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

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Editor: Sarah BriggsClassnotes Writers: Brian Longheier, ’00,

Luann Shepherd and Jake WeberDesigner: Susan Carol Rowe

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The unusual name for this publication comes from ayell written by members of the class of 1900. Thebeginning words of the yell, Io Triumphe, wereprobably borrowed from the poems of the Romanwriter, Horace. Some phrases were taken from othercollege yells and others from a Greek play presentedon campus during the period.

In 1936, the alumni of Albion College voted toname their magazine after the yell which by then hadbecome a College tradition. For years, Albionfreshmen have learned these lines by heart:

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F E A T U R E S

3 Working at the intersectionof art and life3 Artist’s profile:

David Middlebrook, ’664 Artist’s profile:

Karen Vournakis, ’666 Erasing the boundary between

art and nature7 Going digital

8 College receives $7-million fornew building projects

D E P A R T M E N T S

10 Around Campus

12 Scoreboard

13 Albionotes

30 Alumni Association News30 Lifetime Achievement Awards inaugu-

rated at Hall of Fame ceremony33 A look back at Homecoming 1999

Cover art: Time Graffiti, sculpture by David Middlebrook, ’66 (D. Middlebrook photo);Ferguson Building (MacLachlan, Cornelius and Filoni drawing); Karro gift celebration(D. Trumpie photo).

36 The Back PageAlumni experience ‘Liberal Arts at Work’

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Artist’s profile:David Middlebrook, ’66

Editor’s note: With this edition of Io Triumphe, we begin a series of articles aboutalumni achievements and new campus developments in the fine arts. This issuefocuses on the visual arts; future issues will deal with the literary and performing arts.We hope you enjoy this chance to savor the many ways the fine arts enrich our lives.

by Jake Weber

“I feel like going to the hospital only three times in 25years is not bad,” says David Middlebrook, ’66, discuss-ing one unique aspect of being an artist who measureshis supplies by the ton. Adds his fiancée Lita Ruble, “Hehas an uncanny sense of the engineering aspect of eachpiece . . . but frankly, I can’t bear to watch sometimes.”

Without even seeing it, one can marvel atMiddlebrook’s work for its sheer size. One of thenation’s most successful “site artists,” he has more than35 commissioned pieces to his credit. Among them: a19-foot-tall, 16-ton archway entrance to a two-acreamphitheater at Pueblo (CO) Community College; a7,000-square-foot marble installation in Sacramento’sRenaissance Tower (home to the California SupremeCourt); a three-ton stone mural for San Jose (CA)International Airport, and an in-progress 22-foot-highsculpture across from Stanford University that combinesreferences to Stonehenge with references to the Internet.

Yet, “imposing” is the last word Middlebrook, an artprofessor at San Jose State University, would use todescribe his work. “I’m trying to make work thatconnects with people,” he explains. “I challenge theirperception of things. My work always grows out ofsome understanding of the human condition, but I makeart that asks questions rather than answers them.”

In addition to working in his Californiastudio, Middlebrook is a sculptor-in-residence at Bottega Versiliese inPietrasanta, Italy. He has made two dozenextended visits there since 1983 to con-struct some of his largest works. “With theassistance of Italian craftsmen,” he says,“the execution of work of any scale ispossible in stone, steel and bronze. Theavailability of virtually every stone in theworld and the technology to fabricate isItaly’s great attraction.”

Though his designs clearly are contemporary,Middlebrook often finds inspiration in ancient worksfound on both sides of the Atlantic—he has beeninfluenced by sources asvaried as the Lascaux cavepaintings in France andPeru’s Machu Picchu. “I’mvery interested in the historyof human expression,” hesays, “and how people havesuch a tremendous need tomake marks.”

However, it wasMiddlebrook’s otherpassion, athletics, that firstconnected him to Albion.He had distinguishedhimself in high schoolathletics, playing footballand basketball, and his highschool track championshipsbrought him to the attentionof Albion College coachesCedric Dempsey, ’54, andElkin “Ike” Isaac, ’48.“I wanted to play basketballand run track, and knew I couldn’t do both at a bigschool,” says Middlebrook.

Dempsey, Isaac and visual arts professor VernonBobbitt would eventually become valued mentors,steering him through what he admits were some roughtimes academically. His artistic abilities were hissalvation on more than one occasion. He relates how he

once bartered a series of detailed anatomical drawingsfor some much-needed tutoring in biology. Those earlystruggles seem all the more ironic today, Middlebrookobserves, as he has lectured in university settingsworldwide.

He also vividly remembers an escapade that can onlybe described as a foreshadowing of his work today.

“[Some classmates and I] hot-wired a bulldozer, andstole the Rock,” he recalls of one wild Homecomingweekend. Middlebrook helped construct a ramp, theRock ended up on the front steps of the AdministrationBuilding and Seaton Hall ended up on social probation.“They couldn’t figure out who did it, but they knew itwas one of us,” says Middlebrook.

David Middlebrook’s art responds to the specific environment inwhich it is placed and is an attempt, he says, “to illustrate man’sdelicate and inevitable relationship to his environment and to thisplanet.” Pictured is Pi 3.14 at Pueblo (CO) Community College.

(continued on pp. 4-5)

Working at theintersectionof art and life

Ancient Shadows is a bas-relief created in a castconcrete bridge over a California highway. It is one of35 public and private commissions Middlebrook hascompleted since 1982.


Artist’s profile:Karen Vournakis, ’66by Sarah Briggs

Photographer Karen Vournakis, ’66, readily admits thatthe hard-hitting, “gritty” approach common in so muchcontemporary art just doesn’t suit her artistic style or heroutlook on life.

“Art to me is about life,” she says, “but I’m alwaysdrawn to [its] beautiful aspects.”

Vournakis’ search for the beauty in life has yieldedcreations that have brought her both personal satisfac-tion and widespread recognitionfrom her peers.

The hand-colored photographsthat are now her specialty have aluminosity and tranquility suggestiveof images from an earlier era, and infact, she is working in a tradition thatdates back to the mid-19th century.She begins with a black-and-whitephotograph she has shot and thenprinted on archival paper. Using thephotograph as a structure to build on,she applies transparent oil paints,toners, crayon and pencil directly onthe print.

“I begin by using a couple ofcolors from the original scene and then build on thecolor scheme around [my memory of the site],” sheexplains. “I use colors that are believable but notnecessarily color that was there.”

It’s a process that may take 6-10 hours depending onthe size of the photograph, and it results in a one-of-a-kind image. Though Vournakis might occasionally workwith the same photograph in different sizes, the color

rendering each time isunique. When she isfinished, she says, “insome cases, you can’teven tell there’s aphotograph under-neath.”

Because of herinterests in history andarchitecture, herrecent work hasfocused primarily onCharleston, the lovelyold South Carolinacity where she nowoperates a gallery and

studio, as well as on ancient andmodern sites in Greece and Italy.She chooses simple subjects thatilluminate an aspect of a time andplace that might otherwise beoverlooked—a collection of clayjars, a single chair, an architecturaldetail. By isolating and abstracting

her subjects, they take on new meaning, she says.Vournakis delights in finding a hidden story line in

her images—for instance, an empty porch chair immedi-ately prompts one to wonder about who has just left thatspot and who next will occupy it. In her renderings ofMediterranean ruins, she says, “my intention is torecapture the atmosphere of the original sites. . . . I amexploring the mystery that seems to haunt these longabandoned areas.”

Her works are highlypersonal—she choosessubjects that aremeaningful to her andhopes that her viewerswill share her apprecia-tion for the “beauty andintelligence” that shehas found in them.

In an artist’s state-ment she prepared for a

recent exhibition, Vournakis wrote: “Mycene, Knossosand Delphi are special to me, almost magical places. . . .Their equally powerful contribution to our Westernaesthetic sense has been an important area of inquiry forme in my continual development as a person and artist.By walking around the sites I better understand what theGreeks were about and what the Greek spirit meant inartistic terms.”

While Vournakis began her artistic career as a painterand printmaker, about 25 years ago she began combin-ing photography with printmaking and eventuallymoved almost entirely into doing photo still-lifes, or“painting with light,” as she describes it. However, shefound that hand-colored photography allowed a greaterrange of expression and also increased permanence forher work.

K. VOURNAKIS PHOTOS

Greek and Romanantiquities are amongKaren Vournakis’favorite subjects. Thisphotograph, entitledAncient Vessels, wasshot in Kos, Greece.

Fresh out of college, Middlebrook applied for afootball coaching job at rural North Adams (MI) HighSchool. When the school board asked him what he couldteach, he replied, “art.” On learning there was no artprogram at the tiny school, Middlebrook quicklyresponded, “Well, let’s start one.” He got the job.

Under Middlebrook’s guidance, his students staged asculpture exhibit at the end of the fall semester, and thefootball team posted its first-ever undefeated season.The experience convinced him he was meant to teach.He headed to graduate school at the University of Iowaand a few years later wound up in California.

“I realized I had to get a [college] teaching job, [soI could] continue to be true to my research and not becommercial about my artwork,” notes Middlebrook.“I don’t teach from a reference point of something Ilearned 15 years ago. . . . My teaching is completely anoutgrowth of my daily art activities. I often load up mytruck with just exactly what I did yesterday, and . . .share it with my students the next day.”

This gift for fusing teaching and art has also madeMiddlebrook much in demand as a visiting artist. He hasspent a full year teaching at both the University of Natalin South Africa and the University of Newcastle inAustralia, and has had shorter stints at numerousinstitutions in the U.S.

Middlebrook does not simply teach, but involves hisstudents in his craft—shaping and polishing, assemblingfinished pieces, and wrestling components around thestudio (Middlebrook drives the forklift).

“I try to get my assistants as emotionally and spiritu-ally involved as I can, so they’re really a part of it fromthe aesthetic point of view,” he explains. “To havesomebody else do the parts that I would do if I hadenough arms and legs, I have to make them a part of thethought process. . . . This isn’t a factory.”

Artist’s profile:David Middlebrook, ’66(continued from p. 3)

(Left) Alien was constructed of onyx, serpentine andtravertine.


Though she refined her skills in graduate school atSyracuse University, Vournakis says her broad apprecia-tion for art and history was first cultivated at Albion.

“In order to be a good artist,” she observes, “I feelone should be well educated. You have to understandwhat has come before, what humankind has been about,before you can make your own comments through art.”

She appreciates the inspiration and encouragementshe received from visual arts faculty members such asVernon Bobbitt and Paul Stewart, ’53, when she was

struggling to combine the roles ofstudent, wife and mother to an infantson.

“Vernon Bobbitt instilled a passionabout art [in his students],” she recalls.“He was an excellent teacher who drewthe best out of people.”

After spending most of her career inthe Northeast, Vournakis relocated fouryears ago to South Carolina and wasable to fulfill her dream of opening herown studio and gallery. Trade at hergallery, tucked in among antique and giftshops in Charleston’s historic district,has been brisk, and she has also had anumber of commissions from individu-als and organizations in the area. She haswon major awards in Charleston’sannual Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor ArtExhibition, as wellas in a LowcountryArts Council ArtExhibition, and herpiece, The Piazza,was featured on thecover of theCharleston PlaceMagazine and on aposter published by

the New York Graphic Society.Since 1994, she has had soloexhibitions at galleries in Savannah,Charleston, the New England

College of Art, the Greek Embassy in Washington, DC,and Albion College.

While continuing to work in hand-colored photogra-phy, Vournakis is experimenting with some large,“fresco-like” works that break the image of ancient sitesinto segments “suggesting the disparity of present-dayreality and our understanding of past cultures.” She isalso pursuing some new directions in her art, includinggiclée, which is a variation on the printmaking processusing the computer.

Her technique may change over time but her desire todepict the human experience—how we interact with andmake sense of our surroundings—will remain a constantin her work, she says. “Art is everywhere . . . art isn’tsomething that is just made in the studio. . . . It’s amatter of perception and seeing art in life.”

Karen Munro Vournakis earned B.F.A. and M.F.Adegrees at Syracuse University and has taught at

Syracuse, ColgateUniversity andDartmouth College.Her work appears inmuseum collectionsat BibliothèqueNationale in Paris,the Everson Museumof Art in Syracuseand elsewhere, andin corporatecollections includingKidder Peabody &Co. in New York, theColonnade Hotel inBoston and theGreek Embassy inWashington, DC.She is married toJohn Vournakis, ’61,and they have a son,Christopher.

(Right) Vournakis is currentlyworking on a series of photographsdepicting facades from historicCharleston buildings.

Vournakis’ work, The Piazza, which is a view of the Jenkins-Mikel Housein Charleston, SC, has been featured on the cover of Charleston PlaceMagazine and on a poster published by the New York Graphic Society.

After earning M.A. and M.F.A. degreesat the University of Iowa, DavidMiddlebrook joined the School of Artand Design at San Jose State University

where he is now professor of art and director of finearts. In addition to his numerous commissioned works ofsculpture for public and corporate clients, he has hadexhibitions at the Corporate Contemporary Center inSacramento and the American/Jewish Cultural Center inJerusalem, Israel and at galleries and museums in SanJose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago andScottsdale, AZ. He has two sons and a daughter.

And despite the fact that he hasalready had a career that can by anystandards be considered highly success-ful, Middlebrook has no intention ofslowing down. “When you get to acertain developmental stage, you can seepossibilities in absolutely anything,” hesays. “Your eye gets better, your mindgets sharper, your sensibility getsbroader . . . and all of a sudden, there’sno limit. It’s a wonderful liberation.”

Florentine Riviera, in Sacramento’s Renaissance Tower, is Middlebrook’s most comprehensiveinstallation to date. It consists of 270 linear feet of 12-foot-high walls and 3,500 square-feet offlooring in Italian marble. Depicting the geological and visual history of an ancient river bed, “thispiece,” Middlebrook explains, “was built to celebrate Sacramento’s rich, historical relationship toriver life.”


Erasing the boundarybetween art and nature

In one class session, for instance, thestudents debated the merits of Christo’sSurrounded Islands, a contemporary workin which islands in Florida’s Biscayne Baywere wrapped with huge sheets of pinkplastic. Considered highly innovative in artistic circleswhen it was created in the 1980s, it also prompted wide-spread environmental protests and even court challenges.The students not only considered Surrounded Islands as apiece of art but evaluated the public outcry against it. Laterthey were asked to write a paper on what their responsewould be if Christo had proposed an environmentalinstallation in their home town. Given what they knewabout his other works, would they support or oppose theproject?

“[In this course,] theprofessor doesn’t teachyou what to think,” saysclass member AnalisaVelasquez. “You have tothink for yourself. Thiswas my first experiencewith exploring [suchcomplex issues] formyself.”

The course alsorepresented a first stepfor the students inappreciating “thetransforming power ofart,” Wickre maintains.“I hope they’ll neverlook at a piece of artagain without thinkingabout its meaning.”

And what happenswhen art conflicts withscience? Carrier, abiologist who is deeplyconcerned about habitatdestruction, saysstudents must understandthat “environmental art

extends beyond the artistic statement itself,” and that artistsmust address the ethical questions raised by their creations.He pondered with the students whether artists have theright to significantly change the environment for their ownpurposes, a key issue given the huge scale of manyenvironmental art works. They also explored the ecologicalrisks posed by some materials used in these projects and thecosts associated with disposal.

The “classroom” for the course actually extended to thescience lab, the computer lab and the Internet, as well assuch locations as Native American burial mounds in Ohioand Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.After these experiences, the students were asked to createtheir own environmental art installation.

Bille Wickre (left), one of the instructors for a new first-year seminar on Artin the Environment, “catches a wave” with her students at Maya Lin’senvironmental sculpture, Wave Field, in Ann Arbor. The visit, Wickre says,showed students that art doesn’t always have to sit on a pedestal or hang ona museum wall.

“Doing these projects asked the students to take theideas that they had read about and seen firsthand and applythem,” Wickre says. “It challenged them to go through thewhole artistic process in its biggest, broadest sense.”

Working in teams of five, they first had to develop aconcept, locate a suitable site for their work and record thesite with a digital camera. Beginning with that digitalimage, they then used the computer to design their artworkin its actual environment.

The students quickly found that the projects tested muchmore than their creativity. Identifying common goals andreaching consensus on a plan of action were at least asdifficult. As Carrier explains, the exercise taught thestudents “to be truly collaborative, to incorporate the ideasof others, to reconcile differences, and to recognize whencompromise can build strength.”

“These are attributes that often take lifetimes tocultivate,” he adds. “We asked our students to developthem in their first college semester.”

The students had to carefully examine the environmen-tal impact and costs of their projects, checking for toxicityof materials used and looking at energy consumption andother factors as they constructed their pieces.

And for an added dose of realism, they had to seeksupport for their projects from a panel of faculty thatincluded artists, scientists, philosophers and politicalscientists. After further refining their proposals, thestudents then sought permission from the president’sexecutive council to use College space for their installa-tions. Through this process, they began to understand theobstacles that environmental artists often face—and theresponsibilities they must accept—in mounting their works.

Wickre admits that the course was demanding, espe-cially for first-year students, but she makes no apologies.

“The first-year seminars have to be an introduction tocollege. They have to set a standard. . . . Our expectationshave to be high.” And she says the students respondedenthusiastically. “They were so open to ideas . . . willing totry anything.”

The course was “a challenge and a stretch” for thefaculty too, Carrier says. For a biologist to team-teach acourse in a field outside his expertise sent an importantmessage to his students, he thinks. “There is a certain riskto teaching out of one’s comfort zone, [but] how can weask students to take risks if we refuse to do the same?”

The professors’ willingness to attempt something new—and on occasion to become “students” again themselves—also made it clear that learning doesn’t stop with collegegraduation.

Concludes Wickre, “I think these first-year seminars aregoing to radically change how our students think abouteducation.”

—S. Briggs

It wasn’t until Albion professors Bille Wickre and JeffCarrier saw their students slip off their shoes and play onand around Maya Lin’s environmental sculpture, WaveField, that they knew their first-year seminar on Art in theEnvironment was going to be a success. In the weeksbefore they visited Lin’s installation at the University ofMichigan, the students had struggled with the wholeconcept of “environmental art.” Now, as they ran up anddown the earthen “waves” Lin had designed, the abstractbecame concrete.

“At that moment,” Wickre says, “they started to seewhat art meant in an environment—it let you know thepotential of the earth and the joys of our interactions withit. . . . It was a major breakthrough for all of the students.”

While Lin’s work encourages playful interaction, someenvironmental art has promptednothing but controversy. In thecourse, Wickre, an art historian,reminded her students that forcenturies humans have workedwith, even reshaped, theirsurroundings for artistic orsacred ritual purposes—prehistoric cave paintings andthe Egyptian pyramids are casesin point. “Artists have alwaysinteracted with the naturalenvironment,” Wickre explains,whether it’s for the materialsthey’ve used, the subjectsthey’ve represented or the sitesthey’ve chosen.

What’s new in environmentalart today is that more than everbefore the artists are incorporat-ing the environment as anintegral part of their work.Often these installations enhancethe natural setting, but onoccasion they have producedunintended results, includingserious environmental damage—which in turn has provokedpublic reaction ranging from bewilderment to outrightanger.

Not surprisingly, in teaching about such unconventionalsubject matter, Wickre and Carrier, along with seniorteaching assistant Kim Hoogerhyde, chose to take anunconventional approach. Determined to create a learningcommunity with their students, the professors rarelylectured. Instead, they focused on class discussions andgroup projects that challenged the students to formulatetheir own opinions about environmental art and the role ofenvironmental artists.

J. CARRIER PHOTO

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Students Autumn Dodge, Chad Thompson, Nathan Meffert,and Vicky Wojkowski produced this sculpture as part oftheir first-year seminar, Art in the Environment. EntitledEmbracing Diversity, it depicts a human form covered witha map of the world and was installed on the campusquadrangle.

The following articles about some innovative new visual arts courses continueour exploration of “the intersection of art and life.”


Going digitalConsider this intriguing variation on an art classassignment:Create a self-portrait that includes visual cluesabout you, your interests, aspirations andthoughts. Use the digital camera to photographmultiple views of yourself and create acomposite from head to toe. Transfer thoseimages to the computer. Use the flatbedscanner to capture additional informationincluding original drawings, personal photo-graphs, textures, objects and found text. Yourimage must be printed out on three separatesheets of paper both to increase the scale andto heighten the distinctions of the body portionschosen for each. The body parts can be alignedfrom one sheet to the next or intentionallydisjointed. Provide an environment for eachsection.

That’s just one of the exercises that Albionvisual arts professor Anne McCauley uses inher Introduction to Computer Art class toinspire creativity and teach the basics of digitalart-making at the same time. Later in thecourse, the students create a “visual haiku,”adapting the Japanese poetic form to a differentmedium, and, in another project, depict their“essential tools” and how those are important intheir lives. Each assignment is designed toincrease the students’ sophistication with thecomputer software while challenging themartistically.

First and foremost, McCauley insists, “this is a classabout generating ideas.” The computer is simply anothertool for helping students develop as artists. Rather thanfeeling intimidated by the technology, the students shouldbecome as comfortable using the computer as they mightbe using a brush on canvas. “They should be the navigatorin this process, rather thanthe passenger,” McCauleysays.

Albion’s course oncomputer art, which willbecome a requirement forall visual arts majorsstarting next fall, is areflection of the growingimportance—and accep-tance—of digital media inthe artistic communitytoday. Whole new genres ofart are being developedwith the aid of computer,video and other technolo-gies. To give just oneexample, a widely heraldedexhibit now at the ArtInstitute of Chicagofeatures documentary-stylevideo imagery by BillViola, who pioneered thisart form in the 1970s.Increasingly, traditionalmethods of art-making arealso being combined withdigital media in ways thatexpand the impact of both

the old and the new tech-niques. To become skilledartists, McCauley says,students should have aworking knowledge of thesenew technologies both tocreate their own works and toappreciate what is happeningin the art world in general.Beyond that, this technicalknow-how givesthem an edge inthe search foremploymentafter graduation.

To keepabreast of themovement todigital media,

Albion’s Visual Arts Department has recentlyinstalled a new computer art lab, equippedwith Macintosh computers, flatbed andtransparency scanners, digital cameras for stillphotography and video, and a color printer.There is also a work station available fordigital video editing.

Using the computer as an artmedium has a number of advan-tages. “The computer gives studentsmany more options to express theirideas,” McCauley says. It becomes ahigh-tech “sketchpad” wherestudents can play with differentconcepts. And while they aredeveloping a new piece, thecomputer also allows for experimen-tation, such as adding and subtract-ing elements or manipulating imagesize and orientation, far more easilythan traditional media.

In teaching the computer artcourse, McCauley encourages herstudents to work through questionsand challenges together—both in group brain-storming sessions and in informal problem-solving as they work on their projects. The labhas become a “productive environment,” shesays, promoting collaboration and idea-sharing.

The computer has found its way into tradi-tional studio courses—it’s used regularly in thepreparatory phases of printmaking and, inphotography, to integrate and manipulate imagesin ways that change both appearance and content.Now, the interest in computer-based art hasspawned a number of new course offerings.

Next spring, McCauley will team-teach a new course onVisual Poetry with English professor and poet Lisa Chavez.In one project, students will write poetry and then willcombine typography and technology to depict their workgraphically—“to create a visual presence for the poem,” asMcCauley puts it. Such a visualization, she explains,becomes another means of communicating the underlyingmeaning in the poetry.

With the assistance of the 1999-2000 Philip CurtisVisiting Artist, Erika Leppmann, visual arts professor

Lynne Chytilo next semesterwill offer a new course onvideo-based art. She andLeppmann will lead the classin developing a videoinstallation that will beexhibited on campus inMarch.“There is an increasinginterest in video on campus,”Chytilo says, “and, withErika’s visit, the timing of thisnew course couldn’t havebeen better.”

The uses of digitaltechnology aren’t limited tostudio art courses. In hisinterdisciplinary first-yearseminar, Creation andCriticism in the Visual Arts,professor Frank Machek hasstudents examine the creativeprocess through assignmentsthat are computer-based.“For students who might beintimidated by traditionaldrawing and painting pro-cesses,” he says, “. . . thecomputer can be a liberatingtool.” Likewise, in teaching anHonors Institute course onGreat Issues in Fine Arts,English professor and filmcritic Paul Loukides has made

films and film-making a central feature and has providedhands-on experience with videography and digital editing.

Anne McCauley believes that this exposure to emergingtechnologies will encourage students to be open to usingother new tools in the future. And they will be free toexplore many different avenues for artistic expression.“The more capabilities artists have,” she observes, “themore readily they see that they can take their ideas andapproach them in a multitude of ways.”

—S. Briggs

The accompanying artwork all was created in the fall 1999Introduction to Computer Art class.

(Above) Devices ofExistence, an eight-pageartist’s book created byJennifer Septic. (Detail atleft.)

Miracle Hurley, Vulnerable.

Jeremiah Newsome, Sleep, Fleshly Birth.

Nicholas Oleszczuk, Impact.

Going digital


Albion College receives giftstotalling $7-million for

student services buildingand student residence

by Jim Klapthor and Sarah Briggs

Student, Technologyand Administrative ServicesCenter named for Ferguson

“The William C. FergusonBuilding recognizes andcelebrates the multiple andkey roles Bill Ferguson hasplayed at the College,” saidAlbion College PresidentPeter Mitchell. The recipientof an honorary doctor of lawsdegree from Albion, Fergusonchaired the Board of Trusteesfrom 1989 to 1996 and servedas acting president andvisiting professor in fall 1995.He and his wife Joyce are alsothe parents of three daughters,including Ellen Keleman, ’80,and Joanne Szeparowycz, ’89.

“Joyce and I are delightedto assist with this projectbecause we believe

it benefits the entire campus community andwill help Albion in its quest to become aleader among the nation’s best liberal artscolleges,” said Bill Ferguson. “Clearly, weneed to bring academic, student and otheradministrative services together in onelocation.”

The four-story, 48,000-square-footFerguson Building, to be located onthe former site of the College’sAdministration Building (dottedoutline on map), will house student,technology and administrativeservices. Its traditional design willharmonize with the other architectureon the campus quadrangle.

Albion College’s desire to provide students with state-of-the-art services in an accessible, centralized locationwill be achieved through thegenerosity of William, ’52,and Joyce Ferguson, who inOctober donated $4-milliontoward the construction of anew student, technology andadministrative servicesbuilding.

This gift will fund approxi-mately 50 percent of theoverall construction costs ofthe building, to be named inhonor of Bill Ferguson. Thebalance will be covered byprivate contributions beingsolicited as part of theCollege’s new Vision forenhancing liberal arts educa-tion. Construction is expectedto begin in fall 2000 on thecampus quadrangle.

The four-story, 48,000-square-foot building willoccupy the site of the previousAdministration Building thatwas torn down in summer1998. (Since 1998, administrative offices have beentemporarily housed in the Epworth Building.) A numberof the architectural details from the old structure,originally built as the Gassette Memorial Library, havebeen preserved and will be incorporated into the newstudent services center. A traditional red-brick designwill ensure that the new building harmonizes with theexisting architecture on the quadrangle.

In addition toproviding offices forthe Academic Affairsand Student Affairsdivisions, the buildingwill include sophisti-cated informationtechnology servicesfor students andfaculty, includingtechnology-enhancedclassrooms and state-of-the-art computerlaboratories.

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William, ’52, and Joyce Ferguson

MacLACHLAN, CORNELIUS AND FILONI DRAWING

Bill Ferguson retired in April 1995 as chairman andchief executive officer of the international telecommuni-cations firm, NYNEX, now merged with Bell Atlantic.He continues to be active on the College’s Board ofTrustees, as well as on the boards of Bestfoods,EIRCOM, Greenwich Street Capital, and Corn Products.Although not an Albion College graduate, JoyceFerguson has been an energetic and enthusiasticsupporter of Albion for many years.

Previous gifts from the Fergusons have supported theinstallation of a new dance studio during the 1988renovation of Kresge Gymnasium and the establishmentin 1997 of an endowment for the Center for Technology-Aided Teaching, which advances the use of technologyin teacher education. They have also created endow-ments for the dance program, Whitehouse NatureCenter, and scholarships in education, music andprofessional management.


Karro gift will provideapartment-style studenthousingA connection dating back over six decades has provedworthy of a $3-million contribution, made in October to

Albion College inmemory of alumna MaeHarrison Karro, ’31, byher husband, Roy Karro.The gift will go towardthe construction of anew apartment-styleresidence village forstudents.

“Roy Karro’s giftreflects the wonderfulsense of family thatundergirds AlbionCollege,” said PresidentPeter Mitchell, “andaffirms that MaeKarro’s alma mater

continues to be committed to academic excellence andto transforming the lives of its students.

“How appropriate and thoughtful for Roy Karro tohonor his wife and Albion College in such a creative andstudent-centered manner.”

According to Sally Walker, vice president for studentaffairs, the residence village will provide students moreindependent living options. Currently, Albion College

A bust of philanthropist and DowChemical Co. executive Carl Gerstacker

was unveiled at a special ceremonyon campus Oct. 22. Gerstacker, who passed away in1995, served for many years as chairman of theAlbion College Board of Trustees. Created bysculptor Ed Chesney (second from left), the bust wascommissioned by Roy Karro (far right). Also picturedare Gerstacker’s wife, Esther, and her son, BillSchuette.

Albion’s Liberal Arts Institute for ProfessionalManagement is named in Gerstacker’s honor, as is thecommons area in the Kellogg Center. The Gerstackerfamily also funded construction of the College’sInternational House.

“Carl Gerstacker provided gifted leadership forAlbion College as our board chairman and gavegenerously of his personal resources for many Collegeprojects through the years,” notes President PeterMitchell. “I know how proud he was to have his nameassociated with the professional management programwhich so clearly reflects his commitment to preparingyoung people for the workplace and the world. Thisbust, located at the entrance to the Gerstacker Instituteoffices, will offer a continual reminder of his contri-butions to and affection for Albion College.”

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A $3-million gift from Roy Karro (back row, center) was announced with the help of the cheerleading squad duringthe Family Day football game, Oct. 30. The gift, made in memory of Karro’s wife, Mae Harrison Karro, ’31, willfund the construction of an apartment-style residence village at Albion. President Peter Mitchell and his wife Beckyare shown at right.

has two apartment-style residences, Burns StreetApartments and Briton House, both popular amongstudents.

“This new alternative in student housing will behighly attractive to students currently on campus,”Walker noted, “and it should also assist us in bringingnew students to Albion.”

Construction of the new residence village will becompleted by fall 2001. It will bear Mae Karro’s name.

“Albion College meant a great deal to my wife,” saidRoy Karro. “She spoke with great fondness of herstudent days on campus. I am pleased that her memorywill live on at Albion in such an enduring way.”

This generous gift of Karro’s was preceded by hiscommissioning of a bust of Carl Gerstacker, a formertrustee at Albion College, mounted outside the offices ofthe Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute for ProfessionalManagement (see below). Karro has also established anendowed scholarship at the College in memory of hiswife.

Roy Karro is a retired vice president of SalomonSmith Barney and a resident of Southfield. Mae Karro,who was involved in Panhellenic Council and women’ssports as an Albion student, worked in private industryafter graduation and then was a homemaker followingher marriage.

Roy Karro


A R O U N D C A M P U S

Four join Board of Trustees

Brumfiel chosenas national SigmaXi lecturerAlbion College anthropologist ElizabethBrumfiel has earned international recognitionfor her archaeological research on Aztecculture. Now, she’s preparing to take thatexpertise “on the road” as a Sigma XiDistinguished Lecturer for 2000-2001.

Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi, The ScientificResearch Society is a non-profit membershipsociety that supports scientific research andresearch education, both in industry andacademia. The Sigma Xi College of Distin-guished Lecturers is comprised of approxi-mately 20 researchers who share theirknowledge through public lectures at SigmaXi chapters nationwide. The lecturers areselected annually from Sigma Xi’s member-ship of 80,000 scientists and engineers.

“I love getting audiences excited about thethings that I’m excited about,” says Brumfiel,who has spent many years studying Aztecreligion and its relationship to state power,Aztec resource use and its relationship to statepolicies, and gender roles in the ancient city

News in briefAs reported in the fall 1999 Io Triumphe,Albion students Kaitlyn Kelly and MackenzieWheeler ran in the Chicago Marathon inOctober while also raising funds to purchaseplayground equipment for a local elementaryschool. Their sponsors contributed over$2,600 for the Crowell School project.Kelly finished the race 22nd among womenin her age category with a time of 3:19:20.Though injured, Wheeler also completed themarathon.

of Teotihuacan. “Doing archaeologicalresearch is like a good detective novel, andI enjoy telling the tale.”

Brumfiel, who holds the John S. LudingtonTrustees’ Professorship, notes that the honorof the lectureship also goes beyond demon-strating her scholarship. “I want to show thatwomen can be active field archaeologists . . .and that faculty at teaching institutions canalso be first-class researchers,” she explains.“Finally, I like communicating a positiveimage of Albion College to the wider world.”

–J. Weber

The following individuals have been named tothe Albion College Board of Trustees:■■ John Ellinger, ’66, has been Lansingdistrict superintendent for the UnitedMethodist Church (UMC) since 1996, and heis also a member of the Board of OrdainedMinisters of the West Michigan AnnualConference. Previously, he served UMCparishes in Holland, Albion, Lansing,Kalamazoo, Jackson and Poughkeepsie, NY.He holds a master’s degree from the PerkinsSchool of Theology at Southern MethodistUniversity. Ellinger represents the church’sWest Michigan Conference on the Albionboard.■■ Thomas Ludington, ’76, is a judge for the42nd Circuit Court in Midland. A graduate of

the University of San Diego School of Lawand of the General Jurisdictional Program ofthe National Judicial College, he wasassociated with the Midland law firm ofCurrie and Kendall from 1980 to 1995.Currently he serves on the boards of SaginawValley State University, the MidlandFoundation and the Rollin M. GerstackerFoundation.■■ Anjali Thakur, ’99, works as a programassistant for the National Partnership forWomen and Families in Washington, DC.While at Albion, she was a member of theGerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policy andService and served on Student Senate. Thakuris one of two young-alumni representatives onthe board.■■ James Wilson, ’77, has served as directorof the Institute for Human Gene Therapy andJohn Herr Musser Professor of Molecular andCellular Engineering at the University ofPennsylvania since 1993. Earlier in his career,he held several medical research posts at theUniversity of Michigan, including chief of theDivision of Molecular Medicine and Genetics.The author of over 160 journal articles, heholds M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from theUniversity of Michigan.

A new mural has been created in downtown Albion as part of the Smart Community initiativelaunched in May 1999. With funding and other assistance from the 4-H program, AlbionCommunity Foundation, Albion Volunteer Service Center and local businesses, area childrenworked on the mural with Kellogg Foundation Artist-in-Residence Rennick Stevenson. Themural reflects the children’s view of Albion, depicting people, scenes and ideas they believe areimportant in community life. (See the preceeding article for more on the Smart Communityproject.)

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Thakur Wilson

Ellinger Ludington


Mitchell receives leadership grantAlbion College and President Peter Mitchellwere recipients of an early Christmas giftDec. 8: the Knight Foundation awardedAlbion a $150,000 Presidential LeadershipGrant to encourage “creative leadership aimedat strengthening [the] institution for thefuture.”

Mitchell was particularly commended forenhancing the College’s relationship with theGreater Albion community.

“Colleges and universities around thenation are reexamining their roles andresponsibilities as local and regional citizens,”the foundation said in making the award.“Albion College is distinguished among thatgroup by the openness, energy, imagination,dedication and collaborative spirit with whichit has pursued highly complementary campusand community visions for the future. . . .[Mitchell’s leadership] is most evident in thesense of future potential and commitment toact that he has inspired in Albion’s campuscommunity, constituents and neighbors.

“Town and college together envision afuture as ‘Michigan’s Smart Community’ andare set on a course to become national leadersin small-town development.”

Albion was one of five institutions toreceive a leadership grant this year. Use of thefunds is left to the discretion of the collegepresident with the expectation that the grantwill be used for the institution’s long-termbenefit. Grant recipients are identified directlyby the foundation from among a group of 150national liberal arts colleges; there is noapplication process.

“The Knight Foundation award,” Mitchellsaid, “will be used to support the Vision andin particular to bring three new facultypositions on line a year ahead of schedule sothat we can be even more aggressive inimplementing the interdisciplinary first-yearseminars. The timing of the award is mostfortuitous because it supports the specialmagic that occurs when Albion students andfaculty collaborate in the teaching andlearning process.”

Other colleges receiving 1999 grantsinclude Goshen College (IN), GustavusAdolphus College (MN), Morehouse College(GA) and Salem College (NC).

Established in 1950, the Miami-basedJohn S. and James L. Knight Foundationmakes national grants in journalism, educationand arts and culture.

Model U.N. team wins awardsAlbion’s Model United Nations delegationwas named one of the top five delegations, outof 50 colleges and universities that attended aNovember Model U.N. conference inChicago.

In addition, students Stephen Pontoni andChristopher Moore were recognized as thebest National Security Council delegation fortheir representation of Canada, and TaraMeadows won the Best Advocate Award inthe International Court of Justice.

All of the awards are determined by a peervote.

“Each person in a delegation attendsvarious committee meetings,” Pontoni told theAlbion College Pleiad. “In these meetings, thestudents debate and try to find resolutions tothe world’s problems as their country would.”

In preparation for their role as theCanadian delegation, the students werebriefed by Dennis Moore, ’70, who is a staffmember at the Canadian consulate in Detroit.


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Ameritech grantboosts high-techlearningby Jim Klapthor

Ameritech this fall granted Albion College$10,000 to develop the Internet learningcapabilities of elementary school instructorsand College students preparing for teachingcareers.

The grant will fund a pilot projectproviding both in-service and pre-serviceelementary teachers with the technical skillsneeded to create and incorporate Internetmedia into their instruction, according toReuben Rubio, director of Albion’s FergusonCenter for Technology-Aided Teaching.

“The goal is to give our students realexperience in making decisions about whatdoes or doesn’t make good software forteaching and learning mathematics,” saidRubio. In that way, students “can make sounddecisions about how to effectively integratesoftware—designed by themselves orothers—into their curriculum.”

In addition, the participating elementaryteachers will create Web-based materialsaddressing math proficiency expectations setforth by the Michigan Department ofEducation, according to Rubio. The materials

‘See you at the movies’by Jake Weber

will be specifically used in conjunction with aclassroom at the city of Albion’s CrowellElementary School, but also will be availableto teachers worldwide via a project Web site.

After the pilot program is completed andevaluated, it will be extended to otheracademic areas and other higher educationinstitutions.

“The best investment we can make is inour children,” said Bob Cooper, president ofAmeritech Michigan. “We at Ameritech arethrilled to help teachers tap into the power ofthe Internet to create the classrooms oftomorrow today.”

The program will involve approximately30 Albion College students enrolled in theCollege’s education program as well as 20 in-service teachers and 25 elementary students.With an average of 25 children in eachelementary class in the Albion Public Schools,this program could realistically result in over1,200 elementary students annually benefitingfrom this effort.

This Ameritech program, administered bythe 19-member Michigan Colleges Founda-tion, is another example of the commitmentAlbion College is making to advancetechnology-aided teaching.

Ameritech is the premier provider ofcommunications services in the UpperMidwest, with 13 million customers and morethan 21 million access lines across Illinois,Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.


Robin Hartman’s article [Io Triumphe, Fall1999] extolling the career of Fritz Shurmur, ’54,as an exceptional football coach overshadowshis years at Albion College as its men’s swimcoach. When I came to Albion in 1957 andjoined the swim team, we had a nucleus ofvery good swimmers who came out of theMichigan high school swim powers of themid-’50s. With Fritz as our coach, we

completed the next few seasons as undefeatedMIAA champions.

I remember some of our zany swimmerantics and Fritz’s exasperation during ourannual road tour of outstate swim meets. . . .We all well remember that toothy grin whenwe won all of those meets—we were forgivenand Fritz still had his job.

Colin Stafford, ’61, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Tune in to ‘Jeopardy!’ Feb. 7-18The answer is: This Albion College student is a member of the Ford Institute and HonorsInstitute, hails from Lapeer and carries a 3.98 grade point average.

If your response is, “Who is Kurt Medland?,” you’re right.

Junior Kurt Medland will represent AlbionCollege during “Jeopardy! College Champi-onship Week,” Feb. 7-18. He is one of only 15college students participating in this specialedition of the popular television game show,and was chosen from more than 10,000students requesting an audition.

Medland e-mailed his audition request tothe show’s producers last summer. Shortlyafterwards he was asked to audition inIndianapolis where he impressed the “Jeop-ardy!” producers enough to receive aninvitation to join the college championships.

“I’m really looking forward to it,”Medland says of his pending nationaltelevision appearance. “People have told mefor years I should do something like this [beon “Jeopardy!”].”

“It’s still like a big dream.”Medland will have to squeeze in his

preparation for “Jeopardy!” with his regularstudies on campus. In addition to his involve-ment with the Ford and Honors Institutes,Medland is also working with anthropologyprofessor Elizabeth Brumfiel catalogingIndian artifacts found in the WhitehouseNature Center.

Taping for the show at the ColumbiaTriStar studios in Culver City, CA, will takeplace Jan. 15-16. Medland is guaranteed toplay one of five games to be taped the firstday. A special videotaped greeting fromPresident Peter Mitchell and several hundredAlbion students is also slated to air duringMedland’s appearance.

–J. Klapthor

L E T T E R S T O T H E E D I T O R

Weddings, funerals, birthdays, graduations—all are important cultural events, nowheremore so than in the movies. Yet, notes Albionprofessor of English Paul Loukides, “[movie]weddings are not particularly happy occa-sions. Birthday parties are often awful. . . .There are exceptions, but mostly there’s asense of loss, fatigue, anything but transcen-dence to a higher state.”

The tension between real-life ritualoccasions and their film counterpartsfascinates Loukides, so much so that he co-authored a book on the subject, Reel Rituals:Ritual Occasions from Baptisms to Funerals,published earlier this year by Bowling GreenState University Popular Press. Reel Ritualstakes Loukides’ anthropological, sociologicaland philosophical research of rituals andapplies that study to film analysis.

Loukides has spent much of his careerstudying the extent to which film reflects theculture that produced it. Before Reel Rituals,he co-edited a five-volume series, Beyond theStars, that explores the characters, conven-tions and themes of American popular film.Film is a “democratic art,” he says, and meritsconsideration not only as a communicationsmedium but as an art form. “Film” he argues,“has the dimensions of what we want from anartistic experience—depth of craft and depthof meaning.”

His ideas may not seem controversialtoday, but there was a time when his interestin popular film would have been met withderision and disbelief in many academiccircles. Loukides, who retired at the end of thefall semester, leaves behind a legacy of notonly developing film studies offerings forAlbion College, but helping to establish thestudy of film and of popular culture asaccepted academic disciplines.

Loukides joined Albion’s English facultyin 1962, his arrival on campus closelycoinciding with that of the first wave of BabyBoomers. He realized that higher educationneeded to address the orientation as well asthe culture of this “media generation.”

“It seemed to me that film ought to be asubject taught in small liberal arts colleges,”Loukides explains. After all, he says, manyliterary works that are now considered classicswere originally written for a broad popularaudience. Why shouldn’t great films deservesimilar attention, especially since a strongcase can be made that film is the art form ofthe 20th century?

He found like-minded scholars in thenewly formed Popular Culture Association.“I was part of a group . . . that invented thefield of popular film studies,” says Loukides,who has been an active leader in the associa-tion for more than 30 years. “That was prettyexciting.”

Today, the film studies field has expandedto the point where it is represented on nearlyevery college and university campus.

While he has developed a number ofcourses devoted to film and film-making,Loukides occasionally uses film in othercourses he teaches, such as Great Issues in theFine Arts, to explore the role of the artist andthe arts in society.

“His knowledge of film in general and thehistory of World War II in particular was astrong complement to my own interests andcapabilities,” says Albion historian GeoffreyCocks, who teamed up with Loukides to teacha course on Film Images of World War IIseveral times during the past 15 years. “Paulis also the author of one of the single beststatements about war films I have ever heard.In characterizing those wartime and postwarfilms that glorify combat for patriotic reasonsand leave out the suffering and physicalugliness of war, Paul observed, ‘It’s one ofthose films where lots of people get killed andnobody gets hurt.’”

His interest in film notwithstanding,Loukides has also nurtured and advisednumerous aspiring writers as a teacher ofcreative writing at Albion. “He always knewwhen to push and when to give me time to trysomething else,” says Aimee Mepham, ’99, anM.F.A. candidate in creative writing atIndiana University. “He also helped me figureout what to do with my life as a writer.”

While most of Loukides’ own writing overthe past several years has been devoted toscholarly articles and books, he now looksforward to the chance to get back to somefiction of his own. He is some 50 pages intowhat he estimates will be an 800-page novelon the life of 19th-century Americanballoonist John Wise. An antiques collector,Loukides came upon a copy of The Historyand Practice of Aeronautics, published byWise in 1850, at an auction.

“It’s about how to make your own balloon,how to make hydrogen gas, everything,”laughs Loukides. “And [Wise] is not a badwriter. I read the book and thought, ‘This isgreat stuff. This is somebody I’d really love towrite about.’” In preparation for the novel,over the years Loukides has also doneextensive research into 19th-century technol-ogy and took a sabbatical to follow some ofWise’s travels through New England.

Along with his novel, Loukides also hopesto devote more time to his interests inphotography, pottery and antiques restoration.And without a doubt you’ll be seeing him atthe movies.

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Paul Loukides


S C O R E B O A R D

Women golfers,football squad topthe leagueby Robin Hartman

Albion College is a member of the MichiganIntercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA)and NCAA Division III.

Women’s golf: It’s an understatement tosay Albion won its first MIAA championshipin women’s golf in convincing fashion. Infact, the league race wasn’t even close.

Despite not having a home golf match,Albion under coach Karen Baird almostlapped the field, winning the team title by 113strokes over runnerup Hope College. In theprocess, the Britons finished first for six of theseven rounds, including the last five. The347.7-stroke average for seven rounds is anAlbion single-season record.

Juniors Melissa Hall and Katie Pritchardeach earned first-team All-MIAA honors forthe second year in a row, with Hall finishingsecond in the final individual standings, andPritchard third. In her initial collegiatecampaign, Stacy Chapman finished seventh,leading an All-MIAA second team thatincluded teammate Lindsay Franson. Despitemissing one round with an injury, Franson, ajunior, finished 10th in the final individualstandings.

It’s the first time Albion has had fourindividuals in the final top 10.

Football: After an 0-2 start, Albionrebounded to earn a share of the MIAAfootball championship, completing the 1999season with a 6-3 overall record and 5-1conference mark. Craig Rundle is head coach.

Albion’s turnaround began with a 49-23home win against Manchester College Sept.25. In that contest, sophomore running backDan Dreyer moved into the lineup and wasnever dislodged. Dreyer rushed for 152 yardsagainst the Spartans, one of five 100-yardgames he had over the last seven weeks of theseason.

Dreyer wasn’t the only sub-to-starter tomake major contributions. Junior fullbackTom Weinmann moved into the startinglineup for the Defiance game, and never left.Among his five touchdowns was a 65-yardpass play at Olivet in week seven. SophomoreJared Owens was tossed into battle early, andresponded with a breakout game as a receiveragainst Adrian Oct. 9. Owens caught sixpasses for 212 yards and two touchdowns, thefirst 200-yard receiver for Albion since 1996.Later, he returned a kickoff for a school-record 99 yards while scoring against HopeOct. 30.

At season’s end, six Britons earned first-team All-MIAA honors. Recognized onoffense were junior kicker Keith Debbaudtand senior offensive lineman Terry Bailey,while junior punter Kirk DeFrenn, seniortackle Ryan Giacolone and junior defensiveback Dan Deegan were honored on defense.

Albion’s championship is the school’s 31stin football, most among Michigan’s DivisionIII colleges.

Volleyball: Posting its first winningseason since 1986, Albion also had its highestleague finish (5-3) in better than a decade.Under coach Darrell Sedersten, the Britonswound up in a tie for third in the final MIAAregular season standings.

Albion’s 15-14 overall record included aconsolation championship at the Baldwin-Wallace Invitational Sept. 10-11. A change inthe league format to a single-round-plus-tournament schedule kept Albion on the roadfor all but four of the team’s 29 matchesduring the season. Visiting fans saw thedevelopment of several young players, led bysophomores Michelle Hind and Sarah Morin.Both earned second-team All-MIAA status atthe end of the season. Also attaining leaguehonorable mention consideration wasfreshman Megan Broom.

Meanwhile, seniors Carla Trzeciak andJennifer Barnes passed a pair of milestones intheir final collegiate campaigns. Barnesbecame the school’s top attack player, passingthe 950 mark in attack points. Trzeciak is thefirst player in Albion volleyball history totally more than 2,800 assists in a career.

Men’s golf: Golf, it is said, is a game ofinches. In college golf, it’s a matter ofhundredths of a stroke. So it went for Albionjunior Brett Crosthwaite, who earned a first-team All-MIAA finish for the second year in arow after his eight-round average was roundedout to a second decimal point.

Crosthwaite fired an 80 for the final roundOct. 9 at Alma’s Pine River Country Club. Hewon a subsequent shoot-out with his closestchallenger, Hope’s Everett Leonard, to earn aspot on the All-MIAA first team. Crosthwaitefinished the eight-round fall schedule with a78.63-stroke average.

Crosthwaite was the only Briton to averageunder 80 for the fall, as Albion placed fourthin the final team standings. Freshmen tookthree of the top five spots on the team, led byJordan Rich’s 81.3 average. Mike Turnercoaches the golfers.

Junior golfer Melissa Hall finished second in the league and earned first-team All-MIAA honorsthis fall. With teammates Katie Pritchard, Stacy Chapman and Lindsay Franson, all of whomalso placed in the league’s top-10, Hall led the women golfers to their first-ever MIAAchampionship.

Running back Dan Dreyer (foreground),shown in the Sept. 25 match-up withManchester, finished the 1999 football seasonas Albion’s top rusher with 823 yards andseven touchdowns. The Britons earned their31st league title, the most among Michigan’sDivision III colleges.

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Women’s soccer: Continued improve-ment in women’s soccer in 1999 saw Albionfinish the season with a 4-3-1 league recordand 8-8-1 overall mark. The league recordwas good for a fifth-place finish.

One of the biggest improvements forAlbion came on offense. Albion tallied 29goals, with 11 players scoring at least once,including freshman goalkeeper EricaWilliams. Freshman Betsy Hubert led theteam with six goals. Seniors Erika Miller andLisa Reiter finished with four goals each.

A third senior, defender Wendy Boynton,was honored by the league’s coaches for herback line work. Boynton is Albion’s lonerepresentative on the All-MIAA first team.Williams, Miller and freshman Laurie Vanceearned second-team All-MIAA honors, whilesenior Andrea Johnson secured coaches’honorable mention consideration. LisaRoschek coaches the women’s squad.

Men’s soccer: Like the women, themen’s soccer team finished fifth in the finalMIAA standings, posting a 5-8-1 leaguerecord and 7-11-1 overall mark under coachAaron Smith.

Defense played an important part inAlbion’s game plan. Briton defenders allowedno more than three goals in all but three of theteam’s 19 matches, posting four shutouts inthe process. Offensively, few in the MIAAattacked opponents better than senior BenUpward. Highlighted by a three-goal hat trickagainst Anderson University Sept. 11 in Ada,OH, Upward set a one-season school recordwith 18 goals, averaging nearly a goal a game.The total meant Upward scored almost half ofthe team’s 38 goals for the season. (Upward’sperformance was a case of history repeatingitself—his dad, Geoffrey Upward, ’72, alsowas a soccer standout for the Britons, earningAll-MIAA honors in 1971.)

Upward and junior forward Brian Lindsayattained second-team All-MIAA honors.Senior Sean Roberts and sophomores JeffBoogren and Kirstin Massey were coaches’honorable mention selections.

Cross country: Albion battled to staywith the pack in MIAA and NCAA DivisionIII competition. The Briton women finishedfourth against MIAA competition and 14th atthe Division III Great Lakes Regional at Ada,OH, Nov. 13. Albion’s men battled throughinjuries to place fifth in the MIAA and 23rd inNCAA competition. Amy Wolfgang coachesboth squads.

Senior Danielle Risner set the pace for thewomen for most of the season. Risner finishedwith a pair of top-10 performances in MIAAaction to earn second-team all-league honorsfor the second year in a row. Also part of theMIAA second team is junior RebekahSchultz. Schultz broke onto the second teamwith the help of a 17th-place finish at theleague championship Oct. 30. Two weekslater, Schultz and Risner had top-50 finishesagainst NCAA regional competition. Risnerplaced 36th, while Schultz was 49th.

Risner and Schultz weren’t the onlyAlbion runners honored. Freshman BrandonLawson had a stellar initial collegiatecampaign, finishing with second-team All-MIAA honors. His 26:49 time at the MIAAchampionship was 18 seconds faster than hisprevious best effort, and good for an 11th-place finish.

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A L B I O N O T E S

Class notesdeadlineThe deadline for class notes appearing inthis issue of Io Triumphe was Oct. 31,1999. Notes received after that date willappear in the next issue.

Class news

491949 Reunion ChairStanley Jones

1949 reunion highlightsby Stanley Jones

The 50th reunion of the Class of1949, Oct. 1-2, was a rousingsuccess. We had 78 people with uson Friday night of HomecomingWeekend and 97 on Saturday nightfor our reunion dinner. The classwon all three alumni reunion honorsfor the weekend: highest contribu-tions to the Annual Fund, highestpercentage of participation in givingand highest turnout for the reunion.Congratulations, Class of 1949!

Our class was populated bystudents who started at Albion from1942 through 1945. In keeping withour ties to WWII and the Big Bandera, our reunion headquarters atBellemont Manor was decoratedwith records, Big Band pictures,etc., by Erika Luft, from the AlumniOffice, and her student helpers. Weenjoyed receptions, followed bydinners on both nights.

On Saturday morning many ofour class members took a campustour to observe the significantchanges since they were last oncampus (for some it was the firsttime back to Albion since gradua-tion). We saw a winning footballgame, reminisced at all availablehours, had an interesting programon Saturday night and culminatedthe evening dancing to the PhoenixBig Band at the Kellogg Center.Our class showed some of theyounger people how to jitterbug! Atruly marvelous weekend withclassmates, spouses and friends. IoTriumphe!

Henry and Helen Wolf Allen, both ’49,4418 Mt. Read Blvd., Rochester, NY14616, celebrated 51 years of marriage thispast January. They have traveled to over 30countries, and Henry has volunteered for 13years with Food Shelf. A retiredbacteriologist, Henry holds a master’sdegree from Michigan State University.The Allens have four children and sevengrandchildren.

Margaret Naumoff Arrington , ’49, 2412Penny Lane SE, Decatur, AL 35601, is aretired teacher with many ties to church andcivic groups, and she is an active memberof the League of Women Voters andAAUW. She has also taken continuingeducation seminars in ethics and religion atVanderbilt University. Margaret and herhusband Thomas have three children.

William Taylor Ball , ’49, 16953Beechwood, Beverly Hills, MI 48025,spent his career in journalism and publicrelations, ending up as public relationsmanager for then-Burroughs Corp. (nowUnisys). He has been involved with localgovernment, including managing somelocal election campaigns. He is the father oftwo sons and one daughter.

John “Jack” Beauchamp, ’49, 408 CoralWay, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301, ispresident of Beauchamp & Co., Inc., a realestate appraisal/consulting firm. A memberof his homeowners’ association board ofdirectors, he is also a trustee of the FortLauderdale Presbyterian Church. Jackattended graduate school at IndianaUniversity School of Business. He and hiswife Beth take yearly cruises to Europe andAsia. They are the parents of three sons,including Steven Beauchamp, ’76, andJohn Beauchamp, ’77, and have fivegrandchildren.

Blair Bedient, ’49, 3011 Country ClubWay, Albion, MI 49224, has retiredfollowing a successful career in Michiganjournalism. He is past president of fourstatewide professional organizations, and apast recipient of the Albion CollegeDistinguished Alumni Award. He and hiswife, Roslyn Pahl Bedient, ’48, have twosons.

Fredrick Bernat , ’49, 2443 Owosso St.,Crystal, MI 48818, has retired from FlintCommunity Schools. Fredrick has beeninvolved in his community as principal,

coach and teacher as well as the PTA,VFW and several other organizations. Heand his wife Maxine have six children, oneof whom is deceased.

Robert Biggs, ’49, 1577 Putters Lane,Lima, OH 45805, continues to practiceophthalmology, and is chief of staff of St.Rita’s Medical Center. An active Rotarian,Robert is also involved in the “MendedHearts” organization, and he and his wifeJennie dance and teach ballroom dancing.They are frequent cruisegoers, and enjoyeda D-Day anniversary cruise to Normandy.Robert holds an M.D. as well as master’sdegrees in biological chemistry andophthalmology. The Biggses have threechildren and five grandchildren.

Louis Black, ’49, 3841 Sugar Loaf Lane,Skokie, IL 60076, has been involvedprofessionally and politically in variouslocal and state government positions. Hehas also been involved in many civicorganizations, including Little League, PopWarner Football, “Toys for Tots” and as aschool district caucus delegate. He is amember of the ATO alumni association,Jewish War Veterans, and Deborah Boys’Club alumni. Louis is a 1993 inductee tothe Albion College Athletic Hall of Fameand was Skokie’s 1971 Citizen of the Year.He and his wife Mickey have two children.

Jean Johnston Bolinger, ’49, 208 S.Liberty St., Marshall, MI 49068, has heldlocal and state leadership roles in manyorganizations, including Order of EasternStar, American Legion Auxiliary, 8+40Auxiliary and Purple Heart Auxiliary. Shehas traveled through 48 United States andto some 20 foreign countries, especially inEurope and the Middle East. She has twodaughters.

Frank Bonta, ’49, 521 State, EatonRapids, MI 48827, is “really into the threeGs: grandparenting, golfing and garden-ing.” He and his wife, Patricia Smallwood

Bonta, ’50, recently celebrated their goldenwedding anniversary. Frank retired as deanof Albion College admissions in 1995. TheBontas spend time in Green Valley, AZ,during the winter. They have twodaughters, Amy Bonta Bender, ’78, andJulie Bonta Frayer, ’77; and two sons-in-law, Stephen Bender, ’78, and CharlesFrayer, ’77.

Earl Bower, ’49, 22211 Grossedale, St.Clair Shores, MI 48082, still practices law.He is retired as a science teacher and a U.S.Navy commander of intelligence. Heearned a master’s degree and a J.D. fromthe University of Detroit. Work and travelhave taken Earl through Asia, and toHawaii and Mexico. He has been marriedto his wife Shirley since 1955, and they arethe parents of three children andgrandparents to four.

Arthur Brown , ’49, 2796 Manchester,Ann Arbor, MI 48014, has retired fromteaching math and physics for DearbornPublic Schools. He earned a master’sdegree in education from Wayne StateUniversity and a master’s degree in physicsand mathematics education from theUniversity of Michigan. Arthur and hiswife, Jane Blanchard Brown, ’50, enjoysummers in Mio, MI. They have three sons,and will celebrate their golden weddinganniversary next summer.

Larry Cate , ’49, 827 Huerta Verde Rd.,Glendora, CA 91741-2242, retired this yearafter 31 years as a restaurateur. He haslived in many regions of the U.S., and inSaudi Arabia, England and Canada, and hastraveled throughout Europe. Larry enjoysspending time with family, and thechallenges of computers, golf and the stockmarket. He and his wife Anne have threechildren.

Margaret Sessions Clark, ’49, 22220McCarthy Dr., Tehachapi, CA 93561, isself-employed as a seamstress and award-

Bellemont Manor served as “reunion headquarters” for the Class of 1949during Homecoming Weekend in October. Pictured are: (front row, left toright) John Curtiss, Sara Fitzgerald Tobias, Marjorie Henshaw Hesz, MaryBelle Hawver Brogren, James Parshall, Leonella Wilcox Blanke, HelenWolf Allen, Henry Allen, Kenneth Smith, Grace Archbold Smith, EileenPlatzke Will, Mary Ann Onstad Hacker, Virginia Smith Johnson, JeanCurtiss, Marilyn Snodgrass, Margaret Bowker Millard, Dolores WeddellAbbott, Donald Abbott, Stanley Jones. (second row) Patricia Smith Peirson,Lawrence Frank, Lou Ann Garber Seeley, Lucretia Spratt Johnson, KonradKohl, Robert Wentworth, Alice Nelson Wentworth, Shirley Pearce Ednie,

winning quilt maker. In the 1950s, shespent three years as a Methodist missionaryin Mozambique, and she and her husband,C. Daniel, have twice visited the MiddleEast, researching Biblical coins. Theparents of four children, the Clarks willcelebrate their golden wedding anniversarysimultaneously with the turn of themillennium.

Wanda Griffiths Clawson, ’49, 1507 W.Gull Lake Dr., Richland, MI 49083, isretired from a career working in theKalamazoo Public Schools as a counselorand social worker. She holds a master’sdegree in counseling psychology fromWestern Michigan University, and has aspecialist degree in alcohol/drug abusecounseling. Wanda is active with theKalamazoo Area Student AssistanceConsortium and is a board member forGryphon Place Help Line/Crisis Center.She has four children, including JillClawson-Golden, ’76, and MichaelClawson, ’80.

Jean Curtiss, ’49, 49487 South Dr.,Plymouth, MI 48170-2341, retired after analmost 34-year career at Detroit’s KathrynB. White Elementary School, teaching andtraining student teachers. Currently, she ispresident of Plymouth Woman’s Club, vicepresident for her local Delta Kappa Gammachapter, membership chair of the PlymouthHistorical Society and active in thePlymouth First United Methodist Church.She holds master’s degrees in educationfrom Wayne State University, and hastraveled to Europe and frequently toFlorida and the Upper Peninsula.

Margaret Knowles Dawe, ’49, 2525Willard SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507, hasretired from working in real estate andmortgage businesses. She is active in herchurch choir and leader of a Weigh DownWorkshop. A “spiritual journey to Israel in1988 . . . daily has affected my life,” shesays. Margaret is the mother of threechildren and has seven grandchildren.

Beverly Lee Sawyer Gallentine, Dorothy Olenzek Slutz, Miriam CroneTaber, Charlotte Phelps Paner, Jean Johnston Bolinger, William Scofield.(third row) Margaret Knowles Dawe, John Beauchamp, Robert Starnes,Margery Boothroyd Starnes, Marilyn Guild Swanson, Howard Slutz,Barbara Barnes Goodson, Jean Langley McNutt, Joy Oddy Scofield. (fourthrow) William Milner, Vernon Olcott, Ernestine Crandall Taylor, DorothyWilker Toutant, Adolph Anselmi, Dolores Morlock DeWitt, ShirleyNewcomb Phillips, William Perkins, Robert Biggs, Elizabeth MarshallLaVine. (fifth row) Frank Bonta, Donald Criner, Marilyn Sandy ShoopWenzel, ’51, David Schuurmans, Keith Leenhouts.


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Paul Deller, ’49, 1511 Edsel Dr., Trenton,MI 48183, holds a master’s degree fromMichigan State University and is a memberof Faith United Methodist Church. He andhis wife, Jeannette, have three children andnine grandchildren.

Elizabeth “Betty” McIlvennan Dix , ’49,1320 Beard St., Flint, MI 48503, is a retiredteacher, and earned a master’s degree fromthe University of Michigan. She and herhusband, Richard Dix, ’50, have beenmarried for 49 years. The Dixes arefrequently on the move, summering inHessel, MI, wintering in Phoenix, andmaking yearly trips to Japan to visit theirson, John Dix, ’82. They are the parents ofthree sons and have four grandchildren.

G. Grant Duncan, ’49, 1690 Harvard Ct.,Lake Forest, IL 60045, retired frombusiness, has 10 years’ experience as avolunteer ESL tutor. He holds an M.B.A.from Michigan State University. He is thefather of three daughters and has threegrandchildren.

Edward Eames, ’49, 303 River St.,Hillsdale, MI 49242, had a 35-year careerwith Eagle Picher Industries. He holdsleadership roles with United Way, LionsClub, Hillsdale Golf/Country Club, and hislocal Presbyterian Church. He and his wifeSally travel a great deal and spend time inNaples, FL; they also assisted with thedesign and organization of an adult fostercare home. The Eameses have threechildren.

Rex Eames, ’49, 22581 Statler, St. ClairShores, MI 48081, has retired frompracticing law. He is a graduate of theUniversity of Michigan Law School. Rex isactive with Dominican High School andAcademy in DeWitt, serving on its boardand as a tutor there. He has traveled toAntarctica, Alaska, China, and throughoutthe Middle East and Mediterranean region.

H. Keith and Shirley Pearce Ednie, both’49, 2815 Benjamin, Royal Oak, MI 48073,celebrated their golden weddinganniversary this year. The Ednies are activechurch members and have been volunteeredfor Girl Scouts and a local otology clinic.They have enjoyed golf vacations and tripsto Hawaii and Europe. The parents of threedaughters, the Ednies also have sixgrandchildren.

Jerry Edwards, ’49, 140 Seaview Ct.#1401N, Marco Island, FL 34145, hasretired from dentistry. He holds a D.D.S.from the University of Michigan, and hasbeen active in civic and professionalorganizations. He and his wife, Mary LouYost Edwards, ’48, have been married 51years. Along with travel to Europe, SouthAmerica and Alaska, they enjoy their threechildren, including Lisa EdwardsEllsworth , ’77, and seven grandchildren.

Martha Miller Gallagher , ’49, 28736Boniface Dr., Malibu, CA 90265, says thatafter 40 years, “the West Coast isbeginning to feel like home.” She and herhusband Hayden invite classmates to visit.

Barbara Barnes Goodson, ’49, HCR61Box 134, Bonners Ferry, ID 83805, is“happily retired to the mountains andforests of very northern Idaho.” She washonored earlier this year at the NationalEducation Computing Conference as one of20 pioneers of that organization. She andher husband Chester have two daughtersand four grandchildren.

MaryAnn Onstad Hacker, ’49, 285 S.Shore Dr., Suttons Bay, MI 49682, isretired from teaching elementary andspecial education, and continues to work asa vision and hearing screening volunteerwith her local library. She is an activeleader of her church women’s group, Delta

Gamma alumnae in Michigan and inFlorida, and her local P.E.O. Sisterhood.She and her husband Donald have enjoyedtravel on five continents. They have threechildren and eight grandchildren and willcelebrate their 50th wedding anniversarynext year.

Marjorie Henshaw Hesz, ’49, 1001Ramshorn Dr., Estes Park, CO 80517, andher husband Walter moved to Coloradoafter many years living in a Chicagosuburb. They report that “our children alllike to visit here—and we welcome friendswho may also like to visit our RockyMountain area.” The Heszes’ childreninclude Catherine Hesz Colten, ’81.

Margaret Crandall Hiatt , ’49, 10030Beulah Rd., Jackson, MI 49201-8219,publishes poetry in local media, and hasbeen included in several anthologies; shealso published her own book, Homespun. Amember of the American College of Poetry,she was listed in 2000 Notable AmericanWomen - 1993 for her poetry. She hastraveled around the globe with her husbandRaymond, including living for a year inPakistan. Along with support of many civicorganizations, Margaret has also been along-time member of the Rives TownshipPlanning Commission, a U.S. Civil Serviceexaminer and a Red Cross volunteer. TheHiatts enjoy trailer camping and spendingtime with their four children and eightgrandchildren.

Lucretia “Pete” Spratt Johnson, ’49,3448 Saddleboro Dr., Uniontown, OH44685, retired earlier this year as anelementary teacher with the Akron PublicSchools. She has five children.

Virginia Smith Johnson, ’49, 260 W. 12thSt., Claremont, CA 91711, is a retiredjunior high school counselor. She ispresident of her P.E.O. Sisterhood chapter,is active in Sigma Alpha Iota andvolunteers for Meals on Wheels andRecording for Blind and Dyslexic. She andher husband, Russ Johnson, ’48,celebrated 50 years of marriage this year.The Johnsons have two sons, includingDale Johnson, ’75, and five grandchildren.

Stan Jones, ’49, 2945 S. Woodward Ave.#9, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304, iscelebrating the 12- year anniversary ofJones Associates, his consulting firm whichhas spent the last five years under contractwith the Wayne State University School ofMedicine. He is well known for his long-time, extensive service to Albion College,the Sigma Chi fraternity, and numerousother community groups. An honorarymember of the Albion Board of Trustees,Stanley holds an honorary doctor of lawsfrom Albion College and is a past recipientof the Albion College Meritorious ServiceAward.. He and his wife Fran have twochildren, including Jeffrey Jones, ’76.

Peggy Jay Kay, ’49, 705 Seville Rd.,Denton, TX 76205-8407, is a retiredclassroom teacher and active ESL volunteerteacher. She is a docent with Fort Worth’sAmon Carter Museum, and is active inchurch counseling ministry and the P.E.O.Peggy and her husband, George Kay, ’50,had their golden wedding anniversaryearlier this year. They have two sons.

Konrad Kohl , ’49, 2377 Hickory Glen,Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304, has spent 45years as an attorney, founding two separatefirms. His studies at Albion wereinterrupted by World War II, and heeventually graduated from the DetroitCollege of Law. He has traveled to Europe,Australia and New Zealand. Brother-in-lawto Donna Meyers Dupy, ’48, Konrad andhis wife Barbara have four sons and sevengrandchildren.

Elizabeth “Betty” Marshall LaVine , ’49,2001 Fountain Ridge Rd., Chapel Hill, NC27514, has retired from teaching. She is amember of the National Association ofFederal Employees - Retired. She and herhusband Bud have taken their RV to 45states, and have enjoyed several cruises.The LaVines have three daughters and sixgrandchildren.

Keith Leenhouts, ’49, 830 Normandy,Royal Oak, MI 48073, is a retired judgenow working as director of court volunteerservices for National Judicial College. Alsoa graduate of Wayne State University LawSchool, he has been recognized by bothAlbion College and Wayne StateUniversity as a distinguished alumnus.Keith and his wife Audrey have three sons.

Kenneth Lindland, ’49, 601 South St.,Grass Lake, MI 49240, is a retired UnitedMethodist pastor who organized threechurches during his service. Currently he isactive in Lyme disease education projects.He earned his master’s degree in theologyfrom Drew University. Kenneth and hiswife Agnes have three children and eightgrandchildren.

Wendell Martin , ’49, 10 Spaulding St.,Hartford, MI 49057, had a 38-year careeras a teacher, coach and school administra-tor. A member of the Michigan State HighSchool Athletic Association FootballCoaches Hall of Fame, he was also afinalist for Michigan Teacher of the Year in1984. Wendell is still active in education,as a member of the Hartford Foundation forQuality Education, and as a church layleader. He earned a master’s degree fromMichigan State University, and has beenmarried for 52 years to his wife Eleanor.The Martins have five children, includingDaniel Martin , ’72.

Margaret Bowker Millard , ’49, P.O. Box204, Paw Paw, MI 49079, spends herretirement volunteering for her localchurch, library board and youth organiza-tions. She holds a master’s degree from theUniversity of Michigan. Besides taking hermotor home around the U.S., she hastraveled through North America, and toEurope and Asia. Margaret and herhusband David have four children,including Carol Millard , ’78, and WilliamMillard , ’82, and eight grandchildren.

William Milner , ’49, 30 Pinehurst Dr.,Springfield, IL 62704, has retired fromunderwriting for Aetna Life and CasualtyCo., and now works as a volunteer for hischurch and senior citizen center. He and hiswife, Alice Chrysler Milner , ’48, spendsix months each year in Canada, and havetraveled to Hawaii and the British Isles.The Milners have three children.

Vern Olcott , ’49, 243 Thomas St.,Allegan, MI 49010, is active with church,family and community activities. He andhis wife, Bonnie Allgeo Olcott, ’48, arethe parents of Judith Olcott Woods, ’74,Sue Olcott Chapell, ’77, Beth OlcottStanloski, ’79, and Mark Olcott, ’90, andreport that granddaughter Sara Chappell isa member of Albion’s Class of 2003.

Billy Page, ’49, 206 Dan River Ct., MarcoIsland, FL 34145, is a retired physician,who now enjoys art, as a volunteer for hislocal art league, and as a clay and stonesculptor. He also enjoys boating andgolfing. Billy and his wife Patricia recentlycelebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.The Pages have four children, includingBilly Page II, ’74, and eight grandchildren.

Jim Parshall, ’49, 39460 Edgewater Dr.,Northville, MI 48167, works as an OB/GYN at Garden City Hospital. ADistinguished Fellow of the AmericanCollege of Osteopathic Obstetricians/Gynecologists, he also teaches English atthe Arab-American Friendship Center inDearborn. He has traveled throughout theU.S., and to Russia and Israel. Married toCarole since 1994, he has five children,including Nancy Parshall, ’82, and DanielParshall, ’85, three grandsons and twostepchildren.

Bill Perkins, ’49, 1621 Crescent Lane,McLean, VA 22101, retired from the NewYork United Methodist Conference in1995. Since then, he has lived most of thetime in Ireland, serving as interim pastorfor Methodist, Presbyterian and Church ofIreland churches there. He is married toCarol Paxton Perkins, ’50.

Shirley Newcomb Phillips, ’49, 22Watsons Lane, Hampton, NH 03842-1212,is a YMCA program director andadministrator for Liberty Mutual InsuranceCo. She is a member of AAUW and hasbeen active with many fine and performingarts organizations. Shirley has traveled toEurope, Asia and Central America. She isthe mother of three children.

Robert Robison, ’49, 927 Blanchard Ave.,Flint, MI 48503, is retired from positionswith Flint Schools and the Flint CulturalCenter. He earned a master’s degree fromthe University of Michigan. Robert and hiswife, Helen Jones Robison, ’47,celebrated 52 years of marriage this year.They are the parents of three sons.

Jarvis and Gertrude Elgear Schmidt,both ’49, 3006 Conger St., Port Huron, MI48060, have three sons and two grand-daughters. Jarvis had an active career inlaw and in real estate development. AnAlbion College honorary trustee, he is amember of the Detroit Racquet Club, PortHuron Yacht Club and Port Huron GolfClub.

Dave Schuurmans, ’49, 2620 WilsonAve., Lansing, MI 48906, is a microbiolo-gist with the Michigan Department ofPublic Health laboratories. He is activewith his United Methodist Church’s foodbank, choir and United Nations Associa-tion. Dave swims for exercise, and hasenjoyed travel to all 50 states, plus Europe,Australia and New Zealand. He and hiswife, Carolyn Getty Schuurmans, ’51,have been married for 48 years and havetwo children and four grandchildren.

William and Joy Oddy Scofield, both ’49,106 W. Caledonia, Howell, MI 48843,celebrated 49 years of marriage this year.Bill is retired from May & Scofield, butremains board chairman. They bothcontinue to be active in church service; Joyhas been a member of the altar guild for 40years. She also spent 22 years as secretaryof the Howell District Library. TheScofields have racked up 50,000 miles asmembers of the Nomad Travel Club,including several trips to England. They arethe parents of W. Richard Scofield, ’74,and also have two daughters and sevengrandchildren.

Harold Sharp, ’49, 663 Placita del Exito,Green Valley, AZ 85614, retired after 48years as an engineer with General Motors.He and Florence “Dinghy” SpaldingSharp, ’50, have been married for 48 yearsand are looking forward to returning toAlbion for her reunion next year. TheSharps have three children, includingWendy Sharp Rath, ’82, and eightgrandchildren.

Howard and Dorothy Olenzek Slutz, both’49, 23 Stuart Dr., Old Greenwich, CT06870, have been busy going onElderhostel trips during the past severalyears. Howard retired from General FoodsCorp. in 1986, but is an active artist, andhas won several awards at local art shows.Dorothy has retired from teaching piano,but performs regularly for local audiencesas half of a duo-piano ensemble. TheSlutzes have four children and fivegrandchildren.

Bob and Marge Boothroyd Starnes, both’49, 3594 E. Lake Dr., Metamora, MI48455, will celebrate their golden weddinganniversary in July 2000. Bob holds amaster’s degree from Wayne StateUniversity and is retired from WilliamBeaumont Hospital. The Starneses enjoytravel, and have made eight trips to Hawaii.They are the parents of five children.

Marilyn Guild Swanson, ’49, 10154Westside Circle, Littleton, CO 80125, hasretired from careers as a medical technicianand a Christian educator; she is also avolunteer state park naturalist. She enjoysstudying theology and environmentalissues. She and her husband Roy have beenmarried since 1954 and are the parents offive children.

Miriam Crone Taber , ’49, 960 Harvard,Berkley, MI 48072, is volunteer presidentof Retirement Homes Friends of DetroitConference of the United MethodistChurch. She is a graduate of the BronsonHospital School of Nursing. Miriam andher husband Harold Taber, ’50, are theparents of Sally Taber, ’74, NormaTaber, ’78, and a son.

Ernestine Crandall Taylor, ’49, 9914Andrews St., Allen Park, MI 48101, hasretired from elementary school teaching,but continues to practice watercolorpainting, stained glass art, pencil drawingand calligraphy. She travels “enough tokeep life interesting” and enjoys spendingtime with her three children.

Dorothy Wilker Toutant , ’49, 419Emerald Dr., Charlotte, MI 48813, hasretired from her position as a visiontechnician with the Eaton County HealthDepartment. She has spent more than 40years involved with local church andhospital volunteer activities, and alsosupported the Eaton County Courthouserestoration project. She and her husband,Eldred “Tout” Toutant , ’47, have touredNova Scotia, Australia, New Zealand andCentral Europe, and enjoys winters inOrange Beach, AL. They are the parents ofthree children.

Marilyn Mann VanEvery , ’49, 2257Wyoming Ave. SW, Wyoming, MI 49509-1672, is a library/media assistant in theWyoming Public Schools. She also spentmany years as secretary of the WyomingHistorical and Cultural Commission, andworked for the City of Wyoming’shistorical collection. She and her husbandDavid celebrated 50 years of marriage.They have four daughters and ninegrandchildren.

Richard Vetter, ’49, 4779 N. 33rd St.,Arlington, VA 22207, is retired from adistinguished career in ocean science. Hehas been involved in several professionalorganizations, and was a founding memberof the Marine Technology Society. Heearned a master’s degree in physicaloceanography from the University ofCalifornia. Despite breaking his back in1993, Richard is an active ballroom dancer.He has three sons.


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Beth Schooley Webster, ’49, 73-989Nevada Circle W, Palm Desert, CA 92260,has retired from teaching in the LosAngeles City Schools and from work as areal estate broker. Having “fixer-uppers” asa hobby, she reports that she has lived in 25different homes since graduation fromAlbion. Beth enjoys singing with the DesertCities Chorus, a Sweet AdelinesInternational affiliate, and traveling inNorth America and Europe. She has fourchildren and eight grandchildren, includingRael Will , ’99.

Robert and Alice Nelson Wentworth,both ’49, 6 Fox Hill Lane, E. Sandwich,MA 02537, have retired, respectively, fromcareers in Methodist ministry andeducation. Alice has been active in localand state leadership of P.E.O. Sisterhood,and Bob has been active with the RedCross and serving on local school andchurch boards. The Wentworths continue todo genealogical research. They have twochildren, including Philip Wentworth , ’78,and two grandchildren.

Eileen Platzke Will, ’49, 1191 RockbridgeRd., Lexington, KY 40515, has retiredfrom work as a dietitian and food servicedirector. Volunteer work at a local hospitaland as a recorder for University ofKentucky blind students has earned herelection to become a Kentucky Colonel.She has traveled to 48 states and severalEuropean countries and is an activemember of AAUW, Alpha Chi Omegaalumnae and her church music ministry.She and her husband Nathaniel have threechildren.

51James Benedict, ’51, is a retired thoracicsurgeon who is pursuing new educationalinterests. He graduated magna cum laude inMay from California State University inLong Beach with a B.A. in art. James hasbeen accepted to the graduate art programat CSULB and is now working toward anM.F.A. in drawing and painting. He and hiswife, Muriel Goodell Benedict, ’51, livein San Pedro, CA.

53John Porter, ’53, was honored by EasternMichigan University (EMU) in Octoberwhen the university opened its new $16-million John W. Porter Building, home ofthe College of Education. “This buildingrepresents a significant milestone in the lifeof Eastern’s College of Education,” notedJerry Robbins, dean of the College ofEducation. “It brings our departmentsunder one roof. It’s a time to celebrate.”EMU has also established the John W.Porter Chair in Urban Education. Porter, anAlbion College trustee, is a former EMUpresident and former state superintendentof public instruction. He now heads theUrban Education Alliance, Inc. inYpsilanti.

541954 Reunion ChairJohn Brundage

1954 reunion highlightsby John Brundage

The Class of 1954 celebrated amemorable 45th reunion Oct. 2 atthe home of Bill and Ruth AnnWilliams Biggs, both ’54. The mealwas very delicious, and it waswonderful to see everyone again.Lots of memories, stories andlaughter were shared. We enjoyedthe Homecoming Weekendactivities and couldn’t believe all ofthe impressive changes that havetaken place at Albion since wegraduated. It was a great time toreminisce and catch up with friendswho attended. We are lookingforward to our 50th reunion in 2004.

F. Cameron Ambler, ’54, 13284 GoldenCircle, Fenton, MI 48430, is a dentist. Hehas also been involved with the Jaycees andKiwanis and has served as a villagecouncilperson, a church officer and Sundayschool teacher, and as treasurer of his localcommunity center. Cameron and his wifeMarjorie have four children and 10grandchildren.

William and Ruth Ann Williams Biggs,both ’54, 608 N. Kalamazoo, Marshall, MI49068, have been married since 1954. Theyhave three daughters and eight grandchil-dren. Bill and Ruth Ann have traveledextensively and spend the winter at theirsecond home located at 122 N. ForestBeach Dr., 103 Oceanwood, Hilton HeadIsland, SC 29928.

Noel Black, ’54, 7100 Ada Dr. SE, GrandRapids, MI 49546, is retired from a set ofdiverse careers in manufacturing,marketing, construction, the government,and the U.S. Army. He and his wife Carlahave two children and nine grandchildren,all of whom live within a quarter mile ofthem.

Jim and Pat Moody Bradshaw, both ’54,2232 Oak Lane, Battle Creek, MI 49014,are enjoying their retirement, spending sixmonths of the year in Michigan and theother six in Bradenton, FL. They recentlyenjoyed a trip to Spain.

Bernette “Bunny” Johnson Brandt, ’54,1154 Oak Dr., Durango, CO 81301, isretired from early childhood teaching. Sheis a board member of the CommunityConcerto Association and a volunteer andgallery guide at the Durango Arts Center.Bunny has enjoyed extensive travel inEurope, most recently to Greece and theAegean Islands. She also loves hiking inand photographing the Rocky Mountainsand enjoys a view of the mountains fromher back deck. Bunny and her late husbandWallace have five children and fivegrandchildren.

Ann Stowe Campbell, ’54, 444 PineNeedles Dr., Del Mar, CA 92014 is retired.She is involved as a docent with TorreyPines State Reserve, as a reading volunteerwith the Del Mar Schools, and thechildren’s program with the Del MarLibrary. Ann has traveled throughout theUnited States, England, France, Canada,Mexico, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Panama andthe Caribbean Islands. She and her husbandJohn have three children and onegranddaughter.

Rolph Carey, ’54, 26220 Siena Dr., BonitaSprings, FL 34134, is retired from theBirmingham and Troy Insurance Agency.He and his wife, Lois Wyman Carey, ’56,moved to Florida eight months ago. Theyspend summers in Wolfboro, NH.

James Cook, ’54, 703 Irwin Ave., Albion,MI 49224, holds the Langbo Trustees’Professorship in English at Albion College.Jim is president of the Albion PublicLibrary board, a member of RotaryInternational, director of the ACM/GLCAprogram in Venice, Italy, and a member ofthe Newberry Library in Chicago. He holdsan M.A. and a Ph.D. Jim and his wifeBarbara have three children and fourgrandchildren. They are currently in Venicedirecting the off-campus study programthere.

Virginia Arbaugh Crossley, ’54, 685Canyon Rd., Rochester, MI 48306, is aretired medical librarian. She received anM.S.L.S. from Wayne State University in1973, following which she worked for twoyears at the science library at Wayne State.She later worked at William BeaumontHospital in Royal Oak before retiring in1988. Virginia has been an active memberof Questers, Daughters of the AmericanRevolution, a doll club, and a paper dollclub. She has also chaired three interna-tional paper doll conventions. Virginia andher husband, John Crossley, ’53, havethree children and four grandchildren.

Cedric and June Luke Dempsey, both’54, 8036 Clymer Lane, Indianapolis, IN46250, have been married since 1953 andhave two daughters. They recentlyrelocated to Indianapolis from OverlandPark, KS. The recipient of an M.Ed. fromthe University of Arizona and an Ed.D.from the University of Houston, June is aretired dean of the University of Arizona.She is on the executive board of theAmerica-Israel Friendship League, chair ofPartners for Global Education, and amember of the site inspection team ofTraveLearn. Cedric is president of theNational Collegiate Athletic Associationand, with June, received the 1999Partnership for Democracy award from theAmerica-Israel Friendship League. Heearned a Ph.D. from the University ofIllinois.

Donna Stutesman DeVinney, ’54, 14Dartmoor Place, Midland, MI 48640, isretired from a career as a tax consultant.She is active in the League of WomenVoters and the United Methodist Church.Donna has traveled all over the world andrecently returned from a bicyclingElderhostel in Denmark and Sweden. Sheand her husband, Robert DeVinney, ’53,have four children.

Dorothy Hoisington Dickerson, ’54,28611 D Drive N., Albion, MI 49224, isretired after spending 16 years as asubstitute teacher in the Albion PublicSchools and as the Sheridan Townshipclerk. Dorothy is married to GarDickerson, ’52.

Phil Doster, ’54, 49 Windsor Court,Keene, NH 03431, is retired from thehuman resources department of Corning,Inc. Prior to that he had served as aMethodist minister. He holds an S.T.B. andS.T.M. from Boston University. He haspursued advanced training and study at theNational Training Labs, ColumbiaUniversity, the University of Michigan andthe Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Philipand his wife Virginia have traveledthroughout Europe and have a home inCosta del Sol, Spain. They have threechildren.

Kenneth and Evelyn Gwinn Edwards,both ’54, 1955 Crossroads, Prescott, AZ86305, have been married since 1956 and

have two children. Kenneth is a professoremeritus of analytical and physicalchemistry at the Colorado School of Mines.He is also a volunteer at a communitynature center, a tour guide at Sharlot HallHistorical Museum and the PrescottVisitors’ Bureau, and a part-time adjunctprofessor at Yavapai Community College.Kenneth holds an M.S. from Dartmouthand a Ph.D. from Colorado.

Norman Eifler , ’54, 1211 E. Broadway,Mount Pleasant, MI 48858, is retired fromhis private practice as a dentist. Hepreviously served in the U.S. Army.Norman is president of the Ninth DistrictDental Society, a member of the LionsClub, YMCA, Hospice of CentralMichigan, and Mount Pleasant CountryClub. He is also active in the UnitedMethodist Church and is a Meals onWheels volunteer. Norman holds a D.D.S.from the University of Illinois. He and hiswife, Ada Jean Muma Eifler, ’56, havefour children and four grandchildren.

Ann Peters Elms, ’54, 10 Middle BeachRd., Naubinway, MI 49762, and herhusband, Gale Elms, ’52, have twochildren and four grandchildren. Theytravel extensively throughout the UnitedStates, Canada, Mexico, Central Americaand South America.

Ruth Pollock Ely, ’54, 3814 Del MarAve., San Diego, CA 92106, retiredrecently from her position as a schooldirector. She has served as a volunteer withCASA and with Voices for Children. Ruthholds an M.A. in education from UnitedStates University and an M.A. incounseling psychology from NationalUniversity. She and her husband Mel havethree children and four grandchildren. Theyhave traveled to Eastern Europe, theMexican Riviera, Cooper Canyon andRussia.

O. Guy Frick , ’54, 1000 Huntswood Way,Oxnard, CA 93030, is retired as a deputydistrict attorney. He is a charter memberand past president of the Rotary Club ofVentura-South. Guy holds an L.L.B. Heand his wife Marie have two children andtwo grandchildren.

David Grier , ’54, 316 Clinton St., SouthHaven, MI 49090, is retired as a judge inthe Seventh District Court. He holds a J.D.David and his wife Martha have sevenchildren and 15 grandchildren.

John Hammond, ’54, 3390 MiddlebrookDr., St. Joseph, MI 49085, is a circuit judgefor the State of Michigan. Prior to thisposition, he had served as a lawyer,prosecutor and district judge. John holds aJ.D. from the University of Michigan. Hehas traveled throughout Europe and Asia.John and his wife Betsy have two children.

Marjorie MacMillan Hever , ’54, 7119Smooth Path, Columbia, MD 21045, is abusiness English instructor at HowardCommunity College. She has also workedas a department store and book store salesclerk and as a tax preparer. Marjorie isactive in the Presbyterian church, theSigma Alpha Iota Baltimore AlumnaeAssociation, and Churches Concerned forthe Homeless. She and her husband Roberthave three children and five grandchildren.

E. Constance Kinzie, ’54, 1400 20th St.NW, Apt. 410, Washington, DC 20036, is atechnical editor for the Federal ReserveBoard. She is a member of the Washington,D.C., Alumnae Chapter of Sigma AlphaIota and traveled to Germany recently for afamily reunion.

Maureen Kennedy Kinzler, ’54, 26298LaMuera, Farmington Hills, MI 48334, isretired and spending her time traveling. Inrecent years she has visited the British Islesthree times as well as taking a cruisethrough the Greek isles, Israel and Turkey.Maureen and her husband Earl have twodaughters and two granddaughters.

Carol Poosch Klein, ’54, 31720 FranklinRd., Franklin, MI 48025, is president of theDetroit Association of Phi Beta Kappa,secretary and a trustee of the FranklinHistorical Society, and a trustee of theCranbrook Music Guild. She is also an avidart collector, having many collections,including a large collection of CanadianInuit sculpture and graphics.

Burt and Sally Lamkin , both ’54, 364Hazelwood, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, areboth retired from the administration of theAnn Arbor Public Schools. Burt is a flightinstructor, and Sally does consulting forHead Start programs. They have takenmany trips, including three to Russia. Sallywas honored as an Albion DistinguishedAlumna, and both have received the HopeClinic Humanitarian Award. Burt holds anM.A. from the University of Michigan, andSally holds an M.A. from Eastern MichiganUniversity. They have three children andone granddaughter.

Jane Hunsicker Marcum, ’54, 38 KuualaSt., Kailua, HI, 96734, is retired from theHawaii State Department of Agriculture asan information specialist. Jane is active inthe Methodist Church, the Delta ZetaAlumnae Group, the Christian Women’sClub, the Hawaiian Wine Makers Circle,and the Post-Polio Syndrome Network.Jane and her husband Laurence have twochildren. They have traveled to the FarEast, Malaysia, Europe, Alaska and Tahiti,and lived in Taiwan from 1973 to 1978.

Willard Meader , ’54, 2013 Green ViewDr., Richland, WA 99352, is retired fromthe U.S. Air Force. During his career,Willard had 17 assignments that took himthroughout Europe and Asia. He is active inthe United Way and serves as councilpresident for the Silver Beaver Area BoyScout district. Willard holds an M.D. fromTemple University and an M.P.H. from theUniversity of California at Berkeley. Heand his wife Sharon have two children andtwo grandsons.

Naomi Walton Murray , ’54, 5256Territorial Rd., Grand Blanc, MI 48439, isa member of the Junior League, the AlphaXi Delta Foundation, and the ShakespeareClub. She has received the Liberty BellAward and created a sexual assault centerat the Flint YWCA through a grant incriminal justice programs. Naomi and herhusband, James Bruce Murray, ’55, haveone daughter and two granddaughters.

John Pangborn, ’54, 949 Clarence Court,Midland, MI 48640, is retired from theDow Chemical Co. as a utility manager. Heis a member of his church board and schoolboard. John has traveled extensively inEurope, China, Alaska and Hawaii. Heholds a B.S.(EE) from the University ofMichigan. John is married to TresaPangborn.

Barbara Carne Riehl, ’54, 8307 DonnaRd., Westland, MI 48185, is retired fromthe University of Michigan. She is amember of the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics and the MichiganCouncil of Teachers of Mathematics. Sheholds an M.Ed. in mathematics education.Barbara has traveled to England, France,Germany, Switzerland, Belgium andAustria. She enjoys waterskiing, bicycling,gardening, spending time with her family,and travel. Barbara and her husband Donhave one son and two grandchildren.


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Judy Bingham Shepard, ’54, 8715 BooneCourt, St. Louis Park, MN 55426, is retiredas a legal secretary and librarian. She holdsan M.A. in library science from theUniversity of Michigan and is a certifiedlegal secretary. Judy has served on theboards of three square dance clubs in theTwin Cities Metro Area and on the boardof Friends of Hunt Hill. Judy has threechildren and two grandchildren. She hasbeen married to George Shepard since1993.

Margaret Graham Siegan, ’54, 715Wayne St., St. Joseph, MI 49085, retired in1997 after 38 years of teaching. She holdsa master’s in reading. She and her husbandDonald have been married since 1955 andhave three children and two grandchildren.They have traveled throughout Florida andWisconsin and have taken two boat trips.

Ronald Smalley, ’54, 933 Hover RidgeCircle, Longmont, CO 80501, is a retiredphysician. His major activities since hisretirement are watercolor painting and golf.Ronald is married to Donna Smalley.

Dannette Wingeier Smith, ’54, 725Bowes Rd. #B-8, Lowell, MI 49331, isretired as a kindergarten and preschool

teacher. She holds an M.Ed. Danni is anorganizer and leader of the West MichiganParents of Murdered Children and OtherSurvivors of Homicide. She is the motherof four children, one of whom is deceased,and has two grandchildren.

Katherine Smith Stahl, ’54, 523 JamesSt., Spring Lake, MI 49456, is a substituteteacher. She is the past president of theSaugatuck-Douglas Art Club, a member ofthe United Methodist Women, and amember of the Port Sanilac Lioness Club.Katherine and her husband, Milton Stahl ,’56, have five children and sevengrandchildren.

Ellyn Mazie Sternberg, ’54, 25651 W.Highway 60, Grayslake, IL 60030, is theretired manager of a hospital shop. Ellynand her husband, Benjamin Sargent, havethree children and eight grandchildren.They recently finished building StonewallOrchard Golf Club, an 18-hole, upscalepublic golf course, on their own farm. Theyenjoy cruises, paddle wheel cruises andelderhostels.

Priscilla Lewis Vanderpas, ’54, 212 HillSt., Grass Valley, CA 95945, is retired. Sheis the president of the Nevada County

Historical Society, and a docent of theEmpire Mine State Historic Park. Priscillahas two children and five grandchildren.She and her husband Peter have beenmarried for 15 years and have taken trips tothe Netherlands to visit his family.

John and Sue Carter Walker, both ’54,4608 E. Desert Dr., Phoenix, AZ 85044,have been married since 1954 and havethree children and six grandchildren. Johnis retired as a professor at Arizona StateUniversity. Sue is retired as an elementaryschool teacher. John holds an M.A. and aPh.D., and Sue holds an M.A. The couple isactive in the Dayspring Methodist Churchof Tempe, AZ. They previously have livedin Michigan, Las Vegas and Utah.

Celia Cook Weidendorf, ’54, 9225 W.Outer Dr., Detroit, MI 48219, is a part-timesecretary with Weidendorf Realty. She hastraveled to Italy, Germany and theCaribbean. Celia and her husband Charleshave four children and two grandchildren.

Daniel and Barbara Kinzel Williamson ,both ’54, 39614 Greenbrier Court,Northville, MI 48167, have been marriedsince 1954 and have four children and threegrandchildren. Barbara is a real estate

salesperson, and Dan works for “Flyers in aFlash,” a promotion and mailing business.Dan had formerly been a real estatesalesperson as well. Dan was the 1982president of the Michigan Association ofRealtors, and Barb volunteers with theJunior Group Goodwill.

591959 Reunion ChairDonald Vangilder

1959 reunion highlightsby Donald Vangilder

The 40th reunion of the Class of1959 was a great experience for allwho attended. Although we got alittle wet enjoying Albion’s victoryover Defiance in the Homecominggame, the weather provided aperfect opportunity for classmates tocongregate under the reunion tentand get reacquainted with oldfriends they had not seen for manyyears. “Catching up” was great funas class members discussedfamilies, careers and medicalhistories while telling stories aboutthose unable to attend. The highlightof the weekend was our Saturdayevening reunion dinner at Schuler’swhere good food and fellowshipwere warmly enjoyed and will belong remembered.

Larry Andringa , ’59, 2971 CrescentShores Dr., Traverse City, MI 49684, isretired from the State of Michigan. Heholds an M.A. from Wayne StateUniversity. Larry and his wife Sharon havebeen married since 1987 and spend eachwinter in Palm Desert, CA.

Jim Beasley, ’59, W277 N2793 ChicoryLane, Pewaukee, WI 53072, is president ofthe Milwaukee Area Radio Stations, Inc.He has held a variety of positions intelevision and radio. He has also served inthe U.S. Army and National Guard. Jim isinvolved with the Governor’s Alliance for aDrug Free Wisconsin, the Milwaukee AdClub and the Affirmative ActionCommittee of the National Association ofBlack Journalists. He was recently inductedinto the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall ofFame. Jim and his wife Barbara have threedaughters and three grandchildren.

James Beauchamp, ’59, 1002 Eliot Dr.,Urbana, IL 61801, is a professor emeritusat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jim has worked at the SpaceTech Labs of Los Angeles and as a researchassociate at Stanford University, as well ason the musical and electrical/computerengineering faculty at UIUC. He holds anM.S. from the University of Michigan anda Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Jimhas three children from his first marriage.Jim and his wife Karen have a two-year-oldson.

Kenneth and Betty Lou Greene Borland,both ’59, 1173 Anquas Way, Yuma, AZ85364, have been married since 1958 andhave two children and three grandchildren.Ken, who has a Ph.D. from Michigan State,retired in 1997 after serving 14 years as acollege president in Illinois and Arizona.The recipient of an M.A. from MichiganState, Betty Lou retired in 1998 after 18years as a director of special education for a6,000-student school district. Both are

involved in volunteer activities as well asbeing on the boards for various organiza-tions in health care and economicdevelopment.

Dale Brubaker, ’59, 1812 Tiffany Place,Greensboro, NC 27408, is a professor at theUniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro.He and his wife, Barbara StewartBrubaker , ’60, have three childrenincluding John Brubaker, ’86. They spendsummers at Lake Louise in NorthernMichigan.

Daniel Chapman, ’59, 3430 N. Zeeb,Dexter, MI 48130, is a pediatrician at St.Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. Healso spent 32 years as an Air Forcereservist. Daniel holds an M.D. and anM.P.H. from the University of Michigan.He and his wife, Linda PetersonChapman, ’60, have two sons, includingDaniel Chapman, ’81.

Alfred Cohoe, ’59, 106 Hill Building, S.Main St., Ada, OH 45810, is a professor atOhio Northern University. He is a memberof the Ohio Psychological Association, theAmerican College of Forensic Psychology,the National Register of Health ServiceProviders in Psychology, and theInternational Churchill Society. Alfred hastraveled frequently to England andSwitzerland.

Allan Davis, ’59, 652 Layman CreekCircle, Grand Blanc, MI, is an attorney. Heholds a J.D. Allan is a member of theGrand Blanc Board of Education and was a1987 recipient of the Hands of MercyAward from the Salvation Army. He hastwo sons, including Matt Davis, ’88. Allanhas been married to Carole Meek sinceNovember 1998.

James Flack, ’59, 3125 Northampton St.,NW, Washington, DC 20015, is a historyprofessor and assistant baseball coach at theUniversity of Maryland. He and his wifeJan have three children.

Bob Fleming, ’59, 88152 Keola Lane,Springfield, OR 97478, leads nature studytours in various parts of Africa, Asia andOceania, including Mongolia, China,Burma, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, andPapua New Guinea. Bob holds a Ph.D. inzoology and was awarded a medal by theking of Nepal for his work in birds andconservation in that Himalayan kingdom.Bob is married to Linda Firth.

Beverly Evler Gallagher, ’59, 20Stonehenge Court, Burr Ridge, IL 60521, isa retired interior designer. She is involvedwith the Hinsdale Junior Women’s Club,St. John of the Cross Women’s Club, theGood Samaritan Hospital and HinsdaleHospital committees, the IllinoisAssociation of Interior Designers, and theBurr Ridge Woods Bath and Tennis Club.Beverly has traveled to Hawaii, Spain,Grand Caymans, Cancun, Aruba, Germany,Austria, Switzerland and Ireland. She andher husband Richard have three sons andfive granddaughters.

Allison James Green, ’59, 1002 CopemanBlvd., Flint, MI 48504, is a retired teacherand a member of the Flint Board ofEducation. She has served as president ofthe Alpha Xi Delta Alumnae Associationand has been involved with the Court StreetUnited Methodist Church, Girl Scouts, andis listed in Who’s Who in the World.Allison holds an M.A. from the Universityof Michigan.

John Greig, ’59, 2841 Lamplighter,Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304, is a dentistand a board member of the MichiganDental Association. He and his wife Lindahave four children.

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William Hight , ’59, 106 Monroe Ave.,Belle Mead, NJ 08502, is retired as anAT&T executive and has begun a secondcareer with the International RecordingMedia Association. William traveled toGermany this year with a singing chorale.He and his wife Meredith have fivedaughters. William holds an M.A. incommunication arts from Michigan StateUniversity.

James Hurd, ’59, 2684 Vail Court, GreenBay, WI 54311, is the retired vice presidentand owner of Krueger International. Heserves on the YMCA board and has servedas the chair of various civic organizations.Jim was inducted in the Albion CollegeAthletic Hall of Fame. He enjoys hikingand rafting adventures in New Zealand andgolf trips to England. James and his wife,Janet Booth Hurd, ’62, have fourchildren.

Truman Jordan, ’59, 317 S. 3rd St. E.,Mount Vernon, IA 52314, is a professor ofchemistry at Cornell College. He iscurrently conducting research in dentalchemistry. Truman holds a Ph.D. fromHarvard. He and his wife Linda have threedaughters. They are both active in theMount Vernon United Methodist Churchand have traveled to Singapore, Japan andFrance.

Ralph and Linda Larick Kenyon , both’59, 7100 7 1/2 Mile Rd., Ceresco, MI49033, have four grown children, includingJane Kenyon Lawrence, ’83. Ralph isretired, and Linda is the enrichmentcoordinator with Harper Creek CommunityEducation.

John and Justine Oliver Krsul , both ’59,7094 Huntington Dr., Sawyer, MI 49125,have been married since 1958 and have twodaughters and two grandchildren. John is apartner in Dickinson Wright PLLS. Heholds a J.D. from the University ofMichigan and just finished a term astreasurer of the American Bar Association.

Keith Leak, ’59, 24 Benton Rd., Saginaw,MI 48602, is an attorney with Maturen,Mahlburg, Leak and Brandt. He is involvedwith the National Ski Patrol, the SaginawBar Association Board, and the localhospital board. Keith holds a J.D. from theDetroit College of Law. He and his wife,Mary Ann Abbot, have three children,including Sarah Leak, ’91, and threegrandchildren.

John and Gloria Schultz Leppi, both ’59,108 Sundance Court, Weatherford, TX76087, are enjoying retirement. They areboth very involved with the community andchurch, including the Parker CountyCancer Care Services Steering Committee,a program that Gloria initiated to helpunder-insured and poverty-level cancerpatients and their families. The couple hastwo children and six grandchildren.

Susan Collins Liebetrau, ’59, 4651 GulfShore Blvd., Naples, FL 34103, is retiredfrom the Bloomfield Hills Schools. She is amember of Delta Kappa Gamma andP.E.O. and volunteers at St. Joseph MercyHospital and a literacy group. Susan holdsan M.Ed. from Wayne State University.She has two children and four stepchildren.Susan and her husband Russell live inBloomfield Hills May through October andNaples November through April.

David Lindberg, ’59, 185 Hillcrest Dr.,California, PA 15419, is pastor of a UnitedMethodist Church. He is the past presidentof the Rotary Club, president of the localMinisterium, a pastoral pension consultant,and a Paul Harris Rotary Fellow. Davidholds an M.Div. from Wesley TheologicalSeminary. He and his wife Susan have onedaughter, Heather Lindberg, ’01.

Larry Manning , ’59, 928 Princeton Blvd.SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506, is an oral andmaxillofacial surgeon. He is involved withthe American Cancer Society and the WestMichigan Dental Society. He is therecipient of a St. Georges Medal and aDistinguished Service Award. Larry holdsa D.D.S. and an M.S. from the Universityof Michigan. He and his wife, ShirleyBensen Manning, ’60, have three childrenand three grandchildren. They havetraveled to Norway, the Galapagos Islands,Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and NewZealand.

Larry Masteller , ’59, 6773 Ardsley Dr.,Canton, MI 48187, is retired as director ofadult and community education with thePlymouth Canton Community Schools.Prior to serving in that position he had beena teacher and coach. Larry is boardpresident of the Michigan Adult EducationAdministrators Association as well as ofthe Wayne Monroe Adult and CommunityEducators Association. He and his wifeDolores have four children.

Carolyn Wood Miller , ’59, 1612 S. SanRay, Green Valley, AZ 85614, is a retiredmedical technician. She holds an M.T. andan A.S.C.P. She and her husband Lloydhave five children and 10 grandchildren.

Charles and Mary Cameron Nebel, both’59, P.O. Box 664, Munising, MI 49862,have been married for 39 years and havethree children, including CharlesCameron Nebel, ’83, and Camie NebelConklin , ’93. Chuck is in partnership withtheir son Charles in Nebel and Nebel,Attorneys at Law. He is also on the boardof the People’s State Bank, the HiawathaTelephone Company and the Alger CountyHistorical Society. Chuck and Mary havevisited Rome and China.

Glenna VanderMeer Paukstis, ’59, 502N. Lakeshore Dr., Ludington, MI 49431, isretired and becoming involved withElderhostels. She has been involved withthe American Association of UniversityWomen, Delta Zeta sorority and severalchurch committees. Glenna holds an M.A.from the University of Michigan. She andher husband, Chuck Paukstis, ’57, haveone daughter, Sarah Paukstis, ’93.

David Peterson, ’59, 2180 N. AltadenaDr., Pasadena, CA 91107, is director of theUniversity of Southern California’sLeonard Davis School of Gerontologylocated in Los Angeles. He holds an M.S.in education from Western MichiganUniversity and a Ph.D. from the Universityof Michigan. David and his wife, EllenMay Gable Peterson, ’60, have twochildren and two grandchildren. They havetraveled to Kenya, Chile, Easter Island,Mexico, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Scotland,Nova Scotia, Montana, Alaska, Taiwan,Japan and China. This past summer theytraveled on a freighter through the SouthPacific, visiting the major islands in FrenchMarquaise.

William Prout, Jr. , ’59, 2215 Runnymede,Ann Arbor, MI 48103, is retired as the headof the special education department atCody High School. He is involved withCEC and holds an M.A. from Wayne StateUniversity.

Arnold and Lois Hall Rich, both ’59,29670 East Side Dr., Beaver Island, MI49782, are retired. They have threedaughters and six grandchildren.

Roberta Langdon Richardson, ’59, 1417Fox Hollow Rd., Niskayuna, NY 12309, isa retired teacher. She had previously servedas an advertising assistant and instructionalassistant. Roberta is involved withOperation Friendship, Literacy Volunteers

of America, the American Association ofUniversity Women and Faith UnitedMethodist Church. She holds an M.S.Ed.from the College of St. Rose, Albany. Sheand her husband Max have three children.

Nancy Gardner Robinson, ’59, 100Willow Ave., State College, PA 16801, isretired and now involved with the RetiredSenior Volunteer Program. She is involvedwith St. Paul’s United Methodist Churchand the ChristCare ministry. Nancy and herhusband James have four children and threegrandchildren. They recently took a trip toGreece.

Larry and Sally Klang Robson, both ’59,2765 Woodcliff Circle SE, Grand Rapids,MI 49506, have been married for 39 yearsand have two children, Bill Robson, ’86,and Becky Robson- Chuba, ’89, and twograndchildren. Larry is a vascular surgeon.He has served on the Albion College Boardof Trustees, as president of the MichiganChapter of the American College ofSurgeons, as governor-at-large of theAmerican College of Surgeons, and aspresident of the Michigan VascularSociety. He holds an M.D. from theUniversity of Michigan. He received aDistinguished Alumni Award from Albionin fall 1999 (see also Alumni AssociationNews section).

David Ryder, ’59, 372 Canyon Dr. S.,Columbus, OH 43214, is a senior scientificinformation analyst with ChemicalAbstracts Service. He is also currentlyleader of the Hospital Homebound Ministryof Beechwood Christian Church and amember of the church’s choir. David holdsan M.S. in physical chemistry from theUniversity of Wisconsin. He and his wifeSusan have two sons and one granddaugh-ter.

John Schlecht, ’59, 4510 Great Oak Rd.,Rockville, MD 20853, and his wife, JudithDixon Schlecht, ’60, have been married for40 years and have two children and twograndsons.

Marsha Bradshaw Skinner, ’59, 23905Brookplace, Farmington, MI 48336, hastaught school in Livonia as well as Japanand Italy. She is a member of numerouscharity and civic groups, including the local

cancer association, Welcome Wagon, andvarious school activities. Marsha holds anM.A. from Western Michigan University.She and her husband Gerald have two sons.

Betty Briggs Smith, ’59, 20 Parsons Court,Coldwater, MI 49036, is pastor of theColdwater United Methodist Church. Sheholds a master of divinity degree from theMethodist Theological School in Ohio.Betty has lived in New York, Connecticut,Los Angeles and the Monterey Peninsula inCalifornia and has traveled to Europe,Indonesia, Africa, Israel and Palestine, anda mission trip to Haiti. She has threechildren.

Loren Smith, ’59, P.O. Box 953, El Prado,NM 87529, is the founder and principalpartner of Threshold Management. He hasworked for Colgate, General Foods,Citibank, the U.S. Postal Service, andSerta, Inc. Loren is also chair of theCouncil for Basic Education and holds anM.B.A. from the University of Michigan.He and his wife Ann have three childrenand five grandchildren.

Robert and Lynn Cassell Smith, both ’59,1301 Canterbury Lane, Glenview, IL60025, have been married for 42 years andhave two children and three grandchildren.Robert is an orthodontist. He is president ofthe local Kiwanis Club, past president ofthe Illinois Society of Orthodontists, and amember of the Evanston Association ofDentists.

Patricia Miller Stade, ’59, 2820 MarshallCt., #4, Madison, WI 53705, is retired after20 years as the director of the PortageCounty Department on Aging. She is activein the Democratic Party and choralactivities. Patricia has lived in Tanzaniaand Kenya and traveled to Egypt, Ethiopiaand Italy. She and her husband Ramonhave four children and one grandchild.

Shirlee Swanson, ’59, 5221 Lake HarborRd., Muskegon, MI 49441, is a teacherwith the Muskegon Public Schools. Shehad previously taught at the FruitportSchools. Shirlee has served as president ofthe PTO and has been involved withFriends of the Symphony, the West ShoreSymphony board, and the leadership team

for the Bible Study Fellowship. She holds aB.S.E.E. in education and an M.A. in earlychildhood education. Shirlee has traveled toGreece, Turkey, Africa, Ireland, Ecuador,India and the Galapagos Islands. She hasthree children and nine grandchildren.

Joseph Taylor, ’59, 3250 O’Brien SW,Grand Rapids, MI 49544, is a pediatricianwith ABC Pediatrics of Grand Rapids. Heholds an M.D. from the University ofMichigan and an F.A.A.P. Joseph hasridden his horse across Michigan every fallfor the past 15 years. He and his wife,Janet VanWingen Taylor, ’58, have fourchildren and five grandchildren.

Don Vangilder, ’59, 7640 Linden Dr.,West Bloomfield, MI 48324, is retired asvice president of business markets withAmeritech. He has traveled to NewZealand, France and Italy. Don and his wifeNancy have three daughters and fourgrandchildren.

Donna Grindle Williams, ’59, 411 N.Eaton St., Albion, MI 49224, is retiredfrom the Albion Public Schools afterteaching music for 23 years. She isinvolved with the First United MethodistChurch choir, the American Association ofUniversity Women, the ELT Club, the ArtsAdvisory Council of the Albion Commu-nity Foundation, and the Michigan MusicEducators’ Association. Donna holds anM.A. in liberal studies from HamlineUniversity. She and her husband John havetwo children and one grandson.

Stephanie Jean Witt, ’59, PMP #101,6757 Cascade Rd. SE, Grand Rapids, MI49546, is president of Kitchens byStephanie, Ltd. She is currently travelingthroughout most of the country as thepresident-elect of the National Kitchen andBath Association. Stephanie and herhusband, Gilbert Witt , ’57, have threedaughters and four grandchildren. She hastraveled to England, Germany, Finland,France and Mexico.

Stoffer Challenge enters year twoThe Albion College Annual Fund exceeded its dollar goal last year and met the termsof the first year of the Stoffer Alumni Challenge with 42.5% alumni giving! With yourhelp, this year will become another record-setter.

The Annual Fund at Albion continues to provide students with the wealth ofopportunities—both in and out of the classroom—that define “The Albion Experience.”

With an increased dollar goal of $1.92-millionthis fiscal year and a 44% alumni participationgoal to meet the terms of the second year ofthe Stoffer Alumni Challenge, your gift is moreimportant than ever. The loyalty and generosityof our alumni, parents and friends will makethese achievements possible.

Thank you for your past and future supportof Albion College.

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David Youngs, ’59, 6 Shaker Glen Lane,Shaker Heights, OH 44122, is a health careconsultant with Ernst and Young inCleveland. He has also held academicpositions at the University of Michigan,Johns Hopkins University and theUniversity of Vermont, and practiced as anobstetrician and gynecologist in Maine andCleveland. He is a board member of theFirst Unitarian Church in Cleveland. Davidand his wife Margot have two sons. Heholds an M.D. from the University ofMichigan and an M.S. from the CaseWestern Reserve University School ofManagement.

62Clark Chipman , ’62, is the subject of atheatrical documentary, “A Day in the Lifeof Clark Chipman,” performed at the NewYork International Fringe Festival inAugust by its creator Jon Schumacher. Theproduction is the first in a series oftheatrical documentaries that explore thelives of Americans at the end of the 20thcentury. At each performance, Schumacherselects a volunteer from the audience to bethe next subject in his series. The premiseof the production is that in the daily life ofevery individual there exists a story to betold. Chipman works in Higher EducationPrograms for the U.S. Department ofEducation in Chicago.

William Richardson, ’62, has beenrecognized by the Guizhou ProvincialEducation Commission as an honorededucator of Guizhou Province, People’sRepublic of China, for 10 years of supportto educational development in China’spoorest province. He is the first foreignerever to receive this award. In addition totraining Chinese middle school teachers ofEnglish, Bill has established and facilitatesan education fund to provide theopportunity for 200 countryside students toattend school. He lives in Waterford.

641964 Reunion Co-ChairsCarolyn AishtonWilliam Lauderbach

1964 reunion highlightsby William Lauderbach

Our 35th reunion events at Home-coming 1999 started on Saturdaywith the annual DistinguishedAlumni Awards ceremony. Ourclassmate, Shirley RuemeleBloomquist, was recognized as oneof Albion’s distinguished alumni.We then had lunch together andwatched the Britons win againstDefiance College.

Saturday evening approximately40 alumni, spouses and friendsenjoyed a wonderful dinner in theWendell Will Room at theStockwell Library. The roomprovided a beautiful setting for re-establishing old friendships andcatching up on 35 years. We werejoined by retired faculty membersKeith Moore and Ewell “Doc”Stowell and their spouses. AnotherAlbion faculty member with us wasour own Marty Ludington.

Class members came from nearand far: New York City, Washing-ton, DC, Boston, Florida andCalifornia were represented as wellas many places in between.

It was a great time and we’relooking forward to the 40th!

Joan Fraser Forshew Albrecht, ’64, 1823Brookwood Dr., Akron, OH 44313, is ahomemaker and active with the FairlawnCountry Club, the Odd Lot InvestmentClub, and the Bath Church, where sheparticipates in three music ensembles.Joan’s husband, Frank Forshew, ’63, diedin 1992, and she married lifelong friendHarry Albrecht in 1995. The Albrechts’combined family includes six grownchildren and seven grandchildren.

Steve Alcorn, ’64, retired in May from hispractice as a urologist and is now lookingtoward developing a second career. He andhis wife Gwen are dividing their timebetween Florida and their home inCashiers, NC.

Kenn Ashley, ’64, 1446 Windcrest Dr.,Deerfield, IL 60015, is senior vicepresident and treasurer of True NorthCommunications, Inc. He’s also a memberof the Board of Directors for ChicagoPension Forum, and corporate finance chairfor the National Association of CorporateTreasurers. Kenn holds an M.B.A. from theUniversity of Michigan. He has beenmarried for 32 years to Lyn Tuttle Ashley,’67.

David Barrett , ’64, 41 Mall Rd.,Burlington, MA 01805, is CEO and chairof Lahey Clinic, a move that represents “alifelong dream of providing outstandinghealth care to those who need it.” He wasformerly Urology Department chair at theMayo Clinic. He has been active on theAlbion College Board of Trustees and aspresident of the American Board ofUrology. The recipient of an M.D. degreefrom Wayne State University, he is theauthor of four books and 160 journalarticles. David and Sibley BurlesonBarrett , ’66, are the parents of threechildren, including Susan Barrett, ’96.

Barbara “Pancho” Newcomb Behrmann,’64, 840 LaBonne Pkwy., Manchester, MO63021, teaches a kindergarten/first gradecombination classroom in Parkway SchoolDistrict. She is an active member of theManchester Good Shepherd LutheranChurch, and is looking forward to aneventual move to Spring Hill, FL, forretirement. She holds a master’s degree ineducation. She and her husband Victorhave two children.

Dennis and Shirley Ruemele Bloomquist,both ’64, 11136 Rich Meadow Dr., GreatFalls, VA 22066, describe themselves asbeing “devoted professionals (sometimestoo extreme),” Dennis as assistant generaltax counsel to Mobil Corp., Shirley asdirector of student services for ThomasJefferson High School for Science andTechnology. Active United Church ofChrist members, the Bloomquists havebeen involved in numerous professionalorganizations. They have taken trips to allcorners of the globe, and camped andtraveled throughout the U.S. with familyand friends. Shirley received an AlbionCollege Distinguished Alumni Award infall 1999 (see also Alumni AssociationNews section). The Bloomquists have twosons.

Joanne Braucher, ’64, 625 WentworthDr., Richardson, TX 75081, is the directorof Presbyterian Children’s Homes, Dallas,the latest position in her 32-year career insocial work. She is involved with numerousprofessional organizations on the local,state and national levels and is an active

leader of Alpha Xi Delta at the nationallevel, currently as foundation trustee.Joanne has traveled extensively throughoutthe U.S. and Europe.

Sally Breckenridge, ’64, 321 Erskine Rd.,Stamford, CT 06903, is a vice presidentwith Reuters, currently heading theresearch staff for fixed income data. She isalso a member of the Stamford SymphonyOrchestra board. She has enjoyed outdooradventuring, including a raft trip throughthe Grand Canyon and a Kenyan safari. Sheand her husband, David Muntner, are theparents of Alan, 13, and Harold, 11.

Terry Clark , ’64, 1414 Brainerd Ave.,Duluth, MN 55811, continues to work part-time as medical director for health plans atSt. Mary’s/Duluth Clinic Health System.He also serves as associate professor ofclinical medicine at the University ofMinnesota-Duluth. He and his wifeKathleen have three children.

Maralyn Bigony Conaway, ’64, 4390Carriage Hill Lane, Columbus, OH 43220,is a library media specialist with ColumbusPublic Schools. She has traveled theCanadian Rockies via train and is a veteranof caring for three elderly parentssimultaneously. She holds a master’sdegree from Ohio State University.Maralyn and her husband Philip have twochildren and three grandchildren.

Donna Schenkelberger Corey, ’64, P.O.Box 807, Crystal River, FL 34423-0807, isa writer/publisher with SundiverProductions Co., Inc., which producesbooks and videos on marine life andconservation; she also teaches a fifth-gradeschool-to-work program for Citrus CountySchools. A member of the advisory boardfor Gulf Archaeological Research Institute,she is also a member of the Academy ofUnderwater Scientists, the OutdoorWriters’ Association and the NationalLeague of American Pen Women. Donnatravels frequently in her research on coraland manatees, which are frequent subjectsfor her painting. She holds a master’sdegree in art practice from Michigan StateUniversity, and has two daughters.

George Croll, ’64, 43642 Serenity Dr.,Northville, MI 48167-8930, is retired froma 30-year career as a teacher and coach atLivonia Stevenson High School. Unable toleave the classroom, George is substituteteaching at the elementary level as well asteaching a class at Wayne State University,where his boss, chair of the Department ofSpeech Communication, is a formerstudent. He is past president of theMichigan Association of SpeechCommunication, and a member of theMichigan Speech Coaches’ Hall of Fame.Playing in two tennis leagues and judgingfor the USTA also keep him busy. Georgemarried Joy Hillebrand in 1997, and hastwo children and two grandchildren.

Susan Babbitt DeBaker, ’64, 11320 E.Crystal Lake Dr., Cement City, MI 49233,is “cheerfully, happily, joyfully retiredfrom 31 years of teaching.” She holds amaster’s degree from Michigan StateUniversity and has two children.

Roger Dunn, ’64, 1004 Siwanoy St.,Tampa, FL 33629, is vice president forhuman resources at TECO Energy, Inc. Healso serves on the boards of the TampaMuseum of Art and the Boys’ and Girls’Club of Tampa Bay Area. Roger earned hisM.B.A. from the University of Michigan.Travels of note for him have includedarchaeological tours of Sicily and Tuscany.He has four children and two grandchil-dren.

Robert Fischer, ’64, 8110 Derby Lane,Owings Mills, MD 21117, works as asenior vice president for LifeBridge Health.

He is a member of several professional andcivic organizations. Robert holds a master’sin health administration from theUniversity of Michigan. He has threechildren and two grandchildren.

Theodore “Ted” Fleming, ’64, 5751 SW64 Pl., Miami, FL 33143, is a professor ofbiology at the University of Miami.Internationally respected as a tropical anddesert ecologist, Ted’s work has beenfeatured in National Geographic,Smithsonian and Natural Historymagazines, and his work on bats in theSonora desert will be featured on “Wild!America” on TBS next spring. Ted’sresearch has been concentrated in Mexico,Australia, England and Central America.He and his wife, Marcia StrandbergFleming, ’65, have two children.

Pam Nicolls Gould, ’64, 8425 ChucksutDr., Montague, MI 49437, keeps busy witha host of volunteer activities for health-related organizations, and was named 1988Volunteer of the Year for the NationalChronic Colitis Foundation of America.She’s also a member of the Grand Rapidsalumnae chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta anda member of the U.S. Tennis Association.Pam spent nearly two years living in Japan,and now spends winters in Arizona, hikingand doing photography. She and herhusband, Frank Gould, ’63, have twochildren and four grandchildren.

Peter Hanson, ’64, 3045 Eagles LandingCircle, Clearwater, FL 33761, manages hisinvestments, golfs, boats and travels sincehe retired from a dental practice. He is thefather of two children.

Marie Warn Henning-Grider , ’64, 13182White Pine Dr., DeWitt, MI 48820, hascompleted a 30-year career teaching andcoaching in the Lansing School District,where, she notes, “I am proud to have beena part of the Title IX changes and the birthof girls’ interscholastic athletics in Lansingschools.” She has been involved on theDeWitt City Council and Board ofEducation, and is an active member of theRedeemer United Methodist Church. Mariealso holds a master’s degree from MichiganState University. She has three children,including Julie Henning, ’01, and threegrandchildren.

Janice Sorokin Jackson, ’64, 2345 CostaVerde Blvd. #302, Jacksonville, FL 32250,has recently moved her career to BishopPenny High School in Jacksonville, whereshe teaches Spanish. In Michigan, sheserved as state director for the NationalSpanish Exam for the AmericanAssociation of Teachers of Spanish andPortuguese. She also was the 1999commencement speaker for Grand BlancHigh School, and was the Grand BlancChamber of Commerce’s 1998 Educator ofthe Year. She traveled to Salamanca, Spain,in 1995 on an education grant from theSpanish Embassy, and has also been toPatagonia and Argentina. She looksforward to the chance to spend more timewith one of her two sons and her twogranddaughters.

Allan Katz , ’64, 1048 Oakmont Court,Napa, CA 94559, is a physician, lookingforward to an “early retirement” so he canindulge his many hobbies, including grape-growing for Chiles Valley Winery. Heholds an M.D. from the University ofMichigan. Allan married his wife, Susan, in1988, and he is the father of two growndaughters and stepfather to two children,including Charlotte Florent, ’02.

Margaret “Peg” Krengel , ’64, 129Orchard Court, Blue Bell, PA 19422, isenjoying retirement after 31 years workingfor the U.S. Department of Housing andUrban Development. A member of thePennsylvania Horticultural Society and the

St. Thomas Church Landscape Committeechair, Peg is also studying ornamentalhorticulture at Longwood Gardens. She hasmade many trips to Europe and Asia sinceretiring, including an archaeological dig inSpain. She has three stepsons and fourgrandsons.

Carol Allman Lee, ’64, 1326 Gettysburg,Rochester Hills, MI 48306, is administratorfor the Birmingham Unitarian Church. Sheand her husband, Al, recently completed a50-year history of the church. They havetraveled to France and once to Puerto Ricoto visit their son, Christopher Lee, ’95,when he was living there. The Lees havetwo children.

Ernest Lindblad, Jr. , ’64, 9 BlossomLane, Wallingford, CT 06492, works as theNew England/Albany area vice president ofSprint Corp. A Vietnam War veteran, heserved as captain in the 3rd Marinedivision. He and his wife Barbara have fivechildren.

Henry “Jock” and Robin DillerMacMorran , both ’64, 502 Old Barn Rd.,Barrington, IL 60010, report that Jockcontinues in his position as president/CEOof LMC Bank, while Robin is retired. Shereports that their new address is atownhouse on Lake Barrington, and thatthey are also currently building a retirementhome in Hot Spring, Ark. The MacMorransspent their 35th anniversary on a trip toStratford, Ont., and have enjoyed familytrips on the Colorado River and cruising theHawaiian Islands. They are the parents oftwo children, including GordonMacMorran , ’90, and are in-laws toLaura Swan MacMorran , ’92.

Marty White Martin , ’64, 781Westchester Rd., Grosse Pointe Park48230, is an automotive sales representa-tive for Lowry Sales Engineering. She hastraveled to Hong Kong, Bangkok,Singapore, Greece and Turkey among hersojourns, and encouraged her children,Heidi Martin Scanlon, ’92, and AndrewMartin , ’95, in their undergraduate off-campus experiences. Marty is the mother ofthree children.

Sara Meriwether Maxfield, ’64, 26530Dundee, Huntington Woods 48070, teachesfifth grade in the Clawson School District.Her first class graduated from high schoolthis year, and presented her with a citationas the elementary teacher who had made adifference in their lives. Sara spent the pastsummer on an educational research trip inJapan, learning about the Japaneseeducational system as well as visitingstudents’ homes. She and her husband, BobMaxfield , ’63, have two sons and onegrandson.

David McAllister , ’64, 6370 ProvidenceRd., Charlotte, NC 28226, is in practice asan obstetrician-gynecologist. David and hiswife Gwendolyn have two children.

Joy Marie Fitzgerald Poole, ’64, 3161Fairbury Lane, Fairfax, VA 22031, servesas head teacher for the Juvenile Courtalternative high school; she also co-owns aCruiseOne franchise. She is active in twochurch communities, and is a member ofthe English Teachers’ Association ofVirginia and of Fairfax. Joy holds amaster’s degree from George MasonUniversity and enjoys taking at least threecruises a year and playing with hergranddaughter. She and her husbandRaymond have three children.

Patrick “Rick” Pruim , ’64, 2603Greenway Circle, Canon, CO 81212, andhis wife, Judy Christl Pruim , ’65, own afurniture store in Canon.


1999 LifetimeAchievement AwardsUnder an initiative led by Paul “Skip”Ungrodt, ’52, chair of the Briton AthleticDrive, the Athletic Hall of Fame this yearestablished a new recognition program, theLifetime Achievement Award. The LifetimeAchievement Award honors those individualswho have provided outstanding service toBriton athletics or who have brought nationalrecognition and distinction to Albion College.Recipients of this award will usually bepreviously inducted members of the Hall ofFame. The names of the Lifetime Achieve-ment Award winners will be engraved ongranite blocks installed as part of thecommemorative brick walkway leading intothe Briton athletic complex.

Elkin R. “Ike” Isaac, ’48Elkin R. “Ike” Isaac, ’48, was a member ofthe Albion College faculty from 1952 to 1975.He also served as head basketball coach(1953-1959), head track coach (1953-1962)and head cross country coach (1962-1969).He led his teams to one MIAA basketball title,six consecutive league championships in trackand three cross country championships. Healso served as athletic director.

As an Albion student, Isaac earned All-MIAA honors in 1943, 1946 and 1947 for hisoutstanding performance on the basketballcourt. He was captain and voted MostValuable Player of the 1947 team. He wasinducted into the Albion College Athletic Hallof Fame in 1989.

In recognition of Isaac’s long-time supportof Albion College athletics, the new outdoortrack, completed in 1997, was named in hishonor. The Elkin Isaac Track Drive as co-chaired by Cedric and June Luke Dempsey,both ’54, with assistance from ThomasSchwaderer, ’56.

The Elkin R. Isaac Endowed Lectureshipwas created in 1991. Today, this endowmenthas been expanded to fund the Elkin R. IsaacStudent Research Symposium, a premierevent held each spring on the Albion campus.

Isaac resides with his wife Edith inLibertyville, IL.

Hall of Fame member June Luke Dempsey, ’54,was emcee for this year’s ceremonies.

Learning the lessons of competition—the Albion wayby Stephen Greenhalgh, ’74

Lifetime Achievement Awards begun atHall of Fame festivitiesThe 1999 Athletic Hall of Fame banquet andceremony, held Oct. 1, 1999 during Home-coming Weekend, offered some moments ofsweet celebration and of remembrance.Eleven individuals and one team wereinducted into the Hall of Fame. In addition,the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Awardswere presented to three legendary Britoncoaches: Elkin “Ike” Isaac, ’48, Morley

Fraser, and Leonard “Fritz” Shurmur, ’54.Shurmur passed away in August 1999.

Hall of Famer James Hurd, ’60, introducedthe Lifetime Achievement Award recipientsand reminisced about Shurmur’s coachingdays at Albion and the impact he had on hisplayers. James Reutter, ’55, accepted theaward on behalf of the Shurmur family.Reutter has since become the Albion Collegechair of a campaign to raise a $2-million

A member of the 1971 MIAA championbaseball team, Greenhalgh gave the accep-tance speech on behalf of all of the inducteesduring this year’s Athletic Hall of Famebanquet.

I was a little surprised when Ben Hancockcalled to ask me to speak at this year’s Hall ofFame banquet. I played on some greatbaseball teams, but I was a career .220 hitter..220 hitters do not normally win or acceptHall of Fame awards. An equivalent situationwould be Bob Eucher accepting the Hall ofFame award in Cooperstown for MarkMcGwire. But I share the values that haveguided this College and its athletic programsfor generations, and I believe I can speak foreveryone here as to those values.

Hall of Fame dinners are an opportunity torecognize athletic achievement by those whohave excelled beyond all others. But just asimportant, these dinners allow us to reflect onwhat is so unique about the Albion experienceand the role of athletics in that experience.

Albion College is built on the rock, thefoundation, of the liberal arts education. Thisfoundation recognizes the importance ofathletics but it does not exalt athletics over thelarger goals of personal and intellectualgrowth. Athletics simply enhance those goalsand help to prepare the athlete for the lifeahead.

At Albion, there is no redefinition ofacademic standards for athletes. There are noathletic scholarships, no special dorms. Itseems ironic, but the fact that athletics andathletes are not given special status ortreatment is what makes the experience sospecial, so effective at building character andgenerating the wonderful memories we allhave and share. My fondest memories are notof the big base hits, the three league champi-onships, or of catching shutouts thrown byJohn and Glenn. Instead, I remember things

like Frank Joranko’s pep talks inthe car on the way home after atough loss and the long walksback to Kresge Gym with myteammates after a tough practicein March when it was 45 degreesand drizzling.

Who would trade their Albionathletic experience for that of alarger school? We had anexperience in which the lessonsof competition were learned in anenvironment utterly free of thecynicism and the distraction thatare so prevalent in sports programs at NCAADivision I schools. We only had to see ateammate leave a practice long enough tocomplete a chemistry experiment in order tounderstand this perfectly.

We learned these values from our coaches,our role models and our teachers—people likeMorley Fraser, Frank Joranko, Char Duff,Mike Turner, Dave Egnatuk and all the others.These are people to whom Division IIIcoaching is a higher calling—an opportunityto work with young athletes and to influencetheir lives without being in constant fear that alosing season could cost them their job.People who coach for the tremendouspersonal satisfaction it brings. People whohave chosen to coach at Albion because it is aplace that judges their success not by howmany professional athletes they produce, butrather by whether they are serving theCollege’s larger goals of personal andintellectual development of its students.

Even at the tender age of 19, I couldunderstand this and appreciate it. And at thenot-so-tender age of 47, after 25 years of workand 17 years of marriage, I have learned that acrucial requirement for success in one’s life orcareer is balance—the kind of balance oneacquires from participation in athletics whilebeing challenged intellectually in theclassroom. The kind of balance that the liberalarts education is designed to foster.

There is nothing new about these values.They have guided Albion’s athletic programsforever, through generations of coaches,administrations and athletes. I stand here as alineal descendant of Samuel Dickie, presidentof the College from 1901 to 1921. Dr. Dickieshared these beliefs and values, as I do 98years after he became president, and less than90 days before the beginning of the nextcentury. And for the future, we can turn toPresident Mitchell and the College’s newVision, Liberal Arts at Work , which soperfectly embodies these values. Throughoutthe Vision document there is a fundamentalemphasis on liberal arts education and thebroader college experience as a means ofcreating students who will graduate to livelives of meaning and purpose. Athleticparticipation is recognized as a crucial part ofthat broader experience.

Yogi Berra once said at a similar occasion,“Thank you for making this evening neces-sary.” The meaning of Yogi’s pearls ofwisdom is often less than clear. However, ifwe apply his statement to this event, I knowexactly what he was trying to say. Becauseathletics at Albion are necessary. And greatcoaches and teams and athletes are necessary.And great college presidents are necessary.And the Athletic Hall of Fame is necessary.Thank you, all of you, for making this eveningnecessary, and for recognizing the importanceof athletics and its tremendous impact on thestudent athletes we are here to honor. Forwithout their contributions, Albion would be alesser school and our athletes would be lessprepared for the life that lies ahead of them.

endowment for the Fritz Shurmur EducationInstitute at Albion College. National co-chairsof the fund drive are Cedric Dempsey, ’54,and Seattle Seahawks head coach MikeHolmgren. Alumni who would like moreinformation about the Shurmur Institutecampaign should contact Ben Hancock, vicepresident for institutional advancement,Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI49224, telephone: 517/629-0242.

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Stephen Greenhalgh, ’74, delivering the Hall of Fameacceptance speech.

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H. Morley FraserAfter a successful high school coachingcareer, Morley Fraser came to Albion in 1954as head baseball and football coach. Heremained as the head baseball coach for 18years, winning six MIAA championships.However, he may be best remembered for histenure of 14 years as head football coach.During that time, Albion won five MIAAchampionships, compiled an 81-41-1 record,had five Most Valuable MIAA footballplayers, recorded two undefeated seasons, andestablished a winning streak of 15 consecutivegames. In 1961, Fraser was selected as theMidwest Regional Small College footballcoach of the year.

For his accomplishments, he was inductedinto Albion’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989.He was further honored in 1990 when formerplayers and friends established the endowedMorley Fraser Student Leadership Awards.

Through the years, Fraser has also becomewell known for his pre-game talks to teams onthe college and professional levels, and he hasbeen active statewide with the Fellowship ofChristian Athletes.

A 1947 graduate of Washburn University,he earned a master’s degree in 1954 fromMichigan State University.

After leaving his Briton coaching positionin 1972, Fraser began a 14-year tenure asexecutive director of Bellemont Manor,Albion College’s conference center, retiringin 1987. Fraser and his wife Liz live inAlbion.

Leonard F. “Fritz” Shurmur, ’54A football coach fornearly half a century,and considered adefensive mastermind inthe National FootballLeague, Fritz Shurmurbegan his professionalcareer as a graduateassistant under Britoncoach Morley Fraser in1954. After receiving amaster’s degree ineducation administrationat Albion in 1956, Shurmur stayed on as adefensive coordinator.

He then coached at the University ofWyoming for 12 years. From there, his careerled him to the NFL and included stints withDetroit, New England, Los Angeles, Phoenixand Green Bay. In each of his NFL stops,Shurmur-led defenses ranked at or near thetop of the defensive rankings. While at GreenBay, he earned his first Super Bowl ring whenthe Packers defeated the New EnglandPatriots in 1997. He also was the author offour books on coaching team defense.

Shurmur was among the charter membersof Albion’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989. AnAll-MIAA performer in both football andbaseball, he excelled in football and wascaptain of the 1953 team, voted the MIAAMost Valuable Player and received Little All-America honors. He was also president of hissenior class and a member of Alpha TauOmega fraternity.

In recognition of his career accomplish-ments, Shurmur received an honorary doctorof pedagogy degree from Albion in 1997.

In spring 1999, Shurmur joined the SeattleSeahawks as defensive coordinator, whilemaintaining his residence near Green Bay. Hepassed away in August and is survived by hiswife Peggy, their three children and theirfamilies.

1999 Hall of FameinducteesThe Albion College Athletic Hall of Famerecognizes those individuals who have madeexceptional contributions to the achievementsand prestige of Albion College in the field ofathletics, either by their performance onathletic teams representing the College or bymeritorious efforts in years after graduation.

The criteria for selection to the Hall ofFame are listed with the nomination form thataccompanies this article.

Individuals

Catherine A. Bachinski, ’84A three-year captainand MVP of theBriton women’sbasketball team,Cathy Bachinski alsobecame the secondleading scorer inAlbion’s history with1,214 points. She wasthe MIAA basketballMVP in 1983-84 andwas named to the All-MIAA and All-Statebasketball teams in 1982-83 and 1983-84. Involleyball, Bachinski was the team’s co-captain and Co-MVP in 1982. Her leadershipcontinued in softball where she was the co-captain and MIAA softball MVP in 1984.Bachinski was named All-State in softballfrom 1982 through 1984 and All-MIAA insoftball in 1983 and 1984. She resides in Flintand teaches at Bentley Community Schools.

John H.C. Baker, ’73John Baker was anoutstanding memberof the 1972 and 1973MIAA championshipbaseball teams. Hisnickname became“Iron Man” becauseduring doubleheadershe would catch thefirst game and thenpitch the secondgame. In 1972 Baker was selected MIAAbaseball MVP. He posted a season battingrecord of .406 that year and a pitching recordof 4-1. He also made the All-MIAA baseballteam in 1973. Today, Baker is the owner andpresident of ATC Fitness Inc. of Norfolk, VA.

Patrick D. Blakley, ’83In track and field,Patrick Blakley tookfirst place in the 400mdash at every dualmeet and at the MIAAchampionships in1981, 1982 and 1983.He was named to theAll-MIAA track teamfor those achieve-ments. The 400m and1600m relay teams on which he competed setschool records in 1983 and 1981, respectively.(The 400m relay record, 41.71 seconds, stillstands.) In 1983, his 400m relay team tookfifth place at the NCAA Division III nationals,achieving All-America status. Blakley alsoserved as track team co-captain that year.Currently, he is a senior financial analyst forBlue Care Network and lives in Flint.

Jeffrey C. CarrierJeffrey Carrier, betterknown as the “Voiceof the Britons,” hasnow posted his 20thyear as announcer forAlbion football andhis 19th year formen’s basketball.Briton athletics hasnever had a moreavid fan. CurrentlyAlbion’s vice president for academic affairs,he has also served as a professor of biology atthe College since 1979. In recognition of hisexemplary teaching and scholarship, he heldthe Chickering Endowed Professorship ofBiology from 1994 to 1998. Carrier lives inAlbion.

Dexter L. Davis, ’80Dexter Davis was akey member of MIAAchampionship teamsin track (1979, 1980)and football (1976,1977), earning All-MIAA honors fortrack in 1979 and1980, and in footballin 1977. He was theleague’s 1979 MVPin track for his top performance in the 100-and 220-yard dashes and the long jump. Amember of the first Albion football team tocompete in the NCAA Division III playoffs(1977), Davis finished his Albion footballcareer ranked as the College’s top rusher,gaining 2,447 career yards. The mark stood asan Albion record until 1991. Today, Davis isan industrial sales representative for BentlerAutomotive in Grand Rapids.

Glenn W. Errington, ’74A Briton baseballgreat, Glenn Erringtonwas the pitcher for the1971, 1972 and 1973MIAA championshipbaseball teams. Hehad a total of 18 winsand only six lossesduring his entirecareer. Errington wasselected to the All-MIAA baseball team in 1972, 1973 and 1974.He was co-captain of Albion’s 1974 team.Errington earned his M.D. degree fromWayne State University. He is now aphysician in private practice in Charlotte, NC,and teaches and lectures on allergies andasthma.

Jill S. Johnson, ’85A standout on thefield hockey team, JillJohnson representedAlbion College on theGreat Lakes Regionalteam in 1983 and1984. She was theMIAA field hockeyMVP in 1984. Thatyear she was also theBritons’ co-captainand MVP. For three years she was selected forboth the All-MIAA team and the MichiganCollegiate Field Hockey Team. Recipient of aB.S. from Western Michigan University in

The first recipients of the Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Awards were honored during thisyear’s induction banquet at Homecoming. James Reutter, ’55, (far left) accepted the award forthe late Fritz Shurmur, ’54, on behalf of the Shurmur family. Also pictured are honorees Elkin“Ike” Isaac, ’48, and Morley Fraser, along with Hall of Famer James Hurd, ’60, whoannounced the creation of the award.

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Selection criteriaIndividual• 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 ormore sports.• The nominee does not necessarily have to be a graduate of Albion, but must have been aformer student.

Coach/athletic administrator/athletic trainer/student manager• The nominee in cases of coaches, athletic administrators or others need not necessarily havebeen a former student, but must have served the College for at least 10 years. Student managersmust have been a student at Albion College and served all 4 years.• The nominee can be selected immediately after leaving the institution or immediately afterretirement. 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.

In search of athletic excellenceAlbion College’s Hall of Fame honors individuals who made exceptional contributions to thefield of athletics, either as students or as alumni. Plaques honoring these inductees are ondisplay in the main hallway of the Dow Recreation and Wellness Center. Any Albion alumnus/amay submit names of candidates for consideration by the selection committee. Simply reviewthe criteria listed and complete the nomination form. All nominations must be received no laterthan April 1, 2000. If you need information about past Hall of Fame inductees or the selectionprocess, please contact Marcia Hepler Starkey, ’74, director of alumni and parent relations, 517/629-0284.

Athletic Hall of Fame nominationsName of nominee____________________________________________Class year___________

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Name of sports participated in and years _____________________________________________

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Please briefly state why you believe this individual should be considered for the Albion CollegeHall of Fame.

Mail this form to: Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, Albion College,611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224.

Deadline: April 1, 2000.

agriculture, Johnson is now the nationaltraining director for Excel Communications.She lives in Middleville.

Jerry R. Masteller, ’59Jerry Masteller was apitcher for the MIAAchampionshipbaseball teams in1957 and 1959, andco-captained the1959 squad. He wasnamed to the All-MIAA baseball teamin 1957 and 1958. Hewas dedicated tobaseball and basketball, becoming a four-yearletter winner in both sports. Now a teacher atShaker Heights (OH) High School, he was thepresident of the Lake Erie League and theGreater Cleveland High School HockeyLeague, and has been a member of athleticadministrators’ organizations on the state andnational levels. Masteller lives in Lyndhurst,OH.

Larry T. Masteller, ’59As the startingrunning back for the1958 football team,Larry Mastellerhelped Albion win theMIAA championshipthat year. In baseball,he earned a spot onthe All-MIAA teamthree years in a row,1957-59. The AlbionCollege baseball team selected him as MVP in1957, and he was also instrumental toAlbion’s winning the league baseballchampionship in 1959. Masteller coachedfootball at Detroit Country Day School from1964 to 1970 and was honored as Coach of

the Year. Then, for 27 years, Masteller wasthe director of adult and community educationat Plymouth Canton Schools. He lives inCanton.

Kevin H. Schaefer, ’77As co-captain of the1976 Briton footballsquad, Kevin Schaeferhelped lead theBritons to anundefeated season andthe MIAA champion-ship. This was theonly football team tofinish undefeated thatyear in Divisions IIand III. After receiving MIAA honorablementions in 1973 and 1974, he was named tothe All-MIAA football team in 1975 and1976. Today Schaefer is the national accountmanager for Newcourt Financial Corp. Helives in Orchard Lake.

Frank Sebastian, ’02Frank Sebastian hadalready attainedstatewide attention forhis catching beforecoming to AlbionCollege. Prior to hissenior season in 1902,The Detroit FreePress said of him:“Sebastian is a naturalcatcher and a naturalhitter. . . . His fielding average is .962, hisbatting average, .862.” Sebastian led theBritons to MIAA championships in 1900 and1901. After graduation, he played semiprobaseball for teams in Jackson and Holland.Sebastian passed away in 1967.

Team

1971 Baseball TeamUnder coach Morley Fraser and assistantcoach Larry Mason, the 1971 baseball teamdid much to establish the College’s reputationfor championship-caliber play under Fraserand, later, Frank Joranko. The team won thefirst of three straight MIAA titles, and anumber of the players also had key roles inthe 1968 championship, giving Britonbaseball four league titles in a six-year span.

Co-captains Arthur Kale and GregoryMacy joined Harry Turney as second-teamAll-MIAA selections. Outfielder DavidMoeller was a unanimous selection as theleague’s Most Valuable Player, and led the

MIAA in hitting, batting .500 (19 hits in 38at-bats). Glenn Errington later earned first-team All-MIAA honors as a pitcher from1972 through 1974, one of a select few MIAApitchers to earn first-team all-league recogni-tion three years in a row.

Other team members included: CharlesArey, Richard Bowman, William Dobbins,Robert Dorr, James Gorey, StephenGreenhalgh, Benjamin Hubbard, RichardJones, Jeffrey Kezlarian, David Lowe, JamesMartin, Donald McClellan, Terry Newton,Eric Rodes, John Salvadore, Daryl Todd,Douglas Wagner, Charles West and DavidWiest.

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The 1971 baseball team claimed the MIAA baseball championship, the first of three straightMIAA titles the squad would win during that era under coach Morley Fraser. Returning for theHall of Fame induction ceremony were: (front row, left to right) Glenn Errington, ’74, JeffreyKezlarian, ’73, Stephen Greenhalgh, ’74, Arthur Kale, ’71, Gregory Macy, ’71, Charles Arey,’72, David Moeller, ’71, Harry Turney, ’71. (second row) Benjamin Hubbard, ’72, DouglasWagner, ’74, Robert Dorr, ’74, William Dobbins, ’74, David Lowe, ’74, coach Morley Fraser,trainer Walt Swyers, Donald McClennan, ’72, Richard Jones, ’71, Eric Rodes, ’73, Jim Martin, ’71.



A look back at Homecoming 1999Homecoming Weekend 1999 opened Friday morning with a breakfast lecture programfeaturing 1999 Distinguished Alumni Award winner and urban redevelopment expert GarryCarley, ’61. The day also included the annual Briton Classic Golf Tournament (with 88golfers, it was the biggest Briton Classic to date), the inaugural Alumni Tennis Tournament(approximately 14 alumni competed in the new Ungrodt Tennis Center) and the Athletic Hallof Fame induction ceremony (see pages 30-32 for details). On Saturday returning alumnienjoyed a Briton football victory (35-21) over the Defiance College Yellow Jackets, adiscussion with President Peter Mitchell, ’67, about developing the Albion area as a retire-ment destination, class reunion dinners and a performance by the Phoenix Big Band.Weekend arts events included a gallery exhibit of ceramic works by Ken Shenstone, ’84,

David Smith, ’81, andPeter Karner, ’89, aswell as a theatreproduction of TomStoppard’s On theRazzle and a Choir andSymphony OrchestraConcert with soloistJennifer Trost, ’79.


The Class of ’49, under reunion chair Stan Jones (foreground), capturedthe awards for the highest contributions in reunion-class giving in honor oftheir 50th reunion, and for the highest attendance for their reunion with 97.

Wide receiver Clay Crooks had receptions good for 141 yards and two touchdowns in theBritons’ 35-21 win over Defiance College in the Homecoming football game. Crooks wasnamed MIAA Player of the Week for his performance.

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Mackenzie Wheeler, ’01, and Ralph McCarty, ’00, (at left) reigned asthe 1999 Homecoming Queen and King, accompanied here by Beckyand Peter Mitchell.

This year’s Homecomingtheme focused on thecentennial year of the Rockon the campus quadrangle.The Rock was suitablypainted for the weekend.

Bob Hetler, ’64, and Michael David, ’64, visit during a presidentialreception at the new Ungrodt Tennis Center. The tennis center was alsothe location for the inaugural Alumni Tennis Tournament.

John Daoud, ’89, introduces his daughter Isabella toPresident Mitchell.

Joe Fleming, ’64, (left) chatswith retired mathematicsprofessor Keith Moore and hiswife Mary Margaret during theClass of ’64 reunion dinner inthe Wendell Will Room.


Five receive Albion’s 1999Distinguished Alumni AwardsEditor’s note: These awards were conferred during a special ceremonyOct. 2, 1999 during Homecoming Weekend.


Garry G. Carley, ’61

Garry Carley has dedicatedhis professional life to law,banking and commerce, buthas always combined hisprofessional achievementswith strong communityinvolvement.

Carley’s entire profes-sional career was connectedwith Standard Federal Bank.Upon his graduation fromWayne State UniversityLaw School in 1964, Carleymaintained a generalcorporate law practice,served as Standard FederalBank’s general counsel andbecame an adjunct lawprofessor at Wayne StateUniversity. From 1970 to1977 he was associated withthe Dykema Gossett lawfirm. Carley then wasnamed Standard Federal Bank’s senior vicepresident and general counsel, acted as thebank’s chief lending officer for many years,and retired as its vice chairman in 1998.Today, Carley is the chairman of DetroitNeighborhood Housing Services, Inc., aposition that taps his business acumen and hispassion for community service.

Carley’s community leadership roles haveincluded vice chairman of the Troy Down-town Development Authority, chair of theTroy Community Foundation and vicepresident of the Coleman A. Young Founda-tion which provides college scholarships toneedy Detroit students. Carley has served as adirector of the Building Industry Associationof Southeastern Michigan and in 1994 was therecipient of its Award for DistinguishedService to the Housing Industry. He has alsoserved as vice chair of the Federal Home LoanBank of Indianapolis. Carley was a founder ofCommunity Living Centers which provideshousing to mentally handicapped adults andserves as a director of the Pheasant RingCommunity, providing housing for autisticpersons.

At Wayne State University, Carley hasserved on the Board of Governors of the LawSchool Alumni Association and the LawSchool’s Committee of Visitors. In 1984, hereceived the Distinguished Law AlumniAward. For Albion College, Carley has beenan active alumnus for nearly four decades,including service on the Albion CollegeAlumni Association Board of Directors. Healso assisted in raising funds for the JulianRammelkamp Endowed Professorship.

Carley and his wife Nancy have twochildren, Deborah Carley Kavulich, ’87, andJeffrey Carley, ’91. The Carleys reside inBloomfield Hills.

Roy C. “Bud” Johns, ’51

The published word is the connecting linkthroughout the life of Bud Johns. He wasworking as a newspaper reporter and had soldhis first magazine articles prior to hisenrollment at Albion College. During hiscollege years, he worked as a reporter for theAlbion Recorder, wrote a weekly column onsmall college sports for Booth Newspapersand continued to write for magazines. Aftergraduation, he worked for the Flint Journal asa reporter until he was called for service in theU.S. Marine Corps where he continuedwriting freelance magazine articles. He joinedthe San Diego Union in 1956 as a politicalreporter and, from 1960 to 1969, worked forFairchild Publications in San Diego and SanFrancisco. He also wrote his first book, TheOmbibulous Mr. Mencken, and in 1968founded Synergistic Press, which he stillheads.

Johns left newspapering in 1969 to becomethe first director of public relations for LeviStrauss & Co. and then served as vicepresident of corporate communications duringthat firm’s major growth years. Additionally,he co-founded Levi Strauss’s much-praisedCommunity Involvement Team concept andinvented the horse-racing sport of Ride & Tie,eventually serving as international director.From the first Ride & Tie race in 1971, thesport grew to more than 350 events annuallyin the U.S. and abroad. Its founding, and first14 years under Johns’ direction, waschronicled in his book What Is This Madness?He retired from Levi Strauss in 1984.

Among his many community roles, heserved for 17 years as a director, includingfour as president, of the Northern Californiaregional open space conservation/land useplanning group, Greenbelt Alliance. Its effortsfighting urban sprawl have helped preservemore than 150,000 acres from development inthe San Francisco Bay Area, and it hasbecome a nationally-known model in thesmart growth movement.

This past summer, his fourth book, OldDogs Remembered, originally published inhardcover in 1993, was reissued in paperback.

He frequently attends Albion’s SanFrancisco Bay Area alumni events andconsistently attends ATO reunions. In 1992Johns married writer Frances Moreland. Theylive in San Francisco.

Larry J. Robson, M.D., ’59

Larry Robson has served the Grand Rapidsarea as a vascular surgeon for nearly 30 years.Robson earned his M.D. degree from theUniversity of Michigan in 1963. From 1960 to1968, he served in the U.S. Navy Reserve, andhe was assigned to active duty from 1968 to1970, including one year in Vietnam with theU.S. Marine Corps. In 1971 he joined thepractice of Delavan, Robson, Patzelt, Heiser& Murphy in Grand Rapids. Also in 1971,Robson joined the team of surgeons at St.Mary’s Mercy Medical Center, BlodgettMemorial Medical Center and Mary Free BedHospital. Robson was one of four physicianswho founded the kidney transplant program atSt. Mary’s Mercy Medical Center, the firstsuch program in West Michigan.

Robson began teaching at the College ofHuman Medicine at Michigan State Univer-sity in 1977 and currently is an associateclinical professor of surgery. Havingdemonstrated excellence as a medicaleducator, Robson was honored in 1989 and in1995 with the Teacher of the Year Award insurgery from the Blodgett Memorial MedicalCenter/St. Mary’s Residency Program.

Robson serves on several committees andboards where he continues to share hisexpertise and knowledge in medicine. Atrustee of the Blodgett Memorial MedicalCenter, he also has served as the president ofthe Michigan Chapter of the AmericanCollege of Surgeons, as a governor-at-large ofthe American College of Surgeons and as thepresident of the Michigan Vascular Society.

Shirley Ruemele Bloomquist, ’64

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Pictured with President Peter Mitchell, ’67, (far left) are the recipients of this year’s Distinguished AlumniAwards: (from left) Garry Carley, ’61, Thomas Wilson, ’51, Shirley Ruemele Bloomquist, ’64, Larry Robson, ’59,and Roy “Bud” Johns, ’51.

Recipients of the Distinguished AlumniAward must be Albion College alumni andshould: display genuine leadership anddedicated service to others; exemplify thequalities of a liberal arts education; anddemonstrate breadth of achievement in career,family and service to the community and/orAlbion College.

Shirley Ruemele Bloomquist’s commitment topromoting educational excellence has beenevident throughout her career. Upon gradua-tion from Albion, she taught science inMichigan high schools but later found her truecalling in counseling and educationalleadership. She left teaching in Michigan topursue graduate work at Columbia Universitywhere she earned an M.A. degree in 1974 andan Ed.M. in 1975. Bloomquist worked for thenext 15 years in guidance and counseling atvarious metropolitan New York high schools.

In 1990 Bloomquist moved to theWashington, DC, area where she accepted theposition of educational evaluator for the U.S.Department of Education. The following year,she became director of student services forWest Springfield High School in Springfield,VA, and then in 1995 she accepted her currentposition as director of student services atThomas Jefferson High School for Scienceand Technology. Thomas Jefferson HighSchool is nationally acclaimed for itseducational programs and for the quality of itsgraduates.

In 1997, Bloomquist was honored asCounselor of the Year for the NorthernVirginia School Counselors and, in 1996,received the Golden Apple Award foroutstanding leadership in education. She wasinvited to present a workshop on technologyin counseling for the U.S. State Departmentand served as a school counseling representa-tive to the National Association of SecondarySchool Principals. She is a founding andcurrent member of the high school advisoryboard for U.S. News and World Report andhas served as a leader in the counselingprofession in New York and Virginia.

Since her graduation from Albion,Bloomquist has actively participated inalumni and campus events. She chaired theEwell and Barbara Stowell Scholarship Drive,co-founded the Metropolitan Washington,DC, Alumni Association chapter and chairedher 20th class reunion.

She married Albion classmate, DennisBloomquist, ’64, and they have two sons,Michael and Eric. The couple resides in GreatFalls, VA.



He is the moderator-elect for the May-flower Congregational Church in GrandRapids and has served on the Albion CollegeBoard of Trustees.

Larry Robson married Albion classmate,Sally Klang Robson, ’59, and they have twochildren, William Robson, D.D.S, ’86, andRebecca Robson, ’89, and two grandchildren.

C. Thomas Wilson, ’51

C. Thomas Wilson has practiced law for morethan 40 years in Detroit but he may be betterknown for his broadcasting persona. Immedi-ately following his graduation from Albion,Wilson began teaching radio and televisionfor the Detroit Public Schools. In 1955 hereceived a J.D. degree from the DetroitCollege of Law and then joined the law firm,now Nelson, Wilson and Wilson, where hepractices today. In addition to his practice,Wilson serves the law community as amember of the Oakland County Bar ProbateCommittee and teaches new lawyer’s classesin guardianship and conservatorship for theOakland County Bar Association.

He continues to volunteer his time as aradio education teacher for elementary agechildren in Detroit. Utilizing his experience asa radio producer, Wilson assists the childrenin a weekly program of music heard locally onthe Detroit Public Schools’ radio station,WDTR-FM. In addition, he served on theBloomfield Hills Board of Education aspresident and treasurer for nine years and theOakland County ISD Board for four years.

Consistent with Wilson’s media interests,he chairs a Town Hall panel discussioncarried on a local television station. On anational level, Wilson produces “Somewherein Time,” a syndicated radio show incorporat-ing Big Band era music.

His other community involvements includemembership on the boards of St. Peter’sHome for Boys and Community YouthWorkers, assisting troubled youth in theBirmingham and Bloomfield areas. Finally, hehas served as a vestryman and senior wardenat St. Martha’s Episcopal Church and St.James Episcopal Church.

A past president of Albion’s AlumniAssociation Board of Directors, he also hasbeen a member of the Board of Trustees andof the Detroit Alumni Association chapter. Heserved on the College’s Planned GivingAdvisory Council, and he and his wifesponsor the annual Wilson Poet Program onthe campus.

Wilson married Albion classmate, FrancesYoung Wilson, ’51, and they have four sons,Christopher, ’75, Michael, ’78, Peter andAndrew, and six grandchildren.

Meritorious Service Award

Up to three Meritorious Service Awards may be given eachyear, based on the following criteria:• Only alumni of Albion College shall be eligible for theaward.• Time, effort and monetary gifts on behalf of Albion Collegeshall constitute the elements in the consideration of a candidateto be worthy of the award. The award may recognize one, twoor all three of these elements.• Nomination and election to receive the Meritorious ServiceAward shall follow the process used to nominate and electindividuals receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Distinguished Alumni Award

Up to five Distinguished Alumni are chosen each year from asmany as 100 nominees. These men and women are selected onthe basis of the following criteria:• Only alumni of Albion College shall be eligible for the award.• Recipients should display genuine leadership and dedicatedservice to others and exemplify the qualities of a liberal artseducation. Well-roundedness in aspects of career, family andcommunity 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 AlumniAssociation Board of Directors, looks for outstanding achieve-ment in at least two of the three areas outlined above.

Looking for a few eminent Albionians

Exemptions for these awards include current members of:the Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Board ofTrustees, and the faculty and staff. Once an individual is nolonger in any of the above categories, he/she will be eligiblefor consideration.

Nominations for either of these awards are welcome and may be sent no later than Feb. 1, 2000 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.

Charles E. Anderson, ’56Russell B. Babcock, ’27Wallace A. Bacon, ’35Nelda Kurtz Balch, ’37David M. Barrett, ’64Jeffrey W. Barry, ’60Robert H. Bartlett, ’60John G. Batsakis, ’51Blair C. Bedient, ’49Robert W. Bemer, ’40Joyce Ann Livak Benjamins, ’63Mildred Oberlin Bennett, ’58Bruce C. Berndt, ’61Margaret E. Berry, ’35Shirley Ruemele Bloomquist, ’64Daniel Boggan, Jr., ’67Kenneth Borland, ’59Joseph H. Britton, ’46Patricia Sanford Brown, ’53Vivian Johnson Bull, ’56Richard W. Calkins, ’60William Cargo, ’37Garry G. Carley, ’61Dennis O. Cawthorne, ’62Peter J. Christ, ’55O. James Clark, ’51Wendell Cole, ’36Harry T. Cook, ’61Marian Clark Corwin, ’35James G. Crane, ’51Truman H. Cummings, Jr., ’43Jack C. Curtis, ’51James L. Curtis, ’44Philip C. Curtis, ’30Jack C. Dart, ’34Michael S. David, Jr., ’64Cedric W. Dempsey, ’54Patricia McKean Dick, ’48

W. W. Diehl, ’24Judyth Fetzer Dobbert, ’69Vinod L. Doshi, ’53Emerson J. Elliott, ’55G. Bruce Feighner, ’42E. Lee Feller, ’47Richard M. Fluke, ’56Robert W. Freligh, ’47Philip J. Gannon, ’47Philip R. Glotfelty, III, ’55Nancy Carpenter Hammond, ’68George E. Hardy, Jr., ’61Robert Hargreaves, ’36Michael G. Harrison, ’63Phyllis Harrison-Ross, ’56Roy E. Heath, ’36Lois Skagerberg Heller, ’64David W. Hills, ’48Phyllis Wagner Houghton, ’41Richard W. Huff, ’54Polly Ruth Mosteller Hughes, ’47John P. Hummon, ’53Richard L. Humphrey, ’56Elkin R. Isaac, ’48Roy C. “Bud” Johns, ’51Karen Johnstone, ’60Gary L. Jones, ’66John E. Joyner, ’55D. Nolan Kaiser, ’56James C. Kingsley, ’63John A. Krsul, ’59Sally A. Lynas Lamkin, ’54Roger L. Landrum, ’59Melvin S. Larimer, ’53Keith J. Leenhouts, ’49T. John Leppi, ’59Ray B. Loeschner, ’53Bernard T. Lomas, ’46

John S. Ludington, ’51Rex B. Martin, ’38Willard L. Meader, ’54Betty Jones Neberman, ’50Gary R. Noble, ’57Karin McClow Orr, ’64Denise Cortis Park, ’73Sherry Hood Penney, ’59William Henry Perkins, Jr., ’49John W. Porter, ’53Lewis L. Redmond, ’50George R. Reed, ’53Myrtle R. Crouse Reul, ’47James L. Reutter, ’53Larry J. Robson, ’59Thomas E. Sagendorf, ’62Lawrence B. Schook, ’72Thomas G. Schwaderer, ’56Ruth Holland Scott, ’56Joseph B. Serra, ’56Andrew G. Sharf, ’44Florence “Dinghy” Spalding Sharp, ’50Norman R. Sleight, ’40Richard G. Smith, ’43Richard M. Smith, ’68Harold R. Spiegel, ’32Robert Stoppert, ’39Marvin J. Vann, ’40Richard K. Vitek, ’56James A. von der Heydt, ’42John N. Vournakis, ’61Lawrence L. Wade, ’50Raymond A. Wauthier, ’46Judith Koch Wilcox, ’60Michael E. Williams, ’78C. Thomas Wilson, ’51James M. Wilson, ’77Shirley Brattin Wirt, ’47Margaret Zolliker, ’43

Past Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

Past Meritorious Service Award RecipientsRussell E. Babcock, ’27; Frank Bonta, ’49; Wayne H. Fleenor, ’24 (deceased); Kenneth B. Hollidge, ’35 (deceased); Stanley Jones, ’49.

Deceased: E. Maynard Aris, ’37; 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, W. ClarkDean, ’21; Helen M. Desjardins, ’14; Donald J. Dunham, ’23; Clarence H. Elliott, ’25; Margaret Drake Elliott, ’24; Keith J. Fennimore, ’39; GeraldineTownsend Fitch, ’17; Wayne H. Fleenor, ’24; Dexter Horton, ’36; C. Morse Huffer, ’16; Richard C. Johnston, ’59; 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.


Alumni experience ‘Liberal Arts at Work’How would you like to try onthese classes for size?Genes and SocietyThe HolocaustArt in the EnvironmentChanceWater: Science and PolicyJusticeA Sense of Place: Albion and the American

Dream

That’s exactly what 40 alumni, parents,friends and faculty emeriti did during the firstAlbion Institute held Nov. 12-14 on theCollege campus. Sponsored by the AlumniAssociation under the leadership of PresidentSusan Stuewer Bensinger, ’70, this year’sInstitute was a pilot for programs that infuture years will be open to the entire Albion“family.”

The retreat weekend was intended toacquaint the participants with the interactivelearning experiences offered to today’sstudents. It was also an opportunity to learn,as one attendee put it, “how Albion’s Vision,Liberal Arts at Work, is becoming areality.” The Institute opened Friday eveningwith a Common Reading Experience based onRon Suskind’s A Hope in the Unseen, whichwas also read by entering students this fall.On Saturday, the “curriculum” included asampling of the interdisciplinary seminarsdeveloped recently to introduce first-yearstudents to liberal arts learning at its best.During these sessions, the Institute facultypresented an overview of the issues andproblems that are central to their first-yearcourses, and they engaged the participants inlively discussions of some of the samequestions they address with their students.

On Saturday evening, the participantsenjoyed an interactive dress rehearsal with thecast members and director for the College’sproduction of Lanford Wilson’s The Rimers ofEldritch. Capping off the weekend was anopen forum on Sunday centering on themeaning of justice and how that topic hasbeen approached from different perspec-tives—philosophical, sociological andliterary—in one of the first-year seminars.

Future Albion Institutes will likely be heldin the spring, and they may involve alumni asexpert resources along with College faculty.If you are interested in learning more aboutthe Albion Institute, contact the Office ofAlumni and Parent Relations, telephone: 517/629-0244, e-mail: [email protected].

The accompanying photos show the seminarsin action.

(Right) Participantsin biologist KenSaville’s seminar,“Genes and Society,”got hands-onexperience with DNA“fingerprinting”techniques. The groupalso discussed thehuman genomeproject, geneticcloning and otherrecent developmentsin this rapidlychanging field.

(Above) Art historianBille Wickre (standing)provided an introductionto the first-year seminarshe team-teaches withbiologist Jeffrey Carrieron Art in the Environ-ment. Small-groupdiscussions focused onthe opportunities andpitfalls associated withenvironmental art today.

In keeping with the

theme of Albion

College’s new Vision,

Liberal Arts at Work,

we are offering a series

of profiles of Albion

alumni who exemplify

“liberal arts at work” in

their careers and in

their personal lives.

These profiles will

appear in each issue of

Io Triumphe .

Karen Khalil, ’85When Karen Khalil was elected as judgefor Michigan’s 17th District Court inRedford Township, not only was she theyoungest judge to serve in the state at thetime, she was the first woman judge everto serve that district. A member of theGerald R. Ford Institute for Public Policyand Service while at Albion, Khalil regards public service as“one of life’s highest callings.” Though she began her careerin corporate law, her desire to serve her home communityprompted her to run for the judgeship in 1992, and she wonre-election in 1998 with 80 percent of the vote. “I credit myAlbion education for giving me the skills of critical analysis

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the workplace and society

The Albion Institute facultyTorin Alexander (College chaplain), LeonardBerkey (sociology), Jeffrey Carrier (biology),Eugene Cline (philosophy), Geoffrey Cocks(history) with student assistant MadolenePage-Wood, Mary Collar (English), WesleyDick (history) with co-facilitator Leslie Dickand student assistants Nicolas Cucinella andSusan Laing, Ronald Fryxell (mathematics),Timothy Lincoln (geology), Kenneth Saville(biology), Robert Starko (theatre), BilleWickre (visual arts). Additional discussionleaders for the Common Reading Experienceincluded: Patricia Franzen (Women’s Center),Deana Henry (Student Affairs), KennethHenry (Student Affairs), Dale Kennedy(biology), Kevin Kropf (Admissions).

Comments from theparticipantsI thoroughly enjoyed the camaraderie, theintellectual stimulation and the chance toexperience a “day in the life” of Albionstudents.

The Albion Institute was an excellentopportunity to engage in meaningful discus-sion/debate about critical issues.

This program wonderfully fulfilled my desireto return to alma mater for the fun andstimulus of learning. It gave me anotheropportunity to witness some of the enthusiasmof the faculty for what is going on at Albion.

The Albion Institute provided the opportunityto be re-inspired, to be challenged intellectu-ally, to be asked to respond socially. Thosewere the gifts Albion gave me years ago, andwere reaffirmed this weekend.

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Seminar participant Jim Carson, ’51, reflects on the conditions inNazi Germany that gave rise to the Holocaust. In leading thediscussion, historian Geoff Cocks (right) also used clips from Germanfilms from that era and excerpts from private diaries to portray theviews of both the perpetrators and the victims of the Holocaust.

and logical decision-making that I use in myrole as judge every day. Beyond that, Albiongave me an appreciation for the workings ofAmerican democracy and strengthened mycommitment to equality and fair treatment forall citizens.”

Karen Khalil, a great example of Liberal Arts at Work.

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