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Centralightcentral Michigan University Alumni Magazine Volume 76 • Number 4 • Winter 2007 centralightCentral Michigan University Alumni Magazine Growing a university Thanks donors • Goodbye Embers • Welcome Coach Guevara You already Belong. NowBE GOLD. You’re already one of 160,000 members of the CMU Alumni Association. Now show your university loyalty and pride. Join the association’s 2,200 Gold Members. Gold Membership dues support CMU’s alumni programs and students while also giving you: • Discounts on car rental and hotel rates • Special prices at the CMU Bookstore and SBX • Discounts on sporting goods • Many more benefits Join us. Find out how at www.cmualum.com CMU Gold Member CMU is an AA/EO institution (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo). centralight Volume 76 • Number 4 • Winter 2007 Executive Editor and Executive ANE Director of Alumni Relations B Mary Lu Yardley, ’90 MSA ’92 PEGGY BRIS PEGGY Editor On the cover Barbara Sutherland Chovanec 24 Growing a university Photographers CMU thanks our supporters Robert Barclay through the annual honor Peggy Brisbane roll of donors. Writer Michelle Szymczak, ‘91 MA ‘97, is Matt Park, ’06 our cover model for this issue, a CMU Development Board member, Guest feature writer and a personal supporter of the Eric Johnson, professor growth of the university. Graphic designer Sydnee MacKay, ’98 Communications committee Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76 Raymond Jones, ’73 MA ’80 Darcy Orlik, ’92 MSA ’95 Shirley Posk, ’60 Judy Smith, ’65 4 6 10 Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Michael Leto Features 4 Fifty great years Associate Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing Experience The Embers’ last night, and share memories of the Mount Pleasant institution. Rich Morrison For advertising information Departments Call Cindy Jacobs, ’93 2 Letters (800) 358-6903 3 Take Five Another CMU professor is named Michigan Professor of the Year; student-athletes win the conference award for best grades yet again; and other university briefs. 6 Discovery Learn how Professor Maureen Eke makes a difference for Stay connected the nation’s teachers. Hear from Professor Eric Johnson about an international conference he hosted. Send change of address information to: Alumni Relations 10 Sports Carlin Alumni House Meet women’s basketball coach Sue Guevara. Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 12 Maroon and Gold Phone: (800) 358-6903 Your alumni association source. Fax: (989) 774-7159 E-mail: [email protected] 23 In Support Web: www.cmualum.com 36 Alumni in Action Centralight is published four times each year by 39 In Memoriam the Central Michigan University Office of Alumni Relations. It is printed by Village Press Inc., Traverse 40 I Am Central City, and entered at the Traverse City Post Office under nonprofit mailing. CMU (an AA/EO institution) strongly and actively strives to increase diversity within its community (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo). CMU provides individuals with disabilities 1 reasonable accommodations to participate in the activities, programs, and services announced in this publication. Individuals with disabilities requiring an accommodation to participate in a program should call the event sponsor. PRM 7743 – 27,300 (11/07) centralight Winter 2007 Letters Letters CMU logos bring people together Editor: In my travels over the past 25 years, • We were on a Caribbean cruise, and I have experienced some rewarding two CMU faculty and their wives saw encounters with other CMU persons who our logos, then joined us for lunch are identified through sweatshirts, T-shirts, and brought us up-to-date on what is hats, etc.: going on at our alma mater. • I was returning from the Great Barrier • We were walking down the street Reef in Cairns, Australia, and coming in Charleston, South Carolina, with down the aisle on our bus was a young my CMU baseball hat perched upon woman wearing a CMU sweatshirt. She my head. A young man dressed in a turned out to be an exchange student business suit and pulling a small cart ANE attending the University of Sydney. greeted me with “Fire up Chips!” He B • I was filling my car with gas in was a 1992 graduate from Muskegon, living in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, and on the BRIS PEGGY other side of the pump was a fellow Charleston on business. Central alum. He saw my CMU baseball CMU prof named best in state I have had hundreds of encounters with hat, and it turned out he was from CMU students and alumni all over the For the second time in three years, the Cadillac, Michigan, and his daughter world. When I attended Central Michigan state’s top professor hails from CMU. was currently attending Central. He had College in the late 1940s (’47 to ’51) its graduated in the early 1970s. motto was “the friendliest campus in Norma Bailey, professor of teacher education • We were picking up our bags at the the world,” and I’m happy to see this and professional development, has been airport in Hawaii. The baggage agent extended beyond the campus. Nice named the Carnegie Foundation for the was a young teacher (and Central things happen when you display your Advancement of Teaching 2007 Michigan alum) working at the airport during the emblems. Professor of the Year. The awards were to be summer vacation who spied my CMU presented by the Council for Advancement T-shirt and gave us VIP service. Jerry Oehmke, ’51 and Support of Education during a mid- Clinton Township November luncheon and reception in Washington, D.C. Bailey, who has taught at CMU since 1996 Corrections and specializes in middle level education and diversity education, joins three colleagues In “The royal treatment: Homecoming who have been named Michigan Professor through the years” (Fall 2007 Centralight) of the Year during the past decade, the a photo of the Homecoming queen and most from any Michigan school. Others her court from 1953 were misidentified are marketing and hospitality services with the names of the queen and court administration assistant professor Gary from 1958. Gagnon, the 2005 recipient; geography HIVES C R professor Mark Francek, the 2002 recipient; Here are the two photos with correct A and psychology professor Gary Dunbar, the identification. CMU 1953: 1997 recipient. In their Michigan float are court members To learn more about the U.S. (from left) Janet Dueltgen, Janet Caldwell, Professors of the Year program, visit Martha Moyer, Eleanor Kaiser, and (back) www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org. • Queen Jeanne Martin. HIVES C R A CMU Write to Centralight: 1958: Mail letters to: Centralight wants to hear from you! We In their swan float are court members Centralight Letters (from left) Nancy Cockerill, Karen welcome all letters from readers. Tell us your Public Relations and Marketing 2 Pankonin, Rose Blakeslee, Sue Gregory, thoughts about Centralight articles or about West Hall and (back) Queen Marilyn Starkey. CMU in general. Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Be sure to sign your letter with your full name and also include graduation year and degree, Letters also may be sent by fax address, and daytime phone number. Letters to (989) 774-1098 or by e-mail centralight Winter 2007 may be edited for space and clarity. to [email protected]. Letters Take Five Color change Tiny talk New maroon and gold street signs went Nationally renowned experts up across campus this fall as the result examined and discussed of the Student Alumni Association’s critical nanotechnology fundraising campaign. The student issues during a two- group raised more than $4,000 from day National Science student and alumni donations to change Foundation-sponsored 55 green and white signs to maroon workshop at CMU this fall. LAY C and gold. Here, CMU employee Jim Kovacs installs the signs at the corner of Information gathered ERT BAR B O at the workshop will be R Washington Street and Hopkins Court. • used in shaping national legislative policy on nanotechnology Academic center named for Enberg issues. Guests visited from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes Emmy award-winning of Health, and Nanotechnology broadcaster and CMU alumnus Characterization Laboratory. Dick Enberg visited CMU this fall for the dedication of the The workshop was held at the National Dick Enberg Academic Center Dendrimer Center in the CMU Center and the announcement of two for Applied Research and Technology’s academic awards. research facility in Mount Pleasant. • Enberg, a 1957 CMU gradute and winner of 14 Emmy awards, is known for his work More power as a sports broadcaster with CMU’s student-run radio station now has CBS and NBC. A display a much farther reach, thanks to a major commemorating Enberg’s upgrade this fall. career, including one of his ROBERT BARCLAY Emmy awards, now fills one of the walls WMHW-FM, which started in 1972 as a adjacent to the academic center entrance Good grades 37-watt station, upped its signal power in the Indoor Athletic Complex. CMU has earned the Mid-American from 340 watts to 13,000 watts on Conference Institutional Academic Homecoming weekend in September. CMU’s women’s soccer team, which has The upgraded signal expands the posted the highest grade point average Achievement Award for the sixth con- secutive time and the 10th time overall. station’s coverage area, which previously of any women’s soccer program in the was limited to Isabella County but now country the past two seasons, received The honor is presented to the Mid- reaches east to Bay City and Saginaw, the Dick Enberg Team Leadership Award. American Conference member with north to Gladwin and Harrison, west to Senior wrestler Wynn Michalak, a two- the highest overall institutional GPA for Big Rapids, and south to Ithaca. time All-American who carries a 3.83 GPA, student-athletes competing in MAC- received the inaugural Dick Enberg Scholar- sponsored sports.
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