July 2004
The Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers, an intense enrichment opportunity for high school teachers of advanced-placement or accelerated courses, offers classes in biology, calculus, chemistry, English literature, macroeconomics, Spanish language, United States history, and world history, taught by Lawrence faculty members.

Björklunden Summer Seminars have been taught at Lawrence’s northern campus since 1980, with only a brief interruption from 1993 to 1996 after a major fire. Lawrence faculty members and alumni teaching at Björklunden this summer include Arthur Thrall, professor emeritus of art; Lynne Goeldner Rompelman, ’72; Dale Duesing, C’67; Nicholas Maravolo, professor of biology; Peter Peregrine, professor of anthropology; Dirck Vorenkamp, associate professor of religious studies; and Jim Freim, ’68. Pictured: Jill and Rob Beck with members of the 2004 Björklunden summer staff (from left): Bradley Behrman, ’04, Christine Ziemer, ’04, and Reid Stratton, ’06.

The popular Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camp, in its sixth summer at Björklunden, expands to two weeks, with campers able to attend either week or both. Directed by Fred Sturm, C’73, Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music, it provides a high-quality participatory experience for adult jazz musicians at all levels, from beginner to semi-professional. Other Lawrence faculty members and alumni teaching at the camp are: John Harmon, C’57, D.F.A. ’05; Mike Hale, C’74; Dane Richeson, associate professor of music; and José Encarnación, assistant professor of music.

Mela Tenenbaum, violin, and Richard Kapp, piano, perform a special summertime recital in Harper Hall of the Music-Drama Center, an event made possible in part by Lois C. A. Smith.

The Lawrence Academy of Music offers an eight-week summer edition of its Early Childhood Music classes, in addition to its summer camps: Odyssey, Jazz Odyssey, and Piano Odyssey.

August 2004
A highlight of the annual Björklunden reception for members of The Boynton Society is the opportunity to meet Lawrence’s new president, Jill Beck, who assumed her duties on July 1. The reception is preceded, as in the past, by two sessions of one-hour classes, taught by Lawrence professors, on subjects ranging from “Unveiling the Secrets of the Nanoworld” to “Great Lakes Landscapes, Climate Change, Bioinvasions, and the Changing Face of the Door County Peninsula.”

New Horizons, an adult program originally developed at the Eastman School of Music, comes to the Lawrence Academy of Music with the introduction of a New Horizons Band, which attracts sufficient interest that, later in the year, a New Horizons Orchestra is launched for string players. Both groups meet weekly for rehearsals and perform with other academy ensembles and at community events. No previous band or orchestra experience is required; the program is designed for adult beginners and people who may have played an instrument in school but put it aside for many years.

Lawrence’s outstanding overall educational experience, its distinctive Freshman Studies program, and its diverse international student body are all cited by U.S. News & World Report in the magazine’s annual college rankings. Lawrence is ranked among the top quarter of the nation’s 217 leading national liberal arts colleges and cited in the “first-year experiences” category, in addition to ranking seventh among all liberal arts colleges in percentage of international students enrolled, with 11 percent.

September 2004
With the opening of a new academic year, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures re-invents itself as the Department of Chinese and Japanese and the Program in East Asian Studies. The former offers a major and minor in Chinese language and literature and minors in Chinese language and Japanese language; the latter offers a major and minor in East Asian studies.

The arrival of freshmen and transfer students marks the beginning of Welcome Week. President Beck, on the Memorial Chapel steps, greets each member of the Class of 2008 as they enter. The 358 new students come from 36 states and 26 other countries. Some 24 percent of them ranked in the top five percent of their high school graduating classes, and the average high school grade point average is 3.68.

President Beck opens the academic year at the annual Matriculation Convocation, at which she delivers the address “The Value of Individualized Instruction in Liberal Education,” stressing the importance of highly individualized, one-on-one personal interaction between students and teachers and specifying why that kind of close collaboration is so essential to effective learning. Pictured: Professor Richard Bjella conducts the Welcome Week Choir at the Matriculation Convocation.

Marcia Bjørnerud, professor of geology, is the 2004 visiting faculty member at the Lawrence London Centre, where she teaches two courses that take advantage of the museum collections and geologic sites available there.

Five new tenure-track faculty members join the Lawrence faculty for the 2004-05 academic year: John Paul Ito, assistant professor of music; Brenda R. Jenike, assistant professor of anthropology; Mark R. Jenike, associate professor of anthropology; Andrew Mast, assistant professor of music; and Robert F. Williams, assistant professor of education. Non-tenure-track appointments are made in art, education, English, French, government, Japanese, music, physics, religious studies, and theatre arts.

Students from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, arrive for the third year of the Thematic Studies Abroad (TSA) program. The Japanese students, who all have Lawrence students as roommates, follow a curriculum of English-language study and Freshman Studies-like courses in the liberal arts.

Adrell Bullock, ’07, breaks a school record with a 91-yard touchdown run, as the Lawrence football team pummels Knox College 30-7 in the season opener at the Banta Bowl.

The first exhibition of the year in the Wriston Art Center Galleries features Domino/Dominó, a mixed-media installation in the Kohler Gallery by Bibiana Suárez, artist in residence and visiting associate professor at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture of the University of Chicago and associate professor of art and art history at DePaul University. Recent acquisitions to Lawrence’s permanent collection are displayed in the Leech and Hoffmaster Galleries.

The play Boom Town by Jeff Daniels, directed by Timothy X. Troy, ’85, associate professor of theatre arts and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama, is performed as a senior project by Simonne Cullen, Zachary Johnson, and Dan Whiteley.

Mudd Gallery, a collaboration between the art department and the library staff, opens on the third floor of the Seeley G. Mudd Library. The first show, “Inaugural Mudd,” includes paintings, prints, sculptures, and video art of national artists. Assistant Professors of Art Joseph D’Uva and Rob Neilson are instrumental in creating a gallery space where students can show their work and get experience with curating shows, creating installations, and showing the artwork of Lawrence students.

October 2004
The Mielke Summer Institute is an enrichment opportunity for teachers from the Appleton and Shawano school districts. In 2004, its theme is “Cultural Conversations: Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization.” On campus in June, the teachers and members of the Lawrence faculty explored literary and artistic works taken from the reading list of Freshman Studies. In October, institute participants reunite for a weekend at Björklunden to discuss the concept of liberal education and its implications for the K-12 curriculum. The institute is made possible by a grant from the Mielke Family Foundation, Inc.

Greta Raaen, ’05, scores her first career hat trick in the women’s soccer team’s 6-1 win over visiting Beloit College. Raaen, a forward, goes on to earn All-Midwest Conference honors.

Reunion Weekend for alumnae of Milwaukee-Downer College (pictured), the first since their sesquicentennial reunion in 2001, brings 65 Downerites to campus for a weekend that includes, among other events, Alumnae College classes taught by Lawrence faculty members, an “open office” introduction to President Beck, and an afternoon at the river with the Lawrence crew.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Eric Cornell, a fellow at the research institute JILA, a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and a member of the physics department at the University of Colorado, delivers a public lecture titled “Stone Cold Science: Things Get Weird Around Absolute Zero.”

The women’s tennis team finishes with a 9-7 record in dual matches to set a school record for the most victories in a season.

Following an earlier appearance by President George W. Bush at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry addresses an evening rally on the grounds of Alexander Gymnasium.

Fall Festival, the event that combines Homecoming and Family Weekend, provides an opportunity for students; their parents, siblings, and extended family members; and alumni to sample the academic and extracurricular life of the campus. Pictured: Fall Festival football fans

At the annual Blue and White Dinner during Fall Festival weekend, six new members are inducted into Lawrence’s Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame: Bruce Larson, ’49, Carl Schwendler, ’59, Lincoln Saito, ’70, Graham Satherlie, ’82, Joel Dillingham, ’93, and Diana Ling, ’94. They are the ninth class to be welcomed into the Hall since its creation in 1996.

The second University Convocation of the academic year features columnist, author, and political commentator Arianna Huffington speaking on “The 2004 Election: What’s at Stake?” Huffington, who ran for governor as an independent in California’s 2003 recall election, is the author of Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America.

The Artist Series presents the vocal ensemble The King’s Singers as its first concert of the 2004-05 season. Formed at King’s College, Cambridge, in 1968, the six-member group is one of the world’s most sought-after a capella ensembles.

The weekend Student Seminar Series at Björklunden begins its ninth year. During the coming academic year, 150 students and faculty members will take part in 67 weekend seminars, an increase of 16 over the previous year.

A memorial service is held in the college chapel for Rebecca Epstein Matveyev, associate professor of Russian, who died unexpectedly on July 6, 2004.

Gregory Exarhos, ’70, a fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, presents a Science Hall Colloquium on the process of creating specialized film materials that are both transparent and able to conduct electricity and the numerous applications for such materials.

The theatre troupe Actors from the London Stage has been in residence at Lawrence 12 times in 20 years, spending a week on campus performing and working with students, including all sections of Freshman Studies. Their main production this year is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In addition, Nick Tigg, a member of the company, performs “The Margaret Daniel File.”

For the second consecutive season, the women’s cross country team places second in the Midwest Conference Championships, held at nearby High Cliff State Park. Cate Frazier, ’08, takes third; Colleen Detjens, ’07, is tenth; and Rachel Lucas, ’06, is 15th. Each of them earns all-conference honors.

Lunch at Lawrence is a monthly series of “Food for Thought” lectures given by members of the faculty for audiences drawn from the Fox Valley community. In October, Merton Finkler, professor of economics, speaks on “Health Care Reform: The Tradeoffs Before Us.”

The Concert Choir, Chorale, and Women’s Choir present “An American Story II.”

Oksoberfest, a dance party, is sponsored by the Health and Counseling Services and the campus chapter of BACCHUS (Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students). Later in the month, the same groups will sponsor an alcohol-free alternative for Friday night, as Dean of Students Nancy Truesdell conducts a tour of “Hidden, Secret, or Cool Places on Campus.”

November 2004
The second exhibition in the Mudd Gallery at the library is curated by the Wriston Art Collective (WAC), a student group. The juried exhibition features the work of Lawrence students selected by WAC student curators.

The men’s soccer team earns a berth in the Midwest Conference Tournament for the second consecutive season, a first for the Vikings. Lawrence falls to eventual tournament champion
St. Norbert College in the semifinals.

Rebecca Whelan, ’96, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, delivers a talk titled “Eavesdropping on Biomolecular Conversations,” about the challenges of understanding the biological signals that occur within the human body and how those signals are communicated.

“Moments of Silence,” a student-written and -produced play with a strong dance element, serves as the kick-off event for Amnesty International’s “End Violence Against Women” campaign.

Jeffrey Ostroski, ’06, is named lead trumpet player for the 2005 Midwest Regional Conference Intercollegiate Jazz Ensemble. The 20-member big band, selected from among the top student musicians from jazz programs in eight Midwestern states, will perform in April at the International Association of Jazz Education (IAJE) conference.

President Beck is the Lunch at Lawrence speaker for November, on the topic, “University–K-12 Partnerships in the Arts: The ArtsBridge America Model.” ArtsBridge America, which she founded, is an outreach program that places university students in K-12 classrooms as instructors and mentors. Lawrence, now the headquarters for ArtsBridge America, has joined the program as its 22nd member and first private institution.

Mark Jenike, who joined the Lawrence faculty this year as associate professor of anthropology, presents “From Chimps to Cheese Curds: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Nutrition” as a lecture in Mortar Board’s “First Chance, Last Chance” series, which features Lawrence faculty in either their first or last year at the college.

Featured at the 24th annual Jazz Celebration Weekend are Brazilian pianist, vocalist, composer, and arranger Eliane Elias and trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans, joined by the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble, Lawrence Faculty Jazz Group, and Lawrence Jazz Quartet.

“Impromptu Beckett,” a reading of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame,is performed by Sarah Hesch, ’07, Maureen Schneck, ’06, and Amy Thorstenson, ’07, in the Underground Coffeehouse in Memorial Union.

This year’s Edward F. Mielke Lecture Series in Biomedical Ethics begins with a talk titled “Commodification: Promise or Threat?” by Professor Margaret Radin of the Stanford Law School.

Rod Bradley, assistant dean of students for multicultural affairs, presents “Ways to Engage People with Different Political Beliefs,” a talk sponsored by the College Republicans.

The Fall Term Musical is The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, directed by Tim Troy, ’85, and music-directed by Jacob Allen, ’03.

Jane Marsching, adjunct professor at the Art Institute of Boston and Massachusetts College of Art in the Studio for Interrelated Media, delivers the opening lecture for the Wriston Art Galleries exhibition of her photography, sculptures, and other media. Also on exhibition in November are “Figure and Function from Papua New Guinea” and “Assemblatures” by Ronald Gonzalez.

Lawrence International hosts its Subcontinental and Middle Eastern Dinner at Lucinda’s.

The Vikings finish the football season with a 2-8 record after quarterback Eric Aspenson, ’07, tosses three touchdown passes in a 35-7 drubbing of Macalester College at the Banta Bowl.

December 2004
Chris Howard, previously the defensive coordinator and defensive secondary coach at St. Norbert College, is hired as the 25th head coach in the history of Lawrence football.

Wireless access to the Internet, for students, is now available on the first floor of the Seeley G. Mudd Library and soon will be added in the Atrium of Science Hall. By the fall of 2005, wireless access is also possible on the fourth floor of the library and in Science Hall, the Shattuck Hall lower lobby, and Memorial Union.

As a senior project, Brad Lindert, ’05, brings together three one-act plays by Samuel Beckett, staged in the Cloak Theatre of the Music-Drama Center.

Handel’s Messiah is performed by the Concert Choir, Chorale, Women’s Choir, and Lawrence Symphony Orchestra. The Lawrence Academy of Music String Orchestra, Wind Ensemble/ Honors Band, and Girl Choir also present seasonal concerts.

Lawrence Christian Fellowship sponsors a Christmas Dance, including dance instruction.

Burcu Goker, ’07, earns first-place honors in the Concord Chamber Orchestra competition and will perform Aram Khachaturian’s “Violin Concerto” in concert with the
Concord Chamber Orchestra in April.

January 2005
Angela Fagerlin, a research investigator in internal medicine and the Program for Improving Health Care Decisions at the University of Michigan, delivers the next lecture in the
Edward F. Mielke Lecture Series in Biomedical Ethics, "Pulling the Plug on Living Wills: How Living Wills Have Failed to Live up to Their Mandate.”

Peter Glick, professor of psychology, delivers a Lunch at Lawrence lecture titled “Backfire and Backlash: How Requiring Managers to be Nurturers Can Reinforce Discrimination Against Women.”

The theme of the 14th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day celebration, sponsored by Toward Community: Unity in Diversity, is “Civil Rights: The Continuing Quest for Equality.”

The topic of the 2005 Spoerl Lectureship in Science in Society is “Sustainable Agriculture,” and the first of four guest speakers is Fred Kirschenmann, director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Other talks in the series will deal with cultural connections to physical places and the future of farm land use, organic farming in the Midwest, and federal legislation related to organic farming and food labeling. The series is made possible by a fund created by Barbara Gray Spoerl, M-D’44, and her husband, Edward.

William O. Hochkammer, ’66, is elected chair of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees, and Cyndy Stiehl, C’89, becomes vice chair. New members added to the board are Peter R. Betzer, ’64, Cory L. Nettles, ’92, and Dwight A. Peterson, ’55. Margaret Banta Humleker, ’41, and Harold E. Jordan, ’72, are elected trustee emerita and emeritus, respectively.

Angela Bauer-Dantoin, ’88, associate professor of human biology and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, delivers a Recent Advances in Biology lecture titled “Brain Mechanisms for Regulating Fertility: The Role of Hypothalamic Galanin Neurons in the Control of Pituitary Reproductive Hormone Secretion.”

Alisa Jordheim, ’08, soprano, is named one of four “Level 1” national winners in the voice category of the Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) program, following a competition in Miami, Florida. Earlier in the year she had won a third consecutive state title at the Wisconsin chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition.

Joseph D’Uva, assistant professor of art, delivers the opening lecture for the January-March offerings in the Wriston Art Galleries, which include his print exhibition, “thecubscoutyears,” in the Hoffmaster and Kohler Galleries and “Impressions of the Floating World,” prints by Ando Hiroshige from the Lawrence permanent collection, in the Leech Gallery.

“Rock for Relief,” a benefit concert for victims of the December 2004 tsunami in Southern and Southeast Asia, is sponsored by the Volunteer and Community Service Center and Mortar Board.

An independent student production of “Bash: 3 Plays” by Neil LaBute, is produced by Matthew Murphy, ’06, and directed by Anneliese DeDiemar, ’03.

The Artist Series presents the St. Lawrence Quartet as its second concert of 2004-05. Formed in Toronto in 1989, the chamber ensemble performs traditional quartet repertoire but also is committed to performing the works of living composers.

The Appleton Women’s Choir Festival features the Lawrence University Women’s Choir; Lawrence Academy of Music Allegretto Girl Choir; and women’s choirs from Appleton East, West, and North High Schools.

A visit to Lawrence by poet Robert Creeley is sponsored by the Mia T. Paul Poetry Fund, which brings distinguished poets to campus for public readings and to work with students on writing poetry and verse. The fund was created in 1998 by Mia Paul, ’95.

Lawrence’s Great Midwest Trivia Contest celebrates its 40th anniversary, with Jonathon Roberts, ’06, as grandmaster. J.B. deRosset, ’66, founder of the annual festival of the trivial and offbeat, is invited back to campus to mark the occasion.

February 2005
The Office of Admissions announces that, beginning with students enrolling for the 2006-07 academic year, Lawrence will no longer require prospective students to submit SAT or ACT scores as part of their application for admission. Lawrence is the only liberal arts college in Wisconsin and the first member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest to adopt a test-optional policy.

The PRYSM program (Partners Reaching Youth in Science and Math) hosts its second GEMS Day (Girls Exploring Math and Science) for seventh- and eighth-grade girls. The program includes several hands-on science and math workshops led by Lawrence faculty members and students, including the creation of a website, “GEMS on Display.”

The men’s basketball team downs St. Norbert College 72-48 to win the Midwest Conference championship for the second consecutive season, the first time the Vikings have ever won back-to-back titles. Chris Braier, ’06, Dan Evans, ’05, and Jason Holinbeck, ’05, are all chosen for the all-conference team, and John Tharp is named Coach of the Year.

The women’s basketball team finishes second in the Midwest Conference standings and advances to the conference tournament before falling to Ripon College 69-59 in the semifinals. Lawrence finishes with the second-best record in school history at 18-6. Claire Getzoff, ’06, and Felice Porrata, ’05, are both named to the all-conference team.

The Fourth Annual Celebration of Black Heritage, “A Cultural Fusion,” features a dinner and a student showcase; the Lawrence University Russian and East European Club hosts a Russian dinner; and Lawrence International puts on its Jamaican-African Dinner.

John Lewis, a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and a member of Congress (D-Georgia) since 1986 (pictured), speaks on the importance of student activism and involvement in the protection of human rights and civil liberties in America in a University Convocation address titled “Get in the Way.”

The Fred Gaines Theatre Festival, part of the Lawrence theatre program’s celebration of its 75th anniversary, is titled “Love and Its Aftermath” and consists of one-act plays written and directed by Kass Kuehl, ’05, Brad Lindert, ’05, Aram Monisoff, ’07, and Michael Papincak, ’07.

Julie McQuinn, assistant professor of music, provides the February Lunch at Lawrence program, speaking on the topic “‘Once Upon a Time . . . And Once Again’: Fairy Tale Voices, Fairy Tale Visions.”

The issue of homelessness and the ways in which people can make a difference toward solving the problem are examined in a panel presentation, “Homelessness Today, Housing Tomorrow,” in the Underground Coffeehouse. Participants include representatives of the Fox Valley Emergency Shelter in Appleton, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, a former homeless person who is now an activist in Chicago, and a volunteer for the Chicago Coalition who is homeless.

The Vikings hockey team has its best finish ever, second, in the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association. Ryan Blick, ’05, sets career records for points (103) and assists (65), and Mike Burkhart, ’05, finishes as the school’s leading goal scorer (48).

Conservatory Opera presents Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck, with Tim Troy, ’85, as stage director and Bonnie Koestner, ’72, assistant professor of music, as vocal coach.Pictured at right.

Lawrence is a stop on the Black Authors College Tour, a town hall forum with authors Lois Benjamin, Jamise L. Dames, Brandon Massey, and Yasmin Shiraz. The program, which
focuses on issues that have an impact on the African-American community, is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

The Edward F. Mielke Lecture Series in Biomedical Ethics continues with David Dranove, the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, speaking on “Putting a Price on Life.”

During Mortar Board Week, President Beck’s “First Chance/Last Chance” lecture is “Reading and Writing Dance,” an interactive presentation on dance notation, in which participants read a simple dance and translate it onto the dance floor.

Poet William Fuller, ’75, shares some of his work in a reading sponsored by the Mia T. Paul Poetry Fund. In addition to writing poetry, Fuller is senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer in the trust department of Chicago’s Northern Trust Company.

V-Day Lawrence University presents its third annual performance of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, directed by Dan Whiteley, ’05. All proceeds from the performance are contributed to organizations dedicated to ending violence towards women, including the Fox Valley Sexual Assault Crisis Center, Men Can Stop Rape, and the Kiota Women’s Health and Development Center of Tanzania.

The Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies begins a four-part series on “U.S. and European Security: Challenges and Choices.” The first speaker is Esther Brimmer, deputy director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, speaking on “New Dimensions in U.S./European Security Relations.” Created in 1987, the series honors Mojmir Povolny, professor emeritus of government.

Swimmer Nick Heuer, ’05, wins two events and breaks two records at the Midwest Conference Championships. Heuer wins the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:09.47, breaking both the meet record (2:09.78) and conference record (2:09.55). He also wins the 100 breaststroke in 59.60 seconds and leads the Lawrence men to a second-place finish in the team standings.

March 2005
Benjamin Klein, ’05, a music performance (tuba) and theory/composition major, and Kelly Scheer, ’05, a biology major, are awarded Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowships for a year’s study and travel abroad. Klein will travel to Amsterdam, Sydney, and Hong Kong to explore innovative forms of new music, and Scheer will study migratory birds by traveling the 15,000-mile East Asian-Australasian Flyway from Siberia to New Zealand.

Hinamatsuri, the Girls Day Festival of Japan, is celebrated on campus by students of the Japanese language and students from Japan.

The men’s basketball team wins 70-56 at Gustavus Adolphus College in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. The Vikings are then ousted from the tournament for the second straight year by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Chris Braier, ’06, is named to the D3hoops.com All-America team for the second consecutive year.

“Sex: Taught in Schools but Learned from MTV” is a multicultural-education presentation by Sara Cisar, ’07, Jeni Houser, ’05, Christina Martinez, ’06, and Phyllis Odoom, ’05, in the Underground Coffeehouse.

Ben Pauli, ’06, is named the recipient of the 2005 Aldo Leopold Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the Wisconsin chapter of the Wildlife Society. He is the first Lawrence student to win the award, which is named in honor of the author of A Sand County Almanac.

Joia Mukherjee, a member of the faculty of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and medical director of Partners in Health, a non-profit organization that coordinates health-policy initiatives on a global scale, delivers a University Convocation address titled “On the Joy of Giving Back.”

Wrestler Ben Dictus, ’06, qualifies for the NCAA Division III Championships for the second straight year after winning the 184-pound title at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships. Dictus finishes with a 1-2 record at the national championships. John Budi, ’07, is named to the Scholar All-America Wrestling Team, marking the 12th consecutive year at least one Lawrence wrestler has earned that honor.

The Dana Foundation announces that Lawrence University is one of five institutions that will share a $75,000 grant to form a multi-campus coalition to work with the ArtsBridge America program. The other recipients are the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Utah; the University of California, San Diego; and Purchase College of the State University of New York. Lawrence is conducting its first ArtsBridge program with 13 undergraduate “ArtsBridge Scholars” working with more than 300 Fox Valley students, from kindergarteners to high school seniors, on nine projects.

David Swartz, who served as the United States’ first ambassador to the then-newly independent Republic of Belarus and was a Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor at Lawrence in 1997-98, is the next lecturer in the “U.S. and European Security: Challenges and Choices” series, speaking on “Unfinished Business in Eastern Europe: The Role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).”

Downer Feminist Council, Students for Leftist Action, V-Day Lawrence University, and Lawrence College Democrats sponsor an International Women’s Day dinner in the Barber Room of Downer Commons.

Peter Blitstein, assistant professor of history, delivers the March Lunch at Lawrence lecture, titled “Spy vs. Spy: Cold War Espionage and the Collapse of the Soviet Union,” excerpts from which are available online at www.lawrence.edu/news/pubs/lt/summer05/hdwhite.shtml.

Kolade Agbaje-Williams, ’06, wins the long jump and places in two other events at the Midwest Conference Indoor Track Championships. Agbaje-Williams, who is named one of the meet’s Outstanding Field Performers, wins the long jump with a leap of 22 feet, 3 inches. He takes second in the triple jump at 45-7.25 and fourth in the 400 meters in 51.32 seconds.

A performance of the play “Package Deal,” by Frederick Stoppel, stars Anneliese DeDiemar, ’02, and Kathy Privatt, associate professor of theatre arts, and is directed by Maryl McNally, ’05. Later in the month, Nicholas Endres and Meara Levezow present “Laughing Wild” as a senior project.

Lawrence hosts the Northeast Wisconsin Conference on Minority Participation in STEM Disciplines, organized by the Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP), an alliance of colleges and universities that aims to boost the number of underrepresented minorities who receive bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Alexis Boylan, assistant professor of art history, delivers the opening lecture for the Wriston Art Center Galleries exhibition, “Guys and Dolls: Gender in American Art.” Also on display is a site-specific installation by Mark Klassen.

Pitcher Chris Clouthier, ’07, goes the distance as the Lawrence baseball team beats the No. 3-ranked University of St. Thomas 9-7 in Florida. The Vikings go on to finish 13-21, and six players, including Clouthier, are named to the All-Midwest Conference team.

Kenneth L. Daniel, Sr., ’91, a gospel singer, performs in Riverview Lounge, sponsored by Lawrence Christian Fellowship and the Gospel Choir.

April 2005
Saxophonist Jesse Dochnahl, ’06, a music education and performance major, earns first-prize honors in the national finals of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Woodwind Young Artists competition, and cellist Steve Girard, ’05, a major in cello performance and chemistry, takes first-place honors in the 2005 Wisconsin edition of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) competition.

Three widely respected Civil War scholars take part in “New Approaches to the Civil War: An Interdisciplinary Symposium.” Later in the month, an Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Colloquium, held at Lawrence, discusses “Beyond the Battlefield: Teaching the Civil War Across the Disciplines.”

Lawrence Academy of Music’s Cantabile choir of seventh through eighth-grade girls performs at Carnegie Hall as part of the National Children’s Choir Festival.

The Lawrence Fund Student Team and the Senior Gift Committee sponsor “Tuition Runs Out Day,” an awareness-building dessert event that marks the point in early April when the amount students pay in tuition is used up, with the rest of the academic year paid for by gifts to The Lawrence Fund and by income from the college’s endowment.

Jane Gallop, professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, participates in a discussion of her 1997 book, Feminist Accused of Sexual
Harassment, sponsored by the gender studies steering board and Main Hall Forum.

Brian Hilgeman, ’05, wins the title at No. 4 singles to lead the Vikings to sixth place at the Midwest Conference Tennis Championships. Hilgeman defeated Grinnell College’s Rick Fenbert 6-3, 6-4.

Lawrence is named one of the nation’s “best value” undergraduate institutions by The Princeton Review. The New York-based education-services company selects Lawrence as one of 81 schools it recommends in the 2006 edition of its book America’s Best Value Colleges.

Life ’05, sponsored by the Career Center, is an evening program for seniors, also titled “Everything You Need to Know About Life After Lawrence.” Practical pointers include information about buying a car, renting an apartment, connecting to a new community, and finding a job.

The Lawrence Jazz Writers concert, “New Music for Large Jazz Ensemble,” features the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE) and Jazz Band.

“Moving in the Left Direction,” a one-day conference sponsored by GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, Other, Whatever), has as its keynote speaker, Robyn Ochs, author of Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World.

Seven Lawrence students attend the Arrowhead Model United Nations Conference, held at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. Members of the Lawrence Model UN group form the delegation representing the West African country of Benin.

A “Tsunami Relief Game Night and Raffle” is held by Lambda Sigma, the sophomore honor society, with proceeds donated to Habitat for Humanity to build houses in the affected area.

Lawrence University Musical Production (LUMP) presents The Last Five Years, by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Jacob Allen, ’03, and starring Patrick Ireland, ’05, and Elaine Moran, ’06. Allen, who is assistant director of conservatory admissions at Lawrence, also directed the 2004 LUMP production of Little Shop of Horrors.

The final performance of the 2005-06 Artist Series features flutist Eugenia Zukerman and harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, featuring works by Benedetto Marcello, Alan Hovhaness, Vincent Persichetti, and Jacques Ibert.

Bart De Stasio, ’82, associate professor of biology, speaks to the Lunch at Lawrence group on “Invasion of the Species: How the Zebra Mussel Threatens the Fox and Wolf River Basins.”

The COWS (Counselors Observing Wisconsin Schools) program, in its 14th year, takes out-of-state school guidance counselors on a familiarization tour of its five participating institutions: Beloit College, Lawrence University, Marquette University, Ripon College, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

SOUP (Student Organization for University Programming) stages a major concert at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, featuring the bands Guster and Better than Ezra.

A Conference on Agricultural Subsidies, sponsored by the campus organization Students Against Agricultural Subsidies, includes representatives from Oxfam America, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and other organizations.

Lawrence International’s annual Cabaret, this year titled “Welcome to the World,” features performances by Waseda students, Latin dancers, belly dancers, sub-continental dancers, and individuals, by audition.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the nine students who helped desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, presents “Return to Little Rock,” an address sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Multicultural Affairs Committee, the Alyssa Paul Maria Fund, and the Department of History.

For the first time, students register for classes via the Voyager online information system.

Folk singer/songwriter Greg Brown performs during Lawrence’s seventh annual Earth Day Festival, sponsored by Greenfire, the campus environmental organization. The observance begins with an official groundbreaking for the Sustainable Lawrence University Garden (SLUG), an on-campus garden that will be used to grow produce to be served in the dining halls and sold during the summer at the local farmers market.

Wildspace Dance Company, whose artistic director, Debra Loewen, is an artist-in-residence at Lawrence, presents its annual recital, “Never Stand Still.”

The Concert Choir, Women’s Choir, and Chorale concert is titled “Around the World, Opus 7.”

David King, associate director of the Institute of Politics and lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, politically profiles today’s youth in an address titled “The Activism and Optimism of American Youth: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy,” the third installment in the Povolny Lecture Series on “U.S. and European Security: Challenges and Choices.”

Poet Gillian Conoley, founder and editor of the poetry journal Volt and author of six books of poetry, including her latest, Profane Halo, gives a reading of her work, sponsored by the Mia T. Paul Poetry Fund.

The 2004-05 Jazz Series continues, with a performance by guitarist John Scofield and his trio.

May 2005
Jill Beck is formally installed as the 15th president of Lawrence University in a Memorial Chapel ceremony, the climax of a weekend’s activities with the theme “Celebrating the Arts and Liberal Learning.” The observance begins with the dedication of Cellular Automata, a work by sculptor Rob Smart, ’96, and continues with an all-day, campus-wide open house (pictured) for the local and campus communities featuring departmental displays, panels, discussions, and art exhibitions. President Beck’s inaugural address, “Taking Flight: Exploring New Collaborations Between the Arts and Science,” highlights an installation ceremony that also includes remarks by William O. Hochkammer, ’66, chair of the Lawrence Board of Trustees; Appleton Mayor Tim Hanna; Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton, ’87; John Bassett, president of Clark University, President Beck’s alma mater; and individuals representing Milwaukee-Downer College alumnae and Lawrence alumni, faculty, and current students.

The Lawrence golf team wins its first Midwest Conference championship since 1949 with a two-shot victory over Knox College. Joe Loehnis, ’06, Andy Link, ’06, and Markus Specks, ’06, all finish in the top ten to earn all-conference honors.

John Huber, ’84, professor of political science at Columbia University and faculty fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, presents “France, the European Constitution, and its Implications for the Transatlantic Alliance” as the final installment in the four-part international studies lecture series “U.S. and European Security: Challenges and Choices.”

Allen Buchanan, professor of public policy studies and philosophy at Duke University’s Terry Stanford Institute of Public Policy, presents “What Was Really Wrong with Eugenics” as the concluding lecture in the 2004-05 Edward F. Mielke Lecture Series in Biomedical Ethics. Buchanan is author of six books, among them Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market and From Chance to Choice.

The Vikings softball team wins the Midwest Conference North Division championship for the third time in four years and hosts the conference tournament. Lawrence is eliminated after a pair of losses and finishes the season 17-18. Lauren Kost, ’05, is named the North Division Pitcher of the Year.

The Spring Term play is First Lady, by Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman, directed by Katherine Privatt, associate professor of theatre arts. One of several events in the theatre arts department’s 75th-anniversary observation, the 1930s-vintage political satire recalls the era in which the department was founded.

Jerry Schmutte, a retired business executive and high school teacher, lectures on “Exposing Planned Parenthood,” under the sponsorship of the Lawrentians for Life student organization
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David Sokol, director of museum studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, presents “The Exclusion of Women from the Narrative of Frank Lloyd Wright,” a talk sponsored by the Fine Arts Colloquium, Main Hall Forum, and the gender studies program.

The men’s track team posts its highest finish at the Midwest Conference Championships since 1986 by taking fourth place. Kolade Agbaje-Williams, ’06, places in four events, and James Hahn, ’06, places in three.

Faith Barrett, assistant professor of English, delivers the May Lunch at Lawrence program, “‘Hearing the Battle’: Reading the Civil War through the Lens of American Poetry.”

Professor of Psychology Terry Gottfried presents “Music and Language Learning: Relation of Musical and Linguistic Tone Perception” as a Science Hall Colloquium, discussing the findings of his research with Lawrence conservatory students that indicates musicians hold a significant advantage over non-musicians in identifying and producing unfamiliar speech contrasts in a foreign language.

Members of student organizations transform Main Hall Green into a temporary shantytown for the fourth annual “Shack-a-thon,” (pictured) a fund-raising activity on behalf of Habitat for Humanity. All proceeds raised by the event are earmarked for the eventual construction of a Lawrence-sponsored Habitat for Humanity home in the Fox Cities.

Gary Aldrich, author of Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House, discusses “Free Speech Issues on Campus” from a conservative perspective in a campus lecture sponsored by the Lawrence College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation.

Matthew Ansfield, assistant professor of psychology, discusses his research on the paradox of positive facial expressions, such as smiling, in response to anxiety-provoking events. His
Science Hall Colloquium presentation is titled “When Laughter Is (and Is Not!) the Best Medicine.”

The Board of Trustees announces the promotions of Richard Bjella (music), Gustavo Fares (Spanish), and Peter Peregrine (anthropology) from associate professor to full professor. Assistant professors Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald (philosophy), Karen Hoffmann, ’87 (English), Eugénie Hunsicker (statistics), Joy Jordan (mathematics), Randall McNeill (classics), Karen Nordell (chemistry), and Katherine Privatt (theatre arts) are promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. Associate professors John Daniel (music) and Patricia Vilches (Spanish and Italian) also are granted tenured appointments.

Classics Week 2005 is highlighted by a symposium, “Empires, Ancient and Modern,” featuring a faculty panel including Randall L.B. McNeill, associate professor of classics, “Athens, Rome, and the Evolution of Empire”; Franklin M. Doeringer, professor of history and the Nathan M. Pusey Professor of East Asian Studies, “Han China and the Empire of Heaven”; Peter A. Blitstein, assistant professor of history, “Empire and Nation in Russian History”; and Claudena M. Skran, associate professor of government, “The U.S. in the 21st Century — An Empire?”

Pianist and composer Gonzalo Rubalcaba and his trio present the final Jazz Series Concert of the year.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger delivers the Honors Convocation address: “Three Issues for Colleges and Universities: Affirmative Action, Academic Freedom, and Globalization.” Students and others are recognized for their achievements during the academic year.

At the Honors Convocation, President Beck announces the appointments of Carol Lawton, Jerald Podair, and Fred Sturm, C’73, to endowed professorships. Lawton, a professor of art, will be the Ottilia Buerger Professor of Classical Studies; Podair, an associate professor of history, will be the Robert S. French Professor of American Studies; and Sturm, a professor of music, will be the Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music.

Lawrence baseball star Andrew Wong, ’06, is chosen for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team. The history major and shortstop bats .400 on the season with 14 doubles, five triples, a homer, and 31 runs batted in in 34 games.

June 2005
The Lawrence Fellows in the Liberal Arts and Sciences program is launched with the selection of eight recent Ph.D. recipients as the first class of Lawrence Fellows, for 2005-06. The program is designed to provide the fellows with mentoring relationships, teaching opportunities, and research
collaborations to better prepare them for professorial careers at selective liberal arts colleges, while also benefiting Lawrence faculty members and students.

The Department of Theatre Arts presents its Fifth Annual Radio Drama Festival, featuring some favorite family sit-coms of the 1940s, including The Aldrich Family, The Life of Riley, and Fibber McGee and Molly. Special guest Norman Gilliland of Wisconsin Public Radio provides introductory comments.

The Lawrence Symphony Orchestra is joined by the Concert Choir, Women’s Choir, Chorale, and White Heron Choral in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

Julie McQuinn, assistant professor of music, is invited by the Class of 2005 to speak at their Baccalaureate service on June 11.

On June 12, 279 seniors receive Bachelor of Arts and/or Bachelor of Music degrees at Lawrence’s 156th Commencement, held for the first time in recent years under a tent on the Main Hall Green. Honorary doctoral degrees are awarded to John Harmon, C’57, composer and jazz musician; Herbert V. Kohler, Jr., chairman, chief executive officer, and president of the Kohler Company; and Richard Warch, retired 14th president of Lawrence University. Each of the three honorary-degree recipients delivers a charge to the graduates; other speakers include President Beck, Board of Trustees Chair William O. Hochkammer, ’66, and senior-class representative Andria Helm, ’05.

Marilyn Catlin, a family consumer education teacher at Appleton East High School, and Joseph Vitrano, who teaches Latin and English at Wauwatosa East High School, receive Lawrence’s Outstanding Teaching in Wisconsin Award. The award recognizes secondary-school teachers for excellence; recipients are nominated by Lawrence seniors who were their students.

Also at Commencement, Fred Sturm, C’73, Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music and director of jazz and improvisational music, is presented with Lawrence’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, given annually to a faculty member for outstanding performance in the teaching process, and Rosa Tapia, assistant professor of Spanish, receives the Young Teacher Award, in recognition of demonstrated excellence in the classroom and the promise of continued growth.

Over 900 alumni attend Reunion Weekend 2005. In addition to class reunions, the weekend includes a Lambda Sigma reunion, a crew reunion, and a football reunion. Other features include an extensive children’s program, the traditional 5K run/walk, and an Alumni College.

President Beck delivers her first Reunion Convocation address to the alumni, reporting on “Ten Steps Forward” at Lawrence. The president also sets aside time during the Reunion Convocation to remember Douglas Maitland Knight, president of Lawrence College from 1954 to 1963, who died on January 23, “a man who was tireless in his dedication to Lawrence and optimistic about the future and the important role higher education might play in advancing our society and nation.”

The Reunion Convocation is an occasion for the presentation of reunion-class gifts to the college and also for the awarding of special recognitions to alumni from the reunion classes, including Kathleen Krull, ’74, the Lucia Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award; Heidi Stober, ’00, the Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award; Richard Snyder, ’65, and James Auer, ’50, the George B. Walter Service to Society Award; Stephanie Howard Vrabec, ’80, the Gertrude B. Jupp Outstanding Service Award; and James Spofford Reeve III, ’95, the Marshall B. Hulbert Young Alumni Service Award. Jim Auer’s award is presented posthumously and is accepted by his wife, Marilyn.

“The Fine Arts: Crossing Borders, Breaking New Ground” is the theme of the tenth annual Mielke Summer Institute in the Liberal Arts for teachers in the Appleton and Shawano school districts. The faculty for this year’s institute includes Faith Barrett, assistant professor of English; Alexis Boylan, assistant professor of art history; Julie McQuinn, assistant professor of music; and Kathy Privatt, associate professor of theatre arts. The institute is directed by Stewart Purkey,
associate professor of education and the Bee Connell Mielke Professor of Education. The institute is made possible by a grant from the Mielke Family Foundation, Inc.
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