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

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How to improve our nation’s education system was a topic of intense debate in last fall’s presidential election, and it remains a pressing concern for most Americans. This edition of Io Triumphe offers a look at alumni who are on “the front lines” of this discussion.

In reading their stories, you will find them to be educators who regard their profession as a “high calling” and who are devoted to their students as learners. They are genuinely committed to helping each student develop his or her individual abilities and talents— and they view that as a lifelong process. Just as noteworthy, however, is their belief that they must nurture their students’ personal growth as much as their academic development. In surveying a number of our alumni educators for this cover story, many echoed the words of Mary Jean Arquette Bell, ’67, who said that, beyond her teaching of specific subject matter, she hoped her students would “remember the model I tried to display to them every day: to be kind, polite, respectful, generous, thoughtful and honest.” Albion College currently has some 180 students who are preparing for teaching careers. They will find much to emulate in the lives of these alumni who have preceded them.

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‘Learn’ is an action verb

By Jan Corey Arnett, ’75

Though a good student, Tompkins wasn’t consumed with the pursuit of a high grade point average, a If Mark Tompkins said he chose Albion College relaxed attitude that made his smorgasbord approach to because Albion’s liberal arts philosophy matched learning easier. And after graduating? He didn’t go in perfectly with his learning style and career goals, we search of the perfect first position—instead he cleaned would be impressed. stalls on a horse farm.

But that would not be the truth.

“It was humbling work while I The Traverse City native figured out what I wanted to do with confesses that he chose Albion my life.”

College because its catalog was the But figure it out he did. His first one he pulled from the shelf at fascination with learning drew him his local high school library when to a young organization in Ypsilanti, he began thinking about life after known as High/Scope Educational high school.

Research Foundation, which “I didn’t even get any farther in devotes itself to research on the the A’s,” he says with an easy lasting effects of preschool educalaugh. “My high school graduating tion and to advancing its philosophy class was 700-plus, and I didn’t that children learn best through want a big college experience. . . . active experiences with people, Albion looked like a wonderful materials and ideas rather than by place.” being passively taught. High/Scope Okay, so his choice of college operates a demonstration preschool Mark Tompkins, ’78 was an accident. Then what? in Ypsilanti and a camp and “I wasn’t thinking about a conference center in Clinton. career so when I got to Albion I just took everything I Tompkins entered a graduate program through was interested in,” Tompkins continues. He leaped into High/Scope and the Merrill Palmer Institute, earning a religion, political science, history, and especially master’s degree in human development and became anthropology, which he knew nothing about except High/Scope’s first male teacher in its demonstration what he had seen in National Geographic. It so preschool. captured his interest that he eventually declared “Teachers from around the world watched how we anthropology as a major. taught. It was learning by doing, which was how I had “Dr. William Bestor was great as was Dr. John learned. We were real change agents.”

Moore. But my favorite class was Biblical archaeology Tompkins soon moved into a training position, with Dr. Frank Frick. He would get excited about what preparing other teachers in the High/Scope approach to he’d found on an archeological dig, and I would get learning, but in 1982 he left to continue his own excited about learning. That excitement was the learning, going off to Harvard University to pursue a greatest thing about Albion.” master’s degree in educational management. There, to Faculty favorites come easily to mind. Charlie his great satisfaction, it was ‘deja vu all over again’. He Schutz (political science)—“He didn’t have us write found himself immersed in a liberal arts approach to papers. He had us write briefs and then argue them. He learning. He soaked it all up just as he had at Albion made many wonderful lawyers out of Albion students.” and combed the wealth of resources in Harvard’s And Julian Rammelkamp (history)—“There was a massive library. steady line of students to his house. . . .”

While at Harvard, he had the good fortune of having as his academic adviser the acclaimed author Howard Gardner, proponent of the theory of multiple intelligences, that is, that different parts of the brain are responsible for different functions and have different learning needs. The theory continues to influence Tompkins in his work.

After finishing his degree at Harvard, Tompkins was asked by High/Scope to return. He took on the training of staff in state departments of education around the United States and worked twice a month out of a High/ Scope office in England. “I trained trainers and educational authorities, even testified before Parliament. For someone so young it was pretty heady stuff.”

Chuck Walgren, chief operating officer at High/ Scope, remembers Tompkins as a young man of “promise and enthusiasm. . . . I give him high marks for delivering material in a way that people can understand.”

During the time Tompkins worked for High/Scope, he and his wife, Marsha Rosewarne Tompkins, ’79, and their three children lived in Albion where she worked in the College’s Admissions Office. He commuted to Ypsilanti and served on the Albion school board.

But the extended time away from his family was becoming increasingly difficult. When one of the Michigan school districts where he had done some training offered him an opportunity to shift gears, he accepted. In 1995 he took everything he had learned about how children learn best and everything he knew about himself as a highly-motivated learner and poured them into his new role as principal of Wealthy Elementary School in East Grand Rapids. Wealthy Elementary is a 385-student, K-5 school, housed in a former high school.

Tompkins requires no prompting to share his convictions about how to educate children. What he believes comes from deep inside and resonates in his voice with quiet certainty.

“I have done things as it seems right, not as they’ve always been done,” he begins, citing special education as just one example. “Special education is often designed to find out what kids can’t do and then do it more slowly. It is a deficit model, and it usually doesn’t work.” (continued on p. 4)

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He says some children are not learning disabled but “teacher disabled,” and labels can become more powerful than one’s name.

“During my first year as principal, we had a caseload of 44 kids labeled ‘learning disabled,’ and we’ve reduced that to six because we have changed the way we teach. We focus on their strengths.” As a result, the cost of teaching learning disabled children in his school is much less than the state average. Areas of learning that are weak for a child are incorporated into areas in which he or she excels, providing a motivating environment.

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In his role as an elementary school principal in East Grand Rapids, Mark Tompkins encourages creative approaches to teaching and can often be found in the classroom himself. “Teachers are an amazing bunch of people,” he says. “We must allow them to do more than telling. We need a liberal arts perspective that allows kids to learn how to think.”

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He has also implemented the New Zealandauthored program called Reading Recovery that places teachers one-on-one for half an hour each day with first-graders at greatest risk of being labeled special education students. Early intervention is far more costeffective, he says, than waiting until third grade when children are labeled, sometimes for life.

Fourth- and fifth-graders can participate in an exchange program with children from France through a novel French Back-to-Back Program. Tompkins has observed that normally reserved, insecure children usually blossom through the experience.

Tompkins does not shy away from the debate raging over standards and testing.

“We need to embrace standards and know what kids need to learn,” he explains, pointing out that U.S. children start out in the world’s top one-third at the elementary level and end up in the bottom one-third by high school. Teachers feel pressured to cover too much material, and, as a result, kids get poor grades.

By comparison, Japan has national standards.

Teachers are able to focus on how they deliver the most relevant subject matter.

Tompkins maintains that national standards in the U.S. would allow teachers to be more creative.

“Teachers are an amazing bunch of people,” he says, “We must allow them to do more than telling. We need a liberal arts perspective that allows kids to learn how to think.” In the 2000-01 school year, students at the fourth-grade level at Wealthy Elementary scored at the 93rd percentile in reading and at the 100th in math on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) test.

Tompkins’ school is fortunate to have a 22:1 student-faculty ratio and a budget that allows $30,000 a year for technology to aid learning. He points out, however, that teaching is about more than working with students. It is also about working with parents, and he observes candidly that teaching is one of the few professions everyone thinks they know something about because they were once a student.

“I’m not sure the public always treats teachers as professionals in the way they would an accountant or lawyer. As parents, when it comes to our kids we can be completely irrational.

There are times when I spend twice as long with parents as with students. . . . We have to communicate so much.”

Tompkins, however, encourages parent involvement. He explains how parents in his school district, who were struggling with the issues associated with their children’s ADHD diagnoses (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), formed a support group three years ago. Susan DeWitt Armstrong, ’75, was a cofounder out of concern for her son, Nick. With Tompkins’ help, the Parent Resource Network brings in speakers on ADHD, developed a resource library, got funding for a mentoring program that will bring college students into classrooms to work with ADHD children through Project Eye-to-Eye, and expanded its outreach district-wide.

“Nick, who is now 16, struggled with ADHD,” explains Armstrong. “Mark has made all the difference for the resource network and for my family.”

Nick, who is now doing very well, adds, “He [Tompkins] was understanding and compassionate at a difficult time. . . . He cared. It’s as simple as that. He cared.”

Tompkins’ concern for his students is reflected in comments from other youngsters at his school including these third-graders (ages 8 to 10): “This is my first year in the school, and he’s made me feel like I’ve been here a lifetime!”

“The best thing about Mr. Tompkins is he is a most trustworthy person.”

“He’s always happy. He helps kids work things out when something happens.”

“He does really cool math problems with us. He really cares about the kids in his school.”

The importance of caring and being cared about has a memorable Albion College connection for Mark Tompkins. He takes special delight in recalling how, as a student, he was sleeping late one morning and got a wake-up call from philosophy professor Jack Padgett.

“He said to me, ‘Mr. Tompkins, my class is starting without you! Where are you?’”

Tompkins laughs, “To think he was paying that much attention to me! I thought, my God, they are serious here!” That attitude of caring, he adds, “made you work hard. There was no hiding. They knew your name!”

He credits Albion College with teaching him how to think, how to solve problems and how to be excited about learning. That excitement continues through his periodic consulting for High/Scope and through the satisfaction of nurturing a learning environment at his school for students and teachers.

“Once you establish a partnership with a child you can teach anything,” he says.

Not bad for someone whose partnership with Albion College began because of something as simple as the letter “A.”

These teachers’ enthusiasm for what they do is contagious.

“The most exciting part about working in education is that each day presents new challenges and new opportunities. Students in today’s classrooms come to school with a wealth of experiences and resources. I have been fortunate to work in two school districts that believe in providing classrooms with technology and with administrators who support teachers. The student who works diligently and achieves success encourages me and reminds me why I chose this profession. Even on a rough day, there is always a group of students who respond, achieve and find learning engaging.”

“As a primary-level music specialist, I thrive on the creative challenge of teaching music to young children. For many children, my program represents their first introduction to formal musical studies. How can I ignite and encourage their enthusiasm for music while still meeting the curricular requirements outlined by state and national standards for the arts? I know that I have done my job well when my young charges may not fully comprehend all that they have learned in a class period because they have had such fun doing so!”

—Ellen Carlson Collinsworth, ’95, Beech Grove (Ind.) Schools.

—LuAnn Erbes Hayes, ’81, Kentucky Country Day School (Louisville, Ky.).

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By Jan Corey Arnett, ’75 They are middle school students caught in that awkward phase of their lives between kidhood and cool.

Many proclaim their dislike of English, detachment from reading, disdain for writing and disinterest in art.

Then, something magical happens.

These same students suddenly ask for recommendations on what to read next. They wait patiently before and after class to have their writing critiqued and seek out art experiences.

They even communicate with their parents!

What happened?

Nancy Kezlarian Nancy Kezlarian Herrick, ’69 Herrick, ’69, is what happened. A teacher whose style is decidedly and infectiously “liberal arts.” A teacher whose passion for the arts and learning bubbles over into everything she is and does with her students. A year ago, in fact, Herrick was nominated by fellow teachers and school administrators and was named the WDIV-TV Outstanding Teacher of the Year in the Royal Oak school district (Oakland County). She teaches eighth-grade language arts in the Helen Keller Middle School, a 750-student school, in a 6,000-student school district.

Her own classes are large at 32 students.

Criteria for the WDIV award included that the nominee excite students to seek learning, understand students’ individual needs, demonstrate knowledge of the subject area and have sound relationships with fellow professionals and parents.

Helen Keller Principal Rita Walker began her nomination of Herrick with this statement: “The big

kids from Dondero High School and Kimball High School often seen after school in the hallway . . . are no cause for concern. These ninth- and tenth-graders have returned to Keller Middle School to meet with Nancy Herrick because she is interested in their lives.”

The principal also wrote in part: . . . Learning disabled students have improved two to three grade levels in their reading abilities. . . . Eighth-grade writing MEAP scores improved across the board; scores on the Gates Reading Test went up; students themselves noticed that their fluency in reading and writing had improved. . . . A bond of mutual respect exists between the students and their teacher. . . .Discipline problems are non-existent because classroom management and instruction are merged to create a harmonious learning situation. . . . The parents trust her. . . . Other teachers have adopted a growing number of programs she has initiated.

Nancy Herrick’s fellow teachers, Kathy Bodine and Nancy Dreyer, wrote: “She has a vision for what her students should be and do, and will do whatever is necessary to make it happen. How often we hear a student say, ‘Can’t I stay in English for one more hour?’”

Nancy is one in a long line of Kezlarians who have attended Albion College. (She estimates about 15, including her son, Jeffrey, ’96). Her husband, Dennis Herrick, is also a 1969 Albion College graduate. As she completed high school in Bloomfield Hills she told her parents that she was going to be an artist. Her father gently suggested she be a bit more practical, as in, “Do art but get a job.” She knew she wanted to work with kids in some capacity, but not as an art teacher. How to make what she loved happen?

Albion College happened. And especially a sociology professor named Charles Swan.

“I really loved sociology because of him,” Herrick explains. “His classes were the most interesting because he brought his subject to life. He would have us over to his house for dinner, dress in East Indian clothing, for example, and cook Indian food for us. He took us to Cleveland overnight to see how a sociology major could use his or her degree. I could use art in my research for his classes, and he approved of it. He made learning exciting!”

It’s no surprise, then, that she became a sociology major . . . or that her teaching style today replicates that of her revered professor. She makes learning come alive for her students as he did for her.

“Anybody who holds a child’s attention is a teacher for that moment, and you don’t even have to say anything. Kids learn by just watching us, and they’re watching us all the time—learning by our example. We have a huge responsibility. . . . We need to show them fairness, decency, good manners, and, most of all, we need to show them that we love them.” (As quoted in The Magazine of Sigma Chi.) —Tim Newsted, ’78, Hastings Schools. 1994-95 Michigan Outstanding Young Educator, Michigan Jaycees.

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“The best thing I do with kids is provide a connection to the arts,” she says. “I attempt to link them with music, dance, theatre and other arts in the greater Detroit area.” After action-oriented preparation in the classroom so that her students know what they are going to see, why it is important, and how it relates to other aspects of the arts and society, she takes her classes on field trips.

Students met the author of Gift of Glory, a play about Diego Rivera and his role in U.S. history. Then they visited the Detroit Institute of Arts and saw the Diego Rivera auto industry-related murals commissioned by Edsel Ford. After becoming acquainted with the language, music and theme of the opera, La Boheme, students were off to the opera.

“When there was an aria that they recognized, they would tap my arm or look to see my expression,” she laughs. Seeing her students become as passionate about the arts as she is makes all her efforts worthwhile. “[Those] are the moments I live for as a teacher.”

A playwright from Meadowbrook Theatre has also read and critiqued plays written by her students and met with them in class to answer their questions firsthand.

“I don’t think I do anything that’s difficult. I think I do what’s important,” Herrick explains. “I grew up with parents who valued the arts, and Albion College continued that.” Albion added to her intellectual development in other ways too. “The speakers [who came to campus] were progressive, sometimes shocking, as they opened up your thinking—people like Eldridge Cleaver and Dick Gregory. I remember a discussion on the topic ‘Is God Dead?’ It really opened my eyes.”

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“I would hope to be remembered as a teacher who inspired students to love learning, who ‘lived’ my love for learning and teaching and who enjoyed every single day of every single year teaching English to high school students (now 43 years).

Life is such a gift, the mind is such a treasure, but the imagination is the key. Stimulate a student’s imagination with words, great books, ideas, and anything is possible: a world free of prejudice, poverty, meanness.

I hope my students realize that every student in every one of my classes is important to me and to the world.”

—Beverly Hannett-Price, ’58, Detroit Country Day School. Cited

by Michigan Department of Education in April 2001 for promoting and teaching excellence in writing.

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Nancy Herrick’s students appreciate her accessibility.

“She brings us happiness,” one said. “Whenever we’re upset, we can talk to her.” third grade. She found herself being not just teacher, but parent, counselor and comforter to children who were very needy.

Moving to the Royal Oak area, she taught fifth and sixth grades for eight years before taking her current position just two years ago.

She calls Nancie Atwell, author of In the Middle, the guru to middle school language arts teachers and draws from Atwell’s work, the central theme of which is engaging students in the excitement of learning. She is also a big fan of whole language learning. Herrick has a 1,000-volume library in her room (other teachers are now doing the same with administrative support).

Students select the books they want to read. She encourages parents to read the book being read by their child to promote discussion and relationship-building at home. Students are asked to read 20 pages a day or 120 pages a week. Once a week they write a letter to her or another student, making a personal connection to a character from their book. She or the other student responds with a letter. She does not believe in requiring book reports or in insisting that children read anthology textbooks cover-to-cover.

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“I want kids to believe they have a voice in their writing, and I want them to share their voice with pride and overcome self-doubt. It is a big moment for me when they ask to be able to share. Boys, especially, wait for me with poems in hand and not only want me to read them but want to read them for others. One wrote of his family’s pain through divorce, another of his grandfather’s experience in World War II. . . .”

Amid the din of students coming and going between classes, three of Herrick’s students took a moment to share observations about their teacher.

With a lilt in her voice, Samantha, 14, said, “She brings us happiness. Whenever we’re upset, we can talk to her. I have struggled through the years with my writing, but I think I’ve developed as a writer with her help. We can feel comfortable around her.”

Ryan, also 14, said what he likes is that “she’s not one to go on and on in a boring monotone. She demonstrates how things work and makes it alive.” He added that he is now reading additional works by an author he discovered in her class. “It really got reading interesting to me.”

Nicole, 13, pointed out how Herrick has helped students let their own voice come through in what they write. She cited as an example how Herrick asked them to write what it would be like for them to take care of an ill spouse as they were reading Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom’s book about his visits to a former professor struggling with ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease.

There is little doubt that Nancy Herrick has given a great deal to her students in encouraging their desire to learn and to see the relationships between and among facets of life and society. But teaching has also brought something to her life besides the fulfillment of her father’s hope that she would “do art but get a job.”

For the Beech Grove (Ind.) Middle School Ellen Carlson Collinsworth, ’95, recently developed a communications course designed to improve writing and speaking skills using technology as a tool. Her students create newspapers, children’s books, personal brochures, author presentations and Web pages. The students’ standardized test scores have significantly improved, she reports. (E-mail: Elcollie@aol.com) At Detroit Country Day School Beverly Hannett-Price, ’58, has created an upper school humanities class that incorporates literature, music, art and architecture from three time periods,

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all represented on a Web site that students can “walk through” and learn from as often as they like. (E-mail: bhannett-price@dcds.edu)

“It is completely due to my Albion education that I am working in this field today! I never saw myself as a teacher, but I always had a high interest in foreign languages. French was not offered at my high school, so my first experience with it was at Albion College. I loved learning the language, but even more importantly, my first French professor, Dr. Roger Bevan, was such an outstanding teacher that I found myself wanting to emulate his methods and his style and try teaching students of my own. Dr. Bevan was a very intelligent, talented, compassionate man. He took a great interest in his students and was always understanding and willing to help. I hope that I have carried this lesson on to my students. Dr. Bevan’s enthusiasm for language and teaching influenced me more than anyone else I’ve ever known.”

—Maggie Mahaffey d’Allemand, ’77, Detroit Country Day School. 1994 Michigan Elementary Foreign Language Teacher of the Year, Michigan Foreign Language Association.

An elementary music teacher at Kentucky Country Day School in Louisville, LuAnn Erbes Hayes, ’81, has used summer grants to work with her colleagues in developing year-long programs for grades K-2 that challenge students to see the connections between music, language arts, science and math. So in an integrated unit on insects, she explains, the children used words rhyming with “ug” to create their own introductions to their favorite bug songs, and after learning how insects move, the youngsters added creative movements to accompany their songs. Hayes also has used the study of rhythm patterns to help get across basic math concepts. “The success of this program takes music beyond the walls of the music room and serves to better meet the distinct learning styles of our young students.”

(E-mail: lahayes86@cs.com)

“From Dr. Jim Cook I learned to pursue knowledge joyfully.

From Dr. Robina Quale I learned that ‘constructive criticism’ is objective, never sarcastic, specific—and the responsibility of a good teacher. She taught me that constructive criticism was necessary if I was to grow as a writer and thinker. From Dr. Clara Dixon I learned that all students, not just the brilliant ones, are important and worthy of enthusiastic interaction. From Prof. Nancy Graffam Held I learned how to teach, not because she had a step-by-step formula entitled ‘How to Teach,’ but because she was a superb teacher.”

—JoAnne Philipps Miller, ’66, Hillsdale Schools. Teacher/ adviser, Future Problem Solving (FPS) state champion; FPS Scenario Writing state champions (5), international champions (2); FPS Community Problem Solving state champions (2), international champion.

In her role as district-wide coordinator of Talented and Gifted Program Services for the Osseo (Minn.) schools, Elizabeth Harmon Carpenter, ’74, led a curriculum writing team composed of special education and gifted education teachers in elementary and secondary schools. The result was a staff development course, “Differentiating Instruction: A Way of Thinking.” The focus on meeting individual students’ needs by two groups often regarded as ‘opposites on the spectrum,’ she says, was particularly exciting. Earlier in her career, Carpenter developed the district-wide Peer Mediation Program, a conflict resolution program for elementary school students. The program was showcased at the University of Minnesota. (E-mail: carpenterb@osseo.k-12.mn.us)

“My Albion experience has had a strong influence on what I do today. Not only did the professors at Albion demand a high level of rigor, [but] students demanded complexity and rigor from their professors and courses as well. As students we were encouraged to go above and beyond minimum expectations, and produce papers and projects with depth and meaningful content. Professors were available to discuss concepts, ideas and steps toward reaching a goal. I was fortunate at Albion to be surrounded by high-ability students and faculty who were willing to work long hours and in great depth to reach goals.”

—Elizabeth Harmon Carpenter, ’74, Osseo (Minn.)

Schools.

Here are some creative approaches to teaching that keep learning dynamic and fun.

Within the Hillsdale schools, JoAnne Philipps Miller, ’66, established the Davis Middle School Video Team after producing a video called, “We Are All Different,” that won Best of Show in the Detroit Area Film and Theatre video contest. With community grant money, Miller upgraded the school’s equipment, and had her students research, write, produce, report on camera and edit “Portraits of Historic Hillsdale,” a year-long series on historic buildings and institutions in the county. The series received an Exemplary Program Award from the Michigan Education Association. Miller also coordinates a student-produced monthly news program about school activities, aired in the school and on a community-access television channel.

School Principal Rita Walker describes that “something” in Herrick as “strength of character and a peaceful heart.”

Herrick says, “I want my students to see and do things they normally wouldn’t and then I relate my teaching to that. All of these things give me beauty in my life. They bring me peace. I want to share what I love with these kids and through the arts expand their tolerance, acceptance and boundary lines. I want them to remember me as someone who respected them and helped them realize they were all readers and they were all writers. Being a teacher has allowed me to really express myself as a sociologist and as an artist.”

And so a legacy of inspired teaching continues.

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Defying limits

By Jennifer Hill Buehrer, ’90 Editor’s note: An advocate for people with disabilities, Jennifer Buehrer offers this first-person account of her work for a Michigan organization that has taken a particularly creative approach to improving the lives of people with disabilities through continuing education.

When we talk of education, most of us think of textbooks, bells ringing, papers written during all-night study sessions, or maybe “hallowed halls” like those on Albion’s campus quadrangle. As we get older, however, we realize that education extends far beyond traditional school settings and is indeed a lifelong process. Such is the case with advocacy programs for people with disabilities, including the one I coordinate, Michigan Partners in Policymaking.

In this statewide leadership training program for adults with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities, we provide intensive leadership and political advocacy training to a diverse group of 30 people each year from all over the state. It is a transforming experience for those who participate. Partners, as the students are called, emerge from the eight-month PHOTO COURTESY OF J. BUEHRER

Pauline is a 2001 graduate of Michigan Partners in Policymaking, a program coordinated by Jennifer Hill Buehrer, ’90. Brianna, her daughter, is her reason for participating in the class, and the inspiration for her advocacy and commitment to full inclusion for people with disabilities. They are shown here at the program’s graduation ceremony, May 12, 2001.

program with not only a wealth of knowledge and skills in political advocacy, but also a newfound confidence and understanding of their power as citizens and people with vision.

They hear from leaders in their field about such topics as inclusive education, assistive technology, employment, state and federal legislation, and independent living for people with significant disabilities. Two of Michigan’s state senators support the program by coming to a session each year and conducting mock legislative hearings, so the participants have a chance to practice giving testimony. Other speakers, drawn from across the country, have ranged from a woman with a disability who lived in institutions, to a former institutional employee, to a Washington lobbyist.

The program’s impact is increasingly far-reaching.

Parents whose children have disabilities such as autism or Down syndrome, which provide significant challenges to the children’s daily lives, discover that they have unwittingly accepted limits that others have placed on their children because of their disabilities.

They learn that their children truly can achieve anything, and they find a new determination that their children be treated like any others, without imposed limits or demeaning labels. Parents who have graduated from the program have founded their own non-profit organizations, have been elected to school boards and appointed to state-level boards and councils for policymaking institutions, and have even run for public office.

The fact that the partners are a mix of young adults with disabilities and parents of young children with disabilities—who end up being in the same age range— is a key element in the effectiveness of Partners in Policymaking and sets it apart from other programs.

Parents learn from their fellow partners what is possible for their own children as they grow into adulthood.

They also learn to create a fully inclusive community of their own by supporting each other throughout the program.

The changes in the partners who are adults with disabilities can be even more striking. Catherine, for example, has a physical disability and spent 15 of the first 20 years of her life in an institution for people with developmental disabilities in Mt. Pleasant—a victim of good intentions. Growing up in an institution, she never learned to read or write. She describes feeling abandoned, being treated poorly, and realizing that no one had any real expectations for her. Now a graduate of Partners in Policymaking, Catherine is married and living independently with the support of personal assistants. She reads, writes and speaks up for herself.

She talks to groups and presents at conferences about her experiences, and has begun to communicate with her legislators about problems with building accessibility for people who use wheelchairs.

Mark also has a developmental disability and lives in a rural area of Michigan, where there is no transportation for people who cannot drive. Since graduating from the Partners in Policymaking program, Mark has become involved in the transportation council in his community, and was instrumental in the development of a public transportation system that will serve his

entire county beginning this summer. Having conquered that task, he is setting his sights on establishing a bicycle path along several miles of the river running through his area that will allow people using wheelchairs, as well as those using bikes, to enjoy the natural beauty of the river. In his “free time,” he advises his local mental health agency on issues pertaining to the rights of people who use their services.

Coordinating this leadership program has been a humbling experience for me. I sit through the eight training sessions with the partners each year and essentially watch the light bulbs go on over their heads.

I see them transform their thinking and their expectations right before my eyes. It gives me a lot of hope for the future and the possibility that our communities will truly be inclusive. It is also satisfying to me that the network of partners across the country is growing rapidly, and more and more people share my vision.

As I hear both the program speakers and participants describe the trials and the triumphs they have experienced, and their newfound hope for meaningful lives for themselves or their children, I find new inspiration and am reminded once again why I do what I do. I can’t overstate the importance of including all our citizens in our communities, and making that possible in any way we can.

After graduating from Albion, Jennifer Hill Buehrer worked for three years in the mental health field as a social worker. She then earned her master of social work degree from Michigan State University, and became involved in civil rights advocacy for people with disabilities, through a graduate school internship. She worked for Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Inc. for five years, as both an advocate and a supervisor. There she became involved and interested specifically in systems-wide advocacy for people with disabilities.

Last year, she took over coordinating the Partners in Policymaking program.

Michigan Partners in Policymaking is funded by a grant from the Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council, and implemented through the Washtenaw Association for Community Advocacy in Ann Arbor.

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Lessons from the Holocaust Honoring those who died in the Holocaust—and those who risked their lives to save Jews and others who faced certain death—was the focus of a weeklong visit to Poland by 16 Albion College students and four faculty members this past spring.

The May 12-19 “service-learning” trip was dedicated to helping reclaim the heritage of the Jewish community in Central Europe that was devastated by the Holocaust.

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The visit climaxed in a ceremony in Krakow to dedicate a large plaque at the factory once owned by Oskar Schindler. Schindler, the Czech-born German entrepreneur who helped save more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them at his plant, was immortalized in the book and movie Schindler’s List. The group also joined with students and faculty from Alma College to help restore a Jewish cemetery in Wroclaw, Poland. A visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp concluded the trip.

The Schindler plaque was the brainchild of May graduate Zachary Kleinsasser. A history major, Kleinsasser was struck by the factory’s lack of an historical marker when he was on an Albion-sponsored Holocaust study trip to Poland two years ago. After lengthy negotiations with the Polish government and with community and Jewish organizations, Kleinsasser finally got the go-ahead from Polish officials and the plaque was dedicated in a special ceremony at the Krakow factory site May 19. Albion student Barbara Grabas, who speaks Polish, assisted with the effort.

The ceremony almost didn’t happen after the plaque was detained briefly by Polish customs officials and then was lost in transit between Warsaw and Krakow. It arrived only hours before the Albion group was to leave Poland.

Support for the project, including the casting of the 100-pound bronze plaque, came from around the world, including Israel, home of many self-proclaimed Schindlerjuden (“Schindler’s Jews”).

The accompanying photos and articles (through p. 10) tell the story of the trip to Poland and of the continuing efforts to educate the campus and the broader community about the Holocaust.

Constructing a community of memory

By Geoffrey Cocks Royal G. Hall Professor of History Such trips as the one we took to Poland this May are an essential part of the liberal arts mission of Albion College. Students on this trip acted upon their knowledge of the history of the Holocaust and of Central

Europe to help keep alive the physical evidence of an entire community lost during the Second World War. The Holocaust is the quintessential story of the abuse of human power and human passion. Never before or since has an entire group of millions of people—men, women, children and infants—been targeted for complete extermination. In many parts of Eastern Europe in particular the Nazis largely accomplished their aim—only the graves of Jews are left. And these graves themselves are

(Left and above) To help restore a Jewish cemetery in Wroclaw, Poland, those on Albion’s service-learning trip in May joined with Alma College students and faculty in clearing underbrush from around grave markers and opening up walkways for visitors. The cemetery had essentially been abandoned since the Second World War. Pictured are Albion students Sarah Smith and Seth Miller.

A Polish national television crew interviewed members of the Albion group, including political scientist Myron Levine, about the cemetery restoration effort.

After seeing the broadcast, local residents came the next day and brought food for the workers and congratulated them for their efforts.

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History professor Geoffrey Cocks (center) and students tour the central square in Krakow, Poland. The group later visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as part of the trip.

most often left to the unkind and relentless forces of nature because there is no Jewish community left to care for them.

To restore Jewish cemeteries in this part of the world, therefore, is to assist those few Jews—and those many more non-Jews—living in Eastern and Central Europe in the active construction of a community of memory that brands the evil of Nazism indelibly on the consciousness of those living in the present and thus promotes an enriched sense of civic responsibility for all members of contemporary society in the region.

The same results are won from our dedication of a plaque honoring the rescue work of Oskar Schindler, to be placed on his former factory in Krakow. This plaque will serve to remind visitors from around the world that evil can—and must—be opposed and defeated.

Albion students benefit greatly from such a program as this one. It not only makes what they have learned more meaningful, it inspires them to learn more and to apply their learning to the betterment of society in their careers beyond college. They have the deep satisfaction of using their education, their time and their labor for the benefit of others.

The cemetery restoration work in Wroclaw is especially and immediately satisfying. The small Jewish community there has asked us to clear the paths of this large (26-acre) cemetery first so that people can at least visit the various sections of the graveyard. This clearing of paths goes relatively rapidly, if also laboriously. On the second day of our work this year

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Albion students and faculty gather around the plaque they presented May 19 to commemorate the factory in Krakow where Oskar Schindler saved the lives of over 1,000 Jews during World War II. Pictured are: (kneeling) Lynsey Kluever, Zack Kleinsasser, Heidi Hankey, Barbara Grabas, Geoffrey Cocks (history); (standing) Sarianna Metso (religious studies), Abby Brown, Maddie Page-Wood, Seth Miller, Becky Anderson, Sarah Cooper, Mike Elliott, Roman Reznikov, Marshall Houserman, Larry Lloyd, Sarah Smith, Myron Levine (political science), Erin Harrelson, Adam Dontz and Frank Frick (religious studies). Kleinsasser, who led the effort to create the plaque, offered these words during the dedication ceremony: “This commemorative plaque inspires us, reminding us that it is possible to fight prejudice, discrimination and hatred. [It] reminds us that one individual can make a difference. Indeed, the plaque forever tells the world that “whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.” Joachim Russek, director of the Judaica Foundation Center for Jewish Culture in Krakow, took possession of the plaque until its actual affixing to the factory can be accomplished.

we had the satisfaction of seeing an elderly woman walking down a path we had cleared the day before.

Our work also gained the attention of the evening news on the Polish national television network. Our students and faculty were interviewed, and the next day an older couple from Wroclaw who saw the broadcast showed up with doughnuts and expressions of appreciation of the work we were doing.

The work can also be sad, but therefore even more meaningful. On our last day of work we noticed a tall gravestone along the path we had cleared the day before. It was that of Magda Aschoff, “our beloved only daughter,” who died at the age of 20 and had been born 100 years ago to the very day, May 17, on which we were contemplating her gravestone. Along the same path were many Jews who died in the 1930s and 1940s, when the Nazis were in power, and we were saddened to reflect on what the last years of their lives must have been like. But that sadness only made us work harder to undo some of the damage that the Nazis had done to these lives and, in spirit, to all human beings.

The work begun by Alma College in 1999 and continued by them and us in 2001 is only the beginning. We plan to return to Wroclaw with a new group of students every other year from now on. This would be a realization of the aim of the Venture Grant we

received from the Michigan Campus Compact that seeks to establish long-term community-building projects. Alma is actively involved in seeking other colleges to join in this restoration work. If enough colleges sign on, then full restoration of the cemetery can occur within 20 to 30 years. Such collaboration among colleges is an admirable end in itself as well as being a model service-learning project for students and faculty.

Contributions toward the cost of the commemorative plaque are still being accepted at: Office of Academic Affairs, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224. Gifts should be designated for “Schindler Plaque.”

Morris Arvoy, director of media relations, contributed to this coverage of Holocaust studies at Albion.

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At the College’s spring Honors Convocation, Bruce Kresge, ’53, (center) received the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation’s Stanley S. Kresge Trusteeship Award. He is pictured with George Miller (left), foundation president, and President Peter Mitchell. Bruce Kresge has continued a tradition of involvement on the Albion College Board of Trustees that began with his grandfather, S.S. Kresge, and continued with his father, Stanley Kresge, ’23, for whom the foundation award is named.

Bruce Kresge honored by UMC and College Long-time trustee Bruce Kresge was recognized for his dedicated service to Albion College with a prestigious United Methodist Church award and an honorary degree at Albion’s annual Honors Convocation April 19.

George Miller, president of the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation, and John Marshall, president of the Kresge Foundation, presented the Higher Education Foundation’s Stanley S. Kresge Trusteeship Award to the 1953 alumnus, who has been a member of the Albion board since 1972. The award is named for Bruce Kresge’s late father, a 1923 Albion graduate and also a trustee.

“Bruce Kresge has consistently demonstrated effective leadership, generosity, ethical conduct and sensitivity to the ethos and mission of the College,” Miller said during the ceremony. “In doing so, he has become a role model for his fellow Albion trustees. In addition, his stalwart service to his local United Methodist Church, to the Detroit Conference of the United Methodist Church and to United Methodist higher education as a trustee of the Kresge Foundation all make him an outstanding candidate for this award.”

In presenting the award, the Higher Education Foundation also established a $10,000 scholarship endowment for Albion students.

Also during the convocation Kresge received an honorary doctor of science degree from Albion. A graduate of Wayne State University Medical School, Kresge served as a family practice physician in the Detroit area

for 30 years. In addition, he is board chair of the Kresge Foundation in Troy.

In the citation for the honorary degree, President Peter Mitchell observed, “Bruce Kresge has occupied nearly every major leadership role on the Albion College Board of Trustees during his 29-year tenure with the board. In his pivotal role on the board’s Academic Affairs Committee, Dr. Kresge employed his insight and consensus-building skills in facilitating the adoption of Albion’s Vision for the future, Liberal Arts at Work.

He advocated for the Vision’s ultimately unanimous endorsement and championed the financial support necessary to begin the Vision’s implementation.”

As a donor, Kresge, along with his wife, Peggy Sale Kresge, ’53, created the Kresge Science Fellows endowment, one of the College’s first programs dedicated to summer research opportunities for students.

This summer marks the sixth year students will benefit from research supported by the Kresges. The Kresge family’s interest in education is also evident in the establishment of the Stanley S. Kresge Endowed Professorship in Religious Studies at Albion.

Albion College has proven itself to be a state leader in community service, according to the Michigan Campus Compact (MCC). Five Albion students were honored for their commitment to community service at the annual Michigan Campus Compact Awards Ceremony in April.

MCC’s Outstanding Community Impact Award, given to only five college students in the state, went to two Albion students, Melissa Siebers and Cassandra Davis.

Danielle Crane, Paul Garabelli and Cortney Schaffer received Heart and Soul service awards for commitment to community, and Jennifer Wolf won the Commitment to Service Award for sustained commitment to a specific service project for more than one year.

“These students represent Albion College’s Vision—Liberal Arts at Work—in the fullest and best sense, using knowledge and wisdom to improve the human condition,” said President Peter Mitchell of the awards.

Albion College is a founding member of MCC, a coalition of 32 public and private colleges and universities in Michigan that are committed to service learning and volunteerism.

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College Choir sings at Carnegie Hall

The concert was a family affair for these alumni: (from left) Jim and Tamara Transue Royle, both ’63, and daughter Megan Royle, ’95; David “Colby” Martin, ’56, and daughter Pamela Martin Meier, ’80; and Bob Wallis, ’66, and daughter Beth Wallis Kraemer.

By Jake Weber and Sarah Briggs If you happened to see students in purple choir robes flickering across your screen as you watched the “Today” show June 1, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. Those were indeed Albion College Choir members who gathered at Rockefeller Plaza outside the NBC Studios to let everyone know that the Britons were performing in New York City—at Carnegie Hall, no less.

More than 70 Albion College students, professors and alumni performed together at Carnegie Hall on June 3, as part of the Carnegie Hall Masterwork Series. The concert and related travel was underwritten in part by the College.

The choir sang the Faure Requiem in Latin, as well as Brahms’ “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place,” and the College’s alma mater, “Albion, Dear Albion.” The Faure piece was conducted by Douglas Rose, Albion’s director of choirs. Melvin Larimer, ’53, professor emeritus of music, conducted the latter two numbers.

“The Carnegie Hall concert was, in a sense, a magnificent celebration of Albion’s strong choral tradition,” Rose said. “It was fun for the students to give a joint performance with choir alumni at a premier concert hall, but it was also an opportunity for those students to see how seriously their forebears were—and still are—about achieving musical

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A massed choir of alumni, current students and faculty performed the Faure Requiem with the New York Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall June 3. excellence. The students now have a better sense of how important the choral tradition at Albion really is. I also believe that it was good for the alumni to experience our students and to see that the legacy is in good hands.”

Rose said preparing for the concert was a logistical challenge since the alumni singers came from many locations across the U.S. and beyond. Barbara Brown Katsurada, ’70, and her daughter, Rei, came from Japan to join the massed chorus. While the on-campus members of the ensemble had been rehearsing together since January, the 35 alumni involved didn’t join the group until three days before the concert.

“I had to trust that everyone would practice on their own, and come to New York knowing their notes,” Rose said.

To assist the alumni singers, Rose created an interactive choir Web site so that they could practice with the music on their personal computers.

“I just kept thinking that we were on that stage where [so many] famous people have stood,” said sophomore choir member Lisa Walden. “It was really neat to think . . . it was our turn to be up there . . . that Albion College was there and given the opportunity to sing to all those people.”

Former Albion choir director Mel Larimer, ’53, spoke during a pre-concert reception.

Larimer also conducted two selections during the concert.

The alumni were equally enthusiastic.

“Thank you, Albion, for the opportunity of a lifetime—Carnegie Hall!” said Pamela Campbell Smith, ’74. “Let’s do it again.”

A reception for more than 200 Albion College alumni, students, parents and friends was held at Carnegie Hall before the concert.

More photos from this event appear at: www.albion.edu/ac_news/releases/ carnegiehall.asp

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Saluting leaders in teaching, research on campus Editor’s note: The four Albion faculty members featured below retired from active teaching this spring. These profiles recognize the extraordinary contributions each has made in the classroom, in scholarship and in service to Albion College and the Greater Albion community. (Alumni who wish to contact these or any other retired faculty will find their addresses on p. 20.)

Robert Armstrong, chemistry

by Annie Topie For professor Robert Armstrong, this year has been a time for completions. In April, with his grandchildren looking on, Armstrong completed his 17th gallon of blood donated to the American Red Cross in Albion, just in time to attend the Chemistry Department symposium given in his honor that same day.

Armstrong spent much of the year overseeing the completion of the Albion College Habitat for Humanity’s first house. And last but not least, in May Armstrong completed his career teaching chemistry at Albion College.

For the past 27 years, Armstrong has had the challenge not only of teaching, but keeping up with developments in biochemistry, which have expanded exponentially since his student days. “Eighty percent of what I know I have learned since I left graduate school,” Armstrong explains. “It’s mindboggling to keep up with the changes.”

Armstrong has enjoyed a reputation as being a difficult teacher. His daughter and former student, Robin Armstrong Arntz, ’92, often used her mother’s maiden name while a student, and remembers her father was a frequent topic of complaint among her peers.

However, says Arntz, “I’d seen students come back after going to medical school and say, ‘Thank you so much. In med school, I breezed through biochemistry when everybody else was failing.’ So I saw the appreciation down the road. . . .”

“It has been rewarding to have former students come back and say biochemistry in medical school is easier than at Albion,” Armstrong agrees. “Because of that they’ve been more successful in other medical courses.”

At some point in their four years on campus, Armstrong taught most of the students who were headed to health care careers, and he served throughout his tenure on the College’s Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Advisory Committee.

“Dr. Armstrong’s mentoring clearly influenced me to pursue a research career in human biology,” says Albion College trustee Jim Wilson,’77, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Human Gene Therapy. Wilson notes that Armstrong “brought biochemistry and molecular biology to undergraduate education when it was in its infancy, [and] this positioned Albion students to be competitive and have insight into the future of biomedical research.”

Armstrong also employed his teaching talents during his 20 years of service to the local ambulance service. Along with being an emergency medical technician (EMT), he has served as an unofficial on-the-job teacher for numerous Albion College student EMTs over the years.

“When I started, I learned everything I did from people like him . . . he was very good under pressure, never got uptight, was able to take control of situations very quickly,” says Frank Broccolo, ’99, who Armstrong worked with Armstrong for four years, both in class and in the ambulance service.

“I knew I didn’t want to do emergency medicine as a career, but Dr. Armstrong gave me really great experience in the field and was always encouraging me,” says Broccolo, who recently completed a master’s degree in biomedicine and plans to continue to medical school. “I think I may actually like to do emergency medicine now, as so much of my experience has been pre-hospital care.”

After the ambulance service was restructured in 1999, Armstrong turned his service focus to the Albion College student chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The group had started its first house, but it became clear that the house would not be finished before school let out in May 2000, and none of the group members were available to work on it over the summer. “He has dedicated endless hours towards this house in the past year,” says Elizabeth Mettler, ’03, president of ACHH, explaining that Armstrong worked, often alone, all summer so that the family could move into its house in the fall.

Armstrong’s efforts were recognized this past spring with the Bridge Award, given annually by the Office of Campus Programs and Organizations to the faculty member who has done the most to foster faculty/student relations. “His [work] goes beyond the teaching of building skills—he teaches life skills by the example he sets at the site,” Mettler adds.

“As I look back, I couldn’t have thought of a better place to work for 27 years,” muses Armstrong, who spent his early career teaching at the University of Michigan. “The department here has been a very cohesive, friendly and cooperative group. It has been a great place to work.”

Now he is eager to start his retirement plans, which don’t include “taking it easy.”

“I’m looking forward to getting another Habitat house up and tackling more of my own projects,” he explained. “I definitely think I will miss teaching, but it is time to move on.”

In recognition of Bob Armstrong’s career at Albion, the Chemistry Department sponsored lectures in March by two of his former students. Laura Fleck, ’81, director of the Conservative Spine Care Program at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, spoke on

“Progress in Pain Management: A Historical Perspective.” Brian Vande Berg, ’90, a researcher with the National Institutes of Health in Durham, N.C., reflected on his current explorations in his presentation Baumgartner on “DNA Polymerase Beta: How Does It Work?”

Ingeborg Baumgartner, foreign languages

By Jake Weber Right up until she retired from Albion this spring, foreign languages professor Ingeborg Baumgartner was refining her course outlines and experimenting with new teaching techniques. Whether it was exploring the subtleties of expression in the classics of German literature or pursuing the fine points of grammar in Russian, she viewed each course as an opportunity to engage her students in subjects she loves and to open a window on other cultures.

“I teach advanced German now, and I never could have done that without Inge,” says Barbara Weidendorf, ’83. Weidendorf, who currently teaches German and economics in West Bloomfield, notes that Baumgartner has continued to mentor her in the nearly 20 years since her graduation. “When I return to Albion [every year] for Homecoming . . . she has always shared what is new in her classroom. . . . Despite the fact that Homecoming occurs in October, she always has had preliminary plans for the summer to share with me.”

“She was always seeking to improve her instruction and find new ways to connect with students,” continues Weidendorf. “I see this example as a challenge to me—to keep what works and modify or discard what doesn’t.”

At a college where individualized attention for students is emphasized, Baumgartner believes foreign language instruction brings an extra intensity to the faculty-student relationship. In the case of Albion’s twoperson German faculty, that relationship begins with the introductory classes and grows as students progress through the major.

Knowing all her students from their first days on campus, says Baumgartner, gave her the opportunity—as well as the responsibility—to tailor classes, semester by semester, for the students who would be taking them.

“Language teaching is difficult because the hierarchy [between professor and student] is very clear. It is difficult for language teachers to make students feel comfortable. . . . You feel your way to find out what they are interested in and go from there.”

While her teaching has always come first, Baumgartner also has been actively involved in research on modern German writers.

Novelist Thomas Mann has been a primary focus of her work over the past two decades.

Baumgartner explains that Mann, a Nobel laureate, made voluminous notes while writing his complex novels. Those notes provide a fascinating sub-text to Mann’s writing, she says, and reveal how his views on life and living evolved over time.

Baumgartner’s work in analyzing Mann’s writing led to her being named the College’s first Howard L. MacGregor, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in 1995. The professorship enabled her to spend several months at the Mann archives in Zurich, Switzerland, and to purchase research materials. “Copies of Mann’s diaries alone are expensive,” she notes. “But I was able to do so much having them here.”

As a result of her intimate knowledge of Berlin and her abiding interest in the history of the Habsburgs and the intricate relationship between Austria and Bohemia, Baumgartner began developing one of the College’s earliest First-Year Seminars, a comparative study of Berlin, Vienna and Prague. “That course . . . gave me a chance to explore disciplines that are related to foreign languages and foreign places,” she explains. It examined the three cities’ political and social history along with their rich traditions in art, architecture, music and film. It was also the first seminar to incorporate international travel; with College

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Frank Frick, religious studies

By Lynsey Kluever Serving as the College chaplain . . . teaching classes and chairing the Religious Studies Department . . . authoring four books on ancient Israel . . . conducting archaeological expeditions in Israel . . . establishing and directing Albion’s South Africa and Jerusalem programs . . . through all of these roles, Frank Frick’s name has become synonymous with religious study and enthusiastic scholarship.

“I’m really going to miss Albion,” he says, reflecting on the difficulty of clearing out his office. “You can’t just walk away after 32 years. I pick up a book, and it’s loaded with memories.”

An Old Testament scholar with a 25-year research interest in the archaeology of ancient Israel, Frick has made several trips to Israel related to this research and as director of the Great Lakes Jerusalem Program. While studying ancient Israel, however, Frick’s

interactions with the region’s current citizens sparked an interest in another focal point of Jewish history—the Holocaust. “After I had been to Israel I wanted to help our students see Judaism as a living tradition, not a museum piece as it has sometimes been seen in Christian theology,” he explains.

In 1988, Frick enlisted the assistance of history professor Geoffrey Cocks and other faculty members to organize a symposium on contemporary implications of the Holocaust, a subject that was just beginning to generate interest in the United States. Since then, Frick and Cocks have also collaboratively taught First-Year Seminars on the Holocaust, and Frick has woven the subject into other courses as well. In April of this year, he coordinated Albion’s second Holocaust symposium, which brought nationally prominent scholars and experts to address the Holocaust and moral responsibility.

The enormous effort Frick has dedicated to Holocaust studies has not diminished his reputation as a nurturing and inspiring teacher. Heather Schmidt, a May graduate who wrote honors theses in both biology and religious studies, recalls being shocked when her adviser placed her in one of Frick’s classes. Now, however, “I want to be Dr. Frick when I grow up, after medical school, when I may be better able to grow a beard,” Schmidt teases. “I do plan on [attending divinity school] after [medical school], to strengthen my position as a doctor and a human. Dr. Frick has been a source of wisdom and inspiration in both my career at Albion and in my growth as a person.”

“Dr. Frick has introduced me to new subjects and helped me discover my own academic passions,” says current student Madolene Page-Wood, who has twice traveled to Europe with Frick on Holocaust-related trips. “Dr. Frick makes it seem as though he’s there to learn from the students just as much as the students are there to learn from him.”

Challenging himself and his students with new ideas and experiences is one of Frick’s greatest teaching pleasures. He explains that he encourages students to critically examine their religious beliefs. For some students, says Frick, his classes are comparable to a “timebomb. . . . They don’t really know what’s happening until it’s all over. They look back at [what they learned] later and realize, ‘Wow, that experience really changed me.’”

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“Some of the top [German literature scholars] work at Vanderbilt, and I realized when I came here I was really well prepared for what I needed to do,” says Deanna Tingley Kendall, ’93, a doctoral student in German literature at Vanderbilt University. “[Dr. Baumgartner] taught us to have fun with German, how to be comfortable in a foreign language and have a good understanding of the culture. Plus, she also taught me how to research well. When I was a senior, I won a pretty hefty research award that I had not even expected, thanks to her.”

Baumgartner looks back over her 35 years at Albion with no regrets. A native of Czechoslovakia who earned all of her degrees at major research universities, she admits she knew little about liberal arts colleges when she took the job at Albion. But she quickly found a home here.

“It has been such a wonderful experience,” she muses. “Two-thirds of the year I have had a responsibility to students. One-third of the year I have been able to recharge my batteries and learn more and become my own teacher, so to speak.”

In retirement, Baumgartner now will have time for composing essays on contemporary German writers, including Elisabeth Plessen and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and rereading all of Thomas Mann’s works.

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Frick also plans to work on the second edition of his Old Testament textbook, A Journey through the Hebrew Scriptures, for his publisher, Harcourt, and to write and take photographs for a catalog of historical Bibles owned by the College. He also looks forward to writing Ordinary People: A Story of Moral Courage, a book about Gentile rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, inspired by one of his students, Zack Kleinsasser, ’01.

William Gillham, religious studies

By Jake Weber When William Gillham arrived at Albion in 1961, it was a “different era” on campus.

Chapel was required of all students. Faculty members chaperoned at fraternity functions, and women still had regulated “hours” when they had to return to the residence halls at night. The honors program and the unit system were not yet part of the academic program. And, says the professor of religious studies of his first year at Albion, he was considered by some as one of the campus radicals.

“When I first came here, I doubled the Philosophy Department and the Religion Department,” smiles Gillham. “There was one man in religion and one in philosophy, and I came and split my time between the two departments.”

Over the ensuing 40 years, Gillham burnished a reputation as a classicist whose teaching is firmly grounded in the traditional canon of great works, and the truths he believes they hold. “As far as I’m concerned, a liberal arts education should give students a spectrum of what the great minds have thought,” he says. “Through the ages, people have lived and died by these works. The emphasis today is on teaching students how to think, not what to think. But I believe these works hold a truth [without which our teaching] is simply method and process, [not] substance.”

“Dr. Gillham was exacting and demanding as a professor,” says President Peter T. Mitchell, one of Gillham’s former students.

“He inspired me to go beyond simplistic understanding . . . he challenged me to be not only a critical thinker, but also a person who

tries to merge thought with faith and action.”

“I was terrified in my first class with Dr. Gillham,” says Meredith Thompson Hall, ’00, who switched her major from biology to religious studies during her sophomore year. “[Theology] was a higher-level thinking class, and I was used to multiple-choice biology exams.” Hall recalls that even Gillham’s sense of humor was highly intellectual. “He would make jokes about the readings, and people who were only reading the literal meaning of the texts would look at him like he was crazy. I would always laugh, and I think that’s how he knew I was doing what he wanted me to do.”

Gillham’s interest in the liberal arts led him to help develop the first interdisciplinary “Basic Ideas” courses, and the present-day honors seminars. “Our original plan [for the honors program] was just to have two courses, in the sciences and humanities. So those of us who taught the first humanities honors seminars had everything to cover but the sciences.”

Gillham continued working social science and fine arts materials into his courses, up to the First-Year Seminar on religion and the arts he taught from 1997 to 1999. “Dr. Gillham opened my eyes to Van Gogh, Mozart, euthanasia, the death penalty, and so much more,” says Yvette Girard, who just graduated in May. “As I enter the courtroom a few years from now, it will be with an increased ethical awareness. . . . I am blessed to have Dr. Gillham’s words to fall back on.”

In the 1970s, Gillham served on faculty committees that produced the then-controversial unit system (for awarding course credit) and formal tenure review guidelines, and he helped develop the first student evaluations for faculty. “There was some grumbling,” he notes, “but over time, I think most came to see these changes as good.”

“It was Bill Gillham who strongly changed my life by almost forcing me to apply to Yale,” says William Ritter, ’62. “I had applied to a regional divinity school. . . . When Bill said words like Yale and Harvard, I thought he was utterly ridiculous. In reality, he knew better than I about my capacities. . . . I was accepted to Yale, and he as much as said ‘I told you so.’”

“That represented my first serious foray out of Michigan, and learning that I was able to cut it in that kind of world was an eyeopening experience for me,” Ritter continues.

“I would not have made the right choices I made without his strong input into my life.”

The retirements of Frank Frick and Bill Gillham, following that of Johan Stohl in 1995, bring to an end the “trinity,” as students often humorously referred to the three-person faculty in the Religious Studies Department. In recognition of this “end of an era” and to honor Frick and Gillham as they concluded their Albion careers, the department sponsored a colloquium April 20 entitled “Religious Studies and the Liberal Arts.”

Moderated by current department chair Selva Raj, the program included presentations by Frick and Gillham along with Barry Petrucci, ’82, Richard Baird, ’78, and President Peter Mitchell, ’67. Graduating senior Yvette Girard read a benediction for the occasion written by William Ritter, ’62.

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(Left) Peter Hart greeted Albion students, faculty and staff, alumni, trustees and local community residents at a reception on campus May 25.

At that time, he also announced a gift he and his wife, Maureen, have made to create an endowment honoring his parents, Peter W. and Mary S. Hart. The endowment, established as part of the College’s LIBERAL ARTS AT WORK capital campaign, will support library acquisitions.

(Below) Hart talks with College trustee Paul “Skip” Ungrodt, ’52, (left) and Ben Hancock, Albion’s vice president for institutional advancement, during the reception.

By Robin Hartman Peter Hart, formerly the senior associate director of athletics at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, has become director of athletics at Albion College, effective July 1. In this capacity, Hart oversees Albion’s 18-sport varsity program and works with donors, alumni and parents in promoting Briton athletics.

“Peter is an excellent hire for Albion,” said President Peter Mitchell. “His intelligence, creativity, experience at outstanding institutions, and commitment to the scholar-athlete make him ideally suited to achieve our goal of being a model Division III program.”

Hart earned an undergraduate degree in political science from Northwestern University and a master’s in sports management at the University of Massachusetts. Since then, he has had a nearly coast-to-coast relationship with athletics and recreation as an administrator. His responsibilities at the University of Hartford included direct supervision of the university’s Division I programs for men’s and women’s basketball and men’s and women’s soccer, as well as all internal operations of the athletic department.

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Before coming to Hartford, Hart served as assistant athletic director of development and finance at both the University of Utah and the University of Connecticut; assistant athletic director for business at the College of William and Mary in Virginia; and assistant to the dean of the college at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Hart has experience in nearly every phase of athletic operation, including fund-raising, development of capital improvement plans, media relations, initiation of strength and conditioning programs, facility renovation, ticket sales and budget development.

“I am delighted to be a Briton,” Hart said.

“Albion student-athletes represent the best that intercollegiate athletics has to offer, so I’m thrilled to be able to work with our coaches and student-athletes to make an outstanding athletics program even better.”

Hart will direct a comprehensive program at Albion that has more than 300 athletes

Gerstacker grants aid three ‘Smart Community’ initiatives

By Morris Arvoy Three Albion area organizations are the first community beneficiaries of the $2-million Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation grant, which was made to Albion College in September 2000. The first series of grants has been awarded to a technology incubator, local Smart Centers, and Kids ’N Stuff, a downtown children’s museum, according to President Peter Mitchell.

“With the help of this funding, these three organizations will further increase Albion’s reputation not only as a ‘Smart Community,’ but also as a great place to live,” Mitchell says. “When it made its original grant to the College, the Gerstacker Foundation recognized Albion as a leader among small Michigan communities.”

The original $2-million grant to the College from the Gerstacker Foundation stipulated that half of the money be earmarked for projects in the Albion community. The remaining $1-million is to be used to endow the Carl A. Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute for Professional Management at the College.

“Albion is fortunate to have friends such as the Gerstacker Foundation, and initiatives such as the Kids ’N Stuff children’s museum, the Smart Centers and the technology incubator,” Mitchell adds. “These three grants are intended to fuel economic development and leverage additional money for Albion.”

Under the terms of the Gerstacker grants to the community, according to Mitchell, the Albion technology incubator program will receive $90,000—of which $10,000 will go to the Smart Center program. Kids ’N Stuff: An Interactive Experience for Kids will receive $110,000.

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“Albion is a community that is strategically poised to take the lead in the county and beyond, and the Gerstacker grants will position us to realize these goals,” says Peggy Sindt, executive director of the Albion Economic Development Corporation (EDC).

“It is a perfect example of the College and the community coming together to provide more opportunities for the people of Albion and the region.”

The EDC-managed technology incubator will foster the development of new manufacturing, technology, service and commercial sectors in the Albion area. Assisting entrepreneurs in starting and developing businesses will be a major focus, resulting in more jobs and increasing the tax base, according to Sindt. She will leverage the $80,000 in her quest to secure at least $250,000 necessary to launch the technology incubator. Preliminary plans call for the incubator to be located on Austin Avenue in Albion, where it will serve as a catalyst for development of that neighborhood.

Further funding of the Smart Centers will bring additional free computer training and resources to underserved populations in the Albion community, according to city officials in charge of the project. The $10,000 will be used to match a similar commitment from the City of Albion, and together the funds will be used to secure the third $10,000 to underwrite the four Smart Centers for a full year.

Kids ’N Stuff (KNS), the interactive children’s museum planned for the former J.C. Penney’s building in downtown Albion, will combine the arts, science and technology in providing educational opportunities for the region’s children. The project’s organizers say $10,000 of the Gerstacker grant to the

participating in 18 sports, nine for men and nine for women.

Ten sports—men’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, football, women’s golf, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and men’s and women’s track and field—have had NCAA Division III postseason representation on either an individual or team basis in the past decade.

Hart’s hiring completes a restructuring of the Albion athletic department administrative staff. Beth Lincoln, associate dean of athletics

since 1999, has now returned to teaching duties in the College’s Geology Department.

Jim Conway and Annamarie Wyant will remain as associate directors for men’s and women’s athletics, respectively.

museum will serve as the match for a grant to make the facility handicapped-accessible. The remaining $100,000 will be a challenge grant to help attract further funding for the museum’s $600,000 capital campaign.

“The level of excitement about the prospect of a children’s museum in Albion, coupled with the commitment of the KNS board and steering committee, is truly

significant,” says Becky Mitchell, chair of the KNS board. “With Gerstacker support, we will make Kids ’N Stuff a wonderful asset to the Greater Albion community, as well as both a resource and tourist destination for all of south central Michigan.”

Scott Dillery, ’83, was recently named as the executive director for the museum, slated to open in late 2001.

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority chartered

sponsored a “Shadow Day,” during which local high school girls accompany members to their classes and other activities throughout the day, getting a real-life perspective of college. The Albion members have also collected winter coats for local charities, sent health- and personal-care items to African missions, assisted with emergency-response instruction in local elementary schools and promoted breast-cancer awareness on campus with AKA’s “Pink Lemonade Day.” Such activities are in keeping with the AKA national organization’s goals for global service. The sorority has recently established a school in rural South Africa and sponsors other programs that promote health care, economic empowerment, the black family and the arts.

AKA counts among its members astronaut and physician Mae Jemison, poet Maya Angelou, actress Phylicia Rashad and four Congresswomen.

“Seven Sisters” is now an apt description of Albion College’s Panhellenic system with the chartering this past April of the Sigma Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), an historically black sorority. Founded in 1908 at Howard University, AKA boasts more than 900 undergraduate and alumnae chapters in the U.S., United Kingdom, Korea and Caribbean region. “[AKA is] a cultural organization,” explains Latrina Denson, assistant director of multicultural affairs. “It will give the campus a lot of historical background and another aspect of African-American culture.”

The establishment of AKA at Albion began with the assistance of AKA graduate chapters in Ann Arbor and Lansing. Members of the graduate chapters sponsored the first six Albion College women who were inducted as AKA general members in fall 1999. The current Albion College chapter consists of five members, who were all initiated in 2000 and 2001.

Although the chapter is new on campus, Denson notes that its members did not wait for their official recognition before starting in on AKA service projects. For the past two years AKA members at Albion College have

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Commencement 2001 Sunny skies and cool temperatures were the order of the day for the commencement exercises for the Class of 2001 May 12. Cedric Dempsey, ’54, (left) president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, offered the commencement address, and Nicholas Cucinella spoke on behalf of the graduating class. Celebrating her accomplishments, along with her 304 classmates, was Chemica Brown (right). Earning top academic honors in the class were Zachary Kleinsasser, Andrea Smith and Stephanie Moore. Among the many locations where the May graduates will be found come next fall are: Harvard Law School, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, UBS/ PaineWebber, Accenture, General Motors, GE Capital, United States Geological Survey, Campus Crusade for Christ and Americorps.

Software adds interest to math

By Jake Weber Math continues to be one of the most challenging subjects for students of all grades—and for their teachers, who continually look for ways to make teaching math more enjoyable and effective. Some lucky Michigan students this upcoming school year will find learning math a little easier and more fun, thanks to the work of six new alumnae who will enter their future classrooms armed with mathematics education software they created while at Albion College.

Supported by the Ferguson Center for Technology-Aided Teaching and with additional funding from Ameritech, students Catherine Clay, Juli DeLucia, Katherine Jones, Brianne Rains, Valerie Skaleski and Sarah Wall spent much of their senior year researching, developing and producing software designed to help elementary- and middle-school students learn and practice their math skills.

Last fall, the six students first spent time with the teachers who would supervise their spring student teaching, identifying the math concepts that were most difficult for the children to grasp. Based on these teacher recommendations, the students each developed a teaching or reinforcement drill using HyperStudio, an interactive software program that creates “stacks” of ordered screens.

Children using the stacks can observe step-bystep directions for solving various problems, then work through similar problems on another stack. HyperStudio further assists teachers by keeping statistical data on each child’s performance, so teachers can easily monitor each child’s weak spots and improvements.

This past spring, during their student teaching, the students evaluated and polished their work by testing it on the children for whom it had been designed. “My kids loved it,” says Catherine Clay, who designed a fractions-and-percentages stack where students assist an inept sportswriter in figuring out game statistics. “They’d never been so quiet or took so many notes in their lives as they were when they started going through the tour of the game.”

Clay notes that her students weren’t the only ones interested in her work, or the only ones who had input in the final version. “A lot of my colleagues at the middle school took a look at it, and my principals took a look at it.

It was great to get different opinions on it from a variety of people.”

In recent years, teacher education has become increasingly attractive to Albion students. Some 180 current students say they intend to graduate with education certification. The Ferguson Center, says director Reuben Rubio, helps all education students develop the expertise, as well as the tools, gained by Clay and her colleagues.

“From a college sense, this HyperStudio collaboration is a finished project, but professionally it’s just a start,” says Rubio. “[These students] each got a whole set of tools they can use and modify [in the future].”

The Ferguson Center, Rubio explains, is affiliated with Michigan’s Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology (COATT). Albion College alumna Beth Albery, ’00, was the state’s first COATT certificate recipient, with a senior project that demonstrated the construction of a digital portfolio. “This group has taken the portfolio program a step further—they’re actively involved in pedagogy,” Rubio notes.

“Technology is what has put our education students above and beyond students at other schools,” says Clay. “I pass out CDs [of my project] at my job interviews, and even if administrators don’t look at it, it tells them I know how. Technology goes into all subject areas, and I’m ready to incorporate it into my curriculum.”

Editor’s note: Albion was recently notified that December 2000 graduate Brian Riordan has received the Michigan Certificate for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology (M-COATT). A member of the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service, Riordan completed a Spanish major and political science minor at Albion and will be teaching Spanish at Howell High School this fall.

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Hurdler earns All-America status; softball team wins league tournament

By Robin Hartman Albion College is a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and NCAA Division III. For the latest sports news, visit www.albion.edu/sports.

In league action, Albion was second in the regular season standings and at the MIAA championship. The Britons are coached by Dave Egnatuk.

Men’s track and field: Albion again

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made its presence felt at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championship, and for the second time in three years, fans witnessed an All-American performance by a Briton in the 400-meter hurdles.

Junior John Bennink earned his second All-American finish, placing sixth in the 400hurdle finals.

Bennink was third in the event as a freshman in 1999, but a knee injury kept him from a repeat attempt last year.

This spring, Bennink nearly repeated his efforts from two years earlier, finishing second in his heat in the championship trials before his sixth-place finish Bennink in the finals with a time of 53.43 seconds.

Bennink wasn’t the only Briton reaching the NCAA nationals.

Senior Britt Johnson set a school record in the 400-meter dash during the MIAA meet May 5, completing the distance in 48.07 seconds, then nearly matched that with a 48.33second effort at the nationals. He was 13th in the preliminary rounds.

Both Bennink and Johnson were part of the 4x400-meter relay team, which set a school record in a qualifying meet for the NCAA championship a week before the nationals. With sophomore Eric D’Andrea and senior Matt Muskan completing the foursome, Albion was 10th in the prelims, two spots short of reaching the finals.

Despite not running at the league meet, Bennink earned firstteam All-MIAA honors, along with Johnson and Muskan, who was a league champion in the 800-meter run. Also repeating as a league champion and All-MIAA selection was junior Jared Owens. Owens earned a first-place finish at the league championship in the long jump.

Albion’s women were a point away from placing third in the MIAA final standings.

It wasn’t for lack of trying, especially at long distances, where senior Rebekah Schultz led a strong group of runners. Schultz earned first-team All-MIAA honors with the help of two second-place performances at the league meet May 4-5. No Briton runner had broken 40 minutes in the 10,000-meter run until Schultz turned in a 39:31.05 time to complete the first day of the two-day meet. With less than 24 hours to recuperate, Schultz returned to the track the next day to finish second in the 5,000-meter run. She also had the team’s top times in the 3,000 and the steeplechase.

Another record-setting effort at the league meet was turned in by junior Jenn Grinage in the javelin. Grinage is now within a foot of becoming the first Briton woman to break the 120-foot mark in the event.

Like Schultz, freshman Amy Corrigan and sophomore Carey Czech turned in best performances in four events during the spring.

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Britt Johnson competed at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championship in two events, joining teammates John Bennink, Eric D’Andrea and Matt Muskan in the 1600-meter relay as well as running in the open 400.

Johnson set a school record in the 400 with a 48.09second time while winning the event at the MIAA championship May 5.

meter run. Czech had best marks in the high jump and long jump, as well as the 100 and 100 hurdles.

Amy Wolfgang was the women’s coach.

Softball: Albion capped a season of firsts under coach Karen Baird by winning its MIAA softball tournament championship, surprising regular season champion Alma College by beating the Scots twice on Alma’s home field.

Until this spring, Albion had never played more than 40 games in a softball season, nor won more than 17 games. The Britons broke the 20win barrier for the first time with a 10-4, 6-2 doubleheader sweep of Kalamazoo College April 12, and completed the 2001 season with a 45-game spring and 29-16 overall record.

Third in the regular season, Albion moved into second place in the final league standings, the highest finish ever for the Britons in the sport.

Alana Heikkinen was one of the league’s top softball Included in the record-breaking pitchers this past spring. The senior set a single-season season was the pitching of senior Albion record with 18 wins, posting a 1.33 earned run Alana Heikkinen, an 18-game average. winner with a 1.33 earned run average. and doubles play. Despite missing the MIAA Despite not having a single home run tournament due to illness, Greene also earned during the spring, Albion outslugged and first-team all-league honors, finishing the outran the opposition, stealing 43 bases in 55 spring with 16-2 records for both singles and attempts while scoring 184 runs to the doubles play. opponents’ 114. Senior outfielder Treasa Junior Emily Arend, whose 17 wins in Gourlay led the hitting and scoring parade, doubles play led the team, was a second-team finishing the spring with team highs of 50 All-MIAA selection. Arend and Greene made hits, 26 runs scored and 11 stolen bases while for a potent team at number two doubles, batting .347. Seven players drove in 10 or completing the spring with a 15-2 record. more runs, six starters batted .300 or better, Also posting winning records in singles and five finished the spring with 50 or more play were freshmen Karen Dumas, Kristen total bases.

Roskam and Maya Zayat, and senior Lynsey Men’s tennis: Finishing the spring with Kluever. Another freshman, Emily Radner, a 7-10 overall record doesn’t tell the whole concentrated on doubles play, winning 13 of story of Albion’s efforts in men’s tennis for 18 matches. the 2001 season.

Baseball: Albion College finished fifth in For the first time in better than a decade, the MIAA baseball race in 2001, finishing the Albion had a 3-2 dual meet record in league spring with an overall 14-22 record. play, getting regular season wins over Calvin, Despite the below .500 finish, three seniors Alma and Adrian. made significant contributions, particularly on Overall, Albion finished in a tie for fourth offense. Infielder/catcher Adam Goss led the in the final standings under coach Bob Britons in nearly every offensive category, Adkins, but the Britons drew attention from starting with a .442 batting average. One of league opponents for a top-to-bottom roster two players to start every game for Albion, balance not seen in the recent past.

Goss was the team leader in runs scored (26), Leading the charge was freshman David hits (50), doubles (10), home runs (7), runs Swan. MIAA coaches looked beyond Swan’s batted in (30), slugging percentage (.717), hit 6-14 overall record and named the first-year player to the all-league first team. Swan is just by pitch (11) and on-base percentage (.540).

Peter Sykes nearly matched Goss in the second Briton to earn first-team all-league batting average, finishing the season with a honors in men’s tennis since 1988. .364 mark. The team’s designated hitter was Meanwhile, three players finished the second in extra base hits with 13, and was one season with winning records in singles play. of two Britons to hit two home runs in a Freshman Brian Reed completed the spring game. He showed his power stroke with backwith a 12-9 mark at number three. Senior to-back roundtrippers against Wisconsin-Stout Steve Sexton was 11-10 at number four, in Florida. Outfielder Justin Newingham which was the same record for junior Matt drove in 22 runs while hitting .331.

Brady at number six singles.

Newingham was second to Goss in hits (41) Women’s tennis: A winning spring for and runs batted in (22), and was second Briton women’s tennis ended with a secondoverall in walks (19) and stolen bases (9). place overall finish in the MIAA and 14 wins Goss and junior outfielder Dan Dreyer in 18 dual matches. Bob Adkins coaches the were named to the All-MIAA second team at squad. season’s end. Jim Conway is coach.

Senior Tracy Gray and sophomore Amiee Greene led from the top. Gray earned firstteam All-MIAA honors while performing double duty at the top flight for both singles

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Class notes deadline The deadline for class notes appearing in this issue of Io Triumphe was May 4, 2001. Notes received after that date will appear in the next issue.

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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.

Murray Swindell, ’56, took part in a Prostate Cancer Climb of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina in January 2001. Two teams of men ascended the highest mountain in the Western and Southern Hemisphere to raise awareness of the need of proper screening for early detection of prostate cancer and to raise funds for prostate cancer research. Two members of the summit team were successful in reaching the 22,835-foot peak. Murray was a member of the support team, and climbed to 16,400 feet. A prostate cancer survivor, Murray spent several months preparing for this challenging event. Murray and his wife, Jean Penzotti Swindell, ’58, live in Concord, MA.

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Dennis Cawthorne, ’62, has been named Michigan’s most effective lobbyist in an independent survey conducted by the newsletter, “Inside Michigan Politics” (IMP). A former state representative and active contributor to public service, Dennis co-founded the Lansing-based law and government relations firm of Kelley Cawthorne with former Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley in 1999. Kelley Cawthorne was named the third most effective lobbying organization in Michigan by the IMP newsletter. Dennis was appointed in 1991 as chair of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a position which he still holds. He recently established a scholarship at Albion College to honor his father, Clifford Cawthorne. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Dennis and his wife, Cynthia, live in East Lansing and on Mackinac Island with their two sons.

40-44 Eugenia Church Tibbitts, ’45, is enjoying retirement in Fort Meyers, FL, and would enjoy hearing from any “long ago” Dean Hall friends. She can be reached at: 14111 Brant Pt. Circle, Fort Meyers, FL 33919.

International District 6220 to Brazil District 4630 in May-June of 2000. He is now serving as the Group Study Exchange chairman, Rotary Youth Exchange Rebound coordinator and Area 2 membership chairman for Rotary District 6220. Maynard and his wife, Leenamari, were the Sister City Delegation leaders of the first delegation to go from Marquette to Kajaani, Finland in June-July of 2000.

Hannah Provence Donigan, ’56, lives in Commerce with her husband, Don. They continue to travel worldwide and enjoy visiting with their five grandchildren. They are active in their local community, and were co-founders of a citizen’s group that was formed to work with Commerce Township officials to improve Commerce Village. Hannah also holds an office in the Universalist Unitarian Church of Farmington and helps with political campaigns on the state and local levels. Don had triple bypass surgery in January, and is recovering well. Both Don and Hannah are retired public school teachers, and have been married for over 42 years.

50-54 Class of 1951 Reunion Chair: Jack Curtis jcurt246@aol.com

55-59 Class of 1956 Reunion Chair: Tom Brown tbrownii@gfn.org Maynard Bowers, ’56, lives in Marquette and was the Group Study Exchange Team leader for Rotary

Ron Keller, ’58, and Patricia Reppert Keller, ’61, live in Battle Creek. Ron, a

United Methodist pastor for 44 years, has become the executive director of In One Accord, the ecumenical cooperative church council, in Battle Creek.

Joyce Quigley Powers, ’58, continues her work as a restoration ecologist and principal of CRM Ecosystems, Inc. She has four children. She would enjoy hearing from college friends and lives in Mount Horeb, WI.

60-64 Class of 1961 Reunion Chair: Richard Karman karman@rutgersprep.k12.nj.us Ross Fleming, ’60, retired as director of the Cauthen Educational Media Center and associate professor of education at Francis Marion University. He is a former president of the South Carolina Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Ross and his wife, Janice, live in Florence, SC, where Ross has been active on the board of the United Way and as a Scout leader.

Albion College and your retirement planning?

More than ever, today’s retirees are taking advantage of giving opportunities to secure an income stream for themselves and to provide for Albion College.

It’s called smart giving.

If your retirement nest egg consists of highly appreciated assets such as stock or real estate, or if you are simply looking to do more for Albion, a planned gift to Albion College may be just the thing for you.

With a gift of $20,000 or more, you have the ability to create a named endowment or identify another naming opportunity to honor a loved one or to establish your own legacy. And now under the LIBERAL ARTS AT WORK: CHALLENGING MINDS, TRANSFORMING LIVES campaign, matching funds are available for endowment gifts of $10,000 or more.

You can fulfill your philanthropic desires and retain financial security at the same time.

As a bonus, some very attractive tax savings are possible.

Call us. We’d be happy to discuss your philanthropic vision for Albion College.

Contact Jim Whitehouse, ’69, or Marie Seddon to discuss giving opportunities and to obtain a financial proposal tailored to your circumstances.

Office of Gift and Estate Planning 611 E. Porter St. Albion, MI 49224 517/629-0493 advancement@albion.edu

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65-69 ‘I’m glad we both chose Albion’ For much of their lives, Dory and Annie Lerew of Dillsburg, Pa., were home-schooled by their parents. When it came time for college, however, both sisters decided to choose Albion as their home away from home.

“We’ve been coming to Albion for nine years,” Dory says, explaining that relatives, many of whom are alumni, would bring them to Albion when the girls visited Michigan.

“I thought everyone on campus was always really friendly,” Annie adds, “and I just felt like I would be supported here.”

A theatre major, Dory, ’02, is a member of Kappa Delta sorority, serves as a resident assistant and plays the drums at studentled chapel services. She is involved in Albion’s theatre program and Sisters Annie and Dory Lerew directed a production of Charlotte’s Web that was presented at several area schools. She also was named the 2000 Homecoming queen.

Annie, ’04, is involved in Appalachian Service Project, as is Dory, and is serving this summer as part of the College’s student orientation team. She is quick to note, however, that the sisters also have different interests. “Albion’s big in a lot of ways. Dory and I really only see each other in [the dining hall],” says Annie, a math major and member of the Honors Institute.

As goalie, Annie was an integral member of Albion’s first-ever league champion women’s L. KLUEVER PHOTO soccer squad. “It was a great way to start off college,” Annie reflects on her first-year Albion soccer experience.

“I was excited when Annie decided to attend Albion,” Dory says. “I love [student orientation for] the chance to meet incoming students and share my experiences with them. I’ve been able to do the same with Annie, and it has been great. I am glad we both chose Albion.”

—L. Kluever

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 new 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/.

Class of 1966 Reunion Chair: Jan Steininger Strand jestrand@charronhanisch.com Sharon Parsons Chase, ’66, in March presented a paper entitled “Color, Company, Collage, and Calling” at the South East Community Study of Religion in Charlotte, NC. This paper gives some of her insights from her draft book, An Artistic Approach to the New Testament: Introductory Sketches.

Sharon and her husband, Ernest, live in Meriden, CT. Frank Hewitt, ’67, of Bay City has joined the staff of W.A. Trahan Funeral Chapel. Hewitt has 33 years of experience as a funeral director and served his residency at the Trahan Chapel in the 1960s. He received his degree from the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science in 1968.

Michael Williams, ’69, lives in Northville with his wife, Laura Rice Williams, ’70. Since retiring as chairman and CEO of Gail & Rice Productions, Mike has formed a new company, “The Business of Show Business,” a consultant firm producing

shows for industry. Mike is also a corporate speaker and a partner of Carnegie Partners, an executive search firm. Laura is the owner of Pamplemousse, a bath and body products store.

70-74 Class of 1971 Reunion Chair: Mark Garrison mwgarrison@hotmail.com Steve Brown, ’72, is the general manager and part-owner of Cannonburg Ski Area. He was recently featured in the Grand Rapids Press for his work with the ski resort which he has developed since he took over as manager at age 27.

Steve and his wife, Janet Reinhart Brown, ’72, live in Grand Rapids with their two children.

Becky Collins Mann, ’74, has been named the New Hampshire Gifted Educator of the Year for 2000-01. Becky is the gifted and talented education coordinator for the Bow, NH schools.

Becky and her husband, Eric Mann, ’74, both hold master of arts in teaching degrees from The Colorado College and are in the second year of a three-year program in gifted education at the

All in the Steffe family It turns out that Justinn Steffe, ’03, is not the only great-greatgranddaughter of Jacob Steffe (Class of 1878) currently attending Albion College. Judy Bingham Brigham Shepard, ’54, read about Justinn in the Winter 2000-01 Io Triumphe and realized that her great-niece, Megan Bowns, ’02, of Crete, Ill., was third cousin to Justinn. “I wondered if they had bumped into each other and not known it,” says Judy, who was the first person on either side of the family to make the connection.

Megan is the great-granddaughter of Floyd Steffe’s youngest child, Elmina Steffe, who married Edward M. Brigham, Jr., ’25. The Brigham family was prominent in environmental preservation efforts in south-central Michigan for many years. Edward Brigham, Sr., founded Battle Creek’s Kingman Museum of Natural History and Ott Preserve. Edward Jr. served as director of the museum, and he and Edward Sr. both collected specimens and took photographs for the museum.

Edward Brigham, Jr., was also an Albion College trustee and served as president of the Albion College Alumni Association.

Megan Bowns’ mother, Cindy, recalls that people from Albion College often visited the Brigham household. Cindy also recalls being taken by her grandfather to dress family graves in Albion’s Riverside Cemetery.

Despite her own Albion legacy, Megan ended up at Albion College through a stroke of fate. Cindy recalls that she and Megan attended a college fair at Prairie State University. “We walked by the Albion table and I told Megan, ‘You know, your grandparents went there,’” recalls Cindy. “I know my grandparents loved the place . . . and I’m so glad Megan’s there.”

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University of Connecticut. Visit Becky’s web site at: www.bownet.org/rmann or drop her an e-mail at: mannclan@mediaone.net.

Belinda Bishop Sears, ’78, finished her residency in internal medicine at the University of Missouri in June 2000 and is now self-employed in a solo practice in Willimantic, CT. Chris Wigent, ’79, has been named Calhoun Intermediate School District superintendent, after serving as associate superintendent. He also served as superintendent of the Olivet Community Schools for six years. Chris holds a master’s degree in educational administration from Michigan State University where he is also a doctoral candidate. Chris and his wife, Catherine, have two sons and live in Marshall.

75-79 Class of 1976 Reunion Chair: Allen Tucker atucker@genesys.org Douglas Smith, ’75, is a partner with the newly formed law firm of Smith, Martin, Powers & Knier in Bay City.

Douglas is a graduate of Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Bay County Bar Association, and the State Bar of Michigan. He and his wife, Violetta, live in Bay City.

80-84 Class of 1981 Reunion Chairs: Andy Mccomas amccomas@ford.com

Greg Blair, ’76, is the general manager for the Kalamazoo Kings Professional Baseball Team, an independent, Class A, minor league team in the Frontier League. Greg and his wife, Michele Ernst Blair, ’79, would like to hear from friends, and can be reached at 107 W. Michigan Ave., Suite 020, Kalamazoo, MI 49007, 616/388-8326, or by e-mail at: kkings@qcip.net.

John Poulin poulin_john_h@lilly.com Derek Davis, ’80, and his brother Scott, had their first book, No Excuses, No Denial, published. The book is considered a science fiction/murder mystery and is available at major

bookstores. Derek is a practicing chiropractor in Boise, ID. Phillip Filbrandt, ’80, accepted a position as medical director of Enloe Rehabilitation Hospital in Chico, CA. He, his wife, Joanne, and their three children now live two hours from San Francisco, Napa Valley, Lake Tahoe, and the giant redwoods. They would love to hear from friends who are in the area. They can be reached by e-mail at: joannephil@aol.com.

Joan Pentecost Vestrand, ’81, is a member of the Southfield law firm of Moore, Vestrand, and Pozehl, P.C., where she practices in the areas of attorney discipline defense, character and fitness, professional conduct and ethics, and juvenile law. A graduate of University of Detroit Mercy Law School, she also speaks on legal ethics at professional seminars. She and her husband, Joseph Vestrand, ’82, live in Farmington Hills.

Jim Clegg, ’83, joined the U.S. Discount Brokerage, Inc. as a senior vice president of sales and marketing. He is marketing a direct access trading software system for active traders/investors. Jim and his wife, Kelley, live in Chagrin Falls, OH, and can be reached by e-mail at: jclegg@usdb.com.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE Going . . . going . . . gone The Office of Career Development has made plans to destroy all graduate/professional school and employment credential files that are more than 10 years old, unless otherwise requested. If your file is more than 10 years old, and you would like for us to maintain it, please notify the office in writing by Jan. 1, 2002. Files will be destroyed promptly after this date. Questions? Contact Amy Charland, director.

Office of Career Development, KC #4900, Albion College, Albion, MI, 49224 Telephone: 517/629-0332 Fax: 517/629-0578 E-mail: careers@albion.edu

The Albion Network Debra Green Popp, ’77, would love to hear from Barbara Chamberlin Mallen, ’77, and Diane Dinkgrave, ’77. She can be reached at: greenpopp@aol.com.

Jim Clegg, ’83, writes: “Any Delt Sigs from 1979-1983 interested in a reunion on campus? Please let me know.” He can be reached by e-mail at: jclegg@usdb.com.

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

Name __________________________________ Class year _____________ (Please print name)

Street _________________________________________________________ City _____________________________ State _______ ZIP _____________ E-mail address _________________________________________________

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Wording for ad to appear in “The Albion Network”: (Keep to 60 words or less. If you want your address to appear in the ad, be sure to include it in your ad copy.)

Tuition alone only covers 70% of the expenses to educate an Albion student. It is with the generosity of Briton alumni and friends that Albion College can cover the other 30% to maintain its fine tradition.

You do the math.

Give to the Annual Fund.

Albion College Office of Annual Giving 611 East Porter St., Albion, MI 49224 Phone: 517/629-0565 www.securealbion.edu/giving/

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

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University of Connecticut. Visit Becky’s web site at: www.bownet.org/rmann or drop her an e-mail at: mannclan@mediaone.net.

Belinda Bishop Sears, ’78, finished her residency in internal medicine at the University of Missouri in June 2000 and is now self-employed in a solo practice in Willimantic, CT. Chris Wigent, ’79, has been named Calhoun Intermediate School District superintendent, after serving as associate superintendent. He also served as superintendent of the Olivet Community Schools for six years. Chris holds a master’s degree in educational administration from Michigan State University where he is also a doctoral candidate. Chris and his wife, Catherine, have two sons and live in Marshall.

75-79 Class of 1976 Reunion Chair: Allen Tucker atucker@genesys.org Douglas Smith, ’75, is a partner with the newly formed law firm of Smith, Martin, Powers & Knier in Bay City.

Douglas is a graduate of Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Bay County Bar Association, and the State Bar of Michigan. He and his wife, Violetta, live in Bay City.

80-84 Class of 1981 Reunion Chairs: Andy Mccomas amccomas@ford.com

Greg Blair, ’76, is the general manager for the Kalamazoo Kings Professional Baseball Team, an independent, Class A, minor league team in the Frontier League. Greg and his wife, Michele Ernst Blair, ’79, would like to hear from friends, and can be reached at 107 W. Michigan Ave., Suite 020, Kalamazoo, MI 49007, 616/388-8326, or by e-mail at: kkings@qcip.net.

John Poulin poulin_john_h@lilly.com Derek Davis, ’80, and his brother Scott, had their first book, No Excuses, No Denial, published. The book is considered a science fiction/murder mystery and is available at major

bookstores. Derek is a practicing chiropractor in Boise, ID. Phillip Filbrandt, ’80, accepted a position as medical director of Enloe Rehabilitation Hospital in Chico, CA. He, his wife, Joanne, and their three children now live two hours from San Francisco, Napa Valley, Lake Tahoe, and the giant redwoods. They would love to hear from friends who are in the area. They can be reached by e-mail at: joannephil@aol.com.

Joan Pentecost Vestrand, ’81, is a member of the Southfield law firm of Moore, Vestrand, and Pozehl, P.C., where she practices in the areas of attorney discipline defense, character and fitness, professional conduct and ethics, and juvenile law. A graduate of University of Detroit Mercy Law School, she also speaks on legal ethics at professional seminars. She and her husband, Joseph Vestrand, ’82, live in Farmington Hills.

Jim Clegg, ’83, joined the U.S. Discount Brokerage, Inc. as a senior vice president of sales and marketing. He is marketing a direct access trading software system for active traders/investors. Jim and his wife, Kelley, live in Chagrin Falls, OH, and can be reached by e-mail at: jclegg@usdb.com.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE Going . . . going . . . gone The Office of Career Development has made plans to destroy all graduate/professional school and employment credential files that are more than 10 years old, unless otherwise requested. If your file is more than 10 years old, and you would like for us to maintain it, please notify the office in writing by Jan. 1, 2002. Files will be destroyed promptly after this date. Questions? Contact Amy Charland, director.

Office of Career Development, KC #4900, Albion College, Albion, MI, 49224 Telephone: 517/629-0332 Fax: 517/629-0578 E-mail: careers@albion.edu

The Albion Network Debra Green Popp, ’77, would love to hear from Barbara Chamberlin Mallen, ’77, and Diane Dinkgrave, ’77. She can be reached at: greenpopp@aol.com.

Jim Clegg, ’83, writes: “Any Delt Sigs from 1979-1983 interested in a reunion on campus? Please let me know.” He can be reached by e-mail at: jclegg@usdb.com.

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

Name __________________________________ Class year _____________ (Please print name)

Street _________________________________________________________ City _____________________________ State _______ ZIP _____________ E-mail address _________________________________________________

?

Wording for ad to appear in “The Albion Network”: (Keep to 60 words or less. If you want your address to appear in the ad, be sure to include it in your ad copy.)

Tuition alone only covers 70% of the expenses to educate an Albion student. It is with the generosity of Briton alumni and friends that Albion College can cover the other 30% to maintain its fine tradition.

You do the math.

Give to the Annual Fund.

Albion College Office of Annual Giving 611 East Porter St., Albion, MI 49224 Phone: 517/629-0565 www.securealbion.edu/giving/

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

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Stay in touch!

Io Triumphe is providing the following information on retired faculty and spouses to permit alumni to renew contact with these former professors and friends.

Mrs. E. Maynard Aris (Mary), 29196 Albion Rd., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Robert Armstrong, 1318 E. Michigan Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Kenneth Ballou, 803 S. Superior St., Suite 101, Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Ingeborg Baumgartner, 411 Darrow St., Albion, MI 49224 Miss Betty Beese, 1121 Rivers Bend Dr., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Albert Bolitho, 917 Maple St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Bruce Borthwick, 515 E. Michigan Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Maurice Branch, 29300 Albion Rd., Albion, MI 49224 Mrs. John Cheek (Williemay), 1220 Jackson St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. James Cook, 703 Irwin Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Paul Cook, 118 Bushong Dr., Albion, MI 49224 Mr. E. Scott Cracraft, 499 N. Clark St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. John Crump, 14685 E. Michigan Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Dean Dillery, 1205 E. Broadwell, Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Robert Dininny, 412 E. Erie St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Clara Dixon, Route FD1, Box 1296, Stonington, ME 04681 Dr. Thomas Doran, 1225 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224 Miss Charlotte Duff, 1133 Rivers Bend Dr., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Sol Elkin, 2104 Georgetown Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Mr. H. Morley Fraser, 124-1/2 S. Clark St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Frank Frick, 405 E. Erie St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. William Gillham, 289 Martin Rd., Albion, MI 49224 Mrs. Justin Glathart (Mary Jane), 418 Darrow St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. John Hart, 412 Fitch St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. William Hayes, 1200 E. Michigan Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Mrs. Nancy Held, 1155 Rivers Bend Dr., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. David Hogberg, 15451 28 Mile Rd., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. John Hostetler, 312 Irwin Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Mrs. Coy James (Aurelia), 422 Linden Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Prof. Frank Joranko, 2215 Wellington, Lansing, MI 48910 Dr. David Kammer, 1500 E. Michigan Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Mrs. Jean Keller (Betty), 803 S. Superior St., Suite 106, Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Sheila Kragness, Box 276, Excelsior, MN 55331 Mr. Melvin Larimer, 139 West Silver Lake Rd. South, Traverse City, MI 49864 Mr. Paul Loukides, 604 Irwin Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Frances Lucas, 1020 S. Superior St., Albion, MI 49224 Jacqueline Maag, 420 S. Hannah St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Philip Mason, 815 Hall St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Eugene Miller, 11820 Edgewater Dr., #807, Lakewood, OH 44107 Dr. Keith Moore, 1201 Jackson St., Albion, MI 49224 Mrs. Arthur Munk (Margaret), 288 Dayo Hill Rd., A-33, Johnson City, NY 13790 Mrs. Charles Swan (Doris Notestein), 105 High Point, Fairfield Bay, AR 72088 Dr. Jack Padgett, 1206 Crescent Dr., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. John Parker, 9611 Condit Rd., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Howard Pettersen, 413 Lombard St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. G. Robina Quale, 611 E. Porter St., KC Box 4905, Albion, MI 49224 Mrs. Julian Rammelkamp (Mabel), 416 Linden Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. George Reed, 2608 Edgewater Court, Palmetto, FL 34221 Mrs. Henry Rottenbiller (Eva), 20776 29 1/2 Mile Road, Springport, MI 49284 Dr. Charles Schutz, 909 Irwin Ave., P.O. Box 501, Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Johan Stohl, 420 Allen Place, Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Ewell Stowell, 1541 E. Michigan Ave., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. David Strickler, 410 Allen Place, Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Anthony Taffs, 908 Cram Lane, Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Lawrence Taylor, 1111 Rivers Bend Dr., Albion, MI 49224

The rest of the story . . .

Here’s your chance to have some fun with Albion history. The photos below, culled from the College Archives, each offer a glimpse of life at Albion through the years. Can you fill in “the rest of the story” from the clues provided? Please write your rendition of the story and send to: Sarah Briggs, editor, Io Triumphe, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224 or e-mail to sbriggs@albion.edu. We will print the answers (and maybe some of the more humorous guesses) in the fall edition of Io Triumphe. And a $25 gift certificate from the Albion College Bookstore awaits the individual who offers the best caption for #6.

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2 All dressed up and no place to go? A special evening clearly awaits 1940s-era alumni Walter James, Florence Norton, Phyllis Wagner, Beatrice Nesbitt, Sara Jane Hornung, Bruce Feighner and Cecil Giles. Now what was it they planned to do in these elegant clothes?

Bells and whistles . . . In 1958, thenAlbion choir director David Strickler (right) presented this organ pipe to F. Dudleigh Vernor, ’14, (left) one of the composers of the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.” What was the occasion?

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All work and no play? Who are these studious young people hard at work in Stockwell Library? Hint regarding the fellow in the center: College President Peter Mitchell, ’67, once managed his campaign for class officer.

6 5 Trojan horse, Albion-style . . . Sigma Chi fraternity’s Derby Days featured a VW-stuffing contest for several years. Any idea which sorority won the contest in April 1979 when this photo was taken? And just how many women did they fit into this Volkswagen?

Here’s your chance to immortalize this unknown student and win a $25 gift certificate to the Albion College Bookstore by writing the best caption for this photo.

Why is this man smiling? You could say John Huff, ’75, (foreground) ran a whistle-stop campaign while he was president of Albion’s Student Senate. What was he lobbying for?

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Wendi Amundson Unrein, ’83, started her own business, “Evie’s Nest,” which teaches art to children from her home art studio. She is holding her first art camp this summer. She lives in Olathe, KS, with her husband, Eric, and three kids.

Wendi would love to hear from friends, and you know who you are! Her e-mail is: ewrein@juno.com.

In light of emerging ethical questions that pervade current legal cases, medical practice and research, and government operations at all levels, Albion’s Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service and the Center for Interdisciplinary Study in Meaning and Value co-sponsored a series of presentations last semester on professional ethics. The alumni speakers reflected on the ethical questions they face in their careers. (In addition to the alumni listed below, State Senator John Schwarz spoke on “Ethics in Public Policy.”)

The series’ focus on Albion alumni speakers was intentional, according to Ford Institute director Joe Stroud. “We wanted [our students] to see people who had gone to Albion and were in the real world wrestling with hard ethical questions. We thought that would bring it closer to the students.”

The program was open to the public and featured the following individuals and topics.

Doug Frey, ’84, is CFO and vice president of finance and administration for University Warranty Corp. Doug is a CPA and has an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Doug and his wife, Mary, have two children and live in Omaha, NE.

February 8—Ethics in the Law

Sheli Dietert Owens, ’85, lives in Huntington Station, Long Island, NY, with her husband, Tim, and her two

James Kingsley, ’63, 37th Judicial Circuit Court judge, Battle Creek

85-89 Class of 1986 Reunion Chairs: Tim and Kay Clear Jabin tjabin@aol.com

sons. Upon leaving Albion, Sheli taught middle and high school English in Florida for six years and served as a paralegal for eight years in New York.

After the birth of her second son, she became a stay-at-home mom and an active member of her local church and PTA. Dana Bowers, ’86, is a neuropsychologist with the Chelsea Brain Injury Program at Chelsea Community Hospital, where he deals with brainbehavior relationships. Dana completed his post-doctoral residency in clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, part of the Detroit Medical Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He earned his doctorate from Wright State University. He and his wife, Brenda Hartman, ’89, live in Chelsea.

Timothy Jabin, ’86, founded NuHorizons Asset Management, LLC, an Ohio investment adviser company.

Timothy and his wife, Kay Clear Jabin, ’86, live in Cincinnati, OH, with their two daughters.

Thomas Dempster, ’88, of Tempe, AZ, is employed as a Science and Math Department chair at Sonoran Desert High School in Mesa, AZ. He is also a research assistant in the Plant Biology Department at Arizona State University while completing his Ph.D. in water science and technology. Thomas earned his M.S. in botany in 1994, his M.Ed. in secondary education in 1995, and his M.Ed. in educational administration and supervision in 2000, all from Arizona State University. He looks forward to hearing from former Albion classmates and can be reached by e-mail at: dempster@asu.edu.

Marit Rasmussen, ’88, lives in Chicago and holds the position of special counsel to the guardian of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Since graduating from law school in 1993, she has devoted her legal career to representing children and disabled adults in abuse and neglect proceedings. Marit is also active in several volunteer organizations for cancer survivors. She welcomes support at marras@ameritech.net.

March 7—Ethics in Medicine Joyce Livak Benjamins, ’63, professor and associate chair for research in neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit Jeffrey De Weerd, ’90, family practice physician, Mason Thomas Schwaderer, ’56, orthopedic surgeon, Grand Rapids Melissa Zimmerman Tuck, ’87, cancer researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

March 28—Ethics in Government Mark Schauer, ’84, Michigan state representative (D-62nd District), Lansing Dennis Cawthorne, ’62, partner, Kelley Cawthorne, Lansing Herold “Mac” Deason, ’64, partner, Bodman, Longley and Dahling, LLP, Detroit Janet Welch, ’71, general counsel, State Bar of Michigan, Lansing

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)

April 26—Ethics and Democracy Amy Wakeland, ’91, Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College, Los Angeles

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

Sigma Alpha Iota history project under way The Albion chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota women’s music fraternity is currently working on a chapter history project and is requesting alumnae to share any historical information they might have, be it oral information, documents or photos.

All submissions would be greatly helpful and appreciated, according to Melissa Beatty, ’01. Beatty also notes that if any alumnae wish to be on the mailing list for the chapter’s yearly newsletter they should contact the chapter. The e-mail address is SAI_Albion@hotmail.com. U.S. mail can be sent to: Sigma Alpha Iota, c/o Music Department, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224.

Business address _______________________________________________________________________________ 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.

News notes

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

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90 Michon Dicks Lince, ’90, received her teaching certification from Eastern Michigan University and is now teaching sixth and seventh grade science and history at Summit Academy Middle School in Flat Rock. She and her husband, Todd, live in Wyandotte.

Michon can be reached by e-mail at: Igneous113@aol.com.

91 Class of 1991 Reunion Chair: Kim Karman Dobson guykim@pcrealm.net Jonathan Lauderbach, ’91, is a partner in the Midland law firm of Currie, Kendall, Polasky, and Meisel. He received his law degree from the University of Detroit in 1994, and joined the firm as an associate that same year.

He and his wife, Erin Mead Lauderbach, ’91, live in St. Louis.

Karen Jenkins Pifer, ’91, has joined the law firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn, LLP as an associate in the real estate department. Karen received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and is a member of the Oakland County and American Bar Associations and the State Bar of Michigan. She and her husband, Richard Pifer, ’89, live in Birmingham.

Amy Washburn, ’91, is living in Maryland and would enjoy hearing from classmates. She can be reached at 8360 Linda Court, 3B, Jessup, MD 20794 or by e-mail: awashburn7@home.com.

93 Kimberly Hamlin, ’93, moved to Florida from California and would like to catch up with lost friends. She is a senior project manager/technical consultant for a software company called Madison Information Technologies, Inc. which is based in Chicago and San Francisco. She can be reached at: 1200 Town Center Dr., #317, Jupiter, FL 33458 or by e-mail at: kahamlin@yahoo.com.

Maureen Hildebrandt, ’93, has been promoted to director of marketing, development and public relations of Goodwill Industries for the greater Cleveland area. Maureen lives in Euclid, OH. Jennifer Lindsay, ’93, finished her master’s degree in higher education and student affairs administration at the

University of Kansas in May, after two years of classes and work as a scholarship hall director. Jennifer now lives in Northfield, MN, and works at St. Olaf College as an area coordinator for the Thorson and Mohn Residence Halls.

Feel free to contact her by e-mail at: jennlindsay@kualumni.org.

Stephanie Reed, ’93, received her master’s degree in teaching reading along with a microcomputer applications certificate. She lives in Troy and can be reached by e-mail at: steph_lee_reed@hotmail.com.

94 Shawn Borich, ’94, of Glen Allen, VA, graduated in June 2000 with an M.D. degree from Michigan State University.

Specializing in emergency medicine, Shawn is now a resident physician at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

95 Tina Yost, ’95, has joined the Battle Creek law firm of Vandervoort, Christ, & Fisher, P.C. Tina was formerly with McNeil Grafton in Grand Haven, where she focused her practice on litigation, corporate estate planning, and municipal law. Her move to the firm has allowed her to concentrate on her litigation practice. Her primary areas of practice are corporate, criminal defense, estate planning and civil rights. Tina graduated from Wayne State University Law School in Detroit.

96 Class of 1996 Reunion Chairs: Matt and Keri Towsley Keck matthew.keck@mindspring.com Saray Hansen, ’96, is a case manager for a residential treatment facility for children and teenagers who have been victims of abuse and neglect and have severe emotional, behavioral and psychiatric issues. She has been living in Chicago since 1998.

Jeff Karczewski, ’96, is the Southeast logistics coordinator for General Motors, where he travels throughout the Southeast, measuring the performance of GM’s logistics service providers. He lives in Buford, GA. Jeff also recently recorded a rock EP with P.J. Adams, ’98. Jeff sang lead vocals and P.J. composed/performed/produced all of the music. E-mail 6FS@excite.com to receive a free copy.

97 Mekel Sebestyen, ’97, of Fruitport, has joined the law firm of Dingeman, Dancer, & Christopherson, PLC, as an associate attorney. She graduated from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law where she was a student associate at the Families and the Law Clinic and coordinator for the law school’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and the Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association.

Jonathon Width, ’97, graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Basic Nuclear Power School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Goose Creek, SC. During the course, Jonathon received fundamental training in several technical fields related to the nuclear power program. He also studied basic mathematics and physics and familiarized himself with nuclear reactor theory and operations.

He is now prepared to operate a reactor on a nuclear-powered submarine or aircraft carrier.

99 Davia Cox, ’99, is the district manager of Vector Marketing’s Brighton office and has achieved her $50,000 personal career sales milestone. Her achievements were recognized recently in Chicago by the executive vice president for sales of Vector’s Central Region, at the company’s annual awards banquet.

Rebecca Grady, ’99, recently had the title role in the operetta, La Perichole, a production by the University of Northern Iowa Lyric Theater. She is from Royal Oak. Jason Jackson, ’99, recently had the lead male role in the operetta, La Perichole, a production by the University of Northern Iowa Lyric Theater. He is from Dayton, OH. Kelly Maciejewski, ’99, graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in December, with an M.S. degree in forensic science. She also ran her second marathon, Northville’s Martian Marathon, in March 2001. She lives in Berkley.

Jason Van Buren, ’99, has joined the advance team for U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham in Washington, D.C. Jason travels ahead of Abraham wherever he will make an official appearance. He previously worked as an account executive for a marketing firm in Chicago. Jason now lives in Washington, D.C.

Weddings

Baby Britons

Jill Eshleman, ’86, to Tom Powers on June 2, 2000 in Chicago, IL. Jill Cooley, ’86, was in the wedding party. The couple resides in Westmont, IL. (See accompanying photo.)

Skyler Reid on Feb. 5, 2001 to Scott and Belinda Bishop Sears, ’78. Belinda finished her residency in internal medicine at the University of Missouri in June 2000 and is now self-employed in a solo practice in Willimantic, CT. Scott is practicing equine-exclusive veterinary medicine.

Christopher Eggert, ’94, to Jennifer Kennedy on Aug. 26, 2000. The couple resides in Spring Lake.

Laura Boyes, ’97, to Steven Hane, ’96, on June 17, 2000 in Birmingham.

Alumni in the wedding party included Todd Brower, ’97, Amanda Cowger, ’98, Julie Kovatch-Smith, ’97 and Emily Oberlitner, ’98. The wedding was officiated by William Ritter, ’62.

Steve graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in May 2000 and is a dentist with the U.S. Navy.

Laura received her M.B.A. from Wayne State University and is working as a business/computer instructor. The couple resides in Norfolk, VA and can be reached by e-mail at lhane@ureach.com or stevehane@ureach.com.

Sheila Abunassar, ’97, to Thad Wilhelm, ’98, on June 17, 2000 in Clawson. Michael Swisher, ’98, Melora Haas, ’98, and Michael Graham, ’98, were in the wedding party. Alumni in attendance included Elise Georgi, ’98, Gregg Ozga, ’98, Shannon Alsip, ’98, Ben Stephen, ’98, Emily Willis Stephen, ’98, Jason Allgire, ’97, Scott Vandenbelt, ’96, Nicole Bibbee Vandenbelt, ’96, Merrill Hodnefield, ’96, and Luke Mohlenhoff, ’95. Thad is teaching mathematics and computers at Mid-Michigan Community College in Mt. Pleasant. Sheila earned her doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan’s College of Pharmacy and is participating in a pharmacy practice residency at MidMichigan Health System in Midland.

The couple resides in Midland.

Taylor Weymouth, ’97, to Brian Hanton on Dec. 30, 2000. The couple lives in Salt Lake City, UT. (See accompanying photo.)

Dorothy Fisher, ’99, to Brian Darold, ’98, on Sept. 2, 2000. The couple resides in Gainesville, FL. (See accompanying photo.)

Elizabeth Astras, ’00, to Jeff Geshel on Sept. 30, 2000 in Grand Rapids. The couple resides in Grand Rapids. (See accompanying photo.)

Becky Wessling, ’00, to Jim Baker, ’00, on July 8, 2000 in Albion. Among the many alumni and friends who participated and attended the ceremony was Russell VanVlack, ’03, and Albion faculty/staff members Charles and Tamara Crupi. The couple lives in Albion. (See accompanying photo.)

McKenna ZiaoLan on July 19, 1999 in China was adopted on Aug. 2, 2000 by Andrew and Deborah Mero Morse, ’80. She joins big sisters Nicole, 7, and Lindsay, 4. The family lives in Berkley and would love to talk to any Albion alums about adopting abandoned children from China. They can be reached at: andrewdebmorse@cs.com.

Anna Catherine on Sept. 8, 2000 to Chris and Diane Stein Fischer, ’87. She joins big brothers Karl, 6, and Eric, 3.

Proud grandparents include Carole Mack Fischer, ’56. Diane continues to work as an assistant vice president for Standard Federal Bank in Lake Orion.

The family lives on Lake Lapeer in Metamora.

John Gerard, Jr., on July 6, 2000 to Kimberly and John Francis, ’87. He joins big brother Christopher, 17, and sisters Allie, 9, and Jacqueline, 5. Proud relatives include uncle Peter Francis, ’84. The family lives in Grosse Pointe Park and can be reached by e-mail at: jgfran@aol.com.

John Douglas on April 11, 2000 in Russia and adopted on Dec. 14, 2000 by Doug and Julie Lundstrum Kirby, ’88.

The family lives in Marietta, GA. Molly Lyn on Feb. 4, 2001 to Steve and Beth Jarvie McCaghy, ’88. Molly joins big sisters Caitlin, 3, and Hallie, 1. The family lives in Clarkston.

Peter Martin on March 9, 2001 to Sigrid Rother and Thomas Cochrane, ’89. The family lives in Grand Haven. Tom is associated with McCroskey, Feldman, Cochrane and Brock in Muskegon.

Abigail Elizabeth on Feb. 6, 2001 to Heather and John Dunlop, ’89. She joins big brother Ethan, 2. John serves as the K-12 physical education department chairperson and teaches elementary physical education for Portage Public Schools. He was elected vice president for physical education by the Michigan Association for Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and is an education consultant for Polar Electro, Inc. The family resides in Portage and can be reached by e-mail at: jdunlop@portageps.org.

Alexander Philip on Dec. 14, 2000 to Jill and Thomas Grant, ’89. Grandmother Vicky Grant is employed in the Albion College Political Science Department and CIS in History and Culture.

Alexander is welcomed into the family by sister Lillian; aunts Julie Grant, ’88, and Elizabeth Grant Farrar, ’90; and uncle Kitt Farrar, ’90. The family lives in Homer.

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Wedding Album See accompanying notes for details.

Laura Boyes, ’97, to Steven Hane, ’96, on June 17, 2000. (Front row, left to right) Sara Robertson, ’99, Sarah Nehring Slangor, ’97, Melanie Peldo, ’97.

(Second row) Todd Brower, ’96, Lisa Rizak, ’97, Amanda Cowger, ’98, Laura Boyes Hane, ’97, Julie Kovatch-Smith, ’97, Emily Oberlitner, ’97.

(Third row) Scott Breslin, ’96, Betsy Geyer, ’97, Jennifer Stanton, ’96, Nancy Noechel, ’97, Steve Hane, ’96, Kelly Sexton Flaherty, ’97, Greg Coyne, ’97.

(Fourth row) Steve Sedore, ’96, Jason Sonnenberg, ’96, Trent Harris, ’99, Matt Ponitz, ’97, Jim Estigoy, ’95, Chris Flaherty, ’97, Dan Ackerman, ’94, Gerald Nester, ’64.

Becky Wessling, ’00, to Jim Baker, ’00, on July 8, 2000. (Front row, left to right) Heidi Shudra, ’98, Emily Burt Daniels, ’97, Becky Wessling Baker, ’00, Heidi Hankey, ’01, Jim Baker, ’00.

(Second row) Amber Myers Krabach, ’99, Emily Dobbins, ’03, Jennifer Couts, ’00, Bill Gallagher, ’99, A. Michele Cole, ’00, Joseph Verbeke, ’01, Amie Wood Pickelmann, ’00, Andy Horvath, ’00, Kim Parker, ’00, Jennifer Clark, ’01, Todd Krabach, ’99, Elizabeth Olgren, ’01, Kristin McCauley, ’00, Renee Mijal, ’99, Steve Reitz, ’00, Hannon Hogan, ’03, Matt VanWormer, ’00, Sharon Laing, ’98, friend Chloe Papke, Jacquie Salyer, ’01, JaCinda Sumara, ’99.

Elizabeth Astras, ’00, to Jeff Geshel on Sept. 30, 2000. (Front row, left to right) Bryan Todd, ’00, Randy Surline, ’96, Aaron Lubeck, ’97. (Second row) Stacy Davidson, ’01, Leslie Sanders Todd, ’00, Miracle Hurley, ’01, Elizabeth Astras Geshel, ’00, Abby Reich, ’00, Katie Brimmer, ’01, Sarah Karry, ’00, Roberta Carothers, ’01. (Third row) Amy Schulz, ’97, Kristin McCauley, ’00.

Dorothy Fisher, ’99, to Brian Darold, ’98, on Sept. 2, 2000. (First row, left to right) David Towne, ’97, Jeffrey Schroder, ’97, Todd Rutledge, ’98, Brian Darold, ’98, Dorothy Fisher Darold, ’99, Heather Bullen, ’98, Kristin Busch, ’00, Kristen Rowell Whitmore, ’96. (Second row) David Passick, ’99, Melissa Driessche, ’99, Kristin Day, ’98, Suzanne Porter, ’99, Karen Porter, ’75, Betsy Graham, ’00, Sharon Laing, ’98. (Third row) Fred Porter, ’74, Sean Lindsay, ’97, Paul Adams, ’98, Jeff Karczewski, ’96, John Peters, ’99, Erin Wolff, ’98, Matt VanWormer, ’00.

Taylor Weymouth, ’97, to Brian Hanton on Dec. 30, 2000. (Front row, left to right) Adrienne Auker Keller, ’93, Susan Finnegan, ’96, Beth Robinson Mitchell, ’97, Suzanne Avery, ’96, Taylor Weymouth Hanton, ’97, Brian Hanton, Anna Sparling, ’99, Andrea Lindley, ’99. (Second row) Penny Eveningred Weymouth, ’94, Bruk Weymouth, ’93, Brent Keller, ’93, Matt Mitchell, ’95, Nik Butki, ’95, Brian Jamison, ’95, Todd Murphy, ’97, Kate Murphy, ’02.

Jill Eshleman, ’86, to Tom Powers on June 2, 2000. (Left to right) Joseph Bonnell, ’87, Katie Kroehle McGervey, ’86, Karla Smith Mallett, ’86, Jill Eshleman Powers, ’86, Tom Powers, Kersten Haselden Felske, ’86, Jon Felske, ’84, Jill Cooley, ’86.

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90 Michon Dicks Lince, ’90, received her teaching certification from Eastern Michigan University and is now teaching sixth and seventh grade science and history at Summit Academy Middle School in Flat Rock. She and her husband, Todd, live in Wyandotte.

Michon can be reached by e-mail at: Igneous113@aol.com.

91 Class of 1991 Reunion Chair: Kim Karman Dobson guykim@pcrealm.net Jonathan Lauderbach, ’91, is a partner in the Midland law firm of Currie, Kendall, Polasky, and Meisel. He received his law degree from the University of Detroit in 1994, and joined the firm as an associate that same year.

He and his wife, Erin Mead Lauderbach, ’91, live in St. Louis.

Karen Jenkins Pifer, ’91, has joined the law firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn, LLP as an associate in the real estate department. Karen received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and is a member of the Oakland County and American Bar Associations and the State Bar of Michigan. She and her husband, Richard Pifer, ’89, live in Birmingham.

Amy Washburn, ’91, is living in Maryland and would enjoy hearing from classmates. She can be reached at 8360 Linda Court, 3B, Jessup, MD 20794 or by e-mail: awashburn7@home.com.

93 Kimberly Hamlin, ’93, moved to Florida from California and would like to catch up with lost friends. She is a senior project manager/technical consultant for a software company called Madison Information Technologies, Inc. which is based in Chicago and San Francisco. She can be reached at: 1200 Town Center Dr., #317, Jupiter, FL 33458 or by e-mail at: kahamlin@yahoo.com.

Maureen Hildebrandt, ’93, has been promoted to director of marketing, development and public relations of Goodwill Industries for the greater Cleveland area. Maureen lives in Euclid, OH. Jennifer Lindsay, ’93, finished her master’s degree in higher education and student affairs administration at the

University of Kansas in May, after two years of classes and work as a scholarship hall director. Jennifer now lives in Northfield, MN, and works at St. Olaf College as an area coordinator for the Thorson and Mohn Residence Halls.

Feel free to contact her by e-mail at: jennlindsay@kualumni.org.

Stephanie Reed, ’93, received her master’s degree in teaching reading along with a microcomputer applications certificate. She lives in Troy and can be reached by e-mail at: steph_lee_reed@hotmail.com.

94 Shawn Borich, ’94, of Glen Allen, VA, graduated in June 2000 with an M.D. degree from Michigan State University.

Specializing in emergency medicine, Shawn is now a resident physician at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

95 Tina Yost, ’95, has joined the Battle Creek law firm of Vandervoort, Christ, & Fisher, P.C. Tina was formerly with McNeil Grafton in Grand Haven, where she focused her practice on litigation, corporate estate planning, and municipal law. Her move to the firm has allowed her to concentrate on her litigation practice. Her primary areas of practice are corporate, criminal defense, estate planning and civil rights. Tina graduated from Wayne State University Law School in Detroit.

96 Class of 1996 Reunion Chairs: Matt and Keri Towsley Keck matthew.keck@mindspring.com Saray Hansen, ’96, is a case manager for a residential treatment facility for children and teenagers who have been victims of abuse and neglect and have severe emotional, behavioral and psychiatric issues. She has been living in Chicago since 1998.

Jeff Karczewski, ’96, is the Southeast logistics coordinator for General Motors, where he travels throughout the Southeast, measuring the performance of GM’s logistics service providers. He lives in Buford, GA. Jeff also recently recorded a rock EP with P.J. Adams, ’98. Jeff sang lead vocals and P.J. composed/performed/produced all of the music. E-mail 6FS@excite.com to receive a free copy.

97 Mekel Sebestyen, ’97, of Fruitport, has joined the law firm of Dingeman, Dancer, & Christopherson, PLC, as an associate attorney. She graduated from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law where she was a student associate at the Families and the Law Clinic and coordinator for the law school’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and the Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association.

Jonathon Width, ’97, graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Basic Nuclear Power School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Goose Creek, SC. During the course, Jonathon received fundamental training in several technical fields related to the nuclear power program. He also studied basic mathematics and physics and familiarized himself with nuclear reactor theory and operations.

He is now prepared to operate a reactor on a nuclear-powered submarine or aircraft carrier.

99 Davia Cox, ’99, is the district manager of Vector Marketing’s Brighton office and has achieved her $50,000 personal career sales milestone. Her achievements were recognized recently in Chicago by the executive vice president for sales of Vector’s Central Region, at the company’s annual awards banquet.

Rebecca Grady, ’99, recently had the title role in the operetta, La Perichole, a production by the University of Northern Iowa Lyric Theater. She is from Royal Oak. Jason Jackson, ’99, recently had the lead male role in the operetta, La Perichole, a production by the University of Northern Iowa Lyric Theater. He is from Dayton, OH. Kelly Maciejewski, ’99, graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in December, with an M.S. degree in forensic science. She also ran her second marathon, Northville’s Martian Marathon, in March 2001. She lives in Berkley.

Jason Van Buren, ’99, has joined the advance team for U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham in Washington, D.C. Jason travels ahead of Abraham wherever he will make an official appearance. He previously worked as an account executive for a marketing firm in Chicago. Jason now lives in Washington, D.C.

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Jill Eshleman, ’86, to Tom Powers on June 2, 2000 in Chicago, IL. Jill Cooley, ’86, was in the wedding party. The couple resides in Westmont, IL. (See accompanying photo.)

Skyler Reid on Feb. 5, 2001 to Scott and Belinda Bishop Sears, ’78. Belinda finished her residency in internal medicine at the University of Missouri in June 2000 and is now self-employed in a solo practice in Willimantic, CT. Scott is practicing equine-exclusive veterinary medicine.

Christopher Eggert, ’94, to Jennifer Kennedy on Aug. 26, 2000. The couple resides in Spring Lake.

Laura Boyes, ’97, to Steven Hane, ’96, on June 17, 2000 in Birmingham.

Alumni in the wedding party included Todd Brower, ’97, Amanda Cowger, ’98, Julie Kovatch-Smith, ’97 and Emily Oberlitner, ’98. The wedding was officiated by William Ritter, ’62.

Steve graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in May 2000 and is a dentist with the U.S. Navy.

Laura received her M.B.A. from Wayne State University and is working as a business/computer instructor. The couple resides in Norfolk, VA and can be reached by e-mail at lhane@ureach.com or stevehane@ureach.com.

Sheila Abunassar, ’97, to Thad Wilhelm, ’98, on June 17, 2000 in Clawson. Michael Swisher, ’98, Melora Haas, ’98, and Michael Graham, ’98, were in the wedding party. Alumni in attendance included Elise Georgi, ’98, Gregg Ozga, ’98, Shannon Alsip, ’98, Ben Stephen, ’98, Emily Willis Stephen, ’98, Jason Allgire, ’97, Scott Vandenbelt, ’96, Nicole Bibbee Vandenbelt, ’96, Merrill Hodnefield, ’96, and Luke Mohlenhoff, ’95. Thad is teaching mathematics and computers at Mid-Michigan Community College in Mt. Pleasant. Sheila earned her doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan’s College of Pharmacy and is participating in a pharmacy practice residency at MidMichigan Health System in Midland.

The couple resides in Midland.

Taylor Weymouth, ’97, to Brian Hanton on Dec. 30, 2000. The couple lives in Salt Lake City, UT. (See accompanying photo.)

Dorothy Fisher, ’99, to Brian Darold, ’98, on Sept. 2, 2000. The couple resides in Gainesville, FL. (See accompanying photo.)

Elizabeth Astras, ’00, to Jeff Geshel on Sept. 30, 2000 in Grand Rapids. The couple resides in Grand Rapids. (See accompanying photo.)

Becky Wessling, ’00, to Jim Baker, ’00, on July 8, 2000 in Albion. Among the many alumni and friends who participated and attended the ceremony was Russell VanVlack, ’03, and Albion faculty/staff members Charles and Tamara Crupi. The couple lives in Albion. (See accompanying photo.)

McKenna ZiaoLan on July 19, 1999 in China was adopted on Aug. 2, 2000 by Andrew and Deborah Mero Morse, ’80. She joins big sisters Nicole, 7, and Lindsay, 4. The family lives in Berkley and would love to talk to any Albion alums about adopting abandoned children from China. They can be reached at: andrewdebmorse@cs.com.

Anna Catherine on Sept. 8, 2000 to Chris and Diane Stein Fischer, ’87. She joins big brothers Karl, 6, and Eric, 3.

Proud grandparents include Carole Mack Fischer, ’56. Diane continues to work as an assistant vice president for Standard Federal Bank in Lake Orion.

The family lives on Lake Lapeer in Metamora.

John Gerard, Jr., on July 6, 2000 to Kimberly and John Francis, ’87. He joins big brother Christopher, 17, and sisters Allie, 9, and Jacqueline, 5. Proud relatives include uncle Peter Francis, ’84. The family lives in Grosse Pointe Park and can be reached by e-mail at: jgfran@aol.com.

John Douglas on April 11, 2000 in Russia and adopted on Dec. 14, 2000 by Doug and Julie Lundstrum Kirby, ’88.

The family lives in Marietta, GA. Molly Lyn on Feb. 4, 2001 to Steve and Beth Jarvie McCaghy, ’88. Molly joins big sisters Caitlin, 3, and Hallie, 1. The family lives in Clarkston.

Peter Martin on March 9, 2001 to Sigrid Rother and Thomas Cochrane, ’89. The family lives in Grand Haven. Tom is associated with McCroskey, Feldman, Cochrane and Brock in Muskegon.

Abigail Elizabeth on Feb. 6, 2001 to Heather and John Dunlop, ’89. She joins big brother Ethan, 2. John serves as the K-12 physical education department chairperson and teaches elementary physical education for Portage Public Schools. He was elected vice president for physical education by the Michigan Association for Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and is an education consultant for Polar Electro, Inc. The family resides in Portage and can be reached by e-mail at: jdunlop@portageps.org.

Alexander Philip on Dec. 14, 2000 to Jill and Thomas Grant, ’89. Grandmother Vicky Grant is employed in the Albion College Political Science Department and CIS in History and Culture.

Alexander is welcomed into the family by sister Lillian; aunts Julie Grant, ’88, and Elizabeth Grant Farrar, ’90; and uncle Kitt Farrar, ’90. The family lives in Homer.

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Sarah Marie on Jan. 22, 2001 to Shawn and Wendy Willison McCartney, ’89.

She joins big sister Kate, 2. Proud grandparents include Floyd, ’56, and Mary Lou Kaechele Willison, ’56. The family lives in Pleasant Hill, CA, and can be reached by e-mail at: themccartneys@msn.com.

John Matthew on Dec. 31, 2000 to Jay and Laura Blyth Poplawski, ’89. He joins big brother William, 3. Laura is a stay-at-home mom, and the family lives in Grosse Pointe. She would love to hear from old friends and can be reached by e-mail at: popjl@aol.com.

Zoe Kathryn on Sept. 6, 2000 to Michael and Kathryn LeGray Risch, ’89. Kathy is director of marketing research at Neutrogena Corp. The family lives in Redondo Beach, CA. Cara Anne on Jan. 27, 2001 to Brian and Kendra Mutchler Sullivan, ’89. She joins sisters Erin, 5, and Bridget, 3.

Alumni relatives include grandmother Jill Gardner Breneman, ’62; uncle Mike Mutchler, ’86; great aunts Nancy Gardner Robinson, ’59, and Ann Gardner Batchelder, ’74. Kendra is enjoying her role as stay-at-home mom while Brian continues his internal medicine practice. The family lives in Dubuque, IA. Lauren Marilyn on Nov. 10, 2000 to David, ’90, and Sarah Humphrey Marshall, ’93. The couple lives at 3607 W. Boston Ct., Broken Arrow, OK 74012.

Samuel Richard on June 7, 2000 to Kevin, ’90, and Lori Schall Neff, ’92.

He joins big sister Emily, 3. Kevin is a P&G account manager, and Lori is a stay-at-home mom. They live in St. Charles, IL, and can be reached by email at: lkneff@hotmail.com.

Jake Spencer on Aug. 18, 2000 to Kerry and Steve Selinsky, ’90. He joins big sister Madison, 2. Steve is director of corporate sales and client services for PPOM. The family lives in Farmington Hills and would enjoy hearing from friends. They can be reached by e-mail at: selinsky@dellnet.com.

Caroline Ann on June 14, 2000 to Brian, ’90, and Janet Hedges Vande Berg, ’90. She joins big brother Andrew, 3.

The family lives in Durham, NC. In March 2001, Brian spoke on his current research during a program in honor of retiring Albion chemistry professor Bob Armstrong.

Carly Aiden on Nov. 16, 2000 to Oliver, ’91, and Carrie Bradley-Koppe, ’91.

Carrie is an assistant professor at Tusculum College. Oliver is an emergency room nurse, and earned his M.S.N. from East Tennessee State University in December 2000. The family lives in Afton, TN, and can be reached by e-mail at: bernd@greene.xtn.net.

Ryan Frederic on Oct. 27, 2000 to Eric and Andrea Chambers Klooster, ’91.

Andrea is a full-time mom but also works as drama director for Calvin Christian High School and does freelance photography for the Advance Newspapers. Eric is a software engineer for Smiths Industries Aerospace. The Klooster family lives in Grandville, and can be reached by e-mail at: andrea_klooster@yahoo.com.

CORRECTION: Evangeline Zay on Oct. 9, 2000 to David, ’92, and Elizabeth Ludington Holden, ’92. She joins big brother Leo, 2. Proud alumni grandparents include Martin, ’64, and Kathryn Fry Ludington, ’77, and Judy Gill Tetmeyer, ’66. The family lives in Webster Groves, MO. Malcolm Anthony on Aug. 16, 2000 to Dan and Lisa Beebe Machesky, ’92.

Proud relatives include aunt Stephanie Beebe, ’98. The family lives in Birmingham and can be reached by email at: lisa@beesky.com.

James Carson on Oct. 4, 2000 to Jim and Kathryn Brown Rose, ’92. He joins big sister MaryKathryn, 3. Gifford Brown, ’96 is a proud uncle. The family lives in Traverse City.

Matthew Logan on March 1, 2001 to Jason and Louise Meilstrup Ruiter, both ’93. Louise works part-time as a senior instructor for New Horizons Computer Learning Centers of Livonia.

Jason continues to work as manager of information systems at ERIM in Ann Arbor. The family lives in Livonia.

Bryce Cameron on March 6, 2001 to Brad and Chiquita Hall Hamilton, ’94.

He joins big brother Brandon, 3.

Chiquita completed her master’s degree in elementary education from Western Michigan University. The family lives in Albion.

Obituaries Ethelda Thornton Stoudinger, ’27, on Feb. 25, 2001 in Battle Creek. She graduated from Western Michigan University with a B.A. and a life teaching certificate. She taught at the Mudsock Rural School from 1924 to 1925, at Farmington from 1926 to 1927, and at the Lincoln and Verona schools from 1951 until 1970. She retired from teaching in 1971. She is survived by a son, two daughters, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Ralph McRae, ’28, on Jan. 15, 2001 in Charlevoix. He served during World War II with the U.S. Army in the Aleutian Islands. After the war, he started his career running his father’s lumber business, McRae Lumber Co., in Pellston for 20 years. He then started a partnership, creating McRae Construction. He was actively involved in his community, organizing the building of Pine River Place and Boulder Park Terrace Nursing Home and helped to lay the groundwork for the community pool.

He was a former mayor and council member for the City of Charlevoix and was a journalist for the Charlevoix Courier. He is survived by many nieces and nephews.

Hugh Sebastian, ’28, on Feb. 24, 2001 in Albion. He received a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and was an English professor at Lincoln University and South Dakota State University, and taught at the University of Michigan. He then joined the Macmillan Co., a New York-based publishing firm where he stayed for 35 years, until retiring in 1969. He moved back to Albion and had been active in the community with such organizations as the Historical Society and Friends of the Library, among many others. He was honored for his community service with a Festival of the Forks award in 1987.

Mae Larime Nelson, ’30, on Jan. 14, 2001 in Livonia. She worked with her husband in a magazine collection business and was a member of the Royal Oak Women’s Club, the First United Methodist Church and Franklin School PTA. She is survived by a son, two daughters, eight grandchildren including Amy Washburn, ’91, five greatgrandchildren and a niece, Yvonne Larime Fruit, ’57.

Marian Baldwin Bowers, ’31, on April 30, 2001. A Three Rivers resident, she taught high school English in Cassopolis and Constantine. She was also a guidance counselor at Constantine High School. She was a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church. She is survived by a son, Ray, daughter, Sara, three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Margaret Barnes Sprague, ’31, on Jan. 13, 2001. An Eaton Rapids resident, she was a school teacher for 29 years and retired from Springport Schools in 1972.

She enjoyed traveling and assembled many collections, was an accomplished maker of ceramic items and loved gardening. She is survived by three daughters, including Jane Sprague, ’66.

Ebon Betz, ’34, on Oct. 14, 2000 in Annapolis, MD. He received an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1935 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939. He taught for two years at Haverford College as an associate instructor and at the Naval Academy from 1941 to 1991 when he retired as professor emeritus of mathematics. He held several leadership roles in the Calvary United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Ethel, three sons, including George, ’67, a daughter, nine grandchildren, two brothers, including Roscoe, ’39, and a sister, Lorna Betz Blair, ’42.

Wallace Bacon, ’35, on Feb. 10, 2001 in Des Montes, NM. He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan. He proved adept at decoding Japanese communiques for army intelligence during World War II and was awarded the Legion of Merit for those efforts. On returning to academia following the war, Wallace founded the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and was an eminent interpreter of Shakespeare’s writings. A respected and popular teacher, he also wrote numerous articles and well-received plays as well as two texts, Literature as Experience, coauthored with Robert Breen, and The Art of Interpretation. Wallace served as the national president of the Speech Communication Association and took part in research and lecturing fellowships abroad. He retired in 1977 and moved to Taos, NM. He received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Albion in 1986. He is survived by a brother and his nieces and nephews.

Helen Patterson Fleming, ’36, on Oct. 12, 2000. She is survived by her husband, Maynard Fleming, ’34, a son, Theodore Fleming, ’64, and his wife, Marcia Strandberg Fleming, ’65, two daughters, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Roberta Weiner Hettinger, ’41, on April 10, 2001 in Ohio. She had been employed at Lonergan Manufacturing Co. in Albion before serving as a legal secretary to Judge Alfonso Magnotta and later to attorneys Joseph Wilcox and Charles Robison. She is survived by three sons, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Maurice Laney, ’43, on Feb. 13, 2001 in Florida. After serving in the Air Force during World War II, he received a doctorate in music theory from Indiana University. He taught music at the University of Louisville from 1948 to 1964 and then became assistant head of the Music Department at CarnegieMellon University in Pittsburgh. He came to Eastern Michigan University in 1968, where he taught and headed the music theory program until he retired in 1990. He is survived by his wife, three children, three grandchildren, a brother and three sisters.

Allan Davis, ’44, on Nov. 30, 2000 in Mission, TX. He is survived by his wife, Carol Jamison Davis, ’45, and two sons, a daughter and two grandchildren.

Dale Ward, ’45, on Jan. 7, 2001. He was a pastor in United Methodist churches for 42 years and had retired to his family’s farm in Leslie. He was an active Boy Scout leader for 20 years. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, two sisters, three step-children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Daryl Kingsnorth, ’47, on July 7, 2000 in Grand Rapids. A World War II veteran, he was the chief sales representative for Wolverine Coil Spring in Grand Rapids, retiring in 1988. He is survived by his wife, Gladys, one son, three daughters, 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Editor’s note: Russell Babcock lived out his beliefs every day. His enduring concern for the welfare of others is evident in the many roles he filled: teacher, benefactor, advocate, friend. On learning of Russell’s passing, Albion art professor Doug Goering offered these recollections: “All of us who were involved in his initial efforts to support the Department of Art and Art History through the Philip C. Curtis Visiting Artist Program have great feelings of warmth for Russell. Our relationship with him was one of shared respect from the outset, and it grew stronger over time. I had a couple of occasions to visit Russell at his home (the most recent last year). It was impossible not to be impressed by Russell’s continuing social consciousness, his intellect, his zest for life, and his caretaking in all his interactions. I will not forget the exemplary way he led his life, and I will surely be diminished with the loss of his acquaintanceship. He deserves a full and glorious rendition of “Albion, Dear Albion.”

Russell Babcock, ’27, on Feb. 15, 2001, in Galien. Russell spent most of his professional life in the field of education. He began his teaching career in 1932 in the Winnetka (IL) Public Schools, served as the director of education in the Chicago Department of Race Relations and as field director of the Illinois Council of Economic Education at Northwestern University, and concluded his career as a teacher in the Galien (MI) Public Schools. At Albion, he and his wife, Wanda, created the endowed Philip C. Curtis, ’30, Visiting Artist Program, named for his friend who preceded him in death by only three months. He also was instrumental in establishing the Royal G. Hall Endowed Professorship in History. Russell received both a Distinguished Alumni Award (1981) and a Distinguished Service Award (1998) from Albion. He is survived by nieces and nephews, including Joshua Mack, ’96, Zachary Mack, ’98, and Andrew Hubbard, ’00.

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C. Henry Allen, ’49, on July 29, 2000.

After receiving his master’s degree at Michigan State University, he worked as a bacteriologist for Gerber Baby Foods until his retirement in 1982. He lived in Rochester, NY. He is survived by his wife, Helen Wolf Allen, ’49, four children and seven grandchildren.

Henry Dean Hudnutt, ’49, on March 11, 2001. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II, attaining the rank of master sergeant. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University Medical School, he completed an orthopaedic residency and practiced medicine in the Cleveland area for several years. He moved to Benton Harbor in 1958 and practiced medicine in the community for 30 years. He was well known for his interest in crippled children and donated much professional time to their treatment. He was recognized by the Easter Seal Foundation for his contributions. He was twice chief of staff at Memorial Hospital and was an active member of the hospital board. He is survived by his second wife, four children, four stepchildren, three grandchildren and three step-grandchildren, Charles Held, ’50, on Feb. 3, 2001 in Albion. He attended University of Michigan, University of Edinburgh, and Wayne State University where he earned a Ph.D. in library and teacher education.

He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army Reserves. He taught at Fordson High School from 1954 to 1963. He then became an instructor at Wayne State University from 1963 to 1965 and at University of Western Ontario in 1971 before coming to Albion College in 1965. He retired from Albion in 1985 as head librarian and associate professor of history. He enjoyed traveling and was actively involved in his community. He was past president of the Albion Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow. He is survived by two daughters.

Betty Lou Wilcox Walker, ’50, on Jan. 2, 2001 in East Jordan. She taught first grade in East Jordan from 1967 until her retirement in 1991. She was active at Raven Hill Discovery Center. She is survived by two children, two grandchildren, one brother and one sister.

William Watson, ’51, on July 13, 2000 in Sterling, VA. He is survived by his wife, Britt, a son and a daughter.

John Joyner, ’55, on Feb. 20, 2001 in Indianapolis. He was medical director of Maxicare of Indiana. Previously, he was a neurosurgeon for 30 years. He earned his M.D. degree from Indiana University. Former president of the National Medical Association, he and the organization launched the first national HIV/AIDS education program for minority physicians and other health care providers. Also during this time, he and the association received the

Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for their work in poor and medically under-served areas in the United States. He also received the Scroll of Merit, the association’s highest award. He was a member and cofounder of the Indianapolis chapter of 100 Black Men and received the organization’s Founding Father award. He received many other awards, including Albion’s Distinguished Alumni Award (1990) and was a member of the NAACP. He is survived by his wife, Joyce, two daughters, a son and three grandchildren.

David Hull, ’57, on Nov. 28, 2000 in Phoenix, AZ. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in civil engineering. He owned David P. Hull and Associates, a construction consulting firm, and was the former president of Al Cohen Construction Co. David served on many boards and received many awards in his field. He was elected mayor of Greenwood Village, CO, in 1993, serving until 1996.

He was also a member of the city’s board of adjustments from 1989 to 1993.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley Blunden Hull, ’57, a son, a daughter and three grandchildren.

Gloria Schultz Leppi, ’59, on Feb. 27, 2001 in Fort Worth, TX. While living in Minnesota and raising her family, she was heavily involved in community activities and held several key offices in the Duluth and Minnesota Associations for Children with Learning Differences.

She later had been chief development officer for the St. Louis County (MN) Museum of Heritage and Arts, Nat Polinsky Rehabilitation Center in Duluth and for the John Peter Smith Hospital in Weatherford, TX. After moving to Weatherford, she had also served as president of Parker County Women’s and Newcomers Club, and PEO Sisterhood. She implemented the establishment of Parker County Cancer Care Services. She is survived by her husband, John Leppi, ’59, two daughters, a son and seven grandchildren.

Richard Meden, ’59, on April 17, 2001 in Wildomar, CA. He attended law school at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received his law degree in 1961. He served in the Amy National Guard. He was a trust officer for the National Bank of Detroit until 1965 when he joined the Alpena law firm of Donald K. Gillard, later becoming Gillard, Meden and Gillard. In 1971, he was appointed as probate and juvenile court judge of Alpena County.

In 1982, he re-entered private practice until retiring in 1993. He served on many boards and committees of professional and community service organizations and was active in the Republican Party. He is survived by his wife, Patty Jo, a son, a daughter, and a granddaughter.

David Lindley, ’61, on Aug. 17, 2000.

He was a practicing CPA and professor at Central Michigan University. He is survived by his wife, Barbara.

Jean Livingston Fennimore, ’62, on Feb. 15, 2001. She received a master’s degree from Albion College and the University of Michigan. A long-time resident of Albion, she taught eighthgrade social studies in the Albion Public Schools from 1953 to 1964. She was a member of several historical societies and the First United Methodist Church.

She is survived by a son and a grandson.

Julia Haughey Grice Fitz, ’62, on Aug. 31, 2000 in Pontiac. After the birth of her two sons, she began writing, first selling small articles and stories to magazines, then writing romance novels.

Her first story in the Gothic field sold to Avon books in 1977 as Love Fire, made the New York Times bestseller list and sold over a million copies. She eventually authored 23 books, including other romance novels, mystery stories, contemporary novels and non-fiction books. Many of her books have been translated into foreign languages and sold worldwide. She is survived by her husband, Richard Fitz, her two sons, Michael and Andrew Grice, and her mother, Jean Ayers Haughey, ’35.

Jack Deller, ’68, on Feb. 4, 2001 in Kalamazoo. He earned an M.A. from Western Michigan University. He was principal at the Constantine middle and high school, where he also served as athletic director. He is survived by his wife, Carol Dentzer Deller, ’69, two daughters, two sons and a grandson.

Douglas Funsett, ’72, on Jan. 8, 2000.

He was a resident of Toledo, OH. Ann Mason, ’73, on Jan. 21, 2001 in Laingsburg. After graduation, she was a social worker in Sarnia, Ontario, and in Ft. McMurray, Alberta. She received her master’s degree in public administration from Western Michigan University. She was director of waste management services for Clinton County and was an early organizer of the Michigan Recycling Coalition, serving on its executive committee from 1994 to 1999, and as chairperson of the board of directors in 1997 and 1998. She is survived by her son and daughter, her father and step-mother, a brother and a sister.

Susan Snyder, ’75, on Nov. 7, 2000 in Battle Creek. Susan worked for Glowing Embers Girl Scout Council in Kalamazoo for 17 years in several membership and programming roles.

She was a member of the AAUW as well as a strong community leader and held a master’s degree from Western Michigan University. Susan is survived by her mother and two brothers.

David Byrwa, ’89, on March 26, 2001 in Ferndale. He enjoyed sports such as water and snow skiiing, hunting and sailing. He graduated from Wayne State University’s Law School. He was a principal in the Bloomfield Hills law firm of Byrwa & Sobczak. He is

survived by his parents, two sisters, Julie Byrwa VanderLinde, ’83, and Jennifer Byrwa Hoffiz, ’90, and one brother.

Faculty and friends Willard Frick on Feb. 28, 2001 in Columbus, OH. He received his master’s degree from Peabody College and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. Before retiring in 1993, he was a professor of psychology and a counselor at Albion College for 30 years, served on the staff of Oaklawn Counseling Services in Marshall, was an adjunct professor at Otterbein College and ran a private practice in psychotherapy. He published numerous articles in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology reflecting his interest in psychotherapy and personality theory and had served as associate editor of the journal since 1984. He also had written several books including Personality Theories: Journeys into Self. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Frick, who was formerly a member of the Albion English Department faculty and later an academic administrator at the College; two sons, Thomas and Ian; a daughter, Christina; and three grandchildren.

Remembering Willard B. Frick

By Johan Stohl Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies Professor emeritus of psychology Willard B. Frick passed away Feb. 28, 2001. Please see the accompanying notice in this section for more information about his life and work.

Willard Frick was a colleague and friend, an author, a teacher and a therapist. At times he also was a lonely but courageous voice, advocating and practicing humanistic psychology even when that was not popular or politically correct.

As a teacher, Willard embraced Abraham Maslow’s Psychology of Being with its “hierarchy of being” and “hierarchy of values.” He believed in selfactualization, in the human capacity to actualize our innate potential and to achieve self-transcendence.

He urged his students to undertake their own journeys of self-discovery, and he applied the maxim “know thyself” in his teaching by assigning journals and personal discovery papers.

Willard’s educational philosophy had much in common with the non-directive psychotherapeutic style of Carl Rogers. Often he chose not to use a syllabus, so that he could be more attuned and responsive to students’ needs throughout the semester. Many students have testified that Willard’s “unscripted” approach in the classroom led them to take greater responsibility for their own education.

One of Willard’s lasting contributions to humanistic psychology was a series of articles in The Journal of Humanistic Psychology on the “Symbolic Growth Experience,” or SGE. Willard coined this concept to highlight our capacity for psychological and personal growth. He believed that by becoming

intentionally aware of significant personal experiences, and by symbolically processing what is happening during the immediacy of the experience itself, we are able to accelerate and deepen our progress toward wholeness.

Willard and I shared a fondness for classical music and jazz, and a professional and personal interest in Jung’s depth psychology. We also enjoyed disagreeing with each other, whether debating the ethics of abortion or arguing about who was the better tenor, Placido Domingo or Luciano Pavarotti.

As it happened, opera was one of Willard’s passions, and although he didn’t sing in public, he had a beautiful baritone voice.

Occasionally we would lower the top on Willard’s dark green Fiat convertible and drive the back roads to Marshall. During lunch we would dream up ways to promote more open dialogue between religion and depth psychology, the two academic disciplines directly engaged in the study of the self (psyche or soul). I remember that we discussed for many weeks the feasibility of locating a center for psychological and spiritual development at Albion College, a dream never realized.

During the years of our friendship, I grew increasingly aware of Willard’s therapeutic concern for others. Once we were having a discussion at dinner when a man at the next table said, “Pardon me. I couldn’t help overhearing. One often does that when one dines alone.” Willard responded to the stranger by including him in our conversation through the rest of the evening. Afterward Willard said simply, “That man was terribly lonely.”

I respected Willard as an author, teacher and therapist, and I valued him deeply as a colleague and friend. He was a complex person, imperfect as we all are, and I will continue to miss him.

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Five new members take board seats The recently concluded spring elections and board appointments have added five new members to the Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Arnold Pinkney,’52, and Susan Sadler, ’77, were elected by the general membership, and Kenneth George, ’90, Timothy Newsted, ’78, and Tamara Transue Royle, ’63, were newly appointed by the board. Reappointed to the board were current members Gregory Eastwood, ’62, and James Clark, ’51. All except Newsted have terms extending through June 30, 2004; Newsted will serve through June 30, 2003. In addition, Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, was reappointed for one more year in order to complete her term of office as board president. (The entire roster for the Board of Directors appears elsewhere on this page.) Retiring from the board this year were Ellen Carlson Collinsworth, ’95, and June Luke Dempsey, ’54.

Ken George is an English teacher and boys’ varsity basketball coach at the Grand Rapids area’s Forest Hills Central High School. In addition, he is founder/adviser for the school newspaper. He received his master’s in educational leadership from Western Michigan University in 1999. In his community he has served as director of a youth basketball camp for the past six years.

George worked in Albion’s Admissions Office as assistant director from 1991 to 1994, and, during that time, he was an assistant men’s basketball coach for the College. He has also helped Albion at admissions events in his area since leaving the College.

Tim Newsted is a fourth grade teacher in Hastings. The recipient of a master’s degree in classroom teaching from Michigan State University in 1982, he was named by the Michigan Jaycees as the Outstanding Young Educator for the state of Michigan in 1994.

He is an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and does volunteer work for the Barry County YMCA. At Albion, Newsted has assisted the Albion chapters of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Sigma Chi fraternity. He also has performed with the Alumni Marching Band at every Homecoming since he graduated.

Arnold Pinkney has played a leadership role in Greater Cleveland political and community affairs for the past four decades.

He successfully managed a campaign to help fund the new Cleveland Browns Stadium as well as the “Save the Browns” campaign that brought a new expansion football team to Cleveland. He also was the state campaign director for Sen. Bill Bradley’s bid for the

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Democratic presidential nomination and managed the campaign to re-elect Cleveland Mayor Michael White. He served as president of the City of Cleveland school board for 11 years. A member of the Albion Board of Trustees from 1975 to 1979, Pinkney has been affiliated with the Pinkney-Perry Insurance Agency for 40 years and is currently chairman of the board.

Tamara Royle is an active volunteer in her home community of Saginaw. She was formerly discipleship director for the First Congregational Church, and also served for more than two decades as director of the church’s primary choir. She is also archivist for the Congregational Summer Assembly on Crystal Lake in Frankfort. For Albion, she has served on organizing committees for numerous alumni events in the Saginaw area, and for programs honoring David Strickler, professor emeritus of music. With her husband, Jim, ’63, she chaired her 35th class reunion.

After graduating from Albion, Susan Sadler continued her education at the University of Toledo College of Law where she earned a J.D. in 1980. She has practiced law since that time, and currently is one of the founding partners in the Bloomfield Hills law firm of Dawda, Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, P.L.C. Her practice focuses on representing corporations in environmental regulatory proceedings and toxic tort litigation. She is an active member of the Advisory Board to the Great Lakes Environmental Law Institute and is frequently called on to lecture and write for various American Bar and State Bar Association programs. She also coordinates charitable events sponsored by her firm.

Your Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomes your comments. Feel free to discuss your concerns with them at board meetings or at any other alumni gatherings.

The board roster below became effective July 1, 2001.

Terms expiring in 2003

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Terms expiring in 2004

Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, president; 27375 Bloomfield Dr., Lathrup Village, MI 48076; e- mail: cnelsonthomas@mediaone.net Vice president for on-campus activities; to be elected Oct. 13, 2001 David L. Neilson, ’66, vice president for on-campus activities; 1624 Greenleaf, Royal Oak, MI 48067 O. James Clark, ’51, secretary; 1800 Oakfield, Midland, MI 48640; e-mail: ojmeclark@aol.com

Terms expiring in 2002 Katherine Jewell Dempster, ’57; South Haven Kirk L. Heinze, ’70; Mason Louise A. Kirk, ’90; Livonia Sarah VandenBout Klein, ’95; Commerce Anna VanBruggen Thompson, ’80; St. Joseph, MN

Chicagoland alumni pitch in to help hungry

By Shaun McMillan, ’95 On Saturday, April 7, 14 Albion College alumni, spouses and friends volunteered at the Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD).

The GCFD is a non-profit food bank that obtains over 20-million pounds of donated food each year. A third of the donated goods must be sorted and re-packaged before being sent to soup kitchens, food pantries and shelters to feed needy families in the Chicagoland area.

On this day, the GCFD received huge boxes of bulk pasta. The Albion volunteers had to take the bulk pasta and place it in individual serving bags. It sounded like a simple task! It was only pasta! The group donned hairnets, face masks and white robes and packaged the loose pasta into smaller bags for three hours.

Mary Beth Hartmann Halushka, ’84; Troy Pat Pearsall Hessler, ’57; Frankfort Kenneth B. Hollidge, Jr., ’67; Grosse Pointe Shores Timothy R. Newsted, ’78; Hastings

Gregory L. Eastwood, ’62; Jamesville, N.Y. Kenneth A. George, ’90; East Grand Rapids Arnold R. Pinkney, ’52; Cleveland, Ohio Tamara Transue Royle, ’63; Saginaw Susan J. Sadler, ’77; Waterford

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 Renée N. Francois, ’03, Student Alumni Association president

When one box of pasta was packaged, it was on to the next box and so forth. Collectively, Albion volunteers packaged nearly 2,100 pounds of pasta to be distributed to the various sites to feed the hungry. It was an amazing endeavor! Afterwards, the group had lunch at Giordano’s pizzeria. No one ate pasta!

Special thanks to the following volunteers: Jen and Gregg Colburn, ’95, Brenda Green, ’99, David Green, ’64, Kyle Kramer, ’00, Nora Wiltse, ’99, Amy Latimer, ’97, Caroline Wilcox Gifford, ’47, Jay Witthuhn, ’97, Susan Finnegan, ’96, Gail Thiede, ’84, Beth Miller, ’96, and Anne Ward, Albion’s associate director of alumni and parent relations.

Shaun McMillan, ’95, will be coordinating service projects each spring and fall for the Chicago alumni with the food depository and other charitable organizations in the area.

Please contact her at 312/474-2167 or e-mail shaun.mcmillan-smith@infores.com for more information on upcoming volunteer events.

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Art Exhibit: “Richard Leach: A Retrospective” “Richard Leach: A Retrospective” runs Sept. 29 through Oct. 28 in the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center. This exhibit has been planned as a tribute to the late Richard Leach, a professor who taught ceramics and sculpture at Albion for 30 years. It will include ceramic works, paintings and sculpture that cover his entire career as an artist.

On Friday, Oct. 12, there will be a luncheon reception honoring Leach’s artistic legacy from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. with a short program at 11:45.

Admissions Visitation Day For alumni, Albion is a place filled with exciting memories, and Homecoming is a time to visit and reminisce. Because this place is so special to you, why not share this experience with a high school senior or junior? We encourage you to bring a young person you know to campus where we have a Homecoming program planned including a personalized tour of campus, and opportunities to explore areas of academic interest with faculty and attend the football game. For registration information, contact Marsha Whitehouse at mwhitehouse@albion.edu, or 800/8586770.

Class of 1961 Reunion Symposium on Meaning and Value This symposium, organized by Class of ’61 members Theodore Everingham, Harry Cook and Garry Carley, is cosponsored with the Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service and the Center for Interdisciplinary Study in Meaning and Value. Open to all.

Noon-1:15 p.m. Informal Lunch, Gerstacker Commons, Kellogg Center 12:30 p.m. Opening Address, President Peter Mitchell, ’67 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Break-out Sessions featuring Albion alumni and faculty panelists • Law and Politics • Medicine, Science and Technology • Belief and Religion • Literature and the Arts Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony Join this year’s Athletic Hall of Fame inductees and their families for a special dinner as we celebrate their contributions to athletics as students or alumni.

Reservations are required.

Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony We will honor the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award winners Saturday morning at a 9:45 reception in the Kellogg Center, followed by the Awards Ceremony at 10:30.

Football Albion vs. Alma, 1 p.m., SprankleSprandel Stadium Halftime program featuring the Homecoming Court, the British Eighth and the Alumni Band.

Class Reunions (1956-1996) All classes ending in “1” or “6” will celebrate their class reunions. If you graduated in one of these classes, plan to attend your reunion dinner on Saturday evening. Reunion information and locations will be posted on the Web as details become available: http:// www.albion.edu/alumni/classpages/ homepageindex.asp.

TAILGATE PARTY for the Greater Indianapolis Area!

Other weekend highlights Friday Briton Classic Golf Tournament The fifth annual golf tournament for alumni and friends is planned for The Medalist Golf Club, Marshall. Call the Athletic Department, 517/629-0500, for registration details.

Saturday “A” Club Breakfast with Albion’s New Athletic Director Peter Hart, Mary Sykes Room, Baldwin Hall Women’s Soccer vs. Hope, Noon, Alumni Field Volleyball vs. Adrian, 5 p.m., Kresge Gym Carl Gladstone, ’01, in Concert, 8:30 p.m., Gerstacker Commons, Kellogg Center

Sunday Worship Services will be held at the First United Methodist Church, 9 a.m., Wesley Chapel, 11 a.m., Goodrich Chapel Habitat for Humanity Building Project Join members of the Class of 1996 in working on Albion College’s second Habitat for Humanity House.

Choir and Orchestra Pops Concert featuring the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein, 4 p.m., Goodrich Chapel

Award Recipients Albion College will honor the following people during Homecoming Weekend for their contributions to and passion for Albion College, their communities and their professions.

Distinguished Alumni Award Frank L. Joranko, ’52 Professor Emeritus of Physical Education Retired Football and Baseball Coach/ Athletic Director Albion College Lansing, Mich.

Paul A. Sandford, ’62 Chemist/Research Consultant Los Angeles, Calif.

Jennifer L. Trost, ’79 Performing Artist (Soprano) Bavarian State Opera Munich, Germany William C. Wadland, M.D., ’69 Chair and Professor, Department of Family Practice College of Human Medicine Michigan State University East Lansing, Mich.

Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees Catherine Bousson Hill, ’84 Carol L. Hulett, ’74 Steven G. John, ’86 Kirk W. Leighton, ’67 James C. Papenfus, ’63 Robert L. Porritt, ’64 Martha A. Proctor, ’87 William J. Smith, ’35 Dale V. Springer, ’62 1939 and 1940 Football Teams 1991 Football Team

Save the Date Family Weekend~Nov. 2-3, 2001

Saturday, September 29, 2001 The Albion College Briton football team is playing Butler University Sept. 29 in Indianapolis, and Albion is hosting a tailgate party for prospective Albion students, alumni, parents and friends! Come to the party to help root for your favorite team! The fun begins at 11:30 a.m. (Indiana time). Kickoff time for the game is 1 p.m. Watch the mail for your invitation later this summer.

For more information, please call the Alumni and Parent Relations Office at 517/629-0448.

See you there!

Plan to join our Albion family by bringing yours to campus! On Friday evening, you’ll be able to attend a concert by the musical duo, “Life in General,” and you can spend some “quality time” with your student. On Saturday, you can talk with your student’s professors during a faculty reception and convocation, enjoy a Briton football game vs. Kalamazoo College, and meet other Albion parents and families while attending a gala dinner. Lots to do and fun for the whole family!

A schedule of events and details will be mailed to you this fall. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact: Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 517/629-0448; or e-mail: droguz@albion.edu.

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From Albion English professors Elsie Munro and John Hart, Jim Kingsley, ’63, learned to value the written word as a means for both understanding and shaping human behavior. From economist Maurice Branch, he developed an appreciation for principle and precedent and how they may be applied in solving contemporary problems. But, above all, Kingsley says, these professors and others like them instilled a commitment to “excellence and integrity,” a sense that one should never settle for “second best.” Today, as a judge for the Calhoun County Circuit Court, he remembers those lessons as he sorts out the facts in complex cases and renders judgments

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that, in some circumstances, will alter someone’s life forever.

“I am always conscious of the responsibilities I have not only to those who stand before me in the courtroom but to society as a whole. That sense of duty compels me to work hard to ensure I have a solid grasp of the legal issues as I make a decision. Above all, I wish to be known as a judge who has upheld the highest standards of my profession and one who has merited the public trust.”

Jim Kingsley, a great example of

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CHINA HIGHLIGHTS

An An Evening Evening in in Bay Bay View View Saturday, July 28, 2001 5 p.m. Theatre Preview Discussion with Dr. Royal Ward, Albion College 6 p.m. Potluck Supper 8 p.m. Theatre Production: The Music Man All events will take place on the Bay View campus.

With Yangtze River Cruise May 10-25, 2002 Sponsored by Albion College Alumni Association Experience and learn about China’s historical traditions, emerging economy, and culinary delights by traveling on the country’s major highway, the Yangtze River, and visiting its major cities.

Sample Highlights: the essence of China and learn about one of the early cradles of • Experience Chinese civilization on a six-day cruise along the Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world. the capital city of Beijing, where you will tour such famous sites as the • Visit Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and Tian An Men Square.

Xian where you will see the 6,000 life-sized terracotta figures that • Visit guard the burial mound of Qin Shi Huang, the emperor who unified China in 221 B.C.

Invitations will be mailed shortly. If you will be traveling in northern Michigan and would like to attend, please call the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 517/629-0448, to make a reservation.

Suzhou, visit several famous classical gardens and take a boat ride on the • Infabled Grand Canal. visit the newly opened Museum of Art and History, the finest • Inin allShanghai, of China and considered one of the great museums of the world.

Write or call for complete itinerary and pricing: Office of Alumni and Parent Relations Albion College 611 E. Porter St. Albion, MI 49224 517/629-0448

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From Albion English professors Elsie Munro and John Hart, Jim Kingsley, ’63, learned to value the written word as a means for both understanding and shaping human behavior. From economist Maurice Branch, he developed an appreciation for principle and precedent and how they may be applied in solving contemporary problems. But, above all, Kingsley says, these professors and others like them instilled a commitment to “excellence and integrity,” a sense that one should never settle for “second best.” Today, as a judge for the Calhoun County Circuit Court, he remembers those lessons as he sorts out the facts in complex cases and renders judgments

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that, in some circumstances, will alter someone’s life forever.

“I am always conscious of the responsibilities I have not only to those who stand before me in the courtroom but to society as a whole. That sense of duty compels me to work hard to ensure I have a solid grasp of the legal issues as I make a decision. Above all, I wish to be known as a judge who has upheld the highest standards of my profession and one who has merited the public trust.”

Jim Kingsley, a great example of

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CHINA HIGHLIGHTS

An An Evening Evening in in Bay Bay View View Saturday, July 28, 2001 5 p.m. Theatre Preview Discussion with Dr. Royal Ward, Albion College 6 p.m. Potluck Supper 8 p.m. Theatre Production: The Music Man All events will take place on the Bay View campus.

With Yangtze River Cruise May 10-25, 2002 Sponsored by Albion College Alumni Association Experience and learn about China’s historical traditions, emerging economy, and culinary delights by traveling on the country’s major highway, the Yangtze River, and visiting its major cities.

Sample Highlights: the essence of China and learn about one of the early cradles of • Experience Chinese civilization on a six-day cruise along the Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world. the capital city of Beijing, where you will tour such famous sites as the • Visit Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and Tian An Men Square.

Xian where you will see the 6,000 life-sized terracotta figures that • Visit guard the burial mound of Qin Shi Huang, the emperor who unified China in 221 B.C.

Invitations will be mailed shortly. If you will be traveling in northern Michigan and would like to attend, please call the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 517/629-0448, to make a reservation.

Suzhou, visit several famous classical gardens and take a boat ride on the • Infabled Grand Canal. visit the newly opened Museum of Art and History, the finest • Inin allShanghai, of China and considered one of the great museums of the world.

Write or call for complete itinerary and pricing: Office of Alumni and Parent Relations Albion College 611 E. Porter St. Albion, MI 49224 517/629-0448

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