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on the cover 10 features 4 15 Graduation Day Nuclear reaction More than 3,500 people became a Learn what CMU faculty say about part of the CMU legacy this spring the future of energy in the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear crisis. During the 9:30 a.m. Spring 6 Commencement ceremony, Master Faculty awards 18 of Business Administration graduates Celebrate the research and A virtual reality Jiyuan Hu, Wei Zhang, Elissa Richmond teaching recognized through Explore how a professor-led CMU team is and Kristina Griffus give recognition – CMU’s awards of excellence. creating an at-home physical therapy option and a quick wave – to their families. for people with traumatic brain injuries. COVER PhOTO by peggy brisbane 10 Through the lens 24 Take a journey with CMU senior Libby Redefining community March as she travels to Haiti. Meet Norm Plumstead, ’95, and see why he decided to run 253 miles 14 in 12 days across Ethiopia. Translating success See how a state grant will give CMU 26 students the opportunity to further their A creative process cultural proficiency in a global economy. Get an art associate professor’s perspective on how recent travels to Italy benefit CMU classrooms. Executive Editor and Executive Director of Alumni Relations Marcie Otteman, ’87 Photographers 20 Robert Barclay Peggy Brisbane Graphic Designer Amy Gouin departments Writers 2 CMU Today 33 Connections Sarah Chuby, ’03 M.A. ’11 See how one CMU researcher is Your alumni association source. Dan Digmann making a big impact on the shrimp 36 Alumni News Communications committee industry; read about CMU recognizing Jeffrey L. Benjamin, ’86 two golden anniversaries of endeavors 39 In Memory Kevin Campbell, ’74 M.A. ’76 for peace and freedom; learn how two 40 I Am Central Kevin H. Richman, ’93 entrepreneurs won $30,000 to launch their business; and more. Vice President of Development and External Relations 9 Up Close With … Kathleen M. Wilbur Olympic gold medalist and humanitarian Ron Freeman Associate Vice President for University Communications 29 Giving Renée Walker, ’00 See how alumnus Dick Enberg is immortalized in the Events Center and For advertising information how students expressed gratitude to Call Cindy Jacobs, ’93 scholarship donors. 800-358-6903 30 Sports Take pride in field hockey’s national stay connected recognition for academic excellence; Send change of address relive the excitement of the successful information to: women’s basketball season; and more. Alumni Relations 2 Carlin Alumni House Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Phone: 800-358-6903 Fax: 989-774-7159 E-mail: [email protected] 18 Web: cmualum.com

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centralight summer ’11 1 CMU Today

Giant impact on shrimp business Philip Hertzler’s research has the According to Hertzler, the shrimp power to transform the shrimp industry is looking to maximize its industry. economic potential, just as the beef, pork and chicken industries have The CMU biology professor – used traditional breeding methods to using CMU’s new laser scanning improve the quality and production of confocal microscope – is focusing their animals. on the selective breeding of shrimp to help the industry “This makes a huge economic impact,” produce better shrimp. says Hertzler, who is working with his students to isolate genes from shrimp Australia’s Commonwealth that are known to be involved in germ Scientific and Industrial Research cell specification in other animals. Retired Peace Corps volunteer Michael Lavoie Organization recently awarded shares a statement of gratitude with CMU President Hertzler an AU $450,000 grant Hertzler’s research is part of a larger George E. Ross and his wife, Elizabeth G. Ross. over three years, marking the first collaborative project among the time CSIRO has awarded projects University of Queensland, University Honoring two anniversaries to groups outside of Australia. of Newcastle, Simon Fraser University (Canada), CMU and CSIRO partners. • The Peace Corps volunteers stationed in the country of Burkina Faso had a lot to celebrate. The 50th anniversaries of the establishment of the Peace Corps and the independence of Burkina Faso were a few months apart. To honor the occasion, the Friends of Burkina Faso held celebratory events across the African nation. Central Michigan University joined in the festivities, recognizing the dual anniversaries and donating $1,000 to repair an ambulance in the commune of Dargo. Michael Lavoie, retired Peace Corps volunteer and president of the Friends of Burkina Faso, says the words of the wife of the Colonel Ouedraogo, Great Mayor of Dargo, struck him, “She said, ‘I think it’s a great thing because it will save lives.’” “It was the right thing to do,” says CMU President George E. Ross. “This is a small world. I say to my students all the time on this campus, ‘We’re a small planet, and we have to experience other people, other cultures.’ The ideas of freedom, the ideas of loving and caring are universal ideas.” •

Student entrepreneurs win start-up funds Two CMU students think they can change the way people pay for merchandise and services, and they recently won $30,000 to see if they’re right. Entrepreneurship majors Daniel Pearson and Tyler Gostinger received first place in the College of Business Administration’s inaugural New Venture Competition with their business plan for HybridPay, which will allow consumers to integrate multiple credit and rewards accounts onto one simple and secure smart phone application. “We’re going to use the $30,000 prize money to start and develop our application, our software,” says Gostinger. “In our projections, we have for the next three months the development stage,” says Pearson. “After that, hopefully we do a soft launch here on campus and make sure the system works right. After that, we’re off to the races.” A total of $45,000 was awarded in the competition, with graduate students Jason and Mick Baird winning the second-place prize of $10,000 and Benjamin Prentiss, ’10, and biology student Tony Johnson receiving the third-place prize of $5,000. • alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more

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Education and Human Services Building takes top honors The Construction Association of Michigan has named Central Michigan University’s Education and Human Services Building as the state’s top project of 2010. The award, which was announced at the Michigan Construction and Design Trade Show in Detroit, was the result of an online voting competition that highlighted 12 projects across the state. More than 6,200 online votes were cast, with CMU receiving nearly 40 percent of the total. “We are thrilled that our Education and Human Services Building was named as the state’s top project,” says Kathy Koch, interim dean of CMU’s College of Education and Human Services. “This facility represents the future of education in its emphasis on technology in the classroom, teaching spaces that encourage active student engagement, and attention to the importance of our environment as it influences teaching and learning.” Completed in June 2009, the $50 million, four-story, 137,000-square-foot building enhances the learning and classroom atmosphere for thousands of CMU students. The design process began in early 2006 and includes state-of-the-art academic instructional spaces, classroom labs and a child development center. •

MHTV earns 10th straight Station of the Year honors For an unprecedented 10th consecutive year, the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts’ MHTV has been named College TV Station of the Year by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. “It’s a tribute to the unit as a whole, it’s also a tribute to the individual students’ achievements, their wins in categories that collectively come together to determine who gets Station of the Year,” says Peter Orlik, director of the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts. A large part of CMU’s continued success is the accomplishments of News Central 34, the only student-run hour-long newscast in the state and one of the few in the country. In this year’s MAB awards, News Central 34 took the top two places in the Daily Newscast category. CMU also won the Talk Show, Public Service Announcement, Sports Play-by-Play and Station Activities Report awards. •

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centralight summer ’11 3 text by sarah chuby, ’03 M.A. ’11 Whether the ceremony took place 50 years ago photos by robert barclay or today, graduation marks the culmination and peggy brisbane of a demanding, yet satisfying, journey. Soon-to-be CMU alumni hear their names called in recognition of their hard work and achievement. They sing the Alma Mater. They hear congratulations from family, friends and favorite professors. The Spring 2011 commencement welcomed 3,574 degree and certification recipients to join the CMU alumni family, which is more than 200,000 people worldwide. From locations in Mount Pleasant, across the nation, in Canada and Mexico, there were a combined 2,314 baccalaureate degrees, 1,132 master’s degrees, 74 doctoral degrees, 21 specialist degrees, and 33 graduate certificates awarded. “Take stock in how much you have grown as a person,” President George E. Ross said during the May ceremony on the Mount Pleasant campus. “Use graduation day to reflect back on your college experience and imagine the possibilities for the future.” And those words ring true. Use graduation day to reflect on your CMU experience – think of those memories from the past, and the ones you’d like to create in the future. • Sapientia. Virtus. Amicitia.

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centralight summer ’11 5 President’s and Provost’s awards honor top faculty Central Michigan University Their work, which often involves undergraduate and graduate students, recently recognized four has collectively received more than $4 faculty members for million in grant and external funding excellence in academics, and has established them among the recognized leaders in their respective fields. research and student “Today’s honorees exemplify those CMU engagement through faculty who nurture the success of our the annual President’s students,” CMU President George E. Ross said at the awards presentation. and Provost’s Awards for “They embrace providing students with Outstanding Research instruction that is cutting edge and and Creative Activity. relevant, taking the time and energy to serve as mentors to help our students develop as top professionals in their fields Mihai Horoi and contributors to their communities.” Gary Dunbar, professor of psychology as Germany’s Giessen University and and neuroscience, and Mihai Horoi, Romania’s Radiation Laboratory. His projects professor of physics, were honored with focus on nuclear structure, computational President’s Awards, which are given quantum many-body systems, and structure annually to outstanding senior faculty and properties of atomic clusters. members for their scholarship and research “This recognition is very important to of national and international merit. me,” says Horoi. “It shows that CMU Dunbar, who has taught appreciates the kind of research that at CMU since 1987, is I am involved in doing, and it will internationally renowned help me intensify my efforts.” in the field of behavioral Troy Hicks, assistant professor of English, neuroscience. His and David Zanatta, assistant professor of research concentrates biology, were given Provost’s Awards, which on incorporating recognize excellent scholarship, creativity stem cell transplants, and promise among junior faculty members. dietary supplements and pharmacological Hicks works in the areas of K-12 treatments for cognitive professional development, participatory or motor deficits following action research, composition, and brain damage and newer literacies and technology. neurodegenerative diseases, Zanatta’s research represents pioneering such as Huntington’s, approaches to working with endangered Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. organisms in North America and has offered “I’m just thrilled that great contributions in the understanding I was selected,” says of freshwater mollusk conservation. Dunbar. “This award is a nice acknowledgement of not only me, but of my students and those people who have supported me in the past.” Horoi, a leading international researcher in various areas of nuclear physics, joined CMU as a programmer analyst in 1995 after serving as a research associate at institutions such

6 centralight summer ’11 Kevin Love and President George E. Ross

Teaching and service awards CMU also honored faculty members who Five faculty members also were recognized have exemplified the university’s proud with CMU Excellence in Teaching Awards: tradition of service and quality education. • Jeffrey Bean, an assistant professor of Kevin Love, a management professor in English language and literature since 2008; the College of Business Administration, was honored with the Faculty • Robert Fanning, an assistant professor of Distinguished Service Award. English language and literature since 2008; Since joining CMU in 1979, Love has • Lorrie Murray, an instructor in foreign actively promoted student leadership languages, literatures and cultures since 2007; opportunities, participating with • Kayla Slezak, an assistant professor CMU’s Honors Program, the Leadership of management since 2008; and Institute, the leadership minor and the management consulting concentration. • Cristen Vernon, an instructor in foreign languages, literatures alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more and cultures since 2008.

Jeffrey Bean Robert Fanning Lorrie Murray Kayla Slezak Cristen Vernon

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8 centralight summer ’11 Up close with… FreemanRon The world was watching when In your campus presentation you Y ou grew up in New Jersey and now live in Ron Freeman courageously impressed the crowd with the video of Guinea. One of the ways you continue to spoke out for civil rights without your relay team winning the 4x400. How make a difference is through your so much as saying a word at the does watching it impact you today? humanitarian work and your International 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. I think I get something different from what Medalist Association. What does this the average person gets out of it. A person organization do? Positioned on the victory stand who looks at it sees a sporting event or The International Medalist Association is my to receive gold medals for their sees America winning an event. My nonprofit organization, and we serve youth all record-breaking finish in the purpose for that was being able to reach a over the world in a small way. We try to grow 4x400-meter relay, Freeman goal. But at that time period our goal was youngsters through sports and education by and teammates proudly wore to get on the winning stand in the utilizing an Olympian and to tell them our black berets to symbolize winning position so that we could send a story. If we can put a smile on a youngster’s “Black Power.” It’s exactly what message. face for a day or a week, if we can give the the foursome had planned to Y ou said America has slipped from being youngster some positive things to think help change their world. No. 1 in the world in education to No. 34. about to help him or her grow a bit. We’ve What is the importance for everyone to connected in countries throughout the world, Now more than 40 years later, reach out to help their fellow American and we are trying to do that in New Jersey Freeman – a humanitarian succeed, regardless of their race? and Maryland right now. involved with diplomatic We’re all in that mix. We have to reach out Y ou said that education goes beyond work for the United Nations and do things – just like folks of all races on-campus classrooms and that people and various U.S. Department reached out in the 1950s and ’60s to help need to branch out beyond their country. of State programs – still is Americans of African descent through the Why is this important? striving to make a difference. whole civil rights movement, through the People from other countries are coming to In a conversation following two slavery movement. Americans of African America and getting involved in educational descent did not do it alone, and you can systems, businesses and jobs in America. One presentations at CMU, he shared take that up to today. When President question I did not ask students last night was, his insights on the importance Obama was elected, that was a “How many people in the room have of activism, education and multicultural combination. It was a holistic passports?” To not have a passport in today’s connecting with the world. mission to see young folks step up, just like society is really not having the right to leave young folks were doing in Egypt, like the country. You’re locked in. We have to go young folks are doing in Libya and making to our youngsters so they see that there are things happen. many opportunities to grow, to learn, or just to help others who are our brothers and sisters from around the world. •

centralight summer ’11 9 Move. Shoot. A photojournalism student’s journey to Haiti Photographs by Libby March 10 centralight summer ’11 Care. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, Iron Mountain senior Libby March felt the impact and knew she had to do something. “I became obsessed with the whole situation, feeling this nagging tug toward Haiti,” says March. Seven months later, the photojournalism student was documenting her 10-day mission trip with Heart Cry International to My Heart’s Home orphanage in Port- au-Prince, just 15 miles from where the earthquake’s epicenter had hit. The resulting photo story, “Orphaned in Haiti,” composed much of the portfolio that earned March College Photographer of the Year honors from the Michigan Press Photographers Association. While March says she’s “epically jazzed” about the award, the honor paled in comparison to the life-changing nature of the trip and the photos themselves. “These images are imperative – to show what’s being done, to inspire compassion and to remind us of what really matters,” March says. “Photographs don’t impact everyone, but if, as a photojournalist, I can stir empathy in just a few people, I’ve done what I went to do.” And the impact of March’s photos reaches beyond March herself. After her story ran in CM Life, CMU’s student newspaper, director and co-founder of HCI Carla Ives told March about a donor in Florida who was giving personalized backpacks to every child at the orphanage. “For a kid who only owns the clothes on Move. his or her back and the food they eat, ownership of something so individual is pretty fantastic,” March says. “I can’t tell you what it brought me to hear about the backpack angel. It’s little things like that that make me love the work.” After her experiences in Haiti, March encourages other photographers and students to follow their hearts like she did. “All I can say is if there’s the vaguest pull Shoot. in you to start a project about issues you’re passionate about, do it. Do it now and do it with everything you’ve got,” says March. “The bottom line is that the pictures you put yourself into are the pictures that matter. Move. Shoot. Care.”

Care. centralight summer ’11 11 “There’s only so much you can do to prepare for something like visiting a Third World country, especially one with Haiti’s history. I got great advice, but the sensory overload when we got off the plane in Port-Au-Prince hit me like a brick. It’s such a beautiful, complex country and so ravished by politics and poverty, not to mention the earthquake. I couldn’t take enough pictures or see enough of it. I wore myself to the bone with absorbing it.”

“The everyday human experience is the greatest story ever told. I strongly believe God wants me out there making pictures because every person has a story, and these stories will resonate with other people. Just to bring out smiles in strangers, spur little concessions of compassion or even big humanitarian acts – that’s why I shoot. The smallest act of kindness is worth all the frustration and sweat it can take to make a picture.”

12 centralight summer ’11 CMU photojournalism students stand out For the second year in a row CMU’s photojournalism program swept the competition at the Michigan Press Photographers Association Awards. The most coveted award – College Photographer of the Year – went to senior Libby March, who says, “The best thing about College Photographer of the Year is what it meant for my friends and me. Sweeping CPOY as a group was something we always hoped for.” Junior Jake May placed as runner-up, while junior Ashley Miller took third place and senior Sean Proctor received honorable mention. May and March placed second and third, respectively, in last year’s competition. Photojournalism faculty member Kent Miller, who has taught and worked with all the student winners, expects the program’s “Trying to introduce winning ways to continue. the lens (to the children) was “I am extremely proud of the interesting, since winners. The students that swept this category for the past the kids spoke two years are hard-working, Creole and French, dedicated and very passionate and my linguistic about photojournalism,” he says. skill includes “The tradition will continue. rudimentary Spanish Each award-winning student and a couple French mentors less experienced phrases. After a students in classes and while day or so the kids working at CM Life and got used to it. They Grand Central Magazine.” • look comfortable because they were and because I was. It was like shooting pictures of family.”

centralight summer ’11 13 Chinese 102 Instructor Lily Kalantar, answers questions that students Andrew Hoofman, left, and Ande Hubbard, right, have about the language. Starting in the fall, Hoofman will study Chinese for a second year.

Translating Grant leads to second-year Chinese language course b y sarah chuby, ’03 M.A. ’11 With an English-to-Chinese dictionarysuccess CMU previously offered only “We are in a global economy – in hand, CMU senior Andrew two semester courses in Chinese one where China is in a powerful Hoofman flipped through the (Mandarin), which Hoofman – position,” Miller says. In 2010, pages while working with a client who is earning a double major China took the world’s lead in on an overseas business deal. in international business and manufacturing output. Previously, entrepreneurship – has already the U.S. had the No. 1 spot. His six-week International Business taken. Hoofman will take the next internship was in Shanghai, International Business Professor level class beginning in the fall. China – where some residents Michael J. Pisani, who teaches are bilingual. But in the smaller Included in the Integrating international business courses, outlying areas, Hoofman had to rely International Business and says this course gives students on a translator or his dictionary. Sustainable Development Grant, the opportunity to open more written by International Business doors for themselves. “I knew basic words and phrases, but Professor Van Miller, is seed money I couldn’t communicate as effectively “To be successful with business for the 200-level foreign language as I would have liked,” says Hoofman, clients – or in any relationship course. After one year, Miller says he who went to China as an automotive – you need to navigate culture. hopes the university will continue parts business representative. “I want Competency in the language is to fund the class because of its to focus less on trying to find the a step in the navigation process. prospective benefit to CMU students. right words and more on the client. I am glad that CMU students To do that, I need to know Chinese.” Miller, who teaches international have that opportunity.” • business courses, says that China Because of a State of Michigan grant is on track to economically CMU received, Hoofman will get dominate the world. an opportunity at CMU to improve his competency in the language.

1414 centralight summer ’11 N reactionuclear b y dan digmann C MU faculty assess future of energy sources following Japan’s recent crisis

centralight summer ’11 15 But for this study the historic 1986 meltdown The facts about at Chernobyl – which resulted in nearly 30 deaths within two nuclear fuel weeks of the incident – was not included don’t lie. because the Ukraine was not considered a One uranium fuel pellet that barely measures developed country. In 2 cm in length releases approximately as addition, Rohrer says much energy as three barrels of oil, one ton there is epidemiological of coal or 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas. evidence of morbidity Nuclear power accounts for nearly 14 percent of and mortality due electricity used worldwide, including 20 percent to increased thyroid of electricity in the United States and 34 percent cancers, especially in in the European Union. The International Energy children. Ecosystem Agency’s “World Energy Outlook 2010” highlights the impacts from the overall increasing importance of nuclear power in meeting release of radiation still world energy needs while achieving security of are being studied. supply and minimizing carbon dioxide emission. While overall numbers in this study still reflect But as many people favorably on hydro and nuclear energies, in throughout the world predicting possible deaths from a catastrophic anxiously tracked accident at an average site, Paul Sherrer Institute data developments at Japan’s projected that oil, coal and natural gas would account Fukushima Daiichi nuclear for a combined total of 633 possible deaths. Using power plant in the wake the same criteria, nuclear energy has the potential of the earthquake and to cause more than 10,200 deaths and hydro energy tsunami that caused potentially could cause more than 11,000 deaths. damage and threatened Even in light of potential catastrophic events a meltdown, are the occurring, energy conservation and developing benefits of nuclear energy alternative and sustainable energy resources – worth the potential health including wind and solar – were common themes risks to humans, wildlife repeated by the CMU faculty members in separate and the environment? conversations about whether the benefits of nuclear “Every form of energy has energy were worth the potential risks involved. its risks,” says Tom Rohrer, “We have to invest money into all aspects of energy director of the Great research,” says CMU Geology Professor Sven Morgan. Lakes Institute for Sustainable Systems at Central Michigan University. “Nuclear energy may be very safe, but you have to recognize the risks involved Coal causes more immediate threat should a highly unlikely catastrophic event occur.” Risks surrounding worst-case scenarios involving nuclear power plants aren’t deterring people Swiss-based Paul Sherrer Institute tracked total from living near such facilities. 2010 U.S. Census fatalities from severe energy accidents in developed information shows that the number of people living countries between 1970 and 2008. Based on its within the 10-mile emergency planning zones findings, oil industry-related accidents accounted for around nuclear power plants rose by 17 percent in more than 3,400 deaths, while the coal industry was the past decade, compared with an overall increase responsible for nearly 2,300 fatalities and natural gas of less than 10 percent in the U.S. population. accounted for more than 1,200 deaths. During this 38-year period, hydro energy accidents resulted in 14 deaths and nuclear energy accidents caused zero deaths in developed countries.

16 centralight summer ’11 When asked if he’d be fearful if he materials for nuclear energy produces Even when a nuclear power plant learned that there were plans to build a harmful CO2 emissions that contribute functions as it should, there always is nuclear power plant within 10 miles of to global warming and ozone smog. the concern of where to effectively his home, Morgan says there’s something store the nuclear waste of spent “We need a solution for taking care of the that would concern him more. control rods, Rohrer says. environment from the cradle to the grave, “I’d rather have it be a nuclear power but we don’t have that,” Rohrer says. Rohrer questioned the sustainability of plant than a coal-burning power nuclear power in that it is dependent on Van Miller, a faculty member in the CMU plant,” he says. “Coal is such a dirty uranium, which may be limited in supply. management program, has written research fuel, and it causes so much pollution. But Morgan says while high-grade and papers related to uranium waste disposal. There’s no such thing as clean coal.” easily minable uranium may not be “What you want to do with sustainability is readily available in the long term, there you don’t want to rob future generations still will be plenty of uranium available. of the resources we have now,” says Miller, “There is a lot of lower-grade uranium who is involved in the newly developed out there,” Morgan says. “And just like international business and sustainable gold, people will find it whenever development academic program at CMU. there’s an economic benefit.” “The problem I see with nuclear energy is what are we going to do with the waste.” Despite the risks involved with nuclear power, Rohrer says this energy Science at the core source isn’t going anywhere. To simulate a turbine that generates “It accounts for more than 30 electricity, CMU Physics Professor Joe percent of all energy, and we Finck held a pinwheel in his left hand and don’t really have anything readily spun the end with his right finger. Heat, available to replace that,” he says. he says, is what produces the pressure and The Clean Air Task Force commissioned steam to make in 2000 and 2004 comprehensive studies the turbine spin. of health impacts caused by fine particle “It doesn’t take air pollution from the approximately 500 much to power coal-fired power plants in the nation. Both a nuclear power studies found that emissions from the U.S. plant,” Finck says. power sector cause tens of thousands In a nuclear reactor, of premature deaths each year and such heat is hundreds of thousands of heart attacks, produced through asthma attacks, emergency room visits, a controlled hospital admissions and lost workdays. fission reaction School of Health Sciences faculty member of a radioactive Salma Haidar, who has an extensive element like background in epidemiology, agrees uranium. This with Morgan in that she says coal-fired is done by plants have a major impact on the bombarding environment and people’s health. the uranium “The waste produced by coal is more with neutrons to radioactive than that generated by initiate nuclear nuclear power plants,” Haidar says. “In fission reactions. fact, the fly ash emitted by burning A byproduct of coal for electricity carries 100 times these reactions Along with continued sustainable more radiation into the surrounding is more neutrons, which can trigger resource discussions, energy-related environment than a nuclear power plant more fission reactions and more conversations will indirectly focus on producing the same amount of energy.” neutrons – a chain reaction. nuclear reactions for years to come. But just because a nuclear plant Control rods are used in nuclear power “Nuclear power provides all of our produces energy in a cleaner manner plants to absorb the neutrons available energy,” says Finck, crediting the than that of a carbon dioxide-emitting so that the fission process does not run nuclear reactions taking place on the coal-burning power plant doesn’t away. Water also is needed to remove sun that provides Earth with light mean it isn’t harming the environment the useful heat from the core and to cool and heat and causes wind and makes throughout the energy production the core and prevent a meltdown. This waves. The sunshine also is essential for process. Rohrer points out that mining explains why most nuclear power plants photosynthesis in plants that eventually and processing uranium and transporting are built near oceans, lakes and rivers. decay and become fossil fuels. •

centralight summer ’11 17 Harold Franks reaches into the air lead on a $390,000 grant supported by the U.S. Department of Defense to design virtual reality with his left hand. On the television, gaming therapy that will help soldiers and other there is an interactive video game individuals rehabilitate from traumatic brain injuries. that he is playing. Franks, who has The CMU team uses equipment such as an a traumatic brain injury, pops the 82-inch 3-D television, a laptop computer and a motion capture system to create a virtual virtual bubble – the game’s target – environment for research subject participants. that’s in the upper left-hand corner. The virtual reality world they created allows In the game, popping the bubbles is representative people with TBI to perform tasks they of reaching for an item – like grabbing something otherwise would not be able to accomplish. from the kitchen cupboard. “The virtual world is “Virtual reality is a relatively new form of both motivating and safe,” says Ksenia Ustinova, a rehabilitation, and we are designing a series of physical therapy assistant professor. “Missing a bubble immersive 3-D games to help soldiers work on is not a big problem, but trying to grab something both motor and cognitive abilities,” says Ustinova. from the shelf and knocking it over could be.” “We are very pleased to be working with the Ustinova, along with her CMU team – which consists Department of Defense on this important initiative.” of faculty, staff and students from CMU’s physical By doing this activity repetitively in a virtual therapy, computer science, information technology sense, Ustinova says people with TBI naturally and psychology departments – is taking the retrain and recondition muscles to coordinate similarly to how they did before their injuries. A National Service CMU team develops federally funded virtual reality therapy

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1818 centralight summer ’11 When Franks’ 45-minute virtual therapy session “The problem facing most people with traumatic ended, he talked about the improvement brain injuries that we are seeing is that they live in made since his last session. During the virtual remote areas, and they depend on transportation therapy, Franks gets affirmation on the screen, to bring them to CMU and back,” Ustinova says. and the game tracks his success rate. “They show and retain improvement, but they would benefit from more frequent sessions.” “I have seen improvement in my reach and in my neck movement,” says Franks, whose TBI Using technology similar to the Xbox Kinect sensor, was caused by a 2007 car accident. “This game which allows for advanced gesture recognition, is really cool. It’s not boring. I am not asked the team is in the process of creating an at-home repeatedly, ‘Can you reach this or that?’ I play a option. Along with the game, the kit will include game and, at the end, I see how well I’ve done.” a movement sensor and a laptop (for those people without a high-definition television).

Ustinova says that data collected has shown that With two percent of the U.S. population on the game has been helpful in triggering patients disability due to TBI, Ustinova says it is important to remember forgotten movements. Out of to provide a successful, inexpensive in-home the dozen people who have used the gaming option. The goal is to have the tele-rehabilitation equipment, all have shown improvement – and, gaming equipment kits available by 2011’s end. most importantly, have retained the increased Currently, Ustinova and her team also are developing mobility. As the patient improves, the game’s a virtual game that addresses leg movement, parameters and speed can be adjusted. balance and response time. They expect to have She says the game format is successful because it the new virtual reality game – which has a street/ urges the brain to find the best strategy; patients sidewalk setting – ready for testing in August. are not just following a doctor’s instruction. “This one will have movements to avoid “I worked as a physical therapist (at a private obstacles on the sidewalk. Those movements practice) for 16 years, and clinical rehabilitation will include stepping right, left, jumping has reached a plateau,” she says. “We needed over and ducking under.” Ustinova says. to come up with something else, like an Franks is glad to hear of the upcoming advanced rehabilitation that could challenge the virtual therapy goals of Ustinova’s team. central nervous system to make the decision. I believe virtual rehabilitation is the answer.” “I need to keep working hard, and this will help me to do that, and it will show me how far I’ve What’s next? come,” says Franks, who recently signed up to Now that Ustinova and the CMU team have participate on a slow-pitch softball league. “It is designed a viable virtual gaming option, they important for people with traumatic brain injuries are working on making the virtual therapy to keep working and not to give up. I tell myself – more accessible to those who need it. and so far it’s worked – if you work hard enough to accomplish something, you probably can.” •

alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more centralight summer ’11 19 2020 centralight summer ’11 At the 2011 Threads Fashion Show, students Ben Touchette, far left, and Lindsay Robinson, far right, make last An minute adjustments backstage before the models work the catwalk. international Many people travel to Paris in hopes that they will find true love. For CMU students Ben Touchette and Lindsay Robinson, affair they found love of a different kind. While studying abroad in Paris, these apparel merchandising and design students discovered inspiration, gained confidence, and had opportunities to attend and assist at various fashion shows. “Just being able to see the caliber of the shows that are happening internationally really opened our eyes to what is possible to accomplish as students in apparel design,” says Robinson. “It really gave us the confidence to gather our inspiration and execute our ideas.” After their summer in Paris, Touchette and Robinson worked together to create their collection for the 2011 Threads Fashion Show in April. Winners of the awards for “Best Duo,” “Best Construction” and “Future Fashion Entrepreneur,” Touchette and Robinson focused their collection on translucent fabrics, their knowledge of haute couture techniques and a new-age “femme fatale” style. •

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For most people in the United States, Plumstead, first vice president for Honor Bank in Traverse City, was one of 16 runners who logged 253 miles in 12 days across running across Ethiopia to raise funds southern Ethiopia. The group raised more than $208,000 to and awareness for the educational build three new schools within some of the most impoverished needs of families living there would areas of the African country’s coffee-growing regions. This ambitious effort – Run Across Ethiopia – was a project of On qualify as an international mission trip. the Ground Global, a nonprofit agency established through the Traverse City-based fair trade coffee roaster Higher Grounds Coffee. But for northern Michigan resident Norm On the Ground boasts a track record of building wells, medical Plumstead, ’95, making such a journey clinics and schools in fair trade communities throughout the world. this past January felt more like he was “I think it’s a matter of how you define your community,” Plumstead says. “It can be your neighbor, and if you define it helping members of his own community. as people you interact with every day, then that also includes the farmer who grows the beans for the coffee you drink.” When Plumstead first was presented the idea to participate in Run Across Ethiopia, the thought of running an average of more than 20 miles a day for 12 days didn’t intimidate him. After all, he’s run a dozen marathons and in recent years has elevated to ultra-marathons and has completed a 50K, three 50-mile races and a 100-mile race. His personal best marathon time of three hours and seven minutes, which he ran in the annual Charlevoix Marathon, demonstrated measured improvement from when he ran his first race in 1998.

Norm Plumstead, second row left, keeps pace with an Ethiopian youth who is guiding Plumstead’s running team though the African countryside.

24 centralight summer ’11 “Most of the clothes they get are from charities, and it likely was one of only a few outfits he had to wear,” Plumstead says. “There’s no question there is poverty in the United States, but in Ethiopia it’s on a totally different scale.Y ou hear things about poverty, but you don’t really know it until you’ve seen it with your own eyes.”

“After I graduated from CMU I moved to Now several months after returning Chicago, and my roommate and I got into from his trip, Plumstead says he still running to help break some bad habits and is viewing his world differently each stay healthy,” Plumstead says. “We entered day. He explains that after seeing so the Chicago marathon, and our only goal many hard-working people moving was to finish it. Near the end we were so far forward with comparatively so E thiopia, in back that we actually got passed by two little, he has a greater appreciation people who were wearing M & M costumes. for what he has in his life. his own words “After that, the running bug bit me, and “Many of the people I met there would Following his experiences in Ethiopia, I’ve been running ever since. And as be lucky to complain about their Norm Plumstead shared some of his insights much as the running in Ethiopia didn’t computers being slow,” he says. “We’re on his blog. Here are excerpts from his writings. concern me, I know I couldn’t have made extremely lucky to live where we live.” it without the members of my team.” In recognizing this, Plumstead says I’d like to offer one runner’s memories of Run Across Ethiopia. Because they are my While the running aspect didn’t keep he is continuing to use what he has to connect with others and improve impressions, they are clouded by my own Plumstead from readily registering for fallible memory and biases. Having said Run Across Ethiopia, the reality that he their lives, and at the same time they are helping to improve his. He that, I maintained a journal during the run needed to raise $15,000 to participate so that I could reflect back on events with raised some concerns. That is, until he fully says it is rewarding that he learned such a lesson through redefining his as much accuracy as possible. Enjoy ... understood the goals and mission of the trip and he received some much-needed sense of community and connecting encouragement from his wife, Cile, ’97. with others in his local, national and My first run in Ethiopia global communities. He passionately On our first morning in Addis Ababa, “She was the one who actually said, encourages other people to consider Matt, Chris G and I went for a short ‘Norm, you need to do this,’ because she making similar connections. run. We had landed late the previous knew I forever would regret it if I didn’t,” “I think there is plenty of room to help night so we hadn’t really seen anything says Plumstead, who has been married of the city. We didn’t know what we’d to Cile for 10 years and together they people right in your own backyard,” Plumstead says. “People shouldn’t be see and couldn’t wait to explore. have two sons, Henry and Brody. “Now Because of how the Ethiopian calendar I can’t imagine not having done it.” overwhelmed by the vastness of the need that’s out there, they just need to is laid out, it was Christmas Day and In Ethiopia, the 253-mile run started in the identify with a group that shares their therefore the streets weren’t as busy as capital city of Addis Ababa and ventured interests and start getting involved.” usual. We stepped out the door of our through the ancient Rift Valley and finished hotel, turned right and started running. Plumstead says On the Ground Global in Yirgacheffe, one of the premier coffee- Although we got lots of curious glances, growing regions. As the group ran through is pursuing similar running events in the near future in counties such as everyone was friendly. Surprisingly, the countryside, Plumstead says residents some people even clapped for us. At came to the road to cheer and greet them. Palestine and Uruguay. And he says that after experiencing Run Across one point, a guy joined with us and But in many of the regions outside Ethiopia, he won’t need his wife to push ran a half-mile. I’ve logged many miles the capital city, Plumstead saw how him to consider getting involved. • in towns and cities across our country, underserved many and this has never happened. families in the region This experience confirmed for us that are. One image that Ethiopians not only love running but are forever will stand out in also extremely warm and welcoming. It was Plumstead’s mind is of a 30 minutes of running that I’ll never forget. young boy who greeted … Let me restate that (Run Across Ethiopia) the group near his was so much more than just simply a run. In home. On a day where the end, it was a vehicle to build bridges, temperatures were create bonds and effect positive change.• in the upper 70s, the youngster stood outside wearing a snowsuit.

centralight summer ’11 25 travelis a metaphor for life

column By Associate Professor Brian Elder Ascea is not a town crowded with Travel changes tourists; it’s more for those who are you on the inside. interested in getting off the well- worn paths and visiting the site of When we travel, we are particularly Elea, an ancient Greek settlement aware of sights, sounds and that was the home of the Eleatic other experiences as we Philosophers Parmenides and Zeno. move from place to place. I lived and worked in a place steeped During my sabbatical leave this past in natural beauty and a long history fall, I had the opportunity to take of human habitation. My goal was part in an Artist Residency program to develop artwork that expresses at Wassard Elea in Ascea, a small our contemporary experience of town high on a hill overlooking the moving from one place to another Tyrrhenian Sea in southern Italy. and how we come to know that In this place, I was able to location we are residing in. experience the sweet smoky smell This is important because our of olive branches burning and thoughts and our knowledge of the ever-changing appearance a place allow us to connect our of the Mediterranean Sea. present experience with the past, and this can be synonymous with our personal journeys through life.

Jessi Fowler, a student on the faculty-led summer abroad program, draws above Florence with the hilltop town of Fiesole in the background.

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Brian Elder layers paintings, photographs and satellite images while working on an area of his large-scale work “From Elea to Ascea.”

While in Ascea, I developed hear from many of them how this In trying to incorporate a wide my ideas by speaking with study abroad program to Florence range of media, each with their people, taking photos and video, has changed their lives because own strength, I am in a better gathering and recording research they have not only grown in position to help students recognize via my laptop, and painting the cultural and visual awareness but elegant strategies of expression. landscape. I also reflected on the also awareness of themselves. In seeing my work as a constantly opportunity for growth that CMU When my sabbatical project “From changing and shifting process, I has given me – and my students. Elea to Ascea” is complete, I envision hope to help them follow a path In another global learning it as a type of collage made up that is not fixed; a path that involves experience – CMU’s annual faculty- of ways of knowing a place that I the excitement of responding to led summer study abroad program experienced during my research. various challenges along the way. – I take my students to Florence, It will be a large-scale work with And that is the importance Italy, to draw in and around the photographs, paintings, satellite of experience. city known as the “Birthplace of images, an imagined dialogue the Renaissance.” We personally Just as travel leaves its mark, art also between myself and Parmenides, witness the artwork in churches, changes a person on the inside. weather data, and recordings street corners and museums. Travel and art are both avenues of colors seen at particular toward seeing, experiencing Near the end of that program, I ask moments on the sea, on the and living deliberately. • the students to work on a drawing olive trees, in the clouds riding that expresses their experience of over the hill behind the town. Associate Professor Brian Elder living and moving through and received a CMU Creative and Scholarly All of these pieces will be arranged becoming familiar with Florence. Support grant that will allow him to moving across a 20-foot wall that continue his research – he will travel The results are always as varied as charts a movement through the land to Paris and Florence this summer the students taking part. Some from Elea – now a ruin – to Ascea, and Istanbul in summer 2012. “From recorded their reactions about the thriving town where I lived. Elea to Ascea” will be on display in historical landscape, others reflected And this current work will make the West Gallery of the University Art on the people and a few responded an impact in my classroom Gallery on the campus of CMU in to the graffiti that appeared and on my students. January 2012 and exhibited at Janus on the ancient stone walls. Bygningen Contemporary Arts Center In my efforts to think through all the The experience of living in another in Denmark in April and May 2012. possibilities of expressing an idea, culture leaves an indelible mark I am able to help open that world on these students. I still regularly of critical thinking to my students.

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28 centralight summer ’11 A Day ofgratitude Many CMU students have the opportunity to attend college due to the generosity of others, donors known to them only as names on the scholarships they received. In April, CMU hosted its annual Scholarship and Endowment Luncheon which brought together nearly 300 donors, scholarship recipients and their families. Above, right, CMU Development Board member Mike O’Donnell, ’70, recognizes the contributions of donors and the academic excellence of the students attending the luncheon. O’Donnell established the Michael F. and Mary F. O’Donnell Endowed Scholarship in Accounting. •

Enberg immortalized inside Events Center atrium Hall of fame sportscaster Dick Enberg, ’57, is immortalized inside the “We are truly thankful to Todd and Terri for making this special CMU Events Center atrium with a bust that stands next to the ticket recognition of Dick Enberg a reality and for their generous office. support of the CMU Events Center Campaign,” says Heeke. “It is Todd Anson, ’77, a CMU Development Board member, took action only fitting that we recognize one of our most celebrated alums to recognize Enberg in the new facility. The Mount Pleasant native, in one of our most widely used buildings that is a gathering along with his wife, Teresa, funded the sculpture, donated to the place for the university community and its many visitors.” Events Center and has an endowed scholarship. The bust captures the thumbs-up pose Enberg gave to Anson says he remembers listening to Enberg, graduates at his commencement speech in 1980. currently the San Diego Padres’ television play-by- play announcer, who quickly became his hero. “This is just one more reflection of the overall excellence that CMU stands for as we continue to push this “I’ve been fortunate enough to watch him behind the scenes,” university to even greater heights,” says Heeke. says Anson, now a close friend of Enberg. “The guy never stops “It’s an extraordinary honor to be remembered impressing me. He’s the hardest in classic sculpture, a long way from my working guy in broadcasting.” youth picking apples on our farm in Armada, Mich.,” says Enberg. “I hope it will serve as a Anson called on sculptor John visual reminder that through education we Thomas before getting the all have the opportunity to enjoy success. I idea cleared with CMU Director humbly thank my alma mater, CMU, for taking of Athletics Dave Heeke. a total ‘nobody’ in 1952 and providing the “I was delighted when Dave said full opportunity to become ‘somebody’. I’m the sculpture would be put in certain I speak for tens of thousands.” • the entrance,” Anson says.

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Field hockey earns academic honors The CMU field hockey program recently was recognized at the national level for its excellence in the classroom, receiving the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division I Academic Team Award. The Chippewas posted the highest grade point average (3.48) among the nation’s public universities and ranked higher than all but three NCAA Division I teams, placing slightly behind private institutions American (3.49), Drexel (3.51) and Northwestern (3.54). The 2010 season marked the second time in three years that CMU has ranked in the top five nationally in team GPA. The NFHCA also named 14 Chippewas to its Division I National Academic Squad. CMU’s 14 honorees were the most of any Mid-American Conference program. •

Making history From the first women’s basketball game in the new McGuirk Arena to CMU’s first appearance in the WNIT, the 2010-11 season will be remembered as one of the program’s most successful campaigns. The year began with dominating victories against North Carolina A&T and Belmont in the Winthrop Tournament (119-71 and 102-71, respectively) and it closed with the Chippewas posting 20 victories for just the fourth time in program history and making their third postseason appearance, a date with Illinois State in the first round of the WNIT. In between, Kaihla Szunko punctuated one of the most successful careers in Mid-American Conference history, and fourth-year head coach Sue Guevara established her program as a force to be reckoned with in the MAC. The Chippewas rode the nation’s third-highest- scoring offense (80.5 points per game) to their first appearance in the MAC Tournament semifinals since 1992. CMU’s 20 wins overall were the most since the 1990-91 team posted 21 wins. Szunko closed out her career as the only player in MAC history with 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 200 steals. Her 1,009 career rebounds are the sixth most in school history. In CMU’s record books, Szunko ranks ninth in points (1,292), third in rebounds (1,009), third in steals (233) and sixth in blocked shots (80). Szunko also is a standout in the classroom, capping her senior season with Academic All-America second-team accolades. •

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Gymnasts leap to third straight regional bid CMU’s gymnastics program capped another championship season with its third consecutive appearance at the NCAA Regionals. No. 25-ranked CMU traveled to the University of Alabama to face the No. 2 Crimson Tide, No. 11 Penn State, No. 14 Illinois, No. 22 Auburn and Kentucky in the regional meet. The meet marked CMU’s eighth appearance at regionals, but it was the first time in program history that the Chippewas qualified in three consecutive seasons. The Chippewas earned their regional bid in large part by sweeping their way through the Mid-American Conference. CMU was 6-0 against MAC opponents during the regular season, then clinched its second straight title by winning the conference championship meet at McGuirk Arena on March 19. The Chippewas scored a season-high 195.900 in claiming their record 12th MAC title. Junior Kristin Teubner was named the MAC Co-Gymnast of the Year after winning three individual titles at the MAC Championships. She won the beam (9.900, career high) and the all-around (39.325) outright while sharing the title on floor (9.875). Senior Cheryl Conlin was part of a three-way tie with Teubner and Ball State’s Nicole Allen on floor, while true freshman Brittany Petzold won the MAC title on bars with a 9.850. •

Borrelli leads young team to national prominence Tom Borrelli’s 20th season as CMU’s head wrestling coach may have been his finest. Forced to rebuild a lineup that lost six starters to graduation, Borrelli led a young and inexperienced group of Chippewas to a share of the Mid-American Conference regular-season title, a 10th consecutive conference tournament championship and the program’s fifth straight top-15 finish at the NCAA Championships. Junior 133-pounder Scotti Sentes, sophomore 174-pounder Ben Bennett and junior heavyweight Jarod Trice each earned All-America honors at the national tournament to lead CMU to a tie for 13th place in the team standings. The 2011 NCAA Championships marked the eighth straight year that CMU produced multiple All-Americans, and for the second straight year CMU boasted the most All-Americans of any Division I program in Michigan. Sentes, Bennett and Trice each earned their second career All-America honors, making them the 14th, 15th and 16th Jarod Trice Chippewas to be All-Americans more than once. Borrelli’s 35 career All- Americans are tied for eighth most among active Division I head coaches. •

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Join us for summer fun Calendar By Marcie Otteman, ’87 Executive director of alumni relations June Summertime and the living is 3 easy! Or at least a little more laid CMU Night at Great Lakes Loons Game, Midland back than the usual rush around 9 campus that goes on here during Meet the President Reception, Atlanta, Ga. the school year. But summer with 10 Alumni Relations is hopping with CMU Night at Comerica Park activity, not only here in Mount Pleasant but also around the state 10 of Michigan and the country. Tour de Mont Pleasant bike race time trials, Mount Pleasant campus June holds many events, including 16 two “meet the President and First Lady” receptions in Atlanta and Meet the President Reception, Detroit Detroit. Join the Alumni Relations staff at a variety of baseball games in June and July in Michigan and Chicago to see the “boys 16 of summer” play. Also in June, we are excited to be a co-sponsor CMU Night at the Lansing Lugnuts baseball game for the time trials for the Tour de Mont Pleasant bike race on 22 through 24 campus. It will be exciting to watch the racers fly by at 40 mph. Grandparents U, Mount Pleasant campus Of course summer also brings us back to the golf course for 27 the Great Lakes Bay Region and Traverse City Alumni outings, Great Lakes Bay Region Golf Outing and Dinner, whose proceeds help fund scholarships for deserving future Apple Mountain Golf Club, Freeland CMU students. We’ve got artistic and educational events, too, including July Grandparents U, a three-day camp for Alumni and Friends of CMU 18 and their 8- to 12-year-old grandchildren. This year we have quite The CMU Thomas “Bud” Moore Scholarship Open, a few new sessions added to the roster to give our attendees Traverse City Golf & Country Club, Traverse City a wide variety of enjoyable experiences while on campus. We 22 are going to see Jeff Daniels in concert both in Mount Pleasant CMU Chicago and Goose Island Alumni Outing, and Grand Rapids in August, and several clubs and chapters Goose Island and Wrigley Field, Chicago have outings planned over the summer around the country. We are still working on the details of our “Greatest Generation” reunion Sept. 16-18 on campus. Details will be available soon, August 20 and we are looking forward to hosting those alums back on Jeff Daniels at Max and Emily’s Summer Concert Series, campus for a weekend of reminiscing and reacquainting! downtown Mount Pleasant We’ll be traveling this fall for CMU football to Kentucky, 21 North Carolina and East Lansing. And be sure to mark An afternoon with Jeff Daniels, your calendars for Homecoming on Oct. 15! The weekend Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids will be filled with exciting and memorable events. You can sign up for any of these events and many more on the website, cmualum.com, or call the Alumni Relations office S eptember 1 to register. Be sure to friend us on Facebook and follow us CMU Football home opener, Mount Pleasant campus on Twitter as we will be “tweeting” live from all our events and posting pictures to both Facebook and Twitter. 17 Fall into Jazz, Powers Ballroom, Mount Pleasant campus 16-18 60- to 65-year Reunion, Mount Pleasant campus 27 Meet the President Event in the Great Lakes Bay Region

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Chapter news C leveland Contact: Call the alumni and events office at 800-358-6903. A frican-American Constituent Chapter C ollege of Business Contact: Lynn Garrett Administration [email protected] Constituent Chapter Contact: Mark Baczewski, ’97 Ann Arbor [email protected] Contacts: Bob Balicki, ’79, and Gail Elliott, ’94 C olumbus, Ohio Bob: 313-608-7922 Contact: Jeremy Rycus, ’95 Gail: 313-608-7923 614-933-0436 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] D allas F ootball Constituent L as Vegas Atlanta Contact: Chris Dittman ’88 Contact: Contacts: Mark Guy, ’00 [email protected] Chapter Contact: Dustin Preston, ’94 Ann Marie Fredrickson, ’94 770-475-3447 Denver [email protected] 702- 655-2118 Jared Lombard, ’03 Contacts: Mary Van Meter, ’80 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Grand Rapids 404-918-5342 Contact: L eader Advancement Terry Beatty, ’70 Stephanie Oczepek, ’99 Scholars Constituent Candice Zmijewski, ’03 [email protected] 616-813-7086 Chapter [email protected] D etroit [email protected] Contact: Dan Gaken, ’04 B and Constituent Chapter More than 2,100 Chippewa H onors Constituent [email protected] Contact: Tom Broka, ’72 fans enjoyed CMU baseball Chapter L os Angeles [email protected] versus MSU in the first-ever Contacts: Bryan Wieferich Contact: Jeff Devers, ’03 Clash at Comerica. Although B attle Creek [email protected] 586-260-1572 it was a little chilly, the fans [email protected] Contact: T.R. Shaw, ’82 came out to support the Chips Honors Program 269-965-2979 in a 3-1 loss against MSU in 989-774-3902 Milwaukee [email protected] the first college baseball game Contact: Mark Bender, ’95 Houston played at Comerica Park. [email protected] B oston Contact: Bill Cox, ’83 Contact: Call the alumni Contact: 713-722-0911 Mount Pleasant office at 800-358-6903. Christopher Jablonski, ’83 [email protected] Contact: Dan Gaken, ’04 [email protected] [email protected] B roadcast and Cinematic I ndianapolis Arts Constituent Chapter E nglish Constituent Contact: Grace Ketchum, ’69 N ew England Contact: Chapter 317-223-7982 Contact: Kevin Richards, ’89 Kevin Campbell, ’74 Contact: Monica Brady, ’03 [email protected] 203-840-6221 [email protected] [email protected] I ntegrative Public [email protected] C entral Texas Flint Relations Constituent N ew York City Contacts: Jerry Juhnke, ’86 Contact: Ted Bunker, ’69 Chapter Contact: Adam Ebnit, ’03 [email protected] 810-694-7359 Contact: Abigail Dean, ’01 [email protected] [email protected] Angie Farmilo Coats [email protected] N orthern Michigan 210-455-9968 F lorida Kansas City Contact: Kristen Beach, ’90 ’98 [email protected] Orlando contact: Jim Phillips, ’99 Contact: Frank Moussa, ’85 231-675-2136 C harlotte, N.C. [email protected] 913-962-9620 [email protected] Contact: Tampa Bay contact: [email protected] Phoenix Michele Caldwell Kelly, ’01 Jason Frank, ’04 Knoxville, Tenn. Contact: Dale Wernette, ’67 [email protected] [email protected] Contact: Lisa Fall, ’86 480-515-5132 C hicago West Palm Beach contact: 865-216-2507 [email protected] Contact: Ira Kreft, ’77 Paul Gaba, ’88 [email protected] P hysician Assistant [email protected] 561-352-0635 L ansing Constituent Chapter [email protected] C incinnati Contact: Call the alumni Contact: Andrew Booth Contact: Kevin Shea Naples contact: Jeff Stomber, ’92 office at 800-358-6903. [email protected] 513-321-1695 [email protected] L atino Constituent R aleigh, N.C. [email protected] The Villages contact: Chapter Contact: Call the alumni Dick Cassle Contact: office at 800-358-6903. [email protected] Laura Gonzales, ’79 M.A. ’89 [email protected] 34 centralight summer ’11 Connections

Reno T raverse City Y oung Alumni board Alumni board Contact: Carol Perrigo, ’72 Contact: 775-747-5066 Judith Danford Tank, ’68 President President [email protected] 231-267-5081 Nathan Tallman ’07 M.A. ’09 Thomas Lapka, ’78 Midland, MI East Lansing Recreation, Parks Great Lakes Bay Region 517-482-0222 Vice President [email protected] and Leisure Services Prior to attending a Saginaw John Kaczynski ’03 M.P.A. ’06 Administration Spirit Game in February, East Lansing, MI First vice president Constituent Chapter alumni, friends, and family met Jan (Keegan) Hagland, ’77 Directors Contacts: Chris Bundy, ’88 at the Saginaw Club, where Berkley they had a special visit from Amanda Aude ’09 [email protected] Washington, MI [email protected] the Saginaw Spirit mascot! Susan Wells, ’77 Rochelle Burns ’03 Second vice president [email protected] In March more than 30 alumni Flushing, MI Darlene Nowak-Baker, ’87 from the area gathered Milford ROTC Constituent at Oscar’s in Midland for Ryan Cremeans ’05 248-358-6403 Chicago, IL Chapter a fun social outing [email protected] Contact: John Fisher, ’70 Richard Funke ’07 Contact: Ricardo Resio, ’95 Directors [email protected] Rio Rico, AZ [email protected] Jeffrey Benjamin, ’86 Saginaw Kendra Huckins ’03 M.B.A. ’09 S an Diego Mount Pleasant, MI Contact: Greg Cox, ’00 T win Cities, Minn. Jean (Bennett) Brown, ’88 Contact: 858-534-0437 Spencer Long ’08 M.A. ’10 Novi Sherry Magnusson La Crosse, WI [email protected] 952-544-0030 Janet Burns, M.A. ’83 Ed.S. ’89 [email protected] Gregory Marx ’08 Mount Pleasant S an Francisco Midland, MI Contact: Call the alumni Volunteer Center Paul DeRoche, ’91 office at 800-358-6903. Anthony Mikulec ’07 M.B.A. ’09 Commerce Township Constituent Chapter Highland, MI S outh Bend, Ind. Contact: Ryan Fewins-Bliss, ’02 Kevin Campbell, ’74 M.A. ’76 M.A. ’04 Brian Peters M.S.A. ’08 Midland Contact: Kimber Abair, ’01 Watertown, WI [email protected] [email protected] Ryan A. Fewins-Bliss, ’02 M.A. ’04 Ashley Price ’09 Lansing S t. Clair County Western Pennsylvania Traverse City, MI Contact: Jeff Rivard, ’66 Lynn Garrett, ’97 Contact: Dennis White, ’70 Anand Singh M.S.A ’09 Detroit [email protected] 412-826-2180 Brooklyn, NY [email protected] Laura Gonzales, ’79 M.A. ’89 S tudent Alumni Michael Zeig ’08 Mount Pleasant Washington, D.C. Lansing, MI Association Constituent Daniel Herzog, ’91 Chapter Contact: Tony Brown, ’02 Auburn Hills Contact: Emily Hall 202-882-2993 [email protected] Timothy Hicks, ’74 M.A. ’77 [email protected] Muskegon Christopher Jablonski, ’83 Bloomfield Hills In the first college Adrian LaMar, ’89 baseball game in the Wyoming history of Comerica Park, CMU baseball Darcy Orlik, ’92 M.S.A. ’95 coach Steve Jaksa, Mount Pleasant ’79, gets his team Karen L. Phillips, ’99 ready for its April Lansing 20 game against Kevin Richman, ’93 Michigan State Milford University. The Charles Selinger, ’94 M.S. ’98 game, which CMU Ceresco lost 3-1. took just 1:53 and was the Rebecca Torres, ’00 M.B.A. ’02 shortest game of Canton the season for CMU. Robert VanDeventer, ’74 Saginaw Jeffery Vredevoogd, ’82 Grandville Thomas L. Worobec, ’93 Dearborn Heights

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1960s 1980s 1990s Tim Whiten, ’64, professor emeritus Maria Falca-Dodson, M.A. ’83, of Rose M. Handon, M.S.A. ’90, was selected at York University and internationally Ewing, N.J., Air National Guard, was for a poster presentation titled “Dangers renowned artist, has been featured honored by the YWCA for her significant in the field: An ethnographic study on in “Who’s Who in Black Canada 2.” He contributions in her profession and client-initiated violence affecting child received the Dean’s Teaching Award and community. Falca-Dodson is a two-star welfare workers” at the “Work, Stress, and the Distinguished Leadership Award for general in the New Jersey Air National Health 2011: Work and Well-Being in an Extraordinary Service to the Arts from Guard and is its first female commander. Economic Context” conference in Orlando, the American Biographical Institute. Fla. The conference was sponsored by Caryn Manning, ’83 M.S. ’93, was the American Psychological Association, James Hodges, ’65 M.A. ’69, retired after named Grand Rapids local sales the National Institute for Occupational teaching math, physics and robotics at manager of Comcast Spotlight. Safety and Health, and the Society for Vestaburg High School for 47 years. Scott Bernard, M.A. ’84, was named Occupational Health Psychology. Col. Stuart Bradley, ’66, was U.S. Federal Chief Architect in the Rick Krosnick, ’91, was named the Jewish appointed to the Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Executive Office of the President, National Fund Chief Development Officer. Authority by Governor Rick Snyder. serving with the Office of Management Krosnick also is a U.S. Navy veteran. Budget’s E-Government and Chick Powers, ’67 M.A. ’75, was awarded Information Technology group. Brian Patrick Abbott, ’92, is general an upcoming one-man show at Art Reach manager and advisor at the Western of Mid-Michigan’s Art Reach Gallery, 111 Deb VanKuiken, ’84 M.A. ’94, Herald and provides hands-on professional E. Broadway, Mount Pleasant, Mich. The Holly athletic director, received the journalism and business experience to exhibit of his sculpture runs July 8-30, Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Western Michigan University students. with an artist’s reception from 5-7 p.m. Administrators Association George on Thursday, July 14. He currently lives in Lovich State Award of Merit. Todd Gregory, ’92, was named Saginaw Interlochen, Mich., with his wife, Nancy community president and commercial Ed Wright, ’84, has been named sports (Johnson) Powers, ’68 M.A. ’69. banking manager for Citizens Bank, editor of the Redford Observer. Ed is headquartered in Flint, Mich. an award-winning sports journalist. He 1970s and his wife just celebrated their 25th Andrew Rowles, ’92, and his wife, Nicole, John C. Sprague, ’70, has been named wedding anniversary. They have three adopted their second child from China, a the NFL High School Coach of the Year. children and reside in Canton, Mich. 2-year-old daughter named Jane Wei, on Sprague lives in Sarasota, Fla., and has March 9. She is the little sister of Miriam Janet Baker, ’85, joined the coached for more than 25 years as head Sheng, who was adopted in May 2008. coach and athletic director at Sarasota MidMichigan Gladwin Pines team as Riverview, where he also has been honored administrator. Janet and her husband, John I. Blohm, ’94, was appointed as vice twice as the Florida Coach of the Year. Jim, have one child, Jameson. president for development and alumni relations at Virginia Commonwealth Raeann Vonette Jones-McCants, ’85, Morrie Scherrens, ’70 M.B.A. ’71, University. Blohm, who was previously directed the Saginaw Area Youth Jazz officiated his 200th Division I football vice chancellor for development and Ensemble. Raeann played the trumpet game and his 10th bowl game when he alumni affairs at the University of in the Marching Chippewas at CMU. worked the 2011 Cotton Bowl won by Arkansas for Medical Sciences, also LSU over Texas A&M in Dallas, Texas. Colleen Robar, ’85, was appointed as held positions at Emory University, the Evelyn (Schmuhl) Ferchau, ’73, was president of The Women’s Caring Program. University of Alabama at Birmingham, promoted to manager of the Independent She was previously president of Robar the University of Florida, Virginia Study Department at Oklahoma State PR and is currently director of corporate Wesleyan College and Suomi College. communications at Crain Communications. University. She also is the administrator of Colleen (Trevillian) Driscoll, ’94 M.A. the Ben Ferchau Memorial Fund, which Blaine Pardoe, ’85 M.A. ’94, published his ’01, teacher and district librarian for had a part in the 2005 passage of a book, “Lost Eagles,” from the University of Breitung Township Schools in Kingsford, graduated driver’s license bill in Oklahoma. Michigan Press. The book tells the story of Mich., wrote a chapter for the book, Jeff Bohm, ’77, has been selected Frederick Zinn, a man who pioneered the “The Frugal Librarian,” on small school as chairman of the board of St. concept of “I will leave no airman behind.” libraries. The book is being published by the American Library Association. Clair County. He has been a county Sheryl Williams-Thompson, ’85 M.S.A. commissioner for six years. ’00, is the director of the Department of Kimberly DeClercq, M.A. ’96, is “Chemical Dan Eversole, M.S. ’78, vice president of Human Services in Genesee County, where Kim,” a resident scientist at ABC affiliate human resources for Isabella Bank, was she works to meet the needs of low- WZZM 13 Take Five & Co. in Grand Rapids, appointed to the Mount Pleasant Area income vulnerable adults and children in Mich. She also is a chemistry instructor at Community Foundation Board of Trustees. order to help them become self-sufficient. Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Rene Johnson, ’78, joined Kellogg Robert Scott Stuck, ’88, opened his Community College in Battle Creek as the own Old Chicago restaurant franchise, grant development specialist. She resides in specializing in Chicago-style deep-dish Kalamazoo, Mich., with her husband, Steve. pizzas and beer from around the world. The restaurant is located in Portage, Mich.

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Jane Talcott, M.S.A. ’97, is providing Brad Duling, ’03, joined Sym Financial John H. Larrison, ’09, Coast Guard professional fundraising services to Advisors as a financial paraplanner. fireman, recently graduated from the Washtenaw Camp Placement Association U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center Daryl Richardson, ’04, was named of Ann Arbor, Mich. The organization has in Cape May, N.J. Larrison will join Network Engineer for Terrapin Networks. given more than 9,000 “camperships” to 36, 000 other men and women who Richardson will head up the Ready Desk children who would otherwise not have an comprise the Coast Guard’s workforce. rapid response group for Terrapin’s opportunity to experience summer camp. Network Administration Team. Erin Sweeney, M.A. ’09, event manager Lemont Dobson, ’98 M.A. ’01, at Global Spectrum, played a large role in Jill Catterfeld, ’05, was promoted received a $10,000 grant from the Kirby setting up the Cirque du Soleil show at to manager of Andrews Hooper Foundation for the production of a the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Pavlik PLC in Saginaw, Mich. documentary film about the Native Kara Yadach, ’10, was hired as American culture near St. Louis. Dobson Greg Soule, ’06, was promoted account coordinator for Royal Oak- is an archaeologist, visiting assistant to manager of Andrews Hooper based Eisbrenner Public Relations. professor of history at Drury University Pavlik PLC in Auburn Hills, Mich. and founder of ShovelReady Productions. Greg resides in Lake Orion, Mich. Amanda Ault, ’99, was named the Karen Haskin, M.S.A. ’08, accepted S end us head coach at George Washington the position as Central Michigan your news University after spending the last three Home Care Director at Central years as assistant volleyball coach Michigan Community Hospital. We want to include your news in at the University of Michigan. Centralight. Write to us about recent job Dr. Mohammad Alqudah, M.S.A. ’08 promotions, awards, marriages, births, Ph.D. ’10, was hired by the mathematics and other noteworthy accomplishments 2000s department at Northwood University or changes. Be sure to include your Joshua Kirkbride, ’02, was promoted in Midland, Mich. He has been teaching graduation year and contact information. to principal at UHY Advisors Inc., a full- mathematics for the past six years, Send your information: service national professional financial, most recently as an assistant professor Email: [email protected] tax and business-consulting firm. at Virginia Union University. His other Fax: 989-774-1098 Kirkbride is active in the Central Michigan previous experiences include teaching Mail: Centralight, University University Alumni Association and the as a full-time instructor at Yarmouk Communications, West Hall, Student Accounting Society at CMU. University in Jordan and teaching assistant Central Michigan University, at CMU. Alqudah also worked on his Joseph A. Wortman, ’02, president of Mount Pleasant MI 48859. Warren-based Detroit Radiant Products doctoral research fellowship at CMU. Co., has become a member of Vistage Michigan, a chapter of the world’s leading chief executive organization.

Alum climbs high During the mid-1990s, after four years serving his country as an Air Force missile launch officer, David A Lien, M.S.A. ’94, rediscovered the joy of the outdoors. The hunting, hiking, camping and canoeing in the wilderness of northern Minnesota of his youth transitioned into mountain climbing. “On May 22, 1996, I hiked to the top of Eagle Mountain in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Eagle Mountain (at 2,301 ft.) is the highest point in Minnesota, and although it’s not a long or overly difficult hike, it was a stepping stone,” wrote Lien. That stepping stone, Lien says, led him to “some of the highest, wildest mountains in the U.S. and the world.” Since then, his climbs and travels have taken him to 28 countries, onto the highest points in all 50 states, all 54 of Colorado’s “14ers” – 14,000-foot peaks – and six of the “Seven Summits.” “Over the years I’ve found that it’s often the journey with an unknown destination or outcome that leads to such ‘freedom,’ to some of life’s richest, most fulfilling rewards,” wrote Lien. “And experiences like climbing mountains are often catalysts for the related rewards of expanded horizons (literally and figuratively) and internal growth.” Lien documented his climbing experiences in his recently published book, “4/44/14 I (Four Years and Forty-Four Fourteeners): First Fourteeners.” •

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Alumna becomes top female baseball general manager Marla Terranova Vickers, ’08, wasn’t planning to go into sports management, but a single class assignment at CMU changed her life. Vickers is now the general manager of the Montgomery (Ala.) Biscuits baseball team, the Class AA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, making her the fourth female general manager in minor league baseball and the only woman at the AA level or higher. “I’m not a baseball fan, so working in baseball wasn’t something I’ve dreamed about,” Vickers says. As an assignment in her Introduction to Recreation class, Vickers needed to interview someone working in a recreation field. A Lansing, Mich., native, she chose to speak with the general manager of minor league baseball’s Lansing Lugnuts. After the interview, she was offered a summer internship in the team’s box office and never left. “Once I started, I fell in love with the atmosphere that sports created – the fans, the facilities and the way they have an impact on a community.” “My older brother Tony (’01 M.A. ’05) and cousin Christopher (’02) both went to Central, and when I visited them I really liked the From the Lugnuts, Vickers put her degree on hold for a few years campus – everyone was so friendly,” Vickers says. “Central has really and moved to Montgomery in 2003, preparing the stadium for turned into a family tradition!” the Biscuits’ inaugural season in 2004 and serving in a variety of roles before her most recent promotion in January. In addition to Tony, Vickers’ two other brothers also are CMU alumni – Andrew, ’05, and Alexander, ’09. Her sister, Mallory Kunkel, While baseball may not have been in her original plans, CMU will enter CMU in the fall. • certainly was.

Support your Chippewas The CMU Alumni Association brings the tailgate party to three away games this season: September 10 CMU vs. Kentucky Lexington, Ken. September 24 CMU vs. MSU East Lansing, Mich. October 8 CMU vs. NC State Raleigh, N.C. Get more information on the tailgate parties: cmualum.com 800-358-6903 For game tickets: Get Fired Up 1-888-FIREUP-2 Join us before each home game at the CMU alumni tent on the Island north of Kelly Shorts Stadium for complementary tailgate food. At Homecoming, stop by on theroad! and visit the Alumni Village. CMU is an AA/EO institution (see cmich.edu/aaeo). For accommodations, call 989-774-2842 at least one week before the event. • UComm 8513

38 centralight summer ’11 In Memory

Geraldine Webster, ’40, Owosso, Vance G. Anderson, ’66 M.B.A. ’68, Bonnie L. Opper, ’84, Lansing, Mich., died Jan. 5, 2011, age 90. Gladwin, Mich., died Feb. 17, 2011, age 66. Mich., died Dec. 11, 2010, age 48. Ella A. Wilberding, ’41, Shepherd, William L. Parkinson, ’66 M.A. ’70, Donovan P. Riley, M.A. ’85, Mason, Mich., died Dec. 23, 2010, age 91. Cadillac, Mich., died Dec. 18, 2010, age 71. Mich., died Jan. 17, 2011, age 70. Mildred E. Radunzel (Gaedcke), ’42, Shirley J. Jones, ’67 M.A. ’70, Farmington Lavonne McIntyre, M.A. ’86, Saginaw, Reed City, Mich., died Dec. 1, 2010, age 90. Hills, Mich., died Jan. 2, 2011, age 83. Mich., Feb. 17, 2011, age 83. Geraldine F. Hoenicke, ’43, Portland, Quincy C. Leslie, ’67 M.A. ’72, Cheboygan, Elizabeth G. Means, ’86, Jacksonville, Mich., died Dec. 2, 2010, age 90. Mich., died Feb. 9, 2011, age 93. Fla., died Jan. 27, 2011, age 74. Helen C. Kehoe, ’45, Punta Gorda, Thomas A. Rasmovich, ’68, Atlanta, Thomas R. Atkinson, M.S.A. ’90, Fla., died Aug. 14, 2010, age 96. Ga., Died, Dec. 19, 2010, age 64. Columbus, Ohio, died Jan. 5, 2011, age 64. Patricia J. Anson, ’47, Mount Pleasant, Lois A. Sisco, ’68, Gladwin, Mich., William R. Jacob, M.A.T. ’90, Traverse Mich., died March 15,2011, age 85. died Jan. 11, 2011, age 93. City, Mich., died Feb. 23, 2011, age 69. Joseph A. Leadem, ’47, Santa Rosa, Dennis J. Ochiva, M.B.A. ’69, Aliquippa, Anne-Marie Durber, ’91, Commerce Calif., died Dec. 18, 2010, age 84. Pa., died Aug. 15, 2010, age 69. Township, Mich., died Jan. 7, 2011, age 42. Betty L. Rathburn, ’48, Grand Blanc, William R. Peterson, ’69, Phoenix, Lynne A. Hurkley, M.A. ’92, Florence, Mich., died Jan. 9, 2011, age 82. Ariz., died Jan. 15, 2011, age 63. Ariz., died Feb. 9, 2011, age 57. Mary J. Kramer, ’49, Leesburg, Thomas Eugene Gilstad, ’70, Midland, Wynn P. McDonald, M.A. ’94, Saginaw, Fla., died Aug. 5, 2010, age 82. Mich., died April 24, 2010, age 63. Mich., died March 1, 2011, age 49. Mary J. Weibel, ’49, Flushing, Mich., Glenn W. Rick, M.A. ’70, Hemlock, Kelly L. Neubecker, ’94, Royal Oak, died Dec. 29, 2010, age 85. Mich., died Dec. 27, 2010, age 78. Mich., died Dec. 6, 2010, age 40. Frank J. Irgang, ’50, San Diego, Gerald D. Freeland, M.A. ’71, Midland, Laura L. Lesarger-Oliver, M.A. ’95, Calif., died Feb. 1, 2011, age 88. Mich., died Jan. 25, 2011, age 66. Raleigh, N.C., died March 13, 2011, age 44. Joanna L. Scharke, ’50, Traverse City, Thomas H. Birch, ’72, Freeland, James F. Harris, M.S.A. ’96, Lansing, Mich., died March 6, 2011, age 82. Mich., died Feb. 20, 2011, age 67. Mich., died Jan. 4, 2011, age 65. Grace Huffman, ’51, St. Johns, Glenn E. Schicker, ’72, Roscommon, Fred Gerhauser Jr., ’97, Clarkston, Mich., died Jan. 22, 2011, age 98. Mich., died Dec. 6, 2010, age 60. Mich., died Jan. 19, 2011, age 39. Donna M. Baukus, ’53, Saginaw, Helen L. Hoerger, M.A. ’73, Midland, Heather J. Hackett, ’99, Big Rapids, Mich., died Feb. 5, 2011, age 81. Mich., died Feb. 7, 2011, age 81. Mich., died Jan. 5, 2011, age 35. Irvin L. Hayward, ’53, Port Huron, James P. McCormick, ’73, Traverse Andrea L. Kerszykowski, ’01, Waterford, Mich., died Feb. 15, 2011, age 86. City, Mich., died Jan. 17, 2011, age 61. Mich., died December 2010, age 32. Donald L. Koleber, ’53 M.A. ’74, Shelby Andrew B. Eubank, M.A. ’74, Amarillo, Landis L. Downing, M.S.A. ’03, King Township, Mich., died Nov. 17, 2010, age 79. Mich., died Feb. 22, 2011, age 78. City, Mo., died Dec. 25, 2010, age 59. William S. Beach, ’55, Gaylord, Phyllis M. Lyons (Rademacher), Katie M. Collins, ’09, Alma, Mich., Mich., died Jan. 10, 2011, age 78. ’75, Walnut Creek, Calif., died died Feb. 19, 2011, age 25. William A. Franch, ’55, Ionia, Mich., Dec. 9, 2010, age 89. Benjamin Nelson Jr., M.S.A. died Dec. 11, 2010, age 77. Marian J. Sterner, ’75, Bellaire, ’09, Chattanooga, Tenn., died Robert D. Parson, ’55, Cross Village, Md., died Dec. 24, 2010, age 57. Feb. 10, 2011, age 51. Mich., died Feb. 10, 2011, age 82. Dorothy A. Giel, M.A. ’76 M.A. ’87, Joyce E. Petty, ’55, Harrisburg, Phoenix, Ariz., died Jan. 26, 2011, age 75. Faculty and staff: Mich., died Feb. 6, 2011, age 77. Rowena I. Bull (Cerre), M.A. ’78, Ellis R. Brockman of Mount Pleasant, Shirley Larzelere Viele, ’55, Martinsville, Joliet, Ill., died Dec. 9, 2010, age 83. Mich., biology professor from 1969- Va., died Aug. 25, 2010, age 81. Deborah J. Cindric, ’78, Grand Blanc, 94, died Feb. 28, 2011, at age 77. Barry W. Luck, ’57, Overland Park, Mich., died Feb. 26, 2011, age 55. Austin C. Knapp, ’41, of Davis, Calif., Kan., died Jan. 20, 2011, age 76. Michael F. Welty, M.A. ’78, Fairmont, professor of political science for 30 Ruth E. McGregor, ’62, Lansing, W.Va., died Feb. 11, 2011, age 75. years, died Aug. 7, 2010, at age 94. Mich., died Jan. 24, 2011, age 92. Bonnie J. Schultz, ’79, Appleton, Ida Meltzer, ’60 M.A. ’63, of Mount Wis., died Jan. 25, 2011, age 82. Pleasant, Mich., professor of political John G. English, M.A. ‘63, Muskegon, Mich., died March 9, 2011, age 77. Sue VanEss, ’79, Grand Rapids, science for more than 10 years, died in January 2011, at age 94. Suzanne J. Grant, ’64, Saginaw, Mich., died Feb. 8, 2011, age 53. Mich., died Feb. 1, 2011, age 70. Bobbie M. Baker, M.A. ’80, Oscoda, Sherry Pritt of Mount Pleasant, Mich., died Jan. 19, 2011, age 71. Mich., Park Library administrative Delbert W. Hahn, M.A. ’64, Alma, clerk, died Jan. 11, 2011, at age 56. Mich., died Feb. 13, 2011, age 78. Kathleen Spencer Campbell, ’80, Lansing, Mich., died Feb. 9, 2011, age 54 Sonya Sheffert of Mount Pleasant, Robert W. Nelson, M.A. ’64, Grand Mich., psychology professor, Rapids, Mich., died Dec. 8, 2010, age 81. John “Ted” Cerstvik, M.A. ’80, died Jan. 18, 2011, at age 43. Richard L. Westbrook, ’65, Glassboro, Woodstock, Ga., died Jan. 6, 2011, age 78. N.J., died Dec. 17, 2010, age 68. Archie R. Cox, M.A. ’80, Gatesville, Texas, died Jan. 9, 2011, age 69.

centralight summer ’11 39 I am Central: Lauren Presutti Freshman • Sociology Did you realize that this summer you will make CMU history as the first student with a physical disability – who uses a power wheelchair – to study abroad? I didn’t realize that when I began planning for this experience, but now I truly have an opportunity to prove to others that I don’t want to limit myself further, but instead, I want to continue to exceed all expectations people have of students with disabilities. How did you get interested? In early October my Honors Program director, Phame Camarena, devoted an entire two-hour class period to the importance of studying abroad. About a week after that, I was around the Honors office when I spoke with Phame, who supported and encouraged me to pursue this opportunity, regardless of the fact that I have a physical disability. What’s been your biggest challenge? While most students are concerned about the language, food and other cultural differences, those were the least of my worries. My main priority is to guarantee myself mobility around the area once I arrive and ensure that everything, including the flight, transportation, housing and program excursions, will all be planned carefully for me. Why Australia? I think Australia was always my first choice. The study abroad program that I have chosen has an accessible location for me and it does correspond with my major. Ironically, the coast of Western Australia is one of the furthest possible locations available to students. I literally could not travel any further away from home, but I know that it will be an adventure unlike anything else. Are you nervous? I understand that taking this on could potentially be a challenging experience for me because of all of the physically difficult things that I will inevitably encounter. But I also understand that this could be the most life-changing, rewarding experience that I will ever have the opportunity to experience. •

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Whether you’re near Mount Pleasant or far away, we all 2011 Schedule are Chippewas, and together, we are maroon. Home games are in bold. Sept. 1 South Carolina State Live the excitement of CMU football this season in Sept. 10 Kentucky Kelly/Shorts Stadium and on the road as the Chippewas fight to return to dominance. Sept. 17 Western Michigan Sept. 24 Michigan State cmuchippewas.com Oct. 1 Northern Illinois 1-888-fire-up2 Oct. 8 North Carolina State Oct. 15 Eastern Michigan (Homecoming) Can’t make it to the game? Oct. 22 Ball State Follow the Chippewas all season long at cmuchippewas.com – Oct. 29 Akron your complete source for stories, videos and photos, and easy Nov. 4 Kent State links to Facebook, Twitter and iTunes. Nov. 10 Ohio

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