July 2001
The Björklunden Seminars program is in its second month at Lawrence's northern campus in Door County. Lawrence faculty members leading seminars this summer include Jeffrey Clark, geology; Joseph A. Hopfensperger, '52, theatre (emeritus); Nicholas Maravolo, biology; Rebecca Matveyev, Russian; Michael Orr, art history; Jerald A. Podair, history; Claudena Skran, government; Tim Spurgin, English; Daniel J. Taylor, '63, classics; Arthur Thrall, art (emeritus); and Dirck Vorenkamp, religious studies.
The Appleton Art Center's 41st annual Art in the Park festival, based in City Park, adds the Lawrence University campus as a second venue, appropriately named Art off the Park.
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of Chicago invites its members to a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute, presented by the DuPage Opera Theatre. Timothy X. Troy, '85, assistant professor of theatre and drama, is the director, and Harold Bauer, father of Jonathan Bauer, '83, is the conductor.
The Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth (WCATY) returns annually to the Lawrence campus as the site for its Accelerated Learning Program, in which students complete the equivalent of a high school honors course in three weeks of intensive study.
Arts Kaleidoscope, a program of the Lawrence Arts Academy [now the Lawrence Academy of Music] is a half-day camp for 8-11 year-olds that includes daily classes in studio art, creative dramatics, music, and creative writing.
August 2001
The Freeman Foundation of Stowe, Vermont, awards a $l.5 million grant to Lawrence's Asian studies program that will make possible expanded opportunities for travel and collaboration by students and faculty in Asian countries, provide faculty development programs in the region, and add the teaching of Japanese language to the curriculum of the East Asian languages and cultures department.
The Alumni Association hosts its second annual series of "Welcome to Our City" events across the country, including Appleton and the Fox Valley. Guests of honor are members of the Class of 2001, recently relocated to new cities. "End of the Summer" picnics for current Lawrence students and members of the entering Class of 2005 and their families are hosted by alumni in Chicago, the Fox Valley, Madison, and Minneapolis.
Reopening of the 74,000-square foot Youngchild Hall of Science, following a $10 million, year-long renovation, marks the completion of an ambitious three-phase building project designed to provide state-of-the-art facilities for the physical and natural sciences, the social sciences, mathematics, and computer science. Youngchild, originally built in 1964, completes the teaching triumvirate of Lucia R. Briggs Hall (1997) and Science Hall (2000).
A summer-long remodeling project on the first floor of the Seeley G. Mudd Library is completed, adding new carpeting, lighting, and furniture as well as a new circulation desk, centrally located reference desk, enhanced reserve area, and expanded media center. The project is made possible by a gift from Walter Schober, uncle of Amanda Schober, '01.
September 2001
For the third consecutive year and the fourth time in five years, Lawrence earns a spot in the top tier of U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings, standing 48th in the "Best Liberal Arts Colleges -- Bachelor's" category among the nation's 218 leading national liberal arts colleges. For the eighth year in a row, Lawrence also is cited among the nation's "best values," based on an institution's academic quality and the net cost for students receiving the average level of financial aid. For 2001-02, the average Lawrence financial aid package totals $18,698.
Charles Ahlgren, a retired foreign service officer and Appleton native, is the Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor, serving during the first two terms of the 2001-02 academic year as a member of the government department, where he teaches American Diplomacy: Ethics and the National Interest and Politics of Globalization.
A total of 364 new students -- 328 freshmen and 36 transfer students -- arrive to begin their Lawrence Experience. The Class of 2005 has been selected from the largest pool of applicants in Lawrence history: 1,629, a 37 percent increase in applications from five years previous. Thirty-one percent ranked in the top five percent of their secondary school classes and 76.5 percent in the top quarter, with an average high school grade-point average of 3.67.
President Richard Warch, opening the 155th year of Lawrence University on September 27 with the traditional presidential Matriculation Convocation address, departs from his custom of speaking on some aspect of the liberal arts and liberal arts colleges by addressing the events of September 11 and their impact on the nation and the world in remarks titled "The Better Angels of Our Nature."
The college welcomes 22 new faculty members, including ten tenure-track appointments in anthropology, economics, English, government, history, philosophy, Spanish, voice, and violin. The history of the Russian Empire, contemporary Spanish literature, biomedical ethics, Asian political economics, Africa, and environmental economics are among the scholarly interests of the new faculty members.
New administrative appointments include Barry Hoopes, director of human resources; Fred Snyder, director of the Lawrence Academy of Music; and Jeffrey M. Stannard, associate dean of the conservatory.
The Lawrence football team opens its season with a 13-10 victory over Macalester College at the Banta Bowl. The Vikings score the winning touchdown in the final minute on a touchdown pass from R.J. Rosenthal, '04, to Chris McGinley, '03, to claim their first win in a season opener since 1992.
The 2001-02 season at Wriston Art Center Galleries opens with an exhibition of paintings titled "Emily Groom: A Milwaukee-Downer College Legacy," timed to coincide with the October Reunion Weekend of Milwaukee-Downer alumnae. Professor Groom, founder and first chair of the Milwaukee-Downer College art department, was a widely exhibited Wisconsin artist in the early 20th century.
President Warch delivers the first talk in the noontime "Lunch at Lawrence" series for local friends of the college, speaking on "Envisioning the Future: The Changing Face of the Lawrence Campus," a topic he will reprise throughout the coming year for regional alumni groups and for students, faculty, and staff.
October 2001
Alumnae of Milwaukee-Downer College mark its sesquicentennial, dated from the founding of the Milwaukee Normal Institute in 1851, during Reunion Weekend on the Appleton campus and the former Downer campus in Milwaukee. Featured events include the dedication of a new Milwaukee-Downer Room in the Seeley G. Mudd Library, made possible by gifts from alumnae, and unveiling of a large bronze reproduction of the official Milwaukee-Downer College seal, a gift to the alumnae from Lawrence University, later placed in the sidewalk north of Main Hall.
The Lawrence University Press announces publication of A Common Bond: Letters from Mlle Sérafon, a translation by five Lawrence women French students of correspondence between Amélie Sérafon, professor of French at Milwaukee-Downer, and one of her former students, written between 1918 and 1957.
The Lawrence Conservatory of Music presents a benefit concert to aid Red Cross relief efforts in New York City and Washington, D.C. The program, "A Concert of Healing and Remembrance," features selections by the conservatory choirs as well as solo and chamber music performances by faculty members and students.
The women's cross country team captures its second Midwest Conference title with a victory at Grinnell College. Courtney Miller, '03, Valerie Curtis, '03, Sally Schonfeld, '02, and Lisa Tranel, '02, all earn all-conference honors.
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the first jazz artist to receive the Pulitzer Prize in music, demonstrates his versatility by speaking at a University Convocation and also performing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in a Lawrence Jazz Series concert. His convocation address, "The Need for a New American Mythology," is made possible, in part, by the Gordon R. Clapp Lectureship in American Studies.
Alumni and parents from the Fox Valley join Nicholas Maravolo, professor of biology, for an afternoon of "Woods Walking and Wine Tasting" at Björklunden.
The Ben Holt Memorial Concert Series, in its 11th year, presents "An Evening with Daniel Bernard Roumain," a young Haitian pianist and violinist. The series, named in memory of Metropolitan Opera baritone Ben Holt (1955-1990) and directed by Dominique-René de Lerma, visiting professor of music, annually provides performance opportunities for young musicians of minority heritage.
In the span of less than a week, the men's soccer team knocks off the top two teams in the Midwest Conference. The Vikings defeat eventual conference tournament champion Monmouth College 1-0 and then stop conference champion Lake Forest College 2-1. Tom Conti, '02, earns first-team all-conference and all-region honors for Lawrence and is named an academic All-American.
The women's soccer team wins the Midwest Conference Tournament for the second consecutive season, defeating St. Norbert College 1-0 in the title match. Lawrence goes on to the NCAA Division III Tournament, beating Aurora University 2-1 in a first-round match at Lawrence before falling to Willamette University in the second round. Megan Tiemann, '02, is named the conference Player of the Year, and Moira Ruhly earns Coach of the Year honors.
The sixth year of student seminars at Björklunden begins in October with retreats for the Concert Choir, the cast of the fall theatre production, and Beta Theta Pi fraternity, as well as an economic-policy class and a botany field trip. During the 2001-02 academic year, some 1,090 students will attend a total of 55 seminars on the northern campus.
Lech Walesa, recipient of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize and the first democratically elected president of Poland, delivers a University Convocation address titled "Democracy: The Never Ending Battle." During the convocation, Lawrence recognizes Walesa's democratic efforts in his homeland and worldwide by awarding him the honorary degree Doctor of Laws. In preparation for Walesa's campus appearance, a forum on "Eastern and Central Europe after the Fall of Communism" is held a few days earlier.
The theatre and drama department presents Milwaukee's Boulevard Ensemble in a guest performance of their production of The Woolgatherer, by William Mastrosimone, directed by Professor Troy.
At the annual Blue and White Banquet on Homecoming Weekend, the Lawrence Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame inducts six new members, bringing its total membership to 42 athletes, coaches, and friends of Lawrence athletics brought into the Hall of Fame since its introduction in 1996. New members in 2001 are: Frank Bouressa, '79, football; Paul Gebhardt, '78, football, baseball; Tad Pinkerton, '60, cross country, track; Donald Strutz, '49, golf, football, basketball; James Webers, '52, football, wrestling; and Laurence Wilson, '66, swimming, track, soccer.
On October 11, one month after the terrorist attacks upon the United States, the Lawrence community gathers by candlelight in the Science Hall Atrium for "A Moment to Remember."
The Scholarship Luncheon honors the sponsors and the recipients of named Lawrence scholarships. A Lawrence tradition for over 20 years, the annual occasion introduces donors of over 350 named scholarship funds to the individual students currently benefiting from their support.
At its fall meeting, the Board of Trustees authorizes construction of a new student residence, the first to be built at Lawrence since Kohler Hall in 1967. To be constructed at a cost of $15.3 million, the 79,500-square-foot building will house 183 students and be completed in time for the opening of the 2003-04 academic year.
In "A Conversation with Jane Goodall," the eminent primatologist reminds her audience, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, not to be distracted from the concerns of the global environment.
IndUS of the Fox Valley presents IndUS-2001, a celebration of Indo-American friendship and good will co-sponsored by Lawrence, held in the Buchanan-Kiewit Recreation Center, and featuring Indian cuisine and an exhibition titled "Festivals of India."
November 2001
Family Weekend, the event formerly known as Parents Weekend, offers a variety of social and recreational activities, a report on the state of the college from President Warch, performances by student musical groups, mini-courses taught by Lawrence faculty members, varsity athletic competitions, and other attractions for the parents, grandparents, and siblings of Lawrence students.
Pianist Catherine Kautsky, professor of music, presents a lecture/performance on "Debussy and His Muses" to alumni groups in Seattle and San Francisco.
On November 11, Lawrence University College Republicans sponsor a community "Rally for America," honoring veterans and serving military personnel and featuring remarks by Appleton Mayor Tim Hanna and other officials.
Bassoonist Renee DeBoer, '02, and pianist Daniel Van Sickle, '02, are winners of the eighth annual Lawrence Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Selected by members of the conservatory faculty from a field of 12 finalists, DeBoer and Van Sickle perform as soloists with the LSO at concerts in November and January respectively.
U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-Wis.) discusses developments at home and abroad in the U.S. war on terrorism in a public address held in Lawrence's Wriston Art Center auditorium.
The Fall Term play is Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, directed by Timothy Troy.
George Meyer, retired secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is appointed Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor for the 2002-03 academic year, during which he will teach courses in the government department on the law and the environment and on Wisconsin environmental issues.
For the second straight year, Lawrence students take top honors in the state-level Music Teachers National Association collegiate piano performance competition. Nicholas Towns, '02, is the first-place winner, Rachel Bittner, '03, is in second place, and Dan Van Sickle, '03, the 2000 winner, receives honorable mention.
The year's second exhibition in the Wriston Art Center Galleries is "Modernity and the Fragment," which features works from the college's permanent collection representing such important early 20th century movements as Cubism and German Expressionism.
The first night of Jazz Celebration Weekend features vocalist Bobby McFerrin in a sold-out concert that includes the Lawrence University Jazz Singers; the second night highlights pianist Uri Caine, who presents some of his conceptual projects with the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble.
The five-member Shakespearean troupe Actors from the London Stage has made one-week visits to Lawrence nine times over the past 17 years to perform for campus audiences and work with students. Each Freshman Studies section has a special session of readings and exercises with one of the actors. In 2001 the group's main production is A Midsummer Night's Dream, and company member Alexandra Lilley offers a Coffeehouse performance reading selections from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
Katherine Privatt, assistant professor of theatre and drama, delivers a "Lunch at Lawrence" talk titled "Bucks on Broadway: Who Has 'Em and Why It Matters."
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of the Twin Cities gathers to hear the local jazz band Things, featuring Rafe Lyford, '94, trombone; Jim Guckenberg, '94, drums; and Max Wendt, '94, saxophone.
December 2001
A $2.5 million bequest from Marjorie M. Freund, '35, is the largest single individual gift for a scholarship fund Lawrence has ever received and makes a tremendously generous addition to the college's portfolio of nearly 400 scholarship funds.
Yasmine Rainford, '04, gives a campus presentation on "The PIECE Project," a curriculum she designed and, assisted by other Lawrence students, taught during the summer of 2001 for at-risk youth in her hometown of Kingston, Jamaica. The program, which included conflict-resolution workshops, was made possible by alumni gifts to the Class of 1968 Peace and Social Activism Fund.
Students in the theatre and drama department's Advanced Play Directing class present their final projects as a "Ten Minute Play Festival."
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announces a $500,000 challenge grant to fully endow the Freshman Studies Program. The challenge is contingent upon the college raising $2 million (a 4:1 match) by July 31, 2005. The resulting $2.5 million fund will be named the Nathan Marsh Pusey Freshman Studies Endowment in memory of Lawrence's tenth president, who initiated the program in 1945 and who died in November 2001 at the age of 94.
Conservatory Professors Janet Anthony and Catherine Kautsky accompany eight students on a study tour to Korea and Japan made possible by the Freeman Foundation grant for Asian studies. A similar trip in February 2002, led by Anthony and violinist Anton Miller, assistant professor of music, takes five faculty members and six students to Beijing, China. Performing as the Lawrence Chamber Players, Professors Anthony and Miller, along with Fan Lei and Matthew Michelic, associate professors of music, and Sté phane Tran Ngoc, assistant professor, open the spring season at the Forbidden City Concert Hall.
January 2002
The Department of Education and the Office of Student Academic Services move to new quarters on the first floor of Lucia R. Briggs Hall, which also house the new Center for Teaching and Learning, which combines the former Writing Lab and College Place and a new Communication Center to provide students with tutoring for writing, oral communication, and quantitative skills or subject-specific content tutoring.
A six-part lecture series, "Debating Globalization: Politics, Economics, and Culture" begins in January and runs through February. Topics include the impact and influence of globalization on the media, the environment, business, and even terrorism. Speakers include Peter Copeland, '79, editor and general manager of the Scripps Howard News Service, and Donald Niemi, '60, a former foreign service officer and executive of Caterpillar, Inc. The series is sponsored by the Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies.
The Kimberly-Clark Scholars Luncheon recognizes that corporation for establishing, in 1983, the Kimberly-Clark Honor Scholarship, one of the largest endowed scholarship funds at the college. The event brings corporate representatives together with current students who are Kimberly-Clark Honor Scholars.
The 37th edition of the Annual Great Midwest Trivia Contest, known in some circles as "the nation's oldest on-going salute to the insignificant," is webcast from WLFM for the first time.
Men's basketball head coach John Tharp achieves his 100th career victory, as the Vikings defeat Knox College 78-60 at Alexander Gymnasium.
A memorial service is held in the Wriston Art Center for Ottilia Buerger, '38, who died on December 20, 2001. In addition to bequeathing to Lawrence her superlative collection of ancient coins, she left a $5 million bequest to establish the Ottilia Buerger Professorship in Classical or Medieval Studies.
Appleton attorney Jeffrey Riester, '70, is elected chair of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees, succeeding Harold Jordan, '72, who had served as chair since 1999. William Hochkammer, Jr., '66, is elected vice chair and chair of the academic affairs committee. New appointments to the board include term trustees J. Terrence Franke, '68, and Overton Parrish, '55, and alumni trustees G. Craig Christensen, '71, Bonnie Bryant Hiller, '68, and Campbell Scott, '83.
Playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith provides the first University Convocation of the Winter Term. Her presentation, "Snapshots: Glimpses of America in Change," demonstrates her signature technique of interviewing people and then artfully interpreting their words through her performance.
At the Wriston Art Center Galleries, the exhibition "Landscape and the Natural Order" features the work of four contemporary artists, Udo Nûger, Mario Reis, Brigitte Riesebrodt, and Ulli Rooney.
Wild Space Dance Company, in residence with the Department of Theatre and Drama, performs "Out of Town Try-Outs" with libretto by Timothy Troy. The program also features the world premiere of Excursions and a performance of Excursions Op. 20, by Kathleen Murray, professor of music and dean of the conservatory.
Cole DeLaney, '03, and Cene Ketcham, '03, are elected president and vice president, respectively, of the Lawrence University Community Council (LUCC).
Hockey standout Tom Conti, '02, is named one of four national finalists for the 2002 Hockey Humanitarian Award, presented each year to college hockey's finest citizen. He is honored at the NCAA Division I Frozen Four for his community service and academic achievements but falls short in his bid to win the top award.
February 2002
A two-part lecture series, "The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes," is sponsored by the Spoerl Lectureship in Science in Society, created in 1999 by Barbara Gray Spoerl, M-D '44, and her husband, Edward, to bring to Lawrence visiting scholars knowledgeable in the historical and cultural meanings of science and technology.
University of Chicago historian and classicist Richard Saller discusses "Growth in the Roman Imperial Economy" in a lecture under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
"Roots: A Celebration of Black Heritage," Lawrence's traditional Kwanzaa celebration, sponsored by the Black Organization of Students and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, celebrates the richness of black history, culture, and heritage through skits, readings, and musical performances.
Jeffrey Clark, assistant professor of geology, speaks to the "Lunch at Lawrence" noontime audience on the topic, "Up the Creek: How Urban Sprawl Is Affecting Our Water Resources."
Proceeds from The Night Before Valentine's Day Charity Ball, sponsored by the At Risk Outreach House, are donated to United Way.
Chicago-area alumni attend a presentation by Patrice Michaels, associate professor of music, titled "The Divas of Mozart's Day," at the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall of Northwestern University.
Two student-produced benefit performances of Eve Ensler's award-winning play "The Vagina Monologues" are followed by question-and-answer sessions with cast members providing information on efforts to end violence against women.
The first concert in the 2002 Björklunden Music Series is a piano recital in which students from the studio of Anthony Padilla, associate professor of music, are joined by members of the music honorary societies Sigma Alpha Iota and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in a program of solo compositions. The five concerts in the series are held on Sunday afternoons from February to May in the Great Room of Björklunden's lodge.
The W. M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles awards the Department of Physics a $400,000 grant to expand its programs and assist in the revitalization of undergraduate physics education nationally. The grant will allow the department to add to its curriculum a program in surface physics, in addition to its acclaimed "signature" programs in lasers and computational physics. Associate Professor Jeffrey Collett, a specialist in condensed matter physics, will direct the new program.
The Winter Term play is Gilbert Without Sullivan, two one-act plays by W. S. Gilbert directed by Mark Dintenfass, professor of English.
February offerings in the Performing Arts at Lawrence series feature Dale Duesing, '67, baritone, with Jeff Cohen, piano, in the Artist Series and the Bill Frisell Trio in the Jazz Series.
Daniel Hurley, '02, caps a perfect career in the Midwest Conference by winning three titles at the league swimming championships in Lawrence's Boldt Natatorium. Hurley has never lost an individual event at the conference championships, winning all 12 over four seasons. The Lawrence swim teams both finish second, with the men losing to Grinnell by a scant 14 points.
March 2002
Scarff Professor Charles Ahlgren is keynote speaker at the annual Oxfam Hunger Banquet. Donations of clothing and packaged food items are collected, to be sent to countries in need.
A historical and cultural study tour, one of the faculty/student collaborative opportunities made possible by the Freeman Foundation grant in Asian studies, takes 20 students to China and Japan, accompanied by professors Franklin Doeringer, Jane Yang, and Jennifer Lo, East Asian languages and cultures, and Dirck Vorenkamp, religious studies.
Andy Kazik, '02, wins Lawrence's first national championship in wrestling when he takes the title at 184 pounds at the NCAA Division III Championships. Kazik defeats Ricky Crone of Augsburg College 4-2 in the title match to cap a 40-0 season record. Also at the championships, Lawrence is named a Scholar Team and Justin Seaman, '02, Greg Goska, '04, and Nick Morphew, '04, are selected as academic All-Americans.
Kathryn Kueny, associate professor of religious studies and a specialist in comparative religions with an emphasis on Islam, speaks to Los Angeles alumni on "Islam in America."
Seniors Sally Schonfeld, a geology and biology major, and Caroline Bowles, an anthropology major, are named as recipients of Thomas J. Watson Fellowships, which provide a year of independent travel and exploration outside the United States on a topic of the student's choosing. Schonfeld will travel to Tierra del Fuego at the southern-most tip of Chile, the savannah region of Tanzania, and the Inuit community of Iqaluit in Nunavut, Canada, to study the physical and spiritual connections to land and animals enjoyed by female hunters. Bowles plans to examine the craft and context of traditional jewelry in postcolonial India and Niger by apprenticing herself to local artisans in both countries.
Lynn Harrell, widely regarded as one of the finest cellists in the world, presents a recital in the Lawrence Artists Series.
As it has for the past several years, Lawrence hosts the Fox Valley Literacy Coalition's annual fund-raising spelling bee and has a team participating.
A traveling company from the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, in residence at Lawrence, presents Eugene O'Neill's play Ah, Wilderness, in addition to conducting theatre workshops and tutorials for students. In previous years, the Guthrie company has performed Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Brian Friel's Mollie Sweeney during their week-long residency.
Waseda University of Tokyo selects Lawrence as the site of an exchange program under which 19 students from the distinguished Japanese private university will attend Lawrence in the fall of 2002 to take courses in English as a second language and American culture, as well as a special version of Freshman Studies. All the Japanese students will have Lawrence students as roommates.
Susan Pepper Joys, M-D '51, and William Hochkammer, Jr., '66, are the new co-chairs of the Lawrence-Downer Legacy Circle, the college's planned-giving recognition society, succeeding Frank F. Haack, Jr., '44, who had chaired the group since its inception in 1993.
The March installment of "Lunch at Lawrence" features a talk by Randall McNeill, assistant professor of classics, on "Death and Dinners: Entertainment in Ancient Rome."
Conservatory Opera presents Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, with Professor Privatt as stage director and Bonnie Koestner, '72, assistant professor of music, as music director.
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of Chicago invites its members to hear soprano Patrice Michaels appearing with the Chicago Chamber Musicians in a program titled "The French Connection: The Music of Les Six."
April 2002
Violinist Claude Halter, '05, and the Lawrence University Hobnob Horn Quartet are two of the five winners in Wisconsin Public Radio's Neale-Silva Competition, which is open to performers 18-26 years of age who are either from Wisconsin or attend a Wisconsin college. Members of the quartet are seniors Colleen Perry, Kris Shaffer, Anna Skrupky, and Alicia Waite. Jacob Ertl, a high school student from Appleton who is in Assistant Professor of Music Michael Kim's piano studio, also is a winner.
A trash pickup along the banks of the Fox River kicks off the fourth annual Earth Day Festival, at which the Sierra Club, Green Party, and National Wildlife Federation provide information on a range of environmental issues, several hybrid automobiles are on display, and a "swap meet" offers household items for trade and barter. Earth Day is sponsored by EARTH House (Environmental Activism and Responsibility Theme House), Coop House, and Greenfire, the campus environmental group.
"Following in their Footsteps," a career fair sponsored by the Career Center, provides an opportunity for alumni, including members of the Alumni Association Board of Directors who are on campus for their spring meeting, to discuss with students how their education at Lawrence helped in establishing their careers.
Dominique Decherf, the consul general of France in Chicago, delivers a public lecture on "America and France: Two Universalisms for One World," discussing differences between American and French models of globalization and the challenges the two allies face in a post-9/11 world.
Lawrence University joins "Call to Service: Leaders in Education Allied for Public Service," a national initiative sponsored by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service that is designed to help increase student awareness of, and interest in, careers in governmental service.
Harold Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and former director of the National Institutes of Health, is the speaker at a University Convocation on April 30. A leading researcher of cancer genes who received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1989, Varmus shares his vision of a more active approach for tackling the public health challenges faced by the Third World.
For the "Flags of Remembrance" project, students plant 2,000 small colored flags around the Main Hall Green, each representing a different segment of the population that was subjected to some form of discrimination or injustice at some point in U.S. history: women who were denied the right to vote, victims of hate crimes, Native Americans who were forced to relocate to reservations, Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps during World War II, and African Americans who were denied access to equal opportunities in public education. Each flag may stand for as many as 50,000 individuals.
Students in the art history course Exhibition Seminar help assemble the Wriston Galleries exhibition that is the subject of their course work, "Portraits of Power," featuring recent acquisitions to the Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins. The exhibition opens with a lecture on "Messages and Perceptions in Roman Imperial Imagery" by Randall McNeill.
Performances by pianist Richard Goode in April and the contemporary ensemble eighth blackbird in May conclude the year's Artist Series schedule. While on campus, Goode also conducts a master class for piano students.
A student-produced and directed musical, She Loves Me, presented in the Cloak Theatre, gives theatre and drama department students an opportunity to experience many different aspects of the play-production process. Typically the spring student production is used by senior majors for all or part of their honors projects.
While hearing cases in Appleton as part of their "Justice on Wheels" program designed to acquaint citizens with the workings of the state judiciary, justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, LL.D. '98, attend a luncheon with Lawrence students.
Janet Anthony delivers a "Lunch at Lawrence" presentation titled "Lessons from Abroad: A Cellist's Insight from Teaching and Performing in Haiti, Argentina, and China."
The Office of Student Affairs and the Senior Class sponsor "Life '02: What's It All About," an evening program in Riverview Lounge that promises to tell the soon-to-be-graduated senior "everything you need to know about life after Lawrence." Subjects include: buying a car, renting an apartment, connecting to a new community, finding a job, managing money, "and much more."
Composer/music theorist Fred Lerdahl, '65, D.F.A. '99, some of whose music will be heard in the Artist Series concert by the ensemble eighth blackbird in May, lectures at the conservatory on April 12; his remarks are followed by performances of his music by conservatory faculty and students.
May 2002
Ground is broken for Lawrence's new residence hall, which will be located on the hillside behind Ormsby Hall. Participating in the ceremony are members of the Board of Trustees and other community members, including members of the LUCC's residence life committee.
While on campus for a meeting of the Board of Trustees, of which he is a new member, actor and director Campbell Scott, '83, speaks to a Shakespeare class in the English department and meets informally with students interested in theatre and filmmaking.
Members of The Founders Club are welcomed on campus for the donor society's 30th annual dinner, which honors Lawrence's tenth president, the late Nathan M. Pusey, founder of the Freshman Studies program, and includes an exhibition from the college's archives entitled "The Lasting Legacy of Freshman Studies: 1945-2002."
Celebrate! 2002, Lawrence's 29th annual spring festival of the arts, is dedicated to building community in the Fox Cities, with a day of family-focused activities, an eclectic mix of live music performances on three stages, and more than 180 fine arts and crafts booths.
The fifth annual Richard A. Harrison Symposium in Humanities and the Social Sciences again presents original scholarly research and writing by students. The symposium is named for the late dean of the faculty, who played a major role in its creation and development.
The Formal Group Housing Selection and Review Board completes its first round of housing assignments, for student groups desiring to live together during the coming academic year. Nine residential units have been made available for Formal Group Housing purposes, ranging in capacity from seven to 27 beds. Eight additional units are set aside for shorter-term theme houses and the general housing lottery for individual, unaffiliated students wanting to live in small houses. Formal Group Housing selections for 2002-03 are: Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Co-op House, Delta Tau Delta fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, the Outdoor Recreation Club, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia men's music fraternity, and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Clara Muggli, '03, is one of 80 students in the nation awarded a $5,000 scholarship from the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation. Muggli, an environmental studies major, is active in Greenfire, Lawrence's student environmental organization, and has played a leading role in planning the annual Earth Day festival. She is Lawrence's third Udall Scholar in four years.
For the sixth time in eight years, Lawrence's jazz program is recognized for excellence by Down Beat magazine, as the Lawrence University Jazz Singers receive their second Down Beat honor, an "outstanding performance" award in the college division vocal group category. This is Lawrence's tenth Down Beat award since winning its first in 1985.
Poet Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry, is guest speaker at the 2002 Honors Convocation. Hirsch, who was last at Lawrence in the fall of 2000 as inaugural speaker in the visiting poets lecture series made possible by the Mia T. Paul ('95) Poetry Fund, is awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters before delivering his address, "Reading as Revelation."
President Warch opens Classics Week at Lawrence with the traditional proclamation from the steps of his office, reaffirming the college's commitment to -- and the importance of -- study of the classics. The week-long program features presentations and performances by students on subjects ranging from imperial imagery on coins, art work, and statuary to the institutional place of violence in Roman society.
Marcia Bjørnerud, geology, and Ernestine Whitman, music, are promoted to the rank of full professor by the Board of Trustees, and Michael Kim, music; Kathryn Kueny, religious studies; Rebecca Epstein Matveyev, Russian; Anthony Padilla, music; and Lifongo Vetinde, French, are promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.
Will Samson, '02, tuba, earns second-place honors at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference's Arnold Jacobs Mock Orchestra Audition, and juniors Jim James and Rachel Bittner finish first and second, respectively, at the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association Collegiate Badger Piano Competition.
The annual Senior Art Exhibition at the Wriston Art Center Galleries begins this month and continues until August. Senior art majors represented in the show include Jordan Elysia Burnett, Rick Herzog, Hayley Kahn, Melanie Kehoss, Carly Ann Kreuziger, Jamie Mercedes Lee, Kiana Neal, Michael G. Nickel, Joyce K. Otte, Lauren Preisen, Heidi Romanshek, Sita Satyadhara, and Kate Troyer.
Mark Frazier, assistant professor of government and holder of the Luce Professorship in East Asian Political Economy, delivers a "Lunch at Lawrence" program, "Straddling the Himalayas: Challenges for the U.S. in the Growing Rivalry Between India and China."
The Electronic Music Club hosts its second annual Electronic Music Festival, heralded by a cover story in the Post-Crescent's "Encore" entertainment section.
Photos of two spaces on the Seeley G. Mudd Library's renovated first floor appear in national library publications. The Milwaukee-Downer Room is pictured on the cover of Choice magazine, and the Lincoln Reading Room is featured in an American Libraries article on building construction and renovation.
The Spring Term Play is The Learned Ladies by Molière, directed by Professor Troy, and the final production in the theatre season is the second annual live radio-taping session by the Lawrence University Theatre of the Air, featuring works by Norman Corwin, a famous dramatist of radio's "golden age."
Female athletes at Lawrence win the conference's All-Sport Championship, a title that goes to the college with the best athletic record, based on its finishes in league play. This marks the third time the Lawrence women have won the title, and the first since 1992.
June 2002
Elaine Moran, '05, and Emma Sweet, '04, are selected for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition as part of the American College Theatre Festival, based on their performances in the spring production of The Learned Ladies.
The Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, Concert Choir, Chorale, and Women's Choir, along with the Fox Valley's White Heron Chorale, perform Mozart's Mass in C minor, K.427 in concert.
The Class of 2002 selects Dirck Vorenkamp, assistant professor of religious studies, as the principal speaker at their Baccalaureate service. His topic is "Where is Lawrence!" Also participating, in addition to President Warch, are the senior class officers: Josh R. Dukelow, president; Beth A. Zinsli, vice president; Daniel B. Hurley, class agent, and Chris H. Anderson, class secretary.
At Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, June 16, Wisconsin author, teacher, and nature photographer Roy Lukes is recognized with the honorary degree Doctor of Science, while award-winning composer Chen Yi receives the honorary degree Doctor of Fine Arts. As is customary, the honorary degree recipients deliver "charges" to the graduating class. At the conclusion of composer Chen's remarks, the Lawrence Horn Ensemble performs her work Song of the Great Wall.
Robert Ertl, a mathematics teacher at Washington Park High School in Racine, and Carl Jette, an economics teacher at Nicolet High School in Glendale, are awarded Lawrence's 2002 Outstanding Teaching in Wisconsin Award during the college's 153rd Commencement.
Also at Commencement, faculty members Bradford Rence and Joy Jordan are honored for their teaching contributions. Rence, professor of biology, receives the college's Excellence in Teaching Award, and Jordan, assistant professor of statistics, is presented with the Young Teacher Award.
Soon after Commencement, 20 faculty members who teach in the Freshman Studies program depart for China and Japan on a study tour made possible by the Freeman Foundation grant. Two high school teachers from Appleton also share in the experience.
An attendance record for Lawrence alumni reunions is set when some 1,100 alumni gather on campus for Reunion Weekend 2002.
The Lawrence University Alumni Association presents awards to ten individuals at the annual Reunion Convocation. Bob Landis, '62, Bonnie Morris, '72, Thomas Steitz, '62, and Fred Sturm, C'73, receive the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award; Mark Uhlemann, C'96, is honored with the Nathan Pusey Young Alumni Achievement Award; Wilhelmine "Billie" Harms Pollard, '37, and Constance Pfitsch Vanderhyden, '72, receive the George B. Walter Service to Society Award; and Frank J. Hammer, '42, Kristen Olson Lahner, '73, and Betty Thompson Messenger, '47, are presented with the Gertrude B. Jupp Outstanding Service Award.
A memorial service is held during Reunion Weekend by and for friends, students, and colleagues of Lawrence D. Longley, professor of government, who died in March.
Retiring faculty members Minoo Adenwalla, government; Corry F. Azzi, '65, economics; and William S. Boardman, philosophy, are honored at a reception during Reunion Weekend.
"How the World Works" is the theme of the 2002 Mielke Summer Institute in the Liberal Arts for teachers from the Appleton and Shawano public schools. Taught by six Lawrence faculty members and made possible by a grant from the Mielke Family Foundation, Inc., the program provides the teachers with an opportunity to explore new ideas and examine issues of social importance from a multidisciplinary perspective. The week that Mielke participants spend on campus during the summer is followed by a fall weekend retreat at Björklunden.
Lawrence is awarded a $60,000 grant from the Undergraduate Student Research Program funded by the Merck Company Foundation and administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The funds will be used to support interdisciplinary learning and cross-disciplinary student collaborative research in biology and chemistry.