Assistant Instructor / Instructor, 1968 - 1972

"Marc Asch lives in North Oaks, MN., a suburb of St. Paul. I haven't seen him but noticed his ads when he ran for the state legislature a while back. He was only at JMC a short time, but did distinguish himself by coming to work one morning on his horse, which he tethered in the Snyder Phillips courtyard."

(SOURCE: Email from John Schroeder, 11/01/00)

"I am Marc Asch of horse riding fame. I was an Assistant Instructor in 1968 and then an Instructor for the succeeding years 1969, 1970, 1971. After I left I came back for a single semester in 1972 when Harold Johnson was off."

I was known as Renee Asher until I married Marty Jourden before our senior year at MSU. Happy to report, we are still married. After graduation, I couldn't find a teaching job, so I worked for the University while my husband went on to earn his Masters. We then moved to Des Moines, IA for three years while he attended medical school. After that, he joined the Army and we spent the next 20 years moving around the world. Spent 5 years in Hawaii (heaven on earth) and 6 years in Germany which I like to refer to as our European vacation. We have 2 great kids and we are now settled in Virginia. I never did get a full-time teaching job, but I actively sub in the junior high and high school here in Prince George County.

Email addresses once again:

JMC '76

"Jon Awbrey is alive and living a distributed existence on the Web. At any time, a current best approximation to his state of mind can be obtained by typing his exact phrase name into Google."

JMC '69

Ronald Bailey is Professor of African-American Studies and History at Northeastern University. He has taught at Fisk, Cornell, and Northwestern, directed the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Mississippi, chaired the Department of African-American Studies at Northeastern University, and recently served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at South Carolina State University. He is the author of Black Business Enterprise, Introduction to Afro-American Studies; Let Us March On!: Civil Rights Photographs of Ernest Withers, Jr.; "Those Valuable People, The Africans:" The Slave(ry) Trade, Cotton, and the Industrial Revolution in World History; and numerous articles and chapters. He has directed several projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, including two summer institutes on Nubia, the ancient African civilization, cosponsored by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Ron is currently Consulting Director of the Center for Understanding the Black Experience (CUBE), at Education Development Center, Inc. ... Ron's community development activities include work with the Madison Park Development Corporation on the ACT (Art, Culture and Trade) initiative in Roxbury, MA. A native of Claxton, Georgia, Ron is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Michigan State University, and holds an M.A. in Political Science (1971) and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Black Studies (1979) from Stanford University, the first such doctorate awarded in the U.S.

(SOURCE: http://edc.techleaders.org/LNT99/who/bios/ron_bailey.htm)

JMC '72

Info Posted at Planet Alumni (planetalumni.com)

Info Posted at University of Hawaii Website:

http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/Newsletter.html

On 19 March Jane Barnwell ... joined the staff of the Pacific Collection at UH Library to work in the areas of acquisitions, reference, and instruction. Ms Barnwell has a BA in anthropology from Justin Morrill College and an AMLS from the University of Michigan. From 1985 to 1994, she was Reference Librarian and Subject Specialist for Pacific Islands Studies, Southeast Asian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She served as Librarian at Palau Community College from 1994 to 2001.

"I am married to DeDe Bean. She can be contacted on her email ddbean[*AT*]comcast.net."

Stewart Lachman writes (September 2002):

"I think this has to be the guy--he looks pretty similar and works at a Laingsburg restaurant...."

http://www.statenews.com/editionsspring99/032699/ms_lowdown.html

This Webpage includes a photo of Beauvais in his professional roles as "...a chef for Jambalaya's, 5942 E. Round Lake Road in Laingsburg."

Also, there's mention of him as a contributor to Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination:

JMC '70

I am a realtor and personal property appraiser. I own Landmark Estate Services and do appraisals and estate sales all over New Mexico. I have three wonderful children. I look forward to hearing from other JMC grads.

JMC 1969 - 1973(?)

I graduated from msu with a degree in pre med from JMC and got accepted the next year at the College of Human Medicine at MSU. I became a family physician and practiced in Bradenton Florida for fifteen years and then came to Johnson City TN where I now work for the VA. So I am in Tennessee and my kids are from here. The funny thing is that where I grew up in Michigan, between Saginaw and Flint on a small farm is less sophisticated and had fewer people than where I live in Tennessee. ... I recall Mike Odette who lived in Sny Phy, Jeff Jackson, George Karras and just a bunch of other folks.

In many ways living at Snyder Phillips was a tremendously unique experience that defined that time of my life as in sync with what was happening in our culture at large. We really had an experience, didn't we?

JMC '73, M.D. '77

"...director of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, South Africe, was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award by the MSU Alumni Association.

Besides directing the South Africa center, Bennish is an associate professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and also serves as a pediatrician at the New England Medical Center's Floating Hospital for Infants and Children. He served on the World Health Organization Expert Committee in 1999. Bennish had been a course director at Tufts and has been an active researcher with many publications to his credit. he has won numerous awards, including the 1999 Outstanding Alumni Award from MSU's College of Human Medicine.

Deeply committed to volunteer service, Bennish has served as chairman of the Infection Control Committee, Bangladesh; as founder of the Laboratory and Pharmacy Committee, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases, Tufts; and as a member of the International Affairs Committee, Infectious Disease Society of America."

JMC '80

I entered JMC is the Fall of 1976 and graduated in 1980. I lived in Phillips Hall for two years and then moved off campus.

I did my JMC internship for Congressman Bob Carr and was hired as one of his Lansing district staff members when I completed it. After the Congressman lost his re-election bid, I took a job with State Senator Jack Faxon and went back to MSU for "just one year" to complete an MA in American Studies. I ended up staying at MSU for eight years and completed a Ph.D. in American Studies.

My varied career path has found me building a database on substance abuse for a treatment facility, directing the volunteer center at Kirtland Community College, doing fundraising for a non-profit in Detroit, working for an historical museum, and serving as an elected member of the West Brach-Rose School Board.

Along the way, I wrote bibliographies on lesbian/gay alcoholics, Jewish alcoholics, and spirituality in addiction. I also wrote a book on learning styles and one on Michigan quilt collections. And I've edited anthologies of high school writing.

Last year, I accepted a joint appointment in the Departments of English and History at Schoolcraft College where I also edit a feature called "Two Sides of the Same Coin" for the *Michigan Community College Journal*.

Mark Harris, one of my colleagues in the English Department, is a JMC alumni. In the tradition of JMC, Mark and I organized the first special event held at Schoolcraft to celebrate Martin Luther King Day and have secured funding from the college foundation to expand the celebration in January, 2002.

I now live in Farmington Hills with my partner, Jeremy Hall, and enjoy gardening and spending time with the dog. I pursue my artwork and am currently getting ready for a multiple-artist show that opens later this month at Harford Community College in Maryland. Samples of my artwork appear on my home page: http://home.msen.com/~halberg.

JMC '69

(The following is excerpted from an MSU News Bulletin concerning the College of Arts and Letters' second annual Alumni Leaders Program, 2001)

This year's alumni are Jack Epps Jr. (B.A., English, 1972), Juli Betwee (B.A., Justin Morrill College, 1969) and John Scott (M.A., art, 1965).

Betwee is president and founder of Betwee and Co., San Francisco, a management consulting firm to leaders in business and industry.

"Over the past 10 years, I have learned a fair amount about innovation and the skills, abilities and work style associated with an emerging industry," Betwee said. "I hope I can share some of this experience in ways that are meaningful to the students."

(SOURCE: http://newsbulletin.msu.edu/feb8/calalumni.html)

  ...and here's some notes about her Alumni Leaders presentation...

"During her interaction with students and faculty, Juli Betwee, a graduate of Justin Morrill College in 1969, stressed the importance of the liberal arts educational experience and its applicability to many vocations. Although Betwee said she is still forging a path to success, she has had many opportunities to work in a wide variety of environments. She initially began her career driven by a strong social work background, but then moved into the corporate sector, where she is currently 'passionate about social change in business.' "

JMC 1972 (minor in Art History), and currently independent Art Historian of East Asian Chinese Art. What this means is I do research for collectors and dealers, and occasionally (usually one semester a year) teach for friends and colleagues on leave. In the last few years I've taught at U. of Wisconsin, Madison, Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA, Rutgers, U. of Pennsylvania, and most recently (fall 2002) back at Michigan State.

Photo available in the Morrillite Mug Shots Gallery at this site

JMC student, Resident Advisor, Colorful Sny-Phi Troubadour and Raconteur

JMC 1972

Some of my best friends (still) are those who I met at JMC ...

They include Michael Darner (graduated in 1970) a successful partner in an architecture firm, as well as Larry Letavec (graduated in 1970) a happy retiree from the Federal Government. And also Carolyn Shorts ( Fermoyle) living in Mishewaka Indiana working for Indiana University; a friend of mine from high school in Ann Arbor who I followed to East Lansing in 1968.

I also was fairly friendly with John McConnell who did al ot of work on the Sheet during 1970 (I have alot of them still because we used to goof around for ideas for his "satyricon" articles. I was sorry to see so many instructors had died (I remember many of them, and still remember when Milt Powell came into class the day after Nixon got elected in 1968 in a total funk). I also would like to pay tribute to another JMCer -- Chuck Griffith -- who died of AIDs in the early 1980s.

As for me--yes i did take the cross-culturalism thing to heart. And I did parlay my Russian language studies at JMC (including a summer at Leningrad State University) into a career. After a few years of trying to figure out what to do with it, I finally attended graduate school in 1978 at Georgetown University's Russian Area Studies Program--got an MA and was hired by the federal government (the DoD to be exact) to become an intelligence analyst on Soviet military and security issues. And so I did. 27 years later and with the demise of the USSR becoming a distant memory, I am still working the issue (and am a senior analyst to boot) but in a much more interesting capacity because Russia is no longer an enemy but just an irritating complex country that still has lots of nuclear weapons. And although I am glad we won the cold war (actually the Russians lost it more than we won it) I am utterly and totally opposed to the current Iraq debacle and have been from the start, so being in Washington and working for an administration that I despise has not been an easy thing to do. Needless to say, the intelligence community is a lot different than when I started doing this work and I will be more than happy three years from now to retire.

I have nonetheless had a lot of opportunities to travel to the former USSR (and many other countries as well) and that has been great, particularly since the first time I visited was 1969. Last year I finally revisited St Petersburg and got to see the old dormitory that I and the others stayed in so long ago. Its totally gutted and awaiting reconstruction (or in the Russian parlance it is 'na remont')

Inquiry and Expression (I&E) instructor, 1966-1973.

MSU should not be holding its breath waiting for a major bequest; I can donate enough to get a memorial doorknob named after me.

I have observed that many of my friends have become university professors and researchers. To my knowledge, I can drop the names of Notre Dame, Wayne State, Vermont, Dartmouth, and Colorado. There seem to be a variety of attorneys as well, scattered around the country. Some people remained in Lansing, but not many. An uncertain number, like myself, went into public service, working for non-profits or local governments. I would like to hear more about this.

Photo from 1971-'72 available in the Image Gallery at this site

"Edward A. Brill, a partner in the Labor and Employment Law Department of Proskauer Rose LLP's New York office, is a 1972 graduate of Yale Law School.

Ed has represented employers in collective bargaining, arbitration and administrative proceedings before the EEOC, state civil rights agencies, the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board. He has also represented employers in all types of employment litigation, both in New York and a number of other jurisdictions, including Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas, Illinois, Iowa., Missouri, California, Georgia, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.

Ed also provides guidance to clients, on an ongoing basis, on a wide range of employment and labor law matters, including employee discharge and discipline, equal employment opportunity obligations, development of personnel policies and downsizing and reduction in force.

Ed has devoted a significant amount of time over the past few years representing both Yale University and New York University in connection with widely-publicized disputes involving union efforts to organize graduate student teachers and research assistants. He is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys.

Ed also served from 1995 to 1999 as a member of the National Advisory Committee, established to provide advice to the Department of Labor under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) labor accord. He is also the past Chair of the International Employment Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association.

Ed received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in 1969."

JMC '??

Paul and his wife Suzette (DEGRANDCHAMP) Buehrle currently live in the Dallas area.

"Yes, from the autumn of 1968 to the spring of 1970 I was part of the JMC experience."

JMC 1969 - 1971

"Graduated from a similar school within Grand Valley State Colleges, TJC (Thomas Jefferson College) in 1974.

Currently an upper cervical specific chiropractor in Grand Rapids, MI

http://www.BurconChiropractic.com"

JMC '68 (that's not a typo - 1968...)

"Margaret, the oldest, was the very first graduate from a special honors college (Justin Morrill College) at Michigan State University. Recently she received her master's degree from Viterbo College in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. She is a widow who lives in Decorah, Iowa, and she teaches Spanish in nearby Cresco. She has a step-son named Paul, and she is proud of her grandchildren."

(SOURCE: Brother's webpage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3224/family.html)

Family photo of Margaret's 1968 graduation day available in the JMC Image Gallery at this site

JMC 1971 - ????

"...began in JMC and Sny-Phi in fall '71, was active in JMC college governance, roomed with Sue Pitts off campus, was friends with John McCall..."

"Hester moved to Tallahassee, Florida after JMC. I talked to her twenty years ago while she was living there."

"Today I googled and found: Hester Cain Bryant ...[in Tallahassee]..."

JMC 1975-1979

"Alive and well..."

5921 Buck Quarter Road
Hillsborough, NC 27278

http://www.cmwlaw.net/profiles/partners/obrcau~1.htm
 
Photos available in the Morrillite Mug Shots Gallery and the JMC Then and Now Gallery at this site

"B.A., Michigan State M.P.T., Baylor University M.S., San Francisco State University"

Information as posted in the Sacramento City College Faculty & Staff Information Directory.

"P.T., M.S. (program coordinator / instructor )

Graduate of US-Army Baylor University program in Physical Therapy 1975; SFSU Health Science graduate program 1991. Areas of interest include orthopedic and neurological rehabilitation, and educational psychology. Continuing education includes 3 mo. PNF course, adult & pediatric NDT certification. Formerly assistant clinical professor UCSF Curriculum in Physical Therapy. Beth is currently a graduate student in psychology at Capella University."

"Gary Cohn has been a professional writer since his first sale, in 1974, to Damon Knight's Orbit 18 science fiction anthology. In the early 1980's he freelanced mostly for DC Comics, and co-created, with Dan Mishkin, Blue Devil and Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, as well as creating the science fiction series Barren Earth and writing dozens of other scripts. After spending most of the past decade teaching composition, creative writing and American history at Long Island University and City College of New York and working on his doctorate in American history he returned to comics, joining Billy Tucci's Crusade Entertainment, for which he has written the acclaimed Senryaku miniseries, co-written (with Tucci) the Shi/Cyblade team-up, and edited several issues of Shi: The Way of the Warrior and the Tomoe miniseries. Gary is an ardent motorcyclist, a recreational fencer and martial artist."

(SOURCE: http://www.dragoncon.org/people/cohng.html)

Gary "...is now teaching English and history in a New York City high school."

I resided in Phillips dorm for the Fall of 1974. Also participated in the JMC Mississippi River Trip of 1975 along with about 23 others.

I too graduated in (January) 1979 and was given Tim Crane's treatment of insult upon injury when *The College of Social Science* was imprinted upon my diploma. Never went to a class under college of Social Science that I am aware of.

In the years since I've done a bit of travelling, worked at power plants and municipalities, worked farms, operated county snow plows, and somehow clattered into my own home maintenance biz. Guess building sets for Balm in Gilead paid off. Thanks for that boost of faith, Sears!!

Morrillities were a huge joy in my life back then and I didn't realize how much I missed Y'all till R. Sue contacted me and I had that old home week wash over me. I have a definite warm glow in my heart for those years and when I think of the lessons I learned many of them impacted me more than I realize. I loved our lil radical subversive way of getting things done. ...

CJ and I have been together for 21 years but George Bush would not consider us married. I consider that a compliment actually. Besides living on the edge gives the relation its own strongly humming vibe. I have no idea whether CJ and I will be together for life since I consider all of us like flux, but I guess we sorta have a good start. It's been a good ride anyway and we love to laugh, so that helps.

- Email, March 2004

JMC '72

"Susan E. Cozzens recently worked as Chair of the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, leaving that position September 2003 to focus on her research activities. Her current research is on science, technology, and inequalities, and she is active internationally in developing methods for research assessment and science and technology indicators.

From 1995 through 1997, Dr. Cozzens was Director of the Office of Policy Support at the National Science Foundation. ...

Her Ph.D. is in sociology from Columbia University (1985) and her bacheloršs degree from Michigan State University (1972, summa cum laude). ..."

(SOURCE: http://www.spp.gatech.edu/people/faculty/scozzens.htm)

JMC '72

Info Posted at Planet Alumni (planetalumni.com)

WILL BE HEADING TO PHOENIX, POST WORK, AND BEGIN CONSULTING.

Suzette and her (JMC alumnus) husband Paul Buehrle currently live in the Dallas area.

My JMC era name was Deb DeHaan. I remember that our joke while there ('69-73) was that having a JMC liberal arts degree would qualify us for "wandering minstrel, parachute packing, and passable secretary."

Following my graduation in '73 with a degree in Journalism/French and minor in Soc. I worked for a time as aide (passable secretary) to State Rep. Jackie Vaughn (D. Detroit). Following that episode, I worked briefly as department store clerk, receptionist in a law office, continuity writer for a radio/tv station in W.Va., "Weather Girl" at the same station, reporter, producer, and anchor at the station and then, finally, landed a job as a reporter at a television station in Columbus, Ohio where I now live. While at the Columbus station, I covered the courts and some general interest stories, anchored a bit and then moved on to produce the news.

I am now director of a non-profit organization, the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education. We develop innovative law and citizenship curricula for grades k-12 in an effort to make this often dry topic bright and inspiring for kids. I volunteer for my church, for my civic association, kids' soccer team, and for various political candidates. I'm married to Terry Sullivan, a member of a small cadre of engineering students who, for some unknown reason, had been plunked down in Pete Sorg's precinct. I seem to recall that they bugged the hell out of Joe Milkes.

My memories of extracurricular JMC include body painting Pete Sorg,the student strike, People's Park, the "beach" between Snyder and Phillips Halls, the quadruple lines of state troopers lining Grand River for miles after Kent State, closing down Grand River for protests, tear gas outside the ROTC building, Pioneer Bob Boyer and his mandolin, Jackie Martling and Pillowcayse and their rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, Wickett the god of the dorm; John Sase, helping to edit and publish The Sheet in the basement of Snyder Hall and worrying that we'd be caught, peace rallies at Beaumont Tower, going coed by precinct, the doors coming down, and cramming three of us into room 369 Phillips (it's the room that backs into the phone booth and so, was smallest on the floor). I remember I & E courses on Heroes and Revolution. (I loved The Shop on Main Street but could've done without all the Fellini movies.) Science was "The Theory of Scientific Revolution." M. Belgique and M. Brown taught French. I took a great class on the impact of poverty on intellect (can't quite remember the name of that) and some fabulous sociology classes.

Married Don Leu during graduation weekend 1969.

"I know this is the right Don Leu: he and Debby left for the Peace Corps right after graduation and were headed to the Marshall Islands."

In 2000, she started a new career at Olivet College. It came to a bloody end when the hiring president was fired and her references on the board of trustees resigned.

Since then DIane writes, teaches and consults. Her latest project was to set up a VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) site in Battle Creek to help low and moderate income citizens e-file their federal and Michigan taxes for free.

She is still a theater junkie on and off stage. A full-time job with benefits would be nice, but there are advantages to escaping the corporate treadmill. No searching for cheese, no fish to catch, no 55 Rules to f ollow.

http://www.umf.edu/~ajb/cynthia.htm

"Frank is an MSU employee currently working for the Nursing College. He's also associated with Lyman Briggs."

Summary biographical sketch available at:

JMC 1970 - 1974

(Cf. Entry for Jeff Gutsell)

"Married Jeff at the campus chapel in June, 1974; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1978, earned M.A. and doctorate at University of Cincinnati. Currently am co-director of a one-of-a-kind nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in the community. We own a 105-year-old house in the city that takes a lot of time--a lot of time--and resources. Most days it's worth it. Continue to enjoy music; have learned a lot about wine; pretty competent birder, loving spring and all the flowers we used to "borrow" from the campus gardens."

Doug is now a professional photographer whose base of operations is Okemos. Check out his website at:

"...I was hired to initiate the JMC theatre program, but I also taught in the Inquiry & Expression core curriculum from 1970-1978 ("Making Meaning with Film," etc.). It was one of the greatest teaching/learning experiences of my life.

One of my fond memories was team teaching the Myth course with Glenn Wright, but I also taught a two term course with anthropologist Pam Holcolmb called "The Roots of Drama" and an experimental course, "Creative Environments" that had the students construct new environments within existing classrooms to facilitate the teaching/learning go on in a particular class.

Photographs from productions I directed at JMC during those years, including "Balm in Gilead," "Megan Terry's Home," "The Architect & The Emperor of Assyria," "The Bacchae," "Birds of Sorrow," "Labyrinth II," and "In The Bright Existence" among others are available for your website if you want them. At the moment, any indication of the exciting arts scene that went on at JMC seems meager at best. In fact, I may even have some video/film shot of part of these productions if that is of interest. It is my opinion that the JMC Theatre did some of the most exciting and innovative productions on campus at the time! The student actors and productions staff were wonderful -- so talented and so committed!

By the way, the last play mentioned above, "In The Bright Existence," was an ensemble developed show based on the ancient Popol Vuh of the Quiche Maya of Guatemala. Faculty from English (Carolyn Forché) and Spanish (Tom Tamandl) were involved in this first production of that show which we revived two years later as JMC's contribution to the American Bicentennial so people would acknowledge that there were important peoples/civilizations in the Americas before the Europeans arrived!!

Having been part of the first phase out of JMC in 1978, I went to Earlham College in Indiana to head up their theatre program. Then, in 1986, I came to Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and have been here for the last 18 years. At Macalester I was hired to restart their moribund theatre program then and was Chair of the program for its first 14 years. Now I am just beginning a phased retirement program (1/2 time employment) that will continue for the next four years."

I was a member of the original JMC class that started in 1965; I graduated in 1969 with a degree in mathematics, physics-chemistry and Russian. Not being good enough at any of those things to make a living, I went to law school at Yale, graduating in 1972, then returned to Lansing/East Lansing where all my favorite bridge partners lived, sometimes taking time from bridge to make a career as a Commissioner of the Michigan Court of Appeals before taking early retirement in 1998. Since that time I've been engaged in the private practice of law, specializing in appeals and authoring a three-volume work on tort law that seems to have actually sold to one or two people other than members of my immediate family. I've also written five books on bridge and won several North American bridge championships which, like Lt. Scheisskopf of "Catch-22", seems to make me one of the best at something of no real value to anyone. My clients occasionally win their cases as well, which JMC vets will recognize as a corollary to the monkeys-typewriters-Shakespeare theory. I now live in Okemos, MI with my wife Jacqueline.

Registered at the JMC section at Classmates.com.

Tracey is the Director of the Institute for Performance Studies and a neuromuscular educator who has been active in the medical field since 1978. She has produced two videos for dancers and dance educators dealing with understanding the issues behind enhancing the technical skills of dancers and is currently adding to that collection.

She co-founded the Center for Dance Medicine with Dr. Richard Bachrach in NYC, and continues to present workshops and lectures nationally dealing in injury prevention and care and neuromuscular training.

Her clients have included professional dancers and athletes, actors, vocalists and musicians who learn how to facilitate change in their alignment and muscular patterns."

SOURCE: Online resume at: http://www.river-tree.net/webs/resumemain.html

Resume:

"Judy Fisher (who I know because she worked part time as a library assistant in the Geology Library and roomed one summer with Sue Jones, who is now my wife) is now Judy Rutkowski, married to Paul Rudkowski."

[She now lives in Oak Park MI - Ed.]

I attended JMC from 1967 through 1973. I took a few detours along the way but I finally graduated with a degree in Early English Literature.

I hung around with a lot of people that I was pleased to know: John Yost, John (Comic Book) Stamps, Lenny Kaufmann, Mark Barnhouse, my roommate Lee Clark, Richard Levis, Richard Wilson, Richard Resco, Tom Prosper, Tom-Tom, Sue Cozzens, Sherrill Smith, Linda Schweizer and her husband-to-be Ed Gersabeck. Sorry if I skipped an important friend, but I can't list everyone. This was a diverse group because I knew lots of different people with different interests; that was part of the JMC experience for me.

I had a lot of fun sitting under the Bogue Street Bridge and wandering through Sandor Wood lot late at night in a "different frame of mind". Many of us did things then that we don't do now but if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't change much. I played too much euchre in Snyder Hall lobby, too much Ping-Pong in the basement and too many games of Acquire off campus much to the detriment of my grades. But I made some life-long friends, acquired a few hobbies that I've enjoyed for many years and finally figured out what I wanted to do.

I went to the University of Michigan and got a Masters in Library Science. Since then, I've worked at a state college and in the public libraries of Montgomery County Maryland where I've managed several branches. I married a lovely woman who I met at my first job. We don't have children, but we do have an assortment of cats and each other!

Over the years, my book, comic book and record collections have grown to overwhelming size. I've picked up a few computer skills and I annually travel abroad with my wife.

I didn't learn both of my important truths of life at JMC, but I may not have learned either of them if I hadn't been there:

• Observe everything. Overlook a great deal. Change a little.
   
  
• Do it once, you're a philosopher; do it twice, you're a pervert!

"Dan went to JMC a bit earlier than I did, I think he may have graduated in 1971. He is in Houston now."

- Cynthia Freeland, June 2002

Daniel Follette, Inc. (http://www.follette.com/)

Her first volume of poetry, Gathering the Tribes (1976), won her the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. In 1982 she received the Lamont Award of the Academy of American Poets for her second collection, The Country Between Us, now in its fifteenth printing. Her most recent book of poetry is Angel of History (1994). She was the editor of the highly acclaimed Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness (1993). Her translations of the poet Claribel Alegria include Flowers from the Volcano (1982) and Sorrow: Poems (1999).

Ms. Forché received a Lannon Literary Award (1990) as a writer of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." In particular, she was cited for her "concern with the freedom of the individual spirit" and her "ability to transmute her personal experience into sharply defined images that speak to the heart of everyman."

SOURCE: MSU Library Special Collections website entry for Carolyn

Home Page:

http://osf1.gmu.edu/~cforchem/index.html

http://www.msuglobalinstitute.com/site/indexer/234/content.htm
 
"SUSAN FREEDMAN is MSU Global's Program Director for personal enrichment, developing the new Horticulture Gardening Institute among other lifelong learning experiences. Susan consults with organizations seeking to leverage their intellectual capital in new ways via the Internet and the new wireless technologies. She has worked with Case Western Reserve University, The George Washington University, The Open University of the United Kingdom, The University of Michigan, cultural institutions and corporate Internet start-ups. She provides creative strategy, knowledge architecture, new business and strategic relationship consultation. She worked for a number of years in Los Angeles as a television and film development executive and independent producer. She is a graduate of Justin Morrill College and the Honors College at Michigan State University."

Frankie currently resides in New York - married with 2 children.

Mike currently lives in Michigan. He's married with 2 children.

" My name is Alex Gaynes, a member of JMCs first class, 1965-1969.

I reside in Tucson, Arizona. I can be reached at 2344 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson 85719; I been lawyering since 1972 (J.D., Cornell, 1972), am married with two grown children, and am married to a woman (Patricia Taylor, also a lawyer) with five grown children. Together we are raising a 9 year old.

My mug can be viewed at kfclegionbaseball.com with my 2004 and 2005 State American Legion baseball teams. I'm the old one with the USA Baseball shirt."

http://www.michigan.gov/mdcs/0,1607,7-147-6881_9672-19902--,00.html

"Susan Grimes-Munsell beamed as she walked past dozens of longtime friends to accept her award as Howell Citizen of the Year at the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner Wednesday night. ... Grimes-Munsell, a local accountant and former state representative, is the 43rd recipient of the award that honors community activists in Howell. ... Grimes-Munsell serves on the board of LACASA, an anti-violence organization, and chairs the capital campaign to build a new domestic violence shelter in Livingston County. She's also a member the chamber's board of directors, the Howell Downtown Development Authority and the Huron Valley Girl Scouts Council. ... Grimes-Munsell grew up in Royal Oak and moved to Howell as a teen-ager. She earned a bachelor's degree in tourism from Michigan State University and a master's degree in business from the University of Michigan. ... As a state representative from 1987 to 1996 she worked extensively on school funding reform.

"Betty's roommate in her freshman year, Lynne Guitar, married my brother. When they got divorced, she went back to using her maiden name. She only attended JMC for one year."

"I'm Ann Gumpper, a proud Justin Morrill graduate, in fact, from the last graduating class in 1979. I started in Theatre with Sears Eldredge, and am still a set designer and painter. Thank God for JMC, it kept me sane in a nutty world."

Ann lists her current location as Duluth MN.

(Cf. entry for Peg Duszynski)

"After graduating, married Peg Duszynski at the campus chapel, and Dr. Fred Graham officiated.

After 18 years in newspapers, spent 13 years in software technical writing and Web development. Now in marketing. Hey, everyone's gotta make a living.

Now living in Cincinnati, Ohio."

Email: jeffgutsell[*AT*]fuse.net

One of the original 400 that began in JMC in the fall of 1965. Graduated with a field of concentration in French, Journalism and English. Earned a Masters in Public Admistration from Western Michigan University. Worked at Michigan's State Capitol for five years upon graduation (Administrative Assistant to a State Senator); moved to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and spent another 24 years trying to help protect the natural environment of Michigan (our farmland, sand dunes, wetlands, wilderness and natural areas, and our wonder Great Lakes, and the thousands of inland lakes and streams). When the current Governor entered the scene apparently no one cared about protecting anything, so I was placed into a corner until I retired in 1997. I continue to spend some time in Michigan, but enjoy traveling to France, California and Washington D.C. I can be reached at halld2572[*AT*]sbcglobal.net any time!

There's only one 'Halvangis' identified by various Internet search engines, and he's the Student Activities Director at Winston Churchill High School in Livonia Michigan.

SOURCE: http://www.livonia.k12.mi.us/schools/high/churchill/Stuact/index.htm

Chuck Cook emailed me in September 2004 to advise me there was evidence of Bill Halvangis at:

East Lansing was like the tarbaby for me when I graduated, and I stayed for a year, not too sure whether I was holding on to it or it was holding on to me.

I made my way to grad school in Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, by way of Washington, DC. Spent some time in Germany and finished an M.A. in American Literature, married Paula, had children (Brian and Jordan), and left South Carolina to return to Michigan to teach at a small community college.

Somehow another fifteen years passed. I now teach at Schoolcraft College in metro Detroit. My children are 25 and 20; the youngest is a junior at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

After graduating from JMC in '71, I went to Syracuse University and snatched up a Masters and Ph.D. in short order. Then I worked in various professorial and administrative jobs at Syracuse, the Educational Policy Research Center, SUNY, Castleton State College, and Southwest Texas State University. I did the usual stuff, academic publishing about distance and adult learning, etc., etc.

Then I wrote a best-selling book about doing business on the Internet and left academe behind, opting for the wild and wooly (ok, ok, ok, lucrative too) domain of business and the Internet. I have worked with companies like IBM, Microsoft, Unisys, Ameritech, Schering-Plough and others, as well as writing Net related books. (Keeps me out of pool rooms at night.)

Currently I live in Texas by way of New York and Vermont.

"Currently, I am in the final stages of completing a Ph.D. in Art History at Binghamton University in New York. I teach several Art History courses at the State College at Oneonta, New York and at Hartwick College, also located in New York. My dissertation, entitled " Choreographying the City: A New Assessment of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Image of Dance included in the Good Government Fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena," should be completed by the end of the year."

Attained a doctorate, has 3 kids, lives in Ohio.

JMC attendance is mentioned among the biographical data in The Accidental Jurist, accessible at:

"Esther Hiney was living in a kibbutz in Israel but that was years ago, and I've lost track."

Max R. Hoffman, Jr. is a shareholder practicing in Butzel Long's Lansing office. He is a graduate of Michigan State University (B.A., cum laude, 1969) and the University of Michigan (J.D., 1973). Mr. Hoffman concentrates his practice in the areas of Health Care Law; Health Care Fraud; Professional Licensing; State Agency Practice; Administrative and Regulatory Law; and Civil Law. Mr. Hoffman is a former Assistant Attorney General, State of Michigan (1973-1983) and Special Assistant Attorney General (1983-1986). During his tenure with the Attorney General, he served as counsel to various licensing boards, including the Board of Medicine, Board of Dentistry, and Board of Pharmacy. He organized the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Unit, which is now the Health Care Fraud Division. He has defended physicians, clinical laboratories, hospitals, pharmacists, dentists, medical suppliers, and others, in both state and federal prosecutions for health care fraud. He has represented licensed health professionals before all the major licensing boards. He is a member of the State Bar Health Care Law Section and American Health Lawyers Association. Mr. Hoffman is a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation and is past President of the Ingham County Bar Association and Administrative Law Council of the State Bar of Michigan. He has lectured for several years at the Institute for Continuing Legal Education's Annual Health Care Law Updates and at the Continuing Medical Education Seminar on Health Care Fraud & Abuse.

Full biographical summaries available at: http://www.butzel.com/attorney/attbio.cfm?ID=57

(SOURCE: http://www.stonypoint-pr.com/MARK.HTM)

http://www.msu.edu/unit/msuaa/magazine/w99/hrinak.htm

Professional Summary (2000):

http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/biography/hrinak.html

From HC Connections (MSU Honors College magazine), August 2002:

"Dr. Hruska is interested in contemporary literary theory, especially as it applies to narrative, the novel in particular. Although fairly well versed in the 18th and 19th century novel as well as the 20th century British and American novel, he is also interested in contemporary fiction and the crime novel."

I'm married to the former Paula Smith. We met when she was President of the Pi Phi's and I was one of the pushers on the winning team for the Junior 500 (remember that event?).

My email is jhutson[*AT*]piercelaw.edu.

An MSU Alumni Association magazine feature story on John can be accessed at:

Associate Professor of Graphic Design
University of Minnesota Duluth
1201 Ordean Court
10 University Drive
Duluth, MN 55812

Email: cishino[*AT*]d.umn.edu

Teaching Area: Graphic Design- motion graphics

Scholarly Interests: Digital video and DVD first person oral histories- Modernist graphic designers; Diversity in Design; Interdisciplinary Design

Portfolio: http://www.d.umn.edu/~cishino

"In fact I was not a student in the JMC program. I only lived there after fleeing Brody dormatory for a better intellectual life. I knew many of the persons listed, and lived in the Charles Street house with JMC people [Kaufmann, Strunk, etc.]."

"Just stumbled into the JMC website. I was in JMC from Fall '69 through Spring '72 (living in Snyder Hall, rooming with George Kallas.

My website with a lot of info on me is http://www.taoslandandfilm.com.

"I still talk to Bill Mechanic about once a year. George Kallas is now my CPA."

The Rev. Richard "Dick" Jackson ... served part-time on the Field Study Office staff, approximately 1971-73. His role was to facilitate student-initiated courses by running brainstorming groups, several of which came into being through his efforts. In 1973-4, he took a sabbatical from JMC and his position with Campus United Ministries, spending the year at the Koinonia Community in Southern Georgia with his family. He returned to East Lansing to run a church-based low income housing project, and subsequently had a career as a pulpit minister in Ohio and western Michigan in congregations with strong social justice ministries. He retired a few years ago and spends much of his time woodworking, gardening, volunteering for local organizations, and, with his wife Marcia, adoring their first grandchild.

Current Occupation/Employer

State of Michigan, Family Independence Agency, Bureau of Juvenile Justice. Administrator: Director of Reintegration and Gender Specific Programming.

Education:

Graduated from J.W. Sexton High School in Lansing, Mi., BA (Justin Morrill College) Michigan State University; MA (Guidance and Counseling) Eastern Michigan University; ABD(PhD) (completed coursework and preliminary examinations/did not complete dissertation), Counseling Psychology, University of Michigan.

Other community position(s) held:

Board of Directors: Ozone House, SAFE House, Soundings for Women; member of NAACP, Ypsilanti Political Action Committee.

Community Affiliations:

Lincoln Consolidated Schools, trustee Board of Education; Ozone House; SAFE House; NAACP; Soundings for Women; Huron Valley Girl Scouts; Michigan Association of School Boards.

I thoroughly enjoyed my JMC days!!! I'd love to be able to return to the late '60s...My favorite professor was Fred Graham!

I'm basically the same person...I think, I care, I do. I'm a hippie/Black Panther turned social worker/bureaucrat. I administer six, low security residential treatment programs for juvenile delinquents in five of Michigan's communities. I've also worked with abused and neglected children; lectured at Eastern Michigan University; supervised social work interns for the University of Michigan; worked as a family therapist; pumped gas, sold encyclopedias, cars, vaccum cleaners ,and picked worms.

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