Lawrence Magazine—Fall 2017—Going Global

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GOING GLOBAL

Preparing Lawrentians to meet the international challenges ahead

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Corby Johnson ’16 translates a press conference in Kyrgyzstan.

INNOVATORS ABROAD Young alumni from Kyrgyzstan to Ireland share their experiences working abroad and the skills they learned at Lawrence that are helping them succeed on the international stage.

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INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL STUDIES

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SETTING THEIR OWN COURSE

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THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL LENS

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The newest major on campus is truly global, deeply interdisciplinary and uniquely Lawrence. Global studies provides students with a foundation to thrive in an ever-changing world.

From delving into Roman archives to exploring feminism in Senegal, longterm study abroad opportunities give Lawrentians rigorous and life-changing experiences.

Six international students from around the world have a lively discussion about life, learning and Lawrence.

22 Profiles 28 Commencement 30 History Lesson A student holds a globe created on Lawrence’s 3-D printer.

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31 Inside Lawrence 44 Reunion 2017

Kayakers in Granada, Spain.

45 Ask a Nobel Laureate 46 Athletics 50 Class Notes 66 The Big Picture

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From Sampson House Dear Lawrentians, Greetings from Appleton. Some days just keep us smiling.

On the right is a picture of Karl Hochkammer ’92, LUAA president, and me congratulating Stephanie Kliethermes ’07, the recipient of the Marshall B. Hulbert ’26 Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award at Reunion Convocation.

We had the pleasure of celebrating Stephanie’s extraordinary accomplishments as well as those of the other awardees with one of the largest contingents of alumni on campus in recent memory. For those of you who returned, thank you for sharing your passion for your alma mater.

The impact of undergraduate study abroad has been getting a lot of public attention recently. That this experience is transformative is not new news to those of you who had the chance to study around the world during your time at Lawrence. The two years I spent abroad during a gap year after high school and on a junior year abroad program broadened my own sense of the world. The experience shaped my views on fundamental issues that face the globe today.

For example: as a dairy and date farmer I experienced the rhythms of living off the land. This exposure to the symbiosis between human beings and the natural world, and the impact that relationship has on the environment, has indelibly influenced my views on the ways we affect our natural world. An even more profound experience was taking a course on the history of World War I in the native language of the country I studied in. The opportunity to understand a historical moment from a non-western perspective changed the course of my academic interests.

This experience has deeply influenced my view of the educational process.

One of my greatest pleasures is seeing that Lawrentians have similar experiences: immersing themselves in different cultures, then engaging with and changing the world. Our alumni network stretches across the globe making major strides in tackling issues such as eradicating malaria and increasing economic opportunity in developing countries; these men and women are using skills they developed and honed at Lawrence. Their efforts are represented by four recent alumni who are profiled in this edition of Lawrence magazine.

We are dedicated to preparing our students to meet these global challenges. I am proud of what our faculty has accomplished in developing one of Lawrence’s newest majors, global studies. This unique program is a model of rigorous, interdisciplinary and experiential study. Long-term off-campus study allows students the opportunity to engage with the world and to be transformed by that engagement. Lawrence is committed to expanding access to those opportunities for all of our students.

Research shows the practical value of long-term study abroad experiences. A study by IES Abroad reports that 90 percent of alumni who studied abroad had their first job within six months of graduating. Interviews with more than 10,000 CEOs and hiring managers through the OS Global Employer Survey show that more than 60 percent of leaders value an international study experience. Study abroad also has profound impacts on personal development. According to a 50-year longitudinal study conducted by SAGE and the University of Minnesota, study abroad topped the list of impactful college experiences. 83 percent of respondents reported that study abroad had a “very strong impact” on their lives.

At Lawrence, we aspire to prepare students to succeed in and engage with a world that seems to change from one day to the next. We achieve this through education and innovation. Our entire program is rooted in the core liberal arts values that have informed our mission and provided our students and alumni with pathways to fulfillment and success for 170 years.

EDITOR Kelly B. Landis

ART DIRECTOR Liz Boutelle

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS Craig Gagnon ’76

CONTRIBUTORS Catherine Kautsky, Erin Dix ’08, Suzanne Hones ’17, Rick Peterson, Joe Vanden Acker

CLASS NOTES Dakota Williams ’14

PHOTOGRAPHY Liz Boutelle, Hanwenheng (Billy) Liu ’18, Dolores Howse, Anna K. Jankowski ’12, M. C. Kinney Photography, Thompson Photo Imagery, Paul Wilke

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ON THE COVER Anh M. Ta ’18 (left), Lyn Tran ’20 (right) and Ben Tran ’20 (back) perform the totem birds dance, a celebration of the rich history of Vietnamese agrarian society, at Lawrence International’s 41st annual Cabaret.

(Photo: Paul Wilke)

I hope our paths will cross during this academic year.

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INNOVATORS ABROAD: YOUNG ALUMNI MAKE THEIR MARK ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE

By Kelly B. Landis

ABOVE: Corby Johnson ’16 translates a press conference at the World Nomad Games in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

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LEFT: Corby Johnson ’16 receives an award from Sapar Isakov, head of the Office of the President of the Kyrgz Republic.

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Expat. The word might conjure up a smoky Parisian café straight out of A Moveable Feast, or perhaps a tropical bar where journalists, diplomats and spies mingle, but the reality, at least for Lawrentians, is something far different. Lawrence alumni, whether born and raised in Appleton or Athens, now crisscross the globe, from members of the U.S. diplomatic corps like Christopher Murray ’75 and Katherine Diop ’00 to performing on world stages like Germany-based Heidi Stober ’00.

And now young alumni working abroad are adapting to new cultures, bringing ideas to their homelands and putting the skills they learned at Lawrence into practice from the peaks of the Alps to the valleys of the Hindu Kush and everywhere in between.

Regardless of where they are living or the work they are doing, these innovators working abroad share a belief in the value and importance of the critical thinking and communication skills they learned in Lawrence’s classrooms, whether they were studying arts or languages, economics or literature.

FROM SEATTLE TO THE SILK ROAD Corby Johnson ’16 fell in love with Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Republic located in Central Asia, during an internship with an nongovernmental organization. A native of Seattle and a Russian studies major, she wanted to spend time in a Russian-speaking country, and she received an offer from an NGO based in Osh, a city whose history dates back millennia, including as a vital stop on the Silk Road. Scholarships and grants from Lawrence made her time in Kyrgyzstan possible, and after she received her degree, she returned to the country she fell in love with as a student.

In the summer of 2016, Corby worked as a volunteer for the World Nomad Games, which brought together athletes

in traditional nomadic sports from 62 countries. Amid the excitement of seeing so many different people come together to celebrate nomadic culture, Corby served as the official English translator for the games and was the only foreign person working at the Kyrgyz Games headquarters. “The Nomad Games were a high-profile event for Kyrgyzstan, and I ended up being a high-profile worker,” says Corby. That visibility led to the job she currently holds as a translator for Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University in the capital of Bishkek.

A typical day can be anything from working with the more than 30 departments to gather and translate content for the website to meeting important guests or hosting conferences.

Corby credits Lawrence for teaching her the important skills of critical thinking, clear communication and how to ask a good question. “Critical thinking has become a buzzword, but it is really important. Many teachers in Kyrgyzstan were educated in Soviet times, and so education here involves a lot of memorizing and not much questioning. Being able to think about where problems come from and how you can work through them is not a skill that is taught everywhere,” says Corby.

She also stresses how important asking questions is, and that it is harder than it seems. “Working in an international environment involves a lot of misunderstandings, so figuring out what you need to ask so that everyone can better understand each other is an important skill,” she observes.

“I’ve found myself in situations where I’ve asked what seemed to me to be a simple question, only to find out that there’s a very complex answer, or no answer at all.” Corby also credits professors at Lawrence who pushed her ideas and her writing to make it cleaner and clearer, helping her understand how the ability to communicate an idea so that other people can grasp it is invaluable.

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“ Murtaza Edries ’10 is CEO of Pearl Horizon Consulting, a boutique management consulting firm in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Corby loves her current country: there is the strong culture of evening walks in Bishkek that people take as a result of small apartments and scorching daytime temperatures during the summer; the gorgeous natural beauty of mountains, lakes and valleys; and the Epic of Manas, the world’s longest epic poem, which forms the spiritual foundation of Kyrgyz life. She also cites the optimism of the people about the country and its future. “People are involved in politics. They organize protests, start social movements and get out and vote. They are proud of their culture and heritage—lots of people decorate their cars with huge decals of the Kyrgyz flag,” Corby says. “They want to invite people and show them what they think is the best country in the world, the most beautiful and the friendliest.

They take pride in being relatively open and free, and in trying to make their country democratic and fair.”

Her time in Kyrgyzstan has also made Corby reflect more on her own homeland. “Living in another country has forced me to look at my own home differently, and quite often in ways that I wouldn’t understand had I never left.”

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Corby also has advice for current students at Lawrence and anyone interested in living and working abroad. “Absorb as much as possible. Spend time being curious. It’s amazing how many people are experts on things that you didn’t even know existed, from geopolitics to cooking a good meal to the beauty of poetry. Anything can be interesting, so surround yourself with people who are fascinated by things and passionate about subjects and can make you fall in love with the things they’re in love with. Books can teach you a lot, but so can just talking with people. Start with the professors at Lawrence—I can guarantee they are all fascinating people.”

FROM THE CLASSROOMS OF APPLETON TO THE BOARDROOMS OF KABUL One thousand miles to the south of Bishkek, Murtaza Edries ’10 has returned to his hometown of Kabul, Afghanistan as the CEO of his own company, Pearl Horizon Consulting. It is a boutique management consulting firm focused on helping burgeoning Afghan companies begin to scale their operations.

“What you see in the media is just the destruction, but there is also a lot of great work happening in Afghanistan,” says Edries.

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WHAT YOU SEE IN THE MEDIA IS JUST THE DESTRUCTION, BUT THERE IS ALSO A LOT OF GREAT WORK HAPPENING IN AFGHANISTAN. A GREAT FUTURE IS POSSIBLE.” —Murtaza Edries

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“Roads are being built, construction projects are underway, elections are happening. There are expats here with the same belief. There is a community in Afghanistan that is small but qualified to make big changes.”

Edries points to his time at Lawrence as equipping him with the qualifications to help make those changes. He came to campus as a transfer student on a Fulbright Scholarship. He’d always had an interest in economics and entrepreneurship, and when he took a class on entrepreneurship and finance with Professor Merton Finkler, that interest crystalized. The class gave him project-based opportunities to apply what he learned, and in between playing intramural soccer and immersing himself in the liberal arts by taking classes in environmental studies and art, Edries tackled restructuring the operations of a bookstore on College Avenue. He also took another class with Finkler on financial markets that deepened his interest and knowledge of macroeconomics and banking, and had the opportunity to travel to Chicago and New York to see different economic institutions as part of Lawrence Scholars in Business.

He took that experience home with him to Kabul, where he began work in the banking sector, making loans to small and medium enterprises and learning more about finance and entrepreneurship before joining the Agricultural Development Fund, where he gained further knowledge about development and private sector companies. Ultimately, Murtaza joined the Harakat-Afghanistan Investment Climate Facility, a project funded by the U.K. Department of International Development to increase private sector investment and economic opportunity in Afghanistan. “I had to read data and to analyze it. I learned this in my economics classes at Lawrence. Critical thinking, writing, being able to do research, I learned about all of this at Lawrence, and it was all very important to my work. I was managing six or seven projects and working with organizations with portfolios of $60 million,” says Murtaza.

Unsurprisingly, Murtaza was selected for a scholarship in 2015 to study in the U.K. at the City University of London, where he completed a master’s degree in business economics. His time at Lawrence also prepared him to live in London, and return home to Afghanistan once again. “I developed skills for adjusting to different cultures,” says Murtaza. “When I came to the U.S., that was difficult at first. There was culture shock, language barriers. Having a host family helped. I played

AS AN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANT, YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE YOUR WORK WILL TAKE YOU.” —Victoria Jhong Chung

intramural soccer and went to events and got out into the wider community.” Murtaza also notes that returning from abroad can be difficult. “I was challenged in adjusting to being back home.

In the U.S., there is this idea of individualism and not settling for less. That’s difficult to convey in Afghanistan, which is very social. Family, provincial, tribal, all of these are relationships and you focus on these rather than performance.”

But the move to London for a year of intensive study was a smooth transition. “Lawrence gave me confidence and trained me for performing well in an academic environment. In Afghanistan, people don’t really read, so learning to write well really helped prepare me for studying in London and for work,” Murtaza explained. “Also, being in a small community, you get so much time with people and different groups that you learn a lot about all of the cultures.”

Now Murtaza is busy putting together the Afghanistan Business Summit, scheduled for August. It is an opportunity for the burgeoning business community in Afghanistan to share insights with one another. “The country has gone through a lot, so the environment is a challenge, but there are also hundreds of businesses doing well and going beyond the borders of Afghanistan. There is development happening, and a great future is possible.”

FROM THE ATACAMA TO THE ALPS Victoria Jhong Chung ’14 knew that she had adjusted to her life in Geneva, Switzerland when she returned home to Peru and started telling her parents that “we don’t say that in Switzerland” or “we don’t have that in Geneva.” Victoria moved to Geneva to pursue a master’s degree in international development after graduating from Lawrence with majors in economics and government. With graduate school now completed, Victoria has settled into life in Geneva working in the field of global health and international development as a member of the access to funding division of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Victoria’s work demands that she adapt quickly to different contexts. “As an international civil servant, you never know where your work will take you. You can be flying for field research one week, moving to a different country for a temporary assignment or Skyping colleagues in different LAWRENCE

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Victoria Jhong Chung ’14 looks out over her new city of Geneva, Switzerland.

regions and time zones,” says Victoria. On a typical day, she will meet with country teams primarily from Latin America, the Caribbean and North Africa to answer questions about eligibility requirements, funding processes and applying for funding. She also reviews applications and discusses with disease experts the technical soundness of countries’ funding requests.

Victoria says that her time at Lawrence helped her to prepare for her work in the international development sector.

“Lawrence itself is very multicultural and interdisciplinary.

Within the classroom, I was able to read and discuss academic papers with professors and students from different parts of the world, understanding their different points of views and working styles,” observed Victoria. She also notes that Lawrence gave her great learning opportunities outside the classroom. As president of Lawrence International and a student representative on LUCC, “I was able to promote cultural diversity, listen to my peers and voice their thoughts and demands,” Victoria says.

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generation of students and urges them to adapt quickly and to learn how to learn. “The world where we live is changing very fast, so it is okay to feel overwhelmed. Do not fear the unknown, but embrace it. And never stop learning.”

Victoria wants to learn at least three new languages. She also takes advantage of the international community in Geneva, learning about how passionate people are about helping countries in need and the work they are doing to tackle major issues in global development. She also is exploring Switzerland outside of Geneva, meeting locals who are fascinated about her journey and learning their perspectives about Switzerland and Swiss traditions and history.

FROM GOTHENBURG TO GOOGLE After graduating from Lawrence, William Thoren ’14 returned to his home country of Sweden and began work as a billing coordinator in a law firm. He drew on practical skills he learned as an economics major in Professor David Gerard’s classroom, analyzing economic ratios as well as crunching numbers. But one day, a fateful email hit his inbox. A manager at Google had started a thread about an opportunity at the company that had been forwarded by more than 15 people before it arrived in William’s inbox. Working at Google had long been a dream of

William Thoren ’14 outside of Google’s Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

his, so he took advantage of the opportunity and contacted the manager directly, introducing himself and attaching a copy of his résumé. His gambit paid off—Google liked his credentials and scheduled interviews. After going through a rigorous process that included phone interviews and a challenging onsite review, Google extended him an offer to work at its Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

William has now been with Google two years and is a YouTube specialist, working with sales teams and large clients to help them improve and optimize their YouTube campaigns. He also works as an operational lead for Google’s “Adopt a Startup” program, where he can mentor and coach Irish startups to help them accelerate their growth and structure themselves to scale.

Aside from the analytical skills he learned in his economics major, William emphasizes that Lawrence taught him persuasive public speaking and concise writing that serve him in his professional life. “Some other students and I set up tutorials with Professor Cecile Despres-Berry, who taught us some great public speaking skills that I’m using in my job every day. The fact that students can set up tutorials covering specific topics they’re interested in is an incredible thing about Lawrence, and something I’d recommend all

students do,” says William.

William also gives credit to his time on the ice as a Viking hockey player. “An important skill I learned from my hockey career, especially at Lawrence, is teamwork. I believe you have to be able to work with others in order to be successful.

This is something that I improved on during my four years at Lawrence.”

In studying and now working in countries different than where he grew up, William says that he has learned that “there is a big difference between ‘agree’ and ‘respect.’ Students at Lawrence come from all over the world with different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political views and more.

You may not always agree with others, but you should always respect them.”

Like many of the Lawrentians who are living and working abroad, William does not think of himelf as an expat. He loves Dublin and the welcoming friendliness of the Irish people.

And at Google, he is part of a global team, so he is constantly learning new things about his colleagues and their cultures.

“I don’t feel like an expat,” says William. “I feel like a person with an additional place I can call home.” ■ LAWRENCE

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Introduction to Global Studies

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A Major is Born

By Kelly B. Landis

Globalization is nothing new—ancient trade routes show that the world has been interconnected for thousands of years.

However, the scale is ever-increasing and the rate of change seems unprecedented.

Lawrence is, as always, growing and evolving to provide students with skills and knowledge they need to flourish in a changing environment while still remaining committed to its core liberal arts principles. Nowhere is that more evident than with the newest major on campus, global studies.

From understanding the history of global trade and crosscultural exchange dating to the Silk Road and beyond, to investigating the roles of major world cities from Dakar to Beijing in global development, to seeing how the global can also be local through working with local populations and organizations, the new global studies major offers students a multitude of mechanisms to better study and engage with the 10

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world around them and understand their place and impact on the wider global community. Creating a new major with such a strong emphasis on cross-disciplinary approaches is a labor of love, intellect and commitment to providing students with the richest educational experience possible.

“The major is a combination of both student demand and faculty entrepreneurship and leadership,” says Jason Brozek, Stephen Edward Scarff Professor of International Affairs and associate professor of government and co-chair of the global studies program. “The development of the major wasn’t topdown or bottom up; it really was collaborative.”

Prior to the development and introduction of global studies, faculty noticed a large number of students who were enthusiastic about combining majors in a language, culture or history department and government and economics departments. However, absent a formal structure, it could be

difficult for students to bridge the gap themselves to combine the knowledge they had gleaned from different disciplines.

“The faculty were having conversations about how they could better help students see and make these connections organically. In the midst of those discussions, Lawrence received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to work on new interdisciplinary initiatives,” recalls Dominica Chang, Margaret Banta Humleker Professor of French Cultural Studies and associate professor of French. “That was the moment when it was time to roll up our sleeves and say ‘here’s our chance.’ It was ambitious, but we were all very excited about it.”

“We want students to have the sort of deep cultural knowledge that comes out of a minor,” added Peterson. “The two things that make our program unique are drawing in the arts and humanities—so many programs just remain largely government or international relations—and the rigorous language requirement. I don’t think you’ll find that in any other place.” As part of the flexibility designed into the major, students are also able to fulfill the language requirement by completing a mixture of language and mathematics, statistics and modeling.

This allows students with a heavy emphasis on economics, for example, the opportunity to major in global studies.

Rolling up sleeves was just the beginning. After a series of meetings, the global studies team identified a core working group. “Faculty came from across the institution,” Professor of German and Global Studies Co-Chair Brett Peterson noted.

“We had representatives from all of the languages, social sciences, the Conservatory—this is cross-College Avenue. The enthusiastic, collaborative work is impressive and exciting.”

In addition to Lawrence’s signature Senior Experience, there is one other significant component of the global studies major: a required off-campus global experience. “We want students to go out into the world with their education and engage with the world in a more direct way,” Brozek explained. He was quick to add that this is not a study abroad requirement. The major encourages students who, academically and financially, are able to study abroad, but the faculty who developed the major recognized that studying abroad isn’t always accessible for every student. “We also wanted to reinforce the idea that the global is not ‘out there;’ the global is here, too. A global experience could be working with Hmong immigrants in the Fox Valley, or resettling refugee populations in Appleton.

That’s a global experience you can have on College Avenue,” continued Brozek. The off-campus component is no quick oneoff—the projects must include at least 10 weeks of engagement.

Global studies essentially started with a blank piece of paper. From there, the working group began where so much scholarship begins: with the research. Two years ago, the architects held a series of workshops, bringing in global studies directors from universities with programs of varying sizes and focuses to see how other institutions designed their programs and whether those models might fit at Lawrence. The steering committee examined the lessons from other institutions, noting what worked well and taking warnings to heart. They came together to develop the goals of Lawrence’s program and how best to implement those goals. “We knew we wanted it to be rigorous and we knew we wanted it to be flexible, and those things are not always consistent with each other,” Brozek says. “We had a lot of negotiations at the design stage of how the program would be rigorous, challenging and give students methodological, theoretical and linguistic tools, but also be flexible enough that students could pursue their own interests.”

Today, the global studies major offers students four tracks from which to choose: nations and identities, global cities, human security, and arts and exchange. One of the hallmarks of global studies that makes it uniquely Lawrence is the language requirement. The major requires the equivalent of a minor in a language. “We really do focus on the language,” says Chang. “And languages at Lawrence focus so much on critical thinking and cultural knowledge. I think it is really something that makes this major unique.”

After the years of hard work, planning and design, the first cohort of students has completed the gateway to the major: Introduction to Global Studies, a class that exposes students to the questions and themes explored in the major and models of interdisciplinary investigation. Faculty are enthusiastic and ready for what’s to come. “I’m excited to see the students start making connections between the pieces of the major, bringing components like the language minor, their selected track and their off-campus experience together in different ways,” Brozek says.

“The program truly is global. Students are able to look at issues and then show how they are presented from multiple disciplines. I am excited to see what students will come up with and to watch them going out into the world with passion and a desire to do something,” says Chang.

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Locals in Madagascar greet Lawrence students.

Introduction to Global Studies

What does it mean to think globally? This discussion-based course invites students to explore how networks and flows of people, wealth, goods, ideas and information across vast distances have shaped human experience. Course materials draw on insights from a range of disciplines, enabling students to apply global perspectives to the study of issues such as identity, war, migration, commerce, artistic expression and communication.

Instructors: Responsibility for teaching the class is shared each term it is offered among global studies faculty.

Who takes it: Students interested in experiencing Lawrence’s newest major, global studies. “It is the most diverse group of people I’ve ever had a class with. It’s full of smart people who are really good at contributing and who have so many different perspectives to offer,” says global studies major Emma Reading ’19.

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On the syllabus: Readings that deal with government and politics, with theories about various forms of human organization, with literature, music, and the fine arts and with the ways that these all fit together in global studies. Sample readings: Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism,

by Sven Beckert, “Pygmy POP: A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis” by Steven Feld and “Man and Environment,” a speech delivered by Indira Gandhi to the United Nations in 1972.

Interdisciplinary approaches: To provide a richer example of the early cotton trade that goes beyond the reading, students viewed and discussed ancient fabrics and textile examples.

They saw how artifacts found in one location were produced elsewhere, and how that production drew on traditions from yet another location for patterns and design. Students recognized how globalization is not a modern trend, but rather a phenomenon that has been accelerating and intensifying throughout human history.

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WE WANT STUDENTS TO GO OUT INTO THE WORLD WITH THEIR EDUCATION AND ENGAGE WITH THE WORLD IN A MORE DIRECT WAY.” —Jason Brozek

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WE WANT STUDENTS TO HAVE DEEP CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE. THE TWO THINGS THAT MAKE OUR PROGRAM UNIQUE ARE DRAWING ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND THE RIGOROUS LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. I DON’T THINK YOU’LL FIND THAT IN ANY OTHER PLACE.” —Brent Peterson

GLOBAL STUDIES TRACKS

Human Security Human security is the study of global violence through the Four different areas of emphasis draw from multiple lens of the individual, with particular emphasis on vulnerable disciplines to provide students with paths to approach and marginalized communities. It includes multiple forms of the major and adapt it to their own scholarly interests. vulnerability and structural violence, including discrimination, displacement, genocide, disease, poverty and environmental Nations and Identities stress. Students will understand human security and vulnerable Nations remain a central form of organization in the global populations through an interdisciplinary lens, including world and are at the center of our interlocking system of narratives and other representations of human agency and political and economic institutions. Students approach social scientific analysis of the policies and institutions global studies through an emphasis on the“We construction want students and to go out into the world designed to address these challenges. with their education and engage with the world function of nation, as well as studying newer, transnational in a more direct way.” Jason Brozek forms of identity. This track contains a significant history Core classes include: Development Economics, component, along with an emphasis on classes in Music and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective government. Classes in literature, culture and the arts enrich students’ understanding of how national identities Arts and Exchange are constructed, contested, transcended and deconstructed.

One path to understanding our global world is in the artistic expressions (including literature, performing arts, visual arts Core classes include: Identity Politics and Ethnic Conflict, and film) through which identities are staked out and claimed.

Nationalism in Modern History Students think about the arts from the perspective of global systems, exchanges and regulations and consider how Global Cities economic systems, international organizations, the movement Among the central signs of globalization and modernity is of people and the commodification and commercialization the importance of cities. Much of what is exciting and new of cultural practices affect artistic production, notions of in our world stems from the cultural and ethnic mixing that ownership and meaning across borders. takes place in global cities. Students will think about the history of urbanization and the interconnected world by Core classes include: International Organization, understanding the socio-cultural, economic and political Postcolonial Writers complexities of the nature and evolution of major cities.

Core classes include: Faith and Power in the Mediterranean, Berlin: Experiencing a Great City

FROM THE COURSE CATALOG Global studies is an interdisciplinary major that investigates the broad range of cultural, political, social and economic forces at play historically and today. Global studies majors will understand the global influences on the lives of individuals and will be sensitive to different identities, practices,

thought systems, institutions and structures, particularly their roots, scope and linkages. Global studies majors will possess the foundation necessary to lead responsible, meaningful, engaged lives in a connected, diverse and ever-changing world.

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Setting Their Own Course Study Abroad Builds Cultural Competency and Leaves Lasting Impacts

By Kelly B. Landis

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Laura Zuege ’02 describes her college self as a “Tony Blair junkie.” When she knew she would be spending a term at Lawrence’s London Centre, she immediately requested tickets to attend Prime Minister’s Questions, that freewheeling institution of British government. The session Laura attended happened to be in November of 2000, when the U.S. and the world awaited the resolution of the presidential election.

She witnessed then-Prime Minister Tony Blair respond to questions from members of Parliament about the uncertainty with the explanation that he had no idea who to call that evening. He contemplated calling neither, but ultimately rang both George W. Bush and Al Gore.

“I was witnessing something about my country that, despite being American, I wasn’t a part of, but because I was there in that moment, I did end up being a part of it. And I saw a world leader had the same questions and uncertainties I had watching the results unfold,” recalls Zuege. It was an important a-ha moment, and those a-ha moments are a significant part of what makes study abroad so meaningful.

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“I never thought I would be able to go through with the idea of going to another state, let alone another country, but I did,” says Angie Lu ’18, who studied at London Centre. “I feel like it has opened my eyes on what to look out for in a new place and how to be open to new things.”

Off-campus studies, particularly long-term programs, provide a wealth of opportunities for students to gain both academic knowledge and cultural competencies. Though any time being outside of one’s own culture is beneficial, research shows that longevity, particularly of eight weeks or longer, is important for not only language and cultural acquisition but also personal development. Studying abroad for long periods of time is not about tourism, but engaging with a culture and using the location as part of the class and the curriculum. Students experience the material.

“I remember the day we went to le Musée de la Femme,” says Molly Doruska ’19, who took part in Lawrence’s Francophone Seminar in Dakar, Senegal. “The museum celebrated the Senegalese woman, from the traditional to the modern. I happened to be writing a paper about feminism in Senegal, —Allison Brooks-Conrad ’17 so it was really cool to see this display representing what I was writing about.”

I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN WHEN DESCRIBING HOW MY TIME ABROAD CHANGED ME.”

Most of the time, the a-has don’t involve world leaders or presidential politics, but more prosaic moments. “I remember standing at the corner of Old Brompton Road and Gloucester Road on my way to a sandwich shop and a British person stopped and asked me for directions,” continued Zuege. “It was so empowering.”

As the director of off-campus programs, Zuege hears that same refrain from students. “From London to Santiago, so many of them tell the story of the first time they were asked for directions. It seems like such a small thing, but it gives students the sense that they really own their experience and environment,” says Zuege. “Study abroad is about so much more than the ‘Instagrammable moments.’ It’s about learning and growing in a new culture, and understanding how to navigate life independently and as a local.” From riding a subway system alone for the first time to discussing world events in a second language, students learn how to navigate the wider world around them.

Luke Graham ’18 also had direct academic benefits from being abroad. “I was completing a research paper on Julius Caesar and his contributions to the collapse of the Roman Empire. I was able to engage with Roman archives and really delve into my research by going to historical sites that would have otherwise been impossible for me to see.”

In-depth research projects and intensive field study comprise a significant part of many students’ study abroad experiences, and it isn’t limited to arts and languages. In Italy, students can study and practice environmental science and geoscience in world-class field sites. They can explore field methods in primatology or biology in the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar or tackle advanced mathematics coursework in Budapest, Hungary. Regardless of what and where they are studying, students also develop vital cultural competencies that will serve them well in an increasingly global marketplace, whatever their chosen field may be.

Traversing the Merzouga Desert in Morocco. (Photo: Anna K. Jankowski ’12)

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Students conducting geology field research in Italy.

Pedaling Through Paris Reflections on Studying Abroad

By Laetitia Lehman-Pearsall ’16 I will never forget the most exciting moments I had while studying abroad: riding my bike all over the streets of Paris and the exhilarating thrill of entering the Place de la Concorde from la Rue Royale, and then pedaling as fast as I could to keep up with traffic and cross the Rue Gabriel. I had one moment of safety before having to cross over several lanes with the sound of motor scooters and cars roaring up behind me as I tried to make it around the circle before the final cross to the Pont de la Concorde. It was always thrilling, and getting to the bridge and the calm Boulevard Saint-Germain always made me feel like a champion.

Laetitia Lehman-Pearsall received a Helen Barr Rudin Study Abroad Grant and the Professor Gervais E. Reed Award for OffCampus Study in Francophone Countries.

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These cultural competencies range from the obvious like language acquisition and cultural knowledge to deeper skills like flexibility in ambiguous situations, working in cross-cultural environments and an ability to evaluate one’s own cultural beliefs and assumptions. “Interacting with a host culture is more complicated than eating a baguette in front of the Eiffel Tower or posing with terra cotta warriors in China,” Zuege explains.

“Students have to be ready to engage with being uncomfortable and to seek the cultural challenges of immersion.” Students also learn how to plan and how to adapt. Another common refrain from students is that living abroad is about expecting the unexpected. “The students always say ‘this is so cliché, but it’s really true,’” says Zuege.

It is not just students who see the benefits of study abroad. Employers also seek out the skills that students who have off-campus experiences develop.

A recent study by the Erasmus Group indicates that 64 percent of employers said international experience is important for recruitment, and 94 percent of employers indicated that skills developed by study abroad like curiosity, problem-solving and confidence are highly valued in the workforce.

Many students cite their time studying abroad as the most profound and transformative experience of their academic career. Take it from Allison Brooks-Conrad ’17. “Living in a different country and speaking a different language is one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done. Being able to do that successfully did so much for my confidence, not only in French, but academically, musically and personally. I don’t even know where to begin when describing how my time abroad changed me.” ■

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Supporting Study Abroad On August 29, 1930, Helen Rudin ’32 sailed from New York on the S.S. Pennland to begin a year of study abroad at the Sorbonne. Faculty and students pledged more than $900 to support the annual Lawrence student in Europe fund, and that aid made Helen’s year of studying in Paris possible. Much like today’s students, she wrote of the transformative experiences of living and studying in another culture and experiencing the art she had studied on campus in person.

Like Helen, many students still rely on aid to support their goals of enriching their educational experience by studying off-campus. Lawrence is committed to providing them with the same opportunities Helen had more than 80 years ago.

Now, the Helen Barr Rudin Study Abroad Grant that bears her name is just one scholarship that provides funding to students, and Lawrence has recommitted itself to financial support for off-campus study in a number of ways, including revamped financial aid policies and important new scholarships and

fundraising efforts. Recently, Lawrence endowed the Schwartzburg Fund for Study Abroad in honor of a significant bequest from John Anderton “Andy” Schwartzburg ’64. There are also new funds in development to provide further support to students from diverse backgrounds, and there is an eight-figure goal for study abroad support as part of the Full Speed to Full Need Scholarship Campaign.

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Jawad Alweleidat ’19, Jordan

Daniel Vaca Arboleda ’19, Ecuador

Cassandra Li ’17, China

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International Students Share Their Experiences Lawrence is home to nearly 240 international students from more than 50 countries. On a warm evening at the end of spring term, six of those students took time out of their busy schedules and came together over pizza and soda for a conversation with one another about what it is like being an international student at Lawrence. The first thing you notice as they all trailed into the room and surveyed the food is the sense of real camaraderie among them. From good-natured ribbing about a soccer (or football) match earlier that week, to questions about how a project was going, these students from all across the globe clearly had formed a warm and supportive network. They spent two hours talking about everything from food and what they do with friends to U.S. politics and the learning culture at Lawrence.

The students offering their insights were: Jawad Alweleidat ’19, Jordan; Daniel Vaca Arboleda ’19, Ecuador; Cassandra Li ’17, China; Robert Meiser ’19, Germany; Adrian Odamtten ’19, Ghana and Binita Rajbhandari ’19, Nepal and Singapore.

On first arriving to the U.S. and initial moments of culture shock: Jawad: Back home when you see someone on the street, whether you know them or don’t know them, usually you smile, say hi or shake hands, but that was not the case here.

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than in other parts of the U.S. that I have visited, that was not the case. I never thought that unless you know someone or you have worked with them or something, then you say hi.

If not, then you just don’t smile or don’t say hi or anything.

And if you do, then, it looks weird. That was one of the things I struggled with at first.

Binita: One of the things that stood out to me was when I landed here and had to use the bathroom. In most Asian countries we have a bidet, and it wasn’t there. So it took me a while to get used to just using toilet paper, which is kind of funny when you think about it, but that is kind of my major surprising thing.

On food culture (including cheese curds!)

Robert: I got surprised by the food culture. In Wisconsin, I learned what cheese curds are! I thought the United States was famous and popular for burgers and food which I usually know, but there was so much different food to offer, and I love food so that was definitely a good surprise.

Binita: I disagree with what Robert said about food because back home we have a lot of spicy and flavorful food. Later on, I started adapting. When I want to relieve stress or something, I cook a lot.

Robert: Binita is a great cook!

Adrian: I liked what you cooked for the potluck, that chicken chili. But it was really spicy!

Daniel: Too spicy! So hot!

Robert Meiser ’19, Germany

Adrian Odamtten ’19, Ghana

Robert: I like to cook, but it is mostly for friends or a date.

The friendship family potluck is another great event where you can cook a lot of food. I made desserts from Germany, this special chocolate brownie.

Jawad: The food is way different. Cucumbers are different.

Pineapples are different. In Jordan, cucumbers are quite small, with a different, more fresh and bright green color. In Jordan, you would have rice and beef or rice and chicken in every single meal, but that is not the case here.

Adrian: Yes, the pineapples! They are different. They aren’t really like pineapples from back home. Here they are almost white.

On U.S. politics Daniel: I thought [the 2016 presidential election] was very eye-opening for everyone.

Jawad: Out of everyone here, I think I was affected the most being Arab, Muslim, from the Middle East. I have never been as discouraged, sad, angry as I was after the elections. I can’t even explain all the frustration I had and me dealing with my parents and explaining to them that being at Lawrence is not the same as what they see on the news and I’m not really being attacked every single day by people. I’m not really being manipulated. People are not really racist here. That was one of the biggest things because in my family, I’m the only one with dark skin and whenever we travel, even though we are the same family, I’m always the one who gets checked and that made them even more worried. They kept on trying to make me transfer. That is another thing I didn’t want to deal with.

I just found myself here. I’ve been very safe here and people have been very understanding and they have shown a lot of support and help. But I do understand why my family has been worried, and I see where they are coming from. They are not really here. All they see is what’s happening on the news and with the ban and all these things, they all add up to them

Binita Rajbhandari ’19, Nepal and Singapore

being very worried and calling me three to four times a day just checking. Going home this summer is not really an option because there is a very good chance that if I leave the country, I won’t be able to come back in and that means that I wasted two years of my life.

Adrian: On the news thing, it wasn’t only scary for my parents. CNN had a new headline every day about something.

I remember within days of the inauguration [Acting Attorney General Sally Yates] was fired and then the FBI firing. And my parents see that these things are happening on the news and they freak out and start calling me and ask me how things are going and it was already quite scary for me to begin with.

Binita: I was taking a class, Native American Contemporary Women. Right after the election, we made a circle and we had this Native American cultural activity where you grab a stone and then the person who is holding it talks and nobody says anything and it was pouring the heart out. Everyone was crying and talking about how they felt about the new election and I felt really safe, and how Lawrence had this safe place for not just international students but for everyone. They did a lot of things that made me feel safe and made me love Lawrence even more. I think we get to think about it freely and nobody is going to judge you or use that against you. That’s my point of view.

Jawad: I definitely agree with Binita and have to give credit to so many people here on campus. After the election and the ban, I was just surprised by how many people reached out to me asking how I’m doing and whether they can help me in any way possible. Leah [McSorley, associate dean of students for international student services] was definitely one of the people that was there the whole time. The whole international community, Lawrence International, the Diversity Center, a lot of professors were sending out emails and checking and that definitely helped.

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Students gather in International House for the annual LI Board Cooks event.

(Photo: Hanwenheng (Billy) Liu ’18)

Cassandra: There was the recent news about how United Airlines treated the Asian doctor. I feel like there are a lot of misconceptions about Asians in general in the U.S. I feel like there is a lot of racism that we don’t really see or talk about in our normal lives, but it is still happening.

Robert: I’m really interested in politics, so this is the first time or opportunity I’ve had when I actually got information from and about Americans about their entire history. I was surprised that there were so many things that I didn’t know and that teachers in my past didn’t know or couldn’t explain.

Like about how presidents get kicked out. About how that is possible and how the entire process works. Nobody back in Belgium or Germany was able to explain that.

On activities with friends Adrian: We play FIFA [a video game], which is soccer, but actually football! It is huge in all of our cultures. Everyone’s culture. We play a lot of FIFA as well as actual soccer. And I’ve started calling it soccer now!

Daniel: Yeah, we play every Sunday. The faculty and students.

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that finding the time is difficult yet rewarding. For example, Binita and a couple of our friends went bowling and we went out to eat at Mai’s Deli. That was a really nice day.

Cassandra: We have a lot of small gatherings at Lawrence, just chilling with friends, talking. I was talking to this other friend just yesterday about how it was impossible to do that in my high school. I lived on campus in my high school, but at midnight the power gets completely shut down for the entire dorm room. So even if you had to study, you cannot have a normal lamp. You had to have one of those battery ones, and then for a small gathering it was even more impossible because everything is going to be in the dark. We normally would play some poker in the dark, but still there are some people asking you to be quiet.

Binita: I love talking. The time I have to spend with friends, just going out for dinner or lunch and just talking.

On the learning culture at Lawrence Adrian: I had an academic adjustment in a certain sense. The curriculum and the teachers back home are much different than the teachers here and the teaching style is much different.

Professors here expect you to go to their office if you are not comfortable about what you are learning in class or be

► For more on international students, visit go.lawrence.edu/intlmag proactive in your own education or ask questions when you don’t understand things, and I wasn’t particularly used to that.

I think that was a good adjustment for me and it made me become more in charge of my own learning.

I wouldn’t do half the things I do here back home. Last winter term, a friend of mine asked me to do this dance thing and I thought a lot about “would Adrian in 2007 do this?” and I was like “nah,” but I ended up doing it anyway.

Jawad: He nailed it. It was a great dance.

Adrian: It was terrible.

Jawad: I have the video.

Adrian (laughing): It was an experience.

Cassandra: Grading here is quite different from grading in China in that everything here has a percentage, and back home we only have one or two big exams and that’s just your grade.

So, since items have percentages, it makes sure you’re on top of things all the time. You have to always do your homework well, and go to classes and participate in class.

Daniel: The first thing I’ve learned a lot about, I’d say, is respect. You meet so many different people. I learned that at Lawrence. The second thing is thinking about things through

different perspectives, just putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, trying to understand the other person. The third thing is that we are more similar in the end than we think we are.

Jawad: I think one of the things that I wasn’t used to was group projects and the idea of working in a group. Coming here, I had mixed feelings about the idea of working here with other students because I didn’t really know them or their style of learning or how they work or whether they actually do the work or not, so I wasn’t a fan of the idea. Then, as I kept on doing it, I found out that it actually also has a lot of advantages.

Many times I got to learn new things while working with other students. Now I know how to manage working in a group, I know how to get my task done and not just rely on one person and have someone do all the work.

I have learned a lot about different cultures. I know things about each of my friends and where they come from and what it is like back home. I improved from just what I learned from them and coming here. I never thought that I’d not just learn about American culture, but so many other cultures, too.

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FACULTY PROFILE THELMA JIMÉNEZ-ANGLADA Assistant Professor of Spanish Thelma Jiménez-Anglada wants people to think about all of the borders that mark their lives. “From geographical borders like the boundaries between countries, territories and even neighborhoods to sociological borders like class, race and gender lines, people spend their entire lives crossing borders, yet we ignore it so often because we don’t think of ourselves as delving into someone else’s territory,” says Jiménez-Anglada.

Her research explores the narratives and cultural representations of drug and human trafficking in Latin America. In her first year at Lawrence, Jiménez-Anglada has challenged her students to think about how they are implicated in systemic questions around migration, including examining issues of consumption in the U.S. and how that fuels demand for labor.

Why do you think it is important for people to think about representations of trafficking, migration and border crossing?

Migration is a timely topic because it is unavoidable these days to talk about migration and borders. In class, we look at how human beings who are crossing borders are imagined. Written and visual language as well as historical rhetoric allows us to think about Latin American migrants, particularly from Central America and Mexico, as tools for labor and, in some ways, as disposable and targets for violence. The experiences and perspectives of the people who live in a border milieu are different from those who have had to cross a border. The experience of someone who has crossed two borders is different than someone who has crossed one, and it all looks very different from how we talk about it here. I want my students to make connections that help them understand how complex these border issues are.

Do you have any recommended reading for people who want to explore these topics further?

They are difficult reads in the sense that they don’t hide anything away, but there are two books of literary journalism that are central: The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea and The Beast by Oscar Martínez.

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What prompted your interest in the cultural representations of trafficking?

I grew up in Puerto Rico, and when I was an undergrad at the University of Puerto Rico, I began to do research about cultural representations in different housing projects. I spent time getting to know people and eventually got invited into these areas, areas where you did not go without permission.

Each one had different important political and cultural figures with whom they associated their identities and even products for consumption. From there, I took research trips to Colombia and Mexico. At that time, a lot of literature was being published in Mexico about narcotrafficking. But elites and intelligentsia in Mexico City were angered by it and tried to delegitimize the genre, deeming it “trash.” A lot of the trafficking literature of course came from the north of Mexico, the areas along the border, and the argument was that the north was just making up a genre, that the true heart of refined literature and culture was in Mexico City. That debate is changing a bit now, but that is how my initial interest got started.

Do you have a dream class you’d like to teach?

There’s a genre in Latin America called crónica. There isn’t a good translation of the term here in the U.S., but the word comes from the Greek term for “time”—kronos—and it is the non-fictional story of a particular temporal moment. It originated with the so-called conquistadores who had to report back to Spain and Portugal about what they were seeing in the Americas. The beginnings of Latin America are tied to the genre of crónica, but the literature of trafficking, which includes a journalism component, is a genre that is looked down upon for not being “proper” literature. I’m baffled by how this cultural production is treated, particularly because our lives are marked 24/7 by journalism and how we consume stories of what happens to others. I’d like to teach a class where students start from the beginnings of crónica and then examine the shift of how we consume or don’t consume crónica now, and how that consumption shapes how we look at our world.

What’s been the highlight of your time at Lawrence so far?

The students. They are bright. They aren’t pompous at all, and they are curious and eager to learn. They engage with me, with the material and with each other. That makes being in the classroom such a great time for me and hopefully for them, as well.

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I did not know what lay ahead of me when I first stepped foot on Lawrence’s campus in August 2015. One of the first things I found was a supportive group of professors, staff and other students who were willing to push me to my full potential. Although there have been tough times, I can always find someone to turn to and work through my problems. I am grateful for the people and the resources we have access to on this campus. I know that I will always have someone at Lawrence willing to cheer me on.” —Annyce Brackins ’19

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FACULTY PROFILE BRIGID VANCE Assistant Professor of History Brigid Vance is a dreamer and a scholar of dreams. Her research focuses on early modern China, particularly the history of science and psychology. She’s interested in dream interpretation and divination techniques as a system of knowledge. “One way Chinese leaders justified their rule to themselves and the populace was through their dreams,” she explains. “These dreams are in the official histories of the dynasties. Records about how much money was spent on canal repair are right next to records about the dreams of the emperor and how these dreams were interpreted.” She is passionate about her research and teaching, and she bubbles over with ideas to create multidisciplinary classrooms that foster skills in her students to think about and live in today’s cross-cultural world.

What have been your favorite teaching moments at Lawrence?

I had the opportunity to teach a class I’ve been thinking about since before I started my Ph.D.! I think what’s so wonderful here at Lawrence is that there is really a lot of encouragement to teach the things you are excited to teach. The class was a writing-intensive examination of the comparative history of dreams. We studied dreams from many different times and places—we studied texts ranging from Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica to the dream diaries of Myōe, a Buddhist monk during the Kamakura period in Japan, and the dream journals of imperial China all the way to Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel Sandman and Paprika, an animated film by Satoshi Kon. I also taught a class this year on early modern Japan.

The Wriston Gallery here at Lawrence has an amazing collection of woodblock prints. I worked with professors in the studio art, chemistry and art history departments and had students create a gallery exhibition. The students developed the theme, titles, wall text and viewers’ guide, they matted

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is something I try to model and framed the prints in classes and life. I think and determined how to the classes I’ve taught here group them. We had a unit thus far have embraced where they made their own that. There’s a sense in pigment—Prussian blue— the classroom that we’re in the chemistry lab and approaching a lot of new designed and printed their ideas and materials that own wood block. They could are sometimes much really experience what the different than what you process was like. We had might expect. Thinking readings to give students about controversy, the political, cultural and perspectives and exchanges economic context. I like is an important skill that to incorporate something you can take away from experiential; it can be class that is about the Silk nice to move outside the Road, but ultimately is also classroom. Over the winter, One of the prints selected for Dreams of the Floating World: 15 Views of Tokugawa Japan, the Wriston exhibition designed by Vance’s students. about us and the world now. my Chinese women’s history class had the opportunity to Do you see lessons from your scholarship and research volunteer with the local Hmong community. applying to issues and questions of today?

The strongest, most obvious one is accommodation, for lack of What’s next for you in the classroom? a better word. There’s a really fun article I like to assign about I’m teaching a class on western encounters with China. We the sartorial choices of Jesuits who went to Ming China. Their start with the Jesuit missionaries and will move through the first stab was to wear Buddhist monk garb, but they realized 19th century and the Protestant and medical missionaries. It that didn’t gain them access to the court. According to the really is a meeting of worlds. I’m also teaching a class on the writings of the period, monks were not part of imperial court Silk Road, which is really about cross-cultural exchange. Silk life; they made deliberate choice to retreat from the political went all over, so it is important think about what people are sphere, sometimes in protest. It was a condoned choice, one trading, which includes things like diseases and ideas as well you see during the Ming–Qing transition. Many of the literati as goods and money. were devastated by the change in the political scene, so they shaved their heads and became monks rather than work for I’d also love to teach a class just on Ming China; it’s a the new government. If Jesuits wanted to win over the hearts fascinating period with a lot of parallels to today. The Ming also and minds of the emperor and of the court, they needed to talk has a rich literary tradition and it would be wonderful to teach the talk and walk the walk, so they refashioned themselves the history of the period through the Ming novel. They are really from monks to literati. Once they started to learn classics and long and read like soap operas, but books like The Plum and participate in literary training, it became much easier for them the Golden Vase, which is actually an erotic novel that is on to access the people and spaces they were trying to access. quite a few banned book lists, can show us pieces of history.

It has a lot to say about folk medicine practiced by women.

What is your favorite thing about Lawrence?

The manuals at the time were written by men, but women The people! Is it too cheesy to say the people? But it really is practiced medicine, too. Nobody wrote about what they did in true. The faculty, the staff, the students and administration— the manuals, but the inclusion of their techniques in this novel everyone is warm and curious, and I love the community. says something about what was actually practiced, especially by women.

What did you do with your summer?

I finished a further education program in analytical psychology Cross-cultural exchange seems to be a theme that runs at the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland. It is so much fun to through your courses. Are there themes or skills you are talk about dreams with other dreamers! hoping to inculcate in your students?

The main theme is interconnectedness. I think related to that theme is a sense of open listening. Listening with an open mind

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STUDENT PROFILE EMMA READING ’19 Major: Global studies and flute performance Hometown: Castle Rock, Colo.

Dick and Jean during a hiking trip in Ecuador on a trail that runs around the rim of the Quilotoa volcano in the Andes.

For us, Lawrence will always be a special place. We met there and made lifelong friends. The liberal education we received has provided a solid foundation for our careers and personal lives, sparking professional and personal interests we pursue to this day. This is why we joined the Lawrence-Downer Legacy Circle.

Use of the required minimum distribution from a taxdeferred retirement account is a particularly effective way to support Lawrence. Our contributions from these funds are not taxed, so we can contribute the full amount to Lawrence, not just the amount after taxes.

—J. Richard Woy ’64 and Jean Lampert Woy ’65

Join Lawrentians like Dick and Jean in the Lawrence-Downer Legacy Circle.

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Emma Reading had an epiphany over winter break. She loved biology, but realized that she wanted to do something with a greater focus on individuals. She’d taken a class from Sonia Downing on music and gender in cross-cultural perspective, and the light went on. Now this double degree candidate has a goal of being an ethnomusicologist, studying how music interacts with people’s daily lives. This musician and scientist is now one of Lawrence’s first students to declare the new global studies program as her major.

Why global studies?

Professor Downing talked about the new major in my music and gender class and it sounded like all of the things that I’m interested in. I’m doing the human security track; I like to think of human security as looking at how the individual operates within big global trends. In particular, I’m interested in music and displacement and how the individual musical traditions of immigrants and refugees are changing in the modern context of increased migration.

I also love the interdisciplinary nature of global studies. It let me get back into foreign language—I’m studying Spanish again—and let me draw on the humanities and social sciences.

Having more ideas from different disciplines gives you a fuller picture to use when you approach a problem you are looking to research or solve.

What is your goal within the major?

I want to have the most well-rounded understanding that I can of any global problem. We’ve talked about how no community is really isolated anymore. Things that happen globally will impact every individual community. Thus, I think you need to understand the global to understand the local. In Introduction to Global Studies, we read Zadie Smith’s Two Men Arrive in a Village, the story of two men who go to a village and perpetuate violence. The way she sets it up is that she runs through all these weapons they could have, the ways they could come—on foot or via Jeep—and the identity of the village is very murky.

It takes a long time to get any sort of specifics, so the story generates for the reader a sense that it could happen anywhere and will happen somewhere. It communicates the idea that anything that happens to one individual can happen to anyone else. Everyone is connected. I think approaching the world in this interconnected way could answer a lot of problems of today where people feel isolated and angry because they are or feel disconnected from power structures.

I also want to increase my skills at being able to draw from different sources and find really comprehensive answers, considering many different sides and approaching any problem with a well-rounded mindset.

What global challenges especially interest you?

I have two real main areas of interest as an aspiring musicologist. One is refugee populations. I’m also really interested in American new music. That’s what I study and perform a lot in the Conservatory.

What is being written now in America in classical music has intersections with global trends. You have artists who are traveling, who perform all over the world and hear performances from all over the world.

Also, the security of artists in general is really interesting to me. How are they being supported in a freelance economy? What are the challenges there? How can policymakers better support artists? In both the U.S. and other countries, what is it like to be a professional musician in the modern world?

What is one of your favorite experiences outside of the classroom?

One of the things that has been most meaningful is the Music for All program, which I took part in as part of the chamber music collective. The goal is to bring music to communities that don’t normally receive it, especially western classical and chamber music. Through the program, I’ve played in places throughout the community, including a local warming shelter and Riverview Gardens.

I love chamber music because I love that collaboration with a small group of people, and I’ve loved the opportunity to go off-campus to share that with other people so we can all see how music makes connections.

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HISTORY CONTAINS REPEATED EXAMPLES OF HOPE, OF RESISTANCE BY INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO HAVE SOUGHT TO ACHIEVE A MORE COMPASSIONATE AND JUST FUTURE. I INVITE YOU TO CONSIDER YOUR OWN FUTURES CAREFULLY.” 28

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TOP: President Mark Burstein with faculty award recipients Jake Frederick, Alison Guenther-Pal and Anthony Padilla.

SECOND FROM TOP: Class of 2017 student speaker Andres Capous addresses the graduates.

SECOND FROM BOTTOM: Professor Claudena Skran with speaker and honorary degree recipient Gil Loescher.

BOTTOM: Dave Burrows retired from his position as provost and dean of the faculty this year. President Mark Burstein surprised him with an honorary degree in recognition of Burrows’ transformative contributions to Lawrence.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES EARLY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AT LAWRENCE

By Erin Dix ’08, university archivist International students have attended Lawrence for more than 100 years. Many of them would have made long, arduous journeys to get to Appleton, Wis. In the years between 1910 and 1930, students attended Lawrence from places including England, Hawaii, Japan, Persia, China, Korea, India, Canada, Liberia, France, Colombia, Australia and Indonesia.

Yu-Shang Huang, from China, graduated from Lawrence in 1920. He was one of a number of Lawrence students from China who were recipients of Boxer Rebellion Indemnity scholarships in the 1910s and 1920s. Classmate R. A. Bradberg ’23 donated this piece of Huang’s writing to the LU Archives in the 1990s.

Krishnabai Tulaskar (kneeling front left), from India, graduated from Lawrence in 1915. Her arrival in Wisconsin in the fall of 1911 was met with great fanfare—the Oshkosh Northwestern published an article headlined “Hindu Heroine Here. Tale of Tribulations.” She lived in Ormsby Hall and was a member of the Athena literary society for women on campus. After graduation, Krishnabai pursued additional study at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia. By 1922, she had returned to India and was head of a girl’s school in Allahabad. This photograph comes from a scrapbook made by a dormmate, Frances Hogg ’15; she captioned it “leftovers for Thanksgiving.”

Frederica Kla Bada Brown, from Liberia, graduated in 1917. She became a teacher and dean at Wiley University for women in Marshall, Texas and then founded the Phyllis Wheatley branch of the Y.W.C.A. in Indianapolis in 1923. This image appeared in the 1918 Ariel yearbook (published in 1917).

In addition to participating in the Athena literary society, History Club and Chemistry Club, Frederica was a member of the Equal Suffrage Club.

The International Club as pictured in the 1925 Ariel yearbook.

Top row: Donald Gior Lee ’25, Formosa (Taiwan); Wing Yo Hoh ’27, Canton, China; Cham Yin Yee ’24, Hong Kong; Kujoshi Ota ’24, Osaka, Japan; Kosaku Jinno ’24, Ehimeken, Japan Middle row: George J. Mechalson ’24, Marinette, Wis.; Ralph Huntington Coggeshall ’26, Wauwatosa, Wis.; Marguerite Mainssonnat, France, instructor of French; Elbert Smith ’24, Elderon, Wis.; Albert Ogilvie ’25, Scotland Bottom Row: Rebecca Benyas ’26, Appleton; Grace Hannagan ’27, Appleton; Sophia Bachhofen, Switzerland, instructor of Romance languages; Juliette Alice Fourniere ’24, Dinard, France; Helena Koletzke ’27, Appleton

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CHRISTOPHER D. CARD SELECTED AS NEW VICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT LIFE

By Rick Peterson Christopher D. Card has been appointed the vice president for student life following a national search. As a college administrator with nearly 20 years of experience working closely with students, Card is passionate about making campus communities rigorous places for learning and personal development.

Before joining Lawrence, Card was the dean of students at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

At Lawrence, he will oversee a staff of more than 40 professionals and manage all aspects of campus life (residence life, campus activities and Greek life), career services, the diversity center, health and wellness programs, international student services, spiritual and religious life, the volunteer center and the operations of the Warch Campus Center.

“Chris’ passion for creating a vibrant student-centered community in a liberal arts college setting, his focus on nurturing relationships and his deep commitment to learning are what set him apart from the more than 100 applicants we received,” says Lawrence University President Mark Burstein.

“I’ve been focused on trying to develop a campus community where students have a sense of belonging, where they feel

comfortable being themselves in the conversation,” says Card. “I do believe for us to cultivate and grow good scholars, there has to be a sense of personal investment in the community in which I live. I’ve been careful to meet students where they are, figure out how they describe and pen their own trajectory.”

Card grew up in St. Andrew, Jamaica.

He was his country’s representative at Lester B. Pearson United World College in British Columbia, Canada, earning an international baccalaureate diploma from the elite two-year international school that focuses on rigorous academics as well as international understanding and global service.

He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Clark University in Massachusetts with a double major in economics and international development and social change. At Clark, Card was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics) honor societies and spent a year studying at the London School of Economics. Following Clark, Card earned a master’s degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

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INSIDE LAWRENCE LAWRENCE ADDS FIVE NEW TRUSTEES

NEW FACULTY JOIN LAWRENCE

Five new members have been elected to Lawrence University’s Board of Trustees, including two with previous board service.

Lawrence added seven tenure-track faculty this fall.

Ingrid Albrecht (assistant professor of philosophy) earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign and has taught classes on topics such as existentialism and biomedical ethics.

Derrell Acon ’11

Lydia Howarth ’75

David Knapp ’89

Bob Perille ’80

Sara Quandt ’73

Derrell Acon ’11, Chicago, Ill., is the board’s fourth Recent Graduate Trustee. He is an award-winning bass-baritone and has nearly two dozen operatic roles to his credit, among them Sarastro in The Magic Flute at the Glimmerglass Festival, Leporello in Don Giovanni for the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and the title character in Don Bucefalo for the La Musica Lirica International Music Festival.

Lydia Howarth ’75, Nashville, Tenn., is a former Lawrence admissions volunteer and a retired editor for various publishing entities, including the University of Wisconsin Press, the University of Chicago Press, the National Geographic Society and the Brookings Institution.

David Knapp ’89, Chicago, Ill., is a senior managing director in wealth management with the Northern Trust in Chicago. Knapp returns to the board, where he previously served from 2003–2016, including two years as board secretary (2014–16). During his previous tenure on the board, Knapp was chair of the investment committee and the Lawrence Corporation of Wisconsin.

Bob Perille ’80, Santa Monica, Calif., begins his second stint on the board after previously serving from 2006–2011. He joins the board after serving on the President’s Advisory Council. He also played a leadership role in the creation of Lawrence’s Scholars in Business program. A veteran of the investment industry, Perille retired in 2015 from Shamrock Capital Advisors. He currently invests in private companies through Calvello Investments, LLC, and serves as a venture partner for Draper Frontier. He currently serves on the boards of five private companies and the board of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.

Sara Quandt ’73, Winston Salem, N.C., is an applied medical anthropologist at Wake Forest University. Quandt conducts research using a community-based participatory framework with rural, minority and low income populations, including work in occupational safety and health with immigrant farmworkers, poultry processing workers and other manual workers. Her research also has focused on older adults and nutrition, including self-management of diabetes and oral health deficits. Her efforts have been recognized with multiple awards, and she also was honored by Lawrence in 2013 with the university’s Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award.

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Horacio Contreras (assistant professor of music-cello) has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and has studied cello performance from Venezuela to France to Spain.

Andrew Crooks (assistant professor of music-vocal coach) has a master’s in music from Indiana University and brings extensive opera experience from throughout Europe, especially German opera houses.

John Holiday (assistant professor of music-voice) earned an artist diploma in opera studies at Juilliard and a master’s in music at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and performed extensively throughout the country. He is the winner of the 2017 Marian Anderson Vocal Award.

Rebecca Perry (assistant professor of music-theory) earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in music history. She has taught classes including Tonal Harmony and Form and Introduction to the Elements of Music.

Julie Rana (assistant professor of mathematics) holds a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts– Amherst. Prior to Lawrence she was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and a math fellow at Marlboro College. She has taught more than 19 mathematical subjects over 29 classes.

Jesus Smith (assistant professor of ethnic studies) earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Texas A&M University.

His major area of study is race and ethnic relations. He has taught courses on race and ethnicity and contemporary social problems.

FACULTY MEMBERS EARN PROMOTIONS Two members of the Lawrence University faculty have been promoted to full professor and four others were granted tenure appointments by the college’s Board of Trustees.

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Andrew Mast in the Conservatory of Music and Lifongo Vetinde in the French and Francophone department were promoted from associate professor to the rank of full professor. Tenure was granted to Ian Bates in the Conservatory, Lori Hilt of the psychology department, Erin Lesser who teaches flute in the Conservatory and Mark Phelan in the philosophy department. In addition to tenure, each also was promoted to rank of associate professor.

BONNIE KOESTNER TAKES HER BOW

By Rick Peterson Bonnie Koestner ’72, a Lawrence graduate who returned to her alma mater in 2001 as a faculty member, retired as an associate professor of music.

She was recognized at Commencement with an honorary master of arts degree, ad eundem.

A music education major at Lawrence, Koestner earned a master’s degree in music education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she spent most of her free time playing piano for opera productions.

After completing her degree, she joined the Hidden Valley Opera in Carmel Valley, Calif. as the company’s chorus master pianist. That job began a 23-year career as an “opera vagabond” as Koestner crisscrossed the country, working with 26 different opera companies on more than 120 opera productions.

While working in Miami, Koestner learned of a vocal coaching position at Lawrence.

“I’d been freelancing for a while and thought ’Hmmm, this seems like it’s meant to be.’ It’s my alma mater, my whole family has resettled there and the position is everything that I do,” says Koestner. “I was fortunate to get it and it has worked out very well.”

At Lawrence, Koestner has been involved with 17 main stage productions—she cites the challenging comic opera Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten staged in 2013 as the Lawrence production she is proudest of—as well as the annual “opera scenes” concert each spring.

the Conservatory of Music. “She has the highest expectations for her students and an ability to see their full potential. Her dedicated efforts have taken students to levels of artistry that even they could not have imagined.”

For Koestner, it’s the “collaborative and multifaceted nature” of opera that has fueled her fondness for it all these years.

“It’s fun to be a part of something that has so many different people in various capacities. It’s really a team sport. Opera is the ultimate liberal arts performance vehicle because it involves music, theatre, art in the scenery and often dance. There’s also the historical and cultural background, the literature of the libretto. Just about every one of the arts is combined in opera.”

“Bonnie’s passion for teaching shines through in everything she does,” says Brian Pertl ’86, dean of

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Throughout the newly remodeled Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, Lawrentians have the opportunity for reflection and engagement.

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Transforming the Center for Spiritual and Religious Life When you step into the newly remodeled Sabin House, home to the Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, you can’t help but feel a sense of peaceful reflection. It isn’t staid, or still, but rather a calm and welcoming energy. This is very much by design. “I worked really hard at designing the space to feel open, inviting and contemplative,” says Linda Morgan-Clement, Julie Esch Hurvis Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life. Filled with light, high ceilings and inviting and comfortable furniture and nooks, the center provides a warm and welcoming environment for students, faculty and staff.

Morgan-Clement also views the location on campus as perfect for the needs the house serves. “Part of my charge is to be an intersection between town and gown,” says Morgan-Clement.

“Sabin House is on the right edge of campus—near the quad, so students can come in easily right through the back door, and where campus meets the larger community. The center is meant to serve as a bridge between campus and the community and local religious communities.”

At any given time, the center serves as a crossroads for students, faculty and staff and multiple different faiths and spiritual practices. “On Fridays, we often have Friday prayer, a meditation group, Shabbat dinner, and sometimes the pagan group uses the space at the same time, as well,” noted Morgan-Clement. Doors are in place between rooms to allow the use of each area for different spiritual practices at the same time, though this does not prevent groups from engaging one another. “You’ll have Jewish students making dinner in the kitchen after Shabbat welcoming the people who have come for meditation and inviting them to join their meal. There is a culture here where people can talk, participate and ask questions of others and themselves.” Throughout the center, the walls are decorated with words reminding inhabitants about respectful engagement.

“I agree with what Tom Hurvis ’60, who gave Lawrence the endowment that renovated the space, has said. This is a critical time in people’s lives when they are living together and exploring and asking questions about meaning and purpose. If we find ways to bring people together and to think about those questions through diverse lenses, and to give people exposure to and practice with living in a world where multiple religious and spiritual traditions are active, students will do better and the world will do better,” says Morgan-Clement.

Everywhere you turn in Sabin House, there is a different nook or room that invites you to sit down and contemplate, reflect or explore. A meditation room offers cushions and materials for Lawrentians who have a practice or may be exploring mindfulness and meditation for the first time. It also provides a place for Muslim students to practice their daily prayers or Eastern Orthodox students to chant. A kitchen provides a place to prepare communal meals and a meeting room on the second floor provides a space to gather. Books and materials are provided throughout the house, giving visitors resources that support spiritual or religious practice or provide information on different traditions.

Since opening in February, the center has offered a mix of regular programming and providing a space for personal religious observance, self-guided exploration and contemplation. “I’m trying to program in a way that keeps the space for people to drop in to reflect and contemplate. And I’m so gratified to see people using it. If I swing by in the evening, I’ll frequently see a student sitting on the living room couch and another by the window, sharing the space but engaged in their own quiet reflection. It is a space that is part of serving the whole student and that is about balance, self-care and contemplative experiences on a campus that can run fast,” concluded Morgan-Clement. ■ LAWRENCE

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Performers from Lawrence International’s flagship event, Cabaret, gather on stage.

“People don’t realize that Lawrence is such a diverse campus,” says President of Lawrence International Tamanna Akram ’18, a government/ international relations and theatre arts double major from Bangladesh. Groups are always forming and thriving to bring together the international and domestic student populations on campus, and with such a mix, students welcome and celebrate the inevitable cultural exchanges that come. Two of the largest events of the year promote such exchanges: the Lunar New Year Celebration and Lawrence International’s Cabaret. These events have been promoting cultural diversity and exchange in big ways on campus for years, and they’re not about to stop.

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CABARET Step foot on campus in early spring and you’ll no doubt see the posters or hear students talking about it: Lawrence International’s Cabaret, one of the biggest events of the year. A cultural variety show, Cabaret showcases student cultures from around the world, turning Stansbury Theatre into a global stage while at the same time providing the platform for a massive cultural exchange that extends beyond the students involved.

Cabaret is in its 41st year at Lawrence. “When it started back in the day, it was kind of a mixture of an ethnic dinner and Cabaret. Now they’re both separate because we have so many people,” says Akram.

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With over 100 student participants, the stage is the perfect venue for such a mix of identities. “Cabaret at its heart is about cultural exchange,” says Kyle Labak ’17, who co-emceed the event this year. “It was really cool to see how the groups came together.”

is one of the biggest ways Cabaret accomplishes its cultural exchange. Never been to Jordan? That’s OK, learn the dabke— several students did this year!

Acts this year included a traditional Chinese dance, a Jordanian dance, the ever-popular K-Pop dance routine and The Joyful Choir, the first group to represent African American culture at Cabaret, among others.

As the event has grown, it has reached beyond the Lawrence campus into the wider community. “A lot of friendship families’ kids were in the fashion show,” says Labak. Friendship families, another source of cultural exchange, are volunteer families in the area that serve as off-campus hosts to international students.

Akram says, “You’ll see that even if it’s a Russian performance, it’s not just Russian students doing it.” Since many of the acts involve students from the U.S. and international students, this

Akram hopes that Cabaret continues to grow as the years go on as both an informative and engaging show. “There’s all this fun and entertainment, but even within those layers, there’s so much to learn from these performances,” she says.

Between acts, Cabaret also features a fashion show.

Students strut down the stage in traditional clothing from all over the world.

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RIGHT: Local Appleton, Wis. Hmong dance troupe Nkauj Hmoob Ntsias Lias performing as part of the Lunar New Year celebrations.

LUNAR NEW YEAR Family, friends, good fortune, progress, new beginnings— these are the major tenets of the Lunar New Year, celebrated throughout East and South Asia. Each year, students at Lawrence who celebrate this big tradition, which usually falls around the end of January, are away from their families and homes. But each year, these students come together to find comfort, community and camaraderie in familiar foods, music and activities at the Lunar New Year celebration.

The celebratory event at Lawrence is a collaboration of several student groups on campus, including the Chinese Student Association, Korean Culture Club, South Asian Student Association, a Vietnamese student group and more. These groups plan activities and foods based on their own traditions in order to share a piece of home with the community and demonstrate all the ways Lunar New Year can be celebrated.

Alice Huang ’18, a philosophy major from southeast China, celebrates the Lunar New Year at home with almost a month off of school, a large family dinner with unique Chinese food and the red envelopes tradition, where adults give children monetary gifts for good luck.

Often, the large themes of the celebration are reflected in the food. For example, the shape of dumplings resembles a golden ingot, which symbolizes happiness and luck in China. Huang also says, “Some parts of the country also eat fish during the New Year because the pronunciation of ‘fish’ in Chinese is pretty similar to another word, which means ‘surplus.’”

For Trang Doan ’19, from Hanoi, Vietnam, the celebration is similar: red envelopes, family and vacation; just add in a traditional meal that takes 12 hours to make, and you’re set! This large meal will most likely include Bánh Chưng and Bánh Dầy, rice cakes that symbolize the earth and the sky, respectively.

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International students brought back many of these traditions after the winter break to share at the event: cards, food, calligraphy and games. The Vietnamese student group contributed their own unique touch. “Because we know that many students at Lawrence are not familiar with how the Vietnamese celebrate Lunar New Year, we also created a video of how we make that traditional food and what the meaning is,” Doan added.

Organizers reached out to the wider community to help celebrate, too.

Performances graced Warch Campus Center with traditional song and dance, including performances by a local Hmong dance group, a Japanese drumming and dance group from Madison, Wis., and a Chicago group that performed a traditional Vietnamese lion dance.

There’s no one way to celebrate the Lunar New Year. In bringing such variety to the celebration at Lawrence, though, many cultures can be represented and students from different backgrounds can feel the warmth, friendship and community that this festival produces.

INSIDE LAWRENCE A DIFFERENT VENUE Lawrence Students Perform at Oshkosh Penitentiary

By Catherine C. Kautsky, George and Marjorie Olsen Chandler Professor of Music and Chair, Keyboard Dept.

May 3 was a big day for my piano studio. We moved from the Lawrence bubble to the Oshkosh Correctional Institute. We weren’t incarcerated, but we did cross barbed wire fences, metal detectors, and all manner of other screening devices.

We were there to perform for the inmates, and we gave three hour-long concerts in a single day, with audiences ranging from about 75–100 prisoners each. This is the second year I’ve taken students to the Oshkosh Penitentiary. Both years we were lucky enough to have the piano rental donated by Heid Music Co. Although we obviously could have provided some semblance of a concert with just a portable keyboard, it was very important to me that this be a real concert, with both players and audience feeling the electricity of serious performance. Students played their very best and were rewarded by an audience that was completely engaged.

Repertoire covered ranged from Beethoven (Sonata Op. 26) to Schumann (Abegg Variations) to Ravel (Scarbo) to ragtime.

The concerts were enormously successful, with prisoners giving students a standing ovation and asking dozens of questions ranging from choice of repertoire and amount of practice time to very specific inquiries about pieces. At each concert students were asked whether they also composed, and whether they liked other kinds of music than classical (they do!). We were lucky enough to have several international students from China participating, and there were always lively discussions about the differences in musical education between the U.S. and China. Questions flew, ranging from queries about women composers to thoughts about different makes of pianos, and answers were delivered with equal enthusiasm.

The energy here was palpable. I think that both prisoners and students were moved, not only by the music, but also by the sheer unexpected human contact. One prisoner got up and thanked us, saying “We know that most people wouldn’t bother to come play music for convicted felons.” We, on the other hand, felt privileged to have our stereotypes debunked, to learn that what we do, day in and day out, reaches

out and touches others well outside the walls of Lawrence.

Each year I’ve gotten thank you notes from both prisoners and students because this experience takes us all way beyond the routines of our daily lives. Whether it’s one of my students reminding prisoners that the manic-depressive Schumann too “had issues,” or another brilliantly explaining the construction of a rag, there was reaching out here on every side. As one student wrote me, “That was an incredible experience I will never forget … [it made me] realize that I want to use music to bring joy and beauty into a place where it may only seem dark. I want it to bring peace and hope to those who listen.”

A prisoner wrote, “it’s remarkable that [your students] left their comfort zone far behind, walked through lovely razor-wire fences and stood before incarcerated me.” Another wrote that “this was the first recital I have ever attended. The music was awesome.”

I think it was awesome for all concerned. So awesome that next year, at the prison’s request, the Conservatory will be doing a whole series of concerts at the prison, five concerts scattered throughout the year and ranging from jazz to choir to flute, viola, brass, voice, and once again, piano. Nothing could make me happier. How wonderful to remember that classical music is not a genre reserved for the rich, elite and privileged; the people on both sides of the bleachers in this prison gym provided incontrovertible evidence of its power to move anyone, anywhere.

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HOCKEY PLAYERS WIN AT HOME PLATE

By Rick Peterson Three international student Viking hockey players won big this year, but it was from center field rather than center ice. As finalists in the first-ever northeast Wisconsin “The Pitch” competition, Ryan Eardley ’17, Felix Henrikson ’17 and Mattias Soederqvist ’17 made their play at Fox Cities Stadium before taking home the grand prize in the contest for young entrepreneurs.

WENDY AND KK TSE ’81 ENDOW CHAIR IN EAST ASIAN STUDIES KK Tse ’81 stumbled across the story of fellow Lawrentian Wu-chi Liu on the internet and was immediately intrigued.

“I don’t know how he came from Beijing to Appleton 90 years ago,” says KK, who is also a member of the Board of Trustees.

“It must have taken him months.”

KK followed the path of Liu’s story. After graduating from Lawrence, Liu earned a Ph.D. in English at Yale University before returning to China to open an English department at a university there. Amidst the turmoil of the Chinese Civil War, Liu accepted an invitation to teach at Rollins College as a visiting professor. As the conflict escalated, Liu was unable to return to China. As a Chinese man, he was also unable to find a full-time teaching position in the U.S. at that time, despite earning his Ph.D. at Yale. Ultimately, a scholarship allowed him to return to Yale where he changed his focus from English to Chinese. Liu then went on to establish an East Asian studies department at Indiana University. When KK was thinking about how he could give back to Lawrence, Liu’s story was at the front of his mind when he and his wife, Wendy, decided to fund the Wendy and KK Tse Professorship in East Asian Studies.

“He was my inspiration,” says Tse. The generous decision to fund the Wendy and KK Tse Professorship in East Asian Studies also reflects the couple’s appreciation for liberal arts education and deep gratitude for the education that KK was able to receive as a student at Lawrence.

Modeled after the television show Shark Tank, The Pitch featured eight teams of student entrepreneurs presenting their business idea to a panel of judges and room full of business leaders and mentors. The competition featured two teams each representing Lawrence, St. Norbert College, UW–Green Bay and UW–Oshkosh. Eardley, Henriksson and Soederqvist wowed the judges with their presentation on Tracr, a software application they developed for forensic asset analysis. The software automates the task of tracing assets acquired through fraudulent activities.

“I could not be prouder of these students for their accomplishments, especially the way they represented themselves and Lawrence in this event,” says faculty advisor Gary Vaughan, coordinator of Lawrence’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program and lecturer of economics.

“Team Tracr’s accomplishment is exciting and the result of a lot of hard work by the students, their professors, their alumni mentors, their parents and as international studentathletes, the support of their host families.”

For their efforts, they collected the top prize of $10,000 in cash and an additional $15,000 in professional services like web design/development, product prototyping, marketing, legal advice and accounting support.

“This is way better than a hat trick,” says Soederqvist after receiving the first-place prize.

KK, who majored in chemistry at Lawrence, is highly successful in the growing world of ecommerce and also teaches finance as an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He recognizes the importance of cultural competency and global perspectives for today’s students. “I think that if we can learn all the best things from each part of the world, students will benefit and learn how they can prepare themselves to be part of the global village wherever their careers take them.”

The new chair will go a long way to preparing the next generation of Lawrentians to be part of that global village by ensuring that Lawrence will always have first-rate faculty members who demonstrate a commitment to teaching courses that contribute to our understanding of East Asia.

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Lawrentians who competed in The Pitch contest, including Team Tracr members, join Lawrence I&E program advisor Gary Vaughan.

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Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966–1971 Martin Deppe ’57 This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH (now the Rainbow PUSH Coalition). Begun by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement, Breadbasket was directed by Jackson. Author Martin L. Deppe was one of Breadbasket’s founding pastors. He digs deeply into the program’s past to update the meager narrative about Breadbasket, add details to King’s and Jackson’s roles, and tell Breadbasket’s little-known story.

The Cabana Chronicles: Conversations About God John B. Bartholomew ’64 This is the third book published in The Cabana Chronicles, a series of books on theology and comparative religion.

The books are based on actual discussions which took place on South Padre Island, Texas among a group of retirees each winter season. The first book compares Christianity with secular humanism, the second book compares Christianity with Judaism and Islam, and this installment presents the doctrines and practices of the major Christian denominations.

The Aston Martin DB4GT

By Richard Candee ’70 and Stephen Archer The book examines in detail the history of every Aston Martin DB4GT manufactured, as well as design and development of the car and tells of the brilliance of the craftsmen involved in producing it.

The Aston Martin DB4GT is 544 pages of exquisite design comprising 850 photos and illustrations.

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GENERATIONS IN JAZZ: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN HARMON Emotions ran high as members of the Matrix jazz nonet gathered before a tribute concert to legendary jazz pianist and composer John Harmon ’57.

As they prepared for the crowd that evening, John and his long-time collaborators and colleagues took advantage of the quiet time to share music, laughter, tears and memories of creating art together for decades.

Known as “Wisconsin’s gentle poet of jazz,” Harmon is the legendary founder of Lawrence’s jazz studies program, and that evening’s concert, Generations in Jazz, paid tribute both to his innovative musicianship and dedication as an educator, bringing together Matrix with current Lawrence faculty and the students of Lawrence’s Jazz Ensemble (LUJE) to play some of Harmon’s signature compositions.

Patty Darling, the current director of the LUJE, says “John has been one of the biggest influences in my life—not only is he an accomplished jazz composer, pianist and educator, but he is also one of the most beautiful souls on the planet. Everyone who knows John wanted to play with him on this concert.

I decided to just focus on his work at Lawrence, his founding of the jazz program and the faculty who are carrying on his legacy now with our students.”

For nearly two hours, Harmon, Matrix and the Jazz Ensemble delighted a packed house in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel with the music Harmon has dedicated his life to creating.

Some of his favorite moments of the evening include playing El Tigre with the members of Matrix who had reunited from near and far, as well as a version of Half a Bubble Off, where Harmon had “just a blast” sharing piano duties with Matt Turner, who had rearranged the piece. After reverberating applause, Harmon took the stage for an encore, where he was joined by Janet Planet for a moving performance of I Raise My Glass to You. It is a song that Harmon wrote on behalf of a man with cancer dedicated to his wife for her unwavering commitment to his recovery. The song beautifully encapsulated the sensibilities that have shaped Harmon’s artistry for so long: elegant and moving composition infused with compassion and warmth.

“I still have a glow,” says Harmon. “I was overwhelmed and humbled by the beautiful effort. I’m so grateful and am just buoyed by the whole experience.”

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MEET CATHERINE KODAT New Dean of the Faculty and Provost Brings Liberal Arts Career to Lawrence Catherine Gunther Kodat is not only a thoughtful academic and talented administrator, she’s an author, a musician and a former journalist. As she embarks on her first year as dean of the faculty and provost, Kodat shares her thoughts on finding your way, the courageousness of the liberal arts and what Cold War cultural politics can tell us about how we consume information today.

It seems like you’ve had a liberal arts career.

That’s a very generous way to put it. I think a lot of people in their early 20s take a while to sort everything out. My kids are 24 right now, so I’m watching that play out again.

I thought I was going to be a musician and started in a conservatory. Then I became an English major and started working for a paper [The Baltimore Sun] and thought I was going to be a journalist. Then there was a point when I had just gotten married and wanted to start a family but was working from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., and I did what I think a lot of folks in that position do. I thought “When was I happiest?

When was I feeling like I was getting the most of out of life?”

And those moments were all in the classroom, discussing and learning and growing. I went off to graduate school and felt like I found my groove. I didn’t look back.

What is important about a liberal arts education?

I didn’t go to a liberal arts college. I went to a conservatory and then transferred to a big state institution. But, as it happened, I was in this tiny little English department that was headed by this woman who got her Ph.D. at Cornell and had been there when Nabokov taught there. My advisor got his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford and was a poet.

I landed in this really tiny department with amazing people and it was kind of like a liberal arts English department— very close and really tight knit. I took it completely for granted because I was coming from a conservatory where all the classes were really tiny, too. It wasn’t until I went to grad school at Boston University that I realized that this is something unusual—the small classes, close studentteacher interaction and the absolute emphasis on finding what your passion is, learning what your skills are that will enable you to realize that passion. Learning how to learn, learning how to think.

That sense of openness and flexibility inculcated in a liberal arts setting is even more critical now. There is this wonderful book by Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, where he says that when people talk about education for job training, what they are often talking about are jobs that are already there. But in four to five years, those jobs are either going to be gone or they are going to be so transformed that the skill set is going to be different. Liberal arts colleges

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help create people who are able to create jobs for themselves or be ready for jobs of the future.

Furthermore, the idea of a liberal arts education is that you’re nourishing your soul and you’re growing as a person all the way through your life.

Why do you think the value of liberal arts isn’t always understood?

I think it’s partly because there is so much anxiety, anxiety driven by this fear of the unknown. It takes a certain amount of courage to be out there in the world right now; in many ways, it’s the same kind of courage that you’re developing in students in a liberal arts setting: the courage to take a class in a subject that you’ve never thought of before, the courage to speak up in a really tiny classroom where the same people will also be in the lunchroom and on the playing field with you. Unfortunately, there are pundits making their careers out of stoking anxiety and fear and that can be hard to press against.

What are your goals as you settle in to Lawrence?

The first year, I really want to get to know people, to find out what the hopes and dreams are of the faculty and students.

What do they want to see in their provost? I want to learn what the strengths are and how to grow them. I’m also very excited to be working with and partnering with Mark [Burstein].

Is there anything you’ve learned or discovered so far about Lawrence that surprises you?

Appleton’s got stuff going on! It’s got interesting restaurants and interesting shops, it’s pleasant to walk down College Avenue, things are happening and big cities are close.

And this isn’t a surprise, but I am so excited about the relationship between the Conservatory and the College.

It cycles back with my musical passions and the ways in which they’ve informed the things that I care about.

You’ve been a journalist and you’ve written a book, Don’t Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture, on the role of culture vis-à-vis politics and propaganda. What are your thoughts about how people interact with art and journalism today?

There was this notion in the Cold War of a sort of cultural exchange. There’s lots of different names for it—bilateral cultural exchange, soft power, cultural diplomacy. It was all informed by two notions. The first, the tip of the iceberg, was increasing fellowship and communication. When the Soviets shipped the Moiseyev Dance Company to the United States and people got to see all these happy dancing Russians they thought “Oh, they aren’t so mysterious!” There’s a lot of continuity in the culture; Russian culture is pretty much Western culture. People could see the dances or hear the music and recognize something. There was a sense of a shared experience or a shared humanity and the idea was that would make the world a more peaceful and harmonious place.

The bottom part of the iceberg, though, was the notion that you could use cultural productions as a way of forwarding a particular kind of agenda.

I was interested in the number of times in which assumptions about the politics that were embedded in artworks were proven mistaken or wrong. I was particularly interested in investigating a notion that had a lot of currency in cultural studies about modernism as an apolitical form, basically because it was, for lack of a better term, so confusing. People looked at a Rothko canvas or read a Faulkner novel and said “It’s so confusing, there’s no politics there!” And so the claim was that these works must necessarily be politically quiescent. That really wasn’t true. People are creative and people are imaginative and when they are engaging with art, sometimes they see things that the artist didn’t imagine would be seen there, sometimes they appropriate work and use it for different ends.

The assumption that artwork could be convenient Trojan horses for political agendas I found problematic because it often worked in unpredictable ways.

Art, traditionally conceived, is still that way. It still works for people in unpredictable ways. But now there’s the whole infotainment landscape, and the work of the algorithm. People get shifted towards reading things that tend to emphasize or deepen preexisting views. It’s interesting to think about and troubling to see echo chambers emerge partly as a function of the way people use the internet to not only access their news, but their entertainment. They are shunting themselves off into little special niches. Which brings us back into the liberal arts ideal! You are inculcating in students the sense that the way to educate yourself is, in fact, to expose yourself to diverse ideas. Which is not to say that every idea out there has equal merit or equal claim—the honored status of truth—but the way you learn to recognize truth is by looking at what’s not truth, at the spectrum being presented. I’d say there’s very much still a place for the liberal arts and for liberal arts colleges.

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RIGHT: From Alumni College’s Talking About Picturebooks with Young Children: There’s More to It Than You Might Think instructed

by Lee Galda Pellegrini ’67, Sidney and Marguerite Henry Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Emerita, University of Minnesota

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ABOVE/AWARD WINNERS: LUAA honored alumni who have made their marks on the world and who have given so much back to the Lawrence community.

Pictured from left to right: Richard Price ’62 (Lucia Russell Briggs Distinguished Alumni Award), Bob and Bonnie Buchanan ’62 (Presidential Award for their exemplary leadership), Alexandra Kunath ’12 (Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award), Stephanie Kliethermes ’02 (Marshall B. Hulbert ’26 Young Alumni Outstanding Service Award), Carolyn King Stephens M-D’62 and Charlot Nelson Singleton ’67 (both received the Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D’18 Outstanding Service Award).

INSET: Dr. Anne Pelizzoni Lanier ’62 was posthumously awarded the George B. Walter ’36 Service to Society Award for dedicating her life to promoting health and wellness among Alaska Native populations. Lanier passed away on May 26, 2017.

MIDDLE RIGHT: The Alumni Choir rehearses in Memorial Chapel.

BOTTOM RIGHT: The Gene Davis Memorial Fun Run/Walk (5K).

For more photos: ► lawrenceuniversity.smugmug.com/Alumni/Alumni-Reunion-2017

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Nobel Laureate Catching up with Tom Steitz at his 55th Reunion

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Tom Steitz ’62 has an unusual method of testing people’s basic science savvy: he gives them two versions of his Nobel Prize medal, the original gold prize and the copies the Nobel Foundation also provides to the winners. “I ask people if they can figure out which one is which. Of course the gold one is heavier,” says Steitz.

Like many Lawrentians today, Steitz was a multi-interested student.

One of the reasons he chose Lawrence was because it offered this aspiring saxophonist and scientist access to both the Conservatory of Music and a rich liberal arts education. He was also helped by a scholarship that he suspects was quietly arranged by the mother of his boyhood friend and fellow alumnus, Alexander Wilde ’62.

“That scholarship was the only way I could come to Lawrence,” recalls Steitz.

Steitz’s chosen instrument might belie his musical passions: he was far more a fan of classical than jazz. “That was my problem, you see. It turns out the alto sax was born about a century or two too late. And I didn’t go the way of music because I got completely fascinated by a science course that I took from [legendary Lawrence chemistry professor] Bob Rosenberg.” That fascination took him from the hallways of Lawrence to labs run by James Watson at Harvard and Francis Crick at Cambridge to a stage in Stockholm with the king of Sweden.

How does your research apply to addressing the growing issue of antibiotic resistance?

We study the system that one category of antibiotics target. It turns out that the synthesis of proteins is done by the ribosome, and that’s what we’ve studied a lot of. Antibiotics work by targeting ribosomes and you can kill little buggies if you hit their ribosomes, and that works very well. We kind of look at where the small molecules and antibiotics bind to the ribosome and work out how it is that they inhibit the ribosome—stop the protein synthesis machine from working. Then you figure out how to deal with making new antibiotics when the bug mutates, which it always does.

I always say evolution trumps intelligent design. That is, no matter how intelligently you design an antibiotic, evolution will eventually take over and get around it, so then you have to make a new antibiotic or modify the old one so it will work.

You have had the opportunity to work with incredible scientists all over the world. How important is sharing ideas?

The lab I was at in Cambridge when I was a postdoc, molecular

biology, was absolutely an amazing place! It wasn’t just [Francis] Crick who was there. There were 17 individuals, I think, who had or eventually got the Nobel Prize, and it wasn’t a huge place. One got two Nobel Prizes for two different things. We’d all sit around the table drinking tea—well, coffee for me—and talk. You’d have Francis Crick over here, and Sydney Brenner who won the Nobel, and then across the table would be one or another and then there’d be some graduate students and some postdocs, and we’d all talk science. All the time. Come up with new ideas, and bounce ideas off of each other. It was very interactive, and it gave me my ideas on exactly how science should be organized in an institution. So, I tried to see that we set up [Steitz’s own lab] Yale to do things very similar to that.

What skills do successful scientists have in today’s world?

It’s a matter of knowing how to ask questions and bounce ideas off of other people. We go back and forth. A lot of good ideas, in fact most good ideas, just sort of pop up as you’re thinking about trying to address a particular issue.

The idea of a scientist working in the corner by themselves, which I think has prevailed in many places and times, is completely wrong.

Well, there are people who are that kind of people, but they don’t do any good science. The good science is done by people who are talking and interacting.

What does it feel like to win a Nobel Prize?

I got a phone call at a little after five in the morning, and I know what time of the year they do these kinds of things. I thought, “well, there are two possibilities. Either it’s the Swedes calling, or somebody in my family died.” I thought, “I have a good feeling that it’s the Swedes,” and, in fact, it was. That was very nice. They apologized for calling so early in the morning. I said, “well, it’s okay—I was going to get up in another 15 minutes and go to the gym anyway.” The chap I was talking to said “I don’t think you’re going to go to the gym today. In about a half an hour or so, you’re going to be bombarded with reporters because we’re going to announce the prize and then they’ll be all over you.” In fact, I didn’t go to the gym.

Any words of wisdom for the next generation?

Press on. Pursue what you really get excited about—that should be the driver. And have fun!

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Matt Holliday ’18 earned his third consecutive AllMidwest Conference honor in 2017 and is on his way to being one of the most prolific hitters in Lawrence baseball history. (Photo: Paul Wilke)

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By Joe Vanden Acker, director of athletic media relations

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Matt Holliday ’18 tried them all. Soccer, gymnastics, swimming, basketball, and the list went on.

But when it came down to what he loved, a young boy living in Hong Kong with parents of South African and Chinese descent chose the most all-American of pursuits—baseball.

Holliday fell in love with America’s national pastime and its greatest franchise, the New York Yankees, as a small boy. “The Yankee games are always on in Hong Kong. I grew up watching them and I wanted to keep playing the sport,” Holliday says. “I just kept playing baseball every year. That’s how I got to love the sport.”

Before Holliday was born, his parents, Andy and Donna, had moved to Hong Kong to continue their work in the banking industry. What was going to be a diversion of a year or two before returning to New York has lasted more than two decades. After Matt was born, the Hollidays decided to stay and soon enough, their son was involved in a variety of sports.

Playing youth baseball in Hong Kong, Holliday got connected with other players from different backgrounds. Holliday distinguished himself early and earned a spot on the team representing Hong Kong in its bid to make the Little League World Series. Holliday and his Hong Kong teammates came up just short of a trip to Williamsport, Pa., and lost in the regional championship game.

Hong Kong. “We emailed back and forth and had to set up a time to do FaceTime,” Anderson says. “Really finding a time where everyone was awake and able to talk was difficult.”

“Lawrence was my last stop. In the end it was between Lawrence and Denison,” says Holliday, noting that he had the chance to make an impact at Lawrence immediately.

“I wanted to play baseball my freshman year and play every day and still have that college experience. Lawrence was outstanding academically, and that was one of the main reasons I chose Lawrence.”

The campus visit came on a cold, windy day in April. In other words, perfect college baseball weather here in the Midwest.

“I was worried because it was so cold,” Anderson says.

“I thought it would scare him off.” Holliday watched the Vikings play Lakeland University on a brisk afternoon and saw the opportunity to play.

“I got off to a pretty bad start,” Holliday admitted. “Once we got to Florida, I started to get hits. After my freshman year, I thought, ’Can I do this again?’ Sophomore year it clicked.”

Holliday is one of the most prolific hitters in Lawrence history, and multiple school records are within his grasp.

“He’s been the same guy for three years,” Anderson says.

“I haven’t had anyone be that consistent for three years.”

“It was heartbreaking, but I learned from that a lot,” Holliday says.

The baseball journey continued at Hong Kong International School where Holliday competed against teams from as close as Shanghai and Beijing and as far away as Japan and the Philippines. Building on a successful prep career, Holliday’s major goal was to attend college and play baseball in the United States, a place he visited every summer.

“The one thing I wanted to do was go to college in the U.S., and I did want to play baseball in college,” Holliday says. “The big question was where was I going to go.”

Lawrence baseball coach Jason Anderson saw Holliday at a showcase event on New York’s Long Island and was intrigued.

“Matt looked really good in the cage, hit the ball really hard,” Anderson says.

The recruiting process began, and Holliday and Anderson had to overcome the 14-hour time difference between Appleton and

While Holliday has consistently piled up base hits, he knows he has a gift, that connection between hands and eyes that few possess. “For my entire career at Lawrence, I don’t think about being consistent, I think about making contact, putting the ball in play and the hits will come,” Holliday says. “One of the hardest things is to hit a baseball. People think it’s easy, but it’s harder than you think.”

A philosophy major, Holliday spent his summer working out and playing games in the Gold Coast Collegiate League in south Florida. The training in Florida could help Holliday make his senior season at Lawrence his best. And who knows, it may just lead to something else.

“That’s always been my dream when I was younger. I wanted to play for the New York Yankees because that’s my team,” Holliday says with a hint of a smile. “That dream is still in the back of my head.”

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Lawrence’s Cade Francour ’20 goes low for a shot at the net during his match against Illinois College’s T.J. Lawal on the Lawrence courts. Francour rolled to a 6-0, 6-0 victory at No. 5 singles.

Lawrence’s Fanita Robins ’18 drives to a victory in the 100 meters at the Viking Invitational at Whiting Field. Robins won the event in 13.12 seconds to edge St. Norbert College’s Mckenzie Mattes, who was second in 13.13.

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The sophomore from South Milwaukee, Wis., captured the 10,000 meters at the Midwest Conference Championships with a time of 33:11.71 at Knox College. Earlier in the season, Janusiak broke the Lawrence record in the 10,000. He posted a time of 30:59.96 at the Hillsdale College Gina Relays to break the mark of 31:01 set by Jim Miller in 1978.

Lawrence earned a berth in the four-team Midwest Conference Tournament for the second consecutive season, and David Jumes ’17 broke the school’s career wins record. Lawrence finished with a record of 11–10, took fourth place in the league and Lawrence’s Steve Francour was named Midwest Conference Coach of the Year for the second straight year.

Lawrence clinched its berth in the league tournament with a 9–0 win over rival Ripon College. The Lawrence win marked the 10th consecutive victory over the Red Hawks.

Jumes, the Vikings’ top player, finished his career with a singles record of 61–37, one better than Ryan Dunn ’10, who went 60–13. Jumes, who was named a Midwest Conference Player of the Week during the season, also had a doubles mark of 51–37. Jumes, a chemistry and biochemistry major, also won the MWC’s Elite 20 Award for having the highest grade point average of any competitor at the MWC Championships.

TRACK AND FIELD Distance star Josh Janusiak ’19 won another Midwest Conference title, broke a pair of long-standing Lawrence records and captured a pair of academic awards.

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Janusiak, who was named a MWC Performer of the Week during the season, also broke the school record in the 5,000. Running at the UW–La Crosse Qualifier, Janusiak raced to a time of 15:05.60 to break the mark of 15:05.84 set Eric Griffin back in 1985. The other school record that fell during the season was in the hammer throw, where Jackson Straughan ’17 set the mark at 159 feet, 1 inch, and earned MWC Performer of the Week honors.

Janusiak, a philosophy major, won the MWC’s Elite 20 Award for having the highest grade point average of any athlete competing at the conference championships. He also was chosen for the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic team.

Rookie Noah Shea ’20 won second MWC title of the year as he captured the triple jump with a leap of 44 feet, 11 inches. He won the same event during the indoor season. The Lawrence men were eighth at the MWC Championships and the women took ninth.

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Lawrence third baseman Kori Looker ’18 (13) jumps on home plate after belting a home run in an 11–7 victory over Rockford University at Whiting Field.

Lawrence pitcher Anthony Ortiz ’18 tags out Illinois Tech runner Tyler Tucker at home plate during a doubleheader at Whiting Field.

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The Vikings debuted a new star in center fielder Amanda Karnatz ’20 and head coach Kim Tatro closed in on a milestone.

Though the Vikings hit just .266 on the season and took fourth place in the Midwest Conference’s North Division, the season had several bright spots.

Karnatz hit a team-best .405 with a school-record 15 doubles, two triples, 35 runs scored and 15 runs batted in while batting in the lead-off spot. She also swiped 36 bases and finished ninth in the nation at 1.00 stolen bases per game. Karnatz was a first-team All-Midwest Conference selection and third-team All-Great Lakes Region pick. This marks the 21st consecutive season Lawrence has had an all-region selection. Third baseman Kori Looker ’18 also earned all-conference honors after hitting .373 in league play. She finished the conference season 10-game hit streak and batted .483 (14–29) during that stretch.

First baseman/pitcher Matt Holliday ’18 put together another great season and was named to the all-conference team for the third consecutive season. Holliday hit .374 with 10 doubles, two homers and 23 runs batted in in 35 games. In 16 Midwest Conference games, Holliday hit .367 with five doubles and 10 RBIs. Holliday is on the cusp of breaking Lawrence career records for hits, doubles and RBIs. Holliday is the first Lawrence player to be a three-time allconference selection since Andrew Wong ’06 was chosen from 2004 through 2006.

After the Vikings finished with a 14–22 record to finish eighth in the conference, that left Tatro one win shy of 400 for her career. Tatro has compiled a record of 399-357–3 in 24 seasons at Lawrence.

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Members of the 50-Year Connection group at Reunion 2017. (Photo: Thompson Photo Imagery)

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Before passing in June, Mary White Stroebe shared the following: “Hello fellow Lawrentians—I celebrated my 99th birthday last month! The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I am not able to attend this year’s alumni meeting. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of you.

I so enjoyed last year’s celebration and all of you will fondly be in my heart. Love you all!”

Ann Lapham Kramer has been in a retirement community eight miles south of Portland, Ore., for the last year. Ann has a small beach hideaway on the north coast, still drives and is blessed with excellent health at 85. “Let me know if you’re ever out this way. I’d love to show off my two favorite places!”

’52 After 28 years in California, Ralph Anderson and Roberta Gillotte Anderson have decided to move back to Illinois to be closer to family and friends. They have purchased an apartment in a beautiful retirement home in Barrington, where they previously lived for many years. Ralph and Roberta are happy that many of their friends have also retired in Barrington. They are unsure about the ice and snow, but their new place has many amenities that render leaving in the winter unnecessary. They look forward to spending holidays with their children and grandchildren. “Come see us!”

Richard Dimon and wife, Mary, have moved to an assisted living facility in Chino Hills, Calif. Lots of bridge (which we love) and bingo (which we don’t).

They are fortunate to have one of their children very close by and a beautiful little dog named Delilah to keep them happy. They hope to hear from their classmates.

Harry Elegreet says “I’m getting so old I’m sure my classmates already in Heaven are beginning to think I didn’t make it.”

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Charles Watson retired several years ago from the faculty at Indiana University, but continues to work on hearing and deafness research at Communication Disorders Technology Inc., whose telephone-administered hearing test is now being given by AARP as a benefit of membership. “Best regards to all.”

’56 Joan Timmermann Anderson and spouse, Steve, have lived in their Muncie, Ind., home for almost 44 years and still keep busy with everything from foundation boards (Steve) to handbells and golf (Joan). Joan is on the board of a continuing care retirement community and notes that half the people there seem to be younger than she. They consider themselves very fortunate to both be in relatively good health and able to keep active. They love summers in Door County, and even a few winter weeks up north. They are thinking about downsizing to a one-story home.

Charlotte Darling is still doing stone carving and will be doing the Wausau Festival of Arts in September.

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Compiled and submitted by J. Robert Martin Bill Blask writes that he and his wife, Paulette, have been housesitting for friends for about five weeks this June. Bill has been able to get out for long periods of sailing in his motorsailer this spring.

Phil Burck and his wife, Karen, enjoyed a two-week Panama Canal cruise from Los Angeles to Miami with numerous stops in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

Fritz and Patty Windes Callahan are enjoying life in their Austin, Texas retirement home. Fritz is taking billiard lessons and soon will be known as “Texas Fritz.” Patty has had a recurrence of cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Russ Clapp reports that he is enjoying his 22nd year of retirement and watching his “kids” contribute to our society in meaningful work.

Jim Davis recently moved to New Smyrna Beach, Fla., on the East Coast and is enjoying living very close to the ocean.

Bert Elliott and his wife, Sue Whitmore ’57, enjoy the company of their three sons and six grandchildren at their lake home in northern Indiana. They participate in numerous activities there and spend time “solving the world’s problems.”

ALUMNI TODAY Jim Fetterly reports that he and his wife, Judy Walsh Fetterly ’59, had a recent trip down the Rhine which was “delightful.” Jim is of counsel in his law firm and teaches young lawyers old school tactics.

Sue Fortney Walby continues to teach piano and organ in Viroqua, Wis. Sue does a few organ recitals each year. A highlight was playing the beautiful Aeolian Skinner pipe organ at the St. Mary’s/Mayo Chapel in Rochester, Minn.

Arno Haering is enjoying retirement at his home of many years in Wausau, Wis. Arno gets to Appleton a couple of times each year and marvels how the town has changed since he was here.

Carol Hagadorn Stocking is now a participating contributor to The Sanders Institute, begun by Jane Sanders, wife of Bernie Sanders. The article “A Hybrid Presidential Election System” discusses revisions to the Electoral College voting system to bring it closer to “one person, one vote.”

Tom Howell reports that he founded Techmaster Inc. about 25 years ago. This company deals in fluid power—pneumatics and hydraulics. Tom and his wife, Pam, have four children, 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Dick Iwick writes that since he retired from the Episcopal ministry 20 years ago he has been helping out at two Detroit-area churches. He and his wife, Diane, are now back at Trinity Church in Farmington Hills, Mich., where Dick served as rector for 11 years.

(Joyce) Claire Jacobson is mourning the death of her cousin and best friend, Carol Jacobson, who passed away in early May. Tom Kayser and his wife, Marlene, are still recovering from their July 2014 automobile accident. Tom is back at Robins Kaplin mentoring young lawyers, giving talks and doing some pro bono work.

Jan Krause Gunlogson reports they had almost 20 hours of sunlight at her home in Willow, Alaska on June 21. She divides her time by volunteering at the local food bank, helping the Methodist Church survive, playing bridge and spoiling her grandchildren.

Russ Krause says that living in the west has extended his life as his love for fly fishing increases by the day.

Dave Mann’s summer plans for a visit to London, a 16-day cruise around the British Isles, attending the Royal Tattoo in Edinburgh and celebrating his birthday in Dublin were halted due to his need for open-heart surgery featuring five coronary bypasses. He is recovering successfully.

Jane McGrew McBride passed away this past April.

In her two years at Lawrence she forged friendships with Shirley Carter Delorme, Carol Davy McConnell, Helen Lofquist Zimmerman and Judy Huffman Sutherland that have lasted for over 60 years.

John Moore writes that the rivers in Montana are too high to fish safely and he will be fishing on private lakes on local ranches. One is the famed Story ranch whose founder, Nelson Story, drove cattle from Texas to Montana in the 1880s. This cattle drive is described in the book and subsequent mini-series Lonesome Dove.

Phyllis Rowland Trostrud celebrated her 80th birthday with 16 family members at Colony Beach, Fla. There, they fished, snorkeled and beachcombed.

A wonderful time was had by all.

Mary Runte Bossert is still playing music at several sites. She uses her guitar at the Tanner Learning Center where she and the children make up songs.

Mary also plays the flute in the Little Chute City Band.

Mary Severson Lewis writes that she and her husband, Ray, were in Austin, Texas last Thanksgiving visiting their grandchildren. While there, they visited Fritz and Patty Windes Callahan at their retirement community home.

John and Gretchen Niedert ’57 Spickerman are selling their lake home in Lac Du Flambeau and moving to a smaller, more manageable home in Ashland, Wis. There they will be closer to three of their four children.

Bill Swearingan and his wife, Carol, were back in Minnesota last fall to visit friends and high school classmates. Thanksgiving was spent in Hot Springs in a large rented house with all their children present.

They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in February.

Merrily Watters Thomas, her daughter and son-inlaw traveled to Germany last December to visit the Christmas markets in various German cities. They walked through the Christmas market in Berlin a few days before the terrorist-driven truck plowed through the crowd causing mayhem.

Dave Wege writes that Frank Cole ’57 and his wife have moved to Crystal Lake and joined his church and are singing in the choir with him. He and his wife, Dottie, will be in Yellowstone National Park in September. Dave is looking forward to their 60th anniversary in 2018.

Elisabeth Wilton overcame some health issues in 2016 but did get to England in September. There she spent time with her brother, two of his children and their families.

Lee Wolf, a.k.a. the “Bonduel Bear,” is part of a group that is developing new and affordable apartments in Colorado and South Dakota. He reports that all sons are gainfully employed and all five granddaughters are bright and pretty. Lee is attending his 63rd high school reunion later this summer.

Don Wolf is working part time two days per week. He and his wife spend a good deal of time watching their grandchildren’s sports activities.

Bob Martin is closing in on 19 years of thrice-weekly floral deliveries. For him it has been an excellent part time job for a retired person. Every day differs and “I have seen parts of the Chicago area that I never would have seen otherwise.”

’60 John Beck and wife, Barbara, still live in Door County, Wis. Fully retired from all medical practice, John is busy with learning in retirement, astronomy and environmental issues. At home it’s hiking or skiing every day with rescue dog Rudy depending on time of year, as well as gardening and felling trees for firewood. Fortunately for them, all four children live in Wisconsin. He’s looking forward to Reunion and 50-Year Connection.

Kathleen Karst Larson is fortunately in good health, married to a great man for 55 years, has traveled extensively, has two wonderful sons and families and is thankful she went to Lawrence. Kathleen is still able to be active in community activities, plays an active part in several organizations, gives book reviews to multiple clubs, works out and is still able to draw a clock with the correct time. “Future entertainment will include watching them complete the unnecessary ‘Border Wall.’ Cheers to the Class of 1960.”

R. Scott Sherman has been a minister for 47 years and experienced all kinds of wonders, but being personally involved in the recovery of his wife, Heidi, has been the highlight of his life. Heidi just completed 18 months of recovery from late-stage ovarian cancer.

“She is more vibrant and alive than she has been since I have known her, now over 27 years.”

Joan Paddock Steck is still living on the lakeshore in South Haven, Mich., where she gardens and prunes several acres of her bushes and trees. Joan is still doing photography and had two pictures in this spring’s exhibition at the South Haven Art Center.

Joan also volunteers at a local library, doing book repair and helping with the summer reading programs for kids and teens. Sharon Heald and Joan attend performances at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Joan also enjoys keeping up with her grandchildren, who are all more proficient computer users than she. Joan spends a couple of winter months by the Gulf in south Florida (Margaritaville) taking photos of mangrove

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roots, hiking on the beach, hanging out with her brother and sister-in-law and entertaining visitors.

Virginia Booster Bond considers herself blessed to live a wonderful life, enjoying the warm temperatures of South Carolina in the winter and the beautiful waters of Glen Lake, Mich., in the summer. Virginia plays “competitive” bridge, reads numerous books, belongs to four book clubs and in between times does a fair amount of volunteering. After the untimely death of her first husband, Alan Bond, Virginia remarried and now enjoys the bounty of grandchildren. Since they are scattered all over the U.S., it affords Virginia plenty of travel opportunities. “I remember my days at Lawrence with great fondness and look forward to reconnecting with some of my classmates.”

’62 James Cook and his partner of 46 years, Henry, are enjoying life. They are master gardeners and enjoy their home and grounds very much and are supportive of the arts and culture in the area. This was the 45th season they have subscribed to the Milwaukee Symphony Concert season, and they often attend the Chicago Symphony concerts. “I am so appreciative of my time at Lawrence, and for the residential college experience it offered. I treasure that experience with fond memories.” James was looking forward to the 55th Reunion in June.

Ann Nordeen Henry continues to greatly enjoy her five granddaughters, all of whom live very nearby, to travel to faraway places and to remain involved in her San Francisco neighborhood issues such as Design Review, and, more than ever, political action.

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Wren Ellsworth Gurney and Donald Gurney ’65 have become active in the League of Women Voters in Arlington, Va. where they live. Donald is the treasurer and Wren has just completed building the new website. They persist in progressive, but nonpartisan, endeavors. Last August, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, which they re-celebrated with a family reunion of six “blood” couples at the Grand Canyon. They drove through Sedona and Phoenix, where the Frida and Diego exhibit was taking place.

They thoroughly enjoyed the Botanical Garden and highly recommend the garden’s restaurant, Gertrude’s.

Susan Swinehart is still in Italy enjoying working with Sky Soldiers and plans to be there a couple more years since her youngest son has two more years to finish high school. Susan’s daughter is finishing college next month. “I look at notes from classmates and see retirement adventures and I am still sorting out parenting adventures. I once saw a cartoon that said ‘When I get old they are not going to say ‘What a sweet old lady.’ They are going to say ‘What on EARTH is she up to now?’ Life is good!”

’66 Compiled and submitted by Jane Nelson Azzi

For Peter Barile, “retirement is just a word, not a fact.” Peter is starting another manufacturing business in June, which continues to grow as they bring more work back from China. “The challenges of all this keep me growing younger, not older.”

John B. Bartholomew Jr. has just had his book published on Amazon. It’s the second of three books in his series The Cabana Chronicles on comparative religion. Book one was published in March 2014 and book three will be published in 2017.

Linda Raasch Feldt and Bruce Feldt ’65 are still living in Marshfield, Wis., and will have their 52nd anniversary this summer, and will probably spend it quietly in the kayaks out on Thousand Island Lake in the U.P. After 26 years serving as the accompanist for the local chamber chorale, Linda has passed the keys to someone new. Bruce and Linda will still be performing with the local symphony orchestra as they have been for 49 years. “Our musical experiences

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from Lawrence have served us well.” Bruce has been retired 17 years, and Linda has been retired 11 years.

“We do realize that musicians are never retired, and we still enjoy sharing music with the community when we can.” Their daughter, Jennifer, is an art instructor in Minneapolis at the Andersen School and their other daughter, Sarah Feldt Wilson ’92, lives in Stoughton, Wis., with her husband Scott Wilson ’91 and their daughter, Quinn. Linda and Bruce enjoy their many visits to both cities.

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One year after our wonderful and well attended 50th Reunion, your class secretary has become head of the 50 Year Connection, which presents a program on the Thursday of each Reunion. While preparing for the 2017 program, she took time to look up and email all classmates about some of their absent members.

She managed to connect Bonnie Cremer Laviron with Nancy Fratcher Graham and received some wonderful photographs taken by Steve Landfried while he traveled through Argentina. She and husband Corry have both a cabin west of Minocqua and a small condo in Chicago, visiting LU alums in both places.

Appleton is still their home base.

Staying in Chicago is Mike Anger, who continues to practice as a pediatrician three days a week in Highland, Ind. He and his wife Ida visit and entertain grandchildren and Mike continues to take vocal lessons at the Old Town School of Folk Music and to ride his road bike, sometimes with the Major Taylor Cycling Club. He says we should feel free to look up Major Taylor.

Also based in Chicago, Tom Countryman works part time at the Elmhurst Public Library and enjoys the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera and the Shakespeare Theatre, among other cultural activities that Chicago has to offer. He does travel to Florida in February and to Minnesota in July.

Wendy McClure McCalvy and husband Lawrence McCalvy also spend some winter time in Arizona and two weeks at their Florida timeshare in November.

Their primary residence remains Racine, Wis. They do not regret selling their farm to settle in a condo on a quiet ravine. She is still active on the Unitarian church board, which is currently searching for a new minister, and remains active with the Caledonia Conservancy Land Trust. She continues to keep two horses. Larry is still a shortwave radio enthusiast and is active on the local three-county library board.

’70 Since retirement in 2014, Philip Anderson has had the usual dreams of not being ready to teach a class, but now realizes that is no longer a potential problem. Philip’s former students are showing up in Disney credits, in feature films or as photographers in a variety of media. These days, Philip and spouse, Donna, avidly take in lots of concerts and are steadily “on call” for their grandchildren, Henry (5) and Cleo (2). They plan to take a trip this fall, finally getting to Paris together. In spare moments, Philip battles Creeping Charlie and offers sabbatical research on Minneapolis bakery/grocery history to online public history projects. “I’m a rare 68-year-old with braces on my teeth and cataract-replacing lenses in my eyes.”

Paul Bauck and spouse Jean continue to travel, paint and make music together. In the past year, they have confined their trips to North America, visiting Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, British Columbia and Washington. When not painting on the road, they paint in their studios. Paul plays/sings in three music groups: Ukestra Seattle, Puget Sound Medicine Show and an (as yet) unnamed duo of ukulele and voice.

Jean took up Paul’s old ukulele and has been having a great time playing and singing songs from the 60s.

They have also been active politically and participated in several marches. “The current political climate and memories of our time at Lawrence inspired me to write a song.”

Chris Bowers and spouse Joan stepped up their pace of travel in the last year, beginning with a Danube River cruise and three days in Prague. They have taken additional trips to places like Kentucky, Colorado, Slovenia, several trips to see Chris’s 96-year old mother in Naples, Fla., and a week in Arizona visiting with Paul Mueller and Mike Matheson. They also attended several big musical events, including Billy Joel at Wrigley Field and the Hamilton musical. When

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ALUMNI TODAY not on the road, they keep busy watching their six grandchildren, who live within 40 minutes.

Phyllis Russ Pengally ’70 (right) ran into Perrin Tourangeau ’16 at Glacier National Park.

Last August I was lucky enough to snag a spot at Granite Lodge in Glacier Park for two nights. It is a beautiful old railroad lodge about seven miles in on the Highline Trail.

There were four young people that ran the lodge operations, and the first night they introduced themselves and one of the young women said, “I went to a small school in Wisconsin that you probably never heard of ... ” Yes, Lawrence! She had just graduated and gone directly to the lodge to work. I figured it was exactly 50 years from my LU start date to her graduation date. So fun! And she was a DG, too. We talked about the differences of then and now, her opportunity to be on a women’s sports team (soccer), what a wonderful experience it all was. We keep in touch a bit on FB and I am hoping as she roams around the west, that she’ll come visit us in Bend.

Am off to Alaska on the ferry with Mary Borgh this August and then on to our biennial trip to Rainier for some hiking and wildflower viewing. The flowers are amazing this year after all our snow this winter. Otherwise we are well and are staying close to home with our very old dog, Barley, and looking forward to the eclipse (but not the crowds).

Kristin Jensen Bryan and husband Michael are both enjoying retirement and keeping busy with volunteer activities such as driving for the Veterans’ Administration, serving as a librarian for the New Voices Choir (Mike), volunteering as docent and house manager for the Hearthstone Museum and playing horn with the Appleton City Band.

They plan to travel to Scotland and Ireland in August, and help their daughter Erin Bryan ’12 move to Iowa to begin teaching voice at Central College in Pella.

They considered selling their house and moving to a condo but decided to stay where they are for a few more years.

Peter Burzynski urges his classmates to get involved in helping to solve the issues that our world faces by reading and supporting scientific research and engaging with their government representatives. Peter and wife Sue are enjoying their time in retirement but manage to keep in touch with their past careers, with Sue substitute-teaching (elementary school) and Peter as an adjunct psychology professor.

Bruce Campbell sold his veterinary practice and is now fully retired. Bruce’s wife, Susan, still works at a local hospital as a per diem nurse but is hoping to retire. They spend a lot more time at their northern Wisconsin getaway and managing their forest land in New York. Bruce is doing more woodworking using wood from the forest land. Their children are grown and each on a successful career path and happily married. Bruce and Susan have five grandchildren.

Cynthia Cernak is still working full time and still in Kenosha, Wis. Cynthia raised four children as a single parent, who are now respectively an attorney, a history teacher, a geologist and an Air Force veteran working on a business degree. Cynthia also has four grandchildren. Cynthia speaks and writes on the subject of “treatment options for peripheral neuropathy,” and travels frequently. Cynthia has not been back to Lawrence since graduation, but hopes to sometime. “Love to hear from former classmates.”

Paul Driessen and spouse, Dvorah, just returned from another trip to Prague and a cruise on the Danube, their first. Paul had a total knee replacement three months before the trip but did well with walking up the hills due to physical therapy sessions. Both Paul and Dvorah are still working with no firm or real plans for retirement yet. Their daughter is getting ready to apply to grad schools in physical therapy and their son founded a startup company to handle family, corporate, cruise line and other events. “See you next reunion!”

Kay Knudsen Esposito spent a delightful Memorial Day weekend in Spring Green, Wis., with Susan Voss Pappas ’69 and Dean Pappas ’69 and Sue Snyder Gregor ’69 and Ilja Gregor ’68. Kay sees Susan and Dean at least once a year, but this is the first time they have seen the Gregors since graduation. “Lawrence gives me a ’history’ with friends that I don’t see often—Ann Bellin Thomas and Rob Thomas ’69, Mary Rae Chemotti and Barb Rauh Hesselbein. Though my husband Dan didn’t go to Lawrence, everybody treats him as if they’d known him for 50 years, too.”

Gregory Exarhos continues to remain scientifically engaged at the Pacific Northwest National Lab and will chair the Annual Fall Symposium on Optical Materials for High Power Lasers in Boulder, Colo.

Gregory currently teaches a class to early-career scientists. Gregory’s son, Stephen Exarhos ’12, is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside.

In March, Gregory and spouse, Cathy, accompanied some 30 Lawrence alumni on the Björklundensponsored trip to Cuba, where they spent seven days meeting the Cuban people and experiencing the culture. Their daughter, Anne-Marie Exarhos ’07 and her husband, Chris Hawley ’07, were offered positions in the Lawrence physics department as visiting assistant professors to begin this fall.

Jeffrey Leach and spouse, Patricia, are dividing retirement years into thirds: travelling, enjoying grandchildren’s activities and hopefully being thankful that they are still healthy. “I hope everyone else is enjoying retirement as much as we are.”

Harold Pomainville published a book entitled Henry Hathaway: The Lives of a Hollywood Director last year.

In a review of the book, filmmaker and scholar John A. Gallagher stated that the work “amply fills this void in our cinematic history with one of the best film books in recent memory.” An old friend of Harold’s wrote, “You make it sound like you were there. That’s what historians do and so you have.” Harold says, “Apparently, it is never too late to benefit from a Lawrence liberal arts education.”

Richard Stocchetti entered the United States Air Force through the ROTC at Lawrence with no plans to stay beyond four years. In 2000, he retired after 30 years in the Air Force as a logistics staff officer and aircraft maintenance supervisor. After having moved across North America and Europe, Dick and his wife moved to Virginia, where he is now working as a civilian supervisor at HQ Air Combat Command. Their oldest daughter lives in Illinois, where she is a teacher.

Their youngest daughter lives outside Washington D.C. where she is a program manager for the federal government. They do not plan to travel much.

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ALUMNI TODAY Jacqueline Ozanne Wille is keeping busy with her vocational rehabilitation practice and helping people with disabilities to find and maintain employment.

Jacqueline plans to continue doing this for as long as she enjoys it. Jacqueline has been studying nonviolent communication developed by Marshall Rosenberg for the last five or six years and has also become involved in improving awareness of, and effective interventions for, children and adults born with FASD. Jacqueline also tries to find time to do other things like Zumba, biking, gardening, canoeing and spending time with grandchildren.

Suzanne Detry Arendt lives in Titletown USA, home of the Green Bay Packers. Suzanne has two daughters and four grandchildren and has enjoyed engaging in supporting Haiti, with encouragement from Nick Candee and Linda Brown. Suzanne learned that classmates Phyllis Russ Pengelly and Martha Esch Schott are also Haiti supporters.

One organization that Suzanne supports is BLUME HAITI, an organization that develops leadership through musical experience. Suzanne learned about this from Professor Janet Anthony who is president of the organization and is excited to support the mission due to her background in music. Suzanne’s motivation comes from her late mother, a musician and awardwinning teacher.

Phyllis Russ Pengelly recently stayed in Glacier Park, where she met four young people who ran the operations. One of the women, Perrin Tourangeau ’16, had, coincidentally, just graduated from Lawrence and begun working at the lodge. Phyllis and Perrin connected over being in Delta Gamma and learned about the difference in their times at Lawrence.

They still keep in touch a bit on Facebook. Phyllis is travelling to Alaska with Mary Freeman Borgh this August and is then taking a trip to Rainier. Phyllis and William Pengelly otherwise stay close to home with their very old dog, Barley, and look forward to the eclipse.

’76 Compiled and submitted by Susan Reeves Dr. Linda S. Behar-Horenstein is a distinguished teaching scholar and professor at the University of Florida, where she is the director for the Health Science Center Clinical Translational Science Institute Educational Development & Evaluation. She holds tenure in education and has appointments in dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine. In her spare time, Linda is an artist. Her daughter Rachel is a second-year student at Cardozo Law School, and her son Max is a second-year student in the Honors College at the University of Central Florida.

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Matthew Brockmeier won election as president of the Village of Random Lake by 11 votes over a 28-year incumbent two years ago. This year was easier—he ran for re-election unopposed. That work continues along with other roles for church and community. He enjoys spending time with family and friends and rowing around the lake early in the morning.

James Cowen is sorry to have missed Reunion last year and hopes to attend the next one. All is well with his work, family and hiking.

Rev. F. Thomas Crittenden and wife Christi live in Lexington, Va., where they enjoy their rustic cabin on the Maury River in Goshen Pass. This year, Tom celebrates the 33rd anniversary of his ordination in the Episcopal Church. Their eldest son is finishing two years with the Peace Corps in Cameroon, and their eldest daughter is a marketer for the Washington Redskins. Their younger son has completed his first year at the Virginia Military Institute. Their 7-year-old daughter, adopted from China in 2011, loves to beat her parents in rummikub. After singing for 56 years, Tom gave his first solo voice recital in June.

Larry Darling, director of recording at the Conservatory, received his 20-year service award from Lawrence this year, as well as the President’s Award for Excellence.

Larry planned to take a month-long motorcycle camping trip in July to many of the western states.

Tom Dorn has been in the music business since graduating from Lawrence and is the North American sales manager for Baldwin Pianos. He still plays fullcourt basketball with the younger set, despite the ice pack that follows. Deborah Delin Dorn is a retired high school English teacher who now plays in recorder consorts and is passionate about early music. They have three grown children and two grandchildren with whom they gather for an annual trip to the north woods.

economics professor at the Australian National University. Previously, they lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Blane worked for the World Bank, and Singapore, where he taught public finance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Michael Meuli is vice president of technical development at AMSOIL in Superior, Wis. AMSOIL is independently owned and is noted for being the company that first made synthetic motor oils for automobiles. This position allows him to leverage his passion for fast cars and new products. Michael continues to compete in triathlons, having completed his 15th Ironman New Zealand this past March.

Dr. John Ranck enjoyed playing Reed I (flute/piccolo) for the Franklin Performing Arts Company’s recent Beauty and the Beast performances. He is assembling ensembles for the Chamber Music Workshop of the 73rd season of the Composers’ Conference at Wellesley College in July.

Susan Reeves traveled to Germany with Houston’s Christ Church Cathedral in June, tracing Martin Luther’s footsteps during the 500-year anniversary of the Reformation. She also planned to attend a summer course on The Beatles, Popular Music and Sixties Britain at the University of Oxford, with a side trip to Liverpool. Susan recently joined the board of directors of the Women’s Institute of Houston, a nonprofit educational organization offering cultural studies classes taught by local university professors.

’80 Compiled and submitted by Bernie Asher ’80

Linda Hendrix Fama is retiring after 40 years of teaching and is ready to see what else the world has to offer. She enjoyed seeing so many classmates at the reunion.

Rick Davis is just finishing his second year as dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (and 26th year overall) at George Mason University, and continuing to write and direct and occasionally perform. Two works of note to report—ongoing development of The 100th Meridian Project, a multidisciplinary research and performance piece about the historical roots of the western water crisis involving participants from theater, digital media, environmental science, history and engineering.

A workshop last fall was encouraging and they will mount a fuller version next spring. More immediately, Rick is preparing to direct The Magic Flute for the IN Series, Washington, D.C.’s intrepid producer of innovative opera, for September 2017. He enjoyed his four-year term on the LUAA Board, most especially because it gave him a good excuse (or mandate) to return more often to campus, including his first ever reunion (number 35). Highly recommended.

Blane Lewis and wife Marga and their two daughters live in Canberra, Australia, where Blane is an

Tom Dwyer reports that the cluster reunion was wonderful. He reconnected with many old and dear

Bill Eggbeer and wife Jo have moved into a Baltimore row house where they are enjoying city life. This followed a year living aboard WaterDog in Charleston, Annapolis and Baltimore. They are looking forward to boating in the summer and are planning a road trip to the West Coast in their “new” 1987 VW Westy. Bill is board chair for Five Talents, an NGO focused on economic empowerment in poor communities around the world.

ALUMNI TODAY friends and engaged with many new friends he missed during his first tour of Appleton. Tom heard from “the always entertaining” singer/songwriter Dan Bern ’81 that he would be touring the East Coast. In September, a group of alumni including Chris Mitchell ’82 and his lovely wife, Judy; JD Hawks ’82 and his better half, Shelley P’16; and the incomparable Joyce Majewski ’81, met at the world-famous Club Passim to enjoy Dan’s show. Most importantly, Dan’s set included his dream of a Cubs and Red Sox World Series. Even though only half of Dan’s dream was realized, a Cubs/Red Sox series being too unbelievable even for Hollywood, these residents of Red Sox Nation send a hearty congratulations to the long-suffering fans of the boys of summer from the North Side who were always gracious in defeat and magnanimous in victory. In May, Tom also saw the Martinos, Michael ’80 and Carrie ’83, when they dropped in from the Twin Cities for dinner in Boston. Tom says the changes in Boston are so rapid that even he needs a tour guide to navigate the new city, but it is very enjoyable for tourists. Lastly, after 40 years of relaxation, he has engaged in exercise again. At the urging and with the support of his lovely wife, he is in the final weeks of a couch to 5K training regimen. Although he is constantly reminded that running has many benefits, and is a minor super power, he remains the doubting Thomas and doesn’t know if the pain justifies the means. Tom signs off with “Stay well. See you at the 40th.”

From Robert Heilbronner: “Enjoyed seeing everyone at the 35th reunion. Want to extend congratulations and appreciation to everyone in the class of 1980 who continue to serve on the various boards, committees, etc., at Lawrence.”

This year has been exciting for Greg ’80 and Meg Hoppe ’85 Linnemanstons. Their daughter Anna got married in January to Matt, and now they’re in the process of moving to Appleton, having already closed on a house and made plans to become remote workers. On the professional front, Greg’s and Meg’s business, Weidert Group, has grown dramatically since the recession. In April, they completed an ESOP sale of the business, meaning they’re now 100% employee-owned. They’re also in the middle of building a vacation home in Door County, about 10 minutes from Björklunden, which means no more excuses for missing events there! [See their cool corporate profile pics at www.weidert.com/team.]

Ellen Meyers is currently enrolled in a part time masters’ program at Adler University in Chicago in clinical mental health counseling. Completing this program will allow her to sit for the licensed professional counselor (LPC) exam. She is also married to Elena Yatzeck, eldest daughter of retired Slavic professor Richard Yatzeck!

Jim Miller still enjoys life in Vermont. In September, he moved from the bank he’d been with for 30 years to a small financial planning firm. Their daughter is a nurse at their local hospital and their son is going to school in Portland, Ore. After a prolonged period of rebellion, Jim’s body has returned to a competitive running schedule.

He recently broke an arcane running record: longest period of time between first marathon win (1977) and most recent (2016).

Although Jim Scheuer retired from his grade 6-12 band directing position in Owen, Wis., a few years ago, he continues to be actively involved in music education.

Jim is past president of the Wisconsin Music Educators Association (WMEA), which includes leadership in the National Association for Music Education (NAfME).

He has advocated for music education on Capitol Hill, with Wisconsin’s Senate and congressional delegations and visited with legislators in Madison and around Wisconsin. Jim also teaches percussion as an associate lecturer in music at the University of Wisconsin– Marshfield and is active as a music clinician and adjudicator. In addition, he performs with the UW–Marshfield Symphonic Band and Orchestra, and sings and plays piano in an acoustic rock duo, Exit Stage Left. In his spare time, he works as a substitute teacher.

Bernie Asher took the torch of class secretary from Tom Dwyer this spring, enjoyed putting everyone’s stories together, and says, “Keep those cards and letters coming!” Bernie also says “summarizing class notes in the third person reminds Bernie of Elmo on Sesame Street.”

Bernie “partied like it’s 1909” on Facebook with Deb Anderson and other Cubs fans when the Cubbies won the World Series last year. After directing a church choir for five years, Bernie is seeking a new church music director position with his master of sacred music degree in hand. He still has a day gig on the information security policy team at U.S. Bank. He misses the “technical geekery” of his previous engineering position, but not on-call rotations and overnight system maintenance. Bernie and his wife, Julie Carr, will spend a week at Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat on Lake Chelan, Wash. With only two daily boats and one landline phone, they look forward to a quiet week.

Daughter Kellie will stay behind to work after her recent Asia tour with the St. Olaf College Choir, and their son with special needs, Griffin, 16, will stay behind in the Twin Cities at his small group home.

’82 Jill Kaar Hanson and husband Jerry are both managers and instructors for H&R Block. During the six months they are not drowning in the world of the I.R.S., they travel, go to the theatre and spoil their nieces and nephews. Jill also writes and lectures on original

American artist dolls and antique paper dolls. Jerry photographs for Jill and they are frequently published in Doll News Magazine. “I rarely use the J.D. I earned at Chicago Kent College of Law, but I use the liberal arts degree from our alma mater in every phase of my life.”

Mark Kohls has been an independent information technology consultant in northeastern Wisconsin for 13 years. Mark has eliminated ultra running as a hobby as of 2016, however will continue with half and full marathons. Mark volunteers as the Wisconsin charity director for the Knights of Columbus and travels overseas every other year with his family and to Haiti in the other years. Mark’s son, Matthew, is a morning news photo journalist with NBC 26 in Green Bay, Wis. Elizabeth Read Loder and Bruce Loder recently celebrated their daughter Caitlin’s wedding in Memphis, Tenn. Son Will is the annual fund manager for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth has been teaching at Milwaukee Montessori School for the past 24 years and recently completed a three-year term on the professional service committee of the Independent School Association of Central States. Bruce manages an office of investment advisers for Stifel. They are both active in North Shore Congregational Church and enjoy staying in touch with Lawrence friends in person and on Facebook.

Janet Place is currently living in Columbia, S.C., working for the School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina as the director of workforce development and teaching. Janet’s husband, Gerry, is semi-retired and sells records and CDs through his Amazon store.

Their son, Cam, will be going to U of SC next year, though they hoped he might attend Lawrence. Janet enjoys gardening, an activity seemingly mandatory in the American South, and plays music. Janet also designs jewelry.

Brian Quinlan has recently taken a position at Southside Community Health Services in South Minneapolis as the new dental director.

Jayne Sprinthall Rankin retired in 2016 after a 25-year career in public finance with the state of Minnesota.

Jayne and husband William have moved to the North Carolina coast and bought a sailboat. They enjoy retirement, learning new sailing skills and enjoying fresh local seafood.

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Elizabeth Allen Alderman is moving back to the Midwest after three years of living in Yogyakarta, Indonesia with her twin girls and husband. They will miss their second home in Indonesia and all the wonderful people. For them, it has been the adventure of a lifetime to travel throughout Asia. “I have to pinch myself every day that I finally actualized a dream I

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ALUMNI TODAY hatched up while attending an Asian studies class as a senior. I just want to take a moment to give thanks to my liberal arts education and the time I had to daydream at Lawrence as it turned into a real springboard for following my bliss.”

Angela Colman Chatten and spouse, Chris, still have a homestead in the greater Dallas, Texas area. However, they now also have a home in San José, Costa Rica.

While Angela continues working part-time from home for Humana, Chris is running Hospital CIMA in San José on a full-time basis. They are now empty nesters with Alicia having just graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and Caitlin having just finished her freshman year at Case Western Reserve University.

Joseph Como and Teresa Smith Como recently celebrated their youngest daughter, Angela Como ’17, graduating from Lawrence. Joseph says, “It seems like yesterday we each handed President Warch one page of George Orwell’s 1984 as we crossed the stage.

I hope Zlevor delivered the remaining pages as our graduating class numbered less than the 336 pages.

The LU difference continues to truly impact those lucky enough to experience it. Angela has grown in so many ways and is ready to accomplish anything she puts her mind to. That’s what LU has done for each of us.”

Angela is graduating with a double major in biology and environmental science and a minor in creative writing.

Her next adventure is graduate studies at the University of Idaho in natural resources while living in yurt and kayaking Idaho rivers. Teresa Smith Como shares that, if asked, Angela will tell you she also majored in kayak instruction and weekend travel coordination. Teresa is currently training for a first 100-mile ultra trail running race and can be found running for hours on the Ice Age Trail of Wisconsin’s beautiful Kettle Moraine State Forest most weekends. Teresa is still working as a paralegal at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee and has expanded her practice areas to include affirmative action plans and analysis and litigation support, in addition to the original area of employee benefits.

Mary-Terese Cozzola’s new play, Dance for Beginners, opens this month at Piven Theatre. Carthage College will be producing Mary-Terese’s play Twin Set in the fall, and she is looking forward to teaching playwriting there in January 2018.

Karen Phipps Dosh is an RN working as an ultrasound nurse/nurse manager at two pregnancy centers in the Twin Cities. Karen is “feeling the ups and downs of the ‘sandwich generation’—caring for my father in his elder days, as well as keeping up with our two married oldest children and 2-year-old grandson.” Karen’s youngest child graduates from West Point this May, as well.

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in the Apostle Islands, gardening and Civil War civilian reenacting. “A side note, in 2006 the five of us changed our name from Bluhm to Dosh, as was Chuck’s name at birth.”

Patrick J. Grogan moved to Birmingham, Ala., in October 2015 due to wife, Betty, taking a new position.

They are enjoying the new city and the positive things that are going on there. Patrick works with an engineering firm and is still practicing geology and environmental services. Patrick and Betty are active in dog rescue work, serving as a foster family supporting Cocker Spaniel and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel groups. In 15 years, they have fostered over 250 dogs! Patrick hopes to see everyone at the next Reunion.

Hitoshi Hirano has been living in Moscow, Russia the past 23 years as a filmmaker and is about to shoot his first feature-length film in the Arctic Circle about Russian oilmen. Hitoshi also is a life coach helping busy career women find balance in their lives and hosts weekly podcasts on this topic in English.

Rebecca Latorraca is back in Egypt for the third time, continuing to work as a foreign service officer with USAID. Rebecca’s oldest daughter has been enjoying service trips to visit with foreign prisoners and practicing tae kwon do and is excited to be graduating from Cairo American College in 2018. Rebecca’s middle schooler participates in drama and enjoys pharaonic history and traveling.

Linda Scrimenti graduated with a B.F.A., majoring in painting and drawing, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Fine Arts in 1986 and in 1995 received a master of science degree in art therapy from Mount Mary College, Milwaukee (now Mount Mary University). Over the years, Linda has made art and exhibited widely in various venues and has worked with several different client populations, using individual and group art therapies, mainly with at-risk youth in the Milwaukee Public Schools. In addition, Linda worked with developmentally delayed kids, ages 3-18, in the West Allis and Waukesha County special ed programs, and clients challenged mainly by dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in residential, skilled nursing facilities. Linda currently lives with her life partner in West Bend, Wis. Irene Serewicz-Redman has been in the U.K. for 23 years and now has son number one doing his exams—two more years before going to university and son number two choosing his exams, five more years to university. Irene’s husband, Chris, set up his own investment management business with Raymond James after almost 30 years in the City. Irene has been at the Chartered Institute of Taxation doing business

development and marketing and trying to get people to do a professional certification in tax for the past eight years. “It is always nice to read how people are doing in the Lawrence magazine and keep up with all your news.

And one day we will get to another LU reunion!”

Bill Shaw is a managing director at JPMorgan and was recently named chief risk officer for real estate banking and community banking.

Todd Wexman is scheduled to canoe the Hood River to where it empties into the Arctic Ocean at the beginning of July and will arrive by bush plane to attempt to conquer this foreboding terrain located well above the Arctic Circle. Todd is hoping that his canoe does not get iced in. “I write this in the hope that if I do get marooned some of my classmates will take note that I had not returned and send your dogs to my rescue.

Thank you in advance!”

’90 Jeffrey Keil is still living in the Madison area. He is in the process of transitioning from 20 years of fullspectrum-practice family medicine to an urgent care role. Jeffrey plans on staying with Dean Health System (now “SSM-Dean Health System”). His wife Arianna works for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) as an outpatient clinic systems administrator and is planning on doing more QI work. Both children are finishing their junior years at Monona Grove High School. They both have “senioritis” already.

Craig Kellenberger entered his sixth year of teaching orchestra in Appleton after 17 years of teaching in South Milwaukee. Craig was named the new conductor of the Fox Valley Sinfonia, a nonprofit fundraising ensemble that puts instruments in the hands of nonmusicians or musicians on a new instrument. The members of this ensemble are volunteers from varied professional walks of life. They receive instruction on their new instruments from volunteer instructors who come from the symphony and private teaching studios.

The ensemble comes together once a year to present a concert that raises money for the Fox Valley Symphony.

Still in the Boulder, Colo., area, Kristin Kusmierek is beginning her third year on the board of Boulder Valley Gifted and Talented, a nonprofit affiliate of a statewide advocacy organization serving the needs of high potential youth. She does a lot of work with the school district, teachers and parents. Her husband Troy Thornberry ’91 is a scientist at NOAA, conducting atmospheric research in various places around the U.S. and elsewhere. Her daughter Isabel just finished her freshman year of high school, with instrumental music, running, dance and math among her passions.

ALUMNI TODAY Elizabeth Mullin had an absolutely fabulous time reconnecting with fellow Lawrentians Kelly Bunte, Kelli Dornfeld, Annie Aune and Molly Meyers in Vermont last summer. Elizabeth is consulting with patient groups in D.C. and is playing much more defense than offense, mitigating Trump’s legacy. She is sending the first of three children off to college in the fall. It brings back great memories of loading up her parents’ Delta 88 in 1986 and the jitters of a new chapter. Elizabeth hopes her daughter will behave better than she did!

Laura Braun Pardo lives in Edina, Minn., and continues to develop her private practice working with students and families with autism spectrum disorders. She is very excited that her oldest daughter, Mia Pardo, will be a fifth-generation Lawrentian in the fall. Laura serves on the board of an exceptionally unique theatre company called Ten Thousand Things and is a big sister to an 11-year-old. She continues to attempt to stay balanced by practicing yoga whenever possible and running around the lakes several times a week with Sarah Tarleton ’91.

Sean Scanlan been living in Taipei, Taiwan for the past 20-odd years. It’s been a return to where he was born originally. He has worked for all the major TV stations there and is currently with Da Ai TV as a Chinese to English translator and voiceover for daily news broadcasts. At some point, Sean may step in front of the camera as anchor or host. Sean has two kids now, Finn and Meara. He hosts three to four musical concerts and outdoor parties every year. “If you are stopping through Asia, say hi.”

’94 Adam Demers is working as an independent designer serving arts, cultural and communications clients in Minneapolis. Adam recently completed an exhibit design project for the Bakken Museum and hopes to continue working in that discipline. Andrea, Adam’s wife, works as a water quality specialist in St. Paul. They have a middle-aged miniature schnauzer. Adam wants to study Spanish, but has enjoyed reading A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, M Train and Just Kids

by Patti Smith and The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larson.

For the past three years, Karen deVries has been living in Bozeman, Mont., with partner, Jessi, and her son Xavier (9), dog Jojo and bird Heron. Karen is working as an adjunct professor at Montana State University teaching the majority of the foundational courses for the women’s, gender and sexuality studies minor. This past January, Karen organized the Bozeman contingent of the Women’s March on Montana. Shortly thereafter, she received the MSU’s Betty Coffey award for outstanding achievement in incorporating women’s perspectives

into the curriculum and developing academic programs that contribute to the elimination of persistent barriers to women’s success at MSU. In May, Karen gave the keynote speech at MSU’s second annual Lavender Celebration for graduating LGBTQ students. At present, Karen is recuperating from the academic year and enjoying a lovely Montana summer and preparing to spend a few weeks in Italy and Greece with Jessi.

Marilyn Hein has lived in Oshkosh since moving back to Wisconsin in 2006, after earning a master’s degree in counseling in Seattle at the age of 60. Marilyn is grateful for the 10 years she worked full-time as a counselor at a sexual abuse agency in Fond du Lac and for having a part-time private practice in Oshkosh.

Marilyn is continuing to see clients for relationship issues and personal issues in the part-time private practice in Oshkosh. “I am grateful that Lawrence University welcomed me as an older student. I have many good memories of my classes, especially working with Professor Beth Haines on my honors project.

Thank you, LU, for your part in helping me reach my dream.” Marilyn is fully loving life in her 70th decade, enjoying her 16 grandchildren, writing, editing and leading Door County Land Trust hikes.

Robin Dvorak Henley is an ER physician at Good Samaritan Hospital in Merrill, Wis. She and her husband Russell keep busy with their 9-year-old son’s baseball games.

Laura Corning Woltman finished her 22nd year of teaching elementary general music, 20 of that in the Appleton Area School District. Laura is proud to be making a difference in the lives of children and reaches all students, including those with special needs. Laura strives to help children experience and connect with music, which is key, especially for those kids who may struggle with other parts of their day at school.

Laura and husband, Garry, along with sons Nathaniel (age 15) and David (age 11) enjoyed a family trip to California over spring break. “You’re never too old for Disneyland!”

the lead trombone player and musical director of the Depot Town Big Band, and principal trombone player and board member of the Dexter Community Band.

Benjamin also continues to compose music for the award-winning transgender dancer/choreographer Sean Dorsey, and spends spare time hanging out with family and building synthesizers.

’00 Compiled and submitted by Becky Doyle-Morin This past year has been quite a wonderful adventure musically for Melanie Brooks, who lives in Canton, Mass., with husband Benjamin and their 4-year-old son and two “fluffy and happy” cats. Last August, Melanie had the opportunity to perform with Aretha Franklin as well as with David Liebman and Tiger Okoshi as part of Mehmet Ali Sanlkol’s large jazz ensemble called What’s Next? This summer, she will be traveling to Turkey and Cyprus for a short tour with “Whatsnext?” for the Istanbul Jazz Festival as well as outdoor concerts in Bursa and Cyprus. In other professional corners, Melanie continues to work on the PubFactory platform at O’Reilly Media as a software engineer. She and her husband are looking forward to camping and climbing Mount Washington again this summer, as well as getting their son started with piano lessons!

Robyn Cutright is now a tenured associate professor of anthropology at Centre College, a small liberal arts college in central Kentucky. She lives with her husband, Drew Meadows, in Lexington, Ky. Her archaeological research and study abroad courses take her and her students to Peru often.

Shannon Barry and husband, William Bolz, welcomed a daughter, Margaret Jeanette, on December 17, 2016.

Shannon continues her work as the executive director for Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, a position she has held for the last 10 years. Her husband is a professional actor. They reside in Madison, Wis.

Becky Doyle-Morin is enjoying her summer, reminiscing about her childhood while chasing her 3 and 6 year olds around the family farm that she owns with her husband, Bryan, in southwest Wisconsin. She has a number of local research projects also keeping her busy while taking her summer break from teaching as an associate professor of biology at UW–Platteville. This includes introducing bees and more pollinator-friendly plants to campus, a project she is collaborating on with colleague Amy Seeboth-Wilson ’04. This is not Becky’s only recent link to fellow Lawrence grads, as she just sent one of her fantastic grads off to work on her graduate degree with Gretchen Gerrish ’98, and will be welcoming one of her first students at Lawrence, John Crawford ’11, to UW–Platteville as a colleague in the Biology Department in the fall.

Benjamin Kessler currently lives with wife, Leah, and 7-year-old son Elliot in Saline, Mich. Benjamin teaches private lessons in a home studio and at Emerson School, as well as teaching recorder (plus strings next year) and running an after-school klezmer program at Hebrew Day School in Ann Arbor, Mich. Benjamin is

After spending more than five years communing with the Navajo people in northeast Arizona, Kristin Glidden and her 11-year-old son have moved back to her hometown of Kankakee, Ill. She has completed a year of working in an elementary school there as a paraprofessional, a one-on-one aide in special ed. She’s enjoying gardening

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ALUMNI TODAY at their new small house, and also going to poetry readings. Her son is learning the violin at a Montessori school and creating fabulous structures on Minecraft.

He is also the founder of the Organization of Kids to Protect the World (O.K.P.W.).

he co-wrote. Christina works in the financial aid department at Herzing University in Brookfield. Timothy is finishing up 5K and is looking forward to moving on to first grade, while Samuel just wants to do everything that Timothy does!

Abbey (Wakefield) and Jason Hansen moved to Cleveland Heights, Ohio in August. The move was spurred by Abbey’s new job at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she is teaching Suzuki cello pedagogy in the master’s of music program and heading up the Suzuki cello program in the Sato Center for Suzuki studies. Jason continues to work for his Chicago company via telecommuting.

This May marked the end of Steve Smith’s 16th year of teaching biology to juniors and seniors at Cherry Creek High School. Six years ago, he introduced an honors level version of biology for students who were not quite ready for AP Biology but needed a challenge. He will celebrate 10 years of marriage to his wife, Susanne, a German teacher at CCHS, this August, along with their two beautiful girls, Amalia (7) and Heidi (5). Their girls join them daily in the Cherry Creek School District and spend most of their free time digging up worms to give to their chickens. They have been building their home in Larkspur, Colo., for the past 14 years and are nearing completion. Steve also started building a barn a few years ago, and has a growing metalworking business that he runs out of the barn. In case you were wondering what he does with all of his free time, Steve is also still growing, selling and doing research on Venus flytraps!

With their 12th post-college move completed in March, Jenny (Kapelanski) Haydysch and her husband Carl now consider themselves professional movers.

Jenny works for their local public library system in Virginia Beach, Va., which helps satiate their family’s bibliophilic appetite. Her husband is currently deployed to parts unknown, and they are looking forward to a homecoming later this year.

It’s been an eventful year for Cara Helmke! She moved from California to Camas, Wash., last July and became a first-time homeowner. She then married Darin Camin in January at Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Ore., (the day after one of the top 10 snowfalls in Portland history ... the ultimate white wedding!). Cara is in her 10th year of healthcare IT project management and consulting and will celebrate her 10th McGill M.B.A. reunion this October. She and Darin are enjoying life in the Pacific Northwest with their miniature schnauzers, Brody and Brando, and are keeping themselves busy this summer transforming their yard into a contemporary Japanese garden.

Vanessa Curtis and Andy Peterson live in Iowa City, Iowa, and work for the University of Iowa. Vanessa is a pediatric endocrinologist and directs the Pediatric Cardio-Metabolic Clinic. Andy is a sports medicine physician and team physician for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

They have an amazing dog and enjoy riding their bikes.

In May 2017, Carl Polley accepted a tenure-track position at Kapi’olani Community College (KCC) in Honolulu, Hawaii, teaching Chinese language, literature and culture. His spouse, Man Beryl Yang, teaches world music and Asian studies at KCC. Their second child, Evan William Polley, arrived in January 2017.

Jeff Ramsey and his wife Christina, live in Cudahy, Wis., with their two boys, Timothy (6) and Samuel (2). After earning his Ph.D. in history from Marquette University, Jeff began teaching at various colleges in the Milwaukee area. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Jeff is also the director of student services for the online campus with Herzing University. He also recently published a book titled For the Benefit of All: A Fifty Year History of the Faye McBeath Foundation that

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Justin Staker and his wife, Kerri, are enjoying being new parents to their 5-month-old daughter, Sawyer.

Justin has also been enjoying his 15-year career as a physical therapist and is currently finishing up his Ph.D. in rehabilitation science at the University of Minnesota.

’02 Compiled and submitted by Nathan Heffel From weddings, to births and new jobs—a lot has been happening with the class of 2002!

Josh Dukelow ran a high-profile (but, he adds, ultimately unsuccessful) campaign for mayor of Appleton in 2016. Josh also launched a daily news talk show called Fresh Take on WHBY radio. He continues to excel in civic engagement through public art and placemaking efforts in downtown Appleton as co-founder and chair of Creative Downtown Appleton.

He has a blind 9-year-old Bedlington terrier, too— Bad Bad Leroy Brown.

Anne Ingram Earnheart lives in New York City. She and her husband, John, welcomed their second daughter, Abigail Lou, in January. Anne works for the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center.

After 10 years, Chuck Erickson left his long-standing position at Lawrence University in June. He’s now working as an independent educational consultant with College Connectors. He helps families and students work through the college search and application process. Chuck hopes to visit every four-year undergraduate college in Wisconsin this year (he says he’s already halfway there!). He continues to live in Appleton with his husband E-Ben. The pair celebrated a decade together this year.

Gina Pirrello Gauger wed Nate Gauger over Labor Day weekend this year. They live in Mount Horeb, Wis., where she works at Sjölinds Chocolate and as the banquet sales manager for Bistro 101.

Nathan Heffel continues to work at Colorado Public Radio in Denver, as a host of the station’s flagship news program Colorado Matters. He’s also serving a two-year term as vice president of the Denver Press Club, the nation’s oldest continuously operating press club, celebrating its 150th year. He and his husband William Burrow ’00 are moving along the foster-to-adopt route and hope to have a little one to call their own very soon.

Dr. Jana A. Lewis graduated from Suffolk University Law School in May. For the past five years, she’s worked in intellectual property, focusing on patent prosecution in chemistry, materials science, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Jana will continue as a patent agent at Foley Hoag LLP while she prepares for the Massachusetts bar exam in July. Once she passes the bar, she’ll transition to an associate with the firm. She lives in Boston.

Evan Morgan lives in Denver, and is trying to raise his two daughters, 4-year-old Iris and 1-year-old Sibyl, to be better than he is. His wife Sarah Hoffman helps a lot by already being so. He’s a health actuary and recently “got a vasectomy after experiencing just how much two is greater than one.”

Al Reiser and Erin Pryor Ackerman had a baby girl, Zadie Athena Reiser, in early May. Zadie inspired by the author Zadie Smith, Athena inspired by the Greek goddess of wisdom and war, and Reiser inspired by the odd patriarchy that calls us to adopt our father’s surname. He lives with his family in Laramie, Wy. There was a big move for the Shaffer family. Colleen Perry Shaffer and Kris Shaffer moved from Boulder, Colo., to Fredericksburg, Va., this year with their three sons. Kris is an instructional technology specialist and adjunct instructor of computer science and digital studies at the University of Mary Washington. His work has been quoted in the New York Times and Slate.

Colleen freelances on French horn and “nearly missed delivering their third son in the orchestra pit of Aida with Opera Colorado!”

’04 Compiled and submitted by Tiffany Pannier Hortin I don’t know about you, but when I read Lawrence magazine, I really get excited to see what all of our friends are doing. When I reach the class notes, it is always exciting to see what changes have happened with our classmates. This fall, the class of 2004 has three common themes: unions, expanding families and work.

ALUMNI TODAY Our two unions include Jacques H. Hacquebord, who was married in August 2015 and lives in New York City, where he works at NYU. Rebecca L. Frostenson (Vande Hei) got married in October on the Tatoosh Range within Mount Rainer National Park. She also made a career move from consulting to Microsoft in the cloud and enterprise business in May. The class’s biggest updates are additions to the family.

Katherine Farquhar and husband Patrick welcomed a son Lewis in December. Laurel (Fritzch) Belman and husband Brandon, welcomed Emma Ann Belman in January. Jessica A. Kullander and husband Jason Dressen welcomed a son, Elliott Guy Dressen, in August.

Marisa Linley Tenney and husband William welcomed their fourth baby, Carmine Michael, in October.

Rachel Feller, husband Michael McCloskey and son Leonardo welcomed a baby girl, Ramona Jude McCloskey Feller, in April. Rachel is the assistant dean in student support services at MIT. Sara Bergene Bayram lives in Falls Church, Va., with her husband, daughter Miriam, who was born in July 2016, and mini schnauzer Jasper. Sara graduated from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2008 and currently works as an attorney at the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Division.

Troy D. Hudspith and Amber Rae Engel Hudspith currently live in the Twin Cities where Troy is expected to graduate in the fall with his M.B.A. and is a stayat-home dad to their 1-year-old daughter. Amber competed her doctorate in psychology in 2012 and currently works at the VA as a psychologist. Amber also assists the VA as a national trainer for dialectical behavior therapy and eating disorder treatment.

Colin Powell and Emma Sweet welcomed their third child, Asa Lemuel James Sidwell, in May 2016. Colin started a new career in January as a software engineer for a startup in the car sharing and ridesharing industry.

Emma and Colin live in rural Maine and run a small four-acre saltwater farm where they raise sheep for market meat and wool for the house.

Emily L. Sportsman and David P. Schultz live in Dexter, Mich., with their children Elinor, age 5 and Julian, age 1.

Emily works as a school psychologist at a high school in Ann Arbor and as an adjunct instructor at the Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry. David is the conductor and music director for the Livingston Symphony and the Jackson Youth Symphony and plays viola with the Lansing Symphony.

Larilaril O. Snoddy lives in Hampton, Va., where she is busy with her 4-year-old twins, Micah and Lelah. She also serves as the director of the TRiO Talent Search Program at Hampton University since September 2015.

One of the amazing updates comes from Lauren Semivan, who held her second solo exhibition with

Benrubi Gallery in New York the past summer. She also had Blue Sky Books publish her book, Observatory, to accompany her first solo exhibition that occurred in March in Portland, Ore. In addition to her two exhibitions and book, she was a guest speaker at Penumbra Foundation in New York. When not working on her exhibitions, she coordinates an artist residency program, Hamtramck Disneyland through Hatch Art, a nonprofit community arts organization in Hamtramck, Mich. She also teaches photography at Wayne State University and College for Creative studies in Detroit.

Tiffany (Pannier) Hortin, resides in Salt Lake City, Utah and works as the administrative manager for the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Utah. She reached 12.5 years with the department back in May. In June 2016, she was elected as a district director with Kappa Kappa Gamma, where she works with chapters and alumnae from Ohio and Kentucky. She continues to look forward to hearing about what everyone else is doing.

’06 Compiled and submitted by Aly Reichey Keith More than 10 years have passed since our graduation, and it is wonderful to discover all the things the class of 2006 has been up to since that time. For my part (Aly Richey Keith), I went to graduate school at Marquette University and then taught history for three years in the Milwaukee public schools. My husband, Phil Keith (’07), was in medical school at the time, and along with our newborn baby, we moved to Rochester, Minn., in 2012, where he completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic.

In the five years that have followed, we have added two more little boys to our family, and we now live the Twin Cities, where he practices dermatology and I am home with our boys, doing my best to keep up with them and shielding our elderly cat, Lois, from their exuberance.

Parker Anderson-Genne is enjoying life and work as an active part of the Minneapolis artistic community.

She is an educator and performer with Kairos Alive, a nonprofit that seeks to build community and improve health through dance, music, storytelling and research.

She is the co-artistic director of Impossible Salt, an acclaimed music-theater company that has produced work for the Minnesota Fringe Festival and the Macphail Center, in addition to having ongoing partnerships with the American Swedish Institute and the Minneapolis Music Company. She and her partner, Tom Johnson, call Minneapolis home, though happily her love of music, dance and story has taken her all over the world.

Jesse Dochnahl is living, playing and teaching music in the beautiful mountain metropolis of Missoula, Mont., along with fellow alumna, Caitlin Cisler ’05. His love of and career in music has taken him many places since graduation, including earning his M.M. at the University

of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, being awarded first prize in the MTNA National Chamber Music (2012) Competition, teaching bands at Sheboygan Falls High School, serving as an instructor of saxophone and Freshman Studies at LU, teaching at C.S. Porter Middle school in Missoula and now as band teacher-conductor at Big Sky High School. Over the years, he has relished opportunities to collaborate musically with fellow alumni and looks back on his year as a Lawrence instructor with great fondness.

Katrina Elsen is excited to report that along with her “dapper” husband, Greg, she will be moving to China in the near future. She is returning to her theater roots and will be teaching high school drama classes at Nansha College Preparatory Academy, located in beautiful Nansha, China. She and her husband are thrilled to jump into this new adventure in Asia and look forward to exploring nearby Hong Kong and all that their new home abroad has to offer.

Anna Keil Freiberg and her husband, Justin, are proud new parents to a baby boy, Theodore James Scott Freiberg, born May 15, 2017. Everyone is healthy, happy and excited to be a family of three, except, true to form, their cats.

Dr. Travis Haas is enjoying life and work in the south as a member of the science faculty at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana’s arts conservatory for high school students. There, he has built the 11th grade science curriculum from the ground up, incorporating the arts and other modes of creative thinking into day-to-day instruction. He also collaborates with the school’s musical theater department, playing in the pit for their fall productions. He has spent the last several summers teaching a course on the ecology and geology of the Blue Ridge Mountains to students at Duke University’s Talent and Identification Program, a program for gifted and talented junior high students.

Lauren Roznowski Hayden and her husband, Mike, are the busy and proud parents of two little girls, big sister Harper, and their newest addition, Frances Roz Hayden, born August 20, 2016. The family is doing well and Harper is enjoying learning to share.

Rebecca Heinen LaChappelle works as a pediatric occupational therapist and specializes in working with autistic preschoolers. She and her husband, Shawn, live in south Minneapolis and are the parents of two boys, 5 and 2 years old, who, in addition to the family’s black lab, keep them very busy and very entertained.

Laura Muller has just finished her first year in pursuit of a doctor of physical therapy degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and has learned a great deal in her first clinical rotation at UW Hospital. This summer, she will be continuing her schooling but also playing gigs

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Beth Shaker recently completed a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at The Ohio State University, after which she completed a sports medicine fellowship at Bayfront Health in St. Petersburg, Fla. She is now working as sports medicine physician for Fairview Health Services in the Twin Cities. She recently married Michael Massi, and together they love to travel and spend time with their furry family members, two dogs and two cats.

Brian King Dabbs married the former Shaina Marie Ervin on July 18, 2015. They recently welcomed their son, Noah King Dabbs, on Feb. 7, 2017.

Keegan White is celebrating a year of very exciting personal and professional milestones. In July, he married Shannon E. Madden in Chicago, and also accepted a position as Chicago regional admissions counselor for Marquette University. He also received the James A. Alexander Newcomer Award from the Illinois Association for College Admission Counseling.

In December, he will complete his master of arts in educational technology from Western Michigan University.

Mia Hunt “delayed entry into the real world” after graduating from LU by attending law school and the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota.

She now works at Medtronic in the cardiac rhythm heart failure division based in the Twin Cities. Her job is highly variable and includes legal and policy analysis, interacting with the FDA and global regulatory bodies and daily partnership with her favorite people, “science nerds” (chemists, physicians, and engineers of all types). She and her husband, Gordon, married in 2015 and they share their home with their dog and two cats.

Alumni are also making their marks closer to campus. Nathan Litt ’08 was named Young Professional of the Year by Pulse Young Professionals Network and the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce. Litt is account director for Quill Creative, a brand development and advertising agency located in Oshkosh, Wis.

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After seven years as a chemist, Nathen Kontny recently made a career change and became a financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual.

Stephanie Lawry just graduated with a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In June, she will start a job as a senior scientist at Pharmaceutical Product Development in Middleton, Wis. Gustavo Guimaraes and Tara Harvey (’09) are currently living in Berlin, Germany, where Gustavo is building things on the blockchain.

Elizabeth (Nerland) Anderson just moved to Minneapolis with her husband and is working for an organization specializing in health care policy (quite the change from her past job at a zoo). She is looking forward to lots of time on the lake wearing flannel.

For the last six years, Jessica Newsome has lived and worked in Chicago, loving her job at Jane Adams Resource Corporation, a nonprofit that provides vocational training for unemployed and underemployed adults. She finished her master’s degree in social work at University of Chicago in 2013. Following a promotion in 2015, Jessica now oversees two JARC sites in the Chicago area, and recently served on conference panel about two-generation strategies for nonprofits. She’s surrounded by LU alumni on all sides and regularly thinks about how well her liberal arts education has served her.

Brittany Oleson is loving life on the Mexican border in Arizona. She just received her first bar for years of service as a state game warden (“the best job ever”).

From jumping out of helicopters to tackling bighorn sheep, using rocket nets to trap turkeys and flying countless days each year conducting wildlife surveys and establishing hunt seasons, she cannot imagine being any happier. She has also been competing in races (though had to give up barefoot running out west), and just completed her first 26-mile rim-to-rim run in the Grand Canyon. Stop by to say hello if you’re ever in the old pueblo, and bring her cheese curds!

Working full-time as the assistant database manager at Imagination Stage, a children’s theater and arts education center in Bethesda, Md., Anna Riehle provides assistance with the Tessitura database and general IT support. She also freelances as a violinist and violist and will play viola for six musical theater and operetta productions in D.C., Maryland and Virginia this year.

Lindsay Schwartz continues to teach middle school orchestra in West Fargo, N.D., and loves it. This summer will be her 10th summer in Haiti with Professor Janet Anthony. She is working on a master’s degree in music education from the University of Florida and will be getting married next year. She is looking forward to another great school year ahead!

’14 Compiled and submitted by Dakota Williams Friends and classmates, time has certainly flown by since we walked across the stage on Main Hall Green over three years ago. We have started new careers, developed new relationships, and moved across the country or even the world. However, some things never change: lessons we learned in and out of the classroom, relationships with friends and professors and hazy memories of senior nights in the VR. Through it all, we are Lawrentians and always will be.

Sam Clary will be moving to Oberlin College to work as civic engagement intern at the Bonner Center for Service and Learning. In addition, Sam will be starting graduate school at Bowling Green State University to earn a master’s degree for college student personnel.

Claire Conard is finishing her graduate degree, an M.S. in leadership for creative enterprises, at Northwestern University this summer. After graduation, she will seek a job in marketing and advertising strategy. She is enjoying living in Chicago with Pat Mangan ’15. In her spare time this year, Claire has gained some nifty barista skills and helped with the student matinee performances of Hamilton in Chicago.

Katherine Dannecker married Samuel Stevens ’13 in May 2017 in Milwaukee. For their honeymoon they went to Tracktown, USA (Eugene, Ore.). Sam started medical residency in Menomonee Falls, Wis., and Katherine is completing her M.A. in counseling and art therapy.

Catherine DeMets is halfway through a degree at the University of Montana. Catherine has delved into learning about cooperatives as one way to create a more democratic and equitable food system. Catherine also spent the past year teaching an introductory writing course at the university. In between, Catherine has enjoyed trail running, farming, cooking, hiking with friends and family and woodworking. Catherine sends love and well wishes to her Lawrence family.

Tara Jensen visited campus this spring for a Lawrence Scholars in Business weekend. Tara enjoyed the event and even had time to enjoy a Water Tower at the VR. Gayatri Malhotra completed her first year of graduate school at the George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health in Washington, D.C. She is a master of public health candidate in global health epidemiology and disease control. Even though she had a rocky start in D.C., her Lawrence friends, Samantha

ALUMNI TODAY Schilsky ’13 and William Melnick ’14, came to the rescue. Since then, she has connected with the LU Club of D.C. and currently plans alumni events for Lawrentians living in the D.C. area. This summer, she will be working on two research projects in Delhi, India. She is excited to explore Delhi from a new lens, literally, as photography has become her new hobby.

She will be back in D.C. for the fall semester to continue her coursework and lead the Public Health Student Association as vice president.

Mike Mangian is currently in Appleton and teaching middle school science and algebra at the Classical School. Mike is also in the process of getting a fifth teaching certification. This summer, Mike and Chelsea Hameister got married and their son Cameron is turning 3 years old. “If you are ever back in town, let us know!”

William Melnick has spent the last year working as an economist/systems engineer for the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Specifically, Will works on the team developing the computer systems which calculate the definitive economic statistics for the U.S., which is a perfect combination of the economics and computer science work Will did at Lawrence. Will also finds time for photography and has also become a board member of the Lawrence Club of DC. “Let me know if you are ever in the area!”

Nick Paulson is leaving Lawrence and moving to Ann Arbor, Mich., in August to pursue a master of arts in higher education with a concentration in institutional research at the University of Michigan.

Cooper Sinai-Yunker recently completed a two-year graphic design degree in Seattle and is now working as a UX Designer for Modusbox, a small tech company.

Schuyler Thornton will be returning to College Light Opera Company in Cape Cod this summer as principal flute and orchestra manager, and will begin her doctor of musical arts in flute performance at Rutgers University in New Jersey this fall.

This year, Gina Torcasso finished a graduate program and officially became a licensed school psychologist.

Gina will begin a full-time job as a school psychologist at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Ill., and is grateful everyday for her Lawrence education. Gina plans on trying to implement a suicide screening program in the high school that is similar to the one she reviewed for her senior capstone. “I am very excited for what the future holds and can’t wait to start a career that wouldn’t be possible without my experience at Lawrence.”

Dakota Williams has been working in the Alumni and Constituency Engagement Office at Lawrence for over two years now and still plays horn with regional orchestras, bands and chamber groups. Dakota also worked with the classes of 2011, 2012 and 2013 to

plan their fifth Cluster Reunion this June and enjoyed catching up with many of the people who returned for Reunion.

Alex York is finishing up his year in Germany with the Fulbright Scholarship. Alex will be sticking around to do the second year of a master’s degree in Munich in German art song. Throughout this past year, Alex has been singing roles with Theater Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany. “Ganz liebe Grüße aus Deutschland!”

’16 Compiled and submitted by Kaleb Cooperman Hello Class of 2016! It has been a year since we graduated. There seems to be lots of traveling, volunteering, new jobs and graduate schools. The differing paths of the 2016 class show the strength of the liberal arts program at Lawrence. Not only are Lawrentians choosing many ways to advance their education and careers, they are starting new hobbies and volunteering in remote places. Let’s take a look at what our class has been up to the past year.

In the fall of 2017, Claire Lauer will be attending the University of Bordeaux in France to begin a master’s program in childhood developmental psychology. The program will be taught in French, which gives her the opportunity to combine her two favorite academic interests into one degree.

In fall 2017, Zach Ben-Amots will begin attending Northeastern University as a candidate for an M.A. in Journalism (media innovation track). Before starting his graduate education, Zach will complete a year of AmeriCorps service at a public K-8 school in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

Alexandra Damisch is a graduate student in predictive analytics at DePaul University in Chicago, Ill., expecting to graduate in June 2018. She recently interned with the Chicago Transit Authority analyzing energy efficiency data for a state grant, and is interning at the Department of Defense in Arlington, Va., over the summer.

Jaime Gonzalez Jr. is currently the assistant director of the innovative Cassandra Voss Center at St. Norbert College, sister center to the bell hooks Institute in Berea, Ky. He has also been accepted to the Master of Liberal Studies program at St. Norbert College and will start this summer.

Abigail Hindson has spent her first year post-grad living with Cansu Cabucak ’16 and Aiden Campbell ’16 in Minneapolis, working at the Wedge Community Co-op and the Minnesota Orchestra. She has immersed herself in community organizing, day-long bicycling adventures, community gardening, contact improvisation dance jams and Irish fiddling! Starting in June, she is headed to Iceland, Amsterdam, Norway and Ireland with Lena

Bixby ’16 for a year of volunteering with the WOOFing program (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms).

Jonathan Hanrahan has been living in Brooklyn working in public radio. He has been interning at New York Public Radio for six months and is now assistant producer for the Peabody Award-winning podcast Meet the Composer. He has also freelanced for some other podcasts such as Planet Money, Missing Richard Simmons and even briefly on Radiolab’s More Perfect. In his spare time, he sings in church choirs and hosts a weekly show on KPISS FM, an independent radio station that broadcasts out of a shipping container in Bushwick’s “Punk Alley.”

Corby Johnson spent a summer as the official translator at the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan, where athletes from 62 countries came together to compete in traditional sports. For her work, she received a watch from the president of the Kyrgyz Republic (and met Steven Seagal). She currently works for Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University and spends her free time learning Turkish and traveling around Central Asia.

Isolda Page has just completed her first year of graduate school towards obtaining her master’s in library and information science. She also has a job as a research assistant doing syntactic analysis of publishing data from the English Short Title Catalog.

Following graduation, Cameron Murdock moved to Brewster, Mass., to live with her aunt and experience working and living the summer season on Cape Cod. Her biggest surprise came when she joined the Cape Cod Rowing Club and had the thrill of coxing throughout the fall season and competing in several regattas including the U.S. Rowing Masters National Championships and Head of the Charles. Shortly after, she road tripped out west to begin work as an AmeriCorps member at a nonprofit serving youth in Santa Rosa, Calif. She is loving the warm weather and is planning to continue as a second year member in hopes of continuing her exploration of Northern California and deepening her understanding of the nonprofit sector. She is also continuing her passion for service dog work by actively attending puppy raising classes and volunteering in the kennel at a local guide dog organization.

This January, Hannah Shryer moved to Tecpán, Guatemala to spend a year volunteering with a global health NGO called Wuqu’ Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance.

She learned a great deal about global health while working as the organization’s complex care coordinator.

Beyond that, she gets to spend her days hanging out with her wonderful host family, exploring rural areas of Guatemala’s western highlands and learning Kaqchikel Maya.

Wesley Varughese is the regional manager for Latin America with BCDVideo in Chicago.

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Alek Wasserman moved to Oberlin, Ohio after graduation and completed his master of music teaching from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He very much enjoyed student teaching elementary school general music and middle school string orchestra. Alek recently moved to Winston-Salem, N.C., where he is teaching music and pursuing his Professional Artist Certificate in piano at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Karen Kerschke lived in Chicago the past year and worked at Banner & Witcoff, a patent law firm. She was accepted to graduate school at the University of Chicago for the international relations program and will be attending it in the fall of 2017. She is spending the summer in Germany with her family.

Daniel Card graduated a few months early before walking with his class in June of 2016. Since then, he has worked toward finding a really good job. It took him six months before landing a job as an assistant editor at VICE in VICE News Tonight. He now works continuing to achieve his goals of becoming a great editor and in general finding true happiness. Anything can happen if you truly believe and work toward it.

I, Kaleb Cooperman, have been working at BCDVideo as a server and storage specialist. I have been living in Chicago, hanging out with friends and enjoying life.

MARRIAGES AND UNIONS

BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS

Grady J. Frenchick ’72 and Debora L. Battisto, Weyerhaeuser, Wis., September 23, 2016

Jeffrey P. Wiggins ’93 and Sreyoshi Chakraborty, Cheyenne, Wyo., a son, Albert Aadit, May 30, 2017

Ginger Bevis Littleton ’73 and Stephen Nulty, Colorado Springs, Colo., May 27, 2017

Shannon R. Barry ’96 and William A. Bolz, a daughter, Margaret Jeanette, December 17, 2016

Katharine Kochanowski de Sanchez ’99 and Gustavo Sanchez, February 14, 2016

Andre G. Martin ’97 and Mira, Minneapolis, a daughter, Zephy, November 30, 2016

Regina Haugen ’99 and Michael Olson, Madison, Wis., August 1, 2015

Annie M. Dude ’99 and Michael Abern, Chicago, a daughter, Willow, December 24, 2015

Cara M. Helmke ’00 and Darin Camin, Camas, Wa., January 12, 2017

Suzanne J. Murphy ’99 and Brian Jorgenson, a daughter, Ula Mae, May 3, 2017

Gina Pirrello Gauger ’02 and Nate Gauger, September 3, 2016

Carl A. Polley '00 and Beryl Yang, Honolulu, Hawaii, a son, Evan William, January 24, 2017

Andra Durham Prewett ’03 and Ryan Prewett, Nashville, Tenn. October 6, 2016

Erika Rence Fitzgerald '00 and Matt, Portland, Ore., a son, William Fitzgerald, July 27, 2016

Brian K. Dabbs ’10 and Shaina M. Dabbs, Ottawa Hills, Ohio, July 18, 2015

Anne Ingram Earnheart '02 and Clint, New York, a daughter, Abigail Lou, January 12, 2017

Kathryn Schuld McKnight ’10 and Ian McKnight, Minneapolis, June 17, 2017

Meagan Otto Peeters Gebler '02 and Ryan '02, Appleton, Wis., a son, Otto L., May 21, 2017

Katherine M. Dannecker-Stevens ’14 and Samuel R. Stevens ’13, Waukesha, Wis., May 27, 2017

Natalie Fleming Nickolas '03 and Ryan, Denver, a son, Zander Fleming, June 13, 2017

Heath Ugoretz Bain ’15 and Cameron J. Bain, Clarksville, Tenn., June 17, 2016

Erin M. Pryor Ackerman ’03 and Albert E. Reiser ’02, Laramie, Wyo., a daughter, Zadie Athena, May 6, 2017 Sara Bergene Bayram ’04, Falls Church, Va., a daughter, Miriam, August 25, 2016 Katherine Hoyme Farquhar ’04 and Patrick, Franklin, Tenn., a son, Lewis James, December 10, 2016 Jessica A. Kullander ’04 and Jason J. Dressen, St. Paul, a son, Elliott Guy, August 16, 2016 Marisa Linley Tenney ’04 and William, Fort Benning, Ga., a son, Carmine Michael, October 24, 2016 Emma Sweet ’04 and Colin P. Powell ’04, Castine, Maine, a son, Asa Lemuel James, May 21, 2016 Anna Kiel Freiberg ’06 and Justin, New Berlin, Wis., a son, Theodore James Scott, May 15, 2017 Anna R. Reiser ’07 and Douglas Harris Cameron, Appleton, Wis., a daughter, Florence, August 18, 2016

LU alums get together for the wedding of Katherine Dannecker-Stevens ’14 and Samuel Stevens ’13.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Graham Jones ’15, Clare ABOVE: William Rence Fitzgerald, son of Erika Rence ’00

and Matt Fitzgerald, shows off his LU pride.

Bruning ’16, Haedyn Smith '16, Kevin Fitzgerald ’14, Dan Thoresen ’14, Cameron Davies ’16, Anna Ratliff ’14 and Katherine Dannecker-Stevens ’14

Claire Weiss Brennan ’07 and Robert, Roscoe, Ill., a daughter, Coraline Ruth, December 2, 2016 Kristena Easter Downing ’08 and Patrick, Davenport, Iowa, a son, Isaac, October 4, 2015 Ashley Korolewski Levesque ’08 and Michael, a son, Henry, January 17, 2016 Anna Seuchting Jacobson ’08 and Evan ’08, Chicago, a daughter, Mara McLane, March 13, 2017 Ashley N. Champaign ’10 and David, Appleton, Wis., a daughter, Evelyn, April 29, 2016 Brian K. Dabbs ’10 and Shaina, Ottawa Hills, Ohio, a son, Noah King, February 7, 2017

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Jean McNicol Ameringer ’51, State College, Pa., January 7, 2017.

Lila Locksmith Huberty ’34, Bonita Springs, Fla., May 11, 2017.

LaVerne McKay Christoph ’51, The Villages, Fla., June 8, 2017. Survivors include her husband, Thomas G. Christoph ’51.

Gwendolyn Johnson Ashman ’36, Tyler, Texas, April 22, 2017.

Virginia Timm Meyer M-D’37, New Holstein, Wis., March 30, 2017.

Arthur Reimann ’38, Elmhurst, Ill., March 23, 2017.

Dorothy Martin Cole ’40, Kansasville, Wis., April 22, 2017.

Yvonne Mathe Furman ’40, Plymouth, Wis., June 12, 2017.

Betty Ferris Nolting ’40, Atlanta, April 29, 2017.

Mary White Stroebe ’40, Prior Lake, Minn., June 11, 2017. Survivors include a niece, Jey Jones Smith ’70; and a niece, Candace Jones Schulenburg ’68.

Priscilla Humphrey Mitton ’41, Shawano, Wis., April 21, 2017.

Ann Sullivan Nelson M-D’41, Madison, Wis., April 30, 2017. Survivors include a daughter, Susan Nelson Goldsmith ’65; and a son-in-law, Richard N. Goldsmith ’64.

John W. Fengler ’43, Sheboygan, Wis., May 26, 2017.

Audrey Becker Murdock M-D’44, Malvern, Pa., June 7, 2016. Survivors include a sister, Marna Becker Pinkham M-D’45.

Budford L. Curry ’46, Oconomowoc, Wis., March 31, 2017. Survivors include a niece, Melinda Curry Douglass ’81; and a sister-in-law, Muriel Clapp Curry ’48.

Katharine Jones Harries ’46, Statham, Ga., February 10, 2016.

Mary Cutler Ellsworth M-D’47, Sherborn, Mass., March 23, 2017. Survivors include a daughter, Chris Ellsworth O’Crowley ’78.

Patricia Schaper Smith M-D’47, Maitland, Fla., April 29, 2017.

Cornelia Oakey Timmerman M-D’47, March 12, 2017.

Elizabeth Eck Turner M-D’47, Smyrna, Ga., May 30, 2017.

Anna Rae Abbott ’48, Menomonie, Wis., May 5, 2017.

Patricia Hinz Schmidt ’49, Two Rivers, Wis., March 8, 2017.

Francis N. Scholtz ’49, Jacksonville, Fla., May 14, 2017. Survivors include his wife Barbara Lucas Scholtz ’52; and a daughter, Clare A. Scholtz ’78.

Donald S. Koskinen ’50, Tucson, Ariz. Menasha, Wis., April 20, 2017.

Marie Langenberg Vandenberg ’50, Kaukauna, Wis., May 1, 2017.

Harold R. Grunewald ’51, Chapel Hill, N.C., February 26, 2017.

Jack Pinkerton ’51, Longwood, Fla, September 1, 2016.

Dorothy Schultz Sutherland M-D’51, Andover, N.H., March 23, 2017. Survivors include a son, David B. Sutherland ’74.

Charles S. White ’51, Fairfax, Va., February 13, 2017.

David E. Anderson ’52, Rockwall, Texas, December 19, 2015. Survivors include a daughter, Terri Anderson Huhta ’77.

Joseph Allen Hopfensperger ’52, Appleton, Wis. July 12, 2017 Neal D. Marshall ’52, Naperville, Ill., April 16, 2017.

Survivors include his wife, Jean Guion Marshall ’52.

Janis Weller Mink ’52, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., June 6, 2017. Survivors include her husband, Allan L. Mink ’52; and a sister, Bonny Weller Pacetti ’63.

Peter G. Notaras ’52, San Francisco, February 18, 2017.

Theodore H. Runyon ’52, Decatur, Ga., May 11, 2017.

Marilyn Lewis Zetley M-D’52, Mequon, Wis., October 8, 2015.

James R. Boldt ’53, Kimberly, Wis., May 4, 2017.

Mary E. Johnson ’53, Appleton, Wis., April 9, 2017.

Survivors include a sister, Marjorie Johnson Rosebush ’48.

H. Clay La Brec ’53, La Crosse, Wis., March 10, 2017.

S. George Notaras ’53, Indianapolis, Ind., April 19, 2017.

Roger W. Taylor ’53, Milwaukee, April 11, 2017.

Louise Bohman Ribal ’54, Chula Vista, Calif., February 14, 2017. Survivors include a granddaughter, Sarah E. Tiano ’15.

Ann Kissinger Beringer M-D’55, Boulder, Colo., May 31, 2017.

Frank A. Svoboda ’55, Fox River Grove, Ill., June 10, 2017. Survivors include his Wife Carol Adams Svoboda ’57; and a niece, Marin S. Damerow ’07.

Lyle D. Delwiche ’56, Largo, Fla., March 10, 2017.

Barbara Anderson Morris ’56, Lake Forest, Ill., May 21, 2017. Survivors include a sister-in-law, Jo Ann Hamburg Morris ’56; and a daughter, Carrie Morris Bowman ’84.

James G. Schlick ’56, Milwaukee, January 22, 2017.

Alice Peters Hudec ’57, Sarasota, Fla., April 6, 2017.

William “Bill” Hodgkiss dedicated his life to service. He joined the U.S. Navy as an interpreter before beginning a distinguished career in banking and finance. He brought those talents to Lawrence, serving as chief financial officer for a decade. He and his family moved to Appleton in 1983 and Bill promptly threw himself into community service, holding leadership positions with the Appleton Community Blood Center, Appleton Rotary Club, the Appleton Arts Alliance and Appleton Public Library and Xavier High School, among many others.

A dedicated husband, father and grandfather, Bill was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 30 , 1940. He passed away in Neenah, Wis. on May 9, 2017.

Louise Eklund had a

passion for nature, a passion for political engagement and a passion for Lawrence.

She tirelessly served the college, writing for Lawrence and working with alumni from coast to coast in multiple roles in annual, major and planned giving.

A voracious reader, Louise valued knowledge and education, saying that “appreciating a Lawrence education is like a time-release capsule; it is only over time that the full impact begins to reveal itself.” She also valued serving others, founding the Better Breathers Association, an organization dedicated to advocating for stronger support systems for those coping with COPD and emphysema.

Louise was born in Rhinelander, Wis., on Sept. 6, 1950 and passed away in Appleton, Wis., on April 2, 2017.

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Survivors include a brother, John M. Peters ’61.

Joseph Allen Hopfensperger ’52 died on July 12, 2017 at the age of 89. A lifelong Lawrentian, Joe majored in theater and drama at Lawrence after serving as a submariner in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He then earned an M.A. from Northwestern University before bringing his many talents back to his alma mater, tackling a diverse array of roles ranging from administrative assistant to the president, director of the radio station, director of industrial placement and chair of the Department of Theater and Drama.

As a professor and director, Joe helped hundreds of students explore different roles, as well, staging more than 100 theater and opera productions ranging from Shakespeare to Stoppard. He continued his love of theater throughout his life, founding the Attic Theater and observing and studying regional theater throughout North America.

Joe then took his gifts for intellectual exploration north, where he served as the first director of Björklunden, initiating the now-signature seminars program and providing valuable mentorship on the importance of meaningful work to the generations of students who worked at Björklunden each summer.

Even after his retirement in 1990, Joe maintained strong connections to the community, attending basketball games, participating in Lawrence at Lunch programs and serving as a speaker at Convocation.

While Joe rightfully received many awards for his service to Lawrence, including an honorary degree, The Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D’18 Outstanding Service Award and the Presidential Award, nothing can truly measure the impact he had on the community for more than half a century.

He will be missed by his former students and colleagues at Lawrence, as well as his beloved wife Wendy, family and friends throughout the world.

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Mary Bosser Joyce ’57, East Lansing, Mich., May 19, 2017. Survivors include her husband William W. Joyce ’56; and a son, William Brooke Joyce ’95.

Gerald Mattern ’57, De Pere, Wis., April 27, 2017.

Survivors include his wife, Anne Defenderfer Mattern ’57; and a daughter, Anne Mattern Sato ’83.

Barbara Ewert Hall ’58, Sacramento, Calif., December 8, 2015.

Jane McGrew McBride ’58, DeKalb, Ill., April 20, 2017.

Anne Pelizzoni Lanier ’62, Anchorage, Alaska, May 26, 2017.

Peter J. Thomas ’62, Kalamazoo, Mich., June 4, 2017.

Survivors include his wife Patricia Webb Thomas ’62; a son, William W. Thomas ’87; and a daughter, Sarah Thomas Arnold ’92.

Charlene Scheel Boggs ’63, Huntington, W.V., January 30, 2017.

Lloyd Moseley ’63, Grand Rapids, Mich., March 20, 2017.

Gayle Oechslin M-D’64, Poulsbo, Wash., March 26, 2017.

James P. World ’64, Mesa, Ariz., December 17, 2016.

Kenneth D. Anderson ’65, Loveland, Colo., March 8, 2017.

Susan Day Elia ’66, Greenwich, Conn., April 22, 2017.

Carol Johnson Lasley ’67, Greensboro, N.C., May 6, 2017.

Peter Nash ’67, Eden Prairie, Minn, April 23, 2017.

Survivors include his wife, Patricia Phelps Nash ’67.

Owen MacNutt ’68, Wellfleet, Mass., February 11, 2016.

Margaret J. Barnstorff ’73, Fort Collins, Colo., March 5, 2017.

David LeRoy ’77, Ocala, Fla., March 13, 2017.

Donald S. Koskinen ’50 championed Lawrence throughout his life. After serving in the U.S. Army, he enrolled at Lawrence where he was active in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and was a multisport athlete, participating in swimming and diving and track and field. He continued his love of sports throughout his life as a dedicated sailor, golfer, skier and fisherman.

After teaching biology for a year and reenlisting in the Army, Don joined the George Banta Company in 1954 and worked for the corporation for his entire career, retiring in 1990 after serving as president since 1974. He also served as the president of the Lawrence Board of Trustees, overseeing many significant undertakings, including the hiring of legendary president Richard Warch.

Don was dedicated to his community, serving as a board member on several key Fox Valley community organizations, and delighted in his family, including his beloved wife, Jean, who predeceased him, their four children and seven grandchildren.

Don was born on Oct. 18, 1928 in Hamilton, Ohio and passed away on April 20, 2017.

Sally A. Johnson ’83, Appleton, Wis., May 1, 2017.

Lisa D. Bouzek ’85, Chicago, February 1, 2017.

Anne W. Brennan ’91, Providence, R.I., May 18, 2017.

Eliza M. Herman ’93, St. Paul, Minn., October 14, 2015.

Mark H. McKee ’15, Maryville, Tenn., May 17, 2017.

Survivors include a cousin, Heather D. Campbell ’95.

IN MEMORIAM—FAMILY, FRIENDS AND STAFF Dale L. Beyer, Shiocton, Wis., May 10, 2017

William F. Hodgkiss, Lakewood, Wis., May 9, 2017 Frederick F. Kohl, Antigo, Wis., March 11, 2017 John W. MacDevitt, Marquette, Mich., May 26, 2017, father of Patrick T. MacDevitt ’11.

Kaye Running, Dubuque, Iowa, May 6, 2017, mother of Kristi M. Running ’96.

Barbara J. Corroy, Appleton, Wis., June 11, 2017

George A. Ruth, West Chester, Pa., April 2, 2017, husband of Deborah Kaufman Ruth M-D’53.

Richard C. Dinauer, Verona, Wis., July 4, 2015, father of Susan K. Dinauer ’77, father of Mary C. Dinauer ’75.

James N. Sherwood, La Crosse, Wis., July 29, 2016, husband of Linda Schleiter Sherwood ’64.

Caleb Sterling Edgecomb, East Aurora, N.Y., August 4, 2015, son of Christine Siewert Edgecomb ’78.

Bob Uhlman, Punta Gorda, Fla., April 14, 2017, husband of Barbara von Behren Uhlman ’67.

Louise Eklund, Appleton, Wis., April 2, 2017

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Yurts on the shore of Son Kul Lake in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan. The area has no electricity, no running water and no paved roads. It is only accessible in the summer, when people take their livestock to the pastures around the lake.

(Photo: Corby Johnson ’16. Learn more about her time in Kyrgyzstan on page 4.)

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A street scene photographed during the Bjรถrklunden-sponsored Wonders of Cuba trip. (Photo: Rob Kopecky)