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A history of doing something right: Pegging the College's success in the sciences

Much of the science reputation of report to the President (Manpower for students nationally through the Under­ Kalamazoo College lies in its humanistic Research) which ranked the 'College graduate Record Exam (usually taken approach. According to Dr. Francis fourth in the nation in the production of at the end of the junior year), as of last Diebold, professor emeritus of biology, successful Ph.D. candidates per 1,000 year they ranked in the 89th percentile this approach has traditionally stressed students. Fortune magazine in 1948 for biology, 90th for mathematics, and the history and continuity of the human cited these and other studies in ranking 84th for physics. Seniors who took the existence in relation to scientific achieve­ Kalamazoo among the top four colleges American Chemical Society's Organic ment. The students majoring in the in the country for science. Chemistry Examination last year scored sciences (who account for a full quarter Two more recent studies have pro­ so well as to rank the College at the 94th of the student body today) acquire a vided a further measure of the College's percentile nationally. flexibility which allows them to adapt continuing success in launching well­ Students who have sought careers in efficiently and easily to the wide range rounded scientists for study in graduate medicine and dentistry have also had of science-related careers. and professional schools. A National remarkable success - well above the The College's reputation for the pro­ Academy of Sciences report covering national average. Thirty-three per cent duction of graduates in the sciences the years 1920 through 1973 quantified of all applicants processed by a new who go on to earn a Ph.D. is well known the number of alumni who had received faculty evaluation committee for the and long standing. Probably the earliest doctorates at 378, of which 248 were in health sciences were accepted by med­ measure of this success on a national the sciences. Of these, degrees in ical schools in 1972-73, and 80 per cent basis is found in the H.B. Goodrich and chemistry were the most dominant, fol­ to dental school. Last year, the success R.H. Knapp studies which comprise lowed by biology, physics, and mathe­ rate was more than twice the national The Origins of American Scientists, pub­ matics. According to this study, as of average - at 52 per cent, as ten out of lished in 1952 by the University of Chi­ 1966 the College ranked 75th among nineteen applicants gained admission cago Press. Based on the percentage all American colleges and universities to medical schools, and two out of four of graduates taking doctorates, the in the number of graduates who re­ applicants were accepted by dental College achieved a par score of second ceived a Ph.D. in chemistry, despite the schools. So far this year, reports among the nation's colleges in the pro­ fact that the College's annual enrollment Dr . Sally Olexia who heads the Health duction of Ph.D.s in the decade of 1924 was well below 1,000 students. A review Sciences Program, the medical sch.ool to 1934. In specific fields of science, of these statistics by Dr. Linda Delene, acceptance rate stands at over 60 per Kalamazoo's chemistry department was the College's director for institutional cent. ranked first, biology fourth, and physics research, indicates that the sciences are What all of these facts and figures ninth - indeed, a remarkable showing proportionately more active now than mean is that the College has been doing since these latter disciplines were only the average for the fifty-three years. Ten something right in the sciences - and beginning to bloom in this the era of the doctorates were awarded to Kalamazoo doing it consistently. The country, too, "scientific revolution." graduates in 1973 alone. Even during has made it easier for students to go to But why should Kalamazoo in partic­ the late 1960s and early 1970s period graduate school through the heavy ular excel? The Goodrich and Knapp of nationwide undergraduate disen­ appropriations for research and student case study of the College pointed to the chantment, the annual rate at which Kal­ support in the form of fellowships and high caliber of the student body and the amazoo graduates earned Ph.D.s jump­ grants. The Goodrich-Knapp study at­ "close connection with local industrial ed 79 per cent, according to Dr. Delene. tributed a large part of the early success develo.pments favoring scientific re­ The most recently reported study, of Kalamazoo College to the personal search." They also viewed Kalamazoo's "Social Origins of American Scientists quality of the teaching staff. In particular success as "partly attributable to its and Scholars," in the August 9, 1974, it cited Dr. Lemuel Fish Smith as a prime particular historical and cultural posi­ issue of Science, confirmed the Col­ organizer and teacher, and one who tion, standing in transition between a lege's stature in the sciences even while almost single-handedly established the rural Protestant culture and the world of analyzing the figures in a different man­ tradition. As the pace in the sciences modern industry." The industrial con­ ner. According to a productivity index quickened, others emerged including nection is an important one today, of of institutions of higher learning as Dr. John W. Hornbeck in physics, course, as students avail themselves of sources of doctoral scholars, Kalama­ Dr. Allen B. Stowe in chemistry, Dr. T.O. facilities in the community for their zoo was ranked high in the top 20 per Walton in mathematics, and Dr. William Career-Service Quarter and their Senior cent of such institutions since 1920. Praeger and Dr. Diebold in biology. Individualized Project. While students majoring in any of the Reflecting on the early period of rapid The foundation of the reputation has sciences today at Kalamazoo College growth in the sciences - one which remained solid since those days as a cannot be neatly catagorized (indeed, Arnold Mulder in the Kalamazoo College number of subsequent studies have among their strengths is their diversity Story calls "revolutionary" and "the shown. The decade following the Good­ of interests), they have consistently had most dramatic fact in the story of the rich -Knapp study was analyzed by the a higher grade point average than their curriculum during the first quarter of the widely publicized John C. Steelman graduating class. Compared to science institution's second century," - Dr. 2! KaLamazoo coLLeGe

Diebold attributes a large measure of ed by a job he had on his Career-Service fluencing her work: philosophy seminars the success and growth of the sciences Quarter with Consumers Power in which encouraged "the development of at the College to the nature of the labo­ Michigan. independent and creative thinking" and ratory work, a curricular flexibility, and Distinguished science graduate, "English which encouraged self-expres­ the faculty's insistence on making stu­ Dr. Ralph W. McKee '34, who gained rec­ sion and the study of character and dent concerns their highest priority. ognition for his work on the isolation, motivation." Several alumni in the sciences have structure, and synthesis of vitamins K, "That I was able to pursue graduate· , reflected on their experiences at Kala­ and K2 comments that there are many study in a field not taught at Kalamazoo mazoo and its role in their careers. To other facets to the life of the College is an important statement about the Col­ the person, they regard their broad edu­ which have proved invaluable in his lege," says Cynthia Bullwinkle '73 who cation received at the College as the career as a scientist. In particular, he is no~ working on a doctorate at MIT most appropriate for subsequent goal­ cites the "spiritual, social, artistic, and in the mathematical aspects of linguis­ oriented graduate work. recreational opportunities" at the Col­ tics and artificial intelligence. Ms. Bull­ Capsulizing these sentiments is lege as the key to the development of winkle came to Kalamazoo initially in­ Dr. John C. Finerty, a 1937 graduate and the well-rounded individual. "Attending terested in languages (in fact, she is now vice chancellor for academic affairs chapel, playing in the College orchestra, one of the few Kalamazoo students at Louisiana State University Medical being a member and officer of one of to study a third language, Chinese, in Center. According to Dr. Finerty, the the literary societies and participating a second language, German), but found "universal tendency toward career or in track and cross-country gave benefits another long-standing interest in mathe­ practice-oriented education," seen in to me that cannot be measured." matics, coupled with "the excellent such trends as abolishing foreign lan­ Dr. McKee also cites an asset often over­ math faculty" more suited to her in­ guage requirements and encouraging looked in a college: the presence of terests, which have since included study completion of college in three years, many fine students with whom one can resulting in a master's degree in com­ will eventually force society to face a discuss academic material. "The value puter science at the University of Pitts­ dilemma as today's skilled technician of the give and take and stimulation burgh. While she feels the sciences at becomes obsolete ten years from now. resulting from these discussions cannot the College suffer from the lack of more "Flexibility - adaptability to change be overemphasized." Dr. McKee says. women faculty members, "that I still - is an essential end-product of a 'lib­ He is currently the assistant dean, Uni­ chose to study in the sciences is a credit eral arts' education," Dr. Finerty says. versity of California at Los Angeles in part to my professors at Kalamazoo "Each generation has its problems, but School of Medicine. who were men." at no time has there been greater need Dr. Gail Berry '60, a New York psy­ One graduate who fondly recalls all for the educational background pro­ chiatrist and psychoanalyst who also of his professors both in and out of the vided by a liberal arts college such as teaches, comments that her "attitudes sciences and the role each played in Kalamazoo to provide understanding of toward, and approaches to patients and his particular experience at Kalamazoo, the past and a broad outlook for the their problems reflect one of the finest is Dr. Samuel Allerton '55 an associate future." lessons I learned at Kalamazoo College: professor of biochemistry, School of A more recent graduate, Trond Bjorn­ namely, that a whole human being is Dentistry and department of biological ard '71, finds the "breadth of experi­ greater than the sum of his parts, and sciences at the University of Southern ence" of the College as its main selling that he must be understood within the California. "They were all concerned point. He says candidly, "I may have contexts of both his internal and his with bringing forth the light of good • thought that I was wasting my time external environments." Dr. Berry also character and personality, as well as studying language, psychology, history, credits a freshman biology class as cognitive aspects of a course," says and anthropology to fulfill the graduation being instrumental in her current ap­ Dr. Allerton. "In my view, no changes in requirements, because I could not see proach to medicine. Taught by Dr. H. physical plant, curriculum, or adminis­ their connection with physics, but I'm Lewis Batts, the course presented "the tration really can touch the lifeline of a convinced now that this is precisely advantages and disadvantages of spe­ great college or university. Its structure what the College is all about. People do cialization, viewed from the standpoint is assured by the hiring and retaining not live, work, and communicate in just of phylogenetic development." She of outstanding educators, by the re­ a world of equations. There's a lot more adds, "As a psychiatrist, who is con­ cruiting of responsive students, and by to life and education, and I think our stantly examining the development and the maintenance of a first class library, program addresses that in a very direct functioning of human beings, learning more or less in that order of importance. and effective way. I'd do it all again if I about the challenges, risks, and turning As Whitehead notes in The Aims of Edu­ had a chance." Bjornard is currently on points which each level of maturation cation, the heart of the matter defies leave of absence from Exxon Nuclear imposes upon the growing human or­ precise analysis; it involves so many in­ Company to c~mplete his Ph.D. in ganism, the basic biological principles tangibles inherent in creating an intel­ physics at the Massachusetts Institute stressed by Dr. Batts are brought home lectual atmosphere where students are of Technology. His job at Exxon of mod­ to me almost daily in very immediate concerned with trying to see 'through elling nuclear power reactors on a com­ ways." Dr. Berry also points to a number the glass darkly' and gain some appre­ puter developed from an interest spark- of non-science courses as directly in- ciation for the elusive truths lurking there." Dr. Allerton adds, "Perhaps one arts college, in Dr. Thompson's opinion, mathematics at the College provided of the most compelling reasons why a that is the "principal hope toward the the foundation for biophysics, in which future scientist and teacher should at­ stimulation of effecting intellectual lead­ he is attempting to perfect the Optacon tend Kalamazoo College is that he is ership" - leadership which is "willing reading aid for the blind, designed to encouraged to think for himself, not to to try to understand man's complex "see" ordinary printed material through accept everything in print as absolute challenge and to persistently stay with electronics which can fit a unit the size truth. He must understand the historical the job of communicating to individuals of a pack of cigarettes and be operated underpinnings of scientific concepts and the many who really want to be led with a single hand. and theories in an age which is myop­ in the right direction," and of identify­ The importance of the Career-Service ically preoccupied with the present, or, ing "the alternatives to achieving and Quarter and Senior Individualized Proj­ at best, the immediate past." maintaining a survivable democracy." ect is no more apparent than in Marshall A number of alumni concur in this Dr. Thompson, now retired, has been Lyttle's upcoming graduation from the feeling. Dr. George C. Baldwin, Sr. '39, cited numerous times as an outstanding University of New Mexico's School of a professor of nuclear engineering and physicist in the field of ballistics. For Medicine. Lyttle had studied twice science at Rensselaer Polytechnic In­ several years he was the technical di­ through these programs with a cardio­ stitute, transferred to Kalamazoo for rector of the Naval Ordinance Test Sta­ vascular surgeon in Albuquerque, and his senior year and regrets he did not tion at China Lake, California - the becoming enamored with that area of make the move sooner. With the sciences· Navy's most important laboratory. the country, eventually hopes to estab­ threatened as much from internal pres­ Undergraduate science training must lish his practice there. sures as external ones, in Dr. Baldwin's also impart a "sense of humility," ac­ The sciences at Kalamazoo have opinion, "Universities should impart cording to Dr. Dee Tourtellotte '25, turned out more than simply hard scien­ understanding of the nature, methods retired president of Kind and Knox Gel­ tists, however. Ms. Jean Guile, a 1971 and significance of science to all of their atin Company. Dr. Tourtellotte suggests physics major, initially became interest­ students, as well as to insure that tech­ that the sciences teach students "to put ed in teaching science while working as nical majors learn to appreciate history, back into the life stream something to a senior fellow in the physics depart­ language, literature, and art. In large in­ replace that which we have taken out. ment. She completed a research mas­ stitutions, however, students tend to Science and technology have helped to ter's with the Michigan State University segregate according to their major in­ implant a life style that has become so cyclotron, but "the knob-twiddling and terests, losing the opportunity to develop wasteful of our finite resources that it graph-studying got to me, and it be­ mutual understanding. The best basis should now set new sights for a reversal came obvious that I was more concern­ for subsequent specialization- a broad of that trend. I would subscribe to that ed with people, even if they can be education - is still offered by the policy as an aim for training future stu­ more frustrating at times." Through a relatively small liberal arts college." dents in ethical fields of science." Sloan Foundation grant, she is now Dr. Baldwin has pioneered in the devel­ When Dr. Patricia Mcintyre graduated "writing self-paced instructional mate­ opment of the first betatron and syn­ in 1948 to enter Johns Hopkins Medical rials in engineering for ethnic minority chrotrons, the first nuclear research with School, she confesses she was more students," so as to better prepare them x-rays produced by these machines, than slightly "awed" to compete with for elementary math, chemistry; and and gamma ray lasers, which provided students from the best of the Eastern physics prerequisites for the engineer­ him an opportunity to observe research schools. "I found to my delight and ing program. She is enthusiastic about efforts in Russia. (His son, George, will amazement," she says, "that my back­ her work and hopes that it might event­ graduate from the College this year, ground in the sciences acquired at Kal­ ually affect the way the sciences are following in his father's footsteps with a amazoo College was actually far superior taught. major in physics. He plans on graduate to that of the average student in my In any case, the way the science!? are study at the University of Michigan in class." Two courses in particular, physi­ now and have been taught at Kalama­ nuclear engineering.) cal chemistry and modern physics, zoo has proven particularly successful Producing leaders has always been seemed so unique at the time as to for its graduates. Three-quarters of the one of the College's strengths as well as open a door in radioisotope research, students who go on to graduate school one of its primary goals. Dr. Louis T. E. just beginning to be applied to clinical from the College, do so with majors in Thompson '14 sees intellectual leader­ studies of patients with hematologic dis­ the sciences. They are stimulated not ship as the "capability that human sys­ orders. That work, in turn, opened a only by innovative curricular changes, tems need so much in this day of in­ whole career. She is now an associate but a faculty which has always been creasing confusion induced mainly by professor of medicine, radiology and superior. Academic reputations may man's fascination with his own clever­ radiological science and environmental come and go, influenced by many ness in the application of new knowl­ health at Johns Hopkins. subtle factors, but the prestige the Col­ edge in one field - important enough in Dr. Harry Garland '65, is already an lege has developed in the sciences itself (i.e. physical science) but not assistant chairman of the 650-student over the years has become virtually a adequate to satisfy Nature's survival electrical engineering department at tradition and appears secure for the constraints. " It is the superior liberal Stanford University. His background in future. An addition and renovation: Giving the sciences a physical facelifting

Accompanying the normal din of vari­ men! room, supervised by an electron­ As part of the renovation, both Olds ous science laboratories this year are ics technician. A small, common refer­ and Upton are being completely rewired the sounds of workers securing steel ence library will occupy an old lecture at the same time new lines are being girders, pouring concrete, laying brick, room on the third floor, and a central laid for natural gas, air, water and de­ and replastering walls for a $1 .8 million, storage and dispensing facility will elim­ ionized water to service the new lab 8,500 square foot addition to comple­ inate the crates of supplies which pre­ benches and counters. Wastes will ment the complete renovation of Olds viously lined some of the hallways. either flow through new acid waste and Upton Science Halls. Departmental offices will be clustered plastic piping in the case of liquids, or The construction is perhaps symbol­ to permit greater interaction of the fac­ will be sucked into hooded vents in the ically indicative of the strength of the ulty. Individual faculty offices will be case of gaseous fumes. sciences reflecting the strength of the larger. Small, personalized laboratories, The normal accouterments of a reno­ whole College in economically hard adjacent to the offices, will permit fac­ vation such as fresh paint and tiling times. ulty members new freedom to explore seem to be almost taken for granted. personal research interests or to super­ "What this project will reflect when Numerous other liberal arts colleges vise more closely individual student it's finished," says Dr. Wayne Wiens, of similar size are fighting hard to stay projects. chairman of the department of biology, even while balancing often heavy mort­ A cold storage room, maintained at "is a philosophical emphasis to increase gages on much of thefr physical plants. 4° Centigrade, will serve both chem­ the individual research space and gen­ Kalamazoo, however, has operated istry and biology and will permit a new eral laboratory space, and to corre­ under a tradition of not undertaking a dimension in biochemistry experiments spondingly decrease lecture space. In construction project until funds were at involving temperature labile prepara­ this way students are more encouraged hand or pledged to cover the full project tions of broken cells, cell fractions, or to explore their own ideas in science as cost. As a result, the College continues isolated macromolecules. opposed to being told simply what to to have no outstanding debts and ap­ Biology will boast a newly-equipped, do. The multiplicity design of some labs proaches this project with as much vigor sterile preparation room complete with will permit the integration of the sciences as ones in better times. autoclave and dishwashing equipment to a degree not experienced here be· The project has not gone unaffected - all essential for preparation of tissue fore. Faculty interests often span several by inflation, however, and some of the cultures and experiments in microbiol­ disciplines, such as in biochemistry, initially more elaborate plans have been ogy. In addition, plans call for a new and we hope the new design will give us cut back as a result. Nonetheless, fac­ animal holding facility, not previously all a little more freedom. Frankly, I think ulty in the departments of biology, available, which Dr. Myrna Sproul plans it will make a gigantic difference." chemistry, and physics which will con­ to put to use immediately in her mam­ if any department seems to stand the tinue to share the center's facilities, are malian physiology course and a number most to gain, biology does. It requires very enthusiastic about the way some of other courses. Part of this particular the most to implement the laboratory changes in their own approaches to facility will include two controlled­ elements of its new curriculum (see teaching science have been trans­ environment chambers which can be story page 6). Its allotted space will be formed into brick and plaster in the regulated for day length and tempera­ used to the fullest; the biochem lab, for design of the addition and the renova­ ture levels for studies of the "biological example, will alternately house in addi­ tion of the older buildings. timeclocks" of animals. tion to biochemistry, courses in cell Probably most important are the ways A small learning center, complete physiology and cell biology. the project will bring about a greater with individualized study carrels will be Before all these changes come to integration of the sciences. The four­ located on the third floor with a small fruition, one might expect the depart­ story addition to the Academy Street seminar room next door. ments involved to be seriously incon­ side of Upton Hall gives the entire com­ Just as important but on the more venienced. Such has not been the case. plex a new "L" took. The addition will practical side, the addition will include Only biology has temporarily relocated house three new major laboratories a loading dock and an elevator for its offices across the quad in Welles which have a flexibility for multi-purpose which professors have long been yearn­ Hall. Physics and chemistry continue to use, including those for elementary ing. One professor who has faced in­ use Olds Hall, as Upton's renovation physics, advanced chemistry, and bio­ numerable stairs while regularly moving and the addition are completed under chemistry. Laboratories in Upton and heavy lab instruments, quipped that the the first phase of construction sometime Olds will all undergo renovation and in elevator alone is worth the cost of the in August. At that point, Olds will be some cases will be enlarged. project. sealed off, the second phase will begin, With the elevator and a new stairway and the refurbished facilities will be There are a number of other impor­ in the addition, the fire escape at the far used until the whole project is com­ tant changes. end of Olds will finally come down with pleted in March 1976. For the first time, the departments new windows taking the place of the At that point, there will undoubtedly will be served With a common instru- doorways. be a huge sigh of relief, for the upgrad- Is

Due to be occupied this August, the brick­ faced addition to the Olds and Upton Halls science complex will include three major laboratories - one for each of the sciences, an elevator, and a loading dock for re­ ceiving supplies.

rng of the science facilities has been formed into final blueprint plans by The overall result, however, is far regaraed as long overdue. The Ransom Richards, Bauer and Moorhead, Archi­ from being regarded a compromise. E. Olds Hall, now 48 years old, was tects and Engineers, and bids were sent The center will continue to be a highly remodeled once in 1959. The Louis C. to contractors last July. The most seri­ specialized facility which ideally com­ Upton Hall was built in 1956 and has ous problems arose when the ambitious plements the College's outstanding never been remodeled . plans confronted an even more zealous science faculty - only more so now. It The College received support from inflation. When the bids were returned is not meant to replicate the highly the Kresge Foundation, the Kalamazoo in August, they were nearly a third over sophisticated offerings of major uni­ Foundation, the Loutit Foundation, the architect's estimated cost. versities; indeed, students in the sci­ Ransom Fidelity, the Upjohn Company, Rather than postpone the project for ences here seem to concur they favor the Upton family, the Whirlpool Founda­ another concerted search for supporters, more the personalized instruction coup­ tion, and the Heyl Estate. A number of the College decided to go ahead with led with a policy to get maximum stu­ other concerns contributed in other construction but with a quickly re­ dent use of all the equipment that is ways. Dow Chemical, for example, evaluated and abridged plan. A single­ available. The success rate of students donated the insulation for the building, story library-learning center which was in the sciences testifies to the validity of and pleasantly surprised the College by to be a part of the addition was elimi­ this approach. Now they will have an doubling the original estimate to help nated , as was equipment for cooling the atmosphere even more conducive to fight the energy crisis. building in summer, and some requests study and research. Faculty suggestions were trans- for movable laboratory equipment. Curricular developments: Expanding through cooperation

The individual science disciplines, tra­ would certainly need inorganic chemis­ and an introduction to modeling theory ditionally of an autonomous nature, now try, and probably some calculus and With nets in hand, students still spend cooperatively integrate elements of their physics," says Dr. Olexia. "A student many hours in the field hunting for curricula. The impetus has come from more interested in ecology or environ­ insects in Dr. Evans' entomology course as much within the academic structure mental biology really does not need as or tote binoculars for identifying birds in of the sciences as it has from the pres­ much chemistry as mathematics and ornithology, taught by Dr. H. Lewis sures of the outside professional scien­ computer science, although the chemis­ Batts, an alumnus who is the founder tific areas. try wouldn't hurt. In any case, students and executive director of Kalamazoo's Many of the changes are extensive - have to know more than simple 'biology' reknown Nature Center. Dr. Evans re­ including the creation of two new inter­ because the whole field is becoming so cently completed a year's sabbatical at disciplinary programs in computer sci­ much more complex." the University of Georgia conducting ence and health sciences (discussed The curricular change in biology research on the mating behavior of a elsewhere in this issue), and a restruc­ extends far beyond a reclassification of type of parasitic wasp and preparing a turing of the biology curriculum to courses. There are a number of new brand new course in ethology, the study accommodate many of the rapid changes courses and several new faculty to teach of the behavior of a variety of animal in that field. Others mainly concern the them, including the chairman, Dr. Wayne groups. Because of its emphasis on manner in which a science is taught and Wiens. New courses offered in mam­ social organization phenomena and the the way a student learns to approach a malian physiology, developmental biol­ adaptive value of behavior modes, the problem or scientific concept. As one ogy, endocrinology, hormones and be­ course is also offered as part of the professor describes these changes, "We havior, and immunology reflect the psychology curriculum. are teaching students to do science." particular specializations and fortes of Another interdisciplinary offering The department which has under­ their professors. In addition, a majority is found in biochemistry, taught by gone the most rigorous self-appraisal of the courses, many long standing, Dr. Wiens and the chemistry department. and now finds itself in the midst of the have been rewritten or reorganized. In a sense, this course reflects the new most extensive curricular changes is Courses in plant morphology, general areas being developed in the curricu­ biology. botany, and plant physiology are now lum which place a heavier emphasis on "For a good while now, the field of part of two courses: Biology of Algae, laboratory experience for the obvious biology has been growing so rapidly Fungi, and Plants; and Field Botany. reason that increasing complexities of and in so many different directions that Elements of the traditional genetics the subjects demand better method­ it is very difficult to move a department course can now be found throughout ologies of study. Courses in microbiol­ the size of ours in any specific direction the whole curriculum. ogy, molecular genetics and endocri­ without affecting what we have tradition­ The two introductory courses for nology, and biochemistry all require ally offered," says Dr. Paul Olexia. biology majors have been rewritten and laboratories as well-equipped as those "Essentially what we are now doing is are team taught. Environmental and in chemistry and physics, and laboratory maintaining a broad background but Population Biology, which Dr. Olexia techniques as intricate. changing the vertical dichotomy of and Dr. David Evans share, has changed This intricacy, however, has not stifled botany and zoology, as it is normally the focus of instruction from an empha­ experiments with traditional lab tech­ considered, to a horizontal distribution sis on memorization to more of a student niques. Dr. Wiens has set up his bio­ • of three levels of biological organization: command of fundamental concepts. chemistry and cell biology labs as that of the population-ecosystem, the Dr. Myrna Sproul and Dr. Wiens handle though the topic to be covered each organismal, and the cellular." Students Cellular and Organismal Biology. One time is a research project in miniature. majoring in biology must take at least freshman student says that while it took Dr. Wiens essentially places the respon­ one core course in each level in addition time for some students to adjust to it, sibility of finishing the given lab problem to a basic program of courses distrib­ the team teaching "helps prevent one entirely on the student, who, he says, uted throughout the physical sciences from identifying a topic with a particular must "learn to ask the right questions." and mathematics. professor, and it gives two different The technique, according to Dr. Wiens, According to Dr. Olexia, the new cur­ points of view." The laboratory exer­ "goes beyond just teaching students riculum approach insures that the biol­ cises are often open-ended in structure new skills, to stimulate them to think ogy student receives a well-rounded and award students, in part, on original­ scientifically, to see if they can devise grounding in all aspects of the discipline ity they display in tackling a given the best way of tackling a problem. It as well as "allows for a student to devel­ problem. opens a kind of freedom which takes op a program more closely attuned to With the keen interest in ecology, the some hard work to master." his or her interests." This also means various field biology courses are very Dr. Wiens is quick to admit that his that faculty members must be more popular. A new course in this area is methodology is not necessarily appro­ specific as they advise students. "A stu­ Community and Ecosystem Biology, priate for all courses, or, indeed, is a dent who wants to go into biochemistry and it covers specific types of commu­ popular one with students who are or molecular biology in graduate school nities and ecosystems, their interaction, generally more accustomed to highly structured, quick-paced lab assign­ ments. But as one student has observed, this "hyperstimulation" approach is great preparation for both graduate school and the Senior lndividualjzed Project which require independent thought and "a capacity to overcome frustration." Students in Dr. Nelson Dinerstein's computer science 10 course are like­ wise challenged to look at problems a new way. The computer science pro­ gram, now three years old and offering as many courses, considers itself a separate discipline but one which can serve literally every other department in the College. Dr. Ralph Deal (left) of chemistry reviews the operation of the CRT terminal to Western The physical strength of the program Michigan University's PDP-1 0 computer with senior Lester Fahrner. Dr. Deal is the is the Western Michigan University chemistry department's resident "expert" on the new terminal, which he uses for PDP-10 computer, to which the College problem modeling. has unlimited time access through eight ~ teletype terminals distributed in a num­ ber of key campus locations. According to Dr. Dinerstein, "What ••... I'm trying to do is help students to get to a point where they can understand that the computer is not a disciplinary tool but one that will help solve any complex problem pnce the problem's component parts have been defined, algorithms determined and programmed in a cer­ tain language." Students learn the de­ ductive steps of problem analysis, also known as "top-down refinement," for situations as diverse as an analysis of a .L poem to a complex mathematical Analyzing certain acoustic qualities of mufflers was Mark Theobald's (right) Senior Individualized Project, advised by Dr. Wayne Wright, the new chairman of the equation. physics department. The physics curriculum is geared to interdisciplinary training The effect of the computer on the on three levels: one for the nonscience major, one for the health sciences student, educational process at the College has and a third involving calculus for the straight sciences major. been 11othing short of phenomenal. Science Division chairman, Dr. T. Jef­ ferson Smith, estimates that among courses in statistics, calculus, and com­ puter science, nearly 75 per cent of all Kalamazoo students have had some degree of programming experience. In upper level computer science courses, students cover the more tradi­ tional subject matters of programming languages and data structures, and system simulation. The program thus acts more to supplement the other dis­ ciplines than specifically prepare stu­ dents for graduate work in computer science. Dr. H. Lewis Batts points to a tiny ruby-crowned kinglet while on a field trip with his Quite often, however, mathematics ornithology class to the nearby Kleinstuck Reserve. The Kalamazoo Nature Center majors decide to specialize and earn also regularly hosts field trips of other biology classes and serves as a research advanced degrees in computer science. facility for seniors. a I KaLamazoo coLLeGe

This may well be a reflection of the de­ Berkeley, and Dr. Jean Calloway will be more personal, even if more time­ partment of mathematic's new computa­ leaving for a sabbatical at the Massa­ consuming. tional tract. chusetts Institute of Technology next Physics majors who yearn for engi­ With the ·nation demanding answers year. neering experience have a "3-2" option to its numerous problems which require As with computer science, the key to whereby they may complete a three­ interdisciplinary action, many things the department's new flexibility has year curriculum with a heavy physics happen to the supporting sciences. been the PDP-1 0. It is almost too rich a emphasis at Kalamazoo and transfer to "Mathematics," says Dr. Smith, "sud­ resource, according to Dr. Smith. In the University of Michigan, Georgia denly takes on a rather new tact and a order to prevent students from abusing Institute of Technology, or Washington topologist is likely to be less revered it and to appreciate its worth, they are University 'in St. Louis for two years of than one who knows how to get a nu­ taught how to budget for their needs. In concentrated study in engineering. The merical answer." the calculus course, for example, stu­ program, which may soon be expanded The numerical tract accommodates dents are given $50 each for which they to include Northwestern University, this interest without making the whole must account before applying for more yields two bachelor's degrees - one department into one of applied mathe­ money to buy time. This discourages from each institution. matics. Indeed, the department's pri­ package "game playing," Dr. Smith "The concern for analysis over fact," mary emphasis remains a traditional adds. "Everytime that thing 'diddles,' it says Dr. Wright, underlies the depart­ one with upper level courses in algebra costs money. It's a great bargain, how­ mental philosophy. "We start with cer­ and analysis. The tract is composed of ever; there is nobody who will work for tain laws and premises and build rigor­ three computer science courses and you so hard for so little as a computer. ously on them using various levels of three in mathematics. The latter include What you can get done for 28¢ on that mathematics, all the while looking over a heavily rewritten course in differential machine is mind boggling." our shoulder at the real world. The equations, one in numerical analysis The physics curriculum is geared, in things we do invol~e analysis, models, which had not been taught for fifteen part, to interdisciplinary training with various skills, all of which underlie a years (long before the current impact of introductory material offered at three personal development which can be the computer), and a course in mathe­ levels. At the first level, two courses are channeled into a variety of areas. We're matical modeling. aimed at satisfying the objectives of very happy to see students branch out This modeling course is project ori­ general education for the non-science into computer science, meteorology, ented and so interdisciplinary in its major; the second level is designed for engineering, or physics." approach that it draws students not only health sciences students and includes One discipline which has been par­ from the other science departments but a non-calculus sequence of three ticularly successful in launching stu­ from a variety of the behavior~! sciences courses, a new one of which specifically dents into graduate school has been as well. With mathematical modeling deals with medical physics; and a third chemistry. The department has re­ (simulation for real physical phenomena) level, a three-term succession of courses mained relatively stable in terms of a current professional "rage," the course utilizing calculus, is intended for poten­ curricular changes within the last few in a sense acts as a service, introducing tial majors in physics, chemistry, and years, opting instead, to develop better students to modeling theory, questions mathematics. off-campus opportunities for its majors concerning the validity of models, the The flexibility of the physics program and to increase the faculty's role in effect of numerical errors, and the sig­ is also manifested in a number of other research. nificance of statistical results. Then with ways. While courses are on the whole Dr. Kurt Kaufman's work on syn­ the PDP-10 students can experiment becoming more geared to the upper thesizing curcumin, the natural food with computer implementation of models level student and physics major, ac­ coloring which makes mustard yellow, based on their own disciplinary experi­ cording to Dr. Wayne Wright, chairman for the Kalamazoo Spice Extraction ence. of the department, one of the introduc­ Company has provided a number of The department also "serves" the tory courses is so adaptive that its ancillary projects for some of his ad­ other disciplines and students seeking subject matter may be changed at will visees. Dr. Richard Cook, one of the to fulfill divisional requirements with an from year to year. This past fall, for new members of the chemistry depart­ introductory course for non-science example, Dr. Allen Buskirk offered an ment, was recently awarded a $10,000 majors and an applied statistics course introdu~tory astronomy course which grant from New York-based Research designed for students in the behavioral, was both theoretical and descriptive, Corporation for a research project on biological, and social sciences. and included several midnight observa­ imines. And Dr. Ralph Deal not long ago In order to keep in touch with de­ tions from Angell Field. completed a computer modeling re­ velopments in applied mathematics, Another of the basic courses is self­ search program with the Upjohn Com­ Dr. Smith took a sabbatical to study last paced. Students must master the seven­ pany to help organize drug compounds. year at the Carnegie Institution of Wash­ teen elements of the course, but do so Chemistr.y has also been playing an ington, Dr. Stanley Rajnak is currently on at their own speed. Both students and increasingly important role in interdis­ leave at the University of California- faculty find the instruction to be much ciplinary offerings. Chemistry has shared in the presentation of half of the Introduction to the Natural Sciences, can be found in this issue on page 18. lectures in biochemistry, according to a team taught course by faculty in biol­ These, then, are some of the changes Dr. Kaufman, who has also helped ogy, chemistry, and physics, had a taking place in the on-campus phase of coordinate with Dr. Wiens the special heavier emphasis on chemistry this a student's education. They reflect the guest lectures by biochemists from the winter when the subject of energy was boldness and adaptability of the teach­ Upjohn Company. examined. A closer look at this course ing tradition at Kalamazoo College.

Chairman of the Science Divi­ sion and a professor of mathe­ matics, Dr. T. Jefferson Smith, remains after class to review material with one of his students. The mathematics department has implemented a new compu­ tational mathematics tract for students interested in graduate work in applied mathematics.

(Below) New courses in ethology, taught by Dr. David Evans, and mam­ malian physiology, taught by Dr. Myrna Sproul, are indicative of the breadth of curricular de­ velopments in biology just in this past year alone.

Senior Bill McDevitt (left), Dr. Kurt Kaufman, chairman of the chemistry department, and sophomore Joseph Meier ponder an analysis by the NMR Spectrometer, used in the organic chemistry course. The College has received several grants to help equip the new laboratories in the addition-renovation project of the science buildings. Off-campus programs: Opening new options

When the off-campus segments of the actions to experiences vary, depending offering a study of contrasts: the excite­ Kalamazoo Plan, featuring Career­ in part on the luck of the student. Some ment of open heart surgery, and the ex­ Service, Foreign Study, and the Senior come away from NIH having served little haustion of up to eighty hours a week of Individualized Project (SIP), began in more than as closely supervised lab constant work - making rounds with 1961, they were dramatic for their in­ assistants where they say the routine­ Dr. Wilson, attending conferences, and novation. They are dramatic still, but ness of many procedur~s becomes simply absorbing all that is so new. Ac­ more because the programs offer a firmly ingrained in their minds. Others cording to Dr. Sally Olexia, who heads greater number of alternatives and the enjoy a good deal more autonomy or the new Health Sciences Program, alternatives have matured to a new de­ may directly assist a research Ph.D. on these students often return to campus gree of sophistication. Students today a fairly complex and topical study. completely exhausted. And tremendous­ are reaping more opportunities with Debra Warejcka, a senior in biology, ly excited about medicine. "It either greater responsibilities, based in part for example, worked in the National convinces them they want to be doctors, on the reputations of Kalamazoo stu­ Cancer Institute on a project involving or to start looking for something else," dents who preceded them. the SV-40 (monkey) viruses. As a mem­ she says. This seems particularly true of stu­ ber of a "normal" control group, she Roger Gerlach is a case in point. dents majoring in the sciences. For served as a subject in the testing of a From the moment he entered Kalama­ them, the various off-campus programs new immunization vaccine for cholera; zoo College, medicine was his ambition. offer experiences that students in other a diet study on nitrogen and sulfur bal­ He compares his own determination colleges, even major universities, can­ ances with amino acids; and a project with the pre-med student characterized not begin to match. As one student which isolated the origin of the lingual in the comic strip Doonesbury. "Medi­ says, "They cap the long hours and lipase enzyme to the back of the tongue. cal school was an all-encompassing tough courses; they make the peren­ A number of students have gained so aim to the exclusion of nearly everything nial grind seem worthwhile." much from their Career-Service ex­ else," he says. Albuquerque only con­ At the very least, the programs each perience that they have returned to NIH firmed it. There he was able to watch offer a break in the academic regimen for their SIP. Dale Shimp, a chemistry the first installation in New Mexico of a on campus and provide a chance for major who will enter Purdue University new intra-aortic balloon pump into a students to weigh alternate goals and this fall for graduate work in medicinal patient and to see "patients live who assess their progress. Many consider chemistry, is one. Using the normal could have died." Gerlach's long hours each break a kind of personal renais­ volunteer program as an entre: Shimp of study paid off early when he was re­ sance. And the campus itself seems spent his C-S in the National Cancer cently accepted as a junior to the Uni­ bouyed by the enthusiasm of students Institute with Dr. Larry Keefer on a proj­ versity of Michigan School of Medicine. returning from satisfying jobs in Career­ ect concerning nitrosamines, which are There are numerous other Career­ Service, particularly exciting foreign known to cause tumors in almost any Service options. Bob Sprague, a senior studies, or rewarding SIPs. With the pro­ organ of the body. What distinguished in the Health Sciences Program, work­ grams offering such a change of pace, Shimp's work was the publication of his ed in Detroit with George Clayton and their own rigorous content is often results. Enthused by his initial experi­ Associates, environmental consultants, masked. ence, Shimp wrote to Dr. Keefer when testing various water, earth, and vege­ The first break from campus activities it came time to do his SIP and was able tation samples. Mark Theobald, another • is Career-Service, normally taken dur­ to follow up on his work on nitrosamines senior and a physics major, ran com­ ing the Spring Quarter of the sopho­ with a study of their mechanism of car­ puter programs on nuclear power costs more year. The program presents a cinogenic action. Shimp considers his for Consumers Power in Jackson, Mich­ number of opportunities for science work at NIH as a "gigantic edge" over igan (convincing him his interests lay in majors and some particularly exciting other students. "It gave me a real feeling areas other than nuclear engineering). alternatives for those seeking careers of what I would be doing later, and I Although most students prefer to in the health sciences. found I liked it - in fact, my C-S con­ work off-campus, the program has been Topping the list of favorite places for vinced me to go through some of the flexible enough to provide Lester Fahr­ science majors is the National Institutes more difficult courses offered on cam­ ner, now a senior in chemistry who of Health outside Washington, D. C. pus. I also found I matured intellec­ also holds a Heyl Scholarship and was Students ostensibly sign into the NIH tually at NIH where I was much more on president of the Student Commission, hospital to serve as "normal volunteers" my own than in class." the opportunity to remain on campus for for a host of various ongoing experi­ The power of Career-Service to test his C-S, where he helped in a research ments. By doing so they earn enough a student on his or her aspirations is project of his advisor, Dr. Kurt Kaufman, pocket money to supplement the room no more evident than in an arrangement in synthesizing curcumin, a yellow food and board provided by NIH , and be­ with Dr. John Wilson, a cardio-vascular dye. cause the experiments usually require surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital in When it came time to do his foreign so little time, they have a chance to Albuquerque, New Mexico. study, however, Fahrner was quick to work in a number of laboratories. Re- In a sense, students find this particular apply to the center which can accom- modate students who wish foreign labo­ ed to the Analytical Chemistry Division, More opportunities for SIP research ratory experience - Julich, Germany. Eck worked on a project for developing seem to be opening up- with pharma­ The College's JUiich connection is a method for quantitatively determining ceutical companies, hospitals, and especially fortunate because opportuni­ the identities and concentrations of sev­ various universities - as the result of ties for science work by American un­ eral heavy metals in environmental student initiative and several more - dergraduate students are infrequent, ac­ samples at a single time using gas formalized agreements with the College. cording to the director of Foreign Study, chromatography. Eck termed his Oak "I've been amazed at the amount of Dr. Joe Fugate. Established through the Ridge experience "elegant," and found initiative our students have," says help of a former professor at the Col­ the discipline in the research work ex­ Dr. Wayne Wiens, chairman of biology. lege, the Julich center has hosted three cellent preparation for his SIP at Har­ "They come up with their own ideas, groups of students since 1971. Five at­ vard University, where he has been often through their ties with someone tended just this year alone. subsequently accepted for graduate they met or worked with while on their Most seem to enjoy Ji.ilich, although work in organic chemistry. C-S Quarter. They want the experience, it cannot be said to be a romantic spot, The final, and in most cases, the most do not care how much they get paid, being known instead as a center for the important off-campus experience is the and because they have proven they are odd combination of the sugar beet in­ Senior Individualized Project. The SIP good, they generally get what they dustry and German nuclear research. is important to science students for a want." Fahrner was able to assist on two proj­ number of reasons. It is often regarded Some students scatter to all parts of ects during his stay: one dealing with as a true culminating experience involv­ the country; others are finding a wealth the photodecomposition of pesticides, ing basic or applied research at a num­ of possible projects nearby in Kala­ and one synthesizing retinal analog. In ber of prestigious P.laces. It is also a re­ mazoo or even on the College campus addition to an increased proficiency in quirement for graduation. itself. speaking German, Fahrner enjoyed JU­ For students intent on going on for One of the increasingly popular ties Iich simply for the discipline of being graduate degrees, the SIP often looms with the local community has been with steeped in research in another country. as the most important activity they will several different divisions of the Upjohn One of the major alternatives for stu­ undertake at Kalamazoo - testing their Company. Although the College and the dents who have already been abroad, capacity for independent thought and company have almost a tradition of co­ either before coming to Kalamazoo or in persistence in the face of obstacles. The operation, one semi-formal arrange­ place of the Career-Service Quarter, is fact that so many do so well can be seen ment has been particularly successful the Oak Ridge Science Program. Estab­ in the students' enthusiasm, in the im­ and mutually beneficial. The Upjohn lished in 1970 through the Great Lakes pressive percentage who do go on to labs and research staff have, in a sense, Colleges Association, the program at the graduate or medical schools, and in supplemented the science curricula at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in a good number of theses which are the College, while students in turn work Tennessee is designed not only for stu­ published. on projects for the company. These are dents but faculty as well. Dr. Wayne Making use of the superior facilities at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Wiens of biology and Dr. Laurence Wil­ Tennessee is senior Stephen Eck, a chemistry major, who went to Oak Ridge son of chemistry both participated in the for his Fall Quarter, junior year as part of a program sponsored by the Great program last fall along with three stu­ Lakes Colleges Association. dents. Dr. Wilson has remained at Oak Ridge this spring to complete a research sabbatical. The program is basically composed of three elements. Students devote thirty-five hours a week in actual re­ search with a resident scientist in one of the many Oak Ridge divisions, and participate in an interdisciplinary semi­ nar usually led by Oak Ridge scientists. Students also take an advanced course in biology, chemistry, or physics, taught by the visiting GLCA faculty. Credit is received for the course, the seminar, and the research project for which stu­ dents must submit a paper. One of the students at Oak Ridge last year was Stephen Eck, a senior majoring in chemistry and a Heyl scholar. Assign- 12! KaLamazoo COLLeGe

often of personal interest to Upjohn any they find appealing by contacting Lester Fahrner made use of another scientists, who might not ordinarily find the researcher directly. Projects are pharmaceutical company for his SIP. the time to complete them themselves. designed with "a defined and attainable While at Lilly in Indianapolis, Fahrner Quite often the student's SIP project goal that will constitute a learning and worked on a project dealing with the contributes to a researcher's overall professional growth experience for modification of microbiologically pro­ efforts. both the student and the group with duced antibiotics. Even though he had According to Upjohn biochemist whom he interacts," says Dr. Wechter. already satisfied his SIP requirements, Dr. William Wechter, the company also Among those making use of an Up­ he brought the project back to campus appreciates the value of the "inquiring john project this year was biology major to complete. Fahrner regards the off­ neophyte" and regards Kalamazoo stu­ Debra Warejcka. Her SIP concerned campus programs as exceptional. dents as possible employees. As of last hypersensitivity diseases and the basal "Through them," he says, "students can year Upjohn had hired seven of the levels of the neucleotides, Cyclic AMP fill the section on application forms twenty-six students who had partici­ and Cyclic GMP, extracted from the calling for actual research experience. pated in the program. lungs of rats. Her work may eventually Few other students can do the same." Within the past year, the program has have application in an asthma cure, or Other SIP projects have originated been managed by a committee of scien­ possibly as a new contraceptive method. through the local facilities of the Nature tists at Upjohn, led by Dr. Wechter, She has been so pleased with her ex­ Center, and Bronson and Borgess Hos­ which has been responsible for collect­ perience at Upjoh'n, and Upjohn with pitals. Students have also worked at the ing and forwarding to the College various her, that she continues to work on a Savannah River Ecology Lab in South short synopses of possible SIP proj­ part-time basis studying several anti­ Carolina, returned to NIH as previous­ ects. Students are free to follow up on cancer compounds. ly mentioned, or worked in research labs at a number of universities. One student this fall completed a project dealing with quantum mechanical cal­ culations at the Argonne National Lab­ oratory in Illinois. Other projects are available on the College campus as students pursue the personal research interests of their advisors. For example, senior Bill Mc­ Devitt, a chemistry major who will be at­ tending the Michigan State School of Osteopathy this fall, has completed an SIP while assisting Dr. Richard Cook on his research project on imines, recently the recipient of a grant from Research Corporation. Mark Theobald develop­ ed an interest in acoustics through his advisor, Dr. Wayne Wright, which led to an applied physics SIP on automobile mufflers. Theobald also recently ac­ companied Dr. Wright to a conference on acoustics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he will be attending graduate school next fall in mechanical engineering. While these many and various off­ campus programs are rewarding in and of themselves, a number of students and faculty stress that the offerings constitute only a part of the whole Kala­ mazoo experience. But they are, in­ deed, an exciting and often unique supplement to the more fundamental Senior Linda Temple, a health sciences major, is shown in the autopsy room grounding in the sciences provided in of Bronson Hospital with Or. Allan Busscher, director of the hospital's labora­ tories. She performed her SIP while at Bronson this year and is currently courses on-campus. employed part-time in a diener position. Modern science: Blending intellectual exercise and human values by Dr. William N. Hubbard, Jr.

The following article by Dr. William N. ed the University of Michigan Medical changed the history of human values. Hubbard, Jr., president of the Upjohn School as dean and associate professor This is a philosophy that has become Company, is taken from an address de­ of internal medicine in 1959. known as "logical-positivism" or "sci­ livered by Dr. Hubbard to seventy high Dr. Hubbard is a member of many entific positivism" or sometimes just school students who met on the campus professional societies and has served "positivism." Science is perceived as February 8 for the College's annual as an advisor to a number of federal the search for what is true. Jacques science examination. The top five scor­ government agencies and commissions Monad, who is a Nobel Prize Laureate ers on the examination were awarded as well as many state and private boards and the Director of the Pasteur Institute, Presidential Scholarships in Science and committees. has very recently written a thoughtful and Mathematics to Kalamazoo College. and provocative volume in which he The winners of the science competi­ insists that scientific knowledge is the tion, announced at the end of March, in­ All of you will almost surely go beyond truth and the only available truth. clude: Steven Clark of Houghton, who the baccalaureate level in your educa­ Since science deals with material received a $1,000 award by scoring tion. You've come from that group of events, it is concerned with energy the highest; April Kenworthy of Grand people who will provide the creators and transfers and the phenomena that are Rapids; Helen Geissler of Frasier; Judith practitioners of science in the coming associated with them. It is quantifiable Kienle of Grosse Point; and Clifford years. And so, I speak to you as col­ and reproducible. It is objective. It is a Harding of Rochester. All five are Michi­ leagues in the very earnest intent of way that one may search for what is gan residents. The son of John Ray and that term. physically demonstrable within the limits Barbara Clark of Houghton, Steve is Science, as a part of a liberal arts of human perception, and some would the grandson of Dr. Charles T. Good­ college, is relatively new. President say that this is all that is demonstrable. sell, a former history professor and 1935- Rainsford has been very generous With such assertions an interesting 36 interim president of Kalamazoo Col­ about admitting that there is a place for transformation takes place in the minds lege. Steve's mother, aunt, and uncle science at Kalamazoo College, if sci­ of the listener and the speaker - that are all graduates of the College. ence is properly careful not to act as if what is true or right is also good. That The scholarships are renewable, as it is the most important. is to say, it is a deserving occupation in long as each student continues to study Now this admission of science to the and of itself to seek these scientific in the natural sciences and maintains liberal arts tradition is a phenomenon of truths and the seeker of truth in the an acceptable scholastic average. our century. Before 1900, science was realm of science thus becomes a para­ The examination normally draws top not welcome either in liberal arts col­ gon of human endeavor. His creativity science students from a number of leges or even in universities for the most has given him a very special place. He states. 1his year, the students had qual­ part; the humanities, history, and the is part of an elite corps. He is alleged to ifying scores of at least 700 on the Col­ law tended to dominate the ethos of the hold internal values of truth and objec­ lege Board Scholastic Aptitude Test in college and the university. This has tivity that are considered to be more mathematics. changed dramatically in the time since rigorous than the "truth values" that are Dr. Hubbard, who is a trustee of Kala­ the First World War, during which sci­ found generally in the community. He is mazoo College, joined the Upjohn Com­ ence became a dominant factor for the said to be disinterested in outcomes and pany in 1970 after eleven years as dean first time in defining the human condi­ so can be objective in what he observes. of the University of Michigan School of tion. The cognitive part of science, the What he observes is universal and can Medicine. He served as vice president things that are known, became influen­ be documented by all observers. Out of and general manager of the company's tial in practice and it was generally rec­ this has come a notion that science is a pharmaceutical operation prior to his ognized for the first time that in the part of the human experience that has election as executive vice president in realm of science, "knowledge is power." unique power. the fall of 1972, and as president in This recognition had a drastic effect on As long as this set of values remained April of last year. He has been a mem­ the concept that man had of himself and in the intellectual realm and internal to ber of the board of directors since De­ of the sources of change that influenced the practice of science, and as long as cember 1968. his condition. There arose a school of the cognitive content of science was of Receiving an A. B. degree from Co­ thought that said, not only "dust thou art, such a dimension and influence that it lumbia College, Columbia University, to dust returneth" but also, "that's all did not seriously affect the definition of Dr. Hubbard attended the University there is to it"; that people are just mate­ the human condition, this kind of per­ of North Carolina School of Medicine rial events; that all the truth available ception of science was not only toler­ but returned to New York to complete may be revealed in a study of matter; able but admirable. However, something his M.D. degree from the New York Col­ and that such things as values are in­ has changed. What is changed is that lege of Medicine, where he was later to tangible and imr:neasurable auras of science is now a vital part of the human teach and serve as associate dean. He material creatures. So the immanent condition. It is no longer exclusively an interned and completed his residency at became dominant over the transcendent intellectual exercise. Indeed, we now Bellevue Hospital in New York. He join- as the power of scientific knowledge find that more and more scientists are 14 KaLamazoo coLLeGe

undertaking oaths of commitment to the medical department of the Rocke­ cognitive science or problems external social benefit that are like the most feller Foundation in the years when that to the science) is a very difficult and ancient one that is ascribed to Hippoc­ group was breaking ground in the sci­ troublesome movement. Yet, it is only as rates and with the same intention. Nu­ ence of public health. When the first this takes place that the intellectual clear scientists, biologists, physicists teaching institute that examined curricu­ libido is satisfied by people like you and many other groups of scientists are lar methods in medical schools was sharing with your fellows and with your undertaking such oaths. There is a held by the departments of public health teachers the accumulated science of movement toward a series of codes and preventive medicine, they had the past so you can then contribute to within science which recognize that the pretty firm views of how the world ought the science of the future. What I am effect of science on society and the to be reorganized. At the conclusion of trying to suggest to you is that it is very human condition is a matter of purpose­ the conference, Alan Gregg summed up hard to transmit the excitement of the ful concern for that objective, disinter­ beautifully and as a final statement creative effort that occurred in the first ested, removed seeker after truth. If said, "I will finish with a story. It has instance or to transmit the opportunities there has been one change in science been said that a small mind given great that you will have to be creative in such in the time that I have known it that can authority is the most frightening occur­ a way that you will perceive the impor­ be described as most dramatic, it has ence in human events; but I would sug­ tance and vitality of science in dealing been the recognition that science is an -gest to you there is one thing more with human problems. integral part of the human experience frightening still and that is a Scotch When we move from the image that and that although it is far from transcen­ Presbyterian, rising from his knees, to science has of itself to the setting of the dent, it cannot remove itself from the do the will of God." Today the scientist educational institution, with which you problem of human values. as public interest advocate and social all now are most concerned, a disconti­ We have. now, and you will have in critic has many of the earmarks of nuity occurs. The immediate relevance your lifetime, a remarkable experience Dr. Gregg's "Scotch Presbyterian." of modern science to higher education of stress between the idea of the cogni­ It is then this stressful intersection of and to that society which is a descen­ tive scientist, if you will allow me that the purity of knowledge and the value dent of Judea-Christian and Greco­ term, who is the pure seeker after truth laden idea of the purpose of its applica­ Roman history also is a discontinuity. and the practitioner or professional in tion that marks science today. It is this Beyond that, the reality of the human science who is responsible for the trans­ conflict that you will deal with more ex­ condition on this earth makes us ask mission of cognition into the educational plicitly and more importantly than sci­ about the relationship of cognitive sci­ setting and for its practice among other entists have before you. The creation of ence to the creation of our problems by human endeavors. We have seen this scientific knowledge is an artistic act of its development and its practice in the tension evolve and it is so startling that self-expression. It is a lyrical endeavor. world at large. It becomes clear that one would think more would be made It is part of natural philosophy. It leads although we may be able to transfer of it. The role of the scientist as govern­ us to insights· into the nature of the cognitive content and technology, that ment advisor is now taken for granted, human condition and so has its validity is we can send a computer across an as if his skills and insights in the disci­ along with many other creative efforts. economic and cultural abyss along with pline of the scientific method gives him It also shares with those other creative the software to operate that particular greater wisdom in matters that are non­ efforts the inherent mystery of the nature piece of hardware, it's very difficult to quantifiable, non-repetitive, and deter­ of the creative act. The transmission of move the epistemological content of sci­ ·mined by values that are external to scientific creativity is a very great diffi­ ence. It is the "how do you get to know most verifiable systems. We have an culty because the creation is full of it and what can you do about it" part of even more curious phenomenon today excitement and mystery and awe, yet as science that is difficult to transmit. Be­ in the scientist who sets himself up as a the results are usually transmitted - cause societal values differ from place public interest advocate, as if he has a and as you were examined on them to place, we are finding that movement special position from which to speak on today - somehow, excitement, mys­ of our native science into a worldwide behalf of the public in general; or the tery, and awe are not exactly the adjec­ social fabric results in terrifying con­ scientist who sets himself up as a social tives that you would use to describe the frontations with differing cultures. The critic, as if his cognition of science gives experience. The movement from reality classical example of curing malaria him some special understanding of the to what is taught is full of difficulty. To when you don't have the economic base intricate dynamics of human society. It move from what is taught to what is to support the people who survive still is in our time remarkable to see how the significant in human affairs is to add the haunts us. The recent conference on inherent arrogance of the traditional technique, the capacity for doing. The population in Rumania reflected the perceptions of cognitive science is use of knowledge in solving perceived vast difference between the perception being transplanted whole and undimin­ problems is very different than the con­ of the value of zero population growth ished into the scientist's assumed role text in which the knowledge is trans­ that we have in this country and the as a manipulator of the body politic. mitted. The movement of science from perceptions that exist in India and Brazil. There was a very learned man named creation, to transmission, to applications The whole idea of ecology and protec­ Alan Gregg who for many years headed in problems (problems either of the tion of the environment is viewed differ- to be as self-determining in the future as it has in the past. Is science too impor­ tant to leave to the scientists? Is medi­ cine too important to leave to the doc­ tors? The answer seems to be "yes" in both cases. Yes - because of the enormous importanc!3 that science has for humanity; yes - because medicine is too important to leave in the hands of practitioners alone. No longer is it an intellectual game. It is the very stuff out of which the future of the human condi­ tion will be formed. And so we find ourselves coming full circle as one remembers the problems of Galileo Galilei. One remembers that current social values which constrain science reiterate constraining values fostered in an earlier time by church and by state religion. I do not argue the need that all parts of human experience, particularly those so vital to the human condition as science, need to be responsive only to the internal values of science. But it is also true that we do not know the ulti­ mate effect of our social values with that degree of certainty that we can proceed with the conviction of revealed truth. There is a tension of enormous power today in the world of science of which you will be a vital part. This tension is between the necessary independence that creativity must have and the neces­ sary control that society must exert in order to maintain the fabric of civil exis­ tence. The logical positivist tradition has displayed its ultimate sterility since it has nothing to offer as a solution to the problems that are most pressing in today's society. It is, at its very root, a deeply cynical philosophy. There are those who would say this is an appro­ priate statement of a philosophy for the true condition of the world. Neverthe­ less, I think it may not be so, and as I look at those of you who are here today and have seen others like you and know Dr. William N. Hubbard, Jr. that there are others who will follow; and as I have known for many years large numbers of brilliant and dedicated sci­ ently in these latter cultures. Indira hanced by the movement of science entists who are aware that they had to be Ghandi gave a beautiful lecture in Scan­ into its support. committed both to the immanent and to dinavia at a conference on the environ­ From the internal self-image of sci­ the transcendent. who recognize the im­ ment in which the essence of what she ence to our own immediate social prob­ portance of independence for creativity said was that ecology is a game that the lems, to a concern with worldwide sys­ and the ultimate validation of creativity affluent play. A terrible thought for us. tems, our examination begins to show by its supporting the human condition And yet, these are the kinds of value the importance of values. At this point in - then, I would suggest to you that differences that we are going to have to time one of the most important concerns there is more reason for hope than lack consider if the reality of humanity as a of all governments and all societies is of it, and more reason to be happy than single phenomenon is going to be en- whether or not science can be allowed to be sad. Health Sciences Program: Counseling students on health career alternatives

The sciences by their nature demand with a flexibility to suit the specific needs schools has been a key to the College's a structured, sequential ordering of of st~dents, whether they wish to enter success - plus a special program of courses so that a student might build medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, phar­ student evaluation for recommendation logically on a body of knowledge. No macology, nursing, or other areas. As a by an interdisciplinary faculty commit­ one understands this better than the result, Kalamazoo College students tee. What Dr. Olexia and other faculty science student interested in any of the seem to stand a much better chance members have found is that contrary growing number of health-related pro­ being accepted for advanced studies in to some popular belief, medical schools fessions. This student's program must their chosen field than is the case na­ are still favoring the student well-versed be carefully orchestrated with appropri­ tionally, according to Dr. Sally Olexia, in the sciences as opposed to general ate courses in mathematics, physics, who directs the program. This is particu­ educational programs. "They may play biology, chemistry, as well as other larly true of the high number of pre­ down their requirements in the pam­ courses in various non-science disci­ medical students who comprise a ma­ phlets they put out, so that they have the .f plines - all beginning in the freshman jority of students in the program. option of accepting the art major who year. "Fifty-two per cent of our applicants scored 700s in his MCAT (a .national l To best serve a growing number of to medical schools were admitted last examination for pre-med students), but students interested in medicine and year," says Dr. Olexia, "compared to the fact is, few non-science majors can other health professions, the Health the national average of approximately score so well without the background, Sciences Program was organized in the 20-25 per cent. Already this year 64 per and the lists of recommended science fall of 1972. By offering its own major, cent of our applicants have been ac­ courses keep increasing in medical coupled with highly individualized coun­ cepted." school catalogs," Dr. Olexia says. "At seling and the variety of off-campus Keeping abreast of the curricular the University of Michigan School of opportunities, the program operates requirements of the various medical Medicine, the percentage of biology

Students in Dr. Allen Buskirk's medical physics course meet with Dr. Charles Simons in the radiology department of Bronson Hospital this Spring Quarter for a practical demonstration of equipment. Dr. Simons is showing a laser focusing mechanism for the hospital's linear accelerator.

Dr. Sally Olexia (left) believes the highly individualized counseling offered by the Health Sciences Program is one of the keys to the program's success. Well over half of the College's students who have applied to medical schools this year have already been accepted. Other students will - enter programs in dentistry, osteopathy, pharmacy, phar­ macology, and other health-related professions. and chemistry majors accepted con­ for the flexibility in the program. Fresh­ ences sophomores are juggling labora­ tinues to climb. They are taking a lot men and sophomores who are not tory courses in physics, organic chem­ more science majors than they were ten doing particularly well - and to do well istry, and a language all in the same years ago." today means at least a 3.5 cumulative Quarter. Required of seniors once a And they are taking a lot more Kala­ average - are urged to take the MCAT week throughout the year is a special mazoo College students. The College is in the spring of their sophomore year to seminar which features visiting speak­ experiencing the keen interest in medi­ better gauge their aptitude and achieve­ ers, student presentations of technical cine reflected nationally. Nearly a quar­ ment. Those who score high on the material, and, in the spring, a review of ter of this year's freshman class ex­ exam will usually improve both in cam­ the various Senior Individualized Proj­ pressed an intention to major in the pus courses and in a reexamination, ects. For those students who are re­ health sciences. What with a growing according to Dr. Olexia. Others may see quested to do much preparatory read­ .I number of these students coming to the the need to consider new alternatives, ing for their SIP, the program includes College as Michigan residents, many but not necessarily because they are a special Pre-SIP Studies course. 'I then seek medical schools within the not doing well. The program is quick The off-campus opportunities round­ state, including the University of Michi­ to encourage some students to consider off the program, and, according to gan, Michigan State University, which changing their major to biology or Dr. Olexia, are highly attractive to the recently started a MD-Ph.D. combina­ chemistry. The sequence of courses is medical schools. Clinical experience tion program, and Wayne State Univer­ such "that by the third Quarter of their during Career-Service, coupled with a sity. Among out of state schools where junior year, they can be a biology or research SIP, are indicative of a stu­ Kalamazoo students are accepted with chemistry major with the addition of dent's "ability to handle scientific con­ some degree of frequency, according only one or two courses," according to cepts and patient concerns - and that's to Dr. Olexia, are Washington University Dr. Olexia. Of course, neither major what medical schools want to know," in St. Louis, St. Louis University, the would hinder a student's chance for says Dr. Olexia. "Those students whose University of Wisconsin, the University medical school acceptance; in fact, SIPs have been published are even more of Illinois, the University of Cincinnati, more biology and chemistry majors are impressive. Hospital experience is al­ Stanford, Yale, and Northwestern Uni­ processed by the committee than any most required by many medical schools versities. Some students have also other type. A change would simply today, but our students are available to been attracted to New Mexico, having increase options for application to work in the spring instead of the summer spent their Career-Service Quarter with graduate schools in biology or chemis­ and are often able to work more closely Dr. John Wilson, a cardio-vascular sur­ try. By remaining a health sciences with the doctors as a result. And as geon in the State. major, however, a student in his or her opposed to serving simply as orderlies, What these and other professional senior year has an excellent command many students have worked in what are schools know about a particular gradu­ of the basics and has a greater choice known as diener positions, drawing ate of the College is largely the result of of elective courses to accommodate a blood and assisting in autopsies. Very a careful committee evaluation of the particular interest. often the contacts students make in the student. The committee coordinates Those interests are spread over a hospitals are useful for letters of recom­ every request for faculty recommenda­ wide spectrtJm. Dr. Olexia reports that mendation later; the hospital people tions, including those from students an increasing number of students, in­ have watched the students closely and applying from the so-called "five-year cluding many women, are considering know their capabilities - and most pool:" These are students who may dentistry than ever before. Others are letters are extremely !auditory." have been denied acceptance once examining schools of pharmacy, phar­ With greater government interest in and who go on for a year in graduate macology, optometry, chiropody, medi­ and control of the health field looming school and reapply. The committee cal technology, and nursing. Senior in the future, Dr. Olexia sees the de­ essentially recommends students on Bill McDevitt, a chemistry major who has mand for the program's graduates to be behalf of the College on the rationale been accepted to a total of six different on the increase. Already several stu­ (favored by the medical schools) that medical and osteopathic schools, has dents have followed her suggestion to "such a recommendation is much more decided to attend the Michigan State consider seriously the burgeoning field objective because the group of appli­ University School of Osteopathy be­ of public health. cants is ranked by grade point aver­ cause, he says, he "likes its humanistic The program as a whole has proven age, MCAT scores, tempered with the approach - a concern for the person its worth to the College beyond its suc­ personal reactions of professors," as a whole - and its emphasis on fam­ cesses in launching health profession­ Dr. Olexia says. "I think we can attribute ily practice." als. Its ability to adapt to changing stu­ a large measure of our success to the The Health Sciences Program is the dent interests and national needs while fact that we do keep close track of our most highly structured, and probably still insuring a thorough grounding in students, and that we do a lot of the most rigorous, in its freshman and the basics for its students stands as a counseling." sophomore year segments. At one model for the whole College in the via­ bility of a truly interdisciplinary effort. The counseling is largely responsible point, for example, many health sci- Courses for non-science majors: Making divisional requirements attractive

Kalamazoo College chemistry professor to get across in the course was that the had already taken some college level Richard Cook finds the following quote science involved was not merely an courses in chemistry, physics, and by C.P. Snow particularly appropriate exer.cise but something fundamental to biology. This diversity of student expe­ as a philosophical rationale for a num­ all life. "Everybody is governed by these rience, coupled with the singular de­ ber of courses offered in the Science laws. What we're really seeing by the mands of organizing new course mate­ Division for students majoring in fields increased population pressure is ther­ rial for team-taught presentations, dis­ outside of the sciences: "Not being able modynamics in action," says Dr. Cook. tinguished this course from most and to describe the second law of thermo­ The three found the course material presented some unique challenges to dynamics is the equivalent to admitting could be divided into fairly distinct the professors. It also presented some that you've never read a work of disciplinary topics. The first half of the unique rewards. Dr. Buskirk, for exam­ Shakespeare." course, for example, was concerned ple, comments that he found the course This law, that the disorder of the uni­ with thermodynamics and chemical personally edifying, covering as it did verse is constantly increasing, was one energetics, and was presented by several topics about which he wanted of the themes underlying an interdisci­ Dr. Cook. Dr. Buskirk handled lectures to know more. Drs. Cook and Olexia plinary course on energy, team-taught on entropy, statistical mechanics, and concur and add that they were able by Dr. Cook, Dr. Paul Olexia of biology, nuclear energy. Conveniently, the text to clarify some of their own teaching and Dr. Allen Buskirk of physics this and the course plan both shifted their techniques by watching each other's past Winter Quarter. emphases midway to a biological view­ presentations. While there are other courses a non­ point with Dr. Olexia introducing lec­ Cooperation extended beyond simply science major may take in mathematics, tures on energy flows in living systems sharing the lecture schedule. At the physics, and biology, the energy course - from the energy relationships within . weekly planning meetings, several ap­ - Introduction to the Natural Sciences cells through those in the ecosystem. propriate ideas about an upcoming - has been designed expressly by the To round off the course, the scientists topic would inevitably surface, thereby whole Science Division for the student made way for two concluding guest broadening its focus. seeking to meet a Divisional require­ lectures by Dr. Donald Flesche, and Students not majoring in the sciences ment. Dr. Robert Brownlee on the political and have options in other courses designed Until this year, the course was in­ economic ramifications of energy and primarily with them in mind. Mathemat­ formally referred to as the "water" the current energy crisis. ics and biology have long been popular course, because it dealt with the hydro­ The course was set up so that one disciplines for non-science students logic cycle, and the chemical, physical, faculty member would deliver one of seeking to meet Divisional requirements. and biological aspects of water. When the three weekly lectures while the other These departments continue to offer the new team of professors met to organ­ two would attend and listen along with several general interest-type courses. ize the course for this year, the topic the students. A fourth class meeting was Two courses in mathematics, in par­ became that of energy, "because it was the~ divided into three groups, each ticular, draw a good number of students. number one on people's minds, whether headed by a professor, for discussion The older of the two, Introduction to they were science majors or not," of the material presented that week. Mathematics, was initially developed Dr. Cook explains. "Energy was also a All three professors feel the course during the 1960s when the department subject involving all the sciences and was very much a success, and judging experienced its most rapid growth. id,eally lent itself to team-teaching." from the course evaluations, the stu­ According to Dr. Jean Calloway of The timeliness of the topic may have dents seem to agree. A sizable majority mathematics, the course draws students made the course more interesting, but indicated they enjoyed the course and principally with majors in the humanities. no less difficult. "We approached the "found it relevant to their education as "This course is not one designed to course from a pretty rigorous stand­ a whole." And despite the rigorous kill time, as has been the case with simi­ point," Dr. Cook says. "The three of us nature of the scientific concepts cov­ lar courses at other schools, but has decided if it were going to be called a ered, a vast majority of students rated as instead attempted to grapple with ideas science course, then we had better "about right" the amount of time they which we think are intellectually inter­ teach the students some science. The spent preparing for the course, the rate esting and do not necessarily depend book we chose could well have been of the presentation of lecture materials, on the degree of the student's prior used in a regular science course, but it and the depth of the presentation. This experience in math. For example, when seemed ideal because it could appeal seems all the more remarkable because we get into the concept of infinite num­ to a wide variety of people. As the the course drew students with a wide bers, the religion and philosophy majors course developed, we covered some variety of backgrounds and interests. perk up. Infinity has usually been a very subjects - particularly thermodynam­ Not only did they represent a number of hazy term to them, but in mathematics ics - in greater depth than they were non-science disciplines, but they came they learn to give it a precise meaning. being presented to regular chemistry with diverse backgrounds in the sci­ You might say it sort of colors their lives students in their courses." ences - some had had one or two when they learn what is meant by the The main point the professors wanted science courses in high school, others 'infinite set.' It is impossible for them to use this word in the hazy sense after being forced for a term to use it precisely." Dr. Calloway also describes the course as being very "fluid," with the depth of the subject matter dependent in part on the student interest. "We do not try to impart any particular sort of skills, but, rather, have students try to deal with ideas and the nature of math­ ematics - to be able to identify the kinds of problems and subjects appro­ priate for mathematical solutions or study. Language majors might wish to explore how mathematics can be ap­ plied to linguistics, and, of course, there is a great deal of mathematics in music." To this end, students are encouraged to do extensive outside reading while the course touches on the mathematical concepts governing sets, logic, and functions. Although this introductory course has remained popular, in 1970 the depart­ ment realized a need for a more spe­ cifically targeted introductory course which could address statistical concepts for the social, behavioral, and biological sciences students. Its student drawing power has been almost overwhelming. According to Dr. Calloway, the two-term Applied Statistics course is now re­ quired of majors in a number of disci­ plines. Emphasized are various statisti­ cal tests for hypotheses including the t-test, x•, analysis of variance, nonpara­ metric techniques, and linear regression -all of which are available in a number of packaged programs in Western Mich­ igan University's PDP-1 0 computer. Under the new curriculum in biology, discussed earlier in this issue, several courses are available for the non­ science major. Such students may still take the introductory biology courses including Environmental and Population Biology, and Cellular and Organismal Biology, but these courses have be­ come geared increasingly to the biology major. One of the more popular courses, however, and one that was created by the restructuring of the curriculum, according to Dr. Wayne Wiens, chair­ man of the department, is entitled The Professors Richard Cook of chemistry (left), Paul Olexia of biology, and Allen Environment and Man. Taught by Dr. H. Buskirk of physics discuss upcoming material during one of their weekly planning Lewis Batts in the Fall Quarter, the meetings for their team-taught course, Introduction to the Natural Sciences, course deals with a biological interpre- which this year concerned the general topic of energy. 20 I KaLamazoo COLLeGe

tation of man's relationship to his vari­ various symposia where groups of stu­ all testifies to the College's commitment ous environments. It also examines dents are responsible for presenting to the concept of a liberal arts education ecologically-sound alternative solutions topics relevant to humans. and concern for the whole person. It to a variety of societal problems. An­ The Department of Physics also seems everyone in the academic com­ other course, Human Biology, is similar offers a very flexible course tor non­ munity benefits. While some students in theory to the introductory biology science majors, adaptive to the interests approach a course to fill a Divisional courses for majors, except that it deals of whichever faculty member presents requirement with something Jess than with human physiology rather than it. Dr. Allen Buskirk designed the course enthusiasm, they are often surprised to "frogs and flowers," according to its around astronomy this past fall in such find themselves pleasantly challenged instructor, Dr. Myrna Sproul, the depart­ a way that innumerable topics in physics by a discipline they never imagined ment's newest faculty member. Topics could be discussed. While the course could be of personal interest. Faculty, covered include those on human form, was principally theoretical in scope, Dr. too, seem to profit from the challenges function, heredity and behavior, with a Buskirk set up the department's Questar of interacting with students whose inter­ particular emphasis on those with cur­ telescope in Angell Field several times ests lie in fields outside of the sciences. rent medical and social importance. The for night observations of the heavens. class is loosely structured and includes The fact that these courses exist at

Since radically expanding its curriculum in the early 1960's under the direction of Dr. Jean Calloway, the mathematics department has sought to accommodate students not maioring in the Science Division by developing several courses in introductory mathematics and statistics. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii News Notes 121

Kalamazoo consortium the Council. The Council has thus had opportunities to teach on the dif­ capitalizes on separate formalized a spirit of cooperation and ferent campuses, but in one instance various isolated examples of coopera­ Kalamazoo College and Nazareth Col­ strengths of colleges tion existing for years among the four lege have shared in the appointment of institutions. a new. faculty member in education. With Kalamazoo containing a micro­ Probably the most important gain for A number of academic programs, cosm of higher education in the United students has been in the flexible en­ some already underway, have opened States, the presidents of the region's rollment opportunities - something of or been promoted by the Council. two colleges, university, and community which they took advantage for 362 Western Michigan is participating in college decided to capitalize on the academic credit hours worth of study several environmental programs and separate strengths of their institutions by since the Council's inception. Students teaching internships at KVCC. All forming a consortium. at any one of the four institutions may schools are cooperating on several Now nearly two years old and known take courses (on a space available programs in psychology offered at each as the Kalamazoo Council of College basis) at any of the other three without campus. In addition, a number of work­ Presidents, the consortium has docu­ any additional tuition charge. In heaviest shops, colloquia, and guest lectures mented its progress in its first Annual use have been courses in geology, have been ongoing among the schools Report which was released in March to anthropology, dance, art, economics, in a variety of interdisciplinary topics coincide with a press conference follow­ industrial education, languages, linguis­ including problems in aging and man­ ing a meeting of the Council with six tics, marketing, pyschology, and thea­ power. Along cultural lines, student­ state legislators from Southwestern tre. The Council has also instituted operated WMUK at Western Michigan Michigan Districts. They included State several measures to facilitate the inter­ regularly tapes events at the other Senators John Welborn (A-Kalamazoo) institutional registration process for schools, including the spring Bach and State Reps. Bela Kennedy (A­ students. Festival at the College. Other avenues Bangor), Paul Rosenbaum (D-Battle Beyond course offerings, the con­ for cooperation in audio-visual tech­ Creek), Wayne Sackett (A-Portage), sortium has bolstered the use of various niques and equipment are being ex­ Robert Welborn (A-Kalamazoo), and facilities. A library loan program among plored. Howard Wolpe (D-Kalamazoo). At the the schools, already in operation, is now Looking ahead, the Council members press conference, the legislators praised a key component of the Council's pro­ have expressed a keen interest in devel­ the consortium as an example of one gram. Among the other more important oping a cooperative program in adult alternative for expanding services and shared facilities include WMU's PDP-10 education as an expansion of the vari­ facilities for students even in the face of computer for student and faculty use in ous individual programs already main­ a financial crunch for high education. classroom and research projects at tained by each institution. According to Council chairman and Kalamazoo College. Some of the ways The other Council members in addi­ Kalamazoo College President George the computer has influenced the curric­ tion to Dr. Rainsford are: Dr. Dale B. N. Rainsford, the consortium, made up ulum at the College are described in Lake, president of KVCC, Dr. Thomas of Kalamazoo and Nazareth Colleges, some of the science stories in this issue. J. Hamilton, president of Nazareth Col­ Western Michigan University, and Kala­ Faculty in such disciplines as art, lege, and Dr. John T. Bernhard, presi­ mazoo Valley Community College, has biology, and geography have not only dent of Western Michigan University. made substantial progress in the areas of cross-enrollment of students, and the shari~g of libraries, a computer, and sports facilities. The consortium has been able to maximize on the unique­ ness of the schools, "complementing one another rather than competing," Dr. Rainsford said. While consortia for higher education are certainly nothing new (the College already belongs to a number of others), this one is distinguished from most by its voluntary arrangement, its diversity in kinds of member institutions, and its ability to avoid high administrative costs, which normally make consortium mem­ berships so expensive. The consortium Members of the Kalamazoo Council of College Presidents are: Dr. Dale B. is governed by the Council which meets Lake, president of K VCC; Dr. John T. Bernhard, president of Western Michi­ monthly and a coordinating committee gan University; Dr. Thomas J. Hamilton, president of Nazareth College; and of faculty and administrators set up by Dr. George N. Rainsford. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii._ News Notes

Ralnsford helps draft private, best able to meet their particular of higher education. Public policies to proposal for national policy needs." sustain other threatened private activi­ As late as 1950, enrollments were ties have long been established. The on higher education equally divided between private and government has provided direct or in­ The National Council of Independent public institutions. Since then, however, direct support of the arts and humanities, Colleges and Universities recently made most of the growth has occured in pub­ for hospitals, nursing care and medical public a position paper entitled "A Na­ lic institutions as the states have en­ research, for airlines and shipping, for tional Policy for Private Higher Educa­ larged existing colleges and universities small farms and small businesses, to tion," setting forth what it believes must and created hundreds of new ones. name a few obvious examples. The become the nation's policy for financing Education in that sector has enjoyed government already has a financial independent higher education in Amer­ large public subsidies which have en­ interest in the preservation of private ica. The NCICU, an affiliate of the Asso­ abled it to set its charges to students education, for it serves over 2,100,000 ciation of American Colleges, has pre­ substantially lower than would be neces­ students at an estimated saving to the sented both state and federal funding sary to meet the actual cost of instruc­ taxpayer of some 2.9 billion dollars strategy to preserve and strengthen pri­ tion. Such tuitions are far below those a year. vate higher education in its eighty-page which private institutions must typically In the area of private support as a document, resulting from many months charge. Today, the private sector - source of revenue for higher education, of deliberation by a distinguished 1,531 colleges and universities in 49 the task force feels that new relation­ thirteen-member task force. President states - enrolls only about 24 per cent ships and understandings between the George N. Rainsford served as the state of the total student population, and the public and the private sectors are of Michigan's only member on the task financial position has been notably needed. States President Rainsford, force. weakening. For a few institutions, the "The private institutions should acknowl­ The measures proposed are viewed situation is already becoming cata­ edge that public colleges and universi­ as a series of inter-related programs, strophic; for most, including some of ties may need private gifts for innovation primarily at the state level but supple­ the most prestigious institutions, the and enrichment; the public sector mented by the federal government. future is precarious. should recognize that private institutions The NCICU report proposes that each To stem this decline, the NCICU task must enlarge their search for public state should provide adequately funded force also calls for assistance from the funds, both on state and federal levels, grants to narrow the widening gap be­ federal government to correct geo­ in order to maintain their vitality." tween tuitions of independent and state­ graphic inequities. Currently, the type of Heading the task force of the National subsidized institutions. Thirty-six states aid to students varies from state to state, Council of Independent Colleges and already have programs in effect, in­ and individual states often confine aid Universities was Dr. Juanita M. Kreps, cluding Michigan which has taken a to colleges within their own boundaries. vice president of Duke University. leadership role in this matter. Last year, Federal grants to the states should be Dr. Peggy Heim, associate director of Michigan students brought nearly administered so as to provide the states the National Center for Higher Education $400,000 to Kalamazoo College under with an incentive to aid students who Management Systems, served as direc­ the state's tuition and scholarship grant choose to attend out-of-state independ­ tor. Other members, in addition to Presi­ program for students with financial need. ent colleges. dent Rainsford, included Dr. Howard A. An equalization proposal is now under The task force further recommends a Bowen, former chancellor of the Clare­ study in Michigan to consider grants comprehensive program of state-wide mont Colleges; Sister Ann Ida Gan­ regardless of need. planning throughout the higher educa­ non, president of Mundelein College; There is no financial need factor in tion system, involving private institutions; Dr. Hugh M. Gloster, president of More­ the NCICU plan. All students choosing matching grants for independent col­ house College; Dr. James B. Holder­ to attend private colleges would be eli­ leges and universities from federal and/ man, vice president for education of the gible, and they would be provided a or state funds for replacement, remodel­ Lilly Endowment, Inc.; Dr. Hans H. tuition offset grant up to half the amount ing, and reconstruction of buildings and Jenny, vice president for finance and of what the particular state subsidizes equipment, to cope with the soaring business of the College of Wooster; students attending state institutions. This costs without further tuition increases; Dr. John D. Millett, vice president and tuition grant in conjunction with existing federal and state aid for continuing edu­ director of the management division for scholarships and other aid programs, cation so that students of all ages are the Academy for Educational Develop­ would open avenues to independent assisted in their educational efforts; and ment; Dr. James M. Moudy, chancellor colleges for lower and middle income continued incentive for philanthropic of Texas Christian University; Dr. Steph~ students currently priced out of these giving through federal and state income, en Muller, president of The Johns Hop­ institutions. According to President inheritance, and estate taxes. kins University; Dr. Rosemary Park, pro­ Rainsford, "This policy would once The major thrust of the NCICU report fessor at UCLA's School of Education; again give all students their deserved is to suggest the measures needed to and Dr. Jim Sullivan, executive director freedom of choice and enable them to maintain a flourishing private compo­ of the Oregon Independent Colleges select that college, whether public or nent in a healthy and balanced system Association. News Notes 123

College captures tennis and Lisa Gulp, a junior, took the yard intermediate hurdles bettering the MIAA title for No. 2 singles, and the girls teamed to old mark of :56.2. Track coach is Ed capture first flight in the doubles. The Baker. unprecedented fourth year women, coached by Tish Loveless, Commenting on winning the trophy, finished with a 5-1 won-loss record in Athletic Director Rolla Anderson said, Edging out Calvin and Alma by one the conference. "We are delighted. While it has always point, Kalamazoo College captured the Undefeated in the 1975 season, been a goal set by the department, the All-Sports Trophy for a record-breaking Coach Ted Brooks' archers captured fact that we won this year on top of the fourth consecutive year. Kalamazoo is the MIAA title by winning the tournament last three reflects well on the College as the first school in MIAA history to win also held May 2 and 3. Superb per­ a whole. It reflects on the quality of the the trophy four years in a row. formances turned in by juniors Karen players' skill and dedication, on the Kalamazoo College finished strong in Hunter, Nancy Covert and Karen Glo­ quality of the coaches' leadership and men's tennis, winning the conference wacki gave Kalamazoo the top notch instruction, and on the College adminis­ undefeated with a 5-0 record. Dave spot in the standings. tration for supporting a balanced pro­ Emig, a senior from Muskegon, Michi­ The baseball team, with Ray Steffen gram of athletics." gan, was voted the top player in the as coach, finished sixth during the sea­ MIAA conference, winning the No. 1 son with a record of 4 wins and 8 losses. flight in the MIAA tournament held May Bright points in the year came from New Kalamazoo Center 2 and 3. This is the thirty-seventh con­ pitcher Kevin Moody, a freshman who realizes dream secutive conference title for the Hornets. compiled a 3-2 record with 31 strike­ of Elton Ham In addition to their string of titles, they outs. Sophomore J.P. McBride, catcher have also won 82 consecutive dual for the Hornets, batted over .400 with A long time dream of Dr. Elton Ham, meets. About the tournament, Coach 16 total bases and 3 stolen bases. professor of political science, was real­ George Acker said, "Winning every The tracksters finished in sixth place ized with the dedication of the new flight in the tournament is a rarity. I with a final record of 1-5. Strengths for Kalamazoo Center on April 24. think we've only done it once before." the team were seen in junior Craig From the time he served as the direc­ The women's program enjoyed simi­ Boyak who cleared 14'6" in the pole tor of the city's Bureau of Municipal lar success this year winning the WMIAA vault and junior Bruce Johnson who ran Research, through his current teaching championships in tennis and archery the 880 yard run in 1:57.2, the second career at the College, Dr. Ham has and having an exceptional season in best time in the league. A school record maintained that the viability of a city is both field hockey and swimming. Senior was set by Craig Crawford, a sopho­ largely dependent on the good health of Marge Snyder took the No. 1 singles in more, with a time of :56.1 in the 440 the city's inner core. In seeking to pro­ mote that view in Kalamazoo, Dr. Ham played a dominant role in establishing the innovative and now famous Kalama­ zoo Mall, built in 1959, and promoted the complementary idea of a centrally located community center, even though it was long regarded as not feasible. It was his belief that such a center of shops, offices, hotel and convention facilities, located in the heart of down­ town, would be a sure success because it would be complete in itself and readily available to all elements of the com­ munity. The popularity of the concept was confirmed by a number of studies, in­ cluding one extensive survey of com­ munity opinion by the College's Institute of Government under Dr. Ham. But ' while the community liked the idea, city Attending the 1975 MIAA All-Sports Trophy presentation are: (bottom row, left to officials and local business leaders right) Kalamazoo College President George Rainsford; MIAA Commissioner AI Dean; Bob Kent, swimming coach; Rolla Anderson, athletic director and cross found innumerable problems in funding country and golf coach. Posed above them (left to right) are: Ed Baker, football a center. and track coach; Hardy Fuchs, soccer coach; George Acker, wrestling and Appropriately, it was one of Dr. Ham's tennis coach; and Ray Steffen, basketball and baseball coach. former students, Dr. David Carley, M.A. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii News Notes

'51, of Inland Steel Development Corpo­ ration, who helped pave the way for what was to become a joint venture of the city and Inland to build the Center on the old Burdick block. In 1972-73, Dr. Ham used a sabbati­ cal leave to do consulting work for Inland on urban development projects and has since continued as a part-time consultant, both for other projects and the Kalamazoo Center. He was Inland's project manager for the Center until February of last year. Just as the Kalamazoo Mall was unique in its day, so the Center is unique now. It is the largest multi-use facility in the United States built by a combination of public funding, private enterprise, and philanthropy. Actually, it is two legally separate facilities housed under a single foot, two-thirds owned by Inland, and one-third by the city. Ten stories tall, and bordering on the north­ ern end of the Mall, the Center features Dr. Elton Ham (above) addresses a 288 unit hotel, already in operation. a the April24 opening night gather­ city-operated convention center, an ing at the Kalamazoo Center entire floor of office space, and a glass (left). bridge to the city's parking garage. A restaurant, coffee shop, cocktail lounge and outdoor cafe are all open, and an indoor, multi-level shopping arcade which will feature some thirty-nine stores is nearing completion. According to Roger Kooi '64, past president of the Downtown Kalamazoo Enduring Moment: A Study of The Idea copyright laws. politics supports beauty Association, Dr. Ham's role as instigator of Praise in Renaissance Literary The­ directly and indirectly. However, it also and promoter was crucial in seeing the ory and Practice, Christian Rite and regulates beauty and "touches, some­ project to fruition - it being "one of Christian Drama in the Middle Ages, times intentionally and sometimes by the more delightful projects he could and Toward Freedom and Dignity: The accident, every aspect of the lives of nurture." Humanities and the Idea of Humanity. artists and every material from which Dr. Hardison spoke at the Scholars' beauty is created." Day Convocation on the topic of "Poli­ But, if it is true that beauty cannot get Politics and beauty tics and Beauty." Recognizing that along without politics, Dr. Hardison also not always at odds politics and beauty are frequently at suggested that, "There is a very real says Hardison at odds, evidenced in government censor­ sense in which politics cannot get along Scholars' Day ship, book burning, and the Soviet without beauty. The basic need of poli­ Union's imprisonment of certain authors tics is self-respect. It needs to think of Dr. O.B. Hardison, Jr., director of the and poets, Dr. Hardison explored the itself as a useful, even noble activity. Folger Shakespeare Library in Wash­ theory that politics and beauty are also Beauty is the visible symbol of political ington. D.C., received an honorary related in many ways. success." Dr. Hardison cited examples Doctor of Literature degree from Kala­ "Our sense of the dichotomy be­ from ancient Greece to modern Wash­ mazoo College on the occasion of tween life and art often leads us to ington to support his theory of the im­ Scholars' Day, February 28. The degree ignore the fact that governments devote portance of the arts to politics and was granted in recognition of Dr. Hardi­ much more energy to encouraging politicians. "Beauty, however, is pro­ son's achievements in literature and the beauty than to suppressing it." Through tean," stated Dr. Hardison. "It has its humanities. He is the author of several the instruments of the National Endow­ own life which is larger than the uses it distinguished studies, particularly The ment for the Arts, tax deductions, and is told to serve." iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii News Notes !2s

"If politics seeks to define and con­ Visiting Fellow. Her schedule included in Chicago and New York, she was the tain human experience, beauty tells us lecturing, visiting classes, and counsel­ first Director of Consumer Affairs for that all such attempts are inadequate ing individual students on opportunities Burlington Industries, Inc. She now because they leave out more than they for women in business in general and manages Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, include. Although we cannot avoid sign­ public relations in particular. Her rich Inc., in New York City. ing a social contract, beauty keeps re­ experience has included service as a minding us how much of our humanity diplomatic social secretary in Paris and we surrendered when we signed it. In Rome, as the social secretary to the Cancer fight long but this sense beauty saves politics from White House during the Kennedy ad­ promising observes itself. It is not only an adornment of the ministration, and as the first woman specialist state and a symbol of the transcendent executive of Tiffany and Company. goal of politics, it is also an assertion that Her reactions to the campus and Characterizing the war on cancer as the human spirit is larger than any students at week's end were very posi­ being as complex as any military con­ political system." tive. Meeting with some of the College's flict, Dr. Ray D. Owen of the Presid ent's "Say that President Kennedy was administrative staff, she described the Council on Cancer warned campus right and politics in the world is the art of campus as "beautiful" and the students audiences that no one should expect a the possible. If so, beauty is a way of as "delightful." In fact, she said she victory cure by the end of this decade or keeping the impossible sufficiently real found the College "unique" among even the next. Dr. Owen delivered sev­ so that politics cannot ignore it." other institutions she has visited. "I was eral lectures on the status of the fight so impressed with the vitality of this while visiting Kalamazoo College, April Woodrow Wilson Visiting institution, the beautiful grounds and 10-11, as the national Phi Beta Kappa modern buildings, and the young, lecturer. Fellow impressed with fresh approach to learning, that I While the prospects for an early con­ College's 'vitality' thought it must be very new. I was sur­ quest of cancer are not good, Dr. Owen prised to discover that it is actually the stressed that much progress has been Letitia Baldrige, director of her own New oldest college in Michigan." made since the country made a con­ York-based public relations firm and a Ms. Baldrige was educated in Ne­ certed commitment to cancer research former presidential social secretary, braska and Vassar College and did through the National Cancer Act of visited the campus for a week this graduate work in Geneva, Switzerland. 1971. Following that law, the three­ Spring Quarter as a Woodrow Wilson In addition to handling public relations · person Council was established on which Dr. Owen has served as the re­ search scientist since 1973. Dr. Owen is also a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology. The infusion of large amounts of money for unrestricted basic research, while posing some political problems, has been very important and will proba­ bly be the eventual key to the success of the national program, according to Dr. Owen. The public must be made aware, he said, that the battle against the disease with its many intricacies may take considerable time because so I much about the disease remains un­ known. "All we can do is chip away at some things we think show promise and hope that something big will happen eventually," he said. And while money must support basic research, Dr. Owen is quick to point out that "money de­ voted to helping patients at the clinical level is not being misspent, as some would claim." To cure cancer, the na­ tional effort must be a carefully balanced one of research and clinical application, Letitia Baldrige holds an informal discussion with students on the quad during her and it must be established with an effi- week-long visit. News Notes

cient plan for long-term funding - The first Episcopal clergyman to be Wendt based his defense in the trial something which is now lacking, ac­ put on trial by his church in this century, on the principle of "conscience" and its cording to Dr. Owen. the Reverend Wendt was awaiting the primacy over church law. "What I and Dr. Owen delivered two public ad­ outcome of that ecclesiastical trial when my parish did was done as a matter of dresses while on campus: "Progress he spoke at Kalamazoo College on May conscience- a very honorable attribute Toward the Conquest of Cancer" and 22 and 23. Rector of St. Stephen and of mankind that needs to be recog­ "Death and Disease. Science, Politics, the Incarnation Church in Washington , nized." Wendt said that no matter the and Money." The latter and a following D.C., he allowed Mrs. Alison Cheek, one outcome of his trial, the ordination of luncheon were attended by several of the first eleven women ordained as women will eventually be approved by scientists from The Upjohn Company Episcopal priests, to celebrate the Eu­ the Episcopal Church, perhaps no later who are involved in cancer research. He charist in his church last November. The than the church's 1976 convention. He also spoke to several science classes. ordination of the eleven women had is hopeful that the change will come Dr. Owen is currently a member of been declared invalid by the House of before then. a number of national organizations Bishops and Wendt's bishop had re­ He is also hopeful both about the out­ and professional societies, has co­ quested that he not allow the service. come of his trial and about the church edited and co-authored two books, and None of the eleven women have been as an institution. "I like to dream about is on the editorial advisory board of charged by the church and a board of the church seeing itself as over and Transplantation Proceedings and Ani­ inquiry declined to try the four bishops against the culture in which it is set- as mal Blood Groups and Biochemical who ordained them. Wendt finds his filling a prophetic role. It's not impos­ Genetics. trial "absurd" and an indication that the sible." He intends to help see the church church is having trouble facing up to through this period of "confusion and Wendt discusses church the problem of sexism and is "letting frustration." trial and women's fight the world set the agenda for the church." for ordination "The saddest place for sexism is in 1975 Heyl Scholars named the church," Wendt said, adding that it Although he characterizes his trial for has been present for 2,000 years. Kalamazoo College senior and chemis­ disobedience to his bishop as "theatre "When the Bible talks about being cre­ try major, Regina Schnabel, will be of the absurd," the Reverend William A. ated in the image of God, it is talking doing graduate study at Yale Univer­ Wendt hopes that out of the absurdity about both men and women." sity this fall on a full fellowship awarded can come "a real decision that women by the Board of Directors of the F.W. Characterized by Time magazine as are full members of the human race." Heyl and Elsie L. Heyl Science Scholar­ "an Episcopal priest who has rarely ship Fund. flinched from trouble or feared innova­ tion," Wendt has said that there is no way not to be aware of the injustices and human needs that he hopes most peo­ ple would agree the gospel speaks to. He believes that the mission of the church is to bring injustices to the fore and deal with them, including the in­ justices of racism and sexism. A graduate of George Washington University and the General Theological Seminary, the Reverend Wendt served for eleven years as Priest-In-Charge at St. Christopher's Chapel, the Lower East Side Mission of Trinity Church in New York City which serves a low-income neighborhood with Spanish and Black population. Since 1960, he has served Regina Schnabel as rector of St. Stephen and the Incar­ nation Church in Washington, D.C. Regina, who received the Todd Under his guidance the church has Chemistry Prize her freshman year at become active in the affairs of its neigh­ Kalamazoo and has consistently been boring ghetto and experimental in its named to the Dean's List, is a member The Reverend William A. Wendt ad­ liturgy. He was awarded the Boston of Alpha Lamba Delta, the national dresses an informal gathering in Man­ Theological Institute's "Outstanding Min­ women's honor society. She studied delle Hall's Olmsted Room. istry Award" for 1970-71 . chemistry in such diverse places as iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii News Notes 21

JUiich, Germany, and the National Insti­ tutes of Health in Washington, D.C., during her Kalamazoo College career. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Schnabel of Portage, MI. Named alternates for the Yale fellow­ ship are: Lester Fahrner, Michael Ros­ enberg, and Gerald Magneson. Undergraduate scholarships to Kala­ mazoo College to major in the exact sciences were awarded to Loy Norrix high school students Thomas Blok, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Blok, and Lisa Nagler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Nagler; and Kalamazoo Central high school students David Dame, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Dame, and Richard Haw, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Haw. The Heyl Scholarship Fund was established through the will of the late Dr. Heyl, a former Upjohn Company vice-president and director of research. From 1923 until his retirement, he was the director of the Upjohn Scholars Pro­ gram at the College, and encouraged many of the College's graduates to go Recipient of the first Distinguished Alumni Award, Daniel Ryan, editor of the Kala­ on for graduate work at Yale. The Heyl mazoo Gazette, addresses the Founders' Day dinner audience, Apri/23. In the Scholarships program allows Dr. Heyl's foreground is College Provost John Satterfield. good work to continue even after his death. Three scholarship winners were also named to the Bronson School of Nurs­ A graduate of St. Augustine High ing. Kalamazoo College hosted a recep­ Phon-a-thon School in Kalamazoo, Ryan is a native tion for the Heyl Scholars, members of achieves goal of Kalamazoo and, except for World the Heyl Foundation Board, the Kalama­ War II service in the Pacific Theatre, a zoo School Board, the principals of The Kalamazoo College Annual Fund life-long resident of the community. He Loy Norrix and Kalamazoo Central high Phon-a-thon was successfully con­ joined the staff of the Gazette in 1946 schools, and counselors, science and cluded May 5 when Kalamazoo College after graduating from Kalamazoo Col­ math faculty members from the high freshman Susan Kaiser secured a schools and Kalamazoo College. lege with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pledge which raised the phon-a-thon business administration and post gradu­ total to the $50,000 goal. On the other ate study in journalism at Michigan State end of the telephone line was Susan's Dan Ryan honored University and Columbia University. He father, Paul J. Kaiser of Paw Paw, MI. at Founders' Day was named editor of the paoer in 1959. Awakened by his daughter's 10:57 p.m. Under his direction, the "Gazette" has telephone call, Mr. Kaiser promised to Daniel M. Ryan, graduate of the class of won the Associated Press newsphoto donate the $17 needed to make the 1942, former Kalamazoo College trus­ member of the year award for Michigan phon-a-thon a success. tee, and editor· of the "Kalamazoo in 1973 and 1965, and the AP "News­ Susan's call concluded twelve nights Gazette," was presented with the first paper Member of the Year" award in of telephoning by Kalamazoo College Distinguished Alumni Award from Kala­ 1967 and 1964. students, alumni, administrators, faculty, mazoo College during a banquet com­ The Distinguished Alumni Award was friends and parents. Over 100 volunteer memorating the granting of the College created earlier this year to recognize callers placed over 5,000 calls, com­ charter 142 years ago. Mr. Ryan was individuals who hav~ shown excellence pleting 2,529. From the completed calls, recognized as an alumnus "whose acts in their field of work, service to their 1,541 pledges were promised. Tele­ and deeds, both personal and profes­ community, and support of the College. phones at the College, Checker Motor sional, have brought honor to his alma It is expected that the award will be Company and Brown Paper Company mater." presented annually. were manned for over 300 phoning News Notes

the Kalamazoo area, class representa­ 'Changing Times' tives have mailed their letters asking for cites College support from Kalamazoo alumni. Members of the alumni leadership The April issue of Changing Times cites committee, chaired by Hugh V. Ander­ Kalamazoo College in an article entitled son, are Robert Brackenridge, Ronald "Forty-one Colleges That are Different." Kilgore, Richard Walker, and Rodney Kalamazoo was the only Michigan insti­ Wilson. Friends Leadership Chairper­ tution in the listing. son is Vincent Iannelli. He is being Included in an article was this state­ assisted by Mrs. Maynard M. Conrad ment, "After the freshman year on (Gene) and Mrs. James Thorne (Mary). campus, students alternate campus studies with off-campus work in career­ related internships, independent re­ College hosts search and foreign study. Most students summer workshops spend fall and winter quarters of their junior year abroad. One-fourth of stu­ Two special summer programs, one in dents are engaged in off-campus activ­ science and one in poetry, are being ities at all times." offered for high school students at the College this summer. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Organized principally by the depart­ June 15-22 ment of chemistry, the summer science USL TA National Women's Collegiate program, June 30- July 12, is designed Tennis Championships- Stowe Stadium to coyer a variety of topics, many in­ volving the use of sophisticated equip­ June22-27 ment high school students would not Yearbook Workshop- Taylor Publishing normally encounter. The poetry work­ Company shop, August 11-22, will be led by June22-28 three noted . poets: Jenne' Andrews, Kalamazoo College Tennis Camp­ Dabney Stewart, and the College's George Acker, Stowe Stadium Conrad Hilberry. The workshop is being June24 hours during the twelve days. sponsored in part by grants from the Alumni "K" Club Outing- Gull Lake The success of the phon-a-thon gave National Endowment for the Arts and Country Club the Michigan Council for the Arts. a real boost to the College's 1975 June30 Annual Fund Drive which hopes to raise Summer Quarter Begins $500,000 in unrestricted gifts to support the current operating fund of the College. Women's Council June 30- July 12 Mrs. Burton Upjohn is general chair­ elects new officers Summer Science Program 1975 -for person for this year's fund drive. Tom high school students Flynn, a Kalamazoo College senior from The Kalamazoo College Women's Coun­ July 24, 25, 26, Clark, N.J., was student chairperson for cil held its annual luncheon meeting and August1,2 the phon-a-thon. election of officers at the College on A Little Night Music - Festival Play­ "We all know that there are going to Monday, May 12. house, Dalton Theatre be tougher times ahead (for higher Presiding was Mrs. Maynard M. Con­ August2-10 education), but responsible people in rad, who concluded her two-year term National Junior and Boys' 16 Tennis the best institutions have identified as president of the Council. Two recent Championships - Stowe Stadium problems and are at work on major major projects undertaken by the Coun­ August7,8,9,10 solutions to them," stated Kalamazoo cil have been the refurbishing and The Contractor - Festival Playhouse, College President George N. Rainsford enlarging of the Rare Books Room in Dalton Theatre in an address to participants in the per­ Upjohn Library, and the refurnishing of sonal call portion of the 1975 Annual the women's physical education office. August 11-22 Fund. He also said that his enthusiasm New officers named were: Mrs. John Young Poets' Workshop- for high was buoyed by the generosity which the S. Miller, president; Mrs. Wayne R. school students volunteers displayed by giving their time Stone, first vice-president; Mrs. Frank August 14, 15, and money in support of the College. Heath, second vice-president; Mrs. C. 16,22,23 In addition to the nationwide phon-a­ H. Mullen, secretary; and Mrs. Kenneth Hamlet - Festival Playhouse, Dalton thon and the personal call campaign in Krum, treasurer. Theatre ------• Class Notes 129

Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, 1902 Cordelia, 523 Pleasant Street, Grand Ledge, 1926 William A. Hinderliter died on August 22, Michigan 48837. Gilbert F. Otto serves as secretary-treasurer 1974, in Los Angeles, at the age of 108. of the American Heartworm Society. He is Dr. Hinderliter was the Honorary Chairman the Associate Editor of the Proceedings of of the Angelus Temple Board of Elders in 1916 Heartworm Symposium '74, and gives many Los Angeles, having begun his ministry at Horace A. Boyden died on February 2 in lectures, seminars, and demonstrations for Angelus Temple in 1923. He was a safety Northville, Michigan. He was retired from the both veterinary and lay organizations. He has deposit guard in a Los Angeles bank for 32 accounting department at Ford Motor Co. also monitored and appeared in two movies years, retiring when tie was 82 years of age. sponsored by the society, and is writing a Dr. Hinderliter and his wife continued to serve collegiate textbook on the "Biology of as special speakers in Southern California 1918 Parasitism." When he formally retired as churches when he was well over one hundred professor of parasitology at the University of years of age. William E. Shane died on December 13, Maryland in 1972, he was appointed Adjunct 1974, in Venice, Fla. He retired in 1960 as Dasie Lucas Stewart died on April 28, 1975, Professor, which provides an office for him, Vice-president of merchandising for Michi­ along with a room for his personal library and in California. She was 96 years old. She is gan Bell Telephone Company in Detroit. He survived by a niece, Anita Kent, 221 North laboratory facilities. In January, he and Dr. joined the company in 1922, serving as a Ronald F. Jackson presented a three-day Bradbury Drive, San Gabriel, California clerk in the Kalamazoo office. Prior to his 91775. seminar on canine heartworm disease for the retirement, he was in charge of merchandis­ Caribbean Veterinary Medical Group meet­ ing for the company and was instrumental in ing on Grand Cayman Island. He and Dr. 1908 the design of four new telephones. While in Jackson are the authors of a chapter on Detroit, he was active in civic affairs, serving "Heartworm Disease," which appears in Marian E. Daniells died on June 27, 1974, in as president of the Wayne County Tubercu­ Ettinger's Medical Disease of Cats and Dogs, Ames, Iowa. She received a master's degree losis and Health Society, Detroit Rotary Club, published in April. from Iowa State University in 1919 and did and the Wolverine Chapter Telephone additional graduate work at both the Univer­ Pioneers of America, as well as chairman of sity of Chicago and Iowa State University. the Christmas Seal sale in 1958. Survivors 1927 She taught mathematics at Ionia and Ft. incli,1de his wife, Kathryn, 408 Bayview Park­ Sidney A. Beam died on March 12 at his Wayne, Ind., from 1908 to 1914. In 1914 she way, Nokomis, Florida 33555; three sons, home in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Prior to his joined the faculty of the mathematics depart­ two brothers and two sisters. ment at Iowa State University, where.she retirement. he owned and operated the Hart­ taught for over fifty years. She was very active ford Coal & Feed Company in Hartford, in professional organizations and served as 1921 Michigan. Prior to moving to Hartford, he was president of the Iowa Division of the Ameri­ co-owner of E. Beam & Son in Lawton, Dr. Willard N. Greer is manager of Stowe can Association of University Women. She Michigan, and was a salesman and elevator Condominiums and Apartments in Stowe, was the author of several articles which operator with Quaker Oats Company. He Vermont, where he also resides. appeared in national mathematics magazines. served on the Lawton village board for eleven years and as village president for three years. 1923 He was president of the Hartford Chamber of 1911 Commerce as well as was active in the Harold D. Schrier was killed in an automobile Lions Club and Masonic Lodge. Survivors Clarissa Alexander Morse died on April 3 in accident in Kalamazoo on March 24. He include his wife, Mildred Bassett Beam '25, Adrian, Michigan. Following graduation from owned and operated Petroleum Waxes of 5802 N.W. 84th Terrace, Ft. Lauderdale, college, she taught primary grades in schools Kalamazoo and the Red Bird Farms of Florida 33321; two daughters, Bonnie Hinck­ in Hamtramck, Michigan, and in Adrian for Gobles. He was president of the Pearl ley '49, and Patricia Barada; and six several years. Survivors include a son, two Grange Fruit Exchange of Benton Harbor grandchildren. daughters, eight grandchildren, and two and of Red Bird Plastics of Lawton. He was great-grandchildren. active in conservative Republican politics in Kalamazoo County, past president of Local 228 of the American Federation of Musicians, 1928 1915 and was a former board member of the Mina V. Stowe died on December 4, 1974, Floyd E. Weeks died at his home in Grand Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, in which in Kalamazoo. She was the secretary and Ledge, Michigan, on February 16. Mr. Weeks he also played the trombone for many years. treasurer of the Mac Sim Bar Paper Com­ was a graduate of Valparaiso University He served as director of the Kalamazoo pany at Otsego for thirty-seven years prior to School of Pharmacy in 1915 and received a College band, which he helped to organize. her retirement in 1965. She served as class LL.B. degree from Blackstone College of He is survived by one brother. agent for the class of 1928 in recent years. Law in 1941. He was employed by the She was preceded in death by a sister, Upjohn Co. prior to spending two years in Cleona, and a brother, Dr. Allen B. Stowe the U.S. Army during World War I. He owned 1925 '20, who was professor of physics and tennis coach at Kalamazoo College. Survivors and operated a drug store in Pinckney, William E. Praeger, Jr., died on March 13 in include a niece, Harriet Stowe Rosenbaum Mich., until 1931, when he was appointed Syracuse, N.Y. He resided in the Syracuse '48, Route 1, Box 16, Deer Lake, Ishpeming, business manager of the Michigan State area for the past 30 years and had been an Mich. 49849; two nephews, Robert A. Stowe Sanitarium at Howell. In 1941, he was engineer for the Carrier Manufacturing Co. appointed buyer of medical and surgical His father, the late Dr. William E. Praeger, '48, 2502 Lucky, Midland, Mich. 48640; and Donald Stowe '56, 2400 Crest Drive, supplies for the Michigan state hospitals and was a member of the biology department E. Kalamazoo, Mich. 49008. colleges. in which position he served for from 1905-34, also serving as head of the twenty-seven years. He was a magician who department. Mr. Praeger is survived b'' a John W. Shakespeare was found bound and gave many performances for local groups. daughter, Patricia Praeger Venner ·si, a~rl slain in his home in Centralia, Ill., on May 8. He was also very active in veterans groups, two sisters, Winifred Praeger Smith '12; and After graduation from Kalamazoo College he the Lions Club. Masonic Lodge, and the Miss Rosamond Praeger. attended Harvard University and Massa- so I Class Notes

chusetts Institute of Technqlogy. He was active in the Washington, D.C., Area Alumni involved in varied business interests, princi­ Club, serving as president of the Club for 1938 pally oil exploration and auto dealerships. several years. Survivors include his wife, W. Harry Rapley has been named manager At one time, he had a collection of 30 rare Mrs. Kathryn Chapman, 212 North Oak of the Kalamazoo branch of the ~porting Bugatti autos, which he sold to a museum in Street, Falls Church, Virginia 22046; a son goods division of the Shakespeare Company. France. He moved to Centralia in 1950 and and four daughters, two grandchildren, and A long-time employee of the company, he founded the Shakespeare Oil Company, but a brother, David E. Chapman '36. A sister, has most recently been a sales executive. Dorothy Chapman Kinsman '39 preceded sold his interests about ten years ago. He Elizabeth Kelly Stern is executive assistant him in death. was an avid sports enthusiast- sky diving, to the commissioner of mental health at the water and snow skiing, gymnastics and Larry Balch has been named to represent Ohio Department of Mental Health and motorcycling. He was also interested in The Jarrett System of metallurgical specimen Mental Retardation. orchid growing, building stereo systems, and preparation equipment in Michigan and health foods. He was active in Boy Scout Indiana. projects and recently was honored for his 1939 contributions to scouting. He is survived by Priscilla Crum Colt. consultant for contempo­ one brother, Henry G. Shakespeare of 1933 rary art at the Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute, Tarpon Springs, Florida; his step-mother, Winthrop S. Hudson has been awarded a spoke at the Kalamazoo Art Center in Janu­ and a step-brother. Senior Fellowship by the National Endow­ ary. Her topic was "Art and Anti-Art in the ment for the Humanities. He will spend the Last Decade." She was director of the Kala­ first part of 1975 studying at the Folger mazoo Institute of Arts in 1940-43, and later 1929 Library in Washington, D.C., and at Cam­ held positions at the Metropolitan Museum Or. Nelson J. Wade died on November 2, bridge University in England. His work will of Art in New York City, the Virginia Museum 1974, in St. Louis, Mo. He received a focus on "The Making of an Establishment - of Fine Arts in Richmond, the Minneapolis master's degree in biology from Kansas 1540-1560," a study of the young Cambridge Institute of Arts and the Portland Art Museum. State College in 1930 and a Ph.D. degree in humanists who served as court tutors and She helped organize an urban design and biology from St. Louis University in 1934. chaplains in the last years of Henry VIII. Dr. planning conference in Dayton and has Upon receiving his Ph.D., he joined the · Hudson is Colgate professor of the History of organized exhibits in several art museums. faculty of the biology department at St. Louis Christianity at Colgate Rochester Divinity She also serves as a consultant to select University, where he taught until his retire­ School/Bexley Haii/Crozer Theological commissioned works for new Ohio state ment in 1973. He was the author of numerous Seminary in Rochester, N.Y., and professor office buildings. publications on research problems related to of history at the University of Rochester. Arleta Turner Warner's husband, John, was reproduction, endocrinology and nutrition. Marjorie Niffenegger Gallagher of Ann Arbor honored as the 1974 Michigan Small Busi­ He is survived by his wife, Dr. Jane Bransted visited the campus in April. Her husband, nessman of the Year. As president of Warner Wade, 4176 Flora Pl., St. Louis, Mo. 63110, Arthur, who is senior.editor of the Ann Arbor Vineyards in Paw Paw, he was cited for the and a daughter, Catherine. News, participated in the awarding of the growth of the company and for his contribu­ Halo North Hall died in Kalamazoo on April first Distinguished Alumni Award to Dan tions to the Paw Paw economy and promo­ 20. Surviving are one son, five grandchildren, Ryan '42, editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette, tion of the entire Michigan wine industry. 23 great-grandchildren, and a sister. at Founders' Day. 1940 1930 1935 Dan and Helen (French '43) Wood live in Jenison, Mich. He is plant manager at Michi­ Mildred Doster Virtue retired as assistant Ruth McDowell Pace died on September 17, gan Kenworth, Inc., in Grandville. director of the Division of Health Services, 1974, in Ambler, Pennsylvania. She is sur­ Denver Public Schools in 1974 but continues vived by herhusband , Dr. Anderson Pace, Harold Handelsman is general manager of to work part-time. In October, she received Jr. '37, and three daughters, including Carol the Kalamazoo Division of Jackson Iron and the HOWE award, the highest honor given Pace Lawicki '66. Metal Co. His company, Allied Steel Service, by the American School Health Association was acquired by the Jackson company, at its annual meeting. In November, she which is one of the largest scrap firms in presented a paper in Cape Town, South 1937 the Midwest. Africa, to an international Congress on Alco­ Robert and Mary Jane (Hays) Cooper live in holism and Drug Abuse. Paw Paw, Mich., where he is the owner of 1941 the Dodge dealership. David C. Byers, Jr. has retired from the D.C. Leona (Lynna) Ruster Williams died on Byers Co. in Grand Rapids. The firm spe­ Robert H. Powell has been named to the December 20, 1974, in Buffalo, N.Y. After cializes in structural maintenance and resto­ 1975 membership in the Life Insurance leaving Kalamazoo, she was employed as a ration. He first worked at the company started Leaders of Michigan, a statewide organiza­ secretary at Bell Aircraft Corp:, Niagara Falls, by his father as a waterboy at job sites when tion affiliated with the Michigan State Associ­ N.Y., and at American Airlines in Boston. he was 9 years old. His son, Donald, is now ation of Life Underwriters. He is area manager Her husband, Thomas Rees Williams, pre­ head of the company. of the Franklin Life Insurance Co. in ceded her in death. Survivors include two Kalamazoo. daughters, one son, a sister and a brother. 1932 John P. Lambooy is chairman of the depart­ G. Dudley Cutler has opened his own real ment of biochemistry of the School of estate brokerage firm in Kalamazoo. His Raymond E. Chapman died on March 6 in Dentistry, University of Maryland at Balti­ wife, Margaret Benedict Cutler, is licensed as Arlington, Va. Following graduation from more. He was formerly dean of graduate a real estate salesperson and is a member of Kalamazoo College, he worked for news­ studies and research. Dr. Lambooy has pub­ the staff of the new firm. papers in Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Sagi­ lished over 80 scholarly articles in the several James Southon has been named chairman naw and Flint. In 1943, he became a foreign fields of study in biochemistry. He is doing of a special committee created by the Kala­ service officer with the U.S. State Depart­ research in the field of nutritional biochemis­ mazoo County Board of Commissioners to ment, retiring in 1964. He has been very try at the University. study county governmental operations. Class Notes 131

Wayne A. Dressel died on April 24 in Fair­ ball machines and an eight-member instruc­ 1942 field, Conn., after a long illness. He was tional staff. Vic has been referred to by Jack Helen Born Baker died on January 1 at her president of Dressel, Dimmitt & Andrews, Kramer as "the world's No. 1 tennis coach." home in Allegan, Mich. She was a member Inc., an executive recruiting firm with offices He was the subject of a feature article carried of the Allegan Congregational Church. Sur­ in New York City and Chicago. Prior to form­ by the Associated Press recently. vivors include her husband, Dr. Russell L. ing his own business in 1972, he spent seven John Sweet lives in Vicksburg, Michigan. He Baker '40, 440 Lake Dr., Rt. 6, Allegan, years in retailing with Jacobsons, Inc., has retired as a state of Michigan parole Michigan 49010; three daughters, three Jackson, Michigan, and fifteen years with agent. grandchildren, and a brother. Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Management Con­ Eugene and Elizabeth (Osborn '50) Childress' Eric L. Pratt is serving as chairman of the sultants. Joining the firm in Cleveland in 1957, he ultimately became a Vice-president daughter, Beth Lynn, was selected as the Kalamazoo Art Center's annual fair to be DAR Good Citizen for Three Rivers (Mich.) held in Bronson Park in June. and was managing officer of the Executive Personnel Division, in New York City. Sur­ High School. vivors include his wife, Johanne Clark 1944 Dressel, 364 Riders Lane, Fairfield, Con­ Cynthia Earl Kerman teaches three sections necticut 06430; three sons and two daugh­ 1952 of freshman English and one class in Ameri­ ters; his mother, Lillian Draewell Dresse/'26, James E. Miyagawa was honored as the can literature at Villa Julie College, Steven­ 715 West Michigan, Apt. 604, Jackson, Kalamazoo Optimist Club community opti­ son, Md. She is the author of Creative Mict\igan 49201; two brothers; one sister; mist of the year as a "friend of youth" be­ Tension, the Life and Thought of Kenneth and two grandchildren. His father, Royal F. cause of his involvement in Boy Scouting. He Boulding, which was published last May by Dresse/'24 preceded him in death in 1962. also received a Silver Beaver award from the the University of Michigan Press. She and southwest Michigan Council of the Boy her husband, Ralph '47, live in Baltimore, Scouts, which is the highest honor an adult where he is with the American Friends 1951 volunteer can receive from a Boy Scout Service Committee working on community Wayne and Nanette (Pierce) Magee live in Council. He is the owner of an appliance relations and world peace issues with a 27- San Antonio, Texas. Wayne is professor and store in Kalamazoo. member staff in six cities. director of the Division of Allied Health and Marilyn Hinkle was honored by the Coalition Life Sciences at the new campus of the of Kalamazoo Women's groups for improving University of Texas at San Antonio. He also 1953 the professional status of women working in is professor of biochemistry at the University the media and upgrading the image of of Texas Health Science Center- a medical Harry V. Myers, Jr., is manager of physical women portrayed by the media. She was school, dental school and nursing school and chemical programs, ecological sciences cited for her more than twenty-five years of complex at San Antonio. department at NUS Corporation in Pittsburgh. work at Kalamazoo College. Eugene P. Stermer died suddenly at his Frank and Billie Jo (Tanner '54) Hart live in Albert R. LeRoy is a stock broker with Bache home in Plymouth, Mich., on January 3. He Mason, Mich., where he is associated with & Company in South Bend, Indiana. was president of George Odiorne Associates, Hart Well Drilling Company. Inc., a management consultant firm he Barbara Rigsbee lives in Columbus, Georgia. helped organize in 1968. Prior to that, he She is an anaesthetist. was with the Ford Motor Company. He was 1947 Harriet Thompson Wikum is principal of chairman of the board of Plymouth Youth, Windward Preparatory School in Hawaii. Bob Dewey served as leader of the State Inc., former Republican chairman of the 2nd She was recently appointed to serve on the Youth Rally sponsored by the Michigan Congressional District, a member of the City Planning Commission by the Mayor of Conference United Church of Christ in Plymouth Kiwanis Club, American Manage­ Honolulu. February. ment Association and the American Society William G. Lloyd is senior research scientist of Training Directors. Survivors include his Barbara Gosset Phillips died in a fire at her at the Institute for Mining and Minerals wife, Harriet, 413391vywood Lane, Plymouth, home in Davison, Michigan, last June. She Research at the University of Kentucky in Michigan 48170; his parents, three step­ taught piano students privately. Survivors Lexington. children, including Robert Staff '68, one include her husband, James, and two sons. grandchild, three brothers and three sisters. Thomas S. Taft is vice president of the First 1948 National Bank in Monroe, Mich. 1954 Walter W. Johnson is owner of the Fleetwood William G. Clark is systems coordinator at Lawrence E. Marks died on March 17, in Paper Company in Deerfield, Ill. the Brown Company in Kalamazoo. Oxnard, California. He had a degree in aero­ James G. Copeland has been named vice nautical engineering from Purdue University president and manager of manufacturing of and had worked with several aerospace 1950 Michigan Brands, an Otsego dairy products firms in California, most recently with Vitro Lee Koopsen recently piloted a sailplane to firm. He joined the company last year, after Laboratories. He was the founder and first an altitude of 20,000 feet in the Colorado a 20-year career with Proctor and Gamble at president of the Inventors' Forum of Ventura Rockies on the "mountain wave," the power­ their Charm in Paper Division in Cheboygan, County. In the early 1950's he served in the ful wind generated at the 14,000 foot crest Michigan. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Survivors include his wife, Gracia, 1219 Rowland, of Pike's Peak. He has been a sailplane flier Vic Braden is headmaster of the Vic Braden for nine years and is now working on his Camarillo, California 93010; three sons and a Tennis College in Coto de Caza, California, daughter, his mother, and one sister. private certificate as a powered airplane which uses modern laboratory techniques pilot. He is owner of Koopsen's Wallpaper and psychology to teach tennis. The college Harold W. Rudolph is vice commander of and Paint Co. in Kalamazoo. includes seven courts lying beneath an the 127 Fighter Wing, Michigan Air National Richard L. Boyd is president and chief instructional tower, a 200-capacity class­ Guard at Selfridge Air National Guard Base. executive officer of the Citizens Bank of room with sophisticated audio-visual equip­ John Hinga teaches sociology on the north Saline in Saline, Mich. ment, photo laboratory, 17 training alleys, campus of the community college in Denver. Class Notes

Society. He has taught in the Portage Central music coordinator and supervisor at.Bald­ 1955 High School science department since 1958. winsville (N.Y.) Academy and Central Robert Stelle has been named as associate He was one of the first teachers in Michigan Schools. professor of family practice in Michigan State involved in the initial stages of development University's College of Human Medicine. of the CHEM study program for superior 1959 Dr. Stelle, who has conducted a family prac­ students and the interdisciplinary approaches tice for the past twelve years in Crystal Falls, to chemistry program for students who desire Terry K. Brown has been named area sales Mich., is one of the first physicians to receive an alternate route to chemistry. His senior manager for the medical-surgical products such an appointment for teaching through class carried out an independent study in division of Parke, Davis & Company in the the newly established Upper Peninsula the Kalamazoo River watershed project in Kansas City area. He joined Parke-Davis in Health Education Corporation. He will con­ cooperation with Kalamazoo College and the 1961 and most recently has been product tinue his practice of medicine and will serve W.K. Kellogg Foundation. manager for hospital and operating room as chief of staff at Crystal Falls Community products. Hospital. The program is designed to get James D. Hudak is a chemist at Magnavox medical students out of urban areas and 1957 Research Laboratories in Torrance, Calif. into sparsely populated areas where they are Theodore K. Knott is president of Charles A. Roger Bobertz, an executive with Union needed more. Boyer, Inc., in Manistee, Michigan. Carbide Corp., visited the campus in April to present the College with a check for $5,000 Jack Doyle lives in Dallas, Texas, where he Maryann TerBurgh Jones received a mas­ is regional manager for Dayton-Hudson. for use by the chemistry department. ter's degree in counseling and personnel Donald H. Dayton received a master's from Western Michigan University in Decem­ degree in librarianship from Western Michi­ ber 1974. 1960 gan University in December 1974. James R. Brand is director of secondary 1958 education for the Carman School District in 1956 Flint, Mich. Lawrence M. Eisenstein lives in Lincroft, N.J. Jerry and Virginia (Sheehan '61) Aftowski Charles Tucker has an advertising and mer­ He is director of the CPC-Community Natal live in Newport, Rhode Island. He is under­ chandising firm, Charles Tucker Advertising Health Center. Inc. in Lansdale, Pa. He is also a partner in writing supervisor with Metropolitan Property Communications International, a mini­ James F. Todd is a representative in the and Liability Insurance Co. in Providence. business and labor division of Prentice-Hall, conglomerate involved in graphics, printing, James H. Saylor is a research oceanogra­ Inc. He lives in Ada, Michigan. premiums, copy machines, and offset equip­ pher at the National Oceanic and Atmos­ ment. He is writing a book for Prentice Hall Charles Meeker has been promoted to the pheric Administration's Great Lakes Environ­ that deals with proper advertising methodol­ rank of Commander in the U.S. Navy. He is mental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, ogy. He is also writing a novel and plans to the assistant training officer on the staff of Mich. write some children's books. He lectures at Commander Submarine Squadron 16 and is conventions and seminars on advertising, responsible for the training that is conducted James W. Cosner is a chaplain in the U.S. marketing, merchandising and related topics by the Poseidon Missile submarines assigned Army stationed in West Germany. as well as teaches courses at St. Joseph's to the squadron, which operates out of Rota, John Robertson is a pediatrician in White College. He and his wife are the parents of Spain. He and his wife, Francine Smith Pigeon, Michigan. one son and two daughters. Meeker '61 , and their children live in Rota. Dale D. Spoor is with the National Council Donald E. Stowe has been named outstand­ Herman DeHoog received a Doctor of Edu­ on Alcoholism in Lansing, Michigan. ing science teacher of the year by the Kala­ cation degree in music and music education Jean M. Pease and Alfred J. Gemrich were mazoo section of the American Chemical from Columbia University on May 14. He is married on February 1. He is an attorney in Kalamazoo. ------, James and Lou Ellen (Jones '61) Hunter I live in Tampa, Florida. He is professor of astro-physics at the University of South I Admissions ...... Admissions ...... Admissions ...... Admissions Florida and she is supervisor of the student Please send College admissions information to the following prospective I health service laboratory at the University. I student(s):. I Name ______I 1961 A sa Pieratt is the author of a book, Kurt Vonnegut: A Descriptive Bibliography and Address ------~--~------Annotated Secondary Checklist, which was Year of High School ______Graduation------published by Shoestring Press in 1974. He is head of acquisitions at the university library, University of Delaware. Parents' names------James B. Laurro and Cheryl A: Boodt were Name ______married on February 14. He is an organist in Kalamazoo. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Spitz-Nagel (Lynn Larkin Address ------Year of '63) are living in Webster Groves, Missouri. High School ------Graduation------He is attending Eden Theological Seminary. He was previously a social psychologist. Parents' names------Peter C. Wolcott is with the American Em­ bassy in Helsinki, Finland.

Signed ------Mail to: Admissions Office, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, M/49007 Class Notes

Paul and Dianne (Bushe/1'62) Carlton live 1n live In Detroit, where he Is a painting Celina, Ohio. He Is manager of computer 1183 contractor operations and systems software at Midwest Don and Margaret (NIChols '64) Zanotti live David and Marylu (Simmons '66) Andrews Data Systems. In Mill Valley, California. Margaret Is an anes­ have three sons - Stephen is 7; Jonathan Is James W. Iovino was named middle school/ thesiologist at Children's Hospital in San 4; and Michael was born AprH 5, 1974. David junior high counselor of the year by the Francisco Don practices emergency medi­ is manager of musical Instrument repair at American School Counselor Association at cine at Marin General Hospital. Their second the Eastman School of Music In Rochester, their recent meeting 1n New York City He IS child, Peter Francis, was bom on December N Y He teaches a course on brass and a counselor at Hood School1n Derry, New 20, 1974. Their daughter, Mary Katherine, Is woodwind instrument repair, as wellaa Hampshire He helped found and works five-and-a-half-years-old. supervising the care of all organs, pJSnos and orchestral instruments at the school. part-time at the Southeastern New Hamp­ Gary VandenBerg Is a management develop­ shire Family Education and Pastoral Coun­ ment specialist with the manpower planning Patricia Barney Powett teaches French at the seling Services. He also teaches Counseling and development unit at The Upjohn Com­ University of Northern Iowa In Cedar Falls Theory and Practice Group Work, and The pany In Kalamazoo. She is secretary-treasurer of the American Family at White Pines College 1n Chester, Association of Teachers of French in Iowa. N.H He was co-author of an article, 'The CarolE Burgtorf and Noel D. Uri were mar­ School Counselor," which appeared In the ried on March 5 in Christ Methodist Church, Larry Barrett IS assistant to vice-president, national journal for school counselors last Washington, o.c generating, for the Potomac Electric Power November. He helped author 'State Guide­ Company, Washington, D.C lines and Activities for Career Development" Mr. and Mrs. William A. Clapp (Barbara Friese) aMounce the birth of a daughter, Howard and Jeanne (Hand '63) Bowman '" schools, waa co-author of a local docu­ live In Houhon, Maine. Howard is an Instruc­ ment on the aame subject for elementary Chrilta Susan, on April91n Haddonfield, N J Their first daughter, Pamela Ellen, i8 five tor of philosophy and religion and acting schools, and helped develop a "atreet coun­ seling" program In Derry. He and hla wife years old. Bill Is an engineering manager at dean of instruction at Ricker College. They the RCA Advanced TechnOlogy Laboratories have two children - Bradley, age 5; and have recently adopted a.tw~-old son, Craig Thay also have a thil't8en-year-old tn Camden, N J Cara, age3. daughter Sara, and an eleven-year-old Lorella Nelson Ia program director for the MIChael and Nancy (Briegel) Moore live In son, James Nevada State Council on the Arts In Reno. Okemos He is chairman of academic studies R Samuel Clark JS director of community and uaoclate professor of organizational 1982 relations at S&arr Commonwealth School in behavior and personnel management, Albion Michigan. School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Edith D Cullen and Robett Innis were Douglas A. Long. who is a LCDR In the U.S. Michigan State University. Nancy Ia a self­ married on December X7, 1974 in St. employed reeding consultant for wards of Michael the Archangel Church, Canton, Navy is stationed at the Special Projects Liaison Office in Whitehall, England. He is the state. They have a daughter Lee, age 7, Ohio. He rs asslatant vice-president of the and a son, Eric, age 5 Bancroft Convertible Fund, New York City working for the Strategic Systems Project She Is an aasistant to a curator of the Metro­ Office of Washington, D C., within the frame­ Penny Britton Kolloff received a Ed S. degree politan Museum In New York City work of the British Polarll Project Office. He from Eastern Kentucky University In 1974. and his wife, Valerie and children, Darcy She and her husband, Fred '63, both teach Dr. and Mrs. David C. Wenke of Eggertsville, Jean, age six, and Spencer, age three, live at the University. N. Y announce the birth of a daughter, In London. Christina Irene, on January 16. Dave Ia a Gretchen Cassel Elck is associate co-director clinical biochemist at E.J Meyer Memorial and lobbyist of the Washington Office on Hospital In Buffalo, N.Y. Africa. Her husband, Dick, Is associate 1184 minister of the Westmoreland Congregational David M. Southworth IS a student at the Don LeDuc haa accepted a teaching position Church. They are the parents of two daugh­ Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. at Cooley Law School In Lansing, Mich. He ters, Alyson Joy age 5; and Kendra Eliza­ The Departmtnt of Defense school provides previously served as head of the Michigan beth, age2. students with five months of lntenalve educa­ Office of Criminal Justice Programs for two Nancy Kuhns Taylor and her husband, tion relatad to national and international years. He joined the OCJP staff In 1989. security He Ia a major in the u.S. Air Force. David, live in Cairo, Egypt He 1s the assistant menager of Mobil Exploration Egypt. Inc. Kennell A. Offill teaches at Shabonee Junior Mr. and Mrs Raymond S. Blanford, of exploring for oil both on and off shore This High School in Northbrook, Illinois. Burnsville, Mlnn announce the birth of a son Geoffrey John, on February 1. Ray is a 1s a joint project with Egyptian oil firms. Deanna Clair Young lives In Saratoga systems analyst with Blue Cross-Blue Shield. Springs, N Y. She teaches high school Gene Martin is finishing his second year of language training at State Depart­ French, and also teaches flute James D Hone/lis an insurance marketing Chinese ment School in Taichung, Taiwan He ex­ Mr. and Mrs Gethert:J Fuerst announce the representative with Aetna Life & casualty in Orange, California. pects to move to Hong Kong tn the summer birth of a daughter Heidi Marie, on January 88 a foreign service officer 23 1n Kalamazoo Ward A Riley IS science chairman at Spar­ Kathy Wiesner Hummel Is a first grade GordOn Radwan was season point leader In tanburg Day School in Spartanburg, South Carolina teacher In Charleston, IllinOIS where she was the Border Cltlee recreation baaketball named teacher of the year for 197 4 and was league In the Detroit acea ltlla seaon He is selected by the Jaycees 88 the outstanding a systems englneerwlth ltW tn Delroit Thomaa E Sumner JS iervlng two years 1n the U S Air Force. He Is a redlologlst at young educator In 1972 Her husband, Dick Rlehart:J B DfMinlt. ra a coet anal)llt with TraVIS Air Force Base, California '62, teaches at Eaatern Illinois University Western Railroad Auooi8llon '" Chicago They have one daughtsr Lea Ann who ts Jim and Beclcy (Boyd) Stone live In ConCQrd, Roben L Scbwartz livealn New City N Y 12 years old He Is superv1sor at Peat, Marwick Mitchell & California Jim Is a dentiM with his office In Co CPAs rn New York City Oakland Becky acttve Ill community Cla8a Notae for 1!HJ5. 1978 will be tncluded volunteer Sam end Donna (DaflleiSOn 66) Kounroupet; In the next IISU8