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Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 CMU Gold Member Executive Editor VOLUME 74 • NUMBER 3 • WINTER 2005 and Director of Alumni Relations Mary Lu Yardley, ’90 MSA ’92 Editor Barbara Sutherland Chovanec 8 42 14 Photographers Robert Barclay Peggy Brisbane Writers Cynthia J. Drake Don Helinski, ’96 Joan Mathieu Design Director Stacy Simmer Alumni Board Communications Committee Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76 12 Darcy Orlik, ’92 MSA ’95 Shirley Posk, ’60 Judy Smith, ’65 For Advertising Information call Cindy Jacobs, ’93 (800) 358-6903 Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Michael Leto Associate Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing Rich Morrison Stay Connected On the cover Departments Send change of address information to: Republican Craig DeRoche, ’91, leads the Michigan Alumni relations 2 Letters Carlin Alumni House House of Representatives as Speaker of the House. Central Michigan University He says he wakes up every morning thinking about 3 Take Five Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 how to improve Michigan’s economy. Phone: (800) 358-6903 12 Discovery Fax: (989) 774-7159 PHOTO By Robert BARCLAy E-mail: [email protected] 14 Athletics Web: www.cmualum.com Features Centralight is published four times each year by 16 Maroon and Gold Central Michigan University Office of Alumni Relations. It is printed by Village Press Inc., Traverse City, and 4 Man of the House entered at the Traverse City post office under nonprofit 42 In Support mailing. CMU (an AA/EO institution) strongly and actively strives to increase diversity within its community (see: 8 Almost Famous www.cmich.edu/aaeo/). CMU provides individuals with 44 Alumni in Action disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the activities, programs and services announced in 28 Honor Roll of Donors this publication. Individuals with disabilities requiring an 47 In Memoriam accommodation to participate in a program should call the event sponsor. 48 Last Shot Winter 2005 Centralight 1 LETTERS green dye meant alumni publications no more skinny-dipping should not glorify drinking Editor: Editor: I know you always like to hear about old funny I was bothered by something in the fall issue of CMU happenings, and I was recently reminded the alumni magazine. A graphic in the “15 Ways about this one. to Come Home to CMU” depicts beer as the most important “food group.” Interestingly, the same week In the early ’70s when we first built Kelly/Shorts I received the magazine, I was dismayed to see that Stadium, we had to put in several ponds to help hold CMU made state news – not for some academic the water runoff from the new and large parking lots y achievement but because of unruly, drunken BARCLA so as not to flood the county drainage ditch. There students needing to be subdued by police. Hmm… are two big ones north of the stadium and one to obert does make one wonder if the prevailing attitude of R the east of the stadium, that one being aptly named drinking being one of the activities not only expected Oh My! Dick Enberg visits “Tubbs Tub” at the time, as it was my idea to put it but promoted at college functions has some impact there and develop a small park-like area. Sportscaster Dick Enberg, ’57, visited campus on the culture of the campus. this fall to sign autographs at the CMU Come the first home football game in September As a community college instructor, I speak with Bookstore. He also introduced motivational and a hot day, after the game all the police were on many students considering transferring to four-year speaker Jolanda Jones, a former “Survivor” cast outlying streets and corners directing traffic, and universities, and more and more often I hear about member, who spoke on campus as part of the kids being kids went to Tubbs Tub, stripped naked, Central’s reputation as a party school. I realize Phi Sigma Epsilon Speaker Series, sponsored by and went swimming – about 30 or so of them. We this reputation is nothing new, but is it really the Enberg’s fraternity. About 200 people stood in tried for the next home games to stop it to no avail reputation that we are proud of and that we even line to chat with Enberg and get autographs on and were at a loss as to what to do. We discussed it want to promote in our alumni publications? his books, “Oh My!” and “Humorous Quotes for several times over the winter. All Occasions.” Bookstore manager Barry Waters I have nothing against responsible drinking, but Finally, George Stansberry, then superintendent of said that at 2 1/2 hours, it was the longest considering the well-known problems that college grounds, came up with an idea. When school started book-signing event Enberg has ever conducted. students often have with binge and other problem and we had the first home game, he put an icky drinking behaviors, I think it behooves us not to Write your life story green dye in the water and posted signs that said glorify drinking at college functions in this way. Ever consider writing your autobiography? Here “Water contaminated – swim at your own risk,” and are five questions from noted gerontologist lo and behold, no more naked swimming! Ginna Wenger, ’70 MA ’80 James Birren to get you started: Prudenville We sent this in as an innovative idea to the Annual • What were the important events or turning NACUBO Cost Saving program and received an points in your life? honorable mention for a great solution to an Write to Centralight: otherwise unsolvable problem. • What people influenced the direction of your Centralight wants to hear from you! We welcome life in major ways? Jerry Tubbs, MA ’78 all letters from readers. Tell us your thoughts about Emeritus vice president of business and finance Centralight articles or about CMU in general. • How did your family’s strengths and Mount Pleasant weaknesses affect you? Be sure to sign your letter with your full name and also include graduation year and degree, address, • When you were a child, who did you want to and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited be like when you grew up? for space and clarity. • What have been your life goals, and how have Mail letters to: they changed throughout your life? Centralight Letters Birren, author of “Telling the Stories of Life Public relations and marketing through Guided Autobiography Groups” led an West Hall autobiography workshop this fall at CMU as Central Michigan University part of a MindAlert grant gerontology program Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 director Eileen MaloneBeach received. Letters also may be sent by fax to (989) 774-1098 Students from MaloneBeach’s classes will take or by e-mail to [email protected]. what they learned and go out into the local communities to do life histories with people over 70. 2 Centralight Winter 2005 Helping survivors Faculty member Rene Hernandez and eight of her “She is an elderly woman with some medical issues, physician assistant graduate students brought and it is a great pleasure to have her in our home,” something valuable back from Hurricane Katrina’s Hernandez said in September. “Her husband died in devastation. 1979, and she has no remaining family, so we have sort of adopted her as part of our family.” The CMU team brought Kari yarborough, a 79-year- old naturalized U.S. citizen from Norway, back to Hernandez and the students linked up with Dr. Mount Pleasant to live with Hernandez while FEMA Thomas Raskauskas, a Saginaw physician who could get a mobile home for yarborough. had previous military training in logistics and was organizing a medical relief effort. The CMU medical Still the Chippewas professionals set up an emergency room in a nursing home in Gulfport, Miss. CMU will keep the Chippewa nickname without Chippewa nickname,” says CMU President Michael sanctions by the NCAA. Rao. “CMU cherishes its ongoing relationship with the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. The university In August the NCAA put CMU on a list of 18 appreciates the NCAA’s timely response to its colleges and universities cited for “displaying appeal, and the university is pleased to put this hostile or abusive racial/ethnic/national origin chapter behind it.” mascots, nicknames, or imagery.” CMU adopted the Chippewa nickname in 1942 to CMU appealed the decision based on the long- celebrate the rich Native American heritage of the standing, collaborative and mutuallyNEWS supportive SHORTS mid-Michigan region.