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REPARE LEADERS FOR THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL PCOMMUNITY Leaders&Best Philanthropy at the University of Michigan ContentsFall 2004 WWW.THEMICHIGANDIFFERENCE.ORG

KICKING OFF THE CAMPAIGN 4 CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP 10 UNIT GOALS 14 MUSEUM OF ART TO EXPAND 25 MEADERS SUPPORT TWO KEY PROJECTS 27 FORD SCHOOL GROWS WITH GIFTS 31

4 14 10 A Campaign

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For Decades Dear Friends,

Your loyalty as donors is unlike anything I students and alumni challenge us. We have experienced in higher education, and prepare these future leaders, and then we it is because of that dedication that I am watch with pride and amazement as they confident we will achieve success in our go out and turn the world on its head. historic $2.5 billion campaign, The What we do in this campaign will resonate Michigan Difference. for decades—just as our prominence We’ve done it before. Michigan has a today is built upon decades of Michigan proud tradition of private support. We are accomplishments. a university with a remarkable history of Arthur Miller came to our campus believ- forward thinking, and it is our responsibil- ing he could be a writer. What he discov- ity to provide greater opportunities to the ered was not only his gift of words, but students and faculty who come after us. also the satisfaction of seeing their effect It is my job as president to give our stu- on an audience. dents a world-class institution rich with Alexa Canady was a young woman unsure potential. That is what The Michigan of what she wanted. She tried math, wrote Difference campaign is all about: Provid- for The Michigan Daily, and thought about

U-M PHOTO SERVICES: PAUL JARONSKI U-M PHOTO SERVICES: ing our students with scholarships and law school. But it was a summer fellowship fellowships. Seeing that the most engaging in health care that opened her eyes to her professors are in our classrooms and real love: medicine. She excelled in our laboratories. And providing modern, well- medical school and became the first equipped facilities for exploring new ideas. African-American woman in our country We have so much work to do! The goal we to practice neurosurgery. have set is not a small number. This goal is Gerald Ford wanted to be a Michigan stu- extraordinary, because our donors believe dent because he loved the power of athlet- in supporting an extraordinary university. ics. What he discovered as captain of the Every day our students stand alongside the football team was the responsibility of world’s finest historians, authors and leadership. He has served us well. social scientists. Nowhere else can young I want the next Arthur Miller, Alexa minds collaborate with such an array of Canady and Gerald Ford to be in our respected researchers and scholars con- classrooms and laboratories, discovering ducting groundbreaking work. new worlds and learning about them- Our health care enterprise is astounding. selves. We heal, we cure and we strive to see that Please join me in making it all possible. people live safe, healthy lives. Together, let’s make The Michigan Our concerts, theatres and galleries pres- Difference. ent young, fresh talent that will entertain Sincerely, and inspire for years to come.

More than anything, we are a university that challenges our students. In turn, our Mary Sue Coleman

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Campaign co-chair Richard Rogel reveals the historic goal of $2.5 billion GREGORY FOX PHOTOGRAPHY FOX GREGORY

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ABC newswoman Carole Simpson, a graduate of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, hosts The Michigan The Michigan Difference campaign kickoff program Difference:What a Weekend!

4 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 Honorary co-chair Mike Wallace shares his thoughts at the kickoff luncheon PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY SMITH PETER

May 13-15, 2004…WOW!… A weekend for the U-M history books…The Michigan Difference Students show campaign is launched with a goal of $2.5 billion…$2.5 Billion! …And their true colors in we’re off to a great start, thanks to supportive donors who conveying campus life during the contributed $1.28 billion to the kickoff program all-important Nucleus Fund… The University wasbuzzing… Everywhere you turned, schools and colleges were hosting wonderful programs, receptions and dinners …Ditto for UM-Dearborn (look for U-M Flint to join in on the festivities next spring) …Hundreds of people gathered at Rackham Auditorium for an inspiring kickoff program that told the story of U-M giving in action …

PETER SM Watching our fabulously talented students is ITH PHOTOGRAPHY always rewarding …Then it was off to lunch, where heavy rains may have dampened Ingalls Mall but not the Michigan spirit of everyone gathered under the big tent…Donors who’ve made campaign gifts of $1 million or more were honored with beautiful Tiffany pins…What a party! …More to come…Much more!

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School of Music alumnus Jeremy Kittel performs his award-winning fiddle music at the campaign kickoff

Launching PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY The Michigan Campaign vice chair Waltraud Prechter with Difference:What a Weekend! President Mary Sue Coleman at the kickoff luncheon

6 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 Donors who’ve made campaign gifts of $1 million or more were honored with beautiful Tiffany pins studded with diamonds and sapphires U-M PHOTO SERVICES:U-M PHOTO JARONSKI PAUL The President’s House was the scene of a

campaign kickoff GREGORY FOX PHOTOGRAPHY FOX GREGORY reception PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY FOX GREGORY

Saul and Diane Green Campaign co-chair Campaign vice chair Richard Rogel and David Frey and his wife, Susan, with his wife, Judith President Coleman

Leaders&Best Fall 2004 7 These goals are full of purpose and promise, and they will be our focus as we work to reach our campaign goal.

With the help of philanthropy, our students and faculty are able to travel diverse paths to discovery and knowledge. I am honored to play a role in to focus on making a difference in the lives of our patients, Time Dearis Friends: now our teachers, our students and our patrons. And I am asking for your help. And now the hard work begins. If there was ever a time the University of Michigan The Michigan Difference has been successfully supporting needed your generosity, it is now. We have slightly launched. Our ambitious campaign to raise $2.5 more than four years to achieve our goal; thanks billion is fully under way, thanks to the tremen- to the foresight of many, the silent phase of our dous efforts of our campaign chairs, vice chairs campaign generated $1.28 billion, an accomplish- Michigan and honorary chairs, and our donors who made ment that leaves us well positioned for the public critical leadership gifts. stage of The Michigan Difference. Still, there is Large fundraising campaigns—and a goal of $2.5 much to do, and I hope you will continue to invest billion definitely qualifies our work as large—are in the University. all about focus. This has been our priority since I also hope you will reach for your calendar and the earliest days of planning and refining The save Oct. 8-9 for The Michigan Difference Fall Michigan Difference. Partnering with Provost Weekend. We are working hard to make Home- Paul N. Courant, the deans of our 19 schools coming weekend a special time for you to interact and colleges, and the directors of numerous units with faculty and students, learn of exciting gifts to ranging from the U-M Museum of Art to the the University, and meet President Mary Sue Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, we Coleman. undertook a rigorous, detailed process to deter- mine the University’s needs and establish goals This issue of Leaders & Best describes the details for our campaign. Our objective throughout this of our campaign. In upcoming issues, we will process has been clear and critical: increase the share with you dynamic stories of the life of our University’s impact on society. University and how your gifts make it possible.

That impact is reflected in our campaign name The next four years of generating support will be and in our five categories of support—the themes a challenging period in the history of our Univer- of The Michigan Difference. They are: sity. The rewards, however, will guarantee a spec- tacular future for this great institution. • Fulfill the Promise of Science and Technology As always, thank you for supporting Michigan. • Enrich the Student Experience Sincerely, • Inspire a Life of Arts and Culture

• Advance Health and Society’s Well-Being

• Prepare Leaders for the Local and Global Community Jerry A. May

8 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 FrequentlyAbout Asked The Michigan Questions Difference Campaign

hat is the significance hy does the University have hat is the difference Wbehind the campaign theme, Wfundraising campaigns? How Wbetween endowed funds “The Michigan Difference?” does a campaign differ from nor- and expendable? The University of Michigan is a global leader mal fundraising from year to year? Endowments are funds that are invested in known for advancing all aspects of life: health,law Campaigns generally bring 25-40 percent new perpetuity.The interest may be used to sup- and public policy,the arts and humanities,science money that would not have been raised other- port programs, but the principal is left intact. and engineering.We examine the world around us, wise.A fundraising campaign provides a disci- Expendable funds are those that may be spent its advantages and its threats,and develop ways to pline for setting fundraising priorities.It cre- completely in support of a project or program. make the globe a safer,sustainable,more equitable ates excitement,intensity and a series of dead- place.Our scientists explore how nanotechnologies lines that motivate donors to give,and to give hat are the University’s rules might repel biological weapons,populate cells to at higher levels.It also creates pride and re- treat diseases,and revolutionize the power of energizes alumni,faculty and staff. Wabout how much of an endow- computing.Our museums and theaters nurture ment’s earnings can be spent? and attract the finest and rarest of talent and open Our endowment spending rule states that a window to science and art.Faculty in our schools ow does private giving affect academic units can spend about 5 percent of and colleges motivate and challenge our students, Hthe University’s overall budget their invested funds.This is a good,conserva- who respond by exploring worlds they never picture? tive rule of thumb that ensures we will not before imagined. Private giving provides the margin of excel- eat into the principal and that our investments It is this breadth of accomplishment and lence that helps elevate us from a good univer- will continue to grow over time.In most years activity—in Ann Arbor,Dearborn and Flint and sity to a great university.During this time of our investments will earn more than 5 percent, beyond—that separates Michigan from other declining state budget support, philanthropy but in some years they will earn less.The institutions.Students and faculty have the oppor- is ever more important to maintaining that 5 percent spending rule ensures we will have tunity to achieve more at the University of Michi- excellence.We rely on private donors to ensure those funds in perpetuity to support students, gan than anywhere else.This is why our campaign that we can continue to attract the best faculty faculty and programs. is The Michigan Difference. and students and offer the highest quality academic programs. ow does the University count ith a goal of $2.5 billion, how will Hbequests in the campaign? Wthe funds be used? s this a difficult time to launch a Bequests provide an important way for many The Michigan Difference looks to raise $2.1 billion Ifundraising campaign, given the donors to contribute significantly to the Uni- in cash and pledges,and $400 million in bequest economic climate? versity.However,bequests are counted in a intentions.The primary areas of support of the In fact,we launched our last campaign,the separate category,because the money does not $2.1 billion are: Campaign for Michigan,during much more actually become available until the donor dies. • $800 million for the endowment of student difficult economic times than these.In gen- scholarships and fellowships, professorships eral, donors are excited to support programs and programs they believe in,and we don’t think the econ- omy will have a significant effect on giving to • $800 million for expendable funds,which are used the campaign. as operating money for the University • $500 million for facilities,both new construction and renovations

Leaders&Best Fall 2004 9 William M. Davidson Allan D. Gilmour

President Gerald R. Ford and Elizabeth B. (Betty) Ford

Nation

Glenn E. (Bo) Schembechler

Preston Robert Tisch and Joan H. Tisch Mike Wallace Helen Zell Samuel Zell Donald C. Graham and Margaret Ann (Ranny) Riecker Ingrid A. Graham J. Ira Harris and Nicki Harris Ann Lurie and John E. Riecker

Honorary Chairs the David D. Alger Alumni Margaret Ann (Ranny) Riecker, of member of the President’s Advisory nalPresident Campaign Gerald R. Ford (AB ’35, Achievement AwardLeadership from the Midland, Mich., is a member Cabinet of the Group and former member of the HLLD ’74), of Palm Springs, Calif., Business School. President’s Advisory Group, the Manhattan Major Gifts Committee. Leadership Council of the Center Joan H. Tisch (AB ’48) is a long- 38th president of the United States, Donald C. Graham (BSEIE ’55, for the Education of Women, and time supporter of the U-M. has been a volunteer leader in two MSE ’56), of York, Pa., is a member the Gerald R. Ford School of Public previous campaigns for the U-M. of the President’s Advisory Group, Mike Wallace (AB ’39, HLLD ’87), Policy Committee, as well as co- The University named its School of the Engineering National Advisory of New York City, serves on the chair of the Ford School’s cam- Public Policy in honor of President Committee, and the Engineering board of the Knight-Wallace Fel- paign. She served as a co-chair of Ford in public ceremonies in Sep- Anniversary Campaign Committee. lows journalism program, the the Campaign for Michigan in tember 2000. His public and private Ingrid A. Graham earned a bache- national advisory board of the 1992-97. John E. Riecker (AB ’52, papers have been housed since lor of science in design from the Depression Center, and the New JD ’54) is a member of the Law 1964 at U-M and are currently School of Art and Design in 1957. York and Tri-State Campaign Lead- School Committee of Visitors and located in the President Gerald R. ership Committee. He was a co- J. Ira Harris (BBA ’59), of Palm served on the Hill Auditorium Com- Ford Library on U-M’s North Cam- chair of the Campaign for Michigan Beach, Fla., is a member of the mittee. He has been a fundraising pus. Former first lady Elizabeth B. in 1992-97 and hosted both the President’s Advisory Group, the volunteer for the University for (Betty) Ford received an honorary campaign kickoff event and the cel- Investment Advisory Group and the many years. doctor of laws degree from the ebratory closing program. Director’s Cabinet in Intercollegiate University in 1976. Glenn E. (Bo) Schembechler, of Athletics. He served as a co-chair Samuel Zell (AB ’63, JD ’66), Ann Arbor, coached the U-M foot- of the Campaign for Michigan of Chicago, is a member of the ball team from 1969 to 1990 and Honorary Co-Chairs in 1992-97. Nicki Harris is a President’s Advisory Group, the served as the University’s director William M. Davidson (BBA ’47, longtime supporter of the U-M. advisory board of the Samuel of intercollegiate athletics from HLLD ’01), of Detroit, is a member Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute Ann Lurie (HLLD ’03), of Chicago, 1988 to 1990. The winningest of the Business School Visiting for Entrepreneurial Studies, and is honorary co-chair of the College coach in Michigan football history, Committee and a past participant in the Law School Committee of Visi- of Engineering Anniversary Cam- he is a professor emeritus at the the President’s Advisory Group. tors. He was appointed a DeRoy paign Committee. Her philanthropy University. He is a member of the Allan D. Gilmour (MBA ’59), of Visiting Professor in Honors in the in support of facilities and programs Medical School Campaign Commit- Detroit, is a member of the Presi- College of Literature, Science, is felt across the University through tee and an emeritus board member dent’s Advisory Group. He served and the Arts. Helen H. Zell (AB significant commitments to the of the Friends of the Library. He as a co-chair of the billion-dollar ’64) is a longtime supporter of the College of Engineering, the Michi- served as a co-chair of the Cam- Campaign for Michigan in 1992-97 University, particularly of LS&A’s gan Business School and the paign for Michigan in 1992-97. Master of Fine Arts in Creative and has been a fundraising volun- School of Social Work. teer for the University for more than Preston Robert Tisch (AB ’48), Writing program. two decades. In 2003 he received of New York City, is a former Leaders&Best Fall 2004 11 National Campaign

Leadership Cabinet

continued Maxine J. Frankel Michael J. Jandernoa

William F. Pickard Sanford R. Robertson

Co-Chairs Sanford R. Robertson Intercollegiate Athletics, Maxine J. Frankel (AB ’66 (BBA ’53, MBA ’54), the Health System Task Dearborn), of Detroit, is a of San Francisco, is a Force, and the Board of member of the President’s member of the President’s Directors of the Alumni Advisory Group, the Advisory Group, the Busi- Association, of which he national advisory board ness School’s Campaign is a past president. Cabinet, the Western of the U-M Museum of Art, Stephen M. Ross (BBA States Advisory Commit- and the University Musical ’62), of New York City, is tee, and the Investment Richard H. Rogel Society Board of Directors. a member of the Presi- Advisory Committee. He Michael J. Jandernoa dent’s Advisory Group, has been a longtime major (BBA ’72), of Grand the Director’s Cabinet in donor and fundraising vol- Rapids, Mich., is a member Intercollegiate Athletics, unteer for the University. of the President’s Advisory and the New York and Group and of the Business Richard H. Rogel (BBA Tri-State Campaign School Visiting Committee, ’70), of Vail, Colo., is a Leadership Committee. member of the President’s and he co-chairs the Penny W. Stamps Advisory Group, the Univer- West Michigan Major (BSDES ’66), of Miami, sity Musical Society Sen- Gifts Committee. Fla., is a member of the ate, the Social Work William F. Pickard (MSW President’s Advisory Group Development Committee ’65), of Detroit, is a and chairs the Dean’s Stephen M. Ross Taskforce, the advisory member of the President’s Advisory Council at the board of the Samuel Zell Advisory Group and the School of Art and Design. and Robert H. Lurie Insti- Greater Detroit Leadership She has been a co-host of tute for Entrepreneurial Gift Committee, and he many University events. Studies, the Greater Detroit co-chairs the School of Leadership Gift Committee, Social Work’s campaign the Director’s Cabinet in steering committee.

Penny W. Stamps Robert Monroe Brown Stanley Frankel David G. Frey Doreen N. Hermelin

Waltraud E. Barrie Lawson Loeks (Wally) Prechter

Vice Chairs Doreen N. Hermelin, of the Joel D. Tauber Manufac- Robert Monroe Brown Detroit, is a member of the turing Institute Industrial (BSEIS ’63), of Kalamazoo, Greater Detroit Leadership Advisory Board, the Business Mich., is a member of the Gift Committee. School Visiting Committee, and the Law School Commit- President’s Advisory Group Barrie Lawson Loeks tee of Visitors. He chairs the and chairman of the Kalama- (AB ’75, JD ’79), of Rye, Greater Detroit Leadership zoo Major Gifts Committee. N.Y., is a member of the Gift Committee. He has been a fundraising President’s Advisory Group, volunteer for the University the Law School Committee Marshall M. Weinberg (AB Joel D. Tauber for more than 25 years. of Visitors, and the Law ’50), of New York City, is Stanley Frankel (AB ’63, School Campaign Steering honorary chair for planned MBA ’64), of Detroit, is a Committee. giving for The Michigan Difference campaign, and member of the President’s Waltraud E. (Wally) Prechter he co-chairs the New York Advisory Group, the advisory (BSED ’79), of Detroit, is a and Tri-State Leadership board of the Samuel Zell and member of the President’s Committee. Robert H. Lurie Institute for Advisory Group, the Health Entrepreneurial Studies, and System Task Force, the Robert L. Wood (AB ’76, ED the Business School Visiting Depression Center National CERTT ’76), of Middlebury, Committee. Advisory Committee, and the Conn., is a member of the Greater Detroit Leadership Business School Corporate David G. Frey, of Grand Marshall M. Weinberg Rapids, Mich., has been a Gift Committee. Advisory Board. significant force in making Joel D. Tauber (BBA ’56, JD the new building for the ’59, MBA ’63), of Detroit, is Gerald R. Ford School of a member of the President’s Public Policy a reality. He Advisory Group, the Busi- co-hosted the Michigan ness School Growth Fund, Seminars in 2003.

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Robert L. Wood Campaign goals Alumni Association Executive Director: Steve Grafton Overall goal: $6.55 million of U-M schools, colleges and units Highlights: With an overall goal of $2.5 billion, The Michigan Difference • Capital projects at family camp, Michigania,focusing specifically campaign encompasses three campuses, dozens upon dozens of on the Resnick Family Nature Cen- schools and colleges, and numerous units and centers. All have ter,the Arts and Crafts Building unique campaigns that seek to improve and expand the myriad and the dining hall–$4 million opportunities available to students, faculty, patients, patrons • Student support: Undergraduate scholarships–$2.55 million and the community. For more information: www.umalumni.com or 800-847-4764 or 734-764-0384 The Michigan Difference Campaign (in millions) ince 1894,the Alumni Association hasS provided opportunities for U-M Goal by Type of Funds alumni to connect with each other and with U-M,resulting in valuable support for the University.In our Endowment $800 campaign we seek to enhance the facilities at our alumni family camp, Expendable $800 Michigania,focusing specifically on the Resnick Family Nature Center, Buildings $500 the Arts and Crafts Building and the dining hall.Michigania has been a tradition for thousands of Michigan Total—Cash and Pledges $2,100 alumni and their families since 1962.We also seek to increase our New Bequests $400 student scholarship program.Creat- ing opportunities for students to Total—All Gifts $2,500 attend U-M enables the University to maintain its strong tradition of attracting the best students. Goal by Purpose of Gift

Faculty Support $425

Student Support $400

Program/Research Support $625

Buildings $500

Discretionary Support $150

Total Cash and Pledges $2,100

New Bequests $400

Total–All Gifts $2,500

14 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 Taubman College of School of Art & Design Athletics Bentley Historical Architecture and A&D: Emerging Vision Director: William C. Martin, Donald Library Dean: Dr.Bryan Rogers R. Shepherd Director of Intercollegiate Enhancing Access to and Urban Planning Cash/pledge goal: $20 million Athletics Preserving Michigan’s Heritage A Second Century of Leadership Bequest intentions: $5 million Cash/pledge goal: $98 million Director: Dr.Francis X.Blouin,Jr. Dean: Douglas S.Kelbaugh Highlights: Bequest intentions: $30 million Overall goal: $1.25 million Cash/pledge goal: $37.5 million • Endowed professorships: $6.5 million Highlights: Highlights: Bequest intentions: $3 million • Endowed undergraduate scholarships • Student support: $25 million • Endow “Teaching with Collections” Highlights: and graduate fellowships: $5 million • Capital projects: $73 million Postdoctoral Fellowship Program • Endowed professorship,additional • Program initiatives:Visitors Program, • Academic Center • Preservation of the collections faculty support: $17.5 million International Program, Creative • Football Locker Room For more information: • Endowed student support: Inquiry/Exhibitions,Information • Indoor Practice Facility www.umich.edu/~bhl/ or $16.9 million Technology: $8.5 million • Multi-Sport Recruiting Center 734-764-3482 • Capital project: Retrofit and upgrade For more information: • Basketball/Wrestling Practice Facility the Art and Architecture Building: www.art-design.umich.edu or • Softball Stadium he Bentley,a rich resource on $1 million 734-936-0672 • Baseball Stadium stateT and U-M heritage,provides • Program initiatives: Detroit Center, For more information: students with research opportuni- Real Estate Program, international he School of Art & Design has www.mgoblue.com, ties using actual historical docu- study: $2.1 million embarkedT upon an initiative to develop [email protected] or ments,leading to a more complex For more information: a new model for the education of the 734-764-7131 understanding of our shared past. www.tcaup.umich.edu or 734-763-9707 artist-designer at both the undergradu- Students handle the raw materials ate and graduate levels,a model befit- niversity of Michigan Athletics has of history upon examining original ince our official founding as a pro- ting the research university in the 21st beenU a leader in intercollegiate sports Hemingway manuscripts,guberna- Sgram in 1906,we have been passionately century.The objective is to develop a programs for more than 120 years. torial papers,19th century diaries of devoted to improving the quality of life place where creative work is highly Thousands of student-athletes and farmwomen,or glass plate negatives and the built environment.For nearly a celebrated and where young people legions of supporters have benefited taken by an early Michigan itinerant century we have not only responded to are encouraged and inspired to develop from the Michigan tradition of aca- photographer.Through a postdoc- change,but in many instances have the skills and intellects that will enable demic and athletic excellence.Michi- toral fellowship program,“Teaching actively led that change.Now we prepare them to become national leaders.Pri- gan’s student-athletes have used their with Collections,”we will integrate to begin our second century of leader- vate support of student scholarships, collegiate experiences to build better this research into the undergraduate ship.With vision and vigilance,with a faculty chairs,and program initiatives lives for themselves,their families,and experience.As well,stewardship commitment to the public trust, with will have momentous and lasting their communities.Our campaign pri- of records in their various fragile careful planning and daring dreams, impact on the School’s success. orities are focused on continuing the forms presents enormous preser- with an infusion of strategic resources, Michigan legacy of success by building vation challenges.Our campaign and with the active support of alumni, an athletic and academic campus that seeks to enhance both the under- friends,and other stakeholders,we will serves the needs of current and future graduate research experience and continue to build on our consistently student-athletes and creates the frame- our capacity to preserve Michigan’s strong past and move boldly to shape work for new heights of greatness. rich historical resources. our shared future.

The Michigan Difference

ethered to a 25-foot cable and traveling at 17,500 successful moon landing four years later. Among mph,T Edward H. White II (MSE AA ’59, Hon ScD the astronauts’ accomplishments was the first real ’65) became the first American to walk in space when understanding of how both men and machine he left the orbiting Gemini IV in 1965. The space- perform in space. Both White, who perished in craft, piloted by James A. McDivitt (BSE AA ’59, a 1967 launch pad fire, and McDivitt earned Hon ScD ’65), carried the men through four days aeronautical engineering degrees from Michigan. of experiments that played a critical role in the Leaders&Best Fall 2004 15 Business School Center for the Clements Library School of Dentistry Leading in Thought and Action Education of Women Director: Dr.John C.Dann Dean: Dr.Peter J.Polverini Dean: Dr.Robert J.Dolan,Gilbert and Overall goal: $29.25 million Overall goal: $35 million Success: The CEW Difference Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Highlights: Highlights: Director: Carol S.Hollenshead Administration • Building addition with climate- • Merit-and need-based student Overall goal: $3.5 million Cash/pledge goal: $350 million controlled stacks,auditorium and scholarships: $10 million Highlights: Bequest intentions: $50 million exhibit spaces for greater public use: • Endowed professorships: $11 million • Endowment support for essential Highlights: $20 million • Improved research,clinical,and counseling services: $927,000 • Intellectual capital: endowed • Acquisition endowment[s] enabling teaching facilities: $10 million • Continued research on women’s educa- professorships,clinical faculty, the Clements to continue saving • Programmatic and discretionary tion,careers and leadership: $680,000 research funds precious records of our common support: $4 million • Advocacy and policy initiatives: • Innovation in business education: historical heritage: $5 million For more information: $243,500 core curriculum,cutting-edge • Staff position and new equipment to www.dent.umich.edu or • Enhanced library collection,services electives,scholarships bring priceless Clements materials 734-763-3315 and facilities: $58,500 • Co-creation of educational oppor- into the classroom via technology: • Endowment support for leadership tunities: interdisciplinary centers, $2 million he School of Dentistry is one of and mentoring programs: $228,000 student/school designed experiences • Lectureship endowment in early theT nation’s leading dental schools • Scholarships for nontraditional • Connecting theory and practice: American history honoring retired engaged in oral health care education, women students: $628,000 student to field-based experience, Professor John W.Shy: $750,000 research, patient care and community • Programmatic support for core field to student-based experience, • Endowment of a first-in-the-nation service.Classroom and clinical activities: $500,000 center for action-based learning permanent curatorship of American instruction prepare dental profession- • Special initiatives for emerging • Discretionary support (including culinary history: $1.5 million als for practice in private offices,hos- needs/opportunities: $235,000 building renovation) For more information: pitals,academia and public agencies. For more information: • Capital projects www.clements.umich.edu or General and dental specialty clinics www.umich.edu/~cew or • Bequest intentions 734-764-2347 provide advanced treatment for 734-998-7080 For more information: patients throughout Michigan. www.bus.umich.edu or 734-763-5775 he Clements Library was estab- Research seeks to discover and apply or 40 years the Center for the Educa- lishedT in 1922 by the generosity of new knowledge to enhance oral health tionF of Women,with its three-part focus t the Michigan Business School our University of Michigan graduate care worldwide.Campaign objectives on research,service and advocacy,has missionA is clear:We seek to be the lead- and Regent William L.Clements.It include increasing scholarships for changed lives and transformed institu- ers in thought and action.Our goal is is housed in a magnificent building deserving students; creating endowed tions.Our unique counseling services beyond being counted among the best architect Albert Kahn considered faculty positions to recruit and retain inform our research; research results business schools.It is to be—undeni- his personal favorite.It was the first leading scholars; and improving labo- are utilized in our advocacy efforts; and ably—the best at what we do.Our fac- separate rare book library at a public ratory,clinical and teaching facilities. our advocacy efforts reflect concerns of ulty’s intellectual capital develops fresh university in the United States.In Funding these important initiatives our participants.Our campaign aims to and influential ideas in business prac- terms of the present value of the col- will ensure Michigan’s heritage of ensure that these essential services are tice; our innovations in education draw lections donated by the founder,it excellence in dental education. still free and available,that our research on co-creation capabilities that ignite represents the single most generous and advocacy on the emerging issues young minds; and our signature action- gift ever made to the University. of 21st century workers and students based learning programs are known for The Michigan Difference capital remains vital,and that our support and developing students’leadership skills. campaign can make the difference promotion of women’s opportunities Our vision is our campaign,and your as to whether the Clements Library continue. support builds upon this tradition of remains one of Michigan’s crown excellence at a significant time in the jewels or loses its luster. School’s history.

16 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 Detroit Observatory School of Education College of Engineering Exhibit Museum of Director and Curator: Making a World of Difference Progress & Promise: Natural History Dr.Patricia S.Whitesell Dean: Dr.Karen K.Wixson The 150th Anniversary Campaign Director: Amy S.Harris Overall goal: $700,000 Overall goal: $30 million Dean: Dr.Stephen W.Director, Overall goal: $3.75 million Highlights: Highlights: Robert J.Vlasic Dean of Engineering Highlights: • Endowment support for scholarship • Student and programmatic support: Overall goal: $300 million • Facilities and infrastructure: digital and public activities about 19th $10 million Highlights: theater ($1.5 million); named century science and technology • Faculty support: $5 million • Strategic program initiatives: exhibit gallery ($500,000); land- • Annual distinguished lecture and • Technology: $7.5 million cellular and molecular biotechnology; scape master plan ($450,000) ongoing lecture series • Outreach Initiatives: $7.5 million information technology; nanotech- • Exhibits endowment ($1 million) • Expansion of the reference library For more information: nology and integrated microsystems: • Program initiatives: Museum- on astronomy,history of science and www.soe.umich.edu, $22 million library collaboration ($75,000); scientific instruments [email protected] or 734-763-4880 • Ongoing program initiatives: school field trip scholarships • Historic preservation of building and $90 million ($25,000); winter term theme telescopes he School of Education is a leader • Capital projects: cellular and molecu- semesters ($100,000) For more information: inT setting the standards for quality in lar biotechnology; information tech- • Department Strategic Fund www.DetroitObservatory.umich.edu or research and preparation necessary to nology; nanotechnology and inte- ($100,000) 734-763-2230 face and overcome the issues that plague grated microsystems: $88 million For more information: education today.An example of this is • Endowed professorships: $50 million www.exhibits.lsa.umich.edu or he Detroit Observatory,created in our long-standing partnership with the • Endowed undergraduate scholarships: 734-936-5834 T1854 with funding from Detroit Detroit Public Schools aimed at improv- $30 million philanthropists,is celebrating its 150th ing students’science achievement.This • Discretionary support: $20 million he University of Michigan Exhibit anniversary in 2004.It is the oldest work involves a combination of research For more information: MuseumT of Natural History is a astronomical observatory in America and practice that results in both the www.engin.umich.edu or 734-647-7032 dynamic,evolving organization com- to retain its original telescopes in their creation and use of knowledge that mitted to promoting the understand- mounts.This national treasure was really makes a difference.What’s more, n recognition of Michigan’s 150th year ing and appreciation of the natural meticulously restored in 1994-98 and the knowledge created by this work asI a leader in engineering education world.We accomplish our mission has been recognized with numerous is immediately used in our teacher and research,Progress and Promise: through presenting creative educa- national,state and local awards.The preparation programs,which further 150th Anniversary Campaign renews tional programs and exhibits (dis- Observatory opened in 1999 as a increases its impact on the field.Those our commitment to making a positive, plays on prehistoric life,Michigan museum and a scholarly center for 19th who care deeply about education can lasting difference across the world.In wildlife,anthropology and geology, century science,technology and culture. make a difference by actively and the coming decade we will seek and plus a planetarium) for the benefit An increase of $700,000 in the Observa- directly supporting the work of the apply knowledge not for its own sake, of the University community,K-12 tory’s endowment will permit this fledg- School of Education. but in pursuit of relevant solutions to school groups and the general public. ling campus unit to expand its modest humanity’s largest and most longstand- We seek to: program offerings for the benefit of ing problems.In setting the strategic • Communicate current U-M science both students and the community. direction of this campaign,our focus is research to the public on selected areas that hold great prom- • Engage faculty in programs and ise: information technology; nanotech- exhibits nology and integrated microsystems; • Support undergraduate and gradu- and cellular and molecular biotechnol- ate student learning ogy.In addition,enriching and expand- • Sustain strong outreach activities ing the undergraduate experience for the community at large remains a priority.

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product of poverty and the young mother of two, Hopwood Award. A decade later and struggling to write BettyA Smith (’21-22, ’27, ’31) yearned to write. Life at the a novel, Betty Smith pulled out the award-winning script University opened her mind to numerous professors and from her days in Ann Arbor. “Francie Nolan” was trans- classes in writing, drama and literature. It was at Michi- formed into an American classic: “A Tree Grows in Brook- gan where she wrote her first play, a coming-of-age drama lyn.” At the close of the 20th century, the New York Public titled “Francie Nolan” that would bring the author a Library included it in its “books of the century.” Leaders&Best Fall 2004 17 Health System School of Information Institute for Kelsey Museum (Medical School, Hospitals and Dean: Dr.John L.King Social Research of Archaeology Overall goal: $17.5 million Health Centers) Building on a Half Century of Director: Dr.Sharon C.Herbert Highlights: Executive Vice President for Achievement Overall goal: $2 million • Student support,endowed and Medical Affairs: Dr. Robert P.Kelch Director: Dr.David L.Featherman Highlights: expendable: $1.04 million Dean: Dr.Allen S.Lichter,Newman Cash/pledge goal: $25 million • Endowed conservation fellowship • Practical Engagement Program, Family Professor of Radiation Oncology Bequest intentions: $2 million program endowed and expendable: Executive Director: Larry Warren, Highlights: • Endowed staff position: Exhibit $1.54 million U-M Hospitals and Health Centers • Student and faculty support: The preparator Student work experiences throughout and Associate Vice President Next Generation Initiative For more information: the world in nonprofit and public Cash/pledge goal: $500 million • Encouraging innovative research www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/ or sector settings Bequest intentions: $50 million • Disseminating our knowledge 734-764-9304 • Programmatic,outreach and research Highlights: • Support ongoing research on:Assess- support: $12 million • Endowed professorships and support- ing Life Courses,Cultures and rom mummies to mosaics, the Including the Internet Public Library, ing research funds: $80 million Health; Understanding Technological KelseyF houses more than 100,000 arti- Community Information Corps, • Fellowships,scholarships,resident and Social Change; and Generating facts from the ancient Mediterranean, Alliance for Community Technology, support: $50 million Honest Numbers for Democracies most excavated in Egypt.As a public Collaboratory for Research on • Programs: $235 million • Infrastructure: experimental labs, museum,teaching lab,and research Electronic Work,and the Program • Capital projects: Children’s Hospital, distance learning sites institute,the Kelsey mounts exhibi- for Research on the Information Depression Center,Kellogg Eye Center, For more information: tions, houses University courses and Economy Cardiovascular Research Building: www.isr.umich.edu or 734-764-8369 student research projects,and spon- • Facilities and infrastructure improve- $135 million sors ongoing excavations.Currently,all ments: $1 million For more information: or more than 55 years the Institute programs are compromised by lack of Connecting the School’s Central and www.medicineatmichigan.org or forF Social Research has created space,and only 1 percent of the collec- North Campus locations via commu- 734-998-7705 cutting-edge research techniques to tions can be displayed.Thanks to pri- nication technologies,and completion advance public understanding of vate gifts,we are now building a new of North Campus location renovations t is within the leading academic medical human behavior to make a difference exhibit hall to showcase four times as I • Bequest intentions: $2 million institutions like the University of Michigan in the lives of people in Michigan and many objects.Expanded displays will For more information: Health System that the nation’s goals related worldwide.In our campaign we seek require additional staff.Our campaign www.si.umich.edu or 734-763-2285 to the discovery of new medical knowledge to increase our ability to recruit,train seeks to match a challenge grant from and the development of innovative technolo- and retain the next generation of out- the National Endowment for the or nearly 80 years,the School of gies are primarily realized; it is within the standing empirical social scientists, Humanities to fund these positions. InformationF has harnessed the power leading academic medical institutions that encourage innovative new research of information by emboldening genera- translational research quickly leads to the studies and disseminate our knowl- tions of information science profession- best new ways of providing patient care; it is edge to inform the policy debate.We als to transform individuals and within the leading academic institutions that seek to enhance our ongoing research reshape communities.By connecting the medical leaders of the next generation initiatives to better understand factors people, information and technology in are developed. influencing health and longevity; more valuable ways,the School contin- causes and effects of technical and The technology of medical science is chang- ues to set the national standard in social change; and the ability of ing more rapidly and more dramatically master’s-and doctoral-level education. scientists and governments to generate than ever before in human history.For this Our goals are to increase scholarship honest numbers for democracies reason,new facilities play an important role funding to attract a diverse and talented around the world. in Michigan’s ability to continue being a student population; to provide funding leader in medical research,education and for practical engagement projects that patient care.Because people are always at directly benefit the communities we the heart of an outstanding institution serve; to increase funding for our cur- helping to make the world a better place, rent and emerging research centers; the Health System also seeks to recruit and to increase the level of participation and retain the best teachers,researchers, in giving from our alumni. clinicians and students through increased numbers of permanently endowed profes- sorships, scholarships, fellowships, research funds and programs.

18 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 Division of Kinesiology Law School Life Sciences Institute College of Literature, Making a Difference in Kinesiology Dean: Evan H. Caminker Director: Dr.Alan R.Saltiel,John Science, and the Arts Dean: Dr.Beverly D.Ulrich Overall goal: Significant funding Jacob Abel Professor of Life Sciences LSA: Making The Michigan Difference Overall goal: Overall goal: $10 million toward construction of the planned $30 million Dean: Dr.Terrence J.McDonald Highlights: Highlights: addition to the Law Quadrangle in Overall goal: $300 million • Endowed professorship: $2 million addition to $65 million in endowment • Endowed professorships to support Highlights: • Student support: Four fully endowed and operating support. focused research in cancer,diabetes, • Undergraduate support: named Highlights: graduate fellowships: $3 million heart disease,Alzheimer’s,arthritis Presidential,Dean’s and Endowed • Funding shared among four research • Capital project:Addition to the Law and other complex diseases Collegiate scholarships; World Schol- centers: $5 million Quadrangle including new class- • Funding to support collaborative ars; Scholarship Investment Fund: Center for Motor Behavior in rooms,faculty offices,educational research centers within the Institute $90 million Down Syndrome program and student life center • Scholarships and fellowships • Graduate support: candidacy fellows, Center for Exercise Research • Endowed support for teaching for undergraduate and graduate named graduate fellowships: Michigan Center for Sports and research students $20 million Management For more information: • Student scholarships and grants • Faculty support: department strategic Center for Human Motor Research • Unrestricted annual operating sup- www.lsi.umich.edu or 734-763-1200 funds and endowed professorships: For more information: port including the Law School Fund $75 million For more information: www.kines.umich.edu or he Life Sciences Institute is a new • Program support,expendable and T 734-615-4272 www.law.umich.edu/campaign or cross-disciplinary research unit of endowment support for new initiatives 734-615-4500 the University that serves as a hub for such as the Global Strategic Fund: inesiology was established as a interactive collaborations among the $45 million K separate unit in 1984 and today is ince its inception in 1859 the Univer- health sciences,basic sciences,engi- • LSA Fund,annual,expendable,all- S highly respected nationwide in the sity of Michigan Law School has been neering,the social sciences and the alumni giving to support programs, area of movement science research. a gateway through which outstanding humanities.LSI scientists and their faculty and student scholarships: The Division’s faculty members present young men and women from every U-M colleagues are taking a system- $20 million at prestigious conferences,and its walk of life go on to leadership posi- atic approach to exploring how life • Bequests: $50 million alumni are rapidly establishing solid tions in our society.The Law Quadran- works at the cellular and molecular For more information: reputations in their career areas.Our gle represents both the high ambitions level.Many of the world’s most com- www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/alumni/ current curriculum encompasses of the School and the singular com- mon and devastating diseases have campaign/ or 734-998-6255 athletic training,movement science, munity that distinguishes it.In this their roots in basic biological mecha- physical education and sport manage- campaign we seek to raise a significant nisms,which LSI is exploring.The he College of Literature,Science, ment.Through increasing resources portion of the funding that will allow creative energy and talent of LSI’s andT the Arts flourishes within the rich for teaching,research,and graduate for a much-needed expansion of the faculty and students will be the keys intellectual milieu of a premier research student support Kinesiology can attract Law School in the tradition of William to its success. university.In LSA’s 25 academic depart- the most accomplished students and W.Cook, benefactor of the Quad. ments,30 programs and institutes, faculty,provide them with the oppor- Additional campaign objectives are museums and field stations,discoveries tunity to attain the highest level of to expand faculty and student support are made,knowledge is generated,and achievement,and ultimately stand at and increase annual giving. the world—ultimately—is changed. the forefront as the leader and best in LSA makes a difference: for undergrad- the field. uates,for faculty,and for the communi- ties we serve.Our campaign,LSA: Making The Michigan Difference,will secure the College’s academic reputa- tion,assure broad educational access, and continue the tradition of research and public service that has enabled LSA to make a difference in the world.

Leaders&Best Fall 2004 19 Martha Cook Building Matthaei Botanical U-M Museum of Art School of Music Resident Director: Marion Scher Gardens and Nichols UMMA Leadership Campaign Leading the Way Overall goal: $3 million Director: Dr.James Steward Dean: Dr.Karen L.Wolff Highlights: Arboretum Cash/pledge goal: $39 million Overall goal: $52.5 million • Facilities improvements: sprinkler Director: Robert E. Grese Bequest intentions: $8 million Highlights: system,new refrigerator,plumbing Overall goal: $3.7 million Highlights: • Scholarships: $13.3 million and electrical upgrades,emergency Highlights: • Capital project: building renovation • Program support,including funding lighting,renovation of student rooms • Capital projects: amphitheatre, and expansion,including new gal- for a Center for Career Development: and other changes boardwalk,children’s garden, leries and study spaces: $32 million $9.27 million For more information: labyrinth,riverfront restoration,roads • Endowment support,including the • Piano: $250,000 www.housing.umich.edu/residence- and trails improvement,and signage: directorship and curatorships: • Facility improvements and new facil- halls/marthacook/ or $2.35 million $6 million ity - Walgreen Drama Center and 734-763-2084 • Student support: awards and • Exhibition and education program Arthur Miller Theater: $4.7 million internships: $350,000 initiatives: $1 million • Bequest intentions: $25 million ince 1915 the Martha Cook Building • Endowment support: arts and nature For more information: For more information: hasS provided a safe and gracious haven fund,research,publications fund, www.umma.umich.edu or www.music.umich.edu, for women students at the U-M.The director’s fund,community education 734-647-0516 [email protected],or donor,William W.Cook,believed,“The fund; collections including Peony 734-647-2035 Building must be more than a place in Garden,Julie Norris Post Heathdale, he University of Michigan which to live.There must be created Centennial Collection and Prairie: MuseumT of Art,a nationally recog- ounded in 1880,the University of there an atmosphere of love, and truth, $1 million nized leader among university muse- MichiganF School of Music is consis- and beauty – those things for which For more information about ums,creates innovative,multidisci- tently ranked among the nation’s top the external symbols stand.It must be Matthaei Botanical Gardens: plinary exhibitions and publications performing arts schools.Encompass- a college home,inspiring cultured www.lsa.umich.edu/mbg or that appeal far beyond campus. ing programs in music,theatre and courtesy,sincere friendship,devoted 734-998-9542 Expanding its facility and adding to dance,the School’s prominence is due service,integrity of character,industry, For more information about its endowment are critical needs as to the leadership of administrators, self-reliance,sound scholarship,and Nichols Arboretum: the Museum seeks to be a vibrant faculty,students,alumni and donors; an appreciation of the finer things of www.umich.edu/~wwwarb or gathering place and gateway for the commitment to excellence in pro- life.”Our campaign seeks assistance 734-998-9542 broader public to the University of grams and resources; and dedication in continuing this grand and worthy Michigan’s historic campus.A new to a discovery-filled learning environ- tradition. oth Matthaei Botanical Gardens and wing will more than double existing ment.The School will strive to main- NicholsB Arboretum are treasured parts space, permit the display of substan- tain its uniquely balanced emphasis on of campus and community life.Thanks tially more of the Museum’s 16,000- both performance and scholarship and to the generosity and foresight of previ- plus works of art,create both schol- its commitment to leadership,excel- ous generations,we enjoy these two arly and informal learning opportu- lence and discovery in programs that beautiful garden properties: the Arb nities,and accommodate increased offer a vibrant student experience.Our near campus in the heart of Ann Arbor attendance generated by its landmark fundraising campaign seeks to and Matthaei on the city’s east side. exhibitions.An increased endowment advance the decades of hard work, Together they provide miles of restful will support the Museum’s acclaimed energy and mastery at Michigan. trails,a conservatory,various garden exhibition and education programs. collections, frontage on the Huron River and Fleming Creek,and diverse natural areas.Our mission is “to study,con- serve,and interpret plants and ecosys- tems as they exist in nature and gar- dens,contribute to human enjoyment and culture,and support life on Earth.” In our campaign we seek to achieve con- servation,education,public outreach and research goals.

20 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 School of Natural School of Nursing College of Pharmacy School of Public Health Dean: Dr.Noreen M.Clark,Marshall Resources and Environment Dean: Dr.Ada Sue Hinshaw The Campaign for International Overall goal: $21.5 million Leadership and Excellence H.Becker Professor of Public Health Dean: Dr.Rosina M.Bierbaum Highlights: Dean: Dr.Frank J.Ascione Cash/pledge goal: $60 million Cash/pledge goal: $24 million • Faculty support: $3.5 million Overall goal: $24.5 million Bequest intentions: $4 million Bequest intentions: $3 million • Student support: $3.5 million Highlights: Highlights: Highlights: • Program/research support: • Attracting and retaining the best • Building renovation and addition: • Endowed faculty support: $8.5 million professional and graduate students $10 million $8 million • Building renovation and construc- • Attracting and retaining the best faculty • Endowed faculty positions: • Endowed student support: tion: $1 million • Research leadership to benefit the $5 million $8.5 million • Bequest intentions: $5 million human condition • Endowed student scholarships/ • Programmatic support: For more information: • Center for Molecular Drug Targeting fellowships: $5 million $6.8 million www.nursing.umich.edu or • Clinical Pharmacogenomics and • Programmatic,research,public • Dean’s discretionary support: call 734-763-9710 Translational Research Fund service and discretionary support: $650,000 • Center for Medication Use,Policies & $40 million For more information: he United States faces a critical Economics For more information: www.giving.umich.edu/where/ nursingT shortage: Federal statistics • Drug Development and Chemical www.sph.umich.edu/alumni/ units/snre.htm or 734-763-1577 show a need for 1 million new and Genomics giving.html or 734-764-8093 replacement nurses by 2012.Com- • Infrastructure: technology,research t the School of Natural Resources plicating matters,the nation’s nurs- capabilities isease prevention and health andA Environment,we view environ- ing schools turned away almost For more information: promotionD are the hallmarks of public mental challenges through a scientific 16,000 qualified students in 2003 www.umich.edu/~pharmacy/ or health work in the United States and lens and expand that vision to under- because of insufficient faculty and 734-764-7350 abroad.The Michigan School of Pub- stand the social,political,economic clinical sites plus budget con- lic Health (MSPH) has been a national and health dimensions of those prob- straints.The U-M’s Nursing School, n the 128 years since the College’s leader in this field for more than 60 lems.This interdisciplinary approach ranked third in the nation,can founding,theI world of pharmacy and years.MSPH is the real-world embod- equips our faculty and students with make a difference with increased pharmaceutical care has changed almost iment of the University’s mission of the skills and knowledge to become support from private donors.We beyond reckoning. Through it all,our research,teaching and public service. true stewards of the environment—as seek to double our endowment for College has remained the standard In an environment transformed by innovative policymakers, effective student support,name two endowed against which other colleges of pharmacy threats of bioterrorism and chemical resource managers,creative landscape faculty research chairs,and measure as they strive to realize The warfare,the School of Public Health architects,determined researchers strengthen our nurse-managed Michigan Difference of excellence in helps provide answers by fusing and insightful educators.Our campaign clinics where faculty and students pharmacy education, practice, and bench science with field experience goals include the establishment of do clinical work and research. research.Our campaign is to assure that and community-based outreach.Our student fellowships,interdisciplinary the Michigan College of Pharmacy retains campaign will ensure that we have the endowed faculty positions,and a its international preeminence,to continue facilities,the faculty,the students and discretionary endowment to provide the visionary initiatives already under the programs that have distinguished venture capital for innovative research; way,and to guarantee that a Michigan the School since 1911. cutting-edge conferences for students pharmacy education remains within the and experts; and experiential learning financial reach of every qualified student. opportunities worldwide. Achieving these goals will make all the difference to the world.

The Michigan Difference o other television show in history has had as in 1969 has been cast member Bob McGrath profoundN an impact on children as “Sesame Street.” (’54 BMUS). Known simply as “Bob,” he has Rich in characters, lessons and stories, the people introduced millions of children to Bert, Ernie, the and puppets of “Sesame Street” treat children with Cookie Monster and Big Bird. A graduate of the respect and intelligence. Inspiring youngsters—and U-M School of Music, he has been a lifelong friend their parents—since the program’s inaugural show and mentor to a generation of preschoolers. Leaders&Best Fall 2004 21 Gerald R. Ford Horace H. Rackham School of Social Work Office of Student School of Public Policy School of Graduate Studies Reach Out, Raise Hope, Change Publications Society: The Michigan Difference Dean: Dr.Rebecca M.Blank,Henry Interim Dean: Dr.Steven L.Kunkel Director: Samuel G.Offen Dean: Dr.Paula Allen-Meares,Norma Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Cash/pledge goal: $30 million Overall goal: $7.75 million Radin Collegiate Professor of Social Public Policy Bequest intentions: $5 million Highlights: Work and Professor of Education Cash/pledge goal: $35 million Highlights: • Renovation of the Student Publica- Overall goal: $16.5 million Bequest intentions: $2 million • Graduate student support: tions Building: $6 million Highlights: Highlights: $17.6 million • Endowment for scholarships and • Endowment support for student schol- • Capital project: Construction of new • Professional and pedagogical develop- tuition support for student staff: arships and internships: $5 million facility: $15 million ment programs: $7.3 million $1 million • Endowment support for faculty profes- • Endowed faculty support: $6 million • Rackham Allied Units: University • Journalism career development: sorships: $2 million • Endowed student support: $3 million of Michigan Press,Knight-Wallace e.g.,workshops by visiting profes- • Program support for research: poverty, • Endowed research support: $3 million Fellows at Michigan: $10 million sional journalists,photographers inequality and social justice; global- • Outreach activities: $6 million For more information: and publishers: $500,000 ization; community-based research; • Dean’s Discretionary Fund: $2 million www.rackham.umich.edu or • Support for digital archiving of The partnerships in urban environments; For more information: 734-764-1125 Michigan Daily: $250,000 geriatrics and gerontology; and lead- www.fordschool.umich.edu/ or For more information: ership training for nonprofit manage- 734-615-3892 he Rackham Graduate School pro- www.pub.mich.edu or 734-764-0550 ment: $9.5 million videsT funding for graduate students, For more information: n November 1999 the University of departments and programs at Michigan; tudent publications have been an www.ssw.umich.edu, MichiganI named the new School of workshops to help graduate students integralS part of student life at the [email protected] or Public Policy after one of its most succeed in their programs; student hon- University of Michigan since before 734-763-6886 prestigious alumni, President Gerald R. ors and awards; and a national platform The Michigan Daily started publish- Ford,creating a wonderful legacy for to help shape public debate about gradu- ing in 1890.The Daily, Michiganen- each Out,Raise Hope,Change Soci- future generations of students and fac- ate education.Our ability to continue to sian and Gargoyle provide an out- ety.TheseR words express the mission ulty.Ranked among the nation’s top attract the best and brightest to Michi- standing educational experience for and ideals of the School of Social Work, public policy schools,the Ford School gan increasingly depends upon our abil- students and effective media to widely acknowledged as one of the pre- is undergoing tremendous growth and ity to compete with our peer institutions chronicle and communicate news, mier schools of social work in America. expansion in both faculty size and edu- in terms of funding support.In our cam- opinions and stories about activities The School is distinguished by its inter- cational programs.Plans are under paign we seek to raise funds that will at the U-M and throughout the disciplinary faculty,diverse student way for a new building to be named provide fellowships,research and travel world. Our campaign focuses on the body and by our alumni,whose com- Joan and Sanford Weill Hall.We have grants and awards to Rackham students renovation of the 75-year-old historic mitment to public service permeates the raised the funding for this building, to ensure that they have every opportu- building that houses all the publica- highest levels of the nonprofit,govern- with construction anticipated to begin nity to gain the full benefit of their grad- tions; the expansion of the scholar- ment,education and business sectors. this fall,and will now focus our cam- uate education at Michigan. ship program; the implementation of The demand for deeper knowledge of paign on student fellowships,faculty new enrichment programs; and the the discipline,for active practitioners support and outreach programs. funding of a digital archive for The and for dynamic leadership has never Michigan Daily. been greater.In this campaign we seek to increase support for student scholar- ships, faculty professorships and research excellence.

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UM-Dearborn UM-Flint University Library University Musical Society The Time Is Now Imagine: The UM-Flint Difference University Librarian: Director: Kenneth C.Fischer Chancellor: Dr.Daniel E.Little Chancellor: Dr.Juan E.Mestas William A. Gosling Overall goal: $25 million Overall goal: $35 million Overall goal: $35 million Overall goal: $21.5 million Highlights: Highlights: Highlights: Highlights: • Operating and endowment support • Endowed student scholarship • Faculty support: Department chairs, • Programmatic support: for collection for the three distinct areas of the support : $8 million professorships,faculty development endowments ($4 million) including art UMS mission,presentation,educa- • Endowed professorships: $8 million and other related items: $13 million & design,architecture,music,maps, tion,and creation: $20 million • Outfitting new buildings with the • Student support: Graduate and under- transportation history, theatre & drama, • Bequest intentions: $5 million latest equipment and technology: graduate scholarships and awards, classic literature,rare books; expendable For more information: $6 million events,and related items: $12 million funds ($3.4 million) for online materials www.ums.org or 734-764-2538 • Community/campus partnerships: • Programmatic support: School of for history,engineering,math & science, $6 million Education and Human Services, and for conservation of rare materials hrough an uncompromising com- For more information: College of Arts and Sciences,School including medical books and papyrus: mitmentT to presentation,education www.umd.umich.edu or of Management, School of Health $7.4 million. and the creation of new work,the 313-593-5130 Professions and Studies,and other • Endowed faculty positions,including University Musical Society (UMS) programs: $10 million Head of Special Collections Library: serves Michigan audiences by show- ince its founding in 1959,the Uni- For more information: $4.5 million. casing world-class artists who versityS of Michigan-Dearborn has www.umflint.edu or 810-762-3350 • Capital projects: renovation of Music represent the spectrum of today’s grown and developed in response to Library, Graduate Library carrels, and live performing arts world.For the changing educational needs of or nearly 50 years,the University of reference areas in Shapiro Undergraduate 125 years strong leadership and a southeastern Michigan.More than Michigan-FlintF has served the greater Library and in Art,Architecture and devoted community have ensured 80 percent of our graduates remain Flint region as a commuter campus Engineering Library: $3.6 million UMS’stature as an internationally in the community,making signifi- located in an urban setting.With the • Bequest intentions: $6 million recognized performing arts presenter. cant leadership contributions to the primary mission of a teaching institu- For more information: We continuously seek to cultivate, region’s economic and social viabil- tion,the faculty and staff of UM-Flint www.lib.umich.edu or 734-763-7368 nurture,and stimulate public interest ity.In our campaign we seek to are dedicated to helping students and participation in every facet of the build on our successes by tripling achieve the highest levels of success in rom the first purchase made by the live arts.UMS collaborates with many our student scholarship endowment, such areas as business,healthcare,edu- RegentsF in 1838 (Audubon’s The Birds of academic units of the University to strengthening academic programs cation and the arts and the sciences. America) the University Library has grown present programs and educational through endowed professorships, With the 50th anniversary of the cam- into one of the top academic libraries in activities on varying topics that and enhancing the campus’already pus approaching, we look toward the the country.With 19 libraries and close to enhance the curriculum,and we strong partnerships in southeastern future with our campaign,Imagine: 7 million volumes,the University Library offer discounts on performances to Michigan.Our ability to attract the The UM-Flint Difference.This cam- is at the heart of the Michigan experience. all U-M students. most qualified faculty and the most paign will challenge alumni,donors From expert assistance in navigating com- talented students will ensure the and the community to imagine the plex print and electronic resources,to quiet continued leadership role of our difference they can make by endowing places to focus and discover,to a premier graduates in the local and global faculty,student and program support digital library collection—the University communities. at UM-Flint. Library serves all students and faculty. While nobody ever graduated from a library, even today, it is hard to graduate and be successful without one.

The Michigan Difference

r. Alice Hamilton graduated from the U-M paralyzed or dead. Her work would extend the MedicalD School in 1893 to become a pioneer in lifespan of the American worker and be the foun- improving labor conditions in factories, mines and dation of occupational medicine in the United mills at the turn of the 20th century. Her advocacy States. When Congress passed the Occupational led to the elimination of lethal chemicals and Safety and Health Act three months after her death compounds that often left workers unconscious, at age 101, the law protected 57 million workers. Leaders&Best Fall 2004 23 PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY

The Michigan Difference hen Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brook- as coach of the Wolverine baseball team. Two years lynW Dodgers in 1947, he not only broke the color bar- after Robinson’s debut, U-M history graduate Lyman rier in baseball but also started an irreparable crack T. Johnson (AM ’31), the grandson of slaves, success- in the walls of segregation that for so long had divided fully sued to integrate the University of Kentucky, America. The bold move to integrate the national opening that state’s colleges and universities to pastime was engineered by U-M Law School graduate African-Americans five years before the landmark Branch Rickey (JD ’11), who honed his eye for talent Brown v. Board of Education ruling. 24 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 U-M with gift Museum from

of Art ART OF U-M MUSEUM OF COURTESY VIEIRA, PHOTO BY CIBELE Frankel Foundation to grow

Maxine and Stuart Frankel

$10 million gift from the Maxine and Stuart Museum Director James Steward said,“Stuart and Maxine Frankel Foundation will provide major support for a new Frankel’s support for the Museum is truly unprecedented in addition to the University of Michigan Museum of Art. our 58-year history, and reflects their profound commitment to the visual arts, the University, and to education. Like me, The new 55,000 square-foot space will be named the Maxine the Frankels believe that the visual arts are part of our and Stuart Frankel and the Frankel Family Wing. The Frankel essential civic fabric, and play a more important role now gift—the largest in the Museum’s history—brings the Museum than ever before. of Art significantly closer to reaching its $35 million goal for the project. “Expanding and improving the Museum of Art’s facility has become a truly critical need as we seek to be a vibrant gathering “Thanks to Director James Steward’s visionary leadership, A place, a true center for campus life, and indeed a gateway for the UMMA has entered the top ranks of university art museums in broader public to the University of Michigan’s historic central the country,”said Mrs. Frankel.“As alumni and arts patrons, campus—all built on the importance of art to the human Stuart and I enthusiastically share his vision and commitment experience,”said Dr. Steward. to the transformative educational mission of the Museum. Maxine (AB ’66 Dearborn) and Stuart (BBA ’61) Frankel are “With this gift, we support the Museum’s remarkable institu- internationally recognized art collectors and philanthropists. tional growth and its increasing prominence as a leader in The couple’s renowned private collection consists of important developing exhibitions and other projects that link scholarship works by seminal modern and contemporary artists, and their with the community,”she said. collection of contemporary ceramic works is among the most

Leaders&Best Fall 2004 25 important in the world. The Frankels frequently lend pieces to improved visitor amenities. The work will also include a complete museum exhibitions across the globe, including the recent retro- restoration and renovation of Alumni Memorial Hall, the spectives of work by contemporary masters Eva Hesse (San Fran- Museum’s home since 1946. cisco Museum of Modern Art) and Lee Bontecou (Museum of The U-M Museum of Art holds one of the finest university art Contemporary Art, Chicago). Earlier this year, the U-M Museum collections in the country, including extraordinary masterworks of Art centenary exhibition of work by Barbara Hepworth pre- by such artists as Dürer, Guercino, Whistler, Monet, Hokusai, sented eight important sculptures from the Frankel collection. Picasso, and today’s avant-garde. The expansion and renovation Mrs. Frankel, a campaign co-chair, serves on the boards of several will enable the Museum of Art to display substantially more of its non-profit and charitable organizations, including the Chinati 16,000-plus works of art. Art scholarship will be advanced with Foundation in Marfa, Texas, established by minimalist artist the creation of dedicated “object-study classrooms” where schol- Donald Judd; Independent Curators International; the board and ars will have the ability to study reserve collections. The project executive committee of Children’s Hospital of Michigan; the also makes it possible for the Museum to accommodate the national advisory boards for Storm King Art Center in Moun- increased public interest and attendance generated by landmark tainville, New York and the U-M Museum of Art; the U-M exhibitions such as Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, President’s Advisory Group; and chairs the board of governors for Amazons 1500-1650, Auguste Rodin, and The Romanovs Collect: the Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Cranbrook Art Museum. European Art from the Hermitage. Museum attendance has risen by 50 percent since 1997, from an average annual attendance of Mr. Frankel is president of the Troy, Mich.-based Stuart Frankel approximately 80,000 to more than 130,000 visitors in 2003. Development Co., a real estate development firm. The entire Frankel family has long supported U-M. The Museum is more than halfway to its fund-raising goal, and expects to finance the $35 million building project largely The new wing will more than double the Museum’s existing through private support. Construction will begin when fund- space —currently 41,676 square feet—and will add galleries, raising is complete. art storage and study areas, an auditorium, classrooms, and

Sang-Yong Nam and Moon-Sook Nam with President Mary Sue Coleman

Shapiros provide gifts of time, money

U-M President Emeritus Harold T. The pledge to the Library Shapiro (HLLD ’87) and his wife, establishes the Harold and Dr. Vivian B. Shapiro (MSW ’69), Vivian Shapiro Undergraduate have made a $100,000 campaign Library Fund, to be used for any pledge to be evenly divided of the Library’s needs, including PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY between the School of Social collections, programs, facilities Work and the University Library. and other uses. Nams support many facets of U-M The couple’s pledge to the School Both Shapiros are taking leader- of Social Work adds to an existing ship roles in The Michigan Differ- Sang-Yong Nam (MCP ’66) and Arts, and scholarships for the endowed fund to support the ence. Vivian Shapiro is serving as Moon-Sook Nam have given Taubman College of Architecture Harold T. and Vivian B. Shapiro a member of the School of Social more than $1 million leading up to and Urban Planning. Prize in the School of Social Work Campaign Task Force, while the public launch of The Michigan The Nams also helped the Work. The prize, awarded annu- the couple will serve as honorary Difference campaign. Museum of Art to acquire a ally, recognizes distinguished co-chairs for the University Library Their gifts support the Korean major collection of Korean art, achievement by a student in either Leadership Council, the Library’s Studies Program in the College composed of nearly 250 objects. the master of social work (MSW) national campaign advisory group. of Literature, Science, and the or doctoral program.

26 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 he University of Michigan Depression Center and the Kelsey Museum of Archae- ology are taking giant steps forward in their growth because of two critical gifts from Edwin (AB ’33) and Mary Meader. Kelsey The Meaders have made a $10 million gift to the Depression Center and an $8 million gift to the Kelsey Museum. Museum, The gift to the Depression Center will Tsupport the construction of the nation’s School of Music, Medical School, University first building devoted primarily to research, Musical Society and Hill Auditorium, clinical care, education, and community among others. Both the Meader and Upjohn families have a long history with Depression and public policy programs for depression and related disorders. It is the largest the University. received by the U-M Health System in The Rachel Upjohn Building will stand several years. as a physical testament to that longtime Center The building that will house the Center will commitment, and as a unifying location be named in honor of Mrs. Meader, whose for the Depression Center’s pioneering maiden name was Rachel Mary Upjohn. efforts to understand and fight depressive benefit from illnesses that affect more than 20 million Her grandmother, also her namesake, was Americans and their families. the first wife of Dr. William E. Upjohn, a graduate of U-M Medical School Class of “We are humbled by this expression of Meaders’ 1875 and the inventor of the first pill that support for our progress in developing a dissolved easily in the human body. W.E. dedicated center that focuses on depressive Upjohn co-founded, with his brothers, and bipolar illnesses. This is an incredibly generosity the Upjohn Company, a pharmaceutical generous gift,”said Dr. John Greden, execu- industry powerhouse of the 20th century. tive director of the Depression Center and chair of the Department of Psychiatry. The Meaders have been U-M supporters “Each day, we will honor the Meaders and for more than 30 years, donating to the their family through the innovation and Chemistry Department, Kellogg Eye Center, Leaders&Best Fall 2004 27 discovery that this building will enable.”Dr. Greden holds the Rachel The Kelsey’s collection comprises approximately 100,000 objects, Upjohn Professorship in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 25,000 photographs, and extensive archives of excavation records endowed by the Meaders in 1997. of Mediterranean civilizations from 5000 B.C. to 900 A.D. Curators began collecting in the 1920s and today fieldwork continues in Israel, Mr. Meader, in a recent letter, wrote,“Dr. William Upjohn had the Egypt and other sites. The Museum is also an academic center for caring for humanity, the imagination, persistence and genius for several U-M departments, including Classical Studies, Near Eastern organization which created for his employees, his family, his Studies, and History of Art. Its Interdepartmental Program in Classical community a flow of wealth still reaching out across this nation Art and Archaeology is ranked as one of the best graduate programs immeasurably. One could wish he knew about the Depression Center.” in the country. Ground for the 112,500 square-foot building will be broken later this The Meaders’ special interest in the Kelsey stems from Mr. Meader’s year, pending approval by the U-M regents. The building will also undergraduate days and from his visit as a U.S. Army soldier in 1944 house outpatient psychiatry and substance abuse programs. Designed to the Kelsey’s archaeological excavation site at Karanis in Egypt. In by Albert Kahn Associates, it is scheduled for completion in 2006 as their travels around the world, the Meaders have visited a number of part of a $38 million building project that includes site improvements archaeological sites and museums. In 1938, Mrs. Meader participated and parking lot construction. The building will connect with the East in a three-month aerial tour from Capetown to Cairo in which she Ann Arbor Health Center. took more than a thousand photos, some of which may provide A love of the ancient world inspired the Meaders’ gift to the Kelsey background for a Kelsey Egyptian exhibit. Museum, whose officials will use the support to construct a new New galleries in the addition will allow curators and staff to create a exhibit wing. The Kelsey is housed in Newberry Hall; the architects greater number of imaginative exhibitions. Further, the addition will Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge, Inc., will design the expansion. free up area in the original building for much-needed study space. The Meaders’ gift is the largest in the history of the College of Litera- Exposing students to exhibit preparation greatly complements their ture, Science, and the Arts, which operates the Museum. The gift will classroom instruction, and better prepares them for careers as curators fully fund the expansion and enable the University to display much themselves, according to Dr. Herbert. more of its renowned collections from Egypt and the ancient Mediter- LS&A Dean Terrence McDonald said of the gift: “The importance ranean. Currently, only 1 percent of the collections is on exhibit. of the Kelsey to the intellectual lifeblood of the University is great “The Meaders’ gift addresses a 70-year-old problem we’ve had at the because museums are the places where theory meets practice: where Kelsey: not enough exhibition space,”said Director Sharon Herbert. archeological experts and their students can hold an artifact and come “The curators and staff are ecstatic about the gift. The Meaders’ gen- to understand volumes about a vanished civilization’s art or religion erosity will enrich and sustain undergraduate and graduate research or social structure.” and learning at the Kelsey for generations to come.”

Henry Patton

Patton bequest benefits UM-Dearborn students

Henry W. Patton II, the founder A pioneer in the development of Mr. Patton offered his expertise and president of an engineering signal conditioning technology, and guidance to UM-Dearborn firm called Acromag, has left more Mr. Patton died in July 2003. engineering faculty, especially in than $3.6 million to the College of the College’s Department of Elec- Mr. Patton was a strong supporter Engineering and Computer Sci- trical and Computer Engineering. of the College’s Center for Engi- ence at the University of Michigan- Practice, we will remember Henry His bequest to the College of neering Education and Practice, Dearborn to support scholarships Patton’s achievements, contribu- Engineering and Computer Sci- which now bears his name. primarily for students in electrical tions and support for our school, ence will be used to endow schol- engineering. The gift is the largest “By changing the name of our pro- our students and the engineering arship and fellowship funds for received from an individual in the gram to the Henry W. Patton Cen- profession,” said CECS Dean students in the school. history of the Dearborn campus. ter for Engineering Education and Subrata Sengupta.

28 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 CHANGING THE FACE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC Experiencing The Michigan Difference so nurturing and supportive. GREGORY FOX PHOTOGRAPHY lena Urioste is living a music student’s dream. It’s not a hostile,individual E An 18-year-old violinist,she has performed competition. One of the with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,the Detroit things that’s so great about Symphony Orchestra,the Cleveland Orchestra and it is they really promote the the Boston Pops—among others.And she has group mentality,”she says. played Carnegie Hall. Being named the best She is the first to say she would have never amidst such talented per- realized such experiences if not for an alumnus formers came as a surprise of the University of Michigan. to her.“It was crazy.That was Like hundreds of students in top music pro- Violinist Elena Urioste at The Michigan just an added bonus to just being there and Difference kickoff with host Carole Simpson grams across the country,including the University meeting and working with everyone,”she says. of Michigan,Miss Urioste is receiving the oppor- Mr.Dworkin,who is president of Sphinx, tunities she richly deserves because of the Sphinx founded the organization in 1996. Competition.An organization that works to build “We all benefit from Sphinx because a young the first chair violist in the University’s most diversity in orchestras by giving black and Latino U-M music student named Aaron Dworkin prestigious symphony,the University Symphony classical string players opportunities to compete wanted to do something about diversity in our Orchestra.“First chair in that orchestra is like and grow,Sphinx was created by Aaron P. nation’s symphony orchestras,”says Lester Monts, being the starting quarterback—unheard of for Dworkin,who earned bachelor’s and master’s U-M senior vice provost for academic affairs and a freshman,”says Dr.Monts. degrees in violin performance from the School a member of the Sphinx Board of Advisors.“He When performing with professional orchestras, of Music. saw the need,he developed a plan,he raised the Miss Urioste visits with children in local schools “Without Sphinx,I would have had none of money,he recruited volunteers and staff,and he and shares with them her love of music.Educa- these opportunities to perform.I wouldn’t have made Sphinx the tremendous success it is today. tional outreach is a critical component of the made all these new connections,”she says. “One of Aaron’s professors told me,‘I’ve taught Sphinx mission,with more than 20,000 students Miss Urioste,who is preparing to enter her more advanced musicians than Aaron Dworkin, participating annually. sophomore year at the prestigious Curtis Institute but I never taught someone who changed the “I talk to the kids,play,they ask questions. for Music in Philadelphia,was the first-place jun- world,’”says Dr.Monts.The University has been They’re so adorable.I love doing it,”she says. ior laureate in the 2003 Sphinx Competition. a Sphinx sponsor since its inception. She also loves music,and plans to make it “The competition was like camp—it was so Among past Sphinx competitors is semi-final- her career.“I’d love to keep doing what Sphinx much fun.I pretty much forgot it was a competi- ist Jason Amos,who recently completed his first allowed me to do,which is be a soloist.” tion the second I got there,because everyone was year at Michigan.As a freshman,he was named — Kim Clarke

Kellogg Foundation gives to Public Health ‘Crossroads’ The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is identify and study health issues, and square-foot addition linking two The Kellogg grant also will make it providing a $5 million grant to sup- to design and implement programs existing buildings that comprise possible to install sophisticated port a new U-M School of Public to address them. The School of the School of Public Health. It is information technology at facilities Health undertaking, “The Cross- Public Health has long worked with slated for completion in 2006. The in the communities where partners roads of Public Health.” The Cross- community partners in Detroit, Flint Community Crossroads will house are located. The so-called technol- roads of Public Health represents and communities throughout north- a “partners room” to give a home ogy hubs will provide equipment for both a physical space and an inno- ern Michigan to address concerns base to community and practice video conferencing and distance vative approach to public health such as asthma, diabetes, infant partners when they come to cam- learning that will better connect research and teaching, with a focus mortality, dental health, youth vio- pus for teaching and research. The communities with School of Public on working with the community. lence and tobacco prevention. facility also will provide new video Health resources. In addition, the conferencing and distance learning Kellogg-supported technology hubs In the community-based method, In its physical manifestation, technology tools to connect com- will allow the School to phase in the school works closely with Community Crossroads is the munity organizations and their community-based public health organizations and the public to name being given to a 125,000 representatives with the school. work beyond Michigan borders.

Leaders&Best Fall 2004 29 ‘WE BELIEVE SHE’S CURED’ Experiencing The Michigan Difference

Traveling to the University of Michigan from “Clearly what we designed for her worked.We their mid-Michigan home of Flushing,the Hubers believe she’s cured,”says Dr.Castle. were in search of care for a suspicious condition Thirty years ago,says Dr.Castle,Katherine’s that left Katherine,then 2,with a swollen belly, diagnosis would have ended with an unbearable fever and stomach ache.The diagnosis: a mass in loss for her parents.Happily,her prognosis is excel- Katherine’s pelvic area was a form of cancer that lent because of the University’s pioneering work in PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY only 40 percent of children survive. pediatric oncology clinical trials—a legacy that “You don’t know how to react.You don’t know dates back some 40 years.Dr.Ruth Heyn,emeritus how to think,”says Mr.Huber. professor of pediatrics,was among the first to Of the U-M doctors,he minces no words: determine that chemotherapy—not disfiguring Katherine Huber, front right, with her sister, “They just took care of business.” surgery—was the best approach in treating Allison, and their parents, David and Patty, at the campaign kickoff Over the next 12 months,Katherine spent the children with rhabdomyosarcoma. majority of her days on the seventh floor of Mott, “The community is very much blessed by hav- atherine Huber betrays no trace of just home to the sickest of children.She underwent ing a nationally fifth-ranked children’s hospital,” howK sick she was. 14 rounds of chemotherapy,six weeks of radiation says Dr.Castle.“Katherine certainly has benefited A soon-to-be student of the second grade treatments,extensive hair loss (“Look,I have a new by virtue of being in this community.” whose favorite color is purple,her biggest haircut,”she told her parents),and more needles Today,6-year-old Katherine is home with her medical challenge is waiting for a new front and catheters than her family cares to recall.At parents,her big sister,Allison,and the family dog, tooth to surface. one point,the drugs intended to cure Katherine Elvis.Every summer,Mr.Huber produces his All of which is just fine with her parents. caused liver failure,forcing her onto a ventilator saxophone to join members of his band,the Blue David (AB ’83 Flint) and Patty Huber lived and into the pediatric intensive care unit as she Hawaiians,in staging a benefit concert at a Flush- every parent’s nightmare when their youngest battled to live. ing city park.The benefactor: the Child and Family child was diagnosed with a life-threatening “It was very touch and go,”says Dr.Valerie Life program at C.S.Mott Children’s Hospital.The cancer,embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.For a Castle,chair of the Department of Pediatrics and program, which provides activities to help improve year,their lives would be turned upside down. Communicable Diseases.The faculty in pediatric the lives of young patients and families,became a “We’d have people say to us,‘How’d you ever oncology put their heads together,she says,to favorite of the Hubers during Katherine’s stay. do it?’Well,what choice do you have?”says create a plan that would lead to the best possible “It was a no-brainer where the money would Mrs.Huber. outcome for Katherine without liver damage. go,”Mr.Huber says. One decision they controlled was where to take After a month,Katherine was able to leave Adds Mrs.Huber:“The experience was about Katherine for medical treatment,and a mere few ICU with not only a healthy liver,but also no trace the most horrendous thing anyone could face,but minutes at C.S.Mott Children’s Hospital was all of a tumor. a lot of good came out of it.” they needed to know they were in the right place. —Kim Clarke

Crick expands aid for College of Pharmacy

Gayle Crick (BSPHA ’74, MM ’84) $400,000 with her additional FOX PHOTOGRAPHY GREGORY is making a campaign leadership giving to support programs at gift to help professional students. the College of Pharmacy. After establishing both the Gayle Ms. Crick is a member of the C. Crick Scholarship Fund and the Dean’s Advisory Committee and William T. and Norma J. Crick co-chair of the Eastern State Scholarship Fund to honor her Campaign Committee at the parents, Ms. Crick is raising her College of Pharmacy. Gayle Crick attends The Michigan Difference kickoff overall campaign commitment to with her fiancé, Tom Fischer 30 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 Weill Hall is being designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York

Annenberg Foundation Supports Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy he Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of ship and toward the construction of our new building. I am very grate- Michigan has received $2 million from the Annenberg Foundation ful for their leadership gifts,”said Dean Rebecca M. Blank.“Mrs. toward the construction of Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, a new build- Annenberg and her late husband, Walter Annenberg, have been long- ing that will house the Ford School. In recognition of the Founda- time friends of President and Mrs. Ford and it is fitting to have their tion’s support for the building, Weill Hall will house the Walter and names so closely linked with the Ford School.” Leonore Annenberg Auditorium, a 200-seat auditorium for classes and “Mrs. Ford and I sincerely appreciate the generous support the Annen- public lectures. berg Foundation has directed to the Ford School,”stated President Previously the Foundation has given the Ford School $2 million to Gerald R. Ford.“These gifts will forever have a significant impact on endow the Walter H. Annenberg Professorship in Education Policy and the life of the School. We are extremely grateful for their generosity.” Tan additional $500,000 toward the construction of the new building. The Annenberg Foundation, established in 1989, is the successor cor- “It is wonderful to have the Annenberg name associated with the Uni- poration to the Annenberg School at Radnor, Pennsylvania, which versity of Michigan in such a meaningful way,”said U-M President Walter H. Annenberg founded in 1958. The Foundation exists to Mary Sue Coleman.“The late Ambassador Annenberg was synony- advance the public well-being through improved communication mous with advancing the needs of quality education. It is a fitting trib- and encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas ute to have his family foundation support a first-rate public policy and knowledge. school at a top-ranked public university.” Joan and Sanford Weill “The Annenberg Foundation has been tremendously generous to the are recognizing President Ford School with their gifts to establish our first endowed professor- Gerald R. Ford

Weill gift names Ford School building

The Gerald R. Ford School of Ford said. “In recognition of their library, research cen- Public Policy is constructing a gift and our friendship of more ters, a computer labo- new home that will bear the name than 20 years, I have asked the ratory, faculty offices, of longtime friends of the 38th University to name the new build- and public spaces for president. ing Joan and Sanford Weill Hall.” conferences and lec- tures. Joan and Sanford Weill and the President Ford has helped the Weill Family Foundation are donat- University to raise more than $17 Sanford Weill is chair- ing $5 million to support a new million toward construction of the man of Citigroup Inc., the diversi- Medical College of Cornell Univer- building to house the School. The new building and to support the fied global financial services com- sity, where Mr. Weill serves as the Weills made their gift in honor of School’s academic programs. pany formed in 1998 by the chairman of the Board of Overseers President Gerald R. Ford (AB merger of Citicorp and Travelers and Mrs. Weill serves as the co- Joan and Sanford Weill Hall will ’35), with whom they have a long- Group. He retired as CEO of Citi- chair of the Women’s Health Sym- be on the northeast corner of standing friendship. group October 1, 2003, and will posium. Mrs. Weill, a graduate of State and Hill streets, serving as a serve as chairman until April 2006. Brooklyn College, also is chair of “I am greatly touched by Sandy southern gateway to Central Cam- the board of the Alvin Ailey Ameri- Both Mr. and Mrs. Weill are and Joan Weill’s decision to make pus. The 80,000-square-foot facil- can Dance Foundation. this generous donation to the Ford ity will feature classrooms, a actively involved with the Weill School in my honor,” President Leaders&Best Fall 2004 31 ‘MY EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN SO RICH’ n the past year,Paul Albertus (BSCHE ’03) has Experiencing seenI Michelangelo’s David,stood before the pope The Michigan Difference on Christmas Day,and marveled at the castles of Germany.He has swum in the Aegean Sea,hiked the peaks of Wales and Scotland,and eaten oranges in the shadow of the Acropolis. But he confesses to missing the Arboretum at the University of Michigan. Studying at England’s University of York on a U-M fellowship,Mr.Albertus has had the oppor- tunity to travel throughout the major cities of Europe.But Ann Arbor still beckons him. “I would certainly enjoy a run in the Arbore- tum right now,as well as a few other things in

PHOTO COURTESY ALBERTUSPHOTO OF PAUL Michigan and things about America that I miss. But certainly not to the extent that I would want to leave here because my experience has been so Paul Albertus, the College of Engineering’s 2003 rich,”he says from York. Roger M. Jones Fellow, looks out over the expanse of Barcelona.

Fred and Dee Lyons take Robert and Pearson Macek part in The Michigan at The Michigan Difference Difference celebration kickoff luncheon PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY PETER SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY

Lyons gift encourages student leadership Maceks star at School of Music Fred (BSPHA ’57) and Dee (AB ’57, the College of Pharmacy. Recog- Whenever the University’s Musical and the Arts; the University Musical CERTT EDUC ’57) Lyons nizing that the student leaders of Theatre Department says, “Let’s Society; the Kelsey Museum; and are making a leadership gift in The today will become the profes- put on a show,” you can bet the Museum of Art. sional and community leaders in Robert and Pearson (AM ’74, Michigan Difference campaign to Mr. and Mrs. Macek are members the future, the program aims to PhD ’86) Macek will be there. benefit the College of Pharmacy. of the School of Music National encourage and reward those who Through outright gifts and a The Lyonses have committed $1 mil- Advisory Committee. The couple’s demonstrate this potential. bequest, their campaign contribu- lion to establish the Fred and Dee support of the Musical Theatre tions benefit the School of Lyons Leadership Scholars Program, Mr. Lyons serves as co-chair of the Program extends all the way to Music’s new Walgreen Center which is designed to enhance leader- College of Pharmacy Campaign Broadway, where the Maceks and Arthur Miller Theater and its ship among professional students in Committee. enjoy following the careers of Musical Theatre Department; the U-M graduates whom they College of Literature, Science, befriended as students.

32 Leaders&Best Fall 2004 Mr.Albertus’adventures are possible because side on foot and bicycle. Living in a campus “That Professor Roger Jones,a faculty member of bequests from Roger Jones,an engineering residence hall,he is friends with students from in the College of Engineering,would endow professor,and his wife,Pauline.By establishing France,Germany,Scotland,Ireland,Wales and, a fellowship that brings together the humanities the Roger M.Jones Fellowship Abroad,the of course,England. and engineering in this way,and that it would Joneses’gifts provide all expenses for one year “I think the intellectual stimulation I’ve got- find such a worthy recipient in Paul Albertus, of humanities study at a British university for ten from the experience so far here is a mix says a lot about the kind of place that Michigan an outstanding graduating senior in the College between my interactions with other students as is,”says Dr. Darwall. of Engineering. well as the actual coursework that I’ve been Mr.Albertus plans to pursue a graduate Like all Jones Fellows before him,Mr.Alber- doing.Obviously the coursework has been degree in chemical engineering at the University tus is spending his year pursuing humanities focusing on the humanities, so I’ve been intro- of California at Berkeley,although his U-M roots studies to build upon his U-M education. duced to quite a few new ideas,”he says.“But I are deep.His father,Stephen,is a graduate of the His fellowship began in September 2003,four think much of the intellectual stimulation I’ve UM-Dearborn; sister,Julie,is an alumna and a months after earning his degree in chemical received has come from conversations with stu- current graduate student; and brothers Mike engineering. dents either from the UK or from Europe.” and Jim are undergraduates. During his stay,he has enrolled in classes Among those recommending Mr.Albertus “My father strongly encouraged each of his exploring the history of political thought,the for the Jones Fellowship was Stephen Darwall, children to attend the University of Michigan,” philosophy of religion, and Romantic literature. professor of philosophy and director of the Hon- he says,“because he was aware that it was an He also attends lectures,participates in student ors Program in the College of Literature,Science, excellent school with quite a few opportunities organizations such as the Outdoor Society and and the Arts.Mr.Albertus excelled in an ethics to offer in a variety of different directions.” Football Club,and tours the Yorkshire country- course taught by Dr.Darwall. —Kim Clarke

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