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CMU is an AA/EO institution (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo). Centralight Volume 76 • Number 2 • Summer 2007

Executive Editor and Executive Director of Alumni Relations Mary Lu Yardley, ’90 MSA ’92

Editor 8 Barbara Sutherland Chovanec

Photographers Robert Barclay Departments Peggy Brisbane 2 Letters 24 Writers 3 Take Five Sarah Chuby, ‘03 Professors win top research awards; Cynthia J. Drake Gen. Wesley Clark visits campus; other Don Helinski, ‘96 12 university briefs. Scott Rex 14 4 From the President Graphic Designer 6 Discovery Amanda St. Juliana, ‘06 Professor Debra Poole discusses the pitfalls of interviewing children about Alumni Board crime. Communications Committee Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76 24 Journeys Darcy Orlik, ’92 MSA ’95 Geography students help peers in Mexico Shirley Posk, ’60 40 plan for a city park. Judy Smith, ’65 27 Sports Vice President of Development Wrestlers win again; grad leads and Alumni Relations communications team for Chicago Bears. Michael Leto 30 In Support Associate Vice President 27 Library plans special Ernest Hemingway for Public Relations and Marketing event; new congressional act allows more Rich Morrison donor options; faculty and staff support CMU. For Advertising Information On the cover Call Cindy Jacobs, ’93 14 Hollywood his way 32 Maroon and Gold (800) 358-6903 Alumnus Jeff Daniels chooses blue jeans, Your alumni association source. R.V. driving, and hometown living over 36 Alumni in Action Stay Connected Tinseltown’s glitz and glam. Send change of address 39 In Memoriam information to: Cover photo by Robert Barclay Alumni relations 40 I Am Central Carlin Alumni House Central Michigan University Features Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Phone: (800) 358-6903 8 Being the change Fax: (989) 774-7159 Meet a few of the hundreds of CMU E-mail: [email protected] students who change people’s lives by Web: www.cmualum.com making volunteerism a priority.

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Thanks for the memories Lab schools provided good start Rowdies behavior embarrassing Editor: Editor: Editor: You cannot imagine my joy when I was flipping I transferred to CMU and lived in Vetville As a lifelong athlete, coach, and sports fan, I was through the Spring 2007 Centralight and saw a (Happy Valley) during the 1953-54 and 1954-55 taken aback to learn of the behavior of the Rose picture of me and my husband holding our sign academic years – majored in social sciences Rowdies, through both a televised CMU men’s at the MAC Championship game. and elementary education and minored in basketball game and the Spring 2007 Centralight. English and education. My student teaching As tried and true alumni, we made the trip The behavior that I am referring to is fans yelling, assignments were in the University Elementary from our home in Grand Rapids to see the “Sit down, coach” at the opposing coach and School – teaching fifth grade in the spring of Chippewas play whenever we could. We turning their backs while holding up signs that 1954 and sixth grade in the fall of 1954. got up at 5 a.m. for Homecoming so I could say “Who cares?” when the opposing team is take part in the BCA Alumni Radio Takeover Sid Smith was a member of that class – a introduced. at 9 a.m. Coupled with all the events and the well-known and outstanding member, most If these were athletes, it would be the height game, we spent more than nine hours outside vocal and broadly participating. I’m most of unsportsmanlike conduct and would not be in that brisk wind. gratified that Sid has such a high opinion of tolerated. For anyone, yet alone an institution teacher education and CMU (“Smiths support We drove through rain, sleet, and snow to of higher education, to allow and encourage lifelong passion for education,” Spring 2007 get to the Western game. We stayed through this level of disrespect and intolerance for an Centralight). I certainly agree that he and I opponent in the name of fun and school spirit is, the end of the game, and even though we received outstanding groundings there. essentially stood in a slushy puddle for three at very least, an embarrassment to us all. hours, we were never really cold. Then there I taught at the university level for 32 years (25 at Carrie Mayes, ’81 was the MAC Championship game. A pretty the University of Wisconsin) and during those bad ice storm slowed us on the way home, years taught in laboratory schools 13 years. Williamsburg and we didn’t make it back until 3 a.m. But it My last teaching of children was an exchange didn’t matter, because we had witnessed an in 1978-79 in an open school in Chippewa Write to Centralight: amazing game. Falls,Wisconsin. Centralight wants to hear from you! We Finally, the Motor City Bowl – a game where we It has always been my feeling that the welcome all letters from readers. Tell us your ran into so many old friends and headed home purposes of laboratory schools could not thoughts about Centralight articles or about so late I missed the announcement of former be replicated by any other means – the CMU in general. President Gerald Ford’s passing and an all-night experimentation and innovation and research Be sure to sign your letter with your full name shift that I would have certainly been working done in those settings was always not only and also include graduation year and degree, for my TV station had I been in town. cutting edge, but also a demonstration to address, and daytime phone number. Letters future teachers of what could be. Of course none of this would have happened may be edited for space and clarity. without our football team giving us something Don Burk, ’55 Mail letters to: to really cheer for. Thank you guys! We are Wellton, Arizona Centralight Letters certainly looking forward to doing this kind of Public relations and marketing traveling again. How to contact Delt Sigs? West Hall Brianne Frucci Tucker, ’04 Editor: Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Grand Rapids I noted with interest an article on Page 33 of the spring Centralight about CMU Delta Sigma Letters also may be sent by fax to (989) Rowdies should be respectful Phi alumni from the 1950s. Do you have a point 774-1098 or by e-mail to [email protected]. Editor: of contact for the group or the person who submitted the photograph and accompanying Chumming around Regarding the “I Am CMU” fan extraordinaire article? I belonged to the fraternity during that (Spring 2007 Centralight), the road to being time and would welcome the opportunity to get We want to hear from people who come to a Rose Rowdy just hit me the wrong way. in touch with the brothers. Homecoming to reconnect with a favorite Sounds like there are a bunch of rude rowdies college friend. Contact us by e-mail at — sophomoric in thought and action. Can’t you Phil Serrin, ’57 [email protected], or by mail at Centralight, poke fun at the rival in a more respectful tone? Grand Marais, Minnesota, and Green Valley, West Hall, Central Michigan University, Mount Arizona Pleasant, MI 48859. Tell us about your friendship, I am a TGIF Club member from the 1950s. I, your hangout spots then and now, and what it too, majored in fun at CMU, but not by being Editor’s note: Delta Sigma Phi alumni may call means to reconnect. rude to the rival at someone else’s expense. Howard Geerlings at (213) 943-9305. Nancy Post Knecht, ’51 Correction Grand Blanc, Michigan The Iceland flag pictured in “One moment, many countries” in the Spring 2007 Centralight was incorrect. The correct Iceland flag is shown here.

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Top faculty awards Faculty members Claudia Douglass, Alexandra Mascolo-David, Pamela Eddy, and Bradley Swanson received the university’s most prestigious awards for outstanding research and creative activity.

Douglass of biology and Mascolo-David of barclay robert the School of Music received the President’s Prominent guests Award, which recognizes the career Gen. Wesley Clark visited campus one day achievements of senior faculty members. Eddy this spring to meet with honors students in an of educational leadership and Swanson of afternoon class and give a public presentation biology received the Provost’s Award, which in the evening. The retired U.S. Army general honors the accomplishments of junior faculty and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate’s members. visit was part of CMU’s Speaker Series. Clark was one of a handful of prominent speakers to Douglass is a state leader in crafting a more visit campus during spring semester. Another peggy brisbane peggy rigorous high school science curricula. was Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian She contributed to the teacher education David McCullough, author of 1776, John Grad gives ‘reality’ check component of the Michigan Statewide Adams, and Truman. Amy Roloff, star of The Learning Channel’s Little Systematic Initiative, helping to create a state network of scientists and science educators People, Big World, spent two days in March, Prof receives CMU’s largest NIH grant along with her camera crew, visiting CMU who learn from each other’s practices. Chemistry professor George Kaminski received classrooms, speaking at Warriner Hall, and Mascolo-David’s scholarly and creative activities touring campus. a $1.37 million grant to research more efficient include recitals around the world, including a ways for pharmaceutical companies to create For Roloff, a 1985 business administration 1994 performance at New York City’s Carnegie drugs to cure cancers and other illnesses. graduate, the visit was a trip down memory Hall. She recently unveiled the second and final lane. While at CMU, Roloff lived in Wheeler component of her celebrated recordings of the The five-year grant is the largest that CMU has and Beddow Halls. She was in the Hospitality late Francisco Mignone’s 24 Brazilian Waltzes. ever received from the National Institutes of Health. Club and worked as a Beddow Hall desk Eddy has academic interests that include receptionist. postsecondary leadership, academic culture With the money, Kaminski will produce a series Roloff, a mother of four, has twin 17-year-old and organization in higher education, of complex computer projections of how sons who are deciding on what colleges to gender issues, community colleges, faculty human protein molecules bind with various attend. She said both are considering CMU. development and careers, and qualitative drug molecules – an indicator of how effective research in education. drugs will be once produced. “CMU was a major turning point in my life,” Roloff told more than 1,250 students, faculty, Swanson is an expert in wildlife genetics While there are already computer models in staff, and community members. “There is no biology. He has pioneered new techniques existence used in pharmaceutical research, other place like CMU. Everyone is here to help in documenting changing wildlife habitats in Kaminski says there remains a need to continue you find yourself and what you want to be – Michigan and North America, most recently increasing accuracy and computational speed. developing a new approach of documenting professors, your resident assistant, professional “If this technology works out, it will cut down on ringed seals in Alaska by analyzing the DNA of organizations, roommates. Do your part and get wet lab expenses,” Kaminski says. “It is hoped their shed skin cells. • involved.” • this will speed up the creation of drugs.” •

Public art An ancient honorable stone woman found her place on campus this spring with the addition of a two-ton basalt sculpture outside the University Art Gallery. Gete-Achitwa-Asinakwe by Grand Rapids artist Jason Quigno, a member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, was commissioned by CMU to further integrate Native American cultural works into the campus environment. Its purchase was made possible by a grant from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, supplemented by funding from the CMU President’s Office and the university’s Art on Campus Committee. The sculpture’s name translates from Ojibwe to English as Ancient Honorable Stone Woman. It was dedicated in honor of CMU President Emeritus Art Ellis, who initiated the university’s public art program and promoted the importance of art in the Mount Pleasant and CMU communities. • robert barclay robert

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Great things happening at CMU By Michael Rao, CMU president research, approximately 800 local volunteer community opportunities for students each year, as CMU is making great strides as one of service, diversity well as Alternative Breaks programs that Michigan’s fastest rising universities, thanks and global send students around the world. to the outstanding efforts of faculty, staff, and understanding, students and the ongoing generosity of loyal CMU recently was one of only nine and integrity, supporters. universities nationwide – and the only CMU is university in Michigan – to receive the increasing The CMU Promise Katrina Compassion Award for Excellence in its national Hurricane Relief Service. Michigan’s first and only guaranteed tuition prominence plan continues to be overwhelmingly popular while making State funding with students and their parents. Under this a positive The great things happening at CMU can innovative program, CMU does not increase impact on many Michael Rao only continue with the support of the state tuition; it sets it for the incoming class. While communities in of Michigan. When Governor Granholm the average Michigan public university tuition Michigan. increases six to seven percent per year, CMU signed the Michigan Promise legislation, she students have a zero percent increase once In the spirit of CMU 2010, students’ learning referenced states with the largest numbers they start with us. This means that the cost of experiences reach beyond the classroom. of college graduates as having the lowest a five-year undergraduate education at CMU Professors at CMU encourage students at all unemployment rates and the fastest-growing is well below the average of Michigan’s public levels to engage in active research, creative economies. CMU knows that a college universities. It is anticipated that The CMU work, and to gain experience in a wide range education means greater earning power, a Promise, which begins its third year next fall, of environments. significantly higher quality of life, and the will continue to result in improved retention ability to reinvest in the future of Michigan. Student/faculty research and more timely graduation for all students. Equitable state funding is needed to continue CMU recently was named the tenth most forward momentum. CMU supports equal Record enrollment productive research university of its size in per-student funding for Michigan’s 15 the nation. At CMU, students and professors Because of the popularity of CMU programs, public universities to make higher education work together to improve the quality of life The CMU Promise, and the faculty’s and accessible and affordable for all qualified for future generations. With opportunities staff’s commitment to excellence in meeting and motivated students. CMU – the fourth like studying at the Beaver Island Biological the academic needs of students, CMU largest university in the state with the fourth Station on the Great Lakes, using one of continues to be a top choice in Michigan. highest graduation rate – will receive the the country’s only 3-D body scanners in the This fall, CMU received a record 16,500 fourth lowest appropriation per student for Department of Apparel Merchandising and applications for undergraduate admission. the 2006-07 fiscal year. Total enrollment exceeds 27,000 students, Design, and working with patients at the new with 20,025 students on campus – the most Fall and Balance Center on campus, CMU Because such funding inequalities could in CMU’s history. International enrollment students are preparing for real-world success. present serious funding and academic quality climbed this year for the first time since the issues for CMU, I ask you to kindly contact September 11 attacks, growing more than 19 Community outreach state legislators to voice your support for percent, while the number of students has The most recent National Survey of Student equitable state funding for the 15 public increased 28 percent in the last five years. In Engagement (2005) found that 62 percent of universities on a per-student basis and to addition, 65,000 alumni of CMU’s off-campus CMU seniors have volunteered as a student, keep all 15 institutions in the same budget. programs serve as a testament to our quality which exceeds the national average. Because curricula for working professionals. CMU knows that service is an important part Keep in touch of the learning experience, we make it easy As always, my office staff and I welcome CMU 2010 for students to get involved. open communication with CMU’s many friends and alumni. I invite you to contact me The university’s strategic vision plan Each year, more than 4,000 students at [email protected] with questions or continues to act as the guiding force participate in community outreach projects suggestions. On behalf of the entire Central behind CMU’s bold initiatives. By raising the and events through the CMU Volunteer Michigan University community, thank you for university’s standards to levels of national Center. The center partners with several your support. excellence in the areas of academics, hundred nonprofit agencies to develop

 Centralight Summer 2007 Real learning happens when you give everything you have. And then you give even more.

Patty Janes, professor

When Hurricane Katrina tore through the southern U.S., Central Michigan University students and faculty did what they do best: They rolled up their sleeves and lent a hand. From providing fi rst aid to coordinating logistics to reinvigorating tourism, our volunteer efforts earned a Katrina Compassion Award – one of only nine awarded to universities in the U.S. And our work continues.

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By Debra Poole Parents usually crack a smile when they tell their version of a familiar story. One mother I’ll call Leslie was filled with embarrassment when her daughter confessed that a preschool teacher had put her in time-out for pulling a wad of hair from a schoolmate’s head. There was only one problem with the story: It wasn’t true. A talk with the teacher revealed that, in fact, a boy had pulled hair and been in time-out, but apparently the event was interesting enough to be borrowed for bragging rights. Another child regaled her dad with a story of her (nonexistent) horse, which he traced to a tale the child had recently heard.

I’ll spare one of my grown children the humiliation of relating his physically impossible report from age 3 – a hysterical description of a dream that was accompanied by the muffled query, “Mommy, why did you do it? Why did you do it?” But it was this story (along with other absurdities of life with two preschool children) that gave me a different view of the infamous McMartin preschool case in the 1980s, a case in which more than 300 children were “identified” as having been abused in ways that, citing a summary from Wikipedia, “defied the laws of physics.” (You know that a legal case has captured the public imagination if it is summarized in Wikipedia.)

This and other similar cases from the 1980s and early 1990s were all it took for dozens of research psychologists from around the world to walk into their laboratories with the same idea: Let’s figure out how this happens. I was one of those psychologists. There is an easy explanation for why the laboratory is the only place to ferret out why young children sometimes tell wild tales about their lives. In actual cases involving alleged abuse, murder, or other legally important events that children might have witnessed, no one knows what really happened. As a result, adults debate endlessly with no resolution. Scientists solve this problem by involving children in staged events that are videotaped – so everyone

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In an early set of studies funded professionals who play But the story of forensic developmental by the National Institute of Mental critical roles in putting psychology is more than a tale about how Health, we interviewed children people in jail are still human passion and the architecture of six times, three times immediately betting on intuition. the mind create interesting legal puzzles. after an event and three times It is also a story about how to educate the two years later. In each interview, we gave My field – forensic next generation. Without exception, the developmental psychology – has a long way to them open-ended prompts (“Tell me what students who find my office want to know go. Nonetheless, the merger of basic research happened”), specific questions, (“Did the where they should go to school to get in language and cognitive development with man hurt Melanie?”), and questions that were “stamped” to be a forensic developmental legal issues is an excellent example of how impossible to answer (“What does the man psychologist. This is a surprisingly difficult science can inform public policy. Although do for a living? What is his job?”). In another question, because I never got stamped. professionals do not always follow established set of studies funded by the National Science Although there are an increasing number of protocols for how to investigate cases Foundation, we asked parents to read a psychology law programs, such programs involving child witnesses, at least now there book to their children that described some didn’t exist at the critical point many years are procedures that help adults interview events the children had actually witnessed ago when it suddenly became handy to have children – procedures that do not elicit reports in our laboratory and some they had not. people around who knew a lot about child that 200 people who aren’t even missing were Over the years, we have bored children development, eyewitness testimony, and just killed and buried in the woods, or that witches with long lists of yes-no questions, used about anything related to sex. Even today, flew across the room. (You can see a model interesting props and pictures to help them most trial experts are experts because they protocol at www.michigan.gov/documents/ describe events (which only makes matters happen to know a lot about a small piece of FIA-Pub779_13054_7.pdf.) And unlike the worse), and traced the stability of true and something that is useful to the courts – not situation that existed 20 years ago, there is a false reports over time. Along the way, we because they have a degree related to legal widespread belief that children have a right have shown videotapes of accurate and issues. to be understood, which means they have a implanted testimonies to adults and asked right to answer questions they understand them to decide which were which, asked The point is that it’s a mistake for universities and to work with mental health and legal clinical psychologists how they decide that to try to anticipate exactly what people will professionals who have more than a passing someone was abused, and even explored the need to know and then construct programs knowledge of child development. weight professionals place on science versus to teach them those things. Narrowly defined intuition when they face difficult decisions technical programs are useful, but such involving many pieces of evidence. programs will never help society solve the My wORK in the laboratory spills new problems that inevitably arise. over into the classroom. If you are a college The best way to protect our future is to professor, it doesn’t get any better than being a eTh collective results of our efforts teach people to think critically about issues, forensic developmental psychologist. From the can be summarized in one sentence: Nothing no matter what the topics are, and to give steady stream of students who pass through about human behavior is the way you think it them a basic background in history, human my office, it appears I’m not the only person will be. Throw away intuition – it’s a terrible behavior, mathematics, and science. Today, with a serious Law and Order addiction. A few guide for how the mind is organized and the game of life involves knowing where years ago, the volume of students who were how people act. After more than 20 years of to go to find information and then having tracking me down because they wanted to research, I might hold the record for never enough background knowledge to make some be criminal profilers for the FBI (a job category having made a single scientific prediction sense out of just about anything. These basic that doesn’t exist at the FBI) became so large that was true. (If you know someone who forensic skills are the currency of the world. that I posted a flier about psychology law on has beaten this record for length of a run of our department’s advising Web site. And in the prediction failures, please write me.) classroom, there is nothing like a good criminal De As it turns out, you can interview children six case (especially if it is a sex crime) to wake up b ra Poole is a psychology professor at times and shake nary an answer -– if you don’t the back row during a lecture on memory. The CMU. She drafted the forensic interviewing ask certain types of questions. But you can topics I deal with on a daily basis are intriguing, protocol for the state of Michigan and is the encourage about a third of preschoolers to and my interest in criminal issues has spread author of Investigative Interviews of Children: make a false report of bodily harm after just four to the two children who still teach me the A Guide for Helping Professionals (American minutes of interaction with an adult who never most about life. (My son is a police officer Psychological Association, 1998). Her latest lies to them (go figure). Interviewing methods and my daughter, who studies the biological book, The Story of Human Development, was that seem child-friendly really aren’t, adults underpinnings of psychopathy, is visiting a released by Prentice Hall in January. • haven’t a clue which children are reporting convict as I write this essay.) events accurately and which are not, and many Summer 2007 Centralight  volunteerism

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

Being the

changeBy Cynthia J. Drake

CMU’s Volunteer Center is lodged in a three-room office in the basement of the Bovee University Center.

Small and unassuming, the center only differs from other offices in the bright handwritten fliers and posters that adorn its doorframe and the laughter that comes from the students who work in the office.

robert barclay robert Recreation, parks, and leisure services administration But the reach of the Volunteer students help build an accessible playground as a service-learning project. Center is so much farther than this square footage. It tunnels beyond the Bovee University Center, beyond the campus, Mount Pleasant, or even Michigan.

Through the Volunteer Center, students can actually change the course of people’s lives through their work and can learn something about the world and themselves

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A Professor Patty Janes and students clear the rubble from Here are a few stories of the people Hurricane Katrina devastated sites in Mississippi. who, for one reason or another, found the little office at Bovee University Center 107 and made a big difference.

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Michael VanOeveren spends his free time with Dorothy Rhode, his adopted grandparent. GrandchildThe Michael VanOeveren is a good egg. CMU’V s olunteer Center is full of Those statistics fly in the face of a popular students like Michael who want to give notion that young people are apathetic and That’s what the residents like to call him at something back. More than 60 percent of selfish. the nursing home where he has volunteered all CMU seniors report volunteering at some “A lot of people will say that students are lazy, most of his free time for the past three years. point during college, and there are many but it just isn’t true,” says Bruce Frost, an more volunteer activities that go unreported. They (mostly women and an average of 91 industrial engineering professor at CMU who years old) always stop whatever they’re doing There aren’t a lot of data with which to incorporates service learning projects into his when he walks into Maplewood. It’s quiet compare to other schools, but Volunteer curriculum. “We just aren’t engaging them as the white-haired ladies spot their favorite Center Director Shawna Ross thinks CMU is the right way.” blonde-haired, blue-eyed college student. in the top percentage for service. That’s where the Volunteer Center comes in Then they start talking among themselves, “There’s this acceptance, this expectation – Ross says her goal is to promote advocacy saying things like, “He’s such a nice young that service is going to be a part of your among students and encourage them to man,” and Michael hears them and laughs. experience at CMU,” she says. “Students are contribute their time toward causes they “They talk loudly, but they think they’re being coming from a background where they’ve already are passionate about. quiet – they don’t realize I can hear them.” had volunteer experience in high school, and One of the reasons for the center’s success it just seems like we attract students that They laugh with him. They make silly faces is that volunteering is actually pretty easy. come in with the expectation that [volunteer at him. They have long staring contests and CMU has an online database of hundreds experience] is going to be offered here.” inside jokes. He has played more rounds of of volunteer opportunities ranging from Bingo and Kings in the Corner than probably Ross says volunteerism has become crucial helping out at local soup kitchens to reading any other 22-year-old. He has seen all of their to younger generations. She says students textbooks and newspapers to the blind. photos and trinkets, and he has memorized are showing up at the center ready to make a “They’re looking at ways to have an impact. their stories, even when their memories falter. difference and more educated than previous They’ve grown up with natural disasters, 9/11, generations about their cause. VanOeveren is a good egg because he’s and war. They really have more of a global someone the Maplewood residents trust, A 2001 survey by Independent Sector outlook than six or seven years ago,” she says. and his presence can turn a bad day into a and Youth Service America reported that good one. volunteerism reached a 50-year high among high school students. Summer 2007 Centralight  volunteerism

“What you see on the news, all the He filled out a survey that matched his D oROTHY Rhode has white hair, happy depressing news we hear about people interests to a like-minded Maplewood brown eyes, and bright pink lips that purse getting more and more isolated and not resident in search of a CMU grandchild (“It’s into a smile when she’s sitting with Michael. getting out – that’s not the truth. The good almost like dating,” he says), and in the end When her daughter got married, Michael sat news is that I see younger people showing they assigned him to Dorothy Prine. at the head table during the reception. up on our doorstep every year. It’s not the The first time he met her, it was awful. She ‘Me Generation.’ People should have a lot of “Michael is wonderful. He’s very kind was deaf, senile, and going blind. The two of hope based on what I’m seeing.” and generous to everyone. He’s quite a them had the same conversation five times. gentleman,” she says. “We think he’s unusual to be coming here.” Michael was in it for the long haul, though, eOn of the people who showed up and he found things to love about her. Pretty The residents aren’t the only ones. on Ross’s doorstep was a young man who soon when he started visiting, she would lean Michael’s college friends once threatened kept telling her he enjoyed working with her cheek in his direction, and he would kiss to follow him to Maplewood to make sure it the elderly. her. It reminded him of how good it used to feel to get a big hug from his grandmother, was really where he was spending all his time Most students opt for other kinds of Grace, who gave him painting lessons as a – they couldn’t fathom why he would want to programs, and male volunteers are child. He kept going. spend so much time with old people. themselves somewhat of an anomaly, but “They think I live a double life,” Michael says. Ross listened to him and nudged him toward Around Maplewood, Dorothy was known for the Adopt-A-Grandparent program. her warm personality and love for gambling. And in some ways he does – he volunteers at Maplewood until everyone turns in for She didn’t expect that she would see much of “She always asked, ‘Do you want to play for bed at about 9 p.m. and then goes home Michael VanOeveren. He was a fraternity guy money?’ We played cards till we were blue in and hangs out with his friends at the bar or and devoted a lot of his time to the Student the face,” says Dorothy Rhode, 90. in their apartment. Government Association. That’s Dorothy No. 2, as Michael refers to her But then Ross kept meeting Michael in – his second grandmother. Dorothy Prine had the most unlikely situations – like when developed serious health problems already I t’s a lITTLE after 7 p.m. on Thursday a member of her family moved into by the time Michael started volunteering at when Michael is knocking on Betty Maplewood, and she kept seeing Michael Maplewood, and six months later she died. Ragan’s door. every time she went there. Michael grieved her death, but in a nursing Betty has a quick and subtle sense of “He kept mentioning being there often,” she home you develop a different perspective humor. She was born in England and came says. “But then I started visiting, and every on death. Death is a reality for Maplewood to the United States when she was five time I’d go, there he was. He was there a lot.” residents. Death is also a reality for Michael, years old. She’s taught Michael several who also works for a funeral home and jokes that have now become a part of their Michael had always treasured his relationships volunteers his time as a chaplain for the local with his grandparents and thought the Adopt- script whenever they see each other. She hospital. Being a chaplain is what he wants to also taught him cribbage. A-Grandparent program would be a good way do for a living. to spend his time. TeacherThe Service-learning is quickly gaining followers Lynn Dominguez, recreation, parks, and across the country and at CMU, as teachers leisure services administration and professors realize the benefits of Dominguez involves students in action team incorporating hands-on volunteer experiences projects, semester-long assignments that into their lessons. require students to work in teams and become involved with an environmental issue that Here’s an overview of some of the many affects outdoor recreation. service-learning projects at CMU: Tom Kromer, teacher education and Tim Otteman, recreation, parks, and leisure professional development services administration Kromer was one of CMU’s first advocates of Otteman’s recreation programming class service-learning. His research has resulted requires students to create and run a in a step-by-step booklet on service-learning recreation program, make it profitable, and implementation in pre-K-12 classrooms. then donate the proceeds to a charity. Jim McDonald, teacher education and Bruce Frost, industrial engineering professional development

obert barclay obert R Frost’s construction students have built several McDonald involves students in learning about Service-learning projects add an extra houses with Habitat for Humanity, painted and science issues in communities. Students have dimension to what students learn in the remodeled the Isabella County Soup Kitchen, tackled Canadian waste in Michigan landfills, the classroom. and built a storage shed for the soup kitchen. quality of bottled water, recycling in apartments, and blood shortages during catastrophes. •

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“Tell about how you came to Central,” says Sometimes the residents can be more open It’s a tricky thing, keeping a memory Michael. Betty’s expression goes blank. in areas they wouldn’t be with their children. alive. Michael will listen to a story over These people get really attached, and they and over again. Sometimes he’ll become “– through the Girl Scouts?” he offers. “Tell really look forward to the visits.” impatient, hearing it so often. But then about how you went to a scout jamboree and he steps back and realizes that there’s a your husband went with you – in Idaho, how Michael will keep the memory of these visits reason for the story to be told so many you met Dr. Bovee?” with him for a long time. times. So he remembers it, and he helps It’s coming back to her as Michael keeps “It’s important for college students to give other people remember. talking. back. It helps you disconnect from the That’s the best thing about Michael – just university and realize that there’s a bigger when you’re worried everything will be Betty remembers how her tent was side- picture,” he says. by-side with one shared by Norvall Bovee, lost forever, he shows up and remembers former CMU vice president of business After Dorothy No. 1 died, Michael kept in the stories. • and finance, and his wife. Bovee convinced contact with her daughter, Sue Keilitz. He has Betty’s husband, physician Russell Ragan, lunch with her occasionally, and they enjoy to come to CMU to start the university’s first each other’s company, keeping Dorothy’s health clinic. memory alive through each other. “You just never know what’s going to lead to something,” she says. “We just adapted to Mount Pleasant like a duck to water.” Her husband used to joke whenever someone would ask the time, he would respond, “half past Mickey’s ass,” because of his Mickey Mouse watch. Now Michael and Betty say that all the time to each other. “You would’ve liked my husband,” Betty says Pamela to Michael. “He always got along with the Barclay takes students.” a break from Betty forgets a lot of details – she forgot this her shift at the soup kitchen entire exchange by the next day – but she and HIV/AIDS remembers Michael. testing center “I think he is pretty remarkable. To have a in San Jose, Costa Rica young man interested … he just drops in, and Why I during an it’s wonderful. Just when you think everyone Alternativephoto courtesy has forgotten you, look who shows up. I was

courtesy photo courtesy Break trip. feeling that today – and then you showed up,” volunteer she says, looking at Michael like he’s a member By Pamela Barclay In August 2006, I found myself walking 60 of her own family. “There’s hope for the country miles over a three-day period after raising For me, service represents choice. The as long as there are folks like him around.” $2,200 to help find a cure for breast cancer. choice to act or to sit back. The choice to learn or ignore. The choice to focus on my At several times throughout the life or everyone’s world. experience, I found myself wondering why I was doing it. Then, I looked over at a MiCHAEL’s biggest concern is that the On a service trip to Auschwitz concentration woman “walking” with me. She was bald Maplewood residents will forget about him. camp, now a museum, I had the privilege of and being pushed in a wheelchair by her meeting with a Holocaust survivor. During daughter. She was in the middle of her He’s trying to prepare himself for the last time his five-year imprisonment, he was beaten, chemotherapy and radiation treatments, he says goodbye to them. He’ll be moving starved, and forced to watch as his friends, and still she chose to walk. I will walk again on eventually to seminary school, likely in family, and fellow prisoners were killed. this year. another state. He knows that his friends at He became involved with the prisoners’ Maplewood aren’t going to be around forever. For me, service is not about reacting to revolution by smuggling information written every problem I see; rather, it is responding They joke with him that maybe he shouldn’t on cigarette wrappers out of the camp to when I can. It is about making the decision do so well in school, so he can lag behind a Polish resistance workers. After his release, to see every experience as a chance to he went to law school, testified at the year and stay with them a little longer. learn about the world and myself. It is Nuremberg Trials, and eventually became an interaction as essential to my life as “The Adopt-A-Grandparent program has director of the Auschwitz museum, the very breathing. Service has helped to define changed a lot of residents,” says Sharie place where he was imprisoned. my past and mold my future. Service is Barringer, community manager at Maplewood, He chose to use his experiences to teach a choice, a lifestyle, a way in which to who works with several CMU students about the past, hoping to improve the future. understand and be understood. • volunteering through the program. “Sometimes we need people besides real family members. Pamela Barclay works as a graduate assistant in CMU’s Volunteer Center.

Summer 2007 Centralight 11 volunteerism BreakerThe Every year, CMU students forego the week of tropical revelry formerly known as Spring Break to pour their hard work into a good cause. Alternative Breaks matches up students with causes like animal endangerment, disaster relief, HIV/AIDS, and urban renewal and sends them to locations that remain a secret to them until six weeks before they leave. CMU Alternative Breaks Students receive training on their issue, and they raise funds to offset their own costs. Still, they can expect to shell out around $200 for the experience. Senior Steve Bryant spent his winter break in Greenville, South Carolina – a 26-hour drive from Mount Pleasant in a van full of volunteers – working with 9- to 17-year-old girls who had been placed in a group home due to behavioral problems related to sexual abuse. Often the best thing CMU students can do to help is play games or just listen to the people they’re trying to help. “People said they’d never seen some of the residents smile until we were there,” Bryant says. Bryant’s group did 30 hours of service in two days. The CMU students were sleeping at a church and Education: caught wind of more volunteer opportunities, and Bailey Charter School – Reno, Nevada they couldn’t resist. They woke up at 5 a.m. to serve breakfast to homeless people and donate toys to Substance abuse: poor areas of town before reporting to their normal Harvest Farms – Wellington, Colorado volunteer activity at the group home. Youth: “Sometimes I feel selfish at the end of the day Operation Breakthrough – Kansas City, Missouri because I feel like I get something out of it – sometimes more than the people I’m helping,” he Terminally ill children: says. “It’s not a vacation, but in some ways, it’s much Ronald McDonald House – Memphis, Tennessee more than a vacation. You bond so much and get to know other people.” •

The Youth: Global Crossroads – Peru International low-income housing: Alumni Habitat for Humanity International – Mexico Are you a diehard volunteer or a weekend warrior? Are you interested in meeting up with like-minded CMU alumni who want to make a difference through volunteering? CMU is looking for people to start up a volunteer alumni chapter. You can find out more by calling the Carlin Alumni House toll-free at (800) 358-6903 or e-mail [email protected]. Galveston, Texas Mexico New York City, New York

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Youth: Disabilities: Elderly: Youth: Homelessness: Evart, Michigan Mayville, Michigan Pontiac, Michigan Lexington, Michigan South Bend, Indiana

Park preservation: Madison, Ohio

CMU Alternative Breaks HIV/AIDS: God’s Love We Deliver – New York City, New York

Disabilities: Githens Center – Mount Holly, New Jersey

State parks preservation: Chippokes State Park – Surry, Virginia

Sexual abuse: Crossroads – Greenville, South Carolina

Education: Bryan Elementary – Plant City, Florida

Animal endangerment: Marine Life Center/MacArthur State Park – Singer Island, Florida Disaster relief: Volunteer Mobile Inc. – Mobile, Alabama Animal endangerment: Disaster relief: Everglades Outpost – Homestead, Florida Trinity Christian Community – New Orleans, Louisiana

Environment: Galveston Bay Foundation – Galveston Island, Texas

Youth: Global Crossroads – Peru International low-income housing: Fast facts about CMU volunteerism Habitat for Humanity International – Mexico • CMU has one of the highest rates of volunteerism of any university with more than 60 percent of seniors reporting that they have volunteered during their time as CMU students. • More than 4,000 students participate in Volunteer Center programs and services (20 percent of the student body) in any given year. • CMU offers one of the largest number of Alternative Break opportunities of any other university in the region and the most comprehensive program in the nation with spring, winter, summer, and weekend break activities (including international opportunities). • More than 500 agencies offer volunteer opportunities to CMU students through seven regional partners, the largest regional partnership network of any university in the state. • CMU was one of nine universities nationwide to receive the Katrina Compassion Award for Excellence in Hurricane Relief Service from the Corporation for National and Community Service. Galveston, Texas

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14 Centralight Summer 2007 Hollywood his way Alumnus Jeff Daniels chooses blue jeans, R.V. driving, and hometown living over Tinseltown’s glitz and glam

By Barbara Sutherland Chovanec Now at 52, he is busier than ever. Jeff Daniels always figured he would grow up The Lookout hit theaters in March. This spring to work in his father’s lumber company. Then he acted in New York City in Blackbird, a he headed to CMU and thought maybe he two-person off-Broadway play. In November would be an English teacher. He loved acting, Daniels will be on the big screen again in but told himself that he would only stay with Mama’s Boy. it until his luck inevitably ran out. When he has time, Daniels also tours the “I kept waiting to fail miserably,” he says. country performing a one-man acoustic show of bluesy folk songs, personal stories, and That day never came. comedy. Daniels has made more than 40 movies, When he headed to New York City in 1976, written a dozen plays, and carved out a he bought a guitar and taught himself to singer-songwriter career with two CDs and a play. He takes musical influences from Jim nationwide performance tour. Croce, Steve Goodman, David Bromberg, and But the appealingly modest Daniels shrugs longtime friend Lyle Lovett. off his stardom – maybe because he focuses But until recently, Daniels’ musical talent was on the craft of acting instead of fame. He’s a a well-kept secret. regular, hardworking guy who, if you saw him on the street, could pass for your neighbor or A couple years ago he performed a few uncle or brother. concerts as fundraisers for The Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, which he founded in 1991 Daniels studied theater at CMU for three and where he is now executive director. The years and left after his junior year, invited by concerts were meant as special events just director Marshall Mason to join the Circle for Purple Rose audiences, but people started Repertory Company in New York City. He to take note, and Daniels expanded his reach. acted on stage for a few years and got his first movie part inR agtime in 1981. “Having been accepted as a songwriter, that’s kind of what 2006 was about,” He began to get recognized after his 1983 Daniels says. “I’m being told that I can and role as philandering husband Flap Horton in should continue. The second CD was better Terms of Endearment. than the first, as far as the songwriting “Suddenly people on the street knew who goes, and I want the third CD to be better I was,” Daniels says. “That was a little than the second.” unnerving – the fact that the cab driver could Onstage, Daniels doesn’t try to be a rock star. turn around and say, ‘I saw your movie – god, He knows who he is – a storyteller. His always I hated you.’ That actually happened.” personal, often funny, sometimes poignant Daniels rose to mainstream stardom with songs cover subjects such as his first car, his the success of Dumb and Dumber in 1994. first date with his wife, his relationship with Some of his recent films includeThe Squid his grandfather, and the ups and downs of his and the Whale (2005), Good Night, and Good beloved Detroit Tigers. Luck (2005), and Infamous (2006).

Summer 2007 Centralight 15 “The Dirty Harry Blues,” celebrates getting “When we’re in The Bus and we’re traveling killed by Clint Eastwood in 2002’s Blood to wherever and we’re sleeping at a truck Work. (“It’s a cool thing to say that you’ve stop, there’s an eccentric kind of happiness been killed by Clint,” Daniels says.) there because nobody knows who I am.” Another audience favorite is “Recreational Vehicle” that recounts an unfortunate mixup – Jeff Daniels that left his wife stranded at a truck stop in Pennsylvania during a family vacation to Cooperstown. (A reference to this song even found its way into the movie RV: Robin Williams’ character drives out of an R.V. park past a sign that reads “Don’t Forget Your Keys, Don’t Forget Your Wife.”) Last November, Daniels performed at CMU to benefit University Theatre. An appreciative crowd delighted in Daniels’ special song for the concert, “I Owe It All to You, CMU,” during which he paired up with college buddy

John Genette, ’76. peggy brisbane peggy Return to Chelsea Daniels was 30, living in New York City, married, and he still wasn’t sure if this acting thing would stick when he starred in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo. Encouragement from Allen helped him decide. “I had been in New York for nine years,” he says. “I had done a couple of movies and a lot of plays, but it wasn’t until Woody Allen told me I was good that I decided this is what I’m going to do. That’s when I made the decision to be an actor.” The problem was that Jeff and Kathleen Daniels, then with one child and plans for a larger family, wanted to move back home. “The Midwest and Michigan in particular is a peggy brisbane peggy great place to raise your family,” Daniels says. Daniels met with theater students during his visit to campus in November and gave them this advice: “No one should outwork you. It’s a slugfest. “Kathleen and I knew we were going to have If you’re good and patient and outwork everybody else, there are people more kids, and we didn’t want to do that in who want really good actors.” Hollywood. So the kids and the family and the raising of the kids was the priority. That’s why we moved back here.” But moving to smalltown Chelsea was chancy. In 1986 movie actors just didn’t settle down in the Midwest. “Redford had Sundance, and Harrison Ford might have had the ranch in Wyoming or

16 Centralight Summer 2007 On the Montana,” Daniels says. “Tommy Lee Jones screen I think was in San Antonio by that point. But nobody was living really anywhere, it seemed, that they couldn’t drive to L.A. Jeff Daniels has 41 “I think now, more and more people are living movies to his credit: elsewhere. So now I get asked, ‘How did you Mama’s Boy (2007) do it, how do you make it work?’ Because that’s The Lookout (2007) the big fear – out of sight, out of mind. If you’re not in L.A. going to the parties, somehow you Infamous (2006) feel like you’re not connected – like you’re out of RV (2006) the loop. And you are, a bit.” Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) After all, Chelsea, population 4,400 and home The Squid and the Whale (2005) to Chelsea Milling Co.’s Jiffy Mix brand, isn’t Imaginary Heroes (2004) exactly a movie industry hotbed. The Squid and the Whale I Witness (2003) Samuel Goldwyn Films But Daniels has made it work, and he says Gods and Generals (2003) sustaining a film career while living in Michigan The Hours (2002) is one of his greatest achievements. Blood Work (2002) Daniels also has worked hard to support his Super Sucker (2002) love of local theater. He opened The Purple Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001) Rose Theatre in a building that was once a used Chasing Sleep (2000) car and bus garage, which coincidentally was All the Rage (1999) owned in the early 1900s by his grandfather. My Favorite Martian (1999) The 168-seat venue provides an intimate Pleasantville (1998) theater experience for patrons, and Daniels Trial and Error (1997) keeps ticket prices low enough to make the 101 Dalmatians (1996) theater accessible for everyone – part of the 2 Days in the Valley (1996) mission of The Purple Rose Theatre. Fly Away Home (1996) Daniels has written some of the plays Dumb & Dumber (1994) produced at The Purple Rose. And he is Speed (1994) proud that the theater serves as a training Gettysburg (1993) ground, offering classes in acting and There Goes the Neighborhood (1992) directing and an apprenticeship program for Rain Without Thunder (1992) The Lookout college graduates – all benefiting from the The Butcher’s Wife (1991) Allen Fraser/Courtesy of Miramax Films veteran actor’s expertise. Love Hurts (1991) Purple Rose actors and crews also helped Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) with the filming and production ofEscanaba in Arachnophobia (1990) da Moonlight, which Daniels first staged as a Checking Out (1989) play at The Purple Rose and then turned into a Sweet Hearts Dance (1988) movie, filmed in Escanaba. The House on Carroll Street (1988) Radio Days (1987) First class, on wheels Something Wild (1986) Everything Daniels does seems to be Heartburn (1986) influenced by his geniune, down-to-earth Marie (1985) manner – far from Hollywood’s glitter. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Because he often chooses to drive to his movie Terms of Endearment (1983) The Squid and the Whale sets or music gigs, he bought a custom made Ragtime (1981) Samuel Goldwyn Films R.V., which he nicknamed “The Bus.” “When we’re in The Bus and we’re traveling to wherever – a movie set or a gig or whatever – and we’re sleeping at a truck stop, there’s an eccentric kind of happiness there because nobody knows who I am.”

Summer 2007 Centralight 17 On CMU’s stage After a high school career of musicals and community theater productions, Jeff Daniels headed to CMU and found his home in Bush Theatre. “It was a great place for me to go, ” he says. “I was really glad to be at Central, because if I had gone to a Michigan or a Yale or someplace like that, I would have stood in a long line of people before I would have gotten the opportunities that I got a lot earlier at CMU. “The only people who care about whether you went to Yale or Michigan or the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts or Juilliard are the people who

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Fellow alumnus John Genette, ’76, joined Daniels on stage to harmonize on “I Owe it All to You, CMU.”

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By Sarah Chuby, ’03 Kathy Wilbur places a CMU teddy bear and baby clothes into a gift box. As she begins to wrap the present, her cell phone rings.

With the phone tucked between Kathy’s shoulder and ear, the CMU government relations and public affairs vice president discusses Governor Jennifer Granholm’s proposal on higher education funding with the person on the other end.

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Another person Kathy admired was Martha R disease would affect her family, Griffiths, who served in Congress from Kathy Wilbur talks with House Minority Leader Craig DeRoche, ’91. 1955 to 1974 and was Michigan’s lieutenant and she wanted to work toward governor from 1982 to 1991. a solution as soon as possible. Kathy told the doctor’s office she’d be So Kathy knows what it is like to be in the “Growing up I lived in her congressional available the next day. CMU family. And that makes her seek out district, and she was fascinating to me. I think potential members. I was drawn to her because she was held in “I was told that it didn’t work that way. “My job is to talk people’s ears off or get high regard in Washington, D.C., and she was I needed to go through an education process them to campus so they can see it for a successful woman in politics.” and talk to my family and see what the best options were,” she says. “Taking that time themselves,” she says. “I enjoy interacting Although politics always appealed to her, was good for me.” with folks and having the opportunity Kathy didn’t see a career connection until to educate people about CMU. People college when she visited Washington, Kathy had a lumpectomy and started become charged up when I tell them how D.C., with friends who were attending chemotherapy that summer. She finished many undergraduates our business college a conference. While sightseeing, Kathy radiation in February 2006 and is in remission. graduates annually – about 600 – and people ventured to Griffiths’ office and talked to her “I am proud to be a breast cancer survivor, will say, ‘I had no idea you did that.’” staff about politics. but I’d be less than honest if I said that I didn’t And just like a favorite aunt, she likes “They told me to consider applying for an worry about it reoccurring,” she says. “When celebrating the life milestones with others in internship. I thought, what do I have to you finish treatments, things look good. I’m the CMU family. lose?” she says about the 1974 visit. “So in a sure it looked good for Elizabeth Edwards and When meeting in her office, Kathy hands bizarre twist of fate, I ended up as an intern in Tony Snow, too. You never know with cancer. Ryan Wenburg the blue-wrapped gift, and his Martha Griffiths’ office in Washington, D.C. I But I do know that it puts life in perspective.” face lights up. “People still get presents after couldn’t have planned that better.” the second child? I thought it stopped after the first,” he says. With a laugh, Kathy replies, “You especially need gifts after the second one.” •

Summer 2007 Centralight 23 courtesy photo Mapping in Mexico By Barbara Sutherland Chovanec

Spring break for 10 geography students of a hacienda, and it contains an old horse meant examining drainage ditches and stable, plant nursery, other random buildings, estimating the height of trees – hot, dry work and old helipads. all in the name of helping residents of Toluca, Mexico, develop a better city park. The park across the street from the university is well-used, but it has only two official CMU has a longstanding relationship with the entrances, so it doesn’t offer easy access to the faculty and leadership of the Toluca campus neighborhood. of the Higher Education and Technical Institute of Monterrey. Once the CMU students, led by professor David Patton, were in Mexico, they set about The geography project meant teaming up with collecting more data – details the satellite the Toluca university’s urban design program to imagery couldn’t provide – such as the location show students and faculty how a geographic of picnic tables, playground equipment, holes in information systems project can work. fences, and condition of pathways. Before the trip, the CMU students used The Toluca area gets six months of nearly satellite imagery to begin collecting data on constant rain, so the park has lots of drainage the 250-acre park. The property was once part

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“We were able to apply what we know. We’re not usually able to do that in the classroom.” – Jessica Watmore , CMU geography student

Seeing the sights Amid their mapping tasks, the CMU The view from the top was amazing. students took time out to see the sights in I believe they used to sacrifice people and around their host city. there, so it was a strange feeling to think

I was standing where they did that.” brisbane peggy They stayed with Toluca students or their families and went shopping, celebrated Mexico City: “We stopped in Mexico City Students and faculty gather around satellite maps of the park in Toluca. family birthdays, and went out to eat with to see Aztec ruins they found 20 years ago their new friends. and are excavating. I learned that is where Tenochtitlan was. I also learned that they Joe Pomerville says he experienced used to throw bodies (sacrifices) from the a language barrier at first with the top, and the body would sprawl out with Toluca student he stayed with, but they limbs breaking off, so they had a snake-like were eventually able to communicate figure to represent this.” pretty well. Volcano: “We went up to the dormant “By the end I felt like I had been there volcano in Toluca, Nevado. Nine of us and longer,” he says. four guides climbed the mountain. Only Meagan Krawczyk recorded her thoughts three of our group made it the entire way. I opted to avoid the last part of the climb

about some of the sights: photo courtesy since I was already starting to get altitude Jessica Watmore climbs a pyramid on a sightseeing trip. Teotihuacan pyramids: “These were a lot sickness, so I wanted to get back down. courtesy photo bigger than I was expecting. I climbed the The view was beautiful, though. We were Pyramid of the Sun – I believe somewhere about 14,000 feet up, with the clouds near 244 steps, which were the most blowing around our feet.” • steep steps I’ve ever encountered.

ditches. The students examined and recorded When they returned to CMU, they finished all the condition of all those. the maps with the data they collected, then

moved into analysis stage. brisbane peggy They weren’t able to take their survey Professor David Patton discusses a map of the park during equipment into Mexico, so they borrowed One group studied water flow and the class before the trip. some equipment from a neighboring state manmade drains. Another group analyzed university and made do with other surveying the human impact of the park. A third group techniques – for instance, determining the studied accessibility to the park, and a height of trees by measuring the sun’s angle. fourth, vegetation. “We learned to be flexible,” says Matt Comben. All their information and findings went into a proposal for the Toluca city government to On work days, they spent mornings collecting improve and preserve the park. information in the park, which is four miles around the perimeter. They spent afternoons in The students say they enjoyed using their skills the university classrooms talking with faculty and knowledge for a real-world task. and students and meeting with city officials. “We were able to apply what we know,”

“They worked very hard,” Patton says. “I was Jessica Watmore says. “We’re not usually able photo courtesy very pleased and proud of how they tackled to do that in the classroom.” • Students spent much of their time in Mexico collecting data the project.” in the park.

Summer 2007 Centralight 25 Return to Learn Attention alumni…you are invited back to campus for a day filled with opportunities to expand your thoughts and enlighten your mind! June 9, 2007 Central Michigan University’s beautiful Mt. Pleasant campus Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. in the Bovee University Center

Take interactive courses on varying topics such as: • The history of the Michigan Oil Industry, Mt. Pleasant and CMU • Michigan villages and architecture • Reality television • Medieval churches including their peripheral carvings and gargoyles • The changing aspects of shopping and where shopping is headed • And much, much more!

Join other CMU alumni and friends for courses that are of interest to you. After class, lunch will be served. If you haven’t had a chance to make your way around campus in a few years, stay and take part in a guided tour after lunch!

For more information and to register for this event please call the Office ofAlumni Relations at 800.358.6903.

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At left: Mike Miller is just the second freshman in CMU history to earn All- America honors. Far left: Two-time MAC champion Brandon Sinnott earned All-America honors for the first time. Below: All-American Bubba Gritter celebrates his 3-1 win over West Virginia’s Dustin Rogers in the heavyweight quarterfinals.

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By Scott Rex CMU scored 106.5 team points in winning its sixth consecutive MAC Championship title. Six In 16 years at CMU, head wrestling coach Tom Chippewas won individual conference crowns, Borrelli has established a standard of excellence the second-most individual MAC champions in in his program. The 2007 Chippewas did school history. CMU also collected three of the nothing but further that legacy. conference’s four specialty awards presented The regular season was one of the most annually at the conference tournament. Borrelli successful in the program’s history. CMU was named MAC Coach of the Year for the posted a 17-4-1 overall record, setting a new ninth time and fifth year in a row, Mike Miller school record for dual meet wins in a single was selected MAC Freshman of the Year, and season. The Chippewas took on a challenging Wynn Michalak was tabbed MAC Wrestler of schedule that featured 13 opponents ranked in the Year for the second consecutive season. the top 25 nationally; CMU was 8-4-1 overall in A contingent of eight national qualifiers those duals. represented CMU at the NCAA Championships Along the way, CMU claimed the team title at the Palace of Auburn Hills, with three bringing at the Reno Tournament of Champions and home All-America honors. Bubba Gritter placed steamrolled its way to its fourth consecutive fifth at heavyweight, Brandon Sinnott seventh unbeaten Mid-American Conference record. at 174 pounds, and Miller eighth at 165 pounds. The conference championship was CMU’s 11th CMU placed 15th in the 74-team field, its sixth overall and ninth in as many years. top-15 finish and third in the last four years, while boasting multiple All-Americans for the The dominating regular season performance fourth straight year and seventh time in the last set the stage for yet another successful eight seasons. • postseason run by the Chippewas. Summer 2007 Centralight 27 sports SuperJourney to the Bowl CMU grad leads Bears’ communication team

By Don Helinski, ’96 It’s Super Bowl XLI Media Day and hundreds of reporters are shooting questions at Chicago Bears’ head coach Lovie Smith and all 53 players on the active roster. Buzzing from station to station is Bears’ senior director of corporate communications Scott Hagel, a 1996 CMU grad and Centralis scholar. All season long, Hagel has been managing communications for the Bears, but the last two weeks have been nothing like he’s experienced before. A two-week window between the National Football Conference Championship Game and the Super Bowl gives the worldwide media more than enough time to hype the greatest spectacle in sports. “The Super Bowl is something you hope everyone in our profession has a chance to go through,” Hagel says. “When I watched our guys hold up the NFC Championship trophy, it arclay

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Hagel got the internship and then quickly professional sports franchises. George Halas progressed up the ladder within the founded professional football and the Bears organization. He was promoted to public team, and the Halas family still owns and relations assistant and spent two years in that manages the franchise. role before stepping up to an assistant director “A big reason why I’m still here is this is really title. Just one year later Hagel was named just a family-owned business with family values public relations director at age 26, making him carried throughout the whole organization,” he one of the youngest PR directors in the history says. “Ted Phillips, our president and CEO, Jerry of the NFL. In 2004, he was promoted to his Angelo, our general manager, and Lovie Smith, current title of senior director of corporate our head coach, are all men of great character, communication. and they reflect the overall type of people we His position is a demanding one, since the NFL have here. It even trickles down to the types is considered the highest profile professional of players we have. You won’t find a more sports league, and the Bears have the largest humble, harder working superstar than Brian media market devoted to covering one NFL Urlacher. We take a lot of pride in being a quality

team (New York has two teams, while Los organization, and a lot of that is because the brisbane peggy Angeles doesn’t have a pro football franchise). roots of professional football are here.” “You can never predict what is going to happen The Bears have been the most successful team New on any given day,” Hagel says. “That’s what in the NFC the past two regular seasons with keeps it fresh, exciting, and fun. We work an 24 wins. However, Peyton Manning and the coach awful lot, and if we didn’t have that element it Indianapolis Colts were too much in the Super Sue Guevara was named CMU’s new would be tough to do for a long period of time.” Bowl as the Bears lost, 29-17. women’s basketball head coach in April. Another thing that keeps Hagel on his toes is “I had worked at two Super Bowls for the “I am excited to name Sue Guevara as his involvement in just about every facet of the league office, and I saw the disappointment our new women’s basketball head coach organization, including both the football side and devastation in the teams that lost,” Hagel and feel she is the right person to take this and the business side. says. “From that, I had said that I’d rather not program to the next level,” said Athletics go to a Super Bowl than to Director Dave Heeke. “Sue’s energy and go to one and lose. But after desire to be successful were two main going through the whole factors in our decision. She knows what experience, I was wrong. It it takes to be successful at this level, and is crushing to lose a game that is what we need in a head coach.” like that, but the experience Guevara comes to CMU from Auburn leading all the way up through University where she served as an the first quarter of the game assistant coach the past three seasons. was phenomenal. Before that she was the head coach at the “It was an unbelievable University of Michigan for seven seasons journey. When you’ve been (1996-2003) and is the winningest coach through as many losing in U of M’s history. Guevara also was at seasons as unfortunately I’ve Michigan State as an assistant coach for been through, it really makes 10 seasons (1987-1996). you appreciate getting there

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New act allows more Faculty and staff support CMU donor options For the second year in a row, CMU “The beauty of the campaign faculty, staff, and retirees pledged is the money is designated to Thanks to a new congressional more to the Annual University wherever the donor wants it to go, act, Richard Marquardt, ’59, Campaign than ever before. so it really allows the individual to of Saginaw was able to give support what they want,” he says. scholarship funds to CMU now The campaign raised nearly “It’s across the gamut of where rather than include the gift in $562,000 in 2006 – $12,000 more these folks choose to support the his estate plan. than in 2005. university.” Marquardt used the Pension Geoff Bartlett, director of annual “When faculty and staff in the Protection Act of 2006 to giving, says the increase in giving college or in the university believe memorialize his late wife, is a reflection of the dedication of so strongly in their programs that Margaret Sanford Marquardt, the donors to the university. they’re willing to donate money ’55. “I think it continues to indicate that to support them, that sends a really strong message that people The act allows donors over age the faculty, staff and retirees are 1 supportive of what we’re trying truly think highly of CMU and the 70 2 to transfer up to $100,000 courtesy photo courtesy college and its programs,” says in tax-free IRA distributions to accomplish here: namely, Margaret Sanford Jane Matty, interim associate dean directly to qualified charities. give students the resources for a topflight education,” Bartlett says. of the College of Science and For Marquardt, that means he The Margaret E. Sanford Technology, whose faculty and He said 879 donors participated in can see the benefits of the gift Marquardt Memorial Endowed staff donated the most money the Annual University Campaign. during his lifetime. Scholarship goes to an of all of CMU’s seven colleges. “I Each gift qualified for a 50 percent impaired student majoring in think it also says something about “This is something that I was match by the university. communication disorders. the faculty and staff themselves, planning to do anyway,” he that these are good, loyal people says. “This just allows me to do Bartlett says every aspect of Details of the act the university, from libraries to who are willing to put money into it sooner than later.” their own efforts and that of their The Pension Protection Act of public broadcasting, benefits Margaret Sanford arrived at colleagues.” • 2006 is available only through from the campaign. CMU in 1951 after suffering the remainder of 2007. a neck fracture as a teenager that left her hemiplegic. She An individual who takes thrived at the university, getting the mandatory minimum involved with the yearbook distribution from an IRA but and student newspaper, her who doesn’t need the additional residence hall, sorority, and income can satisfy up to other campus organizations. $100,000 of the withdrawal requirement and avoid income “She was involved in so much taxes on the withdrawal with a on campus,” Marquardt says. direct transfer to charity. • “She always had a smile – she was up for people. Once she met you, she didn’t forget you. To qualify: It could be a year later, and she • The donor must be at least would still remember. 1 70 2 years old. “She was an outstanding • Transfers of funds must go person, especially with the directly from the IRA to the impairments that she had. She qualified charity. barclay robert was a very independent person. She always said, ‘I’ll do it on my • Gifts cannot exceed $100,000 Breaking ground per taxpayer per year. own.’” Officials broke ground in April in a ceremony to celebrate the • Gifts must be outright. construction of the College of Education and Human Services’ new Margaret worked 27 years as Education Building. Shown here are (from left) Mount Pleasant Mayor a speech pathologist in public For more details on the Pension Jon Joslin; donors Judy French Smith, Sid Smith, and Lon Morey; and schools in Warren, Mount Protection Act of 2006, visit trustees Marilyn French Hubbard, Gail Torreano, and Jeff Caponigro. Pleasant, and Saginaw. She www.giftplanning.cmich.edu Construction is expected to begin in early fall 2007. Scheduled to open died in 1991. or call Ted Tolcher, director of for classes in summer 2009, the four-story building will house teacher planned and major gifts, at education and professional development, educational leadership, and (800) 358-6903. counseling and special education. The Center for Charter Schools and eight education centers also will be located in the facility. •

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Peek into Hemingway history Get an inside look at Ernest “Windemere is not usually open Michigan Hemingway Society, Hemingway’s connecton to to the public, so this is a rare an organization dedicated to Michigan during a special Clarke opportunity to tour the cottage,” remembering, studying, and Historical Library fundraiser says Brian Palmer, director of celebrating the life and legacy of August 6 in Petoskey. development and community Ernest Hemingway. outreach for the libraries. The event begins at 1:30 p.m. at Proceeds from the Petoskey event the Crooked Tree Arts Center for Events end with cocktails, hors benefit the library’s Michigan a tour of the gallery’s Up North d’oeuvres, and dinner at the Hemingway Endowment, which with the Hemingways exhibit, Perry Hotel in Petoskey, featuring was founded to help offset some which will include rare photos entertainment by CMU music of the costs associated with and items related to young students and closing remarks by collecting material by or about Hemingway’s family vacations Frank Boles, director of the Clarke Ernest Hemingway. • from 1898 to 1921. Historical Library. A shuttle takes the group on a Tickets cost $125, and space is To purchase tickets, contact private tour of Windemere, the limited to 50 guests. Palmer at (989) 774-1826 or [email protected]. clarke historical library historical clarke Hemingway family cottage on The Clarke Historical Library Ernest Hemingway nearby Walloon Lake. serves as the archives of the Broadcast group endows scholarship to honor alumnus Corporate a Country Radio Broadcasters gift is largest Inc. board of directors member. in BCA Roberts announced last fall history the group’s contribution by When Tim presenting a ceremonial check to Roberts, ’82, Orlik during the school’s annual was a CMU Homecoming reception. broadcast and “Tim told us about the cinematic arts opportunity, and we applied for student, faculty Tim Roberts the endowed scholarship,” says members knew Jerry Henderson, who has been he had a voice, WMHW station director since and a drive, for radio. 1981. “This is quite an honor, but What they didn’t know was that they not just because he is an alum. someday would have a $25,000 Country Radio Broadcasters brisbane peggy Recipients of the Roberts scholarship will use audio production equipment like don’t recognize just anyone. They endowed scholarship named in undergraduate student Sarah Ptak uses here. honor of their former student. recognize top notch stations around the country.” Country Radio Broadcasters, based not the case at all institutions,” he BCA students entering their in Nashville, Tennessee, gave the Orlik says CMU is one of a select says. “Tim knew that. He told me, junior or senior year and largest single corporate gift in BCA few institutions to have received ‘I can attest that CMU’s program carrying at least a 2.75 overall history for the Tim Roberts Country such a gift from CRB, which is solid.’” grade point average and a “seeds what they see as the best Radio Broadcasters Endowed But Roberts didn’t know that 3.0 grade point average in radio programs in the country by Scholarship. his name would appear on the their BCA course work will making a contribution that will endowment, Orlik says. be eligible to apply for the “He was a solid student and very live in perpetuity.” nonrenewable award. active at the radio station,” says “He was completely surprised,” The award is a milestone for the Peter Orlik, School of Broadcast and Orlik says. “At the meeting when the Other criteria will include BCA program, and it reflects on Cinematic Arts chairman, who has board approved the funding, they involvement in WHMW the faculty and the students who been teaching at CMU since 1969. also opted to name the scholarship Modern Rock 91.5 radio or comprise the longstanding radio “It was clear that Tim had his sights for him. To Tim, it was like they other BCA audio activities program, Orlik says. set on a radio career.” pulled a rabbit out of a hat.” and a demonstrated commitment to pursuing a “Our overall audio unit is as Roberts is the program director at a The first scholarship will likely be radio-industry career. • strong as our video unit, which is Detroit-based CBS Radio station and awarded in spring 2008. Summer 2007 Centralight 31 MAROON AND GOLD

To our colors we’ll be true Alumni board More than a year has passed since I joined President Jan (Keegan) Hagland, ’77 the alumni relations staff, and I can truly attest Thomas Lapka, ’78 Berkley to the statement “time flies when you are Ada Daniel Herzog, ’91 having fun.” work: (517) 482-0222 [email protected] Saginaw One of the most exciting things that I have First vice president Timothy Hicks, ’74 MA ’77 been able to do is work with the Student Sheldon Lennox, ’81 Muskegon Alumni Association. This is a group of Rockford Christopher Jablonski, ’83 dedicated and enthusiastic students who work: (616) 292-5865 Bloomfield Hills are making a huge impact on other students [email protected] Robert Kennedy, ’87 campuswide. Annie Galgoczi Second vice president Northville Darlene Nowak-Baker, ’87 I have had the privilege of watching these students work to boost Lansing Adrian LaMar, ’89 school spirit all year at various sporting events by coming up with work: (248) 358-6403 Wyoming innovative ideas to get students in the stands. They have worked to [email protected] Erin Matusiewicz, ’00 educate seniors on campus about the importance of giving back to Directors Detroit their school through the “Make Your Mark” campaign. Additionally, the Michael Ardelean, ’03 students have tirelessly worked to bridge the gap between students Shelby Township Anne Monroe, ’96 Traverse City and alumni by volunteering at scholarship luncheons, interacting Jean (Bennett) Brown, ’88 with alumni in the President’s Suite at each home football game, and Novi Darcy Orlik, ’92 MSA ’95 assisting at alumni events whenever needed. Mount Pleasant Janet Burns, MA ’83 Ed.S. ’89 Edward F. Schroll, ’77 This devoted group of students is currently working on the “Street Sign Mount Pleasant MA ’78 Ed.S. ’91 Campaign,” a campaign to raise funds to change the standard green Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76 Yucaipa, California and white street signs on campus to maroon and gold. This change will Midland Charles Selinger, ’94 MS ’98 greatly improve the overall look and feel of campus. We have started to Ryan A. Fewins, ’02 MA ’04 Ceresco see donations come in, but we still need more to put this plan into action. Bay City Robert VanDeventer, ’74 I encourage you to be true to your school and donate to this exciting Lynn Garrett, ’97 Saginaw project. A small donation will go a long way in helping these students Detroit Jeffery Vredevoogd, ’82 reach their fundraising goal. You can donate by calling the alumni relations Grandville office at (800) 358-6903 or by sending your donation through the mail to: Street Sign Project, Alumni Relations, Carlin Alumni House, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. See the ad on page 36. Alumni events June With CMU pride, 8 Alumni awards banquet, 14 Grand Opening of CMU Annie Galgoczi, ’04 campus. Biological Station on Beaver Island. Assistant director of alumni relations 9 Return to Learn, campus. 26 Straits of Mackinac PBS 9 Football Golf Outing, Mount Music Cruise. Pleasant. Seven to receive alumni awards 27 Women’s Athletics Golf 11 College of Business Outing, Mount Pleasant. Six alumni and one friend of the university will be honored June 8 Administration Golf Outing, during the annual Alumni Awards Banquet. Mount Pleasant. 30 Traverse City Golf Outing. Receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award is David Gamez, ’73 MA ’80, 5 1 Pregame reception and gathering for the Chicago August president and CEO of Health Delivery Inc. Cubs vs. San Diego Padres 6 Grand Rapids Golf The Alumni Commitment Award goes to Michael Bowen, ’92, president game, Chicago. Outing, The Highlands, Grand Rapids. and CEO of Westwood Development Group; Al Cambridge, ’56, retired 22 Gathering at Great Lakes partner of Accenture LTD; and Tom Celani, owner of Motor City Harley- Loons game, Midland. 6 Clarke Historical Library Davidson and Buell. Hemingway Fundraiser, 22 Gathering at Braves vs. Tigers Petoskey. Dr. Maurice Chapin, retired physician from Millington, will receive the game, Atlanta. 9 Straits of Mackinac PBS Community Recognition Award. Anne Veltema, ’02, public relations 25 Tri-cities Golf Outing, Apple Music Cruise. Mountain, Freeland. specialist for Spectrum Health, will receive the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. And Lon Morey, CEO of Morbark Inc. and The Morey July 18 Baseball Golf Outing, Mount Pleasant. Foundation, will receive the Honorary Alumni Award. • 12 Straits of Mackinac PBS Music Cruise. 32 Centralight Summer 2007 MAROON AND GOLD

Catching up with the chapters

Atlanta Florida – Naples Warren was the spot to be to meet the new faces of CMU football. New head coach Atlanta area alumni and friends enjoyed a More than 100 alumni and friends enjoyed Butch Jones and his football coaching staff nail biter between the Atlanta Hawks and the the greetings from President Michael Rao and hit the road for a unique opportunity for Detroit Pistons in January. In the end the Hawks head football coach Butch Jones at an alumni alumni and friends to preview highlights of were victorious, and all of the CMU fans had a dinner at the Inn on Fifth in Old Naples. Winter the 2007 recruiting class and the future of great time. residents mingled with CMU year-round alumni for an enjoyable evening. CMU football. Close to 100 alumni and friends Band chapter enjoyed the great food at Andiamo Italia and the opportunity to learn of Coach Jones’ The Sixth Annual Alumni Band Concert was Grand Rapids strategy for next year. March 18 on campus. Alumni practiced in the Grand Rapids area alumni hosted an event at morning, ate lunch together, then performed in a Grand Rapids Griffins game March 16. More The NCAA Wrestling Championships were the afternoon. than 20 alumni and friends attended the event held this year at the Palace of Auburn Hills, and enjoyed the evening. The Griffins lost in a and 130 alumni, friends, and family of CMU Cleveland shootout, but everyone stayed to the very end wrestlers enjoyed a reception between Alumni relations and the Chippewa Club to cheer on the team. sessions March 15. The reception was at the hosted pregame receptions prior to both CMU upper level of The Post Bar across from the men’s basketball games at the Mid-American Lansing Palace. Needless to say, CMU outnumbered Conference Tournament in March. CMU In March nearly 100 alumni, friends, and CMU other universities. It was a great showing of defeated Buffalo in the first round and then fell football fans joined new Head Coach Butch support for the wrestling program. to Akron in the second round. Jones and the entire CMU football staff for a “Meet the Coaches” reception. The event Phoenix Florida – Central area featured a recap of the 2007 recruiting class The Phoenix chapter has been busy. In CMU alumni and friends from the Central and a preview of the upcoming football February alumni and friends enjoyed a Florida area gathered at the Walt Disney World campaign. It was a cooperative effort between Phoenix Coyotes vs. Detroit Red Wings Wide World of Sports complex to enjoy a spring alumni relations and the Chippewa Club. Hockey game. Prior to the game everyone training baseball game between the Detroit enjoyed food, beverages, and conversation Tigers and the Atlanta Braves. The weather was Las Vegas at the Fox and Hounds. In March alumni in perfect, the seats were right on the third base CMU was well represented at Orleans Arena the Phoenix area went to a Suns vs. Pistons line, and tasty hot dogs rounded out a perfect when alumni from the University of Toledo, game. Before the game alumni and their night at the ballpark. The Tigers celebrated a 7-5 Miami of Ohio, and CMU joined together in guests met at Stoudimire’s in the VIP room win over the Braves. February to watch the Las Vegas Wranglers located across the street from the arena. take on the Toledo Storm in an exciting hockey Florida – Gulf Coast game. Before the game, alumni from all three Washington, D.C. schools joined for a pregame party. Washington, D.C. area alumni and friends once again gathered to watch the Detroit Metro Detroit Pistons take on the Washington Wizards Alumni were rewarded by a special in January. Dave Nicholson and Rich Juday performance as CMU faculty pianist Alexandra from campus greeted alumni at a pregame Mascolo-David performed at The Village gathering at the Chop House and Brewery. Theater in Canton in February. A professor in Although the Pistons lost to the Wizards, a the CMU School of Music, her refined and great time was enjoyed by the CMU group. • expressive performance was enjoyed by all in attendance. It was a great afternoon for alumni and friends Alumni and friends gathered at the annual in Florida’s Gulf Coast area as they celebrated pregame reception at Hoops in Auburn Hills St. Patrick’s Day at Knology Park in Dunedin to and then took a shuttle to The Palace of Auburn watch the Detroit Tigers play the Toronto Blue Hills to once again watch the Detroit Pistons Jays. According to Kim Maszera, Gulf Coast beat the L.A. Clippers. Cheers for former CMU alumni coordinator, it was a sold out game and Chippewa Chris Kaman when he took the court everyone had a great time – not a cloud in the for the Clippers, but a Pistons victory that night sky, great seats, and a little sunburn. was the outcome.

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Alumni chapters Michigan chapters Traverse City Los Angeles Football Ann Arbor Anne Monroe Patti, ’83, and Ed Schroll, ’77 MA Dustin Preston, ‘94 Bob Balicki, ’79, and Gail Elliott, ’94 [email protected] ’78 Ed.S. ’91 [email protected] Bob: (313) 608-7922 home: (909) 446-1946 Tri-cities [email protected] Honors Gail: (313) 608-7923 Bryan Wieferich [email protected] Ricardo Resio, ’95 [email protected] Phoenix [email protected] [email protected] Dale Wernette, ’67 or Honors Program (989) 774-3902 (480) 515-5132 Battle Creek National chapters Integrative public relations T.R. Shaw, ’82 [email protected] Atlanta Abigail Dean, ’01 home: (269) 965-2979 Mark Guy, ’00 Reno [email protected] [email protected] Carol Perrigo, ’72 home: (770) 475-3447 Latino Rene Johnson, ’78 (775) 747-5066 Jared Lombard, ’03 Laura Gonzales, ’79 MA ’89 work: (269) 388-8403 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Washington, D.C. (404) 918-5342 Leader advancement scholars Detroit Tony Brown, ’02 Candice Zmijewski, ’03 Dan Gaken, ’04 Christopher Jablonski, ’83 home: (202) 882-2993 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Chicago Physician assistant Flint Ira Kreft, ’77 Constituent chapters Andrew Booth Ted Bunker, ’69 [email protected] African-American [email protected] home: (810) 694-7359 Lynn Garrett [email protected] ROTC Cleveland [email protected] Call the alumni office at John Fisher, ’70 Grand Rapids (800) 358-6903 for information. Band [email protected] Pam Murray, ’77 MA ’83 Tom Broka, ’72 home: (616) 249-0898 Recreation, parks, and leisure Dallas [email protected] [email protected] Mark Wilson, ’82 services administration home: (817) 416-0667 Broadcast and cinematic arts Chris Bundy, ’88 Lansing [email protected] Kathy Banfield Shaw, ’74 [email protected] Jim Nowak, ’94 [email protected] [email protected] Houston Susan Wells, ’77 Bill Cox, ’83 College of Business [email protected] Mount Pleasant home: (713) 722-0911 Administration Dan Gaken, ’04 Student Alumni Association [email protected] Julie Nowicki, ’96 [email protected] Sara Pierce [email protected] Las Vegas [email protected] Northern Michigan Ann Marie Fredrickson, ’94 English Kristen Beach, ’90 ’98 home: (702) 655-2118 Monica Brady, ’03 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (231) 547-9268

Alumni clubs Boston area Indianapolis area New England area San Diego area Jeff McMaster, ’89 Grace Ketchum, ’69 Kevin Richards, ’89 Greg Cox, ’00 [email protected] (317) 842-0851 (203) 840-6221 (858) 534-0437 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cincinnati area Call (800) 358-6903 Katie Reed, ’92 New York City San Francisco area [email protected] Adam Ebnit, ’03 Jan Houts, ’82 Florida’s East Central area [email protected] (650) 543-0110 Ashley McMeel ’98 Kansas City area [email protected] [email protected] Frank Moussa, ’85 North Carolina (913) 962-9620 Rodger Skirvin, ’78 South Bend, Indiana, area Karen, ’94, and Gary Aalbregtse, ’72 fhmoussa@ [email protected] Kimber Abair, ‘01 [email protected] agtop.state.ks.us [email protected] Terry Guttrich, ’57 Florida’s Gulf Coast area Knoxville, Tennessee, area (910) 215-8916 Western Pennsylvania area Kim Maszera, ’90 Aaron J. Todd, ’97 Jeff Rivard, ’66 [email protected] (865) 974-4481 San Antonio/Austin area (412) 826-2180 Call (800) 358-6903. Florida’s West Palm Beach area [email protected] [email protected] Paul Gaba, ’88 Milwaukee area (561) 352-0635 Mark Bender, ’95 [email protected] [email protected]

34 Centralight Summer 2007 Let people walk all over you.

LettingLetting people people walk walk all all over over you you means means moremore than being steppedstepped on; on; it italso also means means being being the the foundationfoundation that that future future students students at at CentralCentral MichiganMichigan University University will will walk walk upon. upon. By Bymaking making a $250 a $250 gift gift to to the the New New Beginnings Beginnings Scholarship ($100 ($100 for for graduates graduates of theof the last last decade), decade), youyou will will receive receive a apersonalized personalized brick,brick to to be be placed placed in infront front of Warrinerof Warriner Hall, Hall, and youand willhelp help create create a scholarshipa scholarship to support to support students students who who are are working working their their way way through through CMU. ForFor more more information, information, contact call the theAnnual Annual Giving Giving office of at ce989.774.7112 at 989.774.7112. or e-mail [email protected].

Join the CMU Alumni Association for pregame tailgate parties at three away games this season: September 1 CMU vs. Kansas Lawrence, Kansas September 15 CMU vs. Purdue And at home games: West Lafayette, Indiana Grab a free hot dog from the CMU Alumni October 20 Association on “The CMU vs. Clemson Island” just north of Clemson, South Carolina Kelly/Shorts Stadium. (At Homecoming, don’t For info and tailgate tickets: miss the Alumni Village www.cmualum.com for lots of free food!) (800) 358-6903 For game tickets: 1-888-FIREUP-2

CMU is an AA/EO institution (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo). • For ADA accommodations, call (989) 774-3045 at least one week before the event.

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1940s 1960s Peter R. Sandman, ’72, had two books published in 2006: Murder Near the Crosses Norman Johnston, ’43, announces that his Randy Remenap, ’66 MA ’67 Ed.S. ’77, is and Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear 2000 book, Forms of Constraint: A History coordinator of the educational leadership Dunes National Lakeshore Area. The latter book of Prison Architecture, was released in a program at Grand Valley State University. was coauthored with his son, Jeffrey, who is a paperback edition by the University of Illinois history graduate student at CMU. Press. It had been published in a Japanese Fran (Schank) Card, ’67 MA ’71, has published translation in Tokyo in 2002. Johnston, Ceana has CP, a children’s book for ages 3 to 7 Dennis A. Roy, ’73 MA ’82 MA ’84, retired professor emeritus at Arcadia University, is that tells the story of Card’s granddaughter, who from U.S. District Court Probation in January completing a new book for young people on has cerebral palsy. For more information see and is now employed with CJ/SATT, Oscoda, the history of prisons. www.ceanahasCP.com. Michigan, using his professional counselor and licensed master social worker certifications. He Timothy Bazzett, ’69 MA ’70, published 1950s continues to work as an adjunct faculty member Pinhead: A Love Story, the third book of his for Alpena Community College, teaching Reed City Boy memoirs. It’s available online at Josephine Vaara, ’54, was selected Clarkston courses in corrections and homeland security. Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year. www.rathole.com/pinhead. Vern Hartman, ’74 MBA ’76, and Steven Jim Podoley, ’57, and his wife, Pat, celebrated 1970s Dewey, ’74 MS ’75, are leading OptimizeRx. their 50th wedding anniversary last summer. Jim Fred C. Justice, MBA ’71, was named a com, which offers a free way for patients works for State Farm Insurance in Washington, to participate in co-pay savings, offers, and D.C. The couple lives in Annapolis, Maryland. fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in November 2006. He is business other programs to help them better afford Fred M. Mester, ’59, was honored by the development manager at Chemstations Inc. prescription drugs. Hartman is vice president of Women’s Bar Association, the Oakland County in Houston, Texas. Over his 40-year career, he marketing, and Dewey is business consultant. branch of Women Lawyers Association of has specialized in marketing and sales for the Daniel Gaudette, ’75, was reappointed to the Michigan, for his leadership within the legal chemical process industries and international board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank community and his commitment to advancing business. He lives in Saginaw. of Atlanta’s Nashville branch. He is senior vice diversity in the community and in the legal president of North American Manufacturing profession. He is the Oakland County Circuit and Supply Chain Management for Nissan Court judge. North America.

To Our Colors We’ll Be True

Help the Student Alumni Association in their quest to raise funds to change all of the traditional green and white street signs on campus to Maroon and Gold!

Your one-time contribution to support this project will create a lasting impression on campus Please call (800)358-6903 or detach and mail in this form with payment. for years to come. Maroon and gold street signs will enhance the Name ______look and feel of Central Michigan Address ______University’s campus; appealing to City ______State ______Zip ______students, alumni, and visitors. Phone______E-mail ______

To learn more about the Street Please make checks payable to Central Michigan University. Sign Project, contact the Of ce of Enclosed is my check or credit card authorization for a gift of: R R R R Alumni Relations at (800)358-6903 $10 $25 $50 Other amount $ ______or [email protected]. Credit Card Type: RVISA RMASTERCARD RDISCOVER RAMERICAN EXPRESS Credit Card # ______Exp. date ______Signature ______Thank you for your generous contribution to this exciting project!

36 Centralight Summer 2007 ALUMNI IN ACTION

Dave Fowler, ’77 MS ’80, received the Scott S. Haraburda, ’83, was promoted 1990s River Hero Award from the River Network, to colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves after a nonprofit organization with a mission of returning from a yearlong mobilization Nancy Arnold, ’93, received the STAR Award helping people understand, protect, and assignment at the Pentagon, running the Army from the Detroit Black Nurses Association Inc. restore rivers and their watersheds. Fowler Science Board for the secretary of the Army. He It is awarded every five years to nurses who is senior project manager for the Milwaukee also assumed command of the 464th Chemical have made significant contributions in the field Metropolitan Sewerage District. Brigade, commanding up to four battalions of nursing and who have brought significant across five states, supervising 18 separate recognition to the Black Nurses Association. Julie (Fairbairn) Biddick, ’78, was inducted into units, including approximately 125 full-time Dionne M. Redmond, ’93, earned a doctor of the Michigan Amateur Softball Association Hall personnel at 21 different locations. Haraburda education in counselor education degree from of Fame. earned a master’s degree in strategic studies Texas Southern University. She is editor of a from the U.S. Army War College. Rachel Clay, ’78, teaches business courses self-help book, The ABC’s of Relationships, and online as an adjunct professor for the Frank S. Lochwood, MA ’83, was named is a licensed professional counselor. She lives University of Maryland University College. She president of the board of trustees of Crestwood in Houston, Texas, and is the lead clinician for lives in Virginia. Village Co-op Four in Whiting, New Jersey. Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority – ACT Team 3. Dr. Marcus Topinka, ’78, was named Julie (Straith) Dana, ’85, is author of the medical staff president for Doctors Hospital recently published The Complete Idiot’s Frank J. Ripullo II, ’94, was promoted to in Columbus, Ohio. He serves as a liaison Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell. She is a director of national accounts for a major between the medical staff and Doctors Hospital nationally known expert in the field of home medical device manufacturer. He is part owner and OhioHealth administration. staging and owns TheHomeStylist.com. of a dot-com startup company, and he does 1980s She lives in East Aurora, New York, with her consulting within the health care industry. He husband and two sons. lives in Laguna Niguel, California, with his wife, Michael K. McNally, ’80, began his third Angelina, and daughter, Rosalia Giovanna. term as judge of the 33rd District Court in Keith Hearit, ’86 MA ’88, was named interim Woodhaven. His wife, Kelli Carpenter, ’80, dean of the Lee Honors College at Western Jennifer Nash Webb, ’94, works in the teaches third grade for Trenton Public Schools. Michigan University. He was an associate information technology business planning They reside in Trenton and have three children, professor of communication at WMU, he is and operations department at Ford Motor Co., the oldest of whom attends CMU. an expert in crisis communication and issue where her responsibilities include resource management, and he wrote Crisis Management management analysis. She is pursuing MBA James A. Adams, MA ’81, was named field by Apology: Corporate Response to Allegations studies at the University of Michigan. quality engineer for the Johnson Controls Inc. of Wrongdoing. battery plant in Toledo, Ohio. Matthew Ruhlig, ’95, and his wife, Gina, Robert Jamrog, MA ’86, was named president announce the birth of their daughter, Lucy Elise, Lee Konczak, MA ’81, is director of executive of Gage Products Co. of Ferndale, a leading on November 15, 2006. They reside in Saginaw. development and selection systems at global supplier of test fuels, paint solvents, Victoria (Epple) McDonald, ’96 MSA ’04, Anheuser-Busch Companies, and he teaches and paint system recycling technology for the and her husband, Sean, announce the MBA courses at Webster University. He lives automotive industry. in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife of 27 years, birth of their daughter, Cameron Caitlyn, on Cindy Charlton. James A. Nooks, MA ’86, was offered a major November 4, 2006. Vicki is the supervisor of contract for his book, You Answer the Call or cardiology services at Henry Ford Bi-County Rawlene Watters LeBaron, MS ’81, and You Die: Let the Women Preach in the Black Hospital. She also works as a level 10 rated her daughter, Laurel Michele Wickersheim, Baptist Church, due for release in July. He is gymnastics official. wrote the introduction and index for a reprint general manager for the Center of Innovation Melanie (Betka) Bondy, ’97, taught elementary of Richard Harding Davis’ View from a Car Research and Development in conjuction with school for seven years and is now president Window. Their other books include The Lost the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. of Mind Vine Press LLC (mindvinepress. Cities of Colorado and Mine Owners and Mines He is the former pastor of the First Baptist com), an educational publishing company. of the Colorado Gold Rush, all published by Church in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He also is an She recently authored and published Envision, Heritage Books. adjunct professor at Iona College. an inspirational yearlong program that Linda Meeuwenberg, MA ’82, was selected as Gen. Major Paul S. Izzo, MSA ’87, differentiates for gifted and talented students a dental hygiene opinion leader by the Proctor commanding general of Picatinny Arsenal, within a structured framework. and Gamble Oral Health Division. A group New Jersey, was awarded the William P. Huber Carol Hebert, ’97, and Philip Pfaltzgraff, of 25 opinion leaders attended a consensus Award for outstanding volunteer leadership by MA ’03, presented a premiere of Love Came conference in Boston to provide feedback on the Morris County Chamber of Commerce. Proctor and Gamble’s professional education Down, a Christmas cantata, in December programs. Meeuwenberg is professor emeritus 2006 at the First United Methodist Church in of the dental hygiene program at Ferris State Mount Pleasant. The cantata featured Hebert University. She is founder and president of as lyricist and Pfaltzgraff as lyricist/composer. A Professional Development Association Inc., that rebroadcast of the performance was carried by provides professional speaker services. local cable channels.

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Michael Hester, ’97, was promoted to Midwest 2000s Renee (Dugan) DuRussell, ’03, and her control states area manager for Heaven Hill husband, Brian, announce the birth of Isabelle Distilleries Inc., based in Bardstown, Kentucky. Jason Beukema, ’00, is president of Whet Marie, born January 19, 2007. The family He resides in New Albany, Ohio. Travel (whettravel.com), based in South Beach, resides in Grand Blanc. Florida, that operates Groove Cruises, music- Tracy Hurley, ’98, and her husband, Scott, based party cruises targeted toward young Ryan Kennedy, ’03, was promoted to president announce the birth of their daughter, professionals. club banker for Quicken Loans. He lives in Katherine Noelle, on January 18, 2007. They White Lake. reside in Ferndale. Jordan S. Jackson, ’02, was named an associate at the law firm of Culin, Sharp, Autry, Tom Celani, ’04, received a Silver Bar & Shield Tricia Lathrom, ’98, joined Independent Bank and Day PLC in Fairfax, Virginia, just outside of of Excellence Award for his Motor City Harley- in February as marketing/community relations Washington, D.C. Her practice concentrates on Davidson dealership, Farmington Hills. The coordinator. She is responsible for managing the areas of civil litigation, business law, and award is given to the top 10 percent of the community relations and marketing initiatives family law. more than 700 Harley-Davidson dealerships for Independent Bank and its 29 banking offices nationwide for superior customer service and throughout mid- and northern Michigan. She Stephanie Smith-Greene, MA ’02, was operations. lives in Essexville. included in the 26th edition of Marquis Who’s Who of American Women. Pamela A. Youngblood, MSA ’06, was Steven J. Nowak, ’98, and his wife, Julie, deployed to Iraq with the First Cavalry Division have started Botanical Buddies (www. Catherine Brainerd, ’03, joined Dykema law at Camp Taji, Iraq. • botanicalbuddies.com), which sells all natural firm’s Grand Rapids office. She focuses on personal care and personal environment general real estate matters with an emphasis products. on real estate litigation.

Football chapter Official Ring Collection gets involved Central Michigan University Dustin Preston, ’94, helps lead one of CMU’s largest active alumni constituent groups – the football alumni chapter.

“There are more than 1,000 football alumni, and EARN IT. WEAR IT. we have probably 200 active members in the Showcase your accomplishments wherever chapter,” Preston says. “Mike Bevier and John you go and to whomever you meet. Hood have been real instrumental in recruiting Dustin Preston members and getting the group going.”

Here’s the skinny on the chapter:

Function: “To get our football alumni involved in the current football program – get back on campus to interact with the current players and coaches,” Preston says. “Our alumni who have been successful can help hold the current team accountable and keep the traditions and history of CMU football alive.”

Main events: TO ORDER CALL “We have our annual golf outing at Riverwood Golf Course in Mount 1-866-BALFOUR Pleasant and happy hours in the summer in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and (866-225-3687) Lansing. We tailgate at “The Island” at every home football game, and we’re starting to get involved in the football year-end banquets.”

On the Web: “Our Web site is www.capitalsteel.net/chippewa. Rob Kaminski, an www.balfourcollege.com ©2006 Balfour. 6514.0206 alum who used to work in the sports information office at CMU and now works for the Michigan High School Athletic Association, developed our Web site for us. The networking through the site has been a big part of our group. We lean on each other for financial services, legal services, and general networking.”

38 Centralight Summer 2007 IN MEMORIAM

Ruth C. Pullman, ’39, Alma, died August 4, Rev. Robert W. Davey Jr., MA ’70, Saginaw, Bradley J. Weidenbach, MSA ’87, Cave Creek, 2006, age 89. died December 19, 2006, age 72. Arizona, died January 27, 2007, age 55.

Margaret (Bush) Dietz, ’41 MA ’63, Clearwater, Patrick McConnell, ’70, Clare, died March 14, Gary M. Allen, Ed.S. ’88, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Florida, died January 13, 2007. 2006, age 67. died December 18, 2006, age 54.

Christine M. Vanagtmael, ’47, Fremont, died Kathleen Stone, ’70, Royal Oak, died Carol A. Crissey, MSA ’88, Linden, died March January 12, 2007, age 95. November 29, 2006, age 58. 10, 2007, age 64.

James A. Brisbois, ’48, Saginaw, died January James R. Young, ’71, Kentwood, died David R. Fish, ’90, Waterford, died December 11, 2007, age 85. December 6, 2006, age 58. 30, 2006, age 38.

Dale Richter, ’50, Petoskey, died December 26, Theodore W. Galbraith, ’73 MA ’75, Paul J. Dietz, MSA ’91, Severna Park, Maryland, 2006, age 90. Prudenville, died January 6, 2007, age 74. died December 21, 2006, age 57.

Donald W. Sutton, ’50, Portland, died February Mary (Atkins) Ammond, MA ’74, West Branch, Yvonne Ellis, ’94, Alpena, died November 29, 15, 2007, age 81. died December 4, 2006, age 88. 2006, age 62.

Beverly “Bud” Dredge, ’52, Belmont, died Bonita L. Adler, MA ’75, Farmingdale, Susan M. Whitman, MA ’97, Lapeer, died December 24, 2006, age 78. Pennsylvania, died December 30, 2006, age 60. January 10, 2007, age 53.

Sybellia Barsch, ’57, Marquette, died Frank V. Shetka, MA ’75, Tucson, Arizona, died Florence Printis, MSA ’00, Rocky Mount, North December 8, 2006, age 73. January 1, 2007, age 83. Carolina, died May 15, 2006, age 57.

Mary B. Sklba, ’58 MA ’68, Merrill, died Marjorie R. Lubbehusen, ’76, Midland, died Aaron J. Sias, ’03, Battle Creek, died December February 4, 2007, age 91. January 29, 2007, age 80. 18, 2006, age 25.

Beatrice Holmes Lynch, ’59 MA ’62 Ed.S. ’70, Harry K. Schmidt, MA ’76, Ivyland, Bernice Richards Brockett, MSA ’04, Troy, died Reed City, died December 18, 2006, age 89. Pennsylvania, died January 18, 2007, age 58. February 7, 2007, age 65.

Alice Johnson Powers Marcinkevich, ’59 MA Gayla A. Heinrich, MA ’79, Marietta, Georgia, John C. Cossey, ’06, Petoskey, died December ’71, Lowell, died March 9, 2007, age 85. died February 2, 2007. 17, 2006, age 31.

Charles R. Moore, ’59, Austin, Texas, died Col. Donald R. Seay, MA ’79, Albany, New Faculty: February 9, 2007, age 72. York, died February 6, 2007. Joseph Lawrence, former associate professor Barbara L. Carlson, ’66, Southfield, died June Mark D. Weissenborn, ’79, Grand Rapids, died of sociology, anthropology, and social work, 10, 2006, age 62. January 3, 2007, age 49. died January 30, 2007, at age 78. He taught at CMU for nearly 25 years. Richard Freiwald, ’68, Chicago, died February Theodore R. Wiberg, MA ’80, Seaford, 2, 2006, age 60. Maryland, died December 30, 2006, age 60. Leonard Lieberman, professor emeritus of sociology, anthropology, and social work, died John V. Shaver, ’68 MA ’69, Naperville, Illinois, Lyana June Newkirk, ’84, Scottville, died February 6, 2007, at age 81. He taught for died February 1, 2007, age 76. February 3, 2007, age 83. 40 years at CMU, retiring in 2005. The Leslie Brian Veenhuis, ’68, Flint, died December 2, Douglas E. Freed, MSA ’85, Chester, Virginia, and Leonard Lieberman Scholarship at CMU 2006, age 62. died January 30, 2007, age 57. memorializes the two former faculty members.

John E. Schlosser, ’69, Maple City, died March Diane L. (Raab) Mihok, ’85, Windsor, 9, 2007, age 59. Connecticut, died December 19, 2006, age 43.

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I am Central: Jamie Griggs

Child development and psychology senior Volunteer

Her volunteer résumé: I volunteered before I came to college. I’ve volunteered at Women’s Aid Service for about a year, and I traveled down to Louisiana for Alternative Breaks after Hurricane Katrina.

Who are your role models? My parents. They always tell me that you are a reflection on your family but also on God. What have you learned at the Women’s Aid Service? I met this one girl who was literally on the run – she had a hit out on her. She can’t go outside. It took me back. I had to sit and think about all the things I take for granted.

The hardest part about volunteering in Louisiana: Meeting the lady whose house we rebuilt – I don’t know how it stood, with all the termites. She had been living there forever, through all the hurricanes. When we left we all cried. The fun part: Paint fights. Why volunteer? That’s why we’re here – to help one another.

Photo by peggy Brisbane

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