Lawrence University Lux Alumni Magazines Communications Spring 1999 Lawrence Today, Volume 79, Number 3, Spring 1999 Lawrence University Follow this and additional works at: http://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Liberal Studies Commons © Copyright is owned by the author of this document. Recommended Citation Lawrence University, "Lawrence Today, Volume 79, Number 3, Spring 1999" (1999). Alumni Magazines. Book 18. http://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines/18 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications at Lux. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Lux. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Lawrence T 0 D A y Lawrence University - June 18-20 Editor Gordon E. Brown 920-832-6593 Milwaukee-Downer College - October l-3 gordon.e. [email protected] Art Director Marsha Tuchscherer Director of Public Affairs Steven Blodgett A very special occasion for all alumni and alumnae, Associ ate Director of Reunion Weekend is a chance to spend time with people Public Affairs and who share an important part of your past. Beginning this News Service Manager year and continuing through the Milwaukee-Downer Rick Peterson Sesquicentennial in 2001, Milwaukee-Downer reunions Sports Information Director will be held separately from Lawrence rew1ions, a proce­ Michelle Burzinski dure that will be evaluated during and after that three­ Production Co ord inator year period (see page 43). Debbie Gibbons Class Notes Writer Jw1e 18-19, 1999 reunions are planned for these Kathye Kochanowski , '99 Lawrence classes: Address correspondence to: Lawrence Today , Lawrence University 5th Reunion: Classes of 1993, 1994, and 1995 P.O. 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POSTMASTER: 55th Reunion: Cbss of 1944 Send address changes to Lawrence Today, Lawrence University, ll5 South Drew All Downer Golden Alumnae are im·itcd to Reunion Sn·eet, Appleton, WI 549ll-5798. Weekend tor pecial events. Articles are expressly the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represent Ifyou have questions, please write or call: Alumni Office, official university policy. We reserve the Lawrence University, P.O. Box 599, Appleton, WI right to edit correspondence for length and accuracy. 54912-0599; 920-832-6549. Reunion information is also available on the Lawrelnce World Wide Web site: Lawrence University promotes equal opportunity for all. http://W'vvw.lawrence.edu/alumni/reunion/index.htmlx. CONTENTS SPRING 1999 VOL. 79, NO. 3 FEATURES Freshman Studies Transforms 9 The Fundamentals Endure By Timothy A. Spurgin and Paul M. Cohen Ted Cloak Memories 14 Alumni Look Back with Affection The Subtle Differences Between Plays, Operas, and Musicals 16 How a Director Directs By Timothy X. Troy, '85 Improving Physics at Lawrence 20 Striving To Be Among the Best By David M. Cook and John R. Brandenberger Y2K 24 Just Another Winter Storm? By James S. Evans The Two Rs 26 Reading Is Its Own Reward By Rick Peterson Confessions of a Big-City Transfer Student 28 No Time for Cow-Tipping By Tara Shingle, '99 Never Louder Than Lovely 29 A Day in Honor of "Prof" By Bob Lowe Computers for the Youngest Learners 32 Profile: Richard Snyder, '65 On the cover By Barbara Forster A group of concerned citizens from the musical Sweeney Todd, the Demon Crossing the Finish Line 35 Barber of Fleet Street Sports Profile: Julie Liebich, '01 (see page 16 ). By Michelle Burzinski Photo by Jim Morrill. DEPARTMENTS Correspondence 2 Inside Lawrence 3 Sports 35 Alumni Today 37 Lawrence Yesterday 56 CORRESPONDENCE - - Hot-button Issue and reading about the accomplish­ The Art of Living In the summer edition of Lawrence ments of other Lawrence grads, I I enjoyed President Warch's elegant Today, alumni were offered free give credit to your professors and and compelling report on the aims subscriptions to the LGB Newsletter. their scholarship. of liberal education at Lawrence Bisexuality is one of the focuses of Yes, faculty scholarship promotes (Winter 1998). By placing "the this student publication. "sophisticated research projects," individual student at the center," Although the various gay and peer evaluation, and keeps faculty the administration and faculty have straight ethnic groups within South­ "sharp, informed, and intellectually been able to create an intellectual ern California's cultural melting pot alive," but it also instills in the atmosphere where students can frequently forge closely knit com­ student a desire for continued expetience what the scholar Alexander mwuties, at best bisexuality remains learning and self-improvement Nehamas terms "the art of living." a very divisive issue here. Moreover, beyond graduation. Just as Nehamas begins his descrip­ information gleaned from my study My husband's students will tion of the art of living by analyzing of anthropology appears to indicate always know and remember him as Socrates, Lawrentians first begin to that the vast majority of societies a fine teacher and as a person who experience the art of living by still view bisexual practices as sought opportunities to improve studying Socrates in Plato's Republic. disruptive - potentially tl1reate11ing himself as a teacher and performer. But, the seemingly mundane to the integrity of their sociocultural He experienced this at Lawrence aspects of college life are also institutions. and passes it on. important to tl1e art of living. As While safeguarding our freedom - Julie Sebranek Virgitua Woolf observed, "One of speech in America is of para­ Plymouth, Wisconsin cannot think well, love well, sleep mount importance, tl1e inclusion of well, if one has not dined well." The such hot-button issues witlun the Corrections alumni, by providing the financial limited space of Lawrence Today I enjoyed getting the latest means necessary to improve dining seems unwise- especially if Lawrence Today issue (Fall 1998) facilities, student dormitories, and Lawrence University's goal is to gar­ and appreciate all the news of old student life overall, can greatly ner increased support from within friends, Commencement coverage, enhance tl1e art of living on campus. the diverse ranks of its alumni. and other features. Then students will be able to - Gayle C. Hightower, '73 In the interest of accuracy, a engage in the spontaneous learning La Canada, California couple of corrections are in order. - discovery of tl1e dogfish or tl1e On page 35, I am identified as sonnet- that President Warch Long-term impact standing in tl1e front row of the advocates. With alunuu assistance, As the wife of a Lawrence Lawrence Class of '73's 25th Lawrence students will be able to Conservatory graduate (Jason reunion picture. Alas, I could not be "achieve an independent mind" and Sebranek, C '86 ), I've always in Appleton for the reunion, so, of begin lifelong leanung. enjoyed reading Lawrence publica­ course, I am not in tl1e picture. It -Alexander F. Paul, '97 tions. I'm writing in response to looks to me like my old friend Mike Chicago, Illinois "Why Lawrence Needs Scholars" Breitzman standing between Linda (Lawrence Today, Fall 1998). Hau and Atme Glad. Professor Peter Glick's thought­ On page 52, in tl1e obituary for ful discussion of teaching and my brother, Peter D. Humleker III, scholarship gave excellent reasons '69, you list all his surviving Lawrence Today welcomes letters supporting faculty scholarship. In Lawrence-related relatives. Some­ from readers. Correspondence the last paragraph he mentioned a how our cousin Robert Banta got should be mailed with your nan1e, few indirect effects of faculty schol­ included in that list. Bob never set address, and daytime telephone arship but did not cite its long-term foot in a Lawrence classroom; he number to: Editor, Lawrence Today, impact on Lawrence graduates. graduated from Duke in 1968. Office of Public Affairs, Lawrence My husband is a high school Atnong our other 19 cousins, University, Appleton, WI 54912- instrumental teacher in the Ply­ however, is Ruth Atm Humleker 0 5 99. You also can fax letters to moutll, Wisconsin, school district. Wooden, '68. Ruth and Pete were 920-832-6783 or send e-mail to In addition to obtaining a master's freshmen together, and for tl1e sake gordon.e. [email protected]. in music education, he has consis­ of correctness, she should be tently performed witl1 several area included. groups, including the Sheboygan - William 0. Humleker, '73 Symphony Orchestra. Knowing him, Flat Rock, North Carolina 2 Spring 1999 INSIDE LAWRENCE New faculty Twenty-one new members have joined the Lawrence University faculty for the 1998-99 academic year. Here is a brief introduction to these new members of the Lawrence community: Two full professors head the list, one a distinguished one-year visitor: G. Jonathan Greenwald, former director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Counter­ Terrorism, is the 1998-99 Stephen Edward Scarff Distinguished Visit­ ing Professor of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.