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Contents Summer 2009 On campus today 2 New Directions 4 Changes and Achievements 6 Sports at NMU Cover Stories 9 Making Music. The cool tools and venues today’s studentshave access to and the great careers it all leads to. The NMU Marching Band, known as The Pride of the North, during a 15 Moonlighting Musicians. While their “Mini-Pride” visit to Kaye House. business cards may carry another title, these NMU professionals also pursue their passion for music. 16 Carrying a Tune. Elda Tate has been inspiring students in music classes for more than four decades, along with being known as a Native American flute virtuoso. 17 A Drum Lesson. A student recreates an ancient art. 18 The Psychology of Music. Professor Mark Shevy’s studies on the effects of music in film, and the communication influences of genre, style and instruments. 19 Understanding Autism through Sound and Vision. A creative class project combines composition and literature. 19 Arts Chorale Reunion. Remembering the great Finnish tours. 20 The Pride of the North. Northern’s marching band continues to stir up fans and friendships. The Fantastics Alumni in action 10 They’ve Got the Music in Them. Six professional musicians discuss what it’s like creating and working in the world of music. 21 Northern’s Musical Ambassadors. The Fantastics put NMU on the groove map. 24 The Excels and the Wayfarers. Two among many awesome bands of the past. 26 “The Music you Forgot to Remember.” A day in the life, in the old days, of a Radio X DJ. Foundation news 27 Creating legacies to support music and the arts, to honor relatives and aid in estate planning. Alumni in touch 30 Alumni Association news and events. 32 Keeping Track. Updates from fellow alumni. ON THE COVER: Bugs Beddow ‘75 BME and a living NMU Wildcat. On campus today NEW DIRECTIONS Three new members welcomed to NMU Board Alumni Larry Inman ’76 BS of Distinguished Alumni Award. This Wilkinson is a Williamsburg and Garnet Lewis ’86 marks his second appointment to the licensed psycholo- MAE of Freeland along with Sook NMU Board of Trustees. gist. She has a pri- Wilkinson of Bloomfield Hills are Lewis is the vate practice in new appointees to the Northern general manager Bloomfield Hills Michigan University Board of for Allicom and also works at Trustees. Investments, the Center for Inman is a LLC based in Human Development at Beaumont Grand Traverse Freeland, Mich. Hospital in Berkley. A native of County commis- She also brings Seoul, Korea, she is a leading expert sioner. He retired more than 20 in the field of international adoption. in 2007 as vice years of professional experience in She wrote Birth is More than Once: president of com- higher education. She is a former The Inner World of Adopted Korean mercial lending at member of the NMU Foundation Children and co-edited After the Huntington National Bank, ending a Board of Trustees and served as Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean banking career that spanned nearly president of the NMU Alumni Adoptees. Wilkinson chairs the three decades. Inman has served on Association Board of Directors. She Michigan Governor’s Council on the NMU Foundation Board and was also a residence hall director Asian Pacific American Affairs. was recently honored with the 2008 from 1984-87. New links for Northern Marquette area golfers are enjoying teeing off at the ASNMU student newly named NMU Golf Course. The former Chocolay government Golf Club was donated to the NMU Foundation by president owners Joe and Patsie Gibbs of Interlochen, Mich. Jason Morgan “We love Marquette and did very well up there. We drives on couldn’t have been happier about our time in the area, so opening day it makes us proud to be able to do something good in in May. return for the community,” said Joe Gibbs, whose daugh- ic programs. The course might also become a year-round ter graduated from NMU. The couple donated the 18- venue with winter activities such as cross-country skiing hole course, building and equipment, valued at $1.6 mil- and snowshoeing. lion. “Northern deeply appreciates Joe and Patsie’s gen- All net proceeds of the course operation are going to erosity,” says NMU President Les Wong. “They wanted student scholarships and academic programming. In addi- the course to continue to serve the area community, the tion, a number of academic, athletic, recreational and university and our students, and we will work hard to social program ideas, including internships, are being con- meet those expectations.” sidered for the 220-acre property. Possibilities include use This is the ninth golf course in Michigan to be owned by the Wildcat golf team and outdoor recreation academ- and operated by one of the state’s public universities. 2 HORIZONS Life in film Two video documentaries created domestic violence shared their experi- victims turn to alcohol as a coping by NMU professors, staff and stu- ences on camera in the hope that mechanism, despite the fact it makes dents have recently been released. other women will not accept alcohol them more prone to physical harm. “Ojibwe Birch Bark Wigwam” is as an excuse or be less likely to seek The DVD includes the 30- the latest film from NMU sociology help because of the dangerous illu- minute documentary and 30 minutes professor Michael Loukinen, with sion that, if the drinking stops, so of special features offering advice and editing by Grant Guston of NMU will the abuse. information on learned behavior, instructional media services. It fol- “Nothing like this has been done substance lows Nick Hockings, an acclaimed before that we can find,” said Ira abuse thera- Ojibwe cultural educator from Lac Hutchison, the head of NMU’s soci- py, success du Flambeau, Wis., as he joins a ology/social work department and stories and group of primarily elderly Euro- the project director. “Instead of responses Americans and shows them how to addressing the broader issues of alcohol from law build an authentic birch bark wig- use or domestic violence, this project enforcement wam using forest resources. Hands- has a very specific purpose. And we’re and ER nurs- on techniques learned over centuries making the point with women who’ve es. It can be are fused with Ojibwe cultural teach- been directly impacted because victims viewed in ings and woven in a practical yet spir- of abuse will relate best to those who’ve English or Spanish. Copies were sent itual ecology of the northern hard- had similar experiences.” to every residential or outpatient sub- wood forest. The survivors’ compelling stories stance abuse unit, women’s shelter are supplemented with comments and four-year nursing program from front-line professionals represent- throughout Michigan. ing law enforcement, a substance abuse The project co-director was unit and a domestic violence shelter. Kerri Schuiling, NMU professor and Two prevalent themes emerge associate dean of nursing. The from the video: men often blame documentary was also directed by their abusive behavior on alcohol to Loukinen, with videography and avoid accepting personal responsibili- editing by Guston. ty for their actions; and many female Viewers will see the making of Representatives from the an offering to the forest spirits before United States Olympic gathering its bounty, peeling birch Education Center met bark and puncturing holes with a with members of the U.S. Department of deer bone awl, separating the strands Management and of basswood inner bark for twine and Budget in Washington, making pine pitch roofing tar. A D.C., to discuss the B.J. Stupak Olympic major theme of the program is inter- Scholarship Program, cultural interaction and the apprecia- which provides academic tion white European-American vol- scholarships for Olympic- aspiring student athletes unteers have for traditional Ojibwe who live and train at survival knowledge. one of four Olympic Training Centers. Funds for the program are in the Federal Appropriations Bill. Shown, left to right, are: USOEC The documentary “Alcohol and Director Jeff Kleinschmidt ’83 BS, ’86 MA, USOEC Head Boxing Coach Al Mitchell, ten- Men’s Violence Against Women” time Olympic medalist Carl Lewis, Deputy Director Office of Management and Budget Rob Nabors, current NMU student and bronze medalist freestyle wrestler Randi Miller, shatters the myth that alcohol causes Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak and three-time Olympian and President of the U.S. men to be violent. Four survivors of Olympians Association Willie Banks. SUMMER 2009 3 On campus today CHANGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS Distinguished faculty Green before green was cool A current and former professor were honored for outstanding teaching by the Michigan Alliance Ferrarini, for Environmental and Outdoor Leonard and Singh Education. Jean Kinnear in the Health, Physical Education and Tawni Ferrarini from the Since arriving at NMU in 2000, Recreation Department received the Economics Department, Jill Leonard Leonard has done extensive research Julian Smith award for a lifetime of from Biology and Jaspal Singh from on the biology of migratory fish with achievement in the field of outdoor English are the 2009 Distinguished a recent focus on the restoration of education. Retired biology professor Faculty Award recipients. coaster brook trout to Lake Superior Don Snitgen was given the William Ferrarini was appointed the Sam tributaries. She consistently involves Stapp award for lifetime dedication M. Cohodas Professor at NMU in students in her projects and has to environmental education. January 2008. In that capacity, she obtained external grant funding. Snitgen was commended for estab- serves as a regional economist for the Singh's teaching specialties lishing the Regional Environmental Upper Peninsula, producing eco- include the literature of Africa, Education Center of the Upper nomic reports on the Upper Great South Asia and the Caribbean; Asian Peninsula and “ahead of their time Lakes economy, leading regional American, African American; and self-tutorial biology and environ- studies and serving as a liaison feminists.