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Lawrence University Lux Alumni Magazines Communications Summer 2002 Lawrence Today, Volume 82, Number 4, Summer 2002 Lawrence University Follow this and additional works at: http://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Liberal Studies Commons © Copyright is owned by the author of this document. Recommended Citation Lawrence University, "Lawrence Today, Volume 82, Number 4, Summer 2002" (2002). Alumni Magazines. Book 50. http://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines/50 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications at Lux. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Lux. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LAWRENCE TODAY Summer 2002 wrence University Vol. 82, No. 4 Lawrence's art collection: The wonders of Wriston LAW FUNCE TODAY Editor Gordon E. Brown 920-832-6593 [email protected] Art Director Marsha Tuchscherer Contributors Steven Blodgett Rick Peterson Joe Vanden Acker Address correspondence to: Lawrence Today lawrence University P.O. Box 599 Appleton, WI 54912-0599 920-832-6586 Fax:920-832-6783 Office of Alumni Relations (address as above) 920-832-6549 Fax:920-832-6896 [email protected] http://www.lawrence.edu SpecialthankstolmageStudiosfor providingphotographyforthisissue. Lawrence Today (USPS 012-683), including the Class Notes, is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by Lawrence University, Office of Public Affairs, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911. Periodical postage paid at Appleton, Wisconsin, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Lawrence Today, Lawrence University, 11 5 South Drew Street, Appleton, WI 54911-5798. Articlesareexpresslytheopinionsofthe authorsanddonotnecessarilyrepresentoffi cialuniversitypolicy. Wereservetherightto editcorrespondenceforlengthandaccuracy. Lawrence University promotes equal opportunity for all. @ Printedonrecycledpaper. "-u11111' ', >()f)> r o'. 8' '\ 1 1 12 12 The collection eclectic by Frank Lewis From accidental' beginnings, college art collections thrive as research, teaching assets 18 Pardon my French by Gerald Seaman R eflections on language and culture 22 What is Afghanistan? by Scott Matteson, '69 In the 1970s they found it a place not too foreign 26 A matter of skills Introducing the Center for Teachin g and Learning 22 28 Retiring, but not shy Professors Adenwalla, Azzi, and Boardman, retiring this year, speak their nlinds 31 Time management, community service, and the two-sport athlete Profile: Tom Conti, '02 33 Thinking on his feet Andy Kazik, '02, is first national champion wrestler 26 Correspondence Inside Lawrence 31 Sports 36 Alumni Today 56 La wrence Yesterday Louise Nevelson, N igf11 Sound, 1971, lead intaglio, edition of I 50, 31 X x 25 X", purchased with funds provided by the Catherine T. Bowen Foundation. Photo courtesy of Wriston Art Center Galleries. Correspondence Lawrfllce Today welcomes letters from more innocent people were hurt in practice the liberal ideal that tran readers. Correspondence should be through racial slurs and violence. scends all disciplinary boundaries. mailed with your name, address, class I expect some of President T heir purpose is to hdp students year, and daytime telephone number Warch's thoughts and comments become acquainted with a small to Edicor, Lawrence Today, Office of were unpopular, and I admire his number of significant books in the Public Aff.1irs, Lawrence University, strength of character to publicly fields of philosophy, science, the sev P.O. Box 599, Appleton, W I 54912- express them. I am proud that he is eral arts, and religion." 0599. You can also f.1x letters to 920- president of my alma marer. Growing up at Lawrence was a 832- 6783 or send e-mail to Man·ann A. Ferri11, '85 healthy and enlarging experience. It [email protected]. Phoenix, Arizo11a continues to be. Jean Eiss GJScy, '50 Removing the blinders Growing up at Lawrence Elliso11 Bay, Wiswmin President Warch's It was my good fortune to enter From Professor Saunders message in the Lawrence Coiiege in the £11l of 1946, Winter 2001 issue which began the second year of Editor's note: T11e followill,{! is an open impressed me Freshman Studies. I catch a glimpse leiTer ro the LJwrcllcecolllllllllliryfrom greatly. If only of me lying on the grassy hill over George Smmders, pnifessor ~f authropolo,{!y one good thing looking the river, cracking the cover and tlw Heury MerriTt Wriston Professor comes out of the of Wa/de11, my first we-dip into the (if Social Srudics. l11)1111e 2001, Professor tragedy of Sep stream I only vaguely understood as Smmders leamed that he had a brain tember 11, 2001, The H umanitics. Professors, often /WIIor, which was removed by sw;gery at I hope it is our fish out of their native waters, rhe end (if August. He Sl!ffered sewre increased awareness of other cultures worked through Plato's Rep11blic, swelli11g followillg surgery awl was in and that it removes the blinders that Shakespeare's Hamlet, and finally in i11tensive care for serJeral weeks, followed are so heavily anchored upon us. It is the spring when 1ny section rotated by mouths (if nursi11g lwme care a11d my hope that we not remain indiffer into Oedipus Rex, we discovered that i11te11sive physical therapy . Tl1is letter was ent to our foreign policy and to the we were to meet in a small room dicrared to his wffe, Bickley A1111 Bauer rest of the world. The old adage "for next to President Pusey's office above Smmders, who fimvarded it, along wir/1 every action, there is a reaction" can the library, where we also discovered her thauks a11d George's fin the help m1d have tragic implications. This incident we would be instructed by a fish very support rl1ey receiPed dun'11g his illness. has painfully cracked open the door much in his waters, the president to that reality. himself It was a remarkable experi My day-to-day progress is good. I Although we acknowledge a ence, a coveted memory. In those feel generaily very well. I have been global community and sometimes early first years of a program he so through a lot, and it was exhausting donate to charities that work abroad, deeply espoused, he took the time to and hard - but it was for a good our good intentions are often forgot teach it. result. I feel better all the time. ten in our own neighborhoods or cir In his memoir titled Closing the Lawrence has a great deal to cles of people with whom we come Books, Professor of English Men offer and has offered a great deal to in contact. After the event in Septem Seales wrote admiringly of Freshman me. The things I miss most now arc ber, there were numerous hate crimes Studies: "Midway through each the teaching, the students, and the conunitted in Phoenix directed semester the groups shift to ditTcrent research -all of those. I enjoy my toward people not even closely iden members of the teaching statT- men life now, though, and am happy and tified to those responsible. Several and women fi·om a spectrum of £1C feel good. resulted in death. Out of ignorance, ulty departments. T hey come to Thank you. Freshman Studies not to teach their George Sauuders respective disciplines but to exemplify Appletm1, Wisco11si11 2 Summer 2002 CorrcspondC/icc Memories of Nathan Marsh Pusey 13y an apparently unending flow of was really much better that I did not As a junior, dur probing questions, Nathan Pusey close this most pleasant reunion with ing Spring llreak, drew from me infi nitely more than I a smart-aleck remark. I was on North ever knew that I knew about classical Cco~~c Clw11dler, '51 Michigan literature, ancient history, Greek art, Dt1rlwm, North Carolina Avenue Greek drama in general, and the in C hicago on works of the three great Athenian I entered Lawrence in the f.1ll of my way to have tragedians in particular. 1953, after Mr. Pusey had left. He lunch with my Sometime after four o'clock, Mr. had created magic fo r Lawrence with uncle at the Pusey looked at his watch and apolo his distinguished appointment to gized. "These aff..1irs," he said, "are Harvard's presidency. Stories of his J nternational Harvester Building. C utting across a supposed to last an hour or an hour sudden f.1me abounded. crowded sidewalk was President and a half, and we've been here all I had my own brush with his Pusey, who said, " Hello, Edward." afternoon. But then," he added, " I greatness. It was my sophomore year (I was one of 1, 250 students.) haven't had the opportunity to talk and, as a dorm counselor, I took At graduation in 1950, he inter about anything as important as Greek attendance at "Convo." T hat year, viewed each student in his offi ce drama for a long time.,. Mr. Pusey \vas invited back to campus about his or her experiences at Some 20 years later, Marjorie to receive an honorary degree. Lawrence. [Olsen, '441 and I \vere spending a From my vantage point in the Is liberal arts at Lawrence worth weekend in New York C ity. At balcony of M emorial C hapel, where the effort, or what? about five o'clock on a damp Satur we counselors performed our duties, I Edu1ard C. Conrads, '50 day afternoon we were crossing Fifth had a ringside seat to the proceedings. Rockford, lllinois Avenue at 44th Street on the way to It was truly a moment to bask in his the Algonquin Hotel, where we were glory! My major at Lawrence was classics. staying. In the middle of the street we Fr!'dcn·c C. Brcchler, '57 As the subject for my senior honors met Mr. Pusey corning the other way Jacksollville, Florida thesis I chose the Hcmba, one of the from a meeting at the Harvard Club.