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Connection, May/June 1999 Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University DigitalCommons@EMU Alumni News University Archives 1999 Connection, May/June 1999 Eastern Michigan University Follow this and additional works at: http://commons.emich.edu/alumni_news Recommended Citation Eastern Michigan University, "Connection, May/June 1999" (1999). Alumni News. 103. http://commons.emich.edu/alumni_news/103 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at DigitalCommons@EMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@EMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. table of contents EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY College ofTechnology Page 2 MAY/JUNE 1999 • VOLUME 8, NUMBER 5 Features 2 College of Technology - Bringing Futures Into Focus 6 Presidents - Past and Present 7 President Shelton Announces Retirement 8 Board of Regents 9 The Show Must Go On - Campus Life 12 The 1999 EMU Alumni Awards President Shelton Announces 17 Coatings Research Institute Benefits Students and Industry Partners Retirement Page 8 Departments 1 Commentary 14 WEMU 15 University ews 18 Athletics 20 Alumni News 22 Class Notes 26 Alumni Chapters EMU Standout Prepares for 27 Chapter Happenings Page 18 28 Alumni Events Calendar I BC The Black Alumni Chapter Event Editor's Note; BC The Sesquicentennial Ball In the March/April '99 Commentary the reference On the Cover: to a small teachers school of A student in the computer aided manufacturing lab at EasternMichigan 300 was incorrect. It should University. have read 3,000. Volume 8, umber 5 COMMENTARY five CONNECTION is published rimes per year for members of The Alumni Association of Eastern ·�· /L"'O._ ..... Michigan University by the Office for Alumni FAST E 11!::,};;;10-IIGAN Relations, Division of University Relations; and the l :-,,I I V I R '- I I 'w Office of Public Information, Division of University l Marketing and Student Affairs. Graduation - December 1972. So Address changes, duplicate copy information or long ago and yet it was only yesterday. in.forn1ationreguesrs should be directed to: Office for Alumni Relations If someone had told me then that I Eastern Michigan University would have the opportunity to lead the 13 Welch Hall Ypsilanti, MI 48197 EMU Alumni Association into the 21st 734/487-0250 century, I would have told them that 734/487-7009 (fax) e-mail:[email protected] they were crazy. However, today, I have w,.,,,v.emich.edu/publidalumni that distinct honor and privilege. Cover and inside photos by university photographer As I reflect over the past 27 years, I Dick Schwarze urtless otherwise noted. am reminded of the many benefits that Graphic Designer: Deborah Kern,Kern's Creative I received as a student from 1964 Services through 1972. (Yes, it took a while to The Alumni Association Board of Directors get my bachelor's degree, but the staff David P. Artley, '72, president W. hederick Roberts, '56, '68, past president members were patient and skilled ... David PArt!ey ('72) Eric Rass, '91, '95, Barliamentarian together, we got me through. I would Allen T. Sheffield, 88, treasurer/secretary ) Ken Behmer, '64, '70 like to share some of those gifts with you now. They are: Tom Bor.,g,'79 GeorKe Jfocloff, '86, '91, '98 Julie Cantwell, '94 • an excellent education Eric Forster, '91 • interaction with a very special and extraordinary staff who often Louis Gianino, '83, '85 David Glassman, '95 served as my friends and mentors Timothy Griffin, '72 • an understanding of the complexity and competitiveness of our Javier I lcrnandez, '97 Alan Jesiel, '88 global society F ranees Tones, '79 • friends for all time David Klubeck, '761 '85 William Malcolm, 77 • an appreciation of life and its quirks Robert Oliver, '67, '69 Melissa Oostmeyer, '94 • my wife, Patricia Ralph C. Patterson, '57 • a perspective on my family history - I come from a lineage of Karen Pi tton, '79 Rick Ross, '75, '77, '85 EMU grads Harold Schimmelr,fenneg, '68 • the need to celebrate the richness of culturaldiversity Ronald Shannon, 97 Sally Wilson, '54, '62 I am sure that you also share some of these same thoughts. I was Alumni Relations Team Vicki Reaume Mushiskv, '91, '96, director surprised at how much Eastern Michigan has meant to me. Matthew M. Frazier, '96, assistant director Over the last seven years, I have been involved in the future of our Lynda S. McCrystal, alumni relations coordinator Jennifer M. Blok, Emily Pasola, Geof Ruczko, Carrie alma mater through the Alumni Relations Office. I have renewed old Strahan and Greg Swaney, student assistants relationships and made new friends. It has been fun working with Executive Officers others who care about where Eastern Michigan will be the day after William E. Shelton, president tomorrow. The staff in the Alumni Relations Office and your Alumni Ronald W. Collins, provost and vice president for academic affairs Board members have dared to make a difference. We are giving back Patrick). Doyle, '92, vice president for business and and helping to pave the way for others to learn. Together, we can finance and treasurer to the board of regents Courtney 0. McAnuff, vice president for enrollment march into the 21st century with the knowledge, maturity and com­ services Juanita M. Reid, '75, vice president for university passion that we gained at Eastern Michigan University. Indeed, it relations was nice to come home. Please consider joining us. Laurence N. Smith, vice president for university marketing and student affairs I look forward to serving as president of the Eastern Michigan University Alumni Association and together, we could do much more. Board of Regents There are many challenges in education; we can turn them into op­ Philii>_A. lncarnari, '76, '82, chair Carl D. Pursell, '57, '62, I lon.,'80, vice chair portunities. Your participation and ideas are always welcome. Joseph E. Antonini 'Robert A. DeMarria Rosalind E. Griffin Best personal regards, Michael G. Morris, '69, '73 William). Stephens, '60 Gayle P. Thomas Editorial Commjrree Dana Aymond, Kirk Carman, '93, '95, Deb Kern,David Klubeck '76, '85, Lrnda S. McC rystal, Nancy Mida, '72, Mary Motherwell,Vicki Reaume Mushisky, '91, '96, Linda David P. Artley ('72) Rider, Kathleen D. Tinney, 1 lallie Chalmers, Pamela Young President, The Alumni Association ·�·/�O·�·· EASTE��CI IIGAN LJ N I V l R ', I I Y EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY,M A Jesquicentennial The prospectus for the creation of a College of Technology, written in Portrait 1979, notes a "burgeoning need in the area of applied technologies," as one ofmany reasons that the EMU Board ofRegents should establish a College ��--,t; ,����� ofTechn ology. The College became a reality in 1980. Carroll A. Osborn,writing in 1962 about the beginning years ofindustrial The accompanying passages are excerpted from education at EMU, said that, "Instruction in manual training began at this institution in a very small way. Miss Alice I. Boardman was the first instructor. the upcoming EMU history book being She began her work in the fall of 1901 and taught continuously until her retirement in 1929 .... It is significant to note that during the first year of prepared forthe University Sesquicentennial. Miss Boardman's work here, all of her time was spent with the training school children, and the normal college students attended the classes as EasternMichigan University: A Sesquicentennial observers." Portrait, by Laurence N.Smith, vice president of "The very next year," as Egbert Isbell wrote in A History of Eastern Michigan University 1849-1965, "a course (known as the specializing course) University Marketing and Student Affairs,and was announced for prospective teachers. "By 1908, three college courses were being offered, ... followed soon by a combined course in manual Paul C. Heaton, director of University training and drawing .... This combined course was continued for nearly two decades." Publications, will feature chapters on each of Another two courses were added in 1914 when manual training became a department. That elevation was followed with two more courses and a the University's colleges, as well as student life, name change in 1915 when the Industrial Arts Department was born.The faculty,athletics and presidents. rapid increase in course offerings and the scope of the department's philosophy continued apace, through shifts in leadership, co-operative programs with other departments, and a third name change. In 1956, industrial arts became the Department oflndustrial Education and Applied The updated EMU history will feature hundreds Arts. That name would change one more time (in 1967) before the Department of photos gleaned from University Archives, of Industrial Education would become a college. Before that event, the department would outgrow its old quarters in what is now Boone Hall and newspapers and other sources. The last move to Sill Hall, where it eventually would house 11 different industrial laboratories. University history was published in 1971 by The teaching methodology in the field has changed significantly since 1901. The 1979 Prospectus for the College of Technology explains that Egbert R. Isbell. "Technology education is practical and applied in nature with a generous amount oflaboratory and on-the-job experiences. An integral component ofthis education is an understanding oftechnology itselfand its impact on The Sesquicentennial book, scheduled for A student conducts release in conjunction with Homecoming 1999, polymerand coatings research in the will be available for purchase in the EMU Coatings Reserach Bookstore at McKenny Union. Questions and Institute which was founded in 1985. suggestions forthe book can be directed to the editor, Paul Heaton, at 734/487-2390, or [email protected] 2 f f Top: Sill Hall, home o the Collegeo Technology. Far Right: D1'. Max Kanagy demonstrates laser technology. Right: The construction management classroom in Sill Hall. society, including historical, behavioral, and ethical aspects." Indeed the current dean of the College of Technology, Thomas Harden, secs one of the college's goals "as preparing students to combine theory and practice to improve human life ...
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