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For more information, please contact [email protected]. e Western Michigan University • Kalamazoo, Michigan February, 1981 • Volume 1, Number 5 College of Business alumni challenged to match donor ___ College of Business alumni, 13,000 ed the history of the College of University campaign, including facul- the University in their programmatic strong, are being challenged to equal Business and highlighted the need for ty, staff and emeriti. Since that earlier development. the enthusiasm of a donor who has and uses .of the University Business announcement the University faculty- College of Business alumni will be agreed to match their gifts dollar for Development Center. staff-emeriti total has risen to approached through a massive dollar toward the proposed University Three major gifts were announced in $340,000, a remarkable accomplish- phonathon headed by Theodore F. Mc- Business Development Center. The the November issue of the Westerner: ment, but indicative of the Carty, BBA '59; Budd J. Norris, BS 'SO, unique arrangement was announced by $750,000 from The Upjohn Company, understanding on campus that this in- MA '54; Richard Hughey, BA '52; Kirk President John T . Bernhard and James $150,000 from the Ford Motor Com- itial campaign has elements in it that H . Duncan, campaign chairman for the pany Fund and $275,146 from the all- will assist academic areas throughout (continued on page 4) Partners in Progress drive for $6,800,000. ''It is very important that this kind Phonathon Volunteers of support has come from an interested in Action-Daniel Smith individual," said Darrell Jones, dean of (standing), president of the First National Bank and the College of Business. ''I think it Trust Co. of Kalamazoo, speaks directly to the quality that has aids caller Al Bellware, been a part of the College of Business Kalamazoo, director of at Western since its beginning." marketing for the First More than half of the money needed American Bank Corp .• as to complete the drive, $3,720,000, has volunteers manned more been given or pledged at this point, and than 50 telephones in the the total has been growing weekly Student Center recently. They were part of the 250 since the first of the year. volunteers who made a Long in planning, the University's concentrated effort to call first capital campaign began to move more than 13,000alumni into high gear in early winter when a from the College of Business series of meetings for alumni of the seeking pledges for the College of Business was held in "Partners in Progress " Detroit, Dearborn, Kalamazoo and capital campaign. Grand Rapids. At this time they were ) able to hear various leaders speak and to see a slide/ sound show that outlin- State cutbacks -~ - effect University Despite a $1.3 million reduction in state appropriations, the Board of Welcome home I__________ _ Trustees in January approved a $66.7 Students at Draper Hall (right), one million General Fund operating budget of the University's residence halls, for the current 1980-81 fiscal year provided this welcome home celebra- which is $2.9 million more than a year tion in honor of the Jan. 20 freeing of ago. the 52 Americans In recommending its passage, Robert held hostage by B. Wetnight, vice president for finance, Iran for 444 days. noted that detailed budget planning Among the freed began with Gov. Milliken's recom- hostages, of course, mended 9 percent increase in state ap- was John Graves, propriations last January and then was a 1950 secondary lowered as the appropriation estimate education graduate went from a 6 percent to 5 percent to of the University. 3.2 percent to zero increase to the final He was graduated figure of 5.1 percent less than in 1979- fohn Graves just a few months 80. after his wife, the Based on the University's 1980-81 former Bonnie Schnoor of Niles. They fiscal year, Western's state appropria- were married in 1947 and have six tion is $44,454,000, compared to children. $45,756,000 for 1979-80. The state's Graves had written a book during fiscal year starts three months after the his captivity, but the manuscript was University's fiscal year begins. confiscated by his captors upon his ''This is the first year in our release; he is now rewriting it. Graves, recollection that state support did not a diplomatic public affairs offi_cer, and increase, " observed Wetnight. "It is his family live in Reston, Va . (Photos primarily for this reason that we had courtesy of the Kalamazoo Gazette) to reduce our spending plans and forego many things that are essential to the health of the University and its academic mission." He cautioned that certain revenue sources used to balance this year will not be automatically available·next year. Moving Right Along-With the arrival of cold weather, construction on the new Fine Arts Building has been slowed somewhat, but, according to University architect, William F. Hamill, Jr., the mechanical and electrical work inside the building is conti- nuing at a steady pace. He noted that all the steel is in place for the third floor dance area. The more than 157,000 square feet of space in the structure will house the only College of Fine Arts in Michigan. 2 Governor names Edwards to replace Dykema; Parfet reappointed to Board ___ Recent changes in the Board of Dykema continued, " I've always Trustees include Gov. William G. thought of this University as an in- Milliken's appointment of Dr. Alfred stitution that is more than 1,000 years L. Edwards, professor of business ad- old, which goes back to Bologna and, ministration and director of the Divi- in our language, to Oxford and Cam- sion of Research in the Graduate bridge and, on this continent, to the School of Business Administration at University of Mexico and to Harvard the University of Michigan, to an and all the rest. You're part of a great eight-year term, and the reappointment tradition, and it will never die." of Maury E. Parfet, chairman of the Dykema, a member of the law firm Board of Trustees, to a second eight- of Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Good- year term. Alfred Edwards Maury Parfet fohn Dykema f. Michael Kemp now and Trigg in Detroit, was ap- Edwards, 60, replaces John R. pointed to two eight-year terms, one in 1964 and the other in 1972. He has Dykema, a member of the Board who Edwards, who assumed his present Dykema Retires served as both vice chairman and retired from the Board last month after position in 1974, has held fellowships John R. Dykema, a charter member of chairman of the Board. He lives in 17 years. from the Danforth Foundation, the The term, effective immediately, ex- the Board, retired from the Board in Grosse Pointe Farms. Ford Foundation and the University of January. pires Dec. 31, 1988. Michigan. He has served as a member Parfet, who was vice president of the Dykema, who was appointed to the of the National Advisory Committee Board with its establishment in 1963, Board in 1978-79, was first appointed on Vocational Education and is a con- Kemp re-elected to the Board by Gov. Milliken in 1972 was presented with a plaque by Maury sultant to the social science division of E. Parfet, chairman of the Board, dur- vice chairman to complete the unexpired term of the Rockefeller Foundation in New Dorothy Upjohn Dalton. She was ap- ing the Board's meeting in December. J. Michael Kemp, 37, of Kalamazoo, York. "You have helped your colleagues to pointed to her own term that year. She Edwards and his wife, Willie Mae, has been re-elected vice chairman of was elected to a two-year term as understand and remember what a the Board of Trustees. live in Ann Arbor. They have two university is and should strive to be," chairman last year. grown children. A native of Battle Creek, Kemp is a Edwards, a native of Key West, Fla., said Parfet. "In your continuing com- partner with the Kalamazoo law firm Parfet, a native of Kalamazoo, has mitment to and affection for academic holds a bachelor's degree from Liv- been chairman of the Board's of Howard and Howard. He was ingstone College in North Carolina, a values and pursuits, you have been, in graduated with honors in history from Academic Affairs Committee and has the best sense, a trustee of the master's degree from the University of been a member of its Budget and Michigan State University in 1965. He Michigan and a Ph.D. degree from the academic life." received his J.D. degree with honors in Finance Committee. She is also a Dykema, visibly moved and speaking University of Iowa. member of the board of Cistercian 1968 from George Washington Univer- Edwards has taught at Southern spontaneously, said, "I'm particularly sity School of Law, Washington, D.C. Publications at Western.