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Copyright (c) 1991 News World Communications Inc.;
The Washington Times
February 22, 1991, Friday, Final Edition
SECTION: Part F; COMMENTARY; EDITORIAL; Pg. F2
LENGTH: 1262 words
HEADLINE: Something happened
BYLINE: Tony Snow; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BODY:
For the past decade or so, most major civil rights organizations have
declared war on social innovation, arguing that any deviation from the Great
Society is nothing less than a slide into Jim Crowism. When George Bush opposes
a civil rights bill, he is dismissed as an insensitive racist. When Ronald
Reagan proposed vouchers for schools something that a majority of black
Americans say they favor - he was subjected to the same charge.
(c) 1991 The Washington Times, February 22, 1991
The days of such race baiting soon may come to an end, however, and one key
player in their demise could be Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. Mr. Wilder
laid out part of his "new mainstream" philosophy last weekend in Albany, N.Y.
The most important feature of his approach is its lack of rancor.
The political future belongs to candidates who understand that Americans are
not racists or creeps; they are folks primarily interested in getting along with
one another while they get on with their lives. As Mr. Wilder put it, the
nation needs policies that avoid the "new extremism" that tries "to pit
Americans against one another." It needs to silence the Al Sharptons and David
Dukes who, in ways subtle and unsubtle, try to portray blacks and whites as
people with different natures and interests.
It also is important to recognize that what poses as politeness in many
racial discussions really involves a combination of cowardice and even racism.
When white leaders fret about "sending the wrong signals" to black Americans,
they give the impression that some vast chasm separates whites and blacks and
that whites can make themselves understood only if they shout slowly and wave
their arms the same way Americano tourists behave when confronting non-English
speakers in some foreign land.
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(c) 1991 The Washington Times, February 22, 1991
The idea that one must fret over signals and symbols is as comical as the
belief that one cannot address Indians (Native Americans, if you're politically
correct) without donning a headdress and saying: "How!"
Equally laughable is the fact that political arts in this nation generally
attempt to dole out money and privilege to groups that already have plenty of
both. Just look at a local housing project and ask yourself: Who benefits from
this arrangement? The tenants, or the consultants, advisers, contractors and
companies that get federal contracts for running the projects?
Douglas Wilder has a delightful way of cutting through this cant. Rather
than hurling bolts from Olympus, he talks plainly about common human concerns.
Perhaps the best way to understand his approach is to look at the choices he
makes in framing issues.
For instance, when talking about black Americans, he focuses on abilities
rather than disabilities. He does not exalt victimhood. He preaches success.
"I talked with some friends of mine," he said in a recent interview. "These
are blacks who recognize that they have always had to work within their means,
tighten their belts.
It wasn't a matter of living within means when we
were growing up. There were no means.
(c) 1991 The Washington Times, February 22, 1991
"You didn't spend what you didn't have. You saved. You were taught thrift.
And you've heard me say it before: When we were growing up, the only thing
we wanted government to do was get out of the way. Stop passing the laws that
abridged and denied. In terms of giving, don't give us anything. Just get out
of the way."
Unfortunately, this kind of message doesn't always get through. "The
problem is that there's a generation gap of knowing what was and what is. Any
number of people have thought that most of the success that comes their way is a
direct result of government largesse."
When he talks of combatting racism, he stresses the success and continuing
promise of changes inspired by the civil rights movement, not the venality of
race-baiters. Says a man who spent 20 years in the Virginia Senate before
serving as lieutenant governor and governor, "I'm very positively inclined to
believe that the country has come a great distance, far greater than people want
to believe.
"When you look at the documentary on the Civil War; if you were to lock in
on that documentary and didn't go outside and didn't see anything else, you
would say, 'God, how can this country move ahead?'
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(c) 1991 The Washington Times, February 22, 1991
"Then come out into the real world and see blacks and whites working
together in every conceivable form at every level. You would say then, 'What
happened in between?'
" Something happened. People of good will came together, started believing
that things could take place. Blacks couldn't have done it by themselves.
Whites had to have the understanding, trust and acceptance of the blacks to get
that done. Blacks then and whites together worked and still are working to make
things more perfect."
Doug Wilder is not fool enough to believe that racism has vanished, but he
does argue that it does not deserve to serve as an excuse for inaction.
"Unfortunately, there is a locked-out group that believes that the only reason
they are in that position is because of their color, the only reason. And I
would submit in that instance, in many, many cases they are in that position
because of lack of motivation, lack of desire, lack of self-esteem. Sure they
may be down, but they shouldn't be out.
"It's very difficult for people to understand what pulling yourself up by
your own bootstraps means. Some say, 'Well, I didn't get my check.' But I say,
'When did you work last?'
(c) 1991 The Washington Times, February 22, 1991
"Or: 'I didn't get the job I wanted.' And I say, 'But did you have a job?
*
Finally, Douglas Wilder argues that the time has come to honor the civil
rights movement without pretending that nothing has changed. His blanket
challenge is for people to talk honestly not about what was, but about what is
and ought to be.
This requires cooperation in many quarters, starting with the media. He
fears that racial division will persist "as long as people perceive racism and
as long as some of the media say, 'A ha! Look at that. What does that mean to
you? Doesn't that suggest that this is racial?'
"You'd be surprised at the times people ask me that here, in this office,
who ask, 'Don't you think this or that is against him because he's black?' =
That's old stuff, and for years Mr. Wilder has avoided using race as a
shield or a qualifier. "People don't want to talk about what was. They want to
talk about what we can do. And that's why a lot of young people need to know
that opportunities exist.
Progress is being made. I never have felt that
it would be an automatic lock step of progress. It's going to be individual.
The individual eventually enlarges upon the group progress."
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(c) 1991 The Washington Times, February 22, 1991
In this, you find the only sensible key to securing a kinder, gentler
nation. Moral extortion works only so long before people get tired of being
accused of evil motivations or character. At that point, society must decide
whether to engage in divisive combat or to inspire people to work together to
make life better for everyone.
Unfortunately, many people who fought boldly for racial equality have chosen
the path of division - and thus have been overtaken by a revolution they set in
motion. Fortunately, people such as Douglas Wilder understand that the dream of
racial harmony is an American dream, not a hyphenated-American dream, and that
most Americans profoundly hope to make it come true.
Tony Snow is a columnist for The Washington Times.
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Copyright (c) 1990 Forbes, Inc.;
Forbes
April 30, 1990
SECTION: THE FORBES 500; Columnists; The Larger Context; Pg. 120
LENGTH: 787 words
HEADLINE: WHAT BECAME OF THE UGLY AMERICAN
BYLINE: By Michael Novak; Philosopher, journalist and ex-U.S. ambassador Michael
Novak directs social and political studies at the American Enterprise Institute
in Washington, D.C. Among his recent books are Taking Glasnost Seriously and
Free Persons and the Common Good.
HIGHLIGHT:
While all too many Americans moan about our nation's "decline," people in
Eastern Europe seek to emulate us.
BODY:
We'll just have to get used to it. The world no longer regards us as "ugly
(c) 1990 Forbes, April 30, 1990
Americans." In Central Europe and in Central America -- even in the U.S.S.R. --
ordinary people and even intellectuals seem to want a system like ours.
Suddenly, they seem to love all things American.
Professor Paul Kennedy of Yale, in his theory of "imperial overstretch,"
could not have been more wrong in predicting American decline. He aimed at the
U.S. and hit the U.S.S.R.
Like Kennedy, all the declinists are wrong. But they have unforgivably
damaged our national morale, especially among the impressionable young in our
colleges and universities. It's wrong to steal hope for the future from the
young, and to deprive them of the sense of belonging to a noble national
experiment -- the most universally attractive of our era.
Nonetheless - though it is morally wrong and factually wrong - one can
understand why leaders of the political left talk of decline. The voters have
overwhelmingly rejected their prescriptions in three consecutive presidential
campaigns. No wonder they think America is in decline: Their view of the world
is in decline, and by 1989 everyone knew it.
For examples of the newfound regard abroad for things American, consider:
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*
Czechoslovakia urgently requests English grammars, dictionaries and
American teachers of English. In Poland and Hungary the demand for copies of
The Federalist Papers is insatiable. Mikhail Gorbachev has spoken proudly of
imitating the American presidential system (without, alas, its checks and
balances).
* Extravagant praise for American ideals and institutions has reached us from
democratic leaders in Russia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and even Latin
America.
Recalling World Wars I and II in his address before a joint session of the
U.S. Congress, Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakia's new president, thanked the U.S.
for having "contributed to the salvation of us Europeans for a third time," this
time from the U.S.S.R. "You have helped us to survive until today." Of the
U.S., he said: "It became the most powerful nation on earth, and it understood
the responsibility that flowed from this."
* At the beginning of 1989 there were two superpowers. In hardly more than
the blink of an eye, the Soviet bloc lost six of its military allied: Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria. Only one
superpower is still standing, more unchallenged in its might than ever. (This
represents American decline?)
(c) 1990 Forbes, April 30, 1990
* The "golden age" of the U.S., say the declinists, was the 1950s. At that
time, in current dollars the U.S. GNP was $ 1.6 trillion. Today it is $ 5.5
trillion. (That is decline?)
* Japan and West Germany, they say, are surpassing us. But the Japanese
economy is only 40% of ours, the German only 20%. The per capita GNP of Japan
and West Germany (even before reunification) is 75% of ours. Who would wish to
exchange our continent-size resources for Germany's or Japan's?
*
Declining U.S. influence? Would the U.S.S.R. have left Afghanistan,
without the "equalizer" afforded the guerrillas by U.S.-supplied Stingers?
Would the Iran-Iraq war have come to a conclusion if the U.S. had not
unilaterally risked the U.S. Navy to pacify the Persian Gulf? Could a
settlement in Namibia have been reached, absent U.S. leadership? Whenever there
is talk of peace in the Middle East, all eyes turn toward Washington. In Panama
and Nicaragua there are new democracies, because of U.S. fortitude. Which part
of the world does not feel U.S. influence today?
* And consider other evidence on the positive side. No other nation has
absorbed so many nationalities and religions. No other is as nearly as ours a
"planetary people," embracing within itself virtually all the cultures of the
world. No other has had as long an experience with federalism, and that
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peculiar mix of local with national government, for which most of the
pluralistic world now struggles.
Our founders called our system novus ordo seclorum, the new order of the
ages, and dared to hope that, one day, all nations would repair to its wisdom.
They did not speak of American rights, but of natural rights. To have seen 1989
would have filled them with joy.
A democratic republic built on checks and balances and respectful of
individual rights; an innovative and free capitalist economy; and an open and
pluralistic culture --- the influence of American ideas has never been greater
around the world than in this age of instantaneous and universal communications.
And yet all around at home, in the universities, in the media, We hear
pessimistic talk of American decline. If this is decline, I can't wait to see
progress.
(c) 1990 Los Angeles Times, February 23, 1990
don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science and economy. We are
still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of all our
actions, if they are to be moral, is responsibility - responsibility to
something higher than my family, my country, my company, my success.
"When Thomas Jefferson wrote that governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, it was a simple and
important act of the human spirit. What gave meaning to that act, however, was
the fact that the author backed it up with his life. It was not just his words;
it was his deed as well."
Communism's bequest to Czechoslovakia, Havel said, was "a legacy of countless
dead, an infinite spectrum of human suffering, profound economic decline and,
above all, enormous human humiliation." But though they have been victims,
Czechs and Slovaks feel "a sense of culpability for our former reprehensible
passivity
Democracy in the full sense of the word will always be no more
than an ideal. One may approach it as one would a horizon, in ways that may be
better or worse, but it can never be fully attained
You, too, are merely
approaching democracy."
It is sobering to wonder who among our own leaders could have framed such
thoughts? Who among them could have set them down entirely by himself, as
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THE HISTORICALLY IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS UNDERWAY IN EUROPE WILL HELP IT FIND
ITS FACE, HAVEL SAID. HOPEFULLY, THE UNITED STATES SOON WILL NOT HAVE TO
PROTECT EUROPE'S FREEDOM, SINCE EUROPE WILL BE ABLE TO ENSURE ITS OWN SECURITY.
"REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES WILL ENABLE US TO ESCAPE THE OUTDATED STRAIGHT JACKET
OF A BIPOLAR WORLD AND ENTER A MULTI-POLAR WORLD, ENTER AN ERA WHEN WE WILL BE
ABLE TO CREATE WHAT YOUR GREAT PRESIDENT LINCOLN CALLED 'A FAMILY OF PEOPLES',
HAVEL SAID.
"I AM OFTEN ASKED HOW THE UNITED STATES CAN HELP US TODAY. MY ANSWER IS AS
PARADOXICAL AS MY LIFE. YOU WILL HELP US MOST BY HELPING THE SOVIET UNION ON
ITS IRREVERSIBLE, BUT VERY COMPLEX, ROAD TO DEMOCRACY. THE SOONER, THE FASTER
AND THE MORE PEACEFULLY THE SOVIET UNION BEGINS MOVING TOWARDS GENUINE POLITICAL
PLURALISM, RESPECTING PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO INTEGRITY AND TO A WORKING ECONOMY, THAT
IS A MARKET ECONOMY, -- THE BETTER IT WILL BE NOT ONLY FOR CZECHS AND SLOVAKS,
BUT FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD. "
"AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO EASE THE BURDEN OF THE MILITARY BUDGET BORN BY THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE MORE QUICKLY. SPEAKING METAPHORICALLY, THE MILLIONS YOU WILL
GIVE TO THE EAST WILL SOON RETURN TO YOU IN BILLIONS OF SAVINGS. IT IS NOT TRUE
THAT THE CZECHOSLOVAK RIGHT OR THAT VACLAV HAVEL WANT TO DISBAND THE WARSAW
TREATY TOMORROW, AND NATO - THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, AS SOME JOURNALISTS HAVE
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Copyright (c) 1990 Federal Information Systems Corporation;
Federal News Service
FEBRUARY 21, 1990, WEDNESDAY
SECTION: NEWS MAKERS & POLICY MAKERS
LENGTH: 3824 words
HEADLINE: CB
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS
CAPITOL HILL, WASHINGTON, DC
KEYWORD:
CB
BODY:
PRESIDENT HAVEL: (Applause.) Dear Mr. Speaker, dear Mr. President, dear
Senators and Members of the House, ladies and gentlemen, my advisors advised me
to speak on this important occasion in Czech. I don't know why. (Laughter.)
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Perhaps they wanted you to enjoy the sweets sounds of my mother tongue.
(Laughter, applause.)
(The rest of President Havel's remarks are through an interpreter.)
The last time they arrested me, on October 27 of last year, I didn't know
whether it was for two days or for two years. Exactly one month later, when the
rock musician Mikhail Koscak (ph), told me that I would be probably proposed as
a presidential candidate, I thought it was one of his usual jokes. On the 10th
of December, 1989, when my actor friend, Jirzhi Bardoschka (ph), in the name of
the Civic Forum, nominated me as a candidate for the office of President of the
Republic, I thought it was out of the question that the parliament we had
inherited from the previous regime would elect me.
Nineteen days later, when I was unanimously elected president of my country, I
had no idea that in two months I would be speaking in front of this famous and
powerful assembly, and that what I say would be heard by millions of people who
have never heard of me and that hundreds of politicians and political scientists
would study every word that I say.
When they arrested me on October 27, I was living in a country ruled by the most
conservative communist government in Europe, and our society slumbered beneath
the pall of a totalitarian system. Today, less than four months later, I am
speaking to you as the representative of a country that has set out on the road
to democracy, a country where there is complete freedom of speech, which is
getting ready for free elections, and which wants to create a prosperous
(c) 1990 Federal Information Systems Corporation, February 21, 1990
market economy and it's own foreign policy. (Applause). It is all very
extraordinary.
But I have not come here to speak of myself, or my feelings, or merely to talk
about my own country. I have used this small example of something I know well
to illustrate something general and important. We are living in very
extraordinary times. The human face of the world is changing so rapidly that
none of the familiar poetical speedometers are adequate.
We playwrights who have to cram a whole human life or an entire historical era
in a two hour play can scarcely understand this rapidity ourselves. And if it
gives us trouble, think of the trouble it must give to political scientists who
spend their whole life studying the realm of the probable and have even less
experience with the realm of the impropable than us, the playwrights.
Let me try to explain why I think that the velocity of the changes in my
country, in Central and Eastern Europe, and of course, in the Soviet Union
itself, has made such a significant impression on the face of the world today
and why it concerns the fate of us all, including you, Americans. I would like
to look at this first from the political point of view, and then from a point of
view that we might call philosophical.
Twice in this century, the world has been threatened by catastrophe. Twice this
catastrophe was born in Europe, and twice you Americans along with others were
called upon to save Europe, the whole world, and yourselves. The first rescue
mission among other things provided significant help to us, Czechs, and
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Slovaks. Thanks to the great support of your President Wilson, our first
President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk could find our modern independent state. He
founded it, as you know, on the same principles on which the United States of
America had been founded, as Masaryk's manuscripts held by the Library of
Congress testify.
In the meantime, the United States made enormous strides. It became the most
powerful nation on earth, and it understood the responsibility that flowed from
this. Proof of this are the hundreds of thousands of your young citizens who
gave their lives for the liberation of Europe, and the graves of American airmen
and soldiers on Czechoslovak soil. But, something else was happening as well.
The Soviet Union appeared, grew, and transformed the enormous sacrifices of its
people suffering under totalitarian rule into a strength that, after World War
II, made it the second most powerful nation in the world. It was a country that
rightly gave people nightmares because no one knew what would occur to its
rulers next and what country they would decide to conquer and drag into their
sphere of influence, as it is called in political language.
All of this taught us to see the world in bipolar terms as two enormous forces
--- one, a defender of freedom, the other, a source of nightmares. Europe became
the point of friction between these two powers, and thus, it turned into a
single enormous arsenal divided into two parts. In this process, one half of
the arsenal became part of that nightmarish power, while the other, the free
part, bordering on the ocean and having no wish to be driven into it, was
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compelled, together with you, to build a complicated security system to which we
probably owe the fact that we still exist. (Applause.)
So you may have contributed to the salvation of us Europeans, of the world, and
thus, of yourselves for a third time. You have helped us to survive until today
without a hot war this time, but merely a cold one.
And now, what is happening is happening. The totalitarian system in the Soviet
Union, and in most of its satellites, is breaking down and our nations are
looking for a way to democracy and independence. (Applause.)
The first act in this remarkable drama began when Mr. Gorbachev and those around
him, faced with the sad reality of their country, initiated a policy of
perestroika. Obviously, they had no idea either what they were setting in
motion or how rapidly events would unfold. We knew a lot about the enormous
number of growing problems that slumbered beneath the (haunted?) unchanging mask
of socialism.
But I don't think any of us knew how little it would take for these problems to
manifest themselves in all their enormity and for the longings of these nations
to emerge in all their strength. The mask fell away so rapidly that in the
flood of work we have literally no time even to be astonished.
What does all this mean for the world in the long run? Obviously, a number of
things. This is, I am firmly convinced, an historically irreversible process,
and as a result, Europe will begin again to seek its own identity without being
compelled to be a divided armory any longer. Perhaps this will create the
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hope that sooner or later your voice will no longer have to stand on guard for
freedom in Europe or come to our rescue because Europe
will at last be able to stand guard over itself. (Applause.)
But that is still not the most important thing. The main thing is, it seems to
me, that these revolutionary changes will enable us to escape from the rather
antiquated straitjacket of this bipolar view of the world, and to enter at last
into an era of multipolarity; that is, into an era in which all of us, large and
small, former slaves and former masters, will be able to create what your great
President Lincoln called "the family of man." Can you imagine what a relief this
would be to that part of the world which for some reason is called the "third
world," even though it is the largest? (Applause.)
I don't think it's appropriate simply to generalize, so let me be specific.
One, as you certainly know, most of the big wars and other conflagrations over
the centuries have traditionally begun and ended on the territory of modern
Czechoslovakia, or else they were somehow related to that area. Let the second
World War stand as the most recent example. This is understandable. Whether we
like it or not, we are located in the very heart of Europe, and thanks to this,
we have no view of the sea and no real navy. I mention this because political
stability in our country has tradititionally been important for the whole of
Europe. This is still true today. Our government of national understanding,
our present federal assembly, the other bodies of the state, and I myself, were
personally guaranteed the stability until we hold free elections planned for
(c) 1990 Federal Information Systems Corporation, February 21, 1990
June.
We understand the terribly complex reasons, domestic political reasons above
all, why the Soviet Union cannot withdraw its troops from our territory as
quickly as they arrived in 1968. We understand that the arsenals built there
over the past 20 years cannot be dismantled and removed overnight.
Nevertheless, in our bilateral negotiations with the Soviet Union, we would like
to have as many Soviet units as possible moved out of our country before the
elections in the interest of political stability. The more successful our
negotiations, the more those who are elected in our places will be able to
guarantee political stability in our country even after the elections.
(Applause.)
Too, I often hear the question, how can the United States of America help us
today? My reply is as paradoxical as the whole of my life has been. You can
help us most of all if you help the Soviet Union on its irreversible but
immensely complicated road to democracy. (Applause.)
It is far more complicated than the road open to its former European satellites.
You, yourselves, know best how to support as rapidly as possible the non-violent
evolution of this enormous multinational body politic towards democracy and
autonomy for all of its peoples. Therefore, it is not fitting for me to offer
you any advice. I can only say that the sooner, the more quickly and the more
peacefully the Soviet Union begins to move along the road towards genuine
political pluralism, respect for the rights of the nations to their own
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integrity and to a working, that is, a market economy, the better it will be,
not just for Czechs and Slovaks, but for the whole world. (Applause.)
And the sooner you, yourselves, will be able to reduce the burden of the
military budget borne by the American people. To put it metaphorically, the
millions you give to the East today will soon return to you in the form of
billions in savings. (Applause.)
Three, it is not true that the Czech right or Vaclav Havel wishes to desolve the
Warsaw Pact tomorrow and then NATO the day after that as some eager journalists
have written. Vaclav Havel merely thinks what he has already said here, that
for another 100 years, American soldiers shouldn't have to be separated from
their mothers just because Europe is incapable of being a guarantor of world
peace which it ought to be in order to make some amends at least for having
given the world two world wars. (Applause.)
Sooner or later, Europe must recover and come into its own and decide for itself
how many or whose soldiers it needs so that its own secuirity and all the wider
implications of that security may radiate peace into the whole world. Vaclav
Havel cannot make decisions about things that are not proper for him to decide.
He is merely putting in a good word for genuine peace and for achieving it
quickly. (Applause).
Fourth, Czechoslovakia thinks that the planned summit conference of countries
participating in the Helsinki process should take place soon and that in
addition to what it wants to accomplish, it should aim to hold the so-called
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Helsinki II conference earlier than 1992 as originally planned. Above all, we
feel it could be something far more significant than has 50 far seemed possible.
We think that Helsinki II should become something equivalent to the European
Peace Conference which has not yet been held, one that would finally put a
formal end to the second World War and all its unhappy consequences. Such a
conference would officially bring a future democratic Germany in the process of
unifying itself into a new Pan-European structure which could decide about its
own security system.
This system would naturally require some connection with that part of the globe
we might label the Helsinki part stretching westward from Vladivostok all the
way to Alaska. The borders of the European states, which by the way should
become gradually less important, should finally be legally granted by a common
regular treaty. It should be more than obvious that the basis for such a treaty
would have to be general respect for human rights, genuine political pluralism,
and genuinely free elections. (Applause.)
Five. Naturally, we welcome the initiative of President Bush which was
essentially accepted by Mr. Gorbachev as well according to which the number of
American and Soviet troops in Europe should be radically reduced. It is a
magnificent shot in the arm for the Vienna disarmament talks and creates
favorable conditions not only for our own efforts to achieve the quickest
possible departure of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia, but indirectly as well
for our own intention to make considerable cuts in the Czechoslovak army which
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is disproportionately large in relation to our population.
If Czechoslovakia were forced to defend itself against anyone, which WE hope
will not happen, then it will be capable of doing 50 with a considerably smaller
army because this time its defense would be, not only after decades but after
centuries, supported by the common and indivisible will of both its nations and
its leadership. Our freedom, independence, and our newborn democracy have been
purchased at great cost, and we shall not surrender them. (Prolonged applause.)
For the sake of order, I should add that whatever steps we take are not intended
to complicate the Vienna disarmament talks, but on the contrary to facilitate
them.
Six, Czechoslovakia is returning to Europe. In the general interest and in its
own interest as well, it wants to coordinate its return both politically and
economically with the other returnees, which means, above all, with its
neighbors, the Poles and the Hungarians. (Applause.)
We are doing what we can to coordinate these returns and, at the same time, we
are doing what we can so that Europe will be capable of really accepting us -----
its wayward children -- which means that it may open itself to us and may begin
to transform its structures which are formally European but de facto Western
European in that direction but in such a way that it will not be to its
detriment, but rather to its advantage.
Seven. I have already said this in our parliament, and I would like to repeat
it here in this Congress which is architecturally far more attractive --
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(laughter).
For many years, Czechoslovakia, as someone's meaningless satellite, has refused
to face up honestly to its co-responsibility for the world. It has a lot to
make up for. If I dwell on this and so many important things, it is only
because I feel, along with my fellow citizens, a sense of culpability for our
former reprehensible passivity and a rather ordinary sense of indebtedness.
Last but not least -- (laughter).
Eight. We are of course delighted that your country is so readily lending its
support to our fresh efforts to renew democracy. Both our peoples were deeply
moved by the generous offers made a few days ago in Prague at the Charles
University, one of the oldest in Europe, by your Secretary of State Mr. James
Baker. We are ready to sit down and talk about them.
I've only been President for two months and I haven't attended any schools for
presidents. My only school was life itself. Therefore, I don't want to burden
you any longer with my political sword, but instead I will move on to an area
that is more familiar to me to what I would call the philosophical aspect of
these changes that still comes in everyone, although they are taking place in
our corner of the world.
As long as people are people, democracy in the full sense of the world will
always be no more than an idea. One may approach it as one would a horizon in
ways that may be better or worse, but it can never be fully attained. In this
sense, you too are merely approaching democracy. You have thousands of
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problems of all kinds as other countries do, but you have one great advantage.
You have been approaching democracy uninterruptedly for more than 200 years and
your journey toward the horizon has never been disrupted by a totalitarian
system. Czechs and Slovaks, despite their humanistic traditions that go back to
the first millenium, have approached democracy for a mere 20 years between the
two world wars and now for the three and half months since the 17th of November
of last year.
The advantage that you have over us is obvious at once. The communist type of
totalitarian system has left both our nations, Czechs and Slovaks, as it has all
the nations of the Soviet Union and the other countries of the Soviet Union
subjugated in its time, a legacy of countless deaths, an infinite spectrum of
human suffering, profound economic decline, and above all, enormous human
humiliation. It has brought us horrors that fortunately you have not known.
At the same time, however, unintentionally of course, it has given us something
positive, a special capacity to look from time to time somewhat further than
someone who has not undergone this bitter experience. A person who cannot move
and live a somewhat normal life because he is pinned under a boulder has more
time to think about his hopes than someone who is not trapped that way.
What I'm trying to say is this: We must all learn many things from you, from how
to educate our offspring, how to elect our representatives, all the way to how
to organize our economic life so that it will lead to prosperity and not to
poverty. But it doesn't have to be merely assistance from the well educated,
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powerful, and the wealthy to someone who has nothing, and therefore has nothing
to offer in return. We too can offer something to you, our experience and the
knowledge that has come from it.
This is a subject for books, many of which have already been written and many of
which have yet to be written. I shall therefore limit myself to a single idea.
The specific experience I'm talking about has given me one great certainty;
consciousness precedes being and not the other way around as the marxists claim.
For this reason, the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the
human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human
responsibility.
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will
change for the better in the sphere of our being as human, and the catastrophe
towards which this world is headed, be it ecology, social, demographic, or a
general breakdown of civilization will be unavoidable. If we are no longer
threatened by world war or by the danger that the absurd mountains accumulated
nuclear weapons might blow up the world, this does not mean that we have
definitively won. We are in fact far from a final victory.
We are still a long way from the family of man. In fact, we seem to be receding
from the ideal, rather than drawing closer to it. Interests of all kinds,
personal, selfish, state, nation or group, and if you like, (company?)
interests, still considerably outweigh genuinely common and global interests.
We are still under the sway of the destructive and vain belief that man is the
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pinnacle of creation and not just a part of it, and that therefore everything is
permitted.
There are still many who say they are concerned not for themselves but for the
cause, while they are demonstrably out for themselves and not for the cause at
all. We are still destroying the planet that was entrusted to us and its
environment. We still close our eyes to the growing social, ethnic and cultural
conflict in the world. From time to time, we say that the anonymous
mega-machinery we have created for ourselves no longer serves us but rather has
enslaved us. Yet, we still fail to do anything about it.
In other words, we still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics,
science and economy. We are still incapable of understanding that the only
genuine backbone of all our actions, if they are to be moral, is responsibility.
(Applause.)
Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my company, my
success. Responsibility to the Order of Being where all our actions are
indelibly recorded and where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
(Applause.) The interpreter or mediator between us and this Higher Authority is
what is traditionally referred to as the "human conscience."
If I subordinate my political behavior to this imperative, mediated to me by my
conscience, I can't go far wrong. If, on the contrary, I were not guided by
this voice, not even 10 presidential schools with 2,000 of the best polítical
scientists in the world could help me. (Applause.)
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This is why I ultimately decided, after resisting for a long time, to accept the
burden of political responsibility. I am not the first; nor will I be the last
intellectual to do this. On the contrary, my feeling is that there will be more
and more of them all the time. If hope of the world lies in human
consciousness, than it is obvious that intellectuals cannot go on forever
avoiding their share of responsibility for the world, and hiding their distaste
for politics under an alleged need to be independent. (Applause). It is easy
to have independence in your program, and then leave others to carry that
program out. If everyone thought that way, pretty soon no one would be
independent.
I think that you Americans should understand this way of thinking. Wasn't it
the best minds of your country, people you could call intellectuals, who wrote
your famous Declaration of Independence, your Bill of Human Rights and your
constitution, and who, above all, took up in themselves, the practical
responsibility for putting them into practice. The worker from Branik (ph) in
Prague that your President referred to in his State of the Union message this
year, is far from being the only person in Czechoslovakia -- let alone in the
world -- to be inspired by those great documents. They inspire us all. They
inspire us despite the fact that they are over 200 years old. They inspire us
to be citizens. (Applause).
When Thomas Jefferson wrote that governments are instituted among men deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed. It was a simple and
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important act of the human spirit. What gave meaning to that act, however, was
the fact that the author backed it up with his life. It was not just his words;
it was his deed as well. (Applause.)
I will end where I began. History has accelerated. I believe that once again
it will be the human mind that will notice this acceleration, give it a name and
transform those words into deeds. Thank you. (Applause.)
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language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our
divided. The older men said I was right, the younger
thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our lan-
men said it was a damn shame to shoot an elephant for
guage makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
killing a coolie, because an elephant was worth more
The point is that the process is reversible. Modern
than any damn Coringhee coolie. And afterwards I was
English, especially written English, is full of bad habits
very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me le-
which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if
gally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for
one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets
shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of
rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to
the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid
think clearly is a necessary first step towards political
looking a fool.
regeneration: SO that the fight against bad English is not
frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of profes-
[1936]
sional writers. I will come back to this presently, and I
hope that by that time the meaning of what I have said
here will have become clearer. Meanwhile, here are five
specimens of the English language as it is now habitu-
ally written.
These five passages have not been picked out because
Politics and the English Language
they are especially bad-I could have quoted far worse
if I had chosen-but because they illustrate various of
the mental vices from which we now suffer. They are a
MOST people who bother with the matter at all would
little below the average, but are fairly representative
admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it
samples. I number them so that I can refer back to
is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action
them when necessary:
do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and
our language-so the argument runs-must inevitably
(1) I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say
share in the general collapse. It follows that any strug-
that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-
gle against the abuse of language is a sentimental ar-
century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever
more bitter in each year, more alien [sic] to the founder of
chaism, like preferring candles to electric light or han-
that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate.
som cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the
Professor Harold Laski
half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth
(Essay in Freedom of Expression).
and not an instrument which we shape for our own pur-
(2) Above all, we cannot play ducks and drakes with a
poses.
native battery of idioms which prescribes such egregious col-
Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must
locations of vocables as the Basic put up with for tolerate
ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not
or put at a loss for bewilder.
due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual
Professor Lancelot Hogben (Interglossa).
writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing
the original cause and producing the same effect in an
(3) On the one side we have the free personality: by
definition it is not neurotic, for it has neither conflict nor
intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take
dream. Its desires, such as they are, are transparent, for they
to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and
are just what institutional approval keeps in the forefront of
then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is
consciousness; another institutional pattern would alter their
rather the same thing that is happening to the English
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number and intensity; there is little in them that is natural,
This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is
irreducible, or culturally dangerous. But on the other side,
the most marked characteristic of modern English
the social bond itself is nothing but the mutual reflection of
prose, and especially of any kind of political writing. As
these self-secure integrities. Recall the definition of love. Is
soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into
not this the very picture of a small academic? Where is there
the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of
a place in this hall of mirrors for either personality or
fraternity?
speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and
less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and
Essay on psychology in Politics (New York).
more and more of phrases tacked together like the sec-
(4) All the "best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and
tions of a prefabricated hen-house. I list below, with
all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of
notes and examples, various of the tricks by means of
Socialism and bestial horror of the rising tide of the mass
which the work of prose-construction is habitually
revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation,
dodged:
to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells,
DYING METAPHORS. A newly invented metaphor assists
to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organiza-
thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other
tions, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoisie to chauvinistic
hand a metaphor which is technically "dead" (e.g. iron
fervor on behalf of the fight against the revolutionary way
resolution) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary
out of the crisis.
word and can generally be used without loss of vivid-
Communist pamphlet.
ness. But in between these two classes there is a huge
(5) If a new spirit is to be infused into this old country,
dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evoca-
there is one thorny and contentious reform which must be
tive power and are merely used because they save peo-
tackled, and that is the humanization and galvanization of
ple the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.
the B.B.C. Timidity here will bespeak canker and atrophy of
Examples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgels
the soul. The heart of Britain may be sound and of strong
for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to
beat, for instance, but the British lion's roar at present is
shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind,
like that of Bottom in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's
grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order
Dream-as gentle as any sucking dove. A virile new Britain
of the day, Achilles' heel, swan song, hotbed. Many of
cannot continue indefinitely to be traduced in the eyes, or
these are used without knowledge of their meaning
rather ears, of the world by the effete languors of Langham
(what is a "rift," for instance?), and incompatible meta-
Place, brazenly masquerading as "standard English." When
the Voice of Britain is heard at nine o'clock, better far and
phors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is
not interested in what he is saying. Some metaphors
infinitely less ludicrous to hear aitches honestly dropped
now current have been twisted out of their original
than the present priggish, inflated, inhibited, school-ma'amish
arch braying of blameless bashful mewing maidens!
meaning without those who use them even being aware
of the fact. For example, toe the line is sometimes writ-
Letter in Tribune
ten tow the line. Another example is the hammer and
Each of these passages has faults of its own, but,
the anvil, now always used with the implication that the
quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are
anvil gets the worst of it. In real life it is always the
common to all of them. The first is staleness of im-
anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way
agery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either
about: a writer who stopped to think what he was say-
has a meaning and cannot express it, or he
ing would be aware of this, and would avoid perverting
inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indif-
the original phrase.
ferent as to whether his words mean anything or not.
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OPERATORS or VERBAL FALSE LIMBS These save the trou-
realm, throne, chariot, mailed fist, trident, sword, shield,
ble of picking out appropriate verbs and nouns, and at
buckler, banner, jackboot, clarion. Foreign words and
the same time pad each sentence with extra syllables
expressions such as cul de sac, ancien régime, deus ex
which give it an appearance of symmetry. Characteris-
machina, mutatis mutandis, status quo, gleichschaltung,
tic phrases are render inoperative, militate against,
weltanschauung, are used to give an air of culture and
make contact with, be subjected to, give rise to, give
elegance. Except for the useful abbreviations i.e., e.g.,
grounds for, have the effect of, play a leading part
and etc., there is no real need for any of the hundreds
(role) in, make itself felt, take effect, exhibit a tendency
of foreign phrases now current in English. Bad writers,
to, serve the purpose of, etc., etc. The keynote is the
and especially scientific, political and sociological wri-
elimination of simple verbs. Instead of being a single
ters, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin
word, such as break, stop, spoil, mend, kill, a verb be-
or Greck words are grander than Saxon ones, and un-
comes a phrase, made up of a noun or adjective tacked
necessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, ex-
on to some general-purposes verb such as prove, serve,
trancous, deracinated, clandestine, subaqueous and hun-
form, play, render. In addition, the passive voice is
dreds of others constantly gain ground from their
wherever possible used in preference to the active, and
Anglo-Saxon opposite numbers.¹ The jargon peculiar to
noun constructions are used instead of gerunds (by ex-
Marxist writing (hyena, hangman, cannibal, petty bour-
amination of instead of by examining). The range of
geois, these gentry, lacquey, flunkey, mad dog, White
verbs is further cut down by means of the -ize and de-
Guard, etc:) consists largely of words and phrases trans-
lated from Russian, German or French; but the normal
formations, and the banal statements are given an ap-
pearance of profundity by means of the not un-
way of coining a new word is to use a Latin or Greek
root with the appropriate affix and, where necessary,
formation. Simple conjunctions and prepositions are re-
the -ize formation. It is often easier to make up words
placed by such phrases as with respect to, having regard
of this kind (deregionalize, impermissible, extramarital,
to, the fact that, by dint of, in view of, in the interests
non-fragmentary and so forth) than to think up the
of, on the hypothesis that; and the ends of sentences are
English words that will cover one's meaning. The-result,
saved from anticlimax by such resounding common-
in general, is an increase in slovenliness and vagueness.
places as greatly to be desired, cannot be left out of ac-
MEANINGLESS WORDS In certain kinds of writing, partic-
count, a development to be expected in the near future,
ularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal
deserving of serious consideration, brought to a satisfac-
to come across long passages which are almost com-
tory conclusion, and SO on and so forth.
pletely lacking in meaning.2 Words like romantic, plas-
PRETENTIOUS DICTION. Words like phenomenon, ele-
ment, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effec-
1 An interesting illustration of this is the way in which the
tive, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, ex-
English flower names which were in use till very recently
hibit, exploit, utilize, eliminate, liquidate are used to
are being ousted by Greek ones, snapdragon becoming antir-
rhinum, forget-me-not becoming myosotis, etc. It is hard to
dress up simple statement and give an air of scientific
see any practical reason for this change of fashion: it is
impartiality to biased judgments. Adjectives like epoch-
probably due to an instinctive turning-away from the more
making, epic, historic, unforgettable, triumphant,
homely word and a vague feeling that the Greek word is
age-old, inevitable, inexorable, veritable, are used to
scientific.
dignify the sordid processes of international politics,
2 Example: "Comfort's catholicity of perception and image,
while writing that aims at glorifying war usually takes
strangely Whitmanesque in range, almost the exact opposite
on an archaic color, its characteristic words being:
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tic, values, human, dead, sentimental, natural, vitality,
Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and
as used in art criticism, are strictly meaningless, in the
perversions, let me give another example of the kind of
sense that they not only do not point to any discovera-
writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature
ble object, but are hardly ever expected to do so by the
be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage
reader. When one critic writes, "The outstanding fea-
of good English into modern English of the worst sort.
ture of Mr. X's work is its living quality," while another
Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:
writes, "The immediately striking thing about Mr. X's
work is its peculiar deadness," the reader accepts this as
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to
a simple difference of opinion. If words like black and
the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to
white were involved, instead of the jargon words dead
the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to
and living, he would see at once that language was
them all.
being used in an improper way. Many political words
are similarly abused. The word Fascism has now no
Here it is in modern English:
meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not
desirable." The words democracy, socialism, freedom,
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena com-
patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several
pels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive
activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with in-
different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one
nate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpre-
another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only
dicable must invariably be taken into account.
is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make
one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt
This is a parody, but not a very gross one. Exhibit
that when we call a country democratic we are praising
(3), above, for instance, contains several patches of the
it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime
same kind of English. It will be seen that I have not
claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might
made a full translation. The beginning and ending of
have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any
the sentence follow the original meaning fairly closely,
one meaning. Words of this kind are often used in a
but in the middle the concrete illustrations-race, bat-
consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses
tle, bread-dissolve into the vague phrase "success or
them has his own private definition, but allows his
failure in competitive activities." This had to be so, be-
hearer to think he means something quite different.
cause no modern writer of the kind I am discussing-no
Statements like Marshal Pétain was a true patriot, The
one capable of using phrases like "objective considera-
Soviet Press is the freest in the world, The Catholic
tion of contemporary phenomena"-would ever tabu-
Church is opposed to persecution, are almost always
late his thoughts in that precise and detailed way. The
made with intent to deceive. Other words used in varia-
whole tendency of modern prose is_away from con-
ble meanings, in most cases more or less dishonestly,
creteness. Now analyse these two sentences a little more
are: class, totalitarian, science, progressive, reactionary,
closely. The first contains forty-nine words but only
bourgeois, equality.
sixty syllables, and all its words are those of everyday
life. The second contains thirty-eight words of ninety
in aesthetic compulsion, continues to evoke that trembling
syllables: eighteen of its words are from Latin roots,
atmospheric accumulative hinting at a cruel, an inexorably
and one from Greek. The first sentence contains six
serene timelessness.
Wrey Gardiner scores by aiming
vivid images, and only one phrase ("time and chance")
at simple bull's-eyes with precision. Only they are not so
simple, and through this contented sadness runs more than
that could be called vague. The second contains not a
the surface bitter-sweet of resignation." (Poetry Quarterly.)
single fresh, arresting phrase, and in spite of its ninety
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syllables it gives only a shortened version of the mean-
thinking. Look again at the examples I gave at the be-
ing contained in the first. Yet without a doubt it is the
ginning of this essay. Professor Laski (1) uses five
second kind of sentence that is gaining ground in mod-
negatives in fifty-three words. One of these is super-
ern English. I do not want to exaggerate. This kind of
fluous, making nonsense of the whole passage, and in ad-
writing is not yet universal, and outcrops of simplicity
dition there is the slip alien for akin, making further
will occur here and there in the worst-written page.
nonsense, and several avoidable pieces of clumsiness
Still, if you or I were told to write a few lines on the
which increase the general vagueness. Professor Hogben
uncertainty of human fortunes, we should probably
(2) plays ducks and drakes with a battery which is able
come much nearer to my imaginary sentence than to
to write prescriptions, and, while disapproving of the
the one from Ecclesiastes.
everyday phrase put up with, is unwilling to look egre-
As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst
gious up in the dictionary and see what it means; (3), if
does not consist in picking out words for the sake of
one takes an uncharitable attitude towards it, is simply
their meaning and inventing images in order to make
meaningless: probably one could work out its intended
the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together
meaning by reading the whole of the article in which it
long strips of words which have already been set in
occurs. In (4), the writer knows more or less what he
order by someone else, and making the results presenta-
wants to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases
ble by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of
chokes him like tea leaves blocking a sink. In (5), words
writing is that it is easy. It is easier-even quicker, once
and meaning have almost parted company. People who
you have the habit-to say In my opinion it is not an
write in this manner usually have a general emotional
unjustifiable assumption that than to say I think. If you
meaning-they dislike one thing and want to express
use readymade phrases, you not only don't have to hunt
solidarity with another-but they are not interested in
about for words; you also don't have to bother with the
the detail of what they are saying. A scrupulous writer,
rhythms of your sentences, since these phrases are gen-
in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least
erally so arranged as to be more or less euphonious.
four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What
When you are composing in a hurry-when you are
words will express it? What image or idiom will make it
dictating to a stenographer, for instance, or making a
clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
public speech-it is natural to fall into a pretentious,
And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put
Latinized style. Tags like a consideration which we
it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably
should do well to bear in mind or a conclusion to which
ugly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble.
all of us would readily assent will save many a sentence
You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open
from coming down with a bump. By using stale meta-
and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in.
phors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort,
They will construct your sentences for you-even think
at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for
your thoughts for you, to a certain extent-and at need
your reader but for yourself. This is the significance of
they will perform the important service of partially con-
mixed metaphors. The sole aim of a metaphor is to call
cealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this
up a visual image. When these images clash-as in The
point that the special connection between politics and
Fascist octupus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is
the debasement of language becomes clear.
thrown into the melting pot-it can be taken as certain
In our time it is broadly true that political writing is
that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the
bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be
objects he is naming; in other words he is not really
found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing
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his private opinions and not a "party line." Orthodoxy,
are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the
of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative
roads with no more than they can carry: this is called
style. The political dialects to be found in pamphlets,
transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. Peo-
leading articles, manifestos, White Papers and the
ple are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the
speeches of under-secretaries do, of course, vary from
back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lum-
party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost
ber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable ele-
never finds in them a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of
ments. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name
speech. When one watches some tired hack on the plat-
things without calling up mental pictures of them. Con-
form mechanically repeating the familiar phrases-bes-
sider for instance some comfortable English professor
tial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free
defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say out-
peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder-one
right, "I believe in killing off your opponents when you
often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a
can get good results by doing so." Probably, therefore,
live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling
he will say something like this:
which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the
While freely conceding that the Soviet régime exhibits
light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them
certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to
into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind
deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment
them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker
of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable con-
comitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which
who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some dis-
the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have
tance towards turning himself into a machine. The ap-
been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.
propriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his
brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A
his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one
mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow,
that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he
blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The
may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one
great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there
is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one
is when one utters the responses in church. And this re-
turns as it were instinctively to long words and ex-
duced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at
hausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our
any rate favorable to political conformity.
age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics."
In our time, political speech and writing are largely
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass
the defence of the indefensible. Things like the contin-
of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When
uance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and
the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I
deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on
should expect to find-this is a guess which I have not
Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments
sufficient knowledge to verify-that the German, Rus-
which are too brutal for most people to face, and which
sian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the
do not square with the professed aims of political par-
last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
ties. Thus political language has to consist largely of eu-
But if thought corrupts language, language can also
phemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition
Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the in-
and imitation, even among people who should and do
habitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle
know better. The debased language that I have been
machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary
discussing is in some ways very convenient. Phrases like
bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants
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169
a not unjustifiable assumption, leaves much to be de-
sired, would serve no good purpose, a consideration
ble to laugh the not un- formation out of existence,³ to
which we should do well to bear in mind, are a continu-
reduce the amount of Latin and Greek in the average
ous temptation, a packet of aspirins always at one's
sentence, to drive out foreign phrases and strayed scien-
elbow. Look back through this essay, and for certain
tific words, and, in general, to make pretentiousness un-
you will find that I have again and again committed the
fashionable. But all these are minor points. The defence
very faults I am protesting against. By this morning's
of the English language implies more than this, and per-
post I have received a pamphlet dealing with conditions
haps it is best to start by saying what it does not imply.
in Germany. The author tells me that he "felt impelled"
To begin with it has nothing to do with archaism,
to write it. I open it at random, and here is almost the
with the salvaging of obsolete words and turns of
first sentence that I see: "[The Allies] have an opportu-
speech, or with the setting up of a "standard English"
nity not only of achieving a radical transformation of
which must never be departed from. On the contrary, it
Germany's social and political structure in such a way
is especially concerned with the scrapping of every
as to avoid a nationalistic reaction in Germany itself,
word or idiom which has outworn its usefulness. It has
but at the same time of laying the foundations of a co-
nothing to do with correct grammar and syntax, which
operative and unified Europe." You see, he "feels
are of no importance so long as one makes one's mean-
impelled" to write-feels, presumably, that he has
ing clear, or with the avoidance of Americanisms, or
something new to say-and yet his words, like cavalry
with having what is called a "good prose style." On the
horses answering the bugle, group themselves automati-
other hand it is not concerned with fake simplicity and
cally into-the familiar dreary pattern. This invasion of
the attempt to make written English colloquial. Nor
one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations,
does it even imply in every case preferring- the Saxon
achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented
word to the Latin one, though it does imply using the
if one is constantly on guard against them, and every
fewest and shortest words that will cover one's mean-
such phrase anaesthetizes a portion of one's brain.
ing. What is above all needed is to let the meaning
I said earlier that the decadence of our language is
choose the word, and not the other way about. In prose,
probably curable. Those who deny this would argue, if
the worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to
they produced an argument at all, that language merely
them. When you think of a concrete object, you think
reflects existing social conditions, and that we cannot in-
wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing
fluence its development by any direct tinkering with
you have been visualizing you probably hunt about till
words and constructions. So far as the general tone or
you find the exact words that seem to fit it. When you
spirit of a language goes, this may be true, but it is not
think of something abstract you are more inclined to
true in detail. Silly words and expressions have often
use words from the start, and unless you make a con-
disappeared, not through any evolutionary process but
scious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come
owing to the conscious action of a minority. Two recent
rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of
examples were explore every avenue and leave no stone
blurring or even changing your meaning. Probably it is
unturned, which were killed by the jeers of a few jour-
better to put off using words as long as possible and gct
nalists. There is a long list of flyblown metaphors which
one's meaning as clear as one can through pictures or
could similarly be got rid of if enough people would in-
8 One can cure oneself of the not un- formation by memo-
terest themselves in the job; and it should also be possi-
rizing this sentence: A not unblack dog was chasing a not
unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field.
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follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the nec-
sensations. Afterwards one can choose-not simply ac-
essary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its
cept-the phrases that will best cover the meaning, and
stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political lan-
then switch round and decide what impression one's
guage-and with variations this is true of all political
words are likely to make on another person. This last
parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists-is designed
effort of the mind cuts out all stale or mixed images, all
to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and
prefabricated phrases, needless repetitions, and humbug
to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One can-
and vagueness generally. But one can often be in doubt
not change this all in a moment, but one can at least
about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs
change one's own habits, and from time to time one can
rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the
even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out
following rules will cover most cases:
and useless phrase-some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hot-
(i) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of
bed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other
speech which you are used to seeing in print.
lump of verbal refuse-into the dustbin where it belongs.
(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
[1946]
(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a
jargon word if you can think of an everyday Eng-
Reflections on Gandhi
lish equivalent.
(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything
outright barbarous.
SAINTS should always be judged guilty until they are
proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to
These rules sound elementary, and so they are, but they
them are not, of course, the same in all cases. In Gan-
demand a deep change in attitude in anyone who has
dhi's case the questions one feels inclined to ask are: to
grown used to writing in the style now fashionable. One
what extent was Gandhi moved by vanity-by the con-
could keep all of them and still write bad English, but
sciousness of himself as a humble, naked old man, sit-
one could not write the kind of stuff that I quoted in
ting on a praying mat and shaking empires by sheer
those five specimens at the beginning of this article.
spiritual power-and to what extent did he compromise
I have not here been considering the literary use of
his own principles by entering politics, which of their
language, but merely language as an instrument for ex-
nature are inseparable from coercion and fraud? To
pressing and not for concealing or preventing thought.
give a definite answer one would have to study Gandhi's
Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming
acts and writings in immense detail, for his whole life
that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used
was a sort of pilgrimage in which every act was signifi-
this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quiet-
cant. But this partial autobiography,1 which ends in the
ism. Since you don't know what Fascism is, how can
nineteen-twenties, is strong evidence in his favor, all the
you struggle against Fascism? One need not swallow
more because it covers what he would have called the
such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognize that
unregenerate part of his life and reminds one that inside
the present political chaos is connected with the decay
1 The Story of My Experiments with Truth. By M. K. Gandhi.
of language, and that one can probably bring about
Translated from the Gujarati by Mahadev Desai. Public
some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you
Affairs Press.
simplify your English, you are freed from the worst
Insight
To protest or not to protest?
I always expected my college
face, both literally and figuratively,
other day at the University of
graduation to be a nostalgia-filled
and no one expected him to come
Michigan? People were protesting
drunk-fest with my friends, lasting
back.
when we got here, and the demon-
on the order of about 72 hours, with
Now, everyone keeps asking me
strations haven't stopped since.
the obligatory considerations of
if I'm planning to protest Bush's
I have only one fear: that the
sleep and
triumphant return. The president is
extra security imposed because of
B
familial re-
David
riding the crest of the latest Gallup
Bush's presence will impede our
W
sponsibility
Poll, and is basking in his quick
ability to celebrate in peace. I've
0
serving as
Schwartz
dismissal of Saddam Hussein's
been to several University com-
the only in-
army. All of which, of course, makes
mencement exercises, and I can't
terruption
my stomach turn.
imagine them without rowdy
of an other-
What's a good anti-war liberal
graduates and the frequent, unmis-
wise glut-
to do? I think it's kind of cool that
takable sound of champagne corks
tonous
the President of the United States
popping. I'm fearful that the near-
weekend.
will be speaking at my graduation,
strip search we'll probably have to
Leave it to
but how can I ignore the indis-
undergo before entering Michigan
the Univer-
criminate slaughter of hundreds of
Stadium will ferret out all the
sity
of
thousands of innocent Iraqis, killed
champagne bottles and beach balls
Michigan to
by Bush's executive order? How
that would otherwise escape unno-
throw some
can I ignore his shoddy domestic
ticed.
messy politics into the equation.
policy, which hasn't begun to ad-
That would be the biggest shame
You see, George Bush is com-
dress the dire conditions of educa-
of all. The Bush administration and
ing. It sounds ominous, doesn't it?
tion or homelessness in our own
University officials in charge of the
I can almost hear Paul Revere say
country?
ceremony should remember thatthis
ing: "One if by land, two if by sea,
Though I'm not usually prone to
is, above all else, a day for the
three if by Air Force One.' Except
protest anyway, I've decided that
graduates, and we should be given
instead of the Red Coats, we'll be
there are many more things drather
wide latitude to celebrate as we
assaulted by hordes of generic-
be doing during my commencement
wish. Commencement is not about
looking secret service men sporting
than walking around in a circle with
George Bush or the war in the Per-
sunglasses, light-gray suits, and
a "Bush sucks!" placard. In the first
sian Gulf; it's about thousands of
wires in their ears.
place, I may be so staggering drunk
students completing their college
When Bush was last in Ann Ar-
that even walking in a circle will be
education and looking to the future.
bor six years ago, student protesters
beyond my motor capabilities.
The University has done well
made life hell for the then-vice
Mostly, however, I want my
for itself by attracting a prominent
president. He left with egg on his
graduation to be spent with my
commencement speaker and al-
friends, popping open champagne
lowing all of us to graduate together
David Schwartz is an LSA senior
bottles and reminiscing about our
in Michigan Stadium. It would be
who's itching to graduate. His
four (or five or six) years in Ann
unfortunate if these accomplish-
column used to appear every
Arbor. Other people can protest all
ments are wasted by an unwarranted
other Monday, but after today,
they want - after all, why should
crackdown on students, whose only
you' Il never hear from him again.
our graduation be different than any
crime is wanting to celebrate.
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Why I Joined the Biker Mob
assignment as first-year students, did you ever hear
someone say, "Oh, you live in West Quad? Tough break. I
live in Bursley"?
With the weather turning
about cops carrying handguns? Think about the reaction to
Sure, the orientation leaders try to convince you
warm, it's time for me to haul
aircraft carriers. We'd have a violent revolution. And
otherwise "Bursley has many unique advantages. For
out my bike. Since I get runny
shanties. Hundreds of shanties. Shanties with elevators
instance, its residents have the lowest cholesterol level of any
noses a lot, if I tried to ride
and public restrooms. You couldn't even walk through the
residence hall on campus.' - but the fact is that North
through the frigid winter wind I
Diag without bumping into a shanty. This (would only
Campus is a place where randomly selected students are
would run a serious risk of
complicate the transportation scene. So for the time being,
forced to stay for no good reason. This is unfair. I think
Death by Mucous. But now,
aircraft carriers are not a feasible transportation option.
that you shouldn't have to stay there involuntarily unless
with the weather getting warm
Roller-skating, for me, is out of the question. As a nine-
you do something wrong. They could make it a sort of
again, biking is the fastest and
year-old, I was forced to visit a roller-skating rink with my
penal colony, like Siberia. Instead of getting kicked out,
most convenient way to travel.
Cub Scout pack. When I got there, I couldn't see any
joke
students who fail classes or get into trouble could be sent
Of course, biking also has its
materip
JONATHAN
actual people roller-skating, just this blur whipping laps
to North Campus. Then, if they study hard and keep their
minuses, such as certain death.
around the rink at incredibly high velocity. Cautiously, I
CHAIT
nose clean, they would be allowed back on Central
But if you want to get
approached the blur, contemplating a means by which I
Campus.
somewhere quickly, biking is
could become part of it. I stuck out my hand and latched
the way to go. A car is out of the question, with the
But this is beside the issue at hand, which is biking.
onto one of the speeding skaters. For a few glorious
parking situation in Ann Arbor. In fact, most stolen cars
Aside from the convenience, the greatest advantage of
moments, I was one with the blur.
bicycling in Ann Arbor is the opportunity to maim inno-
are actually abandoned - the thieves just want to take
Then the P.A. announced that all kids under 12 had to
your parking space. So a car in Ann Arbor is about as
cent pedestrians. During the fall; I personally took out two
leave the rink. The skater I had clung on to detached
effective, transportationally, as an aircraft carrier. And
civilians, and I don't regret it a bit. One of them was a very
himself and left me stranded in a desolate corner. Soon the
when you factor in the cost of parking tickets, it's less
serious-looking, business suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying
rink was empty, with the over-twelve crowd poised on the
yuppie who clearly was the president of his high school
economical. Plus, owning an aircraft carrier provides the
edge, waiting for me to get off the ice. After several failed
Young Republican Club.
added benefit of being able to avoid your nine clock by
attempts to skate, I was forced to crawl off in humiliation.
ordering an air strike on the MLB.
What I'm getting at, pedestrians, is that we bikers try to
To this day, even the sight of roller-skaters causes me
hit you. It's fun. We have these weekly meetings in the
Nevertheless, I'm not suggesting that all you automo-
tremendous emotional trauma.
steam tunnels to plan exactly when and where to strike.
bile drivers go out and buy aircraft carriers. For one thing,
You should also rule out busing, unless you're forced
Our eventual goal is to take out every non-biking student
it would do little to alleviate the lack of parking spaces
into it on account of living at Bursley/Baits. I don't care
that we can't convert, so that eventually the entire Univer-
(Smith, Bob: Your parking space is: North Campus). And the
what propaganda the University tells us; nobody likes
sity community is biking. The rest can live up on North
activists would go nuts. Remember all the controversy
living on North Campus. When you first got your housing
Campus.
Group discusses
post-war problems
by Shalini Patel
MichDaily
4-5-91
Daily Staff Reporter
ently linked," said law student and
People of Color Against War
member of the Palestine Solidarity
and Racism sponsored a forum last
Committee Karima Bennoune. She
night, the 23rd anniversary of the
posed the question, "If invading an-
assasination of Dr. Martin Luther
other is wrong, why did we invade
King, to discuss the aftermath of the
Panama, Grenada, and Iraq?"
Gulf War at home and in the Middle
President Diane Bernard of the
East.
Detroit Welfare Rights
As troops continue to return, the
Organization addressed the "war be-
organization has refocused its ef-
ing waged on the poor in the state of
forts to concentrate on the
Michigan." She said this war is just
"occupying forces that exist not
as, if not more, diabolical as the
only abroad but in the U.S.," said
Gulf War.
Law student Lisa Crooms. "We
"We're trying to raise healthy
need to look at the police brutality
children, healthy families in an un-
not only here, but the police brutal-
healthy society," she added.
ity against the people of Iraq if you
People of Color Against War
look at the army as a glorified po-
and Racism was formed prior to the
lice force."
Gulf War to, protest American in-
Victims of War, a group sending
tervention in the Middle East and
medical relief to Iraq, began the fo- racism at home.
rum with a presentation of a video-
In February, the organization is-
tape shot by Ramsey-Clark in Iraq sued a list of ten demands to
depicting devastated homes, bombed University President James
civilian vehicles, and charred civil- Duderstadt which they have since
ian bodies.
modified to reflect different con-
"I believe justice at home and cerns since the cease-fire.
justice in the Middle East are inher-
Duderstadt still has not responded.
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"There is a deep fear of Housing
meeting to represent concerned par-
Concerned Students break up,
officers, Ann Arbor police and Uni-
ents and to testify that she had sent
Continued from page 1
versity police. And it's not just
at least 250 letters to Duderstadt.
Prof. Emeritus Dr. Al Wheeler
create new citizen organization
Bush will
"I think our biggest problem is
from this macing incident," he said.
welcome protests
the University administration is
At the beginning of the meeting,
urged major Black student unions as
unwilling to deal with Black stu-
students passed out letters ad-
well as Black faculty and adminis-
by Tami Pollak
voices to help us get things done."
Rackham graduate student Caur-
To the Daily:
Daily Crime Reporter
About 25 people, including par-
nel Morgan said the failure of the
dents," Morgan said, pointing out
I read in the Daily (4/12/91)
that the only administrative atten-
'The message from the administration is loud
The University won't be hearing
ents, University faculty, and con-
administration to send a representa-
that someone was concerned
another word from Concerned Stu-
cerned community members, at-
tive to the meeting reaffirms Dud-
about Bush's graduation appear-
tion to student complaints has come
and clear - you're not students - you're
dents, but that doesn't mean the ad-
tended the meeting.
erstadt's lack of commitment to the
ance being "marred by protest."
from Black administrators who
Black students'
ministration has heard the end of the
However, neither University
Michigan Mandate, which was cre-
Clearly, this person doesn't know
don't have the power to take action.
"The message from the administra-
- Caurnel Morgan
macing incident at South Quad.
President James Duderstadt nor
ated by Duderstadt in 1987 10 con-
George Herbert Walker Bush very
tion is loud and clear - you're not
Concerned Citizen
In fact, after the official disband-
Vice President for Student Affairs
firm his dedication to diversity on
well. Our president knows all
ing of Concerned Students in a meet-
Mary Ann Swain came to the meet-
about the Bill of Rights (espe-
campus.
students - you're Black students,"
dressed to Duderstadt outlining the
trators to join together. "We're just
ing at the Union last night, and the
ing, leaving the administration un-
"Only one-third of the African
cially the Second Amendment),
Morgan said.
concerns of Concerned Citizens and
and he'd probably be tickled pink
putting out brush fires and not go-
creation of a new group called Con-
represented.
American students who matriculate
LSA junior Devlin Ponte, Con-
asked members to sign and send the
(oops! I meant tickled red-white-
ing at those Kuwaiti oil mines that
cerned Citizens, more letters con-
"Someone said to me at the be-
at this University will graduate
letters.
and-blue) to see some citizens out
cerned Citizen and speaker for the
exist on this campus," Wheeler said.
Black Student Union, addressed
cerning the allegedly racist police
ginning of this that it would take a
within four years. We find this
there exercising their "freedom of
Morgan's mother, Edith Mor-
action will probably begin flowing
2-by-4 in order to make the admin-
atrocious, and it has not improved
speech," "the right of the people
Black students' fears and concerns.
gan, drove in from Detroit for the
Fred McCuiston, president of
into Duderstadt's office.
stration react," first-year student
since the implementation of the
to peaceably assemble," and "to
the Ann Arbor chapter of the
In an effort to garner more sup-
Richard Clay said. "Apparently she
Mandate," Morgan said.
petition the government for the
port for Concerned Students' cause,
was right."
See CITIZENS, Page 2
redress of grievances." In fact, I
NAACP, pointed out the impor-
tance of a meeting between Con-
members announced last night they
could just see him now, looking
out over this crowd of young
cerned Citizens and Mayor-elect Liz
would officially break up and re-
group as Concerned Citizens, incor-
Duderstadt, Swain don't attend
patriots and starting his speech,
Brater. Brater did send a representa-
"I'd like to thank you all for being
tive to the meeting.
porating parents, University staff,
by Sarah Schweitzer
here today, especially those young
and community members into the
Daily Administration Reporter
Interim Vice President for Student Services Mary Ann Swain and
Patrick Henry's and Besty Rosses
organization.
out there with the funny signs;
"I want to stress the need of cit-
University President James Duderstadt received invitations to the
you must be the group old Tom
izens outside of students to help us
Concerned Students' meeting held yesterday, but both declined due prior
Jefferson was talking about when
out," LSA First-year student Tonya
commitments.
hc said that every generation
Clowney said at the meeting. "We
Special Assistant to the President Shirley Clarkson said that
should have its own revolution...
See MEETING, Page 2
need some older people and stronger
John A. Guidry
Rackham graduate student
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'U' cops and state fines
7,500 pour onto Diag for high times and high
temperatures; higher fines anger city officials
by Tami Pollak
with Lynne Cohn
of event," Hunter said.
for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
and David Rheingold
Mason said yesterday he does not
(NORML). pointed out that
Daily Staff Reporters
feel the lack of city police officers
NORML members throughout the
Mayor-elect Liz Brater and other
at the Bash is indicative of a future
crowd were videotaping the Bash, to
city officials just said no to helping
rift between the city and the
"make sure nothing happens at these
the new University police depart-
University.
rallies like it did in Los Angeles."
ment patrol Hash Bash Saturday.
"I think that this is a specific
Throughout the afternoon, Steve
City officials announced Friday
case," Mason said. "I don't expect
Hager, editor of High Times maga-
afternoon that city police would
this as a problem in the future. I
zine, used a megaphone to inform
not be attending the Bash after the
don't see it as a trend."
the crowd what to do if they saw a
University insisted that city offi-
However, the absence of city of-
smoker getting arrested.
cers issue citations under state law,
ficers didn't mean bashers could
"Don't directly interfere, but a
as University officers are required
toke without fear, as Leo Heatley,
group of people should gather
to under regental bylaws.
University Director of Safety and
around and shout 'Let him go,' and
But while police departments
Security, quickly recruited the help
let the cops know what they're do-
quarrelled, most of the roughly
of four Washtenaw Sheriff's
ing is wrong," Hager said.
7,500 Bashers had a peaceful and sun-
deputies and four state officers to
Paul Riddle, president of the
filled afternoon on the Diag, com-
supplement the University's crew
Minnesota Freedom Fighters, a pro-
plete with frisbees, hackey sacks,
of 16 University police and security
legalization group sponsored by
bongos, and piles of literature pro-
officers following city council's
claiming the many possible uses of
announcement.
marijuana as justification for it's
Police used a buddy system to
legalization.
patrol the crowd, usually pairing ei-
'Hemp for fuel! Hemp
"Hemp for fuel! Hemp for
ther a county or state trooper with a
clothing! Hemp for food! Hemp for
University officer. According to,re-
for clothing! Hemp
medicine! Hemp hemp hooray!"
ports from the Department of
for food! Hemp for
proclaimed the Lone Reefer, the
Safety and Security (DPSS), the
medicine! Hemp hemp
first speaker at high noon on the
teams issued a between 21 and 25
hooray!'
Diag, dressed in a Lone Ranger mask
tickets for marijuana possession and
The Lone Reefer
and
costume,
use. The maximum fine for posses-
The city decision arrived at by
sion under state law is $1,000 or a
Brater, Councilmember Larry
year in jail.
Hunter (D-First Ward), and Acting
Though this year's crowd was
City Administrator Don Mason
almost twice as large, officers is-
High Times, followed a DPSS offi-
was supported by other coun-
sued just over half the number of ci-
cer to the Church St. station after he
cilmembers. City officials said state
tations they did last year.
saw the officer escorting a high
fines were too harsh for local resi-
And yet almost all the speakers
school student from Petoskey,
dents, who last year voted to in-
at the rally, which kicked off at
Michigan who, according to Riddle,
crease Ann Arbor's then-$5 pot fine
noon, addressed the issue of police
was falsely accused of drug posses-
KRISTOFFER GILLETTE/Daily
to $25.
harassment and brutality.
sion.
"The voters voted and said that
Locy Glover, one of many speak-
"There was a roach lying behind
Jeff Murphy of Detroit, pictured. here smoking a joint, was one of the approximately 7,500 people who
they wanted a $25 fine for that kind
ers
from
the
National
Organization
(see
See
BASH,
Page
attended Hash Bash on the Diag Saturday.
back)
2
Mich Daily 4-5-91
And The Doody Goes To
would be 'the mother of all award ceremonies."
Favorite Blanket Organization
Welcome to the First Annual
Best Protest Slogan
The landslide winner for this award was the
James J. Duderstadt Campus
Several write-in candidates emerged for this award,
Revolutionary Workers League, a.k.a. AACDARR, ACT-
Activism Awards, more
many of which were used during the recent MSA
UP (version 2), or the Anti-Imperialist Action Caucus.
affectionately known as the
campaign. This includes CC's return to McCarthyism with
Unfortunately, they will be unable to accept the award
Doody awards. And if you're
"No more sponsorship of anti-American rallies" as well as
personally. It seems that earlier in the ceremony, the
kicking yourself now for
the message allegedly written in chalk in the Mason Hall
audience voted to kick them out of the Doody Awards.
forgetting to turn in your ballot,
bathroom: "Wash your hands after you shit. It's
Upset and dismayed, the RWL condemned the Doody
don't worry. Voter turnout was
COMMON SENSE." An additional nominee was the
Awards and chose to have "the real" Doody Awards across
lower than an MSA election. In
ever-popular "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, <insert racist>'s got to
the hall in the coat room.
fact, 0.02% of the student
go!" But the runaway winners were the Drake's supporters
population - three people -
who yelled, "He doesn't care if you're straight or gay, he
Most Hated MSA Representative
SCOTT
turned out to vote. So in the
won't like you, anyway." When asked to comment, Mr.
This was a very difficult decision to make, as all the
CHUPACK
spirit of MSA elections, I threw
Tibbals, the owner of Drake's, who moonlights as Grumpy
candidates were so qualified. Tragically, Corey Dolgon
out the ballots and declared my
Old Man on Saturday Night Live, responded, "In my day
took himself out of the running early by resigning from
own winners.
we didn't have lesbians. If you kissed a girl and you didn't
MSA in his famous "I am not scum!" speech. Aaron
First, let me bring you up to date on some of the hype
have a penis, you grew one, right then and there. And you
Williams has also chosen to stay out of the limelight in
leading up to this spectacular event. MSA President
said, 'Oh no, I've got a penis. What will my husband
recent weeks, resigning himself to designing crossword
Jennifer Van Valey was originally asked to host this event,
think?' And that's the way it was and you LIKED IT! Now
puzzles in the secretive Engin 168 newsletter, the only
but her invitation was revoked by Interim Vice-President
order a sandwich or get lost!"
newspaper on campus with no editors, no bylines, and all
for Student Services Mary Ann Swain because "her
articles written by "staff."
behavior could not be counted on." In order to cover up for
Most Hated Administrator
So as it turns out, the most hated elected officer on
this, the administration immediately looked for a Jewish
This was a close race until news turned up that not only
campus, Jennifer Van Valey, is also the most hateful on
Sandinista, left-handed, handicapped, senior citizen,
did Saddam Hussein have millions stashed away in
campus, as seen by her tongue-lashing of President-Elect
lesbian, Vietnam-veteran, woman of color to replace her.
Geneva, but he was elected as a University regent in 1986.
Jamie Green, Eric Stempien, and all of the voters. In fact,
Seeing that there wasn't one, they chose the next best
After this was uncovered, he chose to hide in the U of M
WEEKEND'S crack staff of statisticians has determined that
thing and asked Mr. Michigan Mandate, James Duderstadt
steam tunnels and is now protected by the University's
Jennifer just surpassed Rackham Student Government's
himself, to host instead.
newly deputized Republican Guard. George Bush has
Tracey Orr, and is 5th on Michigan's all-time
Opening the ceremonies was our own Michigan
ordered Saddam to withdraw from Uof M or he will bomb
condemnations list, but is still 512 condemnations behind
Marching Band with a lovely rendition of "Hail To The
Ann Arbor, but Saddam refuses to withdraw, claiming that
career leader Corey Dolgon.
Victors." Singing filled the auditorium. "HAIL, da da da
CRISP has a hold credit on his account. There is no need >
da da da, HAIL, de de de de de de, HAIL, HAIL, to
for alarm, however, as Bush has promised not to target
Thank you for attending the 1st Annual Doody Awards.
MICHIGAN:
It received a standing ovation from
civilian areas, choosing only to go after North Campus.
We request that anyone who disputes the winners please-
everyone except sportswriter Mike Gill, who murmured,
Saddam's only decision yielding any praise was his threat
follow the standard protest procedure, which includes
"It sucked. They ALL suck. Why don't they do a !@&#!
to use law students as human shields. Accepting the award
writing letters to the editor with a list of demands, holding
high step anymore?"
on Saddam's behalf was Iraqi ambassador Tariq Aziz, who
sit-ins outside the Student Publications Building and
And
now. the envelopes, please!
said, "Saddam could not attend, but promised that this
frequent rallies on the Diag.
Photocopy-Preservation
The stage area for the upcoming University of Michigan graduation ceremonies is steadily taking shape on the north end
zone section of Michigan Stadium.
Ann- Anbor News 4-5-91
BUSH
President may
CONTINUED FROM A1
No. 1 priority," the source said.
for comment today.
about an appearance by Bush.
A platform the width of the stadium floor is
The 111-year tradition of graduation cere-
"I have nothing to announce," Walter Harri-
under construction at the north end of the
monies in Michigan Stadium was broken last
speak at U-M
son, executive director of university relations,
01,701-seat stadium. The U-M source said the
year, when the U-M moved to smaller, more
said Thursday night from a business trip in
stadium's temporary floor and stage involves
personal programs for graduates of the uni-
By KIM CLARKE
Colorado.
"an incredible amount of sheets of plywood."
versity's 17 schools and colleges. In recent
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Any official word of a Bush visit would
Michigan Stadium's artificial turf was
years, the stadium ceremonies had become
come from the White House, said Shirley
pulled up earlier this year and crews dug out
noisy and disruptive, with students often
Plans are being made to award President Bush an
Clarkson, assistant to U-M President James J.
the field to more it three feet lower. The natu-
drowning out speakers.
honorary degree from the University of Michigan dur-
Duderstadt:
ing spring commencement ceremonies at Michigan
ral turf will be ready for the Sept. 14 home
The special ceremony at the stadium will be
Stadium.
A White House spokesman Thursday said
football opener against Notre Dame.
a combined commencement program, accord-
A U-M source confirmed Thursday that Bush will
the president's plans are not announced until
ing to a U-M announcement. Admission will be
speak at May 4 graduation ceremonies at the stadium.
Several U-M regents, who award the univer-
about 10 days before an event.
by ticket only. Ticket information will be an-
A White House official today said Bush had received
sity's honorary degrees, declined to say
nounced "in the near future," the announce-
an invitation to speak at the U-M May 4. "We're in-
Bush's visit will mark only the third time in
whether Bush will speak at the stadium.
ment said.
clined to do it, but no decision has been made, yea or
the U-M's history that a president has visited
The U-M typically awards four honorary de-
nay," the official said.
campus while in office. Gerald R. Ford kicked
grees at commencement. Recommendations
Honorary degrees last year were awarded
The university today acknowledged the stadium will
off his 1976 presidential campaign in Crisler
from an honorary degree committee are for-
at University Graduate Exercises, where di-
be the site of a special May 4 ceremony for graduates
Arena, while Lyndon B. Johnson spoke at May
warded to regents and the president for their
plomas were presented to master's and doc-
and their families, but officials declined comment
1964 graduation ceremonies in Michigan Sta-
approval.
toral students. The ceremony, at Hill Auditori-
dium.
um, was the centerpiece of commencement
See BUSH, A9
The regents have been given this year's list
To accommodate the Bush's appearance, a
programs and was open to all students and the
of names, which traditionally are kept confi-
special platform is being built in the stadium
public.
dential until shortly before graduation. Harri-
to create a wooden floor because the existing
son said this spring's degree recipients will
While presidents Ford and Johnson visited
stadium floor has been torn up. The U-M is in
not be made public until mid-April.
the U-M as incumbents, plenty of other chief
the process of replacing the stadium's artifi-
Regent James Waters, D-Muskegon, said
executives have come to campus before or af-
cial turf with grass.
Bush was not on the list of degree recipients
ter serving in the Oval Office. Grover Cleve-
The U-M source, who requested anonymity,
he received.
land, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt,
said crews have been building the stage for
John D'Arms, vice provost for academic af-
William Howard Taft, Harry S. Truman, John
about two weeks and will be kept busy until
fairs and chairman of the honorary degree
F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter all made stops
the president's visit. "That's going to be their
committee, was out of town and unavailable
on campus.
undergraduate fraternities, seven professional
ACADEMIC FEES 1989-90*
or graduate fraternities, and twenty-two under-
graduate sororities house 6% of the students;
FEWER THAN
NON-
2% live in student-organized cooperative housing;
55 HRS. CREDIT
RESIDENT
RESIDENT
42% live off-campus and at home; 18% commute.
Undergraduate
$3,152
$10,880
The estimated 1990-91 room and board cost in a
Undergraduate Engineering,
residence hall for a two-term period is $3,853.
Business, & Computer Science 3,284
10,990
All questions and concerns for both on and off
campus housing should be directed to the Housing
55 OR MORE HRS. CREDIT
Information Office, 1011 Student Activities Building,
Undergraduate
3,502
11,680
(313) 763-3164.
Undergraduate Engineering,
Business, & Computer Science 3,664
11,892
STUDENT FINANCIAL AID, 1988-1989
Graduate
5,562
11,642
In 1988-89 student financial aid included
Graduate Engineering
5,818
12,042
$35,460,971 in scholarships, fellowships, and other
Graduate Bus. Adm.
grants from general funds; $35,978,250 from other
M.B.A. & M.A.S.
7,850
14,400
University funds; and $12,245,122 in student loans.
Law
6,962
14,432
The University's Opportunity Program, designed
Medicine
9,956
18,766
to assist minority and other students from dis-
Dentistry
8,198
15,286
advantaged environments, awarded $7,664,000.
Approximately 13,400 students were employed
*Ann Arbor campus, two full terms, full-time enrollment. Subject to
during the year.
change at any time by the Regents of the University.
MICHIGAN
The University of
Central Campus: (313) 764-0384
for walking tours of
Alumni Association
(campus directions/referrals)
Lobby, Michigan Union, S. State St.
Campus Information Center: (313) 763-INFO
VISITOR INFORMATION
Flint: (313) 762-3351
Dearborn: (313) 593-5555
Ann Arbor: (313) 764-7260
News and Information Services
PUBLIC INFORMATION
(recorded message)
UM News Briefs: (313) 763-1300
or phone (313) 764-1817
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
PROFILE
The University of Michigan
individual or department at:
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GENERAL INFORMATION
RESEARCH UNITS, CENTERS & SPECIALIZED
Summer half term registration
July 2-3
FACILITIES
Classes begin
July 5
University research facilities include the Institute
Full term and summer half term end
Aug. 24
for Social Research; Space Physics Research Labo-
FALL TERM, 1990
ratory; Humanities Institute; Ford Nuclear Reactor;
Orientation
Sept. 2-5
Middle English Dictionary Project; Transportation
Research Institute; Statistics Research Laboratory;
Labor Day holiday
Sept. 3
Registration
Sept. 4-5
Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory; Foreign
Classes begin
Sept. 6
Area Studies Centers; Kresge Hearing Research In-
Thanksgiving recess begins 5:00 p.m.
Nov. 21
stitute; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Matthaei
Classes end
Dec. 12
Botanical Gardens; Biological Station at Douglas
Winter Commencement
Dec. 16
Lake; Institute of Gerontology; Center for the Per-
forming Arts & Technology; Center for Research on
WINTER TERM, 1991
Integrated Manufacturing; Microelectronics Labo-
Orientation-Registration
Jan. 6-8
ratory; Mental Health Research Institute; Center for
Classes begin
Jan. 9
Molecular Genetics; Program in Protein Structure
Spring recess begins 12:00 noon
Feb. 23
and Design; Neuroscience Laboratory; Macro-
Classes end
April 24
molecular Research Center; Biophysics Research
Spring Commencement
May 4
Division; and a telescope located at Kitt Peak,
Arizona.
SPRING-SUMMER TERM, 1991
Orientation-Registration
May 5-7
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
Classes begin
May 8
Memorial Day holiday
May 27
SPRING-SUMMER TERM, 1990
Spring half term ends
June 28
Orientation-Registration
May 6-8
Summer half term registration
July 1-2
Classes begin
May 9
Classes begin
July 3
Memorial Day holiday
May 28
Full term and summer half term end
Aug. 23
Spring half term ends
June 29
Ann Arbor campus; subject to change without notice
RSITY
OF
MICHIGAN
IN THE CLASSROOM
GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY
THE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1989, the
Name and date established
Enrollment
University received more than 140,000 gifts totaling
as independent school
(Fall, 1989)
more than $70 million from the following sources:
Architecture and Urban Planning (1931)
473
Individuals
$40,149,271
Art (1974)
593
Corporations
13,822,443
Business Administration (1924)
2,504
Foundations and Associations
16,739,992
Dentistry (1875)
493
Total Private Gift Support
$70,711,706
Education (1921)
444
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Engineering (1895)
5,944
Gift figures for fiscal '89
Graduate Intercollege programs (1912)
595
represent a 4% increase over the
(The individual schools and colleges figures
include 6,546 students enrolled in the
previous year. This record level
A HERITAGE OF LEADERSHIP
Rackham School of Graduate Studies.)
of private support, which includes
Information and Library Studies (1969)
290
gifts from more than 95,000 donors, is enabling the
Law (1859)
1,175
University to renew its physical plant, enhance the
Literature, Science, and the Arts (1841)
17,996
library system, and modernize research facilities.
Medicine (1850)
1,789
Private gifts also provide essential support for
Music (1940)
777
University faculty and academic programs and
Natural Resources (1927)
479
for student financial aid. Anyone who would like
Nursing (1941)
717
to make a gift to the University of Michigan may
Pharmacy (1876)
247
contact the University Development Office, 301
Physical Education, Division of (1984)
466
East Liberty, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2260,
Public Health (1941)
753
(313) 998-6000.
Social Work (1951)
603
Total Ann Arbor campus
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
and other locations
36,338
Budget Highlights, fiscal 1989-90 (Financial
UM-Dearborn (1958)
7,662
Operations, All Funds, Three Campuses). Total
UM-Flint (1956)
6,506
Operating Budget $1,627,419,068 (including the
Total credit extension
136
General Fund*).
Total all campuses
50,642
TOTAL STAFF (FALL, 1989)
Instructional staff
5,537
SOURCES OF REVENUE: ALL FUNDS
Non-Instructional staff
28,833
Hospital and other
Total
34,370
Medical Activities 35%
State
ENROLLMENT DATA (FALL, 1989)
Appropriations 17%
Other 6%
Undergraduate (71.4%)
36,158
Federal Support 13%
Graduate (28.6%)
14,484
Men (52.7%)
26,671
Women (47.3%)
23,971
*New Freshmen, Fall 1989
4,649
*Ann Arbor campus
DEGREES GRANTED (1988-89)
Auxiliary
Undergraduate
7,020
Activities
Graduate
3,382
6%
Graduate Professional
679
Student Fees 17%
Gifts and Grants 6%
11,081
Total number of degrees granted
EXPENDITURES BY PROGRAM: ALL FUNDS
between 1845 and June 30, 1989
461,916
Hospital and other
Medical Activities 35%
PRESIDENTS
Research 14%
In its history the University has had only eleven
Scholarships and
Fellowships 5%
presidents, two acting presidents, and two interim
presidents.
Plant 7%
Henry Philip Tappan
1852-1863
Erastus Otis Haven
1863-1869
Henry Simmons Frieze (acting)
1869-1871,
Public
1877,1880-1882
Service 1%
James Burrill Angell
1871-1909
Harry Burns Hutchins
1909-1920
Marion LeRoy Burton
1920-1925
Student
Alfred Henry Lloyd (acting)
Feb.-Sept. 1925
Service 2%
Institutional
Clarence Cook Little
1925-1929
Support 3%
instruction 21%
Alexander Grant Ruthven
1929-1951
Harlan Hatcher
1951-1967
Auxiliary
1968-1979
Activities
Academic Support 6%
Robben Wright Fleming
6%
Allan Frederick Smith (interim)
1979
Harold Tafler Shapiro
1980-1987
Robben Wright Fleming (interim)
1988
James Johnson Duderstadt
1988-
*The three-campus U-M General Fund pays for teaching, research,
library services, student oid, and the operation and maintenance
of physical properties, among other things. During 1988-89
the General Fund totaled $552,027,000, of which 47 percent
($256,335,000) came from state appropriations, 44 percent
($244,360,000) from student fees, 7 percent ($39,091,000) from
indirect cost recoveries, and the remaining 2 percent from other
sources.
ATTENDING CLASSES
these programs may be obtained from the
individual schools and colleges.
ADMISSIONS
Undergraduate students are admitted to a specific
ACADEMIC PROGRAM RANKING
school or college of the University. The Office
The University of Michigan is consistently ranked
of Undergraduate Admissions considers the
among the top universities in the world. In 1989 it
strength of an applicant's high school background
was ranked third in both undergraduate and
including the degree of difficulty of courses
graduate programs in the United States by the
selected, the record of academic achievement,
Gourman Report, a national survey of colleges
special or unique accomplishments both in and out
and universities. Michigan was ranked ninth in
of the classroom, and ACT or SAT scores.
academic reputation among national universities
For transfer students from accredited collegiate
by U.S. News and World Report and tenth among
institutions, consideration is given to academic and
leading research universities in the world by The
personal records, educational objectives, and the
Asian Wall Street Journal. Individual schools,
appropriateness of previous course work. Further
colleges, and programs are also widely
information on undergraduate admission may be
recognized to be among the best: Michigan
obtained from the Undergraduate Admissions
Business School was ranked sixth among MBA
Office, 1220 Student Activities Building; phone
programs by Business Week, and the Law School,
764-7433.
College of Engineering, and Business School were
Most of the University's graduate programs are
ranked in the top ten nationally by U.S. News.
administered by Horace H. Rackham School of
Graduate Studies. Information about the programs
HOUSING
and about admission to them may be secured from
the Graduate School, Rackham Building, phone
The University owns and operates five residence
halls for women, twelve coeducational units, and
764-8129. Graduate professional programs in
business administration, law, medicine, social
1,668 family housing units. These accommodate
work, and other areas are administered directly by
over 11,000 students, or approximately 1/3
of the Ann Arbor student body. Thirty-eight
the professional schools. Information concerning
Campus apartment buildings; total plant value
Physical Plant: 203 major buildings plus 221 North
institutes and other credit-free programs
study, and for conducting conferences and
to a fall 1989 enrollment of 7,662 students.
off-campus credit courses, for correspondence
Enrollment grew from the original 34 students
and U-MD campuses can provide assistance for
Company established the Dearborn campus.
Extension Service: Offices on Ann Arbor, U-MF
A 1959 gift of 200 acres from the Ford Motor
Student Organizations: approximately 400
campus in January of 1958.
11,189; Illinois, 13,106
occupied the first building of its new 42-acre
California, 22,420; New York, 13,590; Ohio,
1956 as one of two campuses outside of Ann Arbor,
Major Alumni Concentrations: Michigan, 121,428;
The University of Michigan-Flint, established in
area acreage, 2,607
students, nine in three classes, were enrolled.
Land Holdings: total acreage, 20,832, Ann Arbor
Buildings were completed in 1841 and the first
Research Volume, 1988-89: $264,508,872
land donated by a group of Ann Arbor citizens.
Operating Budget, 1989-90: $1,627,419,068
of Michigan and moved to its present site on
Alumni Body: 331,888 living degree holders
In 1837, the college was renamed The University
Degrees Awarded, 1988-89: 11,081
named president.
Regular Staff, Fall 1989: 25,437
of Michigania." The Reverend John Montieth was
Total Enrollment, Fall 1989: 50,642
and chartered a "Catholepistemiad, or university
ters, 18 Institutes, 2 Bureaus, 9 Hospital Units
Michigan territorial legislature accepted the land
Related Research and Educational Units: 39 Cen-
acres of land for "a college at Detroit." The
ε Flint,
Ottawa, and Wyandotte (Huron) - offered 1,920
Schools and Colleges: Ann Arbor, 17; Dearborn, 5;
In 1817, area Indians Chippewa, Pottawatomi,
Campus Locations: Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Flint
PRESENT PROFILE
BRIEF HISTORY
ON CAMPUS
Other autonomous libraries on campus include
the Law Library, the William L. Clements Library
of Americana, Michigan Historical Collections/
LANDMARKS
Bentley Historical Library, and the Kresge Business
BURTON TOWER - erected in 1936 to
Administration Library.
memorialize former president Burton, it holds
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library,
a 55-bell carillon donated by Charles Baird.
located on the North Campus, houses Mr. Ford's
PRESIDENT'S HOUSE built in 1840 as one of
Presidential, Vice-Presidential, and Congressional
the University's first buildings, it is listed in the
documents.
National Register of Historic Places.
MICHIGAN UNION incorporated in 1904,
MUSEUMS
it houses Campus Information Center (CIC),
International Center, University Club, and other
University Museums are devoted to instruction and
campus facilities, services, and student activities.
research as well as to the preservation of valuable
MICHIGAN LEAGUE opened in 1929, it provides
objects. The Exhibit Museum of the Natural Science
dining, meeting rooms, and accommodations.
Museums (which includes a Planetarium), the
HILL AUDITORIUM (1913) and the POWER
Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Medieval
CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (1971) -
Archaeology, and the Museum of Art (Alumni
both gifts from former Regents of the University,
Memorial Hall) are open to the public. Research
serve as settings for exciting musical and dramatic
facilities include the Museum of Anthropology, the
series featuring artists of international renown.
Museum of Paleontology, the Museum of Zoology,
and the University Herbarium. The Matthaei
Botanical Gardens and the Nichols Arboretum
LIBRARIES
are also open to the public.
The library system of the University includes
the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, the
Undergraduate Library, and 19 divisional libraries.
The total University holdings number more than
6,000,000 volumes.
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990
PROFILE
THE
UNIV
SERVING THE LARGER COMMUNITY
ATHLETICS
The University of Michigan intercollegiate athletic
MEDICAL CENTER
program fields men's teams in football, basketball,
The Medical Center is an 84-acre complex of
baseball, track and field, swimming, hockey,
patient care, teaching, and research facilities
wrestling, golf, cross country, gymnastics, and
adjacent to the central campus. Its 33 buildings
tennis. U-M women compete in intercollegiate
comprise one of the largest concentrations of
basketball, field hockey, swimming, tennis,
health care facilities in the world and include the
gymnastics, track, softball, golf, cross country, and
nation's first university hospital and one of the
volleyball. A member of the Big Ten conference,
major medical schools in the United States. The
the U-M has established an outstanding
patient care units that make up the University of
intercollegiate athletic record, including more
Michigan Hospitals provide care to hundreds of
football championships (34) than any other Big Ten
thousands of patients each year. Close by and
school. The University also supports an extensive
affiliated with the Medical Center are the U-M
intramural and recreational sports program for
Schools of Nursing, Public Health, Dentistry,
students, faculty, and staff. Approximately 225
Pharmacy, and Social Work.
acres of land are devoted to athletics, including
Michigan Stadium - the nation's largest collegiate
football stadium, Crisler Arena, Yost Ice Arena,
RESEARCH
Track and Tennis building, the new Canham
The volume of research in fiscal 1988-89 was
olympic-size natatorium, a women's gymnasium,
$264,508,872. Federal agencies continue to
and four indoor recreational sports facilities.
provide the largest portion of funds, 67.4% of
the total; the Department of Health and Human
MEDIA
Services is the single largest sponsor. The
percentage composition of research volume by
Three campus publications receive wide
broad areas is life sciences, 48.4; engineering,
distribution: the Michigan Daily, a student
20.4; social sciences, 10.9; physical sciences, 7.8;
newspaper; the University Record, published by the
humanities and all other fields, 12.5.
University and available to the entire campus
community; and Michigan Today, a magazine-
format tabloid distributed five times annually to
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Michigan alumni. The University operates FM
The U-M Alumni Association is an independent
radio stations WUOM (91.7) in Ann Arbor, WFUM
organization serving the University and the alumni
(91.1) in Flint, and WVGR (104.1) in Grand Rapids;
body through an extensive and diverse set of pro-
student managed WCBN-FM (88.3) and WJJX-AM,
grams. The Association coordinates the activities of
a carrier-current radio station (650); and television
more than 200 alumni/ae clubs and 60-70 annual
station WFUM, Channel 28 in Flint.
alumni reunion groups, operates three family
camps, organizes activities for 17 school, college,
CONTINUING EDUCATION
and campus alumni societies, conducts alumni
continuing education and travel programs, and
Major University units sponsoring continuing
publishes Michigan Alumnus magazine. Alumni are
education programs, institutes, seminars, and
involved in merit award and scholarship programs,
conferences at the University, with the number
of participants in 1988-89, include the Extension
as well as the recruitment of underrepresented stu-
dents. The Association also sponsors the Student
Service, 10,257; Department of Postgraduate
Medicine and Health Professions Education, 6,822;
Alumni Council, which involves students in a variety
of University service projects.
Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 17,298;
Chrysler Center for Continuing Engineering
Education, 1,437; and Division of Management
CULTURAL EVENTS
Education, 5,232.
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY over 40
international presentations, from Jessye Norman,
UNIVERSITY OFFICERS
the Vienna Philharmonic, and the King's Singers to
the Kodo drummers of Japan. Four annual series:
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
Choral Union, Chamber Arts, Choice, May
(with date term expires)
Festival; and annual holiday performances of
Deane Baker, 1996, Ann Arbor
Handel's "Messiah."
Paul W. Brown, 1994, Petoskey
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DANCE
Neal D. Nielsen, 1992, Brighton
COMPANY/ANN ARBOR DANCE WORKS, THE
Philip H. Power, 1990, Ann Arbor
SCHOOL OF MUSIC the student and faculty
Thomas A. Roach, 1990, Ann Arbor
companies of the Department of Dance, featuring
Veronica Latta.Smith, 1992, Grosse lle
annual and bi-annual productions of contemporary
Nellie M. Varner, 1996, Detroit
dance in the Power Center and the Dance Building
James L. Waters, 1994, Muskegon
Studio A Theater.
James J. Duderstadt (ex officio)
SCHOOL OF MUSIC - some 350 events
annually, mostly free, 800 students, 3 major
choruses, 5 bands, 3 orchestras, Early Music
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
and Contemporary Directions ensembles,
James J. Duderstadt, Ph.D., President
opera, musical theatre, and dance. Lecture/
Blenda J. Wilson, Ph.D., Chancellor, The University
demonstrations, lectures, and master classes.
of Michigan-Dearborn
UNIVERSITY PRODUCTIONS presenter
Clinton B. Jones, M.A., Ph.D., Chancellor, The
of undergraduate students of the University of
University of Michigan-Flint
Michigan School of Music's Departments of
Charles M. Vest, Ph.D., Provost and Vice President
Theatre and Drama, Dance, Musical Theatre,
for Academic Affairs
and Opera Theatre. Also scheduling for Hill
Farris W. Womack, B.A., M.Ed., Ed.D., Vice
Auditorium, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Power
President and Chief Financial Officer
Center, and Rackham Lecture Hall. League Ticket
Richard L. Kennedy, A.B., Vice President for
Office, 764-0450. University Productions,
Government Relations and Secretary of the
763-5213. Group Sales, 764-0569.
University
UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES CENTER - is the
Jon Cosovich, A.B., Vice President for Development
largest student organization on campus. UAC runs
William C. Kelly, Ph.D., Interim Vice President for
events and activities throughout the year including
Research
Viewpoint Lectures, Amazin' Blue, Mediatrics,
Mary Ann Swain, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Interim Vice
Homecoming, MUSKET, Soph-Show, Impact
President for Student Services
Dance, Michigras, LaughTrack, Soundstage, Mini-
Henry Johnson, A.B., M.S.W., Vice President for
Courses, Special Events, College Bowl, Comedy
Community Affairs
Company, and Starbound.
George D. Zuidema, M.D., Vice Provost for
Medical Affairs
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ALUMNUS
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1990
Published by The Alumni Association of The University of Michigan since 1897.
Founded in 1894 by Alvick A. Pearson, '94.
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Dearest Grandfather
by Lilian Stafford, M.A. '67, M.S. 75
The letters between Raoul
Wallenberg and his grandfather,
Gustaf, depict not only their special
relationship, but the way in which
Gustaf endeavored to mold his
grandson's ethical and intellectual
growth-qualities that were later to
render Raoul a unique place in
history.
27
A Leader of Vision and
Determination
by Ami Walsh
In December, Phyllis Ocker will
retire after nearly thirty years as
teacher, coach, and director of
women's athletics at The University
of Michigan. Sportswriter Ami
Page 19
Walsh looks at Ocker's career and
at the indelible mark she made in
women's athletics at the U-M.
Vol. 97, No. 2
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by Claudia Capos, '73
Illustrated By Colin Allen
Publisher: Robert G. Forman
Claudia Capos spends our tradi-
Editor-in-Chief: Noreen Ferris Wolcott
tional Thanksgiving holiday ex-
Associate Editor: Sue A. Burris
ploring the traditional cuisine of
Associate Editor: Stephen Rosoff
out-of-the-way spots such as Kenya,
Class Notes Editor &
Tasmania, and Bali. Sometimes the
Advertising Coordinator: Anné C. Birchfield
fare is exotic and delicious, and
sometimes-just exotic.
Graphic design by Bauer Dunham & Barr
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1991 Alumni Association
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around the world in 80 days. We
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don't hold you to a time limit, but
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A Moment for Michigan
never because of lack of interest. It,
No matter how successful alumni
is important to note that such
may be, there is still a student-
volunteer activities are without
mentor relationship between alumni
compensation and result from in-
and faculty. Ask any captain of in-
dividual faculty members' commit-
dustry who has had a continuing
ment to the University community
relationship with Professor
and public service.
Emeritus William Payton of the
Seldom does a national or inter-
School of Business Administration,
national issue emerge that Universi-
and he or she will confirm the
ty of Michigan faculty are not
lasting benefits of such
called upon to provide immediate
relationships.
expert opinion for the national
As alumni, we are indebted to
media. The current crisis in the
faculty for the quality of our own
Middle East has created informed
education. However, we are also
opinions emanating from various
grateful that such relationships do
faculty resources. For example
not cease to exist after graduation.
within hours of Iraq's occupation of
Faculty have made immense con-
Kuwait, I heard Professor J. David
tributions of time and talent to
Singer give a balanced and percep-
alumni programs and activities.
tive view on public radio about the
They have done so willingly and
Few would argue with the premise
Middle East crisis. Similarly, the
enthusiastically. We as alumni need
that the faculty is a major deter-
November/December 1989 issue of
to continue to let them know how
minant in assessing the quality of
Michigan Alumnus included an
much their efforts are appreciated.
higher educational institutions.
essay on the initial (and failed) U.S.
Faculty quality can be measured in
attempt to overthrow Manuel
Yours for Michigan,
a number of ways. Peer evaluations
Noriega written by U-M professor
by faculty from other institutions
and former Time correspondent,
provide one means of measurement.
Charles Eisendrath. Such represen-
Bob Forman
In such ratings, Michigan always
tations from University faculty are
does well.
the norm, not the exception,
However, I see our faculty in a
whenever considered opinion is
more subjective way. As the alumni
needed.
director, I have the opportunity to
Several weeks ago I spoke to a
relate to faculty in much the same
group of alumni who were attend-
manner as students.
ing a session of our Alumni Univer-
The Alumni Association has pro-
sity. They had just enjoyed a
vided alumni with the opportunity
presentation on astronomy given by
to view and hear our faculty in a
Professor Richard Teske. During
multitude of venues. They speak at
our conversation I mentioned that I
the Association's continuing educa-
had just attended a meeting to
tion and enrichment programs.
discuss public support to higher
Faculty and their families are resi-
education in Michigan. One alum-
dent to our family camps. Faculty
nus said, "If they want to really
provide educational programs
understand what education is all
before and during our alumni travel
about, have them sit in on some of
programs. They speak at alumni
the faculty sessions of the Alumni
club meetings.
University. They will see how the
In fact this past year, several hun-
quality of life is enhanced and how
dred members of the faculty have
our state benefits by the contribu-
lectured and participated in nearly a
tions of the University."
thousand different alumni activities.
Ask any attendee at the Alumni
In my nearly 25 years as alumni
Association's family camp at
director, I have yet to have a faculty
Walloon Lake and he or she will tell
member reject an invitation to meet
you that the highlight of any given
with alumni on the grounds that he
camp week are the presentations
or she was not interested - maybe
made by faculty during the fireside
schedule conflicts and the like, but
forums or morning coffee hours.
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Letters
Hitting .406 In The Classroom
elevate their educators to the level of im-
your photo reproduction.
portance they deserve. There should be
Can you please provide us with an ad-
Bob Forman's "Moment For Michigan"
more emphasis on faculty than facilities,
dress for either Mr. Uhlig or his
(May/June Michigan Alumnus) deplored
athletic teams, and dormitories. When,
representative?
the lack of recognition accorded to our top
for instance, was the last time you saw a
educators when compared to the recogni-
faculty member on the cover of a school's
Larry N. Spencer, 64eng, M.B.A. '66
tion and adulation lavished upon our top
catalogue? There should be more "Pro-
Susanne G. Spencer
athletes. You ascribed the disparity to the
fessors of the Year," of the State, of the
Wilmington, Delaware
level of media coverage each group
Country, until the media is forced to
receives. I agree with your premise, but I
recognize their importance. Eventually
Editor's Note: Those interested in Max
feel an overlooked factor is the lack of as
some of the methods of faculty evaluation
Uhlig's work may reach him at: Pillnitzer
easy a method for quantifying an
used at every school will be reduced to a
Landstr. 59, DDR-8054 Dresden, German
educator's accomplishments as there is for
recognizable standard, as heretical as that
Democratic Republic You also may like to
athletes. Since Ted Williams hit .406 in
may seem to academics, not to the general
know that the Sept. 17 issue of Newsweek
1941, his achievement has been recognized
public, with the result that Rice University
ran an article about East European artists
universally because of a previously
can proclaim Prof. Huston as their .406
which mentioned Max Uhlig and featured
established standard of measurement
Professor of the Year, and we will all
one of the same paintings that ran in our
which enables us to compare what he did
applaud.
issue.
with everyone who followed him. Unfor-
tunately, there is no similar standard for
Harris I. Cohen, M.B.A. '49
educators. Therefore, a substitute method
Upper Montclair, New Jersey
Leslie's Legacy Lives On
of elevating our teachers is necessary until
such quantification is possible, if ever that
Your article about Mr. Leslie was a most
can be achieved.
German Art Magnificent
appropriate tribute to a truly great man.
That substitute method of making the
He eschewed attention and any form of
public aware of our heroes in the world of
My husband and I live now in Brazil and
acclamation or praise would have been
academe must fall to the nation's schools
only yesterday [July 5] received the
almost unbearable for him. He, too, was
first and then to the media. The media
March/April Michigan Alumnus.
my teacher and friend. As one of his
will respond only when the schools
Your articles about the East German art
seminar students in constitutional history,
through their literature, press releases,
exhibition are very much appreciated. The
I would often seek his advice after classes
bulletins, and other promotional material
work of Max Uhlig is magnificent, as is
and would spend many Saturday after-
noons discussing various current issues.
It was impossible for me not to become
his friend: When I was first elected to the
legislature, I frequently found myself call-
ing him on numerous issues to get the
benefit of his sage advice. His response
was always to ask such perfect questions
as to make the solution quite clear.
He was a gem among mankind. He was
a tribute to The University of Michigan, a
ffering
great historian, a wonderful human being,
and a marvelous teacher.
expertise
No words of praise could ever fully
1
in facial cosmetic and
describe the sense of excitement that this
distinguished professor brought to his
reconstructive surgery
students and to the credit of the
by board certified
University.
surgeons who are backed
Indeed his legacy lives on in every stu-
dent whose life he touched and I have
by the resources of the
always felt that I became a better person
University of Michigan
because of him.
Medical Center. For more
Jack Faxon, M.A. '63
information, please call us
State Senator, 15th District
at (313) 936-FACE (3223).
Lansing, Michigan
Another Pleased Seager Student
What a pleasant surprise to read of Allan
Seager as written by Shirley Robin
Schnitzer. I was a student in one of his
The Center for Facial Cosmetic Surgery
courses in 1936 or 1937. I don't know
whether or not he was a professor in
University of Michigan Medical Center
those years, but he should have been.
Ours was a remarkable group, writers
Members of the American Academy of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
like Harvey Swados, Dennis Flannigan,
Certified, American Board of Otolaryngology
and other names that escape me now.
I thought of Allan Seager many times
6
Michigan Alumnus
during my years and was pleased that I
spect that the world would see an English-
had an opportunity to have learned from
MICHIGAN
speaking Africa
or world." How pro-
such an inspiring man of letters:
phetic this seems today.
LIGHTED SWEATSHIRTS
Robert L. Garrison, '35 - 38
Robert F. Freitag, '41eng
Birmingham, Michigan
Annandale, Virginia
INTERSTATION
July/August Issue Meritorious
Our Woman In Washington
May I especially congratulate all who can
A note of information to the Alumni
boast responsibility for the highly
Association in the event you are not
meritorious July/August issue of Michigan
aware that Dr. Antonia Novello, '74 med
WOLV
Alumnus? The essays on Allan Seager
trainee, President Bush's appointee as
(whom I knew quite well-and immensely
Surgeon General of the United States, is
valued-as a colleague) and on Harry
an alumna of The University of Michigan.
Name
Lunn; both articles were so well phrased
I believe she completed a residency train-
Address
and well thought out. They reflect very
ing program in pediatrics at the Univer-
well on the University and, what is
sity's School of Medicine.
City/State/Zip
especially notable, the assumed capacities
Mrs. Moore and I first had the oppor-
Phone #
and interests of your readers.
tunity to meet Dr. Novello at a U.S. Army
I do regret, rather, that no good photo
Medical-Dental conference earlier this
Small (30-32) @ 39.95
of Seager was found and used. His look
year where she was the keynote speaker.
Medium (34-36) @ 39.95
and looks-well adumbrated by Shirley
During his introductory remarks, the
Large (38-49) @ 39.95
Robin Schnitzer-were a marked expres-
course director mentioned that Dr.
sion of his confrontation with reality.
X-Large (42-44) @ 39.95
Novello had attended the University. At
the conclusion of her speech, we intro-
XX-Large (46-48) @ 42.95
Arthur J. Carr, '35
duced ourselves to Dr. Novello and upon
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mention of the University, that familiar
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gleam appeared in her eye. We talked
S. & H. for add't shirts @ 1.50
briefly about the Medical and Dental
An English Speaking World?
Schools and the "good old days" in Ann
TOTAL ORDER
Arbor. This summer, Dr. Novello attend-
I found your article, "English Is Their
ed a function here at Walter Reed Army
BROTE DEAS
Window To The World," extremely in-
Medical Center and again we had an op-
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teresting and timely, particularly as
portunity to meet. She recognized us im-
Farmington Hills, MI 48024
regards the opening of Eastern Europe. I
mediately (this is not always the case as
(313) 476-8820
could not help but note that a particularly
army colonels are not exactly unique in
significant element of the explosion of
the Washington, DC, arena). Our conver-
English as the international lingua franca
sation drifted to the University and Dr.
is an unsung result of this nation's space
Novello remarked that the School of
But I Know What I Like
program, another field where The Univer-
Medicine has always been a front runner
sity of Michigan has been an outstanding
and how proud she was to be an alumna.
Just a note to tell you that I agree 100 per-
leader for more than 30 years.
After meeting her, it is easy to see what
cent with Joe K. Downing (July/August
Fundamentally, the invention of the
an outstanding individual Dr. Novello is,
Michigan Alumnus "Letters") and his
communications satellité as the prime
and what a credit she is to both her ap-
views on art. I also have said the same
mechanism for international communica-
pointment as Surgeon General and as an
things about art on a variety of occasions
tions has allowed penetration of vast new
alumna of the University.
and thank him for having the courage to
areas of the world. This is particularly
raise this issue.
true of opportunities to transmit television
Henry B. Moore, D.D.S. '60
over long distances and to receptors deep
Colonel, Dental Corps, U.S. Army
Carolyn A. Clark, A.M.L.S. 79
inside of nations not reachable by normal
Commander, U.S. Army Area Dental
Elmira, New York
ground transmissions. Not only has the
Laboratory, Walter Reed Army Medical
space program brought about the means
Center, Washington DC
to disseminate great volumes of English
Michigan Alumnus welcomes letters of
information, but the U.S. leadership in
relevance to the magazine, the Álumni
space technology meant that the lingua
Entrepreneur's New Address
Association, and the University from its
franca of the space business also became
readers. A letter to the editor should
English. This caused another mighty
Recently, an alumnus wrote [Michigan
include your name, class year, address
penetration of the world's advanced
Alumnus March/April] requesting a
and daytime phone number, and be
technology.
Wolverine Planner and your reply listed
addressed to: Letters Editor, Michigan
For instance, when the French and the
Dave Whetstone's phone number, which is
Alumnus, 200 Fletcher St., Ann Arbor,
Soviets were working to launch an early
no longer in use. We would appreciate it if
MI 48109. Letters should be no more than
French satellite aboard a Soviet rocket
you could print our address for those
250 words in length. The editors reserve
booster, they performed the integration
alumni wishing to contact us.
the right to edit letters for reasons of space
engineering in English rather than French
and/or clarity.
or Russian. And I recall, a speech by a
Maureen Áltermatt
French deputy in the early 1960s before
Student Ideas Company
the chamber of deputies wherein he was
P.O. Box 1915
justifying increased expenditures for
(313) 476-2325
French communications satellite. His
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106
prime argument was "that unless the
French moved rapidly in the communica-
tions satellite business, they faced the pro-
November/December 1990
7
Michigan Bookshelf
Summer People by Marge Piercy,
and one bittersweetly familiar.
When Brian arrives at his
'57, Summit Books, 1989, $19.95.
Piercy's poetic rendering of place
destination, he finds the stakes have
and character makes Summer Pèo-
Marge Piercy's tenth novel, set on a
ple a satisfying novel about the dif-
gotten higher. Suddenly, it is not
Brian's money that carries the most
secluded pond in Cape Cod, is a
ficult, highly personal choices we
value, but Brian's person, un-
sharp-edged comedy of manners. It
must make from our comforts, joys,
centers on the intertwining lives of
and sadnesses.
suspicious and anonymous.
Still, Brian hardly flinches at his
three artists: Willie, a gentle-
new assignment-he remains the
hearted sculptor whose vision is
disgruntled lover who longs for a
sincere but passé; Susan, his wife,
chance to replay the scenes-and
an ethereal fabric designer who
get them right. Against the
dreams of pied-a-terres in New
backdrop of Burberry-cloaked
York; and Dinah, an earthy, shoot-
revolution, where one's own death
from-the-hip composer who lost her
beloved husband to cancer.
M
E
is fearless and almost obligatory,
Brian idly falls in love with Clare, a
For ten years they have lived as
E
strong, open-hearted young woman
neighbors, a united front against
the seasonal onslaught of "summer
Author of GONE TO
travelling through the country. It
isn't until the end of the novel that
people." The fair-weather visitors
Brian suddenly emerges from his
have money, status, and above all,
deep sleep of youth-when he takes
power-to poison the seascape with
responsibility for his role in a full-
condos, and to spoil the richly sim-
scale tragedy, and faces losing
ple lives of the year-round
Clare.
residents.
In James Hynes first novel, pro-
Despite these irksome, if
found opposites cross boundaries;
sometimes entertaining, interrup-
youth and maturity, the restlessness
tions, Willie, Dinah, and Susan
of Ireland and the comfort of
have managed to live productively,
America, political ideology and
honing their crafts, enjoying modest
romantic passion, life and death.
successes and living off their belov-
ed land-harvesting gardens, pick-
Marge Piercy, a Hopwood recipient, has
Stylistically, too, The Wild Colonial
ing beach plums for preserves,
written eleven collections of poetry
Boy shows the edges of plot-rich
(Stone, Paper, Knife, and Available Light)
thriller and literary novel, and how
catching and smoking bluefish.
and nine novels, including Gone to
they can be carefully blended
They've shared countless meals, the
Soldiers, and Braided Lives.
without blurring their best features.
raising of Willie's and Susan's
The final effect is characters who
children, and, for a long time, each
-Lisa Failer, M.A. '89, is an Ann
are SO real their ideals seem in-
other's beds. Willie and Susan have
Arbor-based freelance writer
disputable, even as they wither in
found the perfect complement to
their grasp.
their individual personalities and to
their marriage in Dinah's sturdiness
The Wild Colonial Boy by James
James Hynes, a Hopwood recipient, has
of soul.
Hynes, '77, Atheneum, 1990, $18.95.
written for Mother Jones, Utne Reader,
But a minor clash with a
and Michigan Voice. This is his first
debonair summer person forces a
Brian Donavan is a wisecracking
novel.
wedge between Dinah and her two
former student when his somber,
lovers, and she is cast from the cozy
upper-middle-class Detroit Irish
-Lisa Failer, M.A.
home life she holds dear. It is here
family dispatches him from Ann
that Summer People becomes
Arbor to Northern Ireland with
Waiting for Poppa at the
Dinah's story, through which she
$10,000 in "gun money."
Smithtown Diner Poems by Peter
must explore her commitment to
For Brian, the order issued in the
Serchuk, M.A. '74, University of
her work, her habitat, and the
priest's chambers during a family
Illinois Press, 1989, $10.95 paper.
memory of her father, a Holocaust
wedding provides an opportunity
survivor. When she begins to write
for an adventure and a chance. to
Waiting for Poppa at the Smithtown
for the premier concert flutist, Itzak
distance himself from the loss of his
Diner is a book about yearning.
Raab, and then must cope with a
girlfriend, who has moved in with
Across a variety of subjects and
loved one's tragic drowning, seem-
another man. The implicit
styles, Peter Serchuk's first collec-
ing answers become murky. Finally,
dangers-and the deeper moral
tion of poems enacts idiosyncratic
Dinah is forced to choose between a
questions involved-seem hardly
ceremonies of desire. In the quick
future that is uncharted and risky
the point.
and nicely executed "Winter Poem,"
8
Michigan Alumnus
Waiting for Poppa
at the Smithtown Diner
A DISTINCTIVE
HOTEL.
A PRESTIGIOUS
UNIVERSITY.
Poems by Peter Serchuk
for instance, the change of season
figures forth the poet's wish for per-
sonal peace:
The wounded season is over.
This is the quiet I've listened
for.
Raw winds gnaw the brittle
stems, white flakes
Rise up like sparrows from the
dead grass.
I teach myself where the
In the heart of The University of Michigan campus,
barbeled carp
the Bell Tower Hotel offers superb accommodations
Sleeps beneath the ice.
and exceptional service reminiscent of
But winter's peace must, of course,
European-style inns.
thaw into turbulent spring:
Choose from sixty-six rooms and suites exquisitely
When the numb ice melts and
furnished in rich English decor.
water
is set free again the process
Make your stay in Ann Arbor one that gives you
continues;
even more reason to return.
the frail and unforgiven roots
are swept away.
All else must clench the mud
and suck
its way to blinding greeness.
-("Waiting for Poppa at the
Bell Tower Hotel
Smithtown Diner")
300 South Thayer
Serchuk's characters are never
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
able to hold off the ache of their
(Across from Hill Auditorium)
wants for long. In a sequence that
culminates with the title poem, the
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reclaim his father from estrange-
ment, insanity, and the grave. The
A Dahlmann Property
poems become the vehicle for that
effort, as Serchuk tries to turn
November/December 1990
9
memory and incantation into an
cards on the lawn." Such details are
little magic of his own.
impossible retrieval.
moments of grace, moments when
When the king decides to send Athaya
Elsewhere, the men in Serchuk's
the poetry itself offers its elusive
to the neighboring kingdom, Reyka, to
reopen the marriage negotiations in order
world simply want to live lovingly
flashes as consolation, in place of
to forge an alliance between the two coun-
and honorably with the women in
the perfect fish we will never reel
tries, she discovers that magicians there
their lives. But often they fail, as in
in.
are revered and learn to use their magic
"The Woman in the Dream:"
At its freshest, Waiting for Poppa
for good. Athaya's reluctant journey
at the Smithtown Diner adds a
brings her better understanding of a
number of things, not the least of which is
when I heard you weeping
verse to the old song of a species
that she is beginning to experience the call
in the distance,
whose reach forever exceeds its
of magic in herself. She also finds that
heard you praying for my
grasp.
there may be a solution to her dilemma
safety, pleading like a child
that will allow her to save not only herself
but the people of her kingdom as well.
for this night to end, I knew
Peter Serchuk is a Hopwood recipient,
There are plenty of obstacles in her path,
nothing we loved
whose work has appeared in Hudson
however, and Athaya must use all her wits
could ever redeem me.
Review, Paris Review, American Poetry
and powers in order to survive:
Review, and New England Review.
Instead of providing a typical genre
"happily-ever-after" tale, Smith throws
They yearn with equal vigor, but
-Kevin Walker, M.F.A. '90, is an
some surprises at her readers. There are
perhaps less sense, for these women
Ann Arbor-based freelance writer.
some lively characters, some complex pro-
to be archetypes: angels, earth
blems, and a well developed story line.
mothers, or perfect lovers. In "What
This beguiling fantasy should gain Smith
a lot of fans.
the Animals Said," Serchuk even
goes so far as to insist that a
Julie Dean Smith played the trumpet in
woman found murdered in the
SMITH
the Michigan Marching Band, before go-
woods is somehow a necessary vic-
ing on to receive an M.A. in English at
tim of love. "Let us bury her
Western Michigan University. She lives in
Ann Arbor where she is a technical writer
alongside all other lovers," he con-
for a software computer company.
cludes. To romanticize a murder is
ethically dubious, although Serchuk
-Sue A. Burris
apparently intends a kind of
The
transcendence. Love, he suggests, is
were the
American Immigrants and Their Genera-
the essential form of our need for
tions: Studies and Commentaries on the
God.
Hansen Thesis after Fifty Years edited by
Other things stand for that need
by Peter Kivisto, '70, and Dag Blanck,
University of Illinois Press, 1990. More
as well in these poems, particularly
than fifty years ago, immigration historian
birds, fish, trees, and other flora
Marcus Lee Hansen postulated that the
and fauna, the stock props of too
third generation of immigrants seeks to
much contemporary poetry. But
remember what the second generation
however much Serchuk's people
sought to forget-a concept that has in-
fluenced immigration and ethnic history
yearn, the natural world does not
ever since. This book examines current
often reward their passion. Though
scholarly thoughts on this subject and
they ache for transcendence, they
looks at the evolution of historical
rarely get it.
scholarship involving the American im-
migrant and ethnic experience. Kivisto is a
That human beings wish in vain
member of the sociology department at
for fulfillment is what Serchuk
Call of Madness, by Julie Dean Smith,
Augustana College.
knows, and surely it is a truth
'82, A Del Rey book, published by Ballan-
worth exploring-a defining condi-
tine Books, 1990, $4.95 (paper). This
Special Education in Context: An
engaging fantasy has a princess who
tion of our lives: In small moments
ethnographic study of persons with
cavorts in a lowlife tavern when she feels
developmental disabilities by John Joseph
of exactitude and invention, he
restless, and who insults the prince of the
Gleason, M.A. 72, Cambridge University
makes lively use of this familiar ter-
adjoining kingdom, whom her father, the
Press, 1989. Gleason presents an
rain. In "Bar Harbor: For a Moment
king of Caithe, wants her to marry,
ethnographic study of five years in the
because she is already in love with the
by the Water," describes a lover's
daily lives of the severely and profoundly
captain of the guard (a no-no in royal
mentally retarded residents of a state
hand "resting / like a bluebird on
circles).
school in which he interprets their ex-
the contour of my forehead." That
But there are more important and im-
perience in their own terms and from their
simile is Serchuk at his wishful best.
mediate problems in Caithe than the
own perspective. Gleason is a professor in
In "Summer on Green Lake," a
Princess Athaya's love life. The curse of
the department of special education,
magic has been striking some of its
poem in which fishing serves as the
Rhode Island College.
citizens, causing them to go mad, and the
symbol for yearning, the speaker
church, as a "solution" to this madness,
Ernest Hemingway: A Study of the Short
and his brother are angling for the
has been performing ritual sacrifices in
Fiction by Joseph M. Flora, '56, M.A. '57,
big fish they cannot catch, when
which the victims must drink a cup of
Ph.D. '62, Twayne Publishers, G.K. Hall
poison. Like most in Caithe, Athaya
they catch instead, a glimpse "near
& Co., 1989, $18.95. Flora looks at Hem-
mistrusts magicians, even Rhodi, her
the house" of their "wives playing
father's advisor who has taught the king a
continued on page 58
10
Michigan Alumnus
Your University
Student Experiments Captivate
Photo by Stephen Rosoff
Soviets. Students at the U-M con-
ducting experiments on grain dust
explosions caught the attention of
two prominent Soviet delegates
touring the U.S. in late August.
Leonid Tefler (left), Soviet chief of
international economics relations
and Dr. George Zelinsky (right),
general director of the All-Union
Scientific and Industrial Complex,
observe post-doctoral researcher
Yi Chen's experiment on smolder-
ing. Tefler and Zelinsky spent two
days at the U-M meeting faculty
and students as well as touring
Jiffy Mix (Chelsea, MI) head-
quarters and Ann Arbor-based
Domino's Pizza. Tefler invited
representatives from both com-
panies to the Soviet Union.
Frieze Face Lift: "You Look Mahvelous"
S
ince moving to the Frieze
Building in the mid-1960s, film
production and direction courses
have been taught in a tiny, con-
verted makeup/shower room. To-
day, after five months of renova-
tion, the first-floor "Communication
Corner" looks like it belongs on the
set of MGM-United Artists.
The new facility includes five in-
dividual editing and two sync
sound editing rooms, an animation
graphics studio, and a new lounge.
The laboratory film experience re-
quires that students spend literally
hundreds of hours in post-
production work in their editing
spacès according to Communication
Department Chair Frank Beaver.
"Near the end of the term students
have been known to remain at their
editing post for days on end, even
(From left to right) Greta Garbo, Emil Jannings, Gussy Hall.
sleeping there in order to get their
projects completed," says Beaver.
"The new suite will be a vastly im-
plans call for a state-of-the-art
Arnheim Collection
proved and healthier environment
sound and recording studio, a
The department of communication
as well as a superior educational lab
sound and light studio, a
recently received two important
for our film students."
movie/video theater, and a video
gifts of rare film books and films.
Beaver has also proposed to the
library. Who knows, with facilities
Noted professor emeritus of the
College of LS&A a second renova-
like these, Larry Kasdan, 70, might
psychology of art and author
tion for the Frieze that would truly
have finished The Big Chill before
Rudolf Arnheim, donated his
make it a multi-media complex. His
he graduated.
private collection of books on film
November/December 1990
11
Your University
to the journalism library. The Arn-
had reviewed approximately half of
"The serials are really special,"
heim Collection revolves around the
the late Murray L. Weiner's, '38,
says Beaver referring to two, 12-part
author's 1932 book, Film, which
collection. Among the reels, he
Bela Lugosi classics, Whispering
has to do with the psychology and
found feature films, sports
Shadow and Phantom Creeps, and
aesthetics of film. The German-
documentaries, silent films, and an
a Zorro serial. Beaver says they are
born Arnheim published the book
assortment of 12-part serials. The
a product of the depression, made
in 1932, the year before the Nazis
features included: Buchanan Rides
at the height of the studio era to
came to power. He emigrated to the
Again (Randolph Scott), King Kong
lure audiences to the theater. The
U.S. in 1940 and moved to Ann
(Fay Wray), Montana (Errol Flynn),
serials, like the other films in the
Arbor in 1974, after retiring from
The Black Pirate (Douglas Fair-
collection, are important to the
Harvard. After receiving the first
banks, Sr.), Birth of A Nation
department's film program because
Walgreen professorship, one of
(directed by D.W. Griffith), and
"they are not readily available." Ac-
LS&A's most distinguished chairs
cinemascope prints of The Con-
cording to Beaver, the popularity of
designed to promote "human"
queror (one of Hollywood's all-time
video has created a diminishing de-
understanding", Arnheim continued
duds, directed by Howard Hughes,
mand for film. Consequently
to teach at the U-M until 1984. His
starring Susan Hayward and John
distributors are circulating fewer
courses and seminars on the
Wayne as Genghis Khan), The
copies. Beaver says most serious
psychology of the arts were cross-
Return of Frank James and The Fall
teachers of film still like to project
referenced between the history of
of the House of Usher (Vincent
the classics in their classes.
art and psychology departments.
Price). The 20 short, silent films
For Beaver and the 350 students
consist mainly of comedies and car-
who take his Film Analysis course
Zorro & Bela
toons and one of the sports
each term, the marquee lights are
After two full days of screening,
documentaries covers the Sugar Ray
shining a little brighter.
U-M film professor Frank Beaver
Robinson - Randy Turpin fight.
Photo by Bob Kalmbach
Physical Education
Now "Kinesiology"
T
he Division of Physical Educa-
tion has been renamed the
Division of Kinesiology.
Kinesiology means "the scientific
study of movement." The name
change reflects the expanding
nature of academic emphasis within
Wiesel Wins First Wallenberg Medal
the division and a nationwide trend
in universities, according to Divi-
E
liè Wiesel, winner of the 1986
Wiesel, a survivor of the Nazi
sion Director Dee Edington.
Nobel Peace Prize, received the
concentration camps at Auschwitz
"Over the past 20 years, the cur-
Wallenberg Medal and delivered the
and Buchenwald, has written more
riculum has changed from one
first Wallenberg Lecture at the U-M.
than 25 books on issues relating to
primarily preparing teachers of
He spoke in Hill Auditorium on
the Holocaust and human rights.
physical education, to the com-
September 25. President Duderstadt
"Elie Wiesel's writings and work
prehensive study of physical activi-
presented the medal which was
perpetuate Wallenberg's extra-
ty and human movement," Edington
designed by U-M Art Professor Jon
ordinary accomplishments and
said.
Rush.
human values," according to Susan
Kinesiology offers three cur-
The lecture and medal are named
S. Lipschutz, senior associate dean
riculum tracks: movement science,
in honor of Raoul Wallenberg, '35,
of the U-M's Horace H. Rackham
leading to careers in cardiac
a U-M graduate who saved the lives
School of Graduate Studies and
rehabilitation, corporate fitness pro-
of thousands of Jews in Hungary
chair of the Wallenberg Selection
gramming, and sports medicine;
while serving as a Swedish
Committee. "Wiesel's humanitarian
sports management and com-
diplomat in Budapest at the end of
commitments, emerging as they do
munication; and physical education,
World War II (see related feature
out of the Holocaust experience,
which incorporates teacher educa-
story on p. 19). In 1945, he was ar-
make him an especially fitting
tion and K-12 certification.
rested by Soviet troops liberating
choice as the first Wallenberg
Hungary and disappeared into the
medalist and lecturer."
Soviet prison system.
12
Michigan Alumnus
Your University
LS&A Faculty Pass Diversity Requirement
T
he question of requiring
happening in the world. They
also meet the requirement.
students to take one course
argued that the university is
dealing with racial and ethnic in-
precisely the place for careful
III. Certification of Courses:
tolerance as a condition for gradua-
academic study and intellectual
The Curriculum Committtee of
tion has finally been resolved.
discussion of social issues.
the College will determine
Three years and as many proposals
The debate, however, did
which courses meet this re-
later, the LS&A faculty voted 139 to
generate a few moments of levity.
quirement. The process leading
90 in favor of a faculty-sponsored
Professor of English Stephen
to this determination will be as
measure, as opposed to others
Sumida, a new member of the
follows:
drafted by the LS&A curriculum
faculty, said that when he had first
1. Faculty members wishing to
committee.
heard about the initial proposal two
offer a course that satisfies
Under this proposal, incoming
years ago, at that time for a man-
the diversity requirement will
students in 1991 will be required to
datory course entitled Racism 290,
apply to the College Cur-
take one of possibly more than 100
he wondered if in fact the U-M
riculum Committee by sub-
course offerings dealing with issues
wasn't requiring the teaching of
mitting a syllabus and a one-
of race and ethnicity. Faculty
racism.
to two-page explanation of
wishing to teach a course meeting
The faculty proposal passed Oct. 8,
how the course intends to
this requirement will need approval
reads as follows:
fulfill the requirement.
from the LS&A curriculum
committee.
I. Required Content:
IV. Facilitation of New Courses:
Passionate arguments pro and
A. All courses satisfying the diver-
The Curriculum Committee
con preceded the vote in an hour
sity requirement must provide
will annually collect and make
and a half-long debate, revealing
discussion consistent with
available to interested faculty
the divisiveness and sensitivity of
disciplinary approaches, of:
the syllabi from all courses ap-
the issue among the faculty.
1. the meaning of race, ethnicity,
proved for the program.
Arguments centered around the
and racism;
mandatory nature of this require-
2. racial and ethnic intolerance
V. Review of Requirement:
ment, since no one disagreed with
and resulting inequality as it
After this requirement has
the importance and relevance of
occurs in the United States or
been in operation for two
discussing race and ethnicity in an
elsewhere.
years, the dean shall appoint a
academic context across all
3. comparisons of discrimina-
committee to review all aspects
disciplines.
tion based on race, ethnicity,
of it.
Opponents of the proposal,
religion, social class, or
however, are fearful that requiring
gender.
With this proposal, the U-M joins
such courses will alienate students
at least nine peer institutions, in-
to the very ideals these courses seek
II. Required Focus:
cluding Penn State and Berkeley,
to promote; offering them as elec-
1. Every course satisfying the
that are discussing or have recom-
tives would not diminish their con-
diversity requirement must
mended adopting requirements for
tent or spirit. They argued that such
devote substantial but not
diversity, multiculturalism, and/or
courses would consist of indoctrina-
necessarily exclusive attention
cultural pluralism. Seven other
tion rather than education and
to the required content.
universities, including three in the
would be serving a political rather
Courses may meet this require-
Big 10 (Iowa, Wisconsin, and II-
than academic agenda. Still others
ment by various means consis-
linois), already require such a
asked why a diversity course should
tent with disciplines or fields
course to be selected from an ap-
take precedence as a requirement
of study and faculty members
proved list.
for a broad-based liberal arts degree
from all departments are urged
Will this new requirement have
over other topical issues (they used
to think creatively about how
the desired effect here at the U-M?
population growth and poverty as
their fields might contribute to
Professor of Sociology Gayl Ness, a
their models) while others simply
the requirement.
eloquent proponent of the new re-
referred to a lack of requirements in
2. Although it is hoped that
quirement put it best: "It won't save
the math and sciences.
many of these courses will
the world but it's the right thing to
Proponents argued that the diver-
focus on the United States, it is
do."
sity requirement would intellectual-
not required that they do so.
ly challenge faculty and students
Courses that deal with these
alike, to reexamine their courses
issues in other societies, or that
and make them relevant to what is
study them comparatively may
November/December 1990
13
Your University
New Policy Set For Student-Sponsored Events
A
violent fight that took place in
Due to concern on the parts of
Alpha Psi fraternity and member of
front of the Michigan Union
both students and administrators
the BGA, said it reflected most of
during the first weekend of the fall
about ensuring the safety of
the concerns that the BGA brought
semester, has resulted in a new
students attending these functions,
up in their meetings with Swain.
policy for student-sponsored events
a series of talks was scheduled the
However, Michigan Student
at University of Michigan facilities.
following week to determine future
Assembly (MSA) President Jennifer
According to police, none of those
policy for student-sponsored events
Van Valey said she thought there
involved were University students,
held on campus. Mary Ann P.
were some serious problems regar-
but were members of rival groups
Swain, interim vice-president for
ding the definition of social events
from north side Ann Arbor and
student services, met with represen-
and inflexible deadlines. Executive
Ypsilanti-Willow Run who had been
tatives of various student organiza-
Director of University Relations,
engaging in hostilities for some
tions, including the Black Greek
Walter Harrison, stressed that the
years.
Association (BGA) and Michigan
University's new policy is not meant
The dispute began about 12:30
Student Assembly members (MSA),
to exclude interested people, but to
a.m. at a Friday night dance spon-
and other administrators to come
ensure that there will be enough
sored by Phi Beta Sigma fraternity,
up with a policy that would address
security at various campus events to
which was being held in the
these concerns and would help en-
avoid another such incident.
Michigan Union ballroom. An
sure that diverse activities would
altercation began inside the building
continue to be offered on campus.
-Sue A. Burris
and involved about 300 people.
After a discussion of their concerns,
When campus security officers ar-
Swain then drafted the new policy,
rived on the scene, they were over-
which went into effect on
powered and beaten. The group
September 19.
then moved outside where they
The new, five-point policy ap-
B School Programs
joined a crowd in front of the
plies to all student-sponsored social
building, which police estimated at
events held in any University
Boast Leading Draw
about 1,500 people. It was believed
common facility (Union, League,
that the crowd also included
North Campus Commons, etc.).
F
or the third consecutive year,
students from other Michigan
The provisions state that: (1)
The University of Michigan
colleges.
organizations must apply at least 28
School of Business Administration's
During that time, one of the Yp-
days in advance to allow sufficient
Executive Education Program has
silanti youths stabbed three young
planning and they must designate
the largest market share of all com-
Ann Arbor men in the back, and
two members to plan and monitor
parable programs. According to an
cut another above his eye. Another
the event; (2) there will be pre-event
international survey, the U-M
Ypsilanti youth fired four gun shots
meetings with representatives of the
gained 13.4 percent of all par-
in the air, one of which ricocheted
sponsoring organization, the facili-
ticipants worldwide.
and hit a 23-year-old Ann Arbor
ty, and campus security personnel
The survey counts the number of
man in the back of his left arm.
to clarify responsibilities; (3) these
participants in public, residential,
Four of the eight injured, including
events will be open to individuals
non-degree programs that are at
one of the campus security guards,
with a university or college iden-
least five days long. In 1989 the
were briefly hospitalized.
tification card and their escorted
Business School's 15 management
Phi Beta Sigma is one of several
guests; (4) fire and safety regula-
programs attracted 1,984 par-
fraternities and sororities that do
tions, based on the size of the room
ticipants. Harvard (1,854 par-
not have chapter houses on campus.
and equipment needed, will deter-
ticipants) finished second, and
The fraternity has regularly hosted
mine the number of attendees, and;
Ashride in the United Kingdom
fund-raising functions for scholar-
(5) a post-event meeting may be
(1,690) finished third.
ships and services at the Union with
called, if needed, requiring atten-
admission open to everyone. The
dance of those involved with the
"Your University" is written and
fraternity members also feel that by
event. Organizations not following
compiled by Stephen Rosoff.
welcoming high school students,
the provisions within the policy will
they can act as role models for
be denied use of University
them. There was no alcohol served
facilities.
at the party, and witnesses stressed
Most of the student organizations
that the fraternity was acting in a
are in accordance with Swain's new
responsible manner to control the
policy and LSA junior Maurice
event.
Morton, president of the Kappa
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Michigan Alumnus
Sports
Michigan Heads Into Hoop Season With Guarded Optimism
W
ill this be the winter of Steve
summer assignment was to beef up.
Fisher's discontent? The
sees the cupboard stripped bare by
Photo by Duane Black
Riley made a real contribution last
scenario: second-year coach, after a
year in part-time duty, placing sec-
good season with inherited talent,
ond in the Big Ten in blocked shots,
and leading Michigan in field goal
the NBA draft and must suffer
accuracy. This year, the team's suc-
through the growing pains of his
cess largely rests on his ability to
first recruiting class.
step into the spotlight.
Sound familiar? Fisher's
The two big questions: is he
predecessor, Bill Frieder, and
strong enough to survive under the
Michigan fans went through all of
boards full-time, and can he avoid
this before, in the bleak winter of
foul trouble?
1981-82. That season, after losing a
MICHIGA
After Riley, the front-court ex-
strong senior class featuring Mike
perience level drops considerably.
McGee, the Wolverines started out
This could be the year 6'9" junior
1-13. By midseason, Frieder was
forward Chris Seter stops being a
offering his resignation (almost
sitter. He has shown promise in duty
daily, legend has it) to athletic
limited to game-end "garbage time."
director Don Canham. Then the
Sophomore forward James Voskuil
team turned things around, splitting
(6'7") has a good shooting touch
the final 12 Big Ten games to
and should get a chance to use it.
salvage some respect.
If Michigan is to make a run for a
By comparison, Fisher's losses to
seventh straight NCAA tournament
attrition are monumental. Instead
bid, instant help will have to come
of one NBA first-round draft choice,
from the new recruits. Rick McIver,
he said goodbye to a record-tying
an explosive 6'9" forward, was
three-Rumeal Robinson, Terry
player-of-the-year in his school's
Mills, and Loy Vaught-and also
class in Texas. Sam Mitchell, another
lost Sean Higgins, who left school
6'9" forward, was a top-50 recruit
early to squeak into the second round.
out of Kalamazoo two years ago,
So, is it time to start cutting eye-
and comes to Ann Arbor ready to
holes in grocery bags for Crisler
RNIA
contribute after a year at prep school.
Arena wear? Probably not. Picked
At center, 6'11" Chip Armer
by most to finish in the middle of
comes in as a junior college transfer
the conference pack, the Wolverines
from Florida. He will be counted on
could be this year's dark horse con-
to provide strong support at the
tender if things work out right.
post position. The final recruit, 6'4"
Guard Demetrius Calip (6'1"), the
Jason Bossard, joins the guard bat-
lone returning starter, should
talion. A class C All-Stater from
emerge as one of the top play-
Senior guard Demetrius Calip leads
Charlotte, Michigan, he has NBA
makers in the Big Ten. He managed
the charge for the young Wolverines.
three-point range, with the potential
eight points per game last year on a
to be a big-time scorer.
team loaded with offensive
season, when he developed some
One point in Michigan's favor is
firepower; now, he'll be called upon
restraint in shot selection.
the likelihood that this will be
for some serious scoring.
Also returning at guard, after
something of a down year in the
Bolstering a strong corps at guard
rehabilitating an injured knee, is
Big Ten. It's unlikely that 1990's
are sophomores Michael Talley
6'3" senior Kirk Taylor. An excellent
record seven NCAA qualifiers will
(6'1") and Tony Tolbert (6'4"). Both
defender, he could see plenty of
be repeated.
exhibited flashes of their blue-chip
playing time shadowing opposing
Michigan State, last year's sur-
potential as freshmen. Talley
big guards. 6'5" junior Rob Pelinka
prise conference champion, looks
displayed good ball-handling skills,
also returns from a red-shirt injury
strong again with the all-around
but must cut down on turnovers to
year, and could be the team's
talent of Steve Smith and a fine
be effective at the point. Tolbert,
designated three-point shooter.
supporting cast.
sometimes used as a swingman in a
The ranks are thinner up front,
At Indiana, Bob Knight went
three-guard look, provided scoring
starting with sophomore center Eric
through his down year last season,
punch-especially late in the
Riley, a slender seven-footer whose
seasoning five freshmen while
November/December 1990
15
awaiting the arrival of guard
U-M Hockey: Going
Damon Bailey, whom he's been
scouting since the eighth grade.
For The Goal(ie)
Ohio State and 1990's top freshman
Jimmy Jackson are poised for a run
B
asketball's Steve won't be the
Photo by Bob Kalmbach
at more than respectability.
only Fisher among Michigan
After these three, the questions
coaches this winter. Red Berenson
mount. Like Michigan, Minnesota
will also be looking for something
and Purdue suffered heavy gradua-
in his nets-namely, a goalie to
tion losses. So did Illinois, and the
replace the departed Warren
Illini also face the continuing reper-
Sharples. A four-year starter and
cussions of a recruiting scandal.
Michigan's all-time winningest
Iowa could sneak back into conten-
goalie, Sharples was a large part of
tion with a strong recruiting class,
the reason why the Blue's goals
and Wisconsin keeps edging closer
against average dropped in each of
to the rest of the pack. As for North-
the last five seasons.
Junior forward Denny Felsner was M's
western, bring out the violins-the
Junior netminder Tim Keough is
top goal-scorer last year with 27.
Wildcats' top four anticipated
the only experienced hand on hand.
returnees have all left the school.
Keough has the right bloodlines; his
contingent returning.
In this context, the Wolverines
father, Jim, was an All-American in
The best of the blue-liners are
seem most likely to finish some-
1968 and shares the Michigan career
young: sophomores Patrick Neaton,
where between fourth and seventh
shutout record. Tim was 4-2 last
David Harlock, and Chris Tamer.
in the conference race. If that pros-
year in relief duty, and sports a
Neaton, a rusher who made the
pect fails to excite, consider this: the
9-6-2 career mark.
CCHA All-Rookie team, is the sixth
struggles of that 1981-82 team
Freshmen Steve Shields and Chris
leading returning scorer with 26
forged the nucleus of the squad that
Gordon will both get an excellent
points last year (3 goals, 23 assists).
captured the 1984 N.I.T. and set the
chance to show their stuff between
Harlock, more of a stay-at-home
stage for Michigan's outstanding
the pipes as they compete for play-
type, has been selected co-captain
success in the late 1980s. One day
ing time. With the uncertain situa-
by his teammates, a rare honor for
we may all look back on this season
tion in goal, Michigan is fortunate
a sophomore. Tamer specializes in
from a similar perspective.
to have most of a strong defensive
the rough-and-tumble style; as a
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freshman, he set Michigan single-
Mike Stone, following brother
U.S. Swimmer of the Year, leads the
season records for penalties (60)
Don's skate tracks to Yost Arena.
contingent. Eric Namesnik, who
and minutes (147). Senior Mark
Last year, Berenson's sixth, was
placed second to Barrowman in the
Sorenson and junior Doug Evans
his best yet behind the Wolverine
voting, Eric Wunderlich, and new
add valuable experience on defense,
bench. His team finished fourth in
grad Brent Lang are the others.
while freshman Aaron Ward and
the CCHA at 24-12-6 overall, drop-
sophomore transfer Paul Sancimino
ping only seven of their last thirty
It has been an auspicious autumn
could contribute as well.
contests. If he finds solid goal-
for athletic alumni from Ann Arbor
Five of the top six scorers return
tending, this season should see con-
as well. Harry Holiday, '48, a
to power the offense, including the
tinued improvement in Red's steady
former world record-holder, six-
whole #1 line. CCHA Rookie-of-
quest to bring Michigan back to the
time NCAA swimming titlist, and
the-Year David Roberts (21-32-53)
hockey elite. The Wolverines were
1981 inductee into the Michigan Hall
and Michigan's goal leader, junior
ranked #2 in the preseason CCHA
of Honor, was named to the Inter-
Denny Felsner (27-16-43), honorable
coaches' poll, their highest pick yet.
national Swimming Hall of Fame.
mention All-CCHA, flank sophomore
Meanwhile, Willard Ikola, '54, an
center Mark Ouimet (15-32-47).
All-American goalie at U-M and the
Junior right wing Ted Kramer
HEADLINERS
winningest high school coach on
(21-24-45) and senior left wing and
ice, was inducted into both the U.S.
co-captain Don Stone (20-24-44)
The men's swimming team con-
Hockey Hall of Fame and the
round out the top five. Four other
tinues to receive off-season honors.
Michigan Hall of Honor.
lettermen return to the offense:
Head coach Jon Urbanchek was
senior center Jim Ballantine and
named U.S. Swim Coach of the Year
The men's cross country team,
wingers Kent Brothers (senior),
by the American Swim Coaches
ranked #10 in the nation, placed
Mike Helber (junior), and Dan
Association. He will coach the U.S.
second out of 22 teams at the Min-
Stiver (sophomore).
team at the World Championships
nesota Invitational. Brad Barquist,
Recruits include NHL draftee
coming up in Australia.
Tony Carna, and Jeff Barnett came
Cam Stewart and Brian Wiseman at
Four Michigan swimmers will ac-
in 5, 7, and 8 for the Wolverines.
center, right wings David Oliver
company Urbanchek down under.
and David Wright, and left wing
Mike Barrowman, recently chosen
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Dearest Grandfather
by Lilian E. Stafford, M.A. '67, M.S. '75
my years. dear you you the the your
So wrote Swedish attaché to Turkey, Gustaf Wallenberg,
to his grandson Raoul in Ann Arbor, congratulating the
young man on his twentieth birthday.
Raoul Wallenberg was, at the time, studying architecture
at The University of Michigan, where he spent the years
1931-35, thousands of miles away from his grandfather in
Istanbul, and from his family in Sweden.
Lilian E. Stafford, M.A. '67, M.S. '75, a native of Danderyd, Sweden, and former adjunct
lecturer in the U-M Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures' Scandinavian
Program, first wrote about Raoul Wallenberg in the May 1985 Michigan Alumnus. That
article, a more detailed account of Wallenberg's years at the U-M and his experiences in
Hungary, was awarded a gold medal by CASE (Council for the Advancement and Sup-
port of Education), as one of the best articles of the year.
November/December 1990
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Gustaf's special grandson would,
father's death from
a dozen years later, indeed "do
cancer. The boy's
much" when he, in his capacity as
grandfather,
Raoul was born on
Swedish attaché to Hungary,
Gustaf, having lost
became responsible for the biggest
his only son, now
4 August 1912, just
and most important humanitarian
took Raoul under
rescue, of some 100,000 persons,
his wing. At
a few months after
during World War II.
Raoul's mother's
In return for his courage, Raoul
request, Gustaf
his father's death
Wallenberg was imprisoned by the
became the guar-
Soviets in 1945.
dian of the little
from cancer. The
What in Raoul Wallenberg's
boy.
background produced this singular-
At this partic-
boy's grandfather,
ly brave, caring, and resourceful
ular time, Gustaf
individual?
was the Swedish
Gustaf, having lost
In part, it was the influence of his
ambassador to
grandfather. Over the years, Gustaf
Japan and he did
his only son, now
Wallenberg (a politician and ship-
not see Raoul until
ping magnate) developed and nur-
the boy was almost
took Raoul under
tured his grandson Raoul's natural
four.
talents, and now, a recently
Within the year,
his wing.
discovered collection of letters in a
tragedy again
forgotten Swedish archive has
struck the Wallenberg household.
helped to illuminate their
Raoul's mother, Maj Wising
remarkable relationship, and the ef-
Wallenberg, was still recovering
fect it had on Raoul.
from the death of her husband
Published in Swedish by Raoul
when her own father passed away,
Wallenberg's cousins Gustaf
and she was left to grieve with her
Söederlund and Gitte Wallenberg,
mother.
the letters are primarily an exchange
Little Raoul became the center of
between Raoul and Gustaf
the two bereaved women's atten-
Wallenberg concerning the former's
tion. The half-orphaned child "gave
schooling, education, and stay in
and received so much love that he
the United States and other parts of
grew up to be an unusually
the world from 1924-1936.
generous, compassionate person,"
Raoul was born on 4 August
remembers Nina Lagergren, Raoul's
1912, just a few months after his
half-sister.
Gustaf wasted no time in begin-
ning to guide his grandson, with a
loving but stern hand. Play, as
Raoul had to learn, wasn't just for
fun. When he built with blocks, for
example, Raoul had to learn to do a
good job or grandfather would
disapprove and the boy would have
to do the job all over again. Later,
during Raoul's adolescence and
young adulthood, Gustaf
Wallenberg would continue to stress
that "thoroughness takes the upper
seat." A job begun had to be a job
well done, an attitude which Raoul
seems to have internalized from an
early age and which later served
him well.
Gustaf soon realized that his
grandson was an extraordinary,
quick-witted child. Raoul was rarely
short for an answer, a skill he
would ultimately exploit in his fight
against the Nazis.
Six years after her husband's
Raoul with his mother
death, Maj Wising Wallenberg
20
Michigan Alumnus
remarried. Her second husband,
cinemas but rather that I, through
Fredrik von Dardel, became ad-
interaction with Americans while I
ministrator of Sweden's largest
am still young, would desire to
hospital, the Karolinska. He and
build them
that I would get some
Maj had two children, Guy and
of the American spirit which is the
Nina. Fredrik von Dardel treated
basis for their technical and
Raoul with as much kindness and
economic progress."
love as he did his own children.
Like most foreigners, Raoul
But Raoul was a Wallenberg, and
seems to have experienced some in-
to Gustaf, that was important. So
itial culture shock and, at first, ex-
much so, that he emphasized the
pressed a few reservations about life
strength of family tradition in his
at the U-M. Soon after arriving in
letters to Raoul: "When you belong
Ann Arbor, he wrote to his grand-
to a family, which since genera-
father about the "Black Friday"
tions has succeeded in reaching a
tradition, when the students would
certain fame for competence and
yell and fight on the streets and
skill, it is necessary to under-
make freshmen the targets of "all
stand that your lot isn't the same as
kinds of ridiculous pranks but I
that of an ordinary man."
wasn't accosted," he added.
An iconoclast who differed with
He looked with curious, alert
family members as well as some of
eyes at life around him and made
Sweden's most influential people
comparisons between Sweden,
about trade and banking policy,
Europe, and America, sometimes to
Gustaf instead placed his hope for
his grandfather's displeasure:
the future in Raoul. The boy's suc-
"Americanism is discouraged by the
cess would, in a sense, be Gustaf's
American universities," he wrote to
success, too, a kind of vindication for
Gustaf, adding that "it is considered
him before his family and those who
suitable to instill in young people a
had distanced themselves from him.
little classical education and Euro-
But to accomplish this goal,
pean polish in college."
Gustaf thought it crucial for Raoul
Cultural and psychological dif-
to travel and study abroad.
ferences fascinated Raoul. In letters
By himself, Raoul came up with
to Gustaf, he com-
the idea of studying architecture, a
pared Swedish and
decision supported by his family.
American students,
"I get example upon
When the time came to select a
and attitudes
university for Raoul's education,
towards architec-
example of how
Gustaf chose The University of
ture and music: "I
Michigan, upon the recommenda-
get example upon
relative truth is. Just
tion of his friend Carl Milles, the
example of how
famous Swedish sculptor, then
relative truth is.
about all educated
working at the Cranbrook art
Just about all
academy in Michigan.
educated persons I
persons I know
Soon after reaching Ann Arbor,
know here
are
Raoul wrote to his grandfather
horrified at the
here. .are horrified
about his classes, campus life, and
skyscrapers, the
the United States: "When you came
standardization,
at the skyscrapers,
over here I assume that America
and the straight
didn't have any especially good
roads, which are
the standardization,
press in Sweden and what you saw
considered ugly,
here made such a deep impression
the factories,
and the straight
since it was new and surprising
which are seen as
For me it is different. The Swedish
unpoetic, and the
roads, which are
newspapers and opinion-makers no
jazz music, which
longer talk of the alleged American
they hate the
considered ugly, the
lack of education or anti-culture
corresponding class
than they do of English conser-
in the skyscraper-
factories, which are
vatism or German rudeness He
less, winding,
let Gustaf know that he now
many-faceted, and
seen as unpoetic,
understood his grandfather's intent:
classical Stockholm
"What you meant by sending me
would rather play
and the jazz music
over here wasn't that I would
jazz symphonies at
learn to build skyscrapers and
the opera and put a
which they hate.
November/December 1990
21
then have my breakfast at the
Michigan Union
usually in-
cluding grapefruit which has
become my favorite fruit
I have a
full schedule and my classes con-
tinue until five. Many of my friends
have now joined different so-called
fraternities and I therefore don't see
them as frequently during meals
any longer."
Later he mused: "I have very
much to do indeed I don't know
if it is the character of an adven-
turer that shines through, but I take
a particular pleasure in relaxing for
a week or two, in order to get time
to do what I like, I then suddenly
pull myself together and work a
whole night or so; it gives you a lit-
tle more of a thrill than just keeping
to your everyday tasks."
Raoul had a special sense of
humor, primarily directed against
himself, and was especially skilled
at making a clever play on words,
which was part of the charm that so
Raoul with his grandfather
endeared him to
others. Although
suspension bridge across the Rid-
he was extremely
"If I have time I
darfjärd than anything else."
brave, he insisted
While Raoul didn't find his
on emphasizing his
then have my
studies particularly difficult, he did
cowardice. He
find them time-consuming and he
mocked his own
breakfast at the
was soon very busy. "Up to now I
diligence by talking
have had the best grades in class on
about his laziness:
Michigan Union.
all take-home English essays we've
"My plans for the
had," he bragged to his grandfather
Christmas holidays,"
Usually including
in a letter written during the fall of
he wrote in
his freshman year.. An extremely
December 1932,
grapefruit which has
talented student, Raoul would even-
"include getting a
tually complete his studies at Mich-
lot of schoolwork
become my favorite
igan in three and a half years and
done I spend
win a medal awarded to the graduate
Christmas vacation
fruit.
.I have a full
with the highest scholastic standing.
sleeping until late
He kept himself informed about
in the day.
I
schedule and my
current events by subscribing to the
shall, however lift
New York Times-"considered the
myself by the
classes continue until
country's best," he informed Gustaf.
bootstraps-
At U-M, Raoul participated in
tomorrow, or
five. Many of my
the engineering and architecture
perhaps next week.
debating club. He explained to
Never do tomor-
friends have now
Gustaf that the club had "long and
row what you can
very thoroughly prepared debates
postpone until the
joined different so-
each week," providing him with
next day! A nice
"practice in public discussion and
holiday philos-
called fraternities
presentation skills," and "good train-
ophy" he mused,
ing in English."
twisting the
and I therefore don't
In his letters to Gustaf from Ann
familiar proverb.
Arbor, Raoul continued to reflect
In America,
see them as fre-
on his life at the University: "You
Raoul was showing
ask about my daily life here
I
an interest in
quently during
must say that I barely have any. I
humanitarian
get up around seven. If I have time I
issues and justice.
meals any longer."
22
Michigan Alumnus
He spent several Christmas holidays
by doubting everything and
with relatives in Connecticut, where
everyone; how much annoyance we
his maternal aunt and her husband,
cause
by being pessimists by
a former American military attaché
nature instead of optimists."
to Sweden, lived. Raoul was ap-
Gustaf, the patriot, was dis-
palled at his uncle's militaristic,
pleased. He responded sternly:
racist thinking and told his grand-
"There is a lot of family pride here
father, "He defends lynching, which
among our elders. People look at
annoys me
the frivolous and the poorly
In spite of some initial mixed feel-
planned with displeasure.
ings, Raoul had adjusted well to
Thoroughness takes the upper seat.
small-town life in Ann Arbor. After
Save your wisdom. It cannot be
a year of study at U-M, he could
great in comparison with those who
reflect, "When I now look back
have led productive lives." In the
upon the past school year I find I
same letter, the older man reminded
have had a completely wonderful
his grandson not to make com-
time." He had lots of friends whom
parisons between what he observed
he liked to be with. "People are very
in America and what existed at
decent and friendly towards me."
home. "It takes a lot of work to
Schoolwork had, on the whole,
bring about change, something
yielded very good results, not only
which they seem to have
in grades, which "doesn't mean so
demonstrated and realized in
much," but in his own knowledge.
America. I am happy that you have
Raoul and his
He felt that he had really learned
made exactly that observation
mother
something.
Gustaf concluded.
Raoul didn't complain of
Raoul had hoped
homesickness during his years in
to return to
"Once in a while I
Ann Arbor, but he did miss his
Sweden during the
family, friends, and country, and
summer of 1932,
get dreadful feelings
repeatedly suggested to his grand-
but Gustaf urged
father temporary return visits to
him to spend his
when I think of
Sweden. "I wonder if anything can
summer vacation
so develop your love for your own
visiting California
how tiny and
country as a lengthy stay abroad,"
instead, to estab-
Raoul wrote to his mother. Gustaf,
lish contacts with
limited my own
however, invariably rejected his re-
"personnes de
quests, preferring to keep Raoul
valeur" and to sup-
country is and how
away from the influences of life in
plement book lear-
Stockholm.
ning with "an
large and wonderful
But the boy never expressed any
understanding of
resentment about having to be away
people," especially
America is. The
for so long. Instead he warmly
those successful in
wrote of "the very deep gratitude"
trade and industry.
nicest thing about
he felt to his grandfather (who was,
"Accumulated
in fact, paying for Raoul's educa-
book learning easi-
America is that peo-
tion, travel, and other expenses) not
ly results in an im-
only because of "the very great
age of your own
ple aren't envious or
economic sacrifices" Gustaf had
perfection, a kind
assumed for his sake, "but perhaps
of presumption,"
petty," he wrote.
still more for being the object of
he added. There
grandfather's constant thought-
was no substitute
"Imagine how much
fulness and love."
for real life people
During these years away from
and real life situa-
effort we waste at
home, Raoul worried, as did his
tions. "In all you
grandfather, about the future of his
meet you have a
home by doubting
homeland. "Once in a while I get
facility for
dreadful feelings when I think of
awakening interest.
everything and
how tiny and limited my own coun-
You have seen so
try is and how large and wonderful
much and possess
everyone; how
America is. The nicest thing about
good conversa-
America is that people aren't en-
tional talent. Use
much annoyance
vious or petty," he wrote. "Imagine
it," he told Raoul.
how much effort we waste at home
He urged the boy
we cause.
November/December 1990
23
not talk so much about that,
because in our serious times one
does not amuse oneself and if one
does, one must not talk about it.
Raoul spent his last Christmas
vacation alone in Ann Arbor,
writing his thesis on architecture.
All of his friends had left town, he
told Gustaf, and the place was "like
a tomb," so he didn't have "any
temptations" to keep him from his
work. He did take time to enjoy the
fine winter
weather, however.
"One morning
"One morning
something peculiar
happened," he
something peculiar
wrote, the
street pavements,
happened," he
lawns and even
tree trunks were
wrote,
.the street
coated with a layer
Raoul and his half brother, Guy
of perfectly clear
pavements, lawns
ice almost an inch
to behave unpretentiously; not to
thick. It looked
and even tree trunks
live in a luxury hotel but to register
very strange and
in a plain place. "It isn't the hotel
very beautiful."
were coated with a
address which will make you
Christmas Eve he
noteworthy but your talent."
"felt rather lonely
layer of perfectly
All of Gustaf's suggestions were
and gloomy," but a
aimed at pushing his grandson
borrowed radio
clear ice almost an
toward leadership. He wanted Raoul
gave him much joy,
to see American industry up close:
as he found
inch thick. It looked
the fruit growers in California, the
American radio
motorworks in Detroit; Ford and
performances
very strange and
General Motors, "probably the
"pretty wonderful."
world's most interesting organiza-
Every year he en-
very beautiful."
tions." The interesting part was "to
joyed Handel's
come into contact with persons who
Messiah at the
Christmas Eve he
understand how to keep such enor-
University Audi-
mous organizations going
torium. He always
"felt rather lonely
Raoul spent a week in Los
went with his
Angeles, where, he informed his
young lady friend.
and gloomy," but a
grandfather, he "had a lot of fun."
At the end of
But Gustaf, while interested in
January 1935,
borrowed radio
Raoul's accounts of contacts with
Raoul Wallenberg
trade and industry representatives
had his last day of
gave him much joy,
in the western states, didn't want to
classes at U-M. He
hear about any "fun" and respond-
wrote to Gustaf: "It
as he found
ed, scolding: "Your letters will
felt very peculiar
always come under the scrutiny of
to finish these plea-
American radio per-
the most competent people and it
sant and interesting
therefore becomes of the greatest
years of study in
formances "pretty
use for their opinions of your abili-
America. I have
ty and character that they are
had a wonderful
wonderful." Every
presented in a way which make a
time and the part-
good impression." Raoul had to
ing was very sad."
year he enjoyed
count "as his most difficult com-
The following
petitors" the young people in his
weeks he was busy
Handel's Messiah at
own family, and so the actual
with examinations.
worth of his trip was in his stories,
Now that the
the University
Gustaf continued. "It is more secon-
trip home was im-
dary that you had fun. One must
minent, he was
Auditorium.
24
Michigan Alumnus
suddenly very anx-
directed by a Jewish banker, Erwin
ious to return to
Freund, another friend of Gustaf's.
"My memories of
his homeland: "My
Gustaf's reason for sending Raoul
memories of
both to Cape Town and Haifa was
Sweden have been
Sweden have been
that recent immigration and new
dormant for three
settlements in these areas had
dormant for three
years now, but
resulted in an atmosphere of op-
they are suddenly
timistic entrepreneurship and a
years now, but they
breaking out in full
pioneering spirit that encouraged
bloom and I am
individual thinking. Gustaf thought
are suddenly break-
actually dreaming
that his grandson would benefit
about Sweden
from what he observed there.
ing out in full
every night. I long
Mostly German Jews lived in the
bloom and I am
to get home to see
same pension with Raoul in Haifa,
my parents and
"very nice and humorous persons,"
everybody
he wrote to Gustaf in the spring of
actually dreaming
else he wrote
1936. One of them told him that her
his grandfather.
brother had been murdered by the
about Sweden every
By early 1935, in
Nazis. "Otherwise very little is
Ann Arbor, Raoul
spoken here about the past," Raoul
night. I long to see
had begun to ex-
added.
press a growing in-
As he learned more of the grow-
my parents and
dependence from
ing persecution of Jews in Europe,
the domineering
everybody else "
he told his grandfather, "They
influence of his
are
used to suffering of a worse
grandfather, who
kind than an economic crisis
so
wanted him to work as a volunteer
they don't worry about the risks
in a bank or business outside Sweden,
In any event, he reasoned, "they
now that the "theoretical" part of
don't have the choice of settling
his education at the University was
anywhere else but here." It was in
over. "I have been going to school
for such a long time that I begin to
feel rather useless," he wrote in
response to Gustaf's suggestion.
Given the choice, he would prefer a
job with a salary to volunteer work.
In the spring of 1935, Raoul left
the United States and had a warm
reunion with his grandfather and
other family in Sweden.
In Stockholm that summer, Raoul
entered an architectural competi-
tion. Scores of established architects
submitted entries, and Raoul
Wallenberg came in second. After
this demonstrated interest in ar-
chitectural endeavors, however,
Gustaf insisted upon Raoul's early
departure from Sweden. Raoul had
promised his grandfather to study
commerce and banking and Gustaf
kept him to his word.
With that in mind, Raoul's grand-
father arranged for him to work as
a volunteer for a Swedish timber
and building supply firm (Ardener,
Scott, Thesen and Company) in
Capetown, South Africa. Thesen
was Gustaf's friend and client.
After six months in South Africa,
Raoul sailed to Haifa, where his
grandfather had arranged volunteer
work for him in a Dutch bank,
Raoul Wallenberg, Florence, 1929
November/December 1990
25
1923
Haifa, according to
To be permitted to practice architec-
Per Anger, Raoul's
ture in Sweden, he would have to
colleague in
qualify and he did not want to go
Budapest, that
back to college. But the Wallenbergs
the idea of helping
did not offer him a job either. Raoul
people began to
thus became involved in several un-
form in Raoul
successful business ventures.
Wallenberg's mind.
Finally, after the war broke out,
No longer in-
he began working for a delicatessen
terested in working
import-export business, directed by
as an unpaid
a Jewish refugee from Hungary,
trainee, Raoul
who needed a partner like Raoul-
wanted a real job
energetic, with foreign language
with a proper
skills, a non-Jew who could travel
salary "because it is
freely in Europe, including Nazi-
difficult to work
occupied territories.
with any kind of
During his
energy when the
travels for the firm
"They are.
.used to
Detta kort skall för att aga giltighet ovill-
goal is so distant
in Europe, Raoul
korligen vara försett med innehavar ens
and difficult to
became used to
suffering of a worse
fotografi.
perceive as it is
dealing with the
here since I don't
Nazi bureaucracy.
kind than an eco-
Raoul Wallenberg's passport
work for
ad-
In France and Ger-
vancement but only
many and during
nomic crisis.
.so
for knowledge." The period spent in
trips to Hungary,
Cape Town had been a "complete
Raoul could not
they don't worry
waste of time," despite the good
help but notice
references. He believed that he had
how the Jews were
about the risks.
learned very little there. "It is risky
treated, and he
to be a volunteer," he wrote.
became outraged at
In any event, he
"Recommendations are valuable
the injustice he
only if the person writing them has
witnessed and
reasoned, "they
been willing to pay you."
heard about.
But Gustaf did not believe that
One day, in
don't have the
his grandson's disappointment in
Sweden, after see-
not having a real job was justified
ing a film,
choice of settling
because Raoul had gained a lot of
Pimpernel Smith,
valuable experience. In an August
in which a univer-
anywhere else but
1936 letter to his brother-in-law,
sity professor out-
Gustaf wrote that his goal to make
wits the Nazis and
here."
a man of Raoul and to give him an
rescues dozens of
international outlook had finally
their intended victims, he told his
been accomplished. He now wanted
half-sister Nina that it was just the
his grandson to leave volatile
kind of thing he would like to do.
Palestine for the relative safety of
In Hungary, in the spring of
Europe, which nicely coincided with
1944, after the Allied leaders no
Raoul's own desire to go to Sweden.
longer could ignore what Hitler's
So, after six months in Palestine,
Final Solution was doing to the Jews
Raoul departed for Europe by mid-
of Europe, Raoul, through a string
August 1936, briefly visiting his
of circumstances, came to head the
grandfather in Istanbul en route.
rescue effort of the largest remain-
Not long thereafter, Gustaf returned
ing population of Jews left in
to Sweden, where, after a brief
Europe. Raoul Wallenberg's reputa-
illness, he died in March 1937.
tion among the despairing Jews
It would be interesting to
grew to legendary proportions.
speculate the direction which Raoul
Gustaf Wallenberg would never
Wallenberg's life-and history-
know that his own special legacy to
might have taken had Gustaf lived a
humanity was the upbringing of his
few years longer. What did happen
grandson into a "human being" in
was that, now freed from the loving
the deepest sense.
but domineering influence of his
grandfather, Raoul found himself
wondering what to do with his life.
26
Michigan Alumnus
A Leader of Vision
and Determination
by Ami Walsh
photographs by Bob Kalmbach
f there is a single person who
Resistence to change has perhaps
1990. Its staff has increased from
has shaped The University of
been Ocker's greatest battle. "Phyllis
six part-time coaches and $20,000
Michigan's women's athletic pro-
has built a program from nothing,"
worth of scholarships to some 30
gram, it is Phyllis Ocker. Her career
notes Virginia Nordby, formerly
coaches, assistants, trainers, and ad-
as a teacher, coach, and ad-
U-M's affirmative action director
ministrators and a scholarship fund
ministrator spans nearly three
and now associate vice-president
that exceeds $1 million. New and
decades, comparable to the legen-
for government relations. "And she's
vastly improved facilities for
dary reigns of both Bo Schem-
been able to do that within an at-
women have sprung up in recent
bechler and Don Canham. For
mosphere where not everybody
years, including the 2,000-seat Var-
twenty-nine years, she has remained
wanted to have a women's program
sity Arena for the volleyball and
one of the department's staunchest
at all, let alone a strong and good
gymnastics teams, and the
supporters, a quiet diplomat who
one."
multimillion dollar Donald B.
gently but firmly guided the U-M
Since Ocker (pronounced : OAK-
Canham Natatorium for swimmers.
women's varsity athletic program
er) took over the department's helm,
Moreover, even those who once
through its infancy and, perhaps,
its total spending has swelled from
opposed the growth of U-M varsity
its most tumultuous times.
$100,000 in 1974 to $2.4 million in
women's sports, now commend
On December 31, Ocker, 64, will
Ocker for the strides the depart-
step down as the associate director
ment has made under her leader-
of athletics for women. (A replace-
ship. "Phyllis was a very competent
ment is expected to be announced
administrator. She was quietly ag-
by January 1.) A year and a half
gressive," notes Bo Schembechler.
ago, she wrote Interim Athletic
"She was (at Michigan) at a time
Director Jack Weidenbach, telling
when women's athletics made its
him she might retire in 1990.
greatest gains and has progressively
Writing the letter to Weidenbach,
been getting better year after year.
admits Ocker, was painless; her for-
She's certainly had a lot to do with
mal announcement August 23 was
that."
not.
Ocker's interest in sports began
"It's hard to let go-" she says, her
during her childhood in Spokane,
eyes moistening. "It's twelve
Washington. Born in 1926, she was
months. It's nights. It's weekends.
the younger of two daughters raised
I'm tired of fighting the same kinds
by Grace and Hugh Ocker. Her
of battles."
father, a printer who turned to
November/December 1990
27
Varsity Arena, reborn on the site of
the old Matt Mann Pool, has been the
home court for Wolverine volleyball
since 1989.
The 1989-90 basketball team
was Michigan's first to advance
to the NCAA women's
tournament.
carpentry, often took Phyllis with
master's in physical education,
interested in seeing my father's old
him while he worked. She would
coached softball, and played field
stamping grounds."
help him lay carpets and paint. On
hockey. After earning her degree,
Ocker drove into Ann Arbor on a
weekends, the two would often go
she was hired as a full-time teacher.
sunny September afternoon in 1961,
hunting for pheasants.
From Smith, Ocker moved south
relieved that her aging, green
Like her father, Phyllis was a
to accept a teaching position at the
Chrysler had survived the
natural athlete. By age 12, she had
University of Texas in Austin. "I
2,000-mile trip from Oregon.
gained a reputation as a fine ball
had itchy feet," she recalls. "And I
Somewhere in the car, maybe under
player, and the boys in her junior
had a chance to work under Anna
the clothes, books, tennis racket,
high wanted her on their team. But,
Hiss (Alger Hiss's sister). She was a
field hockey stick, and golf clubs
without exception, girls were not
real pioneer in physical education."
piled in the backseat, there was a
allowed to play competitive
Ocker stayed in Texas several
letter from the U-M confirming that
baseball. So, in her typical, quiet
years, then returned to her North-
the 36-year-old Ocker would teach
manner, Ocker waited it out a few
west roots. For four years, she
physical education for an annual
years then joined one of the best
taught at Oregon State University,
salary of $6,900. It was a one-year
female fast-pitch softball teams in
pursued graduate studies in
appointment. If she liked her job
the area as a catcher.
American history and became in-
and the administration liked her,
In college, Ocker pursued her in-
creasingly involved in ad-
Ocker figured she might stay at
terest in sports. On a five-year plan
ministrative duties. In 1961, when
Michigan three or four years.
at the University of Washington,
the U-M was looking for a physical
There were few paid women's
she earned a bachelor's in physical
education teacher, her name came
coaching positions at the University
education, and received her
up.
in the sixties. Female students in-
teacher's certificate. (She also found
The position appealed to Ocker
terested in athletics participated in
time to join a sorority.) Following
because it offered her a chance to
student-run club sports with tiny, if
her graduation, she taught at a
enroll in a Ph.D. program in
any, budgets and poor facilities.
school in Snohomish, a small town
physical education. She also har-
By 1973, there was a glaring need
twenty-five miles northeast of
bored a personal attraction for the
for more structure in women's
Seattle.
Midwest. "My father had grown up
athletics. A year earlier, Congress
Two years later, she made her
in Indiana," she explains. "And my
had passed Title IX of the Education
first trip east of the Mississippi and
father's cousin and his wife had a
Amendments, requiring universities
entered Smith College in
place in Honor, Michigan. So I had
that received federal funding to pro-
Massachusetts. There she earned a
heard a lot about Michigan. I was
vide equal athletic opportunities for
28
Michigan Alumnus
Ann Colloton's NCAA
championship in the 200-yard
breaststroke helped lift the team
to a sixth-place national finish.
The 1989 Big Ten women's meet was the first
championship competition held in the Donald B.
Canham Natatorium.
men and women. The legislation
Months later, the regents ap-
candidates," says Canham. "I
pressed many universities to
proved a women's varsity program.
thought she was the best one."
organize formal women's athletic
Longtime U-M physical education
Ocker took over a department
programs. Michigan did not follow
administrator Marie Hartwig was
that was short on funds and
suit.
appointed to head the program that
coaches. "We were minus some
The women continued to compete
included six sports.
coaches in basketball," she says. "So
under the casual, sometimes
Ocker took on the varsity field
my goal was just to make sure we
chaotic, management of students.
hockey coaching position in 1974.
had coaches and that we had all the
Former student/athlete Sheryl
She would continue to juggle
uniforms and equipment ready to
Szady, '74, M.A. '75, Ph.D. '87,
teaching, coaching and, later, ad-
go in the fall."
remembers those times well: "We
ministrative responsibilities for the
Sudden-and sometimes
ironed our own uniforms. We paid
remainder of her career. In the
stormy-developments were not
for the officials. We provided our
classroom, Ocker had earned a
unusual during Ocker's reign. In the
own transportation. We were
reputation as a teacher who set high
late seventies, for example, there
always borrowing friends' cars and
standards. ("She was a tough
were numerous federal investiga-
packing incredible amounts of peo-
teacher," notes Schembechler. "She
tions into whether Michigan com-
ple into them."
had a lot of my football players in
plied with Title IX. Ocker believes
Universities including Eastern,
her class.") On the field, she was
pressure from those investigations
Central, and Michigan State, re-
regarded as a fair coach who
directly led to increases in the
fused to compete against Michigan
demanded, above all, that her
number of scholarships available to
until it hired coaches, provided
players remain composed. "She
women. When she leaves in
chaperoned transportation, and re-
came from the old school of field
December, Ocker will leave her suc-
quired its participants to pass
hockey," recalls former goalie
cessor a program that (a year ago)
medical examinations.
Shellee Almquist, '76, M.B.A. '84.
reached NCAA compliance, offer-
Following a meeting that Szady
"So when we were on the field, we
ing 101 scholarships.
and her teammate Linda Laird, '74,
were expected to be quiet."
But there were also drawbacks to
arranged with the regents, a group
Three years later, after Hartwig's
the investigations. "All of a sudden
was formed to examine the
retirement and a one-year term by
we were supposed to emulate the
possibility of an intercollegiate
Virginia Hunt-who left to head the
male model," explains Ocker, who
athletic program for women. Ocker
women's athletic department at
continued to teach until 1989. "That
was a member of the committee-
Montana State College-Don
was the government's interpretation
often known as the Burns Commit-
Canham appointed Ocker interim
of the law. Nothing was taken into
tee, after its chairman Eunice Burns,
associate director of women's
consideration about the fact that
M.A. '70.
athletics in July. "There were lots of
the women were doing something
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Mary Fischbach captured 1988
NCAA individual diving titles
from the one-meter and three-
meter boards.
The 1982 softball team placed third in the AIAW
College World Series, Michigan's highest team ranking
in women's sports to date.
that might be a better idea. Maybe
To encourage excellence in the
Georgia Boerma, '52, was the
our ideas wouldn't have worked in
classroom, Ocker set up the
Council's first athletic scholarship
the long run, but we didn't have a
Academic Hall of Honor along with
chairman (1983 to 1984). When
heck of a lot of time to try."
M-Women, an organization of some
asked about Ocker, she responds,
Prior to 1981, when the women's
400 members, which presents
"When speaking of Phyllis, the one
teams joined the NCAA-the
awards to four-year varsity letter
comment that always sticks in my
governing body of men's inter-
winners who have earned top
mind is something that (the late)
collegiate athletics-Ocker's depart-
grades.
Margaret Host (past Alumni
ment had run its programs under
Her "integrity, spirit, and en-
Association president and past
the rules of the Association of Inter-
thusiasm for the advancement of
Alumni Council chairman) had said
collegiate Athletics for Women. Ex-
women's athletes, in general, and
to me," recalls Boerma. "Everything
plains Ocker: "Under the AIAW
scholarships, in particular, were
Phyllis Ocker does is always right."
rules, we could bring youngsters to
very contagious," recalls Elizabeth
After December 31, Ocker won't
campus and see them perform-we
van den Bosch, M.A. '70, director
be around to watch Michigan's pro-
called it an audition. It gave us a
of the Alumni Association's alum-
gram grow in the nineties. Granted
chance to see how they measured
nae activities from 1968 to 1986.
a one-year furlough, she will head
up with other college athletes. We
"She was a tremendous inspiration
back to Spokane, where she plans
can't do that now. Also, the NCAA
for the Council."
to buy a house. Once she's settled,
says the school must pay for cam-
During that time, which
she hopes to write the dissertation
pus visitations. The AIAW said we
coincided with the early years
she never finished on the life of
couldn't, so our recruiting budgets
following passage to Title IX, the
former U-M physical education
were much smaller."
Council created that position of
director Dr. Margaret Bell. "She was
One area in which Ocker didn't
athletic scholarship chairman to
a pioneer in her day," says Ocker.
compromise was academics.
work closely with Ocker in
"It is people like her who have
"There's just enough pressure," she
establishing women's athletic
made my career possible. She was a
says, "that it would have been easy
scholarships and recognizing
leader in her time. I don't think we
to set our sights on getting the top
women student/athlete
should forget women like that."
athletes regardless of their academic
achievements at an annual spring
ability. I don't think we've done
luncheon in Ann Arbor. Two of the
Ami Walsh is an Ann Arbor-based
that. I think we've maintained a
Council's annual Birthday Greetings
freelance writer who regularly covers
good balance between athletics and
raised a total of $78,000 seed money
women's sports for Michigan Alumnus.
education."
for athletic scholarships.
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ISTANBUL 549
66
DEPARTSMI
Fisasch
Pass The Anteater, Please
by Claudia Capos, '73
illustrated by Colin Allen & Kirsten Parr
Celebrating Thanksgiving in
and President Abraham Lincoln
ving up something more exotic
foreign countries stirs up exotic
established Thanksgiving Day as a
while they gave thanks for the
gastronomic adventures and wild
national holiday in 1863. In 1941,
bountiful harvest in a strange
turkey tales.
Congress set the official day as the
tongue and foreign dress?
fourth Thursday in November.
A decade ago, I decided to seek
T
he whole thing started with the
Since that first Thanksgiving,
the answers to those questions by
Pilgrims.
Americans have traditionally
traveling to a far-distant country in
After their Plymouth Colony sur-
celebrated the holiday with Norman
the world each year to celebrate
vived the first bitter winter in
Rockwell-style family dinners of
Thanksgiving Day.
America, Gov. William Bradford
roast turkey, dressing, potatoes, and
Over time, this custom has taken
issued a thanksgiving proclamation
pumpkin pie.
me to out-of-the-way places such as:
in the autumn of 1621.
Yet, consider for a moment what
Hobart, Tasmania, the stamping
That first Thanksgiving celebra-
Thanksgiving would be like today if
ground of swashbuckler Errol
tion lasted for three days while the
the Pilgrims had landed somewhere
Flynn; Kathmandu, Nepal, the
Pilgrims and their Indian guests
other than America-say, the shore
Himalayan home of the
feasted on wild turkey and venison.
of Tasmania, Malaysia, Chile, or
Abominable Snowman; and
The idea caught on.
Kenya.
Nairobi, Kenya, the last outpost of
President George Washington
Would people still be gnawing on
civilization in the heart of safari
proclaimed a nationwide day of
turkey drumsticks and forking up
country.
thanksgiving on 26 November 1789,
mince pie? Or would they be ser-
I've even sailed up the Ganges
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River and down the Amazon just to
donesia. Even now I can still picture
A new-found friend from New
add an unusual twist to my annual
the blazing red sunsets over Kuta
Zealand, who was also vacationing
celebration.
Beach and smell the heavy perfume
on Bali and had offered to celebrate
At each stop, I've tried to choose
of the tropical flowers.
Thanksgiving with me, said it
a dining spot that reflected the
On Thanksgiving Day, I found a
tasted a bit like grilled goat, kind of
history and culture of the country I
small, open-air restaurant with a
chewy and well spiced.
was visiting. I've also attempted to
canopy of palm leaves that seemed
I didn't argue the point since I've
select (and to eat) the kind of in-
perfect for the occasion. When I
never sampled grilled goat either.
digenous cuisine that modern
asked the Balinese waiter if he had
At least the meal was edible.
pilgrims would most likely serve for
turkey on the menu, however, I hit
There have been times, however,
their Thanksgiving Day feast.
a snag.
when it wasn't.
In many cases (but not all), the
In response to his look of
One Thanksgiving, I booked a
gastronomic rewards of my
bewilderment, I tried to explain that
jungle cruise down a 350-mile
Thanksgiving Day forays have been
a turkey was something like a big
stretch of the Amazon River from
well worth the effort, not to men-
chicken and I demonstrated by flap-
Iquitos, Peru, to Tabatinga, Brazil.
tion the considerable airfare.
ping my arms and gobbling.
The minute I stepped aboard the
Over the years, I have been
Everyone else in the restaurant
Rio Amazonas, a converted banana
served such delicacies as pig's-brain-
paused for a few seconds, their
hauler that was to be our "Love
and-chicken-leg soup, cusk eel in
forks frozen in midair.
Boat" for four days, I buttonholed
margarita sauce, fried fish fingers
For a minute, there was a flicker
the cook and requested he prepare
and brazed pigeon brain.
of recognition in the waiter's smiling
something special, something very
Of course, it hasn't always been
Balinese eyes and he soon returned
Amazonian, for my Thanksgiving
easy trying to order Thanksgiving
carrying a very large platter.
dinner.
dinner in countries where people
As it turned out, he was close-
I specifically asked for piranha,
don't know what it is.
but, as they say, no cigar. It was a
thinking what an ironic twist it
The first year I celebrated
platter of grilled turtle rather than
would be to end up eating man-
Thanksgiving on Bali, one of the
grilled turkey, the former being con-
eating fish for Thanksgiving instead
most enchanting islands in In-
sidered a delicacy by the Balinese.
of the other way around.
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Michigan Alumnus
But luck was against me. One of
guaranteed to burn a hole in
who didn't pay their bills.
the crew members told me when I
anything (including your stomach
The waiters and waitresses were
sat down at the table on Thanksgiv-
lining), didn't help. Fortunately, the
dressed in period prison garb, and
ing Day that we would not be enter-
meal included other Amazonian
the background music was a motley
ing piranha waters until the next
trimmings such as potatoes, rice,
collection of Australian beer drink-
morning.
and bananas so I didn't go hungry.
ing songs.
That meant my plate of pan-fried
In 1982, I headed Down Under
I passed up the "penitentiary
piranha would end up becoming a
and made my way to Tasmania, a
chicken" and the "condemned man's
belated Thanksgiving dinner-
strange apple-shaped island off the
reprieve" and decided to go with a
which it was the following day.
southeastern shore of Australia.
gigantic Tasmanian crayfish served
But the crew did not disappoint
Tasmania was originally settled
up mornay-style with a cheese and
me that Thanksgiving night.
as a penal colony, and among the
wine sauce. It more than lived up to
They brought out a covered dish
top tourist attractions today are the
its billing that night.
and set it in front of me with great
Colonial Convict Museum and the
Although I had originally
fanfare. Off came the lid, revealing
ruins of the Port Arthur prison
planned to celebrate Thanksgiving
half of a grilled anteater that had
complex.
the next year in Monrovia, the
been captured by a local Indian
In view of the island's dubious
capital of Liberia (for some reason,
tribe, former headhunters, as I later
history, I thought the logical choice
the idea struck my fancy even
found out.
of dining spots would be the Ball
though Liberia's only real claim to
More precisely, it was half of a
and Chain Restaurant in Hobart,
culinary fame is baked barracuda),
very old anteater that had been
the birthplace of actor Errol Flynn.
the timing was wrong.
burned to a crisp. It was shoe-
I wasn't disappointed. The dark-
Instead, I ended up in Nairobi,
leather tough and I found I couldn't
as-a-dungeon dining room was
Kenya, on November 24, searching
cut it, chop it, tear it apart, bite it,
done up in nineteenth-century penal
for some restaurant that served
or chew it.
colony decor, complete with iron
native African food. There were
Even dousing it with the locally
bars, rough-hewn wooden tables,
virtually none except the African
made hot sauce, which was
and even a pillory for customers
Heritage Cafe on Kenyatta Avenue.
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November/December 1990
33
I later learned why when I persuad-
restaurant in the old Jewish Quarter
Old Malacca, a weathered seaport
ed the chef, a tiny lady with thick
of the city back in 1984.
on the western coast of Malaysia,
glasses, to prepare a sampling of in-
In this case, selecting the main
proved to be much more difficult,
digenous dishes especially for me.
course was simple: St. Peter's fish,
however.
To be perfectly honest, there is
which is found only in the Sea of
After having been ruled suc-
only so much you can do with corn,
Galilee, was the perfect choice.
cessively by the Chinese, Por-
beans, and potatoes. Even under the
There is a legend behind this par-
tuguese, Dutch, and British, the city
most skillful direction, it will never
ticular fish, I discovered. In Biblical
should have been able to offer at
qualify as haute cuisine.
times, the people of Capernaum
least a modicum of good Occidental
In the end, the names of the
were heavily taxed by the Romans
and Oriental cuisine. No such luck.
dishes-"viesi," "boga," "gatheru,"
and on one occasion when there
The driver of my trishaw (a
"irio," and "skuma wiki"-turned out
was no money, St. Peter directed
three-wheel bike with a passenger
to be much more interesting than
the villagers to lower their nets into
seat in front) was panting by the
the ingredients.
the sea.
time he finally dropped me off in
Have I ever broken my
The fish they caught turned out
front of the Lim Tian Puan, a
Thanksgiving tradition by eating a
to have a gold coin in its mouth,
Chinese restaurant, one rainy
traditional rather than nontradi-
which saved them from the ravages
Thanksgiving night back in 1985.
tional meal? No, not yet. But I have
of the Roman tax collectors. This
I was ushered into the dining
been tempted.
legend also explains why St. Peter's
room by a Chinese woman and
In Jerusalem one year, I came
fish is always served with its head
seated at a small table draped in a
very close to hunkering down with
intact.
red cloth. No one around me, in-
a big, juicy burger, french fries, and
As luck would have it, my fish
cluding my waitress, spoke
a shake at a McDavid's fast-food
was short on gold coins that night
anything but fluent Chinese.
restaurant.
so I had to ante up the shekels to
However, the menu items had
Fortunately, my better sense
pay for my Thanksgiving dinner all
English translations, so I was able
prevailed and I decided to go to the
by myself.
to make my choices without wild
Hahoma, the only kosher
Finding a suitable restaúrant in
guesswork.
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Michigan Alumnus
O
I passed up the shark's fin with
cellent and reminded me of the
chicken feet and dutifully scooped a
scrambled eggs in favor of spiced
pressed duck I had enjoyed in
few more out of the pot into the
teochew duck, the restaurant's
Chinese restaurants back home.
bowl. As soon as she wasn't look-
specialty, bean curd with crabmeat
The fried rice, flavored with bits of
ing, I threw them back into the pot.
and fried rice.
egg and scallion, was also tasty.
By the time the meal was over,
After a moment's hesitation, I
But the soup stopped me cold. I
the chicken feet had made at least
added steamed-pig's-brain-with-
asked the Chinese woman who had
ten jet-propelled trips back and
chicken-leg soup to my order. In
seated me how I was supposed to
forth, leaving the waitress
Asia, just about any plant or
eat it. She gestured for me to nibble
somewhat mystified about the
animal part is considered worthy of
the skin off the chicken feet but not
remarkable qualities of my soup
the dinner table and I was curious
to eat the bones.
pot and its bountiful contents.
to see how the cook would handle
I fished out a chicken foot and
After 10 years of these travels, I'm
that combination.
pulled off a piece of tough yellow
thinking that maybe it is time to
Half an hour later, my food ar-
skin with my teeth. That first bite
select another holiday to venture
rived and the waitress smiled as she
convinced me I didn't want a
forth. But before I do, this fall I will
ladled my gray soup broth with
second.
take my last Thanksgiving trip
whole chicken feet floating in it, out
When the waitress wasn't look-
abroad to the one place that I've
of the pot into my bowl.
ing, I deftly tossed all the chicken
been harboring a desire to visit
I decided to start with something
feet from my bowl back into the pot
from the beginning, Istanbul-
more palatable looking and took a
on the table and continued spoon-
Turkey, of course.
spoonful of the bean curd with
ing up my soup broth, hoping I
crabmeat. It looked, and tasted, a
wouldn't encounter any
little like tiny pillows of soggy foam
Claudia Capos, '73, a freelance travel
recognizable pieces of pig's brain.
writer, is a frequent contributor to
rubber.
A few minutes later, the waitress
Michigan Alumnus.
The spiced teochew duck was ex-
came by, spotted my bowl sans
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1991 Alumni Travel Opportunities
Dear Association Member:
Association, our principal purpose is to serve provide our
TRANS-PANAMA CANAL CRUISE
As an independent Alumni Michigan. In addition, we have an obligation alumni to travel
January 7 to 17
alma services mater, to our The membership. University of Among these has been our very successful
This ten-night cruise from San Juan to Acapulco
features visits to the ports of St. Thomas; St. Maar-
program. is accompanied by a member of Michigan's faculty, an
ten/St. Martin; Curacao; and Caldera. One of the
highlights will certainly be the day-long crossing
On most programs, the educational group component to the tour, but privileged also serves we are as to
of the Panama Canal, considered by many to be
who not only reminder provides of the an importance of the University as former and Michigan how students travel
the eighth wonder of the world. Our ship will be
excellent quality. Also, bringing them
the newly-built CRYSTAL HARMONY. Theprice,
have together, faculty they of have such opportunities outstanding to recall the halcyon days of college,
including air from over eighty U.S. and Canadian
cities, starts at $2,450.
still closer to their alma mater.
Peculiarly, our travel program, although Although a direct service our tours to in our no way alumni, are used also
LOWER CARIBBEAN/ORINOCO
provides funds, significant an interesting benefits to by-product the University. of our travel programs is that participants
January 8 to 18
This voyage is one of great diversity, encompass-
to have solicit a much higher rate of giving to the University.
ing areas in the lower Caribbean and northern
Foremost in our planning, however, is our well desire as to an provide enjoyable competitively-priced travel experience
Venezuela. Swim and snorkel in some of the finest
marine environments anywhere and experience
programs with an educational members component, and their as families. The travel offerings destinations, that follow
the exotic flora and fauna that thrive along the
Orinoco River. The YORKTOWN CLIPPER is
with are a fellow diverse Association collection of opportunities, designed to present a variety of
perfect for this voyage, allowing us to enter areas
larger cruise ships could never consider. This 10-
itineraries and prices.
our travel manager, is an experienced are travel always professional, available to and answer she is
night cruise to Trinidad, Ciudad Guayana, Curi-
apo Indian Village, Tobago, Isla Margarita, Los
ably Linda assisted Rains, by a new associate, Chris provide Luskin. whatever They information/assistance reached you at
Roques Archipelago, and Bonaire is available with
your might questions desire. For and detailed are most information willing to on our travel offerings, they may be
rates beginning at $2,400 (air fare additional), and
will be accompanied by Adjunct Assistant Profes-
sor of Afroamerican and African Studies Nesha Z.
(313) 763-9732.
Haniff.
Yours for Michigan,
Bob Forman
Robert G. Forman
Executive Director
SOUTH PACIFIC: NEW ZEALAND
AND AUSTRALIA
January 23 to February 5
New Zealand is a remarkable country of spectacu-
lar natural beauty. On this exciting two-week
program, you'll explore the highlights of New
Zealand, spending two nights each in Auckland,
Queenstown and Te Anau, and one night each in
Rotorua and Christchurch. Then, spend three
nights in Australia's capital city, cosmopolitan
Sydney. This program is $4,295 with departure
from Los Angeles. An optional extension in Aus-
tralia is available, featuring one night each in
Ayers Rock and Alice Springs, followed by five
nightsin Cairns (Great Barrier Reef). Interim Vice-
President for Research and Professor of Geologi-
cal Sciences William C. Kelly will be accompany-
ing this program.
MEXICAN RIVIERA
February 11 to 19
Discover the colors and contrasts of the Mexican
Riviera's golden coast while relaxing in comfort
and luxury aboard one of the world famous Love
Boats, Princess Cruises' DAWN PRINCESS. Visit
Puerto Vallarta, Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa. Con-
clude this nine-day program with three nights in
Acapulco at the deluxe Acapulco Plaza Hotel.
From $1,299 with departure from Los Angeles.
Special low air add-ons are available from selected
gateway cities.
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
EXPEDITION CRUISE
February 22 to March 3
The Galapagos Islands will fill you with wonder
and amazement as you match steps with giant
Galapagos tortoises and watch blue-footed boobies
right at your feet. This expedition cruise aboard
the GALAPAGOS EXPLORER, accompanied by
Orin G. Gelderloos, Professor of Environmental
Studies and Biological Sciences, as well as natural-
ist guides from the Charles Darwin Research Sta-
tion, will enable you to see these islands through
the eyes of acknowledged experts. Some of the
many cruising highlights include the islands of:
Bartolome, with its volcanic landscape and white
shell sand beaches; Floreana, a bird-watcher's para-
dise; and James, a black lava home to fur seals,
marine iguanas, and coral-colored flamingos.
From $2,995, including airfare, from Miami.
VIRGIN ISLANDS
March 2 to 9
The NANTUCKET CLIPPER departs St. Thomas
on a unique voyage through what National Geo-
graphic has called "some of the world's most beau-
tiful waters." We will explore secluded bays,
picturesque coves, out-of-the-way marinas and
some of the finest beaches in the world. Our
itinerary will call at St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin
Gorda, Jost Van Dyke and St. John with rates
beginning at $1,500 (air rates additional). Passen-
gers can deduct $100 per person if space is booked
by November 30, 1990.
COSTA RICA'S NATIONAL PARKS
AND THE PANAMA CANAL
March 11 to 23
Our voyage, exploring Costa Rica's national parks
and the Panama Canal, includes many areas that
Nature At Its Finest - Angel Falls
unrivaled Seychelles. We'll discover giant tor-
toises on Aldabra, snorkel or dive off Astove and
bird watch on Farquhar. Enter the primeval forest
of Vallee de Mai on Praslin and photograph the
unique pink-granite towers that grace the shore of
La Digue. Starting at $4,750 from New York, the
cost includes all shore excursions, shipboard gra-
tuities, on-board seminars, and other features.
Book space by November 22, 1990 and receive a
$400 discount. An optional pre-cruise Kenya ex-
tension will be available.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND THE
SACRAMENTO DELTA
April 30 to May 7
Our journey to San Francisco, Sausalito, Sacra-
mento, and Vallejo (the famed Sonoma and Napa
Valley wine country), is an immersion in the many
moods-past and present--of California. We will
sample the cosmopolitan attractions of San Fran-
cisco for two nights, and then board the YORK-
TOWN CLIPPER for a five-night cruise. The price
will start at $1,300 (air fare additional). University
of Michigan passengers may deduct $100 if booked
by January 4, 1991.
Festive Colors In The San Blas Islands
WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN
April 30 to May 12
have remained immune to the encroachments of
INDIAN OCEAN/SEYCHELLES
This spring, discover some of the most beautiful
mass tourism. Our cruise includes the San Blas
and untouched parts of the Mediterranean as we
Islands, a transit of the Panama Canal, Panama's
EXPEDITION CRUISE
explore hidden islands known for their local color
exotic Darien Jungle and Costa Rica's Paos Vol-
April 22 to May 7
and unspoiled charm. After a two-night stay in
cano. Other ports visited are Bahia Herradura
Travel "a thousand miles outside the world" and
Barcelona, sail aboard the luxurious all-suite REN-
(Carara Biological Reserve), Quepos (Manuel An-
find paradise-in the legendary isles of the Seych-
AISSANCE to discover the unspoiled and serene
tonio National Park), Marenco Biological Station,
elles. After an overnight flight to London, con-
Spanish isle of Minorca; medieval Bonafacio on
Cebaco Island, Contadora Island, and Portobelo.
tinue on to Nairobi for a one-night stay. Board the
the island of Corsica; Ischia and Ponza islands
Two hotel nights, one in San Jose and one in
WORLD DISCOVERER in Mombasa and begin an
near the entrance to the Bay of Naples; the en-
Panama City, are also included in the program.
11-night cruise with a visit to the Sultan's Palace
chanting worlds of the Aeolian Islands of Lipari
Rates begin at $2,750, less an early booking bonus
and souk of Zanzibar. Contrast this vibrant cul-
and Stromboli; the pre-historic monuments of
of $150 if space is reserved by November 30, 1990
ture with the peaceful rain forest of the Comoros'
Sardinia, Malta and Gozo; and the Greek ruins of
(air fare additional). Enrichment lectures will be
largest island, then sail north for a week in the
Sicily. Our cruise ends in Taormina, Sicily where
provided by Adjunct Lecturer in Natural Resources
Hugh B. Muller.
Sicily's Romantic Taormina
AN ITALIAN HOLIDAY
March 13 to 22
Five nights in the ancient city of Rome will allow
time to see more than just the numerous ruins,
basilicas, and monuments of yesterday's glory.
Open flea markets, cafe-lined streets, and pedes-
trian-streamed piazzas reflect modern Rome. Then
two nights in Florence will prove that the city's
growth continues due to its vital force in the arts,
in culture, and in science. Visits will also be made
to Siena, a hill town of artistic heritage more
Gothic than Renaissance, and Orvieto, with its
impressive cathedral. The program, including
half-day guided tours in Rome and Florence, is
priced at $1,643 from New York. The land only
price is $1,058.
PORTUGAL/SPAIN
April 5 to 18
Join us this spring as we explore two countries that
are ancient even by European standards. Begin
with three nights in Lisbon, a city that exudes old-
world charm, then continue southward to the
Andalusia region where two nights are scheduled
in Seville. Next, travel to magical Granada and
spend two nights at the elegant Alhambra Palace
Hotel. En route to Madrid, a walking tour in the
imperial city of Toledo is included. Our stay in
Madrid of five nights permits ample time to ex-
plore this most cosmopolitan city. Priced at $2,875
from New York.
we spend two days exploring this splendid city.
included from sixteen eastern U.S. cities; low air
newly-commissioned M.S. BRANDENBURG, KD
Prices start at $4,995, with low air add-ons avail-
supplements are available from other cities. Par-
German Rhine Line's newest vessel. Visit historic
able from many gateway cities.
ticipants can choose either a two-night pre- or
and beautiful towns like Martin Luther's Witten-
post-cruise hotel package in Venice or Bordeaux at
berg, art-endowed Dresden and scenic Bad Schan-
NORTHERN ITALY
no additional cost. This cruise can be combined
dau. You'll also spend two nights in Prague,
May 14 to 27
with the Bordeaux to Copenhagen program de-
Czechoslovakia, one of Eastern Europe's most
Our journey across the historic region of northern
scribed below.
intriguing cities, and three nights in Berlin. This
Italy is one that will focus on the cultural and
program is from $3,695 with departure from New
artistic treasures that are bywords of literature
BORDEAUX TO COPENHAGEN
York.
and history. This twelve-day program will ex-
June 2 to 17
plore and examine medieval cities, palaces and
A continuation of the above Venice to Bordeaux
NEW ENGLAND
cathedrals, and world-famous works of art. Three
program, this two-week journey will first head
June 15 to 22
nights each will be spent in Lake Como, Verona
north to Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands.
This voyage offers an interesting juxtaposition of
Along Nantucket's Coast
and Venice, followed by two nights in Parma and
The ROYAL VIKING SUN will then dock at Le
timeless historical milestones and fashionable
one night in Milan. The price will be $3,750 from
Havre, France's second largest port. Two days in
seaside resorts. Newport reminds us of the "Great
New York.
this vicinity will allow for ample time to visit Paris,
Gatsby" era, with its stunning mansions along the
"The City of Light." After cruising in the North
famous 10-mile Ocean Drive, while Martha's
VENICE TO BORDEAUX
Sea, continueon to Antwerp, Belgium, and Tilbury,
Vineyard evokes an earlier period with its Victo-
May 19 to June 3
England, the port cities for Brussels and London,
rian gingerbread cottages at Old Bluff. We'll
Embark Royal Viking Line's newest cruise vessel,
respectively. Full days are spent in Amsterdam,
explore former whaling towns like Gloucester
the ROYAL VIKING SUN, in the Italian port of
The Netherlands, and Hamburg, Germany, before
and Nantucket, and search for whales in these
Venice and, after an overnight in this city of 150
transiting the Kiel Canal. The cruise continues on
waters where humpbacks abound. Our ship will
canals and 400 bridges, continue on to Dubrovnik,
to Rostock, the largest port in East Germany, be-
be the intimate NANTUCKET CLIPPER with
Yugoslavia in Southern Dalmatia. Enjoy a day
fore terminating in Copenhagen. The air features
rates starting at $1,600 (air fare additional). An
cruising the Ionian Sea before docking at Civi-
and cruise tariffs are identical to the Venice to Bor-
early booking discount of $100 is available to
tavecchia, the port city for Rome. Thenext port-of-
deaux program. This program includes a two-
those who book by February 15, 1991.
call is Villefranche, France, where an overnight is
night post-cruise stay in Copenhagen; a two-night
scheduled to allow participants the opportunity
pre-cruise package in Bordeaux is available at ad-
SWISS ALPINE ADVENTURE
to participate in optional excursions to Nice and
ditional cost.
June 16 to July 4
Monaco. After transiting the Strait of Gibraltar,
arrive in Lisbon. Situated on the Tagus River, it is
ELBE RIVER
1991 marks the 20th anniversary of our Swiss
Alpine program. Nearly 2,500 alumni and their
a city built on hills and affords visitors with lovely
June 10 to 22
family members have enjoyed this unique adven-
views. Our next stop is Vigo, Spain, a lively,
This first-time travel program features a four-
ture in past years. The program includes a one
modern city. Cruise the Bay of Biscay prior to
night cruise on the mighty Elbe River, which flows
week stay in the beautiful alpine resort area of
reaching Bordeaux, the wine capital of France,
between what was West and East Germany. This
Montana-Crans. From there the program moves
where the ship will dock for the last night of the
pioneer program features two nights in Hamburg
to Zermatt for four days, staying at the Zermatter-
program. The cruise price starts at $4,265. Air is
followed by a relaxing four-night cruise on the
hof Hotel, one of the area's finest. In Zermatt, as
is true throughout the program, there are oppor-
tunities to enjoy a series of beautiful alpine walks
through lovely mountain meadows. The program
then moves to the beautiful Swiss town of Grin-
delwald. Staying at the Hotel Sun Star Adler, the
group has the opportunity to see the mountains of
central Switzerland. The program ends with three
nights in one of Europe's most enchanting cities--
Lucerne. Because of tremendous interest in the
20th year program, there will not be a promotional
brochure for this program. Promotion will be
through Michigan Alumnus and a letter to past par-
ticipants. Final cost was not available at press
time.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER
June 17 to 23
A two-night stay in New Orleans at the Maison
Dupuy Hotel is first scheduled, including a city
tour, brunch at Brennan's Restaurant and dinner
at Arnaud's. Then board the historic MISSISSIPPI
QUEEN for a four-night cruise featuring visits to
Natchez, Mississippi, known as the city "where
the Old South still lives," and Baton Rouge, capital
of Louisiana. The cruise terminates in New Or-
leans. The tour price, without air, starts at $830, if
space is booked by December 31, 1990.
ALASKAN ODYSSEY
June 22 to 29
A close-up perspective of America's last frontier,
this voyage provides a true experience into the
fresh untamed spirit that is Alaska. Our seven-
night cruise on the YORKTOWN CLIPPER will in-
clude Juneau, Skagway, Haines, Sitka, Glacier Bay
National Park, Petersburg, Wrangell, Misty Fjords
and Ketchikan at beginning rates of $1,800 (air fare
additional). An early booking discount of $100
can be applied to reservations received by Febru-
ary 15, 1991.
KENYA/TANZANIA SAFARI
June 27 to July 13
Actively explore some of the very best game areas
St. Basil's Cathedral Piercing Moscow's Sky
in Kenya and Tanzania utilizing various types of
accommodations-hotels, lodges and tented camp-
ing. There will be opportunity to venture out onto
panied by local Masai warriors or the Kenya natu-
cluded from the East Coast; low air supplements
the plains at several locations in the trip. Accom-
ralist, these forays may be among your most thrill-
will apply for other cities.
ing wildlife experiences. See the great game herds
of Masai Mara and the Serengeti, camp on the floor
ALUMNI UNIVERSITY
of Ngorongoro Crater, and search for the rare
SCANDINAVIA
The Pride of Kenya
species of birds and animals of Samburu and Lake
July 1 to 16
Manyara. The price will be $4,495 from New York.
Designed in a style similar to our multi-year
(This trip may be combined with the Madagascar
Alumni University Great Britain and Renaissance
program of July 12-24, 1991 at a total combined
programs in the 1980s, Alumni University Scandi-
cost of $6,695 from New York.)
navia will allow alumni travelers to experience
firsthand the natural beauty and distinctive cul-
SCANDINAVIA/RUSSIA
tures of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The pro-
June 29 to July 12
gram will include most meals, daily educational
Choose either to begin this thirteen-night pro-
enrichment programs, sightseeing excursions, and
gram with a two-night pre-cruise hotel stay in
other special activities. In Denmark we still stay
Copenhagen or to conclude with two nights in
for five nights at the ISS Center, a conference
Amsterdam. For the remaining days and nights,
facility located in a lovely wooded site just north of
the elegant ROYAL VIKING SEA is your home in
Copenhagen. We travel by overnight ferry to Oslo
this Land of the Midnight Sun. The ports that
where we spend three nights, and then motorcoach
await exploration include: Stockholm - the "Ven-
to Gothenberg for two nights. In both cities, the
ice of the North"; Helsinki the epitomy of Scandi-
group will reside in conference centers. The pro-
navian efficiency; Leningrad - a showcase for
gram concludes with three nights at a hotel in
Imperial Russia's opulence and splendor; Tallinn
Stockholm. Final cost was not available at press
- an attractive and well-preserved Baltic port;
time.
Gdansk - the seat of Poland's Solidarity Move-
ment; Bornholm - a Scandinavian island resort; a
RUSSIA
daylight transit of the Kiel Canal; and Hamburg
July 2 to 15
Germany's largest seaport. The price for this
Be among the first Westerners to cruise the historic
seven-country cruise starts at $3,920. Air is in-
waterways connecting Leningrad and Moscow.
This new itinerary includes two nights each in
Moscow and Leningrad aboard ship, plus a six-
Africa. Based in modest, small hotels, visit some
$2,850, if space is booked by February 4, 1991, the
night cruise between these two cities to the his-
of the major natural environments of the island in
program also includes all shore excursions, ship-
toric ports of Uglich, Goritsy, Petrozavodsk, Kizhi
search of lemurs. Our guide, Sylvie Rabesahala,
board gratuities, and on-board lectures by a team
Island, and Valaam Island. The program also in-
speaks fluent English, Malagasy and French and
of experts.
cludes two nights in ever-changing Berlin--a per-
will enlist the participation and assistance of many
fect ending to an enriching educational experi-
local people along the way to make the trip pleas-
TUSCANY AND MEDITERRANEAN
ence. The price is from approximately $3,195 with
urable and interesting. There will be opportunity
departure from New York.
to view animal life, visit local villages and hike in
CRUISE
rain forests, thorn forest and along tropical beaches.
August 5 to 17
EUROPEAN MASTERS AND THE
The trip cost, from New York, is $4,595 (may be
Experience one of Italy's most special regions,
combined with Kenya-Tanzania Camping Safari
Tuscany, and its Renaissance cities of Siena and
SUPERSONIC CONCORDE
June 27-July 13 at a total cost of $6,695 from New
Florence. Continue to Ravenna and view the
July 5 to 14
York).
mosaic masterpieces that are the chief glory of this
This exclusive 10-day holiday combines visits to
provincial town. Then on to Venice with its
two of Europe's major capitals with a supersonic
CANAL CRUISING IN BURGUNDY
wondrous canals, foot bridges and romantic gon-
trans-Atlantic flight aboard the Concorde. First,
July 23 to August 3
doliers. Board the Sun Line ship STELLA MARIS
we're off to London for four nights, with a special
July 30 to August 10
for a delightful cruise around Italy. Ports of callin-
visit to the Tate Gallery. Then, it's Paris for four
If "living well is the best revenge," join us for a six-
clude Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; Corfu, Greece; Val-
nights where visits to the spectacular Musée l'Or-
night canal cruise on the Canal du Bourgogne
letta, Malta; Messina, Sicily; the islands of Capri
say and the Louvre are scheduled.
and Elba; Portofino, Italy; and
As a grand finale, return home
Nice, France. Priced from $3,295
aboard the incomparable Con-
from New York.
corde and arrive in New York City
in half the normal flying time! The
CANADIAN ROCKIES
cost is $3,799 from the East Coast.
August 8 to 18
This well-paced program begins
SOLAR ECLIPSE
with three nights in Vancouver,
CRUISE
where sightseeing is included
July 6 to 13
to orient travelers to this fasci-
In a previous year, Michigan trav-
nating city. There will be an
elers have gazed upon a comet
overnight in Kamloops before
named Halley, and once again be-
crossing over into the province
come moon-eyed about the up-
of Alberta for two nights in Jas-
coming solar eclipse on July 11.
per. On the way to Lake Louise,
The S.S. INDEPENDENCE will
a stop with lunch is scheduled
cruise into the best vantage point
at the Columbia Icefield, which
for viewing the century's longest
covers 160 square miles and lies
total solar eclipse - four minutes
across the Continental Divide.
and 13 seconds. This seven-day
Our overnight stay in Lake
cruise also provides an unob-
Louise will be at the recently
scured view of the sunny, tropical
refurbished Chateau Lake Lou-
Hawaiian Islands. Set sail from
ise. Then it's on to Banff Na-
Honolulu for the lush terrain of
tional Park and the BanffSprings
Kauai, the snow-topped Kona
Hotel, a castle-like establish-
Coast, Hilo's orchid fields and the
ment that was built over a pe-
pineapple plantations of Maui.
riod of 18 years. The final night
The price begins at $1,750 (air is
of the program will be spent in
additional).
Calgary. Ample sightseeing is
The Big Island Continues To Grow
included in the program, priced
FRANCE: THE SEINE
at $2,894, as well as all break-
AND THE SAONE
aboard L'ABERCROMBIE, exclusively chartered
fasts, two lunches, and seven dinners. Airfare is
for the University of Michigan Alumni Travel
additional.
July 12 to 24
program. L'ABERCROMBIE resembles a private
Cruise on two of France's most scenic rivers, the
club: luxurious staterooms, an elegant salon, and
PACIFIC NORTHWEST/ALASKA
Seine and the Saone, and discover the beautiful
a private dining room to enjoy the classic cuisine
diversity of France. First, enjoy three nights in
CRUISE
of Burgundy. A private mini-van takes us on daily
Paris before embarking the luxurious M/S NOR-
August 19 to 31
excursions to medieval villages, famous chateaux,
MANDIE for a four-night cruise on the Seine. Stop
The great north west awesome scenery, excellent
ancient castles, cathedrals, and vineyards. Paris is
at the historic towns of Vernon, Les Andelys and
the grand finale with four nights at the Lutetia
cuisine (especially seafood), and an area of his-
Rouen. Take a thrilling ride through the scenic
Hotel. An exclusive itinerary limited to twenty-
toric significance. Visit Seattle for two nights,
French countryside aboard the TGV, the world's
Victoria for one night and Vancouver for two
two guests on each of two departures. $4,250 per
fastest train, to Macon. Then, board the M/S
nights. Then embark the STAR PRINCESS, and
person from New York.
ARLENE for a three-night cruise on the Saone
set sail for seven nights through a wonderland of
River, visiting Tournus, Chalon-sur-Saone, Seurre
HUDSON BAY EXPEDITION CRUISE
natural beauty, visiting Juneau, Skagway and
and Saint-Jean-de-Losne. Finally, enjoy three
Ketchikan, as well as cruise through beautiful
nights in cosmopolitan Geneva, Switzerland, on
August 4 to 13
Glacier Bay. The cost of this thirteen-day journey
beautiful Lake Geneva. This program is priced
This expedition cruise lacks nothing in opportuni-
starts at $2,149, plus attractive round-trip air rates
from $3,795, with departure from New York.
ties for wildlife and cultural discoveries. After
to Seattle.
enjoying deluxe accommodations in Winnipeg,
MADAGASCAR ODYSSEY
fly to Churchill, Manitoba, and board the newly-
MONTREAL/QUEBEC CITY
built expedition cruise ship, the SOCIETY AD-
July 12 to 24
September 6 to 13
VENTURER. Keep an eye out for beluga whales,
Madagascar may be the most unique destination
Quebec Province is the bastion of French national-
arctic loons and arctic terns. In this season, Walrus
in Africa. More than 80% of the species of flora and
Island often lives up to its name. Natives guide us
ism and culture in Canada. This eight-day pro-
fauna is found nowhere else, and the people are
to ancient settlements where rows of subterra-
gram focuses on two European cities on the North
distinctly different in language, culture and ap-
nean houses remain silent witnesses to man's ability
American continent--the metropolis of Montreal
pearances from the people of the mainland of
and the walled city of Quebec. In Montreal, the
to survive even the harshest environments. From
FRENCH COUNTRY
September 25 to October 7
The French have a saying, "Paris is France, but
France is not Paris." Our route of travel utilizes
secondary roads and scenic by ways taking us into
three selected regions of the French countryside.
After exploring the old city of Lyon and the nearby
renowned vineyards of Beaujolais, continue south
to Provence, a region of sensual beauty favored by
French Impressionistic painters. Follow the coast-
line to Carcassonne, then head northward to Albi
and the beginning of the Dordogne with its lush
valleys and medieval villages. Visits will also be
made to Cahors, Racamadour, Sarlat and the
world-famous caves of Lascaux. Conclude with
four nights in Paris at the Hotel Lutetia on the Left
Bank. From New York, the cost will be $3,575.
EAST AFRICA
October 4 to 19
Experience an exciting safari to the best wildlife
reserves of Kenya and Tanzania, and explore
Olduvai Gorge, home to earliest man. Modern,
deluxe game lodges and comfortable safari vans,
made for viewing and photography, assure a
memorable Africa travel experience. This pro-
gram is approximately $4,895 from New York. An.
optional extension to Botswana, with its rich ani-
mal life, as well as Zimbabwe, home to spectacular
Victoria Falls, will be offered.
CHESAPEAKE BAY/HUDSON
RIVER
October 5 to 19
This voyage will feature the incomparable au-
tumn colors of the Hudson River Valley at the
optimum time of year. From New York, the
NANTUCKET CLIPPER will cruiseup the Hudson
to West Point, Kingston/Hyde Park, and Albany.
Visit the historic areas in Philadelphia and Balti-
more prior to reaching the unique marine envi-
Looming Over Historical London: Big Ben and Winston Churchill
ronment of the Chesapeake Bay and its charming
ports of Annapolis and St. Michaels. Continue on
to Norfolk and Yorktown, followed by a cruise up
third largest French-speaking city in the world,
New York; low air add-ons will be available from
the Potomac River, stopping at Mount Vernon, to
spend four nights at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
selected gateways.
Washington, D.C. This 14-night cruise starts at
Following Club Car rail passage, conclude with
$3,200 (air fare additional), and an early booking
three nights at the Manoir Victoria in Quebec City,
NORTHEAST PASSAGE
discount of $300 will apply to those reservations
the first French settlement in North America. The
September 20 to October 2
made by May 1, 1991.
land only price of this tour is $1,184.
This program, scheduled during the fall color
season, begins with two nights in Montreal. Then
DANUBE RIVER
NORTHERN CAPITALS
board the REGENT SUN for a seven-night cruise,
October 7 to 22
September 6 to 20
visiting the ports of: Quebec City; Sydney, Nova
This Danube itinerary, first created and intro-
After a two-night stay in Copenhagen, board the
Scotia; Bar Harbor, Maine; and Provincetown,
duced in 1976, takes participants to a fascinating
OCEAN PRINCESS for a ten-night cruise. The
Massachusetts. Disembark in New York and board
array of cities in seven different countries--Aus-
ports-of-call will be Warnemunde, Germany (an
a motorcoach for a scenic transfer to the Sheraton
tria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bul-
optional excursion to Berlin will be offered); Stock-
Country Inn in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where
garia, Romania and Turkey. Follow the Danube
holm, Sweden; Leningrad, U.S.S.R.; Helsinki,
a two-night stay is scheduled. Return to Montreal,
on its 1,800-mile course through the continent. the
Finland; Gdansk, Poland; and Amsterdam, The
via the Green Mountains, for home flights. The
many castles, palaces, alluring cities and spectacu-
Netherlands. Disembark in Tilbury, England, and
cruise price star ts at $2,240; air fare is additional. A
lar scenic wonders will captivate you throughout
transfer to London, where a two-night stay is
10% discount will be afforded to all participants.
this seven-night journey. This program also in-
scheduled. The cost of this program starts at
cludes two nights in Vienna and three nights in
$2,995 from New York.
ISLANDS OF JAPAN
Istanbul. The prices range from approximately
September 21 to October 6
$3,195 from New York.
GRAND EUROPEAN CRUISE
This autumn sail among the islands of Japan,
September 15 to 29
famous for ancient traditions, sacred shrines, his-
CHINA/YANGTZE RIVER
This fall's grand tour and cruise of Europe features
toric cities and beautiful cultural monuments. On
ADVENTURE
two nights in London before embarking Paquet
our distinctive cruise aboard the all-suite REN-
October 8 to 25
Cruises' OCEAN PRINCESS for a ten-night cruise.
AISSANCE, we will journey to Hagi, Kanazawa,
Matsue, Nara and Kamakura. This comprehen-
This enteen-day tour, priced from $4,499 from
Port visits will be made to Le Havre (Paris); La
Rochelle (the cognac region); Lisbon; Cadiz (Se-
sive program also includes visits to Tokyo and
the West Coast, begins with a direct flight to
Hakone, as well as four full days to explore Kyoto,
Tokyo, Japan, for one night. Spend three nights in
ville); Malaga; the beautiful Spanish island of Palma
Japan's richest historical center, before embarking
Beijing, followed by one night in Chongqing, be-
de Majorca; and finally Nice, on the French Rivi-
era. An ideal way to visit a variety of Europe's
on the sea voyage. Prices start at $5,695 (airfare
fore embarking the M.S. GODDESS for a three-
countries and cultures. Priced from $2,795 from
additional).
night Yangtze River cruise. Continue with two
nights in Xian, including a visit to the fascinating
terra-cotta army, two nights in Shanghai and,
finally, spectacular Hong Kong for three nights.
Faculty enrichment will be provided by Professor
of Political Science Michel C. Oksenberg.
COLONIAL SOUTH
November 23 to 30
This seven-night journey focuses on what is per-
haps the most romantic part of our country--the
antebellum south. Cruising on the great intra-
coastal waterway, enjoy viewing salt water
marshes abounding with wildlife. The NAN-
TUCKET CLIPPER will visit Savannah, St. Simons
Island, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort and Char-
leston. Rates start at $1,600 (air fare additional).
Book by June 1, 1991 and receive a $200 discount.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
November 24 to December 14
This journey begins in India, and visits the sites
associated with the glories of three great empires
-- Hindu, Moghul and British. Visit the Temple of
Buddhist Temples of Burma
the Sun at Konarak, the incomparable Taj Mahal,
and the fascinating sites of Old and New Delhi.
Embark the all-suite RENAISSANCE, sailing
realm. If favorable conditions prevail, your ice-
through the Indian Ocean to Burma and explore
hardened vessel, the expedition ship WORLD DIS-
A footnote: Most of the foregoing programs
Rangoon and Pagan. Following visits to Phuket
COVERER, will ply the stunning Lemaire Chan-
were firm at press-time for this issue; others
and Malaysia, disembark in Singapore, a modern
nel and aptly named Paradise Bay. Versatile
may be added. The prices listed are per
zodiacs allow us to land on trackless shores and
city-state whose commercial success has rendered
person and are based on double occupancy.
it a contemporary power in Southeast Asia. Prices
discover rookeries of chinstrap, Adelie and gen-
Check subsequent issues for updated infor-
start at $5,695 (air fare additional).
too penguins, the formal am bassadors of the White
mation, or call our U-M Alumni Travel Office
Continent. Enjoy two days discovering the starkly
at (313) 763-9732. You should know that the
PROJECT ANTARCTICA & THE
beautiful Falklands: at Volunteer Point we may
U-M Alumni Travel program is totally self-
even visit a rookery of the world's showiest sea-
FALKLAND ISLANDS
supporting and that none of your member-
birds, the regal king penguins. Priced from $7,350,
ship dues nor any other Association incomeis
January 2 to 18, 1992
this seventeen-day program also includes one night
used to subsidize the cost of travel announce-
For the experienced traveler, Antarctica remains
in a deluxe Santiago hotel and a lecture program
ments or staff time devoted to alumni travel.
one of the last frontiers: a breathtakingly wild
aboard ship.
The Alumni Association of The University of Michigan
Please send brochures on the travel programs checked below:
Trans-Panama Canal Cruise
New England
Pacific Northwest/Alaska
Caribbean/Orinoco
Swiss Alpine Adventure
Montreal/Quebec City
South Pacific
Mississippi River
Northern Capitals
Mexican Riviera
Alaskan Odyssey
Grand European Cruise
Galapagos Islands
Kenya/Tanzania
Northeast Passage
Virgin Islands
Scandinavia/Russia
Islands of Japan
Costa Rica/Panama Canal
Alumni U/Scandinavia
French Country
Italian Holiday
Russia
East Africa
Portugal/Spain
European Masters
Chesapeake Bay/Hudson River
Indian Ocean/Seychelles
Solar Eclipse Cruise
Danube River
San Francisco/Sacramento
Seine/Saone
China/Yangtze River
Western Mediterranean
Madagascar Odyssey
Colonial South
Northern Italy
France Canal Cruising
Southeast Asia
Venice/Bordeaux
Hudson Bay
Project Antarctica
Bordeaux/Copenhagen
Tuscany/Mediterranean
Elbe River
Canadian Rockies
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NOTE: Requested travel brochures will be mailed as they become available for distribution.
Send form to: U-M Alumni Travel Program, Alumni Center, 200 Fletcher Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.
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Photo by Stephen Rosoff
The Friars entertain the profs.
Photo by Stephen Rosoff
SAC Receives
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Alumni Council received new
faculty in the Founders Room.
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welcomed by students, snacked on
cookies and crudités, drank punch,
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time was had by all.
LS&A junior Sean Phillips (left) greets John Whittier-Ferguson, professor of
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Canady Receives 1990 Sain Award
r. Alexa I. Canady, '71, M.D.
Prize-winning photojournalist Brian
75, the first Black female
Lanker, Canady was recently in-
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ceived this year's Leonard F. Sain
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Esteemed Alumni Award at the fall
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Reunion for Black Graduates.
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Young Woman in America, 1977;
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In many ways, Canady ex-
small children. She is considered a
emplifies this year's reunion theme,
visionary in her treatment of brain
"Views of the Past, Visions of the
injuries and the majority of her pa-
Future." She credits the Civil Rights
tients are 10 years old or younger.
Movement of the '60s for making
Featured in the book I Dream A
her success possible; her treatment
World: Portraits of Black Women
of today's children may preserve
Who Changed America by Pulitzer
tomorrow's leaders.
Dr. Alexa Canady
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Hutchins / (407) 863-1621 (H).
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State, Zip
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Mail to: The Little Big Ten Co., P.O. Box 779,
28 / Speaker: Robert Forman / contact:
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Joyce Ironside / (313) 559-3727 (H).
JOB HUNTS
Central New Jersey: UofM Club / Nov. 24
/ M vs. OSU football TV party / Dec 9 /
B.A. '72, journalism (M.A. '82, business
Tour of Morven (free) / contact: Frank
management, Central Michigan Universi-
MICHIGAN SONGS
Butorac / (609) 586-4800 (B) / 924-0580
ty). Public relations professional seeking
(H).
corporate public relations management
Roll in from
position. Currently VP of a public rela-
Detroit: UofM Club / Nov. 27, Dec 11 /
tions agency. Over 13 years experience (17
THE STEARNS
board of governors meeting / contact:
years as a professional writer). APR.
COLLECTION OF MUSICAL
Doug Angst / (313) 698-1100 (B).
Prefer metro Detroit/Ann Arbor area.
INSTRUMENTS
Will consider relocating. Box 156.
Grand Rapids: Federation of UofM Alum-
nae Clubs / Nov. 9 & 10 / annual scholar-
LL.M. '89, West German lawyer in
Famous Michigan songs and
ship fund book sale / contact: Elsie Jocz /
postgraduate government service,
(616) 942-1969.
distinguished international legal educa-
musicians on a cassette
tion, Rotary and Konrad Adenauer
recorded from
Greater Flint: UofM Club / Nov. 20 / pre-
Scholar, special interest in international
piano rolls: 1916-1990
game party, M vs. OSU / contact:
business transactions. Looking for an in-
William Wolski / (313) 694-4258.
ternship opportunity in U.S. law or con-
JOIN the Friends of
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Hawaii: UofM Club / Nov. 14, Dec 12 /
Box 157.
The Stearns and earn a 50%
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discount!
Gordon Sam / (808) 423-1988 (B) /
B.S. '75, zoology. Fifteen years of
Friends membership @ $30.00: $
395-3465 (H).
marketing/sales management. Highly
tapes @ $12 reg/$6 members
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competitive professional with the
(shipping and handling included)
Jackson: UofM Alumnae Club / Nov. 28
demonstrated ability to increase sales,
TOTAL enclosed: $
/ Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Dewoskin / con-
coordinate advertising and creatively
Name:
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motivate others. Results and goal
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Address:
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Long Island: UofM Club / Nov. 21 /
commitment to a dynamic, profit-oriented
Telephone #:
board meeting / Nov. 24 / M vs. OSU
organization. Strong oral, communica-
football TV party / Dec 19 / winter
tion, and people skills. Willing to relocate.
cocktail party / contact: Carol Maybee /
Box 158.
(516) 265-7020 (H).
Send to: The Stearns Collection
B.A. '73, LS&A (M.A. '84, political
University of Michigan
Macomb County: UofM Alumnae Club /
science & media research, Technical
School of Music
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2085
Nov. 26 / Speaker: Sister Barbara
University of Berlin). Extensive experience
(313) 4389
Cervenka / contact: Gloria LaPontney /
in public relations in USA and West Ger-
(313) 246-5670 (H).
many, bilingual journalist, expert
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Michigan Alumnus
knowledge of European communication
systems, advertising, economics, culture.
Management and production skills in all
Raft two of North America's
media. Creative & innovative. Seeking
senior-level position with multinational
premier wilderness rivers!
corporation. Box 159.
B.G.S. '88, currently enrolled in M.B.A.
Idaho's legendary-Salinon
program. Three years experience in
automation and improving manufacturing
concerns through Just-In-Time. Ability to
pinpoint small problems that lead to big
improvements. Have excellent credentials
and training as well as sharply honed peo-
ple skills. Experience in 100-person-
to-7,500-person plants. Box 160.
B.A. '69, M.A. 70, art history. Desire to
return to Detroit. Seeking management-
level position in non-profit institution, or
satisfying career opportunity using skills
in administration and organization, train-
ing, planning and development, or con-
noisseurship. Seventeen years curatorial
experience with major metropolitan
museum. Box 161.
Join the perfect summer escape;
eagles; sleep under the stars on
a raft trip down Idaho's Salmon
white, sandy beaches; examine
M.S.W. '83, administration/interpersonal
practice. Seeking position in EAP or other
River! Tackle boisterous rapids
Indian pictographs, explore old
business/health care related opportunity
with resplendent waves. Flow
homesteads, and soak in a
in the metro Detroit area. Program ex-
through a 6,000' deep granite
natural hot springs. A classic
perience in development, marketing,
canyon; observe big horn sheep,
whitewater run!
management and evaluation. Other ex-
bear, otter, mink, and golden
perience in assessment and referrals,
counseling, management, and training of
employees, volunteers, and clients. Box
July 13 through July 18, 1991
162.
Trip Cost: Adults, $795*; Youths 17 & under, $695*
(*Land Package Only)
B.B.A. '89, accounting, graduated with
high distinction. Seeking a career oppor-
tunity in the accounting field. Highly ex-
perienced in the use of personal com-
The Alaskan and Idaho departures are led by alumnus, James Katz, '69,
puters, and business software. Strong
analytical abilities, leadership, and com-
and his veteran crew. Trips feature the joy of paddling, the camaraderie of
munication skills, and dedicated to goal
wilderness living, a natural history interpretive program and gourmet
achievement. Member of Beta Gamma
cuisine.
Sigma. Prefer southeast or mid-Michigan
area. Box 163.
Journey by raft down Alaska's
B.S. 75, biochemistry. (M.B.A. '87, opera-
Alaska s incomparable
tions management, Columbia University).
most visually magnifcent rivers,
Mission oriented. Goal is position in
the Tatshenshini and Alsek.
Tatshenshini-Alsek
manufacturing, purchasing, or product-
Glide past the snow-covered
line management. Small or start-up firms
mountains and iridescent blue
are particularly attractive. Nine years of
experience in the electronics industry.
glaciers of the Alsek, St. Elias,
Background includes positions in manage-
and Fairweather Ranges.
ment (with P/L responsibility), sales,
Witness unrivaled displays of
engineering, and quality assurance, both
bald eagles and grizzly bears.
domestically and in the Far East. Ex-
perienced in purchasing and vendor quali-
Experience tantalizing white-
ty assurance. Working knowledge of
water amid the visual drama of
Chinese. Box 164.
15,000' peaks.
B.A. '89, organizational behavior/human
July 30 through August 12, 1991
resource development. Ambitious, hard-
Trip Cost: $2095*
working, fast learner seeks generalist posi-
(*Land Package Only)
tion in human resources department of
progressive company. Main interest lies in
area of corporate health and fitness and
For more information and a detailed itinerary contact:
am seeking master's degree in this field.
The Alumni Association of
Highly motivated and eager to work in
The University of Michigan
the Detroit metropolitan area. Box 165.
200 Fletcher Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
or call: (313) 763-9706
November/December 1990
49
B.A. '89, Asian studies/Japanese. Seeking
B.S. '90, psychology, honors. Seeking
gram strengths and weaknesses as well as
challenging position utilizing my
summer clerkship. Currently attending
development of goals and objectives for
knowledge of Japanese culture/language
Columbus School of Law at the Catholic
new programs. Some public relations and
and teaching skills. Just returned from a
University of America in Washington,
retailing experience. Willing to relocate,
year of working in Japan. Three years of
DC. Experienced legal and research assis-
travel, and extend education. Box 172.
Japanese language study prior to that. Ex-
tant. Excellent communication and
cellent organizational and communicative
analytical skills. Strong sense of commit-
B.A. '83, economics, political science (J.D.,
skills. IBM & MacIntosh experience. Box
ment. Willing to work long hours and
cum laude '86, Detroit College of Law;
166.
relocate. Box 169.
concentration in international law and
trial advocacy). Active duty lieutenant,
B.S. '88, biology. Experienced in experi-
B.A. '76. PC expert with 11 years ex-
JAG Corps, U.S. Naval Reserve. Spent
ment design, fatigue testing, control
perience in computer field seeks consulting
three years in Japan and the Orient, speak
statistics, capital equipment purchasing,
or training position on as-needed basis.
and read Japanese; understand their
computer systems programming and
Proficient in Lotus, Excel, W.P., MS Word,
business and social customs. Seeking posi-
operation. Have extensive photographic
dBase, Networking and other applica-
tion in international business or law. Will
experience in the areas of product sales,
tions, including MacIntosh. Southern
relocate wherever needed. Member of the
microscopic assay, and field wildlife.
California. Box 170.
Michigan and Federal bar. Box 173.
Seeking biological research, photography,
or testing position. Box 167.
M.P.H. '89, education, (B.A. economics
B.A. '83, communication. Seeking
and management, Albion College). Ex-
public/media relations position with
B.A. '84, English, (A.O.S. '90, graphic
perienced in developing, planning, and
writing emphasis. Experience in writing,
design, Pratt Institute). Seeking desktop
implementing marketing/communications
editing, and supervising volunteers. In-
publishing position in Philadelphia area.
programs. Desire similar work in health-
teraction regularly with the media and
Knowledge of QuarkXpress, SuperPaint
or related service organization. Very
advertising agencies. Articulate, hard
and various word processing programs.
motivated, energetic, and personable.
working and productive. Desire employ-
Experience supervising graphic design
Prefer Northeast and Midwest but willing
ment in southeast Michigan, but will con-
projects from conception through
to relocate. Box 171.
sider other locations. Box 174.
mechanical using both computer and
traditional production methods. Technical
B.A. '82, history, sociology, anthropology
B.A. '84, economics (M.B.A. 90,
and advertising writing experience. Ex-
(secondary ed. certificate '84 & '90). Seek-
Marketing, U. of Sothern California).
cellent organizational and problem-
ing staff training and development posi-
Creative, energetic, and experienced in
solving skills. Resume/portfolio available.
tion. Excellent research and writing skills.
documenting software and creating pro-
Box 168.
Experienced in the analysis of current pro-
motional materials for software products.
Background in communicating informa-
tion to sales force and all levels of
management. Seeking product
marketing/marketing communication
position in southern California.
THE
Box 175.
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Through the Years
Charles T. Smith, '60
Frederick G. Buesser,
Allison Cook
Julie Karpus, '71
Mary Daniels Fey,
Robert F. Scott,
Jr., '64, J.D. '66
Kellogg, 70
'74
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published their study on counseling and
law, having served as assistant district at-
CLASS NOTES
psychotherapy, "Theoretical Underpin-
torney and an assistant city solicitor for
nings of Practice in Family Service Agen-
the city of Philadelphia. He was recently
THE TWENTIES
cies," in the June 1990 issue of
elected international vice-president of the
Psychological Reports.
Norman M.
International Society for Philosophical
Alfred B. Connable, '25, represented
Leff, '49, represented the University at the
Enquiry.
Chris L. McKenney, '56bus,
the University at the inauguration of
inauguration of David Baltimore as presi-
M.B.A. '62, J.D. '66, an attorney with the
Timothy Light as president of Middlebury
dent of Rockefeller University.
Ann Arbor law firm of Conlin, McKen-
College.
ney and Philbrick, has been appointed
THE FIFTIES
chairman of the Washtenaw United Way
THE THIRTIES
William G. Simeral, M.S. '50, Ph.D.
Leadership Giving Association for 1990.
Arden Faris, '35, has returned from
'53, has been elected chairman of the
Louis Sanford, '57, M.D. '61, has
Manila, The Philippines, where he served
board of trustees of Franklin & Marshall
assumed the presidency of the Michigan
as a volunteer with the International Ex-
College, Lancaster, PA.
Marvin M.
Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. San-
ecutive Service Corps. He and his wife,
Epstein, '51, has been elected chairman of
ford lives in Belding, MI.
Mouir M.
Jean, reside in Lodi, CA.
Clinton B.
the board of governors of The University
Kamal, M.S.E. '58, M.S.E. '62, Ph.D. '65,
Ford, '35, M.S. '36, of Wilton, CT, has
of Michigan Club of Cleveland.
Zelda
of Warren, MI, has been elected a Fellow
received a Distinguished Achievement
Cohen Robinson, '51ed, was elected presi-
member of the Society of Manufacturing
Award from the Carleton College Alumni
dent of the Michigan Association of
Engineers.
William C. Boonstra, '59,
Association, Northfield, MN.
School Boards. Her husband, Eli E.
retired in June after 31 years of teaching at
Robinson, M.A. '52, was reelected presi-
Clio and Grand Haven high schools,
THE FORTIES
dent of the Southfield, MI, city council
Grand Haven, MI.
Norman Lee
Claire Cook Irwin, '41, M.A. '42,
and also serves as a member of the steer-
Hamann, '59arch, has been named presi-
recently retired from Wayne State Univer-
ing committee of the finance administra-
dent of the firm of Diekema/Hamann/Ar-
sity, Detroit, where she served as pro-
tion and intergovernmental relations com-
chitects, Inc, Kalamazoo, MI.
fessor of educational evaluation and
mittee of the National League of Cities.
research in the College of Education.
Robert D. Allaben, '52, is the new chair-
THE SIXTIES
George H. Miller, '41, M.A. '46, Ph.D.
man of the department of surgery at
Thomas F. Piatkowski, '60eng, M.S.E.
'51, emeritus professor of history, Ripon
Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital, Detroit.
'61, Ph.D. '63, has been appointed
College, Ripon, WI, is the new president
Harold E. Abrams, '54, of the law firm
chairperson of the department of electrical
of the State Historical Society of Wiscon-
of Kilpatrick & Cody, Atlanta, GA, was
engineering at Western Michigan Universi-
sin and the Wisconsin Humanities Com-
inducted as a Fellow of the American Col-
ty, Kalamazoo, MI.
Captain Charles T.
mittee.
James R. Hayward, D.D.S. '44,
lege of Tax Counsel.
Richard A.
Smith, '60, a Navy captain and deputy
M.S. '46, professor emeritus of oral
LaBarge, '54, has been appointed a pro-
commander of Defense Electronics Supply
surgery, U-M School of Dentistry and
fessor of finance at Rutgers University's
Center, Dayton, OH, will retire from the
Medical School, is the recipient of the
Camden campus.
Calvin D. Lane,
Navy after a 30-year career.
Edward F.
1990 Distinguished Service Award from
'54arch, has been appointed a managing
Langs, '62, J.D. '65, a partner in the
the Board of Trustees of the American
principal with the architectual firm of
Southfield, MI, based law firm of Brooks
Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Greiner, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI.
James
& Kushman, was elected a vice-president
Surgeons.
Helen W. Nies, '46, J.D. '48,
J. Brady II, '55, M.A. '56, co-founder of
of the Computer Law Association.
was invested as chief judge of the U.S.
the U-M Journalism Club, has retired
Eleanor Ross Law, '63, has been appointed
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
from the General Electric Co. after 34
an assistant U.S. attorney for the southern
Chief Judge-Nies and her family reside in
years of service.
Sherwin S. Goldstein,
district of Texas, criminal division.
Maryland.
Jesse F. "Bud" Keville,
'55pharm, has been elected a member of
Donn C. Neal, M.A. 63, Ph.D. '73, has
'47eng, recently retired from his position
the 1990 Chairman's Council of
become the director of congressional and
as chief engineer at Aerojet Elec-
Prudential-Bache Securities. Mr. Goldstein
external affairs with the National Ar-
troSystems, Azusa; CA. Mr. Keville and
and his family reside in Northbrook, IL.
chives and Records Administration,
his wife, Naomi, reside in Arcadia, CA.
James W. Hubbell, '55eng, president of
Washington, DC. Michael D.L.
Marian Sayward West, '48, M.A.L.S.
Hubbell, Roth and Clark, a Bloomfield
Weisenfeld, D.D.S. 63, of Farmington
'72, has been elected to the position of
Hills, MI, consulting engineer firm, was
Hills, MI, retained his post as speaker of
financial vice-president of Alpha Xi Delta
recognized as this year's Outstanding Civil
the house of the Academy of General Den-
Fraternity, Indianapolis, IN.
Louis J.
Engineer by the American Society of Civil
tistry.
Frederick G. Buesser, Jr., 64,
Cantoni, M.S.W. '49, Ph.D. '53, and Lucile
Engineers.
John W. Kormes, '55, J.D.
J.D. '66, of Birmingham, MI, was honored
E. Cantoni, M.S.W. '49, have recently
'59, is engaged in the private practice of
by the state bar of Michigan for comple-
52
Michigan Alumnus
Through the Years
Gayle L. Hargrove,
Lewis Sandy, '79,
Carol E.
Susan E. Dick, '82
Leonard P. Perma,
Patrice A. Villani,
'78
M.D. '82
Wesolowski, M.S.
Jr., '82, J.D. '85
'86
'80
tion of six terms as the Michigan state
tional conference presented by Georgia
M.A. '76, has been appointed assistant
delegate to the American Bar Association.
Tech, for companies interested in doing
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Gail R. Wilensky, '64, M.A. '65, Ph.D.
business in Europe.
Gary L. Skog,
at Widener University, Chester, PA.
'68, an economist, has become the ad-
'71arch, M.Arch. '72, is a vice-president,
Andrew N.S. Glazer, '77, has been named
ministrator of Medicare and Medicaid,
principal, with Harley Ellington Pierce Yee
executive vice-president and chief
with responsibility for directing the
Associates, Inc., a Southfield, MI architec-
operating officer of The National Center
health-insurance programs of the Depart-
tual firm.
Samuel R. Bayne, '72arch,
Group, a proprietary education con-
ment of Health and Human Services.
M.Arch. '73, has been promoted to direc-
glomerate in Atlanta, GA.
Victor A.
Alan Gelband, '65bus, M.B.A. '67,
tor of design, with Harley Ellington Pierce
Markovich, M.Mus. '77, Ph.D. '85, has
managing director of the Alan Gelband
Yee Associates, Inc, Southfield, MI.
been named director of bands at Wichita
Co., New York, NY, has been elected ex-
David R. Morganstein, M.A. '72, vice-
State University, Wichita, KS.
Gayle L.
ecutive vice-president of the Association
president, Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD,
Hargrove, '78, has been promoted to
for Corporate Growth.
Michael M.E.
has been named a Fellow of the American
senior manager, employee communica-
Johns, M.D. '65, '75med trainee, has been
Statistical Association.
Douglas R.
tions of Ryder System, Inc., Miami, FL.
appointed vice-president for medicine and
Taeckens, '72, M.B.A. '85, has been ap-
Michael J. Phillips, 78mus, M.Mus. '79,
dean of the medical faculty at The Johns
pointed president of Helmac Products
has been appointed instructor of music at
Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Corp., Flint, MI.
Ann E. Thomas, '72,
the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Thom
Baltimore, MD.
Susan Levitt Berg,
M.B.A. '75, of Hartford, CT, has been
Rooke, '78, has been appointed assistant
'66ed, is president of the U-M Alumnae
elected a member of the board of directors
professor of medicine, May Graduate
Club of Oakland County.
Arnold
of The Association of Junior Leagues In-
School of Medicine, Rochester, MN.
Mikon, '66arch, M.B.A. '69, was elected to
ternational, Inc.
Timothy F. Merkel,
Jonathan J. Steinberg, '78, has been pro-
the position of president and CEO of
Ph.D. '73, has been named executive vice-
moted to vice-president of Jardine In-
Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates,
president and technical director for Abex
surance Agency Michigan, Inc., Troy, MI.
Inc., a Detroit, MI, architectual-
Friction Products of Winchester, VA.
Bryan Buchholz, '79eng, M.S. '83,
engineering firm.
Ronald H. Rad-
Larry M. Berkowitz, '74, M.D. '78, has
M.S.E. '83, Ph.D. '89, has been appointed
zilowski, M.S. '66, M.S.E. '72, Ph.D. 77,
been elected chairman of the department
to the position of assistant professor in
of Carmel, IN, has been elected as a
of obstetrics and gynecology, Desert
the work environment department at the
voting member of the Polish Institute of
Hospital, Palm Springs, CA.
Mary
University of Lowell, Lowell, MA.
Arts and Sciences of America.
George
Daniels Fey, '74chem, has been promoted
Lewis Sandy, '79, M.D. '82, a resident of
E. Ward, J.D. '66, was recently elected to
to research and development manager,
Wellesley, MA, has been named health
serve a three-year term on the State Bar
medical materials business, with Dow
center director of Harvard Community
Board of Commissioners for District I
Corning, Midland, MI.
Robert A. Nid-
Health Plan's Boston and Copley health
(Wayne County), Detroit, MI.
Aileen
zgorski, '74eng, M.S.E. '76, has been
centers.
Paul A. Snow, '79, has
(Libby) Patton Law, M.A.L.S. '67, has
elected president of the Central Florida
qualified as The Equitable's national
been named director of administrative ser-
chapter of the American Society of Pro-
champion for district and personal pro-
vices of the South Carolina State Library,
fessional Estimators. He is currently a
duction in the 1990 campaign. He is the
Columbia, SC.
Marlin U. Thomas,
senior estimator with McDevitt & Street
senior district manager for The Equitable
'67eng, M.S.E. '68, Ph.D. '71, professor
Co., Orlando, FL.
Kirk H. Delzer,
Financial Companies in Grand Rapids,
and chairperson of Lehigh University's
'75arch, has been promoted to director of
MI.
department of industrial engineering, has
project administration with the architec-
been named a fellow of the national In-
ture and engineering firm of Giffel Hoyem
THE EIGHTIES
stitute of Industrial Engineers.
Basso, Inc., Troy, MI.
Christopher D.
Donnell P. O'Callaghan, Jr., '80, has
Knaggs, 75bus, a Navy lieutenant com-
THE SEVENTIES
been named a partner of Deloitte &
mander, recently graduated from the U.S.
Touche, Detroit, MI.
Carol E.
Joseph M. Jones, '70, has been named a
Naval War College, Newport, RI.
Wesolowski, M.S. '80, has been accepted
partner in the Washington, DC, law firm
Robert F. Scott, M.B.A. '75, has been
as U-M Hospitals' management develop-
of Schwalb, Donnenfeld, Bray & Silbert.
named director of information services
ment intern for 1990-91.
Kenneth R.
Allison Cooke Kellogg, '70, has joined
with Steelcase, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI.
Close, M.A. '81, was promoted to lieute-
U.S. Trust Company of New York as vice-
Charles E. Burpee, '76eng, M.S.E. '77, J.D.
nant colonel and assigned to the Army's
president of public relations in the
'79; a partner with the law firm of
TRADOC Analysis Command, Ft.
marketing and corporate communications
Warner, Norcross & Judd, Grand Rapids,
Leavenworth, KS.
Deborah Gibson
division.
Julie Karpus, '71, president of
MI, organized and chaired the sixteenth
Robertson, '81, has been named
Atlanta-based University Seminars, will
annual Intellectual Property Law
humanities grants administrator for the
be the chairperson for a major interna-
Workshop.
Jean E. Godsall-Myers,
American Library Association in Chicago.
November/December 1990
53
LOUIS J. WILLIE, M.B.A. '47
When Louis J. Willie, M.B.A. '47,
entering Shoal Creek provides ac-
arrived in Birmingham, AL, 38
cess to minorities all over the coun-
years ago, he played golf on a
try, it's the beginning." In September
course where fairways were con-
a Black man was accepted as a
sidered hazards. He teed up every
member of Augusta National, site
shot-except on the greens-for
of the annual Masters Championship.
fear of scuffing his clubs on rocks.
The PGA tour has adopted a five-
Only Blacks played there.
year plan to ensure that no club
Today, he is än honorary member
hosting a PGA event maintain
of one of the finest golf courses in
discriminatory practices.
the country, Shoal Creek, site of the
Willie never thought his admit-
1990 PGA Championship. No longer
tance into Shoal Creek would cause
afraid of damaging his clubs on
such a media sensation. Suddenly,
fairway boulders, Willie has bought
his picture was on the front page in
a new set of irons and woods.
Moscow and Helsinki. The press
Before Willie, Shoal Creek was
monopolized him for ten days. He
for whites only.
received hundreds of letters of sup-
In August, days before play
port from around the country.
began at the PGA, Willie became
Now that the blitz is over, Willie
the first honorary Black member of
can resume his private citizen
Shoal Creek. His admittance to the
Why an honorary membership?
status, attend to the presidency of
club averted a tournament boycott,
Because the regular process would
Booker T. Washington Insurance
probable violence; and serious
have taken 30 days, surpassing
and forget about golf. After all it is
financial loss to the Birmingham
Woods' deadline; honorary status
his business acumen that earned
community.
took only five. Furthermore, for
him recognition earlier this year at
The PGA-Shoal Creek con-
honorary members, the club's
his alma mater. The U-M Black
troversy erupted when the club's
$35,000 initiation fee and $200
Business Students Association
founder, Hall Thompson, publicly
monthly maintenance charge are
named him "Alumnus of the Year."
stated what had been privately
waived; expenses Willie could have
When Willie walked to the dais and
practiced for years-the club didn't
afforded but wasn't willing to pay.
heard "Hail To The Victors," he says
accept Black members. While
He didn' t want to join.
that was one of the high points of
Thompson later apologized for his
And Willie had promised his wife
his life. "For a guy who never
remarks, Southern Christian
he would not join Shoal Creek
played ball, it was a real thrill."
Leadership Conference (SCLC)
despite offers by local businesses to
As of mid-September, Willie had
leader, Rev. Abraham Lincoln
sponsor his membership. Willie
yet to play golf at Shoal Creek.
Woods wasn't satisfied. Woods
refused. "I didn't wänt charity," he
However, he has dined at the club
insisted that Shoal Creek accept a
said, and as president of a company
twice and called his recéption there,
Black member before the tourna-
with $36 million in assets, he could
"fantastic." Willie says Thompson
ment or pickets would follow,
have afforded the costs. He thought
called him, too, to thank him. "You
jeopardizing $30 million in pro-
the matter was over. He understood
took a great risk, he said. 'You're a
jected revenues for the financially
his wife's desire for privacy because
great citizen and I consider you my
straped city. Birmingham's
he shared it. Then, the crisis
friend."
first Black mayor, Richard
escalated and Willie soon realized
Willie may take a greater risk
Arrington, stepped in. Major tourn-
"there was more at stake then our
when he eventually steps onto the
ament sponsors threatened to
own peace of mind."
first tee. He hasn't played golf in
withdraw their television adver-
Willie, a lifetime member of the
years. He says he used to shoot in
tising and the PGA (Professional
NAACP and SCLC, has never been
the 90s. "People said 'that's not bad,
Golfers Association) of America
a marcher or demonstrator. He con-
until I told them it was for nine
hastily joined the negotiating
siders himself a man of peace. And
holes." Consequently he's been prac-
parties.
while he had fears about joining
ticing and gaining confidence. At
In the end there was only one
Shoal Creek-"I didn't know if the
least at Shoal Creek when he does
solution-an honorary membership
Black community would resent
tee it up, he'll only have to do it
for Louis J. Willie. Why Willie? "I
it,"-he saw, the move as "a chance to
once per hole.
was the only Black person in the city
save the community."
of Birmingham they could all agree
Some critics viewed the Shoal
-Stephen Rosoff
on," he says. Arrington, Woods, and
Creek maneuver as tokenism. Willie
Thompson all said, "Lou Willie, he's
disagrees. "Somebody had to be
okay."
first," he says. "If this one person
54
Michigan Alumnus
Randall Swanson, '81for, M.S. '84, has
joined the faculty of Paul Smiths College,
NY, as an instructor and coordinator of
the urban tree management program.
Emil Arca, '82, J.D. '85, has joined the law
firm of Winston & Strawn, New York,
NY.
Susan German Cothern, '82bus,
has joined The Pillsbury Company in
marketing management, Minneapolis,
MN.
Susan E. Dick, '82, has been pro-
moted to senior audit accountant in the
Battle Creek, MI, office of Price
Waterhouse.
Samuel Fata, '82, has
joined the Michigan National Corpora-
tion, Farmington Hills, MI, as assistant
vice-president/product manager.
Scott C.
Finerman, '82bus, a certified public ac-
countant and principal with Cohen &
Company, has been elected to the board of
trustees of The City Club, Cleveland, OH.
Leonard P. Perna, Jr., '82, J.D. '85, of
West Bloomfield, MI, has joined Olympia
Arenas, Inc., an entertainment facility
U of M Graduates Viola Palmer and Virginia Harris, Glacier Hills-residents.
management company, as director of
strategic sales.
Linda Betleski Uttal, '82,
has become an associate with the John P.
Fishwick, Jr., law firm in Roanoke, VA.
Life in Ann Arbor-
Brian T. Dempsey, '83, a Navy lieutenant,
recently reported for duty with
The Second Time Around
Oceanographic Development Squadron-
Eight, Naval Air Station, Patuxent River,
MD.
Victor R. Habersmith, '83, has
Remember the heated discussions over philosophy,
been appointed to the position of sales
politics, and "true" art? Remember the bookstores, the
consultant and custom projects manager
for Nosan/Cohen Associates, Inc., West
concerts, the lectures?
Bloomfield, MI.
Mark A. Lipkin,
'83eng, of Highland Park, IL, is a member
They're all here, right where you remember-in
of the graduating class of 1990 at North-
Ann Arbor.
western University's J.L. Kellogg
Graduate School of Management.
Car-
rie G. Bachman, '84, has become a staff
Philosophical issues, politics, economics and world
associate for communications at the Na-
affairs are always discussed and debated in Ann Arbor.
tional Board for Professional Teaching
Standards in Detroit, MI.
Lindsay
Be part of the discussion. Pursue interests in music and
Bray, '84, is a member of the graduating
the arts.
class of 1990 at Northwestern University's
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Manage-
They're all here!
ment.
C. Kent Frederick, '84, has
become an associate with the law firm of
Bishop, Rossi, Gravey & Scarlati in Oak
Retire to Ann Arbor where free time doesn't mean
Brook, IL.
Charles Z. Jokay, '84, was
empty time. There are so many things to see and do
awarded a Ph.D. in political science from
the University of Illinois. He has been ap-
with friends and colleagues.
pointed a research fellow at the Hudson
Institute in Indianapolis, IN.
Thomas
Join them at Glacier Hills-retirement living at its best,
P. Cox, '85, has received a masters degree
in business administration from the
and just 10 minutes from campus! Its unique life-care
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY,
program* provides the security-and the location-that
and has joined the corporate management
attracts so many U of M alumni and staff.
development program at National City
Bank in Cleveland, OH.
Julian Foster,
85eng, has recently joined ITT Real Estate
Take a few minutes while you're here in Ann Arbor
Services, Hoffman Estates, IL, as an in-
to visit Glacier Hills.
vestment analyst.
Don Cline, '86, has
been promoted to assistant loan officer
*Subject to provisions of Residents' Agreement.
with NBD bank in Detroit.
Paul An-
drew Feusse, '86, a systems programmer
working for the Department of Defense,
computer science.
gh
1200 Earhart Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
has graduated from The Johns Hopkins
University with a master of science in
For more information call (313) 663-5202
Jacquelin Merva
Lalor, '86nurs, is pursuing a masters
degree in pediatric nursing at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
glacier hills
James C. Melvin, '86, M.B.A. '90, J.D. '90,
November/December 1990
55
has joined the law firm of Miller, Can-
field, Paddock & Stone. He and his wife,
DEATHS
'36 MICHAEL S. SAVAGE, (M.A. '42),
May 4, 1990.
the former Amy S. Douglas, '87, are liv-
'61 JOYCE BERMAN JACKSON, May 12,
ing in Kalamazoo, MI.
Donald Merritt,
Faculty
1990.
'86, has received a master of science
JOSEPH F. ALBANO, professor emeritus of
SHIRLEY LARKIN TREIBER, Nov. 8,
degree in computer science from the
architecture, June 5, 1990, La Jolla, CA.
1989.
University of Southern California.
KEITH HALL, professor emeritus of
'68 NANCY DAVISON JOHNSON, June 18,
Kristen Dahlgren Rickman, '86, has
mechanical engineering, June 5, 1990,
1990.
received a juris doctorate degree from the
Bozeman, MT.
University of Wisconsin Law School, and
WILLIAM R. LESLIE, professor emeritus of
Engineering
has joined the law offices of Larry Willey
history, May 24, 1990, Arizona.
'17 ARTHUR LOUIS OPPENHEIMER, April
in Grand Rapids, MI.
Dennis P.
DEBORAH BROWN LEVINE, associate pro-
13, 1990.
Sczomak, '86eng, M.S.E. '89, has become
fessor of art history/Dearborn, May 23,
'28 RICHARD D. HALL, May 19, 1990.
associated with the consulting engineering
1990.
'29 CARL WILSON SIGNOR, May 2, 1990.
firm of Peter Basso Associates, Inc, Troy,
CHARLES H. LIPSON, professor emeritus
'30 VERNON EMERSON MULLER, June 7,
MI.
Patrice A. Villani, '86, has joined
of mechanical engineering, May 25, 1990,
1990, Ft. Wayne, IN.'
the Detroit-based law firm of Clark, Klein
Indiana, PA.
'32 CLINTON D. EDGETT, Feb. 2, 1990.
& Beaumont as a summer associate, and
PHILIP S. ROGERS, Dec. 9, 1989.
is attending the Detroit College of Law.
Architecture & Urban Planning
'34 STANLEY H. FILLION, March 15, 1990,
Scott Rickman, '87, has received his juris
'65 DEAN A. GUINN, 1989.
Norwood, CA.
doctorate degree from the University of
35 LOUIS W. WESTOVER, April 4, 1990.
Wisconsin Law School, and has joined the
Art
'36 JOHN Cox O'CONNOR, April 16,
law firm of Velnum, Riddering, Schmidt
Colin
'50 JOAN REGENT SMITH, June 25, 1990.
1990.
& Howlett in Grand Rapids, MI.
J. Zick, '87, J.D. '90, has joined the law
'60 JOAN LUKAS ROTHENBERG, (M.F.A.
LYMAN ALLEN RICE, Feb. 13, 1989.
firm of Ropes & Gray as an associate in
'63), April 20, 1990.
'37 EDWARD R. BIGGINS, Sept. 16, 1989.
their Boston office. He and his wife, the
'61 DIHANNA JACOBSON PARSKY, Jan. 29,
JACK G. BRINER, June 27, 1990.
1990.
CHARLES W. SWARTOUT, March 1990.
former Jean L. Demmer, '87bus, are now
'40 LOUIS HENRY GOLDMAN, Oct. 22,
living in Boston.
Jason R. Marx, '88,
has recently been named an assistant vice-
Business Administration
1989, Greenwich, CT.
WILLIAM G. PRICE, April 5, 1990,
president for Household Finance Corp.,
'47 JOHN JOSEPH HOGAN, (M.B.A. '48),
South Bend, IN.
and will be based at their regional head-
June 24, 1990, Ann Arbor.
FRED H. STEUBER, May 18, 1990.
quarters in Overland Park, KS.
Patricia
'49 CHARLES MAX YOUNG, Oct. 3, 1989.
'41 JOHN O. TIETJEN, June 12, 1990.
R. Payette, '88, has joined Stage One:
'50 ALVIN Roy GARCHOW, June 20, 1990.
'47 ROBERT T. BOGAN, Nov. 12, 1989,
Louisville's Children's Theatre, Louisville,
PHILIP R. HILDNER, Jan. 27, 1990.
Sarasota, FL.
KY, as marketing director.
Leslie
'58 GEORGE A. MYERS, Jan. 3, 1990.
'48 RODERIC E. HALL, April 13, 1990.
Footlick, '89, was named project coor-
'59 NORMAN K. FOLEY, JR., May 6, 1990.
'49 JAMES CLARE MARTIN, SR., June 3,
dinator for Proctor & Gamble at Advan-
'67 DONNA MILLER SMITH, Dec. 23, 1989.
1990.
tage International, Washington, DC.
'68 ROBERT CUMINGS MAGNUS, May 19,
'50 ROBERT G. DENIES, Sept. 3, 1989.
Jennifer Loeb, '89, lives in Boston and
1990.
PEARSON GRAHAM, (M.S.E. '55),
works for WBUR building on skills
'73 JEFFREY J. BARTLETT, April 6, 1990,
March 27, 1990.
developed at WUOM.
Janet A. Marvel,
Berkeley, CA.
'51 FREDERICK W. CARLSON, May 10,
J.D. '89, is an attorney with the national
1990, Hartford, CT.
law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery. A
Dentistry & Dental Hygiene
DOUGLAS B. HARRINGTON, April 30,
trial attorney, Marvel works in the firm's
'23 MARION HAWKINS MEYERS, April 24,
1990.
Chicago office.
Ray K. Otto, '89eng, a
1990.
PAUL OSMO LAITINEN, Sept. 13,
Navy ensign, has been commissioned to
HOWARD A. TEWS, May 5, 1990.
1989.
his present rank upon graduation from
'24 FRANK DANIEL MCINTYRE, May 32,
'55 EDWIN I. GOLDING, Feb. 23, 1990.
Officer Candidate School.
Michael P.
1990.
'64 ROBERT HARRIS LURIE, (M.S.E. '66),
Shaw, '89, has joined the Peace Corps and
'26 MURRAY A. LEITCH, April 13, 1990.
June 1990.
will be teaching English in the African na-
'27 LILEON LIPMAN SCHLUSBERG, April
'65 PHIROZE R. UMRIGAR, July 12, 1990.
tion of Guinea-Bissau.
Terry Tatro, '89,
21, 1990.
'85 WAYNE P. WILSDON, June 1990.
will begin serving overseas as a
'31 ABRAHAM ALLEN COLLINS, April 22,
journeyman through the International
1990.
Flint Branch
Service Corps program sponsored by the
'36 CHARLES D. SIGWART, Oct. 9, 1989.
'60 SHIRLEY DEAN, Jan. 17, 1990, Flint,
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission located
'44 JOAN BARKER WILLIAMS, Feb. 17,
MI.
in Richmond, VA.
1990.
'59 JAMES H. RYAN, March 16, 1990.
Graduate School
'60 LINDA GALLAGHER ROOKE, March 3,
1989.
'15 WALTER G. MARBURGER, May 21,
Material for this section of Through the
1990.
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Education
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1990.
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'30 HAZEL V. UNDERHILL, May 10, 1990.
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1989.
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'35 CHALMER D. LOVELL, June 4, 1989.
April 21, 1990.
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'32 EILEEN M. SULLIVAN, May 12, 1990.
1989.
'34 IONE S. SMITH, (M.A. '40), May 5,
CARLETON R. TREADWELL, (PH.D.
1990.
39), Dec. 30, 1989.
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'70 JEAN MARION HANE ANDERSON, June
'28 MIRIAM M. JORGENSEN, August 1989.
1989.
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'76 MARV MILLER, May 19, 1990.
May 22, 1990.
City Center, FL.
'77 CAROLE JEAN PETERSON, Sept. 21,
ROBERT N. PRENTISS, March 13, 1989.
'37 RICHARD O. EDGERTON, (PH.D. '40),
1989.
ANNETTE STOCKWELL WADDELL, June
April 3, 1990.
'82 JUDITH D. VOLLER, May 25, 1990.
30, 1990.
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'86 SANDRA FELTON ROBERTS, June 21,
'29 GEORGE R. CHEADLE, April 24, 1990.
ALTON J. STROUD, May 4, 1990.
1990, Dexter, MI.
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'38 GERTRUDE CLARK, 1990.
Larned, KS.
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Law
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1990.
'22 JOHN M. DURBIN, May 29, 1990.
1990.
'39 LILLIAN HOPPING HAYNE, Feb. 25,
'23 FREDERICK B. DARDEN, May 20, 1990.
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1990.
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1990.
'40 CLARE K. MARTINSON, May 31, 1990.
'29 ALBERT EDWARD PETERMANN, April
FRED W. LYONS, SR., April 29, 1990.
RUTH ANN SCHINDLER, Feb. 17, 1990.
21, 1990.
MARY KATHERINE RITCHIE, May 11,
'41 NOAH HAROLD BENNETT, JR., March
'31 JOHN J. NELLIS, May 9, 1990.
1990.
28, 1990.
'39 MOSES H. GAMBLE, JR., May 6, 1990.
JEROME B. STONE, (LL.B. '31), Feb. 2,
DEAN WALTER GILMAN, Jan. 14,
'46 PAUL J. SUTER, Dec. 25, 1989.
1990.
1990.
'51 GEORGE H. CHOLACK, May 19, 1990.
'30 JAMES B. OSBORNE, (J.D. '35), Feb.
WAYNE WILSON, May 23, 1990.
'52 JAMES T. SOUTHARD, Feb. 21, 1990.
28, 1990.
'42 JAMES W. TUMA, March 10, 1990.
'62 RICHARD M. WOOD, May 30, 1990.
LEONE E. PATENGE, Sept. 3,
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'79 PHILIP G. BOGGS, July 4, 1990.
'31 MARGARET DURST CUPLER, May 26,
'43 MARGARET HOWES CARTER, May 1,
1990.
1990, Saline, MI.
Library Science
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LYMAN M. PARTRIDGE, March 30,
1989.
'27 HARRIET SUE SALMON, Dec. 29, 1989.
3, 1990.
'36 MARY E. ROLLMAN, May 8, 1990.
ALBERT J. KLICK, May 3, 1990.
FERNE L. WOLFE, April 17, 1990.
'65 MARTHA G. SWENOR, March 25,
SIDNEY ULLMAN, (J.D. '33), May 31,
'46 HELEN ARLISS DENYES, (PH.D. '51),
1990.
March 15, 1990.
1990.
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'47 EVELYN LOUISE DENTON, Jan. 6,
1989.
Literature, Science & the Arts
5, 1990.
'32 BETTY CARPENTER POOLE, Feb. 9,
VIRGINIA C. WAISNER, Sept. 27,
'16 DONNA JONES SCHURTZ, May 19,
1990.
1989.
1990.
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'48 CARLO CHARLES BARBERI, June 15,
'17 REECE B. OBERTEUFFER, April 23,
1989.
1990.
1990.
'33 EMIL J. KONOPINSKI, May 26, 1990.
'49 MARVIN HOMER MURPHY, May 14,
'21 MARGARET BERKAW BUEHRER, May
1990.
15, 1990.
'50 WILLIAM PAUL BEESE, June 17, 1990.
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'22), May 31, 1990.
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22 HERBERT E.R. BLACHFORD, May 29,
1989.
1990.
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'25 IRENE SCHULER KENT, June 15, 1990.
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'57 ESTER ANNA LOGAN, Nov. 9, 1989.
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'58 JUDITH E. OLSON; June 6, 1990.
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'27 JOHN STANTON DENTON, (LL.B. '31),
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57
'34 MARIETTA RECOR TWISS, June 1990.
'57 ROBERT C. ANDERSON, Jan. 23, 1990,
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'35 WILLIAM R. THOMAS, May 20, 1990.
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VIVIAN H. VISSCHER, (M.P.H. '50),
'58 NANCY WALSER KUHL, Sept. 6, 1989.
May 12, 1990.
'64 DENNIS FINLAY MCINTYRE, Feb. 1,
ingway's short story canon, delivers a
'36 MICHAEL W. EVANOFF, (J.D. '36),
1990.
detailed critical analysis, and traces Hem-
June 3, 1990.
'69 JAMES L. PLAFKIN, (M.S. '70), Feb. 6,
ingway's development as a writer of short
ROBERT G. SWANSON, April 5, 1990.
1990.
fiction. Also included is a previously un-
'37 RICHARD E. HINKS, June 29, 1990.
'77 MARTIN CHARLES FRIESS, Dec. 9,
published essay by Hemingway on the art.
JOSEPH M. HINSHAW, JR., June 22,
1989, Washington, DC.
of the short story, as well as some excerpts
1990.
Medical School
from Hemingway critics. Flora is pro-
PAUL ALEXANDER SIMPSON, (M.B.A.
fessor of English and department chair at
'39), June 19, 1990, Ann Arbor.
'25 MALCOLM G. BOURNE, SR., April 5,
the University of North Carolina at
'38 FRANCES E. HARRISON, June 18, 1990.
1990.
Chapel Hill.
WILLIAM CARL KNECHT, June 15,
'31 WALTER W. HAMMOND, April 19,
1990.
1990.
Mission Accomplished! Michigan's Basket-
'39 BETTY SHAFFER BLACK, June 8, 1990,
'38 BERNARD E. PALETZ, 1990.
ball Miracle, 1989 by John Beckett, With
Portland, OR.
'45 GEORGE HERBERT BURKE, JR., June 1,
photographs by Duane Black, '67, M.A.
ALYS J. HOAG, May 29, 1990.
1990.
68, foreword by Bo Schembechler, Dia-
'40 MARGARET NEAFIE SHELLY, April 23,
mond Communications, P.O. Box 88,
1990.
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South Bend, IN 46624, $12.95 paper.
'42 CRAIG E. DAVIDS, (J.D. '45), April
'34 SARAH THURSTON NICHOLAS,
Sportswriter for the Ann Arbor News,
17, 1990, Scottsdale, AZ.
John Beckett took his title from some
(M.Mus. '40), May 15, 1990.
LOUISE KEATLEY FRAUMANN, June 5,
'41 ROGER DINUCCI, JR., Aug. 2, 1989.
remarks by Wolverine basketball guard
1990:
MARY LEOTA SCHWENK, May 24,
Glen Rice. After being frustrated by In-
LEONARD H. SCHOENHERR, May 11,
1990.
diana's last-second 3-point shot that won
1990.
'48 MARY VIRGINIA WILSON ELLIS, June
the game, Rice declared, "I'm tired of
'43 DANIEL S. BEHRMAN, May 9, 1990,
this We are going to win the rest of our
8, 1990.
Rangeley, ME.
games, and we are going to win all our
'47 MORRIS I. MENDELOFF, JR., (D.D.S.
Natural Resources
games in the tournament, and we are go-
'50), April 26, 1990.
ing to be national champs. We are going
'48 BARBARA STRUNSKY MILLER, Nov. 3,
'31 JOHN B. HATCHER, June 10, 1990:
on a mission, a mission to shock the
1989.
'56 GORDON M. GARLICK, April 29,
world."
'49 WALTER KOSESKI, May 13, 1990
1990.
Beckett details that mission-the re-
'50 EDWARD A. KUICH, JR., May 13,
'60 EDWARD NASH LOCKE, November
maining games of the 1989 season and na-
1989.
1990.
tional tournament in which the
'54 RAYMOND VANDERZEYDE, March 30,
Wolverines did, indeed, become national
1990.
Nursing
champs. It is a lively, entertaining account
'32 DORIS NICHOLS SMALLA, March 18,
of the games and players, the coaches, and
1990.
some of the behind-the-scenes activities
Moving?
MARJORIE PETERSEN VAN HORNE,
that resulted in Head Coach Bill Frieder's
May 17, 1990.
move to Arizona and Assistant Coach
'42 JEANNE THATCHER BETZ, 1989.
Steve Fisher's move to lead the team into
1. To correct your address,
'45 JEANNE B. WRONA, May 1, 1990.
the national spotlight. Duane Black is an
'50 IRIS SAUL GOLDBERG, (B.S.nurs 74,
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A Burkinabé Apart
by Stephen Rosoff
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A Moment for Michigan
guilty of not emphasizing "how
diverse and many. Yet, it is neither
directly" scholarship and research
fully understood on campus nor
relate to the needs of people and
certainly not fully recognized
governments. (The University of
throughout the state, how extensive
Michigan's Professor Francis Col-
such programs are.
lins's gene research and its applica-
It is important that we take
tion to cystic fibrosis is a very real
seriously the bridging role between
service to people. Highway safety
the needs of people and the tradi-
research helps to keep our highways
tional roles of higher education by
and our people safe. The services of
focusing on the relevance of educa-
The University of Michigan
tion to the world in which we live.
hospital leave little doubt as to their
importance to the welfare of our
Yours for Michigan,
citizens.)
Yet higher education has been
slow to understand that scholarship
Bob Forman
and research need to focus not only
on traditional academic matters, but
to relate consciously to real prob-
lems. When the government
Ernest L. Boyer, president of the
engages prime contractors to design
Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
and develop military and space
vancement of Learning, recently
systems, it realizes that such
observed that although our nation's
systems are a part of a complex set
higher educational institutions may
of interrelationships. To place a per-
list services as a major institutional
son on the moon requires an in-
mission, "it is accorded little atten-
tegrated system involving propul-
tion." Boyer raises serious questions.
sion, guidance and navigation,
"Is the modern university sufficient-
astronaut training and life support
ly engaged in service to the nation?
systems, landing and lunar explora-
Are today's scholars too much in
tion vehicles, and literally
the ivory tower, unresponsive to na-
thousands of subsystem operations.
tional and world affairs?"
Universities have provided much
Teaching, research, and service
of the research and development
are recognized in some manner in
necessary to bring such systems into
the mission statements of most
being. Cities are also complex
universities, but Boyer is right in
systems, requiring both the research
suggesting service may be one of
as well as the system management.
those words that sounds ap-
Transportation, housing, education,
propriate, but garners very little at-
employment, sewage and waste,
tention in overall institutional
and recreation and health are but a
priorities.
few of the systems that have to be
The Land Grant College Act of
financed and integrated to make our
1862 was the first attempt to
cities work. If the Land Grant Col-
establish national policy that re-
lege Act has encouraged universities
quired education to assume a
to serve rural interests, public in-
specific service role in nation
stitutions should be able to do the
building. Certainly farmers of our
same for American cities.
own state of Michigan have profited
Recently, at The University of
by the agricultural extension service
Michigan, we attempted to "inven-
of the state's land grant college,
tory our services" to the people of
Michigan State.
the city of Detroit. The catalog
We have been content to suggest
became far greater than most of us
that the education and training of
had imagined. As the various ser-
students are the principal means of
vices were recorded, it became ap-
providing service to people and
parent that the outreach activities
community. However, we may be
from our various programs were
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the canard of how it is the white male
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who have a learning disability or who
Regarding the article in the current
heart of every problem in America. Such
work in the field of education, and of
Michigan Alumnus (Nov./Dec. '90), I can-
an idea was taught in every sociology
course anyone who has an interest in this
not believe that a more academic and less
course as a "science" and that is what I
area for any reason. Because we are a new
political teaching solution to the issue of
found so offensive and racist.
group our financial resources are extreme-
racial and ethnic intolerance could not be
Ideas are endemic to a university, but
ly limited. Therefore, any contribution to
found. That such a highly political, biased
dogma is not. The University has failed to
cover these costs would be greatly
issue should be a required course at the
distinguish between the two and it is
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University is a disappointing and coward-
outrageous that limited academic time
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ly development. If such issues of race do
should suffer as a result of this course.
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What worries me about the required
Even though the U-M continues to be a
course is that it further reflects the Univer-
I'm sending you a belated wish from
leader in many fields of education, it is
sity's willingness to encourage the
Turkey for a Happy Thanksgiving ("Iyi
disturbing to think that there are so many
balkanization of the American populace,
Sugran Günü). This year I celebrated with
high school students who have the mental
where everybody is suddenly a minority
a dinner fit for a sultan at the Husir
capacity to succeed here, but without the
and disadvantaged. Furthermore, I am
restaurant on the site of an Ottoman
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general's summer palace overlooking the
to even consider applying.
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Bosphorus. The meal was highlighted by
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show your support so that we can con-
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tinue to build a program for students with
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drinks were served beside a blazing fire.
any capable student to succeed at one of
courses I took at the U-M are any indica-
Who could ask for more?
the most competitive universities in the
tion of the nature of this course, then I
country.
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Claudia Capos, '73
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Istanbul, Turkey
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further.
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Michigan Alumnus
Michigan Bookshelf
Young Shakespeare by Russell
eager for custom. Most
a network of deep-cover Arab
Fraser, Columbia University Press,
playgoers came by foot. From
agents called Prophets. However,
1989, $32.00.
the postern at Moorgate, a
his last assignment has left him
footpath across the fields led
burned out and on an alcoholic
"The work comes first, but the life
to the Theater but a brick wall
binge.
is its seedbed," writes Russell Fraser
barred access. Burbage [the
Then someone starts murdering
in his preface to Young Shakespeare.
great English actor whose
Arab and Iranian cab drivers in the
The book, which focuses on the
family owned the Globe], a
city, catching the attention of police
subject's life until age 30, is a dense
man with a sense of humor
detective Jack Corrigan, and FBI
treasure-trove of historical detail,
agent MaryAgnes McCaskey. As
meticulously describing the habits
of the day in Stratford and London
YOUNG
they try to find an angle on the
murders, McCaskey approaches
and weaving them into discussions
Hallet for his expertise-not know-
of Shakespeare's plays and poetry.
ing of his real work. But Hallet isn't
The book recreates the scenes: in
Stratford, the architecture, the
SHAKE
interested in helping anyone until
someone starts murdering his
houses and school and the often
cruel town politics; in London, and
SPEARE
agents and he is forced to work
with the FBI in order to find the
on the road to London, the festive
answers before his entire network is
street commerce, the raucous spirit
blown. Also stirring up complica-
of Globe Theater performances,
tions, are the Chicago mob and a
and the very real dangers of the
psychotic hit man. Who is the
plague, which for a period closed
mysterious "Sandman," a contact
the Globe and set the Bard's pen to
known only to Hallet? And is there
his body of poetry-the sonnets
a traitor in the network, murdering
and the major poems.
his agents? Martins builds a story
Fraser's book doesn't read like a
that is richly layered in intrigue as
conventional biography. The extant
well as interesting and timely infor-
records are inadequate to plot the
mation about the Middle East and
exact course of William Shake-
RUSSELL FRASER
its peoples.
speare's life. And so, to a frustrating
degree, Shakespeare the person still
Richard Martins is a former journalist
remains a mystery. Thus, each
opened a gate through the
who spent a year in Ann Arbor studying
biography (A.L.Rowse, G.B. Har-
wall, so made City land the
Islamic culture. His first book was The
rison, Anthony Burgess, among the
thoroughfare to his playhouse.
Cinch, and he is currently at work on a
When Shakespeare played and
third novel
many, many writers who have
penned books about Shakespeare),
acted there, the concourse of
-Sue A. Burris
rather than containing new infor-
people through the fields' was
mation as such, reflects the writer's
a sight to see."
concepts, imagination, and inter-
Doc: The Story of Dennis Littky
pretation of those facts in order to
Russell Fraser is the U-M Austin Warren
and His Fight for a Better School by
give a fresh slant to the Bard's life.
Professor of English literature and
language. His many books include
Susan Kammeraad-Campbell, Con-
Fraser's book suggests the feel of
Shakespeare's Poetics, The War Against
temporary Books, 180 North
that life and the vibrant Elizabethan
Poetry, and The Three Romes.
Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 50501,
era down to the quotidian moment:
-Lisa Failer, M.A. '89, is an Ann
1989, $18.95.
Playgoers bound for the
Arbor-based freelance writer.
Dennis Littky, '66, Ph.D. '70, is a
Theater on horseback left the
highly effective high school prin-
City at Bishopsgate and rode
Sandman by Richard Martins,
cipal whose somewhat unorthodox
out along Shoreditch High
1986-87, Atheneum, 1990, $18.95.
approach to teaching brought him
Street. Some put up their
both praise and detraction. When
horses at the Lion in Shore-
This taut thriller centers on a Mid-
he took over as principal of the
ditch, others, carrying on past
dle Eastern scholar, Philip Hallet,
200-student Thayer High School in
the orchards and garden plots,
who is a member of an exclusive
Winchester, New Hampshire, the
turned west on Holywell
Chicago think tank whose purpose
problems seemed almost insur-
Lane. At the playhouse door,
is to promote understanding of
mountable: burned out teachers,
if old stories are true, 'Shake-
Middle Eastern cultures. But Hallet
disinterested and rebellious
speare's Boys' awaited them,
is also a government agent running
students, and a school building that
March/April 1991
7
looked like a combat zone.
Poletown: Community Betrayed by Jeanie
investments. Sheiner is a Chicago-based
With his energy, intelligence, and
Wylie, Photographs by David C. Turnley,
investment broker.
experience, his ability to get things
'77, University of Illinois Press, 1989,
$24.95. Poletown, one of Detroit's oldest
done, to find the right people to
Visions for the Future: Creating New In-
integrated neighborhoods, was razed to
stitutional Relationships Among
work with him, and his on-the-spot
provide ground for a GM Cadillac plant,
Academia, Business, Government, And
decisions that convinced student
which-in the end-did not even achieve
Community edited by Francis T.
and teacher alike that his word was
its expected gains for the community. The
Borkowski and Susan A. MacManus,
good, Littky managed to turn
residents of Poletown did not leave quiet-
M.A. '69, University of South Florida
ly, however; they fought to save their
Press, 1989. As the world changes, the
things around to an amazing advan-
neighborhood (with the help of Ralph
United States is increasingly linked with
tage for students and teachers alike
Nader's staff), in a sometimes violent
other nations in economic, social, and
within a few years. Dropouts
manner that resulted in fires, vandalism,
political interdependence. MacManus,
declined (some even returned to
and deaths. Turnley, a Detroit Free Press
professor and department chair of the
school), more and more students
photographer, was the recipient of the
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
1990 Pulitzer Prize in his field.
of the University of South Florida, and
were going on to college, and both
coeditor Borkowski utilize the papers
teachers and students showed a
presented by a distinguished group of ex-
renewed interest in their classes.
perts for a symposium that looked at the
While Littky attracted the sup-
ORVIE
critical issues that will pose future
challenges.
port of leading educators like
Theodore Sizer, former dean of the
Culture Shift In Advanced Industrial
Graduate School of Education at
Society by Ronald Inglehart, Princeton
Harvard and now professor of
The Rise and Reign of ORVILLE HUBBARD
University Press, 1990. Inglehart, U-M
education at Brown University, he
professor of political science and research
associate at the Center for Research on
also upset the more conservative
Learning and Teaching, examines the
element in town. A coalition of
cultural changes affecting the economic
several school board members and
growth rates of the various societies of the
townspeople tried to fire Littky
world and the kinds of economic develop-
ment they are pursuing in terms of the
because they didn't like his unor-
nature of these changes and their causes
thodox methods, and the ensuing
and consequences.
battle between the two forces-pro
and con-attracted national media
A Century of Human Capital by Educa-
attention Time, Newsweek, and
tion and Training by August C. Bolino,
'48bus, M.B.A. '49, Kensington Historical
the television show, "West 57th
Press, Box 1314 Cardinal Station,
Street," as Littky struggled to retain
Washington, DC, 20064, 1990, $30.00.
his job and the educational changes
Bolino, a professor at the Catholic
he had made.
University of America, has replicated the
David L. Good
Denison coefficients and, for the past
Author Susan Kammeraad-
decade, has been measuring the contribu-
Campbell brings an immediacy to
tion of education and training to the na-
the story, drawing the characters in
Orvie, The Dictator of Dearborn: The
tion's productivity, using times series
Rise and Reign of Orville L. Hubbard by
vivid, sharp strokes, and builds
analysis of enrollment data.
David L. Good, '64, M.A. '66, Wayne
energy and suspense into Littky's
State University Press, 1989, $39.95,
Love Your Work! by David McKenna,
struggle with the school system that
$19.95 paper. Orville Hubbard, the late
M.A. "55, Ph.D. '58, Victor Books, 1825
makes fascinating reading. Littky's
mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, from
College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187, 1990,
1942-78, was the second-longest tenured
innovative approach to education is
$7.97 paper. The author looks at how our
mayor in U.S. history. While he became a
refreshing and merits examination
work affects our spiritual life and vice
model for successful suburban govern-
versa, and discusses the challenges of the
by all those interested in the chang-
ment by establishing a reputation for
changing workplace and the biblical ethic
ing needs of education.
good municipal services and low taxes, he
for work. McKenna is president of
was also one of the most racist figures
Asbury Theological Seminary in
north of the Mason-Dixon line. Good,
-Sue A. Burris
Wilmore, Kentucky.
deputy features editor of the Detroit
News, details the life of one of the more
Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser,
colorful and flamboyant political figures
Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of
Gateway Cities and Other Essays by
of this century.
Vision by Theresa M. Krier, M..A. 78,
Leonard K. Eaton, Iowa State University
Ph.D. '83, Cornell University Press, 1990,
Press, 1989, $39.95. These essays focus on
Listed Stock Options by Carl F. Luft and
$31.50. Professor of English at Notre
cities in the Midwest and Northwest, par-
Richard K. Sheiner, '80, Probus Publishing
Dame, Krier examines the element of spy-
ticularly those along the major river
Company, Chicago, IL 1988, $21.95
ing on intimacies in Spéncer's work,
valleys and railroads, containing large
paper. One in a series of self-teaching
showing how the poet posed a problem in
warehouse districts. The author examines
seminars, this book is designed to give the
ethics and aesthetics: how to represent the
the expansión and growth of these cities
stock market investor a complete
allure of secrecy without reducing it to
(St. Paul, Omaha, Winnepeg, etc.) in
understanding of the essentials of trading
display.
terms of how the accessibility of river and
listed stock options. It provides clear and
rail transportation contributed to the
concise explanations, examples, and pro-
Statistical Analysis for Public and Non-
movement westward. Eaton is the Emil
blems to show how listed stock options
Profit Managers by Leanna Stiefel, '67,
Lorch Professor Emeritus of Architecture
can be used by those investors at all levels
Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Rd., W., P.O.
and Urban Planning at the U-M.
of experience to protect and enhance their
Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881, 1990,
8
Michigan Alumnus
$47.50. Geared for use by professionals
and graduate-level students in the areas of
public administration and not-for-profit
management, this book presents a com-
prehensive, clearly written guide to the
use of statistical analysis in the manage-
ment of nonprofit organizations. Stiefel is
A DISTINCTIVE
professor of economics at New York
University's Graduate School of Public
Administration.
HOTEL.
A PRESTIGIOUS
RIGHTING
UNIVERSITY.
THE RECORD
Edited by
G. Kass-Simon
and
Patricia Farnes
Bell'
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
DEBORAH NASH
Women of Science: Righting the Record
edited by G. Kass-Simon, '56, and Patricia
Farnes, Indiana University Press, 1990,
$39.95. This historical perspective on
In the heart of The University of Michigan campus,
women in the sciences covers such areas as
the Bell Tower Hotel offers superb accommodations
archaeology, biology, chemistry, engineer-
ing, geology, mathematics, medicine, and
and exceptional service reminiscent of
physics, and examines significant new
European-style inns.
ideas as well as the less-important
achievements that helped shape the
general scientific picture. Gabrielle Kass-
Choose from sixty-six rooms and suites exquisitely
Simon is professor of zoology at the
furnished in rich English decor.
University of Rhode Island.
Make your stay in Ann Arbor one that gives you
A George Jean Nathan Reader edited by
A. L. Lazarus, '35, Fairleigh Dickinson
even more reason to return.
University Press, 1990, $45.00. Nathan,
one of the most astute and influential
drama critics of this century, was in-
strumental in educating the American
public to the merits of playwrights Eugene
O'Neill, Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar,
and Franz Wedekind, among others.
Bell Tower Hotel
Lazarus, emeritus professor of English at
Purdue, has compiled this selection of
300 South Thayer
critical writings in a manner that is
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
representative of Nathan's entire oeuvre.
(Across from Hill Auditorium)
(Ex)Tensions: Re-figuring Feminist
Criticism by Elizabeth A. Meese, '65
University of Illinois Press, 1990. The
Reservations: 1-800-999-8693
author examines the racial, social, and
In Ann Arbor: 769-3010
cultural differences within feminism and
feminist literary criticisms, with sugges-
tions of constructive ways for feminists to
A Dahlmann Property
examine those differences and work
toward social change and political action.
March/April 1991
9
Meese is professor of English at the
1871, Miller looks at how this event
Olin Health Center and of the Michigan
University of Alabama.
achieved mythic proportions and how, in
State University faculty, is currently
rebuilding the city, Chicago became a
working on two other books from the
The Rights of Older Persons by Robert N.
focus for all kinds of new opportunities,
same time period.
Brown, '66, J.D. '69, Southern Illinois
including a radical new architecture, a
University Press, P.O. Box 3697, Carbon-
daring realistic fiction, literary jour-
Party, State, and Society in the Russian
dale, IL 62902-3697, 1990, $7.95 (plus
nalism, and the new scientific study of
Civil War: Explorations in Social History
$2.00 shipping & handling). This
society. Miller is professor of English and
edited by Diane P. Koenker, M.A. '71,
question-and-answer format focuses on
comparative literature at the University of
Ph.D. '76, William G. Rosenberg, and
the laws designed to protect the elderly
Connecticut.
Ronald Grigor Suny, Indiana University
and also presents court decisions and rules
Press, 1989, $39.95, $12.50 paper. Focus-
issued by government agencies responsible
The World Trading System: Law and
ing on the interaction of politics and
for administering these laws. Brown, a
Policy of International Economic Rela-
society, this book presents current
University of Detroit School of Law pro-
tions by John H. Jackson, J.D. '59, MIT
scholarship on the social history of the
fessor, covers areas on the right to an ade-
Press, 1989, $45.00. Because trade law and
Russian Civil War. Among the themes ex-
quate income, the right to health care, and
policy is constantly in flux, Jackson
amined are: social and demographic im-
the right to freedoms from restraint on
focuses on the institutions and legal rules,
pact of the civil war; the Bolsheviks and
life, liberty, and property.
etc., that shape the institutions and
the intelligentsia; and workers and
policies of international law. Jackson, the
socialists. Koenker is professor of history
The International Politics of Agricultural
U-M Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law,
at the University of Illinois at
Trade: Canadian-American Relations in a
looks at major issues, areas of
Urbana-Champagne.
Global Agricultural Context by Theodore
significance, and also examines the place
H. Cohn, '62, Ph.D. '72, University of
of developing countries, state trading, and
Teaching Ethnic and Gender Awareness:
British Columbia Press, 1990, $36.95.
non-market economies.
Methods and Materials for the Elementary
Cohn traces the historical developments of
School by Edith W. King, '51, Ken-
Canadian-American agricultural trading
Towpath to Freedom by Georgia A. Lewis
dall/Hunt Publishing CO., Dubuque,
relations from the 1950s to 1980s, looking
Johnson, M.D. '55, Georgia A. Johnson
Iowa, 1989. As our population becomes
at the importance of numerous variables
Publishing Co., P.O. Box 4796, East Lans-
increasingly multicultural and pluralistic,
that shaped the trade relations between
ing, MI 48826, $7.95 ($1.05 tax and ship-
we must come to a better understanding
the two countries. Cohn is professor of
ping). In 1851, Isaac and his pregnant wife
and approach to living together. By
political science at Simon Fraser
Sarah, runaway slaves from Kentucky, try
teaching ethnic and gender awareness in
University.
to reach Canada in the hope that their
the early grades, teachers provide essential
child can be born free. Johnson relates the
contributions to the future citizens of the
American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and
story of their flight, their fears and hopes,
world. King is professor of education at
the Myth of Chicago by Ross Miller, '68,
their pain and happiness, and the people
the University of Denver.
University of Chicago Press, 1990, $24.95.
who help Isaac and Sarah along the way.
Focusing on the great Chicago fire of
Dr. Johnson, a retired staff member of
America's Favorite Homes: A Guide to
Early Twentieth-Century Catalogue
Houses by Robert Schweitzer, '71, and
Remember?
Michael W. R. Davis, Great Lakes Books,
Wayne State University Press, 1990,
$49.95, $24.95 paper. This book examines
the evolution of the prefabricated,
moderately priced homes that were
available through mail-order catalogues,
and traces the companies that manufac-
tured them, the construction methods,
and technologies. The authors present an
interesting look at these architectural
styles, complemented by more than 250
photographs and drawings, in a book that
should appeal to both the professional
and amateur students of architectural
history. Schweitzer teaches historic preser-
vation and American architectural history
in the graduate program at Eastern
Michigan University.
Illustrated Catalogue of European and
American Painting and Sculpture by
Hilarie Faberman and Karen Wight, The
University of Michigan Museum of Art,
1988, $35.00, $22.50 paper. This
beautifully executed catalogue is the first
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Your University
Persian Gulf Teach-in Draws Large Crowds On Campus
o
n Saturday, January 13, as
Congress voted in favor of
giving President Bush war power,
nearly 3,000 people gathered at The
University of Michigan to under-
stand-why the country was on the
brink of war.
The teach-in, which involved
some 45 lectures and discussions by
professors and graduate students,
outlined Middle Eastern history,
WAR
Arab-American relations, and the
SUPPORT
consequences of war in the Gulf.
"The problem is that there has
been no real debate in the real ques-
OUR
TROOPS
NEITHER
GENTLE
tions at issue in the Middle East,"
said Rashid Khalidi during an hour-
and-fifteen-minute long evening
plenary session at Rackham
GEORE
Auditorium.
Khalidi, a well-known Middle
N
Eastern scholar from the University
US
of Chicago, underlined the anti-war
tone of the teach-in with a speech
entitled: "The Consequences of War
in the Gulf."
Organized by an ad hoc group of
concerned professors, plans for the
January 13 program began in early
December, shortly after the Univer-
sity's first Persian Gulf teach-in on
November 18 which attracted about
1,500 people. Both teach-ins were
largely sponsored by various stu-
dent groups, community organiza-
tions, the Residential College, and
the Office of Ethics and Religion.
to pay for Khalidi's flight from
Vietnam vets, and many more
"We were overwhelmed by how
Chicago.
general members of the community."
many people came out in
Following Khalidi, the teach-in
Of course the teach-in, which
November," said Charles Bright, a
closed with a final plenary session
also included a noontime rally in
U-M lecturer of history. "It was
led by Karima Bennoune, a student
downtown Ann Arbor, also at-
clear this was something people
at U-M's Law School, and Bishop
tracted concerned students like Mike
wanted to know more and were
Thomas Gumbleton, Archdiocese of
Kaoury. "I learned about issues that
concerned about, but didn't have
Detroit.
weren't even touched on during the
any place to turn for a debate or
Unlike the Vietnam protests of
Congressional debates."
discussion."
the late sixties, the U-M Persian
Kaoury said his serious concern
English professor and renowned
Gulf teach-in brought together "a
about the Gulf crisis stems from his
Dickens scholar Bert Hornback
coalition of members of the Univer-
Palestinian roots. As for many of
was the chief architect of the
sity and the community," said
his classmates, he said: "A lot of
November teach-in which featured
Thomas Weisskopf, U-M economics
students are interested but they
a keynote address by former U.S.
professor.
don't take the time to get all the
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James
"The late sixties anti-war move-
facts. They watch the evening news
Akins. So impressed was he with
ment involved primarily students
and read the headlines in the paper,
the turn-out, Akins refused to ac-
and professors," said Weisskopf, a
and they make decisions based on
cept reimbursement for his travel
Harvard student at the time. "This
that."
expenses and the money was used
time there were church leaders,
Twenty-two-year-old Kathy
12
Michigan Alumnus
Your University
Zaleski, '90, attended an afternoon
discussion called "Vietnam and the
Gulf: Uses of Force," with speakers
U-M Professor of History Gerald
Linderman and U-M lecturer in
Photo by Rob Kroenert
history Tom Collier. She said the
forum raised questions she hadn't
considered: "What happens if we
win? What are we going to do then?
And if we go into Iraq and totally
wipe out Baghdad, the capital of
the Arab world for centuries, what's
going to happen to the U.S. in terms
of other Arab countries?"
The lectures included topics such
as "The Rise of Modern Iraq" and
"The Politics of Oil in the Persian
Gulf." Also, nearly two dozen
workshops were held during the
day inside Angell Hall classrooms
ranging from "Racism and
American Militarism" to "Draft
Counseling" and "The U-M's
An unidentified student waves the Israeli flag at a pro-Israel rally held on
Historical Role in the U.S. War
the Diag.
Effort."
Echoing much of the day's earlier
Arab world, there is fear and
the Gulf and the entire Middle East
discussion, keynote speaker Khalidi
trepidation."
is going to result in a severe
offered a decidedly Middle Eastern
"A war, in my opinion, is likely to
destabilization in what is already a
perspective.
lead to a substantial reduction of
precarious local balance of power.
"America's war on Iraq is going to
Iraqi power, if not an elimination of
"When the time comes to assign
undermine the Arab regimes that
Iraq as a major actor in that
responsibility for this war, when the
participated in the coalition against
region," he added later. "This will
time comes to hold accountable
Iraq," he said. "This is why, in the
leave a vacuum, and this vacuum in
those American leaders who
together with Saddam Hussein
made this war inevitable, I would
Photo by Michelle Guy
suggest that the failure of the Con-
gress and the failure of the media to
explore these consequences serious-
ly, and to pay any sustained atten-
tion to the impact that this country
is going to have in the Middle East
will be very high on the list of
failures."
Days later, Bright said some peo-
ple complained about the strong
anti-war tenor of the teach-in.
"I suppose it was in the sense that
the teach-in was committed to a
peaceful solution," he said. "But we
tried, in putting this together, to
keep a balance between its enor-
mous educational function and the
fact that a lot of staff, students, and
faculty felt a great deal more urgen-
cy, a sense that we should respond
with more direct action to the hur-
tling pace of events."
Ann Arbor citizen, Steve Peltier, waving the Kuwaiti flag, marches down E.
Washington Street.
-Ami Walsh
March/April 1991
13
Your University
MQR: No Literary Pretensions Here-It's The Real Thing
M
ichigan Quarterly Review,
at the time that the James and
one of the nation's best
Younger brothers staged the great
Michigan Quarterly Review
literary magazines, will mark its
Northfield raid. The author
Winter 1991
$6.00
30th anniversary this year with two
described the robbery and the
special events. First will be the
surgeon's involvement, which
publication in April of current
included shooting a member of the
The
editor Laurence Goldstein's book
gang (whose skeleton eventually
Female
Seasonal Performances: A Michigan
hung in the surgeon's office). "It's a
Body
Quarterly Review Reader by The
really bizarre, interesting essay,"
PART 2
University of Michigan Press. The
says Goldstein.
book is a compilation of articles,
The book also includes work by
short stories, poetry, and graphics
writers Arthur Miller, '38, Nancy
that have appeared in MQR over
Willard, '58, Ph.D. '63, and Mary
the past three decades.
Gaitskill, '81; U-M faculty members
James Winn, director, Humanities
Institute, Rudolf Arnheim, emeritus
MICHIGAN
professor of psychology of art, and
VOL. NO. 1
JAN., 1962
English professors Charles Baxter
QUARTERLY REVIEW
and Alice Fulton (both noted writers
and poets.)
WINTER
Historically, the MQR evolved
1962
from a publication called Michigan
UNIVERSITY
THE OUTLOOK FOR THE
WEST TODAY
Alumnus Quarterly Review, first
Michigan Quarterly Review, 1991
ARNOLD
CLAY VERSUS
RANDOLPH
published in March of 1934 by the
THOMAS M. SPALADING
THE WHEEL AGE IN
SMALL TOWN
Alumni Association under the
editor in 1970, brought some of
JAMES SUZANER If
ON GOING UNDERGROUND
WILLIAM ANDREW PATON
editorship of Wilfred B. Shaw, '04,
America's brightest literary figures
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE:
FUTURE OF FICTION
SAVE Bellow
former alumni secretary (1904-1929)
to the pages of MQR, including
ONAGUIAAHRA
ROBERT MCNAMER
of the Alumni Association. Those
Richard Wilbur, Howard Nemerov,
OUR PRESIDENTS. PAST AND FUTURE.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
RESSELL BIOLACE
early issues contained a variety of
and Kenneth Rexroth.
THE PROSE OF GOLDSMITH
FORM ARTHOR
JUNONIA
subject matter from the president's
When Goldstein acquired the
Roun WYRES
FOR FAIR PLAY IN POETRY
PAUL Scort MOMBER
report (Alexander G. Ruthven), to
editorship in 1977, he, like Squires,
THE BRIDES OF THE BATH
MARION SINE
fiction and poetry, and scholarly ar-
retained the basic nature of the
ticles by faculty and alumni (one,
journal as defined by Baker.
PUBLISHED SY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Cents
an article on his travels in Tibet by
However, in the spring of 1979,
UNIVERSITY or MICHIGAN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
the late Walter Koelz, Ph.D. '20, an
Goldstein introduced a new concept
Michigan Quarterly Review, 1962
eccentric traveller and art collector,
that was to have tremendous
has a surprisingly fresh voice).
impact-the theme or special issue.
"It took me almost a year to win-
After 28 years, the University
"The Moon Landing and Its After-
now down to the basic number,"
took over publication of the
math" was a multidisciplinary array
says Goldstein, who read through
magazine in 1961 with the winter
combing such names as scientist
120 issues of the journal. "I had to
1962 edition, and its first official
Carl Sagan, artist Robert
put aside some work that was very
editor, U-M Professor of English
Rauschenberg, Pulitzer Prize win-
good," he says, but what he came up
Sheridan Baker, began to shape the
ning poet Peter Viereck, and former
with
is work that is enduring
journal as we know it today. In a
U.S. President James Earl Carter,
and interesting." What Goldstein
September 1966 interview in
Jr., among others. Since then,
wanted to do, he says, was to find
Michigan Alumnus Baker said, "I
Goldstein has published nine more
material that was representative of
have tried to give the magazine
special issues that have explored
the University. "It has a strong local
some personality and style and
themes like "The Automobile and
flavor. I always think that journals
local habitation, driving it halfway
American Culture," "The Bible and
ought to be located in place as well
between The New Yorker and The
Its Traditions," and "The Writer's
as being international in scope and
Yale Review, with Harper's and The
Craft" (celebrating 50 years of the
interest."
Atlantic off there on the left hand a
Hopwood Awards). The most re-
Among the material included in
bit, too. I want to keep it a
cent, a two-part edition, "The
the anthology is an essay about a
Michigan magazine-but with na-
Female Body," published in the fall
nineteenth century U-M surgeon
tional scope."
of 1990 and winter of 1991, has
who was in Northfield, Minnesota,
Radcliffe Squires, who became
already been utilized in some col-
14
Michigan Alumnus
Your University
lege courses. "In fact," says Golds-
at the Westside YMCA, a center for
University of Michigan on the
tein, "the U-M Press has given me a
the arts similar to the 92nd Street
literary arts?' So, of course, I said
contract to do a one-volume edition
YMCA's Poetry Center (directed at
yes," laughs Goldstein.
of those two issues."
different times by writer/poets John
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing for
The second event to celebrate the
Malcolm Brinnin, '42 and Kimon
me," says Goldstein, who will also
MQR anniversary will take place in
Friar, M.A. '40).
give a talk that evening. "In fact,
New York City on May 3 and will
"They've done a lot of wonderful
my wife and children are coming
feature an evening of readings by
things," says Goldstein. "They had a
along, too. And I think it will be a
playwright Arthur Miller,
tribute to Václav Havel [the
lot of fun," says Goldstein.
poet/novelist Marge Piercy, '57,
playwright-president of
Those in the New York area
poet Lawrence Joseph, '70, and
Czechoslovakia] when he was here."
interested in attending should call
writers Charles Baxter and Diane
Shinder, who was aware of the an-
the National Writer's Voice Project
Ackerman (A History of the
niversary and that the MQR an-
office, (212) 787-6557. For a
Senses), a frequent contibutor to
thology was being published, got in
subscription to MQR, send a check
MQR.
touch with Goldstein. "He called
for $13 to: Michigan Quarterly
The man behind this event is
and said, 'why don't we use that as
Review, 3032 Rackham Bldg., Ann
New Yorker Jason Shinder, who
an occasion to have an evening as a
Arbor, MI 48109.
promotes a series of literary
tribute to the MQR and, more
readings called "The Winter's Voice"
generally, to the impact of The
-Sue A. Burris
Department of Pharmacology To Celebrate Centennial
n the U.S, pharmacology, the
1945, the first year a Ph.D in phar-
application of research to the use
From September
macology was awarded, the depart-
of drugs in the cure of disease, is
26-28 hundreds
ment has graduated 140 alumni/ae,
only as old as the U-M's depart-
many of whom hold prominent
ment. This fall, in Ann Arbor, the
teaching and research positions
two will celebrate their one hun-
from around the
worldwide.
dredth anniversary.
John Jacob Abel, the first person
globe will
From September 26-28, research
scientists, doctors, presidents of
to hold a professorship in phar-
pharmaceutical companies, a Nobel
macology in the U.S., arrived at the
celebrate the
laureate, and hundreds of graduates
U-M in 1891. The Medical School
centennial.
from around the globe, will
recruited him from the Strasbourg
celebrate U-M's centennial.
laboratory of the reknowned Pro-
The event has taken three years
fessor Oswald Schmiedeberg, the
of planning, according to depart-
Nineteenth Century's most
would take another 50 years at the
ment administrator Dennis On-
distinguished pharmacologist.
U-M for the department to formally
dreyka. Symposiums on Friday will
Because the science of phar-
change its name from the archaic
explore advances in cardiovascular
macology had developed in Ger-
"Materia Medica and Therapeutics"
and neuropharmacology and
many during the latter half of the
to pharmacology.
substance abuse. Saturday's
1800s, the U-M had thought of hir-
Aside from its historical
speakers include Sir James Black
ing a German scholar to fill the post
significance, the department is best
from Kings College School of
in Ann Arbor. However,
known for the "Monkey Colony"
Medicine in London, who was
Schmiedeberg recommended that
established by the late Maurice H.
awarded the Nobel Prize for his
the University consider a young
Seevers to test the effects of
development of a type of anti-
man who had been studying in his
painkilling drugs on Rhesus
histamine drug that is effective in
laboratory. Abel was not only an
monkeys.
the treatment of peptic ulcers and a
American, but also a graduate of
Often confused with the School
group of drugs which are now
the U-M. He had attended the
of Pharmacy, pharmacology is a
widely used to treat cardiovascular
University from 1876-79 and return-
department within the medical
disease.
ed in 1883 to earn a Ph.B. degree.
school. Pharmacology offers
Some 300 alumni/ae are expected
Although Abel was hired away
courses to students in dentistry,
to participate, according to depart-
from the U-M two-and-one-half
pharmacy, medicine, nursing, and
ment chair Raymond E. Counsell.
years later by the Johns Hopkins
Rackham. The faculty-student ratio
The symposia in Hale auditorium
Medical School, he had already in-
is virtually one-to-one with 46
are open to the public.
troduced pharmacology as requisite
Ph.D. students versus 39 faculty in-
to the medical curriculum. Still it
cluding joint appointments. Since
-Stephen Rosoff
March/April 1991
15
Sports
Michigan Women's Rugby Club Is Not Afraid To Get "Down & Dirty"
t was a chilly Saturday afternoon
popped loose and began bouncing
about 1868, and gained popularity
last spring and about two dozen
across the field.
at a handful of East Coast schools.
people stood on the sidelines of
Ten years ago women weren't
It wasn't long, however, before
Mitchell Field watching the
chasing rugby balls on Mitchell
Americans formed their own
Michigan Women's Rugby Club
Field. The Michigan Women's
distinctive brand of the sport: the
take on a talented crew from
Rugby Club was formed in 1982, or
field was shortened, padding and
Chicago. On the field, short
about 119 years after the sport first
helmets were added, and it was
women, tall women, women with
appeared in Ann Arbor.
called "Football."
mud-stained knees and white tape
As the popular story about the
Meanwhile, the traditional form
wrapped bandana-like around their
origins of rugby goes, students at a
of rugby quietly thrived in the U.S.
heads, and women with "Kill or
British academy called Rugby
and its rules, though slightly re-
Die" patches sewn on the sleeves of
School took on their local rivals in
fined, have changed little: games
heavy cotton jerseys, scrambled
a game of soccer. In the final
are divided into two 40-minute
after a pregnant-looking football.
minutes, the score remained tied. In
halves with no time-outs and few
Scooping up the loose ball, a
desperation a player from Rugby
substitutions. Like soccer, play is
Chicago player zigzagged toward
School picked up the ball and ran
continuous as each 15-member team
the end zone; the Michigan players
into the goal. Since there were no
tries to move the ball down an over-
followed in hot pursuit.
rules barring hands from touching
sized soccer field. Like football, the
"COME ON ERIKA, TAKE HER
the ball, Rugby School won.
object is to tackle the ball carrier.
DOWN," bellowed Amber
Soccer traditionalists were
Teams pick up points by placing the
Foreman, a Michigan player who
outraged. They promptly estab-
ball on the ground after they have
was sidelined during an earlier
lished a no-hands rule. Meanwhile,
crossed the goal line.
game after one too many bodies
ball-carrying liberals started a new
Today, the Michigan Women's
piled on top of her knee.
game. In memory of its birthplace,
Rugby Club is one of 1,290 men's
Two bodies collided. The Chicago
they called it "Rugby."
and women's clubs nationwide. Like
player was dragged down. The ball
Rugby crossed the Atlantic in
the men's club, the organization is
supported largely by the players
themselves and is open to U-M
Sport Briefs
(Intercollegiate Tennis Coach
students, professors, and graduates,
Association.) With ten collective
as well as local non-university
B
y late January, the hunt for
hours of volunteer service and a
athletes. The club currently has 25
Phyllis Ocker's successor
top five ranking in the Big Ten,
players and is a strong contender to
continued, with head swim coach
Michigan could earn a piece of the
win the eastern section of the
Jim Richardson leading the five-
$80,000 pot that Volvo plans to
Midwest Collegiate Tournament to
member search committee. In the
dole out to participating collegiate
be held at Michigan on April 14
meantime, Mike Stevenson, direc-
tennis programs. Michigan's bid
and 15. A win there would send
tor of U-M's Department of
for a top Big Ten ranking looks
Michigan to Washington, DC, for
Recreational Sports since 1986, is
promising, as preseason pollsters
the first Annual U.S. Rugby
filling in as Acting Associate
ranked it #4 in the conference, its
Women's Collegiate Nationals on
Director of Athletics for Women.
highest since 1984.
May 25 and 26.
To date, Richardson said, the
*
*
*
"Things turned around for us last
committee had interviewed eight
fall," said club president Erika Wolf,
people, including former 1960
Desiree Orwig recently stepped in
a doctoral student in U-M's History
Olympic gold medalist Wilma
as the new assistant track coach
of Art Department. "We had six
Rudolph.
under James Henry. Orwig, who
shut-outs. Our cumulative scored
will work primarily with the field
was 140 to 0."
*
*
*
events, spent two years as the
Last spring, during the contest
On a windy Monday night last
assistant men's and women's track
against Chicago, the team was still
January, members of the U-M
coach at Emporia State University
young and inexperienced, said
women's tennis team gave lessons
in Kansas. A graduate of William
Wolf. "It's a confusing game," she
to Detroit youths at the Coleman
Penn College in Iowa, she is a five-
added. "It takes a while to get the
Young Recreational Center. The
time All-American Honoree and
hang of it."
community service is part of the
placed second in the 1988 NCAA
With a team now solid in
Volvo Tennis/Varsity Awards pro-
Division III Championships
numbers and experience, Michigan
gram sponsored by the ITCA
hepthalon.
has only to worry about losing
players to injuries. During the game
16
Michigan Alumnus
against Chicago, for example, two
come out of a game. I got kicked in
qualification is that you have to be
players wound up inside the U-M
the eye once, but I still played. It
a fairly physical person."
Hospital, the wall of which loomed
was no big deal. Yeah, it hurt. Yeah,
Foreman agreed, adding: "You've
forebodingly over the playing field.
I got a bruise. But you get lots of
got to be willing to get dirty, to get
One of those players, Amy
bruises in this game."
aggressive and tackle. I know there
Brooks, a U-M computer program-
Just what sort of person plays a
are stereotypes that the women who
mer, suffered a dislocated shoulder
game where bruises and bloody
play are all big, manly, scary
and was whisked off to the
noses are a given, and those who
women. But it's not true."
Emergency Room.
escape without a pulled or torn liga-
"Yeah," added U-M alumna
The other maimed rugger was
ment are considered among the
Priscilla Jane "P.J." Fellows. "You
Amber Foreman.
lucky few?
know, there are some people who
"It hurts to move," she said, rub-
"All sorts," said Wolf. "It runs the
don't think women should play an
bing ice over her swollen knee. "But
gamut from top lawyers and invest-
aggressive contact sport. But if the
I figure I'm safer out here. This is
ment bankers to police women and
guys can play it, why shouldn't we?'
the first time I've actually had to
pregnant women. The one
Michigan Continues
Hot Streak On Ice
T
his season could be the big
Photo by Bob Kalmbach
breakthrough for hockey coach
Red Berenson and his team. Beren-
son's teams have shown steady im-
provement every year since his first
squad in 1985, and this year's
31
edition is no exception. After a
strong showing in the first half of
the CCHA race, the Wolverines
celebrated the holidays by capturing
their third straight Great Lakes In-
vitational crown, defeating
Michigan Tech 2-1 and Maine 3-1.
Freshman goalie sensation Steve
Shields sparkled in the Joe Louis
Arena nets.
The two GLI victories started a
team record-tying winning streak
for Michigan that reached twelve
with weekend sweeps over CCHA
foes Illinois-Chicago, Miami, Bowl-
ing Green, Ferris State, and Ohio
State. The other two Wolverine
squads to win two in a row
Steve Shields
(1964-65 and 1976-77) made it all
the way to the NCAA Final Four;
of the home advantage through the
nation.
the 1965 team won Michigan's last
semifinal round of the CCHA
Junior right wing Denny Felsner
national championship. The wins
playoffs. Combined with a fine
is contending for national goal-
over Ferris also raised Berenson's
22-5-3 overall record so far, a good
scoring supremacy, not to mention
career coaching record at Michigan
CCHA tournament run should put
the Hobey Baker Award (college
over the .500 mark.
Michigan in NCAA post-season
hockey's "Heisman"). Sophomores
The unbeaten string locked up at
play for the first time under
David Roberts (left wing) and Mark
least a second-place CCHA finish.
Berenson.
Ouimet (center) have combined
The Wolverines trail Lake Superior
Assuming they get past the selec-
with Felsner for one-third of
by three points (1½ games) in a
tors, the Wolverines could make
Michigan's total points this season.
tight race for the top position. The
some real noise in the NCAA tour-
Much ot the team's top talent is
Lakers will be difficult to catch,
nament. They have all the key in-
young; with freshmen and
though, because their last few
gredients: a goalie who can carry
sophomores getting so much play-
league series are against second-
the team when he's hot, a good mix
ing time, and making such solid
division teams unlikely to slow
of rushing and "stay-at-home"
contributions, the future looks rosy
them down.
defensemen, and a sharp-shooting
for Red and his boys.
Second place would assure U-M
forward line second to none in the
March/April 1991
17
Michigan Stadium Exchanges Turf Burns For Grass Stains
fans who can't see over the players
Photo by Bob Kalmbach
standing along the sidelines. Maybe
they should take out another foot
while they're at it; with the gargan-
tuan linemen Gary Moeller has
recruited in this year's class, spec-
tators in Row 1 might still need to
stand. Moeller, recruiting coor-
dinator Bob Chimiel, and the
Michigan football staff have col-
lected commitments from the best
assembly of incoming talent of any
school in the nation, according to
most analysts. While the group in-
cludes outstanding players at every
position, it leans heavily toward
linemen, with the mightiest men of
offensive muscle since 1986's fabled
front line, and some mobile
monsters on the defensive side as
well.
Souvenirs made of the pulled-up
artificial turf will include doormats
ove over, New York Carpet
mind you; the new playing surface
(with no references to downtrodden
World! Michigan has some
will be Prescription Athletic Turf
foes), coaster, plaques, and rugs, as
carpet to move, too-close to 10,000
(PAT), a space-age sod with
well as more unusual items.
square yards of it. The big dif-
underground drainage equipment.
The block "M" from midfield,
ference: the "Ann Arbor Carpet
The PAT system combines the
yard-line markers, and end zones
World" sale doesn't include any
injury-preventing resilience of good
will be auctioned off separately by
shag, plush, or saxony, and you can
old dirt-and-grass fields with the
mail. So get your orders and bids
get any color you want-as long as
bad-weather playability of plastic
in! Even without free installation
it's green (and slightly used).
turf.
and 10% off on padding, this is
The sale features the old carpet
Not-so-incidentally, the playing
sure to be the carpet sale of the cen-
from Michigan Stadium, which will
surface is being lowered by several
tury. Most of the proceeds will
be replaced with grass in time for
feet before installing the new turf,
benefit the Michigan athletic
next season. Not "natural grass",
the better to accommodate low-row
department.
Swimmers Strike Gold in Australia; Help U.S. Take First
ichigan swimmers continued
leading amateur athlete, was won in
second-fastest 100 meters.
to make a splash on the inter-
1988 by U-M baseball player Jim
Back in the U.S.A., the team is
national scene, helping the U.S. take
Abbott.)
right on schedule for another strong
first place overall at the World
Junior Eric Wunderlich earned a
Big Ten and NCAA showing. The
Championships in Perth, Australia.
gold medal and shared in a world
team is 4-0 in dual meets, including
U-M mentor Jon Urbanchek
meet record with the 4 x 100 meter
impressive road victories over Stan-
served as an assistant U.S. coach,
medley relay team, also taking fifth
ford and Cal-Berkeley.
and took along three current swim-
place in the 100 meter breaststroke.
Michigan finished second to
mers and a recent grad. All came
Junior Eric Namesnik collected two
Texas in the Dallas Morning News
home with medals.
silver medals, breaking his own
Invitational, a meet limited to the
Senior Mike Barrowman set a
American record in the 400 meter
best eight swimmers from each of
world record (for the fourth time)
individual medley and also placing
the previous NCAA tournament's
in the 200 meter breaststroke. Bar-
second in the 200 IM.
top six teams.
rowman, twice U.S. Swimmer-of-
Former Wolverine star Brent Lang
the-year, is a finalist for the
captured a gold medal on the 4 X
"Sports" is written by Ami Walsh
Sullivan Award. (The A.A.U.S top
100 meter freestyle relay team; his
and Bill Baker Barr.
honor, presented to the nation's
split in the finals was the meet's
18
Michigan Alumnus
LETTERS
FROM
THE
FRONT
Rutledge, E. The Lang, Alumni '85, '76, Association who met up received with fellow the Michigan following letter from Capt. David
the 48th Tactical England; Lang as a munitions stationed at
RAF Lakenheath, to the Gulf, both Lang and DeSimone were photo). Before
ing deployed and 1st Lt. David A. DeSimone, '86 grads (see Capt. John B. be-
the 2nd Bombardment at Wing. AFB, Los Angeles, as a bomb Rutledge disposal was officer for
stationed Barksdale system officer with the same unit.
F-111F weapons Fighter Wing, the "Liberty Wing," maintenance and DeSimone officer as for an
As salam alaikom!
14 January 1991
drawn Hello from together Saudi Arabia! It's funny sometimes how
ichigan Alumnus has a long
M through the letters of alum-
tradition of covering the U.S.
together ing the international by our love during for fight difficult the against Maize times. Saddam and Well, Hussein three of were us people here drawn are support-
in ni/ae war who are serving their country. not
Although the magazine was
established until 1894, we have
one, but since extremely generous and courteous way they
can. They have been are very eager to help us any hosts. As
might the expect, we the can Saudis give you our impression we may of our not be experts you in
After field, about but 140 days in Saudi Arabia, Blue!
reprinted letters from alumni have who
fought in the Civil War and
spanned the years since with letters
makes Conditions sense that we they are here would to protect be friendly, their doesn't interests as well from as ours, day it
and World Wars I and II, the
news from the Spanish-American Korean
War, and Vietnam. Now the "Desert
War, Shield" turned "Desert Storm" opera-
finest in the region. For and housing facilities are and also three work
areas. now Our maintenance a movie tent, two recreation centers, last August. We
boast here have steadily improved since it?
has brought its own responses.
the Army and Marine units this reason, we don't get the media some of the out
tion With the exception of the last letter, and
(written to the Michigan Daily let-
wanted to let they really do have it rough. can't say
that's wrong because on the border receive, but I exposure
Michigan Alumnus) all of these
ters and excerpts are from our
and well The and three definitely you know ready the U-M should Desert armed Shield contingency However, is we alive just
alumni at "the front."
from RAF of us are all here supporting conflict the F-111F arise!
to hit Libya Lakenheath, England-the aircraft
in 1986. Like U-M same we come unit called upon
Our 1 and
are a 1 Even our from uniforms very
same: that is a our goals are flight suit.
next few days, peaceful resolution to this very much These the
who this of three We're
enclosing Saddam will decide his fate. crisis.
1
the
and Blue!
way to wave the Maize
E. '76; '85. 1Lt
The following O'Rourke, Army ROTC admissions Transportation, 189th Lt.
is excerpted from a letter by 2d Lt. Lela officer C. Magee, at the U-M. '89, to
Captain Magee is Alicia stationed in Saudi Arabia with the 546th
Maintenance Battalion.
4 January 1991
My company has
Greetings from non-stop the world's since August. largest sandbox From what I understand,
been going assets are still in short supply over here so well the over assets
transportation available are used constantly. Right now, we've logged
500,000 miles since the aren't end that of August. bad. My battalion is one actually of the an more old
Living conditions units-we live in a permanent compound, have all the amenities
fortunate construction compound. We basically The divisional
Korean running water, AC, electricity. It's
you could and ask for: their direct support units are usually more austere in tents. condi- fair-
units ly safe here to say that combat units are enduring
tions
than I am. female soldiers go, mine are holding up about well. what In the to
beginning, soldiers and what we could not deploy
As far as it our was difficult-there was no clear do, policy wear, etc. Initial-
do about female deployed, it looked as if the females here might are.
ly, at before we the Army woke up and we
We haven't The incidents detailed in the papers and and by then, the religious are
all. Fortunately had too many problems with Saudis and the female media
soldiers. rather than the rule. Every now been pulled over
the exception about females driving (I've soldiers will
police get uptight King Fahd declared that female few be
myself) but male since soldiers we really don't worry. but You nothing get a all stares that
treated now and like then-mostly from the Saudi women,
threatening. are able to go into town, the only requirement to wear is that an
When dress we conservatively-no shorts. We're not required
we abaya and in fact, it's discouraged
SIN
Advance
the
ment.bed just recently U-M designed
the on the and w/his a (They are ser-
Course. find my officer receive this
middle right of neatness young career. be but during choosing I am of the in the mass
January 24, 1991
Last night on the telephone, my life changed. As my dad read the
words, "by presidential executive order you are ordered to active duty",
I felt relief-relief that I would no longer have to spend sleepless nights
in bed wondering if I was going to be called to duty in the Persian
Gulf. At least now I knew. I am not in the reserves nor did I sign any
special contracts nor do I receive any special pay. I am only on a list
that can be used in the event of war.
Six months ago, I completed a four-year-tour with the United States
Army. When I came to The University of Michigan this fall, I heard the
war drums beating and my only wish was to finish the fall term. I feel
grateful that I am half a sophomore now, but today I had to disenroll
in my classes and start packing. President George Bush didn't pull me
out of school just for the heck of it. He did it because General Colin
Powell told him that I was needed again, and because America needed
me. I'm not upset at all. I am a patriot and fully support President
Bush and his administration.
Like many students, I have seen the anti-war rallies on campus held
by the group Students Against United States Intervention in the Mid-
dle East (SAUSI). When I first tried to speak to SAUSI members stu-
News
dent to student, I was rebuffed. I tried to explain to them that after be-
ing a soldier for four years, I kind of have an idea how soldiers think
and especially how soldiers feel about anti-war rallies. I was not taken
seriously, as SAUSI members were convinced they knew all about
soldiers and how soldiers felt. Well, today I speak to SAUSI members
as an American soldier to student. I declare that SAUSI hasn't the
slightest clue as to how soldiers think and I guarantee that
soldiers/airmen/sailors/and marines take anti-war rallies personally. It
hurts them severely to see Americans rallying against them. This is evi-
dent in personal letters from soldiers in my old unit. They ask me,
"Why are people demonstrating against us?" They conjure up pictures
of coming home and being spat on by the same people who hold the
anti-war rallies. The leaders of SAUSI can falsely claim that they sup-
port the soldiers, but as a soldier I am telling you, I don't want your
kind of support. If anti-war groups truly supported the troops they
would try to instill confidence and pride in the soldiers; instead,
through anti-war rallies, they have managed to put self-doubt in the
minds of America's soldiers/airmen/sailors/and marines. Anti-war
groups assert that this is not a "just war". Is there such a thing as a just
E writi
war? And if there is, who decides? The Congress? The United Nations?
God? Surely not a group called SAUSI.
I'm proud that several students had the courage to form a group on
campus that voices a second opinion. The group, Support Our
Soldiers (SOS), is politically neutral on the war and its main motto is
simple-"to support the soldier." How brilliant! SOS isn't pro-war nor
are they anti-war. Who could have a problem with that except the
Revolutionary Workers League?
As my last few hours on campus tick away, I issue a plea to all
Wolverines
Please, Please, Please, do not support anti-war rallies
and if possible, wear a yellow ribbon on your coat or backpack.
When you see the ROTC students in their uniforms, shake their hand
and say, "Thank you for being in ROTC".
And lastly, to the students who tore down "the wall", thank you. If
100 SAUSI members are mad at you there are 500,000 Desert Storm
Soldiers that love you. Also, this letter is likely to generate responses
from the "I hate America" groups, but remember; you are replying to
an American soldier whom you supposedly support.
Dunetz-
-Trevor Moeller, Freshman, LSA
Editor's Note: Moeller is a 22-year-old Sergeant in the U.S. Army and a
gunner on an M1A1 tank.
and
Burkina Faso (formerly Upper
Volta) in sub-Saharan Western
Africa, is among the poorest
nations in the world. According to a
1990 World Bank report on poverty
Burkina Faso's GNP per capita is
Patrice
$210 (13th lowest). The U.S. ranks
118th with $19,840. Burkina Faso
also has one of the world's
highest illiteracy rates-94
Somé: A
percent among females and 87
percent among males (1985
figures). Somé is one of the few
persons from his village of 400
Burkinabe
who can read and write. That
he has a master's from the Sor-
bonne in Paris, a Ph.D in Fran-
cophone literature from
Brandeis, and now teaches in
Apart
the U-M's Romance Languages
Department and Comparative
Literature Program, is
perhaps as complex a
concept to explain to the
by Stephen Rosoff
villagers in his hometown
of Dano, as other Western
photos by Philip Dattilo
inventions like electricity and
the telephone. For Westerners it's
no mean feat either. The tales of
In Patrice Somé's
his traditional life among the
Dagara, his tribe; and his
homeland his last
untraditional emigration to Paris,
Boston, and Ann Arbor, is the stuff
name is as common as
of classroom lectures, novels, and
Smith but he is not
Hollywood.
Dano, in the southwestern part of
your average "Some".
Burkina Faso, is approximately 100
For starters, he's
kilometers from Gaoua, 200 kms
from Bobo-Dioulasso, and 240 kms
literate.
distant from Ouagadougou. In
Gaoua, there is a hospital and until
recently, the only school in the
area, (the government built one in
Dano two years ago). Bobo-
Dioulasso, is the country's
economic center and formerly a
retirement spot for French colonials,
he left the seminary, his Dagara was
and Ouagadougou is the capital.
so poor that to this day he still can-
But 25 years ago, when Somé was
not speak it properly and the
taken by Jesuits to the Seminary of
village elders laugh at his mistakes.
the 8th of December in Nasso (not
In his last year at the seminary,
far from Bobo), he knew little of
Somé says his late grandfather
geography and even less of politics.
visited him in a commonly recur-
It would take him 10 years to find
ring dream. Each time the message
his bearings and learn of his coun-
was the same: leave the seminary.
try's independence from France. In-
These nightmares tormented him.
side the seminary the colonials still
"There is an esoteric part of me I
ruled.
can't hide," says Somé. "I was at-
tracted by something unknown-
Seminary
other things I needed, was
The local priest in Dano befriend-
obligated, to explore for my own
ed Some's father, a village elder,
well-being." The dreams accelerated
and young Patrice served as an altar
his departure and yet leaving wasn't
boy. When the priest selected
easy. There were many things about
Patrice to be a seminarian, the
the church "that pleased me: the
father relinquished his eldest son.
love of work and fidelity; things
At age 10, Patrice left home. He
that give you integrity. The
wouldn't return for 10 years.
religious side had some allure, I
The only one selected from his
could see myself as a priest." Still, at
village that year, Patrice joined
age 20, he left.
other candidates who came from
He walked the 200 kilometer
Togo, Benin, the Ivory Coast,
journey home. It took him two
Cameroun, Mali, and Chad. At the
weeks. When he reached Dano, on-
seminary there were almost 800
ly his mother recognized him. The
students in all, ranging from 12-25
other villagers "looked at me like a
years of age all being trained for the
museum piece, like a dog who sees
vast mission of evangelizing West
an ant." As for his father's recep-
Africa.
tion, it was "austere." "He was wor-
At first, he expected to be
ried because part of me was furious
reunited with his parents but when
with him I only spoke in French
they didn't come, he felt aban-
but they all knew I was furious."
doned. And he had no choice but to
Patrice says if he had a son he
stay. "We had such a poor sense of
could never give him up but he
geography we didn't even know
recognizes that he is less a victim of
where we came from It was
col-
the colonial mentality than his
onialism in the strong sense of the
father. "My mind is less of a slave,"
term," he says, "and all of our
he says. Perhaps his father had "to
masters were white."
sacrifice his son to Jesus rather than
He spent his first five years learn-
have his family suffer."
ing his catechism. "You got up at 5
After such a homecoming, Somé
a.m., kept your mouth shut,
wondered if he had made the right
prayed, and stayed vigilant." He
decision. What did his country's in-
compares life in the seminary to the
dependence mean? "Even when
military. Corporal punishments
you're told you are free, you still act
were freely doled out. Since the
as a slave." He looked around him
students represented some 50 tribes
at the mud huts and the villagers-
identity, to go home and see the
that meant 50 different languages.
a community of farmers growing
world in a traditional way." But it
Students could only be taught and
sorghum and precious few other
would take two full years before he
unified through speaking French. If
products for their own consump-
felt comfortable and accepted in the
two students talked among
tion. "I was shocked by the misery,
village again. By then, "the die were
themselves in a native dialect they
the dirty skin, the ragged
cast," he says. "My life was not in
were beaten. "We had to cut our
clothes I was more estranged
the village."
own branches and then whip each
here than at the seminary." Yes, he
other. If we didn't do it right, two
was free, but free to do what?
Initiation
of the bigger kids would be asked to
While he pondered the question, he
Before Somé could leave Dano, he
take over." Somé says he learned
decided to recapture the traditional
had to pass two tests: first, a bac-
French so quickly, he later thought
life lost by his 10-year absence.
calaureate to qualify for a govern-
it was his maternal tongue. When
"First I wanted to reconquer my
ment scholarship at the University
March/April 1991
23
in Ouagadougou; second, a tribal
academic calling. "I had to come to
the new term.
initiation, to give meaning to his
the West to discover that the Third
Although Somé "had bad luck,"
return to the village and to measure
World was handmade by the West."
with Sankara's regime, he never-
what he had learned and
He wrote about Aimé Césaire, a
theless thinks of the late leader as a
rediscovered about traditional life.
sophisticated metropolitan poet
national and African hero. "I ad-
The former was easy, the latter was
from Martinique, against the
mired him even though he didn't
not. "The initiation introduces you
backdrop of the Dagara world view.
admire my tribe." But Somé didn't
to yourself," says Somé, "That's
Feeling a need to restore the Fran-
return to Burkina Faso until after
when I learned my real name is
cophone voice, he developed a
the 1987 coup d'état in which
Malidoma, which means 'make the
theory of French-African literature.
Sankara was assassinated.
stranger (or enemy) into a friend'."
based upon his traditional ex-
Between dissertation and jail
During his years in the village,
perience. "The French are no more
term, Somé found time to write his
Somé spent time with the elders
patrons of the language than
life story (currently at Harper Col-
relearning the oral traditions; play-
anyone else," he says, adding "you
lins) and a film script. The first he
ing the drum for village ceremonies;
can transform it to serve as a vehi-
incorporated in his dissertation; the
learning to read the cowrie shells;
cle for transmitting traditional
second came about following a 1986
and studying traditional medicine
language."
conference in Los Angeles where he
and the shamanic ways from his
"As a scholar he has two kinds of
gave a paper.
father. In the seven years that he
learning," says Brandeis Professor
"L.A. people are crazy," says
has lived in the U.S., he has never
Allan Grossman, who served as
Somé with a high-pitched laugh.
voluntarily been to a doctor (he had
Some's dissertation advisor. "He
Somehow, (he's not quite sure) his
a fainting spell once and woke up in
has quite a grasp of Anglo-
shamanic knowledge became
the hospital).
American and European literature
known. One counseling session led
In Ouagadougou, he studied
and this unique relationship to
to another and he revealed his
sociology, linguistics, and French,
shamanic culture learned from his
manuscript to an acquaintance.
British, and American literatures.
father. I don't know of anyone who
Six months later a film script
Whenever he got a break, he
has these two worlds that speak to
emerged. The project is now at
motorscootered the six-hour, 240
one another." Says Grossman, "the
Paramount Pictures. Somé hopes
km-trek home to Dano. "I became
case is so unique, I can't think of an
the movie will be made this sum-
very fond of the old people in the
analogy."
mer. In an earlier deal, the cast was
village," he says.
Meanwhile back in the old world,
to have included Morgan Freeman
After graduating from
another coup had taken place and
as his grandfather, Sidney Poitier as
Ouagadougou, he received a two-
by 1984 Upper Volta had changed
his father, Whoopi Goldberg his
year scholarship to study at the
its name to Burkina Faso, meaning
mother, and LeVar Burton as Somé.
Sorbonne in Paris. Before going to
Land of Upright Men. The young
The project fell through however,
France, however, he spent the sum-
paratrooper, Captain Thomas
when a change in producers
mer as a camp counselor on Lake
Sankara had seized power in 1983.
brought about contractual changes.
Champlain. Since he was in the
A visionary leader admired greatly
For one, the new producer didn't
area, he made a couple of inquiries
by young Africans, Sankara made
want to film on location. Somé,
at Harvard, Boston University, and
many welcome reforms. But in the
who wants his story to be faithfully
Brandeis, before flying to Paris. At
process he settled old political
recreated, told the producer to tear
the Sorbonne, he pursued an M.A.
scores. According to Somé, the
up the old contract and write a new
in political science, specializing in
Dagara have often been referred to
one. Once he was no longer bound
North American studies. Only
as "the brains" of the country, and
by the old agreement, Somé refused
towards the end of his final year in
many from his tribe had served
to sign the new contract.
Paris, when he began fretting about
under the previous regime. Under
"He wants to be faithful to the
his future, did he hear from the
Sankara some were executed, others
representation of the Dagara reality
three U.S. universities. Brandeis of-
exiled, and all intellectuals were
and the spiritual reality of the
fered the best deal-a full scholar-
watched. Consequently when Somé
shamanic wisdom," says Grossman.
ship and a plane ticket.
returned home in 1985 to visit his
The first 240 pages of Somé's
Since Somé has lived in the U.S.,
family, never suspecting that he had
autobiography (which he envisions
he has produced a dissertation on
been under surveillance, he was met
as a trilogy), dealing with his early
Francaphone literature, a film
at the airport by the authorities and
childhood in Dano and his grand-
script, and an autobiography. In-
detained. He spent the ensuing
father, should be released at the
itially at Brandeis he thought he
weeks of his vacation in the custody
same time as the movie.
would write about American
of the new regime and never made
"He doesn't fit the mold and I like
authors but he quickly realized he
it to the village. He gained his even-
that," says Noel Valis, professor of
could not contribute anything to the
tual release by "greasing a few
Spanish and former acting chair of
field compared to what he knew
palms" with dollars hidden in a
Romance Languages who was in-
about Africa. "When I realized how
sock. Returning to Brandeis belated-
volved in Somé's hiring. "I think it's
little people knew of Africa and its
ly, Somé certainly had a different
marvelous," she says of Somé's com-
problems," he says, he found his
excuse for missing the beginning of
mercial prospects. "There is a false
24
Michigan Alumnus
dichotomy," in academic life she
makes stews with meat stock and
says. "There is a strange view of
vegetables. The letters he writes to
academics that they should not be
his family go through an interpreter
tied in with commerce
there is no
who translates and reads them and
such thing as an ivory tower in
in turn transcribes the family's
truth." But of course Valis noted his
response. A friend in
academic credentials first. "I liked
Ouagadougou, a telephone operator
his research," she says, "and it was
calls regularly. And then there's the
impressive when he gave his talk (as
ganga drum that Clément, one of
a candidate before the department)
his six brothers, hand carved for
completely without notes."
him. The drum, made of karité
Italian Professor Greg Lucente,
(common fruit tree) wood and
acting director of the U-M's Pro-
covered by mountain goat skin,
gram in Comparative Literature, says
sounds similar to but looks more
he is looking to Somé to develop a
rugged than the conga drum. Somé
program in cultural studies, mean-
changes into his Faso Dan Fani,
ing the social, cultural, and media
traditional cotton tunic, and plays
images "that people have of
the ganga. "If I wear a tie," he says,
themselves in various societies."
"the drum won't respond." Playing
Specifically Somé is looking at
the ganga, says Some, "has meaning
Africa, France, and the U.S. "We're
beyond a musical dimension. Part
all trying to expand (in this area)
of me has assimilated the idea that
and Patrice is leading the way,"
drumming is not just making noise
says Lucente, adding, "We regard
but taking care of important things
him in many ways as the future of
in a person's life." The ganga is nor-
our department."
mally only used in initiation
"He's proved to be a wonderful
ceremonies or funeral rituals (on
colleague," says Professor Ross
one occasion he played non-stop
Chambers, who teaches French and
from 8 p.m. to 9 a.m.) Somé uses it
Comparative Literature. "He's very
(neighbors permitting) to "create
likeable and an interesting presence
fun and exert some kind of therapy
to have-he brings a new perspec-
on myself-overcoming stress and
tive on all kinds of questions."
internal tension." It is also a link.
In his first semester at Michigan,
"The drum continues to produce
Somé taught a 400-level seminar en-
results and effects that were so
titled "Voyages and Returns," with a
beneficial in the village," he says.
central premise that the experience
Performing in rituals, says Somé,
of leaving home, changes the pro-
creates "a brand new sense of
tagonist, and consequently he can
belonging to people in the village;
never return and reintegrate. It's an
the drum is the genesis of tribe and
experience Somé has shared and
community."
related to his students. Rick Stabile,
Although Somé has now lived in
a graduate student in comparative
the West for eight years, teaches at
literature, says that while Somé's
a large U.S. university, and will like-
personal anecdotes were "an added
ly have his life story revealed on
bonus" to the course, Somé had a
screen and in paperback, he re-
"profound effect" on him more for
mains far from Westernized. Yes, he
who he is than for where he's from.
teaches in a tie and jacket but com-
"Perhaps it's because of his per-
plemented by sneakers and sweat
sonality and intellect," says Stabile,
socks. His answering machine
relationship, he finally acquiesced
"that he's been able to use his cir-
responds "leave a message and I will
to an arranged marriage. Elizabeth,
cumstance to advantage, in a
look into it." And sometime around
who just finished her baccalaureate,
beneficial way."
when this article was completed, he
is probably about 22, thinks Somé
met his wife, Elizabeth, at Detroit
("it's unusual for anyone in my
The Drum
Metro airport. He met her once
country to finish before that age").
Somé not only bridges continents
before, three years ago, at their
And since Elizabeth is related to his
through classroom lectures, but
wedding ceremony in Burkina Faso.
mother's family, he doesn't have to
finds ways of maintaining contact
Somé says his father, along with the
change the "Somé". In Burkina
with his culture in private. He
other elders, performed a ceremony
Faso, among the Dagara, the hus-
cooks traditional dishes of bean or
to prevent him from having a rela-
band takes the wife's name.
millet cakes that have been dredged
tionship with a woman in the West.
in ground peanut flour and fried, or
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some things that are especially near and dear to a child's
heart-crayons and markers.
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Christine Skoglund, the class members expressed their
very
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March/April 1991
Headwaters Far Adventure
On The Amazon River
by Claudia R. Capos, '73
he Amazon jungle was wrapped in a hot,
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sticky blanket of darkness as we scrambled
down the river bank and climbed one by
one into a narrow dugout canoe.
The flickering kerosene lanterns around
the jungle camp lodge threw darts of light across
the onyx-like surface of the Momon River, one of
the Peruvian tributaries of upper Amazonia.
As the splash of our guides' pad-
my experience as I could through
The rain forest, according to one
dles grew more rhythmic, we glided
photographs and my travel journal.
estimate, is being cut down at a rate
away from this reassuring sign of
My initial plans included a two-
of 4,000 square miles a year for
civilization and were soon engulfed
day stay at the Amazon Camp, a
lumber, roads, settlements, and
by the utter blackness of the jungle.
42-room thatch-and-bamboo jungle
pastures. Scientists are worried that
The trees along the shore loomed
compound on the Momon River
this deforestation may have a
over us like shadowy demons under
near Iquitos, Peru, and a four-day
serious impact on the environment.
a star-sequined sky. A shooting star
350-mile cruise aboard the Rio
That first night in Amazonia,
blazed overhead, lighting up the
Amazonas from Iquitos to
however, my companions and I felt
river like a July Fourth fireworks
Tabatinga, Brazil.
far removed from the press of
display.
In a week I knew I would hardly
civilization. As we became ac-
I wondered fleetingly if the
get more than a glimpse of the
customed to the darkness, our ears
Spanish explorer, Capt. Francisco
mighty Amazon River, which stret-
began to pick up the distinct sounds
de Oreliana, and his bedraggled
ches 4,000 miles and reaches a
of jungle life-the sharp chirping of
band of soldiers had felt the same
width of 90 miles at its mouth. Cer-
crickets and tree frogs, the eerie
mixture of excitement and ap-
tainly, I could never hope to see but
hoot of owls, the gutteral croak of
prehension when they made their
a fraction of the 30 million species
bullfrogs, and some noises I
trip down the Amazon River in
of life that make their home in the
thought were better left
1541.
Amazon River basin, an area
unidentified.
The Spanish and Portuguese had
roughly two-thirds the size of the
Later one of those jungle UFOs
come to Amazonia in search of
United States.
managed to divebomb its way into
gold, silver, Indian slaves, and any
Yet, the opportunity to travel
my screened-in sleeping bungalow,
other riches they could carry away
through one of the world's greatest
and in the morning I asked one of
with them.
unexplored frontiers was too good
the lodge attendants to remove a
I, too, had come to the Amazon
to pass up-and there seemed to be
winged beetle the size of my left
to discover its priceless treasures-
no time to waste.
foot from the wall above my head.
the amazing plant, animal, and
Today the Amazon River basin is
A brief rain shower around
native Indian life that inhabit the
undergoing dramatic changes that
breakfast time left the dense jungle
world's largest rain forest-with the
threaten to disrupt its delicate
foliage with a glistening sheen that
hope of carrying away as much of
natural balance.
my house plants could never
muster. Afterward, our little group
of would-be explorers-which in-
cluded a Minneapolis real estate
agent, a New York stock broker, a
California couple, and assorted
others-set off into the jungle with
our Peruvian guide, Bacillio.
Each footstep brought new
discoveries.
Bacillio showed us how the bark
of one tree could be used to relieve
the pain of insect bites (he had lots
of eager volunteers) and how the
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fruit of another could produce red
of yucca and manioc, staples for
on the dirt floor.
dye.
Amazon Indians.
The women and children joined
Surprisingly, many of these
Just beyond was the village of the
the dance and soon had all of us on
jungle curatives are finally being
Boras, one of the tribes that makes
our feet stumbling along with them.
recognized by the world medical
its home along the tributaries. The
The following day our jungle walk
community. Scientists are now rac-
thatched-roof houses were built on
took us to another village inhabited
ing to unlock the secrets of this vast
stilts to encourage ventilation and
by the Yagua Indians. We were
natural pharmacopeia in the hope
discourage rodents. Women sat on
greeted by the chief who was
that the medicinal qualities of some
the porches weaving baskets and
dressed in full regalia with a grass
Amazon plants may even provide
small, nut-brown children ran up to
skirt and headdress to welcome us.
treatments for cancer or AIDS.
us begging for "cheek-lets," "globals"
Although he stood barely five
As we continued through the
(balloons), "estilos" (ballpoint pens)
feet high, he proved to be an ex-
jungle, streams of army ants
and "intis" (Peruvian money).
cellent marksman with a six-foot
marching in single file crisscrossed
Obviously, we were not the first
blowgun. Graciously, he offered
the leaf-matted jungle floor,
outsiders to have set foot in the
each of us an opportunity to take
oblivious to our passing feet, while
village.
our turn. With beginner's luck, I
iridescent blue "morpho" butterflies
We continued on to a large bam-
managed to hit the tree stump with
flitted around our heads.
boo pavillion to meet with the
my dart, but I knew I would never
We passed several ceiba, or
members of the tribe. The women
make it in the jungle if I had to
kapok, trees whose trunks were as
wore slipover shifts and the men
shoot iguanas, sloths, or toads to
big as a one-story house and took
wore short waist cloths, all made
put dinner on the table.
turns snapping pictures of each
from bark that had been pounded
Afterward we were again enter-
other to show to the nonbelievers
paper thin and painted with Indian
tained by native dancing and en-
back home.
designs.
couraged to make a "trueque," or
After a while we passed a small
Business came first as we traded
trade, for handcrafted goods.
opening in the jungle that had been
perfume, pens, pencils, costume
As we were leaving, one of the
slashed and burned for the planting
jewelry, and T-shirts for bark paint-
Yagua women named Delia ran up
ings, seed and fish scale necklaces,
to us and motioned for us to come
and miniature blowguns.
to her home. Six of us climbed up a
After the deals had been cut, the
crude ladder onto a large square
entertainment began. The men of
bamboo platform under a thatched
the tribe began to dance in a circle,
roof. There was no furniture or
hitting their long sticks in unison
belongings in the "house" but
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Delia's smile made us feel more than
the river toward Brazil, the crew
up a rain-swollen tributary at what
welcome as she and her 10-year-old
members introduced themselves:
was actually treetop level. Deep in
daughter, Nora, cut into a ripe
Felix, the chef who could do
this steamy jungle the vines hung
pineapple and handed us juicy
wonders with manioc root and yuc-
like curtains and strange "walking
slices.
ca; guides Beder and Alfredo
trees" put down aerial roots from
The next day those of us who
Chavez, two brothers who were
their limbs into the water, creating a
were leaving for the cruise aboard
born and raised in the Amazon; and
natural fence.
the Rio Amazonas packed our gear
Manuel, the ship's kindly old doctor
We spotted a remarkable variety
and bid goodby to the Amazon
who provided the riberenos, or
of Amazon birds that morning:
Camp mascots-Pepe and Paco, a
river people, with a smattering of
yellow and black flycatchers; um-
pair of brilliantly colored macaws
medical care.
brella birds who spread their blue
who enjoyed snooping through our
At 5:30 a.m. the next day, I was
crests when threatened; brilliantly
rooms, and Sam, the baby ocelot
awakened by a quick rap on my
plumed macaws, orioles and
who was still small enough to cud-
cabin door. After a cold shower, I
tanangers; oven birds who build
dle like a pussycat.
joined the other passengers on deck
clay nests in the treetops; and
Returning by motor launch to
for a bird-watching expedition.
weaver birds with teardrop shaped
Iquitos, we boarded the Rio
A gossamer haze hung over the
nests that swing from the branches.
Amazonas, a 95-year-old river cargo
river's mirrored surface, which was
Our cameras clicked furiously dur-
boat that had been rebuilt to ac-
broken into endless ripples by the
ing this colorful air show.
commodate 50 passengers.
passage of a dugout canoe carrying
As soon as the motor stopped for
The owner, Paul Wright, turned
an Indian family.
a minute, we were treated to a
out to be an American. He said he
Our own motor launch carried us
cacophony of tweets, chirps,
had once operated a Los Angeles-
whistles, and squawks. We also
area travel agency that specialized
heard splashing and caught sight of
in South America tours. One thing
many piranhas jumping out of the
led to another and before Wright
water.
knew it, he had fallen in love with
Although these small voracious
the Amazon and its people.
fish have earned an unsavory
He built the Amazon Camp 20
reputation, our guide, Alfredo, told
years ago and eventually bought six
us they will usually not attack an
boats to use for river tours, bird-
animal or human being unless it is
watching excursions, and fishing
bleeding. He added that piranhas
trips.
also make a delicious meal when
As the creaky, four-decked white
they are pan-fried (better you eating
riverboat started chugging down
them than the other way around).
We returned to the Rio Amazonas
and continued our journey down
an
Alumnus
the Amazon, keeping our eyes
we learn that they were former
dancers with painted faces wearing
riveted on the jungle growth. Our
headhunters who boiled the severed
bark clothing and then invited to
efforts were rewarded when we
heads of their defeated enemies in
barter for bark paintings and
spotted a hairy brown animal-a
pots of water and then ate them.
jewelry. As soon as we left,
three-toed sloth-hanging upside
Fortunately, our visit was timed for
however, I suspect the villagers
down by its feet from a branch.
after lunch.
changed into their newly acquired
Further on, we saw what looked
These villages were slightly more
American T-shirts and running
like a ferocious miniature green
advanced than the ones we had
shoes.
dinosaur-an iguana-basking in
visited near the Amazon Camp. The
The next day, our guide, Beder,
the sunshine. Alfredo told us ig-
Bora settlement included a
invited us to join him on a hike
uanas are considered a delicacy to
thatched-roof grocery store with a
along a freshly cut trail through the
eat by the riberenos.
few shelves of canned goods, a Bap-
rain forest rather than on a well-
To our disappointment, we never
tist church, a school house, soccer
worn pathway. We agreed, not
saw any larger game animals. The
field, and a cluster of bamboo
realizing that the jungle-in-the-raw
reason, we were told, was because
houses built on stilts.
can hold some unexpected surprises
game hunters have captured many
We were invited into one home
and booby traps.
animals for zoos and encroaching
and walked through several rooms
Wild parrots called to us as we
civilization has pushed the wildlife
with hammocks that were used for
headed into the interior of the selva,
deeper into the jungle. However, for
sleeping. In the kitchen we saw a
or jungle. Despite the sunshine, the
part of our trip, we were accom-
boiling pot containing tapioca, a
path grew increasingly dark and we
panied by rare pink dolphins that
clay griddle for making manioc
soon found ourselves dwarfed by
swam playfully around the boat.
bread, and sieves for extracting fruit
200-foot-high kapok trees. Some of
The next day, we visited the
juices.
the palm leaves we picked up on the
villages of two Indian tribes-the
At the Huitoto settlement, we
ground were as big as a full-grown
Boras and Huitotos. Only later did
were first entertained by native
man.
Strange cries haunted us and we
began to feel like unwelcome in-
truders in the Land of the Giants.
Only the mosquitos seemed to be
glad we were there.
From time to time we stopped
while Beder pointed out a giant ter-
mite nest or explained the secret of
the "snake bite" plant, which had
strange curative powers.
It was during one of those pauses
March/April 1991
33
for a nature lesson that we had an
have claws on their wings. Our
sewing kits with soft-spoken
unexpected encounter with some
guides, Beder and Alfredo, told us
Manuel, "El Doctor," as we called
Amazon jungle residents.
they are believed to be a missing
him.
Suddenly, one member of our
evolutionary link with reptiles.
As I boarded the launch, my last
hiking group, Charles from South
When darkness fell, we returned
thoughts carried me back momen-
Africa, began hopping vigorously
to the island for a night walk in
tarily to one stormy night I had
from one foot to the other, slapping
search of caimans, who are cousins
spent standing on the deck of the
his legs and arms and shouting.
of the alligator. As Alfredo panned
Rio Amazonas. I remember staring
Then another person began the
the trees with his giant flashlight,
into the churning coffee-colored
same strange dance. And then
dozens of pairs of tiny spiders' eyes
water, sensing the raw power of its
another. Soon everyone except
were reflected like gemstones in the
strong current.
Beder had joined in.
foliage.
All around me was black jungle,
Later, when we were back on the
Towering trees cast eerie shadows
mysterious and impenetrable. Sud-
Rio Amazonas drinking pisco sours,
on our path, vines grabbed at our
denly, a flash of lightning struck
singing songs to the strumming of a
arms and legs and bats swooped
and gave just a glimmer of an
guitar, and watching the river un-
down at our heads. It was like a
outline to the jungle along the
fold majestically in front of us, we
scene out of a Halloween movie.
bank.
all laughed about the incident-
At last, a cry went up from Beder
In a way my trip was like that
although at the time it had seemed
and he pointed to a pair of eyes off
night, shedding just a glimmer of
anything but funny.
in the distance-caiman eyes.
light, and enlightenment, on the
We even came up with a name for
Relieved that we had found our
awesome Amazon.
it: the "Dance of the Gringos." But
quarry, everyone beat a hasty
I don't think I will ever fall in
we had learned an important lesson
retreat back to the Rio Amazonas,
love with it as Paul Wright did and
about survival in the Amazon
hoping we would not encounter any
want to stay forever.
jungle: never pause for a nature
of the deadly poisonous fer-de-
But at least I will now carry with
lesson on top of a nest of fire ants.
lance snakes that were said to be
me a vision of what it is and why it
Our last stop on the cruise was
slithering around after dark.
is worth saving.
an unscheduled one at Monkey
It was hard to say goodby the
Island. According to local lore, the
next morning as we boarded a
Claudia Capos, '73, is president of Foreign
island had been purchased 20 years
motor launch with our luggage and
Accent, Inc., an international trade com-
before by a slick foreign
headed for shore to catch our return
pany, and a freelance travel writer. Her ar-
businessman who had stocked it
air flight from Tabatinga, Brazil,
ticles have appeared in Travel & Leisure,
Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe,
with monkeys, hoping to make
back to Iquitos, Peru.
Chicago Tribune, and Michigan Living.
money exporting them to zoos.
Beder gave me an illustrated
She is a former associate editor of
The government put a stop to the
watercolor map showing the
Michigan Alumnus and writer for the
venture and the monkeys were
350-mile route we had taken down
Detroit News.
allowed to overrun the island. Later
the Amazon. I, in turn, gave him
a jungle lodge was built to accom-
some toys for his children and left
modate tourists and curiosity-seekers.
my extra pens, paper pads, and
The Rio Amazonas had just
pulled up to the dock when we got
our first visitor, a fuzzy brown
"choro" monkey. He made his way
straight to the bar and tried to steal
the ship's supply of cocktail cherries
and olives.
Disembarking, we carried with us
a supply of small bananas and
coaxed the toy-sized "spider" and
"squirrel" monkeys out of the trees.
Occasionally, one of the "howler"
monkeys would get friendly and
jump on someone's shoulder or
head. We only hoped they didn't
have lice or fleas.
That afternoon, we explored part
of this swampy Alice-in-
Wonderland island and saw king-
sized victorias regias lily pads that
were eight feet across.
We also spotted huge brown birds
the size of turkeys, whose young
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Michigan Alumnus
Alumni Activities
LA Club Scholarship Fundraiser Made For Hollywood
knew from UAC/Musket shows to
Photo by Mark Pelcarsky
chair the event.
New Line agreed to provide the
film at no charge and pick up the
four-figure tab for the screening
and reception rooms. Frederick P.
Furth, '56, LL.B. '59, proprietor of
Chalk Hill Winery, donated three
cases of premium Sonoma Valley
Chardonnay for the reception; Lisa
Elzy, 78, club vice-president,
worked with various caterers to
assemble the food. Rebentisch
designed the invitation that was
sent to 900 persons including
regular club members, department
of communication graduates, and a
Shown, left to right: Gary Rubin, Viewer's Choice; "Book of Love" Director,
theatrical contact list provided by
Bob Shaye; Jayne Nyman, President-Michigan Club of Los Angeles; Ann
L.A. actress Melissa Berger, '82.
Rebentisch, Screening Event Chair; Lisa Elzy, Club V.P./reception
The board of governors voted to ab-
coordinator.
sorb these other costs ($1,600) so
that all monies generated would go
directly to the scholarship fund.
T
hat was the perfect film for an
a Michigan graduate. New Line is
Shaye attended the screening and
alumni event like this," said
considered the leading independent
afterwards, was presented with a
moviegoer Jim Gilmore, '56, of the
in the industry. Through it, Shaye
resolution from the club by its
U-M Alumni Club of Los Angeles.
has produced such notables as
president, Jayne Nyman, 77, mak-
He was praising Book of Love, a
Hairspray, Polyester, and the
ing him the first "Honorary Direc-
film by Robert Shaye, '60, that was
Nightmare on Elm Street Series, and
tor" of the club. Everyone ad-
screened at the Directors Guild of
distributed the thunderbolt hit
journed to the reception room
America in January exclusively for
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Book
where the Book of Love soundtrack
Michigan alumni and their guests,
of Love was to be Shaye's directorial
was played and alumni/ea enjoyed
two weeks before being released to
debut, so Rubin tested the waters
fine wine and great food.
the general public. Book of Love is
about a U-M scholarship screening
"This was so much fun, next year
the story of a newly divorced
for it. New Line was interested.
you should charge more," was the
writer, romanticizing the memories
Rubin enlisted the help of Ann
consensus of the departing guests.
of his teen years in the '50s, where
Rebentisch, '79, a member of the
impressing and "getting the girl"
club's board of governors whom he
-Ann Rebentisch, '79
was his and every guy's obsession.
Minimum donations of $25 per seat
generated $3,075 for the Club's
special scholarship fund.
With Michigan alumni like
director Larry Kasdan, '70, M.A.,
Photo by Mark Pelcarsky
'72, The Big Chill, a scholarship
screening had been on the club's
agenda for a couple of years but the
timing was never right. Gary
Rubin, '81, became the conduit for
Book of Love screening. As director
of programming for Viewer's
Choice, a pay-per-view cable movie
service, Rubin deals with major film
companies. He knew that Bob
Counter-clockwise from left: Bob Shaye, Ann and Philip Rebentisch, Bonnie
Shaye-chairman, CEO, and
Proctor and other guests enjoying the post-screening reception with donated
founder of New Line Cinema-was
Chalk Hill Chardonnay.
March/April 1991
35
How Do You Spell Enrichment Tours?
With Three S's: Spoleto, Shaw & Stratford
F
or the 15th consecutive summer,
enrichment tours are being ar-
ranged for Canada's Stratford and
Shaw theater festivals. Arrangements
also have been made for the second
Photo by Jack Mitchell
consecutive alumni continuing
education tour to the Spoleto
Festival U.S.A. June 6-9 in
Charleston, SC.
The Spoleto tour will include per-
formances of Jacques Offenbach's
opera The Tales of Hoffmann as
well as a play and dance company.
A horse-drawn carriage tour, as well
as housing in the centrally located
Méeting Street Inn and a group din-
ner, are planned. Alumni Associa-
tion members may arrive at
Charleston on their own or fly with
other participants from Detroit:
Dwight Rhoden, Renee Robinson, Debora Chase, and Desmond Richardson
Emeritus Professor of Speech Ed-
in Ulysses Dove's EPISODES. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
ward Stasheff will accompany the first
Shaw Festival tour July 26-29, while
Shaw and Stratford tours include
conditioned motor coach transpor-
an English Department faculty
faculty-led seminars, accommoda-
tation from Ann Arbor and
member will accompany the August
tions, theater tickets each evening, a
Dearborn.
15-18 Shaw tour. The Stratford
festive dinner, gourmet box lunch
Shaw Festival enrichment tours
Festival tour will be held June 28-30.
en route to the festival, and air-
will again reside at the Prince of
Wales Hotel in the heart of historic
Please send additional information about the following alumni continuing
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Ber-
education events:
nard Shaw's comedies The
Coffee with Faculty. April 2, 9, 16, and 23.
Millionairess and The Doctor's
Don Giovanni opera with presentation by musicologist Louise K. Stein,
Dilemma and Noel Coward's This
dinner at the Michigan League, and the opera. March 30.
Happy Breed will be included on
both Shaw tours.
HMS Pinafore with faculty presentations, luncheon and the Gilbert
At Stratford, the group again will
and Sullivan operetta. April 13.
reside at the Festival Inn. Shake-
Into the Woods with faculty presentations and dinner before the
speare's Hamlet and Much Ado About
Stephen Sondheim presentation. April 20.
Nothing are included in the tour.
Alumni University. This and the above events are in the Alumni Center.
Tour announcements can be ob-
Spoleto U.S.A. tour.
tained by returning the coupon on
Stratford Festival tour.
this page. If you are interested, re-
Shaw Festival tours.
quest information immediately as
Send the "Magnetic Michigan" catalog of audiotapes and videotapes
the tours have sold out in past years.
Add my name to the alumni continuing education mailing list.
Planning has begun for Alumni
University 1991, which again will
offer many faculty-led seminars
Name
during the summer in the Alumni
Class
Year
Center on campus. English Pro-
fessor Bert Hornback will offer ses-
Street
sions August 19-23 on James Joyce's
Dubliners, Thomas Hardy's The
City
State
ZIP
Mayor of Casterbridge, and the
poetry of W.B. Yeats. The summer
Daytime Phone #
series will close September 6 with
Return this coupon to: Joel S. Berger, director of alumni continuing education,
philosophy professor Carl Cohen's
Alumni Center, 200 Fletcher St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
discussion of "What Is Death?"
Phone: (313) 764-2201.
36
Michigan Alumnus
Long Island Club Wins Daily Double-
Club Of The Year Award Back To Back
A
we. Disbelief. Two years in a
Island enrolled at the U-M in 1990,
row is such an honor we
according to Maybee. Because of
couldn't believe it had happened,"
the University's reputation in the
says Carol Maybee, president of the
area, the admissions office "is not
UofM Club of Long Island, of her
recruiting here anymore," says
club's second consecutive Club of
Maybee, adding "they don't feel
the Year Award.
they need to
because of that we're
"We're very proud of them," says
doing our own recruitment."
Marsha Evans, director of external
Maybee became president for a
activities at the Alumni Associa-
two-year term in May 1990 follow-
tion. For a club to win it must first
ing John Morgan, who served as
compete on a district level before
president for two, two-year terms.
Silver Anniversary
entering the national competition.
Beginning its fifth year, the club has
Evans says judges usually look for
a current membership of 225. But
Reunion Planned
variety and depth in club
the potential is ten times that figure,
programming.
says Maybee, if you consider the
T
he Alumni Association, in
While the Long Island club for
large concentration of U-M alum-
cooperation with the individual
the past two years has sponsored a
ni/ae on Long Island.
schools and colleges of The Uni-
number of creative events including
On the other hand, Long Island's
versity of Michigan, will sponsor the
a night at a comedy club (joined by
length (118.5 miles) creates
first University-wide Silver Anniver-
Penn. State's alumni club), a winery
logistical problems for club gather-
sary Reunion Weekend. The event will
tour in Bridgehampton, L.I., and an
ings. However the problem for
honor those some 8,000 persons who
art tour and brunch at the Nassau
monthly board meetings is solved
graduated from The University of
County Museum of Art, they have
equitably. Members meet in
Michigan in 1966, and will be held
had a particularly strong focus in
Amityville near the Nassau-Suffolk
in Ann Arbor on Friday and Saturday,
recruitment. "They encourage a lot
county border.
19-20 April 1991.
of kids to go to college," says Evans.
Maybee's aspirations for the club
The program will feature a Silver
In fact, 156 freshmen from Long
this year include more community
Anniversary Banquet with President
James J. Duderstadt; faculty presenta-
tions reflecting on the past twenty-five
SAC Searches For Alumni
years in several disciplines; tours of the
campus and the new University
Hospital; a Wolverine baseball game
T
he current members of the Student Alumni Council are searching for
SAC alumni in the hopes of planning a reunion. Were you a member
or spring football practice; a chance to
of one of the following groups?
attend a Stephen Sondheim musical or
a jazz trio concert; and finally, the
Student Governors (1956 - 1972)
opportunity to get reacquainted
Student-Alumni Activities Council (1973 - 1981)
with old friends and faculty.
The Student Alumni Council (1981 - present)
A brochure announcing the
details of the program was sent out
If so, please fill out the form below and return it to The Student Alumni
from the Alumni Association in
Council, Alumni Center, 200 Fletcher Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109,
January to all graduates of the Class
(313) 763-9755.
of 1966, according to University
records. If you are a graduate of the
Class of 1966 and did not receive
the mailing, please let us know by
Name
calling (313) 764-0384, or writing
Address
the Alumni Association, 200 Flet-
cher Street, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1007. Also, if you were a
member of the Class of 1966 and
Home phone
Office phone
did not graduate, or graduated at a
later date, you are cordially invited
Date of graduation
Degree
and encouraged to participate.
We look forward to having you
Occupation
with us on this important occasion.
March/April 1991
37
service projects. In 1990 the club
Greater Detroit: UofM Club / April TBA
Saginaw: UofM Club / April 10 /
took over the phones for an auction
/ spring football scrimmage / contact:
athletic/academic bust / contact: Howard
at a local television station. This
Doug Angst / (313) 698-1100 (B).
Maturen / (517) 793-6181 (H) / 793-6221
year she would like a project that
(B).
Lansing: UofM Club / April 9 / legislative
covers the entire Island in scope.
reception / contact: Philip Cornell / (517)
San Antonio: UofM Club / April 6 / All-
And who knows, a possible
337-8296 (H).
Big Ten family weekend / contact: Terry
trifecta?
Walworth / (512) 688-9010 (B).
Los Angeles: UofM Club / April TBA /
Annual Santa Anita Day at the Races /
San Diego: UofM Club / March 15 /
contact: Jayne Nyman / (213) 825-8124
monthly luncheon / contact: Jeffery Matt-
CLUBS
(B) / 471-0748 (H).
folk / (619) 696-2230 (B) / 279-1064 (H).
Macomb County: UofM Alumnae Club /
Silicon Valley: UofM Club / March TBA
Ann Arbor-Smith Group: UofM Alumnae
March 25 / "Michigan's Lighthouse
/ casino night / April TBA / comedy club
Club / March 17 / tour of U-M Museum
Heritage" / Speaker: Dr. Donn Werling /
/ contact: Shaun Vakil / (408) 879-5386
of Art & brunch / Speaker: William Hen-
April 29 / "English Castles & Cathedrals"
(B) / 574-5342 (H).
nessey / contact: Carol Tice / (313)
/ Dr. Laquita Higgs / contact: Gloria
663-9891.
LaPontney / (313) 261-5670 (H).
Toledo: UofM Alumnae Club / April 23 /
"Michigan's Marching Bands" / Speaker:
Birmingham: UofM Alumnae Club /
NW Ohio: UofM Club / April 23 /
Dr. George Cavendar / contact: Althea
March 14 / "Jazz History" / Speaker:
Speaker: Jack Weidenbach, interim direc-
Kaul / (419) 470-8176
Hazen Schumacher / "U-M Regents" /
tor of athletics / contact: Dee Solether /
Speaker: Deane Baker / contact: Jocelyn
(419) 784-7824 (B).
Washington, DC: UofM Club / March 13
Ironside / (313) 559-3727 (H).
/ Congressional Breakfast / contact: Carl
New York: UofM Club / March TBA /
Smith / (202) 955-4337 (B) / (703)
Delaware: UofM Club / April 13 / Se-
theater party / April 14 / Big Apple Blast
247-9690 (H).
cond District Conference / contact: Henry
in Ann Arbor / contact: Jim Gartenberg /
Smithies / (302) 774-4276 (B) / 239-2112
(212) 785-7680 (B) / 988-3487 (H).
(H).
Philadelphia: UofM Club / April 10 / an-
SPECIAL EVENTS
Flint: UofM Alumnae Club / April 13 /
nual birthday dinner / contact: Kipp
style show scholarship fund raiser / con-
Franklin / (215) 431-7365 (B) / 696-8871
Alumna-in-Residence March 20-23 /
tact: Jill VanTine / (313) 695-4121 (H).
(H).
Eleanor Maccoby, child development
psychologist / contact: Jo Rumsey / (313)
763-9708 (w).
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Zanzibar. After stopping in the Comoros
Islands, sail to Madagascar where three
days are spent exploring the island. Con-
clude in the Seychelles, visiting the islands
of Farquhar, Amirantes, Praslin, La
Digue, and Aride before disembarking in
Mahe for the return flight. The final night
of this program will be spent in London.
An optional pre-cruise Kenya extension
will be available.
San Francisco Bay/Sacramento Delta
April 30-May 7
Our journey to San Francisco, Sausalito,
Sacramento, and Vallejo (the famed
Sonoma and Napa Valley wine country),
is an immersion in the many moods of
California. First, sample the cosmopolitan
attractions of San Francisco for two
nights, and then board the Yorktown Clip-
per for a five-night cruise.
Northern Italy
Western Mediterranean
May 14-27
May 6-18
This twelve-day program will explore and
After a two-night stay in Barcelona, sail
examine medieval cities, palaces and
aboard the luxurious all-suite Renaissance
cathedrals, and world-famous works of
to discover the Spanish isle of Minorca;
art. Three nights each will be spent in
medieval Bonafacio on the island of Cor-
Lake Como, Verona, and Venice, followed
sica; Ischia and Ponza islands near the en-
by two nights in Parma and one night in
Seychelles/Madagascar
trance to the Bay of Naples; the enchan-
Milan.
April 22-May 7
ting worlds of the Aeolian Islands of
After an overnight flight to London, con-
Lipari and Stromboli; the pre-historic
Elbe River
tinue on to Nairobi for a one-night stay.
monuments of Sardinia, Malta and Gozo;
June 10-22
Then board the World Discoverer in
and the Greek ruins of Sicily. Our cruise
This program features a four-night cruise
Mombasa for an 11-night cruise, first
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on the Elbe River, which flows between
visiting the Sultan's Palace and souk of
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pioneer program features two nights in
Alaskan Odyssey
Hamburg followed by a relaxing four-
June 22-29
night cruise on the newly-commissioned
Our seven-night cruise on the Yorktown
M.S. Brandenburg, KD German Rhine
Clipper will include Juneau, Skagway,
Line's newest vessel. Visit Martin Luther's
Haines, Sitka, Glacier Bay National Park,
Wittenberg, art-endowed Dresden and
Petersburg, Wrangell, Misty Fjords and
scenic Bad Schandau. Conclude with two
Ketchikan.
nights in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and,
three nights in Berlin.
Kenya/Tanzania Safari
June 27-July 13
New England
June 15-22
During this tour, there will be opportunity
to actively explore some of the very best
The ports visited on this one-week cruise
game areas in Kenya and Tanzania, see
aboard the Nantucket Clipper are
the great game herds of Masai Mara and
Newport, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket,
the Serengeti, camp on the floor of
and Gloucester.
Ngorongoro Crater, and search for the
rare species of birds and animals of Sam-
Swiss Alpine Adventure
buru and Lake Manyara. We will be utiliz-
June 16-July 4
ing various types of accommodations-
Our twentieth year in the Rhone Valley
hotels, lodges, and tented camping. (This
features seven nights in Montana-Crans
trip may be combined with the
and four nights in Zermatt. Continue on
Madagascar program of July 12-24.)
to Grindelwald for three nights before
concluding with three nights in Lucerne.
Alumni University Scandinavia
July 1-16
Mississippi River
Begin in Denmark for a five-night stay at
June 17-23
the ISS Center, a conference facility
Russia
A two-night stay in New Orleans at the
located north of Copenhagen. Travel by
July 2-15
Maison Dupuy Hotel is first scheduled,
overnight ferry to Oslo where three nights
This program includes two nights each in
then board the historic Mississippi Queen
are spent, and then motorcoach to
Moscow and Leningrad aboard ship, plus
for a four-night cruise featuring visits to
Gothenberg for two nights. In both cities,
a six-night cruise between these two cities
Natchez, Mississippi, known as the city
the group will reside in conference centers.
to the historic ports of Uglich, Goritsy,
"where the Old South still lives," and
The program concludes with three nights
Petrozavodsk, Kizhi Island, and Valaam
Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana. The
at a hotel in Stockholm.
Island. The program also includes two
cruise terminates in New Orleans.
nights in ever-changing Berlin.
European Masters and the Supersonic
Concorde
July 5-14
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returning home aboard the incomparable
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half the normal flying time.
Solar Eclipse Cruise
Kerrytown location - walk to Downtown, University
July 60-13
709-711 North Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor
This seven-day cruise in the Hawaiian
Islands will visit Oahu, Kauai, Hawaii,
and Maui. On July 11, the S.S. In-
Extraordinary views, private decks,
dependence will cruise into the best van-
spacious units.
tage point for viewing the century's
longest total solar eclipse - four minutes
and 13 seconds.
$269,900 and $289,900
Madagascar Odyssey
Individual viewings
July 11-24
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cent of the species of flora and fauna is
found nowhere else, and the people are
distinctly different in language, culture
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participation and assistance of many local
40
Michigan Alumnus
people along the way to make the trip
private mini-van takes us on daily excur-
pleasurable and interesting. This trip may
sions to medieval villages, famous
be combined with Kenya-Tanzania Camp-
chateaux, ancient castles, cathedrals, and
ing Safari of June 27-July 13.
vineyards. Paris is the grand finale with
four nights at the Lutetia Hotel.
France: The Seine and the Saone
July 12-24
Hudson Bay
First, enjoy three nights in Paris before
August 4-13
embarking the luxurious M.S. Normandie
This expedition cruise lacks nothing in
for a four-night cruise on the Seine,
opportunities for wildlife and cultural
visiting the historic towns of Vernon, Les
discoveries. After a one-night stay in Win-
Andelys, and Rouen. Transfer to Macon
nipeg, Manitoba, fly to Churchill and
aboard the TGV, the world's fastest train.
board the newly built expedition cruise
Then, board the M.S. Arlene for a three-
ship, the Society Adventurer. Visit Rankin
night cruise on the Saone River, stopping
Inlet, Marble Island, Walrus Island,
at Tournus, Chalon-sur-Saone, Seurre,
Southampton Island, Baffin Island, Cape
and Saint-Jean-de-Losne. Finally, enjoy
Wolstenholme, and Erik Cove before
three nights in cosmopolitan Geneva,
returning to Churchill for disembarkation.
Switzerland on beautiful Lake Geneva.
The last evening is again spent in
Churchill.
Tuscany and Mediterranean Cruise
August 5-17
Experience one of Italy's most special
regions, Tuscany, with a three-night stay
in Siena. Continue to Ravenna for one
Pacific Northwest/Alaska Cruise
night, then board the Sun Line ship Stella
August 19-31
Maris in Venice and begin a seven-night
cruise to the ports of Dubrovnik,
Visit Seattle for two nights, Victoria for
Yugoslavia; Corfu, Greece; Valletta,
one night and Vancouver for two nights.
Malta; Messina, Sicily; the islands of
Then embark the Star Princess, and set
Capri and Elba; Portofino, Italy; and
sail for seven nights, visiting Juneau,
Nice, France.
Skagway, and Ketchikan, as well as cruise
through beautiful Glacier Bay.
Canadian Rockies
August 8 -18
Montreal/Quebec City
September 6-13
This well-paced program begins with three
nights in Vancouver, followed by an over-
In Montreal, spend four nights at the
night in Kamloops before crossing over
Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Following Club
into the province of Alberta for two
Car rail passage, conclude with three
nights in Jasper. On the way to Lake
nights at the Manoir Victoria in Quebec
Louise, a stop with lunch is scheduled at
City.
Canal Cruising in Burgundy
the Columbia Icefield. Our overnight stay
July 23-August 3
in Lake Louise will be at the recently
Northern Capitals
July 30-August 10
refurbished Chateau Lake Louise. Then it's
September 6-20
Enjoy a six-night cruise on the Canal du
on to Banff National Park and the Banff
After a two-night stay in Copenhagen,
Bourgogne aboard L'Abercrombie, ex-
Springs Hotel for two nights. The final
board Pacquet Cruises' Ocean Princess for
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night of the program will be spent in
a ten-night cruise. The ports-of-call will
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excursion to Berlin will be offered);
Malaga; the Spanish island of Palma de
to the Provence region for a two-night
Stockholm, Sweden; Leningrad, U.S.S.R.;
Majorca; and finally Nice, on the French
stay in Arles, followed by two nights each
Helsinki, Finland; Gdansk, Poland; and
Riviera.
in Albi and Les Eyzies. Conclude with
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Disembark
four nights in Paris at the Hotel Lutetia on
in Tilbury, England, and transfer to Lon-
Northeast Passage
the Left Bank.
don, where a two-night stay is scheduled.
September 20-October 2
Scheduled during the fall color season,
Chesapeake Bay/Hudson River
this program begins with two nights in
October 5-19
Montreal. Then board the Regent Sun for
From New York, the Nantucket Clipper
a seven-night cruise, visiting the ports of:
will cruise up the Hudson to West Point,
Quebec City; Sydney, Nova Scotia; Bar
Kingston/Hyde Park, and Albany. Visit
Harbor, Maine; and Provincetown,
the historic areas in Philadelphia and
Massachusetts. Disembark in New York
Baltimore prior to reaching the unique
and board a motorcoach for a scenic
marine environment of the Chesapeake
transfer to the Sheraton Country Inn in
Bay and its charming ports of Annapolis
Lebanon, New Hampshire, where a two-
and St. Michaels. Continue on to Norfolk
night stay is scheduled. Return to Mon-
and Yorktown, followed by a cruise up the
treal, via the Green Mountains, for home
Potomac River, stopping at Mount Ver-
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September 21-October 6
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night in Hakone, continue via bullet train
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September 15-29
Disembark in Pusan, South Korea.
This program features two nights in Lon-
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French Country
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September 25-October 7
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cognac region); Lisbon; Cadiz (Seville);
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42
Michigan Alumnus
munications management. Effective in
position with cross functional oppor-
leveraging marketing strategies across au-
tunities in manufacturing or financial ser-
diences and through multiple media. Ex-
vices firm. Two years experience as finan-
cellent people skills. Broad-based
cial analyst with auto company finance
knowledge of all media and promotional
subsidiary. Articulate and hard working
vehicles including trade shows, advertis-
with excellent analytical skills. Prefer
ing, and direct mail. Seeking product
Chicago area. Box 196.
marketing/market communications posi-
tion in southern Wisconsin/northern II-
B.S. '86, materials science engineering.
linois. Box 193.
Seeking product management/
marketing/sales support position. Four
B.S. '60, electrical engineering. Seeking a
years experience in technical marketing,
senior manufacturing position. Have
sales and support of analytical/process in-
10-plus years experience in engineering
strumentation. Represented company and
and production management. Past eight
products worldwide. Extensive domestic
years served as vice-president-
and international customer support/
manufacturing for a large manufacturer
service experience. Supported current pro-
directing all operations of two large
duct expansions and new product
Project Antarctica & The Falkland Islands
plants. Have experience in TQC, MRP,
introductions. Excellent interpersonal and
January 2-18, 1992
JIT, employee involvement, team-building
organizational skills. Will relocate. Box 197.
After an overnight in Santiago, Chile, fly
and employee motivational techniques.
to Puerto Williams and board the expedi-
Box 194.
Looking for a job? "Job Hunts," a classified
tion ship World Discoverer. After sailing
B.A. '89, psychology. Seeking a challeng-
listing of persons seeking new jobs or con-
past Cape Horn and through the Drake
sidering a career change, is provided to all
Passage, spend five days on the Antarctic
ing position in human resources depart-
Alumni Association members at no charge.
peninsula where you will discover
ment of progressive company. Currently
rookeries of chinstrap, Adelie, and gentoo
working in a management position. Ex-
Copy should be restricted to fifty words,
and should be mailed to: "Job Hunts,"
penguins, the formal ambassadors of the
perience includes: personnel decisions,
managing store budget, program develop-
Michigan Alumnus, 200 Fletcher St., Ann
White Continent. Enjoy two days explor-
Arbor, MI 48109. Box numbers will be
ing the Falkland Islands, then cruise
ment, and purchasing. Hard-working,
assigned by Michigan Alumnus and any
through the Strait of Magellan and disem-
ambitious, and flexible with excellent in-
responses to an ad will be mailed to you
bark in Punta Arenas, Chile.
terpersonal skills. Prefer Detroit area. Box
immediately upon receipt in our office.
195.
Employers: To respond to a "Job Hunts"
This travel schedule is tentative. In the
M.B.A. '89, corporate finance (B.S. '86,
item, please write to the above address,
interest of economy, travel program
specifying the box number(s) in which
applied math/business administration,
brochures are mailed third-class, bulk rate
University of Pittsburgh). Seeking finance
you are interested.
and are not sent to all Alumni Association
members. An Association member who
wishes to receive any brochure by first-
class mail should send us a self-addressed
envelope with the name of the travel
program on the lower, left-hand side.
JOB HUNTS
B.S.E. '85, nuclear engineering (J.D. '90,
Duquesne University). Experienced in core
physics calculations. Worked full time and
went to law school in the evenings. Desire
to combine background through work in
regulatory area or patent work. Willing to
relocate. Box 190.
B.A. '88, political science, M.U.P. '90.
Seeking a challenging entry-level planning
position utilizing my knowledge of urban
planning issues. Undergraduate education
provided strong research, analytical and
communication skills. Private sector civil
engineering and land surveying ex-
perience. Rank leader in Michigan Mar-
For your next meeting, come back to Ann Arbor!
ching Band '86 - '89. Box 191.
Call 1-800-888-9487 for free brochure & information
B.A. '89, communication. Seeking entry-
level position with an ad agency or
SYMPHONY CONCERTS
JAZZ CLUBS
PLAYS
ETHNIC FOODS & RESTAURANTS
TV/radio station, with creative emphasis.
SPORTS EVENTS
ART GALLERIES
UNIQUE SHOPS
BOTANICAL GARDENS
Prefer Michigan area, but will consider
AND OVER TWENTY HOTELS WITHIN 10 MINUTES OF CAMPUS & DOWNTOWN
relocation. Also have associate's degree in
electronics. Box 192.
Ann Arbor Convention & Visitors Bureau
M.B.A. '80, marketing. Experienced in
211 EAST HURON, ANN ARBOR MI. 48104 313 / 995-7281 FAX 313 /995-7283
marketing, market and corporate com-
March/April 1991
43
Through the Years
Harriett F. Woods,
Harold Hood, '52.
Michael D. Knox,
Frances Twiddy,
Susan E. Simmons,
Mary Jane Hilker,
'49
M.S.W. 71, M.A.
M.A. 72
'79bus
'80
73, Ph.D. '74
Harold Hood, '52, a Detroit judge, and
CLASS NOTES
the National Postal Design Award for the
Justice for the Michigan Court of Appeals,
design of the U.S. District Courtroom "A."
has been elected deputy chairman of the
Mr. Berg was Principal-in-Charge of the
THE THIRTIES
National, Council on Alcoholism and
project.
Norman Lee Hamann, '59arch,
William Q. Wu, '34, M.D. '39, was
Drug Dependence.
Merle Menerey,
recently received the 1990 Gold Medal
recently honored with the Snow Award
D.D.S. '52, M.P.H. '76, has retired as
from the Michigan Society of Architects.
and the establishment of a Dr. William Q.
regional dental director with the New
Mr. Hamann is president of
Wu Scholarship Fund at the University of
York State Health Department, and has
Diekema/Hamann/Architects, Inc. of
Missouri at Kansas City where he is a
moved with his wife, Mary, to their new
Kalamazoo, MI.
professor of neurosurgery.
home in Prescott, AZ.
Thomas L. Har-
ris, '53, has become a full-time associate
THE SIXTIES
THE FORTIES
professor at the Medill School of Jour-
Donald T. Kowalski, '60, M.S. '61,
nalism at Northwestern University,
Harry B. Picken, '40eng, presently a
Ph.D. '64, has retired as an emeritus pro-
Chicago.
Ralph A. Straffon, M.D. '53,
member of the Ontario Council of
fessor of biological sciences, California
'59med trainee, chief of staff at The
Regents, was granted the "Award of Merit"
State University, Chico, CA.
Michael
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, is the new
by the Board of Governors of Mohawk.
R. Losey, 61bus, M.B.A. '62, has been
president-elect of the American College of
College, Hamilton, Ontario.
Carl
named president of the Society for
Surgeons.
Frederick W. Hicks III, '54,
Riggs, '44, M.S. '46, Ph.D. '53, former ac-
Human Resource Management, Alexan-
M.A. '59, Ph.D. '63, a professor of history
ting president of the University of South
dria, VA.
Ina Martin Rexford, '62, is
at USC Coastal Carolina College, is doing
Florida, has been presented with the Presi-
the new director of planned giving,
consulting work for the Minister of Educa-
dent's Distinguished Citizen Award.
responsible for major deferred gifts to the
tion in Cyprus under the Fulbright Pro-
Ray E. Stevens, D.D.S. '44, of Grand
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
gram.
Federick S. Dean, '55, LL.B. '61,
Rapids, MI, received the Distinguished
Robert B. Wessling, J.D. '62, a Los Angeles
city attorney of Tucson, AZ, was recently
Service Award from the U-M School of
attorney, has been named to the Board of
elected to the Board of Trustees of the Na-
Dentistry Board of Governors
Arnold
Trustees of DePauw University, Greencas-
tional Institute of Municipal Law Officers.
E. Schneider, Ph.D. '47, founding dean of
tle, IN.
Richard R. Allen, 63eng,
William R. Fleming, M.A. '55, Ph.D.
the Haworth College of Business at
M.B.A. '64, vice-chairman of LADD Fur-
74, has been named principal of
Western Michigan University, was recently
niture, Inc., High Point, NC, has been
Donaldson Elementary School, Am-
honored with the dedication of his por-
elected to a three-year term on the board
phitheater Public Schools, Tucson, AZ.
trait, hung in the College's new building.
of directors of the American Furniture
Evan Hazard, M.A. '55, Ph.D. '60,
Harriett Woods, '49, president of the
Manufacturers Association.
Thomas
represented the University at the in-
Institute for Policy Leadership at the
M. Keinath, '63eng, M.S.E. '64, Ph.D. '68,
auguration of Dr. Leslie C. Duly as presi-
University of Missouri at St. Louis and
head of Clemson University's environmen-
dent of Bemidji State University.
Marc
former lieutenant governor of Missouri,
tal systems engineering department, has
Jacobson, '55, has recently been appointed
recently attended the 41st annual Old
been elected vice-president of the Interna-
a judge of the Norfolk, VA, General
Masters Program at Purdue University.
tional Association on Water Pollution
District Court. He and his wife, Connie,
Research and Control.
Benson P.
have endowed the Marc and Constance
THE FIFTIES
Shapiro, '63eng, a Harvard Business
Jacobson Lectureship at the Institute for
School professor, has been named the
David F. Cargo, '51, M.P.A. '53, J.D.
the Humanities.
George J. Nichols, Jr.,
school's Malcolm P. McNair professor of
'57, represented the University at the in-
'55bus, has been appointed a director of
marketing.
Howard Sims, 63arch,
auguration of Richard E. Peck as presi-
Great Lakes Bancorp's board of directors,
M.Arch. '66, is chairman of Sims Varner
dent of the University of New Mexico.
Ann Arbor.
Robert C. Hutchison,
Amistad, a newly merged company that is
Dora D. DeMaso, '51, recently retired
'56eng, a General Motors executive, has
now one of the largest minority-owned ar-
from the Battle Creek Public Schools. She
been elected chairman of the board of
chitecture, engineering and design firms in
has taught with the Dependent Schools in
directors of the Automotive Industry Ac-
the Midwest, with offices in Detroit and
Germany and was a teacher with the
tion Group headquartered in Southfield,
Chicago.
James E. Austin, 64bus, a
Creole/Exxon Corporation in Venezuela
MI.
John R. Wiese, '57eng, has been
Harvard Business School professor, has
during her 37 years in the teaching profes-
promoted to vice-president, Corporate
sion.
been named the Richard P. Chapman pro-
Raymond L. Gover, '51, publisher
Engineering Services for Johnson &
fessor of business administration at the
of the Harrisburg, PA, Patriot-News, has
Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ.
Karl
school.
Lawrence E. Gary, M.P.A. 64,
been elected president of the Pennsylvania
Berg, '59arch, of Hoover Berg Desmond
M.S.W. '67, Ph.D. 70, has been selected to
Newspaper Publishers Association.
Architects, Denver, CO, recently accepted
fill the Samuel S. Wurtzel Chair for Emi-
44
Michigan Alumnus
Through the Years
Tina Daniels, '81
Carolyn R. Noack,
Candace Croucher
Michelle Rubin, '86
Anthony J. Ettore,
Suresh Chan-
'83chem
Dugan, J.D. '83
J.D. '90
drasekaran,
M.B.A. '90
nent Scholars in the Virginia Com-
University at the inauguration of Nancy
College of Engineering at Michigan State
monwealth University School of Social
Bekevac as president of Scripps College.
University.
Thomas H. Gardner, '71,
Work.
Michael R. Maine, J.D. '64, an
John Minot, M.S. '56, a professor at
M.B.A. '74, has recently been named
Indianapolis, IN, attorney, has been nam-
Dean Junior College, Franklin, MA, has
director of the office of career services at
ed to the Board of Trustees of DePauw
recently published a book on mushrooms
Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
University, Greencastle, IN.
Kenneth
entitled Notes on the Classifications of
Michael D. Knox, M.S.W. '71, M.A. '73,
McClatchey, '64, D.D.S. '68, M.S. '71,
Mushrooms.
Charles J. Poposki, M.D.
Ph.D. '74, has been elected a Fellow of the
M.D. '75, a U-M pathologist, is represen-
'67, has been reelected president of the
American Psychological Association. Dr.
ting the College of American Pathologists
Manistee County Medical Society. He is in
Knox, his wife Lucinda Page Knox,
on a newly created task force estabished
the private practice of ophthalmology
M.S.W. '74, and their sons live in Temple
to provide guidelines and technical help
with offices in Ludington and Manistee,
Terrace, FL.
Adelaide Heyde Parsons,
for a nationwide effort to combat infant
MI.
Jan Kozma, '68, M.A. 70, Ph.D.
M.A. '71, Ph.D. '79, represented the
mortality.
Douglas A. Brook, '65,
'73, chairperson of French and Italian at
University at the inauguration of Kala M.
M.P.A. '67, is the new assistant secretary
the University of Kansas, was recently
Stroup as president of Southeast Missouri
of the army for financial management,
honored with the Mortar Board Outstan-
State University.
Jerald M. Wigdortz,
with both operational and policy respon-
ding Educator of 1990-91 Award for her
M.S. '71, M.B.A. '72, a managing director
sibility for the financial affairs of the ar-
teaching of Italian literature courses.
of Salomon Brothers Inc., has been elected
my.
Susan Meitus Gottlieb, '65, was
John A. Secrist III, '68chem, executive
to the board of the Public Securities
recently named to the women's board of
vice-president of the Southern Research
Association for 1991. He and his wife
the Make A Wish Foundation of Northern
Institute, has been named to the
Jeanie, and their two sons live in Darien,
Illinios. She and her family live in
Birmingham-Southern College President's
CT.
Christopher R. Gullen, '72, has
Wilmette, IL.
Patricia Griffin, '65,
Advisory Council.
David Vass, M.B.A.
been named Public Liability Counsel of
Ph.D. '76, has been named vice-president
'68, has been appointed president of
Kmart Corporation. He and his wife
for student services at the College of San
Bondex International, Inc., St. Louis, MO.
Sheila, and their son live in Rochester,
Mateo.
Jonathan P. Laun, '65, M.B.A.
Patricia Bell Williams, '68pharm, a
MI.
Frances Twiddy, M.A. '72 has
'67, president of A.A. Laun Furniture Co,
professor of pharmacology at Eastern
recently been elected president of the
Kiel, WI, has been elected to a three-year
Virginia Medical School, has been elected
Michigan Society of the Institute of Cer-
term on the board of directors of the
a Fellow of the American College of
tified Financial Planners.
Lawrence
American Furniture Manufacturers
Clinical Pharmacology. In a separate elec-
Philp, M.F.A. '73, has been appointed
Association.
William C. Martin,
tion, she was elected to the nominating
assistant professor of art at Hartwick Col-
M.B.A. '65, of Ann Arbor, was reelected
committee of the American Society for
lege, Oneonta, NY.
Frank J. Longo, '74,
president of the U.S. Yacht Racing Union.
Pharmacology and Experimental
M.A.S. '75, has been awarded the
Mark E. Schlussel, LL.B. '65, a
Therapeutics.
Jay Zumeta, M.A. '68,
Chartered Financial Analyst designation
Southfield, MI, attorney, and chairman of
M.A. '73, a professor of art history at the
by the trustees of the Institute of
the board of Monsignor Clement Kern
Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH, was
Chartered Financial Analysts, Charlottes-
Hospital in Warren, has been awarded the
recently honored as the Outstanding
ville, VA.
Joseph P. Misiewicz, Ph.D.
Michigan Hospital Association Hospital
Teacher of the Year.
Irving J. Bigio, '69,
74, left Bradley University in Peoria to
Governance Award.
John R. Gaffin,
M.S. '70, Ph.D. '74, a staff member at Los
become chairperson, department of
LL.B. '66, has been elected to the board of
Alamos National Laboratory, was in-
telecommunications at Ball State Universi-
directors of the Society for Human
strumental in developing one of the
ty, Muncie, IN.
James M. Bowman,
Resource Management as national vice-
technologies selected by R&D Magazine as
'76, transferred to the Stouffer Dallas
president, Area II. Mr. Gaffin is a resident
one of the 100 most significant technical
Hotel as controller.
James B. King,
of Miami Beach, FL.
Joy A. Ziegler
advances of the year.
Eugene A. De
M.B.A. '76, was recently named Coopers
Garrish, '66, has been promoted to direc-
Fouw, 69eng, president and chief ex-
& Lybrand's national partner-in-charge of
tor of budget and accounting for the Phar-
ecutive officer of Alofs Manufacturing
total quality managment services based in
maceutical Manufacturers Association,
Co., Grand Rapids, MI, was the fall com-
Philadelphia. King and his wife, Shirley,
Washington, DC. She also serves on the
mencement speaker at Ferris State
reside in Bryn Mawr, PA.
John B.
board of the Washington Financial
University.
Rutledge, '76bus, an Air Force captain, is
Management Roundtable.
Eugene M.
currently assigned as the Bomb Disposal
Kelly, M.S.E. '66, has been appointed
THE SEVENTIES
Officer, Royal Saudi Air Base, Taif, Saudi
vice-president-international fleet for
Nicholas J. Altiero, M.S.E. '70, M.A.
Arabia. He manages a joint nation Ex-
Amoco Transport Co., Chicago, IL.
'71, Ph.D. 74, was named associate dean
plosive Ordinance Disposal operation on
Ronald L. Olson, J.D. '66, represented the
for research and graduate studies in the
the base and local community.
Audrey
March/April 1991
45
JANICE BECK, M Mus. 61
Janice Beck had to put her career as
in Ann Arbor where they have since
a concert organist on hold while she
lived and raised their family.
raised her family, but now she's
Beck is excited about the upcom-
back on track, having just recorded
ing release of the Mendelssohn
a compact disk of six Mendelssohn
recordings (due out in March),
sonatas for Arkay records. That
which was recorded on the
was in the days before Super
Beckerath organ (built by Rudolph
Moms"," she laughs. But, she adds,
Beckerath in the classical German
she never let herself lose her touch
style) in Cannon Memorial Chapel
And fortunately, her family was en-
at the University of Richmond in
tirely supportive of her career. "I
Virginia. This is her first release on
made the commitment to practice
the Arkay label though she former-
every single day," she says, and thus
ly recorded with Musical Heritage
kept all her skills.
Society And while she leans toward
Beck, who was born in Virginia,
Bach as probably her favorite com-
studied under Catharine Crozier, a
poser, she likes and performs the
distinguished American teacher and
works of a number of modern com-
organist. Some of Beck's early
posers as well. Beck has recorded
organ recitals were played in the
Coll, noted as one of the greatest
the works of Charles Ives and Leo
historic Bruton Parish Church in the
European builders of that period.
Sowerby, and she has great praise
restored revolutionary-era town of
For the past three years, Beck has
for U-M School of Music Professor
Williamsburg.
made annual trips to France in
William Allbright who has written
A Fulbright Scholarship gave
order to study and play on Cavaille-
some notable works for organ.
Beck the opportunity to study in
Coll organs as well as other eigh-
Also, she points out, Pulitzer-Prize
France with Jean Langlais at the
teenth and nineteenth century in
recipient and U-M Professor of
Basilica of Sainte Clotilde. It was
struments. Last fall, she gave
Music William Bolcom has com
during her stay in Paris that she
recitals in Montpellier, Nimes, and
posed some works for organ.
gave the premiere performance of
Pau
When not recording, giving recitals,
Langlais's "American Suite" (now
It was after her Fulbright study in
or travelling, Beck keeps busy locally
revised as the Third Symphony),
France that Beck returned to the
as organist for the First Baptist Church
at l'Institut National des Jeunes
U.S. and came to the U-M for her
and she has participated in several of
Aveugles (National Institute for the
master degree in music where she
the Ann Arbor Summer Festivals
Young Blind)
studied organ under noted organist
Besides performing (some of her
Since then, Beck admits that
and Professor of Music Marilyn
recitals have been broadcast on Na-
"France has become one of my
Mason. It proved to be a fortuitous
tional Public Radio), she lectures
favorite places. She also has a
move for another reason as well.
and frequently judges local and na-
special interest in nineteenth cen-
She met her husband, curator of the
tional organ competitions.
tury French instruments, in par-
U-M Museum of Paleontology and
ticular, those of Aristide Cavaille-
Professor of Botany, Charles Beck
-Sue Burris
M. Perino, M.A. '76, represented the
THE EIGHTIES
Matthew M. Neumeier, '81, has
University at the inauguration of Judith
Suzanne Faber, '80, creative art director
become associated with the Chicago office
A. Ramaley as president of Portland State
at Leo Burnett, Chicago, has been named
of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &
University.
Dennis L. Hopkins, 77, a
a vice-president.
Mary Jane Hilker, '80,
Flom, a New York-based law firm.
Navy commander, is currently deployed
has joined the firm of Labadie Capital
Marcel Salive, '81chem, M.D. '85, a resi-
to the Middle East in support of Desert
Management, Southfield, MI, as president
dent of Rockville, MD, was honored by
Shield while serving aboard the guided
and managing director.
Jeffrey D.
the American Public Health Association
missile cruiser uss Biddle, homeported in
Pearce, '80, of Royal Oak, MI, has been
with the Jay S. Drotman Award.
Norfolk, VA.
Virginia Blankenship,
appointed to assistant vice-president, In-
Denise Weidner Carlson, '82, has been
Ph.D. '79, has been named chair of
surance Services, for Comerica Incor-
promoted to senior representative,
psychology at Northern Arizona Universi-
porated.
Julie Johnson Sinnott, '80eng,
marketing & development, of RPI Interna-
ty, Flagstaff, AZ.
Susan E. Simmons,
has been advanced to the status of senior
tional, Inc., Boulder, CO, a geologic con-
'79bus, a resident of Birmingham, MI, has
associate of Albert Kahn Associates, Inc.,
sulting firm for the oil and gas industry.
joined the staff of Comerica Incorporated
Detroit architects and engineers.
Tina
Michael J. Gordon, '82arch, M.Arch.
as vice-president, controller.
Julie
Daniels, '81, has recenlty been appointed
'87, has established The Collaborative,
Weeks, '79, M.A. '81, has been appointed
director of alumni affairs at Northeastern
Architects, Designers & Planners, Inc., in
to a senior position in the U.S. Small
Illinois University, Chicago.
Daniel
Ferndale, MI. He has also formed a part-
Business Administration's Office of Ad-
Dean, '81, was elected county commis-
nership, Altered Image Sportswear, to
vocacy, Washington, DC.
sioner for the 4th district of Sanilac Coun-
develop and market a new concept in im-
ty, MI, during the 1990 general election.
printed sportswear.
Candace Croucher
46
Michigan Alumnus
Dugan, J.D. '83, has joined the Chicago
THE NINETIES
department of neurology, Nov. 7,
office of the San Francisco-based law firm
Michael D. Arthur and Dale B. Black
1990, Ann Arbor.
of of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold,
J.D. '90, have joined the Grand Rapids law
WILLIAM R. TAYLOR, professor
as Special Counsel.
Carolyn R. Noack,
firm of Warner, Norcross & Judd as
emeritus of botany and curator of
'83chem, of Three Rivers, MI, has been
associates.
Thomas G. Bobowski,
algae, Nov. 11, 1990, Ann Arbor.
appointed recycling coordinator in the
'90eng, a Marine second lieutenant, has
university facilities department at Western
graduated from The Basic School, and is
Architecture & Urban Planning
Michigan University.
Elizabeth
now at NAS Pensacola, FL, for flight
'23 FRANCES SUTTON SCHMITZ, Jan. 16,
Ashbury, '84, has been awarded a
training as a Naval Flight Officer.
1990.
Fulbright grant for the 1990-1991 year to
Suresh Chandrasekaran, M.B.A. '90, has
'26 STANLEY M. SALAMON, Aug. 17,
teach English at the University of Sara-
been named an associate in the Cleveland
1990.
jevo, Yugoslavia.
Carl F. Deering, M.S.
office of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, the in-
'31 HARRY W. GJELSTEEN, Sept. 6, 1990.
'84, Ph.D. '88, has been promoted to the
ternational management and technology
'35 CARL B. MARR, Nov. 20, 1990.
position of senior scientist at the Holland,
consulting firm.
Anthony J. Ettore, J.D.
MI, facility of Parke-Davis.
Amy M.
'90, has joined Holland & Knight's
Art
Ronayne, '84, is currently an assistant
Tallahassee office as an environmental law
'50 NORMAN R. MEENGS, Sept. 8, 1990.
prosecuting attorney for Livingston Coun-
associate.
Randall Kay, and Donald
'63 KAREN PARLBERG WELLER, Oct. 12,
ty in Howell, MI.
Byron K. Roberts,
Sullivan, J.D. '90, have joined the San
1990.
'85, has received a masters degree in
Diego, CA, law firm of Gray, Cary, Ames
'81 KIM MAIBERGER BUTLER, Aug. 15,
business administration from Stanford
& Frye, as associates in the litigation
1990.
University's graduate school of business,
department.
Todd A. Napieralski,
and has joined Philadelphia Newspapers
D.D.S. '90, a Navy lieutenant, has com-
Business Administration
Inc. in a management development pro-
pleted the Officer Indoctrination School
'46 MARY NOEL BARRON, Oct. 15, 1990.
gram.
Robert J. Bettendorf, '86, a Navy
at the Naval Education and Training
'47 RALPH JOHN STOECKEL, Jan. 20, 1989,
lieutenant, recently returned from a six-
Center, Newport, RI.
Philip E. Sim-
Elmhurst, IL.
month deployment to the Sea of Japan,
mons, Ph.D. '90, has joined the Lake
'48 LEON H. NIES, March 19, 1990.
Indian Ocean, and North Arabian Sea
Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, as an assis-
while serving with fighter Squadron-111,
'53 CECIL J. O'BOYLE, (M.B.A. '54),
tant professor of English.
1990.
Naval Air'Station, Miramar, CA.
James C. Melvin, '86eng, M.B.A. '90, J.D.
'55 CLIFFORD J. FRANKLIN, Aug. 7, 1990,
Allendale, MI.
'90, has joined the Kalamazoo office of
Material for this section of Through the
the law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock
HARRY TED PALL, Aug. 26, 1990.
Years should include school, class year(s),
and Stone, as an associate in the business
'56 ROBERT J. LYZENGA, Sept. 26, 1990.
maiden name where applicable, and be sent
Denise M.
'59 MICHAEL A. GASKIN, July 28, 1990.
services department.
to: "Class Notes," Michigan Alumnus,
EDMUND J. WHITING, Sept. 30, 1990.
Michael, '86, J.D. '89, is a trial attorney
200 Fletcher St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
with the national law firm of McDermott,
'61 GERARD F. ODENWELLER, Sept. 5,
Name and address changes should be
1990.
Will & Emery working in the firm's
sent to: Alumni Records Office, The
Chicago office.
Michelle Rubin, '86,
University of Michigan, 109 E. Madison,
has been promoted to account executive at
Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Please include
LevLane Advertisng and Public Relations,
alumni number on mailing label.
Moving?
Bala Cynwyd, PA.
Charles A. Smith,
'86, D.D.S. '90, a Navy lieutenant, has
completed the Officer Indoctrination
1. To correct your address,
School at the Naval Education and Train-
send this form to:
ing Center, Newport, RI.
Jeffrey S.
DEATHS
Smith, '86, is now a member of the
Southfield, MI, Directors Guild of
'20 ROBY MCKINLEY BURLEY, of Seattle,
Alumni Records
America as a commercial assistant direc-
WA, past eighth district director of the
The University of Michigan,
tor.
Glen F. Gordon, '87, has joined the
Alumni Association Board of Direc-
109 E. Madison, Room 100
law firm of Buchanan, Gray, Purvis &
tors (1946-1949) recipient of a
Schuetze, with offices in Boulder and
Distinguished Alumni Service Award
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Denver, CO.
Daniel J. Dewhirst,
(1955), an Alumni Association Ac-
'89eng, a Marine second lieutenant, was
colade (1955), and a Special Accolade
2. Attach label from your
graduated from The Basic School.
(1988), died January 7, 1991.
latest issue.
Susan Johnson, '89, of Ann Arbor, has
been commissioned as a US-2, a short-
Faculty
term missionary of the United Methodist
RUSSELL N. DEJONG, professor
Church, who will serve as a volunteer
emeritus, neurology, Medical School,
with the church's General Board of Global
Name
Aug. 20, 1990, Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Ministries in the United States.
Thomas
DAVID C. HUNTINGTON, professor,
M. Kroeger, '89eng, a Navy ensign, is cur-
history of art, Sept. 29, 1990.
rently deployed to the Middle East in sup-
GLEN C. McDowell, assistant pro-
Address
port of Operation Desert Shield while ser-
fessor of dentistry, Aug. 24, 1990.
ving aboard the destroyer uss Leftwich,
NORMAN R. MILLER, assistant pro-
homeported in Pearl Harbor, HI.
fessor of obstetrics & gynecology,
Donald M. Loppnow, Ph.D. '89, professor
Oct. 29, 1990, Ashville, NC.
City
and head of the Eastern Michigan Depart-
MARY KUJAWSKI ROBERTS, associate
ment of Social Work, is spending the
director, Museum of Art, Sept. 2,
1990-91 school year at Western Michigan
1990, Iowa City, IA.
State
University as an American Council on
EARL J. SCHULTZE, associate professor
Education Fellow.
Liska A. McKinney,
of English language & literature, Nov.
D.D.S. '89, a Navy lieutenant, has com-
21, 1990, Ann Arbor.
pleted the Officer Indoctrination School
MARTHA WESTERBERG SMITH, pro-
Effective date of change
at the Naval Education and Training
fessor emeritus and consultant,
Center, Newport, RI.
March/April 1991
47
Dentistry & Dental Hygiene
FRED F. LANGE, Jan. 17, 1990, Min-
'27 DUDLEY E. SOUTH, (PH.D. '39), July
'23 FLOYD E. STRAITH, Sept. 9, 1990.
neapolis, MN.
30, 1990.
'31 SAMUEL TAYLOR, Aug. 25, 1990.
'29 CLAUDIS C. GAGE, Aug. 17, 1990.
'32 FARRAND BAKER, Feb. 6, 1990.
'40 SIMON J. GLERUM, Aug. 9, 1990.
STUART MCLAIN, (M.S. '30, PH.D.
JAMES M. MALONE, Jan. 13, 1990,
'50 MARTIN J. CAIN, (M.S. '57), Oct. 10,
'33), July 8, 1990.
Saginaw, MI.
1990, New Jersey.
'30 EDMUND CARL KORNEFFEL, May 10,
ASA SPAULDING, Sept. 5, 1990.
'52 HOWARD EDGAR JOHNSON, Aug. 13,
1990.
FRANCIS L. ZWICKEY, Sept. 20, 1990.
1990.
'31 WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, (M.S. '32),
'33 WINFRED KESSLER, May 25, 1990.
'55 KATHRYN SISSON HAYES, Nov. 4,
Sept. 12, 1990, Ann Arbor.
FRED J. WILLIAMS, Aug. 11, 1990.
1990.
RUSSELL E. DUNN, July 12, 1990.
'34 HAROLD J. BRODIE, 1989.
'60 JANE LUCY ULMER, Oct. 7, 1990.
RALPH E. VANDEVENTER, Sept. 12,
HAROLD E. HAMMOND, July 30, 1990.
'75 RONALE C. SELKOW, May 5, 1990.
1990.
'36 THEODORE W. CUNNINGHAM, Feb. 5,
'83 WILLIAM OWEN NARA, Sept. 26,
REX C. WALKER, March 11, 1990,
1989.
1990.
Garfield, AR.
'37 HUGH McDONALD, Aug. 19, 1990.
'32 DAVID M. HANNAH, June 16, 1990.
DONALD H. PALMER, (PH.D. '61),
Education
'33 CHRIS KURZWEIL, June 18, 1990
March 4, 1990, Southfield, MI.
GALEN RACINE MILLER, July 4, 1990.
'24 RUTH MUELLER GREEN, (M.A. '25),
'38 ADA KATHRYN SMITH, May 7, 1990.
'35 JACK WILLIAM CAMERON, Sept. 28,
March 16, 1990.
'39 MILDRED DEARING FARRELL, Aug. 13,
1990.
1990.
'25 WILLIAM F. WILCOX, (M.A. '28),
GALE O. KENYON, Sept. 24, 1990.
Aug. 28, 1990.
MAXTON F. MURRAY, May 1990.
ERWIN G. SOMOGYI, Oct. 16, 1990.
'27 AROLINE CLARA ARMS, (M.A. '34,
EVELYN MCNEIL PUGH, Oct. 4, 1990.
RALPH D. WALKER, Nov. 7, 1990.
M.A.L.S. '55), Nov. 14, 1990.
'40 BRUCE A. GRAY, Sept. 6, 1990.
'36 HAYDEN W. EVANS, Sept. 25, 1990.
NORMAN C. PERKINS, Oct. 1, 1990.
RUTH EILEEN BRADY, (M.A. '43),
JOHN P. NIELSEN, May 1989.
Sept. 13, 1990, Royal Oak, MI,
WILLAMINE G. POWDERLY, Nov. 13,
'37 FRANK W. PERSON, March 16, 1990.
1990, Ann Arbor.
MILTON J. COWAN, (M.A. '42), July
'38 DONALD HENRY THURE, April 2,
1990.
'41 PAUL TSUN TEH CHANG, August
1990.
1989.
ELTA WOOD HOLLICK, Aug. 5, 1990.
'39 EMMETT E. ANDERSON, 1990.
CHARLES O. HARRIS, March 30. 1990.
MARGARETTE NICHOLS-BIRD, (M.A.
JOHN W. COLLINS, JR., Sept. 27,
'31), Nov. 5, 1990.
'42 LUTHERA BUTTON RANKIN, Oct. 2,
1990, Stuart, FL.
1990.
'29 MARIAN PATERSON HOWELL, Sept.
'40 FREDERICK L. SHANDS, April 30,
LAWRENCE R. SALTIS, March 1990.
24, 1990.
1990.
'44 JOHN W. BROADHURST, December
'31 LENORE MATEN PORTER, March 5,
EVERETT C. VALLIN, (B.S.E. '46),
1989.
1990.
Oct. 3, 1990.
'32 DOROTHY PECK LAITNER, July 19,
'45 MARIA JOYNER BLACKWELL, Sept. 12,
'41 CHARLES N. ISACKSON, Aug. 22,
1990.
1990.
1990.
'46 LAURA KOHN LUHR, July 14, 1990.
'44 MARGARET HARMON KNAPP, Sept. 20,
ARNOLD H. SOEDER, Aug. 16, 1990.
1990.
GLADYS MYERS MORRISON, Aug. 13,
'42 LOUIS Ross LEVIN, Oct. 28, 1989.
1989.
'47 ELEANOR SOBOCINSKI SOKOLOWSKI,
JEROME M. SCHWARZBACH, June 7,
'47 PETER SHUMWAY, Oct. 9, 1990.
July 1990.
1990.
WILLIAM R. SPEER, Aug. 11, 1990.
'50 JAMES C. GAGNIER, (M.A. '51), July
THOMAS V. WILLIAMS, Aug. 20,
SANFORD E. WILLIAMS, September
28, 1990.
1990.
1990.
'51 JEAN MEENGS STEWART, Oct. 17,
'47 LINCOLN B. BRIDGES, (LL.B. '51),
'48 JOSEPH V. BREITWIESER, JR., June 25,
1990.
Dec. 16, 1989.
1989, Capitola, CA.
'59 JOLYN OVIATT HALL, Oct. 18, 1990.
HERBERT KAHN, April 5, 1989.
ELI CHENIN, February 1990.
'63 EVONNE M. PUTMAN, Aug. 16, 1990.
'48 JACK E. STADER, Oct. 2, 1990.
CAROLINE CLAYTON-MACDONALD,
'64 MARGARET WILLIAMS FERGUSON,
JAMES T. STEWART, Sept. 3, 1990.
Sept. 5, 1990.
Sept. 30, 1990.
'50 WILLIAM E. DUERR, Sept. 1, 1990.
'49 JOSEPHINE STILLWELL BENNETT, Nov.
'68 NANCY OSTERGREN GRAFF, Sept. 28,
KENNETH R. GREIDER, July 9, 1990.
10, 1990.
1990.
THOMAS S. MATHER, Feb. 13, 1989.
KATHRYN V. SAPALA, Aug. 28, 1990.
WILLIAM U. CHERNIAK, (ED.D. '71),
EDWARD J. RODGERS, Sept. 29, 1990.
Sept. 17, 1990, Detroit, MI.
'73 LINDA C. BISHOP, October 1990.
ROY M. TAYLOR, SR., Oct. 14, 1990.
NITA WOLFE, Feb. 28, 1990.
'79 VIRGINIA C. TRYTTEN, Sept. 3, 1990.
'51 THEODORE T. PURWIN, June 19, 1990.
'50 LEE R. COPPLE, (PH.D. '54), Feb. 22,
JAMES L. WRIGHT, JR., Oct. 16, 1990.
1990, Rochester, MN.
Engineering
ELLIOT I. COOPER, (M.B.A. '52), Oct.
RICHARD M. JOSEPH, (M.A. '57), June
'12 ELMER W. HAACK, Oct. 23, 1990.
15, 1990.
25, 1990.
'13 E. OLIVER GROSVENOR, Aug. 25,
'57 ROBERT ROY JONES, Aug. 12, 1990.
MURRAY E. MANLEY, Aug. 3, 1990.
1990.
GERALD A. KRAMMIN, Oct. 26, 1990.
ROBERT M. MENGEL, (PH.D. '58),
'15 SAMUEL PAUL SHACKLETON, May 1,
'61 EUGENE H. AUGUSTIN, (M.S.E. '62),
January 1990.
1989.
Aug. 7, 1990.
ELIZABETH N. Scott, Sept. 27, 1990.
'19 STERLING S. SANFORD, Oct. 19, 1990,
JOHN FEDORS, Aug. 28, 1990,
'51 FRANCIS R. PELLEGROM, Oct. 11,
Detroit, MI.
Berkshire, MA.
1990.
'20 CHARLES RUSSELL FORD, Feb. 19,
'62 ARCHIE S. MOORE, Oct. 20, 1990,
'52 DOROTHY LEWIS OURADNIK, Oct. 10,
1990.
Kansas City, MO.
1990, Washington, DC.
'21 ROSWELL P. DILLON, Nov. 9, 1990.
'64 ALLEN W. GILBERT, Oct. 12, 1990.
'53 REGINALD V. MILBANK, Sept. 21,
'25 ARTHUR S. HALL, JR., May 5, 1990,
'79 JAMES L. EIGSTI, Aug. 22, 1989,
1989.
Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Rochester, NY.
'54 CHARLES A. ROBINSON, Sept. 12,
KURT R. KEYDEL, June 10, 1990.
JUDITH ELLEN CUMBOW, (M.S.E.
1990.
CARYL A. LINDBERG, Oct. 7, 1990.
'88), Oct. 19, 1990.
GLADYS R. SEECK, Sept. 25, 1990.
LEO J. NOWICKI, Sept. 15, 1990.
'90 JIACHI LI, July 2, 1990.
'55 SAMUEL A. GRAVITT, Sept. 25, 1990.
'26 RALPH H. SCHEEL, Aug. 31, 1990.
LUCIUS B. MCHARGUE, June 4, 1990.
'27 ROBERT J. MACMEEKIN, May 11,
Graduate School
'57 LYLE MORSE LANGSCHWAGER, May
1990.
'22 GRACE HANNA ARNOLD, Aug. 14,
30, 1990.
'28 CALVIN H. COREY, July 6, 1990.
1990.
'58 HELEN K. MASTERSON, June 8, 1990.
'59 FRED B. AMBLER, January 1990.
48
Michigan Alumnus
'60 MARJORIE KEELER DALRYMPLE, July
HESTER DAUGHERTY COURTRIGHT,
'37 LOIS KING DANTON, (M.A. L.S. '38),
23, 1990.
Oct. 30, 1990.
May 9, 1990, San Francisco, CA.
THELMA MAE EBERLE, Aug. 20, 1990.
LAURA MEYER CURRAN, Sept. 11,
GILBERT TILLES, 1990.
'61 PAUL CHANDLER, 1990.
1990.
'38 ROBERT MATTHEW LEITCH, (M.D.
ALICE REBENTISCH STACEY, Sept. 6,
SARAH R. HOLMES, Aug. 12, 1990.
'42), Sept. 15, 1990.
1990.
JASON L. HONIGMAN, Sept. 12, 1990.
HENRI GRIER, July 12, 1990.
JAMES C. WAHLA, (PH.D. '67), Oct.
WILLIAM CALVIN KNOX, Aug. 16,
'40 RAGNA RANDOLPH BOETTJER, Aug.
6, 1990.
1990.
20, 1990.
'63 JOANNA CORNETT, Nov. 12, 1990,
BARTLETT E. NUTTER, (J.D. '27), Aug.
HERBERT H. GARDNER, June 29, 1990.
Ann Arbor.
19, 1990.
PHILIP F. WESTBROOK, (J.D. '47),
'64 MARY Goss MANNINO, July 7, 1990.
COLTON S. SMITH, March 9, 1990.
Aug. 28, 1990.
'65 GODFREY LEPAGE, (M.S.E. '74), July
'25 CASS S. HOUGH, Sept. 17, 1990,
'41 RUSSELL M., BRAGA, (M.B.A. '42,
18, 1990.
Naples, FL.
J.D. '48), May 22, 1990, Orlando, FL.
'67 NEIL BURNETT JOHNSON, (PH.D. '70),
'26 GEORGE C. WEITZEL, Aug. 4, 1990.
WILLIAM T. DOWNS, (LL.B. '48),
August 1989.
'27 LUCILLE WALSH GREENWOOD,
Oct. 24, 1990, San Antonio, TX.
'76 SAMUEL D. BROMBERG, LAugust 1989.
(M.A.L.S. '37), Oct. 30, 1990.
'42 JOHN K. EDMONSON, Sept. 8, 1990.
'80 PENTECOST BENNIS, JR., Oct. 1, 1990.
JOHN M. HALSTED, May 6, 1990.
FRANCES BESANCON STEWART, Aug.
'89 NATHAN EMMANUEL MANYARA, Oct.
RICHARD L. SUTTON, JR., (M.D. '29,
6, 1990.
21, 1990.
M.A. '29), Aug. 30, 1990.
'43 ROGER C. NORTON, (M.A. '47, PH.D.
VIRGINIA Fox WORLEY, Aug. 23,
'51), Sept. 21, 1990.
Law
1990, Lancaster, PA.
'44 WILLIAM A. FEAD, October 1990.
'16 JESSE JAMES HERR, Sept. 27, 1990.
'28 JOHN FLOYD BANKS, July 11, 1990,
WILLIAM B. TREADWELL, Oct. 28,
'24 MYRON H. SAVIDGE, Sept. 26, 1990.
Madison, CT.
1990, Walnut Creek, CA.
'31 MATTHEW DAVISON, JR., Dec. 6,
HELEN KEMPF HOGAN, Aug. 14,
'45 JAMES E. WILLIAMS, (M.A. '47),
1989.
1990.
February 1989.
'33 LAURENCE D. GLERUM, May 21,
MORTIMER A. NEFF, Aug. 15, 1990.
MRS. ALLEN ARMSTRONG ZWEBER,
1990.
BENJAMIN (BENNIE) G. OOSTERBAAN,
Aug. 21, 1990.
'35 PHIL R. JOHNSON, June 30, 1990.
Oct. 25, 1990, Ann Arbor.
'46 JOYCE M. HOLMES, (M.D. '52), July
'38 WILLIAM W. LESSLEY, March 29,
EARL D. SULLIVAN, (J.D. '30), Oct.
9, 1990.
1990.
23, 1990, Lighthouse Point, FL.
'47 DOUGLAS D. BAKER, SR., Dec. 20,
'42 OSCAR L. CLARKE, JR., August 1990.
'29 COURTLANDT C. VAN VECHTEN,
1989, Alameda, CA.
'44 ALLEN C. HOLMES, Nov. 1, 1990.
(M.A. '30), Aug. 29, 1990.
JOAN STEVENS CARRIER, Sept. 9,
'48 WILLIAM RAYMOND BOOKER, June 26,
'30 MARGARET HAXTON COLLIGAN, Oct.
1990.
1990.
6, 1989.
ROBERT W. KELLY, (LL.B. '52), Aug.
CHARLES A. MCKENNY, JR., July 26,
GLADYS GRAY HAGERMAN, (NURS.
24, 1990.
1990.
CERT. '31), Aug. 20, 1990.
ROBERT P. SCHWINN, Aug. 26, 1990.
JEROME HARD, July 1990.
'50 ROBERT E. IDDINGS, Aug. 11, 1990.
'31 BERNICE ENDLICH GROEHN, July 28,
'51 MARIO S. GARCIA, Feb. 14, 1990.
1990.
'89 JOHN D. SINNOCK, October 1989.
JAMES E. LITTELL, July 28, 1990.
Come visit the University Club,
GERTRUDE LAYTON MCMICHAEL,
when you visit Ann Arbor.
Library Science
(M.A. '33), April 1990.
'40 LOUIS SLABOSKY, Sept. 21, 1990.
HELEN GAY STEWART, Sept. 12, 1990.
Open for lunch,
'45 ELSA M. STRUBLE, Oct. 5, 1990,
'32 ELIZABETH SMITH MCBURNEY, March
Monday through Friday,
Grosse Pointe, MI.
22, 1990.
11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
'62 CLARICE PRIMEAU HAFEMAN, June 8,
CHARLES W. McCOLL, June 12, 1990.
1990.
ALVIN R. Moss, (M.A. '37), May 17,
Varied menu, and a soup and salad
'69 MARIEN JENSEN SMITH, July 29, 1990.
1990.
bar, to meet all of your luncheon
'33 DAVID BREZIN, (M.D. '37) April
expectations.
Literature, Science & the Arts
1990.
WILLIAM F. ELLIOTT, (LL.B. '36),
'14 MARY BISHOP SPAULDING, Aug. 2,
Extensive catering facilities available
Aug. 31, 1990.
1990.
MIRIAM KELLER ETCHELLS, Oct. 18,
for private functions, with all of the
'20 LUCIE ELLEN FRENCH (M.A. '25),
1990.
ambiance of your alma mater.
Aug. 27, 1990, Chatman, MA.
JAMES M. TENHOOR, Oct. 16, 1990.
LEO SAMUEL ROSEN, Oct. 7, 1990,
JAMES WARREN TUTTLE, April 3,
Join us for our Holiday Buffets.
Muskegon, MI.
1990.
'21 HELEN FISHER COOPER, Sept. 26,
'34 DONALD F. BLANKERTZ, (M.B.A. '35;
For reservations and catering
1990, Ann Arbor.
PH.D. '42), May 23, 1990, Phoenix,
information, call (313) 763-5911
MORRIS C. LUSKIN, (LL.B. '28), Sept.
AZ.
20, 1989.
ALBERT M. BLUMENFELD, (J.D. '36),
'22 HELEN MCINTOSH BOWMAN, July 7,
Feb. 12, 1990.
University Club
1990.
LLOYD BURY MCLAUGHLIN, Sept. 25,
at the Michigan Union
'23 WILLIAM B. CHENOWETH, Aug. 23,
1990.
530 S. State St.
1990, Union City, IN.
'35 THOMAS D. AUSTIN, LMay 4, 1989,
RALPH J. DEAN, Sept. 22, 1990, Ad-
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Denver, CO.
dison, MI.
AMY NORTON TAYLOR, July 29, 1990.
ROBERT FOLSOM, July 20, 1989.
'36 KATHARINE CHOATE HALL, Aug. 30,
Bring in this ad for 15% off lunch
ALICE HARDENBURGH FRANKHAUSER,
1990.
Oct. 30, 1990.
EDMUND G. LOVE, (M.A. '40), Aug.
MARION RUELLE READE, May 7, 1990.
expires 6/30/91
30, 1990.
MARGARET E. TOFT, Oct. 9, 1990.
ELIZABETH SIMONDS TUTTLE, Aug. 10,
'24 WILLIAM J. ALEXANDER, JR., April 12,
1990, Dearborn, MI.
1990.
GEORGE R. WILLIAMS, Aug. 5, 1990.
March/April 1991
49
'48 WILLIAM BOGEDAIN, Sept. 25, 1990.
DOROTHY L. HOFSTRA, Oct. 27, 1990.
Bookshelf
MARIE ANNA WEGMAN, May 16,
'50 BERNARD P. KOOL, September 1990.
continued from page 10
1990,
'80 MARC P. WLADIS, December 1989.
'49 RICHARD H. HOWLAND, (PH.D. '64),
Nov. 17, 1990.
the museum. The only complaint is that
Music
there are too few color plates, all of which
MAE ALLEGRA NELSON, (M.A. '50),
Sept. 11, 1990.
'37 AARRE KAUPPI, (M.Mus. '38), July
are excellent reproductions. But the pur-
25, 1990.
pose of the catalogue is not as an art book
'50 EDMUND J. BURKE, June 9, 1990.
'38 J. THOMAS OAKES, July 8, 1990.
and it is hoped that those who have not
CHARLES H. KAUFMANN, JR., (M.S.
'39 ARNOLD W. BERNDT, Aug. 16, 1990.
visited the museum, or have not been
'52), Sept. 21, 1990.
'49 ELSIE ALDINE RULE, Oct. 2, 1989.
there for some time, might thus realize the
'52 CHARLES RICHARD DOYLE, Oct. 9,
VIRGINIA SWIFT VARLAND, March 4,
scope of this collection-which includes
1990.
1990.
artists (both major and minor) from
PHYLLIS GRETTENBERGER RUMSEY,
'54 RONALD W. LEE, Aug. 27, 1990.
Monet and Whistler to Max Ernst,
Aug. 27, 1990.
'55 BETTY JACKSON Scott, Sept. 27,
sculptors from Rodin to Moore and
'53 DONALD A. FREEDMAN, (M.B.A.
1990.
Calder, and many, many more-is well
'55), Aug. 3, 1989.
'60 E. LYLE HAGERT (M.Mus. '61), July
worth seeing and studying. Faberman is
NORMA GREENWOOD LOGELIN, Sept.
13, 1990.
U-M professor of history of art and
3, 1990, Chelsea, MI.
'71 DONALD ELTON RENZ, (M.Mus. '72,
curator, Western art, UMMA, and Karen
'54 ROBERT A. ENGLAND, (M.A.L.S. '55,
M.Mus. '78), Oct. 25, 1990.
Wight is a graduate student in the U-M
M.A. '60), June 6, 1989.
museum practice program.
'56 JOHN R. MACPHERSON, Oct. 30,
Natural Resources
1990.
'23 MERLE S. GERRED, Aug. 27, 1990,
Sun Pictures in Scotland by Graham
JOHN P. PecK, (M.A. '61), May 2,
Ann Arbor.
Smith, The University of Michigan
1990.
'57 CHARLES S. KENT, Nov. 16, 1990,
'25 JOHN E. JUDSON, Oct. 11, 1990, Cape
Museum of Art, 1989, $7.50 paper. This
Coral, FL.
catalogue was published in conjunction
Chelsea, MI.
'35 SHERWOOD CLYDE NICHOLS, Aug. 22,
with the 1989 exhibition at the U-M
'58 WILLIAM C. BRYANT, (M.A. '59),
1990, Tarpon Springs, FL.
Museum of Art in celebration of 150 years
Oct. 1, 1990, McAllen, TX.
ROBIN SPRINGETT RILEY, July 19,
'49 CHARLES E. KINDEL, June 1990.
of photography. The introduction
1990.
SIEBERT SHELDON SPROULL, Oct. 16,
discusses the early years of photography
'60 LAWRENCE S. FISHMAN, (M.D. '62),
1990, Dresden, OH.
in Scotland, and each photograph in the
Sept. 2, 1990, Los Angeles, CA.
'70 RAYMOND E. SHEPHERD, Sept. 13,
series is accompanied by detailed entries.
1990.
Many of them are portrait studies and are
RUSSELL TILLITT, JR., (M.D. '64),
fascinating examples of photography as
Aug. 28, 1990, Spartanburg, SC.
art-even in such early form. Graham
'62 BEATRIX BLOEM ROSE, (M.A. '65),
Nursing
May 2, 1990.
'16 MELINA MAXSON QUIGLEY, July 24,
Smith is U-M professor of history of art.
'63 MICHAEL B. STEBBINS, Aug. 4, 1990.
1990.
Both this book and the catalogue listed
'65 MICHAEL J. METEVIER, June 18, 1990.
'19 HAZEL MASCHKE BEEBE, Sept. 6,
above are available through the U-M
1990.
Museum of Art Gift Shop.
'66 GEORGE A. SMITH, JR., March 1,
1990.
'26 CLARA MCLAIN Fox, Aug. 7, 1990.
'67 JOHN ROBERT MARSHALL, Sept. 13,
'28 MARY JANE SMITH HARPER, Nov. 2,
Intensive Caring: New Hope for High Risk
1990.
1990.
Pregnancy by Dianne Hales and Timothy
'32 DONNA GRIFFITH LOTHIAN, June 22,
R.B.Johnson, '70, M.A. '71, '79, Crown
'68 MARIAN KURATA, July 9, 1990.
1990.
Publishing, 1990, $16.95. This book
'71 MICHAEL EDWARD PARKS, Oct. 4,
'37 ELIZABETH FRIESNER VON METZKE,
defines who is at risk, the kinds of risks,
1990, Baltimore, MD.
LINDA WALAITIS ROBERTS, (M.P.H.
June 24, 1990.
how to cope with the stress of high-risk
82), Sept. 27, 1990.
'40 MYRLEEN POLLARD SMITH, Sept. 23,
pregnancy, etc., along with some case
'72 JOHN F. GETTEL, Sept. 16, 1990.
1990.
histories of those who have gone through
these experiences. Timothy Johnson is
SALLY REAM HART, April 22, 1990.
'75 THOMAS W. BOND, June 14, 1990,
Pharmacy
professor of obstetrics and gynecology at
the Johns Hopkins University School of
San Francisco, CA.
'16 EARL W. CUMMINGS, SR., October
Medicine and director, Division of
'77 DOUGLAS F. CLEMENT, Nov. 3, 1990.
1990.
Maternal-Fetal Assessment Center.
'78 MARK ALLEN DERMYER, Aug. 24,
'37 EMMETT M. ALTSHUL, Oct. 30, 1990.
1990.
'51 WILMER E. LATSHAW, Oct. 28, 1990.
SHARON DENISE WEBB, July 29, 1990.
"Michigan Bookshelf" is written and
'81 GILBERT KEENEY, Oct. 4, 1990.
Social Work
compiled by Sue A. Burris.
'82 JEFFREY J. IVEY, Sept. 14, 1990.
'58 EARL FRANCIS Ex, Aug. 29, 1990,
'83 JOHN S. GORZYNSKI, Oct. 18, 1990.
Houghton, MI.
Books utilized in "Michigan Bookshelf"
'85 MICHAEL J. MONDAK, Sept. 4, 1990.
'87 AMY BURKE KRANSNY, Oct. 3, 1990.
are written by or about U-M alumni,
'88 KEVIN LEE DENO, September 1990.
faculty, and staff. Writers or editors who
'90 GEORGE T. PATERSON, July 11, 1990.
would like their books included in this
APRIL ANN SILYE, July 29, 1990.
Death notices should be sent to: Alumni
section should send review copies and/or
Records Office, The University of Michigan,
press releases (including title, author, pub-
Medical School
109 E. Madison, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
lisher, date, price, and brief biographical
'27 ROBERT E. HASTINGS, SR., Oct. 16,
information) to: "Michigan Bookshelf,"
1989.
Michigan Alumnus, 200 Fletcher St.,
'28 GLENN A. CARMICHAEL, Sept. 7,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
1990, Missoula, MT.
'29 WILLARD W. DICKERSON, Oct. 12,
1990, Phoenix, AZ.
'31 LAWRENCE G. BATEMAN, Oct. 23,
1990, Flint, MI.
'49 JAMES R. CRIPPS, Aug. 21, 1990,
Marlette, MI.
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Michigan Alumnus
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Department of Athletics
1000 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2201
Phone: (313) 747-2583
J.P. Weidenbach
INTERIM ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
Dear Alumni Association Member:
Inasmuch as the University of Michigan's responsibility for the conduct of
its athletics program includes the regulations for the actions of all individuals
and organizations engaged in activities promoting the athletics interest of the
institution, we write you today seeking your assistance. As an institution
committed to a competitive athletics program designed to be a vital part of the
educational system, we recognize the perils that may be brought about by
overzealous, misguided or uniformed boosters. It is our hope that this letter will
assist our alumni and boosters in complying with Big Ten Conference and NCAA
rules.
Please note that NCAA rules (Bylaw 13.01.5.1) prohibits you, as a
representative of this institution's athletics interests, from making in-person
recruiting contacts, on or off campus, or written or telephone communications
with a prospect or the prospect's relative or legal guardians. Any violation of this
rule (or rules against providing transportation, entertainment, meals or anything
else of material value to enrolled student-athletes or their family members),
regardless of your intentions, could affect the continued eligibility of the young
man or woman, and may result in our athletics program being penalized by the
NCAA. In our recent baseball program investigation several student-athletes were
declared ineligible as a result of actions of alumni and boosters.
We respectfully request that you please DO NOT make any recruiting
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with questions or concerns.
Please do not be afraid to ask questions. We want and need your support,
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Thank you for your assistance in this regard.
Sincerely,
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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
CANADIAN ROCKIES
VANCOUVER
KAMLOOPS
JASPER
LAKE LOUISE
BANFF
CALGARY
August 8-18, 1991
Our tour this year features the very
August 16
Banff
except in Vancouver; admission fees
best the Canadian Rockies has to offer:
August 17
Banff to Calgary; Palliser
to the Columbia Icefields; entrance
Jasper, set within one of Canada's
Hotel
fees to the National Parks; porterage;
largest and most scenic national parks;
August 18
Depart Calgary
sightseeing commentary and guides;
Lake Louise, perhaps the world's most
professional Canadian tour director;
famous and most romantic mountain
flight bag and luggage tags; souvenir
lake; Banff, at the base of spectacular
name badge; and leadership by your
Sulphur Mountain and in the midst of
Alumni Association and Conlin-Faber
some of the world's greatest scenery.
Travel.
This Canadian Rockies program also
features Vancouver, one of North
NOT INCLUDED:
America's most beautiful cities, and
Air transportation to Vancouver and
Calgary, home of the famous Calgary
return from Calgary; meals other than
Stampede. The mountain vistas
specified; gratuities to tour guide and
will provide ample enjoyment for
coach driver; optional excursions and
outdoor lovers and photographers.
items of a personal nature.
TOUR PRICE:
INCLUDED IN THE PRICE:
$2694 per person (land only), based
Hotel accommodations as shown in
on double occupancy
the itinerary; hotel taxes and service
$ 900 single supplement
charges; a welcome reception in
Vancouver; a three-hour Vancouver city
tour; deluxe motorcoach transportation
throughout; breakfast daily; all dinners
I am interested in learning more about the tour to The Canadian Rockies, August 8
to 18, 1991. Please send a detailed descriptive itinerary and reservation form.
NAME(s)
ADDRESS
BRIEF ITINERARY:
CITY, STATE, ZIP
August
8
Arrive Vancouver;
PHONE
(
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)
Georgian Court Hotel
(Residence)
(Business)
August
9
Vancouver
Send this coupon to: The Canadian Rockies, The Alumni Association of The
August 10
Vancouver
University of Michigan, Alumni Center, 200 Fletcher St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109,
August 11
Vancouver to Kamloops;
phone 313-763-9732.
Stockman's Hotel
August 12
Kamloops to Jasper;
Chateau Jasper
August 13
Jasper
August 14
Jasper to Lake Louise;
Chateau Lake Louise
August 15
Lake Louise to Banff;
Banff Springs Hotel