Northwestern Michigan College The Second IVvenfy Years 1971 -1991 Al Shumsky Assisted by Carole Marlatt NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE The Second Twenty Years 1971-1991 A1 Shumsky Assisted by Carole Marlatt February 1994 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks are due many people who helped with this project. First to the two people without whom it could not have been done: Tim Quinn and Carole Marlatt. Tim initiated the project and supported it with released time, and with no directions whatsoever beyond "Have a good time!" Carole not only prepared the manuscript, assembled the rosters in the appendix, chose the pictures, and both provided her own and edited my memories; she also is the one who recorded the Board minutes for these twenty years and then indexed them and preserved the hard copy so it was available to this amateur historian. (She, in fact, is the one to go to if you want to know what really went on during these years.) Thanks are also due these many others who graciously provided information or corroborated memories: Bob Buttleman, Doug Campbell, Becky Chartier, Jan Gasnik, Kathleen Guy, Chet Janik, Bill King, George Kuhn, Keith MacPhee, Nancy McArthur, Shelley Merrill, Dick Minor, Shirley Okerstrom, Barbara Raehl, Joe Rogers, PatSalathiel, Bill Shaw, Don Shikoski, Chuck Shreve, Robbie Teahen, Bob Warner, and Steve Westphal. Recognition is also due the hundreds of people—Board members, faculty and staff—whose names do not appear in this account, but who in fact constituted the College. Without them, there would be no history to write. I apologize to all whose contributions have not been specifically mentioned. I also apologize if any judgments, expressed or implied, are unfair. But no history can be truly neutral, and the harder it tries, the duller it is. So I haven’t tried very hard. As E. B. White said, "All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is bom perpendicular." If somewhere I don’t lean your way, forgive me. A. S. December 1993 CONTENTS FROM TWENTY TO FORTY ........................ .......................................................................... 1 BECOMING COMPREHENSIVE..................................................................................................3 Occupational Program s .............. .................................................................................. .. 4 Health Occupations . ........................................................................................................5 Business Division ........................................................................ .............................. .. 7 Technical D ivision ................. ................................................................ ........................9 Aviation ...........................................................................................................................10 M aritim e.......................................................................................................................... 11 Occupational Programs in Liberal A rts ....................... ............................................... 15 Trying to Kill Two Birds with One S to n e ........................................... .. 16 Academic Expansion ...................................................................................... 17 Reaching Out .......................................................................... 19 When Will You Be Four-year? .............................................. .. 21 Non-Credit Courses ............................... .................................................... .. 22 C B I ........................................................................................ ............................................ 24 Trial Balloons and Short Flights ......................................................................................25 Academic Support .............................................................. ......................................... 28 Staying Comprehensive? ....................................................... .............................................33 STUDENTS, CUSTOMERS, FTE’S What Were They L ike? ............................................................ ..........................................35 How Many Were T here? ............................................................... ....................................39 Where Did They Come From? ..........................................................................................41 W hat Did They W ant? ........................................................................................................41 How Did They D o? .............. .................................................................. ........................... 43 MONEY MATTERS....................... ..................................................... ........................ 46 Sources of F u n d in g ....................................................................................................... 46 State Aid .................................................................... ........................................ 47 Tuition and Fees ......................................................................................................... 47 Developing Other Sources .......................................................................................... 49 M illa g e ................................................................. ........................................................... 53 E xpenditures.................................................................................... .............................. .. 55 Salary Schedules ...................................................................................... .. 56 The Bottom Line ........................................................................................................... .. 59 HARDWARE ...........................................................................................................................61 New Buildings.............................................. ....................................................................61 Infrastructure.................................................................................................................. 69 Some O rnam ents.............................................................................................................71 More Useful Additions.....................................................................................................73 Computerizing.................................................................................................................. 77 Sara L ee............................................................................................................................. 81 The M useum ..................................................................................................................... 84 GOVERNANCE: A PARADE OF PRESIDENTS ...............................................................89 Jim D a v is...........................................................................................................................92 The Quinity ..................................................................................................................... 94 Bill Y ankee........................................................................................................................95 George Miller .................................................................................................................. 99 Lomie Kerr .................................................................................................................. 103 Phil Runkel..................................................................................................................... 104 Tim Q u in n ..................................................................................................................... 106 THE THIRD TW ENTY........................................................................................................109 APPENDICES Boards of T rustees.............................................................................................................i Chief Executive Officers ............................................................................................... vii Imogene Wise Faculty Excellence Award Recipients................................................. viii Faculty................................................................................................................................xii Administrative S t a f f .....................................................................................................xviii Classified Staff ................................................................................................................xxi Maintenance/Custodial S ta ff....................................................................................... xxii Employee of the Month/Term/Year ......................................................................... xxiii Fellows............................................................................................................................. xxv Employees Who Completed NMC Degrees...............................................................xxvii R etirees...........................................................................................................................xxix Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration.......................................................................xxxii