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Re-thinking health care Experts in government, business and education have all taken a turn in recent years at recommending improvements in both the quality and accessibility of health care in the United States. “There is little argument that the American health care system is in need of reform,” say Martha Loustaunau and Elisa Sobo in their book, The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine. “The challenge is not only to make the system cost effective and to provide for the health care needs of all the people to the greatest extent possible, but to make the system more tolerant of and responsive to other cultural values and approaches, which . . . is vital in the production of health and prevention and treatment of illness.” How to fulfill these worthy (and sometimes competing) aims will remain at the center of our health care debates for years to come.

These concerns have become all too real for the Greater Albion area in recent months. With the closing of the local hospital in February, community residents instantly found themselves re-examining what access to health care means and searching for creative solutions that would first ensure the availability of critical care, but, beyond that, would result in a healthier community overall. President Peter Mitchell and other local leaders (several Albion alumni among them) stepped forward to develop a comprehensive health care plan. The efforts of this Health Care Task Force are detailed in our cover story.

The task force has an important ally in the Health and Wellness Action Team, a determined group of Albion volunteers promoting good health at the grassroots level. Building healthier communities is also a priority for William Wadland, M.D., ’69, as you will see in a related story on the innovative programs he leads at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine.

Health care delivery, of course, depends on much more than buildings and services, and the human side of health care also receives attention in this cover story. “Healing is psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural, as well as biological,” note Loustaunau and Sobo. You will find out how education at both the undergraduate and professional school levels can encourage future physicians and other health care practitioners to be more accommodating of their patients as “whole persons.”

Albion College is a leader in this regard with its new Liberal Arts Institute in Pre-Medical and Health Care Studies, directed by biomedical anthropologist Amy Terstriep.

The social dimensions of medicine—reflecting the needs of both individuals and the communities in which they live—will continue to shape our thinking as we go about improving our nation’s health care system.

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New models in Building a healthier community

By Morris Arvoy, ’90 Albion—known as “The Smart Community”—is on its way to becoming Albion, “The Healthy Community,” with creation of a plan to fill the health care void left by the closing of the local hospital in early February.

The comprehensive plan is already being called a model for cities facing similar health care crises. While it has established a new vision for small-town health care, it is a standard-setter in other ways as well: it was developed at a record pace for community planning efforts—just three months—and resulted from an unusually close collaboration among area hospitals, physicians and non-profit health care agencies.

“In the wake of the hospital closing, it would have been easy to be pessimistic about the future of health care in Albion,” says President Peter Mitchell, ’67, who led the planning process. “Instead, our community came together and immediately got to work on new programs and alliances that will actually make for much improved health care delivery in our community over the long term. In this planning, we have had unprecedented cooperation from Calhoun County hospitals, health care professionals and groups such as the Regional Health Alliance, all of whom were genuinely concerned about Albion’s situation and provided expert advice and support.”

Following dozens of meetings and consultations with community members and area health care professionals, “The Albion Plan: Health Promotion,

A grassroots approach to promoting wellness The Albion area’s Health and Wellness Action Team (HWAT) is putting the “community” in local community health programs. Led by retired Albion College staff members Sharon Hostetler and Kitty Padgett, the action team is a coalition of community volunteers, health care providers and representatives from local health agencies. Often such groups are formed in response to a mandate from the federal government or an initiative conceived and funded by a national task force or charitable organization. What sets the Albion group apart is its focus on identifying local needs and how to meet them using local resources.

“The Health and Wellness Action Team,” Sharon Hostetler says, “is an enthusiastic group of individuals who care about improving health in the community as a whole.”

The HWAT is remarkably inclusive, Kitty Padgett adds, with a membership that is diverse in terms of age, race, income, education and gender. This diversity helps ensure that even those who often have no voice in community decision-making get heard.

“We know of no other recognized group that has an ear for what the community wants [in health care],” Padgett says. “This is not a top-down organization.”

Health Care and Wellness for ‘The Smart Community’” was crafted by a specially appointed Health Care Task Force of the Greater Albion Alliance. The Alliance, a coalition of Albion-area civic, business, government, religious and community representatives, was formed over 10 years ago to address local challenges, including the need for high-quality health care.

Assisting Mitchell as Alliance tri-chairs are Peggy Sindt, ’73, president of the Albion Economic Development Corporation, and Sue Marcos, president of the Greater Albion Chamber of Commerce, and they also served with him on the Health Care Task Force.

The newly formulated plan combines physician, diagnostic, emergency and specialty services with community-based health and wellness programs.

Presented at an open forum at Albion High School on May 7, it identifies the major components that comprise a healthy community, with high-quality primary care as the most important element of the health care system. Medical professionals agree that strengthening local primary care reduces the costly trend of patients using hospital emergency rooms for basic health care needs—a trend that contributed to the demise of Albion’s hospital.

“The purpose of the plan is to solidify health care in Albion,” explains Bill Dobbins, ’74, an Albion primary care physician and member of the Health Care Task Force. “The crux of the plan is addressing the primary care needs of the community, and most pressing is the need for primary care for the underinsured and uninsured. That is where the task force has made the most progress at this point.”

The first component of Albion’s primary care system—local physicians’ practices—remains intact despite the closing of the hospital, as all local Albion doctors have pledged to stay in the community. The

second—a full-service clinic that serves all patients regardless of their ability to pay—will soon be a reality, thanks to the efforts of the task force.

The task force has secured $1-million to build, equip and staff a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) offering primary care, dental and behavioral health services for all Albion area residents, including those who are underinsured and uninsured. The center, which will be run as a satellite of the successful Family Health Center of Battle Creek, is slated to open this fall in downtown Albion with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Battle Creek Community Foundation, Oaklawn Hospital of Marshall and Battle Creek Health System (BCHS). The Family Health Center also has applied to the federal Bureau of Primary Health Care for $550,000 to support the annual operating costs of the new Albion health center.

Another major component of the plan fell into place in April when Foote Health System of Jackson opened Foote Express Care Albion, an urgent care clinic with extended hours during the week and on weekends. In addition, area residents have ready access to the laboratory and in-patient services at the hospitals in nearby Marshall and Battle Creek, and Albion Community Ambulance continues to provide emergency transportation. Over the coming months, plans will be formulated by the task force and other groups to further develop diagnostic, wellness and other services to meet the needs of specific populations.

In leading the Health Care Task Force, President Mitchell frequently called on the resources of the College, played a key role in raising the funds for the Family Health Center, and rallied Albion citizens behind the plan.

“I am just tremendously impressed with the leadership that President Mitchell has provided for this

The HWAT is proud of its record as a grassroots organization, empowering residents to make a difference in their home community. Hostetler recounts that all Albion public school campuses, as well as all public spaces at Albion College, are now tobacco-free, largely due to the efforts of HWAT member Liz Fraser (known to many College alumni as the spouse of former Briton football coach Morley Fraser). After attending HWAT meetings and hearing about smoking-prevention programs in Battle Creek, Fraser became a champion for this cause in the entire Albion area, according to Hostetler. Backed by the HWAT, she continues to promote her message with Albion area restaurants and businesses and helps support other successful smokingcessation efforts such as the Albion Middle School’s Tobacco Reduction Coalition. Fraser, in turn, has become a resource person for groups across the state that want to adopt similar programs.

In response to a request from another team member, the HWAT sponsored a program, open to the entire community, on “how to talk with kids about sex” with Meg Hickling, an internationally respected authority in this field. Likewise, retired nurses, spurred on by the HWAT, conduct a continuing program of blood-pressure screenings in local churches and at the annual Festival of the Forks and other community events. Through such screenings, they particularly hope to address cardiovascular problems common among AfricanAmericans.

As its name implies, the action team emphasizes preventive medicine and wellness programs, and so has

sponsored or advocated for numerous educational projects, including health fairs, immunization clinics and health resource directories.

“We as a community need to take responsibility for our health,” Padgett says, and that involves educating people about diet and good health habits, as well as providing them with first-aid and life-saving skills.

The HWAT has joined with the Albion Public Schools in offering the Kids Cardiac Life Support (KCLS) program, which teaches children in grades K-5 how to respond appropriately to a cardiac emergency they might encounter.

Hostetler began KCLS more than 10 years ago in Albion with a pilot program for kindergartners. This training is now provided annually to all 1,300 children in the Albion elementary schools, with help from almost 400 volunteers including Albion College students, faculty and retired faculty. “The schools and the community have embraced it,” Hostetler notes.

The action team has also had a key role in a new Regional Health Alliance program to create school-based health centers. Three schools in Calhoun County were selected as test sites, and because of the HWAT’s backing, one of those was Crowell Elementary School in Albion. A full-time nurse assigned to the school attends to student illnesses, dental and emotional needs and administers medication. She also spends time in the classroom teaching about healthy lifestyles.

Albion College students, under the guidance of physical education professor Tom Johnson, helped with a recent exercise program at the school, and students in the College’s

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health care initiative,” says Chris Christ, ’51, a Battle Creek attorney who was instrumental in the creation of Battle Creek Health System in the late 1980s and was chair of its board from 1989 to 1995. “He has a full-time job as president, and now with the Health Care Task Force he has another full-time job—because there is a critical need. He put together a collaboration and cooperation that was unique. . . . These are the kinds of things that require a lot of people and resources coming together.

The dynamics are one thing, but to develop a plan, get it on the table, and have it ready to go in such a short time . . . is really remarkable.”

An untiring proponent of good relations between the College and town, Mitchell notes that his is a natural leadership role for a crisis such as this. Since the closing of the hospital, Mitchell has contended that it serves both the College and the Greater Albion community to have a strong health care system. At various points in the task force’s work, he has drawn on the help of Albion trustees, alumni, staff and students.

Calling the College the “anchor” of the community, Mitchell cites the necessity of College involvement in local planning efforts of all kinds. With the Health Care Task Force, the “net result was really a very significant strengthening of the bonds between the College and the community that we hope and believe will go well beyond the health care issue.”

“But the key to success was not the College alone, by any means, but everyone—Peggy Sindt, Sue Marcos, government leaders, health care practitioners, the Greater Albion Alliance,” Mitchell continues. “I mean everybody truly worked together and with no desire for personal gain. It was altruism at its best.”

It all began with the closing of Trillium Hospital at the beginning of February. Despite the efforts of the

City of Albion, which ran the hospital from 1924 until 1994, and an affiliation with Foote Health System of Jackson that began five years ago, Trillium lost more than $1-million a year for several years and was finally forced to file for bankruptcy.

In the wake of the closing, the Health Care Task Force was tapped to address the immediate and longterm health care needs of the community. Task force members include Harry Bonner, director of Minority Program Services; Jane Deane Clark, an Albion-based health care consultant; Arthur Davis, Albion City Council member; Dobbins; Mike Herman, Albion city manager; L.J. McKeown, chief of the Albion Department of Public Safety; Kitty Padgett, member of the Greater Albion Alliance’s Health and Wellness Action Team and the Regional Health Alliance; and Bill Stoffer, ’74, Albion Machine and Tool Co. CEO and former Trillium Hospital board chair.

In the three months between Feb. 8 and the health care plan’s unveiling May 7, the task force met as frequently as three times a week. Members discussed Albion’s medical situation with almost all of the area’s health care professionals and volunteers, including physicians, dentists and nurses; officials from the three major hospitals in the region; Albion Community Ambulance; local hospice, home care and visiting nurse groups; the Greater Albion Alliance’s Health and Wellness Action Team; the Regional Health Alliance; and other health care delivery experts.

Two public forums were held prior to the May 7 announcement, attended by hundreds of area residents and others concerned about the future of Albion’s health care system.

Once the task force had formulated the idea of establishing a Federally Qualified Health Center in Albion, the search began for a suitable site. The task

force eventually settled on a downtown location adjacent to the Stoffer Plaza and the Kalamazoo River.

“The new center is an economic development tool as well as a health care tool,” says Peggy Sindt.

“First of all it addresses health care.

But by locating it in this area there is economic benefit to the downtown—it fits in with other projects that the Downtown Development Authority has been working on, and should help to enhance them.”

Sacrifices will have to be made by local physicians and pharmacists for the FQHC to be successful, Bill Dobbins notes, but he believes his colleagues will support the new health center. “I think everyone sees the value of the plan and that the community will prosper. So I think the physicians are behind it 100 percent.”

Mitchell says this project is a solid example of “Liberal Arts at Work”—the theme of the College’s Vision adopted in 1998—because the “true purpose of a liberal arts education is to prepare one for civic engagement and community service.”

“The essence of the liberal arts tradition,” he observes, “is to improve the human condition, and the College and its students, faculty and staff are really living out that legacy in our community.”

Liberal Arts Institute for Pre-Medical and Health Care Studies, under the direction of staff members Amy Terstriep and Patricia Visser, will assist in the future.

National studies show that such school-based programs help reduce absenteeism and improve students’ grades.

“If kids develop healthy behaviors,” Padgett says, “they are going to do better in school.”

The HWAT’s latest project stems from the launch this fall of a new Federally Qualified Health Center offering familyoriented primary care in Albion. When the Albion Health Care Task Force (see preceding story) was formed in February in response to the closing of the local hospital, Padgett was asked to serve as the HWAT representative on the task force. Based on studies the HWAT had conducted over the past two years on various community health models, the action team strongly promoted the idea of the new family health center, which will serve all area residents including underinsured and uninsured patients. The team sees the new center as essential for high-quality, affordable health care in Albion.

“Albion has a lot of people who are not getting good primary health care,” says Hostetler. The HWAT has now been charged with researching the specific health care needs in Albion and how those needs will be addressed in the new health center, but it won’t be research in the traditional sense.

In keeping with the HWAT’s grassroots orientation, volunteers will meet face-to-face with residents in their neighborhoods, churches, schools and businesses all across the city. And the questions may be out of the ordinary too:

What does a healthy community look like? What are the barriers at home, at work and elsewhere to maintaining good health? What must happen in order for the community to “own” the new health center?

“High-quality care will attract people to the center and keep them coming back,” Padgett says. “This facility will become a point of pride for our community.”

The HWAT was founded a decade ago as part of the Greater Albion Alliance, a College-community program to devise solutions for local challenges. While the HWAT essentially began as a behind-the-scenes effort, it now carries considerable clout not only in Albion but across southcentral Michigan. As the action team’s co-chairs, Hostetler and Padgett both sit on the Leadership Council for the Regional Health Alliance, which includes all of Calhoun County’s hospitals, other large-scale health care providers, and government, civic and foundation leaders. Formation of the Alliance, Hostetler notes, “was a first for getting cooperation for health care in the county.”

While much progress has been made in planning new health care strategies for Albion in the wake of the hospital’s closing, maintaining effective health care over the long term will depend on the community’s willingness to use local services. And the surest way for that to happen, says Sharon Hostetler, is first “to ask the community.”

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Local volunteer Sharon Hostetler (right) demonstrates for school nurse Lynn Lovelace some of the techniques she uses in teaching children how to address a cardiac emergency.

Hostetler’s Kids Cardiac Life Support program, one of many initiatives supported by the Albion area’s Health and Wellness Action Team, is offered to all 1,300 children in grades K-5 in the Albion Public Schools. Lovelace, assigned to Crowell Elementary School in Albion under a program sponsored by the Regional Health Alliance, has introduced a number of health and wellness programs at the school, often with the help of Albion College students and faculty.

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Poetry and pathology: While rooted in science and employing advanced technology, medicine, in many respects, remains an art that is shaped by the cultural values and world view of those who practice it. And modern medical practice continually intersects with the ethical, political and economic concerns of the larger society of which it is a part. Medical education, however, often ignores this “social side of healing,” focusing primarily on medicine’s clinical side. What follows are stories of programs that have taken a decidedly different approach.

Teaching the healers

By Sarah Briggs Bill Wadland, ’69, often wonders how it is that the United States—with its great wealth and sophisticated technology—lags so far behind most of the world’s developed nations in the quality of its health care system. In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked the U.S. 37th in “overall health system performance,” behind every member of the G8 except Russia.

As a physician and professor at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine (CHM) and chair of its Department of Family Practice, Wadland is determined to do what he can to change that statistic.

“It’s embarrassing that a country that has so much cannot serve its population well,” he says.

The solution, he believes, lies in better, more accessible primary care. The U.S. sets the standard for the world in providing specialized care and developing the most advanced diagnostic technology. What’s needed, according to Wadland, is a better first line of defense—care that educates people about how to stay

Health care in a multicultural society “We live in a time when an estimated one in four Americans will have a disability at some point in their lives, when millions of people worldwide are HIV-positive, and when large segments of our population are lacking even basic health care. How do we make sense of these times? How should we train doctors and other healers to be responsive to the needs of a multicultural society? How are illness and disease defined by society and how does this affect our individualized experience of illness? What is ‘health’ and why do many in our population face barriers in reaching it?”

With these probing questions, Albion College professor Amy Terstriep begins her First-Year Seminar, “In Sickness and in Health.”

These are themes that inform much of her teaching and research, which centers on biomedical anthropology. And these same ideas have guided her as the first director of Albion’s new Liberal Arts Institute for Pre-Medical and Health Care Studies.

As Terstriep explores the social dimensions of medicine with the students in her courses, she often has them start by writing about their own experiences—how they or someone

healthy, that is available to all regardless of socioeconomic status, and that addresses the needs of the whole person when illness strikes.

“What [research] has shown is that countries that have emphasized primary care have better health outcomes,” he says. And a healthier population will make for a more productive society in the long run. “If we don’t strongly commit to primary care and to keeping the population healthy,” he continues, “it’s going to affect [our] economic growth.”

At Michigan State, Wadland presides over a program that is among the nation’s leaders in preparing primary care physicians. Founded in 1974, CHM’s Department of Family Practice was the first such department at any medical school in the state. For the past six years it has been rated among the top 10 family practice programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. It is also ranked among the top 10 recipients of research grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Even more telling, however, is the fact that over the past five years more than 30 percent of the medical school’s graduates have entered family practice residencies. For the past three years, CHM has earned a Gold Achievement Award from the Academy of Family Physicians for its efforts in developing student interest in family practice and producing graduates who enter this field. Many of those who complete the CHM family practice residency, Wadland notes, remain in Michigan and work in rural or underserved communities.

Underlying these achievements is CHM’s strong commitment to weaving the social context of medicine into all of its programs. “We think we are distinctive in integrating the social side of medical practice with the clinical,” Wadland says.

In addition to the clinical training that is standard in the first two years of medical school, CHM teaches basic interviewing and listening skills and involves students in discussions of controversial health policy issues. The formal lectures of the first year give way to a case-based approach in the second year, with students working in small groups to refine their analytical and problem-solving skills.

Along with the clinical rotations that begin in the third year, the students all take a course on the medical humanities that exposes them to the history of medicine, literature about health and disease, and values and spirituality. In teaching one of the sessions on spirituality, Wadland explores with his students the close connections that exist for many patients between their personal beliefs and healing. In the course, they also debate difficult ethical issues including withdrawal of treatments and other end-of-life questions. He is joined in this teaching by other colleagues in the Department of Family Practice including one who is both an Episcopal priest and a lawyer and another who is a family physician and a medical ethicist.

For their clinical rotations, CHM students head out to six locations across Michigan—from Saginaw and Grand Rapids to Marquette—where they are exposed to the various medical specialties. They live in the communities where they are assigned, and “the community becomes a campus of CHM,” Wadland says.

The CHM holds to a philosophy that health care is more effective if patients take an active role in their own treatment. To this end, the students must show, in carefully structured simulations, not only that they have mastered the clinical information but that they can relate that to the patient and involve the patient in the decision-making about his or her health care. As Wadland characterizes it, “Can the student put forth the

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close to them has been affected by disease or disability. “In that way, it becomes much more personal to them,” she explains.

She then introduces them to the various ways humans have responded to illness throughout history, especially in literature and the arts. They read works by authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams and contemporary accounts of living with AIDS and coping with the anti-depressant Prozac. They look at depictions of illness, such as paintings by Thomas Eakins and Edward Munch, and watch films including And the Band Played On. They also debate the social justice issues surrounding medicine today. They explore the inequalities that exist both here in the U.S. and internationally in getting treatment for the complications related to AIDS. They study emerging diseases and the political processes that often influence the allocation of research funding to study such diseases. And they consider how race, gender and socioeconomic class all may affect access to high-quality health care and individuals’ experiences within the health care system.

In the area of medical ethics, they look at issues such as organ transplantation and how the acceptance of this procedure varies by ethnic group and class. They also discuss the marketing of medications both in the U.S. and abroad, and how marketing language influences whether people choose to use these products.

Albion students Morgan Haugen and Janan Saba, both members of the College’s Liberal Arts Institute for PreMedical and Health Care Studies Institute, taught community girls about women in health careers at an educational fair sponsored by the Anna Howard Shaw Women’s Center. Along with preparing students for graduate and professional school, the Institute encourages student involvement in community-based health programs.

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William Wadland, ’69, (second from left) chair of the Department of Family Practice at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, believes the U.S. must improve and expand its system of primary (first contact) care. “What [research] has shown is that countries that have emphasized primary care have better health outcomes,” he says. MSU is one of the nation’s leaders in producing graduates who enter the family practice field and offer such care.

Terstriep also brings in non-Western approaches to healing.

“Besides being fascinating in its own right, non-Western medicine has contributed to what has evolved as Western biomedicine,” she says. “There are some things that other healing systems do better. . . . There’s more of a connection between mind and spirit and body.”

Terstriep knows that once students enter medical school their clinical studies are likely to become all-consuming, so it’s even more important for them to tackle the social questions surrounding medical practice while they are still undergraduates. They simply may not have the opportunity again to delve into these issues in such depth.

The Liberal Arts Institute for Pre-Medical and Health Care Studies was launched at Albion two years ago. Terstriep took over as director last fall and has intentionally developed programming that shows medicine in its broader context.

“I want our students in the Institute,” she says, “to have an awareness of the social aspects of health care—cultural, economic, linguistic—so that they will more readily see their patients as people and not just as diseases to be treated. They also need a realistic view of the political and economic influences on the delivery of health care. In the long run, that’s what will make them superior clinicians.”

The Institute takes a holistic approach to preparing students for graduate and professional school, offering

information so it’s understandable to the lay person? Can that person then use the information to make a decision, understanding the risks and benefits?”

If all this sounds like a “liberal arts” approach to medical education, it is.

Wadland says CHM’s emphasis on problem-solving and cultural awareness is intended to develop well-prepared “generalists” who will be effective in any branch of medicine.

Many of the department’s research programs are also community-based, and they are often directed toward patients who are underinsured or uninsured, or those who are on Medicaid or Medicare. Wadland, who has a master’s in public health research along with his M.D. degree, is especially passionate about the smoking-cessation programs he has developed in recent years. In a pilot study with Medicaid patients who quit smoking under various nicotine-replacement therapies, he found that those individuals who had strong follow-up support, including a telephone-based counseling service, were 3-4 times more likely to stop smoking permanently than were those who did not have the follow-up support.

The state of Michigan now offers this smokingcessation service to all Medicaid recipients. Wadland’s program is also available to the six million individuals covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. This year, he received a half-million-dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate the effectiveness of the Blue Cross initiative.

The long-term public health impact could be significant, Wadland notes. “If you can get people to quit smoking, that’s the greatest contribution to decreasing mortality and morbidity that there is [here in the U.S.]. All the data show it.”

For Wadland, the campaign against smoking is a means of putting his beliefs into action: through such broad initiatives, real gains can be made in achieving a healthier population.

In an essay entitled “The Boundaries of Medicine,” Gerald Perkoff writes: “Medicine deals with mind/ body, disease/illness and person/society as a continuum. It is strong because its boundaries are blurred, fluid and opportunistic, not because they are sharply defined. It deals with biomedical, social and cultural function. It is in the strength of its inclusive character that medicine can prevent disability, relieve pain, cure disease, care for illness and promote life, even for those in the process of dying. In all these ways it is human service of the highest order.”

Bill Wadland couldn’t agree more.

academic advising throughout the student’s four years on campus as well as help with the application process for medical or dental school and other advanced degree programs. It’s understood that students will obtain the background in the basic sciences, and in research and problemsolving, that is essential for professional school. What distinguishes the Institute from preprofessional programs on other campuses, Terstriep says, is its emphasis on developing “caring professionals” who clearly see themselves as part of a larger community and who will treat their patients in ways that respect their humanity.

Regardless of where they practice today, physicians and other health care providers will deal with patients from diverse ethnic backgrounds. For care to be effective, Terstriep says, treatments must be explained so they make sense within the patient’s framework of beliefs.

To ensure that students are sensitive to the multicultural society in which they will practice, Terstriep has designed many activities that draw the Institute students out into the community. The students have assisted with health fairs and next year will work with the Greater Albion Alliance’s Health and Wellness Action Team on health education programs in the local schools. In the future, she hopes to develop partnerships with the College’s Institute for the Study of the Environment and with the downtown Kids ‘N’ Stuff children’s museum on programs that assess health risks and promote healthy lifestyles.

“I really want to see the students involved in doing things for the community and for the campus in which they are defining the problem and determining where to go from there,” Terstriep says.

Patient-centered care, she observes, actually begins with encouraging people to take responsibility for their own health and to envision the health services that should be offered within their own communities. Our students can become involved in that process right in Albion, she says, especially as the community shifts its health care priorities toward primary care and expanded programs for special populations including minorities, the elderly and children. (See related article on p. 4.) Not only will the students learn some valuable lessons for the future but they will provide a genuine service.

In the U.S., Terstriep notes, we tend to think of health care as a right for every citizen, yet we are far from reaching that ideal. Who defines “health” and who controls the access to health services quickly become issues that are shaped as much by politics and economics as by a concern for justice and the public good. Terstriep hopes that our graduates, by their involvement in programs like the Pre-Medical and Health Care Studies Institute, will be among those who will lead us to health care reforms that are both sensible and compassionate.

A 1975 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, Bill Wadland served as a family physician in rural northern Michigan from 1978 until 1985 when he joined the Department of Family Practice at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. In 1992, he was appointed professor and chair of family practice at MSU’s College of Human Medicine. In 2001, he received both CHM’s Outstanding Faculty Award and Albion College’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

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‘Unstuck in time’

‘Unstuck in time’

Editor’s note: Contemporary American novelist Kurt Vonnegut gave the keynote address for this year’s Elkin R. Isaac Research Symposium at Albion April 18. In his own inimitable way, he paid homage to his Midwestern roots (“we are freshwater people”) offered his views on the creative process (“practicing an art—no matter how well or badly—is a way to make your soul grow”) and, in hand-drawn “graphs” on a chalkboard, illustrated the plot lines of works ranging from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis to Cinderella. (The chalkboard with drawings intact is now ensconced in the College archives.) If it is the role of great writers “to instruct and to delight,” Vonnegut did both.

With Vonnegut’s speech (and his 17 books) as inspiration, English professor Jim Diedrick suggested that he’d like to try his hand at writing a piece for Io Triumphe “about Vonnegut’s importance to an entire generation of American readers, and to American literature more generally.”

Three of his faculty colleagues joined him in this endeavor. If you are of a generation that instantly recognizes such catchphrases as “so it goes” and cosmic creations like Tralfamadore, these essays are for you. Enjoy.

Kurt Vonnegut then and now: One reader’s view

By James Wyatt Cook, Langbo Trustees’ Professor of English, Emeritus Student and faculty responses to Kurt Vonnegut’s work have varied markedly over the five-plus decades he has been publishing. In the early years, with Slaughterhouse-Five, his implied social criticism, his flashing wit, his ability to coin new phrases or set ordinary ones in memorable contexts, his amusing irreverence, his impatience with popular and political cant, and, overwhelmingly, his quiet, steady critique of war and vengeance appealed to those of us who experienced in rapid succession World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam.

Recently, when I told Kurt Vonnegut that my favorite among his works was Cat’s Cradle, he replied: “Yes, that’s the flagship of the fleet.”

Simply for pleasure, I had read SlaughterhouseFive, The Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions as a graduate student. On that first reading of Slaughterhouse-Five, the fertility of Vonnegut’s imagination became apparent as did his power as a social critic. The book’s subtitle, The Children’s Crusade, helped shed entirely new light on World War II, which had been the principal defining experience of my generation’s childhood. Discovering that our side had fire-bombed Dresden for perhaps political rather than military motives suggested that we had, in that act, abandoned the moral high ground for a cynicism that we who had teethed on war movies associated exclusively with the enemy.

My main impression from my ’50s-something reading of Breakfast of Champions was the wonderful scene in which Kilgore Trout, Vonnegut’s fictive alterego and the author of much dreadful science fiction, meets his creator, Kurt Vonnegut, face-to-face. Trout reluctantly comes to believe himself to be Vonnegut’s creation when the author explains that he could set Trout unscathed on the surface of the sun. At last convinced, Trout has one request of his creator: “Make me young,” he implores. Sirens of Titan struck me as memorable mainly because its hero considers eagles a species thoroughly superior to human kind.

Not until 1964, when the Albion College Basic Ideas program committee selected Cat’s Cradle for inclusion in the syllabus for the “Self and Society” semester, did I ride the flagship of Vonnegut’s fleet of seventeen. That work explores the situation of an Everyman adrift in an apparently random but really thoroughly determined universe. It cleverly coins useful concepts like the karass and the gonfaloon. The former—a secret group organized by God for a mysterious purpose—comprises the meaningful people who cycle repeatedly but unpredictably through one’s life. The latter includes those whom one repeatedly meets without significant consequence.

Centrally, however, Cat’s Cradle, traces an improbable series of chaos-theory events initiated by the overwhelming ego of a petty dictator. This series culminates in all the planet’s oceans and watercourses being instantaneously frozen into ice-nine, a form of ice (actually achievable, thankfully, only in the laboratory) that requires a blow-torch to melt. Surviving the ensuing climatic cataclysm, the hero climbs a mountain, directs an obscene gesture toward an uncaring God, and, touching a fragment of ice-nine to his tongue, permanently freezes himself in that attitude.

Instantly he becomes the icon of the existential, romantic hero, asserting his freedom and passing a final judgment on the meaninglessness of the universe.

In an epoch defined by Vietnam, this novel resonated in the ’60s and ’70s with the ideas of countercultural movements and their mistrust of traditional values. In contrast, today’s Albion students respond most strongly to the fantasy elements of Vonnegut’s fiction and to its humor. As one young woman observed, before September 11, 2001, the only war of her lifetime had been the Gulf War, when she was three.

In the last three decades of the 20th century, the issues that came to command academic attention shifted from the morality of warfare and protest against or support for the draft to the concerns of women in the workplace and elsewhere, to equal opportunity and social justice for members of minority groups, and to re-theorizing virtually all academic disciplines. If Vonnegut has a failing as a writer, it appears in his representation of women. In so far as he draws women at all, they strike one as archaically stereotypical. Thus in a period of comparative peace, his stock fell.

Today’s literary academics, especially, regard him as to some degree passé. If I were to hazard a prediction, however, I’d guess that as the war on terrorism drags on, as popular enthusiasm for the effort wears thin, and, especially, if conscription once again becomes necessary, interest in Vonnegut’s works will enjoy a resurgence, and his perceived stature as an astute observer, allegorist and critic of American society will grow.

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Life in a chrono-synclastic infundibulum: Some notes on The Sirens of Titan

By Martha O’Kennon, Professor of Mathematics Out in space, according to Kurt Vonnegut, there exist “time warps,” which he calls chrono-synclastic infundibula. One of the insights that Vonnegut’s time traveler, Winston Niles Rumfoord (The Sirens of Titan), has when he falls into one of these phenomena is that “everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.”

Rumfoord, like Billy Pilgrim of Slaughterhouse-Five, is thus able to live in the past, present and future, probably in multiple versions. Since this collision Rumfoord’s (and his mastiff Kazak’s) bodies and minds have been spread across the universe in a spiral that intercepts Earth every 59 days, Mars every 111 days, and Mercury every 14 days. Wonder of wonders, that spiral exactly corresponds with the spiral path of Jupiter’s moon, Titan, about the sun, and so one slice of Rumfoord exists permanently on Titan.

Titan is the paradisiacal destination where our major characters—Malachi Constant, Rumfoord’s wife, Beatrice, and her son by Constant—meet Salo, who has been sent by the Tralfamadorians to deliver a message from “One Rim of the Universe to the Other.” Salo’s spaceship has malfunctioned, and he has settled on Titan to await a replacement part. His distress signal to Tralfamadore has taken 150 millennia to get there, but he is able to receive every few centuries from Tralfamadore comforting updates by watching events on Earth through a special viewer. For instance, Stonehenge spells out: “Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed”; the Great Wall says: “Be patient. We haven’t forgotten about you.” And so forth.

How is the replacement part being delivered? It turns out to be a scrap of metal that Constant’s son, Chrono, has been carrying around as a good-luck token from Mars. In order for the part to be delivered, Constant and Beatrice have to be delivered to Mars to produce Chrono. What is the ultimate message for the sake of whose transmission the whole history of the planet Earth has been manipulated throughout time? “Greetings.”

This denouement creates the impression that human history has hopelessly little to do with humans. But by the end of the story, the characters have developed real affection for each other, and a surprise ending brings back Constant’s martyred friend, Stony, who has existed all along on some level in the chrono-synclastic infundibulum.

I believe that most of us exist in a modified chronosynclastic infundibulum. We can jump mentally from present to many slices of the past and back, but mostly not to the future. Some of us are spread pretty evenly across the spiral of our own lives (so far). Vonnegut gives us the words to describe, and his holographic style reflects, this phenomenon. (Typically, slices of stories and characters are presented in flashbacks and flashforwards. Some characters and devices (like the Tralfamadorians) are even scattered between books.)

This invention gives us one of our more powerful tools for understanding events: a mental framework to see our lives, and our history, as a broad spectrum stretching from one rim of the universe to the other.

Although it is not clear that Rumfoord particularly enjoyed the experience, perhaps we can learn to savor

it and echo the epitaph of Stony Stevenson in Between Time and Timbuktu: “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

The importance of Cat’s Cradle in the education of a scientist (or non-scientist)

By Daniel Steffenson, Chair and Professor of Chemistry It must have been in the 1960s in graduate school when I first read Cat’s Cradle. It was probably the third or fourth Kurt Vonnegut novel that I had read, and, of course, I had no way of knowing then that I would reread this tragicomic parable of the dangers of science another 15 or 16 times (and still counting). I do know that my tattered copy of the Dell paperback has a price tag of 60 cents. The first time I used Cat’s Cradle as part of a course was in the “Science and Values” semester of Albion’s Basic Ideas program in the early ’70s. When I was asked to teach “Great Issues in Science” in the College’s young Honors Program in the early ’80s, Cat’s Cradle was the first book I knew had to be on my syllabus, and it has been there every time in the dozen or so semesters I have taught this seminar over the past 20 years. Almost all of my colleagues, when they teach “Great Issues in Science,” include Cat’s Cradle, and I know that I would never teach this seminar without it.

As you know, if you’ve read it, Cat’s Cradle provides a clear example and warning of the dangers that science can have for the survival of life on our planet. The beauty and the power of Vonnegut’s warning is that the threat that ice-nine represents has had different meanings for different generations of students. In the ’60s and ’70s, of course, it was nuclear annihilation. These students did not remember “duck and cover” from the ’50s, but the threat of the Cold War had been a part of their daily lives. In the ’80s the threat shifted from physics to biology. Now the fear focused on the potential for recombinant DNA research to produce a deadly mutant bacteria that would escape, producing the same kind of cataclysm produced by the body of Papa Monzano (“the first man in history to die of ice-nine”) as it dropped into the ocean during the fateful “ceremonies in honor of the Hundred Martyrs to Democracy.” In the ’90s the chemists provided their share of threats with environmental hazards from chemicals. In particular, the worry focused on compounds whose release was clearly threatening the ozone layer in the stratosphere that shields us from dangerous UV radiation. With the new millennium has come the threat of scientists working purposefully to produce “weapons of mass destruction,” and we are faced with the dilemma of having to turn to one group of scientists to save us from the possible destruction created by a different group. Truly a situation only a “Bokononist” could enjoy.

Besides the threat of annihilation, Vonnegut presents many other issues related to the role of science in our society. For example, in Asa Breed’s wonderful lecture in Chapter 18 he insists that what a scientist does “isn’t looking for a better cigarette filter or a softer face tissue or a longer-lasting house paint, God help us.” Instead, at the Research Laboratory of the General Forge and Foundry Company: “Here, and shockingly few other places in this country, men are paid to increase knowledge, to work toward no other end but that.” To my generation, the General Forge and Foundry Company represented Bell Labs. However, it has been many years since I have had a student who

Kurt Vonnegut during his Albion visit. knows about Bell Labs or even the labs at Ford or General Electric that were devoted to pure research.

Their place has been taken by labs devoted only to applied research, and Vonnegut provides an opportunity for a lively discussion of the importance of scientific research in our society, who should pay for it and who should control it.

In Felix Hoenikker, Vonnegut has provided us with a fascinating example of the “great scientist” whose personality is much closer to that of some real scientists I have known than my students would like to admit. Who are these men and women who have the potential to determine life or death for us all? How about the Hoenikker children and their spouses, who see ice-nine as the means to marriage, wealth and power? Is Vonnegut’s pessimism justified? I am happy to report that, at least among Albion undergraduates over the past 30 years, the answer is a definite “no.”

With well over 300 students during this period, I have asked each of them to tell the rest of us in the seminar what they would do if they had discovered ice-nine.

Not a single one would give it to any government, including our own, and only a handful would look for ways to obtain personal wealth or power. Some would hide it away, reluctant to destroy new knowledge, but afraid to share its destructive potential. By far the vast majority are sure that they would melt all samples and destroy the formula. To me, that seems like the best choice, and I see hope for our future. However, deep down, the part of me that is a scientist wonders if I could really destroy new knowledge, no matter what its possible dangers.

Each time I teach “Great Issues in Science,” Cat’s Cradle falls in the section of the seminar called “Science and Literature.” Of course this is fiction, but the issues it raises are very real, and they are ones that must be faced by both the students planning to be scientists and the students whose lives will be touched by science whether they want it to or not. Vonnegut provides a wonderful transition into the “Science and Values” part of the course where real people have to make hard decisions about biotechnology, stem cell research, cloning, global warming, nuclear waste, and on and on. After reading Cat’s Cradle, my students understand that decisions about these issues cannot be left to scientists or the people who fund science. Each of us must get involved with the solutions to these problems. If we rely solely on the scientists, someday out of nowhere, will come our own version of “The Grand Ah-Whoom.” And that is why I will never teach “Great Issues in Science” without Cat’s Cradle. (continued on next page)

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Of comedy and the cosmos: Kurt Vonnegut re-considered

By James Diedrick, Howard L. McGregor Professor of the Humanities After Spiderman and before Shakespeare, I discovered Kurt Vonnegut.

In my youth, I was a voracious but undiscriminating reader. Cereal boxes, Burma Shave billboards, even highway markers loomed large in my imaginative landscape (the warning sign “Watch for Rolling Rock” inspired a frequently re-embroidered tale of an elusive Northwest Indian warrior). Near the end of my first decade I discovered Marvel Comics, home to the angstridden hero Spiderman, and became a fierce partisan of the entire Stan Lee and Jack Kirby oeuvre. At some point I graduated to magazines; my parents subscribed to Life, Saturday Evening Post, and Reader’s Digest, and I eagerly consumed them all (“It Pays to Increase Your Word Power” was a formative influence). When I did begin reading novels, I gravitated toward fantasy and science fiction, devouring everything by Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. In tenth grade, a friend passed me a copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan, and I was hooked.

Many years later I read Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus,” which describes a world in which man, “suddenly deprived of illusions and of light, . . . feels a stranger,” a dilemma which “truly constitutes the feeling of Absurdity.” But at the time I didn’t need Camus to begin questioning the idea of a purposefully ordered universe. In The Sirens of Titan, Winston Niles Rumfoord travels to Tralfamadore, a planet 150thousand light years from Earth, where he discovers that every significant historical event on Earth has been determined by Tralfamadorians. These events are part of a continuous communiqué from Tralfamadore to Salo, a Tralfamadorian messenger, who was forced to land on Titan when his space ship broke down. Since Titan occupies the same solar system as Earth, the Tralfamadorians used Earth to communicate with Salo.

Stonehenge, for instance, means in Tralfamadorian, “Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed.” The Great Wall of China means: “Be patient.

We haven’t forgotten about you.” And so on. Or, to use Vonnegut’s favorite expression of arch fatalism, “so it goes.”

In years to come I would read H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Carl Capek, Ursula K. LeGuin and Russell Hoban, and realize that Vonnegut was one of many writers who have used science fiction as a vehicle for cunning social commentary and protest. But as a teenager living through the Cuban Missile Crisis and other intimations of nuclear apocalypse, I was convinced that Vonnegut was unique, a kind of holy comic fool speaking directly to me about the absurdities of life on the nuclear brink. Especially after reading Cat’s Cradle. Like Stanley Kubrick’s satirical masterpiece Dr. Strangelove, Cat’s Cradle is about the deadly consequences that arise when science and technology become unmoored from morality and, in W.B. Yeats’ words, “mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Felix Hoenikker, the epitome of scientific “objectivity” in the novel, is a Nobel Prize winner and so-called “father of the atomic bomb.” More a naïve child than a morally responsible adult, Hoenikker is oblivious to the effects his discoveries may have on humanity. When a fellow scientist remarks after Hiroshima that science has now known sin, Hoenikker replies, “What is sin?”

Hoenikker has also discovered a substance called icenine, which ultimately destroys all life on earth.

These two novels appealed to my teenaged angst, alienation and love of moral polarities.

But in the absence of other influences on my nascent literary sensibility, they also helped me become a serious reader. During my senior year in high school, when my English teacher assigned the likes of Kafka, Camus, Borges and Flannery O’Connor, she didn’t need to convince me that the outrageous incidents and surreal situations in their fictions could convey important truths. Vonnegut had already done that, with his heady mixture of over-thetop inventiveness and existential bewilderment.

Despite Vonnegut’s importance to my early literary education, I spurned him for many years. Under the sway of a college professor who loved literary hierarchies almost more than literature itself, I shelved Vonnegut with the literary lightweights. After all, writers ranging from Dostoevsky to Faulkner engaged the weighty philosophical questions that incited Vonnegut, but they did so within densely textured fictions that didn’t resort to alien visitations, anomalies within the time-space continuum, or such finally annoying catchphrases as “so it goes,” “Poo-tee-weet” and “hi-ho.” It also didn’t help that many of the novels Vonnegut wrote after Slaughterhouse-Five have tended toward the random, the diffuse and the anecdotal (case in point: Slapstick). Besides, Vonnegut is a comic writer, and comedy has never enjoyed pride of place on the hierarchy of literary genres.

But to quote Bob Dylan, “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” During my junior and senior years in college, I read Shakespeare’s “problem” comedies, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Samuel Beckett—and the scales fell from my eyes. In the words of British novelist Martin Amis, another writer who recognizes that comedy is a capacious form, the idea that laughter banishes seriousness “is a misconception often formed by the humorless.” Reviewing Vonnegut’s novel Mother Night, Amis calls it “the only funny book about the Holocaust ever written, or indeed ever attempted.” He continues: “It is perhaps appropriate that such a novel should have been produced, not by a Jew, but by a German, a German-American who fought the Nazis in World War II.” Vonnegut’s best-known novel, SlaughterhouseFive, is based partially on his own experiences in World War II. Like Vonnegut was, Billy Pilgrim is captured by the Germans and taken to Dresden, where he witnesses the destruction of the city by American firebombers. While in Germany, Billy first becomes “unstuck in time.” For Billy, “all moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, and always will exist.” As a result, Billy has “seen his birth and death many times, . . . and pays random visits to all the events in between.” After the war has ended, and Billy is back home in America, he watches a film about American bombers during the war, but because he is “slightly unstuck in time,” he sees the movie in reverse: The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. . . .

When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America,

where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas.

It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

In this description of undoing death and destruction Vonnegut effects a poetic erasure of the Dresden firebombing all the more poignant for the reader’s knowledge that it never can be undone. Inspired by this sequence in the novel, Martin Amis wrote an entire novel in reverse chronology. Time’s Arrow employs an audacious variation on the folk wisdom that just before death individuals see their entire lives flash before them. At the moment of his death in an American hospital, one-time Nazi doctor Odilo Unverdorben “gives birth” to a doppleganger (literally, “doublegoer”), a child-like innocent who re-lives and narrates Unverdorben’s life—in reverse. He inhabits Unverdorben, who is unaware of his presence, like a “passenger or parasite,” ultimately arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Unverdorben conducted horrific experiments on Jewish inmates.

In the ignorant, reverse-time view of the narrator, however, “the world . . . has a new habit. It makes sense.” Here he and Odilo create life, heal wounds, send inmates to freedom. “Our preternatural purpose?

To dream a race. To make a people from the weather.

From thunder and from lightning. . . .” Describing his narrative strategy in Time’s Arrow, Amis said “you present it as a miracle, but the reader is supplying all the tragedy.” Amis has been called the most influential prose stylist of his generation, but his influence would not have reached so far had he not absorbed the example of Kurt Vonnegut.

Both Vonnegut and Amis have been called nihilists, but nihilists don’t write novels. Writing imaginative literature is an act of affirmation, no matter how grim the subject matter. Vonnegut himself testified to this in his remarks to the graduating class of Bennington College many years ago: My longer-range schemes have to do with providing all Americans with artificial extended families of a thousand members or more. Only when we have overcome loneliness can we begin to share wealth and work more fairly. I honestly believe that we will have those families by and by, and I hope they will become international.

This characteristically quirky and provocative vision of global education and multiculturalism is worth talking about long after its author’s visit to Albion College is just a memory. Hi-ho.

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Commencement 2002 At Albion’s May 4 commencement ceremony, 348 seniors joined the ranks of Briton alumni. Among them was graduate Robert Simpson (left), who was congratulated by his grandfather, Robert Simpson, M.D., ’26, one of the College’s oldest living alumni.

Edmund Jenkins, ’57, (middle left) chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, gave the commencement address and was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Also receiving an honorary doctor of humane letters degree was Margaret Riecker (upper right), president of the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation of Midland. Emily Thompson spoke on behalf of the graduating class.

Casmir Ketlhalefile (lower left), a native of Botswana, was one of three international students among the graduates. Claiming the top academic honors this year were Emily Arend, Kurt Medland and Katie McCabe.

Class members have landed jobs with such organizations as Comerica, Ernst and Young, Auto-Owners Insurance, General Motors and Teach for America; others will soon be off to graduate and professional schools at universities including Chicago, Columbia, Michigan State, Notre Dame and Tulane.

Mettler wins Governor’s Service Award At special ceremonies April 29 in Lansing, Gov. John Engler awarded Albion student Elizabeth Mettler the Governor’s Service Award for individuals aged 18-35.

“In my 35 years in higher education, Elizabeth Mettler is the most impressive student leader in community service I have ever had the privilege to observe and to work with,” said President Peter Mitchell, who nominated Mettler for the award. “Her contributions will be truly enduring and a marvelous testimony to the spirit of volunteerism. I was so pleased to learn that she was selected.”

The Governor’s Service Award was established nine years ago to “honor and celebrate the outstanding efforts of Michigan citizens and organizations dedicated to serving their community through volunteerism.” The award is sponsored by the Michigan Community Service Commission, which oversees Michigan’s AmeriCorps and other volunteer programs.

For Mettler, a biology major who plans to attend medical school, the Governor’s Service

Award recognizes volunteer work that takes many forms.

“I guess what it comes down to is helping other people,” Mettler said. “That has always been an important part of my life, and giving back is most important because so many people have given to me in my life. It’s doing the same for others. I consider becoming a doctor one of the best ways I can serve other people. While I won’t be able to volunteer as much, I still plan to serve people as much as I can.”

A member of Albion College’s Honors Institute, Mettler helps lead the Albion College chapter of Habitat for Humanity, building houses for families who otherwise could not afford them. Also active in the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity on campus, she led a group of 40 students on the third annual alternative winter break trip last January. Organized through the College’s Student Volunteer Bureau and intended to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., the trip took the students to Philadelphia to participate in cleanup and rehabilitation of local housing including the Betsy Ross house.

Prior to announcing the Governor’s Service Award winner, Engler congratulated Mettler and fellow Albion student Lewis Cardenas for having won the Michigan Campus Compact Outstanding Community Impact Award earlier in the year.

News in brief ■ Two Albion students won awards in the solo vocal auditions of the Michigan chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) in April. Elizabeth Snyder, voice student of Maureen Balke, chair and associate professor of music, earned the second place award in the Third-Year College Women category. She performed “Ah, je veux vivre” from Gounod’s opera Romeo et Juliette, “Sure on this shining night” by Samuel Barber and “De donde venis, amore?”

by Rodrigo. Snyder also was featured as a soloist with the Albion College Symphony Orchestra as a winner of Albion’s annual concerto competition, singing “Ah, je veux vivre” in concert on April 21. Kyle Koehs earned third place in First- and Second-Year College Musical Theatre. He is a voice student of Robert Doyle, adjunct instructor of voice.

■ Seventy-six Albion students are conducting original research on campus this summer under the auspices of the College’s Foundation for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (FURSCA). The students, all of whom have received FURSCA fellowships or support through externally funded research grants, work closely with a faculty mentor and also participate in weekly seminars to discuss their research. They represent 19 different academic departments, institutes or programs. The diverse topics they are studying include: the role of music in the cultural renaissance of French-speaking Louisiana; the lateral distribution and morphology of Eocene turtles in the Green River Basin, Wyoming; a study of the lives, literature and language of the Scottish Chaucerians; an exploration of women’s lives through poetry; characterization of microbial communities in local aquatic habitats; a study of acne treatment in relation to stress, selfesteem, body image and development; and computer representation and generation of three-dimensional virtual worlds.

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Ferguson Building construction complete The crowning piece of the William C. Ferguson Student, Technology, and Administrative Services Building was added May 6, as the cupola base and 20-ton copper dome were welded into place. The building opened in mid-June as the home for five of the College’s administrative divisions. It offers “one-stop shopping” for all student services and a 24-hour computer laboratory for student use. Located on the south edge of the campus quadrangle, the $8-million building is named for trustee Bill Ferguson, ’52, who, with his wife, Joyce, provided the leadership gift for its construction. The dedication ceremony for the building is planned for Sept. 28 during Homecoming Weekend.

Alumni tapped as trustees Three Albion graduates were recently elected to the Albion College Board of Trustees. They began their terms July 1.

■ Frederick Adams, ’66, is chairman of Northern Trust Bank, FSB-Michigan, headquartered in Bloomfield Hills. Before joining Northern Trust Bank-Michigan as president and CEO in 1998, he was an executive vice president and head of retail banking services at First Chicago NBD. In nearly 30 years at First Chicago and its predecessor, NBD Bancorp, he had responsibilities in commercial and consumer lending, marketing and systems development. Adams holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He serves on the boards of Lawrence Technological University, Oakland Family Services, Meadowbrook Theater of Oakland University and YMCA-Southeastern Michigan. A member of the steering committee for Albion’s $120-million LIBERAL ARTS AT WORK campaign, he has established an endowment in support of interdisciplinary study and a named scholarship.

■ John Vournakis, ’61, is vice president for research and development at Marine Polymer Technologies in Danvers, Mass. Before devoting himself full-time to this biotechnology venture earlier this year, he had served since 1995 as a professor of medicine and associate director for the Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina.

He previously held faculty appointments at Syracuse University and Dartmouth College.

The recipient of numerous research fellowships and awards, he has published more than 150 research articles in the fields of biophysics, molecular biology and biotechnology, and

Adams Vournakis is an inventor on over 15 U.S. and foreign patents. He earned his Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry at Cornell University in 1968.

Vournakis received Albion’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996. He is currently co-chair of a drive to raise funds for Feeney science facility construction and renovation that is part of the LIBERAL ARTS AT WORK campaign.

■ Benjamin Feeney, ’02, has been appointed to a two-year term as a young alumni representative on the board. An economics and management major, Feeney was a member of the Carl A. Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute for Professional Management, served as a student representative on the LIBERAL ARTS AT WORK campaign steering committee, and was a tri-captain of the varsity basketball squad and president of ATO fraternity. In addition, Feeney volunteered at Albion Open School for three years mentoring students in various subjects. He currently is an assistant account executive with the international marketing agency DraftWorldwide, based in Chicago.

What do a Washington, D.C., lawyer, a “stayat-home mom” in New Jersey and emeritus professor of religious studies Frank Frick have in common? All three, along with 27 other Albion alumni from around the U.S., came together this spring to create and test the College’s first online course.

Combining the College’s nationallyrespected technological resources with Frick’s enthusiasm for teaching, “Islam: Contemporary Issues and Historical Roots” provided participants with a distinctive learning opportunity. “For me, this was a chance to offer a course I could never teach [while I was working full-time],” says Frick. “I do miss the intellectual give-and-take of the classroom, [and] this online class was an ideal way to have that intellectual contact.”

The eight-week, not-for-credit class quickly filled with 29 alumni, from the Class of 1947 to the Class of 2001. “Class discussion” took place via e-mail, and students wrote short papers reflecting on and analyzing the reading assignments and e-mail discussions. About half the class, mostly from Michigan, participated in an on-campus gathering after the class ended in June.

In covering such topics as the search for a modern Muslim state, Islamic fundamentalism, the status of women in Islam and coexistence with other religions, the course often forced the students to set aside preconceived notions about Islam, ideas often shaped by less-than-accurate media portrayals. In addition to the required text, Bernard Lewis’ Islam and the West (Oxford University Press, 1993), the class read from a wide variety of books and periodicals, all available online.

“I wanted to learn more about Islam . . . than what little I remembered from Religion 101 more than 30 years ago,” says Janet Kinzinger, ’75, a fourth-generation Albion alumna who practices law in Milford. “The class [made] me wrestle with my legally trained Western thought process.”

“The College, I think, sees [online courses] as a chance to give something to our alumni that will be inviting,” says Frick, who sees in online education potential that’s not available in a traditional setting. “The wide spectrum of age and occupation/experience has added tremendously to the course— something that one can’t get in the typical oncampus classroom.”

The flexibility of the online course was particularly attractive to the participants.

“I would do an on-line course again. It suits my schedule as I can read when I have the time and participate when I have time,” says Kinzinger, who also has high praise for Frick’s guidance. “His encouraging, positive, non-critical stance is great—especially for those of us with ‘seniority.’”

Frick says he has benefited from doing the course right along with his students.

“It has been more labor-intensive than I originally thought (due largely to my lack of technical expertise) but doing an online enrichment course has been quite enriching for me,” Frick admits. “It is always useful to hear what others think about a complex subject, and this has been no exception.”

Rosa Parks Institute comes to campus Albion College recently was selected as the site for the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development’s “Pathways to Freedom” program. The national leadership conference will bring up to 400 students, aged 11-17, to Albion from mid-July to midAugust.

In addition to activities that assist with personal goal-setting and skill development in such areas as budget management, computer technology and communications, the Parks Institute will engage the students, via satellite downlink, in a youth summit conference to be held in Geneva, Switzerland. The Parks Institute staff has also met with Albion community leaders to explore ways local residents might serve as role models and resource persons for the students in the program.

The Parks Institute is just one of nearly 20 conferences and sports camps Albion will host this summer. Other premier leadership programs held on campus this summer include: Operation Bentley, Michigan Association of Honor Societies, Michigan Association of Student Councils, and a Fellowship of Christian Athletes regional sports camp.

Neilson named to MIAA post David Neilson, ’66, was appointed interim commissioner of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) in late June.

Among his responsibilities in this role, he will help the conference assess its needs and engage in Neilson strategic planning.

A member of Albion’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Neilson was an All-American quarterback for the Britons and later played briefly for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has 32 years of experience in the automotive supply industry and currently is vice president and executive consultant for the Compass Group, a management consulting company. He resides in Royal Oak. “The MIAA is comprised of highly respected academic institutions with rich athletic histories. I look forward to ‘coming home’ to the MIAA and working with each of our member schools in support of their mission,” said Neilson. “I’m a strong advocate of the Division III experience because it truly demonstrates what athletics should be at the collegiate level. I am eager to work with the conference membership in strengthening the MIAA’s highly regarded reputation.”

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The following staff changes have been announced in recent months.

■ Cherie Hatlem became the College’s new registrar in January 2002. She has served previously as registrar at Davenport University-Western Region, Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management, Lewis-Clark State College, Concordia College (Moorhead, Minn.), Franklin College and Westmar College. Hatlem holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Drake University, and a master’s degree in college student personnel services from the University of Northern Iowa.

■ Marcy Sacks, who for the past three years has served as associate director of the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service, was named acting director, following the death of Institute director Joe Stroud in May. (For more information, see pp. 24-25.) A search is now under way for a new director.

Sacks will oversee continued implementation of the Ford Institute’s current three-year plan, which she and Stroud developed together. She will also assist in identifying the inaugural Joe H. Stroud Visiting Scholar in Public Policy and Service, to join the Institute in the fall of 2003. A specialist in American history, Sacks joined the Albion College faculty in 1999. As part of her continuing studies on various aspects of African-American history,

Sacks and a team of students researched the life of Albion’s first-known African-American alumnus (James Welton, 1904), an educator and civic leader who will be honored as a distinguished alumnus during the 2002 Homecoming festivities.

■ Vera Wenzel retired in June as director of Albion’s Center for International Education (CIE). Under her leadership, the CIE has expanded its reach, sending students to all continents except Antarctica. Wenzel also worked to strengthen the academic viability of off-campus study for all students, regardless of major. Among the latest additions to the CIE offerings, Wenzel says, are new programs in studio art and environmental studies.

Wenzel notes she inherited a solid program, and has continued to strengthen it, ensuring that “Albion has a lot to be proud of, to stand among the best in terms of best practices in international education.” Along with becoming more proactive in recruiting students for CIE’s programs, Wenzel has regularly upgraded safety training and insurance requirements for students offcampus. This careful development resulted in a record 39 percent of the Class of 2002 spending at least a semester off-campus, a trend that is likely to continue, she believes.

As a French instructor at Albion in 197071 and again from 1980 to 1995, Wenzel was a strong proponent of technology in service of language instruction. Wenzel led her students to produce electronic class newsletters (in

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Hatlem French, of course) and to use the Internet as a valuable foreign language resource.

Wenzel herself created an electronic newsletter for the CIE. She developed workshops for area high school teachers as well, to both improve their skills and form a relationship with Albion. “[My work has] always been [a process of] learning and growth,” she concludes.

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Wireless networking expands

By Ben Hancock III and Jordan Longhurst Remember those warm, sunny days when you headed out for an afternoon on the Quad with a blanket and book in hand? Well, you’ll find today’s students still doing that, but in all likelihood they’ll be bringing a laptop computer along. And with the advent of wireless technology on campus, they can even browse the library’s electronic resources or the Internet—right from the middle of the Quad—to gather information for the paper they’re writing.

The availability of wireless networking is just one of many reasons why Yahoo! Internet Life ranked Albion among the top 10 most technologically advanced colleges in America. The latest digital addition to the campus offers more flexibility to students, faculty and staff who wish to have access to computer services anywhere they choose to work.

Since the beginning of the 2001-02 academic year, 20 wireless laptop computers have been available to check out for use throughout the library, with five that can be taken outdoors and used anywhere within the College’s wireless network.

“This is an important resource for students,” says John Kondelik, director of libraries. “Students are responding with more traffic than ever before in the library.”

Other areas covered by the wireless network—representing about 60 percent of the campus—include almost all of the open space and academic buildings on the Quad, as well as the Mae Harrison Karro Residential Village, Goodrich Chapel and Norris Center.

In the first four months of their availability, the wireless laptops were checked out approximately 1,500 times, according to Troy VanAken, vice president for information technology. With the tremendous interest in wireless technology at Albion, he notes that a high priority is being placed on expanding wireless capabilities on campus.

This summer, students have been checking out the laptops for a variety of uses, both inside and outside.

“They are faster and more convenient,” says Anne Polmanter. While Polmanter owns her own desktop computer, she says she prefers the advantages of the wireless laptop and enjoys the freedom of using the computer on the Quad.

“I want to be out in the sun when I study,” says Kim Tuller. “I’ve also used them in the library tiers to get away from people and study by myself.”

The wireless computers also are being used for teaching, Kondelik says. He notes that they are becoming more popular in smallgroup settings such as seminars or academic study sessions.

“They’re terrific,” Kondelik adds. “They become an instant laboratory for accessing information.”

VanAken says the wireless laptops are “an overwhelming success.” While the library currently houses most of these specially

Student Kim Tuller (right) has become a fan of the College’s new wireless networking capability that allows her complete access to computer services including the Internet, even in the middle of the Quad. equipped computers, there already are wireless laptops in the Ferguson Student, Technology, and Administrative Services Building—which opened in June—and future expansion is planned for the residence halls.

Anyone can connect to the wireless infrastructure, VanAken explains—all that is needed is a wireless Ethernet card, which can be purchased commercially.

“It’s a technological thing—it’s no hassle to use a laptop computer,” remarks student Evan Hawker. “I can move it from one room to another. I am much more comfortable when I use the laptop instead of the desktop computer.”

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Campus bids farewell to five Editor’s note: These profiles of the five faculty members who retired this year celebrate their dedication to the art of teaching. We salute their many contributions to enriching the Albion experience for all of us—whether students or colleagues. (Alumni who wish to contact these or any other retired faculty will find their addresses on p. 19.)

Ronald Fryxell, mathematics

By Dana Fey, ’02 In the early 1960s, Ron Fryxell recalls one of his fellow mathematics graduate students signed up for a computer science class and “got a lot of flak from our math professors, because it was taking his attention away from the ‘pure’ stuff.” With somewhat more foresight, Fryxell soon realized computing’s potential to enhance mathematics. After he joined Albion’s Mathematics Department in 1964, Fryxell’s intellectual curiosity, combined with his desire to share his own research with students, led to the creation of the College’s first digital computing classes and, eventually, to establishing the computer science major.

Fryxell cut his computing “teeth” on the College’s first programmable machine, a $5,000 desktop-sized calculator. Recognizing the possibility of using it to enhance the College’s statistics classes, he sat down with the calculator’s manual and taught himself to program it. Punch cards and toggle switches were later replaced with microcomputers and networks, but Fryxell continued to write customized programs for his classes. “I’m still tweaking some lab programs I wrote for the computer and for graphing calculators this semester,” Fryxell notes. “I’ll make sure to leave all my notes on those to the person who takes it over.”

Over the past decade, Fryxell concentrated heavily on improving the department’s introductory statistics courses. He also introduced one of the earliest first-year seminars, “Chance,” which dealt with intriguing questions in probability and statistics. As with most of mathematics, Fryxell notes that the field of statistics has been profoundly changed by digital computing. “Before we had computer power, statistical inference was based primarily on theoretical models,” explains Fryxell.

“Computers have allowed statisticians to obtain highly accurate results in situations where traditional methods fail.” Here again, Fryxell spent countless hours, as well as entire sabbaticals, writing programs and developing class labs, with the result that his students continually benefited from the most current standards.

And while his prowess with machines and code is much admired by alumni, even more memorable is Fryxell’s competence as a teacher. Deborah Trytten, ’82, associate professor of computer science at the University of Oklahoma, recalls, “I was working on a project, and I couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong. I stopped by his office (not

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Ron Fryxell during office hours, I might add), and asked for help. He puzzled over it for more than a half hour, and finally discovered that the card reader had misread a card. It had never crossed my mind that I might have been right and the computer wrong. . . . The fact that he even considered . . . that my program might have been right was unique.”

Fryxell’s belief in his students’ abilities shone through on many occasions.

“Whether I was dealing with Dr. Fryxell as a professor of one of my classes or as the chair of the Math Department, he always treated me with kindness and respect, and instilled in me the self-confidence that I needed to succeed in an area where not many women had been before,” says Penny Eveningred Weymouth, ’94, adjunct faculty member for Park University at Malmstrom Air Force Base.

His approach set the standard for many of those who have followed him into the teaching profession.

“I believe we take from our own learning experiences the strongest lessons about how to teach,” says Annette Stanek Leopard, ’72, assistant professor of mathematics at Monroe Community College. “From Ron I learned about challenging the brightest students with material that makes them reach. He is the one who challenged me the most, who pushed at the limits of my understanding.”

Richard Mortensen, biology

By Jake Weber “First and foremost, I’m a teacher,” says retiring biology professor Dick Mortensen.

“That’s what I do.”

Even at a college populated with outstanding teachers, Mortensen’s “doing what he does” is seen by many as exceptional. During his 35-year teaching career, he was chosen twice as the College’s Teacher of the Year and twice as Adviser of the Year. In a setting where the largest percentage of incoming students indicate they plan to major in biology or pre-medical studies, Mortensen helped hundreds of physicians, dentists and other health care professionals get a start on their careers through his courses in vertebrate zoology and his senior role on both the PreMedical/Pre-Dental Advisory Committee and the Allied Health Sciences Committee.

Mortensen’s research over the past 20 years has focused on Great Lakes aquatic life.

In the early 1980s, Mortensen took a sabbatical to work with the Michigan Department of Fish and Wildlife, where he was one of the first Great Lakes biologists to realize the threat zebra mussels were posing to the ecosystem. While Max Noordhoorn exploring the thenunknown reproductive cycle of the mussels, Mortensen became fascinated with the trout hatcheries research going on down the hall, and discovered one of his current research subjects.

Despite aggressive restocking of trout in the lakes over the past 40 years, Mortensen explains, no wild population has ever been successfully reestablished. One reason for this failure appears to be the high rate of abnormal embryos produced by the trout—a problem which Mortensen and two 2002 graduates believe they have made significant progress in understanding. “Nicole Lake’s research documents the specific abnormalities, while Jen Wolf’s pesticide analysis gives strong support for specific pesticides causing the abnormalities,” says Mortensen, who will submit their research for future publication.

“They’ve done some terrific work.”

“His enthusiasm and passion for biology and his research stimulated my interest. When I had the opportunity to work with him, I jumped at the chance,” says Wolf, whose work with Mortensen earned her a Jenkins Award for outstanding student research.

“Dr. Mortensen has been pushing me, encouraging me and supporting me for the past three years. He has taught me to think critically, to synthesize information and, most importantly, to ask why.”

Mortensen’s second research agenda is set in an entirely different environment. It focuses on a tiny aquatic beetle, known only to live in one room-sized pool created by a hot spring in Bozeman, Mont. For researchers using the spring for water-temperature studies with other species, Mortensen mapped out the beetle’s life cycle, and plans to continue studying its effect on the hot spring’s ecosystem. He also wants to do further anatomical studies of the insect.

In retirement Mortensen says he has numerous maintenance projects scheduled for his farm and plans to do a lot of recreational fishing. He’ll also maintain a laboratory in

Olin Hall, where he’ll finally have “all the time in the world” for his research. Still, he admits he’ll miss working daily with students and especially watching their eyes light up when they finally grasp a difficult concept.

Those are the moments, he says, that are a teacher’s best reward of all.

Max Noordhoorn, foreign languages

By Jake Weber Max Noordhoorn has always thought of himself as a world citizen. His interest in other languages and cultures, which began with a childhood spent in Indonesia and the Netherlands, was further cultivated here in the U.S. during his studies at the University of Michigan where he earned all of his academic degrees. He later shared this broad world view with many generations of students during the 34 years he taught German language, literature and cultural studies at Albion.

As a member of Albion’s Foreign Languages Department, Noordhoorn was instrumental in the evolution of language instruction from a “classical” model, focused on a limited canon of literature, to a more holistic program that includes cultural and historical studies. He also helped expand the curriculum to include more contemporary literature, drama and poetry.

“We really changed everything from the way [German was taught] when I first came to Albion,” says Noordhoorn. “It used to be students studied the language and focused on authors, [rather than genres or time periods].

Now, cultural studies have become more important, and those are also the courses our students take when studying abroad. We’re going more and more in a direction of German studies, rather than just language and literature.”

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Men’s track, women’s softball and tennis are season’s top stories Five athletes earn Academic All-District honors J. CALLAHAN PHOTO

By Bobby Lee Albion College is a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and NCAA Division III.

Men’s track and field: Under veteran coach Dave Egnatuk, Albion’s tradition of excellence on the track continued this past spring. At the NCAA Division III national championships May 23-25, two Britons claimed All-America honors. Senior Jared Owens placed fifth in the long jump with a mark of 22 feet, nine inches, and sophomore Nick Morgan finished eighth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.05 seconds.

At the close of regular-season competition in early May, the Britons wrapped up a second-place finish in the league behind Calvin, boosted by five individual titles and a winning relay at the MIAA championship meet run at the Elkin Isaac Track. Senior John Bennink, sophomore Dominic Reid and Morgan earned league titles in running events.

In field events, junior Chris Stefanes and Owens emerged as champions. Owens electrified the crowd with a league and school record leap of 23 feet, 8-3/4 inches in the long jump.

Bennink won his second MIAA title in the 400-meter hurdles. He crossed the finish line in 54 seconds flat, leading three other Britons to top five finishes in the race. Bennink also ran the second leg of Albion’s winning 1,600meter relay team. Junior Brad Stish was the lead-off runner, and junior Eric D’Andrea and sophomore Taurean Wilson ran the final two legs.

Reid and Owens were the top two finishers in the 100-meter dash, and the pair tied for third in the 200-meter dash.

For his accomplishments, Bennink was also named to the Verizon Academic AllDistrict team through the College Sports Information Directors of America. He had previously earned recognition on the Verizon Academic All-America second team in football.

Women’s track and field: First-year head coach Hayden Smith fielded a young squad with 11 freshmen and six sophomores on the 25-woman roster. The Britons finished fourth in the MIAA dual and championship standings.

Albion did not claim an individual title at the league championship meet held at the Elkin Isaac Track in early May, but the team secured a second, a third and a number of fourth-place performances.

Sophomore Amy Corrigan was Albion’s best all-around athlete. She crossed the finish line in 2:20.53 to earn second place in the 800-meter run. Corrigan added to the Britons’ team score with a fifth-place performance in the discus and by running on two fourth-place relay teams.

Not to be outdone, Maria Proestopoulos, a junior from Thessaloniki, Greece, improved on her school record in the pole vault.

Proestopoulos cleared the bar at eight feet, six inches to claim third place.

Recording fourth-place finishes were senior Jenn Grinage in the javelin (113 feet,

Senior Jared Owens earned All-America status in the long jump at the NCAA Division III national championships in May. Owens finished fifth with a jump of 22 feet, nine inches.

1 inch), and freshman Kaitlin Van Patten in the 400-meter hurdles (1:09.86), and the 400and 1,600-meter relay teams.

Softball: In a successful 26-10 season (which included an 11-3 record against MIAA opponents during the regular season), it was the freshmen on the women’s softball squad who led the way. The Britons, under coach Karen Baird, tied with Hope for second place in the league during the regular season and third after league championship play. Alma was MIAA champion.

Freshman shortstop Sarah Caskey achieved first-team All-MIAA and AllCentral Region status. She earned secondteam all-league honors in basketball earlier in the year and was the league’s batting champion with a .467 average against MIAA competition. Also in league play, Caskey smacked eight doubles and drove in 11 runs.

Two of Caskey’s classmates—pitcher Michaela Adams and center fielder Abby Wilhelmi—were first-team All-MIAA and second-team all-region selections. Adams ranked second in the league in victories (seven) and strikeouts (45). Wilhelmi was tied for second in the league in doubles (six), was fourth in slugging percentage (.571), and finished seventh in batting with a .400 average.

Junior Justinn Steffe and senior Michelle Wallace were listed on the All-MIAA second team. Senior Laura Jagusch was awarded honorable mention status by the league coaches.

The team’s statistics on the field were matched with success in the classroom. Five Britons—all with grade point averages of 3.5 or better—were nominated for Verizon Academic All-America consideration through the College Sports Information Directors of America. The nominees were senior Kary Couchman, Jagusch, Wallace and sophomores Megan Russell and Beth Striffler. Wallace and Russell were first-team Academic AllDistrict selections.

Baseball: Albion finished its spring campaign with 16 victories, but the win total could have easily been much higher. The Britons were frustrated in close games, losing by just a run five times and by two runs in three other contests. The Britons were 16-21 overall, 5-13 in the MIAA. Jim Conway is coach.

Sophomore second baseman Mark Flancbaum was tabbed for the All-MIAA first team and Verizon Academic All-District second-team awards. In 34 games, he hit a team-high .350 with three doubles, a triple and five runs batted in. Flancbaum was also steady with the glove, finishing league play with a .978 fielding percentage. Majoring in computer science and economics and management, Flancbaum boasts a 3.82 grade point average.

Flancbaum was not the only Briton honored by the MIAA, as sophomore pitcher Steve Gordon and junior outfielder Joel Gurley were made honorable mention selections by the league coaches.

Gordon led Albion’s pitching staff in innings pitched (65-2/3) and earned run average (3.02). He made 11 starts with three complete games.

Gurley, a participant in 35 games, finished the season with a .267 batting average and 10 runs batted in. He had six doubles and two triples.

Women’s tennis: Boosted by runner-up finishes at third, fourth and fifth singles and second doubles, Albion finished third at the MIAA tennis championships and tied with Kalamazoo for second in the final seasonal standings behind St. Mary’s College.

The Britons posted a 13-6 record in dual matches, including a 6-1 record against MIAA opponents.

Finishing second in singles were senior Emily Arend, freshman Emily Dumas and sophomore Emily Radner. Arend and Dumas joined talents for the second-place finish in doubles.

Junior Amiee Greene finished third in first flight singles and achieved first-team allleague status for the second time in her career.

Arend and sophomore Karen Dumas, who finished fourth at second flight singles, received second-team All-MIAA recognition.

Arend, a mathematics major who boasted a 4.0 grade point average, received Verizon Academic All-America (College Division) honors through the College Sports Information Directors of America. She competed against women in 12 sports to make the national at-large team.

Scott Frew completed his first season as coach.

Men’s tennis: Senior Matt Brady and freshman Jason Ryan finished third in their respective singles flights to help Albion finish fourth at the MIAA championships in early May under coach Scott Frew.

Brady, playing at third flight singles, gained a measure of revenge when he defeated Jon Meyer of Calvin by scores of 6-4 and 6-3 in the third-place match. Meyer defeated Brady in a first-round match.

In fourth flight singles, Ryan lost only three games in defeating Denis Busque of Alma in the third-place match. Ryan led Albion with 13 singles victories.

At the conclusion of the tournament, Ryan and sophomore David Swan of Okemos were named to the All-MIAA second team.

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Emily Arend earned Verizon Academic AllAmerica (College Division) honors this spring. The mathematics major graduated summa cum laude in May and finished runner-up at third flight singles and second flight doubles at the MIAA championships.

Are you ready for some (Briton) football?

Tune in to announcer Robin Hartman as the Albion College football team seeks its 33rd MIAA title this fall. Games can be heard on: WCAR Radio, 1090 AM—serving Oakland County and parts of Wayne County (5 p.m. broadcast each week) WMKT Radio, 1270 AM—serving Bay View, Charlevoix, Harbor Springs, Petoskey and Traverse City (live!)

Teamline—call 800/846-4700, ext. 1001 Internet—log on to http://mediaone.albion.edu/sports for live streaming broadcasts Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium—bring your radio into the stadium to hear the play-by-play on 93.3 FM 2002 Albion Football Schedule September 7 Wittenberg (Ohio) University, 1 p.m.

September 14 Tri-State (Ind.) University, 1:30 p.m.

September 21 BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE, 1 p.m.

September 28 OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 1 p.m.

October 5 OLIVET COLLEGE, 1 p.m.

October 12 Wisconsin Lutheran College, 2 p.m.

October 19 ALMA COLLEGE, 1 p.m.

October 26 Kalamazoo College, 1 p.m.

November 2 ADRIAN COLLEGE, 1 p.m.

November 16 Hope College, 1 p.m.

CAPS denote home games at Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium. All times listed are Eastern times.

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Class notes deadline The deadline for class notes appearing in this issue of Io Triumphe was May 6, 2002. Notes received after that date will appear in the next issue.

Class news 32 Shirley Walls, ’32, was featured in the Clarkston News for his lifelong contributions to Springfield Township.

Very involved in his community, Shirley is a member of the Davisburg United Methodist Church.

41 Lloyd Smith, ’41, a retired music teacher and debate coach for the Farmington schools, received the Elice Howard Debate Director Recognition Award during the state debate finals in Muskegon in February 2002. Approximately 38 years ago, Lloyd founded the Mackinac Debate Tournament, now run by the State Speech Coaches Association. It attracts close to 500 debate and forensics students from all over Michigan. Lloyd and his wife, Dorothy Telfer Smith, ’42, live in Farmington.

50-54 Wendell Will, ’50, completed a second book, Mercy on Trial, earlier this year.

The book, which centers on difficult end-of-life issues and how those are dealt with in the judicial system, opens with a dramatic scene at Albion College.

Wendell has drawn on his past experience as a trial lawyer to create the book. To obtain a copy, e-mail Wendell at: wbwill@earthlink.net

David Sharer, ’52, has been elected to the executive committee of the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Arkansas.

He and his wife, Eleanor, live in Monticello, AR. Joy Olcott Gough, ’53, is a watercolorist living in Chillicothe, OH. Formerly an interior designer, she has been involved in a number of local historic preservation projects and has produced two musical recordings as well as a multimedia presentation, “Roads to Freedoms in the Ohio Country.” She and her husband, Alan, are the parents of two grown children.

55-59 James Garber, ’55, has been named the 2002 Lutheran Layman of the Year by the Lutheran Luncheon Club of MetroDetroit. A retired District Court judge, Jim has been active in the Jaycees, YMCA, Chamber of Commerce, United Way and the Civil Service Commission.

In addition to serving the church in leadership positions on the parish and district levels, he was twice elected as a delegate to the Synodical Convention.

He and his wife, Marianne Johansson Garber, ’57, live in Northville.

Richard Vitek, ’56, has been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Missouri, Rolla. He and his wife, Marilyn Young Vitek, ’56, live in Dana Point, CA. Katherine MacDougall Shearer, ’58, is semi-retired from “Out of the Barn Antiques.” In her spare time, she enjoys antiques, soccer, hockey and basketball.

She and her husband, Peter, have five children and 12 grandchildren. The Shearers live in Laingsburg.

60-64 Sharon Rinn Cathey, ’62, received the Distinguished Faculty Award for Sierra Nevada College, and an award for exceptional contributions to the college as statewide executive director of education. She lives in Reno, NV.

Like father, like daughter Thirty years after her father served as a native speaker in Albion’s Gerstacker International House, Eva Schiedel arrived on campus from Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany to fill the same role. In 1972, Erich Schiedel was brought to Albion by then-director of international studies Henry Rottenbiller to study and work for a year on campus. Erich helped his American counterparts grow more proficient in German, and on weekends helped the Rottenbillers build their home in the country.

“My dad wanted me to [come to Albion],” Eva told the Pleiad earlier this year, “and I thought it was a good opportunity to study abroad. [My father] had a really great experience.”

Since Eva too enjoyed her stay in Albion, it’s just possible that this will be another Albion tradition that will be passed on to the next generation.

65-69 Dan, ’68, and Myrna Boone Eaton, ’69, have begun their 29th year in Australia working for the Department of School Education and Training. Myrna received her master’s degree in library administration and recently completed five years with the reading recovery program for early readers. Dan is continuing his work as a school psychologist with the Department of School Education and Training. He also operates a small consultancy and counseling service. He is currently serving as the president of the local Rotary Club. They live in Temora, New South Wales.

70-74 Mark Branch, ’73, has been recognized

by Kalamazoo County’s Regional Education Service Agency for demonstrating excellence in education.

Mark teaches advanced placement chemistry at Kalamazoo Central High School. He is planning a trip to the Grand Canyon with five Albion friends this summer. Mark and his wife, Phyllis, live in Portage.

Jennifer Lee Huffman, ’73, is doing financial work for a number of small businesses in the Petoskey area. Her son, Jeremy Huffman, ’99, graduated from Marine boot camp in San Diego, CA, in April.

John McLaughlin, ’73, is the vice president of corporate planning for CMS Energy Corp. in Jackson. A recipient of a law degree from Wayne State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, he previously had executive positions with CMS Energy’s Latin American operations. In his spare time, he is the advisor for his church youth group, and raises Scottish Highland cattle. He and his wife, Catherine Vereeke McLaughlin, ’74, have two children.

75-79 Marta Greiner Amundson, ’76, has a new book, Quilted Animals: Continuous Line Patterns, due out in late August.

The 128-page volume is in full color and includes, among other designs, full-page photos of 36 quilts that relate to endangered animals. In addition to providing plenty of practical advice for both novice and expert quilters, it has a “quilt gallery of dream quilts that no one in their right mind would ever attempt to make.” For more information on how to obtain an advance copy, contact: Marta Amundson, 85 Goose Knob, Riverton WY 82501. After August, the book will be available through Amazon.com and other major booksellers.

Dave Murphy, ’76, is the assistant field manager, minerals and lands for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Kemmerer Field Office in Kemmerer, WY. He oversees the minerals, lands, and archaeology programs including a

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large oil and gas exploration and development program. He and his wife also had the opportunity to attend the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Daniel Busto, ’78, has joined Doner as vice president, creative director. Doner is the largest independently owned advertising agency in North America.

Dan is responsible for assisting with the creative supervision of the agency’s Mazda account, focusing on the regional and Canadian portions of the account.

He has previously been a senior vice president with Penta Mark and J. Walter Thompson. He lives in Grosse Pointe Park.

Michelle Armstrong Guralnick, ’78, and her family have moved to London, England where her husband, Michael, has returned to Citibank. He works in global corporate and investment banking. Their three children attend the American School in London.

80-84 John Dziuba, ’80, was named chief of psychiatry for the Detroit Medical Center’s Sinai Grace Hospital. He is also actively involved in teaching at Wayne State University School of Medicine and holds the rank of assistant professor.

John and his wife, Kathleen, live in Detroit.

Beth Falkner-Brown, ’80, was hired as the director of public relations and volunteer services for the Lake County

B R I T O N S 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.

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A track and cross country standout while at Albion, Ron Lessard, ’82, has continued to run competitively since graduation. He proudly completed his 55,000th career mile May 5, 2002 on the track at Royal Oak Dondero High School where he is also an alumnus. Family and friends who gathered for the event included Albion faculty members Dennis Gaswick (chemistry) and Dave Egnatuk, ’71, (physical education; men’s track coach), and alumni Dan Gordon, ’84, Scott Harrison, ’83, Cameron Owens, ’81, Dave VanderKooy, ’82, Jim Whitehouse, ’69, and Marsha Green Ron Lessard (center) recently ran his 55,000th career mile. His Albion Whitehouse, ’70. faculty mentors, Dennis Gaswick (left) and Dave Egnatuk, were there A 1998 Albion Athletic Hall of cheering him on.

Fame inductee, Ron was a threetime All-MIAA cross country athlete and two-time Sugar Land, Texas, he is a group leader of refinery new All-MIAA track athlete. He was named cross country product development at Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals, MVP in 1979, 1980 and 1981. After leaving Albion, L.P. Outside of his professional pursuits Ron currently Ron earned a doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry competes in adventure racing. This September, he will join from Wayne State University. Now a resident of a five-man team that will run, cycle and paddle across wild terrain near the Italian-Austrian border.

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Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. She serves on many boards including the Cleveland Area chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. She and her husband, James, live in Willoughby, OH. Rodney Howard, ’83, is co-founder and elder of a new interdenominational church in Berkeley, CA, called The Berkeley Mosaic. He is employed with Synectic Technologies, a telecommunications firm, and serves on its Board of Directors. Rod and his wife, Laura, live in Berkeley, CA, and have eight children.

M. Elizabeth Swenor, ’84, completed a master’s degree in K-12 school administration at Michigan State University, and taught fifth and sixth grade for several years. Searching for new challenges, she left teaching to pursue a career in medicine. She graduated from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, in May 2000. She is completing her residency in family practice in central Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth and her husband, Todd Nadeau, ’86, live in Davison.

85 Eduardo Ortiz, ’85, is practicing anesthesiology at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids. He would like to hear from old friends, especially those in west Michigan, and can be reached at 6598 Old Darby Trail NE, Ada 49301 or by email at: jortiz123@attbi.com.

Melinda Bissig Pokorznski, ’85, has launched a career in Kindermusik in west Michigan, teaching as far south as Holland and as far north as Old Mission and Suttons Bay, as well as teaching classes in Manistee, Frankfort, Beulah, and Cadillac. She lives in Bear Lake.

86 Kevin Berlin, ’86, has been a partner at Downriver Cardiology Consultants for three years and was awarded fellowships in the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Osteopathic Internists. He is also active in medical education and is an associate clinical professor at Michigan State University-College of Osteopathic

Medicine. In his spare time, he enjoys watching his son play hockey. Kevin and his wife, Kimberly, live in Canton.

Jean Edminster Brown, ’86, received a master’s degree in advertising and public relations from Michigan State University in 1988. She earned her APR designation in 1996 after becoming nationally accredited by the Public Relations Society of America. She is the director of marketing and communications for the law firm of Clark Hill PLC. She and her husband, Michael, make their home in Grosse Pointe Farms.

87 Kyle Kurtz, ’87, moved to Petoskey and is an accountant at First Community Bank in Harbor Springs. He and his wife, Sue, have two children.

Phillip Seager, ’87, was named the head football coach at the Jackson area’s Northwest High School, in hopes of turning around a struggling program.

Phillip teaches math and leadership and heads the school’s Career Pathways program. He was previously head coach at Three Oaks River Valley.

Ahmed Rubaie, ’88, was named vice president, taxes, of Avery Dennison Corp. of Pasadena, CA. He is responsible for all areas of the company’s worldwide corporate tax activities. A graduate of the University of Detroit Law School, he previously was associated with BHP, a global natural resource company. He and his wife, Zainab, live in San Marino, CA.

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Becky Bixby, ’89, defended her Ph.D. in natural resources at the University of Michigan in ecological and evolutionary relationships of algae. She has started a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Georgia where she is studying algae and food webs in Costa Rican streams. She lives in Athens, GA. Thomas Bres, ’89, is a business unit executive with IBM in the software sales group. He has been with IBM for 13 years. He and his wife, Lisa, have three children and live in East Lansing.

Michelle Owens Bryant, ’89, earned certification as a senior professional in human resources and is employed as the office manager at Huron Technologies Inc. in Leslie.

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James Cracraft, ’88, was selected to receive the National Science Teachers Association’s 2002 Ciba Exemplary Middle Level Principal Award. James was nominated by teachers for this national award in recognition of his leadership and support for quality science programming at the middle school level. He was one of 25 educators who were honored by NSTA this year. He is the principal at Hillside Middle School in Northville where he lives with his wife, Holly Sellen Cracraft, ’87, and their three children.

Susan Greiner Gutierrez, ’91, was named 2002-03 Michigan Teacher of the Year in April. Susan is a teacher at Central Middle School in the Forest Hills Public Schools near Grand Rapids.

Recipient of two master’s degrees from Michigan State University, she teaches eighth-grade U.S. history and seventhgrade Eastern Hemisphere studies for gifted and talented students. As Teacher of the Year, Susan will spend the 200203 academic year working throughout the state for the Michigan Department of Education. “I think a focus needs to be placed on pulling together schools, families and their communities in an effort to plan a vision for the future,” Susan said on receiving the award. “Once these groups develop cooperative relationships, even the most disadvantaged school can improve teaching and learning.” Susan and her husband, David, live in Belmont.

Andrea Nesmith, ’88, graduated with a Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner and daughter and would like to hear from friends. She can be reached by e-mail at: anesmith@tc.umn.edu.

Terence Thomas, ’90, has been elected principal of the law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone, P.L.C. His practice area is business litigation, and he also advises clients on ecommerce issues. He received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to joining Miller, Canfield, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Conrad Mallett. He resides in Detroit.

90 Daniel Obey, ’90, graduated from Northwestern University as a certified orthotist. After completing a residency at Detroit Medical Center, he is employed with Wright and Filippis in their newest facility in Kalamazoo. He and his wife, Tracy Moses Obey, ’92, have a son.

Karen Jenkins Pifer, ’91, has been elected partner at the Detroit-based law firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn L.L.P., where she concentrates her practice in real estate development. Prior to joining the firm, she was an attorney with Dykema Gossett. She earned her J.D. degree from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Commercial Real Estate Women Organization. Karen and her husband, Richard, ’89, reside in Birmingham.

92 Jonathan Pasko, ’92, a graduate of Wayne State University Medical School, is in private practice in Monroe with a specialty in internal medicine and pediatrics. He and his wife, Laura, have two daughters and live in Monroe.

Elizabeth Ford Wolber, ’92, has moved back to Ann Arbor with her family after a decade in Dallas, TX. Liz is looking forward to a part-time music job. She can be reached at 3465 Wexford Ct., Ann Arbor, 48108 or by e-mail at: liz@wolberworks.com.

At Albion, some things never seem to change.

Small classes.

Top-flight faculty.

Lifetime friendships.

A beautiful campus.

But, Albion keeps pace with the world. Keeping pace costs money.

Your gifts are appreciated.

Call us if you would like to create a bequest, or make a gift with favorable tax consequences. Or, you can make a gift that will return an income to you for life.

Editor’s note: Susan Gutierrez is the second Albion College graduate to receive the Michigan Teacher of the Year honor since the program began in 1980. Judyth Dobbert, ’69, was named Teacher of the Year in 1984-85.

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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.

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, 658 E. Minges Rd., Battle Creek, MI 49015 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. Ronald Fryxell, 926 Maple St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. William Gillham, 289 Martin Rd., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. John Hart, 412 Fitch St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. William Hayes, 504 Linden St., 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 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 Dr. Richard Mortensen, 3366 Ludlow Rd., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Max Noordhoorn, 407 Allen Place, Albion, MI 49224 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 Leach, 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 Mrs. David Strickler (Kay), Burcham Hills, Apt. 326, 2700 Burcham Dr., East Lansing, MI 48823 Dr. Anthony Taffs, 908 Cram Lane, Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Lawrence Taylor, 1111 Rivers Bend Dr., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. John Williams, 411 N. Eaton St., Albion, MI 49224 Dr. Timothy Williams, 904 Luther Dr., Albion, MI 49224

Three generations of Britons The Grostic-Huff legacy at Albion is some 52 years old and counting. And with the addition of Mike Huff, ’05—the third generation to attend the College—the family has stronger ties to Albion than ever before.

“I chose Albion because it is a friendly campus,” says Mike, who will be a sophomore this fall. “My family ties made it comfortable.” The most recent Huff to attend Albion, Mike—an economics and management major who graduated from East Grand Rapids High School—is the fourth in his family to enroll at the College. His parents, John, ’75, and Janyce Grostic Huff, ’77, graduated from Albion, as did his grandfather, Marvin Grostic, ’50.

“The great thing about Albion is you can apply what you learn to a variety of areas,” Jan says. She says the family never pressured Mike to become a Briton, but, she admits, when Mike decided to attend Albion, she was thrilled. Jan says she wanted her son to find a school where he could experiment with different fields, discover new strengths, and work closely with his professors.

“You can do just about anything you want to do at Albion,” she adds.

John describes Albion as a place that offers strong relationships with professors as well as with classmates. “My experience at Albion was very positive— inside and out, it was wonderful,” John says. He hopes his son will have a similar experience. After they

visited many schools during the college search process, Mike made the final decision about which one he would attend.

“I’m pleased,” John says, “because he made his own choice.”

Marv Grostic, who sponsors an endowed scholarship for chemistry students and once served as president of the Albion College Alumni Association, thinks his grandson is having a great time. “Good for him,” says Marv, a retired chemical researcher.

“Albion offers good preparation.”

Butch Dyer, director of the Carl A. Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute for Professional Management, calls Mike an “awesome” student. Last year, Mike started a new Sports Management Club on campus, sang in the choir, and lettered in cross country and track, while qualifying for the Dean’s List.

While there is no news on whether or not Mike’s 16-year-old brother, Robert, has plans to attend Albion, the line of Huffs remains strong.

“I just want to walk away with good friendships, and life skills,” says Mike.

—Ben E. Hancock, III Editor’s note: The Grostic name also will be carried on at Albion when Peter Grostic, son of John, ’74, and Eileen Grostic and grandson of Marv, enrolls next fall.

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

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

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

Summer/Fall Admissions Visitation Programs The following Admissions Visitation Programs offer an excellent opportunity to introduce a promising high school student to Albion College. We also welcome individual campus visits at any time, and will design interviews and a campus tour based on the student’s interests. You can call 800/858-6770 or visit our Web site at www.albion.edu/admissions/campusvisit/ to make all arrangements.

July 19 July 29 September 28 October 4-5 October 18 November 2 November 22 December 6

General Visitation Program General Visitation Program General Visitation Program Multicultural Visitation Program Pre-Medicine/Health Professions Program General Visitation Program Fine Arts Program General Visitation Program

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Harris, ’93, and their new daughter will be transferring to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego this summer.

93 Ginanne Brownell, ’93, has moved back to London, England, after living one year in Warsaw, Poland. She is a freelance writer and reporter for People and Newsweek magazines and is doing her second master’s degree in international journalism at City University in Islington, London. Since moving to Europe four years ago, Ginanne has traveled to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Russia, and throughout central and western Europe.

David Canine, ’93, has joined the Detroit office of Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone as an associate in the health care practice group. He earned his law degree from Wayne State University Law School. He resides in Berkley.

Eric Harris, ’93, has earned his wings as a naval aviator and is training on the CH-53E helicopter at Marine Corps Air Station New River in Jacksonville, NC. He and his wife, Bobbie Stumpf

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Colleen Karamon Gammill, ’95, is living in New York with her husband and teaches French at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT.

94 Michael Shultz, ’94, received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Purdue University and did postdoctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He now runs a lab at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, researching arthritis drug discovery and recently moved to New Jersey with his wife, Millie.

Lyssa Whiren Towl, ’94, is a new medical office administrator at the Wheat Ridge (CO) Medical Office.

Wheat Ridge serves 25,000 Kaiser Permanente members. She reports that it’s a small world at Kaiser Permanente of Colorado: Chris Binkley, ’74, serves as CEO, and Peter Martinuzzi, ’88, is an affiliated physician. Lyssa and her husband, Dean, live in Centennial, CO.

David Zorin, ’95, has been named an associate attorney at Butzel Long, and his primary areas of law are business law, corporate matters, and transaction and finance issues. A 2000 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He lives in Sterling Heights.

96 Susan Barrett, ’96, completed her master’s in tumor biology at the Mayo Clinic and is working on her Ph.D. in cellular, molecular and developmental biology at Tufts University. She lives in Boston, MA.

YOUR PARTICIPATION MATTERS! ALBION COLLEGE IS SEEKING YOUR SUPPORT IN THE STOFFER ALUMNI CHALLENGE. Bill Stoffer, ’74, will donate $1.5-million for an endowed lecture series if Albion College reaches 50% participation in alumni giving by June 2003. Your gift of any size will directly impact this important initiative!

Your early contribution will give Albion a head start in reaching this goal and will lower printing costs for future mailings.

Make a gift today and help Albion maintain its fine tradition!

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

Bonciel Griffin, ’97, received her D.D.S. from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in May 2001. She is doing her general practice residency in Chicago, IL, where she lives.

Tim Todd, ’97, was featured in the Hillsdale Daily News for his work as the financial advisor at the new American Express Financial Advisers franchise in Hillsdale. He lives in Coldwater.

John Pierce, ’97, has been investigating magnetism in ultrathin films, nanowires, and quantum dots at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee and is working on his Ph.D. in physics. His thesis work has led to eight publications, and he has been awarded one of two Tennessee Advanced Material Laboratory Fellowships. He lives in Knoxville, TN.

98 Marcus LaPratt, ’98, has begun working at Starr Commonwealth as a music therapist. He is excited to be back in Albion after a three-year jaunt to Florida and other travel experiences. He would like to hear from friends and can be reached at 301 E. Michigan Ave., #203, Albion or by e-mail at: mlapratt@hotmail.com.

Sarah Walbridge, ’98, graduated from Michigan State University with an M.S. degree in forensic science. She is an applications scientist, heading the forensic division, for Quantum Dynamics International. She lives in Boston, MA, and can be reached by email at: walbridges@yahoo.com.

99 Lisa Leitz, ’99, graduated with a master’s in sociology from Ohio State University in 2001. She is continuing to work on her Ph.D. in sociology.

Rebecca Schack, ’99, received her M.S.W. degree from the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work in April 2001. She is employed as a school social worker for the Beaverton Rural School District, where she lives. Becky welcomes e-mail at: becky100820@msn.com.

00 Sean McCuddy, ’00, recently conducted field research in several of the world’s deepest gold mines—some of them situated more than two miles below the South African plains. McCuddy, who is pursuing a master of science degree in geology at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, was searching, not for gold, but for a variety

of unusual microorganisms found at such extreme depths that many had never before been named or identified.

Sean is part of a research team attempting to cultivate these microorganisms and further understand how they can survive and grow within rocks that have temperatures that sometimes exceed 140 degrees Fahrenheit.

01 Thomas Weinmann, ’01, is an assistant project manager with Rand Construction Co., in Arlington, VA, where he lives.

Weddings Edward Henderson, ’71, to Vita Morkunaite on May 19, 2001 in Nambe, NM. David Bailey, ’71, was in attendance. Vita works for Los Alamos National Bank. Ed continues to work for the University of California at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a design engineering team leader for the Laboratory Electric Safety Upgrades Project. The couple can be reached at PO Box 218, Los Alamos, NM 87544; or by e-mail at: phosgene@la-tierra.com.

Angela Brightwell, ’92, to Steven Conrad on Sept. 15, 2001. Angela is a biochemist, and Steve is a biologist.

They both work in research at the Pharmacia Corp. in Kalamazoo. Steve is also a commander in the Michigan National Guard. Angela continues to enjoy art and travel. Angela can be reached by e-mail at: angela.s.brightwell@pharmacia.com.

Scott Gietzen, ’92, to Tonya Smith on Aug. 4, 2001 in Ann Arbor. Scott is a financial analyst at Comerica Bank, and Tonya is a commercial loan officer for the same company. The couple lives in Ypsilanti.

Jennifer Price, ’92, to John Hegener on Oct. 6, 2001 in Traverse City. Members of the wedding party included matron of honor Megan Bryan-Loutfi, ’92, Julie Kindt Kirner, ’92, and Autumn Nancarrow Lamb, ’92. John is an assistant creative director for Zurich Life US in Schaumburg, IL. Jenn is an employment manager for The Revere Group in Deerfield, IL. The couple lives in Evanston, IL, and can be reached by e-mail at TheHegeners@yahoo.com.

(See accompanying photo on p. 22.)

Anna Urick, ’94, to Greg Duggins on Oct. 20, 2001 in Muskegon. Anna is an attorney with the law firm of ParmenterO’Toole in Muskegon, and Greg is a service manager for Cintas Corp. in Walker. Albion attendees included the father of the bride, Walter Urick, ’61, Lisa Whitener, ’94, Keith Clark, ’94, Sarah Burstein Shirley, ’94, and Esther Urick, ’01. The couple lives in Norton Shores. (See accompanying photo on p. 22.)

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Harris, ’93, and their new daughter will be transferring to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego this summer.

93 Ginanne Brownell, ’93, has moved back to London, England, after living one year in Warsaw, Poland. She is a freelance writer and reporter for People and Newsweek magazines and is doing her second master’s degree in international journalism at City University in Islington, London. Since moving to Europe four years ago, Ginanne has traveled to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Russia, and throughout central and western Europe.

David Canine, ’93, has joined the Detroit office of Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone as an associate in the health care practice group. He earned his law degree from Wayne State University Law School. He resides in Berkley.

Eric Harris, ’93, has earned his wings as a naval aviator and is training on the CH-53E helicopter at Marine Corps Air Station New River in Jacksonville, NC. He and his wife, Bobbie Stumpf

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Colleen Karamon Gammill, ’95, is living in New York with her husband and teaches French at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT.

94 Michael Shultz, ’94, received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Purdue University and did postdoctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He now runs a lab at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, researching arthritis drug discovery and recently moved to New Jersey with his wife, Millie.

Lyssa Whiren Towl, ’94, is a new medical office administrator at the Wheat Ridge (CO) Medical Office.

Wheat Ridge serves 25,000 Kaiser Permanente members. She reports that it’s a small world at Kaiser Permanente of Colorado: Chris Binkley, ’74, serves as CEO, and Peter Martinuzzi, ’88, is an affiliated physician. Lyssa and her husband, Dean, live in Centennial, CO.

David Zorin, ’95, has been named an associate attorney at Butzel Long, and his primary areas of law are business law, corporate matters, and transaction and finance issues. A 2000 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He lives in Sterling Heights.

96 Susan Barrett, ’96, completed her master’s in tumor biology at the Mayo Clinic and is working on her Ph.D. in cellular, molecular and developmental biology at Tufts University. She lives in Boston, MA.

YOUR PARTICIPATION MATTERS! ALBION COLLEGE IS SEEKING YOUR SUPPORT IN THE STOFFER ALUMNI CHALLENGE. Bill Stoffer, ’74, will donate $1.5-million for an endowed lecture series if Albion College reaches 50% participation in alumni giving by June 2003. Your gift of any size will directly impact this important initiative!

Your early contribution will give Albion a head start in reaching this goal and will lower printing costs for future mailings.

Make a gift today and help Albion maintain its fine tradition!

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

Bonciel Griffin, ’97, received her D.D.S. from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in May 2001. She is doing her general practice residency in Chicago, IL, where she lives.

Tim Todd, ’97, was featured in the Hillsdale Daily News for his work as the financial advisor at the new American Express Financial Advisers franchise in Hillsdale. He lives in Coldwater.

John Pierce, ’97, has been investigating magnetism in ultrathin films, nanowires, and quantum dots at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee and is working on his Ph.D. in physics. His thesis work has led to eight publications, and he has been awarded one of two Tennessee Advanced Material Laboratory Fellowships. He lives in Knoxville, TN.

98 Marcus LaPratt, ’98, has begun working at Starr Commonwealth as a music therapist. He is excited to be back in Albion after a three-year jaunt to Florida and other travel experiences. He would like to hear from friends and can be reached at 301 E. Michigan Ave., #203, Albion or by e-mail at: mlapratt@hotmail.com.

Sarah Walbridge, ’98, graduated from Michigan State University with an M.S. degree in forensic science. She is an applications scientist, heading the forensic division, for Quantum Dynamics International. She lives in Boston, MA, and can be reached by email at: walbridges@yahoo.com.

99 Lisa Leitz, ’99, graduated with a master’s in sociology from Ohio State University in 2001. She is continuing to work on her Ph.D. in sociology.

Rebecca Schack, ’99, received her M.S.W. degree from the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work in April 2001. She is employed as a school social worker for the Beaverton Rural School District, where she lives. Becky welcomes e-mail at: becky100820@msn.com.

00 Sean McCuddy, ’00, recently conducted field research in several of the world’s deepest gold mines—some of them situated more than two miles below the South African plains. McCuddy, who is pursuing a master of science degree in geology at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, was searching, not for gold, but for a variety

of unusual microorganisms found at such extreme depths that many had never before been named or identified.

Sean is part of a research team attempting to cultivate these microorganisms and further understand how they can survive and grow within rocks that have temperatures that sometimes exceed 140 degrees Fahrenheit.

01 Thomas Weinmann, ’01, is an assistant project manager with Rand Construction Co., in Arlington, VA, where he lives.

Weddings Edward Henderson, ’71, to Vita Morkunaite on May 19, 2001 in Nambe, NM. David Bailey, ’71, was in attendance. Vita works for Los Alamos National Bank. Ed continues to work for the University of California at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a design engineering team leader for the Laboratory Electric Safety Upgrades Project. The couple can be reached at PO Box 218, Los Alamos, NM 87544; or by e-mail at: phosgene@la-tierra.com.

Angela Brightwell, ’92, to Steven Conrad on Sept. 15, 2001. Angela is a biochemist, and Steve is a biologist.

They both work in research at the Pharmacia Corp. in Kalamazoo. Steve is also a commander in the Michigan National Guard. Angela continues to enjoy art and travel. Angela can be reached by e-mail at: angela.s.brightwell@pharmacia.com.

Scott Gietzen, ’92, to Tonya Smith on Aug. 4, 2001 in Ann Arbor. Scott is a financial analyst at Comerica Bank, and Tonya is a commercial loan officer for the same company. The couple lives in Ypsilanti.

Jennifer Price, ’92, to John Hegener on Oct. 6, 2001 in Traverse City. Members of the wedding party included matron of honor Megan Bryan-Loutfi, ’92, Julie Kindt Kirner, ’92, and Autumn Nancarrow Lamb, ’92. John is an assistant creative director for Zurich Life US in Schaumburg, IL. Jenn is an employment manager for The Revere Group in Deerfield, IL. The couple lives in Evanston, IL, and can be reached by e-mail at TheHegeners@yahoo.com.

(See accompanying photo on p. 22.)

Anna Urick, ’94, to Greg Duggins on Oct. 20, 2001 in Muskegon. Anna is an attorney with the law firm of ParmenterO’Toole in Muskegon, and Greg is a service manager for Cintas Corp. in Walker. Albion attendees included the father of the bride, Walter Urick, ’61, Lisa Whitener, ’94, Keith Clark, ’94, Sarah Burstein Shirley, ’94, and Esther Urick, ’01. The couple lives in Norton Shores. (See accompanying photo on p. 22.)

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Tracy Keppel, ’95, to Matt Leonard on Aug. 11, 2001 in Portsmouth, NH. Tracy is a project specialist for Child and Family Services of New Hampshire, and Matt is a graduate student and instructor at the University of New Hampshire.

The couple lives in Chester, NH. Tracy can be reached by e-mail at: tlkleonard@yahoo.com. (See accompanying photo on p. 23.)

Kristyn Meech, ’95, to Brian Stanton on June 30, 2001 in Edgartown, MA. Other Albion alumni in attendance included brother Wayne Meech, ’86, sister Laura Meech, ’99, bridesmaids Alison Boyer, ’95, Rachael Hill, ’95 and Suzanne Slocum, ’95. The couple lives in Boston, MA. (See accompanying photo on p. 23.)

Suzanne Avery, ’96, to James Boland on Oct. 6, 2001 in Lansing. Suzanne is an account executive at Budco Corp.

James is an insurance agent at Expert Underwriters. The couple lives in Royal Oak. Jennifer DeRousie, ’96, to Aaron Monnig, ’96, on June 10, 2000 in Columbus, OH. Albion alumni in the wedding included Amy Comer Williams, ’96, Dave Zorin, ’95, and Brian Epstein, ’96. Alumni in attendance included Darrel, ’97, and Nichole Rissman Stine, ’95, Mike Williams, ’99, and John Farrar, 78.

Jennifer completed her M.B.A. at the University of Notre Dame in May 2000, and works in the eBusiness group for Intel Corp. Aaron completed his paramedic training in 1998, and is employed as a paramedic at Metro West Ambulance. They live in Beaverton, OR, and can be reached by e-mail at: aaron.monnig@verizon.net or jenderousie.monnig@verizon.net.

Lisa Moore, ’97, to Troy Helmick, ’97, on July 7, 2001 in Farmington Hills.

Alumni who attended included Robert Moore, ’66, Jean Moore Warner, ’70, and Marilyn Adrianson Simmons, ’47.

(See also accompanying photo.) Lisa is a medical student at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Troy is a consultant for Delta Environmental Consultants in Farmington Hills. The couple lives in Redford Township. (See accompanying photo on p. 23.)

Alicia Kaszeta, ’97, to Kevin Schokora on Aug. 17, 2001. Alumni in attendance included Jonathan Miller, ’97, Michael Swisher, ’98, Bill Gallagher, ’99, and Steve Reitz, ’00. Alicia is a professional makeup artist with Urban Decay/Hard Candy cosmetics, working mainly in the metro Detroit area. Kevin is an IT computer consultant. Alicia and Kevin live in Dearborn and can be reached by e-mail at: aschokora@yahoo.com.

Jennifer Presson, ’97, to Chris Wells on July 27, 2001. (See accompanying photo on p. 22.)

Kristen Raphael, ’98, to Paul Farrar on July 21, 2001 in Birmingham. Alumni in the wedding party included Jennifer Jacobs Farrugia, ’98, Maureen Farrar Huldin, ’86, Donald Huldin, ’86, Alissa Lobbezoo Lowman, ’97, Susan Cunningham O’Connell, ’98, Aaron Perrault, ’98, and Ann Farrar Ross, ’82. Alumni in attendance included the

father of the bride, Charles Raphael, ’68, Karen Lohela Woodworth, ’66, John Woodworth, ’72, Suzanne Avery Boland, ’96, Kate Roessler Boyton, ’98, James Boyton, ’97, Matt Farrugia, ’97, Matt Lowman, ’97, Cathleen Farrar Steif, ’90, and Bill Stief, ’89. Kristen received her master’s in social work in May 2000 and is employed as a program coordinator for an early childhood program with Oakland Family Services. Paul is an information technology coordinator for Super Steel Treating Co. The couple lives in Birmingham.

Aryn Crim, ’99, to Thomas Lucas on Oct. 20, 2001 in Shoals, IN. Alumni in the wedding party included Jamie Justus, ’99, and Heather Hamilton, ’00. Other alumni in attendance included Ben Look, ’98, Kate Sindall Look, ’99, Rachele Reidel, ’98, Amy Shira Bernicken, ’99, Jen Boelkins, ’99, Liv Davila, ’00, and Colleen Chapoton, ’01. Aryn and Thomas work at Indiana University and live in Bloomington, IN. Eloise Whitlock, ’99, to Robert Schumacher, ’99, on Sept. 15, 2001 in Traverse City. (See accompanying photo on p. 22.)

Amy Schreiber, ’99, to Tim Czarnecki, ’00, on May 26, 2001. Alumni in the wedding party included: Amy LaChance, ’99, Colleen Anger, ’99, and Brian Smith, ’00. Tim is a first-year physical therapy student at the University of Michigan, Flint. Amy is in her third year at Michigan State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. The couple lives in Haslett.

(See accompanying photo on p. 22.)

Melissa Peterson, ’00, to Tom Roudabush on June 2, 2001 in Lowell.

Melissa just finished her first year at the UCLA School of Law, where she will be completing a concentration in critical race studies. Tom is an electrical engineer for Raytheon Corp., a defense contractor. The couple can be reached at 9737 Charnock Ave., #22, Los Angeles, CA 90034 or by e-mail at: roudabush@2004.law.ucla.edu. (See accompanying photo on p. 23.)

Amy Marie on Feb. 14, 2002 to Steve and Barbara Panzl Maxwell, ’84. Amy joins big sister Emma, 4. Barbara is the associate dean of students at Whitman College and directs the Reid Campus Center which opened in January 2002.

The family lives in Walla Walla, WA. Rachel Marie on March 10, 2002 to Margaret and Dean Scheske, ’84. Her older brothers are Christian, 4, and Nicholas, 1. Dean is president of Dean Scheske PC, a business consulting firm.

The family lives in Canton and can be reached at deanscheske@yahoo.com.

Reis Franklin on May 27, 2001 to Douglas and Rhona Spitz Dempsey, ’85. Reis joins big sisters Maiya, 9, and Darian, 6, and brother Jared, 3. The family lives in Grosse Pointe.

Claire Mallory on March 13, 2002 to Lee and Sara Schaper Matthews, ’85.

She joins brother Donald, 10, and sister Lauren, 5. Sarah would love to hear from friends while she is spending time at home with Claire. The family lives in Troy.

Katherine Cornell on June 5, 2001 to Ed and Patricia Webb Pentecost, both ’85.

Welcoming Katie home were sister

Emily, 9, and brother Hayden, 6. The family lives in Cleveland Heights, OH.

Owen’s older brothers are Joey, 6, and Noah, 3. The family lives in Petoskey.

Timothy on April 26, 2002 to Deborah and Timothy Prister, ’85. He joins sisters Madeline and Emily. His alumni aunts, Linda Prister, ’80, Sue Sweeley Prister, ’81, and uncle Jim Prister, ’83, are already encouraging him to attend Albion. The family lives in Weston, CT.

James Carl on Dec. 17, 2001 to Tom and Kay Huebl Doyle, ’88. Tom is a metallurgical engineer. Kay has left her job as a children’s librarian to be a stayat-home mom. The family lives in Shelby Township.

Paige Noelle on Dec. 31, 2001 to David Lagerquist and Kimberly Kersten, ’87.

She joins big brother Hunter, 2. Kim is a vice president at Comerica Bank, and Dave is a biotech pharmaceutical sales representative for Schering Corp. The family lives in Rochester Hills and can be reached by e-mail at: kdlager@comcast.net.

Jennifer Lee on March 23, 2002 to Randy and Lisa Carion Zimmerman, ’87. She joins big sister Heather, 2. Lisa is dean of students and history department chairperson at Detroit Country Day Middle School. The family lives in Auburn Hills and can be reached by e-mail at: lzimmerman@dcds.edu.

Owen Samuel on March 2, 2002 to James and Carol Douma Balousek, ’88.

Cristina Isabel on Jan. 8, 2002 to Jessica and Frank Hennessey, ’88. She joins big brother Patrick, 5, and Sofia, 3.

Frank owns his own family real estate and investment company. The family lives in Westwood, MA, and can be reached by e-mail at: frankhennessey@msn.com.

Stefan Hans on March 20, 2002 to Kurt, ’88, and Kristen Carnes Kobiljak, ’95.

He joins big sister Katherine Renate.

Kurt is a partner of Pentiuk, Couvreur and Kobiljak, a municipal law firm, and treasurer of Grosse Ile Township.

Kristen is a 5th and 6th grade teacher at McKinley School in Wyandotte. The family lives in Grosse Ile. William Joseph Boyden on Feb. 7, 2002 to William, ’88, and Mary Jo Yaklin LeFevre, ’89. The family lives in Grosse Pointe Park.

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.

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Nathan Matthew on Sept. 7, 2001 to Mike and Anne Sullivan Causey, ’81.

Nathan joins big sister Hannah, 4. The family lives in The Woodlands, TX. Anne would love to hear from friends and can be reached by e-mail at: causeys@juno.com.

Business telephone ____________________________ Business e-mail address _____________________________ (Or simply attach a copy of your business card.)

Lydia MacKenzie on Dec. 10, 2001 to Laura and Rod Howard, ’83. She joins sisters and brothers Sarah, 14, Zachary, 13, Katie, 10, Caroline, 8, Rachel, 6, Simone, 5, and Hudson, 3. The family lives in Berkeley, CA.

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Anna Marie on Dec. 19, 2001 to Bob and Amy Ewing DeVries, both ’84.

Also at home are big sisters Julia, 11, Stephanie, 9, and Elizabeth, 4, and brother Robby, 1. The family lives in Boca Raton, FL.

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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Wedding Album See accompanying notes on pages 20-21 for details.

Jennifer Price, ’92, to John Hegener on Oct. 6, 2001. (Front row, left to right) Lori Schall Neff, ’92, Kevin Neff, ’90, Julie Kindt Kirner, ’92, Theresa Vitale, ’91, Amanda Dozeman Ahearn, ’91, Matt Ahearn, ’90.

(Back row) Chris Lamb, ’93, Autumn Nancarrow Lamb, ’92, John Hegener, Jennifer Price Hegener, ’92, Megan Bryan-Loutfi, ’92, Alicia Courtney Leedy, ’92, Christa Stein Leone, ’92, Fred Nelson, ’69.

Amy Schreiber, ’99, to Tim Czarnecki, ’00, on May 26, 2001. (Front row, left to right) Megan Murphy, ’02, Colleen Anger, ’99, Amy LaChance, ’99, Melissa Sharpe, ’00, Kelly Janowski, ’01, James Gignac, ’01. (Second row) Neil Johnson, ’98, Theron Eichenberger, ’00, Tim Johnson, ’02, Jovan Giaimo, ’00, Tim Czarnecki, ’00, Amy Schreiber Czarnecki, ’99, Allyn Luce, ’00, Zac Eskau, ’02, and Brian Smith, ’00.

Anna Urick, ’94, to Greg Duggins on Oct. 20, 2001. (Left to right) Walter Urick, ’61, Anna Urick Duggins, ’94, Lisa Whitener, ’94, Keith Clark, ’94, Sarah Burstein Shirley, ’94, and Esther Urick, ’01.

Eloise Whitlock, ’99, to Robert Schumacher, ’99, on Sept. 15, 2001. (Front row, left to right) Matt McDonald, ’99, Kristina Fekete, ’96, Darcey Durr, ’96, Jessica Savanna, ’98, George Lemmon, ’98, Jaime Corte, ’98, Nick Christopher, ’98, Eloise Whitlock Schumacher, ’99, Robert Schumacher, ’99, Karen Paradise, ’99, Jason Thomas, ’00, Corry Bala, ’97. (Second row) Christie Cleland Hursey, ’96, Courtney Hutto, ’99, Katina Hamann, ’99, Sarah Belzer, ’99, Meredith Neubeck, ’01, Dan Schleicher, ’98, Cullen Casey, ’01, Hilary White, ’99, Cory Essenburg, ’01. (Third row) Ben Feeney, ’02, Piper Metz, ’99, Stacey Portenga, ’99, Dave Roche, ’99, Matt Corona, ’99, Sarah Robb, ’00, Meghan Jackson, ’99, Laurel Weinman, ’01. (Fourth row) Joe Gardner, ’99, James Whitehouse, ’69, Marsha Green Whitehouse, ’70, T.J. Whitehouse, ’99, Kevin Goodwin, ’97, Lindsay Weeks Kratz, ’00, Steve Kratz, ’98, Debbie Haan, ’99, Kim Krzyzaniak, ’97. (Fifth row) Kelly Garbacz, ’00, Scott Stoy, ’97, John Lessway, ’00, Aaron Perrault, ’98, Chris Friggens, ’98. (Sixth row) Chris Baker, ’97, Michelle Beaupre Baker, ’98, Alex Costas, ’01, Kirk Rosin, ’98. (Seventh row) Dave Stark, ’98, Sean Connell, ’96, Jay Witthuhn, ’97, Mike Thiel, ’00, Nicole Carr, ’01, Scott Johnston, ’00. (Eighth row) David Roche, ’69, Andy Lewis, ’01, Devon Wilkop, ’02. (Ninth row) Tom O’Connor, ’00, Ben Upward, ’00.

Jennifer Presson, ’97, to Chris Wells on July 27, 2001. (Left to right) Julie Bizon, ’97, Jennifer Marks, ’97, Jessica Jacobsen Bible, ’97, Jennifer Presson Wells, ’97, Christine Laubsch, ’97, Kristen Malechuk, ’96, Barb Utterback, ’97.

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John A., IV on Dec. 17, 2001 to John, ’88, and Katherine Lyman Mundell, ’91. Also at home are sisters Caroline and Lily. John is a vice president with CB Richard Ellis, a commercial real estate firm in Grand Rapids. The family lives in East Grand Rapids.

Eric Parker on Oct. 21, 2001 to Mark and Sue Parker Burnell, ’89. The family lives in Woodbridge, VA, and can be reached by e-mail at: mburnell1@msn.com.

Jake Robert on Oct. 11, 2001 to Greg and Allison Rossoni Feldman, ’89. He joins big sister Emily, 4. The family lives in St. Joseph.

Rachel Elizabeth on March 31, 2002 to Paul and Blakely Burns Meyers, ’89.

Rachel joins big sister Emma, 1. The family lives in Reston, VA, and can be reached by e-mail at blakelymeyers@comcast.net.

Margaret Yarmain on April 11, 2002 to Tom and Ann Yarmain Murray, ’89.

The Murrays also have a daughter, Kate, 1. The family lives in Beverly Hills.

Nicholas Leal on Dec. 20, 2001 to Mary Buday and Steve Tupper, both ’89. He joins big brother Cole. Steve is a corporate finance and information technology lawyer in Dykema Gossett’s Bloomfield Hills office. Mary is the director of teacher leadership initiatives for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in Southfield. Wally and Luella Short Tupper, ’56, are proud grandparents. The family lives in

Tracy Keppel, ’95, to Matt Leonard on Aug. 11, 2001. (Clockwise from bride) Tracy Keppel Leonard, ’95, Jennifer Larimer, ’95, Danielle Cadaret, ’96, Jennifer Klinger Roby, ’95, Seth Roby, Ben Hancock (Albion staff), Josh Monson, Addie Killackey Monson, ’94, Matt Leonard.

Bloomfield Hills and can be reached by e-mail at: SLTupper@aol.com.

can be reached by e-mail at: stephanie@inmartgroup.com.

Garrett Raymond on Feb. 15, 2002 to Delbert and Karin Larson Dee, ’90.

The family lives in Wixom.

Abigail Elizabeth on Dec. 20, 2001 to Heramil “Ramie” and Cheryl Henderson Almeda, both ’91. Abbey joins big brother Jake, 4, and Luc, 2.

They live in Parchment.

Margaret Anna on Feb. 7, 2002 to Kent and Fran Whittaker Katnik, ’90. Big brother Morgan, 4, and sister Gracie, 2, welcomed Anna home. Fran is a stay-athome mom and lives with her family in Boulder, CO. She would like to hear from classmates and can be reached by e-mail at: fkatnik@msn.com.

Samuel Hale on Aug. 1, 2001 to Steve and Stephanie Ferguson Master, ’90.

Sam joins big sister Madeline, 5. The family resides in West Bloomfield and

Nolan Keehn on Jan. 16, 2002 to Mark Sherwood, ’91, and Saralyn Coupe, ’91. Nolan has a big sister, Abigail, 2.

The family lives in Ada. Lauren Ruby on March 18, 2002 to David and Jill Bullock Master, ’91. She joins big sister Caleigh, 2. Jill is a logistics operations planner for the General Mills Co. The family lives in Brooklyn Park, MN, and can be reached by e-mail at: echo@mn.uswest.net.

Keegan Daniel on Nov. 28, 2001 to Jodi and Daniel Spitz, ’91. The family lives in Tampa, FL. Margaret Baines on March 11, 2002 to Jeff and Kristin Korth Gandy, both ’92. Also at home are sister Olivia, 4, and brother Drew, 2. Proud relatives include uncle Michael Korth, ’94. The family lives in Midland.

Tara Kepul on Dec. 18, 2001 to Sharon and Mahesh Nayak, ’92. Mahesh is at the law firm Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C. in Bloomfield Hills.

Sharon is an English teacher at Birmingham Seaholm High School. The family lives in Troy.

Lisa Moore, ’97, to Troy Helmick, ’97, on July 7, 2001. (Front row, left to right) Elizabeth Minock, ’96, Christine Marshall, ’96, Heather White, ’96, Rachelle Fichtner, ’96, Lisa Moore Helmick, ’97, Danielle Sudol, ’96, Jamie Maciag, ’98, Jennifer Iles Wagner, ’97. (Second row) Lori Klose, ’97, Sarah Cholger Blust, ’97, Tim Fabrizio, ’97, Mark Wagner, ’97, Shelly Bilbie Fabrizio, ’97, Michelle LaFleur Taylor, ’96, Troy Helmick, ’97, Jeff Mason, ’97, Kara Orange Mason, ’00, Jennifer Gietzen, ’97, Maria Dietiker Talbert, ’97, Cliff Mickelson, ’97, Erica Sprague Hakala, ’00, Drew Hakala, ’97.

(Third row) Grant Gardner, ’98, Greg Adkins, ’98, Chuck Pinter, ’96, Marc McDonald, ’95, Ben Geerling, ’98.

Melissa Peterson, ’00, to Tom Roudabush on June 2, 2001. (Front row, seated, left to right) Vicky Grant (Albion staff), Mike Nicholson, ’99, Brian Riordan, ’00, Deana Henry (Albion staff), Ramona Berkey. (Second row) Greta Elenbaas, ’03, Rosie Hunt, ’03, Carrie Buege Nicholson, ’99, Kelly Sear, ’00, Jenn Barr, ’00, Melissa Peterson Roudabush, ’00, Rosa Trombley, ’00, Betsy Graham, ’00, Roberta Carothers, ’01, Stacy Davidson, ’01. (Third row) Gordon Barry, ’72, Susan Svendson Barry, ’74, John Roudabush, ’97, Len Berkey (Albion faculty), Kim Tunnicliff (former Albion staff), Tom Roudabush, Nancy Begg (Albion staff), Brian Longheier, ’00, Marc Drummond, ’00, Scott Smith, ’00.

Kristyn Meech, ’95, to Brian Stanton on June 30, 2001. (Front row, left to right) Rachael Hill, ’95, Laura Meech, ’99, Kristyn Meech Stanton, ’95, Brian Stanton, Suzanne Slocum, ’95, Alison Boyer, ’95. (Back row, left to right) Devin Day, ’95, Andrew Paterson, ’95, Wayne Meech, ’86, Larry Cappel, ’95, Kara Roberts Davis, ’95, Matt Davis, ’93, Sheryl Fischer Jacobs, ’95, Tom Jacobs, ’95, Jessica Sterns Salamin, ’95, Brett Salamin, ’96, John Nori, ’95.

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Hunter Austin on March 13, 2002 to Michael and Jill Douglas Olshefke, ’92.

He joins sister, Allison, 6, and brother Trevor, 3. The family lives in Gurnee, IL. Benjamin Andrew on March 27, 2002 to Christena and Mark Sinila, ’92. Mark is a wholesale commodities merchandiser, and Christena is an elementary school teacher for Okemos Public Schools.

Mark and Christena reside in Okemos and can be reached by e-mail at: msinila@yahoo.com.

Kathryn Kristine on Nov. 27, 2001 to Eric and Bobby Stumpf Harris, both ’93. Proud aunts include Bonnie Harris Bem, ’89, and Amy Harris Watson, ’90. The family lives in Jacksonville, NC, and can be reached by e-mail at: harris_bobbie@hotmail.com.

Mason Connor on June 30, 2001 to David and Jennifer Holdread King, ’93. Jennifer is a stay-at-home mom and loves it. The family lives in Columbus, IN. Edward Muller on March 20, 2002 to Mary Margaret and Phillip Koppers, ’93. He joins older brother Anthony, 2.

The family lives in Annandale, VA. Lilly Elizabeth on March 20, 2002 to Bill, ’94, and Stephanie Parker Prall, ’93. She joins big sister Madeline Grace, 2. The family lives in Traverse City.

Brett Matthew on Dec. 27, 2001 to Matthew, ’94, and Wendy Mitchell Johnson, ’95. The family lives in Sterling Heights.

Caleb Joseph on Jan. 14, 2002 to Cassandra and Shannon Murray, ’94.

He was welcomed by brother Ian, 2, and grandfather, Robert Murray, ’62. The family lives in Hamilton, OH. Ethan John on July 17, 2001 to John and Emily VanDeGinste Volmering, both ’94. He joins big sister Kady Elizabeth, 3. John and Emily both teach in Midland and would love to hear from friends by e-mail at: evolmering@aol.com.

Audrey Frances on Jan. 4, 2002 to Andy and Tammy Brennecke Deloney, both ’95. The family can be reached at 1470 Hillway Ave., White Lake, 48386; or by e-mail at: tadeloney@aol.com.

Fernando Sebastian on Dec. 19, 2001 to Fernando and Samantha Rendon Pena, ’95. The family lives in Monterrey, Mexico, and can be reached by e-mail at: samrendon@hotmail.com.

Matthew Robert on Dec. 28, 2001 to Adam, ’97, and Jessica Beyer Wood, ’96. The family lives in South Lyon.

Zoe Kathryn on Dec. 28, 2001 to Wes and Jennifer Luce Maier, ’97. Zoe was welcomed home by big sister Alyssa.

The family lives in Edon, OH. Tobias Everett on Jan. 17, 2002 to Daniel and Rachel Welch Haas, ’98.

Daniel is a database administrator for Cooper Tire and Rubber Co., and Rachel is an English teacher at Findlay High School. The family can be reached at PO Box 365, Mt. Blanchard, OH 45867 or by e-mail at: drhaas@bright.net.

Obituaries Edward Henderson, ’30, on Feb. 9, 2000 in St. Joseph. He worked as a parts manager at two Albion area car dealerships. During World War II, he worked at the B-24 bomber plant in Willow Run. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Penzotti Henderson, ’31, a son, Edward Henderson II, ’71, three daughters, 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

John Kalb, ’30, on Aug. 22, 2001 at the Hilltop Retirement Community in Johnson City, NY. John graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and spent 46 years practicing anesthesia. He was a member of Sigma Chi and was involved in many community and professional organizations. He served a term as president of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. John is survived by a son and a daughter.

Walter Saxman, ’30, on Feb. 26, 2002 in Chelsea. Walter received a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. He graduated from Garrett Seminary in Chicago and served churches all over Michigan before retiring in 1971. He was a Mason, Shriner and Rotarian.

Walter is survived by two children, eight grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren.

Richard Preston, ’32, on Jan. 23, 2002 in Tecumseh. Richard received his master’s degree from the University of Michigan, School of Engineering. He was a design engineer for the Tecumseh Products Co. until his retirement in 1972. An avid sportsman, Dick enjoyed building speed boats and spending his summers at Wamplers Lake. He is survived by his wife, Norma, a daughter, two stepchildren, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Cary Peabody, ’35, on Jan. 12, 2002 in Grand Rapids. Cary completed medical school at the University of Michigan and post-graduate work in ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin. A physician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II, he later practiced ophthalmology in Youngstown, OH, for 25 years. He is survived by his wife, Marion, two nieces, and a nephew.

Jean “Betty” Kautz Cummings, ’36, on March 29, 2002 in Valparaiso, IN. Before retiring, she was the art director with Montgomery Wards’ western

division of sales. She painted in oils as a hobby, and was also a devoted member of Delta Gamma sorority. She is survived by her husband, Leonard, a daughter, two stepdaughters and 2 stepsons.

Louise Knapman Piper, ’37, on April 5, 2002 in Flint. She supported community service organizations in Flint, such as the YMCA, the Cedar Street Children’s Center and the Flint Institute of Arts, by serving on their boards and committees. She and her husband established the Mark H. and Louise Piper Scholarship Fund at Albion. She is survived by four sons and seven grandchildren.

Robert Schellig, ’39, on March 4, 2002 in Valrico, FL. He graduated from the University of Detroit Dental School before joining the Navy for World War II. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, sons Robert Jr., ’66, and Alan, and five grandchildren.

Helen Randall Haselton, ’41, on Jan. 2, 2002 in Livingston, NJ. Helen received a master’s degree in education from Boston University and was a teacher at Christ Church Pre-School before retirement. She is survived by her husband, Stephen, two sons, one daughter, Carolyn Haselton Lawton, ’67, two brothers, one sister, Alice Randall Kilgour, ’34, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

David Friedrick, ’44, on Dec. 2, 2001 in Clancy, MT. David was in the U.S. Naval Reserve V-12 Program at the University of Michigan Medical School.

After completing his medical training, he returned to Michigan where he practiced general medicine for nine years with an interim as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He then practiced orthopedic surgery in Illinois, Montana and Washington. He is survived by his wife, Shirley, two daughters, one son, four grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, a sister, Lillian Friedrick Sweezey, ’50, a brother, and a nephew, Phillip Friedrick, ’79.

William Brown, ’45, on Jan. 23, 2002 in Kalamazoo. William received his master of divinity degree at Northwestern University’s Garrett Biblical Institute in Chicago and a Ph.D. degree at the International Free Protestant Episcopal University in London, England. He served as minister to Methodist churches across Michigan and as a professor of sociology and anthropology at Olivet College for 18 years. He is survived by his wife Jean, three daughters, one son, 10 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and two brothers.

Thomas Peters, ’47, on March 12, 2002 in Florida. After graduating from Albion, he attended Harvard University where he graduated before joining the Navy. Thomas was former president of the Russell R. Peters Co., a Michiganbased commercial industrial packaging corporation. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He is survived by his wife, Thelma, two sons, two daughters and 10 grandchildren.

James Porritt, ’48, on July 29, 2001 in Atlanta. Jim was a computer systems manager at Oakland University before moving to Canada Creek Ranch as manager in 1972, where he remained until retiring in 1989. A member of Delta Tau Delta, he was active in the Methodist churches in the communities where he lived. He is survived by his wife, Josephine Hallett Porritt, ’49, three sons and four daughters.

Barbara Hearst Riasanovsky, ’51, on Jan. 20, 2002 in Swarthmore, PA. She is survived by her husband, Alex, two daughters, four grandchildren, and a sister, Marjorie Hearst Orr, ’46.

Michael Kelly, ’64, on Feb. 12, 2002 in the Days River area. Michael completed his education in dentistry at the University of Michigan and joined his father’s dental practice in Gladstone. A member of All Saints Church, Gladstone Lions Club and the Salvation Army board, he was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. Survivors include two sons, his mother, two brothers and a grandson.

Kirby Cooper, ’66, on March 27, 2002.

A member of the Briton football team and the College Orchestra, he was in the Seabees during the Vietnam war. He had received a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. A resident of Lansing, he worked in landscaping until his death. He is survived by his wife, Joan, and two sons.

Jimmy Burkwalt, ’96, on Feb. 24, 2002. Prior to graduating from Albion College, he worked in the facilities department of the College. He lived in Jackson.

Faculty and friends Joe H. Stroud passed away May 9, 2002 in Albion. Joe had served as the director of Albion’s Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service for the past three years. He was a retired editor and senior vice president of the Detroit Free Press, a post he held for 25 years. He also wrote a three-times-aweek column for the Free Press. Before joining the Free Press in 1968 as associate editor, he worked for newspapers in Arkansas and North Carolina.

The Arkansas native earned a bachelor’s degree from Hendrix College and a master’s degree from Tulane University. He had been named a distinguished alumnus of both Hendrix and Tulane and had received numerous honorary degrees. A past president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, Joe was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 1998.

He was an active member of Ann Arbor’s First United Methodist Church and was the recipient of the Laity Award from the Detroit Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He had served as a member of the General Commission on Communications of the United Methodist Church and was a board member of the Michigan Christian Advocate.

Joe received his 30-year pin for service to the Southeast Michigan chapter of the American Red Cross. He had served on the boards for Cranbrook Institute of Science, the Cranbrook Education Community, Starr Commonwealth and Adrian College.

He was honored by a variety of groups, particularly for his contributions to education, mental health, environmental issues, women’s rights and race relations. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Paul Tobenkin Award from Columbia University, as well as many other journalism awards.

He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Fojtik; three daughters, Anna, ’05, Kim and Sandi; two sons, Jon and Scott; and two grandchildren.

The family has asked that memorial contributions be made to the Joe Stroud Visiting Scholar Fund for the Ford Institute at Albion College.

J.D. Wisner died March 8, 2002 in Wooster, OH. Jay was a former General Motors executive and a former trustee of Albion College. He is survived by his wife, Leta, a brother, a son and two grandsons.

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Hunter Austin on March 13, 2002 to Michael and Jill Douglas Olshefke, ’92.

He joins sister, Allison, 6, and brother Trevor, 3. The family lives in Gurnee, IL. Benjamin Andrew on March 27, 2002 to Christena and Mark Sinila, ’92. Mark is a wholesale commodities merchandiser, and Christena is an elementary school teacher for Okemos Public Schools.

Mark and Christena reside in Okemos and can be reached by e-mail at: msinila@yahoo.com.

Kathryn Kristine on Nov. 27, 2001 to Eric and Bobby Stumpf Harris, both ’93. Proud aunts include Bonnie Harris Bem, ’89, and Amy Harris Watson, ’90. The family lives in Jacksonville, NC, and can be reached by e-mail at: harris_bobbie@hotmail.com.

Mason Connor on June 30, 2001 to David and Jennifer Holdread King, ’93. Jennifer is a stay-at-home mom and loves it. The family lives in Columbus, IN. Edward Muller on March 20, 2002 to Mary Margaret and Phillip Koppers, ’93. He joins older brother Anthony, 2.

The family lives in Annandale, VA. Lilly Elizabeth on March 20, 2002 to Bill, ’94, and Stephanie Parker Prall, ’93. She joins big sister Madeline Grace, 2. The family lives in Traverse City.

Brett Matthew on Dec. 27, 2001 to Matthew, ’94, and Wendy Mitchell Johnson, ’95. The family lives in Sterling Heights.

Caleb Joseph on Jan. 14, 2002 to Cassandra and Shannon Murray, ’94.

He was welcomed by brother Ian, 2, and grandfather, Robert Murray, ’62. The family lives in Hamilton, OH. Ethan John on July 17, 2001 to John and Emily VanDeGinste Volmering, both ’94. He joins big sister Kady Elizabeth, 3. John and Emily both teach in Midland and would love to hear from friends by e-mail at: evolmering@aol.com.

Audrey Frances on Jan. 4, 2002 to Andy and Tammy Brennecke Deloney, both ’95. The family can be reached at 1470 Hillway Ave., White Lake, 48386; or by e-mail at: tadeloney@aol.com.

Fernando Sebastian on Dec. 19, 2001 to Fernando and Samantha Rendon Pena, ’95. The family lives in Monterrey, Mexico, and can be reached by e-mail at: samrendon@hotmail.com.

Matthew Robert on Dec. 28, 2001 to Adam, ’97, and Jessica Beyer Wood, ’96. The family lives in South Lyon.

Zoe Kathryn on Dec. 28, 2001 to Wes and Jennifer Luce Maier, ’97. Zoe was welcomed home by big sister Alyssa.

The family lives in Edon, OH. Tobias Everett on Jan. 17, 2002 to Daniel and Rachel Welch Haas, ’98.

Daniel is a database administrator for Cooper Tire and Rubber Co., and Rachel is an English teacher at Findlay High School. The family can be reached at PO Box 365, Mt. Blanchard, OH 45867 or by e-mail at: drhaas@bright.net.

Obituaries Edward Henderson, ’30, on Feb. 9, 2000 in St. Joseph. He worked as a parts manager at two Albion area car dealerships. During World War II, he worked at the B-24 bomber plant in Willow Run. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Penzotti Henderson, ’31, a son, Edward Henderson II, ’71, three daughters, 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

John Kalb, ’30, on Aug. 22, 2001 at the Hilltop Retirement Community in Johnson City, NY. John graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and spent 46 years practicing anesthesia. He was a member of Sigma Chi and was involved in many community and professional organizations. He served a term as president of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. John is survived by a son and a daughter.

Walter Saxman, ’30, on Feb. 26, 2002 in Chelsea. Walter received a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. He graduated from Garrett Seminary in Chicago and served churches all over Michigan before retiring in 1971. He was a Mason, Shriner and Rotarian.

Walter is survived by two children, eight grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren.

Richard Preston, ’32, on Jan. 23, 2002 in Tecumseh. Richard received his master’s degree from the University of Michigan, School of Engineering. He was a design engineer for the Tecumseh Products Co. until his retirement in 1972. An avid sportsman, Dick enjoyed building speed boats and spending his summers at Wamplers Lake. He is survived by his wife, Norma, a daughter, two stepchildren, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Cary Peabody, ’35, on Jan. 12, 2002 in Grand Rapids. Cary completed medical school at the University of Michigan and post-graduate work in ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin. A physician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II, he later practiced ophthalmology in Youngstown, OH, for 25 years. He is survived by his wife, Marion, two nieces, and a nephew.

Jean “Betty” Kautz Cummings, ’36, on March 29, 2002 in Valparaiso, IN. Before retiring, she was the art director with Montgomery Wards’ western

division of sales. She painted in oils as a hobby, and was also a devoted member of Delta Gamma sorority. She is survived by her husband, Leonard, a daughter, two stepdaughters and 2 stepsons.

Louise Knapman Piper, ’37, on April 5, 2002 in Flint. She supported community service organizations in Flint, such as the YMCA, the Cedar Street Children’s Center and the Flint Institute of Arts, by serving on their boards and committees. She and her husband established the Mark H. and Louise Piper Scholarship Fund at Albion. She is survived by four sons and seven grandchildren.

Robert Schellig, ’39, on March 4, 2002 in Valrico, FL. He graduated from the University of Detroit Dental School before joining the Navy for World War II. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, sons Robert Jr., ’66, and Alan, and five grandchildren.

Helen Randall Haselton, ’41, on Jan. 2, 2002 in Livingston, NJ. Helen received a master’s degree in education from Boston University and was a teacher at Christ Church Pre-School before retirement. She is survived by her husband, Stephen, two sons, one daughter, Carolyn Haselton Lawton, ’67, two brothers, one sister, Alice Randall Kilgour, ’34, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

David Friedrick, ’44, on Dec. 2, 2001 in Clancy, MT. David was in the U.S. Naval Reserve V-12 Program at the University of Michigan Medical School.

After completing his medical training, he returned to Michigan where he practiced general medicine for nine years with an interim as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He then practiced orthopedic surgery in Illinois, Montana and Washington. He is survived by his wife, Shirley, two daughters, one son, four grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, a sister, Lillian Friedrick Sweezey, ’50, a brother, and a nephew, Phillip Friedrick, ’79.

William Brown, ’45, on Jan. 23, 2002 in Kalamazoo. William received his master of divinity degree at Northwestern University’s Garrett Biblical Institute in Chicago and a Ph.D. degree at the International Free Protestant Episcopal University in London, England. He served as minister to Methodist churches across Michigan and as a professor of sociology and anthropology at Olivet College for 18 years. He is survived by his wife Jean, three daughters, one son, 10 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and two brothers.

Thomas Peters, ’47, on March 12, 2002 in Florida. After graduating from Albion, he attended Harvard University where he graduated before joining the Navy. Thomas was former president of the Russell R. Peters Co., a Michiganbased commercial industrial packaging corporation. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He is survived by his wife, Thelma, two sons, two daughters and 10 grandchildren.

James Porritt, ’48, on July 29, 2001 in Atlanta. Jim was a computer systems manager at Oakland University before moving to Canada Creek Ranch as manager in 1972, where he remained until retiring in 1989. A member of Delta Tau Delta, he was active in the Methodist churches in the communities where he lived. He is survived by his wife, Josephine Hallett Porritt, ’49, three sons and four daughters.

Barbara Hearst Riasanovsky, ’51, on Jan. 20, 2002 in Swarthmore, PA. She is survived by her husband, Alex, two daughters, four grandchildren, and a sister, Marjorie Hearst Orr, ’46.

Michael Kelly, ’64, on Feb. 12, 2002 in the Days River area. Michael completed his education in dentistry at the University of Michigan and joined his father’s dental practice in Gladstone. A member of All Saints Church, Gladstone Lions Club and the Salvation Army board, he was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. Survivors include two sons, his mother, two brothers and a grandson.

Kirby Cooper, ’66, on March 27, 2002.

A member of the Briton football team and the College Orchestra, he was in the Seabees during the Vietnam war. He had received a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. A resident of Lansing, he worked in landscaping until his death. He is survived by his wife, Joan, and two sons.

Jimmy Burkwalt, ’96, on Feb. 24, 2002. Prior to graduating from Albion College, he worked in the facilities department of the College. He lived in Jackson.

Faculty and friends Joe H. Stroud passed away May 9, 2002 in Albion. Joe had served as the director of Albion’s Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service for the past three years. He was a retired editor and senior vice president of the Detroit Free Press, a post he held for 25 years. He also wrote a three-times-aweek column for the Free Press. Before joining the Free Press in 1968 as associate editor, he worked for newspapers in Arkansas and North Carolina.

The Arkansas native earned a bachelor’s degree from Hendrix College and a master’s degree from Tulane University. He had been named a distinguished alumnus of both Hendrix and Tulane and had received numerous honorary degrees. A past president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, Joe was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 1998.

He was an active member of Ann Arbor’s First United Methodist Church and was the recipient of the Laity Award from the Detroit Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He had served as a member of the General Commission on Communications of the United Methodist Church and was a board member of the Michigan Christian Advocate.

Joe received his 30-year pin for service to the Southeast Michigan chapter of the American Red Cross. He had served on the boards for Cranbrook Institute of Science, the Cranbrook Education Community, Starr Commonwealth and Adrian College.

He was honored by a variety of groups, particularly for his contributions to education, mental health, environmental issues, women’s rights and race relations. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Paul Tobenkin Award from Columbia University, as well as many other journalism awards.

He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Fojtik; three daughters, Anna, ’05, Kim and Sandi; two sons, Jon and Scott; and two grandchildren.

The family has asked that memorial contributions be made to the Joe Stroud Visiting Scholar Fund for the Ford Institute at Albion College.

J.D. Wisner died March 8, 2002 in Wooster, OH. Jay was a former General Motors executive and a former trustee of Albion College. He is survived by his wife, Leta, a brother, a son and two grandsons.

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Farewell to a wise mentor and generous friend The Albion College campus community was deeply saddened by the death of Joe Stroud May 9, 2002. While he had been a member of the College staff only since 1999, many of us felt as though we had known Joe for years through his editorial writing for the Detroit Free Press. As you can see from the comments below, we, his students and colleagues, will genuinely miss his wisdom and warmth as he walked among us. Please see the notice on the previous page for more information about his life and work.

Joe Stroud personified the best of the liberal arts tradition.

Broad-gauged in his intellectual interests, he employed his finely-honed writing skills to capture and even elevate the nobility of the human condition. He loved to learn and loved to teach whether via the editorial page, public forum or his college classroom. He commanded the respect of young and old, the admiration of those who agreed and disagreed with him, and the affection of anyone who cared about justice and fairness. He inspired students, faculty and staff to recognize that liberal arts education was the best preparation for civic engagement and for crafting a life of meaning and purpose. Joe graced our campus with his keen mind and passion for ideas; he touched our hearts with his kindness and tenderness; and he taught us that wisdom comes from merging faith, knowledge and compassion.

Peter T. Mitchell, ’67, President Joe Stroud was a complex man. He cared about many things, from such grand ideals as civil rights and freedom of the press to the more mundane day-to-day lives of his students at Albion College. At one moment I could be discussing the IsraeliPalestinian peace process with him, and in the next we would be talking about my relationship troubles. The thing that struck everyone, though, was how unassuming Joe really was. As someone with a broad and rich set of life experiences, he could have easily been very arrogant. However, he was the opposite.

He chose to pass on his life lessons to his students through anecdotes and pearls of wisdom. Joe sincerely cared about the well-being of all of his students, and he took an interest in making our Albion experience as rich as possible, through internships, classes and extracurricular experiences.

Joe also wanted to ensure that our futures would be successful. As our teacher, adviser, mentor and friend, Joe sought to instill a sense of civic responsibility in my classmates and me every chance he got. In my final class with him, the Ford senior colloquium, Joe focused on the theme of the role of the individual in society. We examined the challenges that faced past generations, and tried to sort out the difficulties that faced ours.

At graduation in May, his final words of advice to me as I headed off into the “real world” were: “Don’t ever forget to give back.” I think that sums up the life of Joe Stroud. He was a dedicated public servant, and everyone who knew him will be poorer for his loss.

Kurt Medland, ’02, Member, Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service As I settled into my life as an Albion student, certain professors, in a sense, adopted me—they looked out for my wellbeing and encouraged me to excel in all that I attempted. One of those teachers was Joe Stroud. Whenever I had a problem, whether it was finding a dog sitter for my puppy or choosing between law schools, he was there for me with a bit of sound advice and a cheerful anecdote. No matter how agitated or annoyed I was when I entered his office, I never left without feeling better.

Joe was a busy man—he was always doing something, but he never turned anybody away who needed him. My junior and senior year at Albion, we worked on a project together. As my internship adviser, Joe suggested that I study some aspect of my work in depth. I don’t think either of us knew what we were getting into. Forty-two pages later, after painstaking hours of proofreading and multiple drafts, Joe and I came up with a project that we were both proud of. What impressed me the most about our work together was Joe’s dedication to and interest in what we were doing. He had nothing to gain from helping me, with the exception of more work; however, he continuously encouraged me and prompted me to take my project to what he called “the next level.”

In the last e-mail Joe sent me, he stressed the importance of staying in touch. The title of his message was “Remembrance,” which is something that I will always do. Joe was a great man in so many different ways: he taught me how to simplify my writing, how to see good in even the bleakest of situations, but, most importantly, how to live and view the world passionately. Albion and I will miss him tremendously, but we are all the better for having known him. Joe is in heaven looking out for us all—serving as a guardian angel for his own children, as well as all of us who knew and loved him.

Marnie Harte,’02, Member, Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service It’s hard to capture my sense of loss in a paragraph or two. Joe meant many different things to me. When I first began working with him in the Ford Institute, I admit to being somewhat awe-struck. He had been to so many places in his life, knew so many people, had so many connections. I felt pretty green next to him. But Joe had the remarkable quality of humility. He treated me as an equal, sharing both the decisionmaking work and his personal stories with me in the office. By the end of the first year, he had helped me realize that despite his worldly experience, he was just a regular fellow.

My fondest memories of Joe are of sitting in the Ford Institute’s front office, Katie in her chair, me on the couch, and Joe in the wing chair. Joe would talk about everything from that seat —politics, his kids, the University of Michigan football season. He was kind and generous, viewing his responsibility as a supervisor as one of empowering others. He mentored me, shared with me, was patient with me, and, above all, befriended me. I am honored to have known him and privileged to have worked with him. He left his mark on the Ford Institute and on my heart.

Marcy Sacks, Acting Director, Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service; Assistant Professor of History We never completely leave behind the places where we grow up. Joe Stroud had an uncanny way of bringing the best of the South, from whence he hailed, to Michigan. You always had the sense when you were in Joe’s presence that it was a warm, lazy southern afternoon, and that you were sitting on his front porch, conversing and sipping iced tea. He always gave the impression that he had all the time in the world, and that he had nothing better to do all day than talk with you. It was clear that he truly enjoyed people, ideas and conversation.

Since I only knew Joe in the context of Albion College, I always tried to imagine him in the midst of the pressurepacked, chaotic atmosphere of a big city daily newspaper. And the image that emerges is of Joe as the calm center in the eye of the storm. It was evident that Joe was a person grounded in his convictions about the world and our roles and responsibilities in it. He was a person of deep faith with an abiding sense

of the worth of all persons. He knew and lived from enduring values, not from the distractions of the urgent or of the moment. And that made all the difference.

Those were the qualities that Joe brought to this campus. It was clear that he cared personally about his students in the Ford Institute. He used his vast knowledge of the world to engage them in the intricacies and complexities of public policy, while using his personal caring and warmth to call them to their own sense of conviction and responsibility in a world of need. In a few short years here, he created a strong presence and a legacy. It was an honor and privilege to know him, to sit a spell on the porch and while away a few afternoons. May his hospitality and passion for people and ideas live on in all who knew him.

Greg Martin, Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Albion The Detroit Free Press wrote of Joe Stroud, he “held court for the proud and powerful.” But over the last three years Joe held court for the young and lost—not that they were young and lost when they left his presence. In one small corner of Rob Hall this man examined the future of his country through the hearts and souls of his students. Pleased at the desire he saw in them, he left this world, I know, full of profound hope for the future.

The legacy of Joe’s life falls hard on all of us who were inspired by him. I pray we prove ourselves worthy of as great an epitaph as he deserves. Albion will feel Joe’s death deeply.

No community easily overcomes the death of a great man, and there can be no doubt Joe has fulfilled the definition of a great leader. In his presence you felt like you could reach any heights, and now that he is gone you realize you only felt like that because you were standing on his shoulders.

Larry Lloyd, ’02, Member, Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service “Hey, Joe, do you have a minute?”

In the three years that I spent with Joe in the Ford Institute, I must have poked my head in his office and asked him that question a hundred times. Seemed like every day or so I was stopping by to talk about everything from Albion to politics to his life and my future.

Joe was like my surrogate grandfather, a wise elder who always made time to talk with me, even when I knew there were plenty of days when he really didn’t have that minute to spare.

Joe carefully listened to what I had to say, asked questions, and then, in his famous Southern drawl, told me how it really was (even if how it was wasn’t what I wanted to hear). I greatly admired Joe’s honesty, approachability, perceptiveness, kindness and passion for doing good, and I truly hope that one day I can come close to living my life the way he did.

In April, I met up with Joe in Washington, D.C., and he told me that he was proud of what I had accomplished since I graduated in 2001. (Specifically, I suspect he approved of my decision to work at a progressive, liberal, public-interest PR firm.)

I wish I had told him then how much I respected him and how much he has influenced my life and character. But being Joe, I bet he already knew.

Lynsey Kluever, ’01, Communications Associate, The Hauser Group, Washington, D.C.

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The 2002 Alumni Association elections have added three new members to the Board of Directors. Three current members were reappointed to the board.

Brian Fox, ’73, Robin Gearhart, ’96, and Michael Zamiara, ’87, were elected by the general membership, and Katherine Jewell Dempster, ’57, Kirk Heinze, ’70, and Louise Kirk, ’90, are continuing for a second term.

Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, will continue on the board as immediate past president.

Retiring from the board this spring were Sarah VandenBout Klein, ’95, and Anna VanBruggen Thompson, ’80.

Brian Fox, M.D., is a physician with Ruby Mountain Obstetrics and Gynecology in Elko, Nev. He previously was chief of obstetrics in Grayling, Mich., Racine, Wis. and Riverton, Wyo. He also was vice chief of staff, chief of staff and chief of surgery in Riverton. His community involvement has included participating in Methodist Church choirs in Grayling, Racine and Riverton. Fox has also had significant roles in college theatre productions of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He is married to Cheryl Bennett Fox, ’73.

Upon graduating from Albion, Robin Gearhart dedicated four years to working at the State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago, where she served as a victim/witness specialist and later as a victim sensitive interview coordinator. After becoming licensed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, she joined the financial industry and has been working at Merrill Lynch as a registered client associate for the past two years. She has also started her own business, Pocketful of Daisies, making handmade stationery, cards and invitations. In addition to acting as an alumni

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, 2002.

Dempster

Gearhart

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Heinze

Officers

Terms expiring in 2004

President; to be elected Sept. 28, 2002 Vice president for off-campus activities; to be elected Sept. 28, 2002 Vice president for on-campus activities; to be elected Sept. 28, 2002 O. James Clark, ’51, secretary; 1800 Oakfield, Midland, MI 48640; e-mail: ojmeclark@aol.com Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, immediate past president; 27375 Bloomfield Dr., Lathrup Village, MI 48076; e-mail: cnelsonthomas@mediaone.net

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

Terms expiring in 2003

Kirk

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

James H. Cox, ’87; Mansfield, Ohio Mary Beth Hartmann Halushka, ’84; Troy Pat Pearsall Hessler, ’57; Frankfort Kenneth B. Hollidge, Jr., ’67; Grosse Pointe Shores Timothy R. Newsted, ’78; Hastings

Ex-officio members

Michael Zamiara, a CPA, is currently the chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration at BioPort Corp. in Lansing. For over 10 years Zamiara has been involved in his community as a Big Brother and a member of the Treasurer Construction Finance Managers’ Association. He also served on the Board of Directors of the

YMCA and, for the past five years, has been a coach for youth basketball, baseball, soccer and football. Since graduation Zamiara has been on the Alumni Control Board for Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and has served as a class reunion chair. He and his wife, Nancy Rupp, ’88, have four sons.

Zamiara

admissions representative for college recruitment nights held in the Chicago area, Gearhart recently created a personal campaign, The Legacy of Dreams, to assist Albion with the Stoffer Alumni Challenge (to achieve a 50 percent alumni contribution rate by 2003). The Class of 1996 contribution rate has increased nearly 100 percent so far, rising from 12 percent to over 23 percent (the highest it has ever been).

Terms expiring in 2005

Peter T. Mitchell, ’67, president, Albion College William K. Stoffer, ’74, alumni trustee Ben E. Hancock, Jr., vice president for institutional advancement Marcia Hepler Starkey, ’74, director of alumni and parent relations Emily M. Giacona, ’05, president, Student Association for Alumni

Young alumni meet in Chicago and Detroit Young alumni from the Chicago area gathered at the Goose Island Brew Pub to root for the Detroit Red Wings during their Stanley Cup playoff game against Colorado May 31. Among those in attendance were: (upper right photo) Brent Hazen, ’99, and T.J. Whitehouse, ’99; (lower right photo) George Lemmon, ’98, Joslyn Brunelle, ’00, Peter Butler, ’01, Elyse Minnick, ’01, and Mike Smith, ’97.

Among the young alumni in attendance at a June 6 event at Royal Oak’s Fifth Avenue Billiards were: (four photos clockwise from top left) Amanda Cowger, ’98, and Deena Rank, ’95; Lori Leszczynski, ’01, Katy Clay, ’01, and Melissa Pakkala, ’01; Ed Rohn, ’97 (with prize won in raffle drawing); Emily Rostash, ’01, Amber Janssen, ’01, and Abbe Lindemood, ’01.

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September 27, 28 and 29 Friday’sHighlights 10 a.m. Briton Classic Golf Tournament, The Medalist Golf Club, Marshall 5:15 p.m. Morley Fraser Birthday Celebration, Kellogg Center All former Briton athletes, colleagues and friends are invited to join in celebrating Coach Morley Fraser’s 80th birthday.

6:15 p.m. Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony, Upper Baldwin Dining Room Help us honor this year’s Athletic Hall of Fame inductees for their contributions to athletics as students or alumni.

Advance reservations are required.

9:30 p.m. Bonfire and Pep Rally, Canoe Livery

Saturday’s Highlights Admissions Visitation Day High school juniors and seniors will have a personalized tour of campus and the opportunity to explore areas of academic interest with faculty as well as to attend the Homecoming football game. For registration information, contact Marsha Whitehouse at mwhitehouse@albion.edu, or 800/ 858-6770.

9:30 a.m. Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony, Kellogg Center The reception begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Alumni Conference Room, and the ceremony follows at 10:15 a.m. in Gerstacker Commons.

11 a.m. Volleyball vs. Olivet, Kresge Gym 11:15 a.m. Dedication Ceremony, Ferguson Student, Technology, and Administrative Services Building This stunning new facility, made possible by a gift from William Ferguson, ’52, and his wife, Joyce, will be open for touring following the dedication ceremony.

Noon Picnic Lunch for Alumni, Faculty and Students, Lomas Fieldhouse, Dow Recreation and Wellness Center

Post-game Dedication of the James Welton House, formerly Black Student Alliance House, 1109 Jackson St. 5:30 p.m. Reception/ 6:30 p.m. Dinner sponsored by the Black Student Alliance honoring James Welton, Upper Baldwin Dining Room Advance reservations are required.

6:30 p.m. Receptions/ 7:30 p.m. Class Reunion Dinners For classes ending in a “2” or a “7,” 1952-1997. Reunion information and locations will be posted on the Web as details become available: http:// www.albion.edu/alumni/ homecoming.asp 8:30 p.m. Portfolio, Gerstacker Commons, Kellogg Center Enjoy an evening of live jazz for all ages.

Noon Men’s Soccer vs. Hope, “A” Field 1 p.m. Football vs. Ohio Wesleyan, Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium Pre-game festivities include presentation of the Hall of Fame inductees.

The halftime program will feature the Homecoming Court, the British Eighth and the Alumni Band.

Family Weekend November 1-2 Plan to join our Albion family by bringing yours to campus.

Attend a concert by the musical group, “Knee Deep Shag,” talk with your student’s professors during a faculty fair, and meet other Albion parents and families while attending a gala dinner. Lots to do and fun for the whole family! A complete schedule of events and details will be mailed to you this fall. For updates in the meantime, take a look at our World Wide Web site: www.albion.edu/alumni/ familyweekend.asp.

Questions? Contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 517/ 629-0435, or e-mail: pschuler@albion.edu.

Sunday’S Highlights Worship Services will be held at the First United Methodist Church, 9 a.m., Wesley Chapel, 11 a.m., Goodrich Chapel.

4 p.m. Homecoming Music Concert, Goodrich Chapel

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

Distinguished Alumni Award Ronald A. Knief, ’67 Principal Scientist, XE Corp.

Albuquerque, N.M. William C. Lauderbach, ’64 Divisional Officer, Chemical Financial Corp.

Midland, Mich.

Nancy Graham Roush, ’72 Principal, Crowell School Albion, Mich.

James A. Welton, ’04 (deceased) Educator Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees Frank Bonta, ’49 Peter Carlton, ’70 Timothy Cash, ’68 David Egnatuk, ’71 Alan Kastl, ’71 Patrick Kennell, ’82 Lois Werner Kluver, ’57 Gary Methner, ’62 Suzanne Scrutton, ’86 Jack Taylor, ’55 1950-51 Men’s Basketball Team 1980 Men’s Track and Field Team

Your reunion chairs want to hear from you!

Make plans now to gather with friends at Homecoming 2002. You can begin by getting in touch with your reunion chair and finding out what’s in store for this great weekend on campus.

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George Martin Call the Alumni Office, 517/629-0247

Janyce Grostic Huff, jjmrhuff@attbi.com

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Laurie Wills Fitzgerald Laurie_Fitzgerald@sba.com

Carolyn Carr Christ Katherine Jewell Dempster Call the Alumni Office, 517/629-0247

1962 Dale Springer, springerd@michigan.gov

1982 1987 Jim Cox, jim@midohioheart.com

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Kirk Leighton, KLeigh8522@aol.com

Jeff Urbanski, jeff@iserllc.com Hank Wineman, hw@frascap.com Brad Smiles, bsmiles64@aol.com

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Ken Dill Call the Alumni Office, 517/629-0247

Steve Willis Steven_W_Willis@hotmail.com

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As president of Upstate Medical University of the State University of New York, Gregory Eastwood, M.D., ’62, oversees the university’s hospital and four professional colleges located in Syracuse, N.Y., as well as a clinical campus in Binghamton. With an annual operating budget of over $500-million and a workforce of 5,200 people, Upstate Medical University plays an influential role in the region both as a major health care resource and as Central New York’s largest employer. Eastwood has strong convictions about his institution’s responsibility to the broader community, convictions, he says, that were shaped in part by his Albion experience. In addition to its traditional clinical and educational programs and impressive research initiatives, the

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

These profiles will appear in each issue of Io Triumphe.

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university offers an innovative program in rural medicine to encourage students to practice in underserved areas. “We mean what we say in our mission statement, that we are ‘to improve the health of the communities we serve through education, biomedical research, and health care,’” Eastwood says. “Academic medical centers must be partners in advancing community health in all of these ways. If we are to make strides in preventive medicine and health maintenance, health care professionals must look beyond the hospital setting and must be committed to educating their patients about healthy lifestyles in the communities where they live.”

Gregory Eastwood, a great example of

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An Evening in Bay View Saturday, July 27, 2002 6 p.m.

8 p.m.

Potluck Supper Theatre Production: “South Pacific” (Reserved tickets: $18 per person)

All events will take place on the Bay View campus.

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.

wednesday SEPTEMBER

SAVE THE DATE! Albion College: Celebrating Liberal Arts at Work Washington, D.C. Regional Event 6:30 p.m.

National Press Club

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Program highlights: Remarks by President Peter Mitchell, ’67; special guest Cedric Dempsey, ’54, President, NCAA; comments by faculty; and viewing of the new Albion video.

Invitations will be mailed to Washington area alumni later this summer.

Visit our Web site

especially for alumni volunteers!

Alumni volunteers have always been important to the Admissions Office staff and the recruiting process, and now it is easier than ever for you to help. Go online to find out how you can become a part of this exciting program. While you’re there, sign up to receive the admissions volunteer e-mail newsletter every month so you can stay current on happenings in admissions and on campus. www.albion.edu/admissions/alumni

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