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on the cover 12 features 4 14 Makin’ knit big Presidential pursuits Enjoy Laurie (Burdue) Gonyea’s, ’81, reflections Look into how select leaders, from on her CMU days as a “closet knitter,” a Principal Charles F. R. Bellows passion which she has made her business. to President George E. Ross – COVER Photo by ROBERT 10BARCLAY positioned Central for greatness. 7 Focusing on the future 18 Discover what’s next for Forever Central Central Michigan University. Embrace what the university was to you then, celebrate what it is today and envision 10 what it will be for generations to come. Paint the campus maroon and gold 22 Refresh your college knowledge – Coming full circle rehearse the fight song, learn about Discover how much CMU means to several the CMU seal and read ways your alumni – from the 1940s to the 2000s – and fellow alumni show school spirit. why they come back to their alma mater. 12 37 Homecoming events So the shoe fits Browse fun events for all ages during See how sports studies graduate Bill CMU’s biggest reunion weekend. Thompson, ’98, is setting the pace in the performance footwear business. Executive Editor and Executive Director of Alumni Relations Marcie Otteman, ’87 Photographers 8 Robert Barclay Peggy Brisbane Graphic Designer Amy Gouin departments Writers 2 CMU Today 34 Connections Sarah Chuby, ’03 M.A. ’11 Celebrate with Special Olympics and Dan Digmann 36 Alumni News its 40 years of Summer Games on Don Helinski, ’96 CMU’s campus; see an alumnus’ 39 In Memory Scott Rex painting that became a piece of Jennifer Sula 40 I Am Central Michigan State Capitol history; and Communications committee more. Jeffrey L. Benjamin, ’86 5 Up Close With … Kevin Campbell, ’74 M.A. ’76 National Public Radio political Kevin H. Richman, ’93 correspondent Don Gonyea Vice President of Development 28 Sports and External Relations Root for a CMU baseball standout in Kathleen M. Wilbur the Majors; find out who’s inducted Associate Vice President into the 2011 Hall of Fame; and more. for University Communications 31 Giving Renée Walker, ’00 Learn why Jeff Meyers, M.S.A. ’91, is For advertising information among the top donors to University Call Cindy Jacobs, ’93 Libraries, even though he’s never set 800-358-6903 foot inside Park Library. stay connected 2 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 Email: [email protected] 18 Web: cmualum.com

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centralight fall ’11 1 CMU Today

alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more Forty years of inspiration This year marked the 40th anniversary of the Special Olympics Michigan Summer Games at CMU. Thousands were in attendance to see the more than 2,500 athletes compete in 11 different sports along with support from another 3,000 coaches, chaperones and volunteers. Roger Coles, interim dean for the College of Graduate Studies, has volunteered at the games for 39 of those years. And he says he’s seen amazing athletic feats and acts of personal triumph. A day of remembrance “One year the first place swimmer could have touched the wall and On June 6, 1934, the Mount Pleasant Indian won the gold, but he turned around and noticed the last place Industrial Boarding School closed its doors. swimmer was struggling to stay afloat,” Coles says. “Instead of touching Seventy-seven years later – on June 6, 2011 – members of the wall for the gold, the man swam back to get the struggling the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and CMU gathered at swimmer, and they both finished dead last. That’s the type of act that the site for a day of honoring, healing and remembering keeps bringing me back. I broke the rules and gave them the gold.” for the children and families impacted by the school. CMU alumni, students, faculty and staff are perennial volunteers who Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Chief Dennis Kequom help make the event happen, says Lois Arnold, president and CEO of said the purpose of the ceremony was to begin a Special Olympics Michigan. journey toward healing and reconciliation. “It has been a “We gather to honor,” said President George E. Ross. “We fantastic gather to heal. We gather to remember. We gather to relationship,” she support. On behalf of Central Michigan University, we says. “The CMU are honored to join you in this day of remembrance.” community has been welcoming Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Chief Dennis Kequom and has opened said the purpose of the ceremony was to begin a up their arms to journey toward healing and reconciliation. our athletes and “This is a very significant and historical event not only for our their families for tribal community on the Isabella Reservation, but for all the the last 40 years.” • tribes in the midwest region,” said Chief Kequom. “This event will mark the beginning of what it will take to determine the future of the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School.” •

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Top scholars Octavia Carson was at her high school in Utica when she received an important call. On the other end was Michael Guy, CMU’s associate director of Admissions. Based on her entry for the Lem Tucker Scholarship, Carson was awarded a full ride to study journalism. Carson and fellow aspiring journalist Megan Rolph of Florida were the 2011 recipients. “I almost dropped the phone,” says Carson. “I always wanted to be a journalist and the Lem Tucker Scholarship marks the beginning of my life. A lot of people say that this start is a new chapter. But to me, this is the beginning chapter.” The Lem Tucker Journalism Scholarship is awarded annually to high school seniors who promote the participation and success of minorities in journalism. It is named after CMU alumnus and Saginaw native Lem Tucker who worked for three major television networks and earned two Emmy awards before his death in 1991. “The Lem Tucker Scholarship means everything to me,” says Rolph. “This means that I don’t have to struggle like I’ve had to. This allows me to make my longtime desire to become a journalist come true.” Octavia Carson and Megan Rolph To date, 17 students have received the Lem Tucker Journalism Scholarship since its inception in 1997. • alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more

2 centralight fall ’11 CMU Today

Portrait perfect A Central Michigan University alumnus Charles Pompilius, ’76, painted the official portrait of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, which was hung in the Capitol Rotunda Gallery in mid 2011. Pompilius, who lives in Ferndale, has been painting for 30 years and full time for the past decade, after he won a grant from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation. He was commissioned in early 2010 to paint the life-size portrait. He finished the oil on canvas portrait in March 2011. The painting includes symbolism – a trademark of Pompilius’ work – on Granholm’s hope for Michigan’s future: a wind turbine, the Spirit of Detroit statue, a miniature Chevy Volt and the old Ford Rouge Plant also is in the portrait to represent Michigan’s old economy. Pompilius says Granholm was his most famous subject, and she seemed very happy with the likeness. •

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Gov. Jennifer Granholm with Charles Pompilius, ’76

Designing her future At the first CMU Interior Design Camp this summer, participant Kaylie Alyse Hess got a look into her future. At the camp, Hess – who will be a CMU freshman in the fall – designed an entry space for a client and, like a professional, presented her ideas to them at the end of the week. With the theme Four Seasons, Hess created a colorful leaf and branch design on the floor and a large “grass” covered ceiling light. “I want to go into interior design because I can walk into a place and know instantly if the function of a space isn’t good,” says Hess. “This camp was the first time I was able to act like a professional. I felt like I was on HGTV. “ Camp Assistant Director Emily Fehrenbach, ’11, says the week – which was for high school students grades 9-12 – included hands-on experience in schematic design, graphic and visual communication, and portfolio development. Faculty member Brenda Skeel directed the camp. Hess says the camp made her confident about her future major choice. “I learned interior design concepts I’ll be using in the fall and met professors. I also learned my way around campus,” she says. “I am excited about coming to CMU.” •

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Kaylie Alyse Hess, left

centralight fall ’11 3 Makin’

by dan digmann

Events trigger homecoming of sorts for Laurie (Burdue) Gonyea

Knit Outta the Box produces knitting kits for the Laurie Gonyea “desperate knitter,” Laurie says. The transportable kits wasted no time commenting contain everything needed to complete a simple, when her husband, Don, told stylish project. In addition to selling kits, Knit Outta the her that CMU had contacted him Box has grown to include accessories, patterns and about speaking on campus. yarns. In fact, it is the exclusive distributor in the United “I said, ‘Fire up, Chips!’” says Laurie States and Canada for a line of fine yarns from Turkey. (Burdue) Gonyea, a 1981 alumna “Knitting is such a great hobby because you actually who majored in broadcasting. “I was get something from it,” says Laurie, whose business very excited to come back to CMU.” idea came after a delayed flight stranded her at the On her first trip back to Mount airport and she had no access to knitting supplies. Pleasant in more than three “When I was at Central, I was a ‘closet knitter’ because decades, Laurie says she spent in the late 1970s and early 80s, women were supposed time on campus looking for Moore to take over the world, so it was looked down on for a Hall, where she spent many hours woman to do anything domesticated like knitting.” as a broadcasting student and But at her graduation, Laurie wore a sweater she had serving as one of the first anchors crocheted. for News Central, as well as Cobb Hall, where she lived for two years and served as hall president. “People came up to me and said how much they liked my sweater,” she says. “Hardly anybody “It was a blast looking around at everything,” believed me when I told them I made it.” she says. “Golly, it’s changed!” Knit Outta the Box is based in Washington, D.C., but Following graduation, the Shelby Township native Laurie says she is proud of her “Support the Mitten returned to Metro Detroit and worked as a video Initiative.” Through this endeavor she concentrates on producer and account executive in the broadcasting incorporating her home state into her business, such industry. When Don was offered the NPR White as operating a product fulfillment facility in Monroe, House correspondent position in Washington, D.C., as well as working with Michigan-based printers Laurie willingly stopped working to devote more and packaging designers and a marketing firm.• time to raising their daughters, Callie and Gillian. With Callie graduating from high school this year and Gillian moving past eighth grade, Laurie now is focused on growing her business, which was developed through The sweater Laurie a hobby she started when she was 6 years old. Gonyea crocheted and wore to her CMU graduation ceremony currently is displayed in her Washington, D.C., studio.

4 centralight fall ’11 National Public Radio political correspondent Don Gonyea recently served as keynote speaker for the annual CMU Friends of the Libraries Luncheon. While on campus the Michigan native also spent time visiting with broadcast journalism students at CMU Public Broadcasting, the largest university- licensed Public Broadcasting system in the country. Gonyea started at NPR in 1986. His storied career as a national correspondent includes reporting by dan digmann from the White House the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, as well as covering the Bush administration’s prosecution of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Up close with… GonyeaDon What were you anticipating when you went to cover the flows. But technologically, the way that stories are told and the way White House for NPR? Is it living up to your expectations? people get their news has changed a great deal. I do find more and I think some of my expectations were that the business would be more that people are choosing to get their news from places that more cutthroat in Washington than it was in Detroit. We kind of had deliver it in a way they happen to agree with. This is something that a merry band of Detroit-based reporters; some worked in came about because of the Internet, because of easy, fast mass newspapers, some worked for news radio, some worked for public communication such as Twitter, and I do notice a difference. radio, some worked for television, but we were all very collegial. Has the increase in news options available on cable, online and Competitors, certainly, but I did not think that I would find that kind social media affected your approach to reporting for NPR? of collegiality when I went to Washington, but I did. Again, there is a I always feel like even while I’m in this group of reporters that are great deal of competitiveness, but there is also a great deal of inside the White House bubble – getting on the bus together, collegiality among the White House press corps. getting on the plane together, doing all that – that NPR lets me Think of all that you’ve covered at the national level, from think about the stories in a different way. I don’t feel like I have the September 11 to President Obama getting elected to the war on same kind of limitations to my storytelling in terms of length or terror. This isn’t a ho-hum time to be a White House reporter. topics that other media have, and that’s one of the things that I don’t think there’s ever been a dull time to be a White House helped to keep me fresh for so long on the beat working for NPR.” correspondent or to be a national political reporter. But it is When you decided to come to CMU, how important was it for stunning the level and frequency of big news that we’ve seen in you to interact with students? the decade-plus that I’ve been there. I covered the 2000 election I love any chance I get to come to a university and talk to students, recount in Florida, and to the reporters covering it I think every especially as we had here: students who have the journalism bug single one of us thought that was going to be the biggest story and who have the public radio bug. I think it’s fabulous to see that any of us would cover for the rest of our lives. Now that story’s students who are kind of rolling around in their heads how they like an afterthought given everything that’s played out since. might make their way in this profession even in these times when You’ve been in Washington, D.C., for the better part of a decade. we don’t quite know what it’s going to look like, how news is going How have you seen the political climate of the nation’s capital to be delivered or how audiences will interact with the news. But change? Or has it changed at all? we do know that it’s really critical that there be good, solid, The answer you hear most to a question like that is that the country thoughtful journalism. A democracy depends on that. Any chance I is so polarized, bipartisanship is so hard to come by, and campaigns get to let students know that you can do this for 25 years and still are so ugly. Truth be told the ugly campaigns, the attack ads and be having a blast, I’m always happy to do that. • polarization are nothing new, and the degree to which they dominate the discussions and dominate the debates ebbs and alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more

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6 centralight fall ’11 Focused on the future

The 2011-2012 academic year As president, Dr. Ross keeps a tight looks bright for Central Michigan schedule, yet he finds time to meet University, and President George E. and interact with students as often as Ross and university administrators possible. A current tenured professor who are lighting a torch to lead the way. has spent many hours in the classroom, Dr. Ross understands firsthand the Entering his second year at the university’s transformative power of education. helm, Dr. Ross is feeling right at home in “It’s all about the students,” he says. “It’s Mount Pleasant and is eager to move the risbane university forward in a new era of success. important for teachers and administrators B y to be a part of students’ lives and help P egg “CMU has tremendous opportunities them become the leaders of tomorrow. y hoto b

that lie ahead,” says Dr. Ross. “We’ve P “We must recognize and embrace this got our work cut out, but we’re transformative power of education,” excited about where we’re going.” he adds. “Doing so will help us build a culture of academic excellence and quality Education transforms The future is now across this great university and in the To achieve transformation and other After accomplishing much over the past process shape students for a lifetime.” year, the university’s path ahead will place university goals and objectives in 2011- an even greater focus toward creating a Dr. Ross envisions a number of goals that 2012 and beyond and to follow the bright culture of academic excellence and high address academic transformation. Among path Dr. Ross envisions for the future will quality – key components of the university’s them is exploring ways to change how require a total commitment throughout core mission. Dr. Ross wants to ensure the students are taught including examining, the university to the alignment of the university provides a superior learning designing and implementing new programs university’s vision, mission and core environment for students, along with that will serve the needs of all students. values with all deliberate speed. It’s a commitment he is eager to achieve. reaffirming the university’s fundamental “We want to move forward with course mission of promoting teaching and research. and program redesigns to increase student “We have an outstanding professional “We call it the ‘Central Commitment,’” says learning,” he says. “Objectives may involve and administrative staff,” says Dr. Dr. Ross, “and it charts a course toward increasing the number of courses and Ross. “Of course, the cornerstone a dedicated focus on the academic sections offered to students online. In our of our success is our faculty. success of our students. It is our Central age of rapidly advancing communication “The faculty nurture our achievements Commitment to students that they will technology, it makes perfect sense.” and set the standards for quality in leave CMU with knowledge and character, The university also intends to expand our classrooms and laboratories,” he that they are prepared for life, and that efforts to increase campus diversity. adds. “They push us all to be better they will go forth as lifelong learners.” Initiatives being explored would increase and design curriculum that provides the internationalization of the campus, our students with instruction that is with goals to increase the number of cutting-edge and relevant, whether international students attending CMU and it be face-to-face, online or hybrid. revising curriculum and course content “At CMU, we are truly one. Our future to include international perspectives. is now. And we will reach that future The university also plans to strengthen in a renewed spirit of camaraderie and efforts to recruit, hire and retain faculty collaboration. As Benjamin Franklin and staff from groups that remain under- said at the signing of the Declaration of represented in higher education. Independence: ‘We must all hang together, “This push reflects the new reality or assuredly we shall all hang separately.’ of our nation’s rapidly changing “As we look forward, there is much in demographics and the fact that we our history to inspire us, to strengthen live in a global economy,” says Dr. Ross. us and to encourage us as we blaze “Indeed we’ve come a long way with a trail toward the future.” • regard to diversifying our campus, yet we still have a long way to go.”

centralight fall ’11 7 8 8 centralight fall ’11 See friends when stopping in at your favorite downtown Mount Pleasant spot. Show your kids, or grandkids, where you lived during your CMU experience. Spend a weekend with your CMU family. Homecoming is not just about football. It’s about you – and bringing your past and present CMU experience together. photo by peggy brisbane

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Get ready for Homecoming 2011 before stepping foot on spirit?campus by singing the words to the Central fight song,

risbane learning the history of the iconic university seal and hearing

y B y how fellow alumni show their Central pride. P egg y S b hoto P A symbol of pride Nearly 60 years ago, Lyman “Pete” So you think you know Ketzler – then a CMU sophomore – was chosen by President Charles Anspach to design the CMU seal. CMU football? “President Anspach already picked out the design elements – the state of Michigan, the Test your knowledge here.

lamp of wisdom, the founding date and the

1. Who was CMU’s first Homecoming game

motto – and I worked to create a design,” says home. at 2012 in again MSU

played against? Answers Ketzler, now 76 and living in Howell, Mich. plays CMU 2009. in 29-27

a. Michigan State Normal

Nominated by CMU art faculty, Ketzler’s (Eastern Michigan University) and 1991 in 20-3 – MSU

passion for commercialized artwork, b. Alma College against match-ups last and

such as emblems, made him the perfect c. Detroit City College (Wayne State University) first the both won CMU

candidate for the project. The State Board d. Western Michigan 2009. 2004, 2001, 1998, of Education approved his design in 1954. 1993, 1992, 1991, In Seven. 5. 2. In what year did CMU football become a

Ketzler says he feels honored to have played Division I sport? yearbook. the in

a key role in the seal’s development. “beautiful” as described

3. CMU Chippewa football began in which year? was that kick opening “Time goes on and the seal is still 20-yard a kicked Warriner

a. 1896 used as the emblem to represent the Eugene President 1930, In 4.

university. I find a certain amount of pride b. 1892

generated from designing it,” he says. c. 1924 574–368–37 (.605). of record

d. 1915 overall an has football CMU Since he designed the seal in time, press of As 1896. a. 3.

1953, Ketzler says his children and 4. Who was the only Central president to do

grandchildren – now CMU alumni – even the opening kick at a Homecoming football 54-14. Delaware, of

have taken photos with the seal. game? University the against

National Championship Championship National

Ketzler believes that the lasting importance 5. How many times has CMU been matched up II Division 1974 the

of the seal lies in its representation, which with Michigan State University in football? winning since ever

President Anspach carefully chose. And play D-I in competing Ketzler is pleased that current CMU students been has CMU 1975. 2.

and graduates find pride in the seal, too.

in 1924. CMU won 13-0. won CMU 1924. in

“For today’s students it probably College Alma was rival encompasses everything they feel about Homecoming first CMU’s b. 1. the school – like it does for me,” he says. •

10 centralight fall ’11 Get fired up. Homecoming tickets. A maroon and gold “We’re No. 1” finger. Paint to make the perfect game face. CMU alumni, friends and students have many ways that they like to show their school spirit. “CMU spirit is different from any other – we are a big well- known university with a ton of different ideas and backgrounds converged into a small-town setting. And that’s a unique experience that alumni remember,” says 2009 alumnus Brian Brunner, associate director of the Chippewa Athletic Fund. “The other thing that I’ve noticed about spirit? Central –myself included – is that once you go here, CMU becomes a part of you.” Here ‘s how some CMU alumni say they get fired up about their alma mater: “I just had my class ring re-sized, cleaned and polished and am wearing it again after about a dozen years tucked away in a drawer. Rock On ‘84!“ - Jay Beckman, ‘84 More than words “I have a maroon car with a CMU flying ‘C’ alumni sticker on At the Homecoming Tune up before the big game the back window and an alumni license plate frame. I have a celebration of 1934, Drum Fight Central, down the field, CMU lanyard that holds all my keys, and my mug at work is a Major Howard “Howdy” Fight for Victory, CMU Alumni mug. I wear my CMU apparel whenever I can. I Loomis, ’35, led the band. Fight, fellows never yield; never travel anywhere without something CMU on it. I want We’re with you, oh Varsity. everyone to know where I went to college.” That’s when the words Onward with banners bold, - Deborah Yordy Coleman, ’78 “Fight Central down the field,” first were sung – and to our colors we’ll be true, “I have many great memories of my CMU days - living in the a tradition was created. Fight for maroon and gold, dorms, dancing in Orchesis, joining a sorority and a great Down the field for CMU! education to boot. My husband, John (1992 alumnus), and I It started as a campuswide Varsity! Rah! Rah! show our CMU spirit by making a pit stop in Mount Pleasant contest. And Loomis’ “The Victory! Rah! Rah! every summer.” Central Fight Song/The Chippewa we’re proud of that - Pam Pietraszkiewicz Zdrojewski, ’93 Fighting Chippewa” was chosen by the 1934 Student nickname. Tell us how you celebrate your CMU spirit at [email protected]. • Council Song Committee. Hear our song loud and strong, Central is going to Hearing the fight song at a win this game! game, Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Dave Come on and Heeke says it’s something Fight Central, down the field, that holds together the CMU Fight for Victory, of yesterday and of today. Fight, fellows never yield; We’re with you, oh Varsity. “The fight song is something Onward with banners bold, that instantly creates a to our colors we’ll be true, connection between our Fight for maroon and gold, current students, alumni and Down the field for CMU! fans,” he says. “It’s more than words. It is Central spirit.”

Play the music while you practice. Go to alumni.cmich.edu/media/fights.mp3.

centralight fall ’11 11 Homecoming 2011 Friday, October 14 Saturday, October 15 Noon 3 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 6 a.m. 8 a.m. Alumni Village Football game Chris Tucker Live WMHW-FM 91.5 5K run and Miles for Join the free campuswide Cheer on the Chippewas The comedian will Alumni Takeover Medals fundraising celebration near Rose as CMU takes on Eastern perform at the CMU Tune in to 91.5 FM to run/walk Ponds for food, fun and Michigan at Kelly/Shorts Events Center. Tickets hear alumni take over Check-in begins at 7:30 friends. WMHW-FM Stadium. Order tickets at are $25-$40 and can the student radio station a.m. at Finch Fieldhouse alumni will broadcast 1-888-FIREUP-2 or online be purchased at all weekend, continuing for the 8 a.m. start. live on location. Grand at cmuchippewas.com. Tickets Central. 24 hours through Choose a 5K run/walk marshal Scott McNeal will stop by, and a 7 p.m. See cmualum.com for midnight Saturday. or a one-mile fun run/ Latino chapter social walk. Register online 100-member kazoo band the latest information 8 p.m. Members and friends at www.somi.org. All will perform. Visit with a and further details. Rock Rally favorite professor, grab of the Latino Alumni proceeds benefit Special Constituent Chapter Go to Warriner Hall’s Olympics Michigan. some food and soak up Plachta Auditorium for the atmosphere that is will meet at Los the pep rally, mock rock 10 a.m. CMU Homecoming. Aztecas restaurant, contest for the Maroon Alumni continental Mount Pleasant, for Cup, presentation of breakfast Noon a social gathering. the football team and Start your day off right African-American Food and drink are the announcement of with a complimentary chapter social the responsibility the 2011 Homecoming breakfast outside Powers Members and friends of of each person. AUDRA CRAMER AUDRA gold ambassadors. Hall. Stay right here to the African-American y watch the parade. Constituent Chapter hoto b will mix and mingle at P 11 a.m. an alumni tent located Homecoming parade near Rose Ponds. The annual parade begins in Parking Lot 22 and 1 p.m. travels through campus Cardboard boat race before heading north on Watch teams of Main Street to downtown engineering and Mount Pleasant. technology students trying to stay afloat while paddling cardboard boats they’ve built.

1212 centralight fall ’11’09 Joining CMU’s Dream Team Meet the 2011 Grand Marshal From Gus Macker’s – the nation’s largest basketball tournament series – early beginnings, players wore maroon and gold jerseys and the basketball rims were painted with Central pride. The reason? It was started by Scott McNeal – a CMU fan and 1979 alumnus. And now McNeal, who lives in Belding with wife of 26 years, Renee, is being honored for his CMU and professional passion. He is the 2011 Homecoming Grand Marshal. “I was shocked when I found out. When you are passionate about CMU, grand marshal is the ultimate goal. Disney World has nothing on this,” says McNeal, whose daughter Meg is a CMU senior, and daughter Sam, 13, is a future CMU Chippewa. “For the university to consider me in this realm, I am fired up.” McNeal (alias Gus Macker) says during that first tournament in 1974 he and his brother Mitch gathered 18 friends in their parents’ Lowell, Mich., driveway. They played for a tournament purse of $18. 2011 Grand Marshal Scott McNeal, ’79, speaks at a Today the tournament holds both indoor and outdoor Gus Macker tournament, which took place at CMU. competitions annually in more than 75 cities, with more than 200,000 players and 1.7 millions spectators attending. •

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centralight fall ’11 13 Securing CMU’s future through years of visionary triumphs President George E. Ross is accelerating Central Michigan University to new academic heights as he guides CMU toward granting its first doctor of medicine degree. Through this, Dr. Ross continues the steadfast commitment to advancing the university’s future that the 13 presidents who preceded him exemplified in many ways. Today. President George E. Ross For every university hallmark, from says university goals must revolve around the programs and degrees offered academic quality and student excellence, an to the facilities where students learn expansion of learning and understanding, and and live, each president contributed research and creative activities that contribute to shaping the university into what it to knowledge and cultural enhancements. is today and is destined to become. pursuits Among the key leaders who 1903. First degree education. positioned Central for greatness First class of Life Certificate are Charles F. R. Bellows, Charles graduates, pictured with President T. Grawn, Charles L. Anspach Charles Grawn and Lucy Sloan. This and William Boyd. While Bellows certificate enabled graduates to move and Grawn established the solid beyond teaching in a rural one- foundation on which to build and room schoolhouse and to teach in grow Central Michigan Normal community-based graded schools. School, Anspach and Boyd further fortified the structure of the academic institution that today is among the nation’s largest 100 universities. Academic advancements Formative words from Bellows, the first principal of the normal school, connect as much to the university’s objectives today as they did when he wrote them for the school’s first circular nearly 120 years ago. 1929. Made in 1929, this sweater incorporates maroon “It is not the purpose of the Central and gold – the school colors Michigan Normal School to hurriedly that were chosen by the and temporarily prepare students for student body five years earlier examinations, but, to the extent of in 1924. President Eugene its course, to thoroughly teach and Warriner supported the color train them to meet the important choice for uniformity. and increasing demands of public school work,” Bellows wrote. “To do each pupil as much good as possible is the great end always in view.”

14 centralight fall ’11 1946. The war is over. And to increase morale, President Charles Anspach agreed that Homecoming traditions should intensify. In addition to having 21 floats in the parade, the first homecoming court is elected. First queen Jean (Chisholm) Ryan, ’47, says the economics department made her white belted dress.

1955. Eleanor Roosevelt spoke to CMU students on the topic, “Is America Facing World Leadership?” She was introduced by President Charles Anspach to the audience of more than 2,500 people. “I didn’t by dan digmann want world leadership,” she said, as recorded in the Feb. 25, 1955, CM Life pursuits article. “I thought that we were too Bellows served as principal from the propelled the institution forward young of a country. But now that we school’s founding Sept. 13, 1892, to with his academic vision at a have it, we must maintain it. We must 1896, building its first buildings and time when there was a demand earn the right to keep it by having graduating its first students with for training teachers in the conviction, courage and vision.” what was the equivalent of a high areas of industrial arts, business, school education. Even though the agriculture and special education. school battled through financial “The normal schools must enlarge and enrollment challenges, Bellows their scope in order to provide led its transition from a privately trained teachers for these studies,” funded to a public state-owned Grawn, who in 1909 was named institution on May 22, 1895. the university’s first president, Central built on its foundation as wrote in a 1910 quarterly Bulletin. a teaching institution and granted “Training schools for teachers in a its first life certificate in 1903, three democracy must be progressive. years after Grawn took over as They should lead rather than follow.” principal. This certificate enabled This charge for academic leadership graduates to move beyond teaching continued with President Eugene in a rural one-room schoolhouse C. Warriner, who saw the school – where one instructor taught all award its first bachelor of arts eight grades – and qualified them degree in 1918 and bachelor of to teach in community-based science degree in 1926. He also graded schools where students championed strategies to offer were divided into separate rooms. master’s degree programs in In addition to leading Central’s conjunction with the University efforts to grant life certificates, of Michigan, which granted all Grawn increased the size of the joint graduate degrees. campus from 10 to 25 acres and 1959. University Day. President Emeritus Charles Anspach delivers an address to the students, faculty and staff of the newly named Central Michigan University.

centralight fall ’11 15 1959. A Farwell Wave. President Emeritus Charles Anspach, who retired that year, is driven down Main Street during the Homecoming Parade.

Indoctrinating the institution Central’s academic structure was “In order to increase the efficiency of firmly in place when Anspach the college, improve the quality of became president in 1939. He instruction through undergraduate elevated the institution’s structure and graduate studies, retain and status over the next two the spirit of the institution by decades. Within this 20-year breaking the total enrollment into period, Central expanded from schools, the granting of university seven to 40 buildings, enrollment status is in order,” Anspach wrote grew from 1,200 to 5,000 students, in his March 1959 Centralight and by 1958 awarded its first article, “Why a University?” on-campus graduate degree. Central Michigan University With this progress, Anspach continued to expand its institutional orchestrated three name changes, reach under Boyd, who served as transitioning from Central State president from 1968 to 1975. Within Teachers College to ultimately three years of Boyd’s presidency, securing the institution’s status CMU established the Institute for as a university in 1959. Personal and Career Development as a way for students to take CMU classes at local colleges near military bases or through programs at the bases for transfer college credit. Through the years IPCD has transitioned into CMU’s College of Extended Learning and 1971. Next-level learning. finally to what is today CMU President William Boyd encouraged Off-Campus Programs, which CMU to educate people outside of enrolls more than 7,000 students Mount Pleasant. CMU’s Institute for at 50 locations throughout Personal and Career Development North America and online. – now Off-Campus and Online “But at least that was my vision: Programs – was started. John Break away from the standard Yantis, center, was the first director hours in the classroom and make a of CMU’s Institute for Personal college degree available to people and Career Development. Yantis who learned much of the content served as director for 21 years. off of any campus,” Boyd said in a 1998 interview for Geoffrey Alan Quick’s Michigan State University 1975. National attention. doctoral dissertation “The History At the end of William Boyd’s of the Central Michigan University presidency, the Fourth Institute for Personal and Career International Special Olympics Development: 1971-1975.” Summer Games takes place at In addition, Boyd helped to lay the CMU with 3,200 athletes from groundwork for establishing the 10 countries. Eunice Shriver, university’s first Ph.D. program, Special Olympics founder, was which was offered in 1977 in on campus for the global games. psychology. This paved the way for It was broadcast nationwide on many other doctoral degrees offered CBS’s “Sports Spectacular.” and was another example of one president’s vision advancing CMU. •

16 centralight fall ’11 Enter to win round-trip airfare for two – by connecting with your alma mater. The drawing is Oct. 17. For more information, go to Calling all cmualum.com. CMU Chippewas

There are a number of ways that • There are 55 CMU alumni chapters and clubs located in a combined total of 17 you can benefit from staying states, including Michigan, Ohio, Florida, connected to your university Texas, Arizona, Missouri, Nevada and long after graduation. Tennessee. • As a CMU graduate, you are one of more Are you making the most of than 210,000 people worldwide who your lifetime CMU status? proudly call themselves CMU alumni. This includes alumni in every Michigan county, every state in the U.S., and countries worldwide such as Thailand, Japan and Europe. Learn more about alumni benefits and ways to connect at cmualum.com.

centralight fall ’11 17 Sections of Central Michigan University’s Mount Pleasant campus have meant many different things to alumni throughout the years. Consider the property at the corner of Preston Street and East Campus Drive. This plot of land has served many roles in CMU’s storied past as well as its promising future. It is here that the college in 1938 hosted its first lighted football game at Alumni Field, CMU pitcher and future Major League Baseball starter Kevin Tapani developed his skills in the 1980s at Theunissen Stadium, and students in the 2000s prepared for their careers through programs In a location that once was the southeast corner of campus, Alumni taught in the Health Professions Building. Field (pictured above) was home to many Central track meets This also is where it is anticipated that by 2013, and football games. The same location today is considered the CMU’s first medical students will begin training northeast corner of campus and is home to the Health Professions for their Doctor of Medicine degrees. Building and College of Medicine Building (pictured below). And the Preston and East Campus corner is indicative of CMU’s continuing evolution – which makes visiting campus a new experience each time alumni return. Always coming home Campus changes, but it’s still Central by Dan Digmann

1818 centralight fall ’11 Linda (Goldberg) O’Leary, ’81, grabs her daughter, Emily’s, arm and enjoys an Admissions tour of the CMU campus this summer. It was O’Leary’s first time back to campus in nearly three decades.

Joining her daughter, Emily, on an Admissions tour of campus this summer left Linda (Goldberg) O’Leary nearly speechless. This is the first time the parks and recreation graduate who lives in Waterford had come to campus since she graduated in 1981. “O-M-G,” O’Leary speaks out loud halfway into the tour. “A lot has changed since I was here. A lot.” O’Leary and her husband, Phil, were vacationing with Emily and five of her friends on Canadian Lakes, and The main concourse and atrium is the most distinctive part of touring CMU was included in their event schedule. the new Events Center located on the south end of campus. This year-round multipurpose facility is the primary venue for all major Even before the tour starts, O’Leary notices the residence CMU events, including commencement ceremonies, annual CMU hall where she lived – Tate Hall – was since torn down Pow wow, athletic events, and regularly scheduled high-profile and Park Library has undergone major renovations. But concerts and speakers. Featured on the Events Center concessions by the end of the tour, the biggest change that stands menu is “The Embers Signature,” the popular barbecued pork out to her has nothing to do with the buildings. sandwich and peas and peanuts salad made famous by the “The biggest change is in the technology,” she restaurant that Clarence Tuma, ’50, opened in 1958. After serving says. “When I went to school we didn’t have the community for 50 years, The Embers closed in 2007. computers. Electric typewriters if we were lucky. I think it’s incredible all the opportunities and technology they have available for the students.

In addition to the university providing wireless Internet access for mobile users across campus, Park Library features more than 400 public computer workstations to keep students and patrons connected to current information and technology.

This campus photo captures all the newness looking north from Broomfield Road with, in the upper left corner, the Education and Human Services Building that opened in 2009 just north of Sweeney Hall, and in the upper right corner, Fabiano Hall that opened in 2005 along with nearby Celani Hall and a renovated Woldt dining commons.

centralight fall ’11 19 Warriner Hall has served as a storied hallmark of campus since the building was finished in March of 1928. Originally built as a classroom building, Warriner Hall also has featured a library with a two-story ceiling, a women’s commons and cafeteria as well as the campus’ first radio station.

CMU student Craig Johnson regularly sees alumni reacting to campus changes. As one of the Campus Ambassadors who leads the Admissions tours, the senior speech education major makes it a point to prepare the CMU graduates for their experience. “When I start the tour I ask if there are any alumni in the group, and if there are I say, ‘I just want to forewarn you that campus has changed,’” says Johnson, whose parents and grandmother are CMU alumni. “I think they’re just amazed at how much it really has changed.” For all alumni returning to campus for Homecoming, a campus tour or just to visit, Johnson offers some advice for making it a rewarding trip to CMU to reminisce about college life and see what is happening today. “Just walk around. Explore. Take it all in,” he says. •

For the CMU Mount Pleasant campus map, go to The Music Building, which opened in 1997, is located just north of cmich.edu/visit/campus_map.htm or get CMU Moore Hall and houses all the music programs once held in Powers Connect, a free downloadable iPhone app that features Hall. In addition to the 500-seat Staples Family Concert Hall and the an interactive campus map. For more information, go 110-seat Chamichian Recital Hall, the Music Building features lecture to the CMU facebook page or the iTunes app store. and rehearsal rooms, music technology laboratories, teaching studios, practice rooms, offices, and a 30-station music resources center.

A clock marks the east entrance of the Student Activity Center, which is considered one of the finest college recreational facilities in the Midwest. The SAC houses an Olympic-sized swimming pool, racquetball, basketball and volleyball courts, a bowling alley, and fitness rooms with state-of-the-art equipment and free Enhancing on-campus life are weights. ‘Where this building stands several convenience stores now was a bunch of IM fields when located within the residence I went to CMU,’ Linda (Goldberg) hall complexes to offer students O’Leary, ’81, says during her tour of the option of grabbing a snack campus. ‘I’m just really amazed that or stocking up on groceries. things have changed so drastically since I was here. It’s exciting.’

20 centralight fall ’09 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, September 17, 2011 Powers Hall Ballroom on CMU’s campus For more details and ticket information, call 989-774-2694 or swing over to cmich.edu/jazz.

The Mount Pleasant Brewing Company is crafting a special ale – Big Band Brew – for the event. CMU is an AA/EO institution (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo). UComm 8539-150 (6/11) homecomingby sarah chuby, ’03 M.A. ’11 Year Round Career fairs. Speaking engagements. Alumni recognition. Networking events. Homecoming is “the” alumni event – but there are several ways to come back to your alma mater any day of the year. Here are some ways fellow CMU Chippewas have come home.

‘My time at CMU was one of the greatest times of my life’ Moneesa Credle, ’05, stands in And, now as an alumna, she still is front of Professor Joseph Myslivec’s benefiting from her connections. She marketing class – the same one she had gains from watching others grow. as a CMU student – and shares her career “My time at CMU was one of the greatest and life experiences with the class. times of my life not only in terms of getting Credle, who lives in Southfield, Mich., an education, but also for personal growth,” and works at General Dynamics Land she says. “The people I met, whether faculty, Systems, frequently travels to CMU to alumni, staff, classmates, people from the speak in classrooms, to recruit talented community, all made a difference in my life, interns and to give presentations and I am grateful for it. And now I want to about effective personal marketing. contribute to the lives of others the way so many have contributed to my life.” • The reason? Credle, who majored in logistics and marketing, says she wants today’s students to have the same connections she had while on campus. Credle says Steve Petruska, ’81, of Pulte Moneesa Credle, ’05, speaks to a Homes helped her land her first job marketing class during the College of after graduation. While Petruska was Business Administration’s Dialogue on campus as a College of Business Days, where professionals give Administration speaker during her senior business advice to students. year, Credle introduced herself to him. To learn more or participate in “I grabbed my resumé – I always had this annual event, contact Cindy them on me because you never know Howard at [email protected]. when you’ll need one – and gave my elevator pitch,” she says. “Shortly afterwards, I had an interview set up and that led to starting my job as a process improvement specialist at Pulte Homes.” At Homecoming 2010, Moneesa Credle played as an alumna in the Chippewa Marching Band.

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As a CMU graduate, you are one of more than 210,000 people worldwide who proudly call themselves CMU alumni. This includes alumni in every Michigan county, every state in the U.S., and countries worldwide such as Thailand, Japan and Europe. Here are a number of ways that you John Dietz, ’70, and Ken Feneley, ’58 M.A. ’62, organized and attended the Alumni can benefit from staying connected to Band reunion event “Dietz Factor,” where longtime CMU Music Professor (and your university long after graduation. John Dietz’s father) Norman Dietz, ’41, was honored. Norman Dietz died in 2010. Establish your CMU address Whether you attended Central when it ‘The best Homecoming I could have asked for’ was a normal school, college or university, you are eligible to receive a lifetime CMU In the 1960s, CMU band director This summer nearly 90 alumni – with email address, which entitles you to Norman Dietz brought a CMU graduation dates from the discounts on various computer hardware 1950s to the 2000s – gathered in and software packages, cell phone coronet on a family vacation. Mount Pleasant for “Dietz Factor,” a plans, CMU Libraries access, and more. concert and reception in honor of While he played it during the annual Immerse yourself in the CMU online camping trip, Dietz’s son John – then 12 the man who impacted so many lives through his gift of teaching music. community years old – asked, “Can you teach me?” Connect with alumni in your city with With that, the coronet became John’s Ken Feneley, who organized the event, similar work experience or from your major instrument of choice. John went on to says he met Norman Dietz in fall 1956 or class year through CMU InCircle, the major in music at CMU and work as a when he signed up for music courses. university’s online networking community. high school band director. “I was just an “I was in the Band Building, which was Join/launch an alumni chapter or club ordinary kid who was fortunate to have in the Sheep Sheds, and he wanted to These spirit-filled groups are organized a father who loved music and had the know more about me,” says Feneley, ’58, based on geographic location as patience to teach me,” says John, ’70. M.A. ’62. “I’m a trombone player, and I well as specific interest area. auditioned for placement in the band.” Retired director Norman Dietz, ’41, died in Career connections July 2010 at the age of 91. He started at CMU Feneley, who retired in 1993 from Tap into CMU Career Services for help in 1947 and later founded the symphonic Clare Public Schools after a 35-year locating students and graduates to fill wind ensemble in the 1960s. Both his career as a band director, says that internship and full-time positions at your marching band and symphonic wind Dietz also set him on his career path place of employment or for feedback on ensemble received national recognition. by encouraging him to apply for the direction you’re taking your own career. a band director position at Mount Pleasant Junior High School. For more information, go to alumni.cmich.edu At Homecoming 2010, Moneesa Credle played as an alumna in the Chippewa Marching Band. continued on next page

centralight fall ’11 23 Nearly 100 CMU band members – from the 1950s until present – came to Central to make music in honor of beloved Professor Norman Dietz, ’41.

He got it. And in that first job at Mount Pleasant Junior High School, Feneley had Norman Dietz’s son John as a student. “It’s amazing how life intersects. Professor Dietz – and CMU as a whole –has touched so many parts of my life,” Feneley says. “From the large turnout of alumni we had come back to Mount Pleasant for this event, I found out that many of us feel the same way.” At the Alumni Band concert weekend, many alumni spoke about how Norman Dietz enriched their lives – musically and personally. “People came back to CMU from all over to make music to honor (my father). I saw college friends, Dad’s students, my teachers and students that I had when I was a band director,” says John Dietz, who drove from his home in Virginia with his son Karl. “It was a wonderful reunion. It was the best homecoming I could have asked for. That Play it again weekend is something I’ll always have 2012: CMU Dietz- great memories of – definitely a keeper.” Saunders Factor And what about that coronet? Alumni Band “You better believe that I still have it. June 9-10, 2012, in the Right now the guitar is my go-to choice, Music Building but I’ll always keep that coronet.” • To participate and more details, contact Ken Feneley, ’58 M.A.’62, at [email protected].

Professor Norman Dietz, ’41, and Jack Saunders, ’60 M.A. ’65, in 1975

24 centralight fall ’11 ‘So many wonderful memories are here. It’s nice to visit them’ Standing in Powers Hall – CMU’s “It was the most comfortable thing, former Keeler Union, the student believe me,” says the 1950 alumnus. “And it made me rich. Every morning before gathering place of the ‘40s and ‘50s work in the cafeteria kitchen (the main – Clarence Tuma says he’s helping CMU dining hall used to be in Powers organize Fall into Jazz, a fall 2011 Hall, room 140), I’d run my hand under community event and reunion the cushion and average $2 each time.” reminiscent of his time in Keeler Sally (Carnahan) Weisenburger, ’48, Union. laughs when Tuma tells his sofa story. “I remember that davenport, too. I The musical occasion will bring back the wish Central still had it. I’d buy it.” Big Band and Jazz-inspired sounds the Weisenburger, who also assists with 86-year-old remembers floating down the CMU events, says the Saturday dances halls. And it will reintroduce dancing to the were the highlight of the week – recently renovated Powers Hall Ballroom. mostly because of the dresses. Planning has also brought back “My favorite one was a white chiffon dress other memories to Tuma – who Clarence Tuma, ’50, and Sally (Carnahan) with a baby blue bow. Getting ready was wore jersey No. 29 on the football Weisenburger, ’48, reminisce about dances more than half the fun. I’ve already started team – like his favorite brown leather in Keeler Union, now renamed Powers Hall. thinking about what I am going to wear couch that once sat in the lobby. to the Fall into Jazz event,” she says with a laugh. “Some things never change.” “I said, ‘If you put an extra scoop of Tuma, a Huntington ice cream on my pie, I’ll take you Woods native, says to the movies,’” Tuma says. one of the reasons And Janet’s response? he volunteers at CMU is because his “She told me to get lost,” time on campus he says with a smirk. changed the But he eventually won her over – they course of his life. married in 1949 and have five children. When working After she passed away in 1994, he made the Keeler Union a donation for the School of Music dining hall kitchen, Lobby to be named in her honor. Tuma discovered “Janet even agreed to go to those Keeler his love of cooking Union dances with me,” he says. “She was a and recipe making. graceful dancer, and I was a clumsy ox. She’s This led him to the woman who taught me how to dance.” open The Embers, a restaurant And Weisenburger, a Mount Pleasant native, enjoys volunteering because it The 1947 CMU Homecoming court. Clarence Tuma, ’50, is second that served the reminds her of her election to Central’s first from the right. Janet (Thorne) Tuma, ’49, is third from right. Mount Pleasant community for Homecoming court in 1946, lifelong friends nearly 50 years. that she’s made and life at a simpler time. And he met Janet Thorne, ’49. The first “’So many wonderful memories are here,” time Tuma saw Janet she was working at Weisenburger says. “It’s nice to visit them.” • the cafeteria’s dessert cart. After gathering courage, he decided to ask her out. alumni.cmich.edu/centralight for more

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Against CMU standout plays in the majors Josh Collmenter has spent most of the past decade shattering the expectations placed on his baseball career. He played his high school ball at tiny Homer High School. As a senior, Collmenter led the Trojans to a 38-0 record and the first undefeated state championship season in Michigan history. The all-state honoree was the winning pitcher in the state title game. He was a late addition to Central Michigan’s 2005 recruiting class. But Collmenter went on to become the school’s all-time strikeouts leader and was named Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year as a junior in 2007. And then Collmenter slipped to the 15th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, where he was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks. It was there that Collmenter spent nearly five seasons in the minor leagues, befuddling opposing hitters with his simple two- pitch repertoire – below-average fastball and unorthodox over-the-top delivery. The idea of Collmenter having sustained success in the major leagues seemed remote – until he made one of the more remarkable debuts in the diamondbacks history of Major League Baseball. arizona / megenhardt jordan

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the odds by Scott Rex ‘Never let an opportunity slide by’ Collmenter’s baseball life came full circle in late June when his Diamondbacks Collmenter became the 14th former visited Detroit for a three-game Chippewa to make the majors when he was interleague series with the Tigers. called up by the Diamondbacks on April 15. The 25-year-old rookie made his debut Just hours before the series opener, the following day, retiring all six hitters Collmenter traveled back to Homer for he faced and earning the win in Arizona’s “Josh Collmenter Day” in his hometown. 6-5, 12-inning victory over the 2010 World That’s the ticket Twenty-four hours later, he stood atop Series champion San Francisco Giants. CMU football season is here – and the pitching mound at Comerica Park, single-game and season tickets for He made his first career start May 14 pitching opposite the ace of the team the 2011 campaign are on sale now at Dodger Stadium, earning the win he idolized as a youngster and in front at CMUChippewas.com, by calling after shutting the Dodgers out on of a sold-out crowd of more than 1-888-FIRE-UP2 or at Tickets Central two hits over six innings, and the first 43,000 that included several hundred of in the CMU Events Center atrium. two months of his big league career Collmenter’s family, friends and fans. were nothing short of historic. Chippewa fans are reminded that “I looked around and knew where they only season ticket holders in both According to the Elias Sports Bureau, were at,” Collmenter says of the members 2011 and 2012 will be guaranteed Collmenter is the only pitcher to allow of the Homer contingent, many of whom access to additional tickets for CMU’s four earned runs on 20 hits over his wore Homer-orange “Josh Collmenter historic match-up with Michigan first six career starts since the National Fan” T-shirts. “I tried not to pay too much State at Kelly/Shorts Stadium in 2012, League began recording earned runs in attention just because I wanted to keep a season in which CMU also will 1912 and the American League in 1919. my focus on the field, but you could tell host Western Michigan and Navy. where the groups of orange were at. It was Collmenter is only the second pitcher since exciting. Seeing all the people lining the Director of Athletics Dave Heeke 1900 to win his first two major league starts walls of the bullpen before the game and says the goal is to thank loyal season while pitching at least six shutout innings hearing them from all angles was exciting.” ticket holders and donors by assuring and allowing no more than two hits. them guaranteed seats during Collmenter says he finds himself playing “He’s done a great job. We couldn’t ask the seven-game 2012 season. an integral role for a team that appears for more. Hopefully he’ll keep it going,” primed to make a push for the postseason, “The 2012 season will be in high says Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson. a position he could not have imagined demand, and it is important to us “As you profile players, you read reports, as recently as spring training. that our current season ticket holders and he wouldn’t profile as the type of don’t get left behind,” he says. • guy you would think would pitch that “I’ve been able to take advantage of the effectively. But, there is a character note opportunities I was given, whether it be on all those player reports, and he just Double-A, Triple-A or the fall league,” seems to handle situations very well.” Collmenter says. “It’s always been a goal of mine to never let an opportunity slide by.” •

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Hallby Don helinski, ’96 of Fameinductees Six former Chippewa greats and one team John Rollins – Rollins won a pair of NAIA national championships at 137 pounds sandwiched around a runner-up national finish are slated for induction into the CMU Athletic in 1960. The three-time All-American and two-time team Hall of Fame this fall. And you are invited. MVP held school records for consecutive dual meet wins (34), A formal induction ceremony is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 30, in fastest pin (19 seconds) and most points in a career (159). McGuirk Arena. The event begins at 7 p.m. and is free to attend. 1976 Field Hockey Team – Under the direction of head Receiving the ultimate honor in Chippewa Athletics are coach Mary Bottaro, the CMU Chippewas finished fifth at the football wide receiver Reggie Allen, ’98, softball outfielder Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Eli Barnes, ’99, gymnast Nicole Bills, ’99, women’s distance National Field Hockey Championships. The team posted the runner Chris Cooper, ’89, men’s hurdler Greg Richardson, ’00, most wins in a season in school history going 20-1-1 while wrestler John Rollins, ’61, and the 1976 field hockey team. capturing state and regional championships along the way. • The inductees also will be recognized during halftime of the football game on Saturday, Oct. 1, when the Chippewas host Northern Illinois at 3:30 p.m. Tributes honoring all 175 members of the CMU Hall of Fame are on display in the CMU Events Center. Inductee career highlights include: Reggie Allen – A two-time first team All-MAC receiver, Allen held both CMU career and single- season records for receptions, receiving yards and touchdown catches. As a sophomore in 1996, Allen ranked in the top 10 nationally in both receiving yards per game and receptions per game. Eli Barnes – A three-time first team All-MAC selection, Barnes was one of the top hitters in school history. At the completion of her career, Eli held school records for games played (235), runs batted in (125), doubles (42) and home runs (16). Nicole Bills – Bills was the first Chippewa gymnast to qualify for the NCAA Championships in 1999. The two-time All-MAC selection was the 1999 MAC champion on the balance beam. Chris Cooper – Cooper became the first All-American in program history when she earned the honor in the 5000m in 1987. Cooper was an All-MAC performer in outdoor track four times and cross country twice. Greg Richardson – A two-time All-American, Richardson’s career highlight was a third-place national finish in the 110m high hurdles at the 1999 NCAA Outdoor Championships. He also finished seventh in the 60m high hurdles at the 2000 NCAA Indoor Championships.

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Professional development Meyers among top off-campus programs alumni donors Jeff Meyers was working at Chrysler While the when he realized he needed a graduate textbooks degree to receive a promotion to a are great management position within the company. resources and Meyers When he started investigating his options, applauds Meyers learned of several colleagues who how well were enrolled in CMU’s off-campus Master the M.S.A. of Science in Administration program. program This was the first he had heard of the enhanced his professional endeavors, off-campus program, but Meyers these aren’t what first come to mind when already was familiar with CMU. His he thinks of his graduate experiences. mother, Geraldine Williams, attended What he remembers most is the assistance CMU and was 1951 Homecoming he received from the CMU Libraries. queen – her photo still is displayed in the Student Book Exchange near the “Whenever I needed research materials, university’s Mount Pleasant campus. I’d submit a request and have everything I needed within one or two days,” he says. “I wanted a good, solid program, and “The library service was really impressive when I heard about CMU’s M.S.A. program and helpful to me completing my I thought, ‘I can do that,’” says Meyers, degree, and I still appreciate that today.” M.S.A. ’91, who completed his degree within two years while working full Because of this Meyers annually makes time. “I was apprehensive about going a gift to the CMU Libraries, putting Jeff Meyers’ mother, Geraldine back to school, but CMU really paid him among the top annual CMU Off- Williams, sits atop her court attention to the details of helping working Campus Programs alumni donors. as CMU’s 1951 Homecoming professionals through the program.” Queen. Members of her court “I want to see the library continue to thrive were Donna Bonnett, front left, To this day Meyers refers back to and be accessible to all CMU students,” Charlene Mertz, Susan Schaefer, textbooks from the classes he took Meyers says. “The library is invaluable, back left, and Patricia Plauman. through CMU’s Off-Campus Programs and it provides the resources and staffing center in Auburn Hills 20 years ago. that enable students to be successful.” They often come in handy when he’s Meyers, who earned his undergraduate developing job descriptions for hiring new degree at Wayne State University, lives members for his information technology in Bloomfield Hills with his wife, Ann. team that provides technical support The couple has two sons – Adam to nearly 400 employees at the Metro and Alex. Alex is a senior theater Detroit-based Chrysler headquarters. major at CMU who also is involved with the student vocal groups. •

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Who says you can’t go home? By Marcie Lehr Otteman, ’87 Executive director of alumni relations After my 1987 CMU graduation – in Many years ago I got a life-changing That fall day we met Saturday morning the days before cell phones and opportunity – my job – to come at the tailgate, wandered the Alumni personal computers – my friends and “home” to CMU. That opportunity has Village together and cheered our CMU I did our best to stay connected. reconnected me to a wonderful part Chippewas on to a victory. of my life. We’d plan to After that we headed out to the Cabin get together Yes, at first, the memories I had were for pizza, the Alpha Sigma Tau house on weekends of a CMU campus that looks very and the Blackstone. We caught up on while working different than its current version. But husbands, families, pets and jobs. We our first jobs it still is home – even when you make ran through the lists of old friends and and trying to a first visit back after 10, 20 or 30 tried to identify what happened to figure out how years. so-and-so. We laughed at old stories to move from and memories. living as Several years ago, not long after I set college up a Facebook profile, I reconnected We were home. And we’ve remained students to with some close friends from my connected. Now we share stories of working adults. college days. our “old” and “new” CMU days. But, because of When we were in school I spent Just like my experience, I want you to life and countless hours with these women join us for CMU Homecoming and see geography, I studying, laughing and hanging out. your favorite spots and visit with old drifted away We were sorority sisters and best friends. friends. Marcie Lehr Otteman, ’87, Cindy from those Go tailgating. Walk through Alumni Vaughan Hart, ’87, and Kristen Green ladies. Fast forward 20 years. Thanks to Village. Stand up and cheer for your team. Facebook conversations, we spent Beckman, ’86, enjoy a Homecoming And, most importantly, be welcomed football game – and spending time time planning our reunion for Homecoming. home. together after a nearly 20-year hiatus.

Calendar September 17 Fall into Jazz, Powers Ballroom, Mount Pleasant campus 16-18 60- to 65-year Reunion, Mount Pleasant campus 27 Meet the President Event in the Great Lakes Bay Region 30 Alumni Awards banquet, Mount Pleasant campus CMU Athletic Hall of Fame induction, Mount Pleasant campus

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Chapter news Chicago Flint More than 100 alumni and Contact: Ted Bunker, ’69 and events friends took part in the annual 810-694-7359 African-American CMU Chicago Cubs outing in [email protected] Constituent Chapter July. The group met before Contact: Lynn Garrett the game at the Goose Florida Orlando contact: [email protected] Island Brewery and enjoyed a beautiful day on the patio. Jim Phillips, ’99 Ann Arbor The Cubs played against the [email protected] Contacts: Bob Balicki, ’79, Houston Astros and won 4-2. Tampa Bay contact: and Gail Elliott, ’94 Jason Frank, ’04 Indianapolis Bob: 313-608-7922 Contact: Ira Kreft, ’77 [email protected] Contact: Grace Ketchum, ’69 Gail: 313-608-7923 [email protected] 317-223-7982 [email protected] West Palm Beach contact: Cincinnati [email protected] [email protected] Paul Gaba, ’88 Contact: Kevin Shea 561-352-0635 Integrative Public 513-321-1695 Atlanta [email protected] Relations Constituent Contacts: Mark Guy, ’00 [email protected] Chapter 770-475-3447 Naples contact: Contact: Abigail Dean, ’01 Cleveland Jeff Stomber, ’92 [email protected] Jared Lombard, ’03 Contact: Call the alumni [email protected] [email protected] office at 800-358-6903. Kansas City 404-918-5342 The Villages contact: College of Business Dick Cassle Contacts: Frank Moussa, ’85 Candice Zmijewski, ’03 Administration [email protected] 913-962-9620 [email protected] Constituent Chapter [email protected] Football Constituent Band Constituent Chapter Contact: Mark Baczewski, ’97 Jared Reid, ’10 Chapter Contact: Tom Broka, ’72 [email protected] [email protected] Contact: Dustin Preston, ’94 [email protected] Columbus, Ohio [email protected] Knoxville, Tenn. Contact: Jeremy Rycus, ’95 Contact: Lisa Fall, ’86 Battle Creek Grand Rapids Contact: T.R. Shaw, ’82 614-933-0436 865-216-2507 Contact: 269-965-2979 [email protected] [email protected] Stephanie Oczepek, ’99 [email protected] Dallas 616-813-7086 Lansing Boston Contact: Chris Dittman ’88 [email protected] Contact: Call the alumni [email protected] office at 800-358-6903. Contact: Call the alumni Great Lakes Bay Region office at 800-358-6903. dfwchips.blogspot.com More than 200 CMU alumni and Latino Constituent Broadcast and Cinematic Denver friends gathered in Midland Chapter Contacts: Mary Van Meter, ’80 Arts Constituent Chapter for a Loons baseball game Contact: [email protected] Contact: on June 3. It was a beautiful Laura Gonzales, ’79 M.A. ’89 Kevin Campbell, ’74 Terry Beatty, ’70 evening to watch the game [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and enjoy the fireworks. Fifty golfers took to the links at Las Vegas Central Texas Detroit Apple Mountain on June 27 to Contact: Contacts: Jerry Juhnke, ’86 More than 600 alumni and support the Great Lakes Bay Ann Marie Fredrickson, ’94 [email protected] friends enjoyed CMU night Region Scholarship Golf outing. 702- 655-2118 at Comerica Park on June 10 [email protected] Angie Farmilo Coats Although they got a little wet for the Tigers game. More 210-455-9968 from the rain, everyone enjoyed Leader Advancement than 150 alumni and friends [email protected] meeting the three scholarship Scholars Constituent met President George E. and winners for this year. Charlotte, N.C. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Ross on June Chapter Contact: 16 at the Atheneum Hotel in Contact: Ricardo Resio, ’95 Contact: Dan Gaken, ’04 Michele Caldwell Kelly, ’01 Greektown in downtown Detroit [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] to hear about CMU and plans Honors Constituent Los Angeles for the future at the university. Chapter Contact: Jeff Devers, ’03 Contact: Contacts: Bryan Wieferich 586-260-1572 Christopher Jablonski, ’83 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Honors Program Milwaukee English Constituent 989-774-3902 Contact: Mark Bender, ’95 [email protected] Chapter Houston Contact: Monica Brady, ’03 Contact: Bill Cox, ’83 Mount Pleasant [email protected] 713-722-0911 Contact: Dan Gaken, ’04 [email protected] [email protected]

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New England San Francisco Young Alumni board Alumni board Contact: Kevin Richards, ’89 Contact: Call the alumni 203-840-6221 office at 800-358-6903. President President [email protected] Nathan Tallman, ’07 M.A. ’09 Thomas Lapka, ’78 South Bend, Ind. Auburn Hills, Mich. East Lansing New York City Contact: Kimber Abair, ’01 517-482-0222 Vice president [email protected] Contact: Adam Ebnit, ’03 [email protected] John Kaczynski, ’03 M.P.A. ’08 [email protected] St. Clair County Lansing, Mich. First vice president Northern Michigan Contact: Dennis White, ’70 Jan (Keegan) Hagland, ’77 Directors Berkley Contact: Kristen Beach, ’90 ’98 [email protected] Amanda Aude, ’09 [email protected] 231-675-2136 Student Alumni Washington, Mich. [email protected] Association Constituent Rochelle Burns, ’03 Second vice president Flushing, Mich. Darlene Nowak-Baker, ’87 Phoenix Chapter Milford Contact: Dale Wernette, ’67 Contact: Emily Hall Ryan Cremeans, ’05 248-358-6403 480-515-5132 [email protected] Chicago, Ill. [email protected] [email protected] Traverse City Richard Funke, ’07 Rio Rico, Ariz. Directors Physician Assistant More than 100 alumni and Jeffrey Benjamin, ’86 Constituent Chapter friends gathered for the 24th Kendra Huckins, ’03 M.B.A. ’09 Saginaw Mount Pleasant, Mich. Contact: Andrew Booth annual Traverse City Scholarship Jean (Bennett) Brown, ’88 [email protected] Open. More than $15,000 Spencer Long, ’08 M.A. ’10 Northville was awarded to incoming La Crosse, Wis. Janet Burns, M.A. ’83 Ed.S. ’89 Raleigh, N.C. freshman and off-campus Contact: Aaron Todd, ’97 Gregory Marx, ’08 Royal Oak students in scholarships Midland, Mich. 919-423-4956 this outing supports. Paul DeRoche, ’91 [email protected] Anthony Mikulec, ’07 M.B.A. ’09 Commerce Township Contact: Highland, Mich. Reno Kevin Campbell, ’74 M.A. ’76 Judith Danford Tank, ’68 Midland Contact: Carol Perrigo, ’72 Brian Peters, M.S.A. ’08 231-267-5081 North Prarie, Wis. 775-747-5066 Ryan A. Fewins-Bliss, ’02 M.A. ’04 [email protected] Twin Cities, Minn. Ashley Price, ’09 Bath Contact: Traverse City, Mich. Lynn Garrett, ’97 Recreation, Parks Sherry Magnusson Anand Singh, M.S.A ’09 Detroit and Leisure Services 952-544-0030 Brooklyn, N.Y. Administration [email protected] Laura Gonzales, ’79 M.A. ’89 Michael Zeig, ’08 Mount Pleasant Constituent Chapter Volunteer Center Lansing, Mich. Contacts: Chris Bundy, ’88 Daniel Herzog, ’91 Constituent Chapter Royal Oak [email protected] Contact: Nic Bottomley, ’95 [email protected] Timothy Hicks, ’74 M.A. ’77 Susan Wells, ’77 Muskegon [email protected] Western Pennsylvania Christopher Jablonski, ’83 ROTC Constituent Contact: Jeff Rivard, ’66 Brighton Chapter 412-826-2180 Brian Jones ’90 M.B.A. ’94 Contact: John Fisher, ’70 [email protected] Midland [email protected] Washington, D.C. Adrian LaMar, ’89 San Diego Contact: Tony Brown, ’02 Wyoming Contact: Greg Cox, ’00 202-882-2993 [email protected] Darcy Orlik, ’92 M.S.A. ’95 858-534-0437 Mount Pleasant [email protected] Karen L. Phillips, ’99 Lansing Kevin Richman, ’93 Milford Several CMU Chippewas ran Charles Selinger, ’94 M.S. ’98 in the Brooklyn Half-Marathon Ceresco on May 21. From left to right, Rebeca Torres, ’00 M.B.A. ’02 Christine Noeker, Jill (Jeffers) Canton Schubert, Adam Bayne, Adam Robert VanDeventer, ’74 Ebnit (contact for the New Saginaw York City alumni chapter), Pam Barclay, Ken Strzelecki, Thomas L. Worobec, ’93 Matt Price, Ryan Fewins- Dearborn Heights Bliss and Megan Doyle.

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1940s 1990s Meghan Moreau Heather, ’05, was Norman Johnston, ’43, was a professor John Douglas Grether, M.A.’94, was recently promoted to vice president of emeritus at Arcadia University in suburban awarded the Samuel R. Marotta Faculty advertising agency MRM Worldwide. She is Philadelphia. Dr. Johnston has just Ethics Award for his integrity and high involved in connecting clients with digital published the book “Stoning to Super ethical standards as a faculty member at resources to assist in their endeavors. Prisons: Punishment Throughout History,” DeVos Graduate School of Management. Stephanie Proos, ’06, was recently hired the last in a series of small books dealing Jim Crawley, ’96, was appointed vice as a senior account executive at Morgan with crime and punishment imprisonment. president of business development for Marketing and Public Relations LLC in SBE Inc., an industry leading advanced Irvine, Calif. She will be providing account 1970s technology film capacitor manufacturer for supervision for restaurant and luxury Ric Wiltse, ’73, was elected to the Board automotive EV, HEV and PHEV markets, as clients. She will be creating public relations of Directors of the International Society for well as alternative energy, medical, military, and marketing campaigns and developing Technology in Education. He also serves commercial, wind and solar verticals. social media tactics for each client. as the executive director for the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning. Linda Marie Tarjeft,’96, was recently Patrick Hayes, ’08, started an appointed associate director of the environmentally focused clothing Jeffrey G. Phillips,’74 M.A. ’76, was Michigan Area Health Education company called Envolve Clothing awarded the Samuel R. Marotta Center of Wayne State University. with two of his childhood friends. The Faculty Ethics Award for his integrity company is dedicated to remaining green and high ethical standards as a Aaron J. Todd, ’97, was recently named during the entire clothing production faculty member in the undergraduate the director for Learning Services at process. Aside from clothing, the program at Northwood University. Peace College in Raleigh, N.C. Previously, company offers a website for those who he worked as an assistant dean at Duke Linda Seestedt-Stanford, ’74, is currently are interested in volunteering in their University and an assistant director local community to help the cause. serving as the provost and senior vice at the University of Tennessee. chancellor at Western Carolina University Nokuphiwa Langeni, M.S. ’08, was among in Cullowhee, N.C., which is one of the 17 36 students that received a diploma from constituent institutions in the University 2000s Jason Ellenburg, ’00, was recently Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis at of North Carolina system. Recently she hired as vice president of the new its recent graduation ceremony held in the has become a grandmother as well. Detroit office called Resolute Consulting. theater at Union Avenue Christian Church. Julia LaChapelle, ’76 M.A. ’85, recently He will be managing the office and Greg Marx,’08, received his Certified retired after 35 years in education as the Michigan-based clientele of the Public Accountant license and was the guidance counselor at Parkview sister company Central Strategies. promoted to senior accountant at Yeo & Middle School in Mukwonago, Wis. He will bring to the company more Yeo PC. He provides business-consulting than a decade of communications services in the firm’s Midland office. 1980s and campaign experience. Angela Zott, ’10, was recently hired Linda Meeuwenberg, ’82, was recently David Holloway, M.S. ’01, joined Delta chosen from a nationwide search to be as a communications specialist for Dental of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as automotive supplier Inteva Products, featured in the book “Stepping Stones director of auto and labor accounts. In his to Success.” She is in the process of where she is working at its Headquarters new role he will plan, organize and direct and Technical Center in Troy, Mich. working with Dr. Paul Ouelette on a the corporate and department initiatives publication about 3-D Dentistry that for auto-related and labor groups. will be featured on iPad in late July. Mark Moore, M.S.A. ’01, got married Brian McPherson, ’85, was appointed to Netina (Anding) Moore, M.S.A. ‘01, in Send us chief information officer for Botsford August 2010, and they just celebrated Health Care. He will be responsible for their one-year wedding anniversary. your news planning, coordinating and facilitating We want to include your news in Erika L. Wattles, ’01, and husband, information and being in communication Centralight. Write to us about recent job about health care impacts on patients. Bill Cooke, welcomed their baby promotions, awards, marriages, births, boy, Mason Brady Cooke, into the and other noteworthy accomplishments Ronald Strachan, ’86, was recently world on February 12, 2011. appointed as the chief information or changes. Be sure to include your officer for Community Health Tasha (Marsten) Candela, ’05 M.A. ’08, graduation year and contact information. Network of Indianapolis, Ind. will be presenting several electronic Send your information: portfolios at the International Education Email: [email protected] Linda Hancock, M.B.A. ’88, recently Forum in Redmond, Wash., highlighting graduated from Andersonville Theological Fax: 989-774-1098 the Career/Technology Foundations Mail: Centralight, University Seminary with her doctorate in ministry. course she teaches to ninth graders. The She is the founder of Poetry and Praise Communications, West Hall, lesson was selected to be presented Central Michigan University, Publications and has published four books, from over 20,000 submissions. numerous poems and recorded materials Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. that have been distributed in Africa, England, the Philippines and the U.S.

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Setting the pace With every Runners customer, Following her advice has made sound Bill Thompson ensures he and his business sense for Thompson, who employees are making his grandmother this summer opened his fourth Lula Bell Thompson proud. Runners store in 10 years. In addition to selling quality shoes and related She gave Thompson, ’98, one directive apparel for running and walking, when he opened his first performance Runners works with customers and footwear and apparel store in Bay City. offers a gait analysis to determine “She said, ‘I don’t like going to shoe how their feet come in contact with stores because I can’t put my own the ground to provide a custom fit. shoes on, and there’s nobody around to This gait analysis and personal help me. Make sure you take care of interaction help customers to better people and give them service,’” he understand which shoe best meets recalls. “I always had noticed there was their individual needs as well as why it not one shoe store in our area that will assist in injury prevention and would sit you down for a proper fitting. rehabilitation. I decided to fill that niche.” “You have to focus on your feet because they’re your foundation for everything you do, yet they’re often the most neglected part of your body,” Thompson says. “We need to educate about why footwear for your feet is just as important as glasses for your eyes.” At CMU Thompson majored in sports studies and kinesiology and was a 400- and 800-meter runner on the men’s track team with his then- roommate Willie Randolph, who now is CMU’s head track and field coach. As an athlete Thompson says he has the Thompson says his CMU experiences mindset of a competitor, which has helped helped him to thoroughly understand the him develop his business strategies to stay anatomy of a foot and the biomechanics of aggressive during the good times and running and walking. This led him to maintain momentum through the realize the importance of proper footwear. challenges. “Classes at CMU educated me on how the “When the economy shifted down, I gave body functions, and being a track athlete I my employees a raise,” Thompson says. “It learned to be in tune with my body and wasn’t a big one, but I wanted to reassure Bill Thompson, back row right, is how the foot functions in training and them that we’re not going anywhere.” running,” says Thompson, who often pictured with his team on the A staunch commitment to service and returns to campus to speak to athletic 1996-97 men’s track and field and opening a fourth store in less than a training classes taught by his former cross country media guide cover. decade also demonstrates that Runners professors such as Rene Shingles. “I’ve – which has stores in Bay City, Mount used a lot of what I learned in college Pleasant, Saginaw and it newest location in and athletics to mold my business.” Midland – is in it for the long haul. •

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Mark D. Angelocci, 2010, Novi, Jane E. Hoff, ’68, Saginaw, Mich., John E. Rynn, ’65, Santa Cruz, N.M., Mich., died July 2, 2011, age 25. died April 2, 2011, age 82. died Nov. 11, 2010, age 69. Patricia Ann (Lowen) Baranski, M.A. ’83, William J. Hudgins, M.A. ’78. Harold T. Simpson, ’50, Palm Springs, Oak Ridge, Tenn., died April 25, 2011, age 66. Calif., died June 14, 2011, age 86. Joyous R. Johnson, ’63, Luther, Robert W. Barker, ’82, Mount Pleasant, Mich., died Nov. 15, 2010, age 86. William H. Skrok, ’84, Detroit, Mich., Mich., died May 14, 2011, age 53. died March 9, 2011, age 53. Catherine W. Keillor, ’62, Frankfort, L. James Binder, ’52, Mears, Mich., Mich., died April 20, 2011, 91. Michael Lawrence Sweeney, died May 23, 2011, age 84. ’59 M.A. ’62, Hubbard Lake, Mich., Carolyn A. Kramer (Chambers), ’79, died May 13, 2011, age 74. Richard “Dick” Bolton III, M.A. ’72, Coldwater, Mich., died June 15, 2011, age 54. Shepherd, Mich., died Nov. 27, 2010, age 66. MaryBelle Thompson, M.A. ’81, Post Rhonda Krawczyk, M.S.A. ’89, Centreville, Falls, Idaho, died May 19, 2011, age 80. Carole L. Bradshaw, ’74, Midland, Va., died March 8, 2011, age 59. Mich., died May 8, 2011, age 71. Richard E. Trayner, M.A. ’79, Jacksonville, Patrick F. Lawless, ’55, Harbor Springs, Fla., died June 6, 2011, age 64. Steven D. Brown, ’85, Essexville, Mich., died Nov. 14, 2010, age 79. Mich., died June 7, 2011, age 50. John L. VanGenderen, ’84, Genessee, Robert N. Lees, ’53 M.A. ’65, Midland, Mich., died June 16, 2011, age 53. Janet M. Caldwell, ’80, Oscoda, Mich., died June 29, 2011, age 85. Mich., died June 25, 2011, age 52. David P. Wallington, ’51, Grand Rapids, Gerald W. Lile, M.A. ’64, Charlotte, Mich., died May 21, 2011, age 87. John R. Campsie, ’54, Traverse City, Mich., died March 5, 2011, age 72. Mich., died Dec. 19, 2010, age 94. Paul A. Wilcox, M.A. ’78, Manassas, Barbara A. Lindh (Baldauf), ’67, Shelby, Va., died February 7, 2011, age 59. Margaret K. Crane-Cullen, ’37, Essexville, Mich., died May 10, 2011, age 65. Mich., died May 9, 2011, age 93. Suzanne Whitaker, ’49 M.A. ’72, Jacqueline Losche, M.A. ’70, Charlotte, Bradenton, Fla., died May 19, 2011, age 86. Jack C. Derry, ’53, Shepherd, Mich., Mich., died Nov. 14, 2010, age 81. died June 16, 2011, age 85. Gertrude I. Whitney, ’36, Milford, Benedict S. Markowski, ’53, Detroit, Mich., died May 13, 2011, age 96. Judith M. Devers, ’59, Ray, Mich., Mich., died June 13, 2010, age 79. died May 23, 2011, age 73. Louise C. Wyman (Warren), ’67, St. Edmund B. Mason II, M.A. ’83, Crofton, Louis, Mo., died June 10, 2011, age 94. Robert L. Dziachan, ’71, Lansing, Md., died May 19, 2011, age 57. Mich., died Nov. 15, 2010, age 62. Roy D. Zarucchi, MA ’82, Albuquerque, Ruth Metzger, ’38, Lansing, Mich., N.M., died June 29, 2011, age 72. JoAnn M. Eastway, ’73 M.A. ’76, Evart, died June 7, 2011, age 94. Mich., died Jan. 6, 2011, age 80. Lucinda Monroe (Bauer) ’38, Livonia, Brandyn M. Edwards, ’52, Mears, Mich., died May 31, 2011, age 94. Faculty and staff: Mich., died May 23, 2011, age 84. Gerald C. Newman, ’65, Fenwick, James Bauer of Mount Pleasant, Mich., John R. English, ’63, Grand Rapids, Mich., died May 6, 2011, age 64. Facilities Management, died April 25, 2011. Mich., died June 5, 2011, age 70. Robert S. Ostendorff, M.A. ’76, Walterboro, Angela Conroy of Shepherd, Mich., David D. Eurich, M.A. ’67, Saginaw, S.C., died June 28, 2011, age 79. Registrar’s Office, died May 4, 2011. Mich., died June 26, 2011, age 73. Benjamin J. Palmer, M.S.A. 2003, Norman H. Deunk of Grand Blanc, John T. Finnegan, M.A. ’80, Springfield, Modesto, Calif., died May 12, 2011, age 43. Mich., Management, died May 20, 2011. Ohio, died June 10, 2011, age 67. Ervine R. Pankow, ’66 M.A. ’69, Ludington, Curtis A. Hall of Saint Louis, Mich., Leonard E. Fritz, ’51, Gaylord, Mich., Mich., died June 16, 2011, age 88. CMU Police, died April 4, 2011. died June 24, 2011, age 84. John W. Patrick Jr., ’69, Sevierville, Karl A. Funke, ’72, L’Anse, Mich., Tenn., died May 10, 2011, age 87. died April 25, 2011, age 61. Annabelle Periard, ’60, Frankenmuth, John Givens, ’77, Detroit, Mich., Mich., died May 14, 2011, age 91. died Jan. 30, 2011, age 77. Lorin C. Richtmeyer, ’49, Atlanta, Robert G. Grimes, ’59, Battle Creek, Ga., died June 8, 2011, age 86. Mich., died May 25, 2011, age 75. Dorothy L. Roerden (Von Ende), ’69, Ruth Hammerstrom, ’32 B.A. ’57, Grand Charlotte, N.C., died June 6, 2011, age 64. Rapids, Mich., died May 27, 2011, age 100. Brenda L. Rosenberry (Stump), Donald William Hauck, ’82, Rosebush, M.S.A 2008, Delaware, Ohio, Mich., died May 25, 2011, age 78. died June 12, 2011, age 43. Francine A. Heinze, ’63, Midland, Iola M. Rosenow (Miller), ’61, Tawas Mich., died May 11, 2011, age 95. City, Mich., died June 14, 2011, age 91.

centralight fall ’11 39 I am Central: Nicky Van CMU Cheer Team captain Senior • Biology

Defining CMU spirit: “For me CMU spirit means wearing my cheer uniform, getting the fans and students fired up, yelling at the top of my lungs ‘Go Chippewas,’ and representing CMU the best way I possibly can in all that I do.” Why a cheerleader? “In high school, I was a football player and a member of the bowling team. I never even thought about cheering until college. During my freshman year, I went to a CMU football game and saw a male cheerleader lead the crowd – I thought, ‘I really want to be a part of that.’ And being around all the girls is a benefit, too.” Overwhelming moment: “One nighttime football game, when the cheer team ran onto the field after the fireworks and parachuters, I remember looking around and seeing everyone in the stands fired up for the game and the amount of school spirit in the atmosphere was electric.” Leading with heart: “Because the team looks to me when it comes to how things should be done, I have to make sure that I am checking on myself and giving 110 percent. If I am not at the top of my game, it is hard to be an effective leader to them.” Can I have your autograph? “I have had people come up to me after a game and tell me that my cheering and school spirit is something that keeps them coming back to games. I will never forget seeing a group of fans hold up a banner with my name on it. That kind of recognition keeps me going and makes me want to be better at what I do.” Any last words? “Go! Fire Up, Chips!” •

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During retirement, Dale and Betty Burgess enjoyed the income they received in return for the charitable gift annuities they established at CMU. Betty, a former elementary school teacher and 1945 alumna, recently passed away but Dale continues to receive income from the four annuities they established.

These annuities that have provided regular income for Betty and Dale ultimately will provide the funding needed to establish the Betty Burgess Endowed Scholarship, which will support future teacher education students as well as ensure the Burgess family’s legacy continues.

A charitable gift annuity will provide: • Tax-free lifetime income to one or two people Dale and Betty Burgess • An immediate charitable income tax deduction • Possibility of more spendable income • Continued support for future students

Consider establishing your own charitable gift annuity at CMU today.

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