Lawrence University Lux Alumni Magazines Communications Fall 1996 Lawrence Today, Volume 77, Number 1, Fall 1996 Lawrence University Follow this and additional works at: http://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Liberal Studies Commons © Copyright is owned by the author of this document. Recommended Citation Lawrence University, "Lawrence Today, Volume 77, Number 1, Fall 1996" (1996). Alumni Magazines. Book 27. http://lux.lawrence.edu/alumni_magazines/27 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications at Lux. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Lux. For more information, please contact [email protected]. D A FALL 1996 The Magazine of Lawrence University VOL. 77, NO. 1 SESQUICENTENNIAL ISSUE First Person Singular CONGRATULATIONS! IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY. LAWRENCE • UNIVERSITY The Wiscon in Territorial Legi lature enacted a charter Gordon Brown for "Lawrence Institute of Editor Wisconsin" on January 15, 1947, 414- 32-6593 o that' Lawrence' birthday, Gord [email protected] and it' your birthday, too- Ann Patros we can all celebrate throughout e quicentennial issue designer the 1996~97 academic year. Marsha Tuchscherer A you will ee from the Art director Se quicentennial Events Suzanne Melville Calendar on page 48, nearly Graphic designer everything that happens at }ami Severson, '96 Lawrence-and in the regional Production coordinator alumni club around the country-during thi year will Rick Peterson have a sesquicentennial ti ~in. It i a year for recalling Associate director of public affairs our pa t, celebrating our present, and contemplating New services manager our future. Lawrence Today i publi hed by Lawrence Whatever your connection to Lawrence-alumnu , Univer ity. Article are expre ly the opin­ alumna, parent, or other friend-it' your birthday, ion of the author and do not neces arily repre ent official university policy. obser~ and we hope you will be able to take part in the Corre pond nee hould be sent to: vance, on campu in Appleton or wherever thi e qut~ Lawrence Today centennial year may find you, around the world. Lawrence University P.O. Box 599 Two sources of further information about sesqui~ Appleton, WI 54912-0599 centennial plan and program are theSe quicentennial f/(X: 414-832-6783 Hotline (800~283~8320, ext. 6549) and Se quicentennial Visit Lawrence on the World Wide Web: Online, a new section of Lawrence's home page on the http://www.lawrence.edu World Wide Web (http://www.lawrence.edu). The latter Were erve the right to edit corre pon­ include a weekly esquic ntennial trivia question to d nee for length anJ accuracy. te t your historical knowledge a well a the late t Lawrence University promote equal update on these quicentennial calendar. opportunity for all. pe ial thanks to Image tudios fo r provid­ ing photography for this i ue. WHO'S ON THE COVER Lawrence Today is publi hed quarterly in As the centerpiece of thi e quicentennial March, June, eptember, and December by is ue, we asked some alumni and alumnae of Lawrence Univer ity, Office of Public Affair, Appleton, Wi con in 549 11. Lawrence and Milwaukee~Downer to write "let~ Periodical po rage paid at Appleton, ter to Lawrence," brief remini cences of their Wi con in 54911. PO TMA TER: end college day . The e came to u in many form : addre s change to Lawrence Today, Lawrence University, 115 outh Drew typed, e~mailed, faxed, word~proce ed, and Street, Appleton, WI 54911-5798. even-a in the letter from Paul F. chmidt, '39, that fonn the background for our cover-handwritten. Al o pictured Lawrence Today (U P 012-6 3) on the cover are four repre entative contributor to thi project: (clockwi e from upper left) Cynthia Moeller tiehl, ' 9, Paul chmidt, Betty D mro e Brown, M~D '47, and Richard 0. Haight, '71. Lawrence T 0 0 A y FALL 1996 VOL. 77, NO. 1 FEATURES c oVER First Person Singular 6 "How well I remember ... " HisToRY The Attic 14 Memories and mysteries from the archives Unbeaten Vikings, page 25 EoucAnoN Milwaukee .. Downer Women 17 The unintended consequences of women's education THE cAMrus Extraordinary Eponyms 19 People, places, and things BIRTHDAYs So Many Years Ago 22 Great Lawrence birthday parties of the post HoNoRs Athletic Hall of Fame 27 Announcing the charter class 1so YEARs Sesquicentennial Calendar of Events 48 Special events of the sesquicentennial year A "little brown mystery ," page 14 DEPARTMENTS 2 CORRESPONDENCE 3 INSIDE LAWRENCE 25 SPORTS 32 LAWRENCE 150 34 ALUMNI TODAY Main Hall circa 1897 , page 22 49 LAWRENCE YESTERDAY CORRESPONDENCE Professor Walter. Progressive educa­ Next 500 Years sheds a new light on tion constituted a break from the the busy lawmaker. Like Plato's nav­ more formal, traditional education igator with his eye on the stars, of of the past. course Mr. Gingrich mystifies mere She learned 1 openness 1 How did Walter's ideas fit on a citizens with his actions. A man at Lawrence campus like Lawrence, with its with his mind on the 2400s can strong liberal arts, classical educa­ hardly be expected to focus on the If I could give a one-word label to tion tradition? Fortunately, the two full range of circumstances found in what I feel Lawrence "taught" me, it concepts did not need to be recon­ American life in the 1990s. But per­ would be receptivity-an openness ciled. Prospective school teachers, haps I am doing the Speaker of the to all ideas, all people, all of the for example, could draw upon the House an injustice. All I know environment, all of the world. I am strengths of both. Professor Walter about the scholarly work is its not afraid to be open-the intimi­ was as staunch an advocate for the impressive title. For all I know, the dated 17 -year-old was shaped by the arts and the humanities as he was book may have been written in the liberal education at Lawrence. I for Lawrence itself. He will be late 1400s, which, now that I think appreciate it daily. missed, but his legacy will not be about it, could explain a good deal. Julie A. Verrette, '62 forgotten. Florence, Wisconsin James Olski, '84 Frederic C. Brechler, '57 Appleton, WI 54911 Jacksonville, Florida George Walter1 John Dewey1 and progressive education Cookbook response Father cites son Responding to a notice in this It means a lot to me to realize that As an addendum to the Lawrence magazine (Summer '96) requesting the late Professor George Walter's T oday article (Summer '96) regard­ ('36) teachings can be traced to pro­ information about a college cook­ ing the Pinchas Zukerman video gressive education. He did his grad­ book said to have been distributed master class for the three Lawrence to Lawrence women in the 1950s, uate work at Ohio State University string students, I thought you should Mary Ellen Severson Lewis, '58, has (as did I), where he found disciples know that this was engineered by given the university archives her of philosopher John Dewey. Andrew Below, '84, who is "Meaningful learning"-! can copy of Favorite Recipes of public relations manager for a 4-1/2" square still hear him using that phrase­ Russell Sage, the Milwaukee Symphony. He booklet, typed and stapled, was more than jargon. It was a slo­ also happens to be my son, and containing twelve recipes, gan deeply grounded in progressive I am proud of him. It would be mostly desserts. Thank you, thinking. Progressive education was pleasant to see him receive Mary Ellen. to children in the 1920s and '30s acknowledgement for his efforts what fair employment practices and on behalf of Lawrence, which still Lawrence Today welcomes letters civil rights movements have been continue. from readers. Correspondence should for blacks in recent decades. be mailed with your name, address, During the heyday of progressive Robert Below and daytime telephone number to: education, tenets were extended in Professor of music emeritus Editor, Lawrence Today, Office of many directions. My guess is that at Public Affairs, Lawrence University, Ohio State noted educational Which SOO years? Appleton, WI 54912-0599. You can philosophers such as Boyd Bode I have just finished reading Stephen fax letters to 414-83 2-6783 or send (bow-dah) influenced him. Bode J. Siegel's ('89) stirring report (Sum­ e-mail to gordon.e .brown@ wrote that progressive education mer '96) about Scot Faulkner ('75) lawrence. edu. stood for child-centeredness, elf­ thrusting the shameless cabal of activity, and learning-by-doing. Democrats out of the temple of These ideas were not unlike those of democracy, and Newt Gingrich's reading habits caught my eye. The 2 I N S I D E LAWRENCE Lawrence is among higher education's 'life-changers' In the recently published book, Co lleges That Change Lives, author Loren Pope included Law rence University on h is list of forty colleges that he Colleges That guarantees "will Change Lives do at least as much as, and usually far more than, an Ivy League school, an Ivy clone, or a major research university to give yo u a rich, full life and to make yo u a . )) wmner. Pope, director of the College Placement Bureau in W ashington, DC , since 1965, describes Lawrence as "a growth hormone that raises kids' trajectories and instills the Outstanding performer A tenor saxophonist, A rau was power to soar ... a place that helps Lawrence hasn't completely cor, cited for h is performance on the yo ung people find themselves and nered the market on yo ung jazz Lawrence U niversity Jazz Ensemble's then make the best of what they saxophonists; it only seems that way.