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Macalester College DigitalCommons@Macalester College Macalester Today Communications and Public Relations 10-1-2001 Macalester Today Fall 2001 Macalester College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macalestertoday Recommended Citation Macalester College, "Macalester Today Fall 2001" (2001). Macalester Today. Paper 64. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macalestertoday/64 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications and Public Relations at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Macalester Today by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. «, i ey Got Gigs Songwriter Ben Connelly '92 and other alumni musicians •;L^~~ • >.-s -.;"». \\ * i *- *. >• - . • CAMW8 CFNTF - "~iper Charlie" was design ted by Macalester staff member and artist Helen Dannelly, with help from nine alumni, staff, and friends of the college. Macalester i sponsored the statue, which was placed hear Grand Avenue ' and the.new Ruth Strieker Dayton Campus Center, as part of St. Paul's summer tribute to the late, "Peanuts" • cartoonist Charles Schulz, a St. Paul native. ABOUT THIS ISSUE Features Departments 10 Work Ethics 2 Letters Macalester s Lilly Project for Work, 3 Around Old Main Ethics &C Vocation will explore the concept 8 Mike Today of Vocation" in the broadest sense. 9 Alumni & Faculty Books 12 Service Calls 36 Class Notes From Boston to Seattle, 48 Macrocosm more than 300 alumni 49 Giving Back and friends in 10 cities took part in the first Alumni Month of Service 14 Photo Feature: Reunion & Commencement 2001 34 Show Me the Recognition page 14 Conttary to popular belief, employees are motivated less by money than by non-monetary rewards, says management page 20 specialist Bob Nelson '78. Cover story: page 20 They Got Gigs Songwriter Ben Connelly '92 was photographed in Minneapolis by Greg Helgeson. Helgeson, whose excellent work has appeared in this magazine for more than a decade, also took the pictures of Hiisker Dii (in 1984) and the Urban Hillbilly Quartet for our story about alumni who play rock, jazz, folk and other kinds of popular music. FALL 2001 1 LETTERS Please send letters intended for publication to gry. Our home, though rented, was Macalester Today Letters to the Editor, Macalester Today, always nice. Fall 2001 ^ College Relations, Macalester College, Our children have had the advantage of 1600GrandAve., St. Paul MN55105-1899. many books, music and art in the home as Director of College Relations Yon can also send your letter by fax: well as consistent religious training. All have Doug Stone (651) 696-6192. Or by e-mail: had a college education and are doing well in [email protected]. Or via the Web: their chosen fields. They have had parents Executive Editor www.macalester.edu (click on Alumni & and grandparents who valued education and Nancy A. Peterson Parents, then Alumni Relations). a happy home. (Both grandmothers were We reserve the right to edit letters for teachers, too.) Managing Editor conciseness and clarity. Bill is on the brink of another change as Jon Halvorsen the house we have rented for seven years is for sale. He has retired three times, but since Art Director One Mac graduate Elizabeth Edwards our move to Texas in 1994, he has had a CHRISTOPHER Nordvall '98 [Letters in steady position for five years and wants to Class Notes Editor Spring issue] wants to know about some continue working. Robert Kerr'92 Macalester graduates who aren't CEOs, col- lege presidents and wealthy, prominent Editorial Assistant citizens. Ici like to tell you about one who is History Quiz William Sentell '02 a good representative of what a Mac gradu- he answers to our History Quiz about ate should be. T Macalester are on page 41—along with Macalester College Bill Huntley graduated in 1949, after the names of the 17 people who won serving "V/i years in the Navy aboard a fleet Macalester sweatshirts. Chair, Board of Trustees tug during World War II. His majors were — the Editors Mark A. Vander Ploeg 74 journalism and music. He sang in the Mac choir, under the direction of Hollis Johnson, President and subsequently took voice lessons in Cali- He has always represented the highest Michael S. McPherson fornia. For over 35 years, he was a church degree of integrity, loyalty and devotion to soloist and sang in various groups in Cali- his family, church and Macalester. We do not Vice President for College Advancement fornia and Minnesota. In 1948 he married a have a big bank account, big house, fancy Richard Allen Ammons Miss Woods graduate, Elizabeth Buchanan. cars. WeVe never been to New York or Alumni Director Dr. Charles Turck, who attended her gradua- Europe or taken a cruise, but we have the tion in 1947, called us the first Mac couple. most important things in life—love of God, Gabrielle Lawrence '73 For 53 years we have been happily mar- family and each other. Associate Alumni Directors ried. We have been blessed with three sons Is Bill a success? Carol Polk and Kim Gregg '93 and a daughter. Although we have moved You bet! many times, usually because of a job change, (Mrs. William A.) Elizabeth B. Huntley Macalester Today (Volume 89, to California, Denver, Duluth and several Montalba, Texas Number 4) is published by Macalester places in Minneapolis, he remained loyal to his employer. His fifth year of college was College. It is mailed free of charge to Internationalism alumni and friends of the college four taken in Long Beach, Calif, (where I received my B.A. in education). We both taught in THE WINTER ISSUE was a real triumph, times a year. Circulation is 25T000. Long Beach for two years before returning to of compelling interest to me in several ways. For change of address, please write: Minneapolis for family reasons. Your focus on international topics was note- Alumni Office, Macalester College, We have bought and sold three homes, worthy. The letter inside the cover resulted 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN but haven't been able to buy a house since in my sending an e-mail to erstwhile room- 55105-1899. Or call (651) 696-6295. 1967. It has been an unfulfilled desire to mate Bob Tu '50 in China; and the story of Toll-free: 1-888-242-9351. own our own home. Due to company buy- the Foreign Service officer [Anne Derse '76] outs, mergers, etc., Bill has had many and her family rang familiar bells. To submit comments or ideas, write: different jobs or positions, from selling Bob Amerson '50 Macalester Today, College Relations, advertising, being a book specialist, a library Brewster, Mass. at the above address. Phone: consultant, a microfilm and computer sales- [email protected] (651) 696-6452. Fax: (651) 696-6192. man, to a junior high school teacher. He E-mail: [email protected] never stayed idle. The big companies with EDITORS' NOTE: The writer is a retired Web: www.macalester.edu/alumni the big salaries were never there but he made U.S. Foreign Service officer. enough money so that we were never hun- MACALESTER TODAY AROU ND OLD MAIN his second five- Kofi Annan, year term Jan. 1, 2002. The Secu- Macalester rity Council Class of 1961, nominated him again without a re-elected at U.N. dissenting voice and the General The lquiet Ghanaian will serve second Assembly offi- five-year term as secretary-general cially re-elected N A 1998 INTERVIEW, Kofi Annan him by accla- recalled that he "left [Macalester] re- mation. I affirmed in my internationalisms in the As secretary- sense that the world is really international general, Annan and that we should try to learn about each has made other, respect each others culture and pick significant up languages early if we can. This is some- management thing that was very much Macalester. ... changes within The caption for this 1960 Mac yearbook photo says: "Richly costumed Kofi Annan "Perhaps it was that experience that led the U.N. while explains his native Ghana dress to Lana Millman and Barb Brittain at the World University Service Tea." me to look at the U.N. and set me on the promoting a road to where I got to now," he said. more aggressive defense of human rights, general to date, Annan has best understood Annan was re-elected secretary-general of even at the expense of national sovereignty, the centrality of human rights to the work of the United Nations last June and will begin the New York Times reported. Human the United Nations." Rights Watch said, "Of all the secretaries A Times profile said that "the quiet Ghanaian .. .took charge [of the U.N.] with a decisiveness few had predicted and changed Macalester years: fall 1959 to spring 1961, the organization on Ford Foundation program that placed foreign 'Perhaps it was from the inside nationals in U.S. colleges and universities that experience out. ... No nation Macalester degree: B.A. in economics [at Macalester] that thought twice led me to look at about other can- Macalester activities: state champion orator; the U.N. and set me didates; he was member of 1960 track team that won MIAC on the road to considered championship; set 60-yard dash record; mem- where I got to now.' unbeatable." ber of 1961 soccer team; president of A Time maga- Cosmopolitan Club, which promoted friendship zine cover story last year, entitled "The Five between U.S. and international students; spoke Virtues of Kofi Annan," cited his dignity, on subject of Africa to several groups; served confidence, courage, on Kirk Hall (men's dorm) Council; took part in compassion and faith.