The Alumni Cooperator A Publication of 2010-2011 The Inter-Cooperative Council Ann Arbor, Michigan

What’s Inside...

Page 2 • Letter from the President

Page 3 • Report from the General Manager

Pages 4-6 • Linder House renovation

Pages 7-11, and 18-19 • Your stories

Page 12 • Mich House “Porch” reunion

Page 13 • Winter Annual Meeting

Pages 14-18 • Alumni Updates

Page 19 • In Memorium

Pages 20-21 • Lester mem- ber nominated to County Com.

ICC Website: www.icc.coop

New Life for Linder House! see page 4 Dear Alumni, We are currently in a state Please see Eric Lipson’s Vice President for Education of rebuilding at the ICC. This General Manager letter for I can personally attest to the rebuilding is not related to any more detailed information amount of financial demand our sort of serious damage, but due on restoration and upgrade members carry with them. Of to aging and change. projects. those members who applied to The change part can the MLK Scholarship Fund last be broken down into two year the amount of need was parts, the first being how the about $59,000, but we were organization is run. We now only able to offer them $9,186. require that House Officers Through all these challenges attend training, have put into I see our organization growing place a uniformed procedure stronger everyday. Members for anyone who wants to take very seriously the running bring a pet into a House, and of the ICC and ensuring we most recently completely are still here for the next rewrote two chapters in the generation. Standing Rules. These new For me the proudest part chapters deal with members of being a member of the ICC rights and responsibilities is the fact that all the Houses and conflict resolution. The and resources we have today Board of Directors made were passed down by you, the these changes to ensure alumni. Lou Cote, Michigan each House is held to the House 1946-48, put it best same standard and that both when he said, “This is part of an new and current members ordered existence that was built have a safe and clean place for us by people we don’t know, The aging part is due to the to call home. and which we are continuing to fact that many of our Houses The second part of this build for people we don’t know.” were built close to 100 years change deals with what On behalf of all the current and ago. To address this, members it means to be a college future members of the ICC I and staff have been working student in 2010. Dealing want to say “Thank You” for together on long-term fixes. We with the recession and what you built. now do internal inspections twice tuition rates that rise every year means our members a year during the interim period of are being pressed for both -Jeremiah Devlin-Ruelle Winter to Spring and Summer to ICC President Fall. Whenever something needs time and money. The ability to be fixed or replaced we do not to contribute more time try to find the easiest solutions, and effort to the ICC than but the one that will stand the the required House labor test of time while benefiting both has been severely limited. members and the environment. Speaking as the former

Page 2 From the General Manager... Celebrating our Past, Planning for our Future

I am happy to report that the ICC District requirements have proven the economy, contributions to our had an excellent year in 2009/2010. very costly. And there is much more scholarship fund from alumni are Our houses were very full. Our to do. More roofs, more insulation, more important than ever. On behalf members are returning in good new boilers, new porches. Owen’s of all of our members and staff, let numbers this coming school year--an heating system is on its last legs. It’s me say, thank you. indicator of a good year last year. And porch needs major C o o p e r a t i o n improvements to our houses continue work. Hundred-year- continues to be our to make our members safer and more old houses require strength. We continue comfortable. constant TLC. to rely on our Alumni We are very pleased that the We are also to help support our restoration of Linder House is making our houses efforts to become more finally underway. After numerous safer. North Campus sustainable, more appearances before the Ann Arbor now has better fire relevant, and more Historic District Commission, and detection and fire affordable than ever. literally years of haggling, the City safety equipment. We are also finally approved our plans to repair We’ve upgraded trying to stay relevant the porch, replace the drafty old the Fire Panels in and valuable to our windows with new, energy efficient several houses and Alumni. We hope to see models, insulate the attic and walls, the electrical panels many of you at the 75th and put on new cedar siding. Frankly, in Owen and Mich. Anniversary celebration the “old” Linder was pretty run down. But there is only so of our incorporation as A prior owner had covered the old much we can do with a unified coop that we’ll siding with asbestos/cement siding. our limited budget. be holding in October of The wood underneath was rotten That’s why the 2012. We will also be and decrepit. The new Linder will Alumni Association is holding other events be a beautifully restored and energy more important than that are highlighted efficient home. ever to our continued inside these pages We also continue to upgrade other well-being. including some home- houses. We recently installed low-flow It was the Luther coming events. And we showers and faucet aerators in all of Buchele Memorial love to hear from our our houses to save over a million Fund paid for many alums and share their gallons of water a year, new energy of the sustainability initiatives noted stories and photos here and on our efficient boilers in several houses, a above. Bernie Agranoff helped fund website (www.icc.coop) and the beautiful new porch on Mich House the Mich Porch improvement. Fred coop Facebook pages. (which recently hosted the Mich House Gerstell’s contribution also went to So please join or re-join the Ten Year Reunion), new roofs on energy efficiency initiatives. Paul and ICC Alumni Association this year. Luther House, and King House, new Anita Strauss also played a crucial role And do whatever you can to help windows and insulation in Gregory with their contributions. We could not our scholarship fund and help House, more efficient lighting, new have made the many improvements keep Luther’s memory strong by commercial stoves on N. Campus, that we did without the support of our supporting his Memorial Fund. If we upgraded range hoods and exhaust alumni. all continue to work together, we’ll at Mich, new bathrooms at Luther Alumni continue to support our survive for another 75 years. and N. Campus, and numerous other scholarship program that provides In Cooperation, upgrades and repairs. room and board to members with We are trying to be good stewards financial need. Given the anemic Eric Lipson of these houses, and reduce our performance of our endowment ICC General Manager carbon footprint. But the Linder investment fund, and the poor state of improvements, coupled with Historic

Page 3 Dear Linder House Members... ICC makes great progress on renovation, but it sure does take time!

th June 17 , 2010 look and work as any double hung July 27, 2010 window, plus they can open just like The following is an update on a casement window for fire egress.) Dear Linder House F/W Members, the Major Project (windows, siding, The new doors (all are new except the roofing, insulation, water management front door) will arrive tomorrow. This is the 2nd information update and porch) happening at Linder House We ran into a glitch with the on the progress of the Linder House this summer. windows. We wanted to install wood project and will probably be the last. We started working on Linder in clad (wood interior with aluminum August is going to be a very busy early May. We have removed all the exterior for a maintenance free month due to the amount of work old siding, being careful with the old window) but, the submittal to the HDC needing to be completed before you wood so that some of that wood could stated wood /wood. This meant that move in on September 1st. be reused on the front of the house we needed to take this change back Exterior: as the HDC requested, and properly to the Historic District Commission for We have to install Wood/Wood disposed of the lead paint siding. approval. The Commission meets on windows which will require more Last week we started installation of th the evening of July 8 . At that time, maintenance than Clad. The HDC insulation in the walls and roof area. we will know which type of window we Coordinator failed to file public notice They should be completely finished by can order and install 3 weeks later. of the request to install Wood Clad. the end of the day tomorrow (18th). (It takes that long to manufacture This failure to file public notice forced Exterior trim is now in process. the windows.) The windows must us to install Wood, as we would have The 3rd floor bedrooms all have new be installed before the siding can be to wait an additional month to make our double hung egress windows. (They installed... request. Seeing as how we had already lost a month waiting for the July 8th meeting, I could not wait yet another month. The new windows will be delivered this week. After the windows are installed the contractors can then install the cedar siding. While waiting on the windows, we started work on the front porch. The HDC requested that we reuse the original posts and spindles and we have spent a week trying to find the right chemical that will remove the original first coat of lead paint. A call to the Architect to tell them of our time consuming difficulty in finding a product that worked resulted in us being able to order posts and spindles to be made exactly like the originals. This too will take some time to manufacture. The roof has been re shingled and looks really nice. All walls and the mansard roof have been Page 4 and wired to a motion detector. • The kitchen stove exhaust fan has been cleaned - and should be cleaned every 2 months. • Refrigerator and freezer have been cleaned and sanitized. • Entire kitchen has been cleaned. • Laundry room has been cleaned and installed wall hangers for mops etc. • The furnace/maintenance storage area has been cleaned out and arranged so that nothing is closer than 5ft to the furnace – City Housing Code Requirement. • All paint cans which were less than half full have been properly removed and discarded. • All rusty bottomed cans of cleaners, removers or other have been properly disposed of.

All this and probably more than I remember have or will be done before you move in. However, due to the delay caused by the window issue has put us insulated. We added an additional light • The 1st floor bath now has a behind on EXTERIOR work. There on the front porch that will light up the cabinet for storage of cleaning will be contractors working on your side of the porch. The rear flood light and personal products. house in September and probably will be new and more energy efficient. • The 3rd floor bath has a new October. After the siding is installed I requested that it be put on a motion toilet. the painters need to wash the new sensor as well as being capable of • Couches with torn or filthy cedar before painting can begin. The being turned on/off by a switch. The upholstery will be removed difficulty in reaching the highest parts rear landings have either been rebuilt and replaced with newer used of the building will require that the man or replaced with new. A new mail couches. lift stay on site for the painters to use. box will be installed and new house • Your duct work was When do I expect completion? I can’t numbers will be installed. professionally cleaned and tell you that at this time. A very rough sanitized. estimate is late October. Painters can’t Interior: • I purchased 6 new furnace paint in cold weather so I expect the • Each bedroom will have new filters. During heating season, paint contractor to put many workers bedding. the filters should be changed on this job in order to beat the cold • Rooms 11 and 14 will have every 2 or 3 months weather. new carpet. • Floor vent covers have been • All bathrooms will be replaced where needed. thoroughly cleaned and • I installed new switch or outlet caulked. Additional towel covers where needed. Cindy Christianson hooks have been installed in • The ceiling light between Rm Maintenance Coordinator the baths as well. 13 and 14 has been replaced Page 5 Getting Back Together on North State...

Mich-Minnies- Vail “Porch” Reunion It all started when Don Bancroft, Paul Cher- noff, Marc Besser, Karl Greene and Julie Selbst burried a time capsul (ac- tually a Mason jar with a tight lid) in the front yard of Mich House in 1981. At reunions in 1990 and 2000, and again this year, the capsul was dug up and new items added. Stay tuned for 2020!

Page 6 Stories from Yesteryear Your stories -- keep them coming!

It was still at 335 E. Ann St. and some of those who had been there three years earlier had returned. It felt like I had returned home. In the fall of 1947 Mich House moved to its present location at 315 N. State and we all worked together the summer of that year to prepare the house for occupancy. There I spent my last three years at U of M. About 1947 I fell in love with a co-oper at Stevens House and we were going to get married that summer until she decided the day before the marriage was to occur that she didn’t want to marry me. That sent me into a tailspin for Bob Davis with Mich House members at the 75th anniversary of its founding several months, but then I fell in love with another Stevens How My Years in the ICC House beauty and this time the marriage took place and Influenced My Life we lived together for 51 1/2 years. She died March 26, I came to Mich House in my life. I was on dinner prep on 2002 -- 8 years ago today. September 1942. Mich House Wednesdays and Wednesday was As I look back on my Mich then was at 335 E. Ann St. I meat loaf day every week so my House years I have to say had just turned 18 and it was the culinary experience that first year that the greatest influence on first time I had left New England. was somewhat limited. my life in the ICC was that I had worked for 15 months after One of the first things I learned I learned the power of love, high school graduation and had was how rewarding it was to work which has enriched my life in saved $300, which I hoped would together. I felt like I had been so many ways and continues be enough to get me through my adopted by the older guys (a couple to this day. freshman year (it was more than of them were in med school and enough; I had $90 left at the some were grad school students) end of the second semester). and they were generous in helping Bob Davis One of the first things I learned me to learn the ropes. I was drafted (Michigan,Stevens was how to cook, which served in June 1943 and didn’t return to 1942-49) me in good stead the rest of Mich House until September 1946.

Page 7 Your stories, continued

Learning from Doing

I was elected Chairman of Credit Union, a credit union being the North Campus Division for a member-owned co-operative the school year 1972-73 and with financial services. I held served on the ICC Board of various credit union management Directors. It was an amazing jobs from 1973-1980. However, education in the management the most important lessons I of a business and a corporation learned from my ICC days was for a 21-year old. Despite the the power of leverage in real fact that ICC was founded estate. The student co-ops by socialist students, running bought multiple houses with the organization then (and borrowed money, and I applied I’m sure now) had to be very that principle in investing in After 25 years as a real estate broker in Boston, Massachusetts, Jonathan business-like. Yes, we had rental housing in Boston, Crutchley co-founded Online Buddies our constant meetings and where I eventually settled. The with partner, Larry Basile. The company debates and democratic votes typical dwelling in working-class grew from humble beginnings with a about co-op decisions, but neighborhoods of Boston is a 3- phone chat service for gay men in the family wooden house known as Boston area, into one of the world’s nothing else in my college leading online dating and social net- career taught me more about the triple decker. I bought one works for the gay community. Their site, running a business. My co- of these houses, then another, MANHUNT.net, has grown to over four op experience was the most then more, as rental investments, million profiles and has a presence in 97 valuable part of my education holding as many as a dozen at countries. one time. I quit my job as a credit at University of Michigan. In during my stay in Ann Arbor. union manager to enter the real all honesty, if I had not taken However, I learned about estate business full time, which a single course nor earned a property management, finance, I did for 25 years. The student degree, yet had the opportunity and a host of business skills co-ops taught me the landlord to live in the ICC co-ops, I would during the time I was a member business, and that helped launch have had all the education I of ICC. needed from that stage in my a successful real estate career. life. Upon graduation I enrolled That was probably not the Jonathan Crutchley in a training course for co- intention of the socialist student Trantor Mir & John Sinclair operative managers, which the founders of ICC; landlords were (N. Campus), 1971-1973 ICC sponsored. That led to an greedy, profit-making enemies in internship at U of M Employees the eyes of most ICC members

Page 8 Joan Buchele’s story

The World in a Cooperative

I moved to Ann Arbor from Chicago and my first impression was how woodsy it was around the co-op, it was very nice after living in the concrete jungle. The North Campus co-ops had the most diverse population I have ever seen living under one roof. One year, we had people write “Welcome to O’Keeffe” in different languages on a banner in the dining room. Pretty soon it was written in over 30 languages. One of the things I appreciated the most was the dinner time conversation. There were so many intelligent, educated and worldly people that we would be talking about just about any topic and there would be a resident expert at the table. It was a really intellectually stimulating atmosphere, although sometimes we would just joke around and even get into a stream of racy innuendos. There was also usually a midnight snack crew in the dining room on weeknights, people would take a break from studying and those coming down for a snack or drink would get caught up in the conversation.

Daniel J. Kruger, O’Keeffe. 2001-2004

Musings From a Former Member of Vail and Osterweil Houses, Circa 1961-63

Boarding at Mich House in the fall of 1961 before the Vail kitchen was opened and baking apple pies! At Vail House, meeting my life- long friend and roomie; Bob Dylan’s arrival and later his singing in the Vail living room; some surprising cursing when Warren X locked himself in the men’s room; “upholstering” the love seat; typing papers on a picnic table in the spring; falling in love (and he still makes me laugh 44 years later); clearing the clinkers from Osterweil coal furnace when somebody else forgot to do it; giving haircuts to boarders before they went home; freedom marchers camping on the floor... Barbara (Heydenberk) Brose

Page 9 Your stories, continued

Excerpts from the Memoirs of John H. Wilde, Nakamura 1958-60

Between camps, I hitched a ride to Ann Arbor and spent Saturday looking for a place to live. I had decided not to return to the dorm. I needed cheaper digs and since I was a “mature student”, I was not required to reside in University housing. Someone told me about the Inter-Cooperative Council, which controlled all the cooperative housing at U of M save one, the Friends Center where Dr. Blood lived. Previously, I had written ICC for information and sent in an application. Because I had not heard anything, I thought I’d better check. The Co-op office happened to be open. Luther Buchele, ICC’s honcho, was hunched over his desk. Luther was disheveled; a cigarette dangling from his lips. He appeared to be tired and confused. I had second thoughts. However, I decided to press on. Luther snapped to when I addressed him. He fumbled on the desk and found my application. That was encouraging. Before the morning was over, I had paid a deposit and reserved a bed in Nakamura House. This was the house where I either lay my head or ate most of my meals until I graduated. At first meeting, Luther seemed like a bumbler, but as the months went by, I came to appreciate that his laid back style of management was just what the free-wheeling co-op houses needed. Trying to lead co-opers was like trying to herd cats. Luther knew when to apply pressure and when to back off. I also found out that he was a vigorous defender of co-opers’ rights. I read in Luther’s obituary that when the formidable Dean of Women, Deborah Bacon, told him co-op houses were untidy and disreputable and not fit places for female students to live in, Luther replied that while the co-op houses might be untidy, the minds of the residents were clean because they accepted Jews and African Americans.

********************************************************************* Nakamura House, or Nak, was and still is located at 807 S. State Street. I initially bunked in one of the suites. Later, I graduated to a double. There was no air conditioning. The furnace ran when it felt like it. Residents shivered in winter and sweltered in summer. I had passed my childhood and adolescence in almost identical dwellings, so I could cope. However, some residents had grown up in the suburbs and weren’t used to such conditions. Co-op residents could take consolation though in the fact that other off-campus housing was downright abysmal. Nak residents had only to look at the rooming house next door with its broken windows, rotten steps, backed-up gutters and moldy siding to realize how lucky they were.

********************************************************************* I came to the job of food manager with a couple of arrows in my quiver. I had cooked for my family when my mother had been bedridden one winter. My mother had been a good example of frugality. I knew how to stretch a budget. The first thing I did was draw up menus. I was aided immensely by a US Navy cookbook I found in a storeroom and called “Cooking for 50”-- or something like that. From it I learned how to make a little go beyond even what my mother had ever dreamed! One recipe that came in handy when funds ran low at the end of the month, was a baked omelet, really a souffle, for fifty that required only a dozen eggs. Nakamura house dealt with a meat wholesaler in Detroit. A salesman came round and took orders (Continued on page 22)

Page 10 Mark VIII Co-op and More

When I came to the Library I know then that on February 4, 1961 School at U. of M. in the fall of I would become “Mrs. Luther,” as 1956, I had signed up to live in a everyone called me. graduate women’s house, Mark VIII, My two years as housemother and on S. Forest Street. We had been ICC secretary taught me some useful warned that Mark VIII was not ready skills, such as politicizing, listening to for occupancy. It had only eight and arbitrating problems and working roomers and four boarders. Five of with all different kinds of people. the roomers were to live at other ICC These skialls were very helpful in my women’s co-ops, sleeping on the work at the U. of M. library and in the floors of the living rooms and eating Ann Arbor public schools. for forty-seven years. The most at other co-op houses. Three of Luther and I had four children. All exciting thing about ICC for me is the roomers lived with ICC advisor of them went to the Methodist Church the large number of ICC alumni Gwen Rapaport and her family on Co-op Nursery School, where I was everywhere you go who are Oswego. My parents, who had the Librarian. They peeked in on associated with housing co-ops, brought me said, “Oh, this looks like many co-op meetings, loved Luther co-op nurseries, large and small a nice house. You’ll be fine,” and Co-op house, and really believed book stores and groceries, furniture hurried back to Elgin, Illinois. that they built North Campus Co-ops. co-ops and many more. Make The eight Mark VIII women met They enjoyed suppers and parties friends with them when you leave several times and elected officers. at ICC houses and co-op picnics. Ann Arbor – they love to talk about I was chosen as housemother, I Luther helped to start NASCO, the ICC and Ann Arbor! think because I was the youngest! I Co-op Auto Garage, the People’s met Luther Buchele, ICC Executive Food Co-op and helped get HUD Secretary, who had signed up to be money for Lurie Terrace, a housing Joan Bross Buchele a boarder at Mark VIII. apartment complex in Ann Arbor for Mark VIII 1956-58, Mark VIII roomers moved in in older people. (Our daughter, Libbie, “Mrs. Luther” 1961-2008 October and our first meal was was a member of Nakamura House.) served in later December. Little did I have been associated with ICC

Starting Congress House

I have only good memories of those days. Initially, I wanted to join the Rochdale House, but it was full. So, I advertised in the Michigan Daily for guys who wanted to live in a co-op. Incidentally, the house was named Congress because the Independent Men’s Congress paid for the newspaper ad. Response to the ad was good. I found a house at 909 East University, which could be rented at a reasonable price. Then, we bought old furniture and moved in--- all 19 of us. We charged ourselves $5 a week for board and room and each of us worked at various jobs for 5 hours a week. Great! Most of us could not have gotten our education without the co-op. Doug Tracy Congress House, 1938-40

Page 11 The Spread!

The Winter Annual Meeting Former ICC President Christopher Taylor (1989-90), who is now on the Ann Arbor City Council, addressed the ICC Winter Annual Meeting. Upper left, ICC members talk before dinner.

Left: former President Rebecca Wolfe, with incoming President Jeremiah Devlin- Ruelle. Above: Adina Williams, Nick, and Erik Gemble, from Truth House.

Page 12 Images of the ICC...

Top left: Thomal Roltsch (Vail) and Marlee Cook- Parrot (outgoing President). Above: Christine Barre- ra, Patrick Murphy help out at the registration table. Below left: Unidentified co-op member, Steve Sabo and Chris Bednesh, all from Debs House. Below right: Christopher Taylor with Joan Buchele (Mark VIII, 1956-58).

All alumni are invited to attend the Winter Annual Meeting, which is held in March each year. Dinner is served, reports are made, and awards are given to outstanding members. For more information, contact Susan Caya at [email protected].

Page 13 News from You! Dr. Marvin H. White Rick Smith Owen 1957-61 Black Elk 1999-2001

He writes that he and his wife have I just finished my PhD in moved recently from an apartment Social Welfare at UC Berkeley. to a condo in Ohio. For a number of I am returning to Michigan to be years, he taught at Lehigh University an Assistant Professor at the in Bethlehem, PA, but he went Wayne State University School emeritus early in 2010. He is now in a part-time position at Ohio State of Social Work. My research University. areas are sustainable community Dr. White sent the Owen House development, migration and Choir picture which was taken about poverty. 1958 in the Owen House Living room in December. “The choir was Tom Binkow returning from singing during the Ruths’, 1995-96 holiday season around the campus. Owen house during this time was a male house for My parents moved to Ann Arbor a roomers and few years ago, to Huron near State; boarders. I can as a result, my father(Maurice Binkow) only remember can see his old home at Mich/Minnie’s a few names from his window. in the choir, but I married Laura in 2003, an recognize all the attorney, occasional artist, and an individuals! The incredibly kind person, and we live choir director in downtown Philadelphia. Our only and organizer co-operative involvement now is that was Albert we’re members of PhillyCarShare, a Werner(Owen kind of cooperative version of ZipCar. nd 1958)---2 from They use cooperative language, but right, back row-- we’re really more customers of a non- - who was aided profit. In any case, we’ve sold our cars by Donald and just use one from PhillyCarShare nd DiAngelo---2 on the infrequent occasions when we from left, back need to drive. row---, both of I have very fond memories of my whom played in the Michigan Band and were music majors. I am kneeling co-ops and what I learned in that to the far right in the front row.” microcosm of democracy. Robert Cox Michigan-Minnies, for low-income Vail,Linder, families and seniors and believes that Debs,Owen, Black Elk, much of the useful King 1984-1992 knowledge he got Robert Cox is living in Connecticut at Michigan he got with his wife Dara Kovel and two in the co-ops. children, Amelia (6), and Cullen (4). Robert Cox (right) He still sees some friends he knows with Ben Phillips at from the co-ops and misses the rest. Mich House in the He helps to finance rental housing 1980s. Page 14 Richard Dines Joint, 1985-87

I work for the Credit Union National Association (CUNA), the national trade association for financial services co-operatives. At CUNA, I work with the state associations of credit unions around the country to keep them connected at the national level and provide professional development and networking opportunities. Throughout my career, I have worked in the cooperative sector (with the National Cooperative Business Association for 11 years and the National Cooperative Bank for 3 years). And it was my great experience at the ICC that gave me my passion for co- ops. I live in Arlington, VA with my wife, Laura, and two children, twins Lily and Isabel.

Richard Dines shown above left, sitting with Rod Schoonover (Black Elk, King 1986-1993). In the lower picture are Mi- chelle Rinehart (Renaissance 1992-96 and O’Keeffe, 1996- 97) and Mike O’Neil (Lester, O’Keeffe, Black Elk, Vail, King 1984-93). Photos taken in Washington, DC, during a dinner with Jim Jones during a visit in May.

Josh Barclay Michigan House 1984, Joint 1985-87 Joshua is teaching high school physics, is a renewable energy activist, and is the proprietor of his efficiency and renewable energy demonstration home, The Dream Farm, near Whitmore Lake, Michigan. Ann Arbor Energy Commission. Andrew Brix With this work, he is helping lead the At the Dream Farm, a retrofit of Renaissance, 2005-06 a 1981-built house, Joshua and his effort to meet Ann Arbor’s “Green wife Mary have installed extensive Energy Challenge” to move municipal A U-M economics grad with a minor insulation, energy efficient windows, operations to 30% renewable energy in environmental studies, Andrew appliances, and both CFL and LED in 2010 and the entire Ann Arbor Brix has one overriding passion--- lighting. They heat their home with community to 20% renewable energy saving energy, both personally and wood, heat their water with the sun, by 2015. professionally. Since and using one of the largest tracking 2004, he has worked solar-electric arrays in Michigan, in the Ann Arbor generate more electricity than their Energy Office. home uses annually. As Energy Programs More information about their Manager, his duties demonstration project may be found at include implementing http://DreamFarm.org. energy efficiency and renewable energy Rob Sadowsky projects and programs, Stevens, 1985-87 monitoring energy use and greenhouse gas I’ve moved to Portland, Oregon to emissions, serving be executive director of the Bicycle as the local liaison to Transportation Alliance. Enjoying the the utility company, beautiful Pacific Northwest. and staffing the Page 15 More alumni news...

chairs at Virginia and The Gerontologist. Commonwealth U n i v e r s i t y His research on male (Samuel S. development, family development, Wertzel) and mental health and social policy Hunter College has been funded by both public (Henry and agencies such as NIMH, NIH, Lucy Moses); FIPSE, HUD, and ACYF and and has been private agencies such as United a distinguished Christ of Christ, Lilly Endowment, visiting professor Silberman Fund and the Casey of Social Work Foundation. at Albany State A consultant to a variety of College, Virginia private and public agencies, Dr. State University, Gary has also served on a number and Norfolk of boards or committees at both State University. the national and local levels.As a For three (3) result of his professional and civil years, Dr. Gary activities, Dr. Gary has received a taught graduate number of awards and citations level courses at including the 1991 Alumni Merit the University Award, Tuskegee University; of Michigan. 1993 Outstanding Leadership His long list of and Community Service Lawrence (Larry) Gary in an ICC file photo from the p u b l i c a t i o n s Award, National Association 1960s. include five of Black Social Workers, Inc.; (5) books and 1995 Distinguish Research m o n o g r a p h s , Award, Howard University; the Dr.Lawrence E. Gary most notable two Michigan 1963-69 1996 Distinguished Recent classic works ICC President 1967-68 Contributions to Social Work entitled, Black Education Award Council on Men and Mental Social Work Education; 1999. Dr. Gary is currently a Health: A Challenge to the Black The 2001 Drum Major Award, professor at Howard University, Community and he has over 95 Fredrick Douglass Society, West where he has been on the research articles and chapters Chester University; the 2001 social work faculty for almost in scholarly journals and books. Distinguished Alumni Award, 40 years. He earned his B.S. His research has been published School of Social Work, The Degree (with high honors) from in referred professional journals University of Michigan; and 2002 Tuskegee Institute (1993), such as: American Journal of Distinguished Alumni Service and three graduate degrees: Public Health, American Journal of Award, the University of Michigan. Master of Public Administration Psychiatry, Behavioral Medicine, He is also listed in Who’s Who (1964), Master of Social Work Community Mental Health Journal, Among African Americans, Who’s (1967), Doctorate of Philosophy Journal of Health and Social Who in The World, and Who’s (1970) from the University of Behavior. The Journal of National Who in America. Michigan. He has held endowed Medical Association, Social Work,

Page 16 Henry G. Jarecki Nakamura, 1949-50

Henry Jarecki is a legendary figure in which he subsequently sold to the world of metals trading. A graduate SociÈtÈ GÈnÈrale in 1995. Jarecki, of the University of Heidelberg Medical who was born in Stettin, Germany, School, he spent more than a decade served as a director of the FIA from practicing psychiatry in the U.S., then 1979 to 1985. He was also a director left medicine in 1970 to enter the of Commodity Exchange Inc., the bullion business. He rose to a position National Futures Association and the of great prominence in the international Chicago Board of Trade. Currently he bullion markets during the 1970s and is the chairman of The Falconwood early 1980s as a leading figure at the Corporation, an investment banking Mocatta Group, the world’s largest gold company with investments in a and silver trading company, which he diverse range of businesses around ultimately sold in 1986 to Standard the world. He also remains active Chartered Bank. Soon thereafter, he in the world of psychiatry and is a formed Brody White, an international faculty member at the Yale University commodities brokerage company, School of Medicine. Gloria Jarecki Craig Schlicht Stevens, 1950-51 Truth, 2006-08

Gloria Jarecki is a former film critic for the Travel Industry of America’s at Time magazine. Along with her Hall of Leaders for her environmental husband, Henry, she was nominated work in ecotourism on Guana Island. Edward Vielmetti Joint House 85-87

Edward is Lead Blogger at h t t p : / / w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m / l / e 7 5 b 7 t S z H u J n D _ V 6 J f v m 9 B X _ dbg;AnnArbor.com. It’s his first job in journalism, but he follows the lead of Joint House president Laura Bischoff who works for the Dayton Daily News. See his daily column at http: //www.facebook.com/l/e75b7xkFguL vS2x5r3hAE5wL14w;annarbor.com/ vielmetti/

I’m in my second year of service in the Peace Corps in Jamaica. I just Coming Next Year... changed sites and will be working at a local vocational school teaching wine- In 2011, there Vail House will celebrate its 50th anniversary, making, preserves, and fruit drying adn Black Elk will celebrate 25 years! Alumni of those houses for the local produce (mangoes, should stay tuned for announcements of anniversary events! pineapples, guavas, etc.)

Page 17 Still more alumni news...... and memories

Rebecca Nole Early Days at North Minnie’s, Michigan, Ruths’ 1999-2003 Campus Elisha Wolfe Nakamura, Minnie’s, I was in the original class of North Michigan Campus Co-op members. I was the one 1999-2001 who suggested naming our residential unit after John Sinclair, the radical Living in Milwaukee WI musician poet of the Detroit-Ann Arbor . We work in non-profits counter culture scene of the 1960’s and and are both back in 1970’s. I very much enjoyed my time school pursuing Master’s in Sinclair House and felt a great deal degrees. She at Milwaukee of kinship with other members there. I Habitat for Humanity wasn’t much of an activitist at the time, studying Urban Studies but the experience of living in US Coops and Non-Profit Business helped form my attitudes and a lifetime and he at Big Brothers Big of environmental activism I maintain to Sisters studying School the present time in my late 50’s. I am Counseling. We miss Ann heartened to see the coop housing Arbor and come back to visit when we can. Come visit us and explore movement for students still being a the best-kept secret in the Midwest! healthy and vibrant force for social change and personal development yet today in Ann Arbor. I was a physics and mathematics student who later went to the school of education and student taught at Ann Arbor High School while I was still living at Sinclair Coop.

I remember many a Thursday night buckling down to turn in my nuclear physics problem sets with patterns of late night activity which I still bring to my projects today. My present pattern of largely vegetarian diet and no beef eating I’ve maintained for nearly 35 years got started while I was at Sinclair House. I am presently a self-employed environmental consultant for the past 11 years and before that a 15 year director of environmental and occupational health for the American Lung Association of Michigan. I’m really curious about several of the folks I lived with in Sinclair House and Travis Jones what they did with their careers and education. Hopefully, Minnie’s, King, Zeno, Baker, some might see this notice and correspond. Regards, 2003-2009 Alexander J. Sagady http://www.sagady.com Travis is in his second year as a Peace Corps Volunter in Nicaragua. He continues Alexander J Sagady to work on agricultural projects in his campo John Sinclair near El Sauce, but has also been teaching 1970-1972 English and worked on producing the Peace Corps Nicaragua newsletter, “Va Pue.”

Page 18 In Memoriam Deceased ICC Alumni

Eddins, Berkley wife, Essie, lived on the grounds of the Bejnar, Waldemere Lester 1952-53 Chautauqua Institution where he was Owen 1939-43 Died in 2009 active in the Motet Choir and an ardent Died in 2007 supporter of the Arts. A graduate of Booker T. Washington Lerman-Sinkoff, Aryeh High School, Howard University, and Mennone, Angelo Chaim the University of Michigan, he was a Michigan, 1946-49 Debs, Black ElK 2001-03 leader in his field of Social Philosophy. Died November 14, 2008 Died May 28, 2010 He taught for almost 30 years on the faculty of the State University of New Angelo’s wife, Doris Edwards Moskoff, Arthur York at Buffalo, serving briefly as the Mennone (Lester, 1947-48) writes: Owen, 1948-50 Department Chair for Philosophy, and Angelo was house president of Died in 2003 mentoring many students through their Michigan in 1947-48. He suggested the collegiate life. name of the ICC History book, In Our Patel, Hoshang An amateur musician as well, he Hands, which was published in 1994. Nakamura 1953-55 sang in choirs for 66 years, and music He went to U of M on the G.I. bill as Died in 2008 was always one of the greatest joys of did so many others in that historic time. his life. For the past 19 years he and his We married on October 29, 1949.

Remembering the Tofu Curtain I loved living in the coops - what a stimulating environment. We had wonderful house parties, using my borrowed tiny Bose shelf speakers (and yes, they really worked - the sound filled up the room!). I worked in the kitchen - switched to the ‘carney’ kitchen after my first recipe in the veggie kitchen was a souffle calling for separating 65 eggs! The houses were divided into veggie/carney sides, and the corner where the switch from carney to veggie occurred was called the ‘Tofu Curtain’. There were lots of fine summer nights with some rum, sharing good conversation on the front steps, and singing Harry Belafonte - day-o! Bottle rockets over the center hill and into the houses on the other side of the Tofu Curtain occurred, once (I was only a witness). We had the “Iowa Boys” come every summer and stay in Falstaff house - that was a beer house. I think my favorite time was working in the kitchens over the holidays - we could get really creative with what we were doing as there wasn’t a big audience Noth Campus in the 1970s and it was very festive indeed! Lisa Campeau North Campus Coops 1977-1984

Page 19 From AnnArbor.com (The Ann Arbor News)

Lester member nominated to County Commission!

Yousef Rabhi looked at the That left Rabhi one vote ahead. Ralph is an architect, Rabhi is numbers his poll watchers were a University of Michigan student bringing back to Arbor Brewing Co. That projection held out as the and community activist, Fried is with a bit of dismay. numbers came in. He had 998 votes the former chief of administration to Fried’s 997 votes. Two other for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Those figures showed he lost by candidates were in the race - Alice 10 votes. Office, and Bullington is retired from Ralph got 281 votes and LuAnne a career in computer information Bullington got 108 votes. But then the Democratic candidate services and education. for the 11th District Washtenaw “I just flipped out,” he said. “There County Board of Commissioners seat With the win, Rabhi moves on were hugs. I’m crossing my fingers to the November general election, realized one precinct was left to be that it holds up. I’m going to count it counted. He ran over to another local where he will face Republican Joe as a victory for now and see how it Baublis, who ran unopposed in the restaurant after he heard they had holds up.” those results. Republican primary and got 611 votes. They are all Democrats looking to The count there showed Rabhi replace incumbent Jeff Irwin, who with 14 votes. His nearest competitor, “This is really a testament to vacated his seat to run for the state what a vote means,” Rabhi said. Mike Fried, had 3 - a difference of 11 House. votes. “Everyone’s vote really counted tonight.”

Page 20 Yousef was born in Ypsilanti growing seasons, Yousef has activities. Yousef is also an where he lived for the first few years maintained an urban garden employee at Saint Mary’s of his life. His family soon moved that has hosted everything from Student Parish Catholic Church. to their current residence on the lettuce to tomatillos. north side of Ann Arbor on Upland Born in Michigan, he has Drive. Growing up, Yousef had a His passion for plants extends deep roots here and maintains diverse educational experience. well beyond the yard at his Co- a firm belief that Michigan is the He began his preschool days at operative house. As an employee best place to be, for people of Blossom home preschool where of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens all ages and backgrounds. Yet he actively participated in the and Nichols Arboretum at the his heart and soul are truly and Adopt-A-Stream program. He University of Michigan, he has inextricably connected to the city attended first grade at Northside worked on controlling invasive of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County elementary but soon moved on species in the vast natural areas and its people. He views Ann to the Ann Arbor Open School. He of both properties and managing Arbor as his current and future attended Clague Middle School the beloved Rhododendron home. and is a proud graduate of Huron collection, among many other High School. At the University of Michigan, Yousef is currently seeking a BS in Environmental Studies with a specialization in environmental urban planning and urban ecosystems management. He is expected to graduate December 2010.

Yousef has been blessed with a loving and supportive family that extends beyond his immediate relatives. His mother, Peggy Rabhi is a longstanding local activist and currently serves as the Democratic Party’s Ward Chair for the 1st ward. His father, Lounes Rabhi, is a mechanical engineer and his brother is a recent Huron High School graduate studying at Michigan State University. His grandfather is a WWII veteran and a lifelong labor organizer in Detroit.

Yousef is a gardener and has a passion for plants. Every spring, Yousef puts on his gloves and begins planting flowers, raking leaves and mulching beds at his Co-operative house. For four

Page 21 A Nakamura Memoire, continued from page 6

once a week. The first time he showed up, after I took over, I laid down the law: don’t even think of trying to get me to order fancy meats, like steak and veal. From now on it was hamburger, brisket, beef spareribs. The man looked stricken. When I told him that there were other retailers in the area that I could order from, he regained his composure. Every week a shipment of meat was delivered and put in the freezer, which it shared with the birds and other animals that Peter, a wildlife conservation major, stocked for his taxidermy course. Cooks sometimes forgot about Pete’s trove and got a shock when they reached into the freezer to retrieve a package of meat and grabbed a frozen cardinal or squirrel instead.

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Nak house residents were, by and large, a sober and serious lot. We studied hard, especially the engineers who congregated for study sessions almost every evening in the dining room. Most of us took our assigned house tasks seriously. Many of us also worked outside the house. The busy lives that most residents led, did not leave much time for play. After luunch, we watched “Perry Mason” and the “Robert Cummings Show” on television. “Yogi Bear” and “The Untouchables”, were evening favorites. Special events like the 1960 Winter Olympics, drew standing room only crowds. The whole house stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to watch the U.S. Team defeat the Soviets in the hockey semi-final. Everybody cheered except the lone Canadian who was still in shock after the Americans beat the Canadians a day or so earlier. We spent a lot of time in each others’ rooms. With so many nationalities, cultural backgrounds and belief systems represented, we never ran out of topics to discuss. For the complete version of John’s memoire, contact Susan Caya at the ICC office, or see the ICC’s alumni website at www.icc.coop.

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Artwork from our alums: David L Smith, Osterweil 1946, Owen 1947

David writes, “The original image was done with color fine point ball point pens... When you put 2 positive regular images together with 2 positive mirror im- ages you create a compos- ite. Combine the 4 positive images with the 4 nagative images you create a double composite. Each image is 8 1/4” x 10 3/4”. The total double composite can then be mounted on a 30” x 40” black foam core board.” For information, contact David Smith at the Smith Scarabocchio Art Museum, “Serpintine: Slinky, Sash Shaying, Squirmy, 800 Main St., Stevens Point, WI 54481. Sequandering Side Ways, Slick and Slipery”