Central Michigan University • Spring 2004

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Graduating to Today’s World

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Graduating to Today’s World

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Centralight COVER-F 2 4/7/04, 10:19 AM Executive Editor and Director of Alumni Relations Mary Lu Fleming Yardley, ’90 MSA ’92

Editor Barbara Sutherland Chovanec

Assistant Editor VOLUME 74 • NUMBER 1 • SPRING 2004 Cynthia J. Drake

Photographers Robert Barclay Peggy Brisbane On the cover

Writers Off with the cap and gown, Caleb Buhs, ’03 on with the business suit? Fred Stabley Jr. The making of an alum in Design Director today’s world isn’t always Stacy Simmer so easy. In this issue 6 Centralight peeks into Graphic Designers the lives of four recent Amy Gouin Sydnee MacKay, ’98 graduates and how they’re making Alumni Board Communications Committee their way.

Daniel Bodene, ’78 ILLUSTRATION BY STACY SIMMER Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76 Thomas Olver, ’98 Shirley Posk, ’60 Paknatchanit “Ling” Sirikururat, ’96 Judy Smith, ’65

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Vice President of Development 2 Letters and Alumni Relations Michael Leto 4 Take Five 16 Associate Vice President 9 Discovery for Public Relations and Marketing Rich Morrison 14 Journeys Features 22 In Support Stay Connected 5 From cab to court 24 Athletics Send change of address information to:

Alumni relations 6 Larry Joe 27 Maroon and Gold Carlin Alumni House Central Michigan University 10 Q & A with President Rao 31 Alumni in Action Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Phone: (800) 358-6903 16 The making of an alum 38 In Memoriam Fax: (989) 774-7159 E-mail: [email protected] 40 Last Shot Web: www.cmualum.com

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Centralight INSIDE 1 4/7/04, 11:15 AM LETTERS

FAVORITE PROFESSORS Editor:

Just wanted to put my two cents in about two of the professors at CMU that had a direct impact on my career and my schooling. Both Bill Bulger and Dennis Thavent, history teachers, were absolutely GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER fantastic educators. They knew their subject matter WONDERS ABOUT “609” frontward and backward, but more importantly, I Editor: knew they cared about their students. Never were we just a number in their classes. Enclosed is a photograph taken in Mount Pleasant in August 1918. My great-grandmother, Florence They each had a style, sense of humor, and human Richardson, is seated on the far right. She was sensibility that made us feel great going to classes. attending Mount Pleasant Normal School when it I know I took every class they taught if I could fit it offered a summer program for rural school in. They were fantastic! teachers. She sent the picture to her family in William “Kit” Moran, ’77 Marion as a postcard. She writes little of her Saline MUSICAL MEMORIES summer experience, only that these women are Editor: “the bunch that rooms at 609.” BLACKBURN OFFERED She continued to take classes at Central for many By 1936, Bernard Mayhew as director of bands at LECTURES OUTSIDE CLASS Central State Teachers College introduced the idea years while teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Editor: of a marching band to perform at football games. Marion. Although the credits she accumulated left President Warriner was delighted. her just shy of a baccalaureate, three of her Scanning my wife’s Centralight I was pleased to children, six grandchildren, and two great- see recognition of George Blackburn in “Favorite As our concert band had but one trombone, it was grandchildren went on to receive their degrees Professors.” He was certainly one of mine! decided that Rex Hulett and I and two other from Central. Currently a student in CMU’s clarinetists would check out trombones and bass philosophy and religion department, I intend to be I didn’t attend Central, but I had the good fortune clef music for The Stars and Stripes and our good the third great-grandchild to graduate from her as a local brat to land a job shearing Christmas ’ole Fight Song, practice a week, and front the alma mater. trees on his farm. On weekends he would 50-piece band’s first show to begin a tradition sometimes come out and work with us. Work-time of spectacular shows. I am interested in learning more about the time banter would nearly always evolve into one of period in Central’s history when my great- “Doc’s” famous history lectures, turning an Rex and Norm Dietz became faculty members of grandmother attended. Many records from this era otherwise boring day into one of fascination with an CMU after the war, and I, thanks to the GI Bill, were lost in a fire in 1925. If any of your readers unvarnished hardball edition that you never got in enrolled at U of M. I conducted several high school know more about this summer program or have history class. They were priceless! We should have bands before retiring in 1976. clues as to where “609” may have been, I would been paying tuition! William Tower, ’40 appreciate hearing their stories. Mike Hradel Sebring, Fla. Kristen Ulmanis Free Soil Mount Pleasant

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Centralight INSIDE 2 4/7/04, 11:15 AM LETTERS

MEMORIES FROM ’39 GRAD IN TRIBUTE Editor: Editor:

My memories of Central date back to my mother’s Dr. Elizabeth Wheeler Anspach is now deceased. us. But most of all, she was a role model, a conversations about her college days. She (Nell She was my friend, mentor, and colleague, and I wonderful Christian lady, a true friend. We will Coffin) attended Central when it was a Normal write to pay tribute. always be grateful for the influence of Dr. Wheeler School and graduated in 1906. Her class picture is (later Dr. Anspach) on our lives. She was a woman of ideals, a real life pioneer, a hanging on the entrance wall of the Carlin Alumni wonderful professor, a friend of students, a woman Donald Breckon, ’62 MA ’63 House. of compassion, a true friend, a Christian lady, and Kansas City, Mo. When I graduated in 1939, it was Central State for me, a second mother. Teachers College. If we were to return this year, it THANKS TO CMU She was proud of being the first woman to would be our 65th anniversary of our graduation. Editor: graduate from Harvard’s School of Public Health. Our college days came toward the end of the great She was proud of her role in the National Our degrees from CMU have opened many doors financial depression when the stock market fell. Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. She was proud of for both of us and enabled us to enjoy our careers Because of this, almost all of us had at least part- her founding role in the national Society for Public in education totaling more than 66 years. Special time jobs. Tuition was $17 a term, but it was just as Health Education. thanks goes to all our instructors over the years hard to come up with as the thousands of dollars especially Mr. Dunbar, Mr. Carlin, Dr. Poor, and Dr. Betty was most proud of her students. We were as are today. Wells Cook. family, often in her home. She knew us well and My personal joy was being president of the campus was often in our homes. (My daughter is named We both have had a rewarding career in education YWCA my senior year. With Glee Club, Mixed after her.) Her students stayed in contact with her, thanks to the opportunity given to us by Central Chorus, and work on the weekly campus paper, I coming back to Mount Pleasant from around the Michigan University. We weren’t 4.0 in high school, had a full schedule and loved it. world. We kept track of each other through Betty. but CMU gave us “country people” an opportunity to fulfill our dreams! Our YWCA sponsor, Anna B. Herrig, was a precious, Betty did so much, in preventing deaths through elderly professor from whom I learned the best public health nutrition, polio prevention programs, Wayne, ’66 MA ’71 and Sherry, ’67 MA ’72 Dillon traits of character, as well as leadership. public health education in local health departments, Cass City and in teaching. She prepared many others to One of my happy memories is that of the “Campus follow in her footsteps. She encouraged, nurtured, Quiet Hour,” which I started as a project of YWCA. Write to Centralight: and mentored her students. She opened doors for This was in a darkened classroom with a few Centralight wants to hear from you! We candles and Bibles. Students could take some time welcome all letters from readers. Tell us your out between classes to meditate on some verses of thoughts about Centralight articles or about scripture, be alone with God, and go out in peace. CMU in general. Professor Larzelere showed us the value of every Be sure to sign your letter with your full name person, as he taught our sociology classes. and also include graduation year and degree, Rachel Loughridge was a sweet address, and daytime phone number. Letters professor who taught us accuracy in may be edited for space and clarity. learning Spanish and had a way of Mail letters to: showing us that accomplishment was easier than we thought. I learned to Centralight Letters apply that to my life. Public relations and marketing West Hall Since 1985 I have been a foreign Central Michigan University missionary to 16 countries and have seen Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 many, many people saved and healed. I am still going strong at 86 years of age! In 2003 Letters also may be sent by fax to (989) I was in Mexico, Peru, and Jamaica for a total 774-1098 or by e-mail to [email protected]. of 15 weeks. My next trip is to the Orient.

Thank you, dear old Central, my launching pad! Correction Lois Winterberg In the “In Memoriam” section of Centralight’s Winter Lois Winterberg Meyer, ’39 Meyer served as 2003 issue, we incorrectly identified Mona Lou Stowell- Tulsa, Okla. a missionary in Corp. A corrected obituary note appears in this issue. We Peru last year. regret the error.

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Centralight INSIDE 3 4/7/04, 11:15 AM MLK III Martin Luther King III inspired students, faculty, and staff during a visit to campus in January to

celebrate his father’s life during Martin Luther King PEGGY BRISBANE Jr. Week at CMU. King delivered his speech, “A Island life Dream Deferred,” to a packed crowd. Here, he talks The splendor of Beaver Island captured in art by Governor to universities: with Shavonne Singleton, a junior majoring in CMU students, artists, and instructors was collected Let’s make a deal journalism. for “Beaver Island: A Retrospective” at CMU this When Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued her state of winter. Katie Fisher’s “Beaver Island Boardwalk” the state address in January, she made an offer to depicts the vibrant flora and fauna of the island. Michigan universities most of them couldn’t refuse.

In exchange for an agreement to limit increases for tuition and mandatory fees to 2.4 percent, Michigan history Granholm promised no additional university funding at your fingertips cuts to the 2004-05 base budget, plus a refund of To appease your inner history buff, surf over to 3 percent of a 5 percent mid-year state funding CMU’s Clark Historical Library Web site at callback. www.clark.cmich.edu. Find out interesting daily factoids such as this one: On May 4, 1846, a CMU’s trustees agreed to the deal. But President woman addressed the Michigan Legislature for Michael Rao notes that CMU’s financial situation is the first time.

still grim. BARCLAY ROBERT “Every day is a treasure,” says Frank Boles, the “Even with limiting tuition and the promise of no library’s director, “and Michigan history is rich with additional state cuts, CMU will need to cut more Miss the sounds of CMU? events worth recalling.” than $7 million next year, which is in addition to the $14.3 million in reductions made in our current Alumni around the world with Internet access can year’s budget,” he says. hear two favorite CMU radio stations: WCMU Public Radio and WMHW Modern Rock, CMU’s student- CMU’s Duke of Juke operated station. keeps blues alive Grand tour Listen to CMU Public Radio at Robert Barclay, CMU photographer by day and The grand opening of CMU’s new Health www.cmuradio.cmich.edu. And catch the Duke of Juke on Sundays, was honored by the Professions Building in March drew a swarm of student vibe on WMHW Modern Rock at Blues Foundation with the 2004 visitors. From left, Professor Elaine Betts gives a www.bca.cmich.edu/wmhwhome.htm. “Keeping the Blues Alive” award. tour of the physical therapy area to Ruth Anne Barclay has hosted “The Juke Joint” Sowle, ’58, and Anne program for CMU Public Radio every Strauss, who has relied Sunday for 19 years. The three-hour on the physical therapy broadcast features acoustic and program in the past. electric blues and interviews with Student Melissa artists such as B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Matthews acts as a Wilson Pickett, and James Brown. patient for classmate Shannon Erdody. “The listeners to ‘The Juke Joint’ have become almost like family,” Barclay says. “‘It’s truly the highlight of my week to spin these records.”

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Centralight INSIDE 4 4/7/04, 11:15 AM ALUMNI PROFILE

From cab to

courtBy Cynthia J. Drake

Recently at a school in Brownsville, Texas, Judge Migdalia Lopez, ’73, implored TEXAS – BROWNSVILLE JUAN MIGUEL GONZALEZ UNIVERSITY OF students to rise above the poverty that envelopes their town, and to go to college.

The woman knows what she’s talking about.

As a young child, the daughter of a “That’s what I did,” she Brownsville, a town near the Texas-Mexico border, maid who migrated from says with a slight indifference. “I smeared with crime and poverty. Puerto Rico to Saginaw, had a young child and we needed the “You really do impact a lot of people’s lives with the Lopez watched her money. It was a big city, and I didn’t know anybody. decisions you make,” she says. mother struggle to make It was difficult to find a job.” ends meet. Lopez’s mother believed in a better life About her arduous path to the bench, she says only Lopez eventually became a parole officer and later for her and used the resources she had to get her this: “I just decided that’s what I wanted to do. I found a job as an outreach worker for St. Mary’s daughter to college. make a decision and just stick to it. I’m very Hospital, but it made her change her mind about tenacious.” “My mom told me, ‘Migdalia, I can’t leave you her career in social work. money, but I want to leave you an education,’” She spends time talking to young people in “I worked in West Philly – a predominantly black she says. Brownsville about the importance of education. part of town. I was working as a social worker, and Her mother went to their priest, who pointed them every time my clients “I’m telling them they toward CMU, which offered scholarships to migrant had problems, I had to Migdalia helped put her husband need to go to college,” children. Lopez received a full scholarship, for call an attorney. I was she says. “There were which she credits much of her success today. doing Band-Aid stuff, through law school and herself times at CMU when it and I didn’t feel like I through graduate school by was hard, but we did it. I Lopez earned her degree in social work and met was making a big encourage them to leave her husband, Nemecio Lopez, ’74, at CMU. She driving a taxicab at night. impact,” she says. the valley, because it’s a also met Ricardo Graciano, ’73, and a group of poor valley. I was raised other students inspired by the work of Cesar So Migdalia set out to get her law degree. She was poor, and that scholarship to CMU changed my Chavez on behalf of migrant farm workers. accepted at the University of Houston, a college she life.” attended while pregnant with her second child, The students protested and rallied against injustice, Gianna. Nemecio had started practicing law in Her friend Graciano, who now lives in McAllen, but Lopez’s friend, Graciano, says what impressed Harlingen, Texas, a seven-hour drive from Houston. Texas, says Migdalia has made a huge impact on him most about Lopez was her quiet nature. For three years they saw each other only on her community. In 1997, the Texas Senate “She soaked everything in,” he remembers. weekends. recognized her achievements with a resolution.

Following graduation, Migdalia and Nemecio moved “I don’t even think I thought about being pregnant,” “Micky hasn’t changed,” Graciano says. “She was a to Philadelphia and had their first child, Marco. Migdalia says laughing. “I was worrying so much worker bee that was always going to be a leader. I Migdalia helped put her husband through law about law school and studying.” know it hasn’t been easy. And that’s why it just school and herself through graduate school by makes me so joyful to know that she’s doing what Today Migdalia Lopez is a judge for the 197th driving a taxicab at night. she’s doing now.” district court, where as judge she presides over felony, civil, juvenile, and family cases in

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Centralight INSIDE 5 4/8/04, 4:43 PM It’s a long way from his high school portrayal of an old Italian butcher named Luigi in “Rest Assured,” when bad hair color and makeup turned the blond-haired, blue-eyed Campbell into something like Elvis meets Skeletor.

“It was awful,” Campbell says. “It was supposed to be a comedy.”

But Campbell loves his role on “According to Jim,” where he gets to serve as what he calls the electron to the show’s nucleus, zipping around, acting crazy.

“I have so much fun in this role,” he says. “I get to be physical. My jokes can be a little out there sometimes. Andy is an awful lot of fun to play.”

“According to Jim,” which airs at 9 p.m. Tuesdays, is in its third season, and Campbell says the cast is a close-knit group on and off the set. They’ve all gathered at Courtney Thorne-Smith’s home for dinner, and they’ve attended concerts by Belushi’s band, The Sacred Hearts, and by Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s husband, country music star Brad Paisley.

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Centralight INSIDE 6 4/7/04, 11:15 AM Berglund says Campbell showed his versatility on CMU stages, playing roles in “MacBeth,” “Of Mice and Men,” and singing in “The Threepenny Opera.”

“People who have only seen him on TV would be surprised at what other Campbell visited campus last types of roles he can play,” he says. fall to perform his one-man play, After graduation Campbell bounced “Terry vs. the Towel Lady,” dish out between Houston, Detroit, Lansing, and advice to theater students during a Chicago, looking for theater work and question-and-answer session, and to struggling with odd jobs to make ends meet. cram a semester’s worth of lessons into a two-hour improv workshop. Campbell’s luck changed when he landed a spot with the famed Second City comedy Steve Berglund, speech communication and troupe in Detroit. He worked there almost three dramatic arts professor, says he’s grateful for “I think they see that he’s a regular guy who years when one night comedian Bob Saget Campbell’s visits to CMU, when students learn came to Central, worked hard, and has turned it visited and invited him to Los Angeles, where practical tips about improv, gain insight into into success. He’s an inspiration to them,” he auditioned for 14 season pilots. Hollywood, and work with someone they see on Berglund says. television each week. Not only does Campbell give time out of his Campbell grew up in Cadillac, the son of visits home to stop at CMU and work with parents who were active in community theater. students, but he tries to help CMU alumni who He played the offensive line for his high school are aspiring actors in Los Angeles. football team, and now he compares the “It seems like there’s some justice in the world teamwork of sports to the teamwork of when one of the nicest people on the planet actors on a stage. has good things happen to him,” Berglund “Football rooted me in my theater says. • experience,” he says. “Nothing will happen with just one person. In football, I was there to support the play. In acting, I’m here to support When Larry Campbell joined the the story. I quickly stopped Screen Actors Guild, he found another counting lines. I realized actor with the same name on the that Shakespeare put membership rolls, so he tacked on his every character there for a middle name and has been known reason.” as “Larry Joe” ever since. As a self-proclaimed sports nut, Campbell chose CMU to pursue sports medicine, but eventually switched to a double major in theater and broadcast and cinematic arts.

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Centralight INSIDE 8 4/7/04, 11:15 AM DISCOVERY

Good news for the scrooges of the world: pessimistic tendencies aren’t always a personality flaw. Bryan Gibson, a social psychologist at CMU, and David Sanbonmatsu of the University of Utah recently explored the ways in which being a pessimist might work to one’s advantage in a study. They discovered that with regard to gambling, pessimists tend to make safer choices than their optimistic counterparts.

By Cynthia J. Drake

“There’s been a lot of research that indicates that optimists tend to cope better when they get negative health news, for example. They follow treatments, they recover more quickly, and they’re less likely to get sick,” Gibson says.

But until now, little research had been done that demonstrated the positive side to pessimism. “This presents the other side of the story,” Gibson says.

To test their theories, Gibson and Sanbonmatsu PEGGY BRISBANE tested three different groups of college students, a mix of optimists and pessimists. Their reactions to a Gibson says that a person’s tendency toward Half empty or half full? Win or lose? Psychology professor Bryan Gibson says variety of different gambling situations were optimism or pessimism is just one of many optimists may live to regret their hopeful monitored. predictors of his or her gambling behavior. choices when it comes to gambling. Throughout the studies, the researchers found that While the research focused mainly on gambling, the optimistic participants were more likely to Gibson says there are other settings in which being The buzz about pessimism … believe that they could win and had more positive a pessimist may work to one’s advantage – in the feelings about losses and near-wins than stock market, for example. He also noted that Gibson’s research has appeared in international pessimists. When asked about their gambling pessimists may thrive in other countries where media recently, including the Chicago Sun-Times, performance later, they also were more likely to resources and opportunities are not as abundant as The Sunday Times (London), The Hindustan remember more wins than their pessimistic peers. in the United States. Times (India), Associated Press, and BBC radio.

“Our data show no difference in betting between “In these circumstances, pessimists tend to optimists and pessimists after winning. But, minimize their risk,” Gibson says. “So despite its optimists are more likely to persist in the face of many benefits, in some situations optimism could losses,” Gibson says. “They’re less ready to give up have some drawbacks.” hope.” Spring 2004 Centralight 9

Centralight INSIDE 9 4/7/04, 11:15 AM Q& A with PRESIDENT

President Michael Rao A couple of years ago you talked a lot about Why do you place so much emphasis on rarely stops talking how CMU needed to “take the next step.” faculty and student research? Have we done this yet? In what ways? about CMU – the great It’s a critical part of the learning mission. I am things he sees We are still in the process of taking the next step interested in giving students an opportunity to take toward national prominence, but we have made what they have learned in the classroom and use it happening at the more progress than I had imagined in just four in any wide range of fields to apply it to important university and the short years. problems. national prominence Part of why we have made so much progress is One way to engage students is to give them real that we have a few things going for us with respect problems to process through a legitimate he expects. to the student learning experience at CMU that a lot methodology that will help them understand the of institutions don’t have. The level of genuine problem more deeply and, hopefully, even solve it. He’s on the road about concern for students on the part of faculty and staff And if they haven’t solved the problem, they have is incredibly strong here. And while it is strong on certainly learned more about the struggles of 40 percent of his time, many campuses, its prevalence here has almost problem-solving. Problem-solving isn’t easy. It’s a drumming up legislative made it a uniform culture throughout the entire challenge. And if we can get students through support, meeting with university. And so part of “taking the next step” has some of that frustration before they have their first been promoting that further, and everyone has job, that makes them more prepared for the world. donors, developing done a good job with that. Employers say all the time that the greatest thing business partnerships, Other parts of taking the next step involve being about CMU graduates is that they are ready to go. and helping employers able to complement what we do well with additional And a critical part of being ready to go, for many see why they should resources. For a long time we have done fields, is being engaged in real research. When surprisingly well in attracting very highly motivated students get out into the real world, they will not be hire CMU grads. students, but there are a number of students who afraid of research because they have done some we probably lose because we are not able to offer here. And to expect students to be engaged in scholarship dollars that other institutions are able to research, we need to have faculty members Centralight sat down offer. Even though we have almost doubled fund- engaged in research. raising in the last four years, we have a long way to with the president to get Research, per se, may not be a critical component go. his take on some of the for every discipline, but I do think that engagement issues facing him and Also significant is the engagement of students and and critical thinking is important for every professors in research that focuses on significant discipline. So “research” might not always be the the university today. problems that affect the quality of human life. best word to describe what I am thinking. But certainly engagement, critical thinking, and More and more people have jumped on board, creativity are important for every discipline. helping us take that next step toward national prominence that CMU has deserved but has not yet Another important part of having students and been able to achieve. The substance is there and faculty both engaged in research is that we want growing, and the message is naturally starting to the university to fulfill some of its mission regarding get out. a very important need in the state of Michigan: spinning off and creating new businesses that pay

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Centralight INSIDE 10 4/7/04, 11:16 AM What is one little-known fact about you that How have the state budget problems most people would be surprised to learn? affected CMU?

That I grew up in a very isolated town of 400 It has been difficult, partly because we have been T RAO people [Darby, Fla.] and that as a youngster, a lot of very faithful in our commitment to access, and we my friends were in their 70s and 80s because it have been funded near the bottom on a per-student was basically a shrinking town, and there were very basis. We have been willing to be an open door to at the higher end. We can few young people. I learned lots from these friends highly motivated students, but it has come at a cost. graduate as many and enjoyed my time with them. students as we want, but The biggest problem that we now face is that there if we are not helping How is the university progressing toward are qualified and highly motivated students who foster the creation of new raising academic standards? What does this want to come to CMU who we can’t make room for high-end businesses that phrase mean to you? because of the choice between quantity and quality. We could take in more students, but we’d be require the skills that It’s progressing in a natural way as the number of

PEGGY BRISBANE putting them into the classrooms that already have we’re equipping applicants for the freshman class continues to rise 50 or 60 students. Would it make any sense to graduates with, then they will leave the state. You and our selectivity increases. One of the things that divide the attention of a professor that much cannot satisfy just one end of the economic it means is that our expectations for students are further? Probably not. So that choice ultimately equation. You have to satisfy the other end, too. An higher because we know that they often can be shows a difficult impact on the budget. important part of the role of the larger universities challenged more. in Michigan is to help foster and spawn economic The university is definitely at a point at which We are not just looking at grades, we’re also development. further cuts will cut into “seed corn,” if you will looking at motivation and encouraging students to allow me to use that phrase. They will cut right into What is the status of a new or renovated challenge themselves so they are able to get the the academic mission and begin to affect the teacher education building at CMU? most out of life. So it’s a more holistic view than quality of what we can do, regardless of our size. It has been our top priority from the time I arrived to just focusing on grades. We are more interested in renovate and make significant additions to what is shaping and developing people who will be great Also, because of our declining state support, it is now known as Ronan Hall. For two years we have contributors to fields, excellent leaders, good even more critical than ever that we increase our had it in the budget, and then it was vetoed at the employees, strong contributors to their scholarship funds for students. We want the best, state level both times because of economic communities, and people who are concerned about highly motivated students to be able to attend CMU. downturn issues. It is still of great interest to the their own families, other people’s families, and the More than ever, we need scholarship support to state. It is still clear to most people, including the quality of life. Some of it’s happening naturally, ensure that can happen. newer legislators in the state, that it is a very some of it is happening with our initiative. legitimate need at CMU. President Michael Rao, CMU began as a teacher education institution, and whose background is in chemistry, conducts we are proud of that and want to continue to be a a research project major contributor to society, providing the very best using microcalorimetry teachers. Facilities are now perhaps hampering our to determine ideal ability to do the very best job that we can do. So we parameters for are waiting for the economy to turn around, and we encapsulation of are waiting for the state to make some important drugs in commitments to major capital projects in order to polymer carriers. His get this going. The state would fund about 75 research has the percent of the project, and we would fund about 25 potential to contribute percent locally. to the reduction of side effects of anti-cancer drugs. He is shown here with professors Dillip Mohanty and

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Centralight INSIDE 11 4/8/04, 4:43 PM While fund-raising dropped nationally, You mean primarily students? private giving to CMU was up 15.7 percent in No, it’s students and people in the community – the last year. To what do you attribute this people around the state. I’ve had long & increase? Q A conversations with people about CMU, and then at I would most attribute it to the incredibly hard work the end of as much as an hour, somebody will say with of a very dedicated group of professors, “Well, do you work there?” And I’ll say “Yeah, I do.” PRESIDENT RAO development staff, and deans. Also, I am willing to And I’m hesitant to let them know what I do spend time on a lot of development oriented because I want them to tell me the truth about what activities. I think it’s reasonable for people who are they really think. Oftentimes they don’t figure it out making major contributions to meet the president until later, and then they’ll send an e-mail saying “I and talk about what they think of the university and didn’t realize you were the president, I wish I hadn’t to allow me to talk to said this, that, or the other.” But in reality, I’m glad them about where we that they did. are headed and some of The CM Life political cartoonist routinely the excitement Monica pokes fun at you. What is it like seeing and I feel. yourself in caricature each week? It has been a strong I mostly get a chuckle out of it. Sometimes the team effort, and the humor he uses is so dry that I just don’t get it. I results are showing. miss the joke. But I do think he’s a very talented That’s not to say that we young man who has a incredibly bright future. I are anywhere near think he will do very well. where we need to be. We still fall significantly In your latest strategic vision update, you call shy on the number of for the number of international students at ROBERT BARCLAY ROBERT dollars that we need to CMU to double in the next eight years. Why is President Rao, Monica and Miguel successfully meet the needs of a lot of very this important? join students for the Alternative Breaks talented students who express an interest in I think it’s important for a number of reasons. Most Walk-a-Thon in the Indoor Athletic Complex coming to CMU. So even though we have seen a of our students when they graduate will this winter. The event raised money to send significant increase, the increases that we hope to students on various volunteer trips in March. undoubtedly end up with great jobs. Most of those see in the next few years need to be greater yet. great jobs will A.) be in metropolitan areas, and B.) We’re well under way with the New Vision of put them in positions in which they are asked to Excellence capital campaign, which is receiving travel, because most businesses that are thriving generous contributions for the university. This are doing some kind of work through international campaign will continue through 2006 to raise funds markets. And the more comfortable that our to invest in scholarships, faculty support, buldings, students are with people from other backgrounds and other programs. and places, the better off they will be.

What is the funniest thing that has happened Aside from that, I think it is a critical part of the to you during your time at CMU? learning experience to learn about people in general and to enjoy people from various The only really kind of intriguing thing is when backgrounds. It just doesn’t seem like a life fully people have heard of the president but haven’t met lived unless you’ve had the opportunity to know and me, and then they meet me and don’t realize it. enjoy all of the different kinds of people who live in We’ve had a great conversation, and I’ve gotten a this world. chance to know them. But once they seem to figure out that I’m the president, they instantly seem to Why have you emphasized the importance of develop a nervousness of some kind. It’s not that I admitting transfer students? find that funny, but it’s just kind of interesting. I also think that transfer students bring backgrounds and life experiences that are very valuable for our students who start out as traditional freshmen to learn from. Many of these students have worked and had major

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Centralight INSIDE 12 4/7/04, 11:16 AM The bottom line is that we deal with the reality of being located in a fairly isolated place in proximity to our alumni, and it requires some of us, including the president, to be more visible externally. We cannot possibly expect everyone to come to us.

We have a large number of students who graduate every year, and most of them are thinking about getting jobs. It’s important for us to do some work for them at the front line with employers so that when a CMU graduate is on their doorstep, they know something about CMU, they know our philosophy, they know what constitutes the learning experience at CMU, they know what kinds of people we have tried to help shape students into, and they know how ready our students are for the world of

PEGGY BRISBANE work.

responsibilities with family, many are parents, many Fundamentally, though, if I really thought that It’s a lot about communication. And for us, given come from place-bound situations where for at changing the nickname of this institution would our location, communication often means that least two years they could not pick up their lives to change the ways in which Native Americans have when I am involved, I have to leave campus. been treated in this country, it would be worth move to CMU. They are really interesting people Aside from funding, what is the biggest considering, but I really don’t. I think that’s a bigger who add a lot to the university community. As a challenge facing CMU today? state university, our commitment to access has to issue. Anyone can change a name. But you can’t as include a focus on students transferring from quickly change people’s attitudes toward a Fundamentally the biggest challenge is getting the community colleges. particular group of individuals who are very word out about CMU. CMU, almost on any criterion, important in the history of these lands. I think that measures up to most institutions that are thought Do you think the university will ever change is a more important focus for this institution and for of as nationally significant entities in higher the Chippewa nickname? What is your me than simply trying to change a name. education. And yet, we don’t necessarily think personal opinion on using the Chippewa about how well we fare on a national level. name? How does CMU benefit from your off-campus involvement with alumni, donors and other I can tell you, generally speaking, that none of us at You know it’s hard to say what the university will external partners? CMU are as good as we need to be at getting the ever do too much into the future. But I do have a word out, at communicating the greatness of this personal opinion about the Chippewa nickname. I I think a lot of people have an image of the institution. I think we are getting better, and every do not believe it should be changed. I have thought president as a person sitting behind a desk in a year that goes by, we improve upon people’s a lot about it, and the more I have thought about it, large office, and as you can see, I don’t have a images of this institution. the more I asked questions of key people. large office. In fact, this is the very same office that President But there are still many people who I certainly asked the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Anspach used when the institution see CMU and remember it as it was what they thought of the university’s use of the was just a few thousand students. I known as many as 30 or 40 years nickname. The two chiefs that I asked about this think that is appropriate, because I ago, and that can often be frustrating. made it clear that they saw it as an honor – they am not here as much as he But time will help, and certainly the appreciated the relationship and the honor. Former probably was. I spend vigor that I feel to change that Chief Maynard Kahgehab in 2002 passed a joint approximately 40 percent of my perception, and the vigor that others resolution saying that the tribe and tribal council time off-campus. feel to change that perception will approved of and appreciated the university’s ultimately result in a better image for positive use of the nickname. The days in which presidents CMU in the long run. • could afford to be philosopher The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe has a very rich

kings are gone. More importantly, PEGGY BRISBANE history and is made up of many very successful I’m focused on relationships, people. It has been an honor to share the Chippewa partnerships, the importance of the institution’s name. impact on our communities and our state, and I It’s important that people realize that use of the can’t do much of that from behind a desk. I can’t Chippewa nickname does not constitute a mascot. convince very many alums who have resources to give to do so over the telephone.

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When Wikanda Klayngeun wants groceries from an Asian market, she hitches a ride with a friend to Lansing to buy vegetables, sauces, rice, and chilis. Around Mount Pleasant, she logs lots of miles on her shoes, quietly wishing there was better public transportation available.

Wikanda, 23, is one of 12 graduate students at CMU from Thailand. When she graduates next year with a MSA in human resources administration, she’ll be one of more than 150 CMU alumni from Thailand.

After Canada, Thailand boasts the largest CMU

Y international alumni population.

Wikanda learned about CMU at an international

ROBERT BARCLA ROBERT education fair in Bankok. About 40 other universities were represented at the fair, and Wikanda chose CMU because it offers the human resources program she wanted to pursue, and tuition and cost of living in Mount Pleasant was cheaper than other locations.

When she graduates, she will try to find a job in the United States. “But if I can’t find a well-paying job, I will go back to Bangkok,” she says.

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A side-by-side comparison … Miles between Mount Pleasant and Bangkok: 8,465 Population of Bangkok: 6.32 million Population of Mount Pleasant: 25,946 Average income per household per year in Thailand: 146,220 baht – about $3,709 In the United States: $41,994 Big Mac in Bangkok: $1.27 In Mount Pleasant: $2.33 In Bangkok … Thailand #2 Dwindling numbers Apartment rent: $127 to $254 per month Of the 2,135 alumni living outside of the U.S. or When the Asian economic crisis hit in 1997, Thai Average meal: $10 for a group of four in a restaurant; 50 cents to $1 per portion serving in the armed forces outside the U.S., here students began staying closer to home, and high from a “food stall” are the top 10 countries by CMU alumni enrollment numbers of the late 1980s and early Bus without air conditioning to population: 1990s dropped off. Also, tighter American anywhere in the city: 8 cents 1,455 Canada restrictions in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorism Bus with air conditioning: 15 cents to 41 cents 157 Thailand strikes make it more difficult for international Pair of jeans: $15 47 Japan students to enter the country. “The most Haircut: $2.54 44 Malaysia difficult for me was to try to get a visa,” Wikanda Klayngeun says. “I had to collect Sources: National Statistical Office of Thailand, 35 France U.S. Census Bureau, Bell International, The Bangkok Post 30 England a lot of credentials.” 24 Mexico 23 Germany 22 Taiwan 21 China

Staying connected The alumni population in Thailand remains loyal and happy to attend CMU-sponsored events. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, dozens attended CMU alumni events in Bangkok. Ling Sirikururat, MSA ’96, promotes CMU whenever she can. She works as an event center booking manager for JW Marriott Hotel in Bangkok, which hosted CMU’s alumni reception in 2001. Ling also has volunteered for CMU at the annual university fair in Bangkok. “There were three Thai students, at least, who went to Central Michigan University under my advise,” she says. “They graduated and got good jobs in Thailand.”

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Centralight INSIDE 16 4/7/04, 11:16 AM After spending four years or more in an atmosphere unlike any other, the college graduate crosses a stage, Jim Bowering, ’03, stands in front of flips a tassel, and drops a landscape of into the abyss of nine-to- third-graders at Schwartzkoff five and 401(k). Elementary School in Sterling Heights, where People often describe he was a Spanish student teacher until this transition as a graduation. lonely time – a time A different world when friends are no Jim Bowering, a tall white man in a crisp blue shirt, This world is a lot different from the one Jim grew longer dialing up for tie, and large sombrero, stands among islands of up in – where he describes his fellow classmates children at Schwartzkoff Elementary in Sterling as “lily white,” where he never felt like an outsider pizza study breaks at Heights. until he studied in Spain and a woman singled him out at a party and made fun of him. midnight, when that “Quién es la madre?” he asks the boys and girls, long-fabled “real world” pointing to the Spanish word for “mother” on the But Jim is destined to be a teacher. The people he blackboard. teaches alongside at Schwartzkoff say he’s patient starts to feel a little and creative. Plus he’s a man, which still makes From every chair in the classroom, hands shoot up. him somewhat of a commodity in the field. more real. The third-graders wiggle in their seats, anticipating that they will be chosen to answer. Some of the “He’ll go into a class and sing,” says teacher Kathy Centralight selected four children are black, some are white. Some wear Nash. “He has a nice, calm, comforting presence.” scarves on their heads, some speak Vietnamese graduates from the class But despite his success as a student teacher, Jim’s at home. of December 2003 in an thoughts often fall on graduation and the looming attempt to understand Jim, who is about to graduate from CMU in a few job search. Two weeks before graduation, Jim weeks, is the student teacher in charge of helping writes: what it’s like to graduate them all communicate in Spanish. Or at least learn Thinking about graduation is both exciting and a few of the basics. and find their way in frightening. The job market is so bad right now that today’s world. This is the He’s also working with English language learners. In I feel unsure of when I may get a job. I hope that the ethnically diverse neighborhoods surrounding with my qualifications, I will have no problem, but I first in a series of stories Schwartzkoff, children speak Erdu, Arabic, Punjabi, am unsure. Central alone will be graduating about their lives. and Chaldean at home. hundreds of student teachers in December. What makes me any different from them? It makes me “It’s really hard when they want something or they realize that I really need to go above and beyond in need to tell me something and they can’t,” Jim making myself marketable. says. Something as simple as getting a permission slip signed by a parent turns into an obstacle.

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Not your father’s recession A phone call from mom Julia Sherlock, director of CMU’s career services, For all of the merriment and enthusiasm “I was always a good artist,” he describes the job market for recent grads as surrounding the momentous occasion, Isaiah Oliver says about his career choice. “I like “squishy.” woke up late on graduation day. the freedom to do what I want.”

“It’s a soft marketplace,” she explains. “It used to He and his roommates, Damion Brown and Stephen One day he hopes to move to be that employers made their hiring decisions one Peeples, were busy carousing late into the night, Florida, but he wants to build up his year out. Now it’s quarter to quarter. It’s not and he forgot to set his alarm for 8 a.m. experience in Michigan first. predictable.” At 8:30 a.m., Brown walked into his room and said, Isaiah grew up in Flint, the oldest of On the other hand, recent grads are a cheap “It’s graduation day, you gotta get up!” and together three brothers. He takes a certain source of labor – “fresh blood,” she calls them – they woke up Peeples. amount of pride in being both the so they have a bit of an edge in some ways. cut-up of the family and the one to “I rushed to get ready, and we took off together,” dream big. Job placement for CMU grads slumped more than Isaiah says. “My parents called from their hotel.” 12 percent, from 94.6 percent in 1998 to 82.4 “In my family, I’ve always been the Once he got to Rose Arena, Isaiah’s cell phone percent in 2002. Sherlock says that even with leader. I was the first to go to school started ringing again. First it was his mom calling to indications of a slow economic recovery, new grads and break from the whole family. I let him know where she was inside the arena. can expect their job search to last nine months was the first to get a car and the first When their eyes met, they waved at each other instead of six. to drive. frantically. Her advice is to be flexible – both in terms of where “Graduation was a big thing for me. Then there were calls from friends – “I heard you to work and for whom. My parents were very happy. My were graduating today,” they told him, and he just mom had already given me the talk – “This market demands flexibility,” she says. smiled, tassel brushing against his ear as he about how she’s happy and proud of strained to listen amid the excitement. Graduates are fully prepared for what to expect me. I always set high expectations for once they get their degree, she says. Isaiah is laid back yet committed to his goals in life. myself, so it was just a way to He says he likes surprising people with what he can recognize that stepping stone.” “They’ve been hearing this for four years. More accomplish. A graphic design major, he’s been people are going to grad school, or they’re taking a working at the Student Book Exchange in Mount self-prescribed time out. They are traveling,” Pleasant for almost a year designing T-shirts, Sherlock says. marketing materials, and Web sites. Another trend: Most grads are going home to live He wears headphones at work, often singing along ‘Five-star frog splash’ after graduation. Sixty-one percent plan to move to his Stevie Wonder CD and amusing his The fact that Dara Anchors gets fired up by men in back home after getting their bachelor’s degrees, coworkers. A photo of his mom sits on the shelf flashy underpants who go by the names of Triple H according to a 2003 survey by Monster.com. above his desk. and Heartbreak Kid seems a little incongruous. “They’re not afraid to go home The recreation parks and leisure services graduate and live with mom and dad. has long brown hair and dimples that frame her There’s a whole different smile. She’s a conservative dresser, usually opting dynamic now,” Sherlock says. “I for a nice sweater with khakis, and she once was one of six, and I couldn’t attempted a massive preservation project for all of wait to leave home.” her old My Little Pony figurines. After she brushed their manes and photographed 117 of them, she gave up. They’re still sitting in a box in her parents’ basement.

Dara’s sitting in that basement now watching Isaiah Oliver, ’03, takes a little “Monday Night Raw,” one of her not-so-secret time out from graduation to obsessions. This has been a weekly tradition going talk to his mom on his cell back to her CMU days, when her friends would phone. “Graduation was a big gather in her room in Robinson Hall and root for thing for me,” he says. “My their favorite sweaty wrestlers. parents were very happy.”

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Dara Anchors, ’03, strikes a pose in front of Van Andel Arena, where she interned and now works part time. Anchors is struggling to find a job with her recreation, parks and leisure services administration degree in the down economy.

Tonight Triple H is spouting off about something or Since graduation, she’s been trying to find a full- “I just want me-time right now. I just graduated other, while another wrestler performs a “five-star time job near Lowell, where her family lives, but from college, and I want to enjoy this time. I want to frog splash” (one wrestler jumps off the ropes and she’s coming up short. She’s working part time at get my loans paid off and be successful in my belly flops on top of a pinned opponent), and Dara the Van Andel box office and waiting for a job career on my own,” she says. is explaining that he’s a “heel.” “They’re either a opening. But Dara’s biggest concern is insurance. She’s face or a heel – faces are the good guys; heels are In the meantime, she’s living with her parents, and diabetic and can’t be covered on her parents’ the bad guys.” being re-introduced to life with her sister, Danielle, insurance much longer, so she needs to find a job Dara goes for the heels – especially if you’re talking a 10th-grader. Many of her old high school buddies with benefits soon. about Randy Orton, the young wrestler she had the have moved away or they’re starting families, so “I read the Grand Rapids Press every day, and pleasure of meeting during her internship at Van she doesn’t have much of a social life anymore. people are talking about the job market and how Andel Arena. “I miss CMU a little. I’m not as social as I was,” she it’s really not that bad,” she says. “I escorted him around Grand Rapids in a limo says. “Here all my friends have jobs, or they’re just Still, interviews have been infrequent, and often during media day,” she muses. “He was very scattered. Not a lot of people stay in Lowell.” they’re disappointing. At a recent one, Dara showed flirtatious. It was hilarious.” Recently Dara went bowling with a group of friends up only to find out that a job advertised as a Dara’s internship, which ended just before – all couples. She says she prefers being single marketing position was a door-to-door sales job. graduation, involved event planning, promotion, right now, but those moments can be a little But for the most part, Dara’s attitude is upbeat. media relations, and working with the public. She awkward. loved those experiences, which ranged from “I feel really fortunate to have the family that I do,” throngs of Cher fans to boxer Floyd Mayweather’s she says. entourage.

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Jim finds a job

For all his nervousness about Jim Bowering finding a job, Jim Bowering has gives a lesson found the perfect one. in Spanish words for “I’m writing this e-mail to fill you in family on some very good news,” he members. His writes to his family and friends less first teaching than a week after graduation. job affords “Today I signed my very first him his own teaching contract with the Grand classroom, Blanc School District!” which is rare for elementary Not only does he have a salaried level foreign job – he’s got his very own language classroom, which is rare in a teachers who world of elementary school normally have foreign language teachers who to lug carts teach “from a cart.” around from class to class. Within a few months, Jim is settled into his routine, Packing up teaching Spanish to second- through fifth-graders for 25 minutes a day. Tristen Smith’s eyes light up when she talks about But now, for the first time they’re taking different Luci Ellavich. paths. Tristen will attend Virginia’s Shenandoah He and his fiancée, Kelly Berry, ’03, are living with University in the fall, and Luci will attend Grand She and Luci, like all best friends who have his parents in Troy. They’re looking for a house and Valley State University. preparing for their wedding in July. accumulated years of memories, laugh easily when they’re together, reminiscing about Tristen’s famous In response to the impending sadness of their On his 45-minute commute home, Jim listens to green bean casserole and the day when Luci’s pet separation, they have a little gesture they do – British rock music and tries to mentally shift gears. hamsters started devouring each other and she hands over their mouths in mock-despair. called Tristen screaming (“I just laughed,” Tristen “Sometimes I feel like a working fool,” he says. Everything is changing for Tristen. Shortly after says). graduation, her long-time boyfriend, Alex, proposed. Both of them grew up in Flushing, both took biology Her parents are packing up their house in Flushing classes together at CMU and lived with each other and heading down to Tennessee. Tristen’s about to and a constantly-changing cast of roommates, and move to a state where she’s never spent more than both are going to graduate school to become a few days. physician assistants.

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“Luci and I lived together for four and a half years,” Below, Tristen Smith, Tristen says. Her feelings toward graduation are ’03, leafs through “hard to explain. It feels weird. I’m excited to wedding planning graduate, but I’m not ready not to see Luci.” books with her best friend, Luci Ellavich, She and Luci and their other friend, Sarah who she will leave Patterson, don’t have a lot of time to spend behind when she goes together lately. Luci has an internship at Ingham to graduate school in Regional Orthopedic Hospital and works part-time Virginia. as a waitress in Lansing.

“Sometimes I feel like the old married woman of the group,” Tristen says. “But then a woman my mom introduced me to the other day thought I had just graduated from high school.”

Luci’s not helping matters. She passes out Tristen and Alex’s engagement photo and points out how young Tristen looks. For a moment, it seems like Luci’s the big sister, always good for a little sarcasm or a helpful hint.

“She taught me how to cook an egg,” Tristen says, owning up to a complete lack of skill in the kitchen, except for her favorite “three can recipe” for green bean casserole.

“I think we worked on toast a few times, too,” says Luci, elbowing her friend in the rib.

Then they both start giggling, and it’s like there’s no distance between them at all.

UP NEXT: Centralight checks in on Isaiah, Tristen, Jim, and Dara in the fall issue.

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“Giving is up substantially at CMU this year over Carlin endowment Fund raising last, bucking the national trend two years in a memorializes former on a roll row,” said Mike Leto, vice president for development and alumni relations. “The $9 million CMU counselor CMU has received gifts and commitments totaling received in the last six months is really more than $38 million toward its New Vision of exceptional in this economic climate and speaks An estate gift totaling nearly $420,000 will extend Excellence Campaign goal of $50 million, according volumes about the esteem in which CMU is held the legacy of a much-loved guidance counselor at to the latest campaign update. by donors.” CMU and provide support for deserving students with financial need. The public phase of CMU’s first-ever comprehensive fund raising campaign was The Dr. Leslie O. Carlin Scholarship Endowment will launched last September, with $29 million pledged provide funds for incoming freshmen and or in hand. The five-year campaign concludes Dec. community college transfer students who, because 31, 2006. of family and financial responsibilities, were prevented from participating in extracurricular Roger Kesseler, campaign chairman, was due to activities that might otherwise have qualified them announce the latest figures at the April 13 meeting for financial aid. The amount of the annual of the university’s National Campaign Steering scholarship will increase as the endowment grows. Committee in Lansing. Carlin was a guidance counselor at CMU for 33 “More than 77,500 alumni and friends have years, retiring in 1981. He and his wife, Margo, a already made gifts to CMU in this campaign,” he housemother, lived in the university’s residence says. “This strong response demonstrates CMU’s Leto recognized the visible leadership of President halls for 25 years. In recognition of their lifelong tremendous potential and will inspire others, I am Michael Rao, the deans, and more than 100 dedication to CMU students, the Carlin Alumni sure, to participate in the life of this university.” campaign volunteers as key components in the campaign’s success to date. House was dedicated to them in 1993. Margo The New Vision of Excellence Campaign priorities passed away in 1991, and Les died in 2002. include providing scholarships that help attract and “Our goal is to educate students who will make “The relationships that the Carlins built with retain talented and deserving students; meaningful personal and professional contributions students have been an important part the education encouraging research, scholarship, creativity, and to society,” says Rao. “The support received experience of many of our alumni,” said CMU community engagement among students and through this campaign will enable CMU to make a President Michael Rao. “The generosity of Dr. Carlin faculty; and enhancing CMU’s learning environment difference in the lives of our students and is greatly appreciated because it fulfills an by upgrading facilities and acquiring technologically ultimately, the well-being of those who will be important goal of the university’s New Vision for advanced equipment. served by students who graduate from this exceptional university.” Excellence capital campaign of attracting new scholarship dollars for students, which is our top priority.” A New Vision of Excellence campaign committee Ira J. Kreft, ’77 Judge Fred M. Mester, ’59 Dr. Gene Ragland, ’66 W. Sidney Smith, ’65 Naperville, Ill. Bloomfield Hills Ann Arbor Mount Pleasant Roger Kesseler, ’58, ’89 James Fabiano Sr., ’65 Chicago Regional College of Humanities The Herbert H. and Grace A. Executive Committee Midland Mount Pleasant Committee Chairman and Social and Behavioral Dow College of Health College of Business Sciences Chairman Professions Chairman Administration Chairman National Campaign Executive Committee John G. Kulhavi, ’65 Chairman JoAnn Hinds, ’72 White Lake Michael R. Murray, ’75 Michael Rao Martin Steinbis, ’75 Todd J. Anson, ’77 Grosse Pointe Woods Executive Committee Grandville Mount Pleasant Houston, Texas Coronado, Calif. Executive Committee Grand Rapids Regional Executive Committee College of Science and Michael Leto Committee Co-chairman Technology Chairman Southern California Mount Pleasant Monica Rao Committee Chairman William Johnson, ’65 Newaygo Executive Committee Pamela Wasko Murray, ’77 Mount Pleasant Joseph Sweeney, ’66 Gary L. Collins, ’69 Executive Committee Grandville Executive Committee Stanwood Lorrie Lynch, ’75 Grand Rapids Regional Libraries Chairman Bloomfield Hills Washington, D.C. Judith Rapanos, ’59 Southeastern Michigan Phyllis and Roger Committee Co-chairwoman Kesseler, ’58, ’89 Washington, D.C., Regional Midland Ron Zyzelewski, ’73 Regional Committee Midland Committee Chairwoman Robert Prevette, ’71 College of Communication Fowler Chairman Public Broadcasting Grand Rapids and Fine Arts Chairwoman Athletics Chairman Richard Eisenach, ’57 Co-chairpersons Executive Committee Grand Rapids Regional Jennifer M. Reihl, ’01 Scottsdale, Ariz. Mount Pleasant Committee Co-chairman Phoenix Arizona Regional Executive Committee Committee Chairman

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Gift supports CMU on Beaver Island

JoAnn Hinds, ’72 MS ’77, demonstrated her passion for science and exploration with a gift to help enhance a biological station on Beaver Island.

Hinds, president and chief executive officer of Diamond Die and Mold Co. in Clinton Township, helped CMU purchase about three acres of land and a three- bedroom house adjoining CMU’s Biological Station on Beaver Island.

Hinds, who values the science and math skills and the problem-solving techniques she learned at CMU, wants to ensure the facility’s continuance and growth. She encourages other alumni to offer their support of the facility.

“For us not to keep the station growing would be a tremendous loss to CMU,” said Hinds, whose scientific passions are evident in her long-term teaching relationship and alumna support of the facility. “Beaver Island is isolated enough to stay pristine. There’s a quaint, cozy feeling; there’s no traffic. There are bogs, beaver dams, birch forests, and beautiful beaches – on the east, all sand and on the west, all rock.”

Rallying support BARCLAY ROBERT Staff in the government relations and public affairs office at CMU drum up Campbells endow support for the university through building relationships with elected officials and business scholarship governmental staffs. Shown are (from left) Brenda Randall, coordinator; Kathy An endowed scholarship from Jerry and Felicia Campbell of Jackson will help Wilbur, vice president for government relations and public affairs; and Toby Roth, CMU attract top students interested in business. director of federal programs. Alumni who wish to help with the effort should check out www.cmich.edu/govrelations. There you’ll find tips for contacting Jerry Campbell, ’62, a CMU trustee and chairman of the board for Republic elected officials, lists of elected officials and government leaders, facts about Bancorp Inc. in Ann Arbor, along with his wife established a $400,000 fund for CMU, and points to promote when discussing the university. “We appreciate the College of Business Administration to help incoming freshmen complete a everyone’s help in promoting CMU,” Wilbur says. “If you can’t find what you’re business education at CMU. looking for on our Web site, or if you have other ideas for ways to advocate for the university, please contact us.” The office phone number is (989) 774-3871 The Jerry and Felicia Campbell Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide financial and the e-mail address is [email protected]. support for freshmen who have demonstrated academic excellence with a grade point average of 3.50 or higher on a 4-point scale and a composite ACT college Professorship bolsters entrance score of at least 28. neuroscience program “Increasing scholarship support for deserving students is a priority during the campaign,” said Michael Leto, vice president for development and alumni CMU trustee John G. Kulhavi, ’65, is funding neuroscience research and student relations. “Through the generosity and vision of Jerry and Felicia Campbell, learning efforts in CMU’s psychology department. many generations of students will be able to fulfill their academic goals at CMU.” The John G. Kulhavi Professorship in Neuroscience will help strengthen CMU’s neuroscience program and the Brain Research and Integrative Neuroscience Center by providing funding to the psychology department to support Faculty, staff, retirees neuroscience research and student learning in the neuroscience area. support university

Michael Leto, CMU’s vice president for development and alumni relations, said CMU faculty, staff, and retirees have pledged more money back to the university faculty endowed positions are important because of what they mean to than ever before. students. The 2003 Annual University Campaign raised $521,508 – a total of $150,693 “An endowment is additional funding to provide top-notch faculty support and more than the previous year’s effort. And this total came from 858 donors – 121 student access to leaders in the field,” he said. more than the year before.

Kulhavi is senior vice president for Merrill Lynch in Farmington Hills and also “CMU is fortunate to have a loyal base of faculty, staff, and retirees who serves as a member of the CMU Development Board. understand and appreciate the value of investing in the future of our institution,” said John Fisher, associate vice president for residences and auxiliary services, and campaign co-chairman. “I’m very pleased. I expected a good response, but this was even better.”

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ROBERT BARCLAY

Around 80 former CMU basketball players, The current Chippewas even wore a special coaches, and managers were on hand for retro-inspired uniform for their game against the CMU’s 100th Season Celebration in early Golden Flashes. February. Prints Available The event coincided with the men’s game Prints are available of the toilet paper toss against Kent State University on Feb. 7. The photo shown here. Prices are: festivities included a reception on Friday night, Y a luncheon on Saturday afternoon, and a 8 x 12 inch print, $19.95 halftime ceremony honoring the former 11 x 16 inch print, $29.95 16 x 24 inch print, $49.95

ROBERT BARCLA ROBERT Chippewas in attendance. Four of the seven players who have had their jersey retired were “Thunder” Dan Majerle (left) and “Lightning” Ervin These prices include shipping. Leavy reunited at the 100th season celebration. in attendance – Don Edwards, Ben Kelso, Ben Poquette, and Dan Majerle. Checks should be made payable to Central Michigan University and should be mailed to Two highlights of the celebration were the re- Robert Barclay, Public Relations and Marketing, creation of the famous “toilet paper toss” of the late West Hall 112, Central Michigan University, 1980s and the Alumni Legends Game, which Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Allow 30 days ended in a 44-44 tie. for turnaround time. Be sure to include a return address.

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Centralight INSIDE 24 4/7/04, 11:17 AM ATHLETICS To wake a sleeping giant By Fred Stabley Jr.

CMU has pinned its hopes for the revival of its “I’m excited about the opportunity of waking up a football program on one of the most successful sleeping giant,” says Kelly. “Central Michigan coaches in NCAA Division II history. University has great tradition and facilities.

Brian Kelly was announced as the Chippewas’ new “I’m looking forward to the challenge of bringing head football coach Dec. 30 and introduced to the CMU football back to its rightful place at the top of media at a press conference Jan. 2. the Mid-American Conference.”

The 42-year-old Kelly led Grand Valley State The Lakers were an incredible 103-22-2 in Great University to back-to-back national championships Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action for in 2002 and 2003 after finishing second in 2001. a winning percentage of .820.

“Brian is an experienced head coach and a proven Kelly, GVSU’s head coach since 1991, led the winner, and we’re excited that he accepted the Lakers to five GLIAC titles and six NCAA Division II opportunity to be our next football coach,” says playoff appearances. His team finished lower than

Herb Deromedi, CMU athletics director. “He has third in the conference just once. During one eight- BARCLAY ROBERT demonstrated great leadership qualities and the year span, his teams finished first three times, New football coach Brian Kelly speaks to the media ability to develop student-athletes to a high level of second four times and third once. at a press conference. success.” Kelly was named the 2002 American Football linebacker. After graduating from Assumption in Kelly was the head coach at GVSU the past 13 Coaches Association Division II “Coach of the Year.” 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in political science, seasons and never had a losing season. His overall His team was 14-0 in that championship campaign he served as the college’s linebacker coach, record was 118-35-2, and the last three Laker while his 2003 team posted a 14-1 mark. defensive coordinator, and softball coach from teams went 41-2 and featured a 32-game winning A native of Chelsea, Mass., Kelly attended St. Johns 1983-86 at Assumption. streak. Prep School in Danvers, Mass. He was a four-year CMU’s 2004 season will open with a pair of road letterwinner at Assumption (Mass.) College as a games at Big Ten foes. The Chippewas will play at Indiana Sept. 4 and Michigan State Sept. 11. •

Olympic hopeful By Caleb Buhs The CMU men’s track and field team Drake entered the indoor championship with the Now that the junior from Detroit has seen his boasted one of the fastest men in top qualifying time of 6.54 that he set at Eastern potential, his goals have become loftier. Drake now the nation this year in sprinter Michigan Jan. 23, which garnered him all kinds of has ambitions of qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Johnie Drake. attention. His time automatically qualified him for team this summer. nationals and thrust him into the national spotlight. The Detroit Cass Tech “I just try to take things one day at a time,” says graduate recently Drake has been featured on track Web sites such Drake. “But, I have got my eyes on the Olympic became the 21st as trackshark.com and has attracted lots of media Trials on July 10 and 11.” Chippewa to earn attention. In order to make the Olympic team, Drake will need All-America status in track and “All this attention has been all right,” says Drake. some cooperation from his coach Jim Knapp, who field by taking eighth place in the “But I always put God first. The whole experience is happy to oblige. 60-meter dash at the 2004 NCAA has been a lot of fun, and my teammates are Indoor Championship March 13. “We will probably run Johnie in fewer events and in always teasing me about it. I just try to stay humble fewer meets during the outdoor season,” says Drake finished with a time of 6.72 and stay on track and keep trying to achieve my Knapp. “We don’t want him to get worn down, while the top finisher, DaBryan goals.” because we want him to have his best chance to Blanton of Oklahoma, finished in In addition to his All-America status, Drake also make the Olympic team.” 6.59. won two events at the Mid-American Conference If Drake were to make the Olympic team he would Indoor Championship: the 60-meter and 200-meter compete in Greece this summer and be given an dash. Olympic redshirt from the team next season.

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Centralight INSIDE 25 4/7/04, 11:17 AM There’s one thing you know as well as we do. Know someone who It takes a real-life visit – a walk on campus, a meal in a residence hall, a discussion with a professor – to discover NEEDS why CMU is such a great place. So go ahead. Share your fond memories about attending CMU with your siblings, children, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, to visit CMU? anyone who will listen. www.cmich.edu But make sure your family and friends have a chance to see for themselves. Simply complete this form and mail it to: Please send my relative or friend information about visiting CMU. Admissions Office Name Central Michigan University Warriner Hall 102 Address Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Telephone Number (Including Area Code)

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Seeking By Mary Lu Fleming Chapter and Yardley, ’90 MSA ’92 Executive director of club events “generations” alumni relations The “Favorite Professors” section in our last We know there are African-American constituent chapter issue certainly has stimulated a lot of memories many CMU families, The African-American Alumni Constituent Chapter for alumni. We hoped for memories of days gone because as we meet hosted a holiday social Dec. 18 and then on Dec. by, and that is what we received. For some, with alumni we hear 26 hosted a Kwanzaa celebration at the Northwest those were the good old days, for others those the stories. days held struggles that were helped by CMU Activities Center. In February the chapter hosted an What is your CMU professors, staff, and scholarships. But most of after-work get-together at Club Network. family history? Send us your story and share all, the letters evoked treasured memories. with us your family’s pride with generations of Band constituent chapter For the next issue, we would like your help CMU graduates. See the letters section on More than 60 musicians jammed during the third again. Just as you told us your favorite professor Page 2 for mail and e-mail addresses. annual alumni band concert March 21 at the Music stories, we would like to hear from you about the Did you know that we rank fourth in the state of generations in your family that have graduated Building Recital Hall on campus. More than 100 Michigan showcasing CMU on license plates, from CMU. people attended the concert. behind WMU? Help us move past WMU and We hope to share stories such as the one from show your school spirit with a university logo Annapolis, Md. Lois Winterberg Meyer, ’39, whose mother license plate. Next time you renew your vehicle In November more than 250 alumni and friends graduated in 1906 and whose great- plate, order your university plate and let from all over the country enjoyed a pre-game granddaughter, Megan Boik, is a junior here at everyone see your CMU pride. reception prior to the CMU vs. Navy football game. CMU. Stay tuned for more of this story in the Following the game, nearly 75 alumni and friends next issue! gathered at O’Brien’s Oyster Bar for an hors d’oeuvres reception. Houston Phoenix Alumni and friends gathered in February at the In January, Phoenix area alumni enjoyed a pre- J.W. Marriott Hotel by the Galleria for an evening of game dinner at Fox and Hound and then attended networking the Detroit Redwings vs. Phoenix Coyotes hockey and game. In February, alumni gathered for a tour of the socializing. Heard Museum and then went to Majerle’s Sports Bar for Chicago lunch. Knoxville, Tenn. Chicago area alumni joined in December for an Alumni and friends from the Knoxville area after work social gathering at Jake Melnik’s Tap in gathered for an afternoon of bowling and socializing downtown Chicago. This was one of several after San Antonio, Texas in January at the Family Bowl in Knoxville. work social hours the Chicago area alumni group In February, alumni and friends in San Antonio hosted in 2003. Mark July 16 for the annual CMU Lansing gathered at the San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk Chicago Cubs Outing; more information will be Nearly 70 Lansing area alumni gathered in hotel for an evening of networking and socializing. available soon. December for the performance of “Mamma Mia” at Traverse City Grand Rapids the Wharton Center in East Lansing. In December, alumni and friends from the Traverse In November the Grand Rapids chapter joined with Las Vegas City area enjoyed a lunch at the Earth and Hearth an alumni group from Western Michigan University CMU alumni and friends gathered in March for restaurant and then a performance of “The to host the Crying Towel event at the Peninsula dinner before the CMU vs. UNLV basketball game. Nutcracker” at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Club in Grand Rapids. In February alumni met at TAPS for dinner and attended a Grand Rapids Tri-cities Griffins hockey game. Also, more than 40 alumni Alumni and friends attended a reception at the attended an “after hours” event at Tiki Bob’s, with Midland Center for the Arts to admire “The Fine Art special guests Football Head Coach Brian Kelly, of Illustrating for Children” exhibit, featuring the Athletics Director Herb Deromedi, and football Francis and Mary Lois Molson collection from the legend Ray Bentley. Clarke Historical Library.

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Dallas Band Alumni Phil Harris, ’64 Tom Broka, ’72 home: (972) 722-8268 Bay City [email protected] work: (989) 662-4481 home: (989) 684-0462 Houston [email protected] Bill Cox, ’83 chapters home: (713) 722-0911 Broadcast and cinematic arts [email protected] Kathy Banfield Shaw, ’74 Michigan chapters Battle Creek Las Vegas Ann Arbor Lansing work: (616) 979-3838 Ann Marie Fredrickson, ’94 Bob Balicki, ’79, and Gail Elliott, ’94 Lisa Pratt, ’89 home: (616) 965-2979 home: (702) 655-2118 Bob: (313) 608-7922 work: (517) 334-8050 [email protected] [email protected] Gail: (313) 608-7923 [email protected] Honors [email protected] Los Angeles Mount Pleasant Michael Collins [email protected] Patti, ’83, and Ed Schroll, ’77 MA ’78 Tony Voisin, ’84 MA ’88 [email protected] Ed.S. ’91 Battle Creek [email protected] Or Honors Program (989) 774-3902 T.R. Shaw, ’82 work: (909) 370-2891 work: (616) 979-3838 Traverse City home: (909) 446-1946 Integrated public relations home: (616) 965-2979 Call the alumni office at [email protected] Abigail Dean, ’01 [email protected] (800) 358-6903 for information. St. Charles, Ill. Phoenix work: (815) 753-5062 Rene Johnson, ’78 Tri-cities Barbara Langham, ’66 home: (630) 513-8278 work: (269) 388-8403 Daniel Herzog, ’91 work: (602) 674-4501 [email protected] [email protected] home: (989) 799-2557 home: (480) 948-9822 [email protected] [email protected] ROTC Detroit Don P. Case Christopher Jablonski, ’83 National chapters Reno Bloomfield Hills [email protected] Call the alumni office at Atlanta (800) 358-6903 for information. Recreation, parks and leisure Flint Brenda Morant, MA ’76 services administration Washington, D.C. Ted Bunker, ’69 work: (404) 880-8078 Ron Reinke, ’71 MA ’77 Tony Brown, ’02 home: (810) 694-7359 home: (770) 994-3896 Livonia work: (202) 857-8030 [email protected] [email protected] work: (734) 466-2411 home: (202) 882-2993 home: (734) 591-7981 Grand Rapids Chicago [email protected] [email protected] Pam Murray, ’77 MA ’83 Ira Kreft, ’77 work: (616) 234-5370 work: (312) 827-4202 Constituent chapters Student Alumni Association [email protected] home: (616) 249-0898 African-American Chaula Negandhi [email protected] Cleveland Joseph Smith, ’96 [email protected] Call the alumni office at Detroit (800) 358-6903 for information. work: (313) 590-5523 Alumni clubs [email protected] Boston area Florida’s Gulf Coast area Knoxville, Tenn., area San Antonio, Texas, area Call the alumni office at Edward A. Hebert, MSA ’98 Call the alumni office at Ralph Brooks, ’98 (800) 358-6903 for information. Wesley Chapel (800) 358-6903 for information. (972) 831-0045 (813) 973-4189 [email protected] Milwaukee area Cincinnati area [email protected] Call the alumni office at Call the alumni office at Western Pennsylvania area (800) 358-6903 for information. Kim Maszera (800) 358-6903 for information. Jeff Rivard, ’66 St. Petersburg Pittsburgh New England area Florida’s East Central area [email protected] (412) 826-2180 Karen and Gary Aalbregtse Kevin Richards, ’89 [email protected] Deland Indianapolis area Norwalk, Conn. [email protected] Call the alumni office at (203) 840-6221 West Palm, Fla., area (800) 358-6903 for information. [email protected] Paul Gaba, ’88 (561) 422-8960 Kansas City area Omaha, Neb., area [email protected] Call the alumni office at Peter J. Rakovalis, ’95 (800) 358-6903 for information. Bellevue, Neb. [email protected] 28 Centralight Spring 2004

Centralight INSIDE 28 4/7/04, 11:17 AM MAROON AND GOLD Alumni board Alumni President Thomas Olver, ’98 Thomas Lapka, ’78 Oxford, Ohio Ada Darcy Orlik, ’92 MSA ’95 May events work: (517) 482-0222 Mount Pleasant [email protected] 14 CMU night at Comerica Park. The Detroit Tigers take on the Ronald Reinke, ’71 MA ’77 Texas Rangers in the 7:05 p.m. game. Enjoy a special evening First vice president Livonia exclusively packaged for CMU alumni, friends, students, faculty, Sheldon Lennox, ’81 and staff. A pre-game reception will be in the Upper Deck Rockford Charles Selinger, ’94 MS ’98 work: (616) 292-5865 Ceresco Lounge at 5:30 p.m. Upper box seats are $10 per person, [email protected] which is half off the regular ticket price. More than 1,200 CMU Paknatchanit “Ling” Sirikururat, ’96 people attended this event last year. Call the alumni relations Second vice president Bangkok, Thailand Darlene Nowak-Baker, ’87 office, (800) 358-6903, for information, or see Lansing Brian Szagesh, ’90 www.alumni.cmich.edu/events.asp for a printable work: (517) 483-6707 Midland registration form. [email protected] George Torreano, ’70 MA ’73 20 The Metro Detroit Alumni Association and the Chippewa Club Mount Pleasant Directors are hosting a golf outing at the Majestic Golf Course in Hartland Mark Van Faussien, ’86 Daniel Bodene, ’78 for alumni, friends, former athletes, and all of CMU’s coaches. Beverly Hills Lathrup Village Dawn Weber, ’83 MA ’84 June Doug Brown, ’81 New York, N.Y. Harbor Springs 4 and 5 “Reunion of the Decades” for all alumni from the classes of 1950 through 1959. The Class of 1954 will celebrate its 50- Jean (Bennett) Brown, ’88 Emeritus board members year reunion. Novi Terry Carey, ’47 Janet Burns, MA ’83, Ed.S. ’89 Chet Janik, ’79 MA ’83 5 Alumni Awards Dinner – Call the alumni office at Buchanan Raymond Jones, ’73 MA ’80 (800) 358-6903 for information. Lornie Kerr, ’54 Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76 Ronald Kevern, ’55 28 Tri-cities golf outing, Apple Mountain, Freeland. Midland Pam (Wasko) Murray, ’77 MA ’83 Jacalyn (Beckers) Goforth, ’82 Shirley (Lada) Posk, ’60 July Lathrup Village Robb Wardrop, ’72 MA ’75 16 Chicago Cubs outing. Jan (Keegan) Hagland, ’77 Ex officio members 22 Traverse City golf outing, Grand Traverse Resort. Berkley Michael Leto Daniel Herzog, ’91 e-mail: [email protected] August 10 Grand Rapids golf outing, Quail Ridge Golf Club. Saginaw Mary Lu Fleming Yardley, ’90 MSA ’92 Timothy Hicks, ’74 MA ’77 e-mail: [email protected] 29 The African-American Constituent Chapter will host a family Muskegon Monica Rao picnic at Kensington Park in Milford. Gerald Hug Jr. ’81 e-mail: [email protected] Plymouth October 9 Homecoming. Marcia Hyde, ’81 Ann Arbor November Ira Kreft, ’77 7-11 Elderhostel program, Frankenmuth. Naperville, Ill. Elderhostel, an international education Christopher Jablonski, ’83 program for persons 55 years of age and Bloomfield Hills older, brings together individuals who have a common passion for learning. For information call Amy Hodges at (800) 950- CMU on the links 1144, extension 7129. Lornie, ’54, and Midge Kerr of Traverse City sport a CMU-inspired golf cart when they’re on the links near their winter home in Lady Lake, Fla.

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Centralight INSIDE 29 4/7/04, 11:17 AM You’re invited! Second Annual CMU Night at Comerica Park • Friday, May 14, 7:05 p.m. Detroit Tigers vs. Texas Rangers

Enjoy a special event exclusively packaged Special event offer, act now for CMU alumni, students, faculty and staff! Upper Box Seats $10. Order today by mailing or faxing the • Private pre-game reception at 5:30 p.m. at the Upper form below to the Tigers Ticket Sales office. Print out Deck Lounge (behind section 331). additional forms using a link at CMU’s alumni Web site: • Half-off voucher for future game tickets to all who attend. www.alumni.cmich.edu/events.asp. • National Anthem sung by CMU music student Nathaniel Hackman.* See you at the game! • First Pitch: You could throw out the first pitch of the game if you have the winning bid. Visit www.cmualum.com to win this and other prizes at our online auction, including Tiger memorabilia, box seats and more. • Special welcome for CMU on Tiger scoreboard. • Wear CMU logos and colors to show your spirit. • Post-game fireworks show at the park, weather permitting. *Pending

Central Michigan University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. CMU, an AA/EO institution, strongly and actively strives to increase diversity within its community (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo). CMU provides students with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in educational programs, activities or services. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should call (800) 950-1144, ext. 4464. www.cel.cmich.edu [email protected] 14482 3/12/04

CMU Night Ticket Order Form Friday, May 14, 2004 vs. Texas Rangers at 7:05 p.m.

Type of seat Full price CMU Total cost # of Total Name: ______ticket discount per ticket tickets cost Address: ______Upper $20 $10 off $10 _____ $_____ box seat* City:______Sections (321-337) Handling fee State: ______Zip: ______+ $3 Phone:______*Seat location is best available. Grand totals $_____ E-mail: ______U.S. funds CMU participants must use this ticket order form to receive special discount on Credit card #: ______May 14th game. This offer is not available at the Comerica Park Box Office or (VISA, Mastercard, AmEx) through any Ticketmaster outlets. Mail or fax only. Expiration date: ______

Fax this form to (313) 471-2599 or mail form w/payment to: CMU Note: Orders must be received Night, c/o Detroit Tigers, 2100 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201. by May 7th. A sales representative will Make checks payable to “Detroit Tigers Inc.” (Checks or credit card only.) contact you when your order is received.

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1960s Bill Clark, ’61, retired from Mobil Oil after 35 years. He is the director of business development for Portsmouth, R.I.

Jerry Campbell, ’62, is chairman of the board for Republic Bancorp Inc. in Ann Arbor, which was ranked as the fifth best company to work for by Fortune magazine. He also serves on CMU’s Board of Trustees.

David F. Moeller, ’65, retired from his work as corrections officer for the Michigan Department of Corrections in December 2003. He and his wife, Ethel, live in Linden. ¡Que bueno! Dale Wernette, ’67 MBA ’71, has run his own CMU alums made a clean sweep at the state business, Sherpa & Associates, for the past 14 foreign language association awards in 2003. CMU Spanish professor Susan Knight, ’65, years. He and his wife, Karen, live in Scottsdale, Ariz. (center) won the prestigious Barbara Richard D. Burkett, ’68, is the founder and Ort-Smith Award; Mercia Foster, ’70 MA ’02, president of Restoration Ministries, a biblical (left) won the elementary teacher of the year Christian counseling ministry in Rockford, Ill. He award; and Mary Webster, ’71, (right) won the and his wife, Darleen, have two children. secondary teacher of the year award.

Anniversary journey James Gwisdala, ’68, is executive vice president Special Olympic Golf Championship the past three Robert, ’46, and Ruth, ’38, Curtis visited CMU for Comerica Bank in Dallas. He lives in Plano, years. He lives in San Francisco. for their 65th wedding anniversary on Oct. 9, Texas. 2003. They toured the campus, which has Joel Pilcher, ’72, is director of communications at changed dramatically since the couple met in Kathleen (Heaton) Andersen, ’69, retired after 32 Open Doors USA. He and his wife, Martine, and 1937 at Central State Teachers College. years as an elementary teacher in Imlay City. She three daughters live in Mission Viejo, Calif. now works part time as a children’s librarian in Rev. Ed McCallum, ’74 MM ’81, is assistant Capac, where she lives. 1940s stated clerk for Evangelical Presbyterian Church in David Lirones, ’49, and Bernice (Nelson) Richard Fauble, ’69, retired after 34 years in Livonia. Lirones, ’47, celebrated their 55th anniversary last education, most recently as superintendent of summer with their family. They have four children Tecumseh Public Schools. He and his wife, Bethany, Mary Beth Leininger, and four grandchildren. David is a retired live in Tecumseh. ’75, is a certified osteopathic physician, and Bernice is a homemaker Richard A. Meeuwenberg, ’69, retired after nearly public accountant for and retired teacher. They live in Flint. 30 years of emergency medicine practice, the last Andrews Hooper & 1950s 15 years at Holland Community Hospital. He lives in Pavlik PLC. She Newaygo. specializes in Kris Hansen, ’52, was named 2004 Woman of the performing audit Year by the Adirondack Business and Professional 1970s services for colleges Women’s Club. She has taught physical education, Lois (Alward) Parsell, ’70, was chosen as the and universities, corporations, and financial coached women’s basketball, women’s field Michigan Art Education Association’s High School institutions. She lives in Midland. hockey, and men’s tennis and has owned and Art Teacher of the Year for 2004. She has taught art operated Camp Woodsmoke for 40 years. She lives for 34 years in Vassar public schools. She and her Diane Miller, ’76 MSA ’82, is an adjunct in Lake Placid, N.Y. husband, James, live in Caro. accounting professor at Upper Iowa University- Benedict Markowski, ’53, received the 2003 Beverly Van Kampen, ’71, wrote “The GodSense Madison Center. She and her husband, Dennis President’s Award for Literary Excellence from the Devotional: 52 Weeks to a Transformed Life,” Ureche, live in McFarland, Wis. National Author’s Registry and Iliad Press for his published by FaithWalk Publishing. She lives in Karen (Stewart) Spica, ’76, is chairwoman of poem “Conflagrations.” He lives in Detroit. Spring Lake. Women in Communications of Detroit. She is Mike L. Mc Colgan, ’72, is editor of Golf Today president of John Bailey & Associates Inc. in Troy Magazine. He is the proud partner of his son, MJ and lives in Canton. Mc Colgan, who has won the California State Spring 2004 Centralight 31

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Todd J. Anson, ’77, is co-owner of Cisterra Wendy Shaheen, ’80, is director of the Family Steve Flaminio, ’84, is site controller for The Dow Partners, LLC. He was recently named Developer of Service of Lucas County and Ottawa County offices Chemical Co.’s Michigan operations, where he has the Year in San Diego by the National Association of in Ohio. She and her husband, Rusty, and two worked for 19 years. He and his wife, Mary Ann, Industrial and Office Properties. children, Nicholas and Rebecca, live in Oregon, have three daughters, Kaylie, Sydney, and Alexie. Ohio. Robert Smith, ’77, is the insurance and benefits Laurie S. Millar, ’84, is a system analyst at Purdue administrator for Ingham County. He and his wife, Stephen J. Wade, ’80 MBA ’91, was promoted to University. Anne Morris, ’82, have two children, Jacob and senior credit executive at Deutsche Bank. He Paul A. Schluckebier, ’84, is senior vice president Abigail, and they live in East Lansing. continues as vice chairman of the firm’s regional of investments and branch manager of A.G. risk board. He is married and has two daughters. Jeffrey C. Collison, ’78, was elected president of Edwards & Sons Inc. in Owosso. the Saginaw County Bar Association. He lives in Martin Blase Mead, ’82, is an attorney for Mead & George R. Campbell, ’85, is senior manager of Saginaw. Wood. He and his wife, Anne, live in Grand Rapids. field distribution operations for DaimlerChrysler Geraldine Wright, MBA ’78, was named to the Linda Meeuwenberg, ’82, is president of Corp. He lives in Shelby Township. Adrian College Board of Trustees. She is retired Professional Development Association Inc., and she Frank DiVito, ’85, and his wife, Cynthia Tan, MS from her job as personal financial adviser with recently became a spa and image consultant. Her ’98, announce the birth of their second son, American Express. She lives in Mount Pleasant. firm specializes in seminars and workshops. Alexander, on Sept. 2, 2003. He joins older brother, Doug Brown, ’79, is director of development for Henry J. Nemer, ’82, is executive director of Joseph. Cynthia is a physical therapist for Applied Science & Technology Inc., an finance at SBC in Hoffman Estates, Ill. He and his Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. Frank works for environmental services firm. He and his wife, wife and three children live in St. Charles, Ill. the Bloomfield Hills School District and is the head Laurie, and two children, Ryan and Callie, live in baseball coach for Troy High School. Jeffrey Rogg, ’82, was appointed to a one-year Clarkston. term as an associate member of the State Bar of Jeff Saksa, ’85, is principal consultant at JDM Jeffrey Caponigro, ’79, is president and CEO of Michigan’s Standing Committee on Standard Systems Consultants in Farmington Hills. He and Caponigro Public Relations Inc., which has become Criminal Jury Instructions. He is a senior attorney his wife, Karen (Reid) Saksa, ’86, have three the only firm in North America to earn an ISO for Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone PLC. He children, Stephen, David, and Stephanie, and the 9001:2000 certification. He also serves on CMU’s lives in Grosse Pointe Farms. family lives in Rochester Hills. Board of Trustees. Mark Wagner, ’82, is a CPA and a partner with Cmdr. Glen A. Saller, ’85, is an executive officer in 1980s Grant Millman & Johnson in Farmington Hills. His the U.S. Naval Reserve. In his civilian life, he is a wife, Kim (Murphy) Wagner, ’83, is a CPA and 757/767 first officer for United Airlines based at the Jim Damman, ’80, is president of Transentric. He works at Applied Process Inc. in Livonia. They have company’s training center in Denver. He and his and his wife, Renaye (Geiger) Damman, ’80, and been married 18 years and have two children, Scott wife, Beverly, and their two children, Sarah and their two children live in St. Louis, Mo. and Colleen. They live in Novi. Joshua, live in Colorado Springs, Colo. Richard L. Hayes, ’80, is managing director of Anne Doriean, ’83, was named Middle School knowledge resources at the American Institute of Principal of the Year by the Michigan Association of Architects in Washington, D.C. Lucy Taylor, MA ’85, Secondary School Principals. She is principal of is supervisor of Gary R. Kay, ’80 MBA ’83, is vice president of Sherman Middle School in Holly. vocational operations at Image Process Design Inc. He and his Michael Jakolat, ’83, is co-founder of The rehabilitation services wife, Pamela Robertson, have been married 24 BeaconView Group Inc., advisers to middle-market for ReviewWorks in years, and they have six children. and larger companies, in Lake Bluff, Ill. Farmington Hills. She Natalie Putnam, ’80, is vice president of corporate lives in Bloomfield Scott A. Ramsay, ’83, is product marketing accounts for Yellow Transportation Inc. in Waterford. Hills. manager for Whirlpool Corp.’s contract channel, Thomas Redd, ’80, is vice president of global where he has worked for 20 years. He and his wife, David S. Flower, ’86, was promoted to community sales operations for Retek Inc. in Minneapolis. He Jerri, have been married 14 years, and they have president of Fifth Third Bank in Jackson. and his wife, Lesa Davis, ’81, have four children, three children, Jessica, Shaun, and Joey. Harrison, Mike, Jessica, and Andrew. The family Rebecca J. Dean, ’87, is a reading instructor at Ed Fernandez, ’84, is vice president and general lives in Hudson, Wis. Salem State College in Salem, Mass. She also was manager of Telemundo Chicago/WSNS, a division ordained by the Presbyterian Church into the of NBC. He lives in Chicago. position of evening ecumenical chaplain at the college.

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1992 Marty VanDeCar, ’87, is director of Victories Hotel Mark J. Bugge, ’92, is controller for JVA Chandra L. (Oliver) Kohler, ’94, and her husband, in Petoskey, where he lives. Enterprises, the family office for Jay Van Andel. He Michael, announce the birth of their first child, and his wife have twin boys, Bryce and Chase. The Ethan Louis, on Nov. 10, 2003. Jim Cleven, ’88, is assistant principal at family lives in Grand Rapids. Simmons Middle School in Aurora, Ill. 1995 Brian Demay, ’88, and his wife, Heather, 1993 Matt Burk, ’95, is general supervisor of production announce the birth of their second child, Darcy Matthew Mike-El Finch, ’93, announces his at General Motors Saginaw Metal Casting Marie, in November 2003. marriage on Aug. 9, 2003. He works in plant Operations. He and his wife have two children. The support for Federal Express Supply Chain Services. family lives in St. Charles.

Kate A. Pohjola, ’93, wrote a chapter for the book, Eric Buschlen, MA ’95, received the 2003 Faculty/ John F. Halliwell, “Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Staff Community Service-Learning Award from the ’88, joined the Saint Speak Out.” She is branch librarian supervisor for Michigan Campus Compact. He is director of Michael’s College Warren Public Library’s Maybelle Burnette Branch. student life and an adjunct communications School for She also is president of the Warren Jaycees. instructor at Saginaw Valley State University. International Studies as an instructor. He 1994 Amy Garrett, ’95, received the National Park and his wife, Service’s National Freeman Tilden Award for her Eric Good, ’94, was promoted to senior manager Boseung, and their work with the distance learning program at at Andrews Hooper & Pavlik PLC. He specializes in children, Christopher and Nicholas, live in Homestead National Monument of America in accounting, tax, and planning services to nonprofit South Burlington, Vt. Beatrice, Neb. She is a park ranger, stationed at organizations, corporations, and individuals in the Yellowstone National Park, Death Valley National greater Grand Rapids area. Robin S. (Dilling) Vatalaro, ’88, and her husband, Park, and Homestead National Monument of Kurt, announce the birth of their daughter, Shea, in America. She lives in Beatrice. June 2003. She joins her older sister, Natasha. Robin is co-founder of a CPA firm specializing in 401(k) consulting. The family lives in Grosse Pointe Park. Alumni celebrations!

Bill Taylor, ’89, was named by the Charlotte (N.C.) 1950-1959 Alumni AlumniAlumni AwardsAwards DinnerDinner Business Journal as one of “40 under 40.” He is Reunion Weekend andand CeremonyCeremony president of Microban Products Co. • June 4-5 • June 5 • Events include a special • 6 p.m. 1990 dinner, barbecue, • Bovee University Center James Latoff, ’90, is a contract documents writer/ informational lectures, Recognize alumni and friends editor at the American Institute of Architects in and campus tour who have contributed time, Washington, D.C. Celebrate with CMU talent, and financial resources alumni who graduated to advance CMU. This year’s Karen Maher, MSA ’90, was promoted to vice between 1950-1959 award recipients are: ons! president of medical care management and

and honor the golden i provider inquiry operations for Blue Cross Blue - Eduardo Fernandez ’84 anniversary of the - Jeff Kimble ’85 Shield of Michigan. She lives in Detroit. Class of 1954. - Rodney E. Miller Sr.’99 Andrew Sack, ’90, is a customer sales executive - Dr. W. Lawrence Patrick, for Hershey Foods Corp. He and his wife, Lisa honorary alumnus Rasch, ’90, have three children and live in Walker. - Martin Steinbis ’75 - Michelle Szymczak ’91, ’97 1991 - Michael J. Wegner ’66, ’69 Gordon Sommerville, ’91, is executive vice president of sales and business development for For more information about these Diversified Property Services. He lives in Clarkston events, call the CMU Office of Alumni Relations. with his wife, Jami, and two children. • (800) 358-6903 www.cmualum.com

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Eric Haener, ’95, is a loan officer for GMAC Chad Darnell, ’97, and his wife, Molly Delila L. Owens, MA ’98, is a counselor in the Mortgage in Clarkston. (Bourgeois) Darnell, ’98, announce the birth of Lansing School District. She is president of the their daughter, Abigail, on April 18, 2003. They live districtwide counselor steering committee. She Greg Kruger, ’95, and his wife, Regina, announce in Lake Orion. completed her doctoral studies at Michigan State the birth of their son, Jack Andrew, on Oct. 15, University in 2002. 2003. Greg is a chemical engineer and program Susan K. Glover, ’97 MSA ’99, is the program manager for Quaker Chemical. They live in director for Northwood University’s DeVos Graduate Mandi (Haselhuhn) VanOoteghem, ’98, received Hartland. School of Management, and she recently was her certified meeting professional designation. She named one of the Detroit Regional Chamber’s “100 is an event coordinator at Horizons Conference Deborah (Boguslawski) Taylor, ’95, and her Emerging Leaders in Metro Detroit.” Center in Saginaw. She and her husband, Mike, husband, Jason Taylor, ’96, announce the birth of announce the birth of their son, Jacob Michael, on their first child, Brennan Robert, on April 28, 2003. Scott Harpt, MS ’97, announces the birth of his Sept. 30, 2003. first child, Jackson, in July 2003. He is a Michael Thomas, ’95, is communications manager communication skills instructor at Northeast of Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort. He and his 1999 Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay. wife, Daniela, and daughter, Emily, live in Alma. Andy Barker, ’99 MS ’03, is a physical therapist Stewart Hoerman, MSA ’97, is director of practice for Spine Therapy Center in Menasha, S.C. 1996 operations for William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Miles Coffland, ’99, is a certified public Lori Losey, ’96, and her husband, Todd Knierim, Oak. He lives in Canton. accountant for Andrews Hooper & Pavlik PLC. He is announce the birth of their daughter, Jordyn Paige, David J. Kelley, MSA ’97, is director of responsible for performing financial audits, tax on Oct. 23, 2003. She joins her older brother, development for Ave Maria School of Law. He and compliance, and planning services. He lives in Jacob Todd. The family lives in Merrill. his wife, Valerie, and their four children live in Ann Alma. John J. Mammano, MSA ’96, completed his Arbor. Paula (Saltsman) Kreuger, ’99, announces her doctorate in business administration in 2003. He Jennifer (Pawlowski) Lord, ’97, and her husband, marriage to Jeff Kreuger, ’00, on Oct. 11, 2003, in was selected as the 2003 National State Director of Chris, announce the birth of their daughter, Riley Sterling Heights. The couple resides in Medford, the Year by the American Academy of Medical Elizabeth, on Sept. 18, 2003. She joins big brother, Mass. Administrators. He is the AAMA state director for George. Colorado. He also is a major in the U.S. Air Force Rodney E. Miller Sr., MSA ’99, was recently Medical Service Corps as the administrator/group Craig Phillips, ’97, and his wife, Andrea Phillips, awarded the Early Career Healthcare Executive practice manager for the cadet medical clinic at the ’00, announce the birth of their first child, Lauren Award for his region by the American College of Air Force Academy. He and his wife, Mimi, have one Nicole, on Nov. 16, 2003. Healthcare Executives. He is president and CEO of son, Brandon. the Roy Lester Schneider Hospital in St. Thomas, Jayson S. Sacco, ’97, is an advice specialist in U.S. Virgin Islands. Greg Pietraszkiewicz, ’96, and his wife, Shelly Charles Schwab’s private client service area. LaRocque, ’97, announce the birth of their first David F. Rico, MSA ’99, published a book on child, Bailey Sophia, on Sept. 22, 2003. 1998 computer science titled “Return on Investment of Jason Adams, ’98, is co-founder of Adams, Noblin Software Process Improvement: Metrics for Project Annette VanDeCar, ’96, is a sports reporter for the & Vrataric LLP in Ventura, Calif. He recently Managers and Software Engineers.” He is a Detroit Free Press, where she has worked since competed in the Nautica Malibu Triathalon. consultant for NASA’s space station in Houston. 2003. Her stories appear in the Wayne County Community Free Press sections, and she is the Kelly A. Brower, ’98,’03, is a staff accountant for Ja-Relle E. Thomas, ’99, is an independent beat writer for the Detroit Mercy men’s basketball Andrews Hooper & Pavlik PLC. She is responsible consultant and team leader with PartyLite Gifts Inc. team. She also covers high school sports. for performing audit services for business and She and her son, Ja-Len, live in Muskegon. 1997 governmental organizations. 2000 Todd Gluski, ’98, was named 2003 Employee of Kristin Crawley, ’97, is an operational risk analyst John D. Cochran, ’00, and Jessica M. (Skwiers) the Year by Campbell-Ewald, an advertising and with American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio. Cochran, ’00, announce the birth of their first child, marketing communications agency in Detroit. He Her husband, Jay Crawley, ’97, is an eighth grade Molly Judith, on Sept. 30, 2003. John teaches lives in Ferndale. teacher at Ghanna Middle School. They have fourth grade and physical education at Jack N. identical twin boys, Cameron and Caiden. They live Jeffery B. Lesperance, MSA ’98, is an attorney at Darby Elementary School, a Department of Defense in Powell, Ohio. Carrier, Blackman & Associates PC in Novi. He Dependents’ School on the U.S. Naval base in graduated from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Sasebo, Japan. Jessica had been substitute 2002. He lives in Livonia. teaching, but she currently is staying home to care for Molly.

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2002 Correction Dave Fisher, ’00, works in network management Katherine Groudis, ’02, was promoted to In CMU’s Annual Report issued last November, the following for EDS in Auburn Hills. marketing and promotions coordinator at the House donor names were inadvertently omitted: of Blues in Las Vegas, where she lives. Charles McKenny Associates John Hyvonen, ’00, announces his marriage to $1,000 to $2,499 Jodie Arriaga on July 19, 2003. He works at Jabil Carrie Anne Harrington, ’02, is an administrative Three Rivers Construction Company Inc. (3) Graham ’73 and Cathy Tillotson (3) Circuit and lives in Seminole, Fla. assistant for Yeo & Yeo, PC, CPAs and Business Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council (4) Consultants in Ann Arbor. She and her husband, Jim ’76 and Dianne Tobin (2) Michael B. O’Neal, ’00, is an associate Top Dog Car Audio (2) Daniel, live in Ypsilanti. Rebeca Torres-Rivera (5) of Warner Norcross & Judd in Grand Rapids. He Town & Country Water Treatments and his wife, Stacy, live in Comstock Park. Phil D. Hernandez, ’02 is an assistant residence Traverse City State Bank (2) Traverse Symphony Orchestra (2) hall director at the University of Minnesota-Twin Jill Schumacher, ’00, is corporate events director Tom ’69 and Sandi Tresh (5) Cities. He lives in Minneapolis. Lorraine and Jerry Tubbs ’78 (3) for the Greater Midwest affiliate of the American Clarence ’50 and Mary Ann Tuma ’59 Vicki ’75 and Jeff Tuma Heart Association in Okemos. Christine Holmes, ’02, is teaching first grade in The Turgeon Group Richmond, Va. UAW DaimlerChrysler National Training Center Jason Sweedyk, ’00, is corporate systems The UPS Foundation (5) Nick Leto, ’02, is the head equipment manager for Valassis administrator with Universal Forest Products in Ray and Hilde Vernon (4) Grand Rapids. the Richmond Braves, the Atlanta Braves’ AAA team. Joseph and Rosalie Vicari (3) Voelker Implement Sales Inc. (3) Jennifer Aalderink Tenpas, ’00, is in her second Lindsay C. Malloy, ’02, is a doctoral student at the Tony ’84, ’88 and Kim Voisin ’90 (5) Vondette Roofing Inc. year teaching third- through eighth-grade Spanish University of California, Irvine. She received a Harold and Joanne Voorhees and middle school math at Corpus Christi Catholic research grant from the Department of Health and Wagar Motor Sales Inc. (4) Scott A. ’87 and Debra J. Walsh ’89 (2) School in Holland. She and her husband, John, Human Services Administration for Children and The Walston Conference Room (5) Families, allowing her to pursue an independent James H. Wanty ’71 (3) announce the birth of their daughter, Jordan Grace, Robert F. Wardrop II ’72, ’76 (5) on May 28, 2003. She joins her big sister, Hannah. research project focused on issues of child abuse Linda Elizabeth Webb ’88 and neglect. Denise L. Webster Susan Wronski, ’00 MA ’02, is producer/director Nathan Weed and Kyunghee Han (2) Weinkauf Plumbing and Heating (5) for Rocky Mountain PBS. She is an adjunct faculty Michelle May, ’02, is a customer care coordinator Bob ’73 and Maurine Weisenburger (5) for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan’s Perk ’79 and Buffy Weisenburger ’93 (3) member at Colorado State University at Pueblo. She Sally Carnahan Weisenburger ’48 lives in Pueblo, Colo. Lansing office. She lives in Mount Pleasant, and and John E. Weisenburger (5) Dean L. Welch she is working on her master’s degree in Timothy W. Welch ’74 (5) 2001 interpersonal and public communications at CMU. Robert S. Welsh (2) Abigail M. Ault, ’01, announces her marriage to Western Concrete Products Co. (2) Amy Rosko, ’02, is manager of volunteer services Barbara Weyenberg (2) Nathaniel F. Dean, ’01, in Farmington Hills. The Marjory Jill Whelan (4) for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan’s Whirlpool Corporation (2) couple lives in St. Charles, Ill. Whitefish Bay Furniture Company (4) Livonia office. She lives in Farmington Hills. James ’85 and Terri Whyte (4) Christopher J. Borawski, ’01, received his master Don Wickman (3) Maj. Santo L. Tricarico, MSA ’02, retired from the of science in information with a specialization in Sharon M. ’55 and James G. Wieghart (5) Army in April 2003 after more than 20 years of WinOvations Inc. library and information services from the University Winter Sport Schools Inc. (2) service. He is now an investigator with the of Michigan in April 2003. In November 2003, he Witbeck’s Family Foods (3) Department of Labor in Buffalo, N.Y. Laura Wittenberg (5) began his career in libraries as a librarian with the Jim ’65, ’68 and Carol Wojcik ’68, ’75, ’89 (5) Women Care Montgomery County Public Libraries’ Wheaton 2003 Gavan D. ’65 and Mary Jane Woods ’66 Regional Library. Dennis W. Wright ’63 Erin R. Jellison, ’03, completed 12 weeks of basic Daniel ’61, ’62 and Mildred Wujek ’89 (5) Alissa (Schillinger) Edwards, ’01, announces her training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Suzanne E. Wurzer ’68 (3) marriage to Kelly Edwards, ’99, on June 28, Island, S.C. Other corrections to the donor lists are: 2003. Alissa is in her third year of teaching fifth Bell Tower Society Dan Mazei, ’03, is receptionist and account grade at Geiger Elementary School in Croswell. Keystone Members coordinator for John Bailey & Associates Inc., a Dr. Thomas M. and Mrs. Jayne Keating Kelly is in his fourth year as library media specialist public relations agency. He lives in Troy. Cornerstone Members for Geiger Elementary and Cros-Lex Middle School. Remos J. ’82 and Julie A. Lenio ’80 They live in Port Sanilac. Kedrin Ruuspakka, ’03, is customer care President’s Circle coordinator for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Charles L. Anspach Associates Al ’56,’90 and Patricia A. Cambridge Jr. (5) Michigan’s Livonia office. She lives in Taylor. Charles T. Grawn Associates Dr. Claudia Douglass Charles McKenny Associates Joseph Gerald Fabiano

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Mildren M. (Zimmerman) Outen, ’26, Neil G. Haney, ’38, Marysville, died Jack O. Anderson, ’48, Bristol, Tenn., Gary M. Carden, ’59, Traverse City, Reed City, died Jan. 15, 2004, age 98. Sept. 6, 2003, age 90. died Dec. 14, 2003, age 82. died July 22, 2003, age 65. Mildred L. (Denslow) Diehm, ’28, Nellie Joe Brown, ’39, Greenville, died Richard G. Loomis Sr., ’48, Fort Genevieve Sarah (Gibbs) DeCou, ’59, Stephenson, died Dec. 8, 2003, age April 26, 2003, age 88. Lauderdale, Fla., died Sept. 14, 2003, Vassar, died Oct. 15, 2003, age 86. 96. age 79. Ralph B. Forsyth, ’39, Clio, died Dec. Herlanda Lydia (Ewald) McPhail, ’59, Gertrude B. Eick, ’28, St. Johns, died 7, 2003, age 86. Richard Farringer Morgan, ’49, New Huron, died Sept. 8, 2003. Oct. 13, 2003, age 96. Smyrna Beach, Fla., died Nov. 3, 2003, Stuart A. “Shorty” Merrill, ’39, Lady Russell N. Anger, ’60, Indianapolis, age 80. Thelma Lee Hite, ’30, Fenton, died Lake, Fla., died Aug. 26, 2003, age 87. died Nov. 5, 2003, age 73. June 9, 2003, age 93. William John Yarlott, ’49, Orlando, Doris E. (Boersma) Stafford, ’39, Karl T. David Sr., ’60, Gaylord, died Fla., died Oct. 26, 2003, age 81. Alice M. (Buhl) Stamats, ’30, Caro, Merritt Island, Fla., died Nov. 17, 2003, Dec. 13, 2003, age 71. died Jan. 1, 2004, age 95. age 86. Galen Clement Hartung, ’50, Cottage Walter L. Kreger, ’60, Hemlock, died Grove, Wis., died Oct. 14, 2003, age Marian B. (Silvernail) Bitterling, ’31, Doris M. (Simmons) Sanders, ’42, Oct. 14, 2003, age 82. 76. Snover, died Dec. 13, 2003, age 79. Davison, died July 26, 2003, age 92. Eleanore M. (Beaujean) Discher, ’61 Grace M. (Joseph) Kohn, ’50, Theodora Eliza Haney, ’31, Marysville, Janice V. (Frick) Green, ’43, MA ’67, Essexville, died July 25, 2003, Traverse City, died Dec. 8, 2003, age died Nov. 24, 2003, age 91. Chillicothe, Ohio, died Nov. 2, 2003, age 89. 95. age 82. Frances Kane Purcell, ’31, Santa Ann L. Thering, ’61, Mount Pleasant, Alvin L. Peterson, ’50, Kalkaska, died Teresa, N.M., died July 11, 2003, age Andree DuFresne Firnschild, ’44, died Dec. 31, 2003, age 94. Nov. 14, 2003, age 77. 92. Allen Park, died Aug. 17, 2003, age Gerald Wood, ’61, Elizabethton, Tenn., 81. Charles Miller Vining, ’50, Indian Keith Forbush, ’32, Maple Forest died Oct. 17, 2003, age 62. River, died June 14, 2003, age 76. Township, died July 12, 2003, age 91. Dorothy Jeanne (Stevenson) Saenz, Delores B. Moreland, ’62, Saginaw, ’44, Kentwood, died Oct. 5, 2003, age Dorothy M. (Datz) Buerker, ’51, Beatrice O. (Laney) McDole, ’34, died Oct. 18, 2003, age 72. 83. Cleveland, died Jan. 26, 2004, age 75. Ypsilanti, died Dec. 1, 2003, age 95. Oraulea (Cheadle) Baker, ’63, Grand Elizabeth Marion (Manning) Burton, Mona Lou Stowell-Corp, ’51, James Schneider Sr., ’35, Sault Ste. Rapids, died Dec. 25, 2003, age 94. ’45, Battle Creek, died Dec. 8, 2003, Scottsdale, Ariz., died Jan. 20, 2003, Marie, died Sept. 22, 2003, age 82. age 85. age 73. William R. Burkhart, ’63, Gladwin, Elizabeth (Stoutenburg) Larson, ’36, died Dec. 17, 2003, age 62. Minnie Louise Sheldon Heuck, ’47, Maude (McDaniel) Taylor, ’52 MA Bay City, died Dec. 6, 2003, age 89. Ludington, died Aug. 28, 2003, age 79. ’60, Manton, died Jan. 17, 2004, age Nancy (Martin) Bleier, ’64, Granite H. Mildred (Mobley) Jones, ’37, 94. Bay, Calif., died Sept. 9, 2003, age 61. Emma Amelia Jennings Sager, ’47, Marion, died Nov. 29, 2003, age 93. Clare, died Aug. 14, 2003, age 96. Lucille F. Karslake, ’53, Mason, died Robert Henry Dykstra, MA ’64, Grand Oct. 13, 2003, age 73. Rapids, died Dec. 14, 2003, age 63. Marie L. Malenfant, ’53, Cheboygan, Mildred Ruth Hilgris, ’64, Clio, died Elizabeth Lockwood Wheeler died Oct. 7, 2003, age 92. Sept. 16, 2003, age 91. Anspach, a woman dedicated to Gladys M. Chappell, ’55, Clio, died Donald S. Jackson, MA ’64, Port improving public health and devoted June 28, 2003, age 96. Austin, died Jan. 27, 2004, age 84. to CMU, died Dec. 29, 2003, in Nancy Anne (Upham) Gordon, ’55, Julia (Burket) Kent, ’64, Gladwin, died Mount Pleasant at age 99. Traverse City, died Nov. 17, 2003, age Dec. 20, 2003, age 92. 70. She got her start teaching science Carol Smith, ’64, Caro, died Nov. 1, and biology in Detroit Public Leona M. (Robinson) Johnson, ’55, 2003, age 80. Marlette, died Dec. 30, 2003, age 84. Schools. She taught at Wayne State Lawrence P. Cartwright, ’65 MA ’74, University and Boston University; Joan Charlotte Lett, ’55, Potterville, Grandville, died Aug. 14, 2003, age 60. died Aug. 8, 2003, age 70. worked for the Harvard School of Rachel Irene (Bahr) Keck, ’65, Ashley, Public Health; and worked with Dr. Vera A. (Bushey) Marquis, ’55, died Aug. 30, 2003, age 83. Chandler Township, died June 6, 2003, Jonas Salk for the National Charles and Elizabeth Anspach Betty B. Stahl, ’65, Ithaca, died Dec. age 91. Foundation of Infantile Paralysis. 22, 2003, age 80. She was married to George Marvin Carol Bidstrup, ’56 MA ’60, Karen L. Geisler, ’66, Battle Creek, Mount Pleasant, died Jan. 1, 2004, age Mrs. Anspach dedicated her life to Wheeler, who preceded her in died Jan. 10, 2004, age 59. public health. In 1969 she was the death in 1968. In 1974 she 71. Hazel (Matthews) Jurges, ’66, Harriet M. (Close) Gerskin, ’58, first woman to be recognized for married Charles Anspach, the fifth Bingham Township, died Nov. 20, Woodstock, Ga., died Aug. 25, 2003, outstanding contributions in the field president of CMU. He preceded her 2003, age 90. age 89. of health by the Michigan Health in death in 1977. Marian Louise (Pearsall) Kramer, Mildred A. Hemingway, ’58, Midland, Council. ’66, East Tawas, died Aug. 9, 2003, died Jan. 16, 2004, age 95. Memorial contributions may be age 84. She taught in the public health made to the Elizabeth Wheeler Phyllis Anne Woloszyk, ’58, Posen, Helen (Day) Fuller, ’67, Kinde, died education department at CMU from Anspach Lecture Series at CMU. died July 1, 2003, age 95. Aug. 27, 2003, age 91. 1957 until her retirement in 1970.

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Wanda (Tremain) Hammer, ’67, Douglas Alan Lonsbury, ’77, Grand Clifford William Kidd, ’95, Mount Robert Herrera, Miami Beach, Fla., Manton, died Dec. 8, 2003, age 89. Blanc, died Aug. 10, 2003, age 51. Pleasant, died Aug. 19, 2003, age 56. died June 10, 2003, age 75. Born in Cuba, he came to CMU to teach Lt. Col. Terry L. May, ’67 MA ’68, died George S. Toth, ’77, Carson City, died Chriss Allen Berg, ’97, Sturgis, died Spanish in the foreign languages, Dec. 27, 2003, age 58. July 23, 2003, age 53. Nov. 1, 2003, age 37. literatures, and cultures department. Edwina R. Winnie McDowell, ’67, St. Larry Zimmerman, MA ’77, Royal Jennifer L. LaRocque, ’98, Fenton, He retired in 1986. Johns, died Dec. 10, 2003, age 90. Oak, died Sept. 30, 2003, age 54. died Nov. 11, 2003, age 30. Rex J. Hewlett, ’40, Holland, died Oct. Donald W. Moose, ’67, Midland, died Arthur Cammarano, MA ’78, Julie Longnecker, ’98, Grand Rapids, 8, 2003, age 83. He was a professor at Jan. 10, 2004, age 65. Bradenton, Fla., died Sept. 25, 2003, died Jan. 25, 2004, age 30. CMU for 29 years and head of the age 62. music department for six years. Thomas R. Jones, ’68, Phoenix, died Lilly A. White, ’98, Lake City, died Oct. Nov. 4, 2003, age 58. Gail Elizabeth Gorton, ’78, Mount 27, 2003, age 48. Theresa Mellema, ’35, Zeeland, died Pleasant, died Dec. 8, 2003, age 47. Nov. 5, 2003, age 92. She was a public Stanley Joseph Berriman, MA ’69, Mark Allen Marlatt, MSA ’99, health nurse, and she taught at CMU, Midland, died Oct. 11, 2003, age 81. Bernard C. Peterson, MA ’78, Greensburg, Penn., died Jan. 22, Calvin College, Harrington and Flushing, died Oct. 4, 2003, age 66. 2004, age 42. Sondra Jane Olson, ’69, Oscoda, died Cummings schools in Grandville. April 26, 2003. Richard Charles Ebright, ’79, Ithaca, Jacquelyn Sue (Dowling) Stinemetz, Elizabeth Mills, Mount Pleasant, died died Aug. 4, 2003, age 45. ’00, Lewisville, Texas, died Nov. 3, Carole Ann Weigand, ’69 MA ’75, Jan. 23, 2004, age 83. She taught for 2003, age 24. Saginaw, died Oct. 6, 2003, age 56. Glenn H. Midkiff, MA ’79, Detroit, died more than 30 years in the human Dec. 26, 2003, age 67. James M. Kalinowski, ’01, Milford, Alan Sonny Klug, ’70, Hartford, died environmental studies department at died April 25, 2003, age 57. Dec. 21, 2003, age 54. Allan T. Norwood, MA ’79, Clinton CMU. Township, died Oct. 8, 2003, age 50. Karen Kay Lacy, ’02, Blanchard, died Daryl Louis Lessard, ’70 MA ’97, Marianne Wagner Richtmeyer, Dec. 2, 2003, age 48. Mount Pleasant, died Aug. 12, 2003, Richard Davis Creel, MA ’80, Fresno, Calif., died Sept. 16, 2003, age age 60. Pfafftown, N.C., died Sept. 23, 2003, Corey B. Melling, ’02, Jackson, died 93. She was a housemother at Calkins age 54. Aug. 9, 2003, age 25. Hall, retiring in 1971. Frederick Lewis Watters, ’70, East Lansing, died Nov. 11, 2003, age 61. Virginia Ann Sturtevant, MA ’80, John D. Schiller, MSA ’03, Oceanside, Lt. Col. Elmer Scoville, MA ’61, Fort Williamstown, Mass., died Nov. 18, Calif., died April 29, 2003, age 42. Belvoir, Va., died Sept. 27, 2003, age Amy Jan Gregory, ’71, died Aug. 13, 2003, age 61. 86. He was an assistant professor at 2003, age 54. CMU in military science from 1959 to Jane Hallifax Vedder, ’80, Eaton Faculty and staff Stella S. Susdorf, ’71, Lansing, died 1962 and in the history department Rapids, died Aug. 18, 2003, age 45. Oct. 28, 2003, age 76. David M. Dush, Sanford, died Nov. 20, from 1966 to 1975. He also taught at David Charles Mendenhall, ’81, 2003, age 49. He was a psychology Michigan State University and served Robert Wayne Wildfong Jr., ’71 MA Lansing, died Jan. 22, 2004, age 47. professor at CMU and also worked as a on the staff of the Office of the Chief of ’80, Traverse City, died Sept. 12, 2003, psychologist at MidMichigan Medical Military History in the Department of age 54. Donald Macleod, MA ’82, Dayton, Center. the Army. Ohio, died Oct. 21, 2003, age 71. Sister Mary Firmine (Thecla Elizabeth Etnire, Grand Rapids, died Maryann B. Serier, Mount Pleasant, Spychalski), MA ’72, South Bend, Ind., Virginia Lewis Murphy, MA ’82, Nov. 24, 2003, age 87. She taught died Jan. 1, 2004, age 91. She worked died Sept. 25, 2003, age 86. Lacey, Wash., died Oct. 29, 2003, age Spanish in the foreign languages, in CMU’s payroll department for 22 59. Rev. Donald G. Hurd, MA ’73, literatures, and cultures department for years, retiring in 1974. Montose, Penn., died Aug. 26, 2003, Clement “Chuck” Barnes, MA ’83, more than 40 years. Paul Vespa, Bayside, N.Y., died Oct. 3, age 59. Island Heights, N.J., died Sept. 25, Carol Green-Ramirez, Mount 2003, age 93. Born in Italy, he taught 2003, age 70. Ronald E. Meisel, ’73, Las Vegas, died Pleasant, died Dec. 22, 2003, age 51. business courses at CMU. Oct. 9, 2003, age 55. Brenda Louise Francetic, ’85, She was a history professor at CMU, John Stephen Yoder, ’93, Saginaw, Midland, died Sept. 20, 2003, age 48. teaching U.S. history, women’s history, Laverne Owens, ’73, Beaverton, died died Nov. 2, 2003, age 48. He was a and Native American history for 12 July 17, 2003, age 55. Michael Robert Sullivan, ’85, St. Clair music director and instructor at CMU. years. She also was editor of the Shores, died July 24, 2003, age 48. He had instructed and directed many Norman L. Piegols II, ’73, Cross Michigan Historical Review from 1992 marching bands, drum corps, color Lanes, W.Va., died Aug. 14, 2003, age Frank Ward, MA ’85, Detroit, died Aug. to 1998. Her husband, Benjamin guard and winter guard units during his 53. 30, 2003, age 55. Ramirez, also a CMU history professor, career, and he was a member of the survives her. Capt. Cleo Carter Jr., MA ’74, Albany, Andra H. Visockis, ’88, Grand Rapids, Michigan Color Guard Judge’s Ga., died Oct. 11, 2003, age 62. died Jan. 7, 2004, age 38. Association. Noreen M. McCabe, MA ’76, Gloria (Vandervest) Kleist, ’89 MA Cheboygan, died Nov. 7, 2003, age 60. ’93, Clinton Township, Jan. 25, 2004, age 60. Jeryl Fremont Phillips, MA ’76, Columbus, Ohio, died Oct. 5, 2003, age Robert T. Cunningham, ’90, Clare, 65. died Feb. 2, 2004, age 37. John Emerson Sims, MA ’76, Mark Allen Theile, ’92, Comstock Washington, D.C., died Dec. 20, 2003. Park, died Sept. 18, 2003, age 33. Helen (Hall) Stilson, MA ’76, Rev. Robert O. Youmans, ’92, Queenstown, Md., died Dec. 7, 2003, Midland, died Nov. 9, 2003, age 72. age 78.

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PHOTOS BY ROBERT BARCLAY

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Centralight INSIDE 40 4/7/04, 11:17 AM Life changes. And so must your estate plans.

Retirement tax laws evolve. Your hard-earned assets fluctuate. Family members grow older. The kids move on. The grandkids go to college … perhaps even attend your alma mater.

Consider the value of including Central Michigan University in your estate plans. You, your entire family, and CMU students will benefit. You can even receive income back from your gift to CMU.

Make sure your estate plan reflects life’s changes.

For a free brochure on various gift-planning options and how to include CMU in your estate plan, contact:

Ted Tolcher, Director Planned and Major Gifts (800) 358-6903 (toll free) [email protected]

Visit our Web site – www.giftplanning.cmich.edu

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