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HOMECOMING WEEKEND '96 LAWRENCE October 11 and 12 UNIVERSITY

Gordon Brown It's Homecoming in the sesquicentennial year, Edi tor and all alumni ore invited. 414-832-65 93 [email protected]

Kris Parins Art director Friday evening Jenny Schmitz Athletic Hall of Fame dinner, at which the charter Graphic designer class of Lawrence and Milwaukee, Downer athletes will be inducted, J ami Severson Production coordinator and Rick Peterson Bonfire and Viking Nightclub. A ssociate director of public affairs News services manager

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Lawrence T oday is published quarterl y in WHO'S ON THE COVER March, June, eptember, and December by Builders of Bjorklunden (from left): Law rence University, Office of Pu blic Affairs, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911. Joseph Paye, carpenter; Oscar C. Boldt, Second-clas po tage paid at Appleton, Lawrence trustee and dedicated Wisconsin 54911. POSTMASTER: Send Bjorklunden volunteer; Marc J. address changes to Lawrence T oday, Champeau, tiler; Mark Schleis, fire­ Law rence U niversity, 115 South Drew Street, Appleton, WI 54911-5 798. proofer; and Don Micoley, mason. Architect for the Bjorklunden project Lawrence T oday (USPS 012-683 ) is George Mattheis, of the firm Miller, Wagner, Coenen, and McMahon of Neenah, and the contractor is Van's Lumber of Dyckesville. Lawrence T 0 D A y SUMMER 1996 VOL 76, NO.4

FEATURES

coVERUp From the Ashes 9 Bjorklunden is back-and better!

FACULTY Faculty Members Remember 13 Five promoted to the rank of professor emeritus.

INT HEwo RLDHuman Rights vs. Inhuman Wrongs 16 Two alums tell the Amnesty International story. oN oLYMPus Winning, Losing, and Playing the Game 18 Before the summer games start, here's where they started.

Amnesty International, o THEHiu Alumnus Wields Broom in page 16 Republican Effort to Clean House 20 Scot Faulkner, '7 5, runs the House like a business.

sTuDENTs The Career Connection 22 Alumni can be of real help to career-seeking students.

I THEcLAss RooM Retiring? Yes. Shy? No. 24 Hugh Denison, '68, finds his second career in grade school.

INT HEL AKE couNTRYFollowing Wordsworth 26 Watson Women, page 28 When the poet wrote prose, he was an environmental prophet.

oN THEIR wAY Three Watson Winners 28 DEPARTMENTS They'll study in Japan, Latin America, and Africa. 2 CORRESPONDENCE oN sTAGE Under the Arts Umbrella 29 4 INSIDE LAWRENCE Innovative students book impressive events. 30 SPORTS 32 LAWRENCE 150 34 ALUMNI TODAY 48 LAWRENCE YESTERDAY House manager, page 20 CORRESPONDENCE

afforded by a liberal education. But Pond. The world of critical it certainly is more likely to occur thinking, abstract ideas, concepts with the chance encounters [the that challenged the norm suddenly president] refers to than in the ster­ descended upon me. I never ile environment of the electronic looked back. Computers and education classroom .... While the focus and selections I should like to say that I very much Even more certain is that it is in a "great books" program such as enjoyed [President Richard Warch's] imperative that wisdom be given a this one will change with the times, message in the President's Report fighting chance to develop. The the Fr shman Studies concept itself [Winter 1995]. I have read likelihood of moral, intellec­ is timeless. It more than anything many articles on computers Lawrence else convinced me that this was T n 1> A. tual, and political disaster if in education, the Internet wisdom is absent in our inter­ indeed not "grade thirteen." and the "information revolu­ connected world is too horri­ tion," and so forth. (Ir would ble to contemplate. David Glaser, '60 be hard to avoid these sub- Part of wisdom is to see Heidelberg, Germany ,;..-- jeers, given their overexpo­ what is good in what is, and sure in the popular media.) to make that available to your The good ship Alexander His essay, however, stands as the charges. In taking the best of what Several years ago, as my wife and I best thing of its type I have seen. It computers have to offer and making drove to northern California, we avoids the relentless jargoning of that a part of the Lawrence stopped at a small town on Highway "cyber" -everything, the repetition of experience, you provide yet another 395 for lunch. As we looked out the pseudo-McLuhanite platitudes, and tool for the twenty-first century tool window of the restaurant, I noticed the depressing number of technical bag students will carry with them a sign on an old barn that said blunders that one finds increasingly along with their diplomas. "U.S. Naval Reserve Electronics often, even in quite respectable pub­ Station, Minden, Nevada." I called lications. Furthermore, [he] address­ Matthew G. Brockmeier, '76 it to the attention of my wife, es the topic with considerable elan. Oak Park, Illinois Dorothy, because it reminded me of Lawrence College. Malcolm D. Pettingell, '93 Freshman Studies is timeless While a student at Lawrence Providence, Rhode Island I read with pleasure and a feeling of from 194 7-49, I was a member of nostalgia the article by Professor "U.S. Naval Reserve Electronics Computers and wisdom John Dreher regarding Freshman Station, Appleton, Wisconsin," What is "wrong with this picture," Studies [Fall 1995]. housed on the third floor of Alexan­ [as President Warch puts it], are of In 1956 I had no intention of der Gym. We met once a week, course the concerns of equity in going to a college, let alone graduat­ fired up our transmitters and access to the cyber-world and of the ing from one and spending a life­ receivers, and tried to communicate threat to the viability of communi­ time in higher education. N onethe­ with various other stations. (The ties of liberal learning like Lawrence less, my parents persuaded me to try only other station I can recall was where education is the primary one semester at Lawrence College. I Minot, North Dakota, because it team sport. . . . The other thing moved into Room 436 at Brokaw was often the coldest city in the wrong, in my estimation, is that we Hall and settled into Dr. Charle nation, with sub-zero weather.) have not, for good reason, been able Breunig's Freshman Studies class Our commanding officer was a to figure out how to process and that fal l. Lt. James Whitman, who lived in deliver wisdom at the speed of light. Of the three books we had to a house next to Russell Sage Hall. Wisdom is not something that read, two still stand out in my mind can be guaranteed by even the array after almost 40 years-Plato's Duaine Discher, '49 of experiences and opportunities Republic and Thoreau's Walden San Juan Capistrano, California

2 Yes, thank you, Miss Jones that what "What are you looking for? Where Lawrence perse­ are you going? Who are you?" At veres in doing is fifty-three I am still asking the fundamentally questions Professor Anne P. Jones so und, honest, raised when I was seventeen, study­ and vis ionary. ing Sartre and Camus, the French Courage. Existentialists. I was a second-rate French student but a first-rate Kathleen Dinham listener, and I heard Miss Jones' Davis '64 gentle urging to take a step beyond Medford, O regon the superficial, to ask the authentic questions, the questions of the seek­ Wartime er of se lf-knowledge. The best ques­ volunteers tions, I suspect, remain unanswered; I happen to have they are the open-ended questions both the names we live. and the date of publication for the the identities of three Milwaukee­ The photo on the back cover of photo on page 48 of the Spring issue Downer students pictured in the Spring iss ue captured Miss Jones (yes, I still have my Downer scrap­ "Lawrence Yesterday" in the Spring in action and transported me back book). iss ue. to 1960, to my formative years that Pictured are, from left: Joanne were so richly nurtured by her vital Englund, Marjorie Wile , Jane Lawrence's knack teaching. Yes, thank yo u, Miss C larkson (standing), and Mrs. As usual, I enj oyed reading the Jones! Your questions, your invita­ W alter Fanning. The picture was recent iss ue of Lawrence Today. I tion to search, continue to resound! published in The Milwaukee Journal, found many of the features and pho­ Sunday, November 28, 1943. It was tos of interest, but particularly the Geraldine Cosmas Curran, '64 part of a feature story for the society piece about Lawrence's orches tra 0 lney, Mary land section titled "War-Minded Downer conductor, Bridget-Michae le Students Challenge Feats of Reischl. Over the years, Lawrence Courage and high standards Grandmother's Day." The has had a knack for selecting highly My husband and I looked in article featured several other capable people for various posts, awe at the photos of Profes­ pictures and mentioned some and, in this lady, you appear to have · sors Mojmir Povolny and of the activities of the Down­ a real winner. How wonderful! Anne P. Jones in the er students to aid in the war latest Lawrence Today; those effort. Frank W. Cole, '57 heroes exhibited courage and Barrington, Illinois dedication to the highest possible Catherine Carlisle Seidl, M-D '46 standards of education and dedica­ Hollywood, Florida Lawrence T oday welcomes letters tion to human dignity. from readers. Correspondence should I have on my bulletin board a Editor's note: be mailed with your name, address, speech by N orman Cousins entitled Thanks also to Vivian Buchsieb and daytime telephone number to: "Why We Need the Arts." He Steig, M-D '47; Helen Gedney De Editor, Lawrence Today, Office of concludes by saying, "[Art] is a way Luca, M-D '48; Estelle Hausmann Public Affairs, Lawrence University, of imparting meaning to life and life Cohen, M-D '47, Marilyn Jelliffe Appleton, W I 549 12-0599. You can to meaning." Lawrence has done the Rothschild, M-D '45; and Eloise fax letters to 414-832-6783 or send same. You know, and some of the Bender Johnson, M-D '45, all of e-mail to: finest minds in the country know, whom made suggestions concerning Gordon. E. Brown@ lawrence. edu.

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Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from Brown Univer ity and is an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at Lawrence. Since 1985 she has New academic unit aids been associate dean of students for students' progress academic advising, and she brings If you look up "academic progress" the responsibilities of that position in the index of the Lawrence course along to her new one: academic catalog, you wi ll be referred to page advising, actions, and regulations; 192, where yo u will find a advising the Honor Council; and timetable: so many course credits by exit counseling of departing students. the end of the first year, so many Overall, she says, "our goal is to more by the end of the second year, meet the needs of students effective­ and so on. A minimum grade-point ly and to learn, through different average for the end of each year is Martha K. Hemwa lt '73, dean of student approaches, how to further ass ist also specified. academic services students in successfully completing That's the arithmetical their degrees." the Alcohol and Drug Education approach: number of credits earned program (in the Health and Coun­ plus cumulative G.P.A. equals seling Center) are staffed part-time Man with a message progress toward the degree. But, by two residence-hall directors as Human rights activist Harry Wu since students are people, not num­ part of their assigned duties. delivered the second talk in the bers, there also is a human side to Hemwall, who graduated from 1995-96 University Convocation the concept of academic progress. Lawrence cum laude with a student­ series, "The Ideas That Shape O ur Martha K. Hemwall, '73, dean designed major in cross-cultural Time, T he People Who Shape Our of student academic services, leads child development, holds M.A. and Ideas," in February. a new administrative department within the office of the dean of the faculty that, in the founding words of President Richard Warch, has been established "to help us address ways in which we can enable and assist students to persist to gradua­ tion." Or, as Hemwall says, "our task is to provide the services students need to get their work done." With a professional staff of five, drawn from existing college depart­ ments to form the new unit, the Office of Student Academic Ser­ vices includes academic-support functions such as the Writing Lab and the College 115 Place (a study­ skills and tutoring center), the Counseling Center, and the Health Center. In addition to the full-time staff members, College Place and

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Wu, who has repeated ly risked N ow a naturalized U.S. citizen, CLICK HERE: his life to expose to public view the Wu came to the United States in http://www.lawrence.edu realities of Chinese forced labor and 1985 and joined the Hoover Insti­ What's new on the LU web site? priso n camps, took as his title "The tute on W ar, Revolution, and Peace Human Cost of China's Economic at Stanford University. T o check out these recent additions: Miracle" and was unequivocal in his Beginning in 1991, he returned • Alumni e~mail addresses assertion that iss ues regarding to China three times to visit prison • Reunion information American trade with and recogni­ camps and document human rights • Alumni message board tion of China should be viewed in violations. Arrested while attempt­ • Calendar of alumni club events the context of the continued exis­ ing to cross the Chinese border last ~ C lick on the ALUMNI button tence of the Laogai, the so-called year, he was sentenced to fifteen • Faculty e~mail addresses "bamboo gulag. " years in prison but later, under • Conservatory ensemble sound W u was incarcerated as a 23- international pressure, was simply bites year- old student in 1960 for criticiz­ expelled from China and wa able • Interactive campus map ing the Communist Party. Although to return to his home in California. ~ Click on the ADMISSIONS never formally charged with a This year's convocation se ries button crime or tried for one, he spent has also included fo rmer Planned nineteen years in the camps, endur­ Parenthood International president • Format: LU's new webzine ing grinding labor, systematic star­ Faye W attleton and historian/ ~ C lick on the BOOKSHELF vation, and torture. author Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. button

Teaching at a distance

Once upon a time it was said that the best education consisted of a great teacher on one end of a log and a student on the other. Three students of the Lawrence Conservatory of Music had an opportunity recently to sample the modern equivalent: world-renowned teacher on one end, students on the other, but no log-just elec­ trons bringing them together. In January, famed violinist Pinchas Zukerman, in Wisconsin to perform with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, conducted an interactive video master class for three Lawrence students. He and a student from the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra in a studio in Waukesha, were linked via teleconferencing equipment to a studio in Appleton where the Lawrence students performed for and were critiqued by Zukerman via video monitor. Zukerman, who uses teleconferencing to conduct master classes as he tours throughout the country, is asso~ dated with the Mastervisions organization in working to further develop the technology. Lawrence students participating in the class were violinist Kate Wahl, '96, violist Kirsten Funk, '96, and violinist Katie Radford, '96. I N S I D E LAWRENCE

Two artists, many honors program in 1995. H is work, "Ball," a after spending more than twenty Todd McGrain, assistant professor white, five-foot-wide sphere made of years as an art instructor in subur­ of art, has been awarded a 1996 bent mahogany, was selected Best in ban Chicago school systems. Guggenheim Fellowship and is one Show at the 1994 ARC Regional of only 158 artists, scholars, and Exhibition in Chicago. Geologist going visiting

Todd McGrain, assistant professor of art Alice King Case, lecturer in art Marcia Bjornerud, associate professor of geology scientists chosen for the prestigious A lice King Case, lecturer in art, was Marcia Bjornerud, associate profes­ honor from nearly 2,800 applica­ selected to exhibit in the tenth sor of geology, has been selected by tions. The John Simon Guggenheim annual Women in the Visual Arts the National Science Foundation to Memorial Foundation selectively 1996 Show at the Erector Square take part in its 1996-97 Visiting awards the fe llowships on the basis Gallery in New Haven, Connecti­ Professorship for Women program. of "unusually distingu ished achieve­ cut, during March. Her work, A specialist in structural geology ment in the past and exceptional "T ommy's Plane to Mexico," was and tectonics, Bjornerud will spend promise for future accomplishment." among works by eighty-two artists the fa ll term as a visiting professor The fe llowship, worth $30,000, selected from more than 2,500 at Michigan Technological Univer­ will enable McGrain to take leave entries nationally by Ann Langdon, sity in Houghton, Michigan. In of his teaching duties for the 1996- artist/writer and ga llery manager at addition to conducting her own 97 academic year and pursue cre­ T he Kennedy Center for the Per­ research on slope stability, she will ative endeavors of his choosing. A forming Arts and founder of the teach a cla s in geological pedagogy. sculptor specializing in large-scale Women in the Arts exh ibition. In 1995, Bjornerud co-authored wood and metal constructions, he A lso th is spring, Case was fea­ a laboratory manual that took a wi ll use the fe llowship "to continue tured in a multi-image Electronic radically different approach to orne of the current work I'm doing, Gallery in San Francisco, supported introductory geology, shifting from start some new projects, and just by School Arts magazine, which was the conventional focus on rock and keep the ball rolling." He also a juried exhibition featuring the mineral identification to one orga­ intends to study critical writing works of eigh ty-nine international nized around themes of earth sci­ germane to h is field and vis it muse­ arts educators selected out of a pool ence, incorporating global issues urns and galleries throughout the of 700 entries. with political and economic impli­ country. Last October, Case, who special­ cations, such as climate change. McGrain was also chosen this izes in mixed-media drawing and Bjornerud joined the Lawrence winter to receive a Wisconsin Art collage, won the Jurors' Award of facu lty in September, after six years Board Scholarship funded by the Merit in the annual Wisconsin Art in the geology department at Miami National Endowment for the Arts. Educators Exhibition at the Milwau­ University in Ohio. For the past two A member of the Lawrence fac­ kee Institute of Art and Design for years she has been named a Distin­ ulty since 1991, he was a resident the second consecutive year. She gu ished Speaker by the National in the Kohler Artists in Industry joined the Lawrence faculty in 1980 Association of Geology Teachers.

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The tangled history of 1 F1 con isted of twenty­ Dorothy Sayers' bibliophile detec­ five books or chapters, tive Lord Peter W imsey, we re he but only a single copy available, might make a good ass is­ of six of the books­ tant for Professor of C lass ics Daniel chapters fi ve to ten­ ]. T aylor, '63, who is investigating remained by the start one of the great mysteries in the of the early Middle history of books. Lord Peter, Ages. That copy, unfortunately, is both fictional and known to Varronian inaccessible, so T ay lor, armed with scholars simply as "F," a $30,000 Fellowsh ip for College is in the form of a T eachers from the N ational Endow­ manuscript painstak­ ment fo r the Humanitie and nearly ingly transcribed by a twenty years of his own research, Benedictine monk at wi ll go it alone, spending the 1996- the Monte Cass ino 97 academic year in Florence and monastery in the Rome following a trail of power­ eleventh century. Professor of Classics Daniel J. Taylor, '63 hungry men, intrigue and secrecy, Enduring several cen- theft and neglect. turies of skullduggery by some of h is­ Michelangelo. The object of T aylor' detective tory's most learned and powerful T aylor, considered the world 's work is De Lingua Latina (On the men, including Boccaccio, collector leading authority on Yarra and the Latin Language ), written in the first Niccolo Niccoli, and the Medici "F" manuscript, received a previous century B.C. by Marcus T erentius family, "F" managed to survive. It NEH grant in 1980. When complet­ Yarra, ancient Rome's most prolific now res ides in the Laurenziana ed, his research is expected to be scholar and authority on the history Library in Florence, locked under published in the country's leading of Roman language science. glass and literally chained to an ele­ monograph series on the history of The original De Lingua Latina gant bookshelf designed and built by linguistics.

Can you spell C-H-A-M-P-1-0-N-S?

When the Fox Valley Literacy Coalition held its first Corporate Spelling Bee in Memorial Union's Riverview Lounge in March, it was the team with the home-court advantage that left with the trophy. Competing against fifteen teams from other area businesses, organizations, and institutions, the Lawrence University spelling squad of (from left) Richard Harrison, dean of the faculty; Michael Hittle, professor of history; and Bertrand Goldgar, professor of English, ultimately prevailed over a team from the Appleton Area School District. (Ruth Lanouette, assistant professor of German, was an alternate team member.) When the Appleton educators tripped over the word "contemptuously" in the final round, Pro­ fessor Hittle supplied the correct spelling. Professor Goldgar then clinched the first-place trophy for Lawrence by flawlessly reciting the correct spelling of "actuary." 7 I N S I D E LAWRENCE

Performing percussionists "Marimba Quartet" showcase per­ Parents Weekend is Until recently, Argen tinean com­ cuss ion keyboard instruments: November 1·3 poser Alberto Ginastera's 1960 Can~ marimba, vibraphone, and bells (in Parents W eekend in the sesquicen­ tata para America Magica had been all , the C D features nearly 100 dif­ tennial year of Lawrence University commercially recorded only once. ferent percuss ion instruments). wi ll provide Pres ident Richard Now the first digitized version of "Marimba Quartet" and Andrew W arch and the steering committee the six-movement work can be Frank's "Elective Affin ities I," the of the Parents Association an heard on the first C D released by CO's fo urth selection, are the first opportunity to welcome parents, the Lawrence University Percussion commercial recordings of both siblings, and other relatives of cur­ Ensemble (LUPE). pieces. rent students to a program of events Featuring soprano Patrice In November, LUPE was one of both instructional and entertaining. Michaels Bedi, ass istan t professor only two groups invited to perform Scheduled for Friday, N ovember of music, Cantata h ighlights LUPE's in Phoenix, A rizona, at the interna­ 1, through Sunday, November 3, recently released, self-titled C D, tional convention of the Percuss ive Parents W eekend will include info r­ wh ich was produced during the A rts Society, after amass ing the sec­ mational programs presented by 1994-95 academic year in ond-highest point total in a "call for students, faculty, and staff members; Lawrence's own digital studio under tapes" that included entries fro m a performance by conservatory the direction of conductor Dane colleges and universities around students; a Lawrence-Ripon football Richeson, associate professor of the world. game, fo llowed by a reception; a music. parent/student Sunday brunch ; and In addition, the CD includes T he LUPE CD is available for $10 other opportunities for parents to three other contemporary composi­ (add $3 for shipping and handling) learn more about Lawrence. tions for percussion ensemble. from the Lawrence Universi ty For more info rmation , call David Maslanka's 1991 "Crown of Conservatory of Music Office , Parents Weekend coordinator T horns" and Daniel Levitan 's 1987 P.O. Box 599, Appleton, W I 54912. Stacy Shrode, 414-832-6556.

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lmost from the day con~ when there are people inside and help welcome in the new A struction began on the new making the building come to life, lodge," says George. lodge at Bjorklunden, giving it a personality," says George. Like many others, the Larsens George and Barbara Larsen, both The Larsens' personalities will be have been hooked on the Bjorklun~ '49, have happily served as selr among the very first imparted to the den Seminars since they attended appointed, unofficial building new lodge when its first wave of their first one in 1981, the second inspectors and tour guides. Every guests arrives in June for the revived year of the summer series. They've other Saturday for the past several Bjorklunden Seminars. George and attended at least one seminar every months, with a couple of friends in Barbara were the first registrant for year since, including the past two tow, they have made the ten~mile this year's series, hand~delivering summers despite the series being journey from their home in Sister their registrations the same day the put on hold by the August, 1993 fire Bay to the college's estate on the seminar brochure arrived in their that damaged the original lodge. Lake Michigan shore to check out mailbox. Undaunted by the series cance l~ the progress and show off the place. "We've always attended as com~ lation, Barbara Larsen and Gretchen "We'd sneak over there and just muters in the past, but this year Maring, '52, decided to improvise, try to imagine what it will be like we're going to stay on the grounds organizi ng a single, week~long sem i~ nar each summer that attracted close to twenty participants to a Door County re ort. "Some of us felt so strongly about the pro~ gram we just wanted to keep the continuity going," George says. With the new lodge, which was scheduled for completion in May, comes an expanded lin e~ up of twenty~one week~ long seminars, nearly double the number of previous years. Starting in mid~ June and running through the first week of George and Barbaro larsen, both '49, ore ovid September, the 1996 Bjorklunden boosters. series promises an eclec~ tic mix of courses offer~ ing an oxymoronic respite: relaxing stimula~ tion. Seminar partici~ Ann Hodges, '84, and John Perkins, '83, ore co­ pants will immerse directors of the seminar program. The fireplace is themselves in topics as constructed from stone salvaged from the former diver e as literature of lodge. the American Indian, the power of myth, and contemporary Chinese cinema.

10 A Stunning Creation a height of twenty-three feet, reaching a ceiling of If first impressions are indeed lasting ones, visitors to douglas fir timbers and cedar planking. A massive fire­ Bjorklunden will long remember their first stay at the new place, constructed with stones salvaged from the original lodge. Nestled unobtrusively amid a peaceful grove of lodge's fireplace, stands ten feet wide and invites birch cedars, 300 feet south of its predecessor, the new build­ logs into its cavernous six-foot arched opening. What ing's west face greets guests with its stunning combination chill the fireplace doesn't dispense with, a radiant heating of cedar siding and Door County limestone, under a dis­ system beneath the random-width white oak hardwood tinctive red roof accented with decorated ridgepoles. floors will, providing year-round comfort, someth ing the Views out the east-side windows promise spectacular sun­ old lodge was unable to do. rises over the estate's mile and a quarter of unspoiled Lake "Our goal is to create a unique and wonderful environ­ Michigan shoreline. ment here," says Hodges, who first fell in love with the "While the seminars deal with matters of the world, estate as a student in the early 1980s, when she spent her the setting of the seminars is almost unworldly," says summers there working at the seminars. "We want to pro­ George Larsen, who speaks of Bjorklunden in reverential vide an opportunity for people to learn something and get tones. away from the pressures of their everyday lives. Lawrence "It's the most beautiful building in Door County," is very lucky to have this property." proudly states Ann Hodges, '84, who, wi th her husband, 11 John Perkins, '83, has co-directed the seminar series since A Biorklunden Experience" 1991. "The architecture, the craftsmanship, and the quali­ While summer seminar participants are the immediate ty of materials that have gone into this make it an beneficiaries of the new lodge and its surrounding tran­ absolutely stunning creation. quility, the potential for each Lawrence student to enj oy "We have a building that retains some of the quaint­ a "Bjorklunden experience" was one of the forces driving ness and charm of the old lodge, but it's also a wonderful, the Board of Trustees' decision to rebuild the lodge after modern facility with the space and amenities to do the the fire. work we need to do here," Hodges adds. Thanks largely to President Richard Warch's vision of Built on one of the few remaining large tracts of involving Bjorklunden more intimately and regular­ undeveloped land in all of Door County, the new ly with the educational mission of the college, lodge, at 17 ,190 square feet, is more than students will be accorded opportunities starting quadruple the size of the original. The two­ this October to attend their own seminars story, wood-frame structure features five throughout the academic year, for explo­ guest rooms on the first fl oor and seven ration and reflection of ideas, artistic on the second, with a total capacity expression, and discussion of of twenty-eight. Each guest room communal and personal-value has its own bath. issues. The focal point of the "We want to make first floor is the aptly Bjorklunden a part of named great room, what it means to be a which stretches to Law rence student," says W arch. such as skiing or hiking week­ the chapel is modeled after a church ends and leadership training in Lillehammer, Norway, that was programs. destroyed in World War II . A popu­ "The new lodge offers a lar site for weddings-an average of marvelous opportunity for stu­ fifteen a year are performed there­ dent enrichment programs," and a favorite stop among Door says Lauter. "The committee is County tourists, the chapel contains particularly interested in inter­ forty-one hand-painted frescoes and disciplinary programs that will numerous carved-wood furnishings. connect issues and ideas from "Bjorklunden is a valuable asset, different points of view and and an extraordinary one at that, provide integration of previous­ but it is also a trust," says President ly disparate themes." Warch. "Its value to the college is John Dietrich, '67 of Ellison Bay Pottery, is hand-crafting Much like their summer not merely monetary but also spiri­ ·lamps for the Bjorklunden guest rooms. He is the son of counterparts, the student semi­ tual. The qualities of peace, tran­ Thomas M. Dietrich, professor of art emeritus. nars will be conducted in an quility, and self-discovery that Mrs. atmosphere in which old Boynton conveyed in her book, assumptions are left behind and Faith Builds a Chapel, remain an the barriers of class, rank, age, essential part of the place, as those and status are broken down to who have experienced Bjorklunden foster meaningful learning from repeatedly testify. Now that we have each other. this wonderful new lodge, we can If the students are able to take full advantage of Bjorklunden feel the magic of Bj orklunden for the benefit of students through­ that the adult seminar partici­ out the academic year. While I'm pants do during their summer delighted the seminar series will visits, George Larsen is confi­ resume this summer, I am even dent it will be an experience more excited by the possibilities for they'll never forget. Lawrentians that will unfold there in the coming years. An Asset and a Trust "Colleges like Lawrence have "Such an experience will be a com­ Bjorklunden Vid Sjon ("Birch For­ opportunities to offer distinctive mon bond shared by all Lawrentians est by the Water") was donated to educational programs that set them and likely will be a pivotal moment Lawrence in 1963 by Donald and apart from their peers," Warch adds. in their undergraduate years." Winifred Boynton of Highland "Clearly, Freshman Studies serves Charles Lauter, dean of off-cam­ Park, Illinois. The original325-acre that purpose on the Appleton cam­ pus programs, heads a committee of estate has grown to 405 acres as a pus, and a Bjorklunden experience faculty, staff, and students planning result of a recent gift from Lawrence can and, I trust, will become a dis­ the incorporation of Bjorklunden Trustee Oscar Boldt, who purchased tinctive element of the college on into the college program. Among and donated an adjoining eighty our Baileys Harbor campus. I'm the seminar offerings being devel­ acres. pleased so many of our alumni and oped are departmental language­ In addition to the lodge, the friends already share that vision. I immersion weekends, course-based Bjorklunden estate also includes a hope many more will come to do so biology and geology field trips, small wooden chapel built in the in the future." ~ and photography and painting fifteenth-century Norwegian classes, as well as recreational and stavekirke style. Handcrafted by the For information about Bjorklunden extracurricular activities Boyntons between 1939 and 1947, Seminars, please call414-839-2216.

12 I FACULTY I FACULTY RETIREMENTS Five promoted to the rank of professor emeritus

When Chapman Professor of Physics J. Bruce Brackenridge taught his last Lawrence course "The F oun ~ dations of Western Science," this spring, it was offered not by the Department of Physics but by the Department of History. The course ~ listing shift parallels a real shift in the course of a scholar who holds degrees in both physics (Ph.D. 1959) and the history of science (M.A. 1974 ). Early in his career, Brackenridge published articles with titles like "Acoustical Characteristics of Jet~ Edge Systems" (Journal of the Acoustical Society, 1957) and "Traverse Oscillations of a Liquid Jet, I" (Journal of the Acoustical Society, 1960). Since the 1979 publication of "Johannes Kepler: The More Certain Principles of Astral~

Robert Below, professor of music, was in good company when the Lawrence choirs presented a December concert titled "Bach, Below, Bernstein, Britten, and the Mighty Brombaugh," which showcased the college's Brombaugh tracker organ and paid tribute to Professor Below by pe r~ forming his "T e Deum Laudamus." It's been a very Below year on Lawrence concert stages, with the LU Wind Ensemble presenting his "Sym~ phonic Movement, op. 24," a premier recital by university organist George Damp of Below's four~movemen t "Suite for Organ," a lecture/piano recital by Below himself titled "Claude Debussy: Especially the Later Years," and a Lawrence Symphony Orchestra concert in which the ogy" (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, retiring faculty member performed Beethoven's Fourth M.A. Rossi, translator, J. Bruce Brackenridge, notes), his Concerto and the orchestra presented two of his short career has focused on the development of early scientific pieces, "Festival Fanfare" and "Fanfare with March." models, particularly in the work of Kepler and Newton. Below has taught piano, music history and literature, In 1995, the University of California Press published theory and analysis, and music appreciation at Lawrence Brackenridge's book The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The since 1964. An active performer, as well as the composer Kepler Problem and the Principia, which, according to of over fifty works, he has appeared with the Louisville, Alan Shapiro of the Un iversity of Minnesota, "fills a large San Francisco, Sacramento, and Lima, Peru, Symphonies gap in the existing literature." as we ll as the Waukesha, Green Bay, and Fox Valley "The recent burst of activity," Brackenridge notes, Symphonies in Wisconsin. He studied at the University "seems to be rather a nice capstone." And the activity is of Louisville, where he received a Distinguished Alumni not over. Brackenridge has been named a resident fellow Award in 1993, and at the Hochschule fur Musik in of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Cologne, Germany. T echnology at Massachusetts Institute of T echnology and "I have found Lawrence to be a fine place to work," he will spend the second semester of 1996~97 in Cambridge, says. "I have become a part of this institution, and it has Massachusetts, using the Institute's collection of Newto~ become a part of me." The students, colleagues, and con~ niana to begin a comparative study of the diagrams in cert aud iences of thirty~two years would surely agree. Newton's Principia.

13 Gervais ("Gerry") Reed credits the college for keeping his thirty-two years in the Lawrence French department interesting. "Whenever I was tired or discouraged, the college offe red me new opportunities," says Reed, the Marie W ollpert Professor of Modern Languages, citing the trips he made to Paris with Lawrentians, the year he served as dean of students in the mid-1980s, and his tenure as chair of Freshman Studies as some of the opportunities he's most enjoyed. "I have no regrets. I've had a very satisfy ing career," he says. In January, Reed learned he had been named a C hevalier de l' ordre de s Palmes Academiques- a kn ight in the O rder of Academic Palms- by the French govern­ ment for his activities on behalf of French language and John Palmquist

During his 28 years at Lawrence, Professor of Geology John Palmquist most loved teaching h is subject where he fe lt most comfortable- out in the fie ld. He recalls with pride having played a leading role in starting the Associ­ ated Colleges of the Midwest's geology program and developing the Lawrence geology field term. While oth­ ers might head for the beaches during Spring Break, Palmquist often led h is students on field trips to the G rand Canyon , Death Valley, or Big Bend N ational Park. O n one such excursion, while studying strata above a road along a deep canyon in southern Colorado, Brad Powers, '74, accidentally fell over the side of the road and out of sight. "W e knew the drop was about 1,000 feet down the canyon wall," Palmquist recalls. "I was already composing my eulogy for his parents and the letter to the dean explaining how this tragedy happened when Brad's face miraculously appeared over the edge of the shelf. It was the most beautiful sigh t I've ever seen." Powers had somehow managed to catch a narrow, secondary shelf culture in the United States. "I was exhilarated and below the road. humbled by it," he says. From seeing Dan Lawson, '71, on cable TV's Discov­ Yet, it is the relationships he's enj oyed with h is stu­ ery Channel discussing A laskan glaciers to receiving dents that Reed counts as the h ighlight of h is career. e-mail from G ina Seegers, '92, at the South Pole, "Seeing young people succeed in a career in which Palmquist's students have given him a career-long store they use their foreign language is very gratify ing. I have of pleasant memories. some really strong fr iendships with students who have "I'm defin itely going to miss not being an active par­ kept in touch. O nce they were studen ts, now they are ticipant in the exciting further evolution of geology at real friends ." Lawrence" he says.

14 AMONG THE EMERITI In what could well become a regular feature, Lawrence "There's nothing Lawrence does Today reports on the continuing professional activities that I believe in more than this of retired members of the faculty. trip," George W . Smalley, professor of Slavic languages and literature, Miriam Duncan, professor of music emerita, is to be one of four has said about the biannual "Slav ic presenters on organ pedagogy at the American Guild of Organists journeys" to several of the Russ ian national convention this summer. republics and as many as 18 differ­ ent countries he has led since 1969. "Years from now, the students will have the confidence to solve prob­ lems and survive, and that's some­ thing yo u can't teach," he told Lawrence Today in 1981. That was the year Smalley's group arrived in W arsaw just in time for a major strike by the labor union Solidarity. Finding them­ selves in the middle of that tense situation, the Lawrence students learned real lessons about eastern European politics, economics, and ideology and, yes, about solidarity. "You learn, and you learn fast," Smalley said. "After this trip, I'd be willing to drop them on the moon." A student who was a veteran of John Koopman, professor of music emeritus, is keeping busy in retire­ both the Slavic trip and Smalley's ment. An opera journalist, he has reviewed over forty performances this courses in Russ ian language and lit­ season, including three complete cycles of Wagner's Ring. Performances erature said a few years later, "Mr. from Seattle to San Francisco to Sarasota were on his schedule, as were Smalley didn't just prepare us to interviews with baritone Bryn Terfel and soprano Renee Fleming. speak Russ ian. He prepared us to be Koopman writes for Opera News and similar magazines in Germany, citizens of the world." Italy, and France. A member of the Lawrence fac­ An interview Koopman conducted with Philip Glass, when the ulty since 1964, Smalley is a recipi­ composer visited the Lawrence campus in 1990, has been selected for ent of the Edward and Rosa Uhrig inclusion in a soon-to-be-published anthology. Tentatively titled Writ­ Award for Excellent T eaching, an ings on Glass, the book is scheduled to be published by G. Schirmer honor whose selection procedures later this year. involved both faculty members and students. ea.. Ben Ross Schneider, Jr., professor of English emeritus, is working on a book, The Moral Basis of Shakespeare's Plays , and has published three recent articles on the subject. "Granville's jew of Venice, a Close Reading of Shakespeare's Mer­ chant" appeared in the English literary culture journal Restoration in 1994. "King Lear in its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes" was included in the April 1995 first edition of Early Modem Literary Studies, which is published on the Internet. And, "'Are We Being His­ torical Yet?': Colonialist Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tempest" was published in Shakespeare Studies for 1995. lrN THE WORLD I Human Rights vs. Inhuman Wrongs Lawrence Alums and Amnesty International

In 1961 in a cafe in Portugal two students were relaxing with glasses of wine. They toasted each other: "to freedom. " Agents of the Portuguese dictator Salizar overhead. The students were arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison . In London a lawyer named Peter Benenson heard about the case, was outraged at the injustice, and decided to start a campaign for their release. The Portuguese students and others that Benenson learned of were dubbed "The For gotten Prison~ ers," and a grassroots letter~writing effort was organized. Benenson thought the campaign would last only a year, but that was just the beginning. Miraan Sa, '90, and David Stamps, '66, serve on the board of directors for Amnesty International U.S.A. (AIUSA). Stamps also is treasurer of the U.S. Section (some may remember how he lost the election for student treasurer at Lawrence in 1964) . How did two Lawrentians from very different generations and backgrounds become involved in this organization that works to help people they don't even know? Here are their stories.

By David Stamps, '66 friends. Days dragged on, and the meeting of the U .S. Section at and Miraan Sa, '90 torture continued. Georgetown University in Washing­ Then one day, the door to her ton, D.C. Dave Stamps' story cell opened and someone threw in Late that first night, as I was try­ In the mid-1980s, I heard on the a small loaf of bread. She could only ing to find my way back to my dorm radio a speech about Amnesty feel it, because the cell was com­ room, I came across a short older International that included the pletely dark. She broke open the woman who was trying to do the story of a young Italian woman loaf and felt two matches and small same. When she spoke, she had a during World War II who had been piece of paper. She struck a match pronounced Italian accent. The hair captured by the secret police and read the note. It said, "Have on the back of my neck started to because they suspected, correctly, courage." Then she knew for the quiver as I realized that this was the that she worked for the Italian first time that others knew where woman whose story had inspired resistance. They tortured her for she was and that they would try to me. I decided then that, if she could days and weeks-every way in help her. That note gave her the continue the fight for human rights, which you can torture a human courage to keep on. I could, too. Her name is Ginetta being. She despaired, because she I heard that story, and I realized Sagan, and I am still working with knew that, if they tortured her long that, even though it happened her on her new Amnesty foundation enough, she would crack and tell before Amnesty began, it describes to promote human rights for women them the names of others in the how the victims of human rights and children. resistance. A lone and sure that no abuse must feel today. I decided that Over the years with Amnesty I one knew where she was or even I wanted to help, so I joined my have had many experiences: attend­ that she was alive, she contemplated local Amnesty group. Soon after, I ing the United Nations World taking her own life to protect her attended the annual general Conference on Human Rights in

16 Vienna, sailing in a boat off the in Paris, France, and Ljubjana, increasingly sophisticated as it has coast of Haiti to protest unfair U.S. Slovenia. grown over the years, but the initial refugee policies (and sitting in a It's hard for me to articulate the idea is still there. Its primary tool is small dinghy paddling for a photog­ reasons why I'm doing this work, public opinion, working to bring to rapher who wanted pictures of the except to say that I feel compelled light human rights violations so that boat-not something I learned in in some way to try to make a public outcry will force governments Coach Denny's sailing class! ), testi­ difference. to stop. Around the world, individu­ fying before legislators on human Outside my volunteer work for als and groups of concerned citizens rights iss ues, and attending interna­ Amnesty, I am completing an M.A. write letters to governments and tional financial meetings in London. in international studies at Florida enlist their own government offi­ I have met many victims of International University in Miami, cials to write letters. They demon­ human rights abuse. Over and over and I work with Haitian refugees strate. They contact the media. they tell me that what we do works. and immigrants. It works. In almost 35 years, Amnesty International has saved thousands of people have been thousands of lives, prevented torture Amnesty's story saved from torture, disappearance, and executions, and forced the Amnesty International has almost and death by the collective efforts return of those "disappeared" (kid­ one million members worldwide, of individuals who cannot stand by napped) by their own governments. with approximately 250 full-time and let governments abuse their staff members who research citizens. e., Miraan Sa's story international human rights In the fall of 1990, after graduating violations, develop strategies to from Lawrence, I received the stop and prevent such violations, AI USA Ralph ] . Bunche Human and manage an organization Rights Fellowship to work for that now has members in Amnesty in Chicago. After the virtually every country. fellowship I was selected for a three­ W orking indepen­ month internship in Miami, work­ dently of governments ing at the Hai tian Refugee Center. and ideologies, Since the summer of 1993, I have Amnesty seeks to served as an elected board member. secure the release My involvement with Amnesty of prisoners of con- and with human rights iss ues, soence-men, particularly those regarding refugees, women, and children just keeps increasing. Last fall I took detained anywhere part in an AI refugee miss ion to the solely because of their U.S. naval base at Guantanamo beliefs, ethnic origin , Bay, Cuba, to look at conditions sex, color, or language facing Haitian refugees detained who have neither used there. nor advocated violence. As a volunteer board member, It also works for fair and my commitment is, at minimum, prompt trials for all polit­ four annual meetings, each held ical prisoners and an end over a period of three days. In addi­ to all forms of torture, tion, most board members attend "disappearance" (political various other meetings. I have been kidnapping), political to regional and annual meetings, killing, and the death planning meetings for special penalty. projects, and international meetings Amnesty has become 17 his summer, T the 24th Olympiad of the modern era will unfold in Atlanta. While the modern games bear little resemblance to the Olympics of Milo's day, the idea of a quadrennial international athletic festival did originate in ancient Greece and serve as the inspiration for revival of the O lympics in 1896. The ancient games, like the mod­ ern, brought instant fame and recogni­ tion to the victors: to win in the Olympics, then as now, meant that the victorious athlete was truly the world's best in h is event. According to tradition, the first Olympiad occurred in 776 B.C., at O lympia in south­ western Greece; a foot race may have been the only contest. Eventually, however, ancient jumpers carried six~pound would have scoffed at the idea of the program expanded, so that by lead or stone weights, one in each rewarding losers; in their minds, if the early sixth century B.C., several hand, during the jump. The rea on sixteen contestants lined up for the events were featured: the stade race for this has never been definitively stade race, there would be one win~ (a 200~yard sprint), the diaulos (a explained. Perhaps the Greeks ner and fifteen losers. Winning­ double stade, or 400~y a rd run), and believed that the weights afforded a and only winning-was considered the dolichos (a long~distance race of jumper great momentum upon take~ worthy of official recognition. perhaps one to three miles). Mara~ off or provided stability in landing. In the introduction to his monu~ thon races were never part of the Aristotle stated flatly that an athlete mental history of the Peloponnesian ancient games; the Greeks evidently could jump farther with the weights War, Thucydides suggested that had the good sense to realize that no than without them. Competitors patterns in history tend to repeat human in his right mind should vol~ then, as now, naturally would latch them elves. Perhaps in no other untarily run 26 miles. onto any advantage that might give sphere of human endeavor do In addition to the races there them the winning edge. Thucydides' words ring truer than were contests of strength and skill, Other events included horse and in the realm of athletic competition: such as boxing, wrestling, and an chariot racing, mule~drawn chariot to play the game or run the race, all~out brawl called the pankration, racing, and armed foot races in to win, to rejoice in victory-these sort of an ancient version of All~ which the runners wore helmets are the universal bonds between all Star Wrestling in which hitting, and carried shields. athletes, ancient and modem. tripping, strangling, and hair pulling And, in that same sense, there all were legal. • may be a touch of Milo in many an The rules of all three of these Olympian who journeys to Atlanta "contact sports" would astonish a Many aphorisms on victory and this summer. ea. modern observer. For example, defeat are attributed to Vince there were no weight classes; hence Lombardi, legendary coach of the David Matz, '69, is an associate pro~ a 220 ~p ounder could compete Green Bay Packers, including such fessor of humanities at the University against an opponent weighing 100 sayings as "Winning isn't a some~ of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Pennsylva~ pounds less- or more. There were time thing; it's an a ll~time thing" or nia . He has written two books and no time limits on matches and no "Winning isn't everything; it's the coached three soccer and four baseball rounds. In boxing and the pankration only thing." Lombardi's perspective teams, all with varying degrees of criti~ a bout continued without pause closely paralleled the ancient cal acclaim. until one participant was too dazed, Greeks': the attainment of nike bloodied, or exhausted to go on-a (the Greek word for victory, now Recommended reading determination made by the athlete. appropriately used as trade name for Miller, Stephen, 1991, Arete: Greek Referees, although present, never the ath l etic~appare l manufacturer) Sports from Ancient Sources, Univer~ stopped a match to protect the was the only worthwhile goal, the sity of California Press, Berkeley. health of even a seriously injured only acceptable outcome, for an contestant. ancient athlete. Pausanias (tr. published 1971), The Olympic program also The Greeks emphasized and Guide to Greece, Volume 2: Southern included the pentathlon, an event demanded victory as vigorously as Greece (books V and VI, on Elis, tr. consisting of five contests: the long a Knight or a Steinbrenner, a Peter Levi), Penguin Books, jump, the discus throw, the javelin Ditka or a Lombardi. In the 20th~ New York. throw, a stade race, and wrestling. century version of the Olympic The discus and javelin throws were games, second ~ and third~place Pindar (tr. published 1974), Pindar's quite similar to modern versions, as finishers receive silver and bronze Odes (tr. Roy Arthur Swanson), was the long jump. However, medals, respectively. The Greeks Macmillan, New York

19 I ON THE HILL I

Alumnus Wields the The soon~to~be Speaker of the House wanted Faulkner to give up all that to become chief administra ~ Broom in Republican tive officer of the House, where he would be responsible for oversight Effort to Clean House of the chamber's finances and employees, as well as the notorious By Stephen ] . Siegel, '89 House Post Office, where allegations of postage stamp fraud had brought When Republicans down former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, gained control of a Chicago Democrat, in 1994. the House of Rep ~ Faulkner quickly agreed, which resentatives, thanks also put him in charge of the House to their unexpected Bank, where a check ~ bouncing landslide victory in scandal ousted a number of lawmak~ the 1994 midterm ers in 1992, and the House's hun~ elections, visions of dreds of employees. the changes they Before he did so, though, he could make, the needed an answer to just one ques~ power they could tion: "Will there be any must~hires wield, and the or must~fires?" His concern was that stamp they could politics would interfere with his place on the capital ability to shape the House's work filled their heads. force and require him to put on the They had been payroll a favored lawmaker's niece given plenty of or a key constituent's son. time to think about "I was told no." Faulkner says. such things during Scot Fa ulkner, '7 5, chief administrative officer of th e House of He and Gingrich shook hands, and the forty long years Representatives. the deal was done. that Democrats Gingrich wanted to make the controlled the House, and now they the management techniques of House operate more efficiently, save could put some of their ideas into thinkers like W. Edwards Deming, money, and eliminate the complex action. whose strategies have suddenly political patronage system that The timing couldn't have been become popular all across corporate Democrats had installed during better. A quiet, genial man from America. their four decades in controL Illinois named Bob Michel had just "Can you join us?" Faulkner That patronage system rewarded retired as the top Republican in the remembers Gingrich asking on friends and punished enemies, to House, and in line to replace him December 10, 1994, one month the point that some lawmakers had was Rep. Newt Gingrich, a Georgia after the Republican electoral sweep trouble getting computers fixed or Republican who had grand visions and three weeks before the new furniture repaired, Faulkner says. of changes that the new Republican Congress was set to begin work. In 14 months, the work has gone majority could make. At the time, Faulkner was better than he could have envi~ One of the first things Gingrich running his own consulting firm sioned, and the modernization of did was to pick up the telephone in Washington, the Farragut Man~ the House is well underway. and call Scot Faulkner, '75, a gov~ agement Institute, which served "They were hoping I would come ernment major at Lawrence who clients in government and educa~ up with ideas that were consistent has made his mark implementing tion as well as the private sector. with a general business philosophy,"

20 Faulkner explains. handle 2 million pieces of mail per This is a great change for the That meant radical change . day, even though the House rarely House, but Faulkner acknowledges The House Post Office was high sends out that much. that he's only bringing it up to the on the list of things that demanded "We did a standard business level of what corporate America has reform. Faulkner and his lieuten­ analysis. What we found was that it been doing for years. Nevertheless, ants, all of whom have business had extremely high fixed costs and he contends that, in the govern­ backgrounds, quickly set out to pri­ extremely variable needs," Faulkner ment, that's a very big step. vatize the facility, believing that a says. "When the House wasn't up to "In the private sector world, this company that specialized in such a that level of activity (during con­ is a no-brainer," he says. "Up here, task could improve service, lower gressional recesses and campaign it's revolutionary." the cost, and eliminate the political season, for example), people were As the right-hand man of meddling that ended Rostenkowski's Gingrich, Faulkner has gotten to congressional career. know the controversial Speaker up Faulkner's critics said it couldn't close. He is impressed, and he insists be done, and some of the federal that the American public's negative 11 employees who are being dismissed Better service impression of the man is the result in the move have filed complaints, of a "demonization" by the media. but the House Post Office since at a cheaper cost. "You're dealing with one of the February 13 has been operated by most visionary politicians in today's Pitney Bowes under contract with What a concept." world," Faulkner says. "Go to his the federal government. It won a office, and you'll see that one of the competition with 82 other compa­ books on his desk is called The Next nies to get the contract. 500 Years. He's kind of a Renais­ "Better service at a cheaper literally just sitting around." sance Man. The media can't com­ cost. What a concept," Faulkner It was so bad that the cost of prehend this person." deadpans. mailing items in the House some­ Looking back on the first 14 The decision to turn over the times reached as high as $480 per months, Faulkner has no complaints postal facility to a private vendor is 1,000 pieces of mail. By contrast, and nothing he would change. Elim­ saving the government $1.4 million the private sector could do it for inating corruption and inefficiency per year, while a mailing center in anywhere between $8.50 and $14 in the government is, for him, part the House basement, now operated for the same quantity. of public service-a key element in by the U.S. Postal Service, is saving There was only one answer: out­ improving the government of his $296,000 annually. source. "There have got to be 1,000 country. Likewise, the House barber shop entities that do this within ten "I've always had a tremendous was privatized, and the lease is miles of the Capitol," Faulkner respect for this place. I feel very providing the government with a remembers thinking. "Any little good about the chance to make it $30,000 profit. Last year, it posted print shop can print, fold, and stuff." as good as it can be." ~ a loss of $153,000. During Faulkner's tenure, the But Faulkner's favorite story of number of House employees has Stephen J. Siegel graduated from government waste is in the Folding been reduced from 1,100 to 600, a Lawrence in 1989 with a degree Room, which does just what it nearly 50 percent decrease. All in government. He lives in Wash­ sound like: fold and stuff mailings, employees had to compete with ington, D.C., where he covers poli­ which Congress sends out by the job-seekers from outside the govern­ tics and regional issues for three bushel. ment for the fewer positions, but newspapers in the West: the Rapid Having a separate set of employ­ 90 percent of those remaining were City (South Dakota) Journal, Provo ees just for those tasks was very House employees who survived (Utah) Herald, and Ogden (Utah) expensive because it was geared to the purge. Standard- Examiner.

21 I STUDENTS I

Helping undergraduates make the leap from theory to practice, from being eminently employable to actually getting a first job is an important area in which alumni can-and many already do-make a profound contribution to Lawrence and to Lawrence students. A conversation with Lynn Semple Hagee, '58, chair of the alumni-student relations committee of the Lawrence University Alumni Association, quickly makes it clear that Ground Zero in alumni-student relations right now lies squarely in the area of alumni as career resource people for students. Looking around during a recent alumni career fair at which members of the LUAA board of directors and Fox Valley alumni "Liberal education is vocational. are stationed at tables according to Alumni It prepares us to assume posi, their undergraduate majors, she tions of leadership and responsi, observes that "one of the things an bility as wage,earners and event like this does is to reinforce helping citizens. To be liberally educated the whole idea of the liberal arts, by is not to be limited to a particu, letting students see the wide variety students lar n iche in the market but to of things that alumni are doing now be freed and qualified for many who once had the same major as they do." opportunities. And, most impor, help Indeed, eavesdropping shame­ tant of all, it is to be equipped lessly at "Following in their Foot­ to assume new vocations and themselves steps: A MAJOR Event," one accept new challenges through, notices that, for instance, at the By Gordon Brown out life. "-Lawrence University tables for English, government, and catalog history majors, the alumni-student conversation is about advertising, "Way cool," one can imag ine a because each of those majors has at student saying, "but how do I least one alum at the table who is in get a job?" the advertising field in one way or another. The students are intrigued.

22 Campus events like "Footsteps" the country/world. can help make sure their employer or a February panel on "Internation~ • Paid or unpaid, summer or includes Lawrence as an annual stop al Careers: How to Get Started," academic~year, part~time or fu ll~ on its interviewing schedule of col~ with six internationally~employed time, internships can take a number leges and universities. Some men~ alumni as panelists, represent only of forms. In return for hands~on toring/advising relationships follow one of the ways alumni can help experience in a work environment, professional lines, such as the alum~ students learn about and sometimes students perform useful work for the ni~originated L.U. Law Network. even experience career possibilities. alum volunteer's business, institu~ Others, including internships cur~ "Alumni can contribute a very tion, or organization. rently available in psychology, geo l ~ great deal through mentoring oppor~ • Mentoring is a one~on~on e, ogy, and government (the Washing~ tunities and through providing often continuing, relationship ton Semester Program), derive from internships," Hagee says. between alum and student that may specific academic disciplines and Alumni who agree to have their involve the student "shadowing" may involve non~alumni internship names added to the university's list the alumnus or alumna at his or her sponsors as well. of career volunteers are joining a job, accompanying the alum to a For alumni, the opportunities for winning team; the working partner~ professional meeting or other net~ service are many and the rewards ship between Lawrence's Career working opportunities, or working are, too. To find out more about Center and the Alumni Association together in an internship that turns volunteering as a career resource is a long~standing one with notable into a job-as internships and other person, write or call: Nancy D. successes. "We have developed a alumni/student contacts have been Truesdell, Director of the Career variety of ways for alumni to con~ known to do. Center, Lawrence University, P.O. nect with career~seeking students," • In addition to career fairs and Box 599, Appleton, WI 54912~ says Career Center Director Nancy topical panel discussions, alumni 0599, telephone 414~832~6561. Truesdell, "and now we are able to may also return to campus to talk to Information about the services of say, 'These are the ways that work."' classes or spec i a l~interest groups or the Career Center, for students and Among the ways that work, she to simply take part in "career chats" alumni, is available on the World says, are the following: at an announced time and place. Wide Web at: • The alumni data base makes it Retired alumni, Truesdell says, http://cwis.lawrence.edu/www/ possible for students to locate appro~ are a potentially fine source of campus/career.html priate alums who can talk to career volunteers and are them about a specific career encouraged to consider the field or about living and possibilities. So are alums working in a specific part of in corporate settings who

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,,,,r, I IN THE CLASSROOM I Retiring1 ~yes o no ~no Shy1 o yes

"I took this one to Portland, Hugh Denison, Oregon, where I gave a speech. (He maneuvers to the map and points knows what out the Milwaukee-Portland route.) wants to do When I got nervous, it helped me, knowing I was carrying this letter," he says, thanking the proud author. He starts asking leading ques­ tions about Big Mac , cold weather, and special deals during the low­ temperature days. He is not selling. He is teach ing how to determine profit. There is plenty of time for wi ld guesses to be tamed, and there is a turn for everyone. Chalk in hand, Denison (a man who manages $2 billion in his other job as director of research and a portfolio manager for the Heartland By Jane Dwyre Garton there in the office. Funds in Milwaukee) is writing one­ Anxious to get to the classroom, digit numbers on the board. Thirty­ he man parks across the he enters Room 12 but steps back, five Happy Meals materialize mag i­ T street from an imposing disappointed. He gets new direc­ cally from the box in the school 104-year-old building. He arrives at tions-it was the right room but the office as the lesson is mastered. T rowbridge Elemen tary School con­ wrong class. Mr. Koeper's second­ Hugh Denison's firm has 150,000 fident: "I know I'm going to make a graders have moved to the second customers in mutual funds that difference for these kids." floor, Room 20, since Denison's last emphasize "value investing. " He h as Hugh Denison, '68, juggles a visit. There are eight new student been part of building Heartland huge box, pushes the button next to in the class. Before he can meet from the ground up. At T rowbridge the front door, identifies himse lf, them, Denison is ambushed and School during this visit, he distrib­ and is bu zzed into the large old surrounded by a couple dozen kids utes packs of ketchup, cartons of building. The shine on the hard ­ hugging him. milk, straws and bags, in a class ic wood floors is reminiscent of the There are sparks in their eyes. servan t-leader style. French fri es? floors at U.S. G rant School in She­ Denison pulls out a large manila Dividends. Pickles? Profit. boygan, where Denison met some of envelope and holds it up, asking if "If they get a grasp on how a the pals with whom he still has a they recognize it. A little girl, C iera, business works, it will give them a poker- playing reunion annually. says she wrote his address on it. He leg up," he explains. He reports to the school office. thanks the class for letters they sent This day's earning for Denison: It's Friday. T eachers and staff mem­ h im and tells them how dear the joy. bers are dressed down. Denison notes are to him. He pulls a fo lded This day's learning for the class: wears a suit and tie. He strategically letter fro m his inner suit pocket, security. Mr. Denison will return to leaves the box-his visual aids- from a spot near his heart. their cla sroom soon.

24 A second-grader cries because convince you it can't come true. he planned to retire on his 50th she doesn't want him to leave. He Don't let anyone tell you you're not birthday in April, 1996. His wife, talks to her one more time before he smart enough or the right color."' Mary, heard the news when the pair goes, a bit taken aback by the tears. His dream led to his retirement. returned from their trip. "I don't know if I'll ever • Ross thought it was cool. Mary, know . . . ," he says. Denison, accompanied by his son, an early-childhood education • visited the Vietnam Veterans specialist, suggested courses Hugh Never nominate Hugh Denison for Memorial during a 1995 business would benefit from studying. a school-board seat. He wants to be trip to W ashington, D.C. He read He told his partner at the with the kids, not the adults. the names of men he knew, men he Heartland Funds when he returned And don't tell him he can't had served with in Southeast Asia. to work. teach because he lacks certification. He lost consciousness. Fainting was "That's nice. W e're going to miss "Just because the rules are there Hugh Denison's wake-up call. yo u," they said. And then they all doesn't mean we can't proceed. I'm It was time to review and act on went forward, with Den ison, to plan a terrific teacher. I work fo r free. the pro mises he made on that day in the transition they would make T hose last few words people listen when a senior officer traded money- to," he smiles. The process of manag ing for a dream. The tran­ becoming a licensed teacher is sition has been a good one, more difficult than he thought "If they get a grasp Denison says. His "chores" have it wo uld be. So he'll take some on how a business works, been taken over, but he will classes and volunteer his time. con tinue to be involved with Meet the man who prides it will give them a leg up." Heartland for quite himself on being outside the some time. mainstream in the brokerage • community. He is making the 1970 when "the best-looking Delta "I just want to teach little kids," investment of a lifetime. "I love airplane I'd ever seen" freed him Denison says. "There are many, this, too," he says of the vibrant fro m the jungle. many kids in Greater Milwaukee Heartland organization, "but noth­ He had pledged never to have who don't have the role models ing, nothing is like working with another bad day . He hasn't. And he we had." those kids." promised himself that he would try He wants to "make it electric" Denison, who was destined fo r to do something to keep the mad­ for kids in school so they can see graduate school right after leaving ness of war from happening again. how exciting it is to grow, to learn Lawrence in 1968, is gradually giv­ Denison's generation is defined something new. ing the students he works with a by the Vietnam W ar-whether men "It would be quite forward of me grasp of business. fought in it or fo ught it, whether to say these kids should be like me," "As much as anything, I try to they survived it or avoided it, he says, "but I would like them to help them understand business, whether the documentary film is discover what my important values commerce, and the community. in their heads or just in books and are; then they can choose if those Most of these kids do not come fro m movies, it is pivotal-spoken or values are important to them." ~ prosperous homes," he says. By pros­ unspoken-to life stories. perity, he means homes that value For a decade Denison has known friendship and family dreams. what he must do. Twenty-five years Jane Dwyre Garton teaches journalism "I try to raise their level of self­ after leaving suburban Saigon , his at the University of Wisconsin-Fox esteem, to help them feel good wake-up call set him in motion. Valley, where she is executive director about learning. I say 'don't let any­ Ross Den ison, 13, was the first to of public relations . She was news one tell yo u what you can't do. If know. His father told him while writer and sports information director yo u have a dream, don't let anyone they were still in W ashington that at Lawrence in 1974-75 .

25 I IN THE LAKE COUNTRy I

first three decades of the 1800s. The lakes had now become Eventually we wished to record not only Wordsworth's thoughts about celebrated; visitors flocked hither potential environmental threats to the region but also to see if those from all parts of England; the threats had materialized since his death in 1850. fancies of some were smitten so The two students and I began our study in the William deeply, that they became settlers; Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere, where the Wordsworth Library is and the Islands ... as they offered housed. In the mornings we exam­ ined the various versions of the Guide and meticulously documented the strongest temptation, were the all the changes Wordsworth made in it through successive publica­ first places seized upon, and were tions. In the afternoons we inter­ viewed local ecologists and botan­ instantly defaced by the intrusion. ists-usually on the fly, as we hiked the fells that Wordsworth and his -William Wordsworth, A Guide sister, Dorothy, had hiked in the company of such notable friends as through the District of the Lakes, 183 5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sir Walter Scott. We learned while studying the different editions of the Guide that, over time, Wordsworth had become Following Wordsworth increasingly alarmed over the effects of tourism in the region. He was especially critical of wealthy By Andrew W. Hazucha, '82 Londoners who, after visiting the area, would buy up land and then illiam Wordsworth's cele­ distinguished against the solid gray landscape their properties with W brated description of an sky. The northern English land­ ornamental trees imported from the English field covered in a scape, which we had come to study, European continent, thereby jeopar­ "host of golden daffodils" was not contained no dancing fields of dizing the delicate balance of exist­ what came to our minds as the train daffodils. ing flora. in which we were riding pulled into Having gone to the Lake District To illustrate how rapidly this Windermere at the eastern corridor to examine original manuscript ver­ balance has been altered, in of the English Lake District. Blus­ sions of Wordsworth's A Guide Wordsworth's day the groves of tery winds and a steady cold rain through the District of the Lakes, a trees around Grasmere and Amble­ had dogged our journey all the way long prose piece that the poet side-where Wordsworth lived for from London, and now, as the two revised over a twenty-five year over forty years-consisted mostly student researchers and I arrived period from 1810-1835, we aimed to of Scots pine, oak, hazel, ash, and in William Wordsworth country document how closely the modern alder. Today there are very few the second week of June, nary a landscape approximated his vision Scots pine and hazel left, and wandering lonely cloud could be of the ecosystem as it existed in the the numbers of oak have greatly

26 diminished due to the proliferation of ornamental copper beeches and rhododendrons, both of which were imported to the Lake District and now choke out other species by acidifying the soil. The deleterious effects of intro­ ducing non-native plant species to the region is something Wordsworth foresaw in the third edition of his Guide (1822), where he cautions that already in the valleys of the Lake District the "proportion of beeches .. . is so great that other trees are scarcely noticeable." One could hardly call Wordsworth's observations alarmist; today the Lake District National Park ha a program in place to eradicate rhodo­ dendrons, larches, and other non­ native trees that are outcompeting Rydal Mount, where Wordsworth lived from 1813 until his death in 1850. The rhododendrons in the native oak, ash, and elm in the val­ foreground were planted after Wordsworth's death. leys and on the fellsides. In a sense, then, modern attempts to restore the original flora of the Lake Dis­ Smoky Mountain National Park. Wordsworth's neglected career as a trict unwittingly follow the wishes It's true that the small towns where pioneer in the early environmentalist of Wordsworth, who might be con­ Wordsworth lived and wrote­ movement. I am indebted to my two sidered the first true environmental­ towns such as Ambleside and Gras­ student researchers, Michele B. Strange ist in England. mere and Windermere-are filled and Michelle Stabler, who pored over One of the reasons this study is with shops that exist solely because manuscripts with me at the especially fascinating and relevant of tourism, but the intense pressures Wordsworth Library and who never to students from Appalachia-and of tourism have not yet given rise to complained about their blisters as we to those who grew up in the Smoky business developments that would hiked the mountains Wordsworth had Mountain region of East T ennessee fundamentally alter the ecosystem. once hiked. The project could not have in particular-is that England's That time may be coming, but it has been completed without permission and mountainous Lake District has not arrived yet-and to his credit, kind assistance from the Wordsworth faced, and for the most part, with­ Wordsworth foresaw its possibility Trust, Dove Cottage.-AWH stood many of the same threats that and worked to deter it over 150 the Smokies face today. years ago. e&- Recommended reading Change seems to have come McCracken, David, 1984, more slowly to the Lake District of Last spring, in my second year on the Wordsworth and the Lake District, England than to the Appalachian English faculty of Carson-Newman Oxford: Oxford University Press. region of America; nowhere in College in ] efferson City, Tennessee, northern England today can you I received from the Appalachian Wordsworth, William, 1977, Guide find the kinds of massive economic College Association a faculty/student to the Lakes, Ed. Ernest De Selin­ developments that now threaten summer research grant to conduct a court, Oxford: Oxford University areas immediately surrounding the month-long study of William Press.

27 I ON THEIR WAY

Three Watson Winners

ith the lone exception of her study Japanese culture by examining while at the Lawrence London Cen~ W seven~year~old son, Max, its unique perspective on nature. ter, Tryon began considering how Kira Brownell says winning Super credits her participation in the intricate interchanges among a Warson Fellowship is the most Lawrence's Hispanic Seminar for cultures affect the appreciation of exciting thing to happen in her first piquing her interest in women's native artifacts. Tryon will pursue entire life. textile cooperatives. She will spend those interchanges in the African Brownell, above left, and fellow four months each in Guatemala, countries of Benin and the I vary seniors Erica Tryon and Gia Super Bolivia, and Ecuador studying the Coast, working with local artists and were among the sixty students economic, social, and political studying the effects the Western art nationally awarded one of the impact of textile co~ops in Latin trade has had on traditional African $16,000 fellowships, which support America. She hopes to learn each art forms. a year of independent, overseas step of the weaving process from the Since the Thomas J. Watson study of the students' own design. women in the co~ops so that she can Foundation began its fellowship Combining her love of gardening conduct some of her research as a program in 1969, Lawrence has had and her passion for Japan, Brownell participant observer. at least one recipient every year will spend a year in Kanazawa, A term off~campus also planted except one. This is the first time Japan, working as a landscape the seed for Tryon's Watson project. since 1984 Lawrence has had as apprentice in one of the country's Exposed to the British Museum's many as three students receive a three national gardens. She plans to extensive collection of African art fellowship. ~

28 I 0 TAGE

"It's almost an addiction," says or unfamiliar. Jennifer Doyle, '96, of her two­ For, in addition to its enter- year stint as president of Arts tainment value, ska is consistent­ Umbrella, "but it's worth it." ly, enthusiastically multi-racial. Founded in 1990 as one student Doyle describes the ska philosophy activity group among the many this way: "Virtually every ska band funded by the Lawrence University is racially mixed and advocates Community Council, Arts Umbrella racial unity. I really like that aspect, is a membership organization whose that ska tries to bring the races purpose is not limited to its mem­ Student events group together." bers. Like the Lawrentian or Ariel or offers diverse A senior art history major from radio-station staffs, Arts Umbrella "a very, very small town" in Califor­ is a student club with a product- entertainments nia, Doyle invests considerable time in this case, sponsorship of special and energy to making things run By Gordon Brown entertainment events for a campus­ smoothly at Arts Umbrella events. wide (and often much wider) The matter of what floor covering audience. is not too close, ska sounds a little to put down in the Buchanan Arts Umbrella's oeuvre has like some early rock, maybe a little Kiewit recreation center to accom­ ranged from thundering concerts like Bill Haley and the Comets, if modate the fact that, at a ska con­ to quietly declaimed poetry, from Bill Haley and the Comets had been cert, people dance was just one of Japanese dance companies to this Jamaican.") many logistical details to be worked year's spoken-word "concert" by In March, Arts Umbrella spon­ out. "I want it all to go well," Doyle poet and comedian Henry Rollins. sored a major gathering of the says. "I want the performers to be The group's totally unhidden agen­ biggest and best ska bands, groups relaxed and the audience to have a da is to bring to campus a fresh and with names like The Toasters, The good time." stimulating selection of personalities Scofflaws, Let's Go Bowling, the Arts Umbrella is a class act, says and performers just slightly outside Pietasters, and Skapone-a land­ Professor of Theatre and Drama of, or perhaps ahead of, the main­ mark event that drew its audience Frederick Gaines, who has worked stream: modern dancers, ethnic from across the Midwest and gener­ with the student group over the musicians, unconventional perfor­ ated favorable attention for years and has a healthy respect for mance artists, and uncommon art Lawrence far across the country. their contribution to the Lawrence forms. Skappleton '96 was Arts scene. Case in point: this spring's ska Umbrella at the top of its form: a "Arts Umbrella has brought a festival called Skappleton '96. (For little-known but thoroughly legiti­ number of groups to Lawrence," those who may not be totally famil­ mate art form, an enthusiastic audi­ Gaines says, "that I have no doubt iar with ska, it has been described as ence, a fairly elaborate production, do not perform at any other school "the music style that came before and-sandwiched in among the this size. For students to be able to reggae in the 1950s, a fusion of jazz, good times and the good music-a attract the kinds of acts they consis­ calypso, Caribbean dance, and big few good lessons about diversity, tently have brought here is a very band music." Or, to quote a local practical multiculturalism, and the special reflection on them and on music columnist, "if yo ur attention value of experiencing the new Lawrence." ~ 29 SPORTS NOTES FROM THE LOCKER ROOM

the women's swim team to a The Vikings tied the school record second-place conference finish. for victories with a 14-8 overall Steve Skelcy, '96, became the first Becky Wagenaar, '96, won the 50- mark ( 7-7 Midwest Conference) Lawrence swimmer ever to win an yard freestyle for the third time in that included a 95-70 win over event four years in a row at the her career but missed qualifying for eventual league champion Grinnell Midwest Conference championship, her fourth trip to nationals by just College. Joel DePagter, '98, led the as the men's swimming team won .09 second. During her stellar Vikings in scoring (18.9 ppg) and 16 of the meet's 20 events, captur­ career, Wagenaar won fourteen assists (5.8 apg) and finished tenth ing its first league championship Midwest Conference titles (six indi­ in the nation in steals (3 .5 spg). since 1968. Skelcy was named the vidual events, eight relay events), The women's basketball team conference swimmer of the year the most by any swimmer, male or missed a trip to the Midwest after winning the 1 ,650-yard female, in Lawrence history. Conference playoffs despite an freestyle for the fourth consecutive Mike Hoskins, '98, came within impressive 10-4 mark in league year, in addition to winning the three points of becoming the first games. The Vikings finished 12-10 200- and 500-yard freestyle events. wrestler in Lawrence history to earn overall, and head coach Amy Brian Murphy, '99, also won All-America honors on the Proctor notched her 1OOth career three events, including the 50-yard wrestling mat, but he did pick up victory along the way. Junior Jackie freestyle, breaking All-American All-America recognition for his Huss closed within nineteen of the Peter House's, '68, school record, work in the classroom. Hoskins won Vikings' career assist record and which had stood for 28 years. Chas the 16 7 -pound title at the Midwest climbed into fifth place on the all­ Mitchell, '99, won the 100- and Conference championships, which time scoring list with 897 career 200-yard backstroke and qualified qualified him for the NCAA Divi­ points. for the NCAA national champi­ sion III national tournament for the Mike Gattnar captured his onships. Rob Smart, '97, was named second year in a row. He posted a second straight NCAA Midwest the conference's diver of the year 2-2 mark at the national meet, Regional epee title with an 18-3 after winning the one-meter and including an 8-5 decision over the tournament record, earning a trip three-meter events. number-one-ranked wrestler in the to Yale University for the NCAA Tracy Maschman, '97, earned country, but was eliminated from fencing championships and the her second trip to the NCAA the tournament on a 10-7 decision right to defend his 1995 national national championships with a win one match before reaching the All­ title. in the 200-yard butterfly, leading America round. Hoskins, a biology Scott Sprtel, '97, won the 5,000- major with a 3.86 meter run and placed second in the grade point average, 3,000-meter run at the Midwest was cited as an All­ Conference indoor track champi­ America Wrest- onships, leading the men's team to ling Scholar by the an eighth-place finish. The women's National Coaches team placed ninth. Association. Duane Weber took over as head The men's basket­ coach of the ice hockey team after ball team managed three years as an assistant coach. to do what hadn't The Vikings finished the season been done since with an 8-13-1 overall record, 1925- win fourteen including a 2-5 mark against varsity games in a season. opponents.

30 Wisconsin coaches issue Big Numbers No Big Deal Ron Roberts a hall pass From 1965-83, the name Ron Roberts was synonymous with Lawrence football. to Brad Olson And, for most of those nineteen years, Lawrence football was synonymous with history. His 1,760 yards success. In March the Vikings' all-time broke Scott Reppert's, '83 , winningest football coach was inducted Lawrence season record of into the Wisconsin Football Coaches 1,641 yards, while his six­ Association Hall of Fame. teen touchdowns tied "It's a nice frosting on Reppert's school mark. In the cake. It's always nice a wild, 53-50 Lawrence to be recognized and victory against honored by your fellow Eureka College, coaches," said Roberts, Olson romped for a who joins his prede­ school-record 331 cessor at Lawrence, yards, the twelfth-best Bernie Heselton, in single game perfor­ the Hall of Fame. mance in Division III Heselton, who history. coached the Reserved and soft­ Vikings from By Rick Peterson spoken, Olson is at best uncomfort­ 1938-64, was able, if not downright embarrassed, inducted in Brad Olson, '98, readily concedes discuss ing his own achievements. 1982. he's "not a numbers guy," an He's rushed for more than 100 yards Roberts admiss ion that is not a indictment in fifteen of the eighteen games he's compiled a 121-54-1 record of his mathematical skills but rather played as a Viking, and, after just in his twenty seasons (he came back in a description of his genuine lack two seasons, is already second on 1992 to coach one more year), winning of interest in his own football the school's all-time rushing list, six Midwest Conference championships, statistics. just 1,331 yards behind Reppert. including an unprecedented three While the sophomore running "I'm very surprised, actually," he straight titles from 1979-81. He ranks back remains unimpressed with his says. "I didn't come here expecting among the top twenty-five coaches in individual accomplishments, the to accomplish what I have. " NCAA Division Ill history, with a career folks who decide who is an All­ A chemistry major with eyes on winning percentage of .690. American certainly have taken a career in chemical engineering, Pat Schwanke, '83, a two-time All­ notice. Following the 1995 season, Olson turned down a chance to American while playing for Roberts and Olson was a first-team selection on attend N orthwestern University as now a successful high school coach him­ three All-America rosters, including a non-scholarship football player to self, nominated his mentor for the honor. the prestigious Associated Press Lit­ stay in his hometown of Appleton. "You look at his win-loss record and tle All-America squad that He doesn't worry that the fact he's the contributions to society of the former recognizes athletes from both Divi­ given himself a tough act to follow student-athletes he's coached, and it's sions II and Ill. will cloud his focus for the '96 obvious he belongs in the Hall of Fame," Considering his eye-popping season . said Schwanke. numbers, Olson had to be one of "I try not to even think about the easier selections. He led the leading the nation. My highest NCAA Division III in rushing with priority is to help the team win the a 195.6 yards-per-game average, the conference championship the next fourth-best total in Division III two years." ea.-

31 •

LAWRENCE 150 A campaign for the new century

A Campaign Conversation focuses on three principal areas: strengthening the endowment, ere ~ With Gregory A. Volk, Vice President for Development and External Affairs ating new buildings for the natural and social sciences, and s tre ng th e n~ to be both ambitious-this is by far ing operating support by increasing the largest fund~ ra i s ing goal in our the numbers of both dollars and history-and, at the same time, donors in The Lawrence Fund. realistic in assess ing our capacity for fund~r a i s ing. The success of Q. How does the college's sesqui, Lawrence 150 will certainly improve centennial celebration relate to the our financial position by bolstering campaign? our endowment and providing the A. In planning for the campaign we college with the facilities it needs knew that, for reasons both practical for its science programs. But, at the and sy mbolic, it had to conclude in end of the campaign , there still will the college's sesquicentennial year, be unmet needs and opportunities 1997. The name Lawrence 150 Q. Why are we undertaking the to be addressed as funds become emphas izes that relationship. On Lawrence 150 campaign? available. the other hand, the sesquic e nt e nni~ A. A campaign serves both as the al observance also stands apart fro m vehicle through which the college Q. What are the needs targeted the campaign as an uncommon can articulate its goals and asp ir a ~ by Lawrence 150? opportunity for alumni and fri ends tions and as the mechanism to A . Our inven tory of needs is drawn of the college to celebrate address and achieve them. Through directly from the college's stated Lawrence's remarkable history and a l o ng~ra nge planning process that miss ion and programs. Above all to look ahead to its future. analyzed current and future needs, else, Lawrence has reaffirmed its we identified our priorities for fund miss ion to provide the best possible Q. How is the campaign going? raising and, in Lawrence 150, set a undergraduate education in the lib~ A . Extremely well, thanks to a ge n~ course of action to meet them. eral arts and music. Through the erous response to date from our campaign, we are seeking to enhance alumni and friends. As of March 31, Q. Does this mean that, if the quality of academic programs, to more than $48 million in gifts and Lawrence 150 succeeds, the ensure that talented and deserving commitments had been secured college's needs will be met? students who reflect the diversity of toward the $60 million goal. G ifts A . N o. I doubt that any one cam~ our society can study at Lawrence, from individuals account for more paign could fully meet the needs of and to provide the necessary than 75 percent of campaign p r o~ a n o n~p ro fit institution in this day resources-in facilities , programs, ceeds, and the response from and age. In adopting a $60 million and services-to support our style of trustees and alumn i has been espe ~ goal, however, Lawrence h as sought teaching and learning. Lawrence 150 cially hearten ing.

32 Q. What are the campaign's What lies between Lawrence and Q. Lawrence has a reputation greatest successes to date? the realization of these dreams is for having a strong fund,raising A. We knew when we launched approximately $18 million. We program, and the campaign's Lawrence 150 that gifts for scho l ar~ hope that this goal can be met with~ progress provides additional ships would be popular with many in the context of Lawrence 150, to evidence of that fact. Why do donors, but we didn't fully antici~ be sure, but we also are convinced you think that is? pate just how attractive scholarship that this plan is the right one for A. That is not an easy question to gifts would be. While Lawrence's the college's future. answer, but I can suggest some pos~ need for scholarship dollars will sibiltie . Since its founding, continue to exceed the gifts Q. These are some big numbers. Lawrence has been unwavering in designated for that purpose, we Is this campaign primarily for its adherence to its mission. We are nonetheless exceptionally "big donors"? stick to our knitting. While the col~ pleased to have raised already more A. It certainly is true that the cam~ lege certainly has changed over the than $11 million for student fin an~ paign's prospects fo r ultimate sue~ years, it has stayed wholly focused cial aid . cess depend heavily on our ability to on liberal education. I believe that We also have benefited from secure a sizable number of major our constituencies-alumni, parents significant contributions that alum~ gifts. For instance, individual of current and former students, and ni and friends have made in the trustees are exceedingly dedicated to other friends of the college-not form of planned gifts- e.g., bequest this campaign's goals and have only appreciate that fidelity to mis~ provisions and life~income arrange ~ already committed more than $20 sion but recognize the substantial ments. As most of these commit~ million. Still, I would emphasize strides that the college has made in ments are designated for the endow~ that this campaign has a role for the past fifteen years or so. ment, when they are realized they each and every friend of the college. Lawrence is a small but ambi~ will continue to add to the college's Raising The Lawrence Fund to tious institution, and donors realize financial strength . the $3 million annual level is, in my that they can make a noticeable dif~ view, the most ambitious goal in the ference here. In addition, I believe Q. What are some of the biggest campaign. Fortunately, through our that Lawrence is an exemplary stew ~ challenges yet to be addressed in reunion~gift program, The Founders ard of the gifts it receives. Finally, the campaign? C lub, and other annua l~ giving the college's success over the past A. The need for new and improved efforts, many individuals are not 150 years has been based in excep ~ science facilities remains the great~ only increasing their annual gifts to tionally strong leadership from its est unmet need. Quite a bit of the campaign but making multi~year presidents and its boards of trustees. thought has gone into an ongoing commitments to do so. In addition, That tradition not only persists planning effort in this connection, while Lawrence enjoys a robust today, it flourishes. including some very useful work alumni donor~participation rate, it is that we undertook with the consu l~ essential that we find new ways to Q. Is there still time to make a tant firm Sasaki Associates, Inc., in encourage more young alumni­ gift to the campaign? the area of campus planning. The those who have graduated from the A. I love that question! Indeed, Board of Trustees has determined college in the past fifteen years-to there is still time. The campaign that Lawrence will best be served by form the habit of making annual will extend through the sesquicen~ taking a l ong~term view of facilities gifts. tennial celebration-that is, all gifts needs in the sciences. We now plan Raising capital funds for new and pledges (typically paid over a to construct a new building for the facilities is important but no more five~year period) made by June 30, social sciences and then to create a so than strengthening The Lawrence 1997 will be counted toward the new facility for the natural sciences Fund to provide the "fuel" to sup~ Lawrence 150 goal. on the site where Stephenson Hall port the college's operations in the now stands. years to come.

33 ALUMNI T 0 DAY

Florida, is a pa inter, as well as a choral dir c­ The great-grandchild ta ll y has reached nine. tor and voice teacher. She has been in six William Blum, Sun C ity, Arizona, enjoys juried art shows. play ing go lf. "As of December 1995 the for­ Henrietta "Oddy" Pratt Curtiss, Oak Ridge, mer Augusta Bethke, '33, and I have been Tennessee, teaches clay hand building and married sixty yea rs." serves on commi ttees for the Craft Center, Mary Kolter Burtch, Topeka, Kansas, enj oys 1921 the League of Women Voters, and her read ing and participating in the activities W. Philip Corr, Riverside, California, co­ church. promoted by her retirement community. founder of Riverside Med ical Clinic, clinical Barbara Simmons Webster, Waupaca, Wis­ Helen Cornell Cartwright, Dixon, Illinois, professor of medicine, and vice president of consin, and her husband, Edmund, have and her husband, Bli s, enj oyed traveling to the American College of Phys ici ans, is simply taken bus trips to explore the far reaches of Wisconsin, Pennsylva nia, Ohio, and Indiana glad to ay that "l've lived so long and done orth America. They are involved with the in 1995 , visiting friends and family. so little harm ." American Cancer Society and the Commis­ Lloyd Delsart, Naple , Florida, and his wife, sion on Aging and play bridge and go lf. Ruth, spent last July in Scandinav ia and St. 1927 /i:i Elizabeth Baker Werner, Bloomer, W iscon­ Petersburg, Russia. 70th Reunion, June, 1997 sin, is active in the O rder of the Eastern Star, Charles Gardner, Vicksburg, Michigan, says Helen Haertl Brainerd, Wawa, Pennsylva­ her church, and the Chippewa Valley Retired he "remains reasonably active" by golfing, nia, is in the med ical center of G ranite Farms Teachers Association. fishing, hunting, reading, and playing lots of Estates . bridge. Viola Foster Bird, Des Moines, Was hington, 1931 Oscar Gram, Lacey, Washington, and his is a retired law librari an and now tutors at 65th Reunion, June 14,16, 1996 wife, Mary Jane, took a cruise from Vancou­ local community colleges in English as a Neal Klausner, Grinnell , Iowa, has been ver, British Columbia, to Alaska and then to second language. Last November she added honored by the naming of the Neal Klausner several ports in Asia, finishing with Japan. Boliv ia and Peru to her list of travel Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards for Sopho­ "The Memorial Peace Museum and Park in destinations. mores, recognizing hi s half-century of active Hiroshima was a trong emotional experience Gordon Bush, Horseshoe Bend, Arizona, and support of Phi Beta Kappa as a member of the that put tears in our eyes." his wife, Dorothy, boa t about being the old­ faculty at Grinnell College. Elizabeth Coleman Johnson, Denver, Col­ est members of their golf club. Gordon cele­ orado, loves her book group and her experi­ brated his 90th birthday in Wausau, Wiscon­ 1932 ;fJ ences at Elderhostels. sin, with all the chil dren, grandchildren, and 65th Reunion, June 1997 Marcella Buesing Polkinghorn, Appleton, great-grandchildren. Wisconsin, has been recovering from a fa ll Robert B. Locklin, Somerset, Pennsy lvania, 1933 and hip surge ry. is retired from Westinghouse Electric Corpo­ 65th Reunion, June 1998 Anita Cast Reichard, O berlin, Ohio, and ration. He has been blessed with good health, Emery Ansorge, Gillett, Wisconsin, had to her husband, Joe, went with a group to Italy "for which I thank the good Lord, da il y." do some remodeling on his winter home in la t July, visiting historic sites and art centers. Palmer and lone McConnell, '28, North Panama C ity, Florida, to repair damage done Margaret Moore Snyder, Racine, Wisconsin, Red ington Beach, Florida, enj oy their condo by Hurricane Opal. and her husband, Charles, pent a weekend and the sunny climate of Florida, their home Raymond Johnson, Rogers, Arkansas, is at Pine Lake last September with their six for the pas t twenty- fiv e yea rs. In observance active in community and church activities grandchildren and two "greats," during wh ich of their 90th birthdays, relati ves and fr iends and helps run a second-hand bookstore. the grandchildren did all the work. gathered at the North Shore Golf C lu b in Helen Witherbee Lehman, Galesv ille, Wis­ Lowell Zabel, Punta Gorda, Florida, contin ­ Menas ha, Wisconsin. consin, helps Galesv ille Elementary School ues to bicycle 50-1 00 miles a week to keep Murna Wickert Weller, Appleton, Wiscon­ second-graders with their reading and math in shape. sin, is a bridge afi cionado and loves sharing once a week and helps out at a nursing home her ski lls. She teaches bridge on cruise ships and with church activities. Helen took a 1936 in the Caribbean and in her home communi­ Holland A merica Line cruise thro ugh the 60th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 ty and owns and directs Friday N ight Fox Pa nama Canal. Elyzabeth "Betty" Rolph Ramsey, M-D, Valley Bridge Club. Murna i' a lay reader at Roy McNeil, Rockport, Texas, volunteers fo r Bayonet Po int, Florida, says travel for her and First English Church and will chair her cl ass's all kinds of charity work: Chamber of Com­ her husband, Ralph, is limited, due to his 70th reunion at Law rence. mere , Castaways, Kite C lub, and Good Sam Alzheimer's. O ne trip they do make is to a RV Camping C lub, to name a few. clinic in St. Petersburg, where Ralph is par­ 1930 Mary Jane Hoeper Moyer, Aurora, Col­ ticipating in an experimental drug treatment 70th Reunion, June 2000 orado, and her husband are happily urround­ that the couple hopes will prove to be effec­ Ross Cannon, Concord, New Hampshire, ed by fami ly. Mary Jane writes that there is "a tive. Elyzabeth still golfs and has a creati ve and his wife, Mary, recently celebrated sixty­ tiny new beginning of a new generation-our outlet in making decorations fo r her club one years of marriage and the birth of two first great-grandchild, a beautifu l little girl. " functi ons and banners fo r her church. great-grandchildren. Priscilla "Jessie" Brooks Ward, Chester 1934 1937 1J Heights, Pennsylvania, is busy with her 65th Reunion, June 1999 60th Reunion, June 1997 needlework guild, hospital auxiliary, bridge, Stanley and Dorothy Brown ('35) Severson Marjorie Blunck Guentzel, Neenah, Wis­ and work as a Presbyterian deacon. have moved from Neenah, Wisconsin, to consin, and her husband have retired from Helen Ziegler Spitler, Johnson's Landing, Evergreen Village in Oshkosh. their jobs at the University of Wisconsin­ British Columbia, is blessed with excellent Oshkosh and now enj oy activities and orga­ health and two succe sful daughters. 1935 nizations in the Fox Valley. Kathryn Howser Miller, Minneapolis, Min­ 65th Reunion, June 2000 Stanley and Dorothy Mitchell Guth, nesota, has two great-grandchildren and still Burt and Gwendolyn Johnson ('34) Venice, Florida, play golf and enjoy commu ­ keeps up her home and gardens. Ashman, Tyler, Texas, enjoy life in Texas ni ty activities. They take a cruise each year Ernestine Johnsen Chipley, Boca Raton, and wonder why they did not come sooner. to relax.

34 Jean Hutchinson, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Marian Rule Schmidt, Cazenovia, New enj oyed a fo ur-week trip to New England York, teaches tap dancing and piano while wi th her family last fa ll. her husband, William, enj oys amateur rad io Lawrence University Catherine McHugh, Carbondale, Illinois, is weather activi ties. Alumni Association heading to Florida and the Bahamas fo r three Georgia Vruggink Thompson, M-D, G rand weeks. Rapids, Wisconsin, packs bags of food fo r the Elizabeth Sheridan Rammer, '84 Helen Cloyd Rusk, Carmichael, Cali fo rnia, needy, shelves books, and reads a lot of mys­ President enj oys life in her retirement community and teries. the activities--day trips, photography oppor­ Lois Parsons Tice, M-D, Milwaukee, Wis­ M. Jon Vondracek, '60 tunities-it provides. consin, recrui ts new member fo r the Ameri­ Vice-President can Association of University Women, 1938 reviews books, and lectures on vari ous Janice Daniels Quinlan, '74 60th Reunion, June 1998 subjects for church groups and Friendship Director of Alumni Relations Everett Bauman, Washington, D.C., after Village. forty- three years in Caracas, Venezuela, has Ewald Tilly, Appleton, Wisconsin, has Kristin A. Wensing, '93 moved to the United States. He still is a cor­ retired fro m teaching and now repairs string Assistant Director of Alumni Relations respondent to El Universal, Venezuela's instruments as a hobby. largest newspaper. Mary Voecks Volkert, Midd lebury, Ver­ Claribel Danielsen Lutes, Bloomington, mont, was recently in touch wi th Barbara Board of Directors Minnesota, is heard coast to coast. She's been Wriston, her "flute buddy from grade and Stephen L. Albrecht, '86 recording fo r the blind for a long time and high school days," who now li ves in New Lynn M. Azuma, '96 now has a special Saturday evening broadcast York C ity after retirement fro m the Chi cago Phoebe Rowe Bachman, '85 over many stations, read ing fro m books on Art Museum as director of education. Morgan E. Baird, '93 varied topics. Edmund Webster, Waupaca, Wisconsin, is G loria Grummel Bergman, M-D '61 Ruth Chapelle Nash, Manitowoc, W iscon­ involved in the Park Board, the American Sanjay K. Chopra, '96 sin, traveled to Barbados , St. Petersb urg, and Cancer Society Board , the Commission on Michael P. Cisler, '78 W as hington, D.C., where, with her son and Aging, and CAP services and enj oys bowling, Cyndy Zimmerman Cowles, '84 his wife, she'll observe her 79th birthday. go lfing, and visiting Lawrence University to Jennifer K. Crawford, '96 Evelyn Mertins Letter, O maha, Nebras ka, is hear concerts with his wife, Barbara David E. Eddy, '81 still organist at her church. She also makes Simmons Webster, '30. Martha E. Freitag, '73 frequent trips to Switze rland, where one of Phoebe J. Grant, '77 her children lives. 1940 Patrick J. Grogan, '84 Dave Walling, Hilton Head Island, South 60th Reunion, June 2000 Lynn Semple Hagee, '58 Carolina, has traveled to fo rty-nine countries Esther Tacke Bartelt, M-D, Pinellas Park, Frank J. Hammer, Jr., '42 and all fifty states but is always happy to Florida, and her husband gave up dairy farm­ Ann Leverenz Keckonen, '64 return to Hilton Head. ing and fl ed to Florida to escape Wisconsin Kristen Olson Lahner, '73 winters. They enj oy the many theatrical Kate Walsh Leatham, '72 1939 opportunities ava ilable in their complex and Aaron D. Lindberg, '96 60th Reunion, June 1999 church. Cathy J. Linn, '94 Marian Cornell Cutler, M-D, Walnu t Patricia Henning Deihl, M-D, Racine, Wis­ Ju lie A. Manning, '78 Creek, Califo rnia, teaches gold- and silve r­ consin, received a Hawthorn Award from Thomas E. Nowak, '92 smithing, paints, wims, and golfs . The Clearing for her years of service at the Gregory R. O'Meara, '72 Marian Dettman DeLong, Neenah, Wiscon­ school. Patty has an intense interest in James Spofford Reeve lll, '95 sin, is in an American Association of Univer­ nature and loves making gifts with natural Stephanie J. Samuel, '89 sity Women bridge group. Her husband, Bob, materials and working with groups supporting Desmond K. Saunders-Newton, '85 helped restore an 1854 brick octago n house nature sanctuaries. Her travels in 1995 Marian Kirkpatrick Torian, M-D '44 owned by the Neenah Historical Society. included two Elderhostel . Christopher M. Vernon, '67 Ruth Barnes Elston, Columbus, Ohio, and Ann Bumby Fallon, M-D, Tucson, Arizona, Susanna Fortney Walby, '58 her husband, Bob, found their first Elderhos­ raised funds fo r the conservation of the Leslie Ann Bellows Weinberger, '78 tel experience very worthwhile. The first 200-year-o ld Spanish mission, San Xav ier del journey was to Natchez Trace, a state park Bac. National Geographic and Native Peoples Attention class secretaries Lawrence Today is published four times between Nashille and Memphis, Tennessee. have already done articles on the miss ion, during the academic year: September Betty Winder! Ewig, M-D, Brookfield , Wis­ and NBC is planning a television special. (fall), December (President's Report, consin, enj oys substitute teaching, antiquing, Jane Lentzner, M-D, East T roy, Wisconsin, winter), March (spring), and June and writing. has started a new quilting project with water (summer). The following is the class Martha Lyon Lambiotte, Sturgeon Bay, Wis­ lilies as its theme. The recent Monet exhibit note deadline for 1997: consin, is busy with politics, community at the Ch icago Art Institute was the source Spring issue: November 1, 1996 affairs, and writing. of inspiration. Jane saw Kathryn Norris Summer issue: February l, 1997 Marjorie Tancig Van Ouwerkerk, M-D, Geisler, M-D '38, and Katherine Leaman Fall issue: May 1, 1997 Sun C ity, Arizona, enj oys the social scene of Herrmann, M-D '39, at a Lawrence recep­ (The President's Report, winter, does the country club. She swims, reads, walks her tion in Baileys Harbor held to unveil plans not include class notes.) C lass notes not dog, and plays bridge. Marj orie also takes fo r the new Bj orklunden. received by the deadline indicated will classes on subj ects ranging fro m Arizona Indi­ ans to Greek culture to psychotherapy. 1941 be published in a subsequent issue. Margaret Boyce Ryder, M-D, Van Nuys, 55th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 California, visited her daughter in Sydney, Jane Rudolph Binkley, M-D, Lake Toma­ Australia, last fa ll. hawk, Wisconsi n, enj oys teaching voice and

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a fr hman at Lawrence-making her a Poet from Sister Bay fourth-ge neration Lawrentian- my 98-year­ old mother Ethel Wheeler G rimm, ' 19, Barbara Donahue Larsen, '49, was awarded my husband, myse lf, and our daughter the Jade Ring Prize for Poetry at a Wiscon~ Judy Peterson Zempel, ' 71 , having go ne sin Regional Writers Association conference before Jennie. " William Thompson, Whi ttier, Cali fo rnia, in September. Her poem "A New Way of plays golf, sings with a barbershop chorus, Seeing Things" was chosen as the best of and travels with his wife, Joan. 278 entries in the poetry division of the 1948 state~wide competition. The award is a ster~ 50th Reunion, June 1998 Patricia Duffus Ewald, Corvallis, O regon, is ling silver ring set with a jade stone, a boa rd member of Habitat for Humanity, designed by retired Lawrence art professor E. does quilting, and enjoys motorhoming with her husband, Robert, 'SO. Dane Purdo. Larsen is the author of two books of poetry, Beach Road Year and Pine 1949 Ridge 1937, and her work has been published in a number of poetry 50th Reunion, June 1999 Gail Kuckuk Baptist, M-D, C larion, Penn­ magazines and anthologies. She first became interested in writing when sy lvania, and her hu band, Francis, spent four she attended a Regional Writing Seminar at Bjorklunden taught by the weeks in London foll owed by three weeks traveling from Cornwall to cotland. Gail late Marguerite Schumann, '44, in the early 1980s. says a high li ght was meeting Joyce Raasch Ramstack and her hu band, Gene, in London. N orman Beckman, Appleton, Wisconsin, feels great because of his regular exercise pro­ piano, directing a church choir, and writing 1945 gram and enjoys being a member of the Geri­ in a poetry group. 55th Reunion, June 2000 atric Jazz G roup. Marjorie Carpenter, Bloomington, Minneso­ Marilyn Jelliffe Rothschild, M-D, Racine, Kathryn Elwers, Madison, Wiscon in, says ta, is active in golfing, biking, and camp ing. W i con in, is serving on the lOOth Anniver­ her trips in '95 included opera tour to San Marion Williamsen Holgerson, M-D, sary Committee for the Women's lub of Francisco, tockholm, and several places in Wauwatosa, W isconsin, is compiling a family Racine. Mari lyn is compiling a h i tory of Finland. A family reunion included Kathryn's history. the club. sisters Betty Elwers Moorhead, '44, and Joyce Jouvenat Kunkel, Lincoln , Nebraska, Suza nne Pasteur Sweet, M-D, Milwaukee, Mildred "Mona" Elwers Bar-Sela, '4 7, and is fa cinated with geology and has been trav­ W i consin, teaches at the chlitz Audubon a niece, Rebecca Moorhead Culbertson, '73. el ing to the Columbia Rive r, Kenya, and the Center. Jule H orschak Friar, Naples, Florida, keeps Seychelles Islands. Dorathy Kluge Timm, M~D , Delafield, Wis­ bu y volunteering at a local oup kitchen, Kathryn Tuchscherer N ash, Ka lamazoo, consin, took a train ride through Canada and charity thrift shop, and parochial school. Jule Michigan, devote her energy to project to marveled at the beautifu l foil age and a fl ock discovered that Robert N oonan, '40, li ves in develop housing and job opportunities for of Sandhill Crane . the same hou ing complex. Jule enthusias ti­ people suffering from mental illness. Barbara Simonds Valentine, M-D, Green call y endorses Elderhostel. Marjorie Mansfi eld Phillips, Ephrarion, Wis­ Bay, W isconsin, tay busy with flute playing, Gayle T eske Gaulke, M-D, Mercer, W is­ consin, enj oys ummers in Door County, scu lpting, and chu rch work. consin , and her husband, Arthur, enj oy the Wi con in, and pend ing a few winter lifestyles Mercer and San Diego, Californ ia, months in Palm Desert, California. 1946 their winter home, have to offer. Gayle had a Lucille Samuelsen Shaw, M-D, Springfi ld, 50th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 "mini" reunion with Joyce Lewis Laabs of Virginia, ga rdens, fishes, and does aerobic Minocqu a and Mary Jardine Holl y of Wau­ and tai-chi. 1947 ~ paca, W isconsin. William Siekman, Coconut Grove, Florida, 50th Reunion, June 1997 Nancy Marden Hay, Pismo Beach, Califor­ had a seven-week world tour and is planning George Bogs, Birmingham, Alabama, has his nia, fi lls her time with her part-time pri va te trip to see family in Mexico and Cali fornia. fifti eth anniversary as an emp loyee at U.S. practice as a psychologist, fr iends, family, Elizabeth Birkenheier Van Dale, M-D, Pipes and Foundry Company in Augu t. His and travel. We t Bend, Wi consin, serves as president of job has kept his interes t over the years Patricia H olm H orne, M-D, Wauwatosa, the executive board of the res ident council because of its va riety, including travel. W i consin, continues to be challenged by her for her neighborhood, accompanies choirs, Paul Orinin and Margie Keplinger Orinin, work as a middle school reading sp cialist. si ngs, and knits. '48, arasota, Florida, celebrated their fift ieth William Kluge, Kimberl y, W isconsin, now anni versary on November 2, 1995 . T hat yea r retired after 35 years with Kimberly-C lark, 1942 -~1 bro ught another special anniversary for Paul: is lea rning Russian and how to play the 55th Reunion, June 1997 in 1945 Captain Rothwell, then in command accordion. of the unit at Lawrence, presented the Pres i­ Marthe Ega n Mol, M-D, Elkhorn, Wiscon- 1943 dential Unit C itation fo r Du ty to Paul for hi in, and her fami ly plan another summer at 55th Reunion, June 1998 service with the USS Lea and his squadron's their place at Shell Lake, Wisconsin, which disabling of five German U- boats in one day. has been in her fa mily since 1907. 1944 Mary G rimm Peterson and Robert Peter­ Merritt W. Olson, Reston, Vi rgini a, 55th Reunion, June 1999 son, '48, G lendale, Wisconsin , says "grand­ observed the fiftieth anniversary of VE Day ch ild number four," Jennifer Zempel, '99, "i in Moscow as an invited guest of the Russian

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World War II Veterans Association. Preparatory Department and wo rks for Peach retired, is enj oy ing inging barbershop with Miriam Plank, M-D, O lm ted Falls, Ohio, State Public Rad io as coordinator of vo lun­ "T he Country Gentlemen." vo lu nteers at her former workplace, the local teers fo r the Rad io Reading Service for the George Steed, Rac iborz, Poland, has been in hospita l. Miriam ha also di covered Elder­ Blind. Eloy, a retired professor of violin, the­ Poland since January, 1995, on assignment hostels. Last summer she was at a west Texas ory, and humanities, is invo lved with h is busy wi th the Peace Corps. He wo rks wi th the ranch and Copper Canyon in Mex ico. stringed-instru ment repair shop. Chamber of Congres in Raciborz, teaching Joyce Raasch Ramstack, M-D, Hartford, Mary Lamers Grist, Appleton, Wisconsin, English and explaining American business Wiscon in, and her husband, Gene, met and her husband, Jim, are chairing a sculp­ ways. George finds a remarkable like ne Francis and Gail Kuckuk Baptist in London. ture proj ct for C ity Park in Appleton. The between Poland and Wi consin. The couples enjoyed exploring famous land­ sculpture fountain's dedication is schedu led Richard "Dick" Thackray, Oklahoma C ity, marks in London, then spent some time in for August. Jim and Mary got to see ew O klahoma, and wife, Maril yn, bought a vaca­ France, including Paris and N ice. For the England's marvelous foliage last fa ll . tion condo in Ange l Fire, New Mex ico, and Ramstacks, it was a wonderfu l annive r ary Virginia Scott H einemann, Wau au, W is­ fish, hike, and pursue their mutual interest in gift to themse lves . consin, so ld her home of thirty years and is photography. Janet Huber Remington, M-D, Las C ru ces, building a new hou e. New Mex ico, loves the educational opportu­ Shirley Woellert Kallas, Bradenton, Florida, 19S1 1J nities her city has to offer. She i very active and her husband, Tom, re tired to Florida two 45th Reunion, June 1997 in the city' branch of the Ameri can Associa­ yea rs ago and do not regret it at all. La t Joanne Shaunessy Ashdown, M-D, Downers tion of Uni ve rsi ty Women. Janet and her Grove, Illinois, is author of the children's husband also loved ho ring a high school books Lotta, Girl of the Gold Rush and A Snow exchange student from St. Petersb urg, Russia, Queen Story, both unpublished as of yet. fo r six months. College cookbook: Joanne is now involved with a suspense novel Carol Miessler Sabin, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, for adults and some multi-media projects on erves on the Lakeland Medical Center Aux­ do you have it? the computer, including an electronic book. iliary. University Archivist Carol Butts, Jessie Farquhar Davies, M-D, G rosse Pointe Joan Segelbaum Strouse, M-D, St. Paul, Farms, Michigan, is on the board of the Minne ora, visited her daughter, on-in-law, '49, is seeking a copy of a college Grosse Pointe H i torical Society, which and grandsons in Bord eaux. cookbook rumored to have been recently acquired a French farmhouse for his­ Eileen Weir T wiss, M-D, Wilmette, Illinois, dis tributed to women students at toric re novation. had a good time at her fift ieth high school Judith Gilchrist, M-D, Munster, Indiana, re union, seeing people she hadn't seen for Lawrence during the 1950s. If you and her husband have a winter home in those fi fty yea rs. know anything about the subject­ Florida where they swim, wa lk, beach picnic, enj oy alfresco dining, and play bridge. Las t 19SO be it fact or be it myth-especially fa ll they went to Brussels to visit their daugh­ 50th Reunion, June 2000 if yo u have a copy of the legendary ter and on to London to see some shows. Anne Lackie Andersen, Lake Forest, Ill inois, Sue Joys, M-D, Valparaiso, Indian a, has has property in South Carolina and enj oys recipe book that you would be begun a two-year term as pres ident of the the opportunities for golf, shooting, and boat­ willing to donate to the archives, Methodist Hosp ital Auxili ary. Duties include ing there. be ing on the board of directors, "an intere r­ Eugene Bondar, Grand Island, ew York, is please write or call her at Lawrence ing prospect in light of the many current re tired from teaching anthropology and Univer ity, PO Box 599, Appleton, changes in the medical field." archaeology at the State U niversity of New WI 54912-0599 or 414-832-6753. Peg Peil, M-D, Birmingham, England, York at Buffalo bu t continue to teach some enj oyed a nine-day bus tour of Romania and classes. He coord inates a team of volunteer spent a long weekend in Petra, Jordan, last for helping others with income taxes, skis, yea r. hikes , is a youth leader, and visits the grand­ Beverly Olsen Schumacher, M-D, Salem, children. August they went to Alaska. They were O regon, says artificial hips gave her a new Calvin Chamberlain, Wausau, Wisconsin, awe truck upon seeing- and walking on­ lease on life and allowed her to "traipse all we nt to Australia and ew Zealand in Octo­ the glacier . over Washington, D.C. and the Great Wall ber, where he met with Bill Brown, '49. D onald Koskinen and Jean Alexander of China without pa in. " Marydell Saunders Dilworth, Peto key, Koskinen, M-D '53, Menasha, Wisconsin, Michiga n, is moving into a town house. enj oy retirement, travel, and winters in the 19S2 -,;a Marydell and her fr iend enjoy a new cottage southwe t; their cottage in northern Wiscon­ 45th Reunion, June 1997 on Lake Chaileaux, Michiga n. She works sin; and the grandkids. part-time and vo lunteers at American Cancer H aleen Meyer Matthews, Lake Havasu C ity, 19S3 1J Society and chu rch. Gard ening, ski ing, and Arizona, teaches at Arizona Western a llege 45th Reunion, June 1997 golf also occupy her time. in Parker. Robert Ewald and Pat Duffus Ewald, '48, Phyllis H aeger, Chicago, Illinoi , although 19S4 1J Corvallis, Oregon, have been in O regon retired, is doing some consulting in Chicago 45th Reunion, June 1997 since 1990. T hey be long to the Corvall is and from her lake home in so uthern Wiscon­ Country C lub. "I [Robert] ineffectually swing sin. Phyll is has become a "dedicated fi sher­ 19SS my clubs [there] everal times weekly." The person" and will eventually move to the lake 45th Reunion, June 2000 couple also enj oys motorhoming. fu ll -time. Jeanine Hallock Armstrong, Clovis, Califor­ Eloy and Nancy Stolp Fominaya, Augu ta, Sonia Sandeen Perry, Rockville, Maryland, nia, says she ha started retirement with a Georgia, like to relax in the summertime at has retired from the National Institutes of new Golden Retriever pu ppy named Casey. their cottage on an island near Minocqua, Health library and is looking forward to a Suzanne Morgan Bowman, Exeter, ew W isconsin. During the school year, Nancy move to Florida in the near fu ture. Hampshire, wr ites, "Instead of returning to teaches voice fo r the Augu ta College Norbert M. Sabin, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, now the classroom this fall , Ji m and I traveled by

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N ancy Ryan Wright, Port Washington, New York, enj oyed show ing Francie and Dick Campus Visitor Krause, '54, "a much of the fl avor" of ew Attorney Thomas C. Kayser, '58, Yo rk as possible. Samplings of the city incl uded going to the World Trade Center returned to Lawrence to present a Main and eating hot dogs in the park. Hall Forum in February. His address, 1956 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," dealt with 40th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 constitutional issues raised by the case Richard Beringer, Grand Forks, orth Dakota, is professor of history at the Univer­ of an Air Force officer discharged from sity of North Dakota. He received a Fu lbright the service after informing his com­ travel grant to teach summer semester in manding officer that he was gay. Kayser, Augsburg, Germany. Mary Bowlby Branch, Royal Oak, Mi chiga n, who was commissioned upon graduation executive director of the Intergovernmental from Lawrence, spent eight years on Cable Communications Authority, enj oys wo rking on needlework and ge nealogy when active duty in the U.S. A ir Force and at home. sixteen years in the Air Force Reserve, Lyle Delwiche, Excelsior, Minnesota, who retired in 1993 as senior vice president of the retiring in 1983 as a lieutenant colonel. Tennant Company, now is director of the He joined the law firm of Robins, Dutch Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi in 1966 and Charlotte Darling Diehl, Appleton , W i con­ now serves as managing partner in its sin , a sculptor, was in a two-person show at Minneapolis office. Ri pon College, Wisconsin, and will have a one-person show at Bergstrom Museum in late 1996. Ralph and Dorothy Staiger Gooding, Dan­ bury, Wisconsin, live at their lake home and enjoy summ er and winter sports, volu nteer­ Verdes Estates, California, and her hu band ing, and traveling. are co-owners of La Casa Verd e Landscape Barbara H edeen Joslyn, G uilfo rd, Connecti­ Declaring your business. Marion previously taught adu lt edu­ cut, paints and is comp iling a cookbook. The cation courses r lated to ga rden design but family enjoys racing sailboats and cruising preferred class year now work on a consulting bas is. between Maine and Key West. Lawrence and Milwaukee-Downer Phyllis Alton Hansen, Hendersonvi lle, Meridith Masterson, Palatine, Illinois, went orth Caroli na, plays in two bell choirs and to Ireland las t October and was planning a alumni information is organized tutors at the Li teracy Council. Caribbean cruise for February or March. according to class years. If your class Rosemary Freeman Lehman, Stoughton, Jim and Jo Ann H amburg Morris, ew­ Wisconsin, is a distance-education speciali t town, Connecticut, purchased land on the year does not reflect the class with for the University of W isconsin. Ro emary Intercoastal Waterway in North Carolina in which you want to be associated, and her husband of forty years, Don, celebrat­ preparation for retirement. Jim i an account ed their anniversary by flying in a hot air bal­ manager for American National Can. please call the Alumni Relations loon. H elen Fehihaber Oertel, W ilmington, office at 414-832-6549, and we will J. McCutcheon "Mac" Powell, West Bend, Delaware, wri tes that her husband Charl es' Wisconsin, and his wife, Lu, like to travel. hobby is av iation, and they hope to fly to change this designation for you. He also enjoy ga rdening, photography, par­ Appleton for the reunion. tridge hunting, and tennis. Mac is closing Thyrza Otterbacher, Merri ll ville, Indiana, a manager at Caldwell Banker Premier. seventh-grade teacher, is looking forward to John Purves, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin , and retirement. Although she is busy with school, his wife, Sandy, split their time between she sti ll has time to enjoy traveling, visiting Sturgeon Bay and Sarasota, their dogs deter­ museums and theatres, volunteering, and par­ plane, train, boat, bus, lift, ubway, car, and mining whether they li ve orth or South. ticipating in the American Association of foot through Germany, Switze rland, and Aus­ Eliza beth H alve rson Racette, W ya ndotte, Unive rsity Women. tria." Michiga n, tutors in the inner city and sub­ David and Barbara Bennett Sackett, Oxford, Douglas Born, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, who urbs and helps prepare taxes for seni ors. England, are both enjoy ing academic life­ retired in 1990 as director of personnel for Charles Saunders, Mesa, A rizona, and his Dav id is a professor of epidemiology, and the Sheboygan Area School Distri ct, enj oys wife, Carol, breed and show Pembroke Welsh Barbara is studying history of architecture vi iting with his daughter and son-in-law in Corgis. They recently met with John part-time. They love giving tours to their Cali fo rni a. He also traveled to China and the McKinstry and Ruth Riemer McKinstry, numerous visitors. Caribbean recently. '54, of Scottsdale, Arizo na. Ken and Shirley Cox Seefeld, St. George, John Clay, Li ttleton, Colorado, enj oy the Dick U nderberg, Mukwonago, Wiscon in, Utah, love the cenery and weather of their outdoors and its pleasures: skiing, camping, retired fro m teaching in 1991 and ha been new home state. Ken is a part-time sa le man canoeing, hiking, and biking. John biked in rea l estate ales and apprai ing. Dick plays for Anderson Lum ber, and Shirley holds a Hawaii and Eu rope. in the Waukesha Area Symphonic Band with secretari al position, also part-time. Marion "Micki" Hughson Eastman, Palos Dan G ilmore, '62. T om and Norma Crawford Voss, Estero,

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Fl rida, spend their ummer in W i consin Virginia Netz Schumann, West Bend, Wi - and keep quite active with golfing, biking, consin, participated in the Seattle-Kobe Kids wa lking, boating, and "a ll that good stuff." Camp. The camp brought joy and learning to Donna Fraider Stewart-Woelffer, Sarasota, forty-five students from Kobe, Japan, who Florida, and her husband, Deane, enjoyed a were survivors of the January '95 earthquake. month in Europe after marrying Ia t April. Virginia con idered the experience the mo t Donna is international marketing specialist intense and rewarding teaching she's ever for Presidential Florida Realty. been involved in. Susan Butler Tobie, Zebulon, North Caroli­ 1957 ;M na, taught Latin last year. Unfortunately, the 40th Reunion, June 1997 county ran out of money, she says, o she is se lf- employed again. 1958 40th Reunion, June 1998 1961 Jeanne Begalke Brazier, G len Ellyn, Illinois, 40th Reunion, June 2001 founded the Suzuki Talent Educati on Pro­ gram of Glen Ellyn in the 1970s. She is also a 1962 certified Ill inois school psychologist. Jeanne 35th Reunion, June 1998 feels that becoming a psychologist has given Scott Adam, Marina Del Rey, California, her the knowledge of learning and human now lives on his sailboat, a C & C 39 Land­ Living the Law development that has enabled her to become fa ll Cutter, which he races. Scott enj oyed a John F. Hagemann, '61, professor a better instructor of the piano. recent campus visit to see daughter Elizabeth, John Moore, Amherst, Massachusetts, was '97, and retired teachers F. Theodore !oak and law librarian at the Universi­ named a fe llow of the American Association and Joseph A. Hopfensperger. ty of South Dakota School of for the Advancement of Science in 1990. He Nancy Bodenstein, Swampscott, Mas achu­ is professor of psychology, neuroscience, and setts, plans to build a new home in New Law, was recognized in a recent computer science at the University of Massa­ Hampshire: "something round, earth-bermed, issue of South Dakotan Lawyer for chu etts. and energy effi cient." Nancy is director of the Patricia Minge r Vorenberg, Lexington, Salem State College Early Music Ensemble. the achievements of his twenty­ Massachu etts, and her husband, Steve, oper­ William Bond, Roscoe, Illinois, a social-stud­ seven-year "life in the law," dur­ ate a ge nealogy software business, Quinsept, ies teacher, is working on a novel. "It i not ing which he has taught over 20 Inc. , from their home. anywhere near finished, but maybe someday. Marian Rivenburg Clay, Edina, Minnesota, ..."Wi lli am sees Mike Lakin, '63, occa­ different law school subjects and had to put her flute and piano play ing on sionall y. increased the law library's collec­ hold whi le her broken wrist healed in a fash­ David Fellman, Rochester, Minnesota, is an ionable hot-pink cast. Marian and her hus­ independent distributor of the products and tion from 48,000 to over 170,000 band, Joe, hosted two Costa Rican musicians serv ices of Interior Des ign Nutritionals and volumes. N oting that nearly 90 who accompanied a dance troupe appearing its parent company, NuSkin International. at the Fe tival of ations. Wendy Walter H opfensperge r, Appleton, percent of those currently practic­ John Owen, ew Milford, Connecticut, in Wisconsi n, married Joe H opfensperger, '52, ing law in South Dakota went to anticipation of retirement·from Kimberly­ at the Boy nton Chapel at Bj orklunden on C lark, bought a 32-foot, C lass A motorhome. September 22, 1994. law school at the University of John se rves on the United Way board and on Wayne Hundertmark, West Bend, W iscon­ South Dakota during H agemann's the New Milford Hospital's Hold ing Corpora­ sin, a semi-reti red cost analyst, writes mu ic tenure, the magazine concluded, tion board of directors. and poetry and i working on a oratorio and Lynn Ryan Michela, Palm Desert, Califor­ fo lk opera. He published his first poetry "In looking at such a long, suc­ nia, wonders when she had time to work, anthology in 1994. cessful career, all anyone can si nce she is very active with golf, ceramics, Judy Kaufman Sadler, Macomb, Ill inois, and the Assistance League in her retirement. made a career change from elementary prin­ hope for is another twenty-seven John and G retchen N iedert ('57) cipa l to in tructor in special education at years." Spickerman, Caledonia, Illinois, are selling Western Illinois University. their farm and are in the process of building a David Mcintyre, Greenville, South Caroli­ new home in orthern W isconsin. na, enj oy kiing, fi shing, and sailboarding. Dav i I and his wife, Barbara, have built a 1959 house on a boat-access-only- island off the 40th Reunion, June 1999 coast of South Carolina. Stanley Metcalf, Sali ne, Michiga n, and his 1963 1960 wife, Renee, recentl y purchased a weekend 35th Reunion, June 1998 40th Reunion, June 2000 cottage on Saginaw Bay. Stan is director of Betty Roberts H all, Sun C ity, Arizona, is telecommunications systems for Detroit 1964 working on the the is for her mas ter's deg ree Edi on. 35th Reunion, June 1998 and teaching music at two elementary Elizabeth Morgan H eath, Tacoma, Washing­ W ren Ellsworth Gurney, Arl ington, Vir­ schools. ton, does fund-raising consulting for local ginia, is coordinating the use of a Mac intosh Doug Logan, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, is cultural and human service agencie . "It' compu ter lab at her elementary school and ge neral manager for Zaina International, the going very well, and I love the work." a sisting in English as a second language authorized distributor for Sears, Roebuck & Margot Ryan, Smyrna, Tennessee, raises instruction. She e-mails and net-surfs after Company in Saudia Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, horses on her farm outside of ashville. school and teaches a Famil y Literacy class in Kuwait, and Qatar. Margot has a private practice in psychotherapy. the evenings.

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Frederic Nordeen, '66, Shorewood, Wi con­ sin, is executive vice president of Pyramid, a competitive-strategy consulting firm, and has opened a Milwaukee office for the Atlanta­ based company. 1967 30th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 1968 j 30th Reunion, June 1999 1969 30th Reunion, June 1999 Bruce Bandy, Downers Grove, Illinois, is the new assis tant principal at Glenbard West High School. Dennis Barry, Racine, Wisconsin, a felony­ Meritorious Teacher court judge, was appointed by Governor Susan Heymann, '79, has been promoted to Tommy Thompso n to chair a blue-ribbon senior vice president, public relations and Medieval-history specialist DavidS. committee to investigate ways to overhaul account service, at Sprecher Bertolot and Com­ Spear, '73, was awarded the Alester Wisconsin's juvenile justice system. Almost pony. G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle all of the committee's recommendations were adopted. Furman Award for Meritorious Thomas De Mark, Paradise Valley, A rizona, an investment counselor and partner in 1970 Teaching at Furman University's 30th Reunion, June 1999 Omega Advisers, is a reg ular on TV-CNBC 1995 commencement. Cited as and business programs-and an international 1971 "one of the faculty's most learned lecturer. He is author of the best-selling book The New Science of T echnical Analysis. 25th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 Nancy Paulu Hyde, Washington, D. C., has professors and one of its best teach­ Eric Denemark, G iven, West Virginia, presi­ just published her eighth book, Helping Your dent of Denex Corporation, a geological and ers," Spear is widely known on cam­ Child with Homework. It is part of as ries of mining consulting business, is building an publications that the U.S. Secretary of Edu­ pus for the number of faculty col­ experimental aircraft. cation's office is putting out to encourage leagues who audit his course in James Fry, Painesv ille, Ohio, acounselor/ parents and ed ucators to work together to therapist in private practice, also operates a medieval history. Also a respected help children succeed in school. Last May, theatre-photography business with the C leve­ Nancy gave birth to a son, Benjamin, her scholar, he has edited The Anglo­ land Play House as his principle client. second child. Norman Anonymous, newsletter of Andrew and Virginia Post Kass, Stillwater, Minnesota, are the owners of Sutler's Wines the Haskins Society for the Study of and Spirits and offer tastings and seminars at 1972 1J 25th Reunion, June 1997 Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman their impressive new store. Linda McNeely Graham, Littletown, Col­ History, for 13 years. He is the first orado, was promoted to supervisor of medical 1973 25th Reunion, June 1998 writers las t summer at Micromedex, Inc., and and only American to serve on the Duffie Adelson, Chicago, Illinois, was continues to take night classes in the med ical reunited in Chicago with Stanley Kingsley editorial board of the journal sciences. Day of Evanston, lllinois, and Lynn Trepel Annales de Normandie, is currently Bruce lglauer, Chicago, lllinois, is pres ident Caglar, who has been residing in Istanbul, of Alligator Records and Artist Management, completing a book on the Norman Turkey, for many year. lnc. He recently married Jo Kolanda, former Teresa Russell Eifert, San Diego , California, cathedral clergy of the Middle Ages, director of the Milwaukee County Victim/ is program director and conductor of choral Witness Services Program. and has published a guide for music at Southwestern College and plans a Carl Liebich, Plymouth, Wisconsin, instructs sabbatical leave in 1997. medievalists on Research Facilities in for the Skip Barber Racing School and has David Ostrander, San Francisco, California, his own race car preparation business. Normandy and Paris. is a new partner with the 100-year-old law Mary Jean Vaubel Montgomery, Spencer, firm Cooper, White & Cooper. Dav id , a Iowa, a member of the Iowa State Board of member of the American Bar Association Education, joined a U.S. delegation to North and the Bar Association of San Francisco, Central Italy to observe world-renowned will concentrate his practice on civil and early childhood education programs. 1965 insurance coverage litiga tion and is head of Mary Jo McGuire Swanson, Englewood, 30th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 the firm's Insurance Coverage Practice Colorado, finished her mas ter's in child and Group. 1966 family studies and is now in a doctoral pro­ 30th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 gram in school psychology. Linda Mayer Wills, Downers Grove, Illinois, 1974 Teresa Smith Nellans, Harrisburg, Pennsyl­ 25th Reunion, June 1999 has accepted a full-time sales and marketing vania, is ass istant director of the Pennsylva­ James Fleming, Kinderhook, New York, has postion in industrial medicine sa les at Avanti nia Office for the Deaf and Hearing acquired Colonial Advertising, which Impaired. Health Systems.

40 specializes in classified advertisi ng for real estate companies. He hopes to add broadcast and disp lay advertising capabilities to the Theo the Edutaining Dinosaur agency. Dennis McFadden, Pittsbu rgh, Pennsylvania, is the new cura tor of architecture at the Technology in the service of learning Heinz A rchitectura l Center of the Pittsburgh Museum of A rt. 1975 Thomas C. Rausch '80, and his wife, 25th Reunion, June 2000 Kathy, are Interactive Ink, 1976 -'1 Incorporated, developers and 20th Reunion, June 1997 marketers of educational mul­ Neil Weiner, Tempe, A rizona, is contract timedia products for children. ad ministrator at Arizona State University. Michael Streater, St. Paul, Minnesota, an Their first project, a CD ROM attorney at Briggs and Morgan, was elected in entitled Thea the Dinosaur Interactive February to serve as secretary of the fi rm. Playbook TM, has just been released, in Briggs and Morgan has 130 lawyers, with offices in St. Paul and Minneapolis. partnership with Panasonic Interactive 1977 ;J;j Media Company, for Macintosh and 20th Reunion, June 1997 Windows computers and the 3DO 1978 -'1 gaming system. 20th Reunion, June 1997 Thea, a character created by author Phil Yeh, John Martin, San Francisco, Califo rnia, encourages literacy under the banner: Read. Avoid was recently appointed director of the San Francisco A irport, the nation's third Extinction. Playbook won the Kid's Choice Award for largest airport. Most Awesome Animation at the 1995 Children's Multi­ 1979 media Expo in San Francisco. 20th Reunion, June 2000 Based in Columbus, Ohio, Interactive Ink's next produc­ Cynthia Arneson Eddy, Eden Prairie, Min­ tion is the Dinosaurs Across America Interactive Playbook rM ' which nesota, has been involved in effo rts to help the less fortunate for the past ten year . She teaches the basics of U.S. geography and will be available for the 1996 sponso rs Hmong refugee families, sorts and Christmas season. collects clothes and furniture, and volunteers at the local elementary school. She recently After graduating from Lawrence, Rausch worked in various training received the "Warm Heart" award give n by and development positions until1991, focusing mainly on sales and the Eden Prairie News. sales-management training. He left the position of sales training 1980 manager at Automatic Data Systems to take a field sales job and, four Debra A. Klassman years later, gave up his corporate position to become chief financial 1440 Keystone Street River Forest, IL 60305-1011 officer of Interactive Ink, Incorporated. Today, the company is diversifying from the highly competitive Deborah Lynne Anderson Apartment 74 "edutainment" market and is in negotiations with publishers of 4521 West Ramsey Road traditional textbooks to provide complementary multimedia content Greendale, WI 53129 for grade school, high school, and post-secondary curricula. Rausch also 20th Reunion, June 2000 has established a parent company, Multimedia Consortium, which helps William Simon, Burnville, Minnesota, is national sales manager fo r Bechik Pro­ other small developers bring their multi-media titles to market. ducts, Inc. "This is exciting and challenging work," Rausch says. "It's nice Jeffrey and Jayne Merwin Griese and their knowing that we can make a positive impact on kids throughout the four children will be in London, England, fo r three years. Jeffrey is area director of human world. Another great aspect is our family involvement-both our resources for Andersen Consulting. children, 12-year-old Eric and 16-year-old Ian, are essential parts of 1981 our children's-title productions, providing voice work, music, and Emily Hawkes Bland script ideas." 59 Gibbs Lane Stowe, VT 05672

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Lynn Gordon Sellon 97 Easton Road Performance Artist 'Rocks' Westport, CT 06880 Depression to Reach Teens Ane J. Lintvedt-Dulac "l'm doing some interesting work at 6033 Bellona A venue Baltimore, MD 21212 the intersection of creativity and mental health, finding artistic ways 15th Reunion, June 1998 Thomas Boya, Denver, Colorado, is market to do effective outreach to kids and research manager of the US WEST Media others," says Chicago~area poet, Group. actor, and filmmaker Paul McComas, 1983 '83. His band, Lithium, which also Patricia L. Quentel 275 Bampfield Drive includes Lawrence classmates Kim Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464-2526 Hah and Tim Buckingham, played its third Rock Against Depression Emily Copeland 40A Indian T errace concert on April 8, second anniver~ Middletown, Rl 02842 sary of the suicide of rock musician James A. Schmidt Kurt Cobain. Lithium concerts are 4529 West Seminary Avenue produced in cooperation with local mental health agencies, whose staff Richmond, VA 23227 members are on hand to provide information about suicide and depression. 15th Reunion, June 1998 McComas has also written a one~act play about adolescent~onset schizophre~ Beverly Larson, Brooklyn Heights, New York, is a copy editor at Dow-Jones and nia, "Now I Know My ABCs," described by one reviewer as "a stunning and Co., Inc. moving description of a young woman's mental breakdown ... presented Catherine Pfeifer, Greenfield, Wisconsin, is with a humor and compassion rare in such a depiction." McComas and his employed by Badger Rutter & Assoc. as a research supervisor. fiancee, artist, poet, and art therapist Christine Kozlowski, who takes part in the performance of "Now I Know My ABCs," have recently joined the 1984 15th Reunion, June 1998 board of directors of the Mental Health Association of Evanston, for which he heads the youth outreach committee. 1985 Tammie Follett 328 South Snelling Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 Kathryn M. Gleason Eleanor Kerlow, Wa hington, D.C., is exec­ 2831 North Burling utive ed itor for a new legal on-line service Jennifer Nilsson Halgren Chicago, IL 60657 ca lled Lexis Counse l Connect. 3825 Drew Avenue, South Barbara Lee, Staten Island, New Yo rk, is on Minneapolis, MN 55410-1047 20th Reunion, June 2000 the fa culty at Wayne College and play ing Patrick Short, Portl and, Oregon, and his percussion with a Brazilian group, the 15th Reunion, June 2001 wife, Ruth Jenkins, are "driving Comedy­ Sambanditos. Mary Hosbein, Dall as, Texas, is manager of Sportz-Portland to the premiere Elise Swenson, a practicing p ychoanaly t in employee relations at Wyndham Hotels and po ition in local entertainment circle ." ew York City, is director of social work at Resort. ComedySportz is a national league of com­ Grosvenor Neighborhood House, on the fac­ Kurt Krebsbach, Minneapolis, Minnesota, petitive improvisational comedy team . For ulty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Edu­ works in the Honeywell Technology enter mo re on that, see cation and Training, taking part in the as a senior research scientist. http://www.cse.ogi.edu/Interactive/CSz/ Hunter School of Social Work's post-master's on the World W ide Web. program, and on the boards of directors of a 1986 Elizabeth Russell Brunner, Needham, Mass­ number of related programs. Nicole Condon Hayes achusetts, is an anchor/reporter for WCVB, Barbara Van Buskirk Van De Laarschot, 4215 Emerson Avenue, N. Chann'"el 5, in Boston and received a ew Green Bay, W i con in, teaches clarinet and Minneapolis, MN 55412-1622 England Regional Emmy in 1995. saxophone to private students on a fl exible Douglas Carlson, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, sched ule so she can spend more time with lOth Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 and his wife, Mary, are celebrating the birth her third child, Kel ey Lynn. Susan Anthony, Pou nd Ridge, ew York, of their third child , Eric, and are building a Timothy White, Bloomington, Illinois, is has a new job at Duracell in international new home. Doug is al o building his practice di trier sale manager for Roadway Package finance for developing markets. after joining a new medical group. System. Christopher Berger, Shelburne, Vermont, James Gandre, ew York, ew York, is dean ass istant professor of molecular physiology of enrollment and alumni at the Manhattan 1982 and biophysics in the College of Medicine at School of Music. He gave several lectures in Rebecca Devereux Sullivan the University of Vermont, has receiv d a 1995 and performed a number of profes ional 94 Perry Street research grant from the American Heart choral roles. Brookline, MA 02146 Association to rudy the molecular 42 ALUMNI TODAY

mechanism of muscle contraction. Chris and his wife, Elizabeth Brown Berge r, '87, have 1987 ;i;J taken up mountain-bike racing and cross­ lOth Reunion, June 1997 country skiing. Julie Horst, New Orleans, Louisiana, is at Joseph Berger, as hville, Tennessee, is a Tulane University working on her M.B.A. Ph.D. candidate in higher education at Van­ Michelle Lehman-O'Brien, Austin, Texas, is derbilt University. stage manager for a variety of theatres in David Bonello, a San Francisco lawyer and Austin, tays involved with the independent ational Lawyers' G uild member, plays bass film scene, does a li ttle "oboe gigging," and and records with several singe r and bands. works as a lega l secretary for the U nive rsity He plans to get a master's degree in tax law of T exas system. and a Ph.D. in social psychology and to pro­ Sally Newlin Steinke, Shiocton, Wisconsin, duce a soul/hip-hop record for a Bay A rea is an art teacher in the Appleton Public vocal group. School sys tem. Thomas Cicciarelli is a clinical psychology intern with the city and county of San Fran­ 1988 cisco. Kathryn Andrew Willett Jennifer Fenne, Middleton, Wisconsin, has a 10662 Misty Hill new daughter, Emma, and a new teaching Orland Park, IL 60462 position, tutoring at-risk university students in reading. 1Oth Reunion, June 1998 Laurie Kruse Gulbronson, Kaukauna, Wis­ Jeffrey Martins, San Francisco, Cali forn ia, consin, works for the American Cancer Soci­ works for the Immigration and Naturali zation ety, coordinating fund-raising, educational, Service as an asy lum offi cer. Jazzwoman and service programs fo r four counties. Corinne Marohl Salerno, Stamford, Con­ Pianist/composer Laura Caviani, necticut, is an in ·tructional aide for a blind Jill Lunde Jones, Salt Lake C ity, Utah, is an '84, has released "Dreamlife," her internist at Salt Lake Community Health student at G lenville Elementary School. Centers. debut CD as a leader, on the Daniel Macke, Munising, Michigan, is an 1989 IGMOD Records label. The disc operations analysis team leader with Kimber­ Kelly M. Carroll ly-Clark Corporation and coaches pee-wee 929 Winter Street, NE includes a mix of her own compo­ youth hockey His wife, Regina, is pursuing an Minneapolis, MN 55413 sitions and new arrangements of education degree with an emphasis in history at Northern Michigan Univer ity. lOth Reunion, June 1999 standard works and is performed Vickie Moerchen, Madison, Wisconsin, a Lynda Sachs, Chicago, Il linois, is national largely in trio format with two marketing manager for Bally T otal Fitness Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Kinesi­ other highly respected Twin ology at the Univer ity of Wisconsin-Madi­ Corporation. so n, received a departmental scholarship to Stephanie J. Samuel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Cities musicians. Caviani has has been appointed ass istant account execu­ support her increased time spent on research. appeared at festivals with a A phys ical therap ist, she continue to main­ tive at Andrews/Mautner, Inc., a Milwaukee­ tain a pediatric clinical practice. based advertising/public relations agency. number of well-known jazz Douglas Mason, Washington, D.C., received musicians, has written for ensem­ the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin­ 1990 Madison in 1995 and is now science fellow at Colleen Vahey bles ranging from small jazz com­ the Agency for International Development. 231 East Fremont, No. 102 bos to symphony orchestras, and Kristine Patrow, Minnetonka, Minnesota, is Elmhurst, IL 60126 a reporter/anchor for KARE, channel 11, in has taught at the University of Minneapolis. 5th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She left Kathryn Blickensderfer Roesinger, Muncie, Kristen Ringel Buran, A llison Park, Penn­ Indiana, is a telephone secretary for Commu­ sylvania, is a certified computer teaching in 1994 to complete an nications etwork, Inc. insrru ctor/trainer for Execu Train Corpora­ M.Mus. degree at the University tion. Susan Sasenick, San Francisco, Califo rnia, is of Michigan, studying with Reggie managing editor for a health care magazine Scott Legge, Fairbanks, Alaska, is working on and has been studying at the Art Institute for his Ph.D. in anthropology. Workman, and now lives in fiv e years. Khutso Mampeule, Republic of South St. Paul, Minnesota, where she Kathy Rutherford Sears, Lake Ridge, Vir­ Africa, is ass istant regional manager for ginia, and her husband, Michael, a warrant poorn et. continues to write, perform, officer in the Marine Corp Reserve, have and teach. added Thor, an English standard bulldog, to 1991 the fam ily. Kathy loves her job at a retire­ Larry Dahlke ment community, coordinating events and 1837 W. Superior activities and handling wills and trusts. "It's Chicago, IL 60622 like hav ing 244 grandparents!" Mary Suess, Schaumburg, Illinois, is an oper­ 5th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 ations manage r for Resource Dimensions. Eric Burger, Portl and, Oregon, is a consu l­ Ann Schmitt Wendel, Appleton, Wisconsin, tant with Perkins Consulting. love the job of a full-time mom. She contin­ Thomas Clippert, Bloomfield Hills, Michi­ ues to play her violin with the Fox Vall y gan, is at the Ya le School of Music, pursuing Symphony and in local churches. a master of music degree in classical guitar perfo rmance. 43 ALUMNI TODAY

bought a home "and the required dog" Logan, Utah, both work for Utah State Uni­ and are enjoying the east coast. Rick is versity. Roark, a biology teaching ass istant, studying the behavioral ecology of received are earch fellowship in 1993-1994. coral reef fish in Belize, Central Amer­ Megan is an ad ministrative ass istant in the ica, and is the co-principal investiga­ area of international tudent service . tor in a grant from the Earthwatch Eric and Leslie Hanson Draheim have organization. bought a hou e in Alabama. Leslie received Jason Hoogerhyde, C incinnati, Ohio, her master's in social work from Unive rsity of has begun doctoral work in compos­ Wiscon in-Madison and works as a clinician. tion at the University of C incinnati Eric is a quality engineer at Champion on ervatory of Music. He teaches International. freshman music theory and gives com­ Noelle Eisfeldt, un Prairie, W isconsin , is position lessons. Ja on recently com­ enrolled at the University of Wisconsin­ posed a new song-cycle for soprano Madi on in a doctoral program. She is also a and chamber ensemble on a text by teaching assistant in the music theory depart­ W. S. Merwin. ment, teaching freshman music theory. Jennifer Kranz is an administrative Daniel Kelly, Arlington, Virginia, works on as i tant for the Children' Museum in Capitol Hill for enator Kent Conrad of Seattle, Washington. orth Dakota. James Lanik, Denver, Colorado, rece­ Christian Jensen, Los Angeles, California, is ceived his J.D. degree from the Uni­ working toward a Ph.D. in political science at vers ity of Denver law school and has the University of California-Los Angeles. been admitted to the Colorado Bar. Paul Konetzke, Lindenwold, New Jersey, is a He now is associate counsel for TV driver for the CRST truck line. Communications Network, Inc. Kathie Lundgren, avoy, Illinois, is in her THE LU HAMLET TEAM Posing fo ro team portrait William Owen, Longmont, olorado, third year of veterinary school at the Univer­ outside Boston 's Huntington Theatre ore (from left) Eric is a water-resources engineer for sity of Illinois-Champaign. Riverside Technology, Inc. Sarah Mevis, Saratoga Springs, New York, Simonson, '82, Dominic Fumuso, '91, ond Campbell Scott, Marty Robinson, Tallahassee, Florida, works for Quad/Graphics. '83. The current production, directed by Simonson, is Scott's had the pleasure of arrangi ng a com­ Michelle (Shelly) Mueller, Durango, Col­ po ition by former Lawrence faculty orado, is a handicap specialist and instruc­ second stage protroyol of Shakespeare's Done. Fumuso is o member John Harmon, '67, for the tional aide. She moved to Durango with Paul member of the Huntington stage crew. Members of the professor's 60th birthday tribute. H elmken, also an instructional aide. lawrence Club of Boston organized o Hamlet evening in Marty is a second-year ass istant pro­ Terence O'Reilly, St. Pau l, Minnesota, is fessor of trumpet and jazz studies at intern/associate editor fo r the Hungry Mind March, with o reception for Scott following the performance. Florida A&M University. Review. Sarah Glashagel Slickman, Crystal David and Margaret Magee Peltier, John and Sara Mladejovsky Deitrich have Lake, Illinois, is child-care director at the Roseville, Minnesota, have bought their first moved to Atlanta, Georgia. John works for Hastings Lake YMCA. house. Dav id is a upport analyst for Merrill Kimberly-Clark and has taken up marathon Corporation, and Margaret is a sales/interior running. Sara has a new job coordinating 1992 design specialist for the Minnesota Tile clinical trials for Alzheimer's and stroke stud­ Judith Hayes N ugent Sketchbook. ies. Apartment C Jeff Reed, Alameda, Californi a, is adminis­ Michelle Epp, Fairbanks, Alaska, and her 1122 East Northwest Highway trative aide to the executi ve vice president of husband, Scott Legge, '90, say, "We're work­ Arlington Heights, IL 60004 the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum . ing dawn to dusk (11:00 a.m.-2:45p.m.) on Timothy Riley, New York, New York, is a our Ph.D.s." Michell e's is in oceanography, 5th Reunion, June 14-16, 1996 teacher and lecturer for the Metropolitan and Scott's is in anthropology. Molly Arnason, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Muse um of Art at The Cloisters. Timothy is Michael D. Frey, Ell worth, Maine, is senior likes teaching middle school in the Midwest. a member of the board of directors for Melo­ image analys t at the Jackson Laboratory in Suzanne Barrow, Wheaton, Illinois, is work­ dious Accord, an orga nization founded by Bar Harbor. ing for a rna ter of science degree in historic noted American composer/arranger Alice Mary Haessig, Columbus, Ohio, received her pre ervation at the School of the Art Insti­ Parker. M.A. in library science at the Univer ity of tute of Chicago. She se lls antique garden Ross Rynders, Appleton, Wisconsin, is an Wisconsin-Madison and now is a technical thing and architectural fragments for a store ass istant manager at First Federal Bank. proces ing cataloger with the On-Line Com­ called The Greenhouse. Jennifer Schmidt, Oak Park, Illinois, is a puter Library Center, Inc. Heidi Burkard, Roya l Oak, Michigan, in her research assistant at the University of Daren Hansen, St. Paul, Minne ota, and his third year of m dical school at Wayne State Chicago, working toward the doctorate wife, Lisa Bouwer Hansen, '89, are surprised University School of Medicine, is considering in psychology. to find themselves still in the "frigid state" of a career in family or internal medicine. Constance Shields, ew Canaan, Connecti­ Minnesota. Daren works in the public infor­ Barbara Coe, Eugene, Oregon, is a graduate cut, is an executive assistant to the vice pres­ mation office of the Minne ota pollution student in physical anthropology at the Uni­ ident of the Thompson Corporation. control agency. ve rsity of Oregon. Katherine Szidon, Eugene, Oregon, is finish­ Margaret S. Haymes (nee Roberts), Seattle, Tanya Davidson, Chicago, Illinois, was pro­ ing her M.A. in special education at the Washington, has adopted a urname from her moted to program coordinator of the Young University of Oregon and plans to teach. mother' side of the fam il y. She curr ntly is Boys Home. Tanya also serves on the train­ Richard Tadych, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, program coordinator at the Pacific Northwest ing committee for the agency, planning is owner of his own agency, Farmers Association of Independent Schools. in-service training programs and arranging for In urance Group. Richard Hein, Narragansett, Rhode Island, employees to attend conferences. Susan Varnum, Ft. Lauderdale, Florid a, and his wife, Amy Asleson, '90, have Roarke and Megan Van Buskirk Donnelly, completed her M.F.A. in computer 44 ALUMNI TODAY

animation from Savannah Coll ege of Art and Emily Murray, Chicago, Illinois, is teaching De ign and now works for a po t-production ixth-grade math at ichols Middle School house in Miami. in Evanston. KEEP THE Sarah Feldt Wilson, Bo ton, Massachusetts, Jennifer Palmer, Wayzata, Minnesota, is a is a medical insu rance billing associate for ystems analyst at Deloitte and Touche in DRIVE ALIVE! Vitreoretinal Consultant , Inc. Minneapolis. Erika Pape, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, i pursu­ 1993 ing a graduate degree in biological sciences at Johanna J. Jaehnig University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 1150 West 15th Amy Passow, Menasha, Wisconsin, is an Eugene, OR 97402 ad ministrative ass istant in capital manage­ ment at Aid Association for Lutherans in 5th Reunion, June 1999 Appleton. Donna Brister, Minneapolis, Minne ota, vol­ Kent Paulsen, Green Bay, Wi consin, is unteers at the Hennepin Hi tory Museum. employed by G reen Bay public schools a a Corday Feith, C hes terfield, Missouri, is a chorus teacher and has been named choru - student at Logan College of Chiropractic. mas ter of the Pamiro Opera Compan y. Stephanie Hernandez, Miami, Florida, spent Elizabeth Pepper, River Fores t, Illinois, Support the Lawrence Fund five months living in Braz il after receiving pent the past year in Peru, traveling, spend­ her ma ter' degree in Latin American studies ing time with her famil y, and working at Help Lawrence achieve from the University of Arizona. odd job . Rashne Jehangir, St. Paul, Minnesota, Kimberly Pichler, lola, Wisconsin, was pre­ its 55 percent completed her master's degree in counseling sented with the C lement F. Bailey Memorial participation goal. psychology and is now working for the Uni­ Award for Best New Writer of 1995 by the versity of Minnesota advising and Numismatic Literary Guild for her weekl y counseling first-generation students. column in the N umismatic News . She also Stephen Johnson, etauket, ew York, wrote a chapter for the 1996 North American earned his master's deg ree from the State Coins and Prices book on the 1995 Special Catherine Thome, '84, and Barry Farrara, Olympics commemorative coin. University of ew York at Stony Brook and February 17, 1996. is currently working on a Ph.D. in nuclear John Ruben Piirainen, Jr., egaunee, Michael Sbonik, '87, and Shannon Mill, Michigan, is working on a mas ter's deg ree in phy ics. December 28, 1995. Peter Kimball, Milwaukee, Wi consin, is piano performance at Bowling Green State Sally Newlin, '87, and Dav id Steinke, a first-year law student at Marquette University. He also ha a graduate ass i rant- Augu t 12, 1995. Univer ity. hip in opera coaching. Robert Pope, '88, and Leeanne Reddish, Heather Northway, Evanston, Illinois, is a Andrea Miel Powers, Mad i on, Wi consin, April 30, 1995. naturalist at the Heller Nature enter in is head gi rl gy mnastics coach at Wes t High Corinne Marohl, '88, and Thomas Salerno, Highland Park. School. August 6, 1995. Chad Rettler, Appleton, Wisconsi n, is an Kathleen Haggarty, '88, and Peter Malone, ass istant firm administrator at Schumaker, 1994 July 22, 1995. Romaneska & Associates in Appleton. Sarah L. Widdes Richard Strobel, '89, and Joanne 3405A W. Hayes Avenue Kurt Ritz i a staff member of the Campus Henderson, '91, August, 1993. Milwaukee, WI 53215 Crusade for Christ at Iowa State University. Jeanuil Vernado, '89, and Robert Nagler, Erin Stahowiak, Waupun, Wisconsin, is June 24, 1995. 5th Reunion, June 1999 catering manager of The Heidel Hou e in Joshua Blakely, Madison, Wisconsin, i pur­ Green Lake, Wisconsin. 1990s suing a joint degree in law and journalism at Cynthia Campuzano, '90, and Lt. Edward University of Wisconsin-Mad i on. 1995 Zellem, January 1996. Ariana Bliss, Longmont, Colorado, is teach­ Alexander C. Thoman Patrick Coffey, '91, and Tammy Bauman, ing English in Japan. 2 Ingraham Road September 1995. Toby Deitrich, Mountain View, California, Wellesley, MA 02181 Carrie DeMuyt, '91, and Mike Slager, i a development engineer with Hew lett­ June 1994. Packard. 5th Reunion, June 1999 Sharyl Jones, '91, and Keith Karen DeVries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a Gordon Martinez, Estancia, New Mexico, is Wojciechowski, '92, June 1993. studio coordinator at Eppstein and Uhen a band instructor in his local school sys tem. Lisa Kratzer, '91, and Carl Steiner, A rchitects and i applying to graduate Febru ary 18, 1995. schools for a master's in religious studies. Kevin Krueger, '91, and Wanda Fischer, Kristin Gribble, Waverville, North Carolina, July 14, 1995. works for Nature's Classroom, a res idential MARRIAGES Karen Park, '91, and George Koenig, environmental-ed ucation program for ele­ February 17, 1996. mentary and middle-school stud ents. Carl Schwendler, '91, and Karen Carter, David Kranz, lola, Wisconsin, is associate 1960s January 22, 1994. editor at Krause Publications. Brett Stousland, '91, and Emily Geenen, Sarah Majid, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, is Joseph Hopfensperger, '52, and Wendy September 24, 1994. applying to psychology program at vari ous Walter, '62, September 22, 1994. Bruce Iglauer, '69, and Jo Kolanda. Tina Volesky, '91, and Kevin Snider, universiti es. October 29, 1994. Rebecca Mezoff, Fort ollin , olorado, is Kelly Wickham, '91, and Dav id Nelson, attending graduate school at Colorado State 1980s July 1995. Uni versity in occupational therapy. Sharon Roeseler, '84, and Lawrence Lahner, May 28, 1995. Kathryn Ahern, '92, and Greg Walton, '93.

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Lawrence Nuptials La

David Braden, '92, and Sara Rose Birnbaum, September 15, 1995 . Eric Draheim and Leslie H anson, both '92, The August 27, 1995, wedding of Charles L. Newhall, '86, and Patricia D. Weyforth, held outside July 22, 1995. Philadelphia, included these Lawrence-related folks (from left): Scott Whitcomb, '86, Mitchell T. Hall, Beth Eyster, '92, and Terry Shore, Sue Dale-Hall, Nathan T. Hall, Lloyd E. Hall (associate director of admissions at Lawrence, 1984-88), June 10, 1995. Cheryl Timm, '92, and Allan Keopanya. Emily West, Allen C. West (professor of chemistry emeritus), Patricia W. Newhall, Charles L. Newhall, Ann Willhoite, '92, and Mark McKinstry, '86, Renee Johanson, '90, Mark E. Johanson, '86 (best man), Jennifer W. Albrecht, '89, and Stephen L. November 25, 1995. Albrecht, '86. Lenore Thomas, '93, and David Poppie. Beth Ravich, '93, and Garrett Smith, '94, December 17, 1995 . Michael Waite and Gwendolyn Williams, both '94, Ju ly 1995. Scott Fuller, '96, and Tanya Van Heuklon, December 30, 1995

BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS

1970s Howard and N ancy Paulu H yde, '71, a on, Benjamin T uttle, May 18, 1996. 1980s Cron Mueller and Peitra Gardetto-Mueller, both '80, a on, Peter, December 21, 1995. Alan and Kris H oover Beshire, '81, a son, Paul. Richard and Emily H awkes Bland, '81, a son, Theodore Sterl in g. Mary and Douglas Carlson, '81, a so n, Eric. Lisa H ollensteiner Egger, '81, and Tom, a son, Andrew Jame . Mark and Barbara Van Buskirk Van De Lawrence guests at the September 9, 1995, wedding of Jennifer J. Wilcox, '90, and Shawn P. Koerner, Laa rschot, '81, a daughter, Kelsey Lynn. Kristin Jesion, '85, and Craig Strom, a '89, included (standing, from left): Leo Linnemanstons, '91, Erica Weber, '90, Mark Bergman, '93, Eric daughter, Anne, March 18, 1995. Karnosky, '92, Steven Jung, '90, Wendy Hill, '90, Heather Hill, '93, Stephen Wingader, '89, Todd Jennifer Fenne, '86, and Keith Rabiola, a Dembrosky; (seated, from left) Karen Park-Koenig, '91 , David Sproat, '89, Shawn Koerner, '89, Jennifer daughter, Emma, September 9, 1995 . Linda Minnick, '86, and T im Schievelbein, Wilcox Koerner, '90, Lael Keiser, '89, Soozung Sa, '89, and Adam Dial, '92. Not pictured : Amy Gelb, '99 . a son, Alex, July 4, 1994. Julia and David Turner, '86, a daughter,

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Marga ret Marie "Magg ie," A pril 4, 1995 . H oward High, '35, Mil waukee, Wisconsin, Deb Wilson, '86, and John Singe r, a daugh­ July 9, 1995. ter, Katie, Febru ary 28, 1996. Roland Ziegler, '35, Cambria, California, CLICK HERE: http://www.lawrence.edu Peter and Julie Wick Sonneborn, '86, a ovember 2, 1995. Survivors include his What's new on the LU web site? daughte r, Alliso n, Febru ary 22, 1995 . wife, Helene Stromberg Ziegler, '40; a sister, Cathy and Kevin Walch, '86, a son, Helen Ziegler Spitler, '3 0; a so n; a daughter; To check out these recent additions: Stephen. and four grandchildren. • Alumni e,mail addresses David Morgan, '37, Fond duLac, W iscon­ 1990s sin, November 23 , 1995. • Reunion information Tina Volesky Snider, '91 , a son, Bradley Inez Dorsch Johnston, '38, Green Bay, Wi - • Alumni message board Kevin, September 3, 1995. consin, January 1, 1996. Mark ('88) and Elizabeth Keckonen ('91) Sally H aven Pelizzoni, '38, T ulsa, O kl a­ • Calendar of alumni club events Vahlsing, a son, A lexander Jacob, Jul y 25, homa, December 9, 1995. Survivors include ~ Click on the ALUMNI button 1995. her husband, Euge ne; and her daughter, Kelly McGlauchlen, '91 , and Dirk Ribbens, Anne Pelizzoni Lanier, '62. • Faculty e,mail addresses '92, a daughter, Rebekah Elizabeth. H eather Hanson Killa, '92, a son, Zachary. 1940s • Conservatory ensemble sound bites Matt Tierney, and Vicki Morrow, both '92, Don N everman, '40, Marinette, W isconsin , • Interactive campus map a daughter, Paige Katherine. November 12, 1995. Survivors include his Click on the ADMISSIONS button wife , Barbara Plank everman, '41. ~ Frances "Patty" Ladwig Shockley, '43, T al­ • Format: LU's new webzine ent, Oregon, December 13 , 1995. Survivors DEATHS include her sister, Joan Ladwig, '48. ~ Click on the BOOKSHELF button Margaret Bauman Nickerson, '45, Ke rrville, Texas, October 4, 1995. 1920s Leland Bartelt, '46, Oshkosh, Wisconsin , Eunice Ethier, M-D '21, Milwaukee, W i ­ December 8, 1995. received his M.Mus. deg ree, until his retire­ consin, November 29, 1995 . Lois Valentine Lipp, '48, orthbrook, lll i­ ment in 1986. T heorist, musicologist, and Esther Grob Hamilton, M-D '22, Milwau­ nois, Ju ne 14, 1995. Survivors include her musical historian, his scholarly interests kee, Wi consin, October 22, 1995. hu band, R ichard, '50. focused on Elizabethan music, particularl y George Pfefferle, '22, Dallas, Texas, Joan Huus Waldo, '49, Neenah, Wisconsin , John Blow's opera Venus and Adonis. As November 24, 1995 . October 31 , 1995. conservatory librarian, he presided over and Louise Geiger Girard, '25, New Richmond, developed a collection that became part of W isconsin, December 7, 1995 . 1950s the Seeley G. Mudd Library after hi retire­ Genevieve Jones Kooistra, '25, Chri tians­ Robert Evenstad, '56, Neenah, Wi con in , ment. He was predeceased by his wife, burg, Virginia, September 3, 1995. Novermber 21 , 1995. El izabeth Schofield Holl inger, who di ed on Dudley Gomber, '26, Oconto, Wi consin, Sharon N ewell Stevens, '58, Stone Moun­ March 3, 1996. December 7, 1995. tain, Georgia, October 22 , 1995 . Survivors George B. Walter, '36, Helena, Montana, Benjamin H eald, '26, Umatilla, Florida, Jan­ include her husband, Frederic Stevens, '5 8. March 18, 1996. Professor emeritus of educa­ uary 1995 . Survivors include a sister, tion, well -beloved teacher, poet, coach, envi­ Marj ori e Lease, '38. 1960s ronmenta li t, mentor, and fr iend t thirty Margaret Busse Lessig, '27, Cuyahoga Falls, N ancy Sell, '67, G reen Bay, W isconsin, years of Lawrence students, he returned to his O hio, March 25 , 1995. ovember 5, 1995. alma mater in 1946 and was a prominent and Burton Behling, '28, Sil ver Spring, Mary­ well -known member of the faculty, teaching land, ovember 14, 1995. 1990s Engli h and education courses and directing Ruth Haney Campbell, M-D '28, Evanston, Remer Hutchinson, '97, Stevens Point, the program in teacher-education, until his Illi nois, August 22 , 1995. W isconsin, January 8, 1996. retirement in 1975. He served as dean of men Carol Laub, M-D '28, Milwaukee, W iscon­ from 1948 to 1955 and later directed sin, October 24, 1995. Friends of Lawrence Lawrence's Upward Bound program for disad­ Mildred Melchert Saiberlich, '28, Shawano, Marjorie M. Jones, Appleton, Wisconsin, vantaged Wisconsin youth. He and his wife, Wi consin, November 29, 1995. March 5, 1996. She is affectionately remem­ Dorothy, who died in 1993, li ved in Brokaw Ruth Patterson Kuemmerlein, M-D '29, bered as "de k lady" in Plantz Hall. Hall as res ident superv i or for ten years. He Milwaukee, W isconsin, January, 1996. Stanley Learned, Charl otte, North Caroli na, taught, counseled, supported, and inspi red Frederick Reinke, '29, C li ntonville, Wis­ October 21, 1995. He received the honorary countless Lawrence students and was recog­ consin, January 15, 1996. degree doctor of engineering from Lawrence nized over the years with both the Excell ence in 1967. in Teaching Award and the Distinguished 1930s Jerry Purdum, Macomb, Illi nois, December Achi evement Award . Delphine Gugenheim Katz, M-D '31, Sara­ 1995. Surv ivors include hi wife Constance A nationally known motiva tional speaker, sota, Florida, October 1995 . C larke Purdum, '55, a so n, Stephen Purd um, he appeared at a wide variety of convention Lucille Ozanne Cassell, '32, Chelsea, '87, and a daughter-in- law, Jul ie Stoker and functions throughout the country, being Michigan, October 6, 1995. Pu rdum, '87. especially well-known for h is dramatic rendi­ N elle Thompson Penchard, '32, November tion of "Casey at the Bat." He also worked as 16, 1995. Surv ivors include a daughter, Betsy Faculty a seasonal employee in G lacier National Park Jarrett Stodola, '56; a son-in-law, Bruce Paul C. H ollinger, Appleton, W isconsin, fo r 12 ummers. todola, '57; and a granddaughter, Jane April 2, 1996. A graduate of Bay lor Unive rsi­ Survivors include two sons and two Marshall , '80. ty and the Ea tman School of Music, he was daughter -in-law, a bro ther and sister-in-law, Fern Johnson Erickson, '34, Highland Park, a member of the Lawre nce University five granddaughters, and one great-grand­ Illinois, November, 1995. Conservatory faculty fro m 194 7, the year he daughter.

47 LAWRENCE YESTERDAY •• BJORKLUNDEN AT THE BEGINNING

Kenneth Zak was chairman of the town board in Water) was the Boyntons' summer home, which nearby Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, when he they bequeathed to Lawrence; Mrs. Boynton helped dedicate this plaque in memory of wrote of the 325-acre lakefront property, "Far Winifred and Donald Boynton on May 17, removed from confusion and aggression, it 197 5. Bjorl<.lunden Vid Sjon (Birch Forest by the offers a sanctuary for al l. "

48 THE PERFORMING ARTS AT L AWRENC E 1996-1997 SEASON

Peter Serkin, piano Friday, October 18, 1996 8:00p.m.

Christopher Parkening, guitar Fri day, November 1, 1996 8:00 p.m .

Borodin Quartet Saturday, April 12, 1997 8 :00p.m.

Anonymous 4, medieval chant Saturday, May 3 , 1997 8:00p.m.

JAZZ CELEBRATION WEEKEND

Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone with Gunther Schuller Friday, November 15, 1996 7:30p.m.

Janis Siegel of the Manhattan Transfer with Fred Hersch, piano, and the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Singers Saturday, November 16, 1996 7:30p.m.

Christian McBride Saturday, March 15, 1997 7:30p.m.

Mingus Big Band Sunday,April27, 1997 7:30p.m.

Please call the Lawrence Office of Public Events 414-832-6585 THE ART OF GIVING

ive days o week, alumna Jean Keast Gridley introduces scholars and visitors of the FMetropolitan Museum of Art to the extensive resources of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, the computer center for the American Wing. Asumma cum laude graduate of lawrence, Jean's love of learning and budding interest in the visual arts were nurtured during her undergraduate days in Appleton. Now, after raising o family and pursuing o successful career in publishing, Jean concentrates on her two great passions: lawrence University and the Metropolitan Museum. She gives hundreds of hours of time and talent to the Met. For her alma mater, meanwhile, she has mode o signifi­ cant provision in her estate pions-on exceedingly generous response to the Lawrence 150 campaign. Jean has adamantly refused to place any restric­ tions on her gift. "lawrence has mode excellent decisions for the post 150 years, and I hove every confidence that my college will use my gift wisely For more information about giving to and well in the years ahead," she says. Lawrence, please write or coli: "I think oil lawrence alumni who feel as I do Lawrence University about the college and its present leadership would Development Office wont to make similar provisions for lawrence's P.O. Box 599 future." Appleton, WI 54912-0599 414-832-7687 lawrence University thanks Jean for her exemplary or 800-283-8320, ext. 7687 and generous support.

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