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Cloak of compassion CMU’s first med students suit up to save lives

And ... Don't miss Homecoming 2013 ... Candid advice from your favorite professors centralight fall 2013 on the cover “Wearing a white coat is a moral practice,” said Dr. David Hirsh, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, in an address to CMU’s first class of 64 students in the College of Medicine. “It’s a human practice. Do not let that white coat divide you from human kind. … Bring your biggest human self to other human beings.” 24 e r o s e st sm ve je y b o t o h P

features 20 6 24 The lasting lecture. The doctors are in. Candid life advice you won’t want With a doctor shortage looming on the to miss from some of CMU’s most horizon, CMU gears up for its first class beloved faculty members. of students in the medical school. 20 29 Paint the town maroon. Behind the lens. It’s homecoming time again – join us CMU photographers Peggy Brisbane and for a weekend of CMU pride, including Robert Barclay, who retired this year, watched some momentous grand marshals. CMU grow for three decades. Celebrate their Plus: insider tips for staying afloat in legacy with a few treasured snapshots. a cardboard boat (you never know when they could come in handy!) Executive Editor and Executive Director of Alumni Relations Marcie Otteman Grawburg, ’87 Editor Cynthia J. Drake, M.A. ’08 Graphic Designer Amy Gouin Photographers Robert Barclay Peggy Brisbane 24 Steve Jessmore, ’81 Writers Dan Digmann departments Christopher Eder Terri Finch Hamilton, ’83 4 CMU Today Cindy Crain Newman Scott Rex 18 Sports Editorial Assistants 34 Connections Vicki Begres Your alumni association source Lori Conroy 36 Alumni News Communications Committee 38 In Memory Jeffrey L. Benjamin, ’86 Kevin Campbell, ’74 M.A. ’76 Kevin H. Richman, ’93 Vice President of Development and External Relations Kathleen M. Wilbur Associate Vice President of University Communications Sherry Knight, ’86 18 For advertising information Call Cindy Jacobs, ’93 800-358-6903 stay connected Send change of address information to: Alumni Relations 6 Carlin Alumni House Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Phone: 800-358-6903 Fax: 989-774-7159 Email: [email protected] Web: cmich.edu/alumni/Centralight

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Help keep the record straight Calendar By Marcie The research team here at the Clarke Otteman Historical Library does an incredible job of Grawburg, ’87 September archiving official university documents, 28 Executive director newspapers and more. Thanks to our • Fall Into Jazz, Powers Hall Ballroom, of alumni online digital object repository, with just a Mount Pleasant campus relations few clicks I can go back and check out CM • CMU vs. NC State alumni tailgate, There we were, Life’s coverage of that 1985 Night Ranger Carter-Finley Stadium, North Carolina sneaking around concert from my home computer. In fact, the Mount you can even find issues of CM Life going October Pleasant Holiday back to the year 1919. 19 Inn at midnight But telling our story requires more than • Homecoming, on Nov. 6, 1985. the official history. It takes those little Mount Pleasant campus Our mission? To “casually” bump into Jack personal artifacts to bring those facts to • 1963 50-year class reunion, Blades of Night Ranger following a life – the yearbooks in your attic, the Mount Pleasant campus legendary concert. Would “casually” 1950s-era homecoming dress to which 26 preclude scaling the hotel’s outside wall, your date nervously pinned a corsage. Threads: Best of the Best – Couture we wondered? Group logic dictated that and Cocktails event, Education and You can help us tell our story for years to the band would most definitely be Human Services Building Atrium come, just by sifting through and hanging out at Boomers Night Club for a donating some of those old treasures. If little post-show wind-down. Naturally, November you entrust them to us, we will do our right? It made perfect sense … at the 23 part in making sure they are properly time. CMU vs. UMass, Kelly/Shorts Stadium cared for by CMU’s Museum of Cultural 29 When I reunite with my college friends, and Natural History and enjoyed by CMU vs. EMU, Kelly/Shorts Stadium we love to laugh about that story. We also generations of future CMU alumni. love reminiscing about the fateful And for those of you thinking of coming freshman spring break trip when four of December back and reconnecting with old friends at 14 us drove down to Florida in my Chevette. Homecoming on Oct. 19, allow me to Commencement ceremonies, One of us didn’t have a license. One had personally welcome you. Let’s share some Events Center, Mount Pleasant campus never driven on a freeway before. One stories together. didn’t like to drive at night. Marcie And no one had bothered to make hotel reservations. We ended up sleeping on floors. Ah, memories – one of the best rewards of reconnecting with old friends. You remember (to varying degrees of accuracy) all the best parts of your college days. You piece stories Help CMU tell its story together, with the aid of old photos and maybe a few pints. You go back The alumni office is searching for historic to find the names you carved in the artifacts that can help tell the story of table at the Pub, you sing “New York, Central’s colorful history in a tangible New York” at the top of your lungs, way. If you have old varsity jackets, without regard to pitch. And the footballs, homecoming dresses, diplomas legends live on. or other memorabilia, consider donating them to CMU so they can live on for I’ve been thinking lately about how we future generations. can work to ensure not only that our own stories survive, but that CMU’s Contact Marcie Otteman Grawburg at story does, too. 989-774-3312 or [email protected].

centralight fall ’13 3 CMU Today Creating a space for hope and healing Patients undergoing cancer treatment at McLaren Flint might find their experience a bit more comfortable, thanks to the work of CMU hospitality students. The $8 million Hospitality House was designed for patients undergoing treatment lasting six to eight weeks and includes activities, programs and spaces to support healing. Students were involved in all aspects, from the initial design of the 30-room facility to its day-to-day operation. e r “We really have to think about how it’s going to affect the people that are going to o

be using it,” says Flint sophomore Garrett Holmes, who worked on the project. “It’s a s good opportunity for hospitality students to experience hospitality at its roots.” • e st sm ve je

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alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more t o h P New provost appointed This summer Michael A. Gealt took the reins as CMU’s provost, the second highest- ranking administrator. Gealt replaced E. Gary Shapiro, who stepped down from the post after nearly 35 years of service to CMU. “The most impressive parts of CMU are the people who work at the university and the students who attend classes here,” says Gealt. “Everyone I met has been so open and welcoming during my visits

e to campus that I have felt at home.” r o Gealt had been employed as dean of the College s of Science and professor of biology at the e University of Arkansas at Little Rock. • st sm ve je y b o t o alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more h P

Maroon and ‘ghouled’ Things get a little spooky around here in October, when the chilly night air invites whispered tales of haunted halls and resident ghosts during CMU’s annual Legends of the Dark tours. Students narrate guided tours through the campus’ creepiest corners, doing their best to scare with stories like the chilling 911 call from an empty Calkins Hall room or the mysterious carving in Sloan Hall, home to majors that were once considered the “devil’s work,” (also known as “psychology”). •

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Planting the seeds of community giving CMU’s student-run garden, Campus Grow, recently Calling all rug cutters celebrated its fifth year of Kick up your stompers and jitterbug the night away during an evening of tunes growing organic produce, from a bygone era during Fall Into Jazz on Sept. 28 from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Powers donating more than 500 Hall Ballroom. The event was created in the style of the weekly dances hosted in pounds back to community the Keeler Student Union during the 1940s and features music from CMU’s jazz organizations such as the band. Tickets are $50 and available online at cmich.edu/ticketcentral. • Isabella County Commission on Aging and the alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more Community Food Pantry. Since 2008, the organization has blossomed to 60 plots that are rented out to students, Professor embarks on faculty, staff and community members. It’s so popular, there $8.5 million defense project is a waiting list to get involved. Physics professor Marco Fornari, along with a team of five scientists from other universities, “We want to create access was awarded an $8.5 million grant from the U.S. to fresh local vegetables Department of Defense to develop methods to across the entire community,” replace expensive, rare chemical elements from says Jackie Maggioncalda, critical technologies. Campus Grow coordinator and community health education The team’s goal is to design materials with and political science major improved properties that can help relieve the from Waterford Township. dependence on rare earth minerals essential to “Since we have this space to many high-tech applications. The project grow, we want to share it.” • provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate CMU students to assist in the research. “We will focus on transformative approaches to combine electrical properties, like metal with optical transparent properties, like glass for night vision, antifogging coatings, laser binding protection and camouflage technologies,” Fornari says. • Marco Fornari

centralight fall ’13 5 Gary Gagnon: the ‘Striving and struggling for the sake of learning’ The Swiss have a saying, “Let’s put the church in the middle of the village.” Let’s put everything in the middle of the table lasting now. Why are we here? That’s the question I always begin with, and it’s the most important thing to ask, whether you’re an lecture athletic coach, a parent, a business person … If you’re just here to check off a box, well, I can’t be of much help to you. If you really want to learn, grow and challenge Y ou may not remember the finer points of yourself, I’m your guy. Let’s go. I dare you. your mathematics or history lectures, but you do remember those few professors “Forget about the who made you sit up and take notice. points, forget about Maybe they challenged you in a way that sometimes felt frustrating, pushed you the damn money. Make beyond what you thought you could it about being part of achieve. Maybe they listened to you and something meaningful.” encouraged you to find your voice. We are not in the classroom – or in the They changed your life, and you will never world – to know. We are here to learn. forget them. Once learning becomes the goal, you open yourself up to taking risks, trying CMU is fortunate to have more than a few ideas on for size and realizing that we of these professors in our faculty ranks. We can live with imperfection if we are asked several to share some words of striving and struggling for the sake of wisdom that go beyond their subject learning. We must create this culture. matter – those lessons that really speak to Even at 8 o’clock in the morning, students what life is all about. instinctively know why they have to learn, and they know why it is important Here are their lasting lectures to you, their to them. I don’t mean points – some beloved former students. students estimated they earn about 30,000 points in college. I ask them, “Where do you keep these points? What do you plan to do with them after college?” Show me instead someone who is fired up about learning, and I will show you a path to unstoppable success.

P hotogRAPHS By Peggy brisbane After graduation, instead of points, we make it about the money. Forget about the points, forget about the damn

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money. Make it about being part of was so much accountability in his Gary Gagnon is an assistant professor something meaningful. Create a sense classroom. He was very demanding, of marketing and hospitality services of value. Make it about being your best had exacting standards and made us administration who was named and doing your best. The money will struggle and strive every class period. Michigan Professor of the Year by follow. If you’re doing it for the right the Carnegie Foundation for the When you create high expectations reasons, the rewards will follow. Advancement of Teaching in 2005. He and hold people accountable, they and his wife, Lori, have six children. This requires a paradigm shift in our blossom right before your eyes. • thinking – not only do we need to value As told to Cynthia J. Drake learning, but we also need to hold each other to a higher standard. If you expect great things of students, guess what Former students say … happens? You get great students. It applies “My favorite Gagnon quote that I use with my staff and colleagues is still, ‘I don’t want to everything. It works in family life, in to hear the labor pains – I just want to see the baby.’ That is a motto I always refer to coaching, in working with young people. when making business decisions. He is hands-down the best professor I had at CMU.” When you have young people who Lindsey Bur, ’07, assistant general manager, Stafford’s Pier Restaurant, are failing, it’s usually because it isn’t Harbor Springs clear what’s expected. They don’t “He walked up to the whiteboard and wrote, ‘The answer is yes. What is the question?’ know what excellence looks like. I have posted this statement in the break rooms and back offices of all the hotels I have I had a high school English teacher, worked in. In hospitality, we are in the business of making memorable experiences for Terry Carnahan, ’54. And his classroom both guests and team members. ‘No’ should never be a part of your vocabulary.” was unlike any classroom I’d ever been Ryan Frederick, ’05, dual general manager of the Courtyard and Residence in. He called on us incessantly. There Inn by Marriott Houston Downtown/Convention Center

centralight fall ’13 7 Norma Bailey:The gift that George gave me

Teaching is a human enterprise. It he’d walk in, put his head down to learn about the person that is about helping learners to reach and go to sleep. I’d do the normal I am becoming and how we fit their full potential as human beings, things teachers do; I’d nudge him, into and make a difference in about helping them to become and he’d look up and say, “What? the world. I try always to answer good people. Every moment of I’m OK,” and then I’d walk away, Mary Oliver’s challenge: “Tell me, every day, education is occurring; and he’d put his head back down. what is it you plan to do with your someone is learning something and one wild and precious life?” Frustrated, I went to the other someone is teaching. And everyone teachers. They said, “Oh, don’t I want my life to have made a is a teacher, teaching someone how worry about him. His parents don’t difference; I want to have spent to do something, how to interact, care; he doesn’t care. He’s not going my life making the world a better how to be kind, how to live life. to make it.” This didn’t feel right, place. I believe that to do that, I Given this premise, what life lessons so I continued asking. I discovered must be willing to speak up. As have I learned and have I lived by? that he lived with a family of 11 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, people – nine kids, two parents. “Our lives begin to end the day “I believe people are They lived in the woods in a great we become silent about things big, old house. No windows – just that matter.” What matters to me inherently good at heart. openings with plastic over them – are people and how we live our and one bed for all 11 people. Of lives, individually and collectively, People aren’t born course, he spent all his time trying with and for one another. to meet his basic need for sleep. prejudiced. They don’t come Two hundred years from now, I’ll I have always remembered this be gone. I’ll be just another statistic out of the womb mean.” as “the gift that George gave me.” in history, one of those billions of He didn’t know he gave me a gift, people who have passed through and I don’t think I realized it at the life. I believe that my eternity Think about the billions and billions time, but from then on, I have never resides in what I share with people, of people who have ever lived. looked at any kid the same. It is my students and others. What Each one of those lives had a story, always, “What’s this student’s story?” I share they will pass on. Soon a meaning and a connection to my name will be forgotten. But It is a natural extension from somebody. A really important part what I have shared, what I have there to all people. “What’s this of who I am is my belief that every taught, how I have lived goes on person’s story?” I believe people are person has worth and dignity. and on. That’s my eternity. • inherently good at heart. People There’s an important story in every aren’t born prejudiced. They don’t Norma Bailey was a teacher for 20 single person. You need to listen come out of the womb mean. years before earning her doctoral for that story, always challenging That is taught. So if that’s the case, degree. She is currently a professor of your assumptions, never judging what has shaped this person? What middle level education at CMU. She someone on a first impression. might I learn from this person? was named Michigan Professor of the I’d like to share how I learned this. And what part might I play in Year in 2007 by the Carnegie giving him or her another option? Foundation for the Advancement of My first year of teaching I had a boy Teaching. named George, a ninth grader in I regard every person I meet as a remedial math class, and every day gift – to learn from this person, As told to Cynthia J. Drake

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Former students say … “Norma Bailey exemplifies her beliefs about learning in her actions and dialogue with each person she meets. As an educator, I learned more from Norma than any other teacher I’ve ever had. Her positive energy and intentionality with her students makes them want to learn intrinsically. Her authenticity as an educator, her way of believing that education can, will and has changed the world is what she portrays with each person who crosses her path.” Haley Tylka, ’99, teacher, White Pine Middle School, Bay City

centralight fall ’13 9 Deb Poole: Putting “improvation” back in our lives

Before Jack was born, my friends the nest by making novelty oh-so did.) “Grit” didn’t capture my elusive asked how I felt about becoming a attractive. Later, demands from jobs and state-of-being either: Some people grandmother. “It’s mildly interesting,” growing families keep us honing new have enormous staying power for a I replied, assuming nothing could skills. But somewhere along the line, singular dream while their lives and compare with the arrival, years ago, most of us sink deeply into the familiar. relationships collapse around them. of my own babies. I was wrong. He Clearly, I needed a new word that But if experimental psychologists grabbed my heart instantly and fiercely. encircled the motivation to change, do not always have it together, at “We didn’t know we were getting a the grit to build new habits and learn least we know why. Our brains, like Jack,” I explained to my son as we gazed new skills, and the reasoned approach yours, contain two types of mental into the stroller a month later. “How needed to analyze the consequences machinery: a relatively primitive could we know?” he agreed, smiling. of change so stupid ideas will be system that looks for associations cast aside. I needed to invent this: It wasn’t long before I was phoning among things in the world and builds my father with an offer: If he was basic skills and a spiffier system that willing to have Internet installed in his allows us to think with language “It struck me: I had house (“Finally!” I thought), I would and reason our way through life. provide the iPad to bring Jack right The first system, our intuitive brain, become mired in a set into his home. It took 30 seconds directs the simple habits that unfold to realize that my money was safe of ideas and a pattern minute to minute, and the workings (he didn’t want one), a minute to of this system occur largely under remember our family’s philosophy of life.” our mental radar. This is usually a (“spend nothing”) and 10 minutes to good thing, because not thinking hear about all that goes wrong with im·prov·ation /im'proov ā shәn/ about how to walk or which brand electronic devices (“everything”). Noun. 1. The motivation and grit to of coffee to grab off a shelf frees improve some aspect of your life or I started to stew about people who are brain resources so the second system to learn a new skill. 2. A philosophy mired in a set of ideas and a pattern of can juggle less mundane issues. of life that values efforts to improve life before it struck me: I had become Experts believe most of what we do and the systematic evaluation of mired in a set of ideas and a pattern of is directed by the first system – and the efficacy of new approaches. life. The evidence was all around me: a therein lies the problem. Habits of vegetable garden that had been in the Psychologists would probably tell you action and thought are laid down shade for years (the victim of growing the key to improvation is being realistic. gradually and are resistant to change. trees), the purse that didn’t hold I needed to start small, with a few Moreover, most adults aren’t drawn what I needed, the fact that I always simple fixes I could achieve (so I felt to unfamiliar actions, largely because, wanted lunch at 9:30 a.m. (despite reinforced). First I bought a garlic press in our ancestral past, those who knowing that a Southwestern breakfast that actually worked. Next I replaced were didn’t fare very well. (When would hold me until noon) and the my purse with a functional tote bag. your family has lived in the same perpetual Band-Aids on my left hand Life was better already, so it was time region for a thousand years, “Gee, (from a ridiculously poor chopping to hunker down. I decided to break let’s try that mushroom no one eats” technique, according to my daughter). the garden project into smaller steps: I is not a recipe for living.) Change would move two raised beds this year When had this happened? As is hard. Still, I wanted to be better, and hold off on the rest. They looked teenagers and young adults, we are to strive for – what is it called? good, though, with kale in the sun, so all driven to learn and change by a “Progress” didn’t fit: Sometimes, I moved another and then another. powerful set of forces: intense fear of making life better means going back not making it in life paired with an By this time, I was an improvation to older ways of doing things. (Think exquisite sequence of neurological machine. There were things I needed to how much healthier most of us would developments that nudge us out of learn that I hadn’t because I’m used to be if we ate as our grandparents knowing things and become frustrated.

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But not anymore, I said, as I mastered a task on my smart phone and learned how to merge two data files with different formats. I was unstoppable – you are unstoppable. And you can put improvation back in your life. • Deb Poole, a developmental psychologist, eats refried beans and salsa with breakfast and has not had a Band-Aid on her left hand since May 6, 2013.

Former students say … “The most important thing that Deb taught me was to be an advocate for my own success. The expectations and pressures of others can weigh heavily on you as a young professional, but you need to keep an eye on your own goals or they’ll be lost.” Miranda McIntyre, ’12, graduate student in social psychology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.

centralight fall ’13 11 Rick Sykes: Ramping up your street value

I love it when students tell me, “I’m to do something different. I got done with school. I’m done with an opportunity to go in as an education.” And I say, “No, you’re not.” agency’s vice president. I understood some aspects of public relations, It doesn’t matter which arena you’re in. but it still was pretty scary. You will be doing three or four different jobs throughout your career, and the I was switching out of what I had been third or fourth job probably didn’t exist doing for 17 years. I was fretting over it when you first got out of college. and talking to my wife, and she’s like, “Well, if that’s what you want to do.” You have to develop a mindset that I then sat down to have this serious you are your own franchise, just like discussion with my son, who was at an NBA player or a movie star or a that time 12 years old. I told him, “You musician. You are responsible for know, I’m getting ready to make this your success. The bottom line is: your really big change in my career, and I just success is based on your street value. wanted to let you know it has a risk to Street value is the value that others it and it may not work out, you know?” assess when you’re out there looking for I got through this sort of soul-searching a job. If you’re not constantly assessing conversation, and he looks at me and where you need to continue to grow, says, “So, who’s going to take me to then that street value starts to decline. school?” I said, “Well, I’ll continue to Success and take you to school.” And then he said, failure are not “Fine,” and walked out of the room. “You have to be opposites, they’re And I sat there thinking, “Geez! I just willing to put yourself along the same spent 30 minutes telling him all of this line. You’re not stuff, and he really didn’t care other in an uncomfortable going to be than who’s taking him to school?” successful unless That was his point, and he brought my situation to grow. You you have failures. scary decision back into perspective. Failures tell you periodically have to what’s working, But I was continuing to learn. Taking what’s not risks. Enhancing my street value. I say, ‘Am I doing what working and what remember the words of a public I still want to do?’” areas you need to relations mentor of mine who said, continue to work “You have to decide your future on. This means because if you don’t, somebody that you have to be willing to take risks. else will, and you won’t like it.” • You have to be willing to put yourself Rick Sykes is a professor and assistant in an uncomfortable situation to grow. director of the School of Broadcast and You periodically have to say, “Am I Cinematic Arts who spent nearly 24 years doing what I still want to do?” and then, in the communications industry. Since depending on the answer, make some 1996 he has served as faculty adviser decisions. And the older you get, the for News Central 34, CMU’s student- harder it is to make those decisions. run live television news program. I remember when I went from As told to Dan Digmann news to public relations. I wanted

12 centralight fall ’13 Former students say … “Professor Sykes taught me that life is not easy. What you put into it is what you get out of it. In order to be among the best, there has to be a lot of time, dedication and, in some cases, sacrifice.” Matt Franklin, ’04, anchor/reporter, WJRT ABC 12 News, Flint

“He taught me about hard work and dedication. I remember he had a long commute from home to work every day, yet he was always in the office early and routinely stayed late. I’m grateful for his decision to take students under his wing and turn them into reporters. There are very few teachers out there like Professor Sykes.” Ryan Raiche, ’07, reporter, ABC Action News, Tampa, Fla.

centralight fall ’13 13 Remember to feel the sun on your face

14 centralight fall ’13 Mark Francek: Remember to feel the sun on your face Six years ago I had the scare of my It’s so important to have somebody many sounds can you hear? life. I was diagnosed with non- backing you up and believing Robins? The wind past your ears? Hodgkins lymphoma. Cancer. in you. I try to pick one or two The sigh of rustling leaves? Just That was a life changer, there. students every semester who tune into that. We need that. have an extra need to be believed Have an attitude of appreciation. in. I listen to them, instead of “I don’t tell every class about Be thankful for the gifts. You’re offering advice. We often listen breathing. You’ve got two the cancer. I don’t want them with the intent to say something, lungs. It’s a great day. • to treat me differently, like rather than listening just to listen. Take the time out from the web, Mark Francek is professor of ‘Poor Mark.’ Maybe I should from Facebook, from tweets, geography and in his 25th year tell them. People hear the ‘Big to really listen. To believe. at CMU. He’s won numerous teaching awards, including I’ve pedaled across America, and C’ and they think ‘The end.’ Michigan Professor of the Year in I’ve seen a lot of great things. I 2002, awarded by the Carnegie Maybe I need to show them learned it’s not the destination Foundation for the Advancement that counts; it’s the journey. it’s not the end.” of Teaching, and the National There were six of us one year Council for Geographic Education Life is so fragile. You have to value – I was a grad student at the Distinguished Teaching Award every day. I’m free of cancer now, time – and we were biking to in 2008. He is married to but it stays in your system and it Vancouver, British Columbia. Suezell and has three children can be reactivated. Ten years from We had taken a vial of ocean water and two stepchildren. now, five years from now, will I have from Charleston, S.C., and after we a chance to leave these messages? As told to Terri Finch Hamilton traveled the 3,747 miles to British I don’t tell every class about the Columbia, we poured the Atlantic cancer. I don’t want them to Ocean water into the Pacific. Former treat me differently, like “Poor But it was anticlimactic, in a way. Mark.” Maybe I should tell them. students say … We expected cherubs to sing People hear the “Big C” and they “Hallelujah,” but there was no “He was always more confident think, “The end.” Maybe I need Hallelujah moment. We realized in me and my abilities than I was to show them it’s not the end. it was the every day interactions in myself. He encouraged me to I’m first-generation college. I grew that really mattered­ – the get my Ph.D. I said, ‘Absolutely up in a lower income, working conversations we had with the not.’ But now, lo and behold, I’ll class neighborhood in an alcoholic local folks, feeling the sun on our be going to grad school.” family that was dysfunctional in faces, the dew glistening in the Brooke Huber, CMU senior many ways. I saw a lot of negative sun, the laughter of a good joke, “You can tell he’s living life to things growing up. Those were the incredible generosity people the fullest, and he makes me life lessons for me. An aunt, Jean gave us. They fed us dinner, want to do that, too. When we’d Salerno, helped raise me. She let us sleep in their houses. go outside, he’d notice little believed in me. She said, “You will You need to value every day, things, like the cloud patterns. go to college.” Today, my wife, because you don’t know when Life is not that long. You need to Sue, my kids and my grandkids it’s all going to end. Revel in each take advantage of all the things continue to believe in me. moment. Go to a river and just you can.” stop. Listen for one minute. How Sarah Chetcuti, CMU senior

centralight fall ’13 15 René Revis Shingles: Old-fashioned life lessons still resonate

We often practice the hands-on I see success in multiple ways. E ducate yourself about the skills of athletic training. Students At the end of the day, have you demographic where you live and will practice one time and they’re accomplished the tasks you work – the race, the gender, the done. I’ll say, “Really? You only need wanted to accomplish that day? socioeconomic situation. Educate one time to practice?” And they’ll Have you done what God has yourself about the individuals say, “Practice makes perfect.” called you to do? If you’ve done you’re likely to be interacting with. that, and you’ve tried to live in Actually, no – perfect practice My mother also used to say, “Can’t a good way, that’s success. makes perfect. They’ll put an ace nobody take care of you like you.” wrap on, but they won’t tape I live by phrases my mother used You have to be able to take care it at the end. You won’t learn to say: “Kill them with kindness.” of yourself. Not that you can’t rely how to do it right if you don’t And “If you can’t say something on others, but you need to take do it right all the way through. nice, don’t say anything at all.” care of your physical health, your If you do that, that’s success. spiritual health, your mental health. If you aren’t where you need to be, You hear people say, “Treat people “I live by phrases my mother you can’t help others. the way you want to be treated.” used to say: ‘Kill them with I say treat them how they need I want my students to be happy, to be treated. As a woman, I to enjoy life. To take advantage kindness.’ And ‘If you can’t may need something different of every opportunity that life than a man. As a heterosexual affords them. To find balance say something nice, don’t person, I may need something – that’s important – balance in say anything at all.’” different than my lesbian sisters. their personal and professional As an African-American, I may lives. I want them to take time need something different than for themselves. To take care of It’s a metaphor for life. When someone who is white or Hispanic themselves so they can enjoy you’re learning something, do it or Asian or Native American. their life and their families. to the best of your ability, every And that’s not just for patients in And, as Mom always said, “Leave time. That crosses over into the health care. If you work at a bank, it better than you found it.” • work world. You’ll be good at a how do you treat the person skill if you’ve done it over and René Revis Shingles is director and who comes in to cash a check? over and over again, the right professor of the athletic training If you’re in business, what do way. That crosses over into your education program and author of your customers really need? personal life, with relationships, the book, “Cultural Competence too. Those take work. You can’t do Remember that we’re all human in Sports Medicine.” She has been something once and expect that and start there. Treat people at CMU for 21 years. She and her relationship to have meaning. with respect and kindness. If you husband, Stan, have one son, make a faux pas, apologize and Lamar, and a grandson, Jayden. Not that we’re perfect people ask, “How can I do this better?” – we’re not. As a woman of As told to Terri Finch Hamilton faith, I know that God is perfect, You don’t know what their but we are not. But striving experiences have been leading for it, that brings success. up to their encounter with you.

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Former students say … “She taught me about the healing power in our hands – how our hands can comfort someone or treat someone. She always says, ‘You gotta lay your hands on ‘em.’ She makes you connect with people on a deeper level, which makes us better at what we do. She says, ‘Treat the person first and the injury second.’” Jeremy Marra, ’06, athletic trainer at the University of Michigan “She always says to be open minded, to never shut out any opportunity, but instead, to jump on it. Try to learn something from every patient. Everyone has a story to tell.” Matt Brancaleone, ’10, physical therapy graduate student at CMU

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Remembering the

legendsThe uniforms have long been stashed away, but the legends have not. O n Sept. 20, CMU recognizes the latest crop of inductees into the Marcy Weston CMU Athletics Hall of Fame. Inductees also will be honored the following day at CMU’s home football game against Toledo. Inductees are:

Pasquale “Wally” Galba (baseball, 1956-58). Nicole Liphardt Helped team win the first conference championship (gymnastics, 1997- in CMU baseball history. Had one of the greatest 2000). Winner of three individual days in program history, collecting nine MAC titles for floor exercise hits in a doubleheader, including a grand slam. and uneven bars. Named the MAC Senior Gymnast Mike Greenfield of the Year in 2000. (wrestling, 1996-99). Two-time All-American, Becky Manson (softball, placing seventh in the 1999-2002). Helped lead NCAA in 1999. Helped the Chippewas to four CMU place fifth as a team MAC Tournament titles at the 1998 National and four NCAA bids. Set Championships. CMU single-game record with five hits against Cal Poly. Holds CMU career at-bats record (720).

John Wunderlich (football, 1974-76). Led CMU in tackles in 1976. Was the only CMU student-athlete to earn Academic All-America 1982 softball team. Under third-year head coach Margo Jonker, honors three times. the 1982 team captured CMU’s first ever MAC regular season and tournament championship in any female sport. The team still holds the record for the most wins in a single season with 51.

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E arning her (stars and) stripes

Byt Scot Rex Crystal Bradford thought she had made it. Her international performance came on the heels of a sensational sophomore season at CMU in which she was named to the After being named the Mid-American Conference’s West Division All-MAC first team, was selected the MAC Tournament Most Player of the Week early in her collegiate career, she says, “I Valuable Player after leading the remember calling my mom and telling her, ‘Mom, I just won MAC Chippewas to the tournament West Player of the Week.’ I thought that was the biggest thing.” championship and posted a 36-point, But Bradford’s personal trophy case now features a brand-new, 14-rebound, seven-assist effort gleaming “biggest thing” – a World University Games gold medal. in a five-point loss toO klahoma in the NCAA Tournament. Bradford, who begins her junior year at CMU this fall, was one of 12 elite college players who represented the United States at the Bradford was one of five players World University Games in Russia in July. She was selected from on the roster representing the a pool of 32 players who were invited to a three-day tryout in USA for the first time in her Colorado Springs in May, becoming the first active CMU basketball career, but the newcomers to player to compete in a major international competition. (Dan international competition never Majerle had just completed his collegiate eligibility when he won lost sight of the significance of a bronze medal with Team USA at the 1988 Summer Olympics.) whom they were representing. This summer Team USA was dominant, winning its first four “It was an honor to represent the games by an average of 47 points before Bradford keyed a one- USA,” Bradford says. “I always play point win over Australia in the tournament semifinals. Bradford for the letters on my chest, whether scored the Americans’ final three points, including the game- that’s CMU or USA, but this was winning basket with 14 seconds left, in the 79-78 semifinal so much bigger than me. It was a victory. She then tallied a tournament-high 16 points in just 11 humbling experience to represent the minutes of action in a 90-71 win over Russia in the gold-medal USA and know that we brought home game. Bradford averaged 10.8 points, on 60.4 percent shooting, the gold for our whole country.” • and 4.7 rebounds per game during the six-game tournament.

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For the first time ever, CMU has granted an entire nation the distinction of homecoming grand marshal. The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe will serve as grand marshal this year and celebrate its relationship with the university that carries its name during homecoming weekend. Among other festivities, the grand marshals will offer a drum blessing for both football teams prior to the game and will lead the homecoming parade. The two entities share a storied relationship, emerging from strained relations early in the 1960s into a new era of diplomacy and respect, says tribe spokesman Frank Cloutier. That change was ushered in with an articulation agreement between CMU and the tribe in 2000, which “detailed the respect that each entity had for one another.” First Pow wow on CMU campus, 1989 “We’ve come a very long way in a very short time,” he says. “There are other universities throughout the U.S. that have Native American jurisdictions that are actually looking to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and CMU as a model.” Today, the tribe and CMU have collaborated on various projects – from tribe professionals regularly giving lectures and seminars at the university; an agreement that encourages tribal college students to attend CMU; the university’s proactive repatriation of Native American remains back to the tribe; a mentoring program that sends CMU students into tribal schools; and a new course curriculum that explores the history of the Indian Boarding School. “There’s always this ongoing exchange,” Cloutier says. “We walked into an era of diversity and strength.” As for being named grand marshal, Cloutier says, “It’s an honor and a privilege. For the tribe, it’s always a very strong sense of appreciation to be recognized for the work we do and for the Then tribal chief Arnold E. C. Beck, head of CMU’s involvement we have in the community. It’s a very proud Sowmick, grand marshal, English department, was distinction, and we consider it a personal honor.” and Kristen Connors, named an honorary member Homecoming queen in 1989 of the tribe in 1950.

20 centralight fall ’13 Friday, Oct. 18 6 a.m. 7 p.m. WMHW-FM 91.5 Alumni Rock Rally, Plachta Takeover Auditorium Tune in to 91.5 FM to hear Go to Warriner Hall’s Plachta alumni take over the student Auditorium for the pep rally, radio station all weekend, mock rock contest for the continuing 24 hours through Maroon Cup, presentation midnight Saturday. of the football team and the announcement of the 2013 Homecoming Gold Ambassadors. Saturday, Oct. 19 7:30 a.m. Noon-3 p.m. Check-in for 5K run Alumni Village at and Miles for Medals Rose Ponds fundraising run/walk Join the free campuswide Choose a 5K run/walk or celebration near Rose Ponds for a one-mile fun run/walk. food, fun and friends. WMHW- Register online at firstgiving. FM alumni will broadcast live com/cmu5k/cmu5k2013. on location. Visit with a favorite All proceeds benefit Special professor, grab some food Olympics Michigan. and soak up the atmosphere 9:30 a.m. that is CMU Homecoming. Alumni Continental 1 p.m. Breakfast and 50-year Cardboard Boat Race Behind the Phrase: reunion CMU engineering students Start your day with a race to the finish by sailing complimentary breakfast their cardboard creations outside Powers Hall and stay across Rose Ponds. right here to watch the parade. 1-3 p.m. When did the phrase “Fire Up Chips” first 11 a.m. CMU Homecoming come into CMU parlance? Clarke Historical Homecoming parade Children’s Activities Library Reference Assistant Bryan Whitledge The annual parade begins helped us hunt down the answer. in Parking Lot 22 and travels Celebrate CMU’s 121st through campus before anniversary with children’s “We believe that the ‘Fire Up Chips’ saying dates heading north on Main Street activities hosted by the from the late 1960s,” Whitledge says. “The first to downtown Mount Pleasant. Museum of Cultural and time that the term appears in Central Michigan Natural History at Alumni Life is 1967 and relates to a homecoming float 11 a.m.-noon Village. Children can try by Calkins Hall which carried the term.” CMU Memories: History in on vintage football and the Making cheerleader uniforms, learn a In the early 1970s, “Fire Up Chips” started Stop by the Charles V. Park CMU cheer, sing the CMU fight to appear regularly throughout the Library and leave your mark song and practice marching. student newspaper and yearbooks. on CMU history. Alumni are 3 p.m. Now it’s your turn – were you a Calkins Hall invited to leave a photo, resident or a student during the 1960s who letter or note regarding Football game vs. Northern Illinois could shed some light on the beginning of this their time as a student at phrase? Drop us a line at [email protected]. CMU and add it to displays created to represent student life from various decades.

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24 centralight fall ’13 the doctors are in As CMU’s new College of Medicine opens its doors this fall, 64 students hold the key to beginning to combat Michigan’s impending doctor shortage.

Kathryn Brandell, ’12, knew In many ways, Brandell, since she was young that she a born-and-raised wanted to become a doctor. Michigander, is typical But it wasn’t until a CMU of her cohort of the spring break volunteering inaugural class of 64 trip to Belize in 2010 that her students enrolled at CMU’s mission became fully clear. College of Medicine. Since the college’s inception, “We set up health clinics, founders have had an screening for diabetes, eye toward combating which is one of the leading a predicted shortage causes of death in Belize,” of doctors in rural and says Brandell, who earned underserved areas. her undergraduate degree in biomedical sciences at CMU. “I was touched by the sheer difference between health care in the U.S. and Belize – it was really an eye-opening experience. And it kind of flipped a switch in my brain.”

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centralight fall ’13 25 The new class of CMED students participates in CMU’s white-coat ceremony.

Doctor shortage becoming a reality those kinds of problems is one of the But one of the most exciting spots is the A 2006 study by the Association of principles on which CMU was created. building’s stripped-down learning spaces that allow students to tackle complex medical American Medical Colleges predicted “When it was founded, the central and problems through team-based learning a shortage of 4,400 physicians in northern part of the state really had – a philosophy and a curriculum that also Michigan by the year 2020. CMED a need for teachers, and that led to helped shape the creation of the college. Dean Ernie Yoder says that shortage Central Normal School,” Knight says. “And could escalate as high as 6,000. now you’ve got a similar situation.” K eeping an eye on the dream Through an extensive application process Brandell is charged up for this style of with multiple applications and rigorous CM ED forms alliances, creates high-tech learning spaces learning. Bright-eyed and not yet fatigued interviews, the college’s admission by the onslaught of work in medical O ne of CMED’s early achievements was staff has endeavored to select students school, she holds onto her dream. She to forge alliances with two hospitals who have a passion for working with remembers her family practitioner, in Saginaw, Covenent and St. Mary’s, underserved populations – and with any Dr. Linda Bolton, M.D., who made an both of which deal with underserved luck, will stay true to their Michigan roots. impact on her from a young age. patients each day. Students will spend It’s an ambitious prospect. Brandell is the most of their third and fourth years at “I could actually talk to her – I never felt first to acknowledge that she could make these primary sites (or other partner sites rushed,” she says. “I always felt like the next more money working in well-heeled throughout northern Michigan and the time I saw her, it was like a continuation metropolitan areas in order to chip away Upper Peninsula), creating relationships of the conversation we had the last time,” at an estimated $244,000 in college loans throughout their four years with physicians. she says. “And to me, that really sparked she will incur in medical school (Brandell my interest in wanting to be a doctor and “There’s a high correlation between where actually found CMU’s program to be one wanting to have those relationships. of the least expensive of her choices). you do your residency and where you end up,” Knight says. “These students “Medicine is going to be changing so But as the health care landscape shifts already know the state, they learn here, much by the time I am a practicing dramatically over the coming years, develop mentors and relationships physician. This doctor shortage that we’re officials say the doctor shortage will … so there’s a good chance that in talking about is absolutely real. To think become even more pronounced in the the end we will fulfill our mission and that my dream of being that local doctor nation’s rural areas. And next year as provide the state with doctors.” that people go see … I don’t want it to double the number of medical schools turn into, ‘I see you for two minutes and In the weeks before classes begin, the opens in Michigan, Central is one of somebody else will handle the rest.’ I want halls of the new CMED are buzzing the only ones intrinsically dedicated to to work in a field where I’m developing with excitement. Shiny lab spaces await rural and underserved populations. long-term relationships with people.” students, who will be equipped with not “I think we’re the ones who are saying it only scalpels but tablet computers, as The future may be unclear, but for 64 medical out loud as far as our mission goes. This well. Conference rooms feature tables with students on campus this fall, they are feet first is what separates us,” says Jim Knight, ’84, seating for eight – including a monitor (that would be phalanges, metatarsus and spokesman for CMED. He says that solving for someone to be teleconferenced in. all the rest) into one very exciting present. •

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People in the resident “Sim family”: Alger, Emmet, Birtha, Clare, Lapeer, Lil’ Chip and Isabella – the vitals simulated “dummy” patients that can present challenging medical on CMED scenarios for students

60,000 square feet Number of patient rooms in the Size of the building addition to the Clinical Skills Suite, which operates Health Professions Building to create like a typical clinic, with actor the College of Medicine space patients and faculty watching live video feed of

patient-doctor interactions. Partner hospital organizations located throughout central and northern Percentage of the inaugural Michigan that will serve as training CMED class that grew up in sites for CMU medical students Michigan

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Chapter news I ndiana Great Lakes Bay Region contact: Reno contact: Indianapolis contact: Linda (Scharich) Leahy, ’82 Carol Perrigo, ’72 and events Lauren Hayden, ’09 [email protected] 775-747-5066 Arizona [email protected] [email protected] Lansing contact: Contact: Call the alumni office N ew York Dale Wernette, ’67 South Bend contact: at 800-358-6903. New York City contact: 480-515-5132 Kimber Abair, ’01 Adam Ebnit, ’03 [email protected] [email protected] Mount Pleasant contact: [email protected] Dan Gaken, ’04 California Massachusetts [email protected] N orth Carolina Los Angeles contact: Boston contact: Clarence Richardson, ’08 Charlotte contact: Call the alumni office Northern Michigan contact: 734-476-2152 Call the alumni office at 800-358-6903. Kristen Beach ’90 M.A. ’98 [email protected] at 800-358-6903. San Diego contact: 231-675-2136 Raleigh contact: Call the alumni office Michigan [email protected] Aaron Todd, ’97 at 800-358-6903. Ann Arbor contacts: St. Clair County contact: 919-423-4956 Bob Balicki, ’79 Dennis White, ’70 [email protected] San Francisco contact: 313-608-7922 [email protected] Call the alumni office at 800-358-6903. Gail Elliott, ’94 Traverse City contact: Oo hi 313-608-7923 Call the alumni office Cincinnati contact: Colorado [email protected] at 800-358-6903. Kevin Shea, ’80 Denver contacts: 513-321-1695 Mary Van Meter, ’80 Battle Creek contact: Minnesota [email protected] [email protected] T.R. Shaw, ’82 Twin Cities contact: 269-965-2979 Sherry Magnusson Cleveland contact: Terry Beatty, ’70 [email protected] 952-544-0030 Call the alumni office [email protected] [email protected] at 800-358-6903. Detroit contact: Florida Christopher Jablonski, ’83 Missouri Columbus contact: O rlando contact: [email protected] Kansas City contacts: Jeremy Rycus, ’95 Jim Phillips, ’99 Frank Moussa, ’85 614-933-0436 Flint contact: [email protected] 913-962-9620 [email protected] Ted Bunker, ’69 [email protected] Tampa Bay contact: 810-694-7359 Pennsylvania Jason Frank, ’04 [email protected] Jared Reid, ’10 Western Pennsylvania contact: [email protected] [email protected] Jeff Rivard, ’66 Grand Rapids contact: 412-826-2180 West Palm Beach contact: Stephanie Oczepek, ’99 N evada [email protected] Paul Gaba, ’88 616-813-7086 Las Vegas contact: 561-352-0635 [email protected] Ann Marie Fredrickson, ’94 [email protected] 702- 655-2118 Naples contact: [email protected] Jeff Stomber, ’92 [email protected] The Villages contact: Dick Cassle [email protected] G eorgia Atlanta contacts: Mark Guy, ’00 770-475-3447 Jared Lombard, ’03 [email protected] Helping Chippewas dress for success 404-918-5342 Donate your gently used professional apparel to help CMU Candice Zmijewski, ’03 students look their best in internship and job interviews. [email protected] cmich.edu/firstimpressions I llinois Chicago contact: Ira Kreft, ’77 Donations will be collected at Alumni Village [email protected] during Homecoming and at the Career Services office during business hours.

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Tennessee Honors Constituent Y oung Alumni board Alumni board Knoxville contact: Chapter President President Lisa Fall, ’86 Contact: Bryan Wieferich, ’02 John Kaczynski, ’03 M.P.A. ’08 Jan (Keegan) Hagland, ’77 865-216-2507 [email protected] Lansing, Mich. Berkley, Mich. [email protected] Honors Program [email protected] Vice president 989-774-3902 Texas Ashleigh (Klipper) Laabs, ’07 First vice president Central Texas contacts: I ntegrative Public Royal Oak, Mich. Ryan A. Fewins-Bliss, ’02 M.A. ’04 Bath, Mich. Jerry Juhnke, ’86 Relations Constituent Past president [email protected] Chapter Nathan Tallman, ’07 M.A. ’09 Second vice president Angie Farmilo Coats Contact: Abigail Dean, ’01 Auburn Hills, Mich. Darlene Nowak-Baker, ’87 210-455-9968 [email protected] Milford, Mich. Directors [email protected] Dallas contact: Latino Constituent Chapter Robert Avers, ’06 Smiths Creek, Mich. Chris Dittman, ’88 Contact: Directors Rebeca Reyes Barrios, ’00 M.B.A. ’02 [email protected] Laura Gonzales, ’79 M.A. ’89 Derek Berger, ’06 Muncie, Ind. Canton, Mich. dfwchips.blogspot.com [email protected] Morgan Hales ’06 M.A. ’11 Jeffrey Benjamin, ’86 Houston contact: Leader Advancement Big Rapids, Mich. Saginaw, Mich. Bill Cox, ’83 Jean (Bennett) Brown, ’88 713-722-0911 Scholars Constituent Scott Hillman, ’10 Chicago, Ill. Northville, Mich. [email protected] Chapter Contact: Dan Gaken, ’04 Gregory Marx, ’08 Kevin Campbell, ’74 M.A. ’76 Washington, D.C. [email protected] Midland, Mich. Midland, Mich. Contacts: Jessica M. (Sanford) Lynn Garrett, ’97 Jake VanWoerkom, ’06 N ew England Grassmyer, ’10 Detroit, Mich. [email protected] Constituent Chapter Canton, Mich. Laura Gonzales, ’79 M.A. ’89 Contact: Kevin Richards, ’89 Mount Pleasant, Mich. Jodi VanWoerkom, ’06 John Reineke, ’09 203-840-6221 Oxford, Ohio Daniel Herzog, ’91 [email protected] [email protected] Joseph M. Winkler, ’06 Saginaw, Mich. Wisconsin Physician Assistant Lansing, Mich. Christopher Jablonski, ’83 Brighton, Mich. Milwaukee contact: Constituent Chapter Michael Zeig, ’08 Mark Bender, ’95 Contact: Andrew Booth Lansing, Mich. Brian Jones, ’90 M.B.A. ’94 [email protected] [email protected] Midland, Mich. Young Alumni Adrian LaMar, ’89 Constituent Chapters Recreation, Parks Regional Fellows Wyoming, Mich. and Leisure Services A frican-American California Linda (Scharich) Leahy, ’82 Administration Midland, Mich. Constituent Chapter Los Angeles Contact: Lynn Garrett, M.S. ’97 Constituent Chapter Jeffery M. Devers, ’03 M.S. ’10 Darcy Orlik, ’92 M.S.A. ’95 Contacts: Chris Bundy, ’88 [email protected] Mount Pleasant, Mich. [email protected] [email protected] Michigan Karen L. Phillips, ’99 Detroit Lansing, Mich. B and Constituent Chapter Susan Wells, ’77 Contact: Tom Broka, ’72 J.J. Lewis, ’06 [email protected] Kevin Richman, ’93 [email protected] [email protected] Milford, Mich. RO TC Constituent Mid-Michigan B roadcast and Cinematic Charles Selinger, ’94 M.S.A. ’98 Chapter Megan Lawless, ’08 Ceresco, Mich. Arts Constituent Chapter [email protected] Contact: John Fisher, ’70 Darryl Shelton, ’85 Contact: Tom Moore, ’77 [email protected] Washington, D.C. Grand Rapids, Mich. [email protected] Jake VanWoerkom, ’06 S port Management [email protected] Robert VanDeventer, ’74 College of Business Saginaw, Mich. Constituent Chapter Jodi VanWoerkom, ’06 Administration Contact: Brock Haymaker ‘12 [email protected] Constituent Chapter [email protected] Chicago Contact: Mark Baczewski, ’97 Spencer Long, ’08 M.A. ’10 [email protected] S tudent Alumni [email protected] Association Constituent English Constituent NYC/New Jersey/ Chapter Philadelphia

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1950s BY Christopher Eder B ob Lippert,’59, was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs Culinary Success comes in the shape of a Hall of Fame in Las Vegas in July. Lippert started his cooking career at beloved former Mount Pleasant restaurant CMU graduate crowned Miss Michigan USA 2013 The Embers in the late 1950s. Considering she never competed in a pageant in 1960s her life, becoming Miss Michigan USA was a John G. Kulhavi, ’65, was honored with shocking – and life-changing – experience for REP. magazine’s Advisors with Heart award Jaclyn Schultzcrown ’11. for his military and community service. The Wyandotte native entered the competition for Miss USA for a new challenge, but did not expect 1970s the success. G ary Szalka, ’70, was honored this spring by the Melvindale-Northern Allen Park “Representing Michigan and competing for Miss School District. The high school baseball USA was an honor,” Schultz says. “You grow so field was bestowed with his name in much as a person because you are judged on recognition of his 37 years of distinguished every aspect – your education, personality, fitness service as varsity baseball coach. and health, your attitude, and how you deal with obstacles. You have to put your absolute best out there.” Linda Hughes, ’71 M.A. ’78, published “Atlanta’s Real Women,” a Schultz is a media strategist for the Birmingham-based company Brogan and Partners. book of heart-warming stories co- Her experience working for a marketing company along with her major in integrative written with 13 other women. public relations helped her during her pageant experience, she said. Sue Schrier Bancroft, ’72, was recently “My degree in IPR helped me most with understanding how the pageant system named chairwoman of the Board of worked,” Schultz says. “The Miss Universe Organization staff has many PR interns and Regents for Texas Woman’s University. professionals. Being on the other side was really interesting because I knew exactly what they were doing and why.” Jeff Phillips, ’74 M.A. ’76, received the 2013 Samuel R. Marotta Faculty Ethics Award, Schultz worked as an account executive for Central Michigan Life during her CMU which is presented to the faculty member career. She currently is pursuing a master’s degree in advertising at Michigan State who best models integrity and high ethical University’s off-campus program. standards at Northwood University. Thomas J. Hissong, ’77, has been appointed chief development officer Michelle (Stiff) Garrison, ’82, was Suzette Marie Pariseau, ’88, was and senior adviser of On Purpose a 2013 Honoree of the YWCA Silicon recently admitted to the College of Leadership of Elizabeth, Colo. Valley Tribute to Women, which honors Arts and Sciences’ Teaching English as Timothy G. Wiedman, M.S.A. ’78, received women who exemplify excellence a Second Language graduate program tenure and promotion to associate in executive-level positions. at Oakland University. She currently teaches ESL for National Heritage professor of management and human Diana Vreeland, ’82, was recently Academies Hamtramck Academy in resources at Doane College in Crete, Neb. named director of the Intensive English Hamtramck and resides in Taylor. Program at Northwood University. She 1980s most recently served as director of Steve Grimes, ’89, financial adviser and S helley Jean Ovsak, M.A. ’81, is retired the Center for English Language and owner of Navigators in Royal Oak, was from the military and a recently retired Culture for International Students at recognized for a third consecutive year as a Delta Connection flight attendant. She Western Michigan University. She and Five Star Wealth Manager in Metro Detroit. also was a military flight attendant on her husband, Joseph, reside in Midland. Air Force III, serving the vice president, Nancy A. Leinonen, ’85, recently 1990s first lady, congress and foreign heads of Charles Parker II, ’90 M.S.A. ’03, was spearheaded a musical fundraising event to state. Currently a freelance model, she has recently admitted to the doctoral benefit Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass. done photo shoots with the U.S. Navy program for information assurance Flight Demonstration Team, Blue Angels Kathy Jones, ’87 M.F.A. ’91, recently and security at Capella University. and the Griffith Advertising Agency in displayed oil paintings at Northwood He resides in Swartz Creek. Pensacola, Fla., where she resides. University in Midland as part of JeffreyK line, ’91, was named MATS the Northwood Campus Arts Susan K. (Reyner) Smith, ’81, co-hosts a High School Athletic Trainer of the year. Council’s Summer Art Show. cooking and household tips show called He is the director of sports medicine at “Listen to the Mrs.” at WSGW Radio in Glenn McIntosh, ’87, was recently Oakwood Healthcare System in Southgate. Saginaw. She also works as community named interim vice president for Stephen Bush, ’92, will begin his M.A. enrichment liaison for Family Home Health student affairs and enrollment in Applied Economics program at the Services and is a wedding coordinator for management at Oakland University. St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. University of Cincinnati in fall 2013.

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V ictoria Carr, M.S.A. ’93, published Rachel Searles, ’98, recently signed a and as a member of the board of trustees her first novel, “Flashover,” a murder/ book deal with Feiwel and Friends, an for the Howell Carnegie District Library. mystery. She currently works for imprint of Macmillian Children’s Publishing Ryan L. Simmons, ’07, and Mallory the Dayton Fire Department as the Group, for the first two books in a Curtis Simmons, ’07, were married supervisor of fire investigations. space adventure series. The first book, on July 27, 2013, in Flint. Ryan is the “The Lost Planet,” will be published in Kellie Beamer Atwell, ’95, has won the creative manager for Sixty100 Marketing January 2014. She works at Google. Walt Disney Legacy Award for her work in Indianapolis. Mallory is the director at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. of communication for Sigma Kappa 2000s sorority’s national headquarters in Nic Bottomley, ’95, received the Thomas Picardy, ’01, was appointed Indianapolis. They reside in Carmel, Ind. governor’s Mentor of the Year Service president of the board of directors for Award for his work with Big Brothers/ the Humane Society of West Michigan. Amy Henkelman, ’08, was named Big Sisters. He resides in Kentwood. He currently owns Fortune Financial associate director of athletics and compliance officer for Dominican Frederick Puffenberger, ’95, was Solutions LLC in Grand Rapids. University of California. named senior director of auxiliary Elizabeth Wishaw, ’01, was recently enterprises at Belmont University in promoted to assistant team leader Leslie Schlaud, ’08, was recently hired as Nashville, Tenn. He previously worked of the copy desk at The News a production supervisor for the packaging at the University of Baltimore and at Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. team at Perrigo’s Allegan location. Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Christine (Shackelford) Rowley, ’03, Mark Kaemingk, M.S. ’09, recently Jim Crawley, ’96, was recently appointed recently obtained her Certified Meeting received a National Science Foundation automotive vice president for Magellan GPS Professional designation. She is the postdoctoral research grant to based in Farmington Hills. He previously executive director of the Mount Pleasant study the Galaxias maculatus, a was the automotive vice president of Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. species of fish in New Zealand. business development for SBE Inc. James J. Lewis, ’06, was recently Britney Collins, ’10, recently launched appointed mayor of the city of Howell Allure Limousine, a new transportation business operating in Grand Rapids.

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Casey Booyinga, ’11, has been E sther E. (Larsen) Bryan, ’36, Tucson, Lloyd J. Clark, ’56 M.A. ’79, Chandler, hired by Southprint Inc./Checkered Ariz., died June 4, 2013, age 99. Ariz., died June 2, 2013, age 83. Flag Sports as their marketing Eleanor M. (Bock) Jones, ’40, Johnson Hiram Keith Myers Jr., ’56, Edmond, coordinator. She resides in Eden, N.C. City, Tenn., died July 1, 2013, age 95. Okla., died July 9, 2013, age 81. Brittany Mouzourakis, ’11, was recently John “Dale” Moeller, ’40, Port Charlotte, Marjorie E. (Mastic) Harris, ’57, named one of 2013’s breakthrough Fla., died Nov. 15, 2012, age 95. Naperville, Ill., died April 30, 2013, age 78. students in animal law by the Animal Donald E. Sowle, ’40, McLean, Va., Robert D. Ullom, ’57, Clare, Legal Defense Fund and received one died March 22, 2013, age 97. died May 1, 2013, age 81. of their scholarships for her outstanding Betty A. (Dettenthaler) McDonald, ’41, William D. Brinker, ’58, Port Huron, work in the growing field of animal Vero Beach, Fla., died July 8, 2013, age 91. died July 4, 2013, age 80. law. She attends the Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University. Vada L. (Brant) Fortune, ’49, Clayton C. Jesweak, ’58, Cadillac, Ravenna, died July 11, 2013, age 87. died July 8, 2013, age 81. Sarah Murphy, ’11, and Samantha Edward J. Kuhn, ’49, Waterford, Robert F. Koontz, ’58, Springfield, Quist, ’12, were selected for 2013 died June 20, 2013, age 89. Mo., died May 7, 2013, age 80. W.K. Kellogg Foundation Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowships. Donald G. McCracken, ’49, Pigeon, Robert L. Crane, ’59 M.A. ’60 Spec. in Ed. They will receive $30,000 stipends to died April 19, 2013, age 86. ’73, Northport, died April 15, 2013, age 76. complete a special intensive master’s Donna M. (Grisdale) Milliman, Charles E. Higgins, ’59, Lake City, program. Murphy will attend Wayne ’49, died July 5, 2013, age 84. died Jan. 21, 2013, age 76. State University, and Quist will attend Arthur B. Neiger, ’50, Marquette, Richard G. Hose, ’59, Walker, Western Michigan University. died July 12, 2013, age 86. died June 9, 2013, age 77. Andrew Nalian, ’11, wrote “50 Deeds Lois A. (Anderson) Cook, ’51 M.A. ’72, Maxine B. (Hanzek) Knott, ’59, for Those in Need.” He spoke to CMU Mount Pleasant, died June 10, 2013, age 83. Lapeer, died June 3, 2013, age 80. students during Leadership Safari this George F. Cronin, ’51, Elk Rapids, Leola (Boyne) Retherford, ’59, Cass year about the power of giving. died June 12, 2013, age 86. City, died June 10, 2013, age 92. Todd Penning, ’12, was recently Paul F. Buchholz, ’52, Highland Esther S. Weinert, ’61, Ludington, named assistant principal at Hope Park, died July 7, 2013, age 82. died June 3, 2013, age 91. Academy of West Michigan in Grand Edmund A. Host, ’52 MA ’71, Cadillac, Mable H. (Fitch) Butterfield, ’62, Rapids. He and his wife, Laurie, and died June 26, 2013, age 85. Lapeer, died April 30, 2013, age 100. their two children live in Hudsonville. Curtis E. Lather, ’52, Bay City, John L. McMullen, ’62, Carmel, Jacob J. Kelley, ’12, recently completed died April 6, 2013, age 85. Ind., died June 11, 2013, age 76. U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit William H. Wehrle, ’52, Martinsville, Nida J. Osborn, ’62, Cass City, Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Ind., died June 6, 2013, age 83. died May 29, 2013, age 73. Katie Pohlman, ’12, was recently Evelyn R. (Stoffel) Wessely, ’52, Mary E. (Klass) McIntyre, ’63, Bad hired as a social media account Saginaw, died Feb. 20, 2013, age 79. Axe, died May 17, 2013, age 73. executive at BERLINE, one of Brian E. Beckley, ’53, Alma, John H. Riggle, M.A. ’63, Houston, Metro Detroit’s top advertising died April 26, 2013, age 83. Pa., died June 1, 2013, age 87. agencies. She resides in Milford. Dennis A. Curry, ’53, Grass Valley, Retha May (Patterson) Bradley, ’64, Lauren Salyers, ’12, was recently Calif., died April 17, 2013, age 83. Midland, died May 31, 2013, age 98. promoted to general manager at Bernice M. (Roethlisberger) Carol G. (Gibson) Pieniozek, ’64, The Lodges of East Lansing. Morrison, ’53, Mount Pleasant, Gladwin, died Jan. 28, 2013, age 74. died May 27, 2013, age 93. William Russell, M.A. ’64, Traverse Beverly L. (Maxson) Bower, ’54, Ann City, died May 10, 2013, age 77. Send us Arbor, died June 6, 2013, age 81. William H. Britt, ’65, Cass City, your news Janet C. (Davis) Burke, ’54, Geneva, died May 15, 2013, age 70. Ill., died April 29, 2013, age 80. Sherman F. Hendricks, ’66 M.A. ’70, We want to celebrate your noteworthy Hannah J. (Boots) Kilbourn, ’54, Ashley, died May 29, 2013, age 78. accomplishments. They will be Millington, died June 1, 2013, age 88. considered for publication online Kathleen F. (Stocking) Pullen, ’66, or in a future issue of Centralight. Iris I. (Tidey) Martin, ’54, Grand Terrace, Manton, died June 21, 2013, age 91. Be sure to include your graduation Calif., died June 25, 2013, age 81. Jane L. (Bigler) Beill, ’69, Ludington, year and contact information. Betty L. (LaLone) Ryan, ’54, Hemet, died July 1, 2013, age 65. Send your information: Calif., died June 8, 2013, age 83. Edward Brklacich, ’69, Sebewaing, Email: [email protected] Barbara L. (Howie) Collinsworth, died April 9, 2013, age 82. Fax: 989-774-1098 ’55, Mio, died July 16, 2013, age 79. Janet R. (Smith) Edwards, ’69, Lake Mail: Centralight, University Lowell D. Frisch, ’55, East Tawas, City, died March 26, 2013, age 83. Communications, West Hall, died March 4, 2013, age 79. Central Michigan University, Thomas E. Heddon, ’69, Lakeland, Mount Pleasant MI 48859 Donald L. Newsted, ’55, Ann Fla., died May 27, 2013, age 71. Arbor, died May 5, 2013, age 80. William P. Huntey, M.A. ’69, Stanwood, died June 2, 2013, age 75.

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Marguerite W. (Graf) Loose, M.A. ’69, R obert B. Long Jr., M.S.A. ’77, St. Simons died June 1, 2013, age 30. Carlisle, Pa., died May 4, 2013, age 99. Island, Ga., died June 13, 2013, age 88. Jason E. Potter, ’11, Kalkaska, Vivian A. (Anspach) Boersma, M.A. Mary A. (DeChantal) Ouellette, M.A. died May 1, 2013, age 31. ’70, died May 12, 2013, age 92. ’77, Midland, died April 9, 2013, age 87. Staff Nancy E. Galbraith, ’70 M.A. ’76, JoAnne E. (Burke) Williams, ’77, Forrest Donald “Frosty” Wyrick, Saginaw, died May 26, 2013, age 65. Lansing, died April 23, 2013, age 80. Farwell, died April 17, 2013, age 64. Wayne A. Balko, ’71 M.A. ’75, Kenneth G. McLellan, ’80, San Antonio, Dorothea E. Bergquist, Mount Owosso, died May 17, 2013, age 64. Texas, died May 1, 2013, age 67. Pleasant, died April 27, 2013, age 99. Janice G. (Gerring) Barth, ’71, Newton, Darwin E. Morgan, ’80, Greenville, Ivah Davis, Mount Pleasant, N.J., died April 16, 2013, age 63. died July 3, 2013, age 55. died April 15, 2013, age 94. Lorraine E. (Frye) Dykehouse, ’71, Ralph E. Wienke, M.A. ’80, Independence, Glenn Smalley, Shepherd, Kalamazoo, died April 26, 2013, age 65. Mo., died July 7, 2013, age 88. died May 5, 2013, age 90. Glen E. McBride, ’71, Marine City, Paul E. Benson, ’81, Fenton, Darleen Cradit, Clare, died died May 18, 2013, age 64. died May 11, 2013, age 54. July 3, 2013, age 68. William J. McDonald, ’71 M.A. ’75, Michael K. Gray, ’83 M.P.A. ’91, Monitor Carole Kahkonen, Mount Pleasant, Rose Lake, died May 31, 2013, age 64. Township, died July 10, 2013, age 54. died July 20, 2013, age 69. James D. Noble, ’71, Lakeland, Susan L. Reed, ’83, Lansing, Fla., died April 1, 2013, age 65. died July 4, 2013, age 55. Faculty Ronald L. Johnstone, Yorktown, Dale C. Rauh, ’71, Sturgis, died Harry L. Edwards, M.A. ’84, Wichita Ind., died April 7, 2013, age 78. April 13, 2013, age 65. Falls, Texas, died June 17, 2013, age 57. Larry L. Bronson, Portage, George F. Inzer , M.A. ’72, Birmingham, Joseph D. Brown IV, M.S.A. died April 23, 2013, age 74. Ala., died July 12, 2013, age 65. ’86, Washington, D.C., died April 19, 2013, age 54. Gerald Carter, Weidman, died Viberta L. (Bredahl) Jeffers, M.A. ’72, April 10, 2013, age 96. Cadillac, died July 10, 2013, age 92. Sue S. Brown, M.S.A. ’86, Washington, D.C., died April 19, 2013, age 52. Charles J. Ebel, Traverse City, Robert W. Hostler, M.A. ’73, Dayton, died July 7, 2013, age 75. Ohio, died July 19, 2013, age 71. Randy L. Zimmer, M.A. ’86, Port Judith A. (Marini) Paga, ’73, Dryden, Huron, died June 6, 2013, age 61. died June 15, 2013, age 62. Lee A. (Cvengros) Swasey, ’87, Susan K. (Colby) Maly, ’73, Golden, Okemos, died May 12, 2013, age 48. Colo., died July 8, 2013, age 62. Amin D. Aur, M.S.A. ’88, Norman, Diane K. Thompson, ’73, Reed Okla., died April 28, 2013, age 57. City, died June 22, 2013, age 61. James W. Olson, M.S.A. ’89, Minot, Robert F. Warnick, ’73, Frankenmuth, N.D., died May 6, 2013, age 61. died May 6, 2013, age 62. Nancy (Senghas) Zarkis, M.S.A. ’90, Michael W. Hope, M.A. ’74, Wasilla, Detroit, died May 20, 2013, age 73. Alaska, died March 27, 2013, age 68. Joseph A. Rogers, M.S.A. ’93, Dayton, Meyer I. Stansberry, M.A. ’74, Columbus, Ohio, died May 15, 2013, age 76. Ohio, died June 3, 2013, age 84. Evelyn L. (Hall) Smith, M.S.A. ’94, Mary E. (Balwinski) Wilinski, ’74, Grandview, died July 7, 2013, age 69. Bay City, died April 15, 2013, age 61. Chansy Vongphasouk, ’95, Cadillac, Betty V. (Vance) Craft, M.A. ’75, Beckley, died July 2, 2013, age 42. W.Va., died July 19, 2013, age 75. Eileen M. Healy, M.S.A. ’98, Grosse Angela A. Lapham, ’75, Punta Gorda, Pointe, died June 25, 2013, age 65. A rthur E. Ellis, 1933-2013 Fla., died April 25, 2013, age 60. Brad E. Graczyk, ’00, Traverse City, Arthur E. Ellis, the university’s ninth Joseph D. Ryan, M.A. ’75, Noblesville, died June 22, 2013, age 40. president, died June 14, 2013. He joined Ind., died July 4, 2013, age 81. James V. Safadi, ’01, Toledo, Ohio, CMU in 1970 as vice president of public died May 18, 2013, age 34. affairs and served briefly as interim Nancy (Thurston) Tomlinson, ’75, president in 1975 and 1985 before Cadillac, died June 21, 2013, age 60. Brenda L. (Brehob) Street, Au.D. ’02, being appointed president in 1986. Earl K. Williams, M.A. ’75, Wayne, Emporia, Kan., died May 7, 2013, age 56. He served until retirement in 1988. died July 9, 2013, age 88. Michele L. (Harr) Cook, ’06, Portland, Ellis was instrumental in creating the Mount Patricia B. (Wilson) Fitzgerald, ’76, died June 17, 2013, age 39. Pleasant SmartZone, the technology park Grand Rapids, died April 22, 2013, age 76. Christopher D. Waskul, ’08, Detroit, located in CMU Research Corp., developed Thomas P. Mott, M.B.A. ’76, died May 3, 2013, age 28. to attract and retain technological Holly, died Sept. 26, 2012. Christopher A. Snider, ’10, Bay research companies to mid-Michigan. City, died Feb. 22, 2013, age 29. CMU honored Ellis with a street bearing Royce J. Reitmeyer, M.A. ’76, Bay his name, located off Three Leaves Drive. City, died April 16, 2013, age 88. Danielle R. Gucciardo, ’11, Woodhaven, Kay L. (Villaire) Simon, ’76, Essexville, died April 27, 2013, age 23. died April 1, 2013, age 56. Michael L. Rowland, ’11, Midland,

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Rohma Masud International graduate student Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics, Global Campus Dietician to a royal family

What is it like to take classes at CMU while living in the United Arab Emirates? Classes are 7 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time, so I get up at 2:45 a.m. for classes from 3 to 5 a.m. Dubai time. Despite the timing, I enjoy interacting with the group and learn a lot from online discussions, given my classmates’ extensive backgrounds. I look forward to meeting them during a trip to Michigan in 2014. And you work full time? Yes, from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., so I don’t get too much rest. I am a food production dietician working with the head chef for the royal family in Abu Dhabi. I devise daily, healthy menus for the Sheikha and her family. I also travel with them on vacations and weekends. What’s involved with working for a royal family? I decide what the Sheikha needs to eat during different situations, such as before and after working out. There are four children aged 5 to 8, and I pick healthy foods for them. Some ask: “Why brown rice, not white rice?” I enjoy answering these questions, because they help me raise awareness about the importance of a healthy diet. On Fridays, I let them eat what they want (they splurge on chicken nuggets and fries), but I am proud that 80 percent of the time they make healthier choices. I’m training the chefs, too. Tell us about your home country. The UAE was a desert when I was born. Dubai has rapidly grown into one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, and the country has advanced rapidly. It has become a melting pot of cultures and nationalities. •

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Tim Jackson graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast and Cinematic Arts and has held senior positions in the satellite communications/media and entertainment industries throughout his career. He most recently was vice president of media product management at Intelsat in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Los Angeles. Give today for the future To learn more about Jackson visits campus regularly to share his life experiences with students, ways you can give to Central and he has included CMU in his estate plans to show his appreciation Michigan University, contact: for helping him grow both professionally and personally. He is providing a bequest to the George & Eva May Campbell Equipment Endowment, Ted Tolcher, Associate Vice President, which supports the purchase, rental or repair of educational equipment for Development and External Relations 989-774-1441 the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts. [email protected] “Being able to give back to an institution that has been such a key part giftplanning.cmich.edu of my life is very important to me,” Jackson says. “I want to allow future generations to benefit from all that CMU has to offer.”

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