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Macalester Today November 1998 Macalester College Macalester College DigitalCommons@Macalester College Macalester Today Communications and Public Relations 11-1-1998 Macalester Today November 1998 Macalester College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macalestertoday Recommended Citation Macalester College, "Macalester Today November 1998" (1998). Macalester Today. Paper 52. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macalestertoday/52 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications and Public Relations at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Macalester Today by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. HlWtj ret a trti r%wm p Karla Ballman J83, Claudia Fonkert J99 and David Lanegran '63 map out the neighborhood LETTERS year ot college. Others, surprisingly, come Muslim alums who believe and practice Ted Mitau to a very orthodox faith in Jesus Christ dur- everything of the faiths that have been REBECCA GONZALEZ-CAMPOY'S arti- ing their stay on Grand Avenue. Each handed down to them. cle, "The Lasting Legacy of Ted Mitau" week they quietly leave campus to attend Jay Cline '92 (May Macalester Today), was just excellent. garden-variety Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Washington, D.C. I am one o\ the multitude of his students Covenant, Evangelical Free and Assembly who is still inspired by his words and deeds. of God churches in the surrounding com- Regarding his futile attempt to rescue munity. They read their Bibles in their Fulfilling lives his mother from Nazi Germany, I have dormitory rooms, pray regularly and meet in UPON READING the August issue of President Charles Turck's recollection of small groups for Christian fellowship. After Macalester Today, I felt somewhat that on a cassette: "Ted came to see me. four years they graduate, join neighborhood depressed at learning of the wonderful and He had received a communication from a congregations in cities across the country fulfilling lives led by so many Macites. group in Cuba. They could gee his mother and continue their spiritual journeys. My thoughts turned to my own life now out of Germany and to St. Paul for $500. It is thus discouraging to be reminded that I am "in the autumn of my years," and I thought it sounded suspicious but I didn't quarterly by Macalester Today that tradi- compared it to those described in the mag- say that to Ted. I said we would give him tional Christianity continues to be azine. How come I have not lived such a the $500 hut he insisted it be a loan. Well, he never did see his mother. Ted paid every dime of that $500 back and he did that on a meager salary! Very few people know that story." Cindy and Tim Hultquist '72 deserve a thank you from all ot us who were inspired and challenged by Dr. Mitau. The G. Theodore Mitau Distinguished Professor- ship in the Social Sciences which they endowed is a fitting tribute to this great teacher and distinguished citizen. Don I. Wortman '51 Albuquerque, N.M. Editors' note: The writer, who was named a Macalester Distinguished Citizen in 1970, is retired after a long and notable career with the federal government. Professors G. Theodore Mitau, right, and J. Huntley Dupre, left, share a joke in this 1949 photo. Between them are Professors Yahya Armajani and Dorothy Jacobson. Religion marginalized and ridiculed at my alma fulfilling life as David Kachel '53 and his JAN SHAW-FLAMM'S two pieces in the mater. I have frequently found this a wife, Nancy '55? Did I squander the many August issue of Macalester Today [personal strange, yet tragic, irony for a college opportunities available to me not only essay on "Why I go to church" and profile whose mantra is tolerance and diversity. while on campus, but over the past 40-odd of Presbyterian minister Sally Abrahams David A. Frenz '92 years? What contributions have I made to Hill '51] exemplify an approach to Chris- Duluth, MN 55812-2315 society as a whole? tianity that is fashionable on many liberal e-mail: [email protected] Based on the many successful lives of arts campuses and in certain denomi- the described alumni, it would seem that nations. THANK YOU for covering religious my adult life has had little in it to rave Predictably, traditionalists are carica- themes in not one but two articles in the about, but on further reflection I realized tured as intellectual gimps who are hateful, August issue. Religion doesn't usually get that the vast majority of Macalester gradu- intolerant and fundamentally out o\ touch this much press at Macalester. ates could ask themselves the same with truths that modern biblical scholars I would like to challenge Macalester question. Many of us have wasted opportu- are apparently uncovering. In these tales of Today to go outside the comfort zone and nities and failed to exploit our real progress, Macalester faculty and alumni press a little deeper than it has in these two capabilities throughout our lives. How- represent the vanguard of religious enlight- articles and in the May 1997 feature on ever, the very act of reading about the enment in a Christian culture that is Macalester's Presbyterianism. The standard exploits of fellow Macites, some graduates, hopelessly backward and mired in the past. has become to highlight folks who have some not, encouraged me to review my Although this is the official face of many complaints with the religion of their connections to the college and its influ- Macalester, the campus has always been upbringing, and who bring their political ence on my life. Rather than dwell on home to Christians of traditional persua- activism into the place of worship. Cer- what 1 had not accomplished, 1 focused on sions. Some students bring these beliefs tainly Macalester is more diverse than this the kind of person I became, and how the with them when they arrive for their first one point of view. four undergraduate years at Macalester It would be very intriguing, for example, influenced that. to see a feature on Jewish, Christian and continued on page 4S MACALESTER TODAY ABOUT THIS ISSUE Macalester Today 2 At Macalester Director of College THE CAMPAIGN begins; two biology majors shine; a salute to Bruce Dayton; Doug Stone and other campus news. Executive Editor Nancy A. Peterson 10 Mike Today Managing Editor Jon Halvorsen PRESIDENT McPherson listens to the news from Lake Wobegon. Art Director Elizabeth Edwards page 5 Class, Notes Editor 11 Alumni & Faculty Books Robert Kerr '92 Macalester College 15 Alumni News Chair, Board of Trustees MOLLY McGinnis Stine '87 makes connections with the Alumni Board. Timothy A. Hultquist 72 Plus: Alumni trip to Russia. President Michael S. McPherson Vice President for College Advancement 21 Jury Duty Richard Allen Ammons 'IT'S NOT enough to care. You also have to be able to accomplish things,' Alumni Director says the State Department's Allan Jury 75. Elizabeth Rammer Associate Alumni Director Jennifer Patti '91 22 Ssons and Dottirs Alumni Director Emeritus ICELANDIC alumni have warm feelings fo>rr their homeland. A. Phillips Beedon '28 Macalester Today (Volume 87, Number 1) 26 Rave Reviews is published by Macalester College. It is mailed free of charge to alumni and ROY Gabay '85 is Macaiester's first Tony Award winner. friends of the college tour times a year. Circulation is 25,000. For change of address, please write: 31 Common Ground Alumni Office, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN THREE generations, two disciplines, one city 55105-1899. Or call (651) 696-6295. Toll-free: 1-888-242-9351. To submit comments or ideas, write: 33 Harry s Excellent Adventure Macalester Today, College Relations, THE FOUNDER of the World Press Institute at the above address. Phone: (651) 696-6452. Fax: (651) 696-6192. enjoys another career. E-mail: [email protected] page 26 On the cover 34 Macalester Yesterday Steve Woit TEACHER and preacher Edwin Kagin photographed three Macites on the steps of a college- owned house near 36 Class Notes campus. The house and others are rented to new faculty, introducing 49 Macrocosm them to the posi- tive aspects of ANDY Sullivan '92 was struck by a wave of weddings. living close to Mac. The properties are administered by Macaiester's High Winds Fund, which seeks to maintain and enhance the surrounding community. See page 31. NOVEMBER 1998 I AT MACALESTER "Let the campaign begin!" declared President McPherson, center, ringing a handbell — shaped like the bell in Macalester's Bell Tower — to officially begin Touch the Future, The Campaign for Macalester College. Joining him on stage Oct. 2 at the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center Concert Hall were (from left) recent grads Luis Saenz '98 and Aukse Jurkute '98; Tim Hultquist '72, chair of Macalester's Board of Trustees; current student R.T. Luczak '99; and classics Professor Andy Overman. See back cover photo. Macalester announces $50 million campaign Largest campaign in the college's history seeks to 'Touch the Future' ACALESTER has publicly business and social issues, presentations Commons into a student-services center, announced a $50 million com- by Macalester President Michael S. the recent completion of the new George M prehensive campaign — the McPherson and several faculty members, Draper Dayton Residence Hall, which largest in the college's history. as well as musical per- includes a wellness Touch the Future, The Campaign for formances by some of center and seminar Macalester College will help support stu- Macalester's favorite 'We have to rely rooms for classes, and dent financial aid, collaborative research groups. renovation of the between faculty and students, construction The $50 million on alumni and friends Olin-Rice Science of a new Campus Center and other pro- campaign will raise: of the college to carry forward Center.
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