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Volume 6 - Number 2 - October/November 1996 A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends

• �\ ..,� ,· University Parl< EMU's Campus Resort CONNECTION is produced for alumni and friends of Eastern Michigan University by the Offices of Public Contents Information and University Publications National Alumni Association Board of Directors Featured Articles Melonie Colaianne, '83, '94, president W. Fred Roberts, '56, '68, president elect Joan Colladay, '72, past president David Artley, '72, parliamentarian Campaign for Scholars 2 Allen T. Sheffield, '88, treasurer Heather Baughman, student representative Tops Initial Goal Dennis M. Beagen, '66 Claire Luna Page 12 John Chambers, '76, '80 Jacqueline Eden, '87 Carolyn Embree, '69, '71 Potentially Powerful Weapons 8 Carlos Falcon, '68, '70 Eric Forster, '91 Against Breast Cancer Charles Halash, '84 Sheryl James-Vigmostad, '73, '74 Charles Jennings, '73, '76 Annette Sabo Johnson, '94 WEMU 10 Denise Kaercher, '88 A Broadcast Leader William Malcolm, '77 Roy McCalister, '77 Valerie Mills, '75, '85 Robert Oliver, '67, '69 Ralph Pasola, '71, '77, '86 Linda Randolph, '83, '89 James Streeter, '73 Departments Eric Walline, '71, '78, '79 Vicki Reaume, '91, assistant director Lisa N. Goodwin, administrative assistant II Commentary T Beulah M. Lane, senior secretary Executive Officers 5 William E. Shelton, president President's Message Ronald W. Collins, provost and vice president for academic affairs Patrick J. Doyle, '92, vice president for business Reflections 13 and finance and treasurer to the board of regents Courtney 0. McAnuff, vice president for Athletics 14 enrollment services 17 Juanita M. Reid, vice president for university Alumni News It'smagic! page 16 relations Laurence N. Smith, vice president for university marketing and student affairs Class Notes 21 Board of Regents Philip lncarnati, '76, '82, chairman Alumni Events Calendar 24 James Clifton, vice chairman Robert A. DeMattia inside back cover Anthony A. Derezinski Alumni Chapters Mara M. Letica Carl D. Pursell, '57, '62, Hon.'80 Col. William]. Stephens, '60 Gayle P. Thomas

Editorial Committee Dana Aymond Kirk Carman Sharon Collins On the Cover Lisa N. Goodwin Emily Griffin WINNER II LakeHouse and University Park- Denise Kaercher Lee Lien a place to reflect, refresh and unwind Nancy J. Mida Mary Motherwell Lee Reed APEX'96A ® � Ina Martin Rexford _,..,...,. l'UIIUCAl10H... EXC01DU Kathleen D. Tinney Cover and inside photos by Dick Schwarze except where otherwise indicated. Commentary II

Whether Huron or Eagle, teacher or techni cian, banker or nurse, programmer or artist, pro fessional student or consummate professional, we all share pride in our University. There are many ways in which we can promote our pride: attend sporting events, mentor under graduates, display decals in and on our cars, hire graduates into our companies, recruit students to the campus or contribute financially to scholar- Melonie Colaianne ships or capital undertakings. Another means for promoting pride in our alma mater is to main tain a "voice" long after leaving the hallowed halls. This can be ac complished in a meaningful way by becoming a member of the National Alumni Association (see inside back cover) and joining with others to strengthen our University, our alumni organization and our collective voice. Ours is a voice that can benefit Eastern, our classmates and the lives of future graduates. Ours is a voice to be heard.We hope to hear from you.

Melonie Colaianne, '83, '94, President National Alumni Association Board of Directors

Don't forget: We want to hear from you!

• Send us your input and responses to articles and issues. • Send us your membership renewal. • Send us your name and get involved in an alumni chapter.

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1 II University

Campaign for Scholars Tops Initial Goal

Eastern Michigan University President William E. Shelton has announced that the University's first comprehensive fund-raising campaign surpassed its initial $12 million goal. To date, the University has re ceived approximately $12.6 million in new commitments, including a $1.25 million commitment by the late Genevieve C. (Parmenter) Ely, '22, and her son Kurt D. Ely, which pushed the campaign over its initial goal. EMU kicked off the two-year public phase of the Campaign for Picnic attendees were entertained with New Orleans music by the Motor City Street Band. Scholars in June 1995 with a cam pus-wide picnic and black-tie gala. campaign already had received more • a $300,000 commitment by Dr. At the kick-off's evening ceremony, than $6 million in leadership gift W. Donald Briggs, professor EMU Board of Regents Chairman commitments, including EMU's emeritus of history; Philip Incarnati announced the first private $1 million giftby Cam • $100,000 from Dr. Everett L. paign Chairman Darrell H. Cooper, Marshall, EMU professor chairman and chief executive officer emeritus of education and dean of Fernco Inc. in Davison, and his emeritus for academic records wife, Charlotte. and certification; In the year since the public • and $100,000 given anonymously phase was announced, EMU re by an EMU staffmember. ceived an additional $6.6 million in commitments from alumni, In developing its campaign, friends, corporations, foundations EMU established both a $12 and EMU faculty and staff. Some million base goal and $16 million campaign highlights include: "challenge" goal. More than three • $1.5 million from Discount Tire quarters of this goal is forendowed Co. founder Bruce T.Halle, '56; funds, including faculty chairs, • a $500,000 commitment fromDr. scholarships, research funds and George Haynam, professor and college endowments. The campaign head of EMU's Computer also includes annual programs, Science Department; scholarship and equipment goals • $320,000 from the Kresge Foun and the $1.65 million Pease Audi dation for Pease Auditorium as a torium restoration campaign. result of meeting a challenge grant; EMU Provost and Vice President • a $300,000 commitment fromthe for Academic Affairs Ronald W. Harry A. and Margaret D. Collins, who is operational chair of Dean Morell Boone and Campaign the campaign, said with more than Operational Chair RonaldCollins at the Towsley Foundation for Pease six months remaining before the campus-wide celebration. Auditorium; 2 campaign's completion, June 30, 1997, the Campaign forScho lars will exceed its $16 million challenge goal. "This campaign has attracted a strong network of volunteers that includes alumni, friends and EMU faculty and staff.They will be work ing to expand greatly the University's donor base and ensure that our campaign's challenge goal WAAMradio's Pat Krolik, '94, interviews President William E. Shelton on the is met. While $16 million won't significanceof exceeding the campaign's initial goal. provide for all of EMU's identified needs, it will provide significant endowment income for academic programs," he said. For more information, or to OT student enjoys donate to the EMU Campaign for Scholars, call the Univer EMU's learning environment si ty's Development Office at by Jennifer Lenway, College ofHealth and Human Services (313) 487-0252. EMU senior Robert Ferguson him to the occupational therapy had planned to be a special educa program at EMU. tion teacher until an injury incurred In his commitment to helping while serving in the National Guard others, Ferguson launched himself pointed him in a new direction. "I into a busy life. A full-time, mar knew there had to be better ways to ried student, he serves as president help people recover from injuries of the Student Occupational than the care I experienced," Therapy Association and as a sec Ferguson said. That conviction led ond lieutenant in the National ro11ti1111ed on next page

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SC H OLARS - OT student Robert Ferguson (right) administers the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure to Rainbow client David Hoger.

3 EMU Signs Charter Agreement

Redford's Gaudior Academy is ated to develop benchmarks to im charge tuition and must employ cer Eastern Michigan's first charter prove all public schools through tified teachers. Charter schools also school. The agreement was formal competition for students. must comply with all state and fed ized during a contract signing cer Schools receive $5,700 per stu eral statutes, the Michigan School emony in July. dent. Charter schools may not Code and all civil rights standards. Gaudior is a teacher-directed school founded five years ago on the philosophy that children learn best when they are actively involved in the learning process. Academy officials expected to enroll 75 students in kindergarten through eighth grade during the current academic year. The academy's curriculum uses investigative studies presented in multiple-age classes, with a student teacher ratio of about 15:1. It is lo cated in the lower level of St.James Presbyterian Church on West Six Mile Road in Redford. The acad emy leases space from the church Seated are Christine McCreary, Gaudior board secretary and President William but is not affiliated with it. Shelton; behind themfrom leftare Juanita Reid, vice presidentfor university relations; Charter schools are public schools Joseph Pollack, director ofcharter schools at EMU; Thomas Fleming, special assistant of choice, are legally independent to the EMU provost and a charter school review committee member; Beth Dover, and operate under contract to an Gaudior parent; Rosemarie Gonzales, Gaudior principal; Valorie Robinson, Gaudior authorized public body. Under board treasurer; and Susan Kattelus, assistant professor ofaccounting and a charter Michigan legislation, they are ere- school review committee member.

OT Student continuedfrom page J Guard. He also works full-time as activities of daily living." bilitation center," he commented. a team leader at the Rainbow Re "I am honored to be in EMU's "What I do there complements my habilitation Center in Ypsilanti occupational therapy program," classes at Eastern. The combination where he works with clients with Ferguson said. "I have access to gives me a broader understanding of closed head injuries. some of the finest OT educators in OT and of rehabilitation in general." Closed head injury patients have the country. Faculty are mentors, as Ferguson plans to practice in his a wide range of therapy needs, in well as teachers, and the students fieldbefore specializing in one area. cluding psycho-social, behavioral, care about each other. It is a won Eventually, he plans to pursue a vocational, physical, occupational derful learning environment." Ph.D. and teach at the college level. and speech therapy. Ferguson said, Ferguson's work at the Rainbow Through teaching, Ferguson hopes "Part of my work involves teaching Rehabilitation Center allows him to to have an even greater impact on clients how to manage their anger, put his classroom studies to use with the quality of rehabilitation by edu access community transportation, clients. "The Rainbow Center is an cating more quality therapists. develop a budget and work on other innovative, comprehensive reha- 4 President's Message II

President Shelton Unveils Shared Expectations Document

The LearningParadigm shifts what • Maintains a sense of pride in the institution takes responsibility the University that is reflected in far: from quality instruction the care and maintenance of (lecturing, talking) to student University facilities, respect for learning. Students, the co-producers University property and support eflearning, can and must, efcourse, of University functions and take responsibilityfar their own activities. learning. Hence, responsibility is a win-win game wherein two agents The final product of an idea take responsibilityfor the same introduced by President Shelton is outcome even though neither is in being distributed to incoming fresh complete control efall the variables. men, faculty and staff, beginning When two agents take such fall semester 1996. As stated pre responsibility, the resulting synergy viously by President Shelton. "The produces powerfulresults. "' brochure is not intended to be a binding contract on anyone. It is, however, intended to clearly inform Each member of the University University and common to all new members of the University community contributes to our suc groups, and they are as follows: family of their responsibility to be cess in providing an exceptional • Stimulates and encourages a contributor to the learning pro learning environment. With that intellectual and personal growth in mind, President William E. cess. I want our students, faculty by providing opportunities and staff to know that we view Shelton, in his first State of the for research, creative activity learning as the only measure of our University Address, challenged the and personal a.nd professional effectiveness." Eastern community to participate development. Copies of the in the development of a document Shared Expectations • Respects and protects personal document may be obtained by that would articulate the expecta and academic freedom by encour contacting University Marketing at: tions that we all share in enhancing aging open intellectual inter the learning environment. (313) 487-2483 change and expression of Out of this challenge emerged a FAX: (313) 487-3073 differences among members of series of specific responsibilities that, E-mail: [email protected] the university community. while not binding, will serve as a benchmark forthe entire University • Provides a clean, safe, hazard-free family. And if we are truly commit and barrier-free environment in ted to distinguishing Eastern Michi which to work and create. gan University as a comprehensive • Appreciates human diversity educational institution that prepares and maintains an environment of people and organizations to adapt tolerance and respect for all readily to a changing world, we must members of the University com make clear our collective and indi munity regardless of race, reli vidual accountability. gion, marital status, gender, The 10-page, pocket-sized docu sexual orientation, age, national ment highlights several principles, or ethnic origin, political belief consistent with the mission of the or disability. • From Teaching to Leaming - A New Paradigm for Undergrndunte Education Change, November/December 1995 5 II Business and Finance

To cco Leads EMU's Internal Audit to a New Era byDou g Bentley

His business card reads like some can offer," he said. "We thing out of a James Bond movie: also are trained to pro Anthony M. To cco, CIA, CFE. It's vide consulting services a bit of a disappointment, then, to deans, program direc when Tocco, Eastern Michigan tors and other EMU ad University's recently-appointed di ministrators." Business rector of internal audit, explains that process design, another he isn't a spy after all, but a certi of Tocco's specialties, fied internal auditor and a certified takes consulting a step fraudexaminer. further bycompletely re Nonetheless, Tocco (which designing and updating rhymes with cocoa) is proud of his an old department, for certifications, as well he should be. example, and making it "I've been reading textbooks forthe run more efficiently. Be past eight years," he said. And yond that, his office Tocco will continue to bury him serves as a sort of con selfin the books untilJanuary, when sumer overseer for the he'll add a master's degree in crimi University by overseeing nal justice to a growing list of ac the contract compliance complishments. Tocco already holds of its business associates. an accounting degree fromthe De In doing so, Tocco en troit College of Business and a sures that EMU ends up master's in business administration getting everything it paid L-=--��=:!!!!!111!!!!!!!1 fromWay ne State University. for. "My forteis fraudin- Anthony M. To cco He also is proud of having landed vestigation," he said, "and the auditing directorship at EMU. my certification also allows me to to foster more of a partnership with "I really wasn't looking for a job," serve as an expert witness." our clients by maintaining continual he said. "I just wanted to see how Tocco spent four years working communication. And since nobody far my credentials would take me." for the Defense Contract Audit knows the terrain better than the Far enough, it seems, for EMU's Agency within the Department of clients, their input is very valuable. Board of Regents to appoint him Defense. Since his responsibilities We want to encourage their contri to the post this past May, although included compliance reviews of butions, but at the same time, we Tocco actually assumed his position major defense contractors, Tocco want to educate them as to how cer in April. "I was a bit surprised, but knows overpriced goods and ser tain new procedures can benefit the now that I'm here, I'm really excited vices when he sees them. University. After all, we're on the about the prospect of adding value Auditors, of course, aren't paid to same team." to the University." be cheerleaders; they're paid to Joining Tocco in this sizable re And value, Tocco explained, in point out mistakes and shortcom sponsibility is associate auditor volves much more than the periodic ings and recommend changes. This Kenna Kramer. From their offices examinations-the audits-that he sort of relationship often makes for in the Business and Finance Build- conducts on EMU's operating and the occasional bruised ego, which ing, this team of two reports to the financialrec ords. ''Audits and inves Tocco hopes to avoid. "Communi tigations are only part of what we cation is the key," he said. "We want continued on page 9

6 Development II

Yo ussef Family Donates Office Building

Dr. Zakhour I. Yo ussef, a faculty the building, which low member at Eastern Michigan since ers their capital gains 1965 in the Psychology Department, taxes as well. is the newest member of the Trust "I love EMU. It has ees' Council, along with his family. been a wonderful place He is the firstEMU employee to join for me for the past 31 the ranks of the University's most years and I expect it will prestigious donor club. continue to be," says Recently, Yo ussef's children, Issa Yo ussef. "A ctually, we are and Frances Yo ussef, under the an EMU family. Both my guidance of their father and wife and my children ____.,,.. mother, Androulla, gifted the have taken courses here River Bend Office Building (re and we all feel very posi named the Darrell Cooper Build tively about EMU," he ing by the University's Regents in said in a recent interview. May 1996), located across from Youssef's love of EMU Eastern's football stadium on Hu springs from his experi ron River Drive, to the University ence at the University in a bargain sale agreement. The where he has found "fac building now houses the Eastern ulty and staff to be con Michigan University Foundation, sistently decent, helpful Gift Records and the Center for and cooperative and stu Corporate Training. Next June, the dents to be extremely ap Development Office is slated to preciative." This has led Zakhour I. Yo ussef move in as well. to a sense of engagement, The gift came about when "the which has obviously included the To fincfout how you may make a University indicated an interest in entire Yo ussef family. Youssef also similar gift to Eastern, contact Ina the building as a rental property. Its has appreciated the autonomy in re- Martin Rexford, director of size and location are a perfect fit for search and teaching methods as well planned giving, Eastern Michigan the University. But I didn't want to as the mission of the University, a University, 11 Welch Hall, Ypsi- be in the rental business with EMU. center of learning for many first lanti, MI 48197, (313) 487-0252. So, this is perfect for us as well. We generation college graduates. "Of Information also may be obtained received enough to pay off the course," Yo ussef chuckles, "I have via fax at (313) 487-9510 or e-mail mortgage, and the balance of the been lucky. The courses I teach in to [email protected] market value is the right size gift human sexuality, abnormal psychol- for our situation," says Yo ussef. ogy and psychotherapy are naturally As a result of this ·gift, the very interesting to students." The Zakhour Youssef family becomes result of all of this is a very substan members of the Tr ustees' Council, tial gift and a magnificent new joining those who have given at a home for quite a few people who level of $250,000 or more, and labor on behalf of the University. receives a charitable income tax Thank you to the Zakhour I. deduction for the gift portion of Yo ussef family. 7 II Feature

Diet, Fish Oil, Potentially Powerful Weapons Against Breast Cancer

Following the American Cancer of cancer, or helper Society diet and adding regular serv T-cells, and a second ings of cold-water ocean fish may which suppresses the increase the immune system's abil immune system or sup ity to kill cancer cells and inhibit the pressor T-cells. "We ability of cancer cells to fight off found that the helper immune system attacks. That's ac cells, one of the champi cording to Eastern Michigan Uni ons of the body's arma versity nutrition expert Dr. George ment against disease, go U. Liepa, professor and head of the up in numbers when sub EMU Department of Human, En jects follow the ACS di vironmental and Consumer Re etary guidelines," he said. sources. Liepa studied nine women "The jump was not huge, who had had breast cancer, under but enough women gone mastectomies and completed showed a positive effect chemotherapy. During the two that it was viewed as sta month study, the women followed tistically valid." Further the ACS diet forthe first month and more, Liepa said, these added five servings of salmon, tuna helper cells became more or trout for the second month. The effective at killing the ACS guidelines emphasize reduced intruding cells. total calorie and fat consumption Liepa said the suppres with increased amounts of fr uit, veg sor cells do not directly LJ.1111 etables and grains. help in fighting disease George U Liepa The women experienced a num - but do have a role in ber of positive effects involving two transplant rejection. They went out of the diet and replace it with types of cells in the immune system down in number so that the disease fish oil, the cancer cells can't make and a hormone-like substance pro fightingcells were more able to do as much prostaglandin E2," Liepa duced by the cancer cells as a pro their jobs. "All this in one month," said. "It is impossible."While there tective mechanism. he said. was a drop in the level of the pros Liepa measured the diet's effects The actions resulting from fol taglandin E2 with the addition of on two types of immune cells, one lowing the ACS dietary guidelines fish to the women's diet, it was not that is involved in the prevention were not confined to the immune enough to be considered significant. system, however. Cancer cells in a "I maintain that if the subjects had growing tumor produce prostaglan eaten fish beyond one month, the din E2, a hormone-like material change would have been signifi that also suppresses the immune cant," he said. Animal research, in system so the tumor can continue which a fish-oil based diet is sub to grow. This substance is made stituted for a diet containing corn from oilfound in seeds-sunflower, oil, showed significant changes in cotton seed and corn. prostaglandin E2 level. "If you take some of the seed oil Liepa, who has his doctorate in

8 molecular, cellular and developmen some are bad. The cells are very tal biology and has medical board clever. For every 10,000 tumor cells To cco certification in nutrition, became produced, fewer than one survives. continuedfrom page 6 interested in the connection be Most die, but they are very good at tween diet and breast cancer when hiding themselves and protecting Board of Regents and to Patrick his wife was diagnosed with the dis themselves when attacked by the Doyle, EMU's treasurer to the ease six years ago. "I am here to find immune system. They float to board and vice president for busi ways to de a place they ness and finance. "We've already stroy metas "Pills are a poor substitute like and bur observed a number of areas where tasizing cells for a bal

On December 8, 1965, a new ra tower that provides the power of a vate grants, corporate underwriting dio station entered the broadcast 50,000 watt station, and an eclectic and individual contributions. spectrum. EMU students could format of National Public Radio A fixture in the arts community tune in between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., programming, classic and tradi as well, WEMU is affiliated with between classes, to hear what was tional jazz, soulful blues, world some of the most outstanding cul happening on campus. music, local news, and EMU sports, tural events in Southeastern Michi More than 30 years later, that WEMU has become a daily habit gan, including the Frog Island same station, WEMU (89.1 FM), for more than 40,000 listeners and Festival, the Ann Arbor Summer which began with only 10 watts of is supported by more than 8,000 Festival, the Ann Arbor Art Fairs, power, is a broadcast leader in contributors who donated a station the Birmingham Jazz Festival, the Washtenaw County and Southeast record $350,000 in the last fiscal Montreux/Detroit Jazz Festival, ern Michigan. With 16,000 watts year. More than 50 percent of and the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz of power, an increased transmission WEMU's revenue comes frompri- Festival. The station has formed

Notes From WEMU by Mary Motherwell, marketing and development director

October means a lot of things to can catch all the action - home and Mainstage at the Ann Arbor Art a lot of people, trips to the cider away - on 89 .1 FM. Our veteran Fair). For information on the Koko mill, Halloween, football games, broadcast team of John Fountain, Taylor concert, please call the Office leaves to rake, but at WEMU David Frickman, Jeff Fulton, and of Campus Life at (313) 487-3045. October means ...fundraising! Tom Slade keeps you abreast of all Election Day is fast approaching Yes, once again we are in the the action and WEMU's new, high and WEMU's news team is ready midst of our fall fundraising cam tech, telephone transmission lines to bring you complete coverage of paign, hoping to raise $165 ,000 make you feel as though you're right all local, state, and national races. from our combined mail and on-air there. We will have updates all night long drives. Public broadcasting is be WEMU is now a part of on Nov. 5 and David Fair will have coming more and more competitive the World Wide Web. Check out complete information the next and WEMU is facing increased our Homepage at http:// morning on "Morning Edition" competition. Support from alumni, www.emich.edu/public/wemu. (6 - 10 a.m.). WEMU's Jazz Date faculty and staff makes a big differ You'll find a list of our program line also will be converted to election ence in the quality of broadcasting ming, the latest jazz and blues results on the morning of Nov. 6. you've come to expect fr om playlists, and updates on all of Call (313) 487-WEMU (9368) for WEMU so, please, mail your tax WEMU's events. If you have com a recorded list of all election results. deductible contribution to: ments, e-mail us! Our address is And remember, the Jazz Dateline WEMU [email protected]. is there 24 hours a day to bring you P. 0. Box 980350 If you're a blues fan, you won't listings of all jazz, blues, and world Ypsilanti, MI 48198-0350 want to miss this. WEMU and the music events in southeast Michigan. Office of Campus Life are pleased On bad weather mornings (and, yes, Or call us during the On-Air to present the legendary Koko Tay they're coming) check the dateline Fundraiser Oct. 18-24 at: lor in concert at Pease Auditorium for the latest school closings. Saturday, Dec. 7. Opening for Koko We look forward to hearing from (313) 487-8936. are Big Dave and the Ultrasonics, you on the Web, or via e-mail, but Ann Arbor's favorite jump blues especially during our Fall On-Air EMU football is in another tough band (maybe you caught their amaz Fundraiser. race for the MAC crown and you ing performance at WEMU's

10 close partnerships with the Michi such notables as WUOM from the Home Companion," the first to gan Theater in Ann Arbor, the Uni University of Michigan, WDET carry NPR's "Fresh Air" in South versity Musical Society of the from Wayne State University and eastern Michigan, the first to carry University of Michigan, the Office WK.ARfro m Michigan State Uni NPR's "Car Talk," the first to carry of Campus Life at EMU, and the versity? What sets this station apart "Weekend Edition," the first to Southeastern Michigan Jazz Asso from hundreds of other public ra carry hourly news updates during ciation, to keep jazz and blues dio stations across the United the day, and the first to offer PRI's healthy and flourishing both on the States? ''Afropop Worldwide." If you were airwaves and in the community. The answers are simple: a com to check the program listings for And it has paid off. WEMU con mitment to quality programming, other stations in the area, you would sistently ranks among the top radio both local and national, a commit see all of these programs and fea stations in Washtenaw County, ment to community service, and an tures as part of daily programming. placing as high as third after peren incredibly loyal, talented and dedi WEMU's commitment to qual nial commercial powerhouses WJR cated staff willing to do whatever it ity programming doesn't stop with and WJLB from Detroit and first takes to showcase their station in the network, though. Music Direc among all public radio stations as the best possible light. tor Linda Yo hn has put together a well as all stations originating from In the words of Arthur Timko, dynamic schedule of jazz and blues Washtenaw County. '68, '71, WEMU's station manager, programming hosted by a star-stud EMU sports broadcasts first hit "If you want to hear the public ra ded collection ofjazz and blues en WEMU's airwaves with the 1966 dio of tomorrow, tune in to WEMU thusiasts and professionals. From football season. Men's basketball today." WEMU was the first sta Dr. George Klein (EMU's Direc followed and both have remained tion to offer regular local news tor of Continuing Education's Aca on WEMU since. WEMU also (1971), the first to carry NPR's demic Programs Abroad) and his broadcasts women's basketball when "Morning Edition" in Southeastern "Grooveyard" program, which edu their schedule permits. Michigan (1979), the first to pro cates its listeners about the history So, how does a station that comes duce and broadcast the Montreux/ behind jazz of the 1950s and 1960s, in last in terms ofwattage , staff size Detroit Jazz Festival (1982), the to the incendiary and irreverent and funding become a leader among first in the area to carry "A Prairie Thayrone, '89, with his startling musical taste and offbeatcommen tary, WEMU has something for everyone interested in jazz and blues. WEMU is also the only sta tion to offer daily listings of area performances through the on-air Jazz Datebook and telephone Jazz Dateline, (313) 487-WEMU. WEMU's reputation as the jazz sta tion in Southeastern Michigan has led to fruitful relationships with the GreystoneJazz Museum in Detroit, the Birmingham Jazz Festival and the Michigan Jazz Festival at the Botsford Inn in Farmington. A strong presence on the local news scene as well, WEMU is the only station whose local news cov erage transcends city boundaries to President Shelton and Art Timko throw the switch to activate WEMU's new cover all ofWashtenaw County and transmission towerJa n. 20, 1992. continued on next page 11 continuedfrom page 11 oftenbeyo nd. News Director Clark WEMU Events Smith, '73, has reporters at all Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti City Council October meetings, covers Ann Arbor, Ypsi lanti, Lincoln and Willow Run 18 - 24 Fall On-Air Fundraiser school board meetings, and provides 26 Noon: Ultimate Reunion, 80s and 90s grads, at Theo's at the top election coverage in the EMU Homecoming county, giving listeners live up-to the-minute results as ballots are tal November lied and then providing live and 9 "Midnight in the Garden of Evil": Celebrating the Music of taped results throughout the next Johnny Mercer at Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor morning. WEMU offers 11 local In cooperation with UMS]azz Directions Series newscasts during each weekday 13 The Airmen of Note at Pease Auditorium seven with local host David Fair In cooperation with the EMU Off ice ofCam pus Life during "Morning Edition" and four 13 Fundraiser Finale Party at the Ark, Ann Arbor more during "All Things Consid 16 Guitar Summit III fe aturing Paco de Lucia, Al DiMeola and John ered" with David Frickman, '88. McLaughlin at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor The station sponsors community election forums, candidate call-in programs and a variety of special features and series including one on est reason for its success. And station manager at WOSU at Ohio domestic violence that was named the only way to build that audience State University, Scott Hanley, '82, Best Local Documentary in 1993 and earn its loyalty is to give to the is the general manager at WDUQ by the Associated Press. community and give back to the lis- at Duquesne in Pittsburgh, Penn., WEMU's most visible success re teners as they give to the station by and Tom Hunt, '70, '72, is the gen- cently has been in the station's com s u p p o r t i n g eral manager for mitment to community service. It WEMU gener- I WCMU, and its isn't unusual to hear Linda Yohn on ously during its many affiliates, at the air - then find her talking to a two annual fund- Central Michigan dozen record company representa raising campaigns. University. tives and emceeing a live jazz per WEMUis proud The past 30 formance all in the same day. Clark to have many years have brought Smith might be filing an AP wire EMU alumni as many changes to story one moment, covering a re station employees WEMU and gents' meeting and then hosting a and in the public shaped the station candidate forum. It's all in a day's radio family. In ad- for what may be its work for WEMU employees to do dition to those most difficult their regular jobs and then run cash mentioned above, task-remaining registers at WEMU's special Claire Luna, '90, on top in an in- fundraiser at the Great Harvest hosts an early creasingly com- Bread Company, or set up chairs at mornmg Jazz pro- petitive market the Art Fair stage and broadcast, or gram on Sundays, and field. By re- mingle with listeners at the annual Reid Paxton, '85, maining active in Fundraiser Finale party, or compete produces the local the community o, hosts ''Early at the annual Corporate Spelling broadcast of Claire Luna, •9 and retaining the . Morning ja zz" Sundays 5-8 a. m. Bee. WEMU recognizes the value "Morning Ed1-" l oyal ty and fiman- of community service, both as an tion," and Chief Engineer Ray cial support of its contributors, the ambassador for the University and Cryderman, '83, keeps equipment University and EMU alumni, as part of its role to enhance and in top condition while taking WEMU looks forward to many improve the quality of life in the WEMU into the digital age. On the more years of great programming community. Loyal listeners are the national scene, former news direc- and community service as it ad- backbone ofWEMU and the great- tor Sam Eiler, '6 7, '6 8, is the vances into the 21st century.

12 Reflections by Shery/James

A few weeks mosquitos that year, and only slightly But he gave me an assignment. I ago, a man less valuable. There were no jobs, and spent three weeks on it and got paid asked me for I ended up as a secretary. $50. He gave me another, and an permission to I didn't want to be a secretary, so I other, and one day, I was a staffwriter include a series was a mean secretary. After all, here on that magazine making $12,000 a of articles I I was a college graduate who fancied year. I feltrich. wrote in 1989 in herself a writer or something pro I soon graduated from the maga his new book fessional, and yet I was knocking out zine to a middle-sized North Caro about Pulitzer business letters and fending offsex lina newspaper and, fouryears later, Prize-winning feature stories. It was ist phone calls. I couldn't figure out I went to work for the St. Petersburg, the fourth such book that has re what to do with myself I waited for (Fla .) Times, a top-notch newspaper. printed my series, which is about a life's knight to sweep me away with Throughout these years, I worked woman who abandoned her baby. a dream job offer. very hard. I asked for help. I learned Whenever this happens, I always Over the next few years, I drifted from older writers. My stories got say what the infamous Doc Holliday from the secretarial job to working better, longer, more sophisticated. allegedly said when he died in bed, for a cable TV company taking cus And then came the incredible day an old but intact man, with his shoes tomer orders. That ended when a that they announced the Pulitzers in off: "This is funny." pervert made me his life's goal. I quit 1991. I had no clue I was about to In fact, the day in 1991 when I was the job, and it was no great loss; I win. I hadn't washed my hair that awarded the Pulitzer, I was quoted was making $5,600 a year. day. It looked awful. And as I sat as saying, "Things like this don't hap Then I went to work for a guy toiling away at my desk, a colleague pen to people like me." named Herbert Hoover Haven. I reading the AP wires stood up, threw But it did. And as I look over the was supposed to train people on out her arms and shouted, "Sheryl, sea of young, uncertain faces on word processors, then very new. you won!" I feltlike Miss America. campus this fall, it's easy to remem Unfortunately, the older gentleman It changed my life, of course. I ber how uncertain I was, too, as a assigned to sell them preferred to make more than $12,000 a year now. student, and how unlikely it seemed push typewriters. So then I tried sell And I was able to get back to my that I would ever amount to any ing dictation equipment-and fell home state, and teach on the cam thing, much less someone in New flat on my face. I was fired. I was pus where I once walked in a fog- Yo rk accepting an award amidst dis miserable. I was only 25. not knowing who I was, what I really tinguished journalists and Colum I retreated back to secretarial work, liked, or what my sorry life would bia University dignitaries. meaner than ever. Now in my later bring. I'm a lot older, wiser and more That trail began at Eastern, when 20s, I was still unfocused, undisci successful than I ever would have I took at age 20 my one and only plined, and waiting for someone to imagined so many years ago. fe ature writing class from Taffy offer me the world on a silver platter. And it happened the way these Larcom, now professor emeritus. A One day, my brother-in-law asked things always do: one day, one job, former newspaperwoman, Larcom me to write his sports club's news and one story at a time, with a lot of was all grace, professionalism and letter. I'll never forget that day: I work in between. warmth. I earned an A in her class spent eight hours working on it; it When you're 20, that seems end and loved it. felt like two. It was as ifsomeone had less, and the outcome-j ob suc Unfortunately, I flunked the rest suddenly turned the lights on. For the cess-so impossible. of my 20s. At the time, I thought I first time, I had direction. I knew But at 44, I can say: it wasn't end was the greatest failure. But now, I then I wanted to pursue journalism. less. And I'm living proof that noth see things differently. But I had no clips, no track record. ing, nothing, is impossible. It all went something like this. I So I walked into the officeof a small, graduated with an English degree in city magazine in Lansing and offered Sheryl James, Detroit Free Press 1973, and the next year earned a sec to write free lance articles. The edi E-mail: [email protected] ondary teaching certificate. Teach tor eyed me and said, "What makes Phone: (810) 227-8009 ers were thicker than swamp you think you can write?" or (3 13) 223-4552

13 II Athletics

Six Named to Hall of Fame

The EMU Athletic Hall of Fame Alumni Award and is currently resides in Class of 1996 will be honored at the currently a trustee of Waterford. 21st annual Hall ofFame Luncheon the EMU Foundation. Fountain served Saturday, Nov. 2, prior to the He is president of the EMU from 1966-85 EMU-Ball State football game. Gary Player Golf as Sports Information The banquet will begin at 11:30 Course Design Com director, director of a.m. in McKenny Union ballroom. pany in Palm Beach Public Information Tickets can purchased from the Gardens, Fla. and vice president for Alumni Office. The Hall of Fame Osika ran fo r University Relations. class also will be recognized at half EMU's cross country During his EMU ten time of the EMU-Ball State game, and track teams from ure, he won numerous which begins at 3:30 p.m. 1985-88. During her awards for his work. The members of this year's class career she held He has also been the are Jim Applegate, Andrea (Bow records in 10 indoor "Voice of EMU Ath man) Osika, John Fountain, and outdoor events letics" on radio broad Kennedy Mcintosh, Randy Mills and was an NCAA casts since 1966. and JeffPeck. qualifier three con Mcintosh was a Applegate lettered for the golf secutive seasons. four-year basketball team from 1965-67. He was the Osika competed in letterwinner from team captain in 1966 and '67 and re the 1988 U.S. Olym 1968-71. He is EMU's ceived the Outstanding Golf Team pic trials, qualifying all-time leading scorer Member award. Applegate also has for the semifinals in with 2,219 points and received EMU's Outstanding the 1500 meters. She all-time leading Andrea (Bowman} Osika

New Arena Plans Developed Aloha!

Some of the most exciting news in recent athletic history came out of the The Eastern Michigan men's bas EMU Board of Regents retreat Friday, Aug. 10. Designs and plans for a ketball team will get a taste of para new basketball arena-convocation center next to Rynearson Stadium were dise in December when it travels to presented and favorably received by the board. The proposed arena would Hawaii for a three-game tournament. be located at the south end of Rynearson right behind the existing football The Eagles will play in the Un i scoreboard. There are several ways the building could be funded.The Uni versity of Hawaii-Hilo Holiday versity could request a loan with payment coming fromstudent fees or could Shootout Dec. 28-30. Eastern request capital outlay money fromthe state. However, state funds would be opens the three-day round robin with requested only if there are academic facilities within the new structure and a 7:30 p.m. game Saturday, Dec. 28, it is unlikely that will happen. The maximum seating capacity for the new against Hawaii-Hilo in Kona, Ha arena could be as low as 5,000 or as much as 10,000. The actual design for waii. The action swings across the the building also is undetermined. big island to Hilo when EMU plays Idaho at 5:00 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29, and follows that up with a Monday, Dec. 30 contest with Liberty Uni versity at 5:00 p.m.

14 record score as the 1975 all-around champion for the Great Lakes In tercollegiate Gymnastics League and was the first gymnast in league history to qualify in all the events for the finals. Mills was the first stu dent-athlete representative of the inaugural £-Club in 1974. He is currently an adapted physical edu cation resource teacher for the Jefferson County Public School System in Louisville, Ky. Peck lettered for EMU's baseball team from 1968-70. He earned NAIA All-American honors and JejJPerk was a member of the 1970 NAIA rebounder with 1,426 rebounds. national championship team. Peck Mcintosh was an NAIA All led the squad in hits and batting av American selection and also was erage in 1969 and '70, and is EMU's honored as an Associated Press and all-time triples leader. He played in UPI All-American second-team se the Philadelphia Phillies organiza lection. He now works in the film tion and also had a successfulcareer industry in southern California. on the national fast-pitch softball Ke nnedy Mcintosh Mills was a four-year gymnastics circuit. Peck works for Parke-Davis letterman from 1971-75. He set a and resides in Ann Arbor.

Teeters New Women's Swimming Coach

Scott Teeters has pionship and the National meet and set 20 state been named the head 1995 team was run records during his tenure. Two women's swimming ner-up at the United swimmers also were selected to coach at Eastern States Swimming compete on the Olympic Festival Michigan University. (USS) Region Six Team under Teeters. He replaces Maureen meet. Teeters was Te eters was the girls' varsity coach Isaac, who left the po named Age Group at Grosse Pointe North High sition last June. Coach of the Year School in Grosse Pointe Wo ods Teeters joins the in Michigan in 1994 from 1982-86, and men's/women's EMU coaching staff by the American coach at Central Missouri State after serving as head Swimming Coaches University in 1980-81. coach of the Oakland Association and was Since 1981, Teeters has been in Live Y'ers swim team selected as a National volved with USS and has served in Rochester since YMCA Coach of on the Michigan Swimming Board 1987. Teeters super the Year finalist of Directors. He was twice a Na vised a team of more five times. tional Select Camp coach and a than 250 swimmers and produced Prior to coaching at Oakland, National Age Group Camp coach. more than 30 Junior and Senior Teeters was head coach at the Teeters also has attended the USS National qualifiers. His 1991 and Grosse Pointe Swim Club from Coaches College at the United 1993 squads won the National 1981-87. His teams annually quali States Olympic Training Center in YMCA Long Course Team Cham- fied student athletes for the USS Colorado Springs, Colo.

15 EMU's Fourth Annual Family Day Promises to be Best Yet!

Each year, Eastern Michigan Club and dancers from the EMU Each year Family Day is held in University's Family Day celebra Health, Physical Education, Recre conjunction with an EMU home tion gets bigger and better! Three ation and Dance Department also football game. Rounding out the years ago the inception of the will be featuredthroughout the day. day's events will be the EMU vs. Academic Expo and Learning Fair "One of the great aspects of Fam Miami of Ohio football game, gave children and parents a chance ily Day is that there are interesting 3:30 p.m. at Rynearson Stadium. to experience the wonder of aca demics and learning. Last year, the Super Item Silent Auction, a fundraiser for the EMU Parents Association, added another excit ing element to the event. "This year, we plan on having even more hands-on learningactivi ties and programs," said Rita Abent, executive director of university mar keting and communications. "Our Silent Auction will have more items to bid on, including great col lectibles, sports memorabilia, trips, jewelry and specialty items. An other enhancement this year is the addition of a fullslate of programs for parents of freshman students." Abent said this year's Family Day A bit ofmy stery is brewing at the Chemistry Magic Show, afeatured event at is slated for Saturday, Oct. 12, Family Day. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on EMU's main and fun things to do for the whole Children 14 years and younger are campus. Some of the main attrac family. And, all the activities are admitted free to the game. tions will be the Chemistry Magic free," said Abent. "Last year we had For more information about Show, the College ofTechnology's more than 4,000 people on campus Family Day events, or if you would flight simulator and wind tunnel forthe event. It's a great way for the like to donate an item to the silent demonstration, virtual reality pods, University to show offits impressive auction, call the EMU Parents the EMU Diving Te am Exhibition, facilities and academic programs." Association at: an ROTC rappelling demonstra Abent said last year's Silent Auc (313) 487-1333 tion, a theatre make-up demonstra tion not only attracted quite a bit of FAX : (313) 487-3073 tion and a number of attractions attention, but also proved to be a E-mail: [email protected] including free caricatures, clowns, very worthwhile event. More than face painting, free bowling and use 100 items were donated forthe auc of EMU's outstanding recreation/ tion. Funds raised exceeded $3,000 intramural facilities. University and and were used to provide grants for local performing groups such as the EMU students to attend profes St. Francis Jumpers, the Unicyclists sional conferences and seminars.

16 Alumni News II

Alumni College in the Bavarian Alps

It is increasingly difficult today to and varied, including lectures and of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart find a vacation spot that is off the tours about the history of the and familiar to most of us as the beaten tourist path and full of beau Berchtesgaden region conducted by location for The Sound ofMusic, tifulscener y, history, great food and David Harper, a U.S. native who has the musical about the city's famous excellent tour guides. But Eastern been a resident of Berchtesgaden Vo n Trapp family. Michigan University and University for seven years. The first full day The excursions were well-paced, of Missouri alumni discovered just included a guided tour through a allowing adequate time for shop such a place July 9 through 17 as palace once inhabited by Bavarian ping and exploring. Evening events they participated in the Alumni kings and a visit to a picturesque included polka music at College in the Bavarian Alps pro church at Ramsau. Berchtesgaden's Hofbrauhaus and gram, offered by the EMU Office Other days were spent gliding a Mozart concert at the top of the for Alumni Relations and Continu across Lake Konigsee ("the King's Salzburg fortress. ing Education. Lake") to the historic St. For more information on other The group stayed in the hotel Bartholomew peninsula and church; programs, contact the Office for Vier Jahreszieten ("the Four Sea hiking in the National Park in Alumni Relations at: sons"), which provided comfortable Berchtesgaden; traveling to the top (313) 487-0250 accommodations and was centrally of Mt. Kelstein, known in previous FAX : (313) 487-7009 located for the week's activities. The times as the Eagle's Nest, with its E-mail: [email protected] travelers discovered that German breathtaking view of Berchtesgaden cuisine is not lacking in taste or va and surrounding mountains, valleys, or Lifespan Learning at: riety; the hotel offered delicious forests and cities; and touring an (313) 487-0407 two-course lunches and three active salt mine. The alumni spent FAX: (313) 487-2316 course dinners that included veal, a fullday shopping and sightseeing E-mail: [email protected] chicken, steak, fish and lamb. in Salzburg, the Austrian city Activities also were many renowned for being the birthplace

Traveling alumnifrom EMUand the University ofMis souri enjoyed the sp lendid vistas ofthe Bavarian Alps. 17 Longridge is Secondary School Principal of the Ye ar

David ]. Longridge, '60, '64, is studied and emulated by schools known by his staffat Meads Mill nationwide. Since becoming prin Middle School in Northville as a cipal in 1985, Longridge has be "man of change"-an indication of come known for his success in his resistance to following trends establishing high standards forthe simply because they're there. students and forincreasing enroll Longridge has gained a reputa ment at the school. According to tion forstudying and implement the citation, the school was se ing the latest in education research. lected by the University of North These efforts have culminated in his Carolina's Gifted Study at Chapel being named the 1995-1996 Sec Hill in 1993 as "one of the finest ondary School Principal of the Ye ar schools in the United States." by the Michigan Association of "He is an authority figure for Secondary School Principals. the kids," parent Richard Hare David J Longridge, '60, '64 Longridge's involvement in help said of Longridge. "He's there at ing his district and staffdevelop ef every event keeping an eye on ev Meads Mill seventh grader recently fe ctive instructional strategies has eryone. But they know he will wrote, "Principals come and go, but resulted in the "Middle School treat each one of them respect heroes stay in our hearts forever. Yo u Te am" concept, a program that is fully, as individuals." Indeed, one are one of those heroes."

Raske is Outstanding Principal

It's always a great idea to encour and community. Her initiatives age kids to read. It also helps when at Carman Park Elementary you reward their effortswith a spe School have included a student cial effort of your own. Mary Ann success-oriented program, a Raske, '71, principal of Carman three-day camp at which fifth Park Elementary School in Flint, graders learn pioneer living skills went so far as to sit on the school and after-school tutoring pro roof one winter's day just to recog grams. Raske's efforts also have nize the successfulcompletion of a resulted in several school grants school reading challenge. that involve students in commu Perhaps this is one of the reasons nity projects centered around why she received the 1996 Out improving the ecology. standing Practicing Principal Award Raske also is involved with East fromthe Michigan Elementary and ernMich igan University's profes Middle School Principals Associa sional education programs. "The tion. The award, presented annually administration and faculty at to one principal in each state, rec EMU have always 'been there' for ognizes extraordinary leadership, me. Even though I graduated 25 Mary Ann Raske, '71 commitment and service within years ago, I am still in contact with tion with EMU administration and schools and communities. several of my former teachers. faculty. These people are the real Raske has been recognized by the The knowledge that I have used award winners," she said. She is Flint AreaReading Association for to work toward being the best known forher work in mentoring her excellence in promoting learning, principal possible came from my staffand for modeling current educa particularly reading, in the school education and continued associa- tional theories and practices. 18 CAS Annual Ta ilgate Chapter Happenings

The Office for Alumni Re lations plans numerous activi ties for alumni who live outside the greater Ypsilanti area. These events bring the cam pus to alumni and present an opportunity to reconnect with the University and make new friends. For more information about outreach activities, con tact Vicki Reaume, assistant The College of Arts and Sciences invites all CAS alumni and friends to director for alumni relations at join Dean Barry Fish at our annual tailgate celebration. This year's tailgate (313) 487-0250 or e-mail her at: will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 12. Kickoff for the game against [email protected] Ohio is set for 3:30 p.m. Look for the CAS tent at the west side of Rynearson Stadium. For more information or to RSVP, call (313) 487-4344. Attend In the Works! ing last year's tailgate were, from left to right, Dennis Beagen, Barry Fish, A new chapter is being Dan Gamble, Mollie Jordan and Hoover Jordan. developed, the Art Alumni Chapter. Ifyou are an art alum !P@�lt W�@U'@@@& §@0� nus or alumna and want to get Forget to order a yearbook when you graduated? Have we got involved, call Vicki Reaume, a deal for you! assistant director for alumni relations. In order to reduce inventory, the Aurora staff has graciously allowed us to purchase past yearbooks at a great price. Hallof Fame Inductees We're offering them to you for just $10 plus postage. The E-Club Hall of Fame We have quite a few from '71, '83, '84, '85, '87, '89, '90, '91. Class for1996 has been selected There also are a limited number of copies from various other and the newest members will be class years. Call the Office for Alumni Relations at honored at the 21st annual Hall (800) 825-8664 or fax this form to (313) 487-7009 and get your of Fame Luncheon Saturday, copy today. Nov, 2 prior to EMU-Ball State game. The six inductees also will be recognized at halftime Ye arbook Credit Card Charge Information: of the game at 3:30 p.m. Name of Party: ------Date: _____ Members of the class of '96 are: Jim Applegate, Andrea Address: (Bowman) Osiska,John Foun Te lephone: tain, Kennedy Mcintosh, Randy Mills and Jeff Peck. Charge Card Type: ______Exp: ____ _ The banquet will begin at Signature: ------ 11:30 a.m. in McKenny Union Number Ordered: ------Mail? D yes D no Ballroom. Tickets may be purchased from the EMU Yearbooks - $10 each • Postage - $2.50 each Office for Alumni Relations. Total Amount to Charge Card: ______

19 Dr. Richard Gehring, '44, wifeBonnie, and EMU l?.ic6:Clrc/ Vice Presidentfar Un iversity Relations £ip · zns� z; 69 Juanita M. Reid , cznc1 'ZV!fi. £.,1 nclcz

Alumni Gather in Seattle Alumni and friends in the Seattle area joined President William Shelton, Vice President Juanita Reid and Assis tant Director for Alumni Relations Vicki Reaume for a reception Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle. There are 247 alumni in the Seattle area. This is the fust time Eastern has hostetlan outreach event in the Pacific Northwest. Upcoming events will be held in Washington D.C., California,Florida, Colorado, and Arizona.

JeffShinn, '86, and wifeElizabeth (Bauman) Shinn, '88 WilliamBaldw in, '93, wife Laura, and son Chad 20 Class Notes

50s Jeanne Rose, '65, was elected William T. Nalepka, '70, '76, mayor of Escanaba. Rose is as is an assistant professor of ac Joe Wizauer, '58, '66, has been sociate director of the Delta countancy and business admin the owner of Hon's Flowers in County Area Chamber of istration at Adrian College. Ypsilanti since 1969. Commerce and has served on the city council since 1991. Stephen F. Steele, '71, '72, 60s received a 1996 National Insti tute for Staffand Organizational Sharron Fritch McLean, '62, Jack Miller, Development Excellence Award '67, '78, has retired from a 33-year '68, has been from Anne Arundel Community career in education, which in named vice College, Md., where he is a pro cluded 17 years at Marlette Com chancellor of fessor of sociology. Steele has munity College, five years in the institutional ad served the college since 1972. Sanilac Intermediate School Dis vancement at trict and 10 years in the Tu scola the University Kristine Johnson, '73, is mar Intermediate School District. of Denver. Miller has held keting manager at Aero-Motive Company in Kalamazoo. Previ James .E. Martin, the position of director of the University of Denver ously, Johnson was marketing '64, of Santa Ana, manager for Te nneco Brake. Calif., is now Campaign since last fall, and stationed with the has focused on extending the university's outreach Gary D. Stemple, Orange County '74, was promoted to Sheriff's Office. programs to Colorado alumni with a series of sales manager of the events in several communi Detroit division of Stroh's Ice Cream Jim Sargent, '64, is chair ties outside Denver as well as in key U.S. cities. Previ Company. Stemple, man of the Social Sciences who is married with four chil Division at Virginia West ously, Miller served as vice president of university ad dren, has been with the company ern Community College, since 1991. where he teaches U.S. his vancement at Colorado tory and government. State University. Kim Antieau, '78, '81, is the au Sargent's numerous articles thor of Th e Jigsaw Wo man, her on historical sports figures Tom Cataldo, '66, '70, was first novel, recently published by have been published in such named the principal of Maples ROC Books, a division of Pen publications as Sp orts Collec Elementary School in guin Books. More than thirty of tors Digest and Oldtyme Dearborn. Previously, Cataldo Antieau's short stories have been Baseball News. Recent ar was the assistant principal at published in various magazines ticles have focused on such Lowrey School. and anthologies. players as Hal Newhouser, Jimmy Outlaw, Jean Faut, Mary Nakamura, '78, was and others. 70s awarded the Sidney E. Chapin Thomas H. Johnson, '70, '73, Award by the Visiting Nurse Joan M. Dunlavy, '65, is senior '76, was appointed to a position Association of Southeast Michi inventory analyst at the Auto as guidance counselor at Olym gan. The award recognizes motive Equipment Group of pic Heights High School in Nakamura's continued clinical Mitsubishi Electronics in Ply Boca Raton, Fla. Johnson has excellence in home health care mouth. Previously, Dunlavy served as a guidance counselor and her many contributions to was a material planning special for the Palm Beach County the association. ist at General Dynamics. School District for 11 years.

21 Peggy A. Wiencek, '78, '84, Marc Levy, '81, was named di Darneal McAllister, '90, is a so is a research associate rector of operations forTu bby's cial worker in the maternal/in in the Institute for Inc., the Sterling Heights-based fantsupport program at the Bay the Study of Chil specialty sandwich chain. In his County Health Department in dren and Families at new position, Levy oversees fran Bay City. Previously, McAllister Eastern Michigan chisee training and operations for worked forthe Bay City Public University. Wiencek the company in Michigan, Ohio, Schools. is a lecturer in the Department and Illinois. of Sociology, Anthropology LaRon Williams, '90, a story and Criminology. Scott Rynearson, '81, joined teller and performer, �SX Corporation, an interna was fe atured in the Kim Clugston, '79, is a loan tional transportation company, community pro officer at the new University where he serves as tax counsel in gram presented by Bank of Ann Arbor. Jacksonville, Fla. Rynearson Livingston 2001, a earned hisJ.D. fromthe Univer local organization Janet Nacu, '79, was named re sity of Notre Dame in 1984. promoting racial gional vice president forthe Es and cultural diver tablishment Services Division of Val (Bechtold) Va n Vianen, '83, sity in Livingston County. the central region of American is a rehabilitation facility direc Express Travel Related Services, tor and occupational therapist at Gwenda Marshall, '91, of Inc. Nacu has 13 years of experi NovaCare, a nationwide therapy Romulus, is a social worker at ence with American Express. contract company. Van Vianen Arbor Hospice. Marshall is part lives in Phoenix, Ariz., with her of an interdisciplinary team as Melody A. Reifel, '79, 1s husband, Alex, and their three signed to counsel terminally ill the project manager children. patients and their families. for the Integrated Student Informa Diane Wilson, '84, '90, is the Kurt D. Obermeyer, '91, U.S. tion System in Uni director of the Belleville Area Navy Lt., was designated a pa versity Computing Museum. Wilson has been active trol plane commander. In his new at Eastern Michigan .___�...... � with the museum forseveral years. position, Obermeyer will com University. She is the author of Cornerstones: mand a flight crew and will be A History ofCa nton To wnship. responsible for the execution of ocean surveillance, aerial recon 80s Dawn Garcia, '88, was named naissance, and search and rescue Tammie Graves, '80, was named city clerk in Woodhaven, where missions. He is assigned with the 1995 Journalist of the Ye ar she served as deputy city clerk for Patrol_Squadron 11, Naval Air by the editorial department of eight years. Station, in Brunswick, Maine. the Observer and Eccentric Newspapers, where she serves as Susan L. Hagood, '88, has been Shawn Bice, '92, is the president a graphic artist. named controller at HR Man of QyalitySof tware Solutions, an agement Group, Inc., a subsid Ypsilanti software company that Kathleen Kryza, '80, '92, is a iary of the American Society of has recently released a new indus special education teacher at Employers, based in Southfield. try-related search engine for the Highland Middle School in Wo rld Wide Web. Highland. Krysa also taught for V. Marita Williams, '88, '94, is one year at the International senior accountant in the Ac David Coles, '95, School in Lisbon, Portugal. counting Department at Eastern of Ann Arbor, a Michigan University. commander in the David Guenther, '81, is vice Naval Reserve, took president of commercial lending 90s command of Naval at the new University Bank of Reserve Tactical Ann Arbor. Elizabeth Ansel Kirsch, '90, is Support Center 273 rn an instructor in Adrian College's Mt. Clemens. teacher education department. 22 Marriage Monica Fast, '92, '95, and Steve Maximuk, '95

In Memoriam Edith E. Lidke, '14 Gladys J. (Bale) Cole, '28, '63 Clara M. (Freeman) Smith, '31 Rose Alice Greenlick, '32 Anna M. Gallup, '34 Frederick N. Wiest, '36 Kenneth A. Qyigley, '42 Alumni andfriends gather at the Alumni Te nt outside Rynearson Stadium prior to Joseph Dowdy, '48 the Aug. 31 game against Te mple. At left is Vicki Reaume, '91, assistant directorfar alumni relations. Plan to meet at the tent before the Oct. 12 game against Miami Jennie Moll, '50 (3:30 p.m. kickoff) and at Homecoming, Oct. 26 (tailgate, 2 p. m. - kickoff3 :30 p.m.). Grace (Miller) Schutt, '53 Anne M. Stahl, '55 r------News About Yo u Mae B. Foy, '57 , I Awards, civic activities, promotions, marriages, births and other events that I Charlotte I. Kay, '53 I I Rev. Earl W. McDonald, '60 are an important part of your life are important to us and your fellowalumni, I too. News will be published in Connection as soon as space permits, usually I Edmund Malys, '64, '65, '66 I within two issues of its receipt. We always appreciate receiving photos to run 1 Frances N. (Marble) Wa ltz, '65 I along with the class notes. The best reproduction results are achieved from 1 Gerald Lang, '66, '86 I black and white glossy head shots. If you would like your picture returned, I Nancy Danna, '70, '77 I please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. I Lisa Malaika Vengroff, '94 I Name ______� I Michael Edwards, '95 I I J. Address ______John R. McCann, '95 I I I City/State/Zip ______I -O Check here if new Dr. Samuel R. Solomon, I I pro I Phone I fessor emeritus of political sci I ence, died Aug. 3. He was 87. I E-mail address ______Solomon wrote about the I Student I.D. number ______� nation's governors during his I I nearly 50-year academic career, I Degree ��and year ______-----===-_ :II and received the National Gov Ii Place of employment and location ______I ernors Association � Position/title ------I Distinguished I' Is this a promotion? _____ a new employer? ______I Service Award in 11 I 1982 and in 1991. I Spouse's name (if alum) I Solomon was an I Degrees and years ------EMU faculty mem I ------1 ber from 1960 to I Significantnews about spouse ______I 1979. I My news (please attach a separate sheet) I I I I Please send address changes For your convenience, you also may I I or news for Connection to: e-mail your news to us at: I

I Office for Alumni Relations [email protected] I j 13 Welch Hall or FA X (313) 487-7009. I I Ypsilanti, MI 48197 II L------� 23 II Alumni Events Calendar October Homecoming Parade, Noon 15 Paula Poundstone, Pease Auditorium Ultimate Reunion - 80s and 90s 12 Annual meeting, National graduates, Theo-Door's, Noon 23-24, Dec. 6-7 The Play Called Alumni Association Board of No ah's Flood, QyirkTheatre Directors, 10 a.m., Corporate Black Alumni Chapter Scholar Education Center ship Luncheon, Marriott Hotel, Noon EMU footballhosts Miami; December alumni tailgate, 2 p.m., game MLK Garden Donor Plaque at 3:30 p.m. Presentation, MLK Memorial, 7 Meeting, National Alumni 1:30 p.m. Huron Restoration Alumni Association Board of Directors, 10 a.m., Hoyt Conference Center Chapter, Huron Round-up College of Health and Human Party, noon - 4 p.m., Brooklyn Services Recognition Recep Sports Bar & Grill tion, McKenny Union Alumni Room, 1:30 p.m. College of Arts and Sciences January annual pre-game tailgate, 2 p.m. Great Green Tailgate, Rynearson Stadium, 2 p.m. TBA Florida events (Miami, 11-13, 24-25 The Ladies ofLan ford, Naples, Boca Raton, Orlando, Sponberg Theatre Alumni tailgate, Rynearson Tampa) - receptions Stadium, 2 p.m. 14 The Barenaked Ladies, Pease 22 EMU basketball at WMU - Auditorium, 8 p.m. Tree Planting, Oestrike Stadium, pizza party 2:30 p.m. 17-19, 26-27 The Schooffor Scandal, 24 The Winans, Pease Auditorium Sponberg Theatre Homecoming game - EMU vs. Kent, Rynearson Stadium, 25 Coming Home Homecoming '96 3:30 p.m. (Abbreviated schedule) Campus Life Presents: The Great February 25 Michigan Opera Theatre presents Green Bash, Bowen Field "Phantom and Friends, " Pease House, 8 p.m. 2 Phoenix, Arizona event Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Theatre Event - Th e Schooffor 7 Marvin Hamlisch, Theatre Event - The Ladies of Scandal, Sponberg Theatre, Pease Auditorium Lanford, Sponberg Theatre, 8p.m. 8p.m. 23 Washington, D.C. Event 26 Teaching Excellence Awards Black Alumni Chapter Scholar Washington Bullets vs. Detroit Brunch, Ballroom/McKenny ship Dance, EMU Golf Club Pistons, U.S. Air Arena Union, 9 a.m. house, 9 p.m.

Golden Ye ars Reunion: Gradu For more details on alumni activities, ates of 50 or more years, Guild call the Office for Alumni Relations Hall/McKennyUnion, 9:30 a.m. November at (313) 487-0250 or (800) 825-8664, FAX (313) 487-7009, or College ofArts and Sciences 2 E-Club Hall of Fame, 11:30 e-mail: [email protected] Open House, 11-3 :30 p. m. a.m. McKenny Union Ballroom Greek Open Houses, 11-1 p.m. EMU football hosts Ball State, Alpha Xi Delta game at 3:30 p.m. Delta Sigma Phi Delta Tau Delta Theta Xi 9 EMU football hosts Akron, Kappa Phi Alpha game at 3:30 p.m. Sigma Phi Epsilon Sigma Sigma Sigma Sigma Tau Gamma

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The National Alumni Association at Eastern Michigan University has recognized chapters in-state as well as out-of-state. These chapters hold their own special interest events and activities in addition to those of the National Alumni Association. Some also require chapter dues that willnot be included in your.$25 annual association dues. If you don't see a group in your area and would like to start your own local chapter, we would be happy to assist you. Please caJl Vicki Reaume, '91, at the Office for Alumni Relations on our toll free line (800) 825- 8664, fax (313) 487-7009 or e-mail [email protected] for further information. Listed below are current chapters that have been chartered by the National Alumni Association. More chapters are in the process of being formed, including: Atlanta Alumni Chapter, Checrleading Alumni Chapter, Plymouth-Canton Alumni Chapter, San Diego Alumni Chapter and San Francisco Alumni Chapter.

Accounting Alumni Chapter Dallas/Ft. Worth/Metro Plex Huron Restoration Alumni Chapter ORJS Alumni Chapter Barb (Busovicki) Kaufman Area Alumni Chapter Debbie Ridiker Frank Eastern Michigan University 27322 Edgemoor Ed Chytil 42530 Schoolcraft Vicki Reaume Farmington Hills, MI 48334 1630 Novel Dr. Plymouth, MI 48170 13 Welch Hall (810) 474-0745 Garland, TX 75040 (313) 420-2534 Ypsilanti, MI 48197 (214) 278-6768 (800) 825-8664 Black Alumni Chapter FAX: (214) 528-3098 Huron Valley Alumni Chapter FAX: {313) 487-7009 Va nessa McDaniel Linda Randolph 20167 Marlowe E-Club Alumni Chapter 1414 Collegewood Orlando Alumni Chapter Detroit, MI 48235 Ken Behmer Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Allen D. Fazio (313) 345-3172 201 Chauncey Ct. (313) 482-8512 12231 Bronson Way Marshall, Ml 49068 FA X: (313) 487-7009 Orlando, FL 32824 Boca Raton Alumni Chapter (616) 781-7562 (407) 240-4963 (Southeast Florida) FAX: (616) 965-4133 Kensington Va lley Alumni Chapter FA X: {407) 363-6279 Eastern Michigan University Dennis Flamme Vicki Reaume Flint Alumni Chapter 3311 Watersedge Dr. St. Petersburg Alumni Chapter 13 Welch Hall Eastern Michigan University Brighton, MI 48116 (Florida Suncoast) Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Vicki Reaume (810) 229-8263 Eastern Michigan University (800) 825-8664 13 Welch Hall FAX: {313) 913-6663 Vicki Reaume FA X: (313) 487-7009 Ypsilanti, MI 48197 13 We lch Hall (800) 825-8664 National Capital AlumniChapter Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Chicago Alumni Chapter FA X: (313) 487-7009 James A. Moors (800) 825-8664 Barbara Racila 8380 Greensboro, #1022 FAX: (313) 487-7009 627 Citadel Dr. Ft. Myers Alumni Chapter McLean, VA 22102 Westmont, IL 60559 (Southwest Florida) (703) 893-2179 Southern California Alumni (708) 789-8890 Eastern Michigan University FA X: (703) 821-7269 Chapter Vicki Reaume Robert F. Freeland 13 Welch Hall Nursing Alumni Chapter 4800 Williamsburg Lane #223 Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Jodi Lambert La Mesa, CA 91941 (800) 825-8664 3053 Lakehaven Ct. (619) 469-4636 FAX: (313) 487-7009 Ann Arbor, MI 48105 (313) 668-0920 r------, I Ye s, I/We would like to join the EMU National Alumni Association immediately. Annual membership, individual or I I joint, alumni or friends-S25. Memberships are valid for one year (July 1 - June 30). If you are a new member, you have II I the option of joining for six months for only S12.50. I : I Name: ______Student Number: ____ _ Class: ______I I Joint with: ------Student Number: ______Class: ______I I I Address: I ------I I Residence Phone: ------Business Phone: ------__--- I I I I Check made payable to EMU National Alumni Association enclosed for: S ______or: I I Circle one: Visa or MasterCard # ______Exp. Date: ------I I I I Signature as it appears on credit card: ------I I I Return to: Eastern Michigan University, Office for Alumni Relations, 13 Welch Hall, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 or FAX I (313) 487-7009 I L------� Campaign for Scholars To ps 1 st Goal -

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