July 2002
The Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers offers
an intensive enrichment opportunity for teachers of advanced placement or accelerated
high school
courses. Taught by members of the Lawrence faculty, institute courses include
biology, calculus, chemistry, economics, Spanish, U.S. history, and world
history.
Björklunden Seminars, Lawrence’s long-time
summer adult education program at the northern campus, features a curriculum
that ranges
from the
natural world (“A Fascinating Look at Wildlife Art,” “Door
County: Nature’s Paradise”) to religion (“The Islamic Tradition,” “A
Reading of Ecclesiastes”) to biography (“Lincoln: Man, Myth, Icon,” “Walt
Whitman’s America”).
In order to express its mission more clearly, the Lawrence Arts Academy becomes the Lawrence Academy of Music. Employing a staff of nearly 50 music specialists, the Academy serves some 1,900 area students ranging in age from six months to 18 years through enrichment and instructional programs including early childhood music; private instrument lessons; and classes in music theory, voice, and chamber music.
August 2002
The Boynton Society holds its annual reception recognizing donors to Björklunden.
This year’s program at the Door County estate includes a series of seminars
by Lawrence faculty members titled “The Björklunden Experience:
Liberal Learning on the Northern Campus.”
“Streetscape,” the $5.2 million reconstruction of College Avenue
in downtown Appleton, begun
in February 2002, is completed, adding new decorative, safety,
and wayfinding features to the city’s signature street, along
with new street and sidewalk surfaces.
Renovation of the second floor of the Lawrence-owned building at 315 East College Avenue creates offices and practice rooms for nine faculty members of the Conservatory of Music. The facility quickly becomes known as “Con West.”
September
2002
In U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s
Best Colleges” report,
Lawrence ranks 50th in the “Best Liberal Arts Colleges – Bachelor’s” category,
which comprises 217 of the nation’s leading national liberal
arts colleges. It is the fourth year in a row, and the fifth time
in the past six years, that Lawrence has been
ranked among the top tier group. Freshman
Studies earns Lawrence
a 16th-place ranking in the “first year experience” category.
In addition, Lawrence is 15th among national liberal arts colleges
in enrollment
of international
students.
A simple ceremony in front of Main Hall, marking the anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, features brief remarks by President Richard Warch and Jerald Podair, associate professor of history. The president reads Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, as New York Governor George Pataki and others had done in New York City earlier that morning.
Nineteen students from Japan’s
Waseda University arrive
at Lawrence to begin a special year-long English language and liberal arts
program.
Each of
the Japanese students has a Lawrence student as a roommate.
Lawrence welcomes 405 new students, including 355 members of the Class of 2006. Collectively, they boast an average high school grade-point average of 3.65, and 73 percent were ranked in the top 25 percent of their graduating classes. As Lawrence’s applicant pool has increased by 53 percent over the past five years, the college has become more selective, admitting 11 percent fewer of its applicants during that period.
President Warch officially opens the college’s 153rd year with his annual Matriculation Convocation address, speaking on the topic “Liberal Education and Civic Engagement,” discussing the role that volunteerism and public service play in a Lawrence education and providing an overview of service activities in which Lawrence students and alumni currently are engaged.
Sixteen new tenure-track professors join the faculty at the start of the 2002-03 academic year, including appointments in anthropology, art, art history, biology, chemistry, computer science, East Asian languages and cultures, education, German, government, jazz and improvisational music, music composition, psychology, Spanish, and trumpet.
In one of the biggest upsets of the Midwest Conference season, the men’s soccer team beats defending league champion Lake Forest College 3-0 at Lawrence. Adam Miner, ’05, scores two goals, the first multi-goal game of his career, to lead the Vikings’ attack.
The Lawrence University Alumni Association holds “Welcome to Our City” events in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, the Fox Valley, Los Angeles, Madison, Minneapolis, New York, St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., inviting as special guests members of the Class of 2002 newly arrived in those cities.
Wriston Art Center begins the year with exhibitions in
each of its three galleries: in the Leech Gallery, Otto Wirsching’s “Vom
Totentanz,” a
portfolio of prints from the college’s permanent collection;
in the Hoffmaster Gallery, “Minnesota Twilight,” a
selection of paintings and sculpture by Kevin Giese; and in the
Kohler Gallery, Laura Vandenburg’s “all
which ways,” a
site-specific installation of paintings and drawings.
The first offering of Lawrence Theatre’s new season is a guest production with Attic Theatre of David Mamet’s Oleanna, directed by Timothy X. Troy, ’85, associate professor of theatre arts and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama.
George Meyer, retired secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is the 2002-03 Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor, teaching two courses in the government department, Introduction to Environmental Law and Environmental Politics and the Crandon Mine Controversy.
October
2002
The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, L.H.D. ’96, international
peace, social justice, and civil rights activist, delivers a University Convocation
address
on “The U.S., Iraq, and Nuclear Weapons.” He has
spoken at three previous Lawrence convocations and was Stephen
Edward Scarff
Memorial
Visiting
Professor in 1995-96.
Homecoming and Family Weekend merge into a single occasion called the Fall Festival. This year’s theme is “Bring Out the Child in You,” and events are planned for alumni, parents, grandparents, and siblings, including attendance at Friday classes, mini-courses on Saturday taught by Lawrence faculty members; alumni volleyball, women’s soccer, and men’s soccer matches; and a Wind Ensemble/Symphonic Band concert, among others.
The Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame inducts six new members, who are introduced at the annual Blue and White Dinner: Mark Catlin, football coach, 1909-18, 1924-27; James Miller, ’80, cross country, track; Richard Miller, ’47, football, basketball; Sarah O’Neil, ’92, basketball; James Petran, ’80, football, baseball; and Robert Smith, ’61, wrestling, football, track.
At the fall meeting of the Board of Trustees,
Richard Warch announces his intention to retire in June 2004,
at which time
he will have
completed 25 years as Lawrence’s
president.
The women’s soccer team puts on an offensive show during a weekend of Midwest Conference play. The Vikings open with a 7-1 blowout of Monmouth College, as Emily Buzicky, ’05, scores her first career hat trick. The following day the Vikings blast Illinois College 10-0, with Danata Janofsky, ’03, and Sarah Slivinski, ’03, both scoring their first career hat tricks.
The 12th Annual Ben Holt Memorial Concert features Gareth Johnson, violin. Named in memory of Metropolitan Opera baritone Ben Holt (1955-90) and directed by Dominique-René de Lerma, visiting professor of music, the series provides performance opportunities for young musicians of minority heritage.
Scarff Professor George Meyer is the year’s first speaker in the noontime “Lunch at Lawrence” series for local friends of the college, presenting “Wisconsin’s Environment: Getting Better or Worse? The Challenges We Face.”
Ernest Sosa, the Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology and professor of philosophy at Brown University and one of the country’s leading scholars on the theory of knowledge, delivers a Stevens Lectureship in the Humanities address, “Philosophical Skepticism: Its Historical Roots and Contemporary Relevance” and also a Main Hall Forum on “Knowledge and Context.”
The inaugural lecture in the William A. Chaney Lectureship series is presented by a renowned medieval historian, Giles Constable, speaking on “Women and Religious Life in the 12th Century.” Established in honor of Professor Chaney at the time of his retirement in 1999, the Chaney Lectureship brings to the campus distinguished speakers in the humanities.
President Warch joins the presidents and chancellors of 26 other Wisconsin public, private, and technical colleges as a founding member of the newly formed Wisconsin Campus Compact, a statewide organization committed to encouraging civic responsibility among students and faculty, and is appointed to its executive committee.
The highly successful program of weekend student
seminars at Björklunden
begins its seventh year. During the 2002-03 academic year,
1,208 students and 128 faculty and staff members will participate
in 70 different
seminars
on
the northern campus, with topics ranging from botany field
work to gender studies and groups including the flute studio,
the Lawrence Christian
Fellowship,
senior
anthropology majors, the swimming and diving team, and
an impressive assortment of others.
The Mielke Summer Institute, a multidisciplinary experience for 25 teachers selected each year from the Appleton and Shawano public schools, holds its annual fall workshop at Björklunden. During a summer session on the Lawrence campus, participants worked with Lawrence faculty members from biology, chemistry, geology, and physics to explore the topic “How the World Works.” After the summer session, the teachers write papers relevant to the issue under study, which become the basis for discussions at Björklunden.
Natalie Fleming, ’03, captures the consolation championship at No. 6 singles at the Midwest Conference Women’s Tennis Championships, defeating Tracy Gratz of Carroll College 10-6 to win the title.
Florida alumni are invited to attend a tribute concert in Palm Beach, honoring Allen Gimbel, a member of the conservatory faculty from 1987 to 1998, and organized by two of his former students, Brooke Joyce, ’95, and Jeffery Meyer, ’96. The program features six of Professor Gimbel’s works for chamber ensemble, piano, and soprano voice.
Actors from the London Stage, a five-member troupe of Shakespearean veterans, has held one-week residencies at Lawrence ten times over the past 18 years to perform and to work with students, including every Freshman Studies section. This year, the troupe’s main production is Much Ado About Nothing.
The Academy of Ancient Music opens the 2002-03 season of Lawrence’s Artist Series. Founded in 1973, the 20-member ensemble specializes in performing works of the Baroque and Classical periods in “a historically informed style, as audiences and composers of the time might have heard them.”
Sponsors and recipients of named Lawrence scholarships are honored at the 22nd annual Scholarship Luncheon, which introduces donors of scholarship funds to the individual students who are receiving their support.
November
2002
Jazz
Celebration Weekend features vocalist Dianne Reeves,
performing with the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble and
the Lawrence
University Jazz
Singers, on Friday and the Wayne Shorter Quartet on Saturday.
Founded in 1981, Jazz
Celebration Weekend also includes solo and ensemble clinics
for secondary-school vocal and instrumental musicians.
Lis Pollock, ’03, and Shannon Arendt, ’04, pound out 21 kills apiece, as the volleyball team rallies to beat Ripon College 31-29, 19-30, 26-30, 33-31, 15-10, in a thrilling Midwest Conference match at Alexander Gymnasium.
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks delivers
a University Convocation address titled “Creativity
and the Brain.” Author
of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His
Wife for a Hat, Sacks published a memoir, Uncle
Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, in 2001.
Conservatory of Music voice students receive first-place honors in five of 12 undergraduate divisions at the Wisconsin chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing audition competition. A total of 33 Lawrence students and two Lawrence Academy of Music students participate in the competition, with 16 advancing to the finals.
Michigan State University ethicist Howard Brody speaks on “The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry on the Medical Profession” as part of the Edward F. Mielke Lecture Series in Biomedical Ethics.
Valerie Curtis, ’03, runs to 73rd place at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships at Northfield, Minn. The senior from Shullsburg, in her first trip to the national meet, ran the 6,000-meter course in 23 minutes, 1.3 seconds.
Frank Lewis, director of exhibitions and curator of the Wriston Art Center, speaks to the Lunch at Lawrence audience on “The Art Object in the World of Ideas.”
Brian O’Morrow, ’03, wins the state-level Music Teachers National Association collegiate piano performance competition. Hillary Nordwell, ’03, is named first alternate. This is the third straight year a Lawrence piano performance major has won the competition, which requires students to play a complete concerto from memory, as well as three shorter contrasting works.
Steven Simon, ’68, president of Simon Ventures, a Naples, Florida-based investment company specializing in metal fabrication and electronic distribution, is elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees.
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of Boston gathers in Salem, Massachusetts, to hear Edmund Kern, associate professor of history, speak on “The History of Witchcraft: Confronting the Popular Myths.”
Danny Schroder, ’05, scores two goals and hands out an assist, as the hockey team beats Marian College 6-2 to break the Sabres’ 27-game Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association winning streak. Schroder is later named the NCAA Division III Offensive Player of the Week.
Alumni
and parents of the Lawrence hockey team attend a special reception following
a home
match with the
University of Minnesota–Crookston.
In December, a similar occasion is organized
for wrestling alumni and parents in connection
with the Lawrence Dual Meet.
Wriston Art Center presents another three-gallery exhibition, featuring “Holzschnitte 1919” by Hermann Max Pechstein, “Portraits” by Noah Fischer, and “North, South, East, West: A Survey of Native American Artistry.”
Minneapolis-St. Paul alumni enjoy a wine-tasting and buffet supper, with commentary from Professor of Biology Nicholas Maravolo and Andy Kass, ’69, president of Sutler’s Wine and Spirits.
The Fall Term musical is Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, directed by Tim Troy with music direction by Rico Serbo, assistant professor of music.
December
2002
Tom Towle, ’05, wins the 3-meter and 1-meter diving events, setting
a meet record of 416.9 points in the former, to lead the men’s
swimming team to a second-place finish at the
Gene Davis Invitational in Boldt Natatorium.
Lawrence’s observance of World AIDS Day is marked by a candlelight vigil and display of two squares of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Seasonal concerts are presented by the Concert Choir, Chorale, and Women’s Choir (“Celebration of Palms”) and the Academy of Music’s Girl Choir (“Of Thee I Sing”).
A
grant of $1.5 million from the Freeman
Foundation is helping the East Asian
languages and cultures department develop
a program of
Japanese-language instruction and also supports
innovative faculty and student study
trips.
In December,
students accompanied by faculty from EALC,
history, religious
studies, and
anthropology travel to Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai,
China.
January
2003
A five-part lecture series, “War and Peace in the Middle East,” sponsored
by the Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies, brings to campus
an impressive slate of scholars and foreign-policy experts, including, in February,
Mark Bruzonsky, ’69, publisher of Mid-East
Realities, speaking on “From
Camp David to 9/11 — Did We Bring It
On Ourselves?”
Poet, essayist, and activist
Nikki
Giovanni is the keynote speaker at the
12th annual Martin
Luther King, Jr., Celebration in Memorial Chapel.
Lawrence is one of several co-sponsors of the event, which is conducted
by the Fox Valley organization Toward Community:
Unity
in
Diversity.
Theme
for the 2003 program
is “Understanding:
Expressions of Respect.”
Nick Morphew, ’04, wins the title at 133 pounds and leads the Lawrence wrestlers to the team title at the Private College Championships at Alexander Gymnasium. The Vikings dominate the event, with eight of their ten wrestlers earning places in their respective championship matches.
The 38th annual Midwest Trivia Contest, all 50 hours worth, is not only broadcast on campus radio station WLFM but also webcast via the Internet for all its far-flung fans.
Legal scholar, author, and
columnist Susan Estrich speaks
on “Civil Liberties
in Times of Terror: The Balance Between
Security and Freedom” in
the first University Convocation of the
Winter Term.
The Kimberly-Clark Scholars Luncheon honors that corporation for establishing, in 1983, the Kimberly-Clark Honor Scholarship. The event brings corporate representatives together with current students who are Kimberly-Clark Honor Scholars.
Paul Cohen, professor of history and the Patricia Hamar Boldt Professor of Liberal Studies, is January’s Lunch at Lawrence speaker, presenting “Film as History, History as Film.”
Claire Getzoff, ’06, hits a 3-pointer at the buzzer to beat defending Midwest Conference women’s basketball champion Lake Forest College 62-61 at Alexander Gymnasium. The Vikings go on to earn a second consecutive berth in the Midwest Conference Tournament but fall to St. Norbert College in the semifinal game.
New
members elected to the Board of Trustees as alumni
trustees are Mollie
Herzog
Keys, ’64, White Bear Lake, Minn.;
David N. Knapp, ’89,
Chicago, Ill.; and Constance Clarke
Purdum, ’55,
Macomb, Ill. Also pictured is Steven Simon, ’68, elected to the board in
the fall of 2002.
Robert Buchanan, ’62, is appointed by the Board of Trustees as chair of the Presidential Search Committee, which also includes alumni, faculty, administrative staff, and student members. The committee engages a consulting firm specializing in chief executive officer and chief academic officer searches in higher education, to assist with planning the search and the process of identifying candidates for the Lawrence presidency.
Boston-area alumni are encouraged to hear the Ken Schaphorst Ensemble, which includes composer Ken Schaphorst, associate professor of music and director of jazz studies from 1991-2001; percussionist Dane Richeson, associate professor of music; and trumpeter John Carlson, ’82, perform at the Regattabar of the Charles Hotel. Schaphorst and Richeson will also play for alumni in New York City and Philadelphia in March.
The January-March exhibition at the Wriston Art Center Galleries is “Landscape in the West,” consisting of selections from the Lawrence permanent collection.
Fox Valley alumni visit the Outagamie County Historical Society Museum’s exhibition “Joseph McCarthy, A Modern Tragedy” and hear presentations by Jerald Podair, associate professor of history, and Kimberly Louagie, the museum’s curator of exhibits.
The Wild Space Dance Company’s highly acclaimed program, “Field Work,” makes the first stop on its Humanities Council-supported tour at Lawrence.
Imani Winds, featuring five outstanding musicians of African American or Latin heritage, appears in concert as part of the Lawrence Artist Series in January.
Dale Duesing, C’67, operatic baritone and artist-in-residence at the conservatory, presents a masterclass on “The German Lied.”
February 2003
The Lawrence Jazz Series’ first offering of 2003 is the Poncho
Sanchez Latin Jazz Band.
Rob Nenahlo, ’04, scores 21 points and
Brendan Falls, ’05, adds
17, as the men’s basketball
team beats Ripon College 78-72 at
Alexander Gymnasium,
sweeping
the season series
against the Red
Hawks for the first
time since 1982-83. The Vikings finish
second in the conference but fall
in the
semifinals of the Midwest Conference
Tournament at Grinnell College.
Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States, reads some of his latest poems, as well as some unpublished ones, and also participates in a question-and-answer forum and a book signing. The event is made possible by the Mia T. Paul, ’95, Poetry Fund, which brings distinguished poets to campus for public readings and to work with students interested in writing poetry.
Barbara
Smith Lawton, lieutenant
governor of Wisconsin, helps launch Lawrence’s first “Civic
Engagement Week,” by leading
a four-member panel of elected women
officials on the topic “Women
in Politics.”
Clara Muggli, ’03, is cited by USA Today as a member of its 2003 All-USA College Academic Team. In 2002, Muggli was named a Udall Scholar by the Morris Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation.
Brad Barton, ’05, scores a goal 3 minutes, 59 seconds, into overtime to lift the hockey team to a 2-1 win over Milwaukee School of Engineering in the consolation championship game of the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association Tournament in Crookston, Minn.
The Lawrence Diversity Center hosts three professional hair stylists from the Chicago area who provide demonstrations of the latest black hair styles and cuts and offer advice to area cosmetologists interested in learning some of the cutting techniques that are difficult for African American students to obtain locally.
Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry, delivers a Lunch at Lawrence talk titled “Unveiling the Secrets of the Nanoworld: The Big Promise of Small Science.”
Fox Valley alumni are invited to a dramatic/musical presentation at Conkey’s Bookstore, by Paul McComas, ’83, introducing his new novel, Unplugged. McComas is joined musically by vocalist Elaine Moran, ’05, and drummer Scott Palmer, ’05. He will make a similar presentation at Reunion Weekend in June, on the occasion of his 20th Reunion.
The Lawrence
University Jazz Combo I, under the direction
of José Encarnación,
minority pre-doctoral fellow
in music, earns the Outstanding
Performance
Award at the Elmhurst
College
Jazz Festival,
a two-day competition
that features more than 50 college and
university jazz ensembles from
throughout the
Midwest.
Jodie Primus, ’04, and Tom Carroll, ’03, win two titles apiece, as the women’s and men’s swimming teams both take third place at the Midwest Conference Championships at Grinnell College. Primus wins the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 15.57 seconds, and takes the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.95. Carroll wins the 1,650 freestyle in 16:29.79 and captures the 500 freestyle in 4:43.18, taking the title in that event for the second consecutive year.
Regional alumni programs in February include Timothy Spurgin, associate professor of English and the Bonnie Glidden Buchanan Professor of English Literature, “Freshman Studies Revisited,” in Madison; Tim Troy, associate professor of theatre arts and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama, “Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost,” in Colorado; and the Annual Luncheon with President Warch, in Naples, Florida.
Conservatory Opera presents The Consul, by Giancarlo Menotti, stage directed by Professor Troy and music directed by Professor Reischl.
March
2003
Two half-day “From
Shore to Sea” camps for
students in grades 5-8, led by
Bart De Stasio, ’82,
associate professor of biology,
offer hands-on laboratory exploration
of the features and creatures
of the undersea world, including
adaptations
of
kelp forests, seal
behavior, and
the use of scientific technology
to monitor underwater changes.
Three
biology majors, Nick Morphew, ’04,
Greg Goska, ’04, and Ric
Scannell, ’04, are named
Academic All-Americans by the
National Wrestling
Coaches Association.
For the third
consecutive season,
Lawrence is named
a Scholar Team and has the third-highest
team grade-point average in the
nation, at 3.4.
The Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc., makes a $3,695 grant to Lawrence for a program to encourage science and math interests among area middle school girls. The project, Partners Reaching Youth in Science and Math (PRYSM) matches women students from Lawrence who have strong interests in mathematics and science with eighth-grade girls from Appleton’s Roosevelt Middle School and is co-directed by Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry, and Eugénie Hunsicker, assistant professor of mathematics.
The student organization V Day Lawrence University presents two performances of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, with the proceeds, over $2,000, directed to the Fox Valley Sexual Assault Crisis Center, Equality Now, and the national V Day effort to end violence towards Native American women.
Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and former managing editor of Foreign Affairs, addresses a University Convocation on the subject “Why Do They Hate Us? America in a New World.”
Ansel
Wallenfang, ’03, receives a $22,000 fellowship from the Thomas
J. Watson Foundation to support a year of travel and
study abroad. As
Lawrence’s
59th Watson Fellow, Wallenfang,
a piano performance major,
plans to study two indigenous
musical
instruments, China’s erhu and India’s
tabla.
Susan Richards, director of the Seeley G. Mudd Library and associate professor, speaks to the Lunch at Lawrence audience on “What Did Your Great-Grandmother Do? Women’s Work in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.”
Alissa Thompson, ’05, one of 24 Lawrence students traveling in three vans to South Carolina for a week of volunteering for Habitat for Humanity, is killed when the van in which she is riding is involved in an accident near Knoxville, Tennessee.
The Winter Term play is Necessary Targets: A Tale of Women and War by Eve Ensler, directed by Katherine Privatt, assistant professor of theatre arts.
Milwaukee alumni hear Professor Spurgin speaking on Freshman Studies; in Minneapolis, Professor Emeritus of History William Chaney presents “Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga.” Alumni in Phoenix and Tucson are invited to a reception with President Warch.
Kolade Agbaje-Williams, ’06, takes sixth in the long jump at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships at DePauw University and earns All-America honors. He jumps 22 feet, 5 inches, in the first-ever appearance by a Viking male athlete at the indoor championships.
Faculty
members and students participate in a reading of
Aristophanes’ anti-war
comedy Lysistrata, part
of a worldwide peace initiative.
The Takás
Quartet, a string
quartet formed in Budapest
in 1975 and now based in
Boulder, Colorado, is heard
in concert
as part of the
Lawrence Artist
Series.
Lawrence Academy of Music holds a public open house, offering live lesson demonstrations, group mini-performances, and model early childhood classes, as well as a musical instrument “petting zoo.”
As has become
traditional in recent years,
Lawrence
hosts
the Fox
Valley Literacy
Coalition’s
annual fund-raising spelling
bee and has a team participating.
Lawrence
University Theatre of the Air presents “An Arch Oboler Festival.” The
third annual live taping
session for WLFM celebrates the work
of a famous mystery writer
of the golden
age of radio.
April
2003
The Clayton
Brothers Quintet, with John Clayton,
Jr., double bassist, is the final offering in the 2002-03
Performing Arts at Lawrence Jazz Series.
Steve Rogness, ’03, is named one of 80 national recipients of a $5,000 scholarship by the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation, the third Lawrence student in as many years to be so honored.
The April Lunch at Lawrence program is given by Derek Katz, assistant professor of music, speaking on “Nationality and Musical Identity: The Czech Composers.”
Members of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, on campus for their spring meeting, take part in “Following in Their Footsteps,” a career fair for students organized by the Career Center.
The men’s tennis team finishes second at the Midwest Conference Championships, which marks Lawrence’s highest finish since 1989. Nick Beyler, ’05, wins the championship at No. 4 singles for the second consecutive season.
The
Lawrence Concert Choir performs in Aurora,
Ill.,
a concert to
which Lawrence
alumni,
parents, and
other friends
are
invited, followed
by
a reception for
choir members and director Richard
Bjella, associate professor
of music and
director of choral
studies.
April exhibitions in the galleries of the Wriston Art Center include “Propaganda in the Permanent Collection,” “Color Forms” by Ariana Huggett, and “assauge” by Kim Cridler.
Tim Troy, theatre arts, leads a pre-theatre discussion of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for Seattle alumni prior to a performance by the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
The spring musical is a student production, Children of Eden.
Lionheart, an a cappella male vocal ensemble, is the final offering in the 2002-03 Performing Arts at Lawrence Artist Series.
May 2003
Celebrate!, Lawrence’s
annual spring festival
of the arts, marks its
30th birthday
with its usual array of
live music,
a family area, and more than 160 arts and crafts booths.
Members of The Founders Club were welcomed to its annual dinner by Founders Club President Donald A. Smart, ’64, and William O. Hochkammer, Jr., ’66, co-chair of the Lawrence-Downer Legacy Circle, which had celebrated its tenth birthday at a luncheon earlier in the day. The theme of the day’s activities was “Celebrating East Asian Studies.”
The
softball team wins the
Midwest Conference
North
Division title
and hosts the conference
tournament,
but the Vikings
fall to eventual
champion
Lake
Forest College. Shortstop
Jenny Burris, ’04,
is chosen as the North
Division Player of the
Year for the
second
consecutive season.
A Lawrence Theatre of the Air production of the World War II radio drama “Strange Morning” is featured on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Old Time Radio Drama” program.
President Warch officially opens the annual Classics Week with an official proclamation from the steps of Sampson House. Events include Daniel Taylor, ’63, Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics, speaking on “150 Years of Classics in Main Hall” and Randall McNeill, assistant professor of classics, presenting “Disorder in the Court: Performance and Calculation in Athenian Legal Trials.”
Skappleton 2003, Lawrence’s annual tribute to ska is headlined by the renowned Jamaican group, the Skatalites. Ska is an up-tempo cousin of reggae, with an affinity for horns and socially conscious lyrics.
Two faculty members, Michael Orr (art history) and Alan Parks (mathematics), are promoted to the rank of full professor by the Board of Trustees, and four others, Jerald Podair (history), Matthew Stoneking (physics), Timothy Troy (theatre arts), and Dirck Vorenkamp (religious studies), are promoted to the rank of associate professor and granted tenured appointments.
Joe Loehnis, ’06, birdies both of the first two playoff holes to beat Knox College’s Mack Foster for the individual title at the Midwest Conference Men’s Golf Championships. Lawrence finishes second to Knox, the highest finish by the Vikings since 1954.
Pulitzer Prize-winning
Native American novelist,
poet,
playwright, and
painter N.
Scott Momaday shares
his Kiowa Indian perspective
through his unique storytelling
abilities in the final
University Convocation
of the 2002-03
series, the annual Honors
Convocation. Lawrence
awarded
Momaday the honorary
degree
Doctor of
Literature in 1971, when
he also spoke at the
Honors Convocation
Rachel Bittner, ’03, earns first prize honors at the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association’s annual Badger Collegiate Piano Competition, the second straight year a Lawrence pianist has been awarded the competition’s top prize. Nicholas Towns, ’03, and Erin Grier, ’04, receive honorable-mention recognition.
Dan Alger, ’72, associate professor of economics, presents “Deregulating Corporate America: Was It a Mistake or Not?” as the May Lunch at Lawrence program.
The annual Student Art Exhibition is titled “surfacing nine” and includes work by seniors Jumuah Harden, Heather Korich. Courtney Lind, Patricia Lindquist, Anjalee Miller, My-Linh Nguyen, Trish O’Donnell, Sarah Sager, and Kathryn Wilkin.
Brian C. Rosenberg, dean of the faculty since 1998, accepts the presidency of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. President Warch announces that Kathleen M. Murray, dean of the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, will serve as dean of the faculty for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 academic years.
Amy Garbowitz, ’03, wins a Best Student Paper award at the annual Institute on Lake Superior Geology.
Kolade Agbaje-Williams, ’06, makes history at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships, when he jumps 22 feet, 8 inches, in the long jump to finish eighth and earn All-America honors. It marks the first time a Lawrence track athlete is an All-American both indoors and outdoors in the same season.
Derek Katz,
assistant professor
of music, provides Fox
Valley alumni with an introduction
and
preview for a
concert production
of La
Traviata at
the new
Fox Cities Performing
Arts
Center in downtown Appleton.
In Madison,
alumni attend a performance
by the Lawrence
Chamber Players and
pianists Michael
and Kyung Kim at the
Elvehjem Museum
of Art. The concert is
broadcast on Wisconsin
Public Radio’s “Sunday
Afternoon Live from the
Elvehjem.”
The Spring Term play is Finding the Laughter, an improvisational theatre piece created by guest artist Bo Johnson and students.
The Björklunden Sunday Concert Series begins with “Young Players Program,” a recital by advanced piano and string students of the Lawrence Academy of Music, and continues with a string chamber music recital performed by students of the Lawrence Conservatory of Music.
The
Lawrence University Wind
Ensemble and the
Appleton Boychoir perform
Alec Wilder’s Children’s
Plea for Peace, conducted
by special guest Gunther
Schuler
and
narrated by Appleton
Mayor Timothy Hanna.
The sixth annual Richard A. Harrison Symposium in Humanities and the Social Sciences provides an occasion for students to present their original scholarly research and writing. The dean of the faculty each year offers one or two Richard A. Harrison Awards, modest grants to assist in meeting the costs of student independent research projects likely to lead to presentations at the spring symposium.
Mêlée, the college’s modern dance troupe, presents “An Evening of Modern, Lyrical, and Jazz Dance” in the Stansbury Theatre.
As a Senior Theatre Project, Anneliese DeDiemar presents “Ashes,” by Claire Braz-Valentine and “Anything for You,” by Cathy Celesia.
June 2003
Benjamin
Klein, ’04, presents “The
Student,” a
dance performance in
the outdoor Wriston Amphitheatre,
as an
independent theatre
project.
A group of faculty members, along with the students who were the Lawrence roommates of students from Waseda University during the 2002-03 academic year, experience a ten-day “Japan Arts” trip made possible by the Freeman Foundation grant.
Alumni in the Quad Cities (Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Ill.) attend a reception with President Warch at the Rock Island Arsenal Golf Club.
The members of the graduating Class of 2003 select as their Baccalaureate speaker Peter Fritzell, professor emeritus of English, who addresses them on the topic “Forms of Awkward Reverence,” the complete text of which is available here
At
Commencement ceremonies
on Sunday, June 15,
honorary degrees are conferred upon Oscar
C. Bolt, chairman
of the Boldt
Group
(Doctor of
Laws), Patricia
Hamar Boldt, ’48,
community volunteer
(Doctor of Laws), Edmund
Morgan, Sterling Professor
of History Emeritus,
Yale University
(Doctor of Humane Letters),
and Bruce Iglauer, ’69,
founder and president
of Alligator Records
(Doctor of Music).
As is customary, each
of the four delivers
a personal “charge” to
the graduates, which
may be read here.
Richard Sanerib, associate professor of mathematics, receives Lawrence’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and Randall McNeill, assistant professor of classics, is recognized with the Young Teacher Award.
Also at Commencement, Paul Bucheger, a physics and mathematics teacher at Seymour High School, and Robert Chesney, an English teacher at Ozaukee High School, receive Lawrence’s 2003 Outstanding Teaching in Wisconsin Award.
More than
1,000 alumni and guests
attend Reunion
Weekend
2003,
which includes
special-interest reunions
for alumni who had
been members
of Lawrence’s
choral groups and for those who participated in the college’s
Kurgan
Exchange Term in Russia.
Time is set
aside at the annual
Reunion
Convocation for four
alumni to speak
in memory of John
Alfieri, professor
emeritus
of Spanish,
who taught
at Lawrence
from 1954 to 1982;
J.
Bruce
Brackenridge, professor
emeritus of physics,
1959 to 1996; Charles
Breunig, L.H.D. ’97,
professor emeritus
of history, 1955 to
1986;
and Miriam
Clapp Duncan,
professor emerita
of music,
1949 to
1954 and 1955 to 1985.
These eulogies may
be read here.
Also at the Reunion
Convocation, the
Alumni Association
recognizes the
accomplishments
and service of
six individuals
from reunion classes.
Terry Moran, ’82,
receives the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award; Austin Boncher, ’63,
and David L. Hoffman, ’57, receive the George B. Walter Service to Society
Award; and Priscilla Wright Hausmann, ’53, Michael Cisler, ’78,
and Jonathan Bauer, ’83,
receive the Gertrude
B. Jupp Outstanding
Service Award.
“ Environment, Community, and Education” is the theme of the eighth annual Mielke Summer Institute in the Liberal Arts for teachers from the Appleton and Shawano public schools. The seminar, taught this year entirely at Björklunden, is directed by Stewart Purkey, associate professor of education and Bee Connell Mielke Professor of Education, who is chair of Lawrence’s teacher education program and also teaches in the environmental studies and ethnic studies programs. The Institute is made possible by a grant from the Mielke Family Foundation, Inc.
The Lawrence Academy of Music is awarded a $28,000 arts education grant by the National Endowment for the Arts to support its growing jazz education programs for area youth, including the Jazz Odyssey summer camp and new after-school and Saturday morning jazz programs.
