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LAWRENCE TODAY Spring 2003, Vol. 83, No.3

Editor Gordon E. Brown 920-832-6593 [email protected]

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OfficeofAlumniRelations (address as above) 19 The professors' picks 920-832-6S49 The Lawrence Today reading list, 2003 Fax:920-832-6896 [email protected] 26 Keeping an eye on the big picture http://www.lawrence.edu A look at trusteeship at Lawrence and the tasks ahead

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(i) Printedonrecydedpaper On the cover College Avenue redux, loolcing west toward the distinctive oval skylight of the new Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. "Polishing the Apple," page 8, tells the story of Appleton's downtown renaissance, including the "Streetscape" makeover of"the Ave." P hoto by Image Studios. Correspondence

Underwhelmed case would reference the arrogance, Essential values I have just read "Paradigm Shift: horribly poor teaching technique, I've always treasured my undergradu­ Lawrence, the Harvard Business and complete lack of reasonable ate experience at Lawrence. In the School of the Midwest" [Fall 2002], human communication displayed by article "Paradigm Shift," John Luke, and I am underwhelmed. No, "under­ many (but not all!) of the Lawrence Jr., '71, captured the essence of my whelmed" isn't a word I learned at faculty from that era. It could offer feelings towards my alma mater by Lawrence. similar "evidence" stating that "Lawrence emphasized The question of the "practicality" of experiences that two essential values, the importance of of a Lawrence liberal arts education mold tough guys critical thinlcing and of tolerance for for business might be a good question and survivors of others' ideas." to ask It is, at least, a scientifically the kind who tend Further into the article, I was answerable question. But whether it is to do well in busi­ immediately struck by the ironic a good question, and what would be ness - and it circularity of the following quote an appropriate answer for it, require would be a far cry from Gretchen Jahn, '73: "I will not defining terms and independent and from the picture of ever hire someone with a computer dependent variables that are scarcely the liberation of ideas and thinking science background. Their thinking mentioned in what could have been that arc Lawrence ideals. is mud1 too narrow for a business a much more interesting series of I happen to believe in the practi­ as competitive as mine." Is it just me, mini-cases. cal value of my Lawrence education - or arc Ms. Jahn's opinions and pro­ I suspect the big practicality ques­ thus, the fluff in this article was disap­ nouncements just as narrow? tion isn't addressed very often because, pointing. And what, exactly, was the People are curious as to how I amazingly, when terms and variables paradigm shift? If the liberal arts ended up in a career as a Revenue are actually defined, the question process is alive and well at Lawrence, Agent with the Department of the doesn't look quite so meaningful! then there isn't one! Treasury. After all, I graduated from Rather, it begins to look ridiculously Karl A. Hickerson, '70 Lawrence as a music education major oversimplified. Associate Prifessor, M anagerial Studies and thereafter made a living as a pro­ Using similar anecdotal evidence St. Ambrose University fessional musician. I can tell you how and another sample of graduates from Davenport, Iowa and why, but you would have to be the late '60s or '70s who have enjoyed willing to first ask the question. "nice" post-Lawrence business careers In the midst of battle David E. Frankson, '78 by conventional standards, a case I really enjoyed the article in the Fall Oregon, Wisconsin could be made for Lawrence as an 2002 issue titled "Paradigm Shift." effective pre-business experience by I think any of us can relate to it, being the business career development whether we are in business, education, "boot camp" of the Midwest. This law, medicine, or whatever. I am in the middle of an education/tech­ nician battle at school right now, and I should probably rape a number of quotes from that article next to my desk. Mary Oswald Folkman, '64 Laurel, Montana

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"' Warch to retire . in 2004

President Warch participates in a Freshman Studies class.

Richard Warch, president of assured them that he had "no inten­ tunity when I was 39 years old and Lawrence University since 1979, will tion of behaving like a lame duck" gave me a set of challenges, opportu­ retire in June 2004, at which time he during the remainder of this academic nities, and rewards that were beyond will have completed 25 years in office. year or in 2003-04. my ken back then. I have, as I He announced his intention to retire "1 do not intend to get on some predicted, earned my white hair over to the Board ofTrustees at its October glide path to 2004. T will continue the years, but serving Lawrence has meeting, and Board Chair Jeffrey D. to do my best for Lawrence, and I been - and will be until I leave - a Riester, '70, informed the Lawrence pledge to devote consistent attention marvelous experience and an unparal­ Community immediately thereafter. to resolving-or at least putting us on leled privilege, and I'm grateful." "The trustees will soon embark the path to resolving - many of our An article by Jeffrey Riester, upon a search for a successor and challenges." examining the role of trustees in insti­ develop plans for a smooth and effective Noting that some 40 percent of tutional governance and introducing transition to new leadership after the living Lawrence alumni attended dur­ the Board's plans for the presidential 2003-04 academic year," Riester said. ing the years he has been here, Warch search process, begins on page 26 of Speaking to the faculty soon after continued: this issue. • his announcement, President Warch "Lawrence offered me this oppor-

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New faces on the faculty Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies; Dmitri Sixteen new members of the Lawrence Novgorodsky, visiting assistant profes­ faculty have received tenure-track sor of music; Antoinette Powell, music appointments for 2002-03 (see pho­ librarian and assistant professor; Tim tos). In addition, Fred Sturm, '73, in Reed, instructor in Spanish and music and Brent Peterson in German Freshman Studies; Ileana Maria were appointed to tenured positions. Rodriguez-Silva, pre-doctoral fellow Other appointments, ranging in in history; Jane Shippen, lecturer in David J, Hall Ku rt D. Krebsbach , length from one academic term to three English; Robert Smart, '96, lecturer Assistant professor of '85 years, include: Paul Bunson, assistant in art; Phillip Swan, visiting instructor chemistry Associate professor of Butler University, B.S.; computer science professor of physics; Michal Ann in music; and David Thurmaier, University of Wiscon­ lawrence University. Carley, visual resources librarian, art instructor in music. sin- Madison, Ph.D. B.A.: University of department; Kevin Clifton, instructor Mechanisms by which Minnesota, M.S .. Ph.D. in music; Cecile Despres-Berry, rhinovirus activation Artificial intelligence, instructor in English as a second of immune cells leads automated planning. language; Jose Luis EncarnaciOn, to the exacerbation multi-agent systems. pre-doctoral fellow in music; Martin of asthma functional program­ Erickson, lecturer in music; Seong­ mmg. mus1c, zymurgy Kyung Graham, assistant conductor, conservatory; Mark Hall, instructor in French; Hai-Chi Jihn, lecturer in art; Bo Johnson, instructor in theatre and drama; and Andrew Kunz, assistant professor of physics. Instructor in music anthropology Also: Yu-Chun Lin, instructor in Ball State University, Mount Holyoke East Asian languages and cultures; B.Mus.: University of College. B.A.: George Meyer, Stephen Edward Iowa, MA; University University of of Michigan Michigan, M.A joanne Metcalf Brent 0. Peterson Trumpet Cultural anthropology, Assistant professor Associate professor of refugee communities of music German University of Johns Hopkins California at Santa University, B.A.; Barbara, B.A.; Duke University of Iowa, University, M.A., Ph.D. M.A.; University of Music composition Minnesot a, Ph.D. Construction of national and ethnic identities; the inter­ Alexis l. Boylan section of historical Assistant professor of fiction and history; Assistant professor of art history the .. long 19th Joseph D'Uva, Jr. Christian R. Grose psychology Bryn Mawr College, century" (1789-1918): Assistant professor Instructor in University of B.A.; Rutgers Univer­ post-war. post-wall of art government Wisconsin- Madison. sity,MA,Ph.D. experiences of both The School of the Art Duke Un iversity, B.A; B.S.; University of American ond Germonies Virginia, Ph.D. European art history, Institute of Chicago, University of Social psychology photography, popular B.F.A.: University of Rochester. M.A. culture. urban studies. Iowa. M.A., M.F.A. American politics, gender studies Non -toxic art materi­ political methodology als and processes, collecting toys for source material

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Mark W. Frazier, assistant professor of government, The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, Jodi L. Sedlock Frederick I. Sturm, Patricia Vilches* Wendy L. Walter­ and Labor Management (Cambridge Assistant professor '73 Associate professor of Bailey of biology Professor of music Spanish and Italian Instructor in education University Press. March 2002). Loyola University, lawrence University, University of Illinois at Anderson University, B.A., B.S.; University of B.Mus.; University of Chicago, B.A.; University B.A.; Ball State Bertrand A. Goldgar, professor of English Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D. North Texas; Eastman of Chicago, M.A., Ph.D. University, M.A.; and John N. Bergstrom Professor of Tropical diversity, School of Music. M.Mus Latin American Indiana University Humanities. ed., The Grub Street Journal. community ecology, jazz studies, literature and culture; Pre-service teacher 1730-33 (Pickering and Chatto Publishers, foraging behavior, improvisational Italian Renaissance education, literacy, September 2002). conservation biology, music, composition literature gender and class issues. small mammals, racial and ethnic Ronald j. Mason, professor emeritus of particularly bats identity formation, anthropology, Great Lakes Archaeology multicultural education and issues (The Blackburn Press, June 2002). of marginalization, curriculum Jerald E, Podair, assistant professor of development history, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks. Whites, and the Ocean Hill­ Brownsville Crisis (Yale University Press, january2003)

Rosa Tapia David E. Thompson Instructor in Spanish Assistant professor of One of the best Universidad de chemistry Grenada, B.A.; Univer­ Carleton College, B.A.: Steven j. Wulf Ayako Yamagata Lawrence University has again been sity of Delaware, M.A.; University of Assistant professor of Assistant professor of included among the top colleges in the Pennsylvania State Wisconsin-Madison, government East Asian languages nation according to U.S. News & University Ph.D. Cornell University, and cultures World Report's popular annual college Spanish peninsular Analytical instrumen­ B.A.; Yale University. Sophia University, rankings. MA,MPhii..Ph.O. Tokyo, B.A.; Michigan and Latin American tation and physical In U. S. N ews' 16th annual "Amer­ literature, foreign analysis. chemistry Political philosophy, State University, M.A., ica's Best Colleges" report, Lawrence language teaching of malaria, laser American politics, Ph.D. methodology and spectroscopy history of ideas Semantics of tense was ranked 50th in the "Best Liberal application of and aspect of natural Arts Colleges - Bachelor's" category, technology. literary language, second which includes 217 of the nation's theory, cultural language acquisition leading national liberal arts colleges. studies. film ofJapanese, practical T his is the fourth year in a row, application of linguis­ and the fifth time in the past six years, tic knowledge to that Lawrence has been ranked among language pedagogy the top tier group in the national liberal arts category. Lawrence also was cited in rwo *First appointed in 2000 to a non· tenure-track position

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other listings: 16th nationally, just ahead of Dartmouth College, in the new "first-year experience" category {which, in Lawrence's case, means Freshman Studies) and 15th among national liberal arts institutions in enrollment of international students. •

Diving for pearls in the applicant pool

Lawrence welcomed 405 new students this year, including 355 freshmen - the most the college has enrolled since 423 matriculated in 1973. Left to right Purdum. Simon. Keys. Knapp Over the past five years, Lawrence's applicant pool has Four new members elected to Board of Trustees increased by 53 percent, while at the same time the college has become Steven Simon, '68, president of Simon distance telephone company, before even more selective, admitting 11 per­ Ventures, a Naples, Florida-based founding Simon Ventures in 1995. cent fewer of its applicants. investment company specializing in Joining the Board as alumni Collectively, this year's freshman metal fabrication and electronic distri­ trustees are :Mollie Herzog Keys, '64, class carries an average high school bution, has been elected to a three­ of White Bear Lake, Minn., a retired grade point average of 3.65, and 73 year term on the Lawrence University regional sales manager for Kinko's, percent ranked in the top 25 percent Board of Trustees. Tnc.; David N . Knapp, '89, vice presi­ of their graduating classes. For only In addition to his degree from dent for personal financial planning at the second time since 1989, the Lawrence, Simon earned a Master of Northern Trust Company in Chicago; incoming class features more males Business Administration degree from and Constance Clarke Purdum, '55, of (180) than females (175), bucking a the University of Wisconsin-Milwau­ Macomb, Ill., who also serves on the national trend that has seen women kee in 1971. He was president of board of the Western Illinois Univer­ increasingly outnumber men among American Sharecom, Inc., a long- sity Foundation. • first-year college students. Looking at this year's incoming freshmen, the number of domestic minority students increased by six percent, while international students account for 12 percent of the freshman class, up from 7 percent a year ago. Among all new students (freshmen, transfers, and special students), 19 percent hail from abroad. •

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People Elaine Gajewski, '03, directed an October anthropology, is president of Wisconsin production of the play "Ripper'' at the Rebel Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL), Conservatory of Music voice students captured Alliance Theater in Oshkosh. where she is which held its annual conference in October at first-place honors in five of 12 undergraduate co-artistic director and has appeared in over 20 St. Norbert College. The organization provides divisions at the Wisconsin chapter of the productions in addition to her work as a theatre professional development and networking National Association of Teachers of Singing performance major at Lawrence. opportunities for women who hold leadership roles in both public and private higher education. {NATS) audition competition in November: Two former students of pianist and composer Jim Dedering, '06, laura Muller, '06, Elaine Allen Gimbel, a member of the Lawrence Brian O'Morrow, '03, won the Wisconsin state­ Moran, 'OS, Meg Ozaki, '03, and Tim Schmidt, Conservatory of Music faculty from 1987 to 1998. level Music Teachers National Association '03. In addition, Alisa Jordheim, a junior at organized a tribute concert in his honor in Palm (MTNA) collegiate piano performance in Novem­ Appleton North High School who studies with Beach, Fla., in October. Brooke Joyce, '95, a ber. This is the third straight year that a lawrence voice professor Patrice Michaels, doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and Lawrence piano performance major has won the placed first in the high school women division. Jeffery Meyer, '96, conductor of the symphony state competition. Dale Duesing, C'67, artist-in-residence at the orchestra at UW- Oshkosh. organized and Kenneth R. W. Sager, '39, professor emeritus of performed in the concert, which included six of Lawrence Conservatory, performed the role education, was awarded the Distinguished Professor Gimbel's works for chamber ensemble. of the Narrator in the December premiere of School Board Member Award of the Wisconsin piano, and soprano voice. Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice at Music Educators Association (WMEA) for 2002. London's Covent Garden. Martha Hemwell, 73, dean of student academic Sager has served on the Appleton Area School services and adjunct associate professor of District Board of Education for 37 years.

Lawrence Today Spring2003 Downtown Appleton gets a makeover By Rick Peterson

En route from the Outagamie County airport to the Lawrence campus, where she was to receive an honorary degree, noted author Joan Didion remarked that she had spent the majority of her life on either of the coasts and had "heard" of heartland communities like Appleton but had never actually seen one. When that weekend's Commencement festivities concluded, Didion asked to be driven around town to check the place out for hersel£ Following her tour, she deemed Appleton "the most confident community" she had ever seen. That was in 1978. Twenty-five years later, the place is even more so.

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Sparked by a mile-long makeover to College Avenue "What I find really cool about downtown is, if you go through the central city and fueled by the completion of a down the street from one end to the other, there are no S45 million, world-class performing arts center, downtown chain stores," Hanna adds. "The restaurants are locally Appleton has experienced a metamorphosis that would rival owned, the retail stores arc locally owned, the coffee shops hometown boy wonder Harry Houdini's most famous stunt. are locally owned. They all are local entrepreneurs, taking a The one-time retail hub of the entire Fox Valley- as risk, putting it on the line, making an investment in their late as 1980, five major department stores, including Sears own community. I think that bodes well for the long-term and J.C. Penney, operated downtown - Appleton could success of the downtown." not escape the retail exodus to suburban malls that struck Without question, the most impressive new downtown downtowns across the country during the past two decades. address belongs to the state-of-the arts Fox Cities Perform­ Despite herculean efforts by local leaders, Lawrence Presi­ ing Arts Center. The privately funded facility opened with dent Richard Warch among them, to convince them to stay, much fanfare on November 24 with a private performance many of the downtown's most critical retailers gradually by Tony Bennett for employees of Thrivent Financial for migrated three miles west to the behemoth Fox River Mall Lutherans (formerly AAL), the corporation that got the and its acres of free parking, which opened in 1984 and has fast-track project rolling in 1999 with an S8 million gift. see mingly been expanding ever since. A stunning showcase facility covering an entire square However, if necessity is indeed the mother of inven­ city block, the PAC features a 5,000-square foot main stage, tion, then economic survival is the father of reinvention. not only the largest in Wisconsin but also bigger than any Despite an at-one-time alarming number of empty store­ on Broadway. The main hall, one of two performance fronts, Appleton's main business district has been reborn spaces in the building, seats 2,100 on four levels, with no and revitalized with a mix of specialty shops, cultural attrac­ seat more than 108 feet from the stage. tions, restaurants, and service providers. Much like the old In an interview with The Post-Crescent, Lawrence family Oldsmobile, this is clearly not your father's down­ trustee Oscar Boldt, who has been building buildings for 54 town Appleton. years and whose construction company put up the PAC, Some familiar faces remain, most notably Conkey's hailed it as "the equal of what you would find in New York. Bookstore, at 106 years in operation the oldest continuing There is nothing in Wisconsin that matches this - business on the Avenue, and the ever-eclectic Cleo's, every­ nothing." one's favorite watering hole. Once home to paint shops and The facility expects to host some 180 performances a photography studios, the downtown now is dotted with new year, running the cultural gamut from nationally touring dining options that serve ethnic entrees from cajun to Broadway musicals and the London City Opera's Madame quesadillas, four specialty coffee bars (though none a Star­ Butterfly to local Attic Theatre productions and Fox Valley bucks) dispensing caffeine in a variety of exotic flavors and Symphony concerts. The PAC scored a major scheduling styles, art galleries displaying local reproductions as well as coup in its first year and evoked envy among many larger $15,000 originals, a live blues dub, and a modern-day cities, Chicago among them, by landing touring produc­ "speakeasy." Across the street from the Paper Valley Hotel, tions of both Mama Mia and Mel Brooks' Tony-Award the forme r Penney's building, which stood vacant for more winning The Producers for its four-show Broadway series. than 20 years, has been razed to make way for a $9 million, When the PAC's history eventually is written, five-story, 73-room "boutique" hotel scheduled to open in Lawrence musicians will hold a distinct footnote in that early 2004. And who would have ever guessed Appleton archive. The Sambistas, the college's popular percussion would boast its own upscale "martini lounge?" ensemble, played the very first "concert" at the PAC, treat­ "There is a lot of new energy downtown and tremen­ ing a lunchtime crowd to an open-air performance of their dous positive momentum," says Appleton Mayor Timothy rhythmic drumming in June 2001 to celebrate the comple­ Hanna, whose admin istration has overseen some of the tion of the ma in stage. When the building was finished in most dramatic changes in downtown Appleton's history. November, but before its gala grand opening, Professor of "There's a lot of excitement- and you can feel it. You can Music Fred Sturm, '73, directed the Lawrence University see it in terms of just how many businesses - not only new Jazz Ensemble in a special performance for all the construc­ ones that have moved in but well-established businesses - tion workers who built the facility. have taken this opportunity to put a new face on their busi­ 'When the LUJE members set foot on the PAC stage nesses and on their buildings. for the first time, it was like that scene in the film Hoosiers

Lawrence Today If you go down the street from talents of my comrades on the conservatory faculty." The addition of the PAC ro the Appleton skyline as one end to the other, there arc well as many of the other changes downtown - cultural and culinary as well as cosmetic - arc but part of the no chain stores. They all arc reasons for a palpable sense of excitement permeating the downtown. local entrcprcncurs... making an "Streetscape," as the $5.2 million storefront-to-store­ front reconstruction of College Avenue was known, was five years in the planning and completed 35 years after the city investment in thcil· own community. last undertook the logistical nightmare of completely rebuilding its signature street. The heavy lifting began in earnest in February 2002. Starting at the Richmond Street intersection, workers inched their way cast toward the when the small-town basketball players walk into the campus throughout the spring and summer- temporarily championship arena. We were awestruck and humbled by turning the normally congested avenue into a popular, albeit its grandeur," says Sturm. "I'm overwhelmed by the design dusty, "pedestrian mall" for downtown workers and curios­ and character of the theatre. The architects made magic­ ity seekers alike - reaching Lawrence's Drew Street it's a big venue that wows you with its spectacle but can doorstep in August. draw you in with its intimacy." The end product is far more than just a pothole-free Kathleen Murray, dean of the Lawrence Conservatory street. The reconstruction project included wider sidewalks, of Music, sees the PAC complementing, rather than com­ accented by six-foot-wide strips of colored and stamped peting with, on-campus programming. concrete squares along the curb. AJrernating street and "Anything that raises awareness and support of the arts sidewalk decorative lampposts add a brighter, distinctive in the community at large is good for Lawrence," says look. \"'ith an eye on improving safety, colored crosswalks Murray. "Lawrence and the P AC really have different kinds and pedestrian-friendly "bumpouts" are incorporated into of performances. We couldn't host a Broadway-type the intersections. Amenities such as lciosks with maps and production and they probably couldn't fill a 2,100-seat wayfinding signs, more than two dozen benches, and 72 theatre for a solo artist like classical pianist Richard Goode. planters sporting Patmore Ash and Honey Locust trees There isn't anything akin to our Artists Series and very complete the design. little much like our Jazz Series on their schedule." Look beyond the obvious, though, and it is dear the H aving a venue of the PAC's caliber just blocks from downtown changes are as much about attitude as they are their front door provides culrural opportunities for students aesthetics. at a convenience level few peer institutions can match. "It's all about creating a feeling, creating an atmos­ M uch that once required a road trip to Milwaukee or phere," says Mayor H anna, who honed his childhood piano Chicago is now literally within walking distance. In addi­ skills during 10 years of lessons at the Lawrence conserva­ tion, the PAC holds the promise of offering our undergrad­ tory and whose son Bill is a sophomore at Lawrence. 'What uates experiences as participants as well as audience we were trying to create is a downtown that was very members. In December, several members of the choral inviting. There is a definite pride of ownership of College program auditioned for and were selected to sing at a Avenue by the community. You can see that." Christmas concert with Kenny Rogers. In May, members of lt seems altogether appropriate that the main artery the symphony orchestra, the concert choir, the women's running through the heart of Appleton should be called choir, and the chorale will take to the PAC stage and join College Avenue. Mter all, Lawrence was here first. The voices with the community White Heron Chorale and guest college's founding antedated Appleton's incorporation as a soloists for a performance of Verdi's La Traviata. village by six years. With their respective histories intrinsi­ 'Til be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to cally intertwined, Lawrence and Appleton have spent the perform there," says Sturm. ''I'd like to see our jazz past 150 years aging gracefully together, tethered by a once­ ensemble backing up renowned jazz artists when they need muddy trail carved through a timber grove that has since us, and T hope that show contracrors will utilize the superb evolved into a 62-foot wide ribbon of concrete.

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12 Spring 2003 Lawrence students talk about the Avenue llm·ing his 20 ~em·s as dean of admissions and " II 's or growing t~pidcmic IIHII small~ town down~ timmdal aid. Steve Syverson has welcomed tens of thou­ tonus dit• when unplanned urban sprawl on the edges of town sands of prospective students and their families to the Lawrence sucks business and livelihood away from local business owners. campus. For most who are unfamiliar with Appleton, or arrive That has always made me sad about Appleton. I really hope this from a great distance, the assumption often is that Appleton is a new downtown renovation can help enliven the area. The loss of tiny college town out m the middle of the cornfields and dairy retail space downtown is a problem, because no one goes there farms of Wisconsin. anymore for their daily needs. only to buy specialty items or to eat "A drive through downtown Appleton on the way to cam­ and drink coffee. But the addition of the PAC, as well as new pus quickly disabuses them of that image," Syverson says. "In stores and aesthetic improvements, might really help make the fact, it leaves quite a positive impression~ a small, clean, active downtown a more thriving place. I hope so!" city rather than a remote, isolated college town. We will never - Clara Muggli, '03, Decorah, Iowa persuade students seeking a big-city environment to come here. of course, but there are lots of folks who leave after a visit with ·"l'he n~IIO\'alions l.o the don utowu hm·e made il a a very different image than the one they had before they mufh mor·e orltmctln plan•, I think the biggest addition arrived." to the life of the average lawrence student will be the PAC. It For those who decide to come here as undergraduates, not only presents new opportunities for performing, such as the whether it be from near or far, Appleton becomes their de facto upcoming spring choir concert to be held there but, even better, home away from home. In a totally unscientific survey, a small opportunities to see concerts and productions we didn't have number of students were asked their impressions of the changes access to in the past." that have occurred in their adopted hometown. -Rebecca Neubauer, '03. Menasha

''The changes seem both imlll't•ssh·c and tasteful. ""ll is a more rriendl~· . aclhe, and auracth'e place The Performing Arts Center is certainly a valuable addition to lo be.l wish there was a bit more retail, since I'm not a big fan Appleton and the Fox Valley. To be honest, though, I have not of going to the mall, but I have enjoyed taking advantage of the felt any significant effects of the downtown changes upon the other establishments. The addition of the PAC is wonderful, student community. The street remodeling, while pleasing to the although I am concerned about the access Lawrence students eye, does not affect the business of students." will have to the shows for financial reasons. The changes to - Sean Smith, '03. Ripon downtown seem to be a great thing for Appleton, which can in turn only have a positive impact on lawrence." ·•Studt•nts snmt•limt•s t:omJllain that the only plac(' - Sarah Krile, '03, Grand Rapids, Minn. to find an~· culture in Al•lll(•ton was on our campus. While the Avenue offered a host of local bars and restaurants, it ··.uy first illiiH't'SSion or Appldon as a freshman seemed to be missing the cultural aspects that you would expect was. 'Oh no! This is why it's important to actually visit the a city of 70,000 people to have. Students would remain on schools you apply to!' [The recent changes] definitely do a lot for campus if they expected to hear good music or take downtown Appleton. It actually makes it seem as if there's a lot in a show. Now, with the Performing Arts Center and a new more to the town, even though there isn't. The renovations are storefront space for the Appleton Arts Center, students have essential not only to Appleton but also to lawrence. Kids going more reason to wander down the Avenue instead of staying on off to college are simply not as interested in a school if they feel campus for their cultural fix. With the inclusion of lawrence there isn't anything much offered off campus . ~ students in the PAC's repertoire, I suspect students will have the -Steven Tie Shue, ·o4, Sunrise, Ra. opportunity to discover the new College Avenue and the many opportunities it has to offer." -Jenny Dieter. '03, Cary. Ill.

lawrence Today 13 Continued from page 12 "We are one of the anchors of downtown and as such we have a vested interest in the downtown being as healthy and vibrant as it possibly can be," says President Warch of the symbiotic relationship between city and campus. "The Performing Arts Center is obviously the crown jewel in the whole affair. It is, without question, a world­ class facility. My view on it from the get-go was, if it was to be a downtown facility, I was enthusiastically in support. You don't have Christmas parades and Flag Day parades at malls. You have them at city centers, and I think the efforts of the city fathers and private developers to make the down­ town a more attractive place should be applauded. To the extent it jacks up the cultural variety available to members of the community, including our students, it is also good for us." In his college-review book several years ago, Ted Fiske of The New York Times "nicked" Lawrence for its two- and three-hour distances from the culturaJ comforts of M ilwau­ kee and Chicago, although curiously, as Warch pointed out to him, Williams College wasn't punished for the same sin of being three hours from New York and two hours from Boston. Before the next installment of Fiske's review was published, Warch extended an invitation to him for a personal visit, in an attempt to combat the perception-is­ reality bias. "He had a whole other take on the place, describing Lawrence as 'perched on a bluff overlooking the Fox River,' Warch recalled of the larer review. "The stereotype is that an urban center is where it's happening, and if you're far

14 Spring 2003 away from an urban center therefore you're where it's not happening. Appleton, at least potentially, negates that criticism to the extent anyone wants to offer that. We're not going to get confused with Chicago, but we're not going to get confused with Ripon, Wisconsin, either. The develop­ ment of downtown Appleton has been a positive force for the greater good, and that certainly includes us." According to Mayor Hanna, the changes that have occurred are just part of the city's natural maturation. Their aim was to improve the quality of life here, but not at the expense of the city's basic charm. "Appleton has big-city appeal and a small-town feel," Hanna says, "and that's what we are. We're very small town ish here, not in terms of sophistication, but in terms of friendliness, cleanliness. People know each other here. But, yet, it has some big-city appeal, with a performing arts center, major retail destinations, and Lawrence University, which is an asset a lot of the local people take for granted. There is a lot of great stuff here. VVhen people come in from the outside, they can't believe this place. I remember taJking to a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, who was here during the 2000 presiden­ tial campaign. He looked at me and said, 'You have to have one of the hidden treasures of the country here. I've never been in a place where the pride of ownership is so prevalent."' . I Joan Didion could have told him that yea rs ago. • ---::::;-----~ -==

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hildren's book author values, without being moral tales." Bonnie Bryant Hiller, '68, When her characters moved from the printed page to was sitting in a theatre on the small screen, their creator was right there with them. a Saturday afternoon, "The television producers ask me to read and comment waiting for a movie to on the scripts, and sometimes I have objections to story­ begin, when a father and lines. I've told an awful lot of stories in my life, and I know daughter came in and sat when a story works and when it doesn't work, when it's in front of her. consistent and logical and when it's not. Sometimes the "The girl pulled out a screenwriters get off on the wrong foot and tell the wrong book," Hiller recalls, "and story, and I try to help redirect them. Sometimes they I could see it was one of actually listen to what I say, and sometimes I think they're mine. When the lights dimmed to show the previews, she actually grateful. leaned forward and held the book toward the screen so "For one thing, I am adamant about not having my the reflected light would shine on her book and she could characters speak substandard English. They can speak continue reading. That was a magical moment. She'll never casual English, and they can use common teen phrases or know what she did for me." fragmented sentences as one would in speaking, but they After graduating from Lawrence with an English are not going to say, 'Me and Johnny are going down to major, Hiller completed the six-week Radcliffe College the store.' There's no good reason for a character to talk Publishing Procedures course, now offered by Columbia that way." University and still a highly regarded conduit into jobs in Overall, she approves of the adaptations, saying that the publishing industry. She worked for a children's book "the television episodes are well-done, they've got good agent for six years, had a child and was out of the business production values, and the kids seem to respond to them. world for a year, and then joined Scholastic, Inc., as direc­ Although they're not straight out of my books, they're tor of rights and permissions. respectful of my characters and of the kinds of stories I was The firs t book in her popular series The Saddle Club telling. I would be thrilled if they were exactly like my was published in 1988. Subsequent Saddle Club books books, but that might not make a very good television show; and two spin-off series, Pony Tales and Pine H ollow, now they are different mediums and require different things." total 144 titles, translated into eight languages, with over From long and close acquaintance with the topic, 8 mill ion copies in print. A "Saddle Club" television series H iller is able to draw some conclusions about girls and is the most popular children's TV show in Australia, where horses - and boys and horses - and why the sport of horse­ it is produced; has been well-received in Canada; and now back riding has so much appeal to young readers. is available in the United States, via the Discovery Kids "Kids spend a lot of time being told what to do and cable network. when and how to do it. I think it's very satisfying for them Saddle Club and its siblings are published under to be able to get into the saddle on top of a very large the name Bonnie Bryant. She also writes in other animal, who is cute and responsive and furry and warm and genres, including movie novelizations, under the name to tell it what to do and it does what you tell it. B. B. Hiller. "Girls also love all the stuff that goes with it; they like Readers of T he Saddle Club books are girls between the tack, they like the costumes that they wear - it's a eight and 12 years old, rather sophisticated, and very enthu­ dress-up opportunity in that sense. Boys at the same age get siastic, H iller says. They love horses and stories about frustrated with all the detail; they just want to get on the horses and the friendship that is evident between the three back of the horse and go fast. Girls have the patience to deal gi rl s who arc the pri ncipal characters in the series. with the specifics, especially of English riding, which is "If you ask one of those readers what my books are largely what my books are about. Western riding has a little about," the author says, "they'll tell you they are about bit more boy-appeal. horses - but the fact is, they're about fri endship. "Those are really broad generalizations about boys and "My stori es are character-driven, and the kids resolve girls, but my child-psychologist cousin tells me they're true." the story. They are deeply about friendship, loyalty, fair­ As the boys and girls grow up, she notes, horseback ness, and trust, and they tend to have fairly strong moral riding is the one sport in which men and women compete

Opposite: Bonnie Bryant Hiller, '68, signs copies of her Saddle Club books at Conkey's in Appleton.

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Maurice Sendak, wri ter /illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are and Really Rosie, among many others. once said, "You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them." Several Lawrence alumni - and please let us know if we've missed anyone - are practitioners of the high art of writing books of interest to children. Betty Ren Wright, M-D '49, a long-time children's book editor. wrote the text for 35 picture-story books and also has published adult short stories in such magazines as Redbook and the Ladies Home Journal. Since 1976 she has concentrated on writing novels for young readers, many of them ghost stories. Her third book, The Dollhouse Murders, was a nominee in the juven il e category of the 1983 Edgar Awards of the Mystery Writers of America, won the Texas Bluebonnet Award, and was made into a television movie in 1992. Nancy Warren Ferrell, '54, an Alaska-based author of notable The stars of the "Saddle Club" television show: Stevie, Carol. and Liz. The show versatility, has written several books of nonfiction for young read­ airs in the U.S. on the Discovery Kids channel as well as in Canada and Australia. ers, in addition to fiction and nonfiction in children's magazines and The girls are also featured on the Saddle Club Web site: www.saddleclubtv.com adult nonfiction in magazines. Her books have included The Fishing Industry. New World of Amateur Radio, Alaska in Motion, and Trail to Little Big Horn, among others. The latest Alaska Heroes: A Call to Courage, was published in October (see Lawrence Books, page on an equal basis. 46). She has been honored by the City of Juneau and the Alaska Geographic Alliance for her regional books. Back at the beginning, at Lawrence, she recalls a class­ Peter G. and Connie Betzer Roop, both '73, have written over room moment that may have foreshadowed her eventual 60 children's books, both historical fiction and nonfiction, seven of career. which have been selections of television's "Reading Rainbow," "I remember a course I took from Ben Schneider including Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie. Peter. a former Wisconsin [professor emeritus of English], in which I had to work very, State Teacher of the Year, now writes and speaks full-time and, very hard. One day he asked a complex question, and some­ in 2001, visited schools in 22 states and talked with over 50,000 body gave a very convoluted answer. It took me awhile students. Connie, a high school environmental science teacher, has to absorb the question, let alone the answer. I raised my been honored by the AAUW and with a Kohl Education Foundation hand and said, 'Are you saying ... ?'and I restated it in a far Award for Exceptional Teaching. Together they received Wisconsin's Laura Ingalls Wilder Book Award and have written for nine- to simpler form. 12-year-olds on such figures as Sacagawea. George Washington. "Professor Schneider said, 'Yes, but, Miss Bryant, why and Susan B. Anthony and on topics ranging from whales and must you always reduce everything to the simplest possible dolphins to the culture and language of the Cherokee. terms?' Kathleen Krull, '74, another erstwhile children's book editor, "Was that what started me on the road to becoming a started writing her own books over a decade ago. Her strikingly children's book writer? I don't know." • eclectic bibliography is highlighted by the 'lives of' series of biographies of famous people. including Lives of the Musicians and Lives of Extraordinary Women. Other Krull books share with young readers some of the author's own wide-ranging interests, from music (Songs of Praise) to civics (A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights) to hair (this year's Clip, Clip, Clip, done in collaboration with her husband, illustrator Paul Brewer). •

18 Spring2003 The professors' picl\s The Lawrence Today reading list, 2003

"I can't write without a reader," author John Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (1997), and The Virtue Cheever once said. "It's precisely like a kiss- you can't do of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age if Techno Ajfluence it alone." Lawrence alumni are serious readers. It's some~ (2000). thing they picked up along with their liberal arts education. Accordingly, each year Lawrence Today helps its readers feed Dan Alger, '72 their book habit by canvassing the fiteulty for suggestions. Associate professor of economics Herewith, the 2003 installment, wi th thanks to the profes­ Manctlr Olson, The Rise and Fall of Nations (1982, Yale sors who did the picking. GEB University Press). Olson applies a relatively simple argu­ ment about the incentives oflobbying for legal or regulatory Minoo Adenwalla change that has tremendous implications for the economic Professor emen'tus of government development of nations. He then compares these implica­ Dinesh D'Souza, What's So Great About America (2002, tions against available empirical observations. It's a powerful Regnery Publishing, Inc.}. D'Souza, the brilliant but con­ use of the scientific approach to political economy. troversial Indian (i.e. , from India) commentator and critic Matt Ridley, The Origins of Virtue (1996, Penguin). This is on general matters of culture and politics, defends the U.S. a well-written book for general audiences on the evolution against the intellectual denunciations of Islamic fundamen­ of cooperation operating at the biological, rational, and talism and the indigenous attacks of both the political Left, culntrallevels. Beach reading for Lawrence alums. which claims that the nation is imperialistic, racist, and the oppressor of minorities, and the Right, which argues that Marcia Bjarnerud "America is suffering a moral and cultural breakdown." Professor of geology A 1983 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth Col­ lege, D'Souza served as a senior domestic policy analyst at Lester Brown, The Eco-Economy: Building an Economy Jot· the Reagan White H ouse from 1987 to 1988. At the the Ea,th (2001, W.W. Norton). moment, he is the Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Mona Simpson, OffKeck R oad (2000, Alfred Knopf; also as Instihltion at Stanford University. His prior works include a Vintage paperback, 2001). !!liberal Education (1991), Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary

lawrence Today 19 Books are quiet. They do not dissolve into wa\'Y lines or snowstorm effects. They do not pause to deliver commercials. They arc three-dimensional, having length, breadth, and depth. They arc convenient to handle and completely portable.

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At any given time, I am typically part way through several and feel that even the least word of affirmation might have books, a practice that allows me to read the genre ("serious" given her the courage to live larger. fiction, creative nonfiction, political tracts, literary trash) In reading these cvvo books at the same time, Bea Maxwell that may suit my mood on a particular day. Sometimes and her unrealized life became conflated in my mind with these randomly juxtaposed works resonate with each other our collective inability, as an affluent culture, to change, in surprising ways. even when we know we could and should. In The £co-Economy, Lester Brown, founder of World­ watch Institute and now head of the Earth Policy Institute, John Daniel presents a compelling vision of an environmentally sustain­ Associate professor of music able world economy. The premise is that, for long-term Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be (1996, Continuum) or stability, economic structures must be designed with a deep Psychoanalysis and Reli6rion (1959, Yale University Press). understanding of natural systems. At a time when it is all To Have or To Be is an indictment of the trends of western too easy to despair at the bleakness of the global environ­ civilization prevalent in the 1950s. The rift becvveen "hav­ mental scene, the book offers cause for measured optimism. ing" and "being" seems to have grown since then. Psycho­ Through a mix of low and high technology, international analysis and Religion discusses the history and human agreements, and grassroots activism, Brown argues, it just impulse behind these two fields. Common ground is iden­ may be possible to balance- and reconcile - the world's tified. Freud, Jung, James, and the like are the main cast of ecological and economic budgets. Both of those "eco"­ characters. systems derive their names from the Greek word oikos, or household, and the global household has until now been Any of the books by philosopher Paul Brunton published divided against itself. By the end of the book, one is posthumously. The Ego/from Birth to Rebirth (1987, Larson inspired to roll up one's sleeves and help with the long­ Publishing) and Divine Mind, Enlightened Mind (1988, neglected housekeeping chores. Larson) are examples. Paul Brunton (1898-1981) was a journalist who responded to an inner voice to travel the Mona Simpson's novel Off Keck Road (a Pen-Faulkner world in search of sages, mystics, and great philosophic Award finalist) is domestic in the literal sense. The book is minds. He wrote many books about his travels. In the early a quiet, Chekhovian masterpiece set in Green Bay, Wis­ 1950s, he retired into seclusion in order to think, meditate, consin, from the mid-1950s to the near present. It traces and write. To date, there have been 20 volumes of his note­ the arc of a woman's life from ebullient adolescence books published posthumously, covering every subject through complacent senescence, a life circumscribed at all associated with the kingdom within. The clarity and stages by social convention, self-doubt, and inertia. We nuance of thought is distinctive. know this woman, Bea Maxwell (after all, she lived just down the river from us), and we understand the paralyzing immensity of the forces she would have had to overcome to live her life in any other way. Yet we long for more for her

20 Spring2003 The• Rise of Southern Republicans

Dominique-Rene de Lerma Christian R. Grose Visiting professor of music Assistant professor of government Helen Walker-Hill, From Spirituals to Symphonies; African Given the controversy that swirled around now-ex Senate American Women Composers and Their Music (2002, Green­ Republican leader Trent Lott following his December 2002 wood Publishing Group). The most data-filled book l have remarks praising 100-year old Strom Thurmond, I am read recently, the work of a virtuoso scholar. suggesting two books that examine the interplay of racial politics, U.S. politics, and the changing South: Elizabeth De Stasio, '83 Earl Black and Merle Black, The Rise of Southern Republi­ Associate professor of biology and cans (2002, Belknap/Harvard University Press). Identical Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science twins and political scientists Earl and Merle Black open Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders (2002, Penguin). Because their book with an anecdote about Strom Thurmond's final this is the current novel on my nightstand, I couldn't reveal election night party in 1996, after having been elected to the the ending if I wanted to. The setting is rural England Senate for an astonishing eighth term. Using the career of 1665- 1666, the years of the plague, and the main character party-switching, formerly segregationist Thurmond as a is a determined and modest female. While the dust jacket foundation for a broader discussion of southern politics, may not intrigue you, the interplay of morality, courage, and they carefully detail the changing role of race, the rise of faith against self-interest, fear, and faith is quite riveting. Republican support among conservative whites, and the Brooks is a former Wall Street Journal correspondent and importance of southern support in the elections of Ronald this, her first novel, is a terrific narrative. Reagan and George W. Bush. A fascinating read, chock full of great stories for political junkies from any region as well Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (2002 edition, as detailed evidence about the rise of the Republicans in the Oxford University Press). Yes, I know this one has been South and the implications for the U.S. as a whole. around since 1949, but there is a terrific new coffee table edition that is simply gorgeous. You should still read and Carol Swain, The New White Nationalism in America (2002, mark up the old paperback copy, as it is just as relevant Cambridge University Press). The author, a law and politi­ today as it was 50 years ago (hence its inclusion this year in cal science professor at Vanderbilt University, conducted Freshman Studies). The new volume contains arresting numerous interviews with members of contemporary white photographs of the flora and fauna of the Sand County supremacist organizations similar to the Council of Conser­ region of Wisconsin. Here you find familiar Canada geese vative Citizens with which Trent Lott has been associated, and muskrat, columbine and trillium, along with the black­ as well as more mainstream individuals in the Academy who berry leaves that Leopold dubbed "red lanterns" and several have expressed Lott-like racial views. Difficult to pigeon­ great portraits of sandhill cranes. The expected photos of hole ideologically, Swain is clearly critical of these "white "the shack" in various seasons are here as well. In all, the nationalists" but then offers conservative policy prescrip­ volume is a reminder of the intimacy with which Leopold tions such as eliminating affirmative action so that white knew his farm, as well as a reminder of why conservation, supremacist groups will not rely upon what she considers and now restoration, arc key to our continued existence legitimate critiques of current policy in order to expand their within our environment.

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membership. You may or may not agree with everything, months following World War II, the story follows the but it's an intriguing read. Also worth reading is her award­ attempted re-integration of a Holocaust survivor into what's winning Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation if left of her family. Written as the journal of one of the Black Interests in Congress (1995, Harvard University Press), family members, the novel emphasizes the incomprehensi­ in which she interviewed both white and Mrican American bility of Klara's "history" and its incompatibility with the members of Congress to analyze who best represents the "normal" business of living. The difficult subject matter interests of African Americans. demands very careful treatment; fortunately, Aaron crafts her work without recourse to cheap dramatic tricks. Eilene Hoft-March Associate professor of French Carol Mason Adjunct professor of anthropology Michael Ondaatje, Ani/'s Ghost (2001, Vintage Books). A forensic anthropologist returns to her native Sri Lanka to Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (2001, conduct research into human rights violations. In so doing, Knopf). Six years after the publication of Janet Browne's she becomes increasingly entangled in the very dangers that highly acclaimed first volume of her tvvo-volume biography provoked her investigation. The book reads a bit like a of Darwin, the second, eagerly awaited book has appeared. thriller, but Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, displays The incredible excitement of the young Darwin, hot on the an ability to capture human gesture in its ancientness intellectual trail of the species problem in Volume I ( Voyag­ and subtlety and meaning that makes this a particularly ing), has given way to the later years, often cited as the time worthy read. of the "recluse of Down House." Browne has shown that, while ill much of the time, Darvvin nevertheless was not a Two recommendations for readers of French: Lajoueuse de recluse and was at the center of biological thought during Go (2002, Grasset), by Shan Sa, a young Chinese expatriate the late Victorian period. His engagement in research occu­ living and writing in France, and LeNon de Klara (2002, pied him endlessly, using mail as a principal tool in his far­ Maurice Nadeau), by Soazig Aaron, a former bookstore flung inquiries - he would have loved e-maiL clerk. The social anthropology of the scientific establishment La }oueuse takes place during the years of the Japanese in supporting him is fascinating: Huxley, Hooker, Lyell all occupation of China. The story progresses by the alternat­ spring to life as part of the intellectual organization of the ing narrations of a Manchurian schoolgirl and a young time. And, watching Darwin struggle with the problem Japanese officer. The two characters are brought together of heredity and teeter on the brink of a solution makes eventually as adversaries in an ongoing series of"go" games, the reader long to have given him a handful of green and even as the atrocities of war threaten to engulf them. Sa yellow peas. writes with a deep sympathy for both characters as each Browne's beautifully written and meticulously struggles for - and against - an identity that is funda­ researched biography has set a high standard- anyone who mentally cultural. has not read Voyaging and its successor volume is missing a LeNon de Klara is a stunning first novel that made off major treat. with tvvo coveted literary prizes in France. Set in Paris in the

22 Springl003 Robert S. Weddle, The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Bill Holm, Gaming Home Crazy (2000, Milkweed Salle (2001, Texas A&l\1 Press). Combining archaeology Editions). Originally published (and originally read) in with history, Weddle covers the amazing underwater 1990, I purchased and reread the new edition in preparation archaeological discovery of the wreck of the last of La for a Lawrence University Freeman Grant trip to Japan and Salle's ships, sunk off the Texas coast in 1686. Weddle sets China during the summer of 2002. Holm taught in Xian, the wreck within the career of that strange and enigmatic China, for a year in the late 1980s and advances the premise personality, Rene-Robert, Sieur de La Salle, and brings that once you live in another culture, your own doesn't seem alive the double tragedy of the aborted F rcnch settlement in as rational. H olm's perspective on craziness reads well and Texas and the subsequent murder of La Salle at the hands still rings true as a temple gong. It's worth putting in your of his own men. carry-on bag, wherever you're headed. Originally, the purpose of the La Salle voyage from France was to locate the mouth of the Mississippi River and Jerald Podair ascend it with shiploads of men, women, and children, who Assistant professor of history were to form a new French settlement on the "Spanish Sea." Step by misspent step, the voyage and settlement Terry Teachout, The Skeptic.· A Biography of H. L. Mencken resulted in death, unspeakable hardship, and ultimate fail­ (2002, HarperCollins). Mencken showed America how to ure. T he loss of the little ship Be//e was the tipover point speak in its own voice. Few literary figures of the 20th between survival and total ruin for all concerned. century influenced our nation's literature, criticism, and Weddle's account, based on ships' logs, diaries, official language more than this self-educated Baltimore journalist, reports, and the archaeological recovery of the Belle, is both and Teachout reminds us how much we owe him, despite scholarly and enormously gripping - history with the his less-than-admirable personal traits. appeal of a novel. Vincent Cannato, The Ungovernable City (2002, Basic Books). Young, charismatic, and arrogant, John Lindsay Rex Myers wrecked his political career trying to reform New York City Lecturer in history and Freshman Studies during the 1960s. This book offers an object lesson in the Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair.- A Novel (2002, Viking Pen­ perils of hubris, sanctimony, and moral hypocrisy for effec­ guin). Time and the printed word are fluid in Fforde's tive urban leadership. world. His heroine, Thursday Next, is a Literary Detective Kiron Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, in the Special Operations Network (London), charged with eds., Reagan in His Own Hand(2001, Free Press). Ronnie? preserving the integrity of classic literature in a world that A policy wonk? Are you serious? Well, while this collection cares. Someone steals the original manuscript of jane Eyre of Reagan's radio broadcasts from the 1970s may not have with the power to change all extant printed copies by earned him a chair at the Kennedy School of Government, simply altering the manuscript. This premise makes for they will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that he intriguing possibilities, a delightful story well told, and a refreshing perspective on literary analysis.

Lawrence Today 23 was a genial dim bulb. Agree with him or not, Reagan convert to the fiction of Isabel Allende. As many reviewers thought deeply about the issues of hi s day, and the have noted, she is one of the most widely read Latin Amer­ jokes about the extent of his intellectual engagement should ican novelists. Her books leap to the best seller list as soon now stop. as they are published - but the wonderful thing about reading books is that it doesn't matter whether you Murray Sperber, Beer and Circus (2001, Owl Books). Boy, "discover" an author when she first begins publi shing or will you be glad you went to Lawrence after reading this. encounter her after her career is well established. Sperber shows how big-time universities mask their failure Best known for her 1987 House of the Spirits, Allende's to educate undergraduates by distracting them with alcohol talent lies in her considerable ability to evoke place and and sports. A book that makes one cherish liberal arts create characters one wants to know. Daughter of Fortune education aU the more. follows Eliza Sommer, from her adoption in Chile as an Sam Roberts, The Brother (2001 , Random House). What infant to California during the middle of the 19th century. does it feel like to send your sister to the electric chair? Sommer, raised with wealth and privilege, struggles to fit D avid Greenglass's testimony was at the center of the into the Victorian life her parents and society expect. She Rosenberg atomic spy trial of 195 1 and resulted in a death abandons Chilean society and as a pregnant, unmarried sentence fo r his sister, Ethel. A stunning journalistic woman, stows away on a ship to California. T his move gives achievement (Greenglass had lived under an assumed Allende the opportunity to recreate California during the identity for almost 40 years before New York Times reporter turbulent, exciting years of Gold Rush fever, something she Roberts tracked him down), this is a poignant story of does better than most other novelists. misplaced loyalties, both personal and ideological. Portrait in Sepia picks up the story of Eliza's grand­ daughter, Aurora del Valle. Aurora, her fi rst years spent in Jerald Podair, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, California, moves to Chile to live with her widowed pater­ Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis (2003, Yale nal grandmother, Paulina del VaUe, a powerful, eccentric University Press). T hought I'd give the author a plug. How businesswoman. Aurora does not know the details of her black and white New Yorkers during the 1960s came to parentage- which, to make a good story, are complicated view the same events in markedly different ways - and - and her grandmother Paulina is loath to answer her created a city of strangers. questions. These hidden complications are what motivate Aurora to discover the story of her past and the identity of Susan L. Richards her parents. Again, Allende creates the 19th century worlds Director of the Seeley G. M udd Library of San Fran cisco and Santiago vividly and powerfully. And, and associate profe ssor while Aurora is not as interesting as her two grandmothers, Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune (1999, HarperCoUins) Paulina and Eliza provide plenty of character to keep you and Portrait in Sepia (2001, H arperCollins). I am a recent turning the pages. If you haven't encountered Allende yet,

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try these two books. Next on my list is House of the Spirits, contemporary Roman tourists. Perrottet translates these which traces the same family line into the 20th century. ancient travelogues, but he also uses them as the itinerary for his own travels. For the record, lumpy beds and lousy [Ed. note: Isabel Allende received the honorary degree Doctor food have been around for millennia. Route 66 A.D. is an if Letters from Lawrence in 2000, when she addressed a informative and entertaining romp around the Mediter­ university convocation.} ranean in both the past and the present. Daniel]. Taylor, '63 Jane Parish Yang Hiram A. J ones Professor of Classics Associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures Ross King's Ex-Libris (2002, Penguin) sets its readers down Ann Patchett, Bel Canto: A Novel (2002, Harper Perennial). on London Bridge in 1660, and pretty soon we're off in South American terrorists storm a diplomatic reception and search of a missing manuscript. The tales of travel through­ hold an opera star and opera lovers hostage. Fascinating out the turmoil of 17th century Europe are told by the first­ peek into the worlds of diplomacy and music. person narrator, Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian. The novel breathes history and mystery on Jonathin Spence, The Gate if Heavenly Peace: The Chinese every page. and Their Revolution (1982, Viking Press). Spence presents If the name Ross King sounds familiar, that's because the chaotic history of reform and revolution in China he is also the author of the best-selling Brunelleschi's Dome through the interconnected lives of intellectuals, revolution­ (2001, Penguin). This slim volume chronicles Filippo aries, and traditionalists. Still as enthralling as when it was Brunellcschi's monumental achievement of figuring out first published 20 years ago. how to build a dome for the magnificent cathedral that the Florentines had constructed. It was an historic Renaissance Richard Yatzeck engineering feat patterned on ancient Roman building tech­ Professor of Russian niques as exemplified by the Pantheon in Rome. Ki ng is at Since "war" seems to be the name of the present game, I his best here and writes a work of non-fiction that reads like would like to suggest two fine authors on the subject: Pat a novel. Barker and W. G. Sebald. Although I have found all of All roads lead to Rome, as we know, but those same their works relevant to our present situation, I will name roads also lead away from Rome. Route 66 A .D . by two: Barker's Regeneration (1993, Plume) and Sebald's Tony Perrottet (2002, Random H ouse) takes us armchair Austerlitz (2002, Modern Library). If we are in no position travelers to Troy, the Acropolis in Athens, the lost Colossus to halt this foolish game, we may at least attempt to under­ of Rhodes, and even the Pyramids of Egypt, but it docs so stand our situation. Barker and Sebald can help. • with a marvelous twist. We experience the ancient grand tour of the Roman Empire through the eyes and writings of

Lawrence Today 25 Keeping an eve on the big picture: a look at trusteeshiP at lawrence and the tasks ahead

awrence, like many of its peer institutions, faces a growing number of challenges that will surely serve to shape its future. The weak economy and its effect on the endowment and the college's financing, increasing the student body while maintaining the integrity and quality of the academic program, advancing the residential dimension of the undergraduate experience and acqmnng the resources needed to support new facilities and amenities, and promoting the mission of the college in a time in which the broader public understanding and appreciation of the value of a liberal education has greatly diminished - these are but a few of the challenges. Not the least of which is

Bv Jenrev Riester, 10 Chair of the lawrence Universitv Board of Trustees

26 Spring2003 the fact that we arc at a transitional - one could even say in the liberal arts and sciences and to develop the scholar" historic - moment, presented by the pending retirement of [from the university charter]. In short, the Board is President Richard Warch (see Inside Lawrence, page 3). entrusted with stewardship of the institution and guides It falls upon the Board of Trustees to help guide the (through Trustee~adopted policies) the fi..tlfillment of the college through such times of uncertainty and to exercise university's mission by the faculty and administration. the trust bestowed upon us to best sustain and advance the In practice, the Board's responsibilities are exercised

Members of the lawrence University Board of Trustees Left to right front row Bonnie Bryant Hiller, '68. Overton B. Parrish. · ~~. Marion C. Read. Judith A. Paul. Gregory R. O'Meara. '72, Ellen E. Douglass. 74. Priscilla Peterson Weaver. C69: second row Harry M. Jansen Kraemer.Jr .. 77.James D. Ericson. John T. Leatham. ·~a. Jeffrey D. Riester. '70, Chair. Richard Warch. Kim Hiett jordan. ·~a. Cynthia StiehL C89. G. Craig Christensen, 71: third row Margaret Carroll. '61. Secretary. Richard L Gunderson. John H. Ellerman. 'S8. Oscar C. Boldt. Donald A. Smart, '64. William). Baer. 71, William 0. Hochkammer, Jr.. '66. Vice Chair. Susan Nelson Goldsmith. '6~: fourth row Douglas A. Brengel, 71, Steven Simon, '68, ). Terrance Franke. '68. Thomas C. Kayser, '58, Lewis Carpenter Lofgren. james Hart Merrell. '75. Harold E. jordan. '72. Robert J. 5chaupp. '51, james L Fetterly, '58. Not pictured: Henry Louis Gates. Jr.. Catheryn E. Hoehn, Edith G. Andrew, Robert C. Buchanan, Margaret Banta Humleker, John A. Luke, Jr.. Nancy V. Scarff, Campbell Scott A photo of Mollie Herzog Keys, '64, David N. Knapp, '89. and Constance Clarke Purdum, '55, is on page 6.

welfare of the institution. Alumni and others may well cooperatively and collaboratively with the administration, wonder what role the Trustees will have in these develop­ the faculty, and, to an extent, the student body and the ments and how the Board has prepared itself to carry out its alumni. 1 should note here that 12 of the Board's 43 mem­ responsibilities. bers are alumni trustees, who arc nominated by the Alumni Association. Indeed, not only docs the Board collaborate T he work of the Board ofT rustees and share the privileges and responsibilities of authority, in The Bylaws of the university describe the role of trustees some areas the Trustees explicitly delegate authority tooth­ thusly: "Final responsibility fo r the direction and welfare of ers, such as deferring to the faculty's purview over curricular the university resides in the Board ofTrusrees." Clearly, matters. however, the Trustees do not directly carry out the college's The "bible" for governing boards of private colleges is a mission; rather they oversee the work of the administration work called Ejj'ective Trusteeship: A Guidefor Board M embers and hold it accountable for "maintain[ing] an institution of of Independent Colleges and Universities, by Richard T. learning on a plan sufficiently extensive to afford instruction Ingram - a must read for all new Lawrence trustees.

Lawrence Today 27 Ingram lists 12 primary responsibilities, including support­ "reporting out" to the full Board in plenary session, we now ing the president and monitoring the president's perfor­ organize our work at each meeting around a Main Thing. mance, ensuring good management, preserving institutional Armed with information studied in advance, we focus independence, and relating campus to community and on one key strategic issue confronting the college and on the community to campus, as well as serving occasionally as a formulation of policies to address that issue. To enable us to court of appeal. The longer 1 sn1dy the literature in this measure effectiveness in the fulfillment of Lawrence's mis­ field, and serve on the Lawrence Board of Trustees, the sion, the Trustees developed a set of"dashboard indicators" more I believe trusteeship should focus on three things: set­ or key measurements of institutional performance (e.g., ting mission and purposes, appointing a president, and selectivity, retention, net tuition revenue, endowment per ensuring adequate resources. student, and student/faculty ratios). We return to those indicators frequently and seek to identify trends that inform Refocusing the trustees' efforts our work. Some four to five years ago, the leaders of the Board became We have held ten meetings since the retreat. During increasingly convinced that all too many meetings of the the first year our board reorganization was a work in Trustees had become bogged down in or preoccupied with progress, but we went ahead in "Chait Mode" nonetheless, the more mundane aspects of the college's operation, such as not wanting to lose momentum. Our first Main Thing­ reviewing committee reports and dealing with agenda items based meeting was in January 2000, and we focused upon that, in the larger scheme of things, focused on nonessential student retention. In subsequent meetings, our Main business. In all honesty, we sometimes gave too much atten­ Things have included academic planning and the financial tion to the color of bricks on a new building and roo little challenges brought on by the recession and stock market attention to more important policy issues. decline. Much has been written recently about the need to Admittedly, we sometimes find ourselves slipping back reform - indeed, even reinvent - college governance. In into the old ways of doing things and need reminding that that light, the Board undertook an initiative to redirect its we best serve Lawrence when we focus on policy, not paper­ energies to focus on large strategic issues. clips, but on the whole, the energies of the Trustees are One of the nation's gurus on this subject of board rein­ more concentrated and our contributions are becoming even vention, llichard Chait of the Harvard Graduate School of more meaningful and productive. VVe've found, not surpris­ Education, was brought to Bjork.lundcn for a trustee retreat ingly, that the Main Things change with time and there is in October 1999, to help us explore how we might better do no one static blueprint. In recent months, for example, our job. Over tvvo days we sought to identify what we we've needed to more fully address financial matters, in believed to be the "Main Things" facing the college - order to ensure that Lawrence thrives through these chal­ issues Lawrence and the Board needed to address in order lenging economic times. to thrive in the 21st century. We reached a broad consensus that the most significant challenges (and opportunities) fac­ The search for a worthy successor ing Lawrence in the coming years were to 1) clarifY the mis­ Without doubt, the next Main Thing for the Trustees will sion and value of Lawrence's version of liberal education; 2) be the search for Lawrence's 15th president. When Rik enlarge and improve the applicant pool and improve student Warch retires in June 2004, he will have served an extraor­ retention; 3) ensure the financial viability of the university; dinary 25 years. By all measures, he has led Lawrence with 4) oversee an inevitable leadership transition; and 5) harness distinction and the college has flourished during his tenure. the opportunities inherent in information technology. The selection and appointment of his successor, as well as As everyone who has participated in such a retreat guiding a smooth transition in leadership, is now the most knows, the rough work is in the implementation that fol­ important challenge and opportunity facing the Board. The lows. T he Trustees set about a reorganization of the Board officers of the Board have been preparing for this moment and irs meeting/work priorities, with an eye toward enabling for some time, and work is already underway. us to focus on these Main Things and others that might One cannot overstate how different this presidential arise over time. We streamlined the Board's structure and search will be from the ones that came before it. I served on started to organize our meetings differently. Where previ­ the 1979 search committee (as an alumni representative) ously we spent most of our time together (tvvo days, three and have reveled, as only a history major could, in a review times a year) meeting and working in committees and then of the records of that committee's work. Tn some ways, this

28 Spring 2003 search process will be like the 1979 search -the Trustees in a September/October 2002 article in Trusteeship maga­ will appoint a search committee made up of alumni, stu­ zine, "choosing a chief executive has always been a chal­ dents, faculty, and trustees, and the college will place adver­ lenge, but the complexities and unpredictability of higher tisements in all the usual publications. But the world of education today have heightened the difficulties. T his higher education has changed dramatically in the two and uncertainty reflects the rapidly changing nature of society as half decades since our last appointment of a new president, well as the inrernal pressures for a new kind of leader - and Lawrence's search will reflect tl1ose changes. Here, as I one who is expected to provide firm guidance, bring a deep see it, are some of the new realities we face. sense of humility marked by collaborative decision making, Rik Warch would be among the first to tell you that the offer personal attention to external constituencies, and job he took on in 1979 and the job he performs now are very balance the emotional with the intellectual in a sea of ambigu­ different indeed. A college president today, even more than ity." It is a rare individual, indeed, who can step up to those yesteryear, must be an individual of multiple talents and expectations. predilections. As Alan Guskin and Mary Marcy pointed out The era of the long-serving president may be a thing of

The Trustees developed a set of "dashboard indicators" or kev measurements of institutional performance: selectivitv, retention, net tuition revenue, endowment per student, and student/facultv ratios

Lawrence Today 29 important step in building the institution itself, and that Because of where Rik warch requires acquiring a level of expertise and experience with such activity that only a specialist can provide. As such, the has taken us, we are able to Board will engage a professionaJ search consulting firm to help plan for and operate the search process. seek- and we will find-a This is an opportunity to explore our vision for Lawrence, to understand it in new ways, to translate that woman or man who can lead understanding into a description of our next leader, and to Lawrence to new heights build support among aU Lawrence constiruencies for the next president. We must marshal the best resources available during an extraordinarilY to realize the significant potential the search affords. Finally, our ~earch will be different from previous ones challenging period. because of our aspirations for its success. Because Lawrence is a more ambitious enterprise than it was 25 years ago, and because higher education is so different, we must set very lofty goals for ourselves. Rik Warch and Lawrence grew into a successful pairing during higher education's most dynamic the past. \Vhile two or three decades ago, it was not period. Because of where he has taken us, we are able to seek uncommon for a college or university president to serve at - and we will find - a woman or man who can lead a single institution for ten to 15 years or more, the average Lawrence to new heights during an extraordinarily chal­ tenure today for public university presidents is only five lenging period. years in office and for presidents of private colleges, about seven years. This places an even greater premium on finding How we will proceed the best fit between the candidate and the college, so as to The search process will be an "open" one - that is, we will ensure a more stable period of leadership. invite and involve active participation by all constituencies, Another feahtre of present-day presidential searches is not only on the search committee but during other stages of that the pace of such endeavors has greatly accelerated. the process. We will begin with organizational tasks and a Gone arc the days of leisurely correspondence and leisurely period of pre-search study during which the consultant and deliberation, replaced by teleconferencing and e-mail, the committee will define our goals and devise a plan of expectations of quick action by stakeholders and candidates operation. alike, and the need to move swiftly to attract and sustain the Next, the search team (committee and consultant) will interest of the best and the brightest. VVc are immensely develop two critical documents: an Institutional Profile and grateful to Rik Warch for giving us such a long interval to a Statement of Leadership Characteristics of the next presi~ adequately prepare for what will be in practice - in keep­ dent. These key writings will be done in consultation with ing with other presidential searches - a very intense 22- alumni, students, faculty, and staff and ultimately be week process. We are more confident of our ability to take approved by the Trustees. Once in place, the Profile and on such an important task in such a short amount of time Statement of Leadership Characteristics will serve as because of the preparation time allotted by Rik's early "touchstones" throughout the process. announcement of his retirement plans. The search team will elicit candidates through advertis~ As the pace of higher education and society has accel­ ing and from nominations derived from many sources, as erated, so have the complexities of the presidential job mar­ well as through the recruiting efforts of the consultant. Then ket. Fewer and fewer academic deans and other qualified they will screen and evaluate the pool of candidates, nar­ individuals desire to take on the enormous demands and rowing the number to 12~ 15 and interviewing them off pressures of the modern day college presidency. Finding the campus. During this period the process will "go dark," with right candidate is an even more time-consuming and diffi­ much of the work being done very privately. cult task in today's environment. The process will come to the surface again in its latter The Trustees at first considered "going it aJone" with­ stages, during which candidates will visit campus. We want out any outside help but soon realized that would be a mis­ to be sure the finalists are in Appleton during the peak of take. We are not just looking for the next occupant of Wisconsin's winter (preferably during a blizzard), so we can Sampson House. With this search, Lawrence will take an test their resolve and satisfy all full disclosure requirements!

30 Spring2003 Mter receiving the search team's recommendations, the celebrate the Warch years and all they have meant. Board ofTrustees will act upon the appointment in late As the Lawrence Board ofTrustees has sought to focus winter or early spring 2004. on the Main Things that will enable the college to flourish in the future, we have been presented with an opportunity Looking to the future to connect our goals and aspirations to those of a new More information will be provided as the work proceeds, leader. This confluence of circumstances makes this the consistent with protection of confidentiality regarding can­ best time ever to setve as a trustee. As the ultimate stewards didacies. In the meantime, of course, life will go on at of the college's assets and the body charged with ensuring Lawrence without interruption. \Ve know that R.ik Warch the fu lfillment of Lawrence's mission, the Board seeks in will not comfortably relax into "lame duck" status; work, this important time to propel the university fon.vard to the change, and challenge at Lawrence will continue at a rapid most successful and exciting period in its history. • pace. Excitement will build for new leadership even as we

The PresldenUal Search commmee

At its Winter meeting on January 17,2003. the William 0. Hochkammer. Jr., '66 Jeffrey D. Riester. 70, ex officio Board of Trustees appointed a chair for the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and Chair of th€ Board ofTrustees and Presidential Search Committee and authorized Attorney/Partner, Honigman Miller Attorney/Manager, Appleton Office. its makeup, and issued a charge for the commit­ Schwartz & Cohn Godfrey & Kahn, SC tee to begin organizing its work Members of Bloomfield Hills. Michigan Appleton. Wisconsin the Search Committee are Eilene Haft-March Cynthia Stiehl, C'89 Robert C. Buchanan, '62, Chair Associate Professor of French Trustee and Singer Trustee and President, Fox Valley Corporation Appleton, Wisconsin Punta Gorda. Florida Appleton. Wisconsin Harold E. Jordan. 72 Daniel J. Taylor, '63 Margaret Carroll, '61, ex officio Trustee and Chief Executive Officer, Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics Trustee and Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Madras Packaging, llC Appleton, Wisconsin Editorial and Business Consultant Greenwood, Virginia (self-employed) Stephanie Howard Vrabec, '80 Appleton, Wisconsin Howard E. Niblock Environmental Consultant (self-employed) and Professor of Music Vice President of the Lawrence University Michael P. Cisler, C78 Appleton. Wisconsin Alumni Association President and CEO, JanSport. Inc. Menasha. Wisconsin Neenah, Wisconsin Anne S. Norman. '77 Registrar Two student representatives will be appointed David M. Cook Appleton. Wisconsin in consultation with the lawrence University Professor of Physics and the Community Council Philetus E. Sawyer Professor of Science Seymour. Wisconsin

Lawrence Today The Bruces: Brackenridge (leh) and Pourciau Seduced by the liberal arts: Sir Isaac and the two Bruces

To be published in the forthcoming issue What follows is the tale of the role Lawrence University has of Archive for History of Exact Sciences: Bruce Brackenridge, played in leading a physicist and a mathematician down the "Newton's Easy Qyadratures 'O mitted for the Sake of trail of historical research. Brevity"' and Bruce Pourciau, "Newton's Argument for Bruce the Elder (ni Brackenridge) joined the faculty in Proposition 1 of the Principia." the fall of 1959. He brought with him a grant from the Research Corporation that was renewed in 1960, and he A quiz: What do these two articles have in common? spent his first sabbatical, in 1965, at Brown University Perhaps the most obvious similarity is that they are both doing experimental physics. concerned with Sir Isaac Newton's great work: The Mathe­ But other forces were at work. His wife, Mary Ann matical Prit?Ciples of Natural Philosophy, commonly called the Rossi, a classical scholar with interests in Greek and Roman Principia- a book more revered than read. archaeology, introduced him to the excavations of H einrich Second, both authors are on the Lawrence University Schliemann in Greece and of Arthur Evans in Crete. Tn the faculty: the first is a professor emeritus of physics, and the summer of 1962, they attended a scientific conference in second is a professor of mathematics. Denmark and extended their trip in order to visit classical T o complete the comparison, both have the same given sites in Italy. In the Roman Forum, he bent down and name. To avoid confusion, they have taken to referring to placed his fingers in the mts cut into the stone by the wheels each other as Bmce the Younger and Bmce the Elder (with of the ancient chariots. Like Saul on the road to Damascus, apologies to the Roman Plinys). he arose a changed man. Suddenly history came to life.

12 Spring1003 The logical structure ol' Newt on's outline In 1982, Bruce the Elder published his first paper in the history of science. It was not on Newton, however, does I'C\'Ca l a llaw, but on l' that is a mh1 o1' but on Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer who, in omission and easily l'l'llairi'IL 1609, published the great heliocentric work on the motion of Mars: the Astronomia Nova. The first proposition in Principia is the mathematical demonstration of Kepler's Returning to Lawrence, he was asked (selected, cajoled, area law, and it is on that first proposition that much of ordered) to participate in the Freshman Sh1dies program, what follows depends. where the first work to be read was Plato's Republic. Now That same year, a mathematician turned physicist at the intellectual world of antiquity, as well as the physical, Oberlin College published a paper titled "Dismantling a was opened for him. In 196 7 he was chair of the book­ Centuries-old Myth: Newton's Principia and Inverse­ selection committee for Freshman Studies when Professor square Orbits," in which he accused Newton of knowingly of Government Chung-Do Hah suggested a recent book papering over logical flaws in his proof of elliptical orbits that might be of interest, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of and stated, moreover, that historians of science had either Scientific Revolutions. Over the next two years, he served as failed to appreciate Newton's crime or, even worse, joined director of Freshman Studies, and in 1995 he published an in the cover up. article entitled "Kuhn, Paradigms, and Astronomy: Astron­ Bruce the Elder became embroiled in a continuing cor­ omy as a Case Study of Kuhnian Paradigms." respondence with the author and soon began to look around The final push came in 1970 in an upper-division for a mathematician to help him in the struggle. Enter physics class from a student who asked quite innocently, Bruce the Younger, who took up the cudgels and in the best "How did Newton ever think of that?" Bruce the Elder Brer Rabbit tradition got Bruce the Elder off the hook realized that he had never even seen a copy of Principia, In 1991, Bruce the Younger published a paper arguing much less read it, although that did not deter him (a Ia that careful examination of the logical structure ofNewton's Kuhn) from repeating what the textbooks said that Newton outline does reveal a flaw, but one that is a minor omiss ion had said. and easily repaired. The argument on that topic continued, In 1973 he spent his second sabbatical as an academic and now Bruce the Younger was hooked on the subject. visitor in the history of science department at Imperial Over the next decade he followed this initial paper with College, University of London. The following year he a series of excellent publications on various mathematical remained in London as director of the Lawrence London aspects of the Principia. His penultimate paper is the one Center, and while there he offered a tutorial in Newton's referred to in the introduction to this article. Principia to two junior physics majors (innocents abroad) . In 1990, the same year as Bruce the Younger's first The course was an awakening experience for all three of contact with the Principia, Bruce the Elder received a grant them. of$92,000 from the National Endowment for the Human­ In 1976, Bruce the Younger (nt Pourciau) joined the ities to prepare a guided study to the Principia with a partial Lawrence mathematics fac ulty. H is teaching was, and still is, translation from the first (1687) Latin edition. (Remember concentrated on contemporary mathematics, and his schol­ that his wife is a classical Latin scholar who helped get him arly research was centered on current topics in that field. into this situation.) The project culminated in the publica­ H e first taught Freshman Studies in 1979 and later tion of his book, The Key to Newton's Dynamics, by the served as director. Reading Plato and Kuhn rekindled his University of California Press in 1995. T he book also interest in the foundations of mathematics and science and spun off a number of journal articles, including the one ultimately led to two papers on the philosophy of mathe­ now being published in the same journal as Bruce the matics: "T he Education of a Pure Mathematician" and Younger's article. "Intuitionism as a (Failed) Kuhnian Revolution in Mathe­ What, then, is the moral to be drawn from this tale of matics." In 1990 Bruce the Younger's scholarly interests academic seduction? Perhaps it is this: When Lawrence remained mathematical and philosophical but not histori­ President Nathan Pusey introduced Freshman Studies into caL In particular, Newton's Principia was for him a closed the curriculum in 1945, as much to educate the faculty as book, as it had been for Bruce the Elder 20 years earlier. the students (as he admitted later), he knew exactly what he This situation was about to change, for once again, other was doing. • forces were at work.

Lawrence Today 33 Isolation, interdisciplinarity,

inspiration Doing research in the liberal arts college setting By Peter Glick. PI'OFessOI' or Psychology

Originally published in the November 2002 issue ifObserver, and close friends not only work in different subfields, but a publication of the American Psychological Society, and that many will not be psychologists. At the lunch table reprinted by permission. where one mixes with philosophers, physicists, and English professors, conversations often revolve around the mundane The virtues of the liberal arts college are (such as whether a new restaurant in town has raised the usually expressed in terms of the teaching, not the scholarly, local, depressingly low, culinary bar), but not always. Expo­ mission of these institutions, yet there are advantages to the sure to people in entirely foreign fields can have a salutary liberal arts college setting that can deepen a faculty mem­ effect; information is accrued through what seems like a ber's research contribution. One of the most important is an process of osmosis. Knowing that witchcraft accusations in intellectual climate that fosters knowledge of other disci­ Ghana often included charges of infanticide may not be plines and intellectual breadth. Specifically, three forces necessary, but such bits of information have expanded my promote interdisciplinary awareness: colleagues, students, perspective as a sexism researcher. and the structure of the curriculum. Interdisciplinarity need Students often serve as the indirect conduit of intellec­ not weaken commitment to one's own field (though this is tual stimulation from one's colleagues. Undergraduates at a potential danger); rather, it can encourage fresh liberal arts colleges usually have wide-ranging interests (and approaches to enduring topics, leading to innovative distribution requirements ensure their exposure to a variety research and theoretical advances. of fields), leading them to connect the dots between their Having small departments (at Lawrence, six full-time classes. I may first learn about the theoretical perspectives of faculty covering all of psychology) means that colleagues an anthropologist, whose office is just down the hall, from

34 Spring2003 the student who is taking both her class and mine. Not development of ambivalent sexism theory. infrequently, in-class discussions determine the subsequent I might have benefited from reading such works on my content of exchanges with colleagues. Exposure to different own, but (a) I probably wouldn't have picked them up if not fields (through both students and colleagues) has influenced for Freshman Studies and (b) the desperate knowledge that me to take account of different levels of analysis, not just the I had to teach these books to undergraduates and lead intel­ psychological, in my own research (e.g., emphasizing the ligent discussions on them motivated a deeper engagement role of social structure in generating prejudice). with the works that has been truly eye-opening. Students are also a direct source of inspiration. Teach­ Similarly, teaching an interdisciplinary course on the ing undergraduates and doing research need not be compet­ Holocaust with a religious studies professor (in this case, my ing obligations; they can be mutually reinforcing. In psy­ wife) directly informed the development of a general model chology, as in other empirical fields, undergraduate research of scapegoating. T caching about the Holocaust required me meshes perfectly with the liberal arts mission. Undergradu­ to know specific historical details, and this knowledge ate students are capable of participating in high quality sparked insights about the nature of scapegoating that con­ research (they have served as co-authors on many of my own tradict psychology's conventional wisdom. For example, I publications) and involving them in research is one of the propose that targets are scapegoated because they are per­ surest ways to foster their intellectual development. Because ceived as powerful, not weak, and that the lessening of frus­ they have not yet acquired the blinders of specialized knowl­ trations, if attributed to the actions of a genocidal political edge and are immersed in classes from a variety of disci­ movement, can foster, rather than diminish, commitment plines, students often generate (more readily than those of to genocide. Although these insights were rooted in a par­ us with a Ph.D.) basic, ye t innovative research questions. ticular historical case, comparisons to other genocides (e.g., My first foray into sexism research - now my bread and Rwanda) suggest that they can be generalized. butter - stemmed from a project in my Research Methods I do not mean to leave readers with an unrealistically class generated by two students' interest in sex discrimination. rosy view of research in a liberal arts context. I urgently Looking at curriculum, the liberal arts college demands needed to spend my first sabbatical at a research institution that faculty teach a wider range and a greater number of to develop and test some of the ideas inspired by teaching at courses compared to our colleagues at research institutions. a liberal arts college. The sabbatical had an equally impor­ We may be expected to teach outside our own sub-areas of tant effect of helping me to expand my connections with psychology, to contribute to interdisciplinary programs, and others in the discipline. Although faculty at liberal arts even to participate in a college-wide course that is com­ colleges have to work harder to forge and maintain such pletely outside the field. connections, the current age of global communication, The specialization encouraged in graduate school does along with the fact that research in psychology is conducive not prepare one for these wide-ranging demands, and it is to collaboration, means that isolation can be overcome. The extraordinarily difficult for faculty just beginning their reward is involvement in two intellectual communities: one careers to fulfill them while maintaining a research program. local and interdisciplinary, the other international but more But there are advantages to taking a wider focus. Teaching narrowly focused. more broadly within psychology diminishes the tunnel Having a foot in each world creates a friction that can vision that can develop in graduate school and thus can spark inspiration. • enhance one's creativity as a researcher. The development of courses in an interdisciplinary program entails exposure to Peter Glick has been a member of the faculty since 1985. alternative approaches to shared questions. Teaching out­ He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Oberlin side of psychology entirely is a daunting experience, but can College and Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of be an intellectually energizing chance to relive being an under­ Minnesota. His research focuses on understanding prejudice. graduate, but with a set of skills you did not have back then. Glick and co-author Susan T Fiske of Princeton University Teaching in Lawrence's Freshman Studies program has received the 1995 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize been valuable to me as a researcher. Woolf's A Room ofOne's for their work on ambivalent sexism. Since then, their Ambiva­ Own, Marx's Communist Manifosto, and Conrad's Heart of lent Sexism Inventory has generated research involving more Darkness have deepened my scholarly approach to sexism than 20,000 participants in 24 nations. Readers can take an and to prejudice in general. Virginia Woolfs little gem of a interactive ambivalent sexism test and compare their scores to book, which is full of psychological insight about how men national averages from various nations at www.understanding think about women and vice versa, directly influenced the prejudice.org.

LawrenceToday 35 Sports losing is not an option Valerie Curtis runs fast. works hard, and wins

Bv Joe Vanden Acker

he word average and Valerie Curtis have little to offer a distance runner. Shullsburg High School never become acquainted. doesn't have a cross country team, and the track program Nothing about Curtis, '03, is ordinary was cur the year after Curtis graduated. or typical. Her achievements in the class­ With her sister already at Lawrence, Curtis was room, on the cross country course, and recruited by LU head cross country coach Mike Fox and Ton the nmning track have been exceptional prodded by both her sister and Fox to run for the Vikings, and, given her athletic background, some­ despite a lack of high school experience. what amazing. "I liked running, but it wasn't real important at that Curtis is a :Midwest Conference (J\.1WC) champion point," she says. in track and has earned all-conference honors three rimes in After putting together a solid freshman year that cross country. A physics major and biology minor, she has included helping the Lawrence women win the 1999 M id­ a sparkling 3.8 grade-point average and has earned a spot west Conference cross country championship, Curtis on the academic all-conference ream nine times, the maxi­ increased her focus on running. She and Vanessa began mum a Midwest Conference athlete can achieve. training harder and ran the Green Bay Marathon during the Her success is rooted in a drive to be the best and a summer of 2000. work ethic that complements that motive. The overriding "After that, I was focused on my sophomore year of factor is that Curtis hates to lose about as much as a six­ cross country. I wanted to get in the top 15 and be all­ year-old hates Brussels sprouts and liver put together. conference," Curtis says. "That was my goal for that year. I "When she loses, I don't think she wants to lose again," reached it- and that was just amazing." says head track and field coach JVlatt Kehrein, and that atti­ From then on, she was, pardon the pun, off and tude extends to every day in practice. running. "I take every workout pretty seriously," Curtis says. "I She grabbed 13th place at the 2000 MWC cross don't want anyone ahead of me. I don't want to lose. My country championships to receive all-conference honors for whole family is like that. I have two older sisters, and we've the first time. After placing second in the 3,000 meters and always competed a lot." fourth in the 5,000 at the conference indoor track champi­ Her older sisters, Janelle and Vanessa, '00, were both onships, she capped her sophomore year by winning the collegiate athletes. Janelle wrestled at Knox College, and 5,000 at the conference's outdoor meet. She also took sec­ Vanessa ran cross country and track at Lawrence. Vanessa ond in the 10,000 and fifth in the 3,000. is now in medical school at the University of Wisconsin, "Her concentration is strictly on the goals she sets for and Janelle is in dental school at the University oflowa. running, and she makes it a year-round thing," Fox says. "I Valerie Curtis didn't appear destined to be a top col­ don't know that she's a nan1ral talent. I've had nmners with legiate runner; she came from Shullsburg, a city of 1,250 more talent, but no one 1 have ever coached has had more located in the southwest corner of Wisconsin, that had drive or a better work ethic."

36 Spring2003 The training consists of time measured in miles on the road or track, and Curtis admits she revels in being pushed hard by Fox, a coach for whom she professes great respect and someone who has helped her achieve things she didn't know were possible. Curtis also spends countless hours in the weight room, where she has no peer, male or female, when it comes to pounding out pull-ups, push-ups, and sit-ups. "]f I can just keep working harder, 1 can keep getting better," says Curtis of her training philosophy. "I saw so many improvements from the hard work, and that was such a positive reinforcement that ] kept working harder. It was really surprising. I don't think of myself as being very fast. It seems kind of surreal." Fox says the strength training has helped Curtis improve her running, but she admits there might be another motive. "I want to be strong and really tough, able to kind of scare my opponents," she says with a small, but slightly devious, laugh. The rest of the conference wasn't laughing during the 2001-02 school year, when Curtis improved again on the gains made during her sophomore year. She ran to third place at the conference cross country meet and helped the Vikings to the team championship for the second time in three years. She then placed third in the 5,000 and fourth in the 3,000 at the conference indoor meet. During the outdoor season, she qualified provisionally for the NCAA Division III Championships in the 3,000 steeplechase and had three second-place finishes, in the steeplechase, 5,000, and 10,000, at the conference meet. She followed up by again placing third at the 2002 MWC cross country championships. At the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships, Curtis ran to an eighth­ place finish, completing the 6,000-meter course in 22 minutes, 1.33 seconds, to claim a spot in the NCAA Championships. Fox says Curtis' achievement of reaching the NCAA Championships needs to be put in perspective. In that competition, only the top three teams and the top six other runners not competing for one of the top three teams qualifY for nationals. "That was an incredible feat, when you consider that, when Courtney M iller, '03, was a freshman, she finished in 26th place {at the 1999 regional meet) and qualified for nationals," he says. "That shows you how tough individually the regional is now, compared to what it has been in the past." Curtis ran to a 73rd-place finish at the NCAA Cham­ pionships, held at St. Olaf College. She has fought some injuries since cross country season Sports

Curtis has her Notes from the locker room sights set on winning at least one Women's soccer The Vikings saw their College. She earned her spot at the national more conference streak of Midwest Conference Tournament meet by taking eighth at the NCAA Division Ill championships snapped. The Lawrence Midwest Regional Championships. championshiP women. who had won the title the past Curtis grabbed third place at the Midwest two seasons, qualified for the four-team Conference Championships and earned all­ conference tournament for the fifth conference honors for the third consecutive consecutive year but fell to top-seed Carroll season. Led by her effort, the Lawrence women College 2-0 in the semifinals. The Vikings but is prepared to do whatever work is took fourth place in the team standings. Rachel finished fourth in the conference standings Lucas, '06, of Apple Valley, Minn., also made the necessary to get herself back in top with a 7-2 record and were 8-8 overall. all-conference team, by placing 13th form. That approach summarizes her Goalkeeper Katie Wilkin led a group Paul Schonfeld. '06, of Reedsburg led the career, says Kehrein. of four Vikings named to the All-Midwest Lawrence men at the league championships by "Valerie is the type of person who Conference team. Wilkin, '03, was named taking 12th place and earning all-conference was n't that successful in high school the conference Player of the Year and was a honors. The Vikings finished ninth in the team but has become a lot more successful first-team selection for the second consecu­ standings. in college because she was willing to tive year. Defender Katey Hoyme, '04, of work hard," says Kehrein, adding he Palos Park. III .. was also named to the first Volleyball Lis Pollock. '03, finished her career team. and forward Alyssa Spyksma, '03, of as the most prolific volleyball player in Lawrence remains a bit stunned at where she has Sedro Woolley, Wash., and forward Greta history. A senior from Urbana, Il l., she earned taken herself. Raaen, 'OS , of Byron. Minn., both earned fi rst-team All-Midwest Conference honors and 'We knew from our experiences second-team honors. Hoyme, Spyksma, and was named to the all-conference team for the with her sister that she was going to Raaen were all given all-conference honors third consecutive season. have a good work ethic, but it was sur­ for the fi rst time. Wilkin, who hails from A middle hitter. Pollock piled up 512 kills. prising how much she improved." Oregon, Wis., earned all-conference honors topping the 500 mark for the second consecu­ Curtis has her sights set on win­ for the third time after compiling an 8-8 tive season. She hit .423 {512 kills. 92 errors, 994 ning at least one more conference record with a 1.75 goals against average and attacks) and finished ninth in the country in an .862 save percentage. hitting percentage. Her average of 4.57 kills per championship duri ng track season, game placed her 26th in the nation. She also had and then it is graduation and graduate Men's soccer Adam Miner. 'OS. earned 216 digs and a team-high 85 blocks. Pollock owns school. She has applied to seve ral All -Mid west Conference honors for the the school's career records for kills (1 ,595) and schools and plans to pursue either bio­ Vikings, who finished eighth in the conference hitting percentage (.336). She also has the season physics, biomechanics, or biomedical standings with a 2-7 mark. Miner led records for kills, kills per game, and hitting engineering. She admits that those Lawrence, which put together a 3-11-2 record. percentage and the match records for kills and areas of study are large, so she isn't in scoring with seven goals and one assist for hitting percentage. sure what her eventual research spe­ 15 points. The Madison native scored six of his Shannon Arendt, '04, earned second-team cialty will be. seven goals in conference play. all-conference honors. The Hortonville native had 359 kills and averaged 3.21 kills per game. W hich will mark the first ti me in Cross country Valerie Curtis, '03, capped a Arendt had a team-high 48 service aces, was a long time that Valerie Curtis didn't stellar career by qualifying for the NCAA second on the team with 361 digs, and added know exactly where she was going. • Division Il l Championships. Asenior from 18 blocks. Shullsburg, she placed 73rd in a field of 215 The Vikings finished second in the North runners at the championships, held at St. Olaf Division and had a 10-21 overall record.

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Football While it was a disappointing season on the scoreboard for the Vikings. Lawrence did have a number of players turn in outstanding individual performances Running back justin Berrens, '05. and wide receiver Zach Michael, '04, were both named to the All-Midwest Conference first team. Berrens, a Waupaca native, finished second in the league in rushing with 288 carries for 1,396 yards and six touchdowns. He averaged 4.8 yards per carry and 139.6 yards per game, which ranks him 13th in the nation. Michael, from Appleton, is one of the finest receivers in Lawrence history. He caught 52 passes for 855 yards and eight touchdowns. With another season to play, Michael already owns or has tied all the school"s major receiving records. He holds the record for receptions with 187 and the record for receiving yards with 2.966. He is tied with All-American tight end Pat Schwanke, '83, Michael"s high school coach, with 30 touchdown catches. Offensive tackle Tony Bouressa, '04, of Kaukauna, earned second-team all-conference honors. Receiving honorable mention were Who turned pro? quarterback/tight end Chris McGinley, '03, of Mount Horeb. defensive tackle Steve Heindl, (72). Travis Orth. 'OJ (71). and Matt Orth. '06 (73). Sports Information Director Joe Vanden '04, of Kaukauna. and outside linebacker BJ recorded a team score of 290 in the second Acker needs your help. He is attempting Berlowski. '04. of Sheboygan Falls. round. believed to be the second-lowest team to compile a list of lawrence football lawrence finished last in the Midwest score in school history, eclipsed only by a 288 players who have gone on to play the Conference with a 0-9 record and was 0-10 shot by the 1949 squad of Don Strutz, '49, Carl game professionally- players who have overall. Laumann. 'SO, Richard Flicker, '49, and A. C. "'AI" either signed pro contracts, attended Braun, '49. training camp, or were drafted by a team. Golf The Vikings completed a standout fall The Vikings also won the Marian College season by winning three of the five tourna­ Classic, where Henderson, the defending If you were one of our pro football ments in which they competed. Midwest Conference champion, earned medalist players or you remember a classmate or lawrence won the Clarke College honors again, and the Wisconsin lutheran teammate who played the game beyond Oktoberfest Tournament. and Jeff Henderson, College InvitationaL JVA lawrence, please contact Vanden Acker. '05. Reedsburg. won the individual title with via phone at 920-832-6878, by e-mail at Andy link. '06, of Rochester, Minn .. taking sec­ [email protected], or ond. The Vikings team of Henderson {70).Link through the mail at lawrence University, P.O. Box 199, Appleton, Wll4912-0199.

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1941 Lawrence University Alumni Association Ruth Althaus Green, Vancouver, Wash., is Susan Voss Pappas, '69 retired from public school music teaching, Executive committee gives private piano and voice lessons, and Walter J.lsaac, '64, President Ruth Legler Qualich, M-D'~~ Soozung W. Sa, '89 sings with a 90-voice volunteer choir. Joyce Stephanie Howard Vrabec. '80, Vice President Jessica Seaberg. ·oo Jouvenat Kunkel, lincoln, Neb., and her hus­ Kelly Carroll Rhodes, '89. Chair. Careers Sarah A. Slivinski, '03, Senior Class President band. John, are members of Friendship Force, Mary Carlson-Mason. 72. Chair. Barbara Martin-Smith, '67 an international organization '"building global Communications Betsy Grausnick Sonnemann, M-D'48 good will through personal friendships. ~ Peter G. Kelly, '87, Chair, Alumni Development Erin E. Stahowiak, '94 Marion Brossard Vaughan, Sarasota, Fla., is Jo Howarth Noonan, 78, Chair, Nominations Ryan L. Tarpley, '93 membership registrar for Brandeis University and Awards Alexander C. Thoman, '95 Women's National Library Association study Todd W. Hausmann, '85, Chair, Alumni Programs Arlene Atwood Trettin, C'61 groups in her area. writes poetry, and is a Andrew D. McNeill, '79, Chair, Student Relations ZacharyW.Walker,'Ol member of the National League of American Directors Patricia Freyburger Watson. M-D' 53 Pen Women. Genevieve M. Williams, '03, Senior Class Secretary Margi Briggs-lofton, '76 Thomas R. Zoellner, '91 1942 Benjamin C. Campbell. C'97 The Oshkosh Rotary Club has re-named its Robert J. Capecchi, '03, Senior Class Agent Ex-Officio Library Fund after Henry Kimberly, Jr., who Joseph M. De luca, 78 janice Daniels Quinlan. '74, Director of Alumni initiated it when he was Rotary president Robert J. Dude. '64 Relations in 19~2. Joshua R. Dukelow, '02 Andrea M. Powers, '94, Associate Director of Sean T. Gilshannon. '89 Alumni Relations M·D 1942 Linda M. laarman, 73 Cara M. Helmke, COO, Special Events Assistant Shirley Bratt Levin and her husband. jack, Kathleen Karst Larson. '60 were the subjects of an article in the travel Curtis G. Lauderdale, '01 section of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Courtney S. lind, '03, Senior Class September. recounting stories of their Vice President experiences while he was a doctor on cruise ships.

Margaret Banta Humleker, '41, of Fond dulac, is a gubernatorial appointee 1944 60th Reunion,)unel004 to the Board of Curators of the Wisconsin Historical Society, having been Frances Lattin Brocker, Wheaton, Ill., was elected to the board for the first time in 1976 and appointed by the gover­ profiled in a recent issue of the Glen Ellyn nor in 1990. She has been a board member of the Wisconsin History Founda­ News/Wheaton Leader. She founded a Sacred tion since 1984 and has served as its president. A past state president of the Arts Festival in Wheaton, has taught the his­ National Order of Colonial Dames Society, she recently was named an hon­ tory of Christian art at the Older Adult Insti ­ orary regent of Gunston Hall Plantation, the Society's museum in the home tute of the College of DuPage, and leads study of George Mason, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights and her great­ tours abroad. Dayton Grafman, Phoenix, Ariz., great-great grandfather. Her impressive record of community service and his wife.laura, were honored in June 2001 includes serving on the boards of directors of both the state and district Children's Service Society of wi th the first K. Richard Johnson Legacy Award Wisconsin, as president of the Service league of Fond du lac, and as a member of the parents council of National-lewis University, recognizing their of University School in Milwaukee. A member of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees since 1981, former service to the university as vice presi­ she serves on its academic affairs committee and the subcommittee on the conservatory. dent and director of financial aid. respectively. M·D 1945 Elsie Nichols Czehno, Sun Prairie, is active in local organizations, including Friends of the The information below has been derived from 1939 Library, 20th Century Club, and the Antique news received in the Alumni Office before Kenneth and Alyce Delong ('40) Sannes, Club. In March. she and Helen Williams Sroka December 1, 2002. North Augusta. S.C., are active in the Episcopal took a theatre, opera, and ballet tour to Church and the Kairos Prison Ministry. Philadelphia. Eloise Bender Johnson is secre­ To add your own news to Class Notes, tary for Johnson & Associates in Concord, please go online to www.lawrence.edu/ 1940 Ohio. Esther McGurer Norbut, La Crescenta. alumni/forms/notes.shtml or write to Calif.. volunteers at the Southern California [email protected]. Ruthellen Pelton Sanders manages the library at her retirement home in Milwaukee. Genealogical Society. Helen Williams Sroka,

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Burlington, is active in a hospital auxiliary and Robert A. Anker, '54, was installed in October as president of the American in her church. Academy of Actuaries. a 14,000-member professional association providing non-partisan actuarial analysis on public-policy issues. The organization often M-D 1948 prepares testimony for Congress. provides information to elected officials, Suzanne Fisher Plouff, Chicago. is secretary/ comments on proposed regulations, and works closely with state officials on treasurer of the Bethany Retirement Commu­ issues related to insurance and employee benefits. A past vice president of nity Council. Bernice larson Nonenmacher, the Academy's Casualty Practice Council, Anker is also a fellow and past Edmeston. N.Y.. has been a member of the president of the Casualty Actuarial Society. He retired in 1997 from the Volunteer Emergency Squad for 26 years American States Financial Corporation. where he was chairman and chief Betsy Grausnick Sonnemann, Madison. is executive officer. Previously, he was president and chief operating officer of Lincoln National completing a four-year term on the board of Corporation in Fort Wayne, Ind. directors of the Lawrence University Alumni Association. She plays saxophone in two bands and sings in the Symphony Chorus. Rosalie Sutherland Stump teaches at Sweet Briar College (Va.). performs concerts on the piano, and exhibits her paintings therapy work in nursing homes and hospices. 1953 50th Reunton. June lO·lJ,lOOl Jacqueline Jone s, associate professor of occu­ 1949 55th Reunion, June 1004 Charles "Rhino" Rohe retired in June as pational therapy at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College, Recordings by Norm Beckman's Geriatric jazz executive director of Florida Citrus Sports. is active in animal-assisted activities and ther­ Band from Appleton have reached seven apy as a Delta Society Pet Partners instructor foreign countries. Carol Vivian Bergquist, M-D 1953 and evaluator. She gave a presentation on the Downey, Calif.. and her husband, Robert, Caro1luth Hansen, Yardley, Pa .. teaches voice subject at the World Federation of Occupa­ celebrated SO years of marriage in March 2001. and piano and studies with a voice teacher in tional Therapists Congress in Stockholm. Kathryn Elwers, Madison. volunteers at the New York City. Sweden, in June. Elizabeth Sharpe Steinhilber, Red Cross and is active in efforts on behalf St. Simons Island. Ga .. volunteers with the of reproductive rights. Barbara lott Kipp, 1956 50th Reunion. june 1006 American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Boulder, Colo., is office manager at St. Paul's Works by Appleton sculptor Charlotte Service and in the First Steps program at her United Methodist Church and a ··non-tradi­ Darling-Diehl won prizes at summer art shows local hospital's maternity ward. tional student." George and Barbara Donahue in Appleton, Madison, and Wausau. Win jones, larsen, Sister Bay, celebrated their 50th St. Augustine. Fla., recently had an exhibition 1957 45th Reunion, june lo-ll. lOOl wedding anniversary in 2001. Marie Kenyon of his paintings from 1960-present at the Ell­ Frederic and Gretchen Hollander ('59) Rosenfeldt, Fond duLac, is active in several wood Museum in DeKalb, Ill., where he was Brechler live in Jacksonville, Fla., where he is lineage societies, including the Mayflower professor of art at Northern Illinois University involved in efforts to preserve the landmark Society, Colonial Dames of America, First Fami­ for 19 years. Gerald Klomberg is medical Southern Bell Building. Frank Cole supervises lies of Virginia, and Daughters of the American director of Clearview Long Term Care and student teachers for National-louis University Revolution. Francis and Barbara Lucas ('52) Rehabilitation Center in Dodge County. Wis. and performs with a quartet and the Oak Park Scholtz, Jacksonville. Fla., received the "'Pro David Sackett, Markdale, Ontario, Canada. has (Ill.) Recorder Society. Roberta luce Guthrie, Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross·· award from Pope been inducted into the Hall of Fame at Lyons a cellist. performs in solo and ensemble recitals John Paul II in recognition of their work at (Ill.) Township High School. his alma mater. and as a member of the Lexington (Ky.) diocesan and national levels promoting stew­ Ronald Schaps is general counsel for Emerald Philharmonic Orchestra. Mary Custis Hart and ardship. Don Strutz, Appleton, was elected to Services, Inc., in Seattle. Donna Fraider her husband, Jerome "Stretch" Hart, 'SS, live the Lawrence Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001. Stewart-Woelffer has joined the Longboat in Manchester. Vt. He is sales director at Pad Pauline Wunderlich Thornburg is a lay United Key (Fla.) office of the real estate firm Michael Print, and she is active in community theatre Methodist chaplain at Fairfax (Va.) Hospital. Saunders & Company. specializing in residen­ and other arts organizations. David Hoffman tial property sales on the mainland and M-D 1950 retired in January 2001 as executive director of barrier islands. Family Service of Milwaukee. Since retirement Irene Fischer Wood, Claremont, Calif., has he has run in 23 marathons, induding one in headed the Care Center Auxiliary at M-D 1956 Antarctica. with the goa! of running a Claremont Manor for nine years. Claudia Backus Baxter has completed 18 years marathon in every state and continent. Tom of volunteer work in the textile collections of Klingbiel, Moline, Ill .. retired as first vice presi­ 55th Reunion, June 1007 1952 the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa dent of Salomon. Smith, Barney after 39 years Richard Swenson is recruiting-information Fe. N.M. Shirley Wilson Burgess, Whitefish in the investment world. Richard Mellien, La support systems manager at the U.S. Army Bay, is a dog-training instructor and does pet Mesa, Calif., is dean emeritus of Grossmont Training Support Center. Fort Eustis, Va

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Richard A. Culbertson, '67, associate professor of health systems manage­ developer. and webmaster for small business ment at Tulane University, has been elected chairman of the board of sites. Karla Struck Tobar is director of group directors of Aurora Health Care, a health-care provider with facilities in more travel for Ambassador Travel in Wilmington. than 75 eastern Wisconsin communities. A member of the Aurora board since Del. jon Vondracek, Washington, D.C.. is vice 1994, Culbertson has served as chief executive officer and chief operating president and advisor to the president of the officer of several major teaching hospitals and is a former associate dean of Center for Strategic and International Studies the University of Wisconsin Medical School. He is a reviewer for Health Care and World Affairs and managing director of Financing Review. a publication of the U.S. Department of Health and the World Affairs Council of Washington. Human Services. and serves as a member of the quality of care and strategic planning committees of the board of directors ofTouro Infirmary in New Orleans. Recipient of the M-D 1960 2002 Professor of the Year award from the Tulane Chapter of the American College of Healthcare jeanette Schmidt Hess is administrator Executives. Culbertson holds a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University, a Master of Health for the Dubuque County (Iowa) Board of Administration degree from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University Supervisors. of California-San Francisco. 1961 41th Reunion, june 2006 Diane Alagna Andreoni retired after 22 years as an instrumental music instructor in the Wauwatosa Public Schools. plays piano with the Terrace Trio, and accompanies school College. Robert Nye, Whitefish Bay. is sales of the Registrar Accreditation Board. Inc., in choirs. manager for Valpar International. James Parker Milwaukee. joyce Claire Jacobson, Madison. serves on the boards of Habitat for Humanity has retired as a M-01961 and Big Brothers/Big Sisters and co-chairs systems analyst for the Wisconsin Department Kathleen Parmentier Greene, Green Bay, in Appleton's annual 'New Year"s Eve Around the of Administration. John and Gretchen Niedert August. volunteered at the Great Lakes Classic Pa r k. ~ Cary Mayer Pratt and George, '59, Her­ ('57) Spickerman, Lac du Flambeau, are retired senior women's golf tournament. joan nando, Fla., recently completed an 8,600-mile and often travel abroad to visit the many Tomarkin Lucht writes: "I retired in June. motorcycle trip up the East Coast to the exchange students who have lived with them spent the summer packing, and moved to Sun Atlantic Provinces and Ontario. Bob Purves is over the years. Edmond and judy Huffman City West, Ariz., in August." assistant vice president. corporate relations, for Sutherland live in Wilmette, Ill. He is a finan­ the credit union at Travis AFB, Calif., and serves cial consultant with Birkelbach Investments, 1964 40th Reunion, june 2004 on the local planning commission. Patricia and she is coordinator of art therapy programs Virginia Allen, Chicago, has been preparing Dresback at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. for a third career, as a licensed clinical Tamburrino retired on December 31 as assistant john and Caroline Tichenor Winsor own massage therapist. Stephanie Giese Heng is principal of Funston School in Chicago. Mary Winsor Communications in Boulder. Colo. teaching at the private Campbell Hall School Walters, Gloucester. Va .. writes: '"Having seen Donald Wolf is a partner in the Elkhorn (Wis.) in North Hollywood, Calif. Harry Maclean, a 10 percent of the world's bird species. I'm Income Tax Service. Rowan Schmidt Zeiss is lawyer who serves as an arbitrator and leaving soon for a trip to BraziL hoping to ra ise associate professor of psychology, mental mediator in labor and employment disputes. is that total to 15 percent." health, and human services at Blue Ridge a member of Denver's Board of Ethics and was Community College in Weyers Cave. Va. its first chairman. He also is the author of two 1958 41th Reunion. june 20-22, 200l true-crime books. In Broad Daylight ~989) and David Anderson is president of the Anderson 1960 41th Reunion. june 2006 Once Upon a Time: A True Story of Memory, Memorial Endowment Fund in Norway, Mich. Harold Benware, Scottsdale, Ariz., is president Murder, and the Law (1993). Allen Bonde, professor of music at Mount of Benan & Associates. Karl Giese has retired Holyoke College. was the guest pianist at to Silver City, N.M. Carl Gobel, Milwaukee. 1966 40th Reunion, June 2006 an October concert in his hometown of volunteers as president of a high school julie Wolfert Gembara, Oak Forest. IlL is a Manitowoc. Karen Rydin Collins, Western scholarship foundation. treasurer and state respite worker at the Good Shepherd Center Springs, IlL. although "'semi-retired.'' works part­ representative for the local American Civil lib­ for Exceptional Children. Carol Johnsrud time as a secretary at Apex Tool Works. Inc., of erties Union chapter, board member of Mil­ Hansen, Hibbing, Minn., is a board member which her husband. Bill, is president. Diana waukee Area Technical College, political cam­ and treasurer of the North St. Louis County Cook is a self-employed editor and researcher paign worker. and singer with the Bach affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. Bill and in Madison. James Davis, Omro, sales manager Chamber Choir. Marilyn Mollenhauer Liebert Marcia Zahn ('68) Johnson live in Lake for Dynamic Converting Industries. was married has retired from the Rhinelander (Wis.) Library Oswego, Ore. He is chief financial officer of in October and is learning Russian with his wife, Board after 20 years of service. Sharon Learning.com, a start-up company producing Gulnara Shaken-Davis. joseph Dunbeck is CEO Malone, Sunland. Calif.. operates a home an online technology-literacy program. and business, 24 Carat Design, as a web designer, she is an assistant principal in the Portland

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public schools. Richard Stone is a partner in senior applications engineer (senior program­ 1972 lith Reunion, June 2007 mer/analyst) for American Family Insurance. the law firm of Stone & Palmer in Geneseo, Ill. lynn Davis works for Thrivent Financial for Frederik Schuetze is chair of the fine arts Lutherans in Minneapolis. Harold Jordan. 1967 40th Reunion. june 2007 department in the Watertown, Mass .. public Charlottesville. Va., has been named to the schools. Deborah Briggs Witte Serrao, Anne Guelig Smith. Sturgeon Bay, is a Board of Managers of Haverford College. Pleasant Hill, Calif.. teaches yoga and medita­ registered nurse and graduate student. Michael McKenzie is senior vice president of tion and does massage. David Shlaes is the Bank One, in Chicago. Stephen Shepard is the new executive vice president of research and 1968 lith Reunion. june 2004 founder of Homefree, a residential property­ development at ldenix Pharmaceuticals. Inc .. Bruce Buechner, Mobile. Ala .. owns Simply maintenance company in Appleton. Shutters. which customizes and installs hard· Cambridge, Mass. He formerly was vice wood interior shutters. Jerry Clifford has been elected to the Board of Education in South Orange/Maplewood, N.J. Suzanne DuBois, Boston attorney Peter Wittenberg, '69, has been appointed to the newly Oakland. Calif., a teacher at Franklin Middle created post of executive director of the Massachusetts Conveyancers School, coordinates a special program to Association (MCA). the 3,000-member real estate bar association for prepare low-income students for college. Ken Massachusetts. A 30-year MCA member, Wittenberg has served on the Luckhardt, Toronto. Ontario, national association's board and was its president in 1991. In 1996 he was a co-founder representative in the international department of MCA Dispute Resolution. a vehicle for settling business and real estate of the Canadian Auto Workers, has been disputes out-of-court. Formerly chair of the real estate practice group of working for human and labor rights worldwide the firm of Kaye, Fialkow. Richmond & Rothstein and its successor firm. the for 25 years- most recently in East Timor. Boston office of New York-based Stroock & Stroock & Lavan llP. he most Guatemala, and El Salvador - and currently is recently served as director of commercial development for CATJC. a bar-related New England-based on sabbatical leave in Australia. Suzanne Fink title insurer. A graduate of the Vanderbilt University law School, he chairs the real estate and envi­ MacDonald received her law degree from the ronmental law curriculum advisory committee for Massachusetts Continuing legal Education.lnc. University of Denver in 2001, passed the bar in July. and has opened a practice in Buena Vista, Colo. Mary Ottoson is senior counsel for the May Department Store Company in St.louis.

president. infectious disease, at Wyeth 1969 lith Reunion, June 2004 1973 lith Reunion, June 1007 Research. Thomas Snodgrass is rector of St. Stephen Burr is an attorney with Greenberg Nancy Boston, professor of music and chair of Traurig in Boston. Peder Culver, Neenah. is a Stephen's Episcopal Church in Olean, N.Y. Richard West, Bethesda, Md., is general the keyboard department at Mansfield Univer­ principal and branch manager for Wayne sity of Pennsylvania. performed in a duo-piano Hummer Investments. Thomas DeMark, counsel to the inspector general of the U.S. Postal Service. Ann Wheeler-Barto[ is active recital in October at East Stroudsburg Univer­ Paradise Valley, Ariz .. is president of Market sity. Augustin Fosu, director of research for Studies, Inc., and author of three books on in the creation of a citizen advocacy organiza­ tion. Friends of Bend (Ore.). the African Economic Research Consortium in investing. Patsy Dew was the subject of a Nairobi, Kenya, has been selected as managing recent profile in the Northfield (Minn.) News. 1970 35th Reunion, June 2004 editor of the Journal of African Economies and describing her work as program director of the associate editor or editorial board member of Philip Anderson is an associate professor at Northfield Arts Guild. Susan Buesing Donnelly, several other journals, including the journal of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Silver Spring, Md .. has been elected first reader Development Studies. World Bank Economic Paul Bauck is administrative officer of the of her Christian Science Church. Bruce lglauer Review, and World Development. Gretchen Integrated Program Ethics Center at the Veter­ received Chicago Magazine's Chicagoan of the Oberfranc is editor of the Princeton University ans Administration Medical Center in Seattle. Year award. Susan Dreier Jones is a high Library Chronicle. school Spanish teacher in Portland. Ore. Albert Mary Rae Chemotti, Cedarburg. volunteers with high school exchange students and a Loebe, Sandy Springs, Ga., is litigation and 1974 lOth Reunion, June 2001 antitrust counsel for Coca-Cola North America. youth world language program. Nancy Jayne Faffie Siekman de Romero assisted the laura Magee, head of children and family Schmalz is a private flute teacher and Appleton Art Center in assembling a recent outreach in the Oshkosh Pu blic library. is chair accompanist. Her husband. Peter, '69, is exhibition of art works from the Mexican state of the Youth Services Section of the Wiscon­ retiring at the end of this school year after 29 of Guanajuato, of which her husband. Juan sin library Association. Mary Jean Mont­ years teaching at Oshkosh West High School. Carlos Romero Hicks, is governor. William gomery has been appointed by the Governor Steven Steenrod is a captain for Continental Kerr, senior pastor of Riverside Community of Iowa to a second term on the State Board Airlines, based in Albuquerque. N.M. of Education. Keith Osterman, Jr., Madison. is

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Lawrence on the road: regional alumni gatherings are many and varied

Space does not permit listing all of the pro­ Art Institute of Chicago with Michael Orr. (Sept.). I A private viewing of the exhibition grams sponsored by the Lawrence University associate professor of art history {April*). "Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Alumni Association across the country - Poland" with james Auer. '50. Milwaukee "Welcome to Our City'' events for recent Florida Journal Sentinel art critic. and Michael Orr, graduates, "Send-Offs" for incoming fresh­ "The Music of Allen Gimbel,' a "thank-you" associate professor of art history (Nov.). 1 men, Viking athletic contests and alumnijae concert organized by Brooke Joyce, '95. and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Alumni games, service projects, and so on. Here are Jeffery Meyer. '96, theory/composition stu· Night {Feb.) I A fresh look at Freshman some highlights of the programming offered dents of Professor Gimbel when he taught Studies (see Los Angeles description above) to Lawrence alumni. parents. and friends in at the Lawrence Conservatory (Nov.) I with English Professor Tim Spurgin (March). recent months, as well as advance notice of "Annual Luncheon with President Warch." some future events (*). hosted by trustees Edie Andrew. Cynthia Minneapolis/St. Paul Stiehl. C'89, and Steve Simon. '68, in Naples. A benefit concert by The Things Quartet, Arizona (Feb.) including Jim Guckenberg, '94. Max Wendt, Annual reception with President Ware h. at '94, and Rafe Lyford, '94 (Sept). 1 "Vintage: the home of Greg Smith, '59. in Phoenix Fox Cities Secrets of the Grape," a wine-tasting with (March). ''McCarthy's American Tragedy," a presenta­ Nicholas Maravolo. professor of biology, tion by jerald Podair, assistant professor of and Andrew Kass, '69. president of Sutler's Boston history. and Kimberly Louagie. curator of Wine and Spirits {Nov.)./ "Vikings: The North "The History of Witchcraft: Confronting the exhibits at the Outagamie County Historical Atlantic Saga" at the Science Museum of Popular Myths." by Edmund M. Kern, associ­ Society Museum, in connection with a Minnesota in Saint Paul features Professor ate professor of history, held in Salem. Mass. museum exhibition on Senator joseph Emeritus WiUiam Chaney and a tour of this (Nov.). 1 The Ken Schaphorst Ensemble ­ McCarthyUan.). special exhibit (March) including composer Ken Schaphorst, associ­ ate professor of music and director of jazz Los Angeles and San Francisco New York studies from 1991-2001; percussionist Dane Bay Area "Somewhere Between Good and Evil; an Richeson, associate professor of music; and A fresh look at Freshman Studies with Tim exhibition of sculpture, paintings, and draw­ trumpeter John Carlson, '82 - at the Spurgin. associate professor of English, fea­ ings by Andrew Guenther, '98, at the Daniel Charles Hotel in Cambridge Oan.). turing updates on this signature Lawrence Silverstein Gallery (Sept.). 1 An evening of program and the opportunity to discuss a jazz at the Cornelia Street Cafe featuring Colorado key passage from Plato's The Republic with Professor Dane Richeson. John Carleson,'82. A performance of Shakespeare's Love's alumni from aU generations (May 9, 11*). and other LU jazz alumni (March). Labor's Lost, with commentary by Timothy X. Troy. '85, assistant professor of theatre Madison Seattle and drama. and Anthony Powell, director of A free performance by the Lawrence Cham­ A performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and the production at the Denver Center for the ber Players at the Elvehjem Museum of Art juliet at the Seattle Repertory Theatre fea­ Performing Arts (Feb.). and on the public radio program "Sunday turing a reception and pre-performance dis­ Afternoon Live from the Elvehjem." {Nov.). 1 cussion with Professor Tim Troy {Aprill2*). Chicago A fresh look at Freshman Studies {see Los Performances by the Lawrence University Angeles description above) with English Pro­ Washington D.C./Baltimore Jazz Ensemble at the Elmhurst Jazz Fest {Feb.) fessor Tim Spurgin (Feb.). "McCarthy's American Tragedy," a presenta­ and Lawrence Concert Choir at Waubonsie tion by Jerald Podair, assistant professor of Valley High School {April). I Freshman Milwaukee history, on Appleton's most controversial Studies Comes to Chicago with a visit to Moby Dick at the Milwaukee Repertory son. former U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Picasso's "Portrait of Kahnweiler" at the Theatre, directed by Eric Simonson, '82 (March)

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Church in Machesney Park. IlL completed the Martha Olson, '77, in June. was named executive vice president, school­ D.Min. degree in the delivery of pastoral care support division, of Edison Schools, the nation's largest private manager of to the bereaved unchurched from Bethel public schools. Previously president of Ralph lauren Intimates, a division of Seminary in 2001. Sara lee, she also has held senior management roles at Sara lee, Nestle. and General Mills and has had extensive experience in brand and staff 1975 lOth Reunion, June 1001 management. strategic marketing, and new product development, as well joe Baier!, Lake Elmo. Minn .. is the new as significant operations experience in complex and difficult business director of portal solutions for Niteo Partners. transitions and situations. She holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of a subsidiary of NEC Corporation. Jeffrey Bleil, Management at Northwestern University in addition to her B.A. from San Diego, Calif., director of research at lawrence. Edison Schools operates some 150 public schools. with a combined enrollment of more ZyGam. Inc., has been added to the Scientific than 80.000. In the 2002-03 academic year, Edison is the 35th largest school system in the nation. Advisory Council of UTEK Corporation. Mary out of approximately 1S.OOO. luehrsen, Port Chester, N.Y., in August

Grant L Manhart, 79, assistant professor of music at Northern State Uni­ senior trust officer with Merchants Trust versity, Aberdeen. S.D .. was named Outstanding Faculty Member for 2002. At Company in Burlington. Vt. julia Pingry-Fraser, NSU since 1998. he teaches high brass and is assistant director of bands. Man­ Cummaquid, Mass .. is principal/industry hart performs regularly with faculty ensembles, runs a summer jazz camp as analyst at Industry Directions, Inc. John and part of the Elkhart. Ind., JazzFest, and appears as guest soloist and clinician Sharon Lutze Polk live in Lenexa. Kan. He is throughout the United States and Canada. He received a 2001 South Dakota the chaplain at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Governor's Grant for enhancing teaching using technology. He holds bache­ and she is vice-president of marketing at lor's. master's. and doctoral degrees in music from the University of Wiscon­ Fleishman-Hillard in Kansas City and serves on sin, the Cincinnati Conservatory, and Indiana University and has toured with the board of the Kids First Fund. Ellen Short is the Buddy Rich Band; spent a season on Broadway in pit orchestras: worked in Puerto Rico with his a doctoral candidate at New York University Latin jazz group, Salsa Picante; and freelanced extensively and an adjunct professor at NYU and Queens College. Douglas and Cathy Baker ('81} Van leuven live in Madison, where he is a project engineer for Mead and Hunt and she is an autism consultant.

1981 lith Reunion. June 1006 was appointed executive director of the Christianity at Andover Newton Seminary, International Foundation for Music Research. published The Imaginative Spirit in 2002 and is Teresa Miller Spevacek is the pastoral care at work on a second book, The Grammar of coordinator at Queen of Peace parish in Madi­ 1976 lOth Reunion, June 1001 Desire. Benjamin D. Graebel, Greenwood son. Bruce Wilson is reference librarian for the West Virginia Supreme Court, in Charleston. David Kirchman, a faculty member at the Village, Colo .. CEO of the Graebel Companies, University of Delaware Graduate College of has joined the board of directors of Red Robin 1982 lOth Reunion. June 10-ll.lOOl Marine Studies since 1986, has been named Gourmet Burgers. Inc. associate dean. overseeing the college's Lewes, Kathleen Bublitz is a vocal music teacher in Del., campus. Jean Martin-Williams is associate 1979 lith Reun~on.)une 1004 the Bloomfield Hi lls (Mich.) schools. Tom professor of music at the University of David Ponschok is a partner in EP Sales, Inc., Vincent, a member of the U.S. Air Force Band Georgia. Reed Smith is executive director in Bloomington, Minn. Thomas Stone, Shreve· of Mid· America. stationed at Scott AFB in ofTri-Cities Opera Company. Inc .. in port, La .. is associate professor of music at Illinois. also plays in the tuba and euphonium Binghamton. N.Y. Centenary College and conductor of the quartet. Four Star Brass. Summer Band concert series, a professional 1977 lOth Reunion, June 1008 wind ensemble. Richard Whiting, Bayside. is a 1983 lOth Reunion. june lO·ll, lOOl E. Bart McGuinn is corporate director of partner in Broadview Advisors. LLC. Ann Kohi-Re is supervisor of student teachers human resources for Irish Dairy Board at the School of Education. UW-La Crosse. Holdings, Inc., in Wilmette. IlL 1980 lith Reunion. June 1001 Kevin Meidl, choral director and music depart­ Adam Gottesman is regional vice president ment chair at Appleton West High School. has 1978 lith Reunion, june lO-ll. lOOl of Allianz Healthcare Re in Minneapolis. Jim performed throughout the world with the Mark Burrows, Newton. Mass .. recently Miller has opened a financial-planning firm Appleton Boychoir and the Appleton West promoted to professor of the history of called Haystack Financial and is a part-time Chorus. Kristen Stokes Paulsen graduated in

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Research in Education. by John W. Best, '32, women around the world today, rising above Poison-Pen Personnel-Portrait Portfolio, by and James V. Kahn. Hardcover. 498 pages; Allyn oppression and abuse to create peace and Brian K. Beck, '59. Paperback.142 pages; & Bacon, july 2002; ISBN: 0-20S-34997-8. Best. harmony based on spiritual values. Joan of Arc Wonderside Productions. LLC. July 2002; a professor emeritus of Butler University, has is still alive in our hearts as she continues to ISBN: 0-9645-4029-0. Beck. professor emeritus completed the ninth edition of Research in inspire us .. into action." of English at the University of Wisconsin­ Education, a textbook first published in 1959. Whitewater. offers herein some 45 pieces of Since publication of the fifth edition in 1986, Island Boyhood: A Memoir, by Jim Vesper, '48. satire. comedy, and moral critique on higher he has had a co-author.James V. Kahn of the Stone Beach Books, 2001. The island in question education. concerning people and programs in University of Illinois at Chicago. is Bois Blanc Island in lake Huron. where college and university life today. Guaranteed by In use for over 42 years in universities Vesper's family had a log cabin to which they the author to be ''free of political correctness." around the world, the book has been published moved full-time after his father's real estate the book was characterized by one reviewer in Spanish. Chinese, and two national languages business in Detroit failed in 1929. as having been "written with a keen ear. of India. The Appleton Scene notes: "Everyone in an indelible 'poison pen,' and the cheeky the family chipped in to keep the house running persistence of a social reformer." From Henry Potpourri from Kettle Land, by Irene I. smoothly. chopping wood, canning vegetables. the paranoid department chair to leonard the luethge, '39. Paperback, 190 pages: Savage and collecting ice for the summer.. .. It was a homophobic custodian, Beck has a tart word or Press. July 2000; ISBN: 1-8860-2846-X. Subtitled turn-of-the-century existence. They were alone two for all those who go around and around in 120 Wooded Glacial Hill Acres Become a and cold." academic circles. Mentor for Country Living, this series of stories Island Boyhood is a book of reminis­ from and about the author's Kettle Moraine cences, stories of family and friends. and tales The Theory of Demand for Health Insurance, by home was described by a reviewer as "a won­ of eccentric island characters, cars, and boats. John Nyman, 70. Hardcover, 244 pages; Stan­ derful collection of the sights, sounds, and yes ford University Press. November 2002; ISBN: the smells of an America long past The author Alaska's Heroes: A Call to Courage, by Nancy 0-8047-4882-9. Nyman is professor of health has frozen in time a heritage of memo ries.~ Warren Ferrell, '54. Paperback, 144 pages; services research and policy at the University of Luethge, a retired social worker and Alaska Northwest Books, October 2002; ISBN: Minnesota. In brief. his new theory of consumer university professor. both wrote and illustrated 0-8824-0542-X. Established in 1965 by an act of demand for health insurance says that people the book. the state legislature. the State of Alaska Award purchase insurance to obtain additional income for Bravery-Heroism has been conferred some when they become ilLI n effect, insurance La Pucelle: The Real joan of Arc, by Ada Ruth 30 times since then, often to individuals. some­ companies act to transfer insurance premiums Dogger, M-D '46. Paperback, 398 pages; Genie times to groups. once to an entire Alaskan from those who remain healthy to those who Quest Publishing, November 2001; ISBN: 1-9020- Native village. and all too often posthumously. become ill. The additional income generates 8403-9. The author writes: "Joan has been an In Alaska's Heroes. Ferrell tells the stories of purchases of additional high-value care, often inspiration to me for a long time. In spite of recipients of the award. heroes who performed allowing sick persons to obtain life-saving many recent attempts by authors and the cin­ lifesaving acts in often life-threatening situa­ care that they could not otherwise afford. ema to portray joan, few succeed in capturing tions. Whenever possible, she conducted first­ Consumers. Nyman says, purchase insurance her true nature. I portray joan writing in the first person interviews with the heroes or the sur­ not to avoid risk but to pay a premium when person." vivors. A 35-year resident of Juneau. Alaska. healthy in exchange for a claim on additional Its publisher describes the book as "a Ferrell has written 12 nonfiction books, three of income in the form of medical care if they timely reminder to the thousands of crusading them for children (see page 18). become ill.

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On November 9, 2002. the world tour of singer/songwriter/author/painter/ doodler/cult hero Dan Bern,'Sl, brought him to Martyr's, a rock dub in Chicago, where a mini-reunion of his Lawrence contemporaries t~ok place among a legion of his ardent fans. Bern and his band, the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy. played a spirited two-hour set, emphasizing material from their 2001 album "New American language" and the newly released EP "Swastika." In January, Bern performed a special charity concert at the Base­ ball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. N.Y., featuring the baseball-related songs he has written over the years. More information on Bern and the band, including tour dates. can be found at www.danbern.com. The ~arty_r's concert photo was taken by Brian lipchik, "81. More of Brian's work can be seen at www.hpch1kphoto.com.

May from the University of Minnesota with a 1985 lOth Reunion, june 2006 Master of Architecture degree and received Phoebe Rowe Bachman, Agoura Hills. Calif., is the thesis award for a project involving reuse a part-time instructional designer for Philology Unplugged: A Novel, by Paul McComas, '83. of aging strip malls and other commercial Instructional Design and working toward a Paperback, 272 pages: John Daniel & Com­ structures in first-ring suburbs. She is working master's degree in organization management pany, October 2002; ISBN: 1-BB0l-B460-X. as an architect-intern for Conway/Schulte from Antioch University. Rosetta Roth McComas is a fiction-writing instructor Architects in Minneapolis. David Powers is a Bredael, Portage, Mich .. is an inventory con­ and performance artist whose short story physician in Dixon, Ill. jody Koteski Reckard is troller for the Pharmacia Corp. jennifer Cobb, collection, Twenty Questions D998). is in its vice president for client services of Fiduciary Kenosha. is an at-home mom. Donna San­ third printing. He also is the founder of Management. Inc.. in Milwaukee. laurie danowicz Dinello is a service representative Rock Against Depression, a teen-suicide Semmes received the Ph.D. degree in ethno­ for American Airlines at O'Hare International prevention program musicology in August from Florida State Airport. Chicago. Composer Stephen Edwards, Unplugged, writes one commentator, University, where she current ly is a visiting Pacific Palisades, Calif., has completed his 50th ''is an uplifting story in which a burned-out, assistant professor. John Stuligross, Downing­ motion picture score and launched his own suicidal young woman finds healing through ton. Pa., is senior lead process technology record label, Ave Maria Records. Peter G. nature. modern pharmacology, and. not engineer for Atofina Chemicals. least. love. McComas puts you inside Erickson is vice president of Salt Creek, Inc.. in Salt Lake City. Utah. John Farrell, Minneapolis, the head of the clinically depressed and 1984 lOth Reunion, june 20-ll. 2003 is president of Barrister Consulting, working sheds needed light on a little-understood lisa Meyer Briscoe, St. louis, Mo., is a phenomenon." with law firms regarding their hiring needs. consultant with the Educational Development Mariann Ferrin, Peoria, Ariz., is a church music Corporation. Barbara Buttler, lincoln, Mass .. a Chicago's Midway Airport: The First Seventy­ director and private teacher of voice and freelance graphic designer, is currently focused piano. Margie laVelle Gater, Half Moon Bay. Five Years, by Christopher l ynch, '89. on the design and fabrication of contemporary Paperback; lake Claremont Press. November Calif.. is program manager for the Envision jewelry for her business, bbdesigns. Steven Technology Market ing Group. Katy Hopkins­ 2002; ISBN: l-8931-2118-6.lynch, the grandson Edmund, a private piano instructor in of a pioneering pilot in Chicago, learned Piecuch, Memphis, Tenn., teaches oboe at the Pittsburg, Kan .. performed with the Southeast University of Mississippi and at Rhodes about aviation from listening to stories at Kansas Symphony in September. Rebecca the dinner table and from visiting the College. Glen Johnson is finishing a five-year Hauge teaches in the Minneapolis public stint as Washington correspondent for The airport. where as a child. he met many pilots schools and is working on an M.Ed. degree at from the early days of aviation. lynch's Boston Globe and is moving back to Boston. the University of Minnesota. Kraig Krueger is David Melbye is director of information family ran Monarch Air Service at Midway for a mortgage broker for First Capital Financial in over six decades. His research and collection services for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Appleton. Michael Wilson, pastor of the Sewerage District. lisa Schmidt Mierzwa, Park of photos and memorabilia was the basis of Allegheny. Srader Grove. and Clinton Presby­ a television documentary. "Midway Airport: Ridge. IlL, is senior art director at Publications terian Churches near Pittsburgh, Pa., received International. Stephen Miller is interdepart­ Crossroads of the Wor!d." Readers of his the Master of Divinity degree from San Fran­ book can continue their study of Midway mentallibrarian at the Allen County Public cisco Theological Seminary in May and was Library, Fort Wayne, Ind. Chuck Ray is chief history at a companion Web site ordained in July. (http://w ww.midwayhistory.com/). of interventional radiology at Denver Health Medical Center. Philip Ruge-Jones is an assis­ tant professor of theology and philosophy at Texas Lutheran University. Ruth Saecker is

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Barbara Smith lawton, '87, of Green Bay, is the new lieutenant governor of 1990 15th Reun;on.)une 1004 Wisconsin, having won the Democratic primary against a sitting state senator Kurt Altman, Naples, Fla., a financi al advisor and the general election against the Republican incumbent - to become the with Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc, has state's first elected woman lieutenant governor. With Governor Jim Doyle, completed the training leading to designation she represents the first Democratic administration in Wisconsin in 16 years as a wealth management specialist. Amy A long-time civic activist Lawton was a founding member of the Moldenhauer Bartol, Berlin, owns A.B. Designs § Educational Resource Foundation and a founding trustee of the Green Bay Drapery Workroom. Bryan Beauchamp, Fox Community Foundation and of Latinos Unidos. In addition, she has been an ~ Point. is president of the Beauchamp Malekin advisory board member for the Green Bay Multicultural Center and Women's Corp. Beatrice Beenen is a private piano Political Voice and served on the Business Planning and Resource Team for Entrepreneurs of Color teacher in St. Paul, Minn. Terry Deger Berger, and as a board member of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin and the Northeastern Skokie, Ill., is a contract manager for W.W. Wisconsin Technical College Educational Foundation. Grainger, Inc Darcy Dabareiner-Jahn, Erie, She received the Fort Howard Foundation's Humanitarian Award in 1985 and was named Colo., works in a dental office. Robbie and Feminist of the Year by the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1999. Anne Overheu ('91) Eisinger are in Northport, A summa cum laude graduate of Lawrence, she also holds a master's degree in Spanish from N.Y. He received the degree Doctor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While living in Oaxaca, Mexico. in l98S and Santiago, Chile. Podiatric Medicine from Barry University in in 1995, she worked as a cross-cultural trainer for clients of Bennett & Associates of Chicago and 2002 and is a resident at Northport Veterans organized a seminar, '"Business Opportunities in Chile and Argentina," for the F.K. Bemis International Administration Hospital. and she is a reading Center at St. Norbert College. assistant in the Cold Spring Harbor School She ran unsuccessfully for the Wisconsin State Senate in the 30th District in 1996, was the District. Mark Green, Washington. D.C., is vice Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 1998, and served on the Heffernan Commission president. programming, of the National Citizens Panel for a Clean Elections Option. Geographic Channel. Amy Hirt-Jacobs, Grayslake, Hl., teaches first grade at Prairie Crossing, an environmental charter school. Eleonore Wiley Houser, Colorado Springs, Colo., teaches Suzuki-method piano and Kindermusik to children. Maria Schwefel an associate scientist at UW-Madison. l ee 1987 lOth Reun;on. June 1006 Johnson, Elk River. Minn., is training and OD Salawitch is manager of Mullett Travel in Balti­ Michelle Bauer, Neenah, is vice president, manager in marketing for Boston Scientific more. Eric and Dawn Draeger Schroeter are in consumer banking, of First National Bank of SciMed. Chad Kemnitz, Rubicon. works as a St. Louis, where he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Fox Valley. John Day is an assistant vice project manager for construction projects and. the Washington University School of Medicine president managing the business technology with his wife. Tyia, operates a construction and she is vice president for marketing at the section of a commercial risk-management escrow inspection business. Amy Neubert Genesis Institute. Kathy Swanson, Sandpoint, division of American International Group in Ketcham is camp and family director for the Idaho, is a book seller at Dolphin House, a New York City. Am y Bell La valle y, Merrillville, Summit Area (N.J.) YMCA. Dana Krueger, New metaphysical book store. Susie Lurie Taylor is Ind .. is a freelance writer and a mom. York, N.Y., is a consultant for the Monitor a part-time account manager for WKOW-TV in Group. Kristin N. Kusmierek and Troy Madison. Karen Uselmann is a learning-disabil­ 1988 15th Reun;on.)unel004 Thornberry, '91 , are in Toronto, Ontario. Sh e ities specialist at the Sacred Heart School in works from home as a program evaluator for Mark and Jacquie Cayo ('89) Rohricht live in Chicago. the University of Michigan's Biosphere-Atmos­ Neenah. He is a consultant with the Kimberly­ phere Research Training Program, and he is Clark Corp .. and she is a homemaker 1986 lOth Reur ;on, )un 1006 doing a postdoctoral research fellowship at John HeUermann is assistant professor of 1989 15th Reunron, june 1004 the University ofTor onto Department of speech communication at Southern Illinois Chemistry. Wendy Martinek is an assistant James Arps is manager of the Surface University at Carbondale. Victoria Moerchen professor of political science at Binghamton Engineering Section at Southwest Research received her Ph.D. at UW-Madison this year (N.Y.) University (SUNY). Gail Feldman Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Deborah and now is a postdoctoral research fellow in Micheau works part-time from her home in Cullinan is executive director of Intersection the Di vision of Kinesiology at the University of Naperville. Ill., as a benefits consultant for for the Arts. San Francisco's oldest alternative Michigan. Jonathan D. Richards, Milwaukee, American Express Tax and Business Services. arts organization. Susan Temple Pereyra who has represented the 19th District in the Christopher Moody teaches math in the Clay­ completed nursing school in 2002 and now is Wisconsin State Assembly since 1998. has been ton (Mo.) School District Elizabeth Mullin is a a pediatric nurse at the Erie Family Health elected assistant minority leader for the 2003 health-care consultant in Washington, D.C. Center in Chicago. session. Kristin Vorpahl is a licensing social Sharon Springer Nakpairat is assistant direc­ worker for Ramsey County, Minn. tor of the Yaffe Center for Persuasive Com­ munication at the University of Michigan.

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Deirdre Olson is a silversmith in Minneapolis. Cory l. Nettles, '92, has been appointed by Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle Rebecca l yman Persick is assistant corpora­ as Secretary of the Department of Commerce, where he will direct efforts to tion counsel for Sheboygan County; her attract and retain new jobs and investment opportunities: foster business, husband, jay '89, teaches fourth grade at export. and community development: and promote the public welfare Pigeon River Elementary School. Gregory Petit through regulations. education. and enforcement. is a partner in the Kachinsky and Petit law An attorney at the Quarles & Brady law firm in Milwaukee. specializing Office in Neenah. Lambros Piskopos, Gurnee. in product liability and commercial litigation. Nettles has represented corpo­ Ill., is a senior consultant at Interactive rate and non-profit clients in real estate, environmental, employment. and Business Systems. Inc. Gwyn Fordyce Prescott labor matters on the state and national levels. earned her master's degree in special educa­ He graduated from lawrence magna cum laude and was awarded the Alexander Wiley prize. tion from UW-Oshkosh in 2001 and now given to the student who has "'demonstrated a principled independence of thought." A campus teaches in Racine. Colleen Vahey and Cory activist deeply engaged in issues of affirmative action and multiculturalism. he was president of the Kadlec live in Elmhurst. Ill. Cory teaches mid­ Black Organization of Students and served on an ad hoc committee that examined race relations at dle school science in River Forest, and Colleen Lawrence. As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, he traveled to Africa in 1992-93 to study prospects for is a part-time hospital chaplain and at-home democracy in Namibia. Botswana, and Zimbabwe. mom. Heidi Weber Wilke and her husband. A 1996 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. he helped launch a men­ Jamie, opened a furniture showroom/interior taring program that pairs minority law students with white legal professionals and also chairs the design store in Oconomowoc in 2000. Patrick state bar's committee that places minority law students in summer clerkships. He is a board member Wilkinson is a legislative specialist for the of the Milwaukee Urban League and Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc., and chair of the board of New Bureau of land Management in Washington, Hope Missionary Baptist Church. D.C. Karin Schrouder Willman is an instructor In making the appointment. Doyle called Nettles "a bright. young rising star who will bring in music theory at the Interlochen (Mich.) energy and enthusiasm to the important job of growing Wisconsin's economy and makjng sure there Center for the Arts. Mary Wiltjer, Evanston. are good. well-paying jobs available to all citizens." IlL. is teaching mathematics at Addison Trail High School and volunteering at the Frank Lloyd Wright home and studio. Randall Zuniga-Vargas, Chicago, Ill., is a sales represen­ tative for CCH, Inc., a publishing company providing taK research information. Escue!a lnternacional Sampedrana in San Pedro forestry consultant in St. Paul. Atul Pahwa, Sula, Honduras, completed a degree in Lausanne. Switzerland, received the M.B.A. 1991 1Sth Reunion, June 2007 elementary education at UW-Oshkosh in 2001. degree cum laude from Babson College and Ann Stowell Belyaev, CEO ofType A Multime­ McKell Moorhead, St. Petersburg, Fla .. now is a research associate with IMD Interna­ dia Network in Chicago, was invited by the completed a dual master's degree in social tional. Scott Reinhard is an assistant vice Italian government to speak at a workshop work and public health. is working as a president at Bremer Financial Corporation in titled "'Multimedia and Globalization: How to community-based therapist for adults with St. Paul. Junko Fujiwara Simons is assistant Operate in Foreign Markets," held in Novem­ severe and persistent mental illness, and is director of preparatory studies at the Longy ber in Milan. Rick Hein is assistant professor of seeking licensure in clinical social work. School of Music in Cambridge. Mass. Scott biological sciences at UW-Manitowoc. Steven Margaret Peltier is director of youth Spiegelberg received the Ph.D. in music theory Houghton, the international student services programs for the Music Association of from the Eastman School of Music and now is specialist at UW-Superior, has been named Minnetonka, Minn. Mark Scheffler and Karen an assistant professor of music theory at volleyball coach for the 2002 sports season Bruno, '93, live in Menasha. He is senior port­ DePauw University. laurie Miller received the M.D. degree from folio manager and founder of The Appleton the University of Colorado in 2001 and now is Group, LLC, and she is artistic coordinator of 1994 lOth Reunion. June 2004 a family medicine resident at Poudre Valley the Girl Choir program at the Lawrence Acad ­ John and Mary Jean Dercks {'92) Bachhuber HospitaL Fort Collins, Colo. Anita Freer Sacrey emy of Music. Jill Ann Terwitiger, Kalamazoo. live in Appleton. john is the lead for field is a program support manager for the Arkansas Mich., received the Master of Divinity degree compensation and recognition design at Department of Community Correction in Little from United Theological Seminary in 2000 and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. jen Horvath, Rock. Sarah Tyriver is an assistant instructor in now is minister of the Universalist Unitarian Oak Creek, teaches piano for Partners in Music. music at Michigan State University and a mem­ Church of East Liberty. jaclyn Booth Kline is senior pharmaceutical ber of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra sales specialist for the Pharmacia Corporation, 1993 lOth Reunion. June 20-ll,200J Oldsmar. Fla. Adam Newman, Wauwatosa, a 1992 15th Reunion. June 2007 Thomas Anderson is a producer at the Fallon commercial lending officer at TCF National Paul and Michelle Mueller Helmken teach Worldwide advertising agency in Minneapolis. Bank, is completing an M.B.A. degree at UW­ fifth and third grades. respectively, in Prescott. Kirsten Ratwik Lamppa is a billing representa­ Milwaukee. His wife, Sara Staffeldt Newman, Ariz. Greg Lemoine, a fifth-grade teacher at tive for Minnesota Life in St. PauL Minn. Seth '95, is a social worker/clinical therapist with lindenfelser is a tree-disease specialist and

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Renew Counseling Services. Chad Rettler is a 1997 lOth Reunion, june 2007 ing a doctorate in organic chemistry. Claire business-systems specialist with Thrivent Breaux is a French teacher in the Houston Karteshia Anderson is a police officer in Financial for Lutherans in Appleton. Philip (Texas} school district Adam Brown is a mid­ Roswell, Ga. Kristen Beringer Feyen, Appleton, Wallner has joined the national pension pro­ dle-level orchestra teacher in Fond dulac. is performance evaluation coordinator for fessional recruiting practice of CPS, Inc., in Josh and Erin Haight ('00) Chudacoff are Airadigm Communications. Benjamin Longlet Westchester, Ill. graduate students at UW-Madison, she in is an attorney at the law firm of Latham & educational policy studies and he in educa­ Watkins in Washington, D.C., practicing com­ 1995 lOth Reunion, june 2001 tional administration. In addition, Erin is a mercial litigation and criminal defense. Alex Daniel Cole is a fellow in pulmonary disease, project assistant/event coordinator for the and Carolyn Lussow Paul live in Wisconsin university's Office of Minority Programs, and critical care, and sleep medicine at Wilford Hall Rapids. She is a curator/historian for Renais­ Josh teaches history and coaches football and Medical Center, lackland AFB, Texas. Rebecca sance Learning, and he is an attorney with the Leech Czoschke is school-to-work program wrestling at LaFollette High School. Rebecca firm of Brazeau, Potter, Wefel & Nettesheim. Hoelter, a legislative aide for the Wisconsin coordinator for the Regional Planning Commis­ Paul Sise, fencing coach at Western New Eng­ State Assembly, started law school at UW­ sion in Urbana, IlL Charles and Heather land College, in Springfield, Mass .. passed the Madison this falL Eli ssa Davis Hoffman teaches Mullikin {'96) Keane live in Victoria, Minn. examinations for the title of Prevost d'Armes Charles received the M.Mus. degree in saxo­ biology and advanced biology at Appleton East at the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association High School and is working toward a master's phone performance from Bowling Green national conference in August Chris Wagaman degree in environmental education from uw­ State University and now is a teacher in the is pursuing the Master of Divinity de_gree Stevens Point Jeremy and lerie Herrera ('01) Minnetonka public schools. Geoff Stenson through the Institute of Scared Mus1c at Yale teaches music in the Howard-Suamico School Kane live in Banks, Ore. He teaches music at Divinity School and has been n~med a Mi~istry Boscoe Elementary SchooL and she is a soft­ District and is the conductor of the Lake Cities Fellow of the Fund for Theolog1cal Education. Youth Symphony, associated with the Mani­ ware engineer for Intel. Andrea Uns ,. Madiso~, after working for the Wisconsin MusiC Associa­ towoc Symphony Orchestra. James and Stacy 1998 lOth Reunion, June 1008 Czerniak Turnbull live in Denver, Colo., where tion, returned to school to complete her music louis Clark, in August, became a presidential he operates the Chiropractic Health Center teaching certification and now is choir director management intern at the Department of and she is program manager for the public at Jefferson High SchooL Kurt and Victoria Energy in Chicago. Zachary French completed schools. Dale Weiman, Minneapolis, is refer­ Annen ('00) Taylor are in San Diego. Kurt a master's degree in historical musicology ence staff attorney with the West Group. completed a master's degree in 2001 and now from the University of Connecticut and now is is working toward a Ph.D. in plasma and fusi_o_n an adjunct professor at the Indiana University 1996 lOth Reunion, june 2006 physics. Victoria holds a graduate-lev~l ce.rtlfl­ School of Music in Indianapolis. Katherine Shannon Barry is community outreach cate in paralegal studies from the Umvers1ty of Fritzsche, Washington. D.C., a development San Diego and is working in the intellectual coordinator for Domestic Abuse Intervention associate for prospect research at the National Services in Madison. Lisa Bingham is associate property department of the Pilsbury Winthrop Gallery of Art, is completing a master's degree law firm. research editor for Architectural Digest in Los in art history at George Washington Univer­ Angeles. Jessica Wherry Clark received the sity. Sarah Garner received a master's degree 2000 lth Reunion, June 2005 Master of Social Science degree from the in social wo rk from UW-Madison in May. Jake Albert is a cardiovascular representative Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse Anirban Ghosh completed a master's degree for Abbott Laboratories in Minocqua. Colin University in May and now is a first-year law in applied economics at Marquette University Altmann is a chemical operator for Aldrich student at George Washington University. and now does pharmaceutical market research Chemical Company in Sheboygan Falls. Andie Mark Fermin is the Local Area Network for marketRx in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Andeen, Cincinnati, Ohio, is teaching in the manager for the law firm of Orrick, Harrington Keith Harris, Seattle, in September, won Princeton city schools. Ben Atkinson is a ski & Sutcliffe, LLP, in Seattle. Avani Divgi Locke a national competition in Texas, Opera instructor at Keystone Resort in Colorado. Julie received a master's degree in public policy Longview's Young Artist of the Year award. Bannerman is a K-5 general music teacher in from the University of Chicago and now is an James Wooldridge, Chicago, spent last year as the Seattle school district. Monica Bayley, analyst for the U.S. General Accounting Office artist-in-residence with the Thresholds Ensem­ in Seattle. Nicole Huibregtse Martens, Chicago, is a band director for Band for Today. ble. a 15-person troupe of adults living with Eric Boehmer, in June, completed the second Chicago, who teaches at the DePaul Com~u­ mental illnesses who stage a theatrical perfor­ year of medical school at the Loyola University nity Music School. presented a program t1tled mance of their own stories. poetry. and music. "Composition and Improvisation in the Pnvate Stritch School of Medicine and began the research Ph.D. portion of his double-degree Studio·· to the Salt Creek Chapter of the 1999 lth Reunion, June 2001 Ill inois State Music Teachers Association in program. Jake Brenner is a teaching assistant_ in Willie Aguilar is studying to become a profes­ September. the Earth Semester program of Columbia Uni­ sional metal guitarist/vocalist at the Guitar versity's Biosphere 2 Center in Arizona. Tracy Institute ofT echnology at Musicians Institute Cole is an associate scientist in the pharmacol­ in Hollywood, Calif. Eric Benedict is a first­ ogy department of XOMA. a biotech company year graduate student at UW-Madison, pursu- in Berkeley, Calif. Robyn Cutright is a graduate

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student in anthropology at the Un iversity of Baroque in Chicago. Erik Moen is an English UW-Madison, took a tropical medicine course Pittsburgh, specializing in Latin American assistant at the lnstitut Universitaire de in Costa Rica this past summer. Carrie Ehrfurth archaeology. james Eagan is in a computer sci­ Cachon in Paris, France. Erica Moore is teach­ is in a Ph.D. program in art history at Penn ence Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech. in Atlanta. ing French at the St. James School in Maryland. State. Sara Gillette is teaching music at Kildeer Shandra Feldthouse is pursuing the Master of Katie Moore is enrolled in the master"s pro­ Countryside School and Willow Grove Kinder­ Music degree at the University of Iowa. Rya n gram in French literature. culture. and language garten Center, both in long Grove. Ill. Katya Flanagan is a police officer in Beloit. jessica at Middlebury College, in Vermont and Paris. Harrison works in the financial institutions Fogle received the Master of Fine Arts degree Anthony Nickel, Lincolnshire, Ill., is a pension group of Bane of America Securities in New in May from the Tisch School of the Arts of systems consultant at Profund Systems. Elena York City. Kerry Hart toured last spring with New York University; her thesis was a full­ Ni chol, Glen Ellyn, Ill., is a program associate Opera for the Young and, this summer, length musical titled Benjamin Starling. Sandy for The Institute for Entrepreneurship. Mindy attended the opera theatre program at the Ganser, elementary music teacher in the Ru eden is faith formation coordinator at St. Aspen Music Festival. Alison Hayes is a techni­ Oconto Falls schools, has been performing as a Pius XSchool in Appleton. Eli Salembier is cal officer with the Western Australia Marine soloist with the Green Bay Chamber Choir. Erin studying restaurant management and hospital­ Research Laboratory. Anne Kallio, Shawano, Gargiulo is a candidate for the M.B.A. degree ity at the Western Culinary Institute in Port­ has been appointed curatorial assistant for a in health services administration and non­ land, Ore. Tony and Amy Schmitting White national art museum exhibition and tour, profit management at Roosevelt University, live in Wauwatosa. Amy received a master's "'American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Move­ Chicago. Eli zabeth Geery is substitute-teaching degree in medical genetics/ genetic counseling ment." Annie Krieg taught English in Germany in the Minneapolis and St. Paul public school from UW-Madison and is working as a genetic during 20 01 -02 and now is at the Un iversity of systems and local private schools. Jennifer counselor at the Children's Hospital of Wis­ Pittsburgh, studying fo r a master's degree in Gilge, Napa, Calif., is an account executive for consin, and Tony is in law school at Marquette art history. Samantha Lockhart is an office Transwestern Publishing Company and coach­ University. Beth Schneider works for Credit assistant at the Chicago investment firm ing the Napa High School girls junior-varsity Systems in Neenah. Susan Scola is a candidate Edward jones. Toni Mickiewicz is in a graduate basketball team. jason Gubbels and jane for the Ph.D. in French at UW-Madison. Titus program in European politics, law, and adminis­ Scribner are in Albany, N.Y., where she is a stu­ Seilheimer is working on a master's in biology tration that is taught in both Belgium and dent at Albany Medical College, and he works at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Poland. John Nelson, Appleton, works in sales in reader services at the public library. Jane. an Rachel Smithers teaches high school psychol­ for the Fox River Paper Company.lngrid Nordt ensign in the U.S. Navy Reserve, completed the ogy and economics in Manitowoc. Mark is in a master's program in Russian studies at five-week Officer Indoctrination Course at the Smrecek is an actuary in the Chicago consult­ the University of Washington. Michael O'Brien Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, ing firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Justin is pursuing the Master of Music degree in R.I., this summer. James and Lyndsay Sund ('01) Staker is a physical therapist in River Falls ethnomusicology at the University of Texas. Hansen live in Green Bay, where he is a corpo­ Heidi Stober is pursuing a master's degree During 2001-02, Andrea Olejniczak taught rate business analyst at Schneider National, in vocal performance at the New England basic English to students at the University of inc., and she is an underwriter for Humana Conservatory in Boston. Carrie Stoffel has Costa Rica in San Jose. Camlo Olive is a Ph.D. Dental. Logan and Margaret Bre nner ('02) been working on a graduate degree in analyti­ candidate at the University of Minnesota. Jacot are in Minneapolis, where he is a claims cal chemistry at the University of Colorado­ Anna Skorczeski lives in London, England, and examiner for Sedgwick Insurance and she is a Boulder. Laura Trumm and Jeff Eckert are is a script writer and production assistant fo r law student at the University of Minnesota. in Wauwatosa, where she is a residential New Music Television. Kyle Struve is a gradu­ Jenny Kapelanski is a doctoral candidate in counselor for eating disorders at Rogers ate student in jazz percussion at the Manhat­ German at UW-Madison. Ania Karwowska is a Memorial Hospital and he is a senior lab tan School of Music in New York. Jason financial analyst for Bank of America Securities technician for the Medical College of Wiscon­ Tennessen is in a Ph.D. program in molecular. in New York City. Jeremy Keller is an assistant sin, where he has been accepted into the Ph.D. cellular, developmental biology and genetics at manager of Scheets All Sports in Appleton. program in physiology. joan Walby is the the University of Minnesota. Melissa Kelly, Rochester. N.Y .. received the volunteer literacy coordinator for Viroqua M.Mus. degree in voice performance and liter­ Elementary School. Katie Young is a Ph.D. 2002 5th Reunion. June 1008 ature from the Eastman School of Music in candidate in aquatic geochemistry at the Annie Staby is a Suzuki vio li n teacher in Green May and completed the Oberlin in Italy Opera University of Notre Dame. Bay. Douglas Wilber is working on a master's Program this past summer. She currently is degree in cello performance at the University patron services associate for the Rochester 2001 5th Reunion, june 1005 of New Mexico. Philharmonic Orchestra. Brandy Kline is a Sara Benjamin, Minneapolis, is supervisor of rehearsal assistant at the Utah Shakespearean contact service for MindWare. a toy catalog Festival in Cedar City. Beth Lic hty and T.). Ow company. Kat Berington works at Strong Births and adoptions are in Oak Park. Ill. Beth is a bilingual legal Investments in Milwaukee. Adam Bramm is a assistant, and T. J. is a medical student at master's degree candidate in international 1970s Northwestern University. Jennie McConaghy is administration at the University of Denver David Solomon, '78, and Ma ri a, a daughter. a development assoc iate for Musk of the Brian Branchford, a medical student at Lea, March 25,2001

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Sandy Saltzstein, '89, and Darrin Ule, Scott Fuller, '95, and Tanya, a daughter, Elanor 1980s a daughter, Miranda Ruth Ute. Sept. 8, 2002 Lucia. July 6. 2002 Mary Oauffenbach Cairns, '81, and Thomas, Dana Schaefer, '89, and Rudy lukez, Charles Keane, '95, and Heather Mullikin a daughter, Julia Marion, Oct 3, 2002 a daughter, Jillian Marija Lukez, Sept 6. 2002 Keane, '96, a son. Charles Jonathan, July 2002 Kathleen Bublitz, '82, and Joseph Vercellone. Matt Turner and Mary Van De Loo, both '89, Christopher Stoeckl, '95, and Natalie Johnson a son. Phillip Vercellone, Nov. 20, 2001 a daughter. Kaden Turner Van De Lao. April 4. Stoeckl, '96, a daughter, juliet Christine, Sept Scott Chase, '81, and Terese, a daughter. Julia, 2002 24,2002 June 7, 2002 Dale and Melissa Windsperger Weiman, both T. Rodman Harvey, '83, and Lauren. a daugh­ 1990s '95, a son. Matthew Edward. july 30, 2002 ter, Melaina Rose, Nov. 10. 2002 Amy Moldenhauer Bartol, '90, and Scott. John and Jennifer Pieters Chamberlain, both John Stuligross, '83, and Cuixiang Wang, a son. Ia daughter. Olivia Grace, March 4. 2002 '96, a daughter, Lauren Elizabeth, Feb. 17, 2002 Dasen Forest, Sept 20. 2002 Maria Schwefel Johnson, '90, and Stuart, Alex and Carolyn lussow Paul, both '97, a Cyndy Zimmerman Cowles, '84, and a daughter. Hailey Mae. March 6. 2002 daughter, lucia Elizabeth, Ju ly 17, 2002 J. Stephen Cowles, '88, a son, Michael Cory Kadlec and Colleen Vahey, both '90, Julie Majewski Carroll, '98, and Christopher Stephen. Oct. 1. 2002 a son, Benjamin Patrik, May 14, 2001 Carroll, '99, a son. Trever Stephen. july 30, Jim Duncan, '84, and Lori Ackerman Duncan, Amy Neubert Ketcham, '90, and William, 2002 '85, a son. Jack Christopher. Sept. 12. 2002 a son. Samuel Cole, March 4. 2001 Sara Alijev Kureck, '9B, and Aaron, a daughter. Cinda Nelson Considine, '85, and Guy, a son. Sharon Springer Nakpairat, '90, and Gary, Emma Grace, June 20, 2002 Ryan, April21, 2002 a daughter, Emma Elizabeth, Aug. 10, 2001 Donna Sandanowicz Dinello, '85, and David. Joel Flunker, '91, and Cornelia Fehr Flunker, a daughter. Adriana Lee. June 14. 2002 '94, a daughter, Elisabeth. Oct. 9, 2002 Marriages laurie Elkin, '85, and Ken Snedegar, a Elizabeth Consolino Hancock, '91, and daughter, Claire Snedegar, Jan. IS. 2002 Gregory. a daughter. Emily Jane. March 16. 2002 1950s Katy Hopkins-Piecuch, '85, and Chris, a Kacy Kleinhans, '91, and Karen, a son, Caelan. James Davis, Jr., '58, and Gulnara Shaken. Oct daughter. Elise, April20. 2000 April21, 2002 25,2002 Nancy Felker Nack, '85, and Kent, a daughter. David and Stephanie Breidenbach Nelson, David Deinard, '58, and Lynn. june 21. 1997 Claire Ru th, March l, 2002 both '91, a daughter, Sonja jennifer. March 14, Desmond Saunders-Newton, '85, and Clarissa, 2002 1960s a daughter, Ay iana Augusta. Sept. 24, 2002 Heather Bredlau Popelka, '91 , and Michael, R. Eric Dyrud, '67, and Dorina Maier, Aug. 2S, Karen Uselmann, '85, and Jef Sirota. a daugh­ a daughter. Alison Maria. April22. 2002 2002 ter, Genevieve Sirota, March 16. 2001 Linda Goodhall Samuelson, '91, and Robert. Timothy Webster, '86, and Hilary Stratton a son, Alex, Sept. 20. 2002 1970s Webster, '87, a daughter. Moriah Noelle, May Lynn Strebe Wegner, '91 , and Shawn, a son, Elizabeth Orelup, 75, and Lawrence Sonntag, 16.2002 Jacob. July 16, 2002 June 29.2002 Joan Pfarr Anderson, '87, and Jim. a daughter. David and Margaret Magee Peltier, both '92, John Rowland, 79, and Sandi Rubin. July 12. Celia Frances. July 5, 2002 a daughter, lucie M. J.. born Feb. 6, 2002: 2002 Ann Graul, '87, and Eduardo Valencia-Hernan. adopted from South Korea. Sept 19, 2002 a son, Oscar Eduardo. June 20. 2002 Tim Bruss, '93, and Rachelle. a son, Justin, 1980s Amy Belllavalley, '87, and john. a daughter, Nov. 6. 2001 John Stuligross, '83, and Cuixiang Wang, Oct. 7. Anna lee. May 16. 2002 Jane McMenamy-Griffith, '93, and Marc, 2000 Tony Grade, '88, and Megan Burdick-Grade, a daughter. Julia Rose, Sept 8, 2002 Carol Arnosti, '84, and Andreas Teske. june 21. '90, a son, Alden Duncan. March 7, 2001 Gail Nankervis Morley, '93, and Mark, 2002 jeanine Perella McConagy, '88, and Dan, a daughter, Vivia Noel. Dec. 14. 2001 Barbara Buttler, '84, and Christopher Hug, a daughter, Elizabeth Marie, April 29. 2002 Scott Reinhard, '93, a son, Benjamin Scott, Aug. 5,1995 Ann Wermuth Robinson, '88, and Marty July 10,2002 Michael Wilson, '84, and Mary louise Robinson, '91, a daughter, Kelly Ann. May 16. Greta laux Spellman, '93, and Stephen Spell­ McCullough 2002 man, '94, a son, Stephen Colin, May 20, 2001 John Day, 'B7, and Elizabeth, Aug. 24, 2002 Mark Rohricht, '88, and jacquie Cayo Elissa Tucker juckem, '94, and Patrick juckem, Hilary Steinbach, '87, and jack jensen. Jr. Rohricht, '89, a son, joshua William, Jan. 29, '95, a son, Emmett Patrick. Oct. 3, 2002 Susan Temple, '89, and Abel Pereyra, july 27, 2002 Adam Newman, '94, and Sara Staffeldt New­ 2002 David Worley, '88, and Jane, a son. John man, '95, a son. Braeden James, Oct. 24, 2000 Thomas, Dec. 27, 2001 Chad Rettler, '94, and Elizabeth. a daughter. 1990s Jolie Duval Bath, '89, and Alec. a daughter, Anna, Sept 20. 2001 Anne Aune, '90, and Charles Nevel. Aug. 18, Molly, May 4.2002 Elizabeth Steele-Maley, '94, and Thomas. a 2001 Peter Bredlau, '89, and joanna, a daughter, son, Duncan C. Steele-Maley. june 22. 2002 Robert Eisinger, '90, and Anne Overheu, '91, Lauryn, Sept. 27, 2002 Philip Wallner, '94, and Lisa. a daughter. 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legacy Photo Class of 2006 Row I Erik Dietrich, '06, and mother Maria Kaiser Dietrich '78; Cora MacDonald. '06. and mother Barbara Struck MacDonald. 72; Emma Williams Bender, '30, and grandson Logan James Bender, '06, Suzy Steele Born. 78, and daughter Mary Born. '06. Jeanne Loehnis. '81, mother of Joe Loehnis. Row 2 Kurt Dietrich 73, father of Erik; Bradley Mac Donald, 72, father of Cora MacDonald: Serene Sahar, '06, and father Ned Sahar, 72: Jessica Lyon, '06, Caitlin Cisler. '06, and father Michael Cisler. 78; Joe Loehnis, '06. Row 3 John Thickens. '06. and father Bob Thickens. 74; Becca Reason. '06, and mother Kathy Beltz Reason. 77; jim Lyon, 74 and Susan Fine lyon. 73. parents of Jessie Lyon. '06;Jeremy Keller. '00. brother of Megan Keller. '06. Row 4 Ann Kohlbeck Boeckman. 79, and son Rob Boeckman. '06; Heidi Wermuth, "06, and father Bruce Wermuth. '80; Eric Lanser. '06, and mother Kerstin Grace Lanser. 72. Nan Lowry Duthie, '51. and grand­ daughter Megan Meyerhofer. "06.

Christopher Moody, '90, and lea Wilke. jason Stellmacher, '96, and Meighan Lamers, last living World War I veteran in Southern June 1,1001 June 28. 2002 California. Karin Schrouder, '90, and Donald Willman, Kristin Beringer, '97, and Allen Feyen, Sept. 7, Bel Dawson Hansen, '25, Appleton. Aug. 31, June 7, 2002 2002 2002 Gillian Carr, '91, and John Cato. Aug. 3, 2002 Anne Brewer, '97, and Thomas Bara, July 13, Grace Geerlings Major, M-D'27, Sarasota, Fla., Anita Freer, '91, and John Sacrey, Nov. 8. 2002 2002 July 8, 1001 laura Stefani, '91, and lance Steahly, Aug. 10, Sara Wegmann, '97, and Reed Krider, July 6, Dona Taylor Preston, '27, Sunnyvale, Calif., 2002 2002 Oct. 12. 2001. Survivors include her husband, Kristin Fuhrmann, '92, and Stephen Clark, June Zachary French, '98, and Pamela Ajango, William. 19.1001 Oct. 12. 2002 Margaret Antill Roellig, '27, Tucson. Ariz .. Jill Terwilliger, '92, and Charles Henderson. Sonja Rajki and Michael lyford, both '98, June Sept. 25. 2002. May 17,1000 1. 2002 Irene Stepshinski Jenkins, '28, Three lakes, Angela Fahrenkrug, '93, and David Schwartz, Gabriel Gloege and Jing li, both '99, Oct. 2S, Aug. 5. 2002 June 8, 2002 2001 Wu-chi liu, '28, Menlo Park, Calif., Oct. 3. 2002. Junko Fujiwara, '93, and Thomas Simons, June Jeremy Kane, '99, and lerie Herrera, '01, July A leading scholar and translator of Chinese 11. 1001 6, 2002 literature. he was the author of more than James Gerlinsky, '93, and Barbara. Dec. I, 2001 Zan Keyser and Brett Popp, both '99, june 15, 25 books, including an anthology, Sunflower Carrie Massey, '93, and Scott Hogan, july 27, 2002 Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese 2002 Poetry. still widely used as a textbook. He William McDow 111, '93, and leslie. June 1. 2002 2000s taught literature, philosophy, and drama at Atul Pahwa. '93, and Pooja Arora. Aug. 2002 Matthew Anderson, '01, and Tiffany Sel· Yale University, the University of Pittsburgh. Reed Parker, '93, and jennifer, july 2002 witschka, '02, June 24, 1999 and Indiana University, where he helped Kirsten Ratwik, '93, and Jason lamppa. Oct. 7, establish the Department of East Asia 1000 Language and literature. Jennifer Hillbrick, '94, and Todd O'Connor, Deaths July 5, 2002 1930s Rebecca leech, '95, and Peter Czoschke, 1920s Esther M. Brown, M-D'30, Pasadena. Calif.. Aug. 4. 1001 Helen M. Goppelt, M-0'20, Brookfield, June 16. 1001 Douglas Schneider, '95, and Shaelyn. Feb. 3, Nov. 14, 2001 Marguerite Markhoff Derby, M-0'30, Jackson, 1001 Arthur G. Gauerke, '23, Escondido, Calif., Marchl1, 100l Avani Divgi, '96, and Tim locke, Sept. 21, 2002 April6, 2002. The Rev. Mr. Gauerke, age 107 at Elizabeth Baker Werner, '30, Bloomer, Oct. 8, Kimberly Petrie, '96, and Weston Duenkel. the time of his death, was believed to be the 2002 Mayll. 1001

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Edwin R. Bayley Margaret Luehrs Summers, M-0'43, New Berlin, Ill., April 24, 2002. Survivors include her 1918-2002 husband, Robert. Edwin Bayley, '40, LL.D. '86, founding dean of the Graduate School of Jour­ louis G. Zacher!, '43, Dec. 6. 2000 nalism at the University of California at Berkeley, died on October 27, 2002. Juanita Hannon Current, '44, Portland. Ore .. After graduating from lawrence and doing graduate work in English at April14. 2002. Survivors include her husband, Yale University, he worked briefly as a reporter and editor for the Green Boy Thomas. Press Gazette and served in the Navy during World War II. From 1946 to 1959 Sheila Wears Volkman, '45, Feb. 7, 2002. he worked at the Milwaukee Journal. mostly as its chief political reporter. Survivors include her husband. Russell. From this experience came his 1981 book, joe McCarthy and the Press, which Phyllis Burkhart Hoffman, '46, Spokane, won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Wash .. Aug. 15, 2002. Survivors include her From 1959 to 1961 he was chief of staff and executive secretary to Governor Gaylord Nelson, and husband. Stanley; a brother. Thomas C. in 1961 and 1962 he served as a special assistant to President john F. Kennedy, working in the office of Burkhart, '54; and a sister-in-law, Patricia the press secretary. Burkhart Hoffman. '48. In the 1960s he held executive posts with the Peace Corps and the Agency for International Devel­ Willis B. Kueng, '46,janesville, May 12.2002 opment. as well as with National Educational Television, precursor of the Public Broadcasting System. Doris P. Winnemann, '46, Ballwin, Mo .. March 5. He left NET in 1969 to become the first dean of the new journalism school at Berkeley, where he 2002 served until his retirement in 1985. He was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Laws by Lawrence Sally jackson Haralson, M-0'47, Alameda. University in 1986 and in recent years lived in Door County, Wisconsin, and Carmel, California. Calif., Feb. 22, 2002. Survivors include her Predeceased in March 2002 by his wife. Monica Worsley Bayley, '40. he is survived by a sister. a husband, John daughter. a son, and one granddaughter. Eugene W. Tornow, '47, Newnan, Ga., Oct.17, 2002 Margaret Hartman Kummerow, '48, Amery. July 26.2002. Survivors include her husband. Carl. Alice Dunn Zwick, M-0'48, Milwaukee. Aug. Helen F. Andruskevicz, '31, Green Bay. June 17, Hester White Maury, '37, Seattle. Wash., 22, 2002 Sept.17, 2002. Survivors include her grand­ 2002 Priscilla Brooks Ward, '31, Glen Mills, Pa .. daughter. Genevieve Maury Williams, '03, lorna Dawley Schwartz, '49, Kalispell. Mont., May 21, 2002. Survivors include her daughter, and a cousin, Ellen M. White, '32. May 7, 2000. Survivors include an aunt. Kathleen Ward Hall, '62. jean Saunderson White, '37, Allegan, Mich .. Crescenze Dawley Best, '19. Raymond A. Johnson, '33, Minneapolis, Minn., June 30. 2002. Spring 2002 W. John Anthony, '38, Escanaba, Mich., May 13, 1950s Lauretta E. Schultz, '33, Appleton, Oct. 5. 2002 2002. Survivors include his daughter. Mary Eloy Fominaya, '50, Augusta, Ga., AprilS. 2002. Patricia Sedgwick Mueller, M·D'34, Bayport, Anthony Sherman. 78, and an aunt. Eloise Survivors include his wife, Nancy Stolp Minn., May 30, 2001 Judson Anderson, '20. Fominaya. '50. lucille Schwartz Oosterhous, '34, Silver Evelyn Blum Cohen, M-D'38, Highland Park, Ill., Paul V. Elsberry, Jr., 'Sl, Hamden. Conn .. Feb. Spring, Md., April6, 2002. Survivors include her April14. 1998 10, 2002. Survivors include his wife, Charlotte. brother, Robert E. Schwartz, '31. Edna Nymen Janicki, '39, Santa Barbara, Calif., and a son. Fleming Elsberry, '94. Rosemary Wiley Bradley, '35, Washington, Feb. 28, 2002. Survivors include her husband, James W. Schreiter, '51, Appleton, Dec. 8. 2002 D.C., june 7. 2002. Survivors include her Cyril, and a brother-in-law. H. Woodrow Raymond L Carlson, Jr., '52, Brainerd. Minn., husband, Philip Bradley, "35; a sister, Winifred Ohlsen. '40. Aug. 18, 2002. Survivors include his sister, Wiley Troller, '36; and a nephew, Alexander Charles Scheuss Shoys, '39, Whitewater, Oct. Marilyn Carlson Bonnevil!e. '54, and brother-in­ Wilde, '62 28, 2002. Survivors include his wife. Mary law, Lloyd Bonneville, '53 janet Minor Conrad, '35, Sept. 4. 1997 Miller Shoys. '42, and daughter. Barbara Shoys Dorothy P. Saxton, M·D'S2, Batavia, Ill., Edwin M. Emmons, '35, King, July 29, 2002. Kavanaugh, '65. March2002 Survivors include his wife, Verdie. Margaret Griffiths Thomas, '39, Clintonville, Nancy Schneider Weissenborn, '53, Milwaukee, lleta Ehnerd Esler, '35, Appleton, Sept. 21, 2002 Sept. 25. 2001. Survivors include her husband, Dec. 13. 2002. Survivors include her husband. Gordon H. Holterman, '35, Minneapolis. Minn., Lewis E. Thomas. '38. Rob

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Carl M. Podeweltz, '54, Chattanooga. Tenn .. Jorge L Mora, '84, Alajuela. Costa Rica, M-D'42; brother-in-law of jane Atwood Nov. 10.2001 March 20,2002 Borchert,M-D'38 Joyce Carroll Montanye, M-D' 56, New Berlin. Elizabeth W. Colman, Hartland, june 2002. Nov. 29,2001 1990s aunt of Jeffrey H. Colman, '76 Thomas C. Steger, '56, Hammond. N.Y .. May 9, Rami! R. Mammadov, Baku, Azerbaijan. Aug. Sidley 0 . Evans, Kissimmee. Fla., Dec. 4, 2000, 2002. Survivors include his wife, joan. 13, 2001: attended lawrence in the 1999-2000 husband of laura lange Evans, M-D'35 john W. MacBean, '58, Omaha. Neb., Jan. 3. academic year as a special visiting student Robert B. Furman, Plymouth. March 12. 2002, 2001 husband of Yvonne Mathe Furman. '40 Margaret leypoldt Moore, '58, Milwaukee. lois Graebel, Aurora, Colo., October 2002. jan. 9, 2000. Survivors include her husband. Honorary degrees mother of Benjamin D. Graebel. 78 David. and a cousin. Thomas S. Frank, '55. John P. Frank, LL.D. '81, Scottsdale. Ariz.. Kebede Hailu, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aug. 30, Taketsugu Tsurutani, '58, Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 7. 2002. A distinguished law professor 2002, father of Michael Hailu, '04 July 20, 2002 and lawyer, he was an advisor to Thurgood Rosalind W. Harris, St.louis, Mo., Feb. 27, Harry Snydacker, '59, Gurnee. Ill.. August 2002 Marshall in arguing Brown v. Board of 2002. grandmother of joshua R Harris, '93 Education, the landmark 1954 school segrega­ Maxine Hayden, La Jolla. Calif., Oct 29. 2002, 1960s tion case. and also successfully represented wife of Paul G. Hayden. '42 Tony Bok, '60, Camden, Maine, june 11. 2002. Ernesto Miranda, whose name became Diane Hoyer, Bethesda, Md., Aug. 12, 2002, Fred G. Atkinson, '63, Chattanooga, Tenn .. synonymous with the court-mandated mother of Erik W. Hoyer, '92 Sept.12. 2002. Survivors include an uncle, Fred warning against self-incrimination. Frank David D.lngrams, Devon, England. Aug. 30, M. Atkinson. '42. received the honorary degree Doctor of laws 2000, husband of Barbara Brunswick lngrams, '53 Gary L Just, '63, Oconto Falls. Aug. 19. 2002. from Lawrence in 1981. Survivors include his Frederick A. Luedke, Peoria, Ariz., Oct. 1, 2000, Survivors include his wife, Virginia, and his son, wife, five children, and six grandchildren husband of Katherine Kiel Luedke, M-D'35 Gary A. just, '89. Nani Palkhivala, LL.D. '79, Bombay, India, Irving Isenberg, Appleton, Aug. 13. 2002, father Joanne Rosulek lynch, '63, Tempe, Ariz .. Jan. 9, Dec. 11, 2002. An eminent Indian constitutional of William H. Isenberg. '65, Ilene A. Isenberg, 2000. Survivors include her husband, David, lawyer and civil rights advocate. he received 72, and John F. Isenberg. 75 and her daughter, Sara L Benson, '92 the honorary degree Doctor of laws from David E. Middleton, Oshkosh, Aug. 4, 2002, Mary Snouffer larson, '68, Minnetonka. Minn .. La wrence while serving as India's ambassador father of Jeffrey Middleton. 76, and john C. Aug.23.2002 to the United States from 1977 to 1979. Middleton, '86 James H. Streater, '68, Minneapolis, Minn., Dorothy Olson, Appleton. Aug. 21, 2002. wife June 7, 2002. Survivors include his partner, Drue of Edwin H. Olson, professor emeritus of Swanson, his parents, a son and a daughter, Staff psychology and six siblings. one of whom is Michael H. Nancy F.laMarche, Appleton. Dec. 9. 2002, Kenneth F. Otto, Largo, Fla .. Oct. 16. 2001, Streater, 76. custodial group leader in Campus Services. husband of Betty Kalbus Otto, M-D'48 Survivors include her husband, DeL Stanley D. Petrulis, Terre Haute, Ind., March 14, 1970s Eunice Clark Smith, Concord, N.H.. jan. 16, 2002, husband of Ethel Stanek Petrulis. '49 Peter L Carlson, 70, Minneapolis, April17. 2002 2002, former dean at Milwaukee-Downer Eugene F. Ramstack, Sarasota, Fla., Sept 30, Peter R Aschoff, 72, Oxford, Miss .. Feb. 15, College. 2001, husband of Joyce Raasch Ramstack. M-D'49 2002. Survivors include his wife, Barbara. Carolyn Reynolds, Wausau. Jan. 23, 2002, wife Karen Fenlon Miller, '73, Newark, Del., July 12, Friends of Lawrence of Alan C. Reynolds, '72 2002. Survivors include her husband, John E. Muriel Crowley, Appleton, Dec. 11, 2002. Winton A. Schumaker, Appleton. Sept 4. 2002, Miller, 72. Survivors include a daughter. Trissa Crowley. husband of Ruth Marie Schumaker: '40, brother Curtis C. Ridge, '78, little Neck. N.Y .. Dec. 18, Warren F. Parsons, Jr., Glenview. Il l.. Dec. 3, of Vivian Schumaker Iverson, '50; and brother­ 2001. Survivors include his wife. Anthusa. 2002: retired president of the Oscar). Boldt in-law of Marjorie lwen Buckley. '44 Construction Company. Survivors include his Thelma V. Schwartz, Neenah. Aug. 5, 2002. 1980s wife. Sandra. sister of Robert E. Schwartz, '31 Karen A. Hallstrom, '81, Appleton. Oct. 17. Mary Alsted Strange, Appleton, Oct. 15, 2002, 2002 mother of Mary Alsted Strange, '62, and). Emily lynch Gomez, '83, Arlington. Va .. July 29, Family members David Strange, '73 2002. Survivors include her husband. joel: her joanne M. Audette, Andover, Minn., Margaret Wallace, Dubuque, Iowa. June 26, 2000, mother of Martha L WaUace, '79 parents, john G. ('47) and Roberta Wyman Nov. 2002. mother of Amanda Audette, '03 Lynch: a sister, Catherine lynch Pleil. 77; and a Nadine M. Boltz, Kewaunee, Oct.ll. 2002, Brenda Wiley, Appleton. Aug. 26, 2002, mother of Elisabeth Wiley West, '88 cousin, Dorothy Goodsmith Stiles, '76. mother of Morgan Boltz, 'OS. and sister of David F. Kelly, '84, Jeddah. Saudi Arabia, Aug. Randall Behm, '80 Evalyn Wiley, Chippewa Falls, March 28, 2002. mother of Evalyn Wiley Frasch, '69 20, 2002. Survivors include his mother. Patricia; William 8. Calhoun, Fort Collins. Colo., June a brother. Daniel j. Kelly, '92; and a cousin. Paul 29, 2000. husband of Mary Atwood Calhoun, Lamb, '98.

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Phyllis M. Haeger graduated from Lawrence P. M. Haeger & Associates, which provided in 1950 with a degree in English. Though management assistance to an extensive number she never returned to the campus, she of organizations of women in business and retained fond memories of her Lawrence professional fields. Throughout her career, experience, her work with Professors Sealts, she was an influential force in advancing the Spiegelberg, and Beck, and singing in the role of women in business. Among other Lawrence choir. Following graduation, contributions, she headed the Committee of Phyllis earned her master's degree in EngLsh 200, an organization of prominent Chicago at Northwestern University and then entered business and professional women. the field of advertising and public relations, P rior to her death in 2000, Phyllis estab­ eventually joining the firm of Smith, Bucklin lished a generous unrestricted provision for & Associates, Inc., in Chicago (the nation's the college in her estate plans. In recognition largest multiple association management of her generosity and to extend her legacy at firm). Rising to the position of executive the college, Lawrence established an vice president, she served as executive direc­ endowed scholarship fund in her name and tor of the National Association of Bank honor to support deserving young women Women. In 1978, she founded her own firm, students at her beloved alma mater.

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