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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Lawrwce Today, Lawrence University, 115 South Drew treet, Appleton, WI 54911-5798. - Articles are expressly the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represe nt " . official university policy. We reserve th e Reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument, the proud steeple of right to edit correspondence for length Lawrence Memorial Chapel is cocooned in scaffolding during restoration work scheduled and accuracy. to be completed in December. Lawrence University promotes equal >­ opportunity for all. .£ a. ~ Ol 0 0 .£ a.. a.Q) a. <( l~all 2000 Vol. 81 No. 1 ]4CtJf11 'o Special Report: The art of admissions 9 What tour guides do 12 What alumni can do 1-1 Reunion Weekend 2000 21 Commencement 2000 26 What we learned, by Megan Walsh, '00 "Just as we discover what it means to be students, it's time to leave." 27 Values as verbs, by Charles F. Lauter "In talking about liberal education, we must talk about values." 30 Stories and dreams, by Isabel Allende "Telling stories is the most pervasive vice of the human race. " J)e1Jll rt111 c11 ts 2 Correspondence 3 Inside Lawrence 32 Sports 38 Alumni Today 56 Lawrence Yesterday ( 11 ,,, Showing their colors: Flaunting their Lawrence blue, alumni gather for Reunion 2000 (page 14). Photo by Apple Photography. Correspondence Unforgivable An inspirat ional teacher "They're at the door! Dr. Knight, Dr. I was appalled that Lawrence Today I was a piano student of Miss Beck, some deans!" As it turned out, printed and George Larsen took it Brainard for about three years and the chaperones had gotten the word upon himself to write the letter about found her to be a most inspirational out about the drawings - Gladys Brainard [Correspondence, teacher. She showed me several and all were amused and delighted Summer 2000]. He should know that incredibly useful finger, hand, and by them. she was more shocked than he and technical exercises that I still use and Years later, at my tenth reunion, said the first thing that came into her validated the value of "pianistic" and I met Dr. Beck and re-introduced head. My first thought is that she beautiful playing. I remember our myself I expected from him, perhaps, could not afford a blouse to go with lessons, which, as those of other stu­ some inquity as to my writing efforts, that black jacket and did the best she dents, were filled with the my teaching career, etc. Instead, could. Salaries were pitifully low at wonderful treat of hearing her play his brow wrinkled, searching his that time. (There wa a depression on, and watching her extraordinarily mem01y: "Beranis? (Pause) Ah, yes! you know.) Also, she supported her strong, yet supple hands caress the (His eyes brightened.) The cartoon­ mother and father for several years. It keys but also with much talk about ist." And his attention turned to was an episode that should never have her reminiscences of the earlier another alum. crossed George's lips; certainly it decades of the century. She imbued Ted Berar1is, '57 should never have been published for me with the feeling that I was Bonita Springs, Florida all of the alumni to read. I have never descended, in practically a direct line, seen anything so derogatory in any from the fabulous pianists of that era. Good words Lawrence publication. Why start with These were great thoughts, which I Kudos for your Summer 2000 issue. I someone of Miss Brainard's stature? kept with me during many hours have been reading Lawrence Today for She is not here to defend herself of practice. 30 years, and this is certainly one of I studied with Miss Brainard for What am I doing? I'm director the very best in terms of content, for­ my bachelor's and master's degrees. of nursing of a psychiatric ho pi tal on mat, production values, etc. My studio was next door to hers for the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I Donald S. Kli11ifelter at lea t ten years. She was eccentric, play the Bayan (Russian accordion) Signal Mountain, Tennessee but she was dedicated to her students in the Washington Balaika Orchestra. and gave unstintingly of her time. She Did my lessons with Miss Brainard More good words was inspiring, exciting, and a good help me play the accordion? You bet! Terrific issue of Lawrence Today friend. She is, also, the best piano Judith L. Meyers, '66 [Spring 2000], in my opinion the best teacher and performer that Lawrence Easton, Maryland since the special issue on Women in has ever had. For this to happen is Science at Lawrence. Starting with unforgivable. Remembering Warren Beck the endowed chairs right there on the Barbara Simmons Webster, C '30, '37 I enjoyed so much Gerry Max's front- the future of outstanding Waupaca, Wisconsin recollections of Professor Warren teaching at Lawrence personified­ Beck [Summer 2000]. Its insights and and moving right through the special In response descriptions were, to my mind, on tribute to Frank Shattuck and all the I agree wholeheartedly with Mrs. the mark. other good stuff, including Fred Webster's conclusion regarding I write to share a humorous Sturn1.'s description of the Jazz Fantasy Gladys Brainard. I would have hoped Beckian anecdote: Camp- oh my, it's impressive. she would agree with me also. This is In 1957, as a theme for our Sig Thanks so much for making this why I was able to write the short Ep spring party, I plastered the ba e­ alum - and I personally know of episode that was included in ment walls with caricatures of faculty several others - feel even more than Lawrence Today. "Gladie" was the in outrageous settings- i.e., Dr. we might have otherwise that the greatest. She will ever be one of my Beck on a motorcycle with Dean college is doing great things and going true heroes. Mary Morton clinging to him; Dr. great guns. George Larsen, C '4 9 Brooks and Dr. Foster having a tea Priscilla Peterson Weaver, C '69 Sister Bay, Wisconsin party, in bed; Dr. Knight and Dean Kenilworth, Illinois Cameron as Olympic weight lifters; Dr. Stewart lecturing, with Einstein taking notes; and so on. The next morning, I was shaken awake by brothers shouting, 2 Fall 2000 Inside Lawrence Development program institutions of 18 cents per dollar Former Japanese earns national honor raised. ambassador is Scarff "Our uccess on the fund-raising Lawrence University has been named a front is important not for its own sake," Visiting Professor recipient of a 2000 Circle of Excellence he adds, "but for the extraordinary Takakazu Kuriyama, LL.D. '93, who Educational Fund-Raising Award by impact of philanthropy in making attended Lawrence University in the the Council for the Advancement and Lawrence a great and exciting place." LT mid-1950s and Support ofEducation (CASE) in went on to Washington, D. C. Considered the become Japan's most distinguished honor in the Not one, but two, Ambassador to development profes ion, the award students earn Goldwater the United States, recognizes exceptional fund-raising science scholarships has returned this programs through a comprehensive fall as Stephen analysis of fund-raising data. Two Lawrence University physics Edward Scarff Lawrence was one of only six majors have been named recipients Memorial Visiting private liberal arts institutions in the of a prestigious national academic Kuriyama Professor. During country cited in CASE's "Superior fellowship. the first five Overall Performance" category. Angela Kopp, '01, Tomahawk, weeks of the Fall Term, he i team­ CASE reviews each aspect of a devel­ and Cindy Regal, '01, Duluth, Min­ teaching, with Franklin M. Doeringer, opment program to identify not only nesota, have been awarded $7,500 the Nathan M. Pusey Professor of an upward trajectory in gift income East Asian Studies and profes or of but the breadth of philanthropic history, a course titled The Postwar support and the strength of each japanese-American Relationship. component of a college's advance­ Kuriyama attended Lawrence ment effort. Joining Lawrence among during the 1954-55 academic year as the liberal arts institutional winners a special student in an overseas study were Amherst College, Middlebury program sponsored by the Japanese College, Oberlin College, Smith Foreign Ministry.