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Different roads to Zion “Try as we might to believe otherwise, tradition itself is in evolution,” writes Barry Petrucci, ’82, senior pastor at Portage Chapel Hill United Methodist Church near Kalamazoo. Petrucci was responding to a query I had sent to a number of our alumni in the ministry about how they and their congregations have accommodated change in the face of calls for new forms of worship, sometimes even new definitions of what constitutes a Christian congregation.

In a recent article in Christian Century, Stephanie Paulsell of the Harvard Divinity School notes, “The challenge is that we can no longer take our way of doing things for granted. We must ask ourselves: How does our life together, in worship, service and fellowship, reflect our central convictions about who God is and what God is calling us to? What does it mean to be faithful? What does it mean to share the gospel? What does it mean to be trustworthy stewards of God’s gifts? The new forms of church have reopened these questions in vital ways. It is the work of mainline churches to engage these questions as deeply and richly as they can.” In this cover story, you will hear about how a number of Albion alumni in the ministry are responding creatively and passionately to such questions.

Our focus reflects Albion’s long heritage as an institution related to the United Methodist Church, and the College itself has spent considerable time in recent months reflecting on this historic relationship. However, in an accompanying article on

expressions of faith and spirituality on campus, you will also learn how Albion welcomes students from all faith traditions, including non-Christian traditions. In the spirit of open inquiry that is fundamental to liberal arts education, the College offers many opportunities for the entire campus community to learn more about the beliefs and practices of these varied traditions. In all of these efforts, participation is voluntary, and our approach is respectful of the personal convictions of believers and non-believers alike.

Jack Giguere, ’59, pastor emeritus of the Grosse Pointe United Methodist Church, looks at tradition and how it leads us to belief this way: “What I see as the most pressing challenge today in the church is the presentation of a God who is big enough. In worship settings, the liturgy and music used, as well as subjects addressed in sermons and classes taught, there is a need to make known a God who is big enough for the needs people are experiencing. . . .

People are pressing for a connection between the big questions and the awesome God of the scriptures. Therefore, it matters that we not trivialize God. They want a ministry that unapologetically addresses with passion and lifts up the big questions of what is worth living for and what is worth dying for. And in the wake of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, it is clear only a God who is big enough can be hung onto for dear life.”

We hope that these reflections might cause you to return to your liberal arts roots, and ponder what gives meaning and purpose to your own life.

—Sarah Briggs, Editor

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The changing church: Bill Ritter, ’62: ‘I never have to ask whether what I do is relevant’

By Jan Corey Arnett, ’75 Bill Ritter knows every workday will be demanding. As a CEO he must understand budgeting, strategic planning, social activism, cultural diversity, community outreach, public speaking, facilities management, marketing, human resources, the law, ethics and technology. He must have the ability to handle politics, work with a board of directors and lead others in prayer.

Prayer? Absolutely. No Chief Ecclesiastical Officer could function without it. Ritter, you see, is senior pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Birmingham.

And what he is describing is the modern-day church, which more often than not has become “an ecclesiastical corporation,” an organization where both business acumen and the power of prayer are essential to the bottom line.

Maybe there was a time when pastors had little more to worry about than preaching the Word, baptizing the beginners, marrying the lovers, visiting the sick and eulogizing the dead. But those days are gone like the saddlebags that once carried the preacher’s well-worn Bible when he traveled on horseback ministering to his flock. Today’s church leaders still baptize, marry and bury. Their job description has simply expanded . . . and expanded in ways that would astonish their predecessors.

Bill Ritter,’62, is in his ninth year as senior pastor of the First United Methodist Church (FUMC) of Birmingham, Michigan’s largest Methodist church, with a membership of 3,100. While few of Michigan’s 770 Methodist churches have memberships greater than about 500, their pastors can readily identify with many of the management and social issues Ritter confronts.

Driving today’s church decision-making are two pressing questions from a restless society: Can the church help me find meaning in my life? Can the church help me raise my children?

Responding in ways that bring people to church and keep them coming back is a constant challenge that Ritter tackles with the help of a staff of 32, including six full- and part-time ministers. FUMC-Birmingham has an annual budget approaching $2.2-million and is soon to

Editor’s note: The following ‘snapshots’ of Albion alumni in the ministry suggest the diverse ways they perceive and are responding to change.

‘Spiritual discipline and a vital piety’ Tom Sagendorf, ’62, thinks of his early days in the ministry in the mid-1960s as “the era of the comfortable pew.”

“Churches simply opened their doors, and people came,” he recalls. “It was a convenient Christianity. The church resembled a community of settlers rather than pilgrims.”

Today, from his vantage point as senior pastor of a 1,000member United Methodist congregation in Columbus, Ohio, he says pastors no longer can count on full pews each Sunday.

Nor can they assume that those sitting before them are wellschooled in the Bible, or know the seasons of the church year, or even can recite The Lord’s Prayer from memory.

break ground on a $5.5-million, 30,000square-foot Christian Life Center.

Income from the Church’s endowment of $1.2-million supplements annual giving and tithing. In addition, FUMCBirmingham gives more than $800,000 a year to programs and ministries beyond its doors.

This year marks Ritter’s 37th in the ministry. After graduating from Albion College with a degree in philosophy, he earned a master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1965. His plan was to spend 10 years in the parish ministry, earn a Ph.D., and then teach at a seminary. But when the appointed time came he wasn’t ready to give up local church ministry. So, 37 years later he is still at it in a job he loves.

“At the beginning and the end of every day I don’t have to question the meaning of my work. I never have to ask whether what I do is relevant,” he says with quiet certainty.

Ritter, who serves with the Detroit Conference of the United Methodist Church, spent the early years of his ministry with churches in Dearborn and Livonia. He then served as senior minister with the Nardin Park United Methodist Church in Farmington Hills from 1980 to 1993 before moving to the FUMC-Birmingham. Each appointment took him to a larger church with increasing responsibilities.

So how does a CEO lead his or her church so that it grows and responds to what current writers on issues of theology and faith practice call “the human longing to draw near to God”? How does he or she adequately address controversial questions about whether worship should be made entertaining or whether the church should adopt business-style marketing to recruit new members?

Ritter has many words of wisdom sometimes shared in great seriousness and sometimes offered with a hint of humor.

“The seven last words of the church,” he says, “are, ‘We’ve never done it this way before,’” adding, “Sometimes people want to hang on to what was, when the pastor can see that the past can’t be resurrected.” Such differences can lead to painful conflicts. “Churches and congregations may split over theology, work ethic, personality, vision and direction,” he notes.

“The reasons for such dramatic change are many,” he believes. “Some have to do with the church’s own inability (or refusal) to see and respond to changing realities and needs. . . .

Some have to do with the mind-boggling changes in the culture.”

In this environment, Sagendorf sees a need to teach about Christianity at its most basic level and to return to principles that guided the Christian church in its earliest days. As he puts it, “[The church must] seek and nurture committed Christian disciples who will shape their lives according to Jesus’ radical vision of God’s purpose in the world and work tirelessly to apply this vision to cultural values and social structures.”

The church today must both be open to everyone and help each member achieve a sense of belonging. “Radical hospitality” is in order, he says. “The days of exclusive congregations for ‘our kind of people’ are past. . . . Such radical hospitality will necessitate the celebration of diversity (theological, racial,

As senior pastor at the First United Methodist Church of Birmingham, Bill Ritter,’62, oversees a congregation of more than 3,000 members and an annual budget of $2.2million. The church recently completed an in-depth visioning process to set the course for its future. “There is always more to be done in a community than you could ever begin to do,” Ritter says. “When confronted with a new possibility, we look for reasons to say ‘yes,’ rather than to say ‘no.’”

Ritter’s personal philosophy is to “change by addition.” He is characteristically deliberate in his explanation. “In a perfect world you change by addition rather than by subtraction or deletion. ‘We’re going to get rid of this’ is more difficult to accept than ‘We’re going to add this.’” At his church, a contemporary evening service was added two years ago, for example, rather than substituted for one of the three morning services.

The struggle to bring the traditions of the past together in harmony with the realities of the present to satisfy people’s quest for spiritual fulfillment has resulted in declining membership in some mainline denomination churches. While FUMC-Birmingham has not followed that trend, Ritter says growth in membership can’t be taken for granted. “In suburbia we are part of a very consumerist mentality,” Ritter explains.

“People are church-shopping and are not bashful about saying so. Even faith is much more market-driven than anyone would have believed 40 years ago.”

economic, political, cultural, age and sexual orientation). It will also mean offering alternative styles of worship and learning how to deal creatively with conflict.” And it will likely mean offering many different points of connection for individual members through small group ministries and targeted programs.

“There is a profound spiritual hunger in America,” Sagendorf maintains, “especially after the catastrophic events of Sept. 11. Seldom has the church in America been confronted with a more poignant opportunity to speak wisdom to a frightened and searching society. But our response must be substantive and engaging. Easy answers and simplistic solutions will, at best, be like serving junk food at a formal banquet. It will hardly meet expectations and certainly not be filling.”

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Seeking commonality, not conformity What has evolved is a rise in the number of nondenominational or independent churches, which are free from the edicts of a central organization. Mainline churches have countered with diverse times and formats for services, a smorgasbord of programs and a greater openness to defining a congregation not by conformity in constituency but by commonality of faith in God. A new ethos moves within the congregations of mainline churches.

“We can count on every Roman Catholic who enters our doors being utterly surprised to find that, in our services, fully 20 percent of our congregation will have had former Catholic affiliation,” Ritter cites as an example of the changing church.

“More important to people than geography or where their parents went to church is being able to find meaning,” Ritter says. “People will pass 15 churches on their way here if this is where they can settle in.”

FUMC-Birmingham has seven staff people devoted to children and youth ministries. “People feel really insecure about child-rearing today. They want help with character development and values training,” explains Ritter. The large numbers of impressionable, searching youth help explain why the planned Christian Life Center has become a top priority. The center will house a lounge where young people can drop in and find someone to talk with, an up-to-date computer room, classrooms and a recreation center. “The church must find ways to extend its ministry and expand its boundaries,” he says. “It is important, as a church, to define which are issues of style and which are issues of substance.”

Like many churches, FUMC-Birmingham had to work through the teeth-gritting, turf-staking realities of whether to offer a contemporary service. For some people, traditional worship with its hymn-singing, pulpit-preaching and organ-playing just doesn’t fill the inner longing to feel touched by God. But to traditionalists the very notion of electric guitars and blue-jean clad, hand-clapping worshippers is akin to sacrilege. Ritter calls this the issue of “the worship wars.”

How to please both groups?

FUMC-Birmingham holds its contemporary service on Sunday evening (“Sunday Night ALIVE!”). Ritter dons a casual shirt and slacks and delivers a “message” rather than a sermon. He notes with delight, “There are senior citizens who attend. The people who swooned over Elvis Presley are now in their 60s. The music revolution didn’t begin yesterday!” This service features

a “praise band” of electric instruments such as guitar, keyboard and percussion, all linked to vocalists carrying hand-held microphones, leading amplified hymns and choruses.

“Any church intent on supporting this kind of worship had better plan on spending top dollar for a good sound system,” he quips, adding that even the traditional services will soon be enhanced by the installation of a new $900,000 pipe organ.

Pastors today, along with everything else, must be at least somewhat conversant with the computer age (Ritter’s church has a Web site: www.fumcbirmingham. org), and the kinds of music and entertainment that attract young people. “The average age of our new members is under 40, and we have to be ‘techno’ if we are to appeal to this age group,” Ritter says.

Ritter maintains that every congregation, like every corporation, has a culture. “You have to figure out what that culture is when you first arrive because you can’t dismiss it. You have to see how you can stretch the boundaries of it.”

The boundaries of FUMC-Birmingham are not determined by property lines or membership numbers but by the limits it sets for how much it can do well within its mission. There are programs for all age groups, a healing service the second Tuesday of each month, communion on the fourth Tuesday and special holiday services.

Then, there are the business ethics conferences, a seemingly unlikely event for a church to host until one considers it is the church that should be able to help answer difficult ethical questions. The first conference dealt with “the bottom line” and featured, as keynote speaker, Bob Eaton, past president and CEO of DaimlerChrysler. More recently, attendees examined ethics in the media with columnist and WJR-Radio personality Mitch Albom, and a third conference last October on spirituality in the workplace featured Laura Nash, the only professor to hold dual appointments in the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Divinity School.

Mission teams travel as far away as Costa Rica and the Czech Republic. Meanwhile, closer to home, FUMCBirmingham shares a ministry with other churches in the greater Detroit area to provide food, shelter and spiritual counsel to homeless adults and families.

“There is always more to be done in a community than you could ever begin to do,” Ritter admits. “When confronted with a new possibility, we look for reasons to say ‘yes,’ rather than to say ‘no.’”

Ritter is frequently asked to serve on community boards and to participate in events as a representative of the faith community. He was the first chairman for ASPIRES, a college readiness program at Detroit’s Mackenzie High School offered in collaboration with Adrian College, and he has headed the board of the Michigan Christian Advocate and is a past trustee for the United Methodist Foundation.

With all of that, Ritter still makes time for the cardiac patient who needs to talk about stem-cell research and what it means to his struggle, the drug addict who wants to know if God will answer his prayer, or the single parent wondering how she can hold a job, care for her family and face an uncertain future.

How does a modern-day minister fight fatigue and spiritual burnout?

“It helps to have a spouse who loves the ministry, believes in it and shares it as time and talents permit. My wife, Kristine, is gracious and supportive,” he says, exuding respect and warmth for his partner of 35 years.

Ritter also appreciates the fact that, for the most part, he can control his own calendar. “I haven’t missed many swim meets or piano recitals.” The Ritters have a daughter, Julie, who is a student at Harvard Business School.

An Albion College trustee since 1983, Ritter remembers his student experience with fondness and respect and influential people like William Gillham and the late David Strickler, Joseph Irwin and Arthur Munk. It was Gillham who influenced him (pressured may be a better word) to apply to Yale. “I finally did it to show him he was wrong—that I wouldn’t be accepted,” he chuckles, recalling that, at Yale, the boundaries of his “parochialism, regionalism and theology were expanded.”

Irwin helped Ritter learn to write poetically, while Munk taught him to think logically.

But it was David Strickler who nurtured his knowledge of the Bible through the power of song during Ritter’s four years as a member of the Albion College Choir. “I have often said that if I ever lost my faith in God I would have a choir sing it back into me as it did when I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Dave.”

The ministry, Ritter says, has to be practiced with a blend of compassion and conviction, insight and good judgment. As the modern-day church confronts the challenges of change, he concludes, “Ours is an ecclesiastical culture, but it still has to have a CEO. You have to be able to get things done, but you have to know the right things to do.”

Sagendorf envisions instead a “spiritual quest . . . that must demand an intense spiritual discipline and a vital piety that is both inward and outward in expression.”

And, for Sagendorf, that also means a rejection of materialism and of a focus on “self.” Today’s Christian community must be “willing to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, welcome the stranger, tend to the sick and visit the prisoner as an ordinary Christian vocation,” he insists.

He concludes, “Such a church as I’ve described is one I’ve viewed only in brief glimpses during the course of my ministry. But it represents the best vision of the changing church I can offer as I prepare to pass the torch to a new generation—both clergy and laypeople—who are claimed by a God who is always making things new.”

‘Pursuing peace and justice in the urban community’

Susan Skelton Hansen, ’70, became Metro’s executive director last spring and finds her new role as a “change agent” a good fit, given her 22 years of experience in United Methodist mission work in Latin America.

“I feel like Metro Ministry is able to make a difference,” Hansen says. “To do something that improves people’s lives is really a blessing.”

Her responsibilities as executive director are both diverse and demanding. Her days quickly fill with activities such as planning cooperative programs with other community outreach ministries; advising newly established United Methodist congregations serving Grand Rapids’ Hispanic, Native American, Vietnamese and Korean populations; coordinating relief efforts in response to local emergencies; and providing logistical support for volunteer crews working on area rehabilitation and home repair projects.

Ever since the days of founder John Wesley, Methodism has been dedicated to evangelism and outreach. Today that commitment finds expression not only in the United Methodist Church’s worldwide mission programs but in hundreds of local programs that address the needs of a significant part of our nation’s population for food, shelter, health care and other basic human services.

For nearly 50 years, the United Methodist Metropolitan Ministry of Greater Grand Rapids has served as a model for urban missions. Following its goal of “pursuing peace and justice in the urban community,” “Metro” links the area’s 24 United Methodist congregations with other church and social service agencies to work directly with the residents of its southeast Grand Rapids neighborhood on improving the quality of their lives.

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Susan Bowman, ’61: ‘Honor the old and yet get out on the edge’

By Jan Corey Arnett, ’75 It was 1996 and Susan Cowles Bowman, ’61, was in line to become the first female senior pastor of the “First Church” on “Methodist Hill” in Des Moines, Iowa. If she accepted the position, she would become one of just over 50 women in the nation at the time to hold such an appointment in a United Methodist church having a congregation of more than 1,000.

The church official who had driven her to see the church for the first time stopped several blocks from their destination. The church sat high on the hill before them, overlooking the heart of downtown. Bowman was speechless save for one word: “Wow.” Before her was a copper-domed, nearly century-old blend of cathedral and Roman forum. The three-story church, in fact, strongly resembles Iowa’s capitol building not far away. The similar “governmental” appearance of the two was deliberately intended to denote the power of both church and state. First United Methodist Church of Des Moines (FUMC) is about a quarter of a city block in length, with great pillars and great presence. It overlooks a “business canyon” of tall office complexes for what will soon be some 120,000 workers and sits beside a large metropolitan hospital.

Atop its magnificent copper dome is a tall, illuminated, rotating cross visible from every direction.

Bowman was challenged by the prospect of pastoring in this church. Having just finished a seven-year term as district superintendent in two districts in the East Ohio Conference, she had spent a year praying and thinking before she finally accepted this unusual United Methodist move to a new state.

“The church is impressive. But the first time I saw that rotating cross I said, ‘That has to go.’ It was just too much. But then I learned how much people depend on it.

They see it from their offices, their hospital beds and their cars,” Bowman explains.

It isn’t just the rotating cross that people in Des Moines depend on. FUMC-Des Moines is one of the first churches in the capital city to be called when a crisis occurs. It has been the site of funerals for state

In the coming months, much of her time will be devoted to the creation of a “Shalom Zone” in a targeted area on the city’s southeast side. The “Shalom Zone” concept, begun in 1992 and now adopted in some 380 United Methodist churches worldwide, devotes “significant human and financial resources . . . to bring about systemic change.”

The Grand Rapids United Methodist Shalom Zone, the first to be established in Michigan, will tap the resources of nonprofit agencies, area schools and colleges, neighborhood organizations, United Methodist congregations and the local Chamber of Commerce to revitalize the area through economic development and improved housing and services. As a first step, the coalition will rehabilitate a home in the neighborhood next spring.

“Providing safe, secure, dignified housing is so important,” Hansen reflects. She has been a strong advocate for affordable housing throughout her career, even designing her own master’s program on this subject at Michigan State University.

dignitaries and city leaders.

Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America, it opened its doors to hundreds of downtown workers for a special prayer service.

The church itself has an official membership of about 750 but a following of more than 1,000.

FUMC-Des Moines faces the challenges so common to urban churches today—chiefly attracting new members when the traditional membership base has left for the suburbs, and making the most of scarce financial resources. Add the pressures facing mainline churches everywhere to adopt more contemporary worship styles and to promote Christian values in an increasingly secular society, and the result is an extraordinarily demanding role for a church’s leadership.

“Pastors,” Bowman explains, “have to be expert readers of the culture, able to do traditional worship and be equally adept with Power Point and praise bands.” She sees more interest in time-honored rituals again. At the same time, she hears, both from those who favor contemporary approaches to worship and those who lean toward tradition, that faith isn’t real unless felt personally.

“This is really hard work,” The downtown location of the First United Methodist Church of Des Moines Bowman admits. “You have to honor the old and yet get out on the has shaped its ministry. During her nearly five years as senior pastor there, Susan Cowles Bowman, ’61, (pictured here with one of her parishioners) has edge.” Her parishioners are a mix empowered lay leaders to help attract new members, including young adults of young and old, retired and from the nearby “business canyon,” and she has encouraged outreach efforts working, city dweller and suburbanite, financially well-heeled and such as a Bible School for children from a subsidized housing development and providing meals at a shelter for the homeless. struggling. About half are single; few are intact families. Those who work in the city want their church activities tied to their It has updated its Sunday service with sermons that lunch hour or immediately after work. Retirees won’t offer spiritual direction more than facts to be learned. A come out at lunch or at night. Meeting these different year ago, it opened The Grapevine, a contemporary needs requires long hours for staff. worship center in a nearby dinner theater. There, people So what has FUMC-Des Moines done to grow amidst can socialize over breakfast, enjoy live secular music controversial times? and view a film clip from a current movie which then

Today’s uncertain economy means she must quickly adapt to changing conditions. Finding financial support for Metro’s many projects is a constant concern.

“We’re all being challenged to do more with a lot less,” she says. “Funding from churches and foundations won’t be there to the extent it has been in the past.” Increased networking with potential sponsors will be called for, as well as careful stewardship of gifts.

“As an agency of the United Methodist Church, we challenge ourselves to be an agent for healing in the midst of broken lives and communities. We do this because we have experienced, and wish to share, God’s transforming love through Jesus Christ.”

Susan Hansen is the first woman, and non-clergy, to serve as executive director of United Methodist Metropolitan Ministry of Greater Grand Rapids. She succeeded another Albion graduate, Barry Petrucci, ’82, who had held this position for the previous six years.

‘The effect can be electric’ For Harvard College chaplain Mark Edington, ’83, celebrating religious diversity is not simply an ideal to be embraced—it’s an everyday reality.

“Of the 6,400 undergraduates at Harvard,” Edington notes, “fully a quarter are Catholic and a quarter are Jewish. . . .

Beyond this, we have 800 students who self-declare as Buddhists—reflective of our large Asian-American population.” Of the remainder, he says, about a sixth identify themselves as Protestant but not necessarily with a traditional, mainline denomination, and most of the rest are students “who have no experience of church whatsoever, and for whom the ritual forms of worship are often a highly suspect undertaking.”

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makes up the theme of a message (not a sermon). The entire event is executed by lay people, with Bowman as coach.

“This is not a praise service. It feels quite secular but has an underlying Christian theme,” explains Bowman.

“Grapevine has a loyal following of people of all age groups who have never set foot in the church itself.”

Prior to her coming, Bowman said a “war” had been waged within the church about the introduction of such a service. To break the deadlock, Bowman obtained support and funding for The Grapevine from the United Methodist Church’s Iowa Conference. FUMC-Des Moines has now adopted this new ministry as a place to serve.

Bowman often calls upon the creative thinking skills she acquired as a student at Albion College to work “outside the box” to get things accomplished. She has sent over 40 younger (30s-50s) church adults to a thriving suburban church in Kansas City to see, firsthand, successful things being done there in education, worship and outreach. These enthused converts then become “influencers” throughout her congregation as well as officers and committee members. They orient visitors and critique the church bulletin to make certain it is as useful to the newcomer as it is to the old-timer.

(FUMC-Des Moines also has a Web site: www.dmfirstchurch.org.)

Practicing urban ministry also means reaching out to those who are unchurched and searching, Bowman says.

Three times a year, immediately after the workday, FUMC-Des Moines will conduct the 10-week “Alpha Course,” a sort of “Christianity 101.” While introducing Christian theology and practices, it does not give people prescriptive answers but “tries to hook people up with the spirit of God and get ego out of the way,” Bowman explains.

In addition, FUMC-Des Moines does Bible School and tutoring with children from a subsidized housing development, offers its gym for play, and cooks and serves meals for the homeless at a shelter just six blocks from the church. The church also gives thousands of dollars annually to mission work.

Obtaining adequate funding for church operations remains a challenge for Bowman. Here too she has taken a creative approach, using resources that formerly paid the salary of an associate pastor to support the work done by teams of lay people. Bowman is also assisted by a core of 11 support staff and specialists, including a retired pastor who handles home and hospital visitations.

FUMC-Des Moines has recently undertaken a $4-million renovation which, when completed, will have added or improved group meeting areas and increased handicapped accessibility.

Though now in her fifth year as senior pastor, Bowman still encounters the tensions that have accompanied change within her congregation. “Where two or three are gathered there are politics,” she says wryly.

Change, including having a woman at the helm of the church, has been difficult for some to accept. She continues to push for openness to different ways of thinking about faith issues. She says unambiguously, “The greater message in the Bible is love. Maybe the current world situation will take us back to where we need to be as people of faith.”

In spite of politics and paradigms, there have been many high points over her 25 years in the ministry, Bowman says. She is reinspired each time she is preaching and a look comes over someone’s face that says they “get it.” She was honored to have been invited to preach in a prestigious Catholic church to a standingroom-only crowd nearing 900. She has traveled with the Bucknell University Choir and has preached in Christ’s College at Cambridge University in England.

“In my thirties I wouldn’t even read Scriptures in a sanctuary—I was so shy,” she says with a soft chuckle and adds, “I hated religion classes in college and never thought I would be a pastor.”

At Albion she was especially drawn to studies in literature and the arts. She remembers with fondness lively and engaging discussions on literary criticism. “It was the creative process about literature that interested me. How do people know to write what they do? How do topics seize people?”

Bowman says her freshman English professor, Lotus Snow, “awakened my thinking. She was wry. She taught me how to write.” English professor Joseph Irwin had that same spark and became a mentor as well.

After graduating from Albion, Bowman was partowner of an engineering firm. She was also a Christian education director at an Ohio church. Women in the church encouraged her to pursue the ministry. “I commuted 120 miles from Cleveland to Columbus to take classes at the Methodist Theological School, and the ministry sort of evolved,” she laughs. She completed the three-year master of divinity program there in just over two years. Some years later, Bowman also finished the course work required for a doctor of ministry degree at Boston University’s School of Theology.

The combination of business experience and theological education gave Bowman the background she needs as a senior pastor. She’s as comfortable supervising a staff, handling legal and insurance issues, dealing with architects and builders, writing funding proposals, and managing a budget, as she is in the pulpit. The church has an annual budget of about $500,000 and an endowment of $2.5-million.

Susan is married to Bill Bowman, a former Ohio county auditor. “He is,” she says affectionately, “the best pastor’s wife.” He put his career second to hers, supports her ministry and directs the children’s choir at FUMC-Des Moines. The Bowmans have a blended family of six children. A daughter is ordained and is an assistant professor of field education at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio.

Bowman works about 70 hours a week and admits to being exhausted most of the time. “Being in the ministry is a marriage and sometimes it takes over,” she says.

Without her husband’s support and the help of a prayer group that prays with her for an entire hour every Tuesday, her role could easily become overwhelming.

Many women, she says, leave the ministry because of the pressures, especially when they are also raising a family. She points out that few women take senior pastor positions because they are either not prepared for the administrative aspects of the role or do not like to be pulled away from the personal relationships with their congregation. Bowman readily confesses that she “loves the administrative stuff.”

A trustee at the Methodist Theological School, she is also a member of the board of the Wesley Foundation at Drake University and has served on the board of a ministry program serving women and children. She currently has numerous leadership roles in the Iowa United Methodist Conference.

Bowman is serious about and deeply committed to her work but values, too, the humorous times that come with being a pastor . . . like the babies who hiccup into her lapel microphone as she cradles them in her arms for baptism . . . or the Sunday when the ushers deftly replaced the offering with piles of wooden nickels and, with absolutely straight faces, handed her the collection plates as she stood before the congregation.

“If people really knew the thrill of being a minister there wouldn’t be a shortage of ministers,” she says with unwavering certainty.

Edington recounts the “soul-searching” that Harvard went through in the early 1970s on how best to serve its increasingly diverse campus community. (The university was founded in 1636 to train Puritan clergy, but was never formally affiliated with any tradition or denomination.) Many called for the evolution of Harvard’s Memorial Church into an interfaith chapel—a pattern followed widely at other colleges. Instead, Derek Bok, Harvard’s president at the time, chose to maintain the church as a Protestant, nondenominational house of worship, a move that Edington believes has kept spirituality central, rather than peripheral, to the academic experience.

“We have created a space at Harvard—for many decades now a place indifferent at best, and hostile at times, to religion—in which spirituality is regarded as a legitimate dimension of the personal development that takes place within undergraduate and graduate education.”

And that stand has not stifled, but rather encouraged, a campus environment more open to religious diversity, he says.

“Because we stuck to our old ways of doing things, we emerged as more effective advocates for others, whose ways are different, to also have their own clearly defined ministries and work.” Thus, Harvard students today are served by chaplains from 32 traditions and denominations (from “American Baptist to Zoroastrian,” according to Edington).

“By not shearing itself off its historic moorings,” Edington says, “Memorial Church remained an institution with a clear purpose and ministerial mission. This, I think, has something to do with the fact that our typical Sunday morning crowd is about 700 folks, that we are broadcast on the radio and through the world on the Internet. We are known for excellence in preaching and music. . . . We have, in short, a clear identity.”

And what about those students who have no strong religious ties?

“When these students are presented with the possibility of an experience of spirituality that is not lacking in intellectual rigor, when they are confronted with a setting which has not only an ‘established church’ but also strong communities of Catholic, Jewish and Islamic students—and faculty—who are pursuing a deeper understanding of their faith alongside their academic work, the effect can be electric. That, in a nutshell, is the great excitement of the work it is my privilege to do here.”

Mark Edington, ordained as an Episcopal priest, is the first person in Harvard history to hold the title of “chaplain to Harvard College.” He is also a senior administrator in Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions, where the assistant director is another Albion graduate, Gary Anderson, ’77.

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Faith and spirituality Religious studies and the quest for personal faith

By Barry Petrucci, ’82 Editor’s note: These remarks were first offered during a colloquium, “Religious Studies and the Liberal Arts,” held on campus April 20, 2001 to mark the retirements of religious studies professors Frank Frick and William Gillham. Petrucci reflects on his exploration of faith as an Albion student and on the place of religious studies in the education of “the whole person.”

There are times when the stars just seem to line up in particularly meaningful ways. No, I am not going in the direction of the “Age of Aquarius,” and I have no intention of slipping into elephant bell-bottom jeans.

Yet this last year has been a time of things seeming to come together in meaningful ways. An invitation from Selva Raj, chair of Albion’s Department of Religious Studies, to speak before this gathering came at the same time as an “invitation” from the bishop of the Michigan Area of the United Methodist Church for me to pack my urban ministry bags in Grand Rapids and move to the south suburb of Kalamazoo. It was an invitation to think about faith and ministry from the other side of the “tin cup,” as much of my work in the city necessitated a great deal of fund raising to sustain programs of urban advocacy and development. Both invitations required a looking back, an unpacking of much of what has gone before. Dragging out the boxes of notes and notebooks from Albion years, I was able to remember, to reconnect the pieces of journey that have brought me along thus far. For this opportunity, I offer my thanks.

In looking through the notes and the first-year papers marked with the critical comments of an Albion teacher’s assistant (she had the audacity to scrawl “purple prose” in the margin of my paper), I recalled the deconstruction of the excited Christian that, by necessity, took place in these halls. That disassembly began with a “bump” in Religious Studies 101 when professor Johan Stohl asked, “So . . . is the Bible true because of the things that are in it? Or are the things within it true because they are in the Bible?” Sheer profundity. It was the first memorable stumbling block thrown along my path to Zion! In the beginning the dialogue between the academic consideration of religion and my personal faith felt like an assault in which all I could do was hold on and repeat a narrow mantra of defense: “Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord.”

The Gospel of Luke includes a post-crucifixion appearance of Jesus to two disciples. They do not recognize him as he queries them on their sadness. They replay the tapes of the last few days, days of questioning, suffering and death. The text reads: Luke 24:28 As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on.

29 But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them. 30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight. 32 They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”

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Indeed, didn’t our hearts burn back there. All too often we do not recognize the gift until seen in retrospect. Thankfully, it has become at least somewhat clear to me that the academy was not present to destroy, but, rather, to reform the faith. Any deconstruction was done with an eye toward the strengthening of the whole person, with an eye toward shalom, that rich Hebrew word pointing to the completion of the individual and the community. The writing of Thomas Merton quietly whispered to my spirit: “That which we do not contemplate, we will manipulate.” (Seeds of Contemplation) If this was not a new mantra, at least it was an additional mantra!

I understood the academy inviting an examination of the history of meaning, and the In the accompanying remarks, first offered during a colloquium on campus last development of organized spring, Barry Petrucci, ’82, notes that, in Albion’s Department of Religious religion. I know now that the disassembly of the certainty of Studies, teaching is guided by the belief that “education must make a difference in the life of the individuals involved” and that reason and faith “are partners in the young faith was an invitation to intentional contemplation. It well-contemplated life, and partners in the apprehension of God.” was, as I recall, St. American fundamentalist Christianity and its role in Bonaventura’s The Mind’s Road to God that assisted me supporting, even sustaining, the state of Israel. I in the beginning work of what I now know as a lifelong discovered our own corner of extremist faith that journey toward the reconciliation, or better the integrasupported a nation solely because that nation’s existence tion, of the elements of reason and faith. Far from testy has been held necessary for the fulfillment of prophecy adversaries, they are partners in the well-contemplated and the return of the Christ. life, and partners in the apprehension of God. If the study of religion allowed students, if it allowed Unexamined faith has manipulated much through me, to stay at arms length and examine the manipulation human history. Fundamentalist thinking has planted feet squarely in the position of the “right”; right politics, right of faith in other groups and other individuals it would have remained marginal academic exercise. But the theology, right social positions have faced off with the Department of Religious Studies would not, and, I trust, mystery of the divine, manipulating her identity and her does not allow such distance. While the endeavor of activity in the world. I have watched in my own little academia is by nature one of critical distance, it cannot corner of the world, with only a bit of amusement, as the allow for distance, which does not involve, even Grand Rapids metropolitan area publicly continues the intimately, the life of the student. debate over evolution and creation. The power-filled The debt I owe to the liberal arts in general, and to myth of divine activity bringing what is into being is the discipline of religious studies in particular, is that manipulated to be an empirical statement of “truth.” our personal and community experience of study was Prayer continues to be debated in the public forum, as held in as much reverence as the study itself. The communication with the very ground of our being is reduced to a test of public profession. Because American education must make a difference in the life of the individuals involved or it is reduced to mere exercise. civil religion continues unabated, perhaps even strengthOf course, the education making such a difference ening, I remain grateful for a forum in which claims to depends on the willing and open participation of the truth are unpacked. The liberal arts education, with student. concentration in religious studies, offered a critical While assisting Dr. Frick myself during my senior framework in which to examine my many claims to year, I recall two students who would do all the required “truth.”

In a senior seminar on Judaism and Islam, we worked work, including the fear-inducing historical-critical method of Biblical criticism. Good students, they had for weeks to understand extremist theological factions in the ability to hit every academic ball pitched. Yet, on both faith traditions. It was rather easy as a predomieach paper and in every conversation they would nantly Christian group to be highly critical of “those” append the line, “But none of this matters because Jesus groups and hold our heads high as holders of the true Christ is my personal Lord and Savior . . . and the Bible faith. Professor Frank Frick, though, offered me an His Word.” What those students missed was the independent study opportunity. I did research on opportunity for personal engagement and the conse-

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The Department of Religious Studies at Albion College, in my time professors Frick, Gillham and Stohl, offered context for the development of faith and mind for pilgrims living in a real world, stumbling a real road to a Zion out there . . . and in here. It was the tradition of Frank Frick to take a class session in the days leading up to winter break for the reading of Henry van Dyke’s The Other Wise Man. Other professors in other institutions may have seen the story as so much schlock . . . a fanciful story designed to pull at heartstrings. For those of us sitting in the class, however, it was an opportunity to know that at least one professor expected that the material studied would make a difference to the faith and that the faith would make a difference to the world.

In the story, a fourth magi shares in the vision of the

newly birthed Messiah. The other wise man takes three rare stones to offer as gift to the baby, but never quite catches up with the three on the way to Bethlehem. He journeys 33 years in pursuit of the One born King.

Along the way he gives the gems meant for the king to serve human need as those needs confront him: a sapphire for healing, a ruby for the preservation of life, a pearl for freedom. As Artaban never quite made it to the crèche in Bethlehem, nor to hear the Teacher, nor to the foot of the Cross, but made a difference in the lives of persons along the way, the scholar/mentor in Frick pointed us to claim the same journey for ourselves.

Artaban trembled. It was the old conflict in his soul, which had come to him in the palm grove of Babylon and in the cottage at Bethlehem—the conflict between the expectation of faith and the impulse of love. Twice the gift which he had consecrated to the worship of religion had been drawn from his hand to the service of

humanity. This was the third trial, the ultimate probation, the final and irrevocable choice.

We were taught well about those kinds of choices. We were taught well about paths of intellect and faith leading repeatedly to holy ground where the wind of God passes; where we get to see a quick glimpse of divine hind quarters. We were taught well about history pointing to the future, holding us suspended in the continuum between what has been and what will be. I have not forgotten lo these 20 years later. And so this activist preacher comes home to Albion to offer simple words of reflection and thanks. I trust they are received as gift. If not now, perhaps somewhere on the road as you remember a heart burning . . . back there on the road.

Barry Petrucci is senior pastor of Portage Chapel Hill United Methodist Church near Kalamazoo.

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Cultivating an inclusive community

By Jake Weber Albion College is connected to traditions of faith and spirituality. . . . The faith journeys of students, faculty and staff are nurtured, supported, challenged and empowered through a variety of academic courses, worship services, and clubs and organizations centered on issues of spirituality. Religious and spiritual programming is inclusive and celebrative, and undergirds a spiritual atmosphere that is open, affirming and caring.

Understanding different religious traditions enables students to discover the richness of the spiritual dimension of human existence.

—From “Liberal Arts at Work: Albion College’s Vision for a Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century” Here’s a look at some of the ways the Albion campus community approaches issues of faith and spirituality today.

Worship Mandatory chapel may be a thing of the past at Albion, but voluntary worship experiences, ranging from nondenominational praise services to Catholic mass, are expanding. On a campus where hundreds of events each semester compete for students’ attention, the student-run chapel service draws an average of 80 people each Wednesday night at 9 for a 45-minute service of songs, scripture and personal testimony.

The chapel service in its current form was originated four years ago by Zack Kleinsasser, ’01, and Carl Gladstone, ’01, great-grandson of a former Albion minister. It was intended to be “a service that was nonthreatening, meaningful and fun for students seeking to continue their religious experience at Albion,” says

A nondenominational chapel service, originated by Carl Gladstone, ’01 (center) and Zack Kleinsasser, ’01, (not pictured) continues to attract large numbers of students each Wednesday night.

Kleinsasser. According to Gladstone, it was “a chance for us all to celebrate what we have in common as Christians.”

“Chapel is your ‘101’ course,” says Zac Eskau, one of the current organizers. “There are other groups on campus that focus more on committed Christians. We’re creating this group setting where anyone can blend in and get some kind of positive experience,” Eskau explains. “If it starts with someone just liking the music, and ends up with getting a closer experience with God, that’s good.”

Anna Mistretta-Bradley found that Eskau and the other chapel leaders’ vision suits her precisely. “I wasn’t big on religion to begin with, [but] one of my really good friends invited me,” says Mistretta-Bradley, who has since made chapel a regular activity. “Chapel gives you something solid to hold onto. It’s not just God and faith and religion—you know that chapel’s there every week, and people are happy to see you.”

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Albion’s First United Methodist Church, who regularly sees from 30-50 students at the church’s 11 a.m. Sunday service. “And our church especially knows that students are an important part of our ministry.”

In conjunction with St. John Catholic Church, a weekly mass is celebrated by and for the College students. This Sunday evening mass helps Catholic students to “take responsibility for our faith,” says student Susan Laing. “Everyone [who comes regularly] has the opportunity to assist in the mass by reading, singing, ministering the Eucharist or offering the gifts. I think it encourages individuals to develop and understand what the mass is for them.” Gordon Greene, the priest at St. John’s, notes that nearly 100 students regularly worship at weekly masses. “There’s a definite relationship between their belief and trust in God and how they go about their daily lives,” he says.

Fellowship and outreach Albion’s Jewish Student Union (JSU) and Muslim Student Network (MSN) seek to educate the entire campus community on religious issues, while providing spiritual support to their members.

“There is not a lot of opportunity for me to be spiritual in my everyday life, so it is nice to have the [Jewish Student Union] to remind me every week of my connections to Judaism,” says Emily Radner, JSU president.

JSU sponsors activities for the entire campus to celebrate Jewish religious and cultural holidays. This fall, JSU served apples and honey in Baldwin Hall for Rosh Hashanah, built a sukkah on the campus quadrangle and hosted a Hanukkah party.

“In no other place that I have lived [have I thought] as consciously about my Judaism,” says Marcy Sacks, assistant professor of history and adviser to JSU. Sacks notes that the College’s commitment to Holocaust studies, involving both Jewish and non-Jewish students, reflects the “genuine interest among students in learning more about faiths different from their own. Though the Jewish population at Albion is small, I have found the College community to be extremely welcoming.”

Just days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the College’s Muslim Student Network held a standingroom-only panel discussion, “A Refreshing View on Islam,” providing the campus community with important insights about Islam and Muslims. MSN member Anwar Imam says the group focuses on education as much as religion. MSN students have participated in classroom panel discussions on Islam held in women’s studies and religious studies classes. Alongside their mission to educate the campus about Islam MSN also seeks to support religious practice among its members, and is negotiating for a campus space dedicated to Islamic worship. “[In Pakistan], where I come from, Islam is part of the culture and reminders of it are everywhere,” says Ayla Malik, MSN president. “Here, I still do my prayers and fasting, but I feel more isolated from my faith. MSN gives me and my religion a sense of belonging on campus and helps me connect with people who understand my faith and respect it the way I do.”

Albion’s gospel group, United Voices of Albion College (UVAC), performs regularly on campus and at local community events. “It’s a way for people who aren’t all that bold about singing in public to sing and praise God,” says UVAC president Jennifer Beeler (foreground).

The College also sponsors monthly Enrichment Seminars on Judaism and Islam. Arnie Sleutelberg, ’80, rabbi for Congregation Shir Tikvah in Troy, leads the programs on Judaism, and Sherman Jackson, who teaches Arabic law and theology at the University of Michigan, leads those on Islam.

Of 10 student groups meeting on campus that are recognized as religious organizations, four—Wesley Fellowship (a United Methodist devotional group), Newman Club (a Catholic devotional group), Muslim Student Network and Jewish Student Union—focus on specific religious practices and offer their members a chance for in-depth examination of religious issues with others who share their beliefs.

Interdenominational groups, including Campus Crusade, Athletes in Action (a subgroup of Campus Crusade), Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, are involved more generally in outreach and Christian service.

“Crusade is where my heart beats, because it’s focused on evangelism and discipleship,” says Campus Crusade president David Schrock. The group holds two meetings weekly for members, and Schrock notes that several current Campus Crusade members participated in national Campus Crusade leadership training and evangelizing programs at three locations this summer.

“We focus on sharing our faith,” says Schrock. “What I’ve gotten out of this is a greater desire to share who Jesus is with those who don’t know who he is, and build into the lives of other believers.”

United Voices of Albion College (UVAC), a gospel choir, mixes praise with performance in what the members view as a campus ministry. “We have discussions and fellowship during rehearsal,” says UVAC president Jennifer Beeler. “It’s just uplifting.” Open to people of any (or no) religious persuasion, UVAC performs regularly at campus events and local churches, and recently participated in the community Veterans’ Day program.

“We are trying to come up with ideas that will continue to pull us together,” says Albion College chaplain Torin Alexander, of his role in supporting the various student groups. “Particularly with respect to Christian students on campus, we have a spring Christian conference with bands and speakers. Last year we also added a ministry/vocation fair, including people from church camps and mission agencies, along with seminary information, to give students possibilities for what they could do in the future.”

“One of the things that’s exciting about doing chaplaincy work is that [college] is an important time developmentally for students and their faith,” says Alexander, whose office regularly encourages the campus to observe religious holidays from many different faiths. “I am an ordained Christian minister, and I’m serious about my faith, but I believe I can be serious and committed to my faith while being respectful of other peoples’ faith tradition. It doesn’t make me any less Christian to acknowledge someone else’s belief.

Evangelism is more about how you live than what you say. In this sense, I am an advocate of St. Francis of Assisi’s admonition, ‘Preach the gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.’”

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‘Summit’ looks at future directions in science Undergraduate education in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology is a critical determinant of our national future. The undergraduate years are the springboard to advanced education for students who choose to major and then pursue graduate work in science, mathematics, and engineering—students who will help create the world in which we all live. The undergraduate years are the last opportunity for rigorous academic study of these subjects by many of the future leaders of our society—the executives, government officers, lawyers, clergy, journalists, and others who will have to make momentous decisions that involve science and technology. Colleges and universities prepare the elementary and secondary teachers who impart lifelong knowledge and attitudes about science and technology to their students. And undergraduate institutions help to train many of the technical support personnel who will keep our technological society functioning smoothly in the years to come.

—National Research Council, From Analysis to Action, 1996.

Against this backdrop, 85 Albion College trustees, alumni, faculty, staff and current students met on campus for a “Science Summit,” Oct. 25-26, 2001. The trustees and alumni represented industry, health care and scientific research institutions, non-profit organizations and academia.

The group reviewed the current state of science education at the College, assessed what our priorities should be in this area for the immediate future, and made some preliminary recommendations on how our facilities should be improved to reflect new directions in science. Under the $120-million LIBERAL ARTS AT WORK: CHALLENGING MINDS, TRANSFORMING LIVES capital campaign now under way, the College intends to raise approximately $30-million for science facility construction and/or renovation. The campaign also includes significant support for scientific research by students. Results from the Science Summit will also help guide the fund raising for these improvements.

(Top photo) College trustee David Barrett, ’64, physician and CEO of Lahey Clinic, co-chaired the Science Summit held on campus in October.

David Barrett, ’64, CEO of Lahey Clinic and member of the Campaign Leadership Committee, and Jeffrey Carrier, a biologist who holds the William W. Diehl Trustees’ Professorship, chaired the summit.

“We know that our academic program must drive the facilities planning,” Barrett explains. “Science instruction today emphasizes active student involvement as well as research opportunities beginning in the freshman year. Our aging science facilities, many of which date back to 1969, were not designed for this sort of hands-on learning.”

Most of Albion’s peers in the Great Lakes Colleges Association either have upgraded their science facilities or have plans on the drawing board to do so.

“Excellent science facilities for teaching and research will be a key to our competitiveness in the years ahead,” notes Carrier. “We cannot afford to fall behind if we wish to attract the most talented students and faculty we can find.”

The key issues identified during the course of the two-day summit were as follows: ■ Science in the liberal arts context. Science literacy for liberal arts students is essential. All of our citizens need to be well-informed if they are to deal appropriately with questions related to the environment, health care, the ethics of scientific research and many other concerns. We must also encourage interdisciplinary approaches to science education as the distinctions blur between the science disciplines and as science, public policy and business become increasingly interconnected.

■ Student-centered learning. While emphasizing core competencies in science instruction, we must also create an atmosphere that promotes “learning how to learn.” Classroom and laboratory instruction should involve students in open-ended problem-solving, and student research, under faculty guidance, should be supported. We should use team-oriented approaches that reflect “real-world” research practices.

Shirley Ruemele Bloomquist, ’64, offered her perspectives as a former secondary school science teacher and counselor.

■ Support for faculty. Effective science education begins with faculty members who are enthusiastic about teaching undergraduates and who view their research not only as a means for their own professional development but as a means for enhancing their teaching. Appropriate compensation is needed, along with significant funding for scholarly activity.

Faculty should serve as role models for lifelong learning.

■ First-class facilities. Future science facilities should have open, inviting spaces for learning and should include dedicated faculty and student research space.

These facilities should have the infrastructure needed to support broad use of information technology and sophisticated instrumentation. We should design classrooms and laboratories that are flexible and able to support interdisciplinary collaboration. Finally, we should strive for “green” buildings that conserve energy and have minimal impact on the environment.

The Science Summit recommendations, which were also shared with the Board of Trustees, will help guide the facilities planning process. Members of Albion’s science departments also participated in a recent national conference where they obtained further advice on how to design facilities that support new trends in science teaching. To encourage continuing alumni involvement, the College will also establish a Visiting Committee for the Sciences that will meet periodically on campus and advise on future directions for these programs.

“With the insights we have gained from the Science Summit and other expert resources, we are setting a course for science education at Albion that will affect what we do for many years to come,” Carrier says.

“Given that we have before us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to re-design our science facilities, we must do it right.”

Junior biology major Elizabeth Mettler was among the 85 participants at the conference.

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BSA house to honor early grad While their graduation years are a century apart, junior Salina Baldwin still feels a special connection to James Welton, believed to be Albion’s first African-American graduate. Current president of the College’s Black Student Alliance (BSA), Baldwin recently submitted a proposal to name the Black Student Alliance house on campus in Welton’s memory.

The Board of Trustees approved the request at its October meeting.

“To us, Mr. Welton is a trailblazer, an unsung hero,” Baldwin said. “In honoring him, we hope to show our appreciation for the pathway he has paved for African-American students at Albion.”

After graduating from Albion in 1904, Welton returned to his native Alabama to teach. He died in his childhood home in 1929, tragically the victim of an apparent lynching.

“I commend Black Student Alliance, and especially Salina Baldwin, for bringing forward this proposal to recognize a fellow Albion student,” said President Peter Mitchell.

Naming the Black Student Alliance (BSA) house in memory of James Welton, ’04, (below) suggests “where we have come, where we are presently and how much further we have to go,” according to Salina Baldwin, BSA president.

“The proposal made a compelling case for honoring James Welton.”

A plaque, to be mounted on the BSA house, will be dedicated in February 2002 as part of the College’s Black History Month activities.

Programs explore the arts, politics Albion students were introduced to new developments in the arts, national politics and foreign affairs this semester, thanks to a wide range of visiting lecturers and performers.

■ “Four Nights in November,” sponsored by Albion’s Center for Interdisciplinary Study in Contemporary Expression in the Arts, was the culmination of a semester dedicated to performance art, generally defined as creations that blur the boundaries between traditional art forms. The works of Canadian composer Murray Schafer and performance artist Holly Hughes were highlighted during the November events, which included a concert of Schafer’s music offered by College instrumental and choral ensembles, and original performance art pieces, incorporating music, dance and theatre, created by Albion students. Schafer’s use of unusual staging and theatrical elements in his work was evident in the Albion concert. Hughes, while serving as artist-in-residence at Albion for the semester, worked with students and also gave a public performance.

■ Based on his extensive field research in the Middle East and northern Africa, Mark Tessler, professor of political science at the University of Michigan, offered insights on the political attitudes of ordinary citizens of the Arab world and on the reaction within the international Arab community to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. ■ In a behind-the-scenes look at the Bush vs.

Gore Florida lawsuit, attorney Melvin “Butch” Hollowell, ’81, gave an insider’s perspective on the 2000 presidential election controversy, drawing on his work as legal counsel to then-Vice President Al Gore’s campaign. A graduate of Albion’s Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service, Hollowell is currently with the Detroit law firm of Butzel Long.

■ The link between life, art and death in Nazi concentration camps was the subject of an original musical performance, “An Evening with Madame F,” by artist Claudia Stevens. A classically trained musician, actor and playwright, Stevens blended musical scores with survivor accounts of musicians trapped in the camps to create a portrayal of Fania Fenelon, a member of the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz.

■ Nashville songwriter Candace Anderson Corrigan performed “Through a Woman’s Voice,” a collection of ballads based on the writings of American women from 1779 to 1959, as this year’s Marilyn Crandell Schleg Lecturer. Included in her Albion presentation were musical portraits of Madelon Stockwell Turner, the first female graduate of the University of Michigan and Albion alumna, as well as Anna Howard Shaw, also an Albion alumna and a women’s rights activist.

News in brief David Hawsey, vice president for enrollment, has co-authored a book, America’s Elite Colleges, published this fall by Random House in association with The Princeton Review. The book, intended for high school students and their families, is a guide on how to apply to colleges and offers strategies for improving a student’s chance for acceptance at a top-rated college. It describes how to write a compelling application essay and provides insights on the awarding of scholarships and financial aid. Also included are brief college profiles. The book reflects Hawsey’s 14 years of experience in college admissions.

Children’s museum set to open this spring Its brightly colored sign on the front of the former J.C. Penney building in downtown Albion announces the arrival of Kids ‘N’ Stuff, a new interactive children’s museum serving the entire southcentral Michigan area.

The museum is the brainchild of Albion College first lady Becky Mitchell, who has led a steering committee in raising over $505,000 toward the $600,000 total needed to make the project a reality. Through a special grant administered by Albion College for local programs, the Gerstacker Foundation contributed $100,000, and local businessman Tom Feldpausch donated the 11,000-squarefoot building housing the museum. Many community members and Albion College alumni have also supported the project.

“With 83 percent of our funding in hand,” Mitchell said, “we are on track for our grand opening of the museum this spring.”

Kids ‘N’ Stuff will include interactive exhibits, games and hands-on projects for children of all ages and their families. It will also provide educational programs in collaboration with area schools. Chris Wigent, ’79, superintendent of the Calhoun Intermediate School District, will coordinate the efforts between the schools and the museum.

Scott Dillery, ’83, was named executive director of Kids ‘N’ Stuff last February, and since then has overseen renovations in the museum building and the planning and construction of the exhibits. Dillery and College geologists Ellen Wilch and Larry Taylor are working together on a stream table to demonstrate flood plains and erosion. The museum will also include a climbing wall, a performance stage, a classroom/lab space, a children’s bank and grocery store, and a toddler area. Dick Mitchell, ’73, has served as project architect.

“We know we can’t be everything to everybody,” Dillery said. “However, we can work at being something for everybody.

Through our exhibits we will provide spaces that are conducive to learning about history,

The Kids ‘N’ Stuff children’s museum in downtown Albion will have interactive exhibits including a climbing wall, a stream table to demonstrate flood plains and a minigrocery store. science, social issues, the arts and health through . . . role play, experimentation, reading, listening and problem-solving. . . .

Above all, we hope to encourage understanding of the world around us through fun experiences.”

Becky Mitchell and her committee members have traveled to successful children’s museums across the country to gain ideas and advice for Kids ‘N’ Stuff. In August 2000, she and two students from the College’s Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service visited Marquette, another college town with a children’s museum already in place.

“Marquette is a smaller college town like Albion so we wanted to see what parallels could be drawn,” Ford Institute member Kurt Medland told The Pleiad recently. “I think that Kids ‘N’ Stuff will fill a unique regional niche and will draw new people to Albion that never had a reason to come.”

Mitchell hopes that the museum’s central location will bring additional business for area merchants and help revitalize the downtown.

“Kids ‘N’ Stuff will benefit virtually everyone in our community,” she said.

“Children and families will find this a great recreational opportunity—there isn’t anything like it within 35 miles of Albion. And our local economy will have the positive impact of the increased number of visitors coming into our town.”

For more information on Kids ‘N’ Stuff, including volunteer opportunities, call 517/ 629-7304 or send an e-mail to sdillery@kidsnstuff.org.

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There was a lot more riding on the outcome of the Hope-Albion football game Nov. 10 than the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship. Hope President James Bultman and President Peter Mitchell had made a friendly wager on the game’s outcome: the loser would have to don a costume determined by the winning school.

When Hope fell to Albion 42-11, Bultman “paid up” by becoming a “Briton for a Day.” He’s shown here trying on the British Eighth Marching Band uniform that he would wear to his office on the Monday following game day.

Had the Hope Flying Dutchmen won, Mitchell would have had to wear a Dutch boy costume, complete with wooden shoes.

“Jim Bultman is a good friend and a fierce rival,” Mitchell said. “The rivalry between Albion and Hope is intense, but always dignified and classy. This year with so much on the line, we decided to raise the ante.”

Mitchell met with his football players prior to the game and made it very clear that he had no desire to “look like a little Dutch boy and wear wooden shoes on a mid-November day.”

The odds were against Bultman from the outset: Albion has not lost to Hope at home in two decades.

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Football takes title in record-setting year; women’s soccer posts 19-0 tally

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

Football: The Albion College football team enjoyed a record-setting season en route to its 32nd MIAA championship. Under head coach Craig Rundle, the Britons posted a perfect 5-0 league record with the exclamation point being a 42-11 victory over Hope College in the season finale at SprankleSprandel Stadium. The squad was 8-2 overall for the season.

Albion’s record-breakers—senior quarterback Travis Rundle, senior flanker John Bennink and freshman kicker Andy Cline—all achieved first-team All-MIAA status. Rundle established new single-season school records for most passing attempts and completions (183 of 329), most passing yards (2,346) and most passing touchdowns (20).

Bennink bettered Albion’s season records for receptions (74) and receiving yards (995).

Cline tied the school record for most field goals in a game twice, booting three in MIAA victories over Alma and Olivet. He finished the season with 12 field goals, one shy of the single-season school mark.

Rundle, Bennink and Cline were just three of 13 Britons who received All-MIAA honors.

Others receiving first-team recognition were senior tight end Drew DiGiacinto, senior offensive lineman Chris Huff, junior offensive lineman Allen Hearn, senior linebacker Nick Loafman, senior return specialist Jared Owens, senior defensive linemen Michael Stempki and Erik Vernon, and senior defensive back Todd Ritter. Senior defensive back Jared Merchant and junior offensive lineman John Trupiano were listed on the AllMIAA second team.

Women’s soccer: Under fourth-year coach Lisa Roschek, the Britons posted a 19-0 regular season record, becoming the first women’s soccer program in MIAA history to accomplish the feat. With its second consecutive league crown in hand, Albion advanced to the NCAA Division III tournament. The

Junior forward Stacey Supanich (white jersey) established single-season school records for most goals, assists and points in a season.

Britons reached the regional final (or the round of 16) for the first time in the history of the women’s soccer program, overcoming the College of Mount Saint Joseph in a shootout before falling to Ohio Wesleyan University.

Albion’s 19 victories bettered the singleseason school record of 17 established in 2000. The squad tallied 69 goals, just missing the single-season record of 70 also set in 2000.

Junior forward Stacey Supanich established new single-season school marks for most goals (19), assists (13) and points (51) in a season. Not to be outdone, senior midfielder Liz Hermiller and sophomore forward Lauran Gentry contributed 13 and 11 goals, respectively. Junior midfielder Laurie Vance and sophomore midfielder Sarah Pike dished out six assists apiece. In all, 13 student-athletes had at least one goal.

At the defensive end, the Briton goalkeepers, junior Erica Williams, freshman Emily Crisman and sophomore Annie Lerew, combined for 10 shutouts.

Albion’s success on the field was further rewarded with the selection of five studentathletes to the All-MIAA first team. Three first-team honorees—Supanich, Vance and Williams—will return for the 2002 campaign.

Hermiller and senior defender Theresa Kolly joined the underclassmen on the first team.

Receiving All-MIAA second team awards were senior midfielder Amanda Yeager and Gentry.

In December, Supanich and Hermiller became the first women’s soccer players in Albion history to be named NCAA Division III All-Americans.

Cross country: Albion may have had a new coach, but the men’s cross country team continued its run to success. Under the direction of Hayden Smith, the Briton men finished second at the MIAA Jamboree at Holland in late September, and third at the league championship meet at Grand Rapids in October.

Sophomore Nick Mockeridge enjoyed an exceptional season. He achieved first-team All-MIAA status for the second year in a row after crossing the finish line fourth at the league championship meet. He followed the league effort with a 12th-place finish at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet to advance to the NCAA Division III championships.

Running on the national stage, Mockeridge turned in his best time of the season at 25:33.

Joining Mockeridge as a first-team AllMIAA honoree was Todd Falker. The sophomore finished 13th at the league championship meet with a season-best time of 27:11.

Seniors Josh Baker and Nate Warren achieved second-team all-league status. Baker was 17th at the MIAA championships with a time of 27:22, while Warren was 27th with a time of 27:42.

The women’s team made significant improvement during the course of the season.

The Britons finished seventh at the MIAA Jamboree, but jumped up to a fifth-place finish at the league championship meet.

Sophomore Sarah Smith and freshman Loan Portlance were the top Briton women at

Senior flanker John Bennink (center) received first-team All-MIAA and Verizon Academic AllAmerican honors in the fall. He helped the football team win its 32nd league championship by setting single-season school records for receptions and receiving yards. the MIAA championships. Smith finished 34th overall with a time of 20:33, while Portlance finished 10 seconds back in 38th place.

Men’s soccer: Albion showed improvement under second-year coach Jerry Block.

The Britons finished the season with a 6-11-2 record, but three of the losses were decided by one goal.

One of the highlights of the Britons’ season was scoring a school-record six goals in the second half during a 7-1 triumph in the home finale against Adrian College. The offense spread the wealth as each goal was scored by a different student-athlete. Senior defender Kirsten Massey scored the only goal of his collegiate career in the second half.

Two of Albion’s top three scorers were underclassmen. Freshman forward Bryan Ricker led the Britons with five goals, while junior midfielder Ben Godfrey collected two goals and four assists. Freshmen Jon Morden and Corey Rees scored two goals apiece.

Defensively, sophomore goalkeeper Brandon Cassar logged nearly 1,500 minutes on the field and took part in three shutouts.

Junior defender Josh Menig claimed secondteam All-MIAA recognition, while senior defender Jeff Boogren and Massey earned honorable mention honors from the coaches.

Women’s golf: The future for women’s golf is bright as four Albion underclassmen achieved All-MIAA status in the fall.

By finishing in the top six in the MIAA’s final individual standings, junior Stacy Chapman, sophomore Lindsey Densmore and freshman Anna Watkins achieved first-team all-league status. Watkins was fourth in the MIAA, averaging 88.6 strokes in five league rounds. Chapman finished fifth in the MIAA with an 89.2-stroke average, while Densmore was sixth with a 90-stroke average.

A fourth Briton golfer, freshman Lindsey Drewes, earned second-team All-MIAA recognition with a 90.8-stroke average in league play.

The Britons, coached by Karen Baird, just missed defending their MIAA crown. Albion led after the first round of the two-day league championship tournament, but Hope College turned the table on the second day to eke out a two-stroke victory.

Albion placed first in two tournaments in the fall, topping a nine-team field at a tournament hosted by Defiance (Ohio) College and winning an MIAA match at the Lenawee Country Club.

Volleyball: Albion volleyball had one of its most successful showings in school history, winning 17 matches with first-year coach Russell Frey at the helm. Only the 1986 Briton squad, which finished with 20 victories, posted more wins in the history of the program. The Britons finished the season at 17-14.

As impressive as the win total was the way Albion played against MIAA competition.

The Britons posted a five-game victory over Calvin College in September for its first victory over the Knights since 1979. Albion also extended Hope College, the MIAA regular season co-champion, to five games in Kresge Gymnasium.

Senior outside hitter Michelle Hind received athletic and academic honors. She received second-team All-MIAA recognition after totaling 142 kills and 44 blocks in 14 league matches. Hind also received Verizon second-team Academic All-District honors.

The history major was the only student-athlete from the MIAA listed on the Academic AllDistrict volleyball team.

Sophomore outside hitter Amy Corrigan earned honorable mention honors from the league coaches. She led the Britons in service aces (23) and ranked second in digs (170) in league play.

Men’s golf: Albion came up with a sixthplace finish in the MIAA fall season.

The Britons’ best single-round league finish came at the Watermark Golf Club in Grand Rapids. Albion finished fourth with a 408 team total.

Jordan Rich and Jordan McArleton, both juniors, posted the lowest averages for the Britons. Rich finished with an 83.7-stroke average in seven league rounds. McArleton finished at 83.9. Freshman Mike Thackaberry completed the fall with an 84.0-stroke average.

The Britons are coached by Mike Turner.

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A look back at Homecoming 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award winner William Wadland, ’69, met with science students throughout the day Friday to talk about recent developments in his field. He is a professor and chair of the Department of Family Practice at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine.

Senior midfielder Liz Hermiller (white jersey) battles for possession of the ball against a Hope defender in the women’s soccer contest Saturday morning. Albion’s 2-0 victory was crucial in the team’s run up to the league championship.

The Homecoming football game featured a match-up between the Britons and the Alma Scots. The Britons carried the day, 29-19. In a sign of things to come, senior linebacker Nick Loafman (47) and his defensive teammates celebrate a turnover against Alma. Four weeks later, Albion drubbed Hope to claim the top spot in the league at season’s end.

The Class of 1961 Symposium on Meaning and Value Returning alumni were engaged in a discussion, led by members of the Class of 1961 and several Albion faculty and staff members, on how our culture and world view have changed over the past 40 years. The symposium was organized by Class of 1961 alumni Ted Everingham, Harry Cook and Garry Carley, and was co-sponsored by the College’s Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service and the Center for Interdisciplinary Study in Meaning and Value. The panelists discussed dominant trends and influences within their respective professions and pondered the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath on the future of our society.

Ted Everingham (upper right) moderated the Friday afternoon program, which also included panelists (clockwise from right) Susan Pellowe, ’61, Bob Teeter, ’61, and Sue Fuller Nebel, ’61, (at left) conversing with Gwen Hetler, ’61. Other panelists were 1961 alumni Susan Cowles Bowman, Harry Cook and Gerst Gibbon, and Albion faculty and staff members Andrew French, Joe Stroud and Bille Wickre.

President Peter Mitchell offered an opening address.

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Carol Hulett, ’74, and Jeff Robinson, ’95, have known each other since Robinson’s high school days when Hulett was his school’s athletic team physician. The two are celebrating their induction into Albion’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Hulett for her contributions to sports medicine and Robinson for his role on the 1991 league champion football team.

As The British Eighth played “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” during the football halftime show, students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends unfurled a giant American flag. The patriotic gesture—the climax of a performance dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania—was cheered by fans at Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium.

Homecoming 2001 (Oct. 12-14) had something for everyone: the annual Briton Classic golf tournament and the Hall of Fame induction banquet, music and theatre performances, wins in football and women’s soccer, and plenty of time to gather with friends at sorority and fraternity open houses and at reunion events.

Other special events during the weekend, in addition to the traditional Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony, were a retrospective exhibit honoring the late Richard Leach, who taught art at Albion from 1953 to 1983, and a Symposium on Meaning and Value, sponsored by the Class of 1961.

On these and the following pages are photos of highlights from this year’s Homecoming festivities.

Mira Wood and Alex Case (center) were elected this year’s Homecoming Queen and King. They are accompanied by President and First Lady Peter and Becky Mitchell (at left) and last year’s Homecoming royalty Dory Lerew and Nate Rohde.

Art Exhibit: “Richard Leach: A Retrospective” Family, friends and former students of the late Richard Leach gathered for a luncheon reception on Friday of Homecoming Weekend to pay tribute to his life and work. The reception was held in conjunction with a retrospective exhibit of Leach’s ceramic works, paintings and sculpture at Bobbitt Visual Arts Center. The program also included a slide show/demonstration

by David Smith, ’81.

Alumni and friends may purchase a video of the day’s events by sending $20 (includes postage and handling) to: Hometown TV, 13350 28 Mile Rd., Albion, MI 49224 before Feb. 1, 2002. An archival video of the exhibition may be purchased by sending $20 to: Office of Communications, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224.

Stoneware jug by the late Richard Leach.

Leach family members present included (from left) Cheryll Culver Leach, ’69, Tim Leach, ’72, Robina Quale-Leach, professor emerita of history, Bruce Leach, Kathleen Leach and Rebekah Chamberlain.

(Left) Mary Kinney Habicht, ’77, and David Smith, ’81.

Lynn Fisher, ’73, and Williemae Cheek.

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Five alumni saluted at Homecoming The following awards were conferred during a special ceremony Oct. 13, 2001 during Homecoming Weekend. Meritorious Service Award winner Chris Christ, ’51, who was unable to attend the Homecoming festivities, received his award during a dinner in his honor, hosted by the Albion College Board of Trustees, Oct. 26.

The Meritorious Service Award Recipients of the Meritorious Service Award must be Albion College alumni and are selected based on time, effort and monetary gifts contributed over the years to Albion College.

Chris T. Christ, ’51 Chris Christ has had a long history of dedicated volunteerism and leadership at Albion College and within Calhoun County, and, on occasion, the impact of his efforts has extended worldwide.

Christ has received numerous honors throughout his life, from his home community as well as professionally. He and his wife both received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Southwest Michigan Council of the Boy Scouts of America in 1995. That same year, he was inducted into the Battle Creek Volunteer Bureau Hall of Fame. In October 2001, the Calhoun County Health Care Forum presented Christ with the Dale Griffin Award.

He also received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Albion College in 1997.

A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Christ is president emeritus of the Battle Creek law firm, Vandervoort, Christ & Fisher, P.C. A past president of the Calhoun County Bar Association, he was recognized as a Michigan State Bar fellow.

Christ is a former chair of the Board of Trustees of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

During his years on that board, he has advanced many causes around the world including education, leadership development, health care and agriculture.

In terms of service to Albion, Christ was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1982 to 1997 and served as the vice chair of the board and chair of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee. He is now an honorary trustee. A former chair and member of the Albion College Planned Giving Advisory Council, he has also served on the Albion College Alumni Association Board of Directors and the Parents Council. Christ chaired the search committee that attracted President Peter Mitchell to Albion College.

In addition to the Kellogg Foundation and Albion College, Christ has also been involved on numerous community and professional boards, as a member and as a chair. The diversity of his interests is reflected in the major roles he has played with so many different kinds of organizations. He chaired the effort that brought about the merger of two local hospitals to form the Battle Creek Health System, and he was a founding co-chair of NorthPointe Woods. He has worked with campaigns for the United Way and the Leila Arboretum Society, as well as for Albion College. Consistent with all of his involvements has been Christ’s role as a consensus builder and counselor.

Meritorious Service Award winner Chris Christ, ’51, (center) with Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, Alumni Association president, and President Mitchell.

Pictured with President Peter Mitchell, ’67, (far right) are the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award winners: (from left) William Wadland, ’69, Jennifer Trost, ’79, Frank Joranko, ’52, and Paul Sandford, ’62.

Three of Christ’s children also attended Albion College. John, ’79, Kristin, ’81, and Scott, ’87, followed in their father’s footsteps.

Christ and his wife, Betty, had a fourth child, Teri, who passed away in 1983. The Christs reside in Battle Creek.

league record in 23 seasons as Briton baseball coach. He was named the District Baseball Coach of the Year in 1976 by the American Association of Baseball Coaches.

Joranko’s tenure as athletic director from 1975 to 1991 included the introduction of women’s golf and soccer as varsity sports. He also served as professor of physical education at Albion College until his retirement in 1995.

His involvement in NCAA activities includes serving on the national baseball rules committee and regional selection committee.

Joranko was also tournament director for the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship in the five years the tournament was held in Battle Creek (1990-1994).

Joranko served as president of the Albion chapter of the NAACP and was a grand marshall for the Albion Festival of the Forks.

He has volunteered his services in several capacities for the United Methodist Church as well as for other community organizations.

Joranko lives in the Lansing area with his wife, Joyce Weiss Joranko, ’55. They have three grown children, James, Dan and Tim.

The Distinguished Alumni Awards Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award must be Albion College alumni and should: display genuine leadership and dedicated service to others; exemplify the qualities of a liberal arts education; and demonstrate breadth of achievement in career, family and service to the community and/or Albion College.

Frank L. Joranko, ’52 Frank Joranko has demonstrated outstanding leadership in both high school and collegiate athletics. He has been inducted into the Albion College Athletic Hall of Fame and has also received a Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award.

After completing a master’s degree at the University of Illinois in 1953, Joranko went on to teach and coach football and basketball in Painesville, Ohio, and then at Royal Oak Dondero High School and Ferndale High School, both in Michigan.

After earning Michigan High School Football Coach of the Year honors for leading Ferndale to the 1972 Michigan state championship, Joranko returned to Albion in January 1973 as baseball and football coach, and later became athletic director. Compiling a 49-39-1 record as head football coach, Joranko led his 1976 team to the first nine-win season in school history. The 1977 team was the first MIAA football squad to compete in NCAA Division III postseason play.

On the baseball diamond, Joranko-coached teams won nine MIAA championships, and reached the Division III playoffs in 1979 and 1982. He is the first MIAA baseball coach to record 200 league wins, compiling a 200-95

Paul A. Sandford, ’62 Paul Sandford is known as a worldwide authority on polysaccharides of commercial interest. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois. Early in his career, he was involved in the research and development work on Xanthan, which led to the first commercial production of this biopolymer by the Kelco Division of Merck.

Sandford then became Kelco’s first research fellow and the first new ventures manager.

During this time he also worked on developing new microbial polysaccharides and alginates (seaweed extracts).

Throughout the rest of his career, he has focused on research for the biomedical, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, personal care and specialty chemical industries. From 1991 to 1998, as vice president for technology development at VivoRx, Inc., he directed the scientific team that developed new patented methods to treat spontaneous diabetes by transplantation of insulin-producing cells. He

has also been instrumental in developing many other commercially useful products based on extracts from various marine organisms.

A co-founder of the American ChitoScience Society, he is also active in many other professional organizations including the American Chemical Society and the American Society of Testing Methods. He is the editor of the international peer-reviewed journal, Carbohydrate Polymers.

Sandford has 27 U.S. patents and many equivalent patents in foreign countries, and is the author of over 117 publications and presentations and the editor of four books. He is a scientific adviser for Biosyntech, a drug delivery company, and a partner in Sea Polymers, L.L.C., a sourcing and consulting firm.

In 1999, he formed his own consulting firm, Paul A. Sandford & Affiliates. This company offers technical, marketing, regulatory and manufacturing consulting related to development of polysaccharides, hydrocolloids, biopolymers and carbohydrate technology.

Sandford lives in Los Angeles, Calif. with his wife, Caryl. They have two grown children, Thad and Amy.

Jennifer L. Trost, ’79 While a student at Albion, Jennifer Trost received various Music Department awards and scholarships, as well as earning high academic honors. She earned a master’s degree in vocal performance at Michigan State University in 1981. She then came back to Albion College as a sabbatical replacement for music professor Jacqueline Maag.

While involved in a doctoral program at the University of Southern California, Trost was asked to become a resident artist with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera. In 1991, she became an opera singer for the Wuppertaler Opera, in Wuppertal, Germany.

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Looking for a few eminent Albionians After four seasons, she moved to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany. She is currently under contract with the Bavarian State Opera until 2002. She also does guest appearances with various opera companies and orchestras throughout Europe, including the Komische Oper in Berlin.

During her opera career, she has performed with various national and international organizations. Last fall, she performed in the world premiere of Aribert Reimann’s Das Schloss in the role of Magdalena, which was specifically composed for her. She has also sung this opera in Berlin and Spain. She has recorded Das Schloss as well as L’incoronazione di Poppea, composed by Claudio Monteverdi, with the Bavarian State Opera.

Trost is affiliated with the National Association of Teachers of Singing, as well as the American Guild of Musical Artists. She performed at Albion College as a guest soloist during a Homecoming Weekend concert by the Albion College Orchestra and Choir in 1999.

Trost lives in Munich, Germany.

William C. Wadland, ’69 William Wadland has made distinguished contributions in the fields of family medicine and public health. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1975 and his M.S. in research and statistics in 1988 from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Family Practice in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University.

After completing his residency at the Medical University of South Carolina, Wadland served as a family physician in Leland and later in Algonac. He entered academic medicine in 1985 when he joined the Department of Family Practice at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and served on the faculty there until 1992 when he took his current position.

Wadland received a Teacher of the Year Award while at Vermont, and later the Outstanding Faculty Award from the MSU College of Human Medicine, and he was recognized in the 2001-02 edition of Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare. One of his publications was selected as the best paper of the year for family practice research by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in 1989-90. He has presented papers in various places around the world, including Denmark and Japan.

The recipient of numerous research grants, he contributed to the development of the HEDIS performance measures for the National Committee for Quality Assurance and Committee on Performance Measurement in 1996. He lectures frequently on smoking cessation and other topics, and has over 80 journal articles and professional presentations to his credit.

Wadland has served on boards for the Saginaw Cooperative Hospitals and Sparrow Health System and has been involved in programs for the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians and the Michigan Public Health Institute. Wadland is also the faculty representative for the Parish Council at St. John’s Student Parish in East Lansing.

He and his wife, Betty, live in Okemos.

They have three children, Justin, Ross and Lauren.

Distinguished Alumni Award

Meritorious Service Award

Up to five Distinguished Alumni are chosen each year from as many as 100 nominees. These men and women are selected on the basis of the following criteria: • Only alumni of Albion College shall be eligible for the award.

• Recipients should display genuine leadership and dedicated service to others and exemplify the qualities of a liberal arts education. Well-roundedness in aspects of career, family and community service are sought.

• Recipients are selected on the specific basis of: (a) Excellence in career achievements (b) Contributions to community/humanity (c) Service to Albion College The selection committee, made up of members of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, looks for outstanding achievement in at least two of the three areas outlined above.

Up to three Meritorious Service Awards may be given each year, based on the following criteria: • Only alumni of Albion College shall be eligible for the award.

• Time, effort and monetary gifts on behalf of Albion College shall constitute the elements in the consideration of a candidate to be worthy of the award. The award may recognize one, two or all three of these elements.

• Nomination and election to receive the Meritorious Service Award shall follow the process used to nominate and elect individuals receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Exemptions for these awards include current members of: the Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees, and the faculty and staff. Once an individual is no longer in any of the above categories, he/she will be eligible for consideration.

Nominations for either of these awards are welcome and may be sent no later than Feb. 1, 2002 to: Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224.

The list of past award winners (below) is provided as a reference for those wishing to make nominations.

Past Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients Charles E. Anderson, ’56 Nelda Kurtz Balch, ’37 David M. Barrett, ’64 Jeffrey W. Barry, ’60 Robert H. Bartlett, ’60 John G. Batsakis, ’51 Blair C. Bedient, ’49 Robert W. Bemer, ’40 Joyce Ann Livak Benjamins, ’63 Mildred Oberlin Bennett, ’58 Bruce C. Berndt, ’61 Margaret E. Berry, ’35 Shirley Ruemele Bloomquist, ’64 Daniel Boggan, Jr., ’67 Kenneth Borland, ’59 Joseph H. Britton, ’46 Patricia Sanford Brown, ’53 Vivian Johnson Bull, ’56 Richard W. Calkins, ’60 David L. Camp, ’75 William Cargo, ’37 Garry G. Carley, ’61 Dennis O. Cawthorne, ’62 Peter J. Christ, ’55 O. James Clark, ’51 Wendell Cole, ’36 Harry T. Cook, ’61 Marian Clark Corwin, ’35 James G. Crane, ’51 Truman H. Cummings, Jr., ’43 Jack C. Curtis, ’51 James L. Curtis, ’44 Jack C. Dart, ’34 Michael S. David, Jr., ’64 Emilio De Grazia, ’63 Cedric W. Dempsey, ’54 Patricia McKean Dick, ’48 Judyth Fetzer Dobbert, ’69 Vinod L. Doshi, ’53 Emerson J. Elliott, ’55

G. Bruce Feighner, ’42 E. Lee Feller, ’47 Richard M. Fluke, ’56 Robert W. Freligh, ’47 Philip J. Gannon, ’47 Philip R. Glotfelty, III, ’55 Nancy Carpenter Hammond, ’68 George E. Hardy, Jr., ’61 Michael G. Harrison, ’63 Phyllis Harrison-Ross, ’56 Roy E. Heath, ’36 Lois Skagerberg Heller, ’64 David W. Hills, ’48 Phyllis Wagner Houghton, ’41 Richard W. Huff, ’54 Polly Ruth Mosteller Hughes, ’47 John P. Hummon, ’53 Richard L. Humphrey, ’56 Elkin R. Isaac, ’48 Roy C. “Bud” Johns, ’51 Karen Johnstone, ’60 Gary L. Jones, ’66 Frank L. Joranko, ’52 D. Nolan Kaiser, ’56 James C. Kingsley, ’63 John A. Krsul, ’59 Sally A. Lynas Lamkin, ’54 Roger L. Landrum, ’59 Melvin S. Larimer, ’53 Keith J. Leenhouts, ’49 James J. Leisenring, ’62 T. John Leppi, ’59 Ray B. Loeschner, ’53 Bernard T. Lomas, ’46 John S. Ludington, ’51 Rex B. Martin, ’38 Willard L. Meader, ’54 Betty Jones Neberman, ’50 Gary R. Noble, ’57

Karin McClow Orr, ’64 Denise Cortis Park, ’73 Sherry Hood Penney, ’59 William Henry Perkins, Jr., ’49 John W. Porter, ’53 Lewis L. Redmond, ’50 George R. Reed, ’53 Myrtle R. Crouse Reul, ’47 James L. Reutter, ’53 Larry J. Robson, ’59 Thomas E. Sagendorf, ’62 Paul A. Sandford, ’62 Lawrence B. Schook, ’72 Thomas G. Schwaderer, ’56 Jon R. Scieszka, ’76 Ruth Holland Scott, ’56 Joseph B. Serra, ’56 Andrew G. Sharf, ’44 Florence “Dinghy” Spalding Sharp, ’50 Norman R. Sleight, ’40 Richard G. Smith, ’43 Richard M. Smith, ’68 Harold R. Spiegel, ’32 Robert Stoppert, ’39 Jennifer L. Trost, ’79 Marvin J. Vann, ’40 Richard K. Vitek, ’56 James A. von der Heydt, ’42 John N. Vournakis, ’61 Karen Munro Vournakis, ’66 Lawrence L. Wade, ’50 William C. Wadland, ’69 Raymond A. Wauthier, ’46 Judith Koch Wilcox, ’60 Michael E. Williams, ’78 C. Thomas Wilson, ’51 James M. Wilson, ’77 Shirley Brattin Wirt, ’47 Margaret Zolliker, ’43

Deceased: E. Maynard Aris, ’37; Russell B. Babcock, ’27; Wallace A. Bacon, ’35; Roy W. Battenhouse, ’33; Jack C. Bedient, ’25; Clarence H. Blanchard, ’22; D. Hale Brake, ’16; Hira E. Branch, ’29; J Harlen Bretz, ’05; Edward M. Brigham, ’25; John E. Bromley, ’29; B.G. “Bill” Brown, ’23; Alice F. Campbell, ’29; Gilbert A. Currie, ’47; Philip C. Curtis, ’30; W. Clark Dean, ’21; Helen M. Desjardins, ’14; W. W. Diehl, ’24; Donald J. Dunham, ’23; Clarence H. Elliott, ’25; Margaret Drake Elliott, ’24; Keith J. Fennimore, ’39; Geraldine Townsend Fitch, ’17; Wayne H. Fleenor, ’24; Robert Hargreaves, ’36; Dexter Horton, ’36; C. Morse Huffer, ’16; Richard C. Johnston, ’59; John E. Joyner, ’55; Ella Meinke Kuhn, ’08; Burley F. Lamb, ’13; Richard D. Mange, ’25; Helen Harton Manning, ’43; Charles A. McKenny, ’42; Hugh D. McLeese, ’19; Eva A. Moore, ’19; Elsie E. Munro, ’26; William A. Niles, ’98; Marvin F. Pahl, ’30; Wallace M. Pearson, ’17; Stanley C. Penzotti, ’30; Leroy E. Perine, ’96; William R. Peterson, ’45; Leigh Prettyman, ’36; Charles W. Ricker, ’50; Paul Rood, ’16; Winston J. Schuler, ’30; James R. Sebastian, ’32; Frederick E. Shideman, ’36; Norma G. Sleight, ’24; William J. Smith, ’35; Floyd Starr, ’10; Andrew W. Sunyar, ’42; Helen Sparling Terpenning, ’45; Gordon L. Thomas, ’36; Richard G. Toncray, ’19; Louise Jean Walker, ’17; Hazen G. Werner, ’20; George S. Weston, ’52; Gordon B. Wheeler, ’24; Audrey K. Wilder, ’18.

Past Meritorious Service Award Recipients Russell B. Babcock, ’27 (deceased); Frank Bonta, ’49; Chris T. Christ, ’51; Wayne H. Fleenor, ’24 (deceased); Kenneth B. Hollidge, ’35 (deceased); Stanley Jones, ’49; John S. Ludington, ’51.

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Class notes deadline The deadline for class notes appearing in this issue of Io Triumphe was Oct. 19, 2001. Notes received after that date will appear in the next issue.

Class news 43 Paul Meli, ’43, has been inducted into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame.

Before retiring, he was the athletic director at Negaunee High School. Paul and his wife, Beatrice, live in Negaunee.

47 Robert Anderson, ’47, is on the executive board at the University Retirement Community. His wife, Phyllis Wertz Anderson, ’47, is helping organize the new library and also prepares the graphics for the Health Center newspaper. Prior to retiring, Bob was vice president of Plant Construction, a firm specializing in commercial construction, and Phyllis taught kindergarten and first grade for 32 years in California. They have moved and can be reached at: University Retirement Community, 1515 Shasta Dr., Apt. 4324, Davis, CA 95616.

Sixteen members of the family of Adele Whitehouse gathered in Florida this fall to celebrate her 100th birthday. Born Nov. 1, 1901, Mrs. Whitehouse married William W. Whitehouse during World War II, and served as first lady of the College from 1945 to 1960.

Mrs. Whitehouse has made her home in St. Petersburg for many years.

Among the family members assembled for the party were Susan Whitehouse Wiley, ’66, and James, ’69, and Marsha Green Whitehouse, ’70. Other Albion alumni in the family not able to attend were Keith, ’41, and Lorene Rupp Whitehouse, ’40, T.J. Whitehouse, ’99, and Jill Whitehouse, ’01.

celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary.

The Berrys have three children and six grandchildren.

Elizabeth Hum Boyle, ’51, 104 McConnel Dr., Jackson, MI 49201, had a 27-year career as an educator with the Jackson Public Schools. She still holds her memberships in Delta Kappa Gamma educators’ fraternity and other professional groups. She and her husband, Charles, have traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada.

They are the parents of two children.

Eleanor Harger Burgess, ’51, 211 83rd St., Holmes Beach, FL 34217, is a retired school administrator with the Rochester, NY, Public Schools. Despite many health problems, she continues to be active in the American Association of University Women, Alpha Xi Delta Alumnae Association and her church. Eleanor and her husband, Charles, have traveled three times to Central America and have made four trips to London in the past four years.

Ruth Hollowell Burr, ’51, 2084 Curtis Rd., Northville, MI 48170, had a career teaching sixth grade. She is active in the Plymouth UMC and the Plymouth Historical Society. She holds a master’s degree in education from Eastern Michigan University. She and her husband, Sanford, ’50, spent the fall in England and France in celebration of 50 years of marriage. They are the parents of two children.

James Carson, ’51, 14432 Piedmont, Detroit, MI 48223, had careers in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Foreign Service and in business. Over the past 50 years, he and his wife, Carol Hoffman Carson, ’52, have lived in Iceland, Italy, East Asia, India, and Afghanistan. They have three children and eight grandchildren.

Chris Christ, ’51, 247 Brewer Dr., Battle Creek, MI 49015, is president emeritus of Vandervoort, Christ & Fisher, P.C. His community service has earned him numerous awards, including induction into

the Battle Creek Volunteer Bureau Hall of Fame. In 1997, he and his brother, Pete, ’55, were recognized as Battle Creek Scene Magazine’s Men of the Year. Christ still serves as a member of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Board of Trustees. He is the latest recipient of an Albion College Meritorious Service Award. He and his wife, Betty, are the parents of four children, including John, ’79, Kristin, ’81, and Scott, ’87, and have four grandchildren.

O. James Clark, ’51, 1800 Oakfield Dr., Midland, MI 48640, spent 35 years as an administrator during a 40-year career with Midland Public Schools. He has led numerous civic organizations, and currently is a member of the Albion College Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Kings’ Daughters Home Operating Board and Men of Music. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe and to China and Israel.

He and his wife, Marilyn Matthews Clark, ’57, are the parents of four children, including Lucinda Clark Davis, ’78, and Daniel Clark, ’81, and have four grandchildren.

Jason Closson, ’51, 352 N. Arbor View Dr., Spring Arbor, MI 49283, retired from a 36-year career with Amoco Oil. He and his wife, Ann, have been married for 50 years and are the parents of six children, including Catherine Closson Vance, ’76.

Sara Dobie Collins, ’51, 2906 S. 13th St. #1, Arlington, VA 22204, is retired from her position as special collections librarian for the Arlington County Public Library.

She continues to be active in several local, regional and national historical organizations and is a vice president of the Arlington Black Heritage Museum. Sara is heavily involved serving as history advisor for numerous activities that currently celebrate the bicentennial of Arlington

County. She has a master’s in library science from Catholic University of America. She has two children and five grandchildren.

Nancy Fleenor Cuatt, ’51, 104 TeePee Trail, Fairfield Bay, AR 72088, says that “life is full in my volunteer community,” for her and her husband, Donald. They have traveled to Mexico and throughout Europe, including a two-year residency in Germany. The Cuatts have five children and eight grandchildren.

Jack Curtis, ’51, 246 Brewer Dr., Battle Creek, MI 49015, worked for the Kellogg Company for 42 years. He is included in the Volunteer Hall of Fame of Battle Creek and, as a 50-year member of Kiwanis, is a Hickson Fellow. He has been named a distinguished alumnus of his high school, and of Jackson Community College and Albion College. Jack and his wife, Phyllis, have traveled widely.

James and Nancy McSween Dunne, both ’51, 6400 Flotilla Dr. #31, Holmes Beach, FL 34217, enjoy life on their small island, Anna Maria. They are active with church activities and golf. Nancy is involved in the American Association of University Women, Alpha Xi Delta Alumnae, afterschool tutoring and volunteering at a local hospital. Travels have taken the Dunnes through most of Europe and the Caribbean.

Married for 49 years this fall, they are the parents of two sons and have one grandson.

Milt Ehlert, ’51, 2768 Milford Dr. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, spent 34 years as a teacher and counselor. He is active with the Grand Rapids Community Foundation and Kiwanis, including Builders Clubs and Key Clubs in area schools. He also deals part-time in used books, postcards and small paper items. He and Carol Schull

51 Louis Baum, ’51, 2684 Rampart Path, Holt, MI 48842-9720, is retired from a career with Unisys. He enjoys church and volunteer activities and keeping up with several Albion friends. During the course of 50 years together, Louis and his late wife, Marilyn Morse Baum, ’51, lived in six different states. He is the father of three sons.

James and Muriel Goodell Benedict, both ’51, 1130 N. Cabrillo, San Pedro, CA 90731, have traveled extensively in Europe and the U.S. Last year, James, a retired thoracic surgeon, earned a master of fine arts in painting and drawing from California State University at Long Beach.

He has also written five books of poetry and is hard at work on a novel. Muriel is a homemaker. The Benedicts are the parents of five children, and have 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Thomas Bennett, ’51, 1294 Fox Farm Dr., Alpena, MI 49707, runs a photo business and gallery from his home. Recipient of a master’s degree in biology from the University of Michigan, he enjoyed a career as an educator and coach. He has been inducted into the Alpena Sports Hall of Fame. Since the passing of his wife, Laura Ransom Bennett, ’51, he has remarried, to Loretta Bennett. He has two children.

Max Berry, ’51, 1045 E. Tienken Rd., Rochester Hills, MI 48603, is a retired teacher. A member of the Macomb Coaches’ Hall of Fame and the Albion College Athletic Hall of Fame, Max founded the annual Max Berry City Track Meet, held in Roseville. He and his wife, Lorraine Anderson Berry, ’53, recently

The Class of 1951: (Front row, left to right) William Horn, Albert Foster, Carolyn Getty Schuurmans, Marilyn Smith McKinley, Jack Curtis, Janine DePew Adrianson, Robert Harrison. (Second row) Lois Hildebrandt Ballard, Maxine Nebergal Jacobson, Barbara Coulter Neller, Kathleen Coster Gruschow, Eleanor Harger Burgess, Joanna Dean Sieber, Joanne Sluyter Parshall Kline, Marilyn Wentworth Fritts, Edna Heimburger Smith, Eileen Hart Harrison. (Third row) Sara Dobie Collins, Kathryn DeVinney

Crawford, Andrea Field Hagadone, Elizabeth Barton Kozarek, Rhoda “Bobbie” Roberts Talso, Ann Reed Simpson, Phyllis Hassberger, Patricia Stoner Simpkins, Mary Deckert Riley. (Fourth row) Earl Fritts, Milton Ehlert, Maxwell Berry, Charles Fry, Robert Stark, Ann Carmien Shely, Theodore Hagadone, James Carson, Edmund Hagan. (Fifth row) Alvin Ballard, John Malasky.

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Ehlert, ’54, recently celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary. The Ehlerts have two children and two grandchildren.

Keith Engstrom, ’51, 503 Stone Dr., Brevard, NC 2871, is retired from a 33-year career with Corning, Inc. He is active with his church, Rotary and Kiwanis and is a Bay View Association trustee. He and his wife, Sallee Ann Fox Engstrom, ’54, have traveled many times to Europe, Asia and South America, and Keith has visited all 50 states. The Engstroms have three children and five grandchildren.

Anne Schwartz Field, ’51, 153 Juniper Hill Rd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122, spends a lot of time in Maine, Idaho and Colorado visiting her five children and seven grandchildren. She and Richard, ’50, recently celebrated 49 years of marriage with a trip to Paris. They have also traveled to other European countries and Kenya.

Albert Foster, ’51, 20451 Audette, Dearborn, MI 48124, enjoys traveling. He is a 49-year member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and holds master’s degrees in business and automotive engineering. He and his wife, Vivian, recently celebrated their silver anniversary.

Earl and Marilyn Wentworth Fritts, both ’51, 122290 Perry Rd., Battle Creek, MI 49015, pursue various community volunteer activities through the Sonoma Methodist Church. Earl is a retired school administrator, and holds a master’s degree from Western Michigan University. The Fritts have four children and six grandchildren.

Charles Fry, ’51, 4105 Maracaibo Shores SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, has retired from ministry with the United Methodist Church. He is active in community service, working with a school reading program and serving as chaplain of the Lions Club and president of the Cascade Library board.

Charles leads overseas tourist groups and helps organize “car and house” exchanges in his spare time. He holds an honorary doctorate from Albion College. He and his wife, Betty Jean Phillips Fry, ’50, recently celebrated 52 years of marriage.

The Frys have three children, including Bruce, ’74, and Kathryn Fry Ludington, ’77.

Mary Andrea Field Hagadone, ’51, 201 Lafayette #810, Petoskey, MI 49770, continues working in creative arts and design. She has a number of hobbies, including quilting, teaching watercolor painting and a senior walking group, Journey Into Nature. She has three children and five grandchildren.

Theodore Hagadone, ’51, 5588 Madalein Dr., Hereford, AZ 85615, has retired from careers in education and intelligence, which took him to Europe and Asia. Currently, he enjoys trout fishing and blackjack. He has three children and five grandchildren.

Edmund “Ted” Hagan, ’51, 943 Applegate Ln., East Lansing, MI 48823, has retired from his oral surgery practice, but continues to serve on committees of the Michigan Dental Association. He also is an active Rotarian. He holds dentistry and surgical degrees from the University of Michigan. Ted and his wife, Patricia, have traveled to Europe, South America and the Caribbean, and spend the winter in Tucson.

They have four sons and six grandchildren.

Robert and Eileen Hart Harrison, both ’51, 207 Cambridge Dr., Charlotte, MI 48813, are retired, respectively, from careers in business and education. They are active with Friends of Charlotte District Library and their church, and Eileen is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma and the Women’s Board of Olivet College. Bob

continues to be active in a camera club, Boy Scouts and the Michigan United Conservation Clubs. The Harrisons have three children and six grandchildren.

Donald Heath, ’51, 2762 Timbertrail Cir., Tallahassee, FL 32308, is a retired educator. He and his wife, Ruby, enjoy traveling; Donald has seen all 50 states and made several excursions to Europe.

William Horn, ’51, 35330 Blue Spruce Dr., Farmington Hills, MI 48335, is a retired crash safety engineer with Ford Motor Co. He is a deacon and elder of Ward Presbyterian Church, where he is involved with Stephen Ministry and teaches Sunday School. He is married to Carol Horn.

Doris Hunter, ’51, 14 Concord Ave., Cambridge 02138, is a Unitarian Universalist minister. She is co-chair of the International Association for Religious Freedom and a member of the board of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture. She has coauthored a book, Nonviolence: Ethics of Action. Doris earned a doctorate from Boston University. She and her husband, Howard, have two children and four granddaughters.

Marjorie Peterson Hunter, ’51, 22939 Conifer Dr., Monte Rio, CA 95462, enjoys retirement with her husband Harry, ’50, to whom she has been married for 48 years.

The Hunters have two children.

Maxine Nebergal Jacobson, ’51, 323 Alschuler Dr., Aurora, IL 60506, had a 36year career in elementary education. She has earned a 1,000-hour hospital volunteer recognition and has served as a tutor to a non-English speaking child. She has also been an election judge for 13 years and was chair and organizer of the first two Rally for a Cure Benefit Golf Tournaments sponsored by her golf league. She and her husband, Don, celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary this year.

Elizabeth Day Jarrett, ’51, 723 115th Ave. N #2108, St. Petersburg, FL 33716, retired from teaching elementary school but continues to teach GED and ESL classes, and volunteers with an adult-literacy program. She has made Elderhostel trips to Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and in the U.S. She has five children.

Joanne Sluyter Parshall Kline, ’51, 302 Huron, Traverse City, MI 49686, is retired from teaching, foster parenting of 15 infants, and serving as a United Methodist clergywoman. She continues to be active with Traverse City’s Central UMC. In the early ’80s, Joanne studied at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has five children and four grandchildren.

Paul Lowder, ’51, 4632 Lake Jeanette Rd., Greensboro, NC 27455, has retired from active ministry. He currently serves the board of a touring theater ensemble. Along with traveling the globe, he sponsors tours to the Middle East, Europe and Hawaii.

Marilyn Smith McKinley, ’51, 1425 Balboa, Portage, MI 49002, taught for 34 years in the Kalamazoo Public Schools.

She earned an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University. Currently, she serves as a deacon in the Westminster Presbyterian Church and volunteers at the Shepherd Center. Marilyn’s husband, Don, passed away in 2000. She has six grandchildren.

Lloyd Miller, ’51, 225 Terrace, Flushing, MI 48433, is fine arts coordinator for Flint Schools; he has previously taught music and consulted for music education. He also works as district coordinator for Zero Population Growth. Lloyd earned a

doctorate in music education from Michigan State University. He and his wife, Bette, have three daughters.

Barbara Coulter Neller, ’51, 223 Dogwood Trail, Battle Creek, MI 49015, has retired from music education and now pursues a career as a professional percussionist, playing with several ensembles, including the New Superior Jazz Band, the Kellogg Community College Band, the Battle Creek Cereal City Band and the Post Band of Battle Creek.

She has five children, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Louise Hoffs Peppel, ’51, 15362 Upton Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823, is a retired educator, but continues her 25-year stint with the East Lansing Community Choir.

She is a past Teacher of the Year for DeWitt Public Schools and received the “Key to the Turner Dodge Mansion” upon her retirement. She collects antique clothing and hats, which she presents at programs. She and her husband, Al, have made many trips to Europe to visit relatives and tour.

Ann Carmien Shely, ’51, 7061 Sweetwater Dr., Florence, KY 41042, is a retired floral designer. She is landscape chair and treasurer of Oakbrook Condominiums and volunteers with the Florence Police Department. Ann has made extensive travels over the past 15 years.

She has three children, including John, ’80.

Patricia Stoner Simpkins, ’51, 163 Summer St., Battle Creek, MI 49015, is retired from the VA Medical Center. She is married to Grady Simpkins.

Edna “Eddie” Heimburger Smith, ’51, 2163 Windsor Ln., Manistee, MI 49660, had careers as a medical transcriptionist and a librarian. She is active with the Manistee Civic Players with whom she has starred in numerous musicals. She is writing volume three of her memoirs.

Eddie’s husband, Dewey, ’50, passed away in 1997.

Robert Stark, ’51, 6 Balboa Ct., Hot Spring Village, AK 71909, has retired from 40 years as an oral surgeon. Living in a community with seven lakes and eight 18hole golf courses, he pursues fishing, hunting and a good golf game. Robert and his wife, Helen, recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. They have three children and three grandchildren.

Rhoda “Robbie” Roberts Talso, ’51, 800 Meadow Springs Dr., Reno, NV 89509, had a 29-year career as an educator, during which time she received an Outstanding Educator Award. She now volunteers as a historic home docent and is active with her church, Delta Kappa Gamma and Alpha Xi Delta. Robbie earned a master’s degree from the University of Nevada, Reno. She and her husband, Rudy, have two daughters.

William Van Arsdalen, ’51, 1791 Steamburg Rd., Hillsdale, MI 49242, a retired educator, keeps busy as a civic leader. This year, he is both chair of his local United Way 2001 campaign and lieutenant governor of the Kiwanis Michigan District. He also volunteers with a local senior center. Bill holds a master’s degree from Michigan State University. He and his wife, Joan, recently celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary, and are the parents of two children.

C. Thomas and Frances Young Wilson, both ’51, 5888 E. Millerway, Bloomfield, MI 48301, enjoy traveling abroad. Fran says that the “Albion community extends worldwide,” noting that while doing research in Northern Ireland, the Wilsons met two different people from Albion. Tom

Our reunion volunteers are tops!

The Office of Alumni and Parent Relations would like to thank the individuals listed below who chaired their reunions at Homecoming 2001 and their committees who contributed to the success of these events.

Reunion notes for those classes ending in “1” and “6” are included in this issue.

Tom Brown II, ’56 Jack C. Curtis, ’51 Kimberly Karman Dobson, ’91 Mark W. Garrison, ’71 Timothy P. and M. Kathryn Clear Jabin, ’86 ’86 Richard P. Karman, ’61

Matthew C. and Keri Towsley Keck, ’96 ’96 Andrew J. McComas, ’81 John H. Poulin, ’81 Jan Steininger Strand, ’66 Allen D. Tucker, Jr., ’76

Homecoming 2001 reunion class awards Highest number of alumni at the reunion: Class of 1951 (50) Highest total attendance at the reunion: Class of 1956 (72)

continues to practice law and is a volunteer teacher of radio broadcasting for the Detroit Public Schools. Fran has retired from her position as a media specialist and now volunteers as research librarian with the Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society. The Wilsons are the parents of four sons.

54 Elizabeth Renfrew Campbell, ’54, met with Sue Frost Helms-Eckinger in Paris during the summer of 2001. Elizabeth and her husband, Edmund, ’54, reside in Venice, FL.

56 Maynard Bowers, ’56, 2 Northwoods Lane, Marquette, MI 49855, is a professor emeritus at Northern Michigan University.

He is involved with the Rotary International, where he twice served as president of the Marquette Breakfast Rotary Club. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Maynard and his wife, Leenamari, have traveled to Europe, the South Pacific and South America.

Sharla Smith Brown, ’56, 1853 Timarron Way, Naples, FL 34109, is retired. She taught school, and she also worked for 10 years at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. She has done much overseas and domestic traveling. She and her husband, Gordon, have two children and one grandchild.

Connie Blessing Burt, ’56, 2050 Crystalwood Trail, Flushing, MI 48433, is a retired teacher. She now enjoys volunteer work. She is active in theatre arts, and she also teaches bridge. She is a Silver Life Master of the American Contract Bridge League. Connie has traveled to Europe, and she has also visited almost every ski resort in the western United States. She and her husband, Jim, have two children and one grandchild.

Sally Squire Campbell, ’56, 515 W. Washington St., Howell, MI 48843, is a retired preschool teacher. She taught in Hamtramck and Howell. Sally is involved with the United Methodist Women, Questers, Daughters of the American Revolution and the arts council. She has traveled to all 50 states, as well as Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. Her hobbies include genealogy and scrapbooks, and she also values college friends and fall get-togethers in northern Michigan. She and her husband, Bruce, have two children and two grandchildren.

Lois Wyman Carey, ’56, 173 Springfield Pt. Rd., Wolfeboro, NH 03894, is retired.

She and her husband, Ralph Carey, ’54, divide their time between their homes in Florida and New Hampshire. Their winter address is: 26220 Siena Dr., Bonita Springs, FL 34134.

John Cermak, ’56, P.O. Box 839, Northport, MI 49670, is retired after having served in parish ministry for over 41 years in the West Michigan Conference of the United Methodist Church. He is president of ShareCare of Leelac Co., Inc., a nonprofit organization that helps the elderly to stay in their own homes for as long as they are able to. He earned a degree from the Boston University School of Theology in 1959, and he earned a doctor of ministry degree from the Iliff School of Theology in 1976. John and his wife, Adele Lent Cermak, ’57, have three children and five grandchildren.

Roberta Chapman, ’56, 2169 London Bridge Dr., Rochester Hills, MI 48307, is a retired elementary school teacher and media specialist. She is involved in her church and is also a member of the Friends of the Rochester Hills Public Library.

Roberta enjoys doing volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity and Meals on Wheels, and she also does adult literacy tutoring and tutors children in the Pontiac schools. She earned a master’s degree in library science. She has traveled to six continents.

Donald Dempster, ’56, 77150 Marwood Dr., South Haven, MI, is a retired dentist.

He was a member of the local school board for 13 years, serving as president for eight years. He is active in his church, and he is also involved in several community organizations. He earned a D.D.S. degree from Northwestern University in 1959, and

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he also attended the business school at Aquinas College. He has traveled to England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as the Amazon River and the Panama Canal.

Don and his wife, Katherine Jewell Dempster, ’57, have four children and divide their time between their homes in Florida and Michigan.

Barb Olson Ditch, ’56, 924 Pine Ave., Holland, MI 49423, is retired. She worked as a medical technologist and taught kindergarten for 14 years. Along with her husband, Keith, she was also a retailer for 39 years. They have three children and six grandchildren.

Nancy Hagans Dobbins, ’56, 3390 N. Concord Rd., Concord, MI 49237, has been a teacher, librarian, secretary, office manager and a writer. She is currently working with organizations that promote peace and justice. She also works with a men’s group on spirituality. She has also worked with battered and abused women in a shelter. Nancy is married to Richard, and has five children, five step-children, 18 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Hannah Provence Donigan, ’56, 630 Commerce Rd., Commerce, MI 48382, is a retired teacher. She taught for 23 years in Michigan and two years in Europe. She is involved in several community organizations. She is founder of the Commerce Village Planning Action Committee, which works to restore and revitalize the area where she has lived for 43 years. Hannah has traveled to Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica and Peru. She also sang at Carnegie Hall in June 2001 with the Albion College choir and alumni choir. She and her husband, Don, have four children and six grandchildren.

Janet Dykstra Durham, ’56, 1164 Griswold SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507, has a job share position doing office work for a small company. She is involved with her church, and she has traveled to Europe and throughout the United States. She and her husband, Robert, have two children and a grandchild.

Tom Elliott, ’56, 37810 Russell Blvd., Davis, CA 95616-9471, is a surgeon, and he also works as a builder and developer.

His hobbies include designing and building homes, flying helicopters, music, running marathons and skiing. He spends two or three months each year traveling. He and his wife, Diane, have five children and 12 grandchildren.

Carole Mack Fischer, ’56, 608 Tennyson, Rochester Hills, MI 48307-4248, is retired from the federal Civil Service. She also worked as a mathematician and an operations research analyst. Involved with the Rochester Hills Historic Districts Commission for 17 years, she is also a member of the Rochester Avon Historical Society and the Meadowbrook Women’s Club. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.

She and her husband, the late Frederick Fischer, ’51, had three children.

Hedwig “Heidi” Geiger Ford, ’56, 670 Green Briar Lane, Lake Forest, IL 60045, is retired from Lake Forest College. She also worked at the Chicago Botanic Garden. She and her husband, Thomas Ford, have two children and a grandchild.

Joan Elliott French, ’56, 371 S.W. 4th St., Oak Harbor, WA 98277, is a retired elementary school teacher. She also taught crafts and needle art. She is a member of the chamber of commerce, and she enjoys square dancing, round dancing and clogging. She and her husband, Jack, lived in Arizona for three years but recently returned to their home in Oak Harbor. They have two sons.

Carolyn Gilbert Habel, ’56, 6777 Boone Rd., Traverse City, MI 49684, is a retired teacher. She and her husband, Dan, have purchased a motor home and are enjoying traveling throughout the United States. This year, they traveled to Alaska, and also spent time in South Africa, Tuscany and Kauai.

Barbara Guy Hanson, ’56, 8121 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Milwaukee, WI 53217, is enjoying getting together with former Albion classmates in northern Michigan and California. She has four children and nine grandchildren, and the family enjoys spending time at Torch Lake in Michigan.

Judith Hunter Hedlund, ’56, 7301 Old River Trail, Lansing, MI 48917-8644, is retired and is an active church volunteer.

She has traveled throughout the United States, as well as to the British Isles. She and her husband, Howard, have been married for 44 years. They have three children and six grandchildren.

Judith Quirk Johnson, ’56, 319 Valerie Dr., Waverly, OH 45690, is retired. She moved to Bristol Village, a retirement community, in 2000. She volunteers in the library, and is also a member of the bell choir and a quilting group. She and her husband, Richard, have two children.

Richard Lawson, ’56, 222 Bay Rd., Carbondale, IL 62901, is a retired English professor. He taught at Southern Illinois University for 32 years, serving 17 years as director of undergraduate studies in English. He is president of the Carbondale Associated Artists Gallery and the Southwest Trail of Southern Illinois. He enjoys photography, and has traveled throughout the United States and Europe.

He earned a master’s degree from Bowling Green State University and a Ph.D. from Tulane University. He and his wife, Nancy Baskin Lawson, have two children and four grandchildren.

Virginia Vogel Link, ’56, 19747 Quail Creek Dr., Fairhope, AL 36532, is a retired teacher. She earned a master’s degree from Oakland University. She is married to Ernest.

Robert Luedeka, ’56, 2403 Tuttle Terrace, Sarasota, FL 34239, is a zoning analyst for the city of Sarasota. He is involved in his church activities and community organizations, and he was named Employee

All-MIAA correction noted Robert Lynn, ’43, should have been listed among the All-MIAA basketball players recognized in the spring 2001 Io Triumphe coverage of the 75th anniversary of Kresge Gymnasium. A forward on the 1941-42 Briton squad, he led the Britons in scoring that season, thus earning the spot on the all-conference team. We regret the error.

of the Month for the city of Sarasota. He has traveled to New Zealand, Australia, England and France. He earned a master’s degree from Gannon University. He and his wife, Virginia Timmons Luedeka, were married in 1960. They have two children and six grandchildren.

Janice Kiefer Mills, ’56, P.O. Box 1101, Orleans, MA 02653, is retired. She taught music, and she also worked in the corporate headquarters of Waldenbooks. She lived abroad for three years, and has done extensive traveling. She and her husband, David, have two children and five grandchildren.

Barbara Frey Mueller, ’56, 1602 Shadford Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, worked as a health educator for Washington County Public Health, where she was coordinator for the Smoking Reduction Coalition. She is involved with several community organizations. Barbara has spent time traveling to Italy and Palm Springs with Albion friends, many of whom she hadn’t seen for 41 years. She earned a degree in business administration from the University of Michigan.

Jane Vydareny Redner, ’56, 8531 Chuckanut, Montague, MI 49437, is a homemaker and volunteer. She and her husband, Keith, divide their time between their homes in Michigan and California.

Their winter address is: 77712 Avenida Madrugada, LaQuinta, CA 92253.

Kate Randall Reeves, ’56, 70-990 Star Shadow, RC-163, Mountain Center, CA 92561, is a retired nursing administrator.

She is a volunteer parish nurse for St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, and she is a frequent contributor to many professional journals. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Emergency Nursing and the Journal of Gerontological Nursing.

Kate has traveled to all 50 states and seven continents. She earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from California State University, Fullerton. She and her husband, George, have three children, including Susan Reeves Beyer, ’80.

Kay Keller Robertson, ’56, 17 Robertson Court, Clarkston, MI 48346, is retired. She is a Title I reading volunteer, and she is also involved with her church. She is a member of the Clarkston Historic District Commission, Clarkston Farm and Garden Club, Oakland County Reading Council and Clarkston Area Youth Assistance. She and her husband, Charles Robertson, ’57, have three children and three grandchildren.

Diana Beatty Roe, ’56, 612 West View Dr., Angola, IN 46703, is a retired elementary school and Title I reading teacher. She is involved with her church and several community organizations. She earned a master’s degree from St. Francis University. She spends the summer months on Lake James in northern Indiana, and also spends two months in Marathon on the Florida Keys. She and her husband, Donald Roe, ’54, have two children, including Philip Roe, ’87, and two grandchildren.

Thomas Schwaderer, ’56, 2558 Alger SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, has been a practicing orthopaedic surgeon since 1968.

He and his wife, Pamela Montgomery Schwaderer, have two children.

Doris Lee Scott, ’56, 1339 W. 35th St., San Pedro, CA 90731, is a retired teacher.

She is involved with local art associations.

She is also a member of Friends of the San Pedro Library, where she is a volunteer for monthly book sales. She has traveled throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Her hobbies include lap swimming, quilting, weaving, counted cross-stitch,

making greeting cards, sewing and origami.

She and her husband, Philip, have four children and one grandchild.

David Sennema, ’56, 1145 Sunnyside Dr., Columbia, SC 29204-3321, is retired from arts administration and teaching. He worked at the National Endowment for the Arts and was a professor at Sangamon State University. He also served as director of the South Carolina State Museum. David received The Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian award given by the South Carolina state government. He is the coauthor with his wife, Martha Dixon Sennema, of Columbia, S.C.: A Postcard History. The Sennemas have been married for 43 years. They have three children and two grandchildren.

Joseph Serra, ’56, 5053 Manor Circle, Stockton, CA 95212, is a semi-retired orthopaedic surgeon. He teaches orthopaedics at the University of the Pacific, and he is also an instructor in mountain medicine seminars. He is involved with Rotary International, and he was named Stocktonian of the Year. He is a 25-year veteran of the National Ski Patrol.

Joe has traveled to Africa six times to do surgery, and he has also traveled around the world for Rotary International. He and his wife, Dorothy McEvoy Serra, ’59, have two children and two grandchildren.

Shirley Langs Smith, ’56, P.O. Box 882, Truro, MA 02666, is self-employed at Jack’s Gas and Firewood. She is a founder of the Outer Cape Committee Against Domestic Abuse and is one of the founders of the Northeast Child Guidance Center in Detroit. She also serves as a sailing instructor. For 14 years, she spent the months of December, January and February sailing the Caribbean. She was married for 30 years, and she has four children and four grandchildren.

Marilyn Brown Stevenson, ’56, 1731 Danish Landing, Grayling, MI 49738-9192, is retired. She and her husband, Allan, divide their time between their homes in Florida and Michigan. Their winter address is: 6803 8th Ave. West, Bradenton, FL 34209-3413.

Suzanne Stough Ternan, ’56, 3896 Hillsdale Dr., Auburn Hills, MI 48326, and her husband, Lawrence, recently traveled to Bangalore, India, for the wedding of their daughter. They visited the Taj Mahal, New Delhi, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Beijing and saw the Great Wall. The Ternans spend their summers in Bay View. They have two children.

Wallace and Luella Short Tupper, both ’56, 96 W. McKinley Rd., Traverse City, MI 49686, are enjoying retirement. Luella is a retired home economics teacher. For the last nine years, she taught in a teen mother program. She was also an adult education teacher and taught college classes for Northwest Tech in Ohio. She is involved in the Methodist church. She earned a master’s degree from Western Michigan University. They enjoy traveling in classic cars to national shows. Married for 43 years, the Tuppers have three children.

Richard and Marilyn Young Vitek, both ’56, P.O. Box 704, Brookfield, WI 530080704, are busy in retirement. Richard is chairman of Foto-Dyne, Inc. He is vice chairman of trustees at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and serves on the board of Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. The Viteks started a new church, which meets in a movie theatre and now has 50 members.

Richard enjoys golfing, while Marilyn enjoys her grandchildren and tending to her house and yard. The Viteks have four grandchildren. Their winter address is: P.O. Box 3855, Dana Point, CA 92629.

Bob Webber, ’56, 11975 Drew Rd., Alto, MI 49302, is a retired writer/editor and former Methodist minister. He earned a degree from the Boston University School of Theology. He and his wife, Liz Spahr Webber, ’57, have two children and two grandchildren.

Mary James Wildt, ’56, 4625 S. Milford Rd., Milford, MI 48381, is a retired English, French and Spanish teacher. She is active in the Methodist church. She has traveled throughout the United States and Europe. She and her husband, Maurice Wildt, ’56, were married for 42 years when he passed away in 1998. They have three children and seven grandchildren.

Marilyn Van Zee Winquist, ’56, 719 S. Summit, Villa Park, IL 60181, is retired.

She is the coordinator of a community medical equipment loaner closet housed at Lombard First United Methodist Church.

She is involved in church activities, and she enjoys school and community volunteering.

She and her husband, Jack, have been married for 40 years. They have two children and five grandchildren.

58 Ila Sloan Leavy, ’58, recently sang with the Greeley (CO) Chorale in Beijing, Suzhou and Shanghai. She lives in La Salle, CO.

61 Jan Elliott Abbott, ’61, P.O. Box 118, Alma, CO 80420, recently purchased a home in Buena Vista, CO, which is located on a golf course. She enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, and her hobbies include biking, hiking, skiing, fishing and golfing. She also leads a neighborhood women’s Bible study. Her husband, Vern Abbott, ’62, is a CPA with a private practice in Colorado Springs, CO. He is semi-retired. The Abbotts have two children and four grandchildren.

Donald Anderson, ’61, 6528 Meadowlark Circle, Jackson, MI 49201, is retired from Napoleon Community Schools, where he spent 29 years as a teacher/coach and three years as assistant principal and athletic director. He is a member of the Napoleon Lions Club and the United Methodist Church in Napoleon. He earned a master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University in 1981. He and his wife, Carol, have three children, including Todd Anderson, who is on the football coaching staff at Albion.

The Andersons also have four grandchilderen.

Patricia Kirchner Appold, ’61, 520 Riverside Dr., Rossford, OH 43460, is president/owner of the Maumee Bay Brewing Co. She also served as a teacher, women’s newspaper manager, editor and administrative board member. She is involved in several community and civic organizations. Pursuing her strong interest in historic preservation, she actively restored an 1859 hotel building known as “The Oliver House” into residential, office and restaurant/brewing spaces. She has traveled throughout Europe and the United States, and she recently traveled to Africa.

She and her husband, James, have five children.

Susan Cowles Bowman, ’61, 3929 Muskogee, Des Moines, IA 50312, is the senior pastor at First United Methodist

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Church in Des Moines. She serves on the Board of Ordained Ministry, and on two bishop’s task forces. She is a trustee for the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, where she was also named the Most Valuable Alumna. She serves as board president for Hawthorn Ministers and is a delegate to the World Methodist Council.

Susan earned her master’s degree in divinity from the Boston University School of Theology. She and her husband, William, have two children.

Bill Butcher, ’61, 1531 Country Lane, Bismarck, ND 58503, works as a private investigator, lobbyist and activist. He formerly worked as an FBI agent. His hobbies include sailing, singing and upland game hunting. He and his wife, Dina, have two children and a grandchild.

Glenn Corliss, ’61, 26080 Tucker Rd., Rogers, MN 55374, is a senior food scientist for NutraSweet Co. He previously worked as product development scientist for Carnation, Miles Labs and General Mills and has been awarded three patents.

He is involved with his church, and served as the chairman of the Minnesota Section of the Institute of Food Technology. Glenn has traveled to Nepal, Mexico, England, Greece, Ireland and Switzerland. He earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He and his wife, Nan Dalsimer Corliss, ’63, have two children.

Harry Cook, ’61, 3114 Vinsetta Blvd., Royal Oak, MI 48073, is a rector for St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Clawson.

He previously served congregations in Pentwater and Detroit and was employed by the Detroit Free Press for eight years.

He is completing a three-volume work called “Lectionary Research and Analysis,” and he has also published three books. He is currently working on a biography which is scheduled for publication in 2003. Harry received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Albion in 1989. Married to Susan Chevalier, Harry has four children and three grandchildren.

Suzanne Martin Easley, ’61, 1820 Hidden Rock Court, El Cajon, CA 92019, is a realtor with Prudential California Realty.

She has been a full-time realtor for more than 12 years. She lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, for three years after teaching for five years at Royal Oak Dondero High School. She is a volunteer with Our Best Friends Therapy Dogs. Suzanne serves as president of the San Diego alumnae chapter of Delta Gamma, and is also a national competitor in ballroom dancing. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1962. She has two children and three grandchildren.

Sue Ellen Gilbert, ’61, 601 Detroit, Cortez, CO 81321, is an instructor at Pueblo Community College, where she teaches early childhood classes. She previously taught for 12 years on a Navajo reservation. She earned her master’s degree in early childhood education. Sue has three children.

Trish Scott Hallock, ’61, 1617 336th St. South, Roy, WA 98580, has worked at Bethel High School for 22 years, where she serves as post-secondary and scholarship advisor. She earned a master’s degree from Wayne State University. She has been married to her husband, Robert, for 32 years. They have three children, 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Janet Kelly Haydon, ’61, 8 Thomas Dr., Eureka Springs, AR 72632, is a part-time medical technologist. She serves as a volunteer at the local library and is a member of the library board. She is also involved in church organizations. Janet has traveled throughout the United States, and also to Scotland and England. She has been

married to her husband, Kenneth, since 1968. They have two children and a grandchild.

Gwendolyn Hetler, ’61, 3135 County Road 456, Skandia, MI 49885, is a math professor at Northern Michigan University.

She is a member of the Ministry Support Team at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Little Lake, and she was ordained as a priest in July 2001. She is the co-author of an algebra text for adults. She earned a master’s degree in biology from Wayne State University. She has been married to her husband, James Livingston, since 1986, and has two children, one foster son, four step-children and seven grandchildren.

H. Richard Hobe, ’61, 370 Opossum Kingdom, Berea, KY 40403, is retired. He had a private practice in internal medicine in Marion, OH, from 1971 to 1993, and he served as director of health services for Berea College from 1993 to 2001. He and his wife, Nancy, have two children.

Gail Hurst, ’61, 409 7th St. Place SW, Altoona, IA 50009, is a retired consultant with Novapharm, L.L.C. He also taught chemistry for two years at California Lutheran University and worked in industrial pharmaceuticals. He is president of the Kansas City Discussion Group for pharmaceutical scientists. He earned his Ph.D. from UCLA and also did postdoctoral work at Northwestern University and the University of Florida. He has been married to his wife, Ruth, since 1968. They have two children.

Wilbur Hurst, ’61, 10932 Bellehaven Blvd., Damascus, MD 20872, is a physicist.

He has worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1968. His research involves the use of Raman spectroscopy to characterize the physical and chemical properties of materials. He and his wife, Bette, are active in their church.

Richard Karman, ’61, 15 Balsam Parkway, Sparta, NJ 07871, is high school principal at Rutgers Prep School. He is involved in community organizations and has served as the U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Site Visitor. He earned several advanced degrees from Columbia University. He has traveled to Europe, Russia, China, Indonesia, Australia and New Guinea. He and his wife, Sandra Meader Karman, ’62, have two children, including Kim Karman Dobson, ’91.

Patricia Reppert Keller, ’61, 129 Oakland Place, Battle Creek, MI 49015, recently retired as an administrative assistant for the Music Center of S.C. Michigan. She also worked for 20 years as a medical assistant in a physician’s office. She is involved in her church, Eastern Star and PEO. She attended Heidelberg College in Tiffin, OH. Patricia enjoys spending time with her three grandchildren and traveling. She and her husband, Ron, have four children, including Brad, ’90, and Brent, ’93.

Thomas McDowell, ’61, 1515 N. Astor, Apt. 15A, Chicago, IL 60610, is retired. He served as executive vice president for First Chicago NBD Corp. He is the director of the Arts Bridge and participates in the Cluster Tutoring Program. He and his wife, Sue, have two children.

David Morrow, ’61, 3034 Moss Rose Ave., Crystal Beach, FL 34681, is a retired elementary school principal. He has been an elementary school administrator for 35 years, working in Michigan, Minnesota, Okinawa, Japan, and Florida. An avid sailor, he is an active member of the Windjammer Sailing Club in Florida. He has completed a two-and-a-half-year sail through the Caribbean Sea, and he is planning a land cruise to Alaska. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have four children.

Join the crowd!

To date, 700 people have included Albion College in their estate plans, and are therefore members of The Stockwell Society. These 700 alumni, parents and friends, along with others added in the future, will be honored on a large permanent display (artist’s rendering shown) in the Albion College Kellogg Center. This plaque is one way of recognizing the lasting investment these individuals have made in our students and programs.

If you would like information about various tax-wise methods of making a gift to Albion, please contact us.

If you have already made estate or other deferred arrangements for the College and have not yet told us about it, please call 517/629-0237 and let us know. Your name will join the others in this distinguished circle of benefactors. If you prefer, you can write us at: Office of Gift and Estate Planning, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224 or e-mail us at advancement@albion.edu.

Richard Muir, ’61, 1003 Valencia, San Marcos, CA 92069, is an orthopedic surgeon. He served as the chief of staff for Tri City Medical Center in Oceanside, CA., in 1997-98. He completed medical school and his residency at Wayne State University and served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968. His wife, Peggy Vroman Muir, ’62, graduated from Wayne State University and earned a master’s degree from Wayne State in 1976. They have two children, Rick, ’80, and Beth, ’82. The Muirs have six grandchildren.

James Nash, ’61, 320 N. Mulberry, Marshall, MI 49068, is retired from Albion College after 19 years as the director of computing. He is a volunteer for Hospice, nursing homes and Albion Interfaith Ministries. He enjoys golfing. He is married to Wanda, an attorney.

Sue Fuller Nebel, ’61, 2023 Lake Ave., Wilmette, IL 60091, is the executive director of the United Way of GlenviewGolf. She was a college professor from 1966 to 1985, and worked in career counseling and consulting from 1985 to 1992. She has worked in social work and fund-raising since 1992, and she was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1998. Sue earned a master’s degree from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She has been married to her husband, Henry, since 1967. They have two children.

Donald Persons, ’61, 558 Birch Circle East, Boyne Falls, MI 49713-9203, is a retired psychologist. He is a member of the United Methodist Church and several professional organizations, and he was named the Support Educator of the Year for 2000-01. He is a member of the board for the Lake Louise Christian Community. His wife, Nancy Burgess Persons, ’60, died on Sept. 3, 2001, from a rare disease. He has four children.

Lyle Richard, ’61, 3831 Jarrow Lane, Jackson, MI 49201-9096, is a retired school social worker. He is the state membership chairman for the Elks Club and also serves as district deputy to the Elks national president. He earned a master’s degree in social work. He and his wife, Julia, have traveled extensively in the U.S. and around the world.

Stuart and Marie deBeaumont Rutter, both ’61, 1731 Epping Place, Schaumburg, IL 60194-4010, have been married for 40 years. Marie taught public school music for two years, and has taught private piano lessons since then. She is a member of several music teacher organizations. Stuart is employed as a manager by National Exchange Carrier Association. For the past several years he has coordinated Habitat for Humanity trips throughout the United States. The Rutters are involved in their church. They have four children and six grandchildren.

Emily Schimmelpfennig Schimmel, ’61, 42436 Sheldon Place #196, Clinton Township, MI 48038, is an administrative assistant for Breitkreuz Mold and Plastics, Inc. She has also served as a secondary teacher and counselor. She is a member of Kappa Delta alumnae, and is also involved in her church. She has traveled to Europe, the Far East, Mexico, Canada and throughout the United States. She has two children.

Janet Hall Shaffer, ’61, 4716 Maple Terrace Parkway, Fort Wayne, IN 46835, is semi-retired. She is involved in her church, as well as several other civic and community organizations. She has traveled to the Bahamas, Europe, British West Indies, Puerto Rico and throughout the United States. She recently spent time in Ireland studying Celtic spirituality and Celtic Christian spirituality. Her son, Scott, died in 1997 from muscular dystrophy.

Gretchen Harmsen Smith, ’61, 2221 Densmore, Toledo, OH 43606, is a retired teacher. She has three children and six grandchildren.

Richard Swain, ’61, 5433 Redberry Court, Indianapolis, IN 46254, is a retired senior biochemist with Eli Lilly and Co. He also served as the assistant professor of biology at MacMurray College from 1967 to 1973.

He is chairman for the Ohio Valley Section of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, and he is the finance committee chairman of the Chapel Hill United Methodist Church. He earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He and his wife, Jenne Emeric Swain, ’62, have one child.

Jack Thorne, ’61, P.O. Box 524, Grand Lake, CO 80447, retired in July after 30 years as an obstetrician/gynecologist in Colorado and Nebraska. Past president of the Colorado Obstetrics and Gynecology Society, he received the National Service Award from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for prevention work in teen pregnancies. He earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan. Married to Bonnie, he has four children, three step-children and six grandchildren.

Anne Stevens Todd, ’61, 522 Godfroy Ave., Monroe, MI 48162, is a retired teacher. She is a member of First Presbyterian Church and is a cellist with the Monroe Chamber Group. A board member of Mobile Meals, Child and Family Services and the Monroe Youth Orchestra, she is also involved in several other community organizations. She has been married to her husband, Robert, since 1961. They have two children and four grandchildren.

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Walter Urick, ’61, 160 W. Main St., Hart, MI 49420, is the Oceana County Probate/ Family Court judge. He is involved in several community and civic organizations.

He has traveled to Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, England and Scotland. He received a J.D. with distinction from the University of Michigan Law School, and served on its Law Review. He and his wife, Karen, have three children including Anna, ’94, and Esther, ’01.

John Vournakis, ’61, 19 Menotti St., Charleston, SC 29401, is a professor of medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is also the co-founder and vice president of research and development for the Marine Polymer Technology Institute. He has received large research grants from government and private sources for development of medical products. He has been published in more than 150 publications, and he also has 12 patents. He earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and did post-doctoral work at M.I.T. and Harvard. He and his wife, Karen Munro Vournakis, ’66, have one child. Both John and Karen have received Albion’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

John Wilcox, ’61, 2008 W. Scarlet Rose Place, Oro Valley, AZ 85737, is recently retired from the University of Georgia, where he was a librarian. He also retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1989. He and his wife, Helen Meyn Wilcox, ’62, have one grandchild.

Richard Willey, ’61, 1216 Tremma Dr., Grand Blanc, MI, is a retired school administrator. He earned his master’s degree. He and his wife, Diane, have been married for 39 years. They have two children.

Charlotte Knuth Zuzak, ’61, 334 State St., Grove City, PA 16127-1658, taught Spanish in high school and college for 30 years. She is a writer and is a member of the Grove City Literacy Council and the Friends of the Library. She is an organist for Beloved Disciple Church and an accompanist for Grove City College.

Charlotte earned a master’s degree in Spanish from the University of Michigan in 1962. She has traveled to Germany, Austria, Russia, Slovakia, Italy, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. She has been married to her husband, Charles, since 1963. They have one child.

62 Sharon Rinn Cathey, ’62, has recently retired from the Education Department of Sierra Nevada College to become a national literacy keynote speaker for Glencoe McGraw Hill textbook company. She lives in Reno, NV. Whitney Hames, ’62, retired from teaching at Siena Heights University and his wife, Linda Shields Hames, ’61, retired from teaching high school science in 1993. They have moved to be near their sons and grandchildren and can be reached at 820 Nolstead Ct., Raleigh, NC 27614.

64 Allan Katz, ’64, won a prestigious Double Gold Medal and was awarded Best Wine in Napa Valley Appellation for his 1999 Chiles Lake Winery Old Vine Zinfandel at the 2001 California State Fair in Sacramento.

He lives in Napa, CA, with his wife, Susan, a daughter, Charlotte Florent, ’01, and a son.

66 Barbara Bowen, ’66, 1241 Bourbon St., New Orleans, LA 70116, is a retired speech pathologist. She is a member of the Mississippi Coast Audubon Society and the Patio Planters. She earned her master’s degree from Ohio State University.

Sharon Parsons Chace, ’66, 244 Natchaug Dr., Meriden, CT 06450, is a freelance writer and artist. She wrote a book entitled When Baby Jesus Grows Up: A Children’s Christmas Program. Her articles, poems and children’s stories have been published in a variety of journals. She holds a master’s in theological studies. Her other interests include watercolor painting and collages. She and her husband, Ernest, have one child.

Don Cornell, ’66, 337 Hedgehope Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89123, is the vice president for engineering and technical services for EG & G Technical Services. He has also served as a test pilot in the Air Force, and he was an engineering manager for Northrop. He serves on the board for Sign Design Theatre Co., a non-profit children’s performing group promoting deaf awareness. Don earned a master’s degree in organizational management. He and his wife, Alice Hard Cornell, ’68, married in 1968. They have two children and one grandchild.

Doug Davis, ’66, 5702 Nehrt Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408, works for the Monroe County Victim/Offender Reconciliation Program. He is retired from the U.S. probation and the federal prison system. He is a member of the Bloomington Community Band and serves as a tutor for America Reads. He earned a master’s degree in sociology from Indiana University. He and his wife, Susan, married in 1966. They have three children.

Stephen DeOrlow, ’66, P.O. Box 2644, Del Mar, CA 92014, is the vice president of professional development for Orthodontic Centers of America. He earned a graduate degree in international business and did post-graduate work in advanced management at Northwestern University. The DeOrlow family traveled to New Orleans for the year 2000 celebration. He and his wife, Ana, have four children.

Mary Neller DeRidder, ’66, 16515 New Holland St., Holland, MI 49424, works for the outreach directory at Holland First United Methodist Church. Currently helping to organize the Institute for Healing of Racism and Supporting the Summit, she is also a member of the Alliance for Cultural and Ethnic Harmony. Mary serves as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, Kids Hope USA and P-FLAG. She has traveled to Africa and Europe, and she took a honeymoon cruise in the eastern Caribbean. She and her husband, Dean DeRidder, married in 1997 and share five children and a granddaughter.

John and Virginia Amrein Fergueson, both ’66, 14449-90th Court NE, Bethell, WA 98011-5121, have two children, Susan, ’95, and Daniel, ’99. John is an Episcopal priest for Church of the Redeemer in Kenmore, WA. Virginia is a junior high math teacher for Lake Washington School District in Redmond, WA. For more than 10 years, John hosted a specialized ministry to Vietnam veterans and others with post-traumatic stress disorder at the Portland, OR, Veterans Administration hospital. He is co-author of a chapter in Psychiatry and Religion.

Barbara Nelson Ferrarese, ’66, 7114 Northland Dr., Rockford, MI 49341, recently retired as a legal secretary. She is a

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member of her church choir and handbell choir, and serves on several church boards.

She also served as a Girl Scout leader for 12 years. She has traveled to Europe, Puerto Rico, Vieques, Canada and throughout the United States. She and her husband, G. Vincent Ferrarese, married in 1968. They have two children.

Gay Krause Frame, ’66, 8922 Reeds Corners Rd., Dansville, NY 14437, is a full-time homemaker and volunteer, after having served as a social worker from 1966 to 1974. She later was a riding instructor, and she still teaches and manages the farm.

She and her husband, Paul, married in 1967. They have two children.

Ann Herrold-Peterson, ’66, 6505 Gettysburg Dr., Madison, WI 53705, is a psychotherapist in the Department of Psychiatry at Dean Medical Center. She also does youth work at the First United Methodist Church in Madison. She has traveled throughout the United States and Europe. She earned her master’s degree in social work. She and her husband, Kent, married in 1978. They have three children.

Daniel Hinchliffe, ’66, is the director of audit integrations and serves on the teaching faculty for the College of Business, School of Accounting, at Florida Atlantic University. Dan holds an M.B.A. and is a CPA. Author of numerous articles on recovery auditing, he also serves as a frequent speaker for colleges and universities, as well as various professional organizations. He is a Stephen Ministry leader. He and his wife, Linda Aldridge Hinchliffe, ’67, have two children.

Nancy Klamer Hoeg, ’66, 11426 Bay of Firth, Fenton, MI 48430, is a retired seventh grade science teacher with Linden Community Schools. She served as a longtime Girl Scout leader and trainer, and also was a classroom volunteer. She has traveled throughout the United States and has also taken cruises to the western Caribbean and Hawaii. She and her

husband, Lyn, have been married for 33 years. They have two children.

Nancy Weaver Jones, ’66, 3906 Ruthland, Troy, MI 48084, is an elementary school teacher for Warren Consolidated Schools.

She is active with the Troy First United Methodist Church, and she is a Suzuki violin accompanist. She has traveled to South Africa, Sweden and Egypt, and she is planning a trip to Morocco. She also traveled to New York City to sing at Carnegie Hall with the Albion music alumni group. Nancy and her husband, David, married in 1966. They have two children, including Craig, ’98.

Sarah Keys, ’66, 824 Revere Court, Northville, MI 48167, is a social worker with children’s protective services. She is currently attending school to pursue another career opportunity. She earned a master’s degree in guidance and counseling. Her hobbies include golf.

Carolyn Nickel Kibler, ’66, 198 Camino Real, Fort Collins, CO 80524, is a retired church musician. She served as a church organist and choir director and was also a private piano and organ teacher. She spent over three years in Seoul, Korea, teaching at Ewha Women’s University. Carolyn has enjoyed traveling throughout the United States, as well as Europe and Asia. She moved to Fort Collins from southern California in 2000. She earned degrees from Union Theological Seminary and Andrews University. She and her husband, Robert, married in 1988. She has three step-children and eight grandchildren.

Carol Pickup Langner, ’66, 1271 Grenada Dr., Marion, OH 43302, is a career assessment specialist for Tri-Rivers Career Center. She taught special needs and vocational rehabilitation, and she was a drug and alcohol recovery advocate. She is a member of High Schools That Work and the Marion Area Leadership Program and is a volunteer for soccer, church and her children’s school. She earned a master’s

degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati. She has two children and three step-children.

Lucy Langworthy Larsen, ’66, 35674 Ellsworth, Sterling Heights, MI 48312, is a full-time mother and volunteer. She earned her master’s degree, and she taught secondary school for three years. She has traveled to Hawaii, the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. She and her husband, Tom, recently completed their 21st year of sailing on the lakes. They have three grandchildren.

John Lindblom, ’66, 2 Pandan Valley 08201 Acacia Court, Singapore 2159, is the regional director for the American Soybean Association. He has been living and working in Singapore for the past 23 years.

He earned a master’s degree in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management in 1975. He and his wife, Xuyen Thi Lindbloom, have two children.

Bill Matthews, ’66, 6426 Halifax Court, Warrenton, VA 20187, is a retired computer software analyst. He worked in computer programming for 33 years. This year, he and his wife, Nancy, hiked the Grand Canyon with some friends. They spent two nights at Phantom Ranch.

Peter Miller, ’66, 793 Pleasant St., Birmingham, MI 48009, is a radiologist. He is an assistant professor at the Wayne State Medical School, and this year he was named a Fellow in the American College of Radiology. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Birmingham. He has one child, a foster child and one grandchild.

David Minch, ’66, 512 Jeffrey Ave., Royal Oak, MI 48073, is a middle school social studies teacher with the Royal Oak Public Schools. He has spent 35 years teaching social studies and English, and he also worked with gifted students. He served as a softball coach for 12 years and a basketball

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coach for 17 years. David was named the D.A.R. Teacher of the Year for the Wayne/ Oakland/Macomb county area in 1997-98.

His hobbies include collecting space memorabilia, as well as poetry and writing.

He and his wife, Susan Galbraith Minch, ’67, married in 1967. They have two children.

Sandy Walsh Moliere, ’66, 8421 Quincy Court, Fort Wayne, IN 46835, has worked for 19 years as an elementary school counselor. She also worked for 14 years as a teacher. She has traveled throughout the United States and Europe, including unguided bike trips through Germany and France. She earned her master’s degree from Valparaiso University. She and her husband, David Jolliff, married in 1982.

Robert Moore, ’66, 25528 Sherwood, Huntington Woods, MI 48070, is a selfemployed physician. He operates a cardiology practice in Warren. He earned his medical degree from Wayne State University in 1969. He and his wife, Karen, have two children.

Geoffrey Morris, ’66, 150 East 73rd St., Apt. 4B, New York, NY 10021, is a real estate sales person with Fenwick-Keats in New York City. After 28 years, he retired from corporate interior design. He was senior project manager and director of design for Bank of New York, Gibbs & Hill, and three other smaller firms. He serves as a trustee at Proctor Academy, a prep school in Andover, NH. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and received his real estate certification from Marymount College. He has been on 25 cruises, and has traveled all over the world.

Rozanne Williamson Oehring, ’66, 157 Scottsdale Dr., Troy, MI 48084-1772, is retired. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club, D.A.R. and God’s Helping Hands of Mecosta County. She has traveled to the Canadian Rockies, Nova Scotia, England, western Europe, and throughout the United States. She recently married Edwin Oehring following the death of her husband, George. She has two children, three step-children and many stepgrandchildren.

Barbara Pearson Ransford, ’66, 2500 Fox Run Lane, Magnolia, AR 71753, is a high school French teacher at Camden Fairview Public Schools. Chairperson for the Southwest Arkansas Foreign Language Alliance, she is also president of the Arkansas Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French and the Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association. She earned her master’s degree in French from Wayne State University and a diploma from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She has traveled several times to France and also

visited India, Japan, Tahiti, Bali and Australia. She and her husband, George Ransford, ’63, married in 1963. They have two children.

Holly Burnette Richter, ’66, 6084 Lincoln Ave., Stevensville, MI 49127, is a court referral coordinator. She enjoys whitewater rafting in Idaho every summer, and she also goes hiking in Utah every fall. She and her husband, Bill, married in 1966.

They have three children.

Anne Corstange Rulapaugh, ’66, 3002 E. Golden Vista Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85028, is a china specialist in the bridal department at Macy’s. She also taught English at Berkley High School for three years. She performed with the Arizona Masterworks Chorale for 10 years, during which time she participated in two concerts with the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

She has traveled to England, France, Finland, Mexico and Spain. She and her husband, Stanley Rulapaugh, ’64, married in 1966. They have two children.

Margery Taber Schleicher, ’66, 412 E. Michigan, Au Gres, MI 48703, is a member of the United Methodist clergy. She also taught and did volunteer work prior to becoming a clergy member in 1980. She is involved in several community and civic organizations. Margery earned a master’s degree from Michigan State University in 1979 and an M.Div. from the United Theological School in 1980. She has traveled to Europe and has also visited the Holy Land twice. She and her husband, Gordon, married in 1970. They have two children and two grandchildren.

Terry Shade, ’66, P.O. Box 971066, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, is a pilot/captain for Northwest Airlines. He has one child.

Kalmin Smith, ’66, 119 W. Jefferson St., Grand Ledge, MI 48837, is the deputy director for the Department of Consumer and Industry Services for the state of Michigan. He is a member of the Grand Ledge City Council, and he is also the chairman of the board for the American Heart Association of Michigan. He earned a master’s degree from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He and his wife, Marsha Cobb Smith, ’67, married in 1967. They have two children.

Wanda Wesenick Torrey, 66, 1851 N. Moon Valley Place, Tucson, AZ 85745, is a physician in internal medicine with the Carundelet Medical Group. She is a member of the University Chorale at the University of Arizona, and she is also involved with Women at the Top in Tucson. She has traveled throughout the United States and to Australia, Peru, England, Scotland and Wales. She and her husband, James, have two children.

Save the date!

Little Sibs Weekend March 15-16, 2002 We invite all younger siblings and special friends of Albion College students to come experience college life for a weekend.

There will be special movies, arts and crafts activities, and opportunities to explore the College. A mailing will be sent out in the spring, but if you would like further information in the meantime, please contact Pam Schuler, assistant director of alumni and parent relations, at 517/629-0435 or by e-mail at pschuler@albion.edu.

Robert and Sheran Payne Wallis, both ’66, 2075 Elm Terrace, Benton Harbor, MI 49022, enjoy spending time with their grandson. Bob is an employment specialist and team leader for the office of Michigan Works. A member of the Bach Festival Chorus in Kalamazoo, he recently sang with the Albion College choir at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Marcia Sursaw Wertzbar, ’66, 11369 S. Oakwood, Jerome, MI 49249, is a corporate traffic manager for Jacobson’s Stores Inc., and she is also the vice president of Woodbridge Builders Inc. She previously taught school for 10 years. She is a member of the Jaycees, AAUW and is a board member at her church. She has traveled to Spain and Mexico, and has made several trips to the Caribbean. She and her husband, Michael, were married in 1987. She has two children, three stepchildren and 10 grandchildren.

Bruce and Catherine Gay Wineman, both ’66, M 636 Galvin Ave., Stratford, WI 54484-9518. Bruce is an obstetrician/ gynecologist, specializing in infertility, at the Marshfield Clinic. Catherine raises sheep and direct markets lamb and sheeprelated products, such as hand spun wool, wool items and sheep tallow soap. Bruce will be retiring in the fall and hopes to spend more time doing all the things he didn’t have time for while he was working.

Catherine will be continuing with her farming ventures.

68 Toni Young Terrel, ’68, retired from teaching in Wabash, IN. She and her husband, Ted, live in Cahone, CO.

71 Nancy Diack Asma, ’71, 5651 Mt. Burnside Way, Burke, VA 22015, is a sales associate for the Kuhon Learning Center. A member of Grace Christian Reformed Church, she is involved in community outreach. She and her husband, Jacob, have two sons.

David Bailey, ’71, 112 Timberbrook Lane, Bridgeport, WV 26330, is the corporate compliance/privacy officer for St. Joseph’s Hospital in Buckhannon, WV. He is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives, Medical Group Management Associates and the West Virginia Hospital Association, and is a board member for the United Way of Harrison County. He earned master’s degrees from the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Linda Dohn Baldwin, ’71, 600 E. Erie St., Albion, MI 49224, is employed by Albion Public Schools while on leave from Starr Commonwealth. She has been deeply involved in civic and church activities. She has taken several fishing trips in Canada, during the spring, fall and winter. She earned a special education degree and her master’s degree from Western Michigan University. She and her husband, Philip Baldwin, ’47, have been married for 11 years. Together they have eight children.

Sally Lenske Brown, ’71, 5106 Stoneleigh Ave., Dallas, TX 75235, is a preschool librarian at Westminster Presbyterian Preschool. She serves as an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Dallas and is also a member of the Visual Arts Guild and NAEYC. She recently traveled to England.

She earned her master’s degree in education from Boston University. She and her husband, David, have two children.

James Buckingham, ’71, 3200 Rolling Hills Dr., Nacogdoches, TX 75965, is in private practice as a psychiatrist. He serves as president of the East Texas Chapter of the Texas Society for Psychiatric Physicians and the Nacogdoches-San Augustine Co. Medical Society. He also serves as a Boy Scout master. He earned his medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine in 1975 and completed his residency in psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center. He married Judy Prather in 1973. They have two children.

Linda Weber Burton, ’71, 1211 Banbury Rd., Kalamazoo, MI 49001, is an early childhood teacher at The Discovery Center.

A former director of child care at the YWCA in Flint, Linda also served as a court-appointed special advocate for children and was a conference and district officer for the United Methodist Church.

She has been accepted to the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, and will begin classes in January for a master of divinity degree. She has been active in the Edison Neighborhood Outreach Ministry and is the vice president of the Oak Park Neighborhood Association in Flint. Her husband, Dwight Burton, ’71, passed away in August 2000. He was pastor at Central United Methodist Church in Flint at the time of his death. She has two children.

Chad Cox, ’71, 3930 Wisner Highway, Adrian, MI 49221, is a medical technologist at St. Luke’s Hospital. He is the scouting coordinator for Troop 659 and is a member of the Lenape District Eagle Board for the Boy Scouts of America. He is also the treasurer for the Western Lake Erie Chapter of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association. He and his wife, Claris, have four children and four grandchildren.

Susan Crane, ’71, 130 B Sebago Lake Rd., Gorham, ME 04038, is a commissioned interim minister for American Baptist Churches USA. She is currently serving as interim pastor of First Baptist Church in Gardiner, ME. She is also serving as an advocate for women in ministry among the American Baptist churches in Maine. She was ordained in 1977, and served as pastor of American Baptist churches in New York and Massachusetts from 1975 to 2000. She earned her master of divinity degree from the Boston University School of Theology in 1976 and her doctorate in 1980. She and her husband, Gary Wolcott, ’72, married in 1971. They have two sons.

Dan Deligianis, ’71, 8038 Lakeshore Rd., Lakeport, MI 48059, is a retired ophthalmologist. He has served as the honorary fleet physician for a sailing regatta in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He has traveled to Greece, Turkey, Egypt, western Europe, Bahamas, Mexico and Australia.

Robert DiLoreto, ’71, 181 Lothrop Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236, is urologic surgeon. He is a senior partner for the Michigan Institute of Urology and serves as a member of the U.S. FDA panel overseeing urologic devices. He is also chairman of the board for St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, where he also has been president of the medical staff. After earning his medical degree from Wayne State University, he completed his urology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

He also completed a pediatric residency fellowship at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He and his wife, Susan, have three children.

David Dunlap, ’71, 3177 Kingston Ave., Napa, CA 94558, is a self-employed building contractor. He has been a building contractor in Napa since 1975. He and his wife, Emily Cosby, spend their summers at their second home in Truckee. They have one son.

Barbara Donlon, ’71, 282 Main St., Winchester, MA 01890, is a columnist for the Boston Sunday Herald. She is also a preschool teacher. She and her husband, Steven Tringali, married in 1985. They recently purchased an old farm in Freedom, New Hampshire. They have a daughter.

Laurence DuComb, ’71, 63 Brettwood Rd., Belmont, MA 02478, has an inpatient psychiatry practice. He recently completed 22 years working at a county jail. He has also worked with advanced psychiatric services in adolescent psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. He and his wife, Aliki, make an annual trip to her home country of Greece. He has two sons and three step-granddaughters.

Cindy Grunwald Dwyer, ’71, 1651 Wild Pine Way, Reston, VA 20194, is a realtor with Weichert Realtors. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado. She has lived in Iran and Germany. She is married to Paul Dwyer.

Jeffrey Endean, ’71, 1825 Glencairn, Saginaw, MI 48609, is a partner in a law firm. He is married to Myrna.

Diane Foe Fattig, ’71, 5211 Callister Ave., Sacramento, CA 95819, is a court and deposition reporter. She and her husband, Richard, have two children.

Robert Flaherty, ’71, 416 W. Arnold St., Bozeman, MT 59715, is a physician. His wife, Carol Gibson Flaherty, ’70, is an editor and earned a master’s degree in technology education. The Flahertys have traveled to Ireland four times, and plan to go again next year.

Linda Fraser, ’71, 905 S. Hickory Ridge Trail, Milford, MI 48380, is a teacher with Huron Valley Schools. She is married to Al Worrell.

David Gladstone, ’71, 32006 Wellston, Warren, MI 48093, is the senior pastor at Warren First United Methodist Church. He is chair of the Detroit East District Committee on Ordained Ministry. He earned a master of divinity degree from Garrett Evangelical in 1991. He and his wife, Terry, married in 1973. They have two children, including Carl Gladstone, ’01.

Nancy Werner Goss, ’71, 2 Hillcrest Ave., Milford, CT 06460, is the school library media specialist for Amity Regional District #5. She was named the 2001 Teacher of the Year for the district. She earned a master’s degree from Boston College, and she has also received a sixthyear certificate as a library media specialist.

She was honored for 12 years of taking high school students on a week-long field studies trip to the Bermuda Biological Station for Research. She is married to Roger Goss and has two sons.

Bob Gray, ’71, 902 Locust Lane, Albion, MI 49224, is a teacher at Albion High School. A past Teacher of the Year for the Albion schools, he has also been honored as the Regional Swim Coach of the Year.

He earned a master’s degree from Western Michigan University. He and his wife, Sharon, were married in 1974 and have two children. They spend their summers in Bay View.

Randall Hastedt, ’71, 8144 Linden Leaf Circle, Columbus, OH 43235, is a physician/pathologist. He is the laboratory medical director at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville. He served for 11 years in active duty for the U.S. Navy, and he is currently a member of the Naval Reserve. He and his wife, Brenda, have three children.

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coach for 17 years. David was named the D.A.R. Teacher of the Year for the Wayne/ Oakland/Macomb county area in 1997-98.

His hobbies include collecting space memorabilia, as well as poetry and writing.

He and his wife, Susan Galbraith Minch, ’67, married in 1967. They have two children.

Sandy Walsh Moliere, ’66, 8421 Quincy Court, Fort Wayne, IN 46835, has worked for 19 years as an elementary school counselor. She also worked for 14 years as a teacher. She has traveled throughout the United States and Europe, including unguided bike trips through Germany and France. She earned her master’s degree from Valparaiso University. She and her husband, David Jolliff, married in 1982.

Robert Moore, ’66, 25528 Sherwood, Huntington Woods, MI 48070, is a selfemployed physician. He operates a cardiology practice in Warren. He earned his medical degree from Wayne State University in 1969. He and his wife, Karen, have two children.

Geoffrey Morris, ’66, 150 East 73rd St., Apt. 4B, New York, NY 10021, is a real estate sales person with Fenwick-Keats in New York City. After 28 years, he retired from corporate interior design. He was senior project manager and director of design for Bank of New York, Gibbs & Hill, and three other smaller firms. He serves as a trustee at Proctor Academy, a prep school in Andover, NH. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and received his real estate certification from Marymount College. He has been on 25 cruises, and has traveled all over the world.

Rozanne Williamson Oehring, ’66, 157 Scottsdale Dr., Troy, MI 48084-1772, is retired. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club, D.A.R. and God’s Helping Hands of Mecosta County. She has traveled to the Canadian Rockies, Nova Scotia, England, western Europe, and throughout the United States. She recently married Edwin Oehring following the death of her husband, George. She has two children, three step-children and many stepgrandchildren.

Barbara Pearson Ransford, ’66, 2500 Fox Run Lane, Magnolia, AR 71753, is a high school French teacher at Camden Fairview Public Schools. Chairperson for the Southwest Arkansas Foreign Language Alliance, she is also president of the Arkansas Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French and the Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association. She earned her master’s degree in French from Wayne State University and a diploma from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She has traveled several times to France and also

visited India, Japan, Tahiti, Bali and Australia. She and her husband, George Ransford, ’63, married in 1963. They have two children.

Holly Burnette Richter, ’66, 6084 Lincoln Ave., Stevensville, MI 49127, is a court referral coordinator. She enjoys whitewater rafting in Idaho every summer, and she also goes hiking in Utah every fall. She and her husband, Bill, married in 1966.

They have three children.

Anne Corstange Rulapaugh, ’66, 3002 E. Golden Vista Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85028, is a china specialist in the bridal department at Macy’s. She also taught English at Berkley High School for three years. She performed with the Arizona Masterworks Chorale for 10 years, during which time she participated in two concerts with the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

She has traveled to England, France, Finland, Mexico and Spain. She and her husband, Stanley Rulapaugh, ’64, married in 1966. They have two children.

Margery Taber Schleicher, ’66, 412 E. Michigan, Au Gres, MI 48703, is a member of the United Methodist clergy. She also taught and did volunteer work prior to becoming a clergy member in 1980. She is involved in several community and civic organizations. Margery earned a master’s degree from Michigan State University in 1979 and an M.Div. from the United Theological School in 1980. She has traveled to Europe and has also visited the Holy Land twice. She and her husband, Gordon, married in 1970. They have two children and two grandchildren.

Terry Shade, ’66, P.O. Box 971066, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, is a pilot/captain for Northwest Airlines. He has one child.

Kalmin Smith, ’66, 119 W. Jefferson St., Grand Ledge, MI 48837, is the deputy director for the Department of Consumer and Industry Services for the state of Michigan. He is a member of the Grand Ledge City Council, and he is also the chairman of the board for the American Heart Association of Michigan. He earned a master’s degree from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He and his wife, Marsha Cobb Smith, ’67, married in 1967. They have two children.

Wanda Wesenick Torrey, 66, 1851 N. Moon Valley Place, Tucson, AZ 85745, is a physician in internal medicine with the Carundelet Medical Group. She is a member of the University Chorale at the University of Arizona, and she is also involved with Women at the Top in Tucson. She has traveled throughout the United States and to Australia, Peru, England, Scotland and Wales. She and her husband, James, have two children.

Save the date!

Little Sibs Weekend March 15-16, 2002 We invite all younger siblings and special friends of Albion College students to come experience college life for a weekend.

There will be special movies, arts and crafts activities, and opportunities to explore the College. A mailing will be sent out in the spring, but if you would like further information in the meantime, please contact Pam Schuler, assistant director of alumni and parent relations, at 517/629-0435 or by e-mail at pschuler@albion.edu.

Robert and Sheran Payne Wallis, both ’66, 2075 Elm Terrace, Benton Harbor, MI 49022, enjoy spending time with their grandson. Bob is an employment specialist and team leader for the office of Michigan Works. A member of the Bach Festival Chorus in Kalamazoo, he recently sang with the Albion College choir at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Marcia Sursaw Wertzbar, ’66, 11369 S. Oakwood, Jerome, MI 49249, is a corporate traffic manager for Jacobson’s Stores Inc., and she is also the vice president of Woodbridge Builders Inc. She previously taught school for 10 years. She is a member of the Jaycees, AAUW and is a board member at her church. She has traveled to Spain and Mexico, and has made several trips to the Caribbean. She and her husband, Michael, were married in 1987. She has two children, three stepchildren and 10 grandchildren.

Bruce and Catherine Gay Wineman, both ’66, M 636 Galvin Ave., Stratford, WI 54484-9518. Bruce is an obstetrician/ gynecologist, specializing in infertility, at the Marshfield Clinic. Catherine raises sheep and direct markets lamb and sheeprelated products, such as hand spun wool, wool items and sheep tallow soap. Bruce will be retiring in the fall and hopes to spend more time doing all the things he didn’t have time for while he was working.

Catherine will be continuing with her farming ventures.

68 Toni Young Terrel, ’68, retired from teaching in Wabash, IN. She and her husband, Ted, live in Cahone, CO.

71 Nancy Diack Asma, ’71, 5651 Mt. Burnside Way, Burke, VA 22015, is a sales associate for the Kuhon Learning Center. A member of Grace Christian Reformed Church, she is involved in community outreach. She and her husband, Jacob, have two sons.

David Bailey, ’71, 112 Timberbrook Lane, Bridgeport, WV 26330, is the corporate compliance/privacy officer for St. Joseph’s Hospital in Buckhannon, WV. He is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives, Medical Group Management Associates and the West Virginia Hospital Association, and is a board member for the United Way of Harrison County. He earned master’s degrees from the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Linda Dohn Baldwin, ’71, 600 E. Erie St., Albion, MI 49224, is employed by Albion Public Schools while on leave from Starr Commonwealth. She has been deeply involved in civic and church activities. She has taken several fishing trips in Canada, during the spring, fall and winter. She earned a special education degree and her master’s degree from Western Michigan University. She and her husband, Philip Baldwin, ’47, have been married for 11 years. Together they have eight children.

Sally Lenske Brown, ’71, 5106 Stoneleigh Ave., Dallas, TX 75235, is a preschool librarian at Westminster Presbyterian Preschool. She serves as an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Dallas and is also a member of the Visual Arts Guild and NAEYC. She recently traveled to England.

She earned her master’s degree in education from Boston University. She and her husband, David, have two children.

James Buckingham, ’71, 3200 Rolling Hills Dr., Nacogdoches, TX 75965, is in private practice as a psychiatrist. He serves as president of the East Texas Chapter of the Texas Society for Psychiatric Physicians and the Nacogdoches-San Augustine Co. Medical Society. He also serves as a Boy Scout master. He earned his medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine in 1975 and completed his residency in psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center. He married Judy Prather in 1973. They have two children.

Linda Weber Burton, ’71, 1211 Banbury Rd., Kalamazoo, MI 49001, is an early childhood teacher at The Discovery Center.

A former director of child care at the YWCA in Flint, Linda also served as a court-appointed special advocate for children and was a conference and district officer for the United Methodist Church.

She has been accepted to the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, and will begin classes in January for a master of divinity degree. She has been active in the Edison Neighborhood Outreach Ministry and is the vice president of the Oak Park Neighborhood Association in Flint. Her husband, Dwight Burton, ’71, passed away in August 2000. He was pastor at Central United Methodist Church in Flint at the time of his death. She has two children.

Chad Cox, ’71, 3930 Wisner Highway, Adrian, MI 49221, is a medical technologist at St. Luke’s Hospital. He is the scouting coordinator for Troop 659 and is a member of the Lenape District Eagle Board for the Boy Scouts of America. He is also the treasurer for the Western Lake Erie Chapter of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association. He and his wife, Claris, have four children and four grandchildren.

Susan Crane, ’71, 130 B Sebago Lake Rd., Gorham, ME 04038, is a commissioned interim minister for American Baptist Churches USA. She is currently serving as interim pastor of First Baptist Church in Gardiner, ME. She is also serving as an advocate for women in ministry among the American Baptist churches in Maine. She was ordained in 1977, and served as pastor of American Baptist churches in New York and Massachusetts from 1975 to 2000. She earned her master of divinity degree from the Boston University School of Theology in 1976 and her doctorate in 1980. She and her husband, Gary Wolcott, ’72, married in 1971. They have two sons.

Dan Deligianis, ’71, 8038 Lakeshore Rd., Lakeport, MI 48059, is a retired ophthalmologist. He has served as the honorary fleet physician for a sailing regatta in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He has traveled to Greece, Turkey, Egypt, western Europe, Bahamas, Mexico and Australia.

Robert DiLoreto, ’71, 181 Lothrop Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236, is urologic surgeon. He is a senior partner for the Michigan Institute of Urology and serves as a member of the U.S. FDA panel overseeing urologic devices. He is also chairman of the board for St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, where he also has been president of the medical staff. After earning his medical degree from Wayne State University, he completed his urology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

He also completed a pediatric residency fellowship at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He and his wife, Susan, have three children.

David Dunlap, ’71, 3177 Kingston Ave., Napa, CA 94558, is a self-employed building contractor. He has been a building contractor in Napa since 1975. He and his wife, Emily Cosby, spend their summers at their second home in Truckee. They have one son.

Barbara Donlon, ’71, 282 Main St., Winchester, MA 01890, is a columnist for the Boston Sunday Herald. She is also a preschool teacher. She and her husband, Steven Tringali, married in 1985. They recently purchased an old farm in Freedom, New Hampshire. They have a daughter.

Laurence DuComb, ’71, 63 Brettwood Rd., Belmont, MA 02478, has an inpatient psychiatry practice. He recently completed 22 years working at a county jail. He has also worked with advanced psychiatric services in adolescent psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. He and his wife, Aliki, make an annual trip to her home country of Greece. He has two sons and three step-granddaughters.

Cindy Grunwald Dwyer, ’71, 1651 Wild Pine Way, Reston, VA 20194, is a realtor with Weichert Realtors. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado. She has lived in Iran and Germany. She is married to Paul Dwyer.

Jeffrey Endean, ’71, 1825 Glencairn, Saginaw, MI 48609, is a partner in a law firm. He is married to Myrna.

Diane Foe Fattig, ’71, 5211 Callister Ave., Sacramento, CA 95819, is a court and deposition reporter. She and her husband, Richard, have two children.

Robert Flaherty, ’71, 416 W. Arnold St., Bozeman, MT 59715, is a physician. His wife, Carol Gibson Flaherty, ’70, is an editor and earned a master’s degree in technology education. The Flahertys have traveled to Ireland four times, and plan to go again next year.

Linda Fraser, ’71, 905 S. Hickory Ridge Trail, Milford, MI 48380, is a teacher with Huron Valley Schools. She is married to Al Worrell.

David Gladstone, ’71, 32006 Wellston, Warren, MI 48093, is the senior pastor at Warren First United Methodist Church. He is chair of the Detroit East District Committee on Ordained Ministry. He earned a master of divinity degree from Garrett Evangelical in 1991. He and his wife, Terry, married in 1973. They have two children, including Carl Gladstone, ’01.

Nancy Werner Goss, ’71, 2 Hillcrest Ave., Milford, CT 06460, is the school library media specialist for Amity Regional District #5. She was named the 2001 Teacher of the Year for the district. She earned a master’s degree from Boston College, and she has also received a sixthyear certificate as a library media specialist.

She was honored for 12 years of taking high school students on a week-long field studies trip to the Bermuda Biological Station for Research. She is married to Roger Goss and has two sons.

Bob Gray, ’71, 902 Locust Lane, Albion, MI 49224, is a teacher at Albion High School. A past Teacher of the Year for the Albion schools, he has also been honored as the Regional Swim Coach of the Year.

He earned a master’s degree from Western Michigan University. He and his wife, Sharon, were married in 1974 and have two children. They spend their summers in Bay View.

Randall Hastedt, ’71, 8144 Linden Leaf Circle, Columbus, OH 43235, is a physician/pathologist. He is the laboratory medical director at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville. He served for 11 years in active duty for the U.S. Navy, and he is currently a member of the Naval Reserve. He and his wife, Brenda, have three children.

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Purple and gold, through and through Among the first-year students who arrived at Albion this fall are 30 (listed below) who are the children of Briton alumni. Of course, we also welcomed many other entering students who have alumni relatives other than their parents. Thanks to all of you for helping the Albion tradition continue.

Zachary Baselle John, ’71, and Deborah Baselle Lauren Bender Stephen and Amy Bonta Bender, ’78, ’78 Justin Bishop Monty, ’80, and Diane Bishop Jared Boynton Jack and Joan Mansfield Boynton, ’68, ’67 Lisa Chappell Sue Olcott Chappell, ’77

William Grattan Crary and Kristin Walden Grattan, ’75

Elizabeth Mitchell Richard and Katherine Hess Mitchell, ’73, ’75

Rebecca Heath Howard and Kathleen Hill Heath, ’74

Adrienne Omand Keith and Georgianne Mitchell Omand, ’79, ’79

Sarah Hoekwater Harris, ’77, and Jane Hoekwater

Janice Portlance Michael and Jerrilyn Seyler Portlance, ’66

Samuel Hogg David, ’69, and Margaret Hogg

Alexander Privee Ralph and Jennifer Trail Privee, ’75

Michael Huff John and Janyce Grostic Huff, ’75, ’77

Peter Rahn David and Nan Sawyer Rahn, ’69

Jason Colegrove Neil and Patricia Swartley Colegrove, ’77, ’77

Robert Koch James, ’71, and Jana Koch

Troy Rundle Craig, ’74, and Ann Rundle

Daniel Cromie Frederick and Camella Maxim Cromie, ’78, ’77

Lisa Leverenz John and Catherine Martin Leverenz, ’78, ’78

Elizabeth Shaw-Duffey David, ’85, and Kathleen Duffey

Michael Durkin Michael, ’83, and Mary Durkin Erin Gisse Mark, ’79, and Mary Gisse Philip Gonsalez Robert, ’91, and Robin Chwalik

Andrew McCarley Judith Burger Ort, ’88 James McCarley, Albion College faculty Bush McCarthy Steven and Victoria Butler McCarthy, ’74, ’74

Alexandra Stefanes George and Sherry Richardson Stefanes, ’65 Stacey Vanover Paul, ’80, and Terrie Vanover Ryan Ziem Frederick, ’70, and Deborah Ziem

Whitney McCleneghan Brett and Lauri Burris McCleneghan, ’76, ’76

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

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

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

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

Mark Helmrich, ’71, 227 Creek Dr., Slippery Rock, PA 16057, has been serving as a caretaker for his parents since 1978.

He has worked in Washington, California, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. He has also traveled to Italy and throughout the United States and Canada. His hobbies include deer hunting and cross country skiing.

Robert Hood, ’71, 3309 Westover Lane, Eau Claire, WI 54701, is president of a bank. A board member of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation and Business School, he is also a board member of the Salvation Army and the Career Development Center. He is president of the Chippewa Valley Technical College Foundation. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Central Michigan University. He has traveled to play golf in Scotland and Italy. He and his wife, Jean, have been married for 27 years.

They have two sons.

Kathryn Lund Johnson, ’71, 11155 Hastings Point Rd., Middleville, MI 49333, is a freelance nature writer/photographer.

She practiced occupational therapy for several years. She has been published in several magazines, and she has also had photos displayed in several juried fine arts shows. She serves on the board of the Barry Community Foundation. She earned a degree in occupational therapy from Western Michigan University in 1971. She and her husband, Mark Johnson, ’69, married in 1973.

David Koski, ’71, P.O. Box 476, 416 N. Second St., Coleman, MI 48618, serves as clergy for Coleman United Methodist Church. He enjoys traveling and has visited every continent.

Nancy Stamman Laitner, ’71, 2020 Seneca Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, is a first grade teacher at the Emerson School for the Academically Talented in Ann Arbor. She and her husband, John, married in 1977. They have two daughters.

Malcolm MacMartin, ’71, 3164 Walma, Orchard Lake, MI 48324, is a dentist. He earned his D.D.S. degree from the University of Detroit in 1975. He has traveled to St. Martin for scuba diving. He and his wife, Melody Mercer MacMartin, ’74, have a son.

Linda Arnold MacMillan, ’71, 20 Sunny View Lane, Phippsburg, ME 04562, is a former director of marketing for the Highlands Retirement Community. She serves on the boards for the Maine State Music Theatre and the Chamber of Commerce of Bath/Brunswick. She earned her master’s degree in education from Syracuse University.

Jim Marzolf, ’71, 2897 W. Darleen Dr., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, is in private practice as a dentist. He was elected to the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontists in 1996. He earned his D.D.S. degree from the University of Detroit in 1979 and also attended graduate school at Northern Arizona University. He and his wife, Angie, married in 2001. They have a daughter.

John McGilliard, ’71, 401 6th Court, Fox Island, WA 98333, is an attorney/managing partner for the law offices of Crawford, McGilliard, Peterson, Yelish, and Dixon.

He served for nine years on the board of Wesley Homes Retirement Community. He is the principal tenor soloist for the Tacoma Symphony Chorus and is a founding member and board member of the Northwest Repertory Singers. He earned his J.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He and his wife, Carol, have been married for 26 years. They have two children.

David Moeller, ’71, 18727 N. 92nd Dr., Peoria, AZ 95382, is retired from the U.S. Air Force.

Ann Gieseler Nelson, ’71, 502 Linden Ave., Albion, MI 49224, is the director of Christian education for the Marshall Presbyterian Church and Center for Children. She also worked in secondary education and was a library media specialist. She was awarded a grant fellowship for 2001 from the AAUW, and she is an honorary life member of the Presbyterian Women’s Association. She was also awarded the Outstanding High School Teacher Award. She earned her master’s degree in library and information science. She and her husband, Gerald, married in 1996. She has two sons, including Ross Bryan, ’00.

Linda Reeder Overholt, ’71, 8742 Edgeridge Dr., West Chester, OH 45069, is a medical social worker for Gambro Healthcare. She also worked for 10 years as a geriatric social worker and coordinator for the Aging Services for Jewish Family Services in Cincinnati. She earned a degree from the University of Michigan in 1971 and a master’s degree in social work from Western Michigan University in 1975. She and her husband, Bill, have been married since 1980. They have two children.

James Radtke, ’71, 28740 N. Monroe Ave., Wauconda, IL 60084, is an exclusive agent for Allstate Insurance Co. He also worked for 10 years in the physical plant at Albion College. President of the Rotary Club of Wauconda, he is an elder at Holy Cross Lutheran Church. He is also a member of the Lake County Life Underwriters and the University of Illinois Dad’s Club. His hobbies include gardening and tinkering in his workshop. He and his wife, Marilyn, married in 1972. They have two daughters.

Gary and Ann Pearson Renard, both ’71, 1344 Bradbury, Troy, MI 48098, have been married for 30 years. Ann is a licensed psychologist in private clinical practice in Royal Oak. Gary is a self-employed physician. He has been an attending physician at William Beaumont Hospital in Troy for 23 years. Ann earned a Ph.D. from The Union Institute in 1994. Gary earned his medical degree from Wayne State University in 1976. The Renards have a daughter.

Kinsley Renshaw Jr., ’71, 1817 Caldwell Place, Columbus, IN 47201, is a landscape contractor. He and his wife, Marylou, have two children.

Barbara Powers Richardson, ’71, 6041 N. Maplewood, Chicago, IL 60659, is a eurythmy (art of movement) teacher and administrator for the Chicago Waldorf School, which she helped develop. She studied Waldorf education and took a fouryear training in the art of movement at the London School of Eurythmy. She earned a certificate from the Waldorf Teacher Training Institute of Mercy College in Detroit. She is currently the president of the Eurythmy Association of North America.

She is married to Ron. Stephen Ross, ’71, 16809 125th Ave., Rodney, MI 48342-9706, is self-employed.

He recently sold the business that he had owned and operated for 25 years. He has published several scientific articles, short subjects, and two books. He recently published The Natural History of Mecosta County, Michigan, the first full assessment of the natural history of a Michigan county.

He has traveled to Kenya, the Canadian Arctic, Panama, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Britain and Ireland. He and his wife, Barbara, married in 1972.

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Lyle Schmidt, ’71, 7605 Brill Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45243, is a partner in Electronauts, a company that sells telecommunications equipment to developing countries in Africa, south Asia, and South America. He is also president of Chapin Properties, Inc., a real estate investment company. He is married and has four children.

Richard and Nancy Miller Stack, both ’71, 106 Alder Place, Chapel Hill, NC 27517. Richard is a tenured cardiology professor at Duke University. He is president of the Atlanta Cardiovascular Research Institute and a managing partner of Synecor. He also serves as president of Quest Center Martial Arts. He is a fifth degree black belt. Nancy is vice president of Quest Center Martial Arts and a glassblower. The Stacks have three children.

William Stout, ’71, 423 Dorsey Way, Louisville, KY 40223-2833, is an assistant professor of accountancy at the University of Louisville. He worked in public and industrial accounting and also for the Financial Accounting Standards Board. He earned his M.B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1973 and his Ph.D. from the University of South Florida in 1997. He is also a certified public accountant. He and his wife, Jean, have adopted 11 children.

Richard Thomas, ’71, 608 Creekmore Court, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, is a pediatrician in the Permanente Medical Group. He is a member of the Christian Medical and Dental Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has traveled to Japan. He and his wife, Ikuko, have three children.

Carla Hird Tibble, ’71, 20612 Woodbird Dr., Northville, MI 48167, is a teacher in life management education. She is involved with various teaching committees. She and her husband, Robert Tibble, ’68, married in 1971. They have one son.

Susan Todd, ’71, 39463 Baroque, Clinton Township, MI 48038, is computer coordinator for L’Anse Creuse Public Schools. She is a former Teacher of the Year. She earned a degree in administration and a master’s degree in mathematics instruction. She and her husband, Carl Isenberg, have one son.

Robert “Bob” Wandel, ’71, 1782 Eaglehelm Place, Henderson, NV 89074, is general manager of Image Construction, Inc. He is a home builder and general contractor, and he also worked as a construction manager at Disneyland. He serves as the Eagle Scout reviewer for the Boy Scouts of America in Henderson, NV. He has traveled to Mexico and the Caribbean, and throughout the United States. He and his wife, Pam, married in 1972. They have three children.

George “Ben” Hare and Janet Welch, both ’71, 912 Stuart Ave., East Lansing, MI 48823-3144, are both attorneys. Ben is legal counsel for the Michigan State Legislature. Janet serves as general counsel for the State Bar of Michigan. Ben has been involved with the Lansing area soccer programs as a coach and referee, while Janet is involved with various Lansing area dance organizations. They have traveled throughout the United States and Europe.

They have two children.

74 Rosa Gomez Dierks, ’74, has written a new textbook, Introduction to Globalization: Political and Economic Perspectives for the 21st Century, published by Burnham in August 2001. She is a teacher at Adams State College and lives in Alamosa, CO.

76 Colleen White Baker, ’76, 5768 Stewart Rd., Monroe, MI 48162, is a math and science teacher for Mason Consolidated Schools. She is also a violinist in the Monroe Chamber Players. She earned her master’s degree in secondary school teaching from Eastern Michigan University in 1989. Colleen and her husband, Lynn, married in 1981. They have one daughter.

Ronald Blair, ’76, 4880 Indian Creek Dr., Jackson, MI 49201, works in financial forecasting for Consumers Energy. He is married to Sharon Galardi.

Susan Battle Boyko, ’76, 5131 Maple Grove Rd., Charlevoix, MI 49720, is a business owner, along with her husband.

Recipient of a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Madonna, she has also worked as a registered nurse, flight nurse and an emergency room nurse. She is active in her church and is a newsletter writer for a local agricultural co-op. She and her husband, Tim Boyko, ’72, have been married for 24 years. They have two children.

Kay Richardson Brawley, ’76, 3453 Old Ditch Dr., Placerville, CA 95667, is a kindergarten teacher at Blue Oak School in Buckeye Union School District. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree from Western Maryland College. Kay has traveled to Mexico and to the western and southern Caribbean. She and her husband, Rod, married in 1998.

Anne Bayer Burke, ’76, 324 Touraine Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236, does writing and research for the Gale Group, a publishing company in Farmington Hills.

She and her husband, John, have two children.

Cosette Tracy Campbell, ’76, 41 Beverly Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236, is a community and school volunteer, and she is currently the president of the University Liggett Middle School Parents Association.

She earned an M.B.A. in 1978. She has three children.

Duff Chamberlain, ’76, 8027 Osage, Allen Park, MI 48101, is a self-employed funeral director. He has served on Presbyterian church boards, and he has been a member of the Jaycees and the Lions. For the past two years he has served as president of the Allen Park Junior Football Club. He and his wife, Margaret Suhy Chamberlain, married in 1978. They have two sons.

Laura Pollock Cerven, ’76, 21532 84th Ave. SW, Vashon, WA 98070, is a French teacher giving private and group lessons and is a published literary translator. She is also director of the Vashon United Methodist Church Choir. She earned a master’s degree in French from the University of Illinois and has traveled to France. She and her husband, John, have three sons.

Charles Cook, ’76, 3420 Channing Lane, Bedford, TX 76021, is a family physician and owner of Bedford Family Medicine.

Medical director of First United Methodist Church Medical/Dental Missions, he is also a clinical associate professor of family medicine at UNTHSC Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, as well as the chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Harris Methodist HEB Hospital. His hobbies include coaching girls’ youth basketball and singing in the church choir. He and his wife, Janelle, have four children.

Jennifer Hewins Delozier, ’76, 8 Pine St., Easthampton, MA 01027, is a development educator for Heritage Child Development Center. A board member and community producer for a local public access television station, she is also interested in photography and writing. She earned her master’s degree in early childhood education/ Montessori. She has traveled throughout the United States. She and her husband, Gregory, have adopted two children.

Steve Dickson, ’76, P.O. Box 9545, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067, moved to California this year. His family is enjoying the weather, but they miss their friends and family in Michigan. Last year he went mountain climbing in Morocco with Dan Webster, ’76. They climbed the highest peak in northern Africa in support of a

children’s charity. Dan hit a golf ball off the top of the mountain. He and his wife, Terri, have been married for 12 years. They have two children.

Barry Doublestein, ’76, 5303 Holly Brooke Lane, Loganville, GA 30052, is president of the Osteopathic Institute of the South. He is chairman of Americans for Haitian Healthcare and is a lobbyist at the Georgia General Assembly for the Georgia Osteopathic Medical Association. He is the former dean of students for Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. Barry was a candidate for U.S. Congress during the open election to replace Newt Gingrich in 1998. He earned a master’s degree from Northeast Missouri State University. He and his wife, Vivian Balzer Doublestein, have three children.

James Fay, ’76, 3142 Daggitt Dr., Spring Arbor, MI 49283, is a vice president for special loans at Citizens Bank. He also serves as director for the Michigan Certified Development Corp. He earned his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1991. He and his wife, Lori Hannum Fay, married in 1979. They have two children.

Janice Hook Foley, ’76, 3940 Leane Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32309, is a senior policy

analyst for the Florida legislature. She also owns a video production company along with her husband. She is president of Tallahassee Families with Asian Children, and she is active in the international adoption community. Janice earned her M.B.A. from Florida State University in 1978 and is a CPA. She and her husband, Steve, married in 1994. They adopted a daughter from China in 1998, and they are returning to China this winter to adopt another daughter.

Steven Forbes, ’76, 2532 E. Ramsgate Court, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126, is a sales manager for Unilever Best Foods. He and his wife, Karen Hilbish Forbes, ’74, have been married for 25 years. They have two children.

David Gruen, ’76, 11406 E. Vassar Dr., Aurora, CO 80014, is a senior loan officer.

He and his wife, Kim, have three children.

Susan Henry, ’76, 8708 Black Creek Blvd., Orlando, FL 32829, is a seminary student at Asbury Seminary and Christian education director. She taught special education for nine years and has been on the church staff for 14 years. She earned a master’s degree in Christian education/ youth ministry from METHESCO. She has

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traveled on choir tours to Italy and Austria, and she has also participated in a work project with youth in Hungary, Russia and Costa Rica.

Carol Jackson, ’76, 1370 Whispering Springs, Palatine, IL 60074, is a manager with World Travel/BTI. She purchased her first home two years ago. She has traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Europe, Tokyo and New Orleans in the past year. Her hobbies include gardening, crafting and doing volunteer work.

David Johnson, ’76, 1819 Old Orchard Rd., Rockford, IL 61107, is an operations manager for Hamilton Sundstrand. He is a school volunteer and has also been a soccer and basketball coach. He and his wife, Michele, have been married for 21 years.

They have two children.

Karen Weller Jones, ’76, 1809 Franklin St., Little Chute, WA 54140, is a high school Spanish and German teacher. She travels to Mexico every other summer. She and her husband, Thain, have been married for 22 years. They have four children.

David King, ’76, 575 Longford, Rochester Hills, MI 48309-2416, is an attorney and senior counsel with DaimlerChrysler, where he handles dealer and distribution legal matters. He spent five years as legal counsel for Chrysler’s Asia-Pacific operations with trips to many Asian countries and extensive time in China and Thailand. He is an assistant scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 360 in Auburn Hills. He and his wife, Frances, married in 1985.

They have two children.

Jim Knudson, ’76, 30354 Lincolnshire, Beverly Hills, MI 48025, is a manufacturing representative for Campbell Co. He has been involved with the automobile industry since he left Albion, either as an employee of General Motors or as a supplier. He enjoys coaching and following his daughters’ travel soccer teams. His hobbies include reading, golf and exercising. He and his wife, Melissa Hyde Knudson, married in 1981. They have two daughters.

Maggie Benjamin LaNoue, ’76, 812 1/2 Burr Oak St., Albion, MI 49224, is president of Albion Design.com. She serves on the executive committee of the Albion Volunteer Service Organization, and she is a Sunday school teacher at First Presbyterian Church. She was given a special tribute by Gov. Blanchard and the Michigan Legislature for contributions to Michigan’s Sesquicentennial in 1987.

Maggie and her two children plan to travel to all 50 states together and have been to 26 states so far.

James Lighthall, ’76, 972 Oxford, Birmingham, MI 48009, works at Exponent in Farmington Hills. He earned a Ph.D. in anatomy. He and his wife, Jane Cockrell Lighthall, ’77, have two sons, including Jon, ’04.

Todd and Pamela Marshall, both ’76, 4629 Five Lakes Rd., North Branch, MI 48461, are committed to home schooling and travel to Knoxville every summer for the Advanced Training Institute Home Education Conference. Todd is a systems analyst for the Ford Motor Co. Pam has home-schooled their four daughters for 10 years.

Bettina Guzdzial McConnell, ’76, 3064 Hamilton St., P.O. Box 2834, West Lafayette, IN 47996-2834, is director of development for the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. She earned a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1981. She and her husband, John, have a son.

Jane Wood McFeely, ’76, 194 Stephens Rd., Grosse Pointe, MI 48236, is an oil painter. She taught French and art for 15 years. She is involved in The Garden Society and the Garden Club of Michigan and also has done fund raising for the Children’s Center. She has traveled to France and Italy, as well as the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands. Jane and her husband, Charles, have been married for 22 years. They have two daughters.

Lois Rodenbeck Meek, ’76, 606 W. St. Clair, Almont, MI 48003, is a self-

employed dentist. She earned her D.D.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 1983, and has had her own practice for 15 years. Lois is active in her children’s school and sports activities and also in her church. She and her husband, Glenn Meek, ’75, have been married for 25 years. They have four children.

Ted Miller, ’76, 187 Pine Hill Lake Rd., Horton, MI 49246, is an associate professor in the Education Department at Albion College. He also taught Spanish and English at Charlevoix. He directed the English program at Soka University in Tokyo for 14 years. He earned a master’s degree in English from Michigan State University in 1981, and an Ed.D. from Temple University in 1998. He and his wife, Mary Lou, have been married for 28 years. They have two sons.

Randolph Mueller, ’76, 18530 Chinquapin, Spring Lake, MI 49456, is a selfemployed dentist. He has traveled as part of medical missionary teams to Honduras, Mexico and Nepal. He and his wife, Lori, married in 1980. They have four children.

Randy Parker, ’76, 103 Deer Path Lane, Battle Creek, MI 49015, is the senior director for human resources at Kellogg Co. He lived and worked in Manchester, England, for six months in 1997. He is a member of his church’s outreach committee and is a church elder. He has traveled to England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France. Randy and his wife, Karen Weideman Parker, ’77, have two children.

Ann Mestrovic Pletcher, ’76, 131 Sunset Dr., Inman, SC 29349, is an associate professor of accounting for Converse College. She is an assistant AYSO soccer coach, and she has held various offices in the United Methodist Church of the Covenant. She earned her M.B.A. from the Keller Graduate School of Management, and she is also a certified management accountant. She and her husband, Brian Pletcher, ’77, married in 1977. They have three children.

Chris, ’76, and Diane Burton Robb, ’75, 1266 Janice St., Holland, MI 49423 married in 1975. They have three children, including Lindsey, ’03. A freelance writer, Diane is the author of a travel/history book, as well as numerous parenting columns.

She is a member of the American Association of University Women and the West Michigan Quilt Guild.

Thomas Schaar, ’76, 1318 Gasparilla Dr., Ft. Myers, FL 33901, is an emergency physician. He is involved with the local Baptist church. He and his wife, Kheri, have three children.

Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, 27375 Bloomfield Dr., Lathrup Village, MI 48076-3341, is a teacher. An advanced master gardener, she is a Detroit Zoo Adopt-A-Garden volunteer. Coletta is also president of the Albion College Alumni Association. She and her husband, Vincent Thomas, ’73, have been married for 25 years. They have a son, Quinn, ’01.

Regarding our query in the past two issues of Io Triumphe about this photo, Martha Shrode, ’81, had this to say: “I am fairly sure that the winner of this [1979] contest was the Pi Beta Phi sorority. At the time, I was a pledge and I believe we managed to cram 21 or 23 of us in there. Being one of the taller pledges, I volunteered to be on the bottom of the pile and ended up laying over the hump on the floor of the back seat! We gave new meaning to the word togetherness as sister after sister jammed in on top to win the contest. I believe this event was part of the Sigma Chi Derby Day. Anyway, despite being squished, stepped on, and generally denied the benefit of breathing during this event, it was truly fun and worth every sore muscle!”

Allen Tucker Jr., ’76, 10302 Greenbrier Dr., Brighton, MI 48114, is an executive vice president for Genesys Health System.

He is vice president of the Greater Flint Sunrise Rotary Club and president of the Genesee Health Plan. He is also a board member of Junior Achievement of Greater Genesee Valley. Allen earned his M.B.A. from Western Michigan University. He has traveled to Ireland, Cayman and Bermuda.

He and his wife, Elizabeth Curry Tucker, ’77, have two daughters.

Mark Williams, ’76, P.O. Box 110, Jamestown, CO 80455, is the water quality coordinator for the Boulder County Health Department. He spent 10 years as a mining geologist, 10 years in environmental business and three years in public health.

He is president of the board for James Creek Watershed Initiative. Mark was the co-recipient, along with his wife, Colleen, of the EPA’s Environmental Achievement Award. He earned a master’s degree in environmental policy and management from the University of Denver. His hobbies include gardening, hiking, cross-country skiing and swimming. Mark and Colleen have been married for 20 years. They have two children.

Alby Zatkoff, ’76, 4144 Harriet Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55409, is the managing editor of BestBuy.com. He has traveled to Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and Australia. He has a partner, Chris White.

78 Matt Roush, ’78, has been named technology editor at WWJ Newsradio 950 in Southfield. Matt previously was a reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business and editor of its CrainTech technology news Web site. At WWJ, Matt provides on-air technology coverage and produces a daily technology newsletter. Matt lives in Dearborn with his wife, Sue, and two children.

80 Mike Kozminski, ’80, a physician with Phoenix Urology in St. Joseph, MO, traveled to Geneva, Switzerland during spring 2001 to present a surgical procedure he designed to help reduce urinary incontinence in women. Mike and his wife, Linda Dwyer Kozminski, ’82, live in St. Joseph.

81 Jeffrey Ackermann, ’81, 1727 Niagara St., Denver, CO 80220-1744, is the governmental affairs director for the Colorado Energy Assistance Foundation.

He is currently working toward a master’s degree in nonprofit management. In 1998 he took a six-month trip around Europe and Asia, culminating in an extended visit with his daughter’s birth family in South Korea.

He and his wife, Marilynn, have been married for 20 years. They have two children.

Cindy Herriman Baird, ’81, 130 Woodway, Battle Creek, MI 49015, is an attorney. She is also an instructor at Spring Arbor University and is a stay-at-home mom. She and her husband, David, have three children.

Larry Bowen, ’81, 6861 Erie Court, Dublin, OH 43017, is the treasurer-director for Ohio Health and holds an M.B.A. He is a member of the Columbus Rotary, was involved with Leadership Columbus and served as a YMCA mentor. He and his wife, Juliana, have four sons.

Beth Freed Carter, ’81, 33666 Ramble Hills, Farmington Hills, MI 48331, and her husband, Ben, have four children.

Bonnie Holmes Chadderdon, ’81, 2354 Yankee, Niles, MI 49120, is an English and Spanish teacher at Berrien Springs High School. She also taught English as a Second Language (ESL). She is a member of the Buchanan College Club, First United Methodist Church and the Career Circle.

Bonnie earned secondary certification and a master’s degree in reading from Western Michigan University. She and her husband, Bob, married in 1990.

Dan Chapman, ’81, lives in Ann Arbor.

He is the medical director in occupational medicine for the University of Michigan Health System. He and his wife, Carol Poulos, Ph.D., have two children.

Kristi Christ, ’81, 1641 Brentwood Dr., Troy, MI 48098, is a vice president and trust officer for Comerica. She was a sales representative for Kellogg’s from 1982 to 1986, and she has been involved in banking since 1987. Kristi earned her J.D. from the Detroit College of Law in 1995. She has traveled to Ireland, France, England, Greece, Turkey and throughout the Caribbean.

Camille Cleveland, ’81, 5600 Wing Lake Rd., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, serves as general counsel for Entertainment Publications, Inc. She previously served as general counsel for Big Boy for 10 years.

She is involved with the Presbyterian Church and the Adult Growth Council. She earned a law degree from Wayne State University. Camille and her husband, Brian Smith, have two children.

Lisa Gregory Comben, ’81, 17980 W. Northville Trail, Northville, MI 48167, is a fund raising consultant and senior associate for Candace K. Spaulding and Associates.

She has worked as a development officer since 1988 for several organizations including the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Motown Historical Museum. She is a board member for the Livonia Civic Ballet Company, and she serves as team manager for the Southfield Mite AA Warriors hockey team. Lisa and her husband, Thomas, married in 1987.

They have two children.

Martha Faylor Coyne, ’81, 458 Bird, Birmingham, MI 48009, is program director for an ENDT Program. She also worked in the END/Neurology field as a manager and a sales representative. She is the book review editor for AJET, and she is a board member of ASET. Martha has two children.

Laura Fleck, ’81, 13628 Berkshire Court, Plymouth, MI 48170, is a neurologist and clinical director for the Conservative Spine Care Program at Henry Ford Health System. She recently returned to the Detroit area to be close to her family. She earned her medical degree from Northwestern University in 1985.

James Fox, ’81, 2 Cherryhurst Lane, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236, is a physician. He is the vice chief in the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. John Hospital and Medical Center. He and his wife, Jaclyn, married in 1985. They have three children.

Pam Glines, ’81, 12513 Harcourt Dr., Raleigh, NC 27613, has worked for the past 10 years in financial roles at Quintiles, Inc., the leader in the pharmaceutical research industry. She is currently serving as director of pricing. She earned an M.B.A. in finance from Michigan State University.

She is married to Greg Larsen.

Jeffrey Greenman, ’81, 66 Fitzgerald Dr., Ajax, Ontario, Canada, L15 4T4, is an academic dean at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He earned a Ph.D. in religious ethics from the University of Virginia in 1998. He was listed in “Who’s Who in

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David Hammocks, ’81, 1243 East Milton, Hazel Park, MI 48030, is the director of Raymond Janes Financial. He and his wife, Kathleen, have a son.

William Harrity, ’81, 106 Palmetto Dr., Pasadena, CA 91105, is an anesthesiologist. He is married to Nicole Susnar Harrity.

LuAnn Erbes Hayes, ’81, 12908 Wooded Forest Rd., Louisville, KY 40243, is a vocal music teacher for Kentucky Country Day School and is a church cantor and a Meals on Wheels volunteer. A board member for the Kentucky Orff-Schulwerk Association, she was a presenter at the 2001 National Orff-Schulwerk Conference.

She earned her master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. LuAnn and her husband, Tom, celebrated 15 years of marriage by enjoying a family vacation in England in July. They have a daughter.

Anne Hittler Hunter, ’81, 5038 29th Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55417, is president of Marketing Source USA, Inc., which she started in 1993. She also teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of St. Thomas. She previously worked in community development and the arts. She is involved with several community organizations. She is also active in the Hun Qiao project commemorating the Asian tragedies of World War II. Anne has traveled to Scotland, Europe, Turkey, China, Nepal and Mexico. She trekked to the base camp of Mt. Everest in April. She earned an M.B.A. in marketing from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. She has two children.

Richard Huttenlocher, ’81, 6251 Middle Lake Rd., Clarkston, MI 48346, is the senior vice president for Bank One. He is a member of Clarkston United Methodist Church, where he serves as chair of the administrative council and endowment committee. He and his wife, Carola, sing with the Madrigal Chorale of Southfield, performing with the Detroit Symphony.

They are active in several community charities and their children’s school. The Huttenlochers lived in Germany for five years, returning in 1990. They continue to visit family and friends in Europe. They have two daughters.

Mark Johnson, ’81, 549 Rob Roy Court, Inverness, IL 60067, is the vice president and portfolio manager for Lillibridge Health Trust. He competes in sporting clay tournaments, and he is on the board for the Northbrook Sports Club. He earned an M.B.A. from DePaul University and has achieved certified property manager designation. Mark has traveled throughout the United States and to Europe and the Caribbean. He and his wife, Karen, married in 1984. They have two sons.

G. Michael Kabot, ’81, 2626 West Long Lake Rd., West Bloomfield, MI 48323, is a self-employed orthodontist. He has two orthodontic offices, one in Clawson and the other in Farmington Hills. A 1985 graduate of the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Dentistry, he completed a general practice residency at Sinai Hospital in 1986. He graduated from orthodontic residency at the University of Detroit in 1988. He and his wife, Christina, have three sons.

Amy Garver Kilbridge, ’81, 948 Whittier Dr., East Lansing, MI 48823, is an English teacher at Holt High School. Now in her tenth year of teaching, she earned a master’s degree from Michigan State University. Her travels include ski trips to Colorado and a trip to Italy. She and her husband, Bob, have two children.

Rebecca Wood Klemm, ’81, 1278 Scott Ridge Dr., Adrian, MI 49221, and her husband, Scott, married in 1986. They have triplet daughters.

John Korff, ’81, 5133 Linksland Dr., Holly Springs, NC 27540, is a site manager for Cameron and Barkley Co. He is married to Lynn Hatfield Korff.

Carol Haynes Krashen, ’81, 1129 Omaha Court, Naperville, IL 60540, is a part-time speaker coordinator for the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians Continuing Education Program. She is also a Hospice volunteer. She and her husband, Bob Krashen, ’80, have two children.

Brian Longe, ’81, 12 E. Scott, Chicago, IL 60610, is president and CEO of Paragon Holdings and CEO of A.B. Dick Co. He served as president of Bell & Howell Imaging Companies from 1997 to 2000, and was senior vice president of First Image Management Co. in 1996 and 1997.

He was national director of small business for Pacificare Healthcare Systems in 1995 and 1996. Brian served in various management capacities at Ford Motor Co. from 1985 to 1995, as well as with Andersen Consulting’s Information Systems Design from 1981 to 1983. He earned an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He is married to Mary Longe.

Andrew McComas Jr., ’81, 29615 Green Acres, Farmington Hills, MI 48339, is a state and local tax consultant. He is a CPA and a church volunteer. He and his wife, Christine, married in 1994. They have two children.

David Misner, ’81, P.O. Box 1545, Muskegon, MI 49443-1545, is an emergency medicine physician. He was in the U.S. Army, where he was stationed in Hawaii for five years and Seattle/Tacoma for four years. He flies small planes and hopes to complete flight instructor rating soon. He has traveled to Norway and throughout the United States.

Jill Lancaster Modert, ’81, 1316 Robin Hood Trail, Sturgis, MI 49091, is a parttime accountant and part-time child sexual abuse prevention instructor. She is a school classroom volunteer, an Herb Day volunteer, and she is involved with the PTA. She is also involved with many community organizations. She and her family have enjoyed many trips and cruises. She and her husband, Ted, married in 1985. They have two children.

Donald Parker, ’81, 4498 Muirfield Way, Westlake, OH 44145, joined the Eaton Corp. in Cleveland this year. He is currently serving on a special team to design and implement a new financial system. He and his wife, Barbara Cook Parker, ’82, have two children.

John and Mary Horldt Poulin, both ’81, 12138 Pebblepointe Pass, Carmel, IN 46033, married in 1982. John is the manager of trade relations for Eli Lilly and Co., where he has worked for 19 years.

Mary is a librarian for the Carmel Public Library. Recipient of a master’s degree in industrial administration from Purdue University, John is a member of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy and is a graduate of the American Association of Health Plans Executive Leadership Program. Mary is a volunteer at St. Luke School and Riley Children’s Hospital. The Poulins have lived in Indianapolis, Toledo and Washington, D.C. They have two daughters.

Lee Adler Pyper, ’81, 1595 Grandview Dr., Rochester Hills, MI 48306, is a substitute teacher for Rochester Community Schools. She and her husband, Jay

Pyper, ’79, married in 1982. They have a daughter.

Keith Roberts, ’81, 8266 Fernwood Dr., Augusta, MI 49012, is the chief financial officer for Howe Marketing in Kalamazoo.

He has been co-director of the Southeast Michigan Susan G. Komen Foundation, which raises money for breast cancer research and education, for the past five years. President of the Battle Creek Road Runners, he has run the Boston Marathon four times. He has lived in Dallas, Kansas City and Chicago. He and his wife, Karla, have been married for 11 years.

Patti Temple Rocks, ’81, 409 Wagae Rd., Rocky River, OH 44116, is the senior vice president for the Cleveland office of Golin/ Harris International. She has worked in public relations since she graduated from Albion. She is involved with the Cleveland Visitor & Convention Bureau and the Off the Street Club in Chicago. She is also a board member of Rocky River Presbyterian Church. Her career has given her the opportunity to do a great deal of national and international travel. Married to Bob Rocks, she has one son and two stepchildren.

Russell Sassack, ’81, 57141 Willow Way, Washington, MI 48094, is a self-employed dentist. He graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1984.

He and his wife, Audra Wise, have four children.

Jane Nicholson Schmerberg, ’81, 800 Mount Vernon, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, is a clinical assistant professor in obstetrics/ gynecology for the University of Michigan Hospitals. She is also a clinical geneticist.

She is involved with her church and teaches Sunday school. She earned her medical degree from Michigan State University.

She and her husband, Kurt, have three children.

Craig Sheetz, ’81, 23250 Running Deer Trail, Edmond, OK 73003, is president and CEO of Logix Communications Enterprises, Inc. He and his wife, Judy, have three children.

Anne Cooksey Sherman, ’81, 1250 W. Maple, Adrian, MI 49221, is a homemaker.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Michigan in 1988, and she worked in the surgical ICU. She is involved in the Presbyterian church, serving as an elder and a Sunday school teacher. She also sings in the choir. Anne recently returned to her love of drawing, and one of her drawings is being published in a book this year. She traveled to east Africa in 1999. She and her husband, Steven, married in 1988. They have two daughters.

David Smith, ’81, 2548 Williams Dr., Stoughton, WI 53589, is an associate professor at Edgewood College in Madison, WI. He has also served as adjunct faculty at the University of Montana for the summer session since 1995. He earned an M.F.A. in ceramics. He and his wife, Renee Gouaux, have three daughters.

Sandy Smith, ’81, 1517 N. Terry St., Fenton, MI 48430, is a self-employed veterinarian.

Scott Spear, ’81, 26 Jeanne Court, North Smithfield, RI 02896, is an attorney and a partner with Bush & Cavanaugh, LLP, in Providence, RI. He serves on the board for Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island. He was a 2000 recipient of the Rhode Island Bar Association Community Service Award.

He and his wife, Lisa Walker, have three sons.

Mary Foster Stewart, ’81, 8000 Kroger Farm Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45243, is a stayat-home mom. She worked for 10 years for

Kraft General Foods, most recently working as a regional sales manager. She serves on the board for Indian Hill Historical Society. She and her husband, Grant, married in 1989. They have two children.

Lisa VandePutte Sullivan, ’81, 2767 Noble Rd., Oxford, MI 48370, is a full-time mother and homemaker. She is teaching her children at home. She previously worked at General Motors. She is one of the founders of a Christian school that is successfully operating in Rochester Hills. Lisa and her husband, Steven, have four children.

Deborah Glathart Taylor, ’81, 1320 Upland, Kalamazoo, MI 49048, is a workers’ compensation administrator and administrative assistant for Edward Rose & Son, which owns and manages 50 apartment communities in five states. She worked for several years as a radio news anchor, then worked in advertising. She is a deacon and Sunday school teacher at First Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo. She and her husband, Richard, married in 1988.

They have two children.

Elizabeth “Lisa” Ward, ’81, 11606 Hartsook St., Valley Village, CA 91601, is a teacher for Los Angeles Unified School District. After 20 years in broadcast production, she made a career change to teaching. She has two children.

Theresa Harrison Whitefield, ’81, 5904 SE 87th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73135, is a homemaker. She was a substitute teacher, and now she teaches her children at home.

She earned a master’s degree in special education from Eastern Michigan University. Theresa sings in her church choir and is a Sunday school teacher. Her hobbies include working on scrapbooks.

Her husband, Jeff, was in the Navy, and they have lived in New York, Florida, Maryland, California, Illinois and Oklahoma. The Whitefields were married in 1985. They have four children.

Connie Winter-Eulberg, ’81, 1841 Broadview Place, Fort Collins, CO 80521, is a pastor for Lutheran Campus Ministry at Colorado State University. She earned a master of divinity from Trinity Seminary and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Kansas. She and her husband, Steve, have two children.

Mark Witbeck, ’81, 367 Oak Dr., LaPorte, IN 46350-2260, is director of change management for Ave Maria Press, Inc. A member of the LaPorte Lake Area Association executive board, he served as a Big Rapids city commissioner from 1986 to 1989. He earned an M.B.A. from Notre Dame in 1998. He is married to Lana Witbeck.

Mason farewell concert features alumni performers Philip Mason, professor emeritus of music at Albion, stepped down this fall from his post as concertmaster of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra (JSO) after nearly 40 years of service. Several Albion College alumni joined Mason family members in performing at a JSO concert in his honor Oct. 6. Mason’s son-in-law, Donald Hodges, conducted Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins op. 3, no.10, in B Minor with Sheila Smith, ’80, among the four soloists. Also playing that evening were Mason’s wife, Coral, on harpsichord; grandson, Brian Hodges, on cello; former student Paulette Stenzel, ’72, on violin; and two former students on viola, Scott Tribby, ’80, and Scott Stefanko, ’92.

✦ Music alumni take the stage in regional operas Maureen Balke, associate professor of music, provided this update on several Albion music alumni.

Michelle Milliken, ’99, performed the role of Donna Elvira in this summer’s Bay View Opera production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. (The music director for Don Giovanni was Timothy Cheek, a former staff accompanist at Albion, and Kurt Frank, ’00, also was cast in the production as The Commendatore.) Milliken completed her master of music degree at Western Michigan University last spring. While at WMU, she sang the role of Rosalinda in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (a reprise of the role she had in a 1997 Albion production of that opera). She was also a concerto competition winner and performed soprano solos in Mozart’s Requiem. Milliken is now teaching voice at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek.

Herb Lentz, ’00, was cast in the lead role of Ernesto in the Luther College (Iowa) opera program’s production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale this summer. This fall, Lentz and Becky Grady, ’99, held lead roles in the University of Northern Iowa’s production of Mozart’s Magic Flute.

The two had teamed up last year with Jason Jackson, ’99, in the Northern Iowa production of Offenbach’s La Perichole.

A musical theatre piece on Mary Todd Lincoln by Jay Schwandt, ’95, had several workshop and other performances this past spring.

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Laurene Ruggie Zenoniani, ’81, 607 Fitch St., Albion, MI 49224, is an accounting specialist for the Albion Housing Commission. She is also a Mary Kay consultant. She worked in accounting for business and industry, and she was a Big Sister. She is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and is treasurer of the Albion RTL. She is married to William Zenoniani II, ’83.

James Zurek, ’81, 75 Fairford, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 48236, is a selfemployed dentist. He is married to Janet Liebling Zurek.

82 Kurt Martinuzzi, ’82, during the summer of 2001 had lead roles in professional theatrical productions of Show Boat and Calamity Jane. His most recent television work included fleeting moments on “All My Children,” “Ed,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “Oz.” He currently lives in New York City.

83 Edwin Greenman, ’83, is the head football coach for Harper Creek High School. Ed and his wife, Beth, live in Battle Creek.

David Musselman, ’83, received his M.B.A. from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in August 2001. He is currently senior counsel for American Electric Power Service Corp. in Columbus, OH. He would love to hear from old friends and can be reached at: 1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, OH 43215 or by e-mail at: dtmusselman@aep.com.

Ray and Dawn Rickard Roberts, ’83, traveled to Kiev, Ukraine and to Warsaw, Poland this past August with their church to teach Bible school. Ray performed two classical recitals in Kiev to standing-roomonly crowds. Both Ray and Dawn teach elementary music in the Livonia Public Schools. They live in Redford with their three children.

85 Janet Borgerson, ’85, earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and spent several years as a visiting scholar at Brown University. Janet has recently accepted a position in Stockholm University’s School of Business to teach and continue research in ethical theory, management and marketing. Recent work has appeared in the journals Consumption, Markets, and Culture and Feminist Theory.

Billie Bondar, ’85, was part of the CanadaU.S. AIDS Vaccine Ride that took place Sept. 5-9, 2001. This is a 400-mile bike ride from Montreal to Portland, ME, to support the fight against AIDS. Billie lives in Milton, NH.

86 John Ahee, ’86, 24 S. Edgewood Dr., Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 48236, is the vice president of Edmund T. Ahee Jewelers. He is the chairperson for Capuchin Souper Summer Celebration, a member of the Father Solanus Committee, and is involved with the St. John’s Hospital cancer center.

Previously, John was active with the Holley Ear Institute, the Henry Ford Hospital Shoot for a Cure committee, the Michigan Retailers and the Jewelers of America. He and his wife, Connie Zacks Ahee, ’85, enjoy traveling.

Kevin Asher, ’86, 4996 Browing, Orchard Lake, MI 48323, is a partner with Ernst & Young. He and his wife, Essie Ann, have twin daughters and a son.

Carla Wells Bozeman, ’86, 1664 Wintercrest, East Lansing, MI 48823, is a social worker. She has plans in the future to start a non-profit program called “Birthday Builders,” to provide birthday parties for children who are in shelters on their birthday. Carla and her husband, Kevin, have five children, and Kevin is employed as the head football coach for Olivet College.

Scott Bradley, ’86, 9 Staples Ct., East Norwalk, CT 06855, is a principal at Hewitt Associates. He and his wife, Nancy, have two children.

Beth Judd Cripe, ’86, 50145 Richey Rd., Dowagiac, MI 49047, holds an M.B.A. from Loyola University. She and her husband, Matt, have two children, and she spends her time as a stay-at-home mom and a part-time financial operator for her husband’s dental practice. Beth is also involved with United Way, PTO, and is the president of Kids School.

Mike and Gwen Sanders Daar, both ’86, 17705 Foxpointe, Clinton Township, MI 48038, were married in 1988 and have three sons. Mike is a corporate attorney for General Motors, and Gwen is a homemaker.

Sarah Schoppe Daitch, ’86, 18 Beth Rd., Walopole, MA 02081, has two children with her husband, Daniel, and is a stay-athome mother.

Mary Durbin Derian, ’86, 5133 Woodrum Ct., West Bloomfield, MI 48323, has been married to her husband, Carl, for 12 years and has four sons. In her spare time she volunteers at her sons’ schools and at her church.

Janet McConkey Drooger, ’86, 4613 Castle Ct., Holland, MI 49423, started her own business called Cozy Kidz Creations, making custom children’s bedding. She married her husband, Kelly, 12 years ago, and they have three children. Previously, Janet lived and worked in Chicago and in Grand Rapids and has enjoyed traveling to London and Scotland. In her spare time, she donates homemade blankets to the “Linus Project,” which distributes them to children in need.

Elizabeth Neilson Fischler, ’86, 1333 E. Beardsley Ave., Elkhart, IN 46514, is employed by Ray Schuler Advertising Co. She is the current president of Elkhart Luncheon Optimist Club, and is also involved with the American Red Cross and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Elizabeth and her husband, Owen, were married in 2001.

Carolyn Curtis Gessner, ’86, 820 Woodbine Lane, Northbrook, IL 60062, received a J.D. in 1989 and a master’s degree in education in 1993. She is currently a “full-time chauffeur and a shortorder cook,” working out of her home and hoping to get back soon into high school teaching. She and her husband, Doug, have three children.

Jana Hazekamp, ’86, 6 East 30th St., Holland, MI 49423, holds a master’s in education and is a first-third grade multiage teacher for West Ottawa Public Schools, where she has participated in numerous teacher exchanges. Jana has enjoyed travels to Europe, Australia, and

all over the United States, and is the past recipient of the Holland Area Beautiful Garden award.

Chris Hill, ’86, 2526 Pine Ridge Rd., Kalamazoo, MI 49008, is a publisher for the Great Lakes Golf magazine. In the past he has worked as the sales manager for the Detroit Tigers and in sales development for Traverse magazine. He and his wife, Kathy, have two sons, and enjoy traveling.

Laura Counterman Huelskamp, ’86, 1714 Riley Ridge, Lansing, MI 48917, is a biller for the First Class Medical Billing Service and is also a Sunday School teacher and youth group leader at the First Presbyterian Church. She and her husband, Luke, have three children and are training to ride the 2002 DalMac Lansing to Mackinaw bike ride.

Sherene Ispahannie, ’86, 45852 Pebble Creek West, Shelby Township, MI 48317, works in operations management at BASF Corp. Sherene has enjoyed travels to South America and to Mexico, and is involved in the American Production and Inventory Control Society and the American Society for Quality.

Tim and M. Kay Clear Jabin, both ’86, 6583 Wyndwatch Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45230, have been married for 14 years and have three children. Tim recently retired from the practice of law to start his own business, NuHorizons Asset Management, LLC, and Kay is an obstetrician/ gynecologist. They are advisory board members to Pro Kids, a child advocacy group in Cincinnati. Kay received her M.D. and Tim his J.D. from the University of Cincinnati.

Edie Keller, ’86, 1690 Prospect Estates Dr., Estes Park, CO 80517, married her husband, Jerry Twigg, in 1988 and together they have two children. Edie was a counselor and educator for Planned Parenthood of West Michigan until 1997 and is now a full-time mom active as the School District Accountability Committee moderator for Estes Park and in the Presbyterian Church. She enjoys soccer, baseball, swimming and basketball, and is the past recipient of the Performance Excellence award from Planned Parenthood. She has previously been involved with the Michigan Department of Health and as a volunteer for Circle of Friends in Hastings.

Kathryn Jenkins Kienle, ’86, 2630 Mockingbird Dr., Kalamazoo, MI 49008, is a research chemist for Pharmacia Corp. She also runs a home craft business, which specializes in handmade bears, baskets, jewelry, quilts, clothing and desktop publishing. Kathryn has enjoyed traveling to Alaska, Scotland and England.

Karen Griffith Larsen, ’86, 156954 Highway 101, Forks, WA 98331, is a forestry technician for the USDA Forest Service at the Olympic National Forest.

She and her husband, Michael, have been married for eight years and have two children. Previously, Karen lived and worked in Virginia, Minnesota and Maryland.

Pat Reed Leeds, ’86, N32 W23442 Fieldside Rd., Pewaukee, WI 53072, is a senior manager in business development at Merck Medco. She and her husband, Tom Leeds, ’84, were married in 1987, and both worked in Japan for one year. Pat is currently enjoying juggling careers and children.

Richard Linebaugh, ’86, 11 Nassim Rd. #04-03, Singapore 258378, holds a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University, and is the senior vice president and South Asia regional manager for the Bank of America. He is a

Former athletic trainer (1965-1991) Walt Swyers celebrated his 80th birthday Nov. 3, 2001 with an open house in his honor. He would love to hear from former students at: 302 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224 or by e-mail at cwswy@voyager.net.

volunteer with Action for AIDS, and is a past board member and volunteer with the Howard Brown Health Center in Chicago.

Richard has lived and worked in Asia for three years and has been with his partner, Tito Battung, for five years.

Julie Amann Mathews, ’86, 2615 Overlook Dr., Germantown, TN 38138, is a vice president of National Cities Corp. She and her husband, Martin, were married in 1992 and have four sons.

Ruth Goethe Melaragni, ’86, 350 Valleyview Dr., Fenton, MI 48430, is a full-time mom and part-time software sales manager. She and her husband, Michael, have two children.

Jerry Morgan, ’86, 726 Bromley Rd., Charlotte, NC 28207, holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University and is the assistant general counsel for Ingersoll-Rand Co. He and his wife, Leigh, have three daughters.

Michael Mutchler, ’86, 114 Old Westminster Rd., Hubbardston, MA 01452, is a family physician at James A. Faust M.D., Inc. In his spare time he teaches candlemaking at a community craft workshop and is an active school and team physician at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, MA. He and his wife, Michele, are both physicians and have two children.

Sue Parker, ’86, 39 Washington St. Unit #1, Newburyport, MA 01950, holds a master’s degree in training and development from Lesley University and is employed as a learning and development consultant for MFS Investment Management. She is a member of the American Society for Training and Development and volunteers at the Firehouse Center for the Arts. She enjoyed traveling to England, Scotland, Ireland, Mexico and Hawaii.

Christine Richards Peavler, ’86, 11161 East CD Ave., Richland, MI 49083, holds a master’s degree in human resources development and is employed as a human resources development and performance development specialist for DENSO Manufacturing, Inc. In her spare time she volunteers as a Sunday School teacher and at her children’s elementary school, sings in the church choir, and is a member of the International Society for Performance Improvement. She and her husband, Rich Peavler, ’85, were married in 1993 and have three children. They have enjoyed traveling to Europe, the British Virgin Islands and Japan.

Julia Saylor Plumhoff, ’86, 3505 Cumberland, Berkley, MI 48072, previously spent 15 years in the non-profit sector and currently consults with the museum industry. In addition, she runs a “cottage industry” of hand-knit children’s knitwear. She and her husband, Eric, have three children.

Ruth Blendea Ranks, ’86, 24651 Naples Dr., Novi, MI 48374, holds an M.Ed. from the University of Cincinnati and is a registered dietician. She is a volunteer with the Beaumont Hospital parenting program and is the secretary for the Novi chapter of Million Mom March. She and her husband, Dan, have two children.

Douglas Roby, ’86, 1021 Kensington Rd., Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230, holds a master of social work degree and a certificate in industrial relations from the University of Michigan and is a certified trauma and loss specialist for the Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children. He is employed as a school social worker for the Grosse Pointe schools and enjoys traveling all over Michigan. He and his wife, Lynne, have two children.

Susan Newsom Staples, ’86, 6101 Sandcherry Dr., Indianapolis, IN 46236, holds a master’s degree in elementary education. She and her husband, Mark, have two children, and, after teaching for nine years, Susan decided to take a break to become a homemaker. In addition, she is very involved in her church as a part-time employee and as a volunteer at her local hospital.

Barbara Babiarz Steiner, ’86, 1425 Tyrell, Park Ridge, IL 60068, holds a diploma from the Sprachen-Polmetscher Institute in Munich, Germany, and is the treasurer of Candy Tech. Barbara lived in Munich from 1986 to 1993, and she and her husband, Lennart, were married in 1987.

They have two children and travel to Europe numerous times a year. In addition, she has been a Brickton Montessori board member.

Laura Warnock Stratis, ’86, 223 Rodgers Ct., Willowbrook, IL 60521, is married to Michael Stratis, ’84, and is a stay-at-home mother for her two children. Before having children, Laura worked for a real estate title company as a loan closer.

Nancy Coyner Vickers, ’86, 746 Clarendon Lane, Aurora, IL 60504, has four children with her husband, George, and is currently the “CEO of the Vickers’ home” after spending 13 years with the Marriott Corp.

Timothy Ward, ’86, 4436 Satinwood Dr., Okemos, MI 48864, holds a J.D. from Michigan State University, Detroit College of Law, and is the attorney, lobbyist and founder of Ward & Associates, PLLC. He and his wife, Mary Lioi-Ward, ’85, have one son.

David Wittwer, ’86, 1038 Yorkshire, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230, is the regional sales vice president for Midwest Employers Casualty Co. In his spare time he coaches baseball, basketball, softball and soccer for children’s teams, and is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club Athletic Committee. He and his wife, Sally Leverenz Wittwer, ’84, have three children.

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Laurene Ruggie Zenoniani, ’81, 607 Fitch St., Albion, MI 49224, is an accounting specialist for the Albion Housing Commission. She is also a Mary Kay consultant. She worked in accounting for business and industry, and she was a Big Sister. She is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and is treasurer of the Albion RTL. She is married to William Zenoniani II, ’83.

James Zurek, ’81, 75 Fairford, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 48236, is a selfemployed dentist. He is married to Janet Liebling Zurek.

82 Kurt Martinuzzi, ’82, during the summer of 2001 had lead roles in professional theatrical productions of Show Boat and Calamity Jane. His most recent television work included fleeting moments on “All My Children,” “Ed,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “Oz.” He currently lives in New York City.

83 Edwin Greenman, ’83, is the head football coach for Harper Creek High School. Ed and his wife, Beth, live in Battle Creek.

David Musselman, ’83, received his M.B.A. from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in August 2001. He is currently senior counsel for American Electric Power Service Corp. in Columbus, OH. He would love to hear from old friends and can be reached at: 1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, OH 43215 or by e-mail at: dtmusselman@aep.com.

Ray and Dawn Rickard Roberts, ’83, traveled to Kiev, Ukraine and to Warsaw, Poland this past August with their church to teach Bible school. Ray performed two classical recitals in Kiev to standing-roomonly crowds. Both Ray and Dawn teach elementary music in the Livonia Public Schools. They live in Redford with their three children.

85 Janet Borgerson, ’85, earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and spent several years as a visiting scholar at Brown University. Janet has recently accepted a position in Stockholm University’s School of Business to teach and continue research in ethical theory, management and marketing. Recent work has appeared in the journals Consumption, Markets, and Culture and Feminist Theory.

Billie Bondar, ’85, was part of the CanadaU.S. AIDS Vaccine Ride that took place Sept. 5-9, 2001. This is a 400-mile bike ride from Montreal to Portland, ME, to support the fight against AIDS. Billie lives in Milton, NH.

86 John Ahee, ’86, 24 S. Edgewood Dr., Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 48236, is the vice president of Edmund T. Ahee Jewelers. He is the chairperson for Capuchin Souper Summer Celebration, a member of the Father Solanus Committee, and is involved with the St. John’s Hospital cancer center.

Previously, John was active with the Holley Ear Institute, the Henry Ford Hospital Shoot for a Cure committee, the Michigan Retailers and the Jewelers of America. He and his wife, Connie Zacks Ahee, ’85, enjoy traveling.

Kevin Asher, ’86, 4996 Browing, Orchard Lake, MI 48323, is a partner with Ernst & Young. He and his wife, Essie Ann, have twin daughters and a son.

Carla Wells Bozeman, ’86, 1664 Wintercrest, East Lansing, MI 48823, is a social worker. She has plans in the future to start a non-profit program called “Birthday Builders,” to provide birthday parties for children who are in shelters on their birthday. Carla and her husband, Kevin, have five children, and Kevin is employed as the head football coach for Olivet College.

Scott Bradley, ’86, 9 Staples Ct., East Norwalk, CT 06855, is a principal at Hewitt Associates. He and his wife, Nancy, have two children.

Beth Judd Cripe, ’86, 50145 Richey Rd., Dowagiac, MI 49047, holds an M.B.A. from Loyola University. She and her husband, Matt, have two children, and she spends her time as a stay-at-home mom and a part-time financial operator for her husband’s dental practice. Beth is also involved with United Way, PTO, and is the president of Kids School.

Mike and Gwen Sanders Daar, both ’86, 17705 Foxpointe, Clinton Township, MI 48038, were married in 1988 and have three sons. Mike is a corporate attorney for General Motors, and Gwen is a homemaker.

Sarah Schoppe Daitch, ’86, 18 Beth Rd., Walopole, MA 02081, has two children with her husband, Daniel, and is a stay-athome mother.

Mary Durbin Derian, ’86, 5133 Woodrum Ct., West Bloomfield, MI 48323, has been married to her husband, Carl, for 12 years and has four sons. In her spare time she volunteers at her sons’ schools and at her church.

Janet McConkey Drooger, ’86, 4613 Castle Ct., Holland, MI 49423, started her own business called Cozy Kidz Creations, making custom children’s bedding. She married her husband, Kelly, 12 years ago, and they have three children. Previously, Janet lived and worked in Chicago and in Grand Rapids and has enjoyed traveling to London and Scotland. In her spare time, she donates homemade blankets to the “Linus Project,” which distributes them to children in need.

Elizabeth Neilson Fischler, ’86, 1333 E. Beardsley Ave., Elkhart, IN 46514, is employed by Ray Schuler Advertising Co. She is the current president of Elkhart Luncheon Optimist Club, and is also involved with the American Red Cross and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Elizabeth and her husband, Owen, were married in 2001.

Carolyn Curtis Gessner, ’86, 820 Woodbine Lane, Northbrook, IL 60062, received a J.D. in 1989 and a master’s degree in education in 1993. She is currently a “full-time chauffeur and a shortorder cook,” working out of her home and hoping to get back soon into high school teaching. She and her husband, Doug, have three children.

Jana Hazekamp, ’86, 6 East 30th St., Holland, MI 49423, holds a master’s in education and is a first-third grade multiage teacher for West Ottawa Public Schools, where she has participated in numerous teacher exchanges. Jana has enjoyed travels to Europe, Australia, and

all over the United States, and is the past recipient of the Holland Area Beautiful Garden award.

Chris Hill, ’86, 2526 Pine Ridge Rd., Kalamazoo, MI 49008, is a publisher for the Great Lakes Golf magazine. In the past he has worked as the sales manager for the Detroit Tigers and in sales development for Traverse magazine. He and his wife, Kathy, have two sons, and enjoy traveling.

Laura Counterman Huelskamp, ’86, 1714 Riley Ridge, Lansing, MI 48917, is a biller for the First Class Medical Billing Service and is also a Sunday School teacher and youth group leader at the First Presbyterian Church. She and her husband, Luke, have three children and are training to ride the 2002 DalMac Lansing to Mackinaw bike ride.

Sherene Ispahannie, ’86, 45852 Pebble Creek West, Shelby Township, MI 48317, works in operations management at BASF Corp. Sherene has enjoyed travels to South America and to Mexico, and is involved in the American Production and Inventory Control Society and the American Society for Quality.

Tim and M. Kay Clear Jabin, both ’86, 6583 Wyndwatch Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45230, have been married for 14 years and have three children. Tim recently retired from the practice of law to start his own business, NuHorizons Asset Management, LLC, and Kay is an obstetrician/ gynecologist. They are advisory board members to Pro Kids, a child advocacy group in Cincinnati. Kay received her M.D. and Tim his J.D. from the University of Cincinnati.

Edie Keller, ’86, 1690 Prospect Estates Dr., Estes Park, CO 80517, married her husband, Jerry Twigg, in 1988 and together they have two children. Edie was a counselor and educator for Planned Parenthood of West Michigan until 1997 and is now a full-time mom active as the School District Accountability Committee moderator for Estes Park and in the Presbyterian Church. She enjoys soccer, baseball, swimming and basketball, and is the past recipient of the Performance Excellence award from Planned Parenthood. She has previously been involved with the Michigan Department of Health and as a volunteer for Circle of Friends in Hastings.

Kathryn Jenkins Kienle, ’86, 2630 Mockingbird Dr., Kalamazoo, MI 49008, is a research chemist for Pharmacia Corp. She also runs a home craft business, which specializes in handmade bears, baskets, jewelry, quilts, clothing and desktop publishing. Kathryn has enjoyed traveling to Alaska, Scotland and England.

Karen Griffith Larsen, ’86, 156954 Highway 101, Forks, WA 98331, is a forestry technician for the USDA Forest Service at the Olympic National Forest.

She and her husband, Michael, have been married for eight years and have two children. Previously, Karen lived and worked in Virginia, Minnesota and Maryland.

Pat Reed Leeds, ’86, N32 W23442 Fieldside Rd., Pewaukee, WI 53072, is a senior manager in business development at Merck Medco. She and her husband, Tom Leeds, ’84, were married in 1987, and both worked in Japan for one year. Pat is currently enjoying juggling careers and children.

Richard Linebaugh, ’86, 11 Nassim Rd. #04-03, Singapore 258378, holds a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University, and is the senior vice president and South Asia regional manager for the Bank of America. He is a

Former athletic trainer (1965-1991) Walt Swyers celebrated his 80th birthday Nov. 3, 2001 with an open house in his honor. He would love to hear from former students at: 302 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224 or by e-mail at cwswy@voyager.net.

volunteer with Action for AIDS, and is a past board member and volunteer with the Howard Brown Health Center in Chicago.

Richard has lived and worked in Asia for three years and has been with his partner, Tito Battung, for five years.

Julie Amann Mathews, ’86, 2615 Overlook Dr., Germantown, TN 38138, is a vice president of National Cities Corp. She and her husband, Martin, were married in 1992 and have four sons.

Ruth Goethe Melaragni, ’86, 350 Valleyview Dr., Fenton, MI 48430, is a full-time mom and part-time software sales manager. She and her husband, Michael, have two children.

Jerry Morgan, ’86, 726 Bromley Rd., Charlotte, NC 28207, holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University and is the assistant general counsel for Ingersoll-Rand Co. He and his wife, Leigh, have three daughters.

Michael Mutchler, ’86, 114 Old Westminster Rd., Hubbardston, MA 01452, is a family physician at James A. Faust M.D., Inc. In his spare time he teaches candlemaking at a community craft workshop and is an active school and team physician at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, MA. He and his wife, Michele, are both physicians and have two children.

Sue Parker, ’86, 39 Washington St. Unit #1, Newburyport, MA 01950, holds a master’s degree in training and development from Lesley University and is employed as a learning and development consultant for MFS Investment Management. She is a member of the American Society for Training and Development and volunteers at the Firehouse Center for the Arts. She enjoyed traveling to England, Scotland, Ireland, Mexico and Hawaii.

Christine Richards Peavler, ’86, 11161 East CD Ave., Richland, MI 49083, holds a master’s degree in human resources development and is employed as a human resources development and performance development specialist for DENSO Manufacturing, Inc. In her spare time she volunteers as a Sunday School teacher and at her children’s elementary school, sings in the church choir, and is a member of the International Society for Performance Improvement. She and her husband, Rich Peavler, ’85, were married in 1993 and have three children. They have enjoyed traveling to Europe, the British Virgin Islands and Japan.

Julia Saylor Plumhoff, ’86, 3505 Cumberland, Berkley, MI 48072, previously spent 15 years in the non-profit sector and currently consults with the museum industry. In addition, she runs a “cottage industry” of hand-knit children’s knitwear. She and her husband, Eric, have three children.

Ruth Blendea Ranks, ’86, 24651 Naples Dr., Novi, MI 48374, holds an M.Ed. from the University of Cincinnati and is a registered dietician. She is a volunteer with the Beaumont Hospital parenting program and is the secretary for the Novi chapter of Million Mom March. She and her husband, Dan, have two children.

Douglas Roby, ’86, 1021 Kensington Rd., Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230, holds a master of social work degree and a certificate in industrial relations from the University of Michigan and is a certified trauma and loss specialist for the Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children. He is employed as a school social worker for the Grosse Pointe schools and enjoys traveling all over Michigan. He and his wife, Lynne, have two children.

Susan Newsom Staples, ’86, 6101 Sandcherry Dr., Indianapolis, IN 46236, holds a master’s degree in elementary education. She and her husband, Mark, have two children, and, after teaching for nine years, Susan decided to take a break to become a homemaker. In addition, she is very involved in her church as a part-time employee and as a volunteer at her local hospital.

Barbara Babiarz Steiner, ’86, 1425 Tyrell, Park Ridge, IL 60068, holds a diploma from the Sprachen-Polmetscher Institute in Munich, Germany, and is the treasurer of Candy Tech. Barbara lived in Munich from 1986 to 1993, and she and her husband, Lennart, were married in 1987.

They have two children and travel to Europe numerous times a year. In addition, she has been a Brickton Montessori board member.

Laura Warnock Stratis, ’86, 223 Rodgers Ct., Willowbrook, IL 60521, is married to Michael Stratis, ’84, and is a stay-at-home mother for her two children. Before having children, Laura worked for a real estate title company as a loan closer.

Nancy Coyner Vickers, ’86, 746 Clarendon Lane, Aurora, IL 60504, has four children with her husband, George, and is currently the “CEO of the Vickers’ home” after spending 13 years with the Marriott Corp.

Timothy Ward, ’86, 4436 Satinwood Dr., Okemos, MI 48864, holds a J.D. from Michigan State University, Detroit College of Law, and is the attorney, lobbyist and founder of Ward & Associates, PLLC. He and his wife, Mary Lioi-Ward, ’85, have one son.

David Wittwer, ’86, 1038 Yorkshire, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230, is the regional sales vice president for Midwest Employers Casualty Co. In his spare time he coaches baseball, basketball, softball and soccer for children’s teams, and is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club Athletic Committee. He and his wife, Sally Leverenz Wittwer, ’84, have three children.

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Kathleen Nietzke Wolkoff, ’86, 6401 Woodington Way, Madison, WI 53711, holds an M.L.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin and is employed as a librarian at the Madison Public Library. Prior to this career, she worked in publishing for seven years. Kathleen and her husband, Roger, have two children.

89 Lori Grigg Bluhm, ’89, was appointed the city attorney for Troy on Sept. 10, 2001. A graduate of Wayne State University Law School, she has worked in the city attorney’s office for 10 years and before that was involved in a private civil law practice. She and her husband, Kenneth, live in Troy with their two children.

Thomas Cochrane, ’89, became general counsel to the Great Lakes Industrial Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. He and his wife, Sigrid, have one son and live in Grand Haven. Tom is always happy to hear from his Albion friends and can be reached by email at: ummeli@aol.com.

Chris Crespi, ’89, is a co-founder of ROI Technology, a software development company in Grand Rapids. The firm assists businesses in Web site development and Internet direct marketing. In May, the Publishers Marketing Association conferred its 2001 Benjamin Franklin Award for the best-designed Web site to ROI Technology client William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (www. eerdmans.com). Chris, a former business consultant with Arthur Andersen, handles the strategic planning for his clients’ Web sites, while his partner handles technical development. He lives in Rockford with his wife, Karen, and their two sons.

Robert Shenton, ’89, was recently named office managing partner (OMP) with Plante & Moran for their central Ohio office. He lives with his wife, Kelly, in Dublin, OH. John Stanton, ’89, is assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor and resides in Honolulu, HI. He would love to hear from Albion friends and can be reached by email at: johnsuzanne96@aol.com

91 Heramil “Ramie” and Cheryl Henderson Almeda, both ’91, 205 Maple, Parchment, MI 49004, have two children. Ramie is a Kalamazoo County assistant prosecuting attorney and sits on numerous boards and steering committees. Cheryl earned her master’s degree in English literature and creative writing and teaches composition at Western Michigan University.

Sarah Tanner Barrow, ’91, 3534 Rockwood Dr., Fort Wayne, IN 46815, has been married to Douglas Barrow since 1994. They have two children.

Courtney Cooley Breaugh, ’91, 379 Wimbleton, Birmingham, MI 48009, married her husband, David, in 1998, and they have a son. She worked in public relations for General Motors until the birth of her son. She is now a stay-at-home mother.

Richard Bruno, ’91, 16982 Kirkshire Ave., Beverly Hills, MI 48025, received his D.D.S. degree from the University of Michigan, his master’s degree in orthodontics from the University of Detroit-Mercy, and is now a self-employed orthodontist. He and his wife, Katie, were

married in 2001 and honeymooned in Hawaii.

Jeff Burmeister, ’91, 3578 Royal Ave., Berkley, MI 48072, received his master’s degree in corporate finance from Walsh College and is employed as a director at William Beaumont Hospital. He has one son.

Ellen Domzalski Clark, ’91, 1308 Yorkshire, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230, married Chris Clark, ’90, in 1993. They have one daughter.

Heather Bedell Colby, ’91, 1938 West Ridge, Rochester Hills, MI 48306, is married to Harold Colby, ’89, and is a stay-at-home mother with their two children. Harold currently works for KMart.

Matthew Croissant, ’91, 1609 West Blvd., Berkley, MI 48072, received his J.D. degree from Wayne State University and is a financial advisor and associate vice president of investments for Prudential Securities. He and his wife, Suzanne, were married in 1999.

Jodi Antles Davis, ’91, 85 Alize Dr., Kinnelon, NJ 07405, is employed by Fleet Trading.

Kim Karman Dobson, ’91, 91 Jean St., Ramsey, NJ 07446, is married to Guy Dobson. She is a “domestic engineer and CEO for Conor and Greta Dobson, Inc.” Stephanie Pirich Erickson, ’91, 315 Maier Court, Grandville, MI 49418, has been married to her husband, Jeffrey, since 1993 and is a stay-at-home mother for their two children. She is a volunteer at her son’s elementary school and is involved in the Junior League of Grand Rapids. Stephanie also enjoys gardening, creative scrapbooking and involvement in her children’s activities.

Suzanne Rutter Everett, ’91, 1671 Andover Blvd., Howell, MI 48843, is the communications manager at National Truck Equipment Association. She and her husband, Brian, have one son.

Jennifer Fenton, ’91, 12 East 86th St., New York, NY 10028, received her master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1997 and is a program manager for The After-School Corporation, helping with the development of youth through after-school activities involving the arts.

She has previously been involved in the publication of Arts Opportunities for Young People in Chicago for the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. She is married to Justin Davey and has enjoyed travels to Australia, Asia, Europe and the United Kingdom.

Sara Griffin, ’91, 7761 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60626, received her master of divinity degree from Garrett Seminary, her master’s degree in pastoral counseling from Loyola University, and is ordained in the United Methodist Church. She is employed as a pastoral psychotherapist.

Susan Greiner Gutierrez, ’91, 3334 Gold Dust St. NE, Belmont, MI 49306, received her master’s degrees in curriculum and instruction and in K-12 educational leadership from Michigan State University.

She is currently a teacher of eighth grade history for Forest Hills Public Schools and has been recognized by the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators for her role in the Region IX Teaching Team of the Year. Susan also is on the board for NCCS Camp Newaygo and has enjoyed travels to nine countries in Europe.

She has been married to her husband, David, since 1997.

Christine Hysell Heron, ’91, 9348 Seymour Rd., Swartz Creek, MI 48473, earned an M.I.L.S. degree from the University of Michigan and is the children’s librarian for the Genesee District Library. She and her husband, Michael, have two children.

Tim Hummer, ’91, 3313-F Hampton Point Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20904, received his Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2000 and is a molecular biologist and post-doctoral fellow at the University of MarylandBaltimore. He and his wife, Sandra, were married in 2001.

Bill Johansson, ’91, 1907 Farmbrook, Troy, MI 48098, received his master’s degree in educational administration from Michigan State University and is a physical education teacher and coach in the Birmingham Public Schools. He and his wife, Kristin, have two sons, and in his spare time, Bill is a Boy Scout leader. He has also enjoyed travels to Sweden, Russia, Serbia, and the western United States.

Audrey Ayoub King, ’91, 31501 Gable, Livonia, MI 48152, is a corporate trainer for Fifth Third Bank. Previously Audrey was a middle and high school English teacher. She and her husband, Jim, have one daughter.

Melissa Williams Krolczuk, ’91, 112 W. Kilbuck, Tecumseh, MI 49286, married her husband, Christopher, in 1994 and is a stayat-home mom with their son. Previously, she worked in automotive purchasing. She has a master’s from Central Michigan University.

Michelle Kroupa, ’91, 827 _ E. 8th St., Traverse City, MI 49684, received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan School of Information.

Lynn Hefke Lee, ’91, 402 Coppersmith Dr., Mason, MI 48854, is an accountant for Michigan State University and is pursuing a career in local government finance. Lynn received an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University. She and her husband, David, have one daughter, and have enjoyed several trips to Europe.

Elizabeth Maurer, ’91, 6009 J Rock Cliff Ln., Alexandria, VA 22315, received her master’s degree in education from the George Washington University and is employed in museum education at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens. Previously she worked in museum education at Colonial Williamsburg. She and her husband, Harold, are halfway through visiting all 50 states.

Sean McFadden, ’91, completed his sports medicine fellowship in July and will join Bahri Orthopedics. He lives in Jacksonville, FL, with his wife, Kimberly, and their two daughters.

Nancy Volk McLaughlin, ’91, 1366 German Ct., Erie, CO 80516, is the art director for Nutrition Science News magazine and is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Her hobbies include snowboarding, camping, stained glass, riding her vespa, and traveling to locations such as Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Japan, Mexico and many United States cities. She and her husband, Matt, were married in Evergreen, CO, and honeymooned in Ireland.

Connie Wright Mendoza, ’91, 32500 Nine Mile Rd., Farmington Hills, MI 48336, received a master’s degree in social work from Michigan State University and previously worked as a hospice social worker. She and her husband, Scott, have one daughter, and Connie is now a homemaker.

Kristen Edwards Moran, ’91, 612 E. Olive St., Arlington Heights, IL 60004, is the executive assistant in investment bonding at Brown, Gibbons, & Lang in Chicago. She is involved with the Chicago northwest suburban Phi Mu alumnae group and has served as Albion’s representative for several college nights in the Chicago area. Her husband, Joe, recently had his first book published.

Patrick Pendleton, ’91, 105652 Hyacinth Dr. #22B, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, is a dentist, board member of the West Suburban Dental Society, and a volunteer with the Special Olympics. In addition, he plays drums with musicians in the Chicago area. Patrick and his fiancée, Stacie Davis, have traveled to the Yellowstone/Grand Tetons area in the U.S. and to Scandinavia and Germany.

John Nickel, ’91, has recently joined Dickinson Wright P.L.L.C. as an associate attorney. He earned his master’s degree in economics from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Michigan. He practices corporate law with an emphasis in transactional work. He lives in Brighton.

Henry Phillips, ’91, 20 Silver Brook Rd., Ridgefield, CT 06877, and his wife, Erin, have four children. He is a partner in Deloitte & Touche, Structured Finance and Leasing.

Gia Oei, ’91, 80 Laconia Circle, North Andover, MA 01845, is the director of corporate communications for Fisher Scientific International, Inc., GenTek, Inc., and The General Chemical Group, Inc. Recipient of an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, she previously worked for Ford Motor Co. and for regional telephone companies serving the East Coast. She has received numerous professional awards.

Outside of work, she frequently provides music for worship services at the Old South United Methodist Church. Gia is married to John Boullie and has traveled extensively across much of Asia and western Europe, and in the Caribbean.

David Pavlov, ’91, 48977 Celeste St., Chesterfield, MI 48051, received a master’s degree in business administration from Central Michigan University and is a controller for Long Distance of Michigan, Inc. He and his wife, Andrea, have one child, and have enjoyed travels to Cancun and much of the eastern U.S.

Karen Jenkins Pifer, ’91, 1849 Fairway, Birmingham, MI 48009, received her J.D. from the University of Michigan and is an attorney with Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn, LLP. In the past she has served as the program chairperson for Commercial Real Estate Women. She and her husband, Richard Pifer, ’89, have two children.

Jonathon Pope, ’91, 351 Jonathon, Rochester Hills, MI 48307, is a sales manager for Prudential Group Insurance.

Beverly Lucas Propst, ’91, 1023 Shadowridge Crossing, O’Fallon, IL 62269, received her J.D. from the University of Illinois and is an attorney with Mickes, Tueth, Keeney, Cooper, Mohan & Jackstadt, P.C. She and her husband, Michael, have one son.

Charmian Bultema Rowley, ’91, 1305 Regent Dr., Mundelein, IL 60060, is a math teacher at Hannah Beardsley Middle School and will receive her master’s degree in teaching in winter 2002. She is married to Christopher Rowley, ’94, who is a vice president of LaSalle Bank and who will be

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

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attending a concentrated banker’s school in Madison, WI every August for the next three years. Together, they have volunteered for the Airdale Terrier Rescue and Adoption program.

Sharon Sikkelee, ’91, 416 South Marias Ave., Clawson, MI 48017, is a physician assistant at the Detroit Medical Center. She has continued to be a CPR and First Aid instructor for the American Red Cross and has maintained certification as a paramedic.

Kristin Smallwood, ’91, was promoted to senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in August 2001. She lives in Birmingham.

Mark and Rebecca Russell Thompson, both ’91, 1571 Meade Dr., O’Fallon, IL 62269, have two children and have been involved as community leaders to form a new Presbyterian Church in O’Fallon. A CPA, Rebecca is a chief financial officer for Grace Hill, a large health care and social services agency in St. Louis. She has also been appointed district leader for Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. In spring 2002, she anticipates completing a nonprofit management graduate program at Washington University. Mark is a faculty physician (family practice) at St. Louis University and a major in the U.S. Air Force. He is a recipient of the 1999 Faculty of the Year Award and is an active gardener.

Weatherly Burkhead Verhelst, ’91, 8926 Laurena Dr., Ovid, MI 48866, received a master of divinity degree from the Boston University School of Theology, and she currently serves as a pastor at Middlebury United Methodist Church. Previously she has volunteered with the Appalachian Service Project, and has served as vice president of LOVE, INC. of Genesee County. She married her husband, Craig, in 1996, and they have two children.

Caroline Vitale, ’91, 65 Dumont Ave., Clifton, NJ 07013, is a physician in internal medicine and geriatrics at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center in New York City. She is married to Michael Jones, who is a mathematics professor at Montclair State University. Together, they make many trips back to Michigan to see friends and family.

Amy Schreur Wiener, ’91, 6696 Gleneagles Dr., Grand Rapids, MI 49546, and her husband, John, have two children, and Amy is a stay-at-home mother.

Dan and Joelle Drader Wilcox, both ’91, 1109 Tall Pines Ct., Petoskey, MI 49770, were married in 1991 and have two children. Dan is employed by Bay Street Orthopaedics, and Joelle is a stay-at-home mother.

Melissa Wilcox, ’91, 311 W. Austin Ave., Libertyville, IL 60048, is a chemist and product support manager for Alltech Associates, a job that requires her to travel regularly in the U.S. and occasionally internationally. She and her husband, Jason, have been married since 1999.

92 Elyse Semerdjian, ’92, recently returned from studying abroad on a Fulbright Scholarship in Syria. While there, she researched crimes of public morality in the Ottoman Courts of Aleppo. She lives in Grand Blanc and is teaching world history at the University of Michigan-Flint.

93 Jeffrey Barringer, ’93, was promoted to manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in August 2001. He lives in Detroit.

Lynne Burmeister-McQuown, ’93, graduated from Harvard University in June 2001 with a master of divinity degree. She had previously earned an M.A. degree from Princeton Seminary in Princeton, NJ. Linda Lucas, ’93, received her M.B.A. in finance from DePaul University in November 2000. She earned her degree while working full-time at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She lives in Chicago.

Sarah Schultz, ’93, is serving as an intern, dorm parent and girls’ volleyball coach for the Leelanau School in Leland.

94 Keith Clark, ’94, was promoted from account supervisor to vice president, account supervisor at Campbell-Ewald in Warren in July 2001. He is responsible for managing the direct marketing recruiting efforts of the agency’s U.S. Navy account.

Keith has a master’s from Northwestern University. He lives in Royal Oak.

95 David Zorin, ’95, was recently added to the law firm of Butzel Long as an associate attorney in their Detroit office. His primary areas of practice are business law, corporate matters, and transaction and finance issues. He is also a CPA and has several years of public accounting experience.

96 Troy Allen, ’96, 2490 Dongara Dr., Dexter, MI 48130, is a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch. He married his wife, Mandee, in 2001, and currently serves on Albion College’s Planned Giving Advisory Council.

Cammy Dickinson Beglin, ’96, 1406 E. 4th St., Royal Oak, MI 48067, married Jason Beglin, ’97, in July 2000. She received her M.D. degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in June 2000 and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medicine honor society. Cammy is currently an obstetrics/ gynecology resident at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. Irina Calin-Jageman, ’96, 2602 Belmont, Apt. D, Hamtramck, MI 48212, will complete her Ph.D. in biology at Wayne State University in May 2002. She is married to Robert Calin-Jageman, ’98.

Matthew Courser, ’96, 724 Vista Dr., Gahanna, OH 43230, received his master’s degree from Ohio State University and expects to complete his Ph.D. in May 2002.

He is employed by Ohio State at the Center for Survey Research.

Russ Curcuru, ’96, 900 W. Grove Parkway #2026, Tempe, AZ 85283, is a senior financial analyst for Intel Corp. He received his M.B.A. from Michigan State University in 2001 and spent three years

with Comerica Bank, including one year at Comerica Bank Canada in Toronto. He is married to Pam Wadsworth, ’95.

Jennifer Dupuis, ’96, 25361 Fountain Park Dr. W. #428, Novi, MI 48375, is the technology project manager for Gale Group.

Robert Ellerbruch, ’96, 4108 Greenleaf Court #209, Park City, IL 60085, is an actuary for Trustmark Insurance. He is active in local theatres. He earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Western Michigan University.

Heather Fraizer, ’96, 4287 N. Autumn Ridge, Saginaw, MI 48603, is a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. After living in Santiago, Chile, for one year, she expects to finish her Ph.D. in political science in August 2002.

Amy Niesen Gentner, ’96, 815 Peppermill Circle, Lapeer, MI 48446, received her D.D.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 2000 and is a dentist at Lapeer Dental Centre, Inc. In her spare time, she is a girls’ travel soccer coach. She and her husband, Kevin, are the young adult and fellowship coordinators for the Trinity United Methodist Church, and she is a volunteer dental speaker with Lapeer Community Schools. In 2000, Amy received the American Academy of Periodontics Student Award and was also honored by the Academy of General Dentistry.

Christian Carson Hall, ’96, 2318 S. Rose St., Kalamazoo, MI 49001, is a resident physician in orthopedic surgery for the Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies at Michigan State University. He and his wife, Caroline, were married in Santa Monica California shortly after medical school.

Steven Hane, ’96, 1849 Blue Ridge Dr., Jacksonville, FL 32246, is a dentist for the U.S. Navy, on board the aircraft carrier, USS John F. Kennedy. He married Laura Boyes Hane, ’97, in July 2000 and completed one year of dental residency in Norfolk, VA, before being transferred to Mayport, FL, to deploy to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf for six months. He received his D.D.S. from the University of Michigan Dental School in May 2000.

Krista Hammerbacher Haapala, ’96, 19 Sunset Lane, Portland, ME 04102, is the community organizer for the Bayside Neighborhood Association. After working for two years at Albion College as an assistant director of development and cheer coach, she completed her master’s in social work from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. She is involved in the League of Women Voters, the Maine Women’s Lobby, Planned Parenthood, the National Organization of Women and various political campaigns. She and her husband, Brian Haapala, ’95, have one son, born in January 2001.

Lori Hawkins, ’96, 23460 Mahoney Ct., Brownstown, MI 48183, is a professional representative in pharmaceutical sales for Merck & Co., Inc. She is currently working on her M.B.A. with a marketing concentration at the University of MichiganDearborn and expects to graduate in April 2003.

Kristine Heffel, ’96, 3905 Winchell Ave. Apt. 211, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, is a research assistant with the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. After spending over two years in Washington, D.C., working for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and going to graduate school, she received her master’s degree in economics from American University.

Lisa Cluckey Holmes, ’96, 8 Rockridge Ct., Fenton, MI 48430, is an electronics buyer of advanced programs for Valeo Switches and Detection Systems. She married Chris Holmes in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1997, and received her M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. She is currently involved in Beta Gamma Sigma business honorary and enjoys recreational soccer.

Christopher Leverett, ’96, 5595 Viking Dr., Jackson, MI 49201, is enrolled at Eastern Michigan University, where he is pursuing his secondary teaching certificate.

Christine Marshall, ’96, 4311 Cedarwood Ln. #F, Wilmington, NC 28403, received her J.D. from Wayne State University and is employed as a real estate attorney.

Christie Cleland Hursey, ’96, 3986 Windy Heights Dr., Okemos, MI 48864, received a master’s degree in athletic administration and is a physical education teacher. She married her husband, Tyler Hursey, in 1999.

Joseph Masvero, ’96, 18117 Mohawk Dr., Spring Lake, MI 49456, is a certified financial manager for Merril Lynch. He is involved in the Bair Lake Bible Camp, the Muskegon Rescue Mission, the Boy Scouts of America and as a Rotary Strive Mentor.

Joseph and his wife, Andrea, have two sons.

Jessica LeDonne Johnson, ’96, 3888 Baybrook Dr., Aurora, IL 60504, is a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Jessica has recently been elected to the Indian Prairie District 204 school board to serve a four-year term.

Tami McCumons, ’96, 60 Lawn Ave. #14, Stamford, CT 06902, received her master’s in health care administration from the University of Minnesota. She is employed as the administration director of the endoscopy suite at Greenwich (CT) Hospital.

David Johnston, ’96, 5637 Muirfield Village Circle, Lake Worth, FL 33463, is a turnaround management executive for Jay Alix & Associates. A CPA, he is a member of the Association of Insolvency Restructuring Advisors, and has been named to the Lexington Who’s Who Registry of Executives & Professionals.

David and his wife, Jennifer, enjoy traveling.

Jennifer Arbogost Keating, ’96, 2970 S. Iowa St., Chandler, AZ 85248, received her master’s in public administration from Syracuse University and is the assistant to the deputy director for the city of Phoenix.

She is involved with the Arthritis Foundation, and led a national demonstration project, Experience Corps, a volunteer program for seniors. Jennifer married her husband, Mark, in September 2000.

Matthew and Keri Towsley Keck, both ’96, 900 Long Blvd. #242, Lansing, MI 48911, have been married for five years and have two sons. Keri is a family advocate and parent aide for Child Abuse Prevention Services. She has been involved in child abuse prevention activities and the Salvation Army. Matthew received his J.D. degree from Duke University, and is an attorney and assistant attorney general for the State of Michigan Attorney General’s office. He has been named the Rookie of the Year at the Attorney General’s Office by the State Bar of Michigan. Matt has been involved in child abuse prevention activities and is the Holt United Methodist Church handbell choir director.

Michelle Kennedy, ’96, 4372 Eagle Crest Dr., Williamsburg, MI 49690, received her master’s as a physician’s assistant from Central Michigan University. She is employed by the Kalkaska Family Practice.

Michael Kobylan, ’96, 37167 Clubhouse Dr., Sterling Heights, MI 48312, is working toward his M.B.A. at Walsh College and is employed as a network engineer for MicroManagement, Inc. Max Kort, ’96, 125 Algansee Dr., Troy, MI 48083, married his wife, Lisa, in 1999.

After working as an auditor at Ernst & Young for three years, he is now employed as an accountant at General Motors. A CPA, he is pursuing his M.B.A. at Walsh College.

Erick and Kristin Haukebo Larson, both ’96, 5700 Vikjavegen 899, Voss, Norway, were married in 1998. Erick is a senior business developer for Sail Port Northern Europe, and Kristin is a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Bergen.

Joellyn McGeachy, ’96, 1657 W. Catalpa #2, Chicago, IL 60640, is an audio visual specialist for Sonnenscheim, Nath & Rosenthal.

Kristin Misner Meier, ’96, 2504 Traver Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105, is a physical therapist at the University of Michigan hospital. She married her husband, Mark, in May 2001.

Elizabeth Miller, ’96, 940 W. Cuyler Ave., Chicago, IL 60613-2115, received her master’s in public administration from Syracuse University and is a manager for the Social Security Administration.

Elizabeth served as a presidential management intern from 1997 to 1999, and has enjoyed travels to the Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Mexico, Israel and London.

Stephanie Almeida Moccia, ’96, 1717 Brockton, Royal Oak, MI 48067, is an obstetrics/gynecology resident at the St. John Detroit Riverview Hospital. She married her husband, Tom, in September 2001.

Jeff and Kenadi Myers Moore, both ’96, 231 Cedarbend Ct., Powell, OH 43065, were married in 1999 in Hawaii. Kenadi received her master’s degree from Case Western and is employed in health systems integration at Ohio Health. Jeff received his master’s degree from Ball State University and is an actuary with Nationwide Insurance. They enjoy racing greyhounds and riding their tandem bicycle.

Katy Neumann, ’96, 914 Dayton Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49048, is attending Western Michigan University to receive her master’s degree in early childhood education and is an elementary school teacher in the Albion Public Schools. She just bought a home in Kalamazoo, and enjoys hiking and camping in northern Michigan.

Cristina Line Noble, ’96, 4971 Crooked Stick Ct., Brighton, MI 48116, received her B.S. degree in sports medicine and exercise science from Eastern Michigan University and is a clinical exercise physiologist at Botsford General Hospital.

Megan Fiesinger Pangborn, ’96, 3200 N. Bartlett Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211, is an advertising account executive for CramerKrasselt. She enjoys coaching girls’ soccer, and has traveled to locations such as France, Cancun and parts of the U.S. and Canada. She married Cameron Pangborn, ’95, in 1998.

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Jacqueline Worosz Paquette, ’96, 641 Alan Dr., Lake Orion, MI 48362, is a tax specialist for Daimler Chrysler Services and is currently working on her master’s degree.

Amy Alderink Pearson, ’96, 1549 Carlton NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505, received her J.D. in 1999. She is employed as coordinator of adult residential programs for the Salvation Army. After graduating from Albion College, Amy studied in Cambridge, England and married her husband, Anthony, in 1999.

Carrie Childers Robinson, ’96, 14529 Lunar Dr., Bloomington, IL 61704, received her master’s in reading education from Illinois State University in 1998 and has enjoyed travels to England as part of her graduate studies. She is married to David Robinson, and is a stay-at-home mom to their daughter.

Douglas Ropa, ’96, is employed in Northeast Iowa Community College’s Marketing Department. His duties include writing news releases, publishing newsletters and managing/editing the college’s Web site. Last summer, Doug gave readings of his poetry in Dubuque, IA, at events sponsored by the Dubuque Area Writers Guild. He lives in East Dubuque, IL. Thomas Sesti, ’96, 5845 Loch Leven, Waterford, MI 48327, received a master’s degree in management and marketing, and is employed as the sales and marketing director for Cadillac Shoe Products. He and his wife, Camille, have three children.

Ryan Sweet, ’96, 8005 E. Colorado Ave. #2, Denver, CO 80231, is working on his J.D. degree from University of Denver and is employed as a stockbroker at Charles Schwab. In his spare time he enjoys intramural football and basketball, and travels to Mexico, Canada and the western U.S. Robert Taylor, ’96, 1225 Michigan Ave., Waterville, OH 43566, received his master’s in education and is employed as the defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator for Defiance College. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have two children.

Jill Walters, ’96, 1955 NW Hoyt #5, Portland, OR 97209, holds a master’s in education from the University of Michigan and is a French teacher in Beaverton, OR. She has enjoyed travels to China and Thailand.

Heather White, ’96, 2500 Foxfield Ln., Highland, MI 48356, completed her master’s degree in business leadership from Madonna University and is a teacher leader and career-focused education coordinator for Huron Valley Schools. She is the assistant swim coach for the Walled Lake Central women’s team.

Amy Comer Williams, ’96, 4442 Cricket Ridge Dr. #101, Holt, MI 48842, is an occupational therapist at the Burcham Hills Retirement Community in East Lansing.

She and her husband, Michael Williams, ’99, were married in July 2000 and spent their honeymoon in Mexico.

Adam and Jessica Beyer Wood, both ’96, 61285 Brookway Dr., South Lyon, MI 48178, were married in 1996. Jessica has been a manager at Accenture for five years.

Jared Wood, ’96, 6440 Wilson, Waterford, MI 48329, received his master’s degree in school psychology and is employed by Lake Orion Schools as a school psychologist. He is married to Celeste Wood.

97 Sarah Cieciorka, ’97, graduated in June 2001 from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. She lives in Chicago where she is currently a pediatric resident at Rush Children’s Hospital.

Glen Kushiner, ’97, has joined Conway, MacKenzie, and Dunleavy in Birmingham as an associate. He serves clients in turnaround management consulting, debt restructuring, profit enhancement and operation evaluations. He most recently was senior auditor with Arthur Andersen.

He lives in Howell.

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99 Robert Bruner, ’99, has moved from a position as a consultant for Accenture in Detroit to become assistant to the city manager in Oak Park. He lives in Oak Park.

Amanda Campbell, ’99, participated in a four-month archaeological dig in Charlottesville, VA. She was one of eight field archaeologists employed for a project at Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello.

She lives in Lexington and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in archaeology at Western Michigan University.

Jennifer Thomas, ’99, graduated from Oakland University with a master’s in business administration in June 2001. She is now working as a financial analyst for DaimlerChrysler in Detroit. Jennifer would love to hear from old friends and can be reached by e-mail at: GoBrits99@aol.com.

01 Stacy Burmeister, ’01, has been pursuing her love of art through photographicquality pencil drawings. She has had recent gallery showings at University of Michigan through the Gifts of Art program. Stacy hopes to market her work nationally. She lives in Manchester.

Laurel Weinman, ’01, has been named an Albion College admissions counselor. Her responsibilities include recruitment for the Upper Peninsula, the Thumb area, central Michigan and the greater Lansing area, in addition to overseeing Web site information for the Admissions Office. Laurel is also co-advisor for Alpha Chi Omega sorority.

Jen Wells, ’01, is currently serving as a residence hall director for Twin Towers at Albion College. Jen plans to attend graduate school at Michigan State University. Along with her duties in residential life, she is also serving as a staff mentor for the William Atwell Brown, Jr. and Mary Brown Vacin First-Year Experience.

Kristine Carlson, ’80, to Phillip Witt on Nov. 25, 2000. Weddings guests included Barbara Smith Jang, ’80, who officiated, and Holly Wagner, ’80. Kristine works as a manager of human resources at Eaton Corporation’s world headquarters in Cleveland, OH. Phillip is a commercial loan officer in community development lending with KeyBank. They can be reached at 298 S. Rocky River Dr., Berea, OH 44017; 440/243-7537.

Martha Ramsdell, ’90, to Gary Vartanoff on Aug. 18, 2001 in Farmington. Martha is employed by Radley Corp., and Gary by MSX International. The couple lives in Farmington Hills.

Christopher Hull, ’94, to Janet Roggenbuck on July 21, 2001 in Clinton Township. Chris is employed by the Chippewa Valley school district. Janet works for the American Diabetes Association. The couple lives in Macomb Township.

John Jacobs, ’95, to Sarah Hakeos on June 23, 2001. Sarah is a social worker for Monroe County Area Agency on Aging.

John is a shipping clerk at Spiratex. The couple lives in Monroe.

Julie Samu, ’95, to William Shouldice on Sept. 23, 2000 in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. Bridesmaids included Shari Ezzell Tressel, ’95, Christine Kaufman Schoendorff, ’95, and Julie Pietrzen, ’96.

Julie and William are optometrists at Alpine Eye Care in Gaylord and Cheboygan. The couple lives in Indian River. (See accompanying photo.)

Christine Greene, ’96, to Stuart Hutchings on Aug. 18, 2001. The couple lives in Ann Arbor.

Lisa Sauer, ’97, to Matt Mulvenna on July 28, 2001 in Sterling Heights. Alumni in attendance included Jennifer Wohlberg, ’97, Carrie Wagner, ’97, Susanne Oosta Whited, ’99, and Sally Goff, ’98. Lisa graduated from Wayne State University with her master’s in information and library science in December 2000. She is a youth

Melissa McDonald, ’00, to Casey Heckathorn, ’98, on July 22, 2000 in Augusta, GA. Among those in attendance at the wedding were: John Basye, ’98, Emily Betz, ’00, Sabrina Corte, ’00, Leslie DuBois, ’01, Jamie Glinski, ’98, Brian Heckathorn, ’00, Alana Heikkinen, ’01, Barbara Rose Hill, ’73, Meghan Jackson, ’99, Angela Karros, ’01, Sally Lane, ’00, Kerri Martin, ’99, John McDonald, ’71, Kelley McDonald, ’01, Jason Nagy, ’96, Kathryn Pritchard, ’01, Jason Rairigh, ’01, Kyle Rose, ’88, Kelly Totin, ’99, Jeffrey Trenta, ’98, Rachel Scherer Trenta, ’98, and Gabe Trumble, ’01. Melissa is employed as a fourth-grade Spanish teacher, and Casey is an elementary physical education teacher. The couple lives in Augusta, GA.

Baby Britons Quinn Taylor Hartmann on June 27, 2001 to Tom and Ann Marie Ralston Hartmann, ’85. The family lives in Evanston, IL. Allie Grace on Dec. 30, 2000 to Mark and Lauryn Miller Eriksen, ’88. She joins big sister Emma, 6, and brothers Ian, 5, and Nolan, 4. The family resides in Clarkston.

Jillian Genna on Feb. 21, 2001 to David and Merry Boettcher Erlechman, ’88.

She joins brother Nathan, 5, and sister Wyli, 1. The family resides in Beachwood, OH, and can be reached by e-mail at: salesafe@stratos.net.

Thomas Giblin on Sept. 13, 2001 to Mike and Katie Giblin Olsson, both ’88. He joins Danny, 8, Elizabeth, 5, and Gracie, 3.

The family lives in Marshall.

Madelynn Taylor Knox on July 15, 2001 to Mac and Christine Hoppe Knox, ’90.

Christine is a social worker in the field of international adoptions. Mac is a compliance officer for SunTrust RobinsonHumphrey Co. in Atlanta. The family lives in Mableton, GA. Alyssa Catherine on Oct. 10, 2001 to Robert and Cynthia Rafaill Czech, ’91.

The family lives in Grosse Pointe Woods, and can be reached by e-mail at: Cynthia@crczech.com or go to their Web site at www.crczech.com.

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Lillian Joy on March 21, 2001 to Ken and Susan Magnuson Beech, ’92. Her uncle and godfather is Brian Bailey, ’84. The family lives in Cleveland, OH.

See accompanying notes for details.

Alexandra Jimenez and Sven Sauer were married on Jan. 6, 2001 in San Jose, Costa Rica. They met in 1997-98 while serving as native speakers in Spanish and German, respectively, for Albion’s Gerstacker International House.

Pictured at the wedding ceremony are: (from left) Roy Umana, ’93, Katie Mulcrone,’00, Sven Sauer, Alexandra Jimenez, Omar Gazayerli, ’98, Jocelyn Hoffman (also a Spanish native speaker, 1997-98), Hal Wyss (English Department) and Melissa Wyss (Physical Education Department). Not pictured is Marco Schadel (German native speaker, 1999-2000).

services librarian at the Clinton-Macomb Public Library in Clinton Township. The couple lives in Chesterfield Township.

Louis Alan on July 9, 2001 to Kristin and Ted Craig, ’92. Louis joins big sister Bailey, 5. The family resides in Harrison Township.

Grace Carolynn on Aug. 7, 2001 to Ryan, ’93, and Amy Benser Irish, ’92. Proud relatives include Bob Benser, ’86, Heidi Benser, ’88, Leslie Benser, ’83, and Don Luciani, ’82. The family lives in Rochester.

Julie Samu, ’95, to William Shouldice on Sept. 23, 2000. (Clockwise from left around bride) Shari Ezzell Tressel, ’95, Christine Kaufman Schoendorff, ’95, Julie Pietrzen,’96.

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Jacqueline Worosz Paquette, ’96, 641 Alan Dr., Lake Orion, MI 48362, is a tax specialist for Daimler Chrysler Services and is currently working on her master’s degree.

Amy Alderink Pearson, ’96, 1549 Carlton NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505, received her J.D. in 1999. She is employed as coordinator of adult residential programs for the Salvation Army. After graduating from Albion College, Amy studied in Cambridge, England and married her husband, Anthony, in 1999.

Carrie Childers Robinson, ’96, 14529 Lunar Dr., Bloomington, IL 61704, received her master’s in reading education from Illinois State University in 1998 and has enjoyed travels to England as part of her graduate studies. She is married to David Robinson, and is a stay-at-home mom to their daughter.

Douglas Ropa, ’96, is employed in Northeast Iowa Community College’s Marketing Department. His duties include writing news releases, publishing newsletters and managing/editing the college’s Web site. Last summer, Doug gave readings of his poetry in Dubuque, IA, at events sponsored by the Dubuque Area Writers Guild. He lives in East Dubuque, IL. Thomas Sesti, ’96, 5845 Loch Leven, Waterford, MI 48327, received a master’s degree in management and marketing, and is employed as the sales and marketing director for Cadillac Shoe Products. He and his wife, Camille, have three children.

Ryan Sweet, ’96, 8005 E. Colorado Ave. #2, Denver, CO 80231, is working on his J.D. degree from University of Denver and is employed as a stockbroker at Charles Schwab. In his spare time he enjoys intramural football and basketball, and travels to Mexico, Canada and the western U.S. Robert Taylor, ’96, 1225 Michigan Ave., Waterville, OH 43566, received his master’s in education and is employed as the defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator for Defiance College. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have two children.

Jill Walters, ’96, 1955 NW Hoyt #5, Portland, OR 97209, holds a master’s in education from the University of Michigan and is a French teacher in Beaverton, OR. She has enjoyed travels to China and Thailand.

Heather White, ’96, 2500 Foxfield Ln., Highland, MI 48356, completed her master’s degree in business leadership from Madonna University and is a teacher leader and career-focused education coordinator for Huron Valley Schools. She is the assistant swim coach for the Walled Lake Central women’s team.

Amy Comer Williams, ’96, 4442 Cricket Ridge Dr. #101, Holt, MI 48842, is an occupational therapist at the Burcham Hills Retirement Community in East Lansing.

She and her husband, Michael Williams, ’99, were married in July 2000 and spent their honeymoon in Mexico.

Adam and Jessica Beyer Wood, both ’96, 61285 Brookway Dr., South Lyon, MI 48178, were married in 1996. Jessica has been a manager at Accenture for five years.

Jared Wood, ’96, 6440 Wilson, Waterford, MI 48329, received his master’s degree in school psychology and is employed by Lake Orion Schools as a school psychologist. He is married to Celeste Wood.

97 Sarah Cieciorka, ’97, graduated in June 2001 from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. She lives in Chicago where she is currently a pediatric resident at Rush Children’s Hospital.

Glen Kushiner, ’97, has joined Conway, MacKenzie, and Dunleavy in Birmingham as an associate. He serves clients in turnaround management consulting, debt restructuring, profit enhancement and operation evaluations. He most recently was senior auditor with Arthur Andersen.

He lives in Howell.

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99 Robert Bruner, ’99, has moved from a position as a consultant for Accenture in Detroit to become assistant to the city manager in Oak Park. He lives in Oak Park.

Amanda Campbell, ’99, participated in a four-month archaeological dig in Charlottesville, VA. She was one of eight field archaeologists employed for a project at Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello.

She lives in Lexington and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in archaeology at Western Michigan University.

Jennifer Thomas, ’99, graduated from Oakland University with a master’s in business administration in June 2001. She is now working as a financial analyst for DaimlerChrysler in Detroit. Jennifer would love to hear from old friends and can be reached by e-mail at: GoBrits99@aol.com.

01 Stacy Burmeister, ’01, has been pursuing her love of art through photographicquality pencil drawings. She has had recent gallery showings at University of Michigan through the Gifts of Art program. Stacy hopes to market her work nationally. She lives in Manchester.

Laurel Weinman, ’01, has been named an Albion College admissions counselor. Her responsibilities include recruitment for the Upper Peninsula, the Thumb area, central Michigan and the greater Lansing area, in addition to overseeing Web site information for the Admissions Office. Laurel is also co-advisor for Alpha Chi Omega sorority.

Jen Wells, ’01, is currently serving as a residence hall director for Twin Towers at Albion College. Jen plans to attend graduate school at Michigan State University. Along with her duties in residential life, she is also serving as a staff mentor for the William Atwell Brown, Jr. and Mary Brown Vacin First-Year Experience.

Kristine Carlson, ’80, to Phillip Witt on Nov. 25, 2000. Weddings guests included Barbara Smith Jang, ’80, who officiated, and Holly Wagner, ’80. Kristine works as a manager of human resources at Eaton Corporation’s world headquarters in Cleveland, OH. Phillip is a commercial loan officer in community development lending with KeyBank. They can be reached at 298 S. Rocky River Dr., Berea, OH 44017; 440/243-7537.

Martha Ramsdell, ’90, to Gary Vartanoff on Aug. 18, 2001 in Farmington. Martha is employed by Radley Corp., and Gary by MSX International. The couple lives in Farmington Hills.

Christopher Hull, ’94, to Janet Roggenbuck on July 21, 2001 in Clinton Township. Chris is employed by the Chippewa Valley school district. Janet works for the American Diabetes Association. The couple lives in Macomb Township.

John Jacobs, ’95, to Sarah Hakeos on June 23, 2001. Sarah is a social worker for Monroe County Area Agency on Aging.

John is a shipping clerk at Spiratex. The couple lives in Monroe.

Julie Samu, ’95, to William Shouldice on Sept. 23, 2000 in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. Bridesmaids included Shari Ezzell Tressel, ’95, Christine Kaufman Schoendorff, ’95, and Julie Pietrzen, ’96.

Julie and William are optometrists at Alpine Eye Care in Gaylord and Cheboygan. The couple lives in Indian River. (See accompanying photo.)

Christine Greene, ’96, to Stuart Hutchings on Aug. 18, 2001. The couple lives in Ann Arbor.

Lisa Sauer, ’97, to Matt Mulvenna on July 28, 2001 in Sterling Heights. Alumni in attendance included Jennifer Wohlberg, ’97, Carrie Wagner, ’97, Susanne Oosta Whited, ’99, and Sally Goff, ’98. Lisa graduated from Wayne State University with her master’s in information and library science in December 2000. She is a youth

Melissa McDonald, ’00, to Casey Heckathorn, ’98, on July 22, 2000 in Augusta, GA. Among those in attendance at the wedding were: John Basye, ’98, Emily Betz, ’00, Sabrina Corte, ’00, Leslie DuBois, ’01, Jamie Glinski, ’98, Brian Heckathorn, ’00, Alana Heikkinen, ’01, Barbara Rose Hill, ’73, Meghan Jackson, ’99, Angela Karros, ’01, Sally Lane, ’00, Kerri Martin, ’99, John McDonald, ’71, Kelley McDonald, ’01, Jason Nagy, ’96, Kathryn Pritchard, ’01, Jason Rairigh, ’01, Kyle Rose, ’88, Kelly Totin, ’99, Jeffrey Trenta, ’98, Rachel Scherer Trenta, ’98, and Gabe Trumble, ’01. Melissa is employed as a fourth-grade Spanish teacher, and Casey is an elementary physical education teacher. The couple lives in Augusta, GA.

Baby Britons Quinn Taylor Hartmann on June 27, 2001 to Tom and Ann Marie Ralston Hartmann, ’85. The family lives in Evanston, IL. Allie Grace on Dec. 30, 2000 to Mark and Lauryn Miller Eriksen, ’88. She joins big sister Emma, 6, and brothers Ian, 5, and Nolan, 4. The family resides in Clarkston.

Jillian Genna on Feb. 21, 2001 to David and Merry Boettcher Erlechman, ’88.

She joins brother Nathan, 5, and sister Wyli, 1. The family resides in Beachwood, OH, and can be reached by e-mail at: salesafe@stratos.net.

Thomas Giblin on Sept. 13, 2001 to Mike and Katie Giblin Olsson, both ’88. He joins Danny, 8, Elizabeth, 5, and Gracie, 3.

The family lives in Marshall.

Madelynn Taylor Knox on July 15, 2001 to Mac and Christine Hoppe Knox, ’90.

Christine is a social worker in the field of international adoptions. Mac is a compliance officer for SunTrust RobinsonHumphrey Co. in Atlanta. The family lives in Mableton, GA. Alyssa Catherine on Oct. 10, 2001 to Robert and Cynthia Rafaill Czech, ’91.

The family lives in Grosse Pointe Woods, and can be reached by e-mail at: Cynthia@crczech.com or go to their Web site at www.crczech.com.

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Lillian Joy on March 21, 2001 to Ken and Susan Magnuson Beech, ’92. Her uncle and godfather is Brian Bailey, ’84. The family lives in Cleveland, OH.

See accompanying notes for details.

Alexandra Jimenez and Sven Sauer were married on Jan. 6, 2001 in San Jose, Costa Rica. They met in 1997-98 while serving as native speakers in Spanish and German, respectively, for Albion’s Gerstacker International House.

Pictured at the wedding ceremony are: (from left) Roy Umana, ’93, Katie Mulcrone,’00, Sven Sauer, Alexandra Jimenez, Omar Gazayerli, ’98, Jocelyn Hoffman (also a Spanish native speaker, 1997-98), Hal Wyss (English Department) and Melissa Wyss (Physical Education Department). Not pictured is Marco Schadel (German native speaker, 1999-2000).

services librarian at the Clinton-Macomb Public Library in Clinton Township. The couple lives in Chesterfield Township.

Louis Alan on July 9, 2001 to Kristin and Ted Craig, ’92. Louis joins big sister Bailey, 5. The family resides in Harrison Township.

Grace Carolynn on Aug. 7, 2001 to Ryan, ’93, and Amy Benser Irish, ’92. Proud relatives include Bob Benser, ’86, Heidi Benser, ’88, Leslie Benser, ’83, and Don Luciani, ’82. The family lives in Rochester.

Julie Samu, ’95, to William Shouldice on Sept. 23, 2000. (Clockwise from left around bride) Shari Ezzell Tressel, ’95, Christine Kaufman Schoendorff, ’95, Julie Pietrzen,’96.

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Cassidy Leigh on May 7, 2001 to Samuel and Denise Thomas Porter, ’94. She joins big sister Kaitlyn, 3. Denise enjoys being a stay-at-home mom. Sam is the location manager of Kendall Electric’s Battle Creek operation. The family lives in Albion.

Shannon Elizabeth on Aug. 21, 2001 to Charles and Lisa Lotter Rogers, both ’95.

She joins big brother Sean. The family lives in Fort Gordon, GA. Abigail Grace on May, 22, 2001 to Jason and Mary Anne Greening White, both ’95. Jason is employed as a software quality assurance analyst with Kelly Services in Troy. Mary Anne works as a communications planning supervisor at Campbell-Ewald in Warren. The family resides in Waterford and can be reached by e-mail at white_shoes_white@yahoo.com.

Barrett Vaughan Allen on June 14, 2001 to Valetta and Wesley Browne, ’96. Wesley and Valetta are both attorneys and share a private practice. The family lives in Richmond, KY. Noah Thomas on March 23, 2001 to Matthew and Keri Towsley Keck, both ’96. He joins big brother Alex, 4. Matt continues to work as an assistant attorney general for the Michigan Department of Attorney General. Keri now works as a parent aide for Child Abuse Prevention Services. The family lives in Lansing and can be reached by e-mail at: matthew.keck@mindspring.com.

Maggie Elizabeth on June 10, 2001 to Julie and Nathan Reed, ’96. Nathan is a teacher and football coach for Midland Dow High School. Julie is a supervisor at a juvenile detention center. The family lives in Midland.

Neeley Evelyn on June 26, 2001 to Jeffrey and Bethany Rinke Peterson, ’99.

Bethany is in her third year working for the New Lothrop public school system where she teaches English and American and British literature. The family lives in Swartz Creek.

Obituaries Ronald Brunger, ’33, on Sept. 29, 2001 in Chelsea. Recipient of a master’s degree in sacred theology from Boston University, he was ordained in 1937 and served as a fulltime pastor for the next 42 years. He officially retired as a minister of the United Methodist Church in 1979, but continued to serve in a part-time and supportive capacity for another 16 years. He was an acknowledged expert about the circuit riders who provided ministerial services to the scattered residents and the missionaries who served Native Americans in frontier Michigan. He wrote extensively on a variety of local and state church history topics, and made contributions to the organization and maintenance of the church’s archives at Adrian College. He is survived by two sons, a daughter and two grandchildren.

Paul Carnell, ’39, on Aug. 25, 2000 in Silver Spring, MD. After receiving a doctorate in chemistry from Case Western University in Cleveland, he chaired the Chemistry Department at Albion before moving to Washington in 1966. He retired in 1987 from the U.S. Department of Education where he was an executive director of a national advisory committee on accreditation. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Whipple Carnell, ’64, five children, seven grandchildren and a greatgranchild.

Charlotte Freye Owen, ’39, on July 20, 2001. She was an elementary school teacher in Goodrich, Rockford and Muskegon. She was involved in community and church activities. She is survived by a son, two daughters and seven grandchildren.

Edward Boies, ’40, on Aug. 26, 2001 in Greensboro, NC. He was employed by Revere Copper and Brass Co. in New Bedford, MA, before joining the military.

With the Army Air Corps, he was commissioned as an aerial navigator and navigational instructor. He retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve with the rank of major. He then became a newspaperman with the Battle Creek Enquirer and News.

As an active member of the Battle Creek Newspaper Guild, he was the president for several terms. A long-time resident of Goguac Lake and a competitive sailor of small boats, he was twice commodore of the Goguac Yacht Club and president of the Rhodes Bantam Class Association. He also taught in local adult education programs.

Edward was involved in community and church, as well as writing two local historical accounts, A Trust for Tomorrow and History of the Charitable Union/Ladies of Social Responsibility. He is survived by three children and three grandchildren.

Dolores Morlock De Witt, ’49, on Aug. 30, 2001 in Crossville, TN. Dolores taught school in Michigan as well as Germany while her husband, Donald, was in the military. When her husband left the service, they partnered a grocery store, Manor Market, at Higgins Lake before eventually moving to Tennessee. Dolores participated in music groups such as Sweet Adelines and the community band, was an avid golfer and bridge player, and enjoyed traveling. She is survived by her husband, three daughters and three grandchildren.

George Huckle, ’49, on Oct. 1, 2001 in Boynton Beach, FL. He joined the Army and served during World War II. After graduating from Albion, he attended the University of Michigan where he received his M.D. degree in 1953. After completing his four-year residency at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, he moved to Delray Beach, FL, where he became the first obstetrician/gynecologist at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, FL. He retired from practice in 1989. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn Granville Huckle, ’47, a son, a daughter and two grandchildren.

CORRECTION: A previous printing of this notice incorrectly listed the survivors.

We sincerely apologize for the error.

Charles Held, ’50, on Feb. 3, 2001 in Albion. He attended the University of Michigan, the University of Edinburgh, and Wayne State University where he earned a Ph.D. in library and teacher education. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army Reserves. He taught at Fordson High School from 1954 to 1963. He then became an instructor at Wayne State University for two years before coming to Albion College in 1965. He retired from Albion in 1985 as head librarian and associate professor of history. He enjoyed traveling and was actively involved in his community. He was past president of the Albion Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow. He is survived by his wife, Nancy Held, professor emerita of education at Albion, and two daughters.

James Nutt, ’58, on Sept. 8, 2001 in Greenville. He attended Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine where he received his medical degree. James served on Montcalm County’s Human Resources Council, and was a co-founder of the Great Lakes College of Clinical Medicine, a charter fellow of the American College in the Advancement of Medicine, a cofounder for the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, and served on many other medical boards.

A. Keith Kerr, ’73, on Feb. 24, 2001. He had lived in Swartz Creek. He is survived by his wife, Marcia.

Suzanne Rustoni, ’92, on Aug. 17, 2001.

She left a career in banking and went back to school to get her teaching certificate. A resident of Rochester Hills, she was a teacher and assistant swim coach at Birmingham Groves High School. She is survived by her parents and a brother.

Amy Fletcher, ’02, in October 2001. She attended Albion from 1998 to 2000 when she transferred to Eastern Michigan University. She is survived by her family.

Faculty and friends David Lott Strickler, professor emeritus of music, passed away Nov. 11, 2001 in Lansing.

A memorial service was held in Albion College’s Goodrich Chapel Nov. 15 with Harry Cook, ’61, rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Clawson, officiating.

He was assisted by William Ritter, ’62, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Birmingham; President Peter Mitchell, ’67; Jacqueline Maag, professor emerita of music; and Gregory Martin, pastor of Albion First United Methodist Church. Many Albion choir alumni joined current choir members in performing at the service under the direction of Melvin Larimer, ’53, professor emeritus of music, and Douglas Rose, assistant professor of music.

Albion’s beloved choir director from 1943 to 1976, Strickler was an innovator who started many musical traditions at Albion, including the annual Festival of Lessons and Carols concert and the Albion College Choral Society.

Eminent international economist William W. Diehl, ’24, passed away Sept. 1, 2001 in Mansfield, Ohio. Diehl served as an economist for the U.S. Treasury from 1945 to 1969 and played a critical role in rebuilding Japanese financial institutions in the aftermath of World War II. His assignments included that of financial attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Manila and the same position at the embassy in Tokyo. He was a financial advisor to General Douglas MacArthur, at that time the supreme commander of the Allied Powers in Japan following World War II, and also to General John Hodge in Korea. He later advised U.S. delegations to the United Nations.

Special presidential assignments included the Dodge Mission to Japan in 1949 and the Staley Mission to Vietnam in 1961.

Diehl received the distinguished civilian service award from the Department of the Army, the Third Order of the Rising Sun from the government of Japan and the Albert Gallatin public service award from the U.S. Treasury.

He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California in 1933 and in 1986 was the recipient of an honorary doctor of public service degree from Albion College.

Diehl is survived by a daughter-in-law, two grandchildren and a sister.

W. W. Diehl was one of Albion College’s most generous benefactors.

Not only did he faithfully make substantial contributions to the Albion Annual Fund, but he provided funding for the international studies program and created the endowment for the William W. Diehl Trustees’ Professorship.

Strickler joined the Albion College music faculty in 1943 and became chair of the Department of Music in 1953. In 1977, he received an honorary doctor of music degree from Albion.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Strickler served as instructor in voice, teacher of theory and director of vocal and instrumental organizations at MacMurray College for Women in Jacksonville, Ill., before joining Albion’s music faculty. After his retirement from Albion in 1976, he stayed on as part-time teacher of voice for several years and on occasion directed the Albion College Choir. For much of his career, he also served as a tenor soloist with groups in the mid-Michigan area.

An avid composer and arranger, Strickler often premiered his works with the Albion Choir. National music presses published several of Strickler’s organ and choral works, and his anthem “Prayer of St. John of Damascus” was awarded first prize in a national contest conducted by the Hartford Chapter of the National Guild of Organists.

In 1964 the United Methodist Church’s National Board of Education commissioned the choir to record an album of 12 selections from the church’s hymnody.

Abingdon Press subsequently published a number of hymns Strickler arranged for this album.

A few years later the United Methodist Church brought out a new hymnal and tapped the choir to record 12 of the hymns in this new edition. Again, several of Strickler’s arrangements were published by the Abingdon Press and the Oxford University Press.

In 1984, Strickler received the Nellie Huger Ebersole award for excellence in church music from Michigan State University’s Church Music Workshop. He was awarded the Maynard Klein Award “in recognition of artistic excellence and a lifetime of leadership in the field of choral music” in 1990.

Strickler is survived by his wife, Kay. Other survivors include a daughter, Julianna, her husband, Brent Smith, and their two children, Brett and Kristin, and a son, John, his wife, Nan, and their four children, Jennifer, Jeffrey, Sean and Marianna.

To honor Strickler’s outstanding career and long service to Albion, in 1992 the College established the David L. Strickler Endowed Concert Series and subsequently the David L. Strickler Endowed Professorship. Memorial contributions for the David L. Strickler Endowed Professorship will be accepted at the Office of Institutional Advancement, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224.

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‘Lead, kindly light . . . lead thou me on’ David Lott Strickler, long-time choir director at Albion College, passed away Nov. 11, 2001. Friends and former students remember his legacy in the following comments.

Please see the notice on the previous page for more information about Strickler’s life and work.

Dr. David Strickler was a mentor and a second father figure to me. He played a critical and inspirational role at a pivotal time in my life, a time when I was searching for my identity and ultimate purpose in life. He helped me discover my voice—not only literally but figuraDavid Strickler was a gifted and tively. A wonderful world of dedicated teacher and conductor music was opened up to me who strived always to achieve the and, with it, undreamed-of highest standards of excellence. His possibilities. Mr. Dave choirs at Albion College loved and helped me with the first steps “Mr. Dave” Strickler and his wife, Kay. revered “Mr. Dave,” as he was on the new road I had chosen called by his students. His keen wit and marvelous sense of to travel, and I found the courage to go forward into the humor endeared him to all who knew him. His many unknown to meet my destiny. As Robert Frost said in his wonderful compositions and arrangements for choirs and poem, “The Road Not Taken”: “. . . And that has made all solo voice will provide a rich legacy that will continue to the difference.” Thank you, Mr. Dave, for your guidance and inspire singers and music lovers for generations to come. We encouragement. I shall miss you greatly, but your teaching have all lost a wonderful mentor and trusted friend in David and example will live on in me, and I will endeavor to pass Strickler. on the same enthusiasm and knowledge to my own students, as you did to me.

Melvin S. Larimer, ’53 Professor Emeritus of Music; Director, Albion College Jennifer Trost, ’79 Choir, 1976-1996 Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Germany

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Now and again during the third of a century from 1943 to 1976, the late David Lott Strickler would pull Randall Thompson’s “Peaceable Kingdom” from the shelf and teach it to a new generation of collegiate choristers. I am not sure of this, but I think almost everyone who was lucky enough to get into choir in the first place and then stuck with it for all four years eventually got to sing the piece.

One wonders if Mr. Dave knew what singing the Thompson piece would turn out to mean to his students. One of its most moving passages includes the words, “Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Ye shall have a song, and gladness of heart.” The text by itself does not do justice to the force and effect of the work.

As you sang it over time, you realized that you were literally being given a song—not the notes on the staff, but the music you with others were making under the direction of a man who loved what he did and did what he loved, and loved you for doing it with him.

It is not trite to say that, when Mr. Dave died on Nov. 11 at the age of 90-plus years, an era ended. And a glorious era it was. What I, for one, have discovered since is that the song he gave me has survived, and the gladness of heart it caused to well up in me has not been diminished.

Meanwhile, as I learned at his memorial service, I can now sing the words of the alma mater only with moist eyes and a definite catch in the throat, for Mr. Dave will always be in my mind and heart as I sing them. And of course, it won’t be the same without him.

An infectious yearning for perfection characterized David Strickler’s artistic life. He had prodigious energy and achieved wonders as a conductor. “I want to conduct the best choir in the world,” he commented facetiously, when asked once what he most wanted out of life.

His love of music was intense and enduring. Only once did I see him truly angry. Conducting the College choir during a chapel service (in the days when student attendance was compulsory), he was annoyed by an inattentive noisy audience. Stopping the piece, he turned to the student body and informed them that he would start again and indeed restart until he had a respectful attention. It was a memorable moment and produced the desired effect. What had angered him was not the disrespect to his choir and to himself, but, as he said, the insult to music of genius.

A fine composer himself, he was generous to me in working tirelessly in promoting difficult works of mine with the same energy and care as for his own. I deeply valued our relationship, which I’m sure would not have been as rich in any other setting but Albion.

“Albion, dear Albion, fondest memories Light our pathway far from home Through the distant days . . .”

Harry Cook, ’61 St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Clawson

Anthony Taffs Professor Emeritus of Music, Albion College

✦ It wasn’t long after graduation (almost 40 years ago) that we realized the fact that Mr. Dave had set the tone in so many ways for how we would live our daily lives: • His pride in perfection, which instilled in us valuable organizational skills and a sense of self-discipline, was transferred to us with the warmest of positive reinforcement. Never being satisfied with mediocrity, but rather, stretching toward our fullest potential, who could ever forget “ . . . once more, for continuity”?

• His insistence on “good manners” and showing respect for others was always evident. Writing thank-you notes to each of one’s host families while on choir tours was a requirement for everyone . . . even the guys (for whom this was, in many cases, a totally new experience).

• His conviction that one acts only as well as one looks.

After a long (and casually dressed) bus ride from one site to the next during our choir tours, the directive was always “ . . . we’re almost there; men—coats and ties on.” And, after sitting in a church sanctuary, the choir was always on its feet when the host minister walked in to be introduced. This attitude of mutual respect has remained with most of us for a lifetime.

• His sense of humor always reminded us not ever to take ourselves too seriously. By example, his wit and humor invariably delighted us. Simply remember the lighthearted “gag” gifts shared with each other and with him after meals while on tour, or the new freshman choir members (at initiation) sight-reading and stumbling through a “new” eight-part Bach motet, then to be joined by the upperclassmen (singing it to perfection) . . . only later to realize that the previous year’s choir had sung the piece on tour!

• His loyalty to Albion College and to its choir ensured that no one would ever “let the group down” by any errant word, gesture or action. His belief in us was so strong that success was the only option. What a powerful concept for the best in group dynamics! Whether music majors or not, we all were “music lovers” . . . through his instilling of music appreciation in the finest sense.

• His total devotion to his life partner, his beloved Kay (our “Mrs. Dave”), provided us all with the ideal example of a loving relationship and a joy of living that two people can bring to one another.

What a teacher! . . . and we thought we were only learning music!

James and Tamara Transue Royle, ’63 ’63 Saginaw

✦ The following prayer was offered during the memorial service for David Strickler, held on campus Nov. 15, 2001.

O Lord of life . . . our life . . . Dave’s life . . . eternal life . . . we confess our reluctance to come to a place like this . . . on a day like this . . . to commit a man like this to thy care and keeping, when (across the years) his life has been so richly intertwined with our care and keeping. Yet age will have its way. Death will have its day. And what we had shall be no more . . . for awhile.

We remember the music he made for us, the music he made with us, the music he made in us.

Now that he has gone from our sight, forgive us for feeling as if life’s melody has been lost and faith’s lyric silenced.

Yet we would give you thanks for your servant, Dave.

Whether we studied with him . . . sang with him . . . sailed or supped with him . . . to know him was to love him, and to know that he loved us.

For he, O Lord, loved you . . . and, at his best, was so full of you that it could not be contained without expression. He knew that life was a gift . . . that talent was a gift . . . and that with every gift comes an obligation to the Giver, a debt on which he never stopped making payments.

Sometimes longer on passion than he was on patience, he was both demanding and exacting. But in this sweet hour of memory, even his flaws shine forth as virtues and are luminescent in their brilliance.

Now receive and embrace him. May all of the promises of the gospel be true. And may all of the promises of the gospel be his. As for his family, grant them faith and friends . . . people who will laugh with them . . . cry with them . . . tell the stories over and over again with them . . . and walk through the rooms where the memories are stored with them . . . until they (and we) are one with him in the best of rooms.

Until then, lead, kindly light, amidst the encircling gloom.

For the night is dark and we are far from home. But he is there . . . thank you, Lord. He is there. Amen.

William Ritter, ’62 First United Methodist Church, Birmingham

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Hall of Fame banquet honors two legendary coaches Walter Sprandel and Dale Sprankle, two of the most successful coaches in Albion athletic history, were recognized posthumously with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the annual Athletic Hall of Fame banquet and induction ceremony Oct. 12, 2001 during Homecoming Weekend. Also during the ceremony, nine individuals and three athletic teams were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Dale Springer, ’62, spoke on behalf of the inductees.

Lifetime Achievement Awards The Lifetime Achievement Award honors those individuals who have provided outstanding service to Briton athletics or who have brought national recognition and distinction to Albion College. Recipients of this award will usually be previously inducted members of the Hall of Fame.

Walter B. Sprandel After beginning his coaching career at Olivet College, Walter Sprandel came to Albion in 1942 and was an associate professor of physical education and a coach until 1952. In the fall of that year, he accepted the position of dean of men, which he held until 1962.

Sprandel was an assistant football coach (1946-1951), head basketball coach (19431953) and head track coach (1950-1952) for the Britons. His teams won five MIAA championships: three in basketball (1946, 1948 and 1951) and two in track (1950 and 1951).

Sprandel passed away in 1962.

Dale R. Sprankle Dale Sprankle spent 13 years as director of physical education at Adrian prior to coming to Albion in 1936 as assistant athletic director. He was promoted in 1942 to athletic director, a position he held until his retirement in 1958.

During his 22 years of coaching at Albion, Sprankle and his teams won 23 MIAA championships in four different sports. He coached football during his first 10 years at the College and won two MIAA championships. He coached indoor track for five years and won the MIAA championship in each: 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1947. While he was track coach from 1937 to 1947, his track teams won six championships in an eight-year span. His greatest success came in cross country. From 1947 to 1958, Sprankle’s teams won 10 MIAA championships.

Sprankle passed away in 1963.

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2001 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees The Albion College Athletic Hall of Fame recognizes those individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the achievements and prestige of Albion College in the field of athletics, either by their performance on athletic teams representing the College or by meritorious efforts in years after graduation.

Individuals Catherine Bousson Hill, ’84 Cathy Bousson Hill was the MIAA MVP for women’s swimming in 198283, winning league titles in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly, the 400-yard individual medley and the 500-yard freestyle, as well as the 400-yard freestyle relay. During the 1983-84 season, she led the Britons with four individual first-place finishes in the league meet (100- and 200-yard butterfly and the 200- and 400-yard individual medley). At the NCAA championships that year, she placed 19th in the 200-yard butterfly with a school-record time of 2:15.67. Hill now works as a nurse at St. John Hospital in metro Detroit.

Carol L. Hulett, ’74 While Carol Hulett played field hockey (four years), basketball (four years) and volleyball (two years) at Albion, she is best known as the College’s first female athletic trainer. Hulett went on to receive an M.D. degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1978. She began a private practice of orthopedic surgery in Clinton Township in 1983, and has been self-employed since 1990. She serves as the team physician for Mount Clemens High School.

Steven G. John, ’86 A member of the Britons’ 1983 MIAA championship golf team, Steve John achieved All-MIAA status in 1983 and 1984 and was named league MVP in 1984.

The three-time letter winner was golf team captain in 1984 and qualified for the NCAA national championship that year. The honors have continued since college: in 1994, John was the MVP for the Pebble Beach AT&T Pro-Am tournament. John now lives in Santa Cruz, Calif., where he owns two automobile dealerships. He also serves as a course ranking panelist for Golf Digest.

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Martha Proctor Kreucher, ’87 During her Briton swimming career, Missy Proctor Kreucher was named the MIAA’s MVP in 1985, the same season she set Albion College and conference records and claimed MIAA individual championships in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle and the 100- and 200-yard backstroke. Her 100-yard freestyle record still stands. Kreucher won MIAA individual titles in the same four events again in 1987 and was named league MVP a second time. She was an NCAA Division III national qualifier in 1985 and 1987. Formerly an attorney in Oakland County, she is now a full-time mother.

Kirk W. Leighton, ’67 Kirk Leighton was a four-year letter winner in men’s tennis at Albion and served as captain in 1967. Since graduation, he has won various tournaments and advanced to the finals of the U.S. senior men’s nationals three times.

He also played a key role in the Briton Athletic Drive, which raised funds for the building of the Ungrodt Tennis Center and the installation of six outdoor tennis courts. He was deeply involved in the research and planning for these new facilities. Leighton now runs a consulting firm for the food production and distribution industry.

James C. Papenfus, ’63 A two-sport athlete at Albion, James Papenfus earned seven varsity letters in all (four in baseball and three in basketball) and served as co-captain of both teams. He achieved All-MIAA status in baseball in 1962 and 1963. After graduating from Albion, Papenfus entered the work force as a teacher, coach and athletic administrator. He started his career in the Burton Atherton Schools in 1963, and he moved on to the Tawas Schools in 1968. In 1995, he left the education field to pursue ownership in Jim Papenfus Builders.

Robert L. Porritt, ’64 Robert Porritt won four letters in baseball and three in football at Albion. A member of the 1961 football team that won the MIAA championship, he earned all-league honors at free safety for three years. He served as co-captain of the baseball team in

1964. During a 30-year career in secondary education, Porritt was the head football coach at Okemos High School for 10 years, and also coached track, junior varsity basketball and freshman baseball at Okemos. He received a master’s degree from Michigan State University in 1969.

William J. Smith, ’35 A multi-sport athlete, Bill Smith led the Briton basketball team in scoring during his three varsity seasons and gained All-MIAA honors as a senior. He was a versatile threetime letter winner in track while competing in the shot put, discus, high jump, pole vault and long jump.

He made the most of his only football season by earning All-MIAA honors at halfback.

Smith later entered a YMCA career that spanned 36 years of service with the Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Lafayette, Ind., chapters. He received the Albion College Distinguished Alumni Award in 1978. Smith passed away in 1985.

Dale V. Springer, ’62 Dale Springer was a co-captain for the 1961 Briton football team that claimed the MIAA championship. He played at both offensive guard and defensive linebacker. The four-year letter winner achieved second-team AllMIAA status during his Briton career. Now an attorney, Springer has served since 1975 as an administrative law judge with the Michigan Family Independence Agency. He has remained involved with Albion College as a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors and the Morley Fraser Scholarship Committee.

Teams 1939 Football Team Albion College won the 1928 MIAA football crown with the first of six undefeated football teams in school history, but that title was followed by an 11-year drought, the longest period without a football championship for the Britons.

Albion began dominating the MIAA again in 1939. Under the leadership of Dale Sprankle, the Britons would go unbeaten in league play in 1939 and again in 1940.

Albion opened with a loss to Mount Union (Ohio) College, but then proceeded to hold all opponents scoreless until a season-ending 6-3 win over Hillsdale.

Walter Ptak achieved first-team All-MIAA status.

Other team members included: Ed Alsip, Barry Beach, Steve Beban, Fred Cook, William Dodds, Al Federico, Robert Fles, Homer Frazier, Robert Frey, Robert Grimes,

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The 1939 football team. With President Peter Mitchell, ’67, (third from left) are: Richard Hadley, ’43, John Rybock, ’41, and Frederick Krueger, ’40. Rybock was also a member of the 1940 football squad inducted this year.

Robert Grossman, Richard Hadley, Robert Hart, Robert Hayhoe, Joe Hill, Fred Krueger, Ed Lindow, Willis Long, Dave Luxenberg, Don Nelson, Albert Nichols, Carl Renda, John Rybock, Maurice Trimble, Charles VanderLinde, Harvey Zens and Emil Zvonik.

The team manager was Jack Garlinghouse.

1940 Football Team The Albion College football program continued its winning ways in 1940. Coach Dale Sprankle led the Britons through MIAA play undefeated for the second consecutive season.

The Britons held four opponents scoreless, including back-to-back shutouts of Hope College and Alma College in the sixth and seventh games of the season.

Walter Ptak received first-team AllAmerica honors, and Maurice Trimble and Charles VanderLinde were named first-team All-MIAA. Other team members included: Ed Alsip, Pete Barkley, Barry Beach, Bill Dodds, Ben Duguid, Robert Fles, Robert Hart, Vic Hawkins, Willis Long, William Miller, Abbie Nichols, Carl Renda, John Rybock, Bill Sanford, Jim Schloss, Robert Simpson, Clare Stanford, Bruce Stevens, Charles Surland, Howard Thomas, Charles Tobias and Eldred Toutant.

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The 1940 football team. President Mitchell with Eldred Toutant, ’47, and Bruce Stevens, ’43.

The 1991 football team. (Front row, left to right) Jamie Little, ’92, Jeffrey Urbanski, ’92, Henry Wineman, ’92, Edward Merrill, ’94, Gregg Vander Kooi, ’92, Greg Pscodna (coach). (Second row) Michael Montico, ’94, Thomas Cavanaugh, ’95, Robert Dancer, ’95, Paul Tippin, ’93, Daniel Schmidt, ’93, Derek Finley, ’95, Gordon Cady, ’92, Ronnie Parker (coach). (Third row) Todd Morris, ’95, Martin Wilder, ’95, Jeffrey Shooks, ’95, Robert Toole, ’95, Patrick Holser, ’95, Arthur Gray, ’92, Jeffrey Robinson, ’95, David Egnatuk, ’71 (coach). (Fourth row) Derek Mazur, ’95, James Davis, ’95, Ronald Dawson, ’94, John Volmering, ’94, Ronald Smith, ’94, Bradley Smiles, ’92, Scott Tinson, ’92, Brian Coon, ’92, and Scott Casteele, ’95.

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1991 Football Team Led by the running of first-team All-American Hank Wineman and the coaching of Pete Schmidt, the 1991 Albion College football team won the MIAA championship with a 4-0-1 league record and advanced to the NCAA Division III playoffs.

At tailback, Wineman enjoyed a recordbreaking season as he set school marks for most rushing yards in a game (250 versus Lawrence), most rushing yards in a season (1,629) and most rushing attempts in a season (307).

In addition to Wineman, James DeBardelaben, Art Gray, Mike Juchno, Mike Montico, Tom Reason, Brad Smiles and Gregg Vander Kooi, all received first-team All-MIAA recognition. Wineman was also league MVP on offense.

DeBardelaben, Gray, Smiles, Scott Tinson, Jeff Urbanski, Vander Kooi and Wineman served as captains for the team.

Other team members for the Britons included: Eric Allore, Brian Barden, Eric Baxmann, Adam Baylerian, James Beke, Jamie Billo, Jeff Blaskiewicz, John Brannan, Eric Breitenbeck, Jeff Brooks, Brad Brown, Gordon Cady, Scott Casteele, Tom Cavanaugh, Adam Chittle, Dave Christiani, Brian Coon, Gabriel Cooper, Cevin Cornish, Craig Crandell, Rob Dancer, Jim Davis, Ron Dawson, Shawn DeYoung, Vern Elliott, Tony Farina, Derek Finley, Steve Gilbert, Scott

In search of athletic excellence Albion College’s Hall of Fame honors individuals who made exceptional contributions to the field of athletics, either as students or as alumni. Plaques honoring these inductees are on display in the main hallway of the Dow Recreation and Wellness Center. Any Albion alumnus/a may submit names of candidates for consideration by the selection committee. Simply review the criteria listed and complete the nomination form. All nominations must be received no later than April 1, 2002. If you need information about past Hall of Fame inductees or the selection process, please contact Marcia Hepler Starkey, ’74, director of alumni and parent relations, 517/ 629-0284 ; e-mail: mstarkey@albion.edu.

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Hassle, Eric Hayhurst, Jim Heaslip, Guy Hengesbach, Martin Heyboer, Paul Hill, Patrick Holser, Torrell Humphries, Dave Hunt, Ryan Irish, Mike Johnson, Leander Jones, Jason Kemler, John King, Dominic Kiomento, Kristov Knobloch, Jamie Little, Joe Loeschner, Dan Martin, Derek Mazur, Erick Mazur, Marc McDonald, Scott Merchant, Edward Merrill, Greg Michaels, Bob Moleski, Adam Morris, Todd Morris,

Cameron Mueller, Joe Mullen, Paul Nagy, Don Necas, Cameron Pangborn, Greg Pellegrom, Mike Pente, Vince Perroud, Raleigh Pioch, Dan Platte, Matt Rankin, Derek Reed, Justin Rewa, Mark Roberts, Jeff Robinson, Zac Rusk, Dan Schmidt, Todd Sebold, Durand Sheperd, Jeff Shooks, Sean Sims, Ron Smith, Mike Spaccaroteela, Jeff Stacho, Scott Tinson, Paul Tippin, Robert Toole, John Volmering, Randy Walls, Martin Wilder, Adam Wilinsky and Brian Zezula.

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• The nominee, if an athlete, must have been out of Albion College at least 10 years.

• The nominee, if an athlete, must have earned two letters in one sport or one letter in three or more sports.

• The nominee does not necessarily have to be a graduate of Albion, but must have been a former student.

Coach/athletic administrator/athletic trainer/student manager • The nominee in cases of coaches, athletic administrators or others need not necessarily have been a former student, but must have served the College for at least 10 years. Student managers must have been a student at Albion College and served all 4 years.

• The nominee can be selected immediately after leaving the institution or immediately after retirement. The student managers must wait 10 years.

Team • The team must have won an MIAA Championship.

• The team would be eligible 10 years after competition.

Name of nominator__________________________________________Class year____________ Address_______________________________________________________________________ City_________________________________________State_________Zip__________________ Please briefly state why you believe this individual should be considered for the Albion College Hall of Fame.

Mail this form to: Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224.

Deadline: April 1, 2002.

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

These profiles will appear in each issue of Io Triumphe.

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Albion trustee Bruce Kresge, ’53, would heartily agree with the philosophy of life expressed in these words from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Kresge, who throughout his life has received numerous accolades including, most recently,

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the Stanley S. Kresge Award for trustee leadership from the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation, remains disarming in his humility. His genuine concern for humankind has found expression, not only in his 30 years of service to others as a family physician, but in the many worthy causes he has supported both from his own resources and in his role as chair of the Kresge Foundation, one of the nation’s largest philanthropic organizations. To know Bruce Kresge is to know a man who lives out his beliefs each day.

Bruce Kresge, a great example of

LIBERAL ARTS AT WORK

CHINA HIGHLIGHTS

Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity to celebrate 75th anniversary

With Yangtze River Cruise May 10-25, 2002

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As the new year opened in 1927, the Omega chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was about to take its place on Albion’s campus, joining the five fraternities already established. Originating from the local Zetalethian Literary Society, the chapter today is known for its strength in academics and the leadership roles its members have played in student government, music ensembles and athletics. Counted among its alumni are Robert Armitage, ’70, vice president and general patent counsel, Eli Lilly & Co.; Chris Christ, ’51, Battle Creek attorney and former chair of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Peter Christ, ’55, retired CEO of the Battle Creek Community Foundation and former Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance national executive; Gregory Eastwood, ’62, president of the State University of New York’s Health Science Center; Roy Flint, ’50, former dean of the U.S. Military Academy (West Point); Bernard Lomas, ’46, past president of

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

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

In 1935 Albion’s TKE chapter purchased the home of former College President Samuel Dickie at 501 E. Erie St. and remained there until the construction of the current chapter house in 1966.

Albion College; William Ritter, ’62, senior pastor, First United Methodist Church of Birmingham; and Mark Schauer, ’84, member, Michigan House of Representatives.

The chapter’s 75th anniversary celebration is planned for Jan. 12, 2002 in Albion. For more information, contact Dustin Hoffman, chapter president (517/629-1892; ddh10@albion.edu), or Jim Cottone (517/629-1352; jec10@albion.edu).

Xian where you will see the 6,000 life-sized terracotta figures that • Visit guard the burial mound of Qin Shi Huang, the emperor who unified China in 221 B.C. Suzhou, visit several famous classical gardens and take a boat ride on the • Infabled Grand Canal. visit the newly opened Museum of Art and History, the finest • Inin allShanghai, of China and considered one of the great museums of the world.

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

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