Volume 88, Number 1, Fall 2007

Here are the features of the Fall 2007 issue of Lawrence University's quarterly magazine, Lawrence Today. To request a copy of the printed magazine or for other questions or comments, please contact the editor.

Björklunden extends it reach
When the need is there, bigger can be better

Expanding Lawrence’s horizon
Doeringer opened curricular doors to East Asia

Arrivederci, Dan
Taylor personified The Lawrence Difference

Lawrence’s educational philosophy
The transformation of the individual

Be good to Rogers and Hammerstein
A life in the musical theatre

Not the end but the beginning
Experiencing Commencement Weekend with the Class of 2007

Attempt the impossible!
You just might achieve it

They came, they saw, they remembered
Reunion Weekend 2007

Alumni award recipients
Reunion Weekend 2007

Hands of a thief
Big girls might cry

Five who scored
2007 Hall of Fame inductees: Vince Jones ’41, Fred Flom ’63, Rich Agness ’67, Marty Johnson ’88, and Becky Wagenaar-Miller ’96

Notes from the locker room
Sports notes and “Rowing against the odds”

Inside Lawrence
Four promoted to endowed professorial chairs (Bolyn-Fitzgerald, Finkler, Glick, Skran), two to full professor (Metalsky, Richeson), Louis Butler ’73 and Margaret Carroll ’61 receive honorary degrees, Commencement awards to faculty members Bjørnerud, Bjella, McQuinn, and Wisconsin teachers Neuenfeldt and Musolff, students Monica Felix ’07 and Ashlan Falletta-Cowden ’09 named Fulbright Fellows, Callie Bates ’09 wins Associated Colleges of the Midwest short story contest, and the Posse Program brings ten students to campus as first year students.

Above left: A view of multi-faceted Vail Hall in Björklunden’s new addition and (inset) Evan Williams ’10 in a practice room.