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Michigan State University • Fall 2010 • Vol. 28, No. 1 

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HUMAN MEDICINE IS POISED TO SERVE FUTURE NEEDS 

With the completion of the Secchia Center in Grand Rapids, 

the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine 

is poised to serve the expanding needs of the state. 

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MSU’S COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FULFILLS 

THE STATE’S NEEDS—AND THEN SOME 

After four decades, MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine continues 

to follow its original mandate on how best to serve the state. 

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SPARTAN NURSES: ON THE FRONTLINES OF HEALTH CARE 

Some 5,000 Spartan nurses are working to ensure that a nurse will 

be there when you need one. 

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DEPARTMENTS 

President’s Perspective 4 

In-Basket 5 

Around Circle Drive 6 

Spartan Sagas 14 

Spartan Profiles 16 

Sports 44 

Alma Matters 62 

State’s Stars 70 

Obituaries 74 

Lasting Impressions 80

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President: 

Lou Anna K. Simon 

Executive Board Officers 

Christopher Horner 

President 

Sue Hansen 

Vice President 

Veronica O’Connor 

Secretary 

Robert Pawelski 

Treasurer 

Executive Board Members 

Tara Harrison 

Jeff Hicks 

Bob Hornik 

Shane Smith, SAF President 

Glenn Stevens 

Robert Ulrich 

Kelley Wall 

Steve Webster 

Karin Wurst 

Advisory Council 

Henry Balanon 

Thomas Benner 

John Black 

Beverly Burns 

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College of Agriculture & 

Natural Resources 

Rick Seguin 

College of Arts & Letters 

Connie Lawson 

Eli Broad College of Business 

Cassandra Book 

College of Education 

Mary Mertz-Smith 

College of Engineering 

Katie Cable 

Honors College 

Michigan State University Governance 

Board of Trustees: 

Joel I. Ferguson 

Chairman 

Melanie Foster 

Vice Chairperson 

Michigan State University Alumni Association 

National Board of Directors 

Laura Casey 

Kendra Cleary 

April Clobes 

Dee Cook 

Brian Cullin 

David Dieterle 

Stan Eichelbaum 

Thomas Emling 

James Goodheart 

Barry Gray 

Michael Hanak 

Kelly Holdcraft 

Margaret Holtschlag 

Curt Hoopingarner 

Brian Hopkins 

George Johnson 

Richard Knoblock 

Bonnie Knutson 

Robert Kriss 

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Jacob Lestan 

Richard Lewis 

Carole Lick 

Nicole McCallen 

Michael McDonald 

Marci Muller 

College of Human Medicine 

Linda Conradi 

College of Music 

Pam Schoen 

College of Nursing 

Andrea Kovac 

College of Communication 

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Kim Allan 

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Dan McKean 

Lyman Briggs College 

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Colleen M. McNamara 

Donald W. Nugent 

Faylene Owen 

George Perles 

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Michael Morrow 

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Erika Myers 

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Gregory Pittman 

Joel Ring 

Jeffrey Rivard 

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Jeffrey Smith 

Richard Sternberg 

Megan Stirrat 

Kevin Stotts 

Jacqueline Taylor 

Timothy Unger 

David Vargas 

Rich Whipple 

Kenneth Williams 

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College Alumni Officers/Constituency Alumni Liaisons 

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PRESIDENT’SPERSPECTIVE 

T 

he opening of the Secchia Center in Grand Rapids as the new headquarters for the College of Human 

Medicine (CHM) is a major milestone in our health care teaching missions and a unique partnership 

by any measure. 

We founded CHM in 1964 as one of the nation’s first community-based medical schools, something of 

a radical concept at the time, meant to train and support Michigan’s primary care physicians. Since then 

we’ve graduated more than 3,100 MDs. 

As befits our land-grant heritage, we believe in the value of teaching medicine where it is needed and 

practiced – in communities. Our students have donned their white coats to immerse themselves in handson 

learning at partner hospitals all around the state. More recently, we’ve expanded our presence to Traverse 

City and Midland campuses and we’re working in Flint to develop a research and education model 

built specifically around that community’s needs. 

But today, it is Grand Rapids—a community on its way to becoming a world center for medicine—that 

has become the true home and hub of the college, furthering not only great teaching but innovative 

research. Standing at the center of this evolution is a privately funded $90 million facility named for lead 

contributor and alumnus Peter Secchia and his wife, Joan. 

It’s an impressive structure, as you will read, and a first for the College of Human Medicine. Even greater 

than the edifice, however, is the growing partnership between Michigan State, Spectrum Health, the Van 

Andel Institute, Saint Mary’s Health Care, Grand Valley State University, the local civic group Grand Action, 

economic development organization The Right Place Inc., and others. Such partnerships will help us 

better serve the community and state with health care services and multiply our research capacity. 

Our activity in Grand Rapids will provide new and enormous opportunity for lab bench-to-bedside 

impact as we conduct breakthrough research and train the next generation of researchers and health care 

providers. But it is only one of the ways in one of the places we’re striving to keep Michigan’s residents 

healthy. 

Here on campus our College of Nursing breaks ground in September for the $17.6 million Bott Building 

for Nursing Education and Research, with two of its three floors devoted to nursing research. In February 

we opened a new campus at Macomb Community College for our College of Osteopathic Medicine. 

We are excited to open such an amazing new facility as the Secchia Center, but our partnerships are 

always where we really shine. And these partnerships extend beyond the borders of the state and nation. 

We send students abroad for clinical medicine rotation requirements, and we’re working now to export 

our faculty development and teaching model to the newest medical school in China. We’re also working 

with two major universities in China on student 

and faculty exchange, developing their primary care 

specialty. We’re in Africa, fighting malaria and other 

diseases, and recently signed a health education and 

research agreement with a hospital in Kenya. We’re 

forging new relationships in Brazil now too. 

As facilities such as the Secchia Center flower, remember 

it’s because we have such deep roots. 

Sincerely, 

Lou Anna K. Simon, Ph.D. 

President, Michigan State University 

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INBASKET 

RIDING THE MSU 

SOCIAL MEDIA WAVE 

Thanks for the great coverage on 

MSU and the Social Media. Just a 

couple years ago, I could not imagine 

myself using any of the popular 

avenues to communicate with my 

old MSU “buddies.” At the urging 

of my daughter, I joined Facebook 

and have reconnected with many 

of my friends from MSU—some 

who I have not seen for over 30 

years. The MSU Alumni Association’s 

Ustream feed during 

the NCAA playoffs, as your cover 

story pointed out, had a tremendous 

impact—it made you feel you 

were “live at the event.” I definitely 

recommend others to make the 

leap and try one of the social media 

outlets. If you are as old as I am, 

your children or grandchildren can 

help you get started. Thanks again 

for the useful links in the article. 

Linda Wickett, ’73 

Decatur 

I thoroughly enjoy reading each 

edition of the MSU Alumni Magazine. 

I wanted to provide a quick 

comment on the quality and content 

of our alumni magazine as it 

does an outstanding job in keeping 

us connected and providing pertinent 

information on relevant topics 

that are in the “now.” Specifically 

the Summer 2010 edition presented 

an excellent view into the art of 

social networking. I am a follower 

of Michigan State University in its 

totality and recognize through the 

alumni magazine and other forms 

of communication the university 

offers that Spartans are always on 

the cutting edge in practically all 

areas, from social networking to 

the introduction of the 2010 debut 

of “Green Commencement” onto 

the futuristic design of Broad Art 

Museum and much more. 

That’s why I agree with the fact 

that “Spartans Will!” 

Cordia Young-Brown, ’80 

St. Louis, MO 

JERSEY BOYS 

ARRIVE IN 2011 

Thanks for the great coverage 

on Wharton Center events. 

Although you correctly included 

Jersey Boys as part of your Wharton 

Center coverage for the 2010- 

2011 season, it should be clarified 

that Jersey Boys will actually 

come to Wharton Center in the 

fall of 2011 and not the fall of 

2010. The exact dates are 

Sept. 26-Oct. 16, 2011. 

The reason for announcing the 

show as part of the 2010-2011 

season is that the show’s producers 

felt it would be prudent for 

sales to begin a year in advance 

due to the high demand this 

Broadway blockbuster receives. 

Bob Hoffman 

Manager, Public Relations 

The Wharton Center for 

Performing Arts 

MPLP COLUMN 

I was thrilled to read your column 

about the Michigan Political 

Leadership Program (MPLP). 

For more than 15 years, MPLP 

has been another example of 

how MSU’s land-grant mission 

is thriving in the 21st century. 

More than 20 MPLP alumni 

are running for the Michigan 

Legislature—an immeasurably 

positive contribution by MSU 

to the political landscape of our 

state, when leadership is 

needed more than ever. 

We are amidst the 

recruitment process 

for the 2011 Class of 

MPLP Fellows. A 

critical component 

to our success is the 

quality and passion 

of the 24 men and 

women who are 

ultimately chosen 

as fellows. 

Thanks for the 

recognition of MPLP in the MSU 

Alumni Magazine. 

Anne Mervenne, ’82 

Co-Director, Michigan 

Political Leadership Program 

On behalf of the 480 MPLP 

alumni, I thank you for the positive 

promotion of our bi-partisan 

“break through the gridlock” 

cause. You stated our aim eloquently, 

providing an informative 

and succinct voice to our efforts. 

Milton L. Scales, (MPLP) ’05 

Haslett 

☛ Scales is the 2010-11 chairperson 

of the MPLP Alumni Steering 

Committee. –Editor. 

MSU FOOTBALL 

VIA NETWORK 

Really enjoyed your football 

preview for the upcoming season. 

Here at the Spartan Sports 

Network we are just as excited as 

Coach Mark Dantonio and wanted 

to pass along a few new ways to 

hear Spartan game broadcasts and 

programs this fall. On spartan 

sportsnetwork.com, fans will find 

new I-Phone and Android apps, as 

well as a new Spartan trip planner 

that finds stations as you travel 

throughout Michigan. Those living 

near Traverse City can tune in 

to our new 100,000-watt affiliate, 

WLDR-FM 101.9. Of course, 

live game and program streams 

will continue 24/7; out-of-state 

Spartans can continue to find 

game broadcasts on Sirius/XM 

Satellite Radio. 

We look forward to a great 

season with George Blaha and 

former Spartans Jim Miller and 

Jason Strayhorn and the rest of 

our Spartan broadcast crew. 

Wendy Hart, 

Vice President of Operations 

Spartan Sports Network 

☛ Spartan fans can follow Spartan 

Sports Network on Facebook 

and on Twitter (@spartan_radio). 

–Editor. 

TITLE TALK RINGS 

“LOUD AND CLEAR” 

Mark Dantonio’s words in your 

summer issue ring loud-and-clear: 

“I feel we’ll compete for The Big 

Ten Championship!” That was 

the identical phrase he used when 

visiting the Atlanta club’s annual 

Morten Andersen Golf Tournament 

this past May. I believe him. 

As someone who has savored 

the taste of a national championship 

(1965 and 1966), I can tell 

you that Spartan fans are hungry 

for a football championship. 

Coach Dantonio will deliver, 

sooner than later! 

T.D. Jorgensen, ’67 

Atlanta, GA 

REPORT WAS 

EXAGGERATED 

I am Maria A. Caruso (now 

Swiatkowski), formerly of 

Sterling Heights. Your report 

of my demise in your obituaries 

section was, as Mark Twain once 

bemused, “greatly exaggerated.” 

Please note that I’m alive and well, 

and writing this message to you. 

Maria Swiatkowski, ’96 

Lenox Township 

☛ We regret the error, which 

resulted from a coincidentally similar 

obituary reported in the news 

media. –Editor. 

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AROUND CIRCLE DRIVE 

Terrie Taylor 

Jim Peck/University Relations 

$9.1 MILLION TO STEM MALARIA 

As part of a continued effort to eliminate malaria in Malawi, MSU 

researchers will use a $9.1 million federal grant to create new prevention 

and control strategies in the landlocked country in Africa. 

Terrie Taylor (see Spartan Saga, p. 14), University Distinguished 

Professor of internal medicine and an osteopathic physician, is leading 

the project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s 

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

“Successful malaria prevention and elimination activities require 

sustained, effective and well-targeted interventions,” says Taylor, who 

spends six months each year treating malaria patients at the Queen 

Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. She also conducts 

research on the disease, using molecular and genomic tools in conjunction 

with established approaches. Between July 2006 and June 

2007, nearly 4.4 million cases were reported in the country of about 

13 million people. 

Influenza, along with the secondary 

infections resulting from 

the virus, is the fourth leading 

cause of death among individuals 

65 and older. 

“These statistics are staggering 

and the threat of H1N1 has 

increased the need for better 

understanding to fighting the 

virus,” says Gardner. 

The immune response decreases 

with age, and Gardner and Kim 

have identified a critical role for 

natural killer, or NK, cells, in controlling 

early influenza infections 

in mice. NK cells play a major role 

in the immune system. 

The grant will allow the 

researchers to examine the introduction 

of an effective NK cell 

response as a way to control early 

influenza infection in vulnerable 

populations, including the elderly. 

Gardner’s research also is 

supported by the Michigan 

Agricultural Experiment Station. 

The NIH grant for this 

research was awarded through 

the National Institute of Aging. 

The NIA provides leadership in 

aging research, training, health 

information dissemination, and 

other programs relevant to aging 

and older people. 

$6 MILLION FOR MSU CENTERS 

Three MSU international centers 

will use federal grants totaling 

nearly $6 million to bolster 

international education. 

The centers—the African Studies 

Center, Asian Studies Center, 

and a partnership between the 

Center for Advanced Study of 

International Development and 

Center for Gender in a Global 

Context—were awarded two 

U.S. Dept. of Education Title VI 

grants, allowing the centers to 

maintain their National Resource 

Centers designations. 

These centers support a variety 

of programs that continue to 

internationalize the student experience 

at MSU, encourage foreign 

language study and the development 

of area study resources for 

the community. The grant also 

will continue funding for the Foreign 

Language and Area Studies 

Program, which supports foreign 

language acquisition. 

Jeffrey Riedinger, dean of 

MSU International Studies and 

Programs, views the high level of 

Title VI funding MSU receives 

and the number of funded centers 

as a testament to the strength of 

MSU’s internationally engaged 

SPARTAN SAGAS 

How much of a difference 

can nearly 500,000 

people make? Especially if 

they’re at work on every continent 

and rise to practically every challenge 

imaginable? 

MSU has launched a new 

website, spartansagas.msu.edu, 

to spotlight the impact Spartans 

are making all over the world. On 

the site readers can find the stories 

of Spartans—alumni, students, 

faculty and staff. Whether far or 

near, famous or known only to 

family and friends, one thing is 

clear: every day Spartans contribute 

to the common good in ways 

both big and small, proving again 

and again that Spartans Will. 

During the months 

ahead, MSU invites 

Spartans to tell their 

own stories in the community 

section of the site and 

hopes readers return often to see 

the newest sagas. 

MSU TO STUDY FLU IMMUNITY 

Two MSU scientists who are 

making advances in controlling 

influenza. Elizabeth Gardner, 

associate professor of food science 

and human nutrition, and 

Sungjin Kim, assistant professor 

of microbiology and molecular 

genetics, were awarded a $2 

million grant from the National 

Institutes of Health to study cell 

reaction to the flu. 

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faculty. “This funding level will allow 

the MSU centers to continue 

many successful programs while 

launching exciting new initiatives 

across campus,” Riedinger says. 

$4 MILLION GRANT 

FOR BETTER BEANS 

MSU’s leadership in specialty 

crop research has helped yield a fouryear, 

$4 million grant to enhance 

the value of the common bean. 

MSU crop and soil scientist 

and Michigan Agricultural 

Experiment Station researcher 

Jim Kelly will lend his 30-plus 

years of expertise in dry bean 

breeding and genetics to help 

develop breeder-friendly genomic 

research tools to assist in selection 

of agronomic traits such as 

yield, plant architecture, processing 

quality, drought tolerance 

and disease resistance, and key 

nutritional traits. 

“Many specialty crops have 

been left behind in the new wave 

of genomics research,” says Kelly. 

Common beans, which include 

black, navy, pinto, great northern, 

kidney and snap beans, 

are consumed by humans more 

than any other legume crop. In 

addition to being a good source 

of fiber and protein, scientific 

evidence shows that consuming 

beans can reduce blood cholesterol 

and sugar levels. 

The project will be administered 

under the Cooperative 

Agriculture Project, a U.S. 

Department of Agriculture 

National Institute of Food and 

Agriculture program that funds 

multi-year, multi-institutional 

collaborative projects. The project 

is referred to as BeanCAP. 

$2 MILLION GRANT HELPS 

MIGRANT STUDENTS 

A grant of more than $2 million 

from the U.S. Dept. of Education 

will allow MSU to continue a program 

that provides much-needed 

assistance to students who are 

children of migrant farm workers. 

The five-year, $424,000 per-year 

-grant will fund MSU’s College 

Assistance Migrant Program 

Scholars Initiative, a program that 

has helped hundreds of students 

earn degrees. 

“This program focuses on 

getting the student in the door 

and through that first year of 

college,” says Luis Alonzo Garcia, 

director of MSU Migrant Student 

Services, which oversees the MSU 

CAMP Scholars Initiative. “All 

research shows that if a student 

can make it through the first year, 

then they are good to go.” 

Initiated in 2000 at MSU, 

CAMP helps students in a variety 

of ways, and not just financially. 

“Our job is to be the resource to 

make sure that they are getting 

the fundamental skills they need 

to negotiate their first year,” says 

Garcia. 

Alonzo Garcia 

This capsule of MSU history was written by Edward Busch, 

archivist with MSU Archives and Historical Collections. 

The College of 

Human Medicine 

(CHM) began 

in 1956 with 

a proposal to 

the MSU Board 

of Trustees. 

Dr. Charles R. 

Hoffer, a professor 

of sociology, 

noted Michigan’s 

need for 

doctors and listed 

MSU Archives & Historical Collections 

the advantages of establishing a new medical school in East Lansing. 

President John Hannah agreed to develop the medical program using 

the existing programs in veterinary medicine, nursing and other 

health related sciences. In 1960, Dr. Richard U. Byerrum founded the 

Institute of Biology and Medicine with the goal of initiating a new 

medical program. The Michigan legislature approved the new twoyear 

medical program in July 1962. 

Dr. William H. Knisley was named director of the Institute in June 

1963. In January 1964, Dr. Andrew D. Hunt became the first dean 

of the College of Human Medicine. A $1.25 million grant from the 

Kellogg Foundation helped build the program and the medical school 

facilities. CHM achieved Association of Medical Colleges membership 

in 1965 as well as a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant 

award to construct the Life Sciences Building. Building on these successes, 

MSU requested permission from the State Board of Education 

to establish a full four-year medical degree program. In September 

1966, 26 students out of nearly 500 applicants began their training in 

MSU’s first medical class. The convocation welcoming the first CHM 

class was held on Sept. 3, 1966 and included addresses by Dr. Lester 

J. Evans, Dr. Hunt, Dr. Knisley and President John Hannah. In both 

1967 and 1968, 26 students were admitted, and in June of 1969, 25 

students were recognized as MSU’s first medical class (see photo). 

Gov. William Milliken signed the bill permitting the establishment 

of a four year medical education program at MSU in July 1969. 

Again, support from the Kellogg Foundation allowed CHM to 

expand its program from a two year program to a full medical college. 

To learn more about the history of CHM and other academic 

programs, visit the University Archives & Historical Collections at 

Conrad Hall or at www.archives.msu.edu. 

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A Chorus Line 

Photos courtesy of the Wharton Center 

Pat Metheny 

ON SALE NOW AT 

WHARTON CENTER 

This season, MSU’s Wharton 

Center for Performance Arts 

will boast many new acts to 

complement its spectacular new 

glass façade. 

The Broadway series brings 

Disney’s Mary Poppins from 

Mary Poppins 

Nov. 4-21. The acclaimed show 

features the world’s most famous 

nanny and has delighted audiences 

everywhere. From Dec. 15-19, 

the hilarious 9 to 5: The Musical 

will feature Dolly Parton’s original 

hit title song along with her 

new Tony Award-winning and 

Grammy-nominated score. Later 

in the year, the series will bring 

Stomp, Shrek and Chicago. 

Jazz artist Pat Metheny: The 

Orchestrion Tour, will appear on 

Oct 17. On Nov. 4, Bayanihan, 

the National Folk Dance Company 

of the Philippines, will make 

its Wharton Center debut as it 

promotes international goodwill 

Chanticleer 

around the globe. Other shows 

include ABBA Mania (Nov. 28), 

Duck For President (Dec. 05) and A 

Chanticleer Christmas (Dec. 05). 

MSU’s College of Music and 

the MSU Dept. of Theatre will 

also feature numerous shows at 

the Wharton Center and the 

MSU Auditorium. 

For more information, visit 

whartoncenter.com or call the box 

office at 800-WHARTON. 

GREEN BUILDINGS 

MORE PRODUCTIVE 

Workers who moved from 

conventional office buildings to 

environmentally friendly “green” 

buildings said they called in sick 

less often and were more productive, 

according to a study by a 

team of MSU researchers. 

The study appears in the online 

version of the American Journal of 

Public Health. 

The researchers found that moving 

to LEED-certified buildings 

contributed to noticeable reductions 

in self-reported absenteeism 

and stress. It also improved the 

workers’ productivity as a result of 

perceived improvements in health 

and well-being. 

LEED stands for Leadership 

in Energy and Environmental 

Design—a designation by the 

U.S. Green Building Council for 

buildings with environmentally 

friendly design, construction 

practices and operation. 

MSU’s Chemistry Building is 

an example of a green structure, 

having earned the U.S. Green 

Building Council’s Leadership in 

Energy and Environmental Design 

(LEED) silver certification. 

$1 MILLION GIFT ADVANCES 

PEDIATRIC TRAINING 

The Herbert H. and Grace A. 

Dow Foundation of Midland has 

provided $1 million to MSU’s 


to support medical education 

training of pediatric and family 

medicine physicians throughout 

Michigan. 

The two-part gift will establish 

and name the Herbert H. 

and Grace A. Dow Foundation 

Pediatric Simulation Center 

to be based at the college’s new 

headquarters at the Secchia 

Center in Grand Rapids. The 

gift also will create the Herbert 

H. and Grace A. Dow 

Foundation Endowed Fund for 

Pediatric Training to support 

programming at the center. 

“This outstanding gift allows 

our college to create a state-of-theart 

pediatric simulation center 

using the most advanced medical 

education technology available,” 

says Marsha D. Rappley, dean of 

the College of Human Medicine. 

Medical simulation is an advancing 

field of medical training 

that incorporates computerized 

full-body physiological mannequins 

and simulated patients, roleplaying 

actors who are trained to 

replicate medical conditions and 

the behaviors of patients. MSU’s 


will offer medical simulation opportunities 

covering the life span 

of patients. 

The Herbert H. and Grace A. 

Dow Foundation Pediatric Simulation 

Center will join the Harry 

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A. and Margaret D. Towsley 

Foundation Geriatric Simulation 

Center in the college’s Secchia 

Center. In addition, the college 

will have a surgical simulation 

suite equipped by Skytron. 

$6 MILLION TO EXPAND 

BROADBAND ACCESS 

MSU has received a $6 million 

federal grant that will help expand 

broadband access by creating 

more public computer centers in 

Michigan’s urban areas. 

The grant will be used to 

increase the number of computers 

in libraries, public housing 

centers, tribal community centers, 

other community centers and 

community colleges. A total of 

207 locations will receive 2,232 

computers. 

The grant will continue work already 

under way in Michigan, says 



Kurt DeMaagd, MSU assistant 

professor of telecommunication, 

information studies and media, 

who is leading the project. 

The award will cover the costs 

of the computers and training 

for both MSU and community 

college students to set up the 

computer centers. It also will 

assist in the expansion of the 

available services at the Michigan 

e-Library, which will provide additional 

resources to all libraries, 

schools, businesses and residents 

in the state. 

“Through this project, 

Michigan will have technology 

infrastructure statewide, which 

is vital for our state and residents 

to flourish and prosper,” he says, 

noting that one goal is to reach 

Michigan’s Cities of Promise, a 

group of eight economically challenged 

urban centers that include 

SURVIVAL 

OF SNOT 

OTTER 

The hellbender 

salamander—also 

known as a snot 

otter or devil dog—is 

one of America’s unique giant 

salamander species. For unexplained reasons, 

their population has declined in recent 

decades. 

Working with researchers from the Nashville 

Zoo and Antwerp Zoo in Belgium, MSU veterinarians 

are helping develop conservation 

techniques to sample and freeze the sperm 

from some of the last surviving salamanders. 

The international consortium’s work aims to enable future re-stocking 

of genetically viable hellbenders back to their streams and rivers, ensuring 

the survival of the species. 

The largest salamander found in North America, the hellbender 

can grow to up to 30 inches long and live 30 years or more. They live 

in a geographic range from Arkansas northeast to New York and have 

remained relatively unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. 

Dalen Agnew and Carla Carleton from MSU’s College of Veterinary 

Medicine are focusing specifically on evaluating the freezing 

techniques, known as cryopreservation, developed to keep the 

hellbender sperm viable. 

Benton Harbor, Detroit, Flint, 

Hamtramck, Highland Park, 

Muskegon Heights, Pontiac and 

Saginaw. 

The grant is administered by 

the U.S. Dept. of Commerce National 

Telecommunications and 

Information Administration and 

is funded through the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act 

of 2009. 

LINK WITH KENYA 

Via its College of Osteopathic 

Medicine and Institute of International 

Health, MSU has signed 

a health education agreement 

with Chogoria Hospital in Kenya, 

a link that will allow more MSU 

students to study in Africa and 

lead to joint research on endemic 

Kenyan diseases. 

The general agreement for 

academic cooperation is among 

several strategic international 

health partnerships coordinated 

by Reza Nassiri, director of 

the Institute of International 

Health and an assistant dean 

with the College of Osteopathic 

Medicine. 

“The agreement in Kenya will 

challenge MSU medical students 

to extend their horizons of 

growth and educational learning 

in the context of today’s most 

severe health crises,” Nassiri says. 

“In addition, this will be a unique 

opportunity for those students 

to develop cultural competency 

and also see pathologies that are 

uncommon in the United States.” 

MSU’s Institute of International 

Health is a cross-college 

collaboration that facilitates 

faculty and student health 

research and academic interests in 

international health projects overseas. 

Participating units include 

Osteopathic Medicine, Human 

Medicine, Civil and Environmental 

Engineering, International 

Studies and Programs, Natural 

Science, Social Science and 

Veterinary Medicine. 

Illustration courtesy of Mark Witton 

University of Portsmouth 

PREHISTORIC CROCODILE 

WAS A LANDLUBBER 

A recently discovered prehistoric 

crocodile looks more mammallike 

than the modern reptiles, says 

a research group that includes 

MSU scientists. 

Molar-like teeth in the jaw of 

the species, Pakasuchus kapilimai, 

resemble the complex teeth of 

mammals more than the simple 

pointed teeth found in modern 

crocodile jaws, concludes MSU 

paleontologist Michael Gottfried. 

The research group’s fossil findings 

in Tanzania appear in the 

scientific journal Nature. 

“What we’ve discovered is a 

small crocodile that looks better 

adapted for living on land than 

living in water,” says Gottfried, 

associate professor of geological 

sciences and curator of paleontology 

at the MSU Museum. “It’s 

something that doesn’t fit the 

stereotypical view of what we 

think a crocodile does.” 

The discovery team’s main 

specimen is believed to have lived 

during the Cretaceous Period of 

the Mesozoic Era, between 80 

million and 110 million years ago. 

(above) An artist’s interpretation 

of Pakasuchus kapilimai, the 

small prehistoric crocodile fossil 

unearthed by MSU paleontologist 

Michael Gottfried and colleagues. 

NIH GRANT TO BOOST 

HEALTH RESEARCHERS 

With the help of a $2.5 million 

grant from the National Institutes 

of Health, MSU is creating 

a cross-discipline, mentoring 

program designed to increase the 

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number and diversity of researchers 

in women’s health. 

MSU’s new Building Interdisciplinary 

Research Careers in 

Women’s Health program, to be 

housed in the Dept. of Medicine 

in the College of Human Medicine, 

will help junior investigators 

by matching them with mentors 

and protecting their time so they 

can focus on research efforts. 

“This award provides an enormous 

opportunity for MSU and 

researchers in women’s health,” says 

Mary Nettleman, chairperson of 

the Dept. of Medicine and principal 

investigator on the grant. 

The grant solidifies MSU as 

innovators in women’s health research. 

In April, MSU’s College 

of Human Medicine became the 

home for a $6.8 million Center 

for Women’s Health and Reproduction 

Research, led by infertility 

researcher Asgi T. Fazleabas. 

MSU also is home to the Breast 

Cancer and the Environment 

Research Center, established 

in 2003 and led by Physiology 

Professor Sandra Z. Haslam. 

The center studies the impact of 

prenatal-to-adult environmental 

exposures that predispose women 

to breast cancer. 

$7.3 MILLION GRANT TO 

STUDY MICROBES 

At any given time, trillions of 

tiny microbes—some helpful, 

some harmful—are living in humans, 

outnumbering the body’s 

own cells tenfold. 

Using a $7.3 million federal 

grant that establishes a new cooperative 

research center at MSU, 

investigators are studying the 

role these microbes play in foodand 

water-borne illnesses that 

kill millions of people each year 

worldwide. 

MSU’s Enterics Research 

Investigational Network, one of 

four such U.S. research centers 

being funded by five-year grants 

from the National Institutes of 

Health, is led by Linda Mansfield, 

a microbiologist with the College 

of Veterinary Medicine. 

“Our long-term goal is to develop 

new interventions and treatments 

for food- and water-borne 

diseases; we want to know what 

makes people more susceptible or 

more resistant to enteric diseases,” 

says Mansfield, whose group is 

focusing on illnesses caused by e. 

coli, salmonella, clostridium difficile 

and campylobacter, among 

others. “Evidence suggests the 

enteric microbiome profoundly 

affects our health and disease 

susceptibility and may be a new 

preventive and therapeutic target.” 

Enteric diseases, which are 

primarily caused by food- and 

water-borne pathogens, are the 

leading cause of acute diarrheal 

illness. Overall, investigators 

from the colleges of Veterinary 

Medicine, Human Medicine, 

Natural Science and Engineering 

as well as the Michigan Agricultural 

Experiment Station are 

taking part in the project. 

MSU Kudos 

Every semester, MSU faculty, 

staff and students garner kudos 

too numerous to mention exhaustively 

here. Some examples: 

Michigan Emmy Awards went 

to the MSUToday Show team, 

to the MSU College of Agriculture 

and Natural Resources, and 

spring graduates Mollie Rehner 

and Anthony Siciliano, producers 

for MSU’s Sideshow program. 

MSU journalism professor 

Steve Lacy, associate dean of the 

College of Communication Arts 

& Sciences and director of the 

MSU School of Journalism from 

1998-03, has received the 2010 

Paul J. Deutschmann Award for 

Excellence in Research. 

IT’S ABOUT THE SERVICE! 

By Scott Westerman, 

Executive Director, 


Think about the best customer 

service experience you have ever 

had. What made it so special? My 

guess is that the individual who 

served you quickly identified what 

you needed, got it for you and 

then went the extra mile to ensure 

that you were truly satisfied. 

In our quest to become “Your 

Personal Network… for Life,” 

the MSUAA is working hard 

to elevate the level of service we 

provide to our worldwide family of 

Spartans. We’re fanning out across 

the Spartan Nation, holding focus 

groups with key constituencies to 

better learn how we can add value 

at every life crossroad. We will be 

augmenting our staff with dedicated 

programming people who will 

focus on developing and deploying 

new and innovative member benefits 

that go way beyond discounts 

and travel opportunities. 

And at every turn, you’ll have a 

chance to tell us how we’re doing. 

I’m a big fan of Fred Reicheld’s 

book The Ultimate Question, 

which is: Would you recommend 

us to someone else? 

So at every MSUAA event and 

with every communication you 

receive from us, we’ll be asking 

you that question. 

Tracking the quality of the 

service we provide is something 

I started the first week I became 

your head servant. Our service 

quality metrics are the second 

thing we talk about at every staff 

meeting (after shout-outs of praise 

for fellow team members). We 

review our total score and read 

through every comment that you 

send us. And we use the feedback 

to help us decide which projects to 

tackle first. 

Member satisfaction is definitely 

a moving target. Whenever we 

make a change, we get feedback 

spikes, both good and bad. When 

we launched the new MSUAA 

Web site, some gave us rave reviews 

for the usability of the interface. 

But we get poor marks for some of 

our backend database functionality, 

notably the member directory 

and event registration sections. The 

good news is that our superb Web 

team is prioritizing their daily work 

based on this feedback. It’s fun to 

watch the satisfaction needle move 

upwards as we progress. 

So whenever you have an 

interaction with MSUAA, take 

a moment to take our 10-second 

survey at www.msuaafeedback. 

com. It’s quick, it’s easy and it is 

a gift we truly appreciate as we 

continue to work toward our goal 

of becoming your favorite service 

organization . . . for life! 

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The MSU Alumni Association would like to 

welcome our newest Life Members. We thank you 

for your willingness to share our commitment to this university 

through membership in the MSU Alumni Association. 

Richard Ahti 

Okemos, MI 

Wade and Laura Alderman 

Lennon, MI 

Katherine Anton 

Boston, MA 

James and Patricia Ashley 

Hudson, FL 

Jennifer Bell 

Perrysburg, OH 

Garth and April Bungard 

Ann Arbor, MI 

Matthew and Sarah Cantwell 

Butler, NJ 

George Childress and 

Lori Ann Thornhill-Childress 

Farmington, MI 

Elizabeth Dean 

Novi, MI 

Thomas and Christie Dempsey 

Macomb, MI 

Gerard and Patricia Dentinger 

Glen Ellyn, IL 

Ashley Dewling 

Brighton, MI 

Robert and Megan Farley 

Darien, CT 

Eugene and Karen Fethke 

Muskegon, MI 

Timothy and Natalie Finerty 

West Bloomfield, MI 

Julie Freeman 

Coldwater, MI 

Kazuma Fujii 

London, OH 

Dale and Susan Glynn 

DeWitt, MI 

Gordon Greenaway 

St. John’s, Antigua, AG 

Charles Gruner 

Coldwater, MI 

Molly Hausbeck 

Grand Rapids, MI 

Donnie Haye 

Chapel Hill, NC 

Joan Hoefer 

Beverly Hills, MI 

Mary Helen Hoffmeyer 

Grand Haven, MI 

Matthew Hynes 

Troy, MI 

Theresa Koster 

Marietta, GA 

Matthew and Sheila Krakower 

Chesapeake, VA 

James and Julianne Lalik 

Troy, MI 

David Lauzun 

Noblesville, IN 

John and Ruth Letts 

Palo Alto, CA 

William and Katy Link 

Ravenna, MI 

John and Sharon Mallow 

St. Clair Shores, MI 

Brooke Martyn 

Novi, MI 

Kristin Mooney 

New York, NY 

Ryan and Amy Natalini 

San Antonio, TX 

Lynn Partin 

Portland, OR 

Joseph Pennell 

Chicago, IL 

Stephen and 

Margaret Pulsipher 

Tekonsha, MI 

Jerry and Jeanette Quinlan 

Olathe, KS 

Amanda Rhoades 

Novi, MI 

John Risk 

Indianapolis, IN 

Juanita Rossow 

Amherst, MA 

Margie Sanislo 

East Lansing, MI 

Ira and Carmilla Scott 

Grand Prairie, TX 

Kristin Sebenar 

Stevensville, MI 

Timothy and Heather Semro 

Sylvania, OH 

Scott Slajus 

Wausau, WI 

Nicole Sobasco 

Northville, MI 

Barbara Supanich 

Silver Spring, MD 

John Thurow 

Columbus, NC 

Hayley Tollander 

Port Huron, MI 

James and Kathleen Tumbrink 

New York, NY 

Cheryl Vikar 

St. Clair Shores, MI 

Jeremy and Sharon Weber 

Grand Rapids, MI 

Dhammika Welipitiya and 

Anagi Balachandra 

Okemos, MI 

W. Scott Westerman, Jr. 

Ann Arbor, MI 

Kimberly Wolbers 

Knoxville, TN 

Todd and Jennifer Wright 

Kalamazoo, MI 

William Yee 

Brownston, MI 

Cole Young 

Detroit, MI 

Paul and Lynne Zelenski 

Holt, MI 



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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 

THESE ARE THE SPARTANS AND THESE ARE THEIR SAGAS 

Name: 

Terrie Taylor, DO 

Affiliation: 

Faculty 

Current Residence: 

Traverse City, Michigan, 

and Blantyre, Malawi 

Dr. Terri Taylor is saving the lives of children with malaria. 

“These are kids who would not survive were they not able to be looked after on a ward that is 

as well staffed and as well supplied as our ward. So on that direct, immediate level, lives have 

been saved.” 

She works in a place a lot of us wouldn’t recognize as a hospital, 

at least not the kind of hospital we’re used to in the United States. 

Family members tend to patients and sleep on the floor. There’s no 

air-conditioning. Death is part of each day. It’s intense. 

“Every year there are several children who are just gut-wrenchers, kids you didn’t expect to 

die or kids that you’d become attached to or a parent who’s obviously crushed by the loss. 

And it’s hard and sometimes I just have to say we just need to take a break because you can’t 

absorb that much loss over and over without resting and processing it. As painful as it is to 

suffer along with the parents, I would feel worse if I didn’t feel anything.” 

She’s been working in Malawi for more than two decades. 

Thanks to Taylor and her team, more and more children survive cerebral malaria. “My 

ultimate goal is to figure out what is actually killing these kids with cerebral malaria and 

come in with an intervention that can yank more of them back from the brink.” It’s two 

decades and counting. Taylor says finding a treatment or a surefire prevention is a long 

process. But she’s in it for the long haul. 

“And that’s why I’m so appreciative of the fact that Michigan State has hung in there with me 

all these years, because that’s how long it takes. I’m grateful to be here.” 

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Terrie Taylor has dedicated the last two decades to 

researching malaria in sub-Saharan Africa where 

the disease kills as many as two million children 

each year. Taylor spends six months of each year— 

the rainy season—in Malawi where she leads a 

team that conducts research on malaria and treats 

patients. Her efforts are paying off. A partnership 

formed by MSU, Malawi, and GE Healthcare 

delivered the African country’s first and only MRI 

unit, which now allows Taylor to gain a clearer 

picture of the disease. As she helps save lives now, 

she continues to search for more effective means of 

treatment and, better yet, a cure. 

See more 

Spartan Sagas 

and tell your 

story 

spartansagas.msu.edu. 


MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 

THESE ARE THE SPARTANS AND THESE ARE THEIR SAGAS 

Name: 

Terrie Taylor, DO 

Affiliation: 

Faculty 

Current Residence: 

Traverse City, Michigan, 

and Blantyre, Malawi 

Dr. Terri Taylor is saving the lives of children with malaria. 

“These are kids who would not survive were they not able to be looked after on a ward that is 

as well staffed and as well supplied as our ward. So on that direct, immediate level, lives have 

been saved.” 

She works in a place a lot of us wouldn’t recognize as a hospital, 

at least not the kind of hospital we’re used to in the United States. 

Family members tend to patients and sleep on the floor. There’s no 

air-conditioning. Death is part of each day. It’s intense. 

“Every year there are several children who are just gut-wrenchers, kids you didn’t expect to 

die or kids that you’d become attached to or a parent who’s obviously crushed by the loss. 

And it’s hard and sometimes I just have to say we just need to take a break because you can’t 

absorb that much loss over and over without resting and processing it. As painful as it is to 

suffer along with the parents, I would feel worse if I didn’t feel anything.” 

She’s been working in Malawi for more than two decades. 

Thanks to Taylor and her team, more and more children survive cerebral malaria. “My 

ultimate goal is to figure out what is actually killing these kids with cerebral malaria and 

come in with an intervention that can yank more of them back from the brink.” It’s two 

decades and counting. Taylor says finding a treatment or a surefire prevention is a long 

process. But she’s in it for the long haul. 

“And that’s why I’m so appreciative of the fact that Michigan State has hung in there with me 

all these years, because that’s how long it takes. I’m grateful to be here.” 

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Terrie Taylor has dedicated the last two decades to 

researching malaria in sub-Saharan Africa where 

the disease kills as many as two million children 

each year. Taylor spends six months of each year— 

the rainy season—in Malawi where she leads a 

team that conducts research on malaria and treats 

patients. Her efforts are paying off. A partnership 

formed by MSU, Malawi, and GE Healthcare 

delivered the African country’s first and only MRI 

unit, which now allows Taylor to gain a clearer 

picture of the disease. As she helps save lives now, 

she continues to search for more effective means of 

treatment and, better yet, a cure. 

See more 

Spartan Sagas 

and tell your 

story 

spartansagas.msu.edu. 


SPARTAN PROFILES 

STU KIRSCHENBAUM: BROWN 

BOMBER JACKET AWARD 

After 42 years with boxing in 

Detroit, he has landed a large 

number of awards, such as the 

Sports Illustrated Joe Louis Award 

in 1993, and induction in the 

Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of 

Fame. But his latest award—the 

Brown Bomber Jacket by the 

Charles H. Wright Museum of 

African American History in 

Detroit, has left him awed. “I’m 

thrilled, because this is such 

a unique award,” says Stuart 

Kirschenbaum, ’65, a podiatrist in 

Detroit who was a former Golden 

Gloves champion, a boxing referee 

and Michigan’s boxing commissioner 

from 1981-92. “Look at the 

history of the person for whom 

the award is named, the legacy it 

supports, and the list of people 

who have received it.” Previous 

winners read like a “Who’s Who” 

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Dan Graschuck 

Kirschenbaum proudly wears his 

Brown Bomber Jacket, emblematic 

of the achievements of his favorite 

sportsman, Joe Louis. 

of Detroit—Berry Gordy, Barry 

Sanders, Smokey Robinson, Coleman 

Young, Dennis Archer, John 

Conyers and the Hon. Damon 

Keith. Even more important to 

Kirschenbaum is that the award 

was named after the great Joe 

Louis—the legendary fighter he 

first saw at age eight while watching 

television in his Brooklyn, 

NY, apartment. “Joe Louis was 

trying to make his comeback 

against Rocky Marciano,” recalls 

Stu, not realizing that he’d have 

a lifelong relationship with both 

boxing and the Louis family. In 

1981 Stu met Louis for the first 

time at the dedication of Joe Louis 

Arena. “His hand was paralyzed,” 

recalls Stu. “I had an awesome 

feeling shaking his hand. This 

hand made history.” A few years 

later, Stu was instrumental in raising 

money to take care of Louis’ 

widow, Martha Louis, then in a 

nursing home in Detroit, and in 

reuniting the Louis family, who 

had scattered geographically. He 

became Martha’s caretaker, and 

after her passing, arranged to have 

her buried near Joe in Arlington 

National Cemetery. “The whole 

experience was surreal,” he says. 

“Here was someone that had been 

forgotten by everyone.” 

KEITH ANDERSON: 

A SPARTAN SAGA 

His story was recently profiled 

in Golf Digest, and aired by the 

Golf Channel’s “Golf in America” 

and by Fox 2 Detroit News. He 

was also named a “Detroiter of 

the Year” by HOUR magazine 

(July 2010). Quite simply, the 

saga of Keith Anderson, ’99, is 

one of overcoming tremendous 

odds. Anderson works for The 

Bartech Group, Bingham Farms, 

and consults for General Motors. 

He works in Detroit’s Renaissance 

Center, specializing in training 

programs for corporations. He 

lives in Shelby Township and is 

engaged to be married later this 

year. But when he was 12, he 

could not have imagined such a 

life outcome. Growing up in the 

East side of Detroit amid drugs 

and gangs, Keith was “set 

up to fail,” he says. “All my 

childhood friends ended up 

addicted, dealing, in prison or 

dead,” he recalls. “Our home 

was robbed twice.” Keith 

says his best childhood 

friend is still serving time 

for accessory to murder. “I 

literally thought I’d never 

live to the age of 18,” he 

says. “I was terrified most 

of the time. Of course, I 

put on a bravado—acting 

like I was a thug—just 

to survive.” What saved 

him, he says, was a 

tough, disciplinarian 

mother, and golf. At age 

13 he began working as 

a caddie at the Country Club of 

Detroit, and although he had no 

interest in the sport, he eventually 

would loop two bags a day. “I got 

good tips,” he said. Among those 

he caddied for was William Clay 

Ford. “He was not a good tipper,” 

recalls Keith. “But 80 percent of 

the people I met were caring and 

down to earth.” Eventually, Keith 

won a Chick Evans scholarship 

to attend college. “I chose MSU 

because there’s no way I was going 

to be in blue and yellow,” he 

says, calling his MSU years “the 

best four years of my life, before 

meeting my fiancé.” He sold 

football and basketball programs 

throughout his college days, and 

was able to attend home games. 

After his profile appeared in Golf 

Digest, Keith has been invited to 

speak to many youth groups and 

even at the CC of Detroit, where 

he spoke to members who donate 

to the Chick Evans Scholarship. 

“My message,” says Keith, “is that 

if you stay tough and make the 

right decisions, you can make it.” 

Keith, seen here in Disney World 

earlier this year, has been profiled 

by Golf Digest magazine and 

by the Golf Channel’s “Golf in 

America.” 


NATHANIEL PEAKE: 

TRIUMPH AT THE MET 

In March, not quite two years 

after receiving his master’s of 

music from MSU, he found 

himself on the world’s premier 

opera stage—auditioning for the 

2010 National Council Grand 

Finals of the Metropolitan Opera 

in New York City, an event that 

identifies the world’s best young 

opera singers. The contestant from 

Humble, TX, competed against 

nearly 1,500 others. When all was 

sung and done, Tenor Nathaniel 

Peake, MM ’08, was declared one 

of five winners. “This has been 

a huge boost to my career,” says 

Peake, who won $15,000 and 

more importantly, exposure to the 

world’s “Who’s Who” in opera. “I 

have all of a sudden been thrust 

onto the radar of some pretty 

incredible people. New York is 

the mecca for opera singers, and 

everyone who is influential in this 

business was there that Sunday 

afternoon.” He promptly adds, 

“I definitely want to be back on 

the MET stage. It’s an addicting 

sensation.” Nathaniel gives 

credit to his MSU experience, 

which was encouraged by Patryk 

Wroblewski, his mentor at the 

University of Houston. “He 

was intent on me studying with 

a tenor, and thought Richard 

Fracker would be the best guy,” 

recalls Nathaniel, who came to 

East Lansing to audition for the 

voice program. “I truly valued the 

time I spent with Dean Forger,” 

says Nathaniel. “He’s an incredibly 

brilliant man and . . . the perfect 

man to head up the College of 

Music. The entire voice faculty 

at MSU is incredible. I cannot 

tell you how lucky I was to have 

gone to MSU.” Nathaniel touts 

MSU’s student to professor ratio 

and the opportunities to travel 

that he received as a student. “I 

got to go to China, which was an 

incredible cultural experience as 

well as a profound professional 

experience,” he recalls. “I also got 

to travel to Florida, Colorado, and 

California performing with the 

faculty at development events.” 

TARA HARRISON: 

POTTER PARK VET 

When she was 13, she volunteered 

at the John Ball Zoo in 

Grand Rapids and grew to love 

zoo work. Today, she has fulfilled 

that dream. Dr. Tara Harrison, 

’98, DVM ’00, is the chief veterinarian 

and curator for Lansing’s 

Potter Park Zoo. Harrison is one 

of only two zoo veterinarians in 

Michigan, and just 100 world 

wide, certified by the American 

College of Zoological Medicine. 

When the Greater Lansing 

Woman nominated her as a finalist 

for 2010 Woman of the Year, 

the magazine noted that Tara’s 

dedication has helped put Potter 

Park, a relatively small zoo, on 

the map alongside larger parks. “I 

love the work that I do,” says Tara, 

who is currently putting together a 

Black Rhinoceros exhibit under a 

survival species plan. “The animal 

collection here has great variety, 

and it more than keeps me busy.” 

One notable animal is the zoo’s 

male tiger, Sivaki, whom Tara 

and others hand-raised. “He and 

his sister cubs nearly died,” says 

Tara, noting that their mother had 

contacted the Calici virus. “We 

had to hand-raise them, which is a 

lot of work. Now, whenever we go 

near Sivaki, he’ll chuff to us.” (A 

“chuff” is a sound tigers make to 

say hello and to signal they’re in a 

good mood.) However, the zoo’s 

spider monkeys do not greet her so 

warmly. “They scream every time I 

walk by,” says Tara with a chuckle. 

“They associate me with shots.” 

A couple of years ago, Tara put 

together a bald eagle exhibit, and 

has since followed up with an eagle 

owl exhibit. She also launched 

VEZU—Veterinarians, Education, 

the Zoo and yoU—a community 

outreach program that 

introduces children to the world 

of animal medicine. She often 

lectures to MSU students, including 

many in veterinary medicine. 

Her lectures at the MSU Alumni 

Association’s Evening College 

are always packed. “I want Potter 

Park to be at the forefront of 

conservation and education,” says 

Tara. Her mentor at MSU, Dr. 

Jim Sikarskie, works at Potter Park 

two days a week. As Tara puts it, 

“He taught me everything I know, 

and now we work together.” 

BOB MURAWSKI: OSCAR- 

WINNING FILM EDITOR 

He and his wife won eight 

film editing awards for The Hurt 

Locker, including this year’s 

Oscar (see photo). But those 

who have followed his career 

have long known about his film 

editing skills. Bob Murawski, 

’87, who runs two distribution 

operations—Grindhouse Releasing 

and Box Office Spectaculars—had 

previously shown his 

editing skills in John Woo’s 

Hard Target and the television 

series American Gothic, as well as 

several films directed by fellow 

Spartan Sam Raimi—Darkman, 

Army of Darkness and all 

three Spider-Man blockbusters. 

In February, he and wife Chris 

Innis accepted the Oscar for Best 

Film Editing (at a nationallytelevised 

affair run by fellow 

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Spartan Bill Mechanic, ’73, who 

allowed both of them to give 

brief acceptance words). “There’s 

no denying it was a thrill to win 

it,” says Murawski. “But it was 

a thrill just to be nominated. 

Remember, The Hurt Locker 

could’ve gotten a small release.” 

Bob is especially proud to have 

won the American Cinema 

Editors award—“It means a lot 

because basically it’s by people 

who do the same thing,” he 

explains. Winning the Oscar has 

increased his demand in the industry, 

but Bob says he will only 

work on movies he likes. “I prefer 

horror pictures,” he says, “and 

also working for directors like 

John Woo, who I’m a huge fan 

of, and of course, Sam Raimi.” 

Bob first met Raimi in Southern 

California when Raimi asked 

him to edit the title sequence 

for American Gothic. A native of 

Bad Axe, Bob took many film 

production and theory courses at 

MSU from Bill Vincent and the 

late Jim Cash. He formed a film 

Bob Murawski and his wife 

Chris Innis celebrate their Oscar 

award for film editing for The 

Hurt Locker. 

group, Box Office Spectaculars, 

that showed cult films in Wells 

Hall. It is now the name of one 

of his distribution companies. 

He also produced a weekly show 

for MSU cable television. “It was 

the Campus Video Network,” 

he recalls. “We showed music 

videos and movie trailers, two 

hours every week.” Though 

mainly a film editor, he engages 

in film distribution as a hobby. 

“It’s a lot of fun, and something 

to do between jobs,” he says. His 

partner at Grindhouse Releasing 

is Sage Stallone, son of the action 

actor of “Rocky” fame. 

JOSH KILMER-PURCELL: 

STAR GOAT FARMER 

OK, so you’re a successful 

advertising executive, and your 

memoir about moonlighting as 

a drag queen in New York City 

has become a best-seller. What 

next? You become a goat farmer, 

of course, and star in your own 

reality TV show. That’s the 

thumbnail bio of Josh Kilmer- 

Purcell, ’91, who stars this fall 

in Planet Green’s The Fabulous 

Beekman Boys—a reality series 

about him and his life partner, Dr. 

Brent Ridge, on their goat farm 

in upstate New York. The saga is 

also recounted in Kilmer-Purcell’s 

The Bucolic Plague 

(Harper Collins, 

2010). “We had a lot 

of fun,” says Josh of 

the year-long shoot. 

“Having cameras 

around heightens everything—whether 

it’s 

arguments, or funny 

moments.” Josh adds, 

“This is not a show 

about city people finding 

the joy of fresh eggs and 

being barefoot in the 

grass. We show that farming 

is not a romantic quest. 

Things are not all fluffy.” 

Born in Albany, NY, Josh 

grew up in Wisconsin and 

chose MSU because of the 

hospitality business program. 

But he switched to English. 

“I loved everything about MSU,” 

he recalls. “Being a big place, it 

forces you to be self-directed. 

Also, I had a great mentor in 

(University Distinguished Professor) 

Diane Wakoski.” Josh writes 

for magazines such as Out, and 

The Advocate, and he’s written 

three books. His tragicomic 

memoir, I Am Not Myself These 

Days: A Memoir (Harper Perennial, 

2006)—focusing on his 

drag queen performances at 

nightclubs in New York, Atlanta, 

Los Angeles, Philadelphia and 

Tokyo, while working at agencies 

like SS+K, Kirshenbaum Bond & 

Partners, and Merkley Newman 

Harty—became a best-seller. “I 

still cringe whenever I send Diane 

a book because of what she might 

say was wrong,” says Josh. Today, 

he and his partner split their time 

between Manhattan’s Upper 

East Side and Sharon Springs, 

NY, where they raise 124 goats 

along with pigs, chickens, turkeys 

and llamas. “You know, I really 

missed an opportunity at MSU to 

learn about farming,” muses Josh 

with a chuckle. 

Josh (right) appears on the 

cover of his most recent book, 

The Bucolic Plague. 

CARLY WUNDERLICH: 

CHAMPION TO COACH 

In March, MSU won the 

National Debate Tournament 

(NDT) for the third time in 

the past seven years. Carly 

Wunderlich, ’10, a chemistry 

major who graduated in May, 

and junior Eric Lanning, won 

the Larmon trophy after beating 

Northwestern University in the 

debate finals in Berkeley, CA (see 

photo). MSU previously won 

the NDT in 2006 and 2008, 

in addition to three national 

championships in 1995, 1996 

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and 2002 in the Cross Examination 

Debate Association and the 

Seasonal National Championships. 

A native of Waukesha, 

WI, Wunderlich chose to attend 

MSU after having attended two 

debate camps. “I got to know 

both (MSU debate coaches) 

Will Repko and Greta Stahl and 

looked forward to working with 

them,” she explains. Carly adds 

that she was also attracted to 

James Madison College “because 

it provided a small college atmosphere 

within a huge university,” 

although she eventually changed 

her major from international 

relations to chemistry. “I’m 

hyper competitive and I also 

want to be challenged academically, 

so debate was the perfect 

outlet for me,” says Carly, who 

has been hired as the debate 

coach for Gonzaga University 

in Spokane, WA. This year’s 

debate topic involved nuclear 

weapons, and the debaters had to 

be ready to argue the pro or con 

side of any given proposition. “It’s 

challenging having to play devil’s 

advocate,” says Carly. “But 

it’s made me realize there are 

legitimate concerns on each side.” 

She notes that most research is 

done electronically. “We use 

academic search engines and rely 

on journals, think tank articles 

and blogs from analysts,” she says. 

“Erik and I printed notes that 

filled six Rubbermaid tubs. Next 

year we’ll go paperless!” Because 

many Spartan debate alumni 

were involved as coaches in the 

college debate scene, she received 

some help. Casey Harrigan, ’06, 

who won the NDT title in 2006 

with Ryan Burke, bought her a 

good luck charm—“a Mrs. Butterworth 

syrup jar, which they 

had when they won the title.” 

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This Year’s 

Homecoming is 

Going to the 

Outer Limits! 

October 11-16, 2010 

Grand Awards Ceremony . Thursday, October 14, 2010 

The MSU Alumni Association will honor alumni and friends at its Grand Awards Ceremony. Awards given 

will be in the following categories: Distinguished Alumni Award, Alumni Service Award, Honorary Alumni 

Award, Philanthropist Award, and the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. For a list of the 2010 award 

winners or for more information, visit www.alumni.msu.edu. 

MSU Homecoming Parade . Friday, October 15, 2010, 6:00 p.m. Downtown East Lansing 

This year’s Homecoming theme is “2010 Spartan Space Odyssey.” We will celebrate MSU’s impact in the area of 

astrophysics and space dynamics. Featured entries include the MSU Spartan Marching Band, MSU Homecoming 

Court, the East Lansing, Okemos, Lansing Eastern and St. Johns High School Marching Bands and much more. For 

more details on this event, visit www.homecoming.msu.edu. 

MSUAA Green and White Brunch . Saturday, October 16, 2010 

Join other MSU alumni and fans for this yearly Homecoming tradition before the MSU vs. Illinois football 

game. Don’t miss out on the fun, camaraderie and Green & White spirit at the best Homecoming pre-game 

party at MSU! For more details on this event and to register, visit www.homecoming.msu.edu. 

Other Great Homecoming Activities: 

MSU vs. Illinois Football Game . College Tailgate Events . Great Student Events . And More! 

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EVERY DAY SPARTANS LIKE YOU MAKE AN IMPACT AROUND THE WORLD. 

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HUMAN MEDICINE 

POIS 

John Corriveau 

By Pat Shellenbarger, ’72 

With the completion of the Secchia Center in Grand 

Rapids, the MSU College of Human Medicine is 

poised to serve the expanding needs of the state. 

Lou Anna K. Simon 

John Corriveau 

Peter Secchia 

Faced with an increasing demand for physicians and a desire to expand its 

medical research, the MSU College of Human Medicine needed to grow. 

“There’s no staying the same in the current economic climate,” says 

Marsha Rappley, MD (CHM ’84), dean of the college. “If you stay the 

same, you get smaller.” 

Seventy-five miles west of MSU’s East Lansing campus, Grand Rapids needed 

a medical school to complete its growing life sciences sector. 

“From our perspective, a medical school brings research, brings intellectual 

property, brings jobs,” says Birgit Klohs, president and CEO of the Grand Rapids-based 

Right Place, a nonprofit economic development organization. 

Thus, after years of courtship, a marriage was formed, leading to the grand 

opening in September 2010, of the Secchia Center, a new seven-story headquarters 

for the College of Human Medicine in downtown Grand Rapids. That’s 

also when the college will begin offering all four years of medical education in 

Grand Rapids, enrolling its first class of 100 first-year medical students. With 

the opening of the Secchia Center, the college moved closer toward its expansion 

goal of a projected 800 students in 2014. 

For more than four decades, third- and fourth-year medical students have 

continued their education in Grand Rapids-area hospitals, doctors’ offices and 

clinics after spending their first two years in East Lansing. Beginning in the late 

1990s, MSU officials and Grand Rapids business and civic leaders began talking 

informally about creating a headquarters for the college there. 

Peter Secchia, ’62, former U.S. ambassador to Italy and a devoted Spartan, 

spoke to then-MSU President Peter McPherson about opening a four-year 

medical school in Grand Rapids. 

“I don’t want to give the impression I was all-knowing,” Secchia says. “I had 

the vision. The stars lined up.” 

Marsha Rappley 

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ED TO SERVE FUTURE NEEDS 

“Grand Rapids is a region 

that deserves a medical 

school. (It has) the 

educational base and 

it has a quality of medical 

care that is recognized 

across the country.” 



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Others who shared that vision 

included the heads of the 

Spectrum Health System, which 

operates Butterworth, Blodgett, 

Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital 

and five other West Michigan 

hospitals; the Van Andel Institute, 

medical research organization; 

the leaders of Saint Mary’s Health 

Care, another growing hospital in 

Grand Rapids; and leaders from 

Grand Valley State University, 

Grand Action and the Right 

Place, Inc. All were interested in 

seeing MSU expand its presence. 

A 2003 study commissioned 

by the Right Place identified a 

medical school as an important 

component for Grand Rapids to 

become a life sciences center. 

“We’re trying to make this a significant 

life sciences community,” 

Spectrum Health CEO Richard 

Breon says. “The piece that was 

missing was a medical school. 

There’s a real pride factor in being 

able to say you have a medical 

school in your community.” 

A medical school should help 

the hospitals recruit physicians, 

including those who want to 

teach future doctors as well 

as treat patients, and it should 

lead to more medical research 

and clinical trials, giving West 

Michigan patients access to 

advanced treatments. 

“It was inevitable this would 

take place,” Saint Mary’s Health 

Care CEO Philip McCorkle 

says. “We all recognized wanting 

to make Grand Rapids a medical 

center, a destination people 

would want to come to. 

“With this kind of cooperation, 

we’re going to design the doctors 

of the future.” 

For MSU, making the Secchia 

Center the College of Human 

Medicine’s headquarters also 

made sense. Faced with a growing 

need for primary care physicians, 

the university planned to double 

its medical school enrollment. 

Grand Rapids had the hospitals 

and physicians to help train those 

future doctors, which is critical for 

MSU to continue its community 

integrated approach to medical 

education. The College of Human 

Medicine also needed to expand 

its medical research, notes MSU 

President Lou Anna K. Simon. 

The presence of the Van Andel 

Institute, a nonprofit medical 

research facility founded in the 

mid-1990s by the late Jay Van 

Andel, co-founder of Amway, 

made Grand Rapids all the more 

attractive, she says. 

“It has been a struggle to have 

a community-based medical 

school and still have the power of 

research,” Simon says. “With the 

partnership of the Van Andel Institute, 

the possibilities in Grand 

Rapids grew exponentially.” 

Making those possibilities 

a reality, however, would 

require getting several players, 

including some that viewed 

each other as competitors, to 

work together. Grand Action, a 

nonprofit downtown development 

organization, convened 

a stakeholders group—including 

the area’s hospitals, MSU, 

Grand Valley State University, 

the Right Place and the Van 

Andel Institute—to study the 

idea. 

Months later, Van Andel 

Institute CEO David Van Andel, 

who chaired the stakeholders 

group, called for a vote: Did the 

members want to proceed with 

expanding the medical school in 

Grand Rapids? 

“I’d gotten to the point that, 

alright, everybody’s talked about 

this. I’m done talking. Are we 

going to do it or not?” Van 

Andel recalls. 

The response was a unanimous 

“yes.” It was a turning point, but 

many details remained to be 

worked out. 

“Then we got to the financing,” 

says Steve Heacock, the thenchief 

administrative officer of 

the Van Andel Institute assigned 

to guide the stakeholder group’s 

research. “We weren’t going to 

get any money from the Legislature. 

It’s got to make sense in the 

numbers.” 

Grand Action undertook a 

public fundraising campaign. 

Peter Secchia and his wife, Joan, 

’64, became the naming donors. 

Amway co-founder Richard 

DeVos also made a substantial 

donation, as did other philanthropists 

and community members. 

Spectrum Health agreed to 

give $85 million, including $55 

million toward the cost of the 

new building and $30 million for 

research. The Van Andel Institute 

pledged $16 million for research, 

and Saint Mary’s Health Care 

offered $10 million for education 

and research. 

“The university saw in the 

leadership of this community the 

commitment to a high-quality 

medical school,” Dean Rappley 

says. “There was no other community 

that could make this level 

of commitment. 

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(Far left) Sept. 10, 2010: (L to r) Helen DeVos, Richard 

DeVos, President Lou Anna K. Simon, Dean Marsha 

Rappley, Peter Secchia, Joan Secchia and Phil McCorkle 

took part in the Dedication and Ribbon Cutting 

ceremonies for the Secchia Center. The Secchia Center 

was designed to maximize learning spaces for small 

groups, whether outdoors or indoors, as these photos 

illustrate. 

“Grand Rapids is a region 

that deserves a medical school. 

It was very clear to me that this 

community had the educational 

base, and it has a quality of 

medical care that is recognized 

across the country.” 

It also is known for its 

relatively low medical costs. 

“That’s a model for the nation,” 

Rappley says. “That’s the perfect 

place to educate our physicians 

of the future.” 

Coming from California, one 

of those future doctors, Alonso 

Martin del Campo, knew little 

about Grand Rapids until he 

enrolled in MSU’s College of 

Human Medicine three years 

ago. He spent his first year on 

the East Lansing campus, then 

became part of the first group 

of second-year medical students 

to continue their studies in 

Grand Rapids. 

“I was pretty impressed,” del 

Campo says. “I felt it was an up 

and coming center for medical 

innovations. There are a lot of 

research opportunities here.” 

Now in his third year, del 

Campo has been doing a series of 

clerkships in the area’s hospitals 

and clinics, giving him experience 

in different aspects of medicine. 

During a general surgery 

rotation at Spectrum Health’s 

Butterworth Hospital, he assisted 

Dr. David Figg in removing a 

woman’s gall bladder. At Clinica 

Santa Maria, a Saint Mary’s 

Health Care facility serving a 

largely Hispanic population, he 

helped treat low income patients, 

many of them uninsured. It 

reminded him of the clinic where 

his mother took him and his 

siblings in California. 

“I’d like to serve everybody, 

but in particular people who are 

underserved, where primary care 

is needed,” del Campo says. “I 

think it’s because you can make 

a difference in people’s lives. You 

can prevent heart surgery from 

ever happening, can prevent liver 

failure, can prevent diabetes.” 

That patient-centered approach 

is a hallmark of how 

MSU trains its medical students. 

MSU was a pioneer in community-integrated 

medical education, 

sending its students from 

the classroom to the hospitals 

and doctors offices, where they 

learn from practitioners. By expanding 

its research, the college’s 

administrators and faculty plan 

to make new treatments more 

readily available to patients. 

“It’s the land-grant philosophy 

to move innovation as quickly 

as possible to benefit people,” 

Simon says. 

Since announcing the building 

of the Secchia Center in Grand 

Rapids, the College of Human 

Medicine and its Grand Rapids 

partners have attracted leading 

researchers with a combined 

portfolio of nearly $25 million 

in National Institutes of 

Health funding. These include 

two significant designations of 

research centers for excellence: 

a $6.8 million federal grant for 

a center for women’s reproductive 

research, and a $6.2 million 

federal grant for a Morris K. 

Udall Center of Excellence for 

Parkinson’s disease research. 

MSU officials plan to increase 

enrollment from the current 

568 medical students statewide 

to 800 by 2014. While Dean 

Rappley has moved her office to 

the new Grand Rapids headquarters, 

Simon emphasizes that 

MSU’s commitment to medical 

education in East Lansing and 

Lansing remains strong. Firstthrough 

fourth-year students 

will continue their studies in 

those two cities. Other thirdand 

fourth-year students will 

study in community campuses 

in Flint, Kalamazoo, Traverse 

City, Midland, Saginaw and the 

Upper Peninsula. 

MSU also has formed partnerships 

with Grand Valley State 

University and Ferris State 

University, allowing its medical 

students to work and study in 

teams with the nursing, pharmacy, 

physician assistant and other 

students from those schools, since 

that is how they will work in the 

real world. 

While its students are studying 

all over the state, the College 

of Human Medicine remains 

one medical school sharing faculty, 

administrators and other 

resources, Simon emphasizes. 

“The state has always been our 

campus,” she says. “We’re not 

duplicating resources. There’s a 

synergy between the work that 

will happen on all the campuses, 

but particularly between East 

Lansing and Grand Rapids. It’s 

headquartered in Grand Rapids, 

but it’s a community-focused 

medical school that benefits all 

of Michigan. 

“With this commitment, the 

community-focused medical 

school competes with the best 

medical schools in the world.” 



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“It’s the land-grant 

philosophy to 

move innovation 

as quickly as possible 

to benefit people,” 

says MSU President 

Lou Anna K. Simon. 

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THE NEW CENTER IS STATE OF THE ART 

The new MSU College of Human Medicine headquarters in downtown 

Grand Rapids is specifically designed for how medicine is taught 

today, rather than retro-fitting an existing building. It cost the state’s 

taxpayers exactly nothing. 

“We’re essentially creating a new medical school without more state 

dollars,” says Dean Marsha Rappley. Private fundraising coupled with 

support from the city’s hospitals made it possible to build the new, 

$90-million headquarters—the Secchia Center—without any appropriation 

from the state legislature. 

MSU officials had considered several sites in downtown Grand Rapids 

before settling on Michigan Street. The developers—a partnership 

between the Christman Co. and RDV Corp.—already were planning 

to construct an office building there as part of a larger Michigan Street 

Development complex. 

Ellenzweig Architecture of Cambridge, Mass., a firm specializing in 

designing medical schools, helped integrate the seven-story building 

atop a five-story parking structure. “We didn’t want it to look like it 

was sitting on a parking deck,” says Richard Temple, senior project 

manager for URS, the architects for the Michigan Street Development. 

“We made it work,” says Ellenzweig President Michael Lauber. 

By covering the entire structure, including the parking levels, with a 

skin of cast stone resembling limestone, the architects created the illusion 

that it is one building top to bottom. Wedge-shaped windows extending 

from the top floor to the ground also unify the entire structure. 

The architects also created a sense of community in a multi-story 

building with a striking four-story atrium, with windows and glass 

walls throughout. 

“What we tried to achieve is a lot of transparency and openness,” says 

Shirine Boulos Anderson, an Ellenzweig architect who guided the project. 

“It was important for us to draw in as much natural light as possible.” 

The use of natural light, a heat recovery system and other features are 

expected to earn the building a LEED certification, meaning it meets 

strict environmental standards. MSU officials expect to save $47,000 

a year in energy costs. 

After consulting with students, the architects designed a number 

of small meeting rooms, exam rooms and informal study areas. 

There are only two large classrooms and four lecture halls—consistent 

with the problem-based learning system that MSU uses to 

teach medical students. Included are exam rooms where students 

can meet with hired actors portraying patients with various 

symptoms, and a simulated operating room with a computerized 

manikin patient. 

“We had all these challenges that became opportunities,” says Elizabeth 

Lawrence, assistant dean for capital and strategic planning. “It’s 

functional, and it’s beautiful, and it’s glorious. It’s a real tribute to the 

expertise of this team.” 

Works of art on several floors incorporate images of trees and other 

plants, many of them photographed in the Grand Rapids and East 

Lansing areas and transferred to glass and ceramic tiles. 

“It’s the tree as a metaphor for the human body,” says artist Amy 

Baur, who with her husband, Brian Boldon, a former associate professor 

of art at MSU, created the pieces. Glass doors to a lounge area 

carry that same theme, embossed with images of trees based on drawings 

by Harry Ellenzweig, the architectural firm’s founder. 

Already the building, with its curved roof line, has become a landmark 

on the Michigan Street Hill. 

“The building is a symbol, a symbol that this unusual approach, 

this partnership, is significant” says MSU President Lou Anna K. 

Simon. “For me, it’s just a place to do work, and the work is pretty 

important.” 



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Students at MSUCOM’s new Macomb 

University Center site use distance 

learning technology. 

The pioneer 2009 entering class at the new 

Detroit Medical Center facility. 

Elite D.O.-Ph.D. students Joyce 

Chyong-jy Liu and Tyler Voss 

work with researcher mentor 

Andy Amalfitano to develop 

vaccines for HIV and malaria. 

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Lobby at the Detroit Medical Center 

MSU’S COLLEGE OF 

OSTEOPATHIC 

MEDICINE 

FULFILLS THE STATE’S NEEDS— 

AND THEN SOME 

After four decades, MSU’s College of 

Osteopathic Medicine continues to follow 

its original mandate on how best to serve 

the state. 

By Pat Grauer, M.A. '77 

It’s an iconic photo. Michigan 

Governor William Milliken, 

with smile broad and pen in 

hand, is surrounded by ten 

legislators and physicians. At 

that instant, by Public Act 162 

of 1969, the legislation that 

ultimately created the Michigan 

State University College of Osteopathic 

Medicine was brought 

to life. Core to that legislation 

was a mandate: This new medical 

school must provide the physicians 

that Michigan most needs. 

At that point, few knew 

the true importance of those 

pen strokes. More than four 

decades later, MSUCOM, the 

first osteopathic college ever to 

be state-assisted and the first to 

be located at a major university, 

has fulfilled that mission. Year 

after year, the college’s leadership 

and faculty have worked 

diligently to maximize the 

likelihood that graduates will 

provide the medical services 

Michigan needs in the quantity 

Michigan needs with the quality 

Michigan needs. 

It has paid off. To date, great 

pride rises from the following 

bald facts: 

For ten years straight, MSU- 

COM has ranked in the top 5 

percent of all medical schools in 

the nation—D.O. and M.D.— 

for primary care education, 

according to U.S.News & World 

Report. 

MSUCOM recruits from 

Michigan. In the 2009 entering 

class, for example, 93 percent of 

the students were residents of the 

state. 

Fully two-thirds of the college’s 

4,131 alumni remain in 

Michigan to practice—a higher 

proportion than any other medical 

school in the state. 

More than half of MSUCOM 

graduates are providing primary 

care, serving as the guardians and 

coordinators of health care for 

their patients. 

In short, from Marquette to 

Monroe, MSUCOM alumni 

are working and serving in 

every portion of our state—in 

inner cities and small towns, in 

suburban neighborhoods and 

rural areas, on reservations and 

military bases. This impact will 

only increase with MSUCOM’s 

expansion (see p. 32). 

From its beginning, the college 

has been indebted to the osteopathic 

profession. A consortium 

of community-based affiliated 

hospitals was established in the 

Statewide Campus System (SCS); 

at the time it was so innovative 

that its developers were asked to 

testify before Congress. There 

are now 33 hospitals in the SCS, 

and with our more than 2,600 

volunteer physician faculty, they 

do the heavy lifting of our clinical 

education. These generous 

resources have allowed the college 

to expand because of assurance 

that MSUCOM students will 

learn from the best clinicians, 

and that there will be more than 

sufficient numbers of internships 

and residencies available for them 

when they graduate. 

Many MSUCOM alumni 

have noteworthy accomplishments: 

Steven Pitt, the forensic 

psychiatrist who worked on the 

Columbine High School, Jon- 

Benet Ramsey, and Kobe Bryant 

cases; Sister Anne Brooks, who 


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(Far left) On Sept. 17, 2009, (l to r) 

John Haapaniemi, DMC chief of 

staff; MSUCOM Dean William 

Strampel; MSU President Lou 

Anna K. Simon; Joel Ferguson, 

chairperson, MSU Board of 

Trustees; and MSUCOM Associate 

Dean Gary Willyerd officially 

opened the expansion site at the 

Detroit Medical Center. 

Student Ramy Mansour was among 

MSUCOM students offering a 

health fair for the public at Detroit’s 

Eastern Market. 

graduated to choose the poorest 

community in the nation where 

her practice and communitybuilding 

have received national 

recognition; Joyce Johnson, former 

surgeon general of the Coast 

Guard; and many, many more. 

The MSU College of Osteopathic 

Medicine has been a 

leader in developing research in 

a profession that traditionally 

has emphasized clinical care, 

and leads all other osteopathic 

colleges in the nation in our level 

of National Institutes of Health 

funding, a common marker for 

research excellence. 

Over the years, internationally 

recognized scientists have 

served in the college’s faculty. 

Veronica Maher, the first person 

ever to identify that chemical 

and radiation damage to DNA 

causes mutations and ultimately 

cancer, and Justin McCormick, 

an expert on DNA repair, rank in 

the top five percent of cumulative 

funding from the National 

Institutes of Health. Terrie 

Taylor (see Spartan Saga, p. 14), 

working in Malawi, has become 

the world’s focal point for studies 

and treatment of cerebral malaria 

in children; MSUCOM constructed 

a building to house that 

African nation’s first MRI, which 

was donated by General Electric. 

An array of studies by MSU- 

COM faculty include epilepsy in 

Zambia, neurocognitive development 

and AIDS in Uganda, 

vaccine development, orthopedic 

research, biomechanics, Parkinson’s 

disease, Alzheimer’s disease, 

stroke, hypertension and more. 

Building for the future, MSU- 

COM in 1979 developed the first 

ever joint D.O.-Ph.D. program 

to provide exceptional students 

the opportunity to become 

physician-scientists. Today, this 

challenging program has 25 

students enrolled, learning to be 

both doctors and researchers, and 

using the skills to improve the 

knowledge base and practice of 

medicine. 

MSUCOM Spartans can now 

be found making a difference 

around the globe. The college’s 

MSUCOM has ranked in the 

top 5 percent for primary care 

education for 10 years running. 

-U.S. News & World Report 

Institute of International Health 

(IIH) develops research overseas, 

such as environmental health in 

the Balkans and viral disorders in 

Egypt. Under the new leadership 

of Reza Nassiri, IIH has a rapidly 

expanding network of affiliations 

on five continents, where faculty 

and student exchanges, medical 

missions, and study abroad opportunities 

are available. Typical of 

such outreach is the establishment 

of an MSUCOM HIV clinic in 

the Dominican Republic under 

the leadership of Peter Gulick. 

Today the footprint of the 

MSU College of Osteopathic 

Medicine is large—teaching, 

learning, leading, caring, healing, 

and serving. The college has not 

only met its mandate by providing 

the physicians Michigan 

needs, it is also multiplying its 

impact by providing the physicians 

that the world needs. 

GROWING UP TO 

THE CHALLENGE 

Remaining responsive to the 

needs of a state in an area as 

complex as health care education 

has not been easy. It requires eyes 

on the horizon, hands on the 

wheel, and the pedal to the metal. 

That is why the MSUCOM has 

recently launched an expansion 

of its first- and second-year 

program to two sites in southeast 

Michigan—at the Detroit Medical 

Center downtown and at the 

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On Feb. 22, 2010, (l to r) Dean 

William Strampel; Candice 

Miller, U.S. Representative for 

Michigan’s 10th District; MSU 

Trustee Faylene Owen; James 

Jacobs, president of Macomb 

Community College; MSU 

President Lou Anna K. Simon; 

Joseph DeSantis, Macomb 

Community College trustee; and 

Nancy Falcone, chairperson of 

the Macomb Community College 

Board of Trustees attended 

the grand opening of MSU’s 

state-of-the-art expansion site at 

the Macomb University Center. 

Macomb University Center in 

Clinton Township. 

MSUCOM Dean William D. 

Strampel was among the first to 

counter the continuing projections 

of a physician oversupply 

and to anticipate the impact of 

two trends on a collision course: 

the aging Baby Boomers who 

would require more and more 

health care, and the aging Baby 

Boomer physicians who would be 

retiring. Before the national and 

state blue-ribbon commissions 

had finished their documentation 

of major shortages by 2020 for 

both Michigan and the nation, 

Strampel was already thinking 

seriously about expansion. Considering 

osteopathic education 

requires a minimum of four years 

of undergraduate education, four 

years of medical school, and two 

to six years of residency training 

before physicians are ready for 

practice, the timeline was already 

short. In addition, Fee Hall 

could no longer handle additional 

students. 

Southeast Michigan was the 

logical area for expansion for the 

College of Osteopathic Medicine. 

It includes the largest proportion 

of Michigan’s population, a high 

proportion of those who are medically 

underserved, and more than 

half of MSUCOM’s 33 affiliated 

teaching hospitals and 2,600 clinical 

faculty. The model provided 

increased opportunities for our 

students to care for people from 

a variety of cultures and backgrounds, 

increased accessibility 

to our educational programs for 

residents of Southeast Michigan, 

and increased likelihood that 

committed and highly competent 

physicians would remain to care 

for the medically underserved 

there. 

As the news got out in 2006, a 

frenzy started. By word of mouth 

only, MSU received no less than 

18 credible and unsolicited 

proposals for the college to locate 

in Southeast Michigan—from 

colleges, businesses, real estate 

developers, hospitals and more. 

Communities got involved, with 

The value of MSUCOM expansion 

in SE Michigan was recognized 

with the Michigan Health Council's 

Building Michigan's Workforce in 

Health Award 

government, health care professionals 

and hospitals, industry, 

unions, social service agencies, 

educators and others joining 

together to attract the college. 

Though the original plan had 

called for only one expansion site, 

in May 2007 the MSU Board 

of Trustees selected two—one 

at Macomb University Center, 

part of Macomb Community 

College in Clinton Township, 

and one at the former Hutzel 

Hospital at Detroit Medical 

Center downtown. In addition, 

the board doubled the size of 

the expansion, from 50 students 

total to 50 at each site. In many 

ways the two sites offer complementary 

milieux for osteopathic 

medical education. Macomb 

offers an innovative, state-ofthe-art 

educational institution 

situated among a high concentration 

of osteopathic physicians 

and partner hospitals. The DMC 

proffers an outstanding medical 

environment which will help students 

appreciate the needs of an 

underserved urban population. 

Following Board of Trustee 

approval in May 2007, the 

college began immediately to obtain 

accreditation for the expansion 

from the Commission on 

Osteopathic College Accreditation, 

a process that took until 

September 2008. 

In the meantime, MSUCOM 

administrators, faculty and staff 

went into a frenzy of their own. 


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MSUCOM students, working 

with Healthy Spartners of 

Macomb, do health education 

for students at Crescentwood 

Elementary School in 

Eastpointe, MI. 

(Inset) Physician Patrick 

McClellan, one of MSUCOM’s 

nearly 2,600 clinical faculty, 

has volunteered to teach 

MSUCOM students since 

1972, and is spending his 

retirement working at 

Macomb University Center. 

Facilities (including histology, 

anatomy and osteopathic 

manipulative medicine laboratories, 

classrooms, study areas, 

offices and a myriad of technology) 

had to be prepared—twice. 

DMC renovated hospital space; 

Macomb constructed a dedicated 

building for the college. We coordinated 

curricula, hired and reassigned 

faculty and staff, extended 

student and financial aid services, 

hawk-eyed budgets, built relationships, 

and recruited students. By 

June 2009, 315 fresh osteopathic 

medical students crossed the stage 

at their White Coat Ceremony, 

celebrating their official welcome 

into the college. A few days later 

the class was split: two-thirds in 

East Lansing, and one-sixth each 

at DMC and Macomb. 

The teaching model for three 

sites is unique in the extent to 

which it uses technology, but 

every effort is made so that 

students have the same quality 

educational experience. 

The three locations are linked 

electronically so all students in 

the class see the same lectures, 

discuss the same issues, and take 

the same tests at the same time. 

The instruction may originate 

from any of the three sites. With 

the lights down, the Power- 

Point presentations on screen, 

the voice of the lecturer filling 

the room, and their classmates 

asking questions of the faculty, 

students quickly forget that the 

speaker may be 90 miles distant. 

Even class meetings, meetings 

of student organizations, and 

faculty and administrative meetings 

are held electronically. In 

addition, faculty at each site are 

available for face-to-face interactions. 

Student evaluations of the 

experience are positive, and the 

college is carefully evaluating 

both process and product. 

One of the main reasons the 

expansion could be handled expeditiously 

is that it is extremely 

cost-effective. Faculty and staff 

impact is maximized, facilities 

are leased instead of owned, and 

the extra tuition generated by 

the expansion will quickly make 

it self-supporting. The value of 

the expansion and how it was 

achieved were recognized by 

the Michigan Health Council, 

which gave MSUCOM its 

Building Michigan’s Workforce 

in Health Award in 2008. 

If the past is a predictor of the 

future, this expansion could well 

provide nearly 100 additional 

osteopathic physicians each year, 

about 65 of whom will remain in 

Michigan, caring for our people, 

enhancing our communities, and 

making good on the mandate 

to provide the physicians that 

Michigan needs. 

Pat Grauer has worked at 

MSU 95 percent of her adult 

life, and as director of public 

relations for 95 percent of this 

history of the College of Osteopathic 

Medicine. 

A SPECIAL KIND 

OF PIONEER 

It took a special kind of pioneer 

to be part of the inaugural 

class at MSUCOM Detroit 

Medical Center and Macomb 

University Center sites. At the 

time the Class of 2013 was being 

recruited, faculty and staff at the 

sites were working in temporary 

facilities, and tours for prospective 

students often involved 

stretching the imagination. They 

were being asked to accept a new 

way of receiving medical education, 

which, though thoroughly 

tested on the MSU campus, 

had not been used to this extent 

before. They were to be Spartans, 

but Spartans far removed from 

the chimes of Beaumont Tower 

and the roars of the stadium. 

But once in place, it took only 

weeks for the new classes to gel 

and to begin to impact the communities 

around them. They volunteered 

for community cleanups, 

conducted health screens at 

the Eastern Market, exhibited at 

a robotics competition at a local 

high school, mentored students, 

raised funds and donated to 

charities, did health education 

among elementary students. In 

short, they maintained the longstanding 

tradition of exceptional 

voluntarism that has characterized 

MSUCOM students—and 

alumni—from the beginning. 

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The Collosseum Rome China Italian Fountains 

S P A R T A N P A T H W A Y S 

Welcome to the MSU Alumni Association’s Spartan 

Pathways Travel Programs for 2011. We invite 

you to travel with Michigan State as we embark on 

another year of fantastic educational experiences 

around the world, where you will find a number of 

exciting and must-see adventures awaiting you. 

Florida Everglades 

February 20-26 

From: $3,295 pp + airfare 

Program Type: Land 

Orbridge, Inc. 

Highlights: Everglades National Park 

· Tarpon Bay · Rookery Bay 

· Airboat Ride 

Rome ~ An Insider’s Perspective 

March 17-25 



Alumni Holidays 

Highlights: Rome · The Vatican 

· Port of Ostia · Orvieto · Florence 

· Subterranean Rome 

Young Alumni Caribbean Cruise 

with MSU Host Tim Bograkos 

January 20-24 

From: $349 pp + airfare 

Program Type: Cruise 

Conlin Travel 

Highlights: Miami · Key West 

· Cozumel, Mexico 

East Africa Wildlife Safari 

with MSU Alumnae Jessica Pociask 

January 25-February 5 



Want Expeditions 

Highlights: Serengeti National Park 

· Lake Nakuru · Ngorongoro Crater 

· Uganda Gorilla Extension 

Swiss Winter Escapade 

January 31-February 7 

From: $2,395 pp including airfare 


Alumni Holidays International 

Highlights: Interlaken · Grindelwald 

· Ski Package Option 

Daytona 500 

February 18-21 



Premier Sports 

Highlights: Sprint Fan Pass 

· Track Access · Hospitality Chalet 

Admission · NASCAR speaker 

Amazon River 

with MSU Professor 

Dr. Catherine Lindell 

February 28-March 7 



Orbridge, Inc. 

Highlights: Iquitos · Pacaya Samiria 

Reserve · Yanalpa Private Reserve 

· Atun Poza · Caro Curuhuayte 

· Puerto Miguel 

The Masters Golf Tournament 

April 6-9 




Highlights: Friday Round Admission 

· Executive Club Admission 

· Viewing Social · Day of Golf 

China & Tibet 

April 29-May 14 


Program Type: Land & Cruise 


Highlights: Tiananmen Square · 

Forbidden City · Great Wall · Xian 

· Lhasa · Jokhang Temple · Potala 

Palace · Yumbulagang Palace 

· Giant Pandas · Three Gorges 

· Yangtze River · Shanghai

The Amazon Augusta National Prague 

The Kentucky Derby 

with MSU Professor Dr. Camie Heleski 

May 5-8 




Highlights: Saturday Admission 

·Churchill Downs Reserved Seating 

·Horse Farm Tour 

· Bourbon Distillery Tour 

Essential Europe for 

New Graduates 

May 14-June 7 



AESU World Travel 

Highlights: England · France 

· Belgium · Holland · Germany 

· Switzerland · Liechtenstein · Austria 

· Italy · Vatican City · Greece 

Scandinavian Odyssey 

with MSU Professor Dr. Jim Detjen 

May 19-June 4 


from select cities 


Odysseys Unlimited, Inc. 

Highlights: Copenhagen · Oslo 

· Hardanger Fjord · Bergen · Geiranger 

· Lillehammer · Stockholm 

Italy’s Amalfi Coast 

June 15-23 




Highlights: Vietri Sul Mare · Ravello 

· Positano · Sorrento · Capri · Naples 

· Pompeii · Paestum 

Northern Michigan Wine Tour 

June 23-26 

From: $1,049 pp including 

transportation from Lansing 


Conlin Travel 

Highlights: Chateau Chantal 

· Chateau Grand Traverse · 2 Lads 

· Circa Estate · Tandem Ciders 

· Forty-Five North · Black Star Farms 

· L. Mawby 

Danube River Cruise 

and Central Europe 

July 15-26 


Program Type: Land & Cruise & Rail 

Gohagan & Co. 

Highlights: Passau · Spitz · Budapest 

· Bratislava · Slovakia · Vienna · Melk 

· Prague · Krakow 

Cruising Alaska’s Glaciers 

and Inside Passage 

August 4-11 




Gohagan & Co. 

Highlights: Vancouver · Ketchikan 

· Juneau · Skagway · Sitka · Seward 

Provence to the Ligurian Sea 

August 30-September 10 



Gohagan & Co. 

Highlights: Nice · Monte Carlo 

· Calvi · Corsica · Portoferraio · Elba 

· Portofino · Cannes · Avignon 

· St. Remy · Marseilles 

Ireland ~ Dublin & Killarney 

September 16-24 




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Highlights: Dublin · Belfast 

· Glendalough · Dingle Peninsula 

· Bantry Bay and Garinish Island 

· Kinsale · Blarney Castle 

Lessons of Tuscany 

September 22-29 



American Express Travel 

Highlights: Florence · Siena · 

Montefioralle · Lucca · Pisa 

· Tuscan Cooking Classes 

· Wine Production Classes 

Paris & the Villages 

and Vineyards of France 

September 25-October 5 




Highlights: Reims · Troyes · Dijon 

· Beaune · Paris · Le Marais 

Best of the Mediterranean & 

Greek Isles 

September 30-October 11 




Go Next 

Highlights: Athens · Delos · Mykonos 

· Kusadasi · Santorini · Monemvasia 

· Zakynthos · Corfu · Kotor 

· Dubrovnik · Venice

Santorini, Greece St. Petersburg, Russia Takal, Guatemala 

Chicago ~ Politics, Architecture, 

Art & Living 

October 11-16 




Highlights: Chicago Art Institute 

· Bridgeport · University of Chicago 

Architecture · Millennium Park 

· Chicago River Architecture Cruise 

· Jackson Park · Oak Park 

Heartland of Europe 

October 15-23 



Gohagan & Co. 

Highlights: Nuremberg · Hasfurt 

· Würzburg · Wertheim · Miltenberg 

· Heidelberg · Rüdesheim · Cochem 

· Zell · Bernkastel · Trier 

Cradle of History 

November 1-14 




Go Next 

Highlights: Istanbul · Volos · Kusadusi 

· Rhodes · Limassol · Jerusalem · Haifa 

· Cairo · Alexandria · Crete · Athens 

Cruise the Mexican Riviera 

November 27-December 4 





Highlights: Cabo San Lucas 

· Mazatlan · Puerto Vallarta 

· Los Angeles 

All dates, prices and itineraries are subject to change. 

Reservations are on a first come, first served basis. Since the 

MSUAA partners with other universities, many tours fill quickly. 

It is essential that you make your deposit early to reserve 

space on the tour. Brochures are generally printed and mailed 

eight to ten months prior to trip departure. 

A minimum number of participants are needed to send an MSU host. 

For more information on Spartan Pathways tours 

or to request a 2011 travel catalog or travel brochures, 

visit www.alumni.msu.edu or call (888) 697-2863. 

Churchill Polar Bear Expedition 

October 26-29 

From: $3,850 pp including private 

jet service from Detroit 


Nomads Air Travel Club 

Highlights: Private Jet Service 

· Churchill · Polar Bear Viewings 

· Dogsled Ride 

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Dean Mundt (standing, 2nd from right) 

visits with undergraduate nursing students 

at their pre-graduation luncheon. 

Some 5,000 

Spartan nurses 

are working to 

ensure that a 

nurse will be 

there when you 

need one. 

The Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research will be a nucleus 

for the nursing community—students, faculty, staff, alumni, partners and 

stakeholders—to come together and influence the future of health care. 

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SPARTAN NURSES 

ON THE FRONTLINES OF HEALTH CARE 

By Jill Vondrasek, '92 

Few people embody the spirit 

of nursing like Spartan Nurses. 

In addition to providing direct 

care, Spartan Nurses are leading 

the way in research, education 

and leadership in implementing 

health care change. With a focus 

on systems improvement, Spartan 

Nurses are a source of expert 

knowledge and compassion in 

people’s lives when they are most 

vulnerable. 

When a new mom needs help 

learning how to provide proper 

nutrition for her baby, a College 

of Nursing researcher is leading 

the way with infant and toddler 

feeding interventions. 

When falls among the elderly 

impact a grandparent’s quality of 

life and independence, a Spartan 

doctoral student is leading the 

way with fall prevention measures 

to improve mobility. 

When a cancer patients need 

help at home managing their 

symptoms and medication, a 

College of Nursing researcher is 

leading the way with symptom 

management support for patients 

and their caregivers. 

When the nation’s children 

suffer from an increased incidence 

of obesity, a College of Nursing 

researcher is leading the way to improve 

physical activity and prevent 

obesity in middle school girls. 

As the nursing profession faces 

critical challenges of an adequate 

nursing workforce, the College of 

Nursing at MSU is intricately tied 

to national health care initiatives 

and has come up with solutions 

to help address the nursing and 

faculty shortage. 

“The College of Nursing at 

Michigan State University is committed 

to addressing the critical 

challenges set forth by national 

health care initiatives,” says Mary 

Mundt, dean of the college. “Our 

vision is to provide leading educational 

and research experiences 

that prepare the future nursing 

workforce and address the 

crisis of a shortage of nurses and 

nursing faculty. When Spartan 

Nurses enter the workforce, their 

careers are built upon the foundation 

of academic excellence and 

the support of our outstanding 

faculty.” 

Celebrating 60 Years 

of Distinction 

The College of Nursing at 

MSU celebrates its 60th anniversary 

during the 2010-2011 

year with the themes of heritage, 

leadership and distinction. The 

legacy of strong nursing leaders 

and the land-grant tradition 

have laid the foundation for the 

current success of the college and 

provide the momentum for future 

accomplishments. Established as 

an undergraduate nursing program 

leading to the baccalaureate 

degree, the college has grown to 

include graduate programs at the 

master’s and doctoral levels, and 

distinctive programs of nursing 

research and nursing practice. 

Looking forward, the college 

aims to have a significant impact 

on the redesign of health care 

through integrated approaches 

to generating and disseminating 

knowledge in education and practice. 

The future of the college will 

be shaped by the local and global 

need for nursing and health care 

knowledge and an educated 

workforce. 

As one of the leading 100 

research institutions in the world, 

MSU has a profound appreciation 

for how essential a top notch 

education is to enhance the future 

of our students and the outcomes 

of nursing research and practice. 

The college graduates nursing 

leaders who have the capacity for 

high-level critical thinking while 

caring deeply about the profession 

and their communities at-large. 

Of our graduates, more than 75 

percent currently reside in the 

State of Michigan, benefiting 

our local health care systems and 

Michigan workforce. 

The U.S. Bureau of Labor 

Statistics projects that more than 

581,500 new RN positions will 

be created through 2018 making 


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Assistant Professor 

Lorraine Robbins, 

seen here in the gym 

of a Lansing middle 

school, is taking part 

in a school-based intervention 

program 

to promote physical 

activity. 

Professor Mildred 

Horodynski is shown 

making a presentation 

about nutrition 

based on her extensive 

obesity research. 

nursing one of the nation’s top 

professions in terms of projected 

job growth. 

Building the Nursing 

Workforce 

In order to educate the “nurse 

of the future” the college is 

implementing educational models 

based on partnerships with 

clinical systems and collaboration 

with other health professions. 

The College of Nursing 

enrolls a population of over 500 

nursing students and maintains 

high standards of excellence 

and recognition in test performance 

and application. Nursing 

research and scholarship are integrated 

into all programs with 

the pursuit of new knowledge 

rapidly incorporated into the 

curriculum. 

The college extends access to 

educational programs through 

a variety of pathways including 

accelerated on site and distance 

education programs. At the 

undergraduate level, all students 

are immersed in evidence based 

scholarly projects that address 

real quality improvement issues 

in health care settings. 

Increasing Access to 

Graduate Education 

The education of undergraduate 

professional nurses is balanced 

with expanding graduate education 

options and the preparation 

of future nursing faculty and 

nurse researchers. 

Enrollment has increased in 

the Master of Science in Nursing 

Program as the college responds 

to the need for increased numbers 

of Advanced Practice Nurses 

in an environment of health care 

reform to serve a broadly insured 

population. Master’s students 

have clinical placements in over 

300 sites throughout the state 

of Michigan to provide learning 

opportunities with diverse populations. 

New specialties in nurse 

anesthesia have also been added 

to respond to shortages of nurse 

anesthetists. 

Quality educational programs 

are a high priority for the college. 

The U.S. News & World Report 

ranked the College of Nursing’s 

master’s program in the top 20 

percent nationally. Master’s 

graduates have a 100% pass rate 

on certification examinations. 

Developing advanced practice 

nurses to lead process improvement 

within the changing 

health care environment is the 

focus of the CNS-Education 

concentration. Responding to 

the faculty and nursing shortage, 

the program prepares nurses 

for the advanced role of clinical 

nurse specialist and equips them 

with the skills necessary to enter 

the nursing faculty workforce to 

teach future nurses. 

Extending Nursing 

Careers 

Growing from a long-term 

relationship and support from 

the Blue Cross Blue Shield of 

Michigan Foundation (BCB- 

SM), the Nursing for Life: RN 

Career Transition Program was 

established to help retain nurses 

by transitioning them from hospital 

based jobs into home-based, 

hospice, long-term and ambulatory 

care practice. By extending 

the lifespan of a nursing career, 

experienced nurses who may 

otherwise leave or retire from active 

nursing are educated to take 

on new nursing roles within the 

community. 

The program kicked off in 

2007 as part of the Partners 

Investing in Nursing’s Future 

initiative led by the Robert Wood 

Johnson Foundation and the 

Northwest Health Foundation. 

The project encourages local 

foundations to act as catalysts in 

developing grassroots strategies 

to establish a stable, adequate 

nursing workforce. Expanding 

to meet additional nursing workforce 

needs, Case Management 

and Quality/Safety Management 

tracks are being added to 

the Nursing for Life Program 

with an additional grant from 

BCBSM. 

“Our workforce initiatives that 

support experienced nurses are an 

important strategy in addressing 

the nursing shortage,” says Teresa 

Wehrwein, associate dean for 

Academic and Clinical Affairs. 

“The health care demands of the 

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MSU Distinguished 

Professor Barbara 

Given, a member of 

the nursing faculty’s 

research team, is seen 

here in a doctor’s 

office. 

The U.S. News 

& World Report 

ranked the College 

of Nursing’s master’s 

program in the top 20 

percent nationally. 

79 million baby boomers moving 

into their 60s—and the general 

population growth of people 

older than age 80—require innovative 

solutions to meet an anticipated 

unprecedented demand 

for health care services expected 

to last for the next 30 years.” 

Breaking New Ground 

With program expansion, increased 

numbers of students and 

growth of research programs the 

College of Nursing has required 

new space for programs, student 

services and research. To address 

these needs, the college broke 

ground on The Bott Building for 

Nursing Education and Research 

in September. The building is 

named in honor of John and 

Anna Bott, the parents of Bernadette 

Bott Marquez, BSN ’80. 

The building will be located next 

to the Life Sciences A Building 

and will be connected to it by a 

walkway. 

The new building is made 

possible by a $7 million gift from 

the Timothy and Bernadette 

Marquez Foundation, a $7.45 

million grant from the National 

Institutes of Health Center for 

Research Resources and the generosity 

of more than 1,000 other 

benefactors. 

“I am deeply grateful to all 

who contributed to making the 

new building a reality and to all 

that contribute to the vibrant 

experience that defines the college 

of Nursing at Michigan State 

University,” says Dean Mundt. 

“This will allow the college more 

space, resources and technology 

to educate more nurses at the 

master’s and doctoral levels, who 

in turn can prepare and teach 

future nurses.” 

The Bott Building for Nursing 

Education and Research will be 

highly visible on the university’s 

Health Science Campus and will 

be a nucleus for where the nursing 

community—students, faculty, 

staff, alumni, partners and 

stakeholders—come together to 

collaborate on making a positive 

impact on the future of nursing 

and health care. 

60TH ANNIVERSARY 

HERITAGE OF DISTINCTION 

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP 

PROGRAM 

To commemorate its 60th anniversary, the College of Nursing 

seeks to raise $1 million to establish the Heritage of Distinction 

Endowed Scholarship Program. The goal is to generate enough 

earnings from the endowment to provide $60,000 in scholarships 

every year for deserving nursing students in need. 

Up to 60 nursing students could benefit from this endowment 

with minimum awards of $1,000. With challenging economic 

times and the reduction of state support, these philanthropic 

gifts will help nursing students realize their dreams of receiving 

an MSU degree. 

☛ To participate, contact the College of Nursing 

at (888) 771-3637. 

Jill Vondrasek, ’92, directs the strategic marketing and communications 

initiatives for the College of Nursing. She is also working 

on MSU’s early adopters team to implement the new Cascade 

Content Management System for nursing.msu.edu. 


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LIFELONG EDUCATION ABROAD 

August 20-September 3, 2011 • 28 th Anniversary 

Celebrating its 28 th anniversary in 2011, this 

two-week lifelong education program takes you 

on a rare adventure to Oxford—“city of dreaming 

spires” and to the University of Oxford, famous as a 

great center of learning since the 12 th century. Once 

England’s capital, Oxford is located in the heart of 

England just 50 miles northwest of London. 

Open to all adults, participants enroll in one 

(of four) noncredit personal enrichment course 

choosing from topics such as British archaeology, 

art, history, theatre, or literature. A typical 

day’s schedule includes morning classes taught 

by Oxford tutors with afternoon course-specific 

field trips or general group excursions. Group 

excursions may include visits to prehistoric sites, 

famous castles, gardens, palaces, cathedrals, the 

Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon, London, or 

other English or Welsh towns and villages. 

There will be ample time during the two weeks 

to enjoy breathtaking architecture, art, and gardens 

of many of the university’s 39 colleges, explore 

the historic town of Oxford, or visit the surrounding 

countryside. The city of Oxford offers a 

diversity of museums, bookshops, theatres, restaurants, 

pubs, shops, and natural settings to explore. 

Participants stay in Oxford’s Department for 

Continuing Education Residential Center at Rewley 

House. Residential Center buildings offer 

comfortable bedrooms (with private bathrooms), 

dining rooms, common room, computer room, lecture 

and reading rooms, bar, and laundry facilities. 

For a detailed brochure, contact: 

Alumni Lifelong Education, 

Evening College/Odyssey to Oxford 



Phone: (517) 355-4562 

www.alumni.msu.edu/evecoll/oxford 

MARKETPL@CE provides new and unique items made for MSU alumni 

and friends. From jewelry to clothing, greeting cards to blankets, and 

Sparty wall clings for all ages, you’ll have fun browsing through this 

collection of Spartan items. Whether you’re looking for a gift for a friend 

or family member, something for the new graduate or simply that special 

item for yourself, MARKETPL@CE is the perfect place to start. 

• CUSTOMIZED WINE STOPPERS 

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• SPARTAN CERAMIC TILES 

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• MSU RESTIXX 

• BLANKETS 

• JEWELRY 

• PERSONALIZED CLOTHING 

• DIPLOMA FRAMES AND DESK ACCESSORIES 

You will find us at www.alumni.msu.edu 

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EVERY 

 

HAS A 

 

EVERY DAY, NEARLY 

HALF A MILLION 

SPARTANS—AT 

WORK ON EVERY 

CONTINENT—RISE 

TO PRACTICALLY 

EVERY CHALLENGE 

IMAGINABLE. EACH 

HAS A SAGA. 

Michigan State University is collecting the 

stories of the Spartans—alumni, students, 

faculty, and staff—in an epic storytelling 

project. 

Visit the Spartan Sagas Web site to see the 

newest Sagas, to nominate Spartans to be 

featured, or to tell your own Spartan Saga. 

spartansagas.msu.edu 


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SPORTS 

Draymond Green 

Durrell Summers 

MSU Athletic Communications 

Tom Izzo 

2010 Basketball 

Preview 

MSU BOASTS DEPTH, 

EXPERIENCE, & IZZO 

By Robert Bao 

After a flirtation with the NBA, 

Izzo made a career-defining 

decision to stay at MSU and to 

solidify his program among the 

nation’s elite. 

In June, Spartan Nation took 

a collective breath of relief after 

Tom Izzo turned down a lucrative 

offer to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers. 

Izzo declared MSU as his 

lifelong career home and vowed to 

shun future NBA overtures. 

“It’s good 

to know that 

it matters to 

people,” says 

Izzo, referring 

to the “We Love Izzo” signs and 

Web sites that sprouted everywhere 

during his decision process. 

“It’s also good the university gave 

me a chance to look at (the opportunity), 

because at the end, I made 

a life-altering decision to stay.” 

With that behind him, Izzo is 

focusing on a season fraught with 

as much promise as pitfalls. He 

will field a deep and Final Fourexperienced 

team that is ranked 

among the nation’s top three by 

many media. But he faces another 

brutal schedule, including as scary 

a Big Ten conference as he has 

seen in 

decades. 

“Duke 

will be picked No. 

1, and we’ll be second or third,” 

predicts Izzo. “The problem 

is that Purdue will be third or 

fourth, and Ohio State between 

fourth and sixth. Then you have 

Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 

and even Northwestern, with 

(Kevin) Coble back from injury. 

“We might have bit off more 

than we can chew (in the 

preseason), because the Big Ten 

schedule is going to be just brutal.” 

MSU’s schedule includes South 

Carolina and Texas, road trips 

against Duke and Syracuse, and 

possible games against the likes of 

Kentucky, Connecticut, Oklahoma 

and Washington at the 

Maui Classic. 

The good news is that the Spartans 

lost just one starter—forward 

Raymar Morgan—from a team 

that made two straight Final 

Fours. Guards Kalin Lucas and 

Durrell Summers opted to return 

to MSU for their senior seasons, 

resisting temptations to enter 

the NBA draft. In 2000, Mateen 

Cleaves and Morris Peterson also 

bypassed the NBA, returned for 

their senior seasons, and led MSU 

to the NCAA title. 

Izzo likes the historic parallel. 

“The big question mark is whether 

we have a center that’s proven,” 

he notes, promptly adding, “I like 

the pieces we have to try to prove 

something.” 

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The “pieces” include sophomore 

Derrick Nix, who along 

with junior Draymond Green, 

might sport a slimmer and sleeker 

physique; sophomore Garrick 

Sherman, who gained considerable 

minutes last season as a true 

freshman; and 6-10 incoming 

freshman Adreian Payne, 

a highly-touted recruit who is 

recovering from surgery to mend a 

separated shoulder. 

MSU returnees include point 

guard Kalin Lucas, who has the 

proven ability to hit winning 

baskets, backed by Korie Lucious, 

who hit the buzzer-beating threepointer 

against Maryland in the 

NCAAs. Lucas was named Big 

Ten Player of the Year in 2009, 

his sophomore season. Wingman 

Durrell Summers can light up 

the boards. Summers elevated his 

play during the NCAA tournament 

and looks to perform at 

that level consistently. “Day Day” 

Green is a versatile playmaker and 

leader who can do multiple things 

to help the team win. Forward 

Delvon Roe continues to battle 

assorted ailments, but Izzo says 

he has the potential to make a 

dramatic improvement and be an 

explosive force. “He’s on track to 

be 95 percent healthy,” he says. “If 

so, you’ll see a star like the player 

I recruited.” Nix and Sherman 

return with a year’s experience, 

ready to make an expected 

improvement. Walk-on Austin 

Thornton provides even more 

depth. 

In addition, MSU welcomes a 

highly-ranked recruiting class led 

by Payne, along with McDonald 

All-American Keith Appling, 

Russell Byrd and Alex Gauna. 

How much playing time will 

these newcomers get? “You 

almost hope not a lot, because 

that would mean the other guys 

didn’t improve,” says Izzo, who 

nonetheless calls Appling one of 

the most “college-ready” players he 

has recruited. 

Izzo believes that this year’s 

team has enough depth to be a 

“great” running team. “Last year 

we had depth, but not everyone 

was in great shape, so we were 

only a good running team,” he 

explains. “This year we can be 

more like the 2005 team and keep 

up the pressure on teams.” 

Izzo boasts continuity in the 

program, with assistants Mark 

Montgomery, Duane Stephens 

and Mike Garland returning as 

well. With his great success in the 

NCAA tournament, where he 

has reached six Final Fours since 

1999—the best record of any active 

coach—Izzo says it has helped 

in recruiting. 

“We’re not changing our recruiting 

philosophy,” he explains. 

“We try to get very good players, 

including some McDonald 

All-Americans, and stay within a 

radius so we can maintain a family 

atmosphere. 

“We’re a more viable option 

(for top recruits) than we were 10 

years ago.” 

All of which makes Izzo happy 

he has decided to stay. “I feel 

really great about my decision,” he 

says. “I don’t have any remorse. I 

have a very positive feeling, and 

my focus is now on making this 

the best college basketball job in 

the country.” 

Courtney Schiffauer 

Despite losing a four-time All-Big Ten defensive 

player and power upfront, Suzy Merchant hopes 

to vie for the conference title. 


Suzy Merchant 

A ROSY OUTLOOK 

FOR MERCHANT 

Fans of MSU women’s basketball 

will notice the lack of All- 

American center Allyssa DeHaan, 

the 6-9 ball rejection machine 

who ranks second all-time in the 

NCAA for career blocks. 

“She’ll definitely be missed,” 

says Coach Suzy Merchant. “She 

did so many things for us. Her 

presence alone caused teams to 

change their game plans.” 

Nonetheless, Merchant, who was 

recently inducted into the Traverse 

City Sports Hall of Fame, intends 

to win despite the departures of 

DeHaan, Lauren Aitch and Aisha 

Jefferson. “What we give up in 

power and strength, we hope to 

gain elsewhere—maybe in speed 

and quickness. We’ll play a little 

more face-up in the post and rely 

more on speed and quickness.” 

One returnee will be sophomore 

Courtney Schiffauer, 

who was leading MSU with 17 

points-a-game last year before a 

season-ending injury. Others include 

senior point guard Brittney 

Thomas and senior forward Kalisha 

Keane, winner of last year’s 

Big Ten Sixth Player of the Year 

award. Says Merchant, “I consider 

her a starter.” Other returnees include 

Lykendra Johnson, Porsche 

Poole and Cetera Washington. 

“We will have a good blend 

of veterans with experience and 

youth,” says Merchant. “Our goal 

is to win the Big Ten championship, 

and to do that we have to 

beat (current champions) Ohio 

State, which has everyone back.” 

The incoming freshmen include 

6-7 center Madison Williams, 

the second Spartan McDonald’s 

All American, and Michigan 

Miss Basketball Klarissa Bell. 

“We’ve liked her since she was 

a sophomore,” says Merchant. 

“She brings a transition attack.” 

Other newcomers include Annalise 

Pickrel and Bryonna Davis. 

Helping Merchant are assistants 

Shane Clipfell, Terry Smith and 

Tempie Brown. 

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HOCKEY TO VIE FOR CCHA TITLE 

Despite three key premature 

departures, MSU hockey intends 

to compete for the league title. 

When Corey Tropp, last year’s 

MVP, announced in July he 

would pass up his senior season at 

MSU—as did star icers Andrew 

Rowe and Jeff Petry earlier— 

many hockey fans began to feel 

sorry for Coach Rick Comley. 

But Comley sings a slightly different 

tune. 

“We’ll be just fine,” he says, 

without any trace of panic. “We’ll 

surprise some people. You watch, 

we’ll contend for the league championship.” 

Comley explains that having 

lost 14 underclassmen in the 

past eight years, he and his 

assistants now know to build 

enough depth to withstand early 

departures to professional ranks. 

He thinks MSU can improve on 

its second-place CCHA finish 

last season. 

“Two years ago, when (Tim) 

Kennedy and (Justin) Abdelkader 

left, we were devastated,” says 

Comley. “We feel good that we 

produce so many players who 

have success in the pros, so it’s a 

question of anticipating that this 

will happen. We’ll miss them, 

but our talent level is still very 

good and we’ll be in the hunt.” 

Drew Palmisano returns as 

goalie, a position that has become 

legendary in MSU history. Comley 

says MSU’s defense is solid, 

adding that he looks forward to 

the arrival of defenseman Jake 

Chelios (to join brother Dean). 

It’s a surname that by itself should 

inspire respect. “He’s got a bright 

future ahead of him,” says Comley 

of the son of longtime NHL 

defenseman Chris Chelios. 

Who will pick up the scoring 

slack? Comley points to senior 

Dustin Gazley, juniors Daultan 

Leveille and Brett Perlini, and 

sophomore Derek Grant, who 

amassed 30 points as a freshman 

and won CCHA All- 

Rookie honors last season. MSU 

also welcomes two freshmen 

forwards, Lee Reimer and Greg 

Wolfe, who Comley says will be 

able to contribute immediately. 

MSU will continue to play 

an aggressive, uptempo pursuit 

scheme, which fans will find 

more entertaining because of 

the pace. “We copied it from 

the Red Wings and tweaked it 

a bit,” says Comley. “It’s a faster 

game today.” 

The hockey staff remains intact 

with Associate Coach Brian Renfrew 

and Assistant Coach Tom 

Newton. 

FOR THE RECORD 

NEW BASEBALL COACH— 

MSU Head Baseball Coach Jake 

Boss has hired Graham Sikes, 

volunteer assistant at Notre Dame 

the past three seasons, as assistant 

baseball coach. Sikes has also 

coached at James Madison, Young 

Harris (GA) College and Nicholls 

State, and also worked as a scout 

for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He has 

mentored 28 players who have 

been selected in the Major League 

Baseball Draft. “He’s going to be 

extremely versatile for us—he’s 

an outstanding hitting coach and 

has had success working with 

catchers and 

outfielders,” 

says Boss. 

Are You Moving? 

Be sure to take the 

MSU Alumni Magazine along. 

E-mail us at 

msuaa@msu.edu 

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Construction Management 

at MSU would like to say a big 

“Thank You” 

To All Sponsors, Donors and Participants for making 

the 2010 Alumni Golf Outing a huge success! 

: 

Jim Beachum, Brad des Lauriers, 

Larry Morton, Bill Luginsland, Bill Sheathelm 

Your support & participation are very appreciated! 

Gold Sponsors 

McCarthy Building Companies 

Turner Construction Company 

Silver Sponsors 

Barton Malow Company 

John E. Green Company 

Skanska USA Building Inc. 

Bronze Sponsor 

McDonald Modular 

Beverage Cart Sponsor 

Performance Contracting Group 

Buffet Lunch Sponsors 

Adamo Demolition Company 


Federal Credit Union 

Longest Drive Sponsor 

Osprey Construction + Development 

Closest to the Pin Sponsors 

Performance Contracting Group 

Tim Prochko 

Flag Sponsors 

Altman Development Company 

Cron Management, LLC 

Hensel Phelps Construction 

Limbach, Inc. 

Michigan CAT 

Williams Homes 

Tee Sponsors 

Barton Malow Company 

Clark Construction Company 

Commercial Contracting Corporation 

Granger Construction Company 

Grant & Amy Mendeljian 

Ideal Contracting, LLC 

Johnston Lewis Associates 

Tim Mrozowski 

Rockford Construction Company 

W.K. Krill & Associates, Inc. 

Other sponsors/donors/participants 

Air Works Heating and Cooling, Scott Augustine, 

Justin Barnes; Beachum and Roeser Development; 

Beals Hubbard, PLC; Beggars Banquet; 

Daniel Clark; David Robertson Consulting; Flex 

Real Estate Services Co., an Adler Company; 

Harrison Roadhouse; Bradley, Marge, Anne 

and Paul des Lauriers; LaForce, Inc.; William 

Luginsland; John McClelland; Lawrence and 

Richard Morton; Michigan State University; 

Nuthouse Sports Grill; Old Chicago; Pride 

Builders; Professional Service Industries, Inc.; 

Ram Construction; Saturn Electric; R. William 

Sheathelm; Simone Contracting Company; State 

Custom Builders; The Christman Company; 

The Dailey Company; The Gillespie Company; 

The Summit Company; The Walbridge Group; 

ThermalNetics; Usztan LLC; Edward Weber; 

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This event is coordinated by the MSU Construction Management 

Alumni and Industry Advisory Association. 

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For more information: 

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East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1005 

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

univdev@msu.edu 

www. givingto.msu.edu 

“Thank you to the newest members of 

MSU’s giving societies listed here for your 

extraordinary support of Michigan State 

University. Your gifts further our land-grant 

mission to advance higher education built 

on cutting-edge research and engagement for 

the public good. Your recognition in MSU’s 

giving societies acknowledges and affirms 

your commitment to the unique, critical 

role that MSU plays in the world today. You 

are joining over 6,000 other donor society 

members who recognize that Michigan State 

University must lead Michigan, our nation, 

and the world in achieving a redefinition—a 

revitalization—of the covenant we continue 

to share with society.” 

TEAM MSU THANKS YOU.

Listing includes new society members from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 

The following individuals and organizations have made a significant 

financial commitment to Michigan State University, qualifying them 

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

WHARTON 

O C 

S I E T Y 

$10,000,000 or 

$15,000,000 Planned Gift 

$2,500,000 or 


$1,000,000 or 


$500,000 or 


Beal Society 

Wharton Society 

Kedzie Society 

Shaw Society 

William James Beal was a 

professor of Botany at Michigan 

Agricultural College from 

1870-1910. Beal designed the 

original format for the oldest 

continuously operated botanical 

garden in the US. In 1879. His 

outdoor laboratory has expanded 

to 6 acres and over 5,000 species, 

and is acknowledged as the oldest 

of North American botanical 

gardens. 

 

 

Clifton R. Wharton became 

MSU’s fourteenth president 

in 1970. His tenure was 

marked by successful efforts 

to maintain the quality of 

MSU’s academic programs, 

commitment to the education 

of the economically and 

educationally disadvantaged, 

and the integration of the 

School of Osteopathic Medicine 

with the other medical schools. 

The Wharton Center for the 

Performing Arts, dedicated in 

1982, was named in honor of 

Wharton and his wife Dolores, 

in recognition of their strong 

support for the project. 

Frank S. Kedzie, the eighth 

president of MSU, is considered a 

pioneer for private support to the 

university. The Kedzie Society 

is one of the university’s most 

prestigious donor recognition 

groups. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

President Robert S. Shaw served 

as the eleventh president of 

MSU, introducing new courses 

including Hotel Administration, 

Public Administration, Geology, 

Geography and Physical 

Education for women. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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$250,000 or 

$500,000 Planned Gift 

$100,000 or 

$200,000 Planned Gift 

Terry and Cindy Lanzen 

Troy, Michigan 

Suzanne J. Levy 

East Lansing, Michigan 

Barbara and Richard Metzler 

Winnetka, Illinois 

Noel W. Stuckman 

Sandra Clarkson Stuckman 

DeWitt, Michigan 

Alfred J. Zeits 

Roseville, California 

abbot Society 

The Abbot Society was established 

to honor one of the first presidents 

of MSU, Theophilus Abbot, who 

led the university from 1862 to 

1885. Abbot promoted growth, 

secured critical government 

appropriations and furthered 

MSU’s prestige as the nation’s first 

agricultural college. 

ASMSU 

Associated Students of 


Tina V. Aguirre 

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 

Jo Ann Shumway 

Tekonsha, Michigan 

Herb and Gisele Washington 

Youngstown, Ohio 

Snyder Society 

Jonathan L. Snyder served in 

the role of MSU president from 

1896 to 1915, transforming the 

office of the president with an 

aggressive administrative style 

that focused on innovation in 

higher education. 

Council of Graduate Students 

Dr. Steven Lee Almany 

Amy Jo Almany 


Philip and Susan Bickel 

Jackson, Michigan 

J. K. Billman, Jr., M.D. 

Moline, Illinois 

William David Brohn 

Clinton, Connecticut 

Terry H. Elkiss 

Santa Barbara, California 

Jeffrey G. Buday 

Cedar, Michigan 

J.C. Huizenga 

Grand Rapids, Michigan 

David and Nancy Bull 

Columbia, Connecticut 

Michael and Susan Jandernoa 


Scott and Lynne Burnett 

Lansing, Michigan 

Patrick and Dolores Miller 

Silver Springs, New York 

Janice L. Collins, D.V.M. 

Plymouth, Michigan 

Boyana Popova 

Washington, District of 

Columbia 

Charles W. Curry 

Okemos, Michigan 

Dr. L. Rao 

Joyce J. Kareti 


Clifton and Patricia Rautiola 


John and Mary Rayis 

Hinsdale, Illinois 

Dr. Sarah E. Sheafor 

Annandale, Virginia 

Steve and Pam DeBoer 

Kalamazoo, Michigan 

Carol A. DesJardins 

China, Michigan 

Paul and Marta DiMeglio 

Eaton Rapids, Michigan 

The Larry J. Fleis, P.E. Family 

Ada, Michigan

$50,000 or 

$100,000 

Planned Gift 

Burton and Rosalie Gerber 


Columbia 

Dennis and Joan Gilliland 


Lauren Julius Harris 


Linda and Andy Jacob 

Franklin, Michigan 

Joseph and Christine Janca 

Owosso, Michigan 

Michael R. and Judy A. Johns 

Saline, Michigan 

Martin C. V. Johnson 

Plymouth, Minnesota 

Thomas and Mary Kuschinski 


Bill and Marion Munro 


David and 

Marilyn Nussdorfer 


John and Chris Ogren 

Houston, Texas 

Peary and Linda Pearson 


Christopher and 

Carolyn Piwowarczyk 

Fenton, Michigan 

Tawnya Rowden 

Jim Weigand 

Holt, Michigan 

Caleb, Nathan, Keenan 

Cecily and Dr. Kurt Sanford 

Traverse City, Michigan 

J. William Thomas, Ph.D. 

Carolyn Thomas, Ph.D. 


Michael and LeAnn Turner 


Iqbal and Nancy Uppal 

Haslett, Michigan 

Duane and Judy Vernon 


Loren and Carol Wall 

Costa Mesa, California 

Mr. and Mrs. Alton Wendzel 

Watervliet, Michigan 

M. Jack Whalls 

Fortuna, California 

hannah Society 

The Hannah Society honors 

the memory of President John 

A. Hannah, who served the 

university for 46 years, 28 of 

them as MSU’s twelfth president. 

He is revered by many and 

guided the university through its 

period of greatest physical and 

philosophical growth. 

Wayne and Faye Adam 

Snover, Michigan 

Burt and Marlene Altman 


Robert H. and 

Nancy R. Anderegg 

Scottsdale, Arizona 

Pamala R. Babbitt and Family 

Muskegon, Michigan 

Gloria and 

F. R. (Pete) Lehman 

Midland, Michigan 

John and Liz Schweitzer 


Dr. Thomas J. and 

Linda Langham Baes 

Flint, Michigan 

Lawrence T. Lucas 

Canton, Michigan 

James and Susan Setas 


Dale and Helen Bartlett 


Dennis M. Mankin 

Solebury, Pennsylvania 

Dr. Frank and 

Marilyn Shearer 

Waupaca, Wisconsin 

Henry and 

Deborah Beckmeyer 

Grand Blanc, Michigan 

Mike and Nancy McLelland 

Berwyn, Pennsylvania 

William J. McQuillan, D.V.M. 

Saginaw, Michigan 

Mr. and Mrs. 

Salvatore (Sam) Monte 

Riverside, Michigan 

Dr. Thomas and 

Mrs. Sheila Moore 


Ronald H. and Mary E. Simon 


Dr. Laurie Kay Somers 

Dr. David W. Winder 


Gary L. Stone 


Steve and Carol Terry 

Williamston, Michigan 

Mr. Robert T. Bertolin 

Mrs. Nancy J. Landau-Bertolin 

Clarkston, Michigan 

Dr. Eugene and 

Barbara Bonofiglo 


Jim and Sharon Bonsall 


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$50,000 or 

$100,000 

Planned Gift 

Burton and Rosalie Gerber 


Columbia 

Dennis and Joan Gilliland 


Lauren Julius Harris 


Linda and Andy Jacob 

Franklin, Michigan 

Joseph and Christine Janca 

Owosso, Michigan 

Michael R. and Judy A. Johns 

Saline, Michigan 

Martin C. V. Johnson 

Plymouth, Minnesota 

Thomas and Mary Kuschinski 


Bill and Marion Munro 


David and 

Marilyn Nussdorfer 


John and Chris Ogren 

Houston, Texas 

Peary and Linda Pearson 


Christopher and 

Carolyn Piwowarczyk 

Fenton, Michigan 

Tawnya Rowden 

Jim Weigand 

Holt, Michigan 

Caleb, Nathan, Keenan 

Cecily and Dr. Kurt Sanford 

Traverse City, Michigan 

J. William Thomas, Ph.D. 

Carolyn Thomas, Ph.D. 


Michael and LeAnn Turner 


Iqbal and Nancy Uppal 

Haslett, Michigan 

Duane and Judy Vernon 


Loren and Carol Wall 

Costa Mesa, California 

Mr. and Mrs. Alton Wendzel 

Watervliet, Michigan 

M. Jack Whalls 

Fortuna, California 

hannah Society 

The Hannah Society honors 

the memory of President John 

A. Hannah, who served the 

university for 46 years, 28 of 

them as MSU’s twelfth president. 

He is revered by many and 

guided the university through its 

period of greatest physical and 

philosophical growth. 

Wayne and Faye Adam 

Snover, Michigan 

Burt and Marlene Altman 


Robert H. and 

Nancy R. Anderegg 

Scottsdale, Arizona 

Pamala R. Babbitt and Family 

Muskegon, Michigan 

Gloria and 

F. R. (Pete) Lehman 

Midland, Michigan 

John and Liz Schweitzer 


Dr. Thomas J. and 

Linda Langham Baes 

Flint, Michigan 

Lawrence T. Lucas 

Canton, Michigan 

James and Susan Setas 


Dale and Helen Bartlett 


Dennis M. Mankin 

Solebury, Pennsylvania 

Dr. Frank and 

Marilyn Shearer 

Waupaca, Wisconsin 

Henry and 

Deborah Beckmeyer 

Grand Blanc, Michigan 

Mike and Nancy McLelland 

Berwyn, Pennsylvania 

William J. McQuillan, D.V.M. 

Saginaw, Michigan 

Mr. and Mrs. 

Salvatore (Sam) Monte 

Riverside, Michigan 

Dr. Thomas and 

Mrs. Sheila Moore 


Ronald H. and Mary E. Simon 


Dr. Laurie Kay Somers 

Dr. David W. Winder 


Gary L. Stone 


Steve and Carol Terry 

Williamston, Michigan 

Mr. Robert T. Bertolin 

Mrs. Nancy J. Landau-Bertolin 

Clarkston, Michigan 

Dr. Eugene and 

Barbara Bonofiglo 


Jim and Sharon Bonsall 


University development • University advancement • michigan State University • www.givingto.msu.edu

$25,000 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beaumont Tower Society 

Chartered during the university’s 

first capital campaign, Beaumont 

Tower Society is named after 

the one landmark that so 

thoroughly symbolizes Michigan 

State University, its history and 

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at Michigan State University 

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donor recognition group created 

at Michigan State University 

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and improve the quality of student life. 

We recognize these donors, whose generous gifts were received between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. 

$1,000 and more 

Darryl and Sharon (Baines) Allen 

Charles L. Allen 

Hollie A. Bracken 

and Jeffrey S. Piasecki 

Dave and Michelle Dutch 

B. A. and Susan Dye 

Gordon and Eileen Earhart 

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William R. and Jean M. Guilford 

John N. Harker, D.O. 

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Terry and Cindy Lanzen 

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Mr. and Mrs. Barry and 

Sandie Paxton 

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Peter J. and Diane Scribner 

Between $500 and $999 

Richard H. and Nancy H. Brown 

Jay and Christi Bruns 

John and Peggy Calandro 

Barbara Callis 

Ronald and Harriet Converse 

Denver and Jeanne Day 

Patricia M. Derry 

Gregory A. Fowler 

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Mr. John B. McKay 

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Michelle M. Mercer 

Jagneswar and Kamala Saha 

James A. Schneider 

Dr. Richard S. Sternberg 

Ruben L., Jr. and Gail F. Tenorio 

Mrs. Thomas Neil Moss 

Scott L. and Janice L. Wilson 


Henry and Gloria B. Adamski 

William and Barbara Alldredge 

David Hedrick and Mary Kay Berles 

Joseph A. Bertelsen 

Dr. J. Roy Black and Dr. Lois J. Karl 

Michael A., Jr. and Kathryn G. Bosco 

David A. and Denise M. Brooks 

James E. Cummings, Jr. 

John and Maureen Darling 

Jill E. Dunning-Harris 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fleming 

Mr. Thomas Guastello 

Gaylord P. Haas, Jr. 

Ron N. and Clarita A. Hughes 

Manley R. and Doris J. Irwin 

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Mark and Lorene Kappler 

Christopher J. Keeley and 

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Kolasa-Kelly 

Christina M. Kerrigan 

Robert J. Kobel 

John A. and Sandra K. Kuenzli 

James W. and Margaret A. Lee 

Bob E. and Sandy Lehman 

Alfred W. and Kathryn Lenz 

Miriam and James Longcore 

James A. Mallak 

Shelley K. Miller and 

Joel L. Hoffman 

Paul and Carol Rose 

Stephanie L. and Robert D. Myer 

Mrs. Donald L. Neebes 

Veronica M. and Michael W. 

O’Connor 

Nobuyuki Okamoto 

Forrest F. Owen, Jr. 

Robert J. and Melba Y. Piersma 

Doris H. and David H. Ponitz 

Debra K. Ralston 

Charles and Marjorie Reep 

Drs. Nadine and Kenneth Richter 

Remus Rigg 

Donald W. Rowan 

John M. and Valinta A. Schnable 

Robert W. Shaffstall 

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Donald R. and Ada R. Sly 

Louise A. Sternberg 

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Bruce and Bev VandenBerg 

Michael J. and Diane E. Worthing 

Lynne S. Yirchott 

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Estella M. and Thorne J. Brown 

Ronald S. and Ann M. Brown 

Josephine L. Bullinger-Hones and 

Frank W. Hones 

Thomas R. and Nancy H. Campbell 

Donald J. Clark II and 

Kimberly M. Clark 

Jayne A. Collins 

Susan D. Cunningham 

Case, Jr. and Jan DeGroot 

Claude L. and Donna L. Delaverdac 

Kristie L. Ebi 

Ronald S. and Deborah B. Faupel 

Drs. John “Jake” and Maxine Ferris 

Betty M. Furtwangler 

Ethan C. (“Chuck”) Galloway 

Waleed K. and Hannah G. Gosaynie 

Mark R. and Constance Hanson 

Keith and Beth Hicks 

Luther G., Jr. and Janette M. Huddle 

Robert W. and Charlene M. Markland 

Johnston 

Koichiro Kawaguchi 

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Norman C. Kolb 

Steven Landry 

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Brian D. and Jessica D. LaRose 

Brenda L. Lawson 

Larry J. and Debra D. Lenick 

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Dan and Marilyn Marsh 

Georgiann M. Martin 

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Robert Allen and 

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Anne E. and C. Jack Potts 

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Stephen T. Schaefer 

Richard H. Seebers 

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William M. Shook, Jr. and 

Susan Shook 

Robert H. Skabic 

Mary B. and Charles W. Smith, Jr. 

Christine J. Sobek and 

Paul R. Anderson 

Joanne Sorlie and 

Subhash C. Gupta 

Brenda C. Steward 

The Hon. Richard F. and 

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Roland L., Jr. and Margaret B. Sutton 

Stephen P. and Kathleen J. Syrjamaki 

Richard G. Taylor 

Keith R. and Barbara C. Thomas 

John P. and Richelle B. Tragge 

Walter M. and Margaret J. Turner 

Jeffrey B. and Kathleen M. Wall 

Sheryl A. Wissman 

Douglas K. Yee and 

Janice A. Beder-Yee 

Luann A. and James E. Zellar 

Wendy E. Zieger 

Under $100 

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Christine T. Belles 

Lee R. and Harriett F. Britton 

Mr. and Mrs. C. Duane Christie 

Michael G. and Cindy S. Connors 

James P. Conroy 

Armon O. and Marion M. Deurmier 

Cheryl A. Fulton 

Eric J. and Christine L. Gajar 

Alfred T. and Patricia A. Hards 

Kathleen J. Lorencz 

Donald G. and Jacqueline A. Loving 

Henry J.III and Patsy J. Meachum 

Karen N. and Charles H. Moellenberg, 

Jr. 

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Nancy J. and Francis E. Noggle 

Philip J. O’Leary 

Christopher and Deborah Paul 

Robert A. and Wendy Scott 

Joseph P. Sell 

James D. IV and Jane F. Shumway 

Jeffrey P. and Julie E. Smith 

Bill and Nancy Sonsin 

Rhosan Stryker 

David M. Swenson 

Donald D. and Mona L. Tharp 

Charles W. Todd, Jr. and Sonia S. 

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Louise A. Wepfer and 

Edward W. Withey 

Thomas Q. Wilson 

Erwin P. and Sally L. Zeiter

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ALMA MATTERS 

awarded to incoming MSU students 

Monica Randall and Joshua 

Feister (in photo with Sparty). 

Both students have been admitted 

to MSU’s Lyman Briggs College. 

CHICAGO, IL—May 20: This 

summer the Chicago club and 

the MSUAA offered students an 

opportunity to learn about their 

disciplines under the guidance of 

alumni with the MSUAA Chicago 

Mentor Prrogram. All the 

students participating worked as 

interns in Chicago this summer. 

REGIONAL CLUBS 

BALTIMORE, MD—Jun. 1: 

Former Club President Jon Buck 

(right) presented an Alumni 

Distinguished Scholarship award 

to Michael Caldwell, senior 

at Calvert Hall College High 

School, Towson, MD. 

BENZIE COUNTY—Jun. 11: 

About 50 area Spartans attended 

the annual meeting at the Blaine 

Township Hall, Arcadia. Two 

area graduating high school 

seniors received $1,500 scholarships. 

Special guests included 

keynote speaker Will Tieman, 

CEO of the Spartan Radio Network; 

MSU Trustee Don Nugent; 

and MSUAA Assistant Director 

David Brown. About $530 was 

raised for the club’s scholarship 

fund. 

CENTRAL OHIO—March: Basketball 

watches were held throughout 

the season at Brewskys on Kenny 

Road and at Gallo’s Tap Room, 

both in Columbus, OH. 

DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX—May 

8: More than 100 area Spartans 

attended the club’s 11th Annual 

Golf Tournament at Frisco Lakes 

Golf Course. A record $8,500 

was raised for the club’s scholarship 

endowment. 

GREATER ATLANTA, GA—May 

14: More than 140 area Spartans 

joined NFL kicking star 

Morten Andersen and MSU 

Head Football Coach Mark 

Dantonio at Windermere Golf 

Club, Cumming, GA, for a golf 

scramble. Noted attendees included 

MSU Athletic Director 

Mark Hollis, and former MSU 

athletes Eddie Smith, Mike 

Dissinger, Steve Smith, Kevin 

Willis and Terry Donnelly. 

About $9,000 was raised for the 

club’s scholarship fund. 

NORTHEAST OHIO—Jun. 3: 

Jeff Grubbs of Aurora, OH, has 

received a grant from the club’s 

endowed scholarship fund. 

About 30 area alumni attended 

the award presentation at 

McCormick & Schmick’s, 

Beachwood, OH. 

OAKLAND COUNTY—May 2: 

The club awarded 14 scholarships 

to area high school students. 

SARASOTA/BRADENTON, FL— 

May 22: In the photo are some 

of the 150 area Spartans who 

attended the Izzo Breakfast at the 

Shrine Center, Sarasota. MSU 

Basketball Coach Tom Izzo was 

honored at the Dick Vitale Gala 

the previous evening and met 

with local alumni that morning. 

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Dave Brown 

GREATER CADILLAC—Jun. 11: 

More than 100 area Spartans attended 

the annual golf and tennis 

outing at Fox Hill Event Center, 

Cadillac. Two scholarships were 

TAMPA BAY, FL—May 22: Tom 

Izzo (center), Joe McCallen and 

Club President Nicole McCallen 

were among 150 area Spartans 

gathered for breakfast at the Sahib 


association’s scholarship fund, 

which has awarded $475,000 to 

more than 800 students since 

1989. Special guests included 

MSU President Emeritus 

Gordon Guyer and Dean Jeff 

Armstrong. 

dent Wendy Darga were among 

those at the COE’s Annual 

Spring Awards Reception at 

Kellogg Center. 

Shrine Center, Sarasota, at the 

club’s Scholarship Challenge. A 

raffle raised $1,000 for the club’s 

scholarship fund. Special guests 

included Tim Bograkos, director 

of young alumni at the MSUAA, 

and Tim Stedman, of MSU’s 

Spartan Fund. 

WASHINGTON, DC—Apr. 28: 

About 30 Spartans from the area 

gathered at Rockbottom Brewery, 

Arlington, VA, for an evening of 

professional networking. May 15: 

About 20 area Spartans, under the 

direction of Patrick Moran, director 

of administration, performed 

their annual “Hands-On-DC” 

spring service by painting and doing 

landscaping at Orr Elementary 

School. Summer: The club has 

been fielding a co-ed softball team 

in the Capitol Alumni Network 

for 10 seasons. 

Johnson Park, Walker. Alumni 

and MSU officials were on hand 

to answer questions about campus 

life. Special guests included Dan 

DiMaggio of the Student Alumni 

Foundation, Mike Kolar of the 

MSU admissions office, and Tim 

Bograkos, the MSUAA’s young 

alumni coordinator. 

WISCONSIN—Apr. 4: More 

than 50 area Spartans gathered 

at the Irish Pub, Milwaukee, 

to watch MSU advance to the 

NCAA Final Four. 

COMMUNICATION ARTS AND 

SCIENCES—May 8: More 

than 160 Spartans gathered at 

the annual awards celebration in 

Kellogg Center. In the photo are 

(front row, l to r) Stan Stein, Tim 

Whaley, Nancy Kaufman and Lucinda 

Davenport; (second row, l to 

r) Kelley Carter, Ed Cohen, and 

Dean Pamela Whitten; (third 

row, l to r) Loretta Sklar, Ed Deeb, 

and Phil Bertolini. 

EDUCATION—Apr. 9: (L to r) 

Dean Carole Ames, Greta 

McHaney-Trice (Outstanding 

Alumni K-12 Teacher), Deborah 

Loewenberg Ball (Distinguished 

Alumni) and association presi- 

Courtesy of University Relations 

MILITARY SCIENCE, ARMY 

ROTC—May 8: More than 

125 faculty, friends and family 

gathered in Demonstration Hall 

for the commissioning of eight 

seniors who took oaths to become 

the Army’s newest lieutenants. 

Special guests included Brig. Gen. 

Michael Nevin, commander of 

the Michigan Army National 

Guard 177th Military Police 

Brigade, Warren. 

CONSTITUENT ASSOCIATIONS 

WEST MICHIGAN—Jun. 2: 

Some 100 area incoming MSU 

students and their families 

gathered for a BBQ dinner at 


AGRICULTURE & NATURAL 

RESOURCES—Jun. 15: (L to r) 

Dave Hueter, Craig Hepker, 

Eric Hepker and Al Hepker 

were among more than 140 

golfers who were part of the 

CANRAA’s Annual Golfing 

for Scholarships at Forest 

Akers West golf course. More 

than $14,000 was raised for the 

Emily Walker 

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HOSPITALITY BUSINESS—May 24: More than 150 alumni and 

friends attended the SHBAA’s Annual Gathering of Leaders at the 

Drake Hotel, Chicago, IL. Honorees included 2010 Alumnus of the 

Year Kenneth C. Weber, president of Weber’s Inn & Restaurant. Special 

guests included Elvin Lashbrooke and Stefanie Lenway, the interim 

dean and new dean of MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business. Jun. 4: 

About two dozen alumni attended the school’s Alumni Reunion Days 

Legacy Breakfast at the Kellogg Center (see photo). 

INTERNATIONAL CLUBS 

JAPAN (TOKYO)—May 16: 

More than 60 area Spartans 

attended the annual meeting of 

the MSU Alumni Club of Japan 

(Tokyo). Attendees included 

MSU business and telecommunications 

students in Japan on 

study abroad. 

Grinhaus, guest speaker Jamie 

Trimble, Jodie Kaufman, and 

Club President David Schmalz 

were among the Ontario Spartans 

and guests gathered at a Meet & 

Mix at C’est What in downtown 

Toronto. The event was cosponsored 

by the Broad College 

of Business and the MSU College 

of Law alumni associations, the 

MSU Alumni Association, and 

MSU’s Canadian Studies Center. 

MUSIC—Jun. 4: (l to r) Ronald 

and Elaine Salow, Larry and 

Susan Franklin, Rosalie Sharpe, 

Dale Bartlett, Karlene Bach, 

Henry Nelson, Don and Dottie 

Hoopingarner, Margaret and 

Douglas Adams, Boyd and Joyce 

Halstead, and Olive Padgett 

attended the college’s Alumni 

Reunion Days Breakfast. Special 

guests included MSUAA 

Executive Director Scott Westerman 

and Associate Dean and 

Director of Choral Programs 

David Rayl. 

OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE— 

May 13: More than 300 guests 

attended a reception hosted by 

MSUCOM during the annual 

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convention of 

the Michigan 

Osteopathic 

Association. 

Also, Mary Jo 

Voelpel, ’75, 

assumed the 

presidency of 

the MSUCOM 

Alumni Association 

at the board 

meeting. 

SOCIAL SCIENCE—May 22: 

About 40 alumni and friends 

attended the CSSAA annual 

meeting at the Kellogg Center, 

which included presentations by 

Rebecca Campbell and Chris 

Maxwell of CSS. Participants 

also attended a performance of 

The Phantom of the Opera at the 

Wharton Center. Jun. 24: Two 

dozen alumni attended the CSS 

Alumni Reunion Days Breakfast 

at the Kellogg Center. 

ONTARIO, CANADA—Mar. 18: 

(L to r) Graham Herbert, Aaron 

ALUMNI INTEREST GROUPS 

SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA— 

Apr. 3: About 15 area Spartans 

gathered at the home of John and 

Sue Giesy, Saskatoon, to watch 

MSU in the Final Four and to 

become acquainted. 

ALUMNI BAND—May 2: About 55 members of the alumni band 

participated in the MSU Alumni Concert Band Spring Reunion in 

Fairchild Auditorium. They included conductors (see photo, l to r) John 

Madden, Henry Nelson, Kevin Sedatole, Kenneth Bloomquist, and 

Dave Catron. 

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AGRICULTURE & 

NATURAL RESOURCES 

AutumnFest 

Nov. 20, 2010, 3.5 hours 

before Purdue game kickoff 

MSU Pavilion for Agriculture 

& Livestock Education 

A fun day for friends, family 

and fellow Spartans. 

E-mail: kreed@msu.edu 

COMMUNICATION 

ARTS & SCIENCES 

Neal Shine Lecture: 

Sports Journalism and Ethics 

Oct. 15, 2010, 2 pm 

145 Comm Arts & Sciences 

This year’s lecture is part of 

the 100 Years of Journalism 

at MSU celebration. 

E-mail: kovacand@msu.edu 

CRIMINAL JUSTICE 

Wall of Fame 

Induction Ceremony 

Nov. 5, 2010, 5 pm 

Kellogg Center, Red Cedar Rms 

E-mail: curtisc@msu.edu 

EDUCATION 

Alumni Gathering 

Oct. 21, 2010, 5:30 – 7:30 pm 

Steelcase University, 

Grand Rapids 

Networking, free appetizers, 

a raffle and fun! 

E-mail: soliz@msu.edu 

MILITARY SCIENCE 

Army ROTC 

Commissioning Ceremony 

Dec. 18, 2010, 9 am 

Demonstration Hall 

Five second lieutenants will 

be commissioned into the 

U.S. Army. 

E-mail: baxter@msu.edu 

MUSIC 

Showcase Series: 

MSU’s Home for the Holidays 

Dec. 11, 2010 

Wharton Center’s 

Cobb Great Hall 

Celebrate the season with the 

MSU Symphony Orchestra, 

State Singers, Men’s and 

Women’s Glee Clubs, and the 

MSU Children’s Choir. 

E-mail: Conradi@msu.edu 

Showcase Series: 

A Jazzy Little Christmas 

Dec. 18, 2010 

Wharton Center’s 

Pasant Theatre 

MSU’s Professors of Jazz 

will perform renditions of 

holiday favorites. 

E-mail: Conradi@msu.edu 


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SPARTAN PLATES—Some of the 

Spartan Plates gathered in front of 

the Skandalaris Football Operations 

Center in August after their 

32nd annual luncheon. Each 

member has personalized license 

plates that honor MSU. Interested 

Spartan fans can contact 

the club through their website at 

www.SpartanPlates.com. 

SOFTBALL CLASSIC—Jul. 24: 

Sparty was in attendance as 

eight teams gathered at the East 

Lansing Softball Complex for 

the First Annual MSU Alumni 

Association Charity Softball 

Tournament. Each team played 

for a specific charity with the winning 

team (Team Black, pictured 

with Sparty) scoring a $500 check 

to the Make-A-Wish Foundation 

of Michigan. The MSUAA 

plans on making this an annual 

event and hopes to see more teams 

participate in the future. 

Courtesy of Bob Nelson 

SPARTAN SCHOLARSHIP 

CHALLENGE: 

GIVING OPPORTUNITY TO 

STUDENTS 

Wanting to help during a 

tough economic time, Sociology 

Professor Harry Perlstadt and his 

wife Tari took advantage of the 

Spartan Scholarship Challenge 

to create a scholarship to benefit 

any undergraduate student with 

financial need. 

Since its inception one year ago, 

the Spartan Scholarship 

Challenge has raised 

more than $2 million 

and has created 62 

new endowed scholarships, 

helping undergraduate 

students with 

financial need. 

Available until 

December 31, 2010, the 

challenge leverages $7 

million from a $10 million 

anonymous gift in a 

novel matching program 

to help donors stretch 

their dollars and support 

for undergraduate scholarships. 

For every two dollars 

given to establish a new 

scholarship endowment, 

one dollar will be designated from 

the matching funds. There is also 

a university-wide fund for smaller 

gifts toward creating Spartan 

Scholarships. 

Harry has been a dedicated 

member of the MSU faculty for 

over 40 years and Tari has worked 

for the MSU Libraries. He is 

recognized internationally for his 

expertise in medical sociology, 

health care organizations and 

delivery, and evaluation research. 

The couple made their gift just 

before embarking on a new MSU 

adventure. They lived in Budapest 

for five months while Harry was a 

Fulbright Scholar at Semmelweis 

University. 

Learn more at http://www. 

givingto.msu.edu/ssc or contact 

Director of Development for 

University Scholarships and 

Fellowships Jennifer Bertram at 

(517) 432-7332 or speak with the 

development officer in your college 

or unit. 

Tari and Fulbright Scholar 

Harry Perlstadt, pictured here in 

Budapest, took advantage of the 

matching funds opportunity to 

create a new scholarship. 

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THE NEW DEMMER CENTER 

SHOOTS TO REGAIN TRADITION 

Courtesy of Michael Galella 

accessible and boasts two indoor 

firearm ranges to accommodate 

small-bore, air rifle and an 

indoor archery range. 

Outside is the Becky and 

Bob Humphries Community 

Archery Park which offers three 

alternatives—beginner, field/3D 

and competitive ranges. The 

competition outdoor archery 

range offers 30 shooting points 

with a target distance of up to 

90 meters. 

Photos courtesy of MSU Archives & Historical Collections 

The multi-purpose facility 

supports collegiate shooting 

programs and team sports, the 

National Archery in the Schools 

Program (NASP), and home 

schoolers, scouts and 4-H youth 

programs, says Galella. 

☛For more information, visit 

demmercenter.msu.edu. 

The 1914 MAC rifle team won a 

national championship in indoor 

shooting. 

By Robert Bao, Editor 

Which was the first MSU 

sports team to win a national 

championship? 

If you said the cross country 

team of 1939, you’re officially 

correct. A quarter century before 

that milestone, however, the 

1914 MAC rifle team won the 

national indoor championship 

in Portland, OR. So confirms 

MSU’s yearbook, the 1914 Wolverine, 

as well as the 1914 World 

Almanac and Book of Facts. 

Two years later, the 1916 

MAC rifle team scored perfect 

1000 scores in 12 of 13 matches 

enroute to another national title 

(they shot just 998 in the other). 

Under Coach Sgt. Paddy J. 

Cross, the nearly perfect MSU 

team beat the likes of California, 

Harvard, M.I.T., Minnesota, 

Princeton and Purdue. 

A couple of years ago, we 

dedicated a magazine issue to 

our Olympian tradition. I was 

then mildly surprised to learn 

that the first Spartan Olympian 

was Col. William D. Frazer, who 

competed in the 1924 Summer 

Games in Paris. His sport? The 

25-meter rapid-fire pistol event. 

These historical notes underscore 

our tradition in shooting, a 

competitive area that could enjoy 

a renaissance with the opening 

of MSU’s new John and Marnie 

Demmer Shooting Sports 

MSU’s first Olympian was 

Col. William D. Frazer, who 

competed in pistol at the 1924 

Olympics. 

Education and Training Center. 

The 24,000 square foot facility, 

known as the “Demmer Center,” 

opened in 2009. It seeks “to 

promote, advance and encourage 

the safe use of firearms and 

archery equipment.” It is located 

at Jolly Rd. near College Rd., is 

open to the public, and remains 

self-supporting. 

“We hope to be the training 

site for future national championship 

caliber collegiate shooting 

sports teams,” says Keith Hein, 

program director. 

Michael Galella, manager of 

the center, notes that it serves as 

a training facility for MSU’s archery, 

rifle and pistol club teams, 

and also as a public facility. 

“We’re one of the largest 

such facilities in the country, 

and we’re open to the public,” 

he notes. “Our mission is to 

promote, advance and encourage 

the safe use of firearms and 

archery equipment for MSU 

students, faculty, staff and the 

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STATE’S STARS 

Marian Harrison, ’78, vice 

president of Citizens National 

Bank, Cheboygan, 

has been promoted 

to senior vice 

president-Commercial 

Loans. 

Harrison has been 

with the company since 1973. Harrison 

graduated with honors from 

the American Bankers Association 

National Commercial Lending 

Graduate School. Harrison is chair 

of the Mackinaw City Chamber of 

Commerce Corvette Crossroads 

Committee, serves on the Village 

of Mackinaw City Downtown 

Development Authority and the 

Michigan Bankers Association 

Environmental Affairs committee. 

Peter McPherson, ’63, former MSU 

president and current president of 

the Association of 

Public Land-Grant 

Universities, has 

agreed to serve on 

the Board of Advisors 

of the Virtual 

Fertilizer Research Center (VFRC). 

He is the founding co-chair of 

the Partnership to Cut Hunger 

and Poverty in Africa; chair of the 

Board of IFDC, an international 

center dealing with soil fertility and 

agricultural development; and chair 

of the Board of Harvest Plus, an 

organization working to breed crops 

for better nutrition. McPherson was 

president of MSU for more than 11 

years (1993-2004). McPherson is a 

member of MSU’s Hannah Society 

and is a Life Member of the MSU 

Alumni Association. 

Melody Pierce, PhD ’85, vice 

chancellor of the Division of 

Student Affairs at 

Winston-Salem 

State University, 

Winston-Salem, 

NC, has been 

named vice chancellor 

of the Division of Student Affairs 

at North Carolina A&T State 

University, Greensboro. Pierce has 

more than 25 years of experience 

in higher education, student affairs 

and enrollment services. Pierce is 

a member of the Crosby Scholars 

Board of Directors and the Board of 

Directors of the Northwest North 

Carolina Chapter of the American 

Red Cross in Winston-Salem. 

Pierce is a member of MSU’s Presidents 

Club and is a Life Member of 

the MSU Alumni Association. 

Erane Washington-Kendrick, ’89, 

former president of the Washtenaw 

County Bar 

Association and 

founder of the 

law firm Erane C. 

Washington-Kendrick, 

PLLC, Ann 

Arbor, has been appointed to the 

Eastern Michigan University Board 

of Regents. Washington-Kendrick 

served for six years as judicial attorney/assistant 

to Judge Donald 

Shelton, Washtenaw Circuit Court. 

She also served seven years as assistant 

public defender for Washtenaw 

County. Washington-Kendrick 

currently serves as vice-chair of the 

Michigan Board of State Canvassers 

and as a member of the State Bar of 

Michigan Representative Assembly. 

Deborah Biggs, ’86, assistant dean 

for academic affairs at the University 

of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 

has been named associate dean of 

administration and finance for the 

College of Medicine at Central 

Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant. 

Previously, Biggs held several 

managerial appointments at the 

University of Michigan and also 

served as a senior law clerk and paralegal 

for Church, Kritselis, Wyble 

and Robinson P.C. in Lansing. 

Biggs also has extensive experience 

in a wide variety of college medical 

settings in both Michigan and 

North Carolina. 

Avery Williams, ’79, co-managing 

partner and co-founder, Williams 

Acosta PLLC, 

Detroit, and Mark 

Randon, ’89, magistrate 

judge for the 

Eastern District 

of Michigan, have 

Williams been awarded 

the D. Augustus 

Straker Bar Association’s 

Trailblazers 

Award. Williams 

has represented the 

City of Detroit, 

Randon Wayne County 

Stadium Authority and several large 

national corporations in various 

eminent domain-related cases. He is 

president of the Board of Directors 

of the Water Access Volunteer 

Effort and a member of the Board 

of Directors of the Coalition on 

Temporary Shelters. Williams is 

a member of MSU’s Beaumont 

Tower Society. Randon served 

as a state court judge on the 36th 

District Court bench in Detroit 

from 2001-2009. He also worked 

at Honigman Miller Schwartz and 

Cohn; Miller Canfield Paddock 

and Stone; Lear Corp. and the 

Detroit Board of Education. 

Martha Scharchburg, ’71, a teacher 

at Dexter Community Schools, has 

won the Michigan 

Youth Educator of 

the Year Award. 

Scharchburg directs 

the Mill Creek 

seventh and eighth 

grade bands, co-directs the sixth 

grade band, teaches fifth grade saxophone, 

trombone, baritone, tuba and 

French horn, and assists at Dexter 

High School. Scharchburg has been 

active in the Michigan School Band 

and Orchestra Association, serving 

in several offices at both the district 

and state level, including service as 

president of District 12. Scharchburg 

is a Life Member of the MSU 

Alumni Association. 

Timothy O’Donovan, MBA ’69, 

retired CEO of Wolverine World 

Wide Inc., Grand 

Rapids, has been 

inducted into 

the Hall of Fame 

of the Michigan 

Great Lakes Junior 

Achievement. Early in his 39-year 

career at Wolverine, O’Donovan 

worked in finance, special projects, 

product management, sales management 

and general management 

across all the brands. He remains 

on the board for the $1.1 billion 

company and chairs the board of 

Spectrum Health Services Inc. 

O’Donovan is a member of MSU’s 

Snyder Society and is a Life Member 

of the MSU Alumni Association. 

Mark Hawkins, ’81, executive vice 

president and chief financial officer 

at Autodesk, San 

Rafael, CA, has 

been appointed 

to the Board of 

Directors for 

BMC Software, 

Houston, TX. Previously, Hawkins 

was employed by Logitech International 

as chief financial officer and 

senior vice president for finance and 

information technology. Before 

that, Hawkins spent six years at Dell, 

rising to the rank of vice president of 

finance for the company’s worldwide 

procurement and logistics organization. 

Hawkins is a Life Member of 

the MSU Alumni Association. 

Connie Cooper-Eltman, MSW 

’98, licensed master social worker, 

was named Social 

Worker of the 

Year for the Upper 

Peninsula. She 

was director of 

Behavioral Health 

Outpatient in the Crisis Center 

of Marquette General Hospital. 

After retirement, she re-entered 

the workforce in 2006 as a mental 

health and substance abuse 

therapist at Catholic Charities of 

the Upper Peninsula, Marquette. 

She also joined the behavioral 

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health staff at the Lac Vieux Desert 

Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 

Indians at Watersmeet. Cooper- 

Eltman has periodically served as 

an adjunct professor for MSU’s 

School of Social Work. 

Gerard Reaume, ’78, MA ’83, 

a teacher at Breckenridge High 

School, has 

received the 

Outstanding Agriculture 

Educator 

Award for 2010 

from FFA. His 

31-year teaching career includes 

teaching production agriculture 

and forestry at Rudyard High 

School and teaching agricultural 

science at Ross Beatty High School, 

Cassopolis. Reaume helped found 

the Breckenridge FFA Alumni 

Chapter and the Breckenridge Junior 

High FFA Chapter. Reaume 

is president of the Michigan Association 

of Agriscience Educators. 

Kathryn Curry, a fellowship 

student at MSU, has been named 

principal of Muskegon 

Heights High 

School. Known 

as an educational 

turnaround specialist 

for her work 

in the Grand Rapids area, Curry 

was a middle school principal in 

Holland and works with the Michigan 

Dept. of Education to provide 

support to Union High School, 

Grand Rapids. In her new role, 

Curry plans to create “individualized 

paths” for students to take 

during their high school careers and 

provide “blended instruction” that 

involves both traditional teaching 

and online instruction. 

Alan Grant, MS ’87, PhD ’90, 

professor and head of the Dept. 

of Animal Sciences at Purdue 

University, West Lafayette, IN, 

has been named dean of Virginia 

Tech’s College of Agriculture and 

Life Sciences, Blacksburg, VA. A 


University Faculty 

Scholar at Purdue, 

Grant has received 

several teaching 

awards, including 

the Teaching 

for Tomorrow Award. Grant has 

published more than 150 refereed 

research abstracts and papers 

and has lectured at more than 

25 international, national, and 

regional meetings. Grant is a board 

member of a new Midwest Dairy 

Consortium. 

Joseph Colucci, ’58, of Clarkston, 

president of Automotive Fuels 

Consulting, earned 

the 2010 Society of 

Automotive Engineers 

(SAE) International 

Medal of 

Honor. The award 

is the automotive engineering 

industry’s highest honor. Colucci 

is a 50-year member of SAE and a 

former member of SAE International 

Board of Directors. Colucci 

worked for 36 years at General 

Motors Research Laboratories 

and Research and Development. 

He has won numerous awards for 

innovation. In 2002, he was elected 

a member of the National Academy 

of Engineering. He is a member of 

MSU’s Snyder Society. 

Michael Traison, JD ’83, partner, 

Miller Canfield Paddock and 

Stone, Detroit and 

Chicago, will serve 

a three-year term 

on the Board of 

Directors for the 

Polish American 

Association in Chicago. Additionally, 

Traison was elected as vice 

president of the Board of Directors 

of the America-Israel Chamber 

of Commerce, Chicago. Traison 

is dedicated to Polish-Jewish relations. 

Traison specializes in helping 

businesses solve their commercial 

and financial problems including 

bankruptcy and restructuring 

as well as providing expertise in 

international trade. 

Anessa Owen Kramer, ’92, 

attorney, Brooks Kushman P.C., 

Southfield, has 

joined Honigman 

Miller Schwartz 

and Cohn LLP, 

Detroit, as a 

partner in the Intellectual 

Property Practice Group. 

Kramer concentrates her practice 

on the availability and protection 

of trademarks. Kramer was 

recognized as one of 25 “Leaders in 

Law” in 2010 by Michigan Lawyers 

Weekly and was named as one of 

Crain’s Detroit Business’ “40 under 

40” business leaders in 2007. 

Joseph Ruth, ’85, senior vice 

president, chief strategy officer and 

interim co-chief 

operating officer 

for Sparrow Health 

System, Lansing, has 

been named CEO 

and executive vice 

president. Previously, Ruth served as 

vice president of network development 

for Covenant HealthCare in 

Saginaw and chief financial officer 

for Saginaw General Hospital. Ruth 

is a member of MSU’s Presidents 

Club and is a Life Member of the 

MSU Alumni Association. 

Robert Pliska, MBA ’70, managing 

director, Sperry Van Ness, 

Birmingham, has 

been awarded 

the Humanitarian 

Award at the 

Sperry Van Ness 

2010 National 

Conference in Las Vegas. The 

award recognizes support for 

charitable and community organizations. 

Pliska has over 35 years 

of commercial and investment real 

estate experience. A licensed CPA, 

Pliska is president of the Commercial 

Board of Realtors. Pliska serves 

on the boards of the International 

Institute of Detroit, Childhelp 

USA, the Birmingham Bloomfield 

Symphony Orchestra, Holy Cross 

Children’s Services, Madonna 

University and Legatus. 

Michelle Nguyen, MBA ’08, treasury 

manager, GMAC Financial 

Services, Detroit, 

has been named 

director of Inventory 

Initiatives at 

Henry Schein, Inc., 

Melville, NY. In 

her new role, Nguyen will manage 

both the Product Data Management 

and the Overhead Purchasing 

teams. She will be responsible for 

analyzing activities related to inventory 

controls, profitable opportunities 

within Inventory Management, 

overhead purchasing and pricing, 

as well as implementing Inventory 

Management strategic plans for the 

United States. 

Jeremy Blaney, ’10, a writer whose 

stories about religion were published 

by United 

Press International’s 

UPIU, 

has received a 

second-place Chandler 

Award for 

student religion reporting from the 

Religion Newswriters Association. 

As a student in MSU’s “Reporting 

on Islam” class, he reported on the 

local Muslim community. Blaney 

worked as the promotions manager 

for MSU’s Telemarketing Program, 

a unit within MSU’s University 

Advancement. Blaney is an officer 

in the U.S. Air Force. 

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OBITUARIES 

20s 

Alice J. Trese, ’25, of Nazareth. 

Earl M. Berry, ’26, of New Buffalo. 

Carl J. Fox, ’26, of Lansing. 

Stanley C. Herman, ’26, of Detroit. 

Lloyd B. Kurtz, ’26, of Sun City 

Center, FL. 

Toshihide Matsui, ’26, of Japan. 

William H. Smith, ’26, of Winona, 

MN. 

G. S Tolles, ’26, of South Haven. 

Norma L. (Staley) Whittemore, ’26, 

of Lansing. 

Leonard G. Morse, ’27, of Columbus, 

OH. 

Elmer P. Ripatte, ’27, of Dearborn. 

Arla E. (Gould) Allerton, ’28, of 

Lansing. 

Robert D. Martin, ’28, of Northridge, 

CA. 

Thomas H. Price, ’28, of Alto, Sep. 

10, age 68. 

Lillian R. Johnson, ’29, of East Lansing. 

30s 

Susan E. Fear, ’30, of Jackson. 

Kathryn L. (Faner) Lobban, ’30, of 

Flint, Jun. 1, age 100. 

Ruth M. Danner, ’31, of Detroit. 

Donald W. Shull, ’31. 

Elizabeth C. Uitslager, ’31, of 

Grand Rapids. 

Edward R. Weston, ’31, of Mitchell, SD. 

Dale K. Boyles, ’32, of Saint Johns, 

Jun. 3, age 101. 

Wilma H. Gardner, ’32, of East 

Lansing. 

Helen N. (Goodspeed) Kinney, ’32. 

Marguerite I. Patton, ’32, of East 

Lansing. 

Marion I. (Hagens) Smith, ’35, of 

Grand Rapids, Apr. 26, age 96. 

Leslie L. Winchell, ’36, of Mesa, 

AZ, May 3, age 96. 

Virginia R. (Stapert) Caretto, ’37, of 

Mission Viejo, CA, May 25, age 93. 

Virginia E. (Thomas) Hauer, ’37, of 

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, Sep. 6, 

age 94. 

Mercer H. Patriarche, ’37, of Ann 

Arbor, Apr. 10, age 93. 

Helene L. (Spatta) Matlack, ’38, of 

Bryson City, NC, Dec. 17, age 92. 

Constance R. (Clark) Rowe, ’38, of 

Middleton, WI, Dec. 5, age 93. 

Clifton O. Allingham, ’39, of West 

Bloomfield, May 23, age 92. 

L. A. Cheney, ’39, of Auburn Hills, 

Oct. 13, age 95. 

Byron D. Field, ’39, of Saint Louis, 

MO, Apr. 8, age 92. 

Goldie M. (Renz) Hart, ’39, of 

Carlsbad, CA, May 31, age 91. 

Patricia W. (Simpson) Hill, ’39, of 

Orlando, FL, Apr. 17, age 92. 

Luella A. (Davis) Nehring, ’39, of 

Key West, FL, Apr. 25, age 92. 

Viola L. Nichol, ’39, of Chelsea, 

May 14, age 91. 

Robert G. Platt, ’39, of Carmichael, 

CA, Jul. 9, age 95. 

Carlton W. Remer, ’39, of Utica, 

Jun. 21, age 94. 

40s 

William E. Arnold, ’40, of Fort 

Lauderdale, FL. 

Peter J. Babich, ’40, of Flint, 

Feb. 24. 

Peter P. Chevis, ’40, of Portland, 

OR, Feb. 26. 

Dorothy J. (Dodd) Eppstein, ’40, of 

Kalamazoo, Jun. 7, age 92. 

Wilfred J. Godfrey, ’40, of Kalamazoo, 

Jul. 12, age 94. 

John D. (House) Johnson, ’40, of 

Charlotte, Apr. 27, age 92. 

Vincent T. Kemperman, ’40, of 

Fremont, May 7, age 90. 

Annabel (Studebaker) Larzelere, 

’40, of East Lansing. 

E. S. Padwee, ’40, of Bloomfield, NJ. 

Dorothea J. (Pierson) Arnold, ’41, of 

Grand Rapids, MN, Feb. 27, age 90. 

John Budinski, ’41, of Traverse City, 

Mar. 30. 

Roy S. Mallmann, ’41, of Naples, 

FL, May 29, age 91. 

Wilton J. Norris, ’41, of Indianapolis, 

IN, Aug. 20, age 90. 

Robert B. Carlson, ’42, of Centre 

Hall, PA, Apr. 23, age 92. 

Mary L. (Libby) Dillman, ’42, of 

Fraser, Apr. 29. 

Catherine L. (Clay) Hartman, ’42, 

of Saline, Mar. 29, age 89. 

Arthur L. Kieras, ’42, of Grand 

Rapids, Mar. 26. 

Leonard L. White, ’42, of Tucson, 

AZ, Apr. 16, age 89. 

Derwood L. Boyd, ’43, of Lansing, 

Jul. 27, age 88. 

Richard D. Buth, ’43, of Grand 

Rapids, May 2, age 89. 

Franklyn V. Duffy, ’43, of Columbus, 

OH, Apr. 21, age 92. 

Frank L. Groat, ’43, of Grand 

Haven, Aug. 27, age 88. 

Elizabeth J. (McCreadie) Norton, 

’43, of Midland, Jul. 1, age 88. 

Thomas M. Rooney, ’43, of Blue 

Bell, PA, May 3, age 92. 

Royal D. Suttkus, ’43, of Atlanta, 

GA, Dec. 28, age 89. 

Betty J. (Schwarz) Barnes, ’44, of 

East Lansing, May 22, age 88. 

Patricia W. (Wight) Geyer, ’44, of 

Albion. 

Helen A. (Lambarth) Moser, ’44, of 

Saline, May 10, age 87. 

Ethel J. Timkovich, ’44, of Grand 

Rapids, Apr. 2, age 90. 

Clara H. (Dowling) Noble, ’45, of 

Jackson. 

Margaret E. (Sisco) Custer, ’46, of 

Monterey, CA, Feb. 9, age 85. 

Stephanie R. (Rusek) Brady, ’47, of 

Seattle, WA, Feb. 17, age 86. 

Mark Buchoz, ’47, of Lake View 

Terrace, CA, Dec. 5, age 89. 

John W. Docksey, ’47, of Chippewa 

Falls, WI, Dec. 12, age 87. 

Francis L. Earl, ’47, of Adelphi, 

MD, Jul. 2, age 85. 

Emanuel F. Gonsalves, ’47, of Columbus, 

IN, Jan. 1. 

Merle Jennings, ’47, of Tulsa, OK, 

Nov. 10. 

Charles E. Kuhlman, ’47, of Lansing, 

Jun. 3, age 88. 

Reed A. Near, ’47, of Las Vegas, NV, 

Nov. 30, age 87. 

Wilma (Barth) Roberts, ’47, of 

Punta Gorda, FL, Mar. 10, age 85. 

Frank L. Ryan, ’47, of North 

Easton, MA, May 26, age 89. 

Wallace H. Schermer, ’47, of Concord, 

Jun. 11, age 86. 

Robert Swarts, ’47, of Sturgis, Mar. 

14, age 84. 

Robert C. Bancroft, ’48, of Ocala, FL. 

JoAnn M. (Klahn) Burwick, ’48, of 

Lansing, Jul. 10, age 85. 

Cecelia K. Dragisity, ’48, of Jefferson 

City, TN. 

William C. Griffin, ’48, of West 

Bloomfield, Jun. 14, age 86. 

Victor H. Hemler, ’48, of Warren, 

May 15, age 86. 

Gladys M. (Schriemer) Hunt, ’48, of 

Grand Rapids, Jul. 4, age 84. 

Johnny B. Johnson, ’48, of Pine 

Bluff, AR, Apr. 30, age 90. 

Glendora Y. (Loew) Kleppe, ’48, of 

Bethesda, MD. 

Robin E. Roberts, ’48, of Temple 

Terrace, FL, May 6. 

Margaret S. (Horski) Sherman, ’48, of 

Winter Haven, FL, Apr. 19, age 86. 

Annette (Bennett) Voorhis, ’48, of 

Lansing, Jul. 16, age 85. 

Margaret J. Wells, ’48, of Milwaukee, 

WI, Mar. 30, age 83. 

Robert L. Bowden, ’49, of Troy, Jul. 8. 

Louise A. Crandall, ’49, of East 

Lansing, Jun. 21, age 84. 

Philip D. Farrand, ’49, of Jackson, 

Apr. 8, age 85. 

Paul E. Gillooly, ’49, of Buffalo, 

NY, Apr. 11, age 91. 

Lorna (Henderson) Hunt, ’49, of 

Grand Rapids, Mar. 27, age 82. 

Mildred R. (Hach) Lewis, ’49, of 

Ellijay, GA, May 6, age 83. 

Dale Matznick, ’49, of Lapeer, Mar. 

8, age 79. 

Warren W. Mueller, ’49, of East 

Lansing, Feb. 2, age 87. 

Eleanor K. (Mitter) Sorrells, ’49, of 

Athens, GA, Apr. 10, age 86. 

John A. Stallings, ’49, of Flushing, 

Jan. 29, age 86. 

Irving Stern, ’49, of New York, NY, 

Apr. 30, age 92. 

50s 

William J. Adams, ’50, of Tecumseh, 

Nov. 18. 

Robert L. Anteau, ’50, of Toledo, 

OH, May 27, age 85. 

Robert C. Burchill, ’50, of Frederick, 

MD, Jan. 20, age 86. 

Silas H. Chang, ’50, of Fairfax, VA, 

Feb. 11, age 90. 

Clare D. Davis, ’50, of Burton, Apr. 

25, age 85. 

Edmund J. Derdak, ’50, of San 

Francisco, CA, Nov. 11, age 84. 

Calvin G. Foster, ’50, of Rensselaer, 

NY, Sep. 6, age 84. 

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Delos F. Hamlin, ’50, of Pinckney, 

Apr. 26, age 82. 

Robert G. Handy, ’50, of Lincoln, 

NE, Feb. 27, age 84. 

Merton A. Harrington, ’50, of 

Whitesboro, NY, May 13, age 83. 

Gerald P. Laracey, ’50, of Bay City, 

Jan. 27. 

Russell R. McKee, ’50, of East Lansing, 

May 19, age 85. 

Ralph S. Moore, ’50, of Farmington. 

Leo A. Murray, ’50, of Clinton, 

May 2. 

Berta B. (Berezdivin) Phillips, ’50, 

of Miami, FL, Jun. 17, age 81. 

John J. Stamm, ’50, of Fort Smith, AR. 

Theodore C. Weill, ’50, of Tylertown, 

MS, Nov. 20, age 84. 

Dorothy E. (Deleys) Wheeler, ’50, of 

Cheboygan, Dec. 16, age 81. 

Thomas P. Broe, ’51, of Griffin, GA, 

Jun. 14. 

Victor E. Cronk, ’51, of Adrian, 

May 6, age 85. 

Beverly A. (Munson) Crowley, ’51, 

of Rio Rancho, NM, Feb. 27, age 80. 

John W. Fleck, ’51, of Grosse Pointe 

Woods, Sep. 30, age 80. 

Irene S. (Cott) Garrity, ’51, of 

Birmingham, May 26, age 80. 

John K. Gore, ’51, of Cassopolis, 

Mar. 21, age 79. 

John J. Hedderman, ’51, of Hot 

Springs Village, AR, Feb. 2, age 84. 

Barbara J. (Rosekraus) Labrosse, 

’51, of Palo Alto, CA. 

Lyle H. Lashaw, ’51, of Dayton, 

OH, Mar. 2, age 83. 

James J. Lepech, ’51, of Grand 

Rapids, Nov. 5, age 82. 

Marvin D. MacMillan, ’51, of Fort 

Myers, FL, Apr. 30. 

Neil A. McLean, ’51, of Okemos, 

Jun. 20, age 81. 

Alfred E. Nielsen, ’51, of Ionia, Mar. 

16, age 83. 

Neubert D. Petschulat, ’51, of West 

Palm Beach, FL, Nov. 28, age 83. 

John L. Pickler, ’51, of Wheeling, 

IL, Oct. 8, age 86. 

Ronald W. Pierdon, ’51, of Farmington 

Hills, May 4. 

Robert J. Ringle, ’51, of New Bern, 

NC, May 23, age 82. 

Edward Sohacki, ’51, of Newnan, GA. 


Alvin H. Spoering, ’51, of Traverse 

City, Jun. 13, age 89. 

Douglas M. Bobo, ’52, of Ely, MN, 

Dec. 8, age 79. 

James H. Follmer, ’52, of Van Dyne, 

WI, Oct. 3. 

Kenneth N. Friedman, ’52, of 

Altamonte Springs, FL, Aug. 21, 

age 63. 

Robert C. Gall, ’52, of Grosse 

Pointe Farms, Jul. 7, age 81. 

Mary Ann G. (Giddings) Hood, ’52, 

of East Lansing, Jul. 1, age 80. 

Donald H. Konyha, ’52, of Marine 

City, Apr. 8, age 85. 

Frances I. Nye, ’52, of East Moline, 

IL, Jan. 7. 

James C. Totten, ’52, of Bear Lake, 

Feb. 21, age 81. 

Howard A. Vollbrecht, ’52, of De 

Forest, WI, Apr. 2, age 90. 

William L. Webb, ’52, of Mecosta, 

Jan. 13, age 80. 

James C. Boyd, ’53, of Bozeman, 

MT, Dec. 19, age 93. 

Peter H. Cook, ’53, of Clinton 

Township, Nov. 25, age 78. 

Maurice G. Delaney, ’53, of Waterford, 

Nov. 7, age 87. 

Duane E. Dent, ’53, of Midland, 

Aug. 7, age 81. 

Walter J. Korecki, ’53, of Spring 

Lake, Apr. 15, age 80. 

James E. Morrison, ’53, of Warren, 

Oct. 16, age 87. 

Edward S. Northam, ’53, of Orono, 

ME, Mar. 13, age 82. 

James D. Peasley, ’53, of Peoria, IL, 

Mar. 28, age 77. 

Richard K. Scofield, ’53, of Fruitport, 

Mar. 8, age 81. 

Ralph J. Spagnuolo, ’53, of Lansing, 

May 1. 

Alan N. Walker, ’53, of Royal Oak, 


Douglas N. Hart, ’54, of Brighton, 

Apr. 10, age 83. 

Richard E. Knop, ’54, of Saint Clair 

Shores. 

John H. Owen, ’54, of Chicago, IL, 

Aug. 7, age 77. 

Sandra E. (Walch) Sergent, ’54, of 

Lynn, IN, Aug. 11, age 76. 

Eileen C. (Dudley) Tait, ’54, of 

Canada, Jul. 5, age 79. 

Barbara M. (Pritchard) Amo, ’55, of 

Rhinelander, WI, Aug. 18, age 76. 

John B. Anderson, ’55, of Brentwood, 

TN, Jan. 4, age 81. 

Gordon A. Belt, ’55, of Saline, May 11. 

Carole A. (Garnant) Holm, ’55, of 

Indian River. 

Lewis R. Panin, ’55, of Troy, Jan. 

20, age 79. 

Joanne E. (Horn) Rettke, ’55, of 

Glen Arbor. 

Nancy L. (Huston) Rubinstein, ’55, 

of Edmonds, WA. 

Betty (Wilder) Smith, ’55, of Holt, 

Mar. 14, age 90. 

Nobleza C. Asuncion-Lande, ’56, of 

Chicago, IL, Feb. 13. 

Anne R. (Redmon) Badger, ’56, of 

Glencoe, IL, Apr. 27, age 75. 

Maurice E. Baldwin, ’56, of Lansing, 

Jul. 2. 

Nancy B. (Worth) Clarke, ’56, of 

Alexandria, VA, Apr. 11, age 76. 

Winifred C. Hobart, ’56, of 

Fairgrove. 

Marianne (Kempa) Jeeves, ’56, of 

Marquette, Apr. 18, age 76. 

Mary A. (McClarence) Mason, ’56, 

of Country Club Hills, IL, May 11. 

Mark A. McIntosh, ’56, of Huntington, 

IN, Feb. 20, age 76. 

Dale M. Mesner, ’56, of Lincoln, 

NE, Dec. 8. 

Allan L. Parker, ’56, Nov. 1. 

Shirley J. (Spencer) Watkins, ’56, of 

Eaton Rapids, Jun. 24, age 78. 

Glenn L. Weaver, ’56, of Kissimmee, 

FL, Apr. 4, age 79. 

Richard S. Weinman, ’56, of Dayton, 

OH, Dec. 24. 

Ronna D. (Wagner) York, ’56, of 

Harbor Springs, Jun. 1, age 75. 

Kerin S. (Schrader) Ahlborn, ’57, of 

Houghton, Oct. 1, age 74. 

Gail M. (Brazier) Bailey, ’57, of 

Santa Ana, CA, Apr. 5, age 74. 

Roland M. Brown, ’57, of 

Youngstown, OH, May 12, age 74. 

Robert T. Dulmage, ’57, of Hobe 

Sound, FL, Apr. 18, age 77. 

Thomas R. Flynn, ’57, of River Forest, IL. 

James P. Giesey, ’57, of Athens, OH, 

Nov. 18, age 74. 

Fern I. (Blanchard) Gordon, ’57, of 

Petoskey, Apr. 14, age 97. 

Robert L. Heintz, ’57, of Maryville, 

TN, Nov. 10, age 78. 

Phyllis A. (Bird) Jones, ’57, of Columbus, 

OH, Mar. 8, age 74. 

Vernon Linton, ’57, of Lansing, May 

28, age 80. 

Donald S. Ousterhout, ’57, of 

Fayetteville, AR. 

Lee S. Edwards, ’58, of Fort Pierce, 

FL, Nov. 11, age 81. 

Robert F. Etheridge, ’58, of Oxford, 

OH. 

Charles R. Harper, ’58, of Flushing, 

Apr. 11, age 86. 

Thomas F. Kearney, ’58, of Lathrup 

Village, Jan. 1, age 73. 

William A. McComb, ’58, of Green 

Valley, AZ. 

Marianne E. (Talbot) Schmid, ’58, 

of Williamsburg, Dec. 31, age 73. 

Richard C. Walsh, ’58, of Kalamazoo, 

Feb. 23, age 80. 

Neil S. Hohisel, ’59, of Wenatchee, 

WA, May 18, age 74. 

John E. Jewett, ’59, of Chino Valley, 

AZ, Jun. 20, age 77. 

Robert S. Laskey, ’59, of Sacramento, 

CA, Mar. 15, age 92. 

Barbara M. Osgood, ’59, of Delton, 

Apr. 25, age 72. 

Oscar C. Parker, ’59, of Bronx, NY, 

Sep. 9. 

Robert A. Peterson, ’59, of Fredericktown, 

OH, Dec. 18. 

Kay A. Royer Webb, ’59, of Saginaw. 

Stanton M. Teal, ’59, of Crestview, 

FL, Dec. 24, age 79. 

Barry M. Torine, ’59, of Sarasota, 

FL, Dec. 6, age 76. 

60s 

Robert K. Bevan, ’60, of Rockwall, 

TX, Apr. 19, age 73. 

Ruth A. (Gibson) Bissell, ’60, of 


Kenneth L. Brown, ’60, of Brown 

City, Mar. 17, age 72. 

Robert D. DeBruyn, ’60, of Zeeland, 

Sep. 12, age 70. 

Ward R. Edwards, ’60, of Coweta, 

OK, Dec. 30, age 78. 

John G. Ellis, ’60, of Detroit, Apr. 

15, age 78. 

Todd W. Kaiser, ’60, of Sacramento, 

CA, Oct. 1, age 71. 

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Margaret E. Miller, ’60, of Bowling 

Green, OH. 

William L. Philip, ’60, of Mason, 

Jun. 6, age 77. 

Paul A. Rivas, ’60, of Janesville, 

WI, Mar. 3. 

Donald E. Shipley, ’60, of Grove 

City, OH, Aug. 22, age 75. 

Hal R. Taylor, ’60, of Grand Junction, 

CO, Apr. 11, age 85. 

Merle L. Thompson, ’60, of Naperville, 

IL, Feb. 26, age 78. 

Robert M. Tufts, ’60, of Port Huron, 

Dec. 3, age 72. 

Stanley M. Wynn, ’60, of Muskegon. 

William C. Affleck, ’61, of Au Gres, 

Apr. 17, age 70. 

Thomas W. Armstrong, ’61, of 

Cadillac, May 12, age 76. 

Barbara R. (Ferguson) Burnham, 

’61, of Indian River, Jul. 7, age 70. 

Marla M. (Garrett) DeGeer, ’61, of 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 20, age 69. 

Darrell C. Fuller, ’61, of Grayling, 

Aug. 14, age 71. 

Ronald W. Lundgren, ’61, of Peoria, 

IL, Sep. 10, age 75. 

James A. Rice, ’61, of New York, 

NY, Mar. 28, age 77. 

Janet P. (Webb) Wendt, ’61, of 

Fallbrook, CA, Jan. 30, age 76. 

Donna R. Westrate, ’61, of Grand 


John D. Baum, ’62, of Belding, Apr. 

16, age 71. 

John E. Courter, ’62, of Berea, KY, 

Jun. 21, age 68. 

Robert F. Kohsmann, ’62, of Colleyville, 

TX, Feb. 3, age 75. 

Jerry I. Lasker, ’62, of Tulsa, OK, 

Sep. 3, age 68. 

Kenneth F. Munroe, ’62, of Plainfield, 

IL, Aug. 30, age 70. 

James J. Nichols, ’62, of Cleveland, 

OH, Dec. 18, age 70. 

Alan Arian, ’63, of Israel, Jul. 6, 

age 72. 

Charles F. Cotton, ’63, of St Clair, 

Feb. 4. 

Paul F. Enright, ’63, of Chicago, IL, 

Nov. 11, age 69. 

Sheldon L. Fordham, ’63, of Grand 


Jerry F. Garner, ’63, of Stanwood, 

Mar. 31, age 69. 

Robert R. Lennon, ’63, of Plainwell, 


Glen V. McDougall, ’63, of Brandon, 

SD, Apr. 11, age 92. 

John M. Novak, ’63, of Ironwood, 

Jun. 4, age 87. 

David W. Peabody, ’63, of Dewitt, 


Charles L. Rector, ’63, of Watertown, 

SD, May 21, age 81. 

Oscar S. Roberts, ’63, of Miller 

Place, NY, Oct. 26, age 73. 

Harry R. Smith, ’63, of Portland, 

Jun. 16, age 71. 

Ernest A. Boykins, ’64, of Itta Bena, 

MS, Mar. 14, age 79. 

William B. Daniel, ’64, of New 

York, NY, May 22, age 68. 

Marjorie J. Hart, ’64, of Roscommon, 

Apr. 20, age 86. 

Okla W. Johnson, ’64, of Waimanalo, 

HI, Jul. 8, age 69. 

Faye Koerner, ’64, of Owosso, May 

12, age 91. 

Martha A. Plonk, ’64, of Corvallis, 

OR, Nov. 12, age 90. 

Charles S. Allen, ’65, of Longboat 

Key, FL, Apr. 16, age 66. 

Eleonora M. Barson, ’65, of San Juan 

Capistrano, CA, Mar. 3, age 78. 

Jennifer L. (Drew) Campbell, ’65, of 

Ann Arbor, Oct. 3. 

George J. Cook, ’65, of Charleston, 

WV, Apr. 23, age 67. 

Sylvia I. (Harp) Fetter, ’65, of 

Edwardsburg, Oct. 13, age 66. 

Craig R. Flahive, ’65, of Grand 

Haven, May 9, age 68. 

Milo M. Grasman, ’65, of Port 

Saint Lucie, FL, Mar. 3, age 66. 

L. L. Johnson, ’65, of Indianapolis, 

IN, Oct. 25. 

Andrew M. Kooi, ’65, of Rockford, 

Jan. 11, age 77. 

Joseph R. Pierce, ’65, of Grand 

Rapids, Jun. 2, age 84. 

Don R. Shader, ’65, of Bradenton, 

FL, Apr. 29, age 79. 

Janet K. (DeBus) Switzer, ’65, of 

Galesburg, May 3, age 65. 

Robert M. Gillard, ’66, of Newbury 

Park, CA, Dec. 23, age 73. 

Jill G. (Griffendorf) Hempstead, ’66, 

of Grand Rapids, Mar. 17, age 66. 

Ronald A. Hoffmeyer, ’66, of Grand 

Haven, Dec. 12, age 66. 

Robert J. McClear, ’66, of Livonia, 

Aug. 13. 

Richard C. Toth, ’66, of North 

Aurora, IL, Jun. 17, age 66. 

Susan VanWormer, ’66, of Flushing, 

Nov. 8. 

Charles G. Bloom, ’67, of Kendallville, 

IN, May 3. 

Elizabeth V. Brant, ’67, of San 

Francisco, CA, Nov. 10. 

Glen J. Brown, ’67, of Sherwood, Nov. 1. 

William H. Heater, ’67, of Lansing, 

Apr. 29, age 81. 

James R. Kirk, ’67, of Bluffton, SC, 

Jun. 7, age 68. 

Clemens J. Plansek, ’67, of White 

Lake, Apr. 18. 

William J. Boudreau, ’68, of Saginaw, 

Jun. 17, age 65. 

Robert A. Buys, ’68, of Flushing, 

May 15. 

Elizabeth V. Carpenter, ’68, of Ormond 

Beach, FL, Mar. 14, age 63. 

Sandra M. (Heffern) Duhn, ’68, of 

Harrison Township, Mar. 28, age 64. 

Frances M. McGuire, ’68, of Lansing, 

Nov. 7, age 78. 

Robert S. Patterson, ’68, of Orem, 

UT, Mar. 21, age 72. 

Hazen G. Ziegler, ’68, of Grosse 

Pointe Woods, May 4, age 77. 

John D. Chidester, ’69, of Saint 

Petersburg, FL, Nov. 26. 

Alan J. Crawford, ’69, of Columbus, 

OH, May 2, age 62. 

William L. Fernandez, ’69, of Traverse 

City, Mar. 13, age 64. 

Terrence F. Flynn, ’69, of Berkley, 

Sep. 2, age 62. 

Allan F. Gill, ’69, of Jackson, NJ, 

Apr. 14, age 67. 

Robert J. Heinlein, ’69, of Cincinnati, 

OH, Apr. 6. 

Mary B. Jehle, ’69, of Howell, Nov. 10. 

William P. Kelly, ’69, of Newtown, 

CT, Dec. 27, age 75. 

Donald R. Kittilson, ’69, of Eaton 

Rapids, Jun. 28, age 66. 

Helen J. (Gould) Parker, ’69, of 

Perry, Jul. 25, age 83. 

Charles W. Wedemeyer, ’69, of 

Monte Sereno, CA, Jun. 3, age 64. 

Patricia R. (Jenks) Whittier, ’69, of 

East Lansing, May 11, age 66. 

70s 

Isaac Barnett, ’70, of Greensboro, 


Ruth L. Richardson, ’70, of Leland, 

May 27, age 90. 

Greg K. Schultz, ’70, of Merrill, 

Feb. 20, age 59. 

Miles L. White, ’70, of Eustis, FL, 

Apr. 23, age 70. 

John W. Chapman, ’71, of Olive 

Branch, MS, Jun. 21, age 60. 

Christine Davidson, ’71, of Nazareth. 

Patrick V. Ford, ’71, of Charlotte, 


Diane B. Hamlin, ’71, of Grosse 

Pointe, May 27. 

Angelika (Silzer) Lee, ’71, of Ionia, 

Apr. 9. 

Thomas H. Mann, ’71, of Ann 

Arbor, Jan. 16, age 60. 

Glenn A. Myers, ’71, of Belvedere 

Tiburon, CA, Oct. 19, age 60. 

Sahndre J. (Smith) Owens, ’71, of 

Detroit, Mar. 3, age 59. 

Leonard E. Salika, ’71, of Urbana, 

IL, May 12, age 63. 

Charlene A. (Shafley) Schaar, ’71, of 

DeWitt, May 15. 

David L. Short, ’71, of Dewitt, Jun. 

23, age 63. 

Lois I. Blocher, ’72, of Cedar 

Springs, May 15, age 66. 

James O. Bowen, ’72, of Saint 

Charles, Dec. 5, age 64. 

Janice (Thompson) Hanley, ’72, of 

Lansing, May 31, age 59. 

Randall S. Johns, ’72, of Detroit, 

Mar. 27. 

Donald W. Newton, ’72, of Seabrook, 

TX, Nov. 26, age 59. 

John A. Nordine, ’72, of Escanaba, 

Feb. 22, age 59. 

Sandra A. Pullano, ’72, of Charlotte, 

Jan. 23, age 66. 

Donald Pulliams, ’72, of Muskegon, 

May 21, age 59. 

Harry W. Robie, ’72, of Berea, KY, 

Dec. 3, age 75. 

David A. Fuller, ’73, of Granger, 

IN, Apr. 28, age 65. 

Linda D. Lyons, ’73, of Monroe, 

Feb. 3, age 62. 

Stephen R. Mathers, ’73, of Birmingham, 

Apr. 4, age 60. 

Earl R. Norris, ’73, of Albuquerque, 

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NM, May 22, age 58. 

Nannette A. Amish, ’74, of El 

Granada, CA, Apr. 24, age 58. 

Patrick J. Cunningham, ’74, of 

Monroe, Jul. 11, age 60. 

Diane K. Davis-Waller, ’74, of 

Okemos, Jul. 15, age 57. 

Tyrone J. Fries, ’74, of Auburn, 

Jan. 2, age 61. 

William P. Ingram, ’74, of 

Jacksonville, FL, Apr. 2, age 57. 

Marvin L. Jackson, ’74, of Inkster, 

Aug. 27, age 62. 

Eugene P. Martin, ’74, of Fowler, 

Nov. 20, age 58. 

James L. Spencer, ’74, of Coleman, 

May 11, age 57. 

Sharon L. Boelio, ’75, Jan. 25, age 74. 

Marjorie T. Hart, ’75, of East 

Hampton, NY, Apr. 20, age 86. 

Donald M. Kallio, ’75, of Jackson, 

Mar. 10, age 63. 

Daniel V. Malkiewicz, ’75, of Canton, 

Feb. 25, age 63. 

Irene M. Mead, ’75, of Grand 

Ledge, Jun. 26, age 57. 

Denise (Danielewicz) Soloman, ’75, 

of Suttons Bay, May 6, age 57. 

Clare R. Taylor, ’75, of Lansing, 

May 10, age 56. 

Lacy Davenport, ’76, of Northville, 

Nov. 9, age 54. 

Kathleen E. Hoose, ’76, of Spring, 

TX, Mar. 23, age 56. 

Carlyse L. (Page) Kennedy, ’76, of 

Summit, NJ, Sep. 29, age 55. 

Nelson G. Wazenski, ’76, of Westland, 

Mar. 6, age 61. 

Neil A. Kay, ’77, of West Bloomfield, 

Feb. 26, age 58. 

Curtiss D. Leahy, ’77, of Port Huron, 

Apr. 14, age 55. 

Donna L. McCotter, ’77, of Fort 

Lauderdale, FL, Apr. 8, age 58. 

Simon C. O’Barto, ’77, of Latrobe, 

PA, Jan. 15, age 86. 

Steven A. Schoen, ’77, of Saginaw, 

May 24, age 56. 

Clarence A. Cherrette, ’78, of Clearwater, 

FL, May 25, age 60. 

Craig J. Drewett, ’78, of Flint, Mar. 

25, age 57. 

Irene K. (Iseminger) Pavlik, ’78, of 

Saint Louis, Jul. 23, age 56. 

Beth E. Anthony, ’79, of Vancouver, 

WA, Sep. 27, age 52. 

Jimmy D. Collins, ’79, of Jackson, 

TN, Oct. 1, age 63. 

John E. Dixon, ’79, of Moscow, ID, 

Apr. 16, age 83. 

Jeffrey J. Nash, ’79, of Lapeer, Dec. 

3, age 53. 

Betty J. Sundling, ’79, of Olympia, WA. 

Cecil L. Williamson, ’79, of Cary, 

NC, Feb. 27, age 55. 

80s 

George H. Blair, ’80, of Savannah, 

GA, Nov. 21, age 58. 

Brian G. O’Dell, ’80, of Mobile, 

AL, Nov. 3, age 51. 

Paul D. Sutter, ’80, of Sparta, May 

23, age 53. 

Kathryn L. Wright, ’80, of Lathrup 

Village, Apr. 26, age 61. 

Douglas L. Brown, ’81, of Kansas 

City, KS, Apr. 24, age 67. 

Richard H. Davis, ’81, of Sioux 

Falls, SD, Feb. 16, age 52. 

Deann L. (Haddix) Palmer, ’81, of 

Carlton, Feb. 15, age 57. 

Mark L. Taylor, ’81, of New York, 

NY, Mar. 17, age 54. 

Neil J. Featherstone, ’82, of Fremont, 

Aug. 25, age 50. 

Michael E. Kuffel, ’82, of Bowie, 

MD, Jun. 20, age 50. 

Teresa M. Livers, ’82, of Lawrence, 

Sep. 6, age 48. 

Monica A. Schulte, ’82, of Huntington 

Beach, CA, Sep. 23, age 50. 

Darlene J. (Wirth) Bolone, ’83, of 

Ray, Apr. 10, age 50. 

Melissa M. Frandsen, ’83, of Dpo, 

AP, Jun. 4, age 49. 

Todd O. Hartle, ’83, of Suwanee, 

GA, May 15, age 49. 

Arthur D. Levin, ’83, of Ferndale. 

James W. Ryan, ’83, of Newark, 

DE, Feb. 27, age 54. 

Zain E. Saad, ’83, of Racine, WI, 

Apr. 27, age 60. 

James C. Dykhouse, ’84, of Overland 

Park, KS, Mar. 26, age 53. 

Brian S. Eilar, ’84, of Grand Rapids, 

Jun. 25, age 49. 

Margaret A. Andrezik, ’85, of Detroit. 

Emma J. Fowler, ’85, of Sault Sainte 

Marie, Mar. 29, age 81. 

Karen Mills, ’85, of Milford, Jan. 

22, age 62. 

Glenn H. Vorres, ’85, of Oregon 

City, OR, Mar. 12, age 48. 

Betsy L. Cullum-Swan, ’86, of East 


William S. Miller, ’86, of Garden 

City, Nov. 12, age 50. 

Cheryl D. Saylor, ’86, of Lansing, 

Oct. 23, age 65. 

Richard L. Howell, ’87, of Grand 

Rapids, May 7, age 66. 

Scott B. Durren, ’88, of Madison, 

WI, Jun. 5, age 48. 

Joseph W. Newton, ’88, of Scottsdale, 

AZ, Oct. 21, age 44. 

Carl A. Dreim, ’89, of Ocala, FL, 

Jan. 5, age 45. 

Dorothy (Thompson) Thullen, ’89, of 

Surprise, AZ, Feb. 12, age 69. 

90s 

Brett P. Netke, ’90, of Waukesha, 

WI, Jun. 20, age 42. 

Sean A. McPhillips, ’91, of Howell, 

Aug. 13. 

Michael Fredericks, ’92, of New 

Baltimore, Feb. 20, age 61. 

Michele L. (Quitter) Myrick, ’92, of 

Chesterfield, Mar. 17, age 40. 

Carlos R. (Ramirez) Ramirez-Sosa, 

’92, of Richmond Hill, NY, Jan. 19, 

age 48. 

Dennis F. Szokolay, ’92, of Canton. 

Gary R. Goodrum, ’93, of Crystal 

Lake, IL, Jun. 18, age 55. 

Bertha L. Randolph, ’94, of Warren, 

Jun. 14, age 48. 

Jennifer A. Kolar, ’95, of Chicago, 

IL, Apr. 6, age 36. 

Stephen A. Schuyler, ’95, of Lake 

Villa, IL, Dec. 24, age 38. 

Julie H. Barris, ’98, of Saginaw, 

Nov. 13, age 33. 

Heidi L. Meckl, ’98, of Peck, Dec. 

5, age 35. 

Jerry E. Feighner, ’99, of Saint 

Johns, Oct. 7, age 33. 

00s 

Preston A. Blakely, ’01, of Goose 

Creek, SC, May 12, age 60. 

Young H. Kwon, ’01, of Seattle, 

WA, Feb. 14, age 32. 

Marisa A. Rosol, ’01, of East Lansing, 

Oct. 23, age 29. 

Linda L. Sam, ’01, of Culpeper, VA, 

Oct. 25, age 56. 

Kevin J. Clegg, ’02, of Grand Rapids, 

Sep. 16, age 30. 

Russell E. Hobart, ’02, of Howell, 

Dec. 24, age 29. 

Shannon L. Iezzi, ’03, of Rochester, 

Apr. 16, age 29. 

Kenji Sato, ’03, of Laramie, WY. 

Mary J. Barron, ’04, of Lansing, 

Aug. 14, age 32. 

Ruth S. Pridgeon, ’04, of Holt, May 

11, age 35. 

Mark A. Mullins, ’07, of Kingwood, 

TX, Dec. 29, age 34. 

Diane L. Forfar, ’08, of Fostoria, 

Mar. 14, age 37. 

James J. Jones, ’09, of Hamilton, 

OH, Jun. 1, age 39. 

FACULTY & STAFF 

Kenneth J. Arnold, of Yarmouth 

Port, MA, Jul. 17, age 95. 

Everett S. Beneke, of Largo, FL, 

May 21, age 91. 

Peggy (Miller) Blackman, ’63, of 

Madison, IN, Apr. 28, age 71. 

Carlton M. Edwards, of Rome, GA. 

Robert G. Gast, of Okemos. 

Clarence M. Hansen, of East Lansing, 

May 23, age 96. 

Harold P. Hilbert, ’68, of Mason. 

George C. MacQueen, ’41, of Lakeland, 

FL, Jun. 24, age 92. 

Kenneth A. Swanson, ’40, of 

Noblesville, IN, Apr. 29, age 95. 

Wendell J. Westcott, ’35, of Lansing, 

Apr. 30, age 99. 

James J. Zimmer, ’55, of Flint, Mar. 

7, age 69. 

☛ MSU was notified of these 

alumni and faculty deaths between 

May 1, 2010 and August. 31, 2010. 

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for MySpartanCareer, the job 

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members. MySpartanCareer 

gives you access to thousands of 

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for MSU graduates. Whether 

you’re active or passive in your 

job search, MySpartanCareer 

offers you a new way to be seen, 

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For additional details about MSUAA 

Career Services contact: 

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To come home for your 50-year reunion 

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A distinctive MSU lantern 

at sunrise helps to illuminate 

some of the 14 columns at 

Benefactors Plaza, each 

recognizing donors who have 

given significant support to 

the university. The plaza 

runs along a pedestrian 

corridor alongside the Old 

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