centralightcentral michigan university alumni magazine summer 2009 Getting

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At the Capitol Join interns in Lansing

Fashion forward Meet designer Lauren Lein

Access to education Consider the need for change centralight summer 2009

on the cover Getting ahead Gain tips and inspiration for marketing yourself.

Cover photograph by Robert Barclay 16 22 features 2 14 Summer picks Images of a president Look forward to a good summertime See CMU President Michael Rao’s legacy read with these recommendations. as he prepares to say goodbye. 7 22 Lauren Future heads of state Meet Chicago fashion designer Lauren Lein. Learn how 35 CMU students experienced life at the Michigan Capitol. 12 Exclusive in America Consider why higher education in America must change. 10 Executive Editor and Executive Director of Alumni Relations Mary Lu Yardley, ’90 MSA ’92 departments Editor 2 Your Voice Barbara Sutherland Chovanec 4 CMU Today Photographers Say goodbye to a CMU dean; celebrate Robert Barclay Michigan newspaper history; learn Peggy Brisbane about a student project to benefit a Graphic designer local women’s shelter; and more. Amy Gouin 6 Up Close With … Writers Civil rights activist Julian Bond. Sarah Chuby, ’03 26 Sports Dan Digmann Catch up on athletics highlights, Alex Piazza, ’08 and celebrate an unexpected Kelli Rex wrestling season. Scott Rex 28 Giving Communications committee Education Building project wraps Jeffrey L. Benjamin, ‘86 up; Abel endowment supports Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76 lecture series. Raymond Jones, ’73 MA ’80 Shirley Posk, ’60 31 Connections Kevin H. Richman, ‘93 Your alumni association source. Vice President of Development 35 Alumni News and Alumni Relations 39 In Memory 28 Michael Leto 40 I Am Central Associate Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing Renée Walker, ‘00 For advertising information Call Cindy Jacobs, ’93 800-358-6903 stay connected Send change of address information to: Alumni Relations Carlin Alumni House Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Phone: 800-358-6903 Fax: 989-774-7159 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.cmualum.com

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centralight summer ’09 1 Your Voice

Embryo rights and adult rights can’t be compared Write to us Centralight wants to hear from Editor: In reference to the article “Embryonic stem you! We welcome all letters from cells – offering the hope for cures” in the spring readers. Tell us your thoughts issue of Centralight, I take issue with professor about Centralight content or Fuller’s statement: “Being a potential person doesn’t about CMU in general. give someone the rights of an actual person any more than a child’s being a potential adult gives Include your full name, address him or her adult rights….” There’s no comparison! and phone number. If an alumnus, If a potential person isn’t allowed to live, he or she also include degree and year of won’t ever have any rights. A child only has to live Schoolhouse story degree. Letters may be edited for and grow up to be given “adult rights, such as the brought memories space and clarity. right to vote.” (Fuller’s words.) I hardly consider Editor: It was with interest that I read WRITE the right to live on a par with the right to vote. your article “One room, many lessons” Centralight Letters I am glad to see that more progress is being made in the most recent issue of Centralight. Public Relations and Marketing in adult stem cell research, and I trust that in time My mother was a teacher in a country West Hall there will be more practical applications. school, as well as a graduate of Central Central Michigan University Michigan College of Education. I have Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 I enjoy reading Centralight. The special projects that a copy of one of her contracts dated students are involved in these days are very interesting. June 21, 1944. It is an interesting E-MAIL So much more is happening than when I was a student! document when one considers that my [email protected] Helen (Lehto) Dorcey, ’57 MA ’89 mother’s pay was $150 per month. FAX Farwell, Mich. Chuck Higgins, ’59 989-774-1098 Lake City, Mich. Summer picks Ah, summer. It’s almost time to settle into a lounge chair and immerse yourself Stan Shingles, University Recreation director in a good book. CMU faculty and staff and CMU Sports Network football lend their recommendations. commentator: Tom Moore, CMU Libraries dean: This is one of the most recent books I have read “American Chica” by Marie Arana, the speaker and recommend: “Dreams from My Father: A for the June 6 Friends of the Libraries Story of Race and Inheritance” by Barack Obama. Luncheon. It explores the complexities of Sandra Snow, English Language and Literature Arana’s childhood spent in both Peru and the faculty member: United States and the issues of identity “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Tracy provoked by a youth spanning two cultures. Chevalier. It’s a great period piece, written from John Palen, Journalism faculty member: the perspective of the female servant who learns I really like the “Penguin Lives” series of short biographies. to think like an artist. It is a luscious read. In addition to being brief – most under 200 pages – they are Marcy Taylor, English Language and Literature chairwoman: well-written. Favorite titles so far: “Buddha” by Karen Armstrong, “Impotent,” the newest novel by Matthew Roberson, a creative “Crazy Horse” by Larry McMurtry, “Mao Zedong” by Jonathan writing professor at CMU. Also “American Prophet” the newest Spence and “Robert E. Lee” by Roy Blount Jr. poetry collection by Robert Fanning, a new assistant professor Bill Pretzer, Museum of Cultural and Natural History director: of creative writing at CMU. “Pompeii: A Novel” by Robert Harris. This work of historical fiction Kris Yesley, English Language presents the story like an episode of “CSI” meets “Mythbusters,” as and Literature faculty member: Harris follows one of the engineers of the Roman aquaduct system “Purple Hibiscus” and “Half of a as he seeks to determine why the city’s water is heating up just Yellow Sun” by Chimamanda Ngozi prior to the cataclysm. Adichie. Chimamanda is a Nigerian Shawna Ross, Volunteer Center director: writer whose work is not hugely “The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton. Classic, romantic, popular yet, so not a lot of people summertime reading: the setting is early 20th century and includes may know about these books, but the old upper-class New York characters who want to bust out of the writing is fine. the conventional norms of polite society and show their true emotions. Also, I am a certified “foodie” and loved the drama of Anthony Bourdain’s book, “Kitchen Confidential.”

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Celebrate CMU is an AA/EO institution (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo). Maroon andGold CMU Today CMU remembers Karen Adams Leadership changes Members of the CMU community forever will remember Karen Mike Leto, CMU vice president of Adams, dean of the College of Education and Human Services development and alumni relations, has since 2003, as an inspirational visionary leader. Adams died been named the new vice chancellor for April 7 at MidMichigan Medical Center in Midland. She was 58. development and alumni relations at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “She used her tremendous talent Under Leto’s leadership, the amount of money to help CMU create raised through fundraising for CMU nearly tripled. many innovative He led the university’s first capital campaign and also fundraising programs such as the projects for the construction of the Health Professions Building, the Alternate Route to Education Building, expansion of the CMU Biological Station on Teacher Certification Beaver Island and creation of the Women’s Connection scholarship program,” says program. He increased new endowments by more than 300 and President Michael Rao. helped boost gifts from CMU faculty and staff to record levels. “Her lasting impact “I cherish the relationships I have built at CMU and the support, on the university talent and dedication of the development and alumni relations will be the visionary staff,” Leto says. “I know that they will continue to serve CMU well.” academic design of the new Education Ted Tolcher, assistant vice president for planned and major gifts, Building, which will has been named interim vice president of development and forever enhance the alumni relations. university’s teacher education program.” Trustee news: • CMU Trustees appointed Kathy Wilbur interim CMU president An avid traveler effective July 1 while a search is conducted to fill the vacancy who visited 103 left by President Michael Rao, who will become president of countries in her Virginia Commonwealth University. Wilbur has been serving lifetime, Adams was a as vice president of government relations and public affairs. vocal advocate for the value of international experiences as part of an academic education as well as one’s life • Sarah Opperman of Midland and John Hurd of Munith were education. On CMU’s behalf, she traveled to India and China appointed to eight-year terms on the CMU Board of Trustees to explore possible partnerships with universities; she also in January. Opperman is vice president of government affairs traveled to Ghana to co-instruct a professional development and public policy for The Dow Chemical Co. Hurd has 30 years of experience in higher education administration. workshop for teachers and to Mexico to assist with cultural studies aspects of a CMU service-learning project. • Trustee Dr. Sam Kottamasu has been elected to become a fellow in the American College of Radiology – one of the highest In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the honors the ACR can bestow on a radiologist, radiation oncologist new CMU Education Building. Checks made payable to CMU or medical physicist. The degree of fellow is conferred on the may be sent to the Carlin Alumni House, CMU, Mount Pleasant, basis of outstanding contributions and service to radiology. • MI 48859. •

Magic on stage CMU students staged Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” this spring for the annual opera. Shown here, Sharasa Henley and Ben Laur play lovers Papagena and Papageno. Voice professor Eric Tucker says the opera program prepares voice performance students for the professional world of singing. Other operas at CMU have included “The Mikado,” “Die Fledermaus” and “The Marriage of Figaro.” Tucker says the opera genre is special because it combines music, drama, dance and art. “It’s one of the ultimate art forms,” he says. • risbane eggy B P 44 centralight summer ’09 hoto by P CMU Today Soup for a cause Two hundred red, blue, gold and green ceramic bowls lined a table in the Bovee University Center Rotunda for the Soup Bowls for Charity event coordinated by the CMU Honors Program and Honors Philanthropic Society. Faculty, staff and students attended the soup and bread luncheon and got to take home the handmade bowls. The event raised nearly $1,500 for the local Women’s Aid Shelter. Shown here, Flint freshman Donnesha Blake, an Honors Philanthropic Society member, looks over the bowls created by art faculty member Greg Stahly and his students. • risbane eggy B P hoto by P

Celebrating newspapers Fans of newspapers and history will want to visit a CMU exhibit documenting Michigan’s vital role in newspaper history. “Celebrating 200 Years of Newspapers in Michigan,” on display through Aug. 31 at the Clarke Historical Library, commemorates the bicentennial of Michigan’s first newspaper, The Michigan Essay, published Aug. 31, 1809, in Detroit. The exhibit highlights the significance of newspapers as information resources, their longevity and the importance of preserving newspapers as historical sources. “We’ve come to have a deep appreciation for what newspapers do for the state,” says Frank Boles, library director. “Newspapers are the first draft of community history and continue today risbane as a fundamental source of community eggy B news and public accountability. There P hoto by is a continued and vital role for the P press, and that will never go away.” •

centralight summer ’09 5 Civil rights leader Julian Bond, chairman of the board of the NAACP, teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and American University in Washington, D.C. He took a class from Martin Luther King Jr. at Morehouse College in 1961 – the only college class King ever taught. “There were only eight people in the class, and I was one of the eight,” Bond says. “So I’m one of only eight people in the world who can say I was a student of Martin Luther King.”

Bond visited campus in January, the day after he attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Up close with… risbane

julian eggy B P At the inauguration, what was going

Bond hoto by through your head? P I was crying, I was freezing, and I was tired, because I had to walk a long way to get there. But Your students read about the civil rights movement in history books, I just felt this joy. You know that his winning has but you lived it. What is that difference in perspective like for you? everything to do with the successes of the civil When I tell my students that until I went to high school, I never went rights movement over years and years. Everything to a school with an indoor toilet, they are astounded by this. When we have done led toward this moment. I talk about sitting in the back of the bus because the law required you to do that, they say, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t do that.’ But of course they Do you personally know Barack Obama? would. They like to think they would have behaved differently. But the Yes, but we’re not buddies. I’ve met him, I think, five sad fact is, they would not have been able to behave differently. times. These have only been very quick encounters. What is your biggest accomplishment in your career thus far? Can you talk a little about the role and I like to think I haven’t had my biggest accomplishment yet. importance of higher education in your life? My father was a college president, so higher Is there anything you wish you could change? education was very important to me. My father Oh sure, there are many things I wish I could change. I was part of the and mother told their children, the three of us, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and we worked almost how important higher education could be. It’s a totally in the South. In retrospect, that was a tremendous mistake to have familiar refrain that I think every parent tells their focused just on this region where the problems were the greatest, where child: If you get an education, you’re getting the need cried out the most, without also developing some activity something no one can ever take away from you. north of the Mason-Dixon Line. That was a serious mistake, and I think the country suffered because of it. We subjected the South to a kind of shock How do you find the college students of treatment that made it recover from this illness that it had. But we didn’t do today to be? that north of the Mason-Dixon Line, and it took a longer time to recover, if The ones I see are bright and curious. If there’s indeed it has at all recovered, from this illness they were suffering from. any difference between young people today and the young people of my age, it is that we What is your biggest priority right now? were intensely interested in social justice, and The NAACP is 100 years old this year. We want to spend this year they seem to be more interested in social service. celebrating our 100th birthday. My biggest priority now is organizing Both of these are good things, but if people have centennial events and making sure we increase our endowment, we social justice, they won’t need social service. build our staff and we make ourselves a better organization. •

6 centralight summer ’09 futureheads of state

An ambitious contingent of CMU interns made an impact on Michigan’s capital city this spring as CMU’s new Capital City Internship Program created connections between students, alumni mentors and the legislators who are making the decisions for the Great Lakes state.

Text by Sarah A. Chuby, ’03 Photographs by Robert Barclay

centralight summer ’09 7 Through the Capital City Internship Program, Michigan lawmakers see the caliber of CMU students, the dedication of alumni to get them to Lansing and a university that provides the best opportunities for learning. Intern Andrea King, an information technology major, says state government may not be the first place someone in her major might look for an internship, but she knew this was a great opportunity to see the legal side of technology and how lawmakers “This internship has gotten me so involved,” use today’s technology. And staffers in the says graduate student James Garner, who office of Rep. Gino Polidori, D-District 15, were is writing his thesis on voter participation happy to have someone with IT experience in African-American communities. “It is one to help with their computer needs. thing to read about how the government works; it is another thing to experience it.” During the four-month internship, King and the 34 other interns attended appropriations committee meetings, legislative sessions, CMU’s program is one of a kind wrote letters to constituents and sat in Key to the program are Kathy Wilbur, on policy forums. Along the way, they CMU vice president of government have become more informed citizens. relations and public affairs and newly appointed interim CMU president, and Brian Partie Jr., CMU’s Career Services assistant director. They began laying the program’s foundation two years ago. Partie recruits and trains the students from CMU creates his office on campus, assists them with résumé writing and interviewing skills, and coaches them on appropriate dress a and professionalism. All CMU students can apply – the only requirement is motivation. “I’m very impressed with CMU’s students. They are hardworking and eager to learn,” says Sen. Hansen Clarke, Capitol D-District 1. “The three interns we had in our office were dependable, had connection positive personalities and exhibited a true enthusiasm for the internship.” Wilbur says other Michigan universities have interns in Lansing, but there is nothing else like CMU’s program.

Andrea Aquino, integrative public relations major – Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-District 6)

James Garner, political science grad student – Sen. Deborah Cherry (D-District 26) Andrea King, information Carisa Seltz, political technoloy major – Rep. Gino science major – Sen. Roger Polidori (D-District 15) Kahn (R-District 32) 8 centralight summer ’09 “CMU has really worked hard to streamline Alumni give advice and everything for the benefit of the offices opportunities to CMU students and the students,” she says. “Not only Success of the internship program also relies do we provide transportation to get on the CMU alumni who serve as mentors the students to and from Lansing, to the interns. Wilbur maintains a list of we act as a go-to source for offices alumni contacts known as the Capital City to find great interns. They know that Chippewas. “Now we are at 180 names or we have students from all different so,” she says. “And that list grows every day. backgrounds who want experience. “We have such a great network in Lansing, “Many people think of political science and this internship program will help Intern program 101 majors when they think of government. strengthen that,” Wilbur says. “Internships But to keep things running, the state will help our students get a foot in the door. • Began January 2009 needs people who are knowledgeable And hopefully that will lead to a job for • 35 CMU interns working in various in a variety of subjects. We need them – and more CMU connections for us.” information technology, business, state government offices communications, environmental science. ” Cami Pendell, ’95, manager of state government affairs for BL Government • Several majors are represented The interns are matched with the Affairs, has mentored two CMU students. including English, economics, various offices based on career interests, She has taken them to the Senate floor, environmental science, goals and hometown location. And introduced them to her colleagues, and financial planning, information Wilbur says office staffers are already met them for coffee and conversation. technology, integrative public clamoring for CMU interns for next year. relations, international business, There will be at least 50 in the fall. “I like being able to help students journalism and political science navigate the transition from college to “Believe me, word flies fast around here,” the professional working world,” says Student job responsibilities: she says. “Everyone is so impressed with Pendell, whose organization provides • Communicate with constituents our students. They are on time, dressed government relations and strategic counsel and legislative liaisons professionally and hardworking.” to corporations and trade associations. • Write correspondence – Speaker Pro Tempore Pam Byrnes, D-District “Given the current state of the economy, letters, tributes, resolutions 52, says the CMU internship program internships and establishing networks are and congratulations provides students with more than job so important in helping to obtain that • Conduct legislative, policy and development; they also get hands-on first professional job out of college.” issue background research experience with the legislative process. Carisa Seltz, a sophomore studying political • Monitor legislation “CMU is the only Michigan university that science and economics, says after speaking has approached us with an organized with students from other universities, she • Conduct general office activities – internship program,” says Byrnes, who knows how coveted the positions are. “I clerical, phone, e-mail, organization hosted international business student have spoken with other interns who have • Assist staff and become involved Nou Her as an intern. “This experience told me how hard it was for them to get will aid these students in preparation internships, but for me it was seamless,” in committee meetings for their careers. I applaud CMU’s Seltz says. “I feel very privileged and lucky.”• leadership for taking this initiative.” Rep. Bill Caul, R-District 99, says his intern, Daniel O’Rourke, an English major, has been a great addition to the staff. “Since he lives in my district, he understands the area and my constituents’ needs,” Caul says.

Daniel O’Rourke, English major – Rep. Bill Caul Nou Her, international business major – Rep. Pam Byrnes (D-District 52) (R-District 99)

Nelson Knill, finance major – Rep. Tim Moore (R-District 97)

centralight summer ’09 9 Swirls of color, pulsing rhythms, the spirit of tradition, and joyful dancing and singing combine at the annual CMU Powwow, which this spring celebrated its 20th anniversary. Here, Miigwaans Smith of Hayward, Wis., competes in the junior girls fancy shawl division. The dancer represents a butterfly who mourns the loss of her mate killed in battle and goes into a cocoon symbolized by the shawl. She travels the world looking for happiness, stepping on every stone and finding beauty in just one. She emerges from the cocoon celebrating freedom and a new life. Photo by Peggy Brisbane

10 centralight summer ’09 centralight summer ’09 11 Exclusive in AmericachangeWhy higher ed must I ask every American to commit to In the United States, the land of the weak and poor, the uninsured, those opportunity, public higher education is trapped in lifestyles that perpetuate at least one year or more of higher increasingly exclusive and unattainable dysfunction and disorder from one education or career training. This for the majority who need it most. generation to the next,” Rao says. can be community college or a four- The American higher education system has been the pride of the Catalyst for economic rebirth year school, vocational training or an A vibrant higher education system apprenticeship. … We will provide world, ironically, because it has relied on privatized support and established provides competitive opportunity for the support necessary for you to reputation, specialization and elite its graduates to compete for high- paying jobs in growing fields like complete college and meet a new access. So the world has traditionally come to the United States for the first- technology, science and health care. goal: by 2020, America will once rate education and cultural experience In the state leading the U.S. in again have the highest proportion that has helped America establish itself unemployment, Michigan Gov. Jennifer of college graduates in the world. as an innovation leader in areas from Granholm is pushing for a statewide medicine to information technology. But economic redirection and called for the — President Barack today access is increasingly denied to number of Michigan college graduates the very system the world has envied. Obama, Feb. 24, 2009 to double between 2005 and 2014. Cheaper, universal higher education alone “Those states with the highest number won’t balance an American system in of adults with college degrees have which only one in four adults now earns the lowest unemployment rates, the Edited by Barbara Sutherland a bachelor’s degree, and in which only highest personal income growth and Chovanec with reporting by Mark the fastest growing economies in this Lagerwey, MA ‘01, and Kelli Rex. one in four of those students is a member of an underrepresented group. But it nation,” Granholm says. “More than any may help, and not too soon, says CMU other factor, this one – a highly educated President Michael Rao, long an advocate for population – drives a state’s economy.” broadening access to American education. And while the economic value of higher “It is unacceptable that higher education education may seem obvious, the College is becoming unattainable and inaccessible Board’s 2007 report found that degree- to those who need it most – the holders are more engaged citizens who disadvantaged, the underrepresented, vote more, volunteer more, and make better health decisions such as smoking less, eating

12 centralight summer ’09 healthier and exercising more, making institutions entrenched in academic higher education attainment not just a specializations. Few can reinvent their private investment but also a public good. curricula any quicker than General Motors can retool for more efficient cars. Success, But despite the long-term value of says Rao, will require institutions to quickly a college degree, the up-front cost develop more relevant programs like of attaining one remains powerfully entrepreneurship and health care, explore inhibiting to many students and families. new delivery formats such as online and A 2006 report from Campus Compact, a off-campus programs, pursue partnerships national coalition of nearly 1,200 college with businesses and organizations in the and university presidents, starkly stated: community and abroad, find ways to “Sadly, a perfect storm has formed meet the needs of college students who causing access to a higher education, are more individually diverse than ever and thus lifelong economic success to before, and retool academic programs risbane be, in a word, inaccessible. … In a 10-year to be relevant to employers’ needs. Local push

eggy B period from 1993 to 2003, the cost of a P In addition to ramping up a focus on critical public four-year institution doubled.” For students who otherwise may not thinking skills, Rao says, “It is imperative that

hotos by see a clear path to college, two CMU P we find ways to provide students with a A boost of support programs – Upward Bound and Gear greater context for learning. We must think Up – are part of the grassroots effort The U.S. Department of Education about what will help our students learn to make higher education attainable. and President Obama support higher most effectively by focusing on what they education’s move toward greater actually will be doing after graduation.” Students receive tutoring, mentoring accessibility. The 2006 Spellings Report and assistance with the nuts and concluded that “too few Americans prepare bolts of the application process Moving forward for, participate in and complete higher and financial aid paperwork. Most Of necessity, perhaps, higher education in education – especially those underserved of the participants are the first Michigan will reinvent itself more quickly and nontraditional groups who make up an in their families to pursue higher than other states in less economic peril. ever-greater proportion of the population” education, and this support and Purging outdated programs, holding and suggested that “the nation must be encouragement helps make it a reality. down tuition, developing relevant new committed to building and sustaining a programs and doing so at a breakneck “We are training, informing and higher education system that is accessible pace will not be easy, and the sacrifices empowering students and parents to change to all qualified students in all life stages.” are likely to be real and painful. But the be college ready,” says Montisa The Obama administration, in proposing the outcome may be something better: Watkins, CMU Upward Bound director. most comprehensive education agenda in A system that parallels career needs Upward Bound decades, hopes to address the affordability and is accessible and affordable. Partners with: issue with the American Opportunity Tax Campus Compact advocates for a specific Detroit International Academy and Credit, a fully refundable credit that will “New Deal” for higher education with Frederick Douglas Academy, Detroit ensure that the first $4,000 of a college measures such as AmeriCollege, a federally education is free for most Americans. Success: funded mentoring initiative to coach young Obama’s plan also reportedly will cover In 2008 the program had a 100 people in applying for college. “In the two-thirds the cost of tuition at the average percent college placement rate same way that FDR responded to the 1930s public college or university and make depression with a series of programs and Includes: community college tuition completely policies that helped our nation through that Visits to college campuses across free for most students. In exchange, crisis, we need to invest in bold solutions the U.S., including CMU recipients will be required to conduct to eradicate the college access crisis,” 100 hours of community service a year. Funding by: reads the 2006 Campus Compact report. CMU and the U.S. Department Relevancy required “It is our responsibility to welcome of Education all qualified students into updated As the U.S. transitions from a brawn to Gear Up educational models that celebrate brains economy, institutions of higher Partners with: diversity, accommodate innovative ways education must help the populace Flint Community Schools meet this challenge today with relevant of accessing knowledge, allow students programs for tomorrow’s needs. to capitalize on the knowledge gained Serves: from previous life experiences, and offer More than 1,200 students The value of higher education is recession- relevant learning opportunities that will in five schools proof, but only if its programs meet support and ensure their professional Special plus: the specific requirements of students success,” Rao says. “By thoroughly A mentoring system matches – particularly those who are seeking challenging existing higher education incoming CMU students with education later in life and those affected structures, we can help these workers current CMU students by soaring unemployment – and the need – and all talented, motivated learners for rapid retraining for growth professions across the country – achieve the level of Funded by: like health care and green technology. education needed to take a leadership role CMU and the U.S. Department Becoming strategically attuned to changing in moving American society forward.” • of Education needs is painful for higher education

centralight summer ’09 13 Images of a president

Photos by Robert Barclay early a decade ago, a 33-year-old increased retention and graduation rates, and Peggy Brisbane Michael Rao stepped onto a beautiful with 80 percent of CMU graduates staying but unassuming Midwestern in Michigan to live and lead. Rao’s tenure campus as its new leader. Over has seen record growth in both enrollment the next nine years, the bold vision and and study abroad and a more than tenfold seemingly limitless energy of CMU’s 12th increase in student volunteerism. His call president would catapult a once-regional to engage students at all levels in research institution onto the national stage. and creative activities has motivated more than 3,500 students to publicly present their From transforming the campus landscape research in the last five years alone. His vocal with innovative facilities and tripling support for diversity led to the formation revenue from private fundraising, of international partnerships and sparked partnerships and research to setting into important discussions across campus about motion mid- and northern Michigan’s respect and inclusion, while his strong voice first medical school, President Rao’s far- in Lansing and as a member of national reaching vision and infectious enthusiasm boards and committees has cemented CMU Editor’s note: have inspired the campus and community as a leader in higher education policy. alike to elevate expectations of CMU. CMU President Michael Rao As President Rao prepares to move beyond will become the president of Student success always has been the center this campus – still beautiful, but forever Virginia Commonwealth University of Rao’s focus; his commitment to raising changed – he leaves behind an unparalleled in Richmond, Va., July 1. the bar for academic excellence has led to legacy that acts as a bridge to the future. •

14 centralight summer ’09 First Lady Monica Rao As university outreach liaison, Monica Rao has worked to form connections and promote CMU in Michigan and around the world. She served on the board of directors for Art Reach of Mid Michigan and is a founding member of the board of the award-winning Michigan Story Festival. Rao’s leadership inspired: Monica has traveled on behalf of STATE AND NATIONAL RANKINGS for excellence in CMU to develop faculty and student entrepreneurship, audiology, physician assistant, exchanges with universities in India, teacher education, broadcasting, vehicle design, China, Japan and The Netherlands faculty research and student volunteerism and to recruit international students to CMU. Her work to found the NEW ACADEMIC PROGRAMS such as mechanical CMU Women’s Connection and electrical engineering; doctoral programs networking program for in materials science, neuroscience, health alumnae and friends five administration; and the doctor of medicine years ago will continue to degree program currently in development support CMU students ELEVATED ACADEMIC STANDARDS with more than through a recently created 70 tenure track faculty positions funded in key areas scholarship for students who are either single LIVING/LEARNING ENVIRONMENT improvements parents or are from include a $50 million library facility, a $50 million a single-parent Health Professions Building, five new residence household. halls and the new Education Building SUSTAINABILITY MEASURES including record involvement in recycling efforts and millions of dollars in energy cost reduction A CAPITAL CAMPAIGN, the university’s first, that exceeded the established goal by $29 million

centralight summer ’09 15 Getting

by Barbara Sutherland Chovanec aheadCareer success not only requires being good at what you do, but also being good at marketing yourself. For inspiration, we tapped into the wisdom of five successful alumni and a CMU Career Services expert. Here are their stories and advice for getting ahead.

16 centralight summer ’09 If you’re looking for a new job, now’s Job-seeking alumni can tap the resources Sherlock offers this advice to help the time to polish up your self- of CMU’s Career Services office, including smooth the way: promotion tools, beginning with an registering for CMU’s e-recruiting system error-free résumé, dynamic cover with access to job postings. See the Network letter and solid interviewing skills. alumni tab at www.careers.cmich.edu Online networking sites such as Facebook, for tips on everything from résumé LinkedIn, inCircle and Plaxo have changed writing to how to answer those sticky how job searchers network and make salary questions. professional connections, but the basic Learn the premise is still the same: “Tell people you’re Julia Barlow Sherlock, director of CMU looking,” Sherlock says. “If people don’t job-search Career Services, says most of all, treat your know, they can’t help you. job search as your own mini business. “It’s “We’ve always talked about tapping into dance your job to sell yourself to an employer,” your network,” she says. “Now it’s more she says. important than ever.”

Entrepreneur Cason Thorsby, ’08, is on the verge of taking his wild game soup company nationwide. He has teamed up with chef Dave Minar of the Old Dixie Inn of Birch Run, and they’re working with a manufacturing facility in Ohio to produce eight varieties of canned goodness: venison chili, venison stew, venison and wild mushroom, elk tips and red wine sauce, buffalo barley, wild boar and black bean, pheasant and wild rice, and gator gumbo. Prior to meeting Minar, Thorsby says he didn’t know the ins and outs of food production. He simply recognized a business opportunity lying within great soup. Now Thorsby and Minar are wrapping up the product formulation stage of canning their soups, and Thorsby says he has learned a lot from food scientists they’ve worked with. For instance, soups – and all canned foods, for that matter – are cooked right in their cans. Name: Cason Thorsby Grocery retailers such as Spartan Stores and Meijer and Business: Dixie Dave’s Wild Game Soup Co. sporting goods stores such as Cabela’s and Gander Mountain have made verbal commitments to sell the wild game soups Biggest Marketing himself. At age 23, he’s once they’re canned and ready. marketing already owned and operated success: three businesses. But because he’s As for Thorsby, Dixie Dave’s Wild Game Soup Co. providing business counsel to aspiring (www.wildgamesoup.com) is his third business. He also entrepreneurs twice his age, he started a deck-staining business and a party-supply rental can’t let his youth get in the way. business while he was an undergraduate student in the College of Business Administration’s LaBelle Entrepreneurial Advice: “Just go with it. There are a lot of people Center. who have a lot of good ideas, they just Now Thorsby works as a business development manager for don’t know the next step. Go out on a CMU Research Corp., helping entrepreneurs put together limb, because that’s where the fruit is.” business plans and start their companies. CMU Research Corp. works with individual entrepreneurs and larger companies on Learn more: Find out how CMU Research Corp. helps a wide range of business support initiatives. entrepreneurs at www.cmurc.com. Thorsby also is an MBA student, and he mentors undergraduate student entrepreneurs, helping them turn their ideas into reality. Especially with online networking, it’s Navigate through the application process important to be specific about your When filling out an online application, if possible, print it first, fill it out and read through qualifications and what kind of position your answers several times. Once you’re happy with your answers, then fill it out online. you’re seeking – even specifying geography and other factors that could narrow your “Make sure your application materials are error-free,” Sherlock says. “Once you hit ‘submit,’ search to a manageable level. Facebook they’re gone. Errors are the No. 1 screen-out.” alone has 200 million active users Try to find out how many steps will be involved in the application and interview process so worldwide. you’ll be mentally prepared. Some employers will have a two-interview process – others “With that sea of humanity, if you’re not could have a successful candidate go through up to seven steps. specific enough or targeted enough, it’s just And be proactive. Spell out in your cover letter how you’ll follow up on your application a drop in the ocean,” Sherlock says. materials. And once you have an interview, follow up with a handwritten or e-mailed note within 24 hours. “E-mail is now appropriate for a thank-you note,” Sherlock says.

Creative thinker Risk taker Elaine Lewis, MSA ’98, always Saylor Frase, ’98, CEO of Nuspire Corp., focuses his thinks about the next big thing. company on change and growth. As the vice president of public Nuspire, a managed network security service provider, affairs and strategic planning for the has more than 40 employees at its Commerce Township, Detroit Tigers, she oversees player Mich., location, and the company is expanding and hiring and alumni relations, the Dreams staffers for network engineering, information technology Come True program that helps fans sales and business development. with life-threatening illnesses to Nuspire has had double-digit sales growth for the past meet players or coaches, the Detroit five years and projects $10 million revenue in 2009. “The Tigers Foundation that gives grants way we look at it here is if you’re not growing, you’re and scholarships, and the Tigers staying stagnant,” Frase says. Winter Caravan, among other projects. Frase studied geographic information systems and Last year Lewis led the launch of Play Baseball Detroit, a program computer science at CMU. As a student, he started a Web that in its first year encouraged more than 4,400 inner-city Detroit programming company from his house on Franklin Street. youth to embrace the game of baseball. The program also helps Now he’s jetting across the world doing business neighborhood baseball leagues with their field maintenance. throughout the U.S. and in Europe and South America. “We think it’s going to be a best-practice for all of Major League As for marketing, Frase has an all-inclusive perspective: Baseball,” Lewis says. “Every single employee is a marketing and sales person,” Lewis, who was chosen by the Michigan Chronicle as one of he says. “They are all selling the company all the time, no 50 Women of Excellence in 2009, oversees a staff of about matter what their job role. We preach that.” 10 employees and interns, and she seeks ways to work with Name: Saylor Frase community groups that can benefit from forming relationships with the Detroit Tigers. Company: Nuspire “We’re always trying to get creative,” she says. Top honors: Crain’s Detroit named Frase one of the “40 Name: Elaine Lewis Under 40” business leaders and named Nuspire as one of the “coolest places to work.” Organization: Detroit Tigers Advice: “Any kind of reward is going to require Job-search advice: “You need to know what kind taking a risk. If you play it safe, you fall behind.” of value you bring. Always look for something new and fresh you can bring to the bottom line.”

How to advance: “You’ve got to flow with the changes, and you’ve got to bring about change. You can get trapped if you stick with the status quo. You need to always question what was done before.”

18 centralight summer ’09 Brush up on interviewing skills Focus on first impressions People who haven’t interviewed in a few years may have missed Value the importance of conservative, professional clothes and a the trend toward behavioral interviewing – asking applicants how firm handshake. And pay attention to etiquette – for instance, they would handle certain situations – instead of focusing on where to wear your nametag, proper introductions and table strengths and weaknesses. manners if a meal may be involved in the interview process. Sherlock suggests answering behavioral interview questions using “First impressions are important,” Sherlock says. “Within five the STAR approach – focus on the situation, task, action and result. minutes, the screener has decided whether or not they want to advance you in the process. The little stuff makes the difference.” “It’s important to practice,” Sherlock says. “Give clear, concise answers, and don’t go on and on.”

Seasoned veteran Opportunity seeker David Dow, ’71, sales and marketing Christina Rose, ’04, a professional actress in guru, visits CMU every year to participate New York City, always carries her résumé with her – in the College of Business Administration’s just in case. Dialogue Days. Rose visited campus last winter to give advice to hopeful He discusses marketing concepts with the theater students about auditioning, getting an agent and students and then dishes out practical finding work. But her counsel applies to almost anyone job-search advice, such as: overdress for looking for a job. Such as: “There are a lot of people out interviews, carefully proofread application there that really want it. You need the tools to be ahead materials and follow up with personal of the game.” notes. The day after her CMU graduation, she joined the “I really emphasize to them the importance of personal traveling Broadway tour of “Oklahoma,” in which she communication,” Dow says. “Even though we’re in a high-tech acted for a year. When the tour ended, she had other society, we can’t lose the personal touch.” work lined up in New York City, because on tour layovers she would fly to the city for auditions. Dow is the new director of sales for Gordon Food Service’s Canadian division. The company is a food distributor primarily for Rose has done live theater, television, commercials and schools, restaurants and health care facilities. It also operates retail modeling. She made her Broadway debut in “Grease.” stores as a fraction of its overall business. And she always has a backup plan such as working as a toy demonstrator at FAO Swartz or appearing as a Dow previously worked for Gordon Food Service in the U.S. for 31 princess at children’s birthday parties. years, mostly leading sales and marketing operations. He retired in 2004 as executive vice president, and since then has worked “The entertainment business is not stable,” Rose says. part time as a food service distribution consultant and an adjunct “That’s why you always have to have something in the marketing professor. background.” This spring Gordon Food Service recruited Dow back to the Rose works hard to make opportunities for herself, workforce full time. He lives in Ada, Mich., and spends about half honing her dancing, singing and acting skills through his time in Canada. classes and private instruction. She says it’s important to be well-rounded. “It has not been any problem going back to a full schedule and the daily work grind,” Dow says. “Be marketable. Be creative,” she says. “It’s a business, and you’re promoting yourself.” Name: David Dow Name: Company: Gordon Food Service Christina Rose

Advice to workers re-entering the workforce: Job: Actress “Demonstrate that you still have the fire and energy www.christina-rose.com to go out there and do what needs to be done.” Advice: “You can’t If possible: Follow your passion. “If you’re able to re-enter the always wait for the call. workforce in a job that you have a passion for, why not?” You need to seek out opportunities yourself.” And share your wisdom: “For those of us who are seasoned veterans, we can pass the baton to the next generation. We ought to have that as a secondary motivation for working.”

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centralight summer ’09 21 Wear maroon and gold. CMU is an AA/EO institution (www.cmich.edu/aaeo) Lauren

22 centralight summer ’09 Lauren

Step inside Lauren Lein’s tiny downtown Chicago studio and enter a charmingly quirky world of color, fabric and fashion. Lein, a custom clothing designer for 20 years, takes her work very seriously, but she’s also quick to laugh at herself and point out that fashion is fun. She designs with feathers and fringe, she uses words like “groovy,” and what most people think is purple, Lein calls plum. Lein, ’81, specializes in custom business suits, cocktail suits and dresses. A typical client of Lauren Lein Ltd. is a successful businesswoman 35 or older. This client wants distinctive one-of-a-kind clothes, or she’s someone who doesn’t like to shop or has a hard-to-fit body.

Text by Barbara Sutherland Chovanec Photographs by Robert Barclay

centralight summer ’09 23 lot of times my clients like the whole Her plan took a turn when she enrolled in an experience of coming here and picking out apparel merchandising and design class that fabric swatches,” Lein says. “If a woman likes included a fashion study trip to New York City. “We fabrics, she likes coming here, because were there for a week, and on day one, I said, ‘I’m I don’t really use a lot of manmade changing my major to fashion.’” She returned to fabrics. I use a lot of wools and silks.” campus and picked up more design courses, but in Above all else, Lein focuses on proper fit. “I don’t the end stuck with her business major and made care how much you pay for a suit – if it doesn’t fit apparel merchandising and design her minor. you, it doesn’t look good,” she says. “Because our “I think I always felt that because I wasn’t great pieces are custom, and you meet with me and at a sewing machine, how was I going to be the tailor, they’re going to fit you wonderfully.” a designer?” Lein says. “Then I learned as I got more into my own business that a lot of the big designers don’t sew.” She hires tailors, knitters and seamstresses to turn her designs into reality. Lein takes inspiration from travel and nature (such as a hydrangea on Martha’s Vineyard), her surroundings (a leaf on the ground when walking her children to school) and beautiful fabric (“I’m a fabric-aholic,” she says). “I am also inspired by the needs of my customers,” she says. “Sometimes a client will come to me with a specific need. Some of my best-selling pieces come out of, ‘This is what I need, can you do it?’” Lein says the Chicago fashion scene has received a boost of support from A typical Lauren Lein suit starts at $450 and goes Mayor Richard Daley. “He thinks Chicago should up from there, depending on the fabrication and be on the map with fashion the same as New trim. A dress starts at $400, a gown, $800. “The York, Paris and L.A.,” Lein says. “We now have more you put on it, and the more difficult it is, Fashion Week in October that’s big and fun and the more expensive it’s going to be,” Lein says. fancy. So the fashion scene is better than ever. “The economy is obviously hurting us a little, but It’s fashion, darling we just have to get past that and surge ahead and Lein, a self-described “girly girl,” grew up hope that everything’s going to turn out. What I’m loving clothes and shoes, and when she able to do is to run a business because of the skills wasn’t a whiz at the sewing machine, she I learned at Central. I’m my best salesperson. Still majored in business administration, planning being in this crazy, tumultuous fashion industry after to work as a department store buyer. 20 years is a huge accomplishment,” Lein says.

Lein’s studio is located in Chicago’s trendy River North neighborhood. Lein and her By design husband, Rick Santos, and their children, Andreah and CMU Apparel Merchandising and Design students learn Drew, live in an apartment the ins and outs of the fashion world, including design and connected to the third-floor production of apparel and accessories, retail management, studio. The “L” rumbles nearby. buying, visual promotion, sales, public relations, quality Shoppers and designers control and market research. bustle in and out of the The program recently garnered international attention for Merchandise Mart and Apparel its role in thermal-testing the National Hockey League’s new Center across the street. uniforms as part of a partnership with Reebok. Other It’s exactly where Lein program highlights include: wants to be. • • An annual fashion show, Threads, that features the work of about 30 student designers as the culminating activity for students in the Fashion Production and Promotion course. • An annual Fashion Camp for aspiring young designers to learn everything from textile basics to trend forecasting. Learn more at www.ehs.cmich.edu/amd/FashionCamp.htm.

24 centralight summer ’09 Look your best Lauren Lein offers these tips for looking your best at any price: • No matter how expensive your clothes, be sure they fit well. Get a relationship with your tailor. It’s a priceless way to look well-dressed. • To pull an outfit together, consider shoes that match or complement your hair and skin color. Black is not everyone’s best neutral. • Invest in a well-fitting dress. Dresses are really coming back into their own. • Capitalize on accessories – a necklace, handbag or trendy shoes – and their ability to change an outfit.

centralight summer ’09 25 Sports Strong and brainy CMU student-athletes’ tradition of academic excellence has earned another piece of hardware for the trophy case. The women’s varsity teams combined to earn the Mid-American Conference’s inaugural Faculty Athletics Representative Academic Achievement Award. Modeled after the conference’s all-sports awards, the FAR Academic Sweet success The women’s basketball team capped a Achievement Awards will be presented annually to the women’s and men’s successful season with a world-record- programs with the highest grade-point-average ranking in the conference. breaking event. The staff of Doozies Ice CMU’s soccer team had the highest GPA of soccer teams in the MAC, and the Cream Place in Mount Pleasant helped women’s cross country team tied for first place among cross country teams.• the team build and serve the world’s largest ice cream sundae following the final home game March 7. CMU finished Sue Guevara’s second season as head coach with an 18-14 overall record, tripling its win total from the 2007-08 campaign and posting the most victories in a season since 1990-91. CMU also had its first victory in the MAC Tournament since 1992. • ROBERT BARCLAY hoto by P ROBERT BARCLAY hoto by P

Gear up for football CMU will have five home games at Kelly/Shorts Stadium during the 2009 football season and a big away game at Michigan State. Visit cmuchippewas.com for more information on tickets, promotions and other CMU game day information. Sept. 5 Arizona Tucson, Ariz. Sept. 12 Michigan State East Lansing Sept. 19 Alcorn State Mount Pleasant Sept. 26 Akron Mount Pleasant Oct. 3 Buffalo Buffalo, N.Y. Oct. 10 Eastern Michigan Mount Pleasant (Homecoming) Oct. 17 Western Michigan Kalamazoo Oct. 24 Bowling Green Bowling Green, Ohio Oct. 31 Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. Nov. 11 Toledo Mount Pleasant Nov. 18 Ball State Muncie, Ind. Nov. 27 Northern Illinois Mount Pleasant ROBERT BARCLAY 2626 centralight summer ’09 hoto by P Sports risbane eggy B P hoto by P tephens atthew S Wrestlers M hoto by blow past predictions by Scott Rex P The experts predicted a year of rebuilding CMU’s success at the conference and It’s in the name and retooling for the CMU wrestling national tournaments merely served as Freshman outfielder and first baseman program. Even head coach Tom Borrelli a capstone to a regular season filled with Nate Theunissen carries on his family’s admitted as much. The loss of a decorated milestones for the program: baseball tradition as he plays in the CMU and accomplished seven-member senior • The 2008-09 Chippewas posted a stadium named in honor of his grandfather, class following the 2007-08 season led most dual-meet record of 17-3-1, matching Bill Theunissen, a 1947 graduate and to believe the Chippewas were as vulnerable the school record for victories in Chippewas coach from 1953 to 1962. as they had been in a decade. a season. When Bill Theunissen played at Central, However, the wrestlers refused to follow the the team competed on Alumni Field near • CMU extended its dual meet winning rebuilding plan that had been laid in front of Finch Fieldhouse. The field was renamed ROBERT BARCLAY streaks against each of the other them, and the 2008-09 season was among for him in 1986, and when a new stadium programs in the state; the Chippewas hoto by opened in 2002 on West Campus Drive, it P the most successful in Borrelli’s distinguished have won three straight over Michigan, 18-year tenure in Mount Pleasant. retained the Theunissen Stadium name. eight straight over Michigan State and Nate, a batting powerhouse for the Of the 10 Chippewas who competed at the 17 straight over Eastern Michigan. Chippewas, is the son of Mike Theunissen, Mid-American Conference Championships in • CMU’s 17-14 win over perennial national ’75, who played baseball for CMU and now March, six were in the lineup for the first power Oklahoma State marked the coaches at Mount Pleasant High School. • time. Chippewas placed either first or Cowboys’ second loss in the last 15 second in nine of the 10 weight classes, and years to a team outside of the Big Ten CMU tallied 111.5 team points – the fourth or Big 12 conferences. highest total in MAC Championships history A brand new look en route to its eighth straight conference It was a season full of individual CMU’s varsity athletics programs will have a tournament crown. accomplishments as well. Sentes set a new look next season, thanks to an apparel school record for victories by a true and footwear agreement with Adidas. Eight Chippewas advanced to the NCAA freshman with 30, while also becoming Championships, where the national spotlight The agreement marks the first time all of the first CMU true freshman to win an once again shone on CMU. Sophomore Mike CMU’s varsity athletics programs have been individual conference title since Ryan Miller advanced to the 174-pound national included in a single, all-encompassing Cunningham in 1997. Miller, a championship match, the second apparel agreement. The deal will help sophomore, finished runner-up at the consecutive season CMU has been bring consistency to uniform colors and prestigious Midlands Championships, represented in the national finals. Miller was design elements across CMU teams, while the highest finish for a Chippewa at the one of two Chippewas to earn All-America also providing the university substantial tournament since 2005, and became the honors – the first true freshman All- savings on the purchase of practice 10th individual during Borrelli’s tenure to American in school history, Scotti Sentes, apparel, game uniforms and footwear. earn All-America honors more than once. was the other – and CMU joined some The special apparel pricing available to CMU exclusive company by turning in its fifth Five different Chippewas were named Athletics also will be extended to club sport top-15 team finish in the last six years. Just MAC Wrestler of the Week a total of six programs, intramurals and other campus seven other programs – Cornell, Iowa, Iowa times, tied for the most honorees in the groups, bringing consistency for the first time State, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and conference, and 12 individuals claimed to the apparel and footwear worn by athletes Northwestern – have placed in the top 15 at least one victory in a MAC dual meet. universitywide. • nationally as many times as the Chippewas Not bad for a rebuilding year. • over the past six seasons. ROBERT BARCLAY centralight summer ’09 27 hoto by P Giving

finalby dan digmann details Each gift adds up CMU needs your help to meet the Kresge challenge Funding for the new Education Building still is needed. In fact, the university must raise an additional $1.7 million to reach its overall fundraising goal and receive additional funding through a prestigious Kresge Foundation challenge grant. The Detroit-based private foundation presented CMU with an $800,000

challenge, which the university will risbane receive only if it can reach its $7.5 million eggy B fundraising goal by the end of this P calendar year. To date, CMU has raised hotos by approximately $6 million, says Jeff Krebs, P development director of the College of Education and Human Services. A new kind of “We should, and do, feel honored to receive this $800,000 challenge grant, as it lends tremendous credibility and hardwood floor prestige to our program,” Krebs says. Work continues on CMU’s new Education Building, which will consolidate education- “Our students deserve our best effort, related programs and increase collaboration for research, classes and special projects. and we aren’t going to let them down.” • With the outside of the structure complete, crews are busy inside getting the building ready for classes later this summer and the grand opening ceremony scheduled for Sept. 17. Give today For example, here Dennis Bajdek, from Ritsema and Associates in Grand Rapids glues Contact Jeff Krebs, development and places half-inch-thick slices of kiln-dried mesquite to the main entrance floor of director of the College of the Child Development Learning Lab in the new Education Building. This is only the Education and Human Services, fifth floor in the country to use such materials in this way. Ritsema crews will use more to make your gift to support than 900 pieces of mesquite, which will be grouted and sanded and have a the Education Building. polyurethane finish, to cover the 800-square-foot entrance area. • 989-774-1554 • [email protected] This innovative type of flooring is among the building’s many sustainable design features that are key to its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification for the U.S. Green Building Council. •

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Endowment historicalestablishes by Alex Piazza, ’08 serieslecture A $100,000 memorial endowment honoring former CMU “I want this series to have some way to reach President Harold Abel will help establish a lecture series focusing students, not just to enhance the reputation of CMU,” says Iris Abel, Harold’s widow. “It on the history of dictatorship, democracy and genocide. continues President Abel’s service as an The gift from his family will honor and educator. He believed in education as a memorialize President Abel’s 44-year career lifelong endeavor to understand and as an educator, which included a 10-year improve the lives of others. Genocide is not stint as president of CMU from 1975 to 1985. a historical anomaly but an ongoing horror He passed away in 2002. which can be ended only by the glare of public attention.” The Dr. Harold Abel Endowed Lecture Series in the Study of Dictatorship, Democracy and Eric Johnson, a faculty Genocide will bring distinguished scholars member in CMU’s history to campus to discuss studying the past, department, worked with present and future of worldwide genocide. President Abel during his CMU presidency and was impressed “Establishing this lecture series will help with the advancements he bring additional distinction to the university made at the university. and benefit students and the entire university community in a large number of “When I first came, CMU was a ways,” says Lesa Smith, director of place with a few scholars of development for CMU’s College of distinction but almost no one Humanities and Social and Behavioral of truly national and Sciences. “The series also will signal to the international renown,” says country and the world that CMU is Johnson. “Today we are a committed to a continued recognition of vastly different place than that, the importance of understanding the issues with several scholars of true international of genocide and dictatorship and how these distinction and renown and many faculty issues affect worldwide democracy.” across the campus who have completed much important creative scholarship of Smith says the lecture series will focus on varying kinds.” the impact of historical events, including World War II and the Holocaust. The lecture series is expected to kick off in the fall of 2010. •

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New dynamic tools help us connect Calendar By Chris Austin, ’95 MBA ’04 Associate director of alumni relations June Last fall I wrote to you about some 5 College of Health Professions Golf Outing, upcoming initiatives your alumni Mount Pleasant Country Club association is undertaking to 17 through 19 help streamline and improve our GrandparentsU, Mount Pleasant campus communication with you. Some are available now, and there are August some things to watch for in the 14 through 16 coming weeks and months. 1970s University Theatre reunion, One of the newest services Mount Pleasant campus available to you now is the ability to view your CMU giving September history online. To view your giving history you must be a registered user at www.cmualum.com. All you need is your 12 Tailgate party at CMU vs. Michigan State game, CMU ID number (found on your Centralight mailing label). East Lansing A project currently under construction with a scheduled launch October of summer 2009 is the newly redesigned CMU Development 10 Homecoming Web site, accessible via the CMU home page at www.cmich.edu. The new Web site will feature of variety of dynamic tools to bring 23 and 24 you the latest CMU Development and Alumni Relations news. Michigan Story Festival, Mount Pleasant campus We also have significantly upgraded our e-mail capabilities, and we are very excited about our future plans and how this will impact our communication with you. We recently launched our new inCircle Connections Facebook applicaton. InCircle Connections is the easiest way to learn about opportunities at top companies and connect directly with staffing teams who are looking to hire. This co-branded application allows CMU inCircle members to gain access to career opportunities and connect with other members in their community, all on Facebook. Users can easily import data from their Facebook profile into inCircle, allowing you to share information across two powerful networks. Learn more by becoming a CMU inCircle member at incircle.cmualum.com risbane We would love to hear your ideas or feedback. E-mail me at eggy B [email protected]. I hope to share even more new P

developments and future plans with you next time. Until then, hoto by Homecoming parade, 2008 P fire up Chips! Chapter news Atlanta About 48 Atlanta area alumni and events gathered for the Atlanta Thrashers vs. Detroit Red Wings African-American game March 20 at Philips Arena. Constituent Chapter Contacts: Mark Guy, ’00 Contact: Lynn Garrett 770-475-3447 [email protected] Jared Lombard, ’03 [email protected] Ann Arbor 404-918-5342 Contacts: Bob Balicki, ’79, and Gail Elliott, ’94 Candice Zmijewski, ’03 Bob: 313-608-7922 [email protected] Gail: 313-608-7923 [email protected] Austin, Texas [email protected] Contact: Kathy McKenzie, ’82 512-733-2771 [email protected]

centralight summer ’09 3131 Connections Chapter news College of Business English Constituent Football Constituent Administration Chapter Chapter and events Constituent Chapter Contact: Monica Brady, ’03 Contact: Dustin Preston, ’94 [email protected] [email protected] Band Constituent Contact: Mark Baczewski, ’97 [email protected] Chapter Contact: Tom Broka, ’72 Flint Grand Rapids Contact: Ted Bunker, ’69 About 30 alumni and friends [email protected] Columbus, Ohio home: 810-694-7359 met March 20 for a Grand Contact: Jeremy Rycus, ’95 [email protected] Rapids Griffins hockey game 614-933-0436 and a pregame gathering Battle Creek [email protected] at McFadden’s Restaurant Contact: T.R. Shaw, ’82 Florida and Saloon for food, drinks 269-965-2979 College of Education and and good company. [email protected] Dallas Human Services Dean Karen About 25 Dallas area alumni Adams provided an update on Contact: and friends watched the the education program at CMU Stephanie Oczepek, ’99 Boston Dallas Mavericks take on the to alumni and friends living 616-813-7086 More than 30 alumni gathered Detroit Pistons March 17 at in The Villages in Florida. It [email protected] March 27 at the Union Oyster the American Airlines Center. was the first time alumni had House to hear Michael Contact: Mark Wilson, ’82 gathered in this area, and all Honors Constituent enjoyed learning about teacher Fields, dean of the College 817-797-1746 Chapter education at CMU. Naples was of Business Administration, [email protected] Contacts: Bryan Wieferich provide a campus update. once again the site in February for more than 125 alumni and [email protected] Upcoming: Denver friends to gather for an update Honors Program • Tailgate at CMU vs. Boston Contacts: Mary Van Meter, ’80 from CMU President Michael 989-774-3902 College football game Oct. 31 [email protected] Rao. The weather was a bit cool, but spirits were high as Contact: Adam Miller, ’98 Terry Beatty, ’70 everyone enjoyed the evening Houston 847-807-9464 [email protected] at the Bellassera Hotel. More Contact: Bill Cox, ’83 [email protected] than 100 alumni and friends 713-722-0911 watched the CMU baseball [email protected] Detroit team play Ohio State in Winter Broadcast and Cinematic College of Education and Haven, Fla., and enjoyed the Human Services Dean Karen Arts Constituent Chapter postgame reception and Indianapolis Adams provided an update meeting the coach and players. Contacts: Grace Ketchum, ’69 Contact: on the education program at Kathy Banfield Shaw, ’74 317-223-7982 CMU to alumni and friends East Central contact: Call the [email protected] [email protected] Jan. 22 at the CMU Troy site. alumni office at 800-358-6903. More than 100 alumni and Katie Reed, ’92 Tampa Bay contact: Charlotte, N.C. friends saw the Detroit Red [email protected] Wings beat the L.A. Kings at Kim Maszera, ’90 Contact: Joe Louis Arena, and many [email protected] Michele Caldwell Kelly, ’01 alumni gathered for a pregame Integrative Public West Palm Beach contact: [email protected] reception in the Manhattan Relations Constituent Paul Gaba, ’88 Room of The Joe. And once Chapter 561-352-0635 again, alumni gathered at The Contact: Abigail Dean, ’01 Chicago [email protected] Palace in Auburn Hills to watch [email protected] Upcoming: a Pistons vs. L.A. Clippers game. • Chicago Cubs and Goose Island event June 19 Contact: Kansas City Christopher Jablonski, ’83 Contact: Frank Moussa, ’85 Contact: Ira Kreft, ’77 christopher.jablonski@ 913-962-9620 [email protected] gmail.com [email protected]

Cincinnati Contact: Call the alumni office at 800-358-6903. The Charlotte area alumni club is growing steadily. The group had a successful event Cleveland at a Charlotte Checkers minor Contact: Call the alumni league hockey game in office at 800-358-6903. February. Shown here, from left, are Kevin Kelly, ’01; Michele Caldwell Kelly, ’01; Jennifer Lancto, ’07; Lindsay Mitchell, ’05; and Jeff Pankhurst, ’95.

3232 centralight summer ’09 Connections Knoxville, Tennessee Northern Michigan San Francisco Alumni board Contact: Lisa Fall, ’86 Contact: Kristen Beach, ’90 ’98 Contact: Call the alumni 865-216-2507 231-675-2136 office at 800-358-6903. President [email protected] [email protected] Thomas Lapka, ’78 Ada South Bend, Ind. (517) 482-0222 Lansing Phoenix Contact: Kimber Abair, ’01 [email protected] Nearly 75 alumni and friends On Jan. 20 about 50 CMU [email protected] First vice president gathered at Dublin Square alumni and friends gathered Jan (Keegan) Hagland, ’77 in February for an alumni for the Phoenix Coyotes vs. Berkley Detroit Red Wings game. Student Alumni reception featuring head Association Constituent [email protected] football coach Butch Jones Upcoming: Chapter Second vice president and his coaching staff. The • Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Darlene Nowak-Baker, ’87 event was sponsored by the Contact: Amanda Aude Houston Astros game [email protected] Milford CMU Alumni Association and June 13, Chase Field, Phoenix (248) 358-6403 the Chippewa Athletic Fund. [email protected] Contact: Dale Wernette, ’67 Traverse City Upcoming Directors 480-515-5132 Upcoming: • Tailgate at CMU vs. Michigan Jeffrey Benjamin, ’86 [email protected] • Traverse City Golf Outing July 20 State football game Sept. 12 Saginaw Contact: Jean (Bennett) Brown, ’88 Contact: Lisa Sommer, ’04 Physician Assistant Judith Danford Tank, ’68 Novi [email protected] Constituent Chapter 231-267-5081 Janet Burns, MA ’83 Ed.S. ’89 Contact: Andrew Booth Mount Pleasant Latino Constituent [email protected] Tri-cities Paul DeRoche, ’91 Chapter On March 10 more than 40 Commerce Township Contact: Laura Gonzales, ’79 Raleigh, North Carolina alumni and friends met at Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76 MA ’89 Contacts: Rodger Skirvin, ’78 Oscar’s in Midland for the Midland [email protected] [email protected] quarterly social gathering. The group heard an update on the Ryan A. Fewins, ’02 MA ’04 Terry Guttrich, ’57 new CMU Events Center while Lansing Las Vegas 910-215-8916 enjoying appetizers and drinks Lynn Garrett, ’97 Contact: Detroit Ann Marie Fredrickson, ’94 Upcoming: Laura Gonzales, ’79 MA ’89 702-655-2118 Reno • Great Lakes Loons game Mount Pleasant [email protected] Contact: Carol Perrigo, ’72 June 20, Midland 775-747-5066 • Tri-cities Golf Outing June 29 Daniel Herzog, ’91 [email protected] Auburn Hills Contact: Ricardo Resio, ’95 Leader Advancement Timothy Hicks, ’74 MA ’77 Scholars Constituent [email protected] Recreation, Parks Muskegon Chapter and Leisure Services Christopher Jablonski, ’83 Contact: Dan Gaken, ’04 Administration Volunteer Center Bloomfield Hills [email protected] Constituent Chapter Constituent Chapter Robert Kennedy, ’87 Contact: Ryan Fewins Contacts: Chris Bundy, ’88 Northville [email protected] Los Angeles [email protected] Adrian LaMar, ’89 Contact: Call the alumni Wyoming Susan Wells, ’77 office at 800-358-6903. Western Pennsylvania [email protected] Erin Matusiewicz, ’00 Contact: Jeff Rivard, ’66 Detroit Milwaukee 412-826-2180 Anne Monroe, ’96 Contact: Mark Bender, ’95 ROTC Constituent [email protected] Traverse City [email protected] Chapter Darcy Orlik, ’92 MSA ’95 Contact: John Fisher, ’70 Washington, D.C. Mount Pleasant [email protected] Mount Pleasant Glenn Ware, ‘84, director Kevin Richman, ’93 Contact: Dan Gaken, ’04 of the Anti-Corruption Milford [email protected] San Antonio Centre of Excellence for Charles Selinger, ’94 MS ’98 Upcoming: PricewaterhouseCoopers, gave Ceresco • Athletic Training Alumni a presentation on the emerging New England Robert VanDeventer, ’74 Reception June 19, regulatory enforcement issues. Contact: Kevin Richards, ’89 Saginaw San Antonio Also in March, alumni and 203-840-6221 friends gathered to watch Jeffery Vredevoogd, ’82 [email protected] Contact: Jerry Juhnke, ’86 Grandville the Washington Wizards take [email protected] on the Detroit Pistons. New York City Contact: Tony Brown, ’02 Contact: Adam Ebnit, ’03 San Diego 202-882-2993 [email protected] Contact: Greg Cox, ’00 [email protected] 858-534-0437 [email protected] centralight summer ’09 33 On the road to where you’re going, remember where you’ve been.

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centralight summer ’09 34 CMU is an AA/EO institution (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo). PRM 7958 Alumni News 1960s Don Mullinax, MA ’83, is the new 1990s Duane Chapman, ’66, is a full- shareholder in charge of the Forensic/ Chris Birks, ’90, joined the faculty at time RV traveler and has been to Strategic Solutions, P.C., office in Los Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill., as 45 states, with only four northwest Angeles. He serves clients in a variety the assistant professor of journalism states and Hawaii left to visit. of industries including government, and new media. He and his wife education, defense, health care aviation, Jackie (Ryniak) Birks, ’88, live in the Andrew R. Pasakarnis, ’68, and his wife, construction, consumer products and retail. Chicago suburbs where she works as Janet, just published the fifth edition a writer for a public relations firm. of their travel journal to the Middle Tanga C. Elam, ’85 MSA ’02, published East, “Sojourner In The Holy Land.” It is Intravenous Math Workbook to help Erik Frazier, ’93, was named insurance used by tour companies and individual build confidence in adult cardiac agent/producer for InPro Insurance tourists visiting Israel, Jordan and Egypt. math dosages using the x factor and Group Inc. based in Troy, Mich. dimensional anaylsis particularly for nursing/health care professionals. Nancy McInroy, ’93, was named 1970s vice president of development for Janice Fialka, ’73, and her family received Greg Howard, ’85, received Accident the national office of Breast Cancer a Lifetime Achievement Award for their Fund’s Leadership Award. He is a regional Network of Strength in Chicago. social justice activism from the national manager in charge of an eight-state organization Family Voices. Fialka is a region and a team of 17 underwriting T.J. Bucholz, ’94, was named senior nationally recognized speaker, social and loss-prevention professionals. program officer for United States Program worker and author of several books. Advocacy at the Bill and Melinda Gates She offers creative ways to support the Gerald Juhnke, MA ’86, professor and Foundation, headquartered in Seattle. dreams of people with disabilities. doctoral program director at The University His wife, Lori (Reynolds) Bucholz, of Texas at San Antonio, just published his ’93 MA ’99, is a fifth- and sixth-grade Rev. Nancy (Casey) Fulton, MA ’73, most recent book with Dr. Paul Granello teacher for Kent Public Schools, Kent, had a poem, “On Viewing the AIDS of The Ohio State University, “Case Studies Wash. They live in Issaquah, Wash., Quilt with My Son’s Fifth Grade Class,” in Suicide: Experiences of Mental Health with their children, Luke and Grace. accepted for inclusion in a collection Professionals” with Merrill Publishing. of women’s prayers and poetry, Matt Matlas, ’96, was named senior “Lifting Women’s Voices: Prayers to Antonio Zeppa, MSA ’89, was named managing corrosion engineer for Matcor Change the World,” which will be director of national accounts for Inc., a leading cathodic protection published this summer by Morehouse General Tobacco, based in Mayodan, and corrosion prevention engineering Publishing. Fulton, an Episcopal N.C. He resides in Prospect, Ky. design firm based in Doylestown, Pa. deacon, is spiritual care coordinator at Woodland Hospice in Mount Pleasant. Hal M. Ide, ’76, premiered his new composition, “Shape-shifter,” for solo alto flute at the Iowa Flute Festival on the campus of Iowa State University. Patricia M. Andres, ’77, was promoted to regional institutional specialist at Citizens Insurance. She manages the insurance underwriting and anti-agingIt’s about looking sales for nonprofit organizations. and feeling years younger! Frank Bifulco, ’78, was named senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Call today for your medical evaluation The Home Depot, based in Atlanta, Ga. and personalized treatment. Michael Ferry, ’79, was promoted Dr. Barbara Heller-Burstein, D.O. More than a decade serving the Mount Pleasant area to chief operating officer of Halley Consulting, a physician practice Also specializing in: and management consulting firm • Traditional family practice, adults and pediatrics headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. • Acute and chronic illnesses • Injury treatment 1980s • Nutrition counseling T.R. Shaw, ’82, is celebrating his family’s • Osteopathic manipulation (OMT) 100th year with the Shaw Funeral Home in Battle Creek this year. 4676 E. Broomfield Ave. Melinda (Breen) Hale, ’83, joined Mount Pleasant, MI 48858 Bluerock Real Estate in Southfield, Mich., 989-772-7600 as director of reporting, responsible www.mtpleasantmedical.com for SEC reporting and compliance and quarterly investor reporting.

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36 centralight summer ’09 Alumni News Chuck Georgo, MS ’99, was recently 2000s appointed as the chairman of the IJIS Kai Chung, MSA ’01, and his wife, Institute’s Security and Privacy Advisory Amber, announce the birth of their Send us Committee, which provides counsel to daughter, Kyla Amber Chung, born the Department of Justice and other Jan. 20, literally as President Obama national organizations on issues of was taking the oath of office. your news information systems security and privacy. Georgo is founder and executive director Ajani J. Harmon, MA ’01, received We want to include your news in of NowhereToHide.org, dedicated to a certificate of commendation for Centralight. Write to us about recent job helping organizations effectively utilize obtaining reaccreditation status for promotions, awards, marriages, births strategy, technology and business the Atlanta Police Department. and other noteworthy accomplishments processes to achieve meaningful national Jill M. Catterfeld, ’05, was promoted or changes. Be sure to include your security and law enforcement results. to a senior accountant at Andrews graduation year and contact information. Jody Hibma, MS ’99, teaches anatomy Hooper & Pavlik PLC in Saginaw. Send your information: and physiology, biology, and medical Lt. Joel D. Chase, ’06, was designated E-mail: [email protected] microbiology at Minnesota State a naval aviator while serving with Community and Technical College Training Squadron 21, Naval Air Fax: 989-774-1098 in Detroit Lakes, Minn. He and his Station, Kingsville, Texas. Mail: Centralight, Public Relations and wife, Julie, ’98, live in Detroit Lakes. Marketing, West Hall, Central Michigan Jennifer Rutkey, ’99, owns Pink & Black University, Mount Pleasant MI 48859. Designs, a wedding coordinating, event planning and video production company. She was featured in the winter/spring issue of Metro Detroit Bride magazine.

Top teacher Passion for history and an innovative teaching style earned Heather Wolf, ’00 MA ’07, the title of Michigan Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Wolf teaches Michigan history, current events, American history, practical law and civics at Shepherd High School. She also serves as chairwoman of the social studies department and advisor to the quiz bowl team. Near the blackboard in Wolf’s classroom stands a life- size cutout of JFK. Historical photographs and posters plaster the walls, handmade flag-patterned curtains adorn the windows, and a timeline of world headlines from 1900 through 2000 hangs at the front of the room. Wolf says she has always loved history and knew from a young age that she wanted to teach. “I like the interaction with kids the most,” she says. “I like this age a lot because they keep you on your toes.” risbane eggy B The love of social studies – and teaching degrees P from CMU – runs in her family. Wolf’s father, hoto by Dave Gauthier, ’70, was a social studies teacher P at Free Soil Community Schools. And her husband, Jason Wolf, ’01, teaches social studies at Farwell High School.

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A sampling of The Wyandotte By Frank J. Irgang, ’50 alumni-written books shelfJames C. Winston Publishing Co., 468 pages

A historical adventure set in colonial America, Hidden Agenda By Carol Chase Bjerke, ’76 portraying life on the expanding frontier. University of Wisconsin Press, 96 pages A documentation of the author’s large-scale multifaceted “I Wonder Why …? art project about living with an ostomy after treatment By K.L. Cannon, MA ’75 for colorectal cancer. K.L. Cannon, 60 pages A lighthearted look at life’s mysteries, such as why

you water the lawn to make the grass grow, just so The GodSense Devotional By Beverly Van Kampen, ’71 you can cut it again. FaithWalk Publishing, 209 pages The story of a mother and son facing a fatal disease and Husker Numbers: A Nebraska learning to understand what it means to accept God’s Number Book love during a time of extreme emotion. By Rajean A. Shepherd, ’77 Sleeping Bear Press, 36 pages

A children’s book that is part of the publisher’s Ceana Has CP By C. Fran Card, ’67 MA ’71 “Count Your Way Across the U.S.A.” series. Royal Blue Books Story for children ages 3 to 7 to help eliminate prejudices that often begin out of misunderstandings during childhood.

Before You Were Mine – Discovering Your Adopted Child’s Lifestory By Susan (Vlug) TeBos, ’84 FaithWalk Publishing, 192 pages A resource to help adoptive parents prepare for their roles as storytellers to honor an adopted child’s lifestory. risbane eggy B P hoto by P

3838 centralight summer ’09 In Memory Marvel L. Kerr, ’33, Caro, Mich., Dorothy S. Stoel, ’60, Charlevoix, James Jobe, MA ’80, San Antonio, died Jan. 18, 2009, age 101. Mich., died Feb. 13, 2009, age 97. Texas, died Sept. 11, 2008, age 66. Harriett Collin, ’37, Kihei, Hawaii, James Calkins, ’62, Tustin, Mich., Larry L. Seaver, MA ’80, Cooper Township, died Feb. 13, 2009, age 94. died Dec. 28, 2008, age 84. Mich., died March 26, 2009, age 57. Frieda E. Urbach Kling, ’38, East Lansing, Garnet V. Tripp, ’62, Hillman, Mich., Barbara A. Taylor, ’80, Grand Rapids, Mich., died April 6, 2009, age 92. died Dec. 28, 2008, age 78. Mich., died March 27, 2009, age 52. John C. Ellis, ’39, Carmichael, Calif., Dorothy A. Lanczak, ’63, Pinconning, James L. Martin, MA ’82, Traverse City, died Feb. 11, 2009, age 91. Mich., died Dec. 30, 2008, age 85. Mich., died Jan. 31, 2009, age 67. George Champagne, ’40, Kailua-Kona, Louis K. Kouchnerkavich, ’64, Grand Larry L. Sheridan, MA ’82, Thornville, Hawaii, died Feb. 16, 2009, age 92. Rapids, Mich., died Feb. 17, 2009, age 76. Ohio, died Feb. 27, 2009, age 63. Wilma L. Hanson, ’41, Traverse City, Rodger L. Yeck, ’64 MA ’67, Millbrook, Jim Julian, MA ’83, Mount Pleasant, Mich., died Jan. 14, 2009, age 89. N.Y., died March 17, 2009, age 71. Mich., died Jan. 8, 2009, age 56. Esther A. Taylor White, ’42, East Lansing, Jack L. Leach, ’65, Midland, Mich., Mark I. Hoxsie, ’85, Bartlesville, Okla., Mich., died Feb. 18, 2009, age 92. died March 12, 2009, age 77. died March 18, 2009, age 55. Barbara J. Goodrich Purdy, ’46, Grand Beulah Hale Eastman, ’66, West Branch, Maj. Michael E. Long, MPA ’85, Tarpon Rapids, Mich., died Feb. 18, 2009, age 85. Mich., died Feb. 3, 2009, age 88. Springs, Fla., died Sept. 12, 2008, age 58. Eugene V. Tiejema, ’48, Hudsonville, Donald L. Fredrickson, ’66, Bear Lake, Jill F. Campbell, MA ’86, Detroit, Mich., died Dec. 26, 2008, age 86. Mich., died Feb. 26, 2009, age 65. Mich., died Dec. 21, 2008, age 56. Marian T. Beatty, ’49, Charlevoix, Martha C. Hass Brade, MA ’67, Kinde, D. Scott Richards, MSA ’89, Madison, Mich., died March 7, 2009, age 95. Mich., died Dec. 30, 2008, age 69. Ala., died Jan. 19, 2009, age 60. James N. Simoneau, ’49, Jensen Beach, Sharron L. Granlund, ’69, Clarkston, Thomas L. Saur, MBA ’91, Kentwood, Fla., died March 10, 2009, age 84. Mich., died Jan. 17, 2009, age 62. Mich., died Feb. 22, 2009, age 50. Fred D. Thorin, ’49, Fenton, Mich., Christine L. Arnison, ’70, Cincinnati, Rosemary Rae Davis, ’94, Coldwater, died Oct. 23, 2008, age 81. Ohio, died Jan. 24, 2009, age 61. Mich., died Jan. 6, 2009, age 62. Sally A. Cleveland, ’50, Needham, Gary E. Eddings, ’70, Dexter, Mich., Bryon K. Milner, ’94, Dearborn, Mass., died Jan. 12, 2009, age 81. died Feb. 8, 2009, age 61. Mich., died Feb. 14, 2009, age 42. Ray H. Donn, ’50, Deefield Beach, Nancy L. Goebel, ’70, Delton, Mich., Diana Dee Toth McHenry, Fla., died Aug. 13, 2008, age 84. died Dec. 13, 2008, age 60. MSA ’95, Pickerington, Ohio, died March 6, 2009, age 56. Wilmae K. Jorgensen, ’50, Ludington, Dr. Michael Sinchak, ’70, Fairgrove, Mich., died Dec. 29, 2008, age 78. Mich., died Dec. 27, 2008, age 61. Michelle Foupht, ’97, Wyoming, Mich., died Oct. 1, 2008, age 33. John C. Riley, ’50, Chelsea, Mich., James A. Dent, MBA ’71, Roscommon, died Feb. 28, 2009, age 83. Mich., died Feb. 24, 2009, age 65. Jason W. Knapp, ’00, Tustin, Mich., died March 1, 2009, age 30. John E. Perry, ’51, Myakka City, Judith A. Oliver, ’71, Mackinaw City, Fla., died Feb. 26, 2009, age 81. Mich., died Feb. 12, 2009, age 68. Terese A. Sweet, MSA ’02, Damascus, Md., died Oct. 18, 2008, age 52. Raymond J. Dombroski, ’52, Bay City, Patricia M. Stetler, MA ’72, Midland, Mich., died Feb. 20, 2009, age 80. Mich., died Dec. 22, 2008, age 83. Kasey S. Courser, ’03, Riverview, Fla., died March 8, 2009, age 30. Don Rood Sr., ’52, Eureka, Ill., Kenneth C. Strine, MA ’75, Mercerville, died Feb. 14, 2009, age 78. N.J., died Feb. 19, 2009, age 76. David C. Steen, ’03, Rochester, Minn., died Nov. 2, 2008, age 30. Evangeline Evans, ’53 MA ’71 Ed.S. ’74, Holly Ann McDonough Nelson, ’76, Indian Lake, Texas, died Feb. 3, 2009, age 86. Buchanan, Mich., died Feb. 3, 2009, age 57. Faculty and staff James Russell Bower, ’54, Saline, Kenneth L. Thomas, ’76, Lamar, Mich., died Jan. 29, 2009, age 76. Colo., died Dec. 20, 2008, age 63. Karen I. Adams, dean of the College of Education and Human Services since Kenneth Eckman, ’54, Lansing, Mary S. Cox, MA ’78, Canton, Mich., 2003, died April 7, 2009. She was 58. Mich., died Feb. 28, 2009, age 83. died Aug. 20, 2008, age 78. Jerry M. Anderson, former chairman of Ronald G. Patrick, ’55, Manistique, Lorene L. Booker, MA ’79, Saginaw, the Speech and Dramatic Arts Department, Mich., died March 31, 2009, age 75. Mich., died Feb. 13, 2009, age 78. died July 14, 2008, in Amery, Wis. Donald B. Doil, ’58, Midland, Mich., Stienbant K. Dyer, MA ’79, Columbus, Bertram Schmidt, emeritus died Dec. 10, 2008, age 76. Ohio, died March 21, 2009, age 75. mathematics faculty member, died Charyn M. Martin Darby, ’60, Smyrna, Col. Joan M. Graziano, MA ’79, Dunbar, Feb. 15, 2009, in Mount Pleasant. Ga., died April 2, 2009, age 71. Penn., died Jan. 22, 2009, age 77. Jean Lindley, longtime CMU staff member Melba M. Herzog, ’60, Lakeview, Carol A. Meisenbach, ’80, Cape Coral, in Residences and Auxiliary Services, Mich., died Nov. 28, 2008, age 102. Fla., died Dec. 17, 2008, age 51. Facilities Management and CMU Police, died Nov. 30, 2008, in Milford, Mich. She was 72. Helen Ellanore Post, ’60, Greenbush William Coward, MA ’80, Durham, Township, Mich., died Feb. 13, 2009, age 100. N.C., died Feb. 28, 2009, age 69.

centralight summer ’09 39 I am Central:

Cory Allen Junior Music major

Hear him play: In Jazz Lab I and Central Avenue jazz combo. Plays gigs up to five times a month on- and off-campus. Received: The Jack Saunders Jazz Award at the 36th annual CMU/Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Weekend. When he’s not studying, practicing or performing: Cory works the Nightside jazz and blues show from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. on WCMU Public Radio. “I love it. It’s just another way to share the music I love with people.” (Listen online at www.wcmu.org/radio.asp.) Began playing guitar: In the 6th grade. “As soon as I picked it up, I realized it was my passion.” Powerful appeal: “Music just has so much power on the human spirit. It’s made a big difference in my life for the better, and I hope I can do the same for others.” Loves the music of: Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans, Art Blakey. After CMU: Plans to earn a master’s degree in jazz studies and become a professional musician. He’ll consider grad schools in New York, Boston or Chicago where he can be a working musician while pursuing his studies.

For more about CMU’s School of Music, see www.mus.cmich.edu.

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