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Michigan State University • Fall 2003 • Volume 21, No. 1

MSU RADIOLOGY LAB BOASTS NATION’S BESTWith a new state-of-the-art cyclotron and scanner, MSU Radiology

now boasts the most advanced technology in the nation.18

THE CAMPUS HERITAGE INITIATIVE:PROTECTING THE IRREPLACEABLE

A new campus initiative to preserve MSU’s heritage begins with alook at the historic buildings east of Circle Drive known as “Lab Row.”

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STARS TWINKLE IN MSU’S JAZZ PROGRAMMSU’s new jazz studies program has unfolded with great panache,

led by the many star performers on its faculty.26

MAGICAL TALESA new book brims with fresh, previously untold anecdotes about

MSU’s 1979 championship basketball season.34

Departments

President’s Perspective

In-Basket

Around Circle Drive

Sports

Alma Matters

State’s Stars

Obituaries

Lasting Impressions

Cover: Design by David GiordanPhotos by Tim Potter

C L I C K R I G H T T H R O U G H F O R M S U m s u a l u m . c o m

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Editor, MSU Alumni MagazineMSU UnionEast Lansing, MI 48824-1029

Include name, address, phone,email and MSU degree/year (if applicable). Letters may beedited.

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ith President Peter McPherson’s return to campus, I want touse a hockey analogy to reflect a bit on what the past five months havemeant.

Each December, the International Ice Hockey Federation’s WorldJunior Hockey Championship beckons. One of our star players is cho-sen to contribute on the international scene. That individual will growand be strengthened by the opportunity, and the experience will ele-vate his game to the next level.

Meanwhile, the team back home is expected to keep winning. In the absence of their star, otherplayers have to step up and play a little better.

In this case, when the star player returns he is a bit different. Any of us would be after such a life-changing experience. Just like when students study abroad, they return and see things anew,through the prism of their international experience.

The team is different, too. They’re stronger. While their star was gone, everyone had to pick upsome of the slack, to take their own performance to the next level.

When President McPherson left, the Board of Trustees and he had confidence that Team MSUwould rise to the occasion and meet the challenges here. And we have confidence that Peter’s recentexperiences, coupled with his ten years of stellar service to the university, mean that that togetherwe’ll be an even better team than before. I believe we are.

It is always a privilege to serve Michigan State University, in whatever role for which one is cho-sen. It has been for me. I appreciate the confidence of the Board and the support of the entire com-munity during these past five months.

I look forward to getting back to work with Peter. We’ll need all of our collective energies andstrengths to handle the challenges that are ahead and to continue the work of building an MSU forthe 21st century and beyond.

Sincerely,

Lou Anna K. SimonInterim PresidentProvost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

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PRESIDENT’SPERSPECTIVE

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GARDENING INSTITUTEThanks for highlighting

www.gardeninginstitute.com(Spring 2003). It seems that on-line resources are growing at anastonishing pace and MSU Glob-al is working at filling many nich-es—including gardening, which Ilove. The program through theHorticultural Gardening Insti-tute provided me with a great op-portunity to expand my knowl-edge, to apply it in my ownbackyard, to meet new friendswith the same interests, and todraw upon the expertise of ex-perts such as Norm Lownds, ArtCameron or John Gaydos.

Dana VanPoperinSt. Clair Shores

SPARTAN NOSE HELMETSEnjoyed the article about the

changes Coach Smith has madein the MSU football team(“Buckle Up For The NewSmith Brand Of Football,” Sum-mer 2003), except for the state-ment that the block “S” on thehelmets would be replaced by“Sparty.” Sparty is the largemascot that looks like an over-stuffed doll and helps to raisespirit and enthusiasm for ourteams. The figure appearing onthe sides of the helmets is a Spar-tan helmet, worn in ancienttimes by Spartan soldiers. Inci-dentally, the nose piece in thefront distinguishes it from theflat-front helmet worn by theTrojans, who were their enemies.

Bruce M. Campbell, ’61Pearl Beach

☛ Good point. To be precise, theimage on the new football helmets isknown as the “contemporary” Spar-tan. –Editor.

DYNAMIC PLANGreat cover story on the dy-

namic plan to expand the KresgeArt Museum. The expansion willenhance an impressive collectionof art currently shown in outdat-ed, inadequate space.

Ron Rademacher, ’65Mason

Delighted to read about the fu-ture of Kresge Art Museum. I’vebeen a docent at Kresge since Imoved to East Lansing five yearsago and continually marvel at thiscampus treasure. The new addi-tion will be a fantastic plus forMSU and the community.

Susan Patterson, ’65East Lansing

MORE ICONIC PROFESSORSI was very pleased to note the

inclusion of Kenyon L. Butter-field among “MSU’s Iconic Pro-fessors” (Spring 2003). Someyears ago, while researching hisrole in the Smith-Lever Act andthe creation of the CooperativeExtension Service, I discoveredsome additional facets of his ca-reer also worthy of note. He waspresident of three land-grant col-leges (MSU, Rhode Island, andUniversity of Massachusetts) andall three have Butterfield Hallsnamed for him. During WorldWar II, the battleship USS Keny-on Butterfield was launched, per-haps a unique honor for a univer-sity president. Butterfield mayhave defined the seminal coursecurricula for agricultural eco-nomics and rural sociology. He

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was named by Presidents Roo-sevelt and Wilson to many na-tional posts, including two yearswith the American ExpeditionaryForce in Europe dealing with re-construction after World War I.

Robert L. Christensen, ’58Deerfield, MA

Excellent issue (Spring 2003),great balance of articles. I rec-ommend that you arrange for aspecial reprint of the article“MSU’s Iconic Professors.”

O. Donald Meaders, EDD ’57Okemos

☛ Done! As part of a faculty recog-nition program, the Heritage Caféof the MSU Union has printed thestory of “MSU’s Iconic Professors”as brochures. To obtain one, call(517) 355-3460 or email [email protected]. — Editor.

NEWS WAS PREMATUREYour Summer 2003 issue ran an

obit for Gregory W. Syfert, ’68, ofWinnetka, IL. Greg is one of myclosest friends, and I can say thathe would be greatly surprised tolearn of his passing. He is proba-bly out working on one of his racecars as I write this.

Mike R. Morrow, ’72Walled Lake

☛ We regret the error. An erro-neous “deceased” notice slipped intoour database, but fortunately this isa very rare type of error. –Editor.

CHEAP HOT DOGS?Re “One Million Hot Dogs” (p.

5, Summer 2003). How do youprovide so much food for a rev-enue of $57?

Lewis Weingarten, ’62 Fayetteville, NC

☛ Hot dogs are cheap, but not thatcheap. It should have read “$57million.” –Editor.

MSU PROJECTSProjects such as “The Sparty

Project” (cover story, Winter2003) and “The New HannahSculpture and Public Art OnCampus” (cover story, Spring2002) offer new giving opportu-nities for alumni. I’m also de-lighted to learn that the under-graduate student government(ASMSU) has pledged $75,000for the Sparty Project. I hope allformer student leaders can addtheir support to this MSU Alum-ni Association campaign.

Lana Dart, ’59, M.A. ’64Lansing

UPDATE☛ Jim Sterba, ’66 (see Winter1980), longtime correspondent for the New YorkTimes and Wall Street Journal, and recipient of MSU’s Distin-guished Alumni Award, has published Frankie’s Place (Grove Press,2003), a “charming” and “audacious” memoir about his summerson the Maine coast that Joan Didion calls “a joy to read.”

☛ Daniel B. Burg, ’80 (see Winter 2000), a patent attorney fromPortland, OR, has been elected to serve a two-year term as 2nd ViceChair of American Mensa, Ltd., the society for those who score inthe upper two percent of standardized IQ tests.

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al Science Foundation to researchhow plants can become more re-sistant to cold temperatures; and$1.3 million from the W. K. Kel-logg Foundation for the “Yes WeCan” initiative to improve educa-tional outcomes and reducepoverty in urban areas.

The board also awarded con-tracts for a campus-wide lightingproject that involves new energy-saving fluorescent lamps; for acourtyard renovation at the Intra-mural West Fitness Center; andfor new air conditioning equip-ment in Baker Hall.

PLANNED DROPIN ENROLLMENT

Although demand for admis-sion to MSU remains strong, thisyear’s enrollment of about44,500 students is down 400from last year—in keeping withMSU’s longterm planning target.

Freshmen enrollment this fallis estimated at 6,900—downfrom 6,949 last fall. However,the freshman class’s average GPArose from 3.55 to 3.58 and its av-erage ACT scores incresed from24.3 to 24.5.

“This year’s incoming freshmanclass is an important chapter inour story,” says Lou Anna K. Si-mon, interim president andprovost. “Each one of them hasthe capacity to succeed. And ourcommitment is to give them thatopportunity—the chance to havea first-class experience here.”

About 89 percent of the fresh-man class is composed of Michi-gan residents. Female studentsaccount for 54 percent. About18.9 percent, or 1,305, are mi-nority students. Internationalundergraduates number about1,050, up from 963 last year.Graduate enrollment droppedslightly from 2,239 to 2,190.

Enrollment in Honors Collegereached a record 2,575, up bymore than 175 students or about7 percent.

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West—and a thoroughfare—Wilson Road—after them.

MSU ACCEPTS$74 MILLION

The MSU Board of Trustees ac-cepted in September more than$74 million in gifts, grants andcontracts.

They included $2.9 millionfrom the Agency for Internation-al Development to MSU’sBean/Cowpea Collaborative Re-search Support Program; $1.7million from the National Insti-tutes of Health to study the roleof veins in hypertension; morethan $1 million from the Nation-

MATILDA WILSONVET CARE UNIT

A new addition to MSU’s Vet-erinary Clinical Center that willprovide cricitical care for horseshas been named for formertrustee Matilda Wilson (1931-37), whose foundation donated$5 million to the center.

When completed, the MatildaR. Wilson “Pegasus” Critical CareCenter will allow MSU’s Collegeof Veterinary Medicine to pro-vide state-of-the-art critical careto horses and foals with infectiousdiseases, research and studentteaching in an approximately13,000-square-foot facility.

“Newly emerging infectiousdiseases are a major threat to hors-es and farm animals, as well as hu-mans,” says Lonnie King, dean ofthe College of Veterinary Medi-cine.

The center will cost $3 million.The remaining $2 million willendow two “Wilson Scholars”—residents who will care for criti-cally ill animals. It will also helpfund a new College of VeterinaryMedicine educational programon the specialized care of criticallyill animals.

MSU has honored the Wilsonfamily by naming residencehalls—Wilson East and Wilson

The long awaited Spartan Stadium expansionplan received the green light from MSU’s Board ofTrustees in September.

The $61 million project features new sky boxesand club seating in a structure west of the stadiumthat will also become home to University Develop-ment, the MSU Foundation, the 4-H Foundation,and the MSU Alumni Association. The plan in-cludes 24 suites above the upper deck ($35,000-$80,000 a year), 862 club seats ($4,500-$6,500 ayear) and a new press box. Spartan Stadium’s capac-ity will increase to about 75,000 with 3,000 addi-tional seats. Construction is expected to be com-pleted in 2005.

MSU’s icon, the original “The Spartan” ceramicstatue, which is being replaced by a bronze replica,will be housed in the building’s atrium.

“This is helping athletics, but we’ve also provid-ed the opportunity to help other aspects of thisuniversity,” says Interim President Lou Anna Si-mon.

The move is expected to provide revenues in ex-cess of $1 million a year, says Athletic Director RonMason, who notes that athletics does not have ac-cess to general fund dollars. Mason says that themove will help athletics retain a broad and diverserange of programs and to keep its facilities competi-tive within the Big Ten Conference.

Fred Poston, vice president for finance and opera-tions, estimated that about $11 million of the costsfor University Development and the MSUAA willcome from money now used by Development tolease space off-campus. The major part of the fundswill be provided by athletics.

Rendering by HNTB

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RETURN TO MSUPresident Peter McPherson re-

turned to campus this fall afterserving as the financial coordina-tor for the Office of Reconstruc-tion and Humanitarian Assistance(ORHA) in Iraq. He was the mainfinancial and economic policy ad-viser to ORHA director Paul Bre-mer, who had requested thatMcPherson’s stay in Iraq be ex-tended through September.

In McPherson’s absence, ProvostLou Anna K. Simon served asMSU Interim President. Simonhas served as MSU provost andvice president for academic affairssince 1993 and is responsible forthe full range of academic and aca-demic support programs at MSU.

“I think McPherson is havingan impact on the rebuildingprocess in Iraq and we’re proudto let him continue in that ca-pacity,” said David Porteous,chairperson of the MSU Boardof Trustees, after the trustees ap-proved the extension.

In addition to serving as pres-ident of MSU, McPherson hasbeen a statesman, bank execu-tive and held key positions inthe federal government. He cur-rently chairs the Partnership toCut Hunger and Poverty inAfrica. The partnership focusesresources and knowledge onwhat the partnership calls themost critical need of all ofAfrica’s challenges.

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Between now and MSU’s Sesquicentennial in 2005, Fred Honhart,director of MSU Archives and Historical Collections, will regularly

highlight key moments in MSU history. –Editor.

One of MSU’s natural treasures is Hidden Lake Gardens, in Michi-gan’s Irish Hills region. This botanical garden and arboretum is locat-ed in Lenawee County, 60 miles southeast of campus. The originalplot of land was purchased by Harry A. Fee in 1926 to use as a farm forhis retirement. However, the rocky and heavily wooded land provednot suitable for farming, so Mr. Fee instead developed a “landscapegarden.” He enhanced the natural beauty of the property with addi-tional plantings of ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers. Throughouthis life Fee made extensive use of the MSU Extension Service to advisehim on his development of the garden. In 1945 he left the garden toMSU and included an endowment for its support. In the subsequentyears Hidden Lake Gardens acquired additional adjacent property, sothat the original 266 acres have now been enlarged to 755 acres.

Much of this area has been preserved as natural woodland accessibleby hiking trails. Hidden Lake Gardens serves as an outreach educa-tional facility including a Visitors Center and Conservatory Complexmade possible through gifts from the Herrick Foundation andother agencies and individuals.

The Harper collection ofRare and Dwarf Conifersand the Hosta HillsideGarden are two of theGardens horticulturalhighlights. The earlyrecords of the Gardensare preserved at theMSU Archives andHistorical Collec-tions, where they areavailable for research.

Hidden Lake Gar-dens is open to thepublic year round.Admission is $3 perperson. For more information or directions call (517) 431-2060 or visit the website at www.hiddenlakegardens.msu.edu.

Ellyn Meyers

SESQUICENTENNIALCALENDAR

MSU’S 2004 SesquicentennialCalendar, the fourth in a series offive showcasing the university’shistory, is available to the public.

The calendar’s black andwhite photos harken back to the

early- and mid-1900s,and include theWomen’s Building(now Morrill Hall),the Spartan MarchingBand, the MSU Plan-etarium, and the foot-ball stadium.Calendars are $12.95(plus $5 S&H) fromthe University

Archives and Historical Collec-tions. To order a calendar, call(517) 355-2330, [email protected], or write toSesquicentennial Calendar, 101Conrad Hall, E. Lansing, MI,48824-1327.

President McPherson poses bythe palace where his office waslocated in Baghdad.

Col. David V. Adams/USAF

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WHARTON CENTERTOPS BIG TEN

MSU’s Wharton Center boaststhe largest program scheduleamong university performancecenters in the Big Ten, and sec-ond largest among all universi-ties in the nation.

As a result, patrons have anenormous array of choices. Thisfall, for example, among manygreat shows, Wharton Centerwill feature everything from mu-sic to opera to ballet.

Kila will showcase its musicalmelting pot that melds tradi-tional Irish music with influ-ences from reggae, gypsy, rockand klezmer on Oct. 24. Theclassic Rigoletto opera will be per-formed by Opera Verdi Europa

on Oct. 26. Suzanne Farrell Bal-let brings the 28-member resi-dent company of the KennedyCenter on Oct. 30. And RedPriest, for those who love classi-cal music but who would like tofix it even if it ain’t baroque, ap-pears Nov. 6.

SMITHS LEADSPARTY PROJECT

NBA star and philanthropistSteve Smith and his wife Milliehave been named honorarychairpersons of MSU’s SpartyProject (see cover story, Winter2003).

The Smiths will lead a world-wide grassroots effort spear-headed by the MSU Alumni As-sociation regional clubs seeking

to raise $500,000 to preservethis historic MSU icon.

“We want to help get the wordout that if Spartans around theworld work together, we canunveil a new Sparty duringHomecoming weekend in2005,” says Smith, a guard withthe world-champion San Anto-nio Spurs and a 2000 U.S.Olympian.

The Sparty Project will replace“The Spartan” ceramic statuewith a bronze replica. Created in1943 by sculptor Leonard Jung-wirth, an assistant professor ofart, the statue is crumbling as aresult of too many freeze-thawcycles. It will be moved to theatrium of the new addition toSpartan Stadium.

The Smiths have donated morethan $3.1 million to MSU, arecord by professional athletes totheir alma mater.

For more information, or to donate online, visit www.msu-alum.com/spartyproject. Or contact Karen Wenk, director ofdevelopment for MSU CampusPark and Planning, by calling(517) 355-9582.

NEW COACHINGONLINE COURSE

Coaches who need to under-stand the legal responsibilities ofmanaging a team can now get upto speed online.

This fall, MSU debuted a newonline course called “Sports Lawfor Administrators and Coaches.”It will be taught via the Internet byfaculty from MSU’s Dept. of Ki-nesiology and is the first of threecourses in a new online coachingeducation certificate program.Students will learn to manage en-vironmental and equipment safe-ty, emergency plans, medicalforms, compliance, recruiting,scouting, ethics, season and prac-tice planning, and more.☛ For more information, visit edweb3.educ.msu.edu/ysi/kinvirtualuniversity.htmlor email Eugene Brown at [email protected].

MSU JOINS INITIATIVEMSU is one of eight leading

universities teaming up to sharetheir patented bio-technologiesand make them more widelyavailable. This is to help with thedevelopment of crops that couldfeed millions of people, whichsome believe is being hamperedby biotechnology patents held bycorporations.

The initiative was announcedJuly 11 in the journal Science.Supporters wish to help applybiotechnology to the creation ofimproved crops, especially in de-veloping countries.

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Photos courtesy of Wharton Center

Red Priest

Suzanne Farrell Ballet

Rigoletto

Kila

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MSU PROGRAM IS SUPERMSU’s efforts to provide high

quality education to first genera-tion, income eligible, underrep-resented students who havedemonstrated resilience in theface of adversity was recognizedwith a 2003 Noel-Levitz Reten-tion Excellence Award.

MSU was one of nine collegesand universities recognized July13 at the 2003 National Confer-ence on Student Retention in SanDiego.

MSU’s Summer UniversityProgram Excellence Required(SUPER) program, begun in1988, received the award. Since1995, approximately 35 studentsper year have been selected to par-ticipate in the program.

“As a summer bridge program,SUPER gives students a headstart to their college career,” notesLee June, vice president of stu-dent affairs and services and assis-tant provost.

NEW INSIGHTSON EROSION

Glaciers can grow at the bot-tom, just like people who are in-active, an MSU scientist and hisresearch group has discovered.

Snow accumulating on theirsurfaces can cause glaciers togrow, and so can the freezing ofmeltwater, says Grahame Larson,professor of geological sciences,who along with a colleague pub-lished an article in Nature (Aug.

14). Larson trekked to Alaskaand Iceland last year, courtesy ofthe National Science Foundationand the Cold Regions Researchand Engineering Laboraty inHanover, NJ.

What happens is the fountainsof meltwater rushing in fromglacier margins would spawn icyrims. The scientists likened thisphenomenon to the mundaneevent of popping open a can. Therapid transfer of ice-cold waterfrom a high pressure environ-ment—either inside a can or be-neath a glacier—to a low pressureenvironment causes ice to form.

“This is new,” says Larson.“We’re introducing laws of ero-sion for glaciers, and thus makingit easier to understand how glaci-ers subdue mountains.”

HUGE AWARD FOR MSUFCUThe MSU Federal Credit

Union (MSUFCU) has won ThePrincipal 10 Best Companies forEmployee Financial Security-2003 award from the PrincipalFinancial Group, the nation’s401(k) leader. The award recog-nizes companies that excel atcontributing to their employees’financial futures and sense of fi-nancial security.

“We are honored by this recog-nition,” says Patrick McPharlin,president & CEO of MSUFCU.“Our employees are our numberone asset. We must have the verybest people to keep our competi-tive edge and great benefits helpus attract and keep great em-ployees.”

In addition to a plaque,MSUFCU received a $2,500check, which it will donate toMSU Safe Place.

Organized in 1937 by a groupof professors, MSUFCU is thelargest university-based creditunion in the world. The compa-ny of 260 employees boasts 100percent employer-paid medicalinsurance premiums for retirees.

MSU KUDOSEvery semester, MSU faculty,

staff and students garner kudostoo numerous to list exhaustivelyhere. Some recent examples:

Martin Bukovac, ’51, Ph.D.’57, University Distinguished Pro-fessor emeritus of horticulture, hasbeen awarded the Veltch MemorialMedal for his contribution to thescience of horticulture.

G. Stanley Howell, professor ofhorticulture, has won the 2003Wine Integrity Award from theLodi Woodbridge WinegrapeCommission. The award honorsindividuals who make significantcontributions to the world ofwine while maintaining integrity.

Tracy Kamikawa, a senior fromHonolulu, Hawaii, received one ofthe U.S. Dept. of Homeland Secu-

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DREAM GREENHave you seen the

new MSU-themed Aloha shirt?

It’s selling like hot-cakes, and you can get itfor a discount at theMSU Alumni Associ-ation’s web page,www.msualum.com.

While there, takea look at the newredesign. All theservices, information andconveniences are still there, only theyare easier to access. The new design is streamlined to fitinto a computer screen, so users will not need to scroll to findtheir links.

“This is another example of how the alumni association seeks to be ofservice to our alumni members,” says Keith A. Williams, MSUAA execu-tive director. “Judging from the usage data, more and more alumni areusing our web site, and are using it more frequently. We want to makethings even more convenient.”

The popular online alumni directory, where MSUAA members canlocate former classmates, can be accessible with only one click after log-in. Lots of new Spartan merchandise—including the “must have”Hawaiian shirt—is now available at the SpartyShop and specialty sitesaffiliated with Land’s End and Roots. International travel information,alumni career services, club listings, upcoming events, and magazinetext archives are all easily findable. Conveniences like address updatesand membership renewals are basically one click away.

And a new hockey game has been added. Try it, and Dream Green!

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rity’s (DHS) first UndergraduateScholarships. In addition,Michael E. Gehringand EllynSchuette, graduate students inforensic science, also receivedDHS fellowship awards to study atMSU’s School of Criminal Justice.

NEW HIRES ON CAMPUSJames C. Anthony, professor of

mental health and epidemiology,Bloomberg School of PublicHealth, Johns Hopkins Universi-ty, has been named chairperson ofMSU’s Dept. of Epidemiology inthe College of Human Medicine.He succeeds Nigel S. Paneth, whois serving as the college’s associatedean for research.

Darrell S. Pressley, director ofPublic Information for theMassachusetts Division of State

Parks and Recreation (DSPR),has been named Director of Me-dia Communications. He re-places Deb Pozega Osburn, wholeft to become partner of a pub-lic relations firm.

MSU’S TOLLGATE: A HIDDEN GEMDid you know that MSU owns

160 acres of rolling land in SEMichigan, complete with apond, woodlot, hayfields, pas-tures, an orchard, an old home-stead and several farm buildings?

Welcome to the MSU TollgateEducation Center in Novi. Do-nated to MSU in 1987, Tollgateis run by MSU Extension andserves as home of the MSUE SERegional Office. It includes fa-cilities for conferences and forteaching classes on horticulture,

water resources and forestry. Itsgardens are looked after by MSUstaff and some 150 volunteers.

“In addition, we have two pro-jects related to the emerald ashborer (EAB, a pest that has deci-mated ash trees),” says Roy Pren-tice, Tollgate’s farm manager.“One is a plantation of 40 tree

species that can be used as alter-natives to ash. The other is re-search on finding tree specieswith EAB resistance.”

Tollgate is free and open to thepublic Monday through Satur-day from 9:00am to dusk. Formore information, contact(248) 347-3860 ext 251.

A TRUE TEST OFSPARTAN SPIRIT

By Keith A. WilliamsExecutive Director

Every fall the MSUAA sponsorsthe Spartan Spirit Pep Rally fornew and returning students,where we provide new Spartans

with fun, entertainment, someserious talk, and a lot of tradition-al “green and white” stuff.

This year’s event—our seventhannual—featured Interim Presi-dent and Provost Lou Ann K. Si-mon, First Lady Joanne McPher-son, East Lansing Mayor MarkMeadows, head coaches John L.Smith, Rick Comley and JoanneP. McCallie, assistant coachesDwayne Stephens and MarkMontgomery, team captains, the

Spartan Marching Band, theMSU Cheerleaders and DanceTeam, emcee Sheri Jones, co-an-chor for NewsCenter 6, and morethan 19,000 students and com-munity guests.

The only venue for this event isSpartan Stadium. Many campusunits pitch in to stage this event,including athletics, residencehalls, MSU police, and the Cityof East Lansing.

Until this year, we have beenfortunate with weather. But itwas sunny and hot, and halfwaythrough the program, dark stormclouds could be seen rapidly ap-proaching the stadium. Then, asudden flash of lightning struck.Dr. Simon and I immediatelycalled a rain delay and rushed thestudents to safety in the con-course areas. Others involvedwith the program quickly movedto the north tunnel and into thestadium’s locker room facilities.

In just a few minutes, as thou-sands of people were under shel-ter, a heavy downpour of rain andhalf-inch hail unloaded on Spar-

tan Stadium. Sheri kept us post-ed with updates from her TV sta-tion’s meteorologist. We kepteveryone informed through thestadium’s sound and video sys-tems. We were able to bring afleet of buses to the stadium totransport students to residencehalls during a brief lull in thestorm.

Later we learned that this stormproduced an “F-2 magnitude tor-nado” that touched down a shortdistance beyond East Lansing.

While we were disappointedthat Spartan Spirit was canceled, Iwas very impressed with theteamwork all MSU departmentsdisplayed in response to thisemergency. The evacuation wasorderly and effective. It was clearthat for Simon, the safety of stu-dents was first and foremost. Tome it illustrated how criticalpreparation, teamwork, and goodleadership are to campus welfare.

Our events are important, butthis incident puts things into bet-ter perspective.

Go Green!

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two heads on the same body,”says James, an award-winningnews correspondent who hascovered every presidential elec-tion since 1976 for CNN, NBCor CBS. “Rove brings the poli-tics and strategies needed tomake the Republican partydominant, while George bringscharm, charisma, family andcorporate connections. It mightbe the most tremendous politicalpackage in our history.” Jim at-tended MSU during a tumul-tuous era, when he temporarilyabandoned his passion for longdistance running. “I got

wrapped up in the warprotest and running seemedself-indulgent,” he explains.“Ironically, after MSU I rancompetitively for 10 years.”An RA in Abbott Hall, hemarried classmate Mary Lou(Pagels), ’74, and they nowreside in Austin with daugh-ter Amanda, 16. Jim recallstwo big influences at MSU,economics professor “Hand-some” Al Mandelstamm andcommunications professorDavid Lewis. “Al taught one ofthe first televised courses and hereally made learning fun,” recallsJim. “He was energetic and the-atrical.” Jim applied those

lessons in a broadcasting ca-reer that began in radio, andthen moved on to televisionin Laredo, TX, after he suc-cessfully covered a hurri-cane that blew over SouthPadre Island. Eventuallyhe gravitated from cover-ing disasters to politics, afield that has also left himdisenchanted. “I votedfor Bush three times,twice for governor andonce for president,” ad-mits Jim, whose nextbook will be on the Iraqwar. “I feel we’re headedin the wrong direction.”

GLENDA LEWIS: DEJA NEWS?This fall, viewers of Detroit’s

WXYZ-TV Action News(Channel 7) might do a doubletake when they flip on the week-end news and see anchor GlendaLewis, ’96, who had previouslyworked five years at WJRT-TVin Flint. Lewis, you see, is thedaughter of longtime Channel 7anchor Diana Lewis. “It’s like adream come true,” gushes Glen-da of her new job. “I’ve beenwalking the halls of Channel 7since I was a toddler, so to walkthrough the doors after having

worked hard and being a profes-sional in my own right, earning aplace there, that’s a feeling I can’tdescribe.” The two anchors arebelieved to be the first parent-child duo in Detroit television.Though she was born in Holly-wood, CA, Glenda grew up inDetroit. “When I was five, Istood in front of a mirror andheld a brush as though it was amicrophone, and I’d say, ‘Backto you, Bill,’” says Glenda, re-calling how she’d impersonateher mother. But she lost interestin broadcast journalism by thetime she arrived at MSU, whereshe majored in advertising. “MyMSU experience was very im-portant to my career,” says Glen-da. “So many people were won-derful to me. My best friends arepeople I met at MSU. I attendevery Homecoming. As you cansee, I bleed green.” But aftergraduation, Glenda became in-terested in TV news and enrolledin a school of broadcasting inSouthfield. She was advised toearn her way to the Detroit mar-ket to forestall any charges ofnepotism. So Glenda started atWBKB in Alpena, “the smallestmarket in America.” She did astint at WLNS (Channel 6) inLansing before moving on toFlint. She believes the Alpenajob was key. “I cried every otherday,” she recalls. “It was a toughtown. It was tough working 10-12 hours a day. You’re assign-ment editor, videographer, re-porter, everything. But it was socharacter building.”


JAMES MOORE: NOT IN BUSH’S LEAGUE

President George Bush nowhas another Moore from Flint tobeware. Filmmaker MichaelMoore has long been outspokenagainst Bush. And now, fellowFlintstone James C. Moore, ’74,who used to jog with Bush inAustin, TX, has coauthored abook—Bush’s Brain (John Wiley& Sons, 2003)—that paints adark picture of Bush and senioradvisor Karl Rove, whom Mooredescribes as a win-at-all-cost po-litical genius. The book madethe New York Times best-sellerslist for several weeks. “They are

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EUGENE PARKER: LEADER IN SPACE SCIENCE

Just as physics and astronomywere dramatically altered byNewton and Galileo, space sci-ence has been altered by the ex-traordinary vision of one physi-cist—Eugene N. Parker, ’48,professor emeritus of the Uni-versity of Chicago and winnerof the 2003 Kyoto Prize (a 20-karat gold medal plus some$400,000 in cash). “I’m exhila-rated,” says Parker from hishome in Homewood, IL. “Itcertainly brightens an otherwisedull retirement.” In 1958, hetheorized the existence of a “so-lar wind” in the solar space,which scientists believed was ahard vacuum. “This upset allthe experts,” recalls Gene. “Isent it for publication and tworeferees said it was wrong, al-though they did not refute my

calculations. Fortunately,Chandra Sekhar was a coura-geous editor and he went aheadand published it (in The Astro-physical Journal ).” By 1962, Eu-gene’s theory was proventhrough direct satellite observa-tion, triggering a drastic changein space science and an entirenew set of explanations of phe-nomena involving fixed stars,the interstellar medium and thegalaxy. His book Cosmical Mag-netic Fields—Their Origin andActivity (1979) has become theBible of this new discipline andis quoted authoritatively to thisday. “Any significant discoveryis invariably blasted by eminentreferees,” he says. “It’s a realproblem. If you write an ordi-nary paper, where you makesome simple calculations, theywon’t bother to attack you.”Having written more than 300

papers, Gene says the solutionis to force them “to prove thatyou’re wrong.” A native of De-troit, Gene chose MSU afterwinning the Alumni Distin-guished Scholarship. “I feltlike the luckiest guy in theworld,” he recalls. “AndMSU did not disappoint.While they were not knownfor research at the time,MSU had many professorswho were competent physicistsand very competent teachers—like Drs. Osgood, Haus,Dwight and Kikuchi. I got areal good education. It preparedme well for my career.”

JOELLEN THOMPSON: ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

Since its founding in 1946,the Michigan Society of Profes-sional Engineers (MSPE) hasnever named a woman as “Engi-neer of the Year.” That traditionended in May when JoellenThompson, ’79, assistant watersystem manager for the city ofGrand Rapids, received a plaquefor that honor at the society’sawards banquet. “I’m very hon-ored, and humbled,” saysThomson. In 1999, Joellen be-came the first woman electedMSPE president. “What I likeabout engineering is problem-solving,” she says. “I like to findout what causes the problem,and see what can be done to fixit.” Indeed, recently when adent appeared on the elbow of apipe connected to a storagetank, city hydraulic engineerspostulated all kinds of theories.But Joellen figured that it wascaused by an air bubble thatseeped in from a valve, andproved it with buoyancy calcu-lations. “It turns out that apocket of air only one-sevenththe volume could have causedit,” she explains. A native ofMidland County, Joellen chose

MSU because “it was a Big Tenschool that offered many pro-grams, plus it was away fromhome but not too far away.” Shetouts two MSU mentors, thelate James Burnett of mathemat-ics, and McKenzie Davis. “Dr.Davis advised us on obtainingour P.E. licenses, which is veryimportant,” she notes. “Someengineers work for private com-panies where a license is not re-quired, but I would recommendit to all engineers.” The engi-neering field is dominated bymen, but the number of womenis increasing. The Society ofWomen Engineers, a nationalorganization whose executivedirector is fellow Spartan Eliza-beth Shanahan, ’78 (see p. 48,Winter 2003), estimates thatthere are now some 27,000 fe-male civil engineers, or about 10percent of the total. “I’mpleased that women are makinginroads in engineering. I thinkit’s an interesting profession,since at the core it’s about help-ing people, and it pays well. Iwould encourage women to gointo engineering.”

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Photo courtesy of SOHO, a project of international cooperation between ESAand NASA.

This spectacular photo of the solar corona was taken on Feb. 27,2000 by LASCO C2 and C3, depicting a coronal mass ejection,blasting into space a billion tons of particles travelling millions ofmiles an hour.

Thompson (left) recently surveyed the site of a new Water/Environmental ServicesFacility with the job foremanDan Rinzema of Terhorst &Rinzema Construction. It is thefirst Grand Rapids facility toobtain LEED certification(Leadership in Environmental& Energy Design) under theU.S. Green Building Council.

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BOB GUINEY: THE BACHELORLast year, millions of reality

television fans saw him trying towin the heart of Trista Rehn inABC’s Bachelorette series. Hedid not win, but still, viewersloved Bob Guiney, ’93, a mort-gage banker and broker fromFerndale. So ABC cast him asthe star in this fall’s “The Bache-lor,” where 25 beautiful youngladies will vie for his heart weekafter week. “They had more ap-plications than ever for the show,which was really flattering,” saysGuiney. “I can tell you this. Af-ter meeting the 25 women (fi-nalists), it was obvious howtough the job was going to be!”Do not feel sorry for Bob. Thesame day he got the show he wasinvited to do Oprah—which hehas now done multiple times—and Penguin made him a bookdeal (What A Difference A YearMakes will hit bookstores in No-vember). A native of Riverviewin Detroit’s “downriver” area,Bob was recruited by MACschools but chose to play Big Tenfootball at MSU as a walk-onquarterback. “My uncle Andy

‘Big Red’ Sandifer was on theMSU team and I went to almostall the home games for years,” heexplains. “I made the travel teamand had a blast.” Bob was alsosinger and songwriter for a bandcalled Fat Amy. “We really start-ed to get popular regionally mysenior year,” he recalls, creditingprofessor Steven McCornackwith giving him career advice.“The next thing I knew we got arecord deal and took off fromthere!” Bob and fellow SpartanGreg Clausen, ’93, also aRiverview classmate, started anAllied Home Mortgage branchand still run it. “He does most ofthe work,” notes Bob. “I alwayssay I will never quit my day job!Its tough at times to stay in-volved as much as I’d like tothough.” Bob calls his suddenclimb to television fame “afluke.” After successive knee andachilles surgeries, he was feelinglow when two of his office assis-tants, without his knowledge,signed him up for “The Bache-lorette” show. “Ever since theydid that to me,” he sighs, “I’vehardly been home.”

1,000, and for children under fiveit’s 131 out of 1,000. Saddamwanted to show the world, ‘Lookwhat sanctions are doing to us,’but it was a shell game. At thesame time he built more than 100palaces and took billions out.”Jim now oversees 240 hospitals,1,200 primary care clinics and allpublic health centers, which em-ploy 100,000, mostly women.On August 19, when a terroristbomb destroyed the U.N. head-quarters and damaged a nearbyhospital for victims of spinal in-juries, Jim was seen on televisionhelping with the evacuation.“There has been terrorism butthey will not let that get in the wayof their wish for freedom anddemocracy,” he predicts. “TheIraqis are very smart. It’s a privi-lege to be here to help them fulfilltheir vision.” Jim has a team of 36civilians and military. He has of-fices at the ministry and at thePalace, where he regularly seesPresident McPherson. Jim sayshis MSU studies “have been ex-tremely helpful” to his recon-struction work. “I’m proud to bean MSU alum,” he says. “I try tofollow the football team, but sincethere’s no television here, I have tocheck the Internet for the results.”

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Bob Guiney (inset) is“The Bachelor” whomust choose between25 female contestantsvieing for his heart.

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JIM HAVEMAN: IRAQ’S TOP HEALTH OFFICIAL

In addition to PresidentMcPherson, who served as Iraq’sfinancial czar, the White Housetapped another Spartan to re-build Iraq—Jim Haveman, M.S.’68, head of the Haveman Group,Grand Rapids, and former direc-tor of the Michigan Depts. ofCommunity Health, PublicHealth and Mental Health.Haveman now serves as SeniorAdvisor from the Coalition Provi-sional Authority to Iraq’s Min-istry of Health. Having managedhuge bureaucracies and traveledto hot spots around the globe forChristian Relief Ministries, Jim isuniquely qualified for the job.“It’s a joy to be here,” says Jimfrom his quarters in Baghdad.“This was one of the most cor-rupt ministries under Saddam(Hussein). He took 90 percent ofhealth care expenditures over thepast 10 years out of health care, solast year Iraq spent only $16 mil-lion on health care for 23 millionpeople. He destroyed what wasonce the premier health care sys-tem in the Middle East. For in-stance, they did kidney trans-plants here in 1964. Today Iraq’sinfant death rate is 108 out of

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ROBERT OLSTEIN: 3 YARDS & A CLOUD OF PROFITS

Where other financial expertsbought Enron, he avoided it.Where others talk to manage-ment, he never does. “That’s be-cause they have a vested inter-est,” explains Robert Olstein,’64, MBA ’66, chairman andfounder of the $1.4 billion Ol-stein Financial Alert Fund ofPurchase, NY. Instead, Olsteinchooses “to just look at the num-bers and make sure there aren’tany flaws.” In recent years, hisability to break down the num-bers has vaulted his fund to thetop. Over the past five years, thefund ranked in the top 5 percentof all equity funds. Its 15.5 per-cent average annualized five-yearreturn beat the S&P 500’s virtu-ally flat return for the same peri-od. The subject of many positivearticles in financial publicationssuch as Barron’s, Forbes and For-tune, Bob is now a ubiquitouspresence on television—CNN,Fox News, and the networks—and has emerged as one of WallStreet’s most respected gurus.“I’m proud that I’m being con-sidered in the same league asWarren Buffet, who was myhero,” says Bob, who likens hiswinning investment strategy toWoody Hayes’ resolute “Threeyards and a cloud of dust.” As heputs it, “Your best bet in the longrun is to make the fewest errors.

You play defense, eliminate bigerrors, and then you considerwinning.” Bob attributes hissuccess to lessons he learned atMSU. A native of the Bronx,NY, where he was both valedic-torian and a multi-sport starathlete, he picked MSU becauseof the mathematics programand the football reputation setby Biggie Munn and DuffyDaugherty. He majored inmathematical statistics as an un-dergraduate and then receivedhis MBA in accounting. “MSUwas the best four years of mylife,” says Bob. In statistics, helearned the so-called “null hy-pothesis” taught to him by advi-sor and trusted professor JamesStapleton, where “you look at allpossible outcomes and guardagainst the worst error”—essen-tially the basis for his invest-ment strategy. In graduateschool, he recalls, “I was very,very impressed with a couple ofaccounting professors, GeorgeMead and Roland Salmonson. Ibecame enamored of reading fi-nancial pages.” To this day, Bobremains good friends with fra-ternity brothers from Sigma Nuand other MSU classmates, sev-eral who work for and with him.His summer home in theHamptons proudly displays the“S” flag. And his annual reportsare always done in, you guessedit, green and white.

KENN CROSS: ULTIMATE COUNTRY HOME

How can you find a niche inlife if you have two equally com-pelling talents and interests—carpentry, and country music?Well, things worked out justright for Kenn Cross, ’87, who

loves building custom homes,developing real estate and per-forming country music. After10 years of designing, buildingand selling “turnkey” homes inFlorida, Cross followed hisdream of becoming an enter-tainer in country music by mov-ing to Nashville, TN. Talkabout timing. CMT, the largestcountry music cable channel,was about to launch the CMTUltimate Country Home, a week-ly show in which country starsdesign various rooms of a dreamhouse that would be given away,at show’s end, to a lucky viewer.Who better to serve as theshow’s carpenter than Kenn? “Itwas so perfect,” says Kenn. “Itturned out to be the highest rat-ed show ever. Our web site wasbombarded. I was getting 30questions a day.” He loved themore than 20 artists he met.“Not one disappointed me,” hesays, adding that at show’s endhe wrote each a poem and gavethem a sterling silver and whitegold cross “to show my grati-

tude.” A native of Troy, Kennnever considered any other col-lege but MSU. “MSU was mychoice even without visiting thecampus,” he recalls. “I was im-pressed with the reputation of itslandscape architecture program.When you meet alumni from theprogram, you could see fromtheir eyes how proud they wereof their alma mater.” He wasgreatly influenced by professorslike Tony Bauer, Duane Mezgaand Kurt Westerguard. “I wasnever great at drawing but I wasvery creative,” he recalls. “Whenthey approved my project, thatwas all I needed for self-confi-dence.” Now recognized moreand more on the street, Kenn hasdecided on yet another careermove. He is moving to SanDiego and looking at projectswith such cable channels asHGTV, TLC and DIY.

Kenn (right) shows a few carpen-try tricks to Troy Gentry of thecountry music group ‘Mont-gomery Gentry.’

Bob sported a cap from hisfavorite school during a recenttennis game at his home inGreenwich, CT.

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much needed support for our university.

Tom is a former MSU Trustee who has spent his life

supporting MSU as an employee, a member of the

Governing Board, and currently as a President’s Cabinet

member. He is continuing this life-long commitment

to MSU and wants to help you to do the same.

Call Tom at (239) 765-2452 or 800-903-1037

for listings and more information.

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By Macel D. Ezell

With a new state-of-the-art cyclotron and scanner,MSU Radiology now boasts the most advanced fusion

technology in the nation.

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f you are lucky, you will neverhave to enter the new radiol-ogy laboratory on campusnor see the recently-acquired,

state-of-the-art cyclotron andPET/CT (Positron Emission To-mography and Computed To-mography) scanner.

Once the systems started oper-ating, only authorized personsand patients have been allowed toenter. But if you should develop aserious medical problem thatyou, your physician, and insur-ance company believe could bestbe diagnosed by the new scanner,you will enter the building know-ing that you are fortunate to haveaccess to the best scanner in theland.

Before the systems started oper-ating, though, Thomas Cooper,assistant chairperson of the Dept.of Radiology, was able to providea tour of the new facility, begin-ning in the basement. He led thevisitor down a zigzag hallway,through three-inch thick leaddoors, into a part of the buildingsurrounded by massive reinforcedconcrete walls. It became quiteclear that no cost-cutting short-cuts were employed in construct-ing the building. It was built by acompany with years of experiencedesigning similar facilities. Theconstruction manager had per-sonally overseen the building ofnine other cyclotron facilities.The campus radiation safety offi-cer made sure that the structureconformed to the highest safetystandards.

Surrounded by all these safe-guards, the new cyclotron sits ina room by itself. Unlike othercyclotrons, this one performsonly one function—produce ra-dioactive ingredients necessaryfor positron emission tomogra-phy (PET) scanning. It is notdesigned to facilitate the under-standing of subatomic particleinteractions as is the NationalSuperconducting Cyclotron

Laboratory, also located on cam-pus. After pointing out the pur-pose of the huge magnets and so-phisticated valves and tubes ofthe cyclotron, Cooper explainedhow the cyclotron acceleratescharged particles and converts aspecial form of oxygen into anunstable (radioactive) form offlourine. The now unstable (hot)isotope is transferred upstairsthrough the connected system oftubing into a biosynthesis unitwhere it is mixed with glucose tobecome FDG (fluorodeoxyglu-cose) and eventually injectedinto a patient who is to bescanned.

MSU has formed a partnershipwith Cardinal Health Companyto prepare and distributestatewide the radioactive phar-maceutical (radiopharmaceuti-cal) FDG produced in this facili-ty. Because this material isradioactive and decays fairlyrapidly (half-life of about 120

minutes), there is a limited timewithin which the compoundmust be used. The half-life is thetime required for half of the ra-dioactivity of a substance to goaway. The facility can manufac-ture radiopharmaceuticals withhalf-lives ranging from two min-utes to two hours. The time lim-its mean that well before day-break, technicians start themanufacturing process to gener-ate the required dosages for theday. Because of the short life ofthe pharmaceutical, its marketwill be limited to regional areas.

MSU has already made agree-ments to provide FDG to othermedical imaging facilities acrossthe lower peninsula.

A patient who is to be scannedwill enter the building and be es-corted to a room with lead wallsand door. Then the previouslyprepared radiopharmaceuticalFDG will be carefully transport-ed in a very heavy tungsten con-tainer along a lead-walled hall-way to the room for the waitingpatient. After the patient is in-jected, he or she sits in a reclin-ing chair for about 60 minutes.

I

MSU has agreements to provide

FDG (a radioactive form of glucose)

to medical imaging facilities across

the lower peninsula.

Kevin Berger, MSU’s director of PET Imaging, stands by as colleagues demonstrate the new Discovery ST CT-PET scanner.

Greg Kohuth/University Relations

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The next move is into the roomwhere the new scanner awaits.

Kevin Berger, director ofPET/CT, explains the advantagesand uses of their sophisticatedequipment, particularly in oncol-ogy. Most cancers, he notes, in-cluding lung, colorectal, breast,lymphoma, head and neck, andmelanoma, are more metabolical-ly active than normal tissue anduse more glucose. The radioac-tive form of glucose (FDG) be-comes trapped and more concen-trated in the tumor cells. TheFDG emits a high energy particlecalled a positron. The positronmeets an electron within thebody, and a reaction occurs whichproduces two high energy pho-tons which are detected by thePET scanner. As the metabolicchanges in abnormal cancer cellstypically precede the anatomicchanges, PET scanners are moresensitive to detecting tumors thanconventional anatomic imaging

devices such as MRI or CT.However, anatomic imaging de-vices such as CT provide veryhigh resolution images of thebody that allow more precise lo-calization.

“By combining the PET andCT scans in a single patient exam,we simultaneously realize thebenefits of the high sensitivity ofthe PET scan and the preciseanatomic localization of the CTscan,” says Berger. “FusionPET/CT scanning improves theaccuracy of diagnosis and stagingof many common cancers to thebenefit of the community that weserve.”

He adds that MSU is proud toprovide patients access to “thefirst world-wide, commerciallyoperational, GE Discovery STPET/CT scanner.”

MSU’s PET/CT system repre-sents a significant advance in on-cology care because it increasesthe accuracy of diagnosis and

staging of a patient’s disease. Theadvances in combined PET/CTscanner technology has approxi-mately halved the amount of timeto create a PET image while si-multaneously improving the sen-sitivity of the scan. Patients ap-preciate the shorter, morecomfortable scan times while en-joying the view from a skylightinstalled above the PET/CTscanner.

Initially, MSU Radiology ex-pects to scan only two to three pa-tients per day. Eventually, thisnumber will increase to six oreight. MSU is also working tobring the benefits of PET/CT tothe detection of heart diseasewhere combined images of car-diac perfusion from PET andcoronary anatomy from CT willadvance how doctors can nonin-vasively study their patients.

What becomes of the radioac-tive pharmaceutical after thescanner has done its work? Theisotope decays and leaves the pa-tient free of contamination.

The new PET/CT scanner isan addition to the already existingimaging capabilities at MSU.The well-respected MRI facilityhas been in operation for severalyears and has done thousands ofMRI body scans. MSU owns twoscanners located in the campuslab and three more off campus in

a joint partnership with SparrowHospital.

MSU will continue to keeppace with the most recent devel-opments in nuclear medicine. E.James Potchen, radiology chair-person and University Distin-guished Professor of Radiology,explains that the major focus hasnow shifted to molecular imagingwhich allows radiologists to uti-lize PET and other imaging tech-nologies to scan for other phe-nomena. For example, heforesees exciting breakthroughsin the mapping of genomes toprovide information about whyindividuals react differently tomedications. He points out thatmedications are now predicatedon statistical averages of what pa-tients need or can tolerate. Such aformula does not allow for excep-tions. The potential for provid-ing individualized medication isbut one possibile use for genomemapping.

“We are committed to stayingat the forefront of this and othernew developments in the field,”says Potchen. “PET imaging andcyclotron-produced radioiso-topes provide a unique venue tovisualize biological function inhuman beings. This new facilityuniquely poises the university tostudy the complex relationshipbetween the human environmentand the development of disease.”

Macel D. Ezell is MSU professoremeritus of American Thoughtand Language, and occasionalfree-lance writer.

This composite image was acquired from the CT-PETequipment. It depicts (l to r), the CT image, the PET image,and a fused image where themetabolic PET information issuperimposed on the CT data.The rightmost images are cross-sectional images showing thesame information.

By combining the PET and CT scans . . .

we (combine) the high sensitivity of the

PET scan and the precise anatomic

localization of the CT scan.

Photos courtesy of MSU Radiology

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The Linda E. Landon Society, named for the

beloved MSU librarian and first female instructor

on campus, recognizes and honors individuals

and families who, through their estate plans,

have established a planned gift of any size

benefiting Michigan State University. These

future gifts can take many forms, such as a

bequest through a will or personal trust or one of

several charitable life-income plans.

Office of Planned GivingMichigan State University

4700 S. Hagadorn Rd., Suite 220East Lansing, MI 48823

517-353-9268 or 800-232-4678

visit www.givingto.msu.edu

Louis Ryason is a modest man who made his money the old fashioned way,through hard work and a simple, disciplined lifestyle. Fortunately for MSUand its future students from Calhoun County, Michigan, he has a practicalview of the importance of sharing his good fortunes. “As far as I’mconcerned,” he said, “people should help others when they are able torather than worrying about acquiring possessions and great wealth.” Louwill be doing exactly that through the charitable bequest he has createdthrough his will which will establish the Louis H. Ryason Endowed

Scholarship/Fellowship Fund. He also funded a charitable gift annuitywhich provides him a guaranteed and lifetime stream of income. At

his death, his gift annuity proceeds will be directed to his endowedfund at MSU. Between his gift annuity and charitable bequest,

Lou hopes his endowed scholarship fund will receive over$800,000. Louis Ryason – planning for the future of

Michigan State University.

ThankYou.

For planned giving answers online,

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By Janet Kreger

A new initiative to preserveMSU’s campus heritagebegins with a look at “LabRow,” the historic buildingseast of Circle Drive.

The MSU campus is recog-nized nationally for its beauty,both natural and man-made.MSU’s original 677 acres hasgrown to 5,192 beautiful acres ofrolling and heavily wooded land-scape stretching north and southof the Red Cedar River. The earli-

est campus buildings were in theCircle, north of the river, bound-ed on the north by the Lansing-Howell Plank Rd., a portion ofthe wood-paved Grand RiverRoad that linked Detroit andGrand Rapids.

MSU boasts a variety of historicbuildings around Circle Drive, sixof the oldest comprising what hasbecome known as “LaboratoryRow,” or simply “Lab Row,” justeast of the Circle. These red brickbuildings date from 1888 to 1909and reflect a midwestern agricul-tural college’s restrained but high-ly creative interpretations of theQueen Anne, Romanesque Re-vival and Neo-Classical styles oftheir day. They are listed as agroup on the State Register of His-toric Sites. Preserving them has

become the first priority in MSU’sCampus Heritage Initiative, a keypart of the“Campaign For MSU”(see cover story, Fall 2002). MSUhopes to meet national standardsby restoring each building’s his-toric appearance while accommo-dating a viable new use.

Planning Made It PossibleFrom its very beginning, MSU

has planned its growth in a man-ner that conserved its history.Adam Oliver, a landscape gar-dener who initiated formalplanning efforts in 1872, was in-fluenced by 19th century de-signer Andrew Jackson Down-ing and created a cohesiveacademic setting where build-ings remained a comfortablewalking distance from each oth-er and where the landscape’s nat-ural beauty was enhanced. O.C.Simonds, a Prairie School land-scape architect hired in 1906,

formalized the campus parklandas “sacred space” capable of im-proving mental and physicalhealth. Committed to this ideal,students, alumni, and friendsrebuked the more efficient cam-pus quadrangles that landscapearchitect Frederick Law Olmst-ed, Jr., who designed the groundsof the White House, the Mall,the Jefferson Memorial, andRock Creek Park, and who laterbecame the “father” of the Cali-fornia park system, tried to initi-ate while under contract be-tween 1914 and 1922. T. GlennPhillips became the next cam-pus landscape architect in 1923and, over the next 25 years, re-solved the Olmsted stalemate bycommitting the north side of theRed Cedar to smaller scale acad-emic growth in a natural setting,and the south to larger, land-hungry agricultural, athletic,and, later, scientific uses on amore efficient grid.

“Since 1946, the campus has al-ways operated under comprehen-sive plans, each recognizing theimportance of the irreplaceable

T H E C A M P U SHERITAGE INITIATIVE

P R O T E C T I N G T H E I R R E P L A C E A B L E

The six buildings known as “Lab Row” are (l to r) Eustace-Cole, Marshall-Adams, OldBotany, Chittenden, Cook (in the shadow of Ag Hall) andAgriculture Hall. They are listedas a group on the State Register of Historic Sites.

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19th century campus,” saysRonald Flinn, assistant vice presi-dent, Physical Plant. He notesthat The Campus Plan of 1948 ac-commodated returning veterans,The Capital Improvement Plan of1958 adjusted to the automobile,and plans from the 1960s throughthe 1990s addressed the steadilyexpanding campus population.The most recent planning effortsnot only have been affected by themillennium and America’s grow-ing preservation ethic, but the ap-proach of the University’s Sesqui-centennial in 2005. The currentmaster plan, 20/20 Vision (see pp.12-15, Summer 2002), includesthis declaration: “At its best thecampus can be a rich expression oftradition and history, a funda-mental resource to the current ed-ucational enterprise.”

Campaign To Protect the Irreplaceable

“While it’s one thing to com-mit on paper to the concept ofhistoric preservation, it’s anotherto throw the power of the Univer-sity’s fundraising engine behind areal bricks-and-mortar project,”explains Charles Webb, vice pres-ident for University Develop-ment. And that’s exactly whatthe MSU Board of Trustees hadin mind when they approved theCampus Heritage Initiative as akey component of the $1.2 bil-lion Sesquicentennial capitalcampaign.

As President Peter McPhersonstates: “I am supportive of ourCampus Heritage Initiative forLaboratory Row because I sup-port the preservation of these spe-cial reminders of our past. Alum-ni of MSU, as well as the students,faculty, and staff here today, cher-ish the physical beauty of ourcampus as well as its historic sig-nificance as America’s first LandGrant College. This translatesinto recognition that there arebuildings on campus significant

to our past, and in keeping thempreserved and in active use, theyenrich our lives. As we approachthis great university’s 150th an-niversary, these buildings re-sound with a clear and com-manding message from the past.Our heritage has been founded inadvancing knowledge and trans-forming lives, the theme of TheCampaign for MSU, and we seekto keep our eyes on that heritageas we prepare for the future. I sin-cerely welcome your support ofour restoration efforts.”

The wisdom of including aCampus Heritage Initiative wasconfirmed when, even beforethe campaign was publiclylaunched, Jeffrey Cole, ’70, andthen wife Kathryn Clark Cole,MBA ’90, made a $3 million giftto restore Eustace Hall. Re-named Eustace-Cole Hall, it is abold mix of Queen Anne asym-metry and Richardsonian Ro-manesque massing. Designedby William D. Appleyard as thenation’s first horticultural labo-ratory, and built in 1888 the re-stored building became themodel for the reuse potentialand fundraising appeal of itsneighbors.

Eustace-Cole Hall, now homeof MSU’s Honors College, soonwas joined by another Lab Rowproject. Agriculture Hall, a 1909Neo-Classical building by EdwinA. Bowd, was re-dedicated in2000 after the College of Agricul-ture and Natural Resources re-ceived both private and universityfunds for restoration and an addi-tional wing. More restoration isplanned, but not as part of the cur-rent campaign when the Collegehas its attention focused on itsother Lab Row building – CookHall – described below.

Joining the first two projects,Marshall Hall received in 2002 a$6 million gift from Trustee Ran-dall Pittman, ’76, MBA ’78, andhis wife Mary. With its restora-tion underway, the eclecticallyRomanesque 1902 building will

“As we approach this great university’s150th anniversary, these (Lab Row) buildings

resound with a clear and commanding messagefrom the past.”

Alfred J. Chittenden Hall

Panoramic photo by Tim Potter

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be dedicated during the Sesqui-centennial celebration in 2005.Designed by Edwin A. Bowd forProfessor Charles E. Marshallwho established within its wallsone of the nation’s first bacterio-logical laboratories, the buildinghas become home of the Dept. ofEconomics, College of Social Sci-ence. Trustee Pittman wished tohonor his late mentor, WalterAdams, longtime economics pro-fessor, author, and former MSUpresident, and hence the buildingis now named Marshall-Adams.

Three Remaining Buildings“Now, our attention turns to the

three remaining Lab Row build-ings – Albert J. Cook Hall, OldBotany, and Alfred J. ChittendenHall,” explains Greg Houghtal-ing, MSU senior architect of the

project. “Development of aSesquicentennial Garden

that links the buildings alsois part of our planning.”

The first of these, Cook Hall,was MSC’s first agricultural labo-ratory. Built in 1889 to house zo-ology, botany, dairy production,and entomology, it was named theEntomology Laboratory in 1909after Agricultural Hall opened,then renamed in 1969 for AlbertJ. Cook, an 1862 graduate whotook over the zoology and ento-mology programs pioneered byManly Miles. Cook was the firstcurator of the MSU Museum andalso discovered a spray that de-stroyed insects without harmingthe trees of Michigan’s burgeon-ing fruit-growing industry. CookHall, built in a popular Ro-manesque Revival style, followedarchitectural plans by SamuelJohnson. Today, it provides spacefor graduate assistants in theDept. of Agricultural Economics,College of Agriculture and Natur-al Resources. It is a $3.7 millionproject.

Old Botany was built in 1892using plans by architect Edwin A.Bowd. The University’s firstBotany Laboratory had burned in1890 and destroyed the work ofone of MSU’s greatest professors,

William James Beal. Al-though the most distin-

Eustace-Cole Hall

Albert J. Cook HallAgriculture Hall (right)

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guished faculty member in hisday, Beal was unable to get MSUPresident Oscar Clute’s permis-sion to build his second laborato-ry within the Circle. The currentsite was dictated instead and theresulting building typifies QueenAnne styling in the asymmetry ofits facades and the inventivenessof its windows, gables, and chim-neys. Having served for a time ashome to the School of Journalism,College of Communication Artsand Sciences, Old Botany todayjoins Marshall-Adams Hall inhousing the Dept. of Economics.It is a $5.4 million project.

Alfred J. Chittenden Hall wasconstructed in 1901 following designs by architect GeorgeLohman. This Neo-Classicalbuilding initially was the DairyLaboratory, the first campus spacedesigned for the production andstudy of dairy products. When itsactivities were moved to a newFarm Lane building in 1913, thehall became home to the ForestryDepartment and was named afterAlfred J. Chittenden who directedits academic work from 1914 to1930. Dr. Chittenden taught, di-rected research in reforestationand maple sugar production,and developed a campus nurserythat supplied seedlings plantedthroughout Michigan. Until re-cently, Chittenden Hall housedgraduate assistants in the Dept. ofAgricultural Economics; now itwill serve as home to the TheGraduate School. It is a $4.1 mil-lion project.

In addition to these threerestoration projects, MSU plansto create gardens that link thebuildings of Laboratory Row.“These Sesquicentennial Gardenswill continue MSU’s traditions inhorticulture and floriculture dis-play and experimentation,” ex-plains Jeffrey Kacos, director ofCampus Park and Planning.“The goal is not only to constructthe gardens, but establish an en-dowment to maintain and im-prove them in perpetuity.” It is a$2.1 million project.

The Economics of Preservation and the Land Grant Mission

Cook Hall, Old Botany, andChittenden Hall are unusually in-tact because the University histor-ically applied the tenets of goodstewardship consonant with fiscalfrugality and agriculture’s tradi-tional abhorrence of waste. Be-cause the buildings have beenmaintained, their problems arenot ones that place into questionthe validity of restoration over re-placement.

As Provost Lou Anna K. Simonemphasizes: “Public universityadministrators are awakening tothe fact that if they simply allowtheir older campus buildings todeteriorate or sit idle because theyare ignored in the planningprocess, they are wasting assets forwhich taxpayers already havepaid. Because MSU has been ableto define viable new uses for the

buildings of Lab Row, their recy-cling may be one of the singlemost responsible budgetary ac-tions we take today. When com-plete, the buildings will functionas efficiently as new construction,but in an envelope of traditionand historic character. What weaccomplish here will be of interestelsewhere.”

MSU thus finds another way tofulfill its mission as the prototypeof the national Land Grant sys-tem of public universities estab-lished by the Morrill Act of 1862.That mission is to create knowl-edge, train others in its use, andtransform the lives of othersthrough its dissemination. It isnot surprising then to find thatMSU seeks nothing less than anexemplary Campus Heritage Ini-tiative that will be a template forother universities.

“Our historic campus build-ings symbolize many concepts ofour mission and the eventsof our past,” concludes PresidentMcPherson. “Our roots run deepand our strengths receive globalrecognition. The buildings ofLab Row played a prominent rolein our earliest successes. As thefirst effort in our Campus Her-itage Initiative, they can contin-ue to play that role in newways–with your help.”

Janet Kreger is director of majorand planned gifts at UniversityDevelopment and a graduate stu-dent in the American Studies Pro-gram in the College of Arts andLetters. She is a founder of theMichigan Historic PreservationNetwork, an organization forthose interested in conservingMichigan’s architectural heritage.

☛ If you would like to learn more about the Laboratory Row Campus Heritage Initiative, please visit the website at;www.givingto.msu.edu/heritage. Or contact:

• Janet Kreger or Rebecca ColeMSU Office of Development (517) 353-3121

• Robert Busch, College of Social Science (517) 432-1802

• Brenda Parolini, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (517) 355-0284

• Barbara Ball-McClure, The Graduate School (517) 355-8257

• Karen Wenk, Campus Park and Planning at (517) 355-9582

Photos by Ben Kilpela

In the tradition of horticulture andfloriculture displayand experimentation,new SesquicentennialGardens will link thebuildings of Lab Row.

Old Botany Marshall-Adams Hall

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By Jill McMillan

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MSU’s new jazz studies degree program has unfolded with great

panache, led by the many star performers orbiting through its faculty.

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Imagine a film school with thelikes of Steven Spielberg, MerylStreep and Harrison Ford amongits faculty.

Well, MSU’s new jazz degreeprogram, in full swing now for acouple of years, boasts just thattype of flair. One of MSU’s bestkept secrets (until now), the pro-gram has been blossoming underthe direction of many renownedperformers among its faculty,stars who have made a flawlesstransition from the club scene tothe Ivory Tower.

Although jazz studies at MSUbegan in 1959, it entered a newera in 2001 with an undergradu-ate degree program, supportedunanimously by the School ofMusic faculty. Since then, enroll-ment has nearly doubled to 45jazz majors this fall, with another100 students taking jazz classes,joining performance ensembles,and enrolling in private lessons.

Such rising numbers under-score the emergence of an acade-mic program that stands outfrom those offered elsewhere.

WHAT’S SO SPECIAL?What makes the MSU jazz

studies program stand out? Forstarters, it makes an effort to in-corporate living legends into thefaculty. MSU artists-in-residencehave included such names asBranford Marsalis (1998-2000)and Wycliffe Gordon (2000-2002). Every member of MSU’sjazz faculty has per-formed extensively with top-notch recording and performingartists and groups such as DizzyGillespie, Tony Bennett, DinahWashington, and WyntonMarsalis, to name a few. Mostfaculty members have their owngroups and/or perform interna-tionally with others. RodneyWhitaker, Wess “Warmdaddy”Anderson and Vincent Gardner,for example, are members of theLincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.MSU jazz faculty also perform

and tour professionally as “TheProfessors of Jazz at MSU,” one ofthe most exciting and innovativejazz ensembles in the country.

Having a such a renowned,world-class faculty has fostered acampus environment conduciveto the development of jazz musi-cians. The MSU program hasmade a commitment to an inte-grated music education program,performance, mentoring andcommunity outreach.

“Charles Mingus once said,‘Jazz is the art of the moment,’ ”recalls Rodney Whitaker, direc-tor of the MSU Jazz Studies Pro-gram. “The only way young mu-sicians can truly learn about andunderstand jazz is to have theknowledge and passion passeddown from each generation, andto be around people who can play.

“You would have to go toschool in New York City to get ajazz education like this—straightfrom jazz performers them-selves.”

UNIQUE PEDAGOGYStudents put this unique teach-

ing method to the test through thepresentation of numerous studentensemble performances, morethan 10 on campus alone each se-mester. In addition, jazz faculty,students and guest artists collabo-rate in annual campus presenta-tions of the Martin Luther King,Jr. birthday celebration concertand the ‘Jazz Spectacular’ concertseries. Students and faculty alsoparticipate in substantive out-reach initiatives throughoutMichigan, and in an off-campusprogram that includes bookingsfor receptions, parties and gigs atlocal restaurants.

One component of MSU jazzstudies is participation in commu-nity residencies throughoutMichigan. Through the DetroitPublic School Music Partnership(DPSMP), the jazz area conductsprograms, workshops, concertsand master classes with students in

Detroit public schools. Such out-reach activities, along with stu-dent recruitment efforts, nowreach cities throughout Michigan.

“Almost half of the current jazzmajors were recruited from in-ner city Detroit,” notes Whitak-er. “This is usually unheard of,except when it comes to sportsrecruiting.”

Students can also attend masterclasses with many renowned jazzmusicians who perform at theWharton Center for PerformingArts on the MSU campus. In2002-03, master classes withWynton Marsalis, Kenny Baron,and Eric Reed were offered.When the Wharton Center com-missioned Billy Taylor, Vana(Werner Gierig), Kenny Baronand Brazilian jazz composerElaine Elias for special perfor-mances, the School of Music of-fered master classes with theseartists for the benefit of MSU stu-dents.

“It’s important to support jazzin this way,” says WilliamWright, director of the WhartonCenter. “It’s an all-American artsdiscipline, with a rich heritageand growing audience.”

The program prepares MSUgraduates to enter the interna-tional jazz scene to work withrepertory jazz ensembles; be-come recording artists, recordproducers, and educators; andwork with performing arts orga-nizations.

“My ultimate goal is to developthe jazz program into one of thepremiere jazz programs in theworld,” says Whitaker.

WHY STUDY JAZZ?Jazz is America’s only true mu-

sical art form, one of our nation’stwo cultural contributions to theworld (the other being baseball).

It is worthy of study from cul-tural and historical perspectives.The musical form or genre cantrace its roots back to the sultry,back-alley jazz joints of turn-of-


You’d have to go to

New York City to

get a jazz education

like this—

straight from

jazz performers

themselves.

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the-century New Orleans. By theadvent of Speakeasies in the1920s, jazz had spread as far asKansas City, Chicago and NewYork. Michigan, especially theDetroit area, produced numerouslegendary jazz musicians. Today,it thrives around the globe fromNew York to France, Germanyand Japan.

Jazz’s influence is taken from anarray of musical genres—notablyAfrican rhythms, but also NewOrleans ragtime marching bands,up-beat brass bands, slave songs,spirituals, gospel, blues and Euro-pean marches and melodies. The“Cake Walk,” an African Ameri-can dance at the turn of the centu-ry, was transformed by jazz intothe “Lindy Hop.” But, perhapsbecause of rock-n-roll’s rise in the1950s, it never rose to becomeAmerica’s national dance.

Although not easily defined,jazz incorporates the elements ofimprovisation and swing–the dri-ve that makes you want to tapyour feet or get up and dance.Through improvisation, themelody is recreated in new, cre-ative ways. Jazz musicians usuallymemorize their music, choosingpredictable tunes and melodies tocreate a common language amongthemselves, while at the same

time creating a complex form ofsporadic themes and variations.The bass, drums, guitar and pi-ano provide the rhythm and har-mony, while the soloist createsimprovised variations of thetunes. The format is interchange-able, allowing the soloists plentyof avenues on which to stray, de-pending on their mood or inspi-ration of the moment.

No other musical form allowsyou to learn so much about theperson behind the instrumentthan jazz. Jazz is very personableand passionate, allowing for suchincredible creativity of expressionand style. With this comes theability to form strong connectionswith its audiences.

Jazz has been a major compo-nent in breaking the racial barri-er. Its history is intertwined withthe history of the black experi-ence in America. Ironically, thisfreestyle art form was created bythose who were once restrainedfrom the liberties of the so-called‘land of the free.’

As Whitaker explains, “Jazz islike a musical democracy; whenyou get on the bandstand to play,it doesn’t matter what color youare; what matters is if you canplay—and anyone can speak thatlanguage.”

James Forger, director of theMSU School of Music, stronglysupports MSU’s jazz degree pro-gram as many others are nowemerging at universities through-out the world.

“The Jazz Studies Program di-versifies the School of Music cur-riculum, student body and facul-ty, while attracting talentedstudents who benefit the entirestudent population,” Forgernotes. “The quality of any pro-gram is based on its faculty, andwith the support of the provost,we continue to attract preeminentfaculty members who participate

in outreach and professional jazzconcerts throughout the UnitedStates, Asia and Europe.

“Our next major step will be tofund an ambitious jazz studies en-dowment, which will assist in ourefforts to recruit and retain highlytalented and worthy students inthe Jazz Studies Program.”

THE PROGRAM’S EVOLUTIONBefore 1959, MSU did not

have a jazz program, even thoughit produced Clare Fischer (seeWinter 1988), ’51, M.M. ’55,who rose to international fame asa composer, arranger, conductor,pianist and music educator. In-deed, jazz was banned from theMSU Music Building at thetime, since many believed that auniversity was not the right envi-ronment for it.

“We were forbidden to play anyjazz in the music building,” recallsFischer, noting that “jazz police”patrolled the music building andevicted anyone playing jazz. So heperformed jazz concerts else-where, such as the MSU Union.

Fischer said he would often get

(l to r) Rick Roe, Rodney Whitaker, guest Andrew Speight, DerrickGardner, Diego Rivera, and Randy Gelispie are “The Professors ofJazz at MSU,” seen here performing at “Spartan Spectacular” lastSpring in the Music Building auditorium.

Guest artist Wynton Marsalisdemonstrates a performance tech-nique to MSU jazz student KrisJohnson during a recent “masterclass” at the MSU Union.

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in trouble for the jazz-like har-monies and chords he chose whilecomposing concert pieces in theMusic Building. “We had to playconservatively, but I didn’t alwaysplay by the rules,” he says. “It was-n’t until after I graduated andcame back as a guest artist to speakand perform that jazz was finallyaccepted in the School of Music.”

Despite such opposition, Fis-cher went on to enormous pro-fessional success as arranger, con-ductor, pianist, jazz educator,and international performer. Hearranged the critically acclaimedA Portrait of Duke Ellington forDizzy Gillespie. Classical concertartist Richard Stoltzman com-missioned Fischer to write TheDuke, Swee’pea and Me andSonatine for Clarinet and Piano.He has written for a slew ofrenowned artists, including Na-talie Cole, Chaka Khan and Ru-fus, The Jacksons, Michael Jack-son, Prince, Paul McCartney,Robert Palmer, and Spike Leejust to name a few. He has wontwo Grammy Awards, one for hisalbums “Salsa Picante plus 2 + 2”and the other for “Free Fall.” Hehas recorded more than 45 al-bums as leader and has arranged,composed and/or played on an-other 100 plus albums for otherrecording artists.

In 1985, Fischer received theDistinguished Alumni Awardfrom MSU, and in December1999, he received an HonoraryDoctorate of Fine Arts Degreefrom MSU in recognition of his“creativity and excellence as a jazzcomposer, arranger and per-former…”

Another School of Music “Dis-tinguished Alumnus,” WilliamBrohn (see Fall 1993), ’55,renowned for his many Broad-way orchestrations, took delightin performing another form ofcondemned music at the time—pop music, which had a periph-eral connection to jazz. Brohn,

who studied music theory in the1950s, performed with dancebands outside the School of Mu-sic. Later in his career, he used el-ements of jazz and pop music toorchestrate some of his Broadwaymusicals—including West SideStory, My Fair Lady, Crazy ForYou, Secret Garden, Showboat,Miss Saigon, Oliver, and Ragtime,for which he won a Tony Award.In the 1960s, he orchestratedfour movies—Endless Love, BlueThunder, War Games, and WhoseLife Is It, Anyway? He received aGrammy nomination for orches-trating Stephen Sondheim’s Pa-cific Overtures.

The jazz ban finally ended in1957, when a music fraternityperformed the first jazz concertever in the School of Music audi-torium. This was when OwenReed, professor of compositionand an advocate of jazz, becameinterim director of the School ofMusic. Reed was Fischer’s profes-sor and was a longtime member ofMSU’s Geriatric Six Plus Oneband, which entertains tailgatersat Spartan Stadium with theirDixieland sound.

The jazz program officially be-gan in 1959, but the course titleswere disguised to avoid offendinganyone. Gradually jazz gainedmore recognition and acceptancewithin the School of Music. In the1970s, Ron Newman taught thefirst improvisation classes in theprogram and became the first full-time director of jazz studies from1980-95. As director, he put theelements in place for a degree pro-gram. Andrew Speight, who tookover as director in 1996, laid thefoundation for the Detroit PublicSchool Music Partnership andbrought in the first prominentartists to the faculty—BranfordMarsalis and Wycliffe Gordon.

Jill McMillan is the informationofficer for the MSU School ofMusic.

RODNEY WHITAKER, DIRECTOR

Rodney Whitaker is a leading performer and teacher of jazz

double bass. He has been featured on hundreds of compact disc

recordings and was voted one of the 300 most influential musi-

cians of all time. He performed with the Terence Blanchard

Quintet and toured with the Roy Hargrove Quintet. He can be

heard in the film scores for Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever and Malcolm

X. Whitaker composed the film score for China, a Jeff Wray film

released on PBS in Fall 2002.

“This is what we do as jazz musicians—we search for and

identify those among us who possess the talent, nurture that tal-

ent, and pass down the knowledge,” says Whitaker. “My way of

giving back is through teaching.”

“Whitaker’s connections to the Detroit jazz scene have

opened the door to many opportunities for the University and

the Jazz Studies Program,” says Wendy K. Wilkins, dean of the

College of Arts & Letters. “It is most appropriate that America’s

premiere land grant university become the home of the coun-

try’s premiere jazz program.”

☛ One opportunity to hear MSU’s jazz faculty perform is withthe College of Arts & Letters’ annual “Chicago Jazz Train” tripin April. For more information, call (517) 353-4725.

☛ If you wish to help the MSU Jazz Studies Endowment, sendyour donations to: College of Arts & Letters, Office of Devel-opment, 101 Linton Hall, Michigan State University, EastLansing, MI 48824-1044. Make check payable to MSU andinclude “Jazz Studies endownment.” For more info, call (517)353-4725.

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EXPLORING THE YACHTMAN’S CARIBBEANJANUARY 16-23Take a trip to paradise on this eight-day Caribbean cruise visiting St.Thomas, Jost van Dyke, Tortola, Vir-gin Gorda, Salt Island, Norman Is-land, St. John and Christmas Cove.Journey into secluded bays, coves andmarinas, and explore the colorful un-dersea world. An experience marine

biologist will be onboard to explainthe aquatic life and assist with snor-keling. From: $1,870, plus airClipper Cruise Line

HAWAIIAN ISLAND CRUISEFEBRUARY 3-13Travel to the sun-kissed splendor ofthe Hawaiian Islands amid the leg-endary luxury of Crystal Cruises

aboard the six-star Crystal Harmo-ny. Exotic island ports of call includeNawiliwili, Kailua-Kona, ChristmasIsland, Lahaina and Hilo.From: $2,475, plus airAlumni Holidays International

ALUMNI COLLEGE IN PROVENCE – THE CULTURAL SEASONFEBRUARY 17-25Immerse yourself in the rich culturalambiance of sun-drenched Provenceon this all-inclusive nine-day tour.Stay in charming Aix-en-Provenceand explore its medieval Old Townand open markets. Excursions includetrips to Cassis, Marseille, Ansouis, Ar-les, Isle sur la Sorgue and Gordes’ Ro-manesque Abbey de Sénanque.From: $1,945, plus airAlumni Holidays International

ITALIAN ALPS ESCAPADEMARCH 25-APRIL 1Relish in the beauty of the romanticItalian Alps on this extraordinarytravel opportunity. The beautifulAosta Valley is your home for yoursix-night stay with its splendid cli-

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ALOHA SPARTANS!NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER 5, 2004The MSU Alumni Association is

planning the official tour to

Hawaii for the MSU vs. Universi-

ty of Hawaii football game.

For more information call

(517) 355-5268 or email Cheryl

Denison at [email protected].

Dates, itineraries, program

details and costs are subject

to change and revision.

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mate and spectacular scenery. Op-tional full-day excursions includeMont Blanc, and the Majestic Mat-terhorn, which peaks at 14,692 feet. From: $1,145, plus airAlumni Holidays International

ANTEBELLUM SOUTH ALONG THEINTRACOASTAL WATERWAYMARCH 27-APRIL 3Join the 100-passenger NantucketClipper on an exploration of the greatAtlantic Intracoastal Waterway tothe Antebellum South. Visit some ofthe South’s most gracious cities, St.Marys, Savannah, Beaufort andCharleston. Optional excursions in-clude Cumberland, St. Simons andJekyll Island’s. From: $1,950, plus airClipper Cruise Line

CRUISING THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPIAPRIL 14-24This ten-day journey traces Ameri-can history from New Orleans toMemphis aboard the paddle-wheelsteamboat the Delta Queen travelingup the Mighty Mississippi. This tripfeatures a special lecture by ShelbyFoote, renowed civil war historianand author. Sights visited includeHoumas House, Nottoway Planta-tion, Natchez, Vicksburg and ShilohNational Military Parks and a one-night stay in Memphis’ famousPeabody Hotel. From: $3,595, plus airGohagan & Company

VILLAGE LIFE IN THE COTSWOLDSAPRIL 18-26This seven-night trip captures thecharm of Britain’s Cotswolds. Learn

about the culture and history of theCotswolds with a program of lec-tures, meetings with local residentsand exclusive guided tours of greathistorical monuments. Visit theHeart of England with included ex-cursions to Oxford, Villages Stow-on-the-Wold, Chipping Campden,Cirensester, and Bath.From: $2,720Gohagan & Company

VILLAGE LIFE IN ASSISI AND UMBRIAAPRIL 25-MAY 3Learn about daily life in Umbria dur-ing a series of exclusive discussionshighlighting unique art, history, cul-ture, cuisine and architecture of theregion. Enjoy visits to Assisi, Spello,Spoleto cathedral, the tomb of FraLippo Lippi and much more. From: $2,620Gohagan & Company

CALIFORNIA WINE COUNTRY AND CUISINE CRUISEMAY 1-6Join this innovative five-night cruiseaboard the comfortable YorktownClipper from Redwood City toSausalito. Highlights include a seriesof winery visits and tastings at the re-gion’s premier establishments, an op-portunity to dine at both Artesa andThe Culinary Institute America’sWine Spectator Greystone Restau-rant and a special dinner excursionaboard the lavishly restored 1915Napa Valley Wine Train.From: $2,195, plus airClipper Cruise Line

ALUMNI COLLEGE IN SORRENTOMAY 17-25Delight in the calm brilliance of Sor-rento’s sunsets, its historic buildingsand beautiful gardens on this nine-day all-inclusive tour. Excursions in-clude the Bay of Naples, the majesticAmalfi Coast, Isle of Capri and Pom-peii.From: $1,845, plus airAlumni Holidays International

ALUMNI COLLEGE IN SPAIN ~ RONDAMAY 17-26From your base in scenic Ronda, em-bark on a seven-day exploration ofthis extraordinary territory. Stay in aluxurious Spanish Parador and travelto Jeréz, Cádiz and romantic Seville.Tour beautiful Costa del Sol andCross the Straits of Gibraltar for atour of 14th-century town ofTetouan. From: $2,245, plus airAlumni Holidays International

ALUMNI COLLEGE IN IRELAND ~ ENNISMAY 18-26Enjoy the charm of the Emerald Isleon this nine-day trip to Ireland. VisitQuin Abbey, Bunratty Castle andBunratty Folk Park, Burren NationalPark and the majestic Cliffs of Mo-her. Also explore Galway and thetimeless Aran Islands. From: $1,845, plus airAlumni Holidays International

D-DAY REMEMBERED MAY 20-30What better way to honor our Ameri-can troops than to visit the historicNormandy Beaches on the 60th an-

niversary of D-Day. This compre-hensive travel-study cruise includesexclusive tours, excursions and lec-tures to enhance an appreciation ofthis monumental military operation.Highlights include two full daystouring the coast of Normandy, Utahand Omaha beaches, Caen PeaceMemorial, D-Day Museum, andChartwell, Winston Churchill’s fa-mous country residence. From: $3,895, plus airPre-tour extension in ParisGohagan & Company

ALUMNI COLLEGE IN ITALY’S MAGNIFICENT LAKEDISTRICT MAY 31-JUNE 8Experience the magnificence of Italy’sLake District on this nine-day tripvisiting Lake Maggiore, Lake Orta,Lake Como, the Borromean Islands,Baveno, Bellagio, Tremezzo and Stre-sa. Also delight in a full-day excur-sion to cosmopolitan Milan.From: $1,845, plus airAlumni Holidays International

We spent seven months waiting for our trip to the Dordogne in France to materialize. We would now gladly replay every minute of that trip. It was a dream come trueto be in the French villages and experience the culture, thelanguage, the stores, the food, and wine. Our experiencewas so diverse, including prehistoric cave drawings, castles, churches, gardens, a family distillery and wonder-ful company —

JOHN DEBORAH AND KURT WEIRICH • 2003 VILLAGE LIFE IN DORDOGNE

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BRITISH ISLES AND THE NORMANDY COASTJUNE 3-15Tour the majestic Celtic Lands on thisthirteen-day cruise to seldom-visitedports in France, England, Wales, Ire-land and Scotland. Paris, Caen, Nor-mandy Beaches, Mont-St.-Michel,Dublin, Isle of Skye, Orkney Islandsand Edinburgh are just a few of thecities and sights to see. From: $4,995Gohagan & Company

VILLAGE LIFE IN DORDOGNEJUNE 11-19Take in the beauty of France with itsmedieval castles and prehistoric caveson this all-inclusive nine-day tour tothe rarely visited Dordogne region.See the pilgrimage site of Roca-madour and meet with local resi-dents to learn the history, art, litera-ture and cuisine of the area. From: $2,765Gohagan & Company

ALUMNI COLLEGE IN THE SWISS ALPS FOR FAMILIES JULY 12-20See the majesty of the Swiss Alps onthis all-inclusive program for the en-tire family. This program designedfor parents or grandparents and theirchildren includes visits to Lucerne,Berne, Grindelwald, Interlaken,Lake Thun and the famous Reichen-bach Falls. Classes and lectures arespecially designed for both adults andchildren. From: Adult: $2,045, plus air,Child: $1,795, plus airAlumni Holidays International

ALUMNI COLLEGE IN TUSCANY ~ CORTONAJULY 14-22Bask under the Tuscan sun in the vil-lage of Cortona on this all-inclusivetour which includes journeys toMontepulciano with its quaint cafesand aromatic wine cellars, the walledcity of Perugia, medieval Assisi, beau-tiful Siena and Florence. From: $1,845, plus airAlumni Holidays International

WHITEWATER RAFTING ON THE SALMON RIVERJULY 23-29Fulfill your sense of adventure ridingthe rapids of the Salmon River onthis whitewater rafting and campingtrip. Well-trained professionalguides with superior knowledge ofthe river and its rapids accompanyrafters during the entire trip and op-portunities will be available for fish-ing, hiking and kayaking. From: $1,375, plus airNorthwest Voyageurs

ISLAND LIFE IN THE ISLANDS OF SCOTLANDAUGUST 8-16Offered for the first time, this eight-day cruise around the Islands of Scot-land offers a unique opportunity toexplore the ancient castles and mag-nificent gardens of the country. Em-bark in Edinburgh; sail to Invernessand Loch Ness – home of the lochness monster. Continue on to theOrkney Islands, Isle of Lewis, In-verewe Gardens, Isle of Skye, Isle ofMuck, Tobermory and Oban. From: $2,995Gohagan & Company

PASSAGE OF PETER THE GREATAUGUST 9-21Marvel in the splendor of the “new”Russia on this 11-night historic pas-sage. Visit the golden domes of theKremlin, Lenin’s Tomb and RedSquare. Sail on the Volga, Neva andSvir rivers with ports of call to Uglich,Yaroslavl, Goritsy, and Kizhi Island.In St. Petersburg visit the spectacularHermitage Museum.From: $3,095, plus airAlumni Holidays International

ODYSSEY TO OXFORD 21ST ANNIVERSARYAUGUST 21-SEPTEMBER 4Located in the heart of England, Ox-ford’s historic setting will charm youwhile giving you an opportunity tostudy topics such as British archaeol-ogy, art, history, theatre, or literaturewith Oxford tutors. Field trips, the-atre in Stratford-upon-Avon, visits tohistoric sites, and optional excur-sions. Call 517-355-4562 for abrochure. From: $3,195, plus airMSUAA Lifelong Education

ST. LAWRENCE RIVER & THE THOUSAND ISLANDSAUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER 2Enjoy the passage through the St.Lawrence Seaway on this 9-daycruise on the St. Lawrence River. The100-passenger Nantucket Clipper isthe perfect type of ship to see thebeauty of the Thousand Islands –anarchipelago of more than 1,800 glacier-sculpted islands. ExperienceMontréal, Québec City and Toronto,and see the magnificent thunderingNiagara Falls. From: $2,395, plus airClipper Cruise Line

The MSU Alumni Travel programs are a great way to seethe world! We’ve participated in many of them over thepast years and our expectations have always been exceeded. Aside from the wonderful accommodationsand excursions, the Alumni College programs have en-abled us to learn more about the politics, history, and thelife of the local people. One of the best features of travelingwith MSU Alumni is the people with whom we’ve trav-eled. It’s a great way to make friends!

CHRISTINE SHLAGOR • MSUAA FREQUENT TRAVELER

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ALUMNI COLLEGE IN NORMANDYSEPTEMBER 13-21Be a part of the 60th anniversary ofD-Day by traveling on this all-inclu-sive trip to Normandy, focusing onthe key sites of this turning point inhistory. Visits include Omaha Beachand the War Memorial, Rouen,Giverny—Monet’s home and Mont-St-Michel. From: $1,845, plus airAlumni Holidays International

TREASURES OF SOUTHERN FRANCE & ITALYSEPTEMBER 14-27Join us on this romantic fourteen-day journey from Paris to Rome in-cluding an eight-day cruise along theFrench and Italian Rivieras. Destina-tions include Avignon, Arles, MonteCarlo, Portofino, Elba with threenights in Paris and two nights inRome.From: $4,495Gohagan & Company

CRUISE CLASSIC ITALY, GREECEAND THE DALMATIAN COASTSEPTEMBER 22-OCTOBER 2Sail the seas of the Italian penninsulaand Western Peloponnese to discoverthe romantic and breathtaking desti-nations of Italy, the Dalmatian Coastand Greece. Ports of call includeNaples, Italy; Catania, Italy; Brindisi,Italy, Dubrovnik, Croatia, andAthens, Greece.From: $2,595, plus airAlumni Holidays International

ALUMNI COLLEGE ON THE ITALIAN RIVIERASEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 3Enjoy the sparkling turquoise waters

and lush green landscape of the Ital-ian Riviera. Discover the history andculture of the lovely villages of SantaMargherita, Portofino, Genova,Cinque Terre, Carrara and Lucca. From: $2,145, plus airAlumni Holidays International

JOURNEY TO THE GOLDEN LANDS OF ASIAOCTOBER 2-14Offered for the first time, this fifteen-day journey explores the rarely visitedmystical “Lands of Asia.” —-Bangkok, Angkor Wat and Burmaand includes a four-night cruise onthe Irrawaddy River on the deluxe100-passenger ship the Road to Man-dalay.From: $4,795Gohagan & Company

IN THE WAKE OF LEWIS AND CLARKNOVEMBER 3-9This is an encore of last year’s sold outtrip to America’s Old West. The year

2004 marks the Bicentennial An-niversary of this famous expedition.Sail the Columbia and Snake riversand retrace the footsteps of Lewis andClark to Hells Canyon, Fort Clatsop,Bonneville Dam and the ColumbiaRiver Maritime Museum.From: $1,795, plus airLindblad Expeditions

PRAGUE/BUDAPEST ESCAPADENOVEMBER 9-17Visit two of Europe’s most impressivefairy-tale capitals on this special luxu-ry escapade series. Prague, the Cityof a Hundred Spires, is virtually anopen-air museum of architecturalhistory and Budapest, the Pearl of theDanube, is famous for the Fisher-man’s Bastion and the neo-GothicParliament. Also visit CharlesBridge, Prague Castle and CastleHill.From: $1,445, plus airAlumni Holidays International

AUSTRIA’S LEGENDARYHOLIDAY MARKETSDECEMBER 6-14Join us for the holidays for one of Eu-rope’s most endearing traditions, theChristkindlmarkt, or Christmasmarket. Sail the Danube River amidthe glittering wonderland of fragrantpines, boughs of holly and softlyglowing lanterns and purchase one-of-kind handmade heirloom-qualitycrafts from local artisans. Ports of callinclude Durnstein, Melk, Salzburgand Passau. Also visit Vienna, theWachau Valley and 2,000-year-oldRegensburg. From: $1,795, plus airAlumni Holidays International

I loved this trip! The advance notice and informationwas very good. The arrangements were smooth and un-eventful from start to finish. Excellent job. Thank you.P.S. The lectures were excellent too.

JUDY MARR • 2003 ALUMNI ESCAPE TO TUSCANY

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In anticipation of the 25th an-niversary of MSU’s 1979 champi-onship basketball season, MSUalumni Fred Stabley, Jr., ’70, andTim Staudt, ’71, two journalistswho covered that team closely, haverecently interviewed the former play-ers, coaches, media personalities andassorted other people involved withthe historic season and collected morethan 200 fresh, previously-untoldvignettes for their new book, Tales ofthe Magical Spartans (Sports Pub-lishing LLC, 2003). Stabley is cur-rently sports information director atCentral Michigan University, whileStaudt is sports director of WILX-TV(Channel 10) and host of the“Staudt On Sports” radio show onAM730 “The Fan.”

The following excerpts from thebook are reprinted with permission

of the publisher. For informationabout the book, visit www.Sports-PublishingLLC.com. or call(877) 424-BOOK –Editor.

From Fred Stabley Jr.:

“MA-JEEK! MA-JEEK!”Earvin and Cookie Johnson

take five vacations each year buttheir children only make four ofthem.

Each August, Magic takes hiswife on a three-week junket to theFrench and Italian Rivera. Theytravel in style on a 180-foot yachtthat has a crew of 12.

“I just love Italian food,” Earvinsaid. “I’ve never had any food likeit.”

The Johnsons usually spendtheir time relaxing on the yacht or

touring the quaint villages in bothcountries.

Just like in the states, Earvin isunable to keep a low profile.

“Ma-Jeek! Ma-Jeek!” holler thenatives when his yacht anchors.

And, when Earvin comes outon deck, they applaud and an-nounce to the uninformed, “Heplays the baskeets.”

Every once in awhile, Magic hasto pinch himself to make sure allthis is real.

“Can you believe this?” Earvinasked Cookie once while theyacht cruised the MediterraneanSea. “When I met you, I didn’thave any money in my pocket.But, I told you I’d take care ofyou.”

He’s lived up to that promise,and then some.

FOR THREE PIGS IN A BLANKETGregory Kelser and Bob Chap-

man like to tell people that they re-cruited Jay Vincent for MichiganState with “three pigs in a blanketand two large milks.”

The two were hosts for the 6’ 8”Lansing Eastern High standout onhis official visit to MSU, and theytook him to the InternationalHouse of Pancakes for dinner.

“Jay went into IHOP saying thatyou guys should be pretty goodnext year,” Kelser said. “When heleft, he was saying that we’re goingto be good next year.

“I don’t think Jay was going toleave Lansing anyway. He didn’tlike road trips. One of my biggestregrets was that he was hurt, anddidn’t play much in our champi-onship run because he was so valu-able all season long.”

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP NO. 1My father, the late Fred Stabley

Sr., surprised a lot of people in theearly 1980s when he was askedabout his most memorable mo-ment in athletics after 32 years asthe Sports Information Director atMichigan State.

Some thought it could havebeen any of three Rose Bowls hisbeloved Spartans played in or the10-10 football tie with NotreDame in 1966. Others were sure itcame when he worked the 1980Olympics and watched the UnitedStates win the gold medal in hock-ey after the improbable win overthe Soviet Union.

Nope! It was Michigan State’s1979 NCAA Championship inbasketball.

“Nothing compared to the thrilland the drama of winning the

P A G E 3 4

“Nothing compared to the thrill

of winning the NCAA title. The anticipation, the

excitement, the ‘Magic’ of the moment was like

nothing else.”

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NCAA title,” he said. “The antici-pation, the excitement, the ‘Mag-ic’ of the moment was like nothingelse.

“The tournament run was won-derful, and then you had two ofthe greatest basketball players everin the finals and a captivated na-tional TV audience watching col-lege athletics at its best. The mediademand was incredible. I lovedevery minute of it.”

My dad had been there in late1957 when the Spartans andJumpin’ Johnny Green lost in acontroversial, triple overtimegame to North Carolina in theNCAA semis.

MSU made no doubt about itthis time around. Dad waspleased.

IN A SEA OF GREEN AND WHITEMalcolm Moran had been at the

New York Times less than threemonths when he was assigned tocover the 1979 NCAA basketballchampionships in Salt Lake City,Utah.

“I’ll never forget the Friday after-noon shoot-around,” said Moranwho now writes for USA Todayand hasn’t missed a Final Foursince. “There were probably fiveor six thousand people in the Spe-cial Events Center, and most ofthem were from Michigan State.”

The Spartans were finishing theirworkout when someone threwdown a dunk.

The Green and White faithfulroared their approval.

“Pretty soon, it became a dunk-athon,” Moran said. “The placewas going crazy, and the playerswere feeding off the crowd.”Moran was watching the spectaclewith former Columbia Universitybasketball coach Jack Rohan whowas to write a scouting report forthe New York Times before thechampionship tilt.

Rohan pointed to the tunnelwhere Pennsylvania was watchingwhile waiting its turn on the floor.

”If I’m coaching, I’d get themout of there right now,” Rohansaid. “They don’t need to see that.”Too late! The damage had alreadybeen done.

Michigan State cruised to a 50-17 halftime lead the followingnight en route to a 101-67 win inthe NCAA semis.

“I don’t know if Penn was intimi-dated or not but it was never in thegame,” Moran said. “That’s toobad because Penn was a very goodteam, not your standard IvyLeague team.”

Moran also recalled that Michi-gan State and Indiana State werenot the “big” stories entering theFinal Four.

“All of the interest was in Pennupsetting St. Johns and keepingLou Carnesecca from reaching theFinal Four, and the fact that RayMeyer had made it to the FinalFour with DePaul,” Moran said.

From Tim Staudt:

THE NICKNAME . . . MY VERSION . . .When a story gets retold by peo-

ple over a period of time differentversions tend to emerge. In thecase of Earvin Johnson becomingMagic Johnson, most all of the ac-counts I have seen are quite similar.

While Fred covered highschool games directly, my work-load prohibited leaving the stu-dio most nights. I had to preparelate night sportscasts from my of-fice while photographers alongwould shoot game clips. Hence Ididn’t get to see Earvin Johnsonplay in person for the first fewgames at Everett High School.

Fred indeed did call me at myoffice one night to sound me outon calling him “Magic” and aftera few seconds I replied that Ithought the name was too corny.“It’ll never last,” I told him as-suredly. I couldn’t believe sometenth grader possessed the skillsworthy of such a name.

I’ve often wondered over theyears how Earvin’s life might havebeen different had he not beenknown as Magic Johnson. Veryfew NBA fans ever referred tohim as Earvin. The name Magicwas perfect for marketing pur-poses and of course with Earvin’spersonality the potential forgrowth beyond basketball wasenormous.

His parents were never overlyfond of the name, particularly hismother who is quite religious. Shefelt such a term implied that herson could do things humans oth-erwise could not do. As a basket-ball player such an implied termwas clearly accurate!

I was never comfortable callinghim Magic over all these years – Ialways told him that was a fan’ssalutation. I met him as Earvinand I’ve known him as Earvin andthat’s what I’ve always called him.He learned to accept that peoplearound the world refer to him asMagic and it never affected him atall.

It is arguably the most famousnickname in sports. And justthink, my retort to Fred that nighton the phone was “how about‘The Franchise’? Even though hewas clearly a franchise player forthis entire sport, there was no“magic” in that name whatsoever!

TELEVISING THE MAGICAL SPARTANS

One of the great thrills I enjoyedearly in my career was calling highschool basketball games on the ra-dio. And when the EverettVikings and Magic Johnson wereplaying, fans listened to the gamesin the mid-Michigan area becausethe gyms were always sold out. Inthe middle 1970s local televisionstations were just developing theirhardware. Video tape news cam-eras were not in use yet and neitherwere satellite trucks. There was nocable television yet either. The no-tion of a local television station air-ing its own version of live sportingevents in a market the size of Lans-ing just wasn’t realistic.

But we had received permissionto carry live the 1977 class A dis-trict tournament opening gamefrom Eastern High School’s DonJohnson Fieldhouse. Because theold WJIM-TV studio was lessthan a mile away from the gamesite we found that we could get alive picture hook up with theequipment we did have. We hadno trouble selling the broadcast tosponsors as it was a big deal.Earvin’s team knocked Jay’s East-


In the 1979 championship game, Magic dunks for two points as Indiana State’s star Larry Bird (right, head visible) finds himselfhopelessly out of the play.

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ern Quakers out on the openingnight 63-41 and it was Jay’s finalprep appearance. We had no tech-nical glitches which was phenome-nal in my mind since all of ourpeople involved with the telecasthad no experience with such a pro-duction.

The afternoon that Earvin an-nounced he would attend Michi-gan State I raced into the office ofmy boss, WJIM-TV owner,Harold F. Gross. I suggested weshould broadcast the MSU basket-ball games. He agreed.

“I think many people would en-joy listening to the games on ra-dio,” he said. “We shouldn’t haveany problem getting sponsors.”

But that wasn’t what I had inmind.

“No, I’m talking about televi-sion. We’ve shown we could dothe Eastern vs. Everett game – let’scarry the Spartans on TV! Wecould do it!

We sold Michigan State on theidea for a very nominal rights feebecause we told the school officialswe were doing them a favor. SinceJenison would be sold out with10,000 fans, many more would beunable to see the games. By tele-vising them, we would be relievingsome of the MSU officials’ ticketpressure.

We carried ten games during the1977-78 season and eleven morethe following year. We used ourown crew of employees and we

chartered a bus which took all of usto road games. Most of the tele-casts were Big Ten games and ourratings were absolutely phenome-nal. Remember there was noESPN in those days and the num-ber of college basketball gamestelevised live across America inthose days wasn’t anything close towhat it is today.

We never had one on-air glitch.We didn’t have all the fancy pictureequipment that is available and inwide use today, but we finallyadded a replay machine and Ithought we looked pretty good.

I went on to broadcast Big Tenbasketball for the conference’s net-work after cable television explod-ed in the 1980s and 90s – but Inever enjoyed myself as much as Idid those two years with the Magi-cal Spartans.

My station was a hero to thecommunity because we providedthem free access to watching thesemarvelous Michigan State Players.And I’ve always believed that be-cause more people got to watchthem play on local television morefans were created and thus thefrenzy for Earvin, Jay and SpecialK continued to grow through thatmarvelous two year period.

DICKIE V . . .In 1979, the basketball world

did not know Dick Vitale the wayhe is known today. In that year,Vitale figured he was just about

finished with the game and wasdiscouraged with his lot in life tosay the least. He’d been fired ashead coach of the Detroit Pistonsafter serving as head coach and lat-er athletic director at the Universi-ty of Detroit.

The ESPN network did not existthe year the Spartans won the na-tional title – but it was on its way.The network was being formedand one of the producers hadheard Vitale give a speech severalyears earlier before his U of D Ti-tans were about to play in anNCAA tournament game.

Vitale’s enthusiasm as a speakerwas noticed by others and he wasinvited to try out as an analyst do-ing college games for ESPN. Healmost did not accept the invita-tion, but for the encouragement ofhis wife Lorraine. The rest, as theysay, is history.

Today Vitale is 63 years old andis arguably the most famousbroadcast personality in collegebasketball. He has worked forESPN ever since it went on the air,shortly after the Spartans won inSalt Lake City. And he well re-members the 1979 championshipgame in which the Spartans beatIndiana State.

“That game, pitting Magic vs.Bird, created the unbelievable feel-ing for the world of college basket-ball on television,” Vitale says.

“It kicked off the unbelievableinterest in March Madness. It setthe tempo for the biggest growthin college basketball.”

ANNOUNCEMENT DAY!Earvin Johnson’s college an-

nouncement day was the most no-table sports day in the greaterLansing area that I can ever re-member. Michigan State basket-ball had been down. The Spartanswere coming off a 10-17 seasonwith a grumpy coach named JudHeathcote in charge and no one intown really knew whether this wasthe guy to change the team’s for-tunes around or not. But they allknew about Earvin “Magic” John-son.

In those days there weren’t asmany media people around chas-ing the big recruiting story as thereare today. It was pretty well fig-ured that Earvin would chooseMichigan or Michigan State – butit was a much tougher guess foreveryone to pick which one ofthose two was going to get thisprized player.


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When consulted about the nickname “Magic,” Timthought for a few seconds and replied assuredly, “It’ll

never last.”

In the regionalfinals, GregKelser dunksagainst a NotreDame team thatfeatured sevenplayers laterdrafted by theNBA.

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Earvin kids me to this day that Ialways said he would end up atMichigan. The truth is I thoughthe might end up there but I neversaid so on the air – anywhere!

The night before his announce-ment, Jud attended a dinner atWalnut Hills Country Club inEast Lansing where I was presentand I couldn’t read his body lan-guage to figure where Earvin washeaded or if Jud even knew him-self.

Driving back to the office thatnight to prepare the 11 o’clocksports, I heard Johnny Orr, theMichigan coach, being inter-viewed on Detroit’s WJR radio.

“We’re keeping our fingerscrossed for tomorrow,” Orr said.“We think we’ve got a good shot.We’ve recruited him well.” Orrsounded to me like he might knowsomething.

The plan the next morning, aFriday, was for Earvin and his fam-ily to make the big announcementin the Everett High School audito-rium. The microphones werepiped around the entire school,but there was no live television orradio coverage. As soon as I got theword, I would call WJIM-TV andradio and they could spread themessage.

Earvin sat down and asked,“Are there any questions?”

After the laughter died down hesimply said that, “Next year, I willbe attending Michigan State Uni-versity.” With that I ran down thehall to a telephone and MichiganState basketball was about tochange forever.

Earvin had actually signed thepapers with the University theprevious day. And he had madeup his mind on Wednesday after avisit from departing MSU assis-tant coach Vernon Payne.

Payne had recruited Earvinhard, but right after the Spartans’season ended, Payne landed thehead coaching job at WayneState University in Detroit. Onthat Wednesday, he had comeacross Michigan assistant coachBill Frieder in an East Lansingrestaurant, busy of course chas-ing Earvin Johnson for theWolverines.

With that Payne headed forEverett High School and toldGeorge Fox he wanted to seeEarvin right away. He told Earvinthat he was leaving MichiganState, but that Jud Heathcote wasthe guy he still ought to play for in college.

To the surprise of most, Earvinagreed right there on playing forMichigan State and Vern calledJud and told him to get the signingpapers ready.

To this day people say Earvinnever would have played forMichigan, but I do not agree withthat. Earvin would have signedwith Michigan State in short orderhad Gus Ganakas remained as theSpartans’ head coach. He and Gushad become friends early in hishigh school career.

Michigan knew there was anopening when Ganakas was let goand jumped on the opportunity.Plus the Heathcote personalitywas in mark contrast to whatEarvin had experienced with Gus.

I thought Michigan did atremendous job on Earvin duringhis senior year. Earvin woreMichigan clothing and he likedthe Michigan players and coaches.Those in the Lansing area say

Earvin never would have left anddisappointed all of the area fans.We’ll never know but I believe Ver-non Payne’s meeting two days be-fore his actual announcementsealed the deal for Michigan State.Vernon Payne may have been thereal hero for Michigan State in therecruitment of Earvin “Magic”Johnson.

BIG MONEY!Jud Heathcote never coached to

make money. If he had, whoknows how much loot he couldhave pocketed. As a speaker hecould have commanded sumsthat others could only dream of.His ability to ad lib, to improvise,to charm, to cajole and to makepeople laugh was as famous as hishead thumping routine on thesideline during games.

But money was never a big issuewith Jud. He lived in the same up-per middle class home in EastLansing for his entire career. Hehad a country club membershipand a car, but very few other perks.

When he arrived at MichiganState, his four year contract cov-ered all of one piece of paper. Heaccepted a $25,000 annual salary,plus control of the summer camps

for additional income and anymoney he could make from a tele-vision show. Except there was noJud Heathcote in the early stagesof his career.

“My salary was a bigger issue tomy wife Bev than it was to me.”Jud says today. “I often felt I wasgetting paid more than I should. Ifelt like I was a professor, becauseI taught classes as well as coachedand my salary, I felt, should re-main in line with comparableprofessors’ earnings.”


Staudt (left) and Stabley Jr. recently posed with Magic Johnson at Magic’s StarbucksCafé in East Lansing.

Jud Heathcote could hardly contain emotions as he patrols the sidelines.

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CAN MSU SURVIVE “MURDERERS ROW”?

By Robert Bao

MSU plays a “Murderers Row”of Kansas, Duke, Oklahoma,Kentucky, UCLA and Syracuseas a prelude to the Big Ten.

“Has (Tom) Izzo gone nuts?”That’s what one MSU fan said

after seeing MSU’s incrediblepreseason schedule, likely thetoughest in the nation, and ar-guably the toughest in history. Itincludes away games at last year’sNCAA finalists, Kansas andSyracuse, and contests againstperennial powerhouses—Ken-tucky, Oklahoma, Duke andUCLA. Depaul, Penn and SouthFlorida are no pushovers.

“It’s scary,” concedes Izzo,shortly after his return from theDominican Republic, where hecoached the U.S. Pan Americanteam. “But it’s also exciting.

“You have to look at this as anincredible opportunity for theplayers. You have a chance toplay in a pro football stadium(Ford Field vs. Kentucky, Dec.13), in a pro basketball arena(Palace of Auburn Hills vs. Okla-homa, Dec. 6), in a dome (Carri-er Dome vs. Syracuse, Jan. 3),and against the most prestigiousand storied programs ever (Dukeon Dec. 3, at Kansas on Nov. 25,and at UCLA Dec. 20). It does-n’t get much better.

“And, hopefully, it makes youbetter in the long run. If you

look at the big picture—theprogram, instead of just wins—then this philosophy is prettygood.”Pretty good, but maybe not

pretty. Two problems arise.First, the schedule was madebefore Erazem Lorbek an-nounced his decision to turnpro. Lorbek, a 6’9” forwardfrom Slovenia who could shootthe trey, was a key cog duringMSU’s impressive run in theNCAA tourney last season.Secondly, consider the math. IfMSU goes 7-4 in the preseason,to achieve 20 wins it will need

13 wins in the brutal BigTen—which Izzo was able

to muster only once inthe 1999-2000 nationalchampionship season.Moreover, admits Izzo,

in his nine seasons as MSUhead coach this year’s leaguecompetition could be “thestrongest ever, from top to bot-tom.”

When confronted with this re-ality, Izzo jokes, “I say, ‘Fire Hol-lis,’” referring to assistant athlet-ics director Mark Hollis, whomasterminded the schedule aswell as the “BasketBowl” at FordField.

One thing is sure. MSU willbe in the national limelight, big-time. A new world attendancerecord will be set at Ford Field.The Coca Cola Classic reunitesDepaul, Penn and IndianaState—the broadcast record-set-ting 1979 Final Four teams inSalt Lake City—at Breslin Cen-ter. And the spotlight mighteven shine on MSU’s debut

game against the Magic JohnsonAll-Stars, which might boast anextra superstar or two.

Another thing could be true.The tough schedule could betterprepare MSU for the postsea-son, just as it did last season. AsIzzo puts it, “I won’t go afteranyone’s win records, but I’mgoing for their national champi-onship records.”

Do the 2003-2004 Spartanshave what it takes to knock onthe championship door again?

Izzo believes so. “I love theteam,” he enthuses. “We haveexperience. Alan Anderson,Kelvin Torbert, Chris Hill andTim Bograkos—these guys havegone through the wars.”

Izzo looks forward to seeingimprovements by current play-ers, beginning with Anderson,who is said to have had a terrificsummer in general and to haveimproved his shooting. Torbert,who averaged 11.5 points in hislast 16 games, could emerge.Sophomores Maurice Ager andPaul Davis benefited from inter-national competition, as didChris Hill, a member of Izzo’sPan American team. Notes Izzo,“Chris didn’t play a ton, but theexperience helped him.”

Some newcomers can alsoemerge, says Izzo:

Redshirt Freshman DelcoRowley: “He brings high ener-gy, muscle and strength. There’san aura about him. It’s a matterof getting experience.”

Freshman Drew Naymick:“He originally thought of red-shirting, but that won’t happen.I’m very pleased with him.”

Freshman Brandon Cotton, aMacDonald’s All-American:“He’s athletic and quick, can getinto the lane. It’s just a questionof getting used to the size andstrength of college players.”

Freshman Shannon Brown,also a MacDonald’s All-Ameri-can: “He’s just 17, but is amaz-

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Last season, Izzo mastermindedMSU’s foray into the NCAA’sElite Eight, calling on the talentsof junior small forward AlanAnderson to play the pointguard position, and Paul Daviswho can stretch defenses with hisability to shoot the trey.

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ing. When you look at his bodyand athleticism, it’s impressive,but even more impressive is hiswork ethic, which is not thenorm with star players. Hebrings Mateen Cleaves’ workethic with tremendous basket-ball skills.”

But question marks also loom,beginning with the effect of Lor-bek’s unexpected departure.

“All of a sudden, we have torely on freshmen again,” be-moans Izzo. “We lost more thanjust one key player. People whodidn’t appreciate Al Anagonyeand Adam Ballinger soon will.We lost three big bodies.”

Another concern is senior cen-ter Jason Andreas, who is recov-ering from three months of inac-tivity following surgery.

Izzo has two new assistants,Doug Woczik from North Car-olina, and former Spartan playerDwayne Stephens from Mar-quette, who join assistant MarkMontgomery. They replacelongtime aides Brian Gregoryand Mike Garland, now headcoaches at Dayton and Cleve-land State. Although he has tobreak in the new coaches, Izzosays, “I have a great, great staff.”

Besides his stint as head coachof the U.S. Pan American team,Izzo also spends time dealingwith advising the NCAA presi-dent and in solving national is-sues as a board member of theNational Association of Basket-ball Coaches. With multiplebasketball issues cropping up inthe news, Izzo has had to spendtime on tasks he describes as “te-dious and thankless.” But, as heputs it, “You either become partof the problem or you becomepart of the solution.”

But he looks forward to theseason. “I think (this season)will be very exciting for thefans,” he predicts. “We haveprobably the most athletic teamsince I’ve been here.”

A POSITIVE DEBUTFOR JOHN L. SMITH

By Robert Bao

Can John L. Smith return MSUfootball to its glory days with awide-open offense? Spartan fansawait the answer.

After John L. Smith was hiredlast year, he promised “a goodproduct” on the field. Four weeksinto the season, Spartan fans cansee glimpses of what could lieahead.

A 22-16 upset of Notre Damein South Bend has generated op-timism and largely overcome thenegativity arising from the previ-ous week’s collapse againstLouisiana Tech—when MSU al-lowed two touchdowns in the fi-nal 1:09 and lost 20-19 in a gamethey dominated. Big plays andlightning touchdowns strikes,hallmarks of the spread offense,

marked MSU’s pre-season, whichstood at 3-1 with opening winsagainst Western Michigan (26-21) and, in its historic 1,000thgame, Rutgers (44-28).

The Notre Dame win—MSU’s4th straight in South Bend, and6th in the past 7 games—waskeyed by toe-injured quarterbackJeff Smoker, improving JarenHayes, whose 71-yard TD rompelectrified the Spartans in thecrowd, and the defensive front,which played with aggression andactually scored a TD on seniordefensive end Greg Taplin’s inter-ception return.

MSU’s win against the FightingIrish featured several redemp-tions. Backup quarterback andspecial teams member DrewStanton, who misplayed an on-side kick the previous week, se-cured a last-minute onside kick toassure the win. Following thegame, senior guard and captainPaul Harker, who two years ago

had collapsed on the same field,led the Spartan Marching Band inthe MSU fight song.

And for Smith, it put an end toquestions raised after the previousweek’s loss. Smith boasts a trackrecord of turning programsaround, which he did at Idaho,Utah State, and Louisville, win-ning championships at each stop.It was persuasive enough that ath-letic director Ron Mason offeredSmith a much-publicized $1.6million in annual salary, highestin the Big Ten.

“We’re making progress in theright direction,” notes Smith afterthe win in South Bend. “Weplayed hard. Our defensive frontdid a good job, our secondarymade far fewer mistakes, whichwas good. Offensively, we’re tak-ing little steps ahead.”

Enhancing Smith’s reputationas a turnaround artist was the im-proved performance of MSU’sdefensive line. Under the tutelageof position coach Steve Stripling,after four games MSU led the BigTen in quarterback sacks with 17for 120 yards; last year, the samepersonnel could generate only 19sacks for 113 yards during the entire season! Where last seasonthe Spartan defense played pas-sively, allowing opposing quarter-backs to roam all day long, thisyear MSU defenders are gettingafter it.

Last year, MSU’s porous run defense made some opposingrunning backs look like Heismancandidates, allowing 213.8 rush-ing yards per game. After fourgames in 2003, MSU ranked

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MSU has entrusted coach John L.Smith to rebuild its football pro-gram. Smoker mastermindedMSU’s attack against the Fight-ing Irish despite a painful toe in-jury. Seen here is number 48,linebacker Seth Mitchell whohelped spark the Spartans’ de-fense.

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third in the NCAA in rush de-fense, allowing 41.2 yards pergame and only 1.4 yards per rush.

“I like (this year’s system) a lotmore,” says safety Eric Smith, af-ter he was named co-defensiveBig Ten Player of the Week for histeam-high 12 tackles againstNotre Dame. “I try to hit onevery down.”

On offense, Smoker will like-ly rewrite every MSU passingrecord. He is MSU’s careerleader in total offense (6,364yards) and passing yards(6,475). He has already tiedthe school record for touch-

down passes (46, held by BillBurke). He ranks third all timein pass completions (450) andsecond in pass attempts (774).Had he not left the LA Techgame midway in the secondquarter, MSU might well be un-defeated now.

Can MSU sustain progress andcontinue to win in Big Ten com-petition? Can it win right away,or will it take time to rebuild?Spartan alumni and fans awaitthe answers with interest—andalso great optimism, given thequality of early recruits who haveverballed to MSU.

Big Ten championship and wenton to win MSU’s first RoseBowl, defeating UCLA 28-20.The seniors on the team boasteda four-year record of 35-2.Eight All-Americans were asso-ciated with the 1953 team: EllisDuckett, Jim Ellis, Larry Fowler,Norm Masters, Earl Morrall,Buck Nystrom, Jerry Planutisand Tom Yewcic. The late BillyWells, who scored two touch-downs in the Rose Bowl game,achieved national publicitywhen he landed a date with Hollywood starlet DebbieReynolds. The 1953 team wasMSU’s first that participatedofficially in Big Ten footballcompetition.

ACADEMIC KUDOS FOR GYMNASTS—Seven MSU gym-nasts, including four-time hon-oree Ilene Cohen, earned Na-tional Association of CollegiateGymnastics Coaches/Women(NACGC/W) Academic All-American honors in 2003. Theteam’s 3.469 GPA was the 10thbest in the nation. Senior JulieDevaty earned a perfect 4.0 lastyear. “I’m thrilled that our teammatched the number of Acade-mic All-Americans we had lastyear,” says head coach KathieKlages. “It’s definitely a credit toour academic advisors, KimyaMassey and Angela Howard, as

well as the rest of the SASS (Stu-dent-Athlete Support Services)staff.” Other honorees were se-nior Diana Crea, junior LindseyVoth, sophomores LaurenSimpson and Anna Hunsinger,and freshman Leia Langhoff.The Spartans’ team GPA is thebest in the Big Ten, and theyhave raised their GPA in each ofthe last three years. Last year,the Spartans boasted seven Aca-demic All-Americans and a teamGPA of 3.119.

HIGH RANKING—The MSUwomen’s cross country team wasranked No. 13 in the FinishLynx/NCAA preseason poll,which is conducted by theWomen’s Cross Country Coach-es Association. MSU finishedsecond in the Big Ten last seasonand 12th at the NCAA Champi-onships. Leading the Spartansare seniors Michelle Carson ofWinnipeg, Manitoba, and JamieKrzyminski of Corunna. Thispast summer, Carson topped allCanadian runners at the WorldCross Country Championshipsen route to finishing 42nd over-all. Last year, Krzyminski placedsecond at the Big Ten Champi-onships and 33rd at the NCAAChampionships.

FIVE TO HALL OF FAME—MSUinducted five new members intoits Athletics Hall of Fame—Lau-

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FORD’S BETTER IDEA ISMAGIC—Basketball Hall ofFamer turned entrepreneurEarvin “Magic” Johnson, is seenhere arriving at a July press con-ference in Dearborn, MI, in hisLincoln Navigator to announcethat he and Lincoln Mercury, adivision of Ford Motor Co.,have entered a “multidimen-sional marketing relationship,”which will include televisionand print commercials and oth-er cross-promotional materials.Magic joins actress Salma

Hayek, golfer Phil Mickelsonand country music singer TobyKeith in Ford’s stable of celebri-ty endorsers. Meanwhile, Spar-tan hoops fans await the unveil-ing of Magic’s “No-Look Pass”statue by the Breslin StudentEvents Center on Nov. 1.

1953 TEAM ANNIVERSARY—Members of MSU’s first Big Tenfootball team gathered Sept. 6 atthe MSU Alumni Associationhospitality tent prior to the Rut-gers game. The team won the

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ren Brown, All-American crosscountry star from 1928-31; JoeDeLamielleure, All-Americanfootball center in 1970-72 andmember of the NFL Hall ofFame; Mary Fossum, MSUwomen’s golf coach from 1973-97 and winner of six consecu-tive AIAW National Champi-onships from 1973-78; CherylGilliam, All-American in the60-meter dash and four-timeBig Ten champions in 200 me-ters; and Tom Yewcic, All-American in football and base-ball who played professionallyfor both the Detroit Tigers andthe New England Patriots. TheMSU Athletics Hall of Fame isin the Clara Bell Smith Stu-dent-Athlete Academic Center.

Displays and plaques show keymoments in athletics history, aswell as each of the 82 inductees.

THE ICEMEN COMETH—Thisyear’s ice hockey team will fea-ture 11 new faces, and second-year coach Rick Comley ispleased. “I like our blend of re-turning talent and incomingpotential,” he says. “We wantto build on the strong second-half we had and use everythingwe learned last year as a spring-board to an excellent 2003 sea-son. The CCHA will be verycompetitive again, but I expectto be as good as anyone.”Among the recruits is highlytouted goalie Dominic Vicari.Other newcomers include ju-

niors Adam Nightingale andRod Tocco, andfreshmen TomGoebel, Ethan Gra-ham, Tyler How-ells, ChrisLawrence, DrewMiller, ChrisSnavely, A.J.Thelen andBrandonWarner. Ju-nior sharp-shooter Jim

Slater (see photo) has beennamed captain for 2003-2004.

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ATLANTA, GA—Aug.9: Morethan 140 area Spartans attendedthe annual Big Ten Picnic at LakeAllatoona, Riverside Park. About$300 was raised for the scholar-ship fund, which has been re-named as the T.D. JorgensenMSU Endowed ScholarshipFund of Atlanta in honor of oneof the area’s most loyal and activeSpartans (inset).

BAY COUNTY—June 26: Morethan 100 area Spartans enjoyeddinner and dancing on a specialcharter boat at the 3rd AnnualCruise On The Bay event, whichraises funds for student scholar-ships.

BENZIE COUNTY—June 12:Gordon Kells (left) and Jeff Arm-strong (right, back), dean ofMSU’s College of Agricultureand Natural Resources, seen herewith student scholarship recipi-ents, were among more than 70area Spartans who attended theannual Spring meeting and schol-arship dinner. Armstrong servedas the keynote speaker. The clubawarded two $500 scholarshipsto area MSU students.

BERRIEN COUNTY—June 10:More than 400 area Spartans, in-cluding some from South Bend,IN, attended the annual SteakFry event at the Berrien CountySportsman Club. Special guestsincluded football coach John L.Smith (seen here between CoreyRuell and Marc Compton, twosophomores from South Havenwho play trumpet in the SpartanMarching Band), hockey coachRick Comley (seen between Johnand Scott Williamson), women’sgolf coach Stacy Slobodnik,Ralph Young Fund director ChrisRitrievi, and MSUAA executivedirector Keith A. Williams. Pro-ceeds from the event went to theMike Jones Scholarship Fund.

DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX—May 10: More than 50 area Spar-tans attended the 4th AnnualGolf Tournament & ScholarshipDrive at the Riverchase GC inCoppell, TX. With the help oforganizer Patrick Johnson andclub president Chris Horner,

some $1,400 was raised for theclub’s scholarship fund.

DAYTON—Apr. 26: Some 30guests attended a dinner andwine tasting at Jay’s SeafoodRestaurant, celebrating the com-pletion of its $20,000 scholarshipendowment.

EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA—Aug. 2: Some 35 area Spartansparticipated in the third annualAntique Boat Tour and Scholar-ship Picnic at the home of clubco-founders Bud and MarySearch in Hessel. Participants en-joyed a cruise through the LesChenaux Islands of Lake Huronand a BBQ on the beach.

EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY—May 14: President Mark Makos-ki presented scholarships to fourMSU students at the club’s annu-al dinner and scholarship recep-tion at the Pointe BBQ on War-ren, Detroit.

GRAND TRAVERSE—May 16:More than 100 area Spartans—including the Thomson clan(photo)—attended the annualGolf & Scholarship Dinner at theTraverse City CC. Six $1,000scholarships were awarded to in-coming MSU freshmen, uppingtheir total number of scholarshipssince 1980 to 112. The club’sscholarship endowment is nowvalued at $123,000. Dave Walk-er, news anchor for the NBC affil-iate, served as both MC and auc-tioneer.

GREATER ST. LOUIS—May 28:Area Spartans attended the An-

nual Spring Dinner at VikingRestaurant & Conference Cen-ter, St. Louis. Special guest wasWolfgang Bauer, chairperson ofMSU’s Physics and AstronomyDept., seen here addressing thegroup as keynote speaker.

HILLSDALE—July 31: Area Spar-tans attended a scholarshipawards dinner at the HillsdaleGolf & CC, hosted by club presi-dent Richard Moore. Two schol-arships were awarded to incom-ing MSU students.

JACKSON COUNTY—June 6:Bob Kuhl, Vivian Cobb, presi-dent Steve Nason, vice presidentLucy Stieber; and Leigh AnnDrew, Dave Brown, Todd Dage-nais, Dick Riska, treasurer CarlSwenson and secretary ArnieStieber were among those at-tending the 3rd Annual GolfScramble.

KALAMAZOO COUNTY—June 19:(l to r) MSU First Lady JoanneMcPherson, Judy and TimShank, and football coach JohnL. Smith were among more than400 area Spartans who attendedthe 31st Annual BBQ at MSU’sKellogg Biological Station. Spe-cial guests also included assistantbasketball coach DwayneStephens, seen here on the Spar-


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tan chariot, and MSUAA execu-tive director Keith A. Williams.More than $3,000 was raisedthrough an auction to benefit theSparty Restoration Fund, as wellas student scholarships.

MID-MICHIGAN—July 8: Morethan 200 area Spartans joinedNBA star and philanthropistSteve Smith—seen here with hisfather Don (wearing Yankeecap)—in the 4th Annual SteveSmith Charity Classic at HawkHollow GC, Bath. Special guestsincluded athletic director RonMason, former MSU quarter-back Bobby McAllister, hockeycoach Rick Comley, assistant bas-ketball coach Mark Montgomery,women’s gymnastics coach KathyKlages and swimming coach JimLutz. WLNS-TV6 news anchorDave Akerly served as MC. More

than $30,000 was raised forReading Is Fundamental andscholarships for students at MSUand Detroit Pershing HighSchool.

MUSKEGON COUNTY—June 13:More than 100 area Spartanstook part in the 13th AnnualDon Arnson golf outing and din-ner. Assistant head football coachJim McElwain was the keynotespeaker.

OAKLAND COUNTY—May 23:More than 250 guests attended aspecial reception for footballcoach John L. Smith at the Farm-ington Hills Manor.

ORANGE COUNTY—May 6: AreaSpartans participated in the an-nual golf outing at Tijeras CreekCC. MSU athletic director RonMason was the keynote speaker.Money was raised for the club’sendowed scholarship, now valuedat more than $100,000.

PUGET SOUND, WA—Some 35area Spartans attended a recep-tion and dinner for MSUAA ex-ecutive director Keith A.Williamsat Café Hue in Seattle, WA.

QUAD CITIES—Aug. 9: (l to r)Vice president Gary Ingersoll,President Brian Kopp and Trea-surer Harvey Levin hold theclub’s charter as more than 30

area Spartans joined them at theclub’s debut event at the FrontStreet Brewery on the Mississip-pi. The MSUAA’s 106th alumniclubs charter was presented byMSUAA assistant director DaveBrown.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN—June 22:Nearly 40 area Spartans joined acontingent of University ofMichigan alumni to attend theColorado Rockies vs. DetroitTigers baseball game at CoorsField, Denver, CO.

TAMPA BAY, FL—June 8: Morethan 120 area Spartans andfriends, including incomingHonors College freshman ChrisMarshall, enjoyed its annualBBQ at San Phillippe Park. Spe-cial guest was MSU associatehead football coach Jim McEl-wain. More than $500 wasraised.

WASHTENAW COUNTY—May 5:About 40 area Spartans attendeda special Cinco De Mayo party at

The Arena, Restaurant of Cham-pions, in Ann Arbor. Specialguests included Pam Horne,MSU admissions director, Bar-bara Ball-McClure, special giftsofficer, and keynote speaker MikeVollmar, director of football oper-ations.

WEST MICHIGAN—July 14:MSU athletic director Ron Ma-son (right) and NBA star andphilanthropist Steve Smith wereamong more than 250 area Spar-tans who attended the 5th Annu-al Steve Smith Charity Challengeat Thornapple Pointe GC inGrand Rapids. Special guests alsoincluded hockey coach RickComley, MSUAA executive di-rector Keith A. Williams and theMSU Dance team. Terry Braver-man, retired director of MSU’sRalph Young Fund, served asMC. Funds were raised for stu-dent scholarships at MSU, De-troit Pershing High School andReading Is Fundamental.


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CONSTITUENT ASSOCIATIONS

ARTS & LETTERS—June 27-29:The Arts Weekend at MackinacIsland took place at the GrandHotel. Presentations and perfor-mances showcased CAL facultyand students from the School ofMusic, Dept. of Art & Art Histo-ry, and the Dept. of Theatre. TheCALAA presented the Paul VargAlumni Award and $2,500 toMartin Benjamin, Dept. of Phi-losophy, for outstanding teach-ing, and many scholarship awardsto students.

HOSPITALITY BUSINESS—June6: Some 25 members of theKedzie Reunion attended abreakfast at Kellogg Center pre-pared by The School of Hospitali-ty Business students under theguidance of Hall of Fame Mem-ber Chef Robert Nelson. July 13-25: (See photo) 14 U.S. Air ForceClub Managers participated in anadvanced club management pro-gram developed by the Office ofExecutive Development Pro-grams in the Eli Broad GraduateSchool of Management, the AirForce Services Agency in San An-tonio, TX, and The School ofHospitality Business.

NURSING— May 22: Midlandarea alumni heard dean MarilynRothert discuss the nursingshortage and new on-line pro-grams being offered this fall. Inthe photo are (1st row, l to r)Elaine Kaiser, Marlene Mehlhose,JoAnna Fields, Kristin Flanagan,Ellen Greber, (2nd row, l to r)Sherry Wilson, Sandy Wright,Sue Neumann, (3rd row, l to r)Pam Schoen, Alyne McCann,Joann Bunce, Marilyn Rothert.

OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE—Mar.1-8: COM alumni and theirfamilies gathered in Playa delCarmen, Mexico, for a week ofcontinuing medical educationand fun at the annual Seminar inthe Sun sponsored by the MSU-COM Alumni Association.

COMINGEVENTS

ARTS & LETTERS—Oct. 4:CAL and Justin Morrill CollegeAlumni Homecoming Tent Par-ty on Adams Field. Contact(517) 353-4725 or [email protected].

HOSPITALITY BUSINESS—Oct.3-4: Homecoming activities in-clude a Board of Directors meet-ing Friday from 8:30 am-3 pmand a pregame tailgate receptionon Saturday. Nov. 8: TheSchool of Hospitality AlumniAssociation Board briefingmeeting and the Celebration of Leadership reception at theWaldorf-Astoria, NY. RSVP at(517) 353-9211or [email protected].

INTERNATIONAL CLUBS

THAILAND—July 25: About 50club members attended theThailand Alumni Club of MSUmeeting at the Rama Gardens

Hotel in Bangkok. Specialguest speaker was Michael F.Miller of International Studiesand Programs (ISP). WallopManathanya, head of theASEAN Packaging Association,was unanimously elected (in ab-sentia) president, replacingMaleerat Pleumchitchom(front, 2nd left). Other guestsincluded David Danek (front,center) of the American Em-bassy in Malaysia, and JaruvanMaintaka (next to David), thefirst female Governor of the In-ternal Revenue Dept., who re-ceived a title from his Majestythe King of Thailand in recog-nition of her outstanding ser-vice to the country.

TOKYO—June 29: The MSUAlumni Club of Japan held theirannual meeting at the Jal CityHotel in Tokyo. Tetsuya Imaiwas re-elected president, andKeiichi Higuchi was named secretary.


KALEIDOSCOPE 2003—Keynote speaker and Hollywood scriptwriterCarrie Fisher (seated, middle) poses with members of the 2003 Kalei-doscope Committee: (seated, l to r) Joyce Banish, Fisher, and FayleneOwen; and (standing, l to r) Kay Watts, LaurenMarinez, MSUAAassistant and Kalei-doscope directorSharon Radtke,Barb Susa-Fineis,Theresa Pharms,and Sandy Dragoo.Kaleidoscope is anannual, day-longMSU Alumni Asso-ciation event forwomen members.

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GREY DAY IN DALI—Cindy Wa-chowski (far right), an interna-tional relations major from LakeOrion, participated in an MSUStudy Abroad program to Chinain the summer of 2002. Cindystudied economic and environ-mental management in a pro-gram sponsored by the Dept. ofPark, Recreation and TourismResources. Engaging in tourismthemselves, Cindy and her fellowSpartans took excursions toplaces like the Great Wall, theForbidden City, Wolong PandaReserve and Yunnan (seen here)while interacting with local peo-ple and culture. This particularprogram, temporarily suspendedthis past summer due to SARSoutbreak, could well be availableagain in 2004.

MANY, MANY MOONS AGO…Pictured here at the Pyramid ofthe Moon in Teotihuacan, Mexi-co are (l to r) MSUstudent Jessie Boyd,of Farmington Hills,with her interna-tional classmatesShannon Buckshawof Vancouver,Canada, andKatarine Verhoopof the Nether-lands. Jessie par-ticipated in threestudy abroadprograms dur-ing her MSUcareer. ASpanish ma-jor, she hastried to speakSpanish atevery opportunity. Jessie began

her study abroad experiences inMadrid, Spain in 1999 and justrecently returned from back-to-back experiences fall and springsemesters in Quito, Ecuador andQueréraro, Mexico. “The experi-ences I have had studying abroad,have changed my life, for the bet-ter, forever,” she says. “I wouldrecommend studying abroad toanyone and everyone.”

THE COLISSEUM—With a seat-ing capacity of 50,000, it was notquite a big as Spartan Stadium,but nonetheless, the famous Ro-man Colisseum was one of manystops for MSUAA travelers JudithE. Marr (left), ’65, M.A. ’92, andLynda B. Andersen, ’68, M.A.’73, both life members of theMSU Alumni Association, dur-ing their Tuscany tour in March.For a complete listing of MSUAAtours, visit www.msualum.com

and click the “Travel” link.


Celebrating its 21st anniversary in 2004, this two-week life-long education program takes you on a rare adventure toOxford-“city of dreaming spires” and to the University ofOxford, famous as a great center of learning since the 12thcentury. Once England’s capital, Oxford is located in theheart of England just 50 miles northwest of London.

Open to all adults, participants enroll in one (of four) non-credit personal enrichment course. A typical day’s scheduleincludes morning classes taught by Oxford tutors with af-ternoon course specific field trips or general group excur-sions. Group excursions may include visits to Stratford-upon-Avon, prehistoric sites, famous castles, gardens,palaces, cathedrals or abbeys, the Cotswolds, London,and/or other English towns.

There will be ample time during the two weeks and at mid-program weekend break to enjoy breathtaking architecture,art, and gardens of many of the university’s 39 colleges, ex-plore the historic town of Oxford, or visit the surroundingcountryside. The city of Oxford offers a diversity of muse-ums, bookshops, theaters, restaurants, pubs, shops, andnatural settings to explore.

Participants stay in Oxford’s Department for ContinuingEducation Residential Center. The Residential Center of-fers comfortable bedrooms with private bathrooms, diningroom, common room, bar, lecture and reading rooms.

For a detailed brochure, contact: Alumni Lifelong Education*Evening College/Odyssey to Oxford, Michigan State University

*A division of the MSU Alumni Association

Phone: (517)355-4562 • E-mail: [email protected]: www.msualum.com

O d y s s e y t o O x f o r d

August 21-September 4, 2004

21st anniversary

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SP10PL8S—Aug. 17: Gatheringfor its 25th annual rally, 38 of the215 members of Spartan Plates—a group of Spartans who display

their love for MSU in their per-sonalized license plates—posed bythe Spartan statue while proudlydisplaying their plates. Those in-

terested in joining the group canvisit the website www.CQQL.net/msu.htm or call president RobertNelson at (517) 241-4987.

WONDER GIFT—On May 13,music star Stevie Wonder (left)received a special birthday giftfrom J.J. Jackson, former MSUfaculty specialist, who has knownWonder since they were studentsat the Michigan School for theBlind, Lansing, some fourdecades ago. The gift is a 200-pound stainless steel and bronzesculpture, “Rings Of Friend-ship,” created by MSU veterinaryprofessor and renowned sculptorJim Cunningham. During theirstudent days, Wonder often visit-ed J.J. at Snyder Hall and per-

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formed impromptu concerts forhall residents, who were surprisedby having a famous musician justdrop in.

FOOD SAFETY—July 12: MikeChaddock (left), CVM ’73,AVMA Director of Governmen-tal Affairs, and Ed Mather, direc-tor of MSU’s National Centerfor Food Safety and Toxocology,met with former Senator andveterinarian John Melcher at theAmerican Veterinary MedicalAssociation

headquarters in WashingtonD.C. to discuss food safety pro-grams as well as the center,which will be playing an ever in-creasingly important role inhomeland security.

TOWER IN THE SAND—ToddHoppe, ’01, and his girlfriendRobin Lileikis, ’01, harbor twoloves—their alma mater Michi-gan State University, and theGrand Haven beach. In June,when Hoppe wanted to proposemarriage, his dilemma was“Where?” As can be seen fromhis photo, published in theGrand Haven Tribune, Todd wasable to have it both ways. Hecreated a four-foot sand sculp-ture of Beaumont Tower on theGrand Haven beach, where heproposed. “We bleed green . . .and we also love Grand Haven,”notes Robin, who accepted.

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MSU REMAINS IN COMPETION FOR RARE ISOTOPE ACCELERATOR

By Steve Webster

During the past year there hasbeen much talk about the poten-tial for MSU to be the home ofthe Rare Isotope Accelerator(RIA). Noting its importance tothe future of nuclear physics, akey federal scientific advisorypanel has dubbed RIA its highestpriority for new construction.Costing a billion dollars to buildand housing several hundred re-searchers, technical staff and stu-dents, RIA would be the world’smost powerful and advanced rareisotope research accelerator facili-ty. The federal government is stillin the process of deciding if, infact, RIA will be built, as well aswhere the final site of this crucialproject will be.

MSU continues to be a strongcontender for this facility, led bythe significant scientific and tech-nical contributions of scientists atMSU’s National Superconduct-ing Cyclotron Laboratory.Michigan lawmakers, industrialexecutives, and community lead-ers are assisting the university inmaking its case to the federal gov-ernment. MSU’s internationalleadership in nuclear physics, theuniversity’s integration of researchand education to produce tomor-

row’s scientists, combined withthe technological prowess of thestate of Michigan make MSU anideal site.

At this point, there are still threesignificant steps that must occurprior to building the RIA. First,the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)must designate RIA as a projectwith sufficiently high nationalpriority that the federal govern-ment commits to its construction.Second, funding for RIA must bein the President’s FY 2005 budgetthat will be proposed in January2004, and must be passed by theCongress. Third, DOE will needto select the site for RIA.

As of this writing, there is strongindication that DOE will placeRIA on its highest priority list forfederal funding. Significant chal-lenges remain for MSU howeverin the second and third steps ofthis process—getting sufficientfunding for RIA into the FederalFY 2005 budget and winning thehighly competitive RIA site selec-tion.

Federal budget constraintsmake the allocation of federal re-sources exceedingly competitive,and it is very important that law-makers understand that, even in aconstrained budget, the develop-ment of this project is crucial toour national and state interests.MSU officials are also pressingDOE to conduct an early compe-

tition to determine the site forRIA so as not to slow momentumfor the project or lose out to inter-national competitors.

RIA is an important nationalpriority that belongs at MichiganState University. Alumni andfriends of MSU are important al-lies in advocating for this project,and are encouraged to contact leg-islators and federal officials tovoice support for the project’sfunding.☛ For information, please visitwww.nscl.msu.edu/future/ria/in-dex.html.

SOUTH KOREANSFUND LIM AWARD

Overcoming distance and thedrawbacks of complicated discus-sions conducted exclusively by e-mail, South Korean alumni andfriends completed work on a$30,000 endowed award in honorof Dr. Gill-Chin Lim, MSU En-dowed Professor of Asian Studiesin a Global Context.

Those joining together both oncampus and in South Korea tomake the award a reality includedthe MSU Alumni Association ofKorea, the Council on KoreanStudies, KDI School of PublicPolicy and Management, the So-ciety of Korean-American Schol-ars, Club Spartan, and the MSUKorea Student Organization.Brett (Hwi-Gook) Song, vicepresident of the MSU Alumni As-sociation of Korea, served as pri-mary organizer for the effort.Song, president of Seoul-basedKoreadotcom, has supportedMSU International Studies andPrograms for many years.

The Gill-Chin Lim Award forOutstanding Doctoral Disserta-tion in Global Studies is theaward’s formal name. ProfessorLim, a devoted teacher and re-searcher, advised many graduatestudents during his long career,many who today explore new ar-eas of knowledge in global issues,

development studies, and com-parative and multi-disciplinarystudies. “As the third dean of In-ternational Studies and Pro-grams,” stated John Hudzik, ISP’scurrent dean, “Professor Lim wasinstrumental in establishing theannual International Award Cere-mony. His efforts led to the Cere-mony’s first awards named afterISP’s first and second deans–theGlen Taggart Award for Commu-nity Contribution, and the RalphSmuckler Award for AdvancingInternational Studies and Pro-grams. It will be at this Ceremonythat we honor Dr. Lim.”

The Award, which shall be pre-sented for the first time at the In-ternational Award Ceremony in2004, was introduced to thoseparticipating in the Ceremonythis past April. Held in the newlycompleted Delia Koo Interna-tional Academic Center locatedatop the International Center, theCeremony closed with an intro-duction of the new Gill-Chin LimAward and the announcementthat it will carry a stipend of noless than $1,000.

“This is a highly appropriateway to honor Professor Lim,” saysInterim President and ProvostLou Anna K. Simon. “The win-ning dissertation will have an in-ternational dimension with re-search focused on countries orregions outside the United States”.

Gill-Chin Lim (right) chats withBenjamin O. Schwendener, Jr.,president of the W.B. CandaceThoman Foundation, at theMSU International Awards Cere-mony last April.

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Editor’s Column

TRASH TALK FROM THEBLUE AND YELLOW

By Robert Bao, Editor

“My mother shoots harder thanthat!” bellows the hockey goaliewearing a blue and yellow uni-form.

Miss another shot, and hemight say, “Try it with your eyesopen the next time.” Or, ask in asarcastic tone, “Should we sub ina shooter?”

Such trash talking is part of thefun of our latest game, “SpartanFace Off,” which you can play inour newly redesigned web site atwww.msualum.com. Like ourother games—the Sparty SpearToss, MSU Alumni Golf andMSU Alumni Bowling—this wasspecifically designed for membersof the MSU Alumni Association.

These games form just a smallpart of our website, which pro-vides a tremendous amount ofvalue, information and fun forour alumni members. Based ontraffic reports, more of you are us-ing the site, using it more often,and using it for greater lengths oftime. For example, statistics forour newly developed OnlineAlumni Directory, where you can

find old classmatesor roommates,show a huge surge ofusage. As a memberof the MSUAA, youget to use it. Wethank you becauseyour dues made it pos-sible for us to developthis tool, which isproving very useful athelping Spartans recon-nect with each other. You also might receivediscounts at our threeshopping markets,where you can buy

unique MSU items. It’sa perfect place to find a gift for

the Spartan who’s already paintedgreen from socks to visor. Howabout the “must have” Olympics-inspired Roots beret? Or anMSU-logo item from Land’sEnd? Or, in anticipation of ourupcoming football and basketballtrips to Hawaii, a Spartan-themed Hawaiian shirt?

Wherever you travel, you canfind the local alumni regionalclub simply by clicking on theAlumni Groups link. Under thesame link, you can find our com-ing events. And if you move fre-quently, you can help us keep upwith you simply by clicking onthe Address Update link. If youswitch email vendors frequently,you might wish to sign up forour lifetime email forwarding,with msualum.com as youremail domain. As an MSUAAmember, you can also access ahost of career services, MSU e-cards and screensavers, and thetext of past issues of the MSUAlumni Magazine.

I’m sure you’ve already foundall these wonderful things and in-formation and put our web re-sources to good use.

But just for the fun of it, goahead and score a few goals onthat goalie and make him sigh“Sieve” for a change.

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Peter A. Kattula, ’94, internaloperations consultant, Masco

Corp., Novi, hasbeen named vicepresident of op-erational plan-ning, BrassCraft, a Mascocompany. Kat-

tula joined Masco in 2000.From 1994-00, he held variouspositions at Ford Motor Co. in-cluding materials and supplychain analyst, planning coordi-nator and industrial engineer.Kattula is a veteran of the U.S.Navy having served as a flightdeck launch troubleshooter in aFA-18 aircraft squadron.

Peter T. Faricy, ’88, Detroit arearegional operations manager,

Lincoln Mer-cury, Ford Mo-tor Co., Dear-born, has beennamed vicepresident, mul-timedia market-

ing for Borders Group Inc., AnnArbor. During his tenure atFord, Faricy served in severalleadership roles including execu-tive director of business develop-ment, Ford North America anddirector of the corporate initia-tives office. Prior to Ford, Faricyworked for McKinsey & Corp.,J. Walter Thompson and Coca-Cola USA.

Jay M. McLean, ’78, MBA ’87,senior director of information

technology, hu-man resourcesand financialsystems, Arvin-Meritor, Troy,has been namedvice president of

information technology forcommercial vehicle systems. Pri-or to joining ArvinMeritor in1997, he held various account-ing, IT and marketing roles at

GKN Automotive, where he lastserved as its product manager,Asia/Pacific Business Unit.

William H. Mayes, ’69, MA ’74,superintendent of Huron Inter-

mediate SchoolDistrict since1993 has beennamed presidentof the MichiganAssn. of SchoolAdministrators

(MASA). Previously, he was ad-ministrator of student instruc-tional programs for Huron ISDand from 1988-1991 he served assuperintendent of North HuronSchools. In 2002 Mayes receivedthe Crystal Apple Award from theMSU College of Education. He isa life member of the MSUAA anda member of the Presidents Cluband the Landon Legacy Society.

Alison R. Nelson, ’87, JD ’90, at-torney for Ford Motor Co., Dear-born, has been appointed to the

board of direc-tors of the LegalAid and Defend-er Assn. Inc.Nelson has beencounsel on prod-uct litigation for

Ford since June 1994. Previouslyshe was an attorney on environ-mental matters for the company.She is a member of the State Barof Michigan, American Bar Assn.and the National Bar Assn. She isalso a member and past presidentof the Wolverine Bar Assn.

William J. Lowe, ’71, vice presi-dent for academic affairs and pro-fessor of history at The College of

Saint Rose, Al-bany NY, hasbeen named thefirst provost andvice presidentfor academic af-fairs, at Metro-

politan State University, St. Paul,

MN. He was dean of the Collegeof Liberal Arts and professor ofhistory at the University of De-troit Mercy from 1991-97 anddean of graduate studies and pro-fessor of history at Chicago StateUniversity from 1984-91. In1990 Lowe was named a Ful-bright Scholar at Trinity College.He is a life member of theMSUAA.

Judith K. Moore, MMUS ’85,general manager of the GreaterLansing Symphony Orchestra,

has been namedexecutive direc-tor of the Li-brary of Michi-gan Foundation.Moore firstjoined the Sym-

phony as production manager in1985. She was later promoted tooperations manager and then toGM in 1996. During her tenure,the Symphony doubled the num-ber of K-12 students reachedthrough its education programs.In her new position, Moore willdirect the Foundation’s fund-rais-ing and administrative opera-tions.

Patricia A. Bando, ’75, directorof dining services at Boston Col-

lege, ChestnutHill, MA, hasbeen elected tothe Board of Di-rectors of theMassachusettsRestaurant Assn.

(MRA). Bando received the2003 National Restaurant Assn.Educational Foundation Em-ployer of Choice Award. She isthe past recipient of the Multi-Cultural Foodservice HospitalityAlliance’s Strategic Example ofExcellence in Diversity Award.She is a member of the AmericanDietetic Assn. and the NationalAssn. of College & UniversityFood Services.

John K. Everett, DO ’87, practic-ing physician at the Indian River

Medical Centerand CheboyganMemorial Hos-pital, Cheboy-gan, has beennamed presidentof the Michigan

Osteopathic Assn. (MOA).Everett also serves as a clinical as-sistant professor in the College ofOsteopathic Medicine at MSU.He has been a member of theMOA board of trustees since1998, serving as president overthe last year. Everett has traveledto Third World countries on nu-merous medical missions, mostrecently to Guatemala in 2002.

Ted. F. Peters, ’63, systemic theol-ogy professor at Pacific Lutheran

TheologicalSeminary, Berke-ley, CA (PLTS)and GraduateTheologicalUnion, has beennamed interim

president of PLTS. An ordainedpastor of the Evangelical Luther-an Church in America, Peters hasserved parishes in Illinois andNew York, and on the faculty ofLoyola University and NewberryCollege, Newberry, SC, beforejoining PLTS in 1978.

David A. Berns,’69, MSW ’79,director of El Paso County Dept.

of Human Ser-vices, ColoradoSprings, CO, hasbeen named di-rector of Ari-zona’s Dept. ofEconomic Secu-

rity. Berns has held various posi-tions in the human services arenasince 1970. Previously, he was theDirector of the Michigan FamilyIndependence Agency and Direc-tor of the Marquette CountyDept. of Social Services. He has

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received many awards includingthe 1999 Colorado Social Workerof the Year Award. He serves onthe board of directors for theAmerican Public Human Ser-vices Assn. and was vice presidentof the National Assn. of PublicChild Welfare. Berns has beenactive with Big Brothers for 32years.

Sally A. Hamby, ’75, principal inMiller, Canfield, Paddock and

Stone, Troy, hasreceived theFriend of Na-tional Associa-tion of WomenBusiness Own-ers award from

NAWBO’s Detroit chapter. Theaward recognizes non-memberindividuals whose contributionsbenefit the chapter. Hamby ischairperson of the Troy Chamberof Commerce Women’s BusinessForum. She is also a member ofthe American, Michigan, andOakland County Bar Assns., andthe Detroit Zoological Society.Hamby is a life member of theMSUAA.

Janet P. MacQueen, MBA ’85,systems development officer at

Blue Cross BlueShield of Michi-gan, Detroit, hasbeen named vicepresident andchief informa-tion officer for

Blue Care Network of Michigan.Prior to joining the Blues in1999, MacQueen was the ownerand president of Healthcare Re-sources and Consultants and a di-rector at Health Alliance Plan. In1982, MacQueen was named theDetroit Woman of the Year by the YWCA.

Thomas J. Messner, ’81, vice pres-ident of underwriting and secre-tary-treasurer of Michigan Con-

struction Indus-try Mutual(MCIM), Lans-ing, has beennamed vice pres-ident, chief op-erations officer-

treasurer of the corporation.MCIM is a mutual insurancecompany specializing in workers’compensation. Messner has beenin the insurance industry formore than 20 years. He is a mem-ber of the Certified Property andCasualty Underwriter Society.

Gene Farnum, ’61, executive di-rector of the Michigan Assn. of

Health Plans(MAHP) hasbeen awardedthe Ellis J. Bon-ner Outstand-ing Achieve-ment Award.

Farnum has been with MAHPsince 1981. Prior to that he waspresident of a consulting firm inLansing. Farnum also served formore than twelve years as direc-tor of the Michigan Senate FiscalAgency, having the distinction ofserving both the Republican andDemocratic majorities. Farnumis involved in numerous tradegroups and professional organi-zations. A life member of theMSUAA, he served on the na-tional board of directors from1997-00, the last two years aschair. Farnum is a member ofthe Beaumont Tower Society.

Sean L. Carlson, ’92, JD ’99, se-nior human resource manager for

Pepsi bottlingoperations in theDetroit area, hasbeen named di-rector of Acqui-sition Servicesfor the Michigan

Dept. of Management & Budget.Carlson is a veteran of the U.S.Air Force contracting and logis-

tics service, where he managedpurchasing and constructionsprograms. He is currently a cap-tain and deputy readiness officerin the USAF Reserves. He wasthe first person in MSU-DCL’shistory to concurrently earn amasters degree in labor relationsand human relations from MSU.

John J. Matthews, ’84, vice presi-dent for marketing, real estate &

facilities atClark Retail En-terprises, OakBrook, IL, hasbeen namedpresident ofJimmy John’s

Gourmet Sandwich Shops,Elgin, IL. Matthews is a 16-year veteran of the foodserviceindustry. Previously, he spentnine years at Little CaesarsEnterprises, Inc. where hewas the national marketingdirector.

Josh Blackmore, ’85, productmanager for General Electric

Corp., has beennamed directorof sales and mar-keting atMagline, Inc.,Pinconning,MI. Blackmore

joined GE in 1995, and servedin various positions includingtechnical sales representative andmarketing manager. Prior toGE, Blackmore worked for DowChemical Co. from 1990-95where he was a researcher, tech-nical sales representative, andtechnical sales specialist.

Joshua F. Opperer, ’92, partner inthe Corporate and SecuritiesDept. of Honigman, Miller,Schwartz, and Cohn, Detroit, hasbeen named one of the 100Emerging Business Leaders in theregion by Detroiter, a publicationof the Detroit Regional Chamber.

Opperer providescounsel in a vari-ety of areas in-cluding mergersand acquisitions,real estate trans-actions, and debt

and equity financing. He currentlyserves on the board of directors andexecutive committee of the DetroitEconomic Growth Corp. and is atrustee of the Fund for Detroit’sFuture.

Barbara J. Mann, ’76, associateprofessor of medicine and microbi-

ology at the Uni-versity of Vir-ginia,Charlottesville,VA, is the joint re-cipient of the2003 Edlich-

Henderson Inventor of the YearAward by the University of VirginiaPatent Foundation. Mann helpedto develop a clinical test to diagnosea disease that is a leading cause ofdeath in children in developingcountries. Mann joined the facultyin 1988 as a research associate andbecame associate professor in 2000.She received the Bailey K. AshfordMedal for distinguished work inTropical Medicine in 2001.

Chuck A. Obermeyer, ’85, direc-tor of packaging resources, Gulf

States PaperCorp.,Tuscaloosa, AL,has been namedvice president ofmanufacturingin the company’s

Paperboard Packaging Division.Obermeyer first joined the com-pany in 1998 as plant manager.Before coming to Gulf States, hewas a plant manager for JeffersonSmurfit in Solon, OH, and OakTree Packaging in Palmer, MA.

Michael J. Suszan, ’75, ForceJudge Advocate for the Naval Ed-


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ucation andTraining Com-mand, Pensaco-la, FL, has beennamed appel-late judge onthe U.S. Navy-

Marine Corps Court of Crimi-nal Appeals, Washington, D.C.Suszan has been in his currentposition since 2000. He com-manded the Naval Legal ServiceOffice at the Naval Air Stationin Pensacola from 1997-00.

His personal decorations in-clude the Legion of Merit, Mer-itorious Service Medal withgold star, Navy CommendationMedal with two gold stars andthe Navy Achievement Medal.Suszan is a life member of theMSUAA.

M. Scott Bowen, ’87, city com-missioner for Grand Rapids, hasbeen appointed to the 62-ADistrict Court in Wyoming byGov. Jennifer Granholm.

Bowen is a part-ner at McIner-ney & Bowen ofGrand Rapids.He has workedas an assistantcity attorney for

Kentwood, Lowell and Rock-ford. He also acted as special as-sistant attorney general for theMichigan Dept. of Transporta-tion. He was elected to theGrand Rapids City Commis-sion in 1997 and re-elected in

2001. In 1997 he received theOutstanding Young Personaward from the Grand RapidsJaycees.

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30s

Alice (Hertzler) Bartlett, ’30, ofOkemos, July 7, age 99.

Ransom O. Abel, ’31, M ’32 ofLansing, May 30, age 95.

Clare A. Jakeway, ’31, ofBrighton, formerly of Detroit,July 29, age 97.

Jean B. (Blocksma) Clelland, ’33,of Grand Rapids, Aug. 16, age92.

Joseph M. Day, ’33, of Saginaw,Aug. 1, age 93.

Carl V. Bates, ’34, of Elsie, for-merly of Higgins Lake, Aug. 7,age 99.

Henry “Hank” A. Johnson, ’34, ofTucson, AZ, Mar. 28.

Millicent B. (Thompson) Mont-gomery, ’34, of Kalamazoo, for-merly of New Haven, IN, Aug.25, age 92.

Harvey L. Bouwkamp, ’36, ofGrand Rapids, Aug. 31, age 91.

Eleanor R. (Schmidt) Dorstewitz,’36, of Kalamazoo, formerly ofPaw Paw, June 29, age 89.

James A. Lewis, ’36, of Sarasota,FL, Oct. 2001.

George B. Peters, ’36, of Aurora,IL, June 26, age 88.

Lydia R. (Jones) Sparks, ’36, ofCassopolis, July 22, age 88.

Richard C. Phillips, ’37, of SantaRosa, CA, May 8, age 89.

Florence V. (Rothfuss) Trigger,’37, of Champaign, IL, July 29,age 90.

M. June Mulligan, ’38, of Manis-tique and Pine Island, FL, May 9,age 86.

Eula (Waltz) Bevier, ’39, of Kala-mazoo, June 30, age 85.

Irene B. Gutkowski, ’39, of Jack-son, June 12.

Herman L. King, ’39, of EastLansing, Aug. 3, age 88.

Robert W. Patenge, ’39, of Mesa,AZ, June 9, age 87.

Arno W. Weiss, Sr., ’39, ofThomas Twp., June 25, age 89.

40s

Margaret B. Hill, ’40, of Kalama-zoo, formerly of Lansing, Aug.18, age 87.

Norman Presoda, ’41, of SantaBarbara, CA, formerly of Balti-more, MD, Apr. 9, age 87.

William H. Searight, ’41, of Fen-ton, July 13, age 85.

Eleanor (Dise) Trontl, ’41, ofSouthfield, July 4, age 83.

A. “Doc” Gordon Adams, Jr., ’42,of Birmingham, June 29, age 83.

E. Clinton Stokes, ’42, of Alexan-dria, VA, May 14, age 85.

George R. Wlodyga, ’42, of West-land, June 19, age 83.

Einer G. Olstrom, ’43, of Oke-mos, Sept. 13, age 86.

Frank E. Pellerin, Jr., ’43, of E.Lansing, June 29, age 81.

Nancy A. (Arms) Wright, ’43, ofYorkville, IL, July 22, age 81.

George T. Belon, ’44, of E. Lans-ing, July 29, age 84.

Ruth A. (Boyce) Stewart, ’45, ofChelsea, July 16, age 83.

Leah “Lee” J. Tuttle, ’45, of E.Lansing, Aug. 30.

James Van Haften, ’45, of Mid-land, July 17, age 86.

Jeanne Goodrich (Meserva)Forbes, ’46, of Niceville, FL, for-merly of Gull Lake, July 26, age79.

Ruth (Henry) Bornor, ’47, of E.Lansing, June 2003, age 79.

Romer T. Haggerstrom, ’47, ofMenominee, Aug. 1, age 78.

Mary J. (Peters) Hopper, ’47, ofE. Lansing, Aug. 22, age 79.

Robert L. Luth, ’47, of Dowagiac,July 11, age 78.

Charles W. Means, ’47, of Kala-mazoo, July 24, age 81.

William R. Wood, ’47, of SpringHill, KS, Aug. 8, age 80.

Bruce W. Bennett, ’48, M ’50, ofCharlevoix, formerly of Lake-view, Aug. 28, age 80.

William B. Crawford, Sr., ’48,’50, of Flushing, July 7, age 80.

Adelbert W. Reickord, ’48, ofRandolph, NJ, July 28, age 76.

Edward H. Bacon, ’49, M ’51, ofJackson, Aug. 10, age 86.

Emory S. Derr, ’49, M ’60, ofCedar Spring, and Hilton Head,SC, Aug. 1.

Victor Emery, ’49, of Fallbrook,CA, Aug. 10, 2002.

Arthur L. Godfrey, ’49, of TempleHills, MD, May 12, 2002.

Charles E. Lokker, ’49, of E.Lansing, June 4, age 79.

Terrence Monaghan, ’49, of Mt.Clemens, May 21, age 76.

Max J. Rainey, ’49, of Seattle,July 9.

Gordon D. Rowe, ’49, of NewBraunfels, TX, Apr. 3, age 78.

Frederick R. Russell, ’49, of Au-gusta, Aug. 9, age 81.

David F. Wallace, ’49, of Sagi-naw, Aug. 23, age 79.

50s

James Backas, ’50, of Washing-ton, DC, June 25, age 77.

John R. Crawford, ’50, ofZephyrhills, FL, formerly of Itha-ca, June 21, age 76.

Benjamin R. Johnston, ’50, ofHowell, Sept. 10, age 77.

Edward G. Johnson, ’50, of Lans-ing, May 23, age 80.

Ralph E. Quinn, ’50, of St. Pe-ters, MO, formerly of Grosse Ile,July 29, age 80.

Norma M. (Hill) Schumacher,’50, of Grand Blanc, June 4, age74.

Wilbur H. Thies, Jr., ’50, of Santa

Barbara, CA, July 16, age 76.

Robert J. O’Leary, ’51, ofHoughton, July 13, age 77.

David C. Read, ’51, of Belleville,IL, May 27.

Philip A. Brown, ’52, of St.Joseph, Aug. 6, age 72.

William W. Cruise, ’52, of Alpe-na, July 2, age 76.

Alfred W. Lowman, ’52, ofNaples, FL, formerly of Detroit,July 4, age 77.

James E. Smallegan, ’52, of Or-chard Lake, Aug. 4, age 73.

Alfred E. Ueberroth, ’52, of Lans-ing, July 11, age 78.

Martin Y. Agress, ’53, of Man-chester, CT, Aug. 11, age 71.

Sue C. (Kintigh) Augenstein, ’53,of Lansing, July 31, age 71.

Ruth E. Lewis, ’53, of Dallas, TX,Dec. 20, 2001.

Elayne M. (Haas) Morrison, ’53,of Indian River, July 30, age 71.

James C. Myers, Jr., M. ’53, ofOlympia, WA, July 20.

Richard P. Kasuba, ’54, of Kalka-ska, formerly of East Lansing,Aug. 11, age 76.

James H. Lewis, ’54, of Dallas,TX, Jan. 2.

Ira J. Stricker, ’54, of Warren,July 11, age 70.

Boyd C. Wiggins, ’54, M ’64, ofEast Jordan, July 15, age 82.

Marvin F. Flower, M ’55, ofCharlotte, July 17, age 83.

Joan (Schneider) Gleske, ’55, ofAnnapolis, MD, formerly ofChelsea, July 26, age 69.

James L. Stuart, ’55, of Kent-wood, July 4, age 69.

Wendell G. Asplin, ’56, M ’62, ofLennon, June 20, age 71.

Norma J. (Thompson) Burmeis-ter, ’56, of Muskegon, June 29,age 68.

Carl W. Harmon, Jr., ’56, of War-renton, VA, June 26, age 74.


OBITUARIES

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John P. Hyde, ’56, of GrandRapids, July 16, age 69.

John C. Leonard, ’56, of Lansing,Aug. 17, age 73.

Delores D. (Frame) Patterson,’56, of Lansing, Sept. 8, age 69.

George “Fergie” H. Ferguson, ’57,DVM ’62, of Jamestown, RI, for-merly of E. Lansing, Aug. 31.

Mason B. Jones, Jr., ’57, of Tole-do, OH, Feb. 16.

Mark L. Johnson, ’57, of CrystalFalls, Aug. 5, age 74.

Berneth (Noble) McKercher, M’57, of Haslett, Aug. 6, age 88.

William “Bimbo” J. Constantini,’58, of Iron Mountain, June 15,age 73.

John C. Humphrey, ’58, of Ewen,July 17, age 67.

Paul V. Hendrickson, ’59, M ’67,of Muskegon, Oct. 30, 2002.

60s

Sharilee A. Bourdo, ’60, M ’66,of Traverse City, July 27, age 64.

John C. Weaver, ’60, of Lansing,July 14, age 72.

Janice (Cohn) Morganroth, ’61,of Franklin, July 17, age 63.

H. Dale Purkey, ’61, M ’65, ofLake Alfred, FL, formerly ofKalamazoo, Aug. 26, age 65.

Robert I. Brown, ’62, of MadeiraBeach, FL, formerly of Bridge-port, July 1, age 63.

Earl C. Renshaw, Jr., M ’62,Ph.D. ’66, of Tucson, AZ, July28, age 73.

Carlos A. Zapata, M ’62, of De-witt, Aug. 28, age 81.

Jessica J. Goodwin, ’63, ofNorthville, Sept. 14, 2002.

Marijs Markevics, ’63, M ’65, ofBath, June 2, age 74.

Michael J. Bray, ’64, M ’71, ofHaslett, Aug. 5, age 62.

Oliver J. Patterson, ’64, of Sault

Ste. Marie, Aug. 20, age 62.

Malcolm “Mac” Wilborn, ’64, ofLake, Aug. 2, age 79.

Pamela A. (McKee) Graham, ’65,of Sugarland, TX, formerly ofSaginaw, Aug. 3, age 60.

Jon W. McIntire, ’65, of Har-risonburg, VA, June 4, age 59.

Wade E. Pierce, ’65, of Milford,CT, Sept. 8, age 67.

Dell Reed, EDD ’65, of Joplin,MO, June 21.

Rachel R. Roberts, ’65, ofMenominee, June 16, age 58.

Harvey N. Ross, ’65, of Davison,May 31, age 65.

Peter A. White, ’66, of Bay City,Aug. 16, age 68.

Zadie (Taylor) Bryant, ’67, M’72, of Saginaw, June 14, age 74.

Ronald C. Ferguson, M ’68, ofBay City, June 22, age 66.

Lynn M. (Richards) Harden, ’68,of Plymouth, May 26, age 57.

John R. Harper, ’68, of Avon,NY, July 31, age 58.

Mary E. Jernstadt, ’68, of GrandRapids, formerly of Big Rapids,July 26, age 62.

Mildred “Millie” F. (Heinsel-man) Page, M ’68, of GrandRapids, June 21, age 85.

Judith L. Reest, MS ’69, of Hol-land, July 29, age 61.

70s

Martha L. Christensen, ’70, ofTraverse City, Aug. 13, age 55.

Candace P. Cresswell, ’70, of St.Louis, Aug. 7, age 55.

Robert L. Grainger, ’71, ofWilliamston, June 6, age 58.

James F. Taylor, Ph.D. ’71, of Tul-sa, OK, June 14, age 61.

Robert J. Trinkwalder, ’71, ofPlano, TX, June 25, age 54.

Gilbert L. Whiteman, ’71, ofGuilford, CT, July 25.

Blair L. Ballard, ’72, of Haslett,July 2, age 61.

James E. Brodie, ’72, of Web-berville, Aug. 6, age 62.

James J. Christensen, MA ’72, ofGrand Rapids, July 3, age 90.

Hurlette C. Dickens, ’72, MA’85, of Saginaw, June 8, 2002.

Carol A. Lindgren, ’72, of GrandRapids, July 14, age 55.

Martha E. (Pheatt) Scherer, ’72,of Berkley, Aug. 1, age 52.

Paul A. Tautkus, ’72, of Okemos,July 23, age 53.

Mary C. (Tyrrell) Bippley, ’73, ofLake Odessa, July 6, age 57.

Mary E. (Stuart) LePard, MA’73, of Chesaning, July 23, age93.

James C. Offield, MSW ’73, ofGeorgetown, TX, June 6, age 54.

Peter D. Ostreich, ’73, of Talla-hassee, July 5, age 52.

Klint W. Safford, ’73, of Iron Riv-er, Aug. 13, age 52.

Robert A. Halachukas, ’74, ofMission Viejo, CA, Aug. 25, age50.

Gayle M. (Hunt) Van Havel, ’74,of Morenci, July 13, age 64.

Bonnie B. (Engel) Voss, ’74, ofSaline, Aug. 13, age 52.

Steven D. Bass, ’75, of New York,NY, formerly of Grand Rapids,July 15, 2003, age 51.

Donald M. Korte, Jr., ’75, ’79, ofLansing, Aug. 2, age 50.

Nanci J. O’Neill, ’75, of EatonRapids, Aug. 2, age 60.

Charles E. Schartow, ’75, ofHaslett, July 29, age 51.

Robert E. Seaman, ’75, of Oke-mos, July 2, age 81.

Robert E. Fish, ’76, of GrossePte., July 7, age 49.

Paul G. Schichtel, ’76, of Cas-cade, July 6, age 50.

Barry J. Lipson, ’77, JD ’80, ofTroy, Aug. 8, age 48.

80s

Nan “Eileen” Stewart, ’80, ofLansing, Aug. 18, age 69.

Janis (Tomen) Boor, ’81, ofBloomfield Hills, July 24, age 43.

Susan (Meengs) Van Stee, ’82, ofGrand Rapids, July 30, age 42.

Scott B. Zierke, ’84, of Marengo,IL, Sept. 4, age 42.

Anne M. (Murphy) Janca, ’85,MD ’91, of Owosso, Aug. 5, age39.

John J. Swain, Ph.D. ’86, ofRosemead, CA, Aug. 3, age 52.

Brian E. Helmer, ’89, of Mar-quette, Aug. 3, age 43.

90s

David R. Pavlik, ’90, of Naples,FL, formerly of Cincinnati, OH,June 17, age 36.

Roxanne L. (Sakala) Murray,’91, of Chicago, IL, July 7, age36.

David E. Schulert, ’92, of GrandLedge, July 20, age 58.

Scott D. Batcke, ’93, of Chicago,formerly of Midland, July 15, age31.

James R. Harris, ’93, of Lansing,Aug. 31, age 38.

Angela L. Migala, ’93, of Scotts-dale, AZ, June 29, age 32.

Janet R. James, ’96, of E. Lansing,Aug. 1, age 81.

Mary Beth Congdon, MSW ’99,of Midland, June 21, age 29.

Maja Rydzewski, ’99, of Ada,Aug. 20, age 26.

00s

Jill M. Orler, ’02, of Clarkston,June 27, age 24.

Kristin A. Connors, MLHR ’03,of Grosse Ile, MI, Aug. 1, age 24.

Brian J. Ottney, ’03, Spartan

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football starting center in 33 con-secutive games from 2000-02, ofLong Beach, CA, formerly ofTroy, Sept. 1, age 23.

Faculty

Barnett, Z. George, professoremeritus of education (1956-78),of Irvine, CA, July 29, age 89.

Glick, Newton, professor emeri-tus of urban and regional plan-ning and landscape architecture(1947-79), of West Chatham,MA, Apr. 11, age 89.

King, Herman, ’39, professoremeritus of entomology and di-rector emeritus of academic ser-vices (1945-81), of E. Lansing,Aug. 3, age 88.

Knierim, John, assistant profes-sor emeritus of entomology(1954-80), of Canton, July 17,age 87.

Koehler, Ruth, professor emeritaof social work (1958-87), ofHaslett, Aug. 14, age 85.

Kruger, Daniel, professor emeri-tus of labor and industrial rela-tions (1957-2000), of GrandLedge, July 8, age 80.

Myers, J. Wilson, professoremeritus of integrative studies inarts and humanities (1965-86),of Tamworth, NH, July 19, age79.

Pellerin, Frank, assistant profes-sor emeritus of intercollegiateathletics (1953-86), of Lutz, FL,June 29, age 81.

Thomas, Martha V., ’64, MS’71, professor emerita of medicaltechnology (1969-90), of Ithaca,NY, June 13, age 78.

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