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Robin Sampson, '02, of Wauwatosa, with her parents at Family Office of Alumni Relations Weekend last year (address as above) 920-832-6549 Family Weekend, a Lawrence University fall tradition, will Fax: 920-832-6784 showcase students in the classroom, on the playing field, and [email protected] in musical performances and promises to offer a wide range http://www.lawrence.edu of activities for family members of all ages. Special thanks to Image Studios for The Friday schedule provides an opportunity for parents providing photography for this issue. to attend classes with their sons or daughters and to enjoy an Lawrence Today (USPS 012-683) is everting performance by the Concert Choir and the Chorale. published quarterly in March, June, On Saturday morning, President Richard Warch will September, and December by Lawrence address parents and provide an update on campus programs University, Office of Public Affairs, and activities. Following his formal presentation, the presi Appleton, Wisconsin 54911. Periodical postage paid at Appleton, Wisconsin dent and his staff will be available to respond to individual 54911. POSTMASTER: questions. In addition, parents will be treated to mini-courses Send address changes to Lawrence Today, and informational panels offered by Lawrence faculty members, Lawrence University, 115 South Drew while siblings enjoy age-specific activities ranging from a Street, Appleton, WI 54911-5798. cartoon breakfast to campus tours. Articles are ex pre sly the opinions of the The Lawrence Vikings will host the Ripon College authors and do not necessarily represent Redhawks in football at the Banta Bowl on Saturday afternoon. official university policy. We reserve the right to edit correspondence for length Saturday evening activities will include a Wind Ensemble and accuracy. concert, a DJ dance for the older siblings, and a "Halloween Spooktacular" that is sure to delight the younger children. Lawrence University promotes equal opportunity for all. For more information on Family Weekend, please contact the Dean of Students Office at 920-832-6596. SUMMER 1999 VOL. 79, NO. 4
FEATURES
looking Back, Moving Ahead 10 President Warch Talks about Lawrence Past and Present
Faculty Retirements 15 William A. Chaney, John M. Stanley, Theodore W. Ross, George E. Damp
Distinctly American 19 The Threats to Liberal Arts Colleges
The Professors' Picks 23 Faculty Suggestions for Summer Reading
Whither the Euro'? 26 Commentary from Lawrence's Scarff Professor
Play the Music, Speak the Words 28 Catherine Kautsky Melds Music, Spoken Word
Big Band Jazz 29 Ken Schaphorst's 'Purple' CD
Unexpected Good Fortune 30 Amateur Archaeologist Bequeaths His Collection
Home, Home on Derangia 32 Lawrence Student Revives Radio Theatre
Insect Detectives 33 Brad Renee and Students Study Prairie Bugs
DEPARTMENTS On the cover Correspondence 2 In September, Richard Warch Inside La\vrence 3 will mark his 20th anniversary as president of Lawrence Sports 35 University, a tenure second Alumni Today 38 only to Samuel G. Plantz Lawrence Yesterday 52 (portrait), Class of 1880, president from 1894-1924. In the article beginning on page ten, President Warch compares past and present and suggests that, at Lawrence, plus l(a change, plus c'est Ia meme chose. CORRESPONDENCE
Dear President Warch: and Randolph-Macon Women's in vocal performance, and now ["Dogfish and Sonnets"] is one of College in Virginia before moving teach musical theatre at a liberal the finest and most comprehensive to Middlebury College in Vermont, arts college. I'm sorry, Mr. Troy, analyses of the present condition where we have been ever since. I'm not an "actor"; I'm a musician and suggestions for the future aims My reason for spelling dlis out who sings and uses opera and musi of education I have ever read. is Mr. Schuetz's mention of Robert cal theatre to musically convey a I have been a pilot for many Frost and his "one-act neo-biblical dramatic situation. years, and there is an aviation drama" that lost out to "Cain" by In our popular culture's ever analogy that appeals to me: Howard Nemerov as a play for him present search for visual stimulation Ground-school training is but an to produce. Mr. Frost, it is no and emotional reality, have we introduction to a world of new secret, was inclined to be overly forgotten the musical side of the experiences. Once turned loose, the sensitive to "slights" such as this opera? It's the music and its expres young pilot begins to discover all one. Fortunately, he didn't know. sion of non-verbal communication the magic of discovery. Mountains However, to balance the scale, that separates opera from tallcing look small from above. The endless in 1946 and 1948, during the sum theatre. It's nice if an opera singer plains are not endless. New horizons mer sessions at the Breadloaf Grad can act adequately but far from the 'offer untold views of lands not even uate School of English (a part of most important aspect of the medium. imagined before. Middlebury College), Erie had Mr. When I was at Lawrence, I College is ground school, offer Frost's permission and was actually greatly enjoyed Professor Cloak's ing an open-sesame to wonders not encouraged to direct his two biblical plays and Professor Hopfensperger's even envisioned. Ground school - works, Masques - of Reason and of work - as straight tl1eatre! I also or college - is a platform or take Mercy. They had never been staged. greatly enjoyed being part of and off point. Good basic training is not Erie was eager to try, although watching Professor Koopman's an end in itself but only an intro the task was daunting. Mr. Frost opera productions - as a musical duction to wonders and satisfaction lived near the school in summer and medium. I have often held my alma and goals. planned to "check in" at rehearsals, mater up to my students as one of a Chester L. Roberts, '36 thus putting the entire staff and vanishing breed of musical theatre Shadow Hills, California student body in a state of nervous /opera programs directed by the tension. Would he like the results, musicians. I am sad to see it change. Robert Frost re-visited or the unthinkable opposite? Why aren't tl1e singers directing Upon reading the many touching Fortunately, he heartily the opera? tributes to Ted Cloak in the spring approved of the final performance Frederik E. Schuetze, '69 issue of Lawrence Today, I regretted (a campus-wide sigh of relief was Professor of Music, Bradford College that my husband, Erie T. Volkert, heard) and willingly sat for pictures Bradford, Massachusetts '35, could not have contributed his on stage afterwards amid the cast memories and admiration. He was and crew, autographing play scripts. When announcing the new /. Thomas too ill by then and died March 7, I think Ted would have been ('60) and Julie Esch {'61) Hurvis 1999. pleased that his good training had Professorship in Theatre and Drama, of The letter by Ralph Schuetz, rubbed off. Erie certainly gave him which Timothy Troy, '85, assistant pro '64, prompts these recollections that full credit for encouraging a career fessor of theatre and drama, is the first may be of interest to readers. in the theatre and for preparing incumbent, our spring issue failed to Erie, having been not only a him well. make clear that Professor Troy has student of Ted's and an actor in Mary Voecks Volkert, '39 served as a stage director for both dra many productions, was hired upon Middlebury, Vermont matic and musical productions. Patrice graduation to ftll in while Ted, Zoe, Michaels Bedi, assistant professor of and children were in the East on Musicians sing, actors act music (voice), and Karen Leigh-Post, leave. The one-year appointment I was saddened by Professor C '79, assistant professor of music became two, as Ted decided to Timothy Troy's article on theatre, (voice), continue to instruct the courses lengthen his stay. Erie was then musicals, and opera in the spring Introduction to Music Theater and encouraged to do his master's work issue of Lawrence Today - another Music Theater Workshop, making for at Northwestern University- the opera program taken over by a full teaching loads when combined with best theatre school around, Ted theatre director! their busy studio teaching responsibili was certain. Following that and a I'm trained as an opera singer, ties. Lawrence students have the bene wedding, we spent a year each at have numerous performances on fit, thereby, of both the singer's and the Huron College in South Dakota stage to my credit, have a doctorate stage director's perspective in preparing operatic roles. - Ed.
2 Summer 1999 United States to attend college, Two seniors awarded Watson Fellowships grew up with traditional African music and dance as part of her daily life. While she came to Lawrence the Providence, Rhode in part to study classical piano, she Island-based Thomas J. has maintained a strong interest in Watson Foundation. traditional African music. Watson Fellowships Her fellowship will take her to support a wande1jahr of Bolivia, Peru, and Haiti to study the travel and exploration out influences on South American and side the U.S. on a topic Caribbean music and dance that proposed by the student. were brought to those regions by The Lawrence seniors enslaved Africans. She also will were selected from more research how the new music with its than 1,000 student nomi mixed Spanish influences is making nees representing 49 of the return trip and having an impact the nation's top liberal arts on modern African music. colleges. Since the Watson Noss, who performs with program was established in I Lawrence's Brazilian and Ghanaian J 1969, Lawrence has had at percussion ensembles, Sambistas and I least one fellowship recipi Kinkaviwo, is completing a five-year ent every year but one. double-degree program with a Ritzinger will spend Bachelor of Arts degree in English the coming year in the Ritzinger, '99 and a Bachelor of Music degree Far East studying the with a self-designed major in ethno resurgence of Buddhist musicology. pilgrimages to Chinese Ritzinger and Noss will embark holy sites. His study will on their study programs in July. focus on the recent con Watson Fell ows are selected on struction of new temples the basis of the nominee's character, and religious monuments academic record, leadership poten at the four great Buddhist tial, and willingness to delve into pilgrimage mountains and another culture as well as the how the renewal of pil personal significance of the project grimages to these sites is stimulating a re-emergence proposal. of Buddhism in China. A religious studies + http:/jwww.lawrence.edu/ major with a minor in dept/conservatory/ studio percussion /LUPE.htmlx Chinese language, he also will visit Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore to meet with business and religious leaders who arc Lawrentians selected Noss, '99 supporting the new con- for other major honors struction, many of whom Chinese religious pilgrimages and were forced to flee mainland China Stephen Rodgers, '98, has been African influences on South Ameri during the Cultural Revolution. awarded a Mellon Fellowship in can music and dance will be the Ritzinger began practicing Humanistic Studies by the subjects of a pair of year-long studies Buddhism in high school and then Woodrow Wilson National Fellow by t\vo Lawrentians awarded converted to the eastern religion in ship Foundation, making him one $22,000 Watson Fellowships. 1997 while on an off-campus study of only 98 recipients selected from Justin Ritzinger, '99, River program in Tianjin, China. nearly 800 of the nation's top Falls, and Kathleen Noss, '99, Noss, who was born in humanities students. The fellowship Nairobi, Kenya, were two of the 60 Cameroon to American parents and provides payment for one year of all fellowship recipients announced by lived there until coming to the
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Mellon fellow ship this year. Joanna Boerner, '00, a junior from Northbrook, Illinois, major ing in biology, has been awarded a $7,500 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for outstanding academic merit. Boerner was selected from a national field of 1,181 mathe Rodgers, '98 Boerner, '00 matics, science, and engineering students nominated graduate-school tuition and fees admissions office. He is the fourth from colleges and universities in all plus a $14,500 stipend. Lawrence graduate and the first SO states. A total of 304 scholar Rodgers intends to use his since 1993 to win a Mellon Fellow ships was awarded for the 1999- fellowship, which will be worth a ship since the program started 2000 academic year. total of nearly $40,000, to pursue a in 1982. Boerner is the third Lawrence five-year Ph.D. program in music Eight of this year's fellowship student in the program's 11-year theory at Yale University beginning winners are from Harvard Univer history to be named a Goldwater this fall. Rodgers earned a Bachelor sity, with Columbia and Princeton Scholar, the premier undergraduate of Arts degree magna cum laude in Universities each accounting for award for sntdents pursuing careers English and music in 1998. Since seven recipients. Lawrence and the in mathematics, the natural sciences, graduation, he has taught in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and engineering. Lawrence Conservatory of Music were the only two schools in the and worked in the Lawrence state to have a sntdent awarded a
Residential life study begins
The Task Force on Residential Life Force members that includes members is preparing a written created last fall by the Board of Michael Cisler, '78; Beth De Stasio, statement articulating the underly Trustees (Lawrence Today, Spring '83, associate professor of biology; ing principles on which the college's 1999) worked through the winter Brad Manning, '00; Alan Parks, residential life is based. to review the current state of associate professor of mathematics; The initial information-gather student residential life at Lawrence, Jeffrey D. Riester, '70, trustee ing phase of the Task Force's efforts identify topics and concerns to be liaison to the Task Force; and Eli is expected to be completed in the examined, organize itself for the Salembier, '00. fall, followed by a more formal and work ahead, and set a timetable The Task Force has divided structured solicitation of input from for its operations. itself into three working subcom students, staff, faculty, and alumni Nancy Truesdell, dean of mittees: and a preliminary summary of find students, and Michael Orr, associate • Housing ings to the Board of Trustees in late professor of art history, are co-chairs • Food services 1999 or early 2000. The Task Force of the Task Force, assisted by a • Community life expects to submit its final report, coordinating committee ofTask A fourth group of Task Force with recommendations for trustee
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actions, at the board's October 2000 meeting. The Task Force has decided that it will focus primarily on the Prior to the trip, student experience of residential life. each student researched While the quality and character of a specific topic of inter residential life affects many other est. Once in Puerto things (admissions, retention, athlet Rico, d1ey took turns ics, the role of alcohol, etc. ), the servmg Task Force has concluded that its as "field guide experts," work will best serve the trustees' each leading a class pre purposes if the focus is confined sentation primarily to issues, unmet needs, on that subject at an and aspirations in the three areas appropriate site. mentioned above. Members of d1e In the course of refining the U.S. Forest Service, the Task Force's charge, the Task Force U.S. Geological Survey, and the Trustee Committee on Stu and the dent Affairs also agreed on some International Institute things that will not fall within the of Tropical Forestry scope of the current effort: also led presentations • While the Task Force will on current research pro examine the Lawrence Univer jects. sity Community Council's role "Working wid1 in the selection of student the professionals in rooms and related input into the field connected housing activities, it has the actual practice of determined that a broader science with the theory review of LUCC is beyond the Jenee Rowe, '00, Dawn Brady, '99, and Anna Fiedler, '01 we learned in the scope of its work. Mention Puerto Rico and spring classroom," says Clark. "The • Similarly, the Task Force will break in the same sentence and students gained an appreciation not conduct a wholesale review you'll quickly have the attention' of for the complexity of natural of the structure and efficacy of most college students. systems and an understanding of administrative support for Jeff Clark, ass is tan t professor of the need to communicate and work residential life. geology, used that combination to across disciplines to find answers • Issues such as parking and motivate his seminar students to to environmental and ecological alcohol and drug problems will turn the Caribbean island into a questions." likely be considered, but not giant outdoor classroom in March. The trip was akin to an educa with an eye to forming compre Culminating ten weeks of tional version of extreme sports. hensive recommendations on classroom study on the geology, The students hiked mountain those subjects or rewriting geomorphology, and tropical trails through tropical rainforests, current policies. ecology of Puerto Rico, Clark led rappelled down a cliff into a river • And, while the Task Force will 11 students on a week-long expedi canyon to explore a downstream certainly be focusing on how a tion of hands-on field research. The cave, snorkeled around coastal reefs , new student union or student students explored topics ranging and kayaked across a glowing center would enhance commu from slope stability of steep tropical bioluminescent lagoon. nity life at Lawrence, d1at effort soils to coral reef formation and "The whole trip was a great will be limited to examining geoarchaeology. exercise in experiential learning," potential contributions to "It was an incredible experi says Jenee Rowe, '00, ofTraverse student-life programs and will ence," says Jake Brenner '00 of City, Michigan. "The days were not take up the actual design Menomonie. "I learned more' ' in long and intense, but we were of the facility. one week, with my hands in the having such a great time, we didn't dirt, than I ever could have in ten realize how much we were actually + http:/ / www.lawrence.edu/ weeks in the classroom." learning." taskforce/ reslife/
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the grassroots level. "Too often professional-devel opment programs fail to meet the real needs of teachers as they per ceive them," says Purkey, who has coordinated Lawrence's Mielke Summer Institute for Teachers the past three summers. "So-called solutions are imposed on teachers from above or from the outside. Many programs seem to start with the assumption that teachers need to be 'fixed' or that they need an expert to tell them how to do things differently. "This program operates from the premise tl1at teachers can solve tl1eir own problems, but tl1ey need an opportunity to come together in a setting that is conducive to tl1e necessary dialogue and exchange of ideas." While tl1e current sessions Although to the casual observer it walls, completing the outer shell of involve only K-6 teachers, Purkey may not seem that what is now a the building. hopes to expand cement-lined hole in the grOtmd Once completed, the new TIE to include will soon be an $18 .l million science hall will be the most tech middle and state-of-the-art science facility, nically advanced building on cam secondary Lawrence's latest building project pus, with sophisticated mechanical schools teachers is moving along on schedule. systems and top-of-the-line air-cir next year. All of the foundation has culation capabilities to complement The TIE been laid and, with the delivery the modern laboratory facilities initiative is of steel girders, the building's housed there. The building will be supported by superstructure will soon rise occupied and ready for use at the Professor Purkey tl1e Mielke along the bluffs of the Fox River. start of the 2000-0 l academic year. Family Founda The superstructure will be in tion, Inc., tl1e Post-Crescent, and place by the end of summer, and + http:/ jwww.lawrence.edu/ Lawrence University, which work will proceed on the exterior about/tour/newscience.html togetl1er have committed nearly $40,000 over tl1e next tl1ree years toward tl1e program. "Ultimately, though, this is Education professor founds a program run by teachers for innovative program teachers," says Purkey. "It started as an effort by Lawrence to contribute to tl1e quality of education in tl1e The program is called TIE: Teacher February and again in April. Topics community, and we put the idea Idea Exchange. for discussion are set by the partici into motion, but it's up to teachers Teachers of grades K-6 in all 28 pating teachers themselves, and the to make it work." Appleton elementary schools were sessions require no preparation or invited to attend idea-exchange ses follow-up tasks. + http:/ j www.lawrence.edu/ sions that brought together teachers Stewart Purkey, associate pro community/ conf.htmlx in kindergarten and first grade, sec fessor of education, who conceived ond and third grades, and fourth the original notion for TIE, says http:/ j www.lawrence.edu/ and fifth grades, with a separate ses that the program was founded on admissions/ acaddepts/ sion just for sixth-grade teachers. the belief that, to be effective, educ.htmlx Each group has met twice, once in meaningful change must begin at
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'Chern Show' featured Race, hope, and at national chemical democracy conference
Acclaimed author and Harvard Six members ofLawrence's University professor Cornel West community-outreach initiative brought his unique blend of black known as "tl1e Chem Show" took preacher's oratory and philosopher's their interactive science-education vocabulary to the Lawrence convo program on the road in March at cation series in Febmary. tl1e invitation of tl1e American Speaking under the title "Race Chemical Society, performing at Matters" (also tl1e title of his best the society's national conference selling 199 3 book), West told a in Anal1eim, California. near-capacity audience in Memorial The students - Betl1 Holman, Chapel that "race has never been a '99, David Pippen, '99, Sara minor, marginal issue in the United Racine, '00, Carrie Stoffel, '00, States. In fact, it has perpetually West Dana Kass, '01, and Zach Walker, been a fundamental obstacle for '01 -staged an abbreviated 30- expansion of democracy." recently, The Future of American minute presentation at tl1e "Learn Widely hailed as tl1e "preemi Progressivism. ing How to Learn Chemistry" nent Mrican-American intellectual Product of a black, blue-collar symposium to an audience of of our time" and America's "most neighborhood outside Sacramento, professional chemists, college eloquent public intellectual," West California, West attended Harvard chemistry professors, high school asserted that the racial, economic, University, graduating magna cum and philosophical differences that laude in just three years, and went divide society can be overcome on to earn the Ph.D. at Princeton In four years the through reconciliation. He urges University in 1980. He returned Chern Show has society to make a "leap of faitl1 to Princeton in 1987 to teach reli beyond the evidence and try to gion and direct the Mro-American grown from a locally energize one another so we can studies department. accent the best in one another." In 1994, West left Princeton famous organization Bringing about a tmly equal to join the Mro-American studies society must be tl1e product of hard faculty at Harvard headed by to a nationally work and experimentation, West Lawrence trustee Henry Louis said. "Those who are willing to Gates Jr., L.H.D. '97. A frequent recognized ensemble. take up this challenge, I'll be tl1ere guest commentator on national 'vvitl1 you, because I'm going down news programs, including "Night fighting," he added. line," "CNN Talk," and "Firing chemistry teachers, and undergrad A self-described "prisoner of Line," West is a member of Presi uate chemistry students. hope," West is said to have been dent Clinton's National Conversa "In four years tl1e Chem Show influenced by traditions as diverse as tion on Race initiative and also has grown from a locally famous the Baptist Church, the Black Pan co-chairs tl1e National Parenting organization to a nationally recog thers, European philosophy, and Association's Task Force on Parent nized ensemble, as demonstrated by American transcendentalism. He is Empowerment. tl1eir invitation to the ACS national the author of 14 books, including meeting," says Rich Summers, assis Restoring Hope, a compilation of + http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ tant professor of chemistry, who interviews witl1 Mrican-American pages/frontline/shows/race/ took over the faculty-advisor reins luminaries discussing hope and main.html this fall after original Chem Show despair in black America; Jews and mentor Karen Harpp took a posi Blacks: Let the Healing Begin; The http://www.lawrence.edu/ tion at Colgate University. War Against Parents; and, most news/convos/ "The ACS is the largest chemi cal organization in the United States, and its national meeting is an enormous affair, attracting nearly
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20 000 scientists fi·om the U.S. and Klebesadel Honored by colors, "Sacred Grove" and ' abroad. Lawrence should be very UW-Madison "Crowrise," have been installed at proud of the achievements of the tl1e official residence of the U.S. Helen Klebesadel, associate professor Chern Show," Summers adds. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Lawrence of art, has been named a recipient of Founded in January, 1996, alumnus Shaun Donnelly, '68. tl1e University ofWisconsin-Madison the 15-member student troupe Professor KJebesadel served as School of Education's 1999 Out with a scientific twist creates and national president of the Women's stat1ding Recent Graduate Award performs a lively, interactive pro Caucus for Art from 1994-96 and for distinguished achievement and gram titled "Chemistry: More tl1a11 led a delegation to China for the leadership. Just Equations." The program 1995 United Nations Conference A painter specializing in water features a series of high-energy skits on Women. colors, Klebesadel was selected for and comical characters who illus the award in recognition of her trate chemical concepts present in "talent as a11 outstanding classroom I i G" 0( v·~ everyday situations. Collectively, a11d studio teacher, impressive tl1e group has performed 115 shows Pianist Michael Injae Kim, assistant accomplishments as an artist, and to more tlun 10,000 audience professor of music in the Lawrence tl1oughtful mentoring of women in members, primarily elementary a11d Conservatory, received tl1e Fox Valley the arts." n1iddle school students. Arts Alliance's Sammy Napuck Klebesadel, who joined tl1e The Chem Show was created Award in January. The honor, Lawrence faculty in 1990, earned to spark interest in science and named in honor of Sam Napuck, a both tl1e bachelor's degree in studio "demystify" it, while helping co-founder of tl1e Arts Alliance, art and tl1e Master of Fine Arts primary and middle school students recognizes "outsta11ding achievement degree from UW-Madison. Her realize tl1e importance of science on in tl1e performing, visual, a11d/ or paintings have been exhibited a daily basis. In addition, the pro literary arts over tl1e past year." throughout the country, including gram serves as a unique opportunity A native of Cat1ada, Professor galleries in Milwaukee, Madison, for Lawrence students to gain Kim began piano studies at age 11, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, valuable teaching experience and a11d by 15 had made his debut witl1 San Francisco, and San Antonio. exercise tl1eir own imaginations. tl1e Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Last fall two of her works were ' ' He has since appeared with selected for inclusion in the Art http:/ jwww.lawrence.edu/ numerous orchestras, including tl1e + in Embassies Program, which community/chemshmv.htmlx Boston and Cincinnati Pops and tl1e promotes the accomplishments of symphonies of VatKouver, Toronto, An1erica 's visual artists. Two water- Victoria, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, London, and Oklahoma City, not to mention tl1e Fox Valley Symphony and the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra. He also has toured with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony, performances that were broadcast on BBC television and radio. As a recitalist and chamber musician, he has appeared in virtually every major Canadian series and venue and tl1roughout tl1e United States, United Kingdom, a11d Asia. His performatKes have been extensively broadcast on CBC, BBC, and National Public Radio, and he tours regularly with his sister, violinist Helen Hwaya Kim. ~ A member of tl1e Lawrence faculty since 1996, Kim holds the Kwaku Som Aidoo, 'OJ (right), with a young helper, takes part in a riverbank clean-up effortas part of ~ Doctor of Musical Arts degree from ~ the student-organized "Reduce Use Earth Festival" in April. Other projects mc/uded the plantmg of 350 -S tree saplings along the Fox River. tl1e Juilliard School.
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Fritzell Receives Maxwell Following Dean Harrison's Brown began his coaching unexpected death in December career in 1986 as assistant football 1997, the progran1 was named the coach at Independence (Iowa) High Peter Fritzell, professor of English Richard A. Harrison Symposium in School and was an assistant football, and the Patricia Hamar Boldt Pro Humanities and Social Sciences in women's basketball, and track coach fessor of Liberal Studies, has been his memory. named recipient of the 1999 at Coe College from 1987-90. He It is a truly fitting tribute, says holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Maxwell Anderson award from the Margaret Madden, associate dean of business administration from Coe University of North Dakota. The the faculty, who has coordinated the and a master's degree in exercise award, given in recognition of dis event since its founding. science from tl1e University of Iowa. tinguished achievement by an alum "Rick Harrison, a consummate The Lawrence men's and wom nus of the English department, was teacher, dedicated his professional en's track programs have enjoyed a presented at the university's recent life to effective instruction of stu resurgence Lmder Brown 's direction, annual writer's conference. dents and was a passionate propo breal Lawrence Today 9 • IDOVlll ,., President Warch talks about Lawrence past and present .r:. a. "'a, .8 0 .r:. a. By Gordon Brown w (i a. <( 10 Summer 1999 residents of the United States can be have joined tl1e faculty since I have been president." elected to only two four-year terms. Possibly tl1e most important difference - and cer The average college president, tainly one of the most gratifying, he says - is tlut "the according to recent surveys, has been evidence of alumni affection for the college, as read in office for 7.3 years. The average tl1rough their annual financial support, was moderate, or tenure for Lawrence presidents, modest, in the 1970s and now is significant- 23 percent 1849-1979, was approximately nine alumni participation in the annual fund in 1979, compared years. Richard Warch has been presi with almost 50 percent now." dent of Lawrence University since September 1979. Finally, Warch says, "tl1ere's a clear difference in the The Warch presidency is, of course, a work still in physical plant. There are more and different buildings progress, and it's likely - to borrow from Browning - today than there were 20 years ago, and what pleases me that "the best is yet to be." Still, 20 years is a benchmark most about the recent ones is tl1e way they serve our essen sufficiently notable that some retrospection would seem to tial academic mission. be in order. "Keep in mind," he says, "that I became president a In the most important ways, President Warch says, few years after the Seeley G. Mudd Library was built, so Lawrence University in 1999 is very much like Lawrence the college already had made a significant investment in an University in 1979, in that it claims the same fundamental academic building. The first project undertaken on my mission as an undergraduate college of liberal arts, sci watch was the Buchanan Kiewit Recreation Center, and ences, and music. Over the years, he adds, tl1e institution that was aimed squarely at helping to enhance the quality and its constituencies have remained convinced of the of life for the students and long-term value of that mission. There have been chal for the community. lenges, fads and fancies in the way society has viewed "Every building project I have tried to higher education - especially a move toward vocational since then - and I would ism in the 1970s and an emphasis on credentialing in the include the new lodge at articulate the 1980s- but the things tlut make Lawrence Lawrence, the Bjorklunden in this list, tlllngs that are wortl1 preserving, remain tl1e same. "And, because of the weekend stu best of and for if you read Wriston," Warch observes, "they were the same dent-faculty seminars we in the '30s." now hold there - has been this college. At Lawrence, constancy is a primary virtue, even undertaken in order to pro though the college is also constantly adapting. "The cur vide tl1e kind of settings that riculum has changed over 20 years," the president says, permit the academic program to flourish. I firmly believe "and the course of study has altered, but tl1e basic mission that, in the case of the three on-campus buildings that is constant, and that is something of which we should we've completed since 1986- Wriston Art Center, Sl1at be proud." tuck Hall of Music, and Briggs Hall of Matl1ematics and That is not to say tlut there are not identifiable dif the Social Sciences- and certainly in the case ofJthe new ferences between Lawrence in 1999 and the college whose science building we will complete in the summer of 2000, presidency Richard Warch assumed after serving as profes we have enabled the best aspects of the Lawrence academic sor of history and dean of the faculty from 1977-79. program to reach even higher levels of accomplishment. Indeed, be can name several: They all have been good investments - for tl1e students as "The financial position of the college was certainly well for tl1e faculty." more problematic in 1979, including a $1 million budget Having said tl1at, he hints that he would rather not be deficit and a history of deficits being carried over from one remembered strictly as a "bricks and mortar" president: year to tl1e next," he says. "Today, we have had 20 years "Jacques Barztm once wrote tl1at a college president's of balanced operating budgets, and the financial resources job is to handle 'the trustees, the public, and the money. of the institution are much stronger - not yet as strong He makes speeches and contacts, and signs diplomas. If as one would like them to be, but certainly, in contrast after his term of office he has secured for tl1e college a new to 20 years ago, we are not faced with the same set of gymnasium or library, he is held in as high esteem as if he circumstances." had contributed an idea or an atmosphere.' That's not a Another difference, one that he names with pride wholly uplifting assessment, and I hope that when tl1e time and pleasure, is tl1at "the prominence, the stature, and comes, I'll be remembered for leaving if not an idea, at the standing of the Lawrence University Conservatory of least some ideas, and also an atmosphere. I tl1ink Wriston Music are markedly greater today than they were 20 left an idea; I tl1ink Pusey left an idea, and while I don't years ago." think I can claim tl1e kind of singular accomplishment rep Also, he says, "Faculty composition is demonstrably resented by President Pusey and Freshman Studies, I have quite different, due in part to a generational change in tl1e tried to articulate the best of and for this college." professoriate; roughly 80 percent of its current members Over the past 20 years, thousands of students have Lawrence Today 11 Buchanan Kiewit Center Wriston Art Center Every building project has been undertaken in order to provide the kind of settings that permit the academic program to flourish. Ruth Harwood Shattuck Hall of Music Bjorklunden lodge Lucia R. Briggs Hall attended Lawrence University, and their president has to have the values of their education reinforced for them, many good things to say about them, as students and as since the culture dismisses those values to some extent, alumni: and I think we need to help students feel greater degrees "I came here from the East Coast and a major of confidence in their competencies, but I'm not sure research university [Yale], and I was taken, as I am today, that's all that different from 20 years ago; maybe I'm just by the openness, the talent, the unpretentiousness, and the more sensitive to that issue today," Warch says. brightness of the Lawrence student body. It seems to me "Our students, when they become our alumni," he that students today may have more need than in the past adds, "become our ambassadors; they extend the college 12 Summer 1999 or conservatory into some wider world. I don't mean that they should tout Lawrence every time they turn around - but I do think it is important that they feel positively about that role and be confident in their representation of their own education and hence in the character and quality of the college. "Whenever we talk about Lawrence students," Warch continues, "it's worth noting that our record of having the most academically talented freshmen classes of any institu tion, public or private, in the state of Wisconsin has been a constant across those 20 years." Like Lawrence students, Lawrence faculty members are as they always have been, only more so. The president says, "I am pleased that our newer faculty are able to come to appreciate certain essential elements of the institution, especially Freshman Studies, and have been central in fur President Warch and students on the way to a 1992 matriculation convocation thering the excellence and the centrality of that course. In that way, they have "The difficult part is that there are so many and endorsed the institution; at varied issues on the presidential plate that it is hard to deal the same time they have with a manageable finite number. The good part, how changed the institution, ever, is that I have a sense of engagement with the whole and that's as it should be. enterprise; there are no aspects of the college that I don't "When we seek new pay attention to or don't care about, whether it's being faculty members it is not sure the campus is looking good or worrying about invest because we want to clone ment performance or doing my bit for fund-raising or rep the existing faculty, as fine resenting the college to alumni or working on public-pol as that is, but because we icy issues or interviewing faculty or being engaged with are looking for new, emerg personnel decisions involving faculty - I like it all, and I ing perspectives within a With Margot Warch like the fact that I'm not just managing the managers of variety of fields. We've been the business, but I'm engaged in the business itself. very successful in securing a faculty that has moved us in "What gives me the greatest satisfaction," he con some interesting new directions." cludes "is that we - and I use the word we broadly to All is not success, however, he comments. include' members of the on-campus community but also "There are some things that, by applying energy and the alumni and friends of the institution and the trustees attention, one can 'solve' - e.g., enhancing the physical in particular- have secured Lawrence University in ways plant, encouraging greater alumni participation, increasing that have permitted it to conduct its educational business and strengthening the endowment, developing a consis 'vvith ever-greater degrees of excellence and confidence. tent voice for the institution - but increasing the size of That, too, is something of which we can be proud . " our applicant pool has remained something that neither I nor anybody else has been able to figure out. We continue to attract a very bright and able class of students and, while they bring to us a strong profile and while they are young people we are privileged to serve, the fact is that enroll ment issues, both admissions and retention, are not quite where I think they should be. I think our retention should be better; I think our applicant pool should be larger." Heading into the 21st year of his presidency, it is evi dent that this is a man who believes in and is committed to what he is doing. "There are always ways of making the college better and stronger," he says, "and that's what keeps me engaged. If I felt that I had reached the point where I was simply tending the vineyard and not figuring out what new crops we ought to plant, I don't think I would be having fun. And I am." Then again, like any job, it's not always fun: President Warch and students at the ABC Good Morning America video taping session celebrating Lawrence's /50th birthday Lawrence Today 13 Words from Warch Twenty ye of Wisdom and well-turned phrases In the first weeks after my election as president, I Rather than modifY the college's program, we chose fielded innumerable questions about the nature and to celebrate and promote our special brand of liberal funu·e of the private college - this one in particular education; rather than hoping to survive, we set a so formulated that one would have thought I had course that would enable us to thrive; rather than pro taken on the job of nurturing some exotic and nearly tecting our position and our assets, we sought to extinct and surely effete instinttion. 1979 advance them. 7989 The enemies of liberal learning are not economic or For Lawrence, Freshman Studies sets the tone of intel demographic trends but those who are indifferent to lecntal community- which I would defme as a com the values and aspirations it espouses. 7979 munity that is derived from and depends on shared curiosities rather than idiosyncratic competencies. 7990 We live in times when we are forever preoccupied with living in these times. 7980 There are many places that offer courses in the liberal arts and sciences and music. And larger schools, obvi Neither Saint nor Sarah. 7980 ously, offer more courses than we do, have more schools, divisions, and departments than we do. But Lawrence does not need either unloving critics or with that more comes less of what our less gives uncritical lovers. 7987 us more: individual attention, small classes, personal sharing, rigorous expectations, residential living, Students choose Lawrence for many reasons, but com communal life. In short, liberal education with a mon to all is ... a desire to be individuals rather than difference. 799 7 integers. 7982 The teaching versus research controversy has no place Being best is better than being good, and the efforts at this college. For us, scholarship and learning pro of alumni contribute mightily to Lawrence's continu duce compatibility, not conflict; research and learning ing search for the best. 7983 are complementary, not competitive. 7992 Ours is a college created by ambitions expressed and There are presently around a million entities tl1at realized over two centmies, and while the realization has claim tax exemption as charities under tl1e provisions rarely been immediate it has always been evenntal. 7984 of tl1e tax code, and another 30,000 are added each year. Many of them are evanescent; tl1ey will not per Whereas the sntdents of the fifties may have seen their sist. Lawrence will persist. 7993 fi.1U1res as open and the students of the sixties may have viewed their fi.1U1re as tractable, their peers of It doesn't matter that many of the charges that are today are less sure, more worried, less advenntresome, being leveled at tl1e academy do not pertain to more cautious. And perhaps justifiably so. 7985 Lawrence. The more important fact is that we can be better than we are. 7994 The adage I have shared often with Lawrence audi ences - that the college that is not moving ahead is Students should actively seck and pursue - and the therefore moving backward- remains a singular truth faculty and the curriculum should systematically about the state of higher education. 7987 enable and promote- opportunities for that personal investment in creative and independent work, tl1at The point is not simply that manners by Miss Manners flowering of tl1e individual mind tl1at constitute the have a place at the college (though they do). And the essential genius of our brand of liberal learning. 7996 point about manners surely transcends compulsive concerns about using the correct fork (when in doubt, Genuine learning is more likely to be a product of crit start from the far left and work in). The issue of man icism than of praise. 7997 ners -of civility, respect, correct conduct- goes to the heart of our enterprise, which is to say to enabling A defining characteristic of the aims of liberal educa the college to be true to its own best principles and tion at Lawrence is to place the individual student at purposes. 7988 tl1e center of tl1e enterprise. 7998 14 Summer 1999 Bill Chaney: He seems to have stayed For many Lawrentians and other admirers, it represents intending to move on to a larger, name institution in two the closing of an era. After nearly a half-century of teach or three years. "I seemed to have stayed," Chaney likes to ing, William A. Chaney, the George McKendree Steele point out witl1 elegant understatement. Professor of Western Culture, has chosen to add yet A recognized authority on tl1.e Middle Ages, with an another title to his collection, that of professor emeritus. intense interest in the emergence of medieval European It is hard to imagine a time when Bill Chaney was not monarchies and early rulership, Chaney has published over a respected and beloved member of the Lawrence faculty: l 00 articles and reviews in encyclopedias and learned jour his tenure has spanned almost a tl1ird of Lawrence's his nals and is the author of a seminal work on kingship in tory. More tlun 80 percent of living alumni have passed Anglo-Sax.on England. In 1977, he was elected a Fellow of through tl1.e college during his years here; many, if not England's prestigious Royal Society for Arts. most, of whom, if they haven't tal Lawrence Today 15 countless persons he's had a hand in helping who were never students of his and whom he will never meet. His dual sense of satisfaction springs from a career tlut fell into two distinct phases, first as the Ellen C. Sabin Jack Stanley: Professor of Religious Studies and later as the Edward F. Mielke Professor in Ethics in Medicine, Science, and Society. It was his scholarly research on Hindu healing centers tlut ultimately led to tl1e jog in his career path. He spent all of 1975 in India studying holy places and temples of Helping the Khandoba sect of Hinduism - as one of tl1e very few people in the world ever to visit all 50 sites holy to tl1is sect, his feet actually became an object of veneration for its followers. people he'll Stanley returned to India in 1979 to present a paper at the International Congress of Anthropology, attempt ing to show how the work of the healing centers could enhance India's attempts to strengthen its public health programs. He came back to Lawrence witl1 a sense of never meet responsibility "to be relevant to the lives of tl1e people we talk about." That lead to the creation of a course in biomedical ethics and several years later to the establish ment of an entire program devoted to the study of biomedical issues. As director of the program, Stanley organized The Appleton Consensus Project- a ground-breaking series of international conferences involving 152 discussion groups of health care professionals - which sparked debate in countries around tl1e world on life-sustaining treatments and produced policy changes in many of tl1em. In 1997, he co-authored a national study for tl1e Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, "The Quest to Die with Dig nity," and in 1998, after five years of consultation witl1 Wisconsin health care professionals, he produced tl1e nation's first set of guidelines for tl1e responsible utiliza tion of intensive care. Early in his career, Stanley was instrumental in creat ing the Associated Colleges of tl1e Midwest's first India Studies Program. In the mid-1970s, he served as the leader of a faculty group that designed the Lawrence Humanities Program, an ambitious initiative to build links across tl1e humanities. "Teaching has always been the highlight of my career," says Stanley. "I'm proud of the students I've been able to reach, especially those in small classes like Fresh man Studies and advanced seminars. It's also humbling to consider tl1e people I'll never know or meet whom I have The pride is obvious in John M. Stanley's face when he helped by improving the conditions in which Americans pauses to consider the large number of students he's die. Both aspects of my career have been very rewarding." reached during his 37 years on the Lawrence faculty. An RJ? equally proud glow emerges when he contemplates the 16 Summer 1999 Thirty-three years of college teaching have not eroded d1e enthusiasm and energy of retiring Associate Professor of Geology Ted Ross. An imposing physical presence belies his friendly, always upbeat nature- which permeates the geology department like fresh water in an aquifer. "Those were some unbelievable experiences," says "After all these years, the highlight of my day is still Ross, long tl1e geology department's de facto handyman, going into class and giving a lecture," says Ross, who building and repairing everything from falling-head per joined d1e faculty in 1966. "Sometimes I feel as if I'm meameters to vibracoring equipment. "You're wiili the stealing when I get a paycheck, because it's been so much students 24 hours a day in a lot of different situations. fun." We've had some great times out on the outcrops. We While he relishes his time in the classroom, it's out in shared a lot of learning and a lot of fun." d1e field, where real geology is taught and learned, that Ross also spent 16 years on a field of a different stripe, Ross is most in his element. In his early Lawrence days, he serving as an assistant football coach under d1ree different made use of his private pilot's license by organizing "aer head coaches, helping d1e Vikings win conference champi ial field trips," taking students up three at a time in a small onships in 1967 and 1986. plane for fly-over inspections of the Fox River corridor, "That was a great experience," says Ross, a former Door County, and the moraines and drumlins of the two-way starting Big Ten football player. "That gave me Kettle Moraine area of southeast Wisconsin. close contact witl1 a different group of students apart from When liability concerns grounded those flights, Ross geology majors." concentrated on more conventional field trips, leading As he packs up his rock hammer and hiking boots, groups of students on spring break and summer excursions Ross credits d1e students for preserving his zestful exuber to the Rio Grande valley of Big Bend National Park, the ance. desert of Dead1 Valley, tl1e grandeur of Wyoming's Big "The kids have kept me young. They've been my Horn Mountains, and d1e churning rapids of the Colorado fountain of youth, and I'm going to miss iliem." RP River in the Grand Canyon. L wrence Today 17 George Damp: inspiring through beauties heard "From the scholars past and present by whom our minds are stirred; from artists who inspire us through beauties seen or heard . from the hope that understanding will help our world unite; Memorial Chapel in 1994-95; and brought about the from our daily life at Lawrence: donation to the college and tl1e restoration of an histori we gather light, more light." cally important Beethoven-era piano built by John Broad wood and Sons, London, in 1815. For Professor of Music George Damp, retiring after 15 Before coming to Lawrence, Damp taught at Wake years at Lawrence, those words, from the Sesquicentennial Forest University and at Ithaca, Carleton, and Whitworth Anthem composed in 1996 in preparation for the college's Colleges. He received the B.A., summa cum laude, and the 150th birthday, are both memory and milestone. M.A. in musicology from Cornell University and a doc Damp, an accomplished musician and dedicated torate in organ performance and music literature from the teacher who has brought the Lawrence and local commu Eastman School of Music. He has performed widely in the nities countless examples of "beauties ... heard," is, United States, Canada, and Germany; has twice been a simultaneously, university organist, instructor of organ recipient of study grants from tl1e National Endowment and historic keyboard instruments, and chair of botl1 the for the Humanities; and has served as organist and choir music history department and the Bachelor of Arts in master in several area churches, most recently Grace Epis Music program. He ranks his involvement in tl1e creation copal Church in Sheboygan. of the Sesquicentennial Antl1em first among his Lawrence Damp records for tl1e Calcante label, which has accomplishments, although there have been many others. released four compact-disc recordings by him: "From In addition to participating in several revisions of the Byrd to Britten: An English Organ Music Retrospective," music history curriculum, Damp founded tl1e Collegium "Last Works - Brahms and Franck," "The Lawrence Musicum, an ensemble of instmmentalists and singers Brombaugh," and "Meditations from Grace." devoted to the study and performance of Medieval, But, beyond all that, Damp says, he takes a special sat Renaissance, and Baroque music; led tl1e effort to procure isfaction in the accomplishments of his students, nearly all a new mechanical organ that resulted in the widely cele of whom have gone on to graduate schools and with many brated Opus 33 by John Brombaugh being installed in of whom he remains in contact. GB 18 Summer 1999 Annapolis Group sparks dialogue on the contributions and future of residential liberal arts colleges The Annapolis Group, an association of America's leading national liberal arts colleges (of which Lawrence University is a member), has collaborated with Dcedalus, the journal of the An1erican Academy of Arts and Sciences, to publish a special issue titled "Distinctly An1erican: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges." The issue contains a series of 14 essays from college presidents, scholars, and historians of American higher education and notable alumni of Annapolis Group institutions, one ofwhich, authored by newspaper publisher Paul Neely, is excerpted here. Steven Koblik, president of Reed College, writes in the foreword to the volume that, for most Americans, residential liberal arts colleges are invisible because they have neitl1er famous athletic programs nor large numbers of alumni. They are virtu ally ignored by the media and find tl1emselves caught in the cross-currents of Amer ican higher education marked by tl1e dominance of the large public and private uni versities. "Today," Koblik argues, "small residential liberal arts colleges, even the strongest of them, face an uncertain future." The Dcedalus essays seek to examine the residential liberal arts colleges- where they have come from, their current condition, and their future prospects. In doing so, tl1ey raise questions and present criticisms, some of which will make alumni and liberal arts college loyalists uncomfortable. Ultimately, many of the authors con clude, the future of America's residential liberal arts colleges will rest upon their abil ity to articulate their continuing value and relevancy to a society that is preoccupied witl1 vocational credentialing and to address both the pedagogical and economic challenges of an increasingly competitive educational marketplace. In many respects, the Dcedalus special issue offers more questions than answers. The dialogue, once begun, will continue. Lest one conclude that raising such ques tions and airing self-criticisms is harmful to tl1e image of colleges like Lawrence, there is ample testimony in Dcedalus as to the unique role and contributions of resi dential li beral arts colleges. As Koblilc writes, "They are distinctively American; no other country has schools committed so clearly to tl1e highest quality of undergrad uate education." SB + http:/jwww.lawrence.edu/media j annapolis_group.htmlx Lawrence Today 19 The eats to iberal a1·ts colleges By Paul Neely Reprinted by permission of D::eda!us, Journa! of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from the issue entitled "Distinc tively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges," Winter 1999, Volume 128, Number 1. Paul Neely is publisher of The Chattanooga Times and a graduate and trustee of Williams College. n 1998, a poll of university officials conducted by board members. They have had many concerns over the U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of years, but surely none had to worry about competition Arkansas 53rd in academic reputation among the from the University of Arkansas. We worry about such 54 schools of the nation's five major athletic con tl1ings now. ferences. Also in 1998, the University of Arkansas increased the number of first-year students scoring in the 95th percentile on standardized entrance tests by 42 The most serious threats to liberal arts colleges are not tl1e percent. It used a heavy marketing campaign, but the key battles of ideology or the sllifts of technology, although difference was an increase in the scholarship budget from the latter will have some indirect effects. In a market $1.8 million to about $4.4 million. driven world, the primary threat to liberal arts colleges is Approximately $1.5 million of the increase came from found in the marketplace. the family of the late Sam Walton, founder of Wai -Mart Many market forces are beyond tl1e influence of indi Stores, Inc., with headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. vidual schools or even whole categories of schools: demo The funds were earmarked for full scholarships targeted graphic, economic, and geographical shifts; cultural specifically at academically superior, not economically trends, including materialism and utilitarianism; and the poorer, students. University officials have reported suc donlinance of market economics as a determining force. In cess. Many students who \Vould have gone to out-of-state addition, tl1ere is probably an overcapacity in higher edu schools are now staying in Arkansas. And the quality of cation in general, and liberal arts colleges share in that these students has added new vitality to academic life at problem. There may simply be more pure liberal arts the university. There is little doubt tl1at the university's colleges tl1an we need, at least as tl1e market defines need. academic reputation will rise, since at heart it depends The first thought about tl1e higher-education market most heavily not on history, faculty, or facilities but on tl1e place tlut comes to almost anyone's mind these days is quality of the students. price. The most selective schools are pushing beyond the Among the trends evident in tllis example are com previously untl1inkable limit of $30,000 a year- a figure petitive marketing, merit-based aid, private support for that does not cover many of the costs of actually attending state schools, and student choice being heavily influenced college, from computers to travel to an occasional movie, by price. Underneath those trends are implicit assump and tl1at amazingly may represent less than half of the col tions that the academic reputation of a school "vill neither lege's per-pupil expenses. Many schools below that top diminish nor enhance the generic credential it grants and tier are into the $20,000 range. Charges for public col that enough money will provide a critical mass of high-cal leges have gone up too, and one can make various argu iber students anywhere. ments about percentages, but tl1e absolute dollar spread Merit scholarships alone will not undermine the rich shows the high price of the selective schools. history of the nation's more selective liberal arts colleges, In contrast, it should be noted tlut almost tl1ree but the issues behind them reflect the risky economics, quarters of all full-time undergraduates attend four-year aggressive competition, and eroding purpose that tl1reaten colleges and universities that charge less tl1an $8,000 a tl1e future of those schools. As a trustee of Williams Col year. That figure hides the substantial subsidy from private lege, I am at the tail of a long line of thoughtful, devoted and public sources, but it also dramatizes just how much 20 Summer 1999 more the selective colleges are asking. inflicted injury. A Couple that with other trends. Twenty years particular school can ago, the major part of student aid was in outright attract better students and grants; now it is in loans. Over the same time, the thus be a better school by raising income distribution of the nation has been slowly shift its price, within reasonable peer com ing. The rising tide of prosperity has raised the front end parisons. Unfortunately, there is also a of the boat more than the back. The result is that net tragedy of tl1e commons at work here. The ratio tuition (after student aid) as a proportion of family nal decision for tl1c single school works against long income at private institutions is three times greater for term survivability for all tl1e schools as a group. low-income students than it is for high-income students. Furthermore, costs are increasing and are doing so Increases in financial aid have not kept pace with increases faster tlun familiar indices, largely because education is in tuition, and, sure enough, all this has had an effect. still a labor-intensive business. But furtl1er costs have been The probability that a student from the highest added over the years. Curriculum has been expanded: income group (over $100,000 annually) attended a selec Thirty years ago, some of tl1e best liberal arts colleges did tive institution increased from one in five in 1981 to one not offer much, if anytl1ing, in certain familiar subjects, in four in 1997. Colleges sometimes claim that tuition is including antl1ropology, religion, and theatre, let alone not increasing any faster than the incomes of the families the more "modern" subjects now filling the catalog, such from which their full-paying students come, but just as as environmental science, biochemistry, or Asian studies. important is the fact that this highest-income group may Faculty have come to expect that research will be a large be declining as a proportion of all families with children part of their roles, which means colleges must provide attending college. relief from teaching, which means more faculty need to be That would be a particularly ironic result, for in the hired. Technology is adding a new element to overhead past few years the better liberal arts colleges have gone to expense. And the creep of social problems into campus life exceptional efforts - using everything but the maximum requires greater spending on student health services, secu charge, the so-called sticker price - to escape their old rity, counseling, and otl1er support services, especially witl1 elitist images and broaden their student base. In part this tl1e customer expectation tlut tl1e college should address is a matter of modern social conscience, but it is also basic social problems therapeutically. High-end liberal arts col marketing. leges, which pride tl1cmselves on ignoring economics of scale on their academic side, often face a difficult time with these new costs, for iliey are imposed on a small base. In general, the highest-performing students want to go to a college where the other students are equally bright but different in as many ways as possible. Today's top students Call it vocationalism, credentialism, or even dollarizing welcome diversity and, usually having grown up in more students and tl1eir families have defined undergraduate homogenous suburbs and schools, will actively seek it out education in starkly utilitarian terms. Young people do not as part of their college selection. The better a college go to college to become fuller persons, better citizens, or assembles a diverse student body - in race, ethnicity, more lively intellects. In postwar America, college educa geography, and the like, but also in the range of talents tion is justified by the additional lifetime income it will from athletics to the performing arts - the more likely it produce. is to draw the best, most open, and most creative students Some of this has reflected the booming economy and to its academic pool. competitive market orientation of the postwar years. Some Then why does tuition keep going up? The simple of it has reflected the outright materialism that came with answer is that selective colleges are also competitive col growing affluence. Some of it, perversely, was created by leges. They raise tuition because every extra dollar will go higher education itself. Pushing forward to attract and sat towards better faculty, facilities, and financial aid, thus isfy tl1ose consumers/students also pushed up costs, and attracting the best student body, which is the ultimate whetl1er the price was borne in cash or prolonged loan source of a school's quality. Beyond that, they compare payments, the resulting second tl1oughts of tl1e payers themselves to a Mercedes in an educational market of leaned strongly to the economics of life. Those who paid mostly Fords and Chevys, and their price makes a state had grown up in the depression, when security became ment. Indeed, to lower the price would send a signal of intertwined with employment, and this echoed into tl1e lesser quality, and at the upper end of these schools there years as a demand that their children pursue "something is a clear correlation between tuition and selectivity or better," especially better than a manual skill, but still reputation. "sometl1ing you can usc," which meant use to economic In that odd market sense, there is no incentive for any benefit. school to reduce its price. Doing so would be a self- According to the American Freshman Survey, m Lawrence Today 21 1966, more than 80 per- all but a handful of colleges could find tl1e drain cent of respondents on endowment unbearable. checked off "Develop a mean- ingful philosophy of life" as the purpose of college, but by 1990, that figure had dropped If one asks the chief executive officers of business below 50 percent. Conversely, some 45 percent listed "Be corporations and nonprofit organizations what very well off financially" as the purpose in 1966 (and it tl1ey prize most in an employee, the list resembles dropped even further by 1970), but by 1996 the number tl1e mission statement of a liberal arts college - critical had risen to more than 70 percent. tl1inking, oral and written communication abilities, con This would seem to imply that the greatest increase ceptual application of quantitative skills, a commitment to in personal wealth in the world's history has also increased lifelong learning, and the like. personal economic insecurity. In fact, it may merely reflect The list seems to be little noticed in the CEOs' own the fact that more wealth produces more desires, the very personnel departments, however, for more and more jobs basis of modern materialism. This is a somewhat philo go first to tl1ose with specific vocational credentials. Given sophical point, but it has direct effects on how the nation tl1e choice, a newspaper publisher is likely to favor the his regards higher education, and thus on the marketplace for tory major from Middlebury to fill a begimung reporter's those services. slot, but a cautious director of human resources, or even a cautious managing editor, is likely to lure the journalism school graduate from Kansas. Somehow, the professional The marketplace threats to liberal arts colleges, in sum, are certificate seems to assure safety, and hiring is now a risk from within and without. So-called merit aid, which is adverse activity. actually a host of discounting techniques, is a stark effort If tl1e nation places even greater emphasis on higher to buy market share of high-quality students. It may, how education as a fungible commodity and a generic creden ever, turn out to be a powerful force, swamping the eco tial, liberal arts colleges will be at a continuing disadvan nomics of need-based aid in its wake. Outside sources of tage. A small band of the faithful will see a greater good in support have growing weaknesses, and in the worst sce the liberal arts, but if tl1e brilliant biology researcher of the nario, the high-quality liberal arts colleges could be left future sees no more widely tl1an his own future prizes, he with no one but the children of the wealthy, who then is likely to begin that career as a freshman at a research uni turn out to be unwilling to attend if no one else is. versity. If the lawyer figures it will be tl1e law-school Many of these schools have great endowments, so an record tl1at determines her first job, and thus her future early demise cannot be predicted. They already rely heav happiness, tl1en she will likely aim to save her family tl1ou ily on those endowments to complete with one another sands of dollars for the four years of undergraduate prep and may have to draw on them more heavily in the future, work. since their competition for students and for quality is If results are increasingly measured in dollars, liberal broader than they have ever encountered. Competition arts colleges will suffer - unless they are seen even more will present special problems for maintaining need clearly as the precise antidote to that way of measuring tl1e blind/ full -need aid policies, now remaining in just a few world. As scholar and social critic Todd Gitlin wrote schools, and for the high-price/high-aid strategies behind recently, "Little attention has been paid to tl1e strongest them. reason to cultivate knowledge tlut is relatively enduring: The entire category of liberal arts colleges coasts for to anchor a !ugh-velocity, reckless, and lightweight culture ward with a certain vulnerability. All spend to the hilt. whose main value is marketability." Indeed, they feel an almost fiduciary duty to maximize the The real threat to the best of tl1e liberal arts colleges quality of the education they offer to those currently is that Gitlin's exhortation is ignored, tl1at as a culture we enrolled. But what if tl1ings were to go bad? These are not choose trends over permanence, image over substance, swiftly adaptable institutions, and they have high over money over values, and tl1e market over meaning. It is tl1e head. Because no student pays the full cost, tl1e schools liberal arts that can spare us from that world; if tl1at fails, could not simply increase enrollment to cover their basic however, tl1e colleges that hold the ideals of liberal arts in costs. High financial aid is tl1e only way around the qual the highest esteem will be tl1reatened themselves. ity/ access trap, but a real economic crunch could escalate financial aid into untenable levels. In a rather short time, 22 Summer 1999 Marcia Bjornerud, Associate Professor of Geology speaks more persuasively tlun perhaps I can for its inclu J. William Schopf, Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's sion in tlus list. Earliest Fossils. The book not only chronicles the author's * http:/ jwww.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/ remarkable 1993 discovery of3.5 billion-year-old fossils in 100best/ ancient rocks in a remote part of Australia but also gives an engaging glimpse into the world of paleobiology, includ Peter Gilbert, Director of Instructional Technology ing the ongoing controversy over purported fossils in a and Associate Professor meteorite from Mars. Donald Norman, The Invisible Computer: Why Good Prod ucts Can Fail, The Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Franklin M. Doeringer, Nathan M. Pusey Professor of Information Appliances Are the Solution. Norman, a cogni East Asian Studies and Professor of History tive psychologist, has written another provocative and I highly recommend Jonathan Spence's The Gate of Heav entertaining book, tlus time insisting that computers are enly Peace. An easy-reading account of 20th-century China so aggravating because they are designed to serve technol and its leaders' struggle to adjust to modern ideas, it's a ogy and not people. His solution? Information appliances, beautifully written work. Spence, who is British by birth designed to do individual tasks well and as easy to use as a but now resides in the U.S. (he teaches at Yale), has mas telephone. Norman's critique of the personal computer is tered that essentially British art ofwriting sound historical persuasive, and lus vision of the future is compelling. studies intended for a general audience. As a result, he's Michael Palin, Hemingway's Chair. Martin Sproale has won acclaim from both professional historians, who see devoted his working life to tl1e local post office and his him as a leading colleague, and from cultural and literary personal life to tl1e study of Ernest Hemingway. When his critics. I was thus not surprised to learn that this work beloved post office comes under attack by tl1e forces of made the recently announced Random House list of the modernization, Sproale struggles witl1 corporate villains, 100 best nonfiction English-language books of the 20th personal relationships, and his increasing obsession with ~ century, placing 68tl1. * The fact that it did so- and was Papa. Michael Palin's first novel is well-crafted, warm, <1> (/') one of the few recently autl1ored works on the list - and witty. 2 ~ Lawrence Today 2 3 Bertrand A. Goldgar, Professor of English and John sents her courageous case for adoption of "citizenship of N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities the world," for which she then turns advocate by taking Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital or Birds of up the banner for a cmriculum that includes multicultural, America (stories) or Like Life (stories). Ms. Moore is the ethnic, and gendric instruction. But, Ms. Nussbaum insists best fiction writer in America, without any question. that such instruction must be conducted in a rigorously Kingsley Atnis, Lucky Jim. Socratic manner, not in the pleasingly pandering ways that Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief Decline and Fall, are implied (indeed, sometimes loudly proclaimed) in the The Loved One, or Vile Bodies. charges of the most vociferous critics of the humanities Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man. today. [A challenge: Read the book and ask "How are we William Trevor, Other People's (Lawrence) doing?" Then visit Worlds, The Old Boys, Reading the campus and check us out.] Turgenev. Ms. Nussbam's book is well-con ceived, well-argued, and well Catherine C. I 24 Summer 1999 archaeology (98 pages total). It is wel l-written and infor a triumph for what America stands for and can yet be. If mative and has lots of cartoons! An easy intellectual read you want to lmow why men fought and died in d1e Civil for a day in the park. War, d1is is d1e book. Roger Kennedy, Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss Walter Lord, A Night to Remember. Before there was of Ancient North American Civilization. This is a fascinating Leonardo and Kate, d1ere was d1is taut, compelling jour examination of how America's first intellectuals (including ney on the "unsinkable" Titanic. Like the movie, it pulls the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson) you in even d1ough you know what's going to happen. came to believe that the Native An1ericans they were The book that made me want to be a historian. encoLmtering west of the Appalachians were not related to those who had constructed the great earthworks of the Daniel J. Taylor, '63, Hiram A. Jones Professor of North American continent. That such monuments and Classics cities were not accepted as the work of Native Americans Run to d1e closest bookstore and get How the Irish Saved (as we now know d1em to be) is a telling lesson in sci en- Civilization by Thomas Cahill, a delightful, boisterous tific bias and racism. · romp through Irish history wid1 an emphasis on St. Patrick Richard Leakey, The Origin of Humankind. This is a and the Irish practice of copying classical literature in gor short (170 pages) but thorough introduction to our cur geous manuscripts. Along the way, however, Cahill dis rent understanding of modern human origins. It is easy to courses on just about any subject d1at comes his way. It read, and Leakey does a great job simplifYing some rather formed the subject matter for half of my Bjorklunden difficult information. Seminar last year, and I can assure you that every one of the 40 or so sn1dents in d1at class would recommend d1is Jerald E. Podair, Assistant Professor of History book for fun summer reading. James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom. Every generation My od1er suggestion would be Who Killed Homer? by has its definitive Civil War book; this is ours. The kind of Victor Davis Hanson and John Head1, which is a scathing book every historian, no matter what his or her field, denunciation of the state of classics in America today, dreams of writing. although its arguments could apply equally to most other disciplines in the humanities. Podair: Every generation has its Jane Parish Yang, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures definitive Civil War book; Battle Cry Tim Parks, An Italian Education. Contemporary Italian cul hlre seen through d1e eyes of British writer and translator of Freedom is ours. Tim Parks as he raises his kids in Italy. James L. Watson, Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Views social and economic changes in five Robert Caro, The Power Broker. This biography of countries in East Asia through the prism of d1e fast food New York's master builder, Robert Moses, is more than industry. the story of a driven man with an ultimately flawed vision Michael Dutton, Streetlife China. Contemporary soci for his city; it is a biography of d1e city itself. ety in China seen from the "bottom up." Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers. Continuing on Toni Morrison, Beloved. A disturbing but beautifully d1e subject of New York, a beautifully written, evocative written account of a former slave in post-civil war America look at the vanished world of the Jewish ghetto. One of as she comes to terms wid1 slavery's legacy. the best books ever written on d1e American immigrant expencnce. Richard L. Y atzeck, Professor of Russian Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities. An American M. S. Merwin, The Folding Cliffs. An honest-to-God verse Dickens, Wolfe paints an unforgettable portrait of a city epic about Hawaiian history /tragedy for those who can (New York, again) and a time (the 1980s). Funny, cynical, stand verse. and dead-on accurate. Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Out of Africa. A better J. And1ony Lukas, Common Ground. One of the great than-d1e-film appreciation of d1e "dark" continent for est books ever written about modern American race rela d1ose who can stand landscape. tions. Lukas treats three families caught in the maelstrom Richard Yatzeck, Hunting the Edges (University of of Boston's busing crisis of d1e 1970s with d1e under Wisconsin Press, 1999). A relatively-honest nostalgic view standing - and respect - d1ey deserve. of blood sports. For those who can stand Yatzeck. Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels. Everyone's favorite Civil War novel, and deservedly so. Shaara presents the Battle of Gettysburg both as a Shakespearean tragedy and Lawrence Today 25 he long-anticipated engagements with Europe. launch of the euro, the It will not take long, Greenwald common currency adopted believes, for tl1e euro to be close to, if not in January by ll members of the equivalent to, the U.S. dollar. That, he says, would European Union, will ultimately gener be beneficial to this country by providing an economic ate ramifications in the political arena incentive for the government to become more fiscally that will eclipse its economic impact and change the responsible. The competition of a second world cur international landscape forever, says Lawrence govern rency would diminish the ability of the U .S. to use the ment professor Jonathan Greenwald. dollar's status as the world's currency of choice to "This should be an extremely exciting time for the finance deficits here at home, which Greenwald says U.S., if only we would notice," Greenwald says wryly "would be a good thing." of tills country's seemingly dispassionate interest in the The emergence of the euro also will give the Euro impending use of the euro. pean-Union a single voice on global monetary policies, Greenwald, who is the 1998-99 Stephen Edward according to Greenwald. In dealing with issues such as Scarff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Diplomacy the Asian financial crisis or d1e collapse of d1e Russian and Foreign Policy at Lawrence, spent 29 years as a economy, "it won't be the lone voice of the United foreign service officer in the U .S. Department of State, States. Europe's financial strength will be united, and including his last four years of service (1993-97) as the U.S. will have to begin dealing with Europe as a minister counselor to the European Union at the U.S. single entity on money matters. mission in Brussels. As minister counselor, he served as "If d1e euro is a success, and I fully expect it to be, the head of the mission's political affairs section and d1e implications for future political unions are clear," teamed with U.S. Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat to says Greenwald. "And that puts us close to d1e day when negotiate the "New Transatlantic Agenda" that Presi a strong, muted European government ,viJl be able to act dent Clinton signed in Madrid in 1995 and which now across the board as the 'equal' partner ofd1e U.S." serves as the framework for U.S. political and trade With d1e world's largest economy, Europe already 26 Summer 1999 enjoys economic superpower status, but Greenwald the world today. Most of our problems are of a differ sees a European Union on the not-too-distant horizon ent sort. There is no Red Army, no major communist with superpower political status, an entity unlike any threat to fear and to deal with. The world's problems thing this country has ever encountered. are now more likely to center on environmental issues, "The European Union will be a benign, friendly allocation of natural resources, the increasing eco superpower with shared values equal to our own," says nomic gap between the haves and have-nots in soci Greenwald. "We've never before had that situation. eties, Third World unemployment, and so forth. We've always dealt with superpowers with very differ "There is a growing need for building stable, pros ent values- the Soviet Union during the Cold War, perous societies around the world, and to do that, you the Axis powers during World War II- or we've dealt need financial and political strength more than you with allies that were of secondary stature to our own. need military strength." Now we should anticipate dealing with a partner that Greenwald foresees a strong European Union not will have weight and status equal to our own." as a threat, but as an asset to U.S. global involvement. A unified Europe will change the political land He says a European Union that is an equal to the U.S. scape, requiring a fundamental shift in the way the adds strength to an alliance of common interests and U.S. views and deals with Europe. common problems. But he warns, "it is more difficult "We haven't yet accepted the claims of European to manage an alliance of equals than it is an all iance of Union superpower status," says Greenwald. "Our first unequals. You need more compromise and a sense of inclination is still to attack and deal with problems shared responsibilities to make it work effectively." RP through NATO, where we exercise considerable influ ence and power and can usually get our way. The During his career, Greenwald served structure ofNATO is such that the U .S. can dominate as director of the State Department's decisions in that arena. office of counter-terrorism {1991- "But when it comes to the European Union, 93), negotiating U.N. sanctions we're dealing with an entity whose strength lies not in against Mummar Qadhafi for the military terms but in economic and financial terms. Pan-Am 103 bombing, and was polit We're facing a world today "vhere economic, financial, ical counselor at our embassies in East and political strength is gradually replacing military Berlin {1987-90) and Budapest might. {1981-84). He is author of the book, "Relatively speaking," Greenwald adds, "military Berlin Witness: An American Diplomat's Chronicle of power is less relevant in dealing with the problems of East Germany's Revolution. We should anticipate dealing with a partner that wil l have weight and status equal to our own. Lawrence Today 2 7 P aythe • IDUSIC, s eak the words Professor Kautsky and the elephant As a child growmg up in St. Louis, but she soon began studying it herself. She decided it Catherine Kautsky read about the would make an intriguing project and started looking for adventures of Babar the elephant. other piano pieces that told a story. Years later, as a mother, she shared What most sets Kautsky's CD apart is not just the sub those same adventures with her own ject matter but her rare dual role as both pianist and nar two children. Today she is retelling rator. Nearly- all musical-story recordings use a separate the story of Babar to a much wider musician and narrator. audience. "It's such a rare treat to be able to talk and play at the Combining the enduring and endearing children's same time," Kautsky says. "It's pure delight to tell a story classic tale with serious classical music, Kautsky has while you play. I love all of these pieces, and I love play released her first CD, "Babar the Little Elephant." ing them. This CD is a marker, not an ending. It has Kautsky, associate professor of music, performs Fran piqued my interest in the whole genre of narrated pieces." cois Poulenc's compo ition "L'histoire de Babar" on the Although the CD was more than two years in the piano while simultaneously narrating Jean de Brunhoff's making, Kautsky was able to perform her version of coming-of-age story. "Babar" at the famed Salle Cortot in Poulenc's hometown As a complement to Babar and his adventures, Kant of Paris while on a recent academic sabbatical. sky also includes on the CD the world premiere recording As do her concerts, Kautsky's musical storytelling has of Jon Deak's "Shiver Me Timbers," based on Robert attracted the attention of approving critics. The St. Louis Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and offers an unusual Post-Dispatch called the Babar recording "charming," English narration of three musical stories by French com while a review in Fanfare said that Kautsky "plays with poser Erik Satie - "Childish Small Talk," "Picturesque rhythmic zest combined witl1 meticulous care for per Child's Play," and "Games and Diversions," using text forming instructions . . . and shows botl1 sensitivity and that Sa tie himself provided. strengtl1 in pretty well ideal proportions . . .Excellent For Kautsky, a veteran of concert halls in New York, 'Babar. "' Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., the seed of The piano portion of the CD was recorded at tl1e inspiration for "Babar" was planted nearly ten years ago. A Lawrence Memorial Chapel, but Kautsky traveled to New visiting family friend performed "L'histoire de Babar" for York to record the narration. A grant from the Outagamie her two sons. It was the first time she had heard the music, Foundation of Appleton was instrumental in getting the 28 Summer 1999 project started. That "Babar" was produced and distrib for a pianist to get a CD recorded by a major label," says uted nationally by VOX Music Group, one of the coun Kautsky. "The classical market is saturated. Getting try's premier classical record labels, was an unexpected VOX to release this CD was a wonderful turn of good bonus. fortune." RP "In today's musical environment, it is very difficult Lawrence composer Ken Schaphorst, associate professor Josh Roseman. Lawrence percussionist and Associate of music, admits that the music his jazz big band plays Professor of Music Dane Richeson solos on two of has a limited audience, but its sound certainly has won the tracks. the hearts of the critics. "When people think of 'big bands,' they think of Schaphorst's latest musical venture, "Purple," his Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey," says fifth compact disc and the first with his 18-piece Schaphorst, who has directed the jazz studies depart ensemble in seven years, has been drawing raves from ment at Lawrence since 1991. "While I certainly reviewers around the country. The Los Angeles Times, acknowledge that tradition in my compositions, at the which awarded the CD three and one-half stars, hailed same time I want to bring something new to that legacy. Schaphorst as a composer-conductor with a "sense of "In my writing, I'm also trying to acknowledge orchestral color and rhythm unique in the world of big my own background, which includes elements of clas bands," while the Boston Phoenix said his tracks "pre sical and world music traditions, so that what comes serve the best of the past while looking fearlessly ahead out is more of a hybrid, not traditional big-band jazz." to the future." Schaphorst began writing the music for "Purple" "Purple," was recorded a year ago for the Naxos in 1996 and calls the CD's opening track, "Uprising," Jazz label and released internationally at the end ofJan his favorite. uary. It features nine ofSchaphorst's own compositions "It's one of the most ambitious pieces I've written performed by a strong cast of East Coast musicians in terms of how it evolves and develops. It has an whom he first met while studying at the New England almost symphonic structure to it." RP Conservatory and Boston University, including Seamus Blake and Donny McCaslin on tenor saxophone, + http:/ jwww.lawrence.edu/-sc haphok/ organist John Medeski, pianist Uri Caine, and trombonist Lawrence Today 2 9 Unexpected Good Fortune Amateur Archaeologist Bequeaths Major Prehistoric Artifact Collection By Rick Peterson It happened so long ago that Ron Mason had nearly for gotten about it. At the time, it was little more than a favor, a professional courtesy, from one archaeologist to another. He had no way of knowing his simple act of kindness would one day result in a major anthropological windfall for Lawrence University. "Evidently, I made a favorable impression," Mason says . Favorable indeed. In part because of a meeting almost 40 years ago between Mason, now professor emeritus of anthropology at Lawrence, and Edward Wells, a Door County businessman, Lawrence's anthropology depart ment has become the beneficiary of a significant collection of nortl1east Wisconsin prehistoric Indian artifacts. The collection came to Lawrence from the estate ofWells, who collected more than 30,000 specimens during a 50-year career as an amateur archaeologist. Wells died last summer. "This is a major regional archaeology collection, which would be extremely difficult to duplicate because of the destruction of settlement sites," says Mason, one of the country's leading scholars on prehistoric Indian cul tures in the Upper Midwest and tl1e author of four books on the subject. "It's a tremendously important donation both as a research asset and as an invaluable teaching resource. These artifacts will reveal a wealtl1 of research information. And in the classroom, it's one thing to talk about a 1,000- year old projectile point or a stone ax. It's something entirely different to be able to hand a student that actual object and have tl1em be able to touch and handle it." The collection's journey from Wells' Forestville home to the safekeeping of tl1e anthropology department ulti mately started when Mason and Wells first crossed paths Professor Mason and Nick Sodemann, '01 , examine items from the artifact more than tl1ree decades ago. collection recently donated to the college. In the early 1950s, Wells, then an avocational archae ologist, began surface-collecting artifacts from ancient settlement sites in Door and Kewaunee Counties. Over 30 Summer 1999 time, he amassed an impressive collection of projectile collection also includes a considerable number of items points (any of several kinds of arrowheads), stone axes, from early European settlements in Door County, includ bone tools, and potsherds (pottery fragments) from the ing a large assortment of clay smoking pipes. Paleo-Indian period (10,000 B.C.), as well as the North Ron's wife and long-time research companion, Carol Bay, Heins Creek, and Oneota cultures of the Woodland Mason, adjunct professor of antl1ropology at Lawrence, period (250 B.C.-1300 A.D.). and Peter Peregrine, associate professor of anthropology, Mason doesn't really know how he ever came to Wells' as well as several Lawrence students, all have joined in tl1e attention - it may have been through a newspaper story Herculean task of sorting through and assessing tl1e col or from an article Mason had written for The Wisconsin lection's scientific importance. Archaeologist - but not long after joining the Lawrence "This collection will enable us to reconstruct a piece faculty in 1961, he received a call of history without tl1e presence of from Wells seeking some advice, written records," says Mason. and the t\vo agreed to meet. "The ordinary tools and imple An inspection of what Wells There is much more to be ments used in everyday lives that had undertaken left Mason favor Mr. Wells collected will help us ably impressed and he tried to con piece together a pattern of living vince the novice collector of the learned than what actually and gradually draw a picture of life importance of provenance, encour lived by this area's first inhabitants." aging him to catalog and number meets the eye, and what meets Despite their common archae each artifact he collected with a ological interests, Professor description of the item and where Mason's initial meeting with the eye is pretty impressive. precisely it had been found. Edward Wells did not spark a sud- "Mr. Wells had come to the den friendship or even much of an realization that the material he was on-going relationship. Over the collecting was more valuable in course of tl1e next tl1ree decades, terms of information than he first thought," says Mason, Mason says his contact witl1 Wells was sporadic at best, who retired from the faculty in 1995 but maintains an often going several years bet\veen encounters, which were office on campus and continues to write usually little more than brief phone conversations or a and conduct research. "His collection wasn't just some request, delivered by Wells' son, for an autograph on a curiosities but items of genuine historical and scientific copy of an article Mason had authored. Before Wells' significance. deatl1, Mason said it had been nearly eight years since the "I tried to offer him some guidance on how to t\Vo men had last spoken, which made tl1e news of the responsibly collect this type of material. He became a very collection's donation to Lawrence all tl1e more surprising. conscientious and informed amateur archaeologist." As a scientist who has spent the better part of his life Not to mention prodigious. At the time of his death, conducting extensive excavation work in Door County, Wells' collection consisted of more than 100 trays of arti particularly on Rock Island, Mason's excitement and grat facts numbering in excess of 30,000 items. While most of itude over his department's w1expected good fortune is the collection's value exists in incalculable scientific terms, hard to hide. the projectile points alone - prized by collectors - were "I certainly was sorry to hear tl1at Ed Wells had died, assessed at $6,500. but I was completely delighted to learn he was leaving his "We won't know the full value of this collection for collection to Lawrence. It was a most tl1oughtful tlung for many, many years," says Mason, whose book Great Lakes him to do. I'm sure it made him feel good knowing in Archaeology, a prehistory of the Great Lake region, is a advance that all of his work was going to a place where it textbook staple in college anthropology classrooms would be appreciated and put to very good use." throughout the Upper Midwest. "We're going to find that there is much more to be learned than what actually meets + http:/jwww.lawrence.edu/dept/aniliropology/ the eye, and what meets the eye is pretty impressive." mason.html In addition to the prehistoric Indian artifacts, the Lawrence Today 31 ome,Ho eo Lawrence Student Revives Radio Theatre bizarre and part silly, with a tinge of irony and a dash of science fiction, but wid1in the humor, it's meant to be a litde poignant, too. "The whole purpose of d1e show is to be humorous and entertaining, but I want it to be d1e kind of humor that makes listeners stop and dlink, 'Why was that furmy? "' The show is a labor of love for Vande Hey, who spends more than ten hours of his precious free time a week writing the scripts for each show, which can run to as much as 20 pages of dialogue. "An undertaking like this takes a tremendous amount of energy," says Fred Gaines, professor of d1eatre and drama and an accomplished playwright. "Josh is a d1row back. He simply loves radio. He's trying to recapture d1e From left Kyle Struve, '01, Gabe Gloege, '99, Josh Van de Hey, '99, and danger and excitement of live radio." Megan Smith, '00 Although he did some acting while in high school - Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls and Conrad Birdie in Josh Vande Hey's venture into live radio may not conjure Bye, Bye Birdie are among his credits- Vande Hey is more up memories of the "Lux Raclio Theatre" or the classic an accomplished musician than polished actor and per "Mercury Theatre of the Air" of the 1930s and '40s. The forms as a member of the Lawrence University Jazz bloodlines of his weekly program, "Drama Derangia," are Ensemble. "Drama Derangia" provides the perfect oudet more readily traced to the BBC's "Goon Show" or for bien cling all of his interests: writing, music, acting, and "Monty Python 1S Flying Circus." science fiction. Live theatre on the radio may be harder to find on the "I've been wanting to do a show like dlis for years," dial these days than, say, AM Top 40, but Vande Hey is the music performance major says. "Every year I've doing his small part to keep the once-popular genre alive. thought about it and talked about it, but d1is year I just On Thursday nights the Lawrence University senior from decided I would do whatever it took to get it off d1e Krakow (Wisconsin, not Poland) takes a step back in time ground. and delivers a live 30-minute performance on WLFM, "As a writer and a performer, I love the challenge of complete with character voices, homemade in-studio creating a d1ree-dimensional visual space just through sound effects, and commercial paroclies. sound. I've found a medium that seems to fit perfecdy Vande Hey writes, produces, directs, and plays bit with my personality." parts in d1e show he calls "an audio comic book." Also fea At d1is writing, more d1an a dozen new episodes are tured are other student actors, a sound technician, and an planned d1rough d1e end of the school year in June, organist who performs much of the show's music. ald1ough Vande Hey suspects that the toll of final exams With episodic tides such as "Revenge of the Killer at the end of Terms II and III will probably result in pre Carp," which took a humorous look at the effect of PCBs vious episodes being rebroadcast d1ose weeks. He also is on the fish in d1e Fox River, "Bumble Bee ... Like Me?" and hoping to line up Lawrence administrators and professors, "Department Store Espionage: The Freak of Aisle 5," President Richard Warch and jazz clirector Ken Schaphorst Vande Hey's stories are delivered as serials, played out among d1em, to appear as "guest voices" a Ia "The Simp c 0 over the course of three weeks. sons." And finally, Vande Hey is exploring the possibility ~QJ "I try to make the show work on different levels," he of airing the program live via the Internet and distributing " .:.!. u says. "It's geared to a whole range of listeners. It's part it to od1er college campuses. RP 0: 32 Summer 1999 Insect Detectives Collecting clues to the restoration. . of Wisconsin's pra1nes By Steven Blodgett Professor Renee, Ellen Turner, '99, and Wisconsin 's prairie insects Last summer, as biology professor Brad Renee's students Brillion marsh site actually was, as compared with rem have done for the past few summers, Ellen Turner, '99, nants of original prairies that might exist nearby. They also and Julie Majewski Carroll, '98, chased bugs- insects to were interested in tl1e question of how planned burning to be more precise. Under Renee's guidance and with his promote prairie growth affected insect populations and in active participation, they conducted weekly sweep-netting, examining whetl1er noticeable differences could be seen pit-trapping, and aerial netting of insects on sites within when cattle were brought in to graze on prairie vegeta the Brillion Marsh Wildlife Area in northern Calumet tion. Funding support from a Westinghouse "Women in County and on a railroad embankment in Kaukauna Science" grant and the Office of the Dean of tl1e Faculty Township in southern Outagamie County. Together, at Lawrence and, later, a large grant from tl1e Howard along with earlier collaborators Anumeha Kumar, Sara Hughes Medical Institute, targeted at providing funds for Dorman, and Alison Schneider, all Class of 1998, they increased undergraduate research opportunities, made it helped collect over 4,832 insects during a four-year period possible for tl1e students to pursue tl1e study during the between June 1995 and August 1998. summer months. The study began modestly, Professor Renee says. In What tl1ey found was tlnt sites reclaimed from agri 1995, one of the managers of tl1e Brillion Marsh Wildlife culture and replanted as prairie about a decade ago ( tl1e Area approached the Lawrence professor with tl1e idea of marsh wildlife area ) had similar insect diversity and abun monitoring the insect population at several restored prairie dance to original prairie remnants (tl1e old Kaukauna rail sites tl1ere. For over a decade, the Wisconsin Department road bed). That is encouraging news, as their co-authored of Natural Resources had been working at Brillion to scientific paper A Longitudinal Study of Insect Diversity and establish several small test sites for prairie restoration and Abundance on Remnant and Restored Prairie Areas in East research. Previous studies had looked at plant life and bird Central Wisconsin describes in some detail. It suggests that populations at the prairie sites, and now the DNR was land reclaimed from agriculture can relatively quickly be looking to expand its understanding of the restored prairie restored to vital prairie. ecosystems by cataloguing and comparing tl1e insects At the two restored prairie sites at Brillion, wildlife found there. area managers practice a prescribed burning regimen Renee and his students began collecting insects as a aimed at facilitating prairie growth and development. way of helping the DNR determine how well-restored the Burning, of course, is a natural part of the prairie ecosys- Lawr nc To d y 3 3 tem, as from time immemorial lightning and other phe tl1ose involved in the DNR's efforts at prairie restoration, nomena have set prairie grasses on fire, bringing revital what excites Renee and otl1er scientists is that the grant ization and rebirth. The students found that the patch will now allow researchers to incorporate data from nortll work burning recommended by most prairie managers east Wisconsin (including tl1at compiled by the Lawrence seemed to have no dramatic effects on either the diversity students) into a five -state project for cataloging prairie or the abundance of the insect population, providing fiir insects throughout the Midwest. ther evidence that man-initiated planned burning is not With comparative data, Renee says, "we can identify detrimental to the delicate prairie ecosystem. Their fmd species in one prairie tl1at have not been reported else ings supported earlier studies that had discovered no long where." As prairie land vanished and remnants became term negative effects on plant life from planned burning. islands in a larger agricultural and urban land mass, insect The students and immigration and Renee also found that emigration - at least planned rotation of for some species - cattle grazing, like Lawrence University, through the work of became less and less burning, does not Professor Renee and his students, is providing possible. negatively affect the "Some pra1ne insect population, in-kind support for a DNR endeavor. butterflies, for exam provided the activity ple," Renee explains, occurs only periodi- "can migrate only cally and the prairie land is not over-grazed. The types of several hundred yards, maybe a quarter of a mile at most." insects present may change and there may be some degra By identifying which insect species are or should be part of dation, but overall the abundance and diversity of the tl1e prairie populatio,n at different Wisconsin, or even Mid prairie insect population is maintained. In 1995 and 1996, west, locales, scientists will tl1en be able to target individ cattle were rotated among several paddocks of restored ual species for transplantation. Restoring prairie lands to prairie at Brillion, in keeping with the DNR's "multiple tl1eir closest possible original condition, including that of use" objective for state parks and forests. Healthy and their insect populations, according to Renee, will not only active prairie ecosystems, as found at the sites studied, may help replenish the earth's biodiversity but also contribute provide a sustainable alternative to agriculturally-sup to tl1e restoration and sustainability of prairie ecosystems ported cattle grazing. For the State of Wisconsin, as well over time. as Wisconsin dairy farmers and cattlemen, tl1at means less Professor Renee and his students are anxious to share pesticide application and less replanting of single-use feed the outcome of their summer work. In November, Renee, crops, thereby forestalling deterioration of prime agricul Turner, and Carroll gave a half-hour presentation on tl1eir tural fields. It also makes tl1e restoration and conservation prairie insect research at the Eighth Annual Prairie Inver of prairies more economically desirable. tebrates Conference and, as a result, were invited to sub Recently, tl1e prairie insect project became part of a mit an article tl1at will be published in the Fall 1999 issue grant obtained by tl1e DNR from the United States Fish of the journal Ecological Restoration. and Wildlife Service. The federal grant, intended to sup Turner's role in tl1e project came togetl1er tllis spring. port innovative partnerships, involves the matching of She spent tl1e last months of her undergraduate career tak government funds with dollars provided by local groups ing all four years of tl1e data collected by Renee and his such as tl1e Nature Conservancy and tl1e Prairie Enthusi students and piecing it all together into a broad picture asts. Lawrence University, through the work of Professor tl1e basis of her honors independent study. Renee and his students, is providing in-kind support for As Renee notes with a teacher's pride, "any kind of tl1e DNR endeavor. longitudinal study is rare in prairie studies." While the government funding will be helpful to 34 Summer 1999 Women's Basketball Championship: 'A Long Time Coming' By Michelle Burzinski hen the final buzzer A painfully long time. The dent, and we knew we wanted to sounded, the score Vikings won their last title during win tl1is year not only for us but for board read Lawrence the 1989-90 season and were very the alums who came so close two University 61, Illinois close to a second title in 1996-97. years ago." College 53. One end of In the latter season, Lawrence was The Vikings enjoyed a spectacu the gymnasium was pi unged into sitting atop the North Division lar season that Proctor creclits to gloom, but snllles, cries of happi standings and aimed towards the team chemistry, deptl1, experience, ness, and high fives were plentiful at conference championship when and tl1e addition of freshmen from the other end. The Lawrence wom tragedy struck - key starter Molly the Class of '02 (team photo on en's basketball team had just ended Lieberman, '97, was seriously inside back cover). a nine-year drought in Midwest injured in a motor vehicle accident "The chemistry and personality Conference titles. and was out for tl1e rest of tl1e of the team were awesome," the "It clidn't really hit me tl1at we season. coach says. "Team members liked to were going to win tl1e champi "At tlus year's championship be around one another, and they onship until tl1ere were about 11 game it was an emotional experience were very unselfish. They worked seconds left in the ball game and to see that the crowd in the stands hard as a team and were very sup we were at tl1e free-throw line," included some of the seniors from portive of one another." Head Coach Amy Proctor says. "At our 1997 team," Proctor says. "We And, she adds, "The depth of tlut time I looked at my assistant won the 1999 title not just for tlus tl1is team was amazing. We could coach, Nicole Bushman, '97, and year's team but for the program in consistently go ten or 11 deep. Our we both had smiles on our faces. general. We went tl1rough some second five could give anybody's We botl1 knew it had been a long very tough times after Molly's acci - top five a run on any given day. The time coming." Lawrence Today 3 5 SPORTS experience of the team vvas an With the regular season wind advantage, enhanced by the ing down, the Vikings had to play improvement ofJenny Gilge, Quinn six more crucial games that would Bohman, and Gina D'Amico. I have determine if they would make the never seen three players improve so conference championships. After much from one season to the next. losing the heartbreaker to Lake For "Juniors Joy Rogatzki and est, their next opponent would be Mindy Rueden helped us night in Knox College, a team they previ and night out," Proctor says. "Any ously had beaten by 20 points. time Joy steps onto the court, she is "The game against Knox was an offensive spark. The opposition our wake-up call," Proctor says. always puts their best defensive play "We took them too lightly and lost ers on her, which frees up someone 68-65 in overtime. It was a crucial else in our offense. Joy led in scor game for our people, because they ing this year and worked harder realized they have to prepare for than I have ever seen her. Mindy is Gina D'Amico cuts down the net after leading every gan1e and not look ahead to one of the most athletic players in the Vikings to the Midwest Conference the next opponents." this conference. When she realizes championship. After five straight victories to it, we will reap the benefits. She has close out the season, including an a great baseline jumper and is a With so many new faces on the 80-41 thrashing of St. Norbert the great passer under the basket." team it wasn't expected that it last week of the regular season, the In fact, Proctor says, all the would blend together so well so Vikings headed for the conference Viking players, including the fi·esh soon. Proctor feels that the first championships, where their first men, "came in and contributed time they really played well as a round opponent was St. Norbert, immediately with their personalities team was during their annual Winter with Illinois College facing Lake and work ethic." Break trip. Forest in tl1e other semifinal game. As the season progressed, the "During our second night in "It was a little scary playing St. coach notes, Beth Pollnow, Dara Texas we played a Division II Norbert, because we had beaten Rakun, and Marie Molter gained team," Proctor recalls. "Although them so handily the week before," confidence and came into their own. we lost the game, we played tough Proctor says, "and we knew they would be ready to play this time. St. Norbert's starting five is as good as For the first time [at Lake Forest] the team anybody in the conference, but they realized they could compete with anyone. are not very deep. We tl1ought we could wear them out. It was a close "It was good to watch Beth's until the end and walked off the game, but we did it. improvement at point guard court with new confidence. Another "Quinn Bohman dominated for throughout the season," Proctor big win was when we defeated St. us inside," Proctor remembers. "St. says. "Before the season, we knew Norbert College on their home Norbert could not stop her." her talent was there, but we weren't court for only the second time in The Vikings' next opponent sure about the leadership; in time school history." would be determined in tl1e game the team started to feel really com Winning the conference cham to follow, and all concerned fortable with her out there." pionship was a goal the Vikings had expected it would be Lake Forest. "Dara stepped in and con set for themselves at the beginning "Not to take anything away tributed immediately. When an ath of the season, but it was at Lake from Illinois College," says Proctor, lete of Dara's calibre is your backup Forest College that Proctor began "but we expected to see Lake Forest point guard, you know you have a to feel as there was a glimmer of a in the championship game. When good team. chance. Lake Forest lost to Illinois College, "The biggest surprise of the "When we played at Lake For I could see in our team's faces tl1e season was Marie, who has more tal est," she says, "we were one play realization that tl1eir goal of a con ent and better basketball instincts away from a win but fell in over ference title was witl1in their grasp. then I ever thought she would. Her time. That was the first time I saw It was nice to see them so confi talent as a post makes her one of the this group mad. They took responsi dent, and yet I wished they realized top posts in the conference; the bility for the loss and for the first they could have competed just as problem is she doesn't know it. In time realized they could compete well against Lake Forest." time she could be dominating." with anyone." The championship game was 36 Summ r 1999 SPORTS tight from start to finish. Gina Alyssa Bonine, '00, Portland, D'Amico's 21 points and Beth Poll Notes from the Oregon, and Daniel Hurley, '02, now's 17 led the Vikings. D'Amico locker room Paradise, Newfoundland, Canada, was coming off a broken foot and were named M.idwest Conference was the unlikeliest of heroes. Swimmers ofthe Year. Each won "No one really knew what to The Lawrence women's basketball three individual events at the MWC expect of Gina," Proctor says. team captured their first M.idwest championships, where tl1e Viking "Since she was out for most of the Conference title since 1990 with a men placed second and the women season, Illinois College had no idea 61-53 victory over Illinois College fmished tl1ird. Bonine advanced to who she was. There were many (see page 37). The Vikings tl1en the NCAA Division III swimming times in the game when Illinois Col made their fust NCAA appearance and diving championships in the 50 lege would pass and Gina would but fell to UW-Eau Claire 82-57 in free, 100 free, and 100 breast but steal the ball for a quick lay-up. She tl1e first round. Forward Jenny didn't place. Hurley just missed tl1e has great instincts, understands the Gilge, '00, Wausau, and guard Joy NCAA qualifying cut. The swim game well, and has fine timing. Rogatzki, '00, Oconto Falls, gar mers set 21 Lawrence records, four "Beth Pollnow gets a lot of nered first-team all-MWC honors. MWC meet records, and four MWC points off steals. I think she had six Guard Betl1 Pollnow, '02, Dous records and won 11 conference points off steals for lay-ups in the man, earned second-team all -MWC titles. championship game. Her defense accolades. Head Coach Amy Proc The women's track team was phenomenal." tor was named MWC Coach of the finished tl1ird, and the men finished After winning the conference Year. ninth at the conference champi championship the Vikings received Mike Damrow, '99, West Bend, onships. The track team set 12 team an automatic bid to the NCAA and Ross Mueller, '01, German records during the indoor season. Division III championships, where town, made their first NCAA Divi The Lawrence University they faced the University ofWiscon sion III wrestling championships fencing team, represented by Adam sin-Eau Claire in the opening appearance. Damrow finished witl1 a Lake, '02, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, round. 2-2 record at 133 pounds, while and Jeff Peyton, '0 1, Wilmette, "Physically UW-Eau Claire was Mueller finished witl1 a 1-2 tally at Illinois, placed 18th at the NCAA tough," Proctor notes. "We were 174 pounds. As a team, tl1e Vikings fencing championships. Peyton out-rebounded 63-34. We got off fmished the season witl1 an 8-5 dual placed 18tl1 in the men's foil, and to a slow start offensively, and we record and a second -place finish at Lake finished 19th in tl1e men's were down by 10 before we knew the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. epee. what hit us. Both Quinn Bohman Damrow was named to the NCAA Fourteen Lawrence winter and Beth Pollnow got into early Division III Coaches' AU -American athletes were named to the 1999 foul trouble - and our confidence Scholar Wrestling Team. Academic AU-Conference team: Aly level always goes down when those The ice hockey team recorded Martin ,'99, government; Mindy two are sitting on the bench. We an 8-11-4 season, including a 4-9-2 Rueden, '00, religious studies, went on to play a very hard-fought M.idwest Collegiate Hockey Associa Jenny Carney, '00, biology; Quinn game but could not compete with tion record and a 3-1-2 Great Lakes Bohman, '01, psychology; Jennifer Eau Claire's physical play. Collegiate Hockey Association Mallory, '00, biology; Sylvia Now that 1998-99 is over, marie. The Vikings finished second Zwisslcr, '0 1, art history; Karla Proctor says that the team has set a at tl1e GLCHA playoffs, losing to Nelson, '01, biology; Elizabeth few new goals. UW-Whitewater 5-1 in the champi Alexakos, '99, social justice; Becky "Our expectations will be onship game. Grant Henderson, Hopkins, '01, biology; Annie Dude, higher as a team," she concludes. '02, Monona, was named second '99, biology; Jennifer Kaplanski,'OO, "We obviously would like to repeat team all-MCHA, willie freshman English; J. T. Maschman, '00, as conference champions, plus be Tom Conti, Atlanta, Georgia, was history; and Michael Yakes, '01, the No. 1 seed and host the tourna named MVP of tl1e GLCHA tour physics. MB ment. Hosting the tourney would nament. give us a better chance of winning, The men's basketball team and it would be great for the team finished 13-9 overall and placed to see all the people who would fiftl1 in the M.idwest Conference come to a championship game on witl1 a 9-7 record. Adam LaVoy, their home court." '01, Oregon, and Mike Cogill, '01, Elkhart, Indiana, were named hon orable mention all-MWC. Lawrence Today 37 ALUMNI TODAY Lawrence University awre e 1 31 Robert Rowe, Fort Gratiot, Michigan, Alumni Association spends summers with his wife, Lucille, in a cottage at Eagle Harbor, Michigan. The cottage is a former government range light Kristen Olsen Lahner, '73 house built in 1873 and was purchased by President Robert's mother in 1932. Robert has three Stephen L. Albrecht, '86 children, nine grandchildren, and four great Vice- President grandchildren. Jane Kollock Sternberg, Wausau, says Janice Daniels Quinlan, '74 that her activities during 1998 were limited, Director of Alumni Relations as she has been declared legally blind and is Andrea M. Powers, '94 confined to her home. In past years she was Assistant Director of Alumni Relations very active in many organizations, as vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, 0 d 0 c 0 :) chair of a beautification committee that won national honors, active in ilie organization Lynn Azuma, '96 of Wausau Child Care, and first president of David M. Duffey, '51, sold his first Phoebe Rowe Bachman, '85 the Wausau Altrusa Club. In addition to her nationally published magazine arti Jonathan W. Bauer, '83 work on many local projects, Jane ran an cle vvhile still living in married veter William E. Beringer, '50 insurance agency and traveled extensively in ans quarters (the Quonset huts) at Angela M. Bier, '98 Europe and Australia. Lawrence, working as many as 60 Betty Domrose Brown, M-D '47 Arline Luecker Wileman, Whitewater, is hours per week as a reporter on the now retired. Kathleen Walsh Callaghan, C '99 Appleton Post-Crescent, and carrying John R. Chandler, '77 a full college course load. After Elissa Ann Davis, '99 Milwaukee-Downer 1931 graduation he was hired full-time at Elizabeth Van Buskirk Deckman, '85 Sesqurcentennial Reu•uon, October 2001 the P-C and began writing an out Martha E. Freitag, C '73 doors column there. At age 25, he Diane Bass Greatwood, C '53 began a ten-year stint writing about Patrick J. Grogan, '84 Milwaukee-Downer 1932 hunting, fishing, and conservation Jane Voss Holroyd, '61 Sesqurcentennral Reunron, Walter J. Isaac, '64 October 2001 on the Milwaukee Sentinel, and in Christine E. Jones, '99 1959 he became hunting dogs Ann Leverenz Keckonen, '64 Milwaukee-Downer 1933 editor of Outdoor Life magazine, a Nancy Moran Larson, '48 Sesaurcentennial Reu'1ron, position he held for 23 years. In the Nancy Perkins Lindsey, M-D '54 0 1950s, he worked with legislative Elizabeth Wood MacDonald, '44 Inez Henning Hahn, Milwaukee, is active and Conservation Commission lead Victoria Moerchen, '86 in her church and a member of two seniors ers to write rules to permit and Charles L. Newhall, '86 groups and enjoys swimming and water exercises at the Y. govern the training of hunting dogs R. Paul Nickel, '97 in Wisconsin. In the 1960s Duffey Raymond J. Ramsey, '88 suggested that the American Water Mark C. Scheffler, C '91 wre ce 1 34 Spaniel (first officially registered in Barbara von Behren Searcy, '67 Louis Busse, Madison, retired from d1e New London, Wisconsin, in 1920) George Swope, Jr., '72 University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy Peter J. Thomas, '62 in me 1970s, after teaching for 40 years. He should be declared the Wisconsin Marian Kirkpatrick Torian, M-D '44 and his wife, Genevier, have been married state dog, and in 1985 he was able Lee W. Traven, '52 for over 60 years. to help a New London eighth-grade Nancy Freeman Wallace, '73 Eva Cooley McCaslin Jensen likes living civics class and their state assembly on Lumni Island, Washington, which has a man pass the legislation recognizing C as ~ es Congregational Church, a store, d1e Grange Hall, a library, and a post office. that native breed of hunting dog as Lawrence Today is published four times John and Jean Shannon Reeve, Appleton, a state symbol. Author of ten books, each year: Fall (September), Winter are happily retired. In the winter of 1998 including Expert Advice on Gun Dog (President's Report), Spring (March), d1ey sailed d1rough d1e Panama Canal, and Summer (June). Training, he has written for various and this past winter they cruised the The remaining class note deadline for national publications, including Bahamas. They have three children, five 1999 is : regular columns in Hunting, Gun grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Winter issue, September 1, 1999* Dog, and Wing & Shot magazines. *Although the President's Report, Today he continues as a free-lance published as the winter issue of Laun·ence Milwaukee-Downer 1934 outdoor 'vvriter, while also training Today, does not contain class notes, a 0 c 9 hunting dogs for personal usc and special class notes supplement is published Mary Jane Anderson Bridges, San Marcos, and mailed wid1 it. California, moved recendy into a retirement professionally. 38 Summer 1999 ALUMNI TODAY home with her husband, Chas, and spent Wyoming, is involved in efforts to preserve Milwaukee-Downer 1944 much of the winter adjusting to the new native wildlife and national parks. She also 55th Reunion, October 1-3, 1999 place. The couple went to Honolulu for a was a judge for the Miss Wyoming Pageant. long visit with one of their sons, who is a professor at the University of Hawaii. Their Lawrence 1945 other son is in ew Delhi, India, and they Milwaukee-Downer 1938 55th Reunion, June 2000 Sesquicentennial Reunion. hope to be able to visit him in the future . b ~oo Marjorie Hoffman Hagan, aples, Jean Roberts Cross, Fairfield Glade, Florida, was president of the a pies Garden Milwaukee-Downer 1945 Tennessee, volunteers at her local library 55th Reunion, June 2000 Club and is currently correspondence secre and her church and relaxes with reading, tary of a Japanese flower club. Marjorie is gardening, genealogy, and exercise also a former president of Naples Group PEO. programs. Lawrence 1946 Henriette Scheele K.neevers Henning, Janet Jackson Crout, Pittsburgh, 55th Reunton, Jur"le 2001 Sheboygan, is working with her local library Pennsylvania, has four chi ldren, ten grand to get large-print books and takes them to children, and seven great-grandchildren. friends at her retirement home. She enjoys Milwaukee-Downer 1946 Lorraine Evenson, Waupaca, attended the gardening on her sun deck and takes her SSt 0 e 0 60th Reunion of the Class of 1938 and cele geraniums to a sunroom where they are able Janina Lewandowski Lau Boettner, brated her 80th birthday, both in June 1998. to bloom all winter. Dearborn, Michigan, attended the John A.t·nella K.lug Turner, Okemos, Michigan, Janet Oberndorfer Odell, Sarasota, Campbell Folk Art School in orth tutors seven Asian graduate students in Florida, has retired from a 46-ycar career in Carolina for nine weeks last fall, studying written and spoken English. journalism, due to decreased eyesight. She basketry, carving, blacksmithing, wood docs some sewing for two theatre costume turning, weaving, jewelry, quilting, and departments and is active in AAUW and has Lawrence 1939 music. She also is studying Arabic at Ford chaired its book marketing committee for 65th Reunion, June 2004 Coll ege in Dearborn and taking computer seven years. classes at local high schools. Constance Nickoloff Hedtke, Duluth, Milwaukee-Downer 1939 Minnesota, is very active in "University for Lawrence 1935 60th Reunton, October 1-3, 1999 Seniors" programs and studies with the 65th Reunion, June 2000 University of Minnesota in Duluth. Lawrence 1940 Lois Addicks Johnson, Wauwatosa, built a new summer home in northern Wisconsin Milwaukee-Downer 1935 60th Reunion, June 2000 65th Reunion, October 2000 in the summer of 1998. In June, Lois and her husband, Robert, celebrated their 50th Milwaukee-Downer 1940 wedding anniversary with 100 friends and Lawrence 1936 60th Reunion, October 2000 relatives. Lois is still active in her nursing 65th Reunion, June 2001 alumnae association, three art leagues, and church activities. Her watercolors are shown Lawrence 1941 locally, and her graphic artwork appears in Milwaukee-Downer 1936 60th Reunion, June 2001 her church newsletter. 65th Reunion, October 2001 Gertrude Johnson McEwen Koehler, Monterey, California, is active in the Milwaukee-Downer 1941 Unitarian Universali st Church of the Lawrence 1937 60th Reunion, October 2001 65 h R u ton, Jun 2002 Monterey Peninsula. Barbara Loomis, Downers Grove, Illinois, Leslie H. Ransley, Oak Park, Illinois, lived continues to volunteer at the Brookfield in France from 1968 to 1972 as consulting Lawrence 1942 Zoo as a docent, at the Willowbrook engineer and manager of construction for 60th Reunion, June 2002 Wildlife Center as an animal-care assistant, Proco-France, a subsidiary of his employer, and at the Community Adult Day Care in Universal Oil. After returning to the U.S. Milwaukee-Downer 1942 Downers Grove as an activity assistant. ln he worked for Amoco in Chicago until his 60th Reunion, October 2001 August, she attended the Association of retirement in 1980. His collection of French Zoo and Aquarium Docents National oil paintings, begun in 1959, now totals Conference in Seattle. over 100 items. Lawrence 1943 Shirley Vogt Rogers, Austin, Texas, and 60th Reunton, June 2003 her husband, Douglas, arc reti red fi·om the Milwaukee-Downer 1937 Virginia Mae Tweed Beverly, McKinney, University of Texas. Sesquicentennial Reunion, Texas, retired recently after 26 years as Patricia Yates Tannhaeuser, Milwaukee, October 2001 lifestyles editor of the Daily Courier GazeLLe. volunteers at various food pantries and soup kitchens. Lawrence 1938 Milwaukee-Downer 1943 Sesquicentennial Reunton, 5 Reu 1 Lawrence 1947 October 2001 Robert and Marian Dettman ('39) 55th Reunton June 2002 De Long, leenah, are active in the The Rev. Robert Wilch, Hartland, is Neenah Historical Society. Lawrence 1944 president of orthwestern University's Virginia Steffensen Purdy, Buf.-fa lo, 60th Reunion, June 2004 Midshipmen's School Reunion Association. Lawrence Today 3 9 ALUMNI TODAY and Bible study and knits for the Goodwill Wisconsin Public Television, and the Carolyn Maier Home in Sioux City and also for the local Performing Arts Center; and teaches Conwell, '52, hospital. Qi Gong, a Chinese mediation exercise. Janet Rodgers Lahl, Milwaukee, is June Kutil Olson, Gurnee, Illinois, works has played the researching and writing her family's history. part-time as a salesperson in the Hancock role of Mary In the process, she went to England with Fabric Store. Williams on her grandchildren and found that her family Kikue Kikuchi Rich, Orting, Washington, daytime televi house is now occupied by a ghost. She also chairs the administrative council of Whitney sion's "The is taking watercolor classes. Memorial United Methodist Church and is Young and the Amy Uchimoto Naito, Costa Mesa, treasurer of the Tacoma District United California, volunteers at the Unity Church Methodist Women. Restless" since 1980. Mter gradu bookstore and is taking community college Ardith Johnson Strammer, Greenfield, ating from Lawrence with a major courses in Chinese brush painting and tap last summer, enjoyed a 12-day cruise on a in theatre and drama, she studied dance. Norwegian coastal steamer and had the acting with Herbert Berghof in Rita Persenico Thomas, retired in 1997 opportunity to visit the farms where her New York City and Jeff Corey in and has moved to Texas, where one of her grandparents grew up. daughters is a principal dancer with the Fort Necia Patterson Wallace, Whjtefish Bay, Los Angeles, worked in summer Worth-Dallas Ballet. is heavily involved with fabric art; she stock with the Peninsula Players Louise Wesle Wuesthoff, Milwaukee, is belongs to two Illinois and one Wisconsin in Wisconsin and the Dobbs Ferry very thankful for Downer friends who quilting groups; attends seminars and Players in New York, and helped her through the very sad and diffi workshops fi·equently; and organized the appeared in regional cult time following her husband's death in Milwaukee Art Quilters, which had its third tl1eatre productions and on tl1e September. group show this past year. Los Angeles stage. Among her feature film credits are co-starring Lawrence 1948 Lawrence 1950 roles in Torn Curtain, Adam at 6:00a.m., The Boston Strangler, William M. Burton, Niagara, was named C. Willian1 and Joanne Hamilton Herold, 1999 Man of the Year by the Marinette Sylacauga, Alabama, active members of the The Magnificent Seven Ride, and County Council of American Legion Posts. American Ex- Prisoners of War organization, Cheech and Chong: The Next attended the 54th Liberation of Manila Movie. On television she has Reunion in San Diego in February. Bill's Milwaukee-Downer 1948 fami ly lived in the Philippines; they were appeared in another daytime 55tr Reurio'l, Oc.to Jer ,WOO drama, "General Hospital" and in interned in a prisoner-of war-camp from December 1941 to February 1945. such primetime series as "Knots Lawrence 1949 David W. Stackhouse, Jr., Nashville, Landing," "Little House on the Indiana, now retired from Huntington Prairie," "Lou Grant," "The Robert Brauchle, Montello, is a retired National Bank, is active in Lions, veterans Quest," and "Medical Center." dentist. He and his wife, Mary, have been affairs, and the ]jbrary association and is a married for over 50 years. charter member of an amateur writers group. Milwaukee-Downer 1947 Milwaukee-Downer 1949 Milwaukee-Downer 1950 00 SCt'1 ~eu'l on Octob r lOGO Joyce Koellner Brassington, Joan Schneider Barnett, Fox Point, has Oconomowoc, helps make quilts for been a docent at the Milwaukee Art Lawrence 1951 Lutheran World Relief, volunteers at her Museum for 20 years. A collector of glass local hospital, and does the gardening at an and photography, she has had exhibitions of Susan Fry Becker, Capitola, California, area nursing home. both those collections at the museum and in Jean Van Ouwerkerk Brown, Hot Springs is "almost full y retired" as a marriage and 1993 curated a glass show at MAM. fanuly and child therapist. Village, helps make Braille books, is active Betty Ren Wright Frederiksen, Racine, i.n Republican Women and PEO, and Mary Alice Wilber Buss, Loves Park, continues her career as a children's author, Illinois, in October, volunteered through volunteers in several church groups. publishing one yo ung people's novel and Elizabeth "Betty" Jermain Dreyer, an Elderhostel for a one-week cruise with t'NO junior novels in 1998 and a picture an Oceanic Society expedition out of Mequon, keeps busy bowling, delivering storybook in the spring of 1999. meals to the homebound, and quilting with Monterey, California, photographing and Mary Jardine Holly, Waupaca, and her counting whales and dolphins to assist in a group her husband, Gus, affectionately husband, Tom, celebrated their 50th refers to as the "Puff and Stuffers." the cataloging of various species. wedding anniversary in 1998. Thomas C. VanHousen, Minneapolis, is Sally Gruetzmacher Holl, Madison, June Marinelle McCotter, Green Bay, is continues her art with work in pastels and director of marketing for Horty, Elvin a, & active in the Learning in Retirement Associates. prints and was included in a statewide Insitute; coordinates Elderhostels at the showing of artists' works during the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Wisconsin Sesq uicen ten nial. in Door County; serves on the Human Milwaukee-Downer 1951 Betty Bleyer Hopkins, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Concerns Committee of her church, S1ster Cluster Re •.11110n is active in United Methodist Women, especially with its prison and jail ministry; AAUW International Studies Group, PEO, volunteers for the Salvation Army, JoAnn Ellefson Brandt, Brookfield, is a 40 Summer 1999 ALUMNI TODAY substitute teacher in the Elmbrook school Milwaukee-Downer 1953 system. S1 t r r Lo~t r R n Doris Messerschmidt Carmichael, 0 +c,b r 1 ~ 1 q Sebring, Florida, and her husband spent the summer of 1999 volunteering at golf events, including the Great Milwaukee Lawrence 1954 Open and the LPGA tournament at Kohler, Wisconsin. Carolyn Peterson Sneed, Washburn, is Mary E. Van Gorden, Black River Falls, executive director of Lake Superior Big Top who is writing a family history, was planning Chautauqua. Her husband, Robert Jesse an April trip to the Netherlands, partly for Sneed, is an ophtl1almologist. genealogical purposes. Richard "Dick" Westenburg, Redding, Sue Pepper Joys, Valparaiso, Indiana, Connecticut, is director of music at Fifth recently completed a term as president of Avenue Presbyterian Church in ew York the Metl1odist Hospitals Auxiliary of Gary and also does concerts with Musica Sacra. and Merrillville, serves as chair of six local In August, he attended the wedding of his hospital auxiliaries, and is a member of the son, Eric Westenburg, '85, in Lake Tahoe. Indiana State Board of Hospital Auxiliaries. Marian "Agie" Koller Laev, Milwaukee, is a school social worker in me Mequon Milwaukee-Downer 1954 Thiensville School District. <;lc;t r ( lu~te .J Oltoo r 1 i, 1 q q Virginia A. Palmer, Milwaukee, has Mini-Reunion participated in several Elderhostel programs Six individuals identifying themselves as the "Third in North Carolina and a service program in Lawrence 1955 Wisconsin. Floor Peabody Ladies" held a Class of 1956 reunion of their own in August 1998 at the Niwot, Col Catherine A. Peffer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert "Bob" Harklau, Oconomowoc, orado, home of Kathryn Hougard Rathburn. From is active in me county parks system, doing retired in 1998 fi·om the Ohio Casualty art shows, workshops, and other special pro left, they are Katherine Bayer Buesing, Long Beach, Insurance Company, where he was jects. She also volunteers in soup kitchens. Washington; Lynn Souerbry Newman, La Jolla, employed for 26 years. His hobbies include Joanne Lougee Stanton, Anaheim, California; Nancy Brice Van Ry, Santa Barbara, boating, golf, and restoration of antique California, has retired from the Anaheim California; Waneta Esch Araneo, Orange Park, automobiles. Union High School District board of Florida; Betsy Jarrett Stodola, Phoenix, Arizona; trustees after 19 years of service but still is and Katie Hougard Rathburn. involved with "school-to-work" issues and Milwaukee-Downer 1955 serves on the state School to Career 5 c;+ r ( l.Js+e- Re> r 1 '1, Advisory Committee. Octobe- , >OO Gloria Groleski Tolaro, Rochester, Washington, teaches a low-impact exercise be close to one of her daughters and Lawrence 1956 and strengtl1 class for active older adults. her family. Barb and her husband, Dean, 4'itr Re>ui"'IO'l, Jun coo Last August she qualified as a swimmer for enjoy golf, spending time witl1 their chil the National Senior Olympics. dren and grandchildren, and traveling. One Anita Ohlsen Wald-Tuttle, evada City, recent summer trip was to Alaska. Milwaukee-Downer 1956 California, witl1 her oldest daughter, Patricia "Pat" Neubauer Crump, <; c;t r (I 1s+cr R ~.on10 designs and sells limited-edition collectible Brookfield, now retired from Carrol Octobe-r /GOO fantasy dolls through their own gallery, College, continues to teach voice lessons The Tanglewood Forest. out of her home. Pat directs tl1e Metropoli tan Opera auditions for the state ofWiscon Lawrence 195 7 sin, as she has done for 22 years, and also 4')+h R un1ort, Jun 200 ~ Lawrence 1952 serves on her church board. 50th Re.Jn10n, .Loi"'E' 2002 Eleanor "Ellie" Shaw Davidson, Milwaukee-Downer 1957 Deerfield, Illinois, recently moved from S1c;t r C Lo'it£.r R(un1or, Milwaukee-Downer 1952 Wilmette, her home for 41 years, to Deer 0( +ober 2000 field. Ellie and her husband, Ted, spend <;1c;+ r C I.Jc; e>r Re> r1on Octo be-• 1 3, • gc;,g tl1e winter montl1s in Longboat Key, Florida. They have four children and two Lawrence 1958 grandchildren. Lawrence 1953 Mary Lu Polzin DeWitt, Granger, Indiana, Joyce Freiberg Christie, Cedarburg, and Boca Raton, Florida, spends six months provides bi -weekly piano entertainment at Phillip Alley, Geneseo, ew York, is a out of the year at each location. Mary Lu a local adult day care center, where she also retired professor of physics and currently likes traveling and went to Israel, Greece, serves on the board. serves as secretary of tl1e Geneseo Rotary the Greek Islands, and Turkey in the spring Edwin A. Cunningham, Fargo, North Club. He is now legally blind and has of 1998. In tl1e fall she went to Mozam Dakota, is a pathologist for Meritcare recently discovered the joy of books on bique and Tanzania on a short-term Healtl1 ystems. audio cassette. Christian mission trip. Carol Hagedorn Lembcke Stocking, Barbara Bear Alseth, has moved to Washington, D.C., is an administrative Chelsea, Michigan, and now is able to secretary at Howard University. Lawrence Today 41 ALUMNI TODAY Marilyn Hose Kappes, West Allis, traveled Lee Dodds Shallat Milwaukee-Downer several times to California this past year as one of her three children moved there. In Chemel, '65, College November, Marilyn visited another of her is a television Reunion Weekend children in Hawaii. Her third child lives close director whose to her and her husband and thus, they are credits include able to sec some of their six grandchildren over 250 episodes October 1-3, 1999 more regularly. Appleton, Wisconsin Heather Habhegger Sekulich, Kokomo, of such programs Indiana, spent Christmas with her daughter. as "Spin City," Sister Cluster Heather's sister, Holly Habhegger Day, "Just Shoot Me," M-D '61, came from Seattle to share the "Mad About You," "Murphy Classes of 1964, 1963, family Christmas. Brown," "Northern Exposure," 1962, 1961 and "The Nanny." A four-time Lawrence 1959 Emmy nominee, she also has 40th Reunion 45th Reunion, June 2003 received seven Dramalogue Awards Class of 1959 and one Los Angeles Drama Milwaukee-Downer 1959 Critic's Circle nomination for Sister Cluster 40th Reunion, October 1- 3, 1999 outstanding direction. Her profes Classes of 1954, 1953, sional career spans over 25 years in 1952, 1951 Lawrence 1960 theatre, as actor and director, and 40th Reun1on June 16 •s 2000 15 years in film and television. She 50th Reunion John Beck, Smrgeon Bay, is a family-practice attended Milwaukee-Downer Col ph ys ician at orth Shore Medical Hospital. lege for three years and graduated Class of 1949 Jeff Bowen, Greenwood Village, Colorado, from Lawrence, magna cum laude, is an adjunct professor at Colorado Mountain 55th Reunion Coll ege. in English literature before earning Mike Gilboy, Flat Rock, North Carolina, is a an M.A. degree in Asian theatre at Class of 1944 full -time artist. the University ofWisconsin-Madi Ronald Jensen, Livermore, California, son and an M.F.A. fi-om the UI-D All Golden Alumnae are invited is professor of laboratory medicine at the versity ofWashington's Professional to Rem-Don Weekend for special University of California in San Francisco, where he is currently doing research on Acting Training Program. events. prostate cancer. James "Jim" Keldsen, Walnut Creek, For more information, please California, is a vice-president of U.S. Bank Lawrence 1961 write or call: Alumni Office, in San Francisco. 35th Reuf'lion , June 2001 Lawrence University, P.O. Box Sam Ostwald, Springfield, Missouri, flew to 599, Appleton, WI 54912-0599; Alaska in June of 1998 and toured the state on a motorcycle; he now has ridden in 49 Milwaukee-Downer 1961 920-832-6549 0 of the 50 states. Si~ter rJuster RPu'1iO'l Louise Putnam Pate, Tucson, Arizona, Octob r 1 , 1999 retired fi·om her position as a high school Holly Habhegger Day, Seattle, has librarian in May 1998. David Wiese, Chisinau, Moldova, is direc completed a 13-weck Community Police Carolyn Kingsland Patterson, Potomac, tor of operational systems for Developed Academy conducted by the Seattle Pobce Maryland, retired in 1997 and is volunteering Technology Resources, Inc., responsible Department. two days a week in the medical records for installing modern management proce Kathleen Parmentier Greene, Green Bay, department of a local hospice. dures in seven operating facilities in attended the Peninsula Art School in Fish Robert R. "Bob" and Lois Bachmann Moldova, the Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. Creek last summer and later had an exhibi Polzin, Wheaton, Illinois, have taken vaca tion of her watercolors at the Brown tions to tl1e Gaspe Peninsula and to Quebec County Library. She also is a member of me Milwaukee-Downer 1958 City and also went fishing at Bull Shoals, Lower Green Bay Uppity Women's Reading Sister Cluster Reun•on Arkansas. and Sipping Society, a monthly book discu - October 2000 Ted Steck, Chicago, Illinois, a professor at sion group. Gail Page Cordry, DePere, who retired tl1e University of Chicago, is increasingly Ann Mead Hopkins is a psychotherapist in 1995 as a language-arts teacher at devoting time and energy to environmental and owner/director of Family Line in Green Bay Southwest High School, helped education and environmental affairs. Lincoln, Nebraska. celebrate her parents' 75th wedding Joan Tomarkin Lucht, Wauwatosa, is a anniversary in December. Though both Milwaukee-Downer 1960 kindergarten assistant in the Elmbrook parents arc well into their nineties, they School District. both arc still very active. She feels blessed 40th Reunion, October 2000 Priscilla Pat'sche Matheson, Pinnacle, to have both her parents still alive and also orth Carolina, is manager of university to have her own children and grandchil services for the Sara Lee Knit Products dren around. Group in Winston Salem. 42 Summer 1999 ALUMNI TODAY Lawrence 1962 Michael Lee, Gurnee, Illinois, works for Hewitt Associates as a marketing 35t'l Reun1on, ~une 2002 consultant and producer. Marguerite "Marge" Frank McClin Milwaukee-Downer tock, Lake Forest, Illinois, says that 1962 while she was working on her master's Sister Cluster Reunion, at Lake Forest College, she took a class October 1 3, 1999 from Lawrence alumnus Dan Le Mahieu, '67. Philip Mer.t;ger, Bethlehem, Pennsyl Lawrence 1963 vania, is special -collections librarian at 40th Reunion, June 2003 Lehigh University and serves as a board member of the Chamber Music Society Milwaukee-Downer of Bethlehem. 1963 Judy Meyers, Baltimore, Maryland, is a nurse manager at the Urtiversity of Sister Cluster Reunio11, October 1-3, 1999 Matyland and an accordionist with the Washington Balalaika Orchestra, per Robinson's The Homely Sister, #2, casein on paper, 30 x 37, 1997 forming Russian , Gypsy, Klezmer, Lawrence 1964 Scandinavian, and German music in 40th Reu~io'1, June 2004 Nancy Robinson, '71, is a member of one of 12 cafes. In 1998, she performed with the teams of women visual artists awarded scholarships orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Milwaukee-Downer in the 1999-2000 Mentor Kennedy Center. Program of the Women's Art Roberta Haiges Nestor, Downers 1964 Grove, Illinois, is a counselor at Sister Cluster Reunion, Registry of Minnesota (WARM). Wheaton orth High School. October 1-3, 1999 Mentors are experienced profes James "Jay" Roahen, Annapolis, sional artists who have volun Maryland, is an endodontist in private Lawrence 1965 teered to provide personalized, practice. Elizabeth Ann Painter Shinn, 0 one-on-one instruction and Corry Azzi, Appleton, is a professor Arvada, Colorado, is director of FOS critique and share their contacts TERing Better Community. of economics at Lawrence and and practical experience with recently helped write a National Shat1'n Jacob Smith, Corvallis, Ore Science Foundation grant proposal women artists in the early stages gon, spent July in Mongolia teaching for a lab in experimental economics. of their careers. A painter whose primary subject English. She now is studying Mongo L. Vail Hamilton Carruth, Lavaca, matter is the psychological portrait, Robinson lian and looking forward to returning Arkansas, continues her work in chalk received a Minnesota State Arts Board Individual to Mongolia. John F. Turner, Memphis, Tennessee, art, accented witl1 music and black Artist Fellowship in 1997 and a Jerome Artist Resi light florescents, giving dramatic is a woodworker who does building, presentations of various aspects of dency Grant through the Blacklock Nature Sanctu remodeling, and some design work. Christian life. ary in 1998. She also is an adjunct faculty member Duncan Malloch, Minnetonka, at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Lawrence 1967 Minnesota, is a senior designer 5th Reun n Ju'le 2001 architect for Walsh Bishop Associates + http:/jwww.warm.org/ Margery Homfeld Metzger, Bethle in Minneapolis. hem, Pennsylvania, is an elementary Todd Mitchell, Oconomowoc, is an reading attorney at Meissner Tierney Fisher specialist and librarian at orth High specialist at McKinley School. and ichols, S.C. School. Jill Parson, Palmer, Alaska, is a land manage Nancy White Custer, Santa Ana, California, ment officer for Matanuska-Susitna Borough. is a biology teacher at Valley High School. Lawrence 1968 J. B. deRosset, Miami, Florida, is a certified ..1 '1 e or 'le 4 Milwaukee-Downer 1965 financial planner for Equitable. Anne Colby, Palo Alto, California, is a David Glidden, Riverside, California, is senior scholar at the arnegie Foundation Sesquicentennial Reun1on, for the Advancement of Teaching. October 2001 professor of philosophy at the University of California in Riverside. Susan Carpenter Glidden, Riverside, Rebecca "Robin" Thomason Gordon, California, principal of Susan Carpenter and Lawrence 1966 Potomac, Maryland, in training to become Associates, conducts workshops in public pol 5 an elementary school principal, is interning icy problem-solving and conflict resolution. Michael Anger, Lockport, Illinois, is assis in the Montgomery County public schools. David E. Mielke, Dousman, director of tant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Holly Guequierre Hart, Eau Claire, international business studies at Marquette University of Chicago. Mike went to Apple director of at-risk services for the Eau Claire University, has been appointed dean of me ton in 1998 to perform with his brother, Area school district, serves on the boards of Seidman School of Business at Grand Valley Jim, at the Green Apple Friends of Folk Fall directors of a refuge house and a domestic State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Festival. abuse center and is a charter member of the effective Tuly l. Jane Nelson Azzi, Appleton, is a media Eau Claire Youth Coalition. Lawrence Today 43 ALUMNI TODAY Lawrence Authors ues" are economic, educational, and ecological com mitments to preserving tl1e diversity of all life forms Richard G. Niemi, '62, and Jane Junn are co-authors and maintaining tl1e healm of all ecosystems. Part Two of Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn (Yale looks back at evolutionary history to better explain our RICI!AIUI G. NIE"' AKo JANE J UNN University Press). Niemi is professor unique place in history. From tl1e Big Bang to Dar of political science at the University of win's finches, natural history offers insights about 2 humanity's place in the universe. Eggert juxtaposes me 0 Rochester and has written extensively .... about how and what young people onslaught of new technologies and mass marketing I-I learn about the American political system. with me timelessness of the cosmos and the workings "In a world filled with stories of nature to provide a new perspective on who we arc -=~ :;:» about how little young people know and what we might become. about politics, one of our first goals," Eggert is associate professor of economics at the CIVICft Niemi says, "was to show what it is University of Wisconsin-Stout and aumor of the - What Makes Students Learn that high school students do know." widely used college textbook, What Is Economics?. Among other things, tl1e authors say + http:/ j www.tenspeed.com/ catalog.htm that students have a competent grasp of national and local politics- or, at least, which level of government In Say Good Night to Insomnia, Gregg Jacobs, '80, does what. And, students are relatively well-informed assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical on the topic of individual rights. On the otl1er hand, School, describes a six-week drug-free program to they know very little about political parties and lobby treat insomnia. Based on his work witl1 sleep-disorder ing, and they arc less informed when political issues patients at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical touch on questions of race and gender. Center, the book focuses on the ways in which mind Anomer goal of the book was to show that civics and body interact to create proper, restful sleep. Start and government classes play an important role in ing with the idea mat insomnia is caused by learned teaching about politics. A widely held view in me behavior, Jacobs teaches tl1e sleepless to change tl1e political science profession is that such classes are way they mink about sleep. largely ineffective, even in teaching political facts and Using case examples and interactive exercises, Say figures. Consequently, Niemi says, "we're attempting Good Night to Insomnia guides readers tl1rough a pro to overilirow tills 30-year-long misperception of me gram that parallels the one Jacobs developed as senior insignificance of high school teaching about civics and research scientist at the Mind/ Body Medical Institute government." of Harvard Medical School and has taught to his After graduating from Lawrence wim a major in insomnia patients. government, Niemi received tl1e Ph.D. from me Uni According to its publisher (Henry Holt and Com versity of Michigan. He was hired at the University of pany), by introducing readers to the influence of the Rochester by William H. Riker, L.H.D. '75, who had mind on tl1e body, "not only does his work prove that been his teacher at Lawrence. In 1995, Niemi deliv you don't need drugs to cure insomnia, [it] shows ered the Honors Convocation address at Lawrence. how taking tl1ese steps toward sleeping more peace + http:/ j www.yale.edu/ yup/ books/ niemiF98.html fully can also bring about better moods, higher energy, increased mind/ body control, and better over Alarmed by me gradual disappearance of meadowlarks all health." from the countryside near his horne, economist James Jacobs, well-remembered at Lawrence for his sen Eggert, '67, began to examine the economic and eco- sory-isolation-tank studies and his field-goal kicking, logical factors that were putting tl1em in received the Alumni Association's Naman M. Pusey jeopardy. His investigation led him to Distinguished Achievement Award for young alumni conclude that the meadowlark's survival in 1990. In Say Good Night to Insomnia, he acknowl is a metaphor for our own; our well edges the encouragement and support he received being is ultimately linked to technology, from Professors John Stanley and Bruce Hetzler and economics, nature, and our evolution from President Richard Warch. "My years at ary histories. Lawrence," he writes, "stimulated my tl1inking, pro In Song of the Meadowlark (Ten vided me with the skills to become a clinician and sci Speed Press), Eggert's tl1oughtful essays entist, and were noming less than enchanting." challenge us to retlllnk the way we live. + http:/ j www.insomniadoctor.com/ Part One identifies me holistic values http:/ j www.hholt.com/ 98-2hh/ crucial to a sustainable future. Named in honor of the saygoodnightimsom.htm bird that inspired the book, tl1ese "meadowlark val- 44 Summer 1999 ALUMNI TODAY Lawrence 1 969 son for the Wisconsin Cancer Council. Kurt R Dietrich, Marcia Beale Will-Clifton, Loveland, Colorado, is a real estate broker ~or the Frederik Schuetze, Bradford, Massachu C '73, associate Pratt Management Company. setts, is professor of music at Bradford Col professor of music lege. In 1998, he conducted and directed at Ripon College, Cole Porter's Anything Goes; gave a faculty has been given that Lawrence 1974 recitaJ and sang works fi·om Schumann, institution's May 30th Reunron, June 2005 Ravel, and others; and was elected to the Bumby Severy Martha Holmes Galvin, Shorewood, has a Faculty Senate at Bradford. piano surdio of 47 students. She has chaired ,~ Award for excel- Jane Fisher, Concord, Massachusetts, the Wisconsin Music Teachers Milwaukee owns Cambridge Concord Associates, which lence in teaching, Spring Auditions and been a local board offers consultations in strategy, organiza which recognizes outstanding teach member for the National Guild of Piano tion, and governance for not-for-profit ing, especially a strong commitment Teachers but is urrning her attention to a clients. to students, enthusiasm for subject new trio (violin, cello, piano) tl1at was Nancy Gardner, Westlake Village, Califor scheduled to perform in France in May. nia, a practicing clinical psychologist, is also matter, and the ability to develop new material or courses. Dietrich, Clayton F. Gardinier, Sandy, Utah, is an adjunct faculty member at the California director of research and development for School of Professional Psychology in Los who has taught at Ripon for 19 Diamicron, a new company developing a Angeles. years, graduated from the Lawrence diamond hip joint using ultra-high-pressure Linda Larson, Cambridge, Massachusetts, conservatory and earned a master's technology. has been editor of Spare Change newspaper, a degree in music from Northwestern Dennis Garvey, Beaverton, Oregon, works bi -weekly publication benefiting people who University and the doctorate from in open-systems marketing for IBM in Port are homeless in the Greater Boston Area, for land. His wife, Katharine Lutz Garvey, two years. Linda suffered fi·om acute mentaJ the University ofWisconsin-Madison. '75, is a home health nurse. illness for 25 years but, with the support of He directs the Ripon College Jazz Debra Halberstadt Hainer, Altadena, friends and the help of medications, she and Symphonic Wind Ensembles California, producer/ owner of HalfCity "toughed it out" and is doing well. and teaches courses in music the01y, Productions, a video, graphic design, and music history, and music education, photography company, is a founding board member of a new chapter of tl1e National Lawrence 1970 to in addition giving brass lessons. Association ofWoman Business Owners. 35tf-l Reunion, June 2004 Author of Duke's 'Bones- Ellington's Her husband, Jonathan Hainer, is senior Great Trombonists, he is at work on vice-president of Sakura Bank Ltd. in Los Lawrence 1971 a second book, a history of jazz Angeles. trombone. Karen V. Henderson, Perkasie, Pennsylva Steve Bartell, Wartburg, Tennessee, is a nia, is a software engineer for Unisys Corporation. senior associate for The Cadmus Group, + http:/jwww.ripon.edu/ Inc., environmental consultants in Oak Barbara Goodman Holtz, Wauwatosa, is Ridge. His principaJ project is evaJuating tl1e program manager of Hcaltl1y Families, an potcntiaJ ecological impacts of commercial in -house support program for new motl1ers University, spent the spring of 1998 on navigation on the Mississippi River. and their babies, and also is president-elect sabbatical in Switzerland, doing research on D. Scott Frankenberger owns the Cross of the Wisconsin Committee to Prevent Swiss women piano composers. road Pottery in Battle Ground, Indiana. Child Abuse. David Danner, Newton, Massachusetts, is In 1998 he created a tile mural titled Gregory C. Minnis, Oak Park, Illinois, is a rector ofTrinity parish in Newton Centre. "Quadratic Quilt" for the new food science bank examiner in the FedcraJ Deposit In ur David Haugland, West Hollywood, building at Purdue University. ance Corporation's Chicago office. California, produced and wrote the televi Mary Jo Freeman, Mosinee, is the medical Joan M. Ogden, Chicago, Illinois, is an sion special "Life Remembers," a tribute doctor in charge of clinics for Wausau information specialist in the healtl1 law divi to people who died in 1998. David also Regional Health and sings with tl1e Wausau sion of the American Medical Association. worked on a movie for tl1e Motion Picture Lyric Choir, of which she is president. Jeffrey and Karen Freeman ('75) Ort Academy, featuring Angelica Houston as mann live in Chicago, Ulinois, where Jeff host. In the fall, he chaired the third Inter teaches gifted elementary school students Lawrence 1972 national Documentary Congress at the and Karen is director of physicaJ therapy at Motion Picture Academy. the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Jeff Jane Tucker Vasiliou, New York, New Keith Montross, Myrtle Beach, South teaches a science-methods summer course York, recently completed a Ph.D. in French Carolina, is a musician and entertainer who for tl1e University of Hawaii, and Karen literature at the City University ofNcw recently completed his second original CD, teaches at Northwestern University. York. The Way Home. He is in the process of set William J. and Gaye Griffith Otto live in ting up an E-commerce business, through Springfield, Missouri. Gaye teaches language which he hopes to market and sell his CDs. Lawrence 1973 arts and German at Springfield Lutl1eran Joseph Rota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, School, and Bill is a physician (OB-GYN) at L is a dentist and president of Woodmen the Springfield Clinic. IGmon Angelides, Durham, England, is tl1e Creek Dental. Kathy Newlin Pedersen, Sheboygan, chair of cell biology at Durham University. Nancy Freeman Wallace, Brooklyn, is teaches 24 private piano students; is senior Nancy Boston, Mansfield, Pennsylvania, executive director and senior outreach spe organist at Zion United Church of Christ; associate professor of piano at Mansfield cialist at the University ofWisconsin-Madi- accompanies numerous school music groups; Lawrence Today 4 5 ALUMNI TODAY Nancy Maxwell Mullen, Cincinnati, Greg D. Ohio, is resident-relations executive for William F. Roehrick, '76, The Deupree Community, a retirement Drennan, '80, received Western community witl1 over 300 residents. has announced Michigan Univer the formation of sity's Teaching Lawrence 1976 Foresight, Inc., a Excellence Award 25th Reunion June 2001 sales and market in February. Terry Ullrich, Kenner, Louisiana, was the ing consulting 1998 recipient of the Pfizer Award for Roehrick, professor Excellence in Research , Education, and company 111 of theatre and director of design Patient Care in recognition of outstanding Memphis, Tennessee. Drennan is and technical production for the contributions and exceptional service to the former sales manager of a ten theatre department, has been a Louisiana State University Medical Center. state region for Illinois-based Dot member of the Western Michigan Foods, Inc., where he also led the faculty since 1978, teaching courses Lawrence 1977 district sales manager productivity in design and doing the design 25th Reunion, June 2002 team and a district sales manager work for three to four stage pro Mark Holm, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, planning team. He previously was ductions annually. In that role he is a senior chemist for Aristech Chemical a consultant with Wausau Insur Corporation. has been scenic designer for more Thomas George Hughes, Wilmington, ance Company. His ne\v firm, than I 00 productions. Holding a Delaware, is a teacher at Tower Hill School Foresight, is an affiliate of Cargill bachelor's degree from Lawrence and recently stepped down as head wrestling Consulting Group, Inc., of Cali and a master's from Wayne State coach after 16 years. His team had a record fornia, and will provide such ser University, he has twice served as of 131 -47 and six conference championships. vices as evaluation of current sales scenic director for the Gilmore efforts and diagnosis of sales prob International Keyboard Festival and Lawrence 1978 lems, checklists and score sheets has been an architectural consultant 25th Reun1on, June 200 for evaluating prospective sales for the university's Gilmore Theatre Janet Palumbo, Pennington, New Jersey, people, formats for building sales can be heard on a new CD recording of complex. Tclcmann's "Six Sonates en Trios dans le related databases of prospects and gout italien" released on the Lyrichord customers, sales call auditing + http:/jw.vw.wrnich.edu/theatre/ label. The Trio Sonatas are performed by forms, eight-week sales action the ensemble "Le Triomphe de !'amour" plans, systems for time manage (baroque violin, flute, viola da gamba, and and sings with the Lakeshore Choral. ment, and sales seminars. harpsichord). Janet is tl1c harpsichordist and Christopher and Greta Schmidt Perleberg founding member of this ensemble, based in live in Wichita, Kansas, where he is a techni Princeton, New Jersey, which performs cal writer for LSI Logic. Lawrence 1980 Baroque music on period instruments. This Dennis Quinlan, a dentist in private prac RL r o , n r: 1 1 is the first recording ever made of this set of tice in Appleton, is also a high school Mary Warrington Cassidy, Cincinnati, Telemann Trio Sonatas. wrestling official. His wife, Janice Daniels Ohio, has been home-schooling her four Stanley L. Wilson, Keshena, is assistant Quinlan, is director of alumni relations at children for tlu·ee years and finds it "exciting, vice-president for business development at Lawrence. fi·ustrating, invigorating, and exhausting." Dairyman's State Bank in Shawano. Gregory J. Schrimpf, Sheboygan, is direc Catherine O'Connor Holm, Monroeville, tor of lay mirtistries at Fountain Park United Pennsylvania, is an adjunct faculty member Methodist Church; serves on the board of Lawrence 1979 at me Communit)' CoLlege of Allegheny Rainbow Kids, a peer-support group for 20th Reun1on June 1618 000 County. children who have suffered loss through Kenton R. Rose, has been elected vice Gregg Jacobs, Sudbury, Massachusetts, is death of a loved one, divorce, or separation president and associate general counsel of assistant professor of psychiatry at the from parents; and is actively involved in Fortune Brands, Inc., a consumer-products Harvard Medical School and has just Theatre for Young Audiences, a commu company whose brand names include published hi first book, Say Goodnight to nit)r-based children's theatre. Titleist golf balls, Master locks, and Jim Insomnia, based on his research and clinical Beam bourbon. Rose has been responsible work over tl1e past ll years. (See Lawrence Lawrence 1975 for the legal department in Fortune's Deer Autl1ors, page 46.) field, Illinois, office since 1991, but he Constance "Connie" Michael Smith, Grand 25th Reunion, June 16-18, 2000 began his involvement in the company's Junction, Colorado, is a stay-at-home mom George E. Stalle, Moorestown, New legal affairs in 1987 as an associate in the si.x days of tl1e week and an artist one day. Jersey, is a consultant with tl1e Greater law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP. In She also plays piano in a Celtic band. Philadelphia Tourism Marketing addition to his Lawrence degree in English Douglas VanLeuven, Madison, is a design Corporation. and sociology, he holds a master's degree engineer for Marshall Erdman and Associates. Diana Murray Swets is a foreign language from Harvard University and a law degree teacher in tl1c Westboro, Massachusetts from Boston University. public schools, and her husband, Steve, '73, Lawrence 1981 is vice -president, marketing, for Fidelity 20th R O'l n(. b 8 200 Investments. Joseph R. Brachmarm, Raleigh , North 46 Summer 1999 ALUMNI TODAY Carolina, is a financial advisor with Lutheran University. His booklet, "What Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Happens in the End?" was published Catherine Baker VanLeuven, is a self recently by Augsburg/ Fortress Press. employed autism consultant in Madison. Lawrence 1 986 Lawrence 1 982 h Ke on June 200 Stephen Albrecht, Saint Paul, Min Alison Warcup Blackowiak, Chanhas nesota, is assi tant director of public sen, Minnesota, serves on the planning policy ar the American Academy of commission for the City of Chanhassen Neurology. and volunteers to coordinate the city's Erik Moe, Pacific Palisades, California, is Fourth of July parade. a television writer for Brillstein/ Grey Nancy Elliott Curtis, Pittsford, New Entertainment. York, a technical writer for Ziff-Davis John Schoenfeld, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is Education, is developing training materi a partner at Kirkland and Ellis Law Firm. als for Microsoft Windows 2000. His wife is Martha Pierce Schoenfeld, '87. Catherine B. Dempesy, Chicago, Illi Lawrentians at the wedding of Ben ('97) and Julie Longlet nois, is psychotherapist/ counselor. In Sep on November 28, 1998, were (from left): Front row Bobbi tember her nephew, who has cerebral Jo Guenthner, '98; the bride; the groom; Sarah Johnson, Lawrence 1987 1~ Det..ni n u e200 palsy, was granted a Starlight Foundation '97. Back row Jerry Haeffel, '97; Brian Bartel, '97; Alan Paul T. Kraft, Charlestown, Massachu wish: to meet Rosie O'Donnell, and Cathy Krug, '97; Ben Campbell, '97. accompanied him and other family mem setts, is a partner in Deloitte & Touche, bers to New York City. LLP, in Boston. Shawn A. Ford, Appleton, teaches French Chuck completed a three-year term as and Spanish at Quinney Middle School in public affairs officer at the embassy in Lawrence 1 988 15hR( un 004 Kaukauna and serves on the board of the Muscat, Oman, in August. Michael Bohm, New York, ew York, is a Classical Charter School in Appleton. His Nina Shepherd, Edina, Minnesota, is direc director at A. J. Trade Finance American wife, Constance Smith Ford, '98, is a tor of media relations at the University of International Group, currently working in graduate student in educational counseling. Minnesota. Moscow wit!1 AIG Russia. Edwin L. Fuller, Kettering, Ohio, is a soft Terri Stmdberg, Denton, Texas, is assistant Louis Boldt, Murray, Kentucky, is an ware engineer for the NCR Corporation. professor of music at the University of North adjunct professor at Murray State Univer Linda Berger Hellmich, Northfield, Min Texas. In January 1998, she returned to sity, where his wife, Margaret Boldt, '89, nesota, is a psychologist at Carleton College. Lawrence to petform "Carmen Fantasy" as a is an assistant professor. Michael E. Mol, Lindenhurst, Illinois, is an distinguished alumna under Professor Robert Bob COtmtryman, West Roxbury, eighth-grade mathematics teacher and a Levy and also taught a master class for Massachusetts, moved in December to coach in School District #103. Lawrence flutists. In May 1998, Terri per Massachusetts with his wife, Abby Terry Moran, ew York, New York, formed a solo recital in Bournemouth, Eng Labowitz Countryman, '89, after he anchor and reporter for Court TV, co land , and she was co-ptincipal flute with the accepted a job transfer witl1 his company, anchored its coverage of the impeachment Orchestra de Mineria in Mexico City from RTW, Inc. Abby is a benefits analyst for J hearings with Peter Jennings and George June to August, when she was a featured and H Marsh and McC!ennan. Stephanopoulos. teacher on the American Masterclass series at Rebecca Shereikis, Evanston, Illinois, Beetle Abrahan1 Rank, Cedarburg, teaches the National Flute Association in Phoenix. completed a master's in African history at at First Immanuel Lutheran School. Her Northwestern University in 1998. husband, Scott Rank, is vice-president, com Lawrence 1984 mercial lending, for M&I Bank in Milwaukee. 20th Reun.or>, June 2003 Marc M. Roy, Beloit, is associate dean of Lawrence 1989 the college and associate professor of biol 1 5 Jun 2004 ogy at Beloit College. Lawrence 1985 Kristen Albinson, Irvine, California, is a self-employed business consultant. Lawrence 1 983 Jennifer L. Cobb is a middle school history Jennifer Wilkinson Albrecht, St. Paul, teacher at Chicago's Latin School. Minnesota, is a paralegal for tl1e Siegel Brill Kelly J. KetUledy, Madison, is a budget law firm. Megan Bailiff, Redmond, Washington, and policy analyst for the State of Wiscon Peter Amrein, Batavia, Illinois, is a self executive assistant to the dean for policy sin. His wife, lnga Roth Kennedy, '87, is a employed computer programmer and affairs at the University ofWashington, is sales representative for Bankers Life and consultant. president ofThe Coastal Society, a national Casualty. Jim and Beth Berryman Arps live in San non-profit organization. Atu1 Gralen Morris, Hinsdale, Illinois, is Antonio, Texas. Jim is employed by Soutl1- Karl Eckner, Oslo, Norway, is manager of an executive recruiter for Bloom, Gross & west Research Institute as a senior research validations and methods development of Associates. Her husband, Doug Morris, scientist, and Betl1 is a teacher at Hope Colifast Systems, ASA, developing rapid owns and manages the Little Hands Toy Lutl1eran Day School. methods for food and water microbiology. Shop in Glen Ellyn. Andrew Bauman is a dentist in Rochester Charles Hunter, Washington, D.C., is Kristi Ross-Clausen, Madison, is an inde Minnesota. ' Levant desk officer with the U.S. Informa pendent image consultant for Mary Kay, Inc. tion Agency. His job deals with Israel, West Philip L. Ruge-Jones, Austin, Texas, is Bank/ Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. assistant professor of theology at Texas Lawrence Today 47 ALUMNI TODAY Annaheim and Philadelphia. versity of'vVisconsin as a graduate student in New Mexico Kellie Brown, Milwaukee, finished her sur special education. State University gical residency at the University of North David Lane, Des Moines, Iowa, is a Ph.D. astronomer J oni Carolin a and then moved to Milwaukee to candidate in social psyc hology at Iowa State ' Johnson, '84, complete a two-year fellowship in vascular University. , has been surgery at the Medical College ofWisconsin. Wendy Martinek, East Lansing, Michigan, awarded an Mikel "Michelle Gratch" Carter, Phoenix, is a graduate student and research assistant Arizona, is a part-time assistant manager for at Michigan State University. Her disserta $81,000 grant Gymboree. tion is about decision-making on state tlu·ough the Clara Connell, Jackson, Louisiana, is a psy supreme courts. National Science chological associate at Feliciana Forensic John V. McNamara, Rockford, Illinois, Foundation's Professional Oppor Facility. She teaches a local poetry workshop started his own business in 1996. Funk tunities for Women in Research and is compiling a manuscript of poems tiona] Arts makes sculptures, furnishings, based on her expetiences as a psychotherapist. and accessories. and Education (POWRE) pro Christopher McNulty, Madison, recently gram. The funds will support her earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from use of spectropolarimetry and Lawrence 1990 the University of Wisconsin. He is self spectroscopy in the study of classi 10th Reunion, June 1618,2000 employed as a scu lp tor and woodworker. cal novae. Johnson is studying Bryan Beauchamp, Fox Point, is partner Jeanette Miller, Fall Creek, spent six weeks Nova Cassiopeiae 1995 to deter and president of Tolan, Schueller, and Asso in Nepal and is now settling into life in rural ciates in Mequon. Wisconsin. In addition to her family mine why it has remained unusu ally bright for several years. She is one of 206 women nationwide to receive 1999 POWRE grants, which are intended in part to help overcome tl1e under-representation of women in science and engineer ing. Only 39 grants were awarded in the category of mathematical and physical sciences, which includes astronomy. Lynn Bebeau, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an associate attorney for Leonard Street and Deinard. Aaron Bloedorn, Springfield, Virginia, works for Designers and Planners, Inc., as A sizable Lawrence contingent was on hand for the wedding of Elizabeth Alden, '95, and an environmental policy analyst. Jonathan Mahony, '95, on May 24, 1998, in Minneapolis. From left to right, they included: First Eric Bloedorn, Fairfax, Virgin ia, is on the row (seated) Dan Gregerson, '97, Carolyn Lussow Paul, '97, Tim McKellips, '95. Second row senior staff at Mitre Corporation. (kneeling) The groom, Alex Thoman, '95, Alex Paul, '97, Suzi Michael Hill, '95, Brian Johnson, Cynthia Boyd, St. John's, Newfoundland, '97, Derek Schumann, '95, Jerod Cottrill, '95, Chris Stoeckl, '95, Roger Hanson, '95. Third row Canada, is a freelance writer, researcher, and Heather Rezin McKellips, '94, Steph March, '93, the bride, Juliet Moffat, '95, Ann Huntting Yon folklorist. She is editor of a local horticul tural society newsletter and has had numer amine, '74, John Sineps, '53, Mia Paul, '95, Kelly Ritland Davis, '94, Jeff Davis, '94, Sara Weg ous articles published in both the United mann, '97, Marty Hill, '92, Josh Kriesel, '95, Natalie Johnson, '96, Eric Gregerson, '95, Sean Ehret, States and Canada. '96. Back row Katie Amelotte Jones, '94, Don Jones, '95. William Briesmeister, Portsmouth, ew Hampshire, is a regional manager for Barton Brands, Ltd., the fourth largest supplier of A.tu1 Marie Heiman, Glenview, Illinois, is practice, Jeanette teaches medical students distilled spirits in the United States. an actress who does stand-in on Early Edi about doctor-patient communication. Kristina Bross, Santa Maria, California, is tion and acted in the world premier of Signal Nanette Paul Pazdernik, Carmel, Indiana, assistant professor of English at C::tlifornia to Noise in Chicago. She continues to coach is a post-doctoral fellow at the Indiana Polytechnic State University; her husband, and direct at the high school level. University School of Medicine. Steve Wereley, is a post-doctoral research Laurie Hines, Austin, Texas, is a law stu Colleen Smith Sierzega, Carol Stream, scientist at the University of California in dent at the University of Texas. She serves Illinois, is working on a master's degree in Santa Barbara. In August, Kristina traveled on the board of the Political Asylum Project trai11ing and development at Roosevelt Uni to New York on a grant to do research at of Austin and plays violin i11 the an11ual law versity. She also works as an accountant for the New York Public Library. In the fall of school musical review. Motorola. 1998, Kristina and Steve spent three months Karen "IGm" IGmberly Holland, Falls Eleonore "Nell" Wiley Houser, Colorado in London, where she taught Shakespeare to Church, Virginia, works out of her home Springs, Colorado, received a master's in students from California and spoke at the selling educational toys, books, and software music education from Silver Lake College. Oxford Tyndale Society conference. Steve for Discovery Toys. She teaches music at an elementary school has presented his research at conferences in Kris Howard, Madison, attends the Uni - in Colorado Springs. 48 Summer 1999 ALUMNI TODAY Lawrence 1991 studying opera. 10 on 0 Angela Clark, San John A. Aaholm, Menasha, is a project Rafael , California, is an manager for Inacom In formation Systems in assistant booking Appleton. agent for Swing Fever Matthew Anderson is a systems engineer Entertainment. for Inacom Information Systems in James Guckenberg, Milwaukee. Mitmeapolis, is a Melinda "Mindi" Dloogoff Armstrong, teacher in Coon Dania, Florida, is regional sales director for Rapids, Minnesota. MG Incentives, Inc. Jason Lowery, Kristin Alana Bawn, Iowa City, Iowa, is Normal, Illinois, is marketing assistant for the University of attending Illinois State Iowa Alumni Association. Her husband, University to earn Jeffrey Wiggins, '93, is project coordinator a master's in geohy Shelby Bowser, '98, and Brian McCulley were married on August 8, in the university's translation laboratory and drology. an adjunct faculty member in French at Coe 1998, in Fond du Lac. Lawrentians gathered to help them celebrate the Kent Paulsen, Green College. occasion included (from left): On the floor Lauren Frownfelter, '98; Bay, is a music teacher Ann Stowell Belyaev, St. Charles, Illinois, Holly Alfery, '98; Michael Piastowski, '99. Seated Jim Wooldridge, '98; at Green Bay Soutll is a multimedia producer with her own web Beth Aneshansley, '98; the bride; the groom; Rob Wise, '98; Chris Jones, wcst High School. He and CD-ROM business, Type A Multimerua '98. Standing Scott Leier, '97; Kathy Weiland, '98; Dan Herrick, '98; recently was featured Nct\vork (http:/ /typca.nct). Melanie Bietz, '99; Paul Lamb, '98. in the Press-Gazette as Martin Buerger, Milan, Italy, is budget/ an "Evetyday Hero." planning coordinator for Boehringer lngel At Southwest High physician-assistant schools. School, Kent directs three choirs, a jazz hcim ltalia. Andrea L. Hines, Washington, D.C., is an Kenneth L. Daniel, Milwaukee, choral group, and musical productions; is an assis Engli h teacher in the Fairfax County public tant coach of the girls tennis team tl1at won department rurector at Whitefish Bay High schools. School, was guest conductor of Appleton's tl1e state championship in 1998; manages Julia R Hillbrick, Columbia, Missouri, in the area Solo and Ensemble Music Festival; White Heron Chorale for a March concert tile summer of 1998, produced a rccorrung titled "Heart Songs: Gospel, Spirintals, and and chairs the music department. He is also of nine songs by her sister, Jennifer J. Hill is chorus master of the Pamiro Opera Com Ragtime." brick, '94, titled "Everybody Praise." Julia Heidi Espenscheid-Nibbelink, Laramie, pany; sin gs for the Green Bay Chamber is a facu lty member at the University of Choir, tl1e Collegiate Chorale of St. orbert Wyoming, is administrative assistant to tl1e Missouri, and Jennifer is hi gh school choral principal of Laramie High School, hosts "All College, and the First United Mctl1odist director in the Mequon-Thiensville School Church Choir; and conducts the Concert Things Acoustic" for Wyo ming Public District. Radio on weekends, docs voice-over work Orchestra of Green Bay Symphony Youth for a software company, and is partner in a Orchestras Program. In 1998, Kent was new grant-writing communications firm Lawrence 1992 named Outstanding Young Conductor by named Strategize. Her husband, Nathan 0 R n o tl1e Wisconsin Choral Directors Association. Nibbelink, is a Ph .D. candidate in zoology Eleni Glaser Glerun1, Minneapolis, at the University of Wyoming. Minnesota, works for Silicon Graphics in Lawrence 1995 Joel K. Flunker, Niantic, Connecticut, technical sales. 11 r 0 plays trumpet in the U.S. Coast Guard Aaron Starr, Portland, Oregon, is a soft Christopher J. Stoeckl, Mequon, is in his Band. His wife, Cornelia Fehr Flunker, '94, ware designer for Extcnsis Corporation. tl1ird year at t\lla rquette University School of is a graduate student in trumpet performance Dentistty. at tl1e Yale University School of Music. Anita Freer, Benton, Arkansas, is grants Lawrence 1993 coordinator in tl1e Career Opportunities Ini 0 Rt 11 e 200 Lawrence 1996 tiative of the Arkansas Department of Work David Braden, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 5 force Education. received a master's degree fi·om St. John's Natalie R. Johnson, Milwaukee, is in her Hidehisa Hanzawa, Tokyo, Japan, is Graduate Institute in September. He is on second year at Marquette University School manager of long-term credit for tl1e Bank of the facu lty at Casady School in Oklahoma of Dentistry. Japan Ltd. City. Kristi R G. Hendrickson, Seattle, Wash Jose "Luis" Rodriguez-Jimenez, Tokyo, ington, has joined the faculty of the Univer Japan, works for Nikko Salomon Smith Bar Lawrence 1997 sity of Puget Sound as assistant professor of ney Ltd. in account control and security 5th R union June 2002 physics. She previously had taught physics at coding. Karteshia Anderson, Milwaukee, is Pacific Lutl1eran University and the Univer Scott Rickard, Highland Park, Illinois, is employed by Manpower International sity of Washington and was an crutorial business manager for Old World Industries. Headquarters, working with people who are assistant for Reviews of Modern Physics . retiring fi·om the military and want training Jon Henke, Los Angeles, California, i an Lawrence 1994 in technical areas. A Marquette University ocean lifeguard and emergency medical graduate student in public policy, specializ 10hkU'10 Juno:> 004 technician for the Los Angeles County Fire ing in gerontology, she keeps busy teaching Shanti Bowes, ew York, New York, is Department. He received a master's degree Sunday school, playing tennis, and choreo an actress and a singer who performs for in public healtll in 1998 and is applying to graphing traditional African dances for film, theater, and television. She currently is performances. ln 1997, Karteshia earned Lawrence Today 49 ALUMNI TODAY second-place standing in Mid Births and west Great Lakes Tennis, and Adoptions she is active in the Wisconsin and National Fencing Associa tions for African-American 1970s Youth. Keith Montross, '73, and Nicole Bushman, Little Chute, Melinda, a daughter, is an eightl1 grade social studies Mackenzie Jo, on July 17, teacher at J.R. Gerritts Middle 1998 School in Kimberly. Carol Clay, Napa, California, worked for Project Bridges in 1980s Appleton following graduation. Martha Tjossem Kepner, In 1997 she moved to Califor '80, and Charlie, a daughter, nia, where she is now a teacher Elizabeth, in June 1998 at St. John's Preschool in Napa. Michael Ladevich, '80, md Kristen Granum, Minneapolis, Christine, a son, Joshua Minnesota, is a research assistant Ryan, in December 1998 John Chamberlain, Jr., and Jennifer Lynn Pieters, both '96, were married on at tl1e University of Minnesota, A. Dan Bailiff, '83, and Anita working toward a Ph.D. in May 24, 1998, in Menomonee Falls, Wis. Among the wedding party were three Coryell, a daughter, Addison, organic chemisn-y. other Lawrentians: James Spofford Reeve Ill, '95 (kneeling, right), Sarah Litchfield, adopted on September 27, Chris Huff, Appleton, is a grad '96 (standing, third from left), and William E. Lee, '96 (standing, third from right). 1998 uate student at Silver Lake Col Dawn Pubanz Gergen, '83, lege in Manitowoc, studying for and Bill, a daughter, Anna a Master of Science degree in management Alan Gunn, '78, and Maria Pfister, Camerine, on May 8, 1996 and organizational behavior. Chris works for November 21, 1998 Josh Gimbel, '83, md Julia, a daughter, American Family Insmance in Appleton as a Lena Rae, on September 24, 1998 casualty claim representative. Wendy Hansen, '83, and Philip Askenazy, Amy Marks, Wilmington, Delaware, is 1980s a son, Alexander David, on May 2, 1998 working on a master's degree at tl1e Univer Scott Chase, '83, and Terese, Lynn Krausmann, '83, and Kevin White, sity of Delaware. May 29, 1998 twin sons, Aidm Reilly and Com1or Ross, Sarah Schott, Durham, North Carolina, is Cynthia Mader, '85, and John Fisher, on November 16, 1998 a law student at Duke University. January 23, 1999 Lynn Westphal, '83, and Michael Gropper, David Shectman is a student at tl1e Franz Martha Holt, '86, and James Reisner, a daughter, Rachel, on February 1, 1999 LisztAcademy ofMusic in Budapest, Hungaty. October 10, 1998 Hallie McNamara Worsey, '83, md Ethan Waugh, Cullowhee, Norm Carolina, Heidi Mendonca, '88, and Dan Erstad, Michael, a son, David Michael, on March serves as a graduate assistant football coach April 24, 1999 20, 1998 at Western Carolina University, while pursu Britta S. Siinonson, '88, and Dennis Carrie Morris Bowman, '84, and Jerry, a ing a master's in American history. Callaway, October 10, 1998 daughter, Sarah, on June 9, 1998 Steve Collins, '89, and Mya Bakken, Jolm and Kristine Bork Schlager, both Lawrence 1998 July 18, 1998 '85, a son, Dylm, on December 11, 1998 Stephen ('86) md Jennifer Wilkinson 5th Reunion, June 2002 ('89) Albrecht, a daughter, Allison, on Sara C. Juni, Brookings, Soutl1 Dakota, is a 1990s October 3, 1998. research assistmt in tl1e wildlife at1d fisheries Paula Despins, '90, and Jorge Frese, John ('86) and Martha Pierce ('87) deparunent ofSoutl1 Dakota State University. January 30, 1999 Schoenfeld, a son, Jack, in August 1998 Katheryne Kollor, Columbus, Ohio, is a Margaret Hall, '90, md Scott Greymont, Tim ('88) and Gail Feldman ('90) graduate student in health administration at September 12, 1998 Micheau, a daughter, Hannah Nicole, Ohio State University. Colleen Smith, '90, and Philip Sierzega, on June 20, 1998 Darcy Lynn Mueller, Berlin, is a music November 14, 1998 Jim and Beth Berryman Arps, both '89, a teacher at Clay Lamberton Elementary Michael Adrowski, '91, and Debra Roden, son, Carl Frederick, on December 4, 1998 School. October 24, 1998 Anthony Grade, '89, and Megan Bur Shane Sawall, Appleton, works in me John Sandias, '91, and Andrea, dick-Grade, '90~ a son, Forrest Donald, on financial services industry as an agent for October 10, 1998 November 26, 1997 [This corrects an item Northwestern Mutual Life. Eleni Glaser, '92, and Peter Glerum, previously published with an incorrect date September 5, 1998 of birtl1. Lawrence Today regrets this error.] Scott Rickard, '93, and Shannon Doman, Marriages Jim ('89) md Lynne Romstad ('90) January 1, 1999 Thompson, a daughter, Amelia Claire, Anthony R Lipari, '96, and Noelle, on September 8, 1997 ovember 28, 1998 1970s Heather Sigl, '96, and Andrew A. Trost, Marcia Beale, '73, and Alan Clifton, May 16, 1998 1990s November 24, 1998 Philip and Catherine (Katie) Rudden Anne Zaboglio, '75, and James R. Davidson, both '90, a son, Mattllew, on Muirhead, November 24, 1998 October 22, 1997 Christine Spica Donlin, '90, and Leo, a 50 Summer 1999 ALUMNI TODAY daughter, Victoria Grace, on February 10, 1998 husband, Joseph Gerend, '29. Arens, '51. Karen IGmberly Holland, '90, and T.J., Kenneth G. Laird, '31, Whitefish Bay, Marian Reynolds La Borde, M-D '47, a daughter, Margaret (Meg), on January 13, January 18, 1999. An all-conference athlete Hortonville, March 13, 1999 1999 in two sports at Lawrence and a long-time Thomas W. Busch, '48, Appleton, Craig Kellenberger, '90, and Karen, a son, successful high school coach, he was Februaty 4, 1999 Jeffery Aaron, on May 20, 1997 inducted into d1e Lawrence University Suzy Merizon Mayer, '90, and Michael, Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. Survivors a daughter, on June 27, 1997 include a sister-in -law, Rosemary Mull Christopher and Wendy Wymer Stippich, Laird, '40; a nephew, Herbert T. Coller, Jr., William L. Bradlee, Jr., '50, Eastlake, both '90, a son, Jacob Leroy, on December '66; and a grandson, Greg01y L. Beyer, '92. Ohio, December 27, 1998 19, 1997 Winona Henderson Rhodes, M-D '31, David F. Parmelee, '50, Las Vegas, evada, David Braden, '92, and Sara, a son, John Anderson, South Carolina, Februa1y 12, 1999 December 16, 1998. Survivors include a11 Henry, on February 21, 1998 Alette Olson Varenick, '31, Ellison Bay, aunt, Carol Taylor MacDonald, '46. Victoria Leathers-Paupore, '93, and Mark, December 20, 1998 Aileen Boyd Faulks, M-D '51, Waupaca, a son, Jacob Richard, on April 20, 1998 Alice Redlin Prahl, M-D '32, Milwaukee, November 22, 1998. Survivors include her Alison Strong-Zak, '93, and John, twins, October 13, 1998 husband, John T. Faulks. Sophia and Samuel, on December 4, 1998 Harriet Larson Rohr, '32, Menasha, John G. Hollingsworth, '52, Neenah, Aran Walter, '95, and Shannon, twin sons, Januaty 26, 1999 Februa1y 3, 1999. Survivors include his Noah James and Mark Minahan, on Decem Elizabeth Holmes Rucinski, '32, wife, Barba1·a Boon Hollingsworth, '52, a11d ber 29, 1998 Two Rivers, Februaty 22, 1999 daughter, Karen Hollingsword1 Luciat1, '78. Hollace G. Roberts, '33, Green Valley, Nancy Ellis Raymond, '52, Naples, Arizona, Januaty 29, 1999 Florida, December 11, 1998 DEATHS Elizabeth Fox Wettengel, '33, Madison, John A. Fischer, '55, Riverside, Illinois, March 22, 1999 September 6, 1998 Angelo J. Billo, '34, Riverview, Florida, Yun-Ho Ye, '55, Seoul, Korea, 1910s date unknown February 5, 1999 Jane Grobben Clarkson, '19, ew York, Ethel Kreibohm Borisch, M-D '34, ew York, Januaty 29, 1999 Brookfield, date unknown 1960 Arthur M. Hanson, '34, Oshkosh, Januaty 4, 1999 Mirian1 Kenly Earle, '66, 1920s Oscar F. Kallman, '34, Green Bay, December 21, 1998 Enid Jarrett Heideman, '26, Cape Eliza December 19, 1998 beth, Maine, date unknown. Survivors Helen Punke, M-D '35, Whitefish Bay, 1970s include a sister, Gladys Jerrett, '26; a January 13, 1999 J. David Nern, '76, Ctystal Lake, Illinois, nephew, Vinton Deming, '55; two nieces, Kathleen M. Rudolf, '35, Green Bay, October 27, 1998 Betsy Jarrett Stodola, '56, and Evelyn Dem December 13, 1998 ing Reymond, '60; and a great-niece, Jane Erie T. Volkert, '35, Middlebwy, Marshall Christensen, '80. Vermont, March 7, 1999. Survivors include 1990s Florence Hamm Stoker, '27, Monterey, his wife, Mary Voecks Volkert, '39. Crystal L. Maksymenko, '92, Kenosha, California, January 16, 1999 Leroy E. Olsen, '37, Sturgeon Bay, January 10, 1999 Marjorie Parkinson Haldemann, C '28, Ja!1llal")' 20, 1999 Dennis L. Huebner, '96, Madison, a leg South Milwaukee, November 24, 1998 Walder D. Robbins, '37, Green Bay, islative aide to Wisconsin State Senator Dale lone Kreiss McConnell, '28, Oshkosh, December 31, 1998 W. Schultz, died in a motor vehicle accident February 18, 1999. She was predeceased on Ralph J. Chadek, '38, Sarasota, Florida, in Memphis, Tennessee, on Februaty 12, December 22, 1998, by her husband, February 8, 1999 1999. Palmer B. McConnell, '27. Jean Whittier Moffitt, '39, Missoula, Winifred Newbery Palmer, '28, Bristol, Montana, January 10, 1999 Virginia, April13, 1998 Charles 0. Van Dell, '39, Valley Center, F iends of e ce Vera Wilkeson, '28, Salome, Arizona, California, December 14, 1998. Survivors John Green, Appleton, December 15, September 3, 1998 include his wife, Virginia. 1999. Survivors include his wife, Ma1·y Margaret Ahrens Erskine, M-D '29, Sheldon Green, '40. Waukesha, January 8, 1999 1940s Johannes Van den Akker, Appleton, Marguerite Kneip, M-D '29, Fond du February 2, 1999. Survivors include his Lac, Janua1y 18, 1999 M. Jane Gilbert Hench, '41, Richmond, wife, Margaret. Charles C. Scott, '29, Columbia, Virginia, March 17, 1997 Matyland, January 6, 1999 Elwood C. "Slin1" Krueger, '41, Phoenix, Paul T. Ward, '29, Englewood, Florida, Arizona, February 18, 1999. Survivors Tru~tee Eme itus March 11, 1998 include his wife, Betty Lindquist Krueger, Milan Boex, Green Bay, December 23, '42. 1998. Former president of Northern Paper 9305 Harry W. Pearson, '43, Richmond, Company, later vice-president of Marathon Virginia, December 27, 1998 Corporation and American Can Corpora Magdalen "Sis" Bohr Schaefer, '30, Clin Richard J. Arens, '47, Scottsdale, Arizona, tion, he was a member of the Lawrence tonville, January 18, 1999. Survivors include Januaty 1999. Survivors include his wife, University Board ofTrustees from 1954 a granddaughter, Melissa S. Dupke, '94. Colleen Snyder Arens, '48, and two broth to 1958. Herta Mueller Gerend, '31, Marinette, ers, Gerald W. Arens, '50, and George T. January 6, 1999. Survivors include her Lawrence Today 5 ·1 LAWRENCE YESTERDAY How we came to be called Vikings University archivist Carol Butts, '49, after "years of Blue Jays 56, Trojans 46. searching," has turned up one version of how Lawrence Up to d1at time, Lawrence teams had been called athletic teams came to be called Vikings. There may the Blues or Blue Some dungs ( d1at is, the swimmers be others. w.ere the Bluefins, etc. ). The Viking name didn't take In January 1926, d1e sports staff of The Lawrentian hold immediately - The Lawrentian referred to Blues for sponsored a contest, winner to go to the Lawrence-Hill several years afterward, alternating with Vikings - but in top basketball game in Milwaukee. The winner was 192 9, the theme of d1e Ariel yearbook was Viking, and Steven Cincowsky, '29, and the vote was Vikings 252, from d1en on Vikings prevailed. 52 Summer 1999 Midwest Conference Coach of the Year Amy Proctor guided the 1998-99 women's basketball team to a 13-3 conference record and their first championship since 1990. 998-99 Midwest Conference Jessica Reeves, '99, Elkhorn (manager) champions clockwise from left Nicole Bushman, '97 (assistant coach) front Amy Proctor (head coach) Quinn Bohman, '0 1, Fort Atkinson Zina Cooper, '99, Lake Elsinore, California Angela Fink, '00, Menasha Joy Rogatzki, '00, Oconto Falls Jessa Dukelow, '02, Slinger Dara Rakun, '02, Sheboygan Falls Marie Molter, '02, Lena Erica White, '02, San Andreas, California Jenny Carney, '00, Appleton Jenny Gilge, '00, Wausau Sara Snyder, '02, Davenport, Iowa Aly Martin, '99, Palmdale, California Lyndsay Hellekson, '02, Billings, Montana Gina D'Amico, '01, Mukwonago Beth Pollnow, '02, Dousman Mindy Rueden, '00, Appleton 3 OJ \0 V\"' ...c a. ~· a. All are members of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees. b. None of them are scientists (two majored in education, one in music, and one in French). c. They believe wholeheartedly in the importance of science education at the college. d. The major benefactors to date in helping to fund the college's new $18 .1 million building, these women have made exceedingly generous gifts and commitments for this building. e. All of the above. ·;;, :J;;>M.SUV Thanks to Kim Jordan (seated), '58, and, left to right, Edie Andrew, Cyndy Stiehl, '89, and Judi Paul, and a number of other donors, more than $8.5 million has been secured to date for this important project. It's an auspicious beginning. PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAJD AT LAWRENCE APPLETON, WI UNIVERSITY 54911 APPLETON, WISCONSIN 549 12