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MARK DANTONIO<br />
MEET MICHIGAN STATE’S<br />
NEW FOOTBALL COACH<br />
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<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> • Winter 2007 • Vol. 24, No. 2<br />
Cover: Photo of<br />
Mark Dantonio by<br />
Robert Hendricks for<br />
Spartanmag.com,<br />
reprinted with<br />
permission.<br />
THE IMPACT OF ENDOWMENT: WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?<br />
As <strong>MSU</strong>’s capital campaign surpasses its goal, the focus now shifts<br />
to raising endowments.<br />
16<br />
THE STUDENT ALUMNI FOUNDATION EMERGES<br />
AS NATIONAL LEADER<br />
In only two decades, <strong>MSU</strong>’s Student <strong>Alumni</strong> Foundation has<br />
emerged as the Big Ten’s largest voluntary student organization<br />
and as a national leader.<br />
20<br />
A NEW <strong>MSU</strong> RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FOCUSING ON<br />
ARTS AND HUMANITIES<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s new residential college offers students a new global and<br />
interdisciplinary emphasist on arts and humanities.<br />
26<br />
Letters to the Editor<br />
Editor, <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Magazine<br />
242 Spartan Way<br />
East Lansing, MI 48824-2005<br />
Include name, address, phone,<br />
email and <strong>MSU</strong> degree/year<br />
(if applicable). Letters may be<br />
edited.<br />
Via Fax:<br />
(517) 432-7769<br />
Via email:<br />
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NATIONAL<br />
CHAMPION!<br />
MEET MARK DANTONIO, NEW FOOTBALL COACH<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> has given Mark Dantonio a place on which to stand. Can<br />
he move the earth? Spartan Nation is abuzz with excitement.<br />
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DEPARTMENTS<br />
President’s Perspective 2<br />
In-Basket 3<br />
Around Circle Drive 4<br />
Spartan Profiles 10<br />
Sports 30<br />
Alma Matters 40<br />
<strong>State</strong>’s Stars 48<br />
Obituaries 50<br />
Lasting Impressions 52<br />
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PRESIDENT’SPERSPECTIVE<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Magazine<br />
Robert Bao<br />
Editor<br />
Bill Beekman<br />
Acting<br />
Executive Director<br />
Bev VandenBerg<br />
Associate Director<br />
Dominic Schimizzi<br />
Business Manager<br />
David Brown<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Joni Burns<br />
Administrative<br />
Assistant I<br />
Beverly Carnahan<br />
Executive Staff<br />
Assistant<br />
Louise Cooley<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Regina Cross<br />
Marketing and<br />
Sales Coordinator<br />
Cheryl Denison<br />
Marketing and<br />
Sales Coordinator<br />
Brenda Haynes<br />
Office Assistant III<br />
Dave Giordan<br />
Design<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
Susie Hamilton<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Andy Henderson<br />
Systems Manager<br />
Kristin Mackley<br />
Office Assistant III<br />
Karen Moser<br />
Office Assistant II<br />
Chris Pfeffer<br />
Information<br />
Technology<br />
Tammy Pike<br />
Secretary II<br />
L. Patrick Scheetz<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Sandy Soifer<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Barbara<br />
Susa-Fineis<br />
Event Coordinator<br />
Jackie Sweet<br />
Membership<br />
Coordinator<br />
Linda Trimble<br />
Secretary II<br />
T<br />
he beginning of a new year <strong>mark</strong>s a time when many of us<br />
pause to look back at the achievements of the past year, and then<br />
forward to the promise of the year ahead. It is a time when we<br />
reflect on our blessings, and give thanks to those who have made<br />
a positive difference in our lives. For many of us, it is also a time<br />
when we look deeply into our own lives and find ways we can<br />
improve both ourselves and the world around us.<br />
Over the years, <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> has made conscious efforts to<br />
develop in strategic and innovative ways. We have remained firmly<br />
rooted in our land-grant heritage as we have reached out globally – with our teaching,<br />
with our research, and with our outreach ventures. From our focus on experiential learning<br />
in our classrooms, to our innovative partnerships with local businesses and multi-national<br />
corporations; from our countless outreach initiatives in counties across <strong>Michigan</strong>,<br />
to our world-grant commitments in countries around the globe, <strong>MSU</strong> has demonstrated<br />
its proven ability – and follow-through – to respond to the ever-changing needs of society,<br />
and to provide solutions that work.<br />
I frequently refer to the strength and fortitude of Team <strong>MSU</strong>. While those references<br />
may seem commonplace to some, each is derived from some real and praiseworthy<br />
achievement. Like any good team, our strength and fortitude arise from a depth and<br />
breadth of diverse factors, all working together, and collectively driven by shared goals<br />
and values. With these shared goals and values as our solid base, one critical factor that<br />
continues to make Team <strong>MSU</strong> a winning team is a sustained ability to reinvigorate our<br />
lineup.<br />
As we look forward to the new year ahead, there is much that holds promise for <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong>. As this issue of the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Magazine notes, we recently welcomed Mark<br />
Dantonio as <strong>MSU</strong>’s 24th head football coach. We welcome him not only as our new<br />
coach, but also as a great teacher and role model for our players, as someone who embodies<br />
and reflects back the values, passion, and work ethic necessary to achieve success at this<br />
level.<br />
Another story in this issue features <strong>MSU</strong>’s new Residential College in the Arts and<br />
Humanities, slated to open in fall 2007. This innovative living/learning opportunity for<br />
our undergraduates will not only enhance the student experience, but also equip students<br />
to live and work effectively as global citizens of the 21st century.<br />
Each year, there are many substantive ways in which we continue to strengthen Team<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>. And each and every member of the team can contribute to its overall success. As<br />
we welcome 2007, I thank you for your support of Team <strong>MSU</strong> and wish you great success<br />
and joy in the year ahead.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
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President, <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
242 Spartan Way<br />
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INBASKET<br />
FUN, FLOATS AND THE FROG<br />
You did a great job capturing<br />
the excitement of this year’s<br />
Homecoming with “The Fun,<br />
The Floats, and The Frog” (cover<br />
story, Fall 2006). I applaud not<br />
only your coverage of Kermit<br />
and the Homecoming events,<br />
but also your coverage of <strong>MSU</strong><br />
alumni from around the world<br />
and what is happening right<br />
here on campus.<br />
Everyone should be very proud<br />
to be GREEN. I know I am.<br />
As Kermit said, “At <strong>MSU</strong>, it’s<br />
not only easy to be green. It’s<br />
essential.” Acting executive<br />
director Bill Beekman deserves<br />
special praise for going to the<br />
“swamp” and persevering to land<br />
Kermit as the Grand Marshal,<br />
guest speaker, assistant football<br />
coach, and President Simon’s<br />
comedy sidekick. This was a big<br />
one, and it deserves an A+.<br />
Margaret Hehr<br />
East Lansing<br />
GRANDPARENTS U<br />
It was a privilege for me to have<br />
participated in Grandparents<br />
<strong>University</strong> last summer at<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> with my nine year old<br />
grandson, Parker. In addition to<br />
providing me an opportunity to<br />
spend some quality time with<br />
him, the hands-on, interactive<br />
program was educational,<br />
practical and exciting for both<br />
of us. The classes brought out<br />
a new behavior in Parker that<br />
I had not witnessed before.<br />
He behaved less reserved and<br />
more proactive in the class<br />
sessions. He even volunteered<br />
to interview his grandfather in<br />
one of the classes, sharing family<br />
traditions, in front of the class.<br />
We became better informed<br />
about growing plants, the food<br />
we eat and learned a lot about<br />
stars and galaxies in the Abrams<br />
Planetarium. These and other<br />
classes were interesting and<br />
learning experiences. They were<br />
taught by experienced instructors<br />
at the level to inspire both young<br />
and old minds to think and<br />
acquire knowledge.<br />
We had fun overeating at meal<br />
time, particularly the variety<br />
of sweets, including soft serve<br />
ice cream and real ice cream<br />
at the <strong>MSU</strong> dairy. We made<br />
new friends. In fact, the entire<br />
program was structured to<br />
cultivate the Spartan Family<br />
concept. Already Parker again<br />
has requested to participate in the<br />
program next summer and his 7<br />
year old brother also has asked<br />
to be included. We are looking<br />
forward to the 2007 summer<br />
sessions and will register early to<br />
get some more great classes.<br />
Clarence Underwood, Jr.<br />
Outreach Consultant,<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> Office of Admissions<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> Athletics Director<br />
Emeritus<br />
☛ This year’s Grandparents U<br />
will be held June 27-29, 2007.<br />
Those who sign up before 5 p.m.<br />
Feb. 28 will receive a discount.<br />
For information, visit www.<br />
grandparents.msu.edu. –Editor.<br />
NEW ORLEANS PROJECT<br />
Truly enjoyed reading your<br />
article on <strong>MSU</strong>’s New Orleans<br />
Project (Fall 2006) about<br />
the efforts of Professor Joyce<br />
Grant and her students to help<br />
revitalize the New Orleans<br />
school system. Whoever would<br />
have thought that one of “the<br />
darkest corners of corners of the<br />
earth” would be America’s Gulf<br />
Coast. The efforts of professor<br />
Grant and her students personify<br />
the essence of what it means to<br />
be a Spartan.<br />
Pat Gallinagh, ’67<br />
Ironwood<br />
☛ Gallinagh was a starter on<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s national championship<br />
football teams of 1965<br />
and 1966. Also, last December<br />
another group of 53 <strong>MSU</strong><br />
students and faculty volunteers,<br />
organized by horticulture professor<br />
Art Cameron, spent five days<br />
refurbishing New Orleans’ largest<br />
park. They stayed at Camp<br />
Blessing, Sidell, LA. –Editor.<br />
SPARTAN INVENTOR<br />
I’d like to submit another<br />
candidate for your Gallery of<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> Inventors (Winter 2006).<br />
Whenever you switch on your<br />
TV and listen to stereophonic<br />
sound, you are listening to the<br />
circuitry developed and patented<br />
by James R. Simanton, ’47,<br />
and his partners at Telesonics<br />
Systems Inc. Many large<br />
corporations competed to<br />
develop such a system. Jim,<br />
from Benton Harbor, who<br />
graduated from <strong>MSU</strong> in<br />
1947 with dual BS degrees<br />
in Chemistry and Electrical<br />
Engineering, came up with the<br />
system. The Foundation we<br />
developed was recognized in<br />
1991 as an <strong>MSU</strong> Benefactor.<br />
Donna Simanton<br />
Spokane, WA<br />
NEW GLBT ALUMNI GROUP<br />
I was very excited to see your<br />
report in the Fall 2006 issue<br />
about the development and<br />
creation of the gay, lesbian,<br />
bisexual and transgender (GLBT)<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>. It’s a historic<br />
event in <strong>MSU</strong>’s alumni history.<br />
Back when I was attending <strong>MSU</strong><br />
in the middle sixties there was<br />
absolutely no visibility concerning<br />
gay and lesbian issues. Please<br />
continue to help draw the<br />
attention of the thousands of<br />
alumni across the globe who also<br />
happen to be glbt!<br />
Dennis J. Hall, ’69<br />
Lansing<br />
UPDATE<br />
}Dale Darling (“A Spartan Conquers Mount Everest,” Fall 2004),<br />
’87, M.S. ’91, has now conquered the highest peak on all Seven Continents.<br />
On November 21, Dale summited Mount Kosciuszko, at<br />
7,280 feet the highest peak of the Australian continent. Only a few<br />
climbers have achieved the seven peaks mountaineering goal.<br />
}Thomas McGuane (p. 10, Winter 1990), novelist, essayist, screenwriter<br />
and movie director, shows in his words over time how he<br />
evolved into one of America’s premier literary figures in Conversations<br />
With Thomas McGuane (<strong>University</strong> Press of Mississippi, 2006).<br />
}Mary Ann Ramsey (p. 14, Fall 2006), ’75, president of Betty<br />
Maclean Travel, Inc., Naples, FL, has been selected by Virgin<br />
Galactic to become an “Accredited Space Agents”—one of a select<br />
group allowed to reserve seats aboard Virgin Galactic’s suborbital<br />
space flights.<br />
Click Right Through for <strong>MSU</strong><br />
www.msualum.com<br />
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AROUND CIRCLE DRIVE<br />
Artist’s rendering courtesy of <strong>University</strong> Development<br />
MAJOR GIFT BOOSTS<br />
MED SCHOOL EXPANSION<br />
The Grand Rapids building<br />
that will become the new home<br />
of the <strong>MSU</strong> College of Human<br />
Medicine will be named “The<br />
Secchia Center” in recognition of<br />
a gift from alumnus Ambassador<br />
Peter F. Secchia. With this gift,<br />
the university has now reached<br />
the halfway point toward the $40<br />
million in private support required<br />
to complete the project.<br />
The naming was approved<br />
Jan. 18 by the <strong>MSU</strong> Board<br />
of Trustees, which also approved<br />
the building’s site on<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> Street across from<br />
Spectrum Health and the Van<br />
Andel Institute (see “<strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
College of Human Medicine<br />
Is Making A Bold Move West-<br />
Secchia<br />
ward,” Summer 2006, pp.<br />
26-29).<br />
The Secchia gift announcement<br />
will kick off a joint fundraising<br />
effort by <strong>MSU</strong> and Grand<br />
Action, a nonprofit organization<br />
of 250 community leaders that<br />
helped construct destination facilities<br />
in Grand Rapids.<br />
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime<br />
opportunity to combine my commitments<br />
to the university and to<br />
the community I love,” says Secchia.<br />
“I truly believe this will have<br />
a meaningful impact that will live<br />
on for generations to come.” (For<br />
more information about the Secchia<br />
gift, see page 44.)<br />
“The Secchia Center will bring<br />
to life a one-of-a-kind model for<br />
medical education and research<br />
in the 21st century,” says <strong>MSU</strong><br />
President Lou Anna K. Simon.<br />
“This new approach blends key<br />
elements of a classic medical<br />
education center with <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
traditional strength in community-based<br />
medical education.”<br />
The new center is slated to enroll<br />
its first class of 100 first-year<br />
students in 2010. When the<br />
program is at full capacity, enrollment<br />
will exceed 400. It will<br />
include research and teaching<br />
laboratories, classrooms, offices<br />
and student areas. Special partnerships<br />
between <strong>MSU</strong> and the<br />
Van Andel Institute, Spectrum<br />
Health, Saint Mary’s Health<br />
System and Grand Valley <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> have been announced<br />
recently.<br />
Photos courtesy of <strong>University</strong> Development<br />
Ferguson Foster Owen Perles<br />
NEW TRUSTEES, NEW OFFICERS<br />
Democratic candidates Faylene<br />
Owen and George Perles were<br />
elected to the <strong>MSU</strong> Board of<br />
Trustees in the Nov. 7 election.<br />
They defeated incumbents David<br />
Porteous and Dee Cook.<br />
Trustee Joel Ferguson, first<br />
elected to the board in 1986, was<br />
elected by unanimous vote in January<br />
to a two-year term as board<br />
chairperson. He previously served<br />
as chairperson in 1992. Melanie<br />
Reinhold Foster was elected to a<br />
two-year term as vice chairperson.<br />
Owen, a Democrat from East<br />
Lansing, is founder and CEO<br />
of Mica Corp. and <strong>mark</strong>eting<br />
director for Village Green.<br />
She has served as director of<br />
special projects for former Gov.<br />
James Blanchard, chairperson<br />
of Sparrow Hospital Foundation,<br />
on the boards of Child<br />
abuse Prevention and <strong>MSU</strong><br />
Safe Place, and president of<br />
the royal Oak Parent Teacher<br />
<strong>Association</strong>. She has raised<br />
two children, both of whom<br />
attended <strong>MSU</strong>, and has three<br />
grandchildren, two of whom<br />
attended <strong>MSU</strong>. Her husband,<br />
Larry Owen, is an <strong>MSU</strong> alumnus<br />
and served as <strong>MSU</strong> trustee<br />
from 1984-91.<br />
Perles, a Democrat from East<br />
Lansing, served as the former<br />
head football coach at <strong>MSU</strong><br />
from 1983-94. He was athletics<br />
director from 1990-92. He is a<br />
U.S. Army veteran and has four<br />
children and six grandchildren.<br />
Currently, he is CEO of the Motor<br />
City Bowl.<br />
Board members serve eightyear<br />
terms. Perles and Owen will<br />
begin their terms Jan. 1, 2007.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> A KEY PART<br />
OF RESEARCH CORRIDOR<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>, the <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
and Wayne <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
announced in November the creation<br />
of <strong>University</strong> Research Corridor,<br />
an ongoing alliance to work<br />
jointly to transform, strengthen<br />
and diversity <strong>Michigan</strong>’s economy.<br />
The <strong>University</strong> Research Corridor<br />
universities are a magnet for<br />
investment and jobs, and bring<br />
more than $1.3 billion in federal<br />
research grants into <strong>Michigan</strong> each<br />
year. They are seeking to speed<br />
up technology transfer, make<br />
resources more accessible and help<br />
attract new jobs to the state.<br />
The corridor partners account<br />
for 95 percent of federal academic<br />
research dollars to <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
and average about an invention<br />
a day, leading to more than 500<br />
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license agreements for new technologies<br />
and systems.<br />
“Our research universities are<br />
creators of knowledge and generate<br />
the innovations, new technologies<br />
and new businesses that<br />
not only provide jobs, but also<br />
improve the life for all citizens of<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong>,” says <strong>MSU</strong> President<br />
Lou Anna K. Simon.<br />
Detroit News columnist Dan<br />
Howes calls it “the closest thing<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> has to Silicon Valley—<br />
an intellectual powerhouse.”<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> NO. 1 IN STUDY ABROAD<br />
For the second straight year,<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> is the top public university<br />
in the U.S. for study abroad, according<br />
to Open Doors 2006,<br />
the annual report by the Institute<br />
of International Education.<br />
In 2004-2005, 2,385 <strong>MSU</strong> students<br />
studied abroad, second only<br />
to New York <strong>University</strong> among<br />
all colleges and universities.<br />
Kathleen Fairfax, director of<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s Office of Study Abroad,<br />
touts “both the strength of <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
institutional commitment to study<br />
abroad as well as the depth and<br />
breadth of faculty involvement.”<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> offers among the most<br />
diverse study abroad options,<br />
with more than 230 programs<br />
in 62 countries on all continents—including<br />
Antarctica.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> was one of five universities<br />
highlighted in a November report<br />
by NAFSA: <strong>Association</strong> of International<br />
Educators as 2006 winners<br />
of the Paul Simon Award For<br />
Campus Internationalization.<br />
LAW COLLEGE TOPS IN STATE<br />
The <strong>MSU</strong> College of Law<br />
achieved the highest pass rate<br />
on the July 2006 <strong>Michigan</strong> Bar<br />
Exam among public institutions<br />
in the state.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> had 180 first-time test<br />
takers and they achieved a 94<br />
percent pass rate, compared to<br />
the state average of 91 percent.<br />
Tied for second place—at 93<br />
percent—were Wayne <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />
with 162 first-time takers,<br />
and the <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Michigan</strong>,<br />
with 30 first-time takers. Only<br />
Ave Maria School of Law, a<br />
private Catholic law school, had<br />
graduates pass the bar at a higher<br />
rate; 96 percent of its 26 firsttime<br />
takers passed.<br />
CROUCHING TIGER—<strong>MSU</strong>’s Kresge Art Museum has acquired this<br />
fabulous Chinese ceramic pillow, dated around 1160 AD in the Jin<br />
Dynasty. The <strong>MSU</strong> purchase was funded by the Emma Grace Holmes<br />
Endowment. In early Chinese mythology and art, the tiger was<br />
regarded as an auspicious guardian beast, noted for its bravery and<br />
nobility, explains museum director Susan Bandes. This pillow was<br />
probably intended to ward off evil spirits in the night.<br />
Pillow in the Form of a Recumbent Tiger, 1160 AD<br />
Photo courtesy of Kresge Art Museum<br />
A tradition begun to honor <strong>MSU</strong>’s Sesquicentennial, Fred<br />
Honhart, director of <strong>MSU</strong> Archives & Historical Collections, will<br />
continue to highlight key moments and people in <strong>MSU</strong> history.<br />
This year is the<br />
50th anniversary of<br />
our National Superconducting<br />
Cyclotron<br />
Laboratory (NSCL).<br />
How <strong>MSU</strong> came to<br />
acquire the NSCL<br />
began in the 1950s,<br />
when <strong>MSU</strong>’s physics<br />
department wanted to<br />
enter the field of high<br />
energy physics. Under<br />
the leadership of professor<br />
Joseph Ballam,<br />
a committee decided<br />
that <strong>MSU</strong> should<br />
build a state-of-the-art<br />
cyclotron.<br />
Milton Muelder,<br />
then dean of arts and science, and<br />
later vice-president for research,<br />
enlisted the support of President<br />
John A. Hannah. Muelder<br />
enticed Sherwood Haynes from<br />
Vanderbilt <strong>University</strong> to be the<br />
new department chair. Haynes<br />
hired Henry Blosser, then at<br />
the Oak Ridge nuclear facility,<br />
to head up the <strong>MSU</strong> cyclotron<br />
research project. Blosser has<br />
since noted that <strong>MSU</strong>’s MISTIC<br />
computer (see “MISTIC Memories,”<br />
Fall 2006, p. 57), which<br />
was similar to one they used at<br />
Oak Ridge, influenced his decision<br />
to come to <strong>MSU</strong>. He and<br />
Muelder sought funding for the<br />
project from the Atomic Energy<br />
Commission (now the Dept. of<br />
Energy). At one point President<br />
Hannah told Muelder if they<br />
could not get funding <strong>MSU</strong><br />
would build its own high energy<br />
cyclotron.<br />
Henry Blosser<br />
Harley Seeley/IMC<br />
In various trips to Washington,<br />
D.C., Muelder and Blosser<br />
met with Glenn Seaborg, the<br />
head of the Atomic Energy<br />
Commission. He was intrigued<br />
by the <strong>MSU</strong> efforts and his<br />
support helped secure the<br />
project’s first National Science<br />
Foundation Grant—$700,000<br />
for a 50 MEV cyclotron at<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>. <strong>MSU</strong> would build the<br />
building housing it. Thus<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> began to develop one of<br />
the preeminent high energy<br />
nuclear research facilities in the<br />
world.<br />
In 1989, Sam Austin succeeded<br />
Blosser as NSCL director<br />
and in 1992 and he was<br />
succeeded by Konrad Gelbke.<br />
With the most recent $100<br />
million grant, Gelbke and his<br />
faculty are ready to move vigorously<br />
forward with the next half<br />
century of high energy physics<br />
research at <strong>MSU</strong>.<br />
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Photos courtesy of the Wharton Center<br />
Claremont Trio<br />
Sweet Charity<br />
Gangbe<br />
Brass Band<br />
WORLD CLASS WHARTON CENTER<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s Wharton Center clearly<br />
ranks among the world’s elite<br />
not only in box office—where it<br />
ranks 5th worldwide—but also<br />
for its continued array of worldclass<br />
performances.<br />
The Broadway Series will soon<br />
bring Molly Ringwald as Sweet<br />
Charity (April 24-29), an encore<br />
appearance of Rent Live (April<br />
6-7), and the blockbuster Wicked<br />
(July 11-22), the winner of 15<br />
major awards including a Grammy<br />
and three Tony awards.<br />
Music fans can look forward to<br />
classical, with the Claremont<br />
LESS WRINKLES WITH NANOTECH?<br />
An <strong>MSU</strong> researcher has a<br />
small suggestion for preventing<br />
wrinkles. Nano small.<br />
Ilsoon Lee, assistant professor of<br />
chemical engineering, and <strong>MSU</strong><br />
doctoral student Troy Hendricks<br />
published an online article in the<br />
American Chemical Society’s<br />
Nano Letters (December 2006)<br />
revealing that nanoparticles can<br />
potentially smooth out the buckles<br />
that cause wrinkles.<br />
Joffrey Ballet<br />
Trio (March 18), or jazz, with<br />
Keiko Matsui (March 16) and<br />
the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra<br />
(April 21) and Brandford Marsalis<br />
(May 18), or popular music,<br />
with Chick Corea & Bela Fleck<br />
(March 1) and Natalie MacMaster<br />
(March 18). Fans of world<br />
music and dance will have the<br />
Gangbe Brass Band (April 12),<br />
JIGU! (April 22) and Los Folkloristas<br />
(April 26). The Joffrey<br />
Ballet will visit on March 13.<br />
☛ For box office information,<br />
call 800-WHARTON or visit<br />
www.whartoncenter.com.<br />
The <strong>MSU</strong> researchers found<br />
that nanoparticles can stop<br />
thin polymer fi lms from wrinkling.<br />
The same principle<br />
could apply to human skin,<br />
Lee says, noting that nanoparticles<br />
can break up compressive<br />
forces impinging on a plane<br />
and prevent wrinkling.<br />
Lee’s research is supported by<br />
the National Science Foundation<br />
and the <strong>Michigan</strong> Economic<br />
Development Corp.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> JOINS CHICAGO CLIMATE<br />
EXCHANGE<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> has joined the Chicago<br />
Climate Exchange as another<br />
step in reducing greenhouse gas<br />
emissions.<br />
The exchange, or CCX, is the<br />
world’s first greenhouse gas emission<br />
registry, reduction and trading<br />
system for greenhouse gases<br />
(that arise from the burning of<br />
fossil fuels and wood). With its<br />
broad expertise in environmental<br />
sciences and its history of stewardship<br />
and tradition of student<br />
involvement, <strong>MSU</strong> will work<br />
toward a prescribed 6 percent<br />
reduction goal.<br />
“<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> has tremendous<br />
power to educate and inform, to<br />
help motivate positive changes in<br />
behaviors and to translate research<br />
by our students and faculty into<br />
practical solutions,” notes President<br />
Lou Anna K. Simon.<br />
CCX membership will position<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong>’s bioeconomy base<br />
and help move farming toward<br />
solutions in renewable fuels, nontraditional<br />
methods and crops,<br />
and environmentally sound<br />
practices, says David Skole, director<br />
of <strong>MSU</strong>’s Center for Global<br />
Change and Earth Observation.<br />
Greg L. Kohuth/<strong>University</strong> Relations<br />
REHAB CENTER HELPS ANIMALS<br />
Within a year, the Advanced<br />
Rehabilitation Center for<br />
Animals in <strong>MSU</strong>’s Veterinary<br />
Teaching Hospital has gone from<br />
nothing to “probably the most<br />
complete physical rehabilitation<br />
program in the state,” according<br />
to Patrick LeBlanc, director of<br />
the teaching hospital.<br />
The center’s patients use the<br />
facility following a surgical procedure<br />
or perhaps some other form<br />
of trauma, or maybe just to lose<br />
weight. About 30 to 50 percent<br />
of the nation’s pet population is<br />
overweight.<br />
The center offers therapeutic<br />
ultrasound, electrical stimulation,<br />
a colorful variety of therapy balls,<br />
and most stunningly, an underwater<br />
treadmill (as seen in the photo).<br />
“The buoyancy of the water supports<br />
the animal and allows it to<br />
exercise difference muscles,” notes<br />
Genia Smith, a veterinary technician<br />
at the center.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> AMONG BEST FOR WORK<br />
Every year The Scientist magazine<br />
undertakes an online survey<br />
to rank the nation’s universities for<br />
their desirability as a work place.<br />
This year, <strong>MSU</strong> ranked seventh<br />
nationally in the “Best Places To<br />
Work 2006: Academia” survey,<br />
which focused on tenured faculty<br />
in life sciences, including research,<br />
technology and business.<br />
Jim Potchen, chairman of the<br />
Executive Committee of <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
Academic Council, says <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
high ranking makes the university<br />
more appealing to potential<br />
faculty and staff members.<br />
“The ranking says something<br />
about the leadership, ambiance<br />
and attitude of the leadership at<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>,” he told the <strong>State</strong> News.<br />
“People we bring here say, ‘We<br />
didn’t know <strong>MSU</strong> was so good.’<br />
That is something we are trying<br />
to do, and it is good someone<br />
already recognizes it.”<br />
NEW LASERS ARE SMART<br />
New “smart” lasers developed<br />
by <strong>MSU</strong> scientists are the future of<br />
modern medicine and promise to<br />
draw high-tech jobs to <strong>Michigan</strong>.<br />
New lasers with rapid, ultrashort<br />
pulses allow researchers to<br />
manipulate molecules in fractions<br />
of a second have been developed<br />
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sor of chemistry, and colleagues<br />
Daniel Jones and Gavin Reid.<br />
“This kind of science that I’m<br />
working on—we call it smart<br />
laser technology—is using properties<br />
of lasers that have not been<br />
exploited before,” says Dantus.<br />
“It’s also a special type of laser<br />
with a tremendous number of<br />
applications.”<br />
These smart lasers could lead to<br />
new, safer drugs, since scientists<br />
can now study side effects at the<br />
molecular level with more precision.<br />
Scientists can also use them<br />
to analyze blood more precisely.<br />
In the hands of homeland security<br />
agents, it can help detect chemical,<br />
biological and explosive agents.<br />
The Dantus team earned $1.4<br />
million through the state’s 21st<br />
Century Jobs Fund for further<br />
research and development. Dantus’<br />
company, BioPhotonic Solutions, is<br />
one of two SmartZone businesses<br />
created in downtown East Lansing.<br />
BLACK HOLE IN CLUSTER<br />
One mystery of black holes that<br />
has confounded generations of<br />
astronomers has now been solved<br />
by <strong>MSU</strong> astronomer Stephen<br />
Zepf and an international team<br />
of astronomers.<br />
As published online in Nature<br />
(Jan. 3, 2007), Zepf and his colleagues<br />
have been able to finally<br />
confirm the existence of a black<br />
hole within a globular cluster.<br />
A black hole occurs when a<br />
large star dies, collapsing into<br />
itself and creating a gravitational<br />
field so strong that light cannot<br />
escape from it. A globular cluster<br />
is a dense group of stars. Some<br />
astronomers had questioned<br />
whether a black hole could exist<br />
within such a dense environment.<br />
Zepf and his colleagues were<br />
able to detect the X-ray emissions<br />
of a blackhole in a globular cluster<br />
known as NGC 4472. “Our timing<br />
was somewhat fortuitous,” says<br />
Zepf. “This was only the second<br />
globular cluster we looked at.”<br />
HOW TO READ “INVISIBLE INK”<br />
The Stasi, the notorious East<br />
Germany secret police, were<br />
known to use a sophisticated<br />
invisible ink for their espionage.<br />
The ink’s formula had been a<br />
secret, until now.<br />
Two professors with <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
Lyman Briggs School of Science—science<br />
historian Kristie<br />
Macrakis and chemist Ryan<br />
Sweeder—with the help of two<br />
undergraduate researchers, have<br />
figured out the invisible ink’s<br />
chemical composition.<br />
After the fall of the Berlin wall in<br />
1989, the Stasi had left behind an<br />
incomplete formula for the invisible<br />
ink, which Macrakis stumbled onto<br />
when studying the once-confidential<br />
Stasi archives. She and Sweeder<br />
set out to complete the formula in<br />
their so-called “Spy Lab,” and eventually<br />
succeeded.<br />
The Stasi encoded invisible ink<br />
messages by writing with cerium<br />
oxalate, which would then be<br />
made visible—in orange—by<br />
applying a solution of manganese<br />
sulfate, hydrogen peroxide and<br />
other chemicals.<br />
POSSIBLE HELP FOR STROKE<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> researchers have found a<br />
possibly superior way to reduce<br />
the severity of a stroke.<br />
Photo courtesy of the <strong>MSU</strong> Museum<br />
MUST SEE MUSEUM—Last fall,<br />
USA Today named the <strong>MSU</strong> Museum<br />
as one of “10 Great Places To<br />
Be Enveloped In Quilts.” The paper<br />
noted the Museum’s collection<br />
of more than 35 quilts by black<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong>ians, discovered in the<br />
mid-1980s, and highlighted Beverly<br />
Ann White’s Mr. Mandela portrait quilt (seen here). The <strong>MSU</strong><br />
Museum is home to the Great Lakes Quilt Center, with a collection<br />
of more than 500 historic and contemporary textiles, research and<br />
archival documents. “Redwork: A Textile Tradition in America” is<br />
on exhibit in the <strong>MSU</strong> Museum’s Heritage Gallery through October<br />
2007, tracing the origins and popularization of a striking red-on-white<br />
needlework technique first seen in the 1880s and still produced today.<br />
☛ For more information, call (517) 432-3800 or visit<br />
www.museum.msu.edu/glqc.<br />
Arshad Majid, associate professor<br />
of neurology and ophthalmology,<br />
and colleagues have found<br />
that the dietary supplement<br />
carnosine—a common product<br />
available over-the-counter—consistently<br />
reduced the severity of<br />
stroke by up to 50 percent in<br />
laboratory mice.<br />
“That’s huge,” says Majid. “At<br />
first, I didn’t believe the results,<br />
so we repeated the test many<br />
times. These are very promising<br />
results. If you can reduce<br />
the size of the stroke by half,<br />
that means less disability for the<br />
patient.”<br />
The researchers also found<br />
that use of carnosine was still<br />
effective after the onset of stroke<br />
symptoms. Majid notes that<br />
carnosine is nontoxic, whereas<br />
current stroke medications can<br />
be dangerous.<br />
HAND-HELD DEVICE TESTS<br />
PATHOGENS<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> researchers are developing<br />
a hand-held device that can<br />
test for deadly food, air and water<br />
pathogens.<br />
Syed Hashsham, associate professor<br />
of civil and environmental<br />
engineering at the Center for<br />
Microbial Ecology (CME), is<br />
developing a portable device that<br />
can detect up to 50 microbial<br />
threat agents.<br />
“This device will give us the<br />
ability to measure pathogens in a<br />
manner and at a price that really<br />
matters for human health,” says<br />
Hashsham.<br />
Currently testing for pathogens<br />
like cholera and dysentery<br />
must be done one pathogen at<br />
a time. The device is capable<br />
of simultaneous testing, thus<br />
simplifying the process and increasing<br />
the cost-effectiveness.<br />
Hashsham has been awarded<br />
$966,608 from the 21st Century<br />
Jobs Fund to develop and commercialize<br />
the device. His team<br />
includes James Tiedje, <strong>University</strong><br />
Distinguished Professor of crop<br />
and soil sciences and director of<br />
the CME.<br />
EVENING COLLEGE EXPANDS WEST<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s Evening College, which<br />
has provided noncredit personal<br />
enrichment for alumni since 1951,<br />
has expanded into<br />
Grand Rapids.<br />
Beginning in<br />
Spring 2007, several<br />
courses will be held<br />
in the Kent County<br />
Extension Building<br />
in Grand Rapids.<br />
This move was<br />
made in concert<br />
with <strong>MSU</strong> Extension,<br />
Central<br />
Region, and the<br />
West <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
alumni regional club, notes Louise<br />
Cooley, director of Evening<br />
College and assistant director of<br />
the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
“We’re offering five classes,<br />
ranging from information strategies<br />
to European travel and<br />
medieval art books,” says Cooley.<br />
“This expansion allows us to<br />
serve a much larger constituency.”<br />
Evening College is offered by<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Lifelong Education, a<br />
component of the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong>. Those wishing<br />
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to take classes need to register.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong> annual<br />
and life members receive<br />
discounts.<br />
☛ Contact 517-355-4562 or visit<br />
www.msualum.com/evecoll.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> KUDOS<br />
Every semester <strong>MSU</strong> faculty,<br />
staff and students garner kudos<br />
too numerous to list exhaustively<br />
here. Some examples:<br />
4Three <strong>MSU</strong> professors have<br />
been named 2006 American<br />
<strong>Association</strong> for the Advancement<br />
of Science Fellows: Shelagh<br />
Ferguson-Miller, <strong>University</strong> Distinguished<br />
Professor and chair<br />
of biochemistry and molecular<br />
biology; Kenneth Keegstra, <strong>University</strong><br />
Distinguished Professor<br />
in biochemistry and molecular<br />
biology; and Robert Pennock,<br />
professor in the Lyman Briggs<br />
School of Science.<br />
4Hiram Fitzgerald, <strong>University</strong><br />
Distinguished Professor of psychology<br />
and associate provost<br />
for outreach and engagement,<br />
has won Zero To Three’s 2006<br />
Dolley Madison Award for Outstanding<br />
Lifelong Contribution<br />
to the development and well-being<br />
of very young children and<br />
their families.<br />
4Guofang Li, associate professor<br />
of second language and literacy<br />
education, was awarded the Edward<br />
Fry Book Award for her book,<br />
Culturally Contested Pedagogy.<br />
4Shanti A. Zaid, ’06, a member<br />
of <strong>MSU</strong>’s Honors College<br />
and history major, has been<br />
awarded a 2007 Marshall scholarship,<br />
which covers all costs for<br />
two years of study in the United<br />
Kingdom. He is one of 40<br />
scholarship winners in the U.S.<br />
4The <strong>State</strong> News, <strong>MSU</strong>’s student-run<br />
campus daily, has won<br />
its 15th Pacemaker Award—<br />
dubbed “the Pulitzer Prize of<br />
collegiate journalism”—at the<br />
National College Media Convention<br />
last fall.<br />
NEW HIRES ON CAMPUS<br />
4James Pivarnik, professor of<br />
kinesiology and epidemiology<br />
and director of the Center for<br />
Physical Activity and Health,<br />
has been named <strong>University</strong> Intellectual<br />
Integrity Officer. He<br />
succeeds Loran Bieber, who is<br />
retiring from <strong>MSU</strong>.<br />
4Cliff F. Thompson, dean<br />
emeritus of the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Wisconsin Law School, has been<br />
named acting dean of the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
College of Law. <strong>MSU</strong> College<br />
of Law Dean Terence Blackburn<br />
is on leave currently serving as a<br />
legal reform specialist in Jordan<br />
for the American Bar <strong>Association</strong><br />
Middle East Programs.<br />
HIGH RANKS FOR<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> RESEARCH<br />
Two <strong>MSU</strong> departments,<br />
accounting and philosophy,<br />
topped the rankings for published<br />
scholarly activity of its<br />
faculty.<br />
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity<br />
Index, which ranks<br />
faculty for the number of<br />
publications and citations in<br />
scholarly journals, as well as<br />
funding, has those two departments<br />
higher than their counterparts<br />
at 353 other research<br />
universities.<br />
“It’s really nice that we are<br />
being recognized,” says Kathy<br />
Petroni, acting chairperson<br />
of the Accounting and Information<br />
Systems Dept. Adds<br />
Richard Peterson, philosophy<br />
chairperson, “Our department<br />
has got a number of very active<br />
and talented faculty.”<br />
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES OF<br />
YOUR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION<br />
By Bill Beekman,’89, Acting Executive<br />
Director<br />
As I write this column in mid-January,<br />
winter has finally descended on us<br />
here in mid-<strong>Michigan</strong>. The warmth<br />
of our extended fall has passed, winter<br />
coats are out, and the wind chill is down<br />
in the single digits. Personally, I’m ready for spring. But the cold<br />
weather isn’t slowing us down here at your alumni association.<br />
On Friday, January 12, Sparty was crowned the national champion<br />
mascot by the Universal Cheer <strong>Association</strong>. Sparty has<br />
received this honor three of the last four years; an incredible feat.<br />
You may not know that Sparty is the responsibility of the Student<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Foundation, a unit of the alumni association. SAF, as<br />
we call it within the alumni association, is featured on page 20 of<br />
this issue of the magazine. Our great team at SAF runs the best<br />
mascot program in the country and the Izzone and Corner Blitz<br />
are now models for how others across the country establish student<br />
cheering sections.<br />
We are working hard to communicate more effectively with your<br />
club and on-campus alumni leaders. We conducted an alumni leadership<br />
conference in East Lansing in November and will be on the<br />
road with a conference in Las Vegas in late January and Charlotte,<br />
North Carolina in early February.<br />
We’re also gearing up for a strong schedule of spring activities.<br />
Kaleidoscope, a day for women, will take place on April 27, featuring<br />
singer and author Naomi Judd. Then we welcome back graduates<br />
of fifty years or more to the annual Kedzie reunion on June<br />
8. We’re also excited to participate in Grandparents <strong>University</strong>,<br />
featured in the last issue of this magazine (pp. 28-31, Fall 2006),<br />
on June 27-29.<br />
There’s also a lot going on behind the scenes. Your alumni<br />
board of directors is busy working on a new strategic planning<br />
process to lead us into the future. They are also working on a new<br />
governance model that will increase the number of people that<br />
participate in the governance of your alumni association. Here in<br />
the office we’re in the process of rethinking how we do business,<br />
exploring operational efficiencies, and working hard to improve<br />
quality and consistency in everything we do.<br />
In the coming months we hope you’ll notice a new campaign<br />
designed to increase awareness of the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
and all we have to offer. There is a lot going on and we want you<br />
and your more than 400,000 alumni colleagues to know about it!<br />
Finally, if there is anything that we here at the alumni association<br />
can do for you, please don’t hesitate to email, call, write, or<br />
stop in. We’d love to hear from you.<br />
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The <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong> would like<br />
to welcome our newest<br />
Life Members. We thank<br />
you and commend you<br />
for your willingness to<br />
share our commitment to<br />
this university through<br />
membership in the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
Paul and<br />
Christine Caragher<br />
Fort Collins, CO<br />
Dewane and<br />
Mary Cogswell<br />
Commerce, MI<br />
Anthony Conniff<br />
Dearborn, MI<br />
Demetrios Dallis<br />
Chicago, IL<br />
Jack Jenkins<br />
Lansing, MI<br />
Rodney Jewett<br />
East Lansing, MI<br />
Gary Johnson<br />
Durand, MI<br />
Wolfram Kaehler<br />
GERMANY<br />
Michael and Peggy Kelley<br />
Brownsburg, IN<br />
Shehrezad Muzher<br />
Mason, MI<br />
Timothy Myaard<br />
Cincinnati, OH<br />
Kevin Newman<br />
Okemos, MI<br />
Brandon Norwood<br />
Detroit, MI<br />
James O’Brien<br />
Novi, MI<br />
Edward and Mary Sergent<br />
Newnan, GA<br />
Stephen and<br />
Patricia Sokolow<br />
Locust Valley, NY<br />
Lindsey and<br />
Kai Sorensen<br />
Chicago, IL<br />
Kary Stacy<br />
Lakeland, FL<br />
James Baker<br />
Washington, DC<br />
William Beachler<br />
East Lansing, MI<br />
Gregory and Trisha Bird<br />
Haslett, MI<br />
Grant Bolhuis<br />
Chicago, IL<br />
Dawn and Albert Bolles<br />
Lake Forest, IL<br />
Erin Bomba<br />
New York, NY<br />
Brian and<br />
Catherine Brenton<br />
Northville, MI<br />
James Darrow<br />
Brooklyn, NY<br />
Patrick and Gail Donohue<br />
Township of Washington, NJ<br />
Gary and Rita Gallagher<br />
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Michael and Julie<br />
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Steven Landry<br />
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Robert Lavoie<br />
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Laura Paas<br />
Saginaw, MI<br />
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Lawrence and<br />
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SPARTAN PROFILES<br />
JOANNE ULNICK:<br />
DUCKER WORLDWIDE<br />
In 1961, William Ducker<br />
founded Ducker Worldwide<br />
LLC, a <strong>mark</strong>eting and research<br />
consultancy that provides global<br />
analysis, especially in automotive<br />
systems and construction. After<br />
he passed away in 1996, the company,<br />
now based in Troy, has tripled<br />
its revenues under the leadership<br />
of daughter Joanne Ulnick,<br />
’83, who was recently labeled a<br />
“Portrait of Success” by Crain’s<br />
Detroit Business. The firm boasts<br />
offices in Paris, Berlin, Montreal,<br />
Bangalore and Shanghai, has<br />
diversified its product base into<br />
industrial products, electronics<br />
and chemicals, grows at a 20<br />
percent per year clip, and counts<br />
among its clients Masco Corp.,<br />
Sony Corp., DaimlerChrysler<br />
AG, BASF Corp., and Dow<br />
Chemical Co. In 2006, revenues<br />
exceeded $15 million. “I have a<br />
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great team, so I can’t take all the<br />
credit,” says Ulnick. “It was my<br />
father’s idea to diversify, and we’ve<br />
certainly brought in researchers<br />
and analysts with industry experience<br />
to add to our research expertise.”<br />
Joanne explains that in<br />
recent years Ducker has evolved<br />
into a full-service provider, offering<br />
not just research data, but<br />
also follow-up <strong>mark</strong>eting strategies.<br />
A native of Birmingham,<br />
Joanne had two sisters attending<br />
the <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Michigan</strong> and<br />
one, Patty, at <strong>MSU</strong>. “Patty was<br />
having so much fun at <strong>MSU</strong><br />
with Magic Johnson and all<br />
that,” recalls Joanne, who picked<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> over <strong>Michigan</strong>. “Overall<br />
I enjoyed <strong>MSU</strong> very much,” she<br />
says. “I found a group of friends<br />
(at Alpha Phi sorority) with similar<br />
values and goals in life and<br />
we’ve maintained that friendship<br />
through the years.” She enjoyed<br />
her business classes, especially one<br />
in business law in a Study Abroad<br />
program at Erasmus <strong>University</strong><br />
in Rotterdam. “The coursework<br />
was very, very hard,” she recalls.<br />
“We traveled on weekends, but it<br />
wasn’t just go to Europe and have<br />
fun. The professor was very engaging.<br />
I’d say that was my most<br />
memorable college experience.”<br />
MARTIE SANDERS:<br />
MONOLOGUE MAVEN<br />
She is an original “mighty<br />
monologue maven,” one of a<br />
group of Chicago actresses who<br />
in 1993 founded the Sweat<br />
Girls—who, “coiffed and dangerous,”<br />
deliver hilarious autobiographical<br />
rants on stage. She<br />
recently won acclaim portraying<br />
Mae West in Dirty Blonde at the<br />
Madison Repertory Theatre in<br />
Wisconsin, and then continued at<br />
Madison starring in the one-character<br />
comedy Bad Dates—again,<br />
delivering hilarious monologues<br />
about her failed dates and her<br />
600 shoes. Next for rising actress<br />
Martie Sanders, ’86, will<br />
be performing her own work at<br />
Chicago’s Live Bait theater. “I’ve<br />
had some great shows and wonderful<br />
experiences,” says Sanders,<br />
who grew up in Detroit suburbs.<br />
“I’ve enjoyed the way I’ve been<br />
stretched as an actor.” Her<br />
monologue experience with Sweat<br />
Girls—which she co-founded<br />
with two fellow Spartans, Rose<br />
Abdoo, ’84, and Dorothy Milne,<br />
’80—proved very helpful in<br />
Bad Dates, which was one long<br />
monologue. “You go full throttle<br />
for 90 minutes, with no breaks.<br />
It’s a real challenge, but it works.”<br />
Martie says <strong>MSU</strong> gave her great<br />
acting opportunities from the<br />
get-go. “Even as a first-term<br />
freshman, I was able to audition<br />
for roles,” she says, noting that she<br />
performed at Summer Circle, the<br />
Auditorium, and the then-new<br />
Wharton Center, and was active<br />
as a board member of the studentrun<br />
New Arena Theater. “We<br />
had a very hands-on participation<br />
in the artistic part of our theater<br />
program,” she recalls. “It was<br />
exciting and eye-opening. You<br />
got to see exactly how a theater is<br />
run.” She touts many professors,<br />
including Arthur Athanason and<br />
Frank Rutledge. “Athanason<br />
could take a play and just get you<br />
inside of it and demonstrate the<br />
power of drama,” she notes. “It<br />
was awesome and inspiring.” She<br />
also credits Rutledge with using<br />
innovative teaching tools, including<br />
once staging a shooting of<br />
Martie for arriving late to class.<br />
“It set up his lecture about the<br />
power of surprise,” she notes with<br />
a chuckle.<br />
Brent Nicastro<br />
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ROBERT GOLDBORT:<br />
WRITING FOR SCIENCE<br />
Writing for science has surged<br />
in importance in this era of multiple<br />
breakthroughs. Few people<br />
are more qualified to talk about<br />
it than Robert Goldbort, M.A.<br />
’81, Ph. D. ’89, an English professor<br />
at Indiana <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
who boasts two degrees in biology<br />
and two degrees in English,<br />
and whose doctoral thesis at<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> was titled Scientific Writing<br />
and the College Curriculum.<br />
And, in fact, Goldbort has just<br />
published Writing For Science<br />
(Yale <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006),<br />
which is receiving worldwide<br />
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distribution. “The key to<br />
scientific writing is that you<br />
need absolute objectivity<br />
along with utmost clarity<br />
and simplicity,” he explains<br />
from his office in Terre Haute,<br />
IN. “You cannot afford to be<br />
somewhat unclear in conveying<br />
scientific fact. Ambiguity can<br />
enrich literature, but not scientific<br />
writing.” Robert says that<br />
today’s scientist needs to do a<br />
better job writing. “Many find<br />
writing a bother,” he notes. “Scientists<br />
prefer to be in a lab. But<br />
they need to communicate what<br />
goes on in the lab because much<br />
of today’s research is funded by<br />
the taxpayer.” A native of New<br />
York, Robert became enamored<br />
of scientific writing at <strong>MSU</strong><br />
when he had to teach a freshman<br />
sequence as a graduate assistant.<br />
“I found that, first, that the field<br />
existed, and two, that it was an<br />
exploding field,” he says. “I fell<br />
in love with the whole area.”<br />
He touts his <strong>MSU</strong> advisor Stephen<br />
Tchudi (formerly Judy)<br />
for having encouraged him. “I<br />
can’t give you enough superlatives<br />
about him,” he says. “He<br />
continues to be a model for me<br />
today.” Robert is now working<br />
on a book about “Third Culture<br />
Rhetoric,” dealing with works of<br />
fiction by scientists. “There will<br />
be a chapter about (the late <strong>MSU</strong><br />
molecular biologist) Leonard<br />
Isaacs, who taught in Lyman-<br />
Briggs,” says Robert. “He was<br />
involved in the Clarion Science<br />
Fiction Workshop and was very<br />
much into the use of fiction to<br />
teach basic biology.”<br />
JEMELE HILL:<br />
ESPN PAGE TWO<br />
How do you become a sports<br />
columnist? Be a good sportswriter,<br />
and also—apparently—be<br />
male and white. A recent<br />
survey of 305 newspapers found<br />
only one black female sports<br />
columnist. That was Jemele<br />
Hill, ’97, a sportswriter with the<br />
Detroit Free Press who was hired<br />
in 2005 as a sports columnist by<br />
the Orlando Sentinel. “That was<br />
an absolutely startling stat,” says<br />
Hill, 31. “And now, there are<br />
none.” In December, Jemele left<br />
the Sentinel to become a columnist<br />
for ESPN Page 2 and a writer<br />
for ESPN The Magazine. “This<br />
is a great job and I’m meshing<br />
well and having a lot of fun,”<br />
says Jemele. “ESPN brings<br />
two things no one can match.<br />
One, the audience. Two, the<br />
web site. It’s international.<br />
You write something, and<br />
you might get 1,000 emails.”<br />
Jemele’s initial columns have<br />
been pretty edgy, but creative<br />
and compelling, and<br />
at times humorous. She is<br />
not afraid to tackle racial<br />
angles. “I like to push the envelope,”<br />
she notes. “Sometimes<br />
you need that to make people<br />
think. I’m able to bring a take<br />
that’s different or maybe that<br />
people will talk about behind<br />
closed doors and are afraid to<br />
bring out into the mainstream.”<br />
A native of Detroit, Jemele knew<br />
at a very early age she wanted to<br />
become a sportwriter. At age 15,<br />
she had an internship with the<br />
Detroit Free Press. “Everybody<br />
that worked for them were from<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>,” she recalls. “I found out<br />
that the <strong>MSU</strong> journalism program<br />
had a very strong professional<br />
network, and that’s why I<br />
went to <strong>MSU</strong>.” She joined the<br />
<strong>State</strong> News, becoming managing<br />
editor, but did not cover<br />
sports—opting instead to get a<br />
strong news foundation. “(Journalism<br />
professor) Steve Lacy<br />
was a terrific mentor,” she says.<br />
“He taught me a lot about the<br />
business.” She considers herself<br />
fortunate for her meteoric rise<br />
to columnist. “I certainly didn’t<br />
expect it to happen so early,” says<br />
Jemele. “I feel blessed that my<br />
career has unfolded this way.”<br />
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LAURA & ROB SAMS:<br />
SISBRO PRODUCTIONS<br />
They are siblings, they both<br />
studied zoology at <strong>MSU</strong>, and<br />
now they have an Okemos-based<br />
company, Sisbro Studios LLC,<br />
that produces nature films for<br />
children. Their most recent<br />
film, Lost in the Woods, won a<br />
Panda Award at the Wildscreen<br />
Festival in Bristol, England—the<br />
Oscar equivalent of the wildlife<br />
and environmental film industry.<br />
“We’re super excited,” says Laura<br />
Sams, ’00, M.S. ’03. “The<br />
award has been called the Green<br />
Oscar.” Adds brother Rob Sams,<br />
’03, “We were chosen by children,<br />
our audience. That’s special.”<br />
They beat out such competitors<br />
as National Geographic,<br />
Discovery and the BBC. The<br />
children of an Air Force general,<br />
Ronald Sams, ’72, who returns<br />
to <strong>MSU</strong> every year to play in the<br />
alumni marching band, Laura<br />
and Rob grew up liking each<br />
other. “We’re an oddity in that<br />
we never fought much,” recalls<br />
Rob. Adds Laura, “Our ideas<br />
tend to match and we sort of<br />
feed off of each other.” They<br />
write their own music and do<br />
their own filming, and they also<br />
do presentations to elementary<br />
schools throughout <strong>Michigan</strong>.<br />
Although they lived all over the<br />
map, each chose to attend <strong>MSU</strong>,<br />
where they met great mentors.<br />
Laura cites Kay Holekamp, with<br />
whom she went to Africa to<br />
study hyenas. Rob cites zoologist<br />
Dick Hill, who “was really<br />
supportive and went out of his<br />
way to help me.” The duo’s next<br />
project is an underwater movie,<br />
supported by a grant from the<br />
Save Our Seas Foundation.<br />
They spent months filming baby<br />
sea turtles in Florida, and are<br />
headed to Hawaii in January to<br />
film tidepool critters and other<br />
life on coral reefs. Says Laura,<br />
“We’re lucky to be able to blend<br />
all our interests like this.” Adds<br />
Rob, “We love the same sense<br />
of humor that you see with Jim<br />
Henson’s muppets. Kermit was<br />
my lifetime hero. When I met<br />
him at the Homecoming Parade,<br />
oh my goodness, that was a<br />
dream come true.”<br />
JOHN LEPARD:<br />
WILLIAMSTON THEATRE<br />
Assuming there are voices in<br />
the Midwest worth hearing,<br />
how can one assemble them at a<br />
theatre that is accessible and affordable?<br />
Ann Arbor has Purple<br />
Rose Theatre in nearby Chelsea,<br />
and now East Lansing boasts<br />
the Williamston Theatre just 11<br />
miles east. John Lepard, ’88,<br />
whose acting credits range from<br />
film and television to live theatre<br />
off-Broadway, is executive director<br />
of the new theater, working<br />
alongside three colleagues who<br />
are also alumni of the Purple<br />
Rose. “It’s coming along great,”<br />
Lepard says of the new theater<br />
(see www.williamstontheatre.<br />
org). “It has grown incrementally<br />
and we’ve built our audience<br />
every step of the way.” He notes<br />
that recent production Rounding<br />
Third sold out its last week,<br />
and their holiday show, Every<br />
Christmas Story Ever Told, was a<br />
complete sellout. “It’s scary any<br />
time you try something new, but<br />
I’m really excited about this,”<br />
says John. “Just like Chelsea,<br />
this is a great location, being<br />
near <strong>MSU</strong> and I-96. This year<br />
we employed 57 people, ranging<br />
from actors to set designers<br />
to writers.” A native of Haslett,<br />
John credits <strong>MSU</strong> with helping<br />
him discover what he wanted to<br />
do in theater. “Acting,” he says.<br />
“I realized I had the chops to do<br />
it.” He credits Frank Rutledge,<br />
Joyce Ramsay and Dixie Durr<br />
with being great influences.<br />
“Dixie Durr had a great work<br />
ethic,” John recalls. “When she<br />
directed a production, you really<br />
got some direction. She didn’t<br />
let you get away with anything.”<br />
John got his Screen Actors Guild<br />
card while doing commercial<br />
and industrial films, then spent<br />
seven years in California, where<br />
he acted in TV dramas, soap<br />
operas and independent films.<br />
Now that he’s back in <strong>Michigan</strong>,<br />
he looks forward to fulfilling the<br />
Williamston Theatre’s mission<br />
of “telling stories for and about<br />
people in this part of the world.”<br />
J.D. Small Studios<br />
John Lepard performed the<br />
role of Little League baseball<br />
coach Don in the Williamston<br />
Theatre’s production of<br />
Rounding Third.<br />
MEGAN RAPHAEL:<br />
THE COURAGE CODE<br />
Every day women perform acts<br />
of “courage” in ways different<br />
than the traditional, masculine<br />
meaning of the word. In this<br />
unspoken feminine language, or<br />
code, women are changing the<br />
world for the better. So argues<br />
Megan E. Raphael, ’73, former<br />
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president of Raphael-Leritz Consulting,<br />
Portland, OR, co-author<br />
of The Courage Code (Utopia<br />
Press, 2006). In the book, she<br />
and co-author Jennifer Byron<br />
profile 44 women, including<br />
several <strong>MSU</strong> graduates, like<br />
Sen. Debbie Stabenow. “Most<br />
women don’t see themselves as<br />
courageous,” says Raphael, who<br />
now works out of Traverse City.<br />
“But once they see themselves<br />
as courageous, they can really<br />
step into the world and become<br />
even more courageous, in the<br />
feminine sense of the word.<br />
It’s the everyday choices to live<br />
authentically, to live according<br />
to what’s of value to them.” A<br />
native of Detroit, Megan also<br />
believes her feminine principle<br />
of courage—which emphasizes<br />
collaboration as opposed to<br />
force—is more valuable in helping<br />
solve societal problems. “I<br />
had a great experience at <strong>MSU</strong>,”<br />
says Megan, who met her<br />
husband Peter on campus. “I<br />
remember the fun of dorm life.<br />
I was an R.A. I loved my social<br />
work program.” After serving<br />
as the health services director<br />
for the Grand Traverse Band of<br />
Ottawa and Chippewa Indians,<br />
Megan currently does presentations<br />
and personal coaching<br />
(she is scheduled to speak at<br />
the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>’s<br />
Kaleidoscope event at Kellogg<br />
Center on April 27). She notes<br />
that her book has been well<br />
received in Northern <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
and has garnered good<br />
reviews. “We’re not yet a New<br />
York Times best-seller,” she says.<br />
“That comes next!”<br />
SANDER DEVRIES:<br />
LOSE YOUR JUNK MAIL<br />
If you are an average American,<br />
you receive 41 pounds of junk<br />
mail per year. So says a new<br />
service, 41pounds.org, which<br />
wants to help. For a one-time<br />
fee of $41, the service promises<br />
to eliminate up to 95 percent of<br />
your junk mail for the next five<br />
years. “Half of the money will go<br />
to a charity of your choice,” says<br />
Sander DeVries, ’05, who cofounded<br />
the Ferndale, MI-based<br />
service with two brothers. A native<br />
of Shelby Township, DeVries<br />
was an English major at <strong>MSU</strong>—<br />
which he calls “a fantastic four<br />
years of my life.” After <strong>MSU</strong>, he<br />
worked in sales for his brothers’<br />
computer networking company.<br />
“One day, we were at my brother’s<br />
house and he had all this<br />
junk mail piled up, mail that he<br />
didn’t open,” he recalls. “So we<br />
began to figure out how we could<br />
stop it.” They worked on it and<br />
eventually found a system that<br />
involved contacting 30 of the<br />
nation’s biggest direct <strong>mark</strong>eters<br />
and bulk mailers. “We sent an<br />
email to our friends explaining to<br />
them how to do it,” says Sander.<br />
“But no one followed up. It was<br />
a time-consuming process and<br />
it involved signatures. So we<br />
said, ‘OK, we’ll do it for them.’”<br />
And so, in June, they launched<br />
their company—a mail version<br />
of the “Do Not Call” service to<br />
restrain tele<strong>mark</strong>eting. “Since<br />
then we’ve saved 850 trees and<br />
more than 200,000 gallons of<br />
water,” says Sander. “We’ve<br />
prevented more than 150,000<br />
pounds of carbon dioxide from<br />
being released into the air.”<br />
Because the company donates<br />
half its profits to charity, mostly<br />
environmental nonprofits and<br />
school groups, says Sander,<br />
many in the community have<br />
volunteered to help with fundraising<br />
efforts. “Most people<br />
tell us this is a great idea,” says<br />
Sander, who recently got 200<br />
new clients after a plug from a<br />
local television station. “We’re<br />
a good option for all those who<br />
want to get rid of all this waste.”<br />
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2007 TRAVEL PROGRAMS<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> ALUMNI ASSOCIATION<br />
All dates, prices and itineraries are subject to change. Reservations are on a firstcome,<br />
first-serve basis. Since the <strong>MSU</strong>AA partners with other universities, many<br />
tours fill quickly. It is essential that you make your reservation early to reserve<br />
space on the tour. Brochures are generally available six to eight months prior to<br />
trip departure.<br />
For more information on our 2007 tours go to www.msualum.com and click on<br />
travel or call (888) 697-2863 to request brochure(s) or a 2007 travel catalog.<br />
Egypt<br />
March 2-11<br />
International Expeditions<br />
Program Type: Land & Cruise<br />
aboard the M/S Ti-Yi<br />
From: $2,898<br />
Destinations: Cairo • Pyramids of<br />
Giza • The Spinx • Sakkara • Luxor<br />
• Aswan • Abu Simbel • Egyptian<br />
Museum<br />
A 5-day post-extension to Jordan is<br />
also available<br />
Treasures of New Zealand<br />
March 15-28<br />
Sold Out<br />
Alternate Dates Available:<br />
March 8-21<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Holidays International<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $3,995 + air<br />
Destinations: Auckland •<br />
Rotorua • Napier •Christchurch •<br />
Queenstown<br />
Voyage of the Canary Islands<br />
April 22-30<br />
Gohagan & Co.<br />
Program Type: Cruise aboard<br />
the M/S Le Diamant<br />
From: $2,995 + air<br />
Destinations: Gran Canaria •<br />
Tenerife • La Palma • Madeira •<br />
Gibraltar • The Algarve • Malaga<br />
A pre-extension in Madrid and<br />
a post-extension in the Granada<br />
Riviera are also available<br />
Voyage of the Western<br />
Mediterranean<br />
April 29-May 7<br />
Gohagan & Co.<br />
Program Type: Cruise<br />
aboard M/S Le Diamant<br />
From: $2,995 + air<br />
Destinations: Malaga • Balearic<br />
Islands • Corsica • Rome<br />
(Civitavecchia) • Florence •<br />
Portofino • Nice<br />
A pre-extension in Marbella and a<br />
post-extension in the French Riviera<br />
are also available<br />
Sicily ~ Taormina & Mondello<br />
May 19-30<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Holidays International<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $2,845 + air<br />
Destinations: Mt. Etna • Syracuse<br />
Agrigento • Palermo • Segesta •<br />
Monreale • Erice • Cefalù<br />
Essential Europe<br />
for New Graduates<br />
May 21-June 14<br />
AESU Travel<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $2,983 + air<br />
Destinations: London • English<br />
Channel • Paris • Brussels •<br />
Amsterdam • Dutch Countryside<br />
• Cologne • Rhine River Cruise •<br />
Black Forest • Swiss Alps • Lucerne<br />
• Munich • Austrian Lake District •<br />
Venice • Florence • Rome • Vatican<br />
City • Sorrento • Pompeii • Athens<br />
Tuscany ~ Cortona<br />
May 30-June 7 New Dates<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Holidays International<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $2,295 + air<br />
Destinations: Cortona • Assisi •<br />
Perugia • Montepulciano • Siena •<br />
Florence<br />
Treasures of Japan<br />
June 10-20 New Dates<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Holidays International<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $3,545 + air<br />
Destinations: Tokyo • Nikko • Mt.<br />
Fuji • Hakone • Kyoto • Nara<br />
Cruise the Mediterranean<br />
June 12-20<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Holidays International<br />
Program Type: Cruise aboard the<br />
Crystal Serenity<br />
From: $2,895 + air<br />
Destinations: Athens, Nauplion,<br />
Santorini and Mykonos, Greece •<br />
Kusadasi, Turkey • Sorrento and<br />
Rome, Italy •<br />
A three-night optional postextension<br />
in Rome is also available<br />
Great Journey Through Europe<br />
(Featuring the deluxe M.S.<br />
Amadeus Princess and the Glacier<br />
Express)<br />
July 13-25 New Dates<br />
Gohagan & Co.<br />
Program Type: Cruise,<br />
Land & Train<br />
From: $3,395 + air<br />
Destinations: Amsterdam, The<br />
Netherlands • Cologne, Koblenz,<br />
Rüdesheim and Mannheim,<br />
Germany • Strasbourg, France<br />
• Basell, Gruyères, Montreux,<br />
Zermatt, Lucerne and Zurich,<br />
Switzerland<br />
A two-night optional pre-program<br />
in Amsterdam also available<br />
Multi-Sport Adventure<br />
July 21-28<br />
Northwest Voyageurs<br />
Program Type: Adventure<br />
From: $1,599 + air<br />
Optional Activities: Rafting &<br />
Kayaking on the Salmon River •<br />
Horseback Riding • Hiking • Trout<br />
& Fly Fishing • Golfing<br />
Accommodations are at the Little<br />
Salmon Lodge on the banks<br />
of the Little Salmon River. It<br />
features a quaint bar, riverside<br />
hot tub, great swimming hole and<br />
good fi shing.<br />
Alaska (Land & Cruise)<br />
July 24-August 5<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Travel Group<br />
Program Type:<br />
Land, Cruise & Train<br />
From: $2,975 + air<br />
Destinations: Fairbanks • Denali<br />
National Park • Mt. McKinley •<br />
the Kenai Wilderness • Skagway •<br />
Ketchikan • Vancouver. Optional<br />
excursions include: City tour of<br />
Fairbanks • El Dorado Gold Mine<br />
• a Sternwheeler Riverboat Cruise.<br />
Transportation between stays on<br />
land will be by Princess rail service<br />
or motorcoach. Accommodations<br />
are at the Princess Wilderness<br />
Lodges.<br />
Alaska (Cruise Only)<br />
July 30-August 5<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Travel Group<br />
Program Type:<br />
Cruise aboard the Island Princess<br />
From: $1,375 + air<br />
Destinations: Whittier • Glacier<br />
National Park • Skagway •<br />
Ketchikan • Vancouver.<br />
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The Danube River ~ Vienna to<br />
Bucharest<br />
July 25-August 4<br />
Gohagan & Co.<br />
Program Type: Cruise<br />
From: $3,495 + air<br />
Destinations: Austria • Slovakia •<br />
Hungary • Serbia •<br />
Bulgaria • Romania<br />
Celtic Lands Sold Out<br />
August 10-21<br />
Gohagan & Co.<br />
Program Type: Cruise<br />
From: $3,995 + air<br />
Destinations: Scotland • Wales •<br />
Ireland • England •<br />
France<br />
Odyssey to Oxford<br />
August 18-September 1<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Lifelong Education<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $3,895 + air<br />
Destinations: Wales • Stratfordupon-Avon<br />
• prehistoric sites<br />
• famous castles • gardens<br />
• palaces • cathedrals • the<br />
Cotswolds • London and other<br />
English towns<br />
China: Highlights of<br />
the Middle Kingdom<br />
September 13-25<br />
China Advocates<br />
Program Type: Land & Cruise<br />
From: $3,990 + air<br />
Destinations: Forbidden City •<br />
Temple of Heaven • Summer Palace<br />
• Great Wall • Terracotta Warriors<br />
• Yangzi River • Three Gorges •<br />
Shanghai<br />
An optional extension to the Huang<br />
Mountains is also available<br />
Spain ~<br />
Barcelona & San Sebastian<br />
September 21-October 2<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Holidays International<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From $2,745 + air<br />
Destinations: Pendes Wine Region<br />
• Montserrat • Zaragoza • Bilbao •<br />
Pamplona<br />
Prague, Vienna & Budapest<br />
Discovery<br />
September 23-October 3<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Holidays International<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From $2,545 + air<br />
Included Excursions: Highlights<br />
of Prague • Bohemian Wine<br />
Country • Highlights of Vienna •<br />
Blue Danube Cruise • Highlights<br />
of Budapest. Optional Excursions:<br />
Prague Castle • Wachau Valley •<br />
Szentendre<br />
Italy ~ Sorrento & Orvieto<br />
October 10-21<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Holidays International<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $2,845 + air<br />
Destinations: Amalfi Coast •<br />
Pompeii • Isle of Capri • Florence •<br />
Perugia • Assisi<br />
In the Wake of Lewis & Clark<br />
October 27-November 2<br />
Lindblad Expeditions<br />
Program Type: Cruise aboard the<br />
M/S Sea Lion<br />
From: $2,430 + air<br />
Destinations: The Columbia and<br />
Snake rivers • Hells Canyon •<br />
Fort Clatsop • Bonneville Dam •<br />
Columbia River Maritime Museum<br />
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Go Next keeps price-conscious travelers<br />
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March 2-10<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $1,949, including air<br />
Optional Excursions: Rome & Vatican City • Pompeii • Florence • Pisa<br />
& Lucca<br />
Paris to London on the Eurostar<br />
April 21-29<br />
Program Type: Land & Train<br />
From: $2,249, including air<br />
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Rouge Dinner & Show • Versailles, Giverny & Monet’s House • West<br />
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South Africa<br />
May 7-17<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $4,249, including air<br />
Destinations: Cape Town • Johannesburg • Ivory Tree Game Lodge •<br />
An optional extension to Victoria Falls is also available<br />
Northern Italian Lakes & French Alps<br />
September 21-29 New Dates<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
From: $1,949, including air<br />
Optional Excursions: Venice • Lake Garda • Parma & Cremona •<br />
Montreaux • Geneva • Zermatt<br />
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September 29-October 7 New Dates<br />
Program Type: Land<br />
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Garinish Island & Kenmare • Dublin • Waterford Crystal Factory •<br />
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Photos courtesy of <strong>University</strong> Development<br />
THE IMPACT OF<br />
ENDOWMENT<br />
WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?<br />
As <strong>MSU</strong>’s capital campaign surpasses its goal,<br />
the focus now shifts to raising endowments.<br />
By Rick Seguin<br />
What’s the first thing you<br />
think of when you hear the word<br />
endowment? Is it a word you’ve<br />
never really thought about?<br />
For those not in the accounting<br />
or stock brokering professions,<br />
does it bring to mind a tedious<br />
list of investment-related words?<br />
It certainly doesn’t conjure up<br />
an image of excitement and the<br />
thrill of quick, big changes, does<br />
it? But perhaps both of these<br />
notions are a bit correct.<br />
In a university setting, endowment<br />
is a term referring<br />
not only to the way money<br />
is invested but the way the<br />
investment income is used as<br />
well. And the changes brought<br />
by endowments are often not<br />
quick. In fact, when investing,<br />
patience can be a virtue.<br />
Change, however, and all positive<br />
words that can be associated<br />
with it—enhancements,<br />
improvements, transformation,<br />
growth—is the heart and soul<br />
of why endowments are important<br />
to a university. They<br />
can take time, but the payoff is<br />
phenomenal.<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> has<br />
an endowment. Maybe this is<br />
common knowledge to you, but<br />
maybe it’s a thought that never<br />
crossed your mind. So before<br />
we get into any more detail<br />
about endowments, let’s take a<br />
look at a simple illustration of<br />
the difference between a university<br />
fund that is endowed versus<br />
a fund that is expendable:<br />
Endowed funds differ from<br />
others in that the total amount<br />
of the gift is invested. Each year,<br />
only a portion of the invested<br />
income earned is spent while<br />
the remainder adds to principal<br />
growth. In this respect, an endowment<br />
is a perpetual gift.<br />
Expendable funds may also<br />
have rules that apply to how<br />
they are utilized, but once the<br />
original money that created the<br />
fund is exhausted, the fund no<br />
longer lives to serve its original<br />
purpose unless more money is<br />
given from an outside source.<br />
This is the primary difference<br />
between a fund that is expendable<br />
and a fund that is endowed.<br />
Both are valuable and needed<br />
at a university, but endowments<br />
aim to replenish themselves.<br />
Now, this is certainly not to<br />
say that there is something deficient<br />
about expendable funds.<br />
Often there is an immediate<br />
need for cash to fund a particular<br />
endeavor, and expendable<br />
funds make that money available<br />
right away. The key to<br />
endowments, however, is a word<br />
right near the end of that first<br />
bullet point above: perpetual.<br />
When some of the interest<br />
earned from the investment the<br />
university makes with a contribution<br />
to an endowed fund<br />
is added back to the original<br />
amount of the gift, there will be<br />
more money in the fund that<br />
will earn interest in year two,<br />
and so on. (It’s sort of like that<br />
old shampoo commercial, except<br />
it would go something like<br />
– and their dollars joined the<br />
original dollars, and so on, and<br />
so on, and so on.)<br />
So why is this an important<br />
topic for <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
right now?<br />
Another item you may have<br />
heard recently is that the university<br />
reached it’s goal for The<br />
Campaign for <strong>MSU</strong> of $1.2 billion—and<br />
a year ahead of schedule<br />
as well. This is a tremendous<br />
President Lou Anna K. Simon (right) and Dr. Roy J. Simon (left)<br />
were honored in October by David Porteous, then trustee chair, for<br />
their personal financial contributions to <strong>MSU</strong> endowments.<br />
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<strong>MSU</strong> needs some $80 million<br />
more to reach the endowment<br />
goal—a huge feat but not<br />
insurmountable. The impact<br />
could be tremendous.<br />
success story, especially considering<br />
that the only other universitywide<br />
campaign in <strong>MSU</strong>’s history<br />
peaked at $217 million. Both<br />
campaigns owe everything to<br />
the incredibly generous alumni<br />
of <strong>MSU</strong> and those corporations,<br />
foundations and other individuals<br />
who believe so strongly in its<br />
mission and ability.<br />
Billy Rose, an American<br />
theatrical producer and lyricist,<br />
once said, “Never invest your<br />
money in anything that eats or<br />
needs repairing.” Well, there’s<br />
always something to repair at<br />
a university, and just ask our<br />
on campus cafeterias if <strong>MSU</strong><br />
students can eat. Yet thousands<br />
of people and organizations<br />
thankfully never took Mr.<br />
Rose’s advice—and the payoff<br />
has been fantastic.<br />
Take for example renowned<br />
musicians and <strong>MSU</strong> faculty<br />
members Walter and Elsa Verdehr<br />
who are among that<br />
thankfully growing list of<br />
donors who value the benefits<br />
of ear<strong>mark</strong>ing their gifts for<br />
endowment.<br />
Walter, professor of violin, and<br />
Elsa, professor of clarinet, have<br />
been on the faculty of the School<br />
of Music since 1968 and 1962,<br />
respectively. They married in<br />
Elsa and Walter Verdehr, of <strong>MSU</strong>’s renowned Verdehr Trio.<br />
1971 and established the unique<br />
Verdehr Trio in 1972 as a way<br />
to travel and perform together.<br />
There was a lack of music for the<br />
violin-clarinet-piano combination<br />
at the time, so the Verdehrs<br />
took matters into their own<br />
hands by commissioning works<br />
to expand the repertoire for this<br />
unique instrumentation. They<br />
have now commissioned over<br />
200 new works for this combination,<br />
many with the help of<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>, have traveled worldwide<br />
and recorded twenty compact<br />
discs presenting this literature.<br />
During The Campaign for<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>, The Verdehrs’ established<br />
a gift from their estate<br />
which is directed primarily to<br />
creating endowed named fellowships<br />
in violin and clarinet.<br />
The <strong>MSU</strong> School of Music can<br />
now show promising young<br />
musicians that there is support<br />
here for people specializing in<br />
those instruments.<br />
Even though the primary<br />
benefit will come in the form of<br />
well-funded fellowships years<br />
from now, it immediately becomes<br />
an important recruit ment<br />
tool to ensure these areas continue<br />
to attract the most musically<br />
talented graduate students.<br />
“We have watched the astounding<br />
growth of <strong>MSU</strong><br />
over the 40 years we have both<br />
taught here and have been very<br />
pleased to see the institution<br />
develop in the ways it has,” Elsa<br />
said. “It makes us very proud to<br />
be a part of this great university<br />
and we wish to show this in<br />
a tangible way, one that will<br />
benefit future generations of<br />
students and teachers.”<br />
The future is the key, along<br />
with stability. How do generous<br />
donors like the Verdehrs<br />
know that their gift, whether<br />
cash now or a planned estate<br />
gift later, will be there for its<br />
intended purpose? One need<br />
only glance at <strong>MSU</strong>’s track record<br />
in the investment department<br />
to be assured.<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
investment performance continues<br />
to be superior over the<br />
past decade. The National<br />
<strong>Association</strong> of College and<br />
<strong>University</strong> Business Officers<br />
(NACUBO) annually surveys<br />
its member institutions on investment<br />
pool returns. Results<br />
from the NACUBO Endowment<br />
Study for the ten years<br />
ending June 30, 2004 placed<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s average annual return of<br />
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Investing in <strong>MSU</strong> offers a sound return,<br />
as <strong>MSU</strong>’s average annual return of 13.2 percent<br />
ranks 23rd of 443 institutions.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> LEADERS SUPPORT<br />
ENDOWMENTS WITH THEIR OWN<br />
CONTRIBUTIONS<br />
13.2% at 23rd of 443 institutions<br />
reporting.<br />
“<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> has proven for<br />
many years now that our method<br />
of investing—combining<br />
funds <strong>mark</strong>ed for endowment in<br />
our Common Investment Fund<br />
and then stewarding that with<br />
great care—has achieved excellent<br />
results,” said <strong>MSU</strong> President<br />
Lou Anna K. Simon. “We have<br />
been ranked highly nationally<br />
for a number of years, and we<br />
have risen significantly in the<br />
ranks of the Big Ten since the<br />
start of our campaign, moving<br />
from last to the middle of the<br />
pack with a total endowment<br />
over $1.4 billion.”<br />
Impressive, for sure, but there<br />
is the need to raise some $80<br />
million more to reach the goal<br />
set by the <strong>MSU</strong> Board of Trustees<br />
and campaign organizers.<br />
It is a huge feat, but certainly<br />
not insurmountable considering<br />
the gains generous donors<br />
have helped <strong>MSU</strong> make to date.<br />
The hope for the future impact<br />
of endowments is tremendous,<br />
and President Simon pointed to<br />
a specific example.<br />
“When you take into consideration<br />
that Harvard <strong>University</strong><br />
has had at least some of<br />
its private contributions managed<br />
as endowed funds since<br />
its inception in 1636, there<br />
is no wonder that they are so<br />
far ahead of the game with an<br />
endowment with an overall<br />
value of $29.2 billion as last<br />
reported,” she said.<br />
“One of our earliest recorded<br />
endowed funds is from 1917,<br />
and our endowment total may<br />
seem small by comparison, but<br />
Harvard has been at it for nearly<br />
300 years longer than we<br />
have. Their endowment has<br />
grown so much over that period<br />
of time that they are now<br />
able to have over 30 percent of<br />
their operating budget paid for<br />
with endowment dollars.<br />
“We don’t need to compare<br />
ourselves to Harvard, because<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> has its own unique place<br />
in the world, ” President Simon<br />
continued, “but their example<br />
makes the significance of and<br />
potential of investing in endowed<br />
funds quite clear.”<br />
Clear indeed. The Campaign<br />
for <strong>MSU</strong> has entered its<br />
final year. To raise an additional<br />
$80 million for endowment<br />
would make it the most<br />
given for endowment in a<br />
single year in <strong>MSU</strong>’s history.<br />
Hundreds if not thousands<br />
of scholarships, fellowships<br />
and funds for a variety of<br />
purposes are secured for the<br />
university’s future when gifts<br />
are made today.<br />
“Reaching our endowment<br />
goal would be quite an accomplishment,”<br />
President Simon<br />
said, “but I think Spartans are<br />
up to the challenge. It is a great<br />
way to link your legacy with<br />
our future, forever.”<br />
Rick Seguin, ‘90, M.A. ‘99, is<br />
assistant director of <strong>mark</strong>eting<br />
programs with <strong>University</strong><br />
Development and sings<br />
professionally with a Lansingbased<br />
group called Any World.<br />
President Lou Anna K.<br />
and Dr. Roy J. Simon<br />
Any time you’re thinking of investing<br />
time or money in a particular organization<br />
or activity, one of the telltale signs of<br />
the wisdom of that investment is whether<br />
or not the leaders of that organization<br />
invest in it themselves. <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> is<br />
fortunate to have among its leaders very<br />
generous donors as well, and one need<br />
not look further than the president and<br />
provost.<br />
For years, Dr. Roy J. Simon, <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
Director of Telecommunication and Transportation Systems,<br />
and President Lou Anna K. Simon have given monetary gifts to<br />
the university. They recently added a significant amount to their<br />
total contributions via a gift from their estate. The gift elevated<br />
them to the newly formed Clifton R. Wharton Society, and all<br />
of it was directed toward endowed funds. They will substantially<br />
add to an endowed fund they previously created that provides<br />
financial aid to students in the School of Music, especially those<br />
in the Jazz Studies Program; they will also add to another existing<br />
scholarship established by Roy Simon’s parents, Mary Jane and<br />
Theodore B. Simon, to support students majoring in business or<br />
engineering who also work at the Physical Plant Division; and<br />
the rest of their estate gift will establish a new scholarship in the<br />
School of Music, The Drs. Lou A. and Roy J. Simon Endowed<br />
Marching Band Scholarship.<br />
When Provost Kim A. Wilcox and<br />
his wife, Diane Del Buono, decided to<br />
make a financial commitment during<br />
The Campaign for <strong>MSU</strong>, they chose to<br />
apply their donation to a cause dear to<br />
their hearts: sustainable farming systems<br />
throughout the world. They have<br />
Kim A. Wilcox and his<br />
wife, Diane Del Buono<br />
entrusted <strong>MSU</strong> with a generous gift to<br />
fund an endowment that will enable the<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> Libraries to established a collection<br />
on this topic that will hopefully be used by scholars who will<br />
add to the body of research necessary to one day eradicate hunger<br />
through agricultural practices that are sustainable.<br />
“A strong library is the core of a university, and Diane and I are<br />
proud to help strengthen <strong>MSU</strong>’s core,” Provost Wilcox said. “It<br />
is even more satisfying to be able to also invest in one of our personal<br />
interests.”<br />
The gifts of these campus leaders show much faith in <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
ability to manage funds well and use the proceeds to accomplish<br />
great things.<br />
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MaryJo Brode (left) and Allison Crawford were<br />
involved with SAF activities, which include the<br />
Corner Blitz (below), <strong>MSU</strong>'s biggest student<br />
spirit group with more than 3,200 members.<br />
The campout at Munn Field (left) gets students into the Izzone<br />
(above), which Tom Izzo credits with helping <strong>MSU</strong> win some<br />
home games at the Breslin Center. The Sparty Mascot just won its<br />
third national mascot championship in four years.<br />
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THE STUDENT ALUMNI<br />
FOUNDATION EMERGES AS<br />
A NATIONAL LEADER<br />
In only two decades, <strong>MSU</strong>’s Student <strong>Alumni</strong> Foundation has<br />
emerged as the Big Ten’s largest voluntary student organization<br />
and as a national leader.<br />
By Robert Bao<br />
It hasn’t made banner headlines<br />
(yet), but a dynamic<br />
student group associated with<br />
the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
is quietly having a tsunami-like<br />
impact across the <strong>MSU</strong> campus.<br />
Formed in 1986, the Student<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Foundation has just<br />
surpassed 7,000 members,<br />
making it a larger organization<br />
than several hundred colleges in<br />
the nation. More importantly,<br />
the reach of its programs are<br />
highly visible on campus and<br />
even around the country.<br />
“We’re the largest, voluntary<br />
student organization<br />
in the Big Ten,” says<br />
SAF president Frankie<br />
Orlando, a senior from<br />
Grand Ledge, who joined<br />
the SAF in 2003 when it<br />
VandenBerg<br />
Hamilton<br />
only had 2,000 members. “We<br />
believe we might well be the<br />
biggest in the country as well.”<br />
Indeed, the <strong>Association</strong> of<br />
Student Advancement Programs,<br />
which is a part of the<br />
Council for the Advancement<br />
and Support of Education, lists<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s SAF as the nation’s largest<br />
student organization with<br />
7,200 members.<br />
Size matters, but that alone<br />
is not what distinguishes the<br />
SAF. Its recent growth has<br />
been explosive, with membership<br />
more than tripling since<br />
2003. But along with numbers<br />
has come great student leadership.<br />
Two signature SAF programs—the<br />
current national<br />
champion Sparty mascot and<br />
the Izzone—have blossomed<br />
into iconic entities that others<br />
in the country emulate as<br />
models.<br />
If imitation is the sincerest<br />
form of flattery, then<br />
Beverly VandenBerg,<br />
assistant director of the<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>,<br />
should feel very flattered.<br />
She has served as SAF<br />
adviser this past decade<br />
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and has overseen much of SAF’s<br />
phenomenal growth.<br />
“This has been a very rewarding<br />
job,” says VandenBerg, who<br />
will step down from her role as<br />
SAF adviser this year and serve<br />
as interim associate director of<br />
the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
“It’s a 24/7 commitment, but<br />
the best part is working with<br />
students. Every year, we have a<br />
whole new group coming in and<br />
they bring new ideas because<br />
they want to leave their <strong>mark</strong>.<br />
“That’s very exciting. The<br />
students make all the decisions,<br />
and that’s what makes<br />
the SAF work.”<br />
(Left) SAF president Frankie Orlando and <strong>mark</strong>eting VP<br />
Cheryl Brodowski take time out during halftime of a recent home<br />
basketball game at the Breslin Center. (Above) The 2006-2007<br />
SAF board of directors gathered at the Spartan Spirit Pep Rally<br />
at Breslin Center.<br />
After VandenBerg leaves,<br />
Susie Hamilton, assistant director<br />
for student outreach at Iowa<br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, will take over<br />
as SAF adviser. A native of<br />
Chariton, IA, she is a graduate<br />
of Northern Iowa <strong>University</strong><br />
and has worked five years as an<br />
adviser for student programs.<br />
SAF programs seem to work<br />
well and student leaders have<br />
thrived within the organization.<br />
“A lot of people know our programs,<br />
but they don’t necessarily<br />
know the SAF is the organization<br />
that runs it,” notes SAF<br />
<strong>mark</strong>eting vice president Cheryl<br />
Brodowski, a senior from Shelby<br />
Township. Even fewer people<br />
know the SAF operates under the<br />
aegis of the alumni association.<br />
The SAF president, for example,<br />
occupies a seat on the <strong>MSU</strong>AA’s<br />
national alumni board.<br />
Here some of the major programs<br />
run by the SAF:<br />
• Parents Weekend, held during<br />
Homecoming Weekend, sells<br />
out every year and draws about<br />
1,300 <strong>MSU</strong> parents and siblings<br />
to campus.<br />
• Every year, SAF students give<br />
campus tours to more than<br />
22,000 visitors—including<br />
prospective students, alumni,<br />
visitors and special groups.<br />
• SAF has pioneered the rising<br />
popularity of student spirit<br />
groups, with Corner Blitz<br />
surpassing 3,200, the Izzone<br />
at 2,200, and Slap Shots at<br />
163—a significant increase<br />
from last year. Both the Izzone<br />
and the Corner<br />
Blitz are national<br />
trendsetters.<br />
• Sparty, which<br />
is run by the<br />
SAF’s mascot<br />
program, has<br />
just won its<br />
third national<br />
championship<br />
in the last<br />
four years,<br />
and remains<br />
the only<br />
Big Ten<br />
mascot to have won a national<br />
championship.<br />
• Every fall, the SAF and the<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>AA stage Spartan Spirit,<br />
the largest Welcome Week event<br />
where new students learn the<br />
Fight Song from the Spartan<br />
Marching Band and the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
Cheerleaders and where they<br />
get to meet coaches and star<br />
Spartan athletes. Formerly<br />
the event was held in Spartan<br />
Stadium, but henceforth it will<br />
be at the Breslin Center.<br />
• The SAF runs assorted<br />
programs, such as Students for<br />
<strong>State</strong>, Dinner for 12 Spartans,<br />
Sparty’s Spring Party, and the<br />
Winter Formal. It also gets<br />
involved with special efforts,<br />
such as spearheading the student<br />
fundraising for the Sparty Project<br />
(see cover story, Winter 2003)<br />
To run these programs,<br />
the SAF boasts an annual<br />
budget well in excess of<br />
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$100,000—most of which<br />
it raises via memberships,<br />
sales of merchandise, and<br />
income generated from the<br />
mascot program. “Also, we<br />
receive financial support from<br />
<strong>University</strong> Development and<br />
the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>,”<br />
says Orlando. “We really appreciate<br />
this.”<br />
Orlando joined the SAF as<br />
a freshman and has played a<br />
role in its steady recent growth.<br />
SAF recruits members at Academic<br />
Orientation Programs<br />
and also <strong>mark</strong>ets to parents of<br />
new students. It costs $15, and<br />
the benefits include discounts<br />
at 31 stores frequented by<br />
students, including area bookstores,<br />
restaurants, and the like.<br />
“It pays for itself right away,”<br />
notes Brodowski.<br />
SAF two signature programs<br />
are the Izzone and the Sparty<br />
mascot program.<br />
“Everybody wants Sparty,”<br />
notes Orlando. “Sparty does<br />
tons of events—weddings, bar<br />
mitzvahs, parades, anniversaries,<br />
you name it. We are<br />
happy to accommodate fans<br />
and alums, especially in the<br />
summer.”<br />
SAF tour guide Ross Ramsey stands by the Library fountain<br />
during a recent campus tour for prospective students.<br />
The mascot program began<br />
in 1989 and became an instant<br />
hit. Since then the costume,<br />
created by a company in<br />
Georgia, has been refined to<br />
allow for more movement and<br />
animation. As a result, Sparty<br />
has been able to project some<br />
personality and is now the only<br />
Big Ten mascot to have been<br />
crowned national champion<br />
by the Universal Cheerleading<br />
<strong>Association</strong>. Sparty has won<br />
many other awards and is often<br />
featured in ESPN Sportscenter<br />
commercials. As Kermit the<br />
Frog announced on Spartan<br />
Stadium’s Diamond Vision<br />
during the Homecoming game,<br />
“Sparty (is) the No. 1 mascot<br />
in the country!”<br />
Explains Brodowski, “Some<br />
of the mascots we see are nothing<br />
more than a person inside<br />
a rug. They don’t do much.<br />
Sparty is very animated. He<br />
interacts with the crowd and<br />
you think of him as a living,<br />
breathing entity.”<br />
A key component of the mascot<br />
competition is a videotape<br />
presentation. To view the current<br />
one, where ESPN sportscaster<br />
Lee Corso introduces<br />
Sparty, visit www.msusaf..edu.<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> can request Sparty appearances<br />
at the same web site,<br />
or call the SAF office at 517-<br />
355-4458.<br />
The SAF also runs the spirit<br />
sections for football, men’s<br />
basketball and hockey. The<br />
Izzone has garnered the most<br />
national attention, especially<br />
during <strong>MSU</strong>’s three-year Final<br />
Four runs, although the Corner<br />
Blitz has recently undergone<br />
meteoric growth.<br />
The Izzone began in 1995<br />
as a small section of about<br />
100 rabid fans, basically “Jud’s<br />
Jungle” with a new name. But<br />
the section has grown steadily<br />
with Tom Izzo’s success—and,<br />
according to Tom, helped take<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> basketball’s home court<br />
advantage to a new level.<br />
Today’s Izzone is a gameimpacting,<br />
loud and boisterous<br />
bloc of around 2,200 fans, a<br />
blinding agglomeration of jumping<br />
white t-shirts occupying<br />
most courtside seats in the lower<br />
bowl and sprouting out into the<br />
top rows of Breslin Center’s upper<br />
level, the so-called “Ozone.”<br />
SAF now requires students who<br />
want the coveted courtside Izzone<br />
seats to first be members of<br />
the Ozone.<br />
“Today’s Izzone is<br />
a game-impacting,<br />
loud and boisterous<br />
bloc of . . . jumping<br />
white t-shirts.”<br />
“The Izzone has led the way<br />
in the Big 10,” says Orlando.<br />
“Look at the Orange Crush (Illinois),<br />
the Hawk’s Nest (Iowa),<br />
the Grateful Red (Wisconsin)<br />
or the Maize Rage (<strong>Michigan</strong>)—they<br />
were all organized<br />
in response to the Izzone.”<br />
One thing is sure—students<br />
want to get into the Izzone.<br />
Every year, they camp<br />
out in mid-September at<br />
Munn Field for the privilege<br />
of signing up.<br />
“It’s a lot of fun,” says Orlando.<br />
“Last year 1,800 students<br />
camped out. We have a<br />
live band. This year Tom Izzo<br />
camped out with us and all 13<br />
team members came and met<br />
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e sent to rooms in Bessey<br />
Hall or even Olds Hall. Now,<br />
on the third floor of the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
Union, across the hall from SAF<br />
headquarters, is the Admissions<br />
Presentation Room.<br />
“This is a state-of-the-art<br />
presentation room,” says VandenBerg.<br />
“I give the credit to<br />
(director of admissions) Pam<br />
Horne (who recently left <strong>MSU</strong><br />
for Purdue).”<br />
During Homecoming Weekend,<br />
the SAF organizes Family<br />
“Sparty does<br />
tons of events—<br />
weddings,<br />
bar mitzvahs,<br />
parades,<br />
anniversaries,<br />
you name it.<br />
We’re happy to<br />
accommodate<br />
alums.”<br />
with the students. Our players<br />
are really classy people.”<br />
Though intimidating, the<br />
Izzone tries to be clever and<br />
witty, rather than simply loud<br />
and vulgar, says adviser VandenBerg.<br />
If it gets even a bit<br />
out of line, a few gestures by<br />
Izzo usually suffice to get it<br />
promptly back in line.<br />
In recent years, the Corner<br />
Blitz, the football spirit section,<br />
has grown to more than<br />
3,200, making it the largest on<br />
campus. Members stay in the<br />
stadium win or lose, and when<br />
players celebrate after the game,<br />
they do so in the general vicinity<br />
of the section.<br />
One program run by SAF<br />
that is critical to <strong>MSU</strong> is the<br />
campus tour program, where<br />
the SAF and the admissions<br />
work cooperatively. SAF conducts<br />
daily tours and special<br />
tours, including tours for prospective<br />
students and for admitted<br />
students. “We do it on<br />
every day except for holidays,”<br />
says VandenBerg. “What we<br />
strive to do is to put <strong>MSU</strong>’s best<br />
foot forward for people who<br />
want to get to know us.”<br />
For a long time, <strong>MSU</strong> had<br />
no dedicated room from<br />
which to assemble people<br />
for a pre-tour admissions<br />
presentation. Visitors would<br />
(Left) The SAF float for the<br />
Homecoming Parade usually<br />
wins an award. (Below) SAF<br />
sweethearts Amanda Boryn<br />
and Trevor Goodhue pose<br />
for a photo during Family<br />
Weekend 2006. (Bottom)<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> Cheerleaders perform<br />
in the SAF tent during Family<br />
Weekend.<br />
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Weekend, a series of events for<br />
parents and siblings of <strong>MSU</strong><br />
students. The activities revolve<br />
around a tailgate brunch under a<br />
huge tent erected near the Rock,<br />
just north of the Red Cedar and<br />
just east of Farm Lane.<br />
“We usually sell out a month<br />
in advance,” notes Orlando.<br />
“Our location by the Rock is a<br />
great location. We’re under a<br />
gigantic tent and it’s like one,<br />
giant pregame pep rally.”<br />
The SAF always sponsors a<br />
float in the Homecoming Parade,<br />
and their float often wins<br />
the “Best Float” award. In<br />
partnership with the <strong>University</strong><br />
Activities Board, the SAF<br />
also sponsors Sparty’s Spring<br />
Party—a large outdoor festival<br />
centered around a men’s<br />
and women’s three-on-three<br />
basketball competition. The<br />
Students for <strong>State</strong>, an SAF<br />
subgroup, performs ambassadorial<br />
services for <strong>MSU</strong> on<br />
many occasions.<br />
“You’d think with all the<br />
programs we have we’d be 50<br />
years old, but we’ve only been<br />
around for 20 years,” says Orlando.<br />
“The growth has been<br />
astronomical.”<br />
Beyond their programs, the<br />
SAF remains an excellent training<br />
ground for student leaders,<br />
who can become alumni leaders<br />
in the future.<br />
“That’s definitely yet another<br />
great value of having an<br />
organization like the SAF,”<br />
says Bill Beekman, acting executive<br />
director of the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>. “Besides<br />
all the programs they run, in<br />
many cases very successfully,<br />
I might add, the leadership<br />
experiences that students enjoy<br />
with the SAF can translate<br />
into leadership roles they may<br />
seek as alumni, whether with<br />
regional clubs or constituent<br />
associations or special interest<br />
groups.”<br />
The SAF is currently run<br />
by an executive<br />
council<br />
consisting<br />
of a president<br />
and<br />
four vice<br />
presidents. By<br />
the time a student is named<br />
to one of those posts, he or<br />
she has probably served in<br />
many leadership roles,<br />
running one of the<br />
many programs.<br />
It will be interesting to see<br />
how SAF evolves in the next two<br />
decades. Stay tuned.<br />
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Rendering courtesy of <strong>MSU</strong> Physical Plant<br />
“Students can learn how history,<br />
language, visual culture, music, and<br />
ethical reflection are woven together”.<br />
A NEW <strong>MSU</strong> RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FOCU S<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s new residential college offers<br />
students a new global and interdisciplinary<br />
emphasist on arts and humanities.<br />
By Carol A. Cole<br />
In Fall 2007, students choosing<br />
to attend <strong>MSU</strong> will have a<br />
new option—a new residential<br />
college that combines a global<br />
and interdisciplinary emphasis<br />
with a residential living-learning<br />
setting to enhance the undergraduate<br />
experience in the arts<br />
and humanities at <strong>MSU</strong>.<br />
Its mission is to weave together<br />
the passion, imagination,<br />
humor, and candor of the arts<br />
and humanities to promote<br />
individual well-being and the<br />
common good.<br />
The College, which will open<br />
to students in Fall 2007, will<br />
provide the supportive environment,<br />
small faculty-student<br />
ratios, easy access to faculty,<br />
and opportunities for mentoring<br />
that have characterized<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s highly successful James<br />
Madison College and Lyman<br />
Briggs School, which provide<br />
residential programs focusing<br />
respectively on public affairs and<br />
the natural sciences.<br />
In keeping with <strong>MSU</strong> President<br />
Simon’s Boldness by Design<br />
initiative, the RCAH recognizes<br />
both the importance of a supportive<br />
living-learning center<br />
to an optimal undergraduate<br />
experience and the need to<br />
equip students to live and work<br />
effectively as global citizens of<br />
the twenty-first century.<br />
The communication and writing<br />
skills, visual literacy, and<br />
sensitivity to culture and transcultural<br />
change developed during<br />
their studies in the RCAH<br />
will equip graduates for a wide<br />
range of careers in the creative<br />
arts or in global or community<br />
service, as well as for academic<br />
careers in the arts and humani-<br />
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U SING ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES<br />
ties. The RCAH also will pro-<br />
grams for each student—paired<br />
flection are woven together.<br />
student’s career goals. Possible<br />
vide an excellent foundation for<br />
with its commitment to foster an<br />
While all RCAH students<br />
pathways include:<br />
those wishing to pursue gradu-<br />
engaging living/learning environ-<br />
will graduate with an interdis-<br />
·Language and Culture<br />
ate study in law, medicine, or<br />
ment—will provide an exciting,<br />
ciplinary major in the arts and<br />
·Childhood and Society<br />
other specialized fields.<br />
new opportunity for students.”<br />
humanities, the curriculum is<br />
·Art and Public Life<br />
“The rich interplay between the<br />
designed to be flexible, encourag-<br />
·Nature and Culture<br />
diverse range of arts and humani-<br />
A Flexible and<br />
ing students to tailor their studies<br />
·Technology and Creativity<br />
ties offerings here at <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
Innovative Curriculum<br />
to their own interests and abili-<br />
The curriculum is designed to<br />
<strong>State</strong> will become more fully<br />
Through a lively combination<br />
ties through elective pathways to<br />
facilitate pursuing a second ma-<br />
realized by way of RCAH’s inte-<br />
of integrated seminars, tutorials,<br />
other majors and specializations.<br />
jor or specialization if students<br />
grated and experiential approach<br />
creative workshops, and civic<br />
Working with a faculty advisor,<br />
desire. A student studying crim-<br />
to learning,” says <strong>MSU</strong> President<br />
engagement activities, students<br />
students will complement their<br />
inal justice, for example, might<br />
Lou Anna K. Simon. “The Col-<br />
will study the complex ways in<br />
RCAH core studies with courses<br />
find the foreign language study<br />
lege’s unique curricular approach<br />
which history, language, visual<br />
from outside the College that<br />
and cultural understanding<br />
of creating individualized pro-<br />
culture, music, and ethical re-<br />
cohere in a way relevant to each<br />
provided by the RCAH curricu-<br />
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Acting dean Stephen<br />
Esquith and assistant<br />
Scot Yoder, assistant<br />
to the dean and a<br />
core RCAH faculty<br />
member, survey the<br />
construction progress<br />
of <strong>MSU</strong>’s new residential<br />
college.<br />
(inset photo above)<br />
William Mackay<br />
(left) of Christman<br />
Co. and Scot Yoder.<br />
Photos courtesy of Carol Cole<br />
lum of great value in his or her<br />
that end, a World Language<br />
guage tables and study abroad<br />
to the rule, but is rapidly be-<br />
career. Another student might<br />
Proficiency Center, housed<br />
programs, but also through<br />
coming the expected norm for<br />
incorporate studies in digital<br />
within the College but shared<br />
co-curricular activities—plays<br />
many college graduates,” says<br />
media into the Technology and<br />
with other <strong>MSU</strong> language<br />
and performances and other<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> Provost Kim Wilcox.<br />
Creativity pathway. Students<br />
departments, will provide lan-<br />
student-initiated programs that<br />
“RCAH provides students with<br />
interested in music or art may<br />
guage assessment services and<br />
will emphasize the value of a<br />
not only language, but culti-<br />
also enroll in performance or<br />
help students plan a strategy for<br />
multilingual approach to our<br />
vates immersion opportunities,<br />
studio classes while majoring<br />
developing the required level<br />
living and learning together.”<br />
and will enhance our graduates’<br />
in the RCAH. As a result, no<br />
of competency. In addition,<br />
The foreign language ele-<br />
chances for success in the global<br />
two programs will be identical,<br />
the Center will provide access<br />
ment has sparked wide interest<br />
environment.”<br />
and students will be prepared to<br />
to foreign language television,<br />
among prospective students,<br />
apply and adapt their skills in<br />
foreign newspapers and books,<br />
according to Scot Yoder, As-<br />
Engaged Learning<br />
creative ways.<br />
and other resources.<br />
sistant to the Dean and RCAH<br />
A key element of the RCAH<br />
Students also will participate<br />
faculty member. In addition to<br />
curriculum will be that of en-<br />
World Language Profi ciency<br />
in a variety of language im-<br />
pursuing commonly taught lan-<br />
gaged learning, i.e., students will<br />
As part of their studies,<br />
mersion experiences, including<br />
guages such as Spanish, French,<br />
be active learners rather than<br />
students in the RCAH will<br />
study abroad and local study<br />
or German, a number of stu-<br />
passive recipients of knowledge.<br />
become proficient in a foreign<br />
away programs.<br />
dents have expressed interest<br />
For example, all students will<br />
language, both to develop un-<br />
“The goal is to integrate<br />
in learning Chinese or Arabic,<br />
gain hands-on creative experience<br />
derstanding and respect for oth-<br />
language learning into the lived<br />
languages that are becoming<br />
in workshops taught by faculty<br />
er cultures and to enable them<br />
experience of students,” says<br />
increasingly important on a<br />
or visiting artists in such areas as<br />
to communicate and build<br />
Acting Dean Stephen Esquith.<br />
global scale.<br />
creative writing, poetry, painting,<br />
connections with people from<br />
“This may be through conven-<br />
“Fluency in a foreign lan-<br />
music, or theatre. In the process,<br />
other cultural backgrounds. To<br />
tional means like world lan-<br />
guage used to be the exception<br />
students will experience the ex-<br />
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citement, the pleasure, the improvisational<br />
nature of learning as<br />
their new skills are internalized.<br />
A related concept, civic<br />
engagement, or active involvement<br />
in the community, also<br />
will play a critical role in the<br />
College. While <strong>MSU</strong> has a rich<br />
heritage of outreach and service<br />
in which students often have<br />
played a vital role, the Residential<br />
College seeks to engage<br />
students on every level and in<br />
every area.<br />
Students will have the opportunity<br />
to work in schools,<br />
refugee centers, community centers,<br />
and other venues. The goal<br />
is not service per se, although<br />
service will occur, but rather a<br />
reaching out, with mutual cooperation<br />
and learning between<br />
students and those with whom<br />
they work.<br />
“One of the goals of the Residential<br />
College is to integrate<br />
community service and civic<br />
engagement into the curriculum<br />
and the major as a whole,<br />
not just into one particular<br />
course as a module or an extra<br />
credit experience,” Esquith says.<br />
“This kind of active experiential<br />
learning can shape how<br />
students approach their other<br />
creative and intellectual work.”<br />
A hall<strong>mark</strong> of the RCAH will<br />
be its collaborative nature, as<br />
the College works with other<br />
“The arts and humanities not only<br />
give us the pleasure of living in<br />
the moment, but also the wisdom<br />
to make sound judgments and<br />
good choices.”<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> departments and colleges<br />
as well as with community<br />
partners. Students also will collaborate<br />
as they work with each<br />
other, with faculty and staff,<br />
and with members of the community<br />
in their civic engagement<br />
activities.<br />
Such collaboration will be<br />
important in preparing students<br />
for future careers and professions.<br />
“We work in groups; that’s<br />
how work is done in the world,”<br />
says Esquith. “We’re teaching<br />
the value of listening to other<br />
people’s views and being able to<br />
engage with other people as collaborators<br />
in a common project.”<br />
A <strong>State</strong> of the Art Facility<br />
About 125 students are expected<br />
to comprise the inaugural<br />
first-year class, with a goal of<br />
about 500 total students within<br />
four years. Students will be<br />
housed in the newly renovated<br />
Snyder-Philips complex. A new<br />
three-story facility connected<br />
to the two dormitories will<br />
house faculty and administrative<br />
offices, an art studio, music<br />
practice rooms, an art gallery<br />
for displaying visiting artist<br />
and student work, and even a<br />
small theatre for student performances<br />
and creative initiatives.<br />
Classrooms and seminar rooms,<br />
as well as the World Language<br />
Proficiency Center, will be<br />
equipped with the latest in educational<br />
technology.<br />
In addition, a wireless coffee<br />
house will provide ambiance—as<br />
well as a quick latte or<br />
cappuccino—and a new stateof-the<br />
art dining facility will<br />
feature an ever-changing menu,<br />
with choices ranging from<br />
world cuisine to cook-to-order<br />
stations to traditional Midwestern<br />
comfort food.<br />
Shaping the Future<br />
In a College that stresses student<br />
engagement, it comes as<br />
no surprise that students have<br />
been involved from the very<br />
beginning in discussions about<br />
the proposed College, serving<br />
in focus groups and on design<br />
and planning committees. And<br />
they will continue to help shape<br />
the College, helping to plan the<br />
following year’s curriculum,<br />
organize co-curricular activities,<br />
and develop the College’s<br />
governance structure. In so doing<br />
they will both utilize their<br />
developing skills and further<br />
hone them for use in the wider<br />
community and beyond.<br />
As stated in an RCAH planning<br />
committee report, “Students,<br />
faculty, and community<br />
partners in the arts and humanities<br />
have the power to focus<br />
critical attention on the public<br />
issues we face and the opportunities<br />
we have to resolve them.<br />
The arts and humanities not<br />
only give us the pleasure of living<br />
in the moment, but also the<br />
wisdom to make sound judgments<br />
and good choices. The<br />
mission, then, is to see things<br />
as they are, to hear things as<br />
others may, to tell these stories<br />
as they should be told, and to<br />
contribute to the making of a<br />
better world.”<br />
Carol A. Cole, ’75 (Social Work),<br />
’96 (English), is the office administrator<br />
in the Residential College in<br />
the Arts and Humanities.<br />
☛ For more information<br />
about the new college, please<br />
visit www.rcah.msu.edu.<br />
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SPORTS<br />
MEET MARK DANTONIO, NEW FOOTBALL COACH<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> has given Mark Dantonio a place on which to stand.<br />
Can he move the earth?<br />
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Photo courtesy of <strong>MSU</strong> Sports Information<br />
(L to r) Kristen,<br />
Becky, Mark and<br />
Lauren consider<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> their “home.”<br />
The Spartan Nation is abuzz with excitement.<br />
By Robert Bao<br />
On the day Mark Dantonio<br />
was officially named new <strong>MSU</strong><br />
head football coach, an instant<br />
tsunami of approval from alumni,<br />
fans, media and football experts<br />
seemed to spread across <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
and beyond.<br />
The comments bouncing across<br />
airwaves and Internet message<br />
boards were uniformly positive—<br />
a rare phenomenon for <strong>MSU</strong><br />
football in recent years.<br />
Credit President Lou Anna K.<br />
Simon for successfully conducting<br />
a model, inclusive search. Simon<br />
had to navigate adroitly around a<br />
number of timelines, schedules,<br />
protocols and hiring issues and processes,<br />
in a timely manner to satisfy<br />
alumni, trustees, donors, fans, players<br />
and recruiting timetables. She<br />
and her core team, which included<br />
basketball coach Tom Izzo, athletics<br />
director Ron Mason, senior associate<br />
athletics director Mark Hollis,<br />
and former player Lt. Alan Haller<br />
of <strong>MSU</strong> Police, worked quietly but<br />
efficiently, effectively and ethically.<br />
The final choice not only met her<br />
announced criteria but also secured<br />
unanimous support from <strong>MSU</strong><br />
trustees.<br />
In Dantonio, <strong>MSU</strong> has landed<br />
a coach who solidly meets every<br />
major selection criteria—and then<br />
some. He even boasts a surname<br />
that ends in O, a criterion Izzo had<br />
inserted in jest. Dantonio--like<br />
“paisans” Izzo and Palombo (as in<br />
Joanne P. McCallie)—has produced<br />
success at the highest level<br />
of competition, boasts a terrific<br />
football pedigree, has BCS conference<br />
head coaching experience,<br />
knows <strong>MSU</strong>’s recruiting territory<br />
intimately, knows the university,<br />
and perhaps most importantly,<br />
truly wants to be at <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong>, his “dream job.”<br />
Don’t think this last point is<br />
a minor one. When Dantonio<br />
appeared on Izzo’s radio show a<br />
couple of days after his naming<br />
and when his daughters Kristen<br />
and Lauren sang the <strong>MSU</strong> Fight<br />
Song on air, it electrified many<br />
listeners who were longing for<br />
a Spartan to lead the football<br />
program. While Mark did not<br />
graduate from <strong>MSU</strong> (he has<br />
degrees from South Carolina and<br />
Ohio <strong>University</strong>), his heart lies at<br />
“We’re looking<br />
forward to competing<br />
against him, but the<br />
neighborhood just<br />
got tougher.”<br />
--Jim Tressel, Ohio <strong>State</strong>.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>. He spent six years as Nick<br />
Saban’s defensive backfield coach<br />
and Bobby Williams’ associate<br />
head coach from 1995-2000. East<br />
Lansing is where his children<br />
essentially grew up, where the<br />
family made some great friendships,<br />
and where they consider<br />
home. As he puts it, “This is our<br />
final destination.”<br />
“We still lay on Spartan<br />
blankets at home,” he noted at his<br />
introductory press conference at<br />
the Duffy Daugherty Building<br />
auditorium. “We have a lot of<br />
things from <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> that<br />
are really just cherished as part of<br />
our past.”<br />
While at Cincinnati, he<br />
recounts, Mark and wife Becky<br />
had decided that <strong>MSU</strong> was one of<br />
only two Big Ten jobs for which<br />
they’d leave Cincinnati.<br />
His words leave no doubt they<br />
come from someone who bleeds<br />
green.<br />
“It’s tremendous to be a Spartan,”<br />
he said. “To me, I know the<br />
phrase ‘boldness by design’ exists<br />
here right now. I can tell you as<br />
a Spartan, whenever I walked<br />
into any school in America . . . I<br />
walked in with boldness because<br />
I knew I represented something<br />
that was very special. I knew I<br />
represented something that had<br />
history behind it, had tradition<br />
behind it, had championships behind<br />
it, a place that was nationally<br />
known for its athletics. . . . I’m so<br />
proud to be here today, to represent<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in<br />
this capacity.”<br />
In December, Dantonio made a<br />
brief appearance at Breslin Center<br />
during the halftime of the Chicago<br />
<strong>State</strong> game. To thundering applause,<br />
he quickly announced his<br />
three goals—to graduate players,<br />
to have players become productive<br />
members of society, and to win<br />
championships. He also deftly<br />
had the crowd circle Nov. 3—the<br />
date of the <strong>Michigan</strong> game.<br />
Dantonio’s credentials go way,<br />
way beyond simply deeming East<br />
Lansing as his dream destination.<br />
Dantonio, 50, boasts an<br />
impressive pedigree, counting<br />
Nick Saban, Jim Tressel and Earl<br />
Bruce—all championship caliber<br />
coaches—among his key mentors.<br />
He has 27 years of experience<br />
as football coach, the last<br />
three as head coach at Cincinnati,<br />
where he led the Bearcats to two<br />
bowls and where he significantly<br />
improved a program as it made<br />
a transition from “mid-major”<br />
Conference USA to the Bowl<br />
Championship Series’ Big East<br />
Conference.<br />
Dantonio’s three-year record<br />
of 18-17 at Cincinnati is deceptive,<br />
argues Jim Comparoni,<br />
editor and publisher of Spartan<br />
Magazine. Cincinnati, notes<br />
Comparoni, had to compete in<br />
a major-conference environment<br />
with mid-major resources. He<br />
adds that Cincinnati gained<br />
significant credibility by beating<br />
No. 7-ranked Rutgers, a previously<br />
unbeaten team. Cincinnati<br />
played the second-toughest schedule<br />
in the country and four of its<br />
losses this season were on the road<br />
against Top Ten teams—West<br />
Virginia, Louisville, Ohio <strong>State</strong><br />
and Virginia Tech.<br />
“I don’t think there are 20<br />
teams that could have beaten one<br />
of those teams on the road,” notes<br />
Comparoni. “Cincinnati was<br />
playing its best football in the last<br />
half of the season, winning four<br />
of its last five.”<br />
Before Cincinnati, Dantonio<br />
was defensive coordinator at Ohio<br />
<strong>State</strong> and helped the Buckeyes win<br />
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Dantonio’s “ready-made recruiting train” for the Great Lakes<br />
region left the station a day after his announcement.<br />
the 2002 national championship.<br />
Dantonio does not usually wear<br />
his championship ring, but he did<br />
show it off at this introductory<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> press conference to symbolize<br />
what can be achieved when one<br />
has the will along with resources.<br />
Dantonio is best known for his<br />
defensive expertise. Those who<br />
remember OSU’s win over Miami<br />
in the championship game<br />
might recall the stinginess of<br />
Dantonio’s defense, and it made<br />
a difference. Five years under the<br />
tutelage of defensive guru Nick<br />
Saban, now head coach of the<br />
Alabama Crimson Tide, clearly<br />
has helped hone his defensive understanding.<br />
In 1999, Dantonio<br />
played a key role in <strong>MSU</strong>’s 10-2<br />
season—during which the Spartans<br />
beat <strong>Michigan</strong>, Notre Dame,<br />
Ohio <strong>State</strong>, and Penn <strong>State</strong>, and<br />
then Florida in the Citrus Bowl.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> led the Big Ten in total<br />
defense that year. In a previous<br />
stint, when Dantonio worked as<br />
defensive coordinator for Tressel<br />
at Youngstown <strong>State</strong>, he played a<br />
key role in an 11-0 season en route<br />
to a national championship.<br />
Spartan Magazine credits<br />
Dantonio for helping design the<br />
2000 <strong>MSU</strong> defense that shackled<br />
Purdue quarterback Drew Brees<br />
and ended the Boilermakers’ Rose<br />
Bowl hopes as <strong>MSU</strong> won 30-10.<br />
As President Simon put it,<br />
“He’s been places that have<br />
achieved the objectives that<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> hopes<br />
to achieve. . . And at every place,<br />
he’s been one of the people who<br />
has been the most respected in a<br />
coaching staff.”<br />
That point was echoed by Tressel<br />
when he said, “We’re looking<br />
forward to competing against<br />
him, but the neighborhood just<br />
got a little tougher.”<br />
Dantonio has a reputation for<br />
being a great teacher and role<br />
model for young student-athletes.<br />
During his tenure at Ohio <strong>State</strong>, for<br />
example, 6 of his defenders made<br />
First Team All-Big Ten while 13<br />
were NFL draft picks, 2 in the first<br />
round. At <strong>MSU</strong>, he tutored three<br />
defenders who earned All-American<br />
honors and six defenders who<br />
were drafted by the NFL.<br />
Perhaps even more important,<br />
Dantonio is known for his ability<br />
to recruit. Some analysts believe<br />
recruiting is the key to college<br />
football success.<br />
“We wanted someone who had<br />
successful networks around the<br />
country and who had built them<br />
in a way that people really did<br />
respect him and we could call<br />
on those networks in order to<br />
help assure the success of Spartan<br />
football,” explains Simon on announcement<br />
day.<br />
Dantonio’s “network” spans<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> and Ohio, the two<br />
most critical recruiting areas<br />
for <strong>MSU</strong>. He is a native of<br />
Zanesville, and after playing at<br />
South Carolina, he coached at<br />
Youngstown <strong>State</strong>, Ohio <strong>State</strong><br />
and Cincinnati—three programs<br />
located in the major geographical<br />
regions of the talent-rich state.<br />
Besides Ohio and <strong>Michigan</strong>,<br />
he has also personally recruited<br />
Chicago, Florida, Texas, California<br />
and various parts of the<br />
East Coast. While at <strong>MSU</strong>, for<br />
example, he helped land talented<br />
players like Desmond Thomas,<br />
Plaxico Burress and Sorie Kanu<br />
from the Chesapeake Bay area.<br />
Dantonio’s familiarity with<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s recruiting base is a huge<br />
asset. To paraphrase <strong>MSU</strong> quarterback<br />
Drew Stanton, Dantonio<br />
will not need a road map to get<br />
to Grand Rapids. Saban has<br />
described him as “one of the top<br />
recruiters on (our <strong>MSU</strong>) staff.”<br />
And Spartan Magazine reports<br />
that Dantonio has a “ready-made<br />
recruiting train” for the Great<br />
Lakes region.<br />
Indeed, after Dantonio hired<br />
seven assistants—all from his<br />
Cincinnati staff, a testament to<br />
his strong desire for program continuity—he<br />
promptly deployed<br />
them in a recruiting drive across<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong>, Ohio, New Jersey, Atlanta,<br />
and Tallahassee, FL, after<br />
a quick meeting on an airfield.<br />
“We’ve been around,” he told<br />
media on his first press gathering<br />
since his introduction as coach.<br />
And recruiting “verbals” began to<br />
pop up on message boards.<br />
He has since completed his staff<br />
by hiring an 8th assistant from<br />
Cincinnati, defensive coordinator<br />
Pat Narduzzi, and by retaining<br />
quarterback coach Dan Enos<br />
from the John L. Smith staff.<br />
Enos was a former <strong>MSU</strong> quarterback<br />
who previously coached<br />
under Dantonio at Cincinnati.<br />
Enos will coach running backs<br />
under Dantonio.<br />
“With continuity, you can keep<br />
the system in place, keep the<br />
teaching progression the same,”<br />
explains Dantonio. “They know<br />
how we do things, the vocabulary,<br />
the terminology, the way we<br />
manage people, etc.”<br />
It’s easier to sell something you<br />
believe in, and Dantonio believes<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> is easy to sell. “Some<br />
guys we couldn’t get a sniff on,”<br />
he notes, “But now you got on<br />
this shirt . . . (He points to the<br />
Spartan emblem) and they’re<br />
returning your calls.”<br />
Dantonio’s familiarity with<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> is also an important asset.<br />
Knowing the landscape will help<br />
him not make mistakes spending<br />
time on some things rather than<br />
more important things required<br />
for program success. Knowing<br />
how things work at <strong>MSU</strong> will<br />
save time and effort.<br />
Dantonio’s football philosophy<br />
will have a familiar ring to<br />
longtime fans of <strong>MSU</strong> football.<br />
Echoing the philosophy of former<br />
coach George Perles, now an<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> trustee, Dantonio says he<br />
believes in “toughness” above<br />
other measurables such as “speed”<br />
or “strength.”<br />
“I want a football team based<br />
on toughness,” he says. “That’s<br />
what I want. That’s what we’re<br />
gonna do.”<br />
He notes that toughness is both<br />
mental and physical, and toughness<br />
is a time-honored Spartan<br />
tradition harking back to Saban,<br />
Perles, and even Duffy Daugherty.<br />
Indeed, “smashmouth”<br />
football is a time-honored<br />
concept in the Big Ten, where<br />
the best teams have historically<br />
excelled at establishing the run on<br />
offense and stopping the run on<br />
defense. In the Big Ten, experts<br />
have noted, trick plays tend to be<br />
favored by the also-rans.<br />
“The key to our offense is<br />
to be multi-dimensional,” says<br />
Dantonio, who notes that in his<br />
first year at Cincinnati he had a<br />
quarterback who passed for 2,600<br />
yards and 24 touchdowns, as<br />
well as a tailback who rushed for<br />
1,000 yards and a wide receiver<br />
who caught for 1,000 yards. “I<br />
want to be able to walk up to a<br />
tailback and say, ‘Hey you could<br />
be a 1,000-yard rusher here,’<br />
because we are going to run the<br />
football. I also want to be able to<br />
say to a wide receiver or a quarterback,<br />
‘Hey, you are going to<br />
throw for 300 yards a game.’<br />
“I want everyone to know, ‘If<br />
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you come here, we can feature you<br />
if you’re a good enough player.’”<br />
Dantonio says offensive linemen<br />
will have to learn how to<br />
pass protect and run block. “I<br />
don’t want an offense that just<br />
runs the zone play,” he says. “I<br />
want to run power football, I<br />
want to be able to get that yard<br />
when we need a tough yard.”<br />
Dantonio wants to re-establish<br />
the fullback position, which<br />
Smith had eliminated in his<br />
spread offense. “We will have a<br />
fullback on this team,” he avows.<br />
“We need to run some gap plays,<br />
some power plays.”<br />
Don Treadwell, who previously<br />
coached at <strong>MSU</strong> and helped develop<br />
wide receiver Charles Rogers,<br />
will run Dantonio’s offense.<br />
Treadwell has excelled as offensive<br />
coordinator at four schools, including<br />
Youngstown <strong>State</strong>, where<br />
he won a national title, Boston<br />
College and Ball <strong>State</strong>. “He<br />
brings tremendous patience and<br />
stability,” says Dantonio. “He<br />
does a great job of listening. He’s<br />
right on time with a play. You<br />
never see us with a game delay<br />
penalty. He gets plays in quickly,<br />
and that’s half the battle.”<br />
On defense, Dantonio believes in<br />
zone pressures. “This is the age of<br />
zone pressures, so we’ll zone pressure<br />
a lot,” he notes. “We will also<br />
feature a lot of man-pressures.”<br />
Allowing that his defensive<br />
formation will be somewhat<br />
dictated by personnel, he likes to<br />
use a “base, 4-3 front.” Others<br />
have described his defense at Cincinnati<br />
as an attacking defense.<br />
He touts defensive coordinator<br />
Narduzzi as “young, energetic<br />
and very passionate.”<br />
Dantonio intends to let his<br />
coordinators run the show. While<br />
he will help determine the game<br />
plan, he does not like to change<br />
things in the middle of a series. “I<br />
want to empower our coaches and<br />
give them ownership,” he explains.<br />
“When you have ownership . . .<br />
you look for ways to succeed. You<br />
take it personal, and because of<br />
that, you attack things more passionately.<br />
Like everything in life,<br />
if you’re passionate, you’re more<br />
likely to succeed.”<br />
When asked how he would<br />
upgrade <strong>MSU</strong>’s overall team<br />
speed, Dantonio says, “You have<br />
to recruit to that, and there’s a<br />
certain level of speed you can<br />
increase. When you know what<br />
you’re doing, you have the ability<br />
to play faster. But more than<br />
speed, you need explosiveness.”<br />
Dantonio is very mindful of<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s storied history and tradition—one<br />
that includes seven<br />
national championships since<br />
1950—and wants to bring that<br />
to the forefront again.<br />
“I want to embrace <strong>MSU</strong> football’s<br />
past,” he says. “That’s very<br />
important to me. We’ll have an<br />
honorary captain for every game,<br />
and it’ll be an ex-Spartan player.”<br />
At his introductory press conference,<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> Trustee Joel Ferguson,<br />
vice chair of the board,<br />
emphasized that Dantonio was<br />
everyone’s first choice and not a<br />
“compromise” candidate.<br />
“Mark Dantonio is absolutely<br />
the best fit for <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>,” he said. “He was a<br />
unanimous choice by this board<br />
not because anyone else had<br />
flaws, because the other candidates<br />
were excellent also. He just<br />
happened to be the best.”<br />
Izzo believes Dantonio will<br />
succeed so long as all Spartans<br />
unite to support him:<br />
“He’s got pedigree and great<br />
character. If you have those<br />
two things with a great work<br />
ethic, everything else kind of<br />
falls in place as long as we’re all<br />
with him.”<br />
Dantonio’s favorite metaphor is<br />
a quote from Greek mathematician<br />
and philosopher Archimedes,<br />
who said, “Give me a place<br />
THE DUFFY DAUGHERTY PROJECT<br />
The Duffy Daugherty<br />
Building expansion<br />
project (see p. 42,<br />
Fall 2006) remains in<br />
effect, but its priorities<br />
and emphasis<br />
have evolved since<br />
the arrival of Mark<br />
Dantonio.<br />
Mindful that sizzle<br />
Rendering courtesy of Raymond O’Leary<br />
can help sell recruits,<br />
Dantonio has prioritized the project’s “Wow factor”—the Skandalaris<br />
Hall of History (see Lasting Impressions, p.52 ), a two-level glass<br />
structure that will showcase <strong>MSU</strong> football history in all its past glory.<br />
Dantonio wants to prominently show <strong>MSU</strong>’s tradition to future<br />
recruits—six national championships, three Rose Bowl triumphs,<br />
76 first-team All Americans, 33 Academic All Americans, and such<br />
iconic moments as 1966’s “Game of the Century” 10-10 tie with<br />
Notre Dame.<br />
When completed, the Skandalaris Football Operations Center will<br />
include a meeting room with state-of-the-art video technology, along<br />
with the Duffy Daugherty Tribute and Motivational Area where<br />
coaches can perform game preparation. Position meeting rooms and<br />
a Coaches Office Suite will round-out the expansion project. If you<br />
wish to help, contact the Ralph Young Fund at (517) 432-4610.<br />
ASSISTANT COACHES<br />
Harlon Barnett<br />
Dan Enos<br />
Ted Gill<br />
Pat Narduzzi<br />
Dan Roushar<br />
Mark <strong>State</strong>n<br />
Don Treadwell<br />
Mike Tressel<br />
Dave Warner<br />
to stand on and I can move the<br />
earth.” The more Spartans unite<br />
behind Dantonio, the more solid<br />
the platform. And the more<br />
solid the platform, the more<br />
likely he will be able to move, if<br />
not the earth, at least the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
football program.<br />
- Secondary<br />
- Running backs<br />
- Defensive line<br />
- Defensive coordinator<br />
- Offensive line<br />
- Tight ends/tackles, recruiting coordinator<br />
- Offensive coordinator<br />
- Linebackers/special teams<br />
- Quarterbacks<br />
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GLI CHAMPS AGAIN! —<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> beat archrival <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
in the finals of the Great Lakes<br />
Invitational Tournament,<br />
college hockey’s most prestigious<br />
holiday tournament, at<br />
Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena. In<br />
the past 10 years, <strong>MSU</strong> has won<br />
6 titles in 9 GLI finals appearances<br />
at Joe Louis Arena, while<br />
the Wolverines have won no<br />
titles in five appearances in the<br />
finals. Coach Rick Comley has<br />
now surpassed the 700-win<br />
<strong>mark</strong> and ranks among the Top<br />
Five all-time winningest coaches<br />
in college hockey history.<br />
A TRANSITION FOR<br />
MEN’S BASKETBALL<br />
By Robert Bao<br />
Izzo’s rebuilding job had fans<br />
thinking big—until two key<br />
untimely injuries halted the<br />
momentum.<br />
For a while, <strong>MSU</strong>’s “rebuilding”<br />
season was going so well<br />
that some fans were envisioning<br />
yet another Tom Izzo-trade<strong>mark</strong><br />
championship run.<br />
But an old Izzo nemesis—the<br />
stress fracture—struck twice<br />
before the Big Ten opener and<br />
put that notion on pause.<br />
Expectations had been low for<br />
the 2006-07 men’s basketball<br />
team, which was both young and<br />
inexperienced. Izzo lost three<br />
starters to the NBA (Maurice<br />
Ager, Shannon Brown and Paul<br />
Davis) and a fourth possibly to<br />
the NFL (Matt Trannon). Yet<br />
this year’s team kept finding<br />
different ways to win, no matter<br />
which style—slowdown (Brown,<br />
45-34), uptempo (Youngstown<br />
<strong>State</strong>, 86-61), acrobatic (Chicago<br />
<strong>State</strong>, 69-61), you name it.<br />
In the Coaches vs. Cancer<br />
finals at New York’s Madison<br />
Square Garden, <strong>MSU</strong> managed<br />
to beat No. 19-ranked Texas,<br />
Izzo<br />
Neitzel<br />
with leading scorer Drew Neitzel<br />
making a spectacular drive for<br />
the winning layup. <strong>MSU</strong> did<br />
lose two close games in the<br />
season, but one of them—62-60<br />
to Maryland—featured a no-call<br />
on an apparent Terrapin shot<br />
clock violation.<br />
For the most part, this year’s<br />
cagers seemed to be making up<br />
for their inexperience by going<br />
retro to Izzo basics—scraping for<br />
rebounds, diving for lose balls,<br />
playing stingy defense (with a<br />
surge of blocked shots).<br />
Junior guard Neitzel emerged<br />
as the team’s leading scorer (17.9)<br />
and playmaker, while backcourt<br />
mate sophomore Travis Walton,<br />
a defensive specialist<br />
last season, has<br />
unveiled a reasonable<br />
shot and averaged 7<br />
points a game. Small<br />
forward Morgan<br />
averaged in double<br />
figures prior to his<br />
injury. The “Bigs,”<br />
as Izzo calls his front<br />
court players, showed<br />
improvement. Sophomores<br />
Goran Suton<br />
and Marquise Gray<br />
produced great scoring<br />
outputs in given games, but<br />
needed to work on consistency.<br />
One statistic that improved dramatically<br />
was blocked shots, with<br />
6-10 junior center Drew Naymick<br />
and 6-9 sophomore Ibok Ibong<br />
leading the way.<br />
This unsung collection of<br />
cagers fought and scratched they<br />
way to an impressive 13-2 preseason<br />
record, earning considerable<br />
praise in the media.<br />
But then arose an Izzo-era<br />
bugaboo—the stress fracture.<br />
This injury struck forward Raymar<br />
Morgan, the second leading<br />
scorer as a true freshman, and<br />
sophomore guard Maurice<br />
Joseph, the team’s second best<br />
shooter. Both went down just<br />
before the holiday break. Even<br />
so, the Spartans continued to<br />
win, beating BYU at the Palace,<br />
and then polishing up Chicago<br />
<strong>State</strong>, Belmont, Wisconsin-<br />
Green Bay and Loyola of Maryland<br />
at the Breslin Center.<br />
Despite the wins, Tom Izzo<br />
remained unhappy prior to<br />
conference play. A team that<br />
was already thin around the perimeter<br />
could not afford injuries<br />
to two perimeter players. Their<br />
absence affected practices. Izzo<br />
sensed that progress was stalling<br />
just as the Spartans had to open<br />
up with two road games at Iowa<br />
and Indiana.<br />
“This team isn’t ready to win<br />
in the Big Ten the way we’ve<br />
played the last four or five<br />
games, especially on the road,”<br />
cautioned Izzo just before <strong>MSU</strong><br />
began its conference play.<br />
At 13-2, <strong>MSU</strong> probably<br />
needed to at least break even<br />
in conference play to earn an<br />
NCAA bid. If <strong>MSU</strong> somehow<br />
pulls itself together and manages<br />
to get into the big dance,<br />
it would <strong>mark</strong> its 10th straight<br />
appearance—the nation’s fifth<br />
longest streak.<br />
Spartan fans know also that<br />
help is coming. Three highlyranked<br />
perimeter players are<br />
coming next season.<br />
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A VERTICAL STRETCH<br />
FOR WOMEN’S HOOPS<br />
DeHaan<br />
By Robert Bao<br />
Freshman Alyssa DeHaan makes<br />
an immediate impact as both a<br />
scorer and shotblocker. Wait till<br />
she makes her first dunk.<br />
Despite graduating its two alltime<br />
scorers, the <strong>MSU</strong> women’s<br />
basketball team has received tremendous<br />
media buzz this season.<br />
The center of attention?<br />
Grandville freshman Allyssa<br />
DeHaan, who at 6-9 has the<br />
potential not only to excel but<br />
also to alter the college game.<br />
“She changes the game completely,”<br />
explains Joanne P. Mc-<br />
Callie, the 2005 AP National<br />
Coach of the Year. “Defensively,<br />
she changes the game by<br />
her stature, as long as she’s very<br />
aggressive. Offensively, she is<br />
just such a target. The thing<br />
about her that is truly extraordinary<br />
is her ability to pass the<br />
basketball. Her passing ability is<br />
pretty phenomenal for a young<br />
person under so much pressure<br />
as people try to double or be<br />
physical with her.”<br />
In just 12 games, DeHaan<br />
notched 60 blocked shots—<br />
breaking Kristen Rasmussen’s<br />
single-season record of 57<br />
blocked shots in 1998-99. By<br />
mid-season, she led the nation<br />
in blocked shots. She averaged<br />
around 12 points, 9 rebounds<br />
and 5 blocked shots per game<br />
and has not been intimidated<br />
by veteran All-Americans. In<br />
losses against national champion<br />
Maryland and LSU, she<br />
blocked five shots by Terrapin<br />
All-American center Crystal<br />
Langhome and three shots<br />
by Tiger All-American Sylvia<br />
Fowles. DeHaan ranks among<br />
the leading scorers in the Big<br />
Ten and is a candidate for<br />
Rookie of the Year honors.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> features other weapons<br />
besides DeHaan. Senior<br />
guards Rene Haynes and<br />
Victoria Lucas-Perry are proven<br />
players who compete at the<br />
highest level. Both are averaging<br />
double figures. Transfer<br />
Mia Johnson has helped out<br />
at the guard spot. Sophomore<br />
Aisha Jefferson made the All<br />
Big Ten freshman team last<br />
season and has continued to be<br />
a force inside, along with senior<br />
forward Katrina Grantham.<br />
But DeHaan<br />
Haynes<br />
has captured<br />
the most<br />
attention as<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> reached<br />
a decent 12-3<br />
by mid-season,<br />
poised<br />
to make its<br />
fi fth straight<br />
NCAA tournament.<br />
“I’m not the least bit surprised<br />
at the success that she is having<br />
because of the kind of person she<br />
is,” notes McCallie.<br />
Meanwhile, fans and media<br />
are awaiting DeHaan’s first slam<br />
dunk.<br />
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FOR THE RECORD<br />
TALES FROM SPECIAL K—<br />
Greg Kelser, who teamed up<br />
with Earvin “Magic” Johnson<br />
to lead <strong>MSU</strong> to its first NCAA<br />
basketball championship in<br />
1979, has now told his story in<br />
Tales From <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> Basketball<br />
(Sports Publishing LLc,<br />
2006). The book, written with<br />
Booth Newspapers of <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
sportswriter Steve Grinczel,<br />
is fi lled with inside<br />
anecdotes from his <strong>MSU</strong><br />
years. Kelser was a firstteam<br />
All American and<br />
also a first-team Academic<br />
All American, and was the<br />
first Big Ten player ever<br />
to compile 2,000 points<br />
and 1,000 rebounds in<br />
a career. He starred in<br />
a championship game<br />
that changed basketball<br />
forever and remains the<br />
most-watched game of<br />
all time. He, Magic<br />
and Indiana <strong>State</strong>’s<br />
Larry Bird triggered the<br />
popularity of “March<br />
Madness” and “Final<br />
Four.” The last 20<br />
years Kelser has been a TV<br />
analyst. In the book, he<br />
gives an inside account<br />
of his life, including the<br />
magical 1979 season and<br />
his take on such Spartans<br />
as Jud Heathcote, Gus<br />
Ganakas, Tom Izzo, Scott<br />
Skiles and Steve Smith.<br />
SPARTAN BASEBALL<br />
DREAM—Danny Litwhiler,<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> baseball<br />
coach from 1964-82 and<br />
member of the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
Sports Hall of Fame,<br />
has told his exciting life<br />
story in Danny Litwhiler:<br />
Living The Baseball<br />
Dream (Temple <strong>University</strong><br />
Press, 2006),<br />
co-authored with Jim Sargent,<br />
M.A. ’68, Ph.D. ’72. Litwhiler<br />
played 18 years as an outfielder<br />
and set a Major League record<br />
by playing 187 games in the<br />
outfield without an error, from<br />
1941-43. His glove is in Cooperstown,<br />
NY. As a coach, he<br />
invented a number of devices,<br />
including the JUGS radar gun<br />
to measure pitching speed.<br />
Among the players he coached<br />
at <strong>MSU</strong> were future stars like<br />
Kirk Gibson and Steve Garvey,<br />
as well as future successes in<br />
other fields, such as Tyrone<br />
Willingham. Co-author<br />
Sargent is history professor<br />
and dean of social science at<br />
Virginia Western Community<br />
College, Roanoke, VA.<br />
BIG TEN NETWORK—The Big<br />
Ten Conference will launch its<br />
own network in August 2007.<br />
Mark Silverman, who was<br />
general manager and senior<br />
vice president of ABC Cable<br />
Networks Group since April of<br />
2004, has been named as the<br />
organization’s first president.<br />
Says Big Ten Commissioner<br />
James E. Delany: “Mark’s<br />
media and business experience<br />
coupled with his intelligence<br />
and personal leadership style<br />
equip him to successfully<br />
launch and lead this network.”<br />
Operating 24-hours a day,<br />
365-days a year, the Big Ten<br />
Network is majority-owned<br />
by the Big Ten Conference,<br />
while Fox holds a minority<br />
interest in the network.<br />
The Big Ten Network<br />
will be the destination for<br />
Big Ten fans around the<br />
country. Showcasing a wide<br />
array of classic-to-current<br />
sports as well as original<br />
programming produced by<br />
the conference’s 11 institutions,<br />
it will be available to<br />
all carriers and distributors<br />
nationwide.<br />
SIMMONS HELP PACE<br />
WRESTLING—In mid-January,<br />
the Simmons brothers,<br />
Nick and Andy, were helping<br />
pace this year’s Spartan wrestling<br />
team to a No. 21 national<br />
ranking. Nick Simmons was<br />
ranked No. 1 in the nation<br />
at 133 pounds with a perfect<br />
25-0 record, which includes<br />
wins over eight ranked opponents.<br />
Andy Simmons, ranked<br />
No. 4 at 141 pounds, has also<br />
excelled, along with freshman<br />
Franklin Gomez, who was<br />
ranked No. 7 at 125 pounds.<br />
Joe Williams was ranked No.<br />
8 at 184 pounds. In January<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> notched its first dual meet<br />
victory of the season with a win<br />
over Pittsburgh.<br />
HUMANITARIAN HALL OF<br />
FAME—Steve Smith, basketball<br />
star and philanthropist,<br />
has been inducted into the<br />
World Sports Humanitarian<br />
Hall of Fame, Meridian, ID.<br />
Smith was inducted in December<br />
along with Steve Largent,<br />
football great turned congressman,<br />
and baseball great<br />
Harmon Killebrew. The hall<br />
is now in its 12th year, with<br />
35 inductees. Smith made<br />
the lead gift for <strong>MSU</strong>’s Clara<br />
Belle Smith Student Academic<br />
Center, created a number of<br />
scholarships, and is a member<br />
of the Reading Is Fundamental<br />
national board of directors. A<br />
14-year NBA veteran, Smith is<br />
currently in his second year as<br />
the Atlanta Hawks’ TV color<br />
analyst.<br />
Photo courtesy of Larry Maneely<br />
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Big Opportunities at the Big Ten Network<br />
For additional info, email: BigTen.jobs@FOX.com<br />
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KEDZIE REUNION 2007<br />
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY<br />
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION<br />
Each year is its own, yet it<br />
is all years put together.<br />
From a distinguished past<br />
we inherit a brilliant future.<br />
Advancing Knowledge. Transforming Lives.<br />
Mark your calendar as <strong>MSU</strong> and the <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong> cordially invites all<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> who graduated during or before the year 1957<br />
to join us for the Kedzie Reunion on June 8, 2007. It is<br />
a perfect time to get together and relive old memories<br />
and make new ones. Members of the class of 1957<br />
will be honored with a special induction ceremony.<br />
For more information visit us online<br />
at www.msualum.com/kedzie or call the<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>AA office at (877)<strong>MSU</strong>-ALUM.<br />
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ALMA MATTERS<br />
Calhoun County<br />
REGIONAL CLUBS<br />
BOSTON, MA—Nov. 16:<br />
About 50 area Spartans gathered<br />
at the Boston Hyatt Regency<br />
to kickoff a local scholarship<br />
drive. President Michael<br />
Kratochwill welcomed special<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> guests Ron Fisher, dean<br />
of Honors College, and development<br />
officer Barbara Ball-<br />
McClure.<br />
CALHOUN COUNTY—Sep. 25:<br />
Sparty and more than 100 area<br />
Spartans (photo) attended the<br />
annual Golf Outing & Scholarship<br />
Dinner at the Battle<br />
Creek Country Club. More<br />
than $8,000, the most ever in<br />
the club’s history, was raised<br />
for club student scholarships<br />
and for <strong>MSU</strong> athletics. Special<br />
guests included former <strong>MSU</strong><br />
football coach and trustee<br />
George Perles, and <strong>MSU</strong>AA<br />
assistant directors Dave Brown<br />
and Robert Bao.<br />
CENTRAL OHIO—Sep. 23:<br />
Nearly 40 area Spartans gathered<br />
at Fitzgerald’s in Columbus<br />
to watch the <strong>MSU</strong>-Notre<br />
Dame game.<br />
COASTAL GEORGIA—Oct. 7:<br />
More than 40 area Spartans<br />
and Wolverines gathered to<br />
watch the football game at the<br />
Grand Lake Lodge & Spa,<br />
Savannah, GA. The <strong>MSU</strong> club<br />
(see photo), which hosted the<br />
event, was able to raise $120.<br />
Dec. 10: More than two dozen<br />
area alumni gathered in the<br />
home of Bob and Carol Nickels<br />
in Savannah for a Holiday<br />
Open House.<br />
Photo courtesy of Nancy Juntunen<br />
DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX—<br />
Oct. 27: About 50 area Spartans<br />
enjoyed two private suites at<br />
the American Airlines Center<br />
for a Red Wings-Stars hockey<br />
game. About $300 was raised<br />
for the club’s scholarship fund.<br />
Nov. 29: More than 100 area<br />
Spartans attended a Mavs-<br />
Raptors pre-game reception<br />
at American Airlines Center.<br />
Special guests included (photo,<br />
l to r) former <strong>MSU</strong> cagers Morris<br />
Peterson, Maurice Ager and<br />
Sam Vincent, and 1979 championship<br />
team members Terry<br />
Donnelly and Jamie “Shoes”<br />
Huffman, <strong>University</strong> of Texas-<br />
Arlington president Jim Spaniolo<br />
and Dallas Morning News<br />
Photo courtesy of Chris Horner<br />
sportswriter Rick Gosselin.<br />
The event raised nearly $1,800<br />
for the club’s scholarship fund.<br />
DAYTON, OH—Oct. 7: About<br />
30 area Spartans and Wolverines<br />
gathered to watch the<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>-UM football game at the<br />
Fox & Hound Pub & Grille,<br />
Beavercreek, OH. It was the<br />
club’s first-ever joint event with<br />
the <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Michigan</strong>.<br />
Photo courtesy of Barbara Spivack<br />
GREATER BALTIMORE, MD—<br />
Dec. 2: Some 18 area Spartans<br />
gathered for the annual Dinner<br />
and Movie at the historic Senator<br />
Theatre in Baltimore.<br />
GREATER NEW YORK—Oct.<br />
28: (Clockwise from lower<br />
left) <strong>MSU</strong> President Lou Anna<br />
Photo courtesy of Pat Donnohue<br />
K. Simon, club vice president<br />
Dianna Antlocer, David James,<br />
secretary Bob Kobel, treasurer<br />
Roni O’Connor, and (center)<br />
club president Greg Hauser<br />
gathered at Blondies Sports Bar<br />
on West 79th Street, Manhattan,<br />
to watch the <strong>MSU</strong>-Indiana<br />
football game. Area Spartans<br />
call Blondies “East Lansing on<br />
the Hudson.”<br />
HILLSDALE COUNTY—Oct.<br />
2: About 50 area Spartans attended<br />
the Annual <strong>MSU</strong> vs.<br />
UM Football Pep Rally at the<br />
Hillsdate Golf & Country<br />
Club. Special guest was George<br />
Blaha, play-by-play radio announcer<br />
of Spartan football.<br />
Funds were raised to the club’s<br />
endowed scholarship fund, now<br />
in excess of $35,000.<br />
SEATTLE, WA—Dec. 9: More<br />
than a dozen area Spartans<br />
gathered at Jillian’s Bar and<br />
Grill, Seattle, to watch the<br />
men’s basketball team play<br />
BYU.<br />
SPACE COAST, FL—Oct. 16:<br />
(L to r) Founding president<br />
Jack Johnston, Narda Reise,<br />
Bill Burpeau, club president<br />
Frank Kunze, Bill Glick & Pat<br />
Page were among some 30 area<br />
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Spartans who attended the first<br />
annual Oktoberfest dinner at<br />
Valkaria. The new event raised<br />
$700 for the club’s scholarship<br />
fund.<br />
man Medicine. This presentation<br />
took place at a “Meet &<br />
Greet” reception at Stelter Partners<br />
LLC, Grand Rapids, with<br />
more than 100 area Spartans in<br />
attendance. Nov. 10: The club<br />
donated $50,000 to help fund a<br />
new World of Wonder Library<br />
at Sibley Elementary School.<br />
Photo courtesy of Matt Jackson<br />
Francie Todd<br />
WEST MICHIGAN—Sep. 21:<br />
The annual Outstanding Junior<br />
Awards luncheon took place at<br />
Cascade Hills CC, Grand Rapids.<br />
Special <strong>MSU</strong> guests Trustee<br />
Dee Cook (seated, middle),<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>AA acting executive director<br />
Bill Beekman, and associate<br />
admissions director Jim Cotter<br />
spoke to students, counselors,<br />
principals and parents. Oct.<br />
24: (L to r) Club president<br />
Don Patten presents a symbolic<br />
check to trustees Dee Cook and<br />
Dave Porteous and <strong>MSU</strong> provost<br />
Kim Wilcox for the club’s<br />
$50,000 endowed scholarship<br />
fund to benefit new students attending<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s College of Hu-<br />
Photo courtesy of Steve Wolf<br />
(L to r) West <strong>Michigan</strong> board<br />
members Frank Grant and<br />
Mike Poggi and Grand Rapids<br />
Mayor George Heartwell greet<br />
students at the Sibley Elementary<br />
School.<br />
CONTITUENT<br />
ASSOCIATIONS<br />
AGRICULTURE & NATURAL<br />
RESOURCES—Nov. 11: More<br />
than 900 Spartans and friends<br />
attended the 31st AutumnFest<br />
at the <strong>MSU</strong> Pavilion, including<br />
special <strong>MSU</strong> guests trustee<br />
Don Nugent, president Lou<br />
Anna K. Simon, provost Kim<br />
Wilcox, dean Jeff Armstrong<br />
(right, in photo), and <strong>MSU</strong>AA<br />
board chairperson Stella Cash.<br />
The event raised more than<br />
$13,500 for scholarships.<br />
Since 1989, the event<br />
has raised more than<br />
$175,000. Nov. 16-19:<br />
Altogether some 250 or<br />
so Spartans took part in a road<br />
trip to Penn <strong>State</strong>, where the<br />
PSU College of Agricultural<br />
Sciences hosted the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
group. $1,350 was raised for<br />
scholarships.<br />
EDUCATION—Oct. 27: More<br />
than 270 Spartans and friends<br />
gathered to pay tribute to this<br />
year’s 29 Crystal Apple recipients<br />
at the Kellogg Center.<br />
Speakers included dean Carole<br />
Ames and award recipient Brian<br />
Hawkins, president of Colorado-based<br />
EDUCAUSE. The<br />
award winners were selected by<br />
members of the COE Leadership<br />
Circle, who support the<br />
College of Education with gifts<br />
of $1,250 or more. For information<br />
on next year’s event,<br />
Photo courtesy of Kathryn Reed<br />
contact<br />
517-432-1983 or email birdjuli@msu.edu.<br />
HOSPITALITY BUSINESS—<br />
Nov. 7: More than 700 students<br />
attended Career Expo<br />
XXVIII at Kellogg Center,<br />
featuring 150 recruiters from<br />
70 leading companies in the<br />
nation’s largest career fair for<br />
hospitality students. The event<br />
was organized by a board of<br />
directors (see photo). Nov.<br />
11: Nearly 300 students and<br />
alumni attended the Wall of<br />
Fame induction ceremony at<br />
the Waldorf-Astoria in New<br />
York. William P. Weidner, ’67,<br />
MBA ’68, president and CEO<br />
of Las Vegas Sands Corp., was<br />
named Industry Leader of the<br />
Year. New inductees included<br />
Photo courtesy of Mike Madura<br />
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Mark Auerbach, ’65, James A.<br />
Delligatti, ’64, Tekin Ertan,<br />
MBA ’65, Judy Zehnder Keller,<br />
’67, M.A. ’73, Hans R. Schuler,<br />
’59, and Hajimu Tsuzuki, ’82.<br />
Special guest was Robert Duncan,<br />
dean of <strong>MSU</strong>’s Eli Broad<br />
College of Business.<br />
Photo courtesy of Craig Reed<br />
l to r): Sheung Pan Hon, Errial<br />
Chiu, Barbara L. Kolar, Louis<br />
Lam, Simon Mok, Louisa Lo,<br />
and Ronald Leung gathered at<br />
the Chao Inn, Tsim Sha Tsui,<br />
Hong Kong. The Hong Hong<br />
alumni welcomed Kolar, assistant<br />
director for international<br />
admissions.<br />
OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE—<br />
Sep. 22-23: Record numbers<br />
of alumni attended the College<br />
of Osteopathic Medicine’s annual<br />
Silverfest. More than 150<br />
enjoyed a reception held at the<br />
East Lansing Marriott where<br />
they mingled with old friends,<br />
faculty and staff, and celebrated<br />
the Class of 1981 (see photo).<br />
Fifty-one took advantage of Fall<br />
Kaleidoscope, an annual continuing<br />
medical education series,<br />
while 450 tailgated before<br />
the <strong>MSU</strong>/Notre Dame football<br />
game.<br />
INTERNATIONAL CLUBS<br />
HONG KONG, CHINA—Oct 27:<br />
(Standing, l to r): Calvin Chu<br />
and Wing Wong; and (seated,<br />
INDONESIA—Nov. 10: (L to r)<br />
Herr Soeryantono, of the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Indonesia, Setyanto<br />
P. Santosa, M.A. ’76, and Gerhardus<br />
Schultink, professor<br />
of international development<br />
planning, College of Agriculture<br />
and Natural Resources,<br />
gather at the Lorojongrang<br />
Restaurant in Jakarta.<br />
KANSAI, JAPAN—Sep. 9: About 16 area Spartans attended the<br />
club’s annual meeting at the Rihga Royal Hotel in Osaka. The<br />
club named Tamio Tani to take over as club chairman upon the<br />
expiration of the term of Akira Oku. A special presentation was<br />
made by club founder Yuzo Yagi. Special guest was Dennis Meier,<br />
interim director of Japan Center of <strong>Michigan</strong> Universities.<br />
(L to r) Budi Rochadi, M.A.<br />
’84, senior director of Bank<br />
Indonesia, Burhanuddin<br />
Abdullah, M.A. ’84, Governor<br />
of Bank of Indonesia, and<br />
Schultink<br />
Nov. 11: Schultink<br />
visited the Bank of<br />
Indonesia and met with<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> alumni Budi Rochadi,<br />
M.A. ’84, senior<br />
director of Bank of<br />
Indonesia and Burhanuddin<br />
Abdullah, M.A.<br />
’84, Governor of Bank<br />
of Indonesia, Johanes<br />
Said, M.A. ’86, Ir Farid<br />
Maruf, and Pos Hutabarat,<br />
as a special guest of the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Club of Indonesia.<br />
THAILAND—Dec. 6: Anne<br />
Schneller, <strong>MSU</strong> coordinator of<br />
Sponsored Student Programs,<br />
hands Thiti Mahacharoen his<br />
letter of admission to <strong>MSU</strong> as a<br />
doctoral student in the School<br />
of Criminal Justice. Also on<br />
hand were several members<br />
of the Thai <strong>Alumni</strong> Club,<br />
who hosted a reception for the<br />
Royal Thai Scholars at the<br />
Sasin Hotel of Chulalongkorn<br />
<strong>University</strong>.<br />
Photo courtesy of Anne Schneller<br />
WingKuen Wong<br />
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White House Photo by Paul Morse<br />
SPOTLIGHT ON A SPARTAN<br />
STAR DURING THE STATE OF<br />
THE UNION ADDRESS<br />
On January 23, when President<br />
George W. Bush gave the <strong>State</strong> of<br />
the Union Address, he acknowledged<br />
four citizens who were in the<br />
U.S. Capitol’s House Gallery. One<br />
of them was Julie Aigner-Clark (see<br />
p. 15, Fall 2002), ’88, founder of<br />
the multi-million-dollar Baby Einstein<br />
Company of LoneTree, CO.<br />
During the nationally televised<br />
address, President Bush said:<br />
“After her daughter was born,<br />
Julie Aigner-Clark searched for<br />
ways to share her love of music<br />
and art with her child. So she<br />
borrowed some equipment, and<br />
began filming children’s videos<br />
in her basement. The Baby Einstein<br />
Company was born, and<br />
in just five years her business<br />
grew to more than $20 million<br />
in sales. In November 2001,<br />
Julie sold Baby Einstein to the<br />
Walt Disney Company, and<br />
with her help Baby Einstein has<br />
grown into a $200 million business.<br />
Julie represents the great<br />
enterprising spirit of America.<br />
And she is using her success<br />
to help others producing child<br />
safety videos with John Walsh<br />
of the National Center for Missing<br />
and Exploited Children.<br />
Julie says of her new project: ‘I<br />
believe it’s the most important<br />
thing that I have ever done. I<br />
believe that children have the<br />
right to live in a world that is<br />
safe.’ And so tonight, we are<br />
pleased to welcome this talented<br />
business entrepreneur and generous<br />
social entrepreneur Julie<br />
Aigner-Clark. (Applause.)”<br />
The other citizens saluted by<br />
President Bush were former NBA<br />
star Dikembe Mutombo, Iraq<br />
war hero Tommy Rieman, and<br />
Wesley Autrey, who helped save<br />
the life of a man who fell into the<br />
path of a train at the Harlem subway<br />
station in New York.<br />
YOUSUF KARSCH<br />
EXHIBIT—Jan.<br />
12: The Yousuf<br />
Karsh Photographs<br />
exhibit at Kresge<br />
Art Museum<br />
(through March<br />
18) debuted with<br />
the presence of<br />
the late Canadian<br />
photographer’s<br />
widow Estrellita<br />
Yousuf, Karsh curator<br />
Jerry Fielder,<br />
and Governor<br />
Erin Groome/IMC<br />
(Seated) Estrellita Karsh (left),<br />
Janet Blanchard; (standing,<br />
l to r) Governor Jim Blanchard,<br />
Jay Blanchard and Jerry Fielder.<br />
Jim and Janet Blanchard, who generously sponsored the event and<br />
exhibition, with additional assistance from the Consulate General of<br />
Canada-Detroit. Karsh (1908-2002) is one of the world’s most eminent<br />
photographers and his portrait of Winston Churchill became an<br />
iconic symbol during World War II. Currently, 30 of Karsh’s stunning<br />
photos are on loan to <strong>MSU</strong> from the Detroit Institute of Arts.<br />
Images courtesy of Kresge Art Museum<br />
Yousuf Karsh<br />
(Canadian, 1908-2002);<br />
Helen Keller (right) with<br />
Polly Thompson,<br />
1948, gelatin silver print,<br />
19 x 21 inches.<br />
Yousuf Karsh<br />
(Canadian, 1908-2002);<br />
Winston Churchill,<br />
1941, gelatin silver print,<br />
23½ x 19¾ inches.<br />
Loans from The Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Estrellita and Yousuf<br />
Karsh in honor of Governor James and Mrs. Janet Blanchard.<br />
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Artist’s rendering of <strong>MSU</strong>’s Secchia<br />
Center in downtown Grand Rapids,<br />
as seen from the northwest.<br />
SECCHIA PROVIDES<br />
LEADERSHIP GIFT FOR 21st<br />
CENTURY MEDICAL SCHOOL<br />
By Linda Dunn<br />
Peter and Joan Secchia<br />
Photo courtesy of <strong>University</strong> Development<br />
Ambassador Peter F. Secchia’s<br />
leadership gift to the new home of<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s College of Human Medicine<br />
in Grand Rapids, to be named<br />
“The Secchia Center” (see p. 4),<br />
will be the essential catalyst for the<br />
evolution and expansion of the college<br />
for the 21st century.<br />
“We are creating something<br />
very special here by bringing a<br />
world class university to bear on<br />
developing medical education<br />
in Grand Rapids and by using<br />
this opportunity to advance the<br />
power of genomic medicine,”<br />
said <strong>MSU</strong> President Lou Anna<br />
K. Simon. “This venture will<br />
significantly increase our activity<br />
in research, both in Grand Rapids<br />
and East Lansing.”<br />
Simon noted the critical role<br />
of Grand Rapids partnerships<br />
in achieving the vision. The<br />
Van Andel Institute, Spectrum<br />
Health, Saint Mary’s Health<br />
System and Grand Valley <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> each have recently announced<br />
important partnerships<br />
with <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
associated with land acquisition<br />
or future programs. Grand<br />
Action and <strong>MSU</strong> will launch a<br />
campaign to raise the remaining<br />
$20 million nationally and from<br />
the West <strong>Michigan</strong> community<br />
to cover the development and<br />
construction costs associated<br />
with the facility.<br />
“This is being done without<br />
the need for state appropriations,<br />
and it is a triumph of creative<br />
problem solving that will raise<br />
the level of medical care in West<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> and benefit citizens<br />
throughout <strong>Michigan</strong> and beyond,”<br />
said Simon.<br />
The Secchia Center will include<br />
research and teaching laboratories,<br />
classrooms, offices and<br />
student areas. <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong>’s<br />
College of Human Medicine is<br />
slated to enroll its first class of<br />
100 first-year students in Grand<br />
Rapids in 2010, when the new<br />
facility opens. It will also continue<br />
to enroll four-year classes<br />
in East Lansing and to situate<br />
the residents from its programs<br />
throughout the state.<br />
“Ambassador Secchia has been<br />
a generous friend and long-time<br />
donor to <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>,”<br />
said Simon. “His volunteerism<br />
and contributions date<br />
back nearly 50 years. He currently<br />
serves as a member of the<br />
President’s Campaign Cabinet<br />
for The Campaign for <strong>MSU</strong>. He<br />
has hosted and sponsored dozens<br />
of university events and chaired<br />
Artist’s rendering courtesy of <strong>University</strong> Development<br />
several campus building projects.<br />
“We are grateful for his continued<br />
support, particularly as<br />
we establish the new home of the<br />
College of Human Medicine and<br />
set a course for its research agenda<br />
and innovative curriculum.<br />
Peter was a pioneering proponent<br />
of the idea of housing the school<br />
in Grand Rapids.”<br />
“It is a triumph of creative<br />
problem solving that will raise<br />
the level of medical care in<br />
West <strong>Michigan</strong> and benefi t<br />
citizens throughout <strong>Michigan</strong>.”<br />
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime<br />
opportunity to combine my commitments<br />
to the university and to<br />
the community I love,” said Secchia.<br />
“I truly believe this will have<br />
a meaningful impact that will live<br />
on for generations to come.”<br />
The Secchia family tremendously<br />
values education. Joan Secchia<br />
(Education, ’64) taught in the<br />
Rockford and East Grand Rapids<br />
public schools. She recently served<br />
as president of the Grand Rapids<br />
Public Schools Student Advancement<br />
Foundation and led the drive<br />
to raise $1.7 million to restock<br />
more than 40 public school libraries.<br />
She currently serves on the<br />
fundraising committee to raise<br />
in excess of $100 million for the<br />
DeVos Children’s Hospital. The<br />
Secchias have four children and<br />
five grandchildren.<br />
Chairman Emeritus of Universal<br />
Forest Products Inc.,<br />
Secchia began his service with<br />
UFPI in 1962, graduating from<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> with a bachelor’s degree<br />
in economics the following year.<br />
While at UFPI,he helped open<br />
102 manufacturing plants. Secchia<br />
served as U.S. Ambassador<br />
to Italy from 1989 to 1993.<br />
In addition, he has held leadership<br />
positions on the boards<br />
of Old Kent Financial, Old<br />
Kent Bank, River City Foods,<br />
StelterPartners and the Manufactured<br />
Housing Institute. Secchia<br />
has volunteered in local,<br />
state and national political and<br />
charitable work. He has served<br />
on the library foundation boards<br />
established by two presidents,<br />
Gerald R. Ford and George H.<br />
W. Bush, and was selected by<br />
former Governor John Engler to<br />
head a commission to reevaluate<br />
government services. His personal<br />
philanthropy and fundraising<br />
efforts have aided many Grand<br />
Rapids causes — youths, parks,<br />
economic development, health<br />
care and cultural enrichment and<br />
education, among many others.<br />
Secchia has earned a number<br />
of lifetime achievement awards<br />
during the last 15 years,<br />
including: <strong>Michigan</strong>’s Master<br />
Entrepreneur of the Year; Crain’s<br />
Detroit Business, Businessman<br />
of the Year; Economic Club of<br />
Grand Rapids, Business Person<br />
of the Year; National Italian<br />
American Foundation, Special<br />
Achievement Award; Republic<br />
of Italy, Cavaliere di Gran Croce<br />
(The Knight of the Great Cross);<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
Broad Business School Outstanding<br />
Alumnus; <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
Distinguished Alumnus; and the<br />
Smithsonian Institute Award as a<br />
National Scholar.<br />
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Heidi Potter<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> Bike Project, is centrally<br />
located (at old canoe shelter)<br />
and believed to be the most<br />
comprehensive university-funded<br />
bicycle program of its kind in the<br />
country. It offers short and longterm<br />
bike rentals, repairs and<br />
other related services to promote<br />
cycling at <strong>MSU</strong>.<br />
GRAND RAPIDS ROTARY<br />
CLUB—Oct. 12: <strong>MSU</strong> trustee<br />
Dee Cook and President Lou<br />
Anna K. Simon attended the<br />
Rotary Luncheon at the Cascade<br />
Country Club. Included in the<br />
photo are top area students who<br />
may be considering <strong>MSU</strong> as<br />
their college of choice.<br />
Dave Brown<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> BIKE PROJECT—Sept:<br />
19: (L to r) Tim Potter,<br />
coordinator of the <strong>MSU</strong> Bike<br />
Center, Gus Gosselin, director<br />
of Building Services, <strong>MSU</strong><br />
Physical Plant and co-founder<br />
of the Bike Project, volunteers<br />
Nick Kwiatkowski and Mike<br />
Lang, new coordinator at the<br />
Demonstration Hall workshop,<br />
pose during the grand opening<br />
of the new <strong>MSU</strong> Bikes Service<br />
Center. The Center, which<br />
grew out of the volunteer-run<br />
Red Cedar Lodge & Suites is one<br />
“<br />
of the most exciting and unique<br />
condo-hotel real estate ownership<br />
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Incomparable Location – 2 Miles from Campus<br />
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ALUMNI CAREER SERVICES<br />
SCORES ANOTHER HIT<br />
By Robert Bao, Editor<br />
Most of you probably don’t pay<br />
much attention to “<strong>Alumni</strong> Career<br />
Services,” one of our listed<br />
benefits of membership.<br />
But some of you, especially<br />
those seeking jobs or a career<br />
change, find this benefit to be<br />
worth the cost of membership in<br />
itself—and then some.<br />
As the assistant director<br />
for communication, I’m<br />
usually the first person<br />
to see feedback from<br />
alumni that<br />
comes<br />
via email, whether it’s related<br />
to the magazine, our operations,<br />
upcoming events, or some<br />
other issue. I’ve been struck by<br />
how appreciative the users of<br />
our alumni career services are<br />
when they actually land a job or<br />
otherwise fulfill a career-change<br />
objective.<br />
One recent email, for example,<br />
recounted a life-transforming<br />
experience arising from someone<br />
who put to use career advice<br />
from Dr. Patrick Scheetz, assistant<br />
director of the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong> and longtime<br />
associate director of <strong>MSU</strong>’s<br />
Career Services & Placement<br />
and also former director of the<br />
Collegiate Employment Research<br />
Institute. Dr. Scheetz was<br />
also the author for 27 years of<br />
Recruiting Trends, the bible for<br />
new college graduates entering<br />
the <strong>mark</strong>etplace.<br />
This particular alumnus was<br />
facing a volatile situation at<br />
work and wondered if he should<br />
change companies, perhaps even<br />
careers. After a face-to-face consultation<br />
with Dr. Scheetz, he<br />
was advised to update his resume<br />
and devise a career plan, which<br />
he implemented point-by-point.<br />
Within the year, his career<br />
turned in a direction where he<br />
was able to recapture his passion<br />
and achieve his career goals.<br />
“You may pause from time to<br />
time and wonder if you make a<br />
difference to all of the students<br />
and alumni that you help day<br />
in and day out,” he wrote. “I<br />
wanted to let you know that<br />
indeed, you certainly do make a<br />
difference. Thanks Dr. Scheetz, I<br />
appreciate your help.”<br />
Should you need alumni career<br />
services, please visit www.msualum.com/careers.<br />
There you can<br />
see the gamut of career services<br />
offered to our members. Last year<br />
we had 3,276 job listings that<br />
our members could access.<br />
This year, we already have<br />
more than 1,000 job listings.<br />
In addition, last year 677 of<br />
our members listed resumes<br />
on the website. Last year we<br />
critiqued nearly 1,500 resumes.<br />
“Our service is not a silver bullet,<br />
but it can help if you put in the<br />
work,” says Scheetz. “We try to<br />
help as much as we can. I appreciate<br />
the positive feedback we receive,<br />
but with every success story,<br />
you have an alum who worked<br />
diligently to do things right.”<br />
As I said at the outset, use of<br />
our <strong>Alumni</strong> Career Services is<br />
a benefit of membership in the<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>. As<br />
a member, you can post your<br />
resume in the Resume Database,<br />
search Job Listings for<br />
ones matching your interests,<br />
subscribe for job listings (one or<br />
multiple-employer categories) so<br />
you are notified when employers<br />
post job openings, and post<br />
a description of your business<br />
in the Spartan Business Card<br />
Directory, a new service we’ve<br />
recently unveiled.<br />
Employers that use <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Career Services must register and<br />
enter a Username and Password.<br />
Then, they can add, review, edit,<br />
and delete their own job listings;<br />
extend or reduce job-listing<br />
deadlines; search resumes of<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> alumni for applicants that<br />
match their interests; and enter<br />
job listings using word processing<br />
formats. When employers<br />
post job openings, job seekers<br />
subscribed for job listings in the<br />
employer category immediately<br />
receive an email.<br />
Are You Moving?<br />
Be Sure to Take the<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Magazine Along<br />
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<strong>MSU</strong>FCU Study Abroad Scholarship recipients pose with members of the<br />
Board of Directors of the <strong>MSU</strong> Federal Credit Union<br />
Congratulations<br />
to the 2006 recipients of the <strong>MSU</strong> Federal Credit Union<br />
Study Abroad Scholarship<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> and the Office of Study Abroad are pleased to announce that in 2006,<br />
108 students have been awarded <strong>MSU</strong>FCU Study Abroad Scholarships. These scholarships are funded<br />
in perpetuity by a generous gift from the <strong>Michigan</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Federal Credit Union and are<br />
available to all <strong>MSU</strong> students, regardless of their major.<br />
In 2006, students from several different colleges including Nursing, Engineering, Agriculture & Natural<br />
Resources, Business and Education traveled to locations around the world to enhance their educational<br />
experience at <strong>MSU</strong>. Students studied such diverse topics as Antarctic System Science in Antarctica;<br />
Food, Environment and Social Systems in Australia and New Zealand; Forensic Anthropology and<br />
Human Identification in England; and Food, Nutrition and Health in Tanzania.<br />
To date, over 175 students have received an <strong>MSU</strong>FCU Study Abroad Scholarship.<br />
When fully funded in 2007, over 130 students will benefit from this scholarship annually.<br />
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STATE’S STARS<br />
Charles Albright, ’68, and Ralph<br />
Wallace, ’75, MBA ’80, were both<br />
elected as International<br />
Director, Toastmaster<br />
International<br />
2005-2007. Albright<br />
is currently a project<br />
engineer with Mesa<br />
Albright<br />
Associates, Inc.,<br />
Chattanooga, TN.<br />
Wallace is director of<br />
information systems<br />
for the Presbyterian<br />
Healthcare Services,<br />
Alburquerque, NM.<br />
This is the first time<br />
two <strong>MSU</strong> graduates<br />
Wallace<br />
have served on this board at the same<br />
time. Toastmasters is a worldwide,<br />
nonprofit organization with over<br />
210,000 members in approximately<br />
100 countries, where members practice<br />
speeches of all types and develop<br />
leadership skills.<br />
Kwasi Adarkwa, Ph. D. ’82, has<br />
been named vice-chancellor of the<br />
Kwame Nkrumah<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Science<br />
and Technology<br />
(KNUST) in Kumasi,<br />
Ghana. He joined<br />
the KNUST faculty<br />
in 1983 and rose to<br />
full professor in 2001. He has held<br />
many appointments and chaired<br />
many committees, including the<br />
<strong>University</strong> Printing Press Management<br />
Committee. He has published<br />
more than 75 publications. He<br />
serves as president of the Asante Presbytery<br />
Men’s Fellowship. In 2006, he<br />
was named Outstanding <strong>Alumni</strong> by<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>’s College of Social Science.<br />
Katie Woodruff, ’96, M.A. ’97,<br />
has been named senior counsel of<br />
Seyferth Spaulding<br />
Tennyson Inc., Grand<br />
Rapids. Since joining<br />
SST in 2002,<br />
Woodruff has worked<br />
in strategic planning,<br />
brand identity development<br />
and image management, rising<br />
to account supervisor. SST is one<br />
of the midwest’s largest privately held<br />
public relations firms with offices in<br />
Grand Rapids and Detroit.<br />
Kathryn Davis, ’78, assistant vice<br />
president at Fifth Third Bank, Southfield,<br />
has been named associate/vice<br />
president of Plante<br />
& Moran Corporate<br />
Finance, Southfield.<br />
She is a member of<br />
Inforum and The<br />
Society of Human<br />
Resource Management.<br />
She is a member of the Ralph<br />
Young Fund’s Spartan Club.<br />
Velvie Green, Ph. D. ’03, provost and<br />
executive vice president for academic<br />
and student affairs<br />
at Grand Rapids<br />
Community College,<br />
has been named<br />
president of Glendale<br />
Community College,<br />
AZ. Green served<br />
24 years at GRCC in a number of<br />
positions, including business division<br />
chair and assistant dean. She also<br />
taught five years in the Grand Rapids<br />
Public Schools. She has served on<br />
the boards of Goodwill Industries<br />
and the World Affairs Council.<br />
Rhoda Weiss, ’71, a PR and health<br />
care executive based in Santa Monica,<br />
CA, has been named<br />
chair and CEO of<br />
the Public Relations<br />
Society of America,<br />
the world’s largest<br />
organization of communications<br />
professionals<br />
with 31,000 members. Weiss<br />
has served PRSA the last five years in<br />
leadership roles and has won many<br />
honors, including the Health Academy<br />
National Lifetime Achievement<br />
Award. A former Kellogg Foundation<br />
Fellow, she has taught PR at UCLA<br />
Extension for two decades. She is the<br />
founding president of the American<br />
Hospital <strong>Association</strong> Society for<br />
Healthcare Strategy and Market Development.<br />
She is a Life Member of<br />
the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
Budi Rochadi, M.A. ’84, has been<br />
named Deputy Governor of the Bank<br />
of Indonesia by President<br />
Susilo Bambang<br />
Yudhoyono of Indonesia.<br />
The post is one of<br />
the nation’s key financial<br />
posts.<br />
Edward Liebler, ’62, DVM ’64,<br />
owner of a veterinary practice at Capital<br />
City Airport, Lansing, has been<br />
elected as President Elect for 2006-<br />
2007 of the American<br />
Veterinary Medical<br />
Law <strong>Association</strong>, and<br />
as President of the<br />
association for 2007-<br />
2008. Liebler was a<br />
founding member of<br />
the association and served as its executive<br />
director for six years. He is currently<br />
a member of the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong>’s national alumni board.<br />
He is a Life Member of the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong> and is a member<br />
of <strong>MSU</strong>’s Frank S. Kedzie Society.<br />
Stephen J. Knoop, ’87, vice president<br />
of corporate development for RPM<br />
International, Inc., Medina, OH, has<br />
been named senior<br />
vice president for<br />
corporate development.<br />
Prior to joining<br />
RPM, he was an<br />
associate attorney<br />
specializing in corporate<br />
and securities law for Calfee,<br />
Halter & Griswold. Knopp serves on<br />
the executive committee of Rainbow<br />
Babies & Children’s Hospital’s National<br />
Leadership Council.<br />
Jeffrey S. Johnson, ’76, boating law<br />
administrator for Alaska since 1998,<br />
has been named president<br />
of the National<br />
<strong>Association</strong> of <strong>State</strong><br />
Boating Law Administrators.<br />
Johnson<br />
joined the U.S. Forest<br />
Service in Alaska in<br />
1976 and in 1981 became a park<br />
ranger with the Alaska Division of<br />
Parks and Outdoor Recreation. In<br />
1991 he managed restoration projects<br />
in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez<br />
oil spill. He has received numerous<br />
awards and commendations for his<br />
public service.<br />
Thomas G. Evans, MBA ’66, Ph.D.<br />
’69, professor emeritus of the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Central Florida,<br />
has been awarded<br />
the John L. Lawler<br />
Award for best article<br />
published in the Journal<br />
of Accountancy.<br />
In Feb. 2005, he coauthored<br />
an article on “Hedge Fund<br />
Investing,” which explains the history,<br />
uses and regulation of these popular<br />
investment vehicles. Evans is the<br />
author of a textbook on accounting<br />
theory and co-author of a textbook<br />
on international accounting.<br />
William Sheridan, ’72, a 31-year<br />
veteran of the auction industry and<br />
owner of Sheridan<br />
Realty & Auction<br />
Co., Mason, has been<br />
named president of<br />
the National Auctioneers<br />
<strong>Association</strong>, the<br />
largest professional<br />
organization for auctioneers with<br />
more than 6,000 members. Sheridan<br />
boasts professional designations CAI,<br />
AARE, CPPA and CES. Last fall he<br />
appeared on NBC’s Today Show in a<br />
segment about auctioneering.<br />
Michael Gay, ’00, manager of the web<br />
operation of WBBM-TV, a CBSowned<br />
station in Chicago,<br />
has been named<br />
executive producer of<br />
digital media content<br />
for Hearst-Argyle<br />
Television, Inc., New<br />
York. Under Gay,<br />
WBBM’s website grew from 60,000<br />
to 3.5 million page views per month<br />
and was named the Edward J. Murrow<br />
Best Website in the Online News<br />
<strong>Association</strong>’s competition. Prior to<br />
WBBM, he worked on the website for<br />
San Francisco’s KRON-TV.<br />
Joel N. Stark, ’67, a small business<br />
consultant from Warwick, RI, has<br />
been named treasurer<br />
of the Board of Trustess<br />
of The Providence<br />
Center, a behavioral<br />
health organization<br />
that serves 9,800<br />
patients a year. Stark<br />
retired in 2001 as senior vice president<br />
of <strong>mark</strong>eting and development of the<br />
Providence Journal Company. He<br />
currently also serves as chair of the<br />
Finance/Administrative Committee of<br />
the center.<br />
Debra E. Spencer, ’91, and Anne<br />
M. Feighan, ’95, have been named<br />
senior vice presidents<br />
at Campbell-Ewald,<br />
Detroit. Spencer has<br />
been named management<br />
supervisor and<br />
will work with the<br />
Spencer<br />
U.S. Postal Service<br />
account. Prior to<br />
joining Campbell-Ewald in 1999,<br />
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she was a project<br />
management supervisor<br />
at Ross Roy, Inc.,<br />
Bloomfield Hills.<br />
Feighan has been<br />
named director account<br />
planning and<br />
Feighan<br />
will handle the Michelin account.<br />
She was a project manager at Church<br />
& Dwight, Co., Princeton, NJ.<br />
Richard W. Myers, ’76, M.S. ’89,<br />
police chief of Appleton, WI, has been<br />
named police chief of<br />
Colorado Springs. He<br />
assumes leadership of<br />
an agency with some<br />
700 sworn officers<br />
and total employment<br />
of 1,000, covering an<br />
area of about 200 square miles. Myers<br />
previously served as chief in Lisle, IL,<br />
and Plymouth, MI. Before that he was<br />
a police officer in Auburn Hills and<br />
Oak Park, and a Sheriff’s Deputy in<br />
Oakland County.<br />
John C. Smythe, ’69, a career banker<br />
with 40 years of experience and<br />
president and CEO<br />
of Capitol National<br />
Bank, Lansing, has<br />
been named president<br />
of Capitol Bancorp’s<br />
Great Lakes<br />
Region—which<br />
includes 17 banks in <strong>Michigan</strong>, Ohio<br />
and Indiana. In addition, Smythe<br />
serves as chairman of the board of<br />
directors of Amera Mortgage Corporation,<br />
a mortgage lender owned in<br />
part by Capitol Bancorp. He serves<br />
on the board of Sparrow Development,<br />
Inc., <strong>University</strong> Corporate<br />
Research Pak Management Co., and<br />
Lansing Community College Foundation.<br />
He is a member of the Ralph<br />
Young Fund’s Captain Club.<br />
Sanford B. Ring, ’83, chief operating/business<br />
development officer<br />
and executive vice<br />
president of the<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> Economic<br />
Development Corp.,<br />
has been named<br />
partner of Honigman<br />
Miller Schwartz and<br />
Cohn LLP in its Lansing Tax Appeals<br />
Dept. While at MEDC, he was the<br />
principal liaison to the Office of the<br />
Governor. In 1992, Ring was named<br />
by President George H. W. Bush<br />
as Chief Legal Advisor of the U.S.<br />
International Trade Commission in<br />
Washington DC.<br />
Richard A. Haan, ’99, an associate<br />
in the Dallas office of Thompson &<br />
Knight LLP, received<br />
the highest score on<br />
the most recent Texas<br />
Bar Examination,<br />
taken by more than<br />
2,500 law school<br />
graduates. Haan<br />
works with the firm’s Real Estate and<br />
Banking group. Previously, he served<br />
as an intern in the <strong>Michigan</strong> Supreme<br />
Court in 1994 and as an assistant<br />
director of the <strong>MSU</strong> Dept. of Athletics<br />
from 1999-2003.<br />
Mary Abraham, ’03, Detroit <strong>mark</strong>eting<br />
coordinator of Decus Communications,<br />
Auburn Hills, has<br />
been named client<br />
strategist. She will<br />
lead Decus’ strategic<br />
client relations and<br />
new business development.<br />
Prior to<br />
joining the public<br />
relations firm she worked in <strong>mark</strong>eting<br />
and promotions at 96.3 FM in<br />
Detroit. Before that, she taught writing<br />
and editing at <strong>MSU</strong>. In her spare<br />
time, Abraham is a singer-songwriter<br />
working on her second CD, and she<br />
also coaches the Lake Orion varsity<br />
tennis team.<br />
J. C. Huizenga, MBA ’76, chairman<br />
of the Huizenga Manufacturing<br />
Group, Grand Rapids,<br />
has won the 2006<br />
Dutch American<br />
Heritage Award from<br />
the Dutch American<br />
Heritage Foundation,<br />
Los Angeles, CA.<br />
Huizenga is a business leader and also<br />
founder and chairman of National<br />
Heritage Academies, which operates<br />
53 charter schools serving more than<br />
30,000 students in five states. He<br />
has won many other honors, including<br />
the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur<br />
of the Year Award and the Education<br />
Industry <strong>Association</strong>’s Boyle Award.<br />
He is a member of <strong>MSU</strong>’s Beaumont<br />
Tower Society.<br />
Harold Steinberg, ’68, co-owner<br />
of Reverie Fine Linens & Bath,<br />
Memphis, TN, has been named<br />
U.S. senior vice president of B’nai<br />
B’rith International (BBI), the oldest<br />
worldwide Jewish organization. He is<br />
one of BBI’s two U.S.<br />
senior vice presidents;<br />
the other, John Rofel,<br />
’76, is also an <strong>MSU</strong><br />
alumnus. Steinberg<br />
has been active with<br />
BBI for more than 30<br />
years. As chairman of the BBI Center<br />
for Community Action, he led disaster<br />
relief campaigns to help the areas<br />
affected by the Tsunami in 2004 and<br />
hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.<br />
Megan Maher-Brennan, ’83, has<br />
been elected Wayne County Circuit<br />
Court judge in <strong>Michigan</strong>’s<br />
Third Judicial<br />
Circuit. Brennan<br />
served as assistant attorney<br />
general in the<br />
Labor Division of the<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> Dept. of<br />
Attorney General since 2003. Before<br />
that, she was an associate attorney<br />
with Bodman LLP, Detroit, from<br />
1989-94 and had a private practice.<br />
She served as law clerk for the late<br />
Chief Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley<br />
of the <strong>Michigan</strong> Supreme Court<br />
from 1987-83.<br />
Errata<br />
4Carolyn Stieber (Fall 2006, p. 5)<br />
was <strong>MSU</strong>’s longest-serving Ombudsman,<br />
holding the position for 17 years.<br />
4“The Tulsa Two-Step” (Fall<br />
2006, pp. 43-45) was excerpted with<br />
permission from Lynn Henning’s<br />
new book Spartan Seasons II, which<br />
is available in bookstores or online at<br />
www.spartanseasons.com.<br />
Stella Cash, chairperson of the <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong>’s<br />
national alumni board, was the first member of the <strong>MSU</strong><br />
Federal Credit Union to use its new Coolidge Road drives.<br />
The <strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong> congratulates the <strong>MSU</strong>FCU<br />
on its newest facility.<br />
<strong>MSU</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Association</strong> members are eligible to join the<br />
<strong>MSU</strong>FCU. For more information, call 800-<strong>MSU</strong>-4-YOU<br />
or visit www.msufcu.org.<br />
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OBITUARIES<br />
1920’s<br />
Chester I. Hartsell, ’29, of Bangor,<br />
Nov. 27, age 99.<br />
1930’s<br />
Marian L. (Lee) Aylesworth, ’32, of<br />
Alexandria, VA, Aug. 16, age 94.<br />
Evelyn (Hardy) Lawford, ’32, of East<br />
Grand Rapids, Dec. 3, age 94.<br />
Dorothy L. (Marzke) Paige, ’33, of<br />
Lansing, Jan. 7, age 96.<br />
Mildred C. (Peacock) Knudsen, ’35, of<br />
Escanaba, Dec. 12, age 93.<br />
Lela (Keener) Arnell, ’36, of East<br />
Lansing, Sept. 2, age 92.<br />
Evelyn M. (Hart) Bacon, ’36, of<br />
Davidson, NC, Oct. 19, age 92.<br />
Doris E. (Wilson) Nowlin, M ’36, of<br />
Minneapolis, MN, Sept. 23, age 96.<br />
Blaine M. Henkel, ’37, of Rockford,<br />
Sept. 19, age 91.<br />
David B. Johnson, ’37, of Okemos,<br />
Dec. 2, age 91.<br />
Richard B. Pilkinton, ’37, of Washington,<br />
DC, Oct. 7, age 91.<br />
Margaret H. (Hotchin) Ross, ’37, of<br />
East Lansing, Oct. 29, age 91.<br />
Arnold F. Waterman, ’37, of Grand<br />
Ledge, Oct. 30, age 92.<br />
Basil Carclay, DVM ’38, of Redford,<br />
July 16, age 92.<br />
Willis H. Bash, M ’39, of Findlay, OH,<br />
Oct. 4, age 91.<br />
Harlan W. Collar, ’39, of Westminster,<br />
CO, July 28, age 88.<br />
Dorothy Davey, ’39, M ’55, of Iron<br />
Mountain, Nov. 29, age 90.<br />
Dorris K. (Moyer) Dolbee, ’39, of<br />
Kalamazoo, Nov. 9, age 89.<br />
Charlotte L. (Mason) George, ’39, M<br />
’66, of Midland, Sept. 19, age 89.<br />
Mark E. Treadwell, ’39, of<br />
Westminster, CO, July 23, age 88.<br />
Robert W. Zant, ’39, of Los Angeles,<br />
CA, Nov. 7, age 89.<br />
1940’s<br />
Donald H. Anderson, ’40, of<br />
Kalamazoo, Oct. 12, age 89.<br />
Howard G. Hahn, ’40, of Brant<br />
Township, Dec. 19, age 91.<br />
Robert J. Leiphart, Sr., ’40, of Grosse<br />
Pte. Farms, Oct. 13, age 89.<br />
William H. Mansfield, ’40, of<br />
Asheville, NC, Oct. 27, age 88.<br />
Lester “Dale” D. Sheets, ’40, of Port<br />
Orange, FL, Oct. 29, age 89.<br />
Elizabeth B. (Brown) Williams, ’40, of<br />
Traverse City, Oct. 21, age 88.<br />
Shirley M. (Crutchfield) Cresswell, ’41,<br />
of Midland, Nov. 15, age 86.<br />
William A. Dwight, ’41, of<br />
Texarkana, TX.<br />
Leona E. Stunkard, ’41, of Silver<br />
Springs, MD, Dec. 2, age 86.<br />
Bernard Goldsmith, DVM ’42, of<br />
Camarillo, CA, Nov., age 90.<br />
Donald E. Caswell, DVM ’43, of<br />
Hillsdale, Dec. 4, age 85.<br />
Donald “Doc” F. Chapel, DVM ’43, of<br />
Grass Lake, Oct. 19, age 89.<br />
Marjorie E. (Clubb) Mayhew, ’43, of<br />
Traverse City, Sept. 28, age 85.<br />
Violet (Nelson) Ray, ’44, of Charlotte,<br />
Oct. 18, age 83.<br />
William Barclay, ’46, M ’48, of<br />
Elmhurst, IL, Oct. 13, age 83.<br />
Doris (Englehardt) Berg, ’46, of<br />
Hopkins, MN, Nov. 25, age 82.<br />
Donald W. Herberholz, ’46, of Gold<br />
River, CA, Dec. 17, age 83.<br />
William W. Moon, ’46, of Cadillac,<br />
Nov. 7, age 87.<br />
John W. Moran, ’46, of Fort Pierce, FL,<br />
Nov. 9, age 86.<br />
Lois K. Warner, M ’46, of Salt Lake<br />
City, UT, Jan., age 87.<br />
Stephania Winkler, M ’46, of East<br />
Lansing, Dec. 5, age 85.<br />
Thomas F. Begley, ’47, of Muskegon,<br />
Oct. 21, age 84.<br />
Virginia L. (Chaplin) Burnell, ’47, of<br />
San Jose, CA, Oct. 5, age 81.<br />
William R. Greene, ’47, of Traverse<br />
City, Oct. 11, age 83.<br />
William A. McCartney, ’47, of Bradenton,<br />
FL, Jan. 01, age 83.<br />
Roger B. Merrill, ’47, of Lansing, Sept.<br />
30, age 86.<br />
Harold W. Rockwell, Sr., ’47, of<br />
Midland, Oct. 29, age 84.<br />
Florence (Trippensee) Sprague, ’47, of<br />
Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 18, age 81.<br />
F. Brooks Thomas, ’47, of Marco<br />
Island, Nov. 28, age 86.<br />
Grace (Hagen) Aardal, ’48, of Howell,<br />
Nov. 5, age 81.<br />
Daniel F. Carlstrom, ’48, of Ocean<br />
City, NJ, Sept. 11, age 80.<br />
Doris E. Cornish, ’48, of St. Clair, Dec.<br />
12, age 81.<br />
Samuel F. Cryderman, ’48, of<br />
Okemos, Nov., age 80.<br />
Matt R. Jukkala, ’48, of Atlantic Mine,<br />
Dec. 6, age 84.<br />
Raymond F. Turek, ’48, of Mt.<br />
Pleasant, Oct. 16, age 84.<br />
Frank Blackford, ’49, M ’51, of Fountain<br />
Hills, AZ, Nov. 9, age 87.<br />
Harold W. Fritz, ’49, of Toms River,<br />
NJ, Sept. 21, age 88.<br />
Thomas N. Johnson, M ’49, of<br />
Baltimore, MD, Sept. 26, age 83.<br />
Glenn L. Kenney, ’49, of Charlevoix,<br />
Oct. 28, age 82.<br />
Carl D. Kerekes, ’49, of Grand Rapids,<br />
Dec. 12, age 82.<br />
Stephen Kessler, ’49, of Hoover, AL,<br />
Jan. 4, age 82.<br />
Claude E. Lauscher, ’49, of Marquette,<br />
Sept. 20, age 84.<br />
Roy W. Malarik, ’49, of Traverse City,<br />
Oct. 17, age 82.<br />
Thomas O. Mitchell, ’49, of Muskegon,<br />
Nov. 10, age 83.<br />
Barbara (Pullen) Shannon, ’49, of<br />
Naples, FL, Sept. 28, age 79.<br />
William G. Vosburgh, Sr., ’49, of West<br />
Chester, PA, Sept. 21, age 81.<br />
Lorraine E. (Steelman) Waddell, ’49,<br />
M ’77, of Northville, Nov. 12, age 79<br />
Verne A. Warner, M ’49, of Onekams,<br />
Dec. 21, age 89.<br />
Roland M. Zwick, ’49, of Jackson, Nov.<br />
19, age 82.<br />
1950’s<br />
Frank J. Banner, ’50, of Middlebury,<br />
VT, Sept. 25, age 87.<br />
Sidney H. Beale, ’50, of Palm<br />
Springs, CA, Dec. 16, age 82.<br />
Dennis Manko, ’50, of Waterford,<br />
Oct. 8, age 82.<br />
Elizabeth K. (Higbie) Orey, ’50, of<br />
Camden, NJ, Nov. 7, age 78.<br />
Kenneth P. Wallace, ’50, of Farmington,<br />
age 80.<br />
C. Dean Allen, ’51, M ’60, of Blacksburg,<br />
VA, Aug. 18, age 77.<br />
Rainer H. Fries, ’51, of Zellwood,<br />
OH, Oct. 6, age 81.<br />
J. Harvey Graves, ’51, of Akron, OH,<br />
Nov. 10, age 77.<br />
Gordon “Cork” Hendrick, ’51, of<br />
Jackson, Oct. 21, age 78.<br />
Frederick F. Brunner, Jr., ’52, of<br />
Custer, Dec. 8, age 84.<br />
George “Bud” L. Carr, ’52, of<br />
Columbus, OH, Nov. 18, age 75.<br />
Onalee A. (Adams) Detwiler, ’52, of<br />
Mason, formerly of Caro, Dec. 7, age 81.<br />
William H. Gallagher, ’52, of Fort<br />
Myers, FL, Sept. 29, age 77.<br />
Herbert Liu, M ’52, of Honolulu,<br />
HI, July 20.<br />
Russell C. Potter, ’52, of Muskegon,<br />
Nov. 8, age 77.<br />
Margaret E. Sours, M ’52, of Big<br />
Rapids, Dec. 10, age 88.<br />
Gilbert E. Thomas, ’52, of Pensacola,<br />
FL, formerly of Alma, Sept. 29, age 78.<br />
Norman Tufford, ’52, of Munster,<br />
IN, Oct. 12, age 86.<br />
Eugene W. Vroman, ’52, of New<br />
York, NY, age 76.<br />
Norman H. Walper, ’52, of Naples,<br />
FL, Nov. 3, age 77.<br />
Michael S. Wright, Jr., ’52, of<br />
Jackson, Nov. 7, age 76.<br />
John F. Flaugher, ’53, M ’75, of<br />
Jacksonville, FL, Sept. 25, age 76.<br />
Lamar E. Luce, ’53, of Paw Paw,<br />
Dec. 3, age 76.<br />
Robert H. Lundy, M ’53, of Live<br />
Oak, FL, Nov. 7, age 83.<br />
John G. Schahfer, ’53, of Longview,<br />
WA, Sept. 24, age 79.<br />
Robert E. Tetrick, ’53, of Cathedral<br />
City, CA, Sept. 8, age 82.<br />
Warren D. Bailey, M ’54, of<br />
Lansing, Jan. 9, age 82.<br />
James R. Blackmore, ’54, of<br />
Enterprise, AL, Sept. 19, age 75.<br />
Richard A. Gamelin, ’54, of Alpena,<br />
Dec. 26, age 74.<br />
Horace Smith, ’54, of Flint, Oct. 14,<br />
age 83.<br />
Wayne S. Blewer, ’55, of Ankeny, IA,<br />
Sept. 25, age 78.<br />
Eleanor E. Cuckler, ’55, of Lansing,<br />
Nov. 2, age 94.<br />
Andrew H. Gibson, M ’55, of Jamestown,<br />
NY, Nov. 11, age 90.<br />
John P. Morris, ’55, of Madison, WI,<br />
Oct. 8, age 74.<br />
Joan C. Planutis, ’55, of Bridgman,<br />
Nov. 13, age 73.<br />
David J. Davis, ’56, of Jasper, IN,<br />
June 1, age 76.<br />
Phillip M. Flora, ’56, DVM ’58, of<br />
Monticello, IN, Nov. 10, age 78.<br />
Eugene “Geno” B. Freund, ’56, of<br />
Traverse City, Dec. 7, age 76.<br />
Ronald H. McClumpha, ’56, of<br />
Three Rivers, Oct. 12, age 76.<br />
George R. Van Buren, ’56, of De-<br />
Witt, Nov. 28, age 76.<br />
John H. Wagner, Jr., ’56, of Flint,<br />
Dec. 19, age 76.<br />
Donald L. Williams, ’56, of Sterling,<br />
Dec. 12, age 71.<br />
John E. Woolley, ’56, M ’65, of<br />
Clinton Township, Sept. 1, age 74.<br />
Martin W. Brasher, ’57, of Fort<br />
Myers, FL, Oct. 1, age 74.<br />
Lois A. (Cluchey) Caverly, ’57, of<br />
Burt Township, Nov. 27, age 71.<br />
Warren G. Fulks, ’57, of Dallas, TX,<br />
Sept. 27, age 76.<br />
William Gleason, ’57, M ’62, of<br />
Beverly Hills, FL, Sept. 21, age 74.<br />
Danny L. Greenman, ’57, of South<br />
Haven, Oct. 12, age 71.<br />
Kenneth Iacovoni, ’57, of San Jose,<br />
CA, Oct. 19, age 75.<br />
Clyde K. Stephens, ’57, of Jamestown,<br />
NY, Nov. 26, age 72.<br />
Donald L. Thornburg, ’57, of<br />
Dimondale, Oct. 15, age 72.<br />
James Wood, ’57, M ’58, of Remus,<br />
Nov., age 71<br />
William H. Boutell, ’58, of Bay City,<br />
Oct. 8, age 72.<br />
William “Bill” Bryant, ’58, M ’60,<br />
of Brighton, Sept. 9, age 77.<br />
George F. Farhat, ’58, of Green<br />
Valley, AZ, Nov. 14, age 75.<br />
Lawrence “Larry” A. Field, ’58, of<br />
Kalamazoo, Sept. 22, age 72.<br />
Frank Golley, Ph.D. ’58, of Athens,<br />
GA, Oct. 8, age 76.<br />
Fredric “Fred” R. Haines, ’58, of<br />
Traverse City, Dec. 5, age 70.<br />
Dick P. Hoke, ’58, of Prince George<br />
County, MD, Sept. 9, age 76.<br />
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Ronald Rickens, Sr., ’58, of Altoona,<br />
PA, Dec. 17, age 70.<br />
Janet (Leaver) Streng, ’58, of Pontiac,<br />
Oct. 4, age 69.<br />
James G. Stryker, ’58, of Midland,<br />
Dec. 4, age 76.<br />
George W. Ludwig, ’59, of Bluffton,<br />
IL, Sept. 18, age 69.<br />
Sylvia F.(Wallace) McGrath, ’59, of<br />
Nacogdoches, TX, Sept. 1, age 69.<br />
Thomas Moshimer, ’59, of Canton,<br />
Nov. 20, age 71.<br />
1960’s<br />
Ardys (Waite) Cox, ’60, of Greenwood<br />
Township, Sept. 2, age 83.<br />
Robert D. Dunn, M ’60, of Holly, Oct.<br />
25, age 78.<br />
James T. Maatsch, ’60, of Charlotte,<br />
Sept. 2, age 70.<br />
Richard Benoit, ’60, of Chicago, IL,<br />
Dec. 22, age 69.<br />
William R. Stewart, ’60, of Marcellus,<br />
Oct. 9, age 68.<br />
Roy C. Berry, ’61, of Marysville, OH,<br />
Nov. 10, age 68.<br />
Alfred L. Borgatti, Ph.D. ’61, of East<br />
Brookfield, MA, Oct. 23, age 78.<br />
Aldo F. Lonigro, ’61, of Cocoa Beach,<br />
FL, Nov. 9, age 69.<br />
Garfield N. Newberry, ’61, M ’67, of<br />
Flint, Sept. 27, age 75.<br />
Marguerite (Harvey) Hoffman, M ’62,<br />
of Kalamazoo, Nov. 18, age 87.<br />
William “Bill” J. Manley, Jr., ’62, of<br />
Swartz Creek, Oct. 2, age 71.<br />
Emile Alhaddad, ’63, of Lansing, Nov.<br />
12, age 81.<br />
Virgil “Bub” B. Beld, M ’63, of Jenison,<br />
Nov. 25, age 90.<br />
Carol L. (Wangeman) Carson, ’63, of<br />
East Lansing, Dec. 2, age 66.<br />
John V. Creyts, Sr., ’63, of South Bend,<br />
IN, Nov. 5, age 65.<br />
Thomas C. Derr, ’63, of Coldwater,<br />
Dec. 26, age 67.<br />
Pieter E. Geldhof, ’63, of St. Joseph,<br />
Dec. 16, age 67.<br />
Robert Kirkey, ’63, of Columbus, OH,<br />
Nov. 9, age 73.<br />
J. Terry Moran, ’63, of Englewood, FL,<br />
Nov. 12, age 65.<br />
Eric Rikans, ’63, of Grand Haven, Dec.<br />
2, age 68.<br />
Steven B. Zamiara, ’63, of Raleigh,<br />
NC, Dec. 6, age 66.<br />
George W. Wright, Ph.D. ’64, of<br />
Fayette, MO, Oct., age 83.<br />
Henry P. Young, ’64, of Sugar Grove,<br />
IL, Dec., age 72.<br />
Sara L. (Oeltjen) Brodhun, ’65, of<br />
Northville, Oct. 3, age 64.<br />
Elaine (Hickman) Hurst, Ph.D. ’65, of<br />
St. Joseph, Sept. 1, age 86.<br />
Edward D. Keys, ’65, of Harbor<br />
Springs, Sept. 26, age 65.<br />
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Margaret J. (Campbell) Slingerlend,<br />
’65, of Portage, Oct. 10, age 92.<br />
Carmen V. Agnew, ’66, of Columbiaville,<br />
Nov. 3, age 62.<br />
Rushton Bancroft, Jr., ’66, of Fremont,<br />
Nov. 30, age 71.<br />
Kenneth L. Chapin, M ’66, of Powell,<br />
OH, Sept. 15, age 83.<br />
Patricia A. (White) Chriswell, M ’66,<br />
of Chelsea, Oct. 17, age 72.<br />
Dennis Dietz, M ’66, of Richland,<br />
WA, Sept. 18, age 65.<br />
Marvin Mendyk, ’66, of Harbor<br />
Springs, Nov. 1, age 63.<br />
Joseph C. Nozicka, ’66, of Stevensville,<br />
Oct. 9, age 69.<br />
Susan K. (Mallison) Swatosh, ’66, of<br />
Palm Harbor, FL, Sept. 15, age 61.<br />
Calvin D. Fuller, ’67, M ’73, of Traverse<br />
City, Nov. 3, age 70.<br />
Sally Murphy, ’67, M ’76, of Flint,<br />
Nov., age 69.<br />
Lynda B. (Preloznik) Wallin, ’67, of<br />
Harbor Springs, Oct. 25, age 61.<br />
Jean P. Carl, ’68, of Grand Blanc, Dec.<br />
11, age 70.<br />
Joseph R. Deans, M ’68, of Lubbock,<br />
TX, Oct. 18, age 67.<br />
Christopher Hogan, ’68, M ’70, of<br />
Shepherd, Oct. 1, age 59.<br />
Charles Wright, ’68, of Dryden, Oct.<br />
4, age 67.<br />
Bruce K. Henderson, M ’69, of<br />
DeWitt, Sept. 11, age 70.<br />
Carol A.(Sarnes) Holzinger, ’69, of<br />
Bonita Springs, FL, Sept. 16, age 59.<br />
Alan C. Spillner, ’69, of Cary, IL, Oct.<br />
28, age 59.<br />
William G. Youatt, Jr., ’69, M ’72, of<br />
East Lansing, Oct. 10, age 59.<br />
1970’s<br />
Jeanne M. (Kraatz) Alaga, ’70, M ’80,<br />
of Ovid, Nov. 25, age 58.<br />
Dennis D. Anderson, ’70, M ’71, of<br />
Mt. Morris, Oct. 25, age 58.<br />
James A. Bohn, M ’70, of Petoskey,<br />
Sept. 6, age 63.<br />
Mary L. Gibson, ’70, of Charlotte,<br />
Dec. 29, age 58.<br />
Carolyn G. Olsen, M ’70, of Hudsonville,<br />
Oct. 28, age 63.<br />
George R. Reed, Ph.D. ’70, of Albion,<br />
Sept. 29, age 84.<br />
C. Douglas Fix, ’71, of Escanaba, Sept.<br />
23, age 61.<br />
David A. Knoll, ’71, of Sanford, Sept.,<br />
age 57.<br />
Michael J. Panetta, ’71, M ’72 Ph.D.<br />
’00, of Lansing, Dec. 22, age 57.<br />
William H. Schnarr, Sr., ’71, of<br />
Hickory Corners, Oct. 10, age 92.<br />
Emma L. (West) Sutcliffe, ’71, of<br />
Plymouth, NH, Sept. 11, age 63.<br />
Robert P. Tyckoski, ’71, of Coldwater,<br />
Sept. 27, age 57.<br />
Christine L. Witherspoon, ’71, of Bay<br />
City, Oct. 28, age 58.<br />
Gwen (Halter) Bodine, M ’72, of<br />
Lansing, Nov. 5, age 84.<br />
David E. Hieshetter, ’72, of Menominee,<br />
Oct. 3, age 57.<br />
Gilbert E. Leslie, M ’72, of St. Paul,<br />
MN, Aug. 21, age 70.<br />
Arthur P. Narins, M ’72, of Hendersonville,<br />
NC, Sept. 25, age 76.<br />
Larry Baker, ’73, of Kalamazoo, Sept.<br />
25, age 56.<br />
Thomas Black, M ’73, of Plainwell,<br />
Oct. 22, age 60.<br />
Eugene W. Meyer, Jr., ’73, of Bay City,<br />
Nov. 22, age 62.<br />
Bobbby Mitchell, Ph.D. ’73, of East<br />
Lansing, Dec. 10, age 70.<br />
Jane U. (Unzicker) Boyd, M ’74, of<br />
East Lansing, Dec. 17, age 66.<br />
Norma (Baughan) Fetterolf, ’74, of<br />
Chelsea, formerly of Williamston, Nov.<br />
29, age 77.<br />
Gayl M. Godsell-Styts, ’74, D.O. ’81, of<br />
Beaver Creek, OH, Sept. 29, age 54.<br />
Michael Maki, ’74, of Newberry, Oct.<br />
14, age 57.<br />
Wallace B. Piper, Ph.D. ’74, of East<br />
Lansing, Dec. 28, age 77.<br />
Odessa L. Bogan, ’75, M ’77, of<br />
Lansing, Sept. 2, age 70.<br />
Curtis M. Miller, ’75, of Indianapolis,<br />
IN, Oct. 9, age 52.<br />
Bruce E. Koenig, ’77, Ph.D. ’92, of<br />
Williamston, Dec. 24, age 55.<br />
James R. Young, M ’78, of Kentwood,<br />
Dec. 6, age 58.<br />
Rosalyn A. Brown, ’79, of Moncks<br />
Corner, SC, May 29, age 48.<br />
Robert M. Lund, ’79, of Wayland, Dec.<br />
8, age 50.<br />
Brian J. Muir, ’79, of Evergreen, CO,<br />
Nov. 12, age 51.<br />
1980’s<br />
Jo Ann B. Lowes, ’81, M ’85, of Haslett,<br />
Nov. 12, age 71.<br />
Steven Brush, M ’83, of Somerville,<br />
NY, Nov. 24, age 56.<br />
Douglas J. Bucher, M ’83, of New<br />
York, NY, Sept. 27, age 51.<br />
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Richard B. Clark, ’83, of Sturgis, Dec.<br />
11, age 47.<br />
Susan E. Brady, ’84, of Marietta, GA,<br />
Oct. 6, age 44.<br />
Angela R. Davenport-Scott, ’85, of<br />
Lansing, Oct. 21, age 47.<br />
Aaron C. Flannery, ’85, of Williamburg,<br />
Oct. 15, age 44.<br />
Jeffrey T. Dorrell, ’87, of Cadillac,<br />
Sept. 22, age 49.<br />
Lisa Forest, ’87, of Benton Harbor, June<br />
17, age 42.<br />
Julia A. Hoinville, ’87, of East Lansing,<br />
Nov. 2, age 50.<br />
Mark R. Gover, M ’89, Ph.D. ’01, of<br />
Lansing, Oct. 15, age 49.<br />
Lisa M. Heritz, ’89, of Stevensville,<br />
Nov. 11, age 39.<br />
1990’s<br />
Francesca (Robinson) Moore, ’92, of<br />
Rancho Santa Fe, CA, Jan. 6, age 42.<br />
Anthony D. Dixon, ’94, M ’99, of<br />
Lansing, Dec. 23, age 34.<br />
Bryan D. Smith, ’94, of Cadillac, Nov.<br />
30, age 35.<br />
Stephen R. Coll, ’96, of Warren, Nov.<br />
8, age 38.<br />
Gwyneth Royer Cocco, D.O. ’97, of<br />
Fort Worth, TX, Oct. 20, age 35.<br />
2000’s<br />
Heather E. Baker, M ’00, of Owosso,<br />
Oct. 23, age 35.<br />
Kris M. Zmitko, ’02, of Owosso, Sept.<br />
27, age 27.<br />
Michael J. Lundholm, ’05, of<br />
Muskegon, Nov. 23, age 23.<br />
Daniel J. Merens, ’05, of Midland,<br />
Nov. 28, age 25.<br />
Parker T. Miller, ’06, of Harrison,<br />
Nov. 8, age 23.<br />
Faculty<br />
Sanford S. Farness, professor emeritus<br />
of urban planning and landscape<br />
architecture, 1962-1981, of East<br />
Lansing, Nov. 7, age 89.<br />
Arnold Werner, professor emeritus of<br />
psychiatry, 1969-2002, and former<br />
<strong>State</strong> News advice columnist, of East<br />
Lansing, Jan. 3, age 68.<br />
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