Ripon Magazine Winter 2008

Ripon's Own: A Look at Recent Books by Alumni Authors

Plaudits for the Write-brained

Ica n't help but wonder wh e re new writers co me fro m. It's o ne thin g to t each English o r language ans but quite a noth er to te ac h a student h o w to write well. It often is sa id how despe rate l y we need new scientis ts and mathematicians to compe te in the new g lo bal eco n omy - and that is unque ~t io n ably trne - but we also n eed wr iters.

If the re's o n e common thre ad ac ross th e curr iculum a t Ripon, it is a focus on writ in g. Ou r students fee l th ey wr ite a lo t , and th ey do, but they might be s urp rised co learn th a t it is n o t mo re than wha t was commonp lace in o ur libe ra l a rcs curri c u lum j ust a few d eca des ago. So mewh e re a lo n g the lin e, soc iety de cide d it was n't a ll chat importa nt co be rig h t -brai ned anym o re . We a ll probably know so meo ne who 's super in te ll igent b ut d ocs n 't h ave a c reati ve or iron ic bone in their bod y.

To work with \\'Ords requires a deg ree of art istry. Like paints o r c lay, the y are cools o f h u ma n expr ession . Mas ters o f the mediu m ta ke o ur b reath away with th e ir skill, while for o ther s it may be a strugg le ju st to form a coherent se nten ce Good writers h ave so meth in g chat can 't be lea rned in a single class. Their wo rds h ave a lyrica l qualit y, a n int erna l rh yth m tha t almost m agically cap t ures th e thoughts th ey're rryin g to com·ey. Fortun ately, with a lit tle pracric.e, almost a n yo ne can beco me a comretent Kribe Ripon :ilunm i ofte n repo rt th at they don't full\' app rec ia te their writing abil it ies unt il th ey get ou r int o the "r ea l world" a nJ find that it is full of sma rt peo p le who cannot co mmunic a te effect il'el y th roug h th e wr itten wor, l.

iry with words? Pe rh a ps, bur be h in d nearly e ver y g rea t person is a g reat writer. H eads of sra te, n e ws a nch ors a nd CEOs alike depe n d upo n sk illed writers co liter a ll y pu t words into th ei r m o uths . We recently o bsen·e d that, without scr ipt s, o ur favorite sc reen star, sa t arou nd anJ twiddl e d th eir thumbs, uns ur~ of wha t to d o with th emselves .

Th e d ays of elega m , haJ1d-wr itt en letters to communicate w ith lo , ·eJ ones or e\'en n egot iate b us in ess de a ls may be long go ne, but the n ee..i for contex t a n d specif ic ity in a g lobal economy is g reate r th a n e,·t'T.Yo u'd behard-pre ssed to find a proiess io n a l jo b posting th a t doesn't lis t "exc ept io n al \\Titre n and oral co mm unication s ki lls" among its requirements. Being a good writer won't necessarily land you che job o f yo ur dreams, bu t wr itin g poo rly cercainl)' can elim in ,lte you from consideration.

The a lumni \\Tit ers featured in this monrh's issue have o ne th ing in common: so me thin g was ins ide them that wanted ou r. \Vh e th e r it'.<J ~r k Snc,,s b l''s ('47) World Wa r II mem o ir, Oussama El·Hil a li's ('89) in st ruc t ive book a bo ut Ja ta management o r Merlin e Love lace 's ('6S) 70+ ro m ance n o vd s, e very Ripon writer fille, I the blea k abyss of a blank page w it h co untle ss th ousa n ds o f words. Writing a book is like purpose ly ente ring int o a tum ultuous relatio n ship, kn ow ing char yo u will p ut your hearr and so ul int o it o ,·e r th e course o f se ve ral mont h s o r year;, a r wh ic h po inr it s urely will e nd.

Th e La w of Co n serv a t io n o f Ma t ter b asica lly sars that matt er c,mnot be crea ted o r destroyed, but in a \'ery real .sense. \vriters co n j ure ideas from n oth ing With el'cr y care full\' c h ose n word, they create so methin g th at migh t endure lo n g afte r the.y are go ne, anJ hope char it w ill matt er I thi nk the R,po n Co llege co mmu ni ty would agree chat it most certainly d oes .

Bu t in this world of e -ma il a nd the cryptic sh ort hand o f text messages, what use is there for eloquencd Ar e n 't the re counrless examp les of successful people who h a ve n o particu lar facil-

Dr. DavidC. Joyce President joyced@npon.edu

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L IBRARY COLL ECTION

P RO/liPTS L OOK AT ALUMNI A UTHORS

A collectio n o f nearly 5,000 volumes, tit led IX'istonsin's Oun Library,h as recenrly maJe its ho me at Lane Libra ry. This co lleccion o f \,·orks \, riHen, edited o r comp iled by Wisconsinitesprompts RiponMagazinero rake a look a t some o f t he most recent boo ks published by Ripon's Own - o ur a lu1nni. \Vhile it is by no means a c o mplete list. Jaye Alderson sroke with some Riro n al umni auth ors abc)ut th e ir \\'Orks.

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HEADLINE NATIONAL SECURl1Y D AY

Rec.Col. James F.l.aufenburg' i9 and former d irector of U.S. Centra l lnrd ligence James Woo lsey came to campus in ~ia rch co celebrate th e establishme nt o f R ipo n 1 s ne\,. Nationa l Security Studies minor. RiponMagazinealso take~a look at several alumni working in the field.

FORM E R T EACHER STEINB ERG '80 J OINS

MISSION TRI P TO SO UT H AFRICA

Crystal Stei nberg '80 taught high sch ool Englishand ph1losorhy for 10 years whe,, she decided it was time for a change. She no\,. is n earing t he e n d o f her se minary srud ies t o becon1e an ordai n ed minister. H er j ourney has led h e r to South Africa where she is hd ping to build achapd

'Wisconsin's Own' CollectionFinds H ome in Lan e Library Ripon's Own Share Their Varied Stories in Recent Book Releases

Wisconsin's Own Library,a colleccionof nearly 5.000 , ·olumes, each of which was wrinen, edued or compiled by a peoon who was born in Wi,con,in or dtablisheJ residencehere, has a new home in c.heSouth Reading Room of l a ne l ibrary.Th e collection is own ed by ,:he General Federacionof Women's C lubs of Wisconsinand comes to Ripon , hrough a new parrnersh1p wi1h lhat organ ization,

The idea for a library of books, limited to thosc by write rs Wisconsin can claim as its own, waso riginaceJ in 1949 by }.fat') ' Rennebohm, wife o f Oscar Rennebohm , th e scate's32nd gm e rnor, It was housed in th e Execucive Residenceunt il i, outgrew its home. Mrs.Rennebohm persuadedrhe Wisconsin Federalion o f Women's Clubs ro become t he con tributing spo1,sor

The collection was loca<edin a secti on of the State H istoricalSociety Librar)' in Madison from 1967until April 1980. It then wasmoved to the U niversity of W1sconsin,M1lwaukee. Sc hool of li brary Science. In 1986, the Co llection""'' placed in the Beloit College Library.In J une 2006, the collection wasmoved to Ripon Co llege

Booksin th e collec, io n a re available for checkout <o th e Ripon Co llege community a nd Friends of Lane Library Those ou,side of the College community can accessmaterials rhrough interlibrary loan a t th eir home libra ries.

A few of ,:he featured a uth ors include:

• AueuscDerle, h ( I 909,I 9i l. Sauk City) , h istorical a nd detective fiction,

• Zona Gale (1874-1938, Portage), no,·els. short stories and plays.

• H amlin Garland (1860-1940, West Salem). novels, short fiction, essays.

• Ke,•in Henkes (1960,, Racine), chi ldren's works,

• A ldo Leopold (1887-194S, Madison), e1wironmentalethics and conservation.

• John Muir ( 1838- 1914, Portage), wildernesspreservation,

• Laura Ingalls Wilder ( 1867-1957, Pepm), h istorical llction,

• Thorton Wilder (1897- 1975, Madison), playsand no\'els.

• Frank Lloyd Wright ( 1867-1959 , Richland Cente r), architecture.

'' It is nice to ha"e booksby Wisconsin authors altogether in one collection," saysRipon L,brana n Vale n e \ l1ers."'Ir's\'ery c o nvenie n t thac \vay. Th e re's been a lot of interest. Our checkout sta ti ~tic.s have been , ·er)' good, and we receh·ea lot of interlibrary loan requests,"

Ripon's Own

Ripon College a lso h as many rublished authors among its own alumni H ere are some with recent efforts:

• War hero LL CoL James Megellas ' 42 of Co l, lei·ville. Texas, is on a new book-signing tour and recently made trips to Afghanistan a nd lraq cogi"e thousandsof signed copies o f his 2003 Wo rld War II memoir, All ck Wayco Berlin , to troops stationed o,·e rseas. The book highlights his experiences para· chuting behind enemy lines in Holland du r· ing ~ration Marker Ga rden Those e\'ents a lso were featmed in Hollywoodmo"ies such as A BridgeToo Far U.S. Rep To m Petri, R, Fond du Lac, introduced legislation m 2007 to award Megellaswith the Co ngressional Medal of Honor rhe nation's h ighest mili, ta ry honor. Megellasis t.he most decorated , __, officerin rhe h istOI') ' of the 8 2nd A irborne f: Division, receivingmore than 10 medals includ-

ing rhe Discinguished S«, ·ice Cross, cwoS,h-er Stars, t\\ 'O Bron:c Starsandl\\\)

Purple Hearrs, "I al\\'a)'sfelt I had a SCOI')' to tell about World War II - rhe human el•mt nt about the men who did rhe fight ing and d)'ing," Megdlas says. "They \\'ere no t num bers. They ,vere ou r buddiesand some mother's son They were youths in the primeoi rheir lives, Th a r was a st<>!')'I had ro relL"

Jamtt Meg, IJ., '4l

Writing t.he book wam'cdifficult, bm 11 ""' 1i1ne,consu1ning, ~legt>llas.says.The projrct cook five years.

Afcer I \\'To ten , it beca1netherapeutic," he says. "Things I had carried deep inside of me for years , OO\\' they \\'ere 0 1, pape r and released. "

All the Way coBerlinis in its se,·emh princing and soon will be in its eighth. It's had five rarerback printings. i; on CDsa nd c assetces , h.is b..-entranslateJ in Dutch al\d is a best-seller in H olla nd, a nd soon will be translated into German.

'"The response from people who read tt is o verwhelming," Megellas >ays."TI,e bookhas resonated \\' it.h re o rle \,·ho a re interc-.stcd in the human side of h istory. It 's h ad a big impac r."

• The desire ro leave a legacy for his sons led Jack Sneesby ·47to write a memoir o f h is expe· riencesas a prisoner of \\'ar during World Wa r IL

Sneesby, \\•h o lives in South Milwaukee, Wis., and teaches at larquette University's Schoolof Dentistry,sen-ed wi, h ,he 338th Infantry Regiment, Company I. H e was h eld for se \·en months as a Ger, n1anpri)(lner of ,,iar.

J><lt Sn,....by '47 Kreig,g</cmga1<n11250208

My \'Xlar~ recounts his exrc · rie-nce.s,the origin o f one 's ,,·111ro survi\'e and how one can ca rry on after reac hing a breaking point .

~she \\'aS \\'tiling the boo k , ma n y people, includmghisstudents, became interested in ir So he self-published ,he book thn, ugh Vanwge Press.

'"l'\'e had \·e11 • f'OSHivereactions,'' Sne-esby ,ay; ... Ewrylxxly that reads it is a ma,ed a, my memory. My memory wasaugmented b)' a diary \\·h e n I \\'as in pr ison camp and lette rs home fron, lhe uar. I h a d son1e interesting exreri .. ences, and !hey niakc good read ing."

He has sold a few hu nd,eJ copies of the book hinisdf. and it also is avai lab le o n Amazon.com. He sayshe ·'absolmely" is happ1· \\'ith th e way the bookturned our.

"I l'W te the book mainly for my boys so ,hai ,hey wouldkn ow wha t it was all about as far as I ,,·as concerned," he says. "Ocher people \\' C'rC' imeresied so I had 1l publi!hed."

• Carol Gran t Troestler '60 o i Pra irie du Sac, \Xii;.,ascont inuing her series of booksbased nn the livesofhet grea, -grandmoth c rs with I owa Born an..1 Bred.

" It's historit'<llfiction based on th e life o i my great-grandmoth er," Trocstler says. ''M y fir,t no\·e l, Flo« ·on Su'tc{ i'<.fi.~souri,\, as based on th e life of ano, he r grea t -grandmother. I intend to write about all of th em some day.''

IowaBornand Bredis ran hiswrica l novel,

pan memoir and pan biog· rarhy of hN grandfathe r, who invented 1hings like the e lectronic shx k quota .. tions board and tele pho ne e-4uip1nc-nt.

Before r etirin g in 1999, Troe. tier was a social worker and " role se,·eral n, ate ri a ls concerning dru g a nd alcoho l abuse, life,rhreaiening 111· n es.scs an d si1nilar t opics .

C..irol Grant Troei tl er '60

With fiction, you have t o do di a log. use you r in1aginacion, make up a lot/' she says. "\Vhen I do [fictio n] with m1 • family. I have the characters se,and use the deia ils o f the ir (i,•esfor t he plot. h's a li tr le easier rhan if I \\'rite pure ficti o n. I have a lot of the t hings dedded for me "

She a lso h as been wo rking for three )"earson a book abo ut the Cuban J.lissile C risis, based o n he r experiences. 1ho.e of h er pilot husband Tom Trocstler '59 and those of o the r pilo ts in his squadron

"People have been emhusiast ic abou, tt," she says. "It is a lot of re..<earch,but I (o , e to do research. T o me it was enjoyable. Being published has raugh t me more about ho w to get pubh~hcJ ll1a11I 1.;oukl4-cvt;rrt.!(IU(lbool. l 'v4; mN a lot o f auth ors and keep in touch with t hem o ver c.he In ternet, a nd they ' ve become priceless friends So that networking o f auth o rs has really been a great expe.rience ." I

• Afte r a 23-year career in ,he military, retired USAF Colone l Merline Thoma Lovelace '68 of Ok laho ma C. ry launched a high ly successfol second career - as the be.tselling a uthor o f con1ance nove ls.

" I love books," ,he says. '·Readin g has always been a passion for me. At one point, I ih ought I wou ld becon1ecl librarian."

Whil e she was rnns id· ~f crlinl? Thoma Lo, dacc '68 eri n g \,·rit ing a boo k, she a tt en d ed a \\'Titer's con ference \\•here she met ,vriters, aspiring \\·rilcrs. agcnLSa nJ e<litors 1 a nd launche d a "'h o le n e\ \' c a reer.

'' I' d ne,·er been exposed to writ ing before, except for college papers and Air Force repo"' - al th ough some o f ,he se migh, have been ere• a ti\'e fic t ion," Lo\'elace says .

H o,vew r. ,he soaked up a ll ,he inforrnauo n ,he cou ld and dec ided co use her military expe· nences to t ry her hand a t \vrit1ng.

'·( tho ught, ·rnwriie a book - h ow hard can ir be?'" she says. " I'll te ll you - it's hard!''

But her fresh , ·oice and convincing details brought he r alrno~tiruitant.succ~s.

Lo,·elacehas published more rhan 70 nowls, with more than 10 million copies o ih er works m print in 30 different count ries. He r latest book is MatchPk,y.publishe<lby Silhouette RomancicSuspense m February 20..'18.

She bases many of her tales on her experiences in the military. and aho docs a great deal of research lo ensure acc ur.~cy.He r ho nors include Romance \Vriters of A n,erica 's pri'-°Hi" gious RITA awarJ an d being named th e Univer· sity of Oklahoma's 1998Writer o f the Yea r, Join ing rast Hterary lunn nanes such as Louis L'Amour and Tony Hillerman.

"It'sbe.:n a \VOnd.:rfulS<'cond ca ree r." Love lace says.

• Mary A Kane '74 of Oconomowoc, Wis., i> a pro lific freelance journalist, \\Titer,photographer and ed1torwh ()Sework a ppears in newsr•pers. maga:ines, t~hnical publications, tele"i · sion a nd public r~lations \'ehicles natiOn\\·ide. Her book Oconomouoc,published in Ocrnc.,r 2006, is part of Arcadia Publishing'snationwide PosrcarJ Hi,tory Series.

" I'm r arricularly happy about rhe book for t'\\'O re;;1&0ns,"K rine roys. "The roytl l ttes go co the-Oconomo,\'OCArea Fouru.iation.as a tnean s of my exp ressing gratitude for ha, ·ing Oconon,o\\'OCas a homerO\\TI that ,,·asa very special place u,which to grow up Secondly, I "·adedthrough a lot of information and disin, formation ro rut toget h e r \\'hat son1e o f Oconomowoc's most hyrer-cr it ical and kee nly ale rt oc togenarians find to be th e most factual hi s.tory done on the city.''

She says resronse to OconomoU'ochas been "exceptio na l,'' with the book selling well in sw res a nd boutiques. She al'() does readings and booksignings.

For Kane, Ocono1nouoc is part of a co ntinuum th at began in Ripo n when she worked with A1neric.an Associationof Uni\'ersir~r\Vo 1ne-n members to produce \Vhen a Woman Wills,a 1981hi<torybooka nd accompanying s lide pr~s.cntation .

uln ,·ie\\' of o ur contemporary culnue and the diminishing regard for the printed word, paradoxica lly, writing a book rerhap:; is the n,osl re,,·ardingoutle t a gee :er suc h as n,yself could find," Kane says.

"Th is book came alx,ut through a sen.<eoi quiet dri\'e that e,·en scares me - at the same time th at I hdd out io r the types of sym rg is tic work thar a llowed me to achie,·e my goa l.

"Belie\'e me, when I say 'support sy,tem.' I don't mean a steady stn.~arn o( g irlfriend lunch dates and women's circle's d,shes-ro-rass. Someti1ncs the suprort can con,e- from encounte ring

the Zj th anni"wa ry edit ion of The Gif1:Creari,i1yand the Artist in ,heM odem World,by l ewis Hyde, or simply ha,.ing , he reassuring rhrase ' cultural creati\'e' come one's way for purposefulconremrlar ion and reflection ar a meaningful n1o ment .'"

Spirit:Procm Spirincali,yin a Relarional\Vorld,rubli<hed by P&FPressof Claremont, Calif in 20L'\6The book is ,o ..v;nnen h~·the Re\•, Canon Paul $ . Nancarrow '78 of Eden Prairie, Minn : Joh n B. Cobb Jr. a nd Bruce 0 Erperly.

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• TI,e theo logy oi spiritual practice from a processpoin t of ,·icwis foarurcdin The Callof the Re,·. CanonPaul S. N .a.nc:arr°" '($

The book is about an approach co Christian sp iri.. tual,ry, particu larly seen th rough the lens o f process th e-ology,''N ancarrO\\'says. '1Process theo l ogy is an arproac h ro rheological rhmking based largely on the rhiloS<.1phy of Alfred North WhiteheaJ and Charles Hartshorne. Thi s philosophy looks a, ,he world m remu of processnot things so it re;.lly focuses on h o\\' things rtlatc to each othe r anJ ho\v the realith:s."·e experie nce arlse ou t o i relationship. ''

There are nine es..<ays in th e book t hree by each au tho r, that rro, idc conc ret< examples of spiritual prac t ices for indh·iduals and groups. ~anc.arro,,'schaptersar~u ded ··eon,n1u n a l Spiritual Practice in Ce remo ny and Liturgy,""A Spirituality of Discemn1ent" and •(Co1npa..(SiOn 1nCommun ion."

The introduction to the book states: "These nine essays iorn1an integral "·hole, co ,nb ining 3 carefol a na lyslSof relational dynanucs w1th \'ery prc1cticalsugge-stions (or roerwna l and con,n,una l y,·ayso f in tensify ing our spirituality. The c-ssays flow fro m t he wellspringsof spirimalicy in each of our author.; they arc 'li,·ed' essa)'s,and not simply cheorerical discu$.Sions.To read the es..<a\ '5, then, is to be invited into the privilegeo i !eCinghow th e call of t he S pirit has lx>en ans\veredin eac h o f ,he~e th ree li ves."

Nancarrow is rector of St George's Episcoral Ch urch in St. Louis Park, ~!inn He taugh t a sumn,er courseat LutherSe n1inaryin Sc. Paul in Ju ly anJ will reach Reading th e World as Sacred Texl: Some Quesuo ns. in Science and Re ligion" in the srring at Un1ted Theo logical Sern i nary of the T,\·in Cittes. He has \\ ritt<'n a nd published numen1usessaysand arricles in theologica l journals, so the writing o( this book wasn't d ifficult for him, he says.

··The\' are the kinds o( things I tend w think about a ll the r in1e o n my o,\·n an y\\·ayi"he says.

"Those who have seen i:he book like it and find it helpful, but it was rubhshed by a small press so it hasn't had a ,·ery wide distribution. It's amacted attention largely from people who already know about process theology.''

He would like to see wider distribution to introduce the book's subject to other people, as well.

• Wisconsin's involvement in the Underground Railroad is rhe focus of \Vind Alongthe Water, a

2006novel self-published by J enni fer Brengle Giedd 'i9 of Beaver Dam,Wis. It tells of an elderly nursing honleresident '"hoshares 1ith r,,·ogirlsherstO()'o( their small Wisconsin commun1cy'ssecre, invol\'e, ment in the Underground Railroad. When the woman is diagnosed with Alzheimer'sd1;ea:;e,the girls"·orkto unCO\'ertheir tl">,,·n'sn1ystenous hist Of)',

GieJ..1!3YS the swry was "floating around in my head," and she wanted to share it. The ficliu11 Fttll \\.U ~~i.:1 fut l1 t:1 a 1.1Jlook about ~i'I'. months to complete. The non-fiction pan, doc, umenting the facts through actual historical n1aterials 1 took about three years and required trips co rhe Federal Archives in C hicago, the State Archives in Madison, the Nau o nal Free, dom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and libraries locallyand at Ripon College.

"When you're going to be in print, you want to make sure you've checked )'Ourresources," she sa)'s."It probablyw·a.shundreds of hours of looking at o ld microfilmand o ld documenrs."

She says that while there is a lot of docun1entationto go through, researchstill is dif(j. cu lt becau:;ethe subject had to be extremely secretive for thore invol\'ed. The fine for being caught was$1,01.',0,which at tha t time would ha\'C wipedout a family.

Giedd say, the book has been well-receh·ed locally and has prompted numerous inv itat ions for her to speak at conferences and othe r , ·enues around the state. She is a member of the Wisconsin State Underground Ra ilroad board of directors and teaches Title l in the Randolph School District. H,·r son, Michael, is a junior at Ripon, and h er daughter, Elizabeth '06 is attend, ing law school in Washington. D.C.

• Fomm Ripon a« maJ<"Charlie Scheips '81 of New YorkCity sti ll considers himselfan art perS..)n,but he a lso has h ad major contacts in fashion o,·er the cour:;eof his career. Both these sub, jem figureheavily in his three published books.

John Rawlings:30 Years in Voguewas published in 20C,0and is out-of-print. It features the Voguephotographer from the 1940s a nd '50s, and "preny much relaunched his teputa · tion," Scheips says. Sche1pswas d irect or of the CondeNast Archi\'e for more than a d,-.:adeand discovered Rawling.s'y,·orkthere.

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Andy \Varhol:The Day rheFactoryDied was published by Empire Editions in 2006 on ,he 20i:h annive rsary of Warhol's deai:h.The focus is photograph s capruring New York's elite taken by Christophe \'OOHohenberg at Warhol's memorial service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New Yo rk Apnl l , 1987. The book incl udes essaysand letters written by cultural and society figures

*'It's a complete time capsule o f an era and has just gone into ilS second prinring," Sche ips says.

Americm, Fashionwas published by Assouline for the Counci l o f Fashion Designerso f America in October 2007. The coffee tab le book tu....ludc:s250 i ll usllalions (elcl,1at i11g l11c \\·o rk o f more than l 00 An1erican fashion designers from the 1920s through 2007.

"l aprroached the fashion book as an an I histo ry project," Scheips says."It was really a celebration o f American fashion, not a c ritical study It's had enormous press."

The book's lau nch party was held dur, ing Fashion Week in New Yo rk. and BergdorfGoodman featured it in a ll of its \\'indov,:sduring the enti re \\·eek. At a book signing there, Scheips signed 300 books in two hours. and Enreruli,unent \Xfeeklyde scribed the book as one of i:he top I O coffee table books of the year.

He OO\\ ' is in negotiationsfora major book about the New Yorkart world.

Scheips a lso was an assistant to artist David Hockney in the 1980,. The m:ent rctrospec· tive, Datid Hockney:Pormlirs.that trave led to ,he Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, i:he L.A. County Museum of Art and i:he Nati o nal Por, trait Gallery in London, included three portraits of Scheips. One of them. "Self-Portra it with Charlie," recently was purchased by the Nationa l Pomair Gallery in London for its rer· manenc collection.

Scheips current ly is Worldwide Director of Phmographs for Phillirs de Pury & Co.and a freelance curato r. He credits Ripon art profes, sors Erwin Breiihaupt, Ol)'mpia Olgilvie and James Thompson as being importa nt influences 1n his artistic life.

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"As long as I can remember, I was interested in the visual world," Scheips says. "World history ca n be seen through the lens of an. Fortunes come a nd go, but th e things tha t remain are the artifacts. I don't think histo ry is just abo ut \\'ars"·on a nd lost. Art reflects the culture o f the 1ime and place from \\'hence it came."

• B radley AUwin Mc Donald '88 of Milban k , S.D., writing as ''Olaf Danielson," released ,he

second nove l in hi s Def<~,ders of theEarthseries in October 2007 No Peace in fa;le is the sequel to Marks of w Forbidden,bot h published b)·Savage Press. Th, Ice Trolls1s set for publica• tion th is fall or next spring McDonald was born and ra ised in the SwedishAmerican community of Fa lun (near Grant$burg) in n orth\,·es.tem \Vi scoru in. This, he says, instilled in h im a n inte rest in history and Nor.e mythology.Combi ned with his o ther passions - tra\ ·el , archaeoJogyand sci~ ence ficuo n - his no\'els take readersaround the \vo, ld ns he uses olten,nt i, •e hi.story and n s lightl y alternate paradigm of hum an existence.

McDonald is the CEO o f\V apu i Medtcal Group, all emergency room group which en1ploys 160 phy~iciansin fi\·e sl a te.s,and he starred\\'Tiringas a Ne\\' Year's resolu rion ro ber, 1er himself, h e says.

"A s I s tarted doing resear ch a nJ read ing about n1yfan1ilyhistory, th is story so rt of popl)<'dout and wrote itself." he says.

His ideas come from odd. interesting e-·ents fro m through out histo ry and how 1.heyaffected the world.

"I h ave more of a pro blem for lac k of time 10 \\'Tirethan lac k o f things ro \\·rice about,'"'he says."Tr)'ing 10ba lance the problemsof work, fam1lya nd ot he r e,·ents is tough. There are o nly so n1any hc..lursin ,he day."

~lcDotlald likes writing because o f its c rea tivity a nd the ability to se t his o\l;n rules. He especially appreciates how wming has orened up his world He has tra\'eled to new places, taken Swedish lessons, tried d1fferemfoods and had other experiences he never would h ave before.

"It's been very rewarding," he says. ''E\'en 1f the book doesn't sell any more cor,ie,, I'd be satisfied because o f th at.' 1

• Th e future of compute r data protectio n is h ighlight ed in DigitalOma lnugrity: the E,,ol111ionfrom P<l$51t'tPror,cnon to Acri,'<' .\fonag,m,m, co-written by O ussama E I-H ilali

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The book was published last summe r by Wiley & Som.

El-H ilali is a sen io r director of engineering for Symantec, a company offering tnterpn5c ~ft \\"3.re products for availability <?ussama andsecon t\'· I-le v:orksv.•ith "I H 'l 1"69 ' 0 • 1 • 1 the NetBackllp product line, a flagship proJuc t for the company which la rge co n1panies use ro back up their data.

"There is a movement ill the backup indus· try tha t is suggesting that bac kup alone is no t sufficient, " EI-Hilali says."\Ve sh ould be manag, m g , he dat a instead of just protecung it. The book talks about h ow tha t movement is goillg to ha ppen and ho\\' to plan your fururestrategy."

Thi s is EI-Hilalt's fust book, a nd he called \rritin,git ..a nighunare."

'"Th ere are tv.·o di(ficu1ties."he says. "Th e re are actua lly three of us who collaborated on this. \Ve normally ha\'e very, , ery busy 14-hour Jays. To finJ th at cr~a,ivc time afte r i·ou'vc worked 14 hours IS difficult to do, but we did manage to find time here and ,here where our c re-n ti v e jui ce-.s ,verli.!'' 'l'lrkin g.

''Then , U\ose of us in executi\'e posit io ns are rrainedto s\lmn,arizerhe datain a-'fe,,, ,,·ordsas ross ib le. The book is the exact oprosi te. You v.-ant to say everything as \'er~ely as you can.~

He does pla n co write more books, bur nor immediately

"It is ,·ery gratifying to be able to share some o f chat inforn1r1rion p ubli cly,,. he says. 1' (c is technology that is fascinat ing and it is satisfying to ta lk about th ese topics in a n open forum like this "

• Amie A. Dought y ·9zo f Oneonta, N.Y., published her firs, book, FolkUtlesRerold:A Crirical

Own •ieu•of StoriesUpdaud fcrrChildren,in the summer of 2006.The publis he r is Mc Fa rland an d Co.

Doughty, an English pro, fe..,sorat the State Um,·er· s it)' of New York in Oneonta, s.ays,";\1y research are<1is children's literature The book examineshO\\ . co n ren)poral)· autho r. of ch ildren 's hte rarure ta ke tradit ional folktales and reshape them so th a t modern audiences can beue r understand them \\'it h modem sensibilities ."

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The c hapters "arc snap,ho ts of how different am hors approach children's literature and folk,

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tales,"Doughtysays."'It'sgeared towarJeJucators \\clntingbackgroundinfomlation, not a theoreu~ c~Ibookon children's literature.h's an overview anJ accessibleto the lay reaJer, not juIt the acaden1ic.I ha\'e a relaxedityle oi \vriting:•

She bec.imeinterested in chi ldren's literature by accident. \Vhen she " ·as working°" her master'sdegree at Indiana State Uni\'ers1ty,an office mate\\·anted to ceacha course on children'sliter..ature and ..l kind of got dragged into it," Ooughtl' says.She \\'aS tappedat her next univeniity to teach 1.hesubject again, and ''since then rhat's "hat l\ ·e been doing. 1lo,·e . it now,"she says.

" I love to reaJ all som of stuff, but thtre's a joy in languageplay in children's literarure that l don't see in adult literarure, parricularly the adult literature that we're suppoS<.'<.i to read."

The book starred as presentations for conferences of the Popular Culture Association,and Doughty ""as approached to expand them into a book. She worked on it over a couple of years, but it \\.'asn•rdifficultfor her, she says.

"It's what I do," she says."The proce;s of \\'filing it "·asjust a Olattc!rof fi1,di11gtl,e tin'le-.' 1

• Bringingphilosorhy and insight inro the world of the general public is the goal of 0<3n Ko"•alski '92,assistant pro· fessorof philosophyat th e Uni\'ersity of Wisconsin· Waukesha.His book, The Philosophyof 'The X-Fik,; ., ca 1ne ouc in September 2007and analy:es the underl1·ingphilosophyof che popular science fiction television series.

" If you're a fan of the 'XCna.nKo~,aJ~ki'92 Files/ you have an fmrnedi, ate interest in the topic,11 Kowalskisays."Youcan better relate to what it is the philosophyis trying ro get acr=. It does philosophyin a medium that's already enjoyed by people."

Kowal;kiwrme a few of the chapters and edited th= writren by other teaching philosophers.

"Philosophy is nor just something to do in a clamoom," he says.··Philosorhyhas applications outsidetheclassroo1n,andn1oteapplications than what people mighr rhink. Youcan do philosophywhile watching your favorite TV show."

Kowal;ki'ssecond book with Kentucky Press. The Philosophy of Srewn Spk!krg, 1sdue out m September It exploresSpielberg'sfilms. ftom Jaus to Munich,for their philosophical significance. He also is wrning an ethics textbook, Mor<1JTheoryandMotionPicruw, using popular films to intn..'lducescudenls to importanl rhilo, sorhical problemsand theme$.

"The two most difficult things [about \\Titing a book! are being organizedso you don't o,·er• look any important deadlines or forget to add those last,minutc revisions, and .sintplysticking \\ 1ith the projec, to its con1pletion; 1 Kov.·alski says. "There is a sort of grind chat goes with publishing a book. It's not the sort of grind that one h as ,\·orkingan the salt mines day 1n and day om, but 1t is something that you have t0 work on C\'eryday. If \'Ou don't, it's like!\' that you'll never fin ish!'

• Derek Rivard '93 of Nevada, Mo., has taken a childhood lo\'c of King Arthur and

Robin Hood ro being a rub li;hed aut hor. His first book, Blessingthe \\'lorld:Ritualand Lay Pieryin M,d,ei,a/Religion, will be released b)' Catholic Univc.·rsityof America Press in No\·ember. R i\'ard recently was awarded tenu re and rromoted to associa[e profes, Omk Ri,swl •93 sor of history a t Coney College, a rwo-year liberal ans college for women. H e had continued his childhood interest as a teenager \\·i,h his.rori, ca l board games and role-playinggames like "Dungeons and Dragons,"and then rurned thosechildhoodinterests into an interest in medie\'al European history.

"When I cameto Ripon, I haJ in mind already I wanted to be a medievalist," Rivard says. ''\Vhen I first began srudy of it, it was the greater role of faith in people 's life, and the power of re ligion and spiritual beliefs th at drew me to this period and its heroes. In liking King Arthur, I ah,-a1·sthought knights were fa.<cinatingand cool, as well as arn1ors, \\·eaponsand the arts of the period.

"One other thing that was really fun was that the people who lived in rhat time choughr \'ery differently than we do. It's fun to think 1·outself into a different way of seeing the world and see \\•here lhat takes you!'

He pre\'iously published four articles in scho larly journals, and the book is a revised manuscript of his doctoral dissertation Rivard envisions \\'riting tv.·oor three 1norebooks, although this first one was difficult to comrlete.

" It was a produceof eight years of graduate schoo l education," he S3\'$. " It took many years, and I recei\'ed se,-eral grams to complete it. It has gone through mote revi,ions than I can easily courn, and I had difficult experiences with publishers,which de layed it even mort. But it ,\·as\\'Orth1t." R

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Since the rerroristattacks of Sept. 11, 2001, ,here has been a heightened e1nphasis on natio nal security in U.S. imerests around th e wor ld. To add ress chis new focus, Ripon is offering a national security minor, and alumn i in the £ield say the

Alumni in Field Applaud National

Security Minor;

"In a prioritycall se.rup, in an emergency and if you cannot complete your call, this ser· vice allo"~ you 10dial around the nen\·ork congestion and

await the next available call path so that yourcall can get through."

timing is perfect.

"In the pos,,9/1 1 world, career opportunities in all facets of n a tional security are bound to sky roc ket, in the public as well as private sec, tor," says Rick Estberg '75, Chief o f Staff of the U.S. Department of Defense's lnteragency Operations Secu· ricy Suppon Staff in Greenbelt, Md. "Sc h ools offe ring training and programsin vari,

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Experts, Including Laufenburg '79

"Traditionally, the government and private industry rumed to the military 10 find personnel with the 'right sruff,'but today they are looking much more often at colleges and unive rsities.

"The ana lytic focusof a liberal arts education, coupled with course o fferings in l anguage, computer sciC'nce,math and regional issues/nationa l security,is exactly what employerswouldbe looking for. Another great benefit of careers in n ationa l security is rhe opporrunit)' for foreign assignments,''says Escberg.

Escberghas serwd ,he Derattment of Defensefor 33 years,includingmore than IO rears in Gennany.In September,he willbegin a three-yeartenn as intelligenceadviserat the North Atlanric TreacyOrganizationHeadquartersin Brussels,Belgium.

He suggeststhat students who have a knack for languagestrain in "exotic" languagessuch as Middle Eastern and Asian languages.If such programsaren't a,·ailable,the government often will hire those who have done very well in European languages,offering them the chance to learn another non-European languagein high demand. Addi1ionall1 • , those with strongcomputer skillsare

encouragedto consider pursuingwork o n rhe defensive, o r Information As.sur, ance, side of rhe house.

"Putting it , e r)' simply,"Estberg says, ..those \\'orkingthe intell ige nce missionare the 'code breakers';rhose workingthe defensive,inforntation assurance mis.sionare the 'code cnak, ers.' Graduates with skills in eit.her area are in great dernar,d."

H. l ee Jones '73 of Highland Vil, )age,Texas, worksfor the Oepanment of Homeland Security on a contract basis doing presentations regarding telephone issues.He is regionalout· reach coordinator for the Government EmergencyTelephone Service and WirelessPriorityService.

There are five such coordinators (or the country, and Jones covers the Great Lakesstates, O klahoma and Arkansas. He gives presenracionsregardingprior, icycall serup servicesavailablefor emergencyrespondersin times of telephone network congestion.The;e emergencyre,ponders include Wi..«con· sin Emerge ncy Management.,state police, hospitals,judges, b3nks,elecnic companies- "anybodywho has a ro le in assisting during o r after an emer.. gency,"Jones says.

He sees a lot of opportunities in the field of security.

Jo nes studied economicsat Ripon and has a master's of businessadministration from the Universityof Wisconsin, Whitewater. He has been workingon the federalprioriry calling programsince 1995,first at Verizonand now for the Department of Homeland Secwity. He also is pur, suing a n1aster•sdegree in his, tory at the Universit)' of Nonh Texas in ~nton, Texas. ous aspects of national secu· rity are certainly turning ou t graduates who are more 'marketable.'

"The post-9/11 world has seen a massive ii,crease in anencion and funding for this kind of career,''Jones says."The threats to overall security ha\1e dramati~ cally increased,so che governmenr is responding.The opportunities that I see a re quice expansi\'e."

Drew Davis '07,Ripon's first gradu, are 10claim the national security minor, is counring on Lhoseopportunities.

I've had a strong interest and ambit ion for politics and work in government since lirerallythe second grade," Davis says.~1,vasdra,vntO\\'ard the service side of government and dealing with people, the diplomatic approach to goveminenr."

He says the national sec uriti~ minor helped show him routes co rake 10pur, sue his dream.

" It wascructallyintegral ." says Davis. "It's exactly what it needs m be at chis ume in our country's histOT)',Our nation facesa whole new host o f threats. This minor allowsfor tha t fresh,contemporary approochand undemanding to those threats. It's not an archaic, historical textbook an alogyof the threats we faced in the past and during the cold war. h's cutting-edgefor the 21st cen· rur)' That sreaks highly of Ripon -

that it can provide something so cut · ting-edge for its studc-nts:•

The minor is the brainchi ld of Lamont Co lucci, as:.isiant professor of poliucs a nd go,·e rnmen t, \\·ho has brought to Riron a focuson ontema· t ional relations and ,ecurity which he feelsis crucial in toda~r'stroublingrimes.

Like Oa,·ts,Colucci sayshe a lwa\'S has had an inte n~st in polilics, hi 5lory, d iplomacyand international relations. He h ad a career in rhe field as a foreign s..,rvice officer with the U.S. Diplonmic Corps and "·asa n international rc1adons-ro 1icy cons.ultant ,,·it.hGcrwn Lehrman Group, a global necworkmg o rgamration . He has led e<lucational exch;1ngesto Tah,·an and Russia; ,vas a Korean Society Fe llow and a Fulbrighc scholar to Ch iM; and has Ix-ento Japan as a ream leader for a U.S., Japan C lose, Up Fellowship,a Ke,zai Koho Fellowship and a Fulbright Memorial Fellowship.

"I wanted co ha ve part of my liie Jevot,-.. l to the practice of these a reas, noc just chestudy,"saysCo lucci " I was able to experience che good, rhe bad a nd the ugly of that both in Washington a nd ove rseas. It aJlo,\·edinc to h a,·e my feet in both worlds.I s incerely be lieve it is the most critical field of study in a republic. If a republic is based o n t he substance of it.s citizens, l can't 1hink of a field that is more important."

He then pursuedusing his field expe• rience a t the academic level

" I had a faicly dear idea of what the real world ts about from that practi• tione r's , ·ic,\1-"()inc, a real sense oj the arduous and s low process that d iplomacy car, take aswell as some of th e problems there are m how they deal with thi ngs," Co lucci sa\•·'' It also gives me a sense of \,·hat can \\'Ork and \\'hat can't . I hope che abi lity to blend both of these makes my teach ing bette r."

A fter teaching for a sh«)rt t in1cat the Univer>ityofWL<consin-Mad1son and ocher campus seni ngs, Colucci came to Ripon three years ago. He lx-gandewloping a specialt:ed rr ogram on national security a year-and-a-half later.

Co lucc i o rganiied an "inaugura~ cion"o f t he nadon<'l l securities minor in March with a keynote address b)' Conner Jir e<:to r o f Centra l Intell igence James Woolsey.Othec panicirams included Kennet h deGraffenreid, profc.ssorof intelligence stu<lies a t The Inst itute of World Politics in Washing• to n , D.C , and a forn,~r ~pury N3tionalCou nterintelligence Exe:cu~ t l\·e; R. Do bi e Langenkan,p, former DepucyAssistant Secreuity fot Naval Petroleum Reserves and Di, ·esunem and Conn e r O.:pucyAssistant Secretary for Oi l, N arural Gas an d 0 ,1Shale; and Ret. Col. James F.Laufenburg '79 of Arlington, Va. Laufonbucgserved in n,·o back,t o,.back tou rs in Iraq, as Chie f o f Scaff fo r General David H. Pctraeus (currentll' commander of a ll focces in Iraq) when he was the Com· mander o i lhe !Olsc Airbon1e Division ( 2003 04) and then as his Chief of Staff when he was rhe c omma nder o f , he Multinationa l Security Transition Command (2004-05).

"I felt s ince 9/11 th a r th e academy universitysystem has not done enough to pron,ott n at io na l sec uriry srudies," saysCo lucci. ''The United States is faced with a na tional security thre a t that will bemulti-generatio nal. le will probably go beyond my lifetime and most, if not a ll, of our studen ts' lifeti1ne-sTo be frank,I can'r seea more impor ta nt areao f stud)·an.d concernto anybod)', not jw t Ripon."

..Ha,·ing a n ational securitr1n inor i.s a wonderful and long overJu e addit ion LO the Ripon Co llege curriculum,"sa1·s

Laufenburg,"·ho nO\V \\'Orks for Computer Sctences Corp. 35 a din:ctor of Army rro, grams. "Having served in the military for 27 years, I recognize iir~lhanJ ho"·importanc it is to understand ou r

national securityen\'lronmenr -which encompas..<es a ll th e eletnents o( national po,ver.

" I believe cha<we all understand that che world in which we li,·e is much smaller than it "·a; 20 years ago due co globalization and t he advancement of informacion rechnologies. Kno~·i.ngthis, and having an appr~c iatio n of our nat ional security frame\\'Ork and processes.are c ritical to a con,plete don,e.sticand international c.ontexr. A nat iona l secu rity minor \\'ill educate and expose studenrs co the complex ities anJ hard work required to ach ie , ·e a compre· hensive nationa l secu rity strategy and its in,plications throughout the \\'Orld."

Estberg Sa\'S ou r country's, ·eryex1s.. tence is dependent on the scrongest possiblesecurity,which enrnils far more chan airport security, background check,, border s tops an d ocher tangible, ph ysical saieguards.

"Attempt ing to learn the p lans a nd in tentio ns of groups and countries,vith in cere.s.cs inim ical co our O\\'tl is a kcr piece of na tional s.ecurity, as is develop• n,en t of too ls, soft\\•are and har<.hvare co keep our O\\' n sensitive co1nmunic.ations secure from foreign cavcsdcopping,"he sa)'s. "Most inre lligence s hortcomings, real or perceh·ed,become public knowledge; wlfortunatdy, the same cannot l:,e said for th e many intelligence succes, stories which have aboolutely s.wed U.S. lives anJ pcoperty.

"Th ose who choose a career in thi s impottar\l field nce<lto ceali:e, going in, th at they will rarely t...ahle co boast of the ir s kills and achievements to friends and family. But the payoff lies in know• mg chat there are fewjobs in this countr)' today \Vithrnorepote ntial for a c.rue, lo ng-lasting benefit to our nauon. Paychecksare nice; kno,"·ingyou ..uc sen·.. i1,g your nation in this n,osc critical (in1e is e\·en ni cer." R

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THESEDAYSAT RIPON BRIEFS

SPEAKERS B U REAU STUDEN T JOINS FUND ,RAI SIKG TRIP

Alysw Paulsen,a sophomore/rorn \Vinn,conne, \'(/is., and a memberof ,he College'sSpellkrs Burial<, recentlyaccompaniedI.ii M olitvr '07 ona four-day,

fund-raisingtripfor the Hunringzon 's Disease Socit1yof America

ALUMN I AsKED TO P ARTICIPATE IN SURVEY

As pan of the College's self-stud)' in preparation for its ZC'09accreJitation \'iSit, a lumni from the clas..<esof 1996,2001 and 2005 a re being asked ro part icipa te in an on1ine survey.

"It h as bee n some rime since th e College conducted a survey of its graduates to gather information about Its rrograms a nd rhe life experiences of those who have b,en eJuc a ted here," saysJ eanne Williams, professoro f educanona l studies and as• sistan r dean of facult)'-"We're asking our a lun,n i to help us understand what the college does well a nd wh at programs and services can be improved."

The survel' data a lro will he lp develop a clearer profile o f Ripon gr aduates' edu, cauonal, professional,ci\' iCand leisurepursuits,s.hesays.

Alumni from rhe de termined classes ,,·ill n~·cei,·e a lette r and an e-n1ai1not ice prO\'iding them with an access code for 1he survey The su!Ye) ' is d ivided into six pans and will take about l 5 minutes co complete. There is a separate section for a l umni \\'ho completed a teache r licen~ure progra1nat Ripon..

"We'"e even provided an opportunity for alumni co send a mes.age to a favo rit e professoror staff member,"says Wi lliams . "We value , he opinions of our a lumni and hore ,har many will rake ,he rime to comp let e the sut\ er-"

0Jtcl fron1T.he s.urvey \\·ill be used co re\·ie,,· programsand SCf\·iccs, says \Villia1ns.

Al) '$$, Paulsen '10

Molitorbegan«-orlcing ui rh HDSAas a S/)<'akersBureaui11«len1 duringhersenioryearac Ripon.Upongraduation, sheacrepuda position as HDSA'sMidu.eslernfund,raisingcO-ordinacor.From Sepr. 14 w 17, PaulsenassistedMolitorin spreading,he wordabo111HDS.Aseri•ices at a seriesof sporring-,henU?dfund-rais,rs in Michiganand Kentucky.

SHACK•A-THON CAPS NA TIONAL H UNGER, H OMELESSNESS AWARENESS WEEK

Ripon·s VillageGreenurn iransfonned inro a shamywu11thenightof NOl'. 16 as community membersa!ld colkgesu«lents alikeb11il1umporarywlters 10 bringmrenrion IO theproblemsof hungerand honulessn.ess in our communicJ.

The ewn1 uru sponsoredby Ripon's Office ofComnumity Eng,1gernen1and ,1,,, Habiuufor Humanitydub. Tea,ns1.sed prcxidedcardboardboxes , u-ood,rapeand ochermaterialsIO cr,•are a hornew withstand ,he chiUynight.

"Accordmg10 ,he U .S . CensusBurea,,,morethall 8,000/)<'oplelit-ebelow ,hepoi•erry line in Fonddu l..ocCoun1y." sayse 1-en1 organi,erTheresaKedinger , a sophomorefrom Rosendale , \'(/is. "Po,.erry isn't j1.s1a big-cityproblem."

A report of the sur\'ey will appear in a n urcoming iss11e o f RiponMagazine .

.l<ASUBOSI<lS R ECEIVE 2 00 8 FOUNDERS ' D AYA WARD

Laurie and Peter Kasuboski,owners of Ripon Area Builders, received the 2008 Founders' Day award The aw:ud recognizes those individuals or groups who exemplify the spirit u(Xlnwhich the College was founded

T he Kasuboski; have served with many communi ty groups, includ ing Cookie Da,e, Riponfest board, ,h e Dick<nsof a Christmas tour of homes. St Patrick's

\ r-.cePr~ident and Dean 0£ Faculty Gt:ralds~man, lcft, and Prt:!kkntO..vWC. Joy¢e, right, present the 2008 t':oundt:rs' Da)' A"-a.rJto La1.1.rieand Pf l r Kasuboskiof Ripon. For mo re photosfrom the Foo~rs' D.lyC.tre-mon)-.,isi t the Collei:e•sflkk r site a.t"'""°".Okkr.com/photo$/ripon_co1Jc,gt.

church pirnic and many fund-raising e'"enrs. They also have offered donated or deeply discounteJ construction services for many projects.

Pre.;idenrDav,d C. Joyce sa)"srhe couple have "built many bridgesover the \"ears, literallyand figumh ·el1· - The bridges in Ripon are b<,,"·eenpeople."

Laurie,\\•ho sa)·Stheir business is built entirely on re lationships, told 1he audi~ ence asSembled in Great Hall for rhe evenr thar rhe award was a honor they would never forget.She credited the more than Z,OCORipon residents - including Ripon College studems - who also do community service work

Peter also felt the award represents the good work rh at is done throughout the con1ff1unity. "'Ir isn't about Laurieand Peterrece1\•in.gthe 3\\'3rd: it'sabout the con1rnunicyreceiving the 3\\·ard,"he said.Riponrc~identsare ''son ice. You're special. )'o u knO\I•ho,\· to gi\'e back,"he said.

"It's hard ro imagine Riron without Ripon College. It's done so many things for the community If we cominue to do good work and conrinue to work togethe r, Ripon will forevtr beas good as it is today,"said Peter.

The ceremony also included rhe opening of a cornerstone from Todd \tlehr Hall that had been sealed in 1968during the clas;room building's original construction. The come.rstonc \\"as discovered this su1nmerduring renovations to the building. BarbaraLewisJohnson '68, supervisor o i rhe chemisrrystockroom, and Dave Minor '68,director of corporate and foundation relations, revealed the coments, including a Ripon Collegedirectory; the guide "Student Protest,: Wha t ro Do''; issuesof Ripon Magavne: GuidecoRiponCollege;a calendar of public e,·ents; and a donation request card.

Br)''"' Schneider, a ;enior from P[o\'e r, \Vis., ga,·e a report abour the 1960sat Ripon, including the builJing of new structures, establishmenr of a solid fmancial foundation, increased enroHmencs,and r.headdition o f irnemational students and those fromorher areas of the country.Schneider spent last summer working with Li• brarian Valerie Viers,Professor of HistOr)' Ru,sell Blake and Pari,sa Djangi, a senior from Glen Ell\'fl,Ill., ,o augmenr the College's archives co llecrion

E T HICS S EM INARS A TIRACT

I NFLUENTIAL P ROFESS IONALS, B USIN ESS L EADE RS

Ripon's Ethical LeadershipProgramrecemll' initiJted a new seriesof «He•study seminars for professional and bus iness leaders. Dubbed ,;Ethical leadership lnsri· ruces."the progran1Sare designed co bringt()pprofessionals fron, business,la\,• , mc<li -

cine and other fields together with Ripon students for a day of stud1·and discussionof selected casestudies.

LasrOctober, 18 execu"ws from the Milwaukeearea were paired with Ethical Leadership Gold Le\'el students, members of ScuJcnts in Free Enterpri..<e(SIFE) and others for a day of inten· sive examination o f instances in \\•hich n1ajorcorporations faced signific.antissuesill ethical leadership. Guided by faculcy facili• tators, the rarticipants sought to define th e issues,consider altemath·es and see k be.s. c practices.

Thomas Hefcy,president of the Kern Family Founda,io n and fonner head of Cobalt Corporarion and Wisconsin Blue Cross Blue Shield, presented rhe luncheon kernote .

"Ethicalbusinessis good business,"Hefty said. "The cent~al question in erhics isn'r about making a mistake or a bad decision: ir's about what \"OU do after the mistake is made."

ErhrcalLeadershipProgram Executi,·e Director David Se ligman says rhe day was a hugesuccess.

"Many o( the execun\'eSwere , ·,siting Riron for the fir>ttime," he says. "Their interacrionswith each other and with Ripon students prodded some of ,he best that a liberalarrs education has to offer."

Seligmanadds that he hopes to h ost se, eral such institutes each year in addition to the c0nrinuingprugran1of case 5tuditsseminars that bring a single senior profcs, siona l h.'1campus for a day of discussions ,virh students.

BRJEFS

RA NGE OF ACT lVlTl ES

H OKOR MLK

Th, Ret•.Dr. MartinL111'1.!rKing'sdream of hannoniou.sco-existence~ru1eenraces

damali ayo

and beUefsremains,mf1tlfilkd,b11this ,,ision is tiery muchalit-ecu Ripon. A week'smmh of ewnts honoringtire manand his legacy«ru held)an. 11-27 high. lighredby a ke)110refrom acclai,nedwrira/acri,isr damaliayo.

ayo is besr,knownfor hercont10<oeTJiol 1005 bookHow to Rene a Negro, u hich exploresthe cornmodiritationof raceand theinteracrionsberweenblacksand «•hir.!s in socicry. Sh, rrawlscxc.,nsi,,elyas a speak.er,/>T<'Senter and coach,promoting fm.h dialogueabowma and procticalSO· lurionsfor orgaru·~arionsand com,nunities alike.

ALP HA CH! O MEGA R UN

G ETS R ESPECT

The Deanof Srudenr.soffice hasawarded Alph.~Chi Omegasorority tire2007fall s.,mesrarVoicesof RespectA«md for its 5K R,m/\Valkfor \/icrimsof Domesric\/,. olence.Th, ewnr raised$I ,700to /)TO· moreeducariona1/>TOgtmns for t-icrimsoj don,e.sric."tioknce.

The sororityrecei<'es$250 to theirOC· corm , and is adde,l to a plaqueof au ard u inntrJ on displayin Barr/err Hall. The goalof rheawardis 10 enc01tmgegroupsro organh<!ewnr.sandacti,itieschatpromore respect,raiseaHmenessof issiresr~kuedto respecrand />Tompcsolutionsco />Toblems associoredu•ichdisrespecrand incililiry amongpeople,accordingco Deanof Stu· dems Chris Opfe '80

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BRIEFS

F ACU LTY N O T ES

• Da,id Gral,om, profes.s"'of English, s.?n>edas faculty mernb.?rin August ar the nimh annual FrostPlaceSeminar ar ,he RobertFrostPkicein Franconia,N.H. The u'<ek!ongseminarfor admnad poer, ry studenrsi,wolwdworkshops, a crafr lecmreand a poecryreading. Additicnally, Grahnm published"H,>ritageChannel, ing;" a rel'iewof "Wind in a Box," by TerranceHaye>,in "American BookRet.ieu.1;" and c.hrelpoenu- "Betu.,een Clas;,s, • "Op,mingCredits"and "Recy, cledAir" - in "TriQuarter!y."

• DianeBeres,asso.:iateprofessorof marhematicsand comp,,rerscienceand adjunc t scholorof ~11.iron1nenraJstudies, publisheda bookre,iewof Rewm of rhe Condor: The Race to Sa"c Our Largest Bird from Extincnon in the October 2007issueof Natural Areas Journal. She alsorecentlyspenrtwo uuks in Swe• den ,e(l(hing"'Principlesof Modelingfor l\ 1arurcdResourl'eManag~,nenr'"to doc, torare-lewtm.knu ai Grim..<ii WlrldLfe Resear,h $ration.

• RobertDuk) , headcoachof cross co,mrryand rrackarulfield,presented ' ' Fundarm,nwlsof /)i;uma Training"a< the 19thannual Wiiconsin TrackCoaches Associarion cUnicin Mihrnukee, Feb 15. The clinic i.sthelarge.s r of its ki,ul in the Uni1edSrar,s and currm ' ISabour 600 coaches , says Duky.

RI PON J O INS I NIT IATIVE TO SI MP LIFY C OLLEGE COMPARI SO NS

Ri~'On,s supporting a nanonal 1niuan\·e co providl'C'Onlprehensive,transparentand cleanly presented public information to he !p prospective students judge the quality of higher,educacion 1nstitutiOn$.

Dubbed U-CAN (Uni\'ersity & College Accou,uability Networ k ). it is rhe f,rsr nationally coo rdinated effort by rhe institu t ions themselves - p r ivate an<l public alike - ro collect an<l report data and qualirnrive information directly to consumers

A series of federa l inquiries into highe r-ed lending praccice.; fast year fed to increa;ed public demand for increased transpa rency and accountability. This, followed by a widely publici,eJ backlash against "U.S. News and World Report's" hea"il)' weighred reputatrona ! sur...-cy,underscored the need fora ruhhc,information format that ,vasclear and unbiasedenough to satisfy the needs of consun,ers .

U-CAN doe-.snot include reruracioniur,eys o r ranklngs; in!lteaJ, studentsand ,hei r families have free online acces.sto obJective, measurable and ,·e r ifiab!e data supplemenred by h yperlinks to an inscitution's Web sire. The information provided in the U-CAN i ,uricuriona! profiles comes maight from the U.S. Deparcment of Education's !PEDS survey and the Common Dara Set, both widely acknowledged as induscry,standard data sources.

"Choosing a co llege can be a difficul t and stressful time all by itself, but rhe sheer vo lume of co llege information - especia lly when compiled by thirJ parties wirh varying methoJo !og ie, - ma kes it hard to parse out r.he rru!y important faces," saysPresident David C. Joyce. "\Ve be lie, •c the U-CAN initiative will he !p simplify the process...

U-CAN was spearheaded by the National Assoc1arion of Independent Colleges and Un1\'ersnies (NA !CU), and thus far more than 500 member mstirurions have 1nadea commitmentto join rhe iniciative. Profiles of Kipon and other particirartng institutions arc availableat \\'\V\v.ucan.-nenvork.org.

PoGo S ENIORS T AKEON P E RSONAS OF P RESIDENT IAL C AND IDATES

Professor of Politics and Government Marcy Farrell's senior seminar class took an informative and mreracrive rwist this yea r by pr<>;entinga two-day public forum about the candidates for the 2008 rresidenria l election

"We have had a senior seminar for more than 30 years. ft is rhe capstone of the major and is designed ro h e lp t he srudenrs pull together and refine what they\·e !earned in thei r four years here." says Far re l!. "! thoug h t it would be in t e resting to

Cool

Benches!

Eric Gallagher '06, assistant director of th~ annual fund, takes in a beautiful uin ter afternoon f ro m one o f h\ ' O ne,,, bcnch~s in.stall ed in the cou rl)-arJ of ,he campusapartments.The metal bencht-s,com.pletc Y,ith the \\'OrJ s Ripon College cu t into then1 1 a.re the r~u lt of tht 2007 ~nior clas.s g; f,. Th e C lass of 2007 raised S2,0S ~ . which included an A lumn; A ssociar;on Board of Dire-cto rs mat( h (S 10 per member)and Student Senate One Fund match ($5 per senior \,·ho g-.1,·e). Si.xty#three percent of the senior clas.scontributedto,,-arJ tht 2007 gift.

AnJre-'"''\\'uskr '08 'E\ 1an Oa,'ies 'OS Hilary JimCa rdinal\)8 ~1urko....·~ki'OS

rry something new a nJ have the seniors app l\' their knowledge and ski lls 10such an in,ponanc decision as the quadrennial presidential e lec tion."

N i n.eseniors each \\'ereassigned a presidential candidate about \\•horn to prepare a presentation. TI,c candidates included Hillary Rodham C linton, J ohn Edwards, Rudy Giulian i, Mike Huckabee, John McCa in, Barack Obarna, Ron Paul, Mitt Romne)' and EdThompson. Srudents had to c reate a presemarion inco rporating material from the class text, Elet'lion2008: A Voter's Guide. bl' Frank lin Foer, ed. The\' also had ro incorporate candidate Web sites, biogs and o ther materials, as well asuse their accumula red knowledge of Ame rica n and inte rnatio na l polit ics, law and political t'Conomycoaccurately present each ca nd,daie. The students were assigned ro present a background on the candidate. their stances on key politica l and social i~ues and their strengths and ,,·eaknesses. The auJi('nce the n ,\·as encouraged to cngag~ in a question..and ..ans\rerperiod follo\,·ingeach presencanon.

" I wanted to open it up w the public because a Co/kg~Days edi,orial had lamented on t he lack of such a forum, and I th ought by in vo lving the con11nuni1y, '"" t'ould performil puhlic s.er\'ice\\'he re audience men1bersv,ou ld be e ncou raged to ask quest ion$or makeS<atemerm." says Farrell.

The student presenters also felt opening the forum to the public "'lli beneficial.

"B~ , in\'iting che camrus , noc on l y does i t gi\'e e,·e ryone a chance to participaHt, but it ma.Jeus as presentersmuch n'loreaccountab le ,"says Andre,v \Vusler o f Brookfield,Wis., who represented McCain

Evan Davies of Port Wing, Minn., agrees and welcomed the resronsibility th is projl'<t presented.

"It is both necessaryand beneficial 10 have an opell seminar like 1h1sbecause as students o f poli1ica l science, we can use our knowkdge of politics to help educate other ,tude,m and ,he public about who rhe cand,dares are and wha1 rhe l' rruly irnnd for." sars Davies,who represemed Edwards . "We live in a.nage of the 'blogosphere,'where anybody can cla im to have a monopo l)· o n the truth, so to ha,·e studentsexan1inecandidacesseriously 1simportancin dec iding ,vhacasfacr::i.nd "·hatis flction ."

'The \\WStkind of rnte r is o ne who is uneduca,cJ," sal's Hilary Murkowskiof Athens, Wis. Murkowsk,ga,·e he r presenra1ionon rhe viewpoints of Paul. "After listenmg ro ou r presentations, peop le can have guidance in choosing a candidate \\'ho be5t re-presents t hem and their concerns,"she says.

Another purporeof che forum '"as co 1gnues rudenrs'invoh·emenc and rassion about politics.

"'(n\'Ol\'ementin rolitic.s becomes crucial once you ente r college because you're finalll' awal' fromhome and can sear,h within yourseli for your own ind"·idual stances on .,,;uesa nd candidares," sai , Jim Cardina l of Withee, Wis. His cand idate \\·as ~1itt Ron,ne~ r .

"The IS-Z5 demographic i$a ke)' group for pre;identia l c.andidates,"agree, DJ\·ies."The question that al"·ays rernain~about young adults b "·hether they ,viii go and , ·ore on election day. l e'sah,·ayshard Hl say."'

S1udenrinn >h-emcnt in polit ics seems to bea frequcm topic of discussion.

"I've alwaysbeen a little pe rplexed by ,he poli1icalatt itudes he re at Ripon. I don't see rhe srudem body as necessarilybemg disengagedfrom the process, but on the other hanJ, activism d,xsn't rea lly happen here. I think it ju,1 might be ,hat

BRIEFS

R ESIDEI\CE H ALL R EPS

R EAP R EWARDS

Riponearnedho,um m ,he founh annual W1iscoruinAssociarionof l,ul,pe»dem Colkgesand Uniwrsiri.,s (\11AICU)Res· itk'nt Assisk>ntsConference , heldN,w. 16 a, CarthageColkge.

The com/)<'ti1ionin, ,-o!,-edintroducingthe ,c/,oo/ by means of a hu, lnoYOttSskecch , uith j,uigi»glxt.-edon school spirit,wknr and use of ,he college'scor~, al,ies thro11gho111 w piece.

SeniorBrandon

8,.u,Jon Pam>< •· Parrott-Scheffer of 811rr &hdl« 'OS Ridge,Ill., rooksecond placeof all !tudent i,rogramsfor "Program111inguiUla Purpose."

Dirmor of ResidenceLifeJoshDe

War '02 wokfirs<])We among,t i,rograms presentedby a professionalsraff memb..>r for hispresenwdo» --s~pplngrhrough<he Cmcks: Workingui1hSuuknts on lss11es of Self-InjurymidS11icide. •

DIETRICH B usy WITH TALK S, P ERFORMANCES

Profwor oj M11sicK11rrDietrichga,..,the pre-concm ralkfor ,he Clucago)aH £ns.?>nble's/)<'rfonna,u:e at theFoxCities PerformingArts Center in Appk1onOcr. 27. The performancefea111redrhem11sic of fourja« gr,·atsborn90 yearsago: Di«y Gilkspie,Thelonio1uMonk, Ella Fitig<'Talda,idNm '"Kmg"Cole Dimich wlktdabout ,hosefo11rfiguresand ,heir 1nusic.

Diemchalsohasb.>en/lllingin uith localjau groupsu ho needa rrombonis1. He pe,formedu1rhrhe TimW'halen Nonet in Madison . The group u as record, ing the fo11rthnightof a s,ri,s char u i/1ap, pearon an upcomingCD, "Liw a< Rwa,mm, /1.fogmu."He alsoplayeduith the Madison-basedgroupTnb111e 10 An Blakeyin J<ffmon,Wis.

CALENDAR

April I

Liberal Arrs Symposium

April 2

Forum on Eth ic, and Oratory Yourh Surn1ni( Natk)nal Securny ~1inor Presentations

April 4.5

Erhical le ader,;hip Conference: Ethics in Healrh C"e

April 6

Senior Recital: KelseyGreen , COO\J.-)()Si{io n

Gem1an Theatre Workshop: "Der Schwcinehirt"

April 12

Se nio r Recital: Just in Yonkie,tenor

April 13

Symphonic \Vind Ensemble

April 15

Poetry Reading: Wisconsin Poer

Laureate Denise Sweet

April 16

AwardsO:nwocation

April 18-19

Wisconsin High School Forensics

As..~iation State Touman1ent

Ripon College 7th Annual Film Festival

April 18

Collegium Musicum

April 19

Orch estra

Apr il ZO

Admission Exro

April 25

JazzEnsemble

April 2i

Cho ral Union

Senior Reciral: M15syNygaarJ. double ba.ss

April 29

Last Dayof C lasses

May 1-7

Final Exams

May 11

Com rnenceme nt

May 12-30

~1a\ n,es te r

J une 27-29

Alumni Weekend

we're the l ,000 nicest people m the country." jokes Wusler.

Anju li MuckIm of Kenosha. \Vis., agrees that active poliri• cal in,·olvement amongststudents is in demand. " I don't th illk college ~tudents invest enoug h tin,e and at te nt io n i n politics, myselfincluded. Ho nestly, l had not Harted cowatch rhe debates o r taken interest in the cl«tion until recently."says tucklin. who was a..ssigned coGiuliani. "Bur po litics are a part of life, and young reople need to h ave an interest a nd get Anjuli1'111.1.:klin 'OS in\'Ol\·ed."

The forum arrea r.cl to be just what ,iuden ts inte rested in the presidenual e lection nCl·deJ to channel their engagement, acco rding to a SLU· dent in attendance at rhe forum, Junior Angela Twaroskiof Birnamwood,Wis. "I havt>n'tbeen paying as close anen11on10 rhe prima ries as I would have hked. so this was a gooJ way to play carch-ur and find our whar ,he candidares are all about, " she says."Event ; like rhis a re perfect for ,tuJent, to geeuwo l\'ed All a campus can do b,rrO\'idelhe opporruniries.and lhe rest is up to the stud"~nts."

Farrellagrc~s th(' forurn \\1\S3 catalys.cior srudent in\'oh·e1nent,andhC'hopesthe trend keers going.

"Srudent groups will need 10 carry the ball with mock debates. candidate forums, get-out-and-vote dri\'es and the hke," he says " In 1996, th ere were severa l goodef• forts like this , and more than 75 percent of Ripon scuden,s \'Oted.\Y./e\\'erejust tr)'· 1ngto jump.-st.trtrhis effon \\'ith our (oru1n."

F ACULTYNOTES

• Joe l-larcher, rrofessorof psychology,has been elected tO the board of directors for the Blue ~1ountain Pr,11ect,a serv ice,.fe:Jm ing organi.z..'lliOntl,at bringsstudents ro Hagle)' Gap, Jamaica.

• Sarah Hughes,professorof mustc, recenrl)' spent th ree Jays in C levela nd a nd Obe rlin, Ohio. r«:or<linghymns from the N ew Century H ymnal for the United Church ofChrisr as pare of an ambitious project to make the entire hymnal a\'ailable on CDs for churches lacking musicsraff. Hughes recorJ eJ 67 hymns a, Firsr Chu rch. Oberlin . Hughes also has been invited to be organist-in -residence for the Pme Moun ta in ~tusic Festival. J une 19-24. She will present chree recitals and a workshop in differ• enr \'enucs in th e Upper Peninsulaof Michigan. Recitals are scheduled in Lake Lin• den, lron ~ fountain and ~1aryue ttc.

• W,llram \Vhirehead, adjunc t sch o lar of anthropology,earned a docto rate in anrhrorology from rh e U ni,·ersicy of California• &rkelel' in ~ember. Ill recenr months, Whitehead has comributed cose\'eral scho larlr publications and confer· e nces mcludmg ,he 47Lhann ual meeting of the lnsmute of Andean Studies and , he edited volume in "Kala Uyum: An Early Poli rical Ce nt er in the Southern lake Titi caca Basin."

• Lamont Co lucci, assisrant ptofessorof ro liricsa nd gow mm ent, earned his doctor of poluics degree from t he U ni" ersity of London.

• Brian Smirh, profossorof religiousstudies.delivered a rare r a r rhe conference, "Acwrs, lnsrnurions and Regime Resiliency: New Challenges to Democrncyfrom Old Sources,"at Columbia University's Kellogg Cenrer m Oc tober The conference brought t,,gerher 25 sch olar,;to celebrate the work of Alfred Stepan, a professorat C:,lumbia's Center for Religion and Tolerance.Stepan was Smith's memor at Yale Un1\·ers1ty.

• Assmant Profcs.orof Gtrman Lon,a Sopcak was mvired 10 speak at the ZNS Hess FacultySeminar: "The Holocaust: Perpetr~cors , \'ictims and B)'sranders." m January at th e United States Holocaust Memorial}-luseum in Wa,hingwn. D C. The seminar com prised daily sessions o( le-ctures and discussionsof rhe pnnciple ,,·ork~,latest approaches.ne\\·esc techn iques and key pcJJgogical i~ues 10 the field: rhe use of Holocau;c-rdattJ fiction and poetry m uni,·er;iry-level course,; rht ways

in "·hich the history and memoryof the H olocau~tare tra.n~n1ittl·Jin lit~raturCi public reception of those transmissions; and more.

• 1'-!emunaKha n, assistant proie,sor of biology,hasbeen s ha ring h e r studies "·ith coo,munity men1bers . .A..tRipon's South \Voods A5SOCiafio n annual me,eting, she de.livered the presentation "Bandin~ Baby Bluebirds : Starting a Research Population at Ripon Co llege." She a lso recently aJd rcsseJ the Oshkosh Bird Cl ub on the tupic "Inspiring Indonesia."

• So ren Hauge tra\·eled to ~~an agua, Nica ragua, in Septembe r co particirate in a panel pr<~ ntation o f a new book, El l m1><1ctoSocialde la Microfinnn,as en Nicaragua (The Social Impact ofMicrofinance in Nicaragua). The book repo rts initial fmdings from analr,is of a 2006 s urvey of clien ts of Nicaraguan finan cia l instit utions th at speciali:e in serving poor and female borrowersa nd depositors. Th e survey a nd ana li·siswere carried out in a collaboration between the In ternational Fou ndation for the Global EconomicChallenge , the Nicaraguan As..<ociationof Microfinance Jn.s,cirurio ns and ,he \V1scoruinC.OOrdinaring Cou ncil on Nic aragua. He presented the chapter he ,Hote: "Merodologfa del Estudio" (Methodo logy of rhe Srudy). R

TR USTEE PROFILE: D ENA WILLMOR E '67

Dena W illmore '67

b«,ime a Ripon Colle ge Tru £tee bec3.use, when asked t0 join th e board,s he thought she could make a difference for rhe College. She has learned a lot h o rn the experiences being a Trustee has brought, induding a

is also "sensitive to wha t kids a re looking for al\d as best we cal\ ,, ·c h ave bee n responding."

CO RRECT I ONS

• In ,he Fall2007 issueof Riron Magazine. m,reported,hn,Jim H,in '08 uas thefirst Riponsuukm in m o de®leJ ro recei,-.:an undergraduatef,llou,1hip from theFun,lfor T heologicalEducation. Actually, Ben Ko,ucny '01 r,cei,,,d ,he sam, f,Ilo,,,shipthepre,•iousyear. Ko11;>01y 1sattendingVan,hbilt University Di,iniry SchoolinNruh,ille, Tenn., purn ,ing a master'sof di,inity degreeand ordinll!ionin theUnited Churchof Christ. In 1M r sarneissue u,1estated thtu GregoryMercier '1 I ofNewb1<ryPork, Calif., rearedaf,er 31 yeorsof beingon contTll<tfor theFBI ,\,!ercierreriredla.st May afcer 3 I yearsas a speci<IIagentand supen,sorfor theFBl's Los A ngelesfield office.His retirementla.std a lengthytwo u,eeksbefor, he retumedro ,he FBIas a conrrac r(1S$€Cjorfeiucreinle.srigator."It is myjob to go after ,he ilkgallygottenprojits nuidebJcriminalsoi.r agents are puttingattl(ly,u•heclierthecrin1ina4ari.i dn,g dea/eTs,fTaudstm, mobsters , gang bangers.tmorists or p,opfe « •ho prey on our children," St1)'S Nfer,ier.

different perspectiveof Oro, \\ ',li mo« '67 the College a nd wha t

Th e studenrs also are responding.Willmorenotes that she enjoysseeing h ow the s tudents shape and change che institution as well asworkingon sha ping it h erself. She likeswhat she seess tuden ts doing.The studen ts, Willmore explains,are smart and enthusiastic - two wordsthat also may be used to describeWillmore he rself. liberal artSis a ll about. In that sense, the College made a difference for her.

Beinga Trustee has brough t to Willmore's attent ion many o f rhe c hallengescollegesaml unive.rsiries face, includingdeclining fundsand enro llment She has come up with waysco help Ripon College fight th ese hardships.She notes rh at some enrollment problemscan be combated with better marketing. Willmore feels th ere is a special need to exp ress the benefits o f a liberal arts education m high school students and their families. Ripon College is working hard to buck nationwide uends in declining enrollment, but Willmore says more can be done. She saysthe programs offer<-dneed to be interesting and excit ing to the students who may take them. According to her, Ripon not on ly has thought about this issue, but

When s he isn't working as a Trustee Willmore e njoys travel. Among her favorite regions to visit is Southeast Asia becau~ of the slower pace of life there th an is typica l in the United Sta tes.

"Even when th ey're going th rough difficu lt times, it 's very calm," she says.

She also enjoys be ing active thr oughout her community and ro find herself in s ituat ions that require her to stre tch h erself both intel lec tual ly a nd phi-sically.Being a Trustee has fit rhe bill n icely.

She feels that Ripon is currently on an upward curve bu t emphasizes tha t there is still much to be done.

"These last co uple of years have been so exciring. Ir's great to bepart of a successfu l story. I feel blessed to ha\'e been a part o f it."

Alsoin the fall 2007usu,, ""' neglected to menrionin his obinu,rythe follouing relatedRiponal umni «Jio sun we HarryC. W'oshkoskc'35: three nieces , Sa,ahRed11liln)wnp'76, Grace RedmanCalhoon'79, Mary Beth RedmanSmith '81 ; and a great-nep/,ew, Georg,S . H iggins' JO. H , uw pr,aded in deathby a In-other,Anh11r\Voshkoske '40.

• In the ?006-07 Anm,al Reportwue, ,hefollo«ingMines'"" erron<'omly omiuedfrom th, listof parentdonors: Mrs \Villiam). Neill (WilfridSocie,y,32 years)and Mrs. G. RobertWilkinson (Donor, 15 y,ars).

air ofFirst--year Players Bright Spots o Basketball Court; Won1.n Swi1nmers Float to New Heights

MEL s B KETBALL

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The Haw· fini•hedthese sonon .m:mgnote,winnm chreeofrht>lrfin four <1me ofthe :;ea..<n.Oneofthose \,:ins, asa.n up"e{victorym,PrM'\ r.

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Ripon wa ledbypointguard Oll Oillr,;pie (Fr.., Ripon \Xi''•,/Ripon ,who d1dn'c look likeat'ir!,t-yea playe m r ofr.hetime.Grne�p1efinishedinthe topfivein rhe M\XJCinbo h,f{'lint ,inda· i ts. He,n-era0ed 212 im· and a .I a.s cs, c:i goafongi,.vith , rebound perga111e-Hefinishedrhe feasontiedat11thfornt _tpoint In a .ingle·',v,ri inRil"('l11history. Gillespi!:'w. Lhe loneRed H w ro �·in 1\VCPerfr1rmer l fthe'i'.:ck honor_thi ye.it.

SeniorChrisKeH!.!tt 1'ee11ah, \Vi.. enah)::il. �::irneuphug or rheRed Hawks, a.vl'��in 15.7roin s and •Areh..1urnl pergame, whil� _hooting39pcrcem tromthree-point range.

Riponftni.hed he ea,i...,n with997 Win$ in theh1·toI)' th!.:'rr m. Lookfor win l,l'l\.10earlynexrseru:on.

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Riponfinished the�ea.son 7.16o,erall (4.1 M\XIC).Arnoeroint.rhe Red H wkswonthr econ. rnti,c a.me. -thr.'itlonae t winningsreak mtw year.

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Fr, hcf\,ood, Wi .J<::.�. Mary' Crmral becametheRt'JH �k'_ O•COplayer, recorJm fmrdouble.Joubh�.,ellroure tela\·emoi,ng W. pointsand7.4re· bound,duringRipon' 16 onforence can1.1: ....hew , he �e m' [eading,cortr Ill nin ofthose15am�·,1ndudinga U\'.lChnfeighrIllar w. ....c1rhomor:Ji: ·i eHiuner (Neenal,,\Vi .• e n.ili lt>Jth1;Red Hawbin.·oringfor·heemire ea. n, a\eraging Aromt� r0g alungwirh

5.9r!.'. :mndjper arneinRipon'·23 games.JuniorJeniYa1:f:er ( lmtnoville, Wis.,ICllmonv1He al�aYer.i�ed .2 pointsand 5.9r�buunJ, forthesea.son, whilesophomoreCart�aZuer h.tr (Delafield, Wi•./\Vauke�h V'es. etched her namemnrhe Rip, nre rJbook, recording52 mal n cheyear,,.,.·hi h.

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