Io Triumphe! A magazine for alumni and friends of Albion College

A L B I O N C O L L E G E SPRING 2003

Published for alumni, parents and friends of Albion College

VOL. LXVII, NO. 4

Taming the stormStrategies for restoring public trust in corporate America

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The power of love ............................................. 7

One-on-one: Mentors reach out to local kids......... 9

Champions! Men win MIAA hoops title ............. 11

Alumni Association Election informationand ballot ...................................................... 23

I O T R I U M P H E 3

As Albion’s Carl A. Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute forProfessional Management celebrates its 30th anniversaryyear, I am reminded that venerated professor E. Maynard Arisoften said that the most important words in that program’stitle were not “professional management” but “liberal arts.”The problems that have beset corporate America in the pasttwo years have given more credence than ever to his view.Liberal arts colleges provide an ideal setting not just forlearning the “how-to’s” of business but the “why’s” and the“what if’s.” Done well, a liberal arts education causes stu-dents to think about the impact of their actions—on their ownlives, on the people with whom they associate, and on theorganizations of which they are a part—and encourages themto think carefully about doing what is right and not merelywhat is expedient. Those considerations should be an integralpart of corporate life, though, sadly, that is often not the case.

Within this broader context, the Gerstacker Institute lastmonth sponsored a symposium, “Ethical Leadership inBusiness: Defining It, Living It, Meaning It.” The speakersincluded Edmund Jenkins, ’57, retired chairman of theFinancial Accounting Standards Board; Patrick McDonnell,organizational change expert and author of Everybody Wantsto Go to Heaven: Six Steps to Organizational Excellence;Edward Reiter, senior chairman of Sky Financial Group, Inc.;and William Ritter, ’62, senior minister of the First UnitedMethodist Church of Birmingham. (The proceedings of the“Ethical Leadership in Business Symposium” will be avail-able shortly at: www.albion.edu/gerstacker/.) The symposiumtopic was the inspiration for the cover story in this edition ofIo Triumphe.

‘Ethical conduct never takes a day off’As you will see from the alumni and faculty comments

that are included here, recent corporate misconduct hasprompted genuine concern among those who work in andstudy the business community and a call for a renewedcommitment to high ethical standards. Charles Raphael,’68, a retired banking executive, put it this way: “Ethicalpolicies define the principles a company stands for—inother words, its culture. In my experience, culture is thatcombination of values, behaviors and beliefs that guides acompany’s conduct. The cases of Enron, Arthur Andersen,WorldCom, Tyco and K Mart, to name a few, all werefailures of culture. Most of all, they were failures ofleadership—of character. Corporate leaders need to ‘walkthe (ethical) talk’ by creating—and being visible champi-ons of—a culture that promotes, and indeed rewards,ethical behavior in dealings with employees, customers,shareholders, suppliers, regulators and the investmentcommunity. Strongly committed companies reinforce theimportance of ethical conduct in as many settings aspossible—internally and externally. In this way companieskeep ethics very visible. And in doing so they remind theirconstituencies—and themselves—that ethical conductnever takes a day off.”

On the following pages, you will read thoughtful com-mentaries on the state of business ethics today and learnhow Albion addresses this subject with students. I thinkyou will find these perspectives insightful and challenging.

—Sarah Briggs, Editor

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Io Triumphe asked both corporate insiders fromamong Albion’s alumni ranks and College facultymembers involved in teaching and research onbusiness management for an assessment of the currentstatus of corporate ethics and strategies for change. Asyou will see, they had many interesting insights toshare.

The root of the problemFirst of all, let’s recognize that the Enrons of the worlddo not represent the mainstream of corporate America.They are the exception. But the overriding question is:What created these scandals? What drove this kind ofbehavior in the first place? The answer in my view:compensation-based systems that spiraled out ofcontrol. The irresistible urge to preserve outrageousreward packages triggered ever-increasing levels ofunethical conduct. The goal: “make the numbers” atany cost.

Companies should establish a performance ap-praisal and reward structure that sets goals that areboth aggressive and achievable. Those committed toreal results (vs. “manufactured” ones) set targets thatcan be met by playing within the bounds of ethicalconduct. The impossibly high growth rates that manyCEOs establish often lead to crossing the line.

Is genuine change taking place? I believe recentscandals have served as a wake-up call for all compa-nies to reexamine their practices. They are looking ataccounting/audit policies and procedures, board rolesand decision-making structures. . . . I’m not yetpersuaded, however, that we’ve seen any real reform inthe compensation arena. Time will tell.

In an ideal company, the leadership believes youmust commit to ethical conduct—and live it. Andexecutives do that by consistently making decisionsthat are in the best long-term interests of their com-pany, even when that does not benefit them personally.

Charles Raphael, ’68Executive Vice President/Retail Delivery (retired)BankOne Corp.

Investors bewareAs news broke about the recent business scandals,much of the media coverage focused on stock pricingand corporate earnings. Maximizing share value is anappropriate goal. The problem in most businesses rightnow is too much emphasis on maximizing currentprofits. That is a short-sighted goal. Enron and theother companies that made the headlines had phenom-enal short-run profits because they were doingthings—some of them improper or even illegal—tomaximize those profits. Obviously, those actions werenot in their long-term best interest. Companies need toget back to focusing on share value, as opposed tocurrent-year profits.

I find it hard to be sympathetic toward many of thepeople who were investing in these companies that arenow in trouble. People made a lot of money on thesestocks . . . they were right there for the ride up and

only when the ride headed down did they cry foul. Tothe extent that there’s a silver lining, it may be thatnow people will investigate their choices a little bitmore. When investors are more vigilant, that will deterunethical behavior. Admittedly, it is hardest for thesmall investor to detect problems in a company—thetransactions are so complex.

The regulations that have now been implementedshould go a long way toward restoring people’sconfidence. It may just take time. Even with all thenew rules in place, people are still skeptical—they aresaying, “Let’s see if we can go a year without some bigscandal, and maybe I’ll believe it.” It’s good thatpeople are more aware.

Jon HooksProfessor of Economics and ManagementAlbion College

The need for honestcommunicationTop corporate leaders need to be open to hearing thetruth/straight talk from their staffs. Often, staffmembers feel obligated to “sugar coat” or to providepartial information—in other words, to say what theyknow the executive wants to hear rather than what theyreally want to say or should say. Corporations commit-ted to the letter and spirit of ethical practices are thosethat are genuine, honest, straightforward and forthcom-ing in their day-to-day operations and human relations.

Carolyn Aishton, ’64Vice President, Corporate Programs (retired)Avon Products, Inc.

Walking the talkIn an ethical business, virtuous words are matched byvirtuous deeds. For example, in the 1960s many majorAmerican companies quickly adopted the rhetoric ofequal employment opportunity (EEO). Xerox Corp.,however, moved more rapidly than most other busi-nesses to implement an EEO policy, giving well-qualified blacks a chance to work in professional andmanagerial jobs. The corporate commitment tonondiscrimination came right from the top—the CEOof Xerox made it clear that previous discriminatorypractices had to be rooted out and that lower levels ofmanagement would be evaluated, in part, on theireffectiveness in implementing EEO. This was aninstance in which issues of social justice and corporateresponsibility came together for a highly successfulresult.

Gregory SaltzmanProfessor of EconomicsAlbion College

Hard lessonsI believe that most businesses are managed ethically.However, one needs to understand that businesspeople, by training and out of necessity, have to focuson the bottom line. How will any activity ultimatelyaffect the survivability of the business? The hardlesson that unethical business people are learning isthat unethical conduct ultimately affects the bottomline adversely and can threaten the survivability of thebusiness. Top management has to ensure that operatingethically becomes a core value of the business, thatpolicies and practices regarding ethical conduct are putin place at the highest levels and that the failure tofollow them by anyone is cause for discipline up to andincluding termination.

Jess Womack, ’65Senior Corporate Counsel (retired)ARCOAssociate General CounselLos Angeles Unified School District

No simple answersIn the wake of the accounting and corporate gover-nance scandals of recent years, business and otherprofessional schools have increased the emphasis onethics in the courses they offer, as have professionalorganizations in their continuing education classes.While I applaud this increased focus on ethical andlegal responsibilities, it is important to remember thatthese activities are not new. Business ethics has longbeen part of a business school curriculum, and educa-tion on appropriate standards and responsibilities hasalways been part of the efforts of professional organi-zations.

While it makes a good sound-bite, it is wrong-headed to blame recent corporate scandals entirely on a“decline in morality” or an “increase in greed,”implying that future problems can be prevented bysomehow raising morality or decreasing greed. From apublic policy standpoint, preventing or reducing suchcorporate scandals in the future requires a much deeperunderstanding of their root causes. Flawed ethics andgreed certainly have played a role. But the fundamentalcauses lie in a combination of market and economicforces, laws, professional standards and governmentregulation (or misguided changes in laws, standards orregulations) that created powerful incentives forcorporate officers to behave as they did. Recognizingthese underlying factors does not excuse the manyethical and legal lapses that did occur, but it is impor-tant to understand that the causes of recent scandals arevaried and complex. It is difficult for me to believe thatany of them would have been prevented by executivestaking one more course in business ethics.

Carol Leisenring, ’68Co-Director, Financial Institutions CenterThe Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Straight talk about ethics


Encouraging individualresponsibilityAt a liberal arts college like Albion, we are fortunatethat we can discuss ethical issues in depth with ourstudents. Even though I don’t teach business ethicsper se, in my accounting courses I cover not only theaccepted standards in accounting today but also casesof corporate misconduct and the aftermath of suchmisconduct. For example, in my auditing class last fall,I asked my students to prepare oral presentationsexamining the deceptive reporting practices andoutright fraud that led to some of the recent scandals.This exercise was every bit as important to mystudents’ auditing education as the material in ourtextbook. They may face similar situations in the workworld at some point in their lives, and they should beready with a response. They also need to understandthe personal consequences involved, should theyengage in such questionable practices.

I believe educators do have an important role in thisarea. While recent federal legislation has led to somecritical reforms, government oversight of corporatebehavior is not the complete answer in effectingchange. It is much more a matter of individual respon-sibility. We must give those who are entering businessmanagement today preparation that will guide them inacting ethically in the future.

Gaylord SmithProfessor of Economics and ManagementAlbion College

Restoring the public trustCorporate scandals have damaged the business commu-nity in the U.S. and globally—the only question is howdeeply, and how permanently. CEOs recognize thatworld markets have been altered, and not for the better.

At PricewaterhouseCoopers, we recently conducteda survey with global CEOs that indicated they areengaged with the issue of restoring public trust andimproving corporate governance. Less clear is anyconsensus on how to achieve these goals. . . .

Many recognize it will take a concerted effort toregain public trust. Management must be driven byintegrity, boards must be truly independent, analystsmust be driven by what is real vs. what will maintainshare prices for their parent company portfolios,auditors must show courage and real dedication toserving shareholder interests vs. protecting relation-ships with management, and investors must makebuying decisions on the basis of diligent research andnot the whim of “get rich quick.”

In the recent past, people may have focused solelyon restoring trust with shareholders/investors. Now abroader group of stakeholders is being addressed.Enron showed that employees, pensioners, strategicpartners, charities and many others all need to knowthe “state of the business.” And today, under modelsthat include responsibility to the broader community,the circle is extended to the “global and generalpublic,” and even to future generations.

Private ethics and public corporate integrity areindivisible. What matters in the end are the actions ofpeople, not just their words. Doing the right thingcannot be compromised. . . . Without personal integ-rity, there can be no public trust.

Richard Baird, ’78Global ABAS Partner, Operations LeaderPricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P.

A conversation withBill Ferguson, ’52After a 43-year career in corporate management, BillFerguson retired in 1995 as chairman and CEO ofNYNEX, a global telecommunications company thathas since merged with Bell Atlantic and GTE to formVerizon. The observations he offers here come from arecent interview with Io Triumphe.

On the hallmarks of an ethical companyWhat distinguishes an ethical business is whether thestakeholders—the customers, the shareowners, theemployees, the vendors and the public in general—believe the company has an instinct to act ethically.The best example I can think of goes back to theJohnson & Johnson Tylenol contamination issue. Afterthe company quickly and openly recalled the product,even though the company didn’t believe it was at fault,the world was convinced Johnson & Johnson wouldact ethically in virtually every situation in the future.

Companies that are strongly committed to ethicalpractices have a written code of business conduct. Thatcode has been developed over time with employee andvendor input and is constantly updated. The companyshould have an ethics officer—someone who helps theCEO assess and lead the ethics effort. That personshould also interact with other ethics officers aroundthe country and even around the world and should stayon the cutting edge of ethics issues.

Employees should have a way, with anonymity, toask questions about ethics and to report breaches in thecode of business conduct.

Ultimately, responsibility for the corporate ethicspolicy should be assigned to a committee of the Boardof Directors. That committee should report periodicallyto the rest of the board, assessing the effectiveness ofthe ethical practices within the company. That infor-mation should be published in the proxy statement andthe annual report. This public disclosure forces thecompany to be up front about its ethical standards.

On the role of top management in settingethical standardsAdherence to ethical standards should be one of thecriteria in the evaluation of employees—from the CEOon down. Top management sets the example. Em-ployee perceptions are critical, and the CEO needs tobe conscious of any actions that might suggest impro-priety in the eyes of the employees, even if he or sheis, in fact, acting within ethical guidelines.

You have to involve employees in looking for theethical pitfalls and get problems and issues out on thetable. When I was CEO at NYNEX, we had a highlypublicized incident involving questionable conduct bysome of our employees in purchasing. We used that asan opportunity to totally reexamine our ethics codes.We rewrote our codes, with the help of the employees,and then trained extensively on the new standards.With constant vigilance and updating, the “codes welive by” have served Verizon very well in theseturbulent times.

PHOTO COURTESY OF VERIZON

Bill Ferguson, ’52

On the relationship of ethical conduct andcorporate successEthics is much more than following the law. It really ishaving an instinct for doing the right thing. Are youtruly being open and honest with your shareowners andcustomers? The customers and the shareowners makethe final judgment—over time they will come down onthe side of the ethical corporation. If you look at thecompanies that have succeeded or failed over the past10 years, you can see that it’s the ethical corpora-tions—the corporations that have made the rightjudgments—that continue to do well. Overall, theethical behavior of the corporation is a winningformula.

On the need for greater accountabilityFollowing the ethical lapses at Enron, WorldCom andothers, CEOs must take the lead in restoring confi-dence and trust in corporate America. It will take time,and all of the employees have to be enlisted in thiseffort. One difficulty we have right now is the issue ofexecutive compensation. CEOs are viewed as helpingthemselves to a disproportionate slice of the corporatepie, and this is being perceived as unethical. Corporateleaders need to keep thinking about public perceptionsand respond appropriately.

The increased attention being given to the issue ofaccountability is causing corporate America to makesignificant changes. Any director of a public corpora-tion today should be demanding that managementprovide accurate information and clear reporting. Thedirectors I’m in contact with are being much moreactive and aggressive, and taking their responsibilitiesfar more seriously. They recognize the personalliability they have if they are not fulfilling theseresponsibilities. They have a new standard of perfor-mance now that they have to meet. All of that is verygood and can do nothing but help. The higher stan-dards being set by the Securities and ExchangeCommission and the Financial Accounting StandardsBoard are also helpful, but ultimately you have toaffect behavior inside organizations to bring aboutlasting change.


Putting ethics to the test

K. MUMMA PHOTO

At a more general level, we also have responsibili-ties as citizens and as human beings, and it is oftenhard to see how to properly balance our obligations. Insome cases, it is very difficult to be both ethical andrealistic at the same time, and this makes the cases andthe issues that they raise of genuine moral interest.

I also bring in material from other philosopherssuch as Amartya Sen and Elizabeth Anderson whoseviews on motivation, individual choice and socialjustice are quite intriguing when studied in the contextof the business environment.

Q. How do you help students appreciatethe strengths and limitations of amanager’s personal values in guiding hisor her business decisions?A. In discussing cases about personal managerialobligations, students present their solutions to thewhole class and then we have at it. Some members ofthe class take on roles as tough-minded but oftenamoral realists, and others take on more morallystringent roles. Some students rely on faith as a basisfor their sense of integrity, and some on their common-sense view of folk ethics. These are all tested againstphilosophical views for consistency and plausibility.

Sometimes an act that is justifiable in a particularcase is obviously not fit to guide us as a rule. In someof the cases we look at, there appears to be no goodway out of a dilemma. Every proposed solution seemsto create new dilemmas. In analyzing these situations,students are encouraged to form meta-ethical beliefsabout which values trump which, given the inevitabil-ity of painful trade-offs.

Q. What troubles students most duringyour discussions?A. I have asked students if they’d keep secret animpending layoff that affected a close friend. Thisscenario forces them to weigh their loyalty to thecompany against their loyalty to a friend. When Iposed this question to my class this semester, 23 out of27 students said they’d tell the friend even if it wasclearly their managerial responsibility not to do so.They said things like “You can say without explicitlysaying” and so forth. They’re absolutely right, in away, but in doing so they are also in violation of theirrole obligations to their employer! It bothers them thatthe world won’t work out neatly so that they can keepall of their felt obligations in perfect harmony.

More institutional questions are raised by othercases, as with the stealing of proprietary informationfrom a competitor as a shortcut in product develop-

ment, the circumvention of environmental laws bylegal maneuver to minimize production costs, the useof political influence to stifle competition, and adver-tising in a manner totally independent of price andquality. With these and many other issues, students’loyalties are divided depending upon which positionsthey take. There are systematic ways to think morallyabout these issues apart from a self-interested stance,and these need to be teased out and discussed. Classi-cal act and rule utilitarianism become relevant here, forinstance. Even when a more systematic treatment isgiven, however, there is sometimes no obviously rightsolution.

Q. How do you address the need to un-derstand the spirit underlying a particularlaw or a corporate code of conduct?A. Very often the interesting personal issues have littleto do with law, partly because we wouldn’t want thelaw to regulate every transaction or decision. I findstudents do see the law as a brake on their behaviormore often than ethics, which can be disappointing.We spend a good deal of time discussing the differencebetween merely avoiding liability and thinkingseriously about right and wrong.

As far as the law goes, it makes business possibleby specifying and enforcing property and contract,establishing a uniform commercial code, supporting acurrency and a monetary policy, and providing rulesfor who makes and changes the rules themselves. It isnever really a question of business versus law per se,but a series of questions about working within (andaround) some law or set of laws.

Q. Why is it imperative for students tohave this introduction to business ethics?A. One of my colleagues once remarked to me thatethical behavior comes easily in ordinary times, butwhat counts is your stance in times of crisis. I’d like toreverse that. People who behave honestly and withintegrity in ordinary times are, as a matter of character,more likely to be honest in times of crisis. If ethicswere emphasized regularly—ethics in the well-thought-out way that philosophers conceive of it—we’d be far better off. We’d look hard for the bestavailable solution, recognizing that finding a perfectsolution may not be possible. As with any reasonableexploration of complex empirical issues, we usuallyget better but never arrive at perfection. It has alwaysstruck me that we have no general ethics requirementat the College, but the Gerstacker Institute does. I thinkit would be good for all of us to think about ethicsregularly and systematically (and not just in the formof our preferred local and relativist sense).

Q. What do you most want students totake away with them from a businessethics course?A. I hope that they have a firmer sense of the rel-evance of ethics, a better sense of themselves, and anappreciation of the immense gravitational force createdby modern corporations. It would be good for studentsto develop a defensible sense of their own values thatwill allow them to leave the business world a betterplace. It would be even better if that sense allowedthem to flourish.

As we all discover at some point in our lives, it’s onething to talk about ethical principles and quite anotherto live by them. Philosophy professor Gene Clineblends these theoretical and practical considerationsin the business ethics course he has taught in Albion’sCarl A. Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute for Profes-sional Management for the past 12 years. Following amodel adopted at the Harvard Business School, hiscourse uses the case study approach to demonstratethe ethical dilemmas that business people face incarrying out their day-to-day responsibilities.

In the following interview, Io Triumphe asked Clineto reflect on the relevance of the course and thepractical guidance it offers to future business leaders.While the well-publicized ethical breaches at corpora-tions like Enron and WorldCom have brought renewedattention to the issue, Cline contends all businessmanagers—regardless of the level of their responsibil-ity or field of specialization—must be prepared to dealeffectively and appropriately with the moral questionsthat will inevitably come their way.

Io Triumphe. In your business ethicscourse, how do you show students thatphilosophy has immediate and practicalapplications in the workplace?Cline. I interject philosophy when it can give ameaningful context to what we are studying. Mystudents and I read actual cases from Harvard BusinessSchool files in which individuals face ethical dilem-mas. For example, these employees might have beenasked to falsify damages to cover shipping costs on abig sale, gain proprietary information for a client inlegally questionable ways, sign off on partnerships thatare designed to conceal what the company is doing, orbill clients for services never performed. At aninstitutional level, companies might use their politicalclout to gain unfair competitive advantages.

Michael Hardimon’s work on role responsibility is acore reading from philosophy that I introduce in thiscourse. Hardimon argues that signing up for complexroles (as a manager, accountant, consultant, etc.)means that you have to count the responsibilities thatcome with the role as yours. However, he adds thattaking on a professional role does not engulf or eraseother responsibilities. Most interesting roles are notself-interpreting or transparent; one can put one’sstamp on performing those roles well. So students areasked to put themselves into the shoes of those who aredescribed in our cases, and they are asked to recom-mend an ethical course of action and to defend itagainst criticisms.

Philosophy professor Gene Clineuses real-world examples todemonstrate the difficult ethicalquestions business people may facein the course of their careers.


By Cindy Schmidt Champnella, ’80

Women who grew up in the 1970s as I did wereweaned on the notion that career success could beours—we believed we could climb the corporate ladderwith the best of them. As I entered college, I wasn’tquite sure what I wanted to do in a career, but enrollingin Albion’s Professional Management program (sincerenamed the Gerstacker Liberal Arts Institute forProfessional Management) seemed to be a great way tofind out.

From the first kick-off dinner at Bellemont Manor, Icongratulated myself on my wise choice. The support,guidance and genuine concern of the advisers in theprogram were wonderful. But the friends I made—theywere the true prize. How else would I have gottenthrough calculus and John McConnell’s economictheory classes? Instead of cutthroat competitors, myfellow classmates were the first ones to offer use oftheir typewriter when mine jammed, to share notes andoffer study groups. What I could not have known thenwas that many of these friendships, solidified over late-night study breaks, would continue on to this day.

But an Albion education did not allow me to focustoo narrowly. There were plenty of opportunities in theliberal arts curriculum to pursue other interests. I foundmyself captivated by Len Berkey’s sociology courses.I can still remember the swell of pride I felt whenAnthony Taffs read one of my freshman Englishcompositions aloud and solemnly pronounced me awriter. But I shook off these other interests—I was toopragmatic to be caught up in dreams that would notlead to income.

In 1980 I headed out into the business world, surethat corporate success was soon to follow. And formany of my Pro-Man friends, it did. I get dizzy when Icontemplate their achievements. Some of my closestfriends now hold key executive positions at majorcorporations and have somehow managed to do it withclass and integrity and balance while still finding timeto laugh with me exactly the way we did in WesleyHall so many years ago.

P. ROBERTS PHOTO

Since adopting her daughter Jaclyn from China, Cindy Schmidt Champnella, ’80,has devoted herself to the cause of international adoption. She has chronicled herefforts to find homes for orphaned children in a new book.

But for me, it didn’t work out that way. Early on, Ishifted my focus to the non-profit sector, sure that Iwould find fulfillment in being part of value-drivenorganizations. Unfortunately, what I found was theopposite. I regretted that I had spent so much time inBusiness Ethics passing notes to the cute boy seatednext to me, instead of preparing myself for the ethicaldilemmas I quickly faced. I had lots of days when Iwanted to throw my keys down and walk out the door.But the heavy price of that action made me terrified ofacting on principle. Instead, I sat and watched andplayed the game of corporate restraint. And the wrongof it all—not just others’ behavior, but now my own—ate away at me.

And so by the time Jaclyn came into my life I hadlong ago stopped believing that we each have thepower to change lives. Instead, I lived the way thatmany of us do—working, parenting and doing all theother chores involved in day-to-day living—withoutlooking either right or left. My husband and I adoptedLou Jiao, whom we call Jaclyn, at the age of four fromChina. It was, perhaps, our small attempt to givesomething back. But I quickly learned that visiting aChinese orphanage is one of those “be careful whatyou wish for” experiences. I had naively assumed thatI would go there and then come back and resume myold life. The Chinese have a saying: “The journey ofdiscovery comes not from seeing new lands, but fromseeing with new eyes.” For me, this proved true. Myold life was over.

On her third day as my daughter, when the shock ofit all had begun to fade and Jaclyn could find her voiceagain, she told me, through our Chinese guide, that shehad a baby. At first I was horrified. How could a childhave such responsibility? Surely there was not a world,even here, where children mothered children? But,sadly, from the start there was no disputing the truth ofher words. It was on that day that she first asked forhelp in finding a mama for “her” little boy, Xiao MeiMei. What I didn’t know then was that it wouldcontinue for every day after.

Faith, hopeand love . . .but the greatestof these is love

And then we saw it for ourselves. We broughtJaclyn back to the orphanage to say goodbye to herbaby. She pushed through the throng of excitedchildren to claim his hand. She scrutinized his appear-ance and gently fixed his pant leg and fussed over histiny shirt. He was, without a doubt, the most pitifulchild I had ever seen. He locked his sad eyes on hersand desperately held onto her hand. And then when wehad to go, tears streamed silently down his face as hesaid goodbye to the only mother he knew—a four-year-old child. Jaclyn’s comforting rocking and lovingcaresses of this child, barely a head shorter than she,were excruciatingly painful to watch. Seeing it, I knewthat this is what it feels like when your heart breaks.

And as delighted and joyful as Jaclyn was once shesettled into her new life, she carried with her always asecret sadness. She treasured pictures of Xiao Mei Meiand studied them each morning and night with such aheavy heart. Living with her was like living with avery short mother who has had her baby wrenchedfrom her arms. He was never far from her thoughts—they permeated both times of joy and times of sorrowin our house.

Jaclyn asked everyone she knew to help bring herbaby here. She had no idea what a difficult request itwas. Identified adoptions, where an adoption of oneparticular child is requested, are not permitted by theChinese officials. In a manual paperwork systeminvolving 200,000 children, such adoptions are nearlyimpossible to attempt. And that was only on theChinese side of the equation—there were obstacles onthe U.S. side too. And so, I didn’t even seriouslyconsider it.

But when Jaclyn had exhausted herself, askingevery person she knew for help and not seeing anypromises being made in return, she looked to God. Therequest to bring her baby here was, predictably, thefirst prayer she uttered. I had always thought of faith asa lifelong process of revelation when in truth it isbelieving in something you cannot see or understand. Iam not sure what she believed, but she did believe this:God would help her find Xiao Mei Mei a mama.


And, over time, hearing her prayers, listening to herpleas, changed me.

I felt like an idiot for not understanding that hebelonged here sooner. I had foolishly thought thatJaclyn’s devotion to him would fade, and she wouldget on with her new life. But that was before I reallyknew her.

And then an amazing thing happened. I began towrite about her pleas—daily e-mails to a small circleof friends and family. Almost overnight the circlegrew. I soon got letters from people all over the worldwho were praying for Xiao Mei Mei and offering theirsupport in any way possible to bring him here. Andfinally the story reached some who were in influentialpositions.

I still have to pinchmyself when I say this—fifteen months laterJaclyn marched into herformer orphanage andclaimed her baby. Heimmediately took herhand, locked his eyes onher face and followed herout. His name is nowLee, and he is Jaclyn’scousin—he was adoptedby my sister.

When Jaclyn came toAmerica she was fouryears old. She didn’thave a dime. She didn’tknow anyone—she hadno connections. Shecouldn’t read or write.She couldn’t even speakEnglish. She didn’t haveany of the things that weassociate with power.But she also didn’t havefear. Because she didn’tknow the difficulty ofwhat she was asking, itwas always a matter ofwhen. And her faith inme, her trust that hermama could do this onething, made me forgeahead without beingfrozen by the fear that itwas too difficult, by thefear that I would fail her.

What she had waspersistence or maybe justplain old stubbornness.Someone once told methat every quality that Istruggle with in this child was, at one point, integral toher survival. And her strong will is one of them. Shemade me realize how many times in the past I had justgiven up when things seemed too tough.

Jaclyn had faith in God and in people and in thefuture. Here was a child who had been hurt and coldand hungry and neglected and institutionalized. A childwho would have every reason to think that the world isan ugly place. But she didn’t. Her radiant smile and

zest for life and hopefulness were contagious. Shethrew herself into everything like she truly expectedgood things to happen. And if she could believe, howcould anyone whose life she touched not respond?

After a time, she made me believe too.And she had the most important thing of all: love.

That she survived all that she had with her heart intactis one of the true miracles I’ve witnessed in life. And iflove really means that you cannot be happy when youknow of the suffering of someone you love, it becomesthe greatest force of all.

When I see Jaclyn’s baby today I am alwaysreminded of the power that each of us has to change alife, to make a real difference. The things that Jaclynhad, we all have. Because of Jaclyn I came to realize

children, an executive-level job and a busy husbandstarting his own business. She now has two daughtersfrom China, as I do. When I tire, she picks up thepieces. People often ask us when they see us together ifwe are sisters. And if a sister is a person who supportsyou in all that you do, who shares your dreams, whoconsoles you on your darkest days—the answer then is“yes.”

And, Dr. Taffs, guess what? I’m now a writer too.As I got to know Jaclyn, as the events of her pastunfurled, the words flowed out of me. I could not holdthem in; to not write her story would have beenimpossible.

And that’s how The Waiting Child came to be. Ifinally realized that Jaclyn had a powerful story to tell.

She needed me to write itfor her, but it is not mystory at all. It is a story ofpain and suffering andalmost unbearable grief.But it’s also a story oflove and hope andtriumph. I hope otherswill be touched by it,inspired by her life andchanged, in some smallway, by hearing her truth.I know, because ofJaclyn, my life will neverbe the same.

My ProfessionalManagement educationdid not lead me to a bigstock portfolio. What Igot instead was so muchbetter—an education thatsparked my interest in somany different areas, thefirst person who encour-aged me to write, thepriceless friendships thathave sustained me, asoulmate in what is nowmy life’s work. When Icount my money, Isometimes fall a littleshort. But when I countmy blessings, I feel likethe richest person onearth.

The Waiting Child: Howthe Faith and Love ofOne Orphan Saved theLife of Another by CindyChampnella (St. Martin’sPress, March 2003) is

now available through Amazon.com, Walmart.com andBarnes and Noble. The Waiting Child has beenexcerpted by Ladies Home Journal and featured onNBC’s “The John Walsh Show.” All of the proceedsfrom the book are designated for the Half the SkyFoundation (www.halfthesky.org) to help children inChinese orphanages. Champnella lives with herhusband and three daughters in Farmington Hills andmay be reached via e-mail at: [email protected].

At the orphanage in Gualing, Jaclyn (above, left) hadtaken under her wing a two-year-old boy, whom shecalled Xiao Mei Mei (pictured next to her). Jaclyn’sdrive to find a new home for “her baby,” in spite ofhuge obstacles, eventually resulted in his adoption byher American aunt and uncle. The two children, nowcousins, still share a special bond.

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that the regrets I had about my life so far were notabout all the bad things that had happened, but aboutall the good things I could have made happen anddidn’t.

And I was determined to change. I have devoted thelast few years to promoting international adoption—recruiting families, helping with paperwork andspeaking in various forums about our shared responsi-bility for the world’s children. And my partner in all ofthis? Deb Mero Morse, ’80, one of my ProfessionalManagement classmates. Ironically, she was just aboutthe only person I didn’t try to recruit as an adoptiveparent. She already had a full life with two biological


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It’s elementary: Student volunteersmake a difference at local school

Albion Open School fifth-grader Jesse Cook completes her geography homework with help fromCollege student mentor David Seales. Seales is one of several dozen students and College staffmembers who are working one-on-one with elementary school students this year.

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By Erin Laidlaw, ’04

For Steve Gordon, “going to class” couldmean one of two things. Most days, class is alesson in supply-and-demand curves or thebenefits of trade.

On Thursdays, however, Gordon—a junioreconomics/management major who is vicepresident of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity anda Briton baseball player—departs thefraternity house, baseball field and collegeclassroom for the world of crayons, lunchboxes and multiplication tables at the AlbionOpen School, where he is a mentor for third-grader Anthony Maddox.

“Going to see Anthony is something Ialways look forward to,” says Gordon, who isthe current student coordinator of the mentorprogram. “It is worthwhile just to see himmake progress and listen to his stories. Ialways walk away with a feeling of accom-plishment.”

More than 60 Albion College students likeGordon spend an hour or more each week atthe Open School, where they are paired withfirst- through fifth-grade students who canbenefit from some one-on-one support.

“For my kids it is a really importantrelationship,” says Peg Mitchell Turner, ’69,kindergarten teacher at the Open School andco-founder of the mentor program. “It is acritical piece of the puzzle for these childrento regularly see someone in college who issuccessful, values education and can belooked up to as a role model.”

One of the greatest challenges in elemen-tary education today, according to Turner, isfor teachers to provide individual attention toeach child. Ben Feeney, ’02, an economics/management major and former Britonbasketball player who now works for theinternational marketing agency DraftWorld-wide in Chicago, hoped to address that

challenge when he and Turner developed thevolunteer mentoring program in 1999.

After a basketball game that year, Feeneywas talking to Turner—who is married tomen’s head coach Mike Turner, ’69—abouthow he had volunteered in a kindergartenclassroom during his senior year of highschool.

Peg Turner asked him if he would beinterested in helping in her classroom.“I thought to myself, ‘A chance to color, playgames, read Dr. Seuss and have recess,’—I’min,” says Feeney.

Most of the mentors in the program helpstudents with writing—a skill that manyelementary school students struggle to master,according to Turner.

“Gathering and processing informationand working through the writing process arethings the kids need to be able to do, but tostrengthen these skills, one-on-one attention isnecessary,” she says.

The objectives of the mentor program,however, are not exclusively academic. Someteachers have certain mentors work withstudents to further develop their social andbehavioral skills.

“The mentors provide a very differentrelationship than school personnel,” saysLaurel Weinman, ’01, who now works for theCollege as an admissions representative. “Wearen’t teachers—we’re friends. Mrs. Turner ispretty deliberate about who is matched withwhom because each mentor serves a differentpurpose and has a different role for eachindividual child.”

Turner said she has noticed marked andwidespread change among the students at theOpen School who spend time with a mentor.Not only do the elementary students progressacademically, but, she says, their behaviorshows significant improvement. Furthermore,

as a result of the individual attention, theyoungsters start to perceive themselves aspeople who matter to someone else.

“It is amazing how a little compassion andsupport can translate into an increase in self-esteem, better class participation, higherreading levels and a greater willingness tolearn,” Feeney says. “When students feelmore confident, they perform better. It wasour hope to provide that confidence.”

Turner said students ask her every daywhen their mentors are returning, and thatthey are eager to spend time with their olderfriends. “We have a lot of fun together,” saysAndre Reese, a fourth-grader at the OpenSchool, of his mentors Laurel Weinman andChad Brent. “They make my work easier.”

Today, volunteers from all areas ofAlbion’s campus, including about 19 staffmembers, visit the Open School each week.Weinman, a former Briton basketball playerwho majored in English and speech communi-cation, became involved last May when theAdmissions Office volunteered to continueworking with the children whose mentors hadleft Albion for the summer. Additionally,education professor Suellyn Henke took oneof her classes to work with the elementarystudents every Thursday during fall semester.Several of those students have continued asmentors with their same child this semester.

The time the volunteers spend with thestudents typically is devoted to completing

assignments or reviewing material that thestudents find difficult. Sophomore Englishmajor Teresa Liedtke usually goes over storiesthat her student, Brittany, is preparing forwriting workshops. Gordon and Anthony tendto read together or practice Anthony’spenmanship. Then after about 30 minutes,when the child’s attention span is exhausted,the pair will set the work aside for somethingmore enjoyable. Weinman and Andre like tochallenge each other’s deductive abilities overa game of “Guess Who.” Liedtke frequentlybrings a snack to share with Brittany.

“I really love to work with Brittany,” saysLiedtke. “Even though I’m busy with classes,homework and clubs, working with thementor program is only a half-hour a weekand the rewards when I see Brittany smile areendless—they make my heart warm and giveme motivation to work harder to be a goodteacher and to influence younger children inthe right direction.”

Feeney continues to tout the rewards of theprogram.

“The one thing that makes this programwork is when a child full of curiosity, energyand enthusiasm tugs on your hand, pulls youclose, puts his or her arm around you andsays, ‘I’ll see you next week,’” Feeney says.“All of us who have served as mentors havehad that or a similar experience, and I thinkwe would all say that the amazing kids we getto work with are what spurs this program on.”

Well-traveledStudent groups have had opportunities to travel around the globe recently, showing once againthat an Albion education truly is “without borders.” In addition to the locations pictured below,students in the Organization for Latino/a Awareness (OLA) went to Las Flores, Honduras tocarry out building repairs and visit with children OLA has helped support since 1999. Anotherstudent group, Wayfarer’s International Group for Service (WINGS), built a shelter andvolunteered at the Tropical Science Center in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

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(Above) The Geology Department’s annual regional geology field course took 11 students andthree professors to Hawaii over spring break. They studied the volcanic and coastal processesthat have formed the landscape. Here, Billy Howland, Jen Swindlehurst and Lauren Nelson(pictured in foreground) examine day-old lava on the big island of Hawaii.

PHOTO COURTESY OF J. MIHELICH(Right) Seven members of Englishprofessor Steve Bailey’s First-YearSeminar, “Vietnam: Then and Now,”traveled throughout Vietnam duringthe semester break in January. InHanoi (where they are pictured), theyvisited many historical sites, includingthe infamous “Hanoi Hilton,” whereAmerican prisoners of war wereincarcerated from 1964 to 1973. Theyalso visited Friendship Village,serving children with birth defectscaused by the herbicides used duringthe war. A day hike on a path throughankle-deep mud, crossingfootbridges 50 feet abovethe ground, took thestudents through severalHmong villages and gavethem yet another view ofVietnam. “I had to throwmy shoes away,” saidone student. “But it wasbeautiful—the mountainsand the fields and thepeople in their colorfulclothes.”


New book explores ‘a nation seekingto define itself’

History professor Tom Chambers’ new book, Drinking the Waters, looks at the impact of 19th-century mineral springs resorts on American social and economic development. Chambers saysthe resorts, which attracted some of the nation’s most prominent families, were the first tomarket water as a commodity and adopted other innovative business practices.

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By Jake Weber

In doing the research for his first book, Albionhistory professor Tom Chambers foundhimself in a Virginia bathhouse that was oncea retreat for Thomas Jefferson. “The water’snaturally 98 degrees, and you float, becauseit’s so dense with minerals and naturalcarbonation. I was looking up, and I could seethe sky through the open roof. It was reallyamazing.”

Drinking the Waters: Creating anAmerican Leisure Class at Nineteenth-Century Mineral Springs is the result ofChambers’ research, and was published thispast fall by Smithsonian Institution Press. Onthe surface, says Chambers, the book is aboutthe development of mineral springs resorts inVirginia and New York, from the Colonialperiod through the Civil War. Its importance,however, is in discussing “social andeconomic changes and how they affectedsociety and culture through the developmentof a leisure/elite class,” he says.

Chambers focused on these mineralsprings because of their significance as placeswhere the rich and influential in bothNorthern and Southern society could meet oneanother. “The Southern and Northern eliteswere very much alike. Even up to the CivilWar . . . the richest [Northern and Southern]families had more in common with each otherthan with their fellow [residents],” saysChambers.

To make his argument, Chambers’ bookincorporates business records, paintings,letters, diaries, advertising and architecturalplans to show the similarities. “I’m challeng-ing the idea that the Civil War was inevitable,and that North and South were different,which upsets some of my fellow historians.”

Records from several New York andVirginia resorts during this period indicatethat prominent families frequently traveledlong distances and across regional boundariesto enjoy the spas.

Chambers writes, “[The spas] attractedpeople as diverse as the Manigaults fromSouth Carolina and Van Rensselaers fromNew York; Southern author John PendletonKennedy and Northern critic WashingtonIrving; rival politicians Henry Clay andMartin Van Buren; influential women MaryBoykin Chesnut and Catherine Clinton;escaped slave Harriet Jacobs and Southernnationalist Edmund Ruffin; wealthy business-man and author Clement Clark Moore (bestknown for his poem “A Visit from St.Nicholas”) and middle-class professor ofoptics Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson;industrialists like Cornelius Vanderbilt andsocial critic Henry James; and even, after theCivil War, former enemies Generals Robert E.Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.”

This clientele, he continues, traveled to thesprings “for one basic reason: the springswere fashionable. Fashion created a culturewhere people came together from far andwide, South and North, and intermingledthroughout the nineteenth century. In theprocess they created the basis of an Americanaristocracy and, more importantly, a commonnational leisure culture.”

The resorts were also at the cutting edge interms of economic changes, according toChambers. “Mineral springs resorts embracedthe Market Revolution. . . . They balancedtheir shaky finances by commodifying waterand selling it year-round, and were heavilyinvolved in promoting transportationimprovements. Contrary to conventionalwisdom, Southern resorts proved far more

Rushdie will keynote Isaac Student Research Symposium

innovative in their business practices—forinstance, pioneering a version of the moderntime-share cottage—and were more heavilyinvolved in the market than presumptions ofan agrarian, pre-modern South would have usbelieve.”

The cover of Drinking the Waters featuresone of Chambers’ most exciting researchfinds, an 1845 daguerreotype of the WhiteSulphur Springs hotel and grounds that heuncovered in the University of Virginialibrary. “It’s a wonderful piece of earlyphotography, and the earliest image of any ofthese resorts anyone has ever found,” saysChambers.

Chambers notes another serendipitoushighlight of his research, the opportunity tohave lunch with legendary golfer Sam Sneadat the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia.“The archivist there knew Sam loved to talkhistory,” says Chambers, who recalls Snead,then in his eighties, as being very sharp andgood company. “He knew so much about the

Famed author Salman Rushdie will offer thekeynote address at this year’s Elkin R. IsaacResearch Symposium Thursday, April 24.Best known for his novels Midnight’sChildren and The Satanic Verses, Rushdie haschampioned intellectual freedom in his booksand in essays and opinion columns publishedin the popular media.

In addition to his eight novels, Rushdie hasauthored several books of short stories andessays, and his fiction and nonfiction havebeen included in numerous anthologies. Hiswritings have been translated into more than30 languages. Rushdie’s latest book, StepAcross This Line, will be the subject of hisAlbion presentation. A collection of hisjournalistic writings from 1992-2002, thebook centers on themes of religion, cultureand politics in an age of rapid modernization.

Midnight’s Children (1981) receivedBritain’s top literary award and has since beenadapted for the stage by London’s RoyalShakespeare Company. The stage version’sNorth American premiere occurred at theUniversity of Michigan in March 2003.

The Satanic Verses (1988) won theWhitbread Award and unleashed an interna-tional furor. In response to the novel’scriticism of fundamentalist Islam, Iran’s

Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, orreligious edict, condemning Rushdie to death.Rushdie was forced into hiding for nearly 10years, but still continued to write. Hepublished two well-received novels duringthis period, including The Moor’s Last Sigh(1995). The government of Iran lifted thefatwa in 1998.

The Elkin R. Isaac Research Symposium isa day-long celebration of undergraduateresearch at Albion. Students present theresults of their research during four concurrentsessions planned throughout the day April 27.A complete schedule for the symposium isavailable on the World Wide Web at:www.albion.edu/library/isaac. In addition, theCollege’s Honors Convocation is planned forthat same morning at 10:40 a.m.

On Wednesday, April 23, psychologistDenise Cortis Park, ’73, will offer the Elkin R.Isaac Lecture based on her studies on agingand memory. Park is a professor at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) and a scholar in UIUC’s BeckmanBiological Intelligence Group. Her primaryresearch interest is in understanding theeffects of age-related changes in memoryfunction, on both the individual and thecollective levels. She received a 2002American Psychological Association

DistinguishedContributionAward to thePsychology ofAging and a 1997Albion CollegeDistinguishedAlumni Award.

All of the IsaacSymposium eventsare open to thepublic.

Alumni and friendsof Albion Collegeare welcome toattend. There is noadmission chargefor the SalmanRushdie lecture,but tickets arenecessary. Toreserve tickets,please call theOffice of Alumniand ParentRelations, 517/629-0448.

News in brief■■ Albion’s Foundation for UndergraduateResearch, Scholarship, and Creative Activity(FURSCA) is featured in the March 2003CUR Quarterly, a national publication of theCouncil on Undergraduate Research. Thearticle, which focuses on FURSCA’s summerresearch fellowship program, is one of sevensuch articles in the journal on summerresearch at higher education institutionsacross the country. Each year, Albion awardssummer fellowships to about 70 students whotake part in a 10-week program of full-timeindividual research with a faculty mentor. Inaddition to projects in the natural sciences andmathematics, FURSCA has supported projectsin psychology and other social sciences, thehumanities, and the visual and performingarts.

■■ Senior Lily Sacks is one of eight collegestudents across the state to receive a 2003Venture Grant from the Michigan CampusCompact. Sacks will use the $1,300 grant forfurther developing her Young MothersProject, which will offer training on parentingskills for young mothers in the Greater Albionarea. The College will partner with severalcommunity organizations to provide a positivelearning environment for both mother andchild. Michigan Campus Compact promotesservice learning and civic engagement amongstudents at the state’s colleges and universi-ties.

Greenbrier too. It was a lot of fun, although Inever had a chance to ask for golf tips!”

Fresh on the heels of Drinking the Waters,Chambers is looking over proofs for hissecond book project, a Fodor’s travel guide tothe original 13 colonies, to be published inJune 2003. He wrote the chapter on New Yorkand the book’s introduction, outlining the keytourist spots as well as giving a generaloverview of the regional history of thatperiod. “I like [the Fodor’s project], because itallows me to reach a much bigger audience,”says Chambers.

Drinking the Waters is available onamazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

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Men take league basketballchampionship with record 22 wins

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Senior guard Brett Quayle enjoyed a breakout season that saw him reach the 1,000-pointmilestone for his career, receive the MIAA Player of the Week award three times and achieveAll-MIAA first-team status.

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Senior center Pat Moultrie takes his turn cutting down the net at Kresge Gym following thevictory over Olivet that clinched a share of the MIAA regular season title.

Albion clinched the title by defeatingOlivet on the final day of the regular season.“That was real emotional for me to watch,”said veteran head coach Mike Turner after histeam cut down the nets in Kresge after thegame. “Lots of people have been saying nicethings, but it’s these guys who made ithappen.

“We had three tremendous seniors,”Turner added. “The leadership they providedwas the best part of the season.”

As the season ended, three players wereselected for All-MIAA honors by the leaguecoaches.

Senior guard Brett Quayle received theleague’s Player of the Week award three timesand led the trio of Britons named first-teamall-league. He became the 17th player inAlbion men’s basketball history to score over1,000 points, reaching that milestone in theBritons’ MIAA Tournament semifinal victoryover Adrian College. Quayle, who finished hiscareer with 1,015 points, led Albion in scoringwith an average of 16.8 points per game on 44percent shooting from the field. Scoring indouble figures in every league game exceptone, Quayle lit up for 22 points at AdrianCollege Feb. 5, and 23 points at CalvinCollege Feb. 8.

By Bobby Lee

Albion College is a member of the MichiganIntercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA)and NCAA Division III. Find Briton sports onthe Web at www.albion.edu/sports.

Men’s basketball: Back in November,no one believed Albion would be a factor inthe race for the league championship. Afterall, the Britons were trying to replace sevenplayers (including a two-time first-team All-MIAA selection) who had graduated theprevious spring. In a poll of the leaguecoaches prior to the season, Albion waspicked to finish fourth in the MIAA.

Undeterred by what others were saying,the Britons used a team concept and anunyielding defense to earn a share of their firstregular season league championship since1981 and win a school-record 22 games. HopeCollege was league co-champion. A luckycoin toss determined Albion would be the topseed and host of the tournament’s semifinaland final rounds for the first time in theevent’s history. Venerable Kresge Gymna-sium was packed for Albion’s tournamentcontests, with 1,521 fans turning out for thetitle game against Hope College.

Joining Quayle on the all-league first teamwere sophomores Travis DePree and MichaelThomas.

DePree, a forward, was Albion’s top all-around player. For league games only, heranked among the top three in MIAA statisticsfor assists (first, 4.67 per game), rebounds(second, 8.2 per game), blocked shots(second, 1.5 per game), steals (tie-second,1.75 per game), and field goal percentage(third, .569, 41 of 72).

Thomas, a guard, finished the seasonsecond in the MIAA in assists (averaging 3.67per game) and eighth in scoring (13.8 points

per contest) for league games only. For theseason, he averaged 13.4 points per game on42 percent shooting from the field (128 of304). Thomas, who scored 20 or more pointsin two MIAA games, posted a double-doubleof 20 points and 10 assists at Olivet CollegeJan. 29, and just missed another with 18points and nine rebounds at Hope CollegeFeb. 15.

In addition to the three first-team selec-tions, seniors Chris Hawkins and Pat Moultriewere listed as honorable mention players bythe league coaches.

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Women’s basketball: Under thedirection of second-year head coach DoreenBelkowski, Albion posted 15 victories,finished fourth in the league’s regular seasonstandings, and advanced to the semifinalround of the league tournament for the secondconsecutive year. Belkowski has led theBritons to back-to-back winning seasons forthe first time since the 1983-84 and 1984-85campaigns.

The Britons’ success was tempered by therealization that things could have been evenbetter had injuries not sidelined seniors BeckyCampbell and Stacey Supanich.

With two of the top players on the shelf,most of the pressure fell on the shoulders ofSarah Caskey. The sophomore guard delivered,ranking among the league leaders in steals(tie-second, 2.21 per game), assists (tie-third,4.0 per game), three-point field goal percent-age (fourth, .370, 20 of 54), scoring (sixth,14.4 points per contest), field goal percentage(ninth, .465, 66 of 142), free throw percentage(12th, .758, 50 of 66), blocked shots (tie-13th,0.5 per game), and rebounding (tie-18th, 4.6per game) for league games only. She scored20 or more points in four league games, with ahigh of 25 in the Britons’ MIAA Tournamentfirst-round victory over Calvin College.

Forward Angie Spain and guard JocelynZappala, both juniors, were added to the list ofhonorable mention players by the leaguecoaches.

In women’s championship final action,sophomore Kristin Brubaker placed third inthe 1,650-yard freestyle (18:03.75), and first-year student-athlete Jessie Longhurst placedfifth in the 400-yard individual medley(4:55.63).

The Briton men finished fourth in the finalteam standings, scoring 236.5 points. Albion’swomen compiled 233 points, good for a fifth-place finish in the final team standings. KeithHavens is head coach for both squads.

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Sophomore guard Sarah Caskey achieved All-MIAA first-teamstatus after leading Albion in scoring.

Find it on the Web!Did you know that you can find all of the following

(and much more) on the Albion College sports Web site?

■ Spring SportsNet broadcast schedule

■ Latest news on spring sports

■ 2002-03 season results for fall and winter sports

■ 2003 football schedule

Follow the Britons at: www.albion.edu/sports/It’s the next best thing to being here!

Swimming and diving: A seniordiver who competed at the NCAA Division IIIChampionships and a first-year swimmer wholowered the school record in two events wereamong Albion’s highlights this season.

Rachel Maloney advanced to the nationalmeet after topping the field on the 1-meterboard at the league championship meet inFebruary. She posted an 11-dive total score of389.85 at the league meet. Maloney alsoplaced second on the 3-meter board at theleague meet, finishing with an 11-dive scoreof 383.20.

John Fodell lowered the school marks inthe 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events atthe league meet. He finished third in the 100final, touching the wall in 59.90 seconds. Inthe 200 Fodell posted a fourth-place time of2:14.50. Britt Johnson previously held bothrecords with times of 1:00.25 in the 100 and2:14.80 in the 200.

Sophomore Will Green advanced to theleague championship final in all three of hisevents. He finished third in the 1,650-yardfreestyle (16:45.50), and sixth in the 200- and500-yard freestyles. His time in the 200 was1:46.50, and 4:51.85 in the 500.

Advancing to the championship finals intwo events were senior Liz Groth and first-year sprinter Lauren Sisson. Groth finishedthird in the 200-yard backstroke (2:15.31) andfourth in the 100-yard backstroke (1:03.23).Sisson placed fourth in the 100-yard freestyle

(54.44 seconds) and fifthin the 50-yard freestyle(25.01 seconds).

Reaching champion-ship final events for theBriton men were seniorMatt Gruber with afourth-place performancein the 200-yard back-stroke (1:59.47), first-year swimmer KevinCapehart with a sixth-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly (2:08.65),first-year swimmer A.J.Dancho with a fifth-placefinish in the 1,650-yardfreestyle (16:49.84), andfirst-year swimmer AndyDavidson with a fifth-place finish in the 400-yard individual medley(4:21.41).

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Senior diver Rachel Maloney won the MIAA individual championship on the 1-meter board andcompeted at the NCAA Division III championships.

In March, the College Swimming CoachesAssociation of America recognized both theAlbion College men’s and women’s swim-ming teams with the Academic All-Americateam award for the fall semester. The Britonwomen posted a 3.492 grade-point average,the third-highest among NCAA Division IIIsquads and the eighth-highest among all threeNCAA divisions. With a 3.291 GPA, theBriton men turned in the fourth-highestaverage among Division III teams.

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A L B I O N O T E S

Do you have questionsabout the best way to make a donation? Charitableannuities or trusts? Wills and bequests?

For quick, easy-to-understand answers, just go to:www.albion.edu/alumni/giving.aspand click on “Planned Giving.”

This comprehensive, new information source will beupdated regularly. We will be happy to prepare a plantailored to your special needs and circumstances. Justwrite [email protected] or call 517/629-0237.

In “Bravo to Britons,” our intent is to highlight the noteworthy, theunusual and the entertaining. We welcome submissions from allquarters. The only requirement is that an Albion alumnus/alumna mustbe involved in the story.

Send your nominations, clearly marked for “Bravo to Britons” to:Editor, Io Triumphe, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI49224. If an item is not received by the deadline for one issue, it will beheld for possible inclusion in the next. The editor reserves the right todetermine which submissions are selected for publication.

B R A V O T O B R I T O N S

Lawrence Cox, ’59, has been installedas the president of the Academy ofDentistry International (ADI). Thistransnational organization is devoted tothe advancement of dentistry throughoutthe world and to the elevation of dentalstandards by continuing education.Along with the sponsorship of dentaleducation and service projects, the ADIdirectly aids in the improvement of thedental and oral health and well-being ofpeople worldwide. Larry graduated fromthe University of Detroit Mercy Schoolof Dentistry and served in the USAFDental Corps for two years. Cox and his wife, Joan Gurdjian Cox, ’58,live in Adrian.

JoAnne Handy Ash, ’56, Connie Blessing Burt, ’56,Barbara Guy Hanson, ’56, and Kay Keller Robertson,’56, met together on the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy.Lise Pearce Cook, ’74, Kris VanRanst Ayers, ’74, Ann

Bartlebaugh Naubert, ’74, Mary Cobb Brooks, ’74,and Diane Willemin Stevens, ’74, gathered in SouthHaven in June 2002 to celebrate their 50th birthdays.

Class notesdeadlineThe deadline for class notes appearing inthis issue of Io Triumphe was Jan. 31,2003. Notes received after that date willappear in the next issue.

Class news

25M. Irene Bauer Bennett, ’25,celebrated her 100th birthday on Nov.26, 2002. Irene ran a five-and-dime storein Dexter for 32 years before retiring toCedar Lake. She now lives at CedarKnoll Care Center in Grass Lake.

30-39Emmajane Miller Fitch , ’33, hastraveled to all 50 states and Europe,Africa and South America. She lives inBerkley.

Ruth Hembdt Ogles, ’34, wasnominated for the statewide volunteer ofthe year award in October 2002, as partof the Indiana Association of Homes andServices for the Aging. She lives in Ft.Wayne, IN.

Frederick Schulte, ’35, practiced law inCalifornia until retiring at 70. He lives inMalibu, CA.

Marilyn Smith King , ’52, has threechildren and two granddaughters. Sheworked in sales with Hickey’s-WaltonPierce for 26 years. She lives in GrossePointe Farms.

Phyllis Reitzel Ross, ’52, and herhusband, Philip, ’50, just sold theirbusiness after 30 years. They bothretired and moved to Sammamish, WA,where their children live.

Robert Bollman, ’53, and his wife, Joy,are now living in Hendersonville, NC, inthe Smokey Mountains. Robertconcluded 40 years of practicing law inIllinois.

Esther Catton Corley, ’53, and herhusband enjoy traveling and are active inphotography. They live in El Cajon, CA.

Nancy Hainsey, ’53, has been helpingher community as a remedial readingprogram volunteer since her retirementin 1996. She graduated from a“Community Builders Program” whichenhances growth and progress in oldcommunities.

Mary Johnson Sutton, ’35, won aMichigan Photo Contest and wasrecognized in Birmingham where shelives.

40-49Mary Baldwin Gibson, ’40, hastraveled extensively all over the worldsince her retirement in 1976. She livesin Wheaton, MD.

William Henning , ’40, has been listedin various Who’s Who publications formore than 50 years. He also received aCertificate of Special U.S. Congres-sional Recognition in 2001 and theLegends of Springfield KiwanisCitation. He and his wife, Charlotte, livein Springfield, OH.

Jeanne Houghton Lampman, ’40, isthe chairman of the food servicescommittee at Westminster Canterbury,Lynchburg, VA, where she lives. Theyserve 400 meals to the retirementcommunity.

Lucile Parrow Smith, ’40, has fourgrandchildren and 11 great-grandchil-dren. Her son, Hayden Smith, ’70, is inhis second year as the Albion Collegecross country and women’s track coach.Lucile lives in San Diego, CA.

Dean Smith, ’47, just co-published abook titled Portrait of a Village: PortHope, Huron County, Michigan. Thebook is about the evolution of a smallcommunity from a wilderness settlementto a pleasant and tranquil village. Helives in Ann Arbor.

Hazel Hufton Porter, ’48, and herhusband have settled into country life.They are volunteers at Heath Elemen-

tary School and with land preservationorganizations. They live in Heath, MA.

James Parshall, ’49, has beenvolunteering for Compassion Interna-tional. He is a member of the WardEvangelical Presbyterian Church. Healso has been keeping busy with his sixgrandchildren. He lives in Northville.

50-54Jane Blanchard Brown, ’50, proudlyaccepted a Crystal Apple Awardhonoring her late father, ClarenceBlanchard, ’22, last November.Clarence was nominated for the awardby his former student, Phil Gannon, thefounding president of LansingCommunity College. The Crystal AppleAward, presented by the Michigan StateUniversity College of Education, honorsdistinguished educators. Jane lives inAnn Arbor.

Mary Lou Gartung Dove, ’50, retiredin 1999 and then was called back toteach for two more years. She lives inMacon, GA.

James Benedict, ’51, received hisM.F.A. in painting and drawing fromCalifornia State University, Long Beachin August 2002. He is teachingwatercolors, oils and other visual arts atthree different art centers. He lives inSan Pedro, CA.

James, ’51, and Nancy McSweenDunne, ’51, celebrated their 50thanniversary by taking a two-week cruise.Both are involved in many differentactivities in their area including after-school tutoring and the Rotary Club.They live in Holmes Beach, FL.

Robert Radford, ’51, and his wifespend time each year at their summercottage in England to visit her two sonsand their families. During this time theytake driving vacations to France,Germany and other countries. They livein Clearwater, FL.

Bernette Johnson Brandt, ’54, servesas a board member of the San JuanSymphony of Durango, CO, where shelives.

Ed and Betty Renfrew Campbell, both’54, Chuck and Lynn CollinsKirkpatrick , ’54, and Mel and RuthPollock Ely, ’54, attended a mini-reunion at the Campbells’ cabin nearHighland, NC, in October 2002.

55-59Lehr Roe, ’55, was elected to his fifthterm as Monroe County commissioner.Lehr and his wife have traveledextensively in the U.S. and Europe. Theyalso enjoy spending time at their secondhome in the Upper Peninsula.

Morris Taber , ’55, and his wife, AnnGehman Taber, ’53, are working onacquiring funds for a series of projects inZimbabwe as part of an IndividualUnited Methodist Volunteerism Mission.


Lois Neshkoff Berkowitz, ’70,has run in 181 marathons andultramarathons (approx. 31miles) since she took up long-distance running in 1978. Shehas completed marathonstwice in all 50 states as well asWashington, DC, and once ineach of the 13 provinces andterritories of Canada. Herrunning achievements werefeatured in a Detroit Newsarticle Jan. 2. Lois says hermost memorable races includethe Nanisivik Marathon onBaffin Island, 450 miles northof the Arctic Circle, the GreatWall of China Marathon, theCatalina Island (CA) 50-Milerand the Yukon Trail Mara-thon. She has written threearticles for Marathon &Beyond, a top magazine formarathoners, and is newslettereditor for the 50 StatesMarathon Club. (She estimates about 150 runners have competed in atleast one marathon in each state.) Now in her third year at Edward C.Levy Co. as training and performance coordinator, Lois is also avolunteer for Junior Achievement, fifth grade in Detroit. She and herhusband celebrated their 23rd anniversary in 2002 and live in Riverview.

B R A V O T O B R I T O N S

Building the Albion legacy in your familyIf you are already part of a historic family involvement with Albion College, or ifyou’d like to start such a tradition in your family, here are two benefits that will beof interest:

■ Albion College will waive the $20 application fee for any legacy studentwho applies for admission.

■ A $1,500 Alumni Grant will be awarded to all incoming students whosefamily includes at least one Albion alumna/alumnus (sister, brother,father, mother, grandparents). This grant, offered without regard tofinancial need, is renewable for all four years.

To qualify, the student simply needs to indicate his or her family’s alumni statuswhen submitting the application.

We welcome campus visits at any time. Please contact the Admissions Office at800/858-6770, and we will make all arrangements. For more information online,visit: www.albion.edu/admissions/.

Virginia Smith Hinkle , ’56, has been aMary Kay beauty consultant for 21years. She and her husband are active ina new church starting in The Villages,FL, where they are now living.

Phyllis Harrison Ross, ’56, is anemeritus professor of psychiatry andbehavioral health sciences at New YorkMedical College. She lives in New York,NY.

Richard Vitek , ’56, served as executiveproducer for a classical CD entitled RareVerismo Arias in 2002. He and his wife,Marilyn Young Vitek , ’56, live inBrookfield, WI.

Thomas Gutherie, ’57, has written abook titled Presage under the pen nameof Addison Thomas. It was published in2002 by XLIBRIS. He lives inChattanooga, TN.

Shirley Blunden Hull, ’57, has traveledto Hawaii, Las Vegas and Colorado. Shetraveled to Florida to see Don, ’56, andKathe Jewell Dempster, ’57, and Marvand Pauline Buchner Diroff, ’57. Shelives in Aurora, CO.

Nancy Gordhamer Gibson, ’58, hasretired to the foothills of the Ozarks inArkansas where she is closer to herdaughter’s family. She has made threetrips to Europe in the past two years.

Ron Keller, ’58, is now serving as theexecutive director of the Battle CreekCouncil of Churches. He is also thepastor of the Leroy CongregationalChurch in East Leroy.

Frederick Lewis, ’58, has remarried andis living with his wife, Virginia, at GunLake. He has eight grandchildren andtwo great-grandchildren. His first wife,Sue, passed away in 1998. He wasexecutive vice president of the MichiganAssociation of Independent Insurance

Agents for 21 years until he retired in1995.

Ronald Somers, ’58, is the foundingpresident of the Board of Education forthe Grand Traverse Academy inTraverse City.

David Wilson, ’58, was selected as amember of the Board of Regents for theAmerican College of Allergy, Asthmaand Immunology for 2001-2003. Davidwas president of the Michigan StateMedical Society in 1995-96. He lives inPortage.

Nancy Cotanche Bachelor, ’59, is nowretired from Allendale High School. Sheis doing some traveling and enjoys beingat home on beautiful Walloon Lake innorthern Michigan.

Jacqueline Miller Fletcher, ’59, helpedher church celebrate 100 years. She andher husband enjoy traveling in theUnited States and listening to southerngospel music. They have sevengrandchildren and live in Portage.

John Leppi, ’59, retired in January 2000but continues to be an adjunct clinicalprofessor at the University of NorthTexas Health Science Center in Ft.Worth, TX. He traveled to Honolulu toteach at the University of Hawaii Schoolof Medicine in fall 2002. He lives inWeatherford, TX.

David Lindberg , ’59, retired fromactive ministry in the United MethodistChurch. He now serves on the MedicalEthics Committee of the MonongehelaValley Hospital and the Board ofDirectors of The Wellness Alliance inPittsburgh. David also has consultingroles in the Western PennsylvaniaAnnual Conference, and is active in theRotary and the Chamber of Commerce.He lives in California, PA, and can bereached at: [email protected].

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Loren Smith, ’59, has operated aconsulting business since 1974, and iscurrently serving on corporate and non-profit boards. In his leisure time heenjoys horseback riding, skiing andsinging in local opera productions. Hehas three children and four grandchil-dren and lives in El Prado, NM.

Norma Woodman Wojack, ’59, waselected the state chaplain of theAmerican Legion Auxiliary in June2002. Norma is retired from a 30-year

career as a community health profes-sional. She lives in Coldwater.

60-64Sara Uehling Hudson, ’61, and BudHudson, ’60, enjoy spending time withtheir four granddaughters. Sara retired in1996 after 25 years as an elementary andpreschool teacher. She helped establish ateacher exchange program with a schoolin Guatemala. The Hudsons live inHartford, WI.

David Morrow , ’61, is retired and oftensails the Caribbean. He lives in CrystalBeach, FL.

Charlotte Knuth Zuzak , ’61, continuesto work as an organist at church andaccompanist to voice students andfaculty at Grove City College. She andher husband have traveled to the CzechRepublic, Russia, the Baltic states andFrance. They live in Grove City, PA.

Paul, ’63, and Sharon FarthingHaight, ’64, have traveled in China,Australia, Africa, the Middle East, andSoutheast Asia and have bicycled inEurope. Paul is a past president of theAmerican Osteopathic College ofOccupational and Preventive Medicine.They have nine grandchildren and live inSpring Lake.

Marty Stiff Wallace , ’63, visitedThailand in October as a guest observerof Operation Smile. The medical teamperformed 147 surgeries in one week.These surgeries corrected cleft palatesand hare lips in children. She lives inMadison, WI.

Margaret Krengel, ’64, has beeninvolved in many volunteer activities,serving as the chair of the PennsylvaniaHorticultural Society membershipcommittee and president of theHighlands Historical Society. She livesin Blue Bell, PA.

65-69Charles Kuechenmeister, ’65, is thechair of the public law division atGorsuch Kirgis, LLP in Denver, CO. Hispractice focuses on municipal govern-ment. He and his wife, Cheryl, who is acity manager, enjoy doing homeimprovements, gardening, traveling andbeing outdoors. They live in Denver andhave three children.

Junpei Naito, ’65, and his wife, MaryAnn Hamper Naito, ’67, started amedia duplicating business three yearsago, after Jim worked in that field for 35years. The family visited their son inJapan where he is teaching English.They live in Rochester Hills.

James Brackett, ’66, is the owner ofDefinitive Recordings. He is a trustee forthe Metropolitan United MethodistChurch in Detroit and is a former deanof the Detroit Chapter of the AmericanGuild of Organists. He lives in RoyalOak.

Geoffrey Morris , ’66, is a licensed realestate agent with Fenwick-Keats East inNew York City. He lives in New York,NY.

Deborah Peterhans Thompson, ’66,has three sons, two of whom are still incollege. This past summer, Deborah andher husband traveled to Europe to seeone of them. They live in Saginaw.

Mary Jean Arquette Bell, ’67,designed and organized the VeteransDay celebration at SummerfieldElementary School where she is thevocal music teacher. She lives inTemperance.

Mary Gass, ’68, is directing the TroyCommunity Chorus and an adult acappella group called The TwelfthNight. She invites any former AlbionCollege Choir members to join eithergroup. She lives in Royal Oak.

Robert Moore, ’68, serves as thepresident of United Action, which is afaith-based community organization thatseeks social justice. He lives in Niantic,CT.

Janet Cameron Barger, ’69, retired inDecember 2002 after 34 years at GeneralElectric Aircraft Engines and lives inCincinnati, OH.

Mary Huemiller Bragg , ’69, retired inJuly 2002 after 20 years of teachingmathematics. Mary and her husband livein Rochester Hills.

Lois (right) at the Great Wall of ChinaMarathon.


A L B I O N O T E S

Albion College is about to publish a 2003Alumni Directory including updated addresses,telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

A donation of $19 or more to the College will qualify youto receive the directory, which will be mailed to yourhome this summer. It’s not too late! Make a gift to youralma mater today and help Albion reach its 50% alumniparticipation goal by June 30!

Office of Annual Giving611 E. Porter St.

Albion, MI 49224 Telephone: 517/629-0565

Give online at www.albion.edu

Looking forlost friends?

Locate them in theAlumni Directory!

(continued on p. 18)

72F. Hampton Bumgarner, ’72, receivedhis Ph.D. in 2002. He is living in Sparta,NJ.

Joseph Dittman, ’72, works for theState of California as a parole agent inStockton, CA. He was recognized asParole Agent of the Year. He is on theboard of New Directions, a drug andalcohol treatment facility, and has beenappointed to the San Joaquin Countydrug and alcohol advisory board. He hasfour children. He can be reached by e-mail at: [email protected].

Kathryn Wooley Dutton , ’72, is themanaging partner and director of designfor The Boston Group. She lives inJamestown, RI.

73Marsha Gentry-Pointer, ’73, is in hersecond year as the principal of TheLeadership High School and lives inDenver, CO.

Barbara King-Rohlman, ’73, waselected to the Library of Congress due toher work in equality within the insuranceindustry. She lives in Waterford.

Bruce Riser, ’73, is director of researchat Baxter Healthcare and professor ofphysiology and biophysics at TheChicago Medical School. He continuesto work on identifying causes and curesfor kidney disease. He lives in Kenosha,WI, and would enjoy hearing fromclassmates via e-mail at:[email protected].

74Philip Keating, ’74, went to France inSeptember to see his son’s piece of artdisplayed at the International Federationof Medallic Art. The work was createdas a tribute to his brother, who died ofcancer in 2001. Philip lives in BigRapids.

Jean Gebhardt Radin, ’74, is halfwaythrough her doctoral program ineducation at Colorado State University.She is teaching a few classes at ColoradoState and enjoying the fabulous lifestylein Colorado of skiing, biking and hiking.She lives in Ft. Collins, CO.

Jill Anderson Richman, ’74, and herhusband celebrated their 25th weddinganniversary. They live in Wheat Ridge,CO.

Rickard Scofield, ’74, is the owner ofMay and Scofield, Inc., which providedmuch of the vehicle security system onthe Bentley given to Queen Elizabeth tocommemorate her golden jubilee. Helives in Howell.

Charles Day, Jr., ’69, is the co-authorof the book, The Making of the SuperBowl. The book is among McGraw-Hill’s top titles in 2002. Chuck is on thespeaker’s circuit with a presentationbased on his research and writing. Helives in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.

Michael Sundberg, ’69, retired in 2002.He lives in Pittsford, NY.

70William Conley, ’70, in 2002 developeda new correlation statistic for analysis ofcomplex multivariate data. He receivedthe 2000-01 Founder’s Award forexcellence in scholarship at theUniversity of Wisconsin at Green Bay.He lives in Green Bay, WI.

Cathy Cooper Ferguson, ’70, wasnamed Teacher of the Year for theMichigan Foreign Language Associa-tion. She lives in Bloomfield Hills.

71Leonard Bergersen, ’71, is a captain inthe Naval Reserves. He is also adedicated alpine skier. He lives in PeaceDale, RI.

Robert Flaherty, ’71, has practicedfamily medicine in Bozeman, MT, since1978 and is the director of acute care atthe Student Health Center at MontanaState University. He also teachesevidence-based medicine, medical ethicsand medical mythology in the WWAMImedical program. During his free timehe arranges music and plays trumpet inseveral local bands. He and his wife,Carol Gibson Flaherty, ’70, enjoy biketouring and cross-country skiing. Theylive in Bozeman, MT, and his Web siteis: www.montana.edu/wwwrjf/home.htm.

Linda Arnold MacMillan , ’71, is thedirector of development at MaineMaritime Museum in Bath, ME. Lindaand her husband, Bruce, live inPhippsburg, ME, and welcome e-mailfrom classmates at:[email protected].

James Radtke, ’71, is the principalagent of the Jim Radtke Agency, AllState Insurance, in Wauconda, IL. He isclub treasurer with the Rotary Club anda Paul Harris Fellow. He is active in theChamber of Commerce and the HolyCross Lutheran Church. He and his wife,Marilyn, live in Wauconda, IL.

Lyle Schmidt, ’71, has traveledextensively for business. He has been toChina, Russia, Africa, East Asia, andCentral and South America to providerefurbished cellular site infrastructureequipment. He lives in Cincinnati, OH.

manufacturer of vinyl windows forresidential applications. He lives inNovelty, OH.

Stan Kryder, ’79, has joined AmSouthBank in Florida as executive vicepresident and a member of the state’ssenior management group. Stanpreviously was a senior vice presidentfor First Union in Georgia where he wasin charge of wholesale bankingoperations.

80Robert Craft , ’80, and his wife chairedthe Juvenile Diabetes ResearchFoundation’s Jackson Walk to CureDiabetes for the fourth year. In fouryears the walk has raised $1.2-million.They live in Jackson.

Andy Harder , ’80, completed his 22ndyear with BOC Group and has beenappointed the firm’s director of businessdevelopment. He is responsible for keycustomers in the food industry such asMcDonald’s Global, Kraft, GeneralMills and ConAgra. Andy lives inNaperville, IL.

Pamela Campbell Smith, ’74,completed her 14th marathon in NewYork City. When not running shepractices architecture in Massachusetts.Pam sings oldies with a group called TheTimetations. They perform regularly inthe Boston area.

75Mark Lindemood , ’75, has accepted aposition at Texas Tech University inLubbock, TX, as vice chancellor forinstitutional advancement. He will beresponsible for all fund-raising effortsfor both the university and HealthSciences Center. Mark previously wasvice president for university relationsand development at Kent StateUniversity and executive director of theKent State University Foundation. Theprogram he led at Kent State wonseveral national CASE Circle ofExcellence awards.

Linda Carmitchel Yonke, ’75, has beenworking as a high school principal inElmhurst, IL, since 1998. She receivedher Ed.D. in 2001 from the University ofIllinois in Urbana-Champaign. Shewould love to hear from fellow membersof Third East, Second East and fellowresident assistants via e-mail at:[email protected].

76Paul Shrode, ’76, is serving as thelieutenant governor for Division 18 ofthe Wisconsin-Upper Michigan KiwanisDistrict. He stays active in a number oflocal service projects. He and his wifehave traveled all over the countryvisiting friends and family. They live inAppleton, WI.

77Teg Baxter, ’77, accepted a newposition at SBC Ameritech as a managerin ISP services. He and his family live inHolland, where they enjoy boating andwater sports on Lake Michigan.

Thomas Chandler, ’77, has been namedchief of the Consumer and Governmen-tal Affairs Bureau’s Disability RightsOffice. Previously he was a litigator inthe Federal CommunicationsCommission’s Office of GeneralCounsel. He holds a J.D. degree fromGeorge Washington University. He livesin Fairfax Station, VA.

Donald Cooksey, ’77, was appointedthe executive associate dean for theagricultural experiment station atUniversity of California, Riverside inJuly 2002. He lives in Riverside, CA.

Jeffry Morgan , ’77, and his wifecelebrated their 25th wedding anniver-sary in November 2002. They live inSchoolcraft.

78David Arend, ’78, completed hismaster’s degree in public administrationin 2002. He has been employed as a staffpsychologist for the Michigan Depart-ment of Corrections since 1982. Davidlives in Lansing.

Pamela Georgeson, ’78, opened herown practice, Kenwood Allergy andAsthma Center, in ChesterfieldTownship. She lives in Bingham Farms.

Martha Flaherty Halub , ’78, has beena practicing physician assistant for 23years. She and her family traveled tonorthern Thailand on a medical/dentalmission in January 2003. She lives inMuskegon.

79Eric Bacon, ’79, was named executivevice president of FNL ManagementCorp., fund manager for all LinsalataCapital Partner funds, in November2002. Previously, he was president ofCare-Free Windows, the nation’s leading


A L B I O N O T E S

Albion College is about to publish a 2003Alumni Directory including updated addresses,telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

A donation of $19 or more to the College will qualify youto receive the directory, which will be mailed to yourhome this summer. It’s not too late! Make a gift to youralma mater today and help Albion reach its 50% alumniparticipation goal by June 30!

Office of Annual Giving611 E. Porter St.

Albion, MI 49224 Telephone: 517/629-0565

Give online at www.albion.edu

Looking forlost friends?

Locate them in theAlumni Directory!

(continued on p. 18)

72F. Hampton Bumgarner, ’72, receivedhis Ph.D. in 2002. He is living in Sparta,NJ.

Joseph Dittman, ’72, works for theState of California as a parole agent inStockton, CA. He was recognized asParole Agent of the Year. He is on theboard of New Directions, a drug andalcohol treatment facility, and has beenappointed to the San Joaquin Countydrug and alcohol advisory board. He hasfour children. He can be reached by e-mail at: [email protected].

Kathryn Wooley Dutton , ’72, is themanaging partner and director of designfor The Boston Group. She lives inJamestown, RI.

73Marsha Gentry-Pointer, ’73, is in hersecond year as the principal of TheLeadership High School and lives inDenver, CO.

Barbara King-Rohlman, ’73, waselected to the Library of Congress due toher work in equality within the insuranceindustry. She lives in Waterford.

Bruce Riser, ’73, is director of researchat Baxter Healthcare and professor ofphysiology and biophysics at TheChicago Medical School. He continuesto work on identifying causes and curesfor kidney disease. He lives in Kenosha,WI, and would enjoy hearing fromclassmates via e-mail at:[email protected].

74Philip Keating, ’74, went to France inSeptember to see his son’s piece of artdisplayed at the International Federationof Medallic Art. The work was createdas a tribute to his brother, who died ofcancer in 2001. Philip lives in BigRapids.

Jean Gebhardt Radin, ’74, is halfwaythrough her doctoral program ineducation at Colorado State University.She is teaching a few classes at ColoradoState and enjoying the fabulous lifestylein Colorado of skiing, biking and hiking.She lives in Ft. Collins, CO.

Jill Anderson Richman, ’74, and herhusband celebrated their 25th weddinganniversary. They live in Wheat Ridge,CO.

Rickard Scofield, ’74, is the owner ofMay and Scofield, Inc., which providedmuch of the vehicle security system onthe Bentley given to Queen Elizabeth tocommemorate her golden jubilee. Helives in Howell.

Charles Day, Jr., ’69, is the co-authorof the book, The Making of the SuperBowl. The book is among McGraw-Hill’s top titles in 2002. Chuck is on thespeaker’s circuit with a presentationbased on his research and writing. Helives in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.

Michael Sundberg, ’69, retired in 2002.He lives in Pittsford, NY.

70William Conley, ’70, in 2002 developeda new correlation statistic for analysis ofcomplex multivariate data. He receivedthe 2000-01 Founder’s Award forexcellence in scholarship at theUniversity of Wisconsin at Green Bay.He lives in Green Bay, WI.

Cathy Cooper Ferguson, ’70, wasnamed Teacher of the Year for theMichigan Foreign Language Associa-tion. She lives in Bloomfield Hills.

71Leonard Bergersen, ’71, is a captain inthe Naval Reserves. He is also adedicated alpine skier. He lives in PeaceDale, RI.

Robert Flaherty, ’71, has practicedfamily medicine in Bozeman, MT, since1978 and is the director of acute care atthe Student Health Center at MontanaState University. He also teachesevidence-based medicine, medical ethicsand medical mythology in the WWAMImedical program. During his free timehe arranges music and plays trumpet inseveral local bands. He and his wife,Carol Gibson Flaherty, ’70, enjoy biketouring and cross-country skiing. Theylive in Bozeman, MT, and his Web siteis: www.montana.edu/wwwrjf/home.htm.

Linda Arnold MacMillan , ’71, is thedirector of development at MaineMaritime Museum in Bath, ME. Lindaand her husband, Bruce, live inPhippsburg, ME, and welcome e-mailfrom classmates at:[email protected].

James Radtke, ’71, is the principalagent of the Jim Radtke Agency, AllState Insurance, in Wauconda, IL. He isclub treasurer with the Rotary Club anda Paul Harris Fellow. He is active in theChamber of Commerce and the HolyCross Lutheran Church. He and his wife,Marilyn, live in Wauconda, IL.

Lyle Schmidt, ’71, has traveledextensively for business. He has been toChina, Russia, Africa, East Asia, andCentral and South America to providerefurbished cellular site infrastructureequipment. He lives in Cincinnati, OH.

manufacturer of vinyl windows forresidential applications. He lives inNovelty, OH.

Stan Kryder, ’79, has joined AmSouthBank in Florida as executive vicepresident and a member of the state’ssenior management group. Stanpreviously was a senior vice presidentfor First Union in Georgia where he wasin charge of wholesale bankingoperations.

80Robert Craft , ’80, and his wife chairedthe Juvenile Diabetes ResearchFoundation’s Jackson Walk to CureDiabetes for the fourth year. In fouryears the walk has raised $1.2-million.They live in Jackson.

Andy Harder , ’80, completed his 22ndyear with BOC Group and has beenappointed the firm’s director of businessdevelopment. He is responsible for keycustomers in the food industry such asMcDonald’s Global, Kraft, GeneralMills and ConAgra. Andy lives inNaperville, IL.

Pamela Campbell Smith, ’74,completed her 14th marathon in NewYork City. When not running shepractices architecture in Massachusetts.Pam sings oldies with a group called TheTimetations. They perform regularly inthe Boston area.

75Mark Lindemood , ’75, has accepted aposition at Texas Tech University inLubbock, TX, as vice chancellor forinstitutional advancement. He will beresponsible for all fund-raising effortsfor both the university and HealthSciences Center. Mark previously wasvice president for university relationsand development at Kent StateUniversity and executive director of theKent State University Foundation. Theprogram he led at Kent State wonseveral national CASE Circle ofExcellence awards.

Linda Carmitchel Yonke, ’75, has beenworking as a high school principal inElmhurst, IL, since 1998. She receivedher Ed.D. in 2001 from the University ofIllinois in Urbana-Champaign. Shewould love to hear from fellow membersof Third East, Second East and fellowresident assistants via e-mail at:[email protected].

76Paul Shrode, ’76, is serving as thelieutenant governor for Division 18 ofthe Wisconsin-Upper Michigan KiwanisDistrict. He stays active in a number oflocal service projects. He and his wifehave traveled all over the countryvisiting friends and family. They live inAppleton, WI.

77Teg Baxter, ’77, accepted a newposition at SBC Ameritech as a managerin ISP services. He and his family live inHolland, where they enjoy boating andwater sports on Lake Michigan.

Thomas Chandler, ’77, has been namedchief of the Consumer and Governmen-tal Affairs Bureau’s Disability RightsOffice. Previously he was a litigator inthe Federal CommunicationsCommission’s Office of GeneralCounsel. He holds a J.D. degree fromGeorge Washington University. He livesin Fairfax Station, VA.

Donald Cooksey, ’77, was appointedthe executive associate dean for theagricultural experiment station atUniversity of California, Riverside inJuly 2002. He lives in Riverside, CA.

Jeffry Morgan , ’77, and his wifecelebrated their 25th wedding anniver-sary in November 2002. They live inSchoolcraft.

78David Arend, ’78, completed hismaster’s degree in public administrationin 2002. He has been employed as a staffpsychologist for the Michigan Depart-ment of Corrections since 1982. Davidlives in Lansing.

Pamela Georgeson, ’78, opened herown practice, Kenwood Allergy andAsthma Center, in ChesterfieldTownship. She lives in Bingham Farms.

Martha Flaherty Halub , ’78, has beena practicing physician assistant for 23years. She and her family traveled tonorthern Thailand on a medical/dentalmission in January 2003. She lives inMuskegon.

79Eric Bacon, ’79, was named executivevice president of FNL ManagementCorp., fund manager for all LinsalataCapital Partner funds, in November2002. Previously, he was president ofCare-Free Windows, the nation’s leading


A L B I O N O T E S

Albion CollegeHomecoming WeekendOct. 10-12, 2003Please join us for the Distinguished Alumni AwardsCeremony, Hall of Fame Awards Dinner, reunions—and, of course, some great Briton football. Watchwww.albion.edu/alumni/events.asp for updates as theplans unfold.

Mark your calendar now!

Dorothy Byers Louks, ’80, was namedthe Outstanding German Teacher for2002 by the Maryland/DC/NorthernVirginia Chapter of the AmericanAssociation of Teachers of German(AATG). She has taught German inthree Maryland school districts since1983 and is active in AATG. She lives inEldersburg, MD.

Barbara Kent Martin , ’80, was electeda principal of the law firm Kitch,Drutchas, Wagner, DeNardis andValitutti. She specializes in medicalmalpractice defense and health care law.She earned her law degree from theUniversity of Detroit in 1990. Barbaraand her husband, Bill, live in BloomfieldHills and have one child.

Anthony Metzger, ’80, earned his six-sigma black belt in July 2002. He livesin Dearborn.

Thomas Routsong, ’80, is the owner ofRoutsong Funeral Home, Inc. He alsooperates a real estate and insuranceagency. In 2002 he received the EagleAward from the National FuneralDirectors Association, and is a boardmember of the National Association ofApproved Morticians. He lives inKettering, OH.

81Camille Cleveland, ’81, and her familytraveled to Germany, Spain and Africawith Ellen Athens, ’75, and her family.She is the vice president and generalcounsel of Entertainment Publications,Inc. in Troy. She lives in BloomfieldTownship.

82Karen Kresge Hazelton, ’82, is still astay-at-home mom and keeps very busywith her four children. Her family isvery involved in their church. She livesin Bloomfield Hills.

David Smith, ’82, received his M.B.A.from Boston University. He is the chieffinancial officer for the Boston MarriottHotel Copley Place in Boston, MA. Heand his family have lived in the Bostonarea for over 20 years.

83Stuart Boekeloo, ’83, hosted a 20thanniversary party for Albion Delta TauDelta members and their spouses. Helives in St. Joseph.

Andrew Krafsur , ’83, was votedEntrepreneur of the Year in 2002 by theEl Paso Chamber of Commerce. He livesin El Paso, TX.

84Beth Lincoln Boyea, ’84, is a full-timehome schooling mother and lives inDurham, NC.

Joan Essenmacher, ’84, traveled withthe WTA Tour from 1990 to 1999 as aphysical therapist/athletic trainer. Sheserved as Steffi Graf’s personal physicaltherapist from 1995 until Graf’sretirement in 1999. Joan completed herdoctorate at the University of SouthernCalifornia in 2001 and is now director ofthe Physiotherapy Association inIndianapolis. She still works part-timefor the USTA.

Steven Hokenson, ’84, has moved withhis wife from the Twin Cities to theDoral area of Miami, FL. They welcomevisits from friends.

Denise Cheney Nammack, ’84,completed two additional years of coursework at Albion and received herelementary education certificate inDecember 2002. She lives in Mason.

Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak, ’84, completedher Ph.D. in sociology at Ohio StateUniversity. Her dissertation examined

race and gender relations in post-apartheid South Africa. She is now afaculty member at University ofMemphis. She lives in Memphis, TN,and can be reached by e-mail at:[email protected].

85Ralph Allen, ’85, opened a secondlocation for Modern Cookware in theRivertown Crossing Mall in Grandville.He also purchased a company thatmanufactures golf cleaning equipmentand the online business golfx.com, aretail golf equipment site. He lives inGrand Rapids.

Richard Peavler, ’85, has beenpromoted to finance manager of TRAM,Inc. Richard and his wife, ChristineRichards Peavler, ’86, live in Richland.

Gina Pritchard , ’85, is a salesperson atAlbion Motors. Gina previously ownedand operated two restaurants in Albion,where she lives.

86Lisa Siefker Bailey, ’86, has publishedan essay in Edward Albee: A Casebook,a collection of essays on the work ofplaywright Edward Albee. She holds aPh.D. from Vanderbilt University. Shelives in Seymour, IN.

Diane Peck, ’86, is employed at theBirmingham First United MethodistChurch where she coordinates youthactivities and a contemporary worshipservice. She lives in Royal Oak.

88Matthew Menzi, ’88, is the director oftennis at Old Town Club in Winston-Salem, NC. He has held this position for14 years. He and his wife had a daughteron Nov. 1, 2002. They would love tohear from old friends at: 336/712-4241or e-mail at: [email protected].

89Regina Doxtader, ’89, is the corporatecontroller for Botsford Health CareContinuum in Farmington Hills. Shepreviously served as senior manager forthe Detroit audit practice for Deloitteand Touche. She lives in Detroit.

Forrest Hooper, ’89, is working on hisB.S. in nursing at San Diego StateUniversity. He would enjoy havingfriends come visit him in sunny SanDiego or reach him by e-mail at:[email protected].

Cindy Cilimburg Medema, ’89, andher family have moved to El Portal, CA(near Yosemite National Park) where herhusband, Tom, is a park ranger. She isteaching math and language arts in

grades 4-6. They have two children, andCindy can be reached by e-mail at:[email protected].

90Cheryl Irvine Wacnik , ’90, is enjoyingbeing a stay-at-home mom with threesons. Her youngest son was born onAug. 24, 2002. The Wacniks live inLibertyville, IL. She would love to hearfrom Albion friends, and can be reachedby e-mail at: [email protected].

91Steve Pribyl, ’91, and Karen Diener,’92, were married and went to Alaska fortwo weeks for their honeymoon. Theylive in Glenview, IL.

Robert Shurmur, ’91, is a rheumatolo-gist at Oaklawn Hospital in Marshall andhas joined an internal medicine practicein Battle Creek. He is a graduate ofChicago College of OsteopathicMedicine. He lives in Battle Creek.

Bryan Sladek, ’91, is employed as anattorney for the IRS Office of ChiefCounsel, Small Business/Self-EmployedDivision, in Detroit. He had a casereviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court,which earned him a Cube Award inrecognition of his success in the case. Helives in Harrison Township.

92James Scott, ’92, is a partner at the firmof Warner Norcross & Judd in GrandRapids. James received a J.D. degreefrom Notre Dame, and focuses hispractice in computer and intellectualproperty law. He lives in Grand Rapidswith his wife, Betsy, and their twochildren.

93Michelle Jones Browne, ’93, is themanager of Shaw’s Crab House inChicago. Her husband, Bill, is workingon his Ph.D. at the University ofChicago. She would love to hear fromclassmates and can be reached by e-mailat: [email protected].

Bruk Weymouth, ’93, finished hiscommitment to the U.S. Air Force. He isnow working as an associate for theFamily Dental Center in Great Falls,MT. He and his wife, PennyEveningred Weymouth, ’94, can bereached at 108 Woodland Estates Rd.,Great Falls, MT 59404.

Diane Yun, ’93, is a research program-mer for the Beckman Institute ofAdvanced Science and Technology atthe University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is enrolled in a Ph.D.

program in musicology. She and herhusband, David, have a four-month-olddaughter and live in Savoy, IL.

94Matthew Altman , ’94, has accepted aposition as assistant professor ofphilosophy at Monmouth College, wherehis wife, Cindy, also works. They live inMonmouth, IL.

95Gerry Ciszewski, ’95, joined theinvestment advisors division of FifthThird Bank Northern Michigan as aportfolio manager. Gerry previouslyworked as a senior analyst for a regionalhealth care group in Chicago. He lives inEast Jordan.

Sheila Cummings, ’95, has joined thelaw firm Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss asan associate. She is a board member ofthe Detroit chapter of the ACLU. Shelives in Dearborn.

Joyce Stuckey Doan, ’95, is doing apostdoctoral fellowship in Denver, CO,after earning a Ph.D. in medicalmicrobiology and immunology at theUniversity of Wisconsin. She would loveto hear from friends by e-mail at:[email protected].

Jennie Elbers, ’95, is working on anM.S. in nursing at the University ofMinnesota and plans to become a familynurse practitioner. She is a NationalHealth Service Corps scholar. Jennielives in Rochester, MN.

Carol Gaffke, ’95, is a member ofDetroit Skating Club’s synchronizedskating team, Team Elan Adult. Theteam won the 2000 national champion-ship. She lives in Rochester.

Brian Gambino, ’95, received hishealth/fitness instructor certificationthrough the American College of SportsMedicine and certification from theNational Strength and ConditioningSpecialist Association. He accepted aposition as personal training director forBally Total Fitness in August 2002. Helives in Troy.

Aubrey Glover, ’95, is ranked third inher class at Duquesne University Schoolof Law, where she will graduate in June.She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

Kevin Hallock, ’95, completed hisPh.D. in chemistry from the Universityof Michigan. He is now a post-doctoralresearcher at Boston University. He livesin Boston, and would enjoy hearing fromfriends via e-mail at: [email protected].

Michelle Lifford Khoury , ’95,completed her residency in familypractice at Summa Health System inAkron, OH. She and her husband,Frederick Khoury , ’93, and their sonlive in Hudson, OH.


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WeddingsLisa Secrist Skiles, ’79, to Scott Lukenson Aug. 3, 2002. The couple lives inPierceton, IN.

Carolyn Hough, ’84, to Kenneth Savilleon Sept. 14, 2002 in Grand Ledge.Alumni in attendance included MaryBeth Hartmann Halushka, ’84.Carolyn owns and operates About theHome, a home furnishings store inGrand Ledge. Ken is a biology professorat Albion College. The couple lives inLansing.

Becky Bixby, ’89, to Erik Zeek on June1, 2002 in Ann Arbor. Albion alumni inattendance included Michelle Young,’89, Michele Brammeier Wenz, ’89,Sue Willis, ’89, Karla RamseyHammond, ’89, Sue Parker Burnell,’89, Kristen Hildenbrand Barrett , ’89,Elaine Hawkins Young, ’55, andMelissa Hall Verb, ’96. Becky and Erikare both working on post-doctoral

Karen Renner, ’95, received her M.Ed.from Pepperdine University and herCalifornia teaching credential lastsummer. She is in her first year ofteaching in Lawndale, CA, at MarkTwain Elementary School. Karen hastraveled to the South Pacific, Central andSouth America and Europe. She lives inHermosa Beach, CA, and can be reachedat: [email protected].

Jon Ritterbush, ’95, received the Dr.Joseph A. Jackson Library FacultyDevelopment Award in November 2002.He holds an M.S. in library andinformation science from the Universityof Illinois. He lives in Ringgold, GA.

Roberto Ventura, ’95, began teachingstudio and graphic art classes at theUniversity of North Carolina-Greens-boro in 1998 after earning his master’sin architecture at Miami University. Hehas provided pro bono design work for alocal community in need and completedhis first solo project, a loft where he nowlives. He can be contacted by e-mail at:[email protected].

96James Larson, ’96, has joined WarnerNorcross & Judd law offices in GrandRapids as an associate. He earned hisJ.D. degree from the University ofMichigan in 2002.

Abe Leaver, ’96, is the athletic directorat Yale High School. He received hismaster’s degree from Saginaw ValleyState University. Abe lives in St. Clairwith his wife, Sheryl, and two children.

97Kendra Brown, ’97, is earning herprofessional credentials in counseling.She holds a master’s in counseling fromOakland University. Kendra lives inFarmington Hills.

98Heather Bullen, ’98, earned her Ph.D.in chemistry from Michigan StateUniversity in 2002. She is currently apostdoctoral research associate at IowaState University. She lives in Ames, IA.

Katie Drake, ’98, graduated frommedical school in June 2002.

Matthew Johnson, ’98, joined WarnerNorcross & Judd law offices in GrandRapids as an associate. He received hisJ.D. degree from the University ofMichigan in 2002.

Lori Baughman Palmer, ’98, graduatedin 2001 from Harvard Law School and iscurrently clerking for Michigan SupremeCourt Chief Justice Maura Corrigan.(See also Baby Britons announcement.)

Regina Perez, ’98, moved to New YorkCity from Battle Creek. She says that

there are many opportunities to teach inNew York City.

Loretta Rozdoske, ’98, earned her M.A.in clinical psychology at the Universityof Detroit Mercy. She lives in Romulus.

Wendy VanScyoc, ’98, has completedher Ph.D. in biochemistry from theUniversity of Iowa. She is employed atAstra Zeneca, a pharmaceuticalcompany in England; she has a two-yearpost-doctoral research position.

99Davia Cox, ’99, is a program assistant atthe University of Michigan. She lives inAnn Arbor and is working on a master’sin public administration.

Nathan Schaiberger, ’99, is a managerat Walgreen’s in Mt. Pleasant where helives.

Ann Schultz, ’99, completed the AvonBreast Cancer walk in June 2002. Sheraised over $2,000 for research andmammograms for underservedpopulations. She was promoted toacquisitions associate at the Universityof Michigan Press in July 2002. Shelives in Belleville.

Deania Towns, ’99, worked for Habitatfor Humanity in Alabama and Florida.She is working on a master’s degree.

Holli Mezeske Whitney, ’99, is in herthird year of teaching seventh- andeighth-grade students at a private schoolin Honolulu. Holli is also a full-timegraduate student at ChaminadeUniversity, studying school counselingand psychology. Her husband, NicholasWhitney, ’00, is a Ph.D. candidate at theUniversity of Hawaii in the zoologyprogram. He also maintains the sharkponds at the Hawaii Institute of MarineBiology. They live in Honolulu, HI.

00Emily Aten, ’00, has successfullycompleted her International TeachingCertificate in Madrid, Spain, and nowhas a TEFL (Teaching English as aForeign Language) certificate. She livesin Granada, Spain, and can be reachedby e-mail at: [email protected].

Monique Burey-Ballard, ’00, hasreturned to the Chicago area to pursueher music career. She is the founder andpresident of Simply Music! Entertain-ment Co., a not-for-profit creativemusicians and friends coalition. Thecompany does event marketing andproduction and also has an educationaldivision for developing artists. She ispursuing her master’s degree in arts,entertainment and media management.

Kelly Garbacz Stoy, ’00, accepted aposition at the Make-A-Wish Foundationof Michigan. She is the communityevents manager and oversees all externaland school fundraising events for easternMichigan. She lives in Plymouth.

01Amanda Curtis, ’01, is the youngestcollege head women’s basketball coachin Ohio. She is coaching at BlufftonCollege and is an instructor of health,physical education, and recreation. Shereceived her M.S. degree in sportsscience and coaching from theUniversity of Akron where she was ateaching assistant. She lives in Bluffton.

Nicholas Kaleba, ’01, finished up asuccessful campaign for Illinois attorneygeneral Lisa Madigan, who is the firstwoman attorney general in the state’shistory. He worked as deputy presssecretary and director of advance. Helives in Naperville, IL.

Kimberly St. Andre , ’01, is pursuingher master’s degree in survey methodol-ogy at the University of Maryland. Sheis a mathematical statistician for theInternal Revenue Service. She lives inGreenbelt, MD.

02Allison Edberg, ’02, is attendingMichigan State University College ofOsteopathic Medicine. She lives in IronMountain.

Erin Harrelson , ’02, is volunteeringwith Americorps VISTA at the NavajoIndian Reservation in Mexican Hat, UT.She is working on a kindergarten-leveloral language program. She lives inMonument Valley, UT.

Nathan Piwowarski, ’02, served as theoutreach director for the MichelleMcManus for State Senate campaign inMichigan’s 35th District and now servesas a legislative aide to SenatorMcManus. He lives in McBain.

Robin Theryoung, ’02, is a member ofthe U.S. goalball team. Her team won agold medal at the Goalball WorldChampionships in Rio de Janiero,Brazil, in September 2002. She lives inClarkston.


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News for AlbionotesPlease use the space below to send your news about promotions, honors, appointments, marriages, births, travels andhobbies. When reporting information on deaths, please provide date, location, and Albion-connected survivors andtheir class years. Use of this form will help guarantee inclusion of your news in an upcoming issue of Io Triumphe.

We try to process all class note information promptly, but please note that the Albionotes deadline falls severalweeks prior to publication. If your information arrives after the deadline for a given issue, it will be held andincluded in the succeeding issue.

Name __________________________________________________________ Class year _____________________ (Please print name)

Home address _________________________________________________________________________________

City _______________________________________________________ State ___________ ZIP ______________

Home telephone _______________________________ Home e-mail address _______________________________

Business address _______________________________________________________________________________

City ________________________________________________________ State ___________ ZIP _____________

Business telephone ____________________________ Business e-mail address _____________________________(Or simply attach a copy of your business card.)

Check here if this is a new address. Also, if you have a winter address that is different from your permanentaddress, indicate it in the space below along with the months when you reside at that address.

News notes

Send to: Editor, Io Triumphe, Office of Communications, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224; orvia e-mail to: [email protected]. Be sure to include your full name, class year, address (geographic and e-mail)and telephone number in your e-mail message.

WeddingsLisa Secrist Skiles, ’79, to Scott Lukenson Aug. 3, 2002. The couple lives inPierceton, IN.

Carolyn Hough, ’84, to Kenneth Savilleon Sept. 14, 2002 in Grand Ledge.Alumni in attendance included MaryBeth Hartmann Halushka, ’84.Carolyn owns and operates About theHome, a home furnishings store inGrand Ledge. Ken is a biology professorat Albion College. The couple lives inLansing.

Becky Bixby, ’89, to Erik Zeek on June1, 2002 in Ann Arbor. Albion alumni inattendance included Michelle Young,’89, Michele Brammeier Wenz, ’89,Sue Willis, ’89, Karla RamseyHammond, ’89, Sue Parker Burnell,’89, Kristen Hildenbrand Barrett , ’89,Elaine Hawkins Young, ’55, andMelissa Hall Verb, ’96. Becky and Erikare both working on post-doctoral

Karen Renner, ’95, received her M.Ed.from Pepperdine University and herCalifornia teaching credential lastsummer. She is in her first year ofteaching in Lawndale, CA, at MarkTwain Elementary School. Karen hastraveled to the South Pacific, Central andSouth America and Europe. She lives inHermosa Beach, CA, and can be reachedat: [email protected].

Jon Ritterbush, ’95, received the Dr.Joseph A. Jackson Library FacultyDevelopment Award in November 2002.He holds an M.S. in library andinformation science from the Universityof Illinois. He lives in Ringgold, GA.

Roberto Ventura, ’95, began teachingstudio and graphic art classes at theUniversity of North Carolina-Greens-boro in 1998 after earning his master’sin architecture at Miami University. Hehas provided pro bono design work for alocal community in need and completedhis first solo project, a loft where he nowlives. He can be contacted by e-mail at:[email protected].

96James Larson, ’96, has joined WarnerNorcross & Judd law offices in GrandRapids as an associate. He earned hisJ.D. degree from the University ofMichigan in 2002.

Abe Leaver, ’96, is the athletic directorat Yale High School. He received hismaster’s degree from Saginaw ValleyState University. Abe lives in St. Clairwith his wife, Sheryl, and two children.

97Kendra Brown, ’97, is earning herprofessional credentials in counseling.She holds a master’s in counseling fromOakland University. Kendra lives inFarmington Hills.

98Heather Bullen, ’98, earned her Ph.D.in chemistry from Michigan StateUniversity in 2002. She is currently apostdoctoral research associate at IowaState University. She lives in Ames, IA.

Katie Drake, ’98, graduated frommedical school in June 2002.

Matthew Johnson, ’98, joined WarnerNorcross & Judd law offices in GrandRapids as an associate. He received hisJ.D. degree from the University ofMichigan in 2002.

Lori Baughman Palmer, ’98, graduatedin 2001 from Harvard Law School and iscurrently clerking for Michigan SupremeCourt Chief Justice Maura Corrigan.(See also Baby Britons announcement.)

Regina Perez, ’98, moved to New YorkCity from Battle Creek. She says that

there are many opportunities to teach inNew York City.

Loretta Rozdoske, ’98, earned her M.A.in clinical psychology at the Universityof Detroit Mercy. She lives in Romulus.

Wendy VanScyoc, ’98, has completedher Ph.D. in biochemistry from theUniversity of Iowa. She is employed atAstra Zeneca, a pharmaceuticalcompany in England; she has a two-yearpost-doctoral research position.

99Davia Cox, ’99, is a program assistant atthe University of Michigan. She lives inAnn Arbor and is working on a master’sin public administration.

Nathan Schaiberger, ’99, is a managerat Walgreen’s in Mt. Pleasant where helives.

Ann Schultz, ’99, completed the AvonBreast Cancer walk in June 2002. Sheraised over $2,000 for research andmammograms for underservedpopulations. She was promoted toacquisitions associate at the Universityof Michigan Press in July 2002. Shelives in Belleville.

Deania Towns, ’99, worked for Habitatfor Humanity in Alabama and Florida.She is working on a master’s degree.

Holli Mezeske Whitney, ’99, is in herthird year of teaching seventh- andeighth-grade students at a private schoolin Honolulu. Holli is also a full-timegraduate student at ChaminadeUniversity, studying school counselingand psychology. Her husband, NicholasWhitney, ’00, is a Ph.D. candidate at theUniversity of Hawaii in the zoologyprogram. He also maintains the sharkponds at the Hawaii Institute of MarineBiology. They live in Honolulu, HI.

00Emily Aten, ’00, has successfullycompleted her International TeachingCertificate in Madrid, Spain, and nowhas a TEFL (Teaching English as aForeign Language) certificate. She livesin Granada, Spain, and can be reachedby e-mail at: [email protected].

Monique Burey-Ballard, ’00, hasreturned to the Chicago area to pursueher music career. She is the founder andpresident of Simply Music! Entertain-ment Co., a not-for-profit creativemusicians and friends coalition. Thecompany does event marketing andproduction and also has an educationaldivision for developing artists. She ispursuing her master’s degree in arts,entertainment and media management.

Kelly Garbacz Stoy, ’00, accepted aposition at the Make-A-Wish Foundationof Michigan. She is the communityevents manager and oversees all externaland school fundraising events for easternMichigan. She lives in Plymouth.

01Amanda Curtis, ’01, is the youngestcollege head women’s basketball coachin Ohio. She is coaching at BlufftonCollege and is an instructor of health,physical education, and recreation. Shereceived her M.S. degree in sportsscience and coaching from theUniversity of Akron where she was ateaching assistant. She lives in Bluffton.

Nicholas Kaleba, ’01, finished up asuccessful campaign for Illinois attorneygeneral Lisa Madigan, who is the firstwoman attorney general in the state’shistory. He worked as deputy presssecretary and director of advance. Helives in Naperville, IL.

Kimberly St. Andre , ’01, is pursuingher master’s degree in survey methodol-ogy at the University of Maryland. Sheis a mathematical statistician for theInternal Revenue Service. She lives inGreenbelt, MD.

02Allison Edberg, ’02, is attendingMichigan State University College ofOsteopathic Medicine. She lives in IronMountain.

Erin Harrelson , ’02, is volunteeringwith Americorps VISTA at the NavajoIndian Reservation in Mexican Hat, UT.She is working on a kindergarten-leveloral language program. She lives inMonument Valley, UT.

Nathan Piwowarski, ’02, served as theoutreach director for the MichelleMcManus for State Senate campaign inMichigan’s 35th District and now servesas a legislative aide to SenatorMcManus. He lives in McBain.

Robin Theryoung, ’02, is a member ofthe U.S. goalball team. Her team won agold medal at the Goalball WorldChampionships in Rio de Janiero,Brazil, in September 2002. She lives inClarkston.


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Wedding AlbumSee accompanying notes for details.

Jennifer Marcelli, ’90 to James Higgins Jr., Esq. onAug. 31, 2002. (Left to right) Jessica Hauser, ’90,Pamela Walton Moorhead, ’90, Jennifer MarcelliHiggins, ’90, Susan Moore Sine, ’90, and KarynRockwell Chipman, ’90.

Michelle Frontz, ’95, to Jason Streiton Sept. 21, 2002. (Left to right)Christine Kaufmann Schoendorff, ’96,Michelle Frontz Streit, ’95, and ShaunMcMillan, ’95.

Jennifer Klinger, ’95, to Seth Roby on Sept. 28, 2002. (Left to right) Courtney Nichols, ’95,Michelle Kraemer, ’96, Michael Schwartz, Melissa Bittner Schwartz, ’95, Jennifer Shore, Seth Roby,Jennifer Klinger Roby, ’95, Sunaina Gill Vargo, ’96, Tracy Keppel Leonard, ’95, Matt Leonard,Joshua Monson, Addie Killackey Monson, ’94, Brian Vargo, and Brenda Guinan, ’95.

Courtney Hutto, ’99, to Kurt Hessenbruch on Aug. 24, 2002. (Left to right) Scott Salla,’99, Susan Cunningham O’Connell, ’98, Brandon O’Connell, ’99, Karen Paradise, ’99,Mary Dee Rankin Dryer, ’68, Ellie Whitlock Schumacher, ’99, Lynnette Lubinski, ’99,Scott Schumacher, ’99, Courtney Hutto Hessenbruch, ’99, Stacey Portenga, ’99, StevenLee Harney, ’97, Brad Scheck, ’99, and Piper Metz, ’99.

Kelly Kurtz, ’02, to Anthony Briggmanon May 18, 2002. (Front row, left toright) Kristen Dolney Arkell, ’03, andCheryl Kane, ’02. (Second row) JulieVanden Bos, ’02, Mira Wood, ’02, LizDuvall, ’03, Analisa Velasquez, ’03,Kerry Douglass, ’01, Melissa Timm,’03, Natalie Nelson, ’03, Megan Nelson Wallenfang, ’01. (Third row) Rick Learman, ’76, KevinKropf, Becky Bianchi Anderson, ’02, Abby Brown, ’02, Zack Kleinsasser, ’01, Rebecca Reichle, ’03,Danny Van Cleve, ’02, Anthony Briggman, Kelly Kurtz Briggman, ’02.

research, Becky at the University ofGeorgia and Erik at Georgia Tech.Becky can be reached by e-mail at:[email protected]. Thecouple lives in Lawrenceville, GA.

Mary Beth Hance, ’90, to RichardFenton on July 6, 2002 in Richmond,VA. Alumni in attendance includedJennifer Marcelli Higgins, ’90. MaryBeth is the director of the policycoordination and planning group at thefederal Centers for Medicare andMedicaid Services (CMS). Richard isdeputy director of the Family andChildren’s Health Programs Group, alsoat CMS. The couple lives in EllicottCity, MD, and can be reached by e-mailat: [email protected].

Jennifer Marcelli , ’90, to JamesHiggins Jr., Esq., on Aug. 31, 2002 inFarmington, CT. Jennifer is a projectcoordinator, and Jim is a lawyer inprivate practice, specializing in elderlaw. Alumni in attendance includedJessica Hauser, ’90, Karyn ChipmanRockwell, ’90, Susan Moore Sine, ’90,Pamela Walton Moorhead, ’90, BillWischman, ’91, and Dana JanellWischman, ’91. The couple resides inTolland, CT.

Noelle Giguere, ’92, to JohnBadertscher on Aug. 17, 2002 in BayView. Noelle is a national museumgrants officer for the executive branch ofthe federal government through theInstitute of Museum and Library

Services. John is a government relationsassociate for the Association ofEquipment Manufacturers. The couplelives in the Washington, DC, area andcan be reached by e-mail at:[email protected].

Krista Wojcik , ’92, to Jeffrey Stephenson Dec. 7, 2002 in Columbia, SC.Alumni in attendance included MeganJohnstone Smith, ’92. Krista is anoccupational therapist working forHealth South Rehabilitation Hospital inFlorence, SC. The couple lives inFlorence, SC.

Kristine Palmquist, ’97, to T. CharlesYun, ’94, on Sept. 27, 2003 in AnnArbor. Alumni in the wedding party

included maids of honor Amanda VanAucken Szot, ’96, and MerrillHodnefield, ’96. Other alumni inattendance included Bryan Frink , ’94,John Barden, ’94, Polly Reeder, ’94,Scott Vandenbelt, ’96, LukeMohlenhoff, ’95, Jason Ruiter, ’93,Louise Meilstrup Ruiter , ’93, JohnGilmore, ’94, Mara Tynan , ’96, StaceyOtt Jameson, ’91, and David Jameson,’98. Charles is a program manager withInternet2, and Kristine is an informationcoordinator for Small Times Media. Thecouple lives in Ann Arbor.

Michelle Frontz, ’95, to Jason Streit onSept. 21, 2002. Alumni in attendance wereChristine Kaufmann Schoendorff, ’96,and Shaun McMillan, ’95. Michelle is

employed full-time as a physicianassistant at Aurora Sinai EmergencyDepartment, an inner city hospital indowntown Milwaukee. She alsoaccepted a position as an instructor forthe physician assistant program at heralma mater graduate school FinchUniversity of Health Services/TheChicago Medical School. Jason is asystems manager for Fiduciary RealEstate in Milwaukee. The couple residesin Shorewood, WI.

Jennifer Klinger , ’95, to Seth Roby onSept. 28, 2002 in Nashville, IN. Alumniin attendance included CourtneyNichols, ’95, Michelle Kraemer, ’96,Melissa Bittner Schwartz, ’95,Sunaina Gill Vargo, ’96, Tracy Keppel


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Leonard, ’95, Addie KillackeyMonson, ’94, and Brenda Guinan, ’95.Seth is a nuclear pharmacist working forSyncor International, and Jennifer is thecenter director at Sylvan LearningCenter. They also own their ownmarketing business called RobyInternational. The couple lives inDenver, CO, and would love to hearfrom their Albion pals. Their address is8121 S. Norfolk Way, Englewood, CO80012, and they can be contacted by e-mail at: [email protected].

Beth Preece, ’95, to Michael Foster onSept. 21, 2002 in South Lake Tahoe,CA. Alumni in attendance included JulieKilburn, ’95, as maid of honor. Thecouple resides in San Diego, CA.

Meaghan Powers, ’98, to RichardBryant on Dec. 1, 2002. Meaghan isworking full-time for Floyd County(GA) Department of Family andChildren Services as a foster carecaseworker and a part-time youthminister at West Rome United MethodistChurch. The couple resides in Rome,GA, and would love to hear from oldfriends by e-mail at:[email protected].

Janine Jacob, ’98, to Scott Wall onJune 15, 2002 in Leonard. Janine andScott both received their law degreefrom Wake Forest University School ofLaw in Winston-Salem, NC. Janine is anassociate at Daniel, Vaughn, Medley, &Smitherman, P.C. in Danville, VA, whileScott is an associate at Young, Haskins,Mann, Gregory & Smith, P.C. inMartinsville, VA.

Courtney Hutto, ’99, to KurtHessenbruch on Aug. 24, 2002 in SouthLyon. Alumni in attendance includedScott Salla, ’99, Susan CunninghamO’Connell, ’98, Brandon O’Connell,’99, Karen Paradise, ’99, Mary DeeRankin Dryer , ’68, Ellie WhitlockSchumacher, ’99, Lynnette Lubinski ,’99, Scott Schumacher, ’99, StaceyPortenga, ’99, Steven Lee Harney, ’97,Brad Scheck, ’99, and Piper Metz, ’99.The couple lives in Royal Oak.

Katherine Koerner, ’99, to Steven Isleron July 20, 2002. Alumni in attendanceincluded Nathan Rahn, ’00, KristenKatterjohn Rahn , ’99, RycheeParmann, ’99, Sara Peck Dye, ’00, andKelly Garland , ’99. The couple lives inProspect, OH.

Kacy Davidson, ’00, to Tobias Lockharton Aug. 3, 2002. Kacy accepted aposition with the state of Alaska as alicensing specialist for childcarefacilities within southeast Alaska. Tobiasis the youth director at Chapel by theLake Presbyterian Church, whichoverlooks Auke Lake and theMendenhall Glacier, nestled in themountains. The couple lives in Juneau,AK.

Sarah Burpee, ’01, to Jon Brown onJan. 3, 2003 in Grand Rapids. Albionalumni in attendance included My Lien ,’01, Jillian Weiss, ’01, ChristopherSellers, ’01, and Jeremy Kay, ’02.Sarah and Jon are medical students atDes Moines University and reside in DesMoines, IA.

Kathryn Gauer , ’01, to Ben Lode onJuly 13, 2002 in Varhaug, Norway,where the couple lives.

Kimberly Curtis , ’02, to Ali Moore onJune 16, 2001 in Oberlin, OH. Alumni inattendance included groomsmenZacarrii Hamby , ’00, Ryan Strother,’00, David Clark , ’00, and JasonTrippett , ’00. Other alumni inattendance included Quiana McCalip,’01, Shawna Hudson, ’01, SheilaJohnson, ’01, Jacquenette Moody, ’01,Herman Blacksher, ’01, TiffanyMcCall , ’01, Jessica Thomas, ’03,Salina Baldwin, ’03, Melissa Siebers,’01, and Jocelin Herron, ’00. Thecouple lives in Columbus, OH.

Megan Gilliland, ’02, to Daniel Nagyon June 29, 2002. Albion alumni inattendance included Emily Radner, ’04,Emily Arend , ’02, Miriam Asadi , ’02,Karen Reed, ’02, Sheila Santa, ’02,Colleen Thomas, ’02, SarahSchemanske, ’04, Angela Edberg, ’04,and Lindsay Sander, ’04. The couplelives in Lansing.

Kelly Kurtz , ’02, to Anthony Briggmanon May 18, 2002 in Gurnee, IL. Alumniin the wedding party included brides-maids Megan Nelson Wallenfang, ’01,Kerry Douglass, ’01, and Abby Brown ,’02. Kelly works for TAP Pharmaceuti-cal Products, Inc. Anthony is a youthpastor at the Village Church of Gurnee.The couple lives in Round Lake Beach,IL.

Baby BritonsPeter was adopted on Dec. 17, 2002 byNancy and Earl “Butch” Cornett , ’67.The Cornetts live in Ypsilanti.

Stephanie Celeste, born on Feb. 10,2001, was adopted on March 11, 2002by Steve and Janice Hook Foley, ’76.Stephanie joins big sister Olivia, 5, alsofrom China. The Foleys live inTallahassee, FL.

Carinna Hope on June 28, 2002 to Davidand Cynthia Herriman Baird , ’81. Thefamily lives in Battle Creek.

Saba Kenyon and Emery Jane on July21, 2002 to Andrew Lawrence and JaneKenyon, ’83. They live in Chicago, IL.

Stephen David on Nov. 20, 2002 toKathleen and David Lubera, ’83. Thefamily lives in Grosse Pointe.

Samuel Antonio was adopted on Feb. 28,2002 by Joseph and Melany PirkleRaubolt, ’83. He joins big brotherDaniel, 6. The Raubolt family lives inAnn Arbor.

Abigail Mary on Jan 7, 2003 to Jim, ’87,and Debbie O’Meara Curtis, ’87. Shejoins big sister Emily and big brothersBennett and Nathan. The family lives inNaperville, IL.

Matthew Delaney on Sept. 6, 2002 toJohn Klinger and Kelly Delaney-Klinger , ’87. Matthew joins big brotherAndrew, 7. They live in Holt.

Matthew Walter on Oct. 24, 2002 to Sueand Kyle Kurtz , ’87. He joins sistersSarah, 6, and Emma, 3. Proud familymembers include uncle Kevin Kurtz ,’87. The family lives in Petoskey.

Reed Ernest on June 15, 2002 to David,’88, and Stacey Ott Jameson, ’91. Daveowns his own business, and Stacey hasbeen president of McDurmon Distribut-ing, Inc., since 1999. The Jamesons livein Grand Blanc.

Luke William on Sept. 11, 2002 to Scottand Brenda Harmon Zeevaart, ’88.The family lives in Hershey, PA.

Robert and Maria on June 6, 2002 toUlla and Brian Crouse, ’89. Brian is aproject executive with IBM. The familylives in Baltimore, MD.

Ayla on Feb. 12, 2002 to Menahem andLinnea Allum Deitcher, ’90. She joinsbig sister Lily, 2. They live in Chicago,IL.

Alexander William on Oct. 15, 2002 toTim and Jennifer Gedris Kolk, ’90. Hejoins big brother Sam, 3. The familylives in East Grand Rapids.

S. Andrew Forrest on Nov. 4, 2002 toGordon, ’90, and Laura SwanMacMorran , ’92. Grandparents areJock, ’64, and Robin DillerMacMorran , ’64. The MacMorrans livein Redondo Beach, CA.

Larson Charles on Sept. 15, 2002 toRick and Jamie Hulse Nebel, ’90. Hejoins big sister Isabelle, 5. Jamie is thegeneral manager of Pictured Rocks Golf& Country Club during the summermonths and assists with her family’sbusiness in the winter. Rick is the vicepresident of People’s State Bank inMunising where the family lives.

Kaitlin Clay on Oct. 13, 2002 to Kurt ,’90, and Kathleen Goike Poindexter,’91. Kaitlin joins big brother Kollin, 5.They live in Shelby Township.

Grace Elizabeth on May 7, 2002 toBrian , ’90, and Janet Hedges VandeBerg, ’90. She joins big brother Andrew,5, and sister Caroline, 2. The familylives in Durham, NC.

Evelyn Rose on Aug. 15, 2002 to Greggand Debra Fischer Garver, ’91. Evelynwas welcomed home by big sister Libby,3. The Garvers reside in Harbor Springs.

Robert Maxwell on Sept. 10, 2002 toTyler and Kelly KellermanMcCracken, ’91. Tyler is a commercialcredit officer with CIT, and Kelly is apsychotherapist treating children andadolescents at Carolinas Medical Center.The family lives in Charlotte, NC.

Kyle Ferguson on July 17, 2002 toMichael Mitchell and Stacey Ferguson-Mitchell , ’91. He joins big brotherRyan, 3. Michael is a wetlands specialistfor an environmental consulting firm inAnn Arbor. Stacey works part-time as a

business manager for an advertisingfirm, also in Ann Arbor. They live inChelsea.

Sullivan Patrick on Oct. 29, 2002 to Erinand Henry Phillips, ’91. He joins bigbrother Lincoln, 6, and sisters Kendall,4, Callahan, 3, and Delaney, 1. Thefamily lives in Ridgefield, CT.

Benjamin Brian and Christopher Danielon Nov. 30, 2002 and adopted on Dec.18, 2002 by Jeff and Missy RobinsonEwald, both ’92. Jeff serves as financedirector at St. John Health, and Missyworks in corporate communications forSt. John Health. The Ewalds live inFerndale.

Ilya Celeste on Oct. 2, 2002 to Davidand Elizabeth Ludington Holden, both’92. She joins big brother Leo and sisterEvie. Proud grandparents includeMartin , ’64, and Kathy FryLudington , ’77, and Judy GillTetmeyer, ’66. Dave is director ofprepress at IPC CommunicationsServices, Inc. Liz is a stay-at-homemom. The Holdens have returned toMichigan after nine years in St. Louis,MO, and now live in St. Joseph.

Benjamin Paul on Sept. 8, 2002 to Pauland Rebecca McBrayer Scarcello, both’92. He joins big brother Joe, 2. Thefamily lives in Huntington Woods.

Joseph Michael on May 11, 2002 toFred, ’93, and Michelle LiffordKhoury , ’95. The family lives inHudson, OH.

Brody Christopher on Sept. 21, 2002 toGary, ’93, and Jennifer RancilioParker, ’95. Proud relatives includeaunt Susan Rancilio Beck, ’87. Garyreceived his master’s in social workfrom Wayne State University in May2002 and is working as a school socialworker for the Lake Orion Public SchoolDistrict. He is also the freshman boys’basketball coach. Jennifer runs an e-commerce and mail-order businessspecializing in ceramics imported fromItaly. The Parkers live in Clawson.

Tess Virginia on Aug. 30, 2002 toBrendan and Elise Ertle Quealy, ’93.She joins big brother Brendan, Jr., 2.Elise is a stay-at-home mom. They livein Downers Grove, IL.

Christopher Thomas on June 18, 2002 toTom and Emily Butcher Scupholm,both ’93. He joins big brother David, 3.The family lives in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Nicholas Stephen on Nov. 25, 2002 toTim , ’94, and Amy Dempsey Karns,’95. They can be reached at 628 BirkdaleCt., Coopersville, MI 49404, or by e-mail at: [email protected].

Dana Rose on Nov. 25, 2002 to JulieKramer and Gregory Parker, ’94. Danajoins big sister Gwen, 2. Julie is a seniorproduct manager, and Gregory is atechnical writer/graphic designer atPanVera LLC, a biotech company thatsupplies products and services to thepharmaceutical industry. The familyresides in Madison, WI, and can bereached by e-mail at:[email protected].

Eric Edward on Nov. 20, 2002 to Jill andPaul Rhude, ’94. Eric joins big sisterSarah Louise, 1. Paul can be reached bye-mail at: [email protected], and thefamily lives in Fort Gratiot.

Lucas Jefferson, born on Nov. 24, 2001,was adopted by Nikole and EricThewes, ’94, on July 9, 2002. He waswelcomed by big sister Ava. They live inFarmington Hills.

Alexander John on Nov. 7, 2002 to KyleKlein , ’97, and Sarah VandenBout-Klein , ’95. The family lives inCommerce.

Nicholas Stephen on Dec. 6, 2002 toHeather and Stephen Martin, ’96. Hejoins big sister Abigail Elizabeth, 2.Steve is a corporate buyer for BrassCraft Manufacturing in Novi, andHeather is a stay-at-home mom. Thefamily lives in Temperance and can bereached by e-mail [email protected].

Elijah Joshua on June 24, 2002 to Carrieand Joshua Merchant, ’96. Prouduncles include Justin Merchant, ’00,and Jared Merchant, ’02. TheMerchants live in Ithaca and can bereached by e-mail at:[email protected].

Andrew Harold on Nov. 30, 2002 toGeorge Carlyle, ’98, and KellyStevens-Carlyle, ’97. Albion alumni inthe family include great-grandparentsEtheleen Stone Stevens, ’24, andHarold Stevens, ’23, grandfatherHarold Stevens, ’52, aunt KoriStevens, ’95, great uncle John Carlyle,’60, cousin Amy Carlyle Williams , ’90,aunt Catherine Carlyle Gibson, ’94,and uncle Joseph Gibson, ’93. Thefamily lives in Kalamazoo.

Aiden Nicole on Aug. 22, 2001 to Erinand Lori Baughman Palmer, ’98.Proud grandparents include TimothyBaughman, ’71. The Palmers live inBloomfield, and Lori can be reached bye-mail at: [email protected].

Kyler Michael on Nov. 19, 2002 toTonya and Kevin Rod, ’98. He joins bigbrother Logan. They live in Jackson.

Mayrene Susan on Jan. 11, 2003 to Roband Sarah Schmidt Fuller, ’99. Mayjoins sister Sophie, 1. The family lives inSpring Lake.

Tyler Jacob on March 13, 2002 toPatricia Moyer, ’99. Proud familymembers include uncle Nick Moyer,’03, and godmother Melissa Mann, ’99.They live in Addison.

Theron John on Nov. 18, 2002 toTheron Stinar, ’02, and KatieBrimmer , ’02. Theron is a student atChicago College of OsteopathicMedicine. The family lives in DownersGrove, IL.


A L B I O N O T E S

Leonard, ’95, Addie KillackeyMonson, ’94, and Brenda Guinan, ’95.Seth is a nuclear pharmacist working forSyncor International, and Jennifer is thecenter director at Sylvan LearningCenter. They also own their ownmarketing business called RobyInternational. The couple lives inDenver, CO, and would love to hearfrom their Albion pals. Their address is8121 S. Norfolk Way, Englewood, CO80012, and they can be contacted by e-mail at: [email protected].

Beth Preece, ’95, to Michael Foster onSept. 21, 2002 in South Lake Tahoe,CA. Alumni in attendance included JulieKilburn, ’95, as maid of honor. Thecouple resides in San Diego, CA.

Meaghan Powers, ’98, to RichardBryant on Dec. 1, 2002. Meaghan isworking full-time for Floyd County(GA) Department of Family andChildren Services as a foster carecaseworker and a part-time youthminister at West Rome United MethodistChurch. The couple resides in Rome,GA, and would love to hear from oldfriends by e-mail at:[email protected].

Janine Jacob, ’98, to Scott Wall onJune 15, 2002 in Leonard. Janine andScott both received their law degreefrom Wake Forest University School ofLaw in Winston-Salem, NC. Janine is anassociate at Daniel, Vaughn, Medley, &Smitherman, P.C. in Danville, VA, whileScott is an associate at Young, Haskins,Mann, Gregory & Smith, P.C. inMartinsville, VA.

Courtney Hutto, ’99, to KurtHessenbruch on Aug. 24, 2002 in SouthLyon. Alumni in attendance includedScott Salla, ’99, Susan CunninghamO’Connell, ’98, Brandon O’Connell,’99, Karen Paradise, ’99, Mary DeeRankin Dryer , ’68, Ellie WhitlockSchumacher, ’99, Lynnette Lubinski ,’99, Scott Schumacher, ’99, StaceyPortenga, ’99, Steven Lee Harney, ’97,Brad Scheck, ’99, and Piper Metz, ’99.The couple lives in Royal Oak.

Katherine Koerner, ’99, to Steven Isleron July 20, 2002. Alumni in attendanceincluded Nathan Rahn, ’00, KristenKatterjohn Rahn , ’99, RycheeParmann, ’99, Sara Peck Dye, ’00, andKelly Garland , ’99. The couple lives inProspect, OH.

Kacy Davidson, ’00, to Tobias Lockharton Aug. 3, 2002. Kacy accepted aposition with the state of Alaska as alicensing specialist for childcarefacilities within southeast Alaska. Tobiasis the youth director at Chapel by theLake Presbyterian Church, whichoverlooks Auke Lake and theMendenhall Glacier, nestled in themountains. The couple lives in Juneau,AK.

Sarah Burpee, ’01, to Jon Brown onJan. 3, 2003 in Grand Rapids. Albionalumni in attendance included My Lien ,’01, Jillian Weiss, ’01, ChristopherSellers, ’01, and Jeremy Kay, ’02.Sarah and Jon are medical students atDes Moines University and reside in DesMoines, IA.

Kathryn Gauer , ’01, to Ben Lode onJuly 13, 2002 in Varhaug, Norway,where the couple lives.

Kimberly Curtis , ’02, to Ali Moore onJune 16, 2001 in Oberlin, OH. Alumni inattendance included groomsmenZacarrii Hamby , ’00, Ryan Strother,’00, David Clark , ’00, and JasonTrippett , ’00. Other alumni inattendance included Quiana McCalip,’01, Shawna Hudson, ’01, SheilaJohnson, ’01, Jacquenette Moody, ’01,Herman Blacksher, ’01, TiffanyMcCall , ’01, Jessica Thomas, ’03,Salina Baldwin, ’03, Melissa Siebers,’01, and Jocelin Herron, ’00. Thecouple lives in Columbus, OH.

Megan Gilliland, ’02, to Daniel Nagyon June 29, 2002. Albion alumni inattendance included Emily Radner, ’04,Emily Arend , ’02, Miriam Asadi , ’02,Karen Reed, ’02, Sheila Santa, ’02,Colleen Thomas, ’02, SarahSchemanske, ’04, Angela Edberg, ’04,and Lindsay Sander, ’04. The couplelives in Lansing.

Kelly Kurtz , ’02, to Anthony Briggmanon May 18, 2002 in Gurnee, IL. Alumniin the wedding party included brides-maids Megan Nelson Wallenfang, ’01,Kerry Douglass, ’01, and Abby Brown ,’02. Kelly works for TAP Pharmaceuti-cal Products, Inc. Anthony is a youthpastor at the Village Church of Gurnee.The couple lives in Round Lake Beach,IL.

Baby BritonsPeter was adopted on Dec. 17, 2002 byNancy and Earl “Butch” Cornett , ’67.The Cornetts live in Ypsilanti.

Stephanie Celeste, born on Feb. 10,2001, was adopted on March 11, 2002by Steve and Janice Hook Foley, ’76.Stephanie joins big sister Olivia, 5, alsofrom China. The Foleys live inTallahassee, FL.

Carinna Hope on June 28, 2002 to Davidand Cynthia Herriman Baird , ’81. Thefamily lives in Battle Creek.

Saba Kenyon and Emery Jane on July21, 2002 to Andrew Lawrence and JaneKenyon, ’83. They live in Chicago, IL.

Stephen David on Nov. 20, 2002 toKathleen and David Lubera, ’83. Thefamily lives in Grosse Pointe.

Samuel Antonio was adopted on Feb. 28,2002 by Joseph and Melany PirkleRaubolt, ’83. He joins big brotherDaniel, 6. The Raubolt family lives inAnn Arbor.

Abigail Mary on Jan 7, 2003 to Jim, ’87,and Debbie O’Meara Curtis, ’87. Shejoins big sister Emily and big brothersBennett and Nathan. The family lives inNaperville, IL.

Matthew Delaney on Sept. 6, 2002 toJohn Klinger and Kelly Delaney-Klinger , ’87. Matthew joins big brotherAndrew, 7. They live in Holt.

Matthew Walter on Oct. 24, 2002 to Sueand Kyle Kurtz , ’87. He joins sistersSarah, 6, and Emma, 3. Proud familymembers include uncle Kevin Kurtz ,’87. The family lives in Petoskey.

Reed Ernest on June 15, 2002 to David,’88, and Stacey Ott Jameson, ’91. Daveowns his own business, and Stacey hasbeen president of McDurmon Distribut-ing, Inc., since 1999. The Jamesons livein Grand Blanc.

Luke William on Sept. 11, 2002 to Scottand Brenda Harmon Zeevaart, ’88.The family lives in Hershey, PA.

Robert and Maria on June 6, 2002 toUlla and Brian Crouse, ’89. Brian is aproject executive with IBM. The familylives in Baltimore, MD.

Ayla on Feb. 12, 2002 to Menahem andLinnea Allum Deitcher, ’90. She joinsbig sister Lily, 2. They live in Chicago,IL.

Alexander William on Oct. 15, 2002 toTim and Jennifer Gedris Kolk, ’90. Hejoins big brother Sam, 3. The familylives in East Grand Rapids.

S. Andrew Forrest on Nov. 4, 2002 toGordon, ’90, and Laura SwanMacMorran , ’92. Grandparents areJock, ’64, and Robin DillerMacMorran , ’64. The MacMorrans livein Redondo Beach, CA.

Larson Charles on Sept. 15, 2002 toRick and Jamie Hulse Nebel, ’90. Hejoins big sister Isabelle, 5. Jamie is thegeneral manager of Pictured Rocks Golf& Country Club during the summermonths and assists with her family’sbusiness in the winter. Rick is the vicepresident of People’s State Bank inMunising where the family lives.

Kaitlin Clay on Oct. 13, 2002 to Kurt ,’90, and Kathleen Goike Poindexter,’91. Kaitlin joins big brother Kollin, 5.They live in Shelby Township.

Grace Elizabeth on May 7, 2002 toBrian , ’90, and Janet Hedges VandeBerg, ’90. She joins big brother Andrew,5, and sister Caroline, 2. The familylives in Durham, NC.

Evelyn Rose on Aug. 15, 2002 to Greggand Debra Fischer Garver, ’91. Evelynwas welcomed home by big sister Libby,3. The Garvers reside in Harbor Springs.

Robert Maxwell on Sept. 10, 2002 toTyler and Kelly KellermanMcCracken, ’91. Tyler is a commercialcredit officer with CIT, and Kelly is apsychotherapist treating children andadolescents at Carolinas Medical Center.The family lives in Charlotte, NC.

Kyle Ferguson on July 17, 2002 toMichael Mitchell and Stacey Ferguson-Mitchell , ’91. He joins big brotherRyan, 3. Michael is a wetlands specialistfor an environmental consulting firm inAnn Arbor. Stacey works part-time as a

business manager for an advertisingfirm, also in Ann Arbor. They live inChelsea.

Sullivan Patrick on Oct. 29, 2002 to Erinand Henry Phillips, ’91. He joins bigbrother Lincoln, 6, and sisters Kendall,4, Callahan, 3, and Delaney, 1. Thefamily lives in Ridgefield, CT.

Benjamin Brian and Christopher Danielon Nov. 30, 2002 and adopted on Dec.18, 2002 by Jeff and Missy RobinsonEwald, both ’92. Jeff serves as financedirector at St. John Health, and Missyworks in corporate communications forSt. John Health. The Ewalds live inFerndale.

Ilya Celeste on Oct. 2, 2002 to Davidand Elizabeth Ludington Holden, both’92. She joins big brother Leo and sisterEvie. Proud grandparents includeMartin , ’64, and Kathy FryLudington , ’77, and Judy GillTetmeyer, ’66. Dave is director ofprepress at IPC CommunicationsServices, Inc. Liz is a stay-at-homemom. The Holdens have returned toMichigan after nine years in St. Louis,MO, and now live in St. Joseph.

Benjamin Paul on Sept. 8, 2002 to Pauland Rebecca McBrayer Scarcello, both’92. He joins big brother Joe, 2. Thefamily lives in Huntington Woods.

Joseph Michael on May 11, 2002 toFred, ’93, and Michelle LiffordKhoury , ’95. The family lives inHudson, OH.

Brody Christopher on Sept. 21, 2002 toGary, ’93, and Jennifer RancilioParker, ’95. Proud relatives includeaunt Susan Rancilio Beck, ’87. Garyreceived his master’s in social workfrom Wayne State University in May2002 and is working as a school socialworker for the Lake Orion Public SchoolDistrict. He is also the freshman boys’basketball coach. Jennifer runs an e-commerce and mail-order businessspecializing in ceramics imported fromItaly. The Parkers live in Clawson.

Tess Virginia on Aug. 30, 2002 toBrendan and Elise Ertle Quealy, ’93.She joins big brother Brendan, Jr., 2.Elise is a stay-at-home mom. They livein Downers Grove, IL.

Christopher Thomas on June 18, 2002 toTom and Emily Butcher Scupholm,both ’93. He joins big brother David, 3.The family lives in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Nicholas Stephen on Nov. 25, 2002 toTim , ’94, and Amy Dempsey Karns,’95. They can be reached at 628 BirkdaleCt., Coopersville, MI 49404, or by e-mail at: [email protected].

Dana Rose on Nov. 25, 2002 to JulieKramer and Gregory Parker, ’94. Danajoins big sister Gwen, 2. Julie is a seniorproduct manager, and Gregory is atechnical writer/graphic designer atPanVera LLC, a biotech company thatsupplies products and services to thepharmaceutical industry. The familyresides in Madison, WI, and can bereached by e-mail at:[email protected].

Eric Edward on Nov. 20, 2002 to Jill andPaul Rhude, ’94. Eric joins big sisterSarah Louise, 1. Paul can be reached bye-mail at: [email protected], and thefamily lives in Fort Gratiot.

Lucas Jefferson, born on Nov. 24, 2001,was adopted by Nikole and EricThewes, ’94, on July 9, 2002. He waswelcomed by big sister Ava. They live inFarmington Hills.

Alexander John on Nov. 7, 2002 to KyleKlein , ’97, and Sarah VandenBout-Klein , ’95. The family lives inCommerce.

Nicholas Stephen on Dec. 6, 2002 toHeather and Stephen Martin, ’96. Hejoins big sister Abigail Elizabeth, 2.Steve is a corporate buyer for BrassCraft Manufacturing in Novi, andHeather is a stay-at-home mom. Thefamily lives in Temperance and can bereached by e-mail [email protected].

Elijah Joshua on June 24, 2002 to Carrieand Joshua Merchant, ’96. Prouduncles include Justin Merchant, ’00,and Jared Merchant, ’02. TheMerchants live in Ithaca and can bereached by e-mail at:[email protected].

Andrew Harold on Nov. 30, 2002 toGeorge Carlyle, ’98, and KellyStevens-Carlyle, ’97. Albion alumni inthe family include great-grandparentsEtheleen Stone Stevens, ’24, andHarold Stevens, ’23, grandfatherHarold Stevens, ’52, aunt KoriStevens, ’95, great uncle John Carlyle,’60, cousin Amy Carlyle Williams , ’90,aunt Catherine Carlyle Gibson, ’94,and uncle Joseph Gibson, ’93. Thefamily lives in Kalamazoo.

Aiden Nicole on Aug. 22, 2001 to Erinand Lori Baughman Palmer, ’98.Proud grandparents include TimothyBaughman, ’71. The Palmers live inBloomfield, and Lori can be reached bye-mail at: [email protected].

Kyler Michael on Nov. 19, 2002 toTonya and Kevin Rod, ’98. He joins bigbrother Logan. They live in Jackson.

Mayrene Susan on Jan. 11, 2003 to Roband Sarah Schmidt Fuller, ’99. Mayjoins sister Sophie, 1. The family lives inSpring Lake.

Tyler Jacob on March 13, 2002 toPatricia Moyer, ’99. Proud familymembers include uncle Nick Moyer,’03, and godmother Melissa Mann, ’99.They live in Addison.

Theron John on Nov. 18, 2002 toTheron Stinar, ’02, and KatieBrimmer , ’02. Theron is a student atChicago College of OsteopathicMedicine. The family lives in DownersGrove, IL.


Tributes to a loyal BritonSince Skip’s passing, many people have told me howmuch they admired him. “He was like a father to me,”“I’ll never have a better friend,” “He was a good andtrusted colleague in business and civic work,” “He was aperson of actions, not words,” “When he saw a need, hequietly and tenaciously went to work,” and on and on.

As I look back on our 54 years of friendship, SkipUngrodt didn’t change one bit from the guy I met in thefall of our freshman year at Albion. Oh sure, hematured, built a wonderful business from scratch andreceived awards as a great retailer and civic leader, butin the human characteristics that define us, he was thesame person I roomed with for three years.

Skip is someone who moved on in life to do thingsnationally and internationally, and yet he never, ever,forgot where he came from. He built a museum inWashburn, Wis. to honor his family’s roots there. Hestarted the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection toremind his hometown of its place in automotive history.And, of course, his loyalty to Albion College hasbecome legendary and serves as an example of howphilanthropy should work. Skip didn’t just give hismoney—he gave himself, his creativity, his time and hismany talents.

Skip’s loyalty to these places that were so much apart of him simply mirrored his loyalty to his friends. Hewas the one who kept friendships alive, as exemplifiedby the ATO reunions he started and ran for the past 20years.

A French proverb eloquently describes the friendshipSkip showed so many of us: “Friendship is love, withoutwings.”

Bill Ferguson, ’52Trustee

Paul “Skip” Ungrodt, ’52, a trustee and long-timebenefactor of the College, passed away Jan. 12, 2003.Below friends and colleagues offer their remembrances.Further details appear in the notice elsewhere on thispage.

With the passing of Skip Ungrodt, an important era atAlbion College has ended. For more than 20 years hewas the College’s number one advocate and fan—whether it was a fund drive for the latest project, aninternship for a student, or a word of encouragement fora prospective student to attend Albion. His legacy willlive on through the student athletes who will benefitfrom the new facilities he helped build or the dozens ofGerstacker Institute students he mentored.

Personally, I have lost a great friend who set the veryhighest standard of what it meant to be a true Briton. TheAlbion College advancement program is what it is today,because of his leadership and support for our successfulfund drives, alumni programs, and communications.

Ben HancockVice President for Institutional Advancement

Skip was simply remarkable in his devotion to his almamater. He was the eternal optimist. You couldn’t say noto him—and he never said no to Albion. But beyond theupbeat, take-charge, tell-it-like-it-is Skip, there was acaring and thoughtful person who simply wanted peopleto enjoy the fullness of life as he did.

Skip reminds me of one of my favorite Americanpoets, Walt Whitman. Whitmanesque in his love for lifeand celebration of ordinary people, Skip was theconsummate friend, buddy, pal—and he embodied thebest virtues of friendship: truth and loyalty and good-ness. His gusto, candor and passion will be his legacy tohis alma mater. Albion College will miss him as a greatleader and benefactor, and I’ll miss him as a great friend.

Peter Mitchell, ’67President

ObituariesGrace Clark West, ’25, on Oct. 30,2002, in Albion at the age of 100. Shewas a homemaker, member anddeaconess of the First PresbyterianChurch, a member of South AlbionWomen’s Club and O.E.S. StellaChapter 140 of Homer, and was alsoinvolved in 4-H for many years. She issurvived by a daughter, a son, astepdaughter, 11 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.

Isobel “Billie” Jenkins Moody , ’32, onJan. 13, 2003 in California. She taughtfirst grade in Detroit for 15 years andlived in Grand Haven for many years.She is survived by two children, andthree grandchildren.

Elizabeth McDougal Lloyd, ’36, onDec. 7, 2002 in Marshall. A long-timeAlbion resident, Betty was an originalmember of the board that developed theJohnson Child Care Center. She was alsoa member of the Albion Drop-In CenterBoard, the Hospital Service League andthe Spouse Abuse Task Force. Her othercivic and charitable interests includedStarr Commonwealth and St. JamesEpiscopal Church. She received theMichigan Minuteman Citation of Honorawarded by the City of Albion foroutstanding service to Michigan. She issurvived by her husband, GardnerLloyd , ’36, two sons, five grandchildrenand two great-grandchildren.

Valentine Brake, ’41, on Nov. 1, 2002.Valentine lived in Media, PA. He issurvived by his wife, Angela, twochildren and two grandchildren.

Robert Sill, ’46, on Jan. 9, 2003 inMesa, AZ. Bob was a former resident ofBerrien Springs. He interrupted hisAlbion education during World War II toserve as a B-17 pilot, and he completed26 missions over Germany with the 8thAir Force. Following his graduationfrom Albion, he received his master ofmusic degree from the University ofMichigan and taught for four years atOhio Wesleyan University beforereturning to Michigan. Bob continuedhis teaching in the public schools inWestern Michigan where he was ateacher and an administrator in bothelementary and junior high schools. Hewas also engaged in fruit farming whilein Michigan. After retiring from hispublic school roles, Bob was a memberof the Western Michigan Universityfaculty, training student teachers. Hewas a soloist during this time, perform-ing in oratorios, musical shows, andconcerts throughout the Midwest. Hewas a church choir director for morethan 50 years. He is survived by hiswife, Laura Jean Smith Sill, ’46; twodaughters, Jane Carruth and CathyEwalt; three sons, Edward, Larry , ’77,and Robert; and 13 grandchildren andfive great-grandchildren.

John Brodie, ’48, on Dec. 28, 2002 inSwartz Creek. John retired in 1985 as abranch manager of Citizens Bank after33 years of employment. He was amember of the Swartz Creek UnitedMethodist Church. He is survived by hiswife, Clara, and two children.

Robert Hall, ’48, on Sept. 1, 2002, inRancho Bernardo, CA. He retired fromWayne Chemical in Detroit in 1978. Hehad lived in Rancho Bernardo, CA, forthe past 16 years. He is survived by twosons and four grandchildren.

Carlton Hornbrook , ’48, on Jan. 10,2003. He was a retired teacher, coach,athletic director, assistant principal andprincipal of Sparta Area Schools. Heremained active in his communitythrough the Sparta Sports Boosters andrangering at the Rogue River GolfCourse. Carl was an inductee of theAlbion College, Rockford, and SpartaHigh Schools Athletic Halls of Fame. Heis survived by his wife, Noreen, sevenchildren, 17 grandchildren and onegreat-granddaughter.

Russell Toner, ’50, on Jan. 8, 2003, inClinton Township. Russell retired as anassistant superintendent after a 30-yearcareer with Mount Clemens CommunitySchools. He earned a master’s degreefrom Wayne State University. He was amember of the First United MethodistChurch in Mt. Clemens, AMVETS Post29 and was a member and past presidentof the Mount Clemens Lions Club. He issurvived by his wife, Ruth, five childrenand a granddaughter.

Don DeVoe, ’51, on Nov. 1, 2002. Hetaught school in Fowler, CO, for fouryears and then returned to Michigan totake a job teaching in Pontiac whileworking on his master’s degree at theUniversity of Michigan. Don becameprincipal of Lincoln Junior High andended his career as assistant principal atPontiac Central High School. He was a20-year member of Kiwanis, a memberof St. Paul’s United Methodist Churchfor 43 years and volunteered at a soupkitchen. He is survived by his wife,Barbara, four children, seven grandchil-dren, and five step-grandchildren.

Dorothy Crocker Wider , ’51, on Nov.12, 1999, in Goshen, IN. She was aregistered nurse. She is survived by herhusband, Justin, six children and 11grandchildren.

John Cole, ’52, on Oct. 30, 2002. Alongtime resident of Ann Arbor, Johnwas a systems engineer for IBM for over30 years and continued to do indepen-dent contract work in retirement. Heserved as a trustee and treasurer of theFirst Congregational Church. He issurvived by his wife, Joan WarrenCole, ’55, three children, and sixgrandchildren.

Paul “Skip”Ungrodt, Jr. , ’52,on Jan. 12, 2003in Ann Arbor. ACollege trusteesince 1985, Skipwas chairman andpresident ofIdeation, Inc., anational giftsupply firm based in Ann Arbor, andowner of several gift stores.

A strong proponent of Britonathletics, Skip chaired the $1.3-millionBriton Athletic Drive and funded theCollege’s indoor tennis center, whichwas named in his honor. He also was the

architect of the brick walkway near theDow Recreation and Wellness Center.

Skip was a major contributor to theKellogg Center and Ferguson Buildingon campus. Vice chairman forInstitutional Advancement on the Boardof Trustees, he underwrote the FergusonBuilding’s third floor housing theInstitutional Advancement office.

As a student at Albion, he was aletter-winner and four-year participant intennis. At the Hall of Fame dinnerduring Homecoming 2002, Skip—whowas inducted into the College’s AthleticHall of Fame five years ago—washonored with the Albion CollegeLifetime Achievement Award.

A devoted member of the Alpha TauOmega fraternity, he for many yearsorganized biennial reunions of ATOsfrom the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Long known for his leadership andsupport of many state and localhumanitarian and cultural organizations,Skip recently received the Chuck YancyLifetime Achievement Award from theAmerican Foundation for AIDSResearch. Skip spearheaded thesuccessful multimillion-dollar capitalcampaign for the Purple Rose Theater inChelsea. At the time of his death, Skipalso served on the boards of the AnnArbor Convention and Visitor’s Bureau,the Ann Arbor Downtown DevelopmentAuthority, and as chairman of the

Ypsilanti Automotive HeritageCollection.

He was past president of the GiftAssociation of America and theMichigan Gift Association, as well asthe State Street Business Association inAnn Arbor and the Washburn HistoricalMuseum, Inc., in Washburn, WI.

In addition to Ideation, which hefounded in 1968 and which now supplies650 gift stores across the country, Skipco-owned with his brothers the hardwarestore in Washburn founded by hisgrandfather.

Skip was preceded in death by hiswife, Charlotte Darvay Ungrodt, ’52,in 1990. Survivors include son ThomasUngrodt, daughters Susan Mills and SaraEichhorn, seven grandchildren includingAllison Mills , ’05, and brothersBernard, ’56, and Bob.

Donald Carmien, ’54, on June 28,2002, in Vestal, NY. Don was the thirdgeneration in his family to graduate fromAlbion. He earned his law degree fromSyracuse University in 1958 and hadpracticed law in the Binghamton areaever since. Don was a member of theFirst Presbyterian Church, Delta TauDelta fraternity and the Masonic Lodge.He was also active in woodworking. Heis survived by his wife, Janice RedheadCarmien, ’54, four children, sixgrandchildren and his sister, AnnCarmien Shely, ’51.

Charles Hanchett, ’58, on Nov. 8, 2002in Annandale, VA. Charles was apsychiatric social work supervisor inTraverse City for three years, was thechief social worker at Prince WilliamCounty (MD) Mental Health Clinic for10 years and ran a private practice for 23years in Woodbridge, VA, beforeretiring in 1999. He held an M.S.W.from Wayne State University. He issurvived by his wife, Fern, a daughter,and two grandchildren.

David Saurman, ’74, on Oct. 21, 2002in Cupertino, CA. David was aneconomics professor at San Jose StateUniversity for the past 16 years. Hereceived his Ph.D. degree from TexasA&M University. He is survived by hiswife, Marcia Youngdahl Saurman,’73.

Robert Hileman, ’75, on Jan. 17, 2003,in Albion. He worked with his father inmarketing and sales and was alsoemployed for several years at Progres-sive Dynamics in Marshall. Robertenjoyed playing golf, University ofMichigan football, traveling, andspending time with his Tau KappaEpsilon fraternity brothers. He issurvived by his sister, Jane, and hisbrother, William Hileman , ’72.

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Alumni Association Board of Directors

Your Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomes your comments. Feel free to discussyour concerns with them at board meetings or at any other alumni gatherings.

OfficersJames H. Cox, ’87, president; 700

Courtwright Blvd., Mansfield, OH 44907;e-mail: [email protected]

Louise A. Kirk, ’90, vice president for off-campus activities; 14195 Cavell, Livonia,MI 48154; e-mail: [email protected]

Timothy R. Newsted, ’78, vice president foron-campus activities; 515 N. Jefferson St.,Hastings, MI 49058; e-mail:[email protected]

O. James Clark, ’51, secretary; 1800Oakfield, Midland, MI 48640; e-mail:[email protected]

Coletta Nelson Thomas, ’76, immediate pastpresident; 27375 Bloomfield Dr., LathrupVillage, MI 48076; e-mail:[email protected]

Terms expiring in 2003Mary Beth Hartmann Halushka, ’84; TroyPat Pearsall Hessler, ’57; FrankfortKenneth B. Hollidge, Jr., ’67; Grosse Pointe

Shores

Terms expiring in 2004Gregory L. Eastwood, ’62; Jamesville, N.Y.Kenneth A. George, ’90; East Grand RapidsWilliam S. Rafaill, ’70; Georgetown, Ky.Tamara Transue Royle, ’63; SaginawSusan J. Sadler, ’77; Waterford

Terms expiring in 2005Katherine Jewell Dempster, ’57; South HavenBrian W. Fox, ’73; Riverton, Wyo.Robin L. Gearhart; ’96; Tinley Park, Ill.Kirk L. Heinze, ’70; MasonLouise A. Kirk, ’90; LivoniaMichael A. Zamiara, ’87; DeWitt

Ex-officio membersPeter T. Mitchell, ’67, president, Albion

CollegeWilliam K. Stoffer, ’74, alumni trusteeBen E. Hancock, Jr., vice president for

institutional advancementMarcia Hepler Starkey, ’74, director of

alumni and parent relationsEmily M. Giacona, ’05, president, Student

Association for Alumni

Each year the Albion College Alumni Association conducts elections for the three-year termsavailable on the Board of Directors, the governing body of the Alumni Association. In 2003,two alumni will be elected.

Carefully read the following qualifications of each candidate, determine those for whom youwould like to vote, then mark your ballot card (enclosed in this issue) and MAIL NO LATERTHAN APRIL 30, 2003. In order for your ballot to be valid, you must provide your full name,address and class year. If you prefer to mail your vote in an envelope, please do so.

Nelson D. Cary, ’90

Biographical sketch: Nelson Cary is anattorney with Vorys, Sater, Seymour andPease, L.L.P. in Columbus, Ohio. Beforemoving to Columbus, he and his wife,Stephanie Hatton Cary, ’90, lived in Washing-ton, D.C. He earned his J.D. degree atWashington & Lee University School of Lawin 1994. While they were in living inWashington D.C. they were able to assistAlbion College’s Admissions Office byhelping with college nights. They continuedtheir Albion College connection by attendingtheir 10-year class reunion.

As an Albion student, Cary was therecipient of the Gerald R. Ford PresidentialLeadership Award and a member of Phi BetaKappa, and he served on the PublicationsCouncil. A political science major, he wasvery involved with the Gerald R. FordInstitute for Public Policy and Service.

He is currently a member of the LlewellynFarms Civic Association and is the formersecretary of the Fairways at PenderbrookHomeowners Association. He is an activevolunteer for the Parent-Teacher Associationat Thomas Elementary School, where his twochildren attend.

Personal statement: Sixteen and a half yearsago, I sat in Goodrich Chapel listening to ourfreshman convocation speaker. The speakersaid one thing that I thought was quiteunlikely at the time. The speaker suggestedthat many in the audience would meet theirfuture husband/wife at Albion, and indeed thefuture spouse might be sitting in that verychapel. Five years later, the speaker’sprediction came true for Stephanie Hatton,’90, and me. Albion not only changed mypersonal life, but with programs like theGerald R. Ford Institute and a great faculty,Albion also prepared me for an exciting anddemanding professional career. Now that mycareer is well under way, it is time to considerwhat I can do to give back to Albion somemeasure of what it gave me. Because a strongalumni network makes a college stronger, Iview the Alumni Association Board ofDirectors as an excellent opportunity to helpAlbion College serve future students.

Lyn Ward Healy, ’72

Biographical sketch: Lyn Ward Healy is theassociate executive director of the NewEngland League of Middle Schools inTopsfield, Mass. The recipient of a master’sin administration, planning and social policyfrom Harvard University and CAGS ineducation administration from the Universityof New Hampshire, Healy is certified as ateacher, principal and superintendent in NewHampshire and as a principal in Massachu-setts. She finds time to volunteer at her churchas a youth advisor and treasurer and serves onthe Community Investment Panel of theUnited Way of Greater Nashua (N.H.). She isa member of the New Hampshire andNational Association of School Principals and

is on the board of NFI North, a social servicesorganization for youth and families.

An active Albion alumna, Healy chairedher 25th class reunion, previously served onthe Alumni Association Board of Directors,and has assisted with new student recruitmentand with many regional events. While oncampus Healy was active in Student Senate,Kappa Delta sorority, Omicron Delta Kappaand Mortar Board, was a student representa-tive to the alumni board, and implementedProject 250 which raised funds for thePresident Bernard T. Lomas Project 250Award. After graduation, she also served for atime as an admissions counselor for theCollege.

Personal statement: My Albion experiencewas exceptionally positive as a student. I wasprovided with so many experiences beyondthe classroom that have served as buildingblocks since graduation. It has been a pleasureto hear from Project 250 recipients and knowthat work we did as students positivelyimpacts the College today. It is great fun tohear from good friends and know that we’veweathered the years (can it be 30?) together. Itis refreshing that my Albion connectionscontinue in New Hampshire as one of myclosest friends in Nashua . . . miles fromAlbion . . . is an Albion grad. Albion is wellknown in Michigan and in the Midwest.Maybe a New England presence on thealumni board will spread a well-deservedreputation to interest students and encouragealumni participation in this region. At anyrate, it would be a privilege to reconnect withAlbion College in a formal way, and I wouldbe delighted to represent an incredible groupof talented alumni by serving on this board!

Joshua D. Merchant, ’96

Biographical sketch: Following graduation,Joshua Merchant began working withAmerican Agrisurance, Inc. in Council Bluffs,Iowa. He then moved to Lansing to becomethe executive director for the Michigan FFAFoundation, and for over two years he hasbeen an assistant director of development atMichigan State University. Merchant earnedhis Certified Fund Raising Manager’s degreefrom Indiana University School of Philan-thropy and will complete his master’s degreefrom Michigan State University in May 2003.In the fall of 2003 he will begin his Ph.D. atMichigan State University in higher educationadministration.

Merchant has been a volunteer for theCommission on Aging, 4-H and othercommunity organizations. He is a pastpresident of the Michigan Agri-MarketingAssociation and past co-advisor for theMichigan State University National Agri-Marketing Team.

Currently, Merchant is president of theIthaca Schools Board of Education, chair ofthe Ithaca Schools Endowment Committee,finance chair and youth leader at the United

Methodist Church in Ithaca and a past boardmember of the Gratiot Area United Way. Inaddition to his professional and civic duties,he has continued his involvement with AlbionCollege, having served in the past as advisorfor Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and nowassisting as an admissions volunteer.

Personal statement: As an alumnus ofAlbion, I am continually reminded of howfortunate I am to have Albion College as partof my life. Albion gave me a solid foundationto meet challenges in my professional career,and allowed me to build relationships withpeople who became lifelong friends. I lookforward to becoming more involved inperpetuating the vision of Albion College toalumni, donors and potential students. I willwork diligently to guarantee the continuationof Albion’s esteemed reputation and educa-tional vision. It would be a great pleasure andan honor to be part of the Albion CollegeAlumni Association Board of Directors.

Glenna VanderMeerPaukstis, ’59

Biographical sketch: After earning amaster’s degree in special education from theUniversity of Michigan, Glenna Paukstisspent 10 years teaching in and administeringspecial education programs in the KentIntermediate School District in Grand Rapids.She was active in the Council for ExceptionalChildren on the local and state levels.

Through the years, Paukstis has beenactive in community, church and schoolgroups. Many of these involvements contin-ued in family moves from Grand Rapids to

Birmingham to retirement in Ludington. Shehas held offices, chairmanships and served onmany committees in the American Associa-tion of University Women. A long-timevolunteer at The Epilepsy Center of Michigan,she has also served as the president of theGrand Rapids chapter and on the agency’sstate Board of Directors. She also volunteeredfor many years at the Oakland County HealthDepartment otology clinics.

A past president of two of the state DeltaZeta alumnae chapters, Paukstis is now GreatLakes Area membership chairman. TheUnited Way continues to be an important partof her life both during the fund-raisingcampaigns and through serving on AllocationPanels. Her other involvements includeGarden Club, Literary Club, Church LibraryCommittee, Hospital Guild, and volunteeringat the local historical society.

Since graduation Glenna and her husband,Chuck Paukstis, ’57, have attended alumnievents both on campus and in the Detroit area,numerous Homecomings, class reunions andreceptions for prospective students.

Personal statement: Albion is an outstandingcollege. Our family is proud to be part of the“Albion Family.” We have made many lastingfriendships with those from our Albion days.When our daughter (Sarah, Class of ’92) wasin school we saw that the high standards andquality of a liberal arts education continued atAlbion. I am so glad I am an Albion Collegegraduate. If I am honored by election to theAlbion Alumni Association Board ofDirectors I will continue to share myenthusiasm for this fine school with my fellowalumni, the students and faculty now oncampus, and prospective students and theirfamilies.

Election 2003 Albion College Alumni Association Board of Directors


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LIBERAL ARTS AT WORK➤ Alex Carroll, a great example of

and a four-timeletterwinner as amidfielder for theBriton soccer squad,as well as a tri-captainthis past season. After gradua-tion, he plans to move to California to pursue anacting career. “I’ve managed to pack a lot into myfour years on campus,” he says. “Albion has givenme so many opportunities to pursue my passions—and my professors have been incredibly supportivewhen I’ve wanted to try something new. I’m gratefulfor all of the experiences I’ve had here.”

Alex Carroll, ’03, is a ham, no doubt about it.Whether it’s playing the lead in Albion’sproduction of the Stephen Sondheim musical,“Company,” as he did last month, or performingas a soloist with the College’s pop a cappellagroup, Euphonics, Carroll loves being on centerstage. He is the driving force behind Euphonics,which has performed for SRO crowds on campusand at events around the state including anappearance at the University of Michigan’sRackham Auditorium. But there’s much more toCarroll than his stage persona. He’s also achemistry major, president of the College Choir,

In keeping with the theme

of Albion College’s Vision,

Liberal Arts at Work, we are

offering a series of profiles of

Albion students and alumni

who exemplify “liberal arts at

work” in their daily lives.

These profiles will appear in

each issue of Io Triumphe .

Let’s celebrate our common bonds!By Jim Cox, ’87President, Albion College AlumniAssociation

Among the many benefits of anAlbion College education, beyondwhat we might have learned inclass, are the friendships that firsttook root on campus and have sincegrown into lifelong relationships.These friendships are nurtured inmany ways—from a quick e-mailor phone call during a free moment in a busy day to informalweekend parties to group travel experiences around the globe.

While campus events like Homecoming are designed todraw alumni together, we usually get together not for Collegeevents but because, well, we like each other! To keep theseconnections going, I suspect there are a great many, like me,who go to the class notes section of Io Triumphe first to getnews about fellow classmates we’ve not heard from for awhile. The “Wedding Album” pictures are especially fun tosee. We’re quickly drawn back to our college days when weread a name of a classmate we’ve not seen since graduation.Regardless of the number of times we get together or thereasons why, the experiences at Albion College which firstbrought us together remain a common bond.

With this common bond in mind, I would like to invite youto share stories and pictures of your “get-togethers.” Inaddition to printing these in Io Triumphe, the College hascreated a page on its Web site (go to: www.albion.edu/alumni/events.asp) that will be devoted to your photo submissions

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Campus eventsof noteApril 9-12

Theatre Production: “How I Learnedto Drive”

8 p.m., Herrick Center

April 13College Choir Concert4 p.m., Goodrich Chapel

April 24Elkin Isaac Student Research

Symposium (all day)

Honors Convocation10:30 a.m., Goodrich Chapel

Student Dance Recital8:30 p.m., Herrick Center

April 25Symphonic Band Concert8 p.m., Goodrich Chapel

Student Dance Recital8 p.m., Herrick Center

April 27Student Dance Recital2 p.m., Herrick Center

May 10Commencement

For more details on these and otherupcoming events, including spring sportscontests, go to: www.albion.edu/calendar/.

and will be available for viewing by those interested. Weencourage you to share the special times you’ve had withfellow Britons—whether it’s a vacation trip, a birthday oranniversary celebration, a weekend shopping trip, or someother milestone event in your life. All you need to do is attachyour digital photos (saved as jpg files) to an e-mail sent to:[email protected]. Or, if you wish to submitcolor prints for the College to scan, you may send those to:Editor, Io Triumphe, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St.,Albion, MI 49224. Be sure to provide background informationabout your event (date, time, place), identify those pictured,and include your name, e-mail address and telephone number.

Taking a slightly different tack, some alumni are gettingtogether as a group and volunteering for community serviceprojects. For example, service projects planned for April inthe Detroit area include helping with a Habitat for Humanityhouse and a Kiwanis Club “Books for Kids” drive. Whilerequiring some planning, these projects set up by alumni bothaid worthy causes and provide an opportunity for AlbionCollege friends to reconnect. And I’m sure they will postpictures of those projects on the Web for others to enjoy.

Please also take time to complete the enclosed ballot forthe Alumni Association Board of Directors and the accompa-nying survey questions. The board is very interested in thekinds of activities, formal and informal, that most appeal toyou, and how the board can facilitate those activities. For yourconvenience, the survey can also be found on the College’sWeb site at www.albion.edu/alumni/boardsurvey.asp. I’llshare information from the survey in a future Io Triumphe.

Io Triumphe! A magazine for alumni and friends of Albion College

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