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In a few words Powell excited about Project EXCITE ______• Two balls to close It's safe to say that Dr. James H. and You, which is to be sent to any In an action related to a decrease in Powell is excited about Project EX- prospective student who inquires about on-campus residence by students this CITE (EXpanding with Computers and admission. Copies are available from fall, two of the University's 18 Information TEchnology), the new the Admissions Office. residence halls are to be closed with computer emphasis at Western Powell also described a 27-member the beginning of the winter semester Michigan University. Academic Advisory Committee, of in January. The halls to be closed are ''People like to kid me about being which he is the chairman. Under it are Eicher-LeFevre in the Goldsworth 'EXCITEd,' but I don't mind," said organized 13 task forces designed to Valley complex on the West Campus Powell, who is on leave from his help implement Project EXCITE and Vandercook on the East Campus. duties as chairman of the WMU throughout the University. Department of Mathematics to devote One group of task forces will take a • Paper Tech scholarship fund full-time as coordinator of Project EX- sort of "computer inventory" of the exceeds goal CITE. campus, determining where computer The Paper Technology Foundation has "I am excited!" Powell declared. "hardware" (equipment) and "soft- exceeded its goal of $500,000 in a ''With this new emphasis, that all ware" (computer programs) are located scholarship fund drive to benefit paper students will graduate from Western and who uses them, and what short- Dr. fames H. Powell, general coor- science and engineering students at with at least some computer literacy term and long-term needs exist. dinator of Project EXCITE, ex- WMU. The funds are being invested, and facility, WMU is forging a leader- Other task forces are to develop periments with a terminal at the re- and only the interest is used for ship position in the state and in the computer-literacy workshops for facul- cent Computer Fair in Dunbar Hall. scholarships. In the 1981-82 school nation." ty and staff, to disseminate informa- year, 93 students at Western received a Powell provided a progress report on tion about the project, to give advice Business Education and Administrative total of $93,295 Paper Technology Project EXCITE to the Board of on the distribution of additional com- Services in the College of Business. Its Foundation scholarships, ranging up to Trustees on Nov. 19, explaining the puter equipment, to develop proposals purpose will be to train students in $3,296 for the year. status of the program since it was an- for external funding and to serve as a areas requiring a heavy emphasis on nounced in September by President resource for other task forces. the computer management of data. • 25-Year Club established Bernhard in his "State of the Univer- Powell also described a new "Computers are changing the way Expressing a desire to recognize ''long sity'' address. University-wide computer literacy re- we live," Powell said. "Western is and dedicated service" by employees, "We've made excellent progress," quirement that is nearing official ap- changing the way we deal with com- the Western Michigan University Powell said. ''The project has received proval; it would require minimum puters. The fact is, much of Project Board of Trustees has established the overwhelming support from faculty computer competence by all students EXCITE is already underway as stan- WMU 25-Year Club. and staff members, from the ad- through taking a course or the dard practice, and perhaps as much as Membership in the club includes ac- ministration and from students." demonstration of competence. 70 percent of our students aleady have tive faculty members, administrators Powell presented trustees with copies And he described a new major, com- at least minimum computer literacy and staff members who have com- of a new brochure on the project, Pro- puter information systems, that is to and facility. This effort is designed to pleted 25 or more years of employment ject EXCITE: Western, the Computer, be offered by the Department of reach the other 30 percent." service. Currently, 98 persons at the University meet that criterion.

• Western Herald wins State appropriates $1.2 million for pilot-plant expansion __ newswriting award The state has appropriated $1.2 million Meanwhile, the gift of a valuable ex- The Western Herald student newspaper mill was valued at $2.5 million when for the expansion of facilities of act scale model of a new paper mill by received the highest newswriting completed three years ago. Built at a Western's Paper Science and Engineer- the Mead Corp. to the Department of award presented by the Associated Col- scale of 1/16, the model is ideally ing Pilot Plant, according to an an- Paper Science and Engineering has legiate Press (ACP) at the annual suited to instruct paper science and nouncement by State Senator-elect been announced. meeting of the National Council of other engineering students. Robert A. Welborn of Kalamazoo. The 30-by-40 foot model of a major College Publications Advisers (NC- Dr. Richard B. Valley, chairman of expansion project at Mead's Escanaba CPA) and ACP in St. Louis on Oct. 30. the Department of Paper Science and Daniel J. Klepp, now a reporter for Engineering, said, ''This expansion the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun and an will allow us to begin major research April graduate from Rochester, Mich., and development efforts for the use of and Michael J. Villaire, a Grosse Pointe General Fund budget set for 1982-82 __ Michigan hardwoods.'' Woods senior, received the National The Board of Trustees has approved a year ago. Another principal revenue Editorial Leadership Award for their The two-story expansion, to be located at the northeast corner of Mc- General Fund operating budget of source is tuition and fees, $25,151,100, series of articles investigating alleged $74,205,800 for the current 1982-83 an increase of $1,921,000, based on racial discrimination in a Kalamazoo Cracken Hall, will replace a present one-story truck dock and loading area. fiscal year. rate increases both in mid-year 1981-82 bar. Klepp served as Herald editor from That's $2,185,100 or 3 percent more and for the fall of 1982. 1980 to 1982, and Villaire is the cur- The new space created will be about 44 feet by 67 feet in area. than the 1981-82 budget of Investment income is $750,000, rent editor. William Fondow, a paper science and $72,020,700, said Robert B. Wetnight, down $350,000 or 32 percent from last engineering graduate of WMU who is vice president for finance. "We're in year, due to lower interest rates and • PA Program reaccredited vice president for sales at Sunds balance, but our 1982-83 budget is ex- the lost income on the summer The Physicians' Assistants (PA) pro- Defibrator of Minneapolis, Minn., an- tremely tight," he said. withholding of the state appropriation, gram has been awarded continued ac- nounced that his firm will cooperate in Wetnight pointed out that balancing Wetnight reported. The prior year creditation for three years by the Com- the installation of a defibrator pilot the budget was made especially dif- carry-over of $1,100,000 is $725,000 mittee on Allied Health Education and plant unit for mechanical and high- ficult because Gov. Milliken had more than last year. Accreditation of the American Medical yield pulping in the new space created issued four executive orders reducing Wetnight and Trustee Maury E. Association. by the expansion. Western's state appropriation by Parfet, chairman of the Board's Budget That unit, valued at more than $5,503,192 since Sept. 30, 1981. In ad- and Finance Committee, noted that $500,000, will be installed sometime dition, an executive order of spending allocations in all areas of the The Westerner after the expansion is completed. The $6,308,200 was absorbed during the University have been reduced by December 1982, Volume 3, Number 3 summer of 1982. That cut is being $3,847,200. All of the reductions have The Westerner IUSPS 678-840) is owned and published in unit is described as "the ultimate in June, August, October, December, February, and April high-yield pulping research" involving reinstated this fall. been made programmatically. by Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan wood fibers. Western's state appropriation is 49008 . Second class postage paid at Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008 . $46,339,700 or $96,100 more than a Different visions, different promises Class of '32: The Hilltop Era Board of Trustee member and 1932 Western's faculty in our day The 1932 baseball schedule included WMU graduate Fred Adams spoke to numbered 113, but we had a distinct the University of Wisconsin, Universi- Western's Class of 1932 on its golden advantage. We had the privilege of sit- ty of Chicago, University of Michigan, anniversary, celebrated August 20 on ting in the classrooms of the Michigan State and Iowa State. Foot- campus. In this retrospect, Adams outstanding professors and teachers ball opponents numbered University of presents a picture of who the members who are remembered today for their Detroit, University of Michigan "B" of Class of 1932 were and what they great contributions to Western: Smith Team, Notre Dame "B" Team, Iowa were all about, reflects on the values Burnham, William McCracken, Paul State, Western Kentucky. Basketball they carried to the present and hope to Rood, George Sprau, Bertha Davis, included University of Michigan, carry to the future, and compares the Lavina Spindler, John Hoekje, Howard Loyola, University of Chicago, Man- struggles they faced with those the Bigelow, John Everett, Frank Ells- chester, Butler, Ball State, John Carroll University now faces in this time of worth, Leslie Wood, Robert Russel, and Central Michigan. Teams of a like reassessment for higher education. Manley Ellis, Laura Shaw, Towner calibre were on the track and tennis Smith and John Gill, to name a few. schedules. We represent the. "hilltop" era. Fifty Dr. Theodore Henry used to pace up Student parties were held in the years ago our campus consisted of 60 and down Davis Street at the foot of Women's Gym, the Men's·Gym and acres lying east of the Michigan Cen- the hill just off the campus, puffing on on special occasions in the newly tral R.R., mostly atop the hill facing his big black cigar, which was in itself decorated ballroom of the Columbia Promises for the future Davis Street. The cable cars ran from a reminder of the absolute campus Hotel. I know that every class since that first the Davis Street level to the hilltop, taboo against smoking. Of course, no in 1904 has had reason to believe that and this means of student conveyance faculty member would have dreamed Composition of class they lived through significant days on was ably presided over by one Al Col- of throwing a cocktail party, and there A few words about the composition of Western's campus. However, I would vin. From the end of Walnut Street a was much concern among Dean of our Class of '32. The 1932 Brown and like to stack up our four years against horseshoe walk and approach led up Women, Bertha Davis; Dean of Men, Gold yearbook included 26 pages of any other period in the history of our the hill to the majestic front steps of Ray Pellett; and President Waldo pictures of our classmates for a total alma mater. the Administration Building. Classes whether or not women students who class of 312 graduates, while the You may recall that two months were held in the Administration dared to bob their hair (much less any Western Herald listed the names of after our enrollment in 1928, Herbert Building, Science Building, the Library, of them caught dragging on a cigarette) 448. It is interesting to note all except Hoover, with the promise of two cars Women's Gym and the Campus Train- should be certified for teaching. 17 of our classmates were from in every garage and two chickens in ing School. Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock meant Michigan. Those 17 had come to every pot, was elected President in a Our off-campus gathering places in- compulsory assembly for students and Western from Ohio, Indiana, Ten- landslide. cluded Jack Dolds at Cedar and Davis, faculty in the Women's Gymnasium. nessee, Massachusetts and Illinois. We A year later in our sophomore class, Greene's Drug Store at Walnut and We had no dormitory buildings in had no one in our class from a foreign on a certain day in October, the bot- Davis, the Oakland Pharmacy, Mrs. '29-'32 so most of the out-of-town land. This is in contrast to Western's tom dropped out of our economy and McCaslin's Boarding House in students roomed in private homes present day enrollment with 5 percent many of our fello·w students had to Bellevue Place, Schensul's Brown and located on Lovell, Cedar, Walnut, from overseas, the largest group com- drop out of school for lack of money to Gold Cafeteria on Walnut and Les Vine, Davis, Locust, Oak, Pearl and ing from far away Malaysia. meet college expenses. From our Graybiel's "Little Michigan." Bellevue Place at the foot of the hill. Our 1932 grads included 93 from enrollment in 1928 as freshman to our Downtown there was the New Diana, Kalamazoo, 36 from Grand Rapids, 12 graduation in 1932, Western's enroll- Cade's Bake Shop, the Chocolate Shop Student activities from Detroit, 11 from Muskegon, 8 ment dropped from 2,316 to 1,388, and the Chinese Oriental Inn and New Women's and men's debating at from Battle Creek and so on down the nearly half our enrollment in the four- Asia Chop Suey. Western attracted a large contingent list. Those days we seemed to have year span. Young men and women just A sign of the times is a look at the from this class of '32. The men's drawn more from Michigan's Upper simply did not have the money to go weekly Western Herald adver- schedule in '32 included the largest Peninsula, a total of 13 from Vulcan, to college. tisements. Indeed the prices were number of debates held in a single year Norway, Ishpeming, Negaunee, Han- When we entered Western in 1928 revealing in comparison to the inflated (37) as the question "Resolved that a cock and Iron Mountain. the Michigan legislature appropriation prices we are living through today. Substitute for the Capitalistic System In those days we all had to do prac- was $927,465, and in 1932 that ap- Should be Adopted in the U.S." Real Home Cooked Meals tice teaching in one of the outlying propriation had dwindled to $503,000, Women participated in 22 debates on at the Western Inn $ .30 ''training'' schools before we were just about half. the question "Should Great Britain New Fall Shoes at V &. A 6.00 eligible for our A.B . or B.S. degree or As if Dr. Waldo didn't face enough Hershfields offered Immediately Grant Independence our Life Certificate. College buses took problems, it was during our junior year to India." new fall suits 30.00 us to Richland, Portage, Hurd, Paw that a resolution was introduced in the (Hart Schafner &. Marx The Players moved their center of Paw and the Campus School. Michigan State Legislature to close with 2 pairs of pants) activities from the Playhouse at Class of '32 Senior Day Exercises Western. To meet the pressure of the Gilmore's offered French Oakland Drive and Michigan to the were held Tuesday morning, June 15, strong challenges, President Waldo was newly built Civic Theatre in flannel berets 1.00 1932. Honors were announced, ap- forced to reduce the college faculty by downtown Kalamazoo. For three nights J. R. Jones: Dr. West preciation of the seniors was voiced by 20 percent and salaries were drastically they presented their midwinter play toothpaste .12 tube Dr. Waldo, the class poem was read cut. Allcocks Barber Shop at "The First Mrs. Fraser." and the class gift of $100 to the fund Western's band with 85 members New challenges Foot of Hill: haircuts .40 for the proposed alumni building was and orchestra with 47 members, both We all know that Western is currently Gilmore's: men's phoenic presented. By the way, would someone under the direction of George Amos, faced with challenges, as are our sister silk hosiery .17 pr. please bring us up to date on what ever were the largest these two groups had happened to that "proposed alumni institutions. Inflation coupled with A date at the theatre meant a trip to been up to that time. building" and our $100.00! drastically reduced state appropriations the Fuller, Capitol, State, Regent, Or- What about athletics 50 years ago? and financial pressures mount from pheum or New. If we wanted to drop Where did anyone get the idea that to- week to week. This problem is nothing in for a bite to eat after the show there ·day's schedules are so great compared new to Western. When the Class of was always Kewpie Hamburgers across to Western's competition in 1932? 1932 was on campus the University South Street from the Capitol for one faced similar pressures. But due to the of their "nickel hamburgers with hard work of President Waldo and his pickle on top that makes your heart go associates, Western survived. And it flippety flop.'' Sons of the Polish Revolution: The50sand60s ______will continue to survive and be a The Sons of the Polish Revolution held Lord ... Perhaps, most devastating of all, we source of pride for its alumni in the sway in intramural athletic circles on If you're really up there-and we latter had not been taught to effectively days ahead. With the leadership of the campus from 1954 to 1969, not day children of the 1960s have suffi- manage our own personal insecurity, President Bernhard and his associates, always victorious but always com- cient reason to wonder about that-we fear and selfishness. We had gone from we will meet today's challenges just as petitive. Among that group was John ask that you hear our not so humble carefree kid to manchild literally over- those challenges were met 50 years A. Fallon, BA '69. prayer. Please consider what at first night and experienced our own per- ago. Because many of them left the may appear to be anger and disappoint- sonal version of your cursed refining Western has had but four presidents University in a period not marked by ment as a measure of candidness befit- fire. While som~ of us became stronger in its nearly 80-year history. In an arti- institutional loyalties, these alumni ting only the best of lifelong friends. for it, as does iron in a forge, some of cle in the 1973 Western University tended to drift away. But at Homecom- We here tonight are the same benign us became permanently and emotional- Magazine, Dr. .Leonard Kercher, pro- ing 1982 some 50 members of the and pitiful students who three-stepped, ly scarred. Our empty diploma cases fessor emeritus of sociology and head group returned to see a football game shimmied and boogalooed out of became less coincidental and more pro- of the Department of Sociology for 27 and then to gather at the Holiday Inn Western Michigan University 13 years phetic as time went by. years wrote: West for a gala dinner. ago. We were armed for life's trials and Education for life " Each president, although different Fallon chaired the group, and amid tribulations with a used mortar board, in many ways, was well suited for groans from his compatriots had an- an odd and amorphous collection of We're a lot smarter now. You should be able to see it in our faces. Part of it leadership in the era in which he nounced earlier that he would bring a academic credits and experiences and is because we've become even more served the institution. President Waldo prayer for the occasion. an empty diploma case duly inscribed adept at concealing our soft and tender shepherded Western through the early The Westerner is privileged to print in the greatest tradition of academe: spots, but part of it is also because we difficult formative years. President this very moving and heartfelt ut- "Your diploma is not ready yet. Please Sangren with vision and foresight terance from Fallon, who is now Dr. have come by our education for life the pick it up at the administration hard way-long after reporting one last presided over a period of diversification fohn A . Fallon, professor of educational building room 105 next Wednesday." time to AD 105. Some of us would and rapid expansion to University leadership at Ball State University. He We were then, hopefully but not even go so far as to say that that has status after World War II . President has advanced degrees from Northern realistically as now, awestruck and in- happened in spite of you. Miller carried the heavy burden of con- Michigan University and Michigan fatuated with altruism and idealism, As we sit here tonight and reminisce tinued expansion and need for State University and devotes his major precociously naive in the ways of the by conjuring up elusive memories stabilization and rampant change in attention to Ball State's Institute for world and purveyors of a sense of mis- sprinkled liberally with equal measures the troubled decades of the 60s .'' Community Leadership Development. sion that could cut to the core of of self-deprecation and face-saving, we [Editor's Note: Dr. Myron L. Coulter His wife is the former Sidney Miller, society's problems. We were ready ask that you be with us. We also ask was also President of WMU from March EdD ' 77. then to deal with the world we had in- that you help us to be as good for our herited, and we looked it right square 1973 to September 1974.] families and others as we can possibly in the eye. We were ready, we And we know that the burdens of be. We beckon you to help us find ideological soldiers of fortune, but as this day are no less for Dr. Bernhard as quick and inexpensive cures for male members of the single largest he is faced with them daily. pattern baldness, overweight and the As alumni we laud Western's 76 graduation-year class in the history of dreaded mid-life crisis. Finally, we ask years of history under the leadership of the world, we were woefully un- that you help us and others to save: President Waldo, President Sangren prepared. the baby seals, and President Miller and under the the economy, current administration of President The unprepared the postal system, Bernhard, leadership that has had the We were unprepared to deal with an the air we breathe, courage and the vision to meet the escalating war that was being waged the bicameral system of government, challenge of change necessitated by the on another planet, for all we knew. Few of us had ever even heard of the Knollwood Tavern, demands of the day. These changes the captive and latent child in all of have signified the growth and develop- Hanoi, Danang or Hill Number 891 us, ment befitting our great University. before, and not one of us had ever been there aside from daily vicarious our cherished memories, and The legacy voyages compliments of the major na- our fraternal love for each other. As we respect that leadership, so we tional television networks. And now, let this celebration go on. recall the thousands of alumni who There was real trouble over that war If you're really up there, Lord, we left us a legacy on which we have had and some of us felt it firsthand and in ask all of this in the name of Jesus an opportunity to build the promise of a very personal way. Our reaction, like Christ. the future. most of the world's, was one of un- Amen. We, each of us is steeped in our precedented confusion-confusion heritage. We, each of us is an integral between what we heard and thought part of the day in which we live. We, and what we felt in our hearts. each of us is looking forward to the Malthusian theories be damned! future upon which we build our hopes We were also unprepared to deal and dreams. with other people: other people as We, the Class of 1932 have added parents, as wives, as children and as our dimension to this promise for the neighbors. Our knee-jerk reaction in future. For we had an obligation to that "world is your oyster" time of our prepare ourselves for the years ahead, lives was to be concerned about and in the process we bear some ourselves first and foremost, and all responsibility for those who have others second, if at all. Mter all it was followed us and will continue to follow dog-eat-dog and survival of the fittest, us in this place. The growth and you know, and none of us had ever development of Western Michigan taken an undergraduate course in how University is dependent on the inter- to develop and maintain a lasting and relatedness of the past and the present loving relationship. Nor had we been making a composite contribution to trained beyond our instincts to deal the future. Nothing is for today alone. with the hard questions of precious All of us represent the future. and innocent children. Remember, this is the first day of the rest of your lives. Mid-American Conference championship volleyball team (from left): Tracy Daniel, Carolann Homad, foan Peeters, Maria Car- bonari, Heather Sawyer, Paige Paulson, Lisa Cancelli, Amy Timmers, Lori Norris and fackie Backus.

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Football record is the best since 1941_ First-year coach Jack Harbaugh has and the club was ranked among the guided the University's 1982 football top 20 in NCAA Division 1-AA polls team to a 7-2-2 record, the school's for seven consecutive weeks. best since a mark of 8-0 in 1941. The Broncos led all Division I clubs Moreover, the Broncos claimed second in scoring defense, giving up 7.1 points place in the Mid-American Conference, per game. On offense, WMU estab- matching the best showing since a co- lished school records for passes (255), championship in 1966. completions (126) and passing yardage ''I believe we've made a satisfying (1,598) . start, considering we had a first-year In reviewing key recruiting needs, coaching staff coming into a new situa- Harbaugh listed ''linemen with both With Harbaugh (center) are the team 's 1982 award winners (from left): Mark Kujacznski, tion," Harbaugh said. "Our goal, of size and speed'' and tight ends as the most valuable and top defensive player; Mike Gary, fohn Gill Scholar-Athlete award; Dave course, is to win the Mid-American main priority. The staff also will be Knapp, President's-Kevin Brogan award for leadership; Harbaugh; Bob Phillips, top defensive Conference and represent the league in seeking defensive backs since none player; Tom Scannell, Mike Gary award as top scout-team player; and Mike Prindle, top the California Bow1." was brought in this year and two special-teams player. The awards were presented at the annual Grid Bust Nov. 23 at the The Broncos' two losses came regulars graduated. Depth at the Kalamazoo Center. through a combined total of 11 points, linebacker position is another con- cern. Sports Update ______• Men's Cross Country both freshmen, finished second and • Men's Swimming • Volleyball The 1982 men's cross country team third respectively at the league meet, Coach Pete Lindsay's squad gets a big At the beginning of the 1982 volleyball completed its season with a fifth place while Decker, a senior, was sixth in boost this winter with the return of season, Western Michigan University's finish at the Central Collegiate Con- the individual field. Tony Ellett, who missed 1982 competi- head coach Rob Buck was in the stage ference championships, a second at the tion after winning the Mid-American of rebuilding. Forty-one matches later Track Athletics Congress Midwest • Soccer 100-yard backstroke in 1981. Ellett is the Broncos were 33-8, and took three meet and a seventh place at the NCAA Western's 1982 soccer team set school also the varsity recordholder in the SO tournament championship titles District IV affair. records for wins and goals (33) during a freestyle. (including the Mid-American Con- Coach Jack Shaw's harriers were also 10-8-2 campaign. The diving corps will be led by Greg ference crown), plus an automatic S-0 in duals and third at both the Pur- Mosen Khani copped "most Huls, who was ninth in three-meter berth into the first round of the NCAA due and Mid-American invitationals. valuable'' honors for Coach Scott Fer- standings and 12th on the one-meter championship tournament. ris' squad, scoring 12 goals and eight board at the 1982 MAC. In six tournaments, the Broncos also • Women's Cross Country assists, the latter figure matching a took a second and two third place The Bronco women's cross country school mark. Sergio Marcos had 12 • Women's Swimming finishes. team registered a third place finish at points, including eight goals. Miriam Lamp, the 100-yard individual Besides the tournament hardware, the Mid-American Conference meet, Defensively, goalie Kyle Leonard tied medley varsity record holder, is the on- the Bronco spikers added other honors. finishing just seven points out of the another WMU standard with six ly senior Lindsay has on this year's Juniors Amy Timmers and Jackie top spot. shutouts and owned a 1.36 goals team. Backus and freshman Heather Sawyer Coach Debbie Hunt's team was against average. Senior fullback Mitch Other returning standard setters are were named to the 1982 All-MAC paced by All Mid-American Conference Ginsburg was cited as the team's "top Murray Smith, 200 freestyle; Rose team. Sawyer was also named the con- performers Kayla Skelly, Chris Sharp defensive" player. Smyth in the 200 back and 200 fly; and ference tournament's "most valuable" and Melanie Decker. Skelly and Sharp, Laura Conti, 200 breaststroke. player.

------~------Your Special Gift Deserves A Special Gift Development Fund DECEMBER 1982 Western Michigan University Foundation S M T W T s Kalamazoo , Michigan 49008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Enclosed is my (our) contribution of$ to assist Western Michigan University. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (Checks should be made payable to WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION) 26 27 28 29 30 31 is the 0 You may use this gift where the need is greatest. last day to make your contribution 0 This is a designated gift for------to Western Michigan University and have 0 Please give joint credit for the enclosed gift to spouse: ______it credited, for Michigan and Federal in- (First name, middle initial) come tax purposes, to the calendar year. Husband's Employer ____ Title, _____ Matching Gift Company 0 Yes 0 No Your gift entitles you to the six annual Wife's Employer______Title Matching Gift Company 0 Yes 0 No issues of the Westerner. 0 The Michigan Tax Credit ... Name Alumnus Year of Degree An Added Incentive To You Tax laws encourage contributions to 0 Maiden Name Alumna Year of Degree higher education.

A contribution qualifies as a deduction Street Address under federal laws and, due to favorable tax laws in Michigan pertaining to gifts to City State Zip higher education, as a credit under All contributions are deductible for State of Michigan & Federal Income Tax purposes Michigan income tax laws. The credit allowed is SO% of your gift, 20% of your .--:::=-=;::-. Acct.# Enclosed$ ------~- tax liability, or $100 ($200 if a joint Inter Bank# return is filed), whichever is less. The tax Pledge$ ______savings derived from the state credit may affect the federal taxable income of the donor for the tax year following the year Acct.# ______Please remind me in ______of the contribution. (month, year) Expiration Date ______Amon~ Alumni ------5 Dear Alumni ___ Nominations requested ______Alumna questions Western Michigan University is not Each year the WMU Alumni Associa- tivities of Homecoming on Saturday only a place, it is a tradition of tion sponsors two prestigious awards: night in the University Student teaching of basics excellence, concern and education. Distinguished Alumni and Teaching Center. In 1982 the awards consisted at college level_ More than 105,000 persons have Excellence. of anniversary clocks especially en- graduated, beginning in the early Nominations for these awards are graved for each of the honorees. In response to an article appearing in days with one-year certificates submitted to a committee, and selec- Now is the time for alumni to make the August issue of the Westerner, for teaching, tions are made, with the approval of any nominations they may feel ap- page 3, "Intellectual Skills Emphasizes then two-year the board of directors of the WMU propriate for each of the awards. 3Rs," Vikki Casperson Wretzky, BA life certificates Alumni Association. Names and supportive material should '64, writes: and bac- The active faculty designated for be addressed to the Director of Alumni "I'm not (and never. was) question- calaureate Teaching Excellence awards are Relations, Western Michigan Universi- ing the legitimacy of 'quantification'; I degrees, and honored each October at an academic ty, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008. do, however, question its use as a then tentative convocation. At that time they receive The alumni chairmen for the two synonym for either 'arithmetic' or steps into certificates and tax-free checks for committees are Suzanne Geha Merpi, 'mathematics.' graduate study $1,000. The stipends are made possible Teaching Excellence, and Dr. Jack ''But beyond all this, its use in that with a through alumni gifts each year to the Ryan, Distinguished Alumni. context strikes me as exceedingly pom- cooperative Development Fund. pous. Perhaps the writer had his master's pro- Russ trong Distinguished Alumni awards are tongue-in-cheek? gram. Finally came specialist and doc- presented at a dinner following the ac- "While I'm on my soapbox, let me toral degrees, indicating that Western add that I don't believe it should be has reached a pinnacle of educational the province of a university to teach endeavor. basic skills. What do we have elemen- All of this growth was predicated by Alumni Gatherings. ______tary, junior and high schools for? Students who can't do their '3Rs' have growth in numbers-and the growing • Grand Rapids • June 27, 1983 Annual Alumni was challenging. It was good.. Everyone no business in a university setting in Members of the Grand Rapids alumni Golf Outing the first place. I realize this is not con- felt deeply about this newness that committee have scheduled alumni ac- For more information contact: Allen continued to change annually. sidered a very democratic viewpoint, tivities for the Grand Rapids area Emmons, '65, 364-6161 or 245-9866, or but then, I'm probably an educational But then a cynicism that it might through the summer of 1983. A cross John Kennedy, 281-2220 or 452-6838. not last forever crept in. The baby snail darter, doomed to extinction, section of events for the outdoor and anyway. (What else can you expect of a boom went bust, and the visionaries sports minded alumni and their • Lansing knew that the balloon would no longer person who values the liberal arts families are on tap: Plans are now being made for WMU more than, say, courses in business fly quite so high nor be quite so big. • January 15, 1983 Cross Country alumni in the Lansing area to gather at Some clung to the belief that it would management or 'sanitary engineer- Skiing Munn Ice Arena on Saturday, January ing?')" remain forever at the heights it once • April 30, 1983 Tennis and 22, as the Bronco hockey team takes attained. Racquetball Party on the MSU Spartans. Watch your mail Now the time has come, as reflected for details. by today's enrollment of about 19,000, Alumni Association that Western will probably face some continued shrinkage. And while this new life members_ comes in students, because the Doolittle updates Gary Fund drive __ numbers are decreasing, it must also Philip M. Collins, BS '67, Kalamazoo. of such efforts as the Downtown Do/ores Rossi Cunningham, BS '65, Allen Park. come in programs and people. Collections for the 1982 M. J. Gary fames Curtis and Susan Fasce Curtis, BS '80, This becomes a time of long faces, Fund are now $171,124.84, reports F. Coaches luncheons for both football and Randolph, Mass. · William Doolittle, director. "We are basketball, Blue Line Coaches Gary G. Dat3ch, BA '68, and Prudence Dorsch, Flat Rock. worried countenances, less money for Ben;amin Ebling, BA '55, and Moyra McNeill Ebling, operation and the need to rethink what slightly ahead of 1981," says Doolittle, luncheons for hockey and the Bronco BA '55, Kalamazoo. it is we are doing and how we are go- ''but we have many outstanding Grid Bust. Margaret Preston Grantham, BA '64, Newton, Mass. Late November phonathons were Thomas A. Malvitz, BS '78, and Margie Marks Malvitz, ing about the total educational pledges that we need to collect before BS '79, Coralville, Iowa. the end of 1982." planned to bring the Gary Fund up to Michael Mauer, BS '67, and Marilyn Kibbie Mauer, endeavor. BS '68, MA '71, Kalamazoo. - its $275,000 goal for this year. These forces have been at work, and During this year the Gary Fund has Gene L. McOmber, BS '60, and Betsy Thomas McOmber, tough decisions are being made. provided for the ''Bronco Corral'' at Doolittle is also looking for 18 to 20 BA '62, MA '66, Kalamazoo. football games and "Gold Pride," a enthusiasts who will work during the fohn P. Micbala , BBA '80, Wilmette, Ill . But while Western must turn back WilliamS. Preston, BBA '79, MBA '81, Los Angeles, Calif. its clock a bit as to numbers of real Bronco who appears at all home spring on the steering committee for Margaret Mount Preston , BS '37, Jackson. football games, and is also supportive the 1983 Gary Fund. Elva Hagman Prince, Lansing. students, faculty, programs, support Neil Reid, BBA '69, Nevada City, Calif. staff, etc., there is a concern that the Martha Wright Shirtum , BS '49, Lansing. quality that is in the University be RanT. Smalarski, BBA '70, Ann Arbor. preserved, that efforts be made to enhance the University in every possi- ble way. ------There is a proper role for alumni in WESTERN MiCHIGAN UNIVERSITY this great venture, as well as for those MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION on the campus. At its annual meeting the board of NAME --::--:------GRAD YEAR __ SPOUSE ______GRAD YEAR directors of the Western Michigan (last) (first) (maiden) (first) (maiden) University Alumni Association voted ADDRESS ______PHONE. ______to prepare and conduct the greatest membership campaign the organization has ever made. It is hoped that in the CITY------STATE. ______ZIP ______months ahead every alumnus who is not now a member will receive a per- D Annual Membership Payment of$. ______is enclosed, or sonal invitation to become a commit- $10peryear ted partner in the continuance and D Annual Family Membership Acct. # ______enhancement of Western Michigan $15 per year Inter Bank# D D D D Exp. Dote. ______University. Pledge your loyalty to Western now D Individual Life Membership through membership in the Alumni $150 ar VISA Acct. # ------Association, through gifts to the $90 per year for 2 years Expiration Date ------Development Fund and by the expres- sion of your continued faith in a great D Family Life Membership (husband & wife) educational institution, your alma $180or $110 per year for 2 years mater. (Signature) Please make check payable to WMU Alumni Association indicate title preference: O Mr . D Mrs. D Miss .O. Ms . 0 Other ______Alumnotes ______

David Smallcombe, BFA '76, had a spring John A. Short, BBA '79, has received his 1972 showing of his jewelry at the Corcoran 1978 juris doctor degree from the University of Michael McKinley, BA '72, has been named Gallery in Muskegon. Louise Birch, MA '78, and Nop Utrpirom- Toledo. He is with Arthur Andersen &. Co., anchorman by Satellite News Channel for Connie Jo Bailey, BA ' 76, MA '77, is suk, MA '78, both received Ph.D. degrees in Grand Rapids. its all-news cable channel. It is operated president of the Midwest Dance Assoc. and educational leadership and chemistry, Timothy L. Waller, BS '79, has been by American Broadcasting Co. and has recently become associated with the respectively, in WMU's August commence- named the top assistant to the head basket- Westinghouse. McKinley had been with Starlet School of Dance at Oscoda. ment. ball coach at Eastern Illinois University, Mutual Broadcasting. William L. Lilly, BBA '76, became acting Sheila Hartman, BS '78, and David Charleston. city manager in Benton Harbor in June, also Knight, BS '78, were exhibitors in the Bruce J. Dunn, BBA '79, has been licensed continuing to serve as community develop- Michigan Artists 80/81 exhibition in as a certified public accountant and is with ment director. Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. Maner, Costerisan and Ellis in Lansing. 1974 Nora Crouch Jones, BS '76, MA '79, has David R. Gelinas, MA '78, is the new Lt. Richard E. Trapp, BS '79, completed David L. Knoblauch, BS '74, MA '79, been named home care planning coordinator director of financial aid at Northern Mon- USAF pilot training and received his silver showed his artistic skills in Kalamazoo and for the patient education department at tana College in Havre, Mont. He took the wings at Reese AFB , Texas. Grand Rapids after selection of his works for Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, post in mid-July, moving from the Universi- Ricky R. Davis, BA '79, is now assigned the juried Michigan Artists 80/81 show. where she began as a staff nurse in 1975. ty of Michigan. to Kessler AFB , Miss., where he is Doris J. Cubbemuss, BS ' 74, MA '79, Dr. David B. Turton, BS '76, has com- Clifford J. McKinstry, BA ' 78, received his receiving specialized administrative train- received her Ph.D. in sociology from WMU pleted his medical studies at Wayne State law degree from the University of Toledo in ing. in August. University and is now a resident at the June. Gloria J. Badiner, BS '79, MS '82, was Vincent C. Westra, BA '78, received his Naval Regional Medical Center, Ports- Denise Dempsey, BBA '78, has moved presented a Distinguished Graduate Student law degree from the University of Toledo mouth, Va. from Touche Ross to Southwest Marine in Award at the April WMU commencement. and is now a law clerk for Judge Donald T. Brett Formsma, BS '76, heads safety and San Francisco as accounting manager. She is James C. Wonnacott, BBA '79, and James Anderson in Kalamazoo. security services for Leila Hospital, Battle also a certified public accountant. A. Parker, BBA '79, have both received their James R. Hulbert, BS '74, practices law in Creek. Ann Kinskey Rae, MSW '78, has taken a CPA certification from the State of Greenville. He obtained his law degree from part-time post with Catholic Family Service Michigan. Both are with Lusebronk, Puckey Wayne State University and had practiced in of Midland. She is an assistant professor of &. Co., Jackson. Grand Rapids since 1977. 1977 social work at Saginaw Valley State College. Mark C. Charter, BS '79, is now circuit John R. Kircher, BSM '74, has joined the Sherry Carter Bump, MBA '78, has been court law clerk at Allegan, following his medical staff of Group Health Service's Theodore D. Apking, BS '77, MA '78, and promoted to division manager, Lake Erie graduation from Cooley Law School, Lans- Saginaw Township Centers. He is a physi- William F. Uhlman, IV, MA '77, both Division, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. Her ing. cians' assistant. received Ph.D. degrees in psychology at headquarters are in Cleveland. Anita Hodge Vollink, MA '79, was teacher WMU's August commencement. Michael H. Kuer, BM '78, MM '80, is a of the month for May in Wayland. Denise Lisiecki Wright, BS '77, is now a lecturer-recitalist in the Muskegon area Theresa Brennan, BS '79, has entered law professional sales representative for Smith when not occupied with his composing. practice in Brighton with her father. She 1975 Kline &. French Laboratories in the Colum- Bryan Klinesteker, BS '78, MA '80, may received her JD degree from Cooley Law Gary L. Reck, MA '75, has been given bus, Ohio area. She lives in Zanesville. have edged into a show business career from School. responsibility as personnel director for the Harold E. Fisher, BBA '77, has been pro- his vantage point as a blind rehabilitation finance and management information ser- moted to tax manager in the Battle Creek counselor. Working for the Foundation for vices area of Mead Johnson &. Co., at office of Price Waterhouse&. Co. the Junior Blind in Los Angeles, he has been Evansville, Ind. He had been manager of Norman F. Baade, Jr., BS '77, in June a consultant for a TV movie, ''The Zertigo 1980 employee relations. received the doctor of osteopathy degree Diamond Caper," which first aired Sept. 29. Kathy Trautman, BBA '80, has been pro- Dr. Milo M. Meadows, MA '75, is the from Kirksville College. He is interning at As the filming progressed he was offered a moted to product specialist for the First Na- new principal of the Parchment high school. Traverse City Osteopathic Hospital. bit part, and estimates he was on-camera for tional Bank of Denver. He had been at Napoleon. Jan Dax, BS '77, has been named assistant "all of five seconds." He's the one helping Robert H. Knapp, BM '80, has graduated Robert D. Fein, MA '75, earned his doctor director of nursing services for the the blind boy board a bus. from the Washington University Medical of education degree in August from WMU in medical/surgical patient care areas at Bron- Rudolph J. Marcelletti, BS '78, has re- School-Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology the field of educa tiona! leadership. son Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo. ceived his law degree from Cooley Law as a radiology technologist and is now with Laurence E. Rudolph, MA '75, EdS '76, Alan R. Sorenson, BS '77, is a commercial School, Lansing. the Barnes Memorial Hospital, St. Louis. received his doctor of education degree in loan officer at the American National Bank, Hossein Hamadanchi, BS '78, has joined Charles Brouwer, MA '80, Keith A. Maki, educational leadership from WMU in Kalamazoo. the staff of the Berrien Springs Chiropractic BFA '80, and Mary Owen Rosenthal, MA August. , Geraldine J. Tiller, BFA '77, has had her Clinic. He has graduated from the Palmer '80, were chosen to have their works ex- Andrew T. Lopez, BFA '75, had his ar- artistic talent displayed in Kalamazoo and College of Chiropractic and will also be hibited in the Michigan Artists 80/81 juried tistic talent displayed in both Grand Rapids Grand Rapids as a part of the Michigan Ar- associated with the Lakeshore Clinic at St. show in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. and Kalamazoo as a result of his works be- tists 80/81 show. Joseph. David M. Graver, BBA '80, has been pro- ing selected for the Michigan Artists 80/81 Mathew Kanjirathinkal, BA '77, has been Ensign Mark W. Stevenson, BBA '78, has moted by Gulf Consolidated Piping Group showings. named a therapist at Riverwood Community graduated from the Navy Supply School, at Houston, Texas, to project administrator Peggy A. Miles, BA '75, is director of the Health Center in Niles. Athens, Ga. for its oil and gas production and Gerber Children's Center in Muskegon. Clark A. Delor, BS '77, was featured in- Joseph F. Erdman, BS '78, has earned his transmission division. Mary Norcross, BA '75, MBA '79, has itially in the Kalamazoo Gazette, and then dental degree from the University of Carolyn M. Nock, BA '80, MA '81, re- been licensed as a CPA by the State of throughout Michigan, for his work in Michigan and is now practicing in Portage. ceived her specialist in education degree in Michigan and works for Lusebrink, Puckey developing a farm near Otsego, although he Dr. Reid H. Olds, BS '78, is now practic- school psychology from WMU in August. &. Co., Jackson. is blind. ing dentistry in Flint following his gradua- Jon J. Boes, BS '80, received the specialist David J. Storm, BBA '75, MBA '77, has Carolyn Mills Kaiser, MA '77, an assis- tion from the University of Michigan. in education degree in psychology from been elected treasurer of the Petroleum Ac- tant professor of nursing at Lake Michigan Phillip Haack, BS '78, this fall became WMU in August. countants Society of Anchorage, Alaska, College, has been a reviewer for the new principal of Sacred Heart School in Hudson. James .P. Cleary, MA '80, received a Ph.D. where he is employed by Marathon Oil Co. edition of "Addison-Wesley's Nursing Ex- Barbara Ann Adler, BA '78, MSW '81, in psychology from WMU in August. Donald E. Neale, BA '75, has been or- amination Review." received a $1,692 award from the American ·Joan Saxton, MSW '80, is a new therapist dained to the diaconate of the Roman Alec E. Gores, BS '77, is president and Association of University Women for her at the Riverwood Community Mental Catholic Church and is now serving a year's owner of Executive Business Systems at research study, "Child Abuse: Does It Affect Health Center, Niles. internship at the St. Monica's Parish, Flint. Last spring he was honored by Cado Criminality?" She is a member of the ex- Deborah A. Ramberg, BBA '80, a senior Kalamazoo. Systems Corp., Torrance, Calif., as the most ecutive board of the Michigan Committee auditor for Coopers &. Lybrand in Chicago, outstanding of its 17 5 distributors world- for the Prevention of Child Abuse and was has received her CPA certification. wide. The award was made at Monte Carlo, invited to present her findings before the In- Ronald A. Berridge, BBA '80, was elected 1976 Monaco. ternational Congress for the Prevention of to the Springfield Board of Education this Thomas G. King, BA '77, has been admit- Child Abuse, which met in September in past summer. He is distribution coordinator John F. Fink, BS '76 followed up his summa ted to practice law in Michigan. He is an France. for the Post division of General Foods. cum laude undergraduate degree with two assistant city manager for Kalamazoo. Ardis Hacker, BS '80, has been named or- WMU degrees in mathematics, an MS with Howard UpdegraH, MA '77, has been thopedic unit supervisor at Bronson honors and a Ph.D. , an unusual feat, last named principal of West Ottawa high Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo. She began August. He has joined the faculty at the school, Holland. 1979 work there as a nurse in 1973. University of Louisville this fall to teach John A. McLean, MPA '77, has left Roger L. Beglin, BBA ' 79, and Valda John R. Heilman, m, MPA '80, is now ad- and engage in research. Michigan to become city manager of Mont- Karlsons, BBA '79, have both been pro- ministrator of the Meadowbrook Care Robert D. Brignall, BA '76, has been ad- pelier, Vt. He had been city manager at moted by Price Waterhouse &. Co., Battle Center, Holland. mitted to the State Bar of Michigan. He is a Spring Lake. Creek. He is now senior tax accountant, and researcher for the Michigan Court of Ap- Capt. David Zimmerman, BS '77, has she is senior audit accountant. peals and earned his law degree at Cooley been transferred from Germany to Selfridge Mark Sioma, BBA '79, has been named as 1981 Law School. AFB, Mt. Clemens, where he serves as area a sales representative for the Pacific North- Timothy A. Stoepker, BS '76, has joined recruiting commander for the U.S. Arrny. west regional office of Central Insurance Jean M. Amlicke, BS '81, is now medical the Detroit law firm of Gandelt, Stoepker He and his wife, Phyllis Martin Zimmer- Companies in San Francisco. administration coordinator for Health Circle and Dickson. They are now located in the man, BS '77, live in Mt. Clemens, and she Josephine T. O'Brien, BFA '7.9, had her in Kalamazoo, a new health maintenance historic Charles C. Trowbridge House on is a WMU graduate student. work displayed in the Michigan Artists organization and a subsidiary of Blue Cross East Jefferson. Ray A. Potter, BBA '77, MBA '81, is a 80/81 juried show in Kalamazoo and Grand and Blue Shield. partner in a new Grand Rapids business, Fan Rapids. Central Station, selling ceiling fans. He was also a WMU accounting instructor. .. .

Brown &.. Gold-Among the more than 1,000 high school and transfer students and parents who attended Brown and Gold Day Nov. 13 was Nina Williams (right), a senior at Bronson High School, shown talking with Dr. David Chaplin, chairman of the Department of Sociology. In addition, high school and community college administrators also attended. Students could obtain counseling and information on admis- sion to Western in addition to touring the campus. ------7 Carolyn K. Kuester, MSW '81, is the new coordinator of career counseling programs 1969 1975 1978 for the Center for Women's Services, WMU. James A. Porenta, BBA '69, and Valerie Anne Fedewa, BBA '82, and Edward C. Paulette Van Bell, BS '78, and Scott Kogge, Jean Ann Zoschke, BA '81, has completed Ernst, BS '72, MA '77, April 24 in Grand Schmidt, BS '75, June 5 in Portland. She is May 22 in Cassopolis. paralegal studies at Roosevelt University, Haven. She is with the Ottawa County with Main, Hurdman &. Cranstoun, Lans- James R. Dougherty, BBA '76, MBA '80, Chicago, and is now with Francorp, Inc., Juvenile Court choice program, and he is a ing, and he is with the Leslie schools, where and Maurine Bain, May 22 in Battle Creek. Olympia Fields, Ill. partner in Porenta's Grand Haven Furniture they live. He is a CPA with Bernard, Loving&. Co., Christine Grieg, BBA '81, is one of the Co. Larry Mikle, BBA '75, and Florence Detroit, and they live in Warren. stage stars of the Allegan Community Burkhardt, BS '79, July 3 in Kalamazoo. She Pamela Sue Harwood, BS '78, and Mark Players, with which she has been affiliated is a senior in the MSU College of Human D. Wilkinson, Aug. 6 in Paw Paw. Both are for 12 years. 1971 Medicine, and he is a computer support medical technologists at Bronson Methodist Thomas J. Witkowski, BBA '81, is the specialist for the Upjohn Co. Hospital, Kalamazoo, where they live. first marketing research analyst for Union Barbara Schilling, BA '71, and Paul Deja, Jeffrey T. Henderson, MA '75, and Mary Pump Co., Battle Creek. June 12 in Dowagiac. She is a teacher at Eau D. Neuendorf, June 26 in Benton Harbor. Richard E. Sutton, MFA '81, has had his Claire, and they live in Berrien Springs. He is with Kalamazoo Valley Community ceramics exhibited at the Upper Berth Shirley Eccles, BS '71, and John M. College, and they live in Mattawan. Gallery in Marshall. Hayward, June 18 at Gull Lake, Richland. Alan L. Smith, BBA '75, and Elisabeth - Barbara Saari, MBA '81, has been pro- She is with the Comstock schools. Action, BS '77, MA '80, Aug. 28 in Deaths moted to assistant marketing development John L. Mastee, BS '71, and Jill Machov- Kalamazoo. He is a display ad salesman for Welton D. Brooks, TC '08, died October 19 manager for the Kellogg Co.'s U.S. food pro- sky, June 26 in Muskegon. He is an in- the Kalamazoo Gazette. at his Cloverdale home. ducts division. dustrial engineer at Howmet Corp. Myrtle McWilliams Tarbell, TC '10, died Steve Winsor, BBA '81, won the Michigan Sept. 26 in Kalamazoo. She had been state open. tennis men's singles title in 1976 employed at Bronson Methodist HospitaL September. 1972 Mrs. Tarbell leaves two daughters, three Thomas M. Kline, BS '81, has taken a Leslie M. Yealin, BBA '76, and Robert K. grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Susan E. Seilheimer, BS '72, and Reginald position with the U.S. Patent Office in Buckman, BS '81, July 10 in Kalamazoo. He Paula Nell Shore Mack, TC '16, BA '34, lervolina, June 26 in Kalamazoo. She has an Washington, D.C. is project expeditor for the Palisades Divi- died June 22 in Inglewood, Calif. She leaves MA from Texas Woman's University and is Jean P. Buyze, BA '81, had an article in sion, Bechtel Power Corp., and they live' in a sister. associate director of the Kalamazoo Ballet the July-August issue of Michigan Natural Ann Arbor. Elma Robinson Newman, TC '18, died Company. Resources magazine in which she wrote John A. DuBois, BA '76, and Kimberly Dec. 21, 1981, in Harbor Springs. Lynne Eisenbach, BA '72, MA '76, and about the wildlife in her backyard and in Olson, June 5 in South Haven. He is with Ruth Green Stephens, TC '20, died Glenn W. Roehrig, BA '72, MA '78, Aug. 7 Berrien County. In 1980 her index of early the Plainwell schools, and they live in August 29, 1981, in LowelL in Kanley Chapel. Both teach at Paw Paw, women poets was published. Kalamazoo. Mary Wilson Hare, LC '21, died Oct. 24 and they live in Portage. Jeffrey M. Jonns, MPA '81, has been ap- Paul G. Caron, BS '76, and Susan L. in Allegan. She was principal of the North Thomas P. Morin, BA '72, and Judith pointed city secretary for South Houston, Taylor, June 27 in Holland. They live in Ward school in Allegan before her 1954 DeHaan, Aug. 14 in Kalamazoo. He is with Texas. Cashiers, N.C. retirement. She leaves two daughters, seven the V &. A Bootery, Kalamazoo. H. Bradley Rhora, BBA '81, operates the Alan G. Lewandowski, BA '76, and Mary grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Cheryl L. Northrop, BS '72, and Steven St. Julian Co. winery in Frankenmuth. Jo Swanson, BA '79, Aug. 28 in Blacksburg, Esther Grinage Stone, TC '21, died Oct. 8 2nd Lt. Joyce R. Rauguth, BBA '81, is a Ryan, Aug. 14 in Holt. She teaches in Va. He is completing his doctorate at Williamston, and they live in Okemos. in Allegan. She leaves her husband, two technical supply officer with the lOlst Air- Virginia Tech, and she is a unit manager for sons, five grandchildren and five great- borne Division, Ft. Campbell, Ky ., and par- Procter &. Gamble. grandchildren. ticipated last summer in Ocean Venture 82, Thomas W. Foghino, MA '76, and Linda Ernest A. Gerke, TC '23, BA '38, died in a combined services training exercise. 1973 K. Minckler, Aug. 21 in Kalamazoo. He is early 1982 in St. Clair. He leaves his wife. varsity football coach at Three Rivers high Edward J. Somerville, BA '73, and Lillian Miriam Birdsell Beegle, TC '24, BA '55, schooL died July 21 in Bellevue, Wash. Campbell, May 22 in Holly. They live in William G. Frey, BA '76, and Dorie Dep- 1982 Southfield, and he is with the Upjohn Co., Retha Chambers Havens, LC '26, died ta, Sept. 11 in Kalamazoo. He is with H. S. Sept. 30 in Kalamazoo. She was a vision Cynthia Lee, BA '82, has joined the Rayne Detroit. Crocker Co., San Francisco, where they Diane M. Corradini, BS '73, MSL '81, and technician, and leaves two daughters, two school district at Crowley, La., as a teacher. live. granddaughters and her mother. J. Kevin Wood, MA '82, has been ap- Dee L. Clement, June 12 at Glenn. Gregory J. Daggett, BS '73, and Holly Golda L. Crisman, TC '27, BA '29, a pointed a resident director and area coor- member of the University high school facul- dinator at Adrian College. Hill, Aug. 14 in South Haven. He is with Consumers Power Co. 1977 ty from 1947 until retirement in 1970 as an Ladislav Hanka, MFA '82, recently ex- assistant professor of education emerita, hibited prints at the Upper Berth Gallery in Ronald L. Reisterer, BA '73, and Elizabeth Richard W. Mayer, BS '77, and Joy P. died Oct. 8 in Kalamazoo. She earned her Marshall. Hammond, Aug. 28 in Kalamazoo. He is Ziemke, BBA '82, June 11 in Kalamazoo. with the Comstock schools. master's degree at the University of She is with Alexander Grant &. Co., and he Michigan. teaches in Gobles. They live in Kalamazoo. Crystal Bragdon Richardson, TC '28, died Mark F. Guilfoyle, BS '77, and Toula Aug. 1 in Hastings. 1974 Milios, June 13 in Bloomfield Hills. Both Ruth Beardsley Sheppard, TC '30, MA are students in the College of Osteopathic '56, died Sept. 22 in Dowagiac. She retired Weddings Richard L. Hyde, Jr., BS '74, and Deborah J. Medicine, Michigan State University. Williams, June 19 in Plainwell. He is opera- as a Portage teacher in 1973 and made her William T. Luley, BBA '77, and Mary Ann home in Decatur. She leaves her husband of tions manager for Communications, Inc., Demler, May 22 in South Bend. He is atten- 1923 Kalamazoo, and they live in Climax. 54 years, two daughters, a son, 18 grand- ding Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary in children and 13 great-grandchildren. Marion 0. Carleton, TC '23, and Manfred JuneK. Sigman, BS '74, and James K. Nashotah, Wis. H . Martin, Sept. 4 in Kalamazoo. Powers, Dec. 19 in Dearborn. They now live Mildred Hill Wilson, TC '31, BS '58, died Pamela Meulendyk, BS '77, and Dr. Hugo Sept. 30 in Kalamazoo. She had taught in Madison, Wis. Biertuempfel, June 26 in South Haven. They Danny K. Fetters, BA '74, and Rebecca kindergarten in Kalamazoo for many years. live in Penn Valley, Calif., She leaves a daughter and two grandsons. Burgess, June 26 in Midland. They live in Dr. Norman F. Baade, Jr., BS '77, and 1966 Hope. Henry Bettega, BA '32, died Oct. 12, Laura K. Brown, June 12 in Independence, 1978, in Vulcan. Mary Sue Crosby lhm, BS '66, and Robert Linda S. Rowe, BA '74, MA '79, and Mo. He is a graduate of the Kirksville Rischar, BA '67, MA '69, July 31 in Richard N. Scotese, July 24 in Paw Paw. She Raymond J. Smith, BA '33, died Sept. 22 Osteopathic College and is now interning in in Kalamazoo. He retired from the Lansing Kalamazoo. teaches in Kalamazoo's Winchell schooL Traverse City. Nancy E. Anderson, BS '66, and Hamilton Kathleen M. Kunish, BS '74, and Michael schools and had earned a master's degree at Dr. Dwight Wymore, BA '77, and Dr. Michigan State University. He leaves his Gebert, June 15 in Harrison. They live in St. L. Patton, BS '74, MBA '76, July 24 in Marian Minui, May 29 in Bloomfield Hills. James, Beaver Island. Muskegon. She teaches in Kalamazoo, and wife, one son, two daughters and 14 grand- Both are graduates of the Wayne State children. he is with James River Corp. They live in Medical School and are interns at the San PlainwelL Paul E. Burkhead, BS '39, died July 28 in Bernardino, Calif., Medical Center. Lake Worth, Fla. He was paralyzed in a Judith E. Sadler, BA '74, and David Steven P. Krieger, MBA '77, and Anne 1967 Steigmann, June 27 in Winchester, Mass. swimming accident a few weeks after Wedenoja, June 12 in Harbor Springs. He is graduation and was a paraplegic the re- Lynn Phillips, BA '67, MA '81, and Mark She is a special education teacher, and they with Auto Specialties Manufacturing Co., W. Griggs, June 26 in Flushing. They live in live in Boston. mainder of his life. He leaves a brother, St. Joseph. Robert Burkhead, '42. Kalamazoo. John C. Schumacher, BS '74, and Martha Mae Ola Martin, MA '77, and Robert C. Wegner, July 24 in Peoria, Ill. He is with Bessie Smith Perkey, BS '39, died Aug. 17 Dunklin, June 12 in Albion. She is an Al- in South Bend. She taught there for many Fidelity Federal Savings &. Loan of bion teacher. Kalamazoo. years and was a member of Beta chapter, 1968 Cindy Wells, BA '77, MA '79, and David Alpha Beta Epsilon. Stephen J. Schanz, BBA '74, and Jennifer Gillespie, April 2 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Patrick A. Rozich, BS '68, and Val Marie Vernice M. Benson, BS '46, died January Carrington, Aug. 6 in Kalamazoo. He is an She is with the Volusia County Emergency Forsche, June 18 in Saginaw. 30 in Alto. attorney. Medical Foundation and has completed cer- Karen M. Lewis, BA '68, MA '78, and Elmer A. Scudder, BS '56, died Dec. 18, Brian M. Nichols, BS '74, and Nanette M. tification as a paramedic. Donald E. Marble, Aug. 7 in Delton. She is Friedle, Aug. 28 in Kalamazoo. He is study- 1981, in Battle Creek. He leaves his wife. a teacher in Parchment, and they live in ing geophysics at Wright State University, Lou W. Maloy, MA '63, died Oct. 4 in Delton. Fairborn, Ohio. Summit, IlL He had taught in the Argo- Summit schools. He leaves his wife, two daughters and a son. 8 ______

The Politics of the First Christmas ___ _ By Paul L. Maier ty, and that only a restoration of the old republican In those days a decree went out from Caesar piety would preserve her greatness. Augustus that all the world should be enrolled . . So he set about his religious revival with en- And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. thusiasm. He fairly rained temples and shrines And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the ci- down on the Empire, restoring 82 temples in the ci- ty of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, ty of Rome alone. He became pontifex maximus which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the ("highest priest") in the state cult, and tried to house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with spark a moral renewal in society. Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. Too Many Bachelors LUKE 2: 1-5 Many Roman men and women of the time were in- dulging in a very easy morality to escape what they The first person mentioned in Luke's familiar story called "the tedium of marriage," and soon marital of Christmas was neither Palestinian, nor Jew, nor and birth rates had dwindled alarmingly. One day shepherd, nor wise man. In fact, he would seem to Augustus was disturbed enough to stalk into the have had nothing at all to do with the story, for he Forum and devise a crude test of the situation: he was the Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus. And yet told a crowd of men gathered there to separate into it was his decision, 1,500 miles away in Rome, two groups, the bachelors on one side, the married which started the train of events that finally led to men on the other. The handful of husbands was so the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. much smaller that he launched into an anguished Under normal circumstances, Jesus would have harangue against the bachelors, which began, Statue of Augustus in tbe Louvre Museum, Paris. been born in Nazareth, the home of Joseph and classically: Mary. But as Luke explains, Augustus decreed an "What shall I call you? Men? But you aren't ful- enrollment or census of his vast empire, and all filling the duties of men. Citizens? But for all your subjects of Rome had to return for registration at efforts, the city is perishing. Romans? But you are their ancestral home towns. Since both Joseph and in the process of blotting out this name altogether! An Unknown Subject Mary were distant descendants of the much- . . . What humanity would be left if all the rest of One might wonder how Augustus would have married King David, they prepared to travel down mankind should do what you are doing? ... You reacted to this Judean census in which-had he to David's city, the sleepy little town of Bethlehem are committing murder in not fathering in the first chosen to examine the returns from in the sere and arid Judean hills six miles place those who ought to be your descendants!" Bethlehem-the following group of three names southwest of Jerusalem. . . . and on to other gems of imperial logic. would have been included: Was This Trip Necessary? Augustus followed this bluster with legislation Joseph Ben-Iacob, carpenter That Mary ever had to endure the rigors of this designed to reverse the tide by making promiscuity Mary Bath-Ioachim, his wife eighty-mile journey on the back of a jogging donkey a crime, while conferring political advantages on a Yeshua or Jesus, first-born son while in a state of very advanced pregnancy has father of three children. Bachelors who shirked Did Augustus ever even see the names? The been doubted by some scholars. Rome never re- "the duty of marriage" were penalized in their chances are virtually nil. Certainly he never learned quired her subjects to return to their original homes right to inherit, and they could not even secure the significance of what had happened in for such enrollments, they claim, and Luke must good seats at the games! The bachelors, of course, Bethlehem because of his decision to take the have garbled his facts. But this view has been tried to circumvent such penalties by "marrying" census. disproved by the discovery of a Roman census edict infant girls, but Augustus quickly countered by set- At the time of Augustus' death in 14 A.D., Jesus from 104 A.D. in neighboring Egypt, in which tax- ting the minimum age for engagement at ten for was about 19 years old, an apprentice carpenter in payers who were living elsewhere were ordered to girls, with a two-year upper limit for length of Nazareth, and the emperor still could not possibly return to their original homes for registration. courtship. have heard of him. He would have been astounded An obscure Galilean couple had to obey a distant Perhaps it was to gauge his success in raising the. to know that later ages would assign his own death Caesar because sixty years earlier the Roman marriage and birth rates that Augustus was so con- to the year 14 A.D. ("in the year of the Lord") general Pompey had conquered Palestine, and the cernned about the imperial census, and he took rather than the Roman date, 767 A.U .C. (ab urbe land orbited perforce into the Roman universe. Cur- several, as in the Christmas story, during his condita, "from the founding of the city") all rently, it was under Rome's control as a "client lengthy reign. Such enrollments, of course, were because of that unknown subject, born in kingdom" ruled by a local king, Herod the Great, also the basis for the Roman system of taxation. Bethlehem. And he would have been amazed that who was directly responsible to the Roman Later census returns showed a considerable increase future generations would wish each other a "Merry emperor. in population, though this may have been due as Christmas" rather than "Io Saturnalia!" -that Augustus himself, the grandnephew and adopted much to the return of peace and prosperity after all great end-of-the-year festival in Rome which heir of Julius Caesar, was Rome's first emperor. His the bloodshed of Rome's civil wars as to Augustus' featured pagan delights and many of the holiday fascinating career began in the bloody civil wars of legislation. But the emperor was pleased enough trappings of our secular yuletide, including holly, the late Roman republic, continued beyond a vic- with the results that he proudly mentioned his cen- mistletoe, and evergreens, the exchange of gifts, torious showdown with his arch rival Mark An- suses in eighth place among the 35 "Acts of and much feasting and drinking. tony, and culminated in a lengthy era of peace and Augustus'' for which he wished to be remembered, But the successors of the emperor and of the baby prosperity, well styled the Pax Augusta, for items that were later engraved on two bronze would discover each other soon enough. Augustus created and preserved the happy concord plaques outside his mausoleum. throughout the 44 years of his rule. Unfortunately, he reported figures only for that Less familiar than the vaunted glories of privileged group in the Empire known as male "The Politics of the First Christmas" is adapted Augustus' reign-the conquered lands and kings, or Roman citizens: from the first chapter of PaulL. Maier's book, the Rome he transformed from brick into • The census of 28 B.C. showed 4,063,000 First Christmas: The True marble-is the man's intriguing religious policy. Roman citizens. and Unfamiliar Story, (Harper Had he not been emperor, Caesar Augustus might • The census of 8 B.C. showed 4,233,000 eJ Row). Dr. Maier is a pro- well have gone down in history as a religious Roman citizens. fessor of ancient history reformer, for he tried to revive the drooping interest • The census of 14 A.D . showed 4,937,000 at WMU. His latest book, in Rome's state religion. By his day, the average Roman citizens. The Flames of Rome (Double- Roman had abandoned his beliefs in the gods of At this time, however, the entire Roman day and Signet paperback), Greco-Roman mythology, and philosophical skep- Empire-like Luke, the Romans also hyperbolized it deals with the question o! why ticism was growing, while the more credulous as "the whole world"-would have numbered Nero persecuted the Christians joined the foreign mystery cults that had invaded almost 55,000,000 people. so horrendously after the great the Empire. Augustus, however, felt that this The census mentioned in the Christmas story fire of Rome. neglect of the gods was demoralizing Roman socie- was probably a provincial enrollment associated Maier is also the author of with the citizens' census of 8 B.C., but apparently First Christmas, First Easter, and First Christians, the machinery necessary to take it in.far-off which have just been published in a boxed triology Palestine was not prepared until about 5 B.C., since set in paperback. An earlier documentary novel, 8 B.C. is some three years too early for the birth of Pontius Pilate, has been purchased for television. Christ. (Jesus was not born in 1 A.D.)