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INBASKET CLICK RIGHT THROUGH FOR MSU PRESIDENT DESIGNATE In the nearly 30 years I’ve known Dr. Simon (cover story, Summer 2004), she has greatly impressed me with her diligence, integrity, and how fast she masters the intricacies of disparate issues facing MSU and its faculty. Her scholarly research on faculty productivity and other institutional matters, her vast administrative experience, and the human capital she has acquired over the years uniquely qualify her to lead this University. As faculty liaison to the MSU Board of Trustees and someone active in our academic governance system, I have had many opportunities to interact with Dr. Simon and to appreciate her experience, knowledge, confidence, passion, and vision for MSU. In choosing a new leader, our Board of Trustees also faced a time-critical constraint with the host of threats and opportunities confronting us right now. Dr. Simon’s keen insight into many issues, from the proposed expansion of the College of Human Medicine in Grand Rapids to the revision of the liberal arts curriculum, clearly made her the unequivocal frontrunner. I’m pleased the Board decided not to conduct a national search for a president when we already have a nationally recognized candidate who would soon be offered the opportunity to lead another major university if she didn’t have the job at MSU. At no time in the past has a thorough understanding of the University been more important to MSU than it is right now, given our many ongoing projects including the Capital Campaign and the effort to land the billion-dollar Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) project. We need a leader who fully understands these and other issues facing MSU. We have this leader in Dr. Simon. E. James Potchen, M.D. Univ. Distinguished Professor WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SPARTAN Number 4 was “Get a parking ticket.” I can one-up that. As a freshman In 1965, I was biking across from the Library to Berkey Hall and when the sidewalk ended, and somewhere near the MSU Union, I was ticketed for going the wrong way on a one-way street. It was all of about two buildings in length. What a shock! Marjorie Roberts Cincinnati, OH Here are some more Spartan shared experiences: 1. Having lunch with your friends at the Union cafeteria, 2. coping with driving on campus during summer construction, 3. visiting the children’s park and the greenhouses on campus, and 4. belonging to the MSU credit union. Norman Abeles MSU Professor of Psychology East Lansing 1. Found a new alumni club, 2. serve as president of an alumni club, 3. have a personal interview with Dr. John Hannah, 4. join msualum.com the Varsity “S” Alumni Club, 5. usher at football games for $1.00, then take your girlfriend to Coral Gables, 6. work in a dorm cafeteria to help pay for tuition, 7. hitch hike to Detroit to see the Tigers or Red Wings. Bill Roberts, ’43 San Clemente, CA ☛ Bill founded MSU’s Orange County Alumni Club and served as president of MSU’s Southern California Alumni Club. –Editor. Some more from a 1950s Spartan: Walking up the marble steps of the old library, Parties in the Forestry Cabin, Sunday Dinners in the MSU Union, The Barracks, the Quonsets, the Flattops, the Faculty Bricks, The “Pony Backfield,” The Tower Guard and Mortar Board, Excalibur, Green Helmet, Blue Key, the State Theater, Water Carnival, Parking your car on Grand River, Compulsory ROTC, the Short Course Cafeteria, #2 pencils provided by the examiner at every test, coffee at Kewpee’s, chaperones at every dance and party, and Late Minutes. Name Withheld By Request East Lansing Where can I learn how to “have MSU in your email address,” one of the 50 items that make someone a Spartan Karen L. Schmidt, ’75 Oil City, PA ☛Visit www.msualum.com, click on the Members Only/Other Features link, then the Email Forwarding link. Lifetime email forwarding is one of more than 60 benefits of MSUAA membership. –Editor. SOARLY MISSED Thanks for “The Sky’s The Limit For The New Soar Telescope” (pp. 16-20, Summer 2004). SOAR will greatly enhance astrophysics at MSU. Looking out in the infra-red is very helpful to probing fundamental issues such as the age of the universe. SOAR should also provide, through MSU, a multitude of outreach opportunities to help build relationships with children and astronomy students in Michigan and around the world. SOAR exemplifies MSU’s stature as a world-class institution. I encourage all alumni and friends to visit the observation room on campus to experience the thrill of watching MSU scientists unlock secrets of the Universe. By the way, the photo of SOAR’s infrared camera that you referenced was not included in the publication. Dr. Robert J. Pressley, ’54 San Francisco, CA ☛ Here’s the photo of the Spartan Infrared Camera, left out of the Summer 2004 issue in our final edit. –Editor. UPDATE Wallace Jefferson (see Winter 2002), ’85, justice of the Texas Supreme Court, has been named Chief Justice by Gov. Rick Perry. Jefferson is the first African American member of the Texas Supreme Court. PAGE 3
AROUND CIRCLE DRIVE Tom Hannah, former MSU executive vice president Roger Wilkinson, Trustee David Porteous (partly hidden) and President McPherson unveil the new John Hannah statue on Sept.17. HANNAH STATUE IS DEDICATED Kicking off MSU’s sesquicentennial celebration, the statue of John Hannah was dedicated Sept. 17 before hundreds of MSU administrators, donors, alumni and friends. The 7-foot bronze statue, designed by California sculptor Bruce Wolfe, depicts MSU’s 12th president walking across campus, facing the Hannah Administration Building. Crediting Hannah with democratizing higher education, MSU President Peter McPherson noted: “When he took over as president on July 1, 1941, an American higher education revolution began. Hannah saw opportunity. And he built. Hannah saw closed doors. And he opened them. Hannah saw talent. And he recruited it. Hannah saw what would work here. And he internationalized it. Hannah saw a college that could be transformed into a great university. And he made it so.” Indeed, Hannah was the person most responsible for turning MSU into one of the largest and most respected universities in the world. Under his leadership MSU grew from 6,000 to nearly 40,000 students and became Michigan State University. Hannah’s association with MSU began in the 1920s when he was with the Cooperative Extension Service and spanned to the 1980s when he served as president emeritus. The sculpture is the first project of the “Public Art on Campus Initiative” of the Public Art on Campus Committee. The MSU Board of Trustees and McPherson unanimously endorsed Hannah as the subject for the sculpture. Also a part of the Sesquicentennial celebration will be the publication of a three-part series on the history of the university. SESQUICENTENNIAL CALENDAR The official 2004 Sesquicentennial Calendar, the fourth of five annual calendars depicting James Gratz various events in the university’s history, has been issued by the Sesquicentennial Celebrations and Traditions Committee. The calendar’s images are part of MSU’s photographic collection held at University Archives and PAGE 4 FALL 2004 MSU ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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