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CONTENTS Editorial LAWRENCE Richard E. Morrison Director of Public Relations Today Anne Atwood Mead Edilor/Assistant Direcwr of Public Vol. 65, No. 2 Relations Spring 1985 Win Thrall Graphic Designer Paula Slater 2 Poet in Steel Composition Rolf Westphal, Lawrence's first Frederick Layton Rick Peterson Spans Information Director Distinguished Visiting Professor in Studio Art, is a big sculptor with big plans. Staff 4 Sudanese: The Next to Starve? J. Gilbert Swift, '59 Oireuor of Alumni Relations Has Western exploitation created imminent Kristine Hipp Sauter famine? jay O'Brien, assistant professor of Assistant Director of Alumni Relations anthropology, thinks so. Katy Schwartz, '84 " Alumni Today" Editor 8 A Way with Words Alumn1 Association Board A talk with Susan Herr Engberg, '62, writer par excellence of short stories. jane Paulson Gregerson, '69 President 11 Small Voices Robert]. Felker, 'SO Short fiction by Susan Herr Engberg. Chairman, Alumni Clubs Marijean Meisner Flom, '50 Chairwoman, Alumni·Smdent 14 A Life in the Theater Relations David Chambers, '68, and Kingsley Day, '73, have judy Jahnke Gildemeister, M-D '64 careers in the theater that are worth watching. Secretary Barbara Brandt Hughes, M-D '62 Chairwoman , Nominations and 18 In a Category by Himself Awards A tribute to Marshall Hulbert, '26/'32, by President Marcia Ouin Mentkowski, M-D '61 Richard Warch. Chairwoman, Alumni-Admission Michael G. O'Neil, '65 Chairman, Alumni Developmenl Departments Robert J. Schaupp, '51 Prcsidem-Elect 21 Currents Nancy Lock Schreiber, '59 Chairwoman, Public Relations and 23 Faculty Today Association Programs Scott W. Alexander, '71 24 Sports William M. Bauer, '72 Jeff Bowen, '60 p. 8 26 Alumni Today Chris A. Bowers, '70 Bruce M. Brown, '69 35 Alumni Club News joan Stebbins Des Isles, M-D '38 Kenneth K. DuVall, Jr., '52 Letters Helen Buscher Franke, '60 David E. Frasch, '69 Inserts Andrew S. Mead, '77 Colleen Held Messana, '68 Lawrence Ahead Today David L. Mitchell, '71 Margaret). Park, M-D '40 Gift Catalog William 0. Rizzo, '70 Phyms Anderson Roberts, '56 jeanne Albrecht Young, M-D '46 Phyllis Weikart Greene, M-D '47 Photo credits: Cover, John lewis; inside Lawrence Today is published quarterly by Member-at-large front cover; John lewis; pages 8, 9, 10, Scott lawrence University. Articles arc expressly Baron Perlman, '68 Whitcomb, '86; page 15, Jennifer Girard; the opinions of the authors and do not Member-at-large page 17, Martin Schweig; pages 19 , 21, John necessarily represent official university Christopher M. Vernon, '67 lewis; page 23, Image Studios; page 24, Rick policy. Correspondence and address changes Member-at-large Peterson; page 25, Mark Courtney; page 35, should be addressed to Lawrence Today, Richard L. Y :atzeck Scott Whitcomb: back cover, Jim Auer, '50; lawrence University, P.O. Box 599, Faculty Representative gift catalog, Scott Whitcomb Appleton, WI 54912. Lawrence University promotes equal oppor­ tunity for an. Poet in Steel Rolf Westphal, sculptor, has big plans for Wisconsin and environs

by james Auer, '50

&If Westphal is a big man who thinks bigger. Bearded, resolute, standing nearly six feet tall in his stocking feet, he is the undisputed master of the former paper factory that has been converted into a sculpture studio on the Lawrence campus. A large-scale metalworker with experience both as a producing ar­ tist and a museum functionary, Westphal came to Appleton last summer as the first Frederick Layton Distinguished Visiting Pro­ fessor of Studio Art. With five years ahead of him in the position, funded-and founded-through a gift to Lawrence from the Milwaukee-based Layton Foundation, Westphal is in a position to think ambitiously and move deliberately. And he is doing both as he plots to bring to Wisconsin and environs the same kind of epic works, con~ ceived and executed on a massive Large, abstract and geometric sculptures are Westphal's trademark. This one adoms a site in Turkey. scale, that he has already brought to sites from Detroit and Kansas City to Yugoslavia, Finland, Poland and Turkey. favored countries aren't able to Born in Germany and reared in But there's a catch: money. draw on. International Falls, Minn., the " When one deals in the public And he's certain he'll be able to multilingual artist/teacher has a realm," he admits, doubtless out of find public or, ideally, private spon~ range of personal and professional painful experience, "the costs are sorship for the huge, abstract pieces experiences less well~traveled artists so staggering, it demands public he intends to construct in his river~ might envy. funding. It 's a very precarious ball side studio for shipment elsewhere. He was trained at the Kansas City game. " " American patronage has been Art Institute in Missouri (BFA, 1970) As a result, the careers of many quite good because it's all private," and at the Cranbrook Academy of younger artists who have hopes of he believes. Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (MFA , doing generously proportioned " In the USSR and eastern Europe, 1972), where by his own admission, works become bogged down and it's all socialized. They never he spent as much time with the ar~ discouraged. separate the wheat from the chaff. chitectural students as with his But not Westphal's. Good artists have to be fanatics to fellow sculptors. He's convinced that the United do what they do!'' He began h_is career, conven­ States has resources other, less tionally enough, as a teacher, first

2 LAWRENCE T O DAY at Clarion State College in Penn­ geographic situation with a man­ An invitation to work in Hungary, sylvania, then as a visiting professor imposed aesthetic. In a nutshell, obtained through a Hungarian artist at the Vancouver College of Art and that's a search for the Holy Grail. whom he met in Poland, still is Design in British Columbia, the You must be concerned with hanging fire. And he has an exhibi­ Kansas Art Institute and the Univer­ everything from coordinating loads tion of his work tentatively coming sity of Texas, Austin. of steel to local values. It's a up in Switzerland. Along the way he expanded his remarkable experience.' ' At the moment Westphal is work­ personal horizons by serving as In addition to English, Westphal ing on a somewhat less ambitious curator at the Contemporary Arts speaks fluent German and Spanish scale-creating an edition of small Museum, Houston, in 1977 and '78. and " a little bit of Italian," so com­ bronzes, which he calls "earth­ It was, he says now, " an incredi­ munication is not a problem. Fur­ scapes with miniature animals." ble experience for me. As an artist, thermore, " blueprints are an inter­ He is also getting to know the I'd had a preconceived idea of the national Language, so I can relate in Fox Valley, which rather to his sur­ museum world. Once I was inside a that fashion. There's no real crisis prise, offers just about everything a museum, I got a look at how things abroad.'' plastic artist could need, from foun­ really work.'' Surprisingly, considering the state dries and architectural supplies to Building an exhibition, he soon of East-West relations over the last graphic-arts firms. discovered, was a great deal like decade or so, Westphal's ex­ Too, he is familiarizing himself practicing architecture-a love of periences overseas have all been with the Lawrence faculty and stu­ his since his meeting with a travel­ " extremely positive." dent body. ing Finnish architect as a small boy His first major international com­ It has all added up, he says, to an in Michigan. mission was for the state of extremely illuminating experience. A particular joy of executing Slovenia, in the northern part of Unlike some of the other cam­ sculptural contracts, he believes, is Yugoslavia, in 1978. Here, he puses on which he has functioned, the opportunity it affords an artist pulled an ingenious-and doubtless, Lawrence has neither a large art to work with architects. startling-double-play, combining department nor a graduate school. But here, again, a general lack of the outdoor icons common to the But the students "have diverse in­ money impedes progress. mountain villages of Slovenia with terests and great intellectual ap­ " It 's not a very fruitful relation­ the mythology and culture of the petites. [So] what you don't have in ship," he confesses, " unless the ar­ American Indian. an art school, you can make up in chitect has funding available. Ar­ " It was quite a radical piece, mix­ the literary." chitects are in a bad position ing icons with horse hair and cow Lawrence, in fact, can provide today-it's hard for them to prac­ skulls, but after I left, it turned out him with just about everything he tice their art because of econ­ to be very popular. Indian imagery could require-except for that most omics." is quite a rarity there." important commodity of all, well­ Westphal's own quest for com­ Other Westphal works-large, heeled patrons. missions has led him repeatedly to abstract and powerfully geo­ But that, one gathers, is eastern Europe-and, in particular, metric-adorn sites in Poland, something this ambitious and to countries in or on the fringes of Turkey and Finland. energetic poet in steel is willing to the socialist bloc. " I have used every kind of round up for himself. 0 In these lands, as elsewhere, he material," he makes clear, " but my has invariably sought a mass au­ forte has been steel." jim Auer, '50, is tbe art critic for dience by tying his work-and the The Finns have been particularly The Milwaukee journal. He lives in imagery indigenous to America-to good to this hard-working son of Wauwatosa, Wis. the culture of the nation in which Minnesota, and he responds by call­ he is functioning. ing them " an industrious lot. "The ultimate challenge," as he Whether they're making sculpture, sees it, "is to enhance the paper machines or ice breakers, they sell quality."

LAWRENCE TODAY 3 Sudanese: The Next to Starve? Has Western exploitation created imminent famine?

Story by Sandra jones Illustration by Steve Ballard • Many of the ships and planes large scale irrigation and cheap that bring relief grain supplies to labor. However, food for the native These are harsh questions, at Sudan and its neighbors may be workers was also required, and first blush grossly unfair. Americans returning to the West laden with O'Brien says, "As a last colonial act, and Europeans have responded fresh vegetables, meat, flowers and the British established a highly pro­ generously to African pleas for industrial crops. fitable , state-Supported pattern of famine relief, rushing millions of •And, in what O 'Brien calls " the mechanized sorghum production in dollars worth of food to Ethiopia cruelest irony,'' precisely those government·leased tracts of the fer· and other sub-Sahara nations. Until areas of Sudan that formerly sup­ tile central clay plain. The pattern recently, the harshest criticism of plied the country with food are involved low levels of fixed invest­ our efforts in the popular media has now most firmly in the grip of ment and ecologically damaging been that they may have been too famine. cultivation practices, which produc­ little, too late. ed high. . profits." But a Lawrence assistant pro­ Following independence, a small fessor of anthropology who has How could a tragedy of such agricultural elite gained control spent nearly ten years studying the magnitude, according to O 'Brien over the Sudanese government. problem is convinced our culpabili­ largely avoidable, be allowed to It used that control to create ty goes much deeper. He believes happen? In what ways did our own conditions favorable to its own pro­ that Africa's largest country, Sudan, government contribute to the prob­ fitable investment in rain-fed which largely escaped the famine of lem? And what can now be done to mechanized farming of sorghum for 1968 to 1973, despite experiencing ease the suffering and help return the Sudanese people. drought, could have escaped the Sudan to self-sufficiency? current cri sis as well. The interven­ First, let's take a look at Sudan tion of the United States and other before the current crisis began to Thus was created a cycle Western powers, who continue to develop, before the seeds of famine wherein the purchasing power of exploit the country, even in the were sown: the rural Sudanese masses provided face of the impending starvation of For centuries, the Sudan existed the main source of demand for the millions, has made that escape im­ as a largely agrarian society. A sorghum produced. And for the possible, however. slowly-evolved, ecologically sound next 15 years, there existed what In "Sowing the Seeds of Famine: agricultural system provided ade­ O'Brien calls " an internal linkage The Political Economy of Food quate food and other necessities for between the ability of investors to Deficits in Sudan," jay O'Brien con­ its population. The system depend­ earn profits and the ability of the cludes: "It remains to be seen how ed on the intricate balance between masses to buy and consume their many Sudanese farmers will be subsistence farming and a nomadic­ products.' ' In other words, says wiped out or how many will die. herding way of life. Sorghum was O'Brien, "Starvation in such cir­ What is already clear, though, is the the basic staple, providing grain for cumstances is bad for business." devastating consequences . .. of the glutinous porridge and coarse This was in sharp contrast to a supply-side, expon-oriented solu­ bread that formed the backbone of system of cheap raw-material pro­ tions to Sudan's capitalist crisis." a diet supplemented by dairy pro­ duction for export, which had been ducts and meat from animals, as the practice under the British and a well as fruit and vegetables grown common practice elsewhere in Sudan is a country of cruel con­ on small peasant farms. An effective Africa. Under the latter system, tradictions and bitter ironies: rotation system of crops followed there is little correlation between • Even as an estimated million of by herd grazing and its attendant wages paid to workers and its own people face starvation, manure replenishment of the soil marketability of whatever is pro­ Sudan continues to accept kept fertile the semi-arid land. duced, because it is not the workers thousands of refugees, streaming Dense forests surrounding villages who buy what they themselves pro­ across its eastern border from provided wood for houses and char­ duce. In this case, near starvation is Ethiopia. The refugees are frequent­ coal for fires . It was, in short, man not necessarily bad for business. ly "resettled" in areas surrounding cooperating with nature and Thus, between 1960 and 1980, export-crop plantations, where they benefiting from the wisdom of while food production in most of serve as sources of cheaper labor traditional conservation practices. sub-Sahara Africa stagnated or than their Sudanese hosts. Then followed a period of British declined relative to population size, • While infusion of outside in­ colonial rule, from 1898 to 1956. in Sudan there existed a striking vestments and military aid con­ Consistent with their attitude contrast: While overall agricultural tinues to make the government and toward other African and Third­ output per-capita was also stagnant some export capitalists richer and World colonies, the British saw here, too, food production increas­ richer, it comes at the expense of Sudan chiefly as a source of pro­ ed dramatically at the expense of food-growing small farmers. The ducts, such as cotton, for their own export production. poor are thus no longer able to consumption. These products were In O ' Brien's most recent paper on grow their own food. grown under a plantation system the problem, he describes how the which relied heavily on soil­ chronic food crisis in sub-Sahara depleting agricultural practices,

LAWRENCE TODAY 5 Africa began to emerge in the late The agricultural elite established the Sudanese currency, making im· 1960s, and how Sudan managed at policies that favored investment in ports more expensive, and a rough first to escape the pattern: sorghum farming and made it more 'austerity program,' which has cap­ " As the export sector reached the profitable. At the same time, it ped wages and removed govern­ limits of expansion into unused land achieved low import duties on. and ment subsidies from basic consump­ and village populations rose, export privileged access to, agricultural tion goods.'' crops and food crops carne to com­ supplies for sorghum growing. Following Sudan's fiscal crisis, pete fiercely for arable land-with Along with these policies came the the country's creditOrs diagnosed export interests enjoying the up­ relative neglect of export crops, the problem as resulting from un­ perhand with government support which in turn suffered declining sound policies leading tO poor ex· and international backing. productivity. What followed was port performance. Their " solution" "In the early '70s, prices for most declining yields and diminished ex­ was assistance aimed at reviving the raw materials on the world market port earnings with which to buy im­ export sectOr. Looking for a secure began a steep decline, sharply cut­ ports. All of this led to a massive food source and outlets for their ting the export receipts available to balance-of-payments crisis by the massive oil revenues, Arab oil pro­ finance essential imports of food mid '70s and an alarming fiscal ducers offered to guarantee Sudan's and oil. As forests and scrublands crisis. loans and subsidize oil imports, ask­ were put under crops, villagers lost The Sudan government responded ing in return the right to invest in their traditional sources of firewood by borrowing heavily from abroad Sudan's agriculture. and building materials and were and raising taxes on export crops, thus presented with important new sinking the country deeply in debt needs for cash, just when the and cutting incentives to export relative prices of the other things producers. Output declined even they needed to buy were rapidly in­ further. creasing.'' The United States government, African farmers were forced to the World Bank and the Interna­ till all their land, just to feed tional Monetary Fund (IMF) were in­ themselves. Crop rotation and other strumental in, and can share much conservation practices were aban­ of the blame for, what O 'Brien calls doned in the frantic scramble for a " decisive transformation of the food. Many farmers were pushed to Sudanese economy" -the twin the edge, with nothing to fall back crises of payments' bal~nce and on when drought struck. government budget. O 'Brien says, " The U.S. has played a leading role in setting the Facing internal problems of seem­ The Sudanese, on the other hand, stage for famine in Sudan, especially ing insurmountable proportions, were able to escape the through its domination of the Sudan's government, under famine of the '70s by making it World Bank and the IMF. Through President-dictator jaafar Numeiri, more profitable to grow food for these agencies, the U. S. has sought turned its back on the agricultural their own people than export crops. to establish supply-side economics elite, came to terms with the export But a change in this agricultural pat­ as the basis for growth in the Third elite, and submitted tO the condi­ tern began to emerge in the mid World. In Sudan, the World Bank tions proposed by outsiders. '70s, due to what O 'Brien calls "the has wielded the carrot of massive Much of Sudan's richest farmland shifting balance of power between funding for rehabilitation of the ir­ has been turned over to Arab in­ competing factions of the Sudanese rigation infrastructure of the export vestOrs and is being reoriented to elite and a series of international sector, while the IMF has brandish­ production of vegetables, poultry, pressures operating on them.'' ed the stick of forced devaluation of eggs, meat and dairy products for Arab countries. Sorghum has begun

6 LAWRENCE TODAY to be fed to chickens and cattle for The Numeiri regime so far has jay 0 'Brien has taught anthro­ Saudi and Kuwaiti tables. (Saudi turned a deaf ear to most of the pology at Lawrence since 1981. Prince Mohamed el Faisa1 has a suggestions, preferring to prop up From 1975 to 1979, he conducted 99-year lease on 1. 2 million acres of its economy with infusions of doctoral research on agricultural the best Sudanese farmland.) Most Western aid. Much of the aid con­ labor in Sudan. From 1977 to importantly, O'Brien says, "The sists of millions of dollars in 1979, he engaged in project dynamic link uniting the purchasing military supplies, which are increas­ evaluations offour agricultural power of the rural masses tQ the ingly necessary for Numeiri to re­ development schemes in Sudan, on ability of the economy to generate main in power. behalf of the Economic and Social profits has been broken, and starva­ Under the best of conditions, it Research Council, National Coun­ tion has ceased to be so bad for will take .years of suffering before a cil for Research, Khartoum. He has business." stable Sudanese economy once written two books and several again emerges, if it ever does. The other publications on the subject. Sudanese people already face starvation of monumental propor­ If you're interested in further The probable result of the tions. As they begin to die, they reading on the subject, O'Brien disastrous policies are plain. If the suffer one by one. The sight of just recommends the book The Seeds of pattern in the SUdan follows that of one starving child should serve to Famine by Richard W. Franke and Ethiopia and other African coun­ Barbara H. Chasin. tries, the following scenario might remind us all: They don't have be drawn: The Sudanese are begin­ years to wait. 0 Sandra jones, publications editor ning to starve in earnest. After at Lawrence, 19 76-79, is now a nightly pictures of the suffering freelance writer living in Appleton. begin to appear on European and American t.v. sets, viewers might, once again, be persuaded to help "more starving Africans," (perhaps wondering all the while how the Sudanese managed to get themselves into such a mess.) The aid might take the form of grain and other foods, slow to arrive and inef­ ficient in transport and distribution. But this is only temporary help, the underlying problem not address­ ed. How do you begin to attack a problem of such massive propor­ tions? In Sudan, several solutions have been proposed. O'Brien believes the most promising involve plans to return Sudanese agriculture to one or another variation of its former system-involving crop rota­ tion, possibly interspersed with a fallow period, and herd grazing, alternated with tree-growing and other methods, to return the soil to fertility. jay 0 'Brien, far left, lived in Sudan for Jour years in the late '70s.

I.A WRENCE TODAY 7 A Way with Words

Susan Herr Engberg, '62, writer of short stories, has a way with words that delights readers and critics alike.

by Anne Atwood Mead some hold on life, searches for Q: How would you describe some clearer Vision of how to order your characters? one's self." A: I guess they are all sincerely Gordon Lish, for many years "There are some moments in looking for something. I wouldn't fiction editor of Esquire and now Pastorale that I expect to stay with say there is one who is disen­ with the Alfred A. Knopf publishing me forever," says Anne Tyler, chanted entirely. I'm not very in­ house, has said that writing a short author of Dinner at the Homesick terested in jaded people. They may story is like fitting a delicate ship Restaurant. drift in and out, but I don't pay into a bottle. The image of short Published in 1982 by the Univer­ much attention to them. I'm not in­ story writer Susan Herr Engberg, sity of Illinois Press and now terested in cynicism. Although one "62. as a builder of small. bottled distributed by Harper & Row, character I'm working on now is ships is fitting. Never mind that she Pastorale will soon be followed by insists that she writes in "raggle· a new collection titled A Stay by taggle blue jeans amidst unmade the River. to be published by Viking beds and piles of laundry." It is the Press. living room where she serves tea It all began, Engberg says, at and talks of her writing-a living Lawrence: room soft with lush plants, filtered natural light, down-filled pillows How long have you and treasured books-a living room ·. Q been writing? where you expect to find a fragile ship and bottle set off to one cor­ ner. A : I started at Lawrence. But something more than her liv­ was studying art. But thef) I wrote a ing room tells you that here is an few creative pieces, and 1 was artist, a craftswoman. Her features, drunk with it. Warren Beck, a her quiet but assured manner of superb teacher, was extremely speaking, her repose, confirm the helpful. His direction was not suspicion. So do the reviews of her heavy-handed, but supportive. He first book. said 'you're doing it fine, keep on "All the stories in Susan going.' He gave me a trust in Engberg's first book, Pastorale, are myself. so good that they could change Q: Are your stories your life," says The New York autobiographical? Times Book Review critic and A: There are bits and pieces that are author Russell Banks. He describes autobiographical. I think writers them as "wonderful, spiritually who say their work is not are being transcendent .... driven by a deep- dishonest. Parts of them have to go 1y moral intelligence . into it. But most of my characters clean and crisp yet unfashionably are fictional; they're composites of rich with metaphor . . . somehow people I've known. religious.'' These are stories ''that deserve Q: How does a story develop? several readings," says Dennis Rib­ A: Well, it's a little bit here, a little hens, university librarian. "Various bit there. It's like a painting. If you themes and images recur: dreams, add something in one place, the tears, lost religion, symbolic titles, whole picture has to readjust. It's a deaths, rain, separations, quests for constant process. Susatz Herr Etzgberg rela.ns itz her Milwaukee home.

8 LAWRENCE TODAY struggling. He is definitely world finish reading one of your it has to ao with a downward weary and disgusted with himself. stories? spiraling of the whole movement of And so I'm spending a good deal of A: I'm reading a great number of the story. It is resolved, but in a time on him, but he also has, in manuscripts these days by my negative way, and you are left with spite of himself, some redeeming students at UW·Milwaukee, and I chaos, a heaviness. That is the feel· characteristics. So I guess I'm in· just realized the other ·day that you ing I don't want. I like to sweep an terested in searchers. can be left with very unpleasant enormous amount into a story, but feelings when you get done reading when it is done I want there to be a Q: Do you hope to leave your something. Sometimes that comes sense that I have come through readers with certain feelings, from too little being resolved very something and have come to some certain emotions, when they well within the writer. Other times type of resolution. That resolution is not necessarily a happy ending, however. It's just that I want my readers to feel that I've done my work, my emotional work, on the subject matter, that I'm just not let· ting it out, that I have transformed it enough to share. Q• You have said that writing is a form of discovery. What did you mean by that? A: I think any discipline is the same way, whether it's being scholarly, 9r being artistic, or being a jour· nalist. No matter what you do, you do it because you want to find out something. In a special sense, however, writing is more .introspec· tive than other activities. You are setting up conditions for very par· ticular types of discovery, which are interior discoveries. You are opening doors to the unknown all the time. Q: Russell Banks, reviewing Pastorale for The New York Times, wrote that you "know the names of the things of the world .... and clearly love to make them real for us." Where does that knowledge come from? A: My father grew up on a farm in Iowa, and I spent a lot of time on the farm when 1 was growing up. We also lived on that farm for almost five years when our children

LAWRENCE TODAY 9 were smalL When we were on the about the book, they are entitled to now that I understand how fragile farm, we had a large garden. It was have a certain portion of me as a civilization really is, I appreciate in my blood. I got very precise person. I don't begin to know what more what literature has done. That about it and learned the names of to do with that. people take the time to write it and all the trees and flowers that were take the time to read it is almost around me. We were getting back Q' It must be exciting to be miraculous. to nature-we didn't know we recognized for your work, It is very important for writers to were part of a movement, but we however. program themselves with written were! I took it very seriously A: Yes, it is. In 1968, when I first words as well as spoken words. because I had had an enormous received word that one of my dose of urban life and was disen· stories had been selected for the Q: Do you have any advice for chanted by materialism and the O' Henry collection, I had a talented people just beginning enormous effort that was going into newborn baby and wasn't sure to write? retaining a nuclear family. This was whether I was going to ever be able A: I remember very clearly very important to me. There had to to do what I wanted to do given something that Warren Beck told be a way out and perhaps one way the constraints on women at that me: 'When you can't write, read.' was by just being as close to nature time. So it was extremely helpful to Take whatever attitudes you have as possible. have some recognition at that time. and get them down in some form. The more honest you become Q' Why did you leave? Q : Is it easier to write now than with yourself, the better writer you A: We gradually realized that what it was ten years ago? become. If you are going to write we thought was simplicity was ac· A: Yes. I'm not as scared now as I fiction, you should not assume that tually extremely complicated, was. Every time I started I felt that I you are going to be untouched by it logistically. Because we were ferry· was going into utterly foreign ter· yourself. It 's not something you're ing our children back and forth to ritory. Now I'm not as scared to be going to make at arm's length. It's private school in Iowa City, we going on the trip by myself. something that is going to remake were driving several hours a day, Q: Do you work on one story at you over and over again. So I think and it was very expensive. You just a time? you have to understand at the go through those stages, those ex· A: Usually I have just one going at a outset that it is going to be a pro· periments. We learned a great deal cess of coming to terms over and time. Right now, however, I have and now try to pursue simplicity in over again with your own ques· several going-several quite long other ways. It's very hard, how· pieces that actually may turn into tions. You have to be willing to do ever. short novels. that. It can be scary. I don't feel romantic about any particular place. Your attitude, who Q' Is It different writing you are-that will determine the something that may be a novel quality of your writing. I'm not rather than a short story? stuck on locale anymore. A: Oh yes. The timjng is qujte dif· ferent. I don't feel the need to be Q' Who do you talk to about terse. I don't feel the need to stop your writing? until I've said everything I want to A: I don't like to talk about things say. I'm just letting everything in process. It's very superstitious come, letting things happen, letting but I like to keep the energy quiet myself explore all strands of until it's done. I share a lot with my growth. husband. But I have a need to be with people who are doing other Q: Do all of your stories work things. out? Are there unfinished stories? Q: Tell me about Small Voices. Q: Is it scary to share your work A: I always stay with a story until it A: The title of that piece has a with someone else for the first has come to some end. But I can story. It had another title and was time? not really tell you whether they are rejected by an editor. The covering A: No , it's not, because I know conclusions or not. I don't think letter that came back with it said, some people will like it and some I've ever abandoned a story. 'We feel that the voices in this story will not. I've gotten plenty of rejec· are small.' And I said, 'Yea, you're tion slips, and now that it is Q: Are there any particular right. They are small voices. I beginning to balance out, I feel that writers whom you admire? meant them to be.' So I called it I will always be getting a mixed A: Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf Small Voices. I had been intending critical response. What I find con· are two particular ones that I have for a lost·child voice. It is about fusing is to know what to do with reread. I have an enormous apprec· two young people who are alone in people's personal responses to me iation for literature, an apprec· the world searching, needing sup· on the basis of what I've written. A iation that is developing more as I port from each Other. lot of people feel that because they understand how important it is to have a certain feeling or enthusiasm refine experience. I took literature for granted for a long time. But 10 LAWRENCE TODAY Small Voices

from Pastorale, a book of short stories by Susan Herr Engberg, '62 "All the stories in . .. Pastorale are so good that they could change your life. " Russell Banks, The New York Times Book Review

He is running. Every day he takes himself out into number of lives. Lately his own life is taking all the these old residential streets and runs until his finger­ energy he has; he is almost relieved that she is gone. tips throb, his legs radiate heat, and the whole ofhim The new running shoes he has bought himself are of begins to ride on a steady rhythm of his own making. soft white leather with bright blue stripes. His legs are He once tried to explain to his wife that he wouldn't long and hard-he likes his legs. When he has finished know what to do with himself unless he pushed running, he often feels as if he has come out on the through these physical barriers. His body is a wonder­ other side of where he had been before; even the ment to him. He thinks a great deal about his spine, disorder seems rearranged, workable. about all the muscles that are necessary to keep it It used to amaze him on his returns that his wife erect. Sometimes he cannot believe the height of would be as he had left her, reading and chewing on a himself as he stands in a doorway; he feels so huge it hank of her hair, sending out silent messages of self­ is as if he should be able to take a single step and containment. He remembers how after a time she understand everything. would set aside her book and without a word would Today he is running in the hour before a spring go to the kitchen for something small to break her sunset. All day, believing and not believing that his hours of fasting-a jar of baby fruit, perhaps, or a slim life is really happening to him, he has been bending to wedge of cake. Many of her habits were defiant and his work in a fastness of books and papers, surround­ unhealthy. The activities of his body seemed to ir­ ed by what his wife called, before she left, the fall-out ritate her. of their confusion. She said she no longer had the will These last ten days of solitude, testing himself for to move the stale objects of their existence from one damage, for damage done, he likes to think that he is place to another, it was too dangerous, and so she purging himself of whatever does not naturally belong was going to do the only thing that remained: take to him. Never has he enjoyed his runs so much. When her attention some place else. The curved dried shell he comes back, cleaned out, on the edge of himself, of the orange she was eating that night still sits on the he fixes himself good dinners and sleeps well. The windowsill beside the bed, and the pillow he slammed woes of history are beginning to seem unnecessary. against the wall lies shapeless, feathers of dead birds. Once he had raised his hand in fury against the unaccepting, slack beauty of her cheeks, her wounded He has reached the point at the bottom of the hill past, but then stayed himself and rolled away trembl­ where five streets join, and he takes the old brick ing, his body curled around its own apparent way, toward the graveyard. At the arching ironwork uselessness. He still cannot believe that what he of­ gate he spits and shakes his arms and continues on up fered her was not a relief from the long catalogue of the curving drive past angels and obelisks and fenced­ her hurts. These days he finds himself scrutinizing in family plots neater than any dream of ordered other men, the ancient wrongdoers, his tribe. Even­ domesticity. The sun suddenly clears the last of the ings since she left, he has been keeping to himself, afternoon clouds, slanting richly across the bright trying to purify himself from the rhetoric of combat. green grass and sharply delineated markers, and for a He runs past a blur of cradle-like wooden porches, moment his breath swells with the illuminated clarity airy forsythia, a red wagon, an old woman bending of this customary place of obscured bones and feeding upon a rake, houses containing an iriconceivable trees. His parents are buried in another cemetary, a

LAWRENCE TODAY II thousand miles away. He sees the feet first, in sandals, then legs in slacks, She doesn't live here then? a piece of what looks like raincoat, the rest blocked No, she doesn't. She is regarding him. But he does, by granite. Thudding up the hill anyway, curiosity from the looks of it, and he's shivering. She has taken stronger than embarrassment, he passes a jar of wilted car keys from her pocket. lilacs, a ten·foot angel frozen in prayer, the granite He wants more. He wants a face like hers to incline square, and comes upon a woman stretched out on a itself to him graciously and completely. Stepping in grave in the shadow of the stone. Her face in its nest place to keep warm, shaking his arms, impatient, he is of curls has color, her eyes seem to be moving suddenly feeling sorry for himself for his days alone. beneath their lids. He stands watching her chest for After all, was it not his wife who did the leaving? This breaths. One of her hands rests on her stomach, the woman seems to him nomadic, accessible. His new other lies half·open at her side, the veins in her thin running shoes work gently up and down on the walk, wrist like surfaced roots. Inscribed in the headstone he flaps his arms. She could give him a ride if she's are the names Agnes, dead the year before at the age going up the hill, he says, dramatizing his chill. In of sixty, and Raymond, already cut into stone but still fact, as long as her father is gone, he could give her living somewhere beyond the incised hyphen. The supper, humble of course, but he's always happy to young woman sleeping does not look anguished. Her help a traveler, been one himself often enough. features are peaceful and fine. He wishes he had a She shakes the keys, considering. All right, she says. blanket to put over her, and shivering himself as a Supper. drift of cooler air passes over his heated body, he She drives slowly, and he leans back and lets the turns to complete the far curve of the drive and then closely set houses trail away on either side. The car is the long westward descent. The sun jogs and flares their own container. The wind has been taken off his through the trees on his downhill lope. Strange to skin. He rests his hands on his knees and lets himself have seen an unknown woman asleep Like that, be transported. unaware of who sees her; strange to be running half· Where has she come from? he asks. blind straight into sun motes and bright new green, She has been visiting some friends. Actually, this not knowing who knows you are flashing through time of year she usually travels for several months, gravestones bare·limbed, twelve feet high, muscles staying with people, freeloading. Summer is the busy and bones gathered perfectly together for motion, a time. young man spectacularly going somewhere with Summer? himself. A gift shop, she answers. She has her own little He almost crashes into her at the iron arch. Her hair place. And many of the people she visits give her craft is spun out into filaments of light. items to sell on consignment. She nods to the crowd­ Sorry, he tells her, sorry, he had the sun in his eyes. ed back of the car. Some beautiful things come out of Is she all right? the dark winter, she adds. She grins at him merrily. She looks at him as if maybe she were still dream· Does he have anything he'd like her to sell? pottery? ing. dried herbs? jams? candles? jewelry? She makes good He saw her asleep, he explains. Is she all right? deals. She was exhausted by her drive, that's all. Thanks. He bets she does. In fact, she doesn't seem hard­ She is turning to go, but she smiles at him. He nosed enough to make a cent. remembers a photograph he saw once, taken into the Oh, everyone is mellow enough, she answers. It all light, of a woman with the same slightly aquiline works out. Sometimes she trades. nose, the same burst of fine hair, geraniums silhouet· ted on the windowsill, the inclined face gracious and complete. He wants more than a smile. He directs her down the alley to the back of his Her mother? he asks, nodding to the graveyard. house. Fantastic trees, she tells him as she faces up in­ Yes, her mother. tO the oaks spreading new leaves above the unkempt He pauses. He's sorry about her mother. Where's yard. Nice old neighborhood. the dad? He feels he should prepare her for the shattered Not here, not underground, she answers, and not in mirror in the bathroom, the unwashed plates and dy· his office either, which would be the two most likely ing plants. He has been tending only to the direct places. She had driven down to surprise him, but minimal needs of his mind or body, touching what evidently he is gone for a few days. She shrugs, she had been communal only when necessary. Once or seems to be collecting her breath. twice he has even thought of removing himself from

12 LAWRENCE TODAY the debris, simply taking his plain, healthy body and parents were crushed in an automobile. For three leaving. years his mind has been replaying images of the crash; WelJ, too late, she's already halfway in the door, he has been reaching out to touch their faces , but his and how on the round earth anyway was it possible hands come away bloody, unhealing. In the night his to turn one's back? This is where he lives, he says mother's ghost, still searching for completion, comes squarely, the ruined castle, the unattended kingdom. to the window and watches his face lying on the It is a mess, she agrees, standing on the threshold of pillow. At first his wife was interested in his sorrow. the back door. What's been wrong? They both had griefs, she said. Then she began to sug­ He begins telling her about the restless anger of his gest that being an orphan was not at all like being the wife. He carries a frying pan from the stove to the victim of a century of repression. Nursing her elbows, sink and sets it to soak. He wipes crumbs from the she would tell him how girls were belittled even by oak table·and flourishes a chair for her. His wife is their own fathers and mothers, so where was the brilliant, he says, and he's no dull head himself, yet hope? The power of men to corrupt was inescapable, neither of them seems to be able to put the lids back she said, and those they corrupted first were the on jars, to attend to the simplest things. Now why is women who remained at their sides. Therefore she that? he implores her, opening his palms. His words was leaving, now, before there should be children, are light, he is making himself charming, but he is heaven 'forbid, and while she still had the vision and waiting for this young woman shedding her raincoat strength. to absolve him from a verdict of banal catastrophe. He When he is clean, he dresses and goes to the kit­ sits down and stretches out his magnificent legs; he chen alid says, Tell me. crosses his arms over his chest and clamps his fingers She says, All right. She is frying vegetables. I don't into his hot armpits. know when this all began really, but I became con­ scious of it the spring my husband and I separated. I was staying with friends, looking for the right place She is wearing a black jersey and a necklace of silver to live and feeling far away from what I needed. I and turquoise, her hands, too, are studded with tur­ went to sleep one afternoon and dreamt about a quoise. She has begun to nibble from a bag of nuts passageway through evergreen trees. The next day I and raisins on the table, her face tilted to one side as drove back into the countryside-everything was if she were listening to the air. Her eyes are laughing alive, plowed up-and I came to the opening of a at him. long lane bordered on both sides by fir trees, and on He looks as if he's capable of putting lids on jars the top of the hill was a simple old farmhouse-for and sweeping up a bit, she answers. In fact-she slides rent, it turned out, with exactly the right views of her fingertips under her hair, pulJing taut the skin fields and timber, exactly the right emptiness and the over her forehead and temples as she surveys the right light. My mind would spread out. room-Well, why not tell him, she says, because it She sits down with plates of rice and vegetables. looks as if it's happening again, though this is the first She pours tea. With my husband that somehow wasn't time with a total stranger, and so she'd better ex­ possible, she says. The doors seemed closed, only the plain herself before she gets to work. But first-and smallest part of me was being used. here she gets up and goes into the other rooms; he Well, anyway, after that other things began to hap­ can hear her opening and closing a few doors-she pen. I'd get an urge to go visit a friend and when I'd comes back and announces that it can be done in an get there I'd know a crisis was going on-I mean, you evening, but first he has to bathe, no first he has to can tell-she gestures to the kitchen. It was as if I was show her where a few things are. She has opened a meant to have arrived. So I would do what was cupboard and is picking among its scattered holdings. necessary. I'd help out, you know. I have begun to No, first she has to tell him what's going on, he travel more and more, I don't know what's going to demands. He is standing up now, tall, beside the table happen. She puts down her fork and holds her long where he had once laid his wife, and he still believes ringed fingers for him to see. I feel instrumental, she she was laughing as he hooked her legs over his armS; says. The power collects when I'm alone-the he can't remember when exactly the laughing stop­ solitude is very important-and then when I come out · ped, nor when the arm shot out to throw the lamp with people again it all flows out here, through my against his chest. hands. She'll tell him as they eat, she insists; now if he'll ... just find her the rice and tea. He stands naked beneath hot water. His own

LAWRENCE TODAY 13 In the webbed circles of light from the table lamp, H e runs his forefinger lightly across the tops of he sweeps the floor, then draws a bucket of water and her hands and then turns them over and looks at her begins to scrub. As his arm rotates over the mottled palms. floor, the gesture seems to him like a repetitive bless­ Are you spooked? she asks, laughing. ing over the surface of the earth. He is a tall holy man Do you ever make love? he asks. in bare feet, beneficent after all , perhaps. Now and Sometimes. There's a schoolteacher up in my town then he looks down to the curve of his chest to his who wants to marry me. crotch. He is crying. Each time he lifts the rag it Will you make love with me? He feels the shapes of c~mes away filthy. Once he hears a tapping on the her rings against his palms. wtndow and glances up to see her smiling in at him I'm going to clean your house, didn't you know? from the night. She comes to the back door with an You're going to clean, too, she says. armload of stolen lilacs. The beauty of the world All night? belongs to the people, she says. She puts one small jug We'll see. She has withdrawn her wealthy hands to of purpl~ on the table, says nothing about his tears, her tea. and carnes the rest of the blossoms into the living We both have dead parents, he says. room. Her eyes are on him, above the poised steaming cup, and he telJs her about going home to the empty house, letting himself in through the basement door, -w;.en he has finished the floor, he blows his climbing to the silent kitchen, finding his mother's nos~ and goes to find her. She has moved the rocking notes to herself, family pictures, light angling up the chau closer to the couch, he notices, and set the lilacs green couch, ashes in the grate, upstairs full drawers on the low table. The washed plants arc back on the coins on a dresser, a dish of pearls with a broken ' windowsills, looking stripped and fragile. A pile of clasp. He went through the drawers, he says, he dirty sheets and towels has been gathered in the smelled everything, like a dog, he put his fingers in hallway. The space itself seems altered, feasible. His her box of pink powder and wrapped a nightgown h~ad feels _close to the ceiling, his body enormous, ~round his neck, noticing that it needed mending, that fatntly w~1ghtless in the dim passageway, and at its It was really a very old faded nightgown with torn end the lighted bathroom door seems attainable by a lace. That night he slept alone in his down bag inside single step. the attic dormer of the house, the casement open to He finds her picking away the last of the mirror the stars. He remembers putting his tongue on the zip­ shards _from the cabinet frame. In place of those per of his bag and tasting metal as he fell asleep. He distorting reflections of anger she has affixed another remembers that once long before that he had wanted mirror, small and round, surrounded by a sunburst of to push his father out a window. gil~ paper. Something from my car of treasures, her She is acknowledging him over her cup. votce says. She is leaning close to the mirror, her eyes I've never told that before, he says. are on herself, but he does not know what she sees· You're all right , she says. his own sight seems to slide off her form, he feels ; My wife thinks I'm lethal. pulsing inside his body. He does not know how to She shrugs. These are difficult times for men and reach the other side. She must have looked into the women, she says. centers o~ oth~r mirrors in other places, pulling down After they finish eating, she goes to her coat ·pocket her scarf m th1s same way and raking her fingers out­ for a scarf to tic around her head. First she takes all ward to the ends of her tangled halo of hair, turning the plants into the bathtub to spray them down and to one. person or another in the background, with the pick off the dead leaves. He stands in the doorway flecks m her eyes appearing yellow, unmined, and watches the bones of her spine as she bends over lu~inous with her own tears; yet will she be smiling the decimated collection. thts ~ay , her attentive jeweled hands raised open to Some hope here, she says. the au exactly so, her same voice chanting that Together they stack up the scattered books and sometimes she too feels like a mmherless child a newspapers and shake out the old oriental rug that long, long way from home? 0 ' covers the day bed. He goes to start in on the dishes and trash. Occasionally he hears her singing from the other rooms, simple tunes in a slightly nasal voice.

This story, reprinted witb tbe permission of the Ut~ivers ity of if. Jiuois Press, first appeared in Southern Review.

14 LAWRENCE TODAY A Life in the Theater

Audiences are entertained by it, critics may assail it, but David Chambers, '68, and Kingsley Day, '73, live it­ a life in the theater.

by Phil Anderson, '70 Two Lawrence graduates have watching. found this kind of life in the Stanley Kingsley Day, '73, lives in theater, and they've succeeded, sur­ Chicago, where he writes a new A life in the theater has its risks, viving the risks. One performs a kind of musical comedy with a to be sure, but facing a new little, but mostly writes scripts and satirical edge. Together with his audience from the stage each night composes songs; the other hasn't collaborator Phillip LaZebnik, he isn't the only risk involved. Equally trod the boards in years, preferring drafted the political revue, " Byrne, chancy are the creation of new to direct, write and produce. Baby Byrne' ' -based on the plays for actors to perform, and the They've met with controversy and regularly spoofable exploits of creative guidance of the theater as acclaim and maybe a few minor Mayor jane Byrne-which ran an institution, keeping it worthy of flops, but they've got momentum a full 28 months in a popular com­ public interest. now and their careers are worth edy club. This was followed by a

Kingsley Day, right, writer of musical comedy and sometimes actor, keeps Chicago audiences asking for more.

LAWRENCE TODAY 15 several-month run of ''Byrne, Baby have read about"), which, after an of a play set in the 1960s, "Beloved Byrne II", a semi-sequel based on extended workshop-type produc­ Friend", and polishing a script for Byrne's mayoral primary race tion last year, opens April 12 at the CBS television, "Idaho Swing" against Richard (Richie) Daley Jr.; Pheasant Run Dinner Theater, one Though he's not selling himself as more recent works have taken aim of the Chicago area's few for-profit an ex- (or event current) radical, at the pretentions of the theater, ad­ professional institutions. This sum­ Chambers admits "there's still a vice columnists and pop culture. mer will find the pair working on political edge in my work, though This wasn't what Day had plan­ "I Was a Teenage Discount Store", God knows that's hardly trendy ned for himself when he was a another musical pastiche that Day these days." "Beloved Friend," by piano major in the Lawrence con­ refers to as ''a return to our more Nancy Pahl Gilsenan, follows the servatory, but after reaching the absurd style." 1960s and their legacy in A.B.D. (All But Dissertation) stage at Success in Chicago could lead kaleidoscopic fashion through the the Eastman School of Music in some to seek bigger success correspondence of an American girl Rochester, New York, he teamed up elsewhere, but Day would prefer and her Rhodesian pen pal. The with hometown friend LaZebnik, to that one of his shows get picked up American goes on to St. Olaf Col­ move to Chicago and explore their and brought to Broadway by some­ lege and then succumbs to a shared affinity for musical comedy. one else. (That almost happened degenerative disease, with no outlet with "Summer Stock Murder".) By for her political beliefs; the Rhode­ staying in Chicago, Day gets to act sian becomes a high official in the ''We did 12 shows in two more often in other productions new nation of Zimbabwe. "It's years," he recalls. "By the end, our (he's devoted to Noel Coward and quite a time trip,'' notes Chambers. storefront theater's roof was caving Gilbert & Sullivan, and even con­ "Idaho Swing" also has a political in, and so too was our group, I trived to have his character in edge, in that it's about a small Idaho guess, because the second season "Summer Stock" solve the murders town about to be eaten up by a wasn't as successful." What saved by using G & S lore), an occasional large corporation. "I lived in Ket­ them was "Byrne, Baby Byrne", sideline. chum, Idaho, for a while," he ex­ which gained such local notoriety He also gets to stay near the daily plains, "and I observed a lot of that everyone of importance-even tornado of Chicago politics, a real things. Not only the humble tavern Illinois' governor-except Byrne opportunity for someone who culture of these small mountain herself, went to see it. They had to, claims that "what pro football con­ towns, which reminded me of because Day and LaZebnik were tests are for a lot of people, elec­ Wisconsin, but also the corporate assiduously updating the script to tions are for me. I enjoy the sport takeover phenomenon. One moun­ keep the lampoons fresh. of it. We've got another wild tain nearby was going to be cracked The Byrne cycle was followed by mayoral election in two years, and open for its molybdenum. "Summer Stock Murder", a back­ already the politicians are gearing "The title refers to a style of dan­ stage musical with a cast full of ec­ up." cing out there-like a Western sort centrics, most of whom had solid of jitterbug, real energetic. "The motives for skull-duggery. Chicago story follows a young woman from critics praised the work for its Politics was practically this town who's involved in a audacity and freshness, going so far synonymous with David Chamber's summer-long dance contest." He promises it won't be in as to suggest that it could become a name when he was at Lawrence. Flasbdance standard work for theater groups Chambers, a '68 graduate, was stu­ cowboy boots. everywhere. dent body president then and by his But apart from his personal pro­ ''Summer Stock Murder'' ran for a own admission would rather have jects, the biggest development in year and a half, and was honored a been out protesting something than Chambers's life these days is his record eight times by Chicago's doing his scholarl-9" duties. His five­ return to his home town of St. equivalent of the Tony Awards, the year stint at Lawrence spanned the Louis, and the chance to turn an Joseph )effersons. Day is quickly deaths of both John and Robert earnest regional theater into modest in pointing out that it won Kennedy. But Chambers was a something possibly far more impor­ Jefferson citations, not the more theater major, too, and his subse­ tant. He's got the experience with strategic awards, but also notes that quent work as a director, writer quality theater: he's worked for the it's now available fof production and producer has benefited from Guthrie in Minneapolis, the famed from a theater industry catalogue the zeal he once brought to assailing Arena Stage in Washington, (the same as getting a piece of wars, assassinations and social in­ Charleston's Spoleto Festival U.S.A., music published), and that famed justices. and in New York at the New York Broadway impresario Hal Prince At the moment, Chambers jokes Shakespeare Festival, on Broadway, saw the show and was "very con­ that he lives on a TWA flight be­ and with the Manhattan Theatre gratulatory". tween New York and St. Louis. He's Club (he was a co-founder, with Day and LaZebnik 's most recent currently in a year of transition, set­ Lynne Meadows). work is "Dear Amanda", about an tling into his duties as the new pro­ "I had two emotions on coming advice columnist ("bearing no ducing director of the Repertory back to St. Louis," he recalls. "One was a kind of revenge; after first resemblance to someone you might Theatre of St. Louis while he honors his other commitments worrying that I might be 'stepping elsewhere. These include direction

16 LAWRENCE TODAY back into the chorus,' I realized I was following a family tradition­ people on both sides of my family helped shape that city, such as my great-grandfather who built a bridge across the Mississippi. But I also felt a certain excitement. When 1 left St. Louis to go to Lawrence, the city seemed headed for stasis and decay. But when I got back, instead I saw an incredibly vital city pushing itself through a staggering vitaliza­ tion. And now I can be a part of that." For his first true season at the Repertory Theatre, 1985-86, Chambers has picked at least four plays that will be either American or world premieres. He's named a prestigious group of associate direc­ tors, widely experienced theater professionals who will cOme to St. Louis to work on one production a year, as well as help "move the theater into the highest ranks," as he puts iL For the moment, he characterizes his theater as part of a "second tier" of American institu­ tions, on a par with Actors Theatre of Louisville or the Milwaukee Rep. His ambition is to make the St. Louis ensemble the equal of the Guthrie or Arena Stage. It will be a tough challenge for someone who, mindful of his past, calls the 1960s "a product of the imagination-while the 1980s are militantly opposed to acts of the imagination." Yet he sees his task as "dealing in the gray areas that can't Da vid Chambers bas ambilfous plans f or tbe Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. be worked out on the balance sheet. Our job is to create taste and not be consulted about it." Chambers, who went on to Yale It 's unlikely they'll meet up in Drama School and had Meryl Streep any professional capacities, since Whether dealing in musical and Henry Winkler as classmates, their personal missions are dif­ comedy, satire, serious drama or remembers that "the first day I ferent, but it's intriguing to think of high-level theater management, both went into directing class I was ter­ Kingsley Day and David Chambers Chambers and Day find that rified. Here were all these Harvard together in spirit, holding up the Lawrence prepared them for their and Columbia people around me. fabric of that amorphous thing call­ current work. Day acknowledges But I discovered I'd been better ed "the theater". Actors may that no college can teach musical educated in theater, because I'd preach about it, and critics may comedy (he jokes that "by the time been through more and simply assail it, but Day and Chambers can something gets taught at the univer­ knew more. My classmates had definitively explain how it con­ sity level, it's really a' dead art maybe directed a single show each; tinues to thrive. D form"), but recalls that "I was able I found myself turned to by these to carve out my own theatrical people for advice. I was kind of proud of that. They also tried to in­ Phil Anderson, '70, is a freelance niche. The conservatory and theater writer living in Minneapolis. department may not have mixed all still a missionary zeal for the theater that much, but there were no bar­ at Yale, but I already had it thanks riers in my way to put on shows. to my opportunities at Lawrence.,. I'm also glad I practiced piano so much because I usually have to play for our shows, every night."

LAWRENCE. TODAY 17 In a Category by Himself

A tribute to Marshall Hulbert

Marshall Hulbert, '26/'32, died on December 24, 1984, at the age of 79. During his lengthy Lawrence career, Hulbert served as acting president, dean of the college, dean of the conservatory, director of admission, dean of administration and director of alumni relations. To commemorate Hulbert, the university held a service of remembrance on Monday,january 21, 1985, in the chapel. Participants in the service included President Richard Warch, the Reverend Arthur K.O. Kephart, rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Appleton, and the Reverend N.C. Sorenson, pastor of Community United Methodist Church, Elm Grove, Wis. Music was provided by students, alumni and faculty of the Conservatory of Music. A reception in Riverview Lounge of the Memorial Union followed the service. We reprint here President Warch's tribute, delivered at the service, to his and our friend, Marshall Hulbert.

by Richard U7arch Wriston commended him "for the 1932 that "I have heard you sing intelligent and energetic way in beautifully many times, but I never which you carry out your duties at heard you sing as beautifully as you To stand before this assemblage the conservatory, going far beyond did yesterday morning. It was really and pay homage to Marshall the official requirements to sec that thrilling, and I want to express my Hulbert, to face the prospect of pro­ things are handled successfully." appreciation for it." Within the past viding words adequate to the President Barrows lauded the man few years, that voice sang beautiful­ measure of his influence and legacy, in 194 t as "a rare person. I know ly once more-strong, powerful, to contemplate the task of of no one who does not feel an moving-both in a voice recital in celebrating the true magnitude of unusual and almost unexplainable Harper Hall and in leading alumni in his generous affection for and devo­ warmth toward him ... There is rendering college songs at reunions. tion to our college-these elements something very deep that ooe docs As teacher, Marshall sought no of the occasion provoke my not get in a casual acquaintance comfortable niche. He was on the gratitude even as they promote a which puts Hulbert almost in a far side of 60 when he traveled to sense of humility. category by himself. " Africa in order to explore possible Marshall's story is familiar to us Marshall was, indeed, in a connections between educational all. It is a magnificent and category by himself, for he hardly institutions on that continent and multifaceted story, and each person fits any categories we might devise ACM colleges; and into his seventies remembers most acutely and fondly to describe his career in academe. he continued to teach a course on but a portion of its fullness. How He took his undergraduate and Africa to Lawrence undergraduates. could it be otherwise, for who graduate degrees at Lawrence, Col­ No conventional categories here. among us can even remotely rival umbia, and Northwestern over three Neither did he fit conventional the length and depth of his associa­ decades. He became Dr. Hulbert at categories in his long and distin­ tions with this special place and age 44, though he was forever Dean guished administrative career at with its people? Those associations or Mr. or Marshall to those who Lawrence, for the odyssey of his span seven decades, eight Lawrence knew him. He was, in his first faculty appointments is but a casual presidents, generations of faculty Lawrence appointment, an instruc­ stroll when compared to his many colleagues, and countless thousands tor in singing and served, in his journeys in this terrain: secretary of of students and friends of the col­ final official appointment, as the the conservatory, director of admis­ lege. Mary Mortimer Professor of Liberal sions, dean of administration, vice­ The Hulbert hallmark was evident Studies, a transition that implied president of the college, director of from his student days here. A not so much an intellectual sea­ alumni affairs, acting president­ classmate remembers him as change as an embodiment of the full and more. The records reveal that "steady and reliable and without an range of his interests and talents. my predecessors called upon him enemy." In the early years of his That range, of course, always in­ frequently to initiate or handle tenure on the faculty, President cluded the voice, ever the voice. some new or struggling program, President Wriston wrote him in

18 LAWRENCE TODAY "He was by no means the quiet dean of stereotype and story. Instead he called forth stories of his own, because the confidence and deep affection which he inspired in us wove legends around him. "

from public relations to foreign "This judgment was of a very always dealing fairly and with com­ studies. His response was always af­ special nature, however, for Mar­ passion. Marshall saw clearly that firmative and his performance mat­ shall was not a judicious man in the Lawrence exists to contribute to a ched his response. usual sense. He was sudden, im­ change in the lives of young people, In preparing for this service, I in­ pulsive, whimsical, extremely com­ to an enlargement of vision and vited Presidents Pusey, Knight, plex in his judgments, as in his in­ responsible living, to a sense of Tarr, and Smith to share their ner life-by no means the quiet beauty, to noble purpose. Thus his recollections and remembrances dean of stereotype and story. In­ monument to posterity, truly, is the with me and for you. Their words stead he called forth stories of his testimony of rebirth that so many may serve as testimony to the own, because the confidence and people have had because of his longevity and richness of Marshall's deep affection which he inspired in dedication." legacy. President Thomas Smith's ex­ "By the time I returned to be perience with Marshall anticipated Lawrence's president," writes my own. He writes that "during my Nathan Pusey, Marshall ''had visits to alumni around the country definitely become one of the the questions most often asked stalwarts on whom much that were 'How is Marshall Hulbert? Lawrence did, and did well, What is he doing now?' They loved depended. Thereafter we worked him and they knew he would be closely together for nine years, he doing something different. in a variety of capacities. In every "When I first met him I was im­ instance, as he moved from one mediately aware that this responsibility to another, always it distinguished, gentle man was the was, willingly and without hesita­ stuff of Lawrence. He was one of tion, simply because Lawrence those few who, over the decades, needed his talent in that particular wove the fabric and the patterns of position at that moment at the institution. I' also learned quick­ whatever cost it may have been to ly that his commitment to the value his interests and personal wishes. In and integrity of Lawrence was part my experience he was for Lawrence of his being without thought of per­ the very model of the able, sonal position or reward. He gave devoted, faithful servant who not Marshall Hulbert, November 1984 freely of his knowledge and ability only always did his job superlative­ to serve in routine matters and in ly well, but who, because of his us wove legends around him. Some times of emergency. liveliness and joyous good humor, men are distinguished by their wit "Every successful college must also made easier and more effective or learning, some by their success have men of the stature of Marshall the work of all the rest of us." in fields of action. Marshall did Hulbert, but few rarely have one Douglas Knight recalls that at the many fine things, and he was witty who serves with seven presidents start of his time at Lawrence, he and learned as well. But what we and who, as in my case, helps train asked Marshall to become dean of treasure, today and always, is sim­ some of them in their jobs." the college "and the shift involved ply Marshall himself, a man to be While I doubt that Marshall-or a major change in the range and loved and remembered." anyone else, for that matter-train­ depth of his work. It seemed to me What Presidents Pusey and Knight ed Henry Wriston, and while the important for him to be involved in affirm, Curtis Tarr reinforces. "Mar­ record with President Barrows is policy as well as in the detail of shall Hulbert," he writes, "spent his not revealing on this score, Pusey's many aspects of college life, and he life being the conscience of description of Marshall as stalwart rose to that new demand with the Lawrence. With great vision he suggests that by the mid-1940s, at devotion and judgment which were balanced individual needs and least, his stature was emerging. By such distinguishing marks of his hopes with those of the college, whole career.

LAWRENCE TODAY 19 "Challenge; responsibility; opportunity; courage; dedication; ideals; faith. These words are the lexicon of Marshall's values and in them is the man-whom we cherish and will remember. "

the late 1970s, it was secure. I too and true example of the ever~ Challenge; responsibility; oppor­ was trained. Well, not so much youthful and forward~looking Mar~ tunity; courage; dedication; ideals; trained in the details of the job as shall. Looking at the world of the faith. These words are the lexicon introduced to the nature of the present and near future, he exclaim~ of Marshall's values and in them is place. And that introduction was ed "What a time of unprecedented the man whom we cherish and will not one in which Marshall inflicted change! What staggering moral and remember, whose life and legacy Lawrence's past on me, but in ethical issues to be faced! What we celebrate tonight. President which he shared Lawrence's spirit confusion reigns in Washington, Pusey's final line serves as our own: and genius with me. For Marshall London, Moscow, Beirut, and ';May God rest his soul.'' D did not live in the past. For him, countless other population centers. Lawrence was a lively and living What aimless strivings among the community, and he embraced and nations 'who have not' and those served and respected that commun· who seem to monopolize the goods ity in all of its tribulations and of this planet. What should or what The university has established an transfigurations. can be salvaged of our traditional endowed scholarship honoring Mar­ Early in my years here, Marshall values? Who will determine the shall Hulbert. Contributions from taught me how liberal Lawrence course of our journeys and bring us alumni, friends and former and cur­ retirement policies really are. When reasonable order to solve the rent faculty members began to ar~ I arrived. he had been "retired" for critical dilemmas that develop as we seven years; during my first year as move inexorably toward the new rive spontaneously within days of president, he "retired'' for a second century?" Hulbert's death. Lawrence will com­ bine these contributions with time. In the following year, he con~ And speaking in conclusion to Hulbert's bequest to the college to tinued to frequent his office on a Lawrence students then, and by ex­ regular basis and singlehandedly tension to all of us this evening, establish a scholarship to provide prepared William Raney's history of Marshall asked the telling questions financial assistance ro students. the college for publication. His he believed to be central to the aims Contributions to the scholarship identification with this place never of liberal learning and which he had fund should be mailed to Lawrence wavered, and his participation in its spent a lifetime asking and embody· University, Office of Development, affairs never flagged. In truth, ing: " Is this a challenge you are P.O. Box 599, Appleton, WI 54912. however, I do not know if he ever eager to accept? Has your ex· Please note on your check or in an thought of himself as loving perience prepared you to want that accompanying note that the gift is Lawrence. For Marshall, I think, kind of responsibility-that oppor­ intended for the Marshall Hulbert Lawrence was not something else, tunity to make an important dif­ Scholarship. out there, beyond him, that he ference in the civilization you in­ might love. In some subtle and herited? Surely the 'Lawrence Dif­ unselfconscious way, Lawrence was ference' is something other than a himself, seeking excellence and es· neat slogan; it will show its mean­ chewing pretension, valuing service ing in numerous ways as you pro­ Excerpts from letters written to above selfishness, experiencing ceed to set your goals for the future President Warch in memory of Mar­ moments of triumph and tragedy, and to realize your destinies. It will shall Hulbert appear in the having periods of achievement and often demand genuine courage and "Letters" section of this magazine. disappointment, but through all of a complete dedication to the ideals those moments to be accepted, as you espouse, plus a large measure he accepted himself. of faith in a Benevolent Power His "Credo" speech at last year's beyond man's finite ability tO Honors Day Convocation was a rich understand.''

20 LAWRENCE TODAY LawrencuAhead

Lawrence University Spring 1985

Lawrence...; Ahead hits the road The stars of Hollywood's "Road" pic­ tures were Bob and Bing. Lawrence's sequel features Rik and Greg and 160 pounds of projectors, cords, and lenses. Between November 1984 and June 1985, President Rik Warch and Vice President for Development and Exter­ nal Affairs Greg Fahlund will have crisscrossed the country many times greeting gatherings of alumni and friends at "Celebrate l.aW?'tnCu Ahead)} events to tell the Lawrence story and generate enthusiasm for Lawrencu Ahead) the ambitious $35 million campaign. From Boston to Sun City, from Seattle to Tampa, Warch and Fahlund-and their local Lawrentian hosts and hostesses-will have assem­ bled nearly 20 times and in groups numbering between 30 and 300 alum­ ni , parents, and friends. Local alumni dubs working with Gil Swift, director of alumni relations, have coordinated several of the events. ..IHJ II Ill' II' • Lawrencu Ahead

"Greeting old friends and making San Francisco Connecticut and New York new ones for Lawrence-that's what David L. Mitchell, '71 Dr. Nathan M. Pusey, this campaign is about," according to Los Angeles John T., '58, and Sheila Andersen Warch. "Lawrence is an outstanding Helen Buscher Franke, '60, Leatham, '59, and John A. Luke, college at a moment in its history that Jane Cornell Smith, '37, and Jr., '71 is both exciting and criticaL On one Marilyn Edwards Zumberge, '47 Oshkosh/Fond du Lac level, Lawrence_; Ahead is a campaign Sao Diego Patricia and Henry H. Kimberly, Jr. , to position us well for the corning Phillips, '51, and Meredith Holmes '42, and Russell A., '32, and decades. But simultaneously-and Montross, '53 Dorothy Dana Duket, '29 equally important-lawrencu Ahead Fox Valley Similar Lawrencu Ahead events are declares our determination to extend Robert C. and Bonnie Glidden planned for Detroit, Madison, our excellence. We want to continue Buchanan, both '62 Wausau, Seattle/Portland, Denver, St. providing the best education in liberal Tampa/St. Petersburg Louis, and Kalamazoo before June 30. arts and music, nurturing and develop­ Naney Habetler Kaliebe, M-D '63 ing the men and women who will lead Atlanta and shape our common life, the peo­ F. Ward, '34, and Is The Lawrence Fund ple Toynbee called 'the creative Annette Meyer Rosebush, '35 part of the campaign? minority.', Washington, D.C. The following is a list of the events Marilyn Stiller Taylor, '69 "In a word, Yes!" says Don and the individuals who hosted them: Green Bay Koskinen, '50, past chairman of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Joan and Robert J. Sehaupp, '51, Board of Trustees and now national Tom Kayser, '58, and and David D., '53, and Karin chairman of The Lawrence Fund and a Jane Paulson Gregerson, '69 Krieger Brown, '57 member of the Lawrencu Ahead Steer­ Milwaukee Chicago ing Committee. Interviewed following Fritz Ruf, '59, and William B. Weiss, '41, the January meeting of the Board of Carolyn King Stephens, M-D '62 john H. Ellerman, ' 58, and Tmstees, he noted that almost one­ Phoenix and Sun City Andrew H. Kalnow, '74 quarter of the $35 million goal of Dayton Grafman, '44 Boston Lanlf"t!ncu Ahead consists of gifts to Tucson Elizabeth Rusch Montie, '69, and The Lawrence Fund, the name given Barbara Gray Spoerl, M-D '44 Dale A. Sehuparra. '69 to Lawrence's annual appeals for operating doUars. The goal of The Lawrence Fund for 1985-86 is $1.5 million. "Lawrencu Ahead is really two cam­ paigns under one umbreUa,, Koskinen added. "On the one hand, we're looking for capital funds for the en­ dowment, equipment, and facilities. On the other, we also need to build a stronger base of annual support-ex­ pendable dollars to keep our operating budget strong during the campaign and after." The campaign will not be a complete success unless it meets both goals, Koskinen said. And he pointed out that continued and increased annual giving during the campaign is an ap­ propriate way for alumni and other friends of Lawrence to contribute toward the Lawrencu Ahead goal. "Some people have asked whether their gifts to the alumni fund, for ex­ ample, count as contributions to .. ' • IHI • • Lawrencu Ahead

Lawrencu Ahead. In fuct, every gift to Endowed scholarships aid worthy students Lawrence during the period of the campaign counts toward the campaign Lawrence has 181 endowed scholar­ A recent addition to endowed goal." ships; each has its own story. Begun scholarships is one begun by Bernie He concluded, " I hope people will by different people in different eras for and Peg Rutten in 1984. Rutten, the recognize the importance of The different reasons, these scholarship biology laboratory supervisor at Lawrence Fund in the overall cam­ funds form a base of financial Lawrence for 18 years, approached paign and will make every effort to in­ assistance for the students of today Lawrence with a creative scholarship crease their annual support during the and tomorrow. plan in which biology students would campaign and sustain it after the cam­ Some scholarships are designed to be eligible for financial aid that replac­ paign is over." give first preference to students enroll­ ed their work/study award with a ed in a particular field of study or grant. Rutten's years of knowing committed to a specific career. Others students had made him aware of situa­ Joyce challenge support students from a particular tions where academic performance nears goal locale. Many scholarships honor in­ seemed to suffer because of the stu­ dividuals; frequently an outstanding dent's employment responsibilities. With five months of Lawrence's educator is memorialized by former This year two students have received 1984-85 fiscal year remaining, almost srudenrs and colleagues. Sometimes a the Rutten scholarships. two-thirds of The Joyce Foundation's family will combine the resources of May Williams Macinnis, '20, Sher­ $100,000 endowment challenge grant several members to create a family man Oaks, Calif., has contributed a has been claimed. The grant will scholarship. Honoring the intention of gift annuity that wiU establish a match, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, the donor's individual vision is an scholarship fund in memory and gifts of $5,000 or more for endow­ ongoing commitment of Lawrence's. honor of her four sisters, who aU at­ ment received from alumni, parents, The following are a few examples of tended Lawrence. The Williams Sisters or friends between July 1, 1984 and different kinds of endowed scholar­ Scholarship Fund was given in june 30, 1985. In cases of gifts larger ships at Lawrence today. memory of Mrs . Macinnis's deceased than $25,000, only the amount up to Thirty-one scholarships have sisters Esther (Mrs. Douglas Richard­ $25,000 qualifies for matching. Milwaukee-Downer origins. son), '20, Helen (M". Carl E. Otto), As of january 31 , nine gifts had Lawrence's oldest scholarship can be '22, and Ruth (M". ]. V. Angus), qualified for $65,000 of the $100,000 traced back to a bequest in 1879 from ' 22; and honors her younger sister available under the grant. Rufus Dodge to Wisconsin Female Emma Lou (Mrs. Bernard B. Bender), The challenge grant opportunity ef­ College, later renamed Downer Col­ '34. fectively doubles the impact of gifts lege. The Lucia Briggs &holatship, While most of Lawrence's scholar­ received during the current fiscal year which honors the president of ships are directly related to financial for such purposes. Those considering Milwaukee-Downer College from 1921 need, there are two major exceptions: creating or adding to an endowed to 1951 , is one of the largest scholar­ the Henry M. Wriston &holm Pro­ fund are asked to consider the advan­ ship funds at Lawrence today. It is gram and the Kimberly-Clark Honor tages of doing so during the current also noteworthy because it was funded Scholarships. In both instances, talent fiscal year in order to qualify for through the contributions of many and merit are the criteria for the matching by The Joyce Foundation. donors over many years. awards. Each spring two Wriston The Ansorge Family &holatship was Scholars arc selected from the created by Emery Ansorge and his freshman class in recognition of their family. Ansorge, '33, and his wife outstanding academic performance at Eleanor, '34, and their three Lawrence. The Wriston Scholars arc daughtm (Karen A. Kimberly, '48, students whose academic excellence is Janet Ansorge, '62, and Lynne A. reflected by their wide-ranging in­ Gerlinsky, '66) are a family with a terests, balanced personalities, and the perfect record-all family members be­ multiple abilities associated with a ing alumni. The scholatship fund truly educated person. The annual reflects the importance of Lawrence in award of $3,000 is renewable for two their lives and a desire to make additional years if the individual's Lawrence available to generation after generation of students. II Lawrencu Ahead academic exceUence continues. Alumni board The Kimberly-Clark .Honor Scholar­ ship program provides annual $2,500 pledges $250,000 scholarships to ou rsranding high The Board of Directors of the school seniors from areas of the 19 Lawrence University Alumni Associa­ states where K-C has operations. The tion (LUAA) has enthusiastically ap­ scholarships are renewable for the proved a goal of $250,000 in gifts and students' remaining three years at pledges from board members as its Lawrence if favorable performance is part in Lawrencu Ahead. In proposing maintained. First awarded to seven this amount to the board, both entering freshmen in the fall of 1985, Robert J. Schaupp, '51, president­ the scholarships wiU be available to 28 elect, and Chris A. Bowers, '70, spoke Kimberly-Clark scholars at Lawrence of the special responsibility that board each year by 1987. members feel for Lawrence and the Increased endowed scholarships are importance of the board's participa­ an important goal of Lawrence Ahead. tion at the highest possible level. Scholarships provide financial These sentiments were echoed around assistance, primarily in the form of the table as the members unanimously grants, to worthy students, many of voted to set their sights high. Speaking whom would otherwise be unable to of the board's action, Jane Paulson afford a Lawrence education. Gregerson, '69, president, said, "It Scholarships can be funded through says a lot about the board's commit­ lifetime gifts or through bequests. ment to Lawrence and our willingness They are an excellent way to honor an designing and funding endowed to stretch our commitments to help individual or provide a perpetual fami­ scholarships are invited to contact Lawrencu Ahead succeed. ' ' ly presence at Lawrence. Individuals Steve Hirby in the development office. interested in additional information on

CAMPAIGN PROGRESS REPORT February 8, 1985 Gifts Needed Gifts and Pledges Received

Range Number Amount Number Amount $2,000,000 2 $4,000,000 1 $2,575 ,000 1,000,000 6 6,000,000 6 7,100,000 750,000 8 6,000,000 0 0 500,000 10 5,000,000 2 1,175,369 250,000 12 3,000,000 13 4,094,624 100,000 20 2,000,000 13 2,062,938 50,000 30 1,500,000 18 1,152,356 25 ,000 60 1,500,000 19 615,014 10,000 100 1,000,000 46 718,321 .,. t!un 10,000 many 5,000,000 many 2,527,445 Total $35,000,000 $22,021,069 CURRENTS

•The Literature of the Bjorklunden offers American Indian with di5cussion the perfect leader Robert L. Berner, professor summer vacation of English, University of Wisconsin­ Reservations are now being ac­ Oshkosh, August 17-24. cepted for the 1985 Bjorklunden The seminars are open to all in­ Seminars. These ten week-long terested persons 18 years of age and classes, held on the Bjorklunden older, but enrollment is limited to estate in Door County, Wis., are aUow for much interaction between directed by Lawrence faculty participants and with the discussion members and other specialists. Con­ leader. The charge of $450 per per­ sider attending: son includes room, family-style • Chekhov in Performance with meals, tuition and any books and discussion leaders Mesrop supplies that are required for the Kesdekian, acting instructor and seminar. head of the professional directing Participants will be housed in program, Southern Methodist either the lodge or the studio on University, and Esther Benson, pro­ the 325-acre Bjorklunden estate, fessional actress, june 16-22. situated on the shores of Lake • Regional Historic Writing for Michigan. Community Service and Fun with For more information, write or discussion leader Marguerite call joseph Hopfensberger, ' 52, resi­ Schumann, '44, university publica­ dent director, Bjorklunden, Box 92, tions officer, The University of Baileys Harbor, Wis., 54202, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and 414/839-2216 after 5 p.m. editor, the National Humanities Center newsletter, june 23-29. •The Romans with discussion Bach's birthday bash leader Daniel J. Taylor, '63, This year is the 300th anniversary associate professor of classics, of the birth of johann Sebastian Lawrence, June 30-July 6. Bach, and Lawrence is joining the •Birds and Birding In Door worldwide celebration of that event County with discussion leader Fred • Birds in Art with discussion by scheduling activities for the year Lesher, assistant professor of leader Rockne Knuth, wildlife artist which salute the composer, as well English, University of Wisconsin­ and winner of numerous stamp as his contemporaries, George LaCrosse, and past president, competitions, july 28-August 3 . Frideric Handel and Domenico Wisconsin Society for Ornithology •our Water Resources with Scarlatti, also born in 1685. and Minnesota Ornithologist's discussion leader Sumner Richman, The tercentenary events include Union, July 7-13. the Alice J. Hulst Professor of Life several noon-time recitals titled eThe History and Arts of Spain Sciences, Lawrence, August 4-10. " Bach's Lunch "; a radio program with discussion leader Richard W . • State Government: Can It Sur­ on WLFM devoted solely to Bach, Winslow, associate professor of vive? with discussion leader Patrick Handel and Scarlatti; a Term II Spanish, Lawrence, July 14-20. J. Lucey, special consultant with Na­ course titled "The Life and Works •Landscape and Nature Draw· tional Economic Research Asso­ of johann Sebastian Bach"; an organ log with discussion leader Alice ciates, Madison, Wis., and past recital of the Bach music performed King Case, lecturer in art, governor of Wisconsin, U.S . Am­ in 1840 by Felix Mendelssohn, who Lawrence, July 21-27. bassador to Mexico and vice is credited with rescuing Bach's presidential candidate, August 11-16. vocal music from obscurity; a joint

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Bach harpsichord recital; several Wind Ensemble Orchestra" is a three-movement lectures and a fall convocation; and work which displ~ys the expertise a gala finale concert on November produces second of the percussion section. "The 17, 1985 featuring the 22-voice recording Solitary Dancer'' depicts the quiet, choir Musica Sacra, Richard Westen­ The Lawrence Wind Ensemble, coiled energy ever present in burg, '54, conductor, with the under the direction of Robert Levy, dancers, whether in motion or at Lawrence choral society and or­ associate professor of music, has rest. "The Mask of Night" is a chestra. Musica Sacra, founded in made its second recording for romantic piece which takes its title the mid-1960s in New York City, Golden Crest Records. The newly­ from a phrase in Shakespeare's play became the first professional choir released album contains the works "Romeo and juliet." in the U.S. to establish a concert of Warren Benson, composer and The first recording the Lawrence series devoted to sacred music for percussionist. Wind Ensemble produced for the chorus and orchestra. It now per­ In addition to a substantial body Golden Crest Record label was a forms annually to critical acclaim in of pioneering works for wind collection of pieces by American Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and ensemble and percussion groups, composer Paul Creston. As with the the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Benson has composed major works 1981 Creston recording, the Warren and in 1979 established its Basically in every medium. He was on the Benson recording was the culmina­ Bach Festival. Lawrence campus last May to ad­ tion of a week-long residency by A special edition poster featuring dress students and faculty and the composer. Both recordings, Bach's family crest has been design­ rehearse the wind ensemble in made in the Lawrence Memorial ed by Win Thrall, university graphic preparation for the recording. Chapel with engineering by Irish­ designer, to commemorate the anni­ The recording featUres the Saxe Sound Productions, Appleton, versary. Printed in royal blue and 75-member band in three selections. are available from the Conservatory silver, the 13" by 20" poster can be "Symphony for Drums and Wind of Music. purchased for S3.50 at the univer­ sity's public events office, Brokaw Hall. If you wish to mail order the poster, the cost is $5.00 to cover postage and handling. Please make Alumni elected to checks payable to Lawrence Univer­ Board of Trustees sity. Two Lawrence alumni and one Lawrence alumni-admission pro­ Milwaukee-Downer College alumna gram. She resides in Hingham, Mass. were elected to the university's Elizabeth Steffen attended Board of Trustees at the board's fall Milwaukee-Downer College before meeting. graduating from the University of The three alumni joined the board Michigan and earning the M.D. in january for four-year terms. degree at McGill University of Charles S. Cianciola, a 1955 Medicine in 1945. She is chairper­ graduate, is executive vice-president son of the department of obstetrics for Wisconsin Tissue Mills in and gynecology at St. Mary's Menasha. At Lawrence, "Sal" earn­ Hospital in Racine, Wis. She ed second team Little All-American received the Lawrence University honors in 1953 and 1954 as a Distinguished Service Award, served member of the Viking football on the alumni association board of squad. He remains an active booster directors and previously served as of Lawrence athletics today, as well an alumni trustee on the as a Lawrence Business and Industry university's Board of Trustees. Campaign volunteer. He lives in Neenah, Wis. Elizabeth Rusch Montie, '69, is 1685-1985 currently vice-president, First New England Securities Corporation, Boston. She has participated in the A special edition poster created for the J OOih anniversary ofj.S . Bach's birth.

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positions at the 1984 annual Richard Killmer and Paul Harder. meeting of the National Association Renee received the bachelor of of Schools of Music in November. arts degree in zoology at the He also spoke on the nexus University of Iowa and the Ph.D. between degree-granting and non­ degree in entomology at the Univer­ degree granting schools of art at the sity of California-Berkeley. A post­ closing session of the National doctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley from Guild of Community Schools of the 1976-79, he joined Lawrence in Arts, Inc.'s 47th national conven­ 1979 as an assistant professor of tion in November. biology. Merton Finkler of the economics Lawrence D. Longley, associate departffient, Howard Niblock of professor of government, is pursu­ the Conservatory of Music and ing professional and scholarly ac­ Bradford Renee of the biology tivities while directing the univer­ department have been granted sity's London Centre this academic tenured appointments with promo­ year. He delivered an invited paper, tion to the rank of associate pro­ "Bicameralism and House-Senate In­ fessor by the university's Board of tercameral Politics", at the 1985 an­ Trustees. nual meeting of the American Sumner Richman, professor of biology Finkler earned the bachelor of politics group of the Political arts degree in mathematics at the Studies Association of the United University of California at San Kingdom in January. In February, Diego, the master of science degree he delivered a lecture, "Electing the Professor of Biology Sumner in economics at the London School People's President", and discussed Richman's publication, "The of Economics and Political Science bicameral politics in the U.S. Con­ transformation of energy by and the doctor of philosophy gress at the University of Keele. He daphina·pulex", which appeared in degree in economics at the Univer­ is presently giving a series of Ecological Monographs, vol. 28, sity of Minnesota. He joined general lectures on American page 274, in 1958, has been iden­ Lawrence in 1979 after having government and politics at Imperial tified as one of the most cited items taught at the University of Min­ College, University of London; in in its field, according to data from nesota and worked as a consultant mid-April will deliver another in­ the Science Citation Index. As a to planning organizations for San vited paper, "The Politics of result, Richman is preparing a brief Diego County and the State of Min­ Bicameralism: Congressional Con­ commentary and abstract on the nesota, the Metropolitan Council of ference Committee Interactions", at work for publication in the "Cita­ the Twin Cities and the Inter­ the 1985 annual meeting of the tion Classics" section of Current national Research and Technology Political Studies Association of the Contents. Current Contents is an Corporation in Arlington, Va. His United Kingdom; and in July will information service that reproduces research interests include health present a paper to a panel of the contents pages of recent journal care economics. legislative specialists at the Thir­ issues. Richman's commentary will Niblock received the bachelor of teenth World Congress of the Inter­ provide readers with insight into arts degree in English and national Political Science Associa­ how and why a publication philosophy at the University of tion to b~ held in Paris. The paper becomes a "classic". Michigan and the master of music is entitled "Contemporary Colin Murdoch, dean of the Con­ degree in oboe performance at Legislative Bicameralism.'' servatory of Music, presented an ad­ Michigan St

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Peter Hanrahan­ As a result of his playing Hutton and getting to know Redford, no "ordinary" Hanrahan also got to play himself in swimmer one scene. " I was goofing off out­ side the high school one Saturday Sometimes it 's better to be lucky morning and Redford saw me run­ than good. Other times it's all a ning around, yelling my head off. matter of being in the right place at He told me to holler, 'hey Cleary, the right time. For Lawrence junior hey Cleary,' (Peter's best friend at Peter Hanrahan, it was a combina­ the time in real life). Those were tion of luck, talent and timing. my two lines in the movie. We One of the top freestyle swim­ spent a Whole day shooting that one mers on this year's Lawrence swim­ scene. For a split second, I was the ming team, Hanrahan's graceful only guy on the screen." stroke has been seen by literally Although Hanrahan didn't come millions of people. Unfortunately away from the experience with a for Hanrahan, everyone who saw desire to be an actor (he kiddingly him swim thought they were admits, however, to being in­ watching someone else. terested in starring in a Tarzan Hanrahan was not a victim of movie), his firsthand behind-the­ mistaken identity, but a willing par­ scenes look left a strong impression. ticipant in a bit of Hollywood " As an actor, you sit around for deception. As a sophomore at Lake long periods of time. But everyone Forest (Ill.) High School, he was else is really working. All the crew selected to play actor Timothy Hut­ hands and technicians are running ton's stand-in for the filming of the around checking this or moving swimming scenes in the movie "Or­ equipment. For something that goes dinary People," winner of the 1980 so slow, everyone worked very Oscar for best picture. The movie hard." was shot on location in Lake Forest. After the crews packed up and "There were two of us who had Peter Hanrahan, '86. wasn 't included ;, the Redford, Hutton and company left credits, but he helped Timothy l/uttm1 win the same build as Hutton," town, did Hanrahan wait anxiously Hanrahan said. "We were all skin· the 1980 Oscar for best supporting actor by swimming for Hultm l in tbe mot•le to see himself on the silver screen? ny, just like him. One guy didn't ·'Ordinary People. · · " I didn't see it until almost a year want to get his hair cut for the part, after it came out. I wasn't that ex­ but I said I would, so they picked cited about seeing myself. I waited me to be his double.'' until it came to the dollar cinema." While Hanrahan's entire high part of two and one·half days in 'the And if he were across the aisle school swim team was used for the pool, taking instructions from from Siskel and Ebert, how would swim meet and swim practice Robert Redford, the movie's direc· he critique his performance? scenes, he was specifically cast as tor. " I thought I showed definite Hutton. " In the scene where Hutton is potentlal," Hanrahan said with a "I probably saved his life," swimming laps at practice and then laugh. "Seriously, I enjoyed it and Hanrahan recalled jokingly. " He turns to look at his teammates goof· would do it again. I'd recommend it was a terrible swimmer." ing off at the other end o f the pool to anyone who ever has the oppor­ Although there weren't any that's really me," Hanrahan said ... J tunity to do something like that." guarantees that any of the footage swam the laps, then they just plop· While Hanrahan's film debut was they filmed would be in the final ped Hutton in the water, he swam in "Ordinary People," off screen he the last 10 feet, and they did a little version, Hanrahan spent the better is anything but ordinary. Despite editing.'' having dyslexia, a reading disability,

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Hanrahan has maintained a solid 3. 0 anything at all. It was a scary, scary grade-point-average with a geology feeling. " major. His high-energy personality Taken to the hospital that even­ has made him a favorite among his ing, Anderson's injury was first professors. diagnosed as a detached retina. " Peter is very enthusiastic. He has " They asked me to read an eye a great attitude about why we're all chart, but I told them I couldn't here (at Lawrence),' ' said John even see the wall." The next morn­ Palmquist, associate professor of ing Anderson visited an eye geology. " He's a lot of fun to take specialist in Milwaukee, who deter­ on field trips. He's one of the first mined Anderson had suffered nerve to pitch in and he always keeps damage to the eye. everyone laughing and talking. " He was told not to do anything "Peter is a hard worker, no ques­ for six weeks. No basketball. No tion," said swimming coach Gene weightlifting. No jogging. He was Davis. " He's a good competitor. He even advised to reduce his reading doesn't fool around at practice. He to help eliminate eye movem~nt . takes swimming seriously. He's a With finals on the horizon, that was steady, dependable swimmer.'' a frustrating prescription. " The doc­ Since the press agents and talent tor was worried the eye might start scouts haven't beaten a path to to bleed again, which would have Hanrahan's door, he's been more caused further damage." concerned with helping Lawrence After sitting out the team's first defeat the likes of Ripon and Beloit six games, Anderson returned to the in swimming meets. And that suits Vikings' lineup in early January. him just fine. What his debut lacked in aesthetic "This is real swimming. That grace was made up for in surprising Protectiue goggles and a compelltive spiril movie stuff was just goofing helped junior center Steue Andersm 1 re111n1 effectiveness. The 6-foot-6 center, to the Vikings' starting Uneup after a around.'' known affectionately as ''Tiny'' to serious preseasm1 eye injury. his teammates, came off the bench to score two points, grab five re­ Vikes' center bounds and block four shots, help­ The doctor said, though, as long as sees season ing the Vikings to a 65-53 victory. I wear the goggles, there's no risk differently Since then, he's been a steady per­ of further injury. former, averaging 4. 3 points and " But it's really discouraging. I 4.7 rebounds, including a 16-point, If junior Steve Anderson's basketball was looking forward to having a big 12-rebound game against Ripon. career had flashed before his eyes year for the team and in the con­ after suffering an injury during a Anderson's return to action was ference . I felt I was playing the best not without the help of another mid-November practice session, he basketball of my life before I got wouldn't have been able to see it. basketball player who once suffered hurt. It obviously has caused me a a poke in the eye. As a precau­ What started as a season of high lot of problems." tionary measure, Anderson now hopes turned into a blurry disap­ Although his best basketball days plays with protective goggles, a Ia pointment when Anderson was in­ may now be behind him, Anderson Kareern Abdui-Jabbar. " They are ex­ advertently poked in the left eye by is thankful he can still see most of actly like the ones Kareern wears," a teammate, leaving him tempo­ what lies ahead of him. "I wasn't rarily sightless. Anderson explained. " He has a really thinking of my basketball patent on them, and I ended up " I was really scared," Anderson career when it happened. I was just paying S45 for them." recalled vividly. " I'd been poked in worried abput being able to see While the goggles enabled Ander­ the eye before, but I could tell right again away that this time it was different. son to return to playing basketball, they haven't done anything for the I thought my eye had come right out of the socket. more serious problem of his loss of " I didn't want to open it at first , vision. " My left eye is still seeing I just held it shut tight. And when I only about 25 percent of what it did finally open it, I couldn't see was," Anderson said. " My depth of field is way off, and I have virtually no peripheral vision in that eye.

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John H. Purvis, Sturgeon Bay, Oconomowoc High School. She still does 1940. She taught school for 13 years and 2 Wis. , had his book Roen Steam­ some private tutoring in math. The Babcocks then became a principal. In her spare time ship 3Company : The Way It Was, 1909-1976 have traveled extensively in the past ten Lucille wrote and published several published in 1983. john is the retired direc­ years and are active in the Methodist church, children's books, stories and poetry. She tor of the Roen Steamship Company. AAUW and the local scholarship fund, as continues to do some writing but now well as other activities. spends more time traveling. Paul Gelbke, Appleton, is still working with Marian McEwan Zickert, Fond du Lac , 2 5 60th Reunion- june 14 -16, 1985 his landscape and nursery business. Wis., was unable to attend Reunion because Ida Turner Leadholm, Minneapolis, and she spends her summers with her family in Anne Degen Fleig, M-D, Oklahoma City, Eagle River, Wis. Okla., volunteers her time to teaching han­ her husband John, '29, have been very in­ dicrafts to disabled persons. volved with Elderhostel programs". They have traveled as far as England and Hawaii to at­ Hekn Ford Haskell, M-D, Shorewood, tend the programs. 3 5 50th Reunion-June 14-16, 1985 Wis., is planning to move to Florida sometime this year. Ervin C. Marquardt, Wausau, Wis., was the Anita Cast Reichard, Oberlin, Ohio, took a director of speech and debate at Wausau trip to Germany, Switzerland and Austria this Clara Grueber Higley, M-D, Marinette, High School for 39 years. Under his guidance past fall. Wis., is very involved with her church and Wausau reached the state debate champion­ Thomas F. Banks, Zellwood, Fla., and his women's clubs. She has served as president ship 28 times. He is president of the Wausau of the Marinette College Women's Club. wife retired to Florida five years ago. He and Elk's Lodge and was a member of the State Beverly, his wife, have been able to travel. In Helen Hubbard, M-D, Minneapolis, is a Board of Control for 18 years. He also serves 1981 they took a five-and-a-half-week tour of retired occupational therapist. She continues as president of Wausau Retired Teacher's Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. with volunteer service at the Masonic Home Association. They recently completed a two-week cruise and the Westminster Presbyterian Church. Elizabeth Meating Proctor, Appleton, has to Alaska. Chloris Longenecker Legler, M·D, had her family genealogy, Origins, publish­ Bernard}. Fahres, Clearwater, Fla. , retired Wauwatosa, Wis. , is active in her church and ed. It will be displayed at the Appleton and 15 years ago from the U.S. Bureau of Labor in Church Women United. Lawrence libraries. Her article about the Statistics after over 30 years of service. He Myrtle Schuerman Lucht, M·D, history of Front Street, Appleton, was was a supervisory labor economist. Wauwatosa, Wis. , still lives at The Lutheran published by the Historical Society this winter. Clare Patterson Hutto, San Marino, Calif. , Home for the Aging and keeps very busy has traveled since her husband's retirement with volunteer work. She knits and weaves Grace Dane Tarter, Sun City, Ariz., and her in 1979. The list includes much of Europe, for the home's gift shop, sings in the resi­ husband George, ' 28, have been retired Asia , Russia and the Middle East. dent's choir, calls Bingo games, and also since 1970. George retired from Prudential does some counseling. Insurance in 1965. Marcella Buesing Polkinghorn, Appleton, keeps busy with volunteer wOrk for the Fox Barbara Simmons Webster, Waupaca, Valley Symphony and the Appleton Public Wis. , keeps busy with many volunteer 60th Reunion-june 20-22, 1986 Library. She is planning a trip to New 2 6 groups including the Historical Society, the Orleans. Cancer Society, the Waupaca Beautification Committee and the AAUW. She also takes Alexander F. (Pat) Smith, Shaker Heights, John Behnke, Pine Plains, N.Y., organ lessons and gives recitals. Ohio, retired in 1977 but still teaches courses 2 was recently featured in an anicle at the College of Business Administration at in the7 Register Herald, Milbrook, N.Y. The Cleveland State University and is also active in the Elders' Program. story traces his career with the MacMillan 55th Reunion-June 20-22, 1986 Company-a career which began in 1929 3 1 af[er he received the master's degree in English from Harvard University. john work­ Fern WoodhaU HaU, Gladstone, 3 6 50th Reunion-june 20-22, 1986 ed for many years as MacMillan's editor of 3 4 Mich. , spent part of last summer college textbooks. He and his wife Frances traveling to the East Coast. have lived in Pine Plains since her retirement Alyce Holt Hennigs, Chicago, is working a Margaret Mercer Portman, from teaching at Columbia University. three-day week for a doctor. 3 7 Spokane, Wash. , was selected as Mary Wood Sorenson, Chicago, continues one of six women in the city of Spokane to to work for the Fine Arts Academy and receive special recognition for community 55th Reunion-June 14- 16, 1985 teach. service. She has been president of KPBX 3 0 Radio, president of Spokane's League of Donald E. Babcock, Oconomowoc, Wis., Lucille Schwartz Oosterhous, Beltsville, Women Voters, a board member of AAUW , retired Sept. 1, 1984, after being in the hard­ Md ., was unable to attend Reunion last june president of Spokane Area Transportation ware and soft water business for 4 5 years. because she was traveling overseas. Lucille Authority and a trainer for United Way His wife Dorothy Smith Babcock, also has lived in the Washington, D. C., area since Kellogg Foundation. '30, has retired from teaching math at

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joycejouvenat Kunkel, Lincoln, Neb., is a june Westmoreland Estabrook, 3 9 45th Rtunloo-June 14·16, 1985 travel agent. She has a master's degree in Rhinelander, Wis. , is serving as class agent Dorothy Blake Abendroth, Madison, Wis. , educational psychology. through reunion. She is the vice-president is a retired teacher. lier husband Harry, '49, Phyllis Slmonton Myers, Western Springs, and director o f Estabrook's Inc. and its sub· is a retired geologist from Union Carbide. Ill., is a retired librarian with a master's sidiary, Rhinelander Realty. June is also a degree in library science. charter director of Northern National Bank Marian Dettman DeLong, Neenah, Wis. , of Rhinelander and director and past cam­ keeps busy with a variety of activities in­ j a ne Porter Ott, Edwardsville, Ill. , and her paign chairman of Northwoods United Way. cluding bridge and cross-country skiing. She husband Carl have been working with Saga and her husband Bob, '38, work as Holidays and CTC Lines, both English travel Patricia Bllx Schmidt, Wauwatosa, Wis., is curatorial assistants at the Bergstrom-Mahler companies. Last September they took a three­ serving as part-time leader for two "Sixty­ plus" groups in the Milwaukee Public Museum. week cruise on a Russian-registered ship. School's recreation department. She also jane johnston, Moorhead, Minn., is a Pat Guenther Simonds, Albuquerque, New teaches genealogy and recently had an article university professor emeritus. She sings in a Mexico, attended the Lawrence Elderhostcl published in the summer t 984 issue of church choir, likes to ga rden and travels a program in 1983. Milwaukee History, the magaz.i ne of the gre:u de:~.l. BlU Weiss, Winnetka, Ill., is chairman of Milwaukee County Historical Society. Martha Lyon Lamblotte, Sturgeon Bay, Weiss Steel Company of Chicago. Audrey Keller Taylor, Merrill, Wis., is ac­ Wis. , has taken up writing as a post· tive in her church cho ir. She recently was retirement career. She has had her poems Maude Steene Malick, M-D , elected president of the Merrill Area Concert and articles published in ''arious public:a.- 4 3 Monroeville, Pa., has been named Association and serves on the board of tions. vice-president, speclahy p rograms and educa­ trustees of Holy Cross Hospital. Carla Naber Urbain, Burns Harbor, Ind., tion, at Harman•ille Rehabilitation Center. Her resporisibilities will include the hand Polly Durgin Warner, Racine, Wis., has a has received numerous awards and recogni­ seasonal business in Sister Bay, Wis. She sells tion for her work with the Gi rl Scouts in­ rehabilitation, spinal cord, chronic pain and head injury programs as well as the educa­ imported Scandinavian furniture and ac­ cluding the highest adult recognition, the cessories. "Thanks Badge". For her reading to the tion department and staff library. She is a founding member or the American Society of blind and handicapped through Tradewinds Hand Therapists and lectures throughout the Radio Reading service, she was named 40th Reunion-June 20-22, 1986 volunteer of the year for northwest Indiana. U.S. and abroad. 46 Mary Voecks Volkert, Middlebury, Vt., has Patricia Exton Taylor, M-D, is Don Strutz, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. retired as a music and remedial reading 44 alive and well and living in Ann 4 has retired from Albany Interna­ teacher. She is involved with two choirs, Arbor, Mich. Lawrence Today mistakenly tional.9 He moved to Sturgeon Bay in April church groups, a library and community printed in its win ter issue that Patricia had 1983 and still plays a lot of golf. theater. died. We apologize for the error. Barbara Hobbs Withey, Santa Barbara, Calif. , is a writer. She has had two children's 5 0 35th R«!:unlon-June 20-22, 1986 40 45th Reunion-June 14-16, 1985 picture books published: Alexander's Animals :md The Hungry Sea Monster. Bar­ james Auer, Wauwatosa, Wis., is the art Edwin R. Bayley, Oakland, Calif., will bara is also now writing aduh novels. critic for the Milwaukee j ournal. His retire at the end of the 1984-85 school year freelance ankles have appeared in several ah er sen·ing 16 yea rs as the dean of the different magazines. He has also had two of G raduate School of journalism at the Univer­ 4 5 40th Reunion-June 14-16, 1985 his plays produced and has written and sity of California in Berkeley. He plans to directed films about Wisconsin artists. Betty Van Gorp Bradley, Antigo, Wis., is resume w riting and consulting in his forth­ Charlotte Best Peterson, Lake Geneva, very im·o lved with rosemaling. She also con­ coming status as emeritus professor. Wis .. is teaching French at Brookwood ducts a writing class in a nursing home. School. RoiJy and Ronnie Krug Fenz, Mc Lean, 41 45th Reunion-June 14-16, 1985 Va., have climbed mountains in Europe, Canada and the U.S. Rolly spent ten years 35th Reunion-june 20·22, 1986 Bob and Pat Evans Dlmberg, Lone Star, directing fundraising for PBS stations. He is 5 1 Tex., moved from South Carolina to Texas in now deputy executive director of the Na­ June 1984. Bob is a professional engineer­ tional Senior Sports Association. As such he consultant. directs sports tournaments for senior citizens 5 2 35th Reunion- June 20-22, 1986 Tom Gochnauer, Nepean, Ontario, is a across the country and in Europe. Ronnie is john G. Hollingsworth, Portola Valley, research scientist in the microbiology of bee a senior Smithsonian Docent Ladies First Hall Calif. , has launched his own consulting firm diseases. Tom received the). I. Hambleton and teaches nc:edlecraft. in Laguna Hills, Calif. He had been with Saga Award for Bee Research from the Eastern Mary Fran Godwin Purse, Evanston, Ill. , is Corp. until 1983 as chief marketing and ad­ Apiculture Society in 1983. still an active soprano soloist in her church ministrative officer. Bill Hirst, Whitefish Bay, Wis. , is the lieute­ choir. She played the Mother and the Sand­ nant governor of Kiwanis and vice-president man in a mini-version of flfmsel and Gretel, Dorothy Saxton, M-D, Rich­ of the Whitefish Bay Retired Men's Club. the operJ for children, in schools and the 5 mo nd, Va. , retired in 1983 after Bob Koehh=r, San jose, Calif., and his wife Old Lady in a musical version of Babar /be servi3ng as associate p rofessor in the depart­ Barbara took a 9000-mile auto trip around Elepha1lt. ment of occupational therapr at Virginia the U.S. in the fa ll of 1984. Together they Common wealth Universit y for 18 years. serve as co-chairman of the endowment fund Doroth)' is involved in the Elderhostcl pro­ for Twelveacres, a residential facility for the gram and in gcnealogic:.ill l research. developmentally disabled. Bob scn·ed as an administrator there for 12 years LAWRENCE TODAY 27 ALUMNI TODAY

Thomas 0. Krutgtr, Santa Rlchard A. Roeper, Alm:a, Mich., is an economics at Lawrence. jane has served for 54 Clan., Calif. , is a test engineering associate: professor of biology at Alma Col­ six years on the board of directors of A Bet· man:~ger for Ok.i Semiconductor, Inc . lege. ter Chance (ABC). She has also been the liaison between l2o Hmong students, Dick Sharratt, jefferson, Wis., is volunteer tutors and school staff; head of thc 5 5 president of Jefferson Cold 2Sth Reunion-June 20-22, 1986 steering committee to coordinate :a StorAge, one of four cold storage plants that 61 schoolwide curriculum evaluation by s10re cranberries for Ocean Spray. Ashley Haase, North Oaks, Minn., has been teachers; and involved in promoting in · appointed professor and chairman of the teriibrary cooperation through the Fox Thomas C. Lembcke, Zion, IJI ., department of microbiology at the University Valley Library Council. 5 6 has been selected for Inclusion in of Minnesota. He c:une to lawrence to pre­ Sue Eaton Benowlcz, Roswell, Ga., is a the 1984-85 edition of Who's Who in the sent a science colloquium on "Slow Viruses" part-time instructor of BASIC programming World. He is director of the Counsding and in October 1984. at Kennesaw College. Her husb:and Bill, '67, Psychotherapy Center in Zion and president is the marketing director for a new business. of the Board S2iling Center. Before beginning Mary McKee Benton, Menasha, his private pnctice of marriage, family and 6 2 Wis., a fiber a.rtist, is working with Stephen A. Bernsten, Madison, Wis., is a individual counseling, he was director of the women at Taycheedah State Correctional In· pl:astic surgeon. Two of his children are at­ Zion Police Department's social sen•ices unit. stitute on a project for the reception :are:a at tending lawrence. the prison. Sydney Townsend Corbett, Miami, Fla. , is Russell C. Babcock, Jr., Union­ Martin L. Green, Pittsford, N.Y., is the a high school English teacher and chairper­ 5 7 ville, Ontario, Is the director of ex­ vice-president of sales and marketing in the son of the department. last year she received ploroulon for Kennco Exploration, Ltd. optical systems division of Bausch and Lomb, a teaching commendation and in June 1983, David Hoffman, Whitefish Bay, Wis., has Inc. He received in 1977 the MBA dcgrce in she received a federal Sustained Superior Ser­ served as the executive director of Family marketing and finance from the University of vice Award. She has also been directing com­ Service of Milwaukee for the past t 2 years. Chicago. munity the:ater productions. David recently celebrated his 50th birthday Mary Hclscher Schuchmann, Whitefish Thomas Countryman , Elmhurst, Ill. , is a with a 50-mile run in eight hours and 48 Bay, Wis., serves :as :associa.te editor for teacher. minutes. Herald Newspapers, which are part of Com­ Carol Weeks DeVoss, St. Charles, Ill ., is a munity Newspapers Inc. , publishers of 20 high school French teacher. She will be Thomas Clement, Edina, Minn. , weekly newspapers in surburban Milwaukee. traveling to Gre:at Britain and France this is an IBM branch manager in Min­ neapolis59. VIrginia Montgomery Melin, Annette Maffia Dluger, Chicago, Is an Richard A. Malcomson, Mesa, Ariz., is vice· 6 3 Easton, Pa., is a freelance violist, English-as-a-second-language instructor for president of the First Interstate Bank of violinist and teacher. Her husband WJillam, Triton College. Arizona. '62, is the chairman of the music department at Lafayette College. Susanne Adele Wawak Gay, Menomonee Fritz Ruf, Pewaukee, Wis., has accepted the Falls, Wis., is teaching Spanish and French at position of executive vice-president of First Frank D. Schlafer, Westen•ille, Ol)io, is Dominican High School in Whitefish Bay, Interstate Corporation of Wisconsin. He had marketing manager with Global Construction Wis. Sue took eight students and her family been president of RBP Chemical, Inc. Fritz Co., Ltd ., a general contractors firm serving to Spain for three weeks last summer. has been a director of the banking company all of Ohio. and will act as legislative liaison for the Robin Thomason Gordon, Silver Springs, financial firm. Md., has her own practice as a reading specialist. Reverend james G. Scharlnger, Win­ 64 20th Reunion-June 14· 16, 198S Robert E. Huon, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Is nipegosis, Canada. was recently appointed to Mary Nortman, M·D, Oshkosh, Wis., was Winnipegosis and missions with a total of a systems supervisor in business systems elected to the Omro school bo:ard in April computer development. He coaches and four churches. In 1984 he signed a contract 1984. She recently spent two weeks in Korea referees for a youth soccer program and also with Cistercian Publications for two transla­ as pan of the government program, " Reu­ plays in an adult socccr league. tions. The two books :are Serving God First nion in Korea". and In the Unity of the Holy Spirit, both by Bill johnson, L2ke Oswego, Ore., is a vice­ Dom Sighard Kleiner. president of Com PiX Incorporated, a manufacturer of airborne multi-spectral imag­ 6 5 20th Reunion-June 14 - 16 , 1985 ing systems a.nd computerized image manage­ ment products. Bill is also serving on the 2Sth Reunion-June 14-16, 1985 Barbara Bradley Petura, Eugene, Ore., h:~s 60 been appointed director of news and in for· board of directors of Ramagon Toys, Inc., a Tom Hurvls, Glenview, Ill. , is the chairman matlon services at Washington State Universi­ local company constructing plastic toys. His a.nd owner of Old World Trading, located in ty. She will have additional responsibilities :IS wife Marcia Zahn, '68, is :a vocational Des Plaines, Ill. Old World Trading is the a special assistant for university relations. rehabilitation counselor for Cascade manufacturer of automotive chemica.ls and Rehabilitation Counseling, Inc. in Vancouver. Mystiktape. Tom's wife julie Esch Hurvis, Wash. '61, is pursuing her second degree at the Henry M. Kaiser, Piedmond, Calif., Is Chic:ago Art Institute. 66 20th Reunion-June 14·16, 1985 general partner of Capital Growth Fund, a Karen-jean Ladna-Munoz, jacksonville, jane Nelson Azzl, Menasha, Wis. , is a media venture capital firm, as well :as chairman of Fla ., is a professor of Spanish and humanities specialist, school librarian and history Kaiser Crebs Management Corp., an offshore a.t Florida Junior College. teacher at Appleton East High School. Her captive reinsurance company for members of husband Corry, '6S, is associate professor of trade associations. He is also a director of the Berkeley Repertory Theater and a member of the National Council for Lawrence.

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Patrick Kroos, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Ed Rath is coaching and accompanying at Susan Buesing Donnelly and her is an engineer and partner in his company. the University of Iowa's School of Music. husband Shauo, '68, Bamako, Allee Haselden Lane, Evan.siOn, Ill. is Jay Roahen, Silverdale, Wash., is practicing Mali,69 are both in the foreign service. Susan is teaching piano/composition from her home endodontics in the U.S. Navy. the community liaison office coordinator and studio. In October. she was also active as a Russell Rutter, Normal, Ill. , is an associate Shaun is the deputy chief of mission in member of the steering committee for the professor of English at Illinois State Universi­ Bamako. They expect to move to another Evans10n Coalition for Peace Awareness ty. His wife Margaret Lessels Rutter, also location this summer. Month. Her primary responsibility was to in­ '66, is a legal reader for Holder Publishing Frederik E. Schuetze:, Topeka, Kansas, troduce peace curricula and material on con­ Company. recently received the doctor of musical arts flict resolution to the Evanston school degree from the Conservatory of Music at the district. jane Sherman, Bridgeport, Conn., is vice­ president of a company which manufactures University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is cur­ Bonnie Cremer Lavlron, Dijon, France, is parts for gas turbine engines. rently serving as assistant professor of voice the he:.~.d of a group of women who welcome and opera at Washburn University. and help foreigners in Oijon. Elizabeth Painter Shinn, Arvada, Colo., recently spent five weeks in Alaska. David L Toycen, Australia, works for David A. Lawrence, Morris Plains, N.J. , is a World Vision International and is responsible scientific programmer with CALSPAN at Sharon Sites, Encinitas, Calif., is a computer for media and fundraising for Australia. Dave AT&T Bell Laboratories. security officer with the U.S. Customs Ser­ travels extensively around the world filming vice. Sharon also writes poetry. Michael Lee, Highland Park, Ill. , is a Third World countries in need. The film/tdevision producer and president of Sharyn)acob Smith, Corvallis, Ore., has Australian branch of World Vision is the M/C Lee Associates. His company celebrated been dabbling in the field of computers. She largest relief organization in Australia. its first anniversary in December 1984. The trained the local district attorney's office on company develops visual communications their new !B~ system. for business advertising, sales promotion and David Stamps, Minneapolis, is a represen­ 7 0 15th Reunion-June 20-22, 1986 training. tative for Philipp Bros./Pinkert Steel. · Richard L. Stocchetd, Montgomery, Ala. , is Pam Thatcher Marsh, Colorado Springs, Catherine Scheirich Tuggle, Louisville, an Air Force major and has been decorated Colo., is a teacher and a homemaker. Ky ., is an artist. In October she held her w ith the second award of the Meritorious Marge Frank McClintock, Lake Forest, Ill. , second one-woman show. Service Medal at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. is teaching part time at a Montessori school. Geoffrey Wheeler-Bartol, Sisters, Ore., is a The Meritorious Service Medal is for out­ She also serves on the board of directors for psychologist. He has a small private practice standing non-combat meritorious achieve­ the Bank of Bellwood. and works part time at the mental health ment or service to the United States. Phillip A. Metzger, Springfield, Ill. , is clinic in Portland. His wife Ann, '69, just special collections librarian at the Southern finished her first year of law school in Illinois University School of Medicine. He Portland. They have been building a house in 71 15th Rrunion-June 20-22, 1986 Sisters, which is on the east side of the recently received the Ph.D. in library and in­ Jim Bode, Brooklyn, N.Y., is a vice­ formation science from the University of Cascade Mountains. president of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Texas, Austin. He is also senring as a major Paul Whelan, Monticello, Ind. , is a in the Air Force Reserve. His wife Margery psychologist. Mary A- Brauer, Aurora, Colo., is an at­ torney with Reinhart, Boerner, Van Dewren, Homfeld, '67, is secretary for the Spring­ Nan Tully Willett, Denver, Colo., is field Art Association. Norris & Rieselbach. Mary recently moved to establishing a program for gifted and talented the Denver area. Roberta Hafges Nestor, Downers Grove, children in a local school. Ill. , is pursuing the master's degree in Nancy J. Paulu, Milton, Mass. , is the editor Larry Wilson, Burlingame, Calif., is a part­ and a writer for the Harvard Letter, a counseling psychology at Northwestern ner in the San Francisco legal firm Pillsbury University. publication of the Harvard University & Wilson. Graduate School of Education. Nancy is plan­ Rogrr Oakdale, Bellevue, Wash .. is an ar­ ning to be marrried in May 1985. chitect/planner. His wife Paula Nebel, also Ann Godfrey Goss, Grand '66, is an architectural designer. 68 junction, Colo., is a microcom­ puter coordinator for the Bendix Field Jan Watson O'Neil, St. Louis, is serving as 15th Reunion-June 20-22, 1986 vice-president of the Parkway Board of Engineers Corporation, a division of the 7 2 Education. Her husband Mfkr, '65, con­ Allied Corporation. Gregg Angle:, Rhinelander, Wis. , is the prin­ tinues with Boise Cascade where he is a sales Sur Zimmerman Brown, Sioux Falls, S.D., cipal at North Crawford Elementary School. and marketing manager. was elected to the Sioux Falls School Board Linda Baumberger Behling, Wood Dale, Marcia Glidden Parker, Amery, Wis., is a in 1983 and serves as its vice-president. Ill. , is operating her own secretarial service high school French teacher. Her husband F. james Kauffman, Hingham, Mass ., is the business. Tom, '65, makes handcrafted wooden fur- special assistant to the president of the Na­ Linda Finger Nelson, Geneva, Ill., is plan­ niture. tional Fire Protection Association. ning a trip to West Germany this summer Frederick W. Pringle, Frankfort, Mich ., is Susan MUJer Mitchell, Mi lwaukee, and her with her baby boy. Ryan David Bernard. the owner of an office supply business, The husband George were featured in the Stewart L Ross, Mankato, Minn., was Paper Clip, purchased in june 1984. He is Milwaukee journal in Nov. 1984 in the awarded the Ph.D in music education from also completing the third year of a four-year "Notable Quotable" column. The story Northwestern University. term on the Frankfort City Council. features their current careers and family in­ Kathryn Strother Ratcliff, Storrs, Conn., is terests. Susan is executive vice-president of an assistant professor of sociology. administration for Milwaukee Insurance Co. , a large property casualty company, and a former state insurance commissioner.

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Tom Cutler, Bethesda, Md. , had Saarallssa Ylitalo, Madison, Wis., was 7 his article, "NATO and Oil Supply recently featured in the Wisconsin State Vulnerability:3 The Role of Petrolt:um Plan­ journal. She is an artist who makes hand­ ning Committee" published in NATO Review, made felt. No. 5, October, 1984, pp. 26-32. Michael Fairchild, Menomonie, Wis. , has Mark Berry, Milwaukee, joined the staff of Dunn County district 7 7 was promoted to assistant vice­ attorney-elect Michael Furnstahl as an assis­ president at First Wisconsin Trust Company. tanl district attorney. Michael's primary Amelia Bridges, Bryn Mawr, Pa., is a land­ focus includes traffic, juvenile and Deparl­ scape architect with john Rahenkamp and mem of Natural Resource cases. Associates in Philadelphia. Peter and Connie Betzer Roop, Apple10n, Cydney Elnck, Minneapolis, is working for had three joke and riddle books for children Molecular Genetics, Inc., a genetic engineer­ published this past summer: Space Out, Go ing company. Hog Wild and Out to Lunch. Peter also had Donna B. johansen, Germantown, Md. , is four other children's books published on his an anorney for Suburban Bank. own: The Cry of the Conch and three books about the early history of the Blackfeet In­ Shawn M. Woods, Arlington Heights, Ill. , dians of Montana. The editor of the joke has been appointed personal computer con­ books was Laura Storms, '79, Minneapolis. sultant in the central region operations group for Digital Equipment Corp. Myra Soifer, Reno, Nev., is a rabbi with the Temple Sinai in Reno. Robert A. Wermuth, Dunwoody, Ga., is a capital budget manager for the Coca-Cola Eric D. Carleen, Rochester, N.Y. , Company. 74 is a statistician at the University of john R. Wylie, Chicago. is a lawyer. He Rochester. "Lawrence of Arabia" recently moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. jonathan GoldbergBelle, Beloit, Wis., is a The Egyptian branch of the alumni teacher at Beloit College. asssociaton recently posed for a photograph Dee Amadeo has moved 10 San at St. Catherine's Monastery, located in the 8 Francisco. There she is working as judith Huus Klitgaard, San Francisco, has a7 public relations specialist for the Food and been appointed assistant vice-president of Sinai Peninsula. Pictured, left to right, are Dave Larson, '76, Nancy Bydalek-Anderson, Nutrition Service (USDA). Dee is planning 10 unit trust sales in the San Francisco office of be married early this spring. john Nuveen and Co. Inc. Nuveen is an in­ '78, Becky Latorraca, '84, and Gunnar vestment banking firm. Anderson, '78. Gunnar and Dave are on Brent Erensel, New York City, was recently full-year fellowships at the Center for Arabic promoted to vice-president of institutional Bob Linden, Houston, is a natural gas Studies Abroad at The American University equity in the research department at Dean metaphysician. in Cairo. Becky is also studying Arabic at Wiuer Reynolds. Edward F. Nemeth, jr., Philadelphia, is an The American University, and Nancy is Bette-Jo Seifert Hendrickson, Conover, assistant professor at the University of Penn­ working at Cairo American College in Wis. , is a German teacher at Northland Pines sylvania School of Medicine. Ma'adi. High School in Eagle River, Wis. Chuck Will, Andover, N.H. , now director of David Hlll, Greer, S.C. , is vice-president for admission at Proctor Academy, received the successful completion of ten comprehensive specialized marketing with Liberty Life In­ john H. O'Connor Award for Excellence in surance Company. Teaching· at Proctor's 1984 commencement insurance examinations. exercises. He used the award stipend 10 Thomas Crittenden, Tuscaloosa, Ala ., was Michael B. Hoerig, Milwaukee, is the direc· study Spanish in Salamanca, Spain, as part of ordained into the Episcopal priesthood on tor of music at St. josephat's Basilica in a Dartmouth College program. Chuck's wife Dec. 18, 1984, at the Cathedral Church of Milwaukee. He has been there since 1982. Sarah Ousley Will, '75, is a member of the the Advent in Birmingham, Ala. Tom is Michael spent part of the summer of '83 English department at Proctor. curate at Christ Church in Tuscaloosa. traveling through Europe. john Davis, Elgin, Ill. , has recently signed a Mary jo Howarth, New York City, is an ac­ one-year contract as fitness coach for the tress. 7 5 lOth Reunion-june 14-16, 1985 Chicago Cubs. john is close to finishing a master's degree in spans administration and Jeff Hawley, Alexandria, La ., Kurt H. Albertine, Tampa, Fla. , has taken a corporate fitness at the University of Jllinois. 7 is now assistant director of the position as assistant professor at the Univer­ Alexandria9 YMCA . He vacationed in London sity of South Florida. Richard C. Kraneis, Chicago, is an office last summer. automations analyst for Bell and Howell. Peter B. Hoover, Rochester, Minn. , is a Richard A. Lawrence, Portland. Ore., is the Spanish teacher at Mayo High School. senior budget analyst with the Oregon 7 6 lOth Reunion-june 20-22, 1986 MichaelS. Sigman, Manitowoc, Wis., has Department of Environmental Quality. David R. Chernick, Buffalo Grove, ill., joined Barrack Advertising, Inc., a full ser­ Blane D. Lewis, Ithaca, N. Y., is pursuing a associate actuary with Allstate Insurance vice marketing, advertising and public rela­ Ph.D. at Cornell University. Company, has achieved the distinction of tions firm. fellow in the Casualty Actuarial Society. The Thomas Seidel, Arlington, Va ., is a physi­ Anne Elizabeth Tiller, Minnetonka, Minn. , fellowship designation, the highest award cian at Georgetown University. is the store manager for Frank Murphy, a granted by the society, is achieved through women's specialty store in Wayzata, Minn.

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Liza W. MJIIs, Hinsdale, lll. , Chuck Hunter, Palo Alto, Calif. , is studying Sue Fulton, Madison, Wis. , is working part 80 is the office manager at Magic Pan, for a Ph.D in French at Stanford University. time with Pacesetter Products and taking International, in Oakbrook. He is postponing a foreign service appoint­ some graduate business courses. Stephanie Glneris Rothstein, Milwaukee, ment until he has finished his work at Stan­ Eric Grossman, Swampscott, Mass. , is a graduated from Marquette University Law ford. manager-in-training for Denny's Restaurants. School in May, 1984. She now is an assistant Paul jenkins, Owatonna, Minn. , is a tennis Leonard "City" Hall, Atlanta, Ga., is pursu­ district attorney for Milwaukee County. pro at Owawnna Indoor Tennis. ing the M.B.A. degree at Emory University. jennJfer S. Sims, Essex, Conn., is the Monica McNaughton, Minneapolis, is Catherine Hannaford, Cuttingsville, Vt. , is associate director of development at Connec­ enrolled in the MBA program at the Universi­ a staff member at a ranch for depressed ticut College. jenny also does freelance gram ty of Minnesota. adults. writing and part-time consulting for the Nancy jensen, Chicago, is a second-year Mystic Marine Life Aquarium. Lori Hedrick, Appleton, is a schoolteacher. law student at Northwestern University. She She teaches choir, drama-theater and art ap- Mark Summervm received a J .D. degree is planning to be married in Dec. 1985. predation. from the New England School of Law in June Andy Larsc=n, Delafield, Wis. , teaches art Anne jacobsen, Lombard, Ill., is a computer 1984. He intends to practice law in and English at St. John's Military Academy. programmer for International Harvester. Massachusetts. He also coaches the football and basketball Ray johnson, Chicago, is enrolled in the teams at St. John's. Paul D. Aiken, Ithaca, N.Y. , is University of Chicago's Medical Scientist 81 a third-year student at Cornell Beverly Larson, Mclean, Va., has accepted Training Prognm. At the end of the pro­ University Law School. a position as a research assistant with DHR, gram, Ray wiiJ receive the Ph.D. and M.D. Inc .. a consulting firm specializing in defense degrees. james Gandre, Brooklyn, N.Y. , is a doc­ and energy projects. toral studem at the Manhattan School of Lynda Asleson Kaufmann, Northbrook, Music. Paul McComas, Evanswn, Ill. , received an Ill. , is working as an administrative assistant M.A. degree in film from Northwestern for a computer firm in Chicago. Her husband Sarah McCrank Litzc=r, Fond du Lac , Wis., University in August. He is now an assistant has joined the staff at Plymouth (Wis. ) High Keith, also '84, is working for Continental editor at Irving-Cloud Publications and play­ Bank. School. She teaches German and also serves ing in a local band called Petting Zoo. as the assistant tennis coach for girls and as Tom Kromhout, Winter Park, Fla., is a ser­ an assistanl forensics coach. Amy Teschner, Chicago, is a production vice department manager with Enterprise editor at Contemporary Books, Inc. Ann Mishler, Wausau, Wis., is teaching Computer Center. piano at the Wausau Conservatory of Music. Zizi Alderman, New Canaan, john A. Lawrence is an account executive Helen Snook, Brookfield, Ill., is taking care 8 4 Conn. , is working part time at the with TMC in Minneapolis. of South American monkeys as a primate Metropolitan Museum of Art and taking Susan Lichty, Chicago, is working as a divi­ keeper at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. She is classes at Columbia University's School of sional assistant at Americ2.n National Bank in hoping 10 attend game warden school in General Studies. the international commercial lending depart­ Tanzania in 1986. Robin Beauchamp, Appleton, is the head ment. Bruce A. Wilson, Tulsa, Okla., is a Latin resident in Sage Hall at Lawrence. Robin also Marie Lipari, Chicago, works for Hewitt and English teacher in the Tulsa Public is doing some substitute teaching for the Ap­ Associates. School System. pleton Public School Systems. Karen Marcus, Glencoe, Ill. , works at Crate Todd Benson, Chicago, is working for Na­ and Barrel in Chicago as a section head. Dave Blowers, New York City, tional Opinion Research Center as a research Michele Mayer, Trumbull, Conn., is an in­ 8 2 was recently named a commerical analyst. banking officer at The Northern Trust Com­ ternational banking consultant with Deak­ pany. Karen Phipps Bluhm, St. Paul, Minn., is a Perera International Banking Corporation in tour guide and historical researcher for the Stamford, Conn. Linda Lutz Burk, Minneapolis, is the vocal Ramsey County and Minnesota historical Charlotte Metzgc=r, Rochester, Minn., is music director at Totino-Grace High School societies in St . Paul, Minn. in Fridley, Minn., Her husband Terry, also working for IBM as an electrical engineer. "82, is a middle and upper school vocal David Bolgrien, Shorewood, Wis., is pursu­ Ron Miles, Denver, Colo., is enrolled in the music teacher at the Breck School in Min ­ ing a master's degree in biology at the University of Colorado medical school. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. neapolis. Lisa Morris, Minneapolis, is a pantry chef at Edwin L. Fuller, Bonita, Calif., is a lieute­ David Brooks, Milwaukee, is enrolled in the Mitterhauser's LaCuisine. Medical College of Wisconsin. nant and armor officer in the U.S. Marine Nancy Olson, Milwaukee, is working for Corps. Lisa Bulthlus is an assistant activities direc­ Procter & Gamble in sales. David A. Knopp, Chicago, is a group leader tor at the Scandia Village Retirement Center in Sister Bay, Wis. Pat Skalko O'Morchoe, North Riverside, with The Northern Trust Co. Ill. , is an insurance clerk with the Loyola jesslcaj. St. Aubin, Champaign, lll., is a Chris Coogan, Atlanta, Ga., is pursuing a Medical Practice Plan. research associate with the Illinois State master's degree in physiology at Emory University. jeff Orlin, Newton, Mass., is a program­ Water Survey. mer/analyst at Beth Israel Hospital in the Peter DeVries, Madison, Wis., is pursuing department of nuclear medicine. Greg Griffin, Appleton, is the co­ the Ph.D in zoology at the University of 8 head resident, with his wife Laura, Wisconsin-Madison. He is also working as a Andrea Pandazi, Whitefish Bay, Wis., is in Co man Hall at Lawrence. He is also direc­ teaching assistant. working as an adjuster for the First Wiscon­ 2 sin National Bank. She is also attending the ting the intramural program at Lawrence. Dave Duff, Seattle, Wash., is a securities University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's M.B.A. analyst with Dean Witter. program.

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Christine Pasko, Hayward, Wis. , is a Ruth Washington recently was the featured Jeff Whitcomb, S1. Louis, is enrolled at the freelance writer. soloist with the Northwestern University Washington University School of Law. Donna Perille, Chicago, works for Hewill Wind Ensemble. She played a piece for flute john White, Lansing, Mich., is pursuing a Associates. and wind ensemble by Steven Ferre. Ph.D. in zoology at Michigan State Univer­ Warren Pierson, Waukesha, Wis., is work· Susan Wegner, San Francisco, is an actress sity. ing as a groundskeeper for the City of and an administrator at Lilith, a women's Tom Wick, Kalamazoo, Mich. , is an admis­ Waukesha. Warren is planning to do mis­ theater. sions representative with Nazareth College in sionary work in Kenya. Todd Wexman, Chicago, works for Interna­ Kalamazoo. David Rabago, Madison, Wis., is a field ar­ tional Harvester. chaeologist for Archaeological Consulting and Services. Kurt Rommelfaenger, Appleton, is serving as a house parent for Emergency Shellers, Inc. Kurt and his wife have served as house parents since Dec. 1983 and have provided 60-70 nights of lodging per month for over 100 different residents. The people who use the home are usually unemployed and homeless. Susancarok Roy, Chicago, is attending the What's new Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. She is also working part time at La Vivandiere, with you? Ltd. as a caterer. Please use the space below to tell Todd Schmitter is living in West Germany and working as a field adviser and registrar us a little about yourself. Have for Cily Colleges of Chic:ago. you landed a new job? Received Kurt "Otis" Schwarzkopf, Minneapolis, is an advanced degree? Traveled to allending the William Mitchell College of Law i.n S1. Paul. exotic lands? Don't be shy. Tell Dave Shepard, Madison, Wis., is enrolled in us the news and we'll tell your the University of Wisconsin computer classmates with an "Alumni science program. He is pursuing the master's degree. Today" note. Liz Sheridan, Chicago, is a marketing research analyst with Market Facts, Inc. Name ______Kelvin Smith, Lincoln, Mass. , is working as a computer programmer and singing with the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Festival Chorus. L_M-D_Class ------Terri Smith, Elk Grove Village, Ill. , is an assistant plan administrator for Pension Con­ Address sultants Company, Inc. Alex Starrett, Milwaukee, is a business analyst for Marshall & Isley bank. News ______Paul Steck, Lebanon, Ohio, is the owner of a Burger King in Lebanon. Greg Stevens, Antioch, Ill. , is a chemist for Ivanhoe Chemical. john Streibich, Evanston, Ill ., is a phone clerk on the Chicago Board Options Ex­ change for The Chicago Corporation. Ann Thomas, New York City, is an ad­ ministrative assistant with The Keewaydin Company, an investment and money Mail to: Lawrence Today, Lawrence University, management company. P.O. Box 599, Appleton, WI 54912 Marcia Troup, St. Louis, is pursuing the M.B.A . degree at Washington University. jody Vaoesky, Appleton, is a counselor at the half-way house Villa Phoenix.

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Marriages Births Deaths Karen-jean Laclna-Munoz, '60, and Victor Dick Pickard, '62, and Susan, a girl, Diana Gertrude White Hineline, M-D '13, from Val Garanin, May 26, 1984. Kimberly, April 3, 1984. Devon, Pa. , on jan. 9, 1985. After graduating Stanley Kingsley Day, '73, and Laima Harold D. Hiatt, '69, and Ellen, a girl, from Milwaukee-Downer she went on to Marie Sulaitis, Sept. 1, 1984. Sasha Marie, Oct. 29, 1984. receive the Ph.D. degree rrom the University Carol A. Stoneman, '74, and Leonard Dib- James and Susan Gessner Barker, both of Wisconsin. ble, Oct. 20, 1984. '69, a gi rl, Larkin Elisabeth. july 31 , 1984. Jo Darling Ballentine, '13, rrom David A. Falkenberg, '74, and Mary Cybor- Steven andjuUe Eng Smith, '70, a boy. Mcmomonie, Wis. , on Dec. 6, 1984. ski, Aug. 18, 1984. Brian, Aug. 29, 1984. Dean E. Smlth, '14, from Chicago. Dean worked ror many years in the Far East for Ann Hunttlng Yonamine, '74, and Edward Jeffrey and EUen Saxl Cochran, '71, a boy, Standard Oil. Because of World War II he James Edward, July 9, 1984. james Roy , Oct. 28, 1984. returned to the United States and worked as Thomas Seidel, '76, and Kathleen, Oct. Manfred and Caroline Rued-Engel, '72, a a lecturer and radio program host. 1983. boy. Andreas Matthew, Aug. 15, 1984. Velma TeLinde Bayley, '14, from Ap­ Richard A. Lawrence, '76, and Jill A. David and Linda Finger Nelson, '72, a pleton, on Dec. 4, 1984. She had served as Maloney, Aug. 1984. boy, Ryan David Bernard, Dec. 8 , 1984. chairman or the board for the Visiting Nurses Richard C. K.raneis, '76, and Sina johnson, Bruce and Jacquelyne Nixon DenUyl, Association and was one of the founders or Sepl. I , 1984. both '74, a boy, Robert Clark, Nov. 12, Peabody Manor. She is survived by her son Jane A. Hansen, '76, and Herbert D. 1984. Edwin, '40. Danowit, Oct. 27, 1984. Stewart Ross, '72, and Liz, a boy, David Geraldine V. McMullen, 'I 7, from Mark Fonder, '77, and Wendy Sayler, Aug . Lawrence,· june 8, 1984. Menasha, Wis. , on Nov. 26, 1984. She received a law degree rrom Marquette II, 1984, Park Falls, Wis. David Healy, '72, and Denise, a boy, University and had practiced law for many Beth Trompeter, '78, and William c. Travis, Nov. 19. 1984. years in Milwaukee. Elmore, Aug. 18, 1984, Winnetka, Ill. Stephen L. Holmgren, '73, and Chris, a Marguerite Smith Oleson, '18, from Kristine L. Kosloske, '78, and Paul A. Mur- girl, Carrie Andrea, june 9, 1984. Oshkosh, Wis. , on Oct. 27, 1984. She and phy, Dec. 28, 1984, Fond duLac, Wis. Thomas Seidel, '76, and Kathleen, a girl, her husband Sydney owned and operated David G. Healy, '72, and Denise Trucdiep Laura Tighe, Dec. 21 , 1984. Oleson's Drug Store in Chippewa Falls, Wis., Pham, Nov. 12, 1983. David and Nancy Gazzola Hines, '76, a ror many years. She is survived by her Anne Rieselbach, '79, and Grant Marani, girl, jenny Travis, Dec. II, 1984. daughter Betty Ann Lyon, ' 51. Ocl. 14, 1984, Milwaukee. Michael, '76, and Jeanne Marini Exner, Katharine L. Smith, '18, rrom Two Rivers, Peter B. Hoover, '79, and Deborah jean '77, a son, Mauhew Ryan, Nov. 24, 1984. Wis. Lake, june 23, 1984. Dave Etnyre, '76, and Lynn, a girl, Amanda Amy Helmer Metcalf, '19, on july 4, 1984. Betsy Crawford, '79, and Roy Fine, Oct. 6, Marie, Dec. 21 , 1984. Grace Brewster Craig, '19, rrom East 1984, DcPere, Wis. Stephen and Barbara Till Ruel, '77, a boy, Troy, Wis .. on Dec. I , 1984. John T. Boyle, '79, and Mary Ellen Ross, William Francis, Sepl. 6 , 1984. Sister M. Carola (nee Celia Towne), '19, Sept, 15, 1984. Bruce and Tracy Grogan Mooty, '77, a on Sept. 1, 1984. She was a music teacher David M. Kocher, '80, and Julia Roberts, girl, Katharine (Kate) Grogan, April 6, 1984. and received a Distinguished Service Award '81, May 21, 1983. William and Laurie Johnson McHenry, from Lawrence in t973. Stephanie Gineris, '80, and Gregory Roths- '77, a girl, Elizabeth Kay, Sept. 21 , 1984. Gertrude Wright McKee, '20, from Ap­ tein, Oct. 20, 1984, Milwaukee. Jeff, '77, and Kelly Litton Frank, '79, a pleton, on Nov. 19, 1984. Emily B. Hawkes, '81, and Richard N. boy, Taylor jcfrrey, Oct. 31 , 1984. Jane Thomas Little, '20, from Los Angeles, Bland. Sept. 1. 1984. Terry R. Bolz, '77, and Ann, a girl, Emily, on july 14 , 1984. jane spent much or her lire teaching school, both in Calirornia and in Mary Lou Weber, '82, and Ron Lamber- Sepl. 23, 1984. Hawaii. ton, '81, Sept. 1, 1984, Edina, Minn. Michael Hoerig, '78, and Mary, a son, An- Ruth Staples Kuespen, M-D '20, from Cindy Carlson, '82, and Brian Dobberke, drew Brian, Marc.h II, 1984. South Bend, Ind. , on Oct. 18, 1984. She was April 7, 1984, Rockford, Ill . David, '78, and Linda Ericson Hill, '77, a im·olvcd with man}' volunteer activities in­ David). c. O'Morchoe, '83, and Patrice girl, Kristin Julia, Oct. II , 1984. cluding the South Bend Board or Education, I. Skalko, '84, july 7 , 1984. Alexander H. Bolyanatz, '78, and Pam, a the Council or United Church Women and Karen Phipps, '84, and Charles M. Bluhm, daughter, Aleksa Lane, Feb. 12 , 1984. the League of Women Voters. July 21 , 1984. Mark and Barbara Van Buskirk Van De Arthur Trezise, '21, from Lansing, Mich., Shirley Andrews, '84, and Eric Sharer, Laarschot, '81, a boy, Thomas Mark, Nov. in the rau or 1984. Dec. 29, 1984, Stevens Point, Wis. 2 , 1984. Kathryn Kittell, '23, from Manitowoc, CORRECTIONS: Thomas and Rene Maurice Damask, '8 1, a Wis., on Aug. 30, 1984. Sally Madden, '79, and john M. Betscher, boy, Adam joseph, Nov. 27, 1984. Elmer R. Schultz, '23, from LaCrosse, Wis. , Sept. 24, 1983. David and Linda Berger Hellmich, '82, a in Sept., 1984. He owned and operated a Sally Kienker, '78, and Robert Margulis, girl, Lara Katherine, July 24 , 1984. creamer}'. Sept. 16, 1984. Helen L. Dittmer, '23, rrom Jacksonville, F,la .. on Nov . 27, 1984. She lived in Ap­ pleton ror most or her lire and was employed by Fox River Paper Co.

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Deaths, cont. women here at Lawrence, and administrative Louis R. Harrmann, ' 49, from Oshkosh, director of Arizona State University's Wis., on April II , 1984. Memorial Union. Lots Bird, '23, from Janesville, Wis. , on Raymond Wesley Guenther, '49, from Feb. 9 , 1984. She had been an English Charlotte Marble McGonagle, ' 31, from Davis, Calif., on june 5, 1984. He was a teacher and librarian at Milton College before Escanaba, Mich. She was an interior designer. public health analyst for the California her retiremem. Lorraine C. Lull, '3 1, from San Bernadino, Department of Health. He is survived by his Miriam O'Harra Hamon, '24, from Lin­ Calif. , on Oct. 2, 1984. She was a social wife joan Teuscher Guenther, also '49. coln, Neb., on Dec. 12, 1984. She worked worker. james A. Helnrltz, '50, from Wausau, Wis., for many years as an English teacher at the 6, Harriet Brittain Schroeder, '32, from on jan. 1984. He was employed during University of Nebraska. After her retirement Wooster, Ohio, on Dec. 24 , 1984. Harriet the past 33 years by james River Corp. Sur­ in 1971, she became active in political af­ taught English in the Wooster City School vivors include his wife Susanne Carroll fairs. She became a registered lobbyist for the System for 18 years. Survivors include a Heinritz, M-D '51 , his sister Lucille Heinritz Women's Political Caucus and was in ­ daughter, Mary Schroeder Shayne, '64. Marcellus, '42, and his son jim, '85. strumemal in changing Nebraska state law jeanette Mentzel Schneider, M-D '32, Marvin Hron, '57, from West Bend, Wis., regarding sexual assault. She also worked on on Oct. II, 1984. bills affecting older people. from Oshkosh, Wis., on Oct. 28, 1984. She was active in community affairs. Memorial janet E. Eisner, '80, from Elgin, Ill., and G~rtrude Kaiser Franzke, '24, from Seat­ gifts should be directed tO Lawrence. Philadelphia, Pa ., in December 1984. janet tle, Wash., on Nov. 30, 1984. She was active received the M.B.A. degree from Washington in several different activities in Seattle in­ Loretta Mohr, M-D '32, fro m West Allis, Wis. , on Oct. I , 1984. Loretta was a teacher Uni\·ersity in St . Louis and worked for cluding the University Women 's Club and the Mellon National Corp. as a credit analyst. Children's Onhopedic Hospital. Sun•ivo rs in­ at Pulaski High Sct:tool. clude her husband, Albert L. Franzke, fonner Kathryn Ragan Gehl, M·D '32, from Susan R. Tufts, '86, from Amherst junc­ professor of speech and chairman of the Venice, Fla., on Dec. 10, 1984. tion, Wis. , on Dec. 22, 1984. Susan was a speech and English department here at junior at Lawrence. Dorothy Anderson Rennels, '33, from Lawrence. Evansville, Wis .. on Oct. 12, 1984. Kellogg W. Hark.lns, long time friend of Carola Trlttln, '26, from Appleton, on Lawrence University, from Hales Corner, William Wiese, '34, from Glenview, Ill. He Nov. 12 , 1984. After graduating from Wis. , on Nov. 5. 1984. Kellogg and his wife worked in the insurance business. l.awrcnce Carola wen! on to receive the supported the university in many ways, in­ master's degree in psychology from Western Albert L. Sterr, ' 34, from Lomira, Wis .. in cluding sponsorship of a student scholarship. Michigan Un iversity . She worked for many the fall of 1984. He is survived by his wife He is survived by his wife Laura, his son years as a research chemist for several dif­ Florence Olbcrt Sterr, '34. john, '50, and his two daughters, Marjorie ferent paper companies. Althea. Engelking Emigh, M-D ' 34, from Harkins Buchanan Kiewit, '43, 2nd Barbara Harkins Belle, '47. Raymond E. Spangenberg, '26, from Fond Dallas, on Nov. 26, 1984 . Survivors include a du Lac, Wis .. on Dec. II. 1984. Survivors in­ sister, Margaret Engelking Sheahan, M-D '32. CORRECTION: clude his sons, Raymond A., '51 , and Ivan, Patricia. Exton Taylor, M-D '44, is ali ve and well and living in Ann Arbor, Mi ch. '54 . Pauline Neenan Flieman Christensen, '34, from West Bend, Wis. · Lawrence Today mistakenly printed in its Mildred Whitmer Campbell, M-D '26, winter issue that Patricia had died. We from South Bend, Ind. Nettie Bresnahan Sy, M-0 '35, from apologize for the error. Albert E. Peterson, '27, from Coleman, Madison , Wis., on Oct. 31 , 1984. She was a Mich ., on Sept. 25, 1984. He was a teacher. chiropodist. William Richard Fuller, ' 35, from Savan­ Dorothy Viel Gallagher, '28, from Seattle, na, Ill., on jan. 14 , 1985. He served as the Wash., on Dec. 22, 1984. director of music at Savanna High School for 30 years. Elizabeth Weber Rice, '28, from Stevens Point. Wis., on Oct. 16, 1984. Elizabeth was Mildred Marks Goldman Klinger, M·D a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and after '39, from Palm Springs, Cali(. graduating from Lawrence attc=nded the Wayne Strayer, '40, from Galesburg, Ill ., Milwaukee School of Social Work. He was a music teacher. Stanley L. Smith, '28, from Vista, Calif., on Florence Roloff Cross, M·D '41, from Dec. !6, 1984. He lived in Appleton until his Oconomowoc, Wis., on Nov. 4, 1984. retirement in 1965. In Applt:ton he owned Charlotte Hogg Blersteker, '42, from Peb­ and operated Smith School Supply. ble Beach, Calif., on Dec. 29, 1984. Elizabeth Fowle Bemm, M-D ' 29, from janet Chapman Beavis Ustlck Fickes, '44, Milwaukee, on jan. 16 , 1985. fro m Irvine, Cali f., on Aug . 2, 1984. janet Cecelia Werner Scoular, ' 31 , from Scott­ was a teacher. sdale , Ariz., on Dec. 5. 1984. After joanne Englund Kelsey, M-D '47, from graduating from Lawrence she received a Madison, Wis., on jan. 7, 1985. master's degree in student personnel ad­ ministration from Columbia University. She Roberta Slelster Hayes, M-D '48, from wo rked as an assistant director of student Greensboro, N.C. , o n jan. II , 1984. She was relations at Co lumbia, program directo r of a teacher. Co rnell University's student union, dean of

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LUAA Board of Directors gains new members Elected to the Lawrence University '5 l , of Green Bay. Schaupp is chair­ Alumni Association Board of Direc­ man and director of L.C.L. Transit tors at its fall meeting were: Company and has been active on Kenneth DuVall, '52, of Ap­ the board since 1981. He is current­ pleton. DuVall, the Appleton branch ly national co-chairman of the alum­ manager of the Milwaukee Com­ ni fund and served as co-chairman pany, previously served on the of the Business and Industry Cam­ board from 1965 to 1967 and was a paign for Green Bay in 1981-82. member-at-large from 1981 tO 1983. He also has assisted with the Business and Industry Campaign, Reunion Weekend phonathons and the alumni career consultant program. scheduled for Helen Buscher Franke, '60, of San June 14-16 Marino, Calif. Franke, secretary/ All alumni, spouses and children are treasurer of Star Personnel Services, invited to Reunion Weekend, june Inc., Los Angeles, is coordinator of 14-16. Classes celebrating a special the alumni-admission program in reunion are 1925, ' 30, '35, ' 39, '40, Scott Alexander, '71 , co-president of the southern California. '41 , '45, '60, '64, '65, '66 and '75. Lawre,lce Club of New York Andrew S. Mead, '77, of Ap­ Program highlights include facul­ pleton. Mead is a product manager ty seminars, special slide shows on Alumni Club Calendar at Kimberly-Clark Corp. and serves downtown Appleton and as president of the Lawrence Club Bjorklunden, music and dancing on Atlanta of the Fox Valley. He has assisted February 8, Lawrence Ahead reception with Friday and Saturday evenings, President Warch, hosted by F. Ward, '34, with phonathons and is class agent special cocktail parties for the and Annette Meyer Rosebush, '35 for the Class of '77. classes of '35 and '60 hosted by David Mitchell, '71, of Menlo President and Mrs. Warch, an alum­ The Bay Area Park, Calif. Presently managing ni art exhibit, a musicale, a Friday (San Francisco-Oakland) director of the California Develop* evening theatre production of Neil january 14 and 15, Lawrence Ahead recep­ ment Office, Stanford University, Simon's "The Odd Couple", special tion with President Warch, hosted by David Mitchell is a former Lawrence ad* cocktail parties and dinners, and a L. Mitchell, '71 mission counselor and assistant Saturday evening banquet. Steering Committee: director of development. He has All alumni will be housed on cam­ David L. Mitchell, '71 , president and development coordinator, 415/854-2048 served as an alumni program coor* pus in residence halls according to Paul, '62, and Myrna Rongsted Manz, '60, dinator. reunion. Babysitting for children co-alumni admission coordinators, jeanne Albrecht Young, '46, of under 6 and entertainment pro* 4tsn97-9tto Mayville, Wis. She is secretary/ grams for children in grades 1-8 and Jeffrey A. , '72, and Deborah Burns Fox , '73, co-progr:~.m coordinators, 4 15/595-4690 treasurer of BYCO, Inc. in Mayville. teenagers in grades 9-12 are also Elected to second terms on the available. Boston board were: A retirement party for Miriam March 6, Lawrence Ahead reception with William M. Bauer, '72 , of Ap* Clapp Duncan and Paul Hollinger, President Warch, hosted by Eliz:~.beth Rusch pleton, Wis. He is an independent professors of music, is also being Montie, '69, and Dale A. Schuparra, '69 contractor. planned for the weekend. For more Steering Committee: joan Stebbins Des Isles, M*D ' 38, information about the retirement William 0 . Rizzo, "70, president, of Appleton, Wis. party, contact the public events of* 617n 42-Z215 Gregory R. O'Meara, "72 , alumni admission Michael O 'Neil, '65 , of Creve fice. coordinator, 617n49-8377 Coeur, Mo. He is the business unit Reunion Weekend program infor* Robert F. Perille, '80, development coor­ manager of the Composite Can Divi* marion and registration materials dinator, 617/254-0031 sion of Boise Cascade Corp. will be mailed to all alumni in early Mary Custis Hart, "57, program coordinator, Elected president-elect of the April. 61 7/329-6766 organization was Robert j. Schaupp, Central Wisconsin january 30, " An Evening with Lawrence" reception for prospective students and their parents

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Central Wisconsin, cont. London, England Steering Committee: Scott W. Alexander, '71 , co-president, Steering Committee: February 9, " Lawrence Alumni in Britain Reception:· hosted by lawrence D. Longley, 2o1n53-173o Robert). Felker, ' 50, president, Phyllis Anderson Roberts, '56, co-president, associate professor of go\'ernment and direc­ 71 ; /845-4856 914/631-6380 Terry R. Bolz, '77, alumni admission coor­ tor of the London Center, and Miriam C. james M. Cornelius, "81 , alumni admission Duncan, professor of music dinator, 715/845-7997 coordinator, 212/879·9832 Calvin C. Chamberlain, '50, career consultant John A. Luke, Jr., '71 , development coor­ coordinator, 7 15/675-2404 Los Angeles dinator, 203/966-6427 John H. Runkel, '54, devclopmem coor­ january 16, Lllwrence Ahead reception with Martha E. Freitag, '73, program coordinator, dinator. 715/842-1114 President Warch, hosted by Helen Buscher 914/834-6811 Mary Lawless Tuchscherer, '65, program Fr:.tnke, '60, jane Cornell Smith, '37, and coordinator, 7 15/842-5056 Marilyn Edw2rds Zumberge, '47 Oshkosh/Fond du Lac Chicago Steering Committee: March 29, Lawrence Ahead reception with Helen Buscher Franke, '60, president and President Warch, hosted by Patricia and February 20 and 22, Lawrence Ahead program coordinator, 818/289-8947 Henry H. Kimberly, Jr., '42, and RusseU A. , reception with Presidem Warch, hosted by George Swope, Jr., '72, alumni admission "32 . and Dorothy Dana Duket, '29. john H. Ellerman, '58, Andrew H. Kalnow, coordinator, 213/455-2371 '74, and William B. Weiss, '41 Jane Cornell Smith, '37. de\'elopment coor­ Phoenix dinator, 213/34 7-0153 Steering Commltccc: january II and 12, Lawrence Ahead recep­ Chris A. Bowers, '70, co -president and Madison tion with President Warch, hosted by Dayton developmem coordinator, 312/355-7221 F. Gr2fman, '44 Nancy Lock Schreiber, '59. co-president and january 27, " An E"ening with lawrence" public relations coordinator, 312/425-6067 reception for prospective students :.tnd their San Diego Julie A. Manning, '78, alumni admission parents coordinato r, 312/337-2466 January 18, Lawrence Ahead reception with joan Trueheart Bollmeier, '79, luncheon Milwaukee President Warch, hosted by Phillips M., '51 , and Meredith Holmes Montross. '53 series coordinator, 31 2/948-1387 janua.ry 10, Business and Industry Cam· Linda Stram~ Hutchinson, '64 , program coor­ paign kick-off, Harold J . Luedeman, '46, St. Louis dinator, 312/386-6548 chairperson january 28, " An Evening with lawrence" March, Alumni Fund phonathon Colorado (Denver) reception for prospective students and their Steering committee: March, Alumni Fund phonathon parents Michael G. O'Neil, '65, president, 314/878-7695 March 23 and 24, Second Annual Lawrence February 8, tawrence University jazz Louise Kustner Rosen, '67, alumni admission Alumni Ski Day Ensemble in concert Steering Committee: coordin2tor. 314/721 ·2850 Steering Committee: Thomas R. and Brenda Bars2mian Richard­ Ann Finney Batiza, '69, development coor­ Jeffrey Bowen, '60, president and alumni ad­ son, both '70, co-presidents, 4 14/962-0056 dinator, 314/968-8993 mission coordinator, 303n 50-8833 Helen Trebilcox Hasey, M-D '39. secretary, Erich P. Press II , "781 program coordinator, Launjohnso n Burrow, '73, development 414/352-1204 314/968-0195 coordinator, 303/838-7800 Lynne Goeldner Rompelman, '72, treasurer, M:ucia A. Ketchum, '7 1, program coor­ 414n74-68o 1 Tampa/St. Petersburg dinator, 303/837-8163 Elaine johnson Luedeman, '47, alumni admis­ February 7, Lawret~ce Ahead reception with sion coordinator, 4 14/352-7223 President Warch, hosted by Nancy H2betler Fox Valley Michael G. Green, '75, 2lumni de\•elopment Kaliebc, M-D '63 january 29, Lawrence Ahead reception with coordinator. 4 14/762-3739 President Warch, hosted by Robert C. and Tucson Bonnie Glidden Buchanan, both "62 Minneapolis-St. Paul January 13, LtlwretJce Ahead reception with February 23, Royal Shakespeare Company january 31, " An Evening with lawrence" President Warch, hosted by Barbara Gr2y of London presentation of " As You Like II " reception for prospective students 2nd their Spoerl, M-D '44 Steering Committee: parents Andrew S. Mead, '77, president and program Steering Committee: Washington, D.C. coordinator, 4141731 -1368 Marijean Meisner Flom , '50. president, February 10, LawretJce Ahead reception William M. Bauer, '72, alumni admission 612/824-5131 with President Warch, hosted by Marilyn coordinator, 4141733-5472 Susan T. Ch:.tndler, '79, co-:.tlumni admission Stiller Taylor. '69 Charles B. Siekman, '72, development coor­ coordinator, 612/377-0314 dinator, 414n 33-8272 Steering Committee: Cynthia Arneson Eddy, '79, co-alumni admis­ Bruce M. Brown, '69. president, Green Bay sion coordinator, 612/934-6583 301 /384-0426 john D. Gilpin, '72, de,·elopment coor­ PhyiJis A. Peter, '73, alumni admission coor­ january 24, " An E\'ening with lawrence" dinator, 612/4 36-74 12 dinator, 202/483-7542 reception for prospecti\'C studems and their Susan Merbach Palm, '80, program coor­ Mary Donn Rossi j ordan, '73, development p:uents dinato r, 6 12/929-564 0 coordinator, 20212 34-054 2 January 29, Business and Industry Cam­ Patricia Phelps Nash, '67, public rel:uions William T. Eggbcer, '76. program coor­ p2ign kick-off, Karen Krieger Brown. '57, coordinator, 612/934-2646 dinato r, 3011320-2480 chairperson February 13, Lawrence Ahead reception New York with President Warch, hosted by jmtn and March 7 and 8 , Ltw•re11ce Ahead reception RobcrtJ. 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In m e mory of Marshall I heard many wise words from Marshall, came up with the bright idea that his privately and publicly, but never an epics should be enjoyed by all of the Hulbe r t unkind one. Brokaw residents and ::~ s ked me if there President Warch : was some way he could broadcast Merton M. Sealts, Jr., He !Marshall) was one of my classmates throughout the building. I knew how to Former faculty member do it , but as the counselor on the floor, and I respected him greatly. You jocularly Madison, Wis. suggested chat Doc Sammy benefited from my first re::lction was to squelch the idea. his ad,•ice. Soberly, the fact is that Mar­ However, on second thought 1 felt the shall , so fa r as I know, is the only faculty­ Marshall was the glue that held me to reaction to his efforts would be so management-associated person who lived Lawrence: and was certainly the spirit that negative that he would be discouraged and get back to his neglected studies. So 1 through the Plantz-Warch cr.~, wilh all its showed me Lawrence. When I was a stu­ ups and downs-he was a cominuing dent, he was a somewhat awesome, set him up with his assur.tnce that it le:.tvening agent. frightening and overpowering figure as would all be done very orderly. Boy, was I am afraid that we of '26 were lace in he, on occasion, had an opportunity to I ever misled! 1 recognizing Marshall 's talents. He w:~s not correct my errant ways. As an alumnus, The day the broadcasting started went aggressive-rather, steady and reliable he became ::1 rock in a sea of change, a back to our room after a late evening and without an enemy. . If Marshall light of integrity. a view of campus re::~l · meal and could hardly work my way had a fault , it was undue modcscy. ity . through the crowd jammed around the door. The bro;~.dcast was in full swing, George B. Ch ristensen, '26 Frio~ Ruf, '59 only it had departed completely from my Glencoe, Ill. Pewaukee, Wis. roommate's script. What was being broadcast through Brokaw would not have endeared my roommate or me to As a student of the sixties, when the campus The mood o.f the lovely memorial service the administration, so the broadcast came was frequently turbulent with fo r Mar s h::~ll clearly defined what we all to a quick end. I told the budding pro· many unpredictable evems, Marshall was sensed about him-his transcendent ducer that he had better stick to the a person of unimpeachable honesty. No nature. scripts or I would put him off the matter how heated and " crazy" the air-permanently. Well, he didn't so 1 events and people became, a student Gretchen Wilderding Maring, '52 Neenah, Wis . did. Total station life cycle-about three could always get a hearing (at times a days. stern one) from him . . . . His involvement was always passionate, yet anchored in a Winter issu e hits the Jim Dite, '441'47 more f;tr-sedng view of life than the fre· Barrington, Ill. qucntly puerile drives of the participants. mark P.S. I le2rned later that the signal traveled Now, at the distance of some 15 years, I Editor: look back to my contacts with Marshall through the Cillmpus central heating with a great admiration for his constancy, The winter issue of Lawrence Today is system pipes to Ormsby Hall-and the honesty and human simplicity. 1 hope superb! Streich, who rarely m::~kes com· freshman women li\•ing there were that Lawrence. and the world, can learn ments like this, said "This is the best one delighted with the departures from the from Marshall what appears to me to be they've ever done". Of course, he's script. fundamental to being a decent human be­ always liked and admired Marshall ing. As I warm up to middle-age 1 tire of [Hulbert) , we'd alre::~dy seen "Amadeus" the flashy , powerful intellect and value a twice, and we were in p ri nt for hosting a Se tting the record Marshall Hulbert with his quiet d ignity. new student reception-three reasons to make him feel that this was our own per· straight Mark M. Orton, '69 sonal issue. You arc to be congratulated. Ed.itor: Cambridge, Mass. I'm sure a number of my contemporaries Elaine ' 'johnnie" johnson Lucdcman, '47 Milwaukee, Wis. share a bemusemcnt over a misleading Marshall showed how much one can con· item in a recent issue on a current tribute to the world without lening Lawrentian setting records for the home. The combination of energy, Mor e radioactivity IOO·and 200-meter dashes. What the arli· discipline, perspective and sympathy cle fai led to note was that metric records which were embodied in him Is rare in­ Editor : cover only a limited number of years and deed. that the current sprinter's times-when In a letter in Lllwrence Todlly (winter corrected to times for 100 and 220 ya rds joan Pappert jacobs, M-D '53 '84), Verne Condor, '48, took exception o r vice-versa-fall short of the 09:6 and Bethesda, Md. to an earlier article concerning the date of 21 :0 records set h)' my classmate Donald the origin of radio at Law rence, stating it Kersemeicr on the same day in the spring Marshall was the first member of the ad­ really went back to 1944 or 1945. Well, 1 of 1963. Don would have had a good ministration that I met when 1 arrived on must take exception to Verne's exception. chance of making the U.S. 4x100 relay There was an earlier station in Brokaw campus as a freshman in june of 1943, team if 1963 ha.d been an Olympic year. 1 and was the last person we saw and Hall , ::~lbeit a shon-lived one. would suggest th::lt future references to a visited with before we left for home :.tfter In the 1941 -42 school year I was a stu· metric record being set in tr.!ck cite the our class reunion in 1983. He has :.t lways dent counselor in Brokaw with a room· years being CO\'ered and how that record been one of my favorite people-a gcn· mate who aspired to be a radio writer­ compares to the non-metric one in the uinc::ly warm ind ividual. . . It will be dif· producer. He spent endless hours com· equivalent event. ficuh to imagine Lawrence University posing awful scripts in the style of the without Marshall. Henry Aldrich radio show of thai day. Lyle Woodyatt, '63 None of my negative reactions to his ef. Falls Church, Va . R. Bruce Buchanan, '48 forts deterred him one iota. He finally Duluth, Minn. Bjorklunden beckons­ see page 21

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