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Macalester College DigitalCommons@Macalester College Macalester Today Communications and Public Relations 1-1-2008 Macalester Today Winter 2007-2008 Macalester College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macalestertoday Recommended Citation Macalester College, "Macalester Today Winter 2007-2008" (2008). Macalester Today. Paper 98. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macalestertoday/98 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications and Public Relations at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Macalester Today by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Macalester Today WINTER 2007–2008 INSIDE: • Paying for college • On the campaign trail with Mac alumni • Mac’s historic football first A PASSION FOR Fashion Stephanie Lake ’96 preserves the legacy of ready-to-wear pioneer Bonnie Cashin. SEE PAGE 18 Macalester Today 14 WINTER 2007–2008 Features Paying for It 10 Why is a Macalester education so expensive? And how is the college helping students manage the cost? First and No Longer Forgotten 14 18 Don Hudson holds a special place in college football history. Macalester recently honored him for it. Never Say Never 16 Abe Woldeslassie’s rise from unknown to one of the league’s best is a testament to the power of persistence. A Passion for Fashion 18 Stephanie Lake ’96 has forged a career preserving the legacy of designer Bonnie Cashin. Picking a Winner 24 As the ’08 presidential race heats up, recent graduates dive in and get to work. 24 International Investment 30 On campus, the United World College Davis Scholars Programs is turning dynamic internationalism from theory into practice. PHOTOS (TOP TO BOTTOM): CHRIS EDWARDS, TRAVIS ANDERSON, DARIN BACK ANDERSON, DARIN TRAVIS CHRIS EDWARDS, BOTTOM): TO (TOP PHOTOS Staff DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE RELATIONS Doug Stone EXECUTIVE EDITOR Nancy A. Peterson MANAGING EDITOR Lynette Lamb ART DIRECTOR Brian Donahue CLASS NOTES EDITOR Robert Kerr ’92 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Jan Shaw-Flamm ’76 and Heather Stahl ’08 MACALESTER COLLEGE INTERIM CHAIR, 4 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Timothy D. Hart-Andersen PHOTO: DARIN BACK DARIN PHOTO: PRESIDENT Brian C. Rosenberg ALUMNI DIRECTOR Departments Gabrielle Lawrence ’73 ASSOCIATE ALUMNI DIRECTORS Carol Polk and Stephen Sporer Letters 2 Household Words 3 MACALESTER TODAY (Volume 96, Number 1) is published by Macalester College. Summit to St. Clair 4 It is mailed free of charge to alumni and Lilly vocational fellows; Chinese and Arabic classes; friends of the college four times a year. Circulation is 30,000. Mac terminology matching game; other campus matters Class Notes FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS, please write: 34 Alumni Office, Macalester College, Mac Weddings 38 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105-1899. Or call (651) 696-6295. Toll-free: 1-888-242-9351. In Memoriam 46 E-mail: [email protected] Grandstand 48 TO SUBMIT COMMENTS OR IDEAS, write: Macalester Today, College Relations, at the above address. Phone: (651) 696-6452. Fax: (651) 696-6192. E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.macalester.edu/alumni 40 ON THE COVER: Stephanie Lake ’96 in her home full of Bonnie Cashin fashion (photo by Travis Anderson) Letters Last word on those Journalism professor cabin. We don’t know if he ever used it, but moveable houses George Moses fondly every now and then we liked to imagine him Roger Dunnavan rightly remembers the house remembered swaying by his trout stream. being moved (back cover, Summer 2007) as fa- We were sad and shocked to learn that George miliar to his youth. It was 233 Macalester, two Moses died—sad because we never thanked STUART SMITH ’73 AND doors away from 223, where he once lived. My him enough for getting us into journalism, JUDY JOHNSON ’73 family moved into 233 Macalester in 1950 and and shocked because we thought he was al- Sarasota, Florida lived there until 1956. It was owned by the ready dead. We were among his first students, college and had previously housed students, almost 40 years ago. To us his baldness, sil- but when we arrived it became the new vice ver mustache, ever-present pipe, and gentle CORRECTION president’s house [Editor’s note: Caine’s fa- wisdom suggested unimaginable years spent In the fall 2007 issue of Macalester Today, ther was Macalester Vice President L. Vernon perfecting his craft. He was retired, after all. six faculty members were mistakenly identi- Caine]. Roger, his family, and their delightful Poor reporters that we were, we never asked fied as having retired from the college. Instead, dog were good neighbors. his age. Now we’ve done the math and real- Fabiola Franco, Joan Hutchinson, Kathleen Kutz- ize that when he taught us, he was younger ke Parson ’67, Norm Rosenberg, G. Michael Sch- ALAN CAINE ’58 than we are now. In our little circle at the Mac neider, and Paul Solon have entered the college’s Leiscester, Great Britain Weekly, Moses mentored future reporters for phased retirement program, known as the Macal- the Associated Press, UPI, and the Wall Street ester Senior Faculty Employment Option. Journal. He never got through to Charles M. Campus mental health Young, who still managed a pretty good liv- Thank you for highlighting an important is- ing writing for Rolling Stone and other maga- sue—the mental health of college students. zines. But surely he inspired Mark Beito, who Letters Policy I was pleased to read that Macalester has bought the Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch and ran We invite letters of 300 words or fewer. put into place a system to identify and refer it for many years before he wised up and be- Letters may be edited for clarity, style, and students to a broad array of campus mental came a lawyer. And though Weekly columnist space and will be published based on their health services. Not mentioned in the article, Carl Lumbly never succumbed to journalism relevance to issues discussed in Macalester but equally important, are the accommoda- after college, he built a fine career as an ac- Today. You can send letters by email to: tions colleges should provide to enable stu- tor. Moses often cringed at the subjects we [email protected]. Or: Letters to dents to continue their educations and main- chose for the Weekly, but he bit his tongue and the Editor, Macalester Today, College Rela- tain relationships. I also hope that Macalester guided us toward better language, sharper tions, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave., supports family involvement, both by having questions, and crisper storytelling. When he St. Paul, MN 55105-1899. students state who they want contacted in retired (again) we gave him a hammock for his the event of a psychiatric emergency and by encouraging students to allow this informa- tion to be shared with their families. Families, even when far away, can offer support to their children as well as valuable insights to the col- Macalester Today’s lege about their student. Even among this age group, mental illness continues to be a stigma- NEW LOOK tizing illness. The more we talk about it openly, We all need an update now and then, and the more acceptable it becomes to seek treat- Macalester Today is no exception. This issue ment early, when it can be most effective. represents our launching of a new design for the 21-year old magazine, as well as some re- SUE ABDERHOLDEN ’76 vised content, including a back-page essay. In Executive Director, National Alliance on both the magazine and its corresponding web Mental Illness Minnesota site we’re hoping to better reflect the energy, St. Paul, Minnesota diversity, and creativity that define Macal- ester students, alumni, faculty, and staff. But this is no one-way proposition. We’re count- ing on you to send in class notes, story ideas, and even an occasional essay. Contact me at [email protected]. Lynette Lamb Managing Editor, Macalester Today 2 MACALESTER TODAY Household Words Myths and Realities of the Macalester Endowment BY BRIAN ROSENBERG investment committee, or anyone else at the college. Indeed, throughout this period the Few things about Macalester are more broadly remainder of the endowment was prudently misunderstood than the size, history, and managed. function of the college’s endowment. Given Because of these restrictions, Macalester’s some of the attention recently directed to- endowment remained flat over the course of ward Harvard’s endowment—which has bal- a decade during which many college endow- looned to nearly $35 billion—this seems an ments tripled in value due to the run-up in the opportune time to address some of the perva- stock market. sive myths about Macalester’s far more mod- est endowment. MYTH #3: Macalester’s endowment con- tinues to include a good deal of Reader’s Brian Rosenberg MYTH #1: Macalester has the largest en- Digest stock. dowment of any liberal arts college in the Today the college owns almost no stock in those who will benefit from Macalester in the country. Reader’s Digest. An agreement reached in 2001 future. This was indeed the case—in 1992. At the time, following an investigation by the New York Overall, our endowment revenue funds largely due to the public sale of a small portion State attorney general turned over control of less than 40 percent of the college’s operat- of Reader’s Digest stock given to the college by the stock to the college, which then began an ing budget. The remainder comes from tuition DeWitt Wallace, Macalester’s endowment— orderly process of selling that stock and diver- and fees and annual philanthropic support. about $475 million—was larger than those at sifying its investment portfolio.