American Magazine, July 2015

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1960s
Jon Holstine, SIS/MA ’64,
published an e-book, Recent
Outer Mongolian International
Relations: A Time Capsule,
based on his master’s thesis
chronicling Mongolian foreign
affairs through 1962.
Steve Mehlman, CAS/BA ’64,
was appointed to the Riverside
-1965-
TIME
CAPSULES
TOP TUNE
“Wooly Bully,” Sam the Sham and the
Pharaohs
TOP-GROSSING FLICK
The Sound of Music
IN THE NEWS
First US combat troops arrive in Vietnam;
Malcolm X is shot to death at a rally in
Harlem; Martin Luther King Jr. is among
2,600 people arrested in Selma, Alabama,
during demonstrations against voter
registration rules
FROM THE AU ARCHIVES
George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the
American Nazi Party, attends a screening
of the pro-Nazi film, Triumph of the Will,
on campus as 300 protestors gather
outside. The Virginia gubernatorial
candidate is led to a police car that’s
pelted with pebbles, a reaction that Dean
Van Way calls “entirely favorable.”
AT THE HELM
Gary Walker was 1965–1966
Student Association president.
County, California, Advisory
Council on Aging. He was
also elected as a California
Democratic Party District
Delegate.
William Anderson, CAS/BA
’69, a retired colonel with the
US Marines, participated in
the Memorial Day festivities at
the WWI American Military
Cemetery in Belleau, France,
the site of the Marines’ Battle of
Belleau Wood in June 1918. While
there, he led battlefield tours.
1970s
James Winkler, SOC/BA ’72,
of Perrysburg, Ohio, wrote
the University of Toledo’s
successful 84-page
application to
receive the
Carnegie
Foundation
for the
Advancement
of Teaching’s
2015 Community
Engagement
Classification.
Toledo was among 240
US colleges and universities to
receive the designation, which is
good for 10 years.
Richard Dorfman, CAS/BA ’74,
was elected to a four-year term
on the Sarasota County, Florida,
Charter Review Board. The
CRB reviews and recommends
amendments to the Sarasota
County Charter, the county’s
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I could not have predicted that my acrossthe-hall
neighbors—who endured a lot
of loud disco music from my room—would
be among my most cherished friends.”
—Royelen Lee Boykie, SPA/BS ’80, on her Letts Hall floor mates, with
whom she reunites every year for “amazing parties” across the country,
from San Francisco to South Beach
governing document. Dorfman
is also a member of the Sarasota
County Sports Commission.
Kathryn Thurber, SIS/BA ’74,
is the author of Paris Thibideau
and the World of Lost Things,
the story of a boy, a dream, and
a gift for making something out
of nothing in inner-city
Minneapolis.
Helen White,
CAS/BA ’74, met
Kathy Lanier,
chief of police for
Washington, DC,
at the American
News Women’s
Club on February 25.
She retired from the US
Department of State as project
manager in 1998.
Willie Jolley, CAS/BA ’78, was
named one of Toastmasters
International’s five “outstanding
speakers in the world.”
Gary Kremer, CAS/PhD ’78,
published Race and Meaning:
The African American Experience
in Missouri. It explores racial
history and the rich African
American heritage of the border
state of Missouri from the mid-
1970s to the present.
Susan Wild, SPA/BA ’78, was
appointed solicitor of Allentown,
Pennsylvania. She is the first
female to hold this position and
was unanimously confirmed by
the Allentown City Council at its
2015 organizational meeting.
1980s
Royelen Lee Boykie, SPA/
BS ’80, gets together each year
with a group of friends from
her time on the international
floor of Letts Hall in 1976. The
group travels from around the
world to reminisce and celebrate
their friendship. The group
includes Elizabeth Boyle, SIS/
BA ’79, Naomi Chakwin, CAS/
BA ’80, Ken Crow, SIS/BA ’79,
Tim Hassett, SIS/BA ’80, Terry
Holthause, CAS/BA ’78, Brad
Minnick, SPA/BA ’78, Tom
Olson, SIS/BA ’80, and Alice
Thompson, SIS/BA ’79.
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