THE MAGAZINE OF KALAMAZOO COLLEGE APRIL. 1982

J.A.B. and Lucinda Hinsdale Stone- Educational pioneers at Kalamazoo College. A Sesquicentennial preview By Robert D. Dewey Chairman, Sesquicentennial Council

Thomas Merrill's seedling, the Michigan and Huron Institute, has become one of the nation's out­ standing liberal arts colleges. We who love Kalamazoo College are not surprised by its achievements over the 150 years of its history nor timid about projecting even more in the 150 years ahead. A Tradition of Excellence is the theme for the Sesquicentennial observance which will begin next September and conclude with Commencement for the class of 1983. The Sesquicentennial Council and Coordinating Committee along with the Alumni Council and many internal administrative, faculty, and student groups have begun to put the finishing touches on plans for the year-long observance. Special exhibits, memorabilia, slide shows, concerts, lectures, art work, and gifts to the First Baptist Church (also celebrating its 150th) and the city of Kalamazoo are shaping up for an observance which will feature several celebrations important to all alumni and friends of Kalamazoo College. Be sure you put the following dates aside in your calendar and plan to participate in the Sesquicentennial events:

The President's Convocation on September 19,1982, will launch the observance of the Sesquicentennial and welcome the class of 1986. Sesquicentennial flags, made for the occasion, will be carried forward in the academic processional and mounted to hang in Stetson Chapel throughout the year.

Homecoming on October 22-24 provides a special opportunity to enjoy the cam­ pus in autumn, meet friends, and join in the many special Sesquicentennial fea­ tures now being planned by the Alumni Association. Announcements about Homecoming plans will be·included in a later issue of K Magazine, but put the dates aside now and plan to be on hand.

Founders' Day is on April22, 1983, the date of the charter for the Michigan and Huron Institute, the "forefather" of Kalamazoo College. Special events under con­ sideration are a symposium on the liberal arts, a concert, a convocation which will include the recognition of distinguished alumni, visitors from other colleges and universities, and an outstanding speaker.

Commencement for the Sesquicentennial class of 1983 will be on June 12 and will bring the Sesquicentennial observance to a close. Always a very special occa­ sion, Commencement will be one event you won't want to miss.

During the year, other regular events will be of interest to "K" alumni and friends- the Armstrong Lectures in October, Honor's Day Convocation, the Christmas Carol Service, Scholar's Day, and the Fine Arts Festival. Symposia on such topics as "Liberal Arts and Human Development," "The Moral and Ethical Implications of Technology," and "Europe, the Superpowers, and the Threat of Nuclear War" are being planned for the fall, winter, and spring quarters respectively. Information about these and other events will also come to you through K Magazine. 2 K Magazine FROM THE EDITOR his handicap of paralysis caused by an accident several One of the best "fringe benefits" of working at Kalama­ years ago. zoo College is seeing the campus come to life during the Also included inside is an article on student volun­ spring. After this particularly harsh winter, I and others teers at the College and a new feature- "Sesquicenten­ on campus appreciated even more than usual the green­ nial Spotlight" - which will be included in future ing grass and budding trees. The processes of nature are issues of K Magazine through the College's Sesquicen­ also important to two of our alumni portrayed in this tennial celebration. The first "Spotlight" focuses on issue of K Magazine. Lad Hanka is an artist and print­ J.A.B. and Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, who turned Kalama­ maker who takes his themes from nature and applies his zoo College from a foundering school into a first-rate, co­ scientific knowledge (he majored in biology at "K" and educational liberal arts college. has an MAin zoology) to his art. For Doug Wendzel, the May your spring be just as beautiful as spring in Kal- wilderness is a means of coping with and overcoming amazoo. -R.W.

OFFICERS OF FEATURES KALAMAZOO COLLEGE George N. Rainsford, President 2 A Sesquicentennial preview Warren L. Board, Provost Alfred A. Blum Jr., Vice-President 4 The "we" generation for Institutional Development Wen Chao Chen, Vice-President 6 Drawing nature's way for Community Services Roger J. Fecher, Vice-President 8 A river reverie for Business and Finance Robert N. Maust, Vice-President Page4 for Student Life DEPARTMENTS

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 10 News of the College EXECUTIVE BOARD 13 Sports at the College Joanne Lent Hyames ('60), President Thomas W. Lambert ('63), Vice-President 14 Alumni news Kathe Perron Obrig ('71), Secretary Virginia Kibler Aldrich ('35) 16 Class notes Hon. GlennS. Allen ('36) 21 Sesquicentennial Spotlight Karla Lutz Atkinson ('66) Alma Smith Crawford ('27) Page6 JosephS. Folz ('75) Caroline Richardson Ham ('48) Thomas 0. Johnson ('57) James E. Miyagawa ('52) Richard Obrig ('70) James H. Pinkham ('48) Harry S. Randall ('46) Jane Meyer Rapley ('37) David W. Stone ('76) Laurence E. Strong ('36) Richard E. Tedrow ('45) J. Rodney Wilson ('60) Page 10

K (USPS 289-440) is published January, April, August, and November (Annual Report issue) by Kalamazoo College. Second-class postage paid at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49007. April, Volume 8, Number 2, 1982. Ray Wilson, Editor; Marcia Price, Class Notes. Photo credits: Ray Wilson (5, 11 lower, 13); Lambert!Camerique (9); Carl Bennett, Kalamazoo Gazette (6 , 11 upper). Kalamazoo College is committed to the concept of equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal protection of the law. It administers all programs- admissions, financial aid, employment, instruction, and services- without regard to race, creed, age, sex, national origin, marital status, height, weight, veteran's status, or handicap, and imple­ ments this nondiscriminatory policy under a formal affirmative action program. KMagazine 3 The 'we' generation

A group of Kalamazoo College students is learning the joy and satisfaction of volunteer service to disadvantaged people. At the same time, they're turning the "me" generation into the "we" generation.

patients return and adjust to society. Af­ community and volunteer their time if By Ray Wilson ter she graduates from the College in only to do something "besides staying Editor June, Susan wants to continue working on campus and keeping their nose in books." Volunteers "learn the good feel­ usan Hall, a Kalamazoo College sen­ in the field of mental health in Kalama­ ing you can get by helping people," said ior, leads the usual busy life of most zoo. S Grossman. "You feel worthwhile about "K" students. Classes, term papers, and ary Patterson, a junior and also a yourself, and that makes a difference in reading assignments take up much of her energy, but in addition to her regular G psychology major at "K," is co­ your studies and everything else." College work she finds the time to vo­ chairman of the Black Student Organi­ The psychology department at the lunteer eight hours of work each week at zation at the College. Last January, to College offers three practicum courses Gryphon Place, a 24-hour crisis inter­ in child development, behavior theory, vention center. A significant number of and mental health. Students enrolled in Susan is one of many student volun­ Kalamazoo College these courses are actively encouraged to teers at Kalamazoo College who work do volunteer work with the retarded and several hours weekly with Kalamazoo students give selflessly of with mental health patients to supple­ hospitals, day-care centers, and service themselves to help the ment their classroom training. The ex­ agencies. They contradict the notion perience students receive through their that all of today's college students are poor, the ill, and the volunteer jobs is enormously valuable. selfish, grade-hungry individuals con­ elderly. "Our students learn that you can't do cerned only with getting a good job after miracle cures; that progress with human graduation. Sure, the College has its celebrate Black History Month, Patter­ beings is slow and takes a lot of effort," share of the latter, but a significant son was busy organizing events on cam­ said Grossman. Some student volun­ number of Kalamazoo students give pus such as a chapel service honoring teers decide that the field of psychology selflessly of themselves to help the poor, Martin Luther King's birthday, lectures is not for them; others are challenged the HI. and the elderly. Kalamazoo Col­ by guest speakers, and a Black History and "turned on" by their volunteer jobs lege is no bastion of the "me" genera­ Month dinner and dance. and their commitment to their chosen tion. Gary is also a Community Compan­ career grows stronger. Susan has worked at Gryphon Place ion, and spends time with a recently­ At the urging of the psychology de­ since last September, training for six released patient of the Kalamazoo Re­ partment and also on their own initia- . weeks to learn how to handle the calls gional Psychiatric Hospital. Before tive, Kalamazoo College students have that come in on Gryphon's "hotline." undertaking this work, Gary was done volunteer work at a number of Kal­ The job keeps her on her toes, for Susan trained in basic listening skills, em­ amazoo human service agencies. They never knows what the next call will pathy skills, and potential problematic include Borgess Medical Center, Bron­ bring. Gryphon Place provides informa­ situations. When Gary was assigned a son Methodist Hospital, Red Cross, Kal­ tion on mental health services, on drug patient, or "client," he and his supervi­ amazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital, abuse and drug rehabilitation, and acts sor established several goals to help the Community Companions, Kalamazoo as a referral service for just about anyone client's rehabilitation to society. Hospice, Kalamazoo Nature Center, and who has any kind of problem and "Gary was assigned a really tough per­ Gryphon Place. "K" students have doesn't know where to turn for help. son to work with," said Marilyn Strobel, worked as ambulance dispatchers for • "We have outpatients from the Kala­ case manager for Community Compan­ Gull Lake Ambulance, as readers for the mazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital ions. "But the client felt comfortable blind for the Michigan Department of call us," said Susan. "Usually they just enough with Gary to share some rather Social Services, and aided retarded want to talk to someone. Making the ad­ important clinical information. It really children at McKercher Rehabilitation justment from the hospital to living in helped the client's therapy. Gary was re­ Center and Croyden Avenue School. the city can be a major transition for sponsible for a clinical breakthrough "We've utilized a number of students them. with this particular client." from "K" in the past," said John Mellein, "Sometimes we get calls from parents "I love working with people," ac­ coordinator for the Community Com­ who don't know what to do with their knowledged Gary. "Being a black stu­ panion program. "Generally, they've kids," she said. "And we get calls from dent at Kalamazoo College, I find most done a really nice job. We've been very adolescents who are having problems of the people are naive about people pleased with the results." with school or with their parents." Su­ who are different than they are. I can't be san, a psychology major at "K," has in passive; I have to do things to let people o nurture this volunteer spirit on the past done volunteer work in the know about me and my culture and at T campus, a group of students at the children's ward of the Kalamazoo Re­ the same time encourage people to take College has formed the Student Volun­ gional Psychiatric Hospital, worked in an interest in other people." teer Organization (SVO). Now in its sec­ the pediatric mental health unit of Bor­ A strong supporter of student volun­ ond year of operation, SVO has written a gess Medical Center, and contributed teers at "K" is Bob Grossman, associate constitution and was recently recog­ volunteer time with Community Com­ professor of psychology. Grossman en-· nized as an official student organization panions, an agency which helps mental courages his students to go out into the by the Kalamazoo College Student Com- 4 K Magazine mission. That means that SVO, which from Friendship Village to come to cam­ shown each Saturday morning. The up to now has been operating on a shoe­ pus for dinner and conversation with films are shown on "K's" campus in string budget, will be eligible for fund­ "K" students, followed by student enter­ Dewing Hall and SVO charges no admis­ ing from the Student Commission in the tainment. This year, 40 people from sion for viewers. next fiscal year. Friendship Village enjoyed dinner and a Although a senior, Obrecht does not SVO's leader is Robert Obrecht, a sen­ student variety show in Hicks Center. intend to allow SVO to peter out upon ior from Mason, Michigan. He and sev­ The entertainment included piano rnu- his graduation. Valynda Wells, a fresh­ eral other students founded the organi­ man, will take over the organization zation during the summer quarter of To nurture this volunteer when Obrecht leaves, and keep the ball 1980. One of SVO's primary roles is as a rolling for SVO. Some future projects on referral service to Kalamazoo College spirit on campus, a group SVO's agenda include helping out at students. SVO keeps on file a list of Kal­ of students at the College Kalamazoo's Special Olympics, provid­ amazoo agencies and their volunteer ing entertainment for patients in the needs, and can recommend a particular has formed the Student cancer ward at Bronson Hospital, and agency to a student volunteer based on Volunteer Organization. cleaning up and maintaining lots be­ the student's interests and time restric­ longing to the city of Kalamazoo. tions. This saves the individual student sic by sophomore Torn Hasselwander volunteer much time in contacting each and a couple of violin selections by olunteers often have a frustrating agency to determine which can best use freshman Bonnie Knaus. Cheryl Pearce, V lot. Unpaid, sometimes unappre­ his or her services. a senior, sang several spirituals and ciated, volunteer workers perform de­ But SVO does more than act as a refer­ sophomore John Allen played classical manding tasks which are often crucial to ral service. The organization has itself guitar. the health and well-being of others. But sponsored several events which have "I thought the dinner was lovely," volunteers like those at Kalamazoo Col­ helped to make the lives of Kalamazoo said Clover Flanders, a resident of lege find that a child's smile or the heart­ citizens more enjoyable. SVO's biggest Friendship Village. "The youngsters felt gratitude of a person who has been success has been its Valentine's Day outdid themselves." helped in some small way can frequent­ dinner for senior citizens of Friendship Another popular project sponsored ly make up for all the trials and tribula­ Village, a retirement community on the by the Student Volunteer Organization, tions of the job. And just as important west side of Kalamazoo. On Valentine's along with the Black Student Organiza­ for "K" students, they learn that life con­ Day in 1981 and 1982, the Student Vol­ tion and the Environmental Organiza­ sists of much more than books and term unteer Organization invited residents tion, is a series of children's films papers.

Susan Hall communicates with a deaf person via a teletype machine during her job at Gryphon Place. K Magazine 5 Drawing nature's way Kalamazoo College alumnus Ladislav Hanka has studied nature from both a scientist's and an artist's viewpoint, a perspective which is reflected in his detailed drawings and prints of the natural world.

oology may not be everybody's idea Z of the best kind of training for an artist, but for Ladislav "Lad" Hanka, it has worked out just fine. Hanka, a 1975 graduate of Kalamazoo College, is an artist in Kalamazoo whose prints and drawings have been exhibited in galleries across the United States and in several foreign countries. While a stu­ dent at "K," Hanka studied biology and later earned a master's degree in zoology from Colorado State University. His training in the life sciences is evident from his detailed drawings and prints of the natural world. Hanka does not consider his shift in careers illogical. "The dispassionately analytic, scientific way of looking at the world and the subjective, artistic view are two sides of the same coin," he says. Lad Hanka (above) examines one of the prints from his etching press; (below) a print entitled "There is a complementary nature to the "Fencerow. " done in 1982. two disciplines, which is in both cases based on observation and reflection. In my case, there is a logical coupling of an artist naturalist's love of the beauty of nature and the scientist's curiosity about how things function." Hanka had always been interested in art during his years at "K" and. later in Colorado. He took several art classes at Kalamazoo and gained insights from Johannes Von Gumpenberg and Marcia Wood as well as technical expertise in printmaking from Peter Jogo. Hanka values the liberal education he received at the College because it helped train him to think critically and opened his eyes to many new ways of thinking. After earning his master's degree in zoology, Hanka began to have doubts about functioning in the academic world. "I started feeling unsure about what to do with my life," he says. Hanka turned to art, and returned to Kalamazoo to en­ roll in the master of fine arts program a~ Western Michigan University. Hanka's scientific and naturalist's background has helped, not hindered, his artistic pursuits. Trees, flowers, cornstalks, birds, and other natural ele- 6 KMagazine ments are common subjects in his work. All of these objects are rendered in accu­ rate detail and arranged in a general con­ cept often relating to calligraphy or the Detail from "Heron," a 1980 print by Hanka. written word. For example, one folio of Hanka's prints, "Scripta Naturae," de­ picts rows and rows of wild trees which, viewed as a whole, look like a readable "text," written as much by nature as about nature. Hanka generally works in a mixture of intaglio techniques, combining engrav­ ing, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and mezzotint in a single copper plate. He usually produces black and white prints, although he does do occasional color prints. Since leaving "K," Hanka has studied with several teachers whom he values, including Curtis Rhodes at WMU, Wolf­ gang Hutter of the Vienna School of Applied Art in Austria, Jindra Schmidt, an engraver of currency and stamps in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Jiri Kayser, a painter and printmaker in Montreal, Canada. Hanka's international educa­ tion has helped him exhibit his prints and drawings in Vienna, Toronto, Swit­ zerland, and Bogota, Columbia, as well as in galleries in Cleveland, Georgetown University, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Petoskey, Shelbyville, Sauga­ tuck, Kalamazoo, and South Bend, Indi­ ana. A number of Hanka's works will be on exhibit during the month of May at the Third Rail, an artist's cooperative gallery in Marshall, Michigan. Hanka lives and works in a small stu­ dio-apartment on the top floor of an old (Above) A drawing of a bird; wooden frame house located on Douglas (below) a detail from a print entitled "Fuga Autumna. "done Avenue on Kalamazoo's north side. He by Hanka in 198 1. has few of the possessions most people think necessary for modern living; his most expensive acquisition is an etch­ ing press. "It's important to have my own hours and not be dependent on reg­ ular employment," he says. Hanka doesn't see a need for that much money at the cost of his free time. He chose to live as an artist rather than a teacher of art because he "thinks it presumptuous simply to switch sides of the podium without first being what one professes." After some substantial changes in di­ rection, Lad Hanka now seems to be a self-assured artist whose reputation is growing. -Ray Wilson K Magazine 7 A river reverie He faced a lifelong handicap of paralysis and despair. But the beauty of nature and the love of his family and friends gave him a new hope and strength for the future.

By Douglas Wendzel alarm, and our floating intrusion sends valid. Was this part of some greater plan them bounding into the woods, hooves of which I had no knowledge? I cried out he river winds beneath the hot sun flying, white tails flashing. More si­ for answers, but received none. It T of a June afternoon, seeking the cool lence, more floating. A pair of mallards seemed so senseless, so needless, so air of evening. Along the river bank, erupts from a backwater pool and they futile. I was filled with anger and frus­ woodferns patiently await the dew-lad­ clatter off down the river in panicked tration. Tears betrayed by feelings." en darkness. In the boat, my fishing flight. Resting on a fallen oak, a red The stream is coming to life. The dor­ partner and I slowly simmer, like ingre­ squirrel chatters angrily at our disrup­ sal fin of a feeding trout creates a tiny dients in a stew. Lines hang limply from tion of his solitude. Like unwanted tour- wake as the fish somersaults after a flee­ resting fly rods. Sticks and leaves float ing nymph. Dimples appear on the wa­ in the current. The immediacy of trout The obstacles before me ter's surface as more trout discover fishing defers to whims of the river and those winged delicacies struggling in the afternoon heat. We wait, aware of could be overcome. My the surface film. Occasionally a larger the river's daily transformations, that paralysis was of the body. fish rises, rolls, ruptures the smooth sur­ will bring fishing back toward evening. It must not cripple the face. Brown drakes gather in swirling Like the meandering stream, my mind clusters a few feet above the water, a dia­ also wanders. Fragments of thoughts mind as well. phanous cloud silhouetted against the from the past six years rest with me darkening sky. With practiced delibera­ briefly, then depart. ists, we are everywhere tolerated, en­ tion we prepare our gear. Our brains are "1 would never walk again. Could it dured. We are spectators, not partici­ consumed with a network of lines, the have been only six years ago that I pants. river, flies, tackle, and fish, oh such fish. learned this shattering news? The acci­ "1 had waded trout streams all my All that exists is here and now. Which dent left me paralyzed from the chest life. Trout fishing was a necessary part feather-adorned hook will best imitate down - able to move only my arms and of my survival in a world of chaos and those flies on the water? Finally all is shoulders. How could I possibly con­ confusion. What could I do now, what ready and we make our first casts of the tinue living under these circumstances? options were open? Seemingly none. evening. After a lifetime of vital, active, even ath­ Must I simply vegetate in this damned "Amidst the darkness of my anguish, letic ventures, I was relegated at the age chair, my small wheeled prison? The there appeared an ever-brightening· of 41 to spend the rest of my life in a days ahead promised nothing but pain light. It glowed, absolutely glowed, from wheelchair. Why?" and pity. For what purpose? Toward the love of my family and friends. They Our boat is carried quietly by the what end?" appealed. They encouraged. They ad­ flowing water. Slanting orange from the As twilight seeps around us, we are monished. No longer was I alone. I must dying sun barely touches the tops of the engulfed by a feeling of calm and quie­ Jearn to live, but really to live, with my white pines. A cool breeze caresses our tude. The cry of the whippoorwill floats, affliction, my despair. I found more and perspiring bodies. Ahead, the rustling of unending, from the silent trees. It has more ways to help myself. Impossible marsh grass announces the arrival of a been several hours since the last bang­ tasks became possible once again. I doe and her fawn at river's edge. Silent­ ing flotilla of canoes hurtled past to could do things I had given up as hope­ ly she surveys the area with nose. eyes, some unknown, time--consumed ren­ Jess. And then one day I returned to my and ears. We sit like statues, watching. dezvous, yet we are aware that in reality beloved trout stream. True, the rivers I Satisfied, she and her fawn step gingerly the river is now coming to life. Among once waded now had to be fished from a into the water and drink. Suddenly, the stones and logs of the stream bed, boat. And I needed helping hands from nymphs are struggling to flee their wa­ my lifelong friend and fishing partner Douglas Wendzel, a 1953 graduate of tery home. They emerge on the surface as I clumsily slid from the wheelchair to Kalamazoo College, operates a land as delicate flies in multitudes of sizes a jury-rigged boat seat. But, hallelujah, I development company in Richland, and colors; the tiny caddis, the larger was trout fishing again." Michigan, and has written articles for brown drakes, assorted May flies. Be­ The light fades rapidly. Our lines sing several publications. In 1973, Wendzel neath the glossy reflecting surface the as they slice through the evening air. was paralyzed from his chest down trout, like ourselves above, stir with Murmurs, calls, then shouts of joy and while fighting a fire as a member of the the increasing activity. Their caution is disappointment intermingle as fish are Richland volunteer fire department. gradually overcome by their rising need hooked or missed. Each of us is singular­ This story, which relates his attempt to for food. Nervously we watch. Wait. Our ly engrossed, yet we are bound together come to grips with his handicap, first bodies tingle with anticipation. by a common bond, the river, the trout, appeared in the March/April, 1980. "I was bitter. Why me? Was I being the night murmurs of the water. We are issue of Michigan Natural Resources punished for some unknown failure? I together as we share the glories of this Magazine. was not prepared to Jive my life as an in- evening. 8 K Magazine All too soon darkness is on us. The hatch of huge mayflies. This mysterious flurry of feeding diminishes. Ceases. insect can seduce even the most wary of The hatch is over. An occasional bat trout to leave protected haunts and feed darts overhead, guided by its unerring recklessly. Silently we glide with the natural radar. Quiet returns. Night de­ current, our jackets wet with dew. We scends. Nature prepares for its final act listen. "Slurp." Could that be a trout? on the river's stage. Like actors in a play, "Slurp." It must be enormous. With we stand silently in the wings waiting fumbling fingers we cast toward the for our cue. sound. Nothing. Perhaps it was only a "I found reasons for living. I couldn't misguided beaver. "Slurp." A rod jolts accept my situation, but I would adapt downward. A line draws taut, the fish is to it. The love of family, and friends, hooked. There is a shout downriver as and my own coming to terms showed another angler is similarly blessed. the way. The obstacles before me could Another river transformation is under be overcome. My paralysis was of the way and after much confusion and body. It must not cripple the mind as splashing, our trout is led to the boat. well. Placed in perspective, this malady A large brown. Exhausted. With care, could block my way through life only to still in the water, he is tenderly released, the extent which I permitted. Others flashing away in an instant to another had overcome much greater obstacles. world. Our smiles seem to break So then, could I overcome mine." through the darkness. We cast again, The darkness is complete. Only an in­ eagerly, into the night. termittent flicker of moonlight slipping "The days and nights pass more rap­ through the clouds breaks the black­ idly now. Pain and infirmity are still my ness. The tree-lined banks become an constant companions, but I have found extension of the river itself, there is no comfort. Meaning. There are still many perceptible division of its boundaries. questions for which I have no answers. I had waded trout streams No sound is heard, save for the murmur But, I continue with living while I all my life. Trout fishing of the current or the hoot of an owl keep­ search for the answers. No longer does ing its lonely vigil. Suddenly ahead a happiness seem unattainable, I've even was a necessary part of pinpoint of light betrays a streamside found a piece of it here on the river. Af­ my survival in a world of angler. He, like ourselves, waits in ex­ ter all, I still possess the greatest gift. I chaos and confusion. pectation for the elusive late-night have life." NEWS OF THE COLLEGE

instrumental in the creation of the Kala­ THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD mazoo Consortium for Higher Educa­ Saying that "the time is right for a change," The ad hoc committee will make its rec- tion, which promotes cooperative ef­ Kalamazoo College President George N. ommendations at the June Board of forts among Kalamazoo's four institu­ Rainsford has announced his intention Trustees meeting. tions of higher education. to resign June 30, 1983. The executive committee of the Board Rainsford's involvement in the na­ Rainsford submitted his resignation will establish the qualifications for the tional scene of higher education has "with many mixed emotions" at a meet­ presidential candidates, and that work been extensive. He has served as chair­ ing of the executive committee of the is also expected to be completed by the man of the National Association of Inde- Board of Trustees March 23. Rainsford's June Board meeting. If all goes accord­ pendent Colleges and Universities and decision ended weeks of speculation ing to plan, the search function for the the Association of Independent Col­ about if and when he would be leaving new president will last until December leges and Universities of Michigan. He the College, since he had been a candi­ of this year, at which time the search is current chairman of the Great Lakes date for positions at several other insti­ committee will recommend several fi­ Colleges Association, a consortium of tutions. nal candidates to the Board of Trustees. 12 leading private colleges in Michigan, Rainsford has received national expo­ The Board will then begin its delibera­ Ohio, and Indiana. Since October, 1980, sure because of the active role he has tions on whom to choose as the 14th Rainsford has written a monthly col­ played as an advocate of higher educa­ president of Kalamazoo College. umn for the higher education supple­ tion, and "an entirely unintended and Rainsford's departure from the Col­ ment of The London Times. unfortunately much publicized result is lege next year will follow on the heels of During Rainsford's tenure at Kalama­ that I have recently been invited to con­ the Sesquicentennial celebration next zoo College, student enrollment was sta­ sider opportunities at other institu­ fall and winter. "The approaching Ses­ bilized at about 1,400 students and the tions," he said. Rainsford was a candi­ quicentennial provides an appropriate College placed on a sound fiscal plan. date this winter for chancellor of the occasion to look back with pride, and for The endowment has increased, largely Oregon system of higher education and Kalamazoo College to seek a new presi­ due to the success of the Funds for the for chancellor of Vanderbilt University. dent for the decade ahead," said Rains­ Future capital campaign, which raised Both searches were reported locally by ford. Rainsford expressed confidence over $17 million for the College. Balch the Kalamazoo Gazette. about the search process for his succes­ Playhouse and Anderson Athletic Cen­ Although other candidates were sor, joking that he had "become an ex­ ter were constructed and a new wing eventually chosen for those positions, pert in how not to do it." added to Olds-Upton Science Hall. speculation remained in Kalamazoo Rainsford assumed the presidency of Rainsford holds a BA from the Uni­ that other institutions were interested in Kalamazoo College in 1972. Long an ad­ versity of Colorado, an LLB from Yale, Rainsford as a candidate. "Announcing vocate of cooperation between public an MA from the University of Denver, my decision now to resign allows the and private institutions, Rainsford was and a PhD from Stanford University. College to begin an orderly search for my successor so that the transition will be as smooth as possible," he said. "It also allows me to pursue other chal­ lenges more intentionally." "George's contributions to Kalamazoo College are immense," said Paul H. Todd Jr., chairman of the Board of Trus­ tees. "They include a successful capital campaign, financial stability, an open system of governance, and deep involve­ ment of the trustees in the life of the Col­ lege. The College and community alike have benefitted from his presence." The Board has established an ad hoc committee - consisting of trustees AI Dixon, Don Smith, and Elizabeth Up­ john- to determine the process of the search for Rainsford's successor. Among the things it will consider are the makeup of the search committee, constituent involvement in the search, guidelines, timetable, budget, and staff. President Rainsford: "The transition will be as smooth as possible."

10 K Magazine SOVIET OFFICIAL DRAWS PROTEST The protest was organized by the Lat­ era! interviews with local media, he was A senior official of the Soviet embassy vian Relief Association of Kalamazoo, questioned about the arms race, Poland, spoke at Kalamazoo College last Janu­ the Kalamazoo Area Latvian Associa­ and Afghanistan. "I've met Americans ary, drawing a large crowd of listeners as tion, St. John Evangelical Lutheran who don't know where Afghanistan is, well as a group of people protesting So­ Church, and the Latvian Evangelical and they're trying to tell us what to do viet foreign policy. Lutheran Church. The picketers handed with this neighboring nation," he said in Yevgeniy Afanasyev, second secre­ out copies of a statement which decried an interview with the Kalamazoo Ga­ tary of the Soviet embassy in Washing­ Soviet domination of the Baltic nations. zette. The invasion of Afghanistan by the ton, D.C., lectured on the topic "Life in Inside Dalton Theatre, Afanasyev Soviet Union came, he asserted, after the Soviet Union" before an audience of gave a general description of Russian three consecutive Afghan governments about 400 people in Dalton Theatre. His history and culture and discussed at asked them for help. appearance on campus was part of Kala­ length the governmental and economic Afanasyev denied any Russian in­ mazoo College's winter quarter Forum system of the Soviet Union. The nuclear volvement in the military crackdown series devoted to examining the Soviet arms race, he asserted, was the major in Poland. The Polish army took over to Union. About 20 people, however, car­ issue facing the United States and the prevent "a bloodbath," he said, in the ried picket signs and marched outside Soviet Union. "We want normal rela­ strife between Solidarity and the Polish Dalton Theatre protesting Afanasyev's tions with the United States, despite all Communist Party. "[Martial law] was talk and the Soviet Union's subjugation our differences," he claimed, and called the measure taken to prevent blood­ and annexation of the Baltic nations of for arms limitation talks between the shed." Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. two countries. "If the United States Afanasyev was accompanied on his wants to have a dialogue with us, we are trip to the College by his wife, Olga. He ready." is one of 13 second secretaries in the So­ During the question and answer ses­ viet Union's embassy in Washington. sion after the lecture, several of the Lat­ Prior to that post, Afanasyev worked in vian protesters fired hostile questions at the Soviet embassy in China and in the Afanasyev about the Baltic annexation. ministry of foreign affairs in Moscow. He replied that the three Baltic nations The Forum series also featured lec­ freely chose to become a part of the So­ tures by Marshall Shulman, director of viet Union and that their standard of liv­ the Russian Institute at Columbia Uni­ ing had risen because of the connection versity and former state department offi­ with the Soviet Union. cial to Presidents Truman and Carter, The Baltic problem was not the only and by Edward Wasiolek, chairman of controversial topic faced by Afanasyev. the department of comparative litera­ In a visit to one of the College's political ture at the University of Chicago and ex­ science classes the next day and in sev- pert on Russian literature. THE STARS OF EDUCATION There have been several guides to Amer­ ican colleges and universities published in recent years, but none has caused such a furor as the Selective Guide to Colleges published by the New York Times. When the Selective Guide hit the bookstands last January, howls of pain arose in colleges from the west coast to New England. The guide, edited by Edward B. Fiske, rates 265 colleges and universities in three categories- academics, social at­ mosphere, and quality of life. Each school received from one to five "stars" in each category. Kalamazoo College, one of only five Michigan schools in­ cluded in the guide, received a score of three stars in each category. In addition to rating each school by stars, the guide contains lengthy de­ scriptions of each school and what a prospective student can expect. For ex­ ample, the College's description says that "the academic atmosphere is high­ powered and competitive .. . The phys­ Latvian protesters, top, and Olga and Yevgeniy Afanasyev, bottom- Hostile questions about the ical sciences are exceptionally good, Soviet Union's annexation of the Baltic nations. and Kalamazoo sends a healthy percen- K Magazine 11 tage of majors on to graduate or medical ceived that organization's Founders school." About the only critical com­ Award for "outstanding service to his ment the guide had to make was on Kal­ fellow man." He also served as chair­ amazoo's "unfortunate name"- which man of the board of the United Cerebral is difficult to pronounce in a New Yawk Palsy Association of Michigan, presi­ accent, no doubt. dent of the Kalamazoo Chapter for Ex­ Kalamazoo College's inclusion among ceptional Children, member of the Kala­ the 265 top schools in the country is pretty prestigious in itself, although the mazoo Committee of the Physically guide probably won't have much effect Handicapped, and member of the board on "K's" recruitment of students, ac­ of directors of Goodwill Industries of cording to admissions director David Southwestern Michigan, Inc. Borus. "The guide was basically posi­ RAYMOND HIGHTOWER DIES Hightower's professional activities tive about us," he said, "and I think it Dr. Raymond L. Hightower, professor included terms as president of the Mich­ won't hurt that we were included. On emeritus of sociology and anthropology igan Sociological Society, Michigan the other hand, the guide missed some at Kalamazoo College, died February 24 Council on Family Relations, and Mich­ of our obvious strengths. It was very in Kalamazoo. Dr. Hightower, who igan Association of Higher Education. non-scientific." taught at the College from 1934 to 1971, He was a Fellow of both the American Other schools in the guide did not fare also served the College as department Sociological Association and American as well as Kalamazoo. The description of the University of Rhode Island read: chairman, dean of faculty, dean of aca­ Association for the Advancement of "URI is known to Rhode Islanders as a demic affairs, and held the chairman­ Sciences. 'high school after high school.' As long ships of all major faculty committees. "Our community is richer and better as you don't ask too much of URI, it He also helped establish the Kalamazoo because of Dr. Hightower. His legacy won't ask too much of you." The Univer­ Plan as an integral part of the academic will remain with us," said Caroline sity of Kentucky was angered to receive program, and helped make the Plan Ham, the current mayor of Kalamazoo only a single star for academics, particu­ work in its formative years. He served and an alumna of the College. "He was a larly since the school did not distribute Kalamazoo College with distinction, gentle man and a kind person. He was the New York Times's questionnaires and was a counselor and friend to all. truly a community leader." used to gather information for the book. "Dr. Hightower showed me that he Editor Fiske says that telephone calls "Dr. Hightower's intellectual curiosi­ to students and staff members were used ty, imagination, concern for his fellow was not concerned with his own faith, to gather information at Kentucky and human beings, and tireless commitment but occupied with what he could do for other schools. Kentucky, however, has to the improvement of his College and others," said Wen Chao Chen, vice-pres­ questioned the book's methodology and city have left a legacy matched by few of ident for community services at Kala­ accuracy of data. The criticism must his peers," said Warren Board, provost mazoo College. "I've come to appreciate have stung the Times- the newspaper of the College. Kalamazoo College held a an old cliche which says that, at times recently announced that its name would special memorial service for Hightower like this, we should celebrate a life in­ not be printed on the cover of future edi­ in Stetson Chapel February 27. stead of mourning a departure. When tions of the guide. Hightower was an energetic public we look at the life that Dr. Hightower For colleges and universities, all the gave us, we have every reason to cele­ news that's fit to print may not be the servant of the Kalamazoo community. last word in higher education. He served for 20 years on the city com­ brate." mission, including four years as mayor Hightower was born in Virginia in of Kalamazoo, from 1963-1967. He was a 1903, earned his bachelor's degree at the member for many years of the Kalama­ University of Richmond in 1923, and zoo County Board of Superviaors, chair­ then taught for six years in China. Here­ man of the Southcentral Michigan Plan­ ceived his master's degree in 1930 from ning Council, a member of the Kalama­ the University of Pennsylvania and zoo 2000 Committee, chairman of Kala­ bachelor's and master's degrees from mazoo's Charter Review Committee, Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, member of the Governor's Commission Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD from on Local Government, member of the the University of Chicago in 1933, and The inside~onover steering committee of the Environmen­ received an honorary doctor of laws de­ 250~)00are tal Committee of the National League of gree from Nazareth College in 1973. .most lilcelY to (i)05ider TO Cities, plus service with many other An ordained minister, Raymond governmental boards and agencies. Hightower was a member of the First Dr. Hightower also contributed much Baptist Church of Kalamazoo. He is sur­ COLLEGES of his time to charitable organizations. vived by his wife, Jeanne, 441 Stuart By EDWARD He was a member of the board of United Avenue, Kalamazoo; three sons, James B. FISKE Way of Michigan and very active in the ('58), Robert ('60), and William ('64); ...... Kalamazoo United Way. In 1970, here- five grandchildren; and three sisters. 12 K Magazine SPORTS AT THE COLLEGE

MEN'S BASKETBALL WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Any way you look at it, it was a pretty Kalamazoo College's women's basket­ average season for Kalamazoo's men's ball team suffered through another long basketball team. Ray Steffen's team season, compiling an 0-18 record this compiled a 6-6 record against MIAA year. A lack of height and rebounding competition, good for a fourth-place tie strength hurt coach Terri Beattie's team in the league, and overall the team fin­ both offensively and defensively, a ished with a record of 11-11. The weakness which frequently allowed its Hornets finished strong by winning opponents several shots at the basket. their last four games, including a heart­ Freshman Ann Kullenberg placed ninth stopping one-point win over league in the MIAA in scoring with a 12.3 champion Hope, at the time ranked sec­ points per game average, and sopho­ ond in the country. more Nancy Thurston helped the What was not average was the perfor­ Hornet attack with 10.1 points a game. mance of Kalamazoo's star forward John Thurston also pulled down 8. 7 re­ Schelske, who broke many College scor­ bounds a game, and sophomore Kari ing records (see story at right). John's ef­ Brown had an 8.1 rebounding average. forts were aided by his brother, Steve Schelske, a freshman who averaged 11.4 WOMEN'S SWIMMING John Sche/ske points a game, and by junior Darrell Coach Lyn Maurer's women's swim Banks, who averaged seven points and team claimed third place in the MIAA REWRITING THE RECORD BOOKS seven rebounds a game. Sophomore race this season by posting a 3-2 mark in Break out the erasers and blue pencils. A Doug Hentschel contributed 6.9 points dual meet competition, storming back to major editing job is needed on the rec­ and five assists per game, and junior win its last three MIAA meets after los­ ord books due to the phenomenal suc­ Chuck Jager played many tough defen­ ing the first two. Kalamazoo's swim min' cess of Kalamazoo basketball player sive games against Hornet opponents women also finished third in the league John Schelske. The 6-6% senior forward while scoring 6.1 points a game. meet through a strong team effort- al­ capped his career at "K" by smashing though no "K" swimmer finished first in several scoring records and being named any event, the team piled up 308 points. third team All American in the NCAA's MEN'S SWIMMING Some of the outstanding swimmers Division III. John's scoring average of If you've ever wondered how General included seniors Sandy Hoisington and 26.2 points per game led the MIAA for Custer felt at Little Big Horn, just ask the Abby Frame, junior Clair Bryant, sopho­ the second straight season and was the opponents of Kalamazoo College's men's mores Kathy Sparrow and Laura Caruso, second-best mark nationally among Di­ swim team. The Hornet swimmers and freshmen Karen Allan and Linda vision III players. simply massacred every opponent they Casey. Junior Judy Negele qualified for "There's no question John is a great faced this season and posted a perfect the national championship in one-me­ scorer," says Ray Steffen, his coach. 11-0 dual meet record, the team's first ter diving. "But he's not a selfish player. He's also undefeated season. As if this weren't our leading rebounder and one of our as­ enough, the team then slaughtered its sist leaders." Schelske led the MIAA in opponents at the MIAA league meet to WRESTLING rebounds with 11 per game and shared claim its 11th straight MIAA champion­ The Kalamazoo wrestling team got a the league's most valuable player award ship. Kalamazoo won 13 of 16 events at grasp on third place in the MIAA this with Matt Neil of Hope College. the meet, and had three double winners year by compiling a 3-2 dual meet rec­ But that's not all. John also owns the -Curt Crimmins, Jeff Coran, and Ralph ord and then finishing third in MIAA Kalamazoo record for: most career Venen. league meet. Senior Chris Davis and jun­ points (1,712, breaking the old record The Hornets finished 13th out of 72 ior Day! Stout won the championship in held by Dave Dame, a 1979 "K" gradu­ teams at the NCAA Division III national their weight division at the league meet, ate), most points in a single game (44), championships. Nine "K" swimmers which qualified them for the NCAA na­ most career field goals (674), most sea­ from coach Bob Kent's squad earned tional championship. Seniors Tim Mal­ son field goals (238), most free throw at­ All-America status - freshmen Josh lett and Tom Welke placed second in tempts in single game (22), and most Sherbin and Dave Stranquist; sopho­ their division and freshman Steve Wit­ free throw attempts in a season (204). more Curt Crimmins; juniors Bruce tekind third. Davis was named co-most Schelske achieved all this despite a Dresbach, Dave Hoisington, Will Ober­ valuable wrestler for his performance at slow start in his Hornet basketball ca­ holtzer, Peter Romano, and Ralph Ven­ the MIAA meet. reer - he missed a large part of his en; and senior Mike Burns. Four other The Hornet wrestlers also were quite freshman season due to mononucleosis Kalamazoo swimmers qualified for the successful at the invitational tourna­ and several games as a sophomore be­ national championships - freshmen ments in which they competed. Coach cause of an ankle injury, Jeff Coran, Christian Darby, and Tom Terry St. Louis's squad won the champi­ Schelske, an economics major who McLean and junior Kevin Shugars. onship of the Hope Invitational Tourna­ holds a 3.3 grade point average, plans to This is the sixth consecutive year that ment, and the team finished third in earn an MBA after graduating from the the men's swim team at "K" has finished tournaments sponsored by the Great College. Journalism school is also an op­ in the top 13 or higher at the national Lakes Colleges Association and South­ tion, since he's had plenty of experience championships. western Community College. rewriting the record books.

K Magazine 13 ALUMNI NEWS

FULL SCHEDULE FOR ALUMNI FESTIVE TIMES AHEAD TENNIS, TENNIS, TENNIS! Kalamazoo College has scheduled a full The fourth annual Kalamazoo College The United States Tennis Association's slate of activities this summer which are Fine Arts Festival is scheduled May 20- National Boys 16 and 18 Champion­ open to alumni. Activities include: 28. The Fine Arts Festival is a spring ships will be held July 31 to August 8 at Commencement - Commencement celebration of the arts at the College, and Kalamazoo College's Stowe Tennis Sta­ weekend is scheduled for June 11-12. features various programs of art, music, dium. This will be the 40th consecutive Baccalaureate services are scheduled dance, and poetry. May 20, 21, and 22 at year the tournament has been held at June 11 at 8 p.m. in Stetson Chapel, and 8 p.m. the play Gemini will be presented Kalamazoo College. Nearly 300 of the will feature as speaker Theodore M. in Balch Playhouse. The Beaux Arts Ball finest junior players from around the Hesburg, president of the University of is scheduled for May 21 at 9 p.m. in country will gather in Kalamazoo for Notre Dame. Commencement ceremo­ Welles Hall. exciting tennis action. Tickets for the nies will begin at 3 p.m. on June 12 on On May 23, "K" senior Melanie Arsen­ tournament are available by calling the the College quadrangle, or in Anderson ovich will present a French horn recital College's athletic office at (616) 383- Athletic Center in case of rain. Com­ at 3 p.m. in the recital hall of the Light 8427. mencement speaker will be John Brade­ Fine Arts Building. That same day, an Kalamazoo College will also host the mas, president of New York University. art show by the Great Lakes Colleges As­ NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Cham­ Special reunion events are planned for sociation will open in the gallery of the pionship at Stowe Stadium May 12-16. the alumni classes of 1922, 1927, and Light Fine Arts Building. On May 24, The top Division III teams of the United 1932. In addition, the Emeritus Club the guest artist for the Fine Arts Festival, States will fight it out for the NCAA breakfast is scheduled for the morning opera soprano Karen Holvik ('76), will team championship, with individual of June 12. conduct an opera workshop. That eve­ and doubles titles also on the line. Kala­ Weekend College - Kalamazoo Col­ ning, a poetry/dance program will be mazoo College is expected to be among lege's Weekend College for alumni will held in Dungeon Theatre. the teams competing for the crown. The take place August 13-14. The topic for The Chamber Orchestra and College tournament will be open to all specta­ study will be Germany. Weekend Col­ Singers will perform May 26 at 8 p.m. in tors at no admission charge. lege provides alumni an on-campus Dalton Theatre. The Alumni Arts Awards weekend vacation and reunion with will be presented May 27 at the Fine DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD other alumni coupled with an in-depth Arts Festival dinner, followed by a con­ Dr. Harold W. Brown ('24) is the recip­ study of a particular topic. cert of songs and operatic selections by ient of the 1982 Distinguished Alumnus Trip to Stratford- Kalamazoo Col­ Karen Holvik in Dalton Theatre. The Award from Kalamazoo College. The lege has arranged, for alumni only, a trip Fine Arts Festival chapel service will award is given annually by the College at to Stratford, Ontario's, Shakespeare Fes­ wind up the week's activities on May 28 its Founders' Day ceremony each April. tival the weekend of September 3-5. Pro­ at 10 a.m. in Stetson Chapel. All events Brown earned his MD from Vander­ ductions to be seen are Julius Caesar, are open to alumni and friends of the bilt, a doctorate in public health from The Tempest, The Merry Wives of Wind­ College. Harvard, and an SeD degree from Johns sor, and George Bernard Shaw's Arms Kalamazoo College's Festival Play­ Hopkins University. He taught public and the Man. house gets underway this summer un­ health at the University of North Caroli­ Brigantine Sail - A Brigantine Sail der the aegis of its new executive direc­ na from 1937-43 and preventive medi­ for "K" alumni is scheduled to begin tor, Clair Myers, professor oftheatre and cine and parasitology at Duke Universi­ September 18 and last for three to four communication arts. Myers takes over ty from 1938-43. In 1943, he became days. Participants will act as crew for Nelda Balch, founder and director of professor of parasitology at Columbia members in sailing the 60-foot brigan­ Festival Playhouse since 1964 until her University and parasitologist at Presby­ tine from Windsor, Ontario, to Toronto. retirement from the College last year. terian Hospital, serving in both posi­ Homecoming - Homecoming at Kal­ Productions tentatively scheduled for tions until his retirement. He has re­ amazoo College will be October 22-24. this summer are Tintypes, a musical ceived "outstanding teacher" awards Sporting events, reunions, parties, revue directed by Myers; You Can't from both Duke and Columbia, and the dances, special alumni mini-classes, Take It With You, directed by Balch; and New York Academy of Medicine pre­ and lots of food and good cheer are guar­ Twelfth Night, directed by Lowry Mar­ sented him with its Academy Medal in anteed. All alumni are welcome, but shall, assistant professor of theatre and 1969. special reunions have been planned for communication arts. Dates and times Brown has served as a consultant in the classes of '37, '42, '47, '52, '57, '62, had not been established at press time, medical education to institutions all '67, '72, and '77. In addition, the 20th but there will be at least one production over the world, and has participated in anniversary reunion of Kalamazoo Col­ scheduled each weekend of July and the development of drugs used to treat lege's undefeated football team of 1962 August. hookworm and roundworm. His text­ is scheduled. For further information on the Fine book, Basic Clinical Parasitology, is For information on any of these Arts Festival or Festival Playhouse, call considered "the textbook in parasitol­ events, call or write the Alumni Rela­ the College's Fine Arts Office at (616) ogy" and has been published in nine tions Office (616-383-8527). 383-8511. languages.

14 K Magazine JOANNE LENT HY AMES RAYMOND H. COMEAU President, Kalamazoo College Director of Alumni Relations Alumni Association

As my term as President draws to a close, I wish to I started work in late December of 1981. It was a pro­ take this opportunity to share some of the highlights in pitious time, with '81 winding down and a new year alumni activities of the past two years. beginning. (The word "January" derives from Janus, a In June, 1980, the Board of Trustees appointed an Roman god and patron of beginnings.) I came in with Alumni Task Force to examine the relationship be­ plans and ideas for the work to be done. I was pleased tween alumni and the Alumni Association and College to find an eager, cooperative group of Alumni Council programs. This task force and an ad hoc committee of the executive board of the Board of Trustees met members. Committees were in place, waiting for direc­ throughout 1980 and 1981 and presented several ideas tions. In a flurry of activity several committees were and recommendations to the trustees, including: launched - Admissions, Alumni Networks, Career 1. The creation of the position of Director of Alumni Development, Student Activities, and Class Agents. Relations and the strengthening of the position of During the next 12-18 months, I will put a great deal Alumni Coordinator. of energy into setting up Alumni Networks in cities 2. Creating an Alumni Relations Committee of the Board of Trustees as a regular, standing committee. around the country. In each area, I am looking for peo­ 3. The strengthening of the relationship between ple to serve on four-member committees - a person alumni and the College. responsible for Admissions, another for Car!'Jer Devel­ Dr. Raymond Comeau became our leader, Director of opment, one for alumni events, and a convener to bring Alumni Relations, in December of 1981. In February, the committee together. We are hard at work writing 1982, Evie Mills was hired as Assistant to the Director "job descriptions" and supporting material for each of Alumni Relations. Ray, Evie, and Marcia Price are position. This structure will enable us to enlist alumni forming a "crack" team to carry the work of alumni. support for the College in significant areas as we stride Beginning in June, 1981, the Alumni Association Ex­ purposefully into the 1980s. ecutive Board adopted a new committee structure, and each member is now responsible for either heading or As we move forward, the Sesquicentennial offers us serving on a committee dealing with the various as­ an opportunity to look back and reflect on a strong tra­ pects of the College community. dition. The theme for the year-long celebration is espe­ The Sesquicentennial Committee, under the able di­ cially appropriate- A Tradition of Excellence. While rection of Dean of the Chapel Bob Dewey, has been looking back and forward at the same time (Janus was functioning for well over a year now. On page 2 of this also a two-faced god looking in opposite directions), I issue of K Magazine there is a calendar of most of the found it instructive to examine the root meaning of the events to be held during the year-long celebration of word "alumni." It comes from the Latin word alere, the 150 years since the founding of Kalamazoo College. meaning "to nourish, support, rear, sustain, increase." I hope that each alumnus/a will be so interested and ex­ cited about the Sesquicentennial activities that he or In Latin, "alumni" refers to "foster sons" and by con­ she will be on campus at least once during the year. vention came to be the generic term for all former stu­ Funds for the Future was a tremendous success dents, graduates or not, and referred to both men and thanks to many alumni throughout the country. The fu­ women. ture looks bright. The Alumni Association Executive I will leave for another time an examination of there­ Board and Ray Comeau have several new and innova­ lationship between those who nourish and those who tive ideas that will involve alumni all over the country. are nourished; the relationship between a parent and Regionally, you will have an opportunity to work with offspring, between an institution and its foster child­ the on-campus offices of Admissions, Career Develop­ ment, Alumni Relations, and others. A survey will be ren; the responsibilities and obligations of each. For sent to you in the fall to find your special interests and now, it is enough to say the course is set. It is my mis­ talents. Locally, we are excited about the possibility of sion to figure out ways to establish, and in many cases establishing an Alumni House on campus. reestablish, the bonds between an institution with a Lastly, I wish to thank each of you for your support long tradition of excellence and its foster sons/daugh­ and for allowing me the opportunity to serve as Presi­ ters with pride in being a part of the tradition. dent of the Alumni Association. I look forward to watching the programs grow into more meaningful re­ lationships between the College and its alumni.

K Magazine 15 CLASS NOTES

1914 Linn, has just been published by Alfred A. published a book entitled The Early History Knopf,lnc. of Cogan House Township, which tells the Bessie Todd Rivenburg died January 2 in story of Cogan House Township in West Vir­ Kalamazoo. She taught at Kalamazoo Central ginia. Carl is a retired teacher. High School and later was secretary for the 1927 Thomas Shepherd died February 27 in Louise Barrows Northam has been re­ First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo for 14 elected president of the Southwestern Mich­ years. She was a life member of the Order of Scottsdale, Arizona. He was employed by Sutherland Paper Company and the Con­ igan Post Card Club. She and Maynard the Eastern Star, Corinthian Chapter; past Conrad served as co-chairpersons of the class worthy high priestess of the White Shrine of tainer Corp. of America before founding his own company, Shepherd Products Com­ of 1936's 45th reunion in October 1981. A Jerusalem; and a past president of the Kala­ get-together of class members at the home of mazoo Business and Professional Women's pany. During World War II he served in the Maynard and Gene Conrad on October 30 Club. She was preceded in death by her hus­ Office of Price Administration in Washing­ ton, D.C. He was a lifelong member of the was attended by 29 persons, while 33 at­ band, Romeyn, in 1961. She is survived by a tended the formal reunion dinner October 31. stepdaughter, two step-grandchildren, a sis­ First Presbyterian Church of Kalamazoo. His ter, and several nieces and nephews. first wife, Lavinia, preceded him in death in 1969. He is survived by his second wife, 1937 1923 Milli, 6925 E. Cheney, Box 584, Scottsdale, Cornelia Smith Vaughan died January 6 Earl H. Brown died on December 11, 1981, Arizona, 85252; one brother; two nieces and in Pompano Beach, Florida. She was active in Sheffield, Alabama. While a student at "K" two nephews; and 14 great-nieces and in the Drama Club and Alpha Epsilon Delta he served as president of the Sherwoods and nephews. while at "K," and was a member of the Ameri­ can Association of University Women. She the Chemistry Club, and treasurer of the senior class. He received a master's degree 1928 was preceded in death by her husband, in 1926 and a PhD in 1927 from Brown Uni­ Dale 0. Jackson died August 18, 1981, in George, in 1979. versity. He taught chemistry at Wabash Col­ Richland, Michigan. 1938 lege and Antioch College from 1927 to 1934. He was employed by the Tennessee Valley 1929 Eugene McKean is co-author and editor of Authority from 1934 to 193 7 and the General John E. Bentley died January 19 in Ft. the recently published book, Richland­ Chemical Company from 1937 to 1941. In Myers, Florida. He is survived by his wife, From Its Prairie Beginnings, a history of the 1941, he rejoined the Tennessee Valley Genevieve Rood Bentley, 386 Keenan village from 1830 to 1976. He is retired from Authority. In 1945, he was co-author of a Avenue, Ft. Myers, 33907. the Upjohn Research Institute of Kalamazoo. collection of papers on analytical control of ammonia syntheses. Earlier work included 1933 1941 time on the historic Manhattan Project at Raymond Gibson died January 15 in William J. Lawrence, Jr. has been elected Columbia University. Later he and his co­ Bradenton, Florida. He was the owner of a vice-president of the Park Club in workers synthesized 25 new calcium pyro­ farm supply business until his retirement Kalamazoo. phosphates, which had far-reaching effects recently. He is survived by his wife, Betty, 1942 in fertilizer for food production and in the 1203 Denarvaez Avenue, Bradenton, 33507; treatment of arthritic inflamations. He pub­ and two sons. Charles E. Schilling is a chemistry in­ lished many articles in various journals, held Theone Tyrrell Hughes was granted structor of the State Technical Institute at five patents, and was listed in American Men retirement with emeritus status by Western Knoxville, Tennessee. of Science. He retired from the TVA in 1965 Michigan University, where she had taught Carl R. Simon, executive presbyter of the as a senior chemist and chief of a fundamen­ English for 17 years. Presbytery of Milwaukee for the United tal research area. Dr. Brown worked as a Presbyterian Church, was one of four reli­ volunteer with children in the local system 1935 gious leaders who met with the police chief and served as an active member of the Boy of Milwaukee to attempt to improve police­ Scouts for over 50 years. He was honored by Donald F. Richardson died February 14 community relations. The meeting was the Emeritus Club of the College as one of in Marco Island, Florida. He was employed reported in a story in the February 18 edition its citation recipients in 1976. Survivors by the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo until of the Milwaukee Journal. include his wife, Adrienne Cheney Brown his retirement in 1972, when he moved to {'25), 104 Hiwassee Avenue, Sheffield, Ala­ Florida. He was preceded in death by his first 1943 bama, 35660; and four children, Richard wife, Wilma Crooks Richardson {'34). He is survived by his second wife, Jeane, 1240 Quentin R. Verdier is president of A+ ('50), Janet Brown DesAutels ('51), Alberta Ability Consultants in Madison, Wisconsin. Brown Taylor ('52). and Alice Brown Laurel Court, Marco Island, 33937; a son and Walker. daughter; and two grandchildren. Kenneth A. Mantele died December 12, 1944 1981, in Downey, California. He participated Margaret Foley Staake represented Kala­ 1924 in tennis and football, and was a member of mazoo College at the inauguration of William Vera Hill Young died January 25 in Eustis, the Science Club and the Glee Club while a Rankin Dill as president of Babson College Florida. She taught for many years in the student at "K." He received a master's degree on October 2, 1981. Muskegon, Michigan, public schools and in bacteriology in 1938 from the University was past president of the Junior Women's of Michigan and an MD from its medical 1946 Club in Muskegon. She was also active in school in 1943. He had a private practice in L. J. and Marilyn Sharp Wetherbee live in the Muskegon Garden Club, Hackley Hospi­ obstetrics and gynecology in Downey. He Northport, Michigan. He has been elected tal Guild, Mercy Hospital Guild, and Third was a member of the Los Angeles Athletic president of the board of trustees for Division of St. Paul's Guild of Muskegon. She Club and several medical groups. Survivors Leelanau Memorial Hospital. moved to Eustis in 1977, where she was a include his wife, Osma Mantele, 7731 member of the St. Thomas Episcopal Church. DePalma, Downey, California, 90241; and a 1947 She is survived by a sister and two nieces. son and a daughter. Robert D. Dewey, dean of the chapel at Kal­ Harold B. Allen's Readings in Applied amazoo College, played the role of Norman English Linguistics, prepared in collabora­ 1936 Thayer in the Kalamazoo Civic Players pro­ tion with one of his former students, Michael Carl B. Taylor and Milton W. Landis have duction of On Golden Pond.

16 K Magazine 1948 PROSPECTIVE Russell Strong has completed his book on the U.S. Eighth Air Force's 306th bombard­ ment group. The book, entitled First Over STUDENT Germany, was published in March. Russ was the principal speaker at the celebration last REFERRAL January of the 40th anniversary of that unit's by Kalamazoo College alumni organization. He also publishes a newsletter for about 1,000 former members of the 306th. Do you know of high school students He is director of alumni relations at Western who meet Kalamazoo College's academ­ Michigan University. Caroline Richardson Ham, mayor of Kala­ ic standards and may be interested in mazoo, has been promoted to associate hearing more about the College's pro­ director of the L. Lee Stryker Center for gram? Management and Educational Services at Robert A. Stowe ('48) The College will be happy to contact Kalamazoo. She is responsible for directing the Center's courses and seminars and any student you refer. Simply complete supervising the Center's office. In January, Lee Koopsen has been appointed a mem­ the form below and send it to the Admis­ she was honored by the Kalamazoo Network ber of the new Downtown Development sions Office. Please attach additional for her contribution "to the betterment and Authority in Kalamazoo. He is president of sheets if you wish to refer more than one support of women." Koopsen's Paint and Wallpaper Company. student. Eleanor Humphrey Pinkham is serving on the coordinating committee of the Kala­ 1951 Complete and mail the form below to: mazoo Consortium of the four institutions of Vic Braden was the featured speaker at Director of Admissions, Kalamazoo Col­ higher education in Kalamazoo. She is the the Sixth Annual Tennis Workshop in Feb­ lege, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49007. librarian at Kalamazoo College. ruary sponsored by the Michigan High You can refer students by phone. Just Robert A. Stowe has been elected chair­ School Tennis Coaches Association. call (616) 383-8408, or toll-free in Mich­ man of the Division of Industrial and Engi­ William G. Clark has made several pres­ neering Chemistry of the American Chemical entations of his slide and sound show igan 1-800-632-5757, outside Michigan Society. This organization provides a forum entitled Brigantine '81, which chronicles the 1-800-253-3602. for professional interaction between indus­ experiences of "K" alumni in sailing the 65- ALUMNI PROSPECTIVE trial chemists and chemical engineers. Bob foot brigantine "St. Lawrence" from Windsor STUDENT REFERRAL is associate scientist in the organic chemicals to Kingston, Ontario, through Lake Erie, the research laboratory for Dow Chemical in Welland Canal. and Lake Ontario. For the Midland. In his 30-year career with Dow, Bob last several years, alumni have helped return Your name------is best known for his work in catalysis and the ship to home port after "K" Land/Sea stu­ catalytic processes. He has written numerous dents return from the Canadian wilderness Sueet ______scientific papers and received national in it. recognition as co-winner of the Victor J. Azbe City ------A ward from the National Lime Association. 1952 Lewis A. Crawford represented Kalama­ State ------1949 zoo College at the inauguration of Gresham Dick Meyerson spoke to the February Riley as president of Colorado College on Zip ------Class year _____ meeting of the Kalamazoo Percolator Club October 2, 1981. on business incentives and traditions of salesmanship. He is associate agency man­ 1954 Prospect name ______ager at Equitable Life Assurance Society in Bertram ('55) and Alice Dill Vermeulen Ann Arbor. live in Fremont, Michigan. After 27 years of ·Joseph Pizzat received the 1981 "out­ service in the ministry of the Methodist Street ------standing art educator" award from the Penn­ Church, Bert has taken a leave of absence and sylvania Art Education Association. He is since January, 1979, has been executive City------professor of art at Mercyhurst College in Erie, director of the Fremont Area Foundation. Pennsylvania. Alice is director of direct services for Newago State------Zip----- County Community Services, a public non­ 1950 profit charitable organization. Phone (area code)------Art Leighton is a regional sales represen­ tative for Victor tennis strings and Davis ten­ 1955 High school ______nis racquets. He frequently serves as anum­ Marion Johns Dodson represented Kala- pire at tennis tournaments, and works the mazoo College at the inauguration of James School address ------USTA National Boys Championships at Kal­ Albert Gardner as president of Lewis and amazoo College. He was chair umpire in Clark College on November 15, 1981. January for the stormy match between Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe in the finals of 1958 the Michelob Light Challenge Tournament Kenneth ('59) and Margaret Youngs Axtell Year of graduation------in Chicago. have formed a corporation, with Margaret as Shirley Hill Hasty is a social studies president, to own and operate the Baskin- Interests ------teacher at South Aiken High School in Aiken, Robbins Ice Cream Shop in colonial Willi- South Carolina. amsburg, Virginia.

K Magazine 17 George V. Pixley is the author of God's February, 1976). Chris's business, Children's Kingdom, a guide for Biblical study pub­ Performance Tours, continues to visit more lished in 1977 by Orbis Books, which has than 125 schools every year. He is also one of recently become a very popular study book. six New York artists-in-the-schools for the George has been professor of Old Testament second year in a row. at the Seminario Bautista in Mexico City Richard L. Halpert, a Kalamazoo attorney, since 1975. was the commentator for a videotaped semi­ nar on courtroom tactics, produced by the 1959 University of Michigan's Institute of Contin­ David C. MacLeod has been appointed uing Legal Education. emergency preparedness coordinator by the Robert Belair, an attorney in Arlington, Kalamazoo Township Board of Trustees. He Virginia, and former counsel to the National will oversee the formation of a disaster proce­ Commission on the Confidentiality of Health dure plan for the township. He has a master's Records, argued in the December 13, 1981, degree in geography from the University of issue of Family Weekly that patients should Michigan. have direct access to their medical records. William Clapp ('63) Alan R. Kirk is a citizen involvement spe­ 1960 cialist for the city of Salem, Oregon. Manfred E. Schubert represented Kalama­ Dick Francois has accepted the position zoo College at the inauguration of William J. Bruce A. Timmons is legal counsel of the of director of development at California Teague as president of Abilene Christian Legislative Service Bureau of the Michigan State University in Fresno beginning July 1. Legislature. University on February 20. He has served as associate director of college Joanne Lent Hyames has been elected Mara Abolins is assistant director of the relations at Linfield College jn McMinnville, treasurer of Volunteer Services of Kalama­ English Language and Multicultural Institute Oregon, since 1978. zoo. She is director of special services for the in Dayton, Ohio. Kalamazoo County Juvenile Court. Joan VanDeusen West has completed her 1970 William Japinga has been appointed coach PhD in French literature and is currently an Judith Sutterlin is a second-year student of the men's tennis team at Hope College. He assistant professor in foreign languages at at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. She is an assistant professor of business admin­ the University of Idaho. previously taught mathematics in Columbus, istration at Hope. He has an MBA degree from Wisconsin. Northwestern University and recently com­ 1966 Thomas L. Fisher died January 13 in the pleted a doctoral study program in marketing John W. Ditzler Jr. represented Kalamazoo Washington, D.C. Air Florida plane crash. He from Northwestern. Prior to joining the Hope College at the inauguration of Herbert Hal was a consultant on housing for the handi­ faculty in 1981, he served as director of ten­ Reynolds as president of Baylor University capped and worked in Washington. He is nis and head professional at the Holland on September 18, 1981. survived by his parents, John and Jeannette Tennis Club. Fisher, 1713 Barney Road, Kalamazoo; two 1961 1967 grandmothers; one sister; and two brothers. Patricia Minkler Adams is chairperson of Shirley and Eric Anderson announce the Curtis C. Haan has been elected to fill an the Kalamazoo County Parks and Recreation birth of a son, Kristopher, on July 4, 1981. unexpired term on the Kalamazoo County Commission. They live in Monona, Iowa, where they are Board of Commissioners. He is president of Thomas J. Roberts and his wife, Karen, "totally enjoying life on the farm and in small town Iowa." Bosma Painting and Surface Coating Com­ announce the birth of a daughter, Anna, on pany in Kalamazoo. He and his wife, Mar­ October 6, 1981. They live in Ann Arbor. David and Sandra Chin Corp ('72) an­ garet Jackson Haan ('62), have four Joseph B. Stulberg is associate professor nounce the birth of a daughter, Piper, on June children. of management at the City University of New 16, 1981. David is an electrical engineer in 1962 York's Baruch College. the National Battery Testing Laboratory of Ronald Sharp is working on his second Argonne National Labs. Sandra is in family Thomas and Marylyn Lindsey Moon live book with the support of a grant from the practice in Downers Grove, Illinois. in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He recently National Endowment for the Humanities, Dale E. Tuller teaches history at the Uni­ co-authored a text on water pollution while he is on sabbatical from his teaching versity of Hartford and University of Con­ biology. position at Kenyon College. His first book, necticut-Hartford. She is active in a new his­ 1963 Keats, Skepticism, and the Religion of tory organization, the Connecticut Center Beauty, was published in 1979. for Independent Historians. Ronald W. Hooker teaches broadcast jour­ nalism and is reorganizing and expanding 1971 the two-year broadcasting career program at 1968 Owen C. Hardy is an arts critic for the Mount Royal College in Alberta, Canada. Stephanie Zaidman Sexton is a social Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal. William Clapp is director of engineering studies teacher at Pilgrim High School, Christine A. Blakeney recently graduated and marketing for the Industrial Control Rhode Island. Last year she received a federal from medical school at Michigan State Uni­ Division of Allen-Bradley, a manufacturer of grant which enabled her to upgrade the versity. She is currently completing a rotat­ industrial automation control systems and school system's law education program and ing internship at Lansing General Hospital. equipment based in Milwaukee. William is purchase much-needed supplies. She and She will begin a pediatrics residency in a member of the American Management her husband, Sherry, live in Danielson, Con­ Lansing in July, 1982. Christine lives in East Association and the Institute of Electrical necticut. Lansing with her daughter, Annie Laurie, and Electronic Engineers. age 2%. 1969 Aloysius and Elizabeth Mcintyre Soen­ 1964 Chris and Rebecca Bloomquist Holder an­ neker announce the birth of a daughter, Larry Barrett and his wife, Eve, announce nounce the birth of a son, Samuel Dorn, on Marlayna Ann, on October 11, 1981. Eliza­ the birth of a daughter, Allison, on December May 10, 1981. He joins sister Molly (born beth is employed by the Association for 30, 1981. November, 1979) and brother Ben (born Retarded of Oregon.

18 K Magazine PeterS. Tippett and Janet M. Weiland ('76) 1972 live in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Peter received Michael and Sally Krause Killian live in his PhD in biochemistry from Case Western Birmingham, Michigan. Michael is director Reserve in 1981 and expects to receive his of public affairs for the William Beaumont MD from the same school in 1983. Janet is Hospital System. Sally is a disability an attorney with the firm of Jones, Day, examiner for the Federal Social Security Reavis, and Pogue of Cleveland. Disability Program. They have two children -Sean, seven, and Erin, four. 1976 Daryl S. Larke completed his medical de­ Leslie Drake Carlton was married in No­ gree at Northwestern in 1976, served as vember, 1981. She teaches French at Howell orthopedic surgery resident at the Cleve­ High School, Michigan. land Clinic from 1976-81, and has started Timothy C. Smith is a sales representative practice in orthopedic surgery at the Central for American Hospital Supply Corp. in Plains Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Ypsilanti, Michigan. in July, 1981. He and his wife, Sue Ann, have Mark Henderson is a student at Arizona two children- Stacy, 3'/z, and Andrea, Craig Hodges ('76) State University. one. David N. Anderson lives in Genesco, John Fetzer, owner of the Detroit Tigers Illinois, where he works for John Deere In­ and recipient of an honorary degree from "K" Health Project for USAID in New Delhi, In­ surance. in 1972, received the 1981 August Busch Jr. dia. Craig Hodges is assistant professor of Award for meritorious service to baseball. Linda Kulma Russow is a dentist. She lives church music at Campbellsville College, Stan and Diane Congdon Larimer are the in Longwood, Florida. Kentucky. He is working on his PhD disser­ parents of three children-Jennifer, age five; tation at Southern Baptist Theological Samantha, age three; and Phillip Edson, who 1974 Seminary. was born May 23, 1981. They reside on a mini Ron Klein recently completed his PhD in Joseph M. Thomson and Constance tree farm outside Goshen, Indiana. molecular biology at the University of Wis­ Shemas were married December 2 7, 1981, in Rozalyn and John Klein announce the consin. He is now a research associate in Sylvania, Ohio. They live in Toledo, Ohio, birth of their first child, a daughter, Kathyrn biology and chemistry at Massachusetts In­ where both are attorneys. Baird Klein, on October 17, 1981. John is a stitute of Technology, where he has set up a Jo Robin Davis lives in Huntington Woods, partner in the law firm of Breit, Rutter, and cloning laboratory to study the expression Michigan, where she is an attorney for Dice, Montagna in Norfolk, Virginia. He earned a of "foreign" genes in yeast. He and his wife, Sweeney, Sullivan, and Feikens. master's degree from Western Michigan Kathie, and daughter, Deanna (6'12), and son, Holly and Robert Nolan announce the University in 1973 and a juris doctor degree Robby (4'12), are enjoying life in Cambridge. birth of a son, Brian, on December 20, 1981. from the law school at the College of William Meow-Khim Lim is a teaching assistant at and Mary in 1976. the University of Washington. She has com­ 1977 pleted two years of course work for her PhD Brian ('78) and Linda DeRose Koppy an­ in international communications and has nounce the birth of a son, David, on January 1973 begun her dissertation research. 24, 1982. Karen Griffin and John Thomson an­ Richard Barno is customer relations man­ Kathryn Fox has been promoted to mar­ nounce the birth of a son, Owen, on Sep­ ager for Xerox Corp. in Northhampton, keting manager for Training, the Magazine tember 5, 1981. Karen is a free-lance re­ Ohio. of Human Resources Development, based in searcher/consultant in Washington, D.C. Susan Coon and Conrad Weiser announce Minneapolis. Harold A. Sutherland has been serving as the birth of a daughter, Sarah Emily Jane John J. Pipoly III is a PhD student in plant interim minister of public ministries for Weiser, on February 27 in Raleigh, North systematics at the New York Botanical American Baptist Churches of the West. He Carolina. Garden. lives in San Francisco. Peter W. Turnbull and Colleen Buchanan M. Shelley Leasia is a nursing instructor David A. Walczak is a sports reporter in were married in Portland, Oregon, on Sep­ in White Plains, New York. Germany for the U.S. Army newspaper tember 6, 1981. They live in San Rafael, Epropean Stars and Stripes. California. 1978 Doug Deer has been installed as pastor of Sharron Brown Gasior is a personnel as­ the First Baptist Church of Franklinville, 1975 sistant for Duty Free Shoppers Limited, a New York. He and his wife, Susan, have two Lad Hanka produces etchings which have large retail organization specializing in duty­ children, David and Katherine. They pre­ been exhibited in several galleries in Michi­ free merchandise located at the Anchorage viously lived in Geary, Oklahoma, where he gan and in several foreign countries. He and International Airport, Alaska. had ministered to two Indian churches for his art were the subject of a feature article Andy Angelo works at the Detroit bureau five years. recently in the Kalamazoo Gazette. of the Associated Press. Roger Tolle's Dance Company gave several Tom Flynn received a graduate degree Susan E. Kaiser was assistant to the performances last January in New York's from the LBJ School of Public Affairs in director, Steve Gordon, of the motion pic­ Schoenberg Theater. A review of the per­ Austin, Texas, in May, 1980. He is now ture, Arthur. formanctJ appeared in the New York Times. budget analyst for the city of Charlotte, North P. Bryan Lilly and Karen A. Buckingham Jerry Rosen, an attorney in Southfield, Carolina, and teaches economics at Central ('79) have announced their engagement and Michigan, is campaigning for a seat in the Piedmont Community College in Charlotte. plan a September 18 wedding. He is an EMT U.S. House of Representatives. Deborah Bank completed her MBA at In­ specialist for Mercy Ambulance of Kalama­ Gail Raiman is director of information at diana University and now works for AT&T zoo and she is employed by Someplace Else Rollins College in Virginia. in Southfield, Michigan, as a marketing staff of Battle Creek. Marty Makinen is an economist for live­ supervisor. David S. Fisher has been promoted to as­ stock marketing study in Niger for the Uni­ Ellen Dunlap is a driving instructor for the sistant investment officer at First National versity of Michigan. In 1981, he served as a Metropolitan Transit Commission in Bank and Trust Company of Michigan. consultant on Integrated Maternal and Child Minneapolis. Carol Lynne Wait and Anders E. Bergh

K Magazine 19 have announced their engagement and plan Mary Seaberg and Kenneth E. King were a May 15 wedding. Carol is a lab assistant at married on June 6, 1981, in Grosse Pointe, the Upjohn Company. Michigan. They now live in Ann Arbor. Laurie Jo Wechter is a cab driver and free­ Len Pasek is a graduate assistant in com­ lance artist in Ann Arbor. mercial Spanish and international trade at John E. McVey is a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University. In May, he will Clemson University. begin working for a Spanish multinational Deborah Stucky Barker is director of firm in Madrid for four to six months. Suzuki Talent Education of Michiana in David M. Harris is manager of Freeman's Osceola, Indiana. Piano Warehouse in Houston and plays Lindsay Rundles and Kenneth Jakubow­ piano professionally. ski were married July 11 , 1981, in Flint, Michigan. Andre Rachmaninoff ('79) served 1980 as best man. Many other "K" alumni also at­ Marie MacNee received an MAin English tended the wedding. The couple live in Ann with honors at the University of Chicago last Arbor, where he is an economics and invest­ December. She has received a fellowship for ment analyst for Ford Motor Company and Len Pasek ('79) study toward her PhD at the University of she is the lead singer for the Emerald City Chicago. Band and is recording independently with a Rodney Rhoad is a sales representative producer in Detroit. ney for Landman, Luyendyk, Latimer, Clink for Varco Business Forms in Byron Center, Michael L. Shiparski and Laurie A. and Robb. Michigan. Manske were married August 22, 1981. They Neil Tollas is a graduate student at Cornell Nancy Deming is a graduate student in live in Comstock Park, where he is an attor- University. social work at West Virginia University. James E. Shave is a programmer/consult­ Bradley A. Smith has been appointed vice­ ant for ADP Network Services in Brussels. consul at the U.S. Consulate in Guayaquil, Thomas LaBarge completed his MBA at Ecuador. KALAMAZOO the University of Chicago in August, 1981, Drew Shiemke co-authored a paper with and is now planning analyst for Family Lines Bill Thies ('82) and Thomas Smith, assistant COLLEGE Rail System in Jacksonville, Florida. professor of chemistry at "K." The paper Donna MacMurray is manager of internal appeared last year in the Journal of the INDEX control for the International Operations De­ American Chemical Societ;. partment of First National Bank of Chicago. AI Milham is managing director of the Richard A. Bitzinger is a graduate student Reading the Kalamazoo College Index Briarwood Development Company in Kala­ in international studies at Monterey Institute mazoo. provides an opportunity to become in­ of International Studies, California. volved with the College community, Ann Keyser Gary is a second-year student 1981 discover who the students are and what in the MBA program at Boston University. Stephen Thoburn is a Fulbright Scholar at views they represent, and learn which Last summer, she, Susan Kaiser, Tim House the University of Trier, West Germany. items are of interest on campus. You ('72), and other friends took a trip to Cutty­ Louis Remynse and Mary K. Brinks have now have an opportunity to subscribe to hunk Island, Massachusetts. announced their engagement. He is a first the Index for five dollars a year. Sub­ year medical student at the University of scriptions begin summer quarter of 1982 1979 Michigan. and include six to seven issues per quar­ Len Chase is an instructor at the Kalama­ Anne Vermuelen received her BA in ter. zoo Nature Center. psychology from Michigan State in Sep­ Mark D. Sundstrand and Becky L. Bald­ tember, 1981. She is program director of the Fill out the form below, make your win have announced their engagement. They Assault Crisis Center in Fremont, Michigan. check or money order payable to Kala­ plan an August 21 wedding. Mark is bond Mary Ellen Geist is a radio announcer mazoo College Index, and send to: manager of the J. M. Wilson Corp. doing news and a jazz show for WPZ and Doug Doetsch has received a graduate WMBN in Petoskey, and sings with a local Kalamazoo College Index scholarship from the Rotary Foundation of jazz band. Kalamazoo College Rotary International for the 1982-83 aca­ William D. Pierce is a junior field engineer 1200 Academy Street demic year. He will study European and for Dresser Industries in Wyoming. Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007 African history and economics at the Uni­ Mark Clyne is a scientific programmer for versity of Dakar, Senegal. He is employed the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo. with Data Resources, Inc. Douglas Behrend and Stephanie Teasley Name ______Doug Dow and Pamela Fiebig were married live in Minneapolis, where he is a PhD can­ December 26, 1981, in Kalamazoo. They live didate at the University of Minnesota's in Chicago, where Doug is employed by the Institute for child development. She is em­ Street ------law firm of Orner and Wasserman and is ployed at Home Away Shelter as a child care working on his PhD at the University of consultant. City------Chicago. Amy Van Domelen works in the planning Andre Rachmaninoff is an engineering department of the city of Anchorage, Alaska. State ______Zip _____ student at the University of Michigan. She is working for Richard Sewell ('79). Angeli Lansing Lally is a clerk in the com­ James A. White is a senior technician in Please check: mercialloans department of Manufacturers the process research department of Glidden­ Hanover Mortgage Corp. She lives in Canton, Durkee Division of SCM Corporation in Michigan. Strongsville, Ohio. 0 Parent 0 Friend Elizabeth R. Cohen is teacher/counselor at Brent E. Hale is a student in the dental Concord/ As sa let School in Concord, Massa­ school at Northwestern University, Chicago 0 Alumnus/a (class of ___ ) chusetts. Campus.

20 K Magazine SESQUICENTENNIAL SPOTLIGHT When J. A. B. and Lucinda Hinsdale Stone came to "K, "the institution was foundering. They turned it into a thriving, coeducational college with high academic standards.

By Ann M. Graham The increase in enrollment enabled the Kalamazoo Branch to hire more ithin the Kalamazoo College com­ teachers, including one for the Female Wmunity, J. A. B. and Lucinda Department. The Michigan and Huron Hinsdale Stone are often remembered Institute had been coeducational. How­ for their role in a scandal that rocked ever, some residents of Kalamazoo and the College in the early 1860s. However, the authorities of the University of they ought to be acknowledged as well Michigan did not believe in coeduca­ for their efforts to establish high aca­ tion. Thus, when the school became a demic standards for the College as a whole and for its female students in particular. The Stones strove to provide A. B. Stone was a progressive education for all who J. desired it. proponent of education In 1843, when J. A. B. Stone became for women, and he put president of what was to become Kala­ mazoo College, the institution was the Female Department foundering. Chartered in 1833 as the Michigan and Huron Institute, the into the very able hands school had thus far never enjoyed suc­ of his wife. cess. Its enrollment was always small and its resources, meager. In 1840, funds became so limited that the school branch of the university, a Female was forced to relinquish its private Department was established for all its status and become the Kalamazoo women students and they received Branch of the University of Michigan. "ladies' diplomas" upon graduation. In Some financial security resulted, but fact, however, too few women enrolled soon the school was again in danger of in the department to allow it to be in a folding. In 1842, a central university separate building or have a separate in­ was opened in Ann Arbor and state sup­ structor. Until the fall of 1843, men and port for the branches was halved. In the women sat in the same classroom and summer of 1843, William Dutton, the studied the same subjects under the Kalamazoo Branch's president and only same teacher. When the enrollment teacher, resigned because his salary had rose, though, the trustees pushed been cut again and again until it was Dr. Stone to separate the Female extremely inadequate. Department. With the appointment of Dr. Stone as One might argue that without strong president and chief teacher, the Kala­ leadership this department would have mazoo Branch began to prosper. The soon closed, since few people in Kala­ enrollment rose from 65 students in mazoo or at the University of Michigan 1842-43 to 86 students in 1843-44. The seem to have been convinced that education for women was a good or J.A.B. and Lucinda Hinsdale Stone - Pro­ additional students' tuition supple­ gressive education for all who desired it. mented the Branch's resources. Perhaps necessary thing. Many may have hoped Dr. Stone's reputation as an excellent that the department would fail and the educator influenced more parents to institution become all-male. J.A.B. send their children to the Branch. Per­ Stone, however, was a proponent of haps the school's newfound success education for women, and he put the may be attributed to the general im­ department into the very able hands of provement of the community's financial his wife. situation. The depression which began s principal of the Female Depart­ in 1839 had devastated Kalamazoo. In A ment, Lucinda Stone made most of the fall of 1843, its effects were wearing the decisions concerning the course of off; more young people could pursue study to be pursued. A supporter of an education. coeducation, she would have preferred to administer and teach in a coeduca­ Ann M. Graham is assistant to the tional school. Nonetheless, she realized librarian at Kalamazoo College and a that separate education for women was 19~1 graduate of the College. better than none. Having attended a female seminary herself as a young woman, she had already decided that

K Magazine 21 what was most important for such a Thus, she required the instructors under students of all Christian faiths to enroll. school was for it to teach female stu­ her to read current literature and schol­ Her later writings would lead one to dents to think in the abstract. She had arship. She also asked them to read and believe that Lucinda Stone would not found her peers at the Middlebury re-read classical works and, before they have objected if non-Christians Female Seminary to be affected and lectured, to review the texts that they enrolled. petty, and she believed that their were about to use, no matter how many J. A. B. Stone resigned his position teachers, in instructing them only in times they had studied them. She on the same day. Until shortly before frivolous subjects, had encouraged thought that re-reading resulted in a this time, he had been a popular presi­ them to remain this way. A liberal arts more complete understanding of the dent. During his administration, the ties education would, she thought, have in­ subject before them. with the University of Michigan had fluenced these students to enjoy intel­ To stimulate the intellectual growth been broken and the state had granted lectual pursuits throughout the of her teachers, she encouraged them to the school a college charter. Nonethe­ remainder of their lives. delve into new scholarly pursuits. She less, J. A. B. Stone was said to have For the Female Department of the believed that if they themselves were mismanaged the school's funds. Kalamazoo Branch, Lucinda Stone thus excited about learning, they would be The trustees gladly accepted the developed a liberal arts curriculum. The better able to inspire excitement in their Stones' resignations and encouraged classes were taught at what would be students. She invited these teachers to them to remain in Kalamazoo where considered today to be the late high her home on Saturday evenings to read they were surrounded still by friends. school or early college level. From the out loud and to discuss their own Within a few months, however, even early 1840s to the end of her adminis­ studies or current issues and events. more members of the community turned tration in 1863, Lucinda Stone's charges against them. In March of 1864, J. A. B. learned traditional subjects: grammar, he Female Department expe­ Stone was summoned before the Kala­ history, French, arithmetic, algebra, and T rienced considerable success in mazoo Baptist Church's court to stand astronomy. Although we do not have the first 15 years of Lucinda Stone's trial on charges of sexual misconduct records to support this claim, it may be administration. She and her husband with at least one of his wife's former stu­ assumed that they also studied two of were largely resonsible for this; over the dents. Although Lucinda Stone and her favorite subjects: literature and years, they absorbed almost all of the other supporters actively lobbied for his philosophy. Some enrolled in Greek, expenses related to the department and acquittal, he was found guilty on two Latin, or chemistry classes offered in they wrote and spoke often concerning counts and "denied the hand of fellow­ the school for men. They attended the aims of the school. They headed the ship." chapel exercises each morning, wrote fund drive for money for a new Ladies' Letters used as evidence against Dr. compositions every Wednesday after­ Department building. Stone were soon revealed to have been noon, and vied in prize-reading compe­ From 1843 to 1857, the enrollment in forged and his supporters charged that titions at the end of each term. the department increased steadily. some of the college's trustees had By 1858, the department's curriculum More and more teachers were hired to arranged for the scandal to break. When had expanded to include other modern meet the growing demand for classes. J. A. B. and Lucinda Stone resigned their languages and what had been, at the However, after 1857, enrollment fell off positions, 120 to 150 of the approxi­ Middlebury Female Seminary, frivo­ sharply. Many members of the com­ mately 200 students decided also to lous subjects: instrumental music, munity complained that Mrs. Stone was leave Kalamazoo College. Many women painting, and drawing. Like Lucinda teaching inappropriate authors. They from the Female Department enrolled Stone's peers at the seminary, her stu­ stated that she had gone so far as to in a school which Mrs. Stone opened in dents valued artistic accomplishments. assign the works of German philoso­ her home. Later she wrote that she had Unlike these peers, however, they did phers, French novelists, and such continued to teach only to support her not pursue them because such accomp­ "infidels" as Byron. Moreover, they family. The Stones' supporters believed lishments attracted suitors. Mrs. Stone were alarmed because she read The that the trustees had been trying to instilled in her students the idea that Atlantic Monthly. besmirch their reputation and draw the women could be more than good wives In November of 1863, Lucinda Stone students back into the college. and mothers. decided that the situation had become The Stone scandal left the city of Kal­ Lucinda Stone believed that her unbearable, and she resigned her posi­ amazoo, the Baptist Church, and the students ought to study traditional sub­ tion as teacher and principal in the College all divided. Kalamazoo College jects but that their knowledge about Female Department. Recently her was to suffer almost 30 years of struggle these subjects ought to be up-to-date. authority there had been curtailed by after the Stones' resignation. Nonethe­ the Board of Trustees because they con­ less, the Stones bequeathed the College tinued to receive complaints about her an important legacy: they achieved high administration and teaching. In addi­ academic standards here. Lucinda tion, many Baptists were saying that she Stone's work guaranteed that women and J. A. B. Stone were too religiously would always be offered a fine educa­ tolerant. Members of the local church tion at Kalamazoo College. had come to believe that the school's student body should contain more Bap­ tists. The Stones, however, encouraged

22 K Magazine school records that "year after year, in his annual report, has the president said 'THE JOY OF LEARNING' that none of the evils which it was f?oeducation was a radical idea in nineteenth century America. One of feared would follow upon the admis­ tts strongest advocates was Kalamazoo College's Lucinda Hinsdale Stone. sion of women to the university have been realized. No embarassment has arisen from their presence; the standard ucinda Hinsdale Stone never admitted women and that the general of scholarship has not been lowered; the Lattended college, although evidence public supported this policy. This is question is never asked, 'Is this best for indicates that she would have excelled illustrated by the adverse reaction that the women?' but 'Is it best for the there. An avid reader from a young age, she received when she commented to a students?' " she received instruction at a public friend that she would like to attend col­ Mrs. Stone also campaigned to have primary school near her home in Hines­ lege. "My remark was repeated and rid­ women on the faculty at the University burg, Vermont. Then, in 1826, at the age iculed. Our postmaster took it up and of Michigan. Her biographer, Belle M. of 12, she briefly enrolled in the Hines­ talked and gossiped about it with people Perry, wrote," ... she felt deeply that burg Academy, a private secondary no education is really coeducational school. From there she went to the It was due to Lucinda which is given wholly by one sex." Middlebury Female Seminary because, Lucinda Stone herself said that " . .. the as she later wrote, "at that time a wom­ Stone's efforts that women University of Michigan, which may be an's education would not have been were finally admitted to the taken for as high an example of coedu­ considered complete without the 'fin­ cation as any that exists, never will nor ishing touches' of a ladies' school." University of Michigan. can be the best place to educate boys and Although, she recorded, this institution girls until there are earnest, noble, and "ranked among the first of ladies' semi­ who came into the village post office. highly, broadly educated women on the naries [in Vermont]." it offered only He proposed that the people of Hines­ faculty .. . women from the foundation what Charles Goodsell termed burg send a petition to the Vermont up- women on the board of "ornamental and polite subjects," and legislature to have Miss Hinsdale ad­ regents . .. " did not satisfy her desire to learn. She mitted to the university by special priv­ Lucinda Stone was able to write, was disappointed by its inferior curric­ ilege." She wrote that this sarcastic re­ toward the end of the 19th century, that ulum and "irritated by the petty rules mark hurt her deeply. of the place." Having experienced both the joy of "I have lived to see all restrictions with­ drawn, and the odium placed upon Lucinda Hinsdale thus left Middle­ learning and the frustration of being women for going to college removed." bury Female Seminary. After consider­ kept from study, Lucinda Hinsdale She realized that it was partly to her ing completing her education at Mt. Stone strove to make opportunities for Holyoke, she was persuaded to enroll education available to women through­ credit that this had occurred. Nonethe­ less, she believed that the serious edu­ again at Hinesburg Academy, this time out the remainder of her life. She dedi­ in an all-male college preparatory cated a great deal of time to teaching cation of women should not be limited to the formal college classroom. After course. Describing her career there, she them and worked hard to gain respect resigning her position at Kalamazoo wrote, "I took up with the young men and support for the schools at which she College, she took eight classes of young the studies required to enter Burlington taught. For more than 15 years, she and women to Europe, each for 12 to 18 or Middlebury College [i.e., Latin, her husband bore much of the expense Greek, and the classics, mathematics, of operating the Female Department at months. One of these groups also went to the Middle East. Abroad, these wom­ and, perhaps, oratory] .. . I not only Kalamazoo College. As principal of that k.ept up with the young men students, department, she tried to offer female en were students, not tourists. They but studied French and music extra. I students as fine an education as their went, she wrote, "for the purpose of do not know that I ever fell behind them, male counterparts, even though women studying history and art from the mon­ and we enjoyed going down academy­ were prohibited from receiving the uments themselves, which impart a life hill together, talking over a Greek or a same degrees as men. The Stones en­ and a reality to fact and events hardly Latin sentence in all its bearings ... I couraged coeducation at Kalamazoo conceivable by those who study without can remember some things in which College. During their administration, the advantage of travel." they were ahead, or quicker to perceive men and women often attended classes Lucinda Stone strove to ensure that than I, yet in some other things I was together. she and other women would no longer ahead of them ... We enjoyed our stu­ It was, in part, due to Lucinda Stone's be denied the same opportunities that dent life together very much, and I think efforts that women were finally admit­ their fathers, husbands, and sons had were an inspiration to each other." ted to the University of Michigan in to lead an active intellectual life. She Having liked her studies and per­ 1870. When it was announced that made these opportunities possible by formed well at Hinesburg, Lucinda women would be admitted there, she writing and talking constantly about Hinsdale was disappointed when she encouraged a former student, Madelon their importance. She proved to many, did not go on to college with her class­ Stockwell, to apply. Miss Stockwell by her own example, that women were mates. It is not clear why she did not became the first woman to gain admis­ capable of using these opportunities to enroll in an out-of-state college, but we sion to the university. Reflecting later the fullest. do know that no Vermont colleges then upon coeducation there, a history of the - Ann M. Graham

K Magazine 23 Return Postage Guaranteed Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007

TRAVEL TO EUROPE

Launched as the Light Scholarship Program in 1958, the Kalamazoo College Foreign Study Program celebrates its 25th anniversary in the fall of 1983. As part of the Sesquicentennial and to mark the anniversary of the program, Kalamazoo College is planning a European trip for alumni, friends, faculty, and staff for the spring of 1983. This will be an opportunity for alumni who went on Foreign Study to revisit centers and families, or for alumni and friends who did not go on Foreign Study to take selected tours. To help plan the trip, the College has formed an advisory committee, composed of Robert Dewey ('47), chairman of the Sesquicentennial Coordinating Council; Dick Stavig and Joe Fugate, past and present Foreign Study coordinators; Ray Comeau ('63), director of alumni relations; and Maynard Conrad ('36), alumni travel coordinator. Serving as consultants are Dr. Richard Light; Kathleen White Reish, associate professor of romance languages and literature; and John Kryger of International Travel Consultants, Kalamazoo. These tentative plans have been made: DEPARTURE: Sunday, April24, 1983. RETURN: Sunday, May 8, 1983.

April25 (Monday)- Arrival in Brussels. Welcome reception and banquet in the evening.

April 26 (Tuesday)- Starting on this day, six different options will be offered to the participants in the tour, terminating on Friday, May 6, in Brussels.

May 7 (Saturday)- Full day in Brussels, followed by farewell banquet that evening.

May 8 (Sunday)- Return flight to the United States.

OPTIONS- VISIT FAMILIES AND CENTERS IN: 1. France, including a Loire Valley wine 5. European tour, including Belgium, tour. Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. 2. Germany, including Rhine River excursion. 6. Individual travel, allowing tour participants to travel on their own, with 3. Spain, including tour of southern Spain. individual travel arrangements to be made, where required. 4. England, including tour of England, visiting the lake country. ------,

I am interested in the European trip and especially the following 1 options(s): 01 02 03 04 05 06 I I For a brochure of the tour, containing Name ______Class year ----,I complete tour price and details, Address ______I please fill out the form at left and mail it to: Alumni Relations Office, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, City ______State-~---- Zip _____ Michigan, 49007. Number in party ______

Phone (Home) ______(Business)

I went on Foreign Study during the year at a center in