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honey arbury The Ultimate Gift of Friendship Guest writer: Marilyn Wheaton Director, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
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ot only does 2013 mark the 50th anniversary of the university, but the 25th anniversary of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum as well. The vision of two people who met more than 75 years ago now is celebrated daily by the visitors, community supporters, regional school children and university community who enjoy and wonder at the beauty of it all. How did this legacy come about? Providence, or perhaps good fortune, was in the works. As a young woman, Dorothy (Honey) Doan of Midland attended
the Kingswood School for Girls at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. It was the mid1930s and one of her first encounters was with an instructor at the school, sculptor Marshall Fredericks. In later years, after she had met her husband Ned Arbury, a successful insurance executive and corporate leader, Arbury became reacquainted with Fredericks through her uncle, Alden B. Dow of Midland. Dow, a well-known and respected architect, had collaborated with Fredericks on the Henry J. McMorran Auditorium in Port Huron, Mich.
October 1990. From left to right are: Ned Arbury, Rosalind Fredericks, Peter P. Dyvig (Danish Ambassador to the U.S.) and his wife Karen, Marshall Fredericks, Honey Arbury and Eric Gilbertson.
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