Volume 83, Number 4, Summer 2003
Here are some highlights of the Summer 2003 issue of Lawrence University's quarterly magazine, Lawrence Today. To request a copy of the printed magazine or for other questions or comments, please contact the editor.
Aging with grace and style
The cornerstone for Lawrence University's oldest building, Main Hall, was laid in June 1853. This article and the two that follow are offered in honor of its sesquicentennial. Read the article
The Chaney tapes
David Hathaway, '57, and his classmate, Chuck Merry, '57, conducted a series of oral-history interviews with Professor Emeritus of History William Chaney, who joined the Lawrence faculty in 1952 and is its longest serving member. Transcripts of those interviews have been placed in the university archives, and this article contains excerpts from them. Read the article
A Classics chronology
Classics professor Dan Taylor, '63, who estimates that he has spent over half his life as a student or teacher in Main Hall, takes an affectionate look at his professorial predecessors. Read the article
One cannot teach what one cannot do
Dean of the Conservatory Kathy Murray argues that the music education program at Lawrence teaches students to both do and teach. Read the article
Also: Sun Prairie success story
Persistence of vision
Amy Varda, '04: the pitcher who persevered.
Read the article
Inside Lawrence