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).