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Lawrence University Lux Alumni Magazines Communications Winter 2018 Lawrence: The Leadership Issue Lawrence University Follow this and additional works at: https://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Liberal Studies Commons © Copyright is owned by the author of this document. Recommended Citation Lawrence University, "Lawrence: The Leadership Issue" (2018). Alumni Magazines. 112. https://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines/112 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications at Lux. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Lux. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WINTER 2018 LAWRENCE THE LEADERSHIP ISSUE contents LEARNERS. LEADERS. LAWRENTIANS. 4 Alumni from every stage of their “life after Lawrence” journey share their lessons in leadership. LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP Lawrence faculty give you a global tour of leadership LAWRENCE 10 From Sampson House WINTER 2018 with stops in Nepal, Sierra Leone and right here on College Ave. Dear Lawrentians, EDITOR Kelly B. Landis GOOD GOVERNMENT Greetings from snowy Appleton. One of the great pleasures of my role is watching our students perform throughout ART DIRECTOR Student LUCC officers share what leadership means campus and compete in athletic events. I see the determination, skill and artistry Lawrentians bring to everything 20 Liz Boutelle 4 to today’s Lawrentians. they do. These events also provide a moment to see student leadership on display. Now that I am in my fifth year as president of Lawrence, I see the trajectory of first-years who are now seniors taking on leadership roles and ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT responsibilities on the stage, in athletic competitions and across campus. Students’ hopes and dreams for us OF COMMUNICATIONS Craig Gagnon ’76 16 Heads of the Class as a community were also on display during this year’s election for the next president and vice president of the Lawrence University Community Council, which just ended. CONTRIBUTORS 24 History Lesson Matthew Arau ’97, Erin Dix ’08, Constance Kassor, Leadership is a topic in the air on campus. Today’s undergraduates are setting a high bar for what leadership Mauranda E. Owens ’18, Rick Peterson, 25 Viking Voices means to them: they look primarily for authenticity and transparency. Their leaders need to demonstrate that they Steven Ponto ’69, Claudena Skran, Joe Vanden Acker, Nicole Witmer ’19 believe and represent the ideas they talk about. For our students, values are vital to leadership, just as they are 32 Alumni and Faculty Books vital to Lawrence as a whole. CLASS NOTES Dakota Williams ’14 33 Inside Lawrence We take very seriously our responsibility to create leaders—leaders in their fields, leaders in their communities, PHOTOGRAPHY 40 Steering the Ship leaders among their peers. But how can we ensure the appropriate preparation for each student no matter their Liz Boutelle, Cape Town Opera, Rachel Crowl, choice of profession or future home? In this increasingly complex world, how can we provide today’s students with D3sports.com, Emma S. Gilshannon ’21, 42 Athletics the tools they need to succeed tomorrow? Hanwenheng (Billy) Liu ’18, Thompson Photo Imagery, Paul Wilke 48 Class Notes I believe we reach this goal if we continue to invest in our curricular offerings. In the global studies program, faculty FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS 66 The Big Picture are committed to providing students with a linguistic, cultural and academic toolkit to help them understand go.lawrence.edu/voyager and confront issues facing societies around the world. In the innovation and entrepreneurship program, students 920-832-6549 learn to harness their creativity, to make something tangible out of their ideas, to make a better world. Preparing [email protected] students for leadership means providing them with the scientific grounding to understand global issues in health or the TO SUBMIT IDEAS COVER ART environment through our biology, environmental studies and other science departments. It means developing their Lawrence University 10 Aedan Gardill ’18 is studying studio art and physics. For the past year, ability to own and present a narrative that describes their vision and their path through programs like film studies, Communications he has worked towards combining physics and art through creating creative writing, studio art and theater. So much of leadership today is about consuming information before 711 E. Boldt Way paintings that celebrate the minds of women in science. Aedan is decisions can be made, and the amount of information available seems to increase exponentially each year. We Appleton, WI 54911-5690 preparing to attend graduate school for either condensed matter physics need to intensify our focus on helping students to better understand data through courses offered in data science, 920-832-6593 [email protected] or material science engineering. In his free time he enjoys playing statistics and computer science. trombone and reading. Opinions expressed in this magazine do not We also need to provide more opportunities for students to develop their own leadership styles. Chris Card, vice necessarily represent Lawrence University policy. THE SCHOOL OF FISH IS A GREAT IMAGE OF LEADERSHIP. president for student life, and Christyn Abaray, athletics director, have begun to create more opportunities for Lawrence (USPS 012-683) is published three THE RED FISH IN FRONT APPEARS TO LEAD, BUT WITHOUT students to think deeply about leadership and to test their skills outside of the classroom. And because preparing THE OTHER FISH THE SINGLE LEADER WOULD NOT TRAVEL times a year by the Lawrence University Office SAFELY THROUGH THE DANGEROUS OCEAN. EACH FISH IS students for leadership means continually innovating when it comes to our curriculum and co-curricular offerings, of Communications. Nonprofit postage paid at UNIQUE AND ONLY WORKING TOGETHER CAN THEY MAKE we are now offering our first-ever course dedicated solely to leadership training. Appleton, Wis., and additional mailing offices. IT TO THEIR DESTINATION. The liberal arts are a cornerstone of leadership development; they have been for me. Alumni from around the ABOVE: President Mark Burstein, Dean I WORKED DIGITALLY, USING world, at every stage of their careers, affirm this. The world has not necessarily grown more complex, but our of Spiritual and Religious Life Linda PHOTOSHOP TO OVERLAY THE understanding of it certainly has. I believe that the breadth of understanding and the depth of curiosity about the Morgan-Clement, Provost and Dean of SCHOOL OF FISH ON CARPET world inculcated by a Lawrence education prepares our students to engage with that complexity wherever their the Faculty Catherine Kodat, Dean of TEXTURE. THE TEXTURE OF CARPET lives take them when they leave Lawrence. Admissions Ken Anselment, President IS USUALLY TAKEN FOR GRANTED, of the Lawrence University Community Council Lewis Berger ’18 and Vice SO I WANTED TO INCLUDE IT AND Yours, CHANGE UP THE COLOR.” President for Student Life Christopher D. Card listen to students provide words of welcome in their native languages during the President’s Welcome. Photo credit: Mark Burstein Billy Liu ’18 LAWRENCE 3 24 LEARNERS. LEADERS. LAWRENTIANS. For alumni spanning the globe and at every stage of their people can learn about and explore natural environments that careers, “learners, leaders, Lawrentians” is more than a A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTION, A SUCCESSFUL SHELLEY DAVIS ’92 are close to home,” she explains. tagline; it’s the experience they live every day. Though there COMPANY, REQUIRES ARTISTIC FEARLESSNESS Executive Director, is no such thing as one-size-fits-all leadership, you can’t MIXED WITH ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE Forest Preserve Foundation Shelley’s dedication to career evolution also informs her views help but notice that whether you are speaking to a longtime Chicago on effective leadership. “I think leaders are evolving continually, executive at multinational technology conglomerate Cisco AND, MOST OF ALL, RELIABILITY.” and that’s definitely my task. I also think good leadership Systems or a recent graduate in her first months of student Shelley Davis ’92 logged many is a combination of active listening and active thinking and teaching in Appleton, you hear many of the same lessons and miles on the bus during her time strategy,” says Shelley. She also thinks about her leadership at Lawrence. “I spent a lot of time style. “I am definitely developing a style that’s about building,” principles— principles like listening, emotional intelligence, Elise has certainly found that balance. She is a champion for as a student, especially my last she observes. “I like those pivot points when there is time and learning and always striving to be better. her company and its performers. “There is nothing as powerful two years at Lawrence, as a very appetite to do something new.” Shelley looks to the leaders as the African voices we have here. I love knowing that South active volunteer,” recalls Shelley, she admires to inform her own choices. “Emotional intelligence Leadership is something that informs our lives every day, and Africans are a force to be reckoned with in the international who majored in psychology at is something I think about a lot in those leaders. How they isn’t confined to one profession, one title, or even one stage opera world, and our established arts organization gives strong Lawrence. “I volunteered at a domestic violence shelter. It’s communicate, how they build relationships.” of a career. Look no further than the five Lawrentians here financial, logistical and marketing backup to their talents. A something that I will never forget, and it also helped prepare who are bringing their skills to bear in fields ranging from successful production, a successful company, requires artistic me for my first job. I did lots of internships and independent Shelley’s desire to do good through nonprofit work is supported arts and nonprofit management to teaching, technology and fearlessness mixed with organizational competence and, most of studies and I feel like throughout my life, any time I have been by a clear-eyed pragmatism.