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the summer 2016 grinnell magazine Comic Book Artists Studio Tour A conversation with Zander Cannon ’95 and Kevin Cannon ’02 Photo courtesy of Burling Library Archives, Grinnell College Archives, Burling Library Photo courtesy of Departments The Grinnell Magazine 2 Letters 39 Giving Summer 2016 Volume 48 Number 4 Email: [email protected] 4 Strategy Session 41 Prompted Editor Michele Regenold ’89 [email protected] Art Director / Designer Larissa Stalcup 5 Campus News 42 Classnotes [email protected] Classnotes Editor Michele Tanzosch [email protected] 14 Artists and Scholars 50 In Memoriam Editorial Staff Dana Boone Elise Hadden ’14 Denton Ketels Lisa Lacher 17 Quote Board 56 Back Talk Adrienne Squier Photographer Justin Hayworth Office of Communications 18 Pioneers 57 That’s So Grinnellian Interim Vice President for Communications Jim Powers [email protected] 20 Then and Now The Grinnell Magazine (ISSN 1539-0950) is published quarterly by Grinnell College, Office of Communications, 733 Broad St., Grinnell, IA 50112. Periodicals postage Feature Contributors paid at Grinnell, IA, Professor and College and additional mailing offices. Features administrator Waldo Walker © Copyright Grinnell College, 2016 reads a letter to black students Chicago-based journalist When Michele POSTMASTER occupying a room in Burling Send address changes to: Tequia Burt ’98 is a former Regenold ’89 entered The Grinnell Magazine Comic Book Artists Studio Tour Library in 1971. Frustrated with 733 Broad Street A conversation with Zander Cannon ’95 and the College’s slowness in creating member of Concerned Black Big Time Attic, the Grinnell, IA 50112 22 the promised Black Library, FAX: 641-269-3408 Kevin Cannon ’02 Email: [email protected] between 30 and 40 students take Students and believes black artist studio of Zander over a room in Burling, removing Mission Statement by Michele Regenold ’89 lives matter. Cannon ’95 and Kevin The Grinnell Magazine is published the books from it and moving quarterly for alumni, students, parents, most of the library’s black studies Cannon ’02, she felt like faculty, and friends of the College by Is Less than Perfect Enough? books onto the shelves. the Office of Communications. The Erin Peterson ’98 sends she was walking into contents of this magazine are selected Grinnellians expect big things from themselves. to stimulate thought and discussion, 28 to demonstrate the range of opinions So what happens when expectations and real more than 60 unsuccessful Willy Wonka’s candy and activities on the campus and in its broader community, and to provide life collide? story pitches to her editors factory. news about the College and its alumni. Views expressed herein are those of the by Erin Peterson ’98 every year. She is legitimately authors and do not necessarily reflect thrilled that one of her official policy of Grinnell College. Central Switchboard Legacy of Activism successful pitches resulted in 641-269-4000 Concerned Black Students’ 50-year history World Wide Web 32 a story about failure. www.grinnell.edu at Grinnell College On the cover: by Tequia Burt ’98 Photo by Justin Hayworth Letters Contemporary View of Career Change Student Research Redesign Kudos Hands Up Career change is well articulated in Collaborators My copy of the spring Grinnell I was disappointed that The Grinnell Magazine showcased the series of “Right Livelihoods” (Spring 2016). Career As the chair of the committee that magazine arrived today, and I have prints entitled “All Hands on Deck” in its Spring 2016 publication. The change was not always acknowledged as proposed the [Mentored Advanced read it cover to cover. The magazine hands-up mantra was shown through eyewitness accounts as well as the an appropriate remedy for employment Project] MAP program to the Fund keeps improving, and this one grand-jury testimony to be a total fabrication, to such an extent that even malaise. Indeed, the notion of “giving up” a for Excellence during the Osgood had many of the features I have Obama’s sympathetic Justice Department didn’t deem it worth pursuing. job was seen as aberrational at best, mentally administration, I was delighted been hoping for for a long time From the grand-jury testimony: “… Brown then reached into the ill — insane — at worst. In the ’70s when with “The Essence of Inquiry” including small bios of those who SUV through the open driver’s window and punched and grabbed I was a career counselor, work certified focus in the spring 2016 issue. I have passed on. Wilson.”“Brown used his right hand to grab and attempt to control – Judy Mahle Lutter ’61, St. Paul, [one’s] status as an honorable citizen. Absent realize that the subject is too big Wilson’s gun.”“… Brown’s hand was within inches of the muzzle of Minn. this confirmation brought self-assessment to cover in a single issue so I look Wilson’s gun when it was fired.”“… Brown was moving toward Wilson of disgrace and socially raised eyebrows. forward to further treatment of the when Wilson shot him.”“… [W]itnesses describe Brown then dropping Ironically, it was the extent of unemployment Piles of kudos to everyone involved his hands and ‘charging’ at Wilson.” range of MAPs done in the social at that time that brought about tolerance for studies and humanities divisions. in the redesign of The Grinnell Tragically, a decent and honest police officer will never be able to being out of work and nurturance of career change as an acceptable strategy. We too produce and publish new Magazine. It manages to be both work in his profession any longer due to this fabrication. – Rich Bohm ’86, Tega Cay, S.C. I am pleased to have a special relationship to career counseling at knowledge. more informative/engaging and Grinnell. The College’s first career counselor spent a week training with me. Many of my student less stuffy — a fine line to walk. I – Stephen Fischer ’53, Miami collaborators, for example, have especially like the combined layout In Memoriam: Dennis Haas and graphic design of “Classnotes,” been presenters or co-presenters at Of all the instructors I had at Grinnell, [Dennis] Haas was the one Kevin Cannon’s illustrations, the Yes, Jimmy Carter Visited one, or preferably two, professional who had the greatest influence on me. Not only did he offer the normal overall size and paper stock, and the I had just finished a phone discussion with one of my daughters regarding conferences. They also co-author course of instruction, amplified for some by his regular Sunday sermons, Grinnellian feel of the whole thing. my participation in the 1976 Iowa caucuses, when I opened the Winter journal articles, book chapters, but he also opened his own home for additional, voluntary seminars for I know undertakings like these 2015 The Grinnell Magazine. While 40 years have grayed my hair and and newspaper articles. Some of students interested in pursuing biblical study more seriously. I attended aren’t easy, and it can feel like your thickened my waistline (just a bit), I think I recognized myself in the our papers even win prizes from none of his sermons but went to every one of his seminars, inspired by work disappears into the void with picture on the inside front cover, second row, kinda slumped over, ready to professional organizations. him to read far beyond the requirements of his courses, inspired by him little to no — or only negative — listen to Governor Carter. Finally, a bit of proof that at least one of “Dad’s [The article] plausibly contends to positively enjoy close textual analysis and the discipline of biblical feedback. Consider this a ping from college stories” has some legitimacy! that MAPs are one reason why exegesis. the darkness that your work hit its Carroll McKibbin ’60’s piece on the caucuses was terrific and a “Grinnell ranks seventh among While I had approached biblical study with little more ambition mark. wonderful reminder of the political arguments I had with Jim Strickler ’78 all private and public national than to finally read all the texts, Haas inspired me to go much further, – Sarah Cook ’98, Cavendish, Vt. and Jack Dane ’79, as well as all the fabulously interesting small towns we institutions for graduating students transforming my life in the process. It was he who encouraged me to visited during the campaign. who go on to earn Ph.D.s.”This go on to his old school, the Union Theological Seminary in New York, Thanks for a great edition. Please keep up the good reporting and kind of research collaboration is one Congratulations on the latest issue and it was he and the seminary itself which led me to further study in interesting articles. of the reasons that the Department of The Grinnell Magazine. It has the philosophy afterward. Even now, never employed in any related field – Dan Finkelman ’77, Granville, Ohio of Anthropology, among other look, feel, and editorial judgment of and never converted to any variety of Christianity, I continue along the Grinnell social studies departments, a magazine that I want to read from political, intellectual, and scholarly paths he pointed out. is so highly ranked, third among cover to cover with good surprises I was appalled by the letter in the spring issue of The Grinnell Magazine – Erik Graff ’74, Chicago national institutions for graduating on almost every page. saying: “How disgusting!” it was to have a photo of Jimmy Carter on the students who go on to earn Ph.D.s The double page spread is a cover of the previous issue. in anthropology. beautiful example of eco-friendly Is that what our political dialogue has come to? Thanks for the good start to the printing.

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