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Michigan State University • Fall 2009 • Vol. 27, No. 1 

MSU STRIVES TO LEAD IN SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES 

With the opening of a new recycling facility, MSU’s 

“Be Spartan Green” initiative kicks into high gear. 

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GREEN INITIATIVES ACROSS THE CAMPUS 

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have included energy use, construction practices, student programs, 

HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) scheduling, 

engineering design, and metering and commissioning. 

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MSU RESEARCH AND SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS 

IMPACT THE ENTIRE STATE 

Spartans are about being green, but the ways in which MSU 

researchers, professors and students support sustainability make our 

state even greener. 

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President’s Perspective 4 

In-Basket 5 

Around Circle Drive 6 

Spartan Profiles 14 

Sports 46 

Alma Matters 62 

State’s Stars 72 

Obituaries 76 

Lasting Impressions 80 

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PRESIDENT’SPERSPECTIVE 

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nvironmental stewardship is a key part 

of our DNA at Michigan State, and you 

will read more about how we’re working 

to model that in the following pages. 

We’re proud of the way our faculty, staff, and 

students are pulling together to apply what we 

know—and to learn what we don’t know—to 

lighten our environmental footprint. 

Today’s economy poses another great challenge 

to us, and here, too, we aim to apply 

knowledge-based solutions. Universities such as Michigan State employ 

a lot of creative, innovative people, and employers look to us to, likewise, 

help develop a skilled and savvy work force. 

I have had several opportunities over the summer to talk to top business 

executives about how the MSU mission focuses and motivates us to 

do just that at a time when innovation is increasingly viewed as crucial 

to the recovery of the economy. 

I joined a number of business and institutional leaders—including the 

heads of IBM, Dow Chemical, Ford, Google, and Microsoft—speaking 

at the three-day National Summit in Detroit. A week later, I participated 

in a summit in Washington, D.C., produced by the Council on 

Competitiveness and Seed magazine, focused on innovation. 

My panel at the National Summit in Detroit focused on talent, which h 

is key to the success of any organization. Much of the discussion came 

back to the need to improve workers’ skills, including increasingly important 

mid-career retraining. We know our graduates will face career 

changes more often than their parents, and universities will need to stay 

involved to support them. Technology will facilitate this, and we might 

see universities such as MSU offer a wide range of postgraduate skills 

certification programs online. 

It’s a matter of empowerment, of finding ways to give people more 

tools to control their destinies. At the nation’s pioneer land-grant institution, 

that’s been part of our mission and our impact all along. 

In Washington, my panel discussed how we manage innovation. My 

point was that I view the challenge of leadership as aligning assets with 

attitude to create synergy that magnifies the impact on behalf of society. 

We do it at Michigan State though focusing on cross-boundary 

collaboration—across disciplines, borders, communities, ideologies— 

and by never losing sight of our core values of quality, inclusiveness, 

and connectivity. As with our environmental stewardship initiative, we 

think we have much to offer by modeling our way of working. 

Today’s matrix organization relies on teams to get things done, whether 

the challenge is implementing sustainable practices or developing a 

workforce capable of meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow. 

We’re striving to break down barriers, enhance connections, and apply 

the knowledge we gain together to solve the problems that confront 

individuals, communities, and our global society. 

Sincerely, 

Lou Anna K. Simon, Ph.D. 

President, Michigan State University 

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INBASKET 

RESIDENCE HALL 

“VISIONARIES” 

I feel I have a vested interest 

in several of MSU’s residence 

halls, having lived as a resident 

(West Shaw), resident assistant 

(South Case) and graduate advisor 

(North Hubbard) during my entire 

MSU enrollment (1961-68). 

Your story did a great job of updating 

us on the “brick and mortar” 

aspects of campus life. Just 

as important are the people who 

live, work and play together in 

those halls, forming relationships 

that linger long after graduation. 

I am proud to have lived, worked, 

studied and “grown up” in one 

the finest residence hall systems 

in the country. My hat’s off to the 

visionaries who started it and to 

those who nurture it now. 

Ron Humphrey, ’65, MS ’68 

Ennis, MT 

MAD DASH AT 1 A.M. 

Tremendous article on the residence 

halls. Lord, they don’t look 

like they did when I was there in 

the ’60s. Thoroughly enjoyed your 

cover story. 

I worked in almost every building 

on campus, if not every building, 

when I worked for audiovisual 

services and again 

when I worked for the place 

on campus that delivers 

furniture, chemical tanks 

and the like. Later I worked 

between quarter-breaks 

doing janitorial services. 

There’s nothing quite like 

hanging outside one of the 

upper windows in Owen 

Hall washing them. Trust 

me on that. 

I dated women from 

probably every residence 

hall, which obviously 

has many fond memories. 

I will never forget 

the 1 a.m. mad dash 

back to the halls to 

drop off dates! 

Fred Wessells, ’69 

Harper Woods 

MSU AT FOREFRONT 

OF NATIONAL CHANGE 

The articles on MSU residence 

halls brought back wonderful 

memories of my time in Bailey 

Hall, where I served as hall 

president and executive director 

of the Big Ten Residence Hall 

Association. Then the baby boom 

generation was moving onto college 

campuses, co-ed dorms were 

on the way up while “in loco parentis” 

was down. As usual, MSU, 

led by the visionary John Hannah, 

was in the forefront of change. 

MSU has always been a leader 

in the development and operation 

of residence halls. From 1954 

until about 1970, MSU was the 

home to the Big Ten Residence 

Hall Association primarily because 

of its cutting edge practices 

in running residence halls. 

J. Christopher Manners, ’69 

Eatonton, GA 

REMEMBER JMC 

Re Cindy Helman’s “Residential 

Colleges Offer an Array of 

Choices.” It was an excellent 

article but no mention was made 

of Justin Morrill College, MSU’s 

first ground-breaking residential 

college that began in the fall of 

1965. I was surprised that JMC 

was left out. Being a graduate 

of JMC’s first class, I am disappointed 

that the college didn’t 

receive accolades for laying the 

groundwork for the residential 

colleges that followed. Ours was a 

true liberal arts experience which 

has shaped my outlook on the 

world to this day. After receiving 

my degree in secondary education 

and French, I went on to graduate 

school and became a high school 

librarian for 30 years. 

Marilyn McMullen Cobb, ’69 

Kewadin 

Our partnerships with residential 

colleges, academic interest 

living options, student groups, 

the Dept. of Residence Life and 

our continuing facility renovation 

and culinary innovations all illustrate 

our dedication to helping 

MSU students grow and flourish. 

Today’s students have different 

expectations and life experiences 

than previous generations, but all 

share a goal of academic and social 

success. We are here to help them 

meet the challenges—creating 

Spartans for life. 

Tim Knight, ’80 

Campus Living Services 

The University Housing articles 

in the summer issue of the alumni 

magazine were wonderful and 

brought back many memories 

both while I was a student and 

later while working for the university. 

Incidentally, after some 

recent changes, we are now called 

Campus Living Services and the 

Housing Assignment Office. We 

also centralize the housing area in 

our new location in Wilson Hall, 

showcasing all the residence halls. 

Pamela Marcis, ’77 

Campus Living Services 

Housing Assignment Office 

COVER QUESTION 

Love your latest magazine. 

Which building is on the cover? 

The piece on the residence hall 

is great. I had lived in Phillips 

in the 1970s, and went back in 

May on a quick visit. We ate in 

the new Gallery, and were much 

impressed. Kudos to all involved 

with that project. 

Andrea J. Pepper, ’75, MS ’78 

Decatur, GA 

☛ The photo actually shows an 

exterior, night view of the Gallery 

of Snyder-Phillips, which, as you 

know, is a popular dining destination 

on campus. –Editor. 

CONCERTO IN CORTINA 

We know that there are fellow 

Spartans in all areas of this 

world and as we travel around 

we run into to them frequently. 

While in Italy recently, we happened 

to see a poster at the Teatro 

Signorelli in Cortona promoting 

a concert to be played the next 

evening by three music professors 

from MSU. We were there a day 

early and missed the concert but 

seeing this poster really made us 

feel proud to be Spartan grads. 

C. Dean Marolf, ’62 

Carolyn Mae Matteson Marolf, ’60 

Columbus, OH 

THE J-HOP 

Thanks for the reminiscences 

about MSU’s J-Hop. The J-Hop 

was a big deal in the 50s and I still 

carry in my tux pocket a ticket 

for the 1954 J-Hop which reads, 

“Class of 1955 presents ‘Our Very 

Own’ featuring Ray Anthony and 

his Orchestra, $5.00 per couple.” 

Larry Schlack, ’54 

Kalamazoo 

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AROUND CIRCLE DRIVE 

FRIB CEREMONY—June 12: MSU dedicated a major expansion of its 

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and celebrated 

the coming of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at a 

ceremony that included officials from the National Science Foundation, 

the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) and MSU. T. James Symons, director 

of the Nuclear Science Division for the Lawrence Berkeley National 

Laboratory, gave a keynote address on rare isotope research. The 

program included a special rap musical production prepared by MSU 

graduate Kate McAlpine, aka Alpinekat, whose previous “Large Hadron 

Rap” was viewed on YouTube more than five million times. Her new 

rap video introduces FRIB science. The next day, June 13, Steve Koonin, 

DOE undersecretary for science, spoke at MSU on energy policy and the 

nation’s energy needs. 

A plaque, signed by staff and students at MSU’s National Superconducting 

Cyclotron Laboratory, was unveiled at a June 12 ceremony 

at the lab. The event marked a major expansion of the NSCL and celebrated 

the coming of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. The plaque 

will hang in the NSCL’s atrium. 

$1.7 MILLION TO MSU 

FOR GREEN STUDIESS 

MSU scientists at the Great 

Lakes Bioenergy Research hC 

Center 

(GLBRC) will use $1.7 million in 

federal stimulus funding to study 

the environmental benefits of cellulosic 

biofuel crops. 

The Dept. of Energy awarded a 

total of $8.1 million in American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act 

funding to the center, which includes 

MSU and the University of 

Wisconsin. The money allocated 

to biofuel sustainability research 

will be used to study carbon 

cycling, water quality and greenhouse 

gas emissions associated 

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with 

biofuel cropping systems, says 

Phil 

Robertson, MSU professor of 

Crop and Soil Sciences, who leads 

GLBRC sustainability research. 

MSU’s Kellogg Biological Station 

(KBS), the principal field site 

for GLBRC sustainability research, 

can provide detailed information 

on the productivity and environmental 

performance of long-term 

biofuel cropping systems. 

“Different crops also provide 

different kinds of habitats for 

birds and insects,” Robertson says. 

“We’re also studying the potential 

for cellulosic biofuels to provide 

biodiversity benefits such as pest 

control and pollination for plants 

and crops in 

other parts of the 

landscape.” 

Of the remaining 

stimulus dollars, 

about $4 million will provide 

an experimental core facility 

and computational resources to 

analyze and alter the structure 

of plant cell walls, the polymercomplex 

that provides the sugars 

for cellulosic biofuels. 

For more information, visit 

bioeconomy.msu.edu. 

$2.1 MILLION FOR 

AUTISM RESEARCH 

MSU has been awarded a threeyear, 

$2.1 million federal grant 

to serve as the data coordinating 

center for the largest epidemiological 

study ever on autism. 

MSU’s Biomedical Research 

Informatics Core (BRIC), 

established in 2001 and now part 

of the university’s Clinical and 

Translational Science Institute, 

will collect and create a repository 

for data from nearly 3,000 families 

as part of the congressionallymandated 

Study to Explore Early 

Development (SEED). 

“Autism is a serious disabling 

condition that has been estimated 

to occur in one in 150 children in 

the United States,” says Phil Reed, 

BRIC director and the principal 

investigator for the grant. 

The 10-year SEED study will 

help identify what might put children 

at risk for autism spectrum 

disorders and other developmental 

disabilities. Six study sites and 

MSU’s role as the data coordinating 

center make up the Centers 

for Autism and Developmental 

Disabilities Research and Epidemiology 

Network. 

DAIRY OPERATION 

IS AUTOMATED 

MSU’s W.K. Kellogg Biological 

Station (KBS) boasts a new 

pasture-based facility with stateof-the-art 

milking robotics and 

energy-efficient 

ergy-effifii 

design. 

Located in 

Hickory Corners 

north of Kalamazoo, 

the KBS dairy includes 

two pastures for 120 lactating 

Holstein cows, plus “dry cows” 

and heifers. 

“We see transitioning to a 

pasture-based system as a niche 

market for us,” says Project Coordinator 

Mat Haan. “We also want 

to develop a system that better 

addresses the needs of small- and 

medium-sized dairy farmers.” 

Twin robotic milking systems, 

the second such installation in the 

state, will save labor for both the 

farmer and the cows. “Because 

the robot is a voluntary system, 

cows are free to come and go as 

they choose throughout the day,” 

Haan explains. “If a cow decides 

she wants to milk at two o’clock in 

the morning, she can.” 

Sensors also yield a lot of information, 

such as the cow’s body 

weight, eating behavior, milking 

time per quarter, total and quarter 

milk yield and milk quality. The 

free-stall barn includes water 

mattress bedding and automatic 

manure scrapers. It also is the first 

working agricultural building to 

seek Leadership in Energy and 

Environmental Design, or LEED, 

certification, Haan notes. 

Major support for the project 

came through a $3.5 million 2007 

grant from the W.K. Kellogg 

Foundation’s Food Systems and 

Rural Development program. 

MSU Extension, the Michigan 

Agricultural Experimental Station, 

and MSU’s College of Agriculture 

and Natural Resources also 

contributed support. 

$400,000 FOR MSU RESEARCH 

Two MSU professors have received 

nearly $400,000 for their 

cardiovascular research projects 

as part of the stimulus funding 

from federal agencies. The 


money, from the National Institutes 

of Health via the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 

will help to preserve and create 

jobs in Michigan while also 

investing in important medical 

research. 

Narayanan Parameswaran, 

an assistant professor in MSU’s 

Dept. of Physiology, received 

$375,141 for his research on the 

molecular aspects in the development 

of chronic diseases. His 

work focuses on atherosclerosis, 

one of the major causes of heart 

attack and stroke. His research 

will determine if the GRK2 

protein can be targeted for drug 

development in the treatment of 

atherosclerosis and other chronic 

diseases. 

Gregory Fink, a professor in 

the Dept. of Pharmacology and 

Toxicology, received $17,632 for 

a research project on hypertension. 

“The work specifically looks 

at how a high-salt diet affects the 

arteries and veins in the gastrointestinal 

system,” Fink says of the 

project, which is in its seventh 

year at MSU. 

MSU has about 150 grant applications 

pending as part of the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act and expects to hear on 

other awards soon. 

This capsule of MSU history 

was provided by Cynthia 

Ghering, of MSU Archives & 

Historical Collections. 

This photo showing a rail car transporting lumber 

out of the Sequoia National Forest is part of the 

Hackley Papers collection. 

Photos courtesy of MSU Archives & Historical Collections 

the classroom such as last fall’s 

Freshman Seminar “From Beanies 

to Body Piercings: The History 

of Student Life at MSU”; and 

continued documentation of the 

diverse and significant achievements 

of MSU’s faculty, students, 

programs and community. 

MSU faculty member Wesley 

Fishel (left) with Vietnam 

President Ngo Dinh Diem in 

the early 1960s. 

The Ransom Olds collection 

includes this photo of an early car 

stuck in the mud. 

The University Archives & 

Historical Collections (UAHC) 

celebrates two 40 th anniversaries 

this year—in November 1969, 

University Archives was officially 

established to collect and 

preserve the historical records of 

the university; and in September 

1970, Historical Collections 

was merged administratively to 

University Archives to provide a 

repository for historical materials 

that support faculty and student 

research. 

In MSU’s first hundred years, 

administrators and faculty such 

as Robert C. Kedzie, William 

J. Beal, and Madison Kuhn, 

collected and preserved MSU 

records. In 1967, William H. 

Combs, a distinguished history 

professor and retired administrator, 

was named MSU’s first 

archivist. Combs was instrumental 

in creating a permanent office 

to manage the university records. 

In 1979, Frederick L. Honhart 

became the second director of 

UAHC, a position he held until 

2008. During his 30-year tenure, 

Honhart developed the collections 

and pioneered the use of 

computer software to manage and 

access archival material. 

The Historical Collections 

program began in the MSU 

Museum. Director Joseph Stack 

wanted to document the impact 

MSU’s land-grant philosophy had 

on the state’s people and industry. 

In anticipation of MSU’s Centennial 

in 1955, he began collecting 

historical artifacts and manuscript 

materials relating to rural life in 

Michigan. The Historical Collections 

have since grown to 

more than 700 manuscript 

and photograph collections, 

and now document all 

aspects of life in the Great 

Lakes region. 

Current UAHC staff are providing 

guidance on the management 

of electronic records and 

digital files. University Archives 

staff are leading a university-wide 

initiative to develop a digital 

preservation plan for MSU’s 

many digital assets such as administrative 

records, multimedia 

files, educational resources and 

research data. 

The future for UAHC includes 

a web portal devoted to the 

history of MSU with 24/7 access 

to historical photographs, 

campus maps, oral histories, 

sports programs, yearbooks, 

and Board of Trustee meeting 

minutes; increased use of historical 

materials in research and in 

An actual letter signed by 

Charles Darwin. 


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Ahn Trio 

White Christmas 

Photos courtesy of Wharton Center 

WHARTON CENTER COMPLETES EXPANSION 

Patrons of MSU’s Wharton Center for Performing 

Arts will notice some stunning changes, 

beginning with the glass façade, expanded lobby by area 

and additional restrooms. The $18.5 million expansion 

comes on the heels of two rankings of Wharton Center as 

among the Top 20 Theatres in the world by two international 

magazines—Pollstar and Venues Today. 

Broadway lovers and their families will enjoy Irving Berlin’s 

White Christmas—The Musical (Dec. 8-13), a fresh new 

show based on some classic songs that will have audiences 

humming along with the cast. Families will also enjoy 101 

Dalmatians—The Musical (Jan. 26-31), a song-and-dance 

spectacle designed to leave audiences cheering. 

Other acts this fall include Michael Feinstein: n: The 

Sinatra Project (Oct. 10), the innovative classical cal Ahn 

Trio (Oct. 15), satirist Dave Sedaris (Oct. 18), the 

Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company (Oct. 

23), the River North Chicago Dance Company 

(Oct. 30), Shaolin Warriors (Nov. 6), violin virtuoso Itzhak 

Perlman (Nov. 9), and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Dec. 4-5). 

For information, contact 800-WHARTON or 

visit whartoncenter.com. 

River North Dance Trio 

Preservation 

Hall Jazz 

Band 

FIRST TENANT FOR 

BIOECONOMY INSTITUTE 

A technology spinoff company 

is the first tenant in MSU’s new 

Bioeconomy Institute, located in 

a former Pfizer Inc. laboratory in 

Holland. 

Biochemistry Professor Rawle 

Hollingsworth has operated his 

company, AFID Therapeutics 

Inc., in laboratory space at MBI 

International in Lansing since 

2004, developing technology 

licensed from MSU. He will now 

tap western Michigan talent and 

resources to expand development 

work. 

Hollingsworth’s research on 

complex carbohydrates derived 

from biomass and sugars forms 

the basis for developing highvalue 

chemical compounds. The 

compounds can be used to create 

drugs for infectious diseases and 

autoimmune, cardiovascular and 

neurological disorders, as well 

as specialty chemicals for other 

purposes. AFID is developing 

material for more than 100 companies 

around the world to use for 

testing and further development. 

“At MBI, we are working in a 

laboratory where we can produce 

three or four liters (about one 

gallon) of biochemical product,” 

Hollingsworth says. “At the Bioecononmy 

Institute in Holland, we 

have access to a pilot plant where 

we can process 4,000-liter batches.” 

Encouraging such university 

research spinoff companies and 

nurturing new non-university 

businesses are MSU goals shared 

by Lakeshore Advantage, a regional 

economic development group 

in the Holland-Zeeland area. 

MSU Biochemistry Professor 

Rawle Hollingsworth in his 

Lansing laboratory. 

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NEW FACES ON CAMPUS 

Brett Berquist, executive director 

of international programs at 

Western Michigan University, has 

been named executive director 

of the Office of Study Abroad at 

MSU. MSU’s study abroad program 

is the largest at any public 

university in the nation. 

Lucinda Davenport, associate 

dean for graduate studies in the 

College of Communication Arts 

and Sciences from 2004-07 and 

director of the Media and Information 

Studies doctoral program, 

has been named interim director 

of the School of Journalism. She 

succeeds Jane Briggs-Bunting, 

who returns to the faculty. 

Gary Morgan, former executive 

director of the Western 

Australian Museum in Perth, 

has been named director of the 

MSU Museum. Morgan recently 

worked for the Kungoni Centre of 

Culture and Art in Mua, Malawi, 

Africa, and for the Sharjah Museums 

Dept. in the United Arab 

Emirates. He succeeds C. Kurt 

Dewhurst, who led the museum 

for 27 years. Dewhurst was recently 

named director of arts and 

cultural initiatives for University 

Outreach and Engagement. 

Pamela Whitten, a professor 

and associate dean in MSU’s College 

of Communication Arts and 

Sciences, has been named dean 

of the college. She replaces Brad 

Greenberg, who served as interim 

dean. Her research interests have 

focused on the use of technology 

in health care. 

MSU KUDOS 

Every semester, MSU faculty, 

staff and students garner kudos 

too numerous to list exhaustively 

here. Some examples: 

Peter Alegi, associate professor 

of history, has been appointed a 

Fulbright Scholar at the University 

of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 

in South Africa for the 

calendar year 2010. He will explore 


“Sport and Leisure: Colonial and 

Post-colonial Transformations.” 

Donald Greydanus, a professor 

in the College of Human Medicine’s 

Dept. of Pediatrics and Human 

Development, has won the 

2010 Outstanding Achievement 

in Adolescent Medicine award 

from the Society for Adolescent 

Medicine. 

MSU OBOIST WINS SUDLER 

Sarah Lewis, ’09, an oboe performance 

student from Petoskey, 

received the Louis Sudler Prize in 

the Arts for 2009. 

“I was surprised and excited to 

find out I was selected to receive 

the award,” Lewis says. “It’s a real 

honor.” 

The annual Sudler Prize is 

awarded nationally to top college 

seniors who have demonstrated 

outstanding achievement in 

an area of the performing and 

creative arts. 

By her sophomore year at MSU, 

Lewis was chosen as one of five 

winners in the Honor’s Competition 

in the College of Music. As a 

junior, she was selected by national 

audition for one of three positions 

in the Chautauqua Summer Music 

Festival Orchestra. In the summer 

of 2008, Lewis was a finalist in 

the Sigma Alpha Iota National 

Concerto Competition. 

Lewis will now attend the 

world-renowned Juilliard School 

of Music to pursue her master’s 

degree in oboe performance. 

GRANT FROM THE URC 

REAPS $12.5 MILLION 

A $523,282 seed grant from 

Michigan’s University Research 

Corridor (URC) has helped generate 

a U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) 

recommendation for $12.5 million 

in additional federal support. 

The URC, an alliance of 

Michigan State University, University 

of Michigan and Wayne 

State University, was founded to 

leverage the power of Michigan’s 

research universities to transform 

the state’s economy. Last May, 

the URC announced its first 

seed fund grants to help support 

two “revolutionary but feasible” 

energy projects. The largest has 

helped bring new federal grants to 

Michigan. 

The URC grant went to a team 

that recently won the support of 

DOE officials recommending a 

$12.5 million grant for a new Energy 

Frontier Research Center at 

MSU, one of 46 to be established 

nationwide. The project aims to 

advance the scientific understanding 

of the thermoelectric energy 

conversion process, potentially 

leading to more efficient utilization 

of energy resources. 

URC scientists from MSU, 

U-M and WSU, and others are all 

collaborating on the project. More 

than $8 million of the recommended 

$12.5 million would be 

spent within the state of Michigan, 

according to initial estimates. 

The URC was launched by the 

state’s three research university 

presidents in late 2006 to align 

their resources to transform, 

strengthen and diversify Michigan’s 

economy. 

NEW LANDSCAPE—MSU’s Kresge Art Museum has acquired a 

marinescape by 17 th century Dutch landscape painter Jan van Goyen, 

An Estuary with Row and Sail Boats (late 1640s). Writer Souren 

Melikian of the International Herald Tribune called it a “connoisseur’s 

gem.” Kresge Director Susan J. Bandes saw the painting at an art fair in 

Maastricht, the Netherlands, and says, “I had been looking for a painting 

by van Goyen for several years and this is among the most beautiful 

and exciting examples I have seen on the market.” 

Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596-1656), An Estuary with Row and Sail 

Boats, late 1640s, oil on panel, 14 x 12-3/4 inches, Kresge Art Museum. 

MSU purchase, funded by the Emma Grace Holmes Endowment, 

2009.20. 0. 

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Photo courtesy of the Michigan National Guard 

Maj. David Howell with the 

Michigan National Guard 

stands next to Mohammed, a 

12-year-old Iraqi boy who has 

come to Lansing for medical 

treatment. 

LIFE-CHANGING CARE 

FOR IRAQI BOY 

In June, an MSU surgeon 

began a series of operations on a 

12-year-old Iraqi boy brought to 

mid-Michigan for life-changing 

medical care. 

Mohammed, who was severely 

injured by an exploding oil lamp 

when he was a few months old, 

was brought to MSU by Maj. David 

Howell of the Michigan Army 

National Guard. Medical efforts 

are being led by Edward Lanigan, 

a surgeon with MSU’s College 

of Human Medicine who works 

at Sparrow Hospital. Lanigan is 

offering his services for free. 

“The surgery involved scar 

revision procedures and fusion 

of his left index finger to restore 

function to his left hand,” says 

Howell. “He is also undergoing a 

tissue expanding procedure on his 

scalp to repair extensive scarring 

there.” 

In the months ahead, Mohammed 

will be undergoing additional 

surgery on his left hand and 

reconstructive surgical procedures 

on his nose, ear, face and left 

eye socket, adds Howell. 

Mohammed is from Ramadi. 

His father was slain by insurgents 

when they learned he worked as 

an interpreter for U.S. forces. He 

is staying with a host family in 

Michigan while he recovers. To 

help cover costs, Howell set up a 

nonprofit organization called Martyr 

Medical Fund for Children 

(www.martyrmedicalfund.com). 

“OFF SWITCH” FOR CANCER? 

New insight into how human 

cells reproduce, published by cancer 

researchers at MSU and the Van 

Andel Research Institute (VARI) in 

Grand Rapids, could help scientists 

find an “off switch” for cancer. 

Cancer cells divide uncontrollably 

and can move from one part 

of the body to another, undergoing 

dramatic shifts in shape, says 

Aaron DeWard, an MSU cell 

and molecular biology doctoral 

candidate, who published his 

research recently in the Journal of 

Biological Chemistry. 

DeWard and his academic adviser, 

VARI Researcher Art Alberts, 

found a new mechanism for the 

regulation of formins—proteins 

that help determine the shape of a 

cell—during cell division. 

“A lot of work has been done on 

how to get these proteins to work, 

but not when to stop working,” 

he says. “We identified the way in 

which these proteins get flagged 

for destruction.” 

“Our goal now is to exploit this 

information in the development 

of strategies to specifically stop the 

process of uncontrolled cell division 

that characterizes cancer,” 

says Alberts. 

SUMMER ACTIVITIES 

FOR MSU ALUMNI 

By Stella Cash, MS ’80, 

MSUAA interim executive 

director 

Summer was filled with opportunities 

to engage with Spartans 

across the country. 

From golf to 

steak and suds, 

Spartan families 

enjoyed the leisure 

of summer 

activities. Fall, 

of course, brings 

the beauty of color to the campus, 

the excitement of new and returning 

students, and the expectations 

of Big Ten football. 

One of the new initiatives from 

your Alumni Association involves 

Spartans helping Spartans. The 

MSU Alumni Association has 

launched its own Economic 

Stimulus Package, resulting in a 

one-year association membership 

for our unemployed alumni. 

We’re asking fellow Spartans to 

consider the purchase of a 

MSUAA gift membership, which 

would give our unemployed 

alumni access to important 

benefits and services, including 

career services, short-term health 

insurance and other cost-saving 

programs. If you would like to 

participate, please contact the 

MSUAA office at (517)884-1000. 

Gifts may be tax deductible for 

individuals who itemize deductions. 

Please consult your tax 

adviser for details. 

The MSU For All Seasons coffee 

table book tied with Baylor 

University for the Publications of 

Excellence Award from the University 

Photographer’s Association 

of America Print and Publications 

competition. Congratulations to 

the University Relations photographers 

whose numerous pictures 

are in the book. 

Alumni Career Services, usage 

of Web 2.0 tools like LinkedIn 

and Twitter to help Spartans find 

jobs and opportunities is generating 

national attention. David 

Isbell, career services coordinator, 

was recently quoted in an 

article “10 Ways Universities Are 

Engaging Alumni Using Social 

Media” on Mashable.com (The 

Social Media Guide) and John 

Hill, director of alumni career 

services, is quoted in a LinkedIn. 

com webinar targeting college 

and university career services 

professionals on how to effectively 

utilize this tool. 

Alumni Career Services 

conducted presentations on 

“How to Take Your Online 

Connections Offline for Career, 

Professional and Corporate Success” 

to the Michigan State 

Housing Development Authority 

(MSHDA), the Capital 

Healthcare and Employment 

Council and the Southeast 

Michigan Inforum in August. 

The feedback has been very positive 

for these initiatives. 

A new marketing campaign will 

be launched to increase student 

awareness about MSUAA. A 

variety of media tools will be 

used to inform students about 

our programs/benefits. Tim 

Bograkos, our young alumni 

coordinator, is working with a 

number of regional clubs on the 

first annual Spartans Give Back 

service week. This initiative will 

engage Spartans around the country 

while providing a community 

service effort. 

To better serve our international 

alumni, Claire Brender, 

the new international alumni 

director, conducted a survey of all 

international alumni with known 

emails. She received 325 responses 

(over a 10% response rate) with 

275 alumni noting a desire to 

connect or reconnect with the 

university. 

As always, if you have questions 

or I can be of assistance, please 

feel free to contact me at shcash@ 

msu.edu or call 517-432-1978. 

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Zeyad and 

Reem Al-Suhaibani 

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 

Brian Andress and 

Linda Aulicino 

Novi, MI 

Heather and 

Justin Arnold 

Brea, CA 

Douglas and 

Shirin Becker 

Holland, MI 

Jason and 

Kathryn Beckrow 

Stevensville, MI 

Jeffrey Bobick 

Utica, MI 

Colette Buckberry 

East Lansing, MI 

Edward Burch 

Big Rapids, MI 

Susan and 

Rick Butkovich 

Franklin, MI 

Christopher Charlebois 

Saginaw, MI 

The MSU Alumni Association 

would like to welcome our newest 

Life Members. We thank you and 

commend you for your willingness 

to share our commitment to this 

university through membership in 

the MSU Alumni Association. 

Audrey Chegwidden 


Joseph Daley 

Clinton Twp, MI 

Kimberly David 

Haslett, MI 

Stephanie Dawes 

Cincinnati, OH 

William Devers 

Hoboken, NJ 

Verne and Amy Dumaw 

Deckerville, MI 

Kenneth and 

Jennifer Dunn 


Carole Eberly 

Elberta, MI 

Miles Evenson 

Charleston, WV 

Robert Fabian 

West Hollywood, CA 

James and 

Margaret Flannery 

Bay City, MI 

Allan Freeman 

Okemos, MI 

Mathew and 

Lindsay Fukuzawa 

Columbus, GA 

Scott Goodwin 

Bloomfield Hills, MI 

Emily Grainger 

Battle Creek, MI 

Steven Haggblade and 

Helen Gunther 

Poolesville, MD 

Jennifer Hall 

South Haven, MI 

Helen and Scott Hanton 

Allentown, PA 

Christine Hazen 

Saginaw, MI 

Claudio Juarez 

Levittown, NY 

Lee and Pamela Kahler 

Bad Axe, MI 

Kimberley and 

Bryan Karrick 

Edmonds, WA 

Katherine Kelly 

Eaton Rapids, MI 

David and Alison Lange 

Pine Brook, NJ 

Michael Lankfer 

New Era, MI 

Kimberly Lauffer 

Mount Pleasant, MI 

Bertil and 

Mary Lofstrom 

Vero Beach, FL 

Mary Louder 

Traverse City, MI 

David Marsh 

Ballwin, MO 

Barbara and 

Dwight McKenna 

Ann Arbor, MI 

David and 

Mary McPhail 


Carly Mizerski 

Saint Clair Shores, MI 

Bruce Moore 

Essexville, MI 

Daniel and 

Jessica Murphy 

Lansing, MI 

Allison 

Neuenschwander 

Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 

Reneé Nowak 

Avon Lake, OH 

Jessica Ogden 

Grosse Pointe, MI 

Mario and Kristy Orsini 

Muskegon, MI 

Troy Parmalee 

Williamston, MI 

Michael and Jill Popov 

Cupertino, CA 

Jonathan Re 

College Station, TX 

Annette Rummel 

Frankenmuth, MI 

Dale Smith 

Amherst, OH 

Jeffrey and Mary Smith 

Rochester, MI 

Leslie Smith 


Tracy and 

Barbara Sonneborn 


Jeffrey Stieve 

DeWitt, MI 

Roger Stygles 

Toledo, OH 

Robert Thull 

Belvedere Tiburon, CA 

Barbara Trunsky 

Birmingham, MI 

Elizabeth and 

Jonathan Vaughn 

Collierville, TN 

Abby Whiteford and 

Brett Holmes 

Clarkston, MI 

Dennis and Marcia 

Whitehead 

Jackson, MI 

Elizabeth Young 


Richard Younger, Jr. 

Vista, CA 


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SPARTAN PROFILES 

Matt (front) and brother Keegan often trek 

along the dune cliff on Pyramid Point just 

north of Glen Arbor in the Sleeping Bear 

Dunes National Lakeshore Park, searching 

for optimal conditions to kiteboard. 

BRONEAH BROTHERS: 

ESTABLISHING KITEBOARDING 

Kiteboarding is said to be the 

fastest growing water sport in 

America. In the Midwest, the 

“Broneah Brothers” are considered 

among the sport’s top 

professionals. Matt Myers, ’03, 

and Keegan Myers, ’03, founded 

the Broneah kiteboarding school 

in 2001. In 2006, they opened 

M-22, a retail store selling 

T-shirts, hoodies, accessories 

and even coffee and wine for the 

kiteboarding lifestyle. Both stores 

are on Front Street in downtown 

Traverse City. Matt, the older 

brother, was a professional motocross 

racer for a year before attending 

MSU. “Motocross is very 

demanding on our bodies, and I 

stopped because of injuries,” says 

Matt. In the summer of 2000, 

he was on an MSU study abroad 

program in the South Pacific 

when he learned about kiteboarding 

in Oahu. Two years later, 

he and Keegan went on a study 

abroad program in Europe, then 

stayed on for an entire summer 

to learn the sport. “We camped 

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on the beach and kiteboarded 

all day,” says Matt of his summer 

in Spain and Italy. When they 

returned to the U.S., friends all 

wanted to learn how to kiteboard. 

They founded the Broneah 

school—named for “Brothers” 

and “Neahtawanta,” a spot near 

Bowers Harbor in the Old Mission 

Peninsula—to accommodate 

this demand. Both Myers serve as 

instructional editors for Kiteboarding 

magazine. “My father 

really helped us with an indoor 

advertising campaign,” says 

Matt. Their school attracts young 

extreme sports enthusiasts, as well 

as doctors, lawyers 

and professionals. In 

2006, both brothers 

appeared on the 

cover of Traverse 

Magazine. “We were 

wearing our M22 logo 

t-shirts,” says Matt. 

“We made the shirts as 

a fun hobby, but after 

the cover shot, it all 

changed.” The brothers 

established a full-fledged d 

retail store with an online 

component (m22online.com) 

to accommodate a surge in demand. 

Keegan has emerged as the 

accountant in the business, while 

Matt is more into development 

and advertising. “Kiteboarding 

is the coolest thing ever,” he says. 

“It’s a business where I can truly 

say I love everything I do.” 

DEBBIE DIESEN: POUTING 

FISH & BABY BRIGADES 

She lives in Grand Ledge and 

works for a small, nonprofit 

organization, but it’s what 

she does on the side 

that has received 

Ronald W. Diesen 

national attention. Last year, 

Debbie Diesen, ’89, made the 

New York Times Book Review’s 

best seller list for children’s 

books with The Pout-Pout Fish 

(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008), a 

rhyming picture book that was 

also named by Time magazine 

as one of 2008 top ten children’s 

books. “That was a thrill,” 

Diesen says. “It came out of the 

blue.” The book has also been 

chosen as the 2009 children’s 

book by Michigan Reads, a state 

program promoting childhood 

literacy. Debbie attributes her 

success partly to luck and mostly 

to persistence, having received 

99 rejection slips before getting 

The Pout-Pout Fish published. 

“The story is about a gloomy and 

pouty fish, who is transformed 

when another fish gives him a 

kiss,” she explains. “The story 

speaks to the power of attitude, 

friendship and love. Very young 

kids love it, as do their parents. 

But it also has a following among 

teenagers.” Debbie has found 

interesting references to her book 

via Google. Some teens tell their 

friends, “Don’t be a pout-pout 

fish.” A native of Midland, Debbie 

began writing poems—and 

dating them, like real writers—at 

Fall l2009 


azin

age 10. At MSU, she explored a 

number of interests but settled 

on social science. After graduation, 

she worked at a bookstore 

while taking some classes in 

accounting. “I loved being in the 

constant presence of books,” she 

explains in her biography. She 

returned to college to earn a 

Master of Library Science degree. 

It was when she began writing 

MARCO ALBONETTI: 

CLASSICAL SAXOPHONIST 

This past summer, saxophonists 

from around the world gathered 

at the 10th annual International 

Saxophone Festival in Faenza, 

Italy. The festival was founded 

by Italian saxophonist Marco 

Albonetti, D.M.A. ’05, a worldleading 

interpreter of the instrument. 

Since 2005, Albonetti 

has performed around the world 

at such iconic places as Carnegie 

Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, 

Gewandhaus Leipzig, Palau de la 

Musica Catalana Barcelona, Piccolo 

Teatro Milano, and Teatro 

Quirino in Rome. Since 2005, 

he has been the saxophonist for 

Italian diva Milva. Marco came to 

MSU in 1996, when he won the 

Catherine Herrick Cobb Scholarship 

to earn his doctoral degree. 

“MSU was the ideal place for me,” 

recalls Albonetti. “I studied classical 

saxophone performance 

under James Forger and Joseph 

stories for her two children that 

her passion for writing for children, 

in rhyme, was awakened. 

“Writing in rhyme is especially 

appealing to me,” she explains. 

“It brings out my silly side. It’s 

hard, but it’s a fun challenge.” 

Debbie’s new book, The Barefooted, 

Bad-Tempered Baby Brigade 

(Tricycle Press), will come out in 

early 2010. 

Lulloff, and jazz saxophone performance 

with Andrew Speight 

and Branford Marsalis. They are 

top performers and they were 

incredible influences.” Marco 

did not like winters in Michigan, 

but, he says, “at night, after my 

practice sessions, I enjoyed great 

walks across campus while it was 

snowing.” 

Marco takes pride that he is the 

first Italian classical saxophonist 

to earn a DMA in the U.S. and 

also to perform at Carnegie Hall. 

“That was a perfect way to realize 

my American Dream,” he says 

of his March performance of the 

tango music of Astor Piazolla. 

“The hall was full, the audience 

was very warm and I received a 

long standing ovation.” Marco also 

takes pride in the success of his 

Faenza saxophone festival. “It has 

now become one of Europe’s most 

important events dedicated to this 

instrument,” he notes. “The program 

aims to prepare the students 

for a career in public concerts. The 

festival organizes a concert tour 

of various cities throughout the 

region of Romagna, where I live.” 

Besides performing, Marco also 

enjoys teaching. He has taught at 

the Xian Conservatory of Music 

and Nan Chang University in 

China, and the Sibelius Academy 

in Helsinki. Marco now wants to 

take a little break so he can search 

for new projects, practice and 

record a new album. “And I will 

do this with a lot of great cooking 

and Italian wine,” he adds. 

PAT STEFANEK: 

ANGLER’S PARADISE 

One of the most exclusive clubs 

in the country is North Park 

Fishing Club, CO, which has 10 

ranches, four lakes, lots of freestone 

streams and 45 miles of rivers— 

including 12 miles of the North 

Platte—within 80,000 acres of 

hayfields and river bottoms. It’s 

a very secluded area where elk 

and mule deer roam. The nearest 

town is Walden, the state’s moose 

viewing capital. In charge of this 

private domain is co-founder Pat 

Stefanek, ’90, who uses technology 

to optimize the space for the 

club’s 75 members. “Our biggest 

Stefanek holds a wild 

brown trout from the 

Michigan River, one 

of many that crisscross 

the North Park Fishing 

Club. In the background 

is the Rawhaw 

mountain range, which 

runs through the east 

side of the property. 

selling point is the solitude,” says 

Stefanek, a native of Bloomfield 

Hills. “When you find a spot for 

fishing, you are guaranteed a mile 

of privacy—45 miles if no one else 

is there. We’re very desolate, the 

last frontier in Colorado.” Pat had 

no idea this would be his career 

work. He majored in fisheries and 

wildlife at MSU. “I had no idea 

then I’d be in this line of work,” he 

says. “This is a great business with 

great people. This is definitely who 

I am.” Pat and his partner Richard 

Petrini lease the land and manage 

it. Pat also runs a side business, the 

Marabou Ranch, a shared-ranch 

community. After MSU, Pat 

worked in the U.S. Forest Service 

in Flagstaff, AZ, then became 

a professional fishing guide in 

Alaska. He and his partner, a hunting 

expert, began to develop North 

Park in 2000, just 60 miles from 

Steamboat Springs. “The diversity 

of these waters will appease any 

type of angler,” says Pat. “We have 

a variety of cabins throughout 

the property, some new, but some 

with tons of lore and tradition— 

old cowboy bunk houses and 

headquarter ranch houses. If their 

walls could talk, you’d hear some 

amazing tales.” 

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SAM HOGG: 

GIFTZIP YES, PLASTIC NO 

Forgive him if he did not heed 

the advice about “plastics” in 

1967’s hit movie The Graduate. 

Actually, Sam Hogg, MBA ’08, 

wants an alternative to plastic. He 

has come up with a business plan 

that won second place in a recent 

state competition—selling digital 

gift cards online. “A gift card is 

simply a digital code, and it’s extremely 

wasteful to print that on 

plastic,” says Hogg, who founded 

a gift card portal called GiftZip. 

com. “Every year 75 million 

pounds of plastic, some of it toxic 

and carcinogenic, make it into 

landfills.” He now rents space in 

East Lansing’s Technology Innovation 

Center, above the Barnes 

and Noble bookstore, where he 

and three employees are busily 

positioning the site. “I thought 

of the idea in a sustainable supply 

chain class at MSU,” says Hogg. 

“When you look at the carbon 

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footprint of plastic gift cards—the 

producing, distributing, packaging, 

and the going to and from 

the store—it’s ridiculous. The 

whole process can be transferred 

digitally.” Sam compares GiftZip 

to an aggregator of retailers who 

offer instant cards, much like an 

aggregator of airline fares. “There 

is no cost to using this,” he notes. 

After its debut in November 

2008, GiftZip netted more than 

10,000 visitors over the holiday 

season. “This is with zero advertising 

budget,” he notes. “The click 

through rate was 30 to 40 percent, 

which is impressive.” Since then, 

Sam says, hundreds of retailers 

have signed up. “We’re committed 

to MSU and East Lansing,” he 

says. “Our biggest contractors are 

Spartan-owned businesses. We’re 

happy to be here.” A native of 

Cadillac, Sam wanted to become 

a digital entrepreneur when he 

was 15 and saw other teenagers 

launch internet businesses. “I’ve 

always been fascinated by Internet 

space,” he says. “It’s one area 

where creativity shines.” 

MICHAEL WARDIAN: THE 

ULTRAMARATHON MAN 

He once ran 7 marathons 

in 9 weeks, winning 3. He set 

the Guinness world record for 

fastest marathon while pushing 

a jogging stroller (2:42:21), with 

his then 10-month-old son. In 

2007, two weeks after the U.S. 

Olympic Trials, he won back-toback 

ultramarathons—including 

the JFK 50-Mile, America’s 

largest ultramarathon. Michael 

Wardian, ’96, has emerged as a 

world-class long distance runner. 

A resident of Arlington, VA, 

Wardian races while working 

fulltime as an international shipbroker. 

“My goal is the make it to 

the 2012 Olympics,” says Mike, 

who was the top U.S. finisher in 

the 100K World Championships 

in Belgium in June. A native of 

Oakton, VA, Mike was recruited 

to MSU to play lacrosse. “I loved 

everything about MSU, except 

the weather,” he 

says with a chuckle. 

“I was in James 

Madison College 

and we had great 

teachers and 

students. MSU 

was an incredible 

environment. As 

an athlete, I had 

experiences not 

everyone had.” 

In his junior 

year, a friend’s 

mother showed 

him a photo 

of the Boston 

Marathon. 

“I decided I 

wanted to run 

in the race,” 

he recalls. 

“I started 

practicing 

and I’ve been 

getting better and better ever 

since. Now I’m aiming to get the 

American record.” Mike is on 

track to reach his goals. From 

2006 to 2008, he won three 

straight National Marathons 

in Washington, DC. In 2008 

he won both the national 50K 

and 100K championships, and 

earlier this year he won the U.S. 

50K championship in Madison, 

WI. In 2008 he won the 

prestigious White River 50-Mile 

Trail Championship in Crystal 

Mountain, WA. With Mt. 

Ranier in the backdrop, Mike 

was one minute ahead of the field 

when he reached Skookum flats, 

a 6.4-mile dirt road over which 

he opened up a six-minute lead. 

Mike then charged up the rocky 

trail over the final six miles to 

win by nearly seven minutes. His 

time of 6:52:50 was the third 

fastest in race history. 

Wardian is enroute to winning 

the 2007 JFK 50-Mile race, the 

nation’s foremost ultramarathon 

race. 

Courtesy of Mike Wardian 

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MARGARET MALLORY: 

MEDIEVAL ROMANCE 

She hails from Frankfort, but 

lives in the Pacific Northwest. For 

some 25 years she was a lawyer in 

state government, working to improve 

services for abused children 

and the elderly. A couple of years 

ago, when her two children went 

off to college, she abandoned her 

legal career to do something a lot 

more fun—write romance novels. 

“I’ve always loved romantic tales, 

heroic deeds, and happy endings 

(instead of) going to endless 

meetings,” explains Peggy L. 

Brown, ’76, who adopted the pen 

name “Margaret Malloy” for her 

medieval romance series, All the 

King’s Men. Her first novel, titled 

Knight Of Desire (Grand Central 

Publishing, 2009), came out last 

summer. Two more—Knight of 

Pleasure, and Knight of Passion— 

will follow within six months 

each (margaretmallory.com). 

All are available at bookstores 

and online, including Kindle and 

other electronic formats. “My 

publisher has arranged a tour of 

more than two dozen blogs,” says 

Brown. “So far the reviews have 

been very positive. The big one, 

Romantic Times, gave me four 

stars.” Peggy did get one negative 

review, where the writer called her 

hero “too stupid to live.” Peggy 


says she treasures her experience 

at MSU. “I loved MSU,” she says. 

“I loved the beautiful campus 

and just being in college. James 

Madison College fit me to a tee.” 

Peggy received her J.D. from the 

University of Michigan. “I’ve 

always loved history,” she notes. 

“Whenever we traveled, I loved 

visiting castles. My son also loved 

all the stories about knights and 

Camelot. He outgrew it, but I 

didn’t.” Peggy first considered 

switching careers in 2003 when 

she took an extended leave of 

absence from work, noting that 

“stories started coming into my 

mind during my walks.” She 

joined the Romance Writers of 

America. “It’s huge, with chapters 

everywhere,” she says. “What a 

supportive group.” She dreads 

that she will soon make the 

parodic web site called “Smart 

Bitches, Trashy Books.” 

JOHN MCCALLY: 

HOSPITAL RWANDA 

The 2004 hit film Hotel Rwanda 

tells the story of hotelier Paul 

Rusesabagina, who saved thousands 

of lives during the Rwandan 

Genocide of 1994. Today, one 

key emerging figure in the nation’s 

recovery has been John McCally, 

McCally poses with two orphans 

by a mud-brick house he and 

fellow Rotarians from Minnesota 

built about 20 miles from 

Kigali. There are a million orphans 

in Rwanda, their parents 

likely killed during the genocide 

or by disease. 

John Kremer 

’59, director general of King 

Faisal Hospital, the country’s only 

specialty teaching hospital. “It’s a 

wonderful way to help contribute 

to a country which is trying very 

hard to overcome the poverty and 

medical issues which followed the 

genocide in 1994,” says McCally. 

“More than a million people were 

killed and many women were 

purposely raped to give them 

AIDS.” John says he hopes to save 

thousands of lives by stemming 

diseases such as AIDS, malaria, 

tuberculosis (TB), and cervical 

cancer. A native of Niles, John 

chose MSU over the University 

of Michigan. He joined Alpha 

Tau Omega fraternity and was 

selected to the Blue Key National 

Honor Society, which, he 

muses, “I’m sure was a surprise to 

my parents.” After graduation, 

he spent a career in healthcare 

administration, rising to become 

president and CEO of the Detroit 

Medical Schools Healthcare Centers. 

A few years ago, he became 

interested in Rwanda through 

the University Rotary Club in 

Minneapolis. Since then he has 

raised funds and helped build an 

orphanage, school and clinic in a 

town about 20 miles from Kigali, 

the capital. “Our orphanage physically 

got started this Spring with 

groundbreaking for three of our 

planned 15 buildings on 22 acres,” 

he notes. “There are one million 

orphans in this country.” In 

January, he helped organize the 

International Clinical Research 

Center of Rwanda, and currently 

is helping develop Rwanda’s strategic 

plan on healthcare—much 

of which revolves around King 

Faisal Hospital. “This is not how I 

envisioned I would end my healthcare 

career,” says John. “But if I 

might pass on one thought from 

the last 50 years, it’s to take every 

opportunity to help others—the 

rewards are wonderful even if they 

are not riches.” 

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242 Spartan Way

Construction Management at MSU 

would like to say a big 

“Thank You” 

To Sponsors, Donors and Participants for making 

this year’s Alumni Golf Outing a success! 

We appreciate your support and participation! 

Gold Sponsors: McCarthy Building Companies 

Turner Construction Company and Turner Logistics 

Bronze Sponsor: 

Brochure Sponsor: 

Buffet Lunch Sponsors: 

Granger Construction Company 

Beachum & Roeser Development Corporation 

John E. Green Company 

Michigan CAT 

Michigan State Federal Credit Union 

Osprey Construction + Development 

Longest Drive Sponsors: Adamo Demolition Company 

Rockford Construction Company 

Flag Sponsors: 

Tee Sponsors: 

Other sponsors/ 

donors/participants: 

Cron Management, LLC 

Hensel Phelps Construction 

Oakland Management 

The Altman Companies 

Clark Construction Company 

Grant & Amy Mendeljian 

W.K. Krill & Associates, Inc. 

Merlyn Contractors, Inc. 

Robert Aydukovic, Beggars Banquet, Barton Malow Company, Clark Hill, 

PLC, Commercial Contracting Corporation, F.H. Martin Contractors, 

Harrison Roadhouse, Ideal Contracting, Kares Construction, LaForce, 

Inc., Midwest Pro Painting, Inc., Michigan State University, Nellis & 

Associates, Nuthouse Sports Grill, Old Chicago, R&L Painting, LLC, 

David Robertson, Consulting, Sam Eyde Management, Scaccia Building 

Company, Simone Construction Company, State Custom Builders, 

The Christman Company, The Gillespie Company, The LaSalle Company, 

The Walbridge Group, Usztan LLC, Edward Weber 

This event is coordinated by the MSU Construction Management Alumni 

and Industry Advisory Association. 

Ad design donated by CiesaDesign

In recognition of MSU’s 

environmental stewardship 

efforts and initiatives, the 2009 

MSU Homecoming Theme 

is “We’ve Always Been Green”. 

Please join us for a “Green” 

Homecoming Weekend. 

MSU Homecoming Parade 

 

The parade will feature the Spartan Marching Band, the MSU 

Cheerleaders and Dance Team, MSU Student Organizations, Lansing 

Lugnuts “Big Lug”, Ronald McDonald, Horse Drawn Carriages, Gill the 

recycled fish, electric vehicles, the Weinermobile, Michigan high school 

bands and much more. 

A new parade route has been established this year. The parade will 

begin at the corner of Abbot and Burcham, travel south on Abbot, east 

on Grand River Avenue through East Lansing, south at Collingwood 

entrance, south on Farm Lane and will conclude at the corner of Farm 

and Shaw Lanes. 

For more details on this event visit 

our website at www.msualum.com/homecoming. 

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Other Great Homecoming Activities: 

MSUAA Grand Awards Ceremony 

MSUAA Green & White Brunch 

MSU vs. Northwestern Football Game 

College Tailgate Events 

Great Student Events, And More! 

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tailgate baskets, handcrafted in the USA, with green 

and white accents and logoed accessories. Show your 

Spartan Pride on game day and every day! 

To order visit 

www.longaberger.com/michiganstate 

Michigan State and the Contemporary Spartan Helmet are officially 

licensed trademarks and the property of Michigan State University.

MSU STRIVES TO LEAD IN S 

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USTAINABILITY PRACTICES 

By Mark Fellows 

With the opening of a new 

recycling facility, MSU’s “Be 

Spartan Green” initiative 

kicks into high gear. 

More than a world leader in sustainable food 

and fuel research, Michigan State University is 

going to great lengths to model green practices 

on campus. 

With 579 buildings on 5,200 acres frequented 

by 58,000 students, faculty and staff, MSU 

leaves a huge environmental footprint. It consumes 

1.3 billion gallons of water a year, landfills 

43,000 cubic yards of waste and operates a fleet 

of 2,000 vehicles. It emits some 600,000 tons 

of greenhouse gas annually, engineers estimate, 

the vast majority of which comes in the form of 

carbon dioxide released by its predominantly 

coal-fired steam and electricity generating plant. 

But its conservation goals are big, too. Under 

its “Be Spartan Green” university campaign 

(bespartangreen.msu.edu), MSU is committed 

to cutting energy consumption and greenhouse 

gas emissions by 15 percent and landfill waste 30 

percent by 2015. 

A new campus Green Certification program 

is expected to be rolled out during the national 

Campus Sustainability Week in mid-October, 

allowing operating units down to the residence 

hall room level to achieve certification by adopting 

best environmental practices. The university 

is a leader already in accountability, generating 

separate reports for each of its 779 campus 

buildings to track their energy use and waste 

recycling. 

The university has won several accolades for 

its commitment, including recognition from the 

National Wildlife Federation and the Association 

for the Advancement of Sustainability in 

Higher Education. It’s also won support from 

corporations to help advance their own sustainability 

efforts. The Coca-Cola Co. in January 

awarded a $400,000 grant to MSU’s College 

of Agriculture and Natural Resources to help 

establish a new Center for Packaging Innovation 

and Sustainability. 

Much of the on-campus stimulus for best 

practices comes from an environmental stewardship 

initiative revolving around the “Five 

Rs”—reduce; reuse/recycle; research/re-educate; 

redesign; and rethink. It has enlisted environmental 

stewards—faculty, staff and students 

representing each department and building—to 

raise awareness, serve as resource hubs for local 

action and as conduits for information up and 

down the chain to the Spartan Green Team that 

coordinates the program. 

The initiative so far has developed 50 recommendations 

to conserve resources. Twenty-six 

of them, including recycling and alternative fuel 


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Harley Seeley/University Relations 

Students show 

their support 

for the “Be 

Spartan Green” 

campaign, 

which aims to 

cut energy use 

and greenhouse 

gas emissions 

15 percent and 

landfill waste 30 

percent by 2015. 

Erik Jones 

MSU’s landmark T.B. Simon Power Plant 

now burns about 10 percent alternative 

fuels as part of the campuswide “Be Spartan 

Green” effort. 

use, have been implemented or 

are in process, officials reported. 

The others are to be undertaken 

within the next year—among 

them boosting niche recycling 

and taking Energy Star efficiency 

ratings into account in purchasing 

decisions. 

Strengthening stewardship is 

a strategic imperative of MSU 

President Lou Anna K. Simon’s 

Boldness By Design initiative, 

which specifies a systems design 

approach to manage the complexity 

of the campus and lays out 

environmental focus areas in 

systems management; energy 

reduction; materials strategies; 

purchasing recommendations; 

behavior and cultural change; 

and communication. 

“The best part of the environmental 

stewardship initiative is 

that we can use MSU as a living, 

learning laboratory for our faculty, 

staff and students,” says Fred 

Poston, vice president for Finance 

and Operations. “Few universities 

are able to get the kind of 

collaboration that we’ve seen 

through environmental stewardship. 

The students involved in 

this project will take what they’ve 

learned at MSU and apply it to 

their careers and lives when they 

leave MSU.” 

Low-hanging fruit has already 

been harvested. Some 170,000 

square feet of building were 

added on campus last year, which 

normally would have added 

0.7 percent to overall electric 

consumption. Yet conservation 

initiatives—now including e-mail 

reminders to shut down computers 

on long holiday weekends— 

resulted in net electric demand 

growth of only 0.25 percent, 

officials reported. 

With financial belt-tightening 

a growing reality, energy savings 

are a double-bottom-line target, 

with projects underway ranging 

from burning alternative 

fuels at the T.B. Simon Power 

Plant to consolidating evening 

classes in fewer buildings. A 

pilot program last academic year 

involved rescheduling evening 

classes and events in seven buildings 

to nearby, more highly used 

facilities. Activities at Baker, 

Agriculture, Giltner and Olds 

halls and the Natural Resources, 

Old Horticulture and Urban 

Planning buildings were often 

Efforts to control paper and plastic 

usage have resulted in a net effect of 

reducing landfill waste by 10 percent, 


relocated, allowing physical plant 

staff to close them down earlier 

and dial down the thermostats. 

Energy savings from that 

program ranged up to 20 percent, 

thanks to coordination between 

Physical Plant personnel, the 

Registrar’s office, Academic 

Technology Services, and Facilities 

Planning and Space Management. 

The effort totaled some 211 

fewer electrical megawatt-hours 

consumed, 137 tons less carbon 

dioxide emitted into the atmosphere 

and a savings of $16,904. 

The experience is prompting 

MSU to expand the program to 

other campus buildings this year. 

What can be measured can be 

managed, so teams of retrofitting 

specialists will visit more campus 

buildings this year to establish energy 

use baselines and recommend 

ways to dial down their energy 

consumption. Well-ventilated 

chemistry laboratory areas, for example, 

will be scrutinized for ways 

to shut down air flow when not in 

use, and the food science building 

will sport an indoor air quality 

sensor connected to its computerized 

thermostat to further eke out 

savings by ventilating only when 

necessary. 

The combination of academic 

faculty and operations staff examining 

conservation measures has 

produced a powerful combination, 

applying rigorous research 

methods to practical means of 

promoting sustainability. A 2008 

study of water use in restrooms in 

the Main Library by Agricultural, 

Food and Resource Economics 

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Lynda Boomer 

Appropriately 

painted, MSU’s 

new baler will 

compact recyclable 

materials so they 

are more efficient 

to transport to 

market and nearly 

double the revenue 

per ton than loose 

material (paper or 

plastic). 

Courtesy of MSU Physical Plant 

A rendering of MSU’s new recycling center, 

located west of Farm Lane just north of Mount 

Hope and across from the Baker Wood Lot. 

Professor Scott Swinton and graduate 

research assistant Alexandra 

Peralta found that MSU could 

score dramatic savings in water 

use just by renovating pre-1992 

restrooms—those receiving 16 or 

more uses daily—to meet current 

building codes. That alone could 

cut water use by 56 percent, the 

researchers reported, with more 

savings possible by using ultra-low 

flow fixtures. 

At the same time, their report 

cautioned against an investment 

in relatively high-maintenance, 

touch-free hygienic technology 

until additional health or other 

benefits can be documented. 

“Our systems team makes 

our approach to environmental 

stewardship unique,” Poston 

explains. “Some universities 

choose to focus on one area, such 

as recycling or energy reduction, 

but we are using a systems science 

approach to map out inputs to 

campus, processes on campus and 

outputs. Then our systems team 

makes data-driven recommendations 

that result in incremental 

change for lasting impact. We 

may not move as fast, but it is 

more important that we sustain 

our progress over time.” 

Since April 2008 campus 

sources have cut purchase of 

white office paper by 20 percent, 

and increased cardboard collection 

by 35.6 percent and #1 

and #2 plastic collections by 22 

percent. The net effect is a 10 percent 

reduction in landfill waste, 


A new phase of the university’s 

recycling program calls for collection 

of boxboard, toner cartridges, 

household metals and more 

plastics and niche recycling. 

Recycling kicks into a higher 

gear this season with the opening 

of a $13.3 million recycling facility, 

located west of Farm Lane in 

the university’s service district. 

It will triple campus recycling 

The opening of a $13.3 million 

recycling facility . . . will triple campus 

recycling capacity, double the capture rate 

of five key materials by 2010, and pay for 

itself in 12 years. 

capacity. Together with a new 

comprehensive recycling program, 

it will allow recycling collection in 

all buildings, doubling the capture 

rate of five key materials by 2010. 

The recycling center is expected to 

pay for itself in 12 years. 

Until now, MSU shipped collected 

recyclables in loose boxes 

that have to be processed off site. 

The new facility will enable materials 

to be sorted and shipped 

in bulk, promising a higher price 

paid by downstream processing 

facilities. “I think it will be great 

to have the recycling center and 

surplus store as a demonstration 

of what MSU is striving for,” says 

Lauren Olson, a project coordinator 

with the Office of Campus 

Sustainability. 

Built to LEED (Leadership in 

Energy and Environmental Design) 

standards with a projected 

energy savings of 25 percent, the 

facility will include a number 

of energy- and resource-saving 

features, Physical Plant Energy 

and Environmental Engineer 

Lynda Boomer says. It will sport 

a 30-kilowatt solar array on the 

roof to reduce use of outside 

electricity, recapture heat from 

bathroom vent exhaust, collect 

rainwater for use in facility toilets 

and use room motion sensors to 

turn lights off and on. 

The recycling center, which 

shares space with the MSU 

Surplus Store for additional 

synergies, also incorporates a new 

formulation of concrete developed 

by Roz-Ud-Din Nassar, 

doctoral student in Civil and 

Environmental Engineering, in 

the lab of Engineering Professor 

Parviz Soroushian. Adding 

ground glass to the mix, Boomer 

says, produces a durable grade of 

concrete that readily uses even 

hard-to-recycle green glass. 

The facility is part of the integrated 

environmental stewardship 

initiative President Simon 


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Senior Jessica Clark 

uses the teleconference 

facilities at the 

James B. Henry 

Center for Executive 

Development. MSU is 

encouraging employees 

to teleconference 

whenever possible as an 

alternative to travel. 

For more information 

about the center, visit 

msuhenrycenter.org. 

Katelyn Patterson 

outlined in her 2007 Boldness by 

Design initiative. “We are committed 

to significantly reducing 

MSU’s footprint by developing 

new techniques for managing 

this complex ecosystem of agriculture, 

research, office and living 

environments that constitute 

our campus community,” she 

said when the Board of Trustees 

green-lighted the recycling center 

in January 2008. 

A more specific commitment 

was made in 2007 as part 

of MSU’s participation in the 

Chicago Climate Exchange, or 

CCX. MSU is an early member 

of the CCX, with a handful of 

representatives now sitting on its 

policy panels. 

Members of the CCX, of 

which there are still only a few 

universities, pledge to reduce 

direct carbon emissions by conserving 

energy or providing opportunities 

to offset emissions by 

supporting no-till farming, tree 

farming or otherwise generating 

carbon “credits.” MSU promised 

to meet a six percent greenhouse 

gas reduction by 2010, but 

because that goal starts from a 

year 2000 baseline, the actual 

reduction necessary will be closer 

to 15 percent from today’s level, 

Boomer notes. 

The university initially had to 

purchase credits for 5,000 tons 

of carbon, turning to fellow Big 

10 CCX member, University 

of Iowa. That helped achieve 

MSU’s full committed reduction 

of 25,000 tons for 2007, 

before conservation programs 

could be implemented. Since 

then, MSU has purchased credits 

on the CCX from a thirdparty 

aggregator of credits from 

Michigan farms, Boomer says. 

Those farms generate credits by 

maintaining acreage in no-till 

status, which keeps carbon 

sequestered in the soil. 

“We felt it was really important 

to keep the money in Michigan 

and help the Michigan farmers, 

and that’s a way to do it,” Boomer 

says. “All this is really preparing 

us for (anticipated regulatory) 

legislation.” 

The T.B. Simon Power Plant 

accounts for about 500,000 tons 

of the 600,000 tons of carbon 

“Environmental stewardship makes 

sense . . . We have world-class faculty, 

staff and students who can not only help 

the university but provide economic and 

environmental solutions for communities 

in Michigan and around the world.” 

dioxide emitted by the university, 

utility services director Robert 

Ellerhorst says. The plant in 

recent months managed to cut 

its emissions while saving money 

by substituting natural gas for 

coal as fuel for boilers, when their 

relative prices made it financially 

worthwhile. Natural gas generates 

half the amount of carbon dioxide 

as coal per heat unit, he notes. 

Now the department is lining 

up approvals to burn wood and 

switchgrass waste as part of a goal 

to replace at least 10 percent of 

the 25,000 tons of coal burned in 

the plant annually with alternative 

fuels. But the fossil fuel will 

remain the staple combustion 

source for the foreseeable future, 

Ellerhorst says. 

“We think that, economically, 

coal is still the fuel for us and we 

believe we can continue to burn 

it in compliance with all the 

regulations,” he says. His department 

has been charged with developing 

an energy source master 

plan, envisioning operations in 

the year 2020. 

Changing people’s behavior 

on campus could prove to be 

the greatest source of conservation, 

sustainability advocates 

say. Ellerhorst’s division, for 

example, is required to shut down 

computers if they’ll be idle for 

more than an hour. A “lights out” 

noon hour on campus last spring 

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This 4,000-square-foot 

hoophouse at MSU’s 

10-acre Student Organic 

Farm opened a year ago 

to serve Yakeley Hall 

with organic produce. 

demonstrated a noticeable effect 

on campus electricity demand, 

Ellerhorst notes. 

“We definitely saw that at 

the power plant, and some of 

(the electrical demand) came 

back after lunch and some of 

it didn’t,” he says. “That Friday 

load was definitely different 

from a weekday load, so there’s 

potential there.” 

Other efforts to improve 

sustainable practices on campus 

abound. A 4,000-square-foot 

hoophouse at MSU’s 10-acre 

Student Organic Farm opened 

a year ago to serve Yakeley Hall 

with organic produce. Student 

Financial Services areas removed 

about half the light bulbs from 

first floor offices. Information 

technologists are adopting server 

virtualization software, cutting 

electronic’s energy demand. 

Environmental Health and 

Safety organized car pools; 

replaced vehicles with biodiesel 

models, and a golf cart for 

campus trips; and encouraged 

employees to teleconference 

instead of travel when possible. 

Housing and Food Services 

reported a 10 percent cut in 

energy use in residence halls 

since January 2008 by installing 

energy-efficient lights and 

plumbing fixtures, tightening 

meeting room booking practices 

and modifying its heating/ 

ventilation/air conditioning 

policy in accordance with university 

policy. 

“Environmental stewardship 

makes sense for MSU,” Vice 

President Poston says. “As we 

work through tough economic 

times in Michigan, it benefits us 

to manage our resources as efficiently 

as possible. We have the 

advantage of having world-class 

faculty, staff and students that 

can do research right here on 

campus and produce recommendations 

that not only help the 

university, but provide economic 

and environmental solutions for 

communities in Michigan and 

around the world.” 

Mark Fellows is a communications 

manager in the Division 

of University Relations, covering 

science, environmental and 

economic development topics. 

He has a background in business 

journalism. 

A GREEN THEME FOR HOMECOMING 2009 

The MSU Alumni Association has adopted the theme, 

“We’ve Always Been Green,” for Homecoming 2009 to 

coincide with the university’s “Be Spartan Green” environmental 

stewardship initiatives. Homecoming activities 

take place October 12-17 and will include the MSU 

Homecoming Parade, Grand Awards Ceremony, the 

Green & White Brunch, student and college events, and 

the annual Homecoming football game. 

For more information and to register for events, visit 

www.msualum.com. 


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GREEN INITIATIVES 

A C R O S S T H E C A M P U S 

MSU’s efforts toward sustainability have been 

made in energy use, construction practices, student 

programs, HVAC (heating, ventilating and 

air conditioning) scheduling, engineering design, 

and metering and commissioning. Environmental 

stewards participate in every building. As 

Lynda Boomer, energy and environmental engineer 

at MSU’s Physical Plant, notes, also important 

is a change of culture on campus to “Be Spartan 

Green.” 

“Just one piece of the total program—the classroom 

consolidation team—has helped MSU 

avoid costs of more than $300,000 for the past 

year,” says Boomer. 

The following thumbnail sketches, compiled by 

MSU’s Physical Plant Division, are illustrative. 

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Ashley Hale 

Katelyn Patterson 

The Student Organic Farm 

gives students hands-on 

knowledge about growing 

crops while also supplying a 

residence hall with organic 

produce. 

THE STUDENT ORGANIC FARM 

Ten years ago, MSU students 

envisioned a place to practice 

and learn sustainable farming. 

In 1999, the Student Organic 

Farm was launched. With the 

combined efforts of Horticulture 

Professor John Biernbaum and 

colleagues, SOF has established 

a four-season program 

using unheated greenhouses— 

“hoophouses”—and cold storage 

of produce. Funded initially by a 

grant, the project now generates 

more than $100,000 in produce 

sales, which helps sustain this 

unique living classroom and 

laboratory. 

To market their produce, students 

use a community supported 

agriculture program (CSA) where 

members buy a share in the farm 

and receive fresh organic produce 

every week. SOF students also 

run a farm stand on Auditorium 

Road every Thursday during the 

growing gseason. 

The farm 

provides an 

educational program 

and paid 

positions that 

allow students 

to get hands-on 

experience with 

organic farming, 

including the 

management of a 10-acre farm. 

Students can also work directly 

with the free-range laying hens 

and beekeeping demonstration 

projects. The chickens provide the 

farm with pest and weed control, 

soil fertility and fresh eggs. Bees 

offer both honey and pollination 

of the farm’s crops. 

Last year the students built 

another hoophouse to provide 

fresh salad greens for Yakeley 

Hall. For more information, visit 

msuorganicfarm.com. 

—Ashley Hale 

THE RISE PROGRAM 

Laurie Thorp is re-thinking education. Leader of the Residential 

Initiative for the Study of the Environment or RISE program, Thorp 

has established a cohort of environmentally savvy college students. 

The RISE program combines both an academic specialization in 

environmental studies and a residential initiative to establish a multidimensional 

experience for first-year students. Incoming students live 

together in Hubbard Hall, have reserved sections in certain classes and 

participate in a freshman seminar designed to introduce them to MSU 

and environmental issues. 

“Sustainability is about recognizing relationships,” Thorp says. 

“RISE students learn how to engage and balance a complex set of 

values: economic, environmental and social.” 

Participating students have majors ranging from journalism and 

business to environmental economics and anthropology. In the 

seminar, which combines hands-on learning with field trips, students 

are required to participate in community outreach or a student organization. 

They spend time at MSU’s Student Organic Farm, explore 

the ecosystem of the Red Cedar River and participate in a weekend 

getaway to the Kellogg Biological Station. 

In recent years RISE students have attended the Powershift Conference 

in Washington, DC, to learn about global climate change, energy 

legislation and lobbying. RISE students also engage in research alongside 

faculty members to help MSU reduce its carbon footprint. 

— Ashley Hale 

GREEN TAKES CENTER STAGE 

“Green” has taken center stage in the expansion of the Wharton Center for Performing 

Arts. The design and construction team has incorporated numerous sustainable aspects, 

including diverting from the landfill a whopping 78 percent of the debris created from demolition 

and general construction waste. 

As total space increases to 180,000 square feet, the Wharton Center will be able to host 

larger productions and better serve its patrons. The 27,000-square-foot addition allows for 

dressing rooms, larger storage spaces, and many enhanced facilities. The interior renovation 

affects another 10,000 square feet of space. Construction involved many sustainable 

features, including the use of low-flow toilets, recycled counter tops, occupancy sensors to 

control lighting, bamboo flooring, and low volatile-organic-compound (VOC) carpeting 

and paint products. The Physical Plant also saved most of the Scotch pine trees near the 

line of construction. 

Take a virtual tour at www.youtube.com/PhysicalPlantMSU. 

—Amber Rozzisi 

Robert Bao 

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Photos courtesy of Campus Planning & Administration 

Some of the new trees planted on campus were 

alumni donations, such as the Rhodes Commemorative 

Tree near the Hannah Administration 

Building. Alumni and friends can help campus 

beautification by making a gift to MSU’s Commemorative 

Tree Program. 

GROWING GREEN 

Preserving trees and planting new ones is a core principle of MSU 

Landscape Services. 

The department averages around 200 to 300 new trees a year, but in 

the spring of 2008, because of the construction activity, it set a record 

for the most plantings in one season with more than 1,300 new trees— 

a significant addition to MSU’s campus arboretum. 

The Landscape Services crew typically plants more trees and 

shrubbery than are removed each year. “We like to maintain a diverse 

collection of trees on campus,” says Campus Arborist Paul Swartz. “We 

work with the landscape architects on campus to select new trees and 

transplant existing trees to new locations if necessary.” 

Protecting trees is also an important task, especially during new 

construction. “We often put up fencing around existing trees when 

construction is occurring to protect the roots from soil compaction,” 

says John Jonckheere of MSU Landscape Services. 

The next time you visit campus, please heed signs saying “Save our 

Trees, No Parking Please.” 


3-D MODELING 

Students in the Engineering 

and Architectural Services at 

MSU’s Physical Plant are enlisting 

3-D modeling to aid sustainability 

efforts. 

With computer software such 

as Autodesk Revit Architecture, 

the students create structural 

views of new buildings and build 

models that calculate a building’s 

energy efficiency. Kayla 

Comstock and Katlyn Arnold, 

for example, developed a 3-D 

model for Conrad Hall to make 

the HVAC (Heating, Ventilating 

and Air Conditioning) systems 

more energy-efficient. 

“When you design a model you 

are essentially playing a ‘what-if’ 

game with energy efficiency in 

buildings,” explains Supervisor 

Scott Friend. “Instead of physically 

changing the building or 

piece of equipment you can do it 

in the computer model to see the 

outcome.” 

Arnold says the 3-D models 

simplify things. “You can 

take virtual tours through the 

building, checking for energy efficiency 

in the design,” she notes. 

Young Lee, professor of Planning, 

Design and Construction, 

had one class model three MSU 

buildings with eco-friendly 

design options. “I hope this 

class project can provide ideas 

for green-building options to 

reduce building operation costs 

and also to make the campus 

healthier and eco-friendlier,” 

she says. 

—Katherine Noren 

REAL-TIME METERING 

A useful component of 

MSU’s sustainability effort is 

the ability to show electrical 

energy consumption of campus 

buildings online, in real time 

(meters.msu.edu). 

Run by the power plant, the 

real-time metering system started 

in 2007 when Forestry Professor 

David Skole launched a study on 

energy consumption in campus 

buildings. Electrical Engineer 

Rick Johnson at the T.B. Simon 

Power Plant, helped put six 

buildings online, starting with 

the Chemistry Building. According 

to Johnson, 21 buildings are 

online, with 30 more to be added 

by year’s end. 

Metering has proven to be useful 

to environmental stewards, 

who serve as liaisons between 

every campus department and 

the “Be Spartan Green” team. 

They receive monthly reports for 

their buildings. Boomer notes 

that within a year, 60 percent of 

participating buildings reduced 

electrical consumption. 

Environmental stewards are 

figuring out different ways to 

Dave Giordan 

save electricity. In the Hannah 

Administration Building, for 

example, custodians clean one 

floor at a time—so that only one 

floor is lit at a time, rather than 

multiple floors. 

MSU has found that turning 

off all the lights in a building for 

one hour each day reduces the 

energy use by three percent—an 

experiment made possible by 

metering. 

“We’re on the leading edge,” 

says Johnson. 

—John Frawley 

Forestry Professor David Skole helped 

launch the real-time metering system 

that has helped decrease electricity 

consumption in 60 percent of metered 

campus buildings. 


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John Frawley 

MSU now has 

30 Ford Fusions, 

energy-saving cars 

that yield 41 miles 

per gallon in city 

driving, among the 

53 hybrid vehicles 

in its fleet. 

FLEET ADDS HYBRIDS 

MSU now owns 53 hybrid vehicles in its fleet, reflecting yet another 

way to “Be Spartan Green.” 

In April, MSU received 16 Ford Fusion Hybrids—“the first true 

hybrid made by a domestic automaker in a sedan,” according to Brian 

Watts, manager of transportation services. They received another 14 

Ford Fusions shortly afterwards, putting MSU among the Big Ten’s 

leaders in hybrid use. The new hybrids get 41 miles per gallon in the city 

and 36 on the highway. 

“Everybody’s trying to green up their fleet,” says Watts. “[Hybrids are] 

in such high demand, we’re fortunate to get 30.” 

Transportation Services leases and rents its vehicles to MSU departments 

and faculty members. Classified as a mid-size sedan, the 

Ford Fusions are more spacious than the department’s other, more 

compact hybrids. 


COMMISSIONING SERVICES 

Reducing energy consumption 

by optimizing building 

performance are goals of the 

Commissioning Services department, 

formed to help ensure that 

campus buildings are used in the 

most efficient way possible. 

Retro-commissioning assesses 

building energy use and system 

performance of a facility. Such 

tweaks as controller/sensor calibrations, 

equipment-scheduling 

modifications, and system testing/adjusting/balancing 

(TAB) 

are applied to fine-tune the 

HVAC (Heating, Ventilating 

and Air Conditioning) systems 

within a building. 

Ultimately these “quick fixes” 

and energy saving opportunities 

will lower the overall consumption 

of energy in each campus 

building undergoing the process. 

The retro-commissioning process 

involves building systems 

such as HVAC, hot water heating 

and lighting. 

“We measure building performance 

at all levels—device, system, 

total building—and make 

minor adjustments as needed,” 

says Jason Vallance, commissioning 

engineer. “Through 

these slight changes and optimizations, 

energy consumption is 

lowered. Acquiring benchmark 

data prior to any adjustments allows 

us to determine our effect 

on the performance of a given 

facility.” 

In addition to evaluating existing 

buildings, new construction 

projects will also follow commissioning 

steps. Facility commissioning 

is a prerequisite in 

registering a project with the U.S. 

Green Building Council, which 

implements the LEED (Leadership 

in Energy and Environmental 

Design) program. 


GREENER CLEANING 

All facets of MSU operations 

are becoming greener, including 

cleaning practices by Custodial 

Services, which now uses 

non-chemical floor cleaners and 

electricity-saving techniques. 

Last fall, the unit acquired a 

new floor-cleaning machine— 

nicknamed the T5 for short— 

that converts tap water into a 

chemical-free cleaning solution. 

“It’s a radically new technology 

for us,” says Brandon Baswell, 

manager of Custodial Services. 

Photos by Katelyn Patterson 

The machine was first tested at 

MSU’s Computer Center, and 

was given a “thumbs up” before 

more units were purchased. 

Baswell said it is very effective on 

floors such as those at the Duffy 

Daugherty Football Building. 

“This won’t leave any streaking,” 

he notes. 

Baswell says the T5 will also 

save an estimated $500 a year. 

“We were using a green chemical,” 

says Baswell, “but using 

no chemical is greener than 

anything else.” 

In addition, new procedures, 

such as cleaning one floor at a 

time, have helped reduce electricity 

consumption in buildings. 

—Katherine Noren 

Some cleaning 

agents now used by 

MSU contain no 

chemicals, and are 

money savers in the 

long run. 

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Courtesy of MSU Physical Plant 

GREEN GLASS IN CONCRETE 

One of the more eye-opening 

features of MSU’s new Surplus 

Store and Recycling Center—a 

central piece of the university’s 

“Be Spartan Green” environmental 

stewardship initiative—is the 

use of non-recyclable green glass 

in concrete. 

The new 70,000-square-foot facility 

incorporates many “green” 

features, but none has raised 

eyebrows quite like the pioneering 

use of green glass. 

Roz-Ud-Din Nassar, doctoral 

student in Civil and Environmental 

Engineering, formulated 

and provided the research behind 

the green-glass cement project. 

“We needed another material to 

phase out the coal fly-ash material 

and bring another product 

such as glass into the picture,” 

says Nassar. “We are reducing the 

waste that is placed into landfills, 

reducing carbon dioxide emissions 

and taking advantage of the 

waste value/added utilization of 

the byproduct.” 

Cement is one of the most 

expensive products to create 

because of the amount of energy 

required. MSU replaced about 

20 percent of the cement normally 

used in the concrete with 

green glass, reducing the cost 

and diminishing energy usage. 

Pre-existing cement machinery 

can still be used in the production 

process. 

“By using non-recyclable green 

glass, we are both reducing costs 

and keeping this material out of 

the landfills,” notes University 

Engineer Bob Nestle. 

—Kailey Poort 

MSU TAKES THE LEED 

MSU efforts to “Be Spartan 

Green” include building design 

in line with the Leadership in Energy 

and Environmental Design 

(LEED) system. 

LEED-certification was 

created by the U.S. Green 

Building Council to promote 

environment-friendly design, 

construction practices and 

building usage. MSU voluntarily 

participates in the rating 

system to be green while saving 

money, says University Engineer 

Bob Nestle. 

In the certification process, 

points are awarded to structures 

for green practices in design and 

construction. Four levels of certification 

can be attained: certified, 

silver, gold and platinum. 

“The decision for a building to 

become LEED-certified starts in 

the design process, even before 

Ellenzweig Architecture 

construction is a thought,” 

Nestle notes. 

MSU’s Chemistry Building 

addition is the first on campus to 

be LEED-certified—earning a 

silver. MSU construction standards 

require that all buildings 

be LEED-certifiable. Currently, 

seven MSU buildings are in the 

registration process—including 

the Surplus Store and Recycling 

Center, and the Secchia Center 

in Grand Rapids. 

The new Secchia Center in 

Grand Rapids, seen here in a 

night rendering, is one of seven 

current construction projects 

that are LEED-certifiable. 

Within the Physical Plant, 17 

employees have completed training 

to be LEED-accredited professionals 

and can now steward 

the LEED-certification process. 

“We’re trying to create a 

culture,” says Lynda Boomer, 

MSU energy and environmental 

engineer. “It does us no good to 

implement these approaches to 

reduce energy if the campus is not 

living the lifestyle.” 

—Kailey Poort 

KEEP THE BIKES ROLLING 

For those looking to save money and help the environment, MSU 

Bikes, on the Red Cedar river trail just south of Bessey Hall, offers bike 

rentals and repairs. 

Tim Potter, marketing and sales coordinator, says his unit rents bikes 

to students, faculty, departments and visitors. “Some people rent them 

for one semester; they’ll bring it back … and then we’ll fix it up again 

and rent it to someone else,” he says. Some 40 campus units have rented 

bikes for errands. 

MSU Bikes, says Potter, encourages “people to ride bikes more often 

for getting around campus and helps them get bikes that are operational.” 

There’s no soft-pedaling the unit’s success. Many other colleges, he 

adds, are seeking his advice on how to start a bike program. 

For more information, visit www.bikes.msu.edu. 


Potter (left) and his team are 

poised to serve cyclists, whose 

mode of transportation MSU 

wants to encourage. 



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MSU RESEARCH 

AND SUSTAINABILITY 

EFFORTS 

IMPACT 

THE 

ENTIRE 

STATE 

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By Andy McGlashen, ’04, MA ’09 

Spartans are about being green, but the ways in which MSU 

researchers, professors and students support sustainability 

make our state even greener. 

Ah, 

autumn in Michigan. 

Cotton-ball clouds 

are racing across the blue sky on 

a chilly wind, and soon the real 

cold will come. What do you 

say we take a trip around our 

beautiful state, before the days get 

short and the sweatshirt weather 

ends? Let’s plan an adventure 

that’s both Spartan-themed and 

sustainable. 

First we’ll need to fill up with 

some environmentally friendly 

fuel, and Michigan State has us 

covered. 

The U.S. Dept. of Energy in 

2007 awarded MSU and the 

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

$125 million over five years 

for the Great Lakes Bioenergy 

Research Center. Researchers 

at the GLBRC are looking for 

the most energy-packed plants 

that grow well in Michigan, and 

working out kinks in the process 

of turning their cellulose—the 

inedible stuff that keeps them 

upright—into fuel. That means 

making cellulosic ethanol, or 

“grassoline” (see cover story, 

Winter 2008), affordable enough 

for road trippers like us. 

“If biofuels are going to cost 

more, they’re not sustainable 

economically,” says Kurt Thelen, a 

project leader for the GLBRC and 

a professor of Crop and Soil Science. 

“So I think it’s our charge to 

try to bring those costs down.” 

Our state is an ideal place to 

make that happen, says Thelen, 

because we can do it without 

sacrificing the food-growing 

potential of land that could help 

feed the world’s poor. 

“All the good land is going to 

stay in food crops,” he said. “But 

in Michigan we’ve got lots of areas 

of what we call marginal land, 

so they’ll be very good candidates 

for biofuels.” 

In the northern reaches of 

the state, for instance, there is 

abundant land that once was 

farmed but wasn’t rich enough 

to provide much food. Farmers 

could use that acreage to grow 

switchgrass, poplars or other 

fast-growing plants, Thelen said. 

“If you can create a market for a 

crop that does well on marginal 

soil, you can build an economy 

around that.” 

Growing those crops up north 

and elsewhere—even on abandoned 

industrial sites, where the 

plants can clean up contamination 

before being converted to 

fuel—comes with other benefits, 

says Steve Pueppke, director of 

MSU’s Michigan Agricultural 

Experiment Station (MAES). 

“If we can bring a couple of 

million acres back into production, 

one immediately thinks, 

‘That’s going to take a lot of 

people,’” he says. “Clearly that 

would create jobs.” 

New employment wouldn’t be 

limited to the farmers growing 

feedstocks, Pueppke added; 

factory workers, for example, 

would stamp parts for new kinds 

of harvesting equipment, while 

workers of all sorts would run the 

new fuel distilleries. 

And don’t worry—Spartan 

scientists haven’t forgotten about 

the furred, feathered and scaley 

Michiganians. They’re also 

researching ways to manage biofuel 

plantations so they’re good 

places for upland birds and other 

creatures to live. “That’s kind 

of the basis of sustainability,” 

Pueppke says. 

Pueppke also directs MSU’s 

Office of Biobased Technologies, 

where scientists are staking out 

wide territory for the state as a 

leader in the bioeconomy—that 

Bruce Dale, associate 

director of the Office of 

Biobased Technologies, 

has patented a process 

that makes grassoline 

production cheaper. 

is, a future in which the fuels, 

chemicals and other materials 

we use every day come from 

renewable living matter, rather 

than from polluting and finite 

fossil fuels. 

Bruce Dale, the office’s associate 

director, has patented a 

process that makes grassoline 

production cheaper, among other 

achievements, while other researchers 

there have developed a 

strain of corn that turns into fuel 

Kurt Stepnitz/University Relations 


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Kurt Thelen, a project leader for the Great 

Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and a 

professor of crop and soil science, believes 

Michigan is an ideal state where cellulosic 

ethanol can be produced without sacrificing 

the land’s food-growing potential. 

more simply and cheaply than 

other varieties. 

Using starch from corn and 

soybeans, other researchers have 

made nontoxic toys as well as 

packaging materials that degrade 

easily, instead of taking up 

landfill space. They’re developing 

inexpensive cells for collecting 

the sun’s power, and building 

engines that make the most out 

of plant-based fuels, among other 

projects. 

Say, all this talk about corn 

and soybeans reminds me: We’d 

better talk about what we’ll eat 

on our trip. If you ask me, it’s not 

a vacation unless you sample the 

local fare. Lucky for us, MSU 

is home to thinkers who are all 

about helping the environment 

by connecting people with locally 

grown food. 

The C.S. Mott Group for 

Sustainable Food Systems aims 

to link farmers and consumers, to 

the benefit of both. Their work 

focuses on supporting small and 

medium-sized farms—the backbone 

of many rural economies in 

Michigan—says Mike Hamm, 

C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable 

Agriculture and head of the 

group. 

As a growing industry and 

the state’s second biggest economic 

driver, food production 

is crucial for building a sustainable 

economy here, experts say. 

“Locally integrated food systems s 

are part of the toolkit of economic 

development for the state,” 

Hamm says. Eating locally grown 

foods preserves the environment 

by reducing fossil fuels used for 

transport, and fills the pockets of 

Michigan farmers with money 

that might otherwise escape the 

state’s economy. 

One project, for instance, 

provided inexpensive hoop-style 

greenhouses to 12 Michigan 

farmers to extend their growing 

seasons and give them 

more produce to sell at farmers 

markets. Hamm and colleagues 

also work to get more Michigangrown 

foods into the 140 million 

meals served annually in the 

state’s school cafeterias, and to 

Kurt Stepnitz/University Relations 

teach students about the work 

that brought the food to their 

trays. “Schools are both a market 

opportunity and an educational 

opportunity,” he says. 

What could go better with veggies 

from a farmers market than 

Mike Jones holds up 

a Chinook salmon in 

2002 at a recreational 

salmon fishery near 

Grand Haven. 

some fresh-caught Great Lakes 

fish? Let’s get off the road for 

part of our trip and hire a charter 

boat. And we can thank MSU if 

we have any luck out on the big 

water. 

“In the last, say, 30 years, Great 

Lakes fisheries have gone in a 

different direction from virtually 

all other fisheries in the world,” 

says Michael Jones, chair of the 

MSU Dept. of Fisheries and 

Wildlife. “You could argue that 

the Great Lakes are a poster child 

for fisheries management. We’re 

trying to sustain a healthy fishery, 

as opposed to restoring it.” 

Such successful management 

depends, in part, on research like 

that done at the Quantitative 

Fisheries Center, which MSU 

started in 2005 at the request of 

the Dept. of Natural Resources 

and the Great Lakes Fishery 

Commission. 

Prized for their thrilling fight 

and tasty flesh, Pacific salmon 

were introduced into the lakes 

in the 1960s and reeled droves 

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Travel Michigan 

Mackinac Island was 

named by a panel of 

environmentalists as 

the top sustainable 

island destination in 

North America, and 

fi ft h in the world. 

of anglers to coastal hotels, diners 

and marinas, reviving local 

economies. “They have beautiful, 

big marinas that weren’t there 30 

years ago, and that’s because of 

the salmon fishery,” Jones says. 

If fishery managers stock too 

few salmon in the lakes, there 

won’t be enough survivors to 

support a fishery. If they plant 

too many, the competition for 

food can leave the fish susceptible 

to disease, causing mass die-offs 

like one that devastated the lakes 

in the late 1980s. “There’s a lot 

of concern that we’re teetering 

on the edge of that again in Lake 

Michigan,” Jones says. 

That’s why he and colleagues 

use computer models—which 

they constantly refine as their 

understanding of the lakes 

improves—to determine how 

many salmon should be planted 

into the lakes each year. 

According to Jones, no other institution 

does modeling work like 

that of the center, where a master’s 

program in quantitative fisheries 

science is in the works to help fill 

a gap in government expertise. 

Management agencies have used 

MSU’s findings to justify cuts in 

the number of salmon stocked, set 

catch limits on other species and 

better manage the invasive sea lamprey, 

all with the goal of sustaining 

ecosystems that can continue to 

fuel Michigan’s economy. 

Well, I don’t know about 

you, but after a dinner of locally 

grown vegetables and Great 

Lakes salmon, capped off with 

Michigan wine, I’ll be ready for 

a good night’s sleep. But I don’t 

want to eat up lots of natural 

resources while I’m getting my 

beauty rest, so let’s stay at an ecofriendly 

hotel. 

That’ll be a bit easier, thanks 

to Sarah Nicholls, an associate 

professor in the Depts. of Community, 

Agriculture, Recreation 

and Resource Studies (CARRS) 

and of Geography. An expert 

in sustainable tourism, Nicholls 

was part of a panel that named 

Mackinac Island the top sustainable 

island destination in North 

America, and fifth in the world. 

She’s now at work on a project 

that will measure just how green 

Michigan’s accommodations 

sector is. She’ll also survey 

travelers from here and neighboring 

states to learn about their 

attitudes and behaviors when it 

comes to green lodging. 

“What I hope to do is get a 

sense of the kinds of green initiatives 

that have already been, or 

that can relatively easily and economically 

be implemented in the 

hotel sector,” Nicholls says. “In 

addition, I want to understand 

what kinds of initiatives Michigan 

travelers are looking for, and, 

perhaps more importantly, are 

willing to pay for.” 

Sustainable lodging is more 

than just asking guests if they 

want their linens washed every 

night, she added. “There are 

other things that hotels can do 

to reduce their energy consumption 

and minimize waste, and in 

some cases consumers are willing 

to pay more to stay at hotels 

that implement these kinds of 

changes.” 

Nicholls says she’ll share her 

findings with hotel operators to 

suggest ways they can bring in 

more guests while minimizing 

their environmental footprint. 

You know, it’s nice to tread 

more lightly by eating local food 

and using green lodging, but to 

build a sustainable economy in 

Michigan, you’ve got to have 

a solid base of customers who 

understand the hidden costs of 

inexpensive products, and the 

benefits of supporting environmentally 

friendly businesses. 

“You can have farmers markets 

and community gardens, but if 

people don’t go to them, they’re 

going to go away,” says Geoffrey 

Habron, an associate professor 

in the Depts. of Sociology and of 

Fisheries and Wildlife. 

To keep those kinds of ventures 

around, Habron teaches courses 

that give students hands-on experience 

in sustainability. “Education 

about sustainability should 

be about helping students recognize 

how they can do something 

to change the world,” he said. 

An integrative social science 

course in sustainability brings 

together undergraduates from 

diverse backgrounds who may 

never have given the environment 

much thought. They work 

in teams to launch their own 

sustainable ventures, evaluate 

the green credentials of real 

businesses or teach others what 

sustainability is all about. Habron’s 

other course is the pilot for 

a specialization in sustainability 

that he hopes to launch soon. 

Habron said he thinks the 

courses not only build MSU students’ 

critical understanding of 

sustainability, but also add value 

to their diplomas as they enter a 

fierce job market. 

“There are a lot of kids out 

there with a 3.5 GPA in engineer- 


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ing,” he notes. “They need to do 

something to get an edge. And if 

they have evidence that they understand 

sustainability that they 

can show somebody, and not just 

talk about it, that’s a big help.” 

Graduate students, too, are 

engaging in issues of sustainability. 

In a course taught by 

Robby Richardson, an assistant 

professor in CARRS, students 

calculated the sustainability of 

the state and of three counties 

surrounding MSU using a metric 

called the genuine progress 

indicator (GPI). Richardson 

says GPI offers a more holistic 

accounting of socioeconomic 

wellbeing than does the gross 

domestic product (GDP) 

because it considers the cost 

of pollution, crime and other 

social ills. 

“Pretty much universally, 

we use GDP as an indicator 

of socioeconomic welfare,” he 

says. “And the GDP has lots of 

problems.” 

Richardson said his future 

students will calculate the GPI for 

other parts of Michigan, and that 

their results can help paint a clearer 

picture of the state’s economic and 

social well-being, and help it move 

Ramani Narayan, University 

Distinguished Professor 

of Chemical Engineering and 

Materials Science, has patented 

technologies that produce 

bioplastics like soy oil-based 

lubricants, polyurethane 

plastics, biodegradable plastic 

eating utensils, trash bags, foam 

sheets to protect products during 

shipping, and toys like Magic 

Nuudles—non-toxic, cornstarch-based 

building blocks. 

toward a sustainable future. 

And as Habron sees it, that future 

will be defined by Spartans 

who are committed to a Michigan 

that’s at once prosperous and 

ecologically robust. “Because 

we’re such a big school, we have 

the capacity to do a great deal,” 

he says. “So if we only address 20 

percent of the student population, 

that’s still a lot.” 

Andy McGlashen, ’04, MA ’09, 

is news writer for MSU’s Environmental 

Science and Policy 

Program and a freelance journalist. 

He holds two MSU degrees, a 

master’s degree in environmental 

journalism and a bachelor’s 

degree in English. 


MSU’S SUSTAINABLE MICHIGAN 

ENDOWED PROJECT (SMEP) 

MSU’s “green” research and education 

is buoyed by the Sustainable Michigan 

Endowed Project. Founded in 2002 with an 

endowment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 

SMEP is directed by distinguished 

faculty in fields related to sustainability. 

Solutions to Michigan’s environmental 

challenges require bringing together people 

from all sectors—academia, business, government, 

and nonprofit. SMEP supports this 

kind of “engaged scholarship” through annual 

gatherings of diverse experts to discuss emerging 

issues, like the bioeconomy. SMEP also 

funds critical projects and research, including 

an invasive species information clearinghouse 

and habitat restoration for lake sturgeon, 

Kirtland’s warbler and other sensitive species. 

The project supports a graduate seminar on 

sustainability. 

“We’re a place where people and ideas come 

together, and then collaboration and projects 

spin off,” says Mary Schulz, associate program 

coordinator. “SMEP is exciting because it 

enables people to do interesting work.” 

For more information, view a short video 

at www.smep.msu.edu. 

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By participating in Consumers 

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you help preserve natural resources 

by adding environmentally friendly 

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MSU Alumni 

Go Green 

Go Green Generation 

Sign Up Today! 

Even better, green generation helps 

our economy by creating jobs right 

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Visit us at 

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or call (800) 241-3368 

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SPORTS 

Lucas 

Morgan 

WHAT PRESSURE? 

MSU PICKED NO. 1 

By Robert Bao 

Izzo relishes the “pressure” of 

high preseason rankings, but he 

cautions that competition in the 

Big Ten will be “the strongest in 

the last 10 to 12 years.” 

Shortly after MSU capped its 

inspiring run to the Final Four 

in Ford Field, Sports Illustrated 

put a target on the Spartans 

by picking MSU as the No. 1 

pre-season team for 2009-2010. 

So did several other basketball 

writers and bloggers. Dick Vitale, 

ESPN’s Pat Forde and Andy Katz, 

and Rivals.com all have MSU in 

the pre-season Top Five. But Tom 

Izzo, beginning his 14th season 

as MSU head coach, says he treats 

the high rankings as a privilege. 

“Pressure?” asks Tom Izzo. “No 

more than usual. Heck, some 

people think the Final Four is 

part of MSU’s regular schedule.” 

It sure looks that way, with five 

Final Four appearances in the 

past decade. Although it’s hard to 

top last season’s perfect storm—a 

Final Four run to a venue only 

90 miles away, at a time Michiganians 

and Detroiters were in need 

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of a success story—MSU has the 

horses to make another run. 

“We’ll be good and we’ll have 

depth one through four (point 

guard through power forward),” 

says Izzo. “It’s our five-man (center) 

that’s a question mark.” 

Izzo says none of the three contenders 

to replace Goran Suton 

have much experience. Sophomore 

seven-footer Tom Herzog 

has “worked his butt off” but has 

been unable to gain the weight 

necessary to hold his own in the 

Big Ten, while true freshmen 

Garrett Sherman and Derrick Nix 

have zero experience. Nix, 2008 

“Mr. Basketball” in Michigan, has 

progressed, however, in physical 

fitness. 

But Izzo praises his players, in 

particular star point guard Kalin 

Lucas, last year’s Big Ten Player of 

the Year, for embracing them. “I 

think they realize that the future 

of our team depends on the progress 

these guys make,” he explains. 

Izzo believes everyone on the 

team might be improved. He 

predicts that juniors Durrell 

Summers and Chris Allen le will 

emerge in a big way. He notes 

that sophomore Delvon Roe will 

be far healthier, while Draymond 

“Da Da” Green will be even fitter. 

He believes “maybe the greatest 

improvement will come from the 

two best players, Raymar Morgan 

and Kalin Lucas, based on their 

spring and summer performances.” 

A lingering illness sidetracked 

“Believe me, there’s no hangover from being 

fat and sassy after the Final Four.” 

Izzo 

Morgan last season, he notes. He 

calls Lucas “very driven.” 

On the downside, says Izzo, 

MSU lost four things of value— 

“our leader (Travis Walton), our 

best big man (Suton), and two 

valuable subs (Idong Ibok and 

Marquise Gray).” 

“Also, our schedule is tough, 

as usual,” he says. “We’re playing 

North Carolina and Texas away, 

could play Florida, and we have 

Gonzaga at home. The other 

problem is that the Big Ten is the 

strongest in 10 to 12 years. We 

could have eight teams ranked in 

the Top 25. Purdue has everyone 

back; Michigan has all but 

one back; Ohio State gets back 

everyone plus David Lighty, who 

is back from injury; Minnesota, 

Wisconsin, Northwestern and 

Penn State—just about everyone 

is back. 

“If our big guys come through, 

we could conceivably have a better 

team than last year but win fewer 

games,” says Izzo. 

With the loss of defensive 

specialist Walton, MSU will 

probably play a more offensive 

style, says Izzo. “We’ll run more,” 

he notes. 

Tom still relished last season’s 

extraordinary run to Ford Field, 

because of how it engaged fans 

across Michigan and the nation. 

“All in all, it was incredible,” he 

says. “The Final Four is a bit like 

the Rose Bowl, it piques interest 

and it unites people. We united 

the Spartan nation and also 


our nation, because we became 

America’s team a little bit. People 

in Michigan who might have sat 

on the fence gave us support. All 

of Detroit got caught up in the 

excitement. There was an appreciation. 

It was very cool.” 

But don’t think Tom and his 

assistants—Mark Montgomery, 

Dwayne Stephens and Mike 

Garland—are content. They 

spent the summer recruiting 

hard to bring in the next batch of 

Spartans. 

“I’m feeling good,” he says. “I’m 

really enjoying the huge strides 

being made by my players, especially 

the best players. Believe me, 

there’s no hangover from being fat 

and sassy after the Final Four.” 

Both Suzy Merchant (top left) 

and Kalisha Keane (left) enjoyed 

positive performances at the 

World University Games in 

Serbia. A healthy Point Guard 

Brittney Thomas (right) returns 

to action in 2009-10. 

Thomas 

Keane 

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 

BOASTS SENIOR LEADERSHIP 

In her first two seasons at MSU, 

Suzy Merchant enjoyed success 

despite having to contend with 

youth and inexperience. 

This year, for the first time, she 

boasts a team with nine upperclass 

players, including five seniors— 

actually, three seniors and two 

graduate students (Aisha Jefferson 

and Lauren Aitch received their 

degrees last spring). 

“This team is older, more mature 

and more experienced,” says 

Merchant, back in East Lansing 

after helping lead Team USA to 

the World University Games gold 


medal in Belgrade, Serbia. “They 

will play with more confidence 

and won’t rattle as easily. I’m 

excited. They’ve bought into what 

we want them to do on defense. 

With hard work and focus, we 

can contend for the championship 

and make another NCAA run.” 

Last season’s team made a run 

to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen, 

upsetting No. 1-seeded Duke in a 

historic, signature win at Breslin 

Center. Except for Mia Johnson, 

who has graduated, everyone 

from that Duke-beating team is 

back. In addition, junior Brittney 

Thomas, who suffered an injury in 

mid-season, will be back healthy. 

“Losing her (Thomas) was a 

major challenge, because losing 

your point guard is like losing 

your starting quarterback,” says 

Merchant. “But Brittney has had 

a great off-season with her rehab 

and she’ll be good to go.” 

Another key returner is junior 

Kalisha Keane, who starred 

for Team Canada at the World 

University Games. Keane led her 

team in scoring with 12 points 

per game, shooting a torrid 44.3 

percent, and made 89.5 percent of 

her free throws. She led Canada 

in steals (2), was second in assists 

(1.9) and fifth in rebounding (5.1). 

Other key returning players 

include Allyssa DeHaan, the 

6-9 center who could re-write all 

MSU records in shot-blocking; 

Jefferson, who is recovering from 

off-season knee surgery; and 

Aitch, who played magnificently 

in the upset of Duke. In addition, 

MSU returns some young players 

like Porsche Poole and Lykendra 

Johnson, who saw considerable 

playing time last year as freshmen. 

“We emphasize playing 

defense and getting offense off our 

defense,” says Merchant about the 

likely MSU style of play. 

Newcomers joining the team as 

true freshmen include Chicago 

center Kelsey Smith, Flint point 

guard Jasmine Thomas, and 

Okemos guard Tracy Nogel. 

Three highly-ranked players have 

given MSU verbal commitments 

for 2010. Shane Clipfell, Rick 

Albro and Tempie Brown return 

as assistants. 

“Our (Sweet Sixteen) loss to 

Iowa State left a bad taste,” says 

Merchant. “But there is a silver 

lining. It has inspired our kids to 

work very hard in the off-season.” 

“We have a veteran group, 

which is very nice,” predicts 

Merchant. “We should click early 

in the season.” 

2010 Recruits 

Klarissa Bell, East Lansing 

Madison Williams, Detroit 

Country Day 

Annalise Pickrel, Grand Rapids 

Catholic Central 

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Petry 

Comley 

MSU Athletics Communication 

FOR THE RECORD 

MSU rowers celebrated 

their second straight Big 

Ten Championship. 

Photos by MSU Athletic Communications 

TEN NEWCOMERS 

FOR ICE HOCKEY 

The MSU icers lost a huge 

presence with the graduation 

of netminder par excellence Jeff 

Lerg—who swept CCHA awards 

at season’s end. But Coach Rick 

Comley, starting his eighth season 

at MSU, looks forward to nine 

newcomers and a friendlier schedule 

featuring 20 home games. 

“In hockey you can take big 

steps quickly,” says Comley, 

referring to last season’s 10-23-5 

record. “I’m not ready to concede 

anything. I think we can be 

highly competitive for the league 

championship this season.” 

Last year’s dismal record was an 

anomaly for the Spartan program, 

caused by many factors including 

injuries, youth, inexperience, and 

early departures—including those 

by two players who made the 

NHL All-Rookie team (Justin 

Abdelkader and Tim Kennedy). 

A miracle turnaround would be 

phenomenal for the program, considering 

this year’s Frozen Four 

will be at Ford Field in Detroit 

(April 8-10). 

“We’re going to be very young,” 

says Comley of this year’s 20 

underclassmen. “The good news 

is that we were forced to play our 

freshmen last year, so this year’s 

sophomore class will have had 

tremendous experience.” 

Although Lerg leaves as one 

of MSU’s best all-time players, 

Comley believes that sophomore 

Drew Palmisano can get the job 

done. “Michigan State has had 

a history of having had great 

goaltenders,” he observes. “But 

after they leave someone else has 

always come through.” 

Helping MSU will be the 

returns of Nick Sucharski from 

shoulder injury and of Corey 

Tropp, two players who will 

solidify the team. Fans can 

look forward to the continued 

evolution of players like Jeff 

Petry and up-and-comers like 

Daultan Leveille and Dustin 

Gazely. MSU will also have 20 

home games, including contests 

against rivals Ohio State (2), 

Michigan (2), Notre Dame (2), 

Wisconsin and Minnesota. Says 

Comley, “I like our schedule and 

I like who we have coming into 

our building.” 

Newcomers include forwards 

Dean Chelios (Bloomfield), 

Chris Forfar (Darien, IL), 

Zach Golembiewski (St. Clair), 

Derek Grant (Abbotsford, BC), 

Anthony Hayes (Canton), and 

Kevin Walrod (Westside, BC); 

and defensemen Matt Grassi 

(Burnaby, BC), Zack Josepher 

(Wantagh, NY) and Torey Krug 

(Livonia). Sophomore forward 

Mike Merrifield (Beverly Hills) 

will return to MSU this fall from 

the USHL. Assistant coaches 

Brian Renfrew, Tom Newton and 

Rob Woodward return. 

Matt Mitchell 

MSU rowing star Sarah Schmidt 

was this year’s Big Ten Athlete of 

the Year. 

ROWING REPEATS AS BIG 

TEN CHAMPS—May 2: MSU 

claimed its second-straight Big 

Ten rowing title, and third in 

five seasons, at the 2009 Big Ten 

Championships held in Griggs 

Reservoir, Columbus, OH. The 

Spartans won both the varsity 

eight and second varsity eight 

races and became the second 

team in Big Ten history to win 

back-to-back team titles. “Clearly 

I am very proud of our team,” 

says head coach Matt Weise, who 

was named Big Ten Coach of the 

Year—his third in five years. Five 

Spartans were honored as All- 

Big Ten Team members. Three 

rowers—Sarah Schmidt and 

Lauren Gamble from the varsity 

eight boat, and Amanda Dunnill 

from the second varsity eight— 

made first team All-Big Ten. 

Both Ashley Peach and Nancy 

Diehl earned second team honors, 

while senior Ashley Wenneman 

became the first Spartan to receive 

the Big Ten Sportsmanship 

Award. Schmidt becomes the 

first Spartan to be honored as a 

first-team All-Central Region 

selection in back-to-back seasons 

since Krista Buzzell and Rachel 

Miller each did so in 2001 and 

2002. Schmidt was also this year’s 

Big Ten Athlete of the Year. 

WOMEN’S GOLF 13TH IN 

NCAA—The MSU women’s golf 

team finished in a tie for 13th at 

the 2009 NCAA Championship 

in May, shooting 73-over par 

1225 (307-303-315-300) at Caves 

Valley Golf Club in Owings 

Mills, MD. MSU’s finish is its 

second best all-time, topped 

only by the 2001 team that 

tied for 12th. “This national 

championship once again showed 

our five young student-athletes 

that we truly are one of the best 

programs in the nation,” says 

Head Coach Stacy Slobodnik- 

Stoll. “Next year they will be 

ready to challenge for a Big 

Ten title and a top-10 finish at 

Nationals.” MSU was second 

among Big Ten schools, trailing 

only 10th place Purdue by nine 

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shots. Freshman Lindsey Solberg 

led the Spartans for the week’s 

competition, one stroke ahead 

of junior Laura Kueny, who 

made honorable mention All 

American. Other key players 

were sophomores Michelle Bowles 

and Aimee Neff, and freshman 

Shannon Warner. 

NEW MCLANE STADIUM 

OPENS—May 2: A crowd of 

2,500—including a hundred 

or so former Spartan baseball 

players, including Hall of Famer 

Robin Roberts—were on hand 

as MSU officially dedicated its 

new Drayton McLane Baseball 

Stadium. The new structure 

around Kobs Field was made 

possible by a $4 million gift from 

Drayton and Elizabeth McLane. 

“This is a wonderful occasion and 

I’m very proud to be here today,” 

says McLane, MBA ’59, owner 

of the Houston Astros. “All of 

us are a product of our past and 

I am certainly a product of the 

education, maturing process and 

the high standards of Michigan 

State University.” MSU beat 

Penn State 9-1, and then came 

back on Sunday to win 6-5 to 

complete its second straight and 

third Big Ten series sweeps—a 

good start for new coach Jake 

Boss, Jr. At the ceremony, MSU 

also unveiled a historical marker 

identifying Old College Field as 

an official historic site. 

(L to r) Drayton McLane, 

Mark Hollis and Jake Boss Jr. 

The Spartan Hall of 

Fame Cafe 

A Destination Location 

for MSU Alums! 

Offering an ideal environment for every Spartan 

fan and an extensive menu including pasta, pizza, 

sandwiches, unique salads, prime rib, chicken, ribs 

and more! Enjoy great summer dining on our patio 

and a memorable Spartan experience - every time! 

Be sure and 

stop into the 

“Take 2 

Authentics” 

gift shop! 

Conveniently located at the corner of 

Lake Lansing Road and US-127 in East Lansing. 


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D A Y S 

Class of 1960 

We Want You! 

To come home for your 50-year reunion June 3 & 4, 2010 

A reunion brochure will be available March 2010. 

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For more information: 





East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1005 

(517) 884-1000 or (800) 232-4678 

univdev@msu.edu 

www. givingto.msu.edu 

“Thank you to the newest members of 

MSU’s giving societies listed here for your 

extraordinary support of Michigan State 

University. Your gifts further our land-grant 

mission to advance higher education built 

on cutting-edge research and engagement for 

the public good. Your recognition in MSU’s 

giving societies acknowledges and affirms 

your commitment to the unique, critical 

role that MSU plays in the world today. You 

are joining over 6,000 other donor society 

members who recognize that Michigan State 

University must lead Michigan, our nation, 

and the world in achieving a redefinition—a 

revitalization—of the covenant we continue 

to share with society.” 

TEAM MSU THANKS YOU. 

University Development • University Advancement • Michigan State University

Listing includes new society members from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 

The following individuals and organizations have made a significant 

financial commitment to Michigan State University, qualifying them 

for lifetime recognition in one of the university’s ten donor societies. 

WHARTON 

O C 

S I E T Y 

$5,000,000 or 

$7,500,000 Planned Gift 

Williams Society 

$2,500,000 or 


Wharton Society 

$1,000,000 or 


Kedzie Society 

$500,000 or 


Shaw Society 

Joseph 

R. Williams, the first 

president of “The Agricultural 

ural 

College of the State t of Michigan,” 

displayed a dedication to the 

college’s success that began 

building the strong foundation 

for what is today Michigan State 

University. 

AT&T 

Rollin M. Gerstacker 

Foundation 

Bernadette and 

Timothy Marquez 

Denver, Colorado 

Clifton R. 

Wharton became 

MSU’s fourteenth president 

in 1970. His tenure was 

marked by successful efforts 

to maintain the quality of 

MSU’s academic programs, 

commitment to the education 

of the economically and 

educationally disadvantaged, 

and the integration of the 

School of Osteopathic Medicine 

with the other medical schools. 

The Wharton Center for the 

Performing Arts, dedicated in 

1982, was named in honor of 

Wharton and his wife Dolores, 

in recognition of their strong 

support for the project. 

John F. Schaefer 

Birmingham, Michigan 

Frank S. Kedzie, the eighth 

president of MSU, is considered a 

pioneer for private support to the 

university. The Kedzie Society 

is one of the university’s most 

prestigious donor recognition 

groups. 

James W. F. and 

Donna K. Brooks Family 

Holland, Michigan 

Peter C. Cook 

Grand Rapids, Michigan 

Robert and Mary Hopkins 

South Lyon, Michigan 

Kate Pew Wolters 


President Robert S. Shaw served 

as the eleventh president of 

MSU, introducing new courses 

including Hotel Administration, 

Public Administration, Geology, 

Geography and Physical 

Education for women. 

Howard and Viv Ballein 

Haslett, Michigan 

Louis (Bill) Boyer, D.V.M. 

Lucille Boyer 

Portage, Michigan 

Dr. and Mrs. James D. Hoeschele 

Plymouth, Michigan 

Spencer and Julianne Johnson 

Okemos, Michigan 

Barbara and Ben Maibach III 

Farmington, Michigan 

John W. and Bobbi L. Muije 

Las Vegas, Nevada 

www.givingto.msu.edu

$250,000 or 

$500,000 Planned Gift 

$100,000 or 


Larry L. Peery 

Scottsdale, Arizona 

Howard D. and Barbara S. Stowe 

Owosso, Michigan 

Warren and Anneliese Wood 

East Lansing, Michigan 

Abbot Society 

The Abbot Society was established 

to honor one of the first presidents 

of MSU, Theophilus Abbot, who 

led the university from 1862 to 

1885. Abbot promoted growth, 

secured critical government 

appropriations and furthered 

MSU’s prestige as the nation’s first 

agricultural college. 

Jack W. and Betty J. Barnes 


Allen C. and Julie A. Beal 

Arivaca, Arizona 

Willard C. and 

Geraldine A. Blackney 

Chelsea, Michigan 

Edwin L. 

Carpenter 

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Union City, Michigan 

igan 

John 

and 

Mary Clark 

Eagle, Michigan 

Thomas H. Cobb 

Bloomfield ld Hills, ls, Michigan 

ig 

Barbara ara L. Crumpton 

Byron Center, er 

Michigan 

igan 

Roy M. 

and 

Lorraine rain 

E. Dales 

Milton, Vermont 

R. Jeff and Jill M. Dean 


igan 

Dr. Carol Monson 

Mr. Frank Warden 


Mr. and Mrs. James Petcoff 


Richard D. and Karen A. Petrisko 

Plano, Texas 

Roger and Kim Pitzer 

Springport, Michigan 

Jack and Karen Sue Preiss 


David Spalding 

Wilmette, Illinois 

Sweda Family 

Rochester Hills, Michigan 

Stephen B. and Laurie A. Taylor 


Snyder Society 

Jonathan L. Snyder served in 

the role of MSU president from 

1896 to 1915, transforming the 

office of the president with an 

aggressive administrative style 

that focused on innovation on in 

higher education. 

Scott and Natalie Bernecker 


Gregory D. and 

Christine B. Brogan 


Jose Richard C. Bush 

Patty McGuigan 

Palo Alto, California 

Joseph and Suzanne Colucci 

Clarkston, Michigan 

Stanford and Cynthia Compton 

South Haven, Michigan 

Cynthia M. Conway 


Jay and Sue Cordes 

Williamston, Michigan 

Bill and Sue Ann Crowley 

Naples, Florida 

Mr. and Mrs. 

Bradley C. des Lauriers 

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 

Peg and Mort Finkelstein 

Spring 

Lake, Michigan 

Dr. C. Kurt Dewhurst 

Dr. Marsha MacDowell 


Dr. Judith E. Funston 

Norwood, New York 

Martin Gibbs 

Carole Sorenson 



$50,000 or 


M. 

Duane and 

Grace A. Green 

Elsie, Michigan 

Dr. Ronald and 

Carol Horowitz 

owit 

East Lansing, ng, Michigan 

igan 

William iam and Ellenor leno 

Johnson 

Scottsdale, tsda 

Arizona 

Mr. and Mrs. 

Thomas W. Johnston, on, Jr. 

Frankenmuth, nmut 

Michigan 

Donald R. and Pamela A. Kegley, ey, Jr. 

Bloomfield Hills, l Michigan 

Mike 

and Lanae Kettlewell tlewell 

DeWitt, Michigan 

Irene M. Kievat 

Estero, Florida 

Rick and Suzanne Lasch 


Mr. Roy Link 

Northville, Michigan 

Mike and Susan Maasberg 

Williamsburg, Michigan 

Darlene E. and James B. McCord 

Iowa City, Iowa 

Stan and Robin Mendenhall 

Ann Arbor, Michigan 

Mike and Midge Morrow 


Sarah Winans Newman 


Kevin and Susan Ohl 

Aurora, Illinois 

Robert and Nancy L. Pawelski 

Plymouth, Michigan 

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Piro 

Brighton, Michigan 

Morris C. Place, Jr. 

Mandeville, Louisiana 

Douglas and Julie Raedy 

Kalamazoo, Michigan 

Larry and Pat Reeves 

Midland, Michigan 

John J. Reichel 

Newport Coast, California 

Herb and Florence Reiley 

Bellaire, Michigan 

John and Cynthia Reinker 

Clifton Park, New York 

Gail and Barbara Riegle 


Armin “Doc” S. Roe 

Grand Ledge, Michigan 

Dr. and Mrs. Honda 

and Anne Shing 

San Mateo, California 

Dr. S. Paul Singh 


Jacqueline D. Taylor, Ph.D. 


Tom and Mary Jo Tuori 

Ada, Michigan 

Lawrence A. and 

Alma M. Turner 

Houston, Texas 

Ambassador Ronald and 

Mrs. Eileen Weiser 


Ms. Andrea L. Wulf 

Saint Clair Shores, Michigan 

Hannah Society 

The Hannah Society honors 

the memory of President John 

A. Hannah, who served the 

university for 46 years, 28 of 

them as MSU’s twelfth president. 

He is revered by many and 

guided the university through its 

period of greatest physical and 

philosophical growth. 

Cynthia Kay Afendoulis 


Fran Appolonia 

Jackson, Michigan 

Dr. and Mrs. Duane Berkompas 


Kelly P. Coffey 


igan 

Joseph J. Colucci 

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 

Rosario and Donna Criscuolo 


igan 

William A. and Jane R. Dittmore 

tmor 

Hernando, Florida 

Jim and Sandie Dole 


igan 

John and Becky Duffey 

Long Grove, Illinois 

is 

Jack and Cynthia Epps 

Santa Monica, California 

Doug and Bev Federau 

East Lansing, ng, Michigan 

ig 

Lorna D. Firchau 


Debra R. and David A. Gift 


Thomas and Susan Gorney 

Beverly Hills, Michigan 

Patrick and Dawn Gribben 


Ron and Patti Hartman 

Grand Blanc, Michigan 

Mr. William Haupricht 

Dr. Kerry Ann Rockquemore 

Chicago, Illinois 

Robert Hildorf 


Laurie Horiszny 

Chuck Stavoe 


Mr. Charles J. 

and Mona M. 

Kalil 

Midland, 

d, Michigan 

Mr. Warren Kifferstein 

in 

West Bloomfield, Michigan 

Ken and Marla Knas 

Tucson, Arizona 

Carla J. 

Lambarth 

Ypsilanti, i, Michigan 

Bill and 

Susan Lee 


igan 

Curtis Leszczynski 

zyns 

Shelby 

Township, Michigan 

Mel and Betty Markwardt 

rdt 

Livonia, Michigan 

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick and 

Victoria McPharlin 

Laingsburg, Michigan 


$25,000 

Ken Mehall 


Tom Miller 

Cicero, Indiana 

John Moffett and 

Beloved Boston Terrier Jodi 

Saint Clair, Michigan 

Bill and Marion Munro 


Tom and Deni Nihra 

Warren, Michigan 

Professor Dennis Propst 

Professor Maureen McDonough 

Leslie, Michigan 

Rick and Shelley Pulliam 

Bellevue, Michigan 

George A. and Norma H. Purvis 

Palm Desert, California 

Robert J. Rietz 

Waterford, Michigan 

James and Roberta Rowe 

Clarksville, Michigan 

Gretel Geist Rutledge 


Tim and Barb Schowalter 


Tom and Mary Kay Shields 


Dr. David and Ann Shneider 


Ronald H. and Mary E. Simon 


Sharon K. Skinner 


Sharon M. and 

Richard C. Smith 

Holt, Michigan 

Kenneth F. and 

Elizabeth F. Sommer 

North Chatham, Massachusetts 

Ken and Stacy Stanecki 

Eden Prairie, Minnesota 

Steve and Sunday Wagner 


Lois C. Walker 


Mr. Eric B. Walton 


Yang Wang, Ph.D. 

Weixin Xu, M.D. 


Wayne and Dee Williams 

San Diego, California 

Elizabeth and Lee Winder 


Beaumont Tower Society 

Chartered during the university’s 

first capital campaign, Beaumont 

Tower Society is named after 

the one landmark that so 

thoroughly symbolizes Michigan 

State University, its history and 

traditions. 

Matthew and Rochelle Abel 

Schoolcraft, Michigan 

Dr. and Mrs. J. Scott Allen 


Gale and Fame Arent 


Dick and Lorrie Barkey 

Rochester Hills, Michigan 

Maurine Bernstein 

Los Angeles, California 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bertolin 


Erwin P. and 

Carole O. Bettinghaus 

Lakewood, Colorado 

Jim and Julie Bradford 


Michael and Margaret Brand 


Daniel and Michelle Brouse 

Novi, Michigan 

Tom and Carolyn Caldwell 

McCordsville, Indiana 

Bruce and Suzanne Caltrider 

Mason, Michigan 

John Carol 

Flint, Michigan 

Bill and Joanne Church 

New York, New York 

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Conquest 


Eugene and Michele Conte 

Dayton, Ohio 

Mr. and Mrs. Calvin S. Crimp 

Pentwater, Michigan 

Jim and Patty Croom 


Rob and Lynette Davison 


Jack and Marjorie Deppong 

Houghton Lake, Michigan 

Susan Eleuterio 

Tom Sourlis 

Highland, Indiana 

Gary and Sandy Evans 


Richard L. Evans 

Madison, Connecticut 

Mr. Craig S. Fick 

Dr. Heather Laird-Fick 


Robert “Monte” Fries and 

Lorraine H. Fries 

Livonia, Michigan 

Sherman and Jill Garnett 


Cheryl M. Gilliam 

Portage, Michigan 

Dominic and Brenda Goyette 



Al and Judy Grimson 

Richmond, Michigan 

John and Lisa Gross 

Saline, Michigan 

Robert and Kathryn Groves 


John N. Harker, D.O. 

Safety Harbor, Florida 

Michael G. and 

Deborah L. Harrison 


Thomas Harsevoort 

Denville, New Jersey 

D. Densmore Hart 

Janie Hart 

Hutchinson, Kansas 

Alda L. Henderson 

Lansing, Michigan 

Robert Hildorf 


John and Patricia Hollenbeck 


Herbert and Margaret Hoover 

Milford, Michigan 

Jim and Carol Hufnagel 

Battle Creek, Michigan 

Dr. Thomas J. Kakuk 

Martha K. Kakuk 


Dave and Joan Kamm 

Saint Augustine, Florida 

Ann Marantette Kauffman 

Mendon, Michigan 

Brin and Lisa Keller 

Grand Ledge, Michigan 

Tom Kelley 

Whitehouse Station, New Jersey 

Jeanie and Murray Kilgour 

Charlevoix, Michigan 

Edgar and Ellen Kirk 


Jeanette and Richard Klemczak 


Les and Mary Leone 


Dr. and Mrs. James W. Lloyd 


Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Lytle 

Arlington, Virginia 

Andrew and Barbara Magiera 

Richland, Michigan 

Scott and Cathy McGill 


Warren and Jan McIntyre 

Troy, Michigan 

Michael F. Miller 


Shelagh and Robert Miller 


William S. Morris 

Roanoke, Virginia 

Mr. Stuart A. Morrison 

Mrs. Gayle Morrison 


Robert and Nancy Muhlbach 


Mr. John A. Neering 

Mrs. Marjorie A. Neering 


Ms. Karen Newman 


Gregory and Lisa Nowak 

Rochester, Michigan 

Katherine O’Sullivan See 


Robert Allen and 

Olga Zabrodsky Ovenhouse 


Leslie E. Papke 

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge 


Paul and Gertrude Parker 


Charlie and Brooke Partlan 


Thomas and Pamela Pietka 

Flat Rock, Michigan 

Dr. Gary and Mrs. Therese Pilchak 


Bettye G. Price 

Joyce J. Allen 

Glendale, California 

Linda Racioppi 


William and Zahrah Resh 


Drs. George E. Rhiness and 

Bonnie J. Putnam 


Carlton and Judi Rintz 

Millersville, Pennsylvania 

George L. and Victoria A. Rock 

Cadillac, Michigan 

Dennis and 

Gretchen Rosenbrook 


Dr. Patrice Riga 

Mr. Thomas Saxe 


James and Vickie Schiller 

Manitou Beach, Michigan 

Brian and Cristy Schulz 

Fenton, Michigan 

Ron and Toni Scott 


Larry and Phyllis Shance 

Charlotte, Michigan 

Thomas D. and 

Paulette B. Sharkey 


Sarah Shaw 


Robert and Maxine Siefert 


Julia Goatley 

David Slater 


Dr. Duane M. Smith 


Ron and Joan Smith 


Dr. Loudell Snow 


Jim and Brenda Spackman 


Donald and Peggy Spanninga 

San Diego, California 


$10,000 

Linda K. Strodtman, PhD, RN 

Ypsilanti, Michigan 

Mary and Arthur Sundeen 


Mr. Steven A. Tedesco 

Centennial, Colorado 

Doug and Shelly Thomas 

Charlotte, North Carolina 

Mark Timyan 


Ed and Jeanne Tiscornia 

Dayton, Ohio 

James R. Walters, M.D. 

Molly P. Crissman, M.D. 

Spring Lake, Michigan 

Dr. Joseph and 

Mary Jane Watkins 

Atlanta, Michigan 

Tim Whaley 

Plano, Texas 

Kim and Mary Jean Wilkins 

Cheboygan, Michigan 

Vince and 

Antoinette WinklerPrins 


Nicholas J. and 

Cynthia M. Wittner 


Len and Maria Wolfe 


Joan E. Wright, MPH, Ph.D. 


Dr. Karin A. Wurst 

Mr. Doyle Brunsen 


Presidents Club 

Established in 1963, the 

Presidents Club was the first 

donor recognition group created 

at Michigan State University 

and remains the largest. 

Steve and Anne Aldrich 

Jenison, Michigan 

Tom and Lisa Anastos 

Farmington Hills, Michigan 

Dr. Gary Anderson and 

Valerie Glesnes-Anderson 


Christiane and 

William R. Anderson 


Harry and Mary Andrews 


John and Ethel Anthony 


Eric and Germaine Arnson 

Lake Forest, Illinois 

Sharon and Bruce Ashley 


William and Doris Austin 

Hartford, Michigan 

Archie Bailey 

Flushing, Michigan 

Jim and Lori Baker 

Saint Louis, Michigan 

Allen and Paula Bard 


Dr. and Mrs. Larry and 

Liza Baylis 


Ryan and Emily Bennett 


Brian T. Bertsch 


Judge Arthur and Kathy Block 

Palm Springs, California 

Richard and Joyce Bogard 


James Bolton 

Grosse Pointe, Michigan 

Crystal and Jack Branta 


Thomas and Lisa Bres 


John and Sarah Briggs 

Hillsdale, Michigan 

Dr. Suzanne H. Brouse 


Kim and Cynthia Brown 

Columbiaville, Michigan 

Rodney C. and Jean M. Brown 


John and Peggy Calandro 

The Villages, Florida 

Dr. Robert and Betty Caldwell 


Robert and Charlotte Caldwell 

Sarasota, Florida 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Campbell 


Hector and Jean Chabut 


Arthur and Barbara Chester 

Cherry Hill, New Jersey 

Robert G. Chipman, ASLA 

West Lake Hills, Texas 

Dr. Don E. and 

Mrs. Geraldine J. Coleman 


Jon Cooper 


Carol and Howard Cousineau 

Traverse City, Michigan 

John C. W. Curry 


Dr. and Mrs. Michael David 


Julie E. Day 


Peter and Chris de Steiger 


Dr. David DeBiose 


James and Linda Delaney 

Grand Blanc, Michgian 

Dr. David DeWitt and 

Dr. Susan Conrad 


Michael and Sue Dissinger 

Suwanee, Georgia 

Dr. Lewis L. Dotterer and 

Mrs. Debra A. Dotterer 


Gabriel Dotto 

Anna Herklotz 



G. R. Edwards 


Rhonda K. Egidio 


Leslee Emerson, D.O. 


Gary and Sandy Evans 


Dr. and Mrs. William D. Evenson 


Jon W. Fancher 


Joseph Farah 


Daniel and Kimberly Farley 


Richard and Nancy Farrar 

Montgomery Village, Maryland 

Matthew S. Fedor 

Amy C. Slameka 


Darrell F. Fienup 

Ruth L. Fienup 


Sharon R. Fox 

Brookfield, Connecticut 

Jay and Lisa Francisco 


David and Diane Franz 


Donald and Doris Frayer 


Chip and Jean Frentz 


Dr. Harold M. and 

Karen L. Friedman 

Farmington Hills, Michigan 

Robin and Sharron Frucci 


Mrs. Peter Fusi 

Clio, Michigan 

Dr. and Mrs. Divyakant Gandhi 


Mukesh and Mala Gandhi 


Dr. Stephen Gilliland 

Tucson, Arizona 

Alan and Rhona Gorosh 


Daniel and Deb Gould 


Howard J. Gourwitz 


Dean and Amy Graham 

Grosse Pointe, Michigan 

Nancy and Gerald Greve 


Mark and Amy Gugel 


Keith and Judith Haines 

Waterford, Michigan 

Dr. Don Hamachek 


Charles and Irene Hathaway 


Doug and Peggy Heffner 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas N. Heinze 

Howell, Michigan 

Mr. Luis’ Herrera III 

Oak Park, Illinois 

Richard J. Hesse 


Joseph and Pamela Hildebrand 


Mr. Michael S. Hirsch 

Mrs. Marjorie H. Hirsch 

Commerce Township, Michigan 

William H. Hochreiter, Jr. 


Chip Hoffman and Marcia Reed 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 

Jacqueline and Don Holecek 


Professor Gary Hoppenstand 

Mrs. Rebecca Hoppenstand 


J. Robert and Eileen Houston 


Joan W. Howarth 

Carmen Estrada 


Hugh and Joan Hoyt 

The Villages, Florida 

Alan and Sharon Ivany 


Michael and Jaquelyn Jablonski 


Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore 

Ambrose Elmoore 

Perry, Michigan 

Karin and Mark Francis Jaeger 


Michael and 

Mary Guregian Jenkins 

Hingham, Massachusetts 

Jaclyn and Eric Jensen 

Arlington, Virginia 

Dan and Deb Jimenez 


Carole G. Kenyon 

Punta Gorda, Florida 

Scott and Robin Kerr 


Ben and Marsha Kilpela 


Harold and Barbara King 

Rockford, Illinois 

RJ and Danelle Kistka 


Thomas and Barbara Kovachic 


Patrick Kowaleski 

Dr. Andrea VanSteenhouse 

Denver, Colorado 

Mark Kunch 


Ed and Lisa Kurcz 

Orland Park, Illinois 

Bryan E. and Jo Ann Kurtz 



Alan and Judith S. Labovitz 


Bryan Marx 

Royal Oak, Michigan 

Clay E. Ottoni 

toni 

Drayton Plains, Michigan 

i Patrick Schafer 

South Lyon, Michigan 

Don and Pat Lamison 


Bill and Sandy Mason 

Haslett, t Michigan 

Tim and Jill Parker 

Spring Lake, Michigan 

Elise C. Schepeler 

e er 

Fairfield, Connecticut 

necticut 

Larry and Pat Larsen 


Christopher Lathwell 

Sammamish, Washingtonn 

David and Diane Lebovitz 

Morton Grove, Illinois 

James and Michelene Lepczyk 

Franklin, Michigan 

Jianguo Liu 

Qiuyun Wang 


Jeff Lobdell 


Kathy and Bob Lovell 


Mark T. and Mary E. Lunetta 


Richard P. Lyman, III 


Florence and Marvin Lyons 


John and Andrea Maguire 


Dr. Lucy A. Maillette 


Philip and Eleanor Marazita 


Steven J. Martin 


Mr. and Mrs. Rich McCarius 


Donna L. Dixon 

McDaniel 

Flint, Michigan 

Ms. Irene Mead 

Grand Ledge, e Michigan 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. 

Miller 

le 

Saginaw, Michigan 

Bill Miller 

Virginia Beach, Virginia 

Professor John Molloy 

Mrs. Carol D. Molloy 


Peter Briggs Myers 

Towson, Maryland 

Raymond and Linda Nester 


Rick and Lori Noechel 

Hudson, Ohio 

Edward O’Keefe, Sr. 

Traverse City, Michigan 

Mr. and Mrs. 

Walter Olejniczak, Jr. 

Berkley, Michigan 

Esther E. Onaga 


Valerie A. Osowski 


Tom Patterson 

Anne ne Parks 


Joe and Kathy Pavona 


igan 

Mr. Michael S. 

Popkin 

New York, New York 

Alan R. Poppe 

Miami Shores, Florida 

Brian Posey 


Charles and Marjorie Reep 

Buchanan, Michigan 

Charlotte and Bill Rees 

Bay City, Michigan 

James M. and 

Suzanne J. Reinhart 


Wayne W. and Jane M. Repko 


Kathleen Kinsella Rout 


Peter and Caroline Ruddell 


Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rutledge 


Craig and Jodi Ryals 


James H. Saker, M.D. 


Brian and Cristy 

Schulz 

Fenton, Michigani Don and Jo Ann Sefcik 


Randall and Melissa Shanker 


igan 

Allyn R. Shaw, Ph.D. 


Kathleen A. Sheehan 


Scott Sheldon 

Alma, Michigan 

Earl and Nancy Sherwood 

Willoughby, Ohio 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Shields 


Tom Shuster 

Mary McCallum 


Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sigelko 


Dr. Brian D. Silver 

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Dr. and Mrs. Donald Siwek 


Jean and John Smith 

Troy, Michigan 


Kevin D. Smith 


Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Smith 

Phoenix, Arizona 

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Franklin, Michigan 

Paula and Dave Stafford 


Jim and Sharon Stock 


Lewis P. and Mary Celia Tuttle 


James and Beverly Ullrich 

Macomb, Michigan 

Patrick and Tammy Valade 


Roger K. Valerius 

Hillsdale, Michigan 

Drs. Aaron and Jennifer VanZee 


Nicholas J. and 

Cynthia M. Wittner 


Qiana T. Woodson 

Garden City, Michigan 

Ruth Worthington, D.O. 


Mr. and Mrs. David C. Wujciak 

Fenton, Michigan 

Mary D. Zehner 


Doug Zongker 

Palo Alto, California 

Robert J. Zurek 

Saint Charles, Illinois 

Lisa Swem and Beth Hoger 


John L. Wagner 


Edward R. Swiderski, III 


Dr. Tom Walsh 

Coeur D Alene, Idaho 

Sara and David Tagget 

Ellicott City, Maryland 

Mr. Edward M. Tank 

Dr. Andrea L. Foiles 

Wilmington, North Carolina 

Howard and Helen Tanner 


Patrick and Rolinda Tappenden 


Richard B. and M. Joanne Taylor 


Mark and Denise Terman 


Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tiscornia 

Dayton, Ohio 

Scott Tobey 


Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tuson 

Davisburg, Michigan 

Jack Waters 

Nancy Kamrath-Waters 

Thornton, Pennsylvania 

Mr. Tom Watson 

Wyoming, Michigan 

Susan Jane Webster 

Dearborn, Michigan 

The Weinsheink Family 

Scottsdale, Arizona 

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Novi, Michigan 

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Stamford, Connecticut 

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ALMA MATTERS 

REGIONAL CLUBS 

BENZIE COUNTY—Jun. 6: More 

than 55 area Spartans attended 

the Annual Meeting “Potluck” 

Dinner at the Blaine Township 

Hall. Special guest was Bruce 

McCristal, author of The Spirit of 

Michigan State. About $865 was 

raised for the club’s scholarship 

fund. 

BERRIEN COUNTY—Jun. 16: 

More than 700 area Spartans 

gathered at Sportsman’s Park, 

Berrien Springs, for the annual 

Berrien County Steak Fry. Special 

guests included Bob Groves, 

vice president for University Advancement, 

Stella Cash, interim 

MSUAA executive director, 

Greg Ianni, associate athletics 

director, and several assistant 

football coaches. 

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA— 

Jun. 14: About 15 area Spartans 

gathered at Arooga’s, Camphill, 

PA, to select a scholarship winner 

and plan for fall activities. 

COASTAL ALUMNI SE—Apr. 4: 

Area Spartans gathered in the 

home of Bob and Carol Nickels 

in Savannah, GA, to watch MSU 

in the NCAA Final Four. Jun. 

6: About 17 area Spartans (see 

photo) attended a golf tournament 

at the Southbridge Golf 

Club, Savannah. About $350 was 

raised for the club. 

Nancy Juntunen 

Dave Brown 

and Con Demos, author of The 

Tradition Continues. 

DAYTON, OH—May 2: About 

18 club members attended a wine 

tasting at the home of former 

Club President, Larry, and Treasurer 

Jill Legault. Nearly $400 

was raised for the club’s endowed 

scholarship fund. 

DC SPARTANS—Apr. 25: 

About 30 area Spartans attended 

Hands-On DC, a community 

service event that cleans and 

maintains lights for the DC 

public schools. 

GRAND TRAVERSE—Jul. 5: 

Club President Barry Gray, 

Sparty and members of the 

MSU Dance Team pose with 

“Moby,” a 1960 Cadillac often 

used at local Spartan events. 

They were among thousands 

who participated in the Cherry 

Festival Classic Car Show in 

Traverse City. In a friendly 

competition with the University 

of Michigan, MSU showcased 

its Formula Racing Car. The 

event raised about $1,000 for 

various causes. 

GREATER ATLANTA, GA—May 

8: (L to r) Morten Andersen, Eddie 

Smith, Head Football Coach 

Mark Dantonio, Mike Dissinger 

and Club President Curt Hoopingarner 

were among more 

than 120 area Spartans who 

participated in the club’s annual 

golf outing at Windermere Golf 

Club, Atlanta. Other special 

guests included former NBA star 

Steve Smith and Spartan Fund 

Director Chuck Sleeper. 

Marilyn Dunsmore 

GREATER CADILLAC—Jun. 26: 

About 130 area Spartans participated 

in the First Annual Golf 

Outing at the Cadillac Country 

Club, where the club charter was 

presented. Special guests included 

Athletics Director Mark 

Hollis and Trustee Emeritus 

David Porteous. The club raised 

$4,000 for the scholarship fund, 

Barry Gray 

Dave Brown 

CENTRAL OHIO—Mar. 27-Apr. 4: 

Anywhere from 50 to 110 area 

Spartans gathered at Gallo’s 

Top Room, Columbus, to watch 

MSU advance in the NCAA 

tournament. 

DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX— 

Apr. 6: Some 200 area Spartans 

gathered at Blackfinn Restaurant 

& Saloon, Addison, to watch 

all six MSU basketball games in 

the NCAA tournament. More 

than $1,100 was raised for the 

club’s scholarship fund. Jun. 13: 

More than 80 area Spartans participated 

in the annual Spartan 

Scramble at Frisco Lakes. Special 

guests included Dallas Morning 

News sportswriter Rick Gosselin 

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Dave Brown 

About 42 area Spartans attended 

the annual golf outing at Hankerd 

Hills, Pleasant Lake. Special 

guests included Damon Rensing, 

MSU soccer coach; Seth Kessler, 

event management coordinator; 

and Dave Brown, MSUAA assistant 

director. 

marched in the July 4 parade 

through Brighton’s Main Street, 

the first activity for this new club. 

MIDLAND COUNTY—Jan. 20: 


joined the club’s board members 

(photo) as the club received its 

charter from the MSU Alumni 

Association at the Holiday Inn, 

Midland. Presenting the charter 

was David Brown, assistant director 

of the MSUAA. 

and presented a $2,000 scholarship 

grant to the Spartan Fund. 

GREATER NEW YORK—Mar. 29: 

Larry Alterman, vice president 

and former club president, led a 

contingent from New York to the 

Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, 

to cheer the Spartans on to victory 

against Louisville. 

GREATER PHILADELPHIA, PA— 

Apr. 4: More than 60 area Spartans 

gathered at The Field House 

to watch the MSU vs. UConn 

game. Afterwards, club members 

celebrated MSU’s 82-73 win in 

nearby Chinatown. 

Award. Attendees also heard a 

presentation by St. Louis native 

Kay Holekamp, MSU distinguished 

professor of Zoology, 

one of the nation’s foremost researchers 

on hyena behavior. Jun. 

18: More than 40 area Spartans 

attended a Tigers-Cardinals baseball 

game at Busch Stadium. 

INLAND NORTHWEST, WA— 

Apr. 4 & 6: About a dozen Spartans 

from Spokane and Coeur 

d’Alene gathered at Michelle 

Cooke’s home in Spokane to watch 

the MSU cagers in the Final Four. 

KALAMAZOO COUNTY—May 16: 

More than two dozen area Spartans 

participated in the annual 5K 

“Run For the Cure” at the Arcadia 

Festival to help raise money 

for breast cancer. 

LAS VEGAS, NV—Jun. 18: About 

45 area Spartans gathered at Cashman 

Field to watch the AAA 

baseball game between Las Vegas 

51 and the Portland Beavers. 

LIVINGSTON COUNTY—Jul. 4: 


Dave Brown 

Josephine Smith 

ORANGE COUNTY, CA—Jun. 1: 

Mark Dantonio and Club President 

Megan Stirrat were among 

more than 170 area Spartans who 

participated in the Annual Golf 

Tourney and Dinner Fundraiser 

at the Old 

Ranch 

Country 

Club, Seal 

Beach. 

Other 

special 

guests 

included 

Athlet- 

Rich Gullick 

GREATER ST. LOUIS, MO— 

May 8: About 35 area Spartans 

saw Roger Beachy, president of the 

Donald Danforth Plant Center, 

Creve Couer, MO, receive the 

club’s Distinguished Alumni 


JACKSON COUNTY—Apr. 16: 

MSU Provost Kim Wilcox (seated, 

second from left) was among 

some 80 area alumni who attended 

the annual spring dinner at the 

Jackson Country Club. Jun. 12: 

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ics Director Mark Hollis, MSU 

Libraries Director Cliff Haka, and 

Kim Kittleman, director of alumni 

engagement. 

gramming. More than $10,000 

was raised by the event. 

SACRAMENTO VALLEY, CA— 

Jun. 28: About 18 Spartans were 

among 89 Big Ten alumni who 

attended the annual Big Ten 

Summer Picnic at the William 

Pond Park in Sacramento. 

Francie Todd 

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA— 

Mar. 28: About 100 Spartans 

gathered at the Sheraton Hotel, 

Berkeley, CA, for the women’s 

basketball team’s NCAA tournament 

run. Special guests included 

Coach Suzy Merchant (center), 

Club Vice President Pam Dionise, 

Venice Peek (right) of MSU’s 

West Coast office, and Martin 

Jarmond of the Spartan Fund. 

Courtesy of Chris Lathwell 

SEATTLE, WA—Apr. 4: About 

100 area Spartans gathered at Jillian’s, 

Seattle, to watch the MSU 

vs. UConn basketball game. 

TAMPA BAY, FL—Mar. 8: About 

20 area Spartans (see photo) attended 

a Tigers-Yankees spring 

training game at Joker Marchant 

Stadium, Lakeland. Mar. 22: 

About 80 area Big Ten alumni 

participated in the Annual Golf 

Scramble at MacDill AFB. Apr. 

18: More than 30 area Spartans 

attended the annual spring picnic 

at Ft. Desoto State Park, including 

special guest Maura Benton of 

MSU University Advancement. 

Dave Brown 

TUSCOLA COUNTY—Apr. 17: 

Will Tieman, host and commentator 

for the Spartan Football 

Network, spoke to about 100 area 

Spartans attending the Annual 

Scholarship Dinner at the Knights 

of Columbus Hall, Caro. About 

$1,500 was raised for scholarships. 

UTAH—Apr. 6: More than 50 area 

Spartans gathered at the Green 

Street Social Club, Salt Lake City, 

to cheer on the Spartans during 

the Final Four. May 1: About a 

dozen area Spartans participated 

in Bowling for Rhinos at Olympus 

Hills Lanes, Salt Lake City, to 

support Utah’s Hogle Zoo and 

two alumni from the College of 

Veterinary Medicine. 

THE VILLAGES, FL—Mar. 28: 

Former Spartan Fund Director r 

Terry Braverman served as emcee ee 

for the club’s Mega-Auction for 

Scholarships at the Savannah 

Center, with about 200 area 

Spartans attending. About 

$18,500 was raised for the club’s 

scholarship fund. Auctioned 

items included an MSU 1979 

autographed NCAA National 

Championship basketball. 

WEST MICHIGAN—Jun. 3: 

About 90 area Spartans and students 

gathered for the annual picnic 

for incoming MSU students at 

Johnson Park, Grandville. Special 

guests included Admissions Officer 

Mike Kolar and MSUAA 

assistants Dan DiMaggio and 

Tim Bograkos. 

CONSTITUENT ASSOCIATIONS 

AGRICULTURE & NATURAL 

RESOURCES—Jun. 2: More 

than 100 alumni and friends participated 

in the annual golf outing 

at Forest Akers to raise money 

for CANR Scholarships, Student 

Club Grants and alumni pro- 

ARMY ROTC—Apr. 21: Maj. 

Gen. Alan D. Bell and Maj. 

Gen. James W. Comstock, each 

with Lt. Col. James Rouse, were 

inducted into the Army ROTC 

Alumni Hall of Fame at Kellogg 

Center. 

Sebastian Jacobi 

ARTS & LETTERS—Jun. 29: 

Screenwriter Jack Epps, Jr. (middle 

of photo) was a special guest 

at the 15th Annual Grand Hotel 

Arts Weekend—two days of arts 

activities on Mackinac Island. 

Other special guests included 

Dean Karin Wurst, Distinguished 

Professor Gary Hoppenstand, 

and Director Susan Bandes 

and Curator April Kingsley of the 

Kresge Art Museum. 

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COMMUNICATION ARTS & SCI- 

ENCES—May 9: (L to r) Frank 

Boster, Andrew MacMillan, 

Interim Dean Bradley S. Greenberg, 

Athletics Director Mark 

Hollis, Merri Jo Bales, Jan Lewin, 

Alumni Board President Ed 

Cohen and David Weitzner were 

among more than 160 alumni at 

the 2009 alumni awards banquet 

at Kellogg Center. Besides those 

in the photo, award winners 

included Richard Bush, Patricia 

McGuigan, and Chris Hansen. 

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT— 

Aug. 4: Scott Hechlik of Osprey 

Construction & Development, 

Brighton, was one of more than 

100 alumni and friends in the 11th 

Annual Golf Outing at Cherry 

Creek Golf Club, Shelby Township. 

John M. Clark, ’67, chairman 

of Clark Construction Co., was 

named Alumni of the Year, while 

Brian Ingalls was named Student 

of the Year. About $10,000 was 

raised for the program. 

EDUCATION—Apr. 3: Barbara 

Mieras, ’90, and Kraig Conyer, 

’00, were honored at the annual 

spring awards reception 

at Kellogg Center. Mieras, of 

Davenport University, won the 

Distinguished Alumni Award, 

while Conyer, of Darin, IL, won 

the Outstanding Alumni K-12 

Teacher Award. Jun. 23: More 

than 300 alumni and students 

participated in the 26th Annual 

Educational Technology Conference 

at Erickson Hall. 

Conyer 


Kevin Fowler/dharma Bum Photographics 

Mieras 

HOSPITALITY BUSINESS— 

Jun. 5: About 30 alumni and 

friends attended a breakfast for 

Alumni Reunion Days attendees 

at Kellogg Center. Among the 

attendees were MSU Provost Kim 

Wilcox; Bob Groves, vice president 

for University Advancement; 

and hosts Angelos and Betty 

Vlahakis, Eileen Emerson and Jan 

Thomas. 

MUSIC—May May 1-3: More than 50 

alumni and friends participated 

in The Chicago Jazz Experience, 

a trip to Chicago by private train 

with MSU professors of jazz. 

Jun. 5: Alums from 1959 and 

before attended the MSUAA’s 

Alumni Reunion Days, including 

a breakfast at Kellogg Center 

with Associate Dean David Rayl. 

Jun. 19: Warren Henry, PhD ’95, 

chair of music education at North 

Texas University, was awarded the 

Distinguished Alumni Award. 

Jun. 20: Dean James Forger (left 

in photo) met with the college’s 

ALUMNI INTEREST GROUPS 

ALUMNI BAND—Jun. 4: More 

than 30 band alumni performed 

at the MSUAA’s Alumni Reunion 

Days Kedzie Luncheon at 

Kellogg Center. The alumni band 

played the MSU Fight Song and 

MSU Shadows. 

Kevin Fowler/dharma Bum Photographics 

MSU TELECASTERS—May 9: 

Interim MSUAA Executive 

Director Stella Cash (middle) 

presented this new alumni interest 

group with its MSUAA 

charter. “We want to create a way 

for alumni to reconnect with 

each other and give back to the 

student telecasters,” says Pam 

National Leadership Council at 

the home of Merritt and Candy 

Lutz in New York City. 

OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE— 

May 14: More than 200 alumni 

attended the MSUCOM alumni 

reception at the Dearborn Hyatt, 

held during the Michigan Osteopathic 

Association’s annual convention. 

Special guests included 

Dean William Strampel. 

Saunders, president of the Telecasters 

Alumni Group (TAG). 

MSU Telecasters—previously 

MSU Broadcasters—has given 

thousands of students hands-on 

experience in producing TV programs. 

Today, alumni are working 

as professionals in film, television, 

advertising, web design 

and many other communications 

capacities. 

RESIDENCE HALLS—Apr. 25: 

About 30 members of the Residence 

Halls Association, including 

current students, alumni, and 

staff met to network and socialize 

at Leo’s Lodge in Lansing. Members 

discussed past group activities, 

future events, and implementation 

of a group web site. The 

event was the final one planned 

for the current school year. 


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Stay connected and be informed • VISIT THE MSU CAMPUS AND JOIN IN YOUR COLLEGE’S ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS. 

Agriculture & Natural Resources 

Autumnfest 

Nov. 21, 2009, 3.5 hours 

before kickoff 

MSU Pavilion 

Meet alumni and mingle with 

supporters from Michigan’s 

agricultural and natural resources 

industries while raising money for 

scholarships, student activities and 

alumni programming. Cost: $25 

(adults), $12 (students 6-21) or $30 (at 

door). Free for children five and under. 

Email: kreed@msu.edu 

Alumni Band 

Fall Reunion 

Oct. 17, 2009 

Golf outing Friday, march in the 

Homecoming Parade Friday night 

and to the Stadium Saturday 

morning. 

Web: Spartanband.net/alumni 

Communication Arts & Sciences 

Three Mothers Patio Dedication 

Oct. 16, 2009, 2 p.m. 

Join us for the dedication of this 

outdoor, wi-fi accessible space for 

students. No charge. 

Email: boeff@msu.edu 

GLBT 

2009 Homecoming Reception 

Oct. 16, 2009, 7:30 p.m. 

University Club, 3534 Forest Rd. 

Hors d’oeuvres, music and 

entertainment will be provided for 

gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender 

alumni and their families. Tickets 

may be purchased at the door. 

Email: glbtalum@msu.edu 

The School of Hospitality 

Business 

Homecoming Weekend Activities 

Oct. 15-17, 2009 

Golf, roundtable discussion, mentors 

program, board meeting, parade, 

receptions and other activities for 

alumni. 

Web: www.bus.msu.edu/shb 

Celebration of Leadership 

Nov. 7, 2009, 6-9 p.m. 

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York 

$100 per person 

Email: loeffler@bus.msu.edu 

James Madison College 

Annual Homecoming Tailgate 

Oct. 17, 2009, two hours before 

kickoff 

Case Hall 

Email: hofmeist@msu.edu 

College of Music 

Collage III 

Oct. 2, 2009 

Cobb Great Hall, 

Wharton Center 

First of four College of Music 

Showcase Series’s events, featuring 

premier student ensembles and soloists 

in a fast-paced musical extravaganza. 

Tickets: $25, $20 and $15. 

800-WHARTON, 517-432-2000 or 

whartoncenter.com 

Home for the Holidays 

Dec. 5, 2009, 8 p.m. 

Cobb Great Hall, 

Wharton Center 

Second concert in the College of 

Music Showcase Series, featuring the 

Symphony Orchestra, State Singers, 

Glee Clubs and the MSU Children’s 

Choir. Tickets: $25, $20 and $15. 

800-WHARTON, 517-432-2000 or 

whartoncenter.com 

College of Nursing 

Annual Homecoming Tailgate 

Oct. 17, 2009 

Corner of Red Cedar Rd. 

and Shaw Lane 

Celebration of nursing and the 

milestone class reunions of the 

classes ending in 4 and 9. No charge. 

Email: pam.schoen@ht.msu.edu 

College of 

Osteopathic Medicine 

American College of Osteopathic 

Internists Reception 

Oct. 15, 2009 

Starr Pass Resort, Tucson, AZ 

Reception held in conjunction with 

the ACOI convention. No charge. 

Email: kim.camp@hc.msu.edu 

American Osteopathic Association 

Reception 

Nov. 2, 2009 

New Orleans, LA 

Alumni reception in conjunction 

with the AOA convention. 

No charge. 

Seminar in the Sun 

March 6-13, 2010 

Grand Palladium, Jamaica 

Annual seminar featuring 

continuing medical education 

courses. 

Packaging Alumni Association 

Pack Expo West Reunion 

Oct. 5, 2009 

Hard Rock Café 

Las Vegas, NV 

Networking opportunity for all 

packaging professionals, family and 

friends in conjunction with Pack Expo 

West. Cost: $40 (members), $45 

(nonmembers) or $50 (at the door). 

Email: cimberly.hickerson@pirainternational.com 

Homecoming Tailgate Tent 

Oct. 17, 2009 

Dem Hall Field 

Join us for snacks and refreshments. 

No charge. 

MSU Telecasters 

Homecoming Tailgate 

Oct. 17, 2009 

Web: telecasters.msu.edu/alumni 

Email: msutelecasters.alumni@ 

gmail.com 

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Francie Todd 

Francie 

Todd 

2010 GRANDPARENTS UNIVERSITY—Jun. 29-Jul. 1: These dates have 

been set for next year’s Grandparents University, when grandparents and 

grandchildren bond while spending time on campus attending a variety 

of classes and sampling some great MSU highlights—like the horse farm, 

where some classes take place. To sign up for the mailing list, send your 

name, mailing address and email address to gpu@msu.edu. 

For more information, visit grandparents.msu.edu. 

Barb Susa-Fineis 

HAMMING IT UP—May 16: 

Scott Westerman (left), president 

of the MSUAA’s National 

Alumni Board, visits with 

Dave Sumner, ’70, CEO of the 

American Radio Relay League, 

at the 2009 Hamvention in 

Dayton, OH. Sumner (K1ZZ) 

was president of the MSU 

Amateur Radio Club during his 

time in East Lansing. The league 

is the national association for 

amateur radio, and Sumner has 

headed it for more than 25 years. 

Westerman (W9WSW) has 

been licensed since 1981. The 

Dayton Hamvention, held in 

May of each year, is the largest 

gathering of radio amateurs in 

the world. 


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Photo courtesy of Gordon Guyer 

SPARTANS IN ALASKA—May 

17-24: Nearly two dozen Spartans 

were aboard the National 

Geographic Sea Lion to cruise 

Alaska’s waterways in a tour 

sponsored by the MSU Alumni 

Association. The tour was 

hosted by former MSU President, 

Gordon, and Mary Guyer, 

and featured world-renowned 

naturalists and scientists. The 

travel group was able to observe 

humpback and killer whales, 

bald eagles, sea lions, puffins 

and brown bears in their natural 

environment, as well as beautiful, 

cascading waterfalls in Glacier 

National Park. 

For more information about 

MSUAA tours, please visit 

msualum.com. 

SPARTAN TRIPLETS—Oneyear-old 

triplets Wyatt, Grace, 

and Chloe Conine—and their 

family dog Mimi—are cuddled 

in their home in Marshall and 

Courtesy of Mary Conine, ‘99 

said to be anxiously awaiting 

the start of the new basketball 

season. 

WEST MICHIGAN CLUB 

RAISED $250K FOR NEW 

SECCHIA CENTER 

by Lois Furry, 


The West Michigan MSU 

Alumni Club takes pride in setting 

its sights high. And they are 

well-known for getting behind 

MSU initiatives. 

So with the announcement 

that MSU’s College of Human 

Medicine would open a campus 

in downtown Grand Rapids at 

the soon-to-be-completed Secchia 

Center, the club set a lofty 

target of contributing $250K. 

Two years ago, along with 

pledging $50,000 from the 

club’s treasury, the club committed 

to raising an additional 

$200,000 from the Spartan 

community in West Michigan—a 

goal they checked off 

their to-do list in July. 

“We had to stretch ourselves,” 

Don Patten (’92, Social Science/ 

Teacher Education), the club’s 

immediate past president, admits. 

“But the community has 

embraced the project and MSU. 

The appreciation for having a 

world-class medical school in 

our backyard is phenomenal.” 

Among the club’s fundraising 

strategies were “meet and greet” 

events hosted by club members 

at their homes and businesses, 

and a teacher campaign. 

More than 2,000 members 

strong, the club has long served as 

a model and trend-setter for other 

alumni clubs. Many of the club’s 

events are emulated by others. 

They founded the “Crying Towel” 

which brings together hundreds 

of Spartans, Wolverines and the 

Fighting Irish to commemorate 

the legendary 1966 Notre Dame 

football game that resulted in a 

10-10 tie, with an annual roast 

and toast of the three universities. 

The club also created the Steve 

Smith Charity Challenge, an 

annual summer golf event now in 

its 11 th year, that recently attracted 

over 400 Spartans to raise more 

than $100K for MSU scholarships, 

the Secchia Center and the 

Grand Rapids Public Schools Student 

Advancement Foundation. 

In recent years, the club has 

contributed substantially to the 

Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete 

Academic Center, the Steve 

Smith student scholarship and the 

Sparty Statue restoration project. 

“We are immensely pleased to 

have the partnership of the West 

Michigan MSU Alumni Club,” 

noted Bob Groves, MSU vice president 

for University Advancement. 

“The club’s level of support and involvement 

with the university, the 

range of activities, and their connections 

to their community are 

invaluable to MSU and the greater 

Grand Rapids area. They stand as 

a top model and we are grateful for 

their significant contributions.” 

The Secchia Center is an innovative 

state-of-the-art facility 

named in honor of the lead donors, 

Ambassador Peter and Joan 

Secchia. The MSU College of 

Human Medicine welcomed its 

first class of second-year students 

to Grand Rapids last fall, and the 

college will officially be based in 

Grand Rapids in the fall of 2010 

when the Secchia Center opens 

in the downtown area. 

For more information about 

making a gift to the Secchia 

Center, contact Senior Director 

of Advancement Susan Lane at 

(616) 234-2614. 

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BRINGING WYOMING 

“STARRS” TO MSU 

by Robert Bao, Editor 

If there were an “unsung hero” 

award at MSU, a strong candidate 

would be Trustee Emeritus Jack 

Shingleton. 

Many alumni from my generation 

know Jack as the longtime 

head of MSU’s Placement Services, 

a position from which he helped 

countless students. Younger alums 

will remember him as a key member 

of the MSU Board of Trustees 

from 1991-1999. Shingleton was a 

leader who dealt with some of the 

most controversial issues faced by 

the university in recent times. 

Less known, but equally significant, 

is that Jack bailed MSU 

out of several crises. He served as 

interim athletics director and as 

interim alumni director during 

times of turmoil for those two 

organizations, and restored order 

to systems that had become nearly 

dysfunctional. He helped the late 

John A. Hannah complete 

some very specific missions 

critical to MSU. A graduate of 

the class of 1948, Jack was also 

an outstanding tennis player for 

MSU. 

Since leaving the university’s governing 

board, Shingleton has been 

instrumental in helping run one 

of the most successful, albeit little 

known, scholarship programs at 

MSU—the STARRS Charitable 

Foundation Scholarship program. 

The program was begun in 1998 

by two anonymous MSU alumni, 

who wanted to provide opportunities 

for outstanding students in 

Wyoming to attend MSU for four 

years with all regular costs covered. 

To qualify, students must have at 

least a 3.0 grade point average and, 

most importantly, have outstanding 

personal character and leadership 

ability. The donors tapped 

Shingleton, whom they knew from 

their student days, to run this program. 

Jack is quick to share credit 

with his longtime partner Chuck 

Webb, the former vice president for 

University Development at MSU, 

for establishing the program. 

The donors gained tremendous 

experiences at MSU and want 

young people from a given region 

to have the same experiences. As 

Jack explains, “They looked out in 

their home state of Wyoming and 

saw outstanding kids in very rural 

communities whose horizons were 

limited by family resources. They 

wanted to present an opportunity 

that is second-to-none for these kids 

to see the other side of the world.” 

In the past 12 years of volunteer 

service, Jack has brought 45 scholarship 

beneficiaries to MSU— 

including a young woman who 

made the crew team and became 

MSU’s first All-American woman 

in crew, another who landed a 

position in the tuba line of the 

MSU Marching Band as a 5-foot 

tall freshman, and former Spartan 

basketball player Jacob Hannon. 

“It has truly been one of the greatest 

joys of my life,” he says. 

But Jack has reluctantly decided 

it is time for him to retire 

from his leadership role. “The 

STARR Charitable Foundation 

Scholarship that Jack Shingleton 

so expertly helped develop stands 

solidly and serves as a model of 

excellence for others wishing 

to establish similar scholarship 

awards,” says Bob Groves, MSU’s 

vice president for University Advancement. 

“We have been extremely 

fortunate to have Jack’s 

advocacy and experience in this 

program. His direct involvement 

will be missed but his legacy will 

endure.” 

Indeed. For someone who 

has played so many critical roles 

in the advancement of Michigan 

State, Jack still counts his 

involvement with the STARR 

scholars as a highlight. “To be 

able to do this in the twilight of 

my years here has been extraordinary,” 

he says. 


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STATE’S STARS 

E. Sumo Jones, MS ’63, has been 

named by the President of Liberia 

as his country’s 

ambassador 

extraordinary 

and plenipotentiary 

accredited 

to the Republic 

of Guinea, a neighboring State to 

Liberia. Jones’ MSU thesis for the 

School of Criminal Justice was 

titled “A Plan to Reorganize the 

National Bureau of Investigation 

of the Department of Justice in 

the Republic of Liberia.” After 

graduation from MSU, Jones 

was appointed commissioner of 

Immigration and Naturalization 

and deputy attorney general of his 

country by the then President of 

Liberia, William V.S. Tubman. 

Mark Hawkins, ’91, has been 

named executive vice president 

and CFO for 

Autodesk, San 

Rafael, CA, a 

leader in 2D and 

3D CAD Software. 

Previously, 

Hawkins was the CFO and 

SVP of Logitech International 

S.A., and also VP of Finance at 

Dell. Additionally, Hawkins 

was a Business Unit CFO for 

HP during his 18 plus years with 

that company. Hawkins is a Life 

Member of the MSU Alumni 

Association. 

Jan Jacobs, ’79, an area quilter 

and actor for more than 30 

years, has been 

named the 2009 

Farmington Area 

Arts Commission 

artist in 

residence. Jacobs 

was honored with a cash prize, 

plaque and a tribute from the 

State Representative, State Senator 

and Governor. Jacobs’ field of 

expertise is fiber arts and theatre. 

Farmington Hills artists who 

were Artists in Residence include 

Robert Piepenburg, John Glick 

and Junebug Clark. 

Chris Huizenga, ’92, property 

manager at 75 Hawthorne, San 

Francisco, CA, 

was the leader of 

the on-site team 

that achieved the 

first multi-tenant 

office building 

in San Francisco to receive Gold 

certification under the U.S. Green 

Building Council’s LEED for Existing 

Buildings rating system. 75 

Hawthorne is a 20-story Class A 

office building that is owned and 

managed by Hines. San Francisco 

is reputed to be one of the nation’s 

“greenest” cities. 

Ray Koenig III, ’95, a Chicago 

attorney, has joined Clark Hill 

PLC as a member 

in the Litigation 

Practice Group. 

Koenig practices 

in the areas of 

probate litigation, 

trust litigation, fiduciary 

litigation, elder law, estate 

planning and estate administration, 

with an emphasis on will, 

trust, guardianship, and advance 

directive contests and other 

fiduciary litigation. Koenig served 

on the Chicago task force to revise 

the Illinois Elder Abuse and 

Neglect Act. 

Ron Simon, ’67, CEO, Auto- 

Owners Insurance Company, 

Lansing, has been 

elected chairman 

of the board of all 

six of the Auto- 

Owners Insurance 

Group companies. 

Simon has over 40 years 

experience with Auto-Owners 

Insurance Company beginning 

in the IT division where he held 

various management positions. 

He has also served as assistant vice 

president, applications department; 

vice president, actuarial 

department; and vice president 

and, senior vice president, property 

and casualty underwriting/ 

actuarial department, and senior 

vice president, treasurer: first vice 

president: president and CEO. 

Simon is a Life Member of the 

MSU Alumni Association and 

a member of MSU’s Hannah 

Society. 

Connie McEwan, ’68, has received 

the 2009 Matilda R. Wilson 

Award from 

the Women’s Association 

for Boys 

& Girls Clubs 

of Southeastern 

Michigan, Birmingham. 

McEwan was awarded 

the honor for all the work she has 

done as a volunteer for the Boys 

and Girls Club, as well as many 

other charities in Southeastern 

Michigan. The Women’s Association 

for Boys & Girls Clubs 

of Southeastern Michigan is a 

volunteer organization committed 

to raising funds and awareness 

on behalf of B&GCSM as well 

as providing scholarships for students 

otherwise unable to attend 

the clubs. 

William Muir, ’69, DVM ’70, has 

been named director of clinical 

services at The 

Animal Medical 

Center (AMC), 

New York, NY. 

Muir will act as 

an advisor to the 

CEO on all professional matters 

of the hospital and serve as 

ex-officio member of all medical 

staff communities. Muir is board 

certified in veterinary anesthesia 

and veterinary emergency 

and critical care, a fellow of the 

American Academy of Clinical 

Pharmacology, regional director 

of the newly-formed International 

Veterinary Academy of Pain 

Management and a member of 

the American Veterinary Medical 

Association. 

Jeff Juenemann, ’80, owner of 

Juenemann Insurance, Westland, 

was named this 

year’s Business 

Person of the Year 

by the Westland 

Chamber 

of Commerce. 

Juenemann is active in Westland 

Rotary having served as past 

president as well as past president 

of the Michigan Association of 

Insurance Agents. Juenemann 

has also volunteered as an adult 

leader for the Boy Scouts. Juenemann 

is a Life Member of the 

MSU Alumni Association. 

Grace Lieblein, MBA ’87, has 

been named president and managing 

director of 

GM de Mexico. 

Considered the 

highest ranking 

Latina executive at 

GM and the first 

Latina vehicle chief engineer, Lieblein 

succeeds Kevin Williams. 

Leiblein joined the automaker 

in 1978 as a co-op student at the 

GM Assembly Division in Los 

Angeles. Leiblein has received 

several honors, including the 

Professional Achievement Award. 

She also made Automotive News’ 

top 100 list for women in the auto 

industry and Hispanic Business’ 

list of top 50 U.S. businesswomen 

in the United States. 

Billy C. Hawkins, PhD ’85, 

has become the 20 th president of 

Talladega College, 

AL. Previously, he 

served as the 20 th 

president of Texas 

College. Hawkins 

has been in education 

for 32 years. An advocate for 

education, Hawkins was featured 

on the ABC Evening News with 

the late Peter Jennings and in U.S. 

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News and World Report. He has 

been listed in Who’s Who Among 

Executives and Professionals in 

2005-2006. Hawkins has served 

on numerous boards including 

as a member of the Southside 

Virginia Business and Education 

Commission appointed by Mr. 

James S. Gilmore, former governor 

of Virginia. 

Jeff Steiner, ’86, MBA ’01, a 

global operating and business 

executive with 

more than 23 

years of experience, 

has been 

named executive 

vice president 

and general manager responsible 

for Dale Earnhardt Inc., the 

Dale Earnhardt Foundation and 

special initiatives relating to Earnhardt 

properties. Steiner previously 

served at Johnson Controls 

Automotive Systems Group as 

vice president and general manager, 

and at American Specialty 

Cars as executive vice president 

and chief marketing officer. 

Bruce Byl, ’81, director of real 

estate and special projects for 

Northwestern 

Bank, has been 

named 2009 

Outstanding 

Alumni from 

Northwestern 

Michigan College (NMC). Previously, 

Byl was president and CEO 

of a Chicago-based Steelcase 

commercial furniture distributor. 

He is the founder of Food Rescue 

of Northwest Michigan and has 

served on the NMC Foundation 

board. Byl is a Life Member of the 

MSU Alumni Association. 

Hon. Robert T. Jackson, Jr., 

’69, was the guest speaker for 

Saint Paul’s College Honor’s 

Day Convocation. He joined 

the Social Security Administration 

as an Administrative Law 


Judge in 1997 and 

currently serves in 

the Atlanta Office 

of Disability 

Adjudication and 

Review. Judge 

Jackson served for 20 years in The 

Army Judge Advocate General’s 

Corps. He currently serves on the 

Advisory Board of Atlanta Technical 

College Paralegal Studies 

Program. He is also a member of 

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. 

Edward Fubara, MBA ’91, PhD 

’01, director of the Master of 

Business Administration 

program 

at Campbell University’s 

Lundy- 

Fetterman School 

of Business, Buies 

Creek, NC, has received the 

Extension Engagement and Economic 

Development Award of Excellence 

from the Small Business 

and Technology Development 

Center (SBTDC). The SBTDC 

is administered by North Carolina 

State University on behalf of 

the University of North Carolina 

System and operated in partnership 

with the U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

Dianne Mark, ’79, has been 

named dean of the Spandoni 

College of Education 

at Coastal 

Carolina University, 

Conway, 

SC. Previously, 

Mark was the dean 

of the College of Professional 

Studies at Bloomsburg University 

of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 

and associate dean and interim 

associate dean of the College of 

Education and Human Services at 

Central Michigan University, Mt. 

Pleasant. Mark has made numerous 

presentations to educational 

conferences and serves on the 

editorial board for the journal 

Urban Education. 

William V. D’Antonio, PhD 

’58, a fellow in the Life Cycle 

Institute, Catholic 

University, 

Washington, DC, 

has had the annual 

award to the 

Center’s outstanding 

graduate student named in 

his honor by the Center for the 

Study of Religion and Society in 

the Dept. of Sociology, University 

of Notre Dame. In addition, the 

Center for Applied Research in 

the Apostolate (CARA) Board 

of Directors selected D’Antonio 

as the 2009 recipient of the Rev. 

Louis J. Luzbetak Award for 

Exemplary Church Research. 

D’Antonio is a Life Member of 

the MSU Alumni Association. 

Audre Levy, ’67, has been named 

president of Lone Star College- 

CyFair, Cypress, 

TX. Previously, 

Levy was president 

of Glendale Community 

College in 

Glendale, CA, had 

served as president of Los Angeles 

Southwest Community College, 

provost of Edison Community 

College in Naples, FL, and 

executive vice president and vice 

president of student services at 

San Jose/Evergreen Community 

Colleges in California. Additionally, 

Levy has been assistant to the 

vice president of instruction and 

Title III director at Brookhaven 

College in the Dallas Community 

College District and administrator 

and counselor at Los Angeles 

Community College. 

Mark Sharkey, ’82, president 

of Remington, TX, one of the 

largest independently 

owned 

hotel investment, 

development, 

and management 

companies in the 

U.S., has been named Hilton’s 

Developer of the Year. Dallasbased 

Remington operates over 

44 hotels in 17 different states 

with more than 3,500 associates. 

Remington focuses solely on the 

hospitality industry. Sharkey has 

been in the hospitality industry 

for the past 30 years, operating 

and developing select, full service, 

and luxury hotels. 

Marti Heil, ’76, MSU associate 

vice president and COO 

for University 

Development has 

been named senior 

vice president for 

Development 

of the Indiana 

University Foundation. At MSU, 

Heil served in a wide variety of 

capacities, including planning 

and directing two comprehensive 

campaigns and a major campus 

campaign. She served as the 

interim vice president for development 

during a time of strategic 

reorganization. Heil is a member 

of MSU’s Hannah Society. 

Susan MacLeod, MA ’82, 

executive vice president/administrator 

of Bon 

Secours Maryview 

Medical Center, 

Portsmouth, VA, 

received the Women 

of Distinction 

Award in the Field of Medicine 

from the YWCA of South 

Hampton Roads. MacLeod has 

also chaired the American Heart 

Association Heart Walk and is 

the chair of the Hampton Roads 

Chamber of Commerce, Portsmouth 

Division. She is a frequent 

speaker at community events, and 

mentors health care administrative 

residents. 

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LIFELONG EDUCATION ABROAD 

 

 

Celebrating its 27 th anniversary in 2010, this twoweek 

lifelong education program takes you on a rare 

adventure to Oxford—“city of dreaming spires”—and 

to the University of Oxford, famous as a great center 

of learning since the 12th century. Once England’s 

capital, Oxford is located in the heart of England just 

50 miles northwest of London. 

Open to all adults, participants enroll in one (of four) 

noncredit personal enrichment course choosing from 

topics such as British archaeology, art, history, theatre, 

or literature. A typical day’s schedule includes morning 

classes taught by Oxford tutors with afternoon coursespecific 

field trips or general group excursions. Group 

excursions may include visits to prehistoric sites, famous 

castles, gardens, palaces, cathedrals, the Cotswolds, 

Stratford-upon-Avon, London, or other English or 

Welsh towns and villages. 

There will be ample time during the two weeks to 

enjoy breathtaking architecture, art, and gardens 

of many of the university’s 39 colleges, explore the 

historic town of Oxford, or visit the surrounding 

countryside. The city of Oxford offers a diversity of 

museums, bookshops, theatres, restaurants, pubs, 

shops, and natural settings to explore. 

Are You Moving? 

Be sure to take the 

MSU Alumni Magazine Along. 

Email us at 

msuaa@msualum.com 

Participants stay in Oxford’s Department for 

Continuing Education Residential Center at Kellogg 

College. The Residential Center offers comfortable 

bedrooms (with private bathrooms), dining rooms, 

common room, computer room, lecture and reading 

rooms, bar, and laundry facilities. 

For a detailed brochure, contact: 

Alumni Lifelong Education, Evening College/Odyssey to Oxford 

MSU Alumni Association, University Advancement 

Phone (517) 355-4562 

www.msualum.com/evecoll/oxford 


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OBITUARIES 

20s 

Helen M. (Gibson) Cleveland, ’23, 

of Lansing. 

30s 

Lois (Brightman) Birchard, ’34, of 

Pentwater, Feb. 8, age 96. 

Nathan R. Brewer, ’30, of Potomac, 

MD, Jun. 16, age 104. 

Richard S. Clark, ’39, of West 

Bloomfield, May 17, age 92. 

Irving B. Feldman, ’34, May 2, age 97. 

Frank Gaines, ’38, of Rancho 

Santa Fe, CA, May 2, age 91. 

Robert L. Haueter, ’39, of Grand 

Ledge, Feb. 27. 

Sarah M. (Taylor) McDaniel, ’35, of 

Marietta, GA, Sep. 5. 

Margaret E. (Marshall) Murdoch, 

’31, of Seneca, SC, May 17, 

age 99. 

Jesse A. Rice, ’34, of Farmington. 

Max H. Schrader, ’39, of Traverse 

City, Jun. 15. 

Clement J. Weitzman, ’33, of West 

Bloomfield. 

Marion F. West, ’37, of Estes Park, 

CO, Jun. 18. 

Donald A. Wright, ’38, of Safford, 

AZ, Apr. 4, age 94. 

40s 

Robin L. Alexander, ’49, of Casper, 

WY, May 5, age 85. 

Robert L. Amundsen, ’42, of 

Hopkins, MN, Apr. 23, age 88. 

Marjory E. (Pyper) Anderson, ’40, 

of Portage, Apr. 23. 

William L. Baldwin, ’49, of 

Indialantic, FL, Apr. 15, age 87. 

John D. Baum, ’49, of Escanaba, 

Feb. 23, age 87. 

Richard G. Bignall, ’49, of Ann 

Arbor, Mar. 27, age 83. 

Eleanor E. (Chamberlin) Bird, ’44, 

of Perry, Jul. 11, age 86. 

Benjamin F. Blandford, ’47, of 

Grand Rapids, Jan. 22, age 86. 

Robert E. Bos, ’48, of Cadillac, May 

12, age 85. 

Pierson P. Brower, ’41, of 

Middleville, Nov. 27, age 92. 

Dorothy L. (Silver) Chamow, ’49, of 

East Meadow, NY, Jan. 30, age 79. 

John E. Couture, ’49, of Rochester. 

G. Thomas Covert, ’48, of Green 

Valley, AZ, Oct. 5. 

Jean F. Cunningham, ’47, of 

Adrian, Sep. 17. 

Doreen K. (Terry) Dukes, ’46, of 

Coronado, CA, Jul. 9, age 85. 

Carol V. (Brown) Eilber, ’48, of 

Durham, NC, May 12, age 83. 

Charles B. Elliot, ’49, of Crystal, 

May 20, age 85. 

Verda I. (Hendrickson) Elliott, ’47, 

of San Diego, CA, Jun. 22, age 84. 

Robert J. Flynn, ’44, of Lake Forest, IL. 

Sigwalda E. (Nelson) Garthe, ’45, of 

Northport, Sep. 4, age 84. 

Helen J. (Hammond) Hartmann, 

’49, of Lansing, Apr. 30, age 82. 

Crawford W. Hertel, ’40, of 

Okemos, Jul. 10, age 91. 

Robert W. Heuman, ’48, of 

Cleveland, OH. 

William L. Himmelberger, ’47, of 

Flint, Apr. 19. 

Paul F. Ingell, ’48, of Jackson, Dec. 25. 

Frederick C. Janz, ’41, of 

Bloomfield Hills, May 29, age 89. 

June E. (Weber) Johnston, ’40, of 

Lansing, Jun. 21, age 90. 

Mary T. Kelly, ’47, of Dearborn, 

Jun. 15. 

Virgil W. Langworthy, ’46, of 

Lansing, Jul. 22, age 88. 

Beverly J. (Sedwick) Leese, ’49, of 

Birmingham, Apr. 28, age 82. 

Charles G. Lewis, ’41, of Pocatello, 

ID, Jan. 15, age 89. 

Mary Jane (Renwick) Limmex, ’42, 

of Cleveland, OH. 

William S. Mayfield, ’49, of 

Louisville, KY, May 19. 

Mary E. (Slack) McGraw, ’48, of 

Macomb. 

Leland G. Merrill, ’42, of Skillman, 

NJ, Jul. 28, age 88. 

Doris M. (Baird) Messacar, ’47, of 

Haslett, Dec. 24, age 83. 

Marjorie E. (Bull) Middlebrook, ’44, 

of Plainfield, NJ, Dec. 31, age 87. 

Russell E. Noble, ’47, of Jackson, 

Apr. 7, age 85. 

Robert A. Nowack, ’49, of Grand 

Rapids, May 24, age 83. 

H. Blaine Pinkston, ’43, of Swartz 

Creek, May 15, age 87. 

Everett L. Rivest, ’43, of 

Schenectady, NY, May 8, age 87. 

Donald L. Robart, ’43, of 

Kalamazoo, Jul. 7, age 90. 

Harriett E. (Remington) Runnells, 

’42, of Birmingham. 

William A. Ruth, ’49, of Clio, Dec. 

19, age 84. 

James V. Rutledge, ’43, of 

Roscommon, Jun. 1, age 88. 

Calvin J. Sandberg, ’49, of New 

Port Richey, FL, Apr. 8. 

Fred L. Schmidt, ’47, of Sun City 

West, AZ, Mar. 26, age 89. 

Ray E. Shedd, ’42, of West 

Bloomfield, Jan. 20, age 88. 

Marion G. (Roberts) Skeels, ’41, of 

Clayton, Apr. 16, age 89. 

Robert W. Sloan, ’48, of Federal 

Way, WA, Jun. 17, age 87. 

Philip H. Smith, ’49, of Ann Arbor, 

Mar. 15. 

Burton C. Stafford, ’44, of South 

Bend, IN, Feb. 1. 

Herbert N. Stoutenburg, ’47, of 

Hickory, NC, Mar. 7, age 89. 

Kenneth M. Weinland, ’41, of Port 

Charlotte, FL, Mar. 30, age 96. 

Adia F. (Winkelman) Wilson, ’46, of 

Northbrook, IL, Apr. 21, age 84. 

Leonard A. Wood, ’46, of Oakton, 

VA, Nov. 10, age 86. 

Byron X. Zeilbeck, ’49, of Grand 

Rapids, Mar. 18, age 86. 

50s 

Douglas A. Ackley, ’53, of Fort 

Davis, TX, Feb. 27, age 77. 

William Anderson, ’56, of Howell, 

Oct. 16, age 76. 

Arnold G. Arends, ’59, of Dearborn 

Heights, Jan. 1. 

Edwin S. Barney, ’52, of Arlington, 

TX, Apr. 7. 

Virginia D. (Dodge) Benson, ’51, of 

Spring Lake, Nov. 24, age 79. 

Ward E. Blaine, ’52, of Holly, Jun. 

18, age 79. 

Ronald W. Boer, ’54, of Grand 


Albert L. Boucher, ’55, of Grand 

Ledge, Jul. 25. 

Thomas G. Brabson, ’53, of 

Abingdon, VA. 

Kenneth C. Buelow, ’50, of Portage, 

Jul. 1, age 68. 

Kenneth E. Christian, ’59, of Fort 

Myers, FL. 

Nancy S. (Kehoe) Chuba, ’55, of 

Sarasota, FL, May 4. 

Albert G. Clegg, ’57, of Eaton 

Rapids, May 2. 

John H. Coleman, ’57, of Buffalo, 

NY, Jan. 15, age 74. 

Alphonso Crawford, ’53, of Detroit, 

Mar. 21, age 80. 

Charles C. Craypo, ’59, of Jackson, 

Mar. 22. 

Edward D. Crowley, ’55, of Rio 

Rancho, NM, Mar. 24, age 78. 

Elwin G. Darling, ’51, of Bay City, 

Jun. 9, age 82. 

Herbert R. Davidson, ’51, of 

Stockbridge, Jun. 9, age 86. 

Robert A. Davis, ’55, of Cheshire, 

CT, Mar. 25, age 80. 

Dan C. Dwelle, ’54, of Arlington, 

VA, Jan. 20. 

Joan (Wright) Eastley, ’51, of Big 


Arthur T. Evert, ’53, of Dearborn, 

Jun. 12, age 78. 

Roger A. Forth, ’57, of Grand 

Rapids, Sep. 20, age 78. 

Alfred J. Freisem, ’50, of Adrian. 

William E. Frommann, ’55, of 

Mattawan, Apr. 30. 

John H. Fulton, ’59, of Rockton, 

IL, Nov. 14, age 78. 

William C. Gowan, ’55, of 

Okemos, Jul. 7. 

Christopher G. Grain, ’56, of Davis, 

CA, Mar. 26, age 77. 

Rial N. Greenman, ’51, of Irvine, 

CA, Feb. 24, age 79. 

Frederick A. Grinoli, ’59, of 

Prescott Valley, AZ, Aug. 15. 

Carl M. Hakes, ’55, of Onondaga, 

Apr. 14. 

Roland C. Hallquist, ’50, of Troy, 

May 29, age 83. 

Richard D. Harless, ’52, of 

Ferndale, WA, Apr. 7, age 82. 

James W. Harris, ’59, of Bloomfield 

Hills, May 6. 

Robert A. Hawkins, ’51, of East 

Jordan, Dec. 21, age 83. 

Robert L. Heilman, ’52, of London, 

OH, May 14, age 80. 

Edgar V. Hildebrant, ’58, of 

Roscommon. 

James O. Hood, ’57, of Ionia, Mar. 25. 

Clarence W. Jensen, ’58, of 

Bozeman, MT, Apr. 4. 

Donald M. Jensen, ’55, of 

Muskegon, May 17, age 76. 

Toufic N. Jildeh, ’54, of Mason, Jul. 6. 

Joan (Webb) Johnson, ’51, of 

Madison, WI. 

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C. Richard Karelse, ’58, of 

Grand Ledge, Jun. 26, age 73. 

Donald R. Karr, ’53, of Presque Isle. 

James L. Kirkman, ’55, of 

Scottsdale, AZ, Dec. 14, age 74. 

Donald W. Lloyd, ’59, of Somerset, 

MA, Aug. 21, age 76. 

Jerry E. Lynch, ’54, of Fort Gratiot, 

Apr. 18, age 88. 

John E. May, ’50, of Nederland, 

TX, May 5, age 83. 

Dain R. McKown, ’50, of Holland, 

Sep. 13, age 79. 

Robert G. Milosch, ’50, of Carleton, 

May 1. 

George W. Monaghan, ’53, of 

Edwardsburg, Aug. 16, age 85. 

Ellen L. (Westcott) Montemurri, 

’53, of Rochester, May 29, age 77. 

Eugene R. Nielsen, ’50, of Burton, 

Feb. 2, age 85. 

Evelyn D. (VanAtta) O’Dell, ’58, of 

East Lansing, May 25, age 96. 

James S. Olsen, ’58, of Frankfort, 

Apr. 25. 

Lawrence D. Paulet, ’59, of Citrus 

Springs, FL. 

Carolyn M. (Navarre) Peters, ’56, of 


Richard W. Pollock, ’53, of West 

Bloomfield, Apr. 30, age 78. 

Laurel E. Prentice, ’52, of Tucson, 

AZ, Jul. 1. 

Merle D. Raber, ’52, of Jonesville, 

Jan. 1, age 81. 

Robert L. Robinson, ’51, of 

Littleton, CO. 

Herbert R. Schroeter, ’52, of 

Lewiston, Jul. 6, age 89. 

Margaret A. (Williams) Sharkey, 

’58, of Lake Orion, Oct. 27, age 72. 

Bobbie W. Spalding, ’52, of 

Buchanan, Jan. 15, age 80. 

Kendal C. Stackhouse, ’54, of 

Annapolis, MD, May 15, age 79. 

Jack W. Steel, ’51, of Burbank, CA, 

Feb. 3, age 81. 

George W. Stevenson, ’59, of Bay 

City, Jan. 26, age 73. 

Thomas W. Stone, ’50, of 

McCordsville, IN, Dec. 5, age 86. 

William H. Storer, ’57, of 

Chesterfield, MO, Jun. 21, 

age 80. 

Howard L. Thompson, ’59, of 

Buffalo, IL, Jun. 10, age 82. 

William E. Townsend, ’55, of 

Athens, GA, Mar. 23. 

Robert R. Wenzel, ’50, of 

Southfield, Jun. 7, age 82. 

Sally K. (Sharp) Werner, ’59, of 

Rockledge, FL. 

Archie D. White, ’54, of Lansing, 

Jul. 1. 

Genevieve J. (Jonas) Widmoyer, 

’55, of Las Cruces, NM, Jun. 17, 

age 82. 

Peggy A. (Large) Wilczak, ’52, of 

Palm Springs, CA, May 29, 

age 78. 

Lloyd P. Wilkins, ’52, of Knoxville, 

TN, Mar. 6. 

Ward W. Wood, ’50, of Lansing, 

Jun. 9, age 82. 

Andrew A. Wuotila, ’52, of Mesick. 

60s 

Leslie R. Barran, ’69, of Canada. 

Joab J. Blech, ’61, of Los Altos, CA. 

Edward W. Brougham, ’60, of 

Manchester, ME, Feb. 22. 

Phyllis R. Burgess, ’68, of Fort 

Gratiot, Apr. 18, age 84. 

Joseph H. Burns, ’68, of Grosse 

Pointe Park, Apr. 1, age 69. 

Shirley A. (Wright) Bursey, ’67, of 

Hermitage, PA, Apr. 11, age 68. 

Larry L. Christoff, ’66, of Novi, Jul. 

28, age 66. 

Margaret E. (Amell) Clark, ’60, of 


Michael L. Claussner, ’68, of Eagle, 

CO, Apr. 12. 

Gary K. Clone, ’68, of 

Williamsburg. 

Barbara L. (Miller) Daily, ’66, of 

Delevan, NY, Dec. 12, age 64. 

William R. Deutsch, ’64, of Shawnee 

Mission, KS, May 2, age 79. 

Robert G. Diener, ’66, of 

Morgantown, WV, Jun. 24. 

Robert H. Easton, ’63, of Stockton, 

CA, Feb. 23, age 67. 

Doreen B. (Wood) Elliott, ’60, of 

Buffalo, NY, Feb. 18, age 70. 

Shirley J. (Ford) Ellison, ’68, of 

Austin, TX. 

Thomas J. Esterline, ’68, of 

Litchfield, Jun. 13. 

Marvin A. Freedman, ’64, of West 

Bloomfield, Mar. 25, age 72. 

C. Fred F. Gerlach, ’63, of Athens, 

GA, Apr. 28, age 69. 

James D. Giannestras, ’68, of 

Bellaire, Mar. 27, age 67. 

Danforth O. Goff, ’66, of Lansing, 

Jul. 7, age 70. 

Eileen B. (Burke) Gronseth, ’62, of 

Okemos, Mar. 17, age 87. 

Michael L. Gunesch, ’66, of Fort 

Lupton, CO, Jun. 11, age 65. 

Jay S. Haverstick, ’62, of Dayton, 

OH, May 19, age 69. 

John J. Hermann, ’66, of Grand 

Blanc. 

Ronald E. Isley, ’66, of Durham, 

NC, Mar. 20, age 65. 

Joseph S. Kawala, ’68, of New 

Baltimore, Dec. 22, age 63. 

Karyle A. Kersjes, ’68, of 

Kalamazoo, Apr. 30. 

Geraldine S. (Scott) King, ’61, of 

Leesburg, FL, May 9, age 69. 

Jay T. Knutsen, ’69, of Ann Arbor. 

Edward B. Lasky, ’64, of Deerfield 

Beach, FL, Nov. 29. 

Bert D. Lee, ’68, of Lansing, Jun. 

22, age 67. 

Yong Mok Lee, ’66, of Trenton, NJ. 

Sue A. Lindgren, ’68, of North 

Potomac, MD, Apr. 17, age 63. 

Jilaine K. Long, ’64, of Mason, Jun. 

25, age 66. 

Dattatray N. Manerikar, ’66, of 

Park Forest, IL, Apr. 28, age 82. 

Klaas M. Meyer, ’61, of Saint 

Joseph, Jun. 2. 

Blair F. Morton, ’68, of Livonia, 

May 24, age 65. 

Leonard P. Murtaugh, ’68, of Flint, 

Apr. 24, age 78. 

Diana L. (Hagopian) Nichols, ’69, of 

Gardnerville, NV, Sep. 7, age 60. 

Stuart L. Openlander, ’68, of 

Lansing, May 20, age 97. 

Isabelle K. Payne, ’61, of Okemos, 

May 3, age 87. 

Lawrence J. Perez, ’66, of Swanton, 

MD, Jun. 20. 

Peter K. Petro, ’69, of Troy, Oct. 8, 

age 76. 

Andree Y. (Layton) Roaf, ’62, of 

Pine Bluff, AR. 

Charles M. Roettger, ’65, of 

Wyoming, Mar. 13, age 85. 

Ira S. Rohter, ’64, of East Lansing, 

Jun. 22. 

Theodore Shandor, ’61, of 

Bethany Beach, DE, Jun. 29, age 83. 

Robert C. Sheldon, ’61, of Mason, 

Jun. 28, age 71. 

Thomas C. Shipp, ’62, of Holland, 

Apr. 9. 

Roseanna H. Smith, ’63, of 

Franklin, MA, Dec. 15, age 92. 

Yvonne E. Smith-Harris, ’62, of 

Adrian, Jun. 12, age 69. 

Ronald A. Soltis, ’69, of Mason, 

May 22, age 67. 

Stoakley W. Swanson, ’62, of 

Sacramento, CA, May 9, age 75. 

James S. Swift, ’63, of Falls Church, 

VA, May 30, age 82. 

Laurence A. Tate, ’67, of Oklahoma 

City, OK. 

Arthur J. Tom, ’60, of Sterling 

Heights, Jun. 23, age 73. 

Linda (Oppenhuizen) VanConant, 

’67, of Plymouth, Jun. 9, age 72. 

Glenn G. Wallace, ’60, of Manistee, 

Apr. 19. 

Lawrence J. Walsh, ’61, of Bellevue, 

WA, May 10. 

Thomas J. Wanket, ’60, of Bluffton, 

SC, May 22. 

Barbara L. (King) Weisenberger, 

’66, of Richmond, VA, Nov. 23, 

age 64. 

Francis C. Westrick, ’69, of 

Defiance, OH, Apr. 1, age 88. 

Margaret C. (Ashley) Wyrick, ’69, of 

St Johns, Jul. 12, age 92. 

Roy Yeung, ’69, of Hong Kong, 

Apr. 4. 

70s 

Mary C. (Koch) Ault, ’78, of 

Kalamazoo, Dec. 2, age 58. 

Marie F. Burton, ’75, of 

Harrisburg, PA, Dec. 21, age 54. 

Kenneth D. Corbett, ’71, of 


Anna M. Cosgrove, ’71, of Jackson, 

Jan. 8, age 80. 

Thomas F. Curran, ’72, of Fenton, 

Jul. 27, age 61. 

Paul E. Czubak, ’72, of East 

Lansing, Jun. 27. 

George H. Dannecker, ’73, of 

Rochester, May 5, age 85. 

Gary L. Davis, ’79, of Lapeer, Dec. 2. 

John T. Deines, ’74, of Denton, 

TX, Feb. 2, age 71. 

Remo Delgreco, ’77, Jan. 21, age 59. 

George W. Edwards, ’77, of 

Houston, TX. 

Kathy A. (Erdman) Erdman- 

Lawson, ’75, of Louisville, KY, 


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Mar. 25, age 55. 

Loren W. Felabom, ’73, of Tucson, 

AZ, Apr. 11, age 75. 

Lawrence A. Finfer, ’71, of 

Washington, DC, Mar. 30, age 61. 

Elliot Goldstein, ’75, of Louisville, 

KY, Oct. 15, age 55. 

Stephanie J. (Wollam) Harris, ’71, 

of Portage, Mar. 18, age 60. 

Joann Hegedus, ’71, of 

Williamston, Nov. 24, age 60. 

Benson R. Herbert, ’75, of East 


Scott B. Hicks, ’71, of Hockessin, 

DE, Apr. 3, age 61. 

Ladonna Hill, ’74, of Lansing, Jul. 

3, age 56. 

Joseph A. Hoffer, ’70, of Holland, 

Jul. 13, age 61. 

Brian V. Jones, ’74, of Lawrence, 

KS, Mar. 5, age 60. 

Robert D. Jones, ’70, of Flint, 

Oct. 14, age 70. 

Judy D. Levine, ’72, of Haslett, 

May 28, age 60. 

Ronald C. Lundgren, ’74, of Swartz 

Creek, Nov. 11, age 59. 

Virginia K. Mahinske, ’73, of 

Howell, Apr. 12. 

David W. Maters, ’72, of 

Naperville, IL, May 22, age 58. 

Keith A. Nitz, ’76, of Sebewaing. 

Erik Onufer, ’75, of Grand Rapids, 

Aug. 30, age 56. 

William L. Parker, ’75, of Detroit, 

May 19, age 65. 

Kurt M. Peterson, ’72, of Monroe, 

Mar. 31, age 58. 

William C. Prisk, ’75, of Livonia, 

Apr. 24, age 88. 

Wanda W. Roderick-Bolton, ’74, of 

Naples, FL, Mar. 21, age 69. 

Billie J. Rumler, ’79, of Portage, 

Mar. 24, age 60. 

Robert W. Smith, ’73, of East 


Stella A. Spetoskey, ’70, of Grand 

Rapids, Dec. 28, age 96. 

Sterling H. Stipe, ’75, of Lawton, 

OK, Apr. 15, age 77. 

John M. Tarras, ’74, of Okemos, 

Jun. 8, age 58. 

Michael E. Taylor, ’74, of Santa 

Clarita, CA, Jun. 27, age 56. 

Lloyd E. Waldo, ’76, of Mason, 

May 18, age 76. 

Donald P. Wieringa, ’75, of 

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Coopersville, Sep. 24, age 53. 

Edith I. Ynacay, ’79, of San 

Bernardino, CA, Apr. 11, age 74. 

80s 

Joyce A. Barnhart, ’87, of Lake 

Orion, Nov. 28, age 43. 

Jennifer D. Bette, ’85, of Portland, 

ME, Jul. 11, age 47. 

Lynne A. Buggs, ’88, of East 


Teresita S. (Torres) Dickson, ’80, of 

Palm Coast, FL, May 27, age 53. 

Maureen D. Ensley, ’87, of 

Comstock Park, Apr. 27, age 43. 

Lance A. Fertig, ’84, of Brighton, 

Jun. 5, age 58. 

Eugene F. Giszczynski, ’85, of 

Naperville, IL, Dec. 13, age 46. 

Keith F. Johnson, ’80, of 

Hattiesburg, MS, Jul. 15, age 59. 

John A. Kutscher, ’82, of Traverse 

City, May 10, age 49. 

Larry C. Livengood, ’82, of 

Neenah, WI, Jan. 19, age 53. 

Joe K. Mitschelen, ’85, of Malott, 

WA, May 22, age 46. 

Tonya A. Morse, ’82, of Fort 

Collins, CO, May 8, age 48. 

Eric W. Scarlett, ’84, of Brighton, 

May 23, age 47. 

Mark A. Schroeder, ’85, of 

Mechanicsville, VA, May 9, age 45. 

Denise M. Stein, ’83, of Saint Clair 

Shores, Jun. 15, age 47. 

Claude L. Thelen, ’84, of Lansing, 

May 12, age 78. 

Jezching Ton, ’89, of Paramus, NJ, 

Jan. 2, age 54. 

Erma L. VandenBerg, ’81, of 

Holland, Jun. 6, age 81. 

90s 

David G. Cartwright, ’93, of 

Peyton, CO, Jul. 3, age 38. 

Frank M. Elia, ’96, of Columbus, OH. 

Thomas R. Fink, ’95, of 

Birmingham, Aug. 16, age 41. 

David M. Green, ’92, of 

Washington, DC, Jul. 21, age 40. 

00s 

Donald Butcher, ’00, of Corunna, 

Jul. 24, age 56. 

Boseung J. Halliwell, ’03, of Fairfax, VT. 

Margaret A. Jervey-Page, ’07, of 

Charlevoix, Jan. 16, age 39. 

Andrew A. Neal, ’04, of Mount 

Pleasant, May 23, age 26. 

Lisa M. Weber, ’06, of Lansing, Jul. 

15, age 26. 

FACULTY 

Richard E. Chapin, of 

East Lansing, former director 

of MSU Libraries. 

Larry J. Connor, of Gainesville, FL, 

Agricultural, Food, and Resource 

Economics, 

Mar. 30, age 74. 

Carl F. Frost, of East Lansing, 

Psychology, Jun. 20, age 94. 

Vandel C. Johnson, ’63, of 

East Lansing, Educational 

Administration, May 6, age 95. 

Hans A. Lillevik, of Saint Paul, 

MN, Biochemistry & Molecular 

Biology, May 9. 

William J. Walsh, of Woodland 

Park, CO, Teacher Education, 

Jun. 7. 

MSU was notified of these 

alumni and faculty deaths 

between May 1, and July 31, 

2009. 

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