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Family Weekend- formerly Parents Weekend- at Production coordi nator Lawrence University offers a wide variety of activities for Debbie Gibbons family members of all ages, including siblings. Class Not es Writ er Dan Freiburg, '00 The Friday schedule affords parents an opporttmity to attend classes with their sons or daughters and enjoy an Address correspondence to: Lawrence Today, Lawrence Unjversity evening concert by Chanticleer, a professional vocal P.O . Box 599, Appleton, WI ensemble. 54912-0599 920-832-6586 Saturday morning, President Richard Warch will update Fax: 920-832-6783 parents regarding activities and programs on campus. Office of Alumni Relations The president and his staff will be available to respond (address as above) to questions in Riverview Lounge, Memorial Union. 920-832-6549 Following the president's remarks, parents will have the Fax: 920-832-6784 [email protected] opportunity to attend informational programs featuring http:/jww \¥. lawrence.edu students, faculty, and staff- including a simulation of Special thanks to Image Studios for Freshman Studies. Younger siblings will be treated to a providing photography for this issue. cartoon breakfast followed by a host of "fun" activities. Lawrence Today (USPS 012-683) is pub­ Older siblings will have an informative agenda focused li shed quarterl y in March, June, on college life and choices. September, and December by Lawrence Uni ve rsity, Office of Publi c Affairs, The Lawrence Vikings will host the Monmouth College Appleton, Wisconsin 54911. Second­ Fighting Scots in football on Saturday afternoon. class postage paid at Appleton, Wisconsin 54911. POSTMASTER: Send The Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band will address changes to Lawrence Today, present a Saturday evening concert. Siblings will have Lawrence U ni ve rsity, 115 South Drew Street, Appleton, WI 54911-5798. the opportunity to Trick-or-Treat their way through the residence halls. Articles are expressly the opini ons of the authors and do not necessaril y represent Sunday will offer a parent/student brunch that has been official unive rsity poli cy . We reserve the a traditional Lawrence family favorite. right to edit correspondence for length and accuracy .

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FEATURES

Transformations 9 Two views of change in post-communist countries

Societal Transformation and Belarus Private Higher Education in Belarus 10 By David H. Swartz

The Czech Republic: Ascendant- or Stuck? 12 By Mojmir Povolny

Why We Are in Bosnia - And Should Have Been There Sooner 14 By Richard Holbrooke

Fixing D.C. 18 An alumna takes on the capital's toughest job By Stephen J. Siegel, '89

Sudden Sensations 20 Lawrence quartet finds fame in four-part harmony

Finding More Than a Tan on Spring Break 22 Students discover history in a Virginia park

A New Rite of Passage? 23 Celebrating Freshman Studies On the cover: David H. Swartz, Lawrence's 1997-98 Stephen Edward DEPARTMENTS Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor (and author of the Correspondence 2 article on page 8), is the cen­ Inside Lawrence 3 ter of a lively discussion with (from left): Boyan Dimitrov, Sports 24 '98, from Bulgaria; Susan K. Alumni Today 27 Raddant, '99, from Appleton; and Maxim Popov, '98, from La·wrence Yesterday 44 Minsk, Belarus. CORRESPONDENCE

Responses to President Richard Warch's essay, "Toughed-Minded or Thin-Skinned," which appeared in the Winter 1997 issue of Lawrence Today.

Dear President Warch: Retrospective consideration of my spiritual experiences available Congratulations for arguing that we life as a Lawrentian, in light of your through courses and the local reli ­ need to be more thick-skinned in essay, leads me to question whether gious community -just to touch our academic conversations and or not a true and meaningful liberal the surface. more willing to be critical of each education might not have room for Thank you for challenging me other's ideas. Although your mes­ a dialectical style of student-profes­ to think a bit about my experience sage is right on the money, I felt sor engagement in which both pro­ in and witl1 the liberating arts and obliged to honor the spirit and find fessor and student come away from how those four years have dictated something critical to say. Al as, I an interaction pondering, wonder­ in many respects the character of the failed. ing, feeling challenged, and seeking years of my life since then. John Strassburger truth and meaning. Would not that Hollace G. Roberts, '33 President interactive style be an appropriate Green Valley, Arizona Ursinus College aspect of the implicit "educational Collegeville, Pennsylvania compact"? The notion of civility when engaged You write: "Every faculty mem­ in constructive debate and disagree­ Professor Robert Waite would write ber shares an obligation to promote ment struck home based on a cur­ in red ink two inches high on your students' learning by posing tough rent discussion we are having witl1in essay in Lawrence Today: "Great." questions about important, sensi­ my company. We have a tendency in Walter B. Wriston tive, even controversial and con­ our culture not to want to offend or New York, New York tentious topics in the spirit of free challenge people, and this often inquiry and open exchange." I won­ means that it takes us forever to get Your central theme- being chal­ der if students might not be granted to the root causes of issues. Taking lenged to learn by some stress - the privilege (and accept the respon­ your advice, we, as a company, need needs to be said often. [The exam­ sibility) of doing the same thing for to get a little more tl1ick-skinned. ples you gave] are demonstrative of their professors, who presumably David C. Blowers, '82 a "please me" environment- one embrace the sagacious perspective of Lake Forest, Illinois that does not contain any challenge being "lifelong learners" (in stark to [a student's] current notions, no contrast to those whom Henry Your remark that "genuine learning matter how poorly held they are. It Seidel Canby described). is more likely to be a product of is an attitude of "I am happy with Julie Bergquist Cox, '87 criticism tlnn of praise" is one of my beliefs and what I know; I only South Hadley, Massachusetts the most poignant remarks one can want validation and comfort." make about education. It also Good work! With reference to your thesis, I hl

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to encourage women of talent to achieve their potential in the sciences. Leta Steffen, a junior from Des Moines, Iowa, was named as Lawrence's first Luce Scholar in 1997-98. According to a national study Cindy Regal, sophomore from conducted by Project Kaleidoscope, Duluth, Minnesota, has been named a Washington, D.C.-based higher Lawrence University's second Clare education alliance, Lawrence ranks Booth Luce Scholar. Among the in the top seven percent of all college's most prestigious honors, four-year institutions as a baccalau­ the merit-based award is given as reate source of natural science doc­ recognition of the top female science torates earned by women. The student in the sophomore class. study indicated that Lawrence's As a Luce Scholar, Regal, who is Regal productivity level of women who considering a major in either chem­ junior year and, upon continued aca­ pursued and earned doctorates in istry or physics, will receive full demic excellence, for her senior year the natural sciences ranked even tuition support and other educational as well. with those of the University of costs, including books, travel, and a The Clare Booth Luce program California-Berkeley and the stipend for summer research, for her was established at Lawrence in 1996 University of Pennsylvania.

Eric Hecox's exposure to the wonders of wildlife came early and up-close. Visiting African game parks and taking sightseeing safaris were frequent adventures for a Colorado Springs, conservation ( CBC) programs," Colorado, elementary-school stu­ says Hecox, a senior biology major dent living temporarily in who plans to pursue graduate work Nairobi, Kenya, while his father in environmental management. "It worked on a project for the will be an opportunity for me to World Bank. His two years there fulfill my dream of working direct­ laid the foundation for a lifelong ly with people involved with and love affair with nature. affected by wildlife-management Fourteen years later, Hecox's programs. It also will provide a interest in conservation issues has Hecox valuable perspective on the effec­ grown from fascination to voca­ tiveness of CBCs and their role tion. This year, under a grant of wildlife-management practices. in the global conservation from the Fulbright Program, he "By the end of the year, I will moven1ent." \vi ll fulfill his dream of returning have experienced several different to Africa to pursue further study approaches to community-based

three years of graduate research and education. Of the 4,851 applications the National Science Foundation received, Shaw was one of only 766 grantees, 16 percent of the total. Scott E. Shaw, '98, Springfield, The fellowship includes a cost­ Illinois, has been selected to receive of-education allowance plus a 12- the prestigious National Science month stipend. Shaw, a physics and Foundation Graduate Fellowship, mathematics major, has been accept­ part of a highly competitive national ed into a graduate program at program that makes awards to the Harvard University. most promising students in the nat­ ural and social sciences for up to Shaw

Lawrence Today 3 INSIDE LAWRENCE

Among the faculty

William W. Bremer, professor of history, and Dennis N. At the request of the Norwegian Polar Institute, Marcia Ribbens, professor and university librarian, are retiring at Bjornerud, associate professor of geology, and her the end of the 1997-98 academic year. research assistant, John Corkery, '98, are spending d1ree A member of the Lawrence faculty since 1969, weeks this summer on Svalbard, a Norwegian coastal Bremer is an American history specialist with interests in island where Bjornerud worked for three summers as part urban history and race relations. A graduate of Stanford of her Ph.D. research and later returned as a consulting University with honors in history, he received the M.A. in geologist for the Polar Institute. T his summer's research U.S. history from the University ofWisconsin-Madison involves applying structural geology in a study of tecton­ and returned to Stanford for the Ph.D. ics and rock deformation; its outcome may add informa­ Professor Bremer bas written several books, including tion in determining how the earth's plates move and also "A Little Ways Ahead": The Centennial History of Thilmany give scientists new insights into eard1quakes. Pulp and Paper Company, Kaukauna, Wisconsin, which won the Award of Merit from the State Historical Society of Dominique-Rene de Lerma, visiting professor of music, Wisconsin, and the Lillian Mackesy Award for History. has been appointed referee for Mrican-American music in Over the years he has been awarded research fellowships the journal Callaloo. He also served as jurist for the from the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Social Sphinx competition for young minority string players and Welfare History Archives, and his book Depression pianists at d1e University of Michigan. Winters: New York Social Workers and the New Deal won the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Lawrence Longley, professor of government, is editor of Award. The New Democratic Parliaments: The First Years, a collec­ At Lawrence he received the Mrs. H. K. Babcock tion of 25 studies on d1e topic, authored by scholars from Award for Outstanding Service to the Student in 1974 14 different countries. This is the third volume in the and the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994. Working Papers on Comparative Legislative Studies series Ribbens, who has been university edited by Longley and published by the research commit­ librarian since 1971, joined the tee of the International Political Science Association, Lawrence faculty '

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Lawrentian publishes weekly, offers mail subscriptions

The Lawrentian, Lawrence University's student newspaper, is now published weekly, seven issues in each of the three academic terms, for a total of 23 issues per year, including a New Student Week special edition and a satirical April l issue. Subscriptions for alunmi, par­ ents, and other friends of Lawrence are available at $20 per academic year. Please send a short note and your Heeding a call from Russian universities for English-language books, check, payable to The Lawrentian, to: Lawrence students, under the aegis of the Volunteer and The Lawrentian, Lawrence University, Community Service Center, collected used books from the campus 115 South Drew Street, Appleton, Wl5491l. community, eventually shipping 1,521 pounds of books to For more information, please call Birobidzhan and Kurgan (Appleton's sister city). Most of the 920-832-6768. $1,201.59 cost of shipping 33 mailbags of books came from dona­ tions and the proceeds of a raffle held by Lambda Sigma, the sopho­ more honor society. Shown here sorting and packing are (from left): Tom Shiffler, '00, Robyn E. Cutright, '00, Sunshine Snider, '98, and Rebecca Harris, '98.

Campus lawn care control, Sturm says. IPM uses scientificall y sound strate­ going 'green' gies such as economic tl1resholds, pest scouting, and environmental monitoring to determine proper timing A three-year experiment involving and the appropriate materials to apply. an organic weed-control product, "We don't indiscriminately put anything on tl1e cam­ corn gluten, as an alternative to pus green," Sturm says. "We always identify a problem chemical herbicides begins this before we apply anything." summer at Lawrence. The Main Use of organic weed-control alternatives was Hall Green will serve as test plot first advocated by members of Greenfire, a student during the trial period. If the organic alternative proves environmental organization, during April's Eartl1 Week effective, the program may be expanded to other areas of observance. The students conducted research on herbi­ the campus. cides, distributed information regarding possible long­ The use of corn gluten as a weed-control product term effects of tl1eir use, and forwarded alternative was discovered in 1988. A by-product of the manufac­ solutions to the Lawrence administration for ture of corn syrup, corn gluten acts as a pre-emergence consideration. agent, encapsulating weed seeds and stopping root devel­ Greenfire President Sara Juni, '98, says she is pleased opment of the germinating seeds. Bill Sturm, Lawrence's with tl1e decision to experiment with an organic alterna­ lead groundskeeper, says the organic product will be tive and tl1at students will be called upon to assist tl1e applied nvice a year, beginning in August with a second grounds crew witl1 the corn gluten application, to help application in March. defray the added cost of using an organic agent. Lawrence's broadleaf weed control currently is "As residents of the Lawrence community, we're maintained by an area lawn-care company that applies concerned about improving the environmental soundness Tripower, a widely used selective weed-control agent of the campus from a variety of perspectives, including with among tl1e lowest toxicity levels of any commercial paper, water, and electrical usage," Juni says. "This is one herbicide. Lawrence also practices integrated pest man­ more way for us to promote environmental responsibility." agement as an alternative to total reliance on chemical

Lawrence Today 5 INSIDE LAWRENCE

Founders Learn about Science at Lawrence, Present and Future

A record 177 guests gathered in Colman Hall on May 7 for the annual Founders Club dinner. Members of The Founders Club, Lawrence's premier annu­ al giving recognition society, 'vvere joined by trustees of the college and members of the sci­ ence faculty for the event, which focused on the teaching of sci­ ence at Lawrence as presently conducted and as planned for tl1e future. Jeffrey H. Colman, '76, president of The Founders Club and Lawrence's national chair for annual giving, commented after the dinner that the evening's tl1eme reflected the Lawrence is placing a heightened emphasis Lawrence heightened emphasis is placing on facilities for science on facilities for science education. education "Witl1 the sciences figuring so importantly on Lawrence's agenda for the next several years," Colman said, "we wanted to give Founders a better understanding of the caliber of Lawrence's science pro­ grams today and to explain how tl1ose programs will bene­ fit from the construction and renovation efforts the trustees have authorized. It's an exciting story, and I've heard many positive comments about the evening's presentations." President Richard Warch gave an overview of Lawrence's commitment to tl1e natural sciences, three members of the science faculty tl1en offered their perspec­ tives, and the audience concluded tl1e evening with ques­ tions for tl1e faculty panel. Panelists were David M. Cook, Professor Beth DeStasio, '83 (above, left), answers questions from Founders Philetus M. Sawye r Professor of Science and professor of Club members during a tour of biology laboratories in Youngchild Hall. physics; Mary Blackwell, associate professor of chemistry Below, Dorothy Martin Cole, '40, takes a closer look at the teaching of and chair of tl1e chemistry department; and Beth Dugan science at Lawrence. DeStasio, '83, assistant professor of biology. Though Professor DeStasio, whose promotion to associate profes­ A popular feature of the evening was the display of sor becomes effective in the 1998-99 academic year, ques­ floor plans and exterior sketches of a new 70,000-square­ tioned the wisdom of inviting a biologist as an after-dinner foot, $16-$17 million home for the natural sciences that will speaker, her description of student laboratory work with be built on the site presently occupied by Stephenson Hall. >­ flatworms and fruit flies and of her own participation in the Razing of Stephenson will occur this summer, clearing the ~ world-wide scholarly "Worm Community" drew apprecia­ way for construction of tl1e new science building to begin .8 0 tive laughter from the audience. in the early fall. -&.

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DOE, Cottrell Grants Enable Faculty, Student Plasma Research

Matthew Stoneking, assistant professor of physics, has received a three-year $225,000 research grant from the Department of Energy's Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Program and a $37,070 Cottrell College Science Award from Research Corporation ofTucson, Arizona. The grants will support Stoneking's research interests in plasma physics, the study of hot, ionized gases. He is investigating the equilibrium and stability properties of pure electron plasmas contained in a toroidal- dough­ nut-shaped - magnetic field. "Lawrence is one of only two or three liberal arts col­ leges in the country where undergraduate physics students can participate in experimental plasma-physics research," Stoneking says. "This is a great opportunity for our stu­ dents to apply and extend their understanding of physics acquired in the classroom to real cutting-edge research problems." Stoneking joined the Lawrence faculty in 1997 after a t\vo-year postdoctoral research associate appointment at the University ofWisconsin-Madison. He earned his Jerry Lokensgard, right, with Tom Bjorklund, '98 bachelor's degree in physics at Carleton College and his Ph.D. in physics at the UW-Madison. Hewlett Packard Makes Gift of Lab Equipment

Lawrence University has received an equipment grant valued at $76,000 from the Hewlett Packard University Equipment Grant program. Hewlett Packard will provide the college with a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GS/MSD) and NIST system, state-of-the art equipment that will support curriculum reforms in support of student laboratory projects that increasingly study natural prod­ ucts and environmental samples. Most science students do not have opportunities to use this kind of equipment until graduate school, but Lawrence undergraduates in Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis, and a new Environmental Chemistry course will benefit from its availability at Lawrence. This is the college's first grant from the Hewlett Packard University Grants program and one of very fnv awarded to liberal arts colleges. According to Lawrence's Hewlett Packard-employee sponsor, Susan Cook, '76, only 24 percent of the proposals submitted in this round were successful. Cook, director of corporate marketing for the Hewlett Packard Company, played an essential role in the college's success with this proposal. She met with the company's grants coordinator on Lawrence's behalf, offered guidance, read drafts of proposals, and endorsed the proposal. Professor Jerry Lokensgard and Assistant Professor Karen Harpp originated the proposal. The University Grants Program, the company says,

0\ exists to improve the quality of higher education by Matthew Stoneking with the toroidal vacuum chamber that will contain the c -"' providing Hewlett Packard products to four-year colleges pure electron plasma. The plasma laboratory is in the basement of ~ and universities in support of their instructional mission. Youngchild Hall. ~

Lawrence Today 7 Belarus

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8 Summer 1 9 9 8 Two experts look at change in post-communist countries

he word transformation has many synonyms: change, conversion, transmogrification, transmutation, metamorphosis, mutation, and so on. All signifY change; they differ pri­ marily in what they indicate about rate of change and degree of change. When we asked David H. Swartz, the Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor, and Mojmir Povolny, professor emeritus of government, to write on current matters in the new coun­ tries of the former Soviet Union and in the Czech Republic, respectively, the word transforma­ tion appeared frequently and independently in botl1 manuscripts. & with the synonyms, much of what the two commentators have to tell us about transformations in these countries can be mea­ sured in two ways: degree of change, modest at first but now expanding, and rate of change, in some ways fast at first but, as Professor Povolny notes, "the impossible takes a little longer." GEB

David H. Swartz was the first United States ambassador to the new country of Belarus in the former USSR, serving from 1992 to 1994. A graduate of Southwestern College, he holds the master's degree in Soviet and East European area studies from Florida State University. A career foreign-service officer since 1967, he has held embassy and consular posts in Rotterdam, London, Moscow, Kiev, Zurich, Calgary, and Warsaw and also served the Department of State as officer­ in-charge of the East-West Economic Relations Unit, staff director of the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, senior inspector in the Office of the Inspector General, and dean of the School of Language Studies. At Lawrence this year he has taught courses in American Diplomatic Practice, Russian Foreign Policy, and Intelligence and American Democracy. Ambassador Swartz is president of the European Humanities Foundation, Inc., a group he founded to support the private uni­ versity in Minsk that he describes in tlus article.

Mojmir Povolny was a 1995 recipient of the Masaryk Order, highest civilian honor of the Czech Republic, given for service to democracy and civil rights. A member of the Lawrence faculty from 1958 until his retirement in 1987, he holds the J.D. degree from the Masaryk University School of Law and the Ph.D. from tl1e University of Chicago. Professor Povolny was active in the Czech anti-communist movement in exile from 1949, serving as chairman of the executive committee of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia in New York from 1974 to 1993. He also worked with the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace in Paris and New York and with the American Friends Service Committee in Pmladelphia and Tokyo. At Lawrence he has been acting vice-president for academic affairs, dean of the faculty, and acting president.

Lawrence Today 9 By David H. Swartz Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor

regulations, e.g., regarding taxation, resulting in new economic oligarchies worrisome for political stability and democracy. No less a capitalist than financier George Soros has written extensively about the dangers of ram­ pant capitalism unfettered by any mod­ erating social restraints. This situation Minsk, Belarus characterizes, in particular, Russia today. Rampant crime and corruption exacerbate the problem. he 15 independent countries of the former Soviet Stage three will be tl1e longest and most problematic Union have developed remarkably different, dis­ of all. The region even now is only on its threshold. This tinctive paths to independence in the six short stage involves education at all levels aimed at inculcating years since the collapse of the USSR. To a greater or Judea-Christian values and etlucal systems (or their analogs lesser extent, however - depending on the length of their in regions where other religious systems are dominant), not incorporation within the USSR and their level of pre-Soviet just at the level of governance (altl1ough this obviously is development - all face unique problems stemming from critical) but more broadly throughout these societies in the realities of the Soviet period. each and every person. The process will be a lengthy one, Perhaps the most serious of these problems - and talcing two generations or more. The Soviet mentality hence the most telling now - was the "values vacuum" remains alive and well in tens of millions of people characterizing the communist ideology as practiced in the throughout the former USSR. world of Soviet realpolitik. Civil and human rights were One interesting indigenous approach to tl1is matter is trampled with impunity. The initial effort at eradicating the the development of private higher education in the former practice of religion, modified as the Soviet experiment con­ Soviet Union. Still in an embryonic stage and proceeding tinued but never abandoned, exacerbated this problem. with little or no official support from governments in tl1e Cynicism and amorality permeated Soviet society, as new countries, a heroic band of dedicated educators is reflected in the old working-class joke '"'ell-known from striving for long-term societal transformation through tl1is Moscow to Kiev, from Warsaw to Minsk: "The government medium. Inter alia, their goal is to develop curricula in the pretends to pay us, and we pretend to work." social sciences and humanities- core areas, obviously, for With the end of the Soviet era, domestic reformers in introducing value systems. It was precisely these areas that most of the new countries and their Western partners Soviet higher education either ignored altogether or gross­ embarked on ambitious programs of societal transforma­ ly distorted to shoehorn into communist ideology. tions. Basically, the process has three stages: initially meet­ Developments in Belarus in this area are instructive: ing urgent humanitarian needs such as foodstuff and med­ As in all the otl1er post-Soviet countries, Belarus icines; undertaking political and economic restructuring; emphasizes state-run institutions of higher education. The and finally initiating broader societal transformations. premier university in tl1e country is Belarus State University Stage one passed swiftly. By 1993 threats of famine had in Minsk, but there are other facilities in regional centers, largely receded in tl1e former USSR, and many of the most as well as tl1e State Linguistics University, also in Minsk. As critical healtl1 concerns had been brought under control. was traditional in the Soviet Union, state universities in Stage two is where all tl1e new countries now find Belarus are essentially free of charge for the students, oper­ themselves. Progress in democratization is vastly different ating costs being paid out of tl1e government budget. The in the region, ranging from relatively solid reform in the curriculum at Belarus State University, as at its analogs "'QJ three Baltic countries and Russia itself to stagnation, if not :-E tl1roughout the former USSR, stresses the natural sciences <:: ro recidivism, in Belarus, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. and engineering. Economics tends to be a rehashing of E :::J :r: Countries witl1 the most progress toward institutionalizing Marxist economics; formerly obligatory courses on scientific <:: ro market economies, especially Russia, are faced witl1 what atheism have been transformed, with little change in con­ QJ c. 0 some call "cowboy capitalism." Elites witl1 enormous tent, into subjects such as "comparative religion." :; w wealtl1 have emerged in a climate of insufficient law and Born in 1992, private higher education in Belarus is

10 Summer 1998 developing an alternative to the state system. In Belarus' current circumstances of political and economic recidivism, this is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise murky national picture. The major private institution is the European Humanities University (EHU). Its mission statement notes that the university intends to contribute to the formation of a new generation of professionals in the fields of eco­ nomics, public life, and culture, capable of leading Belarus away from the heritage of totalitarianism toward an open society based on the values of European civilization. EHU has faculties in economics, law, administrative and political science, social science (stress on philosophy), the arts, Slavic languages and literatures, and theology (one of its founding entities is the Belarus Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church). Instruction is in the Belarusian, Russian, English, French, and German lan­ guages. In most curricular areas a strong emphasis on West European and American educational traditions permeates course instruction. In seeking to introduce Western values and orientation to its students, EHU has developed an impressive network of international cooperative efforts. The governments of both France and Germany have partnered with the univer­ sity to establish programs - for example, the Department of Political and Administrative Sciences (France). In 1994 EHU introduced American English as part of its curricu­ lum, advancing in 1995 to creation of a formal Center for American Studies. This entity, the only one existing in the western regions of the former USSR, serves as a magnet for students and scholars from Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, and the Baltic republics. EHU's faculty of theology is of special interest. With the strong support of the Russian Orthodox Church, this initiative represents the sole center for theological studies at a secular institution of higher education any'-v·here in the former USSR. As such, it is experimenting with a number of ventures in cross-confessional contact not found else­ where in Orthodoxy. Within the context of its overall mis­ sion of stressing the humanities, EHU, through the theol­ ogy faculty, is encouraging a strong educational emphasis on religious values, Christian and non-Christian, Orthodox and non-Orthodox. As noted, Belarus for now is following a political and economic model of deliberate resovietization. This means, in higher education, that all state-nm universities are firm ­ ly in the hands of the political leadership. A presidential administration, rather than the Ministry of Education, appoints both rectors and vice-rectors at the state institutions. Private institutions such as EHU are tolerated, but they are under constant political pressure. Yet, they provide a ray, some would say the ray, of hope for achieving the genuine and deep-rooted societal transformation in Belarus that 'villlead toward a truly open society there. Such efforts are greatly deserving of Western support and assistance. Swartz

Lawrence Today 11 By Mojmir Povolny Professor Emeritus of Government

"The impossible takes a Little Longer." Between its creation in June 1996 and its fall in - Nobel laureate Dudley Herschbach, November 1997, the conservative minority government Lawrence University Convocation, violated the fundamental principle of minority rule. Instead April 9, 1998 of holding a united front and fighting the opposition for the favor of the public with a decisive program of complet­ n the night ofNovember 28, 1997, Czech Prime ing the transformation process, the coalition partners Minister Vaclav Klaus, on a visit in Sarajevo, quarreled and battled with each other to the point of their received a call from his minister of finance and government's disintegration. former minister of the interior, both members of Since December the country has been ruled by a mixed his Civil Democratic Party, requesting his resignation as government of experts and Christian Democratic Union head of the government. On the same day two partners in representatives. Its mandate is temporary, and its principal his three-party ruling coalition, the Christian Democratic task is to administer the republic until the parliamentary Union and the Civil Democratic Alliance, resigned from elections on June 19 and 20. the cabinet. When Klaus returned to Prague, he was left Mter the November 1989 overthrow of the commu­ with the rebellious ministers of his own party and no coali­ nist regime, Czechoslovakia, and subsequently the Czech tion partner. On November 30, the prime minister had no Republic, was the apple in tl1e eye of the West and glam­ choice, after six years at the helm of power, but to resign and orized by the well-deserved reputation of President Vaclav submit to the president the resignation of his government. Havel. It was praised for its rapid political democratization The immediate cause of the fall of the Klaus govern­ and the stability of its institutions, steady economic ment was the disclosure of a scandal in his party's finances. growtl1, liberalization of prices, privatization by auction of Czech legislation concerning political parties and campaign all of its small enterprises and the coupon privatization of finances is imperfect, to say the least, and leaves the door the major part of the large ones, stability of its currency, open to manipulation, evasion, and all kinds of illegal prac­ balance of payments, relatively high foreign investment, tices. For instance, the impetus to the November crisis in low inflation, and negligible unemployment. The Czechs Klaus' Civil Democratic Party sprang from the revelation appeared to live in an atmosphere close to euphoria, confi­ that seven million crowns (approximately US$ 230,000) dent of their premier position among the countries of post­ allegedly received from two foreign donors, actually were communist Central and Eastern Europe. given to the party by Milan Srejbr, a Czech who had priva­ In the past 15 months, however, the facade of success tized one of the large iron works in northern Moravia and began to crack, and - just as the interiors behind the shin­ runs several investment funds. These shenanigans led to the ing facades of many of Prague's magnificent palaces reveal split in the Klaus party, and similar revelations buried his the dilapidated state of their former splendor - so did coalition partner, the Civil Democratic Alliance. cracks in the body politic begin to show the unfinished Thus came to a close, after more than five years, a business, mistakes, negligence, and crimes of tl1e transfor­ model of government that was to a certain degree unique mation. in post-communist Central Europe, one based on a power­ The commitment of the Klaus government to rapid ful conservative party with two smaller coalition partners privatization of tl1e economy and the prime minister's per­ that, for years, accommodated themselves, not always sonal ideological commitment to the free-market econom­ ungrudgingly, to Klaus' powerful leadership and his strate­ ics of Milton Friedman, Margaret Thatcher, and tl1eir ilk­ gy and tactics of political and economic transformation. a commitment that he had asserted with intellectual con­ The opposition consisted of the ever-more-aggressive ceit and political relentlessness- blinded tl1e government Social Democratic Party and two extremist players of and tl1e majority of tl1e Czech political class to the funda­ Czech post-communist politics, the Communist Party on mental prerequisite of a free-market economy in a democ­ the left and the Republicans on the quasi-fascist right. ratic political system: the indispensableness of a firm legal Although for a long time it appeared that this system, with framework within which tl1e free-market economy should its distribution of popular preferences and power, was sta­ function. One of the fathers of Czech privatization bilized, in the 1996 parliamentary elections the conserva­ declared publicly that, should the government have tried to tive coalition suffered a defeat, came out one vote short of develop a system of laws appropriate to its commitment to the majority in the Chamber of Deputies, and could form economic transformation, the transformation would still be only a minority government, at the price of accommodating stuck in its tracks today. the Social Democrats and of relying on a few occasional The country has paid a heavy price for tlus speed of social democratic defectors. transformation and tl1e accompanying legal nihilism: cor-

12 Summer 1998 ruption, criminal methods of siphoning bank and invest­ ment-fund assets (for which the Czechs have invented the term tunneling), failure to restructure the large enterprises and the concomitant low labor productivity, confusion in the political domain, and public distrust. Euphoria has been replaced by what President Havel last fall called blbci ndlada- bad humor. Yet, it would be unfair to let the present domestic dis­ illusionment and the often faintly patronizing criticism from tl1e foreign press becloud tl1e considerable achieve­ ments of the short six or seven post-November years. The Czech Republic is a different country than it was for 40 long years before 1989. At the end of 1992 it survived a painful but peaceful partition of the common state with Slovakia. From the atomized society organized in the straitjacket of communist institutions a civil society has come into tl1e world. It still may be rudimentary, with uneven participation, shy of its rights and role, but there is nevertheless an expression of, and an opportunity for, the Povolny cultivation of public virtues. The rebirth of these virtues (except for Slovakia), about ten percent; the lowest unem­ and the underlying values has been slow, but they are ployment, 5.6 percent; a state debt of about 35 percent of beginning to show. A political regime can change GNP; and a budget deficit for 1997 ofl.5 percent ofGNP. overnight; to change a society takes a generation. The last two figures are far better than in most countries of The fundamental structure of the democratic rule is the European Union. settled. Since 1990 presidential powers have derived more The all-absorbing goal of Czech post-communist and from the personal authority of Vaclav Havel tlun from the post-soviet foreign policy has been "back to Europe," and provisions of the constitution. A stronger presidency would its achievements are signal. The country is a member of the enhance the stability and efficiency of the system. The Council of Europe, it joined the Partnership for Peace, it Senate refused to be a rubber stamp for the decisions of the has just ratified entry into NATO, and it has opened nego­ Chamber of Deputies and simply a depository for politi­ tiations for admission to tl1e European Union. So far great cians who already have served their time. It is beyond dis­ weight has been placed on relations with the United States pute that the stability of the multiparty system has been and Germany at the expense of connecting with the pow­ undermined by the recent financial scandals, but the scan­ ers of Western Europe and of maintaining and promoting dals may have in the end opened the door to its recovery cooperation with the closest neighbors, Poland and under conditions of greater honesty, transparency, and self­ Hungary, and even Slovakia, not to speak of a more distant discipline. It is, however, to the credit of this system - and Russia. A greater balance, however, begins to claim the of the society as a whole - that, unlike in Poland and attention of Cerninsky palac, seat of the Czech Ministry of Hungary, the former communists were not able to change Foreign Affairs. The people feel secure without being free their coats and return to power in the guise of democratic of the memories of Munich 1938 and August 1968. socialists. The country is slowly realizing tl1at, for freedom to Individually, on tl1e other hand, Communist Party prevail it has to spring from the values of a civil society, for members have survived in, or ascended to, significant posi­ liberal economy to function it has to be rooted in the soil tions and roles. A recent survey indicates the percentage of of conservative economic postulates, and for democracy to former communists in the following institutions: army and blossom it has to rest on the foundation not only of inalien­ police 78 percent, private economy 44 percent, state econ­ able rights but also on duties that bind citizens into a com­ omy 42 percent, politicians 36 percent, media 31 percent, munity of free men and women. culture/science/churches 18 percent, and government 16 Ralf Dahrendort described tl1e post-communist trans­ percent. It is true that many of these former communists formation process as three clocks working at different belong to the generation of '68ers, the men and women speeds. The fastest is the jurists' clock. They have six expelled from the party after the Soviet occupation of months to write the constitution. The Czechs did it. Then Czechoslovakia in 1968, but the data prove, nonetl1eless, there is tl1e slower clock of the politicians. They have about that the circulation of elites proceeds at a slow pace, espe­ six years to reconcile economic reform with political cially when it starts after 40 years of totalitarian rule. democracy and freedom. Given all the aforementioned cor­ Last year the Czech economy passed tl1rough a bad ruption, the Czech version of this "reconciliation" may spell: a slowdown in growth, an explosive deficit in the bal­ have succeeded too well! The slowest is the ticking of the ance of payments, failure to further reduce inflation, a third clock - the clock of the citizen. Its time may be mea­ decline in foreign investment, deflation of the crown, and sured by generations. This is the clock that makes the the already mentioned revelation of problems in privatiza­ Czech people impatient about the imperfections and slow tion. Today the economy is again, slowly, gaining ground. pace of their transformation in its ninth year, but I trust Among the post-communist Central European countries, they have not given up and tl1ink it is impossible. The tl1e Czech Republic still has the lowest inflation rate impossible just takes a little longer.

Lawrence Today 13 Richard Holbrooke, former assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs and chief negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accord for Bosnia, was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Laws by Lawrence University in May. This article is excerpted from his address to the 1998 Honors Convocation. By Richard Holbrooke

any Americans thought that the former Yugoslavia, but also in Rwanda and Ethiopia and end of the Cold War was also the Chechnya and many other parts of the world where fires end of America's involvement in still burn. international affairs. For 50 The first test for the United States and Europe came in years, from Pearl Harbor to the the former Yugoslavia in 1991-1992, when the country end of the Soviet Union, the simply fell apart. The worst elements in each of three United States had been continu­ groups -Serbs, who are of the Eastern Orthodox religion; ously engaged with the world. Croats, who are Catholic; and the Bosnian Muslims - par­ We fought overseas in three ticularly the Serb leadership, turned on each other with major wars- World War II, Korea, and Vietnam- and racist demagoguery and unleashed a totally um1ecessary, many minor ones. We stood for freedom around the globe. totally preventable war. In 1992 Americans said, "That's enough . Let's not You will read the phrase "ethnic hatred" (e.g., "cen­ worry about the world. Let's get our own house in order." turies of ethnic hatred in Bosnia") repeatedly in the litera­ In opting for domestic priorities, the American public was ture about the area, but that is not my view of the situation. absolutely correct. We had many unresolved domestic First of all, there is no ethnic difference among Muslims, issues, including, at that time, a huge budget deficit. No Croats, and Serbs. They all came out of the same ethnic one could have predicted that six years later we would be stock but chose different religions under the pressure of running a surplus; no one could have foreseen that the history. The Bosnian Muslims are mainly Serbs who economy would be this strong. We were right to concen­ became Muslims during the Turkish invasion. They are not trate on domestic issues, but it was wrong and self­ Turks who came over 600 years ago and occupied the land. delusionary to think that we could turn away from the For most of the past 600 years the three groups lived world, and it was wrong to think that the end of the Cold together in relative harmony, with only the kind of friction War would mean the end of America's international we fmd in our own neighborhoods in Chicago or New involvement. York or any other city, prejudice being an unavoidable fac­ Inevitably, the end of the Cold War produced a new tor in the human existence - but they didn't kill each An old set of issues that had been long submerged suddenly came back to the fore. set of problems, some of which fell outside the boundaries other all the time as so many European and American polit­ of normal foreign policy. These are the so-called "new" or ical leaders have said. "soft" issues: environmental concerns, drugs, laundered Looking back to World War II, when the Serbs and and dirty money, the spread of criminal elements, AIDS, Croats did kill each other in enormous numbers, one must deforestation, desertification, global warming, fires in the remember that that was against the backdrop of a Europe Amazon rainforest, and so on. These are real issues. They aflame vvith the evil of Hitler, a time when people were have to be addressed. killing each other tl1roughout tl1e continent. In Western Ironically, an old set of issues that had been long sub­ Europe, after 1945, reconciliation gradually took place. merged, for almost half a century in most cases, suddenly In Yugoslavia, commtmism arrived instead and left its came back to the fore. These were the issues of ethnic divi­ imprint on tl1e land, and tl1en when communism left, as sion. They exploded most dramatically in Bosnia, in the noted above, the worst elements bubbled up. So, in tl1e

Lawrence Today 15 summer of 1991, when collective US-European action is currently being investigated by tl1e International War could have stopped the fighting before it began, a direct Crimes Tribunal, and indictments for the leaders of the and unambiguous warning from NATO that, for example, massacre have been handed down - but at tl1e time the we would bomb the Serbs if they attacked the medieval West was unable to prevent it. town of Dubrovnik would have prevented war from break­ At tlut point, the end looked near for the peace effort ing out. Instead, the Europeans said, "This is our first in Bosnia, and most people were ready to throw in the post-Cold War crisis, and we will try to handle it without sponge, but President Clinton decided to latmch one last you," and the United States said, "Fine, go ahead; it's your all-out effort to end the war. He asked me to head the backyard." Both sides were equally mistaken. Europe negotiating team, and we set out to the region in August couldn't do it without the US, for complicated reasons that of 199 5. As you may know, three of my four colleagues historians need to examine, and the US had a vested interest. were killed on our first attempt to get into Sarajevo. The We didn't get involved early; we got involved late, armored personnel carrier they were in, tl1e vehicle right much too late. While it is true that we did stop the war in behind mine on the road, went over the edge of tl1e road the summer and fall of 199 5 and we did effect a peace at and down the mountain. We had no business being on that Dayton, Ohio, that has endured to this day with no casual­ road- it was narrow, unpaved, and very dangerous- but ties among any of the NATO forces, that peace could have we could not fly in because the city and airfield were under happened years earlier. Then we wouldn't have had attack. 300,000 dead, 2.5 million refugees, and billions and billions We returned a week later, after the funerals, and the of dollars, that could have gone to more productive uses, first day we were in Europe the Serbs attacked a market­ thrown down the drain for refugee relief and reconstruction. place and killed 38 people. That was one step too far. With Where we can make a difference we should be prepared to take a leadership role.

or me, the lesson from Bosnia was that tl1at action, President Clinton and his team persuaded the the US still had a role in the world, Europeans that the time had long since been reached when although not necessarily as the world's we had to use NATO air power. policeman. We cannot solve every prob­ I am not a great fan of air power in general - I lem. When we get overextended, as we thought it was misused in Vietnam and gravely damaged did in Vietnam and Cambodia 20 years the national interest - but tl1ere are times when you have ago, the consequences are horrendous. to use force to achieve peace. A very massive NATO cam­ Where we can make a difference we paign of air attacks against tl1e Bosnian Serbs began the should be prepared to tal

16 Summer 1998 and that is not what is actually happening on the ground. There is far more commerce and conversation and commu­ nication between the three eth­ nic groups in Bosnia today than people realize. However, the refugee communities have not been able to fully return home yet, and that is the final test of success in Bosnia: will people be able to return to their homes in minority areas? Muslims can return to Muslim areas, Serbs to Serb areas, and so forth, but can a Muslim family return to a Croat or Serb village? Only a President Warch, Richard Ho/brooke, and Claudena Skran, associate professor of government, on the way to a few people have been able to do question-and-answer session in Riverview Lounge. that so far, and currently all three sides are thwarting refugee return. Serb families that have lived for centuries in certain areas have a right to return to tl1ose areas, and tl1e Croats and the Muslims, particularly the Croats, are pre­ venting tl1em from doing so. The United States govern­ ment remains very concerned about tl1is; tl1is past spring I went back to Saravejo and Banja Luka to tallc to the leaders Over all, the US of Bosnia about moving forward on this issue. Over all, t11e US report card in Bosnia has to be viewed as a positive one. Since we became engaged, tl1e war has report card in Bosnia stopped, no Americans have been killed, and tl1e war will not resume as long as we fulfill our responsibilities. Since the Dayton peace agreement it has cost US tax­ has to be viewed as payers several billion dollars to keep our troops tl1ere and to play our role in the economic revitalization of Bosnia. It is worth it. It is a sum we can afford, less than l% of tl1e a positive one. Pentagon budget. We have fewer than 7,000 troops in Bosnia. They are embedded in an international force under American command, a force that includes people from 30 otl1er countries, including, very interestingly, Russia, for the first time since World War II. The United States, given its present wealth, can very well afford a billion and a half to two billion dollars a year, particularly when you realize we were paying almost that much for refugees through tl1e UN system. We may fail, but at least we are trying. I think that is the essence of what America has to do in the post-Cold War world.

Lawrence Today 17 By Stephen ]. Siegel, '89

c 0 :~ E Qj c. £ - ~ -o Q) ...c .§. Q) a mille Barnett, '73, has one of the toughest jobs Congress can step into local affairs like that because <>:: around. She is responsible for fixing the belea­ Washington is not part of a state but instead is a federal city guered city government ofWashington, D.C. that has been granted only limited authority for self-gov­ Since January 15, when she was appointed ernment. Congress itself acted as the city's government Washington's chief management officer, Barnett has been until 1974, when federal "home rule" legislation allowed in charge of nine major city agencies that previously were Washington to be governed by a mayor and city council, the province of locally elected officials, including four-term much like other cities around the nation. Mayor Marion Berry, who served time in jail after being Even then, though, the federal government retained a convicted in 1990 of using crack cocaine. significant say in Washington's city affairs, providing a Barry remains the elected mayor - he was reelected major chunk of its operating budget and retaining veto after his stint in jail - but most of his power now has been power over spending and other decisions. Through the transferred to Barnett and a financial-control board to 1980s, Barry's government amassed large budget deficits which she reports. The control board was created by and placed huge numbers of people- 35,000 as of three Congress in 1995 to clean up the D.C. government's fiscal years ago- on the city payroll. The city spent ample sums and managerial shortcomings. of money but had little to show for it. Schools deteriorated,

18 Summer 1998 streets crumbled, and crime surged out of control. D.C. computers," Barnett says, referring to a 1970s-era computer even canceled a curbside recycling program in 1996, cit­ company tlut has since filed for bankruptcy protection. ing lack of funds. "Whether it's the radio system, the telephone system, Things got so bad that the Republican-controlled or the computer system, you can usually count on it being Congress created the control board in 1995 in an attempt old or non-functioning," she says. "It certainly isn't con­ to turn Washington's city government around. The board nected to anything else." has made many changes, rejecting city contracts and veto­ In addition to facing tl1e challenges of reforming a ing budget proposals. Now Barnett has become, via the government tlut doesn't work, Barnett has to do it in a control board's appointment, Washington's de facto hostile environment. Washington's elected officials and mayor. She soon is expected to be handed control of its activists resent tl1e control board, and Barnett with it, for scandal-ridden police department, in addition to her taking away their power and, in effect, modifying the authority over the city's other major agencies. results of free elections, ironically in tl1e capital of tl1e oldest Why would anyone want this mess? democracy on the planet. "I have an abiding passion for cities," says Barnett, There have been regular protests, with some minor who previously had been employed in similar capacities in associated scuffles, including one on Barnett's first day on Austin, Texas, as well as Dallas and Houston- although the job. Barry has described the handing-over of his gov­ she was part of the city government in those positions and ernment to tl1e control board as "the rape of democracy." not a replacement for it as she is in Washington. Barnett's not worried about tl1at. She affirms that peo­ "A part of this also has to do with Washington being ple have a right to protest and notes that she personally has the capital city of our country," Barnett says . "I just want gotten a warm welcome in Washington. She sees her job as it to work. That it's inconvenient or there is personal risk one of fixing tl1e government and giving it back to the involved for me isn't a good enough reason not to do it." people when she's done. A government major at Lawrence, Barnett also is interested in the unique nature of Washington's difficul­ ties, 'vvhich she says are partially the result of its status as She sees her job as one of fixing the neither a city nor a state. It has the population of a typical large city, she notes, but is required to handle many state government and giving it back to the responsibilities, including courts, prisons, and Medicaid, the federal-state health-care program for the poor and people when she's done. elderly. "I had been watching what was going on in Washington for a while," she says. "Everybody in the "We have to change the way we do business, or the country was familiar with some of the problems here. As system won't be sustainable and we'll be back in the mess a person who studies and works in cities, I was particularly again," she says. "It is important to redesign how tlungs interested in the complexity of the situation." work, and that's what I'm doing." She has found, in her first months on the job, that In the meantime, she is enjoying living in Washington. many ofWashington's problems actually are simple rather She bought a house in the city's Mt. Pleasant section, a diverse than complex: a lack of training or leadership, poor tech­ neighborhood of immigrants largely from Latin America. nology, and inadequate communications among them. "Living in Washington is much better than its com­ Much of the city's equipment is old and outdated, and monly held image, because it really is a beautiful city," until recently there was little in the way of basic quality Barnett says. "There's lots to do that's free, it's a good city control in place. Contracts with suppliers were not com­ for walking, and crime is going down. It's still high, but it's petitively bid, work was awarded to companies with con­ going down." nections to local politicians, and firms that overbilled the And, willie she is the first to acknowledge the deptl1 of government were not caught because tl1e city had no tl1e remaining problems, Barnett says the control board records clarifying what it actually owed. improved things on its own before she arrived and that the "The government structure is pretty troubled," financial situation is noticeably better now tlun it was two Barnett says. "Most people's perceptions of what is wrong years ago. with Washington are pretty accurate. The place needs a Perhaps that means tl1ere is hope tl1at Washington, lot to be done." designed by Pierre L'Enfant to look like Paris, will one day To that end, Barnett is implementing or fixing pur­ be held in the same esteem. chasing and personnel systems and instituting manage­ ment and financial reforms. She also plans to update the + http:/ /W'vV\.Y .dcfra.gov/ computer and telephone systems. "It's pretty basic stuff that needs to be completely Stephen ]. Siegel graduated from Lawrence in 1989 with a overhauled or, in some cases, truly put in for the first degree in government. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he time. Technology here is way behind. We sti ll have Wang works as a free-lance writer. He previously was Washington correspondent for the Madison-based Wisconsin State Journal.

Lawrence Today 19 S u d d e n sensations: Lawrence quartet f i n d s fame • 1 n four-part harmony

By Rick Peterson

11 celebrity should have competition's college division. group's bass, who wore his gold such bumble beginnings. "We never tl1ought we'd win," medal to bed tl1at night. "I remem­ Squeezed inside a 1984 says Rodgers, who sings lead, despite ber hearing our name and then being Honda Civic, four young men, wide­ tl1e fact tl1at he is the only one of tl1e up on the stage, but I have no idea eyed and unsuspecting of the fame four who is not a vocal performance how I got from the audience to the that awaits them, cruise toward major. "It was total shock," he adds, stage." Indianapolis intent on doing a Little succinctly capturing the sheer Some of the college teams in singing. Luggage enough- includ­ improbability of the achievement. Indianapolis were malcing tl1eir third ing tuxedos - to keep tl1e foursome Freefall not only outperformed straight trips to the contest, but looking respectable for a road trip 22 of the best college singing teams Freefall was the competition's equiv­ tlut might grow as long as seven days in tl1e country but also overcame a alent of an overnight sensation. Born strains tl1e trunk-lid binges. A boom­ less than seven months earlier, box wedged between tl1e dash board Freefall was the offspring of an idea and windshield pinch-hits for an The group's Keitl1 had been toying with for nearly uncooperative car radio during the two years. A barbershopper since the • five-hour drive. Shared oranges, raw m ox1 e helped age of 9, he arranged an audition spinach, and cold Spaghettios eaten witl1 younger brotl1er Paul, also a straight from the can pass as meals. turn them veteran barbershop per, who was still In Holl)'\;vood, this scenario in high school at the time and fellow might very well have Jim Carrey into a crowd Senior Concert Choir mates Asldof auditioning to be at the steering and Rodgers, both novices to four­ wheel. In reality, it was the start of a part harmony, "just to hear how we whirlwind year for a talented quartet favorite. all sounded." of singers who parlayed perfect four­ The initial results, while short of part harmony into musical notoriety. malfunctioning fire alarm seemingly spectacular, showed promise. Much­ In a span of only months, the fom­ bent on destroying tl1eir composure needed practices to smooth sound some went from a mere idea to inter­ if not their program. Four different and create chemistry for tl1e fast­ national champions. Barbershop times tl1e alarm squawked in mid­ approaching district competition, quartet champions. song, eventually forcing them to start however, were limited to weekend On the stage of the grand ball­ over. The group's moxie, displayed sessions when Paul could visit campus room of the Westin Hotel in down­ in disarming the distraction, helped from his home 111 southwest town Indianapolis, Robb Asklof, '98, turn them into a crowd favorite. Wisconsin. Keitl1 Harris, '98, his yoLmger brother, "When we walked out on the As coming-out parties go, the Paul, '01, and Steve Rodgers, '98,­ stage, tl1ere was this wall of sound district contest provided a memo­ collectively known as "Freefall" - from the audience," says Asklof, tl1e rable one. Marking their official wowed tl1e judges and a standing­ group's falsetto tenor. "It was debut as a group, tl1e members of room-only crowd last July at tl1e absolutely awesome, louder than Freefall surprised themselves but 59th annual international competi­ anything I've ever experienced in my impressed the judges, winning tl1e tion of the Society for the life." tl1ree-state district title, and in the Preservation and Encouragement of Freefall earned $4,000 in cash, a process, earned a trip to Indianapolis Barbershop Quartet Singing in traveling trophy, and individual gold in a crowded Honda. America. Their rendition of "I medals for their winning perfor­ Since being crowned college Didn't Want to Fall in Love" and a mance. When they were announced champions, Freefall has answered a serious version of "My Bonnie Lies as tl1e first-place finishers, time was dizzying stream of requests, from Over the Ocean," specially arranged botl1 frozen and blurred. youth outreach programs in area by a friend of Keitl1's, earned them "There was this incredible rush schools to private birthday celebra­ first-place honors in tl1e prestigious of emotion," says Keitl1 Harris, the tions to appearances at barbershop

20 Summer 1998 chapters around the Midwest. They sang for a gathering of Wisconsin college presidents who were meeting at Lawrence this spring and felt "honored" to be included on the program at the wrap-up dinner for the Lawrence 150 campaign last October. They had to decline a clin­ ic invitation from The Vocal Majority, the famed Dallas-based all­ male chorus, but drew reviewer raves for their part of a concert at Green Bay's Wiedner Center. Freefall's success has spawned a CD - "Mter School" - and inspired a follow-up act. Jeremy Kriedeman, '99, Andrew Miller, '00, Eric Nelson, '00, and Karey Speten, '00, formed "Elysium" this spring, earning their own trip to the SPEBSQSA's international competi­ tion, scheduled July 4 in Atlanta's Georgiadome. As reigning champions, Freefall is prohibited by rule from competing in tl1is year's contest, but tl1ey will be there as guest performers and to pass their title on. Robb Ask/of, Steve Rodgers, Keith Harris, and Paul Harris

II We ' d Lo v e t o start another singing 0\·ves much of its continued Freefall's CD, "After School," featuring popularity to its straightforward the ballads "When I Fall in Love" and • Lawrence m u s1 c melodies and heartfelt themes that "Somewhere," is available for $15 and cut tl1rough all economic and ethnic can be ordered through the Lawrence tradition" barriers. Perhaps equally important, Conservatory of Music Office, P.O. Box it's just plain fun, a fact Freefall joy­ 599, Appleton, WI 54912-0599. fully discovered over the past year. "We'd love to start another "There is an incredible cama­ Lawrence music tradition," says Paul raderie in barbershop," Keitl1 Harris Harris, who began singing barber­ says. "The sum of the parts is greater shop when he was ten. "We're hop­ than the sum of tl1e parts. When it all ing we can pass our trophy onto comes together, it is pure magic. another Lawrence quartet and keep Barbershop is incredible to watch, tl1e title right here on campus." but much more so to experience." A true American art form more Incredible is an equally apt than l 00 years old, barbershop description of Freefall.

Lawrence Today 21 Finding More Than a Tan on Spring Break

By Rick Peterson

In recent years, increasing numbers of college stu­ dents have decided that there can be more to their annual spring break than gathering in large num­ bers in sunny resort areas to have a collective good time. Groups and individuals have begun looking for - and finding - service opportunities during the break that will benefit others, not just them­ selves. Lawrence students are no exception. When ll members of the sophomore honor society Lambda Sigma hit the Internet last fall in search of a special place to spend their spring break, they discovered what appeared to be the perfect destination -Virginia's Belle Island State Park. When they arrived, not only did they find the nice weather, access to water, and free shelter they expected, but they also found a piece of history, literally. Joined by chaperon Linda Fuerst from the Dean of Students Office, the group opted for an "alternative" break from the books this spring, vol­ unteering their time and energies at the rustic park along the Rappal1aru1ock River in eastern Virginia, cleaning beaches, clearing brush, planting trees, and building a 600-foot split-rail fence. Cara Helmke turns her find over to a park officer at Belle Isle State Park in Virginia. While doing routine cleanup along a trail, Cara Helmke, '00, from Stevens Points, Wisconsin, worked and Chatham to learn more about the Civil War before through some dirt-encrusted wire fencing, unearthing turning their two university vans back toward Appleton. what she first thought were pieces of an old belt. She ini­ "The vvhole experience of working in the park was tially discarded them, but when she discovered another great. It's definitely something I'd like to do again," larger, longer piece of leather with four copper buttons Helmke says . "Finding something of historic value was an bearing a "U.S." insignia, she knew she had something exciting highlight of the trip." special. There's a postscript to the story. After reading about An examinati on by park officials suggested the leather the Lawrence students' volunteer efforts at the park, pieces were likely parts of a Union officer's horse saddle Richard Graffy of Mary Point, Virginia, was so impressed dating to the Civil War. Who the saddle belonged to or he sent them a $100 donation to help offset the cost of the how it got there remains a mystery. trip. In a note with the check, Graffy said to consider it "a While state law said she had to turn the artifacts over thank-you for reinforcing my belief in the basic decency to park authorities, Helmke's find earned her and her class­ of the college generation despite much publicity to the mates a bit of local notoriety - a story in The contrary." Rappahannock Record. With their interest whetted by Helmke's discovery, the students managed to squeeze in visits to Fredericksburg + http:/ /wvvw.state.va .us/ -dcr/parks/bellisle.htm

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Celebrating the end of Freshman Studies

Faculty members and students gathered in Riverview Lounge to mark the successful comple­ tion of Freshman Studies by the Class of 2001, celebrating the event with a festive cake, prizes for correct answers to obscure trivia questions from the assigned readings, and a pinata in the shape of Plato's head. Freshman Studies World Tour '97-'98 tee-shirts with the names and dates of the 12 literary works examined in the course served as door prizes.

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2 3 Mindy Rueden, '00, steals second in a semi-final game against Buena Vista University.

one hour to use the practice fields at tl1e facility before their big game tl1e next day. The infield was unforgiving and hard. The outfield was an unleveled playing surface - not what one might expect of an NCAA tourna­ ment site. During practice tl1ere were muffed balls and bad throws, and one could tell the team was sluggish because of such a long day. However, through it all, one thing was apparent: this was a team that was mentally up for the challenge tl1ey were to face the next day.

Thursday, May 7, 1998 As tl1e Vikings took to tl1e field for their regulated eight-minute infield practice, smiles stretched across their youtl1ful faces. The team clown, shortstop Joy Rogatzki, was By Michelle Burzinski laughing and malcing wisecracks, which obviously helped keep tl1e rest of the team at ease, while hurler Fourteen young women. One No. 1 seed in the region, Chapman Sara Schye watched stonefaced, her dream. To go to the Big Dance. University (California), No. 2 seed intensity clear. The team knew tl1at When the phone rang that California Lutl1eran University, No. tl1e next few hours of ball would Sunday night, the coach hadn't 3 seed Buena Vista University have to be near-perfect for them known what to expect. She had (Iowa), and No. 4 seed tl1e to wm. hope, but after being passed up last University of St. Thomas (Minn.). The Vikings' first opponent year, she wasn't counting on it. Lawrence would be No. 5. would be the Tommies of St. However, when Lawrence "When I received the call on Thomas (Minn.), who entered the University Head Softball Coach Sunday night, I was really excited," tournament as the Minnesota Kim Tatro picked up the phone and Tatro recalls, "but when I heard we Intercollegiate Athletic Conference heard an invitation to play in the would be shipped out of the Great champion, with a 32-10 mark. 1998 NCAA Division III Softball Lalces Region and sent to California, St. Thomas Championships, she was ecstatic. I was surprised." The excitement had never really The game against St. Thomas was a battle of the pitchers. Both died from the day before, when Wednesday, May 6, 1998 Lawrence's Schye and St. Thomas' Tatro guided the Vikings to their The excitement was visible as Kelly Weyandt were at the top of second consecutive Midwest the team met at Alexander Gym at their game. For these two teams it Conference softball title. With back­ 5:15 a.m. With their flight depart­ would be a matter of who wanted it to-back titles the softball team ing from Appleton at 6:20 a.m., for more. With the game scoreless after became tl1e first Lawrence women's Orange County's John Wayne 3-1/2 complete innings, the varsity team to win consecutive Airport, tl1e anticipation was on Tommies started knocking. Witl1 conference titles. In addition, the the rise. Altl1ough still groggy from one out and a rum1er on first, a Vikings were now the third team in getting little rest tl1e night before, St. Thomas batter singled to right the history of Lawrence atl1letics to twinkles in various eyes showed that field. The aggressive base runner appear in an NCAA tournament they were excited to get the show attempted to advance to tlurd, but (football 19 81, men's basketball on tl1e road. Lawrence's Aly Martin made a 1997). Mter checking into their perfect throw from right to nail the The Vikings were headed to the Anaheim hotel, it was off to Hart runner. The Vikings' defensive play, NCAA West Regional in Orange, Park site of the NCAA West led by Martin's "Golden Glove," Calif., where tl1e field would consist Regional' Championships. The got them out of the inning. of the No. 2 team in tl1e nation and Lawrence team would have precisely

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With the game still scoreless The Vikings would add another Saturday, May 9, 1998 after six complete innings, it was run in the third. Schye reached on Chapman again now a do-or-die situation. In the a base hit to lead off tl1e inning and Mter fall ing to tl1e Beavers of seventh, Joy Rogatzki singled to left eventually scored off an errant Buena Vista, the Vikings were field and advanced to second on a tl1row by the Chapman third base­ rematched with the Pantl1ers of sacrifice bunt by Janae Magnuson. man. The Vikings were now up 2-0. Chapman University in an elimina­ With two outs, Susie Svejda's single The Panthers of Chapman tion game. The Chapman team scored Rogatzki, to give the College appeared baffied by tl1e play again provided tl1e Grand Ole Opry Vikings a l-0 lead they would never of the Vikings. Schye's pitching performance and exhibited the relinquish. antics hushed tl1e crowd as tl1e attitude they had shown two days Schye pitched a complete Panthers continuously hit fly balls, before. game, giving up five hits and strik­ 13 in all. Schye would go on to win Schye once again was given tl1e ing out four. The Vikings played her second game of the day with a ball on the mound, her fourtl1 start seven innings of near-flawless ball four-hitter as Lawrence upset top­ in three days. The toll of one pitch­ and advanced to a 4:00 p.m. show­ seeded Chapman. The Vikings had er tossing four games could be seen down with the No. 2 team in the only three hits but made them nation, Chapman College. count, while Chapman had four hits Chapman - but not more tl1an one hit in any The Vikings entered their mmng. second game with nothing to lose. They were a team that the Friday, May 8, 1998 Chapman coaches and players had Buena Vista never heard of before. In the pre­ The Vikings' next challenge game warm-ups the Panther players would be Buena Vista University. displayed a misplaced confidence The Beavers and tl1e Vikings were that bordered on arrogance. With the only undefeated teams in the little respect for an unknown double-elimination tourney field; Lawrence team tl1ey strutted thus, the winner of tl1is game would around on tl1e field as if tl1e next have tl1e upper hand in tl1e tourna­ game would be tl1e proverbial piece ment, as tl1ey would have to be of cake. Lawrence players watched defeated twice by a team in the loser tl1is performance with unbelief, but bracket not to advance to the Final tl1e best was yet to come. Mter Eight in Salem, Virginia. pre-game warm-ups, the Chapman The Vikings once again would team entertained tl1e crowd with a tl1row Schye, their left-handed little line-dancing number in front workhorse who had pitched five Aly Martin, '99, in a pre-game warmup of tl1eir dugout. Fans who wished consecutive shutouts coming into tl1ey were at the Grand Ole Opry tl1e game. The Vikings would face as Chapman jumped out to an early must have felt right at home. pint-size Lisa Schuler, a pitcher with 3-0 lead in the first. The Panthers As Lawrence took the field, good ball movement but not as would put five more runs on tl1e Chapman fans started cat-calling much finesse as Schye. board en route to an 8-0 victory. the Lawrence players and laughing. The game was scoreless until The Viking hurlers- Schye and The lack of respect the Chapman tl1e fifth im1ing, when the Vikings Cindy Prochnow - would each be fans, players, and coaches had for attacked. Peglovv reached on an charged with three earned runs. the Lawrence team was obvious. error, and Jenny Batog's single gave Although tl1e Vikings lost tl1e Mter the warm-ups, an announce­ tl1e Vikings two base runners with battle, they never hung their heads ment by the NCAA on sportsman­ one out. Both runners were put into or resorted to bad sportsmanship. ship was made. This obviously meant scoring position after a sacrifice Smiles still appeared on tl1eir faces, nothing to tl1e Chapman fans. bunt by Bryfczynski. Rogatzki's and jokes could still be heard from However, it would be tl1e Vikings single to centerfield would bring tl1e dugout. They continued to who would laugh last. both runners home. present themselves as a group of The Vikings jumped on tl1e The Beavers rallied for two runs classy young women. board early. Schye led off the first in the top of the seventh to force witl1 a single. Becca Peglow's sacri­ tl1e game into extra innings. Congratulations fice bunt advanced Schye to second. In the ninth, the Beavers scored The Lawrence/Appleton A base hit by Lisa Bryfczynski one run to end tl1e ball game. The community should be proud of advanced Schye to tl1ird and a Vikings fell 3-2 in nine im1ings. tl1ese young women and tl1e effort sacrifice fly by Rogatzki brought The team was obviously heart­ tl1ey put forth during tl1e season. Schye home. broken, but they continued to Lawrentians can look forward to The fans started to hush. smile, laugh, and have fun. many good softball years to come.

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Congratulations to Coach Tatro, her assistants, and the '98 Lawrence University softball team: Janae Magnuson '99, Seattle, Wash., Mindy Rueden '00, Appleton, Zina Cooper '99, Lake Elsinore, Calif., Andi Raabe '00, Milwaukee, Aly Martin '99, Palmdale, Calif., Lisa Bryfczynski '99, Ashwaubenon, Jenny Batog '00, Greenfield, Cindy Prochnow '00, Greenfield, Tara Shingle '00, Monmouth Junction, N.J., Joy Rogatzki '00, Oconto Falls, Susie Sara Olson, '99, center, racing over the hurdles Svejda '99, Oconto, Sara Schye '00, Brookfield, Ill., Becca The Lawrence ice hockey team fell short of a second consecutive Peglow '01, Minnetrista, Minn., finished its season witl1 a 9-5-1 conference championship, losing and Angela Fink '99, Menasha. overall record under the guidance 73-60 to Ripon College in tl1e of first-year head coach Cal MWC championship game. The Burzinski takes on sports Husmann. Forward Tobi IGnsler Vikings defeated Monmouth information role '98, Madison, was named Great College 79-68 in the semifinal. Lakes Collegiate Hockey Jo Jo DePagter, '98, Sheboygan, Association Co-MVP as well as was named first-team all-MWC Michelle L. being named first-team all­ while teammate Ben Zagorski,' Burzinski has GLCHA. Forward Erno '98, Milwaukee, garnered second­ been appointed Harghita, Romania, team honors as the Vikings played sports inform a­ Csatlos,'98, and defenseman to a 16-8 record and 10-3 confer­ tion director in Chris Henderson, '99, Monona, ence mark. the Office of earned second-team all-GLCHA Cathy Kempen, '01, Public Affairs at accolades. Freedom; Elizabeth Bashaw, Lawrence '01, Tulsa, Okla.; and Sara University. A Mike Hoskins,'98, Lancaster [Lawrence Today, Spring Olson, '99, LeSeur, Minn., native ofWausau, Wisconsin, and a '98], became the first wrestler earned all-MWC honors, as they graduate of Mankato State in Lawrence history to earn All­ led tl1e women's track team to its University with a B.S. degree cum An1erica status with a fifth-place best finish in history, a second­ laude in mass communications: finish at the 1998 NCAA place mark at the 1998 MWC public relations, she currently is a Division III wrestling to urn a­ indoor championships. Kempen candidate for the Master of Science ment. Hoskins finished the season won tl1e 3000-meter in a school­ degree in sports administration at with a 46-6 record. record 18:36.34, while Bashaw tlut university. In 1995-97 she Jeff Peyton,'99, Wilmette, earned first place with a leap of served as assistant sports in forma­ Ill., became tl1e second athlete in 17-3 in the long jump. Olson tion director at Mankato State. Lawrence fencing history to place was a two-time conference As sports information director at the national championships, champ, winning the 55-meter she is responsible for maintaining a with a 24th-place finish in foil. hurdles in a school-record 9.07 wide-ranging and effective media­ The women's basketball team and the 200-meter hurdles in a relations and publications program compiled a 5-16 record, and Joy school-record 30.13. in support of Lawrence's intercolle­ Rogatzki, '00, Oconto Falls, The men's track team giate atl1letic teams. earned second-team all-confer­ finished ninth at tl1e conference "Sports information is an ence honors leading the Vikings indoor tournament. The season important component in any during tl1e 1998 season. In addi­ was highlighted by Matt collegiate sports program," says tion, Rogatzki's 37 points against Kehrein, '98, Blanchardville, Athletic Director Amy Proctor. "It Illinois College tied the school attaining a record-setting 26.89 contributes to malcing our athletics record for points in a game. mark in tl1e 200-meter hurdles. program more visible and more ,., The men's basketball team ..c attractive to prospective students, as 0.. ~ well as, importantly, achieving for en B of statistics and historical recording, concludes, "to have someone witl1 0 our student athletes the recognition ..c c.. they have earned. Also, the sports for example - off the shoulders of Shelly Burzinski's entlmsiasm, sports c.Q) our coaches in a very helpful way. knowledge, and Wisconsin experi­ 0.. information director is able to take

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1 9 3 0 meeting many different people from various Lawrence University backgrounds. Mary Kreiss Miles li ves at T he Heritage, a Alumni Association Katl1erine Pierick Williams, M -D , retirement home in Appleton, where she vol­ Marinette, went to five Eldcrhostels last year. unteers as librarian. Kristen Olsen Lahner, '73 President 1 9 3 1 1 9 3 4 65th Reunion, June 18-20, 1999 Stephen L. Al brecht, '86 Elizabeth Conover Bruno, M-D, Virginia, Honor Walch Brown, Manawa, enjoys play­ Vice- President Illinois, had hip surgery in 1997 but was in g bridge and teaching a small piano class . looking forward to a better 1998. Helen Rose Hankal, M-D, Deland, Florida, Janice Daniels Quinlan, '74 Blanche Dahinden, M -D , Waukes ha , is enjoys having her family close so she can visit Director of Alumni Relations enj oyin g her time at Oak Hill Vi llage and is a them. Her daughter li ves in Fort Myers and steady customer of the Library Lady, who Kristin A. Wensing, '93 her son in Orlando. comes monthly with large-prin t books. Gwendolen Favell Heilman lives with her Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Doris Green Heinz, M-D, Ri chmond, son and daughter-in -law in Greenville, Virginia, is doing well and remembers her Pennsylvania. Board of Directors classmates fondly . Jean and Jolm Reeve, Appleton, enj oyed a Harriet Biersach Hopkinson, M-D, ten-day crui se on the Holland-American sh ip Lynn Azuma, '96 Potomac, Maryland, moved to Rebecca Maarsdam, which took them to Grand Phoebe Rowe Bachman, '85 House, an assisted-li ving environment. Cayman Island, the Panama Canal, Costa Jonathan W. Bauer, '83 Janet DeCosta Johnson, M -D, Wilmette, Rica, Guatemala, Santa Cruz, and Acapulco. Illinois, is busy trying to keep up with her T hey recently celebrated their 60th wedding Gloria Grummel Bergman, M-D '60 grandchildren. Angela M. Bier, '98 annive rsary with a reception at Bjorklunden. Adela Grueber Jolmston, M-D, Oakland, Lowell Reykdal, Tomahawk, spends fi ve Cyndy Zimmerman Cowles, '84 Califo rnia, is treasurer of a gift shop and montl1s of tl1e yea r at Panama City Beach, Martha E. Freitag, C '73 belongs to a book club. Florida . His present hobby is making sq uirrel­ Sarah E. Garner, '98 Myrtle Patterson Lloyd, M-D, Rochester, proof bi rd feeders fo r friends and neighbors. Minnesota, became a great-grandmother for Phoebe t Grant, '77 Bernice Carlson Ritter, Seattle, Washm gton, the 18th and 19th times last year. moved into a retirement home, Ida Culver Patrick J. Grogan, '84 Vivian Abraham Wright, M -D, is active in Frank J. H ammer, Jr., '42 House, after the death of her husband of 65 American Association of Uni versity Women years, David. Jane Voss Holroyd, '61 (AAUW) and League of Women Voters Florence Bertram " Bertie" Roemer, Walter J. Isaac, '64 activities in Appleton. Appleton, celebrated her 85th birthday in UtaJ1 with her entire fa mil y, including three Ann Leverenz Keckonen, '64 1 9 3 3 Kerry A. Kruk, '98 great-grandchildren. Nancy Perkins Lindsey, M-D '54 Katl1erine O'Neill Anderson, M-D, West Alva Bostrom Toretta, Foley, Alabama, visit­ Bend, went to Aft·ica with her granddaughter ed Cedarvi lle, Norway, and Sault Ste. Marie Elizabeth Wood MacDonald, '44 and visited Kenya and Tanzania. They -all in Michiga n. Victoria Moerchen, '86 enj oyed safaris, hot air ba ll oon rides, and Sara J. Mornar, '98 exploring. 1 9 3 5 Charles L. ewhall, '86 Janet Stoltz Harrison, M-D, Wimberley, 6 5th Reunion, June 2000 R. Paul ickel, '97 Texas, ha retired after 20 years teaching sixth Helen Connell Cartwright, Dixon, Ill inois, grade in the H ouston school system. She _has traveled to Daytona Beach in February witl1 a Patricia L. Quentel, '83 been traveling around Texas recently to VISit Raymond J. Ramsey, '88 group of ti-iends and, in April , attended an family and to attend weddings. Elderhostel in Baltimore. She volunteers her James Spofford Reeve III, '95 Jane Streich Kelley, M-D, Skaneateles, New time as a reading helper at a local schooL Mark C. Scheffler, C '91 York, drives between New York and Florida Lloyd Delsart, Minneapolis, Minnesota, visit­ Barbara von Behren Searcy, '67 each year to spend the winter in Mount Pora, ed Bjorklunden last September while he and George Swope, Jr., '72 Florida. She enjoys her gardens and taking his wife, Ruth, were in Door Coun ry . They walks at both homes. also visited Hawaii for nine days to celebrate Peter J. Thomas, '62 Eleanor King Kirkby, M-D, Dallas, Texas, Marian Kirkpatrick Torian, M-D '44 their 50th weddin g anniversary. enj oys many different activities in cluding Oscar E . Gram, Lacey, Washington, is plan­ Susanna Fortney Walby, C '58 church, gardening, and a book club. Last ning a cruise to Copenhagen, Estoni a, St. Nancy Freeman Wallace, '73 yea r, she traveled to Panama fo r a grandson's Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, and T homas P. Wick, '84 wedding. London. In his free time, he volunteers in tl1e Eleanor Moritz Lister, M-D, Wauwatosa, Lacey-Olympia community and at his retire­ Attention usuall y travels to Texas at least once a year to ment community, Panorama City. visit her son. Last yea r, she went to St. Loui s Theodore Kramer, La Mesa, California, vol­ class secretaries for her grandson's wedding. unteers every day at the San Diego State Janet Sloan P hillips, M-D, Santa Barbara, U niversity athletic department. Lawrence Today is published four times Cali fo rnia, likes her new apartment in a retire­ Anita Cast Reichard, Oberlin, Ohio, traveled during the academic yea r: September (fa ll ), ment home. to England last June and to Austria and December (President's Report), March Eleanor Hammersmith Schmitz, M -D, Switzerland in October. (spring), and June (summer) . Shorewood, is busy with the l\llilwaukee The remaining class note deadline for 1998 branch of AAUW. She currently is chair of 1 9 3 6 is: Winter issue, September 1, 1998 the monthly bulletin and corresponding secre­ 65th Reunion, June 2001 (Although the President's Report, tary of the executive board. Helen Albrecht, M -D, Durham, North published as the winter iss ue of Lawrence Norma Spencer West, M-D, Vancouver, Carolina, became a great-grandmother when Today, does not contain class notes, a British Columbia, Canada, has moved into a her two old est granddaughters had babies last special class notes supplement is published se ni or citizens home where her husband can May. and mail ed with it.) have 24-hour attention. She is enj oying Carol Schroeder Caldwell, M-D,

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Colebrook, Connecticut, took a bridge course Carla Naber Urbain, Ri chmond, Indiana, at Bjorklunden last summer and enj oyed the finds volu nteering very rewarding. She works Harry Clor, '51, beautiful su rroundings of Door ounty. with tl1c Stephen Ministiy in her church and a member of Nancy Hoar, M -D, Sumter, South Carolin a, has received training in listening to people is very active in the Women's Overseas Service with problems and helping tl1em work their Kenyon College's League and serves as its trust-fund chai r. problems out. Recently, she started training political science Jane Moe, M-D, Highlands, North Carolina, to become a deacon. Carla volunteers at a facu lty since is comfortable in her mountain home with local hi tori cal museum and at the Indiana ti·equcnt visits from fam il y and friends . She Dunes ational Lakeshore and is a member 1965, has been stays active with church activities and is of the Midwest Outdoor Museum named the first in volved in the "Work and Glo1y" project. Coordinating Council. incumbent of that Jane had some unusual occurrences last yea r, Mary Voecks Volkert, Middlebury, institution's Distinguished including a li ghtning strike on her house and Vermont, enj oys the Vermont State a visit from a hungry bear. Symphony O rchestra and taking in the art Teaching Professorship in Political Elyzabeth Rolph Ramsey, M -D, Bayonet exhibits at Middlebury Coll ege. She also is Science, a position funded in large Point, Florida, is active with church, go l f~ involved with the Lions Club and a student part by his former students. The bridge, and crafts. She took a five-day bus exc hange program. tour to Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and Stone Mary Lou Parker Winetzki, Wausau, volun ­ chair will be held by Clor until his Mountain last year. teers at the Wausau Hospital Gift Shop and retirement; thereafter, the position Harmony Weissbach, M-D, Cedarburg, got witl1 the Red Cross and visits the elderly at will be known as the Harry M. together with six friends to celebrate tl1c local nursing homes. return of Rolita Druse, M -D, to the Clor Professorship in Political Milwaukee area fi·om Southern California. 1 9 4 0 Science. 60th Reunion, June 2000 After graduation from 1 9 3 1 Matjorie Barber Becker, La Crosse, loves Lawrence, Clor earned the doctor­ 65th Reunion, June 2002 havin g her children and grandchildren visit. ate at the University of Chicago. Hester White Maury, Norwalk, Connecticut, She continues to do volunteer work at hospi ­ is planning a summer trip to Vienna, tals in her community. Known for his expertise in political Salzburg, Prague, and Budapest with Ethel philosophy and on censorship and Helmer Riester. 1 9 4 1 free-speech issues, he has testified Leslie Ransley, Oak Park, Illinois, swims 60th Reunion , June 2001 before congressional subcommit­ cve1y day, year-around. His job as a refinery Frances Ruez Buelow, M-D, Shorewood, consultant with Amoco Chemical has taken played a major role in the organization of her tees and presidential commissions him to London, Paris, Athens, Spain, and 60th hi gh school reunion last year. During on pornography. He won Germany recentl y. the Christmas season, she had a reunion of Kenyon's Trustee Award for Joseph Stratman, Oregon, is busy with a the Buelow family in Tucson. Frances serves woodworking shop and traveling. as treasurer of the Shorewood Historica l Distinguished Teaching in 1990. Society and is a member of the Badger Clor, who edited the volume 9 3 8 Embroidery Guild. The Mass Media and Modem 65th Reunion, June 2003 Marion Williamsen Holgerson, M -D, Wauwatosa, celebrated the birth of her third Democracy (1974), is the author of 3 9 grandchild . Her hobbies include fam il y Obscenity and Public Morality: 60th Reunion, June 18- 20,1999 history and organi c gardening. Censorship in a Liberal Society Ruth Barnes Elston, Columbus, Ohio, is on Joyce Jouvenat Kw1kel, Lincoln, Nebraska, (1969) and numerous articles. His spent seven weeks in Europe last summer vis­ the committee for tl1e 1998 in -house eld er most recent book is Public Morality sc hool at Westminstcr-T heirbcr Retirement iting family in Scotland, Sweden, and Greece. Community. She also spent four weeks in Australia and and Liberal Society: Essays on Jane Seaman Gair, M-D, Reseda, California, New Zealand with Friendship Force Decency, Law, and Pornography took a second cruise to Alaska last July. She Exchange. ( 1996 ). enjoys her doll coll ection and is putting Phyllis Simonton Myers, Western Sprin gs, together an informal fami ly history for her Illinois, volunteers mu ch of her time at Recipient of two grants from grandchildren. church and with her son, who is developmen­ the National Endovvment for d1e Marian Rule Schmidt, Cazenovia, cw ta ll y disabled. She traveled to Evanston to Humanities to conduct summer York, at age 81, is sti ll teaching tap six hours visit Martha Carman Fink. Phyllis sees Ruth per week. Her dance troupe, the Happy Gray Mtmdt, '40, at church, where they seminars for teachers, Clor has Tappers, performs for va ri ous groups three or both are in volved in an historic fas hi on show, also taught in Kenyon's Telluride four time per month. Marian also plays for "Petticoat to Pants." Association Summer Program on Ann Sullivan Nelson, M -D, Madison, went theatre groups and recently was honored by American Political Thought for one of the New York teen pageants for her on two hiking trips last year, one to New contribution of music and choreography for Mexico's AJdo Leopold wilderness and the talented high school juniors. He the past 20 years. other to the San Juan Islands and British directed the Telluride Summer Edwin R. Shannon, Appleton, has started Col umbia. She spends time at her fa mil y cot­ Seminars at Cornell University in playing the fiddle again after 20 years. He is tage in Minnesota and participati ng in tl1e also busy with volunteer work and organi zin g League ofWomen Voters. 1975, 1979, and 1983. "a 50-year accumulation of 'stuff."' Fran Stakel Nelson, M-D, Ypsilanti, Lois Parsons Tice, M-D, Milwaukee, serves Mich igan, travels all over the country to visit • http:/ jwww.kenyon.edu/ depts family. She enjoys the summer by relaxing as secretary for a women's li terary clu b and an / pscijclor.htm investment club and has started a new group and spending time with her grandchi ldren at called Women in Focus. She enj oys a patio her summer ca bin . flower garden and watching the birds at a Lucile Samuelsen Shaw, M-D, Springfield , feeder and bath.

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Virginia, spent four days in Fort Lauderdale and Prague last July. She recently returned and two weeks in Japan. She teaches Japanese The North Star District of the Los from a cruise off tl1e upper Califo rni a coast flower arranging. and a journey on the American Orient Elizabeth Birkenheier Van Dale, M-D, Angeles Area Council, Boy Scouts of Express. Jean is active in tl1e Waupun histori­ West Bend, took a cruise to the Bahamas with America, presented John Van Den cal society. her daughter. She plays for choirs and for Akker, '64, with its 1997 Marian Kirkpatrick Torian, M-D, chapel and also enjoys knitting and playing Mishawaka, Indiana, spent l:'vvo weeks in bridge. Distinguished France visiting Dijon and Paris. Her other Robert L. Woodard, Plainfield, Ill inois, trav­ Citizen Award, travels have taken her to Bjorklunden for a eled to Tucson for his Air Force reunion. He which is given to summer seminar and to Appleton for alumni also had a nice visit with fellow Phi Kappa "those who have board meetings. Marian stays active playing Tau Morgen Spangle, '40, when he passed tennis and visiti ng art museums. through Plainfield on his way to Florid a. chosen to do their Marion "IGp" Albrecht Vincent, Appleton, best in following the has published A Christmas Walk; she also 1 9 4 2 principles stated in directs tl1e Appleton YMCA elementary chorus. Helen Bendinger Weiland, Suring, took a 60th Reu n ion, Jun e 20 0 2 the Scout Oath and Sue Thiel Graeszel, M-D, King, enjoys read­ seminar entitled "From the Courts to the in g Lawrence Today and keeping up with what Law." A partner in Concert Hall " at BjorkJunden last summer. is happening on ca mpus. She is sorry she was Portsmouth Barbara Hobbs Withey, Santa Barbara , unable to attend the reun ion. Sue is busy with Properties Ltd., a real-estate sales California, traveled to China in 1996. She has work and physical therapy and is involved in been busy writing articles about her travels of military service organizati ons with her hus­ and management firm, Van Den tl1e past 15 years, including her jomneys to band, Art. Akk:er attended Lawrence for two Russia , tl1 e Caribbean, Rwanda, Born eo, and Betty Budd Feurig Schroeder, M-D, Lac du years before transferring to the Norway. Flambeau, recently traveled to North University of California, Santa Carolina, Connecticut, and South Dakota. 1 9 4 5 She volunteers at a local hospitaL Barbara, where he received a bache­ 55th Re un i on, Ju ne 2000 lor's degree in political science. His Barbara Buell Hill, M -D, West Bend, bas long-time affiliation with Scouting retmned sa fely from an expedition to 1 9 4 3 Antarctica. She sai led fi·om Port Elizabeth i.n has included serving as a Cub Scout 6 0th Reu n io n , June 20 0 3 Africa to sub-a ntarctic French and Australian Nancy Howard Cone, M-D, Batavia, den master in his home community islands, where she saw several penguin rook­ Illinois, is busy with writing, travel, and vol­ of Hermosa Beach. Active in the eries . Barbara also visited French, Australian, unteer work. She writes a column for a local development of the "Santee Alley" and Chinese outposts on Antarctica. monthly publication and volunteers at juvenile Norma Smith, M -D, Green Valley, Arizona, court, serving on a committee for county section of the Fashion District of recently had a children's book published, "boot camp" planning. Travel has recently Los Angeles, he has been president called The Story of Lone Wolf It is a true story taken Nancy to Indonesia, Russ ia, China, and chairman of "The Alley about tl1e life of one of orma's students. Poland, and the Czech Republic, along with Helen Williams Sroka, M -D, spent two Florida and Cali forn ia. Association" and serves on the advi­ weeks at the end of August cruising the Baltic Eleanor Lindley Frissell, M-D, Sewickley, sory board of the Fashion District Sea, visiting Berlin , St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Pennsylvania, enjoys playing the piano and Business Improvement District. In Stockholm, Oslo, and Copenhagen. She was walking. She belongs to the local historical 1979 he spent five weeks in Korea as saddened to see tl1e disrepair of tl1e beautiful society, a music club, and Church Women old buildings. United. part of a good-will exchange team Sue Pasteur Sweet, M-D, Milwaukee, Maude Steene Malick, M-D, Verona, sponsored by Rotary International . enjoyed the opportunity to travel to England Pennsylvania, went to Switzerland for a last October. month to just get away and then went to visi t Dorathy Kluge Tirnm, M-D, Delafield, her cousin in Scotland for a couple of weeks. traveled to the flower festi val at the Bi ltmore Jane Mees, M -D, Pasadena, California, Lois Rauschenberger Fieweger, Wilton, Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, last enjoyed attending the sesquicentennial Connecticut, retired from guidance counsel­ spring. She became a grandmother again witl1 reunion celebration, especial ly tl1 e opportuni­ ing in 1996. Now she volunteers with tl1e birth of t\vo more grandchildren, Ingrid ty to visit the fo rmer Milwaukee-Downer Hospice and as a mentor for a third-grade T imm and Abigail Smith. Coll ege buildings and the reunion luncheon student. in Milwaukee. Carole McCarthy Head, Freeland, Michigan, 1 9 4 6 Marion Longyear Sonderegger, M-D, recently traveled to Budapest, Vienna, and 55th Re un i on, Ju ne 2001 Marquette, Michigan, is quite busy witl1 com­ Prague. Catherine Powers Beckmann, M-D, munity, family, and church activities, includ­ Janice Klemish, Oshkosh, does solo handbell Milwaukee, is retired from tl1e Milwaukee ing an annual marionette show to raise money ringing as well as being a member of a church public school system, where she taught high for an AAUW sc holars hip program. handbell ensemble. She also plays piano duets school Engli sh. Now she enjoys traveling with former UW-Oshkosh coll eagues. Janice throughout the Midwest and to Arizona for 1 9 4 4 volunteers at Martin Lutl1er School and at a the holidays to visit her son. Catllerine and 5 5t h Re u n io n, June 18 -2 0, 1999 local nursing home. her husband, Gordon, recently celebrated Jtme Pugh Bergwall, M-D, Mount Dora, Ruth Ann Jaeger Loew, M-D, Madison, their 50th wedding anniversary. Florida, is enjoying retirement at Waterman traveled by train to Nortl1ern Mexico last Pat Wheeler Galloway, Menasha, has served Village. Last yea r, she spent three months sp ring and al so went to Germany, Hungary, on the Visiting Nurse Association and library vacationing in Wisconsin, Indiana, and and Slovakia in tl1e fal l. boards and is a volunteer naturalist at a local Canada. Elizabeth Wood MacDonald, Menasha, nature center. She and her husband, Dick, Marjorie lwen Buckley, Groton, enjoys spendin g time with her ch ildren . celebrated tl1eir SOtl1 wedding anniversary in Connecticut, enj oyed a trip to Kenya last year Jean Lawson Stelsel, Waupun, toured February 1997. and recentl y returned fi·om Costa Ri ca . Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Vienna, Venice,

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Monterey, California, traveled through the 1 9 4 9 Chunnel while in Europe over the wi nter hol­ In 1996, Gay Pearson, C '65, 50th Reu n ion, Ju ne 18 -2 0,1 99 9 idays. She also journeyed up and down the Nancy Mayhew Anderson, lived in Greece, left the New Jersey Department of West Coast visiting family. Gertrude vol un ­ Israel, and Evanston, Illinois before moving Environmental Protection, where teers with Meals on Wheels and the American to Alexandria, Virgi ni a. She is active with the Cancer Society. she had worked Northern Virginia chapter of Delta Ga mma. for 12 years as a Louise Framberg Magnuson, Brevard, Norm Beckman, Appleton, has spent consid­ North Carolina, is a painter and enjoys play­ erable time and energy fighting the proposed senior environ­ ing golf in her leisure time. She and her hus­ EJC(on metallic sulfide mine near Crandon, band, Bob, celebrated their 50th wedding mental specialist Wisconsin. H is band, "The Geriatric Jazz anniversary last year. with the Bureau Group" now includes 41 active members, and Shirley Vogt Rogers, M-D, Austin, Texas, tl1ey have begun arts-enric hment programs in of Air Quality spent two weeks in Guadalajara last Januaty. the eenah elementary and middle schools. Evaluation, hav­ She also traveled to Wisconsi n for the One of tl1e newest members of the band is Milwaukee-Downer reunion luncheon and to ing decided "it Ken Anderson, '52. spend some time at Bjorklunden. Shirley con­ was time to Carol Vivian Bergquist, Downey, California, tinues to take lifetime-learning classes and vol­ enjoys visiting her daughter in North commit to becoming a better jazz unteer in her parish food panuy and libra1y . Carolina, where she can take in the beauty Patricia Yates Ta.nnhaeuser, M -D, pianist." Pearson, who had been and history of Sava m1 ah and the Appalachi an Milwaukee, visited family in Cali fornia . She playing with various combos at Mountains. does volunteer work and loves to read. Carol J. Butts, Appleton, has moved in to an colleges and coffeehouses and Ruth Foxwell Wenzel, M-D, Evanston, apartment in a newly renovated building on with local big bands, has now Ill inois, had a delightfu l reunion with Helen the former campus of tl1e Institute of Paper Wittman Mills and Elaine Radloff De released her debut CD, Nature ChemistJ.y. She works part-time as Lawrence's Salva, M-D '48. Girl, which is receiving play archi vist. on local jazz and college radio Betty Ren Wright Frederiksen, M-D, 1 9 4 7 Racine, has three books scheduled for publi­ stations and also national air time 55th Re u n io n, Ju ne 200 2 cati on in 1998 and another one on the way. on middle-of-the-road stations. A Barbara Gorman Carroll, M -D , Gurnee, She enj oys taking daily walks and spending Newark Star-Ledger reviewer says, Illinois, is active with the Bedlington Terrier time witl1 her family and friends. Betty peri­ Club of Greater Chicago. odicall y meets with fe ll ow Milwaukee Downer "The classical influence of her John and Jean Pond Dever, '44, Pleasanton, alumnae Patricia Holm Horne, Betty earlier years is still strongly evident California, toured Las Vegas, the Utah Podolske, Jane Glaubitz Hall, Shirley in solos borrowing classical tech- national parks , and the Grand Canyon. John Glaubitz Thornberry, Bunny Stetler recently took an assignment in the U kraine 11iques and strategies. Pearson is Bessert, Janet Schaefer Hoffman, '48, for the Mott Foundation, helping officials in Louise Wesle Wuesthoft, '47, and Joyce most often a deft jazz improviser tl1 e Knipropetrovsk region with economic Raasch Ramstack. whose sense of ensemble form development. Jule Horscha.k Friar, Naples, Florida, travels makes many of her tracks invitingly Betty Jerma.in Dreyer, M-D, Mequon, and often during tl1e summer including recent her husband, Gus, have built a win ter home trips to London and Wilton, England, tl1e shapely." Cadence magazine says, in Arizona, within sight of the anta Catalina Berkshires, and New York City . On a recent "She plays in a straight-ahead Mountains. trip to Wisconsin, she visi ted Peggy Clark manner, yet she has an element of Pam Vojack Smith Hahn, M-D, 0 age Sta.lker and Phyllis Densmoor Spencer. Jule Beach, Missouri, stays very busy running her volunteers at a local soup kitchen and a thrift liberation in her delivery that ele­ pool, deck, and patio furniture store, yet finds shop and a a home visitor and case worker to vates the performance several time to serve on the steerin g committee for a tl1e elderly and disabled. notches." Although much of her local jazz festival and to volunteer. She spent Meredythe McCarthy, St. Louis Park, New Year's in Florida, where she saw the time since release of Nature Girl Minnesota, celebrated her 70tl1 birthday in Naples Philharmonic in concert, then contin­ Fargo with all of her children. She also went has been spent promoting and ued on to Mexico for the remainder of her hiking in the footl1ills of the Big Horn marketing it, she recently began vacation. Mountains. working on a second CD . She Mary Groves Hansen, M-D, Wauwatosa, Lois Wiker Olson, M-D, Port Washington, celebrated her SOtl1 wedding anniversary with does a great deal of reading and volunteerin g also brings jazz combos to the her fam il y in Door County. She also enjoyed at a library and at a hospital. Her recent vaca ­ local church where she is music the 50th reunion for Milwaukee Downer tions have taken her to Arizona and West director, teaches private piano Class of 1947 in Milwaukee and at Lawrence. Virginia as we ll as northern Wisconsin. Sally Gruetzmacher Roll, M -D, Madison, students, and is substitute secre­ Betty Moore Palardy, M-D, Reseda, celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary last California, is enj oyin g retirement because she tary at Riverview Cemetery. fall with a trip to Tmkey. She enjoys being an has the time to do what she likes, such as artist and working on antique cars with her being an elder at her church and making husband. quilts and other craft items for her grandchil ­ Janet Rodgers La.hl, M-D, Milwaukee, trav­ Constance Nickoloff Hedtke, M -D , dren and friends. eled to Long Boat Key in Florida during the Duluth, Minnesota, is taking classes at the Elena Sawyer Rucci, M-D, San Diego, winter and to England on a genealogy trip University for Seniors and tryin g to document California, enjoys traveling and is planning to with her granddaughter. Currently, she is her genealogy. spend several weeks in Paris, with a barge trip rewri ting and updating her fam il y history. Lois Addicks Johnson, M -D , Wauwatosa, in tl1e Upper Loire Val ley. She is active witl1 communi ty work in San Diego, including tl1e traveled to Arkansas, Minnesota, and 1 9 4 8 California to visit fami ly last year. She is a Committee of 100, the YMCA, and golf member of three art leagues and showed her 55th Reunion, June 2003 clubs. watercolors at eight group shows last year. Gertrude Johnson McEwen Koehler, M-D,

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1 9 5 0 1 9 5 2 50th Reunion, June 2000 50th Reunion, June 2002 Centerbrook James Auer, Wauwatosa, is an art critic and Architects and currently working on a one-hour special for 1 9 5 3 Planners of Essex, tl1e local PBS station. He has celebrated 25 50th Reunion, June 2003 Connecticut, has years with The Milwaukee Journal and its suc­ John Anderson, Racine, is actively using the cessor, The journal Sentinel. Internet to se ll antiques and collectibles . He been selected by Jean Eiss Casey, Ellison Bay, enjoys living in also enj oys taking care of five gardens and a the American beautiful Door County next to seven acres of pond on his one-and-a-half acres of land. Institute of cherry orchard. She stays in touch wim her Betty Homrighausen Beals, M-D, Allison Lawrence roommate, Anne Glasner, '51, Park, Pennsylvania, traveled to Toronto in Architects to and keeps busy singing in two choirs. May 1997 and took a seven -day cruise in receive its 1998 Firm of the Year Pat Connelly, Portland, O regon, is having a August. She visited Athens, Istanbul, Bulgaria, Award. Jefferson B. Riley, '68, a wonderful reti rement. She has a lot of time to the U kraine, Egypt, Cyprus, and Israel. travel , read, garden, attend classes and plays, Stephen Busch, Fort Collins, Colorado, founding partner in the firm and a and go on cruises, trips, and Elderhostels. directs Elderh ostel programs in handbell s, as member of the AlA College of Eloy and Nancy Stolp Fominaya, Augusta, well as the handbell choir at the U nited Fellows, is the architect of Georgia, traveled last August to London, Methodist Church. Lawrence University's Wriston Art where they had the opportuJlity to be part of Bill Cerny, Sr., Wausau, does volunteer work the choir in residence at Westminster Abbey. for Golden K, Habitat for Humanity, and tl1e Center, which was dedicated in George Frederick, Beaver Dam, is going to United Way. He and his wife celebrated tl1 ei r 1989. The award, the AlA's high­ be the voice on a PBS segment that is sched­ 25tl1 wedding anniversary last September with est, is given annually to a firm that uled to air in 1998, spotli ghting the Beaver a trip to ScotlaJ1d . Dam YMCA Circus, which was a huge success Anne Fritsche! Crone, M-D, has produced distinguished archi­ from 1942 to 1959. Hendersonville, North Carolina, cruised the tecture consistently for at least ten Janet Tippet Goldsmith, Mequon, enjoys a Greek Islands and especiall y enj oyed years. Previous recipients have time-share in Mazatlan, Mexico, every April. Mykonos, Delos, and Paros. At home, she She paints and sells watercolors in her spare likes to garden, golf, and do needlepoint. included I. M. Pei & Partners; time. Valeria Schoofs Farrand, Moraga, Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown; Angelo Greco, Milwaukee, is in his second California, is active with the AAUW and the and Skidmore, Owings, and yea r of retirement. He acquired his black belt Moraga Women's Society. She recently u·av­ Merrill. in Tai Quon Do and is now working on Tai eled to Germany, Austria, and Poland. Chi , which is less stTenuous. Lawrence H. Larsen, Kansas City, Missouri, According to company Roy A. Stark, Manitowoc, remarried in 1996 spent last summer in tl1e Boundary Waters of sources, "Centerbrook specializes after eight years as a widower. They have been northwestern Ontario. Anotl1er highlight of in architecture with a distinctly remodeling and addin g on to his house as his yea r was a trip to San Francisco to attend well as traveling. Both of Roy's parents are the annual meeting of the Organization of American approach, as its work approaching 100 years, and he recently American Historians. His co-autl1ored book, is eclectic and its metl1ods democ­ helped them celebrate their 75th wedding The Gate City: A History of Omaha, was released ratic. Part of the firm's success is anniversary. last summer by the University of Nebraska credited to its collaborative metl1- Nancy Schneider Weissenborn, Brooktleld, Press, which also published his biography, works as an admi ni strative assistant to the [Thomas ].j Pendergast (see page 37). ods, in which clients help shape dean of tl1e College of Business and Estie Clingman Lawrence, Tucson, AJ·izona, tl1eir own projects and architectural Management at Cardinal Stritch College. She is a reading tutor in a Tucson grade school staff members share in running also serves as treasurer for the Florentine and a docent at a desert park. She is currently Opera and is a member of AAUW and Delta doing a lot of genealogy and learning German tl1e firm ." Architectural critic Paul Gamma Alumnae. gothic script so she can read old parish Goldberger says of Centerbrook, record s. She spent two weeks navigating the "To these architects, buildings 1 9 5 1 Midland canals of England, enjoying villages 50th Reunion, June 2001 aJ1d pubs along the way. being warm and inviting and Ginl Wahl Ernest, M-D, Neenah, loved Donald W. Matheson, Wind Lake, enjoyed embracing a sense of place, making seei ng so many classmates at tl1e Milwaukee­ coming back to campus for tl1e reunion activi­ a place feel special, is as important Downer luncheon last June. She spent ties last June and again in the fall for former a part of architectural functioning Thanksgiving in Spokane, Washington, witl1 tea mmate Bruce Bigford's induction into the her son and his fami ly. Athletic Hall of Fame. as making tl1e plumbing work." Marion Metcalf Hoffman, M-D, Nan Hosutt Micheletti, M-D, Hudson, Milwaukee, missed the reunion due to her Ohio, serves on tl1e Hudson Bandstand com­ + http:/ /vvww.centerbrook.com/ son's wedding. She is very busy restoring her mittee, which raises money to put on 15 con­ historic house. certs each summer. She also continues to be Cathy Peffer, M-D, Cin cinnati, Ohio, active with Church Women United, DAR, recently traveled to various places including and the board of directors of The AJ-c (for­ South An1erica, Alaska, Scandinavia, the merly Association for Retarded Citi zens). 1 9 5 4 British Isles, and Egypt. She is an active Kathie Laing Poremba, Deerfield, Illinois, 45th Reunio n, June 20 00 volunteer working in county parks and at traveled to Egypt and took a cruise on the soup kitchens. Nile. She also took her annual trip to Las 1 9 5 5 Mary Van Gorden, M-D, Black River Falls, Vegas and San Diego to visit friends. loves to travel now that she is retired. Most Jane Baumam1 Savitt, M-D, Oshkosh, gets 45t h Reu n ion, Ju n e 2 0 00 recently, she has been to Greece and T urkey togetl1 er on a monthly basis witl1 Milwaukee­ John Mcintyre, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and plans to go to Norway in 1998. Mary is Downer classmates Pat Cody Somlieitner, recently completed a tl1ree-year term on the currently invo lved in producing a famil y history. Janet Chermak, J ackle Puccinelle Bertram, board of directors of his country club, during and Joan Andropolis. She is excited that her which he also served as president. new Jog home finally is being built. Robet·t N . Meredith, Chippewa Falls, is

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involved in a number of volunteer activities, California. He enjoys water-skiing in the sum­ marketing for Kairos Software. JoAnn volun­ including the Red Cross, a mobile meals pro­ mer and snow skiing in tl1e wi nter. Since teers in ilieir daughter's first-grade classroom gram, and the board of u·ustees for the Cook­ retiring, Bill has had plenty of time for gar­ and helps out with their yolmgest grand­ Rutledge mansion, an historically significant dening, biking, kayaking, and rollerblading. daughter. home currently being restored to its origi nal Jane McBride, Elmhurst, Illinois, spent the Carol Fallon Tierney, Dulutl1 , Minnesota, 1874 condition. su mmer in New Hampshire, where she has a spent tl1 e summer in Latvia teaching English Susan LaRose Robertson, Valparaiso, home, and in nortl1ern Wisconsin , where she to high school students and working with Florida, is retired. Her husband, Malcolm, is has a ca bin by a lake. Her second grandchild Latvian English teachers. She also used the also retired from the U.S. Air Force. is expected this swnmer. opportunity to go hiking in Switzerland for Mary Shaw Sunby, Milwaukee, recently Frederic C. Stevens, Pensacola, Florida, her 60tl1 birtl1day. Her new job is managing a returned from trips to Egypt, Jordan, and remarried in 1996 and moved to Florida, 24-voice classical singing group . She also per­ Croatia. where he enjoys golf all year and going to the forms many different volunteer jobs, including beach. serving on tl1e board of a public television sta­ 1 9 5 6 Elizabeth Wilton is second secretary in tl1e tion and working at a treatment center for 45th Reunion, June 2000 U.S . embassy in Luxembourg. She plans to adjudicated youtl1 . retire soon after her current assignment is 1 9 5 7 completed. She visited Ap pleton while on 1 9 6 0 45th Reunion , June 2002 leave last summer and enjoyed a concert in 4 0 th Reunion, June 2000 tl1e chapel. Mary Fairman, M-D, Grand Rapids, Charlotte Brokaw, Birmingham, Alabama, Michigan, sang in tl1e chorus of a local pro­ has traveled recentl y to Canada, on an duction of Aida. 1 9 5 9 Alaskan cruise, and to Key West as an escort Margaret Neess LaParo, M -D, Wyomissing, 40th Reunion, June 18-20, 1999 for her husband's u·avel agency. She volun­ Pennsylvania, traveled to Milwaukee to attend Donald Andler, Barrington, Illinois, and a teers at tl1e Humane Society. the Downer reunion luncheon. On tl1e trip, partner have purchased Hallcrest, Inc., a spe­ Cornelia Dohr Hoglund, Bremerton, she also visited her sisters in Minnesota and cialty chemical company with international Washington, remodeled her house and ended Wisconsin. She recently took a cruise through sales. up wi tl1 a sewing room. She loves being the Panama Canal. Ruth Wangerin Hendra, Ishpeming, retired and enjoys spending tl1e summers at Patricia Petersen, M-D, Grayslake, Illinois, Michigan, spends the summer at her log cabin tl1eir cottage on a golf course witl1 a lake had the opportunity to travel to China and to in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is fortu­ nearby. Neal volw1teers some of her time at Bali for a seminar. She is still counseling in nate to be able to do a lot of traveling and is her church. her private practice and preparing her photog­ planning a Windjammer cruise this year. Hal W. Lindfelt, Colorado Springs, raphy for pleasure and sale. James G. Scharinger, Winnipegosis, Colorado, has retired from teaching after 30 Ma.Jutoba, Canada, was inducted into the years, during which he received the DAR 1 9 5 8 Ukrainian Culture Institute Hall of Fame for American History Teacher of tl1e Year Award. 45th Reunion, Ju n e 20 0 3 his promotion of Ukrainian culture and tradi­ Louise Putnam Pate, Tucson, Arizona, was tions. H e serves as pastor for 13 Ukrainian looking forward to a trip to Rome in May and Jeanne Begalke Brazier, Glen Ellyn, Il]jnois, Catholi c parishes. is director of the Suzuki Talent Education singi ng witl1 her choir at tl1e Vatican. She Program in Glen Ellyn. She missed the last Karl and JoAnn Staab ('60) Schmidt live in planned to retire in June as librarian at reunion because she was vacationing in Palo Alto, California. Karl is a senior associate Mountrun View High School. with Interactive Minds and vice-president of Tad and Hannah Gale Pinkerton, Madison, Alaska. Fritz and Patty Windes Callahan, spent some time in Fiji snorkeling, Pasadena, California, vacationed in after Hannah completed a montl1 of teaching tl1ere. In February Oregon, where they went on a 40- 1997, Hannah had a reunion in mi le hike along the Rogue River. Viking Football in California Fritz retired from tl1e National New York with Judy Bell ' Bachleitner, Carol Closkey Security Agency a few years ago and Macomber, and Karen Schwantes is now taking art classes, spending a lot of time drawing, painting, and Lawrence University vs. Pomona College Keele. Jon Rose, San Ramon, California, making prints at tl1e studio. Patty is in Claremont, California recently sold part of his award-win­ still working but hopes to get off the ning stam p coll ecti on at auction in treadmill in 1999. Saturday, September 12, 1998 New York. All items on sale were Gordon R. Clapp, Kno:x.'Ville, from the U .S. issue of 1869, on Tennessee, has been trying to sell his Traditional Wisconsin-Style Tailgate Party wluch he also has written a book. home in Atlanta so he can complete Ronald P. Simon, Chandler, tl1e transition to KJ10:>..'Ville and mar- 11:30 a.m. Arizona, is a matl1ematics teacher ried life. He was married on Kick-off in tl1e Mesa Public Schools. December 12, 1997, to his high Karen Rather Stiles, Edina, school steady. 1:00 p.m. Minnesota, and her husband, Marla McCarty Gousseff, M-D, Casual reception for LU coaches and players, William, '57, take ma.Jl)' trips to Ypsilanti, Michigan, continues to alumni, parents, and friends following the game the San Luis Obispo area to visit work with physically handicapped stu­ their daughter. They spend the dents in an early in tervention pro­ Pomona College Alumni House s gram . She recently traveled to China. ummer at Berry Lake near Overnight accommodations available Friday, Shawano. Marla was awarded the Woman of September 11, and Saturday, September 12, Ron Traver, Fort Wortl1, Texas, Distinction awa rd for 1997 by Beta at the Claremont Inn for $59/night. Call the Inn was married in April 1997 and now Chapter of tl1e Delta Kappa Gamma (800-854-5733) for reservations; you must has a fi ve-year-old step-son. He is Society International. an attorney in private practice. William R. Laycock, Santa Ana, mention "Lawrence Alumni Football Weekend." M. Jon Vondracek, Washington, California, retired several years ago Invitations and further information will be sent D.C., is vice -president for external and is now refurbislung an old moun­ to all California alumni this summer. relations of the Center for Strategic trun house at Lake Arrowhead,

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1 9 6 2 president of the Upper Midwest Bottled Water Association. H e is also a member of David M. Shlaes, 40th Reunion , June 2002 several committees of the board of tl1e Stan Metcalf, Hampton, Virginia, spends '69, vice-presi­ International Bottled Water Association, about six months of tl1e year on the road in a dent for infectious serves on tl1e board of directors of m e motorhome, "seeing America." disease research at Madeline Island Music Camp, and is a trustee Wyeth-Ayerst 1 9 6 3 of a major private charitable foundation. Jeff Rohrsen, Chicago, Illinois, and his wife, Research in Pearl 40th Reunion, June 2003 Bernarda, traveled to Jiangx i Province in River, New York, Christian Vogel, Perrysburg, Ohio, is plant China in July 1997 to adopt their daughter, manager for Schuetz Container Systems. After was pictured on Linnea. 30 years of living in ew York and Germany, Bob and Ann Uber ('64) Tirk, Marengo, the cover of the April 6 issue of he's happy to be back in the Midwest. Illinois, are working in ilie same building as Business Week and quoted in the Robert and Jean Sydow ('65) West live in music educators. Bob teaches band and Ann cover story entitled "War Against Washington, D.C., where Jean is senior agent general music. with Uniglobe Democracy Travel and Robert Nancy Washburn, Phoenix, Arizona, is an the Microbes." Shlaes, who grad­ is president ofinformal Science, Inc., a con­ employment specialist for the State of Arizona uated from Lawrence with a B.A. sultant firm for museums. Rehabilitation Service Administration, training people on Social Security work incentives and in biology-chemistry, magna cum 1 9 6 4 laude, earned the Ph.D. in micro­ coordinating a customer-service training pro­ 40th Reunion, 2004 gram. She volunteers at a domestic violence biology and the M.D. degree shelter and her church and teaches at a from Case Western Reserve 1 9 6 5 community college. University. He is a leading figure 35th Reunion, June 2001 Ann Torkelson Weigl, Deerfield, Illinois, is in research into bacterial resistance P. K. and Phoebe Rhodes Allen, West a business-performance consultant. Simsbury, Connecticut, traveled to the to antibiotics and the discovery of Galapagos Islands and me Amazon River 1 9 6 6 new antibacterial and antiviral Basin last year. P. K. is currently building sin­ 35th Reunion , June 2001 compounds suitable for drug gle-family homes in a neighboring town and Michael Anger, Lockport, Illinois, is an assis­ volunteering his time recording bestsellers for tant professor of clinical pediatrics at ilie development. Before joining KRIS radio and for Connecticut Talking University of Chicago. He taught sailin g last Wyeth-Ayerst, he was chief of the Books for the Blind and HaJ1dicapped. summer at a camp for yo ung CaJKer patients. infectious diseases section of the Phoebe speciali zes in pottery, creating one-of­ Jane Nelson Azzi, Appleton, is a librarian at Veterans Administration Medical a-kind ceramic lamps. She has been a docent Appleton Norm High School, where oilier at the Wadswortl1 Atheneum for over ten Lawrence alum teachers include Greg Lee, Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and years. who teaches social studies. professor of medicine at tl1e Case Jay and Carolyn Stickney Beck live in Sue Eaton Benowicz, Lake Oswego, Western Reserve School of Rochester, Minnesota, where Carolyn is coor­ Oregon, is director of the Math Skills Center dinator of programs in humanities in medi­ and a mathematics instructor at Lewis and Medicine. cine at the Mayo Foundation and Jay is an Clark College. investment executive with Dain Bosworth. Bonnie Booth and Murray Nelson, Tacoma, Elliott J. Bush is pastor of the First United Washington, enjoy boating and glassblowing. and International Studies and a new member Metlwdist Church in Kenosha and has been Murray is practicing dentistry, and Bonnie is of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees. serving as chair of me Commission on self-employed as a consultant. In 1997 he organized a 24-member congres­ Christian Unity in the Wisconsin Annual Nancy Beaudway Burmeister, Ivory Coast, sional delegation for a CSIS conference in Conference. West Africa, and her husband, Jonathan, Brussels on the fiJture of European-U.S. rela­ John Herr, Glendale, Arizona, teaches high­ returned to the United States for one year in tions. David Mulford, '59, served as chair of school vocal music and directs two church 1996, when they worked as translator/lin­ the panel on economics. Jon also helped choirs. guists for Wycliffe Bible Translators. They establi sh the $2.5 million Prechter Ted Katzoff, Hermosa Beach, California, returned to the Ivory Coast last July. Endowment to further German-American teaches fencing at Harvard-Westlake School J. B. de Rosset, Miami, Florida, is a regis­ cooperation, and be recently published two and me Westside Fencing Center and is start­ tered representative for Equitable. poems in tl1e 20th-anniversary anthology of ing a fencing program for tl1e disabled. Carol Weeks DeVoss, St. Charles, Illinois, tl1e Root R.iver Poets Society. Carol Bellinghausen Lehman, Lakewood, retired from teaching in 1995. Colorado, graduated from me U ni versity of Ingrid Tucholke Finnan, Riverdale, New 1 9 6 1 Colorado School of Law and moved on to York, is a textile designer for P. Kaufman, Inc. pass me bar exam . She just opened a small 40th Reunion, June 2001 Julie Wolfert Gembara, Oak Forest, Illinois, office near her home and is practicing immi­ Diane Alagna Andreoni, M-D, Elm Grove, is a teacher's assistant in Soutl1 Holland. gration law. plays with the Terrace Trio at several area David Glidden, Riverside, California, is a Mary Hannegan McMillan, Raleigh, North clubs in addition to teaching instrumental professor of philosophy at UC-Riverside. He Carolina, is in the postgraduate program in music and orchestra in the Wauwatosa public became a farner in February 1997, when he paralegal studies at Meredith Coll ege. schools. and his wife, Susan Carpenter, '68, adopted Barbara Bradley Petura, Pullman, Joan Tomarkin Lucht, M-D, Wauwatosa, is Anna Meili Glidden from Guangshou, China. Washington, assistant vice-president for uni­ a kindergarten assistant in the Elm Brook Am1a was tw o aJ1d one-half years old and had versity relations at Washington State Public Schools. been living at tl1e Children's Welfare Institute University, has completed the manuscript for Nancy Charm Owen, M-D, Spring Valley, since she was 13 months. The Enduring Siberian Husky, a book on tl1 e New York, is a case administrator with me Nancy Fratcher Graham, Woodbridge, history of mis breed in its native Asia, expect­ American Arbitration Association. Connecticut, is a science teacher. ed to be published in 1998. Nancy Schroeder Snyder, M-D, Aptos, Robin Thomason Gordon, Potomac, Thomas T. Rogers, Princeton, president of California, traveled to Mongolia and China Maryland, is assistant principal in tl1e eenah Springs, Inc., has been serving as last sunu11er. Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville.

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Russ, '64, li ve in George Peltier, Edin a, Minnesota, is a plastic Normal, Illinois, surgeon with Hennepi n Facul ty Associates. where he is profes­ Char Singleton, Atherton, California, trav­ sor of Engl ish at eled to South Africa in April to vis it her Illinois State daughter, who was taking her Princeton University. spring semester at the University of Cape Carolyn Withee Town. Char is co-chair of an $18 mi llion Scott is the assis­ capital campaign for Menlo School, her tant musician at All children's hi gh school. Saints Church, Barbara Martin-Smith, Webster Groves, Orlando, Florida. Missouri, is hosting an exchange student fi·om Janette Utter Chil e. Barbara's outstandin g experience of the Smart and Don, past year was a trip to Russia with the Ballet '64, li ve in Conservatory of St. Louis, with whi ch her Madison, where she daughter is a ba ll erina. is a docent and Martha Colburn Stoune-Rasmus, council member for Menomonee Fa ll s, is associate director of the the University of Mental Health Association in Milwaukee Wisconsin's County. Elve hj em Museum Kathedne Trent, Mount Crosby, Lawrence alumni on hand in Waupaca to celebrate the September 6, of Art. T heir son, Queensland, Australia, teaches strings at St. 1997, wedding of Kimberly Pichler, '84, and Brent Frankenhoff included Robert Smart, Aidan's Angli can School for Girls, conducts a (from left): Kris Otto, '96, Ming Koh, '94, Jessi Hoy, '94, Angela Roskop, '96, is a sculptor yo uth orchestra, and serves on the national '94, the bride, the groom, David Kranz, '94, Shannon Glenn, '94, and Devin pursuin g the committee for the Australia Strin gs Master of Fin e Arts Association and is a sistant editor of its Artley, '94. degree at Boston journal. University. Chdstopher (IGt) Vernon, Shorewood, Sharyn Jacob serves on the steering committee of the new Ann Margaret Kesselring Hamon, Madison, Smith, Corvalli s, Oregon, teaches computer­ Shorewood Community Fitness Center and is a librarian. She and her husband, Peter, plav technology applications at a community col­ on the boards of directors of the Shorewood bridge with Marc ('77 ) and Lee Bellows lege. Civic Improvement Foundation and the ('78) Weinberger. Metropolitan Mil waukee Association of Carol Johnsrud Hansen, Mequon, works at 1 9 6 7 Commerce Council of Small Business Ethan Al len Carriage House. 35t h Reunion , Jun e 20 0 1 Executives. Holly Guequierre Hart, Eau Claire, com­ Roy E. Brouwer is building superintendent Guy Vitale, Ga lesburg, Illinois, president of pleted the doctorate in educational adminis­ of the First Congregational Church of G&M Disu·ibutors, Inc., received special n·ation from UW-Madison and has opened a Wauwatosa and has overseen the restoration recognition as a national beer wholesaler in charter school. In the past ten yea rs her alter­ of the ch urch's ori ginal 1853 su·u cturc. He 1997. He is planning a visit to Italy to look native sc hool and charter sc hool have grad uat­ moved into a 1910 Victori an home in 1997 up relatives and fam il y birthplaces. ed over 700 srudents. and has been restoring and landscapin g it. Tony and Jenny Cowie ('69) Walter, moved Michie Kobayashi Ki.jima spent several yea rs Sue Zimmerman Brown, Sioux Fa ll s, South to Columbia, South Carolina, in 1996. Tony in the Middle East while her husband, Terue, Dakota, is president of Sioux Falls Area is coordin ator of youth and young adults at was the Japanese ambassador to Bahrain. Found ation. St. Ma.rtin's-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, They were back in Tokyo for three years and Janet Sheppat·d DuVall, LaPorte, Colorado, and Jenny is a master's candidate in linguistics now are living in Buenos Aires, where Terue served as Larimer County commissioner from at the University of South Carolina. Their is ambassador to Argentina. 1992 to 1996. She now works as a personal son, Aran, '95, is youth minister at St. T homas Rick Kroos is retired and li ving in Repul se coach, helping people through times of Episcopal Church in Neenah-Menas ha. Bay, H ong Kong, China. change and adversity. Cooper Wood, Denver, Colorado, works as a Steve Landfried, Edgerton, works with at­ R. Eric Dyrud, Anchorage, Alaska, is presi ­ medical cataloguer and also serves as manager risk students in Stoughton, Wisconsin. He dent of Associated Brokers, Inc., and in his and president of his condo association. also travels the world for the Intern ational 21st yea r in Alas ka. Dana R. Zitek, London, England , is manag­ Crane Foundati on. Doug Giffm, Kewaskum, is sales manager for ing director, United Kingdom, for Lucent Wendy McClure McCalvy, Racine, is a barn Butler Building Supply. Doug vacationed last Technologies. manager and president of the Caledonia Land year in Seattle, where he visited his son and Trust. Her fox hunt in northern Illinois is did some backpacking in the Olympic 9 6 8 going strong, despite "encroaching develop­ Mountains. He has been putting his geology 30th Reunion, June 18-20, 1999 ment." degree to use coll ecting hundreds of stones to Marge Frank McClintock, Lake Forest, landscape his homestead. 1 9 6 q Illinois, teaches part-time in Lake Bluff. Marcia Rogers Hwlter, a middle-school 30t h Reunion, June 18- 20,1999 Roberta Haiges Nestor, Downers Grove, teacher in Ashland, Oregon, and her family Susan Grieb Ander, Chandler, Arizona, Illinois, has one chil d out of coll ege and livi ng visited Chihuahua, Mexico, last summer to work in the Mesa public schools as a substi­ at home and another sti ll attend ing coll ege. meet the family of the exchange student who tute teacher in pre-K through ixth grade Ed Rath, Champaign, Illinois, is associate lived with them for a year. This year they classrooms as well as in library, music, and director of the University ofiiiinois School of hosted an Australian student for two months. physical education. Music. He just finished his 23rd year as Sonja Fergestad Lazear, Fairfax, Virginia, Steve Bogue, Omaha, Nebraska, is an attor­ administrative director of the Classical Music works part-time as mystery shopper for a gro­ ney with McGrath, orth, Mullin and Kratz. Festival in Eisenstadt/Vienna, Austria. cery store chain. Last spring, she visited Eric Denemark, Given, West Virginia, is Margaret Cornelison Robbins and Ford, Greece and visited the islands of Mykonos president of DEN EX Corporation, a geologi­ '64, arc in their tenth yea r in Santa Fe, ew and Skopelos. cal and engineering consulting company. H is Mexico, where Ford is a ti·ec-lancc nature Gerry Max, Madison, teaches human ities and second business, Thunder Motorsports, owns photographer. related courses at Lakeland Coll ege. Margaret Lessels Rutter and her husband,

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the only remaining Bill Elli ott, McDonald's™ Kristin Allderson Uihlein, Mequon, has Monopoly® Ford Thunderbird Winston Cup Resident Alien, a taken leave from teaching art and is currently car, which tours for promotional purposes working witl1 an interior designer as well as during the racing season and also is used in recent work by painting in a co-op studio. charity work for the Make-A-Wish playwright Stuart Foundation. • Spencer, '79, was 1 9 7 3 James Grogan, a Milwaukee pharmacist, presented as part of 30t h Re un i on, Jun e 18 - 20, 200 2 divides his time between Door County and Deborah Burns Fox, Prospect, Kentucky, is Milwaukee. H e tries as often as possible to the 22nd Annual minister at St. John 's United Metl1odist return to Colorado fo r hiking and camping in Humana Festival of Church. the mountains. New American Gar Kellom, St. Cloud, Minnesota, is vice­ Plays by the Actors Theatre of 1 9 7 4 president for student development at St. 25t h Re un i o n, Ju n e 18 - 20, 1999 John 's U niversity . He led a group of students Louisville, Kentucky, in February from St. John's and the Coll ege of St. and March and now has productions 1 9 7 5 Benedict to Ghana, West Mrica in January 1997. His wife, Kolleen Egan, '71, has been scheduled in Chicago, Michigan, 25t h Re uni on, Jun e 2000 promoted to director of the annual fund and Florida, and Los Angeles for the parent relations at St. Benedict. 1998-99 season. Also in February, 1 9 7 6 Nancy LaFountain Martin, Danville, his play Arrayed for the Bridal was 25t h Reu ni o n, June 2001 Ill inois, is co-director of Peer Court, Inc., a Matthew Brockmeier, Brookfield, Illinois, is teen jury program for juvenile offenders that produced in New York City by the executive director of tl1 e Chicago Music won the 1997 Illinois Governor's Hometown Theatre by the Blind. Spencer has Alliance and an active volunteer (and past Award for Volunteerism in the yo uth division. been an active playwright since his president) of a local social -service agency. Tocher Mitchell, Shelburne, Vermont, earned his graduate business degree in 1997 Lawrence honors project, The 1 9 7 7 with distinction and then spent six months Golden Rose, won the American 25t h Re un io n, June 2002 working for a consulting firm contracted to College Theatre Festival Award for Paula Tsurutani, Chicago, Illinois, is associ­ USAlD in Bosnia, providing assistance to the Midwest Region in 1979. ate director, direct-marketing services, for tl1e companies restarting their operations after the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. war. Among his other works are Water Mary Jean Vaubel Montgomery, Spencer, and Wine, published by Smith and 1 9 7 8 Iowa, has resumed her membership on the Kraus, and Blue Stars, published in 2 5th Re u nio n , June 200 3 Iowa State Board of Education after 18 the Best American Short Plays of JeffreyS. Edwards, M .D ., has opened his months on the Iowa Telecommunications and own gynecology practice, the Cardinal Technology Commission. Profess ionally, she 1993-94. His plays Sudden Devotion Women's Clinic in Anniston, Al abama. is the grant writer for a low-income, non­ and Go to Ground have been pro­ profit housing agency. 1 9 7 9 Jim Nelson, Reston, Virginia, is senior minis­ duced by Ensemble Studio Theatre, 20th Reu n io n, Ju n e 2000 ter of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation where he previously was literary Timothy Sievert, Kenosha, is tl1e owner of of Fairfax and active with the United Way J. manager. He also has taught play­ Advanced Corrosion Control Technologies, Community Services Fund Committee and writing and dramatic literature class­ Inc. the Community Board for WETA public radio and TV station. es at Playwrights Horizons Theatre Kathrun Reuhl-Weit, Portland, Oregon, School, Sarah Lawrence College, 1 9 8 0 policy analyst for the Oregon Developmental and New York University. Spencer is 20th Reunio n , Ju n e 2000 Disabilities Council, has spent the past ten Stephanie Gineris Rothstein, Whitefish Bay, yea rs as a community organizer and lobbyist now writing a screenplay based on is an ass istant district attorney for Milwaukee on developmental disability iss ues, working Resident A lien for Langley County, Wisconsin. primarily with the Oregon state legislature. Productions, which has optioned 1 9 8 1 Wayne Steinbach, Burke, Virginia, is a senior the screen rights. project manager with the Aero pace 20th Reun i on , Jun e 2000 Corporation. Lynn Berry, Moscow, Russia, is ni ght editor Jof the English-language daily The Moscow 1 9 7 0 Marty Brengle, Glendale, California, has Times . http:// www.moscowtimes.ru/ 30th Reu n io n, Ju n e 18- 20, 1999 shifted roles, from customer-service supervisor to computer salesperson and test technician 1 9 8 2 1 9 7 1 for Fry's Elec tronics in Burbank. 20th Reu n ion, June 2003 Jeff Fox, Prospect, Kentucky, is the leader of 30t h Reunion, Ju ne 2002 operations support for Owens Corni ng. 1 9 8 3 Karen R. Van Galder, Jacksonville, Florida, 1 9 7 2 is director of Chri stian education at Mandarin 20th Re u n io n, June 2003 30t h Reu n io n, Ju n e 2002 Presbyte ri an Church. Jane Brown Longley Bent, Appleton, is a David and Alu1 Martin Leonard, Larsen, 1 9 8 4 medical services consultant with Crawford, both changed positions within the Neenah 20th Reunio n, Ju n e 2003 Inc. She continues her musical activities, School District last year. David is now direc­ Karen Erickson, Boise, Idaho, is a physician including priva te flute lessons, playing princi­ tor of orchestras, and Ann is coordinator of and midwife operating her own clinic, North pal flute in the Fox Valley Symphony, teach­ gifted and talented education. End Family Practice. ing a course in music history and appreciation Lynne Goeldner Rompelman, Grafton, has Alrne Jacobsen Karabakal, Ann Arbor, at Lakeland College, and judging Wisconsin been named head of the Department of Michigan, is a systems ana lyst with the Ford School Music Association competitions Psychology and chair of the Division of Social Motor Company. throughout the state. Science at Concordia U niversity. Rebecca LaTorraca, Washington, D.C., is

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Lawrence University Alumni 1 9 8 6 Association. 15th Reunion, June 2001 Amy Malcolm Woitkovich, Joseph B. Berger, New Orleans, Louisiana, Powder Springs, Georgia, volun ­ received the Ph.D. in higher education teered at the Olympic games when administration from Vanderbilt University in they were in Atlanta. She is a senior May 1997. His dissertation was awarded the technologist witl1 Georgia Pacific. Association for the Study of Higher Education's Outstanding Dissertation Award. 1 9 8 5 Joseph is now an assistant professor in the 15th Reunion, June 2001 hi gher education administration graduate pro­ Scott and Julie Stratton ('88) gram at the University of New Orleans. Hts Andrews live in McHenry, Illinois, wife, Cecilia Rose Berger, '88, is concert­ where Scott is se ni or pastor at the master for the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra First Baptist Churc h and Julie is a and a violinist with the Louisiana music teacher in tl1e Fox Vall ey Philharmonic. Christian School. Greg Biba, Waupaca, is the band director at Lawrence classmates Amy Ashmore, Rosetta Bredael, Portage, Waupaca Middle School. Michigan, is financial coordinator C '93, and Johanna J aehnig, '93, met Peg Davies, Bellingham, Washington, is a at Summit Polymers, Inc. She mental health counselor at VVestern again in basic training at Lackland Air earned her second master's degree, Washington U ni versity. Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, last an M.S. in eartl1 science, in 1996. Anne-Marie Feyrer-Melk, Scottsdale, Paula Davis-Searles, Durham, year. Ashmore (left) is now on active duty, Arizona, began her private practice in cardiol­ North Carolina, is a graduate stu­ ogy in 1997, a year in whi ch she also gave stationed at Langley Air Force Base, dent in chemistry at the U nive rsity birtl1 to nvins. Virginia, where she plays clarinet in the of Nortl1 Carol.ina at Chapel Hill. Michael Fischer and Nancy Nauschultz­ USAF Heritage of America Band. Jaehnig, Steve Edwards, Pacific Palisades, Fischer, Appleton, moved back to Wisconsin California, has a new album caJ!ed after Michael accepted a new position with who joined the Drum and Bugle Corps "Rapture- Beyond Borders" and Kimberly-Clark. during basic training, is a school recreation promises a Christmas album in Connie Beam Garcia, Los Angeles , programmer for the Willamalane Park and 1998. http:/jwww.ta lkingdrum­ CaJifornia, is a legal secretary at Irell & records.com Recreation District in Springfield, Oregon, Manella. Tanja Scribner Felton, Loveland, Julie Bleasdale Guerrero, Hobart, Indiana, and serves in the USAF Reserves, stationed Ohio, is a free -lance marketing is web-content editor at C A Insurance, at Portland International Airport. consultant. managing a web site geared toward archi tects, Tal11111ie Follett has a fa mil y-law engineers, and contractors. http:// practice in St. Paul, Minnesota, and www.cna.com/specialty + http:/jw vvw.af. miljaccbandj index.html is a consultant and product-devel­ Nicole Condon Hayes, Brooklyn Park, opment supervisor for tl1e West Minnesota, is tl1e part-time coordinator of a Group. She recently traveled to program that provides non-medicaJ support T hail and and Bali and has just project development officer with USAID in services to patients receiving bone-marrow returned from Peru, where she visited Machu Kiev, Ukraine. transplants. Picchu and went trekking on tl1e Inca trail. Susan Lichty-Schmid, Frankfi.lrt, Germany, Erica Hey!, Round Lake, Illinois, is an attor­ Jon C. Hofer, Tampa, Florida, works in is a cash management/ foreign exchange deal­ ney and fam il y mediator, actively promoting Andersen Consulti ng's Solution Center fo r er witl1 Deutsche Asset Management. fam il y mediation as an alternative to litigation. tl1e Utility Industry and was promoted in Susanne Malaise, Jackson, Wyoming, divides Jill Ltmde Jones, Nashvill e, Tennessee, is an September to associate partner. her time benveen Oregon and Wyoming, ass istan t professor of medicine at Vanderbilt Miriam Kaplan, Kampala, Uganda, complet­ spendin g her summers windsurft ng the beau­ University. ed tl1e Ph.D. in plant patl1ology and hematol­ tiful Columbia River Gorge and enj oyi ng tl1e Stacie Maday Koch, Greenfield, is home­ ogy at tl1e Unive rsi ty of California at Davis in endless winter of Oregon's Mt. Hood. Winter schooling her children. Her husband, Carl 1997 and returned to Africa in January, where takes her to Jackson, Wyoming, fo r snow­ Koch, '85, is a music ITtinister, elementary he is associated witl1 the International boarding in the steeper and deeper terrain of band teacher, coll ege jazz band director, and Institute of Tropical Agriculture. the Tetons. performer. Sandy Wilson Keating, Plainfield, Illinois, is Michele Mayer is a se ni or financial advisor Colleen McVeigh, Chicago, Illinois, is help­ a social-studies teacher at iles Iorth High for I G Barings in Santiago, Chile. She man­ ing to develop the Chicago Academic School in Skokie, Illinois, and received the ages international investments for Chil ean Standards fo r tl1e Social Sciences. She teaches master's degree in education last May. pension funds as wel l as institutional and large third grade in a predominantly Mexican James D. Keith is a hydrogeochemi st fo r private investors. . . nei ghborh ood. BDM, Inc., in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Matthew and Tirzah Strom Peterson live 111 Victoria Moerchen, Madison, is a clinical David IGng, Belmont, Massachusetts, is asso ­ Eva nston, Illinois. Matthew is vice-president/ ass istant professor on a multidisciplinary ciate professor of public policy at Harvard trust ad ministrator for Northern Trust maternal and child healtl1 leadership trai nin g University. He has had two books recently Company, and Tirzah is a self-employed grant related to education of professionals in released , Twf Wa rs (Chicago Press) and Why musician and teacher. developmental disabilities. People Don't Trust Government (Harvard). Kurt Schwarzkopf, Phoenix, Ari zona, hosted Brian Pertl, Bothell , Washington, is media Phil Ruge-Jones, Janesville, is completing his a gatl1ering ofLU alumni, including Jolm acquisitions manager at Microsoft. His did­ dissertation for tl1e Master of Theology Hands, Mitch Katten, Rod Jamieson, and jeridu group, the Didgeri Dudes, has released degree from Lutheran School of Theology at Charles Uselmann at his home last a CD on the Northwest Folklife label. Chicago. September. He also attended an area college Kathryn Buckensderfer Roesinger, Susie Lurie Taylor, Fayetteville, Arkansas, is fair on behalf of Lawrence. Rhinelander, played Ruth in the icolet an account executive with Hearst-Argyle Thomas P. Wick, Woodbury Minnesota, is Players' production of Noel Coward's Blithe ABC-TV. director of development at Macalester Coll ege Spi ri t in November. Edward F. Thomas, Phoenix, Ari zona, is in and a member of the board of directors of the law sc hool at Arizona State University.

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Paul J. Jackson, C '49, D.F.A. '72, Living with Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than dean emeritus of the College of Fine You Think is the second book by Dean Hamer and Arts and professor emeritus of music at Peter Copeland, '79, authors of The Science of Desire, Drake University, is the author of Sign­ which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1994. Offfor the Old Met: The Metropolitan Hamer is a molecular biologist Opera Broadcasts 1950-1966) successor and chief of gene structure and to his 1992 work, Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met: regulation at the National Cancer The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1931-1950. Institute's Laboratory of Covering the period from the beginning of the Biochemistry. Copeland, managing Rudolf Bing era to the destruction of the old Met in editor of the Scripps Howard News 1966, Sign-Offfor the Old Met (Amadeus Press) sur­ Service in Washington, D.C., is the veys 200 Saturday-afternoon radio broadcasts and award-winning co-author of three includes more than 100 photographs, as well as cast other books. lists of all broadcasts from 1950 to 1966. As in the Living With Our Genes first volume, Jackson uses unpublished documents and (Doubleday) has been described by letters from the Metropolitan Opera Archives to tell Kirkus Reviews as "a fast-paced account for the general behind -the-scenes stories. reader of the growing body of research into the genes Paul Jackson holds performance degrees in piano that control our lives. Compulsive reading .. . from a from Lawrence and the University of Michigan and the scientist who knows his stuff and communicates it Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University. During well." Says Publishers Weekly, "In a light, breezy style, the 1950s and 1960s he toured as pianist with many Hamer and Copeland attempt to explain the extent to Metropolitan Opera singers and served as opera house which our genes control our lives. Along the way, a manager for the Central City Opera and Drama great number of fascinating pieces of information are Festivals in Colorado. In 1964 he began his long related." tenure as dean at Drake. + http://www .timberpress.com/amadeus/sigoff.htm Paul McComas, '83, is the autl1or of Twenty Questions (Fitl1ian Press), subti­ Lawrence H. Larsen, '53, professor of history at the tled "a collection of short and very short University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Nancy J. stories" and described by its publisher as Hulston, head of the University of Kansas Medical "stories tl1at take a look at young adults Center Archives, have published Pendergast! in their 20s and 30s- grown-up Baby (University of Missouri Press), a biography of Kansas Boomers and Generation Xers - who City political boss Thomas J. Pendergast (1872-1945). are reevaluating, or suddenly faced with, Through extensive research, including use of their lives." recently released prison records and previously unavail­ Mark Dintenfass, professor of English, in a back­ able family records, tl1e autl1ors exan1ine Pendergast's cover review, notes: "The short story remains the most rise to power, his successes as a political leader, his interesting and challenging literary form of our time, compassion for tl1e destitute, and his reputation for and Paul McComas' new collection is a fine addition keeping his word. They also focus on Pendergast's to tl1e genre. His characters are observed with refresh­ character development and how his methods became ing candor and invigorating wit, and his clear voice more and more rutl1less. cuts right to the bone. Seeking hope in a cynical Professor Larsen is also tl1e author of Federal world, and love in a lustful one, tl1ese stories return us Justice in Western Missouri: The Judges) the Cases) the to those poignant places where tl1e reckless energies of Times. In addition to his Lawrence degree in history, youth intersect the rueful insights of maturity." he holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from tl1.e University McComas is an award-winning independent fum­ of Wisconsin-Madison. maker, journalist, monologist, youtl1-outreach coordi­ + http:/ /www.system.missouri.edu/ upress/fall1997/ nator, bass player, and writer living in Evanston, larsen.htm Illinois.

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Casey Sloan, Baltimore, Maryland, Robert and Jayne Warnke ('90) is starting a master's program in Heun live in North Andover, marketing at Johns Hopkins Massachusetts. Robert is actin g head University after teaching for six of the science department at Brooks years. His goal is to get into sports School and gave a presentation on marketing. using the Worl d Wide Web in a Kevin Walch, Frankfort, Illinois, is biology classroom at the National a project engineer at Ferro Association of Biology Teachers Corporation-Keil Chemical, work­ convention in Minneapolis. ing on environmental projects. Wayne Hietpas, Sturgeon Bay, is Betsy Wood, Madison, is a regula­ president and CEO of H arborvicw tion-compliance investigator with Chiropractic, Inc. the Wisconsin Department of Matthew Kaufman, Philadelphia , Regulation and Licensing. Pennsylvania, is completin g his six yea rs of study at the 1 9 8 7 Reconstructionalist Rabbinical 15th Reunion , June 2001 Coll ege. He plans to move to Ted Clark, Minneapolis, Toronto after being ordained as a Minnesota, is president and rabbi this summer. fo under of Clark Manufacturing. Jennifer Sajna Kraus, Madison, is He plays in the Minneapolis Horn Saying "Lake flies!" for the photographer at the wedding of Jane Berliss, executive policy and budget analyst Club. '81, to Philip Vincent are (clockwise from the bride): Julie Pingry Fraser, for the State ofWisconsin Department of Administration. Leila Ramagopal Haken, '80 (reader), Betty Lutton Luescher, '82, Randy Hicks, '82, Jon Zilber, '80, Champaign, Illinois, is doing a lot Patrick J. Moore, Chi cago, Illinois, Libby Olson Zilber, '82, Mark Hardy, '80, and Cate Pfeifer, '83 (maid of free-lance harp perfo rming and a is production control coordinator bit of violin teaching. of honor). The wedding took place on November 21 , 199 7, in San for Eli's Cheesecake Company, "a Peter Marsh, Dublin, Ohio, Pablo, Calif. fun and most interesting company." returned last fall from a year in Tiffany Mullen and David Faber, Ulaa nbaatar, capital of Mongoli a, Lyons, Illinois , arc planning to move to the Southwest for Tiffany's residency the first of two trips he wi ll make to gather Steve is doing research at the Unive rsity of the information he needs to complete his dis­ after she graduates from medical sc hool in Californi a-Santa Barbara on microthrusters sertati on at Indiana University. Peter's Ph.D. June. David is a senior systems developer with used to maneuve r small satelli tes. program combines Mongolian studies with Castl e Metal Corporation. Kellie Brown, Chapel H ill , North Caro li na, ethnomusicology. Michael Nesnidal, Redondo Beach, is in her final year of general surgery residency Cali fo rni a, is an engineer with TRW Space at the University of North Carolina at Chapel and Defense, working in the area of photonics 1 9 8 8 Hi ll . She is plan nin g to start a two-year vasc u­ 15th Reun i on , June 2004 and optoelectroni cs. He is responsible for lar surgety fellowshi p in Mil wa ukee in Jul y. designin g and fab ri cating high-powered se mi ­ Louis and Margaret Bernsten ('89) Boldt, Michelle (Mikel) Gratch Carter, Phoeni x, conductor diode lasers. His wife, Renee, '92, Norm an , Oklahoma, both work at the Arizona , has been promoted to part-time U ni versity of Oklahoma, Louis as a research is a grad uate student in ph ys ics at OW­ assistant manager at Gymboree. She and her Madison. assistant and Margaret as a visiting instru ctor. husband, Michael, recen tly bought an historic Edith Newsome, Rockford, Ill inois, com­ home in the downtown Phoeni x area. 1 9 8 9 pleted her residency in anesthesiology at the Clara Connell, Jackson, Lo ui siana, is a psy­ Medical Coll ege of Wisconsin and has joi ned 10th Reunion, June 18-20,1999 chologica l associate at the Feliciana Forensic a group practice of anesthesiologists in Lynn Bebeau, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has Facility. She also teaches poetry at a local Rockford. been named an associate at the law firm of works hop and performs her own poetry in Ray Ostwald, South Elgi n, Illinois, directs Leonard, Street & Deinard , where she wi ll Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Natchez. the orchestras at York Community High continue her prac tice in the areas of tax, Catherine Bunch Daniels, Chi cago, Illinois, School in Elmh urst, Illinois. In 1997 he estate planning, and probate law . Lynn, who is assistant vice-president of corporate banking performed, along with Steve Hancock, '90, was grad uated cum laude from the University witl1 Fi rst Chicago NBD. She planned to with the apervill e Chamber Orchestra. of Minnesota Law School in 1995, previously start graduate school in April at tl1e University Mark Pellegrino, Chicago, Illinois, is an was an associate at Jacobson Harwood & of Chicago Graduate School of Business. attorney with the firm of Gessler, Hughes & Erickson, P.A. Kristine Klauke Day, Brookl yn, New York, Socol, doing medical-malpractice defense Aaron Bloedorn, Annandale, Virginia, is is now the managing editor of RILM work. environmental compliance team leader for Abstracts of Music Lite1'atu.re and also contin­ Kelly McKane Raynaud, Long Beach, New Designers & Planners, Inc. ues to work on her dissertation for a Ph.D. in York, is new technology implementation Cynthia Boyd, St. John's, Newfoundland, music theory. She and her husband, John project manager with Dreyfus Retirement Ca nada, has been doing some free -lance Day, '87, visited Italy last April and ran in to Services. writin g, in cl uding articles in Piecework, Professor Dan Taylor, '63, in line at the Kimberly Robinson, Boston, Massachusetts, Undisciplined Wom en, and How Deep fs the Laurentian Library. earned her master's in busin ess administration Ocean 7, as well as editing a horti cultural Kirsten Ferguson, Louisvill e, Kentucky, took from Babson Coll ege and now is a manager society newsletter. tl1ird place in a bodybuilding competition in with John Hancock. Bill Briesemeister, Manchester, ew 1996. In May, 1997, she opened Fern Creek Jeff Schang, Appleton, is enterprise systems Hampshire, is a regional manager covering Chiropractic Center. engineer for OfTice Technology, Inc. His wife, Maine, ew H ampshire, and Vermont fo r Rebecca Gilbert-Hills, Grantville, Laura Kenney Schang, teac hes cello at the Barton Brands. Pennsylva ni a, is a resident in intern al medicine Lawrence Arts Academy. Kristina Bross and Steven Wereley, Santa at Pennsylvania State University. Douglas Stocklan, Concord, Massachusetts, "E Maria, Cali fornia, both defended their disser­ Linda Bartell Griswold, Glenview, Illinois, is a financial consultant with Smith Barney .s:::"' tations last summer. Kristina is teaching colo­ teaches gifted tl1ird - and fourtl1 -graders in the . ~ Salomon Brothers . ,t ni al and 18th-century American literatme at Community Consolidated School District #15 c Michael J. Tremel, Appleton, is a group 0 California Polytechnic State U ni ve rsity, and in Palatine, Illinois. 0 leader with Sun Chemical Corporation .

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Christina Zoschke, Madison, is a case man­ degree in German with a specialization in ager for Creative Community Livi ng Services, translation. working with individuals with rece nt traumat­ Lara Shamwn Grant, Ripon, helped her Two Special Newsletters ic brai n injuries . fa mily open Seasons Coffee House in down­ town Ripon. 1 9 0 Charles Grode, Oak Park, Illinois, is assistant Pr ide 10th Reunion, June 2000 director of the Suzuki-Orff School for Young Are you interested in knowing H eidi Dodd, Washington, D .C., earn ed the Musicians in Chicago. His wife , Heidi Lukas, about current issues affecting the M.B.A. from Simmons Coll ege in 1997 and is '92, is production manager for tl1e Chicago deputy director of the Ameri can-Uzbekistan Symphony Orchestra. LGB community at Lawrence? Chamber of Commerce. Craig Hanke, Milwaukee, is a graduate Pride (formerly BGLASS), Kent C. Matthies, Was hington, D.C., student in pharmacology and toxicology at Lawrence's student-run lesbian, the Medical College ofWisconsin . He was graduated fl·o m Meadvill e/Lomisard . . gay, bisexual, and straight organi­ Theoloo-ical School and is now a mm1ster w1th course director for the clinical pharmacology b . . the Unitarian U nive rsa li st Campus Mm1stry. course at UW-Milwaukee and directs tl1e bell zation, invites you to subscribe to choir at a local chmch. its free LGB Newsletter. In addi­ 1 9 Kristi Hendrickson, Seattle, Washington, is continuing work on her Ph.D. in physics at tion to informing alumni on these 10th Reunion, June 2001 t11e University of Washington. Last Apnl, issues, the newsletter will allow Jessica (Decky) Alexander, Ypsil anti, she attended the American Physical Society Michigan, instru ctor in communicati on and alumni and current students to meeting in Washington, D.C., where she was theatre arts at Eastern Michi gan Unive rsity, share ideas productively in a way a presenter. Kristi saw Steve Mielke, '92, at competed in the national poetry slam in . the conference. that will benefit all members of Connecti cut and can be heard on a CD enti­ Jon Henke, Los Angeles, California, is com­ tl ed "Ann Arbor Spea ks," a collecti on of spo­ the Lawrence community. pleting a master's degree in public health and ke n word . Decky developed and directs an To subscribe, please contact will begin physician assistant school soon. He EMU theatre-outreach group ca ll ed the is a lifeguard witl1 the Los Angeles County the Office of Alumni Relations at "Close U p T heatl·e T roupe." Fire Department and an emergency room 920-832-6549 or send e-mail to Brenda A!Jwardt, AJJston, Massachusetts, is a technician at Santa Monica Hospital. ca ndidate for the Ph.D. in neurobiology at [email protected]. Chris Hundhausen, Eugene, O regon, is a Harvard U ni versity. Ph.D. candidate at tl1e University of Oregon. Anne Traas Baruth, Appl eton, teaches at St. His dissertation was accepted for the '98 Joseph's MiddJ e School and UW-Fox Valley BOS Doctoral Consortium of ACM SIGCHI, tl1e and is also a writer and illustrator for Fox The Black Organization of principal professional organization for human- Cities Magazine. Students is in the process of edit­ Anne Bjelland, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is a computer interaction. . . Jennifer Kuhn, Washington, D.C., IS clerking programmer for Supervalu , Inc. ing its first newsletter. If you for Judge Arthur Gajarsa of the U.S. Court of Jolm Bradley III, Firchburg, head coach of would like to receive this free the Madison Aquati c Club, has bee n coachmg Appeals. . Lynn Brwmer LeMoine, Minneapohs, publication or contribute to swimming in Madison for six years and has Minnesota, sings in a chamber group, . future issues, please write or call coached over 15 nationally ranked swimmers. "Kantorei," and is involved with the alumm Cad Carter-Schwendler, Bothell , Professor Fred Gaines, club of Minneapolis/ St. Paul. Her husband, Washington, is a programming wri ter at . Department of Theatre and Jeff LeMoine, '89, is a security analyst witl1 1\1icrosofi:, where his wife, Karen, is a techm­ Wackenhut-Northern States Power Company. Drama Lawrence University, cal editor. ' Peter and Nancy Broeren Leschke li ve in Becky Cerar, Rochester, Minnesota, is a per­ P.O. Box 599, Appleton, WI Appleton, where Peter is tl1e choir director at sonal banker at East\vood Bank. 54912-0599 (920-832-6746). Xavier High School, and Nancy works as the Lee Anne Reynaldo Chappelle, a kinder­ public relations director for the Outagam1e garten teacher in tl1 e Milwaukee publi ~ County Historical Society. schools, has competed in her first mml ­ Laura Main, Madison, is a microscope sales tri athlon. associate for Carl Zeiss, Inc. Recent vacations Michelle Epp, Fairbanks, Alaska, a graduate some part-time modeling. . have taken her to Finland, Sweden, and research assistant at the Institu te of Marine Stephanie Breidenbach Nelson, Edina, Estonia. Also, she just returned from a sales Sciences oftl1e U ni versity of Alaska-Fairbanks, Minnesota, is a science teacher in tJ1e spent her research season (i.e., summer) on meeting in Germany. . Minnetonka Public Schools. Her husband, Jolm and Katie Lund McKenna, _Edma_, the North Slope of Alaska at a remote field David Nelson, earned tl1e Doctor of Minnesota, moved back to the Twm Cltles station where she lea rned to appreciate the Medicine degree in 1997 from tl1e University area wh en John started selling software to fin er tl1in gs in life, like flu sh to il ets and warm of Minnesota. Fortune 500 companies for CandJe weather. Mariela Nuiiez-Janes, AJbuquerque, New Corporation. Joel and Cornelia Fehr ('94) Flunker live in Mexico earned her master's degree in ethnol­ Charla Mestad, St. Paul, Minnesota, teaches Niantic Conn ecticut. Joel pl ays trumpet 111 ogy fro;,, the University of New Mexico and first grade with a very diverse group of the U.S. Coast Guard Band. Connie is a mas­ now is working toward a Ph.D. Th1s fall , she learners. She traveled to Italy in 1997 and ter's degree candidate in trumpet performance plans to continue her research on Hispanic wants to teach there someday. at Ya le U niversity and is performing with tl1e etlmic identity and bilingual education. Her Tawnia Gunderson Mitchell, Montello, Yale Philharmoni a and Brass Choi r. husband, Joe Janes, '93, is a middJe-school teaches vocal music in the Green Lake school Anita Freer, Li ttle Rock, Arkansas, is finance band director for Los Lunas Schools. distl·ict and directed Peter Pan in Never/and in coord inator of School-To-Work for the State Togetl1er they returned to Lawrence for a November. She also plays cello in tl1e Beaver of Arkansas Department of Workforce saxophone studio recital. . . Dam Area Orchestra and organ for a Education. David Poger, Washington, D.C., IS a reg1onal Presbyterian church. . Sarah (Sally) Glasser, New Yo rk, New York, finance director witl1 the Democratic Nauonal Kurt Mueller, New York, New York, IS is a program ofti. cer fo r the German Academ1c Committee. working in an upscale oyster bar and domg Exchange Service and is pursuing a master's Ryan F. Prin1mer, New York, New York, is a

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convertible bond trader with Cities Marathon. SBC Warburg Dillon Read. Sharon Bisso, aples, Marty Robinson, Florida, is co-propri etor of a Ta!J ahassee, Florida, is ass is ­ Mark Your Calendars, All Former Victoria's Secret Bath and tant professor of trumpet and Fragrance store. jazz studies at Florida A&M Students of "Prof" Fred Schroeder Jaclyn Booth is director of University . He plays in coed Lawrence alumni are planning a special "Tribute to interconnection negotiations vo ll eybaJI and softball leagues at Ameritech in Chicago. with his wife, Ann Wermuth Fred Schroeder" on Saturday, October 31, 1998. Former Adam Demers, Robinson, '88, who is a students will be invited back for this unique reunion, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a free- lance writer. which includes a banquet in Profs honor and a stu­ production artist and design­ Todd Ruskell, Louisville, er at Tanaka Advertising and Colorado, is a research physi­ dent/alumni concert. The program will feature guest is studying in the design pro­ cist with the National alumni conductors and premiere two new works writ­ gram at Minneapolis College Institute of Standards and ten for the occasion: an original composition by John of Art and Design. He also is Technology in Boulder. He Harmon, C '57, and Percy Grainger's "My Robin Is to creative director in a free ­ and his wife, Susan Carter lance project of starting a Ruskell, have enjoyed the Greenwood Gone" orchestrated for wind ensemble magazine from scratch . attendin g Denver area by Fred Sturm, C '73. Both the current Lawrence Allison DeZurik-Otto, alumni club events. University Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band Appleton, is pursuing a mas­ John G. Sanidas, New ter's degree in special educa­ Berlin , is completing the will perform, with alumni joining in for a special tion at UW-Oshkosh, doing Medical Coll ege of grand finale. Look for more details in your mailboxes substi tute teachin g, and Wisconsin internal medicine soon. Please call Professor Bob Levy at Lawrence, lookin:g for a full -time teach- residency in June and 920-832-6622, for more information. in g position. She is active in planned to join a private the Fox Valley Delta Gamma practice in downtown alumnae and the American Milwaukee. Association of U ni ve rsity Erica Langhus Sarahong, Women. ·shorewood, took a three- Phil Gaskill, Oregon City, week vacation back to Thailand to visit in ­ called Sonsie as a sistant pastry chef. Sarah Oregon, sai led from San Francisco to laws and her old school from her Peace Corps Feldt Wilson, '92, is a medical secretary with Honolulu as a sai l trimmer/ deckhand on a days. She is waiting for a transfer through Eye Health Services and walked in the Dublin 72-foot ca tamara n. He also cl imbed Mt. Manpower Thailand so she and her husband [Ireland] Marathon last fa ll on the Leukemia Hood and finished thjrd in the North can be closer to his fami ly. She plans to con­ Society's "Team in Training," wh ich raised American R obie Class Association Division 4 tinue as a technical recruiter with Manpower, money fo r research. on his 20-foot catamaran sllilboat. He is an Inc. Tom Zoellner, Sait Lake City, U tah, is a agency-services representative with SAFECO Jeff Schedin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has reporter with the Salt Lahe City Tribune. Insurance Company. gone into business as Schedjn and Associates, Jenee Hillbrick, Winona, Minnesota, is a speciali zing in J.D. Edwards implementation 1 9 9 2 choral director/ music teacher in the and customi zation on AS1400 pl atforms. 10th Reunion, June 2002 Cochrane-Fountain City Schools. Last winter, Elena Reiter Sellers, orth Bend, Tanya Davidson, Crucago, Illinois, is pro­ she took music students from her school to Washington, is a technical edjtor fo r gram coordjnator for Mercy Home for Boys Milwaukee, where they saw A Christmas Carol Microsoft. and Girls. and The Nwcracher. Carrie DeMuyt Slager, Orland Park, Illinois, Dirk Ribbens, ew Glarus, is workjng on his Jennifer Jenkjns, Evanston, Illinois, is in the has taken a leave of absence from her position master's degree in educationaJ ad minisb·a ti on second yea r of a Ph.D. program in musicolo­ as second-grade teacher in the North Palos at UW-Madison. gy at Northwestern University. Her husband, School District 117 to rai se her two children. Susan Varnum, Miami, Florid a, is a graphic Mkhael Van Krey, has returned from three Beth Switzer is an assistant public defender arti st at Discovery Communications, Inc. years in Japan and is now a Japanese teacher in Monroe County (Rochester), New York. at Evanston Township High School. Her husband, Greg Janssen, '90, is a Ph.D. 1 9 9 3 Callie Johnson, Brussels, received the Master candidate in philosophy. 5th Reunion, June 18- 20, 1999 of Social Work degree in 1997 from Nara Laurel Topp, St. Paul , Minnesota, is Elise Brunelie, Minneapoli s, Minnesota, is Washington U ni ve rsity, St. Louis. She is a the education program manager at the assistant production manager with the dtild and fa mily therapist with the Children's Science Museum of Minnesota. Guthrie T heatre. Service Society of Wisconsin and also serves Beth Keckonen Vahlsing, Fond duLac, is Stephen Johnson, Coram, ew York, earn ed on the ad visory board of Court-Appointed teaching English at Lourdes High School and his Ph .D . in physics from SUNY-Stony Brook Special Advocate (CASA) fo r Brown County. coaching mock trial and forensics. She also is and is now workjng as a postdoctoral fellow Steve Kools, New London, was promoted to completing a German minor for teaching at in the Department of Ph ys ics there. loan officer at Fox Communities Credit UW-Oshkosh and wi ll be teaching a distance­ U nion and is enroll ed in UW-Green Bay's learnin g German course this fal l. Her hus­ 1 9 9 4 master's program in business. band, Todd Vahlsing, '88, is general manag­ Dawn KraJ-Kueter, Boulder, Colorado, is 5th Reunion, June 18-20, 1999 er at Valley Management, Inc. student-teachin g hi gh school Engli sh in John Bachhuber, Appleton, is a staff ac tuary Clint Weninger, Waukesha, is a geologist Lafayette, Colorado. Her husband, David for Aid Association for Lutherans. His wife, with Payne and Dolan, Inc., and is complet­ Kueter, '91, is workjng fo r a law firm in Mary Bachhuber, '92, is takjng a one-year ing a master's degree in management at Denver, speciali zing in water law . leave of absence from teac hin g to earn her Cardjnal Stritch U ni versity . Katherine Metzo, Bloomington, Indiana, a master's in library science from UW­ Scott Wilson, Malden, Massachusetts, com­ graduate student in anthropology at Indiana Milwaukee. John and Mary teamed with pleted ills program at the Ca mbridge School U ni versity, received a Foreign Language and Russell W. Scott, '92, Betsy Blanik-Kuhn, of Culin ary Instruction and was asked back to Area Studies Fellowship for the 1997-98 '93, and former LU trainer, Kristie Shorr­ teach some classes. He works at a restaurant academi c yea r. Groskopf, to run a marathon relay in the Fox

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Rebecca Mezoff, Reno, Nevada, received tl1e MARRIAGES Amy Marks, '97, master's degree in occupational therapy from has been award­ Colorado State University in 1997. Adam and Sara Staffeldt Newman are in 1 9 6 0 5 ed one of only Louisville, Kentucky. Sara is completing tl1e Nancy Charm, M-D '61, and Tom Owen, ten national Master of Science degree in social work from November 15, 1997 fellowships for the University of Louisville, and Adam is a so­ ciatc manager of TCF Fin ancial. 1 9 7 0 5 the prestigious An1y Passow, Iowa City, Iowa, has been serv­ Tracy Casber, '79, and Glenn Hopkins, Winterthur ing as a social -work intern on the transplant September 13, 1997 Program in Early team at the University oflowa Hospitals and Clini cs, where she is completing a master's 1 9 8 0 5 American degree in social work. Culture at the University of Margie La Velie, '85, and Paul Gater, Craig Stevens, Lafayette, Indiana, completed October, 1997 his master's thesis in the Department of Delaware. The two-year fellow­ Carla Hotze, '86, and Louis Wehrspann, Biology at Loyola University of Chicago and ship, worth more than $46,000 in October 25, 1997 entered Purdue tl1 is past fa ll to pursue a tuition and stipend, leads to a Sandra Kingery, '86, and Michael Delgedo, Ph.D. in biochemistty and molecular biology. August 19, 1997 Master of Arts degree in early Patrick Warfield and IGrsten Lies-Warfield, Amy Aronson, '87, and Michael Walsh, American culture. Marks, who Bloomington, Indiana, are both working on July 26, 1997 tl1e ir doctorates. Pat was named a winner in plans a career as a museum cura­ Richard Parker, '87, and Frances Bowles, the Midwest Scholars Search and presented a September 27, 1997 tor, was graduated from Lawrence pre-concert lecture for the Chicago Civic Elizabeth Lehfeldt, '88, and David Spaeder, with a bachelor's degree in Orchestt·a this spri ng. Kirsten is a low brass August 31 , 1997 instructor at Smith-Hold en, a music store in English, magna cum laude. Jennifer Sajna, '89, and Michael Kraus, Bloomington. May 3, 1997 "The collection of early Ann Winze, Bloomington, Indiana, is com­ Christopher Lynch, '89, and Cynthia pleting a Master of Music degree at Indiana American artifacts at the Gountainis, September 28 , 1997 Winterthur Museum is one of the University. Jenny Ziefel, Mountlake Terrace, 1 9 9 0 5 very best in the entire country, Washington, is a candidate for the degree and you have incredible access to Doctor of Musical Arts at tl1e University of Terry Deger, '90, and Dan Berger, May 10, it," says Marks. "In this program Washington. She also has been playing in a 1997 communi ty orchestt·a and teaching private you learn American culture not lessons. through books but by studying BIRTHS AND the actual objects and the social 1 9 9 5 ADOPTIONS 5th Reunion, June 18-20,1999 context in which they were made 1 9 7 0 5 and used." Aaron Canty, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, graduated with an M.A. fi·om Steven Anderson, '78, and Mary, a son, The Winterthur Program in UW-Madison in 1997 and is now a second icholas B., on Janua1y 30, 1998 Early American Culture was estab­ lieutenant in the U.S . Air Force. John Laing, '79, and Janet, a son, MaA.'\vell Dawson, on January 7, 1998 lished in 1952 by the Henry 1 9 9 6 Francis du Pont Winterthur 5th Reunion, June 2002 1 9 8 0 5 Museum and the University of Amy Overson, Va ll ey Stream, New York, is Ronald, ('82), and Ann Pouba ('85) Delaware to provide a multidisci­ an elementary music specialist witl1 the Valley Reising, a daughter, Anna Katl1ryn, on plinary approach to the study of Stream Union Free School District. November 25 , 1997 Alex O zerkovsky, Bolingbrook, Illinois, is a Sara Sclm1idt Agritelley, '83, and Glen, a American material life, with an member of the technical staff at Tcll abs, Inc. son, William Peter, on April 9, 1997 emphasis on the decorative arts Claudia Riechelmatm, Chicago, Illinois, is a Tina Biese Harrison, '83, and Marty, a son, and household furnishings. Classes nursing student at Rush University and work­ Stephen Daniel, on July 17, 1997 are conducted at both the museum ing as a nursing assistant on a medical floor of John Streibich and Nancy Olson-Streibich, Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center. both '84, a son, Jack Fredrick, November 1, and the university. Lisa Ruhlen, Milwaukee, is a lawyer-referral 1996 + http:/jwww.udel.edu/gradcat/ and information-service in terviewer with me Leila Ramagopal Haken, '87, and Rudolf, a gradcat94/l7/winter/ Milwaukee Bar Association . son, Nicholas Raymond, on November 12, Keera Smith, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is as 1997 an account coordinator for Mission Critical Steve, ('88), and Sarah Weitz ('87) L Marketing. Klammer, a daughter, 1 adia, on March 26, 1997 Molly Mevis, Glendale, completed her mas­ 1 9 9 7 David Vorpahl, '88, and Kristin, a son, ter's degree in anthropology at UW­ 5th Reunion, June 2002 Alexander, May, 1997 (This corrects an item Milwaukee in 1997, writing her thesis on the Megan Marshall, Kenosha, is choral director in the Winter '97 issue. ) research potential of a large collection of at Lincoln Junior H igh School. Anthony Grade, '89, and Megan Burdick­ Iroquois false face masks housed at the New Grade, '90, a son, Forrest Donald, on York State lvluseum. She currently is an inter­ August 21, 1993 viewing and placement specialist with Olsten Staffing Services and vo lu nteers with 1 9 9 0 5 Archaeology Rescue, doing weekend artifact Philip and Catherine Rudden Davidson, processing and excavating. both '90, a so n, Matthew, on October 22, 1997

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brother-in-law, Kenneth DuVall , Jr. , '52; a sister-in -law, Jean Rauschenbergcr Buesing, Wensing Leaving Alumni Office '44; a nephew, Kenneth DuVall III, '84; and To Pursue Further Study a niece, Susan Buesing, '69. Marion Clack Stecker, ' 36, Appleton, Februaty 16, 1998. Su rvivors include her hus­ Kristin A. Wensing, '93, assistant director of alumni rela­ band, Everett A. Stecker, '35. tions since 1993, will leave Lawrence at the end of the Suzayne Stanz Newton, '37, Greensboro, summer to enter the Coro Fellows Program in Public North CaroLina , Januaty 14, 1998 Affairs. Charles W. Schumacher, '37, Milwaukee, Jul y 3, 1997 "We will tmly miss Kris' hard work and leadership in Arthur W. Trettin, '37, Appleton, Lawrence's alumni relations program," says Jan Daniels Quinlan, '74, direc­ December 25, 1997. Survivors include hi s tor of alumni relations. "I am sure the many alumni who have worked with brother, David Trettin, '42. Floyd R. Jolmson, '38, Ctystal Lake, and gotten to know Kris join me in wishing her the best, personally and Michigan, February 1, 1998 professionally." Charles S. Larsen, ' 38, Palm Desert, A search is currently underway to select a successor in the position of Cal ifornia, February 7, 1998. Survivors assistant director of alumni relations, Quinlan adds. include his wife, Marcia Litts. Edward J. Vollmer, ' 38, Appleton, The Coro Fellows Program is a full-time graduate-level program based December 20, 1997. Survivors in clude his in St. Louis, Missouri, offering intensive, experience-based training in public wife, Genevieve Gamsky Vollmer, '38, and his affairs. For nine montl1s, Coro Fellows spend up to 60 hours per week talc­ son, Peter Voll mer, '75. Zae Northrup Bartelt, M-D '39, ing active part in internships, interviews, field assignments, public-service Milwaukee, January 24, 1998. Survivors projects, and seminars. include her husband, Victor Bartelt. Helen S. Marshall, '39, Porotla Valley, California, December 6, 1997 Gerald C. Verstegen,'39, Neenah, February Craig Kellenberger, '90, and Karen, a son, Laura Jacka Nohr, M-D '25, Platteville, 10, 1998 Jeffrey Aaron, on May 20, 1997 September 18, 1997 Chad Kemnitz, '90, and Tyia, a daughter, George Christensen, '26, Glencoe, Illinois, Harvey J. Wolfgram, ' 39, Appleton, Februaty 8, 1998 Cheye nne Char, on Januaty 4, 1997 December 18, 1997 Heidi Mouat Mendez, '90, and Ricky, a Florence Bleck Huber, M-D '26, H onolulu , daughter, Margo Elizabeth, on March 13, Hawaii, November 19, 1997 1 9 4 0 s 1997 Greta Best Jackson, M-D '26, Milwaukee, Mary Shafer Bouck, M-D '41, Bisbee, Greg Petit, '90, and Nancy, a daughter, October 30, 1997 Arizona, December 31, 1997 Brielle Emily, March, 1997 Marion Brenckle McConochie, M-D '28, James L. Benn, '43, Fort Worth, Texas, Matthew Tierney, '90, and Vicki, a daugh­ Tucson, Ari zona , Nove mber 4, 1997 Janu ary 10, 1998. Survivors include his ter, Abigail Ann, on April 12, 1997 nephew, Eric Benn, '75. Arney Chapel Delugea, '91, and Dominique, 1 9 3 0 s Paul A. Reichardt, '47, Banning, California, December 26, 1997. Survivors include his a son, Henri Louis, on September 11 , 1997 Gretchen Roesch Larsen, C '30, Appleton, wife, Betsy Rueth Reichardt, '47. Jeffry (C '91) and Lies! Engebretson (C December 20, 1997 Roy VandeBerg, '48, Baldwin, January '89) Larson, a son, Alex Jeffiy, October Lelia Boettcher Wright, '30, Appleton, A. 1997 February 12, 1998 16, 1998 Kelly Wickham Nelson, '91, and David, a Mary Knight De Lauche, '31, Cedarburg, son, Benjamin Jacob, March 26, 1997 Illinois, ovember 1, 1997. Survivors include 1 9 s 0 s Karen Park-Koenig, '91, and George, a her daughter, Jean De Lauche, '71. William E. Bick, '50, Sli nger, December 12, daughter, Martha Rose, on December 22, Elizabeth McKone Stillman, M -D '33, 1997. Survivors include his wife, Mary Meier 1997 Oshkosh, Febmaty 22, 1998 Bick, '49; a sister, Patricia Bick HuHinan, '55; David Guritz, '93, and Kimberly, a son Elizbeth Coller Laird, '34, Milwaukee, and a brother, Richard Bick, '45. Joseph Forrest, on December 18, 1997 January 23, 1998. Survivors include her hus­ Phy!Hs Dugan Voots, M-D ' 51, Joliet, Shane Walter, '95, and Anne Woodbridge band, Kenneth. Illinois, Januaty 24, 1998 Coventry, '95, a son, Jack Covenny Walter, G. Robert Law, '34, Sun City, Arizona, James 0. Hauert, '53, Appleton, February on January 26, 1998 March 23, 1998. Survivors include hi s wife, 13, 1998 ancy, and a son and daughter, Stuart and Shirley Eustice Holcomb, '53, Hebron, Gwenifer, '67. Illinois, December 30, 1997 DEATHS John W. Spence, '34, Racine, January 4, Ronald G. Christianson, '59, Palo Alto, 1998 California, December 1997 1 9 2 0 s William D . Blum, '35, Waupaca, January 1, Margaret Bjoin Gregerson, '22, St. Paul , 1998. Survivors include his wife , Augusta 1 9 6 0 Minnesota, July 8, 1997 Bethke Blum, '33. Helen Lucke Sciarrino, C '64, Dorothy Hackworthy Root, '23, Appleton, Joseph A. Gilman, '35, Mesa, Arizona, Castell amontc, Italy, September 3, 1997. Februaty 11, 1998. Survivors include a great­ January 27, 1998 Su rvivors include her husband, Giovanni niece, Jennifer Hackworthy Gambino, '89. Donald P. Menard, '35, Cull owhee, North Sciarrino. Florence Clark Newport, '24, Moultrie, Carolina, December 15, 1997 Douglas Opel, '67, Sheboygan, Januaty 24, Georgia, February 7, 1998, at the age of 101 Marcella Buesing Polkinghorn, ' 35, 1998. Survivors include his wife, Clarice; son Chloris Longenecker Legler, M-D '25, Appleton, December 22, 1997. Survivors and daughter-in -law, D. Darren Opel, '95, Wauwatosa, October 4, 1997. Survivors include two brothers, Kenneth Buesing, '40, and Eli se Azuma Opel, '94; cousin, Steven in clude her daughter, Ruth Legler Qualich, and Ralph Buesing, '49; t.l1ree sisters, Shirley Steenrod, '70; and sister and brother-in -law, M-D '55. Buesing Hoge, '47, JoAnn Buesing DuVall, Lesley Opel McKee and Charles A. McKee, C '57, and Elaine Buesing H ovde, '41; a both '68.

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7 0 5 subject it is under your gui dance. Your mar­ Over 1,000 of his paintings are in publ ic and riage of theoretical knowledge with practical private coll ections th rougho ut the counuy, Walter Drymalski, '70, Hartfo rd, South concerns, tempered with wit and h umor, has including many schools, businesses, an d Dakota, August, 1996. Survivors include his provided all of us with an exemplaty model of ho mes in Wisconsin . He received nvo major wife, Teri Petersen Drymalski, '69. the humane scholarly man." Andrew Berry mural commissions, one aboard the S.S. 0 was predeceased by his wife, Hope, and two President Van Buren (1940) and one depicting daughters, Barbara Berry vVilliams, '55, and the li fe of Martin Luther in the Aid Lynda Asleson Kaufmann, '84, Arlington Janet L. Berry, '72. Associati on for Lutherans building in Heights, Illinois, December 22, 1997. T hom as R. D ale, Appleton ( 1964 ). Also well known fo r his Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. professor emeri rus work in stained glass, D ietrich designed win­ John Asleson; her husband, Keith Kaufmann, of Englis h, dows for Memorial Presbyteri an Churc h, Ail '84; her sister, Amy As leson Hein, '90; two Appleton, Apri l 9, Saints Episcopal Church, St. Bernard's brothers-in -law, Eugene Boyle, '83, and 1998. A renowned Catholi c Chu rc h, the First Congregati o nal Richard Hein, '91; and a sister-in-law, scholar of St. Church, and the O utagamie M useum in Kathryn Kaufi11ann Boyle, '82. Walter Scott, he Appleton as well as nearly 70 other ch urches taught Shakespeare, in the Midwest and California. The 9 9 0 s women's fiction, O utagamie County H istorical Society named Sylvia (Elle) Sanchez, '97, Chicago, lllinois, and 19th-century him its H istorian of the Year in 1979 and March 8, 1998, in an automobile accident British li terature as again in 1990 . Survivors include his wife, during a snowstorm, while returning to the Mill er­ Margaret Rappe Dietrich, '36, and two sons, Madison, Wisconsin, fi·om a weekend in Wheelock Professor o ne of whom is Joh n T. D ietrich, '67. Appleton. She is survived by her parents, Mr. of Englis h at Lawrence after the 1964 consol­ James C. Stewar t, and Mrs. Eduardo Sanchez. idation with Milwaukee-Downer Coll ege, professor emeri tus of where he had ta ught since 1955 and was chai r mathematics, FACULTY of the English department. A native of Appleto n, May 16, Andrew Campbell Canada, he earned bachelor's and master's 1998. Known to Berry, professor degrees at the U ni ve rsity of Toronto and the friends and col­ emeritus of math­ doctorate at the University of Chicago. leagues as "Totsy," ematics, Appleton, During World War II he served in the Royal he was born in January 13, 1998. Canadian avy as an intelli gence officer and Memphis, Born in Somerville, then as a naval historian whose research was Tennessee, but spent Massachusetts, he incorporated into the official hi sto1y of the most of hi s early earned bachelor's, Canadian avy . Before joining the years in Mississ ippi. master's, and M il waukee-Downer f:1c ul ty he ta ught at the H e received the doctoral degrees in University of Mani toba, the U niversity of bachelor's and master' degrees in Latin fro m mathematics fro m Western Ontari o, Monmo uth College, and the Unive rsity of M ississippi and then went Harvard University. Northern Illi nois U ni versity. In addition to on to earn a Master of Science degree in He was a National organizing the Sir Walter Scott Bicentenary mathematics fro m Louisiana State U ni ve rsity Research Fellow at Brown and Princeton Festiva l at Lawrence in 1971, he arranged and a Ph.D. in mathemati cs from the Universities in 1929-31 and then taught for scholarl y conferences on Scott at the University of Ill inois. Before joining the ten years on the mathematics facu lty of Newberry Library, the U ni versity of Flori da, Lawrence fac ul ty in 1946, Professor Stewart Columbia University. Appointed associate and Annamalai University in South India. At taught high school matl1ematics and Latin in professor of mathematics at Lawrence in the time of his retirement in 1981, President his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, for 1941, he later was named C hild Professor of Richard Warch praised Professor Dale's "solid two years and was an instructor in matll emat­ Mathematics and in 1957 became the col­ contribution to the improvement of basic ics at both Loui siana State U niversity and the lege's first Henry Root Colman Professor. ski lls on this ca mpus," as fou nder of the U nive rsity of Illinois. Recogni zed in During World War II he was " loaned" by Coll ege Methods Lab, a precursor of the pre­ American Men of Science, he received a Lawrence to the 5th and 13th Air Forces in sent-day W ri ting Lab. Survivors include his Nati o nal Science Foundati on Faculty the Pacific, where his work as an operations wife, Grace, a son, and two daughters. Fellowshi p in 1960 to study at Harvard analyst, including development of an T homas M . U ni ve rsity. He retired in 1978 as tl1e Flo rence improved gunsight for waist-gunners on B-24 Dietrich, professor E. C hild Professor of Matl1ematics . In aircraft, earned hi m the civi lian Medal of emeritus of art, remembering Professor Stewart, President Freedom in 1946. For many years he was a Appleton, April 11 , Warch observed, "Totsy was a gentl eman of consultant to the Kimberly-Clark 1998. Appleton the first order, who was well and widely Corporation, applying his skills to practical native and lifelong known during hi s yea rs on the facu lty as a industrial problems and teaching a refresher painter of Fox Vall ey dedicated an d pati ent teacher, botl1 in matlle­ course in mathematics to Kimberly-Clark landscapes, matics and in Freshman Studies." employees. Highly regarded as a teacher of cityscapes, and cam­ undergraduates, Professor Berry received puscapes and myri ad Gifts in memory of these former facu lty Lawrence's Edward and Rose Uhrig Awa rd Door County scenes, members may be directed to the Development for Excellence in Teaching in 1971; upon hi s he studied at the Office, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI retirement the next year, President Thomas S. Ex peri men tal 54912-0599. Smith said, "To many graduates you are College of the mathematics at Lawrence, and an exciting University ofWisconsin, the Cincin nati Art Academy, and the Minneapolis School of Art, as we ll as receiving a fel lowship from the Louis Comfort T iffany Foundation to study in Oyster Bay, New York. Professor D ietri ch joined the Lawrence faculty as instructor in art in 1944 and was artist-in-residence at the col lege from 1948 to his retirement in 1974.

Lawrence Today 43 Insofar as Professor Mojmir Povolny (page 12) and the Freshman Studies program (page 23) are both represented in tlus issue, it seemed appropriate to select this photo, dating from somewhere around the middle of Freshman Studies' 50-plus-year history, as our "Lawrence Yesterday" memory for the summer of '98. As we always are interested in putting names to these archival photos, anyone who can identify any of the students pictured above is invited to contact the editor.

44 Summer 1998 Our music _put• you on a pedestal

The Performing Arts at Lawrence 1998-1999 Great teaching is not forgotten

In gratitude to an extraordinary teacher, Andrew H. Kalnow, '74, has endowed a library fund at Lawrence in memory of Elisabeth Koffka, professor of history. Professor Koffka, who received the Ph.D. from the University of Giessen, left her native Germany in 1928 with her husband, Dr. Kurt Koffka (one of three founders of the gestalt school of psychology). After a teaching career at Smith College, Mrs. Koffka, a speciali st in European intellectual history of the 18th and 19th centuries, taught at Lawrence from 1961 to 1971. A vigorous and demanding intellectual and an impressive and forceful personality, she both charmed and challenged Lawrence students with her brilliantly crafted lectures and in lively con­ versations outside the classroom. Great teaching is not forgotten, and in recognition of her contribu­ tions to Lawrence, Andy Kalnow, president of Alpha Capital Partners, Ltd., in Chicago and one of her former students, has created the Elisabeth Koffka Library Fund, which will support library acquisitions in European intellectual history and in this way extend the legacy of tl1is remarkable teacher. Gifts to tl1e Elisabeth Koffka Library Fund can be sent in care of Gregory A. Volk, Vice- President for Development and External Affairs, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI 54912-0599.

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