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VOL. 55 ISSUE 1 A Very Special Spartan Joe Barrie remembers a time likely remembered by no other Spartan. Showing a picture of himself in his playing days: at right is Joseph Barrie, an ‘S’ Club member who lives in Altadena, California. Joe sent us a note last spring telling how he was enjoying his 100th birthday, and about his most exciting day: an early September Saturday in 1934 in Ann Arbor, when Michigan State College beat Michigan (the undefeated national champions in ’33) in football, 16 to nothing. It was State’s first victory over Michigan in 19 years, and only the second ever. Joe told how he was State’s center and played all 60 minutes, and how the Michigan center was Jerry Ford, later President of the United States. He was proud that he played for 55 minutes in 1935, when “MSC” again beat Michigan. This writer has been in contact by phone and email with Joe’s daughter, Judie, who said that Joe’s only difficulty these days is that he is hard of hearing. So she emailed this picture and .... -see Barrie page 2

W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 2011-2012 Michigan State University Varsity Alumni ‘S’ Club Varsity Alumni ‘S’ Club 535 Chestnut Rd - Rm 276 East Lansing, MI 48824 Board of Directors Phone: (517) 355-8523 Fax: (517) 355-7708 Executive Committee Email: [email protected]

President Cheryl Gilliam ’81 Website: www.msuvarsitysclub.org 1st Vice President Wally Dobler ’58 2nd Vice President R. Paul Vance ’01 Secretary Mike Vorkapich ’94 We value your opinion and want to know what Treasurer David Brogan ’56 you think about the Varsity Alumni ‘S’ Club Past President Colin Cronin ’94 Newsletter. Send us an e-mail, call or fax with Board of Directors items or topics you would like to see included in Don Behm ’67 Ron Berby ’64 future newsletters. If you have suggestions on Tim Bograkos ’04 Michael Decker ’80 Sue Selke ’76 Eldon Vanspybrook ’60 how to improve the publication, let us know. Donald Weatherspoon ’67

Young Alumni Elections for the Board of Directors of the Varsity Ashton Henderson ’10 Kelly Moffitt Mooradian ’10 Alumni ‘S’ Club are held each spring. If you would like to serve on the Board, simply visit our website, click Office Staff: Marilyn Bria (Office Hours: M-Th, 12-4; F, 12-3) on the application tab, print the form, complete, and Newsletter Editor: Ron Berby mail to the ‘S’ Club office.

Barrie -from Page 1 At a century, Joe is amazingly active, and tells of a Depression-Era ‘30s campus and an accomplished life ....relayed her father’s memories to us. First though, she described this very notable man who last competed for State 77 years ago: He didn’t quit driving till he was 99. He visits a library nearly every day and is a voracious reader. He goes out to eat lunch and dinner every day. He is “full of sparkle and a great sense of humor.” On turning 100 years old, when a local paper’s reporter asked him how a person can live so long, he said, “You’ve got to just keep breathing.” He dislikes “Dial-a-Ride” because they’re so often late when he wants to get out, which is often. He’s passed his love of football on to his family. Judie said that she and her brother went to UCLA, and that “football season tickets are still in our blood”. Joe went to one game with them last fall. Joe remembered that the first victory over Michigan was only in State coach Charlie Bachman’s second season, and was followed by several more of the coach’s winning seasons. He said that MSC’s president canceled classes the following Monday so the whole school could be “in celebration.” Joe remembers living in Wells Hall, a freshman dorm, and then at a local fraternity house which later became the Delta Chi. He told about the MSC Spring Water Carnival and Saturday night dances: 15 cents per couple, 5 cent Cokes, and music by Nat Frye’s Orchestra He said in those days smoking wasn’t allowed on campus, but that “everyone smoked.” So they all walked to campus and the curb at Grand River Avenue was “a huge ash tray because students had to get rid of smokes!” The south end of campus then was the Red Cedar, except for Macklin Field (now Spartan Stadium) which held 20,000 while the college enrollment was only 3,500. In the middle of the Depression, Joe was a business major until he realized that the only guys in his fraternity who quickly got jobs after graduation were the Hotel Administration majors. So he changed his major, graduated in 1936 “...and got a job within a week of graduation!” He worked at the Orington Hotel in Evanston, , and that’s where he met his wife, who was in a master’s program at Northwestern. They see Barrie page 3

W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 2 President’s Message Once a Spartan, Always a Spartan! We are off to another exciting year. Thanks to those who attended the Play 4 Kay women’s basketball game, and congratulations to those Young Alumni chosen to watch the men’s away basketball game at Northwestern on TVs in the player lounge at the Breslin Center. We congratulate also Ashton Henderson and Kelly Mooradian in their success at increasing the ranks of Young Alumni, keeping them in touch with MSU and the ‘S‘ Club after graduation. You can help by reaching out to young alumni, urging them to stay in touch. One way is to join them in their Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Our main goal this year is to be the best letter winners club in membership numbers and satisfied members, not only in the Big Ten, but for all Division 1 Universities. You can help by reaching out to old teammates and friends, encouraging them to join the ‘S‘ Club and participate in our events. Mark your calendar for our Annual Golf Outing (June 6) and Reunion Weekend (Sept. 20 - 22): the MSU vs. EMU football game. Reunion changes this year include: anniversary pins for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60 years, and a Spartan blanket for the 70th year. Also, if you and your teammates would like to host a reunion that weekend, we are planning decade reunions for teams who competed in 2002, 1992, 1982, 1972, 1962, 1952, and 1942. If you wish to be included you must supply a few volunteers to organize and oversee along with our help. This will be limited to one male and one female team per decade, first come/first served. So contact us ASAP. Visit us in the stadium or on the website. Send us your Spartan Sagas. We hope to see you at the Green and White football game (April 28) and in the Stadium Club Room. We are a Spartan Family

Cheryl M. Gilliam, President -- Track 1978-81 -- B.S. College of Agriculture, Packaging

Barrie - from Page 2 But Joe’s real story his how he found his way to the little campus on the Red Cedar ..married in March 1940 and decided to move to California on a Wednesday that December, and left on that very Friday! Joe left the hotel business in arriving in California, and became a manufacturers’ representative for textile mills - for the next 50 years. His daughter says that over the years Joe has always been happy he ended up at Michigan State instead of “anyplace else.” He brags that Michigan State is the “only school to have beaten the U of M in football four consecutive times” (now for a second time). Which brings us to where “anyplace else” could have been: Joe grew up in South Bend --- Indiana, that is. A logical choice for a top football prospect there would have been Notre Dame. But legendary Irish coach died in a plane crash and Joe wasn’t so sure about Notre Dame’s chances. Who should come to the rescue but the ! In June of 1930 the U of M alumni club of South Bend gave Joe their trophy for the outstanding senior at South Bend’s Central High School (Joe still has the clipping from the paper). Here comes the good part: As part of his scholarship to play football at Michigan, he would have to agree to work as a ticket taker at an Ann Arbor theater - a very time consuming job for a Depression era college student playing football. But at the state college a couple hours away, they offered him a job that would only take up from 6:00 to 7:00 each morning. He would work at the college cafeteria’s kitchen - peeling potatoes! The rest is Spartan history. Who would have ever thought that we’d be able to tell this remarkable story because peeling potatoes is better than taking tickets? Joe has it on his schedule to turn 101 on March 10th. Ron Berby, Editor

W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 3 Board Announces 2012 ‘S’ Club Award Winners Biggie Munn Extra Effort Award ---- Herb Washington Henry Bullough Service Award ---- David Brogan Jack Breslin Lifetime Achievement Award ---- Dr. Jack Beattie Nell Jackson Alumna Award ---- Diane D’Angelo Honorary Members: Richard Bader Matt Gianiodis Kathie Klages Robert Skandalaris

Spartan Football - A Force to Be Reckoned With It’s been building since took the reins. He inherited teams from his predecessor, teams which were undisciplined and too often in trouble off the field. Overshadowed by the usual recruiting power of the likes of Michigan and Ohio State, he nonetheless began to recruit players a notch off the talent level, but a notch higher in attitude and integrity. For a while the team had to deal with residual shortcomings, on and off the field, the most significant in 2009 when players fought members of an MSU fraternity on two occasions. The second of these, after the team’s season-ending banquet, resulted in double-digit suspensions, some permanent, and even legal penalties. But the turnaround after that would be dramatic. In 2010 the Spartans won eleven games and were outright Big Ten Champions, and in 2011 the team again won eleven games and nearly made it to the Rose Bowl. Their come-from-behind bowl victory in multi-overtime shocked Georgia, as usual a team favored to take the Spartans. This year’s seniors, players Dantonio recruited, were special. They beat Michigan in all four of their Spartan seasons, something done only by MSU teams in the mid-1960s, and never done by anyone else. Spartan seniors, we salute you: Garrett Celek, Kirk Cousins, B.J. Cunningham, Joel Foreman, Brian Linthicum, Keshawn Martin, Jared McGaha, Keith Nichol, Blake Pacheco, Kevin Pickelman, Arthur Ray Jr., Trenton Robinson, Chris D. Rucker, Kyle Selden, Adam Setterbo, Brad Sonntag, and Jonathon Strayhorn

W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 4 ‘S’ Club Hosts Spano Endowment Recipients Kelly (Moffitt) Mooradian and Jenilee Rathje, at right flanking Senior Associate AD Shelley Appelbaum, were honored fellowship recipients on Sunday, Jan. 29 in Coach Tom Izzo’s box at Breslin Arena during the Spartan women’s basketball game against conference leading Penn State. Kelly earned an MS in Kinesiology-Sports Admin. last August and now works on a 2nd Master’s in Human Resources and Labor Relations at MSU. She also works in the SASS program assisting present Spartan athletes. This summer she’ll do an internship with Microsoft in Redmond, WA in the Human Resources Trax Program. However, next fall she’ll return to the green and white to serve as a Graduate Assistant for Student-Athlete Development. Jenilee is also pursuing an MS in Kinesiology-Sports Admin. and expects to graduate in May. Like Kelly also, she works at SASS, and as the Outreach Coordinator, oversees student-athletes attendance and participation in dozens of community programs and charity events. She also supervises the SASS social media campaign, updating Facebook and Twitter in spreading the good news about our Spartan student-athletes. Also on hand were Scott Westerman, Executive Director of the MSU Alumni Association and wife Colleen; Bob Boa, Editor of the MSU Alumni Magazine; Maura Benton, Associate Director of University Scholarships and Fellowships; ‘S’ Club President Cheryl Gilliam; and former ‘S’ Club President Joey Spano. The ‘S’ Club has a fundraising goal of $150,000 for this endowment, the only of its kind for Spartan Letter Winners. All gifts, small or large, are important and much welcomed. To make a contribution to the Spano Endowed Fellowship, contact the Scholarships & Fellowships Office at 517/432-7330 or online at www.givingtomsu.edu, giving the code AB6017. By the way, the Spartans, in a nip-and-tuck battle, knocked off Penn State that night, 83 - 77. Senior Spartans Guests at Play 4 Kay Game Watched Spartan Women play Purdue from Breslin Box

Left: Fred Colwell-Football Mgr.-1940 The three last competed for “MSC” and Bob Bao-Honorary Member and seventy years ago! They and several Editor of the MSU Alumni Magazine. other ‘S’ Club members were part of a Center: Mel Buschman-Track-1941-43 crowd of over 11,000 fans who watched and ‘S’ Club President Cheryl Gilliam as the Spartans went into overtime, but Right: Buschman talks with Don Merritt- like the crowd, roared to a 67-52 win! Track-1939-40 Winter Event a Hit with Young Alums The MSU Varsity “S” Club Young Alumni Division hosted their 1st Annual Winter Social on January 14, 2012 in the men’s basketball locker room lounge, an event which was a follow-up to their 1st Annual Homecoming Tailgate Event in October. The Young Alumni Division selected twenty letter winners to participate in the exclusive event, which was a huge success. It was a time of fellowship, networking, and cheering on the Men’s Basketball Team against the . Jenilee Rathje, volleyball alum, said “Getting to watch the game together at the YA event ... was a great way to reconnect with old friends. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing the group grow, and make even more connections with young Spartan alums.” Don’t miss out on your opportunity to be a part of this event next year. Make sure to attend the 2nd Annual Young Alumni Homecoming Tailgate this fall for your chance to be selected.

W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 5 Michigan State University Varsity ‘S’ Club Merchant Discount Program The Varsity ‘S’ Club coordinates a program with several campus-area merchants to give club members a discount on purchases when you present your membership card. So if you live in the East Lansing area, or when you visit campus, please patronize these fine merchants who support MSU athletics. Listed below are merchants participating in the program. Discount amounts vary by merchant, so please check with your cashier or waitperson prior to ordering.

Albert’s Furniture - 32344 Michigan Ave. - Wayne Applebee’s - 2284 Woodlake Drive - Okemos Arby’s - 2220 Jolly Rd. - Okemos Bell’s Greek Pizza - 1135 E. Grand River Ave. - East Lansing Bravo! Cuchina Italiana - Eastwood Town Center - Lansing College Book Store - Hagadorn Shopping Center - East Lansing Cosi - 301 E. Grand River Ave. - East Lansing Dusty’s Cellar - 1839 W. Grand River Ave. - Okemos Emil’s Italian Restaurant - 2012 E. Michigan Ave. - Lansing Forest Akers West Pro Shop - MSU Golf Courses Grand Traverse Pie Co. - 1401 E. Grand River Ave. - East Lansing Grand Traverse Pie Co - 3536 Meridian Crossing - Okemos Gilbert & Blake Steak & Seafood - 3554 Okemos Rd. - Okemos Harper’s - 131 Albert Avenue - East Lansing Holden & Reid Clothiers - Frandor Shopping Center - Lansing Twp. Kellogg Hotel - State Room Restaurant - MSU Campus Kellogg Hotel - Gift Shop - MSU Campus Leo’s Lodge - 2525 E. Jolly Rd. - Lansing Leo’s Outpost - 600 S. Pennsylvania Ave. - Lansing Leo’s Spirits and Grub - 2085 W. Grand River Ave. - Okemos Michael’s (Framing Dept. only) - Frandor Shopping Center - Lansing Twp. Panera Bread - Frandor Shopping Center - Lansing Twp. Panera Bread - 4738 Central Park Dr. - Okemos Reno’s East Sportsbar & Grill - 1310 Abbot Rd. - East Lansing Reno’s West Sportsbar & Grill - 5001 W. Saginaw Hwy. - Lansing Spartan Book Store - International Center - Campus Spartan Hall of Fame Cafe - 1601 Lake Lansing Rd. - East Lansing Student Book Store - 421 E. Grand River Ave - East Lansing Trippers - Frandor Shopping Center - Lansing Twp. Velocipede Peddler - 2758 Grand River Ave. - East Lansing Woody’s Oasis - 1050 Trowbridge Rd. - East Lansing

Additional merchants will be added as the program develops. For more information about the program, contact the Varsity ‘S’ Club office at 517-355-8523 or the committee members listed below: Ron Berby - 517-290-8043, Wally Dobler - 517-372-8096, Eldon VanSpybrook - 248-895-0015

W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 6 ‘WHERE ARE THEY NOW?’ 1940s happened to any other varsity since 1996, and spends his winter Em Ghianni, Football, Track, & boxer. He also reports that in 2007 months in Tybee Island, GA. Boxing 1946-47 - Em lives in he was inducted into the Carolinas George Haislip, Football 1964 - Nashville, TN and is retired. But Boxing Hall of Fame. George lives in Elkton, FL and is he is very busy with the Nashville Nick Smith, Gymnastics and retired. He says now he does Chamber of Commerce, it’s Sports Wrestling 1953 - Nick lives in nothing, and doesn’t start that till Council, the Salvation Army Addison, MI. While at MSU he 11:00 AM. Rescue Mission, Standown for also participated in boxing and Gary Panks, Hockey and Golf Homeless Veterans, American cheerleading. He’s served as U.S. 1960-63 - Gary lives in Paradise Legion, VFW, Military Officers Representative in his district, and Valley, AZ. He was captain of the Assoc., Kiwanis, and University says he is now “starting to retire.” Golf team in 1963. He’s now a Club of Vanderbilt. semi-retired golf course architect. John Robuck, Gymnastics 1960s 1947-50 - John lives in Arnold, PA Jay Bach, Baseball 1962-64 - Jay 1970s and has retired from officiating lives in Northfield, IL. He’s in his Ronnie Barnes, Athletic Trainer - volleyball, swimming, and 47th year of teaching at North Honorary Member - Ronnie lives in gymnastics after 50 years. Shore Country Day School in Cedar Grove, NJ and is the Senior Winnetka, and was the assistant Vice President for Medical 1950s golf coach of the 2011 Illinois 1A Services of the New York Football Gunar Ejups, Fencing 1954-55 - Golf Champions. Giants. Gunar lives in Charlotte, NC and is Bob Brawley, Football & Hockey Steve Klemm, Tennis 1977-79 - a semi-retired architect working 1964-67 - Bob lives in Castle Rock, Steve congratulates Sue Selke and part-time as an architectural quality CO and is retired. He remembers Mike Decker for their ‘S” Club assurance consultant. playing on the 1965 and ’66 Big Board assignments and says he’s Oscar Hahn, Football 1958-60 - Ten Football Championship teams, watched Mike’s son play football, Oscar alternates living in Midland, with the ’66 team as National Co- adding that “he looks and plays like MI and Fort Myers, FL. He’s the Champion. He also got the the old man did, only better.” He owner and President of Homes by winning goal for the National remembers ‘S’ Club Big Brother Hahn, Inc. is retired from coaching Championship Hockey team in ’66, events of the 70s as great for both football and track, as well as and was awarded the Outstanding the kids and himself. A result is he teaching Building Trades Junior Award by the Varsity Club. is still coaching tennis part-time at Construction at Midland Schools. His senior year hockey team made Forest Hills Northern High. He’s He enjoys golf and hunting. it to the Frozen Four. He has been President of CureTechnologies. William Miller, Cross Country voted into the Upper Peninsula 1955 - William lives in Mt. Pleasant Sports Hall of Fame. 1980s and says that the Mark Havitz Ed Budde, Football 1960-62 - Ed Cheri Ritz, Softball 1977-81 -Cheri study of Spartan cross country has lives in Overland Park, KS. He Lives in Wyoming, MI and is a renewed his memory of his time at enjoyed a career with the Kansas teacher and coach in Wayland, MI. MSU. Graduating in 1956, he City Chiefs and these days is She teaches middle school taught in high schools and junior involved with the “Caring for Kids” physical education and coaches highs in the Lansing area, received Dream Factory there. For 30 years varsity softball, her team having a NSF scholarship to Wisconsin he has been with the NFL Alumni, won the state title in 2007 and and got his doctorate there in KC Chapter, and is now President. made the final four in 2008. She 1968. He served on the faculty in Rein Clabbers, Soccer 1961-63 - also coaches 8th grade volleyball, mathematics at CMU from ’68 till Rein lives in Newtown, PA. He is and previously served as varsity his retirement in 2000. married to Brenda and has 4 tennis coach. She was Wayland Buck Nystrom, Football 1952-54 - children and 3 grandchildren. He Union athletic director for 9 years. Buck lives in Marquette, MI and is has owned a commercial glass and retired, but emphasizes he is glazing company, but is now semi- 1990s engaged in many activities. retired. In Feb. 2012 he and Christopher Wehrman, Cross Fred Pettyjohn, Boxing 1957-59 - Brenda will travel to Antarctica, Country & Track 1995-99 - Chris is Fred lives in Winston-Salem, NC meaning they have been to all five an attorney in . He’s the and is retired. He says that in continents. President of the Board, Chicago 1959 he was inducted into the Thomas Ellis, Baseball 1967-68 - Area Runners Association. Porpoise Honorary Swimming Tom lives in Grand Rapids, MI. He Fraternity, and wonders if this has been an ‘S’ Club member

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Engagement: Greg Jones - Football - 2011, to Mandy Peichowski - Basketball - 2010 - after Super SAVE THE DATES Bowl at Lucas Oil Field, Indianapolis- Jones is Mar. 12, 2012 - Deadline to submit applications member of Super Bowl Champion New York Giants for Spano Fellowship (see website for applications or call Club office) Does your Varsity Jacket, which fit when April 28, 2012 - Spring Football Game you were twenty, seem tiny these days? Or, do the moths like it even more than you May 12, 2012 - Softball vs. Indiana - 3:00 & 5:00 do? PM double-header * Take heart. A Varsity ‘S’ Club Replacement Jacket May 19, 2012 - Baseball vs. Penn State - noon - * may be just what you need! *Show ‘S’ Club card for entry for member and one Interested? Contact the Club office at: guest for softball and baseball games 517/355-8523 June 6, 2012 - ‘S’ Club Annual Golf Outing

Editor’s Note Sept. 20-22, 2012 -’S’ Club Reunion Weekend Want to improve the newsletter? Be like Oscar Hahn (tentative) - MSU vs. EMU and Steve Klemm, who contacted us, bringing us up Oct. 12, 2012 - Homecoming Parade (‘S’ Club to date since they left our great campus on the banks members, Alumni letter winners and families are of the Red Cedar. Send news and pictures on births, welcomed to march) marriages, promotions, passings, retirements, Oct. 13, 2012 - ‘S’ Club Young Alumni Tailgate moves, and other important milestones in your life. Party before Iowa football game

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