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Alumni Action FOR THE ALUMNI AND FRENDS OF Pulitzer Prize Winner Returns to Michigan EMU alumna now writing columns that can be read in the Detroit Free Press I N S I D E • ICARD study shows EMU had $216 million dollar impact • Budget tops the list of stories for 1992 • Spotlight on the College of Arts and Sciences • Governor appoints three new regents ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I. Robert V. Belleman,'89, has Gregg Natkowski, '83, a James Bannan,'71, was beenappointed program director psychologist who directs the appointed principal of East Detroit Alumni Action News of Dowagiac's Downtown Sexual Addictions Component of High School in September. As an THE NATIONAL EDITION Development Authority (DDA). the New Directions Center for educational leader, Bannan uses the Is produced for Prior to his appointment., Christian Counseling in Livonia, team approach in decision making. Alumni and Friends of Belleman had been employed as a recently discussed "Sexual He is encouraging the whole staff EASTERN MICHIGAN staffperson for the AuburnHills Addiction" in a programsponsored to teach and modelproblem UNIVERSITY Chamber of Commerce. by the Downriver Coalition solving in the classroom. He is also ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Against Pornography.Natkowski encouraging students to become speciali:zesin sexual abuse, sexual involved in extracurricular BOARD OF DIRECTORS Michael Williams, '85, has addiction, and sexual dysfunction. activities to get students more John Fovenesi, 73. been elected to the Albion City interested in school. President Council. Williams received his Joan M. Colladay. 72, President Elect master's degree fromEMU in Amy Slagell,'92, has begun a Michael Libbing, '91, guidance and counseling and has two-year term of VoluntaryService Leanne Theresa Young,'90, Treasurer been involved in many with Mennonite Board of Missions, married L. Dale Walter of David Artley, 72 community organizations. He has Elkhart., Indiana. Her voluntary Rochester Hills, on Aug. 2 at Our Gloria August, '86 also received the NAACP "Man service assignment is working as a Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Jacqueline Brock, of the Year" award. preschool teacher's aide al Noah's Church. Young earnedher degree MelonieColaianne. '86. '83 '87 Ark Children's Center in La Jara, in secondary education and is Eric Forster, '91 Colorado. currently teaching at North Gary F rownfelter, 72 Patricia Fulton, 76 Vicki L. Gravila-Retich, '81, FarmingtonHigh School. Charles Halash, '84 '88, has been named to the faculty Jay Hansen, '83 at Lawrence Technological Steven W. Peltier,'92, was Charles Jennings, 73, 76 University. Gravila-Retich will be recently hired as operations Jerrery Sergent,'89, has been Denise Kaercher, a lecturer in the university's director of Allore Funeral Home in hired as the Clay Township David Keller, '85'88 College of Arts and Sciences. She Monroe, Michigan.Peltier will be building inspector. Sergent has BernadetteLarlcins. '83 holds a master's degree in working with management on been on the job since Sept. 1, and William Mays Jr., '54 learning disabilities and clinical everyday operationsas well as has been given a two-year contract Jack Minzey, '50 psychology from EMU. some long-term planning. by the township. Previously, he Patrick Monea, 72 Nicki Niedzielski. was a building inspector for the 0 Robert Oliver, city of Westland. '89 Steve Queen, student'67. 69 Paul Gerhardt,'68, is retiring Steve Karapas,'92, has Linda Randolph, '83, '89 as the OxfordMiddle School accepted a positionon the Auditing James Streeter, 73 principal.Gerhardt has beenwith Staff of the Public Accounting Jill Stottlemeyer,'91, of Troy, Leo Turner, '50 Oxford school since 1973. He has Firm of Coopers and Lybrand, Michigan was hired by the New Melissa Zick, student served on the boards of parks and located in the Renaissance Center Haven Board of Education to recreation and Oxford/Addison in Detroit. The firm is one of the instruct elementary students in Youth Assistance. Gerhardt is six largest in the country. Karapas mathematics. Stottlemeyer is now taking some classes and is began his employment there in working under a federal program. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS thinking of a career change. September. William E. Shelton, preside11t has been Roy Wilbanks, Mark Gaubatz,'78, executive vice president Wilma Wagoer,'76, of Rita D. Jones-Holt,'74, of selected by the Capac Board of Ronald W. Collins, Plymouth, Michigan, has been Inkster, Michigan, was recently Education as the schools' provost a11d vice president selectedhigh school teacher of the promoted to Midwest regional superintendent. Gaubatz has been for academic affairs year by Livonia Public Schools. manager of 13 states by Modern working as the director of student Patrick J. Doyle, Wagner, an English teacher at Curriculum Press, a part of the supportservices at Charlotte acting vice presidentfor business Livonia Franklin High, came to Simon and Schuster Publishing schools for the past six years. He and finance and treasurer lo Livonia schools in 1968. She is Company. Jones-Holt will and wife Janis have two children, the board of regents the National Honor Society co­ supervise 16 peoplethroughout the Aaron and Rachel. LaurenceN. Smith, vice president advisor, and has worked on Midwest., hiring, training, and for university marketing and student affairs curriculum alignment and a task motivating workers. force for environmental concerns. Sharon Treder,'76, a business teacher for 25 years, was recently named Teacher of the Year by the BOARD OF REGENTS Rosemary Williamson Anthony A. Derezinski. chairman Marine Capt. David 8. Townsend, '54, missionary of Downriver Career Technical James Oifton, vice chairman Laden,'85, recently reported for the United Methodist Church, Consortium (DCTC). Through Frederick L Blackmon duty with HeadquartersService returned to Sierra Leone in January DCTC, Treder teaches a two-year, Robert A. DeMattia Battalion, Marine Corps Base, after spending8 months in the U.S. two-hour vocational program to Philip lncamati Marine Corps Combat on home assignment. Townsend juniors and seniors from the Huron Mara M. Letica Detachment Center, Quantico, serves as the Director of Studies at and Flat Rock school districts. Carl D. Pursell Virginia. Laden joined the Marine the Sierra Leone Theological Hall Gayle P. Thomas Corps in March 1981. and Church Training Centre.. More APPLAUSE On Page 22 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• . EXTRA!!! ffl)c �tmc6 EXTRA!!! I Sheryl James Won Pulitzer Prize Winner Pulitzer in '91 for Article"A Gift Returns to Michigan Sheryl James, 1973 Eastern Michigan Abandoned" graduate and winner of the 1991 Pulitzer by Laurie Rorrer Prize, has come home to Michigan and her columns can now be read in the Ten years ago, Sheryl James left her secretarial position to pursue a Detroit Free Press Magazine on Sundays '--------==--==---_, dream of writing. With a 1991 Pulitzer Prize under her belt, and a Pulitzer nomination the following year, she thinks she made the right decision. While working as a secretary, James, a 1973 Eastern Michigan University graduate, was asked to do a writing assignment. "I sat down to write a newsletter and I assignments have taken her 10,000 my head (and let him shoot it off)... James admits it is still difficult wrote the whole thing in eight feet in the air to cover a woman para­ he was a good shot,' she said. forher to hand her stories over to an hours. I then realized that I needed chutist, out to a well-known Despite her many accolades, James editor, a feeling she said will never to do something that included writ­ sculptor's home who slowly got is quick to pointout that writing con­ go away because no matter how ing," James recalled while speak­ drunk while she interviewed him, and tinues to challenge her. confident you become, there is al­ ing to a crowd of 50, including to the hills of North Carolina where "In writing there is beating the ways room for improvement. several aspiring writers, in EMU's she wrote about a professional sling­ game. (You) try to get better, (but The highlight of her work comes McKenny Union. shot maker. you) can always do more," she said. "I when people tell her they took the An English graduate,James had "He challenged me to put a can on just wouldn't do anything else in life." time to read an entire story she always liked writing, wrote. but hadn't settled on it "The biggest for a career. She did, compliment any­ however, sell her first onecould pay me is piece, a short story for to say that they read a scholastic magazine the whole story. for which she received When I hear that, I $250, while working have accomplished as a secretary. my mission," she It wasn't until age 31 said. that she decided to take James enjoys a shot at a writing ca­ the freedom a reer. "I don't know writer's life allows, why it took me so long but warned her to decide to write," she EMU listeners that said. "At 23, I guess I with freedom was unfocused and un­ comes responsibil­ disciplined." ity. First, she landed a "I have total job on the staff of Lan­ freedom,"she said. sing Magazine, then " But in that, there moved to the Greens­ is no one to blame boro News and Record for failure except in North Carolina and myself." later the St.