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Albion College’s new science center dedicated in 2006 features a greenhouse and a 7,000 square foot atrium.
chain that grew into Kmart
Corporation.
A philanthropist and chairman
of Metropolitan United Methodist
Church of Detroit, Stanley was the
father of Bruce Kresge, a DAC
member in the 1950s. Board
chairman of the Kresge
Foundation, Bruce Kresge was an
Albion graduate and a trustee like
his father.
A prestigious honors program at
the college is named for another
illustrious DAC member of old.
Among Albion’s half dozen
institutes, centers and programs, the
Prentiss M. Brown Honors Program,
named for the late U.S. Senator
instrumental in the building of the
Mackinac Bridge, was dedicated in 2004
in a ceremony attended by his son. A
native of St. Ignace, Brown was chairman
of the Detroit Edison Company and a
Club member from 1945-54.
Brown Honors program students have
won awards including a National Science
Foundation research grant and a number
of Fulbright fellowships.
“We’ve got academic programs intact
and growing,” said Greenhalgh, a 1974
Albion graduate. “We’ve introduced a
career readiness model to prepare students
for the working world. We have full
professors dedicated to teaching and
input from clergy that helps us fulfill the
spiritual heritage of the college.
“Our students become successful in
Students conduct a lab experiment in 1925.
many areas, mainly law and medicine but
many others have excelled in business and
so on.”
Greenhalgh’s family has several
connections to the school near historic
Marshall. Both of his parents are alumni
and a relative on his father’s side, Samuel
Dickie, a Methodist minister, was “one of
the most influential presidents the college
ever had,” serving from 1901-21.
“Some students thrive in a smaller
environment; that’s what appealed to
me,” said Greenhalgh, a partner in the
downtown Detroit law firm Bodman
LLC. “You knew all of the professors. I
wasn’t a Big 10 quality athlete but I could
play baseball there.”
Today Greenhalgh serves on the
Albion Board with another alumnus and
DAC member, Dan Musser, president of
the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.
Musser sought a small liberal arts
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