SPRING 2006

Grins at the Ends of the Earth

Karen Carney ’93 in the Antarctica. She and other “K” biology majors share a “Grinsource” called Paul Sotherland. When she chose Kalamazoo College, Young-jin Chang ’06 expected no more and no less than an excellent education. So the half-century-old story of courage and love connecting her family in Korea to her college in Kalamazoo has been a delightful surprise. During her freshman year Jin learned for the first time that, come June, she would not be the first of her extended family to graduate from “K.” That distinction belongs to her great aunt Kae-he Park-Chey, Class of 1958. When Jin learned about her great-aunt from her mother (who had heard the story from a relative during an annual family reunion in Seoul), she looked for her great-aunt’s photo in the 1958 Boiling Pot , the College’s yearbook. From that source she learned that her great aunt majored in philosophy and lived in Trowbridge Hall. Intrigued, Jin wished to learn more, and during last winter break’s trip home to Korea she met with her mother’s cousin (her great aunt’s daughter) to learn as much as she could about her great aunt Kae-he. “She was the fourth child and fourth daughter in a family that At home in would eventually grow to nine children—seven girls and two boys,” Korea, Young-jin says Jin. “Her father was not affluent enough to afford dowries for Chang ’06 (right) met with her all of his daughters. The first four girls came of college age shortly mother Moon-gu after the Korean War, which were difficult times for everyone in my (left) and her aunt Ke-won to country. learn more about her great “My great aunt’s father was not typical of his day. At that time aunt Kae-he, elementary school was considered higher education for women in who, unbeknownst to Korea, and the majority of women did not even complete that level. Kae-he’s father was very forward thinking, Jin, had and he valued education. He insisted his daughters complete secondary school and then go abroad to earn graduated from Kalamazoo college degrees. His oldest four daughters did just that.” College nearly Their affinity for foreign languages helped. In order to gain the opportunity to study in the United States, Korean students were required to pass an English exam given annually. On average only 10 students in the entire country passed the exam each year. Kae-he and her older sisters were among those students. Kae-he arrived at Trowbridge Hall with one small suitcase. She could not afford new clothes but she could afford to buy fabric off the bolt and make her own, which she did. The philosophy major focused her work particularly on Eastern philosophy. She also enjoyed art, fashion, and calligraphy. Jin learned from her aunt that Kae-he loved her undergraduate years at Kalamazoo College and spoke particularly of its peace and serenity. She worked very hard to improve her English and maintain a grade point average that would qualify her for a postgraduate scholarship. That work paid off. After graduation Kae-he entered the Art Institute of Chicago and began work on a Master’s degree in art. But here her life was to take a different path. At that time Jin’s great uncle, Jong-hyun Chey, was a student at the University of Chicago, majoring in chemistry. One day he saw Kae-he on her way to church. It was, says Jin, a case of love at first sight. The two began dating, though there was little time for that. Life was not easy for either of them. Each attended school, and both worked—she as a part-time secretary, and he in a factory. In the spring of 1959 they married. “This was very rare for Koreans at the time,” says Jin. “Most marriages were strictly prearranged. They must have loved each other very much. I learned that my great grandmother was not pleased when my great uncle wanted to marry someone he chose himself, but later she accepted the marriage and liked my great aunt a lot.” The yearbook Kae-he did not complete art school. After her husband graduated they graduation photo of Kae-he returned to Korea, where he took a position in his family’s business—the SK Park-Chey ’58 Corporation, a textile, energy, construction, pharmaceuticals, hotel, restaurants, and telecommunication enterprise that is today one of the four largest corporations in Korea. He also served in vital economic posts in the government of South Korea. The couple’s marriage was a great love story, says Jin. They raised three children—two boys, Tae-won and Jae-won, and Jin’s aunt Ke-won—and Kae-he traveled everywhere with her husband, which, according to Jin, was quite uncommon among Korean business and government executives. “My great aunt’s life wish was to someday own her own gallery,” says Jin. “And my great uncle had promised that one day she would. He fulfilled that promise 20 years after their marriage.” The couple also shared a passion for higher education and created a scholarship program that fully funds the college or graduate school expenses anywhere in the world for promising Korean students. Their last trip together turned out to be a return to the United States for surgical treatment of Jong-hyun’s lung cancer. “The day before his surgery my great aunt and great uncle walked together throughout the hospital corridors,” says Jin. “Apparently my great aunt had been feeling poorly and was very exhausted. She sat in the waiting room throughout her husband’s surgery. When word was brought to her of the operation’s success she went back home near the hospital. There, she collapsed and passed away.” For several days, family members kept the news of her death from her husband, for fear it would adversely affect his recovery. Eventually they had to tell him. “He was disconsolate,” says Jin, “and managed to live for only another year.” “My great aunt was a very elegant, patient, and admiring person,” adds Jin. “She was well known throughout Korea but very modest. Many people still miss her.” Jin carries on the family’s legacy at “K” in a very distinguished manner. She is majoring in economics and business and has a minor in Chinese. She is a member of the Asian Student Association and the Business and Economics Club, and she is president of the College’s Pre-Law Society. After she graduates this spring she plans to work for a year or two and then The wedding photo enter graduate school in a program that combines a master’s degree in business of Kae-he Park- administration with a law degree. She plans to pursue a career in international Chey and her husband Jong-hyun business. Chey, May 16, 6 0

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themselves for abuse that was inflicted upon them in a E issue particularly delighted me because of two articles system from which there was no escape. Healing always from my era at “K.” involves protecting victims from the perpetrator as well as from the cycle of blame. Walter Waring was on the faculty when I was there, so it was good to read about and see him, although I never While Dr. Grossman’s 1980 statement may today appear T had a class with him. I was “excused” from first year unethical in the extreme, it has in fact galvanized a comp and given the choice of taking Creative Writing— generation of his students to challenge authority in the a mistake, I realized later. In talking with other name of mental health for members of both genders. classmates who learned from Walter Waring, I

Better advocacy and protection for children has been T discovered that I missed some valuable education. the result, proving that from adversity can come gain and that what is taught in the classroom can have “The Power of Music” by Ruth Sollitt Williamson ’58 lasting impact upon students years later. was the article which excited me and which I have shared with a number of my musical friends. Ruth was E Pamela Harris Kaiser ’83 two years behind me, but we shared a number of musical activities. The college was so small then (400 P.S. students) that we pretty much got to know everyone to Also during Winter Quarter of 1981 a proposal for a some degree. Ruth and I were “Alpha Sigs” together. I program in women’s studies was brought before the R remember that Ruth wrote a new song for the Alpha faculty. I served as one of two student representatives Sigs because the old one was so awful and unsingable. on the Educational Policies Committee that year. Barely recovered from the epidemic of Bangkok Flu that swept Ruth’s article touched a chord in me because music has the campus that month, I dragged myself to the all- been a part of my life since I started singing in the faculty meeting. Keepers of the status quo argued children’s choir in church. I have not been a S vehemently that the academy as we knew professional musician, but music has always been very it would be changed forever if women’s studies was important to me, both as a listener and as a participant. included in the curriculum. By a strong majority, it At “K” I took piano my first year from Harry Ray, organ finally was included, to the infinite benefit of all. for three years from Henry Overley, sang in the a capella African Studies was well accepted as a “K” strength at choir and Bach festivals, and had a part in each of the this time. I will always admire the courage of those Christmas Carol Services during my four years there. I brave professors who faced the outrage of their never intended to be a church organist, but my love of opponents and voted to welcome once-silenced voices the organ led me to move from substituting in churches into the canon that is being written by voices of to being a regular church organist for 11 years. Since inclusion and dissent each day. then I have again been substituting wherever I have lived. So I have been grateful to Dr. Overley for my Professor Grossman responds … organ lessons, my enjoyment of playing, and my love of Bach! Dear Pamela:

Marylou (Howell) Crooks ’56 It is stunning and humiliating to think I might have said anything like “the only thing wrong with incest was female social workers’ responses to it.” I do not Dear Editor: remember ever believing that. I’m afraid I don’t have a clear memory of the lecture described in your letter, As an alumni living in New England, I appreciate news and I can find no lecture notes from it. I have two of my excellent former professors as included in your memories related to this topic. magazine. I found your recent article on psychology professor Bob Grossman’s recognition for innovative The first thing I remember is a client who had a teaching to be particularly evocative and contacted dramatic impact on me. She came to our hospital some of my former classmates to share the memories. because she almost died from a suicide attempt. She Some of us have since received advanced training in was a 32-year-old woman functioning in life and women’s studies, psychology, parenting, and dealing with the conflicts caused by sexual abuse until counseling. her therapist, over her objections, took action against the offending father. From the client’s perspective this Together, we recalled one of Bob’s more controversial made her responsible for “destroying” her family and classroom techniques. One day during a lecture in the guilt led her to think that life was not worth living. General Psychology, Bob stated that the only thing wrong with incest is female social workers’ responses to In this case I discovered that the therapist’s political it, which cause stress and economic damage to the position and simplistic, stereotyped understanding of the client’s situation took precedence over the client’s family, especially the male breadwinner. In response, I 6 0

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elected a different major, but a dear friend who N I R continued in psychology went on to become a skilled Whenever I discussed this case it was to warn students P S about not jumping to simplistic conclusions and to 3 (continued on page 4) watch out for their political positions coming before the In the case of you and your friend I am thankful you client’s needs. “The only thing wrong with incest was had your experience with women’s studies that the social worker’s response” would have been a grossly protected you from some of the negative effects of my exaggerated thing for me to have said based on this lecture. I can only hope that other students in that class case. The fact that several students remember me have had such palliative experiences in their education. saying anything like this represents a grave teaching S Professor Robert Grossman error on my part. To the Editor: My work with incest victims, from the very start of my career, always involved a struggle with the terrible I am not a fan of six-page, text-heavy articles in legacy of incest and the cycle of blame and self-blame

R . That said, I think the article on Russ Becker that often came with it. Therapy with these clients was LuxEsto (Winter 2006) is outstanding. Beyond Russ’s personal always hard work; they had to deal with the pain of experience there is a larger story involved here, and I being taken advantage of by one or ones they trusted. thought the writer, Jeff Palmer, did a masterful job of The complicity of others in a system of pressured conveying it and weaving Russ’s experiences into the silence and the avoidance of dealing with incest in our E larger picture both on the campus and in the nation. society were often major elements in this difficult Because of the story’s breadth, it took six pages to tell therapeutic process. No matter how “evocative” I might it, and Jeff did so without being redundant. Even try to be, I am very disappointed that I failed to though I have sat with Russ and heard him tell parts of communicate about the psychological difficulties these

T his story, I learned from Jeff’s article that there is much clients experienced directly from the incest itself. I don’t I did not know (nor did his family apparently!). I remember a single incest client that didn’t suffer from thought Jeff did a great job of unearthing all elements of these psychological difficulties. the story. Good reporting.

T One of the greatest challenges in teaching large classes, as I did in General Psychology for many years, was to Fred Jackson ’60 assure that all students came away with a clear understanding of what I was trying to communicate. And a letter to Conrad Hilberry from one of his seminar In later years, to overcome possible problems, I divided students: E large classes into smaller discussion groups, in which it was more likely to clarify potential misunderstandings Dear Dr. Hilberry: or misinterpretations. In my Lucasse talk I talked about how I was not a born teacher and that my strength in Back in the summer of 1974 I attended a week-long

L teaching was in continuously finding and correcting poetry seminar of yours at Kalamazoo College. I was teaching mistakes. the youngest one there, a high-school sophomore-to-be. That was some 30 years ago. Unbelievable! A second vague memory about the topic of incest is of a student approaching me after a discussion and saying Perhaps equally unbelievable: I went on to get an MFA that she felt I was discounting the victim’s experience in from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 1990—in poetry! my lecture. I told her that I was shocked by that What a long hard struggle it has been, my mule-headed response because it was the exact opposite of my intent. insistence on forging my own path. I realized that if I was deemphasizing the victim’s experience then I had to change the way I taught this Which I have done—creating a holiday (Menstrual topic. As I recall I did not teach this topic again. Monday) that women have actually been celebrating the past six years, after writing the poems in Traveling If I were to try to teach this subject today I think I Menstrual Show ; and painting a new American flag, after would write up the case I described above and ask writing a poem called “Flag.” students to read and discuss it in small groups. I would then have them share their impressions and from those I feel wonderfully reborn as a poet, having groped my try to build a deeper understanding of the complex way towards iambic pentameter, rhyming, and quatrains pressures these victims endure and the importance of in the past couple of years. Formerly recalcitrant, 40-, understanding the situation from their perspective. If 50-, and 60-line poems now flow! things worked out well, students might even come to see that the therapist’s mistake was life-threatening I just wanted to share this with you and reaffirm the because it was experienced by the client as a violation wonderful experience I had at Kalamazoo College for and an echo of the much greater violation of trust one week 30 years ago. perpetrated by her father. This would help focus blame much more clearly on the abuser. This format would Geneva Kachman also give me a better chance to recognize and correct teaching and learning errors. S R E T T E L — O T S E X U L 4 ON THE

History Through a Back Door: The Journey of Guoqi Xu

In the summer of 1990 Guoqi Xu had hoped to be riding a plane to America. But he hadn’t foreseen the effect of Tiananmen Square—the Chinese people’s massive grassroots pro-democracy demonstration in 1989 and the government’s violent suppression of it. Instead of beginning the fall 1990 semester as a Harvard graduate student, Guoqi found himself confined to China, denied a passport by the Chinese government, and wondering if he would ever be granted the opportunity again. “Many people, even today’s Chinese students, don’t fully understand that part of Chinese history,” says Guoqi, the Wen Chao Chen associate professor of history and East Asian affairs. “For them, the learning conditions for scholars and students during the time the country struggled to emerge from the dark shadow of the Cultural Revolution are unimaginable. And Tiananmen suggested the possibility of a new Cultural Revolution-type repression. So I thought Guoqi at the Great that maybe it was fine for Harvard to give my dorm room to Wall in 1985 somebody else, because I didn’t know when I could come. Maybe never.” Then for no reason apparent to him, on Christmas Eve, Guoqi received his passport from the Chinese government. He didn’t tarry! He hustled to the American Embassy, received a visa on the spot, and flew to the United States the following morning, Christmas Day, 1990, ready to resume his exploration of the past. When asked about the motive behind his study of history, Guoqi laughs and says, “Well, that’s quite complicated!” During China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76), the Communist government of Mao Zedong destroyed the country’s educational system. Of that time, Guoqi says, “Nobody would allow you to pursue education. But then, after that tragic decade, when the Chinese were finally allowed to pursue education, my motivation was to get to college.” Competition was intense, however, which made the road to a college education extremely difficult. “In my area I was the only student of a class of 100 who made it to college.” Guoqi also comments Graduate on the intricacies of exams over; time for Chinese college entry celebratory exams: “When you drink prepare you have to 6

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to study: natural R P science, humanities, or social science. I was determined to The Harvard S graduate student in 5 Amsterdam become a mathematician, which was part of the little more than dress it up. On the other hand, natural science examination.” political scientists accuse historians of being too That exam took place in early July. Three conservative. I love to work in both areas!” For his months before the fateful day, Guoqi changed his IAS class, Guoqi focuses on national identity and mind. “I became a student of humanities, not globalization in the modern world. because I suddenly discovered my love for history, Guoqi feels fortunate to play such an active role but because I did not have a choice.” The year for his in the college teaching environment. “Kalamazoo college entrance exam was 1980, just four short College is a wonderful place for people who enjoy years after the Cultural Revolution. Guoqi lived in a learning and interaction with students, and who also poor area of China, where the teachers were not as have a passion to test their own knowledge with qualified and could offer only limited assistance. His students. When I step into the classroom, I convey progress as a student had outstripped his natural this passion. And I think that even if my students science teachers’ subject mastery, and thus there was hate Chinese history or East Asian history, they no one to help him adequately study for his natural know at least somebody could get excited about it.” science examination. He became convinced that his As part of his regimen of continual learning to best chance for college was to choose another field. foster effective teaching, Guoqi recently published a “I thought I could teach myself to become a better book titled China and the Great War: China’s Pursuit student of humanities than I could teach myself to of a New National Identity and Internationalization become a better student of natural sciences.” (Cambridge University Press), the first book ever He may have been right: his humanities scores printed that takes an international history approach placed him number one in the entire county, and he to China’s role in World War I. He is presently doing should have been able to attend any college in China. research for his next book, which examines the link “But I had a serious problem,” he says. “My school between sports and China’s quest for national was so poor and backward that we did not have an identity and a role in a globalizing world. Guoqi is English teacher, and English grades were important very enthusiastic about that subject, and expects to for certain majors and universities. Even though my finish the book by the end of next year. grades qualified me to go to any college in China, I was not allowed to choose because I had not taken DOORWAYS English.” As a historian, Guoqi reads voluminously. But three After Guoqi settled in at an assigned university, small ancient books remain his favorites and serve as he immediately attempted to switch his major from his top reading recommendations for non-history history to creative writing. He made his case in majors (or for students who may not have majored writing to the school, but school officials declared in political science or international area studies). his proposal impossible. According to Guoqi, anyone who wishes to be wise, Guoqi laughs and says, “So after that I resigned happy, and a good citizen should read them for myself to history. It was not my first love. Even today, wisdom, inspiration, and creative thinking. The I sometimes think maybe I could become a better books are Zhuangzi, Analects, and The Art of War. mathematician. I think I have a better mind for There are many English versions available. math!” Zhuangzi compiles the work of the Chinese Regardless of subject, whether math or history, philosopher Zhuangzi (or Chuang-tzu, 369-286 Guoqi has a passion for teaching, the roots of which B.C.E.) and is one of the most influential texts of are connected to his past: “The kids in my generation Daoism. The book emphasizes the importance of did not receive a good education. So when I was individualism, independence, and freedom of frustrated with the teachers at that time, I had a thinking and behavior—good reading in light of the hidden ambition and motivation to try to be a good limits and regulations of today’s world, says Guoqi. educator.” Not only is he a dedicated teacher, but he Analects, a collection of Confucius’s (551-479 also loves to learn. Guoqi firmly believes that B.C.E.) sayings and conversations, is the best single teaching and learning are two sides of the same coin. source of Confucian wisdom and inspiration. “From “To be a good teacher, you have to be a good learner. this book, we can find that Confucius was fascinated You have to constantly re-educate yourself. If you are with culture, learning, and moral self-cultivation,” not a good learner, you are not excited about your says Guoqi. “He advised rulers and common folks field. Students are motivated to learn from a teacher that ‘what you do not want done to you, do not do to who wants to become a better learner.” Kalamazoo others,’ and he instructed us that ‘true gentlemen College is perfect for this teaching and learning don’t work for profit.’” duality. The Art of War is attributed to Sunzi (or Sun Zu), Along with history, Guoqi teaches classes in two a brilliant Chinese general who lived 2000 years ago. D A U

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L research, that they take historians’ hard labor and do 6 A Y EAR IN THE LIFE OF A SCHOLAR /T EACHER For Guoqi Xu , the Context” to the Wen Chao Chen associate professor of history and Foundation for Pacific Quest in Conjunction with the East Asian affairs, teaching and learning are opposite American Association for Asian Studies annual sides of the same coin. To be a great teacher requires conference. He also completes three essays— one to be a tireless learner. Tireless learning is “China:1789-1914,” “Opium War,” and “The Boxer expressed in a teacher’s scholarly work, which in turn Rebellion”—for Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914 inspires (in the root sense of that word: to breathe life (John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds.). into ) teaching in two ways. First, scholarly work reinvigorates the teacher’s enthusiasm for the subject JUNE – Guoqi leads a seminar on modern China for matter, and, second, it sends a critical message to the school teachers from the U.S. Midwest. Participants student: continual learning matters; in fact, any spend a week at Kalamazoo College and three weeks particular subject matter on any given day certainly in China. excited at least two persons—the scholar who posited the discovery and the teacher who is teaching it that AUGUST – His article “The First World War in very moment. Sometimes those two will be the same Chinese History” appears in The Twenty-First Century person. (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

The scholarly work of its teachers benefits Kalamazoo SEPTEMBER – Beijing’s Journal of World Politics and College by promoting it as a place where minds work Economy publishes Guoqi’s article “Soft Power and at the frontiers of knowledge, which is one important Hard Power in American Foreign Policy.” element of a stimulating intellectual climate. Such He delivers a paper “Sports and China’s promotion provides an important message for Internationalization” to the annual meeting of the prospective students and their parents and Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. prospective professors. OCTOBER – Guoqi signs a contract with Palgrave So what exactly does this work look like? Perhaps Macmillan (London) to write a long essay titled something like what follows—a list of Guoqi’s “Sport” for The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational scholarly activities for 2005. History.

FEBRUARY – His book China and The Great War: NOVEMBER – He delivers a lecture “Living With China’s Pursuit of a New National Identity and History in East Asia” to the 2005 colloquium Internationalization is published by Cambridge sponsored by the Joint Center for East Asian Studies University Press with high praise from reviewers. Like of the University of Missouri-St. Louis and this one from Ian Nish, London School of Economics: Washington University in St. Louis. “This is an important revisionist study offering many significant new insights on the history of China in the He completes his essay “Olympic Games: East Asia” period of the European War. It is by far the most for publication in Encyclopedia of the Modern World thorough and comprehensive study of this subject for (Oxford University Press). some decades.” The British Broadcasting System (BBC) interviews Guoqi’s article “Policy-making Based on Attraction of Guoqi on the issue of Spanish flu and its China Coercion: A Dilemma in American Foreign Policy” connection. comes out in the Beijing Journal of Contemporary International Relations. He delivers a lecture “Sino- U.S. Relations in Historical MARCH – The Chinese and Global Context” to the Historical Review (Vol. 12, Kalamazoo-Battle Creek No. 1) publishes his Chapter of the United article “China’s Great Nations Association. War: An Unwritten Chapter of World DECEMBER – Guoqi History.” completes revisions of his paper “Living History in APRIL – Guoqi presents Guoqi Xu and family (l-r): Margaret (14), East Asia” to be published “Sports and China’s who wants to be a biological in a special volume of Search for New National engineering scientist and attend MIT; Journal of American-East Julia (9) who loves creative writing, art, Identity in a Global math, and fashion design; Ann You, who Asian Relations.

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programs. But the fact that Kalamazoo R grab at the back of the head, that grin-before-the P College offers all these programs to nearly all S leap into something new and unexplored. They 9 our students, and that we build our on-campus get the job you want, and do realize that the curriculum around these experiences, makes our process matters as much as the end goal. Lately, I education unique and powerful.” have been obsessed with making my own career While studies have shown that Kalamazoo choices. The symposium reminded me that it’s all College students do not consider themselves about learning, discovery, and fun. What a great risk-takers upon matriculating, by gift!” commencement they often attribute becoming Paul calls this gift the “Fellowship in risk-takers—youth grown into adults who enjoy Learning.” meeting challenges—because of the mix of “Teaching is a noble enterprise,” he says. rigorous academics accompanied by the “There is an interaction between teacher and experiential components of the Kalamazoo Plan . student that ignites a fire in both and is then Study abroad, says Paul, has proven spread to others. It is a teacher’s role to focus especially transformative. “Adapting to new attention not only on what we teach but whom situations, learning to live with uncertainty, we teach. I learned from my own teachers that tolerating ambiguity, these are hallmark science, biology in particular, is a human outcomes of the study abroad experience.” enterprise rather than just a pile of facts and Mike Finkler gives a Paul is convinced that elements of the theories to be memorized, understood, and presentation as a Kalamazoo Plan play a role in instilling or enhanced. I learned that we can learn much by Sotherland biology enhancing a love of learning that has translated working with colleagues and students in this student. “One of my into a positive trajectory of increasing numbers endeavor called ‘the study of life.’” greatest memories of of postgraduate students emerging from Markus Boos, a graduate student at the Paul,” he says, “occurred Kalamazoo College. Kalamazoo College ranks in University of Chicago Medical Scientist Training during junior year animal the top 15 institutions in the country in students Program, adds, “The great thing about Paul is physiology class. We had that continue on to graduate school. that he is so accessible to students. This an exam that included the “Compared to their peers,” he says, characteristic came up again and again at the physiology of the urinary “Kalamazoo College graduates feel ‘adequately symposium, but it can’t be overstated. When I system and, ironically, a prepared’ in their first year of graduate school. I was a first-year student, he was very intimidating sizeable proportion of the think this reflects the fact that our students to me. He was essentially my first college class had to take spend most of their junior year away while their professor, and he seemed to know so much. Over bathroom breaks during peers at other schools are taking courses in their the course of the quarter, I saw that he really the exam. Paul noticed major. In the area of academic skills—research, cared whether we understood the material. When this stream of people reading, writing, and presentation—studies show I look back from where I stand today as a medical coming out of the lecture that Kalamazoo graduates consider themselves student, I really see his influence on my life. My hall and heading to the better prepared than average.” interest in medicine stems directly from my time bathroom. He wrote on The symposium provided evidence of just in Paul’s classes, and my research requires me to the chalkboard: ‘Next how effective the Kalamazoo Plan can be. Each apply, on a daily basis, principles that I learned in Physiology Exam: speaker concluded his/her presentation by those classes. Even some of my pursuits outside Laxatives.’” acknowledging how interactions with Paul had the lab have been influenced by him. Together we given them direction and taught them far more organized the triathlon my senior year, and that than they expected. got me running and biking a lot more (I was a Karen Carney, who now works on the swimmer in college); this past October I ran the Forestry Team of the U.S. Agency for Chicago marathon, and I don’t think I would International Development, says: “When I heard ever have done that prior to the triathlon at about Mike’s idea, I was thrilled. I thought it was Kalamazoo.” a fantastic way to show how much Paul has “To teach at Kalamazoo College,” Paul says, meant to so many of us over the years. At the end “is to have an impact on a large number of world of the day, I left the symposium with a real sense views, because we work very closely here with that we were all on the same team, all trying to our students. We help them develop a clearer build interesting, fun, and fulfilling lives. We had view of the world around them and thereby have each found our own way of doing that, and I had an impact on how they live their lives. When this this sense that we were cheering each other on.” is done with care, the results can be marvelous, The audience included alumni and current and our indirect influence on the intellectual Kalamazoo College students as well. Connections community can be enormous. All of us, our were made, perhaps new fires lit, between teachers and their teachers, our students and graduates and undergraduates. their students, are involved in this uniquely Karen says, “Having the opportunity to see human enterprise of learning and teaching, and our lives through the lens of an undergraduate we are connected, one generation to the next, was probably my favorite part. I totally got jazzed through relationships forged and ideas shared.” D

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X don’t make choices for other people, don’t be to pay respect to a remarkable teacher, then the U L afraid to try new paths, do take the initiative to legacy would be to continue and expand the 10 exchange of ideas and relationships. When Paul speaks of a fellowship in learning, he uses a symbol first fashioned by former Kalamazoo College President Allan Hoben (1922-1935), and he recalls the broad and enduring influence of Dr. Frances Diebold, professor emeritus of biology. “Through research being done by my colleague, Bob Stauffer in sociology and anthropology, I am “Just for Grins” learning about the early influences at the College and of the more recent effects of the Kalamazoo A Symposium in Honor of Plan ,” he says. “Providing an academically challenging and supportive environment is a long- Dr. Paul Sotherland standing tradition at Kalamazoo, extending all the way back to the College’s founders. A fellowship in Aaron Bommarito, “Imaging Science: learning captures this tradition and conveys a documents of printmaking and photography” compelling message about who we are today and Markus Boos, “Just for Grins: How Dr. who we need to continue to be in the future. Are Sotherland made 8 years of graduate education there ways to make this ‘Fellowship in Learning’ sound like a good idea” more palpable, bring it closer to the surface, so that it will help guide our decisions and actions?” Sarah Bouchard, “Nutritional ecology of A part of learning is continuing to ask freshwater turtles” questions. Scientists know that every new discovery and every enhancement made on a previous Karen Carney, “Penguin guano, tropical discovery begins with asking questions and testing soil, and public policy: A few of many ways to the many possibilities. get your hands dirty in science” Paul adds, “A college education is not acquired, Tara Darcy-Hall, “Beyond Pond Scum: The or given, or purchased; it is built, piece by piece by beautiful (and occasionally dangerous) world apprentices working with and learning from of algae” mentors. All of us—faculty, administrators, support staff, facilities management staff, trustees, and Edward Dzialowski, “Developmental students—are in this endeavor together. And all of physiology of the avian ductus arteriosi ” us ought to feel mighty good about our collective Michael Finkler, “Sex-related differences handiwork.” Good enough to grin from ear to ear. But a grin in metabolic rate and stored energy reserves in is never about resting on one’s laurels, thinking spring-breeding amphibians” you’ve learned enough. It’s more like the sound of a Tess Killpack and Brock Selbo, “A change starter’s pistol. In the midst of serious scientific of heart in developing birds at the onset of discussion, a sudden spark would appear in the endothermy” professor’s eye. A grin would spread across his face. “Just for grins,” he would say, “let’s consider this David Marcinek, “Mitochondrial function in possibility…” vivo : Integrating cell and organismal And the class knew—they were about to physiology” embark on a new tangent, a new discovery, another Timothy Muir, “Hypometabolism induced adventure. by urea in a terrestrially-hibernating frog” Mairi Noverr, “Perturbations in host microbial communities influence development of allergic disease” Wendy Reed, “A study of maternal effects in the American coot” Jeffrey Wilson, “Behemoths at the beach: fossil footprints and sub-aqueous locomotion in sauropod dinosaurs”

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The group evolved Kalamazoo College campus some 30 years ago into the first steering committee for what would for her preliminary meeting with the English eventually become the Women’s Studies program. department, as she recounts in the above excerpt Before the formation of the program, a from her first book, Calling: Essays on Teaching in handful of woman-centered courses were taught the Mother Tongue . It was 1976 when those six in a variety of departments: in English; “Women men marched downstairs to meet her. She was in Cross-Cultural Perspective” in anthropology; a twenty years younger than the youngest of the few courses on women’s history in history; “20 th six, and she didn’t particularly want the tenure- Century Art,” which included work by women track position they were discussing. It was, after artists, in art; a first-year seminar called “Women all, in Michigan. And she would be the only and Literature”; and sometimes “Psychology of woman in the department. Women” in psychology. However, nothing bound Griffin loathed the idea of returning to her these courses together into a cohesive home state to teach for “some godforsaken four- concentration of study. year school with a name only a comedian could During Griffin’s third year as assistant love.” Having just graduated from the University professor, the steering committee designed a of Virginia—where name-dropping was capstone course that would unite the existing synonymous with success—the thought of courses and help students draw connections teaching at an unknown college meant clear and between fields. This course would cover present failure, even though the school offered historical feminist texts; sociological, her a tenure-track position in her field of psychological and political ideas about gender; expertise: Victorian literature. Penn State and art that dealt with gender-related ideas and University had interviewed her for a position that imagery. In order to achieve the depth the course she would have accepted, if it hadn’t changed the deserved, it would span the entire senior year. job description at the last minute. Griffin Objections arose from faculty and students alike. grudgingly accepted the job in Michigan. But she One member of the English department asked made a vow to herself not to stay more than two the committee, “Who is qualified to teach such a years at such a “strange” and little-known school. course, since one cannot teach John Stuart Mill At the time, Kalamazoo College still operated without a thorough grounding in his historical on the year-round calendar that was initially part and philosophical milieu?” Mill, a Victorian, of the Kalamazoo Plan . It also had a policy of lived in a social context with which Griffin was mandatory dormitory residency for all on- intimately familiar. In order to understand her campus quarters, and sent its sophomores into specialty, Victorian literature, she had become career internships and its juniors on what was familiar with the social context—the historical then called “foreign study.” Over time, Griffin and philosophical milieu—in which the literature came to realize “that the College seems so was created. strange because it’s so different than where I was After months of debate, the College faculty educated.” Somehow, despite her determination approved the course, and it was taught the to move on to a more renowned university, she following year. At that point, Griffin had a vested “fell in love” with the “strangeness” of the interest in staying at the College. She directed the Kalamazoo Plan . Women’s Studies program for nearly 20 years, This shift from loathing to loving happened from its inception until the year 2000. Its gradually over Griffin’s first two years of formation changed the face of academics at the teaching. Coming from a school where lecture College and greatly influenced her decision to halls are routinely crammed with 300 or more stay. students, she had to constantly remind herself Griffin has also been instrumental in a vast that at “K” a large class numbered 30 students. shift within the English department. The Professors came to know their students very well. department now consists of five women and two And although she found the level of personal men, most in their 30’s and 40’s. “Now I’m the attention students received somewhat shocking old one,” she says. The demographic change is at first, she came to value it greatly. mostly due to normal attrition: many of the She also believes that because of the school’s professors hired in the early 1960s retired in the small size “life is not determined by your 1990s, so the College snatched up a crew of department. People make friends across all younger professors. Today, more than half the departmental boundaries. I had close friends in faculty at the College has been hired in the last 6 the library and the registrar’s office, for example.” eight years. 0 G N I

This simply didn’t happen at University of The men who left in the ’90s had kept the R P Virginia. English curriculum “very much as it had been in S 13 the ’60s. Meanwhile a revolution in English beyond traditional boundaries between the curriculum was taking place all over the country,” mainstream and the marginal has changed the face says Griffin. After the retirements, revolution swept of not only her own department, but the campus in, with Griffin at the forefront. She now considers community as a whole. The existence of the the English department “one of the most progressive Women’s Studies program and the evolution of the departments on campus.” teaching philosophy of the English department owe The department looks for candidates who a great deal to her daring. She says of writing, “The believe in the same basic philosophy of teaching: older I get, the less respect I have for boundaries. “anti-authoritarian, student-centered, discussion- Most of the interesting writing that anybody’s done based teaching with high levels of structure, but also in the history of human endeavor has been at and freedom to move within that framework,” she says. across the boundaries.” She describes the English department’s approach to learning as “a complex three-way relationship between professor, student, and text,” as opposed to Four for Non-majors the authoritarian model that demands the top-down Dissimilar majors aren’t strangers at Kalamazoo “transmission of knowledge” from professor to College. That’s partly due to the College’s size and student. “The point is the intensity of the three-way mostly due to its liberal arts curriculum—after all, relationship, and sometimes that intensity spurs a with area of study requirements (known as wonderful transformation in both students and “distribution requirements” to older alumni) a teacher,” she adds. physics major may read Gravity’s Rainbow and an Lately, the revolution in the English department English major may study the law of gravity. has expanded to include more creative writing. LuxEsto asked Gail Griffin to name her top three Diane Seuss ’78—Kalamazoo College’s writer-in- books for non-English majors curious about the residence, and Griffin’s best friend—has been discipline. Her response: “Just three? Impossible.” instrumental in this change and has received her She suggests the following four books for students of friend and colleague’s support and encouragement. other disciplines who nonetheless have an interest Griffin creates writing assignments that in English literature. encourage students to write beyond the boundary of academic and creative writing. Students in her Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte classes often encounter creative essay assignments “Still the all-time best account of passionate, hungry that require critical thinking and its creative girlhood wandering a bleak patriarchal landscape. application to the subject matter. For example, she Bronte captures the crux of the dilemma of love may ask students to write a new final chapter, and versus self-respect in such a compelling way that it thus change the ending—arguably the most speaks very clearly and directly to young women of important part—of a novel they’ve just finished the millennium. And, of course, the novel gave us reading. one of the metaphors most sacred to feminists, the In her own writing, Griffin crosses traditional madwoman in the attic.” boundaries. While writing her first book, Calling , she thought she was “inventing this new form of Beloved , Toni Morrison writing.” Unaware that other people were “I used to think the Great American Novel was experimenting with this seemingly new genre that chimerical—until I read this book. A brilliant was somewhere between the academic and the experiment in narration, it faces unflinchingly the personal, theory and reflection, she felt alone in the great wound in the American psyche, the legacy of endeavor. This form of writing has earned the title slavery and our national penchant for forgetfulness— creative nonfiction (see sidebar on page 15 for a and it does so through the body, mind, and heart of a recent example), and Griffin now teaches a course in woman and her daughters. It haunts me like the title writing it. “‘K’ enabled me to discover a type of character haunts her mother.” writing outside traditional boundaries,” she says. Her recent scholarly writings explore the Middlemarch , George Eliot emerging field of Critical Whiteness Studies. This “This book functioned something like a Bible for me field centers on the idea that racism is a white in college and graduate school. An almost scientific problem, and that only by examining the privileges look at the dynamics of a small community at an and consequences of whiteness can white people historical turning point, it prepared me well for life begin to create positive change. Griffin writes about at Kalamazoo College. George Eliot’s great theme— the “panic over race” endemic to white people, the moral agency and responsibility of individuals in which she has seen in the reactions (and resistance) relation to one another—had a profound impact on of white students to assignments that require them my own moral sense.” to write about their whiteness or to discuss literature D

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“They can’t explain why rainbow trout have appeared in Spirit Lake.” —news report on Mt. St. Helens, ten years after

1. They have their theories. One is an underground river. Another posits some tough specimen, some evolutionary militant surviving against all odds, holding still deep in the mud, gills barely flaring, pulling in trace wetness until the years did their work. Either way there’s magic of a sort, or miracle if you will. That lake was pronounced dead; we all saw the pictures: a hissing bowl of sludge in a grayed-out post-apocalyptic landscape, color doused like flames. Now in the slowly clearing water, a quick tail, a flash of pink, green, silver.

2. He likewise saw it as a promise, the captain of that floating zoo. Standing on deck with a giraffe or two, he watched that band of color arc above the flood like a truce flag or the track of some great hand waving away the past. After the keel plowed into Ararat’s flank and things had dried out, he joined the talk of forgiveness and new covenants. But in evening, when he sat by himself, watching the water’s slow retreat down the mountainside, he felt it all around him, the benign, if not divine, forgetfulness infused in all things. Even now the count of couples hopping, slinking, creeping up the gangplank slipped away from him. Soon, he knew, he would forget the press of them, the warm stink, the bleats and snarls of fear and hunger and annoyance, textures and shades of fur and feathers, fin and scale and horn. And they have forgotten already, he mused, the terrible rocking, the sickness and stench, predator and prey wedged into intimacy . Now, he thought, watching a she- wolf trot along a ridge with five shambling pups, they remember nothing but their own natures and hungers . His tired eyes turned out to the water, where suddenly the sunlight broke on a flashing arc of silver-pink. The fish , he laughed. The only ones I couldn’t save. What salvation could they use? Why should they care if it’s fire next time, the fish, with nothing to remember or forget. The fish, who cannot close their eyes. 6 0 G N I R P S 15 miss the friendly atmosphere I remember from the States, especially in Paris,” she says of her Global Grads decision to live overseas. She does, however, feel incredibly lucky that her job has taken her to so many exotic places and allowed her to meet Fueled by a passion for travel—and a many interesting people. “Not to mention that Kalamazoo College degree—three alumni the world of nuclear energy has it all,” she says. have parlayed their natural curiosity for “Technology, economics, politics, sociology—the foreign cultures into distinguished careers subjects range from arcane issues of metallurgy and diverse lives abroad. to more sweeping questions of nonproliferation and development.” Mark McDonald ’73 has While McDonald and MacLachlan have made experienced a re-entry names for themselves in the competitive world of jolt—actually two: college journalism—McDonald has won a Pulitzer Prize; life and the United States. MacLachlan was awarded the rank of knight in The veteran foreign the Legion of High Honor on the correspondent has by now recommendation of France’s former environment begun to nestle nicely into minister—another Kalamazoo College alumna is the college town of Ann just beginning her career in foreign locales. Arbor, Mich. (a sleepy place Stephanie Frye ’98 resides in Lund, Sweden, by “McDonald Standards” where she teaches Spanish, French, and German. for he has yet to be the Before that, she served as the United States target of automatic weapons Embassy Relations Specialist for the American fire), where he serves as the Chamber of Commerce in Copenhagen, University of Michigan’s Denmark. “Our members were American Howard R. Marsh Visiting companies operating in Denmark and Danish Professor of companies with business interests in the Communications Studies America,” explains Frye. Her daily tasks included for the 2005-06 academic year. But it’s not organizing events, policy work, and writing difficult to understand why McDonald, who is articles for in-house publications. Like McDonald currently on leave from his position as the and MacLachlan she has always felt more at Moscow bureau chief for the Knight Ridder home abroad than in the U.S. “If you travel 1,000 Newspapers chain, initially found the routines miles in Europe, you encounter a multitude of and structured schedules of academia a bit of different cultures, languages and histories. I love an adjustment. During his three years in that!” Moscow, the journalist has reported from These three graduates’ responsibilities and (Top) locales throughout Russia, Eastern Europe, and experiences may differ vastly, but many of the Mark McDonald Central Asia; he has completed tours in requirements for their respective jobs are quite (Center) Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, and Iraq; and similar. A sense of adventure and willingness to Ann MacLachlan prior to accepting the post in Moscow, he spent travel are givens, but there is also the fluency (Bottom) four years covering the news in Hanoi, Vietnam. factor. McDonald speaks French, Spanish, Stephanie Frye McDonald has survived ambushes in Northern Vietnamese, Russian, Korean and limited Arabic; Iraq and Afghanistan and has traveled and MacLachlan is fluent in French, functional in worked in 87 countries. Needless to say, Ann German and able to read Spanish and Italian Arbor is sure to prove a startling change of pace newspapers; Frye is learning Danish and can for one accustomed to living such a thrill-a- speak solid French, German, Spanish and minute existence. Swedish. Says Frye, “I like the challenge of not “Coming back to the States has been understanding 100 percent of what people are alternately fascinating, troubling, puzzling and saying all the time. I enjoy figuring it out.” She engaging,” says McDonald. He notes the shifts in intends to expand her linguistic horizons by political climate in his native country and mastering a language that requires her to learn a indicates that he would eventually like to move new alphabet. McDonald also stresses the his family to Paris. “If I had to choose, I’d rather importance of remaining current on political, live overseas,” he adds. economic, social, and cultural issues in multiple Should McDonald make it to the City of countries—and MacLachlan and Frye heartily Lights, he might want to look up Ann concur. MacLachlan, a fellow journalist and Kalamazoo Paying close attention to global politics, College alumna (Class of 1968). MacLachlan has economies and cultures is nothing out of the D A O

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E destinations across the continent, Asia, and X experience in Ibadan, Nigeria, whetted his U L Africa to conduct research and interviews. “I appetite for foreign travel, while his internship at 16 The New York Times cemented a post-graduation job offer. “In a sense, I owe my career to the College,” he remarks. MacLachlan, who spent her study abroad quarter in Caen, France, shares similar sentiments. “My education T h helped prepare me for this life. The international e a u t atmosphere of ‘K’, despite it being a very small college, was h o r , so motivational, as were the courses and the professors.” B e t h

Frye, a veteran of the College’s Madrid program, offers up H a a equally glowing praise of the Kalamazoo College s , i n experience. “I came out of college more well-rounded and P r a g open-minded than the average liberal arts grad. Kalamazoo u really broadened my horizons as a person and showed me e that life is livable anywhere you set your mind to.” Author’s Postcard from Prague Confirms This is not to suggest that transitioning to a foreign The Lure of Living Overseas country is an easy process. McDonald and Frye cite lack of employment opportunities for Americans and visa issues as In the closing paragraph of his book “Prague,” frustrating obstacles. “Newspapers, television networks, and Arthur Phillips portrays the capital city of the other outlets have been steadily slashing their foreign Czech Republic as a place steeped in history and coverage,” says McDonald. Frye says that “having a career in the humanities can be difficult for a young American— magic: “A land of spires and toy palaces…a especially when there are often hundreds of locals that can village of cobblestone and stained glass unlicked do the same job you can.” MacLachlan had an easier time of by cannon, and that fairytale castle floating finding work (“I was sent to France by a former employer, a above it…a city where surely anything is competitor of the publications I work for now; when this possible.” For a little more than a year I have position became available, I switched.”) but found the lived two Metro stops from that “fairy tale” reserved attitude of many French toward foreigners castle. I came to the “Golden City” to become daunting. “That and Parisian traffic!” she laughs. certified in teaching English as a foreign But with the right mix of patience, international savvy, language. I am currently the Head Teacher at a and resolve, anything is possible. Frye simply refused to pre-school on the outskirts of Prague. My stay is come home until she had secured a job. One year and nearly indefinite. The recent death of my father has 80 applications later she landed her position at the Chamber of Commerce. “It is much easier to get your foot in the door brought the urgency of life sharply into focus. I if you are physically ‘there,’ have local contacts and have a lot to accomplish while I’m abroad. connections, and understand the local culture.” She I don’t believe I ever would have had the encourages Kalamazoo graduates who are interested in courage to pack my entire life into two suitcases international employment to use the “K” career network to and move to another country if not for my their advantage and to build up a strong international experiences at Kalamazoo College. My foreign resume through unpaid internships. “There are many study quarter in Cambridge, England, was an international businesses and organizations in the European awakening of an adventurous and confident part Union that offer valuable internships,” she advises. of myself that had, for most of my life really, lay For the time being, neither MacLachlan nor Frye have dormant. I always knew that I wanted to return plans to return to the United States. MacLachlan says, “I to this side of the Atlantic. And now that I have, have always thought that once one has lived abroad for a significant period of time—several months at least—that a dammed current of creativity and self- one can never go ‘home’ again or that one is never fully assuredness has burst forth—the likes of which I American again, nor ever fully a foreigner. But you are a have not experienced since my days as a student better person for it, you are enriched with a greater insight on the Kalamazoo College campus. I have been and are more critical of both your homelands.” thrust back into a society that places a great McDonald, who has indeed trained a critical eye on his value on literature and art and music and have homeland’s political polarization and other “striking and found that I flourish when not behind a desk. profound” changes, still can’t deny that he’s relishing the There are challenges: I miss my family; the calm of Ann Arbor. “As a foreign correspondent you are on Czech language is difficult for me; the post- call 24/7. There isn’t much time for relaxation or hobbies,” Communist Czech Republic is becoming rapidly he says. And while he plans to do some fly-fishing and learn Westernized while, ironically, the attitude toward the Blues harp while stateside, that wandering spirit he discovered during his years at Kalamazoo won’t allow him foreigners, especially Americans, is one of to stay put for too long. “During my time here I’m also reluctant tolerance. Yet fully immersing myself in going to fix up a run-down beach house—on the Sea of this fascinating culture has proven a positive Cortez in Mexico.” move toward certain personal growth. I learn something new every day—and thanks to my Kalamazoo College learning experience, I feel at home in the world. 6 0 G N I R

– Elizabeth Haas P S 17 Cool Careers: Gretchen Parsons ’95 Genetic Counselor

The Parsons family: Emma, Gretchen, and husband Andrew

fter several years, memories of high school biology fade for most people. Not Gretchen Parsons ’95. She easily recalls the epiphany she experienced when her high school biology Ateacher returned to class after a conference, the day he spoke of that conference and in particular about a presentation on genetic counseling. Gretchen was so intrigued by this cutting edge blend of science and psychology that on her own she contacted the genetic counselor that had presented at the conference. “I knew I had found something special,” Gretchen said. Genetic counselors analyze inheritance of genetic diseases, assess the risk of transmission of genetic anomalies, review and discuss the latest available testing options, and provide prenatal and postnatal counseling to their patients. Most patients are referrals from primary care physicians. On a typical day, Gretchen might discuss testing a fetus for a genetic disorder, screen prospective parents for their likelihood to pass to their child or children a congenital disease, or counsel families of a baby or child with an inherited disorder. Genetic counselors

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T unlock the cognitive processes required for E N E informed decision-making, Gretchen breaks G down complicated genetic and medical terms so — O T S E X U L 18 that individuals with limited understanding of to families who, in many cases, genetics but, oftentimes, an unlimited emotional receive very difficult news and stake in the medical issue at hand can understand have a limited understanding of complicated concepts. genetics.” From that day in high school biology class A parent herself, Gretchen understands the Gretchen knew she wanted to pursue a career in the expectations and fears of new parents. In fact, her sciences. She chose Kalamazoo College because she knowledge of genetics may have made her more nervous expected its preparation of undergraduate students in than most during her pregnancy with her first child. the natural sciences to be rigorous and also to be, “Throughout my pregnancy with Emma I was studying importantly even if somewhat paradoxically, diverse for Boards. As I was systematically reviewing the and specialized. She also was attracted to the school’s information on each disorder, I thought to myself, ‘Wait study abroad program. A Heyl scholar and a health a minute, we can’t see this on an ultrasound! And we science major, Gretchen shaped her Kalamazoo Plan can’t test for that disorder…’ I was a little nervous. But to be flexible yet at the same time targeted to the the experience of having my own child and having medical career she thought she wanted. coped with those pre-parturition concerns about Emma’s By her sophomore year at Kalamazoo College, genetic health helps me understand and relate to the she had already spent several years volunteering in patients I see everyday.” the Kalamazoo Regional Genetics Clinic, solidifying her familiarity with and interest in the field. During her Career Development internship at the Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies/Education, Gretchen participated in a program designed for undergraduates to explore the practice of medicine before deciding if they wanted to attend medical school. “That internship made me realize I was not cut out for medical school and the demands afterward,” she says. “But that realization was fine because it encouraged me further into genetic counseling.” Gretchen studied abroad in Scotland. Back in the United States, in her senior year, she wondered whether her interest in genetics might be cultivated in a manner more satisfying if she pursued a career in bench Gretchen and her classmates from 1995 meet annually for a “Girls Weekend” to catch up and have fun. Shown here at the 2005 research. To test this hypothesis she conducted her gathering in Newport, RI are: Sara (Howard) Amy, Barb Sheehy, Amie Senior Individualized Project at the Upjohn (Breithaupt) Byholt, Gretchen, Erin (Miller) Dominniani, Aimee Company. She studied E-coli and DNA in the (Santimore) Clancy and Amy (Butera) Koffler. company’s molecular genetics lab. “It was a wonderful experience,” says Gretchen, “but I learned Gretchen and her husband Andrew welcomed to that a research laboratory wasn’t the place for me.” the world their second daughter, Ainsley Elaine, on Her “place” since graduating from Kalamazoo January 24. Even though their family is growing, College has been working more directly with people Gretchen figures to stay in genetic counseling in the field of genetic counseling. After completing a indefinitely. It is the field that she loves. “Genetics is two-year Master’s degree program in molecular, constantly changing, and no two days are ever the cellular, developmental biology and genetics at the same,” she says. “I have been blessed with meeting many University of Minnesota, Gretchen began her first wonderful individuals throughout my career, and their genetic counseling position at Columbus (Ohio) appreciation for what I have done for them keeps me Children’s Hospital, where, for almost three years, going.” she counseled families in four separate clinics Looking back, Gretchen feels that Kalamazoo specializing in cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, Down’s College met or exceeded her expectations. “I was syndrome, and general genetics. able to study abroad in Scotland, major in a Today, she is a prenatal genetic counselor with discipline that prepared me for a field in which I was the Center for Maternal Fetal Medicine, Ultrasound interested, refine the focus of those interests with and Genetics at Miami (Ohio) Valley Hospital. field-related explorations during my SIP and career Gretchen explains testing and testing options and internship, and still graduate in four years,” she says. counsels families who have received diagnoses of “My husband and I occasionally compare his genetic disorders. In her work, Gretchen encounters education at a Big Ten school and mine, including people struggling with the knowledge that their the extracurricular things I was able to do that he

‘perfect’ baby may not be as they had imagined. “My didn’t. I certainly hope our children have the 6 0 G N work is equal parts genetics and psychology. I must opportunity to attend a school like Kalamazoo I R P know the disorders, but I also must be able to relate College.” S 19 Building Allies

hen Melissa Bullard ’96 first came to Kalamazoo College, she’d never thought much about whether she was an ally for gay people. In fact, she hadn’t given much thought at all Wto the lives and issues of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, or transgendered people. That all changed during a resident assistant (RA) training session Bullard attended her sophomore year, during which she met some gay and lesbian students. That encounter eventually launched her toward graduate work and a career in which she has advocated against bias and for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) persons. “The Student Development office set up an informal discussion during which gay and lesbian students were invited to talk openly with the RA staff,” recalled Bullard, who majored in psychology. “The students shared experiences about themselves and their families, about coming out, about having crushes, and falling in love. That had such an impact. Instead of focusing on differences, I really connected emotionally with what these students were saying and realized how similar we were as human beings.” When Bullard went on to earn her Master’s degree and Ph.D. in counseling psychology at Western Michigan University, she felt very comfortable around her professors and fellow students who were openly gay. She also wanted to be supportive of students who might not be secure yet with their sexuality, but she didn’t really know how to signal that availability. As a graduate assistant in WMU’s Women’s Resources and Services office, she heard about a program that sent panels of speakers around campus to talk about LGBT issues. They were looking for so-called “heterosexual allies”—straight people supportive of those who are not straight and willing to advocate for them. Bullard eagerly volunteered. After training on how to be an effective ally, Bullard began speaking on panels. Those groups included a rotating group of students, usually one ally and three or four people who were gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered. “I heard dozens and dozens of people tell their stories,” Bullard D

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U accepted by friends because of whom they happened to love seemed B ridiculous and tragic to me. Those personal stories motivated me to — O T S E X U L 20 BECOMING AN ALLY be a better ally.” Melissa Bullard suggests several ways But Bullard is gauging the For Bullard, being a good ally a person can become an ally for group and waiting for the right meant steering much of her research and lesbian, gay, bisexual, or time. work toward sexual-orientation and ally transgendered people: “In some small way, my issues. She spent a year as a pre-doctoral • Challenge misinformation or reticence to talk about allies intern at Ball State University, where she stereotypes gives me empathy for how hard trained students, staff, and faculty to • Request and organize training and it is for gay people to come out,” participate in a “Safe On Campus” professional development at your said Bullard. “If I talk about my initiative. Popular on campuses around workplace specialty area, it’s reasonable to the nation since the early ’90s, safe • Include sexual orientation when anticipate that some people may programs identify straight people talking or writing about diversity react negatively. If they get to wanting and willing to be allies. and inclusiveness know me as a person first, there’s In 1998, during the first year of her • Respect a person’s right to disclose a better chance that they’ll doctoral program, she wrote a paper on (or not) their sexual orientation actually listen to my opinions on heterosexual allies. A professor took allies.” Use language that is inclusive note and invited her to serve on a • Even though she had yet to Speak out against homophobic research team studying gay and ally • broach ally issues with the issues. That experience led her to her remarks or jokes networking group when she dissertation topic: an examination of • Let people know you are an ally talked with LuxEsto , Bullard is LGBT perspectives on heterosexual • Learn about people who are not reaching out in other ways. She’s allies. heterosexual through books, written for a newsletter Among the questions Bullard asked movies, music, and educational published by Friends North , an in her research was, “What makes an events LGBT non-profit group in ideal ally?” Ideal allies, her subjects • Join organizations, advisory Traverse City. And in August of reported, are motivated in their hearts to boards, or task forces that address last year, Bullard decided to improve the lives of others—and are not issues surrounding sexual present her dissertation work in motivated by a desire to simply look orientation and inclusiveness Traverse City. She reserved a good to their colleagues or friends. They • Seek funding for initiatives that room at a local college and was understand how oppression works and matter to people who are lesbian, pleased with the turnout of they advocate for other oppressed gay, bisexual, or transgendered about a dozen people. Several of groups as well. • Write letters to politicians and the people in the audience were But mostly, Bullard heard, great administrators in support of people teachers, which started Bullard allies take action. They report whose sexual orientation is not thinking about new ways to discrimination, and they confront heterosexual and the initiatives that implement safe programs. people who make inappropriate are important to them “Safe programs have been comments. • Become a member of the Human popping up all over college “It’s not enough to have a positive Rights Campaign (www.hrc.org) campuses, but I think it would attitude and, when somebody tells a be great if we could get these homophobic joke, limit yourself to programs into the high schools coping with the sick feeling in your and junior high schools,” said stomach and thinking to yourself, ‘That’s not funny,’” Bullard. Since her presentation, Bullard has been working Bullard said. “An ideal ally will speak up and say, ‘That’s with counselors at high schools in the Traverse City area. not funny! What you’re talking about is a stereotype.’ And She expects that several safe programs could be up and the ally will do that even in situations where that opinion running this year . will not be welcome.” Bullard is also making herself available to area Bullard completed her doctoral degree in 2004. After churches and companies as a trainer on LGBT and ally graduation, she began private practice as a psychologist in issues. Issues like same-sex marriage and domestic partner Traverse City, Mich. There she found that LGBT issues are benefits have made headlines in recent years, and she sometimes overlooked, and she encountered more wants to teach new allies how they can be genuinely difficulty connecting with other allies. supportive. She may also launch a support group for Bullard means to change those conditions. people struggling with issues of sexual orientation. She recently joined a networking group and meets “I would really like to become recognized in this periodically with other professionals from a variety of community as a safe person for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and fields. Part of their regular program includes a 60-second transgendered individuals, and I want to help create other “commercial” highlighting some aspect of their work. pockets of safety,” said Bullard. “If you went to a grocery Bullard knows she should talk about her ally work. She store in Traverse City and asked 10 people what a wants to talk about her ally work, so that her new contacts heterosexual ally is, I’d be surprised if anyone knew what can refer people struggling with sexual orientation issues it meant. We’re mostly starting from scratch here, but it’s 6 0 G N to her practice. really important work, and I believe we’ll succeed.” I R P S 21 and Bob had good reasons for choosing municipal law. “I really didn’t want to do criminal or corporate law,” he said. “I took a course in local government law at Cornell, and I enjoyed it very Home Ties much. It intrigued me that it is the kind of law that can make a difference. That’s not to suggest In Kalamazoo College that you don’t make a difference doing other lingo, Bob Cinabro ’70 types of law, but you can work for a municipality was a “townie.” As a and hopefully make life better in the community matter of fact, you might that you were raised in. I was interested in the say that the recently community; I was interested in how enacting retired Kalamazoo city codes could better the quality of life in the attorney has been one community.” nearly all his life. Bob was also set on returning to Kalamazoo A townie, of course, to put his degrees to work. is a “K” student from “My Midwest roots were pretty self evident Kalamazoo who lives at to me when I got to New York,” he said. “I didn’t home. Bob was born and have much doubt that I was going to come back raised in Kalamazoo and, to Kalamazoo, and I never strayed too far from except for foreign study home after that.” while at Kalamazoo Pat Bishop and Don Schmidt ’67 helped Bob College and law school at learn the ropes during his early years with the Cornell, has always lived city. They were the two previous city attorneys in Kalamazoo. Since for Kalamazoo prior to Bob taking the reins in 1974, he spent nearly 31 1988 after being assistant city attorney for 11 years in Kalamazoo city years under Schmidt. government, the last 17 “I had a lot of good mentors,” Bob said. “Pat as city attorney. and Don were great teachers; Bill Culver ’42 and When he graduated Dave Morris were two others. Many good people from Kalamazoo’s Loy helped me throughout my career with the city.” Norrix High School, it According to Bob, in Kalamazoo the city Bob Cinabro was an easy decision for Bob to continue his attorney is the legal representative of the city and education at Kalamazoo College. its employees in both criminal and civil matters “I didn’t want to go far from home; I wasn’t and pretty much handles all the legal work for very adventuresome back then,” Bob said. “And the city. Bob prosecuted the city ordinances and the academic excellence and the foreign study also defended the city in civil litigation. In were the two things that attracted me to ‘K’.” addition, he attended the city commission He majored in political science. “The three meetings, gave advice and acted as professors that I remember most fondly are Dr. parliamentarian, drafted ordinances and [Wen Chao] Chen, Don Flesche and Elton Ham,” resolutions, reviewed contracts and reviewed all Bob said. “At the time they were the core of the the city’s real estate transactions. He oversaw a College’s political science department. Dr. group of nine people with a budget of nearly Flesche was my mentor and advisor. Dr. Ham $900,000. also had a great deal of influence over me, as did There were a number of highlights during Dr. Chen.” Bob taught a political science course his career. during his senior year as part of his SIP with Dr. “We enacted Kalamazoo’s first drug loitering Chen’s guidance. ordinance,” Bob said. “I’m very proud of that. We Bob was chosen for the Chrysler were one of the first communities to have one. In International Scholars Program and studied fact, it was the topic of a Nightline special on Spanish in Mexico in his sophomore year. During ABC in 1989. I felt it was a good tool at the time his junior year, he worked in Peru for six months to help control the drug problem in some of the in a Chrysler assembly plant. neighborhoods.” Bob also cited successful “I was basically a trainee in production outcomes in situations ranging from nuisance management,” Bob said. “Chrysler was trying to abatements to landfill issues to a number of civil groom potential managers for the automotive lawsuits that were settled or resolved without industry, but it never panned out for me because impacting the financial integrity of the city. I went to law school after graduating from ‘K.’ “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t go home and But my time in Mexico and Peru were filled with have some sleepless nights,” Bob added. “But I O

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U There are many specialties in the field of law, L ran into any political problems or lack of faith or 22 Bo b’s b lack of respect. Most of the city managers and city “The book recounts the 100-year fam ook ily’ on h administrators were good, too. The positive days far history of my family from the time s his is tory outnumbered the bad days.” they came through Ellis Island in His time at Kalamazoo College also helped Bob. “The 1903,” said Bob. “It’s mostly oral liberal arts experience,” Bob said, “teaches you to always history, but I included a lot of my look at other sides, and I hope I had a reputation for being Ellis Island research. My tolerant and sensitive to people. ‘K’ is not a doctrinaire grandfather had six dollars in his place; it opens your mind. I was on the conservative end of possession when he got off the the spectrum, no doubt, but not doctrinaire, and I hope boat. That makes you appreciate that’s the way it came out during my career with the city. what we have today.” “I was at Kalamazoo College at a time when the Bob’s wife, Pamela, a Vietnam war dominated everything,” Bob continued. “I Western Michigan University wasn’t very liberal, but the biggest thing that influenced me graduate, also displays a stay- at ‘K’ was when the students were killed at Kent State in in-one-place attitude. She the spring of 1970. We had a rally at Stetson Chapel, and has been a teacher in the then a march downtown. That was the first time I ever Bellevue, Mich., school joined in any kind of demonstration and coming from my district for 34 years. Bob background that tells you a lot. I remember how eloquent and Pamela’s daughter, Dave Kessler ’70 was when he gave a speech at the chapel. Jennifer, is a University All of us felt the same way—when students were being of Michigan graduate killed on a campus there was something terribly wrong. now living in Chicago “I was a much different person when I came out of and working on an ‘K’,” Bob said. “The travel had a lot to do with it, the war MBA, and their son, had a lot to do with it, as did the college experience itself.” Michael, is Family has always been important to Bob. In fact, he attending Central wrote a book about his family, An Ellis Island Story—The Michigan Cinabros, A Recollection , that was published in 2005 by University. Vantage Press.

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email [email protected] 6 0 G N web http://www.kzoo.edu/gift I R P Solution on Page 48. S 23 Y Libraries are not made; they grow the women’s college, the young ladies had their own — Augustine Birrell 1850-1933 small collection, and the women’s society, the R Eurodelphian, also had a library there. BEGINNINGS During most of the 19 th century, students had “To collect a full and valuable library is the work of little need for a large library for their coursework. A years, and attended with much expense,” wrote Dr. They relied instead on their textbooks and the James A. B. Stone, president of the Kalamazoo lectures of their professors, and they “recited” in class

R Literary Institute, in 1850. The school that was to the learnings of the day before. Students did, become Kalamazoo College had opened in 1836. Its however, need libraries to prepare their literary

B assets included a building, classrooms, students, and exercises for the weekly society meetings that would

I one teacher—but no books. include student speeches or papers. A few books were donated to the fledgling The Kalamazoo College library grew slowly

L institute in its early years, but more were needed. Dr. during the 19 th century. College finances were too

Stone sought support from the Kalamazoo precarious to spend very much on books. At the 1866 community and from the Michigan Baptists who had Commencement, 200 books were donated, and $100 founded the school. Appealing especially to the was raised to buy more. Michigan Baptists continued G Baptists, Stone continued, “We have, however, a good to solicit books and funds; the year-long efforts of the beginning for a library, and hope it will be increased denomination’s Books for Kalamazoo College every year. We respectfully solicit donations of all Committee brought in 142 books (36 purchased, 106 N valuable and suitable books.” donated) valued at $229.95 in 1882. Edward Olney, I The “good beginning” was a modest collection of professor of mathematics at the University of donated books from Baptist ministers and laymen Michigan and formerly at Kalamazoo, left his library and other, largely local, friends of the institution. The of 1,000 books to the College and a bequest to W books were housed in “a spacious room” in the purchase more when he died in 1887. In spite of Upper College Building being constructed on the site these efforts, by 1892 the State Board of Visitors

O now occupied by Hoben Hall. reported that the “greatest need of immediate That modest accumulation was supplemented by attention is the meager library. Not only are the books

R libraries collected by the student literary societies. of real value very few in number, but they are not Two men’s societies, the Sherwood Rhetorical Society, easily accessible. The library is in the dormitory founded in 1851, and the Philolexian Lyceum, building. A card catalogue should be provided.” G established in 1854, collected books that they housed

in their respective rooms. In Kalamazoo Hall, built in THE MODERN ERA AND MANDELLE 1859 at the foot of the hill on South Street to serve as The modern era of the Kalamazoo College library began in 1904 when Herbert Lee Stetson added the A role of librarian to his duties as professor of psychology and education. Stetson gathered all the Kalamazoo Hall, library materials from various places on campus and located on the corner of South Street and housed them together in a large room on the second Stadium Drive, was floor of newly built (1902) Bowen Hall. He sorted the home to the books and discarded those that would not be useful, Eurodelphian’s library. thus creating a truly functional library. Since about 1893 the library had been adding about 500 volumes a year, purchased through the annual generosity of

The Upper College Building (the name of which changed to Williams Hall in 1924) housed the College’s library during its nascent years. The building was located near the site of today’s Hoben Hall. Y R A R B I L

— O T S E X U L 24 Frank R. Welles of Paris, France, a good friend of library grew, but slowly. From 1933 through 1953 President A. Gaylord Slocum. Under Stetson’s library holdings increased by only 2,000-3,000 books leadership the library began rapid expansion. every five years. By 1950 then President John Scott Opportunity for significant growth was limited as Everton reported to trustees total library holdings of long as Kalamazoo College’s library space was 44,080. In 1953 Everton appointed another political confined to one or two rooms, however spacious they scientist, Professor Wen Chao Chen, to be college might be. As early as 1867, President John M. librarian. Chen took steps to qualify himself Gregory had proposed constructing a library building professionally, earning the MLS degree from the with separate reading rooms for men and women (he University of Chicago in 1955 and immediately did not believe in coeducation). Again in 1887 there moved to improve the library collections. In 1955 Phi were proposals for a library and classroom building Beta Kappa declined to approve a chapter for on the upper campus, and a plan was developed, but Kalamazoo College, citing the weakness of its library funds never became available. as a factor in the decision. This judgment prompted When Allan Hoben became president of large increases in the library budget and new goals for Kalamazoo College in 1922, the college library the collection. Chen’s goal was to double the contained only 16,000 bound volumes and was collection to reach a total of 100,000 volumes as soon considered “undeveloped.” In 1928 Hoben appointed as possible. Robert Cornell, professor of political science and Weimer Hicks became president of the College in economics, as Director of the Library and Mrs. L. J. 1954 and stressed the importance of an effective Hemmes, wife of philosophy professor Luike J. library. When he told Chen to prepare a library Hemmes, as chief librarian. Cornell enlarged and budget large enough to cover present needs, Chen improved the library in Bowen, adding 342 feet of immediately doubled the previous year’s budget, a shelving, arranging to display current periodicals, and bold and hopeful request he felt certain would be organizing library administration on a businesslike reduced. Chen’s account of what happened next is basis. Circulation increased 300 percent. related in Arnold Mulder’s 1958 history of the Later that year Mary Senter Mandelle died, college, The Kalamazoo College Story . leaving Kalamazoo College its largest legacy to that time—$350,000 designated for a library, and “When I presented the figures to $850,000 for the permanent endowment and other President Hicks for discussion, he purposes. Professor Cornell became heavily involved examined them with a smile. Then he in planning the long-awaited library building, today’s asked, ‘Whom do you wish to impress Mandelle Hall. with such a budget? Why, it is so small Describing his vision of the future library, that it won’t even impress me!’ Without President Hoben wrote, “It must be a gem saying a word I took up the budget architecturally but at the same time inviting, cozy, request. Then I doubled the already personal and almost domestic, especially in its doubled budget on the spot. The revised interior impression,” in other words, in line with Hoben’s concept of Kalamazoo College as a “Fellowship in Learning.” A large paneled reading room (now the Olmsted Room) contained the reference collection, study tables, and an inviting fireplace. The building also contained offices for the president, a boardroom for trustee and faculty meetings, seminar rooms, and a downstairs club reading room. The west end of the building, reached by a separate entrance, included a large lecture room and accommodated the art department with classrooms and offices upstairs. Mandelle Library cost $178,000 and was dedicated in November 1930. It soon became a center of academic life on campus. Economic depression in the 1930s and world war in the 1940s seriously affected college enrollments and budgets. Library appropriations did not meet academic needs during these years. The

Bowen Hall housed the College’s library from 1902 to 1930. 6 0 G N I R P S 25 figure was then presented to the Board Although the location of the new library had for approval, and it was accepted been determined during 1963, financing the project without revision.” delayed groundbreaking until 1965. Ultimately Upjohn Library cost $1,560,000 and was opened for Between 1954 and 1957 the library collection use in spring 1967. rose from 49,000 to 65,000 volumes. Faculty were Moving the books from Mandelle to Upjohn urged to order books needed by their departments; Library involved the entire College community. in 1955-56 the goal was to order 1,000 volumes Planned primarily by student workers, the move every three months. took place on Saturday, April 8, 1967. Academy The library in the 1950s was a busy place. The Street was closed and Saturday classes (common at front desk, usually staffed by students, stood in the the time) were cancelled; students, faculty, staff, center of the foyer. Behind it was the built-in card spouses, even children, lined up to pass piles of catalogue and the entrance to the stacks, six levels of books, bucket brigade fashion, from the stacks of metal shelves soon crammed with books. The stacks Mandelle to the shelves in Upjohn. were open to use by all patrons of the library. The The new library was very different from the old. reference/reading room contained handsome At Mandelle, most of the books were hidden in the wooden shelves that separated the room into stacks behind the main desk; at Upjohn, books were sections where students could study at long wooden spread amongst study tables and carrels. “Mixing tables lighted (rather feebly) by desk lamps. students and books in a congenial atmosphere is the By 1963 the Kalamazoo College library had theory behind the library,” said Chen. “The library is overcome most of its previous shortcomings. A to be a workshop and not a place for book storage.” return visit by Phi Beta Kappa in 1958 resulted in The new library was built to hold 225,000 volumes approval of Kalamazoo College’s chapter, which was and to provide study space for up to 650 students. installed formally that fall. A September 1963 article Its name expressed the College’s “appreciation of the in College and Research Libraries ranked Kalamazoo combined leadership which the [Upjohn] family, the College among the 39 institutions in the top six Company, and the employees have given to the percent of private liberal arts colleges surveyed that College.” year. According to that article, a high quality liberal Upjohn Library was in the forefront of arts college library should have at least 50 books per technological change. When Ohio’s college and student, purchase at least 2,000 volumes per year, university libraries joined to create a statewide and spend at least 3.5 percent of its budget on its database of library catalogs, Kalamazoo College’s library. Kalamazoo College in 1962 had 125 books librarian Eleanor Pinkham took the lead in getting per student and spent 6.2 percent of its operating Michigan schools involved. In 1988 a grant from the budget to add about 7,500 volumes to the library Pew Charitable Trust made possible the full each year. However, under the influence of the automation of the library’s card catalog. In 1998 a Kalamazoo Plan and the resulting increase in Senior web-based public catalog replaced the text-based Individualized Projects, the greatly improved library system. Technology made more and more soon became inadequate. In the first quarter of the information available and put pressure on faculty, Kalamazoo Plan , library use jumped 60 percent. students, and library staff to keep up with change. Study space was inadequate for the rapidly With the advent of technology and the growth increasing enrollment and hindered by what Hicks of library collections and staff, Upjohn Library called “a mid-victorian lighting system.” became outdated It was obviously time to consider and overcrowded. building a new library. In 1997 the library, media, and UPJOHN LIBRARY computer services By 1962 President Hicks and Dr. were combined into Chen were actively planning for a new library building. Y R A R B I L

— O T S E X U L 26 an information services department directed by Lisa Palchick. The next year plans were made to renovate and expand the library, and the $20-million project became the major capital objective of the College’s campaign. Construction started in June 2004, and the project was finished ahead of schedule (January instead of September, 2006) and under budget (about $18 million instead of $20 million). A New “Commons” Upjohn Library Commons combines Chen’s philosophy of “mixing students and books in a congenial atmosphere” and Hoben’s desire for “a gem architecturally” that would also be “inviting, cozy, personal.” Study desks are interspersed among book stacks; a café near the main entrance encourages coffee and conversation; several classrooms and two group study rooms accommodate class activities. A two-story reading room features huge windows and two handsome fireplaces. The décor includes cherry wood paneling, wood ends on the stacks, and attractive carpeting in warm, rust-colored tweed. In the lobby near the main entrance, library patrons will find the reference collection and desk, the circulation desk, and the computer help desk, easy access to all their library and information needs. Upjohn Library Commons also accommodates technological innovations that have revolutionized how students access and present information. On the main floor are the College’s computer and information services department, including a computer repair shop, a training classroom, a video studio, control room, production facilities, and multimedia distribution services. This arrangement creates a one-stop shopping area for media and information technology services to serve both students and faculty preparing Students move books presentations. to the brand new Upjohn Library, Book stacks, study desks and carrels, archives, and April 1967. rare books occupy the second and third floors, reached by elevator or the grand staircase at the west end of the building. The new library includes open spaces, natural lighting, comfortable seating, private study space, and group gathering areas. From its humble beginnings Kalamazoo College’s library has grown to include information on-line as well as in print, to offer access to many services as well as to knowledge in many formats and to be the center of our academic community. The new Upjohn Library Commons has become indeed an architectural gem on our campus.

From left, Mandelle Library in the 1950s featured a front desk and card catalog at the entrance to the stacks, a reading and reference room (today’s Olmsted Room), and a periodical reading room, where the business office is located today. College librarian Wen Chao Chen is pictured in the periodical reading room. 6 0

Upjohn Library Commons opened January 3, 2006. G N I R P S 27 our years ago a meter chariot conversation racetrack) and a over coffee at the monumental Denver airport Back to the Past: mausoleum for the helped create a imperial family. F “In previous years, time machine that today transports the circus and tomb Discovering have received a lot of Kalamazoo College students back to early archaeological 4th century attention,” says Anne. Rome. Ancient Rome “They are both Present at thoroughly that initial excavated. But meeting were our site, the Anne Haeckl (a residential classics professor quarters of the at Kalamazoo estate, has had College), only limited Professor Diane exploration.” Conlin (a In the 1960s, classical Italian archaeology archaeologist professor at Giuseppina University of Pisani Sartorio Colorado- was able to Boulder), and establish the Italian basic archaeologist architectural Gianni Ponti. plan of the Their bold residential “coffee dream” is quarters, but now a reality. since that time The three jointly direct a new archaeological the site has become inaccessible and overgrown excavation and student field school program at by vegetation. Because of this academic and the Villa of Maxentius on the Appian Way just general neglect, the Italian archaeological outside of Rome. The project, which is authorities were interested in restoring and administered in collaboration with the opening the site to the public. That official Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di agenda coincided with our triumvirate’s visionary Roma (The City of Rome’s Superintendency for coffee conversation, and the lack of previous Cultural Patrimony), completed its first five- exploration at the villa made it a great place for week excavation campaign last summer. an educational dig. Never officially recognized as emperor, Twenty undergraduate and graduate students Maxentius seized the title in 306 CE, a turbulent participated in the 2005 excavation season, time in Roman history when paganism was including three Kalamazoo students, Daphne Luc giving way to the new ’07, Eric Hutchings-Goetz ’06, and Stephanie religion of Christianity. Jackson ’05. “This is not a Much of Maxentius’s reign typical study abroad was devoted to restoring program,” explains Anne. Rome’s former glory, a “It combines an ambitious goal he worked to achieve international research by way of an extensive project with intense building program. As part immersion into of this program, designed experiential education. to rival the construction The goal is for students to

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L framework of Rome at the 28 included a circus (a 520- by wonderful moments of excitement when you find something significant. Aside from academic considerations, the skills one gains in coping with difficult circumstances, negotiating small-group dynamics, and working as a team make participating in an archaeological dig a life- enhancing experience.” Anne’s students agree. “The first day we arrived at the site, the project seemed daunting,” Stephanie says. “The ground was covered with weeds, sticks, logs, and turn of the 4 th rocks. The first few days century. we used pickaxes and shovels, “Students and I wondered if I had actually participate in every signed up for construction. But aspect of the when we reached the first layer excavation; they are of ancient pottery, there was this fully-fledged amazing feeling that we had members of the actually found stuff that would archaeological team be useful. And on the last day, it who collaborate was so cool to see how far we with faculty and had progressed. professional archaeologists on research that is “Being part of every aspect of a dig exposed both literally and figuratively ground-breaking.” me to things I never would have imagined,” Five days a week the students wake up, walk Stephanie adds, “including the complexity of a to the site, organize equipment, and begin the dig’s progress. The experience will help me day’s digging by 6:30 A.M. Excavation continues decide what I want to do in the future. I don’t until 1:30 P.M., with a half hour break for know if I want to be an archaeologist, but I “second breakfast.” After lunch, students attend definitely want to work on digs in some way.” classroom lectures or work a two-hour rotation The students did find time to explore on shift on archaeological tasks such as pottery some evenings and weekends. Excursions into washing or cataloging newly discovered artifacts. Rome were frequent, and students also traveled Dinner is served at a local restaurant from to destinations like Pompeii, Florence, and 7:30 until 9:30 P.M. After that, most of the team Venice. Two Saturday field trips visited dig- returns to home base, the Istituto San Tarcisio on related sites: students studied structures erected the grounds of the Catacombs of St. Callixtus, to by Maxentius in the Roman Forum and on the hit the sack and recharge for the next day. Friday Palatine Hill, and toured several other villas of nights and alternate weekends are free time. the time period. As grueling as the experience was, most of the students enjoyed the schedule. “Though I The excavation team of Trench 12, including wouldn’t have admitted it then, my favorite part Stephanie Jackson ’05 (third from right) and Eric of the day was getting up at 5:30 A.M.,” states Hutchings-Goetz ’06 (second from left) Stephanie Jackson ’05. “I’m not a morning person, but getting up and knowing I was going to go digging was wonderful, and the walk along the Appian Way was amazing.” Anne swears by this experiential method of learning archaeology. “I think there is no substitute for the ‘hands-on’ in archaeology. You 6

have to experience personally how physically and 0 G N mentally challenging a dig is, with hours of hot, I R P dirty, monotonous labor occasionally punctuated S 29 End-of-season “chariot” races Students also spent College and University of time getting to know each Colorado, as well as other. “During a good external grants from portion of our free time, several individuals and we sat around in the organizations, including courtyard and talked,” the Loeb Classical Library says Stephanie. “I made Foundation and the life-long friends on the Gladys Krieble Delmas dig.” Foundation. If the dig sounds like “This important a dream come true for students, it is program in Rome relates to several also exciting and special for Anne. central missions of the College,” “The Maxentius adds Anne. “Our project is my first renewed emphasis dig in Rome on inter- proper,” she nationalism is one explains. “I have example. worked on many Sponsorship of excavations in the the largest Roman provinces American dig in of North Africa, Rome puts Egypt, and Jordan, Kalamazoo where we focused College on the on the colonial map as an interaction of archaeological Roman and research indigenous The dig crew of Trench 11, including Daphne Luc ’07 institution and cultures. For me, (second row, second from right) and Crystal Fritz ’01 adds a unique excavating a (second row, far right). Crystal was a trench opportunity for supervisor; she is now a PhD candidate for major imperial archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. overseas site in the experiential Empire’s capital city is a new learning experience education to the rich menu of foreign study that I can share with my students.” options administered by our Center for The program enjoys a renewable five-year International Programs. Students can also excavation permit at the Villa of Maxentius and conduct original research in partnership with has the potential for expansion. Even without faculty members on the team.” advertising, both colleges have In the spirit of time travel and been contacted by students from kinship with ill-fated (see sidebar, other institutions wanting to join. next page) Maxentius, the students But the bottom line is money. concluded the season with “Who knew when I became an wheelbarrow “chariot” races and a archaeologist that I would also football game in Maxentius’s have to develop the skills of a circus, and then boarded airplanes fundraiser and sales rep?” jokes for the journey back to the future. Anne.* “We have been very The experience will not be fortunate to receive internal forgotten. Stephanie is considering support from both Kalamazoo graduate school in archaeology or museum studies. Eric Hutchings- The excavation plan for Maxentius’s throne room, the Kalamazoo Goetz is incorporating his dig site for the joint program between Kalamazoo students (l-r) archaeological experience into his College and University of Colorado Stephanie Jackson Senior Individualized Project, ’05, Eric Hutchings- which focuses on Rome in late Goetz ’06, and Daphne Luc ’07 antiquity. Now a veteran in adjusting to surround Anne different cultures, Daphne Luc moved Haeckl at the T north from her archaeological summer in S

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Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius was born circa 278 CE into a troubled Roman Empire that had endured a half-century of sustained political, economic, and military crisis. Star-crossed? Not initially. Some twenty years after his birth, his father Maximian had reached the pinnacle of Roman power, serving as co-emperor with Diocletian, a formidable figure who instituted the brutal “Great Persecution” against Christianity. In 305 complicated succession maneuvers shut Maxentius out of the imperial power structure and created a potential rivalry between him and Constantine, another bypassed imperial heir. One year later, when Constantine was officially recognized as a Caesar, or deputy emperor, an embittered Maxentius illegally seized power in Rome, from which he controlled the Italian peninsula and North Africa for six years. His reign was short-lived, as, indeed, Maxentius himself turned out to be. In 312 Constantine famously experienced a visionary conversion to Christianity as he prepared to fight Maxentius on the banks of Rome’s Tiber River, and the next day Maxentius was killed in battle against Constantine’s forces. To celebrate his victory over Maxentius, a crucial first step toward becoming the first Christian (and, for the first time in a long time, the first exclusive) ruler of the Roman Empire, Constantine triumphantly paraded Maxentius’s decapitated head through the streets of Rome. “Maxentius is generally seen as one of history’s biggest losers,” classics professor Anne Haeckl states. “When he died, Constantine ushered in a whole new chapter of Roman history by legalizing Christianity. Maxentius got very bad press, because pro-Constantinian propagandists wrote his history. To make Constantine look better, they portrayed Maxentius as a tyrannical degenerate, although there is plenty of evidence that Maxentius actually pioneered the policy of tolerance toward Christians for which Constantine is credited,” explains Anne. “One of the purposes of our project is to rehabilitate Maxentius’s image,” Anne says. “We hope to uncover new archaeological evidence to explain why the embattled Maxentius chose to build a sprawling imperial complex on an undefended site along the Via Appia, outside the protection of Rome’s great Aurelian Wall. Because he commanded Rome, Maxentius already had access to the imperial palace on the Palatine Hill, which was considered the best in the empire. “A significant factor,” Anne continues, “may be that the Appian Way was becoming increasingly Christianized at this time. Many Christian catacombs lay in close proximity to the site Maxentius chose for his imperial complex, including one right across the street and another on the property where our dig team is housed. Maxentius may have sited his villa and family tomb next to Christian cemeteries in order to curry favor with Rome’s Christian population. He needed their support if he was going to fend off attempts by Constantine and other rivals to get rid of him.” Was Maxentius the ruthless monster vilified by Constantine’s partisans, or was he a misunderstood emperor who tried to restore Rome’s glory while moving forward with an enlightened policy of religious toleration? The answer will have to wait for more digging. At the tantalizing end of their first excavation season, Anne and her students had just reached possible Maxentian levels below two meters of later stratigraphy. Their trowels are itching to return to the trenches. Although important new data will emerge over the next few years, Anne warns, “There are no absolute answers in archaeology. You make the best hypothesis that you can, based on the evidence 6 you are able to recover. And you are inevitably left with more questions than answers.” 0 G N I R P S 31 Perhaps Tippett’s major claim to fame is that he created Norton Anti-Virus, the computer “vaccine” that many of us rely on more than flu Peter Tippett: shots to keep nasty viruses at bay. Or maybe it’s that this past October, he received the Kalamazoo College 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award. Virus Buster “I’m a fanatic when it comes to computer security,” Tippett said. “Some of that connects to my background in medicine. But much of it traces directly to Kalamazoo College where I learned valuable lessons about being flexible, open minded, and knowledgeable across a range of subjects.”

FREQUENT FLYER A native of Dearborn, Michigan, Peter Tippett literally flew through much of his Kalamazoo experience. He arrived on campus possessing a pilot’s license. Before he graduated, he added a commercial rating and was instructing others to fly planes. Today, he pilots a jet in which he has partial ownership. When he wasn’t flying, Tippett was painting houses, serving as a residence hall assistant, working as an engineer at a local top-40 radio station, and teaching underclassmen how to ride his unicycle—often through the hallways. He was also known to pilot his Volkswagen “bus” full of friends on frequent trips to Lake Michigan. Despite his full extracurricular schedule, Peter Tippett ’75, M.D., is one of the world’s Tippett did well in the classroom. But like a lot of Peter Tippett leading virologists. with an old students, he admitted he “sort of backed into” his But he doesn’t handle Petri dishes or Norton Anti- major. Virus logo microscopes, doesn’t work in a hospital or lab, “For a while, I majored in French. Then I and hasn’t seen a patient in years. thought about history. But all along I was taking A human patient, that is. science classes. When I finally had to choose, I Tippett is a different kind of virus hunter. realized that the shortest route to a degree was The bugs he stalks have DNA made of zeros and through biology.” ones. The host bodies they invade are made of He followed a similar path when choosing circuit boards and microchips. The epidemics his Senior Independent Project. “My girlfriend they cause are spread via hackers on the Internet. was heading to New York City for a job and I Tippett goes after computer viruses. And we wanted to follow her. I went through a list of should all be glad he long ago traded in his authors in the back of my biochemistry book and stethoscope for a mainframe. Because most of us sent letters to all the ones in New York. One would rather be laid low with the latest flu virus actually came through for me.” than endure the types of worms, Trojan horses, Tippett drove his VW to New York to take a and other viral scourges that can infect our job as a lab technician at Rockefeller University. computers faster than you can say “Oh no…I He ended up on the leading edge of biochemical have to reformat my #%^& hard drive.” research, working for two future Nobel Prize Tippett is vice president and chief winners in chemistry, Stanford Moore (1972) and technologist of Cybertrust, the world’s largest Robert Merrifield (1984). He also helped privately-held information security company, synthesize the first active piece of a disease- with 1,000 employees, 4,000 clients worldwide, fighting immunoglobulin. and nearly $200 million in annual revenue. “Needless to say, that looks good on a He routinely counsels the White House and résumé. But the real influence on me was other government agencies in the U.S. and T

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U earned in 1981) and one in medicine (1983), L personal and business computers. 32 both from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. PROGRAMMED FOR COMPUTERS NCSA, a fledgling 10-employee company also focusing on computer security products. By 2004, Despite his many interests, Tippett said he “kept NCSA had become ICSA and then TruSecure. It had falling into all these computer spaces.” also grown to more than 300 employees serving In high school, he was one of only three students hundreds of corporate and government clients in allowed to tinker with a 55-baud teletype machine more than 40 countries. Following a 2004 merger, connected to a primitive computer—a Model T TruSecure became Cybertrust (www.cybertrust.com), compared to today’s technology, but a lot of based in Herndon, Virginia. computing horsepower for its time. Tippett’s reputation in the computing industry During a College internship semester, he worked grew along with his company. During Operation as a lab technician at Cincinnati General Hospital, but Desert Storm in 1991, he advised the U.S. Joint Chiefs spent his free time writing a computer program to of Staff on cyberwarfare issues. He’s served on compile results of a cholesterol study. Then at numerous industry groups, including a two-year term Rockefeller, he wrote a program to simplify the on the President’s Information Technology Advisory process of mixing chemicals to create proteins. Committee, helping guide the Bush administration’s Later, while working on his biochemistry efforts to develop and adopt security information doctorate, he built and programmed a computer to technologies. automate the synthesis of proteins and peptides. In medical school, he developed mass-mailing software for a nonprofit foundation he started. CSI: T IPPETT In 1987, he established FoundationWare, a On March 26, 1999, e-mail users nationwide company that sold self-branded PCs to nonprofit received a message that read “Here is that document organizations. you asked for...don’t show anyone else ;-).” The In November of that year, he read an article about attachment, once opened, unleashed the infamous a rogue software program that had destroyed some “Melissa” virus, which sent an infected email message computer files at a Pennsylvania university. The to the first 50 e-mail addresses in the user’s address famous Lehigh virus, one of the first in the computing book. world, rocked Tippett’s world. Because each infected computer could infect 50 “The biochemist in me thought: ‘The additional computers, which in turn could infect mathematics of growth and replication for computer another 50, the virus spread rapidly and exponentially, viruses are the same as for bacteria filling a Petri dish.’ resulting in overloaded e-mail servers and collapsed I realized that computer viruses would spread just like computer networks far and wide. In all, more than disease viruses and computers everywhere would one million computers in North America were need antivirus protection.” infected. Losses to repair and cleanse computer Tippett focused on creating an antiviral product. systems alone ran to an estimated $80 million. Within five weeks, he had “Vaccine,” the first Within 48 hours, the FBI asked Tippett’s commercial antivirus program. company, ICSA, for help. And 48 hours later ICSA provided 200 documents with personal information on the hacker. On April 1, barely six days after the COMPANY MAN virus first appeared, FBI agents arrested their man. Tippett shopped his new product via trade shows, One year later, the company helped identify the demonstrating its effectiveness against the handful of creator of the “Love Bug” virus. existing viruses at that time and against future viruses. According to Tippett the number of By 1990, his company, now named Certus, was on its vulnerabilities, or virus-like attacks, has increased way to employing about 50 people. Tippett, however, from about 400 to more than 4,000 a year during the continued to work in Cleveland-area emergency past five years. The number of hacker groups that rooms, pumping his earnings in the company. Cybertrust tracks has increased from 200 to more In 1991, he got a phone call from Symantec, a than 800 in that time. competitor firm. “They had a popular product called Tippett lives in Great Falls, Virginia, with his wife Norton Anti-Virus but it didn’t work very well,” said of 16 years and their two young girls. He said he’ll Tippett. “I had a product that worked fine and was gladly encourage his children to attend Kalamazoo winning awards. Symantec bought Certus and my College, or another school like it. product, Vaccine, became Norton Anti-Virus.” “We—my friends and classmates at ‘K’—used to Within three years, Symantec grew tenfold, due talk about college as a place that should prepare us in largely to Tippett’s software and leadership. But general terms for career and life. Kalamazoo certainly Tippett, who had moved to Los Angeles to direct did that for me. I had no notion of pursuing careers in Symantec’s new product development, said he grew medicine, business, or computer security while I was restless working for others. In fact, he continued to at Kalamazoo. But the College knew how to prepare moonlight as an emergency room doctor and flight me for all these…and more.” physician. 6 0

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Phenomenon of Decline is the story of on Inclusive Curriculum, led a research on “stereotype threat” and from Randolph Wonder, a 30-year-old writer symposium titled “Privilege Systems;” which emerged new ideas on more attempting to deal with the childhood Deborah Barnes, director of the Lewis effective mentoring ( Robert Grossman , disappearance of his twin brother in a Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Psychology). swamp. Wonder is visited by his girlfriend Ethnicity, gave a lecture titled “’Happy and three sisters who all try to convince ‘Pac and Biggie Day’ or Life Without the John Fink , Mathematics, was named the him to leave his log cabin, which is Civil Rights Movement;” and Jevon Rosemary K. Brown Professor in literally sinking into a bog. “I thought the Caldwell-Gross ’04 delivered the Mathematics and Computer Science. image of a house sinking into the earth Convocation address: “Visualizing the would be an appropriate metaphor for World of Possibilities: What Would It Be Alyce Brady , Computer Science, is the that kind of emotional state,” says Tracz. Like If…” The week also featured a series Dean of the Sophomore Class, and Bob “I set the play in a bog because I’d studied of class sessions called “teach-ins”. Some Stauffer , Sociology, is Dean of the Senior bogs in Environmental Science class, of these sessions were part of current Class. which I guess makes the play a direct Winter Quarter classes; others were product of a liberal arts education!” special events. All focused on issues and Seniors Young-jin Chang and Katherine themes to which Dr. King dedicated his Wegert attended the Denison University Kalamazoo College hosted its first city Art work. They occurred in various Undergraduate East Asian Studies Hop reception in January. The reception departments, including French, Spanish, Conference. Chang presented a paper was part of Women in Town (WIT), a English, Education, and Psychology. De titled “Chinese Intellectual Property Law College-coordinated series of events that l’immigration à l’exclusion: ‘l’ hospitalité and the New Economy;” Wegert presented honored gifted local visual and françaisé compared the situation of the “Integrating Economies: the China performing artists. The Art Hop stop second- and third-generation descendants Challenge.” This national conference featured the photography of Laurie Pruitt of Maghrebin immigration in France with features some 30 student panelists from and the sculpture of Holly Fisher. Later that of African Americans in the decades throughout the country. Guoqi Xu , that month, WIT presented dance and since the Civil Rights movement (Topics History, served as a chair and discussant ballet preformances by Cori Terry, Holly in Francophone Cultures, Kathy Smith , for a panel. Guoqi, who submitted the 35 Fisher, and Sher Marie Farrell. “Through French). A Class Divided featured a papers by Young-jin and Katherine, was WIT we are endeavoring to establish and discussion of that documentary (General informed by the conference organizers maintain important connections for our Psychology, Karyn Boatwright , that having two students chosen from the students, faculty, and staff that could Psychology). James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s same college was quite a distinction. result in internships, consultancies, and Blues’ and ‘In Search of a Majority’ ongoing collaborative projects,” said Amy compares the author’s fictional rendering Kalamazoo College enjoyed a strong Elman , associate professor of political of two brothers’ efforts at reconciliation presence at the prestigious annual meeting science and one of the architects of the (“Sonny’s Blues”) with the address the of the Society of Integrative and WIT program. “In addition to celebrating author delivered at Kalamazoo College in Comparative Biologists. “It was way cool the arts, WIT will infuse classroom 1960 (Reading Short Fiction, Bruce Mills , having the College represented at a instruction through invitations to English). The Beans of Egypt Maine: What national meeting of that caliber,” said outstanding professionals from local area Could Their Lives Be Like? involved a Paul Sotherland , associate professor of institutions.” discussion of Carolyn Chute’s novel biology. Other Kalamazoo College (Rural Fiction by Women , Bonnie Jo students or graduates included Ed A paper co-authored by Siu-Lan Tan , Campbell , English). Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Dzialowski ’93, Tess Killpack ’06, Eddy Psychology; Matthew Spackman, an featured a discussion of Jane Elliott’s Price ’99, Mike Finkler ’91, Annette associate professor of psychology at documentary film (Foundations of Sieg ’02, Tim Muir ’03, and Fiorella Brigham Young University; and Christy American Education, Olga Bonfiglio , Pimentel ’06 . Peaslee ’05 has been accepted for Education). The Color of Fear , a film that publication in the journal Music documents the effect of race on the lives Gail Griffin , English, led a workshop Perception . The article, “Effects of of eight Asian, African-American, titled “Uncovering Whiteness” for about Repeated Exposure on Liking and Caucasian, and Hispanic men, was the 30 faculty at Bucknell University Judgments of Thematic Unity of subject of a special-event discussion ( Olga (Lewisburg, Penn.). The workshop Patchwork and Intact Compositions,” Bonfiglio , Education). Discovering included three parts: Writing Racial reports the findings of a music study Unintentional Racism provided a case Memory; Whiteness in Student Reading involving 74 Kalamazoo College study that fosters understanding of how and Writing; and Case Studies in participants. Christy Peaslee majored in treating others in a race-blind manner can Whiteness in the Classroom. psychology and currently participates in be experienced as racial bias ( Robert Teach for America. In September Siu-Lan Grossman , Psychology). The College was the Fall Colloquium speaker for the showed the film Letters from Alou , a Psychology Department at California State Spanish feature about the experiences of University (Sacramento) and was an African immigrant in Spain and the presented an Honored Alumna Award discrimination he faces, and followed that from the school (which she attended from with a discussion ( Maria Jose Romero- 1988-90). CSUS has 28,000 students and Eshuis , Spanish). Paul Haggis’ Crash was selects about 30 alumni each year for the topic of discussion in Assistant alumni awards. Professor of English Tracy Cox Stanton’s Reading Film course. A Simulation on Kalamazoo College’s Martin Luther King, Power Relationships Involved in Prejudice Jr. Celebration featured a week of was the focus of a special class in activities pertaining to the theme of Foundations of American Education Visualizing the World of Possibilities: What (Olga Bonfiglio , Education). And How Would It Be Like If…” Peggy McIntosh, co- White Teachers and Tutors Can More director of National SEED (Seeking Effectively Mentor African-American Educational Equity and Diversity) Project Students offered a case study that applies The Donald C. Flesche Visiting Scholars and Lectureship Endowment will help ensure that the conversations among learners on campus include the very best scholars in the world. VISITING A number of former students of the professor emeritus of political science joined with other members of the Kalamazoo College community and, under the leadership of Alan Nesburg ’69, launched an SCHOLARS initiative to pay tribute to one of Kalamazoo College’s finest teachers and citizens. In late 2005 the initial threshold of $100,000 was raised to launch ENDOWMENT the endowment. “The most important resource of any institution of higher education is its faculty,” says Provost Gregory Mahler. “It is the faculty who shape the institution’s academic offerings, inspire students, guide LAUNCHED their intellectual growth, serve as role models, and help students mature as scholars and valuable members of society. “Our students must have the opportunity to be exposed to complex questions and challenges in a setting that will permit full discussion and analysis. The Donald C. Flesche Visiting Scholars and In addition to his Lecturers Endowment will make a outstanding work as a significant and ongoing contribution professor of political science, Dr. Flesche to this imperative.” served for many years Dr. Flesche sponsored several as the announcer at countless College visiting lecturers during his teaching athletic events. He was the “Voice of the career at “K.” Foremost among them Hornets” for football, was nationally syndicated political basketball, soccer, tennis, and many other journalist David Broder. sports. “David has known personally all the presidents since Roosevelt,” says Flesche. “In one of his class sessions he talked openly about the styles of the different presidents. This was one of the most phenomenal experiences of my life as a teacher. David’s statements and insights carried over to other classes I taught in later years. Every student who was on campus during his visit was affected by David’s presence.” After the visit, Broder helped students with networking opportunities and welcomed them into the newsroom at the Washington Post . Kalamazoo College thanks all who contributed to the Donald C. Flesche Visiting Scholars and Lecturers Endowment and welcomes additional gifts to augment its ability to bring renowned lecturers to campus. If you wish to honor Dr. Flesche by making a gift or pledge to this endowment, please visit the College’s web page at www.kzoo.edu. Select “Giving to K” and then “Special Initiatives.” The Yang and Yin of Leap and Grin

Michael Finkler ’91 used a slide of salamander hatchlings when he presented his amphibian research during last fall’s “Just For Grins” scientific symposium. That meeting honored professor Paul Sotherland’s 20 years of service at Kalamazoo College. The picture suggests a symbolic yang-yin appropriate for Paul’s pedagogy, which combines grins and exploration into an educational wholeness that, like a circle, never ends. For more on this remarkable teacher, and the remarkable symposium his former students created to honor him, see page 8.

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