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E G E L L O Campaign Gift C Will Establish O O Professorship Z A Winter 2003 A $1 million campaign gift from the John W. and M Rosemary K. Brown Family Foundation will fund the A Rosemary K. Brown Endowed Professorship in L A Mathematics and Computer Science at Kalamazoo K College. The gift to Enlightened Leadership: Kalamazoo College in the 21st Century was celebrated during a F O signing ceremony at Hodge House this summer. Rosemary is a lifelong educator. She taught mathematics at various E N high schools in New Jersey and Michigan and recently I retired from the Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Z Science Center. John is chairman of the Stryker A G Corporation. Rosemary currently serves on the College's A Board of Trustees; John is a former member. M E H T Office of College Communication 1200 Academy Street Kalamazoo Michigan 49006 Our endowment enables the farther journey Bronze Star: Sculptor Suanne Martin ’84 Donald Van Liere's Many Gifts To the Liberal Arts at Kalamazoo College Donald W. Van Liere, a professor of psychology at Kalamazoo College for 32 years, died on October 6, 2002. Shortly before his death, he established the Donald Van Liere Endowed Fund for Awards in Psychology with a $10,000 gift to the College's campaign, Enlightened Leadership: Kalamazoo College in the 21st Century. Income from the gift will support The attitude that pervaded the lab in Kalamazoo College students with cash those days was—if you need it, build it. Lester Start's Legacy awards based on recipients' overall aca - When I first had the chance to observe With a $10,000 campaign gift, the family and demic excellence, improvement in their this construction phenomenon, Don and friends of the late Lester J. Start, Ph.D., have senior year, and/or excellence in his students were dismantling pinball endowed a fund to provide travel grants for research. The gift complements a previ - machines for the electromagnetic relays Kalamazoo College students to present their ous gift Van Liere made in 1991—the that could be used to control the presen - research at professional conferences. The fund will Donald Van Liere Prize for Excellence in tation of stimuli and rewards to animal be called the Lester J. Start Student Travel Fund in Philosophy. Faculty members of the philosophy Research. subjects." In 1981 the psychology labora - department will select travel recipients. Van Liere was the shaping force in tory at Kalamazoo College was named for Philosophy majors will receive first preference, but psychology at Kalamazoo College in the Van Liere. if additional endowed income is available, 1950's and early 1960's. He graduated In addition to his duties at students in the religion department will be from Hope College and completed his Kalamazoo College, Van Liere pursued a considered for awards. Dr. Start joined the faculty advanced training at Indiana University, number of community interests. He was of Kalamazoo College in 1958 as a professor of philosophy. His interests in addition to all where he studied under renowned teach - instrumental in creating the special diag - To Socrates branches of philosophy included religion, music, ers in a variety of areas of psychology, nostics department at Bronson Hospital, by Lester Start and languages. He was an accomplished cellist including behaviorism, theoretical psy - which brought electroencephalographic who performed with the Bach Festival Society, chology, psychophysiology, and experi - testing to Kalamazoo. In 1956 he was a Fiori Musicali, and the Kalamazoo Symphony mental psychology. To these perspectives valuable part of the first heart catheteri - Had I lived in your time, how joyously Orchestra. Ancient philosophy was one of Dr. he added his own interest in the philo - zation team at Bronson, a procedure that Start's specialties, and his personal admiration for I should have knelt before you, listened to the philosopher Socrates is evident in a sonnet he sophical background and history of psy - was undertaken in only four locations in Your thoughtful words about the good, the true, wrote about the man and which we reprint (left). chology. For 20 years he served as chair - Michigan in those years. Friends, family, and faculty recently gathered to man of the College's psychology depart - He and his wife had six children, and The beautiful; from your nobility celebrate the gift and the man the gift honors. ment and ensured that its perspective one of their grandchildren, Timothy Pictured are (l-r): front row—Carol Dombrowski, Of intellect, there glowed resplendently remained broad and appropriate to a lib - Halloran '92, attended the College as a director of alumni relations and the Kalamazoo eral arts education. Heyl Scholar. Within your mind the light of wisdom. You, College Fund; Clare Start; Jeremy Start; second row—Michael Wolf, visiting assistant professor of On the occasion of his retirement in "In the 15-year period from 1950 to Greatest philosopher, attempted to philosophy; Elizabeth Start, visiting assistant 1981, Berne Jacobs, professor emeritus of 1965, experimental psychology had taken professor of music; David Scarrow, professor psychology, wrote, "Don demonstrated an important place in the [Kalamazoo Reveal this light to dull humanity emeritus of philosophy; third row—Jonathan Start the scientific dimensions of psychology College] curriculum, and the laboratory To free it from its darkness; that is why and Chris Latiolais, associate professor of to students and faculty by furnishing a had become a central feature of the philosophy. laboratory with home-made apparatus. department," wrote Jacobs. "Van Liere The multitude of fools forced you to die, The author Garry Wills in his book Certain Trumpets wrote that "Socrates is the archetype of Don made memory drums and mirror- had brought psychology at Kalamazoo That ignorance might thrive. Guide of the youth, all those who learn by teaching, who keep up the tracing apparatus for human learners, and College into the mainstream of twentieth Christ of another age! Come back, and give energy, curiosity, and intellectual freshness to ask those experimental chambers we now century academic psychology." the basic questions all over again, not merely as a call Skinner boxes for pigeons and rats. Of your great light once more; help us to live pedagogical technique, but as a genuine way of advancing their own moral understanding." A For beauty, wisdom, dignity, and truth. fitting description of Lester Start, whose tribute to the Greek philosopher we share with our readers. LLuuxxEEsstoo Winter 2003 Volume 64, No. 2 LuxEsto continues the Kalamazoo College Quarterly Magazine. The new name is based on the College's official motto, Lux Esto , "be light," or "let there be light." Editors Jim VanSweden '73 Zinta Aistars COVER STORY Kalamazoo College was founded in 1833, so none of its Creative Director graduates participated in the Constitutional Convention Lisa Darling of 1787 in Philadelphia. However, Suanne Martin, Class Sports Information Director of 1984, may feel as if she had been there. For the Steve Wideen story, see page 18 Publications Assistant FEATURES 6 National Book Award Winner Visits Campus Lynnette Gollnick Author Ha Jin came to Kalamazoo College to speak Alumni Relations Contributors with the first-year students who had read his novel Janelle Boothby Waiting during the summer. Kalamazoo College's Ann Writers You, who, like Ha Jin, lived for many years in the Jeff Palmer '76 northeast of China, interviewed the writer. Anne (Buckley) Dueweke '84 Jennifer White-Reding, 21 Full Circle and Struggle Center for Asian Studies English major Emily Crawford '99 has experienced Antonie Boessenkool '99 some lean and interesting years since graduating from Ann You, Business Office Kalamazoo College. She wouldn't trade them for Emily Crawford '99 anything. Photography Richard Koenig 24 Dave 2 = Powerful Student/Faculty Ed McKinney Relationships Keith Mumma Longtime Professor of Biology David Evans sought a Design job reference from Class of 2002 biology major Dave Schlatter Design Meek. This seeming reversal of roles makes sense in a Printer curriculum as powerful as the K-Plan . Performance Communications Holland Litho PLUS... The farther journey of a Wall Street Journal Direct correspondence to: business reporter; the retirement of Professor of The Editor History David Strauss; an Intercultural Research LuxEsto Project; the multiple nicknames of Rob Townsend; Kalamazoo College the Center for Asian Studies; the return of Fred 1200 Academy Street Jackson '60; Homecoming 2003 ; and more. Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295 269.337.7291 DEPARTMENTS 2 Letters [email protected] 10 On the Quad Opinions expressed herein do not neces - 27 Hornet Sports sarily represent the views of Kalamazoo 32 Alumni Pages College or the editors. LuxEsto (ISSN 37 Class Notes 1526-7997) is published quarterly by Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, WHAT'S Planning a visit to Kalamazoo College? Check the Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295 USA. HAPPENING ON Kalamazoo College news web site for the latest informa - Printed in the United States of America. CAMPUS? tion about campus events. 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