KALAMAZOO On Campus & Off COLLEGE Publication Error Oldest Graduate Dies Prior to the national election, the Wall Street Journal car ried an article entitled ''Election Uproar? Antiwar Groups Plan Widespread Demonstrations." In part it read, "By BULLETIN Monday, the national protest movement hopes to have gained a powerful assist from two-day 'student strikes' that SDS has urged at all colleges. These strikes may cause Vol. LXIII December, 1968 No. 6 hardly a ripple on many campuses, but Mr. Klonsky of SDS predicts near-total disruption of the University of Dr. Charles J. Kurtz, class of 1894, passed away on Octo Second-class postage paid at Michigan, Kalamazoo College and some state colleges in ber 29, at the age of 96. He was the oldest living alumnus Kalamazoo, Michigan. the Los Angeles area. In New York, SDS claims a strong of Kalamazoo College at the time of his death in Chicago Published bi-monthly, following at Columbia, New York University and Queens where he had lived since 1894. Dr. Kurtz received his M.D. beg. Feb. for alumni; College, and regional organizer Robert Kramer forecasts from Northwestern University Medical School in 1898 and in September as the that classroom boycotts will paralyze those schools." Re a M.A. in 1900. In 1899, he married Isabella G. Bennett College catalogue. percussion has been widespread, and Kalamazoo College is who died in 1931. Margaret Pearce Kurtz, who survives anxious that this misstatement be corrected. Actually, the him, became his wife in 1937. Dr. Kurtz was Instructor in Editor: Marilyn Hinkle '44 writer was referring to another Michigan institution, where Physiology, 1899-1915; Associate Professor of Otolaryngol intentions of protesting had been made by SDS and where, ogy, 1915-1948; and Emeritus Professor from 1948, at in fact, on election day, there was relatively little dis Northwestern University Medical School. He also served ruption. as Professor of Anatomy and Biology at George Williams While the College does not officially recognize SDS on College, 1900-1917, and was the oldest living member of campus, there is a small group which functions and some the staff of Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital. He was a times is associated with the Western Michigan chapter. member of the Jackson Park Branch of the Chicago Medi Upon learning of the error in the Wall Street Journal, stu cal Society, the 50 Year Club of the Illinois State Medical dents identifying themselves as Kalamazoo College SDS Society, and the American Medical Association. In addition wrote the following letter to the Journal: "Your article of to his wife, Dr. Kurtz is survived by a son, Dr. James F. October 29, 1968, concerning student protest during the Kurtz '31, and two daughters, Margaret Kurtz Fortner '24 presidential election is in error. We, the Kalamazoo College and Pauline Kurtz Jacobs '24; seven grandchildren includ SDS, are not planning any form of 'student strike' or other ing Charles H. Kurtz '61, Mardell Jacobs Arent '51, and disruptive activities. In fact, our activities will be a con David G. Jacobs '60; and nine greatgrandchildren. Two tinuing series of constructive group discussions and open grandsons, including Charles K. Jacobs '54, preceded him forums. We regret that Kalamazoo College was singled out in death. Altogether, 37 relatives of Dr. Kurtz have attend in this misstatement." ed Kalamazoo College. Through the years, Dr. Kurtz was It should be clear that the educational philosophy at active in the Chicago Alumni Club and a frequent visitor to Kalamazoo College is based on the idea that students are the campus. taught to think and to evaluate, and this does not come when following a blind allegiance without any analysis or reasoning. Kalamazoo College has always practiced aca 'Trustees Elected demic freedom. Kalamazoo College will continue to allow student disagreement and protest; it will not countenance Three new trustees were elected to the Kalamazoo College civil disobedience or interruption of the on-going life of Board of Trustees at its meeting in November, and a fourth the College. was returned to membership after an absence of four years. Elected as new members were Mrs. Robert F. Man ogg, who is regarded as one of the state's most dynamic Baptist leaders, of Huntington Woods; David F. Upton, Kellogg Gift president of Benton Harbor Abstract & Title Company and a former state representative, of St. Joseph; and Ron TheW. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek has awarded ald 0. Warner, manager of the Chevrolet-Flint Manufac :HOliday Kalamazoo College a grant of $46,382 for the development turing Division of General Motors, of Flint. Returning to of an improved language laboratory facility. The language the board is John W. Reed of Ann Arbor. Dr. Reed, a trus laboratory, originally located in Bowen Hall, was built tee from 1951-1964, left the state in the latter year to be three years ago with the assistance of the Kellogg Founda come Dean of the University of Colorado Law School. He tion. The new facility will be located in the soon-to-be returned to Michigan last summer to become Director of (}reetings completed Wallace Hall, classroom building. the Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Ann Arbor. A Message On Caillpus & Off for Alumni (Continued)
It is a pleasure to greet you as your new Three Named Memorials president of the Kalamazoo College Alumni Association. I am looking forward to these The Kalamazoo College Board of Trustees has approved next two years of service and am already three named memorials of college facilities honoring indi pleased to report on a successful Home viduals who served the College during their lives. The Col coming. lege's service building will be named the William Oldfield The innovation of the alumni open house Service Building, in honor of William Oldfield. Mr. Old at the Kalamazoo Country Club in lieu of an field was a partner in the fuel dealership of Oakley and alumni dance appeared to be a lucky deci Oakfield, Inc., and was closely associated with the service sion. The affair was packed and much more areas of the College's operations. The Board Room in Man opportunity for seeing old friends was af delle Hall will be the Olmsted Room, honoring Floyd and forded. Our Council meeting that morning Margaret Olmsted. Mr. Olmsted, a trustee from 1918 to was well-attended, and headway has been 1956 and for many years the board's secretary, was asso made in the review of our constitution and ciated with Olmsted and Mulhall, Inc., a Kalamazoo in by-laws. We'll have some definite matters vestment firm. Mrs. Olmsted, the former Margaret Boyden, to report on this at a later date. was a member of the class of 1903 and was a leader in Chick Garrett '42, Marshall Rutz '34, Ted alumni affairs for many years. The Computer Center in Hartleb '50, and I are currently "up to our Wallace Hall will be named the Harry and Edith Marvin ears" in the Annual Fund, and we are count Computer Center. Mr. Marvin '04, who was an Indianapo ing on all of you to help us out! In the next lis, Ind., consulting actuary, and his wife, the former Bulletin, we hope to have a first report on Edith Harvey '05, were both graduates of the College. individual class performance. The $235,000 goal will not be easily attained, and we need your gifts as never before to pull us over the goal. Let's hear it for "K" College and the Annual Fund! KenKrum More Briefs ... President, Kalamazoo College Alumni Association This year, Kalamazoo College has a total enrollment of 1,290 students. The freshman class numbers 390. Due to the off-campus quarters, there are 966 students presently on the campus, and there are 175 juniors studying abroad, with the remaining students on senior independent proj ects ... The Bach Festival chorus began rehearsals on Oc tober 1 in preparation for this season's Festival on March 2 to 9, 1969 ... The music department has had a record made of the memorial program for Dr. Henry Overley, pre Calendar of Events sented at the last Bach Festival. This record is available through the music department for $4.00 ... Featured dur January 2 Basketball at Manchester, ing November in the gallery of the Light Fine Arts Build 8:00p.m. ing was an exciting exhibit of African art. The exhibit was from the collections of Indiana University and Gen 4 Basketball at Wabash, evieve McMillan ... A recent speaker on the Kalamazoo 2:00p.m. campus was Dr. Daniel P. Moynihan, Harvard University 6 Beginning of winter quarter expert on urban problems and former assistant Secretary 8 Basketball with Olivet, here, of Labor ... Dr. Joe K. Fugate, assistant director of for 8:00p.m. eign study at Kalamazoo College, was a guest speaker in Bonn, Germany, at the Conference of American Directors 11 Basketball at Alma, of Academic Programs : .. The new natatorium has been 8:00p.m. open on Tuesday evenings for alumni night. The swims Wrestling with Albion, here, have been well attended. Beginning January 9, the alumni 2:00p.m. swims will be held on Thursday nights. Calendar, Continued 14 Wrestling, with Valparaiso Homecoming Faces and Manchester, here, 7:00p.m. 15 Basketball with Albion, here, 8: 00 p.m. Class of 1933 Reunion Photo 1 16 Todd Lecture, Dr.. John First row: Ward Dillenbeck, Lawrence; Delbert Long, Big Silber, dean of the College Rapids; Dexter Johnson, LaGrange, Ill.; Prentiss McKee, of Arts and Sciences, University of Texas, Kalamazoo; Edward VanPeenen, Vicksburg; R. W. Reyn 8: 00 p.m., Stetson Chapel. olds, St. Joseph; Edwin Williamson, Kalamazoo; Claude Williams, Brighton; Albert Neher, Greenville; Robert Pur 18 BasketballatHope,8:00p.m, sel, Lansing. Second row: Elizabeth Gibson Lynch, Nash Wrestling atLake Forest, ville; Mrs. Dillenbeck; Evelyn Webster Long; Mrs Johnson; 1:00p.m. Roberta Clark McKee; Virginia Stafford VanPeenen; Ruth Swimming at Calvin, Banks Reynolds; Mrs. Williamson; Mrs. Williams; Mrs. 7:00p.m. Neher; Luella Oberg Pursel. Third row: Marion Southworth 24 Honor's Day lecture, Foster, Schoolcraft; Mrs Veenhuis and Edward Veenhuis, 1933 Dr. Christopher Jencks, St. Joseph; Mrs. Blagdon and Charles Blagdon, Kalama co-author of "The Academic zoo; Stephen Stowe, ]ones; Mrs. Klepser and Roy Klepser, Revolution," 10:00 a.m., Arlington, Va.; Charles Venema and Mrs. Venema, Kala Stetson Chapel. mazoo. Swimming at Oakland, 7:30p.m. 25 Basketball with Calvin, here, 3:00p.m. Wrestling with University of Chicago at Concordia, Class of 1933 Reunion Photo 2 1:00 p.m. First row: Arthur Gilchrist, Kalamazoo; Dewey Bitney, Al 28 Wrestling with Calvin, here, bion; Harold Kolloff, Kalamazoo; Robert DeLong, LaMoille, 7:30p.m. Ill.; Burton Baker, Ann Arbor; Paul Lowry, Rockford, Ill.; Robert Blankenberg, Kalamazoo; L. Joe Crum, Richland. 31 Swimming with North Park, Second row: Theresa Hoffman Goodrich, South Haven; here, 7: 30 p.m. Betty Tyler Gilchrist; Barbara Fischer Bitney; Mrs. Kolloff; 31, Feb. 1 Faculty Readers' Theatre, Mrs. DeLong; Mrs. Baker; Mrs. Lowry; Mrs. Bushouse; 8:00p.m., Dalton Theatre Shirley Anderson Blankenberg; Mrs. Crum; Margaret Wal ton Balzer, Algonquin, Ill. Third row: Neil Goodrich; Vir 1933 February 1 Basketball with Oakland, ginia Steele Ash , Sturgis; Horace Horton and Mrs. Horton, here, 3: 00 p.m. M.ilan; Mrs. McKean and Eugene McKean, Richland; Isa 2 College Vespers, the Bushouse, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Kelley and Perry Kelley, Ox Reverend Channing Phillips, Homecoming Court ford; Ruth (Scholbohm) and Donald Anderson , Kalamazoo. Washington, D.C., 6:30p.m., Stetson Chapel. The five girls presiding over Homecoming, on October 26, were, first row, left to right, Glenna Simmons , Port Jeffer 5 Basketball with Aquinas, son, N . Y., sophomore; Queen Ginger McNeil , Dallas sen here, 8:00 p.m. ior; and Mary Elliot, Constantine senior. Standing are Wrestling at Calvin, Laureen Mileo, Ridgewood, N . ]., sophomore, and Carolyn 4:00p.m. Welti, Farmington sophomore . Class of 1938 Reunion 8 Basketball at Lake Forest, First row: David and Evelyn (Glass) Kurtz, Pleasant Ridge; 8:00p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Richard ]ames, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Eby and Wrestling at Adrian, Wilson Eby, Dowagiac; Mrs . Lambooy and Karl Lambooy , 1:00 p.m. Omaha, Nebr. Second row: Frank and Mary (Rosebrook) Otten, Kalamazoo; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Farley, Hubbell; 12 Basketball with Hope, here, Raywood and Lynette (Spath) Blanchard , Kalama zoo; Har 8:00p.m. ry and Jane (Meyer) Rapley, Kalama zoo; Mrs. Hunt and Wrestling with Hope, here, Kenneth Hunt , LaGrange, Ill. 7:30p.m. - more inside 1938 More Homecoming Faces! Class Notes CLASS OF 1904 TORRANCE H. MACDONALD passed away on April 17. Class of 1943 Reunion He was an attomey in Kalispell, Mont. Following gradua tion from Kalamazoo, he studied at the University of Chica First row: Luel Simmons, Bloomfield Hills; Sterling Max go and then received his L.L.B. degree in 19.09 from North field, St. Louis, Mo.; Thomas Sloan, Kalamazoo; Robert Pol westem University. He had served as Assistant Attomey derman, Kalamazoo; Edward Thompson, Kalamazoo; John General of Montana, Assistant Administrator and Counsel Mitchell, Kalamazoo; Frank Lincoln, Kalamazoo. Second of Montana Liquor Control Board, and a state legislator. row: Marian Wilson Simmons; Marianne Cloney, Kalama He was a member of several fratemal organizations and zoo; Ellen Ossward Maxfield; Mildred Whitcomb Sloan; served as a district govemor of the Kiwanis Club. He is Irene Gideon Polderman; Betty Heystek Thompson; Mrs. survived by his wife, Nell. They were the parents of 4 John Mitchell; Mrs. Frank Lincoln. Third row: Mr. and sons and 2 daughters. Mrs. Smith Weeks, Richland; Mrs. Reyburn and Allan Reyburn, Coldwater; LaVerne and Betty (Baker) LeRoy, CLASS OF 1911 Augusta; Mrs. Drier and Benjamin Drier, Three Oaks; Mrs. Burt and Harold Burt, Kalamazoo; Hugh Anderson, LILLIAN KROGEN WALCOTT is the author of a play, Kalamazoo. "Why Don't You Listen!," recently published by Vantage Press. CLASS OF 1917 1943 DR. CLARE M . JICKLING passed away on October 15 at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. A 1917 University of Mich Class of 1943 Also igan graduate, he served in the Signal Corps during World War I and received his wings as a pilot. In 1931, he estab Some members of the class of 1943 met on August 18 in lished his own advertising agency from which he retired Ithaca, N. ¥., at the home of Connie Peck Reps. Those pic in 1965. He is survived by his wife, the former NORMA CAR tured are, first row: Helen Kostia Pinkham, Old Greenwich, LAND '19, a son and two daughters - one of whom is Conn.; Elinore Hoven Basnett, Pittsford, N . ¥.; Mary Hos ELLEN JICKLING IDLL '50. ford Williams, Istanbul, Turkey; Florence Drake, Birming The Donors' Brochure failed to include a complete ham, Mich. Second row: Fred Pinkham; John Basnett, listing for the class of 1917. Contributing a total of $1,751, George Williams; Alice Cooley Helmer, Stamford, Conn.; here is the complete list of donors which placed the class Constance Peck Reps; H. ]ames Helmer; John Reps. fifth in participation on last year's Annual Fund ( 50.5% ) - Marguerite Brockie, Margaret Russell Buckham, Edith Butler Chamberlin, Veme Scudder Christenson, Edwina McGlannon Conklin, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Fleugel (Eliza beth Stetson), Fred R Harter, Genevieve Hartman Haw kins, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hickmott (Frances Beerstech Class of 1948 Reunion er), Walter W . Lucasse, Mary Hallett Miller, Ruth Hemen way Nolin, Ruth Farley Patterson, Kenneth M. Payne, First row: Maxine Bailey Morris, Rochester, Ind.; Dorothea Lourine Polasky, Helene Radley, Ruth Eldridge Ralston, Davis Stowe, Ludington; Mrs. Jack Trump, Muskegon; and Mirian Longyear Wixson. 1943 Melisse Truitt Kurtz, Rochester, N. Y. Second row: Gordon Kurtz; Mrs. Nicholas Beresky, Toledo, Ohio; Robert Stowe; CLASS OF 1922 Jack Trump; Norma Monroe Johnston, Jeffersonville, Ind.; DR. WARREN C. JOHNSON represented Kalamazoo Nicholas Beresky; Robert Johnston; William Morris; ]ames College at the inauguration of Edward H . Levi as presi Pinkham, Kalamazoo. dent of the University of Chicago on November 14. CLASS OF 1923 DR. HARTLEY T. GRANDIN was presented with a 1968 Brotherhood Award by the New Hampshire Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and New Eng Class of 1953 Reunion land College conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity de gree on him in June. He retired last January as executive First row: Mrs. Thomas Hodson, Lansing; Mrs. Charles secretary of the New Hampshire Council of Churches and VanZoeren, Kalamazoo; Mary Fee Montgomery, Royal Oak; the New Hampshire Bible Society. Martha Wetherbee Priehs, St. Clair Shores; Roger Cox, Ann Arbor; Constance Wilson McGuineas, Southfield; Roger Me CLASS OF 1926 Guineas; Donna Houghtby Haymans, Kalamazoo; Mrs. MISS LOIS c . PARKS was the alumna selected by the Richard Klein, Kalamazoo; Alvin Priehs. Second row: Kalamazoo College Women's Council to receive a citation Thomas Hodson; Charles VanZoeren; Richard Nelson and for her achievement - in the field of mental health - at Mrs. Nelson, South Bend, Ind.; Gerald Wilson and Mrs. Achievement Day last April, but she was seriously injured Wilson, Kalamazoo; George Davis and Barbara Stevens Da in an automobile accident enroute to Kalamazoo. She was vis, Grosse Pointe Shores; Milton Montgomery; Charles in Kalamazoo in September, and her honor was acknowl Daugherty, Warren; Robert Haymans; Richard Klein; Wal edged at that time. She is currently president of Lois C. ter Nichols, Kalamazoo. Also attending the reunion but not Parks Associates, a public relations consultation service, in the photograph were Carl and Nancy (Murch) Carring but she had devoted many earlier years to problems of ton, Marshall, and Jane Tym Nichols. mental health and served as the first executive secretary of the Mental Health Society of Southeastem Florida. CLASS OF 1928 MISS FRANCES CLARK, president of the New School for Music Study in Princeton, N.J., and MISS LOUISE GOSS Class of 1958 Reunion '48, the school's director, presented in November a two-day First row: ]ames Todd, Ada; Franklin Messany, Grand study course for piano teachers on the Kalamazoo College Rapids; Richard Wilsey, Bloomfield Hills; Edward Stoll, campus where they held their first workshop for piano Mt. Clemens; Thomas Hathaway, Akron, Ohio; Fred Koett teachers twenty years ago. They founded the New School gen, Chicago; Daniel A. Morozowski, South Bend, Ind.; in 1960, and it is the country's only research center devot Chris Neilson, Jackson; Leslie Dodson, Flint; Herman De ed to the development of piano teaching methods and ma Hoog, Richland Center, Wis. Second row: Mrs. Todd; Mrs. terials and to teacher-training. Messany; Diane Treholm Wilsey; Marlene Metsa Stoll; Marlene Crandell Hathaway; Dolores Kaudel Koettgen; CLASS OF 1929 1953 Mrs. Morozowski; Sue Wixom Neilson; Mrs. Dodson; Rose DR. LOUIS LEVIN has been nominated by President mary Luther DeHoog. Third row: Mr. and Mrs Frank Johnson to be deputy director of the National Science Grimm, Wyoming; Jane (Schaafsma) and Vincent Iannelli, Foundation. As the nomination has to be acted on by the Kalamazoo; Marcia (Johnston) and Howard Morrison, Kal Senate, he is serving in an interim capacity in the posi amazoo; Mrs. Reinel and Gordon Reinel, Sturgis; ]ames tion. He was formerly associate director for institutional Smith, South Haven; ]esse Dungy, Detroit; Ruth Knoll, relations at the Foundation. Hartford, Wis.; Carolyn Mayne McGuire, Battle Creek. Those present at the reunion, who are not pictured, were CLASS OF 1933 David and Carol (Baker) Koeze, Wyoming; Mr. and Mrs. DR. w . FAY LUDER, professor of chemistry at North Philip Perry, Kalamazoo; and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Stew eastem University, presented a papar on his theory of ard, St. Louis, Mich. atomic structure at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in September. The theory is described in his latest book, "The Electron-Repulsion Theory of the Chemical Bond." Dr. Luder represented Kalamazoo College at the inauguration of Morris B. Abram as President of Brandeis University on October 6. Class of 1963 Reunion CLASS OF 1937 First row on left, front to back: Judy (Centa) and Stephen HARRIETT WINSLOW BEMIS passed away on Septem Meyer, Hayden Lake, Idaho; ]ames Jahnke, Lansing; Pa ber 20 in Kalamazoo. Following her graduation from Kal tricia (Harris) and Jim Anderson, Galien; Carl Bekofske, amazoo College, she continued her studies at Maher's Busi 1958 Flint. Second row: Elaine (Goff) and Alan Hutchcraft, Rock ness School, Westem Michigan University, and the Uni ford, Ill.; Mrs. ]ames Jahnke; Sherry (Broadwell) and Rob versity of Michigan. She taught in Centreville and Alle ert Tardiff, Kalamazoo; Judy (Grubb) and David Wrend, gan, and was a secretary prior to her marriage to Harry J. Evanston, Ill.; Karen Clomp Bekofske. Third row: Susan Bemis in 1959. She was active in Red Cross work and was (Wotila) and Robert Brackenridge, Portage; Anne (Struh a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Among the saker) and ]ames Larsen, St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. Walkoe and survivors are her husband, mother, brother, and four step Wilbur Walkoe, Allendale; Bonnie Bradford Ramseyer, Uti children. ca, Ohio. Fourth row: Mrs. Marks and Richard Marks, South Bend, Ind.; Makrouhi Oxian, South Bend, Ind; Sharon CLASS OF 1941 (Douglass) and Frederick Swintz, Oak Park, Ill.; Richard DR. ABRAHAM BEZANKER represented Kalamazoo Ramseyer. Fifth row: Karla (Lutz) and William litkinson, College at the inauguration of Thomas D. Terry, S.J., as Kalamazoo; Mrs. Meyer and Donald Meyer, Woodridge, president of the University of Santa Clara on October 24. Ill.; Adelle Vliek, Bloomfield Hills; Barbara (Klein) and Roland Furrow, Holt; ]ana (Kennedy) and Loren Camp CLASS OF 1942 bell, Ann Arbor; Gail (Olin) and Gordon Radwan, Royal DR. KENNETH J . OLSON has been named manager of Oak. Sixth row: Penny (Britton) and Frederick Kolloff, Lan the newly formed toxicology department at Dow Coming sing; Douglas Parrish, East Lansing; guest of Adelle Vliek; Corp. in Midland, Mich. He has been with Dow since 1954 Sandra Spencer, Chicago; Lana (Stockmeyer) and Neil Har and has handled many aspects of industrial toxicology. He ris, Kalamazoo. Back corner: Sharon (Henry) and David has thirteen scientific publications and is certified in toxi Bowman, Kalamazoo; Thomas and Donna (Reed) Lambert, cological aspects by the American Board of Industrial 1963 Kalamazoo; Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson Turner, Galesburg. Hygiene. CLASS OF 1945 MR. AND MRS. JAMES BONFIGLIO (DIANA SMITH) are CLASS OF 1967 GLENN R. GARDNER has returned from Germany and s. LEE LARKIN has been appointed public relations the parents of a son, Bradley James, born on October 1 in is continuing his graduate study at the University of Chi manager for The Seven-Up Company. He joined the com Hopkins, Minn. cago in the department of romance languages and liter pany in 1964 as editor of the company magazine and was Steve and JUDY (CENTA) MEYER are now living in assistant directQr of public relations prior to his appoint Hayden Lake, Idaho. ature. BARRY w. KNISTER returned to the United States in MISS KATHERINE HOLMES and THOMAS RICHARDS ment. August after serving two years with the Peace Corps on were married on September 14 in Downers Grove, Ill. They DR. FORREST C. STROME, JR. was the Kalamazoo the island of Ponape, one of the Eastern Caroline Islands. are now residing in Youngstown, Ohio, where Tom is em College representative at the opening of the new campus He is teaching English at Lawrence Institute of Tech ployed in the pipe sales division of Youngstown Sheet and of Rochester Institute of Technology on October 19. nology. Tube Company and is attending Youngstown State Uni HARRIETTE FINNIGAN LINDBERG was the featured versity. CLASS OF 1947 artist in an exhibit on the Kalamazoo College campus on MR. AND MRS. RONALD R. ATKINSON (CATHERINE DR. WARREN B. TAYLOR was the Kalamazoo College Homecoming Day. Her exhibit in the Light Fine Arts coLES '69) are serving with the Peace Corps in Uganda, representative at the inauguration of Ferrel Heady as Pres Building included seven figurative oil paintings. East Africa, having finished training at Joan Mier Camp ident of the University of New Mexico on November 9. Miss Erna Sinnes and LEO B. RASMUSSEN were mar in Malibu, Calif., on December 1. ried on October 19 in Our Saviour's Lutheran Church of FREDRIC A. EMMERT is serving with the Peace Corps CLASS OF 1951 Nome, Alaska. Leo is employed by the Martin Dredging in Brazil. GARRY E. BROWN was reelected Congressman from Company and Nome Power and Light. MR. AND MRS. DAVID FREYTAG (ELLEN TAYLOR '65) the 3rd district of Michigan in the November elections. Miss Mary C. Brugger and CAPT. DAVID H. ANDER announce the birth of a daughter, Cathy Ellen, on Septem This will be his second term as a member of the U.S. SON, M.D., announced their engagement on November 19. ber 15 in Batavia, Ill. Dave is Saga Food Service Director House of Representatives. Dave is in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and is stationed at St. Dominic College in St. Charles, Ill., and Ellen is in Bangkok, Thailand. teaching French part-time at Waubonsee Community CLASS OF 1952 Miss Cherilyn J. Smith and CAPT. CARL R. CHRIS College. BARRY PARSONS is owner and manager of Ethel M. TENSEN were married on September 21 in the Hope Lu MISS COLLEEN YODER and Thomas Henry have an Pollock Infants' and Children's Shop, in Birmingham, theran Church, Fresno, Calif. Carl is stationed at Griffiss nounced their engagement. They attend the Chicago Theo Mich. Air Force Base, New York. logical Seminary. E. TURNER LEWIS received the degree of D.V.M., MARK cooN is working in the pension division of CLASS OF 1953 with honors, from Michigan State University and is prac the Occidental Life Insurance Company of California in MR. AND MRS. JOHN DEVOS (KAREN LAKE '59) an ticing in Stoneham, Mass. He and his wife, the former Los Angeles and is planning a trip to the Orient in the nounce the birth of a daughter, Paula Susan, on November KAY SEAMAN '65, reside in Wakefield, Mass., and Kay spring. 2 in Kalamazoo. teaches Spanish at Boston University. MR. AND MRS . E. DOUGLAS BETTS (MARY HAND) an SVENN LINDSKOLD is now working on his Ph.D. in BYRON ANDERSON received a Ph.D. in biochemistry nounce the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on August social psychology at the University of Miami. He was for from the University of Michigan in August, spending 2112 1 in Ann Arbor, Mich. merly a municipal personnel official in Miami and was years in research and working on his dissertation at Johns MISS KAREN STROM and GARY WEBSTER were mar president of his state association. Hopkins University. He is presently a postdoctoral fellow ried on August 26 in Des Plaines, Ill., and are now residing NANCY CRISSMAN ARLITZ is now living in Reno, in Immunology at the Columbia University Medical Center in Royal Oak, Mich. Gary is an assistant city manager of a Nevada, and CAROL NIELSON BEAMER has moved to Arling under a grant from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Detroit suburb. ton, Va. which sponsors research on connective tissue diseases. He SANDRA BEDARD MEYER is teaching in Battle Creek and his wife have a two-year.old son, Kyle Patrick, and this year while her husband, Charles, finishes his senior CLASS OF 1955 year at Kalamazoo College. DR. MARSHALL H. BRENNER was co-author of an ar are now residing in Bronx, N . Y. LT. AND MRS. DOUGLAS A. LONG announce the birth JOEL BERNSTEIN spent the summer touring Europe ticle which appeared in the September-October issue of the of a daughter, Darcy Jean, on November 9, in Bremerton, and Israel after finishing his first year of medical school Harvard Business Review. The article was entitled "Suc Wash. Doug is Planning Officer at the U.S. Pacific Fleet at the University of Chicago. cessful experience: training hard-core unemployed." Mar Polaris Material Office in Bremerton. He was designated MISS DONNA GRAHAM '69 and DONALD ACKLEY have shall is administrator of testing and research at the Lock "qualified in submarines" earlier this year while stationed announced their engagement and plan to be married in heed-California Company. An industrial psychologist at aboard the USS James Madison. January. Don is an instructor in English at Western Mich Lockheed since 1962, he has taught at the University of KEN VANANDEL wrote in October that he was flying igan University. Southern California and at two Los Angeles-area colleges. E-2A's off the USS Coral Sea operating in Gulf of Tonkin. TOM NORTHRUP, LYLE ANDERSON and MARK BOND SUSAN SCHROEDER LARSON received a Master's de are all in the Navy. Tom is working with the aerospace CLASS OF 1956 gree in English from the University of Chicago in June and division in Florida, Lyle is in basic training at Great Lakes, DR. THOMAS R. HATHAWAY was the Kalamazoo Col is teaching English and French at Hyde Park High School and Mark is now in flight school in Tennessee. lege representative at the inauguration of John G. Drushal in Chicago. Her husband, DAVID '61, is a resident in path MISS CAROL WADSWORTH and MERWIN D. LEWIS as president of the College of Wooster ( Ohio) on Octo ology at the University of Chicago. have announced their plans for a December 28 wedding in ber 11. Wayne, Pa. They are both doing graduate work at Indiana University - Carol in German and Merwin in music. CLASS OF 1957 CLASS OF 1964 MR. AND MRS. DAVID J. ANDERSON (SANDRA NORDIN) NANCY souTHARD spent six weeks chaperoning a DAVID MARKUSSE received a Master's degree in po group of high school students to Quimper, France. She also litical science and municipal administration in June from announce the birth of a daughter, Christine Linnea, on March 26 in Madison, Wis. Sandra received a M.A. degree spent time in Paris and London and returned to Caen to the University of Iowa, while he was employed as assistant visit the family she stayed with during her foreign study. director of planning and urban renewal for the City of in anatomy from the University of Wisconsin in June. Iowa City. He is now assistant to the township manager in MISS ROBERTA KELLEY and Muhammed Al-Salihi the township of Mount Lebanon, Pa. were married in the Baha'i Center of Toledo, Ohio, in Au gust. Roberta was in Haifa, Israel, following receipt of a M.A. in French from the University of Michigan in 1967. CLASS OF 1968 CLASS OF 1958 JOANNA ANDROS is in Newark, N. J., working for THE REVEREND DONALD L. SHULER has been named MR. AND MRS. THOMAS VANDERMOLEN announce the birth of a son, James Gilmore, on October 11 in Kalamazoo. VISTA. pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cambridge, Ohio. THOMAS W. BARBER, JACKS. KRAVITZ, and PETER R. MR. AND MRS. ROBERT W. LARSON (JUDITH SWEIT Miss Linda M. Hartsell and GLEN c. FISCHER were married in the Valier Lutheran Church in Valier, Montana, KLINE are with the Peace Corps. Tom is in Senegal, West ZER) announce the adoption of a daughter, Kara Kristina. Africa; Jack is in Brazil; and Pete is in Thailand. ShewasbornonMarch 7,1966. on September 14. Glen is working toward his Ph.D. degree in high energy physics at the University of Wisconsin. His RICHARD NYLUND and LYLE GERTS are in the service. MR. AND MRS. PHILIP P. PERRY are the parents of a MR. AND MRS. BRUCE BOLIN (JANET MCCLELLAND) daughter, Donna Lynn, born on September 20 in Kala wife has a M.S degree in food science from the University of Wisconsin and is working at the Food Research Institute are now living in Downsview, Canada, and Bruce is em mazoo. ployed in research at the University of Toronto. in Madison. CHRISTINE MERTZ is a research assistant in the de CLASS OF 1959 partment of radiation and biophysics at the University of MARTHA STffiiTZ BANERJEE is an orthotist. She in CLASS OF 1965 Rochester and is doing part-time graduate study in German vents, designs and makes devices to help the disabled be as Miss Jerry A. Sabin and ALAN F. HEATH announced literature at the Unviersity. independent as possible. She is working two days a week their engagement on October 8. Alan received his law de ROBERT J . NEWLAND is attending graduate school at the Lenox Hill Hospital brace shop and is studying at gree from the University of Colorado Law School and is at Wayne State University. the School of Prosthetics and Orthotics at New York Uni now serving in the U.S. Army. ANNETTE B. CASEY has married Raymond F. Barnes versity. Martha will.be the first woman to hold a degree in LT. (J.G.) JOHNs. DANIELS is now serving as class and they are residing in Broadview, Ill. Prosthetics and Orthotics when she is graduated next June. agent for the class of 1965. He is executive officer of the MISS PEGGY NICHOLS '70 and JACK ORR announced Her husband is a specialist in rehabilitation medicine at USS Amherst which operates on the Great Lakes and has their engagement in September. Jack is employed as tech Metropolitan Hospital in New York. Detroit as its home port. nical supervisor of the Behavior Research Laboratory, Psy Miss Catherine L. McConnell and ANDREWs. o'GAWA chology Department, Western Michigan University. CLASS OF 1960 were married on September 28 in the First Congregational MISS JAMIE L. HALL and JAMES E. PETERS '66 have THE REVEREND AND MRS. ROGER J. REED (PHYLLIS Church of Ann Arbor. announced plans for a December 21 wedding in Algoma, WATSON) announce the birth of their first child, Stephen C. CHARLES BIKFALVY is serving in Vietnam with Wis. Jamie is teaching in Kewaunee, Wis., and Jim is em Grant, on July 16 in Glen Ridge, N.J. the U.S. Army. ployed with the Upjohn Co. in Kalamazoo BRUCE RANK has been appointed principal of Alle Miss Karen L. Dockray and JAMES MEEUWSEN an gan, Mich., High School. He served as assistant principal CLASS OF 1966 nounced their engagement on October 18. They are plan at Kalamazoo Central High School for the past three years. CAROL EICHHOLZ RICHARDS received a Master of ning a December 28 wedding. Jim is attending the Univer JOHN w. BRENNEMAN was recently promoted to the Arts degree in the social sciences from the University of sity of Michigan Medical School. position of supervisor, warranty and policy systems sec Chicago on August 30. MRAND MRS. KEITH LYON (ANN FORRESTER '69) are tion, product and finance systems department of the Ford WALTER R. HERSCHER received a M.A degree in working as house-parents in a halfway house for mental Division of the Ford Motor Company. John resides in Al European history from the University of Notre Dame in patients returning to society after long hospital stays. len Park, Mich., with his wife, Judith, and their three August. He is now working toward a Ph.D. at the Univer SUSAN KILBORN is coordinator of campus activities children. sity of Oklahoma. at Kalamazoo College. JOSEPH M. GARRISON received a Master's degree"" in MISS RUTH A. RYAN and THOMAS G. MATZELL '69 CLASS OF 1961 business administration from the University of Michigan. have announced plans for a December 20 wedding in Grin DR. DAVID G. HOPKINS is an anesthesist at Brooke He is attending Naval Officer's Candi,.date School in New nell, Iowa. Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. port, R. 1., and will be commissioned in December. DAVID A. LEWIS, KAREN SIKKEMA, and ROBERT F. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES E. EVANS announce the birth KARLA LUTZ ATKINSON is serving as class agent for GREMEL are doing graduate work at the University of Mich of a son, Jonathan Edward, on May 7 in Rochester, Mich. the class of 1966, replacing Joe Garrison vyhile he is in igan. RALPH WELLINGTON and TOM THOMPSON are attend Charles received an M.A. in educational administration service. ing law school at U. of M. suE WOLOFSKI is enrolled in the from Michigan State University in August. MR. AND MRS. DANIEL P. BEARDSLEY (BARBARA BEY University's department of biostatistics, and HEIDI JACOB DR. AND MRS. JOHN KERLEY (MARY HANSON) an NON '67) are living in Interlochen, Fla., this year. Dan is soN is enrolled in the school of public health. nounce the birth of a son, Eric Scott, on September 7 in spending his intern year from Yale as chaplain at the Uni JEAN A. PEC and PAUL SMITHSON are enrolled in San Diego, Calif. They have a daughter, Sarah, 20 months versity of Florida in Gainesville. the School of Library Science at Western Michigan Uni old. JAMES A. DAY received a Master's degree in German versity. from Southern Illinois University in August. ANN BURROUGHS, PAMELA J. SAWICKI, and PEGGY CLASS OF 1962 ELLEN MANSON has returned to the United States WEBB BROWN are teaching high school English. Ann is in MR. AND MRS. JOSE SANTIAGO (JANE APPLETON) an from her Peace Corps term in West Africa and is employed Rochester, N.Y.; Pamela, in Dearborn, Mich.; and Peggy, nounce the birth of a son, Alexander Kenneth, on October by Boersma Travel Agency in Ann Arbor. in New Rochelle, NY. 17, They also have a daughter, Zabrina Celeste, 3 years MERmETH MATULIS received her Master's degree in ANTHONY K. LUX and MARIS RUSHEVICS are attend old. They have now returned to the United States after be Spanish from Middlebury College this summer after spend ing graduate school at the University of Wisconsin ing stationed in Panama for three years and are located at ing the past year in Madrid with the Middlebury School of MOLLY CONKLIN and A. R. Turner were married on Homestead Air Force Base, Fla. Spanish. She is teaching Spanish in Taylor High School, August 24 and are living in Evanston, Ill. Molly is attend Detroit. ing Garrett Theological Seminary. CLASS OF 1963 MISS LINDA SWALM and James Wolcott were mar SUE EKSTROM, DOUGLAS MERINTZ and SUSAN EAST REBECCA BAHLMAN HOLMES has been working on a ried on June 10 and are living in Eureka, Calif. MAN are attending graduate school at Michigan State Uni pre-school education program for children of Merida, Ven MR. AND MRS. THOMAS WILSTED (MARY BRUBAKER) versity. MORRIS A. CHRISTLIEB is enrolled in the school of ezuela, for over a year. Her husband was in Venezuela as spent the summer with a group of students in France. They veterinary medicine at MSU, ROBERT DICKSON is a gradu part of his doctoral degree work at UCLA in the field of reside in Springfield, Ill., where Tom works for the Illinois ate assistant in the geography department, MARY GOTT development economics. They and their two-year-old son, Historical Society and Mary is teaching high school Enlg SHALL is enrolled in the department of anthropology, and Matthew, returned to the United States in November. lish. J. BRENT KOOISTRA is enrolled in the medical school. MR. AND MRS. ROBERT J. TARDIFF (SHERRY BROAD MR. AND MRS. JEFFREY BEUSSE (MARGARET PORTER WELL '64) announce the birth of a daughter, Melissa '67) are residing in Bellevue, Wash., while Jeff works on Anne, on October 31 in Kalamazoo. his doctorate at the University of Washington. -More of 1968 in next issue! Field Hockey ~ Sports The 1968 women's field hockey team, coached by Miss Tish Loveless, completed the season :with wins over Calvin, Al ~ By Dick Kishpaugh bion and Alumnae; ties with Hope and Adrian, and losses 0 """' to Western Michigan and Olivet. ::c: Kalamazoo College's 1968 fall sports season included both Players selected for the Michigan College Field Hockey 0 disappointments and triumphs. Coach Ed Baker's football Association teams which played at the Great Lakes Sec team, with its offensive efforts hampered by an unusual tional Tournament wen~- for the first team, Nancy Reitz, ::g'"""' run of injuries, finished the season with a 2-6 record over Pittsford, N. Y., senior, Captain; Pia Chambers, Sherborn, all, which matches the mark posted by the 1967 team. In Mas.s., and Ann Hutchinson, Newton Square, Pa ., fresh 0~ cross country, however, the Hornets reached the pinnacle men; for the second team, Aggie Kammerer, Cornwell 0 of success with an unbeaten season and an undisputed Heights, Pa., and Terry Bergstrom, Kalamazoo, both N MIAA championship. seniors.• J < The football team won its first two games, by scores of Fourteen alumnae returned for the Homecoming game ::g 17-13 over Lake Forest and 27-20 over Adrian. But then - Ade Hartl Alexander '63, Galesburg, Ill.; Karla Lutz At the Hornets lost their offensive punch and lost the next kinson '66, Kalamazoo; Sue Wotila Brackenridge '65, Por :s six games in a row. The defense was adequate in most tage ; Reeni Buxton '62, Kalamazoo; Judy Coon '67, Albion; < games, and the Hornets were most disappointed by losses Sue Dasher '65, Chicago; Rosemary Luther DeHoog '60, ~ to Albion, 9-6, and to Hope, 7-2, in games in which Kala Richland Center, Wis.; Elaine Goff Hutchcraft '63, Rock mazoo held normally high-scoring teams to one touchdown ford, Ill.; Judy Centa Meyer '63, Hayden Lake, Idaho; Betsy ~~ each. Mead Pifer '65, Kalamazoo; Mary Pressey Rico '63, Kala 0 At the conclusion of the season, Steve McGuire, who mazoo; Nancy Southard '67, Palatine, Ill.; Janice Watt '70, ~ will be a senior for the 1969 season, won the major share Springfield, Pa .; and Mary Westerville '67, Kalamazoo. ...:1 of the individual honors. McGuire was named Most Valu ...:1 able and Most Improved for the 1968 football season, and 0 also was named as one of the Tri-Captains for 1969. Kala 0 mazoo had Tri-Captains in 1968 as well, and two of these, Remember Bowen 0 Dick Obrig and Lee Belfield, return next season to join 0 McGuire as the team leaders. Remember when - you attended classes in Bowen with N The cross country team, coached by Wolfgang Lugauer, Dr. Bacon, Dr. Diebold, Dr. Dunbar, Dr. Dunsmore, Dr. < dominated the MIAA in every respect . The runners posted Goodsell, Mrs. Morris, Dean Severn, Dr. Walton, or even ::g a perfect dual meet record of six straight victories in the "Tuffy" Williams, or MIAA and seven vi<;tories for the entire season. In addi attended a play or dance the Bowen Auditorium, or tion, they won the MIAA meet by a wide margin for a in :s clean sweep of MIAA honors. met that beautiful young girl and asked her for a date The grand finale for the cross country season was the while hanging over the bannister in the back hall. ~ winning of the championship of Kalamazoo's own Invita Well - the walls of Bowen Hall are about to come tional Meet. A six-team field was entered in that meet, and tumbling down. Your alumni officers are reserving a lim Kalamazoo won by dethroning last year's champion, Aqui ited number of the bricks from various parts of the build &3 nas, by a five point margin . ing and a limited number of "spindles" from the staircases. Hope College had the MIAA's individual cross country What do we plan to do with them? We do not plan to ~ winner in Rick Bruggers, but Kalamazoo had superior team sell them to raise funds - just good will! What we do balance. In fact, three Hornets - John Wismer, Craig plan to do is to reserve a limited quantity for you to pick ~ VanVoorhees, and John Schaeffer - won the first three up at the 1969 Commencement or before. And, if you places in every MIAA dual meet with the lone exception of would rather, we will send you a spindle or brick for the ~ the Hope meet won by Bruggers. In other words, Kalama cost of handling. ~ zoo had three of the top four runners in the entire league. Already, we have had many requests for these "K" Col 0 lege collector's items . Such memorabilia will be hard to acquire after June . Shall we save you a brick or a spindle? Let the Alumni Office know of your interest by December 31. If you wish to have your item mailed, please enclose ~ $2.50 for postage and handling (brick) or $1.00 (spindle). ct:J Watch for the January issue of Fortune. It will carry an article about trends in colleges, and Kalamazoo ------1 Name:______2 College is to be included in the presentation. 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