A sampling of media clippings about Lawrence University, its faculty, students, and alumni from Spring 1999 and Summer 1999. For more clippings, check out the Lawrence in the News index page.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
June 14, 1999
Headline: Lawrence professor leaves lectern after 47 years
Byline: Kris Radish, Special to the Journal Sentinel
Excerpt: Professor William A. Chaney was honored Sunday at the 150th graduation ceremony at Lawrence University, as he retired as the longest-serving member of the faculty in the history of Lawrence. Chaney, 76, the George McKendree Steele Professor of Western Culture, has been teaching at Lawrence for 47 years. Three-quarters of all living Lawrence alumni have passed through the college during his teaching years. His students number in the thousands, and many of them have gone on to follow Chaney as history professors. One alumnus was so fond of Chaney that he grew an oak in his backyard from an acorn he collected in Devonshire, England, and then had the tree shipped to Lawrence. "He knew how special England is to me, and the Chaney oak is now sitting out on campus and will always be a part of the university," Chaney said.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
May 16, 1999
Zoned Edition
Headline: Director 'very attached' to area
Byline: Charlotte Ziebell
Excerpt: Racine native Timothy X. Troy is making his mark as the director of
"The Double Infidelity" at the Boulevard Theatre in Milwaukee. The St.
Catherine's graduate and Lawrence University professor will close his
sixth production for the group today. Troy's next project will be directing
Puccini's "La Boheme" for the Du Page Opera Theatre in Illinois. Other recent
drama projects involving Troy include a history of migration to Wisconsin and a
short-play festival.
Seattle Times, Seattle
May 11, 1999
Headline: Didgeridoo's mesmerizing drone is a Folklife fixture
Byline: Mary Elizabeth Cronin, Staff Reporter
Excerpt: Playing the Australian didgeridoo is similar to whistling. Aboriginal
tradition equates the low-pitched, rythmic resonance of the
thousands-of-years-old instrument with the sound of the Earth itself. At the
Memorial Day Weekend 1999, Northwest Folklife Festival you'll see the long,
hollow tube of the trumpet-like didgeridoo. But likely there will be nary an
Australian Aborigine in sight. These are Pacific Northwest players who are
creating their own didgeridoo sound. They nod to the Australian Aboriginal
tradition while gleaning their own from the Northwest. "The technique that
would be the most Aboriginal would be to look around us and incorporate the
sounds here," said Brian Pertl, during a recent guest-lecturer stint a
University of Washington music course on didgeridoos. In 1995, impressive
command of the didgeridoo helped him land a job at Microsoft, where he manages
five other ethnomusicologists choosing images and audio for software. Australia
provided Pertl's introduction to the sound of a didgeridoo. As a graduate in
trombone from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc., Pertl won a
fellowship in 1986 to study the Australian didgeridoo and Tibetan chanting.
After spending several months immersed in each culture, he returned to earn an
ethnomusicology master's degree at Wesleyan College in Connecticut.
Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis-St. Paul
May 3, 1999
Headline: Earth expert
Byline: Tim Carey, Staff Writer
Excerpt: Emily Barbeau loves the environment. Her interest earned her six weeks at Biosphere 2 in Arizona, a research laboratory that supports six ecosystems. Emily, who is now a sophomore studying natural science and biology at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., heard of an intriguing program offered through Columbia University. She was one of only 49 students chosen for the 16-week Earth semester at the center. Her project was to catalog the flora of the nearby Sonoran Desert, and then create a template that will help other botany students identify the plants.
The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan
May 2, 1999
Headline: Young tenor reunites with choir, this time as a soloist
Byline: Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk
Excerpt: Ned Connors will rejoin the Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys as one of five soloists in a rare performance of Schubert's Mass in E-flat that's part of an unusual collaboration between musical organizations in Grands Rapids and Kalamazoo. Connors, an 18-year-old senior East Grands Rapids High School, will give his professional debut performance as a soloist with orchestra as the second tenor soloist in the mass. "For his age, he's the most phenomenal tenor I've ever heard in my life," said Peter Hopkins, artistic director of the choir and of the Kalamazoo-based Michigan Bach Collegium, "He's really being heavily recruited by colleges because he has the most amazing voice." Connors plans to attend Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., next year to study in hopes of becoming an opera singer.
Chicago Daily Herald, Chicago
May 2, 1999
Headline: Neighbors in the News
Excerpt: David Pippen, a 1995 graduate of Wheeling High School, was one of six
student members of Lawrence University's "bomb squad" who participated
in a presentation at the recent American Chemical Society's national conference
in Anaheim, Calif. Known as "the bomb squad" since its founding in 1996, the
15-member student organization is a community outreach initiative that creates
and produces an interactive, science education program titled "Chemistry: More
than Just Equations." The student troupe with a scientific twist performs a
series of high-energy skits featuring a variety of comical characters who
illustrate chemical concepts present in everyday situations.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
April 27, 1999
All Edition
Headline: Distinguished citizen
Byline: Tom Strini
Excerpt: The Civic Music Association of Milwaukee has named Patricia Crump as
its Distinguished Citizen for 1999. Crump has run her own voice studio for 25
years and has been director of the Eastern Wisconsin Metropolitan Opera
Auditions since 1977. Many of her students have gone on to professional
careers. Crump studied at Lawrence University and at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison .
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
April 25, 1999
All Edition
Headline: There's a way to negotiate peace in Kosovo
Byline: G. Jonathan Greenwald
Excerpt: To build political support for a NATO campaign that has gone worse and
longer than anticipated, President Clinton and other Western politicians
increasingly brand Slobodan Milosevic a "Hitler" and his war against the
Kosovar Albanians' insurrection a "Holocaust." With each rhetorical escalation,
the possibility of a negotiated settlement grows dimmer, war goals become more
ambitious. Can the process be reversed before we are trapped into months of
fighting, years of hostile occupation?
G. Jonathan Greenwald, Scarff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Lawrence University, is a retired foreign service officer who served in Belgrade.
Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis
April 22, 1999
Headline: Teen musician to be soloist at symphony concert
Byline: Jody Peacock
Excerpt: When the Richmond Symphony Orchestra launches into its season finale "The Virtuoso Orchestra," it will have some oh-so virtuous accompaniment. Eighteen-year-old Andrew Cashner, a Richmond High School senior and National Merit Scholarship finalist, will join the professionals as the guest soloist on piano. Cashner earned this honor at the symphony's annual Young Artist Competition in March. Cashner plans to study music at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., this fall.
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago
April 17, 1999
Headline: Speak forcefully and carry a big stick
Byline: G. Jonathan Greenwald
Excerpt: Milosevic is nasty, his war against the Kosovars obscene. They demand
a strong response. Moral outrage, however, justifies action but is not a
policy. Hundreds, probably thousands, are dead who would be living; tens of
thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, are refugees who still would be in
their homes if NATO had not begun to bomb when Milosevic rejected the West's
demands at the Rambouillet Conference. The formal pre-war sticking point was a
NATO peacekeeping force. In fact, it was Kosovo's future status. To Serbs
broadly, not only Milosevic, the Rambouillet arrangement was a thinly disguised
three-year transition plan for Kosovo's independence. Losing Kosovo is
unacceptable to Serbs for historical and cultural reasons approaching in
intensity Jews' attachment to Jerusalem. Neither Milosevic nor any other
Belgrade leader can freely accept that loss.
G. Johathan Greenwald, Scarff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wis., is a retired Foreign Service Officer who served in Belgrade.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
April 9, 1999
All Edition
Headline: Bouquet of releases blooms for spring
Byline: Keith Spore
Excerpt: The Ken Schaphorst Big Band delivers jazz of a less traditional hue on
"Purple" (Naxos Jazz). Schaphorst, director of the jazz studies program at
Lawrence University in Appleton, provides nine kaleidoscopic
compositions with a cagey blend of freedom and structure. The outcomes are both
adventurous and accessible.
Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
April 9, 1999
Headline: Lawrence U. Receives Prehistoric Indian Artifacts
Excerpt: Lawrence University is the new owner of a significant
collection of prehistoric American Indian artifacts, thanks to a love of
archaeology that was shared for decades by one of the university's professors
and a businessman. The collection, which includes 30,000 artifacts -- some
dating to 10,000 B.C. -- are scheduled to go on display this fall. The
collection includes arrowheads, stone axes, bone tools, and pottery fragments
from American Indian tribes that once inhabited the area that became Wisconsin.
It also includes such items as clay smoking pots, used by early European
settlers. Scholars and students, including Ron Mason, an emeritus professor of
at Lawrence, and Nick Sodemann, a sophomore, have been examining the
collection.
The Business Journal, Madison
April 9, 1999, Volume 16, Issue 29
Headline: Local colleges rah-rah for construction
Byline: Julie Sneider
Excerpt: Wisconsin colleges and universities are embarking upon a construction
boom that higher education hasn't seen in 30 years. The causes of the capital
projects include aging infrastructures, changes in science and technology, the
growth of women's sports, and rigorous competition among schools for
traditional and nontraditional students. Following a national trend, many
Wisconsin private schools have added or are contemplating new science buildings
and technology centers. Among them are Alverno, Lawrence University in
Appleton, Northland College in Ashland, Edgewood College in Madison, and
Wisconsin Lutheran College in Wauwatosa.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
March 15, 1999
Final Edition
Headline: Treasures of a lifetime. Man's hobby of archaeology leaves a
legacy
Byline: Kris Radish
Excerpt: When Edward Wells died last summer, the efforts of his lifelong
archaeology hobby filled an entire room in his Forestville house. Now, those
30,000 historically significant artifacts have found a new home at Lawrence
University in Appleton. The entire Wells collection has been donated to the
university's anthropology department because professor emeritus Ron Mason was
kind enough 40 years ago to meet with Wells and talk to him about his rapidly
growing collection. The collection includes arrowheads, pottery shards, bone
tools, stone axes and other tools used by Wisconsin prehistoric Indians, Mason
said. Wells also collected items from early European settlements in Door
County, including clay pipes and cooking dishes.