SPRING 2015

Sustainable Brewing A unique new degree

Also inside: • Tigers’ • Students’ life-saving invention Postgrad Success Rate 18 Inside Cuba WMU Cuba specialist shares an insider’s view amid historic shift in U.S.-Cuba relations

5 A Final Act Executive Editor $2 million posthumous gift establishes fine arts fund Cheryl P. Roland 6 Brewing Scholars Managing Editor Paula M. Davis WMU & KVCC offer nation’s first sustainable brewing degrees 11 Chemist’s new way to analyze hops Contributing Editorial Staff Jeanne Baron, M.A. ’89 Stacey Markin, M.A. ’02 12 Breath of Life Mark Schwerin, B.A. ’79 Students’ invention could save critically ill infants Teresa Ventimiglia Margaret von Steinen, B.A. ’00, 28 Marketing student wins patent M.F.A. ’04

20 Tigers’ Calm Captain Art Director Dave Dombrowski missed out on Bronco , Kim C. Nelson but it led to MLB front-office stardom Graphic Designers Tammy Boneburg, B.F.A. ’96 Debbi Kreps, B.S. ’88 14 Medallion Scholars Production Staff Sue A. Beougher, B.A. ’88 & Middle Schoolers 2 University News Bradley Horstman Program helps boost academic 18 Expert Insights Contributing Photographers Mark Cunningham/ readiness of middle school students 24 In Print Junfu Han Mike Lanka 26 College News Justin Maconochie Madeline K. Taylor, B.S. ’15 30 Classnotes Diana Trujillo Martínez Questions or Comments? 31 In Memoriam Contact Paula M. Davis at [email protected]. 32 Alumni Profile Frequency The Western University Magazine is published quarterly. It is owned by Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5433. Views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of the University. WMU is an equal opportunity/affirma- tive action institution and a member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities as well as the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The pageantry and artistry of a traditional powwow returned to campus in early April. This celebration of Native American culture was hosted in University Arena by WMU’s Native American Student Association. The event’s theme, “Reviving Tradition,” paid homage to the 16 years of nearly annual powwows that were held on campus until 2006 and that at their peak, drew some 8,500 spectators.

1 Dear Friends, WMU graduates see an 89 percent success rate Higher education is often regarded narrowly as an endeavor that prepares students for Thousands of WMU seniors graduate this employment. But the value higher education imparts is deeper than a single job. Its worth lies in spring and summer with the knowledge equipping individuals for a lifetime of contributing their talents and uniqueness to society in a that last year’s graduates saw an 89 percent variety of ways. rate of success within just three months of commencement. To be sure, those who take full advantage of a Western Michigan A five-year-old effort to track the postgraduate University education are primed and ready to take on the world activities of WMU alumni has emerged as what of work. And, as you’ll read in University News, even our newest is believed to be the most comprehensive alumni have incredible success doing so. documentation of life after graduation for students at any Michigan university. The annual But I’m also proud to report that this University educates and survey garnered responses from more than encourages students to positively impact the world even while two-thirds of 2013-14 WMU graduates. pursuing their degrees. Our students are learning to use their The core finding for 2013-14 was that 89.1 burgeoning talents to make a difference holistically. percent of graduates were “actively engaged” in the next steps of their professional On the following pages, you will meet two premed students who development within three months of learned about a serious condition killing newborns in developing graduation. nations and decided to use their engineering know-how to come Active engagement is defined as: up with a solution. Full-time employment—62.5 percent At our College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stephen Graduate school attendance—14.6 percent John and Joseph Barnett devised a simple and inexpensive device Part-time employment—11 percent Military service—1 percent to help low-resourced medical centers treat infants suffering from respiratory distress. These aspiring doctors volunteer at mission hospitals abroad and know the need. For those employed full time, 81 percent were employed in jobs related to their academic A group of Medallion Scholars—among our highest-achieving undergraduates—responded to discipline, and the median salary was in the the academic struggles of some area sixth-graders by creating the Future Leaders of Kalamazoo $45,000 to $50,000 range. mentoring program. They have “adopted” the middle school students, committing to tutoring The WMU survey is the product of five years of work by Dr. Ewa Urban, associate director and mentoring the youngsters each week for their three years of middle school. for assessment and technology in WMU’s As graphic design major Kelly Brandon put it, she and the other Medallion Scholars want to Career and Student Employment Services. have a “lasting impact that goes beyond the semester report card.” When she first began seeking this data years ago, she garnered responses from just 25 Our students know that helping guide their younger counterparts has incalculable value. percent of graduates. Urban has since built a survey and outreach program that last Though I’m sure you have heard today’s young people characterized as being more focused year netted responses from 68.5 percent of on self than on the world around them, there are countless examples in our student body graduates—3,590 of the more than 5,200 challenging that notion. Many substantively enhance their education and themselves by going students who earned bachelor’s, master’s and beyond the rigor of the classroom experience. As a result, our students, and the world, are better doctoral degrees in 2013-14. for those contributions. Working with Amy Galick, who is a graduate assistant working on a master’s degree in Best regards, applied mathematics, Urban says they were able to make the most recently completed report the most thorough to date. A comprehensive report is available online at wmich.edu/career/planning/reports. n

John M. Dunn

President

2 wmich.edu/magazine OT prof wins recognition from Instructor’s poetry book wins 2014 USA Best Book Award national organization A book of poems by a WMU Spanish instructor won a 2014 USA Best Book Award, Dr. Debra Lindstrom, a professor of while a second book was named a finalist in another category. occupational therapy, has been chosen to Dr. Hedy Habra is author of the poetry collection “Tea in Heliopolis,” receive the American Occupational Therapy which took top honors in the Poetry: General category. Her book “Flying Association’s Roster of Fellows Award. Carpets” also was named one of five finalists in the Fiction: Short Story The Roster of Fellows recognizes AOTA category. members who, with their knowledge USABookNews.com is an online magazine featuring mainstream and and expertise, have made a significant independent publishing houses. More than 400 winners and finalists contribution to continuing the education were announced in over 100 categories. and professional development of fellow members. In particular, Lindstrom is The two awards are the most recent accolades Habra has received recognized for her contributions as a clinical for her two books. “Tea in Heliopolis” was recently named one of five finalists for reasoning champion, educator, researcher, the 2014 International Poetry Book Award, while “Flying Carpets” won an honorable mentor and advocate. mention for the 2013 Arab American National Book Award and finalist for the 2014 Eric Hoffer Book Award. n “Dr. Lindstrom has a consistent pattern of creating innovative teaching International student enrollment continues to rise and learning WMU’s continuing growth in international student enrollment reflects national trends opportunities for reported in the annual Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. her students,” says Dr. Ben Atchison, Open Doors reported on international student enrollment across the United States for chair of the WMU the 2013-14 academic year, comparing changes to 2012-13. The report, released in the Department of fall, found that the number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities Occupational rose by 8 percent for a record high of 886,052 students. Lindstrom Therapy. “She Meanwhile, WMU’s international student enrollment rose by 7.1 percent during that is deeply committed to the professional time frame, reaching a total of 1,688 international students representing 105 countries. development of her students as well as her Although not reflected in the report, University officials say that WMU’s international colleagues.” student body has continued to grow at an even higher rate when considering statistics Nominators noted that Lindstrom has from 2014-15. successfully moved from problem-based This recent enrollment data showed an additional 9.8 percent increase compared to learning, to case-based learning, to team- 2013-14, with 1,854 international students representing 100 countries now studying based learning in her classes. on campus. Her research topics range from work and Dr. Wolfgang Schlör, WMU associate provost ergonomics issues and clinical reasoning for the Haenicke Institute for Global Education, to psychometric properties of commonly says that the University’s growing number of used assessment instruments. She also has international students showcases some areas mentored more than 25 students, faculty of special focus as well as the national trend. and alumni in research. This fall, for instance, WMU attracted a 60 percent Many of her considerable contributions in increase in enrollment of students from India and the area of advocacy have been through the a 44 percent increase of students from Brazil—two American Association of Retired Persons, countries that the Open Doors Report noted are having a including co-creating and developing a significant impact on international student growth across program based on the AARP Home Fit the U.S. Guide. The program helps older adults understand what they need to do to be In September, the University welcomed scores of new students: 101 from India able to safely stay in their homes as long (271 total), 49 from Saudi Arabia (456 total), 29 from Brazil (95 total) and 26 from Iraq as possible. (86 total). Michigan is now seen as one of the leaders On the national scale, students who come to the United States from around the in AARP in Livable Communities due in world contributed nearly $27 billion to the economy as well as contributed to great part to her work. And the program America’s scientific and technical research. By studying in the United States, they has spread to other states. n also brought international perspectives into American classrooms, which helps prepare U.S. undergraduates for global careers and often leads to longer-term business relationships. n

News 3 New engineering college dean Law students win national American Bar Association competition to take reins in July WMU-Cooley Law students Elizabeth Bryan for bringing the national championship Dr. Houssam A. Toutanji, professor and and Bryan Devolder took first place at the in the ABA Client Counseling Competition chair of civil and environmental engineering American Bar Association Law Student back to WMU-Cooley Law School, a title at the University Division Client Counseling Competition the school last held in 2011,” says Christine of Alabama- National Finals at North Carolina Central Church, WMU-Cooley associate dean. Huntsville, will this University School of Law in March. summer become As the national champions, the husband-

the new dean of and-wife team advanced to compete at TM the College of the Louis M. Brown and Forrest S. Mosten Engineering and International Client Consultation Competition, Applied Sciences. representing all U.S. law schools. “They were outstanding all the way through The veteran The ABA Client Counseling Competition the competition. One judge applauded at the academic leader simulates a law office consultation in which end of the round, which I’ve not seen before Toutanji and researcher law students, acting as attorneys, are at a national competition. Another judge said will take on the presented with a client matter. They conduct ‘I would hire you’ at the end of the round.” mantle of dean at the start of the 2015- an interview with a person playing the role of The International Client Consultation 16 academic year, July 1. An Alabama- the client and then explain how they would Competition was to be held April 15-18. Huntsville faculty member since 1997, proceed further in the hypothetical situation. Toutanji has been chair of his department Outcome of the international contest was not since 2008 and has served since 2013 “We are extremely proud of Elizabeth and known at press time. n as associate dean for graduate education and research. “Houssam Toutanji brings to the deanship Center for Disability Services awarded accreditation a record of enormous accomplishment WMU’s Center for Disability Services programs and services that are measurable, as an educator, researcher and academic received the highest level of accreditation accountable and of the highest quality. leader,” says Dr. Timothy Greene, WMU from a national organization that promotes provost and vice president for academic The Center for Disability Services has been quality, value and optimal outcomes of affairs. “He will be a wonderful asset to providing services to adults with disabilities services for people with disabilities. our engineering college, of course, but for more than 30 years, in addition to also a wonderful addition to our business The center has been accredited for the providing valuable learning experiences for community.” maximum period of three years for its students and interns at the University. community integration, service coordination, Before joining the Alabama-Huntsville CARF International supported living and adult day service faculty, Toutanji held a four-year faculty programs by CARF International. CARF International is an independent, appointment at the University of Puerto nonprofit accrediting body that was founded Rico-Mayaguez, and he held international This accreditation decision reflects the in 1966 as the Commission on Accreditation visiting professor appointments at France’s center’s substantial conformance to the of Rehabilitation Facilities. It establishes University of Cergy-Pontoise and Belgium’s CARF standards. An organization receiving a consumer-focused standards to help Ghent University. He also has served as three-year accreditation has put itself through organizations measure and improve the a rigorous peer-review process. It has a faculty fellow at NASA’s Marshall Space quality of their programs and services. n Flight Center and a postdoctoral fellow at demonstrated to a team of surveyors during Worcester Polytechnic Institute. an on-site visit its commitment to offering “There are many excellent opportunities to grow the academic and research enterprise in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at WMU, and I’m excited to be part of this endeavor,” Toutanji says about taking on the new position. n

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4 wmich.edu/magazine fter decades of joyfully supporting the fine arts and students The Hearron gift also will support an Endowed Medallion atA Western Michigan University, the late Martha “Marti” Hearron of Scholarship bearing the couple’s names. Medallion scholarships Kalamazoo made one final major gift that was to be revealed only are WMU’s premier awards for incoming undergraduates, after her death. providing $50,000 over four years. Hearron, a renowned biostatistician for “We will celebrate the lives that Marti and Art the Upjohn Co., died Nov. 29. Her estate will continue to impact for decades to come included a $2 million gift to WMU that as we welcome many new ‘Hearron kids’ to establishes the Arthur E. and Martha S. our family,” Guyette told the audience during Hearron College of Fine Arts Distinguished his announcement. Professorship. It also will provide funding for Additional funds from the gift will provide some of her favorite arts programs as well support for the Department of Theatre’s as endow a new Medallion Scholarship for Instructional Equipment Endowment and the students in the fine arts. Great Works Dance Project Endowment. The gift—and the fact that the endowed Hearron spent 32 years working as an Upjohn professorship is the first in College of Fine Co. biostatistician in Kalamazoo. During that Arts history—was announced in February by time, she was a trailblazer with a number Dean Daniel Guyette at the college’s annual of “firsts” to her credit. Active nationally Dance Advocacy Award ceremony that was in professional organizations, she helped part of the Winter Gala Dance Concert. form the Biopharmaceutical Section of the “In typical Marti fashion, she required American Statistical Association and she was that this gift remain undisclosed and the first woman leader of that group. anonymous until after she was gone,” Hearron earned bachelor’s and master’s Guyette said. “But rest assured, we made degrees from the University of Michigan. Her sure she knew how much we loved and husband, Arthur Hearron, also was a graduate appreciated her generosity, sense of humor Hearron of U-M and a lifelong musician. He worked for and wonderful spirit.” the Upjohn Co. as well, designing and analyzing For years, Hearron and her late husband drug trials. Arthur were devoted supporters of the fine Together, the pair reveled in the Kalamazoo arts at WMU, attending as many events as possible and establishing performing arts scene and provided support for WMU’s several scholarship funds to enable the fine arts education of dozens marching band as well as its jazz studies, musical theatre, of students who became known as “Hearron kids.” theatre, dance and art programs. Their largesse during their Including the newly announced gift, their donations over time lifetimes also extended to other areas of the University, such exceeded $3 million. as athletics. The new professorship, Guyette says, will allow the college to The College of Fine Arts consists of the Frostic School of Art, designate exceptional faculty members or appoint visiting professors Department of Dance, School of Music and Department of who have made significant contributions to their disciplines. Theatre. All of these academic units are nationally accredited, making the college one of only eight such colleges in the nation The designations will come with supplemental funding to support to have all disciplines accredited by their respective professional research and creative initiatives, and over the years, he says, the organizations. n professorship will rotate through the college’s four disciplines.

News 5 Brewing Scholars WMU a partner in nation’s first sustainable brewing program

yan Hamilton has been on a steady path turning his passion for craft beer into Rhis professional craft. But he figured his ultimate aspiration to earn a degree in the science of brewing would eventually require him to leave the state. As someone who “loves the beer community in Michigan,” that’s not something he wanted to do—and now he, and untold others, won’t have to. When Hamilton begins classes this fall, he will be among the first to benefit from Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo Valley Community College launching the nation’s first higher education programs in sustainable brewing. Not only will Hamilton and other students get the hands-on science and art behind brewing beer for a microbrewery or on a larger scale, but also the programs’ unique focus on sustainability, which many say is vital to the future of a billion dollar industry heavily dependent on natural resources and also growing at an exponential rate. “It’s not just something that will help me at work, but it’s something that I feel fulfilled by and driven to complete,” says Hamilton, who is the maltster at Pilot Malt House in Byron Center, Michigan. “And when I learned who was behind the curriculum, the breweries involved, I pretty quickly chose this route.” To determine the programs’ content, WMU and KVCC tapped a who’s who in craft beer in Michigan, including officials from Bell’s Brewery Inc. and Arcadia Ales in the Kalamazoo area, along with seven other breweries. The curriculum also was developed with Mike Babb, a third-generation master brewer who teaches the craft at the 130-year-old Siebel Institute of Technology in , and is hops fellow at Kalamazoo spice and flavoring producer Kalsec.

6 wmich.edu/magazine The resulting programs in sustainable brewing offer many options for completion, including a “two-plus-two” option that allows students to earn an associate degree at KVCC, then move on to a Bachelor of Science degree that combines industry art and science with WMU’s national reputation in sustainability.

Brewing boom Graduates will be entering a booming industry. Craft beer accounts for 11 percent of beer sales nationally, according to the Brewers Association. And in Michigan, craft brewing has a $1 billion economic impact, making Michigan’s impact 10th in the country. West Michigan alone has developed a strong reputation for craft beer. In 2013, Grand Rapids was named Beer City USA, and Kalamazoo came in second in international voting. Dr. Marcel Zondag is a WMU assistant professor of marketing who researches the beer and wine business, particularly in relation to product supply chain. “If you look at the market data, the craft beer industry saw $4.2 billion in revenue (in 2014) with annual growth of 19 percent from ‘09 to 2014,” Zondag says quoting figures from market researcher IBISWorld. IBISWorld projects the industry will continue to grow at an annualized rate of 7.4 percent, reaching $6 billion by the end of 2019. Zondag says that the years-long rising interest in craft beer, on the part of consumers and makers, hearkens backs to pre-Prohibition days in the United States and at the same time speaks to the modern consumer movement toward locally sourced ingredients and less processed food and drink. “It’s hitting on a lot of factors, one, that people just appreciate natural, local foods. They don’t want to buy over-processed food. And no matter what Bud or Miller has tried to put in their ads, people see them as being industrial, which, of course, they are. “It brings back a local pride aspect, too. That you can go to a local brewer and get a local beer and that’s how it used to be anyway,” Zondag says.

Brewing Scholars 7 Community-building and cultural heritage is what Dr. Steve Bertman points to when people suggest that interest in craft beer is sure to be short-lived. “There are people who see the growth in the craft beer industry and say, ‘It’s a fad. It’s a flash in the pan.’ They miss the point that beer is part of our culture and always has been,” says Bertman, a professor of organic chemistry and one of the program founders. “If you go to these small local pubs, they are packed all the time, not because people want to get drunk, but it’s a place to go to meet people in the neighborhood, catch up on news, just interact as human beings. We’re trying to fold that cultural awareness into the curriculum. It’s not about drinking beer. It’s about human culture and the economic future of Michigan, in part, as well.”

Putting talent on tap As the craft brewing industry has grown and matured over the past two decades, the craft beer consumer has likewise become more discerning about the product, says Tim Suprise, the founder and chief executive of Arcadia Brewing Co. Assuring quality with every bottle or can of craft beer demands educated, skilled workers at every level of the brewing operation, he says. “Twenty years ago, if you were a home brewer, you might be able to successfully make a transition into a commercial Dr. Andre Venter, director of WMU’s hops analysis operation, or start your own brewery, and maybe the consumer lab, adjusts a distillation unit containing hops. would have been a bit more forgiving and allowed that person the opportunity to learn from their mistakes along the way. Suprise says that the WMU-KVCC program “is one that “But today, their level of expectation for quality from any I’m pretty excited about because it will address all of the brewery—whether it’s a brand new one or one that’s been interdisciplinary areas of knowledge that would be very around for 20 years—is that it’s going to be an outstanding, important for the successful, career-minded person to have, excellent product,” Suprise says. whether in brewing, distilling or any kind of fermentation- related job.” In 1996, Suprise established his brewery in Battle Creek, Michigan, before expanding his operations to Kalamazoo last Joe Rudnick, co-owner of Tapistry Brewing Co. in Bridgman, year. Over the years, he has developed Arcadia Ales into one Michigan, is looking forward to the influx of talent when the of the state’s most recognized craft breweries. brewing programs begin producing interns and graduates. Tapistry’s head brewer and assistant brewer have both been trained by the Siebel Institute of Technology.

Brewing education external advisory board Ben Fleckenstein, co-owner: Paw Paw Brewing Co. • Tyler Glaze, brewery operations manager: Short’s Brewing Co. • Matt and Rene Greff, founders: Arbor Brewing Co. • Greg Haner, owner: Gonzo’s BiggDogg Brewing • Walker Modic, sustainability specialist: Bells Brewery Inc. • Aaron Morse, co-owner: Dark Horse Brewing Co. • Joe Rudnick, co-owner: Tapistry Brewing Co. • Dave Sippel, director of operations, and Tim Suprise, owner: Arcadia Brewing Co. • Kris Spaulding, co-owner and director of sustainability: Brewery Vivant

8 wmich.edu/magazine “Passion is great, but educated people, those who understand the ins and the outs of this industry, are critical. I can’t emphasize enough the importance of what (WMU and KVCC) are doing for the industry,” says Rudnick, who also serves on the brewing advisory group. “It’s going to be easier for us to hire people who understand the business.”

From grain to glass These new sustainable brewing programs harness the strengths of both WMU and KVCC. And the schools’ collaboration provides students with flexible pathways to obtain the education, officials say. “What the programs represent is our attempt to give students “We’ve really been treating this like a one-institution program, the hands-on experience of craft brewing and the scientific even though we’re doing different pieces of it,” McCurdy says. background that gives them not just the knowledge, but the kind of scientific rigor to go along with training in sustainability,” The centerpiece is a brewing certificate that students earn says Dr. Edwin Martini, a WMU history professor. exclusively through Kalamazoo Valley. Martini spearheaded the development of the brewing programs WMU students seeking a four-year degree in sustainable craft with Bertman and Dr. Dean McCurdy, KVCC’s associate vice brewing complete the certificate at KVCC and transfer those president for food and community sustainability. courses back to the University. KVCC students, after completing the community college’s brewing certificate, may transfer to WMU. Alternatively, students may complete an associate degree at KVCC that includes the brewing certificate. To use an industry term, students will be educated in the brewing process from grain to glass. Among its courses in brewing, KVCC will offer beer recipe development, yeast fermentation and microbiology, quality control, and packaging and distribution. And the education will be hands on as students learn “experientially” at a pilot teaching brewery on the community college’s new healthy-living campus now under construction near downtown Kalamazoo. “They’ll be learning on professional equipment and, of course, they are going to be spending time with our craft brewing and supply partners, learning about their facilities as well,” McCurdy says. Those who go on to pursue the bachelor’s degree through WMU will get advanced biology and chemistry along with greater depth in fermentation science and in sustainability studies. “This is a pretty rigorous science degree,” according to Martini. “For a first semester student who comes in seeking (the Bachelor of Science) degree, their class schedule is not going to look radically different than it would for a pre-med student.” In addition, there are a variety of electives students can pursue at WMU to build on a particular passion or interest, including production engineering, environmental economics, spirits and spirituality, and the culture around craft brewing.

Brewing Scholars 9 The multiple credentials and training offered by the joint “In a constrained ecosystem, there’s only so much potable programs will prepare students for an industry that has a variety water and arable land to go around and that means a fixed of roles to fill, and that’s why the programs were designed to be amount of barley, a fixed amount of hops,” Modic says. strongly interdisciplinary. Meanwhile, the global population continues to rise and climate “That comes out of conversations with industry,” Martini says. change has influenced the predictability and seasonality of climatic events, making the natural resources needed to brew “For most who go into this field, they’ll be going to places beer “potentially scarcer and more expensive,” he says. where they will be asked to do multiple different things. A vast majority of the craft brewing As a member of the national Brewers Association’s committee market is very small operations on sustainability, Modic has a bird’s eye view of the issues with fewer than 50 employees for facing the industry. The committee is charged with disseminating “For a lot of folks sure, a lot of them fewer than 25.” information and best practices in sustainability to the craft brewing community. in craft brewing, Those employed by a brewery may (sustainability) be part of the brewing operation. “We talk about the collaborative efforts between breweries to becomes part of They may be involved in sales become more sustainable. Through that, I’ve also found that and marketing. They may work in every brewery is unique enough in its location and operation that their identity, part a malt house or for a distribution those solutions are not always cookie cutter. The regulations on of their brand, business. net metering are different in Michigan than they are going to be in California. that they’re about Graduates, particularly those local ingredients, who achieve the science-oriented “The availability of water in Fort Collins, Colorado, is totally bachelor’s degree, may be tapped different from Michigan. My proximity to a rail car is different that they’re about to be a brewery’s sustainability than it might be in downtown Cleveland. Your city might have community and for a expert. industrial composting as a city-provided alternative. Whereas, here, I need to find inventive compost solutions for our waste lot of them, it begins Considering expense and the biomass so that it doesn’t go to a landfill,” he says. with environmental high toll commercial beer making sustainability— has on natural resources, serious Those are the kind of issues an individual trained in sustainability attention is being given to studies may tackle for a brewing operation. energy, water, local sustainability as the industry and Modic, also a member of the WMU-KVCC brewing education sourcing, and those individual breweries continue to advisory group, says that while most smaller volume craft expand. kind of things.” breweries don’t have a position solely dedicated to sustainability, “For a lot of folks in craft brewing, it may be part of someone’s job responsibilities, and increasingly (sustainability) becomes part so as the industry and individual breweries mature. of their identity, part of their “As the cost of natural resources grow, small breweries will brand, that they’re about local ingredients, that they’re about look to incorporate a sustainability role at an earlier point in their community and for a lot of them, it begins with environmental growth curves in the future because of the savings associated sustainability—energy, water, local sourcing, and those kind of with the efficiencies,” he says. things,” Martini says. “I think having a specialty in sustainability will make you a more attractive hire as a brewer.” n Sustainability For more information on WMU’s sustainable brewing program, Instituting sustainable practices speaks to a company’s visit wmich.edu/arts-sciences/brewing. commitment to environmental stewardship, but also to its own For more on KVCC’s program, visit kvcc.edu. long-term viability. Bell’s Brewery Inc. employs a full-time sustainability specialist. At Bell’s, Walker Modic’s job is to ensure the company’s operations are efficient in water and energy consumption, waste management and recycling, among other areas.

10 wmich.edu/magazine Dr. Andre Venter, director of the WMU hops analysis laboratory, displays two hop cones.

WMU hops analysis lab pioneering new testing technique

WMU chemist who established one of the first hops as far afield as New York State, Ohio and British Columbia, A analysis labs in Michigan is developing new methods to test Canada,” he says. hops using mass spectrometry. Venter began researching the use of mass spectrometry as an The female flowers of the hop plant provide a key flavoring innovative method for analyzing hops, believing the technique would ingredient in beer. Laboratory analysis of hops is a means of provide the hops grower and beer brewers with greater value. quality control for farmers and brewers. Mass spectrometry is an analytical chemistry technique that “The hops quality control for hops growers and processors also identifies and quantifies the molecules in a given substance by supports the mission of my research program to simplify and counting ions with a particular molecular weight. make analytical methods more sustainable,” says Dr. Andre Compared to standard methodology for testing hops, he says Venter, founder of the hops analysis laboratory and an associate that mass spectrometry has several advantages. It analyzes hop professor of chemistry who specializes in analytical chemistry and samples more quickly, saving time and money. The technique also researches ionization mechanisms in mass spectrometry. provides more data about a sample, such as oxidation level, an Different varieties of hops impart different levels of bitterness and indicator of freshness, and can be used to verify the identity of a aromas to beer. hop variety. Venter’s research group examines the bittering acids, essential “It’s also a greener process because it doesn’t require as oils and other basic elements of the herb to determine quality. much use of solvents and reduces the cost of disposing waste Brewers need to know the values of these chemical compounds chemicals,” he says. to design tasty and reproducible recipes. Venter is working with the American Society of Brewing Chemists About three years ago, after learning about the need for a hops to help validate this method for testing hops. Students in his testing facility in the state of Michigan, Venter sought and won research group also are developing new mass spectrometry seed funding from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and methods to analyze the finished product in brewing—beer—as Rural Development and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to a quality control measure, gauging, for example, International establish the laboratory at WMU. Bitterness Units, alcohol content and diacetyl levels. n Since founding the lab, ”in addition to providing services to the Michigan hops and brewing industries, we have analyzed samples

Hops Lab 11 Life & Breath Students invent potentially life-saving, low-cost device to treat critically ill infants in developing nations

12 wmich.edu/magazine Their experiences abroad may be a foreshadowing of their future careers. They envision treating patients as doctors one day, but also want to design medical equipment specifically for poorly resourced medical centers. Already, they’ve witnessed the challenge of providing patient care in settings that lack adequate funding, are not flush with medical staff and that don’t have sophisticated equipment. And they’ve come to recognize that, aside from the expense of equipment, health care practices and tools that work well in the states, for instance, may not be feasible or suitable in the developing world. John is U.S. born, but lived in Nepal for about 10 years where his father, a pediatrician, and his mother, an engineer, worked at the Barnett United Mission Hospital in Tansen, some 200 miles west of Kathmandu. The family resettled in the states when John was 16, but they wo WMU undergraduates have designed a respiration have continued to return to Tansen during summers. Tsupport device that could be life saving for premature babies born in parts of the world where access to expensive “I think it’s more rewarding to practice medicine there because medical equipment may be limited. there’s just a huge need; you end up doing much more,” says John, a mechanical engineering and biomedical sciences major. Babies born preterm sometimes have underdeveloped lungs and need some degree of respiratory life support. While U.S. As a pediatrician in the states, his father was one of many in his hospitals typically have advanced respiratory treatment tools, community. that’s not always true in other parts of the world. “But when my dad was in (the Nepalese hospital), he was the WMU seniors Stephen John and Joseph Barnett teamed up only pediatrician. You can see this really tangible benefit. People to develop a mechanism to expand treatment options in less who would not have otherwise received care are treated.” well-resourced areas. John served in the Tansen hospital last summer repairing Both of these premed students have a strong interest in medical medical equipment and installing software. He hopes to care and share similar backgrounds working in underserved continue that work this summer before he begins medical communities in economically disadvantaged countries. school at the University of Michigan in August. Pending approval by institutional review boards and the Nepal Though Barnett also plans to begin medical school in the near Health Research Council, the device, which carries a provisional future, growing up, he says he had no desire to become a doctor. patent, could be tested at two teaching hospitals in Nepal as “But after seeing the intense poverty and need for medical care soon as this summer. in Honduras, India and other countries, I realized medicine was “Our primary goal is to equip medical centers in developing something meaningful that I could do with my life,” he says. countries to deliver more comprehensive care for neonates For the past five years, the Oklahoma native has worked at a struggling with Respiratory Distress Syndrome, ultimately saving rural hospital in Colon, Honduras. At Hospital Loma de Luz, he’s lives,” Barnett says. repaired malfunctioning biomedical equipment, helped medical “We want it to have a broad impact. (The device is) inexpensive staff in daily outpatient clinics and tutored early elementary to manufacture and that’s the goal—to deliver it at a very, very students at a local school. low cost to regions of Africa, Nepal, India, Asia—wherever “Right now, neither of us are doctors, but through our medical care is hard to access.” experiences we’ve cared for people. It is rewarding work,” Barnett says. After completing his degree in biomedical sciences at WMU this Serving the medically underserved summer, he plans to spend a year in Honduras before beginning Though young men, these two friends have spent many years med school. volunteering in and around mission hospitals in places where Continued on page 29 infant mortality rates are high—John in Nepal and Barnett in Honduras.

Life & Breath 13 Medallion Scholars & Middle Schoolers

Sixth-grader Breonna Harris and Medallion Scholar Ana Morales high-five during a recent after-school session.

14 wmich.edu/magazine “As recipients of the Medallion Scholarship we are well aware of At times 11-year-old Breonna Harris skipped her homework if the benefits of a support system,” says biological sciences major it appeared to be challenging, and she wouldn’t seek extra help Marine Bolliet. from teachers, fearing teasing from her peers. “Realizing that this is not a reality for all middle schools, we “I would beat myself up because I couldn’t get the work done. hope to be part of the support system for local students.” I was used to throwing it down and saying, ‘This is too hard for The FLOK project partners one to two sixth-graders at Milwood me!’ I didn’t even try it. I used to judge it by looking at it,” admits with a Medallion Scholar under the auspices of Communities In the sixth-grader. Schools, an organization that works within the Kalamazoo city This was before a group of accomplished WMU students took school system to bring together hundreds of volunteers and it upon themselves to form relationships with organizations to provide services to K-12 students Breonna and other sixth-graders at Milwood A group of before, during or after class. Magnet School in Kalamazoo. During the WMU academic year, 18 Medallion Tamiko Garrett has seen a change in the middle Medallion mentors from various disciplines help their young schoolers who meet weekly after school with the charges with schoolwork and organizational skills, WMU students. Scholars has discuss weekly activities and special interests, give advice regarding obstacles the younger students “Some of the kids are reluctant to do homework. created a may be facing, and answer questions regarding Now they are so excited. They know their Scholar high school, college and future opportunities. is going to come work with them,” says Garrett, mentoring an after-school coordinator with Communities In program to Breonna, who has been tutored by Medallion Schools of Kalamazoo. Scholars Narisse Martin and Ana Morales, says the enhance the special attention is a self-esteem booster for the “Just seeing the relationships being formed with sixth-graders—and it’s fun. the children has been awesome.” academic “Once my mentors told me that I could get The sixth-graders and university students will readiness and through my homework and encouraged me to do work together each week of the WMU academic it, I started bringing in my homework, finishing year for the next three years. success of my work and getting good grades on it because I The hope is that the tutoring—and the relational actually tried it and got it done,” she says. connections with the older students—leads to middle school The plan to sustain FLOK over the next three greater academic success among the middle students. years with the same students provides continuity schoolers. The WMU students are part of the that “will help to build a lasting impact that goes proverbial village, including parents, teachers and beyond the semester report card,” says Kelly others, rallying around the youngsters. Brandon, a Medallion Scholar who studies graphic design. There’s a lot at stake. “Our goal is to instill confidence in these young students so that Established in 2005, a program called the Kalamazoo Promise they can enter high school with positive momentum,” she says. provides students in the Kalamazoo Public Schools with the In addition to visiting Milwood each week, Medallion Scholars opportunity to pursue higher education at any Michigan public have received an Inspired Learning grant through the Learning university or one of 15 private colleges with up to a 100 percent Network of Greater Kalamazoo that will enable the scholars to scholarship to cover their tuition and fees. host the Milwood students on WMU’s campus for a number of Despite this incredible opportunity available to graduates of KPS, social, cultural and educational activities. some students are not reaching their highest academic potential. “We want to form a social bond with these students,” says Because of this, WMU’s 2013 class of Medallion Scholars Benjamin Hudy-Velasco, an aerospace engineering major. created FLOK, the Future Leaders of Kalamazoo mentoring Consistently exposing the youngsters to college students program, seeking to boost the academic readiness and success and a college environment, “we hope will help them envision of the students they mentor and tutor. themselves as students at a university,” he adds. Medallion Scholars, recipients of WMU’s highest merit- Garrett, the after-school coordinator, goes even further than that. based award, are some of the University’s best and brightest undergraduates. “I’m pretty sure that in the future, we’re going to have students from Milwood actually be Medallion Scholars,” she says. n

Medallion Scholars 15 16 wmich.edu/magazine Set in the center of main campus, Sangren Hall is one of WMU’s most impressive structures for its beauty, function and sustainability. In 2014, it earned a LEED Gold award, the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest certi- fication for “green” features. Home to the College of Education and Human Development and the Department of Sociology, it is among the University’s most heavily used classroom buildings.

17 Over the past 15 years, cultural anthropologist Dr. Kristina Wirtz has traveled to Cuba to live for short stints, studying everyday life and culture there. Religion, discourse, and race and national identity are some of her scholarly interests. Wirtz released her latest book, “Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History,” just last year. As an academic researcher, the WMU associate professor falls within the limited categories of Americans officially allowed to travel to Cuba despite a decades-long U.S. policy banning most U.S. citizens from stepping foot in the Wirtz communist state. As an anthropologist, she’s long had a fascination with seeing things that are off the beaten path. “Our way of doing research is going to the place that we’re Inside Cuba interested in studying,” she says. “We try to stay with ordinary people, and to the extent possible, “I can see it in the children of my friends who were hitting their live life in the way of the community that we are studying. In my growth spurts in the early 1990s. They are substantially shorter many trips to Cuba, I stay in someone’s home.” than their siblings who are few years older than them or a few Thus, at least among most Americans, Wirtz has an unusually years younger than them.” up-close view and contemporary knowledge of a place and Seeking a new economic path, Cuba developed closer ties with people officially estranged from the United States since 1961. the European Union and other countries in Latin America. And it But it now appears that more Americans will be able to has moved full bore into a tourism economy, an enterprise that experience the Caribbean’s largest island for themselves as the attracts visitors from all over the world. Obama administration has recently moved to begin normalizing “There are tons of European, Canadian and Latin American relations with Cuba. tourists,” Wirtz says. “And people from as far away as Japan and Under new rules, instead of needing a specific license or China. Basically, everyone but Americans go to Cuba.” advanced approval from the U.S. government to travel, Americans Many visitors stay in resorts or major hotels; others get a feel for wishing to visit Cuba can do so on a general license. Authorized Cuban life by spending their vacation in licensed private homes. travel, however, still must be predicated on one of the 12 existing categories, including humanitarian work, educational activity or These economic inroads in tourism have garnered the country journalistic endeavors. revenue to be sure, but Cuba remains a place of scarce resources and intriguing incongruities. In Cuba, Wirtz has come to know a country where residents are resilient and resourceful, but also constantly subject to change and challenges from internal and external forces Cuba’s contradictions beyond their control. While poverty is a pervasive feature of this socialist-structured The island nation was devastated following the withdrawal of system, the island nation also has a lower infant mortality Soviet subsidies that shored up its economy for so long. rate than the United States and is on par with the U.S. in life “During the 1990s people were going hungry in Cuba. There were expectancy. It also dedicates a large percentage of its gross people who, because of vitamin A deficiency, lost their sight. You domestic product to education. can see it in a whole generation,” Wirtz says. “Cubans, overall, are very well educated. They have very high literacy rates. Schooling through university is free,” says Wirtz,

18 wmich.edu/magazine “When you live in a society of scarcity, you become resourceful if you’re going to survive …Ration cards have been cut more and more. A family might be able to squeeze two weeks of meager basics out of those ration cards. So basically you still have to eat. So, everything else you need you have to get in some other fashion,” Wirtz says. “People have a sensibility that is much like Depression-era Americans. It’s the idea that everything can be reused. You never throw away anything.” One example is those famous old American cars on Cuba’s roads. Wirtz says, “open the hood, and everything has been replaced and jury-rigged with whatever Lada and Toyota parts people can scavenge.” And Cubans with cars are the lucky few. It’s still early days, but Cuba may be on the cusp of more significant change as U.S. policy toward the country is undergoing a historic shift. In December, President Barack Obama announced plans to begin normalizing relations with the Cuban government, some 54 years after the U.S. completely severed ties with it in the wake of then- leader Fidel Castro’s trade accord with the Soviet Union. Obama says that in the intervening decades, isolation has failed Inside Cuba to “accomplish our objective of empowering Cubans to build an open and democratic country.” adding that she’s found that island residents are proud of this In addition to making it easier for Americans to travel to this nation social “safety net.” located just 90 miles from the U.S. southern border, diplomatic “It’s the idea that we don’t have a lot, but we share what we have restoration plans include reviewing Cuba’s designation as a state and no one gets excluded from the table. That kind of discourse is sponsor of terrorism and re-establishing an embassy in Havana. very important to people.” A trade embargo, however, remains firmly in place; only an act of “That said, in the U.S., we have the Bill of Rights. We have Congress can change that. freedom of speech, freedom of assembly. Cuba does not have While some view this new direction as “long overdue,” others those protections… You have to be careful because you may argue that the U.S. is getting nothing in return for renewing ties suddenly find that things you want to accomplish officially with a communist state where basic rights that Americans enjoy become impossible.” are still denied to Cubans. The international press has characterized the country as being in “That said, it’s fair to say that Cubans know much more about an era of social and economic reform. the U.S. than Americans do about Cuba. In part this is because And there are a number of reforms, Wirtz says, ”but if you look so many Cubans have ties to Cuban-American family members closely at those reforms, a lot of it is legalizing what has already and so much exposure to American media and pop culture,” been occurring informally.” Wirtz says. This means that what many citizens did anyway “underground” As for what Cuba’s longer-term future holds, the researcher has is now officially allowed, from owning and using a cell phone to found that her colleagues in Latin American studies—including­ buying or selling a home or vehicle. other anthropologists, political scientists and economists—are reluctant to speculate. “What has been huge is lifting the restrictions on Cuban travel,” Wirtz says. “For Cubans to not have to go through so many steps, “Even with people on the ground (in Cuba) who I trust and trust so much expense, so many sponsorships to travel is huge.” me and who I’ve known for 15 years, getting a pulse from them on what they want for their future is really hard,” she says. Though Cuba remains a place where the government tightly controls what the citizenry can and cannot do, people also “Cubans are very patriotic and very aware of their history as cleverly negotiate around regulations and lean on one another a small island with a very powerful neighbor. They also will be to endure through economic austerity that includes rationing of excited to see renewed ties with Americans.” n food and goods.

Inside Cuba 19 the calm captain of Detroit Tigers

He missed out on Bronco baseball, but that led to MLB Don’t let that calm demeanor two trips to baseball’s biggest dance. The first of the two more front-office stardom emanating from the immaculately recent trips, in 2006, earned Dombrowski ’s suited man with silver-streaked hair Executive of the Year honors and came just three years after the slouched in a low swivel chair mislead you. Tigers set a record in futility in 2003, losing more games than any team—ever. There is a drive hidden beneath the surface—a drive to win, to win it all, now. So how did he do it? Meet Dave Dombrowski, the lanky architect of the Detroit “One of our primary goals when we first started internally, was Tigers’ sudden and dramatic turnaround. Under his steady to try to change the mindset of people on why they did not want hand, pride has been restored to the old-English D, the Tigers’ to play for the Detroit Tigers to why they would want to play for famous insignia worn by the likes of , , Hank the Detroit Tigers, where free-agent players really want to play Greenberg, and now Miguel Cabrera, Justin here and players want to sign here,” Dombrowski says in his Verlander and . relaxed, Chicago-inflected voice. But one last piece of the puzzle remains to put an exclamation “I think we’ve been able to accomplish that collectively, to make mark on the Tigers’ comeback. this an organization that is well-respected and people want to play here.” A world championship. Dombrowski says it was a building process that started, from After two trips to the in recent years, the Tigers a player perspective, with signing future Hall of Fame have fallen short of the ultimate goal. But Dombrowski, a 1979 graduate of WMU’s accounting program, is determined to change that in his characteristic low-key, but determined way. Dombrowski steers the ship of the Tigers’ fortunes from behind a sturdy, wooden desk in his paneled office suite on the second floor of . It is from here that he pulls the trigger on sometimes landmark trades and huge contracts for free agents he hopes will bring baseball’s ultimate prize back to the Motor City. Dombrowski has served as the top Tiger (next to owner ) since being named team president in November 2001 and assuming the role of general manager and CEO in April 2002. The team’s rise has been meteoric and includes four straight Division crowns in addition to those Comerica Park

20 wmich.edu/magazine Dombrowski on his management style “If you’re in charge of an organization, you lead by example. So you work hard, you communicate well, you keep people involved, you’re not afraid to make a tough decision, you keep abreast of everything that’s taking place, you hire good people and let them grow.”

Pudge Rodriguez. Others followed, including big-name players Magglio Ordoñez, Carlos Guillen and finally Cabrera. Bringing in to manage the team added another key element. Leyland and Dombrowski had worked together to bring a world championship to the Florida Marlins in 1997, marking the shortest time— after just five seasons in existence— that an expansion club has won it all.

Bronco days To understand Dombrowski’s path into front office stardom, you have to go back to his youthful ambitions to land a spot on the Bronco baseball team. A would-be first baseman, he transferred to WMU from Cornell University after his freshman year. It was too late to try out for the Bronco team as a sophomore, but Dombrowski gave it a shot his junior year as a walk-on tryout. Then- Fred Decker stamped his front office destiny by not giving him a spot on the team. “I always joke with coach because he was the one who actually gave me the best shot at my career and getting started,” Dombrowski recalls, “because it was like, once that happened, it was OK, time to focus on the front office. So he made one of the wisest decisions at that time and the one that helped me the most.”

Dave Dombrowski 21 Dombrowski and Decker reconnected years later and remain relationship with of the . friends to this day. Dombrowski, who is from Chicago’s south suburbs, met Hemond and interviewed him. Hemond invited him to stay for Dombrowski pretty much always knew what he wanted to the game and recommended that the best way to break into be. In eighth grade, a fellow student wrote a paper, asking students what they wanted to become. The most popular answers were doctor, lawyer and the like. Dombrowski, a young sports nut who was always intrigued by box scores, transactions and putting teams together, answered “general manager of a team.” “She said, ‘Come on, Dave. Give me something that’s realistic,’ “ Dombrowski remembers. “I said, ‘No. That’s what I really want to do.’ “ Things began to take shape when Dombrowski became a student at the WMU Lee Honors College. He had to choose a topic for his honors thesis and decided to study the financials of major league baseball operations. There was only one problem. Dombrowski got permission Tigers celebrate for his study, but found it nearly impossible to get information from baseball teams, which were the business was to go to the then mostly privately owned. Baseball Winter Meetings. He On Tiger fans also told him to get an accounting So he decided to study baseball general managers and the degree. “Michigan is a great sports evolution of the job over time. And that led to forging a state. Tiger fans are extremely “By him telling me that, I passionate. We’ve drawn 3 went full bore into that area,” million fans numerous times Dombrowski says. He also flew to over the past few years, and the Winter Meetings in Honolulu, they’re passionate all over Hawaii, his senior year. He saw the country.” Hemond there. On Max Scherzer signing with the “It just so happened that the Washington Nationals White Sox had a job available,” Dombrowski says. “Somebody “It was a business decision. A player has the right to had just left.” be a free agent. We thought we made a real good shot It was an entry-level position that paid $7,000. Dombrowski, at trying to sign him last year and it just didn’t work following his father’s advice, asked for $8,000 and got the job. out. We’re grateful for what he did for the franchise. Dombrowski was to have graduated in April 1978. But the job He pitched great for us.” offer was a now-or-never proposition. He was four courses short of graduation. Two were independent study courses he could complete on his own. “Two were accounting courses, and Western was very nice and granted me permission to take the courses in the Chicago-land area,” Dombrowski says. “So I got my degree in spring of 1979.”

22 wmich.edu/magazine Dombrowski remembers his time at WMU fondly. He lived Then it was on to the Florida Marlins, where Dombrowski stayed in Ellsworth Hall, which was then a dormitory. A transfer for 10 years and got his first World Series title. He’s determined student, he quickly felt at home. it won’t be his last. “I have fantastic memories of Western,” he says. “I didn’t So how are the Tigers’ chances for a world championship know anybody when I went there. So I ended up on the this year? second floor. And it just so happens that, on that same “I’m confident we have a good club,” he says, his voice rising floor, to this day, were some of my best friends. We’re still a notch. “And I’m confident that we have a chance to do that. in touch.” There have been a few times where we’ve been so close. One His best friend from college would become the godfather break here or one break there. We just haven’t gotten it done. of his two children. Others remain close more than three But we have a very good team this year.” decades later. A lot of it depends on the team staying healthy, he says. The “We had a great time, got a good education and made Tigers got a break when they found out that tremendous friendships—things that you cherish for Victor Martinez, after suffering another knee injury, could still your whole life.” participate in spring training and was ready to play by opening day. Dombrowski also remembers WMU professors, who One thing is for sure—Dombrowski is glad to be with the Tigers encouraged his dream of entering baseball management, and to be working for an owner like Mike Ilitch. even though the idea of running a Major League Baseball “He’s been great,” Dombrowski says. “He’s driven to win. He operation might have seemed next to impossible. treats you well. It’s a situation where we’ve been able to build “The business school and the honors college were the franchise back. He’s very aggressive and he gives you tremendous,” Dombrowski says. “They helped me to get On Miguel my first job. My senior year, Cabrera’s injuries when I went to the Winter Meetings, was finals week. “In some ways, it’s My professors worked with miraculous that he could me, and I took some exams even play. If he’s cleared 100 early and some late, and they percent, I look for him to put guided me toward what I up his normal big numbers. needed to do.” He had a very good year last year. But for him, people One of those professors was look at it and say he was Dr. David Rozelle, professor down a little bit last year. emeritus of accounting. But he still led the league in “Dave was an individual who doubles and was among the knew what he wanted to do,” leaders in home runs and Rozelle says. “That’s what RBIs and batting average.” struck me about him. From a pretty early age, he knew he was going to make his career and life in baseball.” Still, it seemed like an overwhelming long shot that Dombrowski would end up becoming president, CEO and the resources to win. He allows you to be in a position to be general manager of one of just 30 major league teams, aggressive and make things happen.” Rozelle adds. So many students start out with big dreams, Dombrowski says he doesn’t have a typical day. He’s an early but get sidetracked. riser and likes to get to the ballpark early, a lot of time arriving “I never dreamed he would be as successful as he is,” home at 11 or 11:30 that night. But every day is different, Rozelle says. “Certainly he had the determination to be that especially at different times of the season and in the off-season. successful, and that’s been a big part of his career.” “I think that’s one of the reasons that makes the job so After working in an entry-level capacity for the White Sox, interesting,” he says. “If you’re working in baseball nowadays, Dombrowski landed a job with the Expos, staying it’s almost 365 days a year and you’re on call all the time. So you there five years and working his way up from being in charge better really love what you’re doing.” of the team’s minor league system to general manager for And he does. n the first time, becoming the youngest-then GM in baseball.

Dave Dombrowski 23 In Print: WMU Authors

Unraveling idioms: ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way?’ When a turn of phrase becomes an Achilles heel for non-native speakers

Many students have crammed for a quiz or is peppered throughout with exam by “burning the midnight oil” or “burning practical classroom material. the candle at both ends.” “Cat Got Your Tongue” takes But that doesn’t mean non-native speakers of a global view. Randolph and English aren’t “thrown for a loop” when they hear McPherron surveyed students those two expressions or that their instructors and teachers from several are “primed and ready” to clear up their possible countries. The two heavily confusion. incorporated that feedback into the second half of the book, providing different perspectives on what does and doesn’t work when teaching idioms as well as which idioms are harder and easier to teach. There’s also a 50-page chapter just on activities and lesson plans from teachers in Australia, Canada, China, Myanmar and other countries. The book reflects Randolph and McPherron’s belief that teaching idioms is necessary and is proper fodder for academic researchers, a belief that’s contested by some scholars. “You don’t have to say anything to the students. They know how important idioms are and they want to learn them,” Randolph says. “Paul and I have always taught idioms. That’s why we were so happy when we got the results from the surveys. A lot of teachers do believe that idioms are important.” Randolph says those who doubt their importance usually offer three main reasons: the expressions are used primarily in informal The situation could change in time, though, with the aid of speech, rarely uttered or written in academia, and don’t stay in books such as one penned by Patrick T. Randolph, a faculty vogue long. specialist in WMU’s Center for English Language and Culture for International Students, and Dr. Paul McPherron, coordinator of the “(McPherron) and I thought, well, cat’s got your tongue—that undergraduate English as a second language program at Hunter dates back to the 1800s,” Randolph says. “Spill the beans—the College of the City University of New York. Greeks used that in their voting system, so if you spilled the beans I guess people knew who was going to be elected.” Their book, “Cat Got Your Tongue?,” was released last year by TESOL Press and is now a best-seller. TESOL International In terms of idiom usage in academia, he notes that he’s found Association accepted it for publication after inviting scholars from idioms in even highly technical neuroscience articles, although around the world to submit proposals for idiom books that are these informal expressions usually turn up in case studies, teacher-friendly and founded in research-based classroom practices. cited examples and the like. But Randolph adds that he often hears idioms being used in classes. In one instance, he The book is unusual in that it doesn’t just explore the theoretical recalls attending a formal, 50-minute lecture on archaeology and pedagogical research, or just examine how to teach idioms at Michigan State University and counting 142 single and repeated and figurative language. It does both. The text also includes uses of idioms. neuroscience related to the brain and idiom acquisition, and

24 wmich.edu/magazine “If one of our students is sitting in a lecture and Die Grammatik der Invisible Traffic somebody’s talking about the government ‘falling Männer (The Grammar back on’ some kind of a policy. The student’s (One Wet Shoe of Men) Publishing, 2014) thinking, ‘fall back on what?’ It throws them, so they fixate on that,” Randolph says. (Klöpfer & Meyer, 2014) By Deborah Ann Percy By Dr. Peter Blickle “Maybe it’s only for 10 seconds, but now that’s 10 The stories in this seconds of the lecture that they’ve totally missed. Written in German, this novel collection of Their level (of English) can be very good, but so explores the emotions of “desperate and much gets lost. The instructor says, ‘In this case, men who face their fears, but gorgeous tales” the policymakers seem to be barking up the wrong still find it difficult to express are set in southwest tree,’ and again, that’s going to throw them.” themselves in words, in deeds and in gestures. Readers will Michigan. The To help make that point, “Cat Got Your Tongue?” find in this work the characters are includes an appendix with dozens of examples self-absorbed love of a mostly decent of idioms. The list is divided into figurative secret service agent, middle-class ones—expressions that are relatively hard for the the scared love of folks who abandon those uninitiated to decipher—such as “burning the a prostate patient they love and are in turn candle at both ends” and “head over heels,” and and a writer’s abandoned—husbands vanish transparent ones—expressions that non-native narcissistic love. at the corner grocery, wives disappear into momentary speakers might be able to interpret correctly—such Blickle is a affairs and children swim as “burning the midnight oil” and “spread oneself professor of willfully far from shore, too thin.” German in the inspiring despair. WMU Department of World Languages and Literatures, Percy earned her Master of with a joint appointment as Fine Arts degree from WMU a professor of gender and in 1987. n women’s studies. n

Raising Girls in Bohemia: Meditations of an American Father: A Memoir in Essays (Three Rooms Press, 2014) By Richard Katrovas In this memoir, Richard Katrovas chronicles his life as a father of three Czech-American daughters. While Other idioms are divided into tri-part phrasal verbs, tracing what fatherhood has taught him such as “come up with” and “come up on”; bi-part about the world, Katrovas delves into a phrasal verbs, such as “look into” and “run into”; range of intricately related, yet far-flung proverbs and sayings, such as “it’s a small world” subjects including fine dining, sexual and “let the cat out of the bag”; and idiomatic epithets, gender identity, racism, poetry greetings, such as “what’s up” and “what’s and education, tracing “the contours of his ignorance” cooking.” about all things. He unveils what it means to be an American and to be a man, and especially what it means to be a father The appendix ends by listing the most difficult of three daughters, born in Prague, in what we can only hope idioms to learn, as submitted by those who is the twilight of patriarchy. responded to Randolph and McPherron’s multi- country survey. Among the students’ top picks Katrovas is a professor of English and the founding director were “red herring,” “dog days,” “the bottom line” of WMU’s Prague Summer Program. n and “pull something off.” The teachers offered expressions including “in your face,” “run for office,” “tip of the iceberg” and “where there’s a will, there’s a way.” n

DigitizingIn Print History 25 College by College

Graduate College College of Arts and Sciences Two professors named 2015 faculty fellows Demand gives rise to new data science degree Drs. Julie Apker and Christine Browning have The ever-increasing need to analyze large data sets permeates industry, marketing, science, been selected as Graduate College Faculty medicine, environmental studies and many other realms, and consequently increases the need Fellows for 2015. for data science experts able to help decision makers effectively use such data. Now in its third In light of the demand for this expertise, beginning ”Data science has been year, the program this fall, the departments of statistics and computer provides WMU science are jointly offering a Bachelor of Science identified by many faculty members degree in data science, a new interdisciplinary sources as an area now with an opportunity undergraduate major. having a critical need for to advance It’s one of the first data science majors in the nation. professionally in qualified personnel.” campus leadership Students in the program will acquire the skill set —Dr. Elise de Doncker, as well as needed to work with “big data”—understanding computer science professor make important computer hardware and network performance, learning methods of accessing, reducing and storing big data, and also statistical methods for Apker contributions to graduate education. exploring, visualizing and analyzing big data. Apker, associate “Data science has been identified by many sources as an area now having a critical need for professor of qualified personnel,” says Dr. Elise de Doncker, a computer science professor, who with communication, was Dr. John Kapenga from computer science, and Dr. Hyunkeun Cho and Dr. Joseph McKean from named a fellow in statistics, serves on the committee overseeing the new degree. 2014 and continues “We anticipate associated research in DataSci at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.” n in that role in 2015, focusing on student and faculty engagement and success. College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Browning Four hundred pounds of concrete—and it floats She has been working on producing an online orientation In April, engineering students competed and took third place overall at the annual American for graduate students and organizing several Society of Civil Engineers North Central Regional Competition for best design of a canoe that is professional and personal development events both concrete and floats. for students. She also will focus on training This year’s Concrete Canoe team completed casting using 400 pounds of two different concrete opportunities for new mentors and graduate mixes and, proving this group’s efficiency, there was only a handful of concrete leftover. directors. Senior Connor Tierney is this Browning, professor of mathematics, will year’s team captain. He says focus on data collection, environmental that one of his greatest scanning and benchmarking peer institutions. challenges leading the team is Her work will help the Graduate College as it to “get the freshman pumped intensifies its marketing efforts. n up so they will want to come back next year.” “You put in all the time and effort and you don’t see the fruits of your labor until the day of competition, where you get to represent WMU’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences—that’s the motivator.” Using his canoes on a local lake, Dave Diget of the Kalamazoo Canoe and Kayak Club, has helped the team perfect their paddling skills for the past several years. Diget works with the team on paddling technique, teaching them how to make crisp turns and efficient strokes. Nine schools in all, including the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Michigan Tech, compete at the regional conference. n

26 wmich.edu/magazine Haworth College of Business The trip was purposefully designed to College of Aviation focus on corporate social responsibility Examining business in India Aviation hosts education initiative by integrating social work with business Seizing an opportunity perspectives. For the second consecutive year, the College to investigate the of Aviation was selected to host the Michigan “The insights of these two diverse groups evolving role of business Business Aviation Association and the West were invaluable to helping understand the in society in India, depth of the social challenges in India that a group of business business can help address,” Palmer says. students led by Dr. Tim Palmer, professor of During this short-term study abroad course, management, toured students toured one of India’s largest and parts of India with fastest growing cities, Bangalore (officially business and social work students and faculty known at Bengaluru); attended and from Christ University in India and Griffith participated in cultural events; and visited University in Australia, who teamed up on non-governmental organizations as well as not only the logistics of the trip but also the businesses to explore the many forces at curriculum. work in this expanding economy. “Our goal was to expose students to the Students toured a mix of large and small spectrum of social stratification across India, companies that are conducting business while giving them the opportunity to critically remaining mindful of the world around them. Michigan Business Aviation Association for the analyze the role of business in society,” They were also exposed to societal issues and promotion of their joint “Education Initiative.” Palmer says. learned about their influence on the business environment in India. n Through this initiative, officials from top companies and organizations involved in business aviation get to meet WMU students. Those connections often lead to scholarships College of Education and Lee Honors College and internships for students. Human Development Honors society recognized The event primarily drew aviation and College launches WMU’s first Ph.D. WMU’s chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta engineering students who were able to program offered outside the U.S. national honor society was honored network with leaders of the various flight The College of Education and Human as winner of the Registered Student departments from the some of the largest Development has established a doctoral Organization corporations in the United States that also program in educational leadership in the “Most Committed call Michigan home, including Amway, Bissell, Dominican Republic. to Service” Dow Chemical and Dow Corning, Steelcase, organization for Stryker and Whirlpool. The first class is a cohort of 30 students the month of who will go through the program together This year Gulfstream was the event sponsor November. over the next four years. This new doctoral and brought a G650 jet for students to degree program is the first WMU has The honor comes experience. The G650 is the biggest, fastest, offered in another nation. as a result of Alpha most luxurious, longest range and most Lambda Delta’s technologically advanced jet in their fleet. n As part of a unique collaboration between commitment to WMU and the country’s Ministry of Helms leadership and Education, Ministry of Higher Education dedication to the and the Universidad Iberoamericana, this WMU community. As an organization, ALD program is designed to prepare individuals celebrates the academic talent of first- to hold leadership and management roles year students. in K-12 or higher education. Anthony Helms, ALD adviser and honors It is offered in a hybrid-learning format college assistant director of advising, also was with teaching support from WMU faculty. recognized as RSO Adviser of the Month. The program also includes a study abroad component, in which the students will Cole Villalobos, ALD president since fall travel to WMU in June each year for three 2014, has been vigilant in his efforts to weeks of intensive study. make the honor society more visible and available on campus. He secured office This new program is expected to help the space for ALD in the student organization Dominican Republic build its infrastructure center and holds office hours weekdays to and human resource capacity. n accommodate the organization’s more than 2,000 members. n

College by College 27 College of Fine Arts Student wins patent for Student earns spot in upcoming international trombone competition speaking device WMU senior and trombone player Evan Clifton has been named a finalist in the Donald Yaxley Bass Trombone Competition and will travel to Valencia, Spain, in July to compete for a 2,000 Patent No. 20140287385 belongs to WMU euro gift certificate toward a new trombone at the 2015 International Trombone Festival. marketing student Daniel Floyd for his The honor is especially notable for a several reasons. The invention SpeechMasterPro, a device that competition ranged to age 25, which means the 21-year-old Clifton assists those with speech impediments, will compete against students who are likely much older from the as well as anyone else seeking to improve top conservatories in the world. their articulation and elocution. Other finalists and honorable mentions are impressive, with the The sophomore initiated the patent other two finalists coming from The Juilliard School in New York process two years ago. and the Rotterdam Conservatory in The Netherlands. In addition, Clifton was named the honorable mention selection in the bass “This patent validates the design of my trombone orchestral excerpt competition. product and my hard work to this point,” Floyd says. “It will also make it easier “While it’s exciting news for Evan, for the WMU trombone studio it also means that we have to speak with future influencers and had students named finalists in the most important international competition for student trombonists in the world 18 times over the past 11 years, with winners named six of the past supporters and grow my business.” eight years,” says Steve Wolfinbarger, a WMU professor of music and Clifton’s instructor. The WMU sophomore was born with a “It’s wonderful to see so many talented WMU students like Evan being showcased on an disorder that makes it difficult for him international stage.” n

College of Health and Human Services Grad student selected for addictions counselor fellowship Princilla Ursery, a student majoring in clinical mental health counseling and enrolled in the Specialty Program Alcohol and Drug Addiction graduate certification program, was selected for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program-Addictions Counselors. As part of the fellowship, Ursery will receive an $11,000 tuition stipend, and she must commit to a minimum of two years working with adolescents in transition following her graduation. Ursery is already busy serving communities of need. She currently works as a full-time Floyd residential care provider and crisis specialist, providing group therapy, medication management and treatment plans for clients to enunciate certain words and sounds. who struggle with suicidal ideation, mental “I firmly believe my He began developing the speech aid when he was in high school. Last year, he impairment and substance use. role… will be to help participated in WMU’s student business She also volunteers as a court-appointed provide transitional special advocate with the family division of accelerator, Starting Gate, to help take his Kalamazoo County’s Ninth Circuit Court. In youth and vulnerable business to the next level while his patent that role, she investigates, assesses and populations with a firm was pending. identifies resources for children assigned sense of empowerment Floyd’s device is of particular interest to to her, reporting their needs, wishes and those who use their voice for a living, outcomes to the court. over their life.” including voice-over artists. His company —Princilla Ursery, WMU student “My overall goal in working in the mental was recently featured in Voice Over Times as health field is to help transform the lives of a company to watch. individuals that are disenfranchised and marginalized, especially people of color, through advocacy,” says Ursery. “I firmly believe my role…will be to help provide transitional youth So far, Floyd has sold dozens of the and vulnerable populations with a firm sense of empowerment over their life.” speech aids, which can be purchased on speechmasterpro.com. Securing the patent Ursery will be formally recognized for earning the fellowship at a Minority Fellowship is a big step for Floyd’s company, as he Program meeting in May. n looks forward to growing his business by developing alternate distribution channels, such as retail outlets. n

28 wmich.edu/magazine Student Inventors continued from page 13

Engineering to help babies breathe The respiratory device the students teamed up to develop can be traced back to a conversation a few years ago. John, researching ideas for his Lee Honors College thesis and senior engineering design project, contacted Eric Cheng, the co-founder of Respiratory Therapists Without Borders. RTWB is a registered Canadian charity that exists to improve respiratory health through work with healthcare education partners worldwide. Cheng had worked with John’s father in Nepal to train hospital staff in the use of bubble CPAP—continuous positive airway pressure—therapy for treatment of newborns experiencing respiratory distress. Cheng expressed to John the need for an inexpensive device capable of administering non-invasive airway ventilation at two levels of pressure—oscillating between low and high—for premature infants with weak or underdeveloped lungs needing more than bubble CPAP could offer. But this dual-level treatment—non-invasive positive pressure ventilation or NIPPV—has traditionally required sophisticated equipment that is not readily available to rural areas, says Cheng, who’s been a respiratory therapist for seven years. He pitched the idea of a mechanism that would harvest the John excess “bubble energy” from a bubble CPAP setup to power NIPPV therapy. John devised the main design and brought Barnett on board Broad impact to further develop it. Together, they’ve focused on refining A year and a half ago, the students began developing their the device, working in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Gustafson, NIPPV solution in the kind of setting in which many innovative professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at WMU. tools have begun life—John’s basement. A “bubble” CPAP setup uses pressurized air supplied by a motor “We started out with ChapStick tubes and milk cartons,” and a fan, with one branch of tubing sending air to the patient Barnett says. and one branch submerged in a container of water or acetic acid. Since then, their design has gone through several iterations The depth of the submerged tubing determines the pressure and has greatly advanced from its earliest version. A Kalamazoo- delivered to the baby. Any excess pressure is bled off as exhaust area manufacturer contributed to their work by machining bubbles, hence the term “bubble” CPAP. prototype parts. The students’ version of NIPPV connects to an existing bubble The students are seeking additional grant support and have an CPAP setup and uses its exhaust to power a mechanism they ultimate goal of widely distributing their low-cost NIPPV, perhaps created to deliver alternating low and high air pressure to through the World Health Organization. support respiration, preventing lung collapse and recruiting alveoli, tiny air sacs in the lungs in which oxygen is exchanged. “All the design and testing done by Stephen and Joseph at Western Michigan University have produced staggering results “Ours (NIPPV device) is unique because it’s inexpensive and in a small amount of time,” Cheng marvels. powered by bubbles,” Barnett explains. “Because this will be an add-on to existing CPAP setups, this won’t require any “I’m proud of what they’ve done and excited about the additional energy.” implications this will have for the medical practice available in underdeveloped places.” n

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1961 - 2014 Doug Taylor, BS ‘77, has been hired as senior vice Cathy Orrico, BBA ‘83, is senior vice president of Craig E. King, BS ‘92, has been promoted to president Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital client services for Agero Inc., a provider of vehicle vice president of operations, performance structures Les Cochran, BS ‘61, MA ‘62, former president of LLC in Irvine, California. In this role, he will be actively and driver safety, security and information services in for Mayville Engineering Company Inc. based in Youngstown (Ohio) State University, has completed involved in multifamily and commercial real estate Medford, Massachusetts. Mayville, Wisconsin. his second novel in a three-book series. “Costly debt financing throughout the United States. Affair,” published by Bookstand Publishing, is about a Jeffrey M. Williams, BBA ‘83, has been tapped for W. Richard Laton, MS ‘92, PhD ‘97, was recently university president’s love and leadership skills. William D. Burke, BS ‘78, has joined Lebenthal the newly created role of vice president of enterprise honored by the National Ground Water Association Wealth Advisors as branch manager of its new office operations and engineering for Johnson Controls in for his outstanding contributions to the industry and Charles P. Klass, BA ‘62, has been honored with in Birmingham, Michigan. Milwaukee. the organization. He is an associate professor of the Gunner Nicholson Gold Medal Award by TAPPI, geological sciences for California State University an association for the pulp, paper, packaging and Ford A. Grifo, BBA ‘78, was presented “The CPA Dan Bitzer, MA ‘84, has been promoted to executive at Fullerton. converting industry. Klass is an adjunct professor at That Adds Up” award by michbusiness, a social media vice president and senior lender for First National Bank WMU and president of Klass Associates. community sponsored by the Michigan Business and of Michigan in its Kalamazoo office. (Martha) Annie Pruski, BS ‘92, is the new Professional Association. Grifo is the owner of Grifo theater director at Forest Hill Eastern High School in Davey and Nancy Willans, BBA ‘64 and TC & Company PLLC, an accounting firm based in Royal David Carmichael, MA ‘84, is the new archivist for Ada, Michigan. ‘62, respectively, were presented with the Als Ik Oak, Michigan. the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. Kan Award by The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Peter Scholten, BA ‘92, is the Charlevoix (Michigan) Lori Von Koenig, BM ‘84, MA ‘94, has been named Farms in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, for their Jed McCrumb, MSA ‘78, is senior vice president and High School ski coach. Band Director of the Year by the Michigan School Band involvement with the museum. They also director for Bison Financial Group in its Kalamazoo & Orchestra Association. She is the band director for Suzanne Faunce, BBA ‘93, was elected 37th District were presented with a key to the city. office. Lakeshore High School in Stevensville. Court Judge in Macomb County, Michigan. Charles F. Filice, BBA ‘65, has retired after 43 years James “Mick” Caba, MA ‘79, was inducted into Kim Loftus, BS ‘85, is the new vice president of Ricardo R. as a district court judge in Lansing, Michigan. He is one the Carlson High School Hall of Fame in Woodhaven, fund development and foundation executive director of the longest serving judges in the state and one of Michigan. He is the head football coach for Alfred Moore, BS for Heritage Community of Kalamazoo, a senior the youngest when he took office at age 27. State College in Alfred, New York. ‘93, is a police living center. commissioner Bill Gehman, BS ‘65, was recently inducted into Scott P. Carter, BS ‘79, is a service manager for for the Matthew J. McDade, BBA ‘87, MBA ‘90, is the Michigan’s Transportation Hall of Honor. He is one of RBR Maintenance Inc., an aircraft maintenance Detroit Police chief operating officer for Meyer C. Weiner Co., a just four aviation inductees in the hall of honor. corporation in Dallas. Department. commercial property development and management Gene A. Raltz, BA ‘68, is the president of Bristol Ronald Harbour, BBA ‘79, has been appointed company based in Portage, Michigan. Jeff Muck, University in Anaheim, California. to Lincoln Educational Services Corp.’s board of BS ‘93, is Anne Webster, BS ‘87, is the regional sales directors. Lincoln is a provider of diversified, career- the director , BS ‘69, has retired from a career in manager for the Great Lakes region of Certis USA, a Dean T. Brown oriented post-secondary education. of parks, intelligence and now lives in Virginia. manufacturer and distributor of biopesticide products recreation Frank Kiefer, BSM ‘79, has joined St. Vincent based in Columbia, Maryland. Webster works from and cultural John R. Kouris, BA ‘68, was recently inducted into Medical Group in Brazil as a physician assistant. Paw Paw, Michigan. Her territory covers Illinois, services for the Hammond (Indiana) High School Athletic Hall of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. Fame, where he played football and baseball. Jim Farnsworth, MS ‘80, received a 2015 Novi, Michigan. Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indiana Steve Zuiderveen, MBA ‘87, has been appointed Faunce Alex B. Lincoln, BA ‘68, is the new president of University College of Arts and Sciences. He is one of chief executive officer for Sunset Retirement Kelley Fenstermaker, an engineering consulting firm based the founders of Cobalt International Energy, a global Communities, serving the Michigan cities of Grand Annette in Lafayette, Louisiana. oil exploration company based in Houston. Rapids, Jenison and Grandville. (Keyton) Peatross, MA ‘94, PhD ‘11, is the superintendent of Saginaw (Michigan) Public Schools. Frank D. Willis, BBA ‘68, has retired after more Darnell Aaron Anthony, MPA ‘88, has retired after 38 years than 38 years as a probate judge in Van Buren County, Earley, as city manager of Bridgman, Michigan. Greg Wolters, MBA ‘94, has been promoted Michigan. MPA ‘81, to president of SCHOTT North America Inc., an Lisa Anspaugh, BBA ‘89, has joined the certified was named international manufacturer of specialty glass Constance Bannan Barnes, BA ‘71, MA ‘76, is public accounting firm James & Springgate PLC the new headquartered in Elmsford, New York. the author of the new book “6,000 Inmates in My in Kalamazoo. Backyard.” The nonfiction book, published by Kindle emergency Andrew Ingall, BS ‘95, MA ‘00, has been appointed Direct Publishing, details her father’s career as a manager of Rhonda DeLong, BS ‘89, MA ‘94, PhD ‘97, is to the board of trustees for St. Joseph Mercy Hospital prison warden. Detroit Public a professor of criminal justice at Siena Heights in Chelsea, Michigan. He is the superintendent of the Schools by University in Adrian, Michigan. Chelsea School District. Thomas R. Eurich, MBA ‘71, who writes under the Michigan Gov. pen name Richard Trevae, recently released a novel in . Dianna Langenburg, BS ‘90, MA ‘99, is the new Huilan Krenn, PhD ‘96, is the new director of his Dalton Crusoe series titled “The Rising Sedition,” vice president for talent and human resources for the evaluation for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle published by Treline Publishing. Tim W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. Creek, Michigan. Eggleston, Suzanne Nemeth, BS ‘90, is a senior interior Michael W. Lewis, BBA ‘71, has been appointed to BS ‘81, MPA Alan Maciag, BS ‘96, is the new police chief for designer for Byce & Associates Inc., an engineering Urban Partnership Bank board of directors in Chicago. ‘04, is the new Wayne, Michigan. and architectural firm in Kalamazoo. Gene Rozyla, BBA ‘71, has retired after 22 years at Earley city manager Robert Ridgeway, MA ‘97, is the new Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. His of Tipp City, Tim Rarick, BBA ‘90, is vice president for strategic superintendent of the Harper Creek Community most recent position was sponsored research manager Ohio. client business development for Broadspire, a third- Schools in Battle Creek, Michigan. party administrator of workers compensation claims, in the Office of Sponsored Projects. Jeffrey L. Jollay, BS ‘82, has been named vice liability claims and medical management services Phillip “Ric” Seager, MA ‘97, is the new principal president of marketing and product development for Linda (Bloom) Duevel, BA’ 72, MA ‘75, was voted based in Atlanta. of Schoolcraft (Michigan) High School. Ernest Mannino International Superintendent of Wenger Corp., a manufacturer of products for arts the Year by the Association for the Advancement of education, performing arts and athletics based in Becky Gorinac, BS ‘91, is the director of early David Puskala, BSM ‘98, is a physician assistant in International Education. Duevel is the director of the Owatonna, Minnesota. childhood services at the St. Clair County (Michigan) Dickson County Healthcare System’s sleep medicine Regional Education Service Agency. clinic in Iron Mountain, Michigan. International School of Stavanger in Norway. Jonathan C. Kerr, BSE ‘82, has been honored Anne Hull, BS ‘73, has been promoted to director of with the Herman L. Joachim Distinguished Service Gerald A. Juhnke, EdD ‘91, was awarded the David Shawn Toldo, BBA ‘98, has been promoted to the master of occupational therapy program for the Award by TAPPI, an association for the pulp, paper, K. Brooks, Jr. Distinguished Mentor Award by the director of national partner sales for Microsoft in University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences at its packaging and converting industry. He is executive American Counseling Association. He is a professor Bellevue, Washington. Florida campus. director of the Paper Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Mary Brodbeck, MFA ‘99, exhibited her Japanese Foundation at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Paul E. Rifenberg, BA ‘73, is the author of a book Wei Shyuan “Stone” Peng, MS ‘91, was recently woodblock prints at Makita Gallery in Takayama, titled “Missing in Action: Escape From Laos” and Keene Taylor, BBA ‘82, has been promoted to senior the featured artist at Forest Hills Fine Arts Center in Japan, in the fall of 2014. published by Xlibris. vice president-retail mortgage manager for Horizon Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he exhibited Ronald Foor, MBA ‘99, is the community Bank. He is responsible for oversight of mortgage his photography. president for Fifth Third Bank’s greater Kalamazoo Steve Waltman, BS ‘74, has been appointed to the lending from East Lansing, Michigan to Indianapolis. Wood Component Manufacturers Association board of Kathleen Rankin, BS ‘91, BSM ‘96, has been hired and Battle Creek region. directors. He is vice president of sales and marketing Alex Wirth-Cauchon, BA ‘82, is the chief as a physician assistant for Bronson HealthCare Eric Michael Johnson, BS ‘99, is the new director of for Stiles Machinery in Kentwood, Michigan. information officer and executive director of library Midwest Internal Medicine & Pediatrics - Lifetime training for Flight Safety International in its Teterboro, information and technology services at Mount Wellness in Kalamazoo. New Jersey, office. David Cossi, BS ‘76, has joined General Counsel Ltd. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. in Minneapolis as a principal attorney. Charles “Jamie” James Scott Clark, BBA Janet Carwell, BBA ‘00, has been hired as sourcing Randy Churchill, BBA ‘82, has joined Square 1 Bank ‘92, has been appointed to the Southern Michigan manager for Server Products, a Richfield, Wisconsin, Donald L. Joseph, BBA ‘77, MA ‘93, has been as senior vice president. In this role, he helps lead the Bancorp Inc. board of directors. He is the owner of appointed president of American Axel & Manufacturing company that provides dispensing solutions for the bank’s technology banking efforts in Los Angeles and Central Manufacturing Services, Inc., a warehousing, food service industry. Asia, located in Shanghai. Orange County, California. transportation services and logistics solutions business Tim Knapper, BBA ‘77, has been named vice based in Three Rivers, Michigan. Greg Gray, MA ‘00, PhD ‘09, was elected president Beth Johnson, MA ‘83, has joined the VML of Region 8 of the Michigan Association of School president and senior financial advisor in the Kalamazoo Kalamazoo advertising agency as its proofreader. office of Bison Financial Group. Administrators for 2015. He is superintendent of Brighton (Michigan) Area Schools. 30 wmich.edu/magazine name of story Katrina Emma Johnson, BA ‘00, is a social studies Philip Strom, BA ‘06, is the new prosecuting attorney teacher at Morris Knolls High School in Rockaway, for Delta County, Michigan. WMU says goodbye to broadcast New Jersey. Warren White, BS ‘06, has joined Plunkett Cooney Kim (Lorenz) Weiss, BS ‘00, was inducted into as a member of its insurance law practice group in its pioneer Carl E Lee the West Aurora (Illinois) Sports Hall of Fame for her Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, office. outstanding participation in cross country and track. Kalamazoo broadcast pioneer Carl E Lee, who with his late wife Greg Etzel, MM ‘07, is the director of music for The Jessica L. Hall, BA ‘01, was one of 30 art teachers Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Winifred Lee was the namesake for WMU’s honors college, died from around the world illustrating the new children’s in Peoria, Illinois. Feb. 22. He was 96. book “If Picasso Had a Christmas Tree.” A poem from Juan Ganum, MPA ‘07, is the new city manager the author, Eric Gibbons, accompanies each artist’s A service to honor his work. Hall is the fine arts subject area coordinator for Bridgman, Michigan. for Clarkston (Michigan) Community Schools. John Kakoczki, BSE ‘07, has been promoted to senior memory was held in Richelle Mead, MA ‘01, recently released project manager in the Kalamazoo office of CMS Group, March at the Lee Honors “The Ruby Circle,” the sixth and final novel of her a construction management firm. College. Bloodlines series. The book was published Heather Slomski, MFA ‘07, has released a collection by Razorbill. of short fiction, “The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons,” Lee worked for 60 years Timothy J. Reed, BS ‘01, is a shareholder in what published by University of Iowa Press. in the radio and television is now the law firm of Bird, Svendsen, Brothers, Sarah E. Hercula, BA ‘08, MA ‘11, received an Scheske & Reed PC, in Sturgis, Michigan. Outstanding University Teaching Award from Illinois broadcasting industry and Ryan B. Smith, BA ‘01, has joined HUB State University. She is an instructional assistant was president and CEO International Insurance Brokers, as a private client professor for the Transitioning Paraprofessionals into of Fetzer Broadcasting advisor in its Kalamazoo office. Teachers program in the School of Teaching and Learning. Co. He enjoyed a Shayne Crocker, BS ‘03, is the owner of Centre longstanding and strong Spa & Wellness in Portage, Michigan. Heather Reznik, BA ‘08, is the new corporate account executive for Traverse City (Michigan) Tourism. relationship with the John Liberty, BA ‘03, is the co-founder of the West Michigan Beer Tours. Maxwell Crawford, BA ‘09, is a new associate University, serving on in the law firm of Lamson Dugan & Murray LLP in Norris Tweah, BA ‘03, MDA ‘06, is the vice Omaha, Nebraska. the board of the WMU president for university relations at the University Foundation and actively of Liberia in Monrovia. Jeremiah Ludington III, BBA ‘09, has been hired as a client service manager by Zhang Financial in supporting a number of Frank Baker, BA ‘04, has been appointed Portage, Michigan. undersheriff of the Allegan County (Michigan) initiatives. Sheriff’s Department. Aubrey (Dyl) Breithaupt, BS ‘10, BM ‘10, is completing a residency in optometry at WOW In 1988, Lee and his wife, Ryan Malarney, BA ‘04, is the co-owner of West Vision Therapy in St. Joseph, Michigan. Winifred and Carl E Lee Michigan Chiropractic in Portage, Michigan. Winifred, who died in Janine Campbell, MA ‘10, was recently named Tim Terrentine, BS ‘04, MA ‘06, was named to the Michigan Arts Education Association Middle 2012, pledged $500,000 the Development Counsellors International list of Level Educator of the Year. She is an art teacher at for construction of a home for what is now the Carl E and Winifred 40 Under 40, a listing of rising stars in the economic West Middle School in Byron Center, Michigan. Lee Honors College. The building was completed in 1990, and development field. He is an executive vice president for Southwest Michigan First where he supports the Staci M. Krupp, BS ‘10, MSM ‘14, has joined in late 2012, a $1.1 million gift from the couple made possible a Kalamazoo-based Bronson Advanced Cardiac growth of small business by working as president of renovation and expansion of that original building. the Kalamazoo Regional Chamber of Commerce. Healthcare as a physician assistant. Peter Ponzetti III, BA ‘05, was elected to the Karin Li, MBA ‘10, is a senior international “With the death of Carl E Lee, we have lost a great friend to tax analyst for Perrigo Co. in Allegan, Michigan. Linden (Michigan) Community Schools Board of Western Michigan University and a wonderful supporter who truly Education. Alejandra Ruser, BS ‘10, MSM ‘14, is a now a understood the value and need for a strong honors component to Cindy Smith, MBA ‘05, is the new vice president physician assistant with Bronson Cardiothoracic for integrated services for the W.K. Kellogg Surgery in Kalamazoo. undergraduate education,” says WMU President John M. Dunn. Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. Alandra Washington, PhD ‘11, is the new “We’ll remember him as a man who lived life fully and contributed Bradley Bachor, BBA ‘06, is a firefighter for the vice president for quality and organizational so much to the betterment of all.” Sterling Heights (Michigan) Fire Department. effectiveness for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. Catherine Bauder, BFA ‘06, is the arts advisor He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Cheri and Jeffrey for the city of Carmel, Indiana. Pasha Shipp, BA ‘14, is a writer and producer for FOX 17 News in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Weedman of Cincinnati, and two grandchildren. n Briana Giganti, BBA ‘06, is the new vice president of credit administration for Sunshine Shayne Whittington, BS ‘14, an Indiana Pacers Bancorp Inc., based in Plant City, Florida. forward, was recently honored by having his jersey retired at Lawrence (Michigan) High School. Jaymes MacDonald, BA ‘06, BS ‘13, is the new parks and recreation director for St. Joseph County, Michigan.

IN MEMORIAM

Norris J. Layton, BS ‘39, Patricia B. (Bowman) Marian L. (Luegge) Hassenger, William A. Decker, BS ‘48, Joyce E. (Randolph) Swanson, Marian B. Brown, SC ‘51, Nov. Nov. 6, 2014, in Traverse City, MI Jackson, BS ‘43, March 31, 2014, BA ‘46, Nov. 27, 2014, in Jan. 11, 2015, in Kalamazoo BS ‘49, Nov. 6, 2014, in Glenview, IL 20, 2014, in San Mateo, CA in Laguna Beach, CA Constantine, MI M.R. (Green) Miller, TC ‘39, Frank E. Sheldon, BA ‘48, Harry F. Bowers, BA ‘50, Charles E. Fry, TC ‘51, BS ‘51, Nov. 13, 2014, in Fort Gratiot, MI Marguerite E. (Smith) Lutz, BS Arletta (Holton) Penny, BS ‘46, Dec. 7, 2014, in Ashland City, TN Dec. 18, 2014, in Ann Arbor, MI Jan. 23, 2015, in Grand Rapids, MI ‘43, Dec. 11, 2014, in Chelsea, MI July 7, 2014, in Kalamazoo Nell J. (Warner) Mohney, BS Bruce J. Breland, BS ‘49, Maurice D. Bublick, BS ‘50, Jack E. Mastenbrook, BS ‘41, Jan. 24, 2015, in Portage, MI Elizabeth A. (Baker) Jackson, Robin A. (Fastenrath) June 16, 2014, in Spokane, WA Oct. 6, 2014, in St. Joseph, MI ‘51, MA ‘57, April 27, 2014, in BA ‘44, TC ‘48, MA ‘72, Jan. 5, Stockdale, BA ‘47, Jan. 1, 2015, Petoskey, MI Kathryn E. (Hampton) Esther L. (Arink) Clark, Kenneth C. Lane, BS ‘50, MA ‘54, 2015, in Sturgis, MI in Kalamazoo Lozmack, BS ‘42, Oct. 29, 2014, BA ‘49, Jan. 9, 2015, in Kalamazoo Jan. 20, 2015, in Hudsonville, MI Marjorie L. (Symons) St in Galien, MI Lucille J. (Schregardus) Marjorie J. (Frays) Vliek, BS ‘47, Louis, BS ‘51, Aug. 30, 2014, in Keith P. Kirby, BA ‘49, Dec. 24, Frederick W. Stacks, TC ‘50, June 15, 2014, in Vicksburg, MI Brunswick, ME Elizabeth B. (Hart) Hall, BS Doorn, BA ‘46, Dec. 27, 2014, in 2014, in Topeka, KS BS ‘70, Dec. 16, 2014, in East ‘43, TC ‘48, Jan. 18, 2015, in Grand Rapids, MI Lansing, MI Robert L. Borsos, BS ‘48, Margaret A. (Marvin) Maul, Dora (Begg) Steiner, CN ‘51, Cedar, MI Dec. 6, 2014, in Kalamazoo Sept. 6, 2014, in Thiensville, WI BS ‘49, Oct. 27, 2014, in Saginaw, MI Mainord M. Weaver, BS ‘50, MA ‘54, Dec. 25, 2014, in Kalamazoo Due to an error in WMU Development and Alumni Relations records, alumna Mary J. Grace-McCollum erroneously appeared in the winter edition’s “In Memoriam” section. The WMU Magazine is happy to report that Ms. Grace-McCollum is alive and well.

In Memoriam 31 Two aviation alumni on course to fly F-16s

What was once just a dream is now looming ahead for two College of Aviation-trained pilots.

Recent alumni Alex Anderegg and Patrick Schiffer are both on course to become F-16 fighter pilots and expect to fly this storied aircraft for units of the U.S. military. Anderegg will be flying with the 100th Fighter Squadron in the Alabama Air National Guard in Montgomery while Schiffer will be flying for the 119th Fighter Squadron in the New Jersey Air National Guard, headquartered in Atlantic City. “Pat and I have been good friends throughout college and as flight instructors. He and I dove into this process together about a year ago and within one month of each other we both got slots to fly in F-16 units,” Anderegg says. They will first enter the Academy of Military Science at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery for eight weeks of officer training, possibly as soon as this summer. After officer training concludes and long before they progress to the F-16, the two have many other training stages ahead and many other military aircraft to learn to fly, but that just adds to the adventure toward their ultimate goal. “Flying the F-16 had always been a dream of mine. I just never thought it was a realistic goal until my older cousin Mat began explaining the Air National Guard process,” says Schiffer, who began flying as a youth and whose long family history in flight also includes his grandfather and

Farrell E. Elliott, TC ‘52, Nov. David L. Lillie, BBA ‘57, MA ‘62, Charles O. Williams, BS Aleeta W. (Houghtaling) Hewitt, Sheila M. (Ryan) Collins, Alice N. Holcomb, TC ‘69, BS 20, 2014, in Sault Ste. Marie, MI Oct. 27, 2014, in Chapel Hill, NC ‘60, MA ‘63, Feb. 9, 2015, in BA ‘64, Dec. 11, 2014, in Burton, WV BA ‘67, Sept. 11, 2014, in Port ‘69, Oct. 29, 2014, in Portage, MI Mishawaka, IN Huron, MI James D. Gray, BS ‘52, Dec. 3, Gerald E. Mack, BS ‘57, Feb. 19, Fritz C. Lewis, MA ‘64, Sharon K. (Mulder) Keyzer, BS 2014, in Grand Ledge, MI 2014, in Portage, MI Rollie A. Griswold, BS ‘61, MA Aug. 13, 2014, in Middleville, MI Ronald P. Newald, BS ‘67, ‘69, Dec. 28, 2014, in Wayland, MI ‘64, Oct. 31, 2014, in Portage, MI Jan. 20, 2015, in Muskegon, MI Elmer B. Hess, BS ‘52, MLS ‘72, Kathleen (Huggett) Nye, BS ‘57, Gene L. Arick, BBA ‘65, MBA ‘70, Ann (Purvis) Lucas, MA ‘69, Dec. 2, 2014, in Valparaiso, IN Nov. 6, 2014, in Hastings, MI Laurence A. Hanson, BS ‘61, Nov. 12, 2014, in Norwalk, CT Jerry E. Sangalli, BS ‘67, Oct. 30, 2014, in Haslett, MI Oct. 24, 2014, in Seattle Aug. 24, 2014, in Three Rivers, MI Carol A. (Kurth) Stader, BA Mary L. (McKeel) Cahill, SC John Borcherdt, BS ‘65, Dec. Theresa F. (Kennedy) Merano, ‘52, Nov. 6, 2014, in Big Rapids, MI ‘58, March 23, 2014, in Phoenix Beatrice A. Simcox, BS ‘61, 25, 2014, in Saugerties, NY Sharon R. Anderson, BA ‘68, BS ‘69, Jan. 19, 2015, in Dec. 31, 2014, in Fairfax, VA Jan. 5, 2015, in Muskegon, MI Muskegon, MI E.A. Horn, BS ‘53, Dec. 5, 2014, Katherine A. (Shehan) Dok, BA Kenneth E. Courtney, BS ‘65, in Houston ‘58, Nov. 26, 2014, in Campbell, CA Lawrence R. Ternan, BBA ‘61, Nov. 5, 2014, in Navarre, FL Theodore C. Currie, BS ‘68, Thomas E. Burkhardt, MBA ‘70, Nov. 16, 2014, in Auburn Hills, MI Dec. 8, 2014, in Marysville, MI Dec. 22, 2014, in Omaha, NE Jack W. Owen, BS ‘51, BA ‘53, John Houseman, BS ‘58, MA ‘61, Robert R. Elwell, BBA ‘65, Oct. Jan. 13, 2015, in Keswick, VA Dec. 25, 2014, in Muskegon, MI Tad D. VanderVoort, BA ‘61, 28, 2014, in Richland, MI Robert C. Dugan, MA ‘68, Dec. R.J. Byrnes, BBA ‘70, Nov. 8, Jan. 11, 2015, in Battle Creek, MI 1, 2014, in Battle Creek, MI 2014, in Westerville, OH George R. Anderson, BS ‘54, Theodore E. Sovern, BBA ‘58, Allen G. Scheck, MA ‘65, Jan. Nov. 1, 2014, in Battle Creek, MI Jan. 4, 2015, in Battle Creek, MI Thomas L. Corwin, BA ‘62, Jan. 20, 2015, in Traverse City, MI Robert A. Leach, MA ‘68, Nov. Dana J. Christensen, BA ‘70, 11, 2015, in Michigan City, IN 26, 2014, in Athens, MI Jan. 16, 2015, in Holland, MI Phyllis G. Chapman, BS ‘55, Edmond Holt Babbitt III, MA ‘59, Bruce A. Schurman, MA ‘65, Dec. 15, 2014, in Shelbyville, IL Jan. 17, 2015, in Champaign, IL Richard E. Esch, BA ‘62, April Jan. 13, 2015, in Wheaton, IL Edward O. Marshall, BA ‘68, Constance M. (Smith) Goens, 22, 2014, in Lansing, MI Dec. 23, 2014, in Battle Creek, MI BS ‘70, Nov. 24, 2014, in Decatur, MI Leslie N. Koster, BS ‘55, Walter H. North, BBA ‘59, Fred Toxopeus, MA ‘65, Dec. 10, Dec. 2, 2014, in Grandville, MI Oct. 31, 2014, in St. Ignace, MI Julie C. (Beecher) Lupold, MA 2014, in Kalamazoo Ann L. (Zaremba) Railer, Jerry L. Krizan, BBA ‘70, Nov. 14, ‘62, Jan. 8, 2015, in Largo, FL TC ‘36, BS ‘68, April 1, 2014, in 2014, in Kalamazoo Norman G. Ullman, BS ‘65, MA Robert L. Nelson, BS ‘55, May Charles F. Woodward, BS ‘59, Jackson, MI 20, 2014, in Roseburg, OR Dec. 12, 2014, in Kalamazoo Theodore J. Nunn, MA ‘62, Dec. ‘78, Nov. 20, 2014, in Whitehall, MI Robert H. LeGault, BS ‘70, 16, 2014, in Dayton, OH Carolyn A. (Schurtz) Schten, MA Nov. 26, 2014, in Green Bay, WI Maureen I. Williams, BA ‘65, Jean E. Lowrie, MA ‘56, Nov. 9, Gerald A. Gordnier, BA ‘60, ‘68, Dec. 28, 2014, inMarcellus, MI 2014, in Fort Pierce, FL May 9, 2014, in Battle Creek, MI Janet L. (Roberts) Wolf, Nov. 12, 2014, in Los Alamitos, CA Helen H. Fretz, MA ‘71, Jan. 6, MA ‘62, Jan. 18, 2015, in White Louise F. (Green) Schuster, 2015, in Goshen, IN Sue (Duyser) Butler, BA ‘66, Marjorie (Gerke) MacDonald, BA Robert G. Krivka, BA ‘60, Pigeon, MI BS ‘68, MA ‘69, MA ‘12, Jan. 6, Dec. 23, 2014, in San Antonio Kenneth J. Kozak, BBA ‘71, ‘56, Feb. 16, 2014, in Brighton, MI Oct. 23, 2014, in San Antonio 2015, in Sturgis, MI H.E. Cooley, BS ‘63, Nov. 10, Oct. 31, 2014, in Oconto Falls, WI John A. Gaines, BS ‘66, Dec. 26, Velma (Fowler) Matson, MA Edward L. Rogers, BS ‘60, 2014, in Mackinaw City, MI Roseann M. (Paganelli) ‘61, Jan. 7, 2015, in Sylvania, OH MA ‘65, Dec. 27, 2014, in 2014, in Chicago Katherine M. (Carter) Miller, Aleksynas, BS ‘69, MA ‘71, Three Oaks, MI Ruth (Black) McKenzie, MA ‘71, March 16, 2014, in Paul R. Levy, BA ‘66, Jan. 2, Oct. 22, 2014, in Grand Rapids, MI Philip L. Steen, BS ‘56, MA ‘60, MA ‘63, Dec. 14, 2014, in Wyoming, MI 2015, in Battle Creek, MI Jan. 17, 2015, in Minneapolis Wayne R. Sharp, BBA ‘60, Melbourne Beach, FL Jan. 1, 2015, in Battle Creek, MI Mary A. (Bartholomew) Robert Wakeman, MA ‘71, Robert D. Sharp, BA ‘66, Jan. 7, Bruce E. Taiclet, BS ‘56, MA , BS ‘64, MA Badertscher, BS ‘69, April 3, Nov. 1, 2014, in Hamilton, MI Robert B. Eaton 2015, in Bowie, MD ‘63, Dec. 11, 2014, in Lakeland, FL ‘67, Dec. 17, 2014, in Littleton, MA 2014, in Bluffton, OH 32 wmich.edu/magazine Anderegg, who grew up Schiffer agrees that “none of this would be in Muskegon, Michigan, possible without the training that I received at about 10 minutes from the WMU COA.” an airport, says, “I still “I have many, many hours of bookwork, have every model he amazing flying opportunities and an infinite gave me.” number of challenges ahead in my next five For the path they are years. I am extremely excited for all that lies Anderegg Schiffer now on, in addition ahead,” he says. to family influence, There’s a lot of pride at the aviation college Schiffer and Anderegg about the achievements of these two alumni. father, a long time associate professor at the give credit to the College of Aviation, where College of Aviation. they were students and then flight instructors. “As dean of the WMU College of Aviation, I Anderegg graduated with a bachelor’s degree could not be more proud of Alex and Patrick,” Schiffer’s cousin served on active duty flying in aviation flight science in 2014. Schiffer Powell says. F-16s for 15 years and he continues to serve, earned his bachelor’s degree in 2012. flying the aircraft as a reservist at Hill Air Force “I’ve gotten to know both of them on a Base in Utah. When Schiffer completes his Anderegg says that he’s grateful to Dean personal level and they are perfect examples training, there will be one more F-16 pilot in David Powell, Chief Flight Instructor Tom of the kind of individuals we like to see his family. Grossman and Program Manager Rob Bunday protecting our country. As a former Air Force “for the opportunity to work at WMU, and for fighter pilot, I know what it takes to be Anderegg also began flying at a young age, the guidance each provided me.” successful. I have no doubt that these taking his first solo flight at 16 and earning his two young men will surpass the goals they private pilot’s license at age 17. “It will be a long and challenging journey have set for themselves throughout their before I even step into the F-16,” he says, “My love for aviation started back when I was aviation careers.” n “but I am extremely fortunate to have been around the age of 3 or 4. I give credit to my given this opportunity to serve my country, uncle for being the one who really got me and I am extremely grateful for everyone who interested in flying,” he says. has contributed to my career and helped me As a pilot for Air Jamaica, his uncle would achieve this lifelong dream.” often send him model airplanes as gifts. And

Cynthia J. (Price) Bewick, Robert A. Kreps, BBA ‘74, M. E. (Concannon) Shimizu, Antoinette M. Morrison, MA Sharon L. Jewell, MPA ‘95, Helen J. Healy, associate BA ‘72, MA ‘81, Nov. 7, 2014, in May 6, 2014, in Greensboro, GA MLS ‘78, Nov. 17, 2014, in Long ‘88, Oct. 24, 2014, in Lapeer, MI March 22, 2014, in Milwaukee professor emerita of University Kalamazoo Beach, CA Libraries, July 26, 2014, in Lea K. (Kinney) Kunze, BS ‘74, Clifford J. Lewis, BSW ‘86, Jennifer K. Pope, BA ‘95, Kalamazoo. Clyde F. Crandall, BS ‘72, Dec. 27, 2014, in Kalamazoo Marjorie (Hollensbe) MSW ‘89, Dec. 22, 2014, in Battle Oct. 27, 2014, in Ann Arbor, MI Nov. 21, 2014, in Muskegon, MI Lindenfeld, MLS ‘79, Nov. 1, Creek, MI Jean E. Lowrie, professor David E. Olson, BA ‘74, Nov. 30, Scott M. Morris, BS ‘96, MA ‘06, 2014, in Cleveland, OH emerita of librarianship, Nov. 9, Kristine L. (DeGram) Dodd, 2014, in Kalamazoo Diane K. Moffitt, MA ‘89, Nov. 6, 2014, in St. Joseph, MI 2014, in Stuart, FL BS ‘72, MA ‘96, Nov. 11, 2014, in Rebecca B. Niemi, MA ‘79, Dec. 17, 2014, in Kalamazoo Mark A. Roessler, BS ‘74, Sept. Christopher Dundon, BA ‘98, Middleville, MI Jan. 27, 2015, in Stevensville, MI Ellen Page-Robin, professor 19, 2014, in Ann Arbor, MI John C. Dalton, BBA ‘90, Sept. 8, Dec. 2, 2014, in Troy, MI emerita of community health Roy W. Holmstrom, BA ‘72, Judy R. Wurtz, MA ‘79, Dec. 17, 2014, in Jackson, MI Rose M. Franklin, MA ‘75, PhD Thomas C. Watson, MBA ‘04, services, Jan. 3, 2015, in Jan. 24, 2015, in Missoula, MO 2014, in Muskegon, MI ‘78, Nov. 23, 2014, in Maryknoll, NY Sara S. (Diban) Lujan, MSW Dec. 15, 2014, in South Haven, MI Kalamazoo. Shirley C. (Redding) Paloucek, Hazel J. (Schmit) Latondress, ‘90, Nov. 7, 2014, in Holland, MI Timothy J. May, BA ‘75, Nov. 10, Douglas G. Udell, BA ‘05, Erwin W. Rayford, professor BA ‘72, MA ‘79, Jan. 23, 2015, in BS ‘80, Dec. 20, 2014, in Kalamazoo emeritus of industrial technology New Buffalo, MI 2014, in Battle Creek, MI Debbie L. (Duenewald) Dec. 13, 2014, in Port Huron, MI Peter G. Raps, BA ‘81, Oct. 5, Dennis, BA ‘91, Oct. 27, 2014, in and education, June 18, 2014, in Jeffrey H. Mulder, MA ‘75, Rena A. Ferguson, BA ‘06, Carolyn A. (Schaus) Rzeszut, 2014, in Mississauga, Ontario Kalamazoo Kalamazoo MLS ‘72, Dec. 16, 2014, in Benton July 20, 2014, in Holland, MI Jan. 11, 2015, in Ionia, MI Lisa C. (Lamm) Seeley, BBA Kelly M. (Peck) Rowland, BS Frank Robinson, former head Harbor, MI Robert A. Nagelkirk, BSEMCH ‘81, Dec. 17, 2014, in Ada, MI ‘91, Jan. 5, 2015, in Portage, MI of the Department of Speech Elizabeth Anne (Hoffman) ‘75, Dec. 16, 2014, in Zeeland, MI Faculty Pathology and Audiology, Dec. 1, Thomas, BS ‘72, MA ‘80, in Constance M. (Sargent) Carl J. Unsworth, BBA ‘81, July Rebecca C. (Oakley) 2014, in Kalamazoo 6, 2014, in Redford, MI Sloniker, BA ‘91, MA ‘99, Robert L. Blefko, professor Greensboro, NC Steketee, MA ‘75, June 3, 2014, Dec. 31, 2014, in Portage, MI emeritus of mathematics and Archie E. Watson, assistant Harry E. Clay, EdD ‘73, Nov. 26, in Santa Barbara, CA Haldon J. Woodruff, BBA ‘81, department chair, Nov. 1, 2014, professor emeritus of education Nov. 29, 2014, in Columbus, OH Roger C. Henry, BSE ‘92, Nov. 2014, in Grand Rapids, MI Borghild A. (Pflaum) Dilley, BA in Kalamazoo and professional development, 12, 2014, in Montrose, MI Feb. 25, 2014, in Traverse City, MI Nicholas E. Fedesna, BS ‘76, MA ‘80, Oct. 15, 2014, in Denver Robert B. McNair, BA ‘82, William M. Cremin, professor Nov. 1, 2014, in Aiken, SC Janet M. (Stone) Stout, BS ‘73, MA ‘75, March 15, 2014, in Mary J. Koert, MA ‘76, Feb. 1, emeritus of anthropology, Sept. 10, Charles F. Woodward, ‘85, MA ‘92, Nov. 28, 2014, in Kalamazoo 2014, in Concord, ME Samuel G. Shorter, MA ‘84, 2014, in Marshall, MI assistant professor emeritus of Jackson, MI Dec. 6, 2014, in Fort Wayne, IN industrial and manufacturing Andrew M. VanderWoude, Nancy G. Perkins, BA ‘76, H. Nicholas Hamner, professor Dorian J. Brown, BS ‘93, Sept. engineering, Dec. 12, 2014, in BS ‘73, MA ‘78, Dec. 6, 2014, in Dec. 26, 2014, in Key West, FL Judith P. Ferguson, BS ‘85, emeritus of history, Feb. 15, 2015, 29, 2014, in Cincinnati Kalamazoo Portage, MI Nov. 18, 2014, in Lawton, MI in Kalamazoo Janet L. Resh, BS ‘77, MA ‘87, Lisa A. (Crozier) McGill, BS Steve Zegree, former professor of Susan K. Bullard, MA ‘74, BS July 27, 2014, in Kalamazoo Lena H. Hibma, MA ‘87, MFA Thomas C. Hardie II, associate ‘93, Dec. 11, 2014, in Bay City, MI music and director of Gold Company, ‘74, Jan. 2, 2015, in Kalamazoo ‘92, Jan. 19, 2015, in Holland, MI professor emeritus of music, Nov. Joanne M. Kowalczyk, MOT March 7, in Bloomington IN Gregory E. Reuter, BFA ‘93, 15, 2014, in Chicago Eric J. Erickson, BBA ‘74, ‘78, Nov. 25, 2014, in Lansing, MI William P. Magley, BS ‘88, MA ‘94, Dec. 18, 2014, in Lansing, MI Nov. 17, 2014, in Muskegon, MI Nov. 16, 2014, in Stevensville, MI

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Globally Engaged. Students from WMU’s College Assistance Migrant Program studied abroad in Querétaro, Mexico, at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro during spring recess. The students soaked up lectures on contemporary Mexican society through its historical, social, and political movements and institutions, among other topics. And they proudly displayed the “W” at landmarks, including at the Iglesia Santa María de la Asunción in the main plaza of Tequisquiapan, a town located about an hour from the city of Querétaro.