Highlights
of the Year, 2003-04
July 2003
The high point of many people’s summer is the Björklunden Seminars
program at Lawrence’s northern campus in Door County. College faculty
members teaching at Björklunden this summer
include Arthur Thrall, professor emeritus of art; William Chaney, professor
emeritus of history; Marcia Bjørnerud, professor of geology;
Daniel Taylor, ’63, the Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics; Eileen
Hoft-March and Judith Holland Sarnecki, professors of French; and Jerald Podair,
associate professor of history.
The Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camp, directed by Fred
Sturm, ’73, professor
of music, returns for its fifth summer at Björklunden. Adult jazz musicians
of all skill levels take part in playing and performance activities in combos
and large ensembles, as well as master classes, improvisation/theory classes,
individual lessons, and Meet the Artist sessions with guest performers.
Musicians participating in the Zeltsman
Marimba Festival present eight solo
and group concerts during their two-week session on the Lawrence campus.
The Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers of Advanced Placement or
Accelerated Courses, taught by Lawrence faculty members, offers courses in
biology, calculus, chemistry, economics, English Literature, Spanish, United
States history, and world history, as well as specialized workshops conducted
by experienced AP teachers.
Lawrence Academy of Music’s Odyssey program of summer
arts camps offers
youngsters 8-10 and 10-12 classes in art, music, dramatics, and creative writing.
Jazz Odyssey, for high school students, and Piano Odyssey, for students who
have studied piano for at least two years, are added in 2003.
August 2003
President and Mrs. Richard Warch and Kim Hiett Jordan, ’58, trustee and
president of The Boynton Society, welcome members of the society to Björklunden
for the annual Boynton Society reception, preceded by “The Björklunden
Experience: Liberal Learning on the Northern Campus,” a program of classes
taught by Lawrence faculty members.
For the fifth consecutive year, Lawrence is ranked in the top quarter of the
National Liberal Arts category of U.S. News and World Report’s annual “America’s
Best Colleges” report, as well as receiving special mention for its percentage
of international students and for the quality of its first-year program, Freshman
Studies.
Alumni events in August include a men’s soccer alumni game (Appleton),
the Ninth Annual Send-Off Picnic for new students (Madison), and an Old-Fashioned
Summer Picnic (Minneapolis-St. Paul).
Scott Reppert, ’83, is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame,
the first Lawrentian and first Midwest Conference athlete to be so honored.
Reppert, a three-time first-team All-American and a charter member of the Lawrence
Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of
Fame, receives his Hall of Fame plaque during “Scott
Reppert Day” festivities at Lawrence in September.
September 2003
New students for 2003-04 include 359 freshmen, 30 transfer students, and 16
non-degree-seeking visiting international students, a total that matches the
previous year’s mark as the largest since 1973, when 423 matriculated.
The former New Student Days have become Welcome Week, with a full schedule
of informational and get-acquainted activities for new students and their parents.
Seven new tenure-track professors join the faculty, representing appointments
in English, government, geology, studio art (sculpture), music (piano), history,
and anthropology. Non-tenure-track appointments are announced in religious
studies, education, French, music theory, studio art, organ, music history,
anthropology, double bass, and classical guitar.
The Collaborative
Education in Study Abroad (CESA) program enters its second
year, with 16 students from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan (pictured), arriving
in Appleton for a year of English-language study and Freshman Studies-like
courses
in the liberal arts.
New science facilities at Lawrence and the University of Wisconsin–Fox
Valley are showcased for more than 120 academic leaders representing 30 colleges
and universities at the “Building Spaces for Science That Make a Difference” assembly
co-hosted by the two institutions and sponsored by Project
Kaleidoscope, a
national alliance committed to building strong undergraduate science programs.
The Vikings football team returns two interceptions for touchdowns and then
holds off Carroll College for a 28-26 victory at the Banta Bowl. Nate Semenak, ’05,
gives the Vikings the lead for good with just under two minutes remaining,
when he returns an interception 28 yards for a touchdown.
Richard Warch,
who is retiring at the end of the 2003-04 academic year, delivers the annual
Matriculation Convocation address, his 25th since becoming president
in 1979. Titled “The
Lawrence Difference: Difference at Lawrence,” it
challenges the college community to face “the complex and serious task
of acknowledging, respecting, and learning from our differences.”
At the Matriculation Convocation, President Warch announces the appointment
of two faculty members to endowed professorships. Paul Cohen, professor of
history, is named to the Patricia Hamar Boldt Professorship in Liberal Studies,
and Tim Spurgin, associate professor of English, becomes the Bonnie Glidden
Buchanan Professor of English Literature.
William F. Hodgkiss retires as vice president for business and administration,
and Gregory A. Volk, vice president for development and external affairs, is
appointed to the new post of executive vice president with responsibility for
both offices.
Alumni events in September include the DuPage Opera Theatre’s production
of Verdi’s La Traviata, directed by Lawrence theatre arts professor Tim
Troy, ’85, and conducted by Harold Bauer, father of Jonathan Bauer, ’83
(Chicago); Art Union Humanscape, music and dance improvisation by dancer Ayako
Kato and bassist Jason Roebke, ’96 (New York); and a choice of three
local performances by pianist Laura Van Nostrand Caviani, ’84 (Minneapolis-St.
Paul).
In
addition to the above, alumni host “Welcome to Our City” events
for the Class of 2003 and other newcomers in Atlanta, the Bay Area (San Francisco),
Boston, Chicago (pictured), Colorado, the Fox Valley, Los Angeles, Madison,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, St. Louis, Seattle, and Washington,
D.C.
Lawrence Academy of Music introduces Jazz
Saturdays, a 12-week program designed
to improve improvisational skills for middle and high school musicians through
intensive study in small-group settings and guest-artist master classes in
jazz history, theory, and aural training.
October 2003
The Wriston Art Center opens the 2003-04 exhibition
schedule with offerings
in each of its three galleries: “Selections of 20th Century Art from
the Permanent Collection”; “Lewis Koch/The War Years: Assemblages,
Photographs, Installations”; and “Russian and Greek Icons from
Wisconsin Collections.”
LUX, an organization of retired faculty members, holds its seventh annual Björklunden
Seminar for Emeriti and Their Spouses, at which members present lectures on
topics that are of special interest to them but not necessarily in the areas
of their formal teaching careers.
Emily Buzicky, ’05, scores a hat trick, when the women’s soccer
team beats Knox 4-0. Brian Harks, ’07, scores the game’s only goal,
as the men’s soccer team hands eventual Midwest Conference champion St.
Norbert College its only loss of the season, 1-0, in Appleton. The Vikings
go on to qualify for the Midwest Conference Tournament for the first time since
1989.
Now in its eighth year, the program of student/faculty
weekend seminars is
the cornerstone of Lawrence’s academic program at Björklunden. During
2003-04, 985 students and 66 members of the faculty and staff will study and
work together in 51 weekend seminars.
Fall
Festival combines the programs and participants of Homecoming and Family Weekend
to create an event for students, alumni, parents, and other family
members. Fall Festival guests attend classes on Friday, and Saturday events
include a question-and-answer session with President Warch and four mini-courses
taught by faculty from psychology, music, theatre arts, and biology. Athletic
events include a cross-country meet, alumni hockey game, and the Lawrence/Grinnell
football game (pictured: LU cheerleaders).
Lawrence’s Intercollegiate Athletic Hall
of Fame inducts six new members
at the annual Blue and White Banquet. Members of the Class of 2003 are Paul
Elsberry, ’51, Joel Ungrodt, ’64, Steve Neuman, ’76, Bob
Eddy, ’79, Chris Lindfelt, ’88, and Gina Seegers Szablewski, ’92.
Alumni events in October include a tailgate party during Fall Festival (Appleton),
a Green Bay Packers game against the Rams (St. Louis), the women’s soccer
alumnae game (Appleton), a performance by the Lawrence Chamber Players at the
Elvehjem Museum of Art (Madison), and a concert of contemporary music by Chris
Mueller, ’94, piano, and Nathan Davis, tenor (New York).
Former Soviet president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mikhail Gorbachev delivers
the keynote address for a three-day International
Community Partnerships Conference that draws delegates from across the United States and from Russia. Sessions
on the second and third days of the conference, organized by the Fox
Cities-Kurgan Sister Cities Program, Inc., are held on the Lawrence campus.
David Sedaris, humorist, author, playwright, and National Public Radio commentator,
is featured in a rare evening University Convocation. Sedaris, author of the
best sellers Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Dress
Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, is a recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Hiett
Hall, dedicated on October 16, is the first new student residence at
Lawrence since Kohler Hall was built in 1967. Set into the bank of the Fox
River, Hiett houses 183 juniors and seniors in suite-style accommodations and
is named in honor of Stanley and Clara Hiett, parents of Kim Hiett Jordan, ’58,
a Lawrence trustee and donor of an $8 million gift that made construction of
the residence hall possible.
Following the Hiett Hall dedicatory ceremonies, a celebratory concert at the
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center features internationally acclaimed pianist
Michael Kim, associate professor of music, performing works by Bizet, Chopin,
Brahms, and others.
Claire Mallory, ’06, leads the women’s tennis team by taking the
consolation championship at No. 5 singles at the Midwest Conference Championships.
Edmund Kern, associate professor of history, delivers a Main Hall Forum lecture
titled “Imagination at Work: Harry Potter and Stoic Virtue.” A
specialist on early modern European history as well as the history of witchcraft
and religious culture, Professor Kern is the author of the recent book, The
Wisdom of Harry Potter: What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us About Moral Choices.
Michael Brody, a senior double-degree candidate, earns first-place honors at
the Wisconsin state-level Music Teachers National Association Young Artist
Piano Performance competition, marking the fourth consecutive year a Lawrence
piano
performance major has won the contest.
Citing concern for the health of students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors,
President Warch announces that the college will broaden its non-smoking policy
to include all Lawrence-owned facilities, beginning July 1, 2004. The new policy
extends a smoke-free designation to all student residences, college-owned guest
houses, the Viking Room in the student union, Lawrence’s study centre
in London, and college-leased vehicles.
The Mielke Summer Institute, an enrichment experience for 25 teachers selected
from the Appleton and Shawano public schools, holds it annual fall workshop
at Björklunden. During the summer, under the direction of Stewart Purkey,
associate professor of education and the Bee Connell Mielke Professor of Education,
institute participants examined the topic “Environment, Community, and
Education.” After the summer session, the teachers write papers relevant
to that topic, which become the basis for discussion at Björklunden in
the fall.
For its first concert of the new season, the Artist Series presents the Dallas
Brass, an innovative ensemble blending traditional brass instruments with drums
and percussion, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2003.
Lunch at Lawrence, subtitled “Food for Thought,” is a monthly program
in which faculty members speak on topics in their fields of expertise before
an audience drawn from the local community. Leading off the 2003-04 schedule
of lunchtime speakers is Fred Sturm, ’73, professor of music, speaking
on “Jazz: What To Listen For.”
The traveling company Actors from the
London Stage, in residence at Lawrence
11 times in the past 19 years, spends a week on campus performing and working
with students, including all Freshman Studies sections, as well as a performance
workshop on gender in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, which is their
main production of the week. In addition, Ann Northam of the company performs “Lady
Macbeth Speaks,” by John Cargill Thompson.
Participants in the Friendship
Family Program — international students
at Lawrence and their volunteer host families from the local community — enjoy
the fellowship of a Halloween pumpkin-carving party.
November 2003
Jazz
Celebration Weekend features
Kurt Elling, the Laurence Hobgood Trio, the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble,
and the Jazz Singers on Friday evening and
the Mingus Big Band and the LU Jazz Ensemble on Saturday. Founded in 1981,
Jazz Celebration Weekend also includes clinics for high school vocal jazz ensembles,
solo jazz singers, instrumental big bands, and combos. Pictured: Kurt Elling
(right) with members of the LU Jazz Singers.
Conservatory of Music students earn first-place honors in six divisions, including
both music theatre categories, at the 2003 Wisconsin Chapter of the National
Association of Teachers of Singing audition
competition held on the Lawrence
campus.
Lawrence ranks among the top schools in the nation when it comes to providing
a high quality undergraduate educational experience, according to the 2003
Report of the National Survey
of Student Engagement, co-sponsored by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Pew Forum on Undergraduate
Learning.
Cross-country standout Courtney Miller, ’04, places second at the Midwest
Conference Championships, and the Lawrence women take second place, just two
points away from claiming the title.
On exhibition in the Wriston Art
Center Galleries are “Greek Coins from
the Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins”; “Images
of Tibet,” a photographic exhibit by Kuo-Ming Sung, associate professor
of Chinese and Japanese; and “Earthenware Expressions: Pre-Columbian
Ceramics from the Lawrence University Collection.”
Barely
a month after Actors from the London Stage performed Shakespeare’s
Measure for Measure, the Bard returns to Lawrence with the Fall Term
Play,
The Winter’s Tale (pictured), directed by Timothy X. Troy, ’85,
associate professor of theatre arts and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis
Professor
of Theatre and Drama.
Pianist Joseph Ross, ’06, and violinist Vincent Soler, ’05, are
named co-winners of the Tenth Annual Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra
concerto competition and will perform as soloists with the orchestra at concerts
in January and May, respectively. The concerto competition was started in 1994
to give students the opportunity to perform a full-length work with the orchestra.
Frank Doeringer, professor of history and the Nathan M. Pusey Professor of
East Asian Studies, delivers the November Lunch at Lawrence talk, titled “A
Fragile Peace: The Changing Dynamics of East Asian Security and Stability.”
Alumni events in November include an invitation to view an exhibition of photography
by Tim Long, ’83 (Appleton), a private showing of etchings by Arthur
Thrall, professor emeritus of art (Milwaukee), a reception for hockey alumni
and parents
(Appleton), and an introduction to
his novel, Unplugged, by Paul McComas, ’83 (Evanston, Ill.).
Tenor Darryl Taylor is the featured performer in the 13th Annual Ben Holt Memorial
Concert. Named in memory of Metropolitan Opera baritone Ben Holt (1955-90)
and directed by Dominique-René de Lerma, visiting professor of music,
the concert series provides performance opportunities for young musicians of
minority heritage.
The football team finishes its season with a 21-20 victory at Knox College.
The Vikings rally from a 14-0 deficit, with running back Adrell Bullock, ’07,
scoring what proves to be the winning touchdown early in the fourth quarter.
The 2003 “Celebration of Indo-American Friendship and Goodwill,” co-sponsored
by Lawrence and IndUS of the Fox Valley and held in the Buchanan Kiewit Recreation
Center, features a keynote address by Wisconsin Poet Laureate Ellen Kort.
Violinist Claude Halter, ’05, wins the senior division of the 2003 Wisconsin
American String Teachers Association (ASTA) competition.
Eric Sager, ’90, of the Environmental and Resource Studies Program of
Trent University, presents a Recent Advances in Biology Seminar on “The
Potential Impacts of a Changing Climate on Temperate Deciduous Forests of Eastern
North America.”
December 2003
Claire Getzoff, ’06, scores 23 points, as the women’s basketball squad has its biggest win of the season, a 70-36 pasting of Beloit College
at Alexander Gymnasium.
Exceptional performances in the fall production of Shakespeare’s The
Winter’s Tale earn Brendan Marshall-Rashid, ’04, and Matt
Murphy, ’06,
invitations to the 2004 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition, part of
the American College Theatre Festival.
Alumni events in December include the opening reception for a Bergstrom-Mahler
Museum exhibition of carvings by Charlotte
Darling-Diehl, ’56 (Neenah);
women’s basketball games against Occidental and Whittier Colleges (Los
Angeles); men’s basketball games against Palm Beach Atlantic University
and Carthage College (Florida); and the Madison Repertory Theatre production
of Heartland, with music by Kim D. Sherman, ’76 (Madison).
The Independent 529 Plan, a tax-advantaged plan for families to save for college
tuition, is one of 30 new products highlighted by BusinessWeek magazine in
its annual list of new and innovative products. Lawrence was among the consortium
of 50 institutions involved in designing the financial plan.
The hockey team posts a 1-0 win over Marian College, which marks Lawrence’s
first shutout since November 1998. Goalie Andrew Isaac, ’07, makes 35
saves, including one with four seconds left, to preserve the victory.
January 2004
“Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation,” a traveling
exhibition examining President Lincoln’s efforts toward the abolition
of slavery, makes its only appearance in Wisconsin during a six-week stay in
the Seeley G. Mudd Library. In conjunction with the exhibit, the library sponsors
public lectures and collaborates with the Appleton Public Library on a series
of book discussions led by Lawrence faculty members.
Bill Bonifas, ’78, guitar, and a trio from the Wisconsin Conservatory
of Music faculty perform in a Jazz Alumni Showcase.
The first University Convocation of the Winter Term features Steven
Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, one of
the world’s leading cognitive scientists and author of How the Mind Works,
speaking on “The Blank Slate.”
Joanne Metcalf, composer and assistant professor of music, leads a pre-concert
discussion of her Doom-Begotten Music, before its premiere performance by the
Lawrence Chamber Orchestra.
Award-winning actor Megan Cole (Elizabeth
Cole, ’63) gives two performances
during a visit to Lawrence. “Illness, Stigma, and Being Female” consists
of excerpts from first-person accounts of five women who have suffered from
stigmatizing illnesses, and her one-woman show “The Wisdom of Wit,” is
an adaptation of Margaret Edson’s play.
The men’s basketball team beats Ripon College for the third consecutive
time, in an 82-62 blowout at Alexander Gymnasium. Later in the month, in a showdown
of two ranked teams, No. 13 Lawrence tops No. 21 Grinnell College 125-111 at
Alexander Gym.
Alumni events in January include the Men’s Basketball Alumni Game (Appleton);
the premiere performance of Abstraktes Bild, the 2003 ASCAP/IAJE Commission in
Honor of Quincy Jones, written and conducted by Fred Sturm, ’73, professor
of music (New York); and “An Evening of Art Song and Opera,” featuring
Jennifer Mathews, ’03, mezzo-soprano, and Margaret Ozaki, ’03, soprano
(Naples, Florida).
The 39th installment of the Lawrence University Midwest
Trivia Contest, “the
Mt. Everest of useless information,” enlivens a January weekend, broadcast
over WLFM and webcast on the Lawrence website. Phred Beattie, ’04, is grand
trivia master.
The student committee charged with organizing Lawrence’s annual spring
festival, Celebrate!, announces cancellation of the event, citing diminishing
attendance in recent years as well as increasing difficulty in recruiting Lawrence
students to serve as volunteers to plan and work the festival.
Glenn McGee, associate director of the Center for Bioethics at the University
of Pennsylvania, presents “The User’s Guide to Having a Genome: Why
Genetics Will Change Who You Marry, What Kind of Life You Have, or How You Make
Most of Your Decisions,” as part of the Edward F. Mielke Lecture Series
in Biomedical Ethics.
At its winter meeting, the Board of Trustees appoints Jill
Beck, former dean
of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine,
and current director of the da Vinci Research Center for Learning Through the
Arts at UCI, as Lawrence’s 15th president. The college’s first woman
president, she succeeds Richard Warch, who is retiring after a 25-year tenure,
the second-longest presidency in Lawrence history.
Three alumni begin terms on the Board of Trustees: Robert A. Anker, ’64,
Susan Stillman Kane, ’72, and Jeffrey C. Ballowe, ’77.
The second Artist Series concert of the academic year features the Eroica Trio.
Jodi Sedlock, assistant professor of biology, speaks to the Lunch at Lawrence
audience on “Going Batty: What Flying Mammals Can Teach Us Humans.”
Wild Space Dance Company presents its annual concert. Debra Loewen, artistic
director and founder of Wild Space, is an artist-in-residence with the Lawrence
theatre arts department.
Peggy’s Café in downtown Appleton displays artwork by Lawrence students,
beginning with the oil paintings of Sandra Schwert, ’05, and the Palladium-print
photography of Lauren Semivan, ’04.
Joel Rogers, ’05, is elected president of the Lawrence University Community
Council (LUCC), and Tariq Engineer, ’05, is chosen as vice president.
A performance of “The Lover” featuring Paul Hurley, ’01, and
Robert J. Capecchi, ’03, and sponsored by SOUP (Student Organization for
University Programming), is presented in The Underground Coffeehouse.
Craig Hanke, ’91, assistant professor of human biology at the University
of Wisconsin–Green Bay, delivers a Recent Advances in Biology Lecture titled “The
Regulation of Aldosterone Secretion.”
The 13th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration features Captain Bill Pickney,
the first African American to sail around the world alone. Later in the month,
a “Wisconsin Activists’ Tribute
to Dr. King,” sponsored by Students for Leftist Action, features a panel
of speakers including Joyce Ellwanger, Robert Miranda, and Kathy Grout.
January-March exhibitions in the Wriston Art Center Galleries are “Bolton
Coit Brown: Landscape Prints,” “Kristy Deetz: Paintings,” and “Hiroshige:
Visions of the Floating World.”
February 2004
Throughout the country, events are planned to honor President Warch in his 25th
and final year in office and to permit alumni, parents of current and former
students, and other friends of Lawrence to express their appreciation for his
leadership. Luncheons or receptions in various locales, hosted by members of
the Board of Trustees living in those areas, dot the calendar from February to
June. Beginning in Naples, Florida, the Warch Farewell Tour also travels to Boston
and New York this month.
Other alumni events in February include the Fourth Annual Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra Alumni Night (Milwaukee) and a performance by Jeffery Meyer, ’96,
piano, and Paul Vaillancourt (Chicago).
More than 70 middle-school students, 40 Lawrence undergraduate women, and five
mathematics and science faculty members participate in the first GEMS
Day (Girls
Exploring Math and Science), in which seventh- and eighth-grade girls from area
schools come to campus for a day of hands-on
science and math workshops. The program is part of the on-going PRYSM (Partners
Reaching Youth in Science and Math) program, which matches middle-school girls
with Lawrence women science majors for mentoring.
Meggin Brittain, ’07, wins the 100- and 200-yard backstroke at the Midwest
Conference Championships, held at Lawrence’s Boldt Natatorium. Other swimming
team members Adam
Kolb, ’06,
Chris Perry, ’05, Jodie Primus, ’04, and Paul Schook, ’04,
also win individual championships.
Patricia Vilches, associate professor of Spanish and Italian, presents a Main
Hall Forum examining issues of national and cultural identity, titled “Is
It Your Border or Mine?”
Two faculty members deliver public lectures in conjunction with the
national traveling exhibition, “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey
to
Emancipation,” on display in the Lawrence library. Jerald Podair, associate
professor of history, presents “Back Door to Freedom: The Paradoxes of
the
Emancipation
Proclamation,” and Faith Barrett, assistant
professor of English, discusses “Drums
Off the Phantom Battlement: American Poets and the Civil War.”
The Black Organization of Students presents “Keys to Prosperity,” its
third annual celebration of African American history and culture. Following dinner,
the program includes student presentations of dramatic scenes and an address
by motivational speaker James Harris from Milwaukee.
V-Day Lawrence University stages its third annual production
of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, directed by Alissa Melczer, ’06.
Proceeds from the
three performances are donated to various agencies that address the issue of
violence
against women,
including the Fox Valley Sexual Assault Crisis Center.
The Winter Term play is Carlo Goldini’s 18th Century comedy, Il Campiello,with music composed by Ben Klein, ’05.
U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management, and
Budget Lynn Scarlett; former Wisconsin Governor Tony Earl; and U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Regional Administrator Tom Skinner, ’83, are among the
speakers at a two-day “Summit on New Tools for Water Quality in the Fox-Wolf
River Basin” held at Lawrence and organized by the Fox-Wolf
Watershed Alliance. Skinner, who, in September 2004, will be appointed assistant
administrator for
the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, speaks on “Regional/Great
Lakes Water Quality.”
Chris Braier, ’06, scores 12 points and grabs 11 rebounds, as Lawrence
beats Carroll College 76-63 at Alexander Gymnasium to clinch the Midwest Conference
men’s basketball championship.
The College Democrats and College Republicans host a forum with three Appleton
mayoral candidates prior to the February 17 primary election. Kim Dunlap, ’04,
serves as moderator.
A four-part lecture series, “Democracy, Development, and Human Rights,” sponsored
by the Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in
International Studies, begins in February
and continues through April. Among the speakers is Jonathan
Greenwald, senior
fellow at the International Crisis Group, who spent the 1998-99 academic year
at Lawrence as the Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor.
Heidi Stober, ’00, wins the Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum
Competition for Young Singers, receiving the Scott F. Heumann Memorial Award
for her first-place performance. In June she will return to Lawrence as a guest
soloist for the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir performance of
Penderecki’s Credo.
Two Lawrence actors earn invitations to the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition
as part of the annual American College Theatre Festival. Devin Scheef, ’05,
and Nick Endres, ’05, are selected for the competition based on their recent
performances
in Carlo Goldoni’s Il Campiello.
Dave Douglas, composer and trumpeter, brings his Dave Douglas Quintet to Memorial
Chapel for a Jazz Series concert.
Brent Peterson, associate professor of German, discusses “From Sauerkraut
and Sausages to Döner and Falafel: How Germany Is Changing” in a Lunch
at Lawrence presentation.
Mortar Board’s “First Chance, Last Chance” lecture series presents
new faculty members in their first public lecture at Lawrence and departing faculty
members — well, you get the idea. Andrew Knudsen, assistant professor of
geology, who joined the faculty in the fall of 2003, gives his “first chance” lecture
on “The Search for Life on Mars: How and Why NASA Brought Mineralogy to
the Headlines.” It is a feature of Mortar
Board Week, which also includes a faculty story time session featuring Professors Bertrand
Goldgar and Catherine
Hollis of the English department.
March 2004
“Black Broadway,” a special performance in Memorial Chapel, presents “a
musical journey through black theatre history,” sponsored by the Campus
Activities Office, the Diversity
Center, the Black Organization of Students,
and the Multicultural Affairs Committee.
Wrestling team members Nick Morphew, ’04, and Ben Dictus, ’06, compete
at
the NCAA Division III Championships in Dubuque, Iowa. Morphew, who was named
an Academic
All-American for the third consecutive year, is eliminated after two bouts at
133 pounds. Dictus posts a 1-2 mark at 184.
Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy — professionally
known as SARK — delivers
a University Convocation address titled “Make Your Creative Dreams Real.” SARK
is the author and illustrator of a dozen personal growth, inspiration, and creativity
books, including Succulent Wild Woman and Prosperity Pie: How to Relax About
Money and Everything Else.
Lawrence hosts the Fox Valley Literacy
Coalition’s annual fund-raising
spelling bee and, as before, has a team participating.
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of Minneapolis-St. Paul sponsors
a “Networking
Night,” featuring the program “Networking — What You Need to
Know,” by Bill Paxton of Lee Hecht Harrison Global Career Services, followed
by some actual alumni networking.
The President Warch Farewell Tour rolls along, with stops in Seattle, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Denver.
Five Lawrence music students share top honors in the Tenth Annual Neale-Silva
Young Artists competition. Pianist Ka Man (Melody) Ng and the Lawrence University
Saxophone Quartet are named winners in the Wisconsin Public Radio-sponsored competition.
This is the fifth time in seven years that Lawrence students have won or shared
top honors in the competition, which is open to instrumentalists and vocal performers
17-26 years of age who are either from Wisconsin or attend a Wisconsin college.
The
Thomas J. Watson Foundation announces that seniors Janie Ondracek (left) and
Rachel Hoerman have been chosen to receive $22,000 Watson
Fellowships for year-long
study-abroad projects. Ondracek will travel to France, India, and Japan, and
Hoerman to Japan, Bhutan, Tibet, and Australia. Since the program began
in 1969, Lawrence has had 60 students awarded Watson
Fellowships.
Stephen Hough, pianist, winner of the Naumberg International Piano Competition,
and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is featured in an Artist
Series concert.
Kolade Agbaje-Williams, ’06, wins the triple jump and takes second
in the long jump at the Midwest Conference Indoor
Track and Field Championships and
is named the meet’s Outstanding Field Performer. Courtney Miller, ’04,
wins the 800 and 1,500 meters and claims women’s Outstanding Track
Performer honors.
“Iraq, One Year Later: A Retrospective and Look Ahead” is Associate
Professor of Government Claudena Skran’s topic
for Lunch at Lawrence.
On
stage at Lawrence this month: Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Francis
Poulenc (pictured) is the 2004 Conservatory Opera production, and “Crimes
of
the
Heart,” by
Beth Henley, is performed by senior theatre arts majors.
“Big News about Small Science: Integrating Nanoscience
and Nanotechnoloy into Physical Science and Mathematics Curricula,” a
faculty-development workshop sponsored by the Pew Midstates Science and
Mathematics Consortium, is
held at Lawrence and hosted by Karen
Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry,
and George Lisensky of the Beloit College chemistry department.
Fifteen students and five faculty members spend 11 days in Japan and China
on the latest of several East Asian study trips made possible by a grant
from the
Freeman Foundation. The focus of the 2004 Spring Break trip is on ancient
gardens as a manifestation of Japanese and Chinese culture.
The
men’s basketball team advances to the Elite Eight of the NCAA
Division III Tournament. The Vikings win three games, including the first
NCAA tourney game to ever be held at Alexander Gymnasium, before falling
82-81 in overtime
to the eventual national champion, the University of Wisconsin–Stevens
Point.
April 2004
Debra Davis, executive director of the Gender Education Center, is keynote
speaker at “Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? Recognizing the ‘T’ and ‘B’ in
GLBTQ,” a conference examining gender identity and sexuality issues.
Michael Lepawsky, ’59, of the University of British Columbia and Vancouver
General Hospital, delivers a Recent Advances in Biology lecture on “Work
and Play in Compressed Gas and Diving Environments.”
The baseball squad sweeps
a doubleheader from Carroll College at Fox Cities Stadium. The Vikings
win the opener 18-1 and take the nightcap 8-6, as Kevin
Fitzsimmons, ’06, delivers a bases-loaded
single in the bottom of the tenth inning to break the tie.
April-May exhibitions in
the Wriston Art Center Galleries are “Prints of
the Mexican Revolution,” “Deb Todd Wheeler: Fly Ludicrum: naturalisa,
artificialia, scientifica v.6,” and “Remembrance: Russian
Post-Modern Nostalgia.”
Washington, D.C., Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago are the latest stops on the
Warch Farewell Tour. Elsewhere on the alumni events calendar, Appleton
is the site of the First Annual Vikings Baseball Alumni Weekend.
“Life 04: What’s It All About?” is an evening program for seniors
subtitled “Everything You Need to Know about Life after Lawrence.” Topics
include buying a car, renting an apartment, connecting to a new community,
finding a job, and other practical pointers.
The college and the four fraternities involved issue a joint
statement announcing settlement of the lawsuits filed by alumni of the Lawrence chapters
of Delta
Tau Delta, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, and Beta Theta Pi and the
resolution of disputes between them about the housing of those chapters
and related matters.
A faculty panel presents “Edward Said’s Intellectual Legacy” as
a Main Hall
Forum. Rosa Tapia, assistant professor of Spanish, moderates
the discussion and is joined by Peter Blitstein, assistant professor
of history; Alexis Boylan, assistant professor of art history; Catherine
Hollis,
assistant professor of English; W. Flagg
Miller, lecturer in anthropology; and Lifongo
Vetinde, associate professor
of French.
The No. 1 tennis doubles
team of Jai Arora, ’04, and Fabrice Munyakazi-Juru, ’06,
beats Ripon College’s Paul Vanden Boogaard and Adam Bruno 6-4,
6-0 to win the title at the Midwest Conference Championships.
Jonathon
Roberts, ’04, is chosen to compete in the sound-design category
of the national finals of the American
College Theatre Festival and is
the first Lawrence student to win the five-state Region III competition
and advance to the national level. Cited for his work on the fall 2003
production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Roberts is one of four finalists but does not
win at the national level.
“Field of Flags: Stop the Hate” places nearly 2,000 miniature
flags, symbolizing 11 individuals who were killed in 2002 as a result of
hate crimes and the more than 9,200 others in the United States that year who
were
victims of reported hate crimes, on the campus green at the southeast corner
of College and Lawe Streets for one day.
The softball squad qualifies for the Midwest Conference Tournament for the
third consecutive season. Lawrence goes 1-2 at the tourney at Lake Forest College
and finishes the season with a 19-15 record, the eighth consecutive winning
season for the Vikings.
A screening of the award-winning African film “Pieces of Identity” opens
the first Lawrence University African Studies Lecture Series, sponsored by
the Susan and Richard Goldsmith African Studies Fund. Following the film, Professor
Jude Akudinobi of the Department of Black Studies at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, speaks on “Identity, Cultural Production, and African
Cinema.”
The Stefon Harris Quintet, featuring Stefon
Harris on vibraphone and marimba,
presents the last Jazz Series concert of 2003-04. The Jazz Series is sponsored
by Kimberly-Clark.
The Lunch at Lawrence speaker for April is Rex Myers, lecturer in history
and Freshman Studies, speaking on “Corps of Discovery/Core of the Matter:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-06.”
Two alumni prominent in state government return to lecture at their alma mater
on separate occasions in April: Representative Jon
Richards, ’86, member
of the Wisconsin General Assembly, and Cory
Nettles, ’92, secretary of
the state commerce department.
In the air and on the stage: Lawrence University Theatre of the Air presents
its fourth annual Live Taping Sessions, this year offering science fiction
fare from the Golden Age of Radio. Later in the month, Lawrence University
Musical Productions (LUMP) raises the curtain on Little Shop of Horrors.
Classics Week begins with the traditional presidential proclamation, proclaimed
by President Warch from the steps of Sampson House. Other events include
lectures by Daniel J. Taylor, ’63, the Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics, “Olympia
and the Olympic Games: 776 B.C.-2004 A.D.”; Suzanne Henrich, ’05, “Matron,
Maiden, Witch: Roman Archetypes of Women in Virgil’s Aeneid”; and
Stacy Anderson, ’04, “Stories from Exile: Ovid, Myths, and the
Poetry of Relegatio.” The Maurice P. Cunningham Memorial Lecture, “Art
vs. Nature in Ancient Rome,” is delivered by Philip Thibodeau, assistant
professor of classics, DePauw University.
The Lawrence University Alumni Association Board of
Directors gathers on campus
for its spring meeting. On its agenda, in addition to regular
business
sessions,
are a demonstration of Voyager for Alumni, the college’s new, secure
Web-access information system; lunch with members of The Lawrence Fund
Student Team (which
will hold its Lawrence Fund Awareness Event for students that evening);
and “Following
in Their Footsteps,” a Career Center networking event in which
the alumni board members participate each year.
The COWS (Counselors Observing Wisconsin Schools) program, now in its
13th year, brings some 40 out-of-state school guidance counselors on
a five-day
tour of
five cooperating institutions: Beloit College, Lawrence University,
Marquette University, Ripon College, and the University of Wisconsin-–Madison.
President Warch is the featured speaker at a Mortar Board “First Chance/Last
Chance” lecture.
May 2004
Lawrence’s sixth annual Earth Day Festival features live music; information
booths addressing various environmental issues, including hybrid automobiles,
energy efficiency, wildlife rehabilitation, and others;
a rock-climbing wall; a literature distribution in local neighborhoods;
and an
address by State Representative Spencer Black (D-Madison), titled “Protecting
the Earth in a Time of Challenges.”
The Warch Farewell Tour makes a stop in Minneapolis. Other May alumni events
include Vikings baseball at Miller Park (Milwaukee) and a performance by
the Lawrence Chamber Players (Madison).
The Seventh Annual Richard A. Harrison Symposium for the Humanities and
Social Sciences showcases student research and writing. The event is named
in memory
of Richard Harrison, dean of the faculty from 1992 until his death in 1997,
who was one of its founders.
Golfer Andy Link, ’06, earns All-Midwest Conference honors for the second
consecutive season, as he takes fourth place at the Midwest Conference Championships
at Aldeen Golf Club in Rockford, Ill. Blake Nelson, ’05, also
makes the all-conference squad, and the Vikings take third in the team
standings.
Jon Horne, ’06, is elected state chair of the Wisconsin College Republicans
at the organization’s annual convention in Appleton. The former
chair of the Lawrence College Republicans, he currently serves as a
member of
the executive
committee of the Outagamie County Republican Party.
Sponsored
by the Lawrence Volunteer and Community Service Center, the Third Annual Shack-a-thon (pictured)
draws more than 20 teams of students who assemble living
quarters
from donated materials on 10-foot-square plots near Main Hall. Collection
jars are placed in front of each shack with cash donations serving
as votes for
a “Best
Shack” contest, with proceeds directed to the eventual construction
of a Habitat for Humanity home in the Fox Cities.
Cynthia Estlund, ’78, professor
of law at Columbia University, presents a Main Hall Forum, “Working
Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy.”
Donald A. Smart, ’64, president of The
Founders Club, and William O. Hochkammer,
Jr., ’66, co-chair of the Lawrence-Downer
Legacy Circle, invite members
of those two groups to shared events on the campus. The Founders
Club dinner on May 6 is an occasion to honor President Warch. The
next day,
the Legacy Circle
holds its annual luncheon, preceded by a program titled “Liberal
Learning and the Lawrence Tradition.”
Dinesh
D’Souza, the
Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, lectures on “What’s So Great
About America,” based on his 2002 book of the same title. The conservative
author’s Lawrence visit comes at the invitation of the College
Republicans.
The Annual Senior Exhibition, featuring the work of eight art majors,
opens in the Wriston Art Center Galleries and continues through August
1. Exhibitors
include
Kize Behrends,
Laura Corcoran, Aaron Graber, Rachel Hoerman, Nicole Kocken, Lauren
Semivan, Jessica Kullander, and Nolan Riegler.
Courtney Miller, ’04, wins the 800 and 1,500 meters at the
Midwest Conference Outdoor Track and
Field Championships and is named the meet’s
Outstanding Track Performer.
Annie Krieg, ’01, who taught English in Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship,
delivers a public lecture on the 12th-century collegiate church of
St. Servatius in Quedlinburg, Germany, and its importance to Adolph Hitler’s
Third Reich.
Senior Courtney
Doucette (pictured) receives
a $23,000 grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
to support a ten-month
study of Russian
history at
the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia. This is the second
straight year and the third time in four years that a Lawrence student
has been
awarded a Fulbright
Fellowship.
“
The Medieval Work of Art: Wherein the ‘Work’? Wherein the ‘Art’?” is
the topic of the second William A. Chaney Lecture, delivered by Jeffrey
Hamburger, professor of the history of art and architecture at Harvard
University.
Baritone Jubilant Sykes performs the final concert in the 2003-04 Artist
Series. The artist series is sponsored by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
Environmental historian William
Cronon, the Frederick Jackson Turner
Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies
at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison, closes the 2003-04 University Convocation series
with an address titled “The Portage: History and Memory in the Making of
an American Place.” Also at the Honors Convocation, at which
students and others are recognized for their accomplishments during
the year,
Cronon is presented
with the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters.
The Spring Term Play is Noises Off, by Michael Frayn; the Music Theatre
Workshop presents Opera Scenes; and the Mêlée
modern dance group gives its annual concert.
Christian Grose, assistant
professor of government, delivers the May Lunch at Lawrence program,
speaking on “Forecasting the 2004
Elections: Can Outcomes Be Predicted Before Even a Single Vote is
Cast?”
Lawrence International’s Cabaret, this year titled “Express Yourself,” offers
dinner, dancing, and drumming drawn from the cultures represented by
Lawrence’s international students.
For the first time, the Senior Dinner is held at the Radisson Paper
Valley Hotel rather than on campus, because the larger facility permits
more seniors
to invite
faculty members as guests.
June 2004
Lawrence trustees John Ellerman, ’58, Thomas Kayser, ’58, O.B. Parrish, ’55,
and Constance Purdum, ’55, invite members of the Classes of 1955-59 living
in Chicago to attend a celebratory brunch and presentation, “Fifty
Years: In Anticipation of Your 50th Class Reunion.” William
Chaney, professor emeritus of history, is the featured speaker.
The
Appleton Historic Preservation Commission confers Certificates of
Appreciation on Lawrence University, recognizing the college’s efforts to “restore
the character of your property, which in turn will have a positive impact on
the City of Appleton.” The two certificates refer specifically
to restoration projects in Main Hall and the Memorial
Chapel. The certificate for the chapel
is later presented by President Warch to Dorothy S. Hoehn, P’64,
in gratitude for her role in making possible the renovation of that
campus landmark.
Events honoring retiring President Warch grow more numerous as the
end of the academic year approaches. The final Farewell Tour reception
is held
on
the Main
Hall Green, as is a campus-wide picnic, at which students, faculty,
and staff salute President and Mrs. Warch on what Appleton Mayor Timothy
Hanna
officially
proclaims as Richard Warch Day in the city.
Wisconsin Builder magazine cites Hiett Hall as one of 20 “Top
Projects of 2003,” and The Chronicle of Higher Education includes
the residence hall in a feature on new and refurbished college buildings.
Daniel Taylor, ’63, the
Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics, delivers the address “Making Connections” at
the Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2004.
A total of 301 seniors, the largest graduating class since 1977, receive
Bachelor of Arts and/or Music degrees at Commencement, where
Lawrence also awards honorary
doctorates to John Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times; Jonathan
Fanton, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation;
Stanley
Fish, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University
of Illinois-Chicago;
and Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University. All four honorary degree
recipients, along with President Warch, Lawrence Board of Trustees
Chair Jeffrey Riester, ’70, and student representative Andrea
Hendrickson, ’04,
address the graduates.
Also at Commencement, Professor of Music Robert
Levy, retiring after
25 years as director of bands at Lawrence, receives professor emeritus
status and is awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree, ad eundem. In a
surprise addition to the program, board
chair
Riester
calls Margot Warch, wife of the retiring president, to the Commencement
platform and presents her with an honorary M.A., ad eundem.
Carol Lawton, professor of art history, receives Lawrence’s
Award for Excellence in
Teaching, given annually to a faculty member for outstanding
performance in
the teaching process, and Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry,
is presented with the Young Teacher Award in recognition of demonstrated
excellence in the classroom and the promise of continued growth.
Victor Akemann, an advanced biology teacher at Stevens Point Area
Senior High, and Karen Johnson-Zak, who teaches French at Gibraltar
High School,
are the 41st and 42nd recipients of Lawrence’s Outstanding
Teaching in Wisconsin Award, which recognizes secondary school
teachers for education excellence.
Recipients are nominated by Lawrence seniors who attended
high school in Wisconsin.
Some 900 alumni and guests attend Reunion
Weekend 2004, which includes
reunions for the Classes of 1940-49, 1954, 1964, 1968-70, 1979, 1988-90,
and 1994,
as well as a special reunion for alumni of the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic
Band
from the Classes of 1980-2003, which included performance opportunities
in a concert and a trumpet recital.
President Warch delivers his last Reunion Weekend Convocation speech
to the assembled alumni, titling it “One
Last Time.”
The president also sets aside time at the Reunion Convocation to remember
Carol Butts, ’49, retired librarian and university archivist, and Thomas
Stevenson Smith, LL.D. ’80, president of the university, 1969-79, both
of whom died during the past academic year.
Three alumni are recognized with distinguished achievement awards and
five with service awards during Reunion
Weekend: Jean Bragg Schumaker, ’68, and David
Hawkanson, ’69, the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award; Mary
Louise Knutson, ’88, the Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement
Award; William Mittlefehldt, ’68, the George B. Walter Service to Society
Award; Kelly Carroll Rhodes, ’89, and Gina Perri Jaeckl, ’94, the
Marshall B. Hulbert Young Alumni Service Award; and Walter and Barbara Ives Isaac,
both ’64, the Gertrude B. Jupp Outstanding Service Award.
“Cultural Conversations: Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization” is
the theme of the ninth annual Mielke Summer Institute in the Liberal
Arts for teachers in the Appleton and Shawano public schools. The faculty
for
this year’s
institute includes Beth De Stasio, ’83, associate professor of
biology and Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science; Karen Hoffmann, ’87,
assistant professor of English; Frank Lewis, instructor in art and
director of exhibitions
and curator of the Wriston Art Center; Randall McNeill, assistant
professor of classics; and Dirck Vorenkamp, associate professor of
religious
studies. The
institute is made possible by a grant from the Mielke Family Foundation,
Inc.