Lawrence
Today magazine, Spring 2007
Stephanie Frye ’07 earned third-place honors in the Tuba Artist Division
of the 21st Annual Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival
held in mid-August. This was the second straight year she was named a finalist
in the division; she was the youngest finalist in this year’s competition.
An article by Audra Hilse ’08 titled “Not All
Constitutions Are Created Equal,” commenting on the Iraqi constitution,
was published in the September 2006 issue of the online newsletter The
Undercurrent.
Joy Jordan, associate professor of statistics, was inducted into the Iowa
Girls High School Athletic Union Volleyball Hall of Fame in November. A native of
Mount Vernon, Iowa, she played on her high school’s 1984 state-championship
team, was named Female Athlete of the year by the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1987,
and went on to play at Indiana University, where she was a four-time Big Ten
all-academic selection.
Students in the ART 340: Digital Processes class taught by Assistant Professors
of Art Julie Lindemann and John Shimon were featured on Lawrence’s first
podcast, recorded in
February for Pop Goes the
Culture!
Participants in the discussion of Techno-Animism were Blair Allen ’07,
Peter Bennett ’08, Amanda Burgess ’07, Annicka Campbell-Dollaghan ’07,
Reed Heisley-Shellaby ’07, Hillary Krueger ’08, Julian Mendoza ’06,
Kate Ostler ’07, Jamie Pape ’06, Shelby Peterson ’06, and
Celine Vaaler ’07.
Ronald J. Mason, professor emeritus of anthropology, is the author of a new
book, Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral
Traditions (University of Alabama Press). A member of the Lawrence faculty from 1961 until
his retirement in 1995, Mason is also the author of Great Lakes Archaeology (2002).
Matthew Michelic, associate professor of music, has been elected vice president
of the Fox Valley Youth Ballet Theatre, and Carisa Platt ’09 was elected
co-secretary. Entering its 25th year, the nonprofit organization provides scholarships,
community education and outreach, and pre-professional dance performance opportunities
to young dancers.
Mary Ann Rossi, erstwhile Freshman Studies instructor and wife of the late
J. Bruce Brackenridge, professor of physics, is included in the new book Feminists
Who Changed America, 1963-75 (University of Illinois Press), documenting “key
feminists who ignited the second-wave women’s movement.”
Fred Sturm ’73, in November, was the subject of a two-part interview
on Discover Wisconsin, which is heard on over 50 radio stations.