring. In a poll of the league coaches prior to the season, Albion was picked to finish fourth in the MIAA. Undeterred by what others were saying, the Britons used a team concept and an unyielding defense to earn a share of their first regular season league championship since 1981 and win a school-record 22 games. Hope College was league co-champion. A lucky coin toss determined Albion would be the top seed and host of the tournament’s semifinal and final rounds for the first time in the event’s history. Venerable Kresge Gymnasium was packed for Albion’s tournament contests, with 1,521 fans turning out for the title game against Hope College.

Albion clinched the title by defeating Olivet on the final day of the regular season.

“That was real emotional for me to watch,” said veteran head coach Mike Turner after his team cut down the nets in Kresge after the game. “Lots of people have been saying nice things, but it’s these guys who made it happen.

“We had three tremendous seniors,” Turner added. “The leadership they provided was the best part of the season.”

As the season ended, three players were selected for All-MIAA honors by the league coaches.

Senior guard Brett Quayle received the league’s Player of the Week award three times and led the trio of Britons named first-team all-league. He became the 17th player in Albion men’s basketball history to score over 1,000 points, reaching that milestone in the Britons’ MIAA Tournament semifinal victory over Adrian College. Quayle, who finished his career with 1,015 points, led Albion in scoring with an average of 16.8 points per game on 44 percent shooting from the field. Scoring in double figures in every league game except one, Quayle lit up for 22 points at Adrian College Feb. 5, and 23 points at Calvin College Feb. 8.

Joining Quayle on the all-league first team were sophomores Travis DePree and Michael Thomas.

DePree, a forward, was Albion’s top allaround player. For league games only, he ranked among the top three in MIAA statistics for assists (first, 4.67 per game), rebounds (second, 8.2 per game), blocked shots (second, 1.5 per game), steals (tie-second, 1.75 per game), and field goal percentage (third, .569, 41 of 72).

Thomas, a guard, finished the season second in the MIAA in assists (averaging 3.67 per game) and eighth in scoring (13.8 points

per contest) for league games only. For the season, he averaged 13.4 points per game on 42 percent shooting from the field (128 of 304). Thomas, who scored 20 or more points in two MIAA games, posted a double-double of 20 points and 10 assists at Olivet College Jan. 29, and just missed another with 18 points and nine rebounds at Hope College Feb. 15.

In addition to the three first-team selections, seniors Chris Hawkins and Pat Moultrie were listed as honorable mention players by the league coaches.

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Senior guard Brett Quayle enjoyed a breakout season that saw him reach the 1,000-point milestone for his career, receive the MIAA Player of the Week award three times and achieve All-MIAA first-team status.

Senior center Pat Moultrie takes his turn cutting down the net at Kresge Gym following the victory over Olivet that clinched a share of the MIAA regular season title.

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direction of second-year head coach Doreen Belkowski, Albion posted 15 victories, finished fourth in the league’s regular season standings, and advanced to the semifinal round of the league tournament for the second consecutive year. Belkowski has led the Britons to back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since the 1983-84 and 1984-85 campaigns.

The Britons’ success was tempered by the realization that things could have been even better had injuries not sidelined seniors Becky Campbell and Stacey Supanich.

With two of the top players on the shelf, most of the pressure fell on the shoulders of Sarah Caskey. The sophomore guard delivered, ranking among the league leaders in steals (tie-second, 2.21 per game), assists (tie-third, 4.0 per game), three-point field goal percentage (fourth, .370, 20 of 54), scoring (sixth, 14.4 points per contest), field goal percentage (ninth, .465, 66 of 142), free throw percentage (12th, .758, 50 of 66), blocked shots (tie-13th, 0.5 per game), and rebounding (tie-18th, 4.6 per game) for league games only. She scored 20 or more points in four league games, with a high of 25 in the Britons’ MIAA Tournament first-round victory over Calvin College.

Forward Angie Spain and guard Jocelyn Zappala, both juniors, were added to the list of honorable mention players by the league coaches.

diver who competed at the NCAA Division III Championships and a first-year swimmer who lowered the school record in two events were among Albion’s highlights this season.

Rachel Maloney advanced to the national meet after topping the field on the 1-meter board at the league championship meet in February. She posted an 11-dive total score of 389.85 at the league meet. Maloney also placed second on the 3-meter board at the league meet, finishing with an 11-dive score of 383.20.

John Fodell lowered the school marks in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events at the league meet. He finished third in the 100 final, touching the wall in 59.90 seconds. In the 200 Fodell posted a fourth-place time of 2:14.50. Britt Johnson previously held both records with times of 1:00.25 in the 100 and 2:14.80 in the 200.

Sophomore Will Green advanced to the league championship final in all three of his events. He finished third in the 1,650-yard freestyle (16:45.50), and sixth in the 200- and 500-yard freestyles. His time in the 200 was 1:46.50, and 4:51.85 in the 500.

Advancing to the championship finals in two events were senior Liz Groth and firstyear sprinter Lauren Sisson. Groth finished third in the 200-yard backstroke (2:15.31) and fourth in the 100-yard backstroke (1:03.23).

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Reaching championship final events for the Briton men were senior Matt Gruber with a fourth-place performance in the 200-yard backstroke (1:59.47), firstyear swimmer Kevin Capehart with a sixthplace finish in the 200yard butterfly (2:08.65), first-year swimmer A.J. Dancho with a fifth-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle (16:49.84), and first-year swimmer Andy Davidson with a fifthplace finish in the 400yard individual medley (4:21.41).

Senior diver Rachel Maloney won the MIAA individual championship on the 1-meter board and competed at the NCAA Division III championships.

In women’s championship final action, sophomore Kristin Brubaker placed third in the 1,650-yard freestyle (18:03.75), and firstyear student-athlete Jessie Longhurst placed fifth in the 400-yard individual medley (4:55.63).

The Briton men finished fourth in the final team standings, scoring 236.5 points. Albion’s women compiled 233 points, good for a fifthplace finish in the final team standings. Keith Havens is head coach for both squads.

In March, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America recognized both the Albion College men’s and women’s swimming teams with the Academic All-America team award for the fall semester. The Briton women posted a 3.492 grade-point average, the third-highest among NCAA Division III squads and the eighth-highest among all three NCAA divisions. With a 3.291 GPA, the Briton men turned in the fourth-highest average among Division III teams.

Find it on the Web! Did you know that you can find all of the following (and much more) on the Albion College sports Web site?

Sophomore guard Sarah Caskey achieved All-MIAA first-team status after leading Albion in scoring.

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Spring SportsNet broadcast schedule Latest news on spring sports 2002-03 season results for fall and winter sports 2003 football schedule

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Mary Johnson Sutton, ’35, won a Michigan Photo Contest and was recognized in Birmingham where she lives.

The deadline for class notes appearing in this issue of Io Triumphe was Jan. 31, 2003. Notes received after that date will appear in the next issue.

Mary Baldwin Gibson, ’40, has traveled extensively all over the world since her retirement in 1976. She lives in Wheaton, MD.

Class news 25 M. Irene Bauer Bennett, ’25, celebrated her 100th birthday on Nov. 26, 2002. Irene ran a five-and-dime store in Dexter for 32 years before retiring to Cedar Lake. She now lives at Cedar Knoll Care Center in Grass Lake.

30-39 Emmajane Miller Fitch, ’33, has traveled to all 50 states and Europe, Africa and South America. She lives in Berkley.

Ruth Hembdt Ogles, ’34, was nominated for the statewide volunteer of the year award in October 2002, as part of the Indiana Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. She lives in Ft. Wayne, IN. Frederick Schulte, ’35, practiced law in California until retiring at 70. He lives in Malibu, CA.

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Lucile Parrow Smith, ’40, has four grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Her son, Hayden Smith, ’70, is in his second year as the Albion College cross country and women’s track coach.

Lucile lives in San Diego, CA. Dean Smith, ’47, just co-published a book titled Portrait of a Village: Port Hope, Huron County, Michigan. The book is about the evolution of a small community from a wilderness settlement to a pleasant and tranquil village. He lives in Ann Arbor.

Hazel Hufton Porter, ’48, and her husband have settled into country life.

They are volunteers at Heath Elemen-

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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.

Lawrence Cox, ’59, has been installed as the president of the Academy of Dentistry International (ADI). This transnational organization is devoted to the advancement of dentistry throughout the world and to the elevation of dental standards by continuing education.

Along with the sponsorship of dental education and service projects, the ADI directly aids in the improvement of the dental and oral health and well-being of people worldwide. Larry graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry and served in the USAF Dental Corps for two years. Cox and his wife, Joan Gurdjian Cox, ’58, live in Adrian.

tary School and with land preservation organizations. They live in Heath, MA. James Parshall, ’49, has been volunteering for Compassion International. He is a member of the Ward Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He also has been keeping busy with his six grandchildren. He lives in Northville.

50-54 Jane Blanchard Brown, ’50, proudly accepted a Crystal Apple Award honoring her late father, Clarence Blanchard, ’22, last November.

Clarence was nominated for the award by his former student, Phil Gannon, the founding president of Lansing Community College. The Crystal Apple Award, presented by the Michigan State University College of Education, honors distinguished educators. Jane lives in Ann Arbor.

Mary Lou Gartung Dove, ’50, retired in 1999 and then was called back to teach for two more years. She lives in Macon, GA. James Benedict, ’51, received his M.F.A. in painting and drawing from California State University, Long Beach in August 2002. He is teaching watercolors, oils and other visual arts at three different art centers. He lives in San Pedro, CA. James, ’51, and Nancy McSween Dunne, ’51, celebrated their 50th anniversary by taking a two-week cruise.

Both are involved in many different activities in their area including afterschool tutoring and the Rotary Club.

They live in Holmes Beach, FL. Robert Radford, ’51, and his wife spend time each year at their summer cottage in England to visit her two sons and their families. During this time they take driving vacations to France, Germany and other countries. They live in Clearwater, FL.

Do you have questions about the best way to make a donation? Charitable annuities or trusts? Wills and bequests?

For quick, easy-to-understand answers, just go to: www.albion.edu/alumni/giving.asp and click on “Planned Giving.”

This comprehensive, new information source will be updated regularly. We will be happy to prepare a plan tailored to your special needs and circumstances. Just write advancement@albion.edu or call 517/629-0237.

Marilyn Smith King, ’52, has three children and two granddaughters. She worked in sales with Hickey’s-Walton Pierce for 26 years. She lives in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Phyllis Reitzel Ross, ’52, and her husband, Philip, ’50, just sold their business after 30 years. They both retired and moved to Sammamish, WA, where their children live.

Robert Bollman, ’53, and his wife, Joy, are now living in Hendersonville, NC, in the Smokey Mountains. Robert concluded 40 years of practicing law in Illinois.

Esther Catton Corley, ’53, and her husband enjoy traveling and are active in photography. They live in El Cajon, CA. Nancy Hainsey, ’53, has been helping her community as a remedial reading program volunteer since her retirement in 1996. She graduated from a “Community Builders Program” which enhances growth and progress in old communities.

Bernette Johnson Brandt, ’54, serves as a board member of the San Juan Symphony of Durango, CO, where she lives.

Ed and Betty Renfrew Campbell, both ’54, Chuck and Lynn Collins Kirkpatrick, ’54, and Mel and Ruth Pollock Ely, ’54, attended a minireunion at the Campbells’ cabin near Highland, NC, in October 2002.

55-59 Lehr Roe, ’55, was elected to his fifth term as Monroe County commissioner.

Lehr and his wife have traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe. They also enjoy spending time at their second home in the Upper Peninsula.

Morris Taber, ’55, and his wife, Ann Gehman Taber, ’53, are working on acquiring funds for a series of projects in Zimbabwe as part of an Individual United Methodist Volunteerism Mission.

JoAnne Handy Ash, ’56, Connie Blessing Burt, ’56, Barbara Guy Hanson, ’56, and Kay Keller Robertson, Lise Pearce Cook, ’74, Kris VanRanst Ayers, ’74, Ann ’56, met together on the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy.

Bartlebaugh Naubert, ’74, Mary Cobb Brooks, ’74, and Diane Willemin Stevens, ’74, gathered in South Haven in June 2002 to celebrate their 50th birthdays.

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Virginia Smith Hinkle, ’56, has been a Mary Kay beauty consultant for 21 years. She and her husband are active in a new church starting in The Villages, FL, where they are now living.

Phyllis Harrison Ross, ’56, is an emeritus professor of psychiatry and behavioral health sciences at New York Medical College. She lives in New York, NY. Richard Vitek, ’56, served as executive producer for a classical CD entitled Rare Verismo Arias in 2002. He and his wife, Marilyn Young Vitek, ’56, live in Brookfield, WI. Thomas Gutherie, ’57, has written a book titled Presage under the pen name of Addison Thomas. It was published in 2002 by XLIBRIS. He lives in Chattanooga, TN. Shirley Blunden Hull, ’57, has traveled to Hawaii, Las Vegas and Colorado. She traveled to Florida to see Don, ’56, and Kathe Jewell Dempster, ’57, and Marv and Pauline Buchner Diroff, ’57. She lives in Aurora, CO. Nancy Gordhamer Gibson, ’58, has retired to the foothills of the Ozarks in Arkansas where she is closer to her daughter’s family. She has made three trips to Europe in the past two years.

Ron Keller, ’58, is now serving as the executive director of the Battle Creek Council of Churches. He is also the pastor of the Leroy Congregational Church in East Leroy.

Frederick Lewis, ’58, has remarried and is living with his wife, Virginia, at Gun Lake. He has eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His first wife, Sue, passed away in 1998. He was executive vice president of the Michigan Association of Independent Insurance

Agents for 21 years until he retired in 1995.

Ronald Somers, ’58, is the founding president of the Board of Education for the Grand Traverse Academy in Traverse City.

David Wilson, ’58, was selected as a member of the Board of Regents for the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology for 2001-2003. David was president of the Michigan State Medical Society in 1995-96. He lives in Portage.

Nancy Cotanche Bachelor, ’59, is now retired from Allendale High School. She is doing some traveling and enjoys being at home on beautiful Walloon Lake in northern Michigan.

Jacqueline Miller Fletcher, ’59, helped her church celebrate 100 years. She and her husband enjoy traveling in the United States and listening to southern gospel music. They have seven grandchildren and live in Portage.

John Leppi, ’59, retired in January 2000 but continues to be an adjunct clinical professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Ft. Worth, TX. He traveled to Honolulu to teach at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine in fall 2002. He lives in Weatherford, TX. David Lindberg, ’59, retired from active ministry in the United Methodist Church. He now serves on the Medical Ethics Committee of the Monongehela Valley Hospital and the Board of Directors of The Wellness Alliance in Pittsburgh. David also has consulting roles in the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference, and is active in the Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce.

He lives in California, PA, and can be reached at: cheezydave@hotmail.com.

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Lois Neshkoff Berkowitz, ’70, has run in 181 marathons and ultramarathons (approx. 31 miles) since she took up longdistance running in 1978. She has completed marathons twice in all 50 states as well as Washington, DC, and once in each of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada. Her running achievements were featured in a Detroit News article Jan. 2. Lois says her most memorable races include the Nanisivik Marathon on Baffin Island, 450 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the Great Wall of China Marathon, the Catalina Island (CA) 50-Miler and the Yukon Trail Marathon. She has written three articles for Marathon & Beyond, a top magazine for Lois (right) at the Great Wall of China marathoners, and is newsletter Marathon. editor for the 50 States Marathon Club. (She estimates about 150 runners have competed in at least one marathon in each state.) Now in her third year at Edward C. Levy Co. as training and performance coordinator, Lois is also a volunteer for Junior Achievement, fifth grade in Detroit. She and her husband celebrated their 23rd anniversary in 2002 and live in Riverview.

Loren Smith, ’59, has operated a consulting business since 1974, and is currently serving on corporate and nonprofit boards. In his leisure time he enjoys horseback riding, skiing and singing in local opera productions. He has three children and four grandchildren and lives in El Prado, NM. Norma Woodman Wojack, ’59, was elected the state chaplain of the American Legion Auxiliary in June 2002. Norma is retired from a 30-year

Building the Albion legacy in your family If you are already part of a historic family involvement with Albion College, or if you’d like to start such a tradition in your family, here are two benefits that will be of interest: ■ Albion College will waive the $20 application fee for any legacy student who applies for admission.

■ A $1,500 Alumni Grant will be awarded to all incoming students whose family includes at least one Albion alumna/alumnus (sister, brother, father, mother, grandparents). This grant, offered without regard to financial need, is renewable for all four years.

To qualify, the student simply needs to indicate his or her family’s alumni status when submitting the application.

We welcome campus visits at any time. Please contact the Admissions Office at 800/858-6770, and we will make all arrangements. For more information online, visit: www.albion.edu/admissions/.

career as a community health professional. She lives in Coldwater.

60-64 Sara Uehling Hudson, ’61, and Bud Hudson, ’60, enjoy spending time with their four granddaughters. Sara retired in 1996 after 25 years as an elementary and preschool teacher. She helped establish a teacher exchange program with a school in Guatemala. The Hudsons live in Hartford, WI. David Morrow, ’61, is retired and often sails the Caribbean. He lives in Crystal Beach, FL. Charlotte Knuth Zuzak, ’61, continues to work as an organist at church and accompanist to voice students and faculty at Grove City College. She and her husband have traveled to the Czech Republic, Russia, the Baltic states and France. They live in Grove City, PA. Paul, ’63, and Sharon Farthing Haight, ’64, have traveled in China, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia and have bicycled in Europe. Paul is a past president of the American Osteopathic College of Occupational and Preventive Medicine.

They have nine grandchildren and live in Spring Lake.

Marty Stiff Wallace, ’63, visited Thailand in October as a guest observer of Operation Smile. The medical team performed 147 surgeries in one week.

These surgeries corrected cleft palates and hare lips in children. She lives in Madison, WI.

Margaret Krengel, ’64, has been involved in many volunteer activities, serving as the chair of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society membership committee and president of the Highlands Historical Society. She lives in Blue Bell, PA.

65-69 Charles Kuechenmeister, ’65, is the chair of the public law division at Gorsuch Kirgis, LLP in Denver, CO. His practice focuses on municipal government. He and his wife, Cheryl, who is a city manager, enjoy doing home improvements, gardening, traveling and being outdoors. They live in Denver and have three children.

Junpei Naito, ’65, and his wife, Mary Ann Hamper Naito, ’67, started a media duplicating business three years ago, after Jim worked in that field for 35 years. The family visited their son in Japan where he is teaching English.

They live in Rochester Hills.

James Brackett, ’66, is the owner of Definitive Recordings. He is a trustee for the Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Detroit and is a former dean of the Detroit Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He lives in Royal Oak. Geoffrey Morris, ’66, is a licensed real estate agent with Fenwick-Keats East in New York City. He lives in New York, NY. Deborah Peterhans Thompson, ’66, has three sons, two of whom are still in college. This past summer, Deborah and her husband traveled to Europe to see one of them. They live in Saginaw.

Mary Jean Arquette Bell, ’67, designed and organized the Veterans Day celebration at Summerfield Elementary School where she is the vocal music teacher. She lives in Temperance.

Mary Gass, ’68, is directing the Troy Community Chorus and an adult a cappella group called The Twelfth Night. She invites any former Albion College Choir members to join either group. She lives in Royal Oak. Robert Moore, ’68, serves as the president of United Action, which is a faith-based community organization that seeks social justice. He lives in Niantic, CT. Janet Cameron Barger, ’69, retired in December 2002 after 34 years at General Electric Aircraft Engines and lives in Cincinnati, OH. Mary Huemiller Bragg, ’69, retired in July 2002 after 20 years of teaching mathematics. Mary and her husband live in Rochester Hills.

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Charles Day, Jr., ’69, is the co-author of the book, The Making of the Super Bowl. The book is among McGrawHill’s top titles in 2002. Chuck is on the speaker’s circuit with a presentation based on his research and writing. He lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Michael Sundberg, ’69, retired in 2002.

He lives in Pittsford, NY.

70 William Conley, ’70, in 2002 developed a new correlation statistic for analysis of complex multivariate data. He received the 2000-01 Founder’s Award for excellence in scholarship at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. He lives in Green Bay, WI. Cathy Cooper Ferguson, ’70, was named Teacher of the Year for the Michigan Foreign Language Association. She lives in Bloomfield Hills.

71 Leonard Bergersen, ’71, is a captain in the Naval Reserves. He is also a dedicated alpine skier. He lives in Peace Dale, RI. Robert Flaherty, ’71, has practiced family medicine in Bozeman, MT, since 1978 and is the director of acute care at the Student Health Center at Montana State University. He also teaches evidence-based medicine, medical ethics and medical mythology in the WWAMI medical program. During his free time he arranges music and plays trumpet in several local bands. He and his wife, Carol Gibson Flaherty, ’70, enjoy bike touring and cross-country skiing. They live in Bozeman, MT, and his Web site is: www.montana.edu/wwwrjf/ home.htm.

Linda Arnold MacMillan, ’71, is the director of development at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, ME. Linda and her husband, Bruce, live in Phippsburg, ME, and welcome e-mail from classmates at: macmillan@bathmarine.com.

James Radtke, ’71, is the principal agent of the Jim Radtke Agency, All State Insurance, in Wauconda, IL. He is club treasurer with the Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow. He is active in the Chamber of Commerce and the Holy Cross Lutheran Church. He and his wife, Marilyn, live in Wauconda, IL. Lyle Schmidt, ’71, has traveled extensively for business. He has been to China, Russia, Africa, East Asia, and Central and South America to provide refurbished cellular site infrastructure equipment. He lives in Cincinnati, OH.

72 F. Hampton Bumgarner, ’72, received his Ph.D. in 2002. He is living in Sparta, NJ. Joseph Dittman, ’72, works for the State of California as a parole agent in Stockton, CA. He was recognized as Parole Agent of the Year. He is on the board of New Directions, a drug and alcohol treatment facility, and has been appointed to the San Joaquin County drug and alcohol advisory board. He has four children. He can be reached by email at: j0editt@yahoo.com.

Kathryn Wooley Dutton, ’72, is the managing partner and director of design for The Boston Group. She lives in Jamestown, RI.

73 Marsha Gentry-Pointer, ’73, is in her second year as the principal of The Leadership High School and lives in Denver, CO. Barbara King-Rohlman, ’73, was elected to the Library of Congress due to her work in equality within the insurance industry. She lives in Waterford.

Bruce Riser, ’73, is director of research at Baxter Healthcare and professor of physiology and biophysics at The Chicago Medical School. He continues to work on identifying causes and cures for kidney disease. He lives in Kenosha, WI, and would enjoy hearing from classmates via e-mail at: bruce_riser@baxter.com.

Pamela Campbell Smith, ’74, completed her 14th marathon in New York City. When not running she practices architecture in Massachusetts.

Pam sings oldies with a group called The Timetations. They perform regularly in the Boston area.

75 Mark Lindemood, ’75, has accepted a position at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, as vice chancellor for institutional advancement. He will be responsible for all fund-raising efforts for both the university and Health Sciences Center. Mark previously was vice president for university relations and development at Kent State University and executive director of the Kent State University Foundation. The program he led at Kent State won several national CASE Circle of Excellence awards.

Linda Carmitchel Yonke, ’75, has been working as a high school principal in Elmhurst, IL, since 1998. She received her Ed.D. in 2001 from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She would love to hear from fellow members of Third East, Second East and fellow resident assistants via e-mail at: lyonke@aol.com.

manufacturer of vinyl windows for residential applications. He lives in Novelty, OH.

78 David Arend, ’78, completed his master’s degree in public administration in 2002. He has been employed as a staff psychologist for the Michigan Department of Corrections since 1982. David lives in Lansing.

Pamela Georgeson, ’78, opened her own practice, Kenwood Allergy and Asthma Center, in Chesterfield Township. She lives in Bingham Farms.

Martha Flaherty Halub, ’78, has been a practicing physician assistant for 23 years. She and her family traveled to northern Thailand on a medical/dental mission in January 2003. She lives in Muskegon.

79 Eric Bacon, ’79, was named executive vice president of FNL Management Corp., fund manager for all Linsalata Capital Partner funds, in November 2002. Previously, he was president of Care-Free Windows, the nation’s leading

Stan Kryder, ’79, has joined AmSouth Bank in Florida as executive vice president and a member of the state’s senior management group. Stan previously was a senior vice president for First Union in Georgia where he was in charge of wholesale banking operations.

80 Robert Craft, ’80, and his wife chaired the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Jackson Walk to Cure Diabetes for the fourth year. In four years the walk has raised $1.2-million.

They live in Jackson.

Andy Harder, ’80, completed his 22nd year with BOC Group and has been appointed the firm’s director of business development. He is responsible for key customers in the food industry such as McDonald’s Global, Kraft, General Mills and ConAgra. Andy lives in Naperville, IL. (continued on p. 18)

76 Paul Shrode, ’76, is serving as the lieutenant governor for Division 18 of the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Kiwanis District. He stays active in a number of local service projects. He and his wife have traveled all over the country visiting friends and family. They live in Appleton, WI.

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74 Philip Keating, ’74, went to France in September to see his son’s piece of art displayed at the International Federation of Medallic Art. The work was created as a tribute to his brother, who died of cancer in 2001. Philip lives in Big Rapids.

Jean Gebhardt Radin, ’74, is halfway through her doctoral program in education at Colorado State University.

She is teaching a few classes at Colorado State and enjoying the fabulous lifestyle in Colorado of skiing, biking and hiking.

She lives in Ft. Collins, CO. Jill Anderson Richman, ’74, and her husband celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They live in Wheat Ridge, CO. Rickard Scofield, ’74, is the owner of May and Scofield, Inc., which provided much of the vehicle security system on the Bentley given to Queen Elizabeth to commemorate her golden jubilee. He lives in Howell.

77 Teg Baxter, ’77, accepted a new position at SBC Ameritech as a manager in ISP services. He and his family live in Holland, where they enjoy boating and water sports on Lake Michigan.

Thomas Chandler, ’77, has been named chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau’s Disability Rights Office. Previously he was a litigator in the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of General Counsel. He holds a J.D. degree from George Washington University. He lives in Fairfax Station, VA. Donald Cooksey, ’77, was appointed the executive associate dean for the agricultural experiment station at University of California, Riverside in July 2002. He lives in Riverside, CA. Jeffry Morgan, ’77, and his wife celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in November 2002. They live in Schoolcraft.

Locate them in the Alumni Directory!

Albion College is about to publish a 2003 Alumni Directory including updated addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

A donation of $19 or more to the College will qualify you to receive the directory, which will be mailed to your home this summer. It’s not too late! Make a gift to your alma mater today and help Albion reach its 50% alumni participation goal by June 30!

Office of Annual Giving 611 E. Porter St. Albion, MI 49224 Telephone: 517/629-0565 Give online at www.albion.edu

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Charles Day, Jr., ’69, is the co-author of the book, The Making of the Super Bowl. The book is among McGrawHill’s top titles in 2002. Chuck is on the speaker’s circuit with a presentation based on his research and writing. He lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Michael Sundberg, ’69, retired in 2002.

He lives in Pittsford, NY.

70 William Conley, ’70, in 2002 developed a new correlation statistic for analysis of complex multivariate data. He received the 2000-01 Founder’s Award for excellence in scholarship at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. He lives in Green Bay, WI. Cathy Cooper Ferguson, ’70, was named Teacher of the Year for the Michigan Foreign Language Association. She lives in Bloomfield Hills.

71 Leonard Bergersen, ’71, is a captain in the Naval Reserves. He is also a dedicated alpine skier. He lives in Peace Dale, RI. Robert Flaherty, ’71, has practiced family medicine in Bozeman, MT, since 1978 and is the director of acute care at the Student Health Center at Montana State University. He also teaches evidence-based medicine, medical ethics and medical mythology in the WWAMI medical program. During his free time he arranges music and plays trumpet in several local bands. He and his wife, Carol Gibson Flaherty, ’70, enjoy bike touring and cross-country skiing. They live in Bozeman, MT, and his Web site is: www.montana.edu/wwwrjf/ home.htm.

Linda Arnold MacMillan, ’71, is the director of development at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, ME. Linda and her husband, Bruce, live in Phippsburg, ME, and welcome e-mail from classmates at: macmillan@bathmarine.com.

James Radtke, ’71, is the principal agent of the Jim Radtke Agency, All State Insurance, in Wauconda, IL. He is club treasurer with the Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow. He is active in the Chamber of Commerce and the Holy Cross Lutheran Church. He and his wife, Marilyn, live in Wauconda, IL. Lyle Schmidt, ’71, has traveled extensively for business. He has been to China, Russia, Africa, East Asia, and Central and South America to provide refurbished cellular site infrastructure equipment. He lives in Cincinnati, OH.

72 F. Hampton Bumgarner, ’72, received his Ph.D. in 2002. He is living in Sparta, NJ. Joseph Dittman, ’72, works for the State of California as a parole agent in Stockton, CA. He was recognized as Parole Agent of the Year. He is on the board of New Directions, a drug and alcohol treatment facility, and has been appointed to the San Joaquin County drug and alcohol advisory board. He has four children. He can be reached by email at: j0editt@yahoo.com.

Kathryn Wooley Dutton, ’72, is the managing partner and director of design for The Boston Group. She lives in Jamestown, RI.

73 Marsha Gentry-Pointer, ’73, is in her second year as the principal of The Leadership High School and lives in Denver, CO. Barbara King-Rohlman, ’73, was elected to the Library of Congress due to her work in equality within the insurance industry. She lives in Waterford.

Bruce Riser, ’73, is director of research at Baxter Healthcare and professor of physiology and biophysics at The Chicago Medical School. He continues to work on identifying causes and cures for kidney disease. He lives in Kenosha, WI, and would enjoy hearing from classmates via e-mail at: bruce_riser@baxter.com.

Pamela Campbell Smith, ’74, completed her 14th marathon in New York City. When not running she practices architecture in Massachusetts.

Pam sings oldies with a group called The Timetations. They perform regularly in the Boston area.

75 Mark Lindemood, ’75, has accepted a position at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, as vice chancellor for institutional advancement. He will be responsible for all fund-raising efforts for both the university and Health Sciences Center. Mark previously was vice president for university relations and development at Kent State University and executive director of the Kent State University Foundation. The program he led at Kent State won several national CASE Circle of Excellence awards.

Linda Carmitchel Yonke, ’75, has been working as a high school principal in Elmhurst, IL, since 1998. She received her Ed.D. in 2001 from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She would love to hear from fellow members of Third East, Second East and fellow resident assistants via e-mail at: lyonke@aol.com.

manufacturer of vinyl windows for residential applications. He lives in Novelty, OH.

78 David Arend, ’78, completed his master’s degree in public administration in 2002. He has been employed as a staff psychologist for the Michigan Department of Corrections since 1982. David lives in Lansing.

Pamela Georgeson, ’78, opened her own practice, Kenwood Allergy and Asthma Center, in Chesterfield Township. She lives in Bingham Farms.

Martha Flaherty Halub, ’78, has been a practicing physician assistant for 23 years. She and her family traveled to northern Thailand on a medical/dental mission in January 2003. She lives in Muskegon.

79 Eric Bacon, ’79, was named executive vice president of FNL Management Corp., fund manager for all Linsalata Capital Partner funds, in November 2002. Previously, he was president of Care-Free Windows, the nation’s leading

Stan Kryder, ’79, has joined AmSouth Bank in Florida as executive vice president and a member of the state’s senior management group. Stan previously was a senior vice president for First Union in Georgia where he was in charge of wholesale banking operations.

80 Robert Craft, ’80, and his wife chaired the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Jackson Walk to Cure Diabetes for the fourth year. In four years the walk has raised $1.2-million.

They live in Jackson.

Andy Harder, ’80, completed his 22nd year with BOC Group and has been appointed the firm’s director of business development. He is responsible for key customers in the food industry such as McDonald’s Global, Kraft, General Mills and ConAgra. Andy lives in Naperville, IL. (continued on p. 18)

76 Paul Shrode, ’76, is serving as the lieutenant governor for Division 18 of the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Kiwanis District. He stays active in a number of local service projects. He and his wife have traveled all over the country visiting friends and family. They live in Appleton, WI.

Looking for lost friends?

74 Philip Keating, ’74, went to France in September to see his son’s piece of art displayed at the International Federation of Medallic Art. The work was created as a tribute to his brother, who died of cancer in 2001. Philip lives in Big Rapids.

Jean Gebhardt Radin, ’74, is halfway through her doctoral program in education at Colorado State University.

She is teaching a few classes at Colorado State and enjoying the fabulous lifestyle in Colorado of skiing, biking and hiking.

She lives in Ft. Collins, CO. Jill Anderson Richman, ’74, and her husband celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They live in Wheat Ridge, CO. Rickard Scofield, ’74, is the owner of May and Scofield, Inc., which provided much of the vehicle security system on the Bentley given to Queen Elizabeth to commemorate her golden jubilee. He lives in Howell.

77 Teg Baxter, ’77, accepted a new position at SBC Ameritech as a manager in ISP services. He and his family live in Holland, where they enjoy boating and water sports on Lake Michigan.

Thomas Chandler, ’77, has been named chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau’s Disability Rights Office. Previously he was a litigator in the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of General Counsel. He holds a J.D. degree from George Washington University. He lives in Fairfax Station, VA. Donald Cooksey, ’77, was appointed the executive associate dean for the agricultural experiment station at University of California, Riverside in July 2002. He lives in Riverside, CA. Jeffry Morgan, ’77, and his wife celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in November 2002. They live in Schoolcraft.

Locate them in the Alumni Directory!

Albion College is about to publish a 2003 Alumni Directory including updated addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

A donation of $19 or more to the College will qualify you to receive the directory, which will be mailed to your home this summer. It’s not too late! Make a gift to your alma mater today and help Albion reach its 50% alumni participation goal by June 30!

Office of Annual Giving 611 E. Porter St. Albion, MI 49224 Telephone: 517/629-0565 Give online at www.albion.edu

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Mark your calendar now!

Albion College Homecoming Weekend Oct. 10-12, 2003 Please join us for the Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony, Hall of Fame Awards Dinner, reunions— and, of course, some great Briton football. Watch www.albion.edu/alumni/events.asp for updates as the plans unfold.

Dorothy Byers Louks, ’80, was named the Outstanding German Teacher for 2002 by the Maryland/DC/Northern Virginia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG). She has taught German in three Maryland school districts since 1983 and is active in AATG. She lives in Eldersburg, MD. Barbara Kent Martin, ’80, was elected a principal of the law firm Kitch, Drutchas, Wagner, DeNardis and Valitutti. She specializes in medical malpractice defense and health care law.

She earned her law degree from the University of Detroit in 1990. Barbara and her husband, Bill, live in Bloomfield Hills and have one child.

Anthony Metzger, ’80, earned his sixsigma black belt in July 2002. He lives in Dearborn.

Thomas Routsong, ’80, is the owner of Routsong Funeral Home, Inc. He also operates a real estate and insurance agency. In 2002 he received the Eagle Award from the National Funeral Directors Association, and is a board member of the National Association of Approved Morticians. He lives in Kettering, OH.

81 Camille Cleveland, ’81, and her family traveled to Germany, Spain and Africa with Ellen Athens, ’75, and her family.

She is the vice president and general counsel of Entertainment Publications, Inc. in Troy. She lives in Bloomfield Township.

82 Karen Kresge Hazelton, ’82, is still a stay-at-home mom and keeps very busy with her four children. Her family is very involved in their church. She lives in Bloomfield Hills.

David Smith, ’82, received his M.B.A. from Boston University. He is the chief financial officer for the Boston Marriott Hotel Copley Place in Boston, MA. He and his family have lived in the Boston area for over 20 years.

83 Stuart Boekeloo, ’83, hosted a 20th anniversary party for Albion Delta Tau Delta members and their spouses. He lives in St. Joseph.

Andrew Krafsur, ’83, was voted Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 by the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. He lives in El Paso, TX.

84 Beth Lincoln Boyea, ’84, is a full-time home schooling mother and lives in Durham, NC. Joan Essenmacher, ’84, traveled with the WTA Tour from 1990 to 1999 as a physical therapist/athletic trainer. She served as Steffi Graf’s personal physical therapist from 1995 until Graf’s retirement in 1999. Joan completed her doctorate at the University of Southern California in 2001 and is now director of the Physiotherapy Association in Indianapolis. She still works part-time for the USTA. Steven Hokenson, ’84, has moved with his wife from the Twin Cities to the Doral area of Miami, FL. They welcome visits from friends.

Denise Cheney Nammack, ’84, completed two additional years of course work at Albion and received her elementary education certificate in December 2002. She lives in Mason.

Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak, ’84, completed her Ph.D. in sociology at Ohio State University. Her dissertation examined

race and gender relations in postapartheid South Africa. She is now a faculty member at University of Memphis. She lives in Memphis, TN, and can be reached by e-mail at: cpelak@memphis.edu.

85 Ralph Allen, ’85, opened a second location for Modern Cookware in the Rivertown Crossing Mall in Grandville.

He also purchased a company that manufactures golf cleaning equipment and the online business golfx.com, a retail golf equipment site. He lives in Grand Rapids.

Richard Peavler, ’85, has been promoted to finance manager of TRAM, Inc. Richard and his wife, Christine Richards Peavler, ’86, live in Richland.

Gina Pritchard, ’85, is a salesperson at Albion Motors. Gina previously owned and operated two restaurants in Albion, where she lives.

86 Lisa Siefker Bailey, ’86, has published an essay in Edward Albee: A Casebook, a collection of essays on the work of playwright Edward Albee. She holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. She lives in Seymour, IN. Diane Peck, ’86, is employed at the Birmingham First United Methodist Church where she coordinates youth activities and a contemporary worship service. She lives in Royal Oak.

88 Matthew Menzi, ’88, is the director of tennis at Old Town Club in WinstonSalem, NC. He has held this position for 14 years. He and his wife had a daughter on Nov. 1, 2002. They would love to hear from old friends at: 336/712-4241 or e-mail at: Mmenzi@valco.com.

89 Regina Doxtader, ’89, is the corporate controller for Botsford Health Care Continuum in Farmington Hills. She previously served as senior manager for the Detroit audit practice for Deloitte and Touche. She lives in Detroit.

Forrest Hooper, ’89, is working on his B.S. in nursing at San Diego State University. He would enjoy having friends come visit him in sunny San Diego or reach him by e-mail at: glonster@tns.net.

Cindy Cilimburg Medema, ’89, and her family have moved to El Portal, CA (near Yosemite National Park) where her husband, Tom, is a park ranger. She is teaching math and language arts in

grades 4-6. They have two children, and Cindy can be reached by e-mail at: fourmedemas@yahoo.com.

90 Cheryl Irvine Wacnik, ’90, is enjoying being a stay-at-home mom with three sons. Her youngest son was born on Aug. 24, 2002. The Wacniks live in Libertyville, IL. She would love to hear from Albion friends, and can be reached by e-mail at: clidjw@aol.com.

program in musicology. She and her husband, David, have a four-month-old daughter and live in Savoy, IL.

94 Matthew Altman, ’94, has accepted a position as assistant professor of philosophy at Monmouth College, where his wife, Cindy, also works. They live in Monmouth, IL.

95 91 Steve Pribyl, ’91, and Karen Diener, ’92, were married and went to Alaska for two weeks for their honeymoon. They live in Glenview, IL. Robert Shurmur, ’91, is a rheumatologist at Oaklawn Hospital in Marshall and has joined an internal medicine practice in Battle Creek. He is a graduate of Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He lives in Battle Creek.

Bryan Sladek, ’91, is employed as an attorney for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, Small Business/Self-Employed Division, in Detroit. He had a case reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which earned him a Cube Award in recognition of his success in the case. He lives in Harrison Township.

92 James Scott, ’92, is a partner at the firm of Warner Norcross & Judd in Grand Rapids. James received a J.D. degree from Notre Dame, and focuses his practice in computer and intellectual property law. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Betsy, and their two children.

93 Michelle Jones Browne, ’93, is the manager of Shaw’s Crab House in Chicago. Her husband, Bill, is working on his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She would love to hear from classmates and can be reached by e-mail at: msmjones3@hotmail.com.

Bruk Weymouth, ’93, finished his commitment to the U.S. Air Force. He is now working as an associate for the Family Dental Center in Great Falls, MT. He and his wife, Penny Eveningred Weymouth, ’94, can be reached at 108 Woodland Estates Rd., Great Falls, MT 59404.

Diane Yun, ’93, is a research programmer for the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign. She is enrolled in a Ph.D.

Gerry Ciszewski, ’95, joined the investment advisors division of Fifth Third Bank Northern Michigan as a portfolio manager. Gerry previously worked as a senior analyst for a regional health care group in Chicago. He lives in East Jordan.

Sheila Cummings, ’95, has joined the law firm Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss as an associate. She is a board member of the Detroit chapter of the ACLU. She lives in Dearborn.

Joyce Stuckey Doan, ’95, is doing a postdoctoral fellowship in Denver, CO, after earning a Ph.D. in medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin. She would love to hear from friends by e-mail at: Coloradoans@aol.com.

Jennie Elbers, ’95, is working on an M.S. in nursing at the University of Minnesota and plans to become a family nurse practitioner. She is a National Health Service Corps scholar. Jennie lives in Rochester, MN. Carol Gaffke, ’95, is a member of Detroit Skating Club’s synchronized skating team, Team Elan Adult. The team won the 2000 national championship. She lives in Rochester.

Brian Gambino, ’95, received his health/fitness instructor certification through the American College of Sports Medicine and certification from the National Strength and Conditioning Specialist Association. He accepted a position as personal training director for Bally Total Fitness in August 2002. He lives in Troy.

Aubrey Glover, ’95, is ranked third in her class at Duquesne University School of Law, where she will graduate in June.

She lives in Pittsburgh, PA. Kevin Hallock, ’95, completed his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Michigan. He is now a post-doctoral researcher at Boston University. He lives in Boston, and would enjoy hearing from friends via e-mail at: hallockk@bu.edu.

Michelle Lifford Khoury, ’95, completed her residency in family practice at Summa Health System in Akron, OH. She and her husband, Frederick Khoury, ’93, and their son live in Hudson, OH.

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Karen Renner, ’95, received her M.Ed. from Pepperdine University and her California teaching credential last summer. She is in her first year of teaching in Lawndale, CA, at Mark Twain Elementary School. Karen has traveled to the South Pacific, Central and South America and Europe. She lives in Hermosa Beach, CA, and can be reached at: kmrenner@yahoo.com.

Jon Ritterbush, ’95, received the Dr. Joseph A. Jackson Library Faculty Development Award in November 2002.

He holds an M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois. He lives in Ringgold, GA. Roberto Ventura, ’95, began teaching studio and graphic art classes at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro in 1998 after earning his master’s in architecture at Miami University. He has provided pro bono design work for a local community in need and completed his first solo project, a loft where he now lives. He can be contacted by e-mail at: rlventur@uncg.edu.

96 James Larson, ’96, has joined Warner Norcross & Judd law offices in Grand Rapids as an associate. He earned his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 2002.

Abe Leaver, ’96, is the athletic director at Yale High School. He received his master’s degree from Saginaw Valley State University. Abe lives in St. Clair with his wife, Sheryl, and two children.

97 Kendra Brown, ’97, is earning her professional credentials in counseling.

She holds a master’s in counseling from Oakland University. Kendra lives in Farmington Hills.

98 Heather Bullen, ’98, earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from Michigan State University in 2002. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Iowa State University. She lives in Ames, IA. Katie Drake, ’98, graduated from medical school in June 2002.

Matthew Johnson, ’98, joined Warner Norcross & Judd law offices in Grand Rapids as an associate. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 2002.

Lori Baughman Palmer, ’98, graduated in 2001 from Harvard Law School and is currently clerking for Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Maura Corrigan.

(See also Baby Britons announcement.)

Regina Perez, ’98, moved to New York City from Battle Creek. She says that

there are many opportunities to teach in New York City.

Loretta Rozdoske, ’98, earned her M.A. in clinical psychology at the University of Detroit Mercy. She lives in Romulus.

Wendy VanScyoc, ’98, has completed her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Iowa. She is employed at Astra Zeneca, a pharmaceutical company in England; she has a two-year post-doctoral research position.

99 Davia Cox, ’99, is a program assistant at the University of Michigan. She lives in Ann Arbor and is working on a master’s in public administration.

Nathan Schaiberger, ’99, is a manager at Walgreen’s in Mt. Pleasant where he lives.

Ann Schultz, ’99, completed the Avon Breast Cancer walk in June 2002. She raised over $2,000 for research and mammograms for underserved populations. She was promoted to acquisitions associate at the University of Michigan Press in July 2002. She lives in Belleville.

Deania Towns, ’99, worked for Habitat for Humanity in Alabama and Florida.

She is working on a master’s degree.

Holli Mezeske Whitney, ’99, is in her third year of teaching seventh- and eighth-grade students at a private school in Honolulu. Holli is also a full-time graduate student at Chaminade University, studying school counseling and psychology. Her husband, Nicholas Whitney, ’00, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Hawaii in the zoology program. He also maintains the shark ponds at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. They live in Honolulu, HI.

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Amanda Curtis, ’01, is the youngest college head women’s basketball coach in Ohio. She is coaching at Bluffton College and is an instructor of health, physical education, and recreation. She received her M.S. degree in sports science and coaching from the University of Akron where she was a teaching assistant. She lives in Bluffton.

Nicholas Kaleba, ’01, finished up a successful campaign for Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan, who is the first woman attorney general in the state’s history. He worked as deputy press secretary and director of advance. He lives in Naperville, IL. Kimberly St. Andre, ’01, is pursuing her master’s degree in survey methodology at the University of Maryland. She is a mathematical statistician for the Internal Revenue Service. She lives in Greenbelt, MD.

Allison Edberg, ’02, is attending Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She lives in Iron Mountain.

Erin Harrelson, ’02, is volunteering with Americorps VISTA at the Navajo Indian Reservation in Mexican Hat, UT. She is working on a kindergarten-level oral language program. She lives in Monument Valley, UT. Nathan Piwowarski, ’02, served as the outreach director for the Michelle McManus for State Senate campaign in Michigan’s 35th District and now serves as a legislative aide to Senator McManus. He lives in McBain.

Robin Theryoung, ’02, is a member of the U.S. goalball team. Her team won a gold medal at the Goalball World Championships in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, in September 2002. She lives in Clarkston.

Weddings Lisa Secrist Skiles, ’79, to Scott Lukens on Aug. 3, 2002. The couple lives in Pierceton, IN. Carolyn Hough, ’84, to Kenneth Saville on Sept. 14, 2002 in Grand Ledge.

Alumni in attendance included Mary Beth Hartmann Halushka, ’84.

Carolyn owns and operates About the Home, a home furnishings store in Grand Ledge. Ken is a biology professor at Albion College. The couple lives in Lansing.

Becky Bixby, ’89, to Erik Zeek on June 1, 2002 in Ann Arbor. Albion alumni in attendance included Michelle Young, ’89, Michele Brammeier Wenz, ’89, Sue Willis, ’89, Karla Ramsey Hammond, ’89, Sue Parker Burnell, ’89, Kristen Hildenbrand Barrett, ’89, Elaine Hawkins Young, ’55, and Melissa Hall Verb, ’96. Becky and Erik are both working on post-doctoral

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Home address _________________________________________________________________________________ City _______________________________________________________ State ___________ ZIP ______________ Home telephone _______________________________ Home e-mail address _______________________________ Business address _______________________________________________________________________________

00 Emily Aten, ’00, has successfully completed her International Teaching Certificate in Madrid, Spain, and now has a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate. She lives in Granada, Spain, and can be reached by e-mail at: mle_rose26@yahoo.com.

Monique Burey-Ballard, ’00, has returned to the Chicago area to pursue her music career. She is the founder and president of Simply Music! Entertainment Co., a not-for-profit creative musicians and friends coalition. The company does event marketing and production and also has an educational division for developing artists. She is pursuing her master’s degree in arts, entertainment and media management.

Kelly Garbacz Stoy, ’00, accepted a position at the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan. She is the community events manager and oversees all external and school fundraising events for eastern Michigan. She lives in Plymouth.

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Karen Renner, ’95, received her M.Ed. from Pepperdine University and her California teaching credential last summer. She is in her first year of teaching in Lawndale, CA, at Mark Twain Elementary School. Karen has traveled to the South Pacific, Central and South America and Europe. She lives in Hermosa Beach, CA, and can be reached at: kmrenner@yahoo.com.

Jon Ritterbush, ’95, received the Dr. Joseph A. Jackson Library Faculty Development Award in November 2002.

He holds an M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois. He lives in Ringgold, GA. Roberto Ventura, ’95, began teaching studio and graphic art classes at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro in 1998 after earning his master’s in architecture at Miami University. He has provided pro bono design work for a local community in need and completed his first solo project, a loft where he now lives. He can be contacted by e-mail at: rlventur@uncg.edu.

96 James Larson, ’96, has joined Warner Norcross & Judd law offices in Grand Rapids as an associate. He earned his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 2002.

Abe Leaver, ’96, is the athletic director at Yale High School. He received his master’s degree from Saginaw Valley State University. Abe lives in St. Clair with his wife, Sheryl, and two children.

97 Kendra Brown, ’97, is earning her professional credentials in counseling.

She holds a master’s in counseling from Oakland University. Kendra lives in Farmington Hills.

98 Heather Bullen, ’98, earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from Michigan State University in 2002. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Iowa State University. She lives in Ames, IA. Katie Drake, ’98, graduated from medical school in June 2002.

Matthew Johnson, ’98, joined Warner Norcross & Judd law offices in Grand Rapids as an associate. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 2002.

Lori Baughman Palmer, ’98, graduated in 2001 from Harvard Law School and is currently clerking for Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Maura Corrigan.

(See also Baby Britons announcement.)

Regina Perez, ’98, moved to New York City from Battle Creek. She says that

there are many opportunities to teach in New York City.

Loretta Rozdoske, ’98, earned her M.A. in clinical psychology at the University of Detroit Mercy. She lives in Romulus.

Wendy VanScyoc, ’98, has completed her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Iowa. She is employed at Astra Zeneca, a pharmaceutical company in England; she has a two-year post-doctoral research position.

99 Davia Cox, ’99, is a program assistant at the University of Michigan. She lives in Ann Arbor and is working on a master’s in public administration.

Nathan Schaiberger, ’99, is a manager at Walgreen’s in Mt. Pleasant where he lives.

Ann Schultz, ’99, completed the Avon Breast Cancer walk in June 2002. She raised over $2,000 for research and mammograms for underserved populations. She was promoted to acquisitions associate at the University of Michigan Press in July 2002. She lives in Belleville.

Deania Towns, ’99, worked for Habitat for Humanity in Alabama and Florida.

She is working on a master’s degree.

Holli Mezeske Whitney, ’99, is in her third year of teaching seventh- and eighth-grade students at a private school in Honolulu. Holli is also a full-time graduate student at Chaminade University, studying school counseling and psychology. Her husband, Nicholas Whitney, ’00, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Hawaii in the zoology program. He also maintains the shark ponds at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. They live in Honolulu, HI.

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Amanda Curtis, ’01, is the youngest college head women’s basketball coach in Ohio. She is coaching at Bluffton College and is an instructor of health, physical education, and recreation. She received her M.S. degree in sports science and coaching from the University of Akron where she was a teaching assistant. She lives in Bluffton.

Nicholas Kaleba, ’01, finished up a successful campaign for Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan, who is the first woman attorney general in the state’s history. He worked as deputy press secretary and director of advance. He lives in Naperville, IL. Kimberly St. Andre, ’01, is pursuing her master’s degree in survey methodology at the University of Maryland. She is a mathematical statistician for the Internal Revenue Service. She lives in Greenbelt, MD.

Allison Edberg, ’02, is attending Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She lives in Iron Mountain.

Erin Harrelson, ’02, is volunteering with Americorps VISTA at the Navajo Indian Reservation in Mexican Hat, UT. She is working on a kindergarten-level oral language program. She lives in Monument Valley, UT. Nathan Piwowarski, ’02, served as the outreach director for the Michelle McManus for State Senate campaign in Michigan’s 35th District and now serves as a legislative aide to Senator McManus. He lives in McBain.

Robin Theryoung, ’02, is a member of the U.S. goalball team. Her team won a gold medal at the Goalball World Championships in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, in September 2002. She lives in Clarkston.

Weddings Lisa Secrist Skiles, ’79, to Scott Lukens on Aug. 3, 2002. The couple lives in Pierceton, IN. Carolyn Hough, ’84, to Kenneth Saville on Sept. 14, 2002 in Grand Ledge.

Alumni in attendance included Mary Beth Hartmann Halushka, ’84.

Carolyn owns and operates About the Home, a home furnishings store in Grand Ledge. Ken is a biology professor at Albion College. The couple lives in Lansing.

Becky Bixby, ’89, to Erik Zeek on June 1, 2002 in Ann Arbor. Albion alumni in attendance included Michelle Young, ’89, Michele Brammeier Wenz, ’89, Sue Willis, ’89, Karla Ramsey Hammond, ’89, Sue Parker Burnell, ’89, Kristen Hildenbrand Barrett, ’89, Elaine Hawkins Young, ’55, and Melissa Hall Verb, ’96. Becky and Erik are both working on post-doctoral

News for Albionotes Please use the space below to send your news about promotions, honors, appointments, marriages, births, travels and hobbies. When reporting information on deaths, please provide date, location, and Albion-connected survivors and their class years. Use of this form will help guarantee inclusion of your news in an upcoming issue of Io Triumphe.

We try to process all class note information promptly, but please note that the Albionotes deadline falls several weeks prior to publication. If your information arrives after the deadline for a given issue, it will be held and included in the succeeding issue.

Name __________________________________________________________ Class year _____________________ (Please print name)

Home address _________________________________________________________________________________ City _______________________________________________________ State ___________ ZIP ______________ Home telephone _______________________________ Home e-mail address _______________________________ Business address _______________________________________________________________________________

00 Emily Aten, ’00, has successfully completed her International Teaching Certificate in Madrid, Spain, and now has a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate. She lives in Granada, Spain, and can be reached by e-mail at: mle_rose26@yahoo.com.

Monique Burey-Ballard, ’00, has returned to the Chicago area to pursue her music career. She is the founder and president of Simply Music! Entertainment Co., a not-for-profit creative musicians and friends coalition. The company does event marketing and production and also has an educational division for developing artists. She is pursuing her master’s degree in arts, entertainment and media management.

Kelly Garbacz Stoy, ’00, accepted a position at the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan. She is the community events manager and oversees all external and school fundraising events for eastern Michigan. She lives in Plymouth.

City ________________________________________________________ State ___________ ZIP _____________ Business telephone ____________________________ Business e-mail address _____________________________ (Or simply attach a copy of your business card.)

Check here if this is a new address. Also, if you have a winter address that is different from your permanent address, indicate it in the space below along with the months when you reside at that address.

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research, Becky at the University of Georgia and Erik at Georgia Tech.

Becky can be reached by e-mail at: bbixby@sparrow.ecology.uga.edu. The couple lives in Lawrenceville, GA. Mary Beth Hance, ’90, to Richard Fenton on July 6, 2002 in Richmond, VA. Alumni in attendance included Jennifer Marcelli Higgins, ’90. Mary Beth is the director of the policy coordination and planning group at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Richard is deputy director of the Family and Children’s Health Programs Group, also at CMS. The couple lives in Ellicott City, MD, and can be reached by e-mail at: mbhance@comcast.net.

Jennifer Marcelli, ’90, to James Higgins Jr., Esq., on Aug. 31, 2002 in Farmington, CT. Jennifer is a project coordinator, and Jim is a lawyer in private practice, specializing in elder law. Alumni in attendance included Jessica Hauser, ’90, Karyn Chipman Rockwell, ’90, Susan Moore Sine, ’90, Pamela Walton Moorhead, ’90, Bill Wischman, ’91, and Dana Janell Wischman, ’91. The couple resides in Tolland, CT. Noelle Giguere, ’92, to John Badertscher on Aug. 17, 2002 in Bay View. Noelle is a national museum grants officer for the executive branch of the federal government through the Institute of Museum and Library

Services. John is a government relations associate for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. The couple lives in the Washington, DC, area and can be reached by e-mail at: ngiguere99@yahoo.com.

Krista Wojcik, ’92, to Jeffrey Stephens on Dec. 7, 2002 in Columbia, SC. Alumni in attendance included Megan Johnstone Smith, ’92. Krista is an occupational therapist working for Health South Rehabilitation Hospital in Florence, SC. The couple lives in Florence, SC. Kristine Palmquist, ’97, to T. Charles Yun, ’94, on Sept. 27, 2003 in Ann Arbor. Alumni in the wedding party

included maids of honor Amanda Van Aucken Szot, ’96, and Merrill Hodnefield, ’96. Other alumni in attendance included Bryan Frink, ’94, John Barden, ’94, Polly Reeder, ’94, Scott Vandenbelt, ’96, Luke Mohlenhoff, ’95, Jason Ruiter, ’93, Louise Meilstrup Ruiter, ’93, John Gilmore, ’94, Mara Tynan, ’96, Stacey Ott Jameson, ’91, and David Jameson, ’98. Charles is a program manager with Internet2, and Kristine is an information coordinator for Small Times Media. The couple lives in Ann Arbor.

Michelle Frontz, ’95, to Jason Streit on Sept. 21, 2002. Alumni in attendance were Christine Kaufmann Schoendorff, ’96, and Shaun McMillan, ’95. Michelle is

employed full-time as a physician assistant at Aurora Sinai Emergency Department, an inner city hospital in downtown Milwaukee. She also accepted a position as an instructor for the physician assistant program at her alma mater graduate school Finch University of Health Services/The Chicago Medical School. Jason is a systems manager for Fiduciary Real Estate in Milwaukee. The couple resides in Shorewood, WI. Jennifer Klinger, ’95, to Seth Roby on Sept. 28, 2002 in Nashville, IN. Alumni in attendance included Courtney Nichols, ’95, Michelle Kraemer, ’96, Melissa Bittner Schwartz, ’95, Sunaina Gill Vargo, ’96, Tracy Keppel

Wedding Album See accompanying notes for details.

Michelle Frontz, ’95, to Jason Streit on Sept. 21, 2002. (Left to right) Christine Kaufmann Schoendorff, ’96, Michelle Frontz Streit, ’95, and Shaun McMillan, ’95.

Kelly Kurtz, ’02, to Anthony Briggman on May 18, 2002. (Front row, left to right) Kristen Dolney Arkell, ’03, and Cheryl Kane, ’02. (Second row) Julie Vanden Bos, ’02, Mira Wood, ’02, Liz Duvall, ’03, Analisa Velasquez, ’03, Kerry Douglass, ’01, Melissa Timm, ’03, Natalie Nelson, ’03, Megan Nelson Wallenfang, ’01. (Third row) Rick Learman, ’76, Kevin Kropf, Becky Bianchi Anderson, ’02, Abby Brown, ’02, Zack Kleinsasser, ’01, Rebecca Reichle, ’03, Danny Van Cleve, ’02, Anthony Briggman, Kelly Kurtz Briggman, ’02.

Jennifer Klinger, ’95, to Seth Roby on Sept. 28, 2002. (Left to right) Courtney Nichols, ’95, Michelle Kraemer, ’96, Michael Schwartz, Melissa Bittner Schwartz, ’95, Jennifer Shore, Seth Roby, Jennifer Klinger Roby, ’95, Sunaina Gill Vargo, ’96, Tracy Keppel Leonard, ’95, Matt Leonard, Joshua Monson, Addie Killackey Monson, ’94, Brian Vargo, and Brenda Guinan, ’95.

Jennifer Marcelli, ’90 to James Higgins Jr., Esq. on Aug. 31, 2002. (Left to right) Jessica Hauser, ’90, Pamela Walton Moorhead, ’90, Jennifer Marcelli Higgins, ’90, Susan Moore Sine, ’90, and Karyn Rockwell Chipman, ’90.

Courtney Hutto, ’99, to Kurt Hessenbruch on Aug. 24, 2002. (Left to right) Scott Salla, ’99, Susan Cunningham O’Connell, ’98, Brandon O’Connell, ’99, Karen Paradise, ’99, Mary Dee Rankin Dryer, ’68, Ellie Whitlock Schumacher, ’99, Lynnette Lubinski, ’99, Scott Schumacher, ’99, Courtney Hutto Hessenbruch, ’99, Stacey Portenga, ’99, Steven Lee Harney, ’97, Brad Scheck, ’99, and Piper Metz, ’99.

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Leonard, ’95, Addie Killackey Monson, ’94, and Brenda Guinan, ’95.

Seth is a nuclear pharmacist working for Syncor International, and Jennifer is the center director at Sylvan Learning Center. They also own their own marketing business called Roby International. The couple lives in Denver, CO, and would love to hear from their Albion pals. Their address is 8121 S. Norfolk Way, Englewood, CO 80012, and they can be contacted by email at: robys@bww.com.

Beth Preece, ’95, to Michael Foster on Sept. 21, 2002 in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Alumni in attendance included Julie Kilburn, ’95, as maid of honor. The couple resides in San Diego, CA. Meaghan Powers, ’98, to Richard Bryant on Dec. 1, 2002. Meaghan is working full-time for Floyd County (GA) Department of Family and Children Services as a foster care caseworker and a part-time youth minister at West Rome United Methodist Church. The couple resides in Rome, GA, and would love to hear from old friends by e-mail at: meaghanpowers@hotmail.com.

Janine Jacob, ’98, to Scott Wall on June 15, 2002 in Leonard. Janine and Scott both received their law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, NC. Janine is an associate at Daniel, Vaughn, Medley, & Smitherman, P.C. in Danville, VA, while Scott is an associate at Young, Haskins, Mann, Gregory & Smith, P.C. in Martinsville, VA. Courtney Hutto, ’99, to Kurt Hessenbruch on Aug. 24, 2002 in South Lyon. Alumni in attendance included Scott Salla, ’99, Susan Cunningham O’Connell, ’98, Brandon O’Connell, ’99, Karen Paradise, ’99, Mary Dee Rankin Dryer, ’68, Ellie Whitlock Schumacher, ’99, Lynnette Lubinski, ’99, Scott Schumacher, ’99, Stacey Portenga, ’99, Steven Lee Harney, ’97, Brad Scheck, ’99, and Piper Metz, ’99.

The couple lives in Royal Oak. Katherine Koerner, ’99, to Steven Isler on July 20, 2002. Alumni in attendance included Nathan Rahn, ’00, Kristen Katterjohn Rahn, ’99, Rychee Parmann, ’99, Sara Peck Dye, ’00, and Kelly Garland, ’99. The couple lives in Prospect, OH. Kacy Davidson, ’00, to Tobias Lockhart on Aug. 3, 2002. Kacy accepted a position with the state of Alaska as a licensing specialist for childcare facilities within southeast Alaska. Tobias is the youth director at Chapel by the Lake Presbyterian Church, which overlooks Auke Lake and the Mendenhall Glacier, nestled in the mountains. The couple lives in Juneau, AK. Sarah Burpee, ’01, to Jon Brown on Jan. 3, 2003 in Grand Rapids. Albion alumni in attendance included My Lien, ’01, Jillian Weiss, ’01, Christopher Sellers, ’01, and Jeremy Kay, ’02.

Sarah and Jon are medical students at Des Moines University and reside in Des Moines, IA.

Kathryn Gauer, ’01, to Ben Lode on July 13, 2002 in Varhaug, Norway, where the couple lives.

Kimberly Curtis, ’02, to Ali Moore on June 16, 2001 in Oberlin, OH. Alumni in attendance included groomsmen Zacarrii Hamby, ’00, Ryan Strother, ’00, David Clark, ’00, and Jason Trippett, ’00. Other alumni in attendance included Quiana McCalip, ’01, Shawna Hudson, ’01, Sheila Johnson, ’01, Jacquenette Moody, ’01, Herman Blacksher, ’01, Tiffany McCall, ’01, Jessica Thomas, ’03, Salina Baldwin, ’03, Melissa Siebers, ’01, and Jocelin Herron, ’00. The couple lives in Columbus, OH. Megan Gilliland, ’02, to Daniel Nagy on June 29, 2002. Albion alumni in attendance included Emily Radner, ’04, Emily Arend, ’02, Miriam Asadi, ’02, Karen Reed, ’02, Sheila Santa, ’02, Colleen Thomas, ’02, Sarah Schemanske, ’04, Angela Edberg, ’04, and Lindsay Sander, ’04. The couple lives in Lansing.

Kelly Kurtz, ’02, to Anthony Briggman on May 18, 2002 in Gurnee, IL. Alumni in the wedding party included bridesmaids Megan Nelson Wallenfang, ’01, Kerry Douglass, ’01, and Abby Brown, ’02. Kelly works for TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. Anthony is a youth pastor at the Village Church of Gurnee.

The couple lives in Round Lake Beach, IL.

Baby Britons Peter was adopted on Dec. 17, 2002 by Nancy and Earl “Butch” Cornett, ’67.

The Cornetts live in Ypsilanti.

Stephanie Celeste, born on Feb. 10, 2001, was adopted on March 11, 2002

by Steve and Janice Hook Foley, ’76.

Stephanie joins big sister Olivia, 5, also from China. The Foleys live in Tallahassee, FL. Carinna Hope on June 28, 2002 to David and Cynthia Herriman Baird, ’81. The family lives in Battle Creek.

Saba Kenyon and Emery Jane on July 21, 2002 to Andrew Lawrence and Jane Kenyon, ’83. They live in Chicago, IL. Stephen David on Nov. 20, 2002 to Kathleen and David Lubera, ’83. The family lives in Grosse Pointe.

Samuel Antonio was adopted on Feb. 28, 2002 by Joseph and Melany Pirkle Raubolt, ’83. He joins big brother Daniel, 6. The Raubolt family lives in Ann Arbor.

Abigail Mary on Jan 7, 2003 to Jim, ’87, and Debbie O’Meara Curtis, ’87. She joins big sister Emily and big brothers Bennett and Nathan. The family lives in Naperville, IL.

Matthew Delaney on Sept. 6, 2002 to John Klinger and Kelly DelaneyKlinger, ’87. Matthew joins big brother Andrew, 7. They live in Holt.

Matthew Walter on Oct. 24, 2002 to Sue and Kyle Kurtz, ’87. He joins sisters Sarah, 6, and Emma, 3. Proud family members include uncle Kevin Kurtz, ’87. The family lives in Petoskey.

Reed Ernest on June 15, 2002 to David, ’88, and Stacey Ott Jameson, ’91. Dave owns his own business, and Stacey has been president of McDurmon Distributing, Inc., since 1999. The Jamesons live in Grand Blanc.

Luke William on Sept. 11, 2002 to Scott and Brenda Harmon Zeevaart, ’88.

The family lives in Hershey, PA.

business manager for an advertising firm, also in Ann Arbor. They live in Chelsea.

Sullivan Patrick on Oct. 29, 2002 to Erin and Henry Phillips, ’91. He joins big brother Lincoln, 6, and sisters Kendall, 4, Callahan, 3, and Delaney, 1. The family lives in Ridgefield, CT. Benjamin Brian and Christopher Daniel on Nov. 30, 2002 and adopted on Dec. 18, 2002 by Jeff and Missy Robinson Ewald, both ’92. Jeff serves as finance director at St. John Health, and Missy works in corporate communications for St. John Health. The Ewalds live in Ferndale.

Ayla on Feb. 12, 2002 to Menahem and Linnea Allum Deitcher, ’90. She joins big sister Lily, 2. They live in Chicago, IL.

Ilya Celeste on Oct. 2, 2002 to David and Elizabeth Ludington Holden, both ’92. She joins big brother Leo and sister Evie. Proud grandparents include Martin, ’64, and Kathy Fry Ludington, ’77, and Judy Gill Tetmeyer, ’66. Dave is director of prepress at IPC Communications Services, Inc. Liz is a stay-at-home mom. The Holdens have returned to Michigan after nine years in St. Louis, MO, and now live in St. Joseph.

Alexander William on Oct. 15, 2002 to Tim and Jennifer Gedris Kolk, ’90. He joins big brother Sam, 3. The family lives in East Grand Rapids.

Benjamin Paul on Sept. 8, 2002 to Paul and Rebecca McBrayer Scarcello, both ’92. He joins big brother Joe, 2. The family lives in Huntington Woods.

S. Andrew Forrest on Nov. 4, 2002 to Gordon, ’90, and Laura Swan MacMorran, ’92. Grandparents are Jock, ’64, and Robin Diller MacMorran, ’64. The MacMorrans live in Redondo Beach, CA.

Joseph Michael on May 11, 2002 to Fred, ’93, and Michelle Lifford Khoury, ’95. The family lives in Hudson, OH.

Robert and Maria on June 6, 2002 to Ulla and Brian Crouse, ’89. Brian is a project executive with IBM. The family lives in Baltimore, MD.

Larson Charles on Sept. 15, 2002 to Rick and Jamie Hulse Nebel, ’90. He joins big sister Isabelle, 5. Jamie is the general manager of Pictured Rocks Golf & Country Club during the summer months and assists with her family’s business in the winter. Rick is the vice president of People’s State Bank in Munising where the family lives.

Kaitlin Clay on Oct. 13, 2002 to Kurt, ’90, and Kathleen Goike Poindexter, ’91. Kaitlin joins big brother Kollin, 5.

They live in Shelby Township.

Grace Elizabeth on May 7, 2002 to Brian, ’90, and Janet Hedges Vande Berg, ’90. She joins big brother Andrew, 5, and sister Caroline, 2. The family lives in Durham, NC. Evelyn Rose on Aug. 15, 2002 to Gregg and Debra Fischer Garver, ’91. Evelyn was welcomed home by big sister Libby, 3. The Garvers reside in Harbor Springs.

Robert Maxwell on Sept. 10, 2002 to Tyler and Kelly Kellerman McCracken, ’91. Tyler is a commercial credit officer with CIT, and Kelly is a psychotherapist treating children and adolescents at Carolinas Medical Center.

The family lives in Charlotte, NC. Kyle Ferguson on July 17, 2002 to Michael Mitchell and Stacey FergusonMitchell, ’91. He joins big brother Ryan, 3. Michael is a wetlands specialist for an environmental consulting firm in Ann Arbor. Stacey works part-time as a

Brody Christopher on Sept. 21, 2002 to Gary, ’93, and Jennifer Rancilio Parker, ’95. Proud relatives include aunt Susan Rancilio Beck, ’87. Gary received his master’s in social work from Wayne State University in May 2002 and is working as a school social worker for the Lake Orion Public School District. He is also the freshman boys’ basketball coach. Jennifer runs an ecommerce and mail-order business specializing in ceramics imported from Italy. The Parkers live in Clawson.

Tess Virginia on Aug. 30, 2002 to Brendan and Elise Ertle Quealy, ’93.

She joins big brother Brendan, Jr., 2.

Elise is a stay-at-home mom. They live in Downers Grove, IL. Christopher Thomas on June 18, 2002 to Tom and Emily Butcher Scupholm, both ’93. He joins big brother David, 3.

The family lives in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Nicholas Stephen on Nov. 25, 2002 to Tim, ’94, and Amy Dempsey Karns, ’95. They can be reached at 628 Birkdale Ct., Coopersville, MI 49404, or by email at: takarns@chartermi.net.

Dana Rose on Nov. 25, 2002 to Julie Kramer and Gregory Parker, ’94. Dana joins big sister Gwen, 2. Julie is a senior product manager, and Gregory is a technical writer/graphic designer at PanVera LLC, a biotech company that supplies products and services to the pharmaceutical industry. The family resides in Madison, WI, and can be reached by e-mail at: gparker@chorus.net.

Eric Edward on Nov. 20, 2002 to Jill and Paul Rhude, ’94. Eric joins big sister Sarah Louise, 1. Paul can be reached by e-mail at: prhude@itape.com, and the family lives in Fort Gratiot.

Lucas Jefferson, born on Nov. 24, 2001, was adopted by Nikole and Eric Thewes, ’94, on July 9, 2002. He was welcomed by big sister Ava. They live in Farmington Hills.

Alexander John on Nov. 7, 2002 to Kyle Klein, ’97, and Sarah VandenBoutKlein, ’95. The family lives in Commerce.

Nicholas Stephen on Dec. 6, 2002 to Heather and Stephen Martin, ’96. He joins big sister Abigail Elizabeth, 2.

Steve is a corporate buyer for Brass Craft Manufacturing in Novi, and Heather is a stay-at-home mom. The family lives in Temperance and can be reached by e-mail at smartin2@surfbest.net.

Elijah Joshua on June 24, 2002 to Carrie and Joshua Merchant, ’96. Proud uncles include Justin Merchant, ’00, and Jared Merchant, ’02. The Merchants live in Ithaca and can be reached by e-mail at: mercha32@msu.edu.

Andrew Harold on Nov. 30, 2002 to George Carlyle, ’98, and Kelly Stevens-Carlyle, ’97. Albion alumni in the family include great-grandparents Etheleen Stone Stevens, ’24, and Harold Stevens, ’23, grandfather Harold Stevens, ’52, aunt Kori Stevens, ’95, great uncle John Carlyle, ’60, cousin Amy Carlyle Williams, ’90, aunt Catherine Carlyle Gibson, ’94, and uncle Joseph Gibson, ’93. The family lives in Kalamazoo.

Aiden Nicole on Aug. 22, 2001 to Erin and Lori Baughman Palmer, ’98.

Proud grandparents include Timothy Baughman, ’71. The Palmers live in Bloomfield, and Lori can be reached by e-mail at: ljpalmer@post.harvard.edu.

Kyler Michael on Nov. 19, 2002 to Tonya and Kevin Rod, ’98. He joins big brother Logan. They live in Jackson.

Mayrene Susan on Jan. 11, 2003 to Rob and Sarah Schmidt Fuller, ’99. May joins sister Sophie, 1. The family lives in Spring Lake.

Tyler Jacob on March 13, 2002 to Patricia Moyer, ’99. Proud family members include uncle Nick Moyer, ’03, and godmother Melissa Mann, ’99.

They live in Addison.

Theron John on Nov. 18, 2002 to Theron Stinar, ’02, and Katie Brimmer, ’02. Theron is a student at Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. The family lives in Downers Grove, IL.

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Leonard, ’95, Addie Killackey Monson, ’94, and Brenda Guinan, ’95.

Seth is a nuclear pharmacist working for Syncor International, and Jennifer is the center director at Sylvan Learning Center. They also own their own marketing business called Roby International. The couple lives in Denver, CO, and would love to hear from their Albion pals. Their address is 8121 S. Norfolk Way, Englewood, CO 80012, and they can be contacted by email at: robys@bww.com.

Beth Preece, ’95, to Michael Foster on Sept. 21, 2002 in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Alumni in attendance included Julie Kilburn, ’95, as maid of honor. The couple resides in San Diego, CA. Meaghan Powers, ’98, to Richard Bryant on Dec. 1, 2002. Meaghan is working full-time for Floyd County (GA) Department of Family and Children Services as a foster care caseworker and a part-time youth minister at West Rome United Methodist Church. The couple resides in Rome, GA, and would love to hear from old friends by e-mail at: meaghanpowers@hotmail.com.

Janine Jacob, ’98, to Scott Wall on June 15, 2002 in Leonard. Janine and Scott both received their law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, NC. Janine is an associate at Daniel, Vaughn, Medley, & Smitherman, P.C. in Danville, VA, while Scott is an associate at Young, Haskins, Mann, Gregory & Smith, P.C. in Martinsville, VA. Courtney Hutto, ’99, to Kurt Hessenbruch on Aug. 24, 2002 in South Lyon. Alumni in attendance included Scott Salla, ’99, Susan Cunningham O’Connell, ’98, Brandon O’Connell, ’99, Karen Paradise, ’99, Mary Dee Rankin Dryer, ’68, Ellie Whitlock Schumacher, ’99, Lynnette Lubinski, ’99, Scott Schumacher, ’99, Stacey Portenga, ’99, Steven Lee Harney, ’97, Brad Scheck, ’99, and Piper Metz, ’99.

The couple lives in Royal Oak. Katherine Koerner, ’99, to Steven Isler on July 20, 2002. Alumni in attendance included Nathan Rahn, ’00, Kristen Katterjohn Rahn, ’99, Rychee Parmann, ’99, Sara Peck Dye, ’00, and Kelly Garland, ’99. The couple lives in Prospect, OH. Kacy Davidson, ’00, to Tobias Lockhart on Aug. 3, 2002. Kacy accepted a position with the state of Alaska as a licensing specialist for childcare facilities within southeast Alaska. Tobias is the youth director at Chapel by the Lake Presbyterian Church, which overlooks Auke Lake and the Mendenhall Glacier, nestled in the mountains. The couple lives in Juneau, AK. Sarah Burpee, ’01, to Jon Brown on Jan. 3, 2003 in Grand Rapids. Albion alumni in attendance included My Lien, ’01, Jillian Weiss, ’01, Christopher Sellers, ’01, and Jeremy Kay, ’02.

Sarah and Jon are medical students at Des Moines University and reside in Des Moines, IA.

Kathryn Gauer, ’01, to Ben Lode on July 13, 2002 in Varhaug, Norway, where the couple lives.

Kimberly Curtis, ’02, to Ali Moore on June 16, 2001 in Oberlin, OH. Alumni in attendance included groomsmen Zacarrii Hamby, ’00, Ryan Strother, ’00, David Clark, ’00, and Jason Trippett, ’00. Other alumni in attendance included Quiana McCalip, ’01, Shawna Hudson, ’01, Sheila Johnson, ’01, Jacquenette Moody, ’01, Herman Blacksher, ’01, Tiffany McCall, ’01, Jessica Thomas, ’03, Salina Baldwin, ’03, Melissa Siebers, ’01, and Jocelin Herron, ’00. The couple lives in Columbus, OH. Megan Gilliland, ’02, to Daniel Nagy on June 29, 2002. Albion alumni in attendance included Emily Radner, ’04, Emily Arend, ’02, Miriam Asadi, ’02, Karen Reed, ’02, Sheila Santa, ’02, Colleen Thomas, ’02, Sarah Schemanske, ’04, Angela Edberg, ’04, and Lindsay Sander, ’04. The couple lives in Lansing.

Kelly Kurtz, ’02, to Anthony Briggman on May 18, 2002 in Gurnee, IL. Alumni in the wedding party included bridesmaids Megan Nelson Wallenfang, ’01, Kerry Douglass, ’01, and Abby Brown, ’02. Kelly works for TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. Anthony is a youth pastor at the Village Church of Gurnee.

The couple lives in Round Lake Beach, IL.

Baby Britons Peter was adopted on Dec. 17, 2002 by Nancy and Earl “Butch” Cornett, ’67.

The Cornetts live in Ypsilanti.

Stephanie Celeste, born on Feb. 10, 2001, was adopted on March 11, 2002

by Steve and Janice Hook Foley, ’76.

Stephanie joins big sister Olivia, 5, also from China. The Foleys live in Tallahassee, FL. Carinna Hope on June 28, 2002 to David and Cynthia Herriman Baird, ’81. The family lives in Battle Creek.

Saba Kenyon and Emery Jane on July 21, 2002 to Andrew Lawrence and Jane Kenyon, ’83. They live in Chicago, IL. Stephen David on Nov. 20, 2002 to Kathleen and David Lubera, ’83. The family lives in Grosse Pointe.

Samuel Antonio was adopted on Feb. 28, 2002 by Joseph and Melany Pirkle Raubolt, ’83. He joins big brother Daniel, 6. The Raubolt family lives in Ann Arbor.

Abigail Mary on Jan 7, 2003 to Jim, ’87, and Debbie O’Meara Curtis, ’87. She joins big sister Emily and big brothers Bennett and Nathan. The family lives in Naperville, IL.

Matthew Delaney on Sept. 6, 2002 to John Klinger and Kelly DelaneyKlinger, ’87. Matthew joins big brother Andrew, 7. They live in Holt.

Matthew Walter on Oct. 24, 2002 to Sue and Kyle Kurtz, ’87. He joins sisters Sarah, 6, and Emma, 3. Proud family members include uncle Kevin Kurtz, ’87. The family lives in Petoskey.

Reed Ernest on June 15, 2002 to David, ’88, and Stacey Ott Jameson, ’91. Dave owns his own business, and Stacey has been president of McDurmon Distributing, Inc., since 1999. The Jamesons live in Grand Blanc.

Luke William on Sept. 11, 2002 to Scott and Brenda Harmon Zeevaart, ’88.

The family lives in Hershey, PA.

business manager for an advertising firm, also in Ann Arbor. They live in Chelsea.

Sullivan Patrick on Oct. 29, 2002 to Erin and Henry Phillips, ’91. He joins big brother Lincoln, 6, and sisters Kendall, 4, Callahan, 3, and Delaney, 1. The family lives in Ridgefield, CT. Benjamin Brian and Christopher Daniel on Nov. 30, 2002 and adopted on Dec. 18, 2002 by Jeff and Missy Robinson Ewald, both ’92. Jeff serves as finance director at St. John Health, and Missy works in corporate communications for St. John Health. The Ewalds live in Ferndale.

Ayla on Feb. 12, 2002 to Menahem and Linnea Allum Deitcher, ’90. She joins big sister Lily, 2. They live in Chicago, IL.

Ilya Celeste on Oct. 2, 2002 to David and Elizabeth Ludington Holden, both ’92. She joins big brother Leo and sister Evie. Proud grandparents include Martin, ’64, and Kathy Fry Ludington, ’77, and Judy Gill Tetmeyer, ’66. Dave is director of prepress at IPC Communications Services, Inc. Liz is a stay-at-home mom. The Holdens have returned to Michigan after nine years in St. Louis, MO, and now live in St. Joseph.

Alexander William on Oct. 15, 2002 to Tim and Jennifer Gedris Kolk, ’90. He joins big brother Sam, 3. The family lives in East Grand Rapids.

Benjamin Paul on Sept. 8, 2002 to Paul and Rebecca McBrayer Scarcello, both ’92. He joins big brother Joe, 2. The family lives in Huntington Woods.

S. Andrew Forrest on Nov. 4, 2002 to Gordon, ’90, and Laura Swan MacMorran, ’92. Grandparents are Jock, ’64, and Robin Diller MacMorran, ’64. The MacMorrans live in Redondo Beach, CA.

Joseph Michael on May 11, 2002 to Fred, ’93, and Michelle Lifford Khoury, ’95. The family lives in Hudson, OH.

Robert and Maria on June 6, 2002 to Ulla and Brian Crouse, ’89. Brian is a project executive with IBM. The family lives in Baltimore, MD.

Larson Charles on Sept. 15, 2002 to Rick and Jamie Hulse Nebel, ’90. He joins big sister Isabelle, 5. Jamie is the general manager of Pictured Rocks Golf & Country Club during the summer months and assists with her family’s business in the winter. Rick is the vice president of People’s State Bank in Munising where the family lives.

Kaitlin Clay on Oct. 13, 2002 to Kurt, ’90, and Kathleen Goike Poindexter, ’91. Kaitlin joins big brother Kollin, 5.

They live in Shelby Township.

Grace Elizabeth on May 7, 2002 to Brian, ’90, and Janet Hedges Vande Berg, ’90. She joins big brother Andrew, 5, and sister Caroline, 2. The family lives in Durham, NC. Evelyn Rose on Aug. 15, 2002 to Gregg and Debra Fischer Garver, ’91. Evelyn was welcomed home by big sister Libby, 3. The Garvers reside in Harbor Springs.

Robert Maxwell on Sept. 10, 2002 to Tyler and Kelly Kellerman McCracken, ’91. Tyler is a commercial credit officer with CIT, and Kelly is a psychotherapist treating children and adolescents at Carolinas Medical Center.

The family lives in Charlotte, NC. Kyle Ferguson on July 17, 2002 to Michael Mitchell and Stacey FergusonMitchell, ’91. He joins big brother Ryan, 3. Michael is a wetlands specialist for an environmental consulting firm in Ann Arbor. Stacey works part-time as a

Brody Christopher on Sept. 21, 2002 to Gary, ’93, and Jennifer Rancilio Parker, ’95. Proud relatives include aunt Susan Rancilio Beck, ’87. Gary received his master’s in social work from Wayne State University in May 2002 and is working as a school social worker for the Lake Orion Public School District. He is also the freshman boys’ basketball coach. Jennifer runs an ecommerce and mail-order business specializing in ceramics imported from Italy. The Parkers live in Clawson.

Tess Virginia on Aug. 30, 2002 to Brendan and Elise Ertle Quealy, ’93.

She joins big brother Brendan, Jr., 2.

Elise is a stay-at-home mom. They live in Downers Grove, IL. Christopher Thomas on June 18, 2002 to Tom and Emily Butcher Scupholm, both ’93. He joins big brother David, 3.

The family lives in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Nicholas Stephen on Nov. 25, 2002 to Tim, ’94, and Amy Dempsey Karns, ’95. They can be reached at 628 Birkdale Ct., Coopersville, MI 49404, or by email at: takarns@chartermi.net.

Dana Rose on Nov. 25, 2002 to Julie Kramer and Gregory Parker, ’94. Dana joins big sister Gwen, 2. Julie is a senior product manager, and Gregory is a technical writer/graphic designer at PanVera LLC, a biotech company that supplies products and services to the pharmaceutical industry. The family resides in Madison, WI, and can be reached by e-mail at: gparker@chorus.net.

Eric Edward on Nov. 20, 2002 to Jill and Paul Rhude, ’94. Eric joins big sister Sarah Louise, 1. Paul can be reached by e-mail at: prhude@itape.com, and the family lives in Fort Gratiot.

Lucas Jefferson, born on Nov. 24, 2001, was adopted by Nikole and Eric Thewes, ’94, on July 9, 2002. He was welcomed by big sister Ava. They live in Farmington Hills.

Alexander John on Nov. 7, 2002 to Kyle Klein, ’97, and Sarah VandenBoutKlein, ’95. The family lives in Commerce.

Nicholas Stephen on Dec. 6, 2002 to Heather and Stephen Martin, ’96. He joins big sister Abigail Elizabeth, 2.

Steve is a corporate buyer for Brass Craft Manufacturing in Novi, and Heather is a stay-at-home mom. The family lives in Temperance and can be reached by e-mail at smartin2@surfbest.net.

Elijah Joshua on June 24, 2002 to Carrie and Joshua Merchant, ’96. Proud uncles include Justin Merchant, ’00, and Jared Merchant, ’02. The Merchants live in Ithaca and can be reached by e-mail at: mercha32@msu.edu.

Andrew Harold on Nov. 30, 2002 to George Carlyle, ’98, and Kelly Stevens-Carlyle, ’97. Albion alumni in the family include great-grandparents Etheleen Stone Stevens, ’24, and Harold Stevens, ’23, grandfather Harold Stevens, ’52, aunt Kori Stevens, ’95, great uncle John Carlyle, ’60, cousin Amy Carlyle Williams, ’90, aunt Catherine Carlyle Gibson, ’94, and uncle Joseph Gibson, ’93. The family lives in Kalamazoo.

Aiden Nicole on Aug. 22, 2001 to Erin and Lori Baughman Palmer, ’98.

Proud grandparents include Timothy Baughman, ’71. The Palmers live in Bloomfield, and Lori can be reached by e-mail at: ljpalmer@post.harvard.edu.

Kyler Michael on Nov. 19, 2002 to Tonya and Kevin Rod, ’98. He joins big brother Logan. They live in Jackson.

Mayrene Susan on Jan. 11, 2003 to Rob and Sarah Schmidt Fuller, ’99. May joins sister Sophie, 1. The family lives in Spring Lake.

Tyler Jacob on March 13, 2002 to Patricia Moyer, ’99. Proud family members include uncle Nick Moyer, ’03, and godmother Melissa Mann, ’99.

They live in Addison.

Theron John on Nov. 18, 2002 to Theron Stinar, ’02, and Katie Brimmer, ’02. Theron is a student at Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. The family lives in Downers Grove, IL.

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Obituaries Grace Clark West, ’25, on Oct. 30, 2002, in Albion at the age of 100. She was a homemaker, member and deaconess of the First Presbyterian Church, a member of South Albion Women’s Club and O.E.S. Stella Chapter 140 of Homer, and was also involved in 4-H for many years. She is survived by a daughter, a son, a stepdaughter, 11 grandchildren, 23 greatgrandchildren, and four great-greatgrandchildren.

Isobel “Billie” Jenkins Moody, ’32, on Jan. 13, 2003 in California. She taught first grade in Detroit for 15 years and lived in Grand Haven for many years.

She is survived by two children, and three grandchildren.

Elizabeth McDougal Lloyd, ’36, on Dec. 7, 2002 in Marshall. A long-time Albion resident, Betty was an original member of the board that developed the Johnson Child Care Center. She was also a member of the Albion Drop-In Center Board, the Hospital Service League and the Spouse Abuse Task Force. Her other civic and charitable interests included Starr Commonwealth and St. James Episcopal Church. She received the Michigan Minuteman Citation of Honor awarded by the City of Albion for outstanding service to Michigan. She is survived by her husband, Gardner Lloyd, ’36, two sons, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Valentine Brake, ’41, on Nov. 1, 2002.

Valentine lived in Media, PA. He is survived by his wife, Angela, two children and two grandchildren.

Robert Sill, ’46, on Jan. 9, 2003 in Mesa, AZ. Bob was a former resident of Berrien Springs. He interrupted his Albion education during World War II to serve as a B-17 pilot, and he completed 26 missions over Germany with the 8th Air Force. Following his graduation from Albion, he received his master of music degree from the University of Michigan and taught for four years at Ohio Wesleyan University before returning to Michigan. Bob continued his teaching in the public schools in Western Michigan where he was a teacher and an administrator in both elementary and junior high schools. He was also engaged in fruit farming while in Michigan. After retiring from his public school roles, Bob was a member of the Western Michigan University faculty, training student teachers. He was a soloist during this time, performing in oratorios, musical shows, and concerts throughout the Midwest. He was a church choir director for more than 50 years. He is survived by his wife, Laura Jean Smith Sill, ’46; two daughters, Jane Carruth and Cathy Ewalt; three sons, Edward, Larry, ’77, and Robert; and 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

John Brodie, ’48, on Dec. 28, 2002 in Swartz Creek. John retired in 1985 as a branch manager of Citizens Bank after 33 years of employment. He was a member of the Swartz Creek United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Clara, and two children.

Robert Hall, ’48, on Sept. 1, 2002, in Rancho Bernardo, CA. He retired from Wayne Chemical in Detroit in 1978. He had lived in Rancho Bernardo, CA, for the past 16 years. He is survived by two sons and four grandchildren.

Carlton Hornbrook, ’48, on Jan. 10, 2003. He was a retired teacher, coach, athletic director, assistant principal and principal of Sparta Area Schools. He remained active in his community through the Sparta Sports Boosters and rangering at the Rogue River Golf Course. Carl was an inductee of the Albion College, Rockford, and Sparta High Schools Athletic Halls of Fame. He is survived by his wife, Noreen, seven children, 17 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

Russell Toner, ’50, on Jan. 8, 2003, in Clinton Township. Russell retired as an assistant superintendent after a 30-year career with Mount Clemens Community Schools. He earned a master’s degree from Wayne State University. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Mt. Clemens, AMVETS Post 29 and was a member and past president of the Mount Clemens Lions Club. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, five children and a granddaughter.

Don DeVoe, ’51, on Nov. 1, 2002. He taught school in Fowler, CO, for four years and then returned to Michigan to take a job teaching in Pontiac while working on his master’s degree at the University of Michigan. Don became principal of Lincoln Junior High and ended his career as assistant principal at Pontiac Central High School. He was a 20-year member of Kiwanis, a member of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church for 43 years and volunteered at a soup kitchen. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, four children, seven grandchildren, and five step-grandchildren.

architect of the brick walkway near the Dow Recreation and Wellness Center.

Skip was a major contributor to the Kellogg Center and Ferguson Building on campus. Vice chairman for Institutional Advancement on the Board of Trustees, he underwrote the Ferguson Building’s third floor housing the Institutional Advancement office.

As a student at Albion, he was a letter-winner and four-year participant in tennis. At the Hall of Fame dinner during Homecoming 2002, Skip—who was inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame five years ago—was honored with the Albion College Lifetime Achievement Award.

A devoted member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, he for many years organized biennial reunions of ATOs from the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Long known for his leadership and support of many state and local humanitarian and cultural organizations, Skip recently received the Chuck Yancy Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Skip spearheaded the successful multimillion-dollar capital campaign for the Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea. At the time of his death, Skip also served on the boards of the Ann Arbor Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority, and as chairman of the

Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection.

He was past president of the Gift Association of America and the Michigan Gift Association, as well as the State Street Business Association in Ann Arbor and the Washburn Historical Museum, Inc., in Washburn, WI. In addition to Ideation, which he founded in 1968 and which now supplies 650 gift stores across the country, Skip co-owned with his brothers the hardware store in Washburn founded by his grandfather.

Skip was preceded in death by his wife, Charlotte Darvay Ungrodt, ’52, in 1990. Survivors include son Thomas Ungrodt, daughters Susan Mills and Sara Eichhorn, seven grandchildren including Allison Mills, ’05, and brothers Bernard, ’56, and Bob.

Charles Hanchett, ’58, on Nov. 8, 2002 in Annandale, VA. Charles was a psychiatric social work supervisor in Traverse City for three years, was the chief social worker at Prince William County (MD) Mental Health Clinic for 10 years and ran a private practice for 23 years in Woodbridge, VA, before retiring in 1999. He held an M.S.W. from Wayne State University. He is survived by his wife, Fern, a daughter, and two grandchildren.

Donald Carmien, ’54, on June 28, 2002, in Vestal, NY. Don was the third generation in his family to graduate from Albion. He earned his law degree from Syracuse University in 1958 and had practiced law in the Binghamton area ever since. Don was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Delta Tau Delta fraternity and the Masonic Lodge.

He was also active in woodworking. He is survived by his wife, Janice Redhead Carmien, ’54, four children, six grandchildren and his sister, Ann Carmien Shely, ’51.

Robert Hileman, ’75, on Jan. 17, 2003, in Albion. He worked with his father in marketing and sales and was also employed for several years at Progressive Dynamics in Marshall. Robert enjoyed playing golf, University of Michigan football, traveling, and spending time with his Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity brothers. He is survived by his sister, Jane, and his brother, William Hileman, ’72.

Tributes to a loyal Briton Paul “Skip” Ungrodt, ’52, a trustee and long-time benefactor of the College, passed away Jan. 12, 2003.

Below friends and colleagues offer their remembrances.

Further details appear in the notice elsewhere on this page.

John Cole, ’52, on Oct. 30, 2002. A longtime resident of Ann Arbor, John was a systems engineer for IBM for over 30 years and continued to do independent contract work in retirement. He served as a trustee and treasurer of the First Congregational Church. He is survived by his wife, Joan Warren Cole, ’55, three children, and six grandchildren.

With the passing of Skip Ungrodt, an important era at Albion College has ended. For more than 20 years he was the College’s number one advocate and fan— whether it was a fund drive for the latest project, an internship for a student, or a word of encouragement for a prospective student to attend Albion. His legacy will live on through the student athletes who will benefit from the new facilities he helped build or the dozens of Gerstacker Institute students he mentored.

Personally, I have lost a great friend who set the very highest standard of what it meant to be a true Briton. The Albion College advancement program is what it is today, because of his leadership and support for our successful fund drives, alumni programs, and communications.

Ben Hancock Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Paul “Skip” Ungrodt, Jr., ’52, on Jan. 12, 2003 in Ann Arbor. A College trustee since 1985, Skip was chairman and president of Ideation, Inc., a national gift supply firm based in Ann Arbor, and owner of several gift stores.

A strong proponent of Briton athletics, Skip chaired the $1.3-million Briton Athletic Drive and funded the College’s indoor tennis center, which was named in his honor. He also was the

Skip was simply remarkable in his devotion to his alma mater. He was the eternal optimist. You couldn’t say no to him—and he never said no to Albion. But beyond the upbeat, take-charge, tell-it-like-it-is Skip, there was a caring and thoughtful person who simply wanted people to enjoy the fullness of life as he did.

Skip reminds me of one of my favorite American poets, Walt Whitman. Whitmanesque in his love for life and celebration of ordinary people, Skip was the consummate friend, buddy, pal—and he embodied the best virtues of friendship: truth and loyalty and goodness. His gusto, candor and passion will be his legacy to his alma mater. Albion College will miss him as a great leader and benefactor, and I’ll miss him as a great friend.

Peter Mitchell, ’67 President

Dorothy Crocker Wider, ’51, on Nov. 12, 1999, in Goshen, IN. She was a registered nurse. She is survived by her husband, Justin, six children and 11 grandchildren.

David Saurman, ’74, on Oct. 21, 2002 in Cupertino, CA. David was an economics professor at San Jose State University for the past 16 years. He received his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University. He is survived by his wife, Marcia Youngdahl Saurman, ’73.

Since Skip’s passing, many people have told me how much they admired him. “He was like a father to me,” “I’ll never have a better friend,” “He was a good and trusted colleague in business and civic work,” “He was a person of actions, not words,” “When he saw a need, he quietly and tenaciously went to work,” and on and on.

As I look back on our 54 years of friendship, Skip Ungrodt didn’t change one bit from the guy I met in the fall of our freshman year at Albion. Oh sure, he matured, built a wonderful business from scratch and received awards as a great retailer and civic leader, but in the human characteristics that define us, he was the same person I roomed with for three years.

Skip is someone who moved on in life to do things nationally and internationally, and yet he never, ever, forgot where he came from. He built a museum in Washburn, Wis. to honor his family’s roots there. He started the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection to remind his hometown of its place in automotive history.

And, of course, his loyalty to Albion College has become legendary and serves as an example of how philanthropy should work. Skip didn’t just give his money—he gave himself, his creativity, his time and his many talents.

Skip’s loyalty to these places that were so much a part of him simply mirrored his loyalty to his friends. He was the one who kept friendships alive, as exemplified by the ATO reunions he started and ran for the past 20 years.

A French proverb eloquently describes the friendship Skip showed so many of us: “Friendship is love, without wings.”

Bill Ferguson, ’52 Trustee

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FROM THE ALBION COLLEGE BOOK STORE A 03-100. Adult polo shirt by Gear.

Available in gray, yellow and white with purple and gold embroidered Albion College design. S-XXL. ................. $34.98 B 03-101. T-shirt and hat set by Yikes.

Gray shirt with purple screen print lettering. Gold hat with purple embroidered lettering. S-XXL. .................. $24.98 C 03-102. Adult hooded sweatshirt by Gear. Gray sweatshirt with purple and gold screen print lettering. Inside of hood comes in gold or purple. S-XXL. ... $39.98 D 03-103. Youth jersey from Specialty House Apparel Co. Purple and gold shirt with gold and white screen print lettering (“Albion College Britons”). Toddler sizes 2-6. Youth sizes S-L. ...................... $14.98 E 03-104. Youth T-shirt from Champion.

Gray T-shirt with purple and white screen print lettering. S-XL. Also available in adult sizes S-XXL. ......................... $14.98 F 03-105. Albion College car sticker.

Purple sticker with gold lettering. .... $1.29 G 03-106. Albion College detachable lanyard. Purple with gold lettering. .... $5.98 H 03-107. Albion College pewter key ring.

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T 03-119. Purple reversible hooded jacket from Yikes. Purple nylon jacket with white lettering reverses to gray fleece with purple lettering. S-XXL. ............................ $49.98 U 03-120. Adult cap from Merge Left Caps. Olive green with white lettering.

Adjustable. ...................................... $12.99 V 03-121. Adult cap from University Square. White with purple lettering (“Alumni”). Adjustable. ................. $14.98 W 03-122. Adult visor by Merge Left Caps. Tan with purple lettering. Flexible fit. ................................................... $17.98 X 03-123. Youth cap by University Square. Available in purple with gold lettering or tan with purple lettering.

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Election 2003

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Albion College Alumni Association Board of Directors

Each year the Albion College Alumni Association conducts elections for the three-year terms available on the Board of Directors, the governing body of the Alumni Association. In 2003, two alumni will be elected.

Carefully read the following qualifications of each candidate, determine those for whom you would like to vote, then mark your ballot card (enclosed in this issue) and MAIL NO LATER THAN APRIL 30, 2003. In order for your ballot to be valid, you must provide your full name, address and class year. If you prefer to mail your vote in an envelope, please do so.

Methodist Church in Ithaca and a past board member of the Gratiot Area United Way. In addition to his professional and civic duties, he has continued his involvement with Albion College, having served in the past as advisor for Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and now assisting as an admissions volunteer.

Nelson D. Cary, ’90

is on the board of NFI North, a social services organization for youth and families.

An active Albion alumna, Healy chaired her 25th class reunion, previously served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors, and has assisted with new student recruitment and with many regional events. While on campus Healy was active in Student Senate, Kappa Delta sorority, Omicron Delta Kappa and Mortar Board, was a student representative to the alumni board, and implemented Project 250 which raised funds for the President Bernard T. Lomas Project 250 Award. After graduation, she also served for a time as an admissions counselor for the College.

Personal statement: As an alumnus of Albion, I am continually reminded of how fortunate I am to have Albion College as part of my life. Albion gave me a solid foundation to meet challenges in my professional career, and allowed me to build relationships with people who became lifelong friends. I look forward to becoming more involved in perpetuating the vision of Albion College to alumni, donors and potential students. I will work diligently to guarantee the continuation of Albion’s esteemed reputation and educational vision. It would be a great pleasure and an honor to be part of the Albion College Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Personal statement: My Albion experience was exceptionally positive as a student. I was provided with so many experiences beyond the classroom that have served as building blocks since graduation. It has been a pleasure to hear from Project 250 recipients and know that work we did as students positively impacts the College today. It is great fun to hear from good friends and know that we’ve weathered the years (can it be 30?) together. It is refreshing that my Albion connections continue in New Hampshire as one of my closest friends in Nashua . . . miles from Albion . . . is an Albion grad. Albion is well known in Michigan and in the Midwest.

Maybe a New England presence on the alumni board will spread a well-deserved reputation to interest students and encourage alumni participation in this region. At any rate, it would be a privilege to reconnect with Albion College in a formal way, and I would be delighted to represent an incredible group of talented alumni by serving on this board!

Glenna VanderMeer Paukstis, ’59

Biographical sketch: Nelson Cary is an attorney with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, L.L.P. in Columbus, Ohio. Before moving to Columbus, he and his wife, Stephanie Hatton Cary, ’90, lived in Washington, D.C. He earned his J.D. degree at Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1994. While they were in living in Washington D.C. they were able to assist Albion College’s Admissions Office by helping with college nights. They continued their Albion College connection by attending their 10-year class reunion.

As an Albion student, Cary was the recipient of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Leadership Award and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and he served on the Publications Council. A political science major, he was very involved with the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service.

He is currently a member of the Llewellyn Farms Civic Association and is the former secretary of the Fairways at Penderbrook Homeowners Association. He is an active volunteer for the Parent-Teacher Association at Thomas Elementary School, where his two children attend.

Personal statement: Sixteen and a half years ago, I sat in Goodrich Chapel listening to our freshman convocation speaker. The speaker said one thing that I thought was quite unlikely at the time. The speaker suggested that many in the audience would meet their future husband/wife at Albion, and indeed the future spouse might be sitting in that very chapel. Five years later, the speaker’s prediction came true for Stephanie Hatton, ’90, and me. Albion not only changed my personal life, but with programs like the Gerald R. Ford Institute and a great faculty, Albion also prepared me for an exciting and demanding professional career. Now that my career is well under way, it is time to consider what I can do to give back to Albion some measure of what it gave me. Because a strong alumni network makes a college stronger, I view the Alumni Association Board of Directors as an excellent opportunity to help Albion College serve future students.

Lyn Ward Healy, ’72 Biographical sketch: Lyn Ward Healy is the associate executive director of the New England League of Middle Schools in Topsfield, Mass. The recipient of a master’s in administration, planning and social policy from Harvard University and CAGS in education administration from the University of New Hampshire, Healy is certified as a teacher, principal and superintendent in New Hampshire and as a principal in Massachusetts. She finds time to volunteer at her church as a youth advisor and treasurer and serves on the Community Investment Panel of the United Way of Greater Nashua (N.H.). She is a member of the New Hampshire and National Association of School Principals and

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Joshua D. Merchant, ’96 Biographical sketch: Following graduation, Joshua Merchant began working with American Agrisurance, Inc. in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He then moved to Lansing to become the executive director for the Michigan FFA Foundation, and for over two years he has been an assistant director of development at Michigan State University. Merchant earned his Certified Fund Raising Manager’s degree from Indiana University School of Philanthropy and will complete his master’s degree from Michigan State University in May 2003.

In the fall of 2003 he will begin his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in higher education administration.

Merchant has been a volunteer for the Commission on Aging, 4-H and other community organizations. He is a past president of the Michigan Agri-Marketing Association and past co-advisor for the Michigan State University National AgriMarketing Team.

Currently, Merchant is president of the Ithaca Schools Board of Education, chair of the Ithaca Schools Endowment Committee, finance chair and youth leader at the United

Biographical sketch: After earning a master’s degree in special education from the University of Michigan, Glenna Paukstis spent 10 years teaching in and administering special education programs in the Kent Intermediate School District in Grand Rapids.

She was active in the Council for Exceptional Children on the local and state levels.

Through the years, Paukstis has been active in community, church and school groups. Many of these involvements continued in family moves from Grand Rapids to

Birmingham to retirement in Ludington. She has held offices, chairmanships and served on many committees in the American Association of University Women. A long-time volunteer at The Epilepsy Center of Michigan, she has also served as the president of the Grand Rapids chapter and on the agency’s state Board of Directors. She also volunteered for many years at the Oakland County Health Department otology clinics.

A past president of two of the state Delta Zeta alumnae chapters, Paukstis is now Great Lakes Area membership chairman. The United Way continues to be an important part of her life both during the fund-raising campaigns and through serving on Allocation Panels. Her other involvements include Garden Club, Literary Club, Church Library Committee, Hospital Guild, and volunteering at the local historical society.

Since graduation Glenna and her husband, Chuck Paukstis, ’57, have attended alumni events both on campus and in the Detroit area, numerous Homecomings, class reunions and receptions for prospective students.

Personal statement: Albion is an outstanding college. Our family is proud to be part of the “Albion Family.” We have made many lasting friendships with those from our Albion days.

When our daughter (Sarah, Class of ’92) was in school we saw that the high standards and quality of a liberal arts education continued at Albion. I am so glad I am an Albion College graduate. If I am honored by election to the Albion Alumni Association Board of Directors I will continue to share my enthusiasm for this fine school with my fellow alumni, the students and faculty now on campus, and prospective students and their families.

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.

Officers

Terms expiring in 2004

James H. Cox, ’87, president; 700 Courtwright Blvd., Mansfield, OH 44907; e-mail: jimcox@richnet.net Louise A. Kirk, ’90, vice president for offcampus activities; 14195 Cavell, Livonia, MI 48154; e-mail: kirkstoddard @worldnet.att.net Timothy R. Newsted, ’78, vice president for on-campus activities; 515 N. Jefferson St., Hastings, MI 49058; e-mail: tnewsted@hassk12.org O. James Clark, ’51, secretary; 1800 Oakfield, Midland, MI 48640; e-mail: ojmeclark@aol.com Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, immediate past president; 27375 Bloomfield Dr., Lathrup Village, MI 48076; e-mail: cnelsonthomas@mediaone.net

Gregory L. Eastwood, ’62; Jamesville, N.Y. Kenneth A. George, ’90; East Grand Rapids William S. Rafaill, ’70; Georgetown, Ky. Tamara Transue Royle, ’63; Saginaw Susan J. Sadler, ’77; Waterford

Terms expiring in 2003 Mary Beth Hartmann Halushka, ’84; Troy Pat Pearsall Hessler, ’57; Frankfort Kenneth B. Hollidge, Jr., ’67; Grosse Pointe Shores

Terms expiring in 2005 Katherine Jewell Dempster, ’57; South Haven Brian W. Fox, ’73; Riverton, Wyo. Robin L. Gearhart; ’96; Tinley Park, Ill. Kirk L. Heinze, ’70; Mason Louise A. Kirk, ’90; Livonia Michael A. Zamiara, ’87; DeWitt

Ex-officio members 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 Emily M. Giacona, ’05, president, Student Association for Alumni

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In keeping with the theme of Albion College’s Vision, Liberal Arts at Work, we are offering a series of profiles of Albion students and alumni who exemplify “liberal arts at work” in their daily lives.

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Alex Carroll, ’03, is a ham, no doubt about it.

Whether it’s playing the lead in Albion’s production of the Stephen Sondheim musical, “Company,” as he did last month, or performing as a soloist with the College’s pop a cappella group, Euphonics, Carroll loves being on center stage. He is the driving force behind Euphonics, which has performed for SRO crowds on campus and at events around the state including an appearance at the University of Michigan’s Rackham Auditorium. But there’s much more to Carroll than his stage persona. He’s also a chemistry major, president of the College Choir,

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and a four-time letterwinner as a midfielder for the Briton soccer squad, as well as a tri-captain this past season. After graduation, he plans to move to California to pursue an acting career. “I’ve managed to pack a lot into my four years on campus,” he says. “Albion has given me so many opportunities to pursue my passions— and my professors have been incredibly supportive when I’ve wanted to try something new. I’m grateful for all of the experiences I’ve had here.”

Alex Carroll, a great example of

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Campus events of note April 9-12 Theatre Production: “How I Learned to Drive” 8 p.m., Herrick Center

April 13 College Choir Concert 4 p.m., Goodrich Chapel

April 24 Elkin Isaac Student Research Symposium (all day) Honors Convocation 10:30 a.m., Goodrich Chapel Student Dance Recital 8:30 p.m., Herrick Center

April 25 Symphonic Band Concert 8 p.m., Goodrich Chapel Student Dance Recital 8 p.m., Herrick Center

April 27 Student Dance Recital 2 p.m., Herrick Center

May 10 Commencement For more details on these and other upcoming events, including spring sports contests, go to: www.albion.edu/calendar/.

Let’s celebrate our common bonds!

By Jim Cox, ’87 President, Albion College Alumni Association

Among the many benefits of an Albion College education, beyond what we might have learned in class, are the friendships that first took root on campus and have since grown into lifelong relationships.

These friendships are nurtured in many ways—from a quick e-mail or phone call during a free moment in a busy day to informal weekend parties to group travel experiences around the globe.

While campus events like Homecoming are designed to draw alumni together, we usually get together not for College events but because, well, we like each other! To keep these connections going, I suspect there are a great many, like me, who go to the class notes section of Io Triumphe first to get news about fellow classmates we’ve not heard from for a while. The “Wedding Album” pictures are especially fun to see. We’re quickly drawn back to our college days when we read a name of a classmate we’ve not seen since graduation.

Regardless of the number of times we get together or the reasons why, the experiences at Albion College which first brought us together remain a common bond.

With this common bond in mind, I would like to invite you to share stories and pictures of your “get-togethers.” In addition to printing these in Io Triumphe, the College has created a page on its Web site (go to: www.albion.edu/alumni/ events.asp) that will be devoted to your photo submissions

and will be available for viewing by those interested. We encourage you to share the special times you’ve had with fellow Britons—whether it’s a vacation trip, a birthday or anniversary celebration, a weekend shopping trip, or some other milestone event in your life. All you need to do is attach your digital photos (saved as jpg files) to an e-mail sent to: alumniandparents@albion.edu. Or, if you wish to submit color prints for the College to scan, you may send those to: Editor, Io Triumphe, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224. Be sure to provide background information about your event (date, time, place), identify those pictured, and include your name, e-mail address and telephone number.

Taking a slightly different tack, some alumni are getting together as a group and volunteering for community service projects. For example, service projects planned for April in the Detroit area include helping with a Habitat for Humanity house and a Kiwanis Club “Books for Kids” drive. While requiring some planning, these projects set up by alumni both aid worthy causes and provide an opportunity for Albion College friends to reconnect. And I’m sure they will post pictures of those projects on the Web for others to enjoy.

Please also take time to complete the enclosed ballot for the Alumni Association Board of Directors and the accompanying survey questions. The board is very interested in the kinds of activities, formal and informal, that most appeal to you, and how the board can facilitate those activities. For your convenience, the survey can also be found on the College’s Web site at www.albion.edu/alumni/boardsurvey.asp. I’ll share information from the survey in a future Io Triumphe.