Spring 2009 - Now retired in Raleigh, NC. Contemplating a cruise south on our boat this fall. Now married to Beth - PHS class of 68. That is Plymouth, NC!!

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."

On the Web:

MyWikiBiz Directory page:

http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey

Knol Profile page:

http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1

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 1975 - 1977

Jane Ball (married name Bredendick) attended JMC 1975-1977

Student Advisor (office in basement of Snyder)

Made Puppets, Designed Program, Actor for Sears Eldridge's "In the Bright Existence"

Field Study: Traveled around Midwest assisting Betty Dickinson in Feldenkrais / Gestalt / Tai Chi Workshops

Originally wanted to major in Education or Psychology and thought maybe JMC would make campus life smaller and easier. Embraced all aspects of JMC learning & lifestyle and found most traditional MSU classes lacking.

Left JMC and MSU in protest when JMC classes were no longer offered (could have graduated in 1979 with more MSU credits, but didn't see the point)!

Joined theatre group and earned a B.A. in General Studies from Northeast Louisiana University in 1979.

Have worked in many fields, currently in a public high school.

To this day, I use the non-traditional and creative skills I learned at JMC.

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 1974

I too am a graduate from JMC in 1974. ...

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 years: 1967-1971

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.

"Every once in a while a client googles me and comes up with the JMC site, and I just visited for the first time in a long time: looks good, less informal, but more professional, and lots of material new to me. ... JMC was an important and formative experience for nearly all of us who were involved. I remember it, and people from it, warmly."

SOURCE: Email from Keven, November 2008

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

Douglas Casson Coutts

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hunger Studies (on assignment from the UN World Food Programme)

College of Human Sciences, 356 Spidle Hall
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama (AL) 36849 USA

douglas.coutts[*AT*]wfp.org

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 bachelor¹s 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.

I attended Justin Morrill as a freshman in the fall of 1971. Quit school at the end of 1972. But my time there, the people I met and the classes I took, had a profound impact on me.

I just found out, belatedly, about the recent reunion. And I have enjoyed looking over the newsletter which I linked onto from a facebook posting from Regina Fry - a longtime friend who I had no idea also went to JMC.

I love the "Legendary Proving Ground for Wandering Minstrels" and the definition of Wandering Minstrel. It touches home. I have wended my way through the past 30 some years making my living as a folk musician - teaching and performing - having built my first mountain dulcimer thanks to a class offered through MSU's FreeU and thanks to Elderly Instruments having started up in East Lansing in the early 70's.

I remember an upperclassman at JMC named Randy who told me the thing you learn at Justin Morrill is that you don't need to go to school to get an education! I did go back to school as a music major at MSU in the late 80's but a degree still eludes me. I have worked with two esteemed national programs - Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, Vienna, VA and the Lincoln Center Institute, New York, NY.

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."

"I was in the first class at JMC and after graduating in '69, I moved to Toronto and started a rag tag organization to help draft dodgers and deserters. I still live in Toronto, on a car free Island off of downtown with 3 kids and my Canadian husband. I spent a lot of years being a labour mediator. I have wonderful memories of my four years at JMC, especially times with my fellow 'academic advisors'.

My email is bdresner[*AT*]rogers.com"

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/)

"Daniel Follette, Inc. is a 25-year-old management consulting, creative and technical services firm that provides work process analysis and redesign, mission and vision based human resource analysis and allocation restructuring and change implementation programs to help shape successfulemployee response."

After finishing an M.A. in English at M.S.U., I worked for a publishing company in Okemos and moved with them to Houston to become their executive editor. In 1979, I formed my own company, Daniel Follette, Inc. We help clients shape their products, services and business processes and communicate with their customers and employees (http://www.follette.com).

Most recently, we launched DFI Arts, which provides career support for emerging songwriters and performing artists. DFI performing artists include Jon Hogan and Maria Moss (http://www.jonhoganmusic.com). We've just released "Every Now and Then: Songs of Townes Van Zandt & Blaze Foley" (2010 ). It includes three songs co-written by Jon at the request of Blaze's sister, using lyrics found after his death (http://www.jonhoganmusic.com/everynowandthen.htm).

While my interests and education at the time of JMC seemed diverse (or diffuse, depending on your tolerance for indirection), I've been amazed how almost everything to which I've been exposed has had use in life and businessÑeven computer programming and logic.

I've maintained my interests in art, film and music and have had the privilege to serve on the boards of a number of organizations including The Motion Picture Council of Houston, The Art League of Houston, the International Television Association, the Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston, and the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art (http://www.orangeshow.org); and to write for publications such as Videography and Backstage.

Maria Moss is my wife and we met in the early '80s. Music is about her fourth career, which she began after successful treatment five years ago for breast cancer. (Whispers of mortality can drive away what's irrelevant to your life, exposing what is core to your values.) Previously she had worked for arts organizations, as a New York Times reporter, as editor of two city magazines, and as a communications consultant to dot-com startups. Music has been the most fun. There are a bunch of videos of Maria and Jon and other great players at:

http://www.youtube.com/kerouacmaria#p/u/20/rX_h1bJkIFw.

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.

"I attended JMC from 1970 -1973, then moved to Chicago for law school (I wanted to continue in Elementary Education, but the parents wouldn't go along with that, as they had this unnatural worship of the legal profession)

I attended John Marshall Law School in Chicago until June of 1977, then I worked as an Associate Attorney at Abramson & Fox in Chicago from 1977 through 1992, when I left Abramson & Fox (that firm dissolved a year or two ago) for the small immigration law "boutique" firm of Azulay & Azulay, in Chicago. This firm is now known as AzulaySeiden Law Group, and is the largest immigration law firm in the Midwest, with offices in several U.S. cities, as well as in Manila, Philippines and Belgrade, Serbia.

At JMC, my favorite course was a political "simulation game" with Professor Harold Johnson where the small class took on the roles of U.S. and Soviet arms control negotiators. I found myself spending more than 10 hours each day studying and preparing for negotiating sessions, coming away from this course with a real appreciation of the complexity and interconnectivity of the issues. A close second favorite was the film appreciation course. Freshman "official" roommates were Len Kimball and John Thomas, but I've lost track of those guys. I remember that Len came from a real small Michigan town, and he had never met a Jewish guy before, so he used to introduce me as "This is my roommate, Rob, he's a Jew." There was no malice there, just curiosity. Len would go home every weekend (starting on Thursdays, and ending on Tuesdays) to visit his dirt bike and girlfriend, in that order, and his brother would drive him back and push his wasted butt out on the circular drive outside the dorm, and John and I would go downstairs to retrieve him.

Definitely some great memories, and some outstanding anti-war demonstrations (kids today have no appreciation of tear gas.) My older brother, Steve Gard, attended Justin Morrill also, but he transferred to University of Michigan (to follow his girlfriend) soon after I got to MSU. My best memories with Steve at MSU were from the 3 day MSU version of Woodstock in 1969 or 1970, and his strange off-campus "apartment" in a huge ramshackle house, that could only be accessed through a window off the fire escape (it was a lot of fun watching my parents try to visit him there.) The apartment was vintage 60s with nasty matted shag carpeting and large wooden spools from electric company cables as tables and bookshelves made from stolen lumber and stolen milk crates."

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."

"I saw my name on the list and wanted to let you know that I am very much "found". I am serving my third term as a state Senator in Ohio, and as a board member of the National First Ladies Library, the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, and Heidelberg University.

My home address is 514 Hedgegate North Court, Tiffin, Ohio 44883.

My office address is: The Ohio Senate, The Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio 43215.

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."

(Email from Chuck Julian RE: Death of Betty Julian, October 2004)

"Lynne Guitar, a Fulbright Fellow, earned her PhD in History and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as a Master's in history from Vanderbilt, and two BA's from Michigan State University (one in history and the other in anthropology). She is an independent historian and anthropologist in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She has taught at El Colegio Americano de Santo Domingo, guiding educational tours, and writing two series of books about the Ta’no, one for children and one for adults, among other diverse projects. She is currently the Resident Director of the Council on International Education Exchange's program in Spanish and Caribbean Studies at Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. She is an editor with the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink (www.centrelink.org) and a member of the editorial board of Kacike: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology (www.kacike.org), where she has also served as the guest editor of an immensely popular special issue on "New Directions in Ta’no Research." Guitar is a gifted lecturer, who has spoken on the Ta’no and Dominican popular culture across the US, in Europe, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Martinique, and Mexico. Her publications include articles on the Ta’no and Dominican history and culture for a wide variety of encyclopedias, for an upcoming collection edited by Jane Landers titled Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America, to be published by the University of New Mexico Press, in Native Peoples, and academic journals including the Bolet’n of the Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Revista Interamericana, Ethnohistory, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review. Guitar and her work were recently spotlighted in Deep Sea Detectives, a documentary aired on the History Channel."

"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

"Barbara Haimes graduated in 72. In 71-72 she taught a course on China that is listed in the course section of the site. She has been working as a chef in San Francisco, and is now teaching at the City College of San Francisco, in the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies department, where her faculty blurb reads:

Barbara earned a B. A. in Chinese Studies from Michigan State University. She has over twenty-five years' comprehensive hospitality experience in the San Francisco Bay Area. She began as a culinary apprentice (including class work at CCSF) and then worked at several of Northern California's most notable restaurants, including Chez Panisse, Square One and China Moon Café, where she created many of the restaurant's signature dishes. Then she moved to the Front-of-House, managing Zuni Café. Next she added a focus on wine. She directed the wine programs at China Moon Cafe, Vertigo and Stars and has been the Wine Director at Café Rouge in Berkeley since 1999. She remains actively involved with the restaurant community as a trainer and consultant. She is involved with Slow Food, tastes regularly with the Wine & Spirits Magazine Tasting Panel, has written for the magazine and led seminars pairing Italian wines with Chinese Cuisine at VinItaly-Shanghai in 2006. She shares industry experience daily in class with both humor and passion. She began teaching at CCSF since 2005.

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.

I was browsing your online JMC Veterans' Directory --I, too, attended JMC from Sept. 1967 - Sept. 1970 and would like to be added to the directory, if it is still active.

My name when I attended JMC: Suzanne (Suzy) Hetmanski. I am now married (married Sept. 1970 - present) to an MSU Graduate (BS Geology, 1969), Cyrus S. Picken, Jr. Have two children , 3 cats and one bird.

I worked at the MSU library from 1973-1980. Started out as a Library Clerk and worked my way up to Serials Cataloger.

I am currently Systems Librarian for the Washington (that's DC) Research Library Consortium where I play with library software and such.

I began at JMC as a Russian major and then decided to major in Geography. I remember Lorraine New (she was my RA during the summer of 1969). Karen Bratcher was my roommate, I believe from 1968-69. I remember the People's Park (though, it was not exclusively at JMC thing) and having guys (how scandalous) living in Phillips Hall.

My husband and I live in Crofton, MD and have fond memories of MSU.

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.

I'm "significantly attached" to my partner of 23 years, Lynnette. We adopted a sibship of three in 1987, two boys and a girl. My children are Ahkeem, 22; Quan 19, and David 18. All three are in the process of "finding themselves"...These three cause me to reflect/review/evaluate my thoughts, beliefs, feelings and attitude all of the time. I have come to understand that change and growth are good for the soul.

(SOURCES:
http://lincoln.k12.mi.us/~comm/dn_schl_brd.htm
and email to the Editor)

All of this does take us back a number of years. I have remained in contact with Charley Roberts. He looked me up when I resettled in DC in 1986. His wife's family also lives here in Hamburg. Small world! Charlie sent me word of Lou Anna Simon's appointment with the link to your Web Site. Thus I decided to tune in. I belong to two other Yahoo Groups associated with revitalization of our village so it was easy to link up. ...

I have not been in contact with many people from those JMC days, but I remain close to John Duley, Paul Hurrell, Anne Goatley House (Jim's widow who has since remarried), and have seen both Fred Graham and Milt Powell once or twice when back in Michigan. I have returned for the wedding of Katie Goatley - in a real sense representing her father - and to visit on the U of M campus for various alumni functions at the Ford School for Public Policy. I left MSU to obtain a Masters in Public Policy from the school the awarding of which lead to my career with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in DC. I served as an economist and operations research analyst in quality management for the Consumer Price Index, the International Price Program, and the Employment and Unemployment Statistics. I was Quality Coordinator for the latter office. When I retired in 1997 I was awarded the Commissioner's Distinguished Service Award.

I am pleased you recall Politics '68 - the simulation of the then republican national convention. ... I would find it hard to oversee a similar simulation now as the whole convention environment has changed. They are now large rallies, endorsing events already in place. My special feelings regarding current events are shaped by my having a PhD with an emphasis on international law and organization and having left MSU after two years with a joint appointment as a professor of racial and ethnic relations. ...

My political outlet currently is on the local scene as a member of the village's economic development committee and a member of a group called Imagine Hamburg. The latter raise funds to support revitalization projects associated with a state reconstruction of US Route 62 scheduled late 2006. I function as a facilitator for the citizen's group coordinating activities. The final design includes four roundabouts very much a pilot in New York State. My work included overseeing the development of a survey instrument and coordinating the interviewing of 218 businesses along the construction route.

... JMC is so very much the focus for your group as alumni of MSU. It shouldn't be lost. It is a way to project the feelings and image into the future. Much of what took place in JMC has since found its path into liberal arts programs nationally.

As noted, I am back in the village of my birth. I guess part of my energy is to help its heritage find purpose in this new century. I also feel that quality of life seems to have a better chance at the local level. It is something we can keep out of the hands of some of the bigger business enterprises.

(SOURCE: Email of 22 June 2004)

"Beth Ellen Jones, (my sister-in-law) daughter of Professor Gomer Ll. Jones of the Music Department and Helen E. Jones of the Main Library at MSU is now Beth Woodard. Beth is a librarian in Arizona. ... She is divorced from Jim Woodard but kept the last name. ..."

[She now lives in Gilbert AZ - Ed.]

PHOTO: http://www.azoptimist.org/leadership/images/beth_woodard.jpg

Joyaux provides consulting services in fund development, board and organizational development, planning and personnel. Clients ­ located throughout the U.S. and in other countries ­ include all types and sizes of not-for-profit organizations.

Simone speaks internationally about board and fund development, strategic planning, management and organizational development issues. She presents all over North America and has presented in Mexico, Australia, and at the International Fundraising Congress held annually in The Netherlands. Simone serves as a faculty member for the Master of Arts in Philanthropy and Development at Saint Mary¹s University, Minnesota.

Her book Strategic Fund Development: Building Profitable Relationships That Last, now in its second and expanded edition, is considered a standard in the sector. Fundraisers from various countries use the book.

In 1994, Joyaux was one of the first to achieve the credential of Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive (ACFRE). She is one of a small group worldwide holding advanced certification in the profession, accomplished through a rigorous peer review process that demonstrates an advanced level of fundraising knowledge and professional competency.

Ms. Joyaux has 30 years experience with not-for-profit organizations. As staff, she has served as an executive director and chief development officer. As a volunteer, she has served on numerous boards of directors, in the capacity of president, development and nominating committee chairs, and director-at-large.

In 2000, Joyaux founded the Women¹s Fund of Rhode Island and serves as the board chair. The Women¹s Fund is part of the global movement that seeks to level the playing field for women and girls. Joyaux has led the Women¹s Fund in the development of its values and mission, organizational structure and volunteer recruitment, grantmaking guidelines, fundraising efforts, and transition to corporate independence.

For Simone, philanthropy is both an avocation and vocation. She volunteers an average of 10 hours per week while working full time. Simone and her husband contribute at least 10% of their income to charity annually and have bequeathed their entire estate to charity."

I was in JMC from 67 to 69 and drifted in and out until 73 when I left for good. I left in 69 because I could not focus on schoolwork. I was having way too good a time. I really only remember one instructor for his quality which was Tom Hruska who taught I&E my 1st quarter at JMC in 1967. No one else stands out in my memory. What I do remember, VIVIDLY, was the music, the people and the times. It all came together for 2 glorious years in JMC.

Recurrent (though sporadic) reports put Rick Kibbey in the Lansing area to this day. Here is the latest report:

"Another sighting of Rick Kibbey in the local Lansing press City Pulse (our alternative rag to the formal Lansing State Journal owned by Knight Ridder Group). There is a discussion of encouraging him to run for City Council. The newspaper can be found at: _www.lansingcitypulse.com_ (http://www.lansingcitypulse.com) . It is in Vol. 4, Issue 23, January 12, 2005, beginning on page 4 "Swiveling season opens for Council seats" and continuing on page 4. Has a picture of Rick on page 4."

(SOURCE: Email from Dennis Hall, January 2005)

"I was doing a little searching on the internet, stumbled across the JMC alumni webpage, and noticed that the information on Rick Kibbey (my father) was a little sparse. Having heard him for many years wax fondly on his times at JMC, I feel fairly confident that he would be interested in filling out his profile a bit. He does live in the Lansing area (he has for over 20 years), and he can be reached at kibbeyri[*AT*]msu.edu."

"Michael Kobernick, MD, was appointed Medical Director for Molina Healthcare of Michigan. Dr. Kobernick is responsible for leading all medical management initiatives for Molina including clinical quality within the provider network, overall medical expense, policy formulation, administration -- as well as quality, utilization, case and disease management functions. He also ensures the quality of preventive and educational strategies for Molina's members.

Dr. Kobernick has over 20 years of medical management experience. He has worked for St. John Macomb Hospital as the Vice President of Medical Affairs and the Senior Vice President and Medical Director of Great Lakes Health Plan. He is board certified in Family Practice and Emergency Medicine and is affiliated with St. John Macomb Hospital as an attending emergency physician.

He received a Bachelor of Zoology and Doctor of Medicine from Michigan State University. He later completed his Master of Science in Health Service Administration from University of Detroit Mercy."

SOURCE: Molina Healthcare Release, 16 July 2002

Married to JMC veteran Jack Mcullough. See the entry under Jack's name.

Later attended Georgia State University, 1986.

I graduated Justin Morrill College in June of 1969. I was one of the original "Justin Morrill Pioneers"....

When I started, they offered second year French, second year Spanish, third year German, and first year Russian. I was a scaredy-cat, so I took French (I had had it in high school), and now wish I had taken Russian instead. I'm of Czech ancestry, and I had already known many of the vocabulary words. However, I was afraid I wouldn't get good grades, and, to me, grades seemed to be what it was all about at the time.

R. Dale Ladig is currently Director of the Residential Life Office at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. His office email address is given as:

rdladig[*AT*]bemidjistate.edu

Denizen of JMC Sny-Phi Environs, 1970's

"Bradford Lang majored in English. Hung out at JMC playing cards. I was in the Carter-Lang band with Brad and Wayne Carter(a cousin of Jimmy). Brad lives in Huntington Woods about three miles from me. He worked at Ross Roy advertising for awhile. Last timeI saw him, about a year ago, he was making a living doing day trading. His wife works at a bank. They have two daughters."

- John Sase: Email, March 2004

"Brad Lang is a musician, professional writer, published novelist, and lifelong movie fan who has hosted the Classic Movies site since May, 1997. ...

Brad has appeared in dozens of plays and has written a musical which has yet to be produced. Before joining About, he was the host of The Screen Door, the movie "venue" on the Firefly Network. He has compiled a list of his 200 favorite movies of all time, cross-referenced by star, director, and year of release. He is also the Guide for About's Metro Detroit site.

Brad attended Michigan State University, where he majored in English. His multi-media development skills are self-taught."

JMC / MSU 1966 - 1970

"After high school I spent two years at Justin Morrill college at Michigan State University. I became very involved in the anti-war movement, and left school, traveled a bit, and eventually came to live in a commune in St. Louis, where we were involved in an alternative school in a ghetto neighborhood, a draft-counseling service, a variety of community activities, a small bakery. I then worked for a year in Washington DC in an alternative social service agency - I was a carer for six teenagers who were court wards living in a group home. I then traveled again and took a rather different direction, doing a pre-med curriculum at University of Washington, and then medical school in San Diego. I did pediatric residency, starting in San Diego, finishing up in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. I practiced pediatrics in Halifax for five years - taking one year off in 1986 to accompany my husband and our two children on a sabbatical to Jamaica. Towards the end of 1989 we all moved to Hobart Tasmania Australia. After a difficult battle to get my qualifications recognized, I found a wonderful job as pediatrician at a centre for children with disabilities. My marriage broke up, and I've been single since 1992. My children after finishing high school decided to return to Canada to go to university - son Ian (turning 24 in August 2004), at York University in Toronto, and daughter Ingrid (21 in July 2004) at U of British Columbia in Vancouver. So when an opportunity came along to become Head of General Pediatrics at the IWK Hospital - where I had trained and been on staff back in the 1980's - I took it. I've been back in Halifax since January 2004, and while the weather certainly is difficult compared to Hobart, I'm very happy with the decision. My hobbies include classical music - both listening and playing - hiking, bird watching. Oh, and of course there is my cat Pepper. I think he has forgiven me for the trauma of the move across the Pacific, but I'm not entirely sure."

I still play harmonica and I have made a living packaging drugs... After graduating with an MDSS degree from MSU in '73, I went back to State after getting married to a former Spartan who was a social worker and took classes at the Packaging School there. I got an engineering job with a drug company in '76 and have been doing this kind of engineering ever since. I now work for Pharmacia out of Kalamazoo, Mich. We now have 2 great high school daughters that keep us both busy. One is considering MSU.

Now to locate my side of Snyder, I was on the 3rd floor north side. I do not remember many names but I do recall many, many faces. I was part of the infamous PIPS class that was like 50% of my freshmen credits. I wondered if you remember PIPS? (Personal Interpersonal Studies?) Some of the people from that class were the dean's daughter Amy, Cindy Freeland, Howee ?, Alan Prichett (who died of AIDS about 20 years ago), and others. I did make some friends from that class but do not know the whereabouts of anybody anymore. It was an interesting class. I chummed with Chuck House and a few others from that side, PIPS and people who studied Russian (I was fascinated with the USSR back then) I also remember the "student architecture class" where we designed classes and dorms from a student POV. We moved around SNY\PHY like a herd trying to change rooms and all kinds of other stuff.

In the end I left JMC because I had problems coping with the change from my prior life. But the following sophomore year I took a path even more bizarre. I kinda consider it an embarrassment now but if the college years are meant for learning about self and one's place in the world, that's how I used them. I noted you recalled my Krishna incident.

Someday I tell myself I will write a book to recall all this stuff. Not sure who would read it.

I kept looking for stuff and ended up full circle back basically to where I was when I entered MSU only JMC and others there allowed me to see life in a completely different manner.

Associate Professor of History at Manhattan College and author of LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power. I live with my husband and two kids (one away at college) in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.

At JMC I roomed with Grace Higginbottom, first in Mañana House, as we called it, on the third floor of Phillips. Judie Maxwell down the hall introduced me to Woodie Guthrie's music and to Ingmar Bergman. Lorraine Weir and Betty Caruso, right across the hall, were from Dowagiac and soon returned to their small town. Phyllis Beer and John McConnell and George Briscoe and I would sing all the way home to Snyder-Phillips, in harmony, from Gomer Llewyllan Jones' University Chorus class. Theresa (Tammy) Mahder was also in the chorus and was my roomate after Grace. Gary Jones went to Canada to avoid the draft (of course), then one day showed up at the Phillips cafeteria, just to say hi, then vanished. People who were in the Resistance had their phones tapped by the FBI. Terry White floated in and out of JMC, and then there was the Snyder resident from Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, Juan Francisco Javier Felix Muñoz. Doug Elbinger played "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", while his brother Lee Elbinger made news at Oakland U. for, I think, undressing onstage. Glad to be in indirect connection with one Robert Parker Hawkins, and to see that he's listed here, as well as Kelly Green. I also recall Mike Luce, Brian Selinsky, Art Whitmore (Whitman?), Ron Bailey, Betty Julian (who held "T" groups), Velma (Ryan?), who married fellow-JMCer Tom (last name?). Was Tom Prenderville in JMC, or just in Snyder? What I want to know, though, is what ever happened to Tom Riley (Thomas F. Riley: JMC 1969, Detroit's Cathedral High, 1965). I bummed around Europe with JMCers Sheryl Smith and John Shoemaker, summer of 1967. Greg Simon ran into us in Paris (and later went to Woodstock). We who came in 1965 and 1966 emphasized foreign language, speaking them in the dorms, etc. You had to if you were going to face Dr. Calvo at nine in the morning! Does anyone remember our Europe trip orientation weekend, when an MSU Russian prof. pretended to be a Soviet apparatchik? Then there's the time Stevie Wonder visited a friend at Snyder and played the piano in the basement.

Web Page:

http://www.manhattan.edu/arts/hist/faculty/pycior.html

I was Michele (Brown) Lester's husband at the time, known as Gordon Lester.

I was part of the Snyder-Phillips world from 1969 - 1973, when Michele and I moved to Ohio and then California, where I completed a B.A. in English at Cal State, Sacramento.

We divorced and I moved back to my family home in Kentucky in 1984, where I earned an elementary teaching certificate and then an M.A. in English Education at a place called Morehead State, in eastern Kentucky.

Along the way I worked as a fifth grade teacher and adjunct English instructor at the local college, before moving on to nearly ten years of teaching English/Communication at Marshall University, in Huntington, West Virginia.

While there, I drifted into Web design, putting my college's classes online. This led to a career change in '98, when I moved to Lexington, Kentucky and became a full time Web Developer at a publishing company specializing in Thoroughbred racing sites.

I remain basically the same guy I was then - only older and wider, as they say.

Michele and I are in fairly regular contact to this day, and it is a delight to see this monument to one of the greatest groups of people the fates ever randomly gathered together in one place and time.

"Donald J. Leu, Jr. holds the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology at the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education. He has a joint appointment in the departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Psychology. 

Don completed his B.A. at Michigan State University in Soviet Studies.  He received an Ed.M. in Reading and Human Development from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Don first began teaching in the Peace Corps, where he taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Marshall Islands of Micronesia. Returning to the San Francisco Bay Area of California, he taught as an elementary classroom teacher and a reading specialist for the primary grades. ...

Since 1987, he has been exploring effective ways to support children and teachers in the new literacies of digital technologies for information and communication. ...

Since 1991, he has explored the new literacies of networked technologies for information and communication such as the Internet. ...

Don teaches graduate courses in literacy education at the University of Connecticut, conducts research on reading and writing instruction with Internet technologies, and works with children, teachers, and school districts to support the transition to the new literacies of the Internet. ..."

From a 1997 research summary posted at:

http://www2.phys.rush.edu/physiolev.html

I attended JMC in the 1965-66 year (first one)....Brian Lindberg, aka "LA" (i came from Los Angeles and those Michigan barbarians in the dorm stuck that moniker on me... Ididn't really mind).... My roommate's name was Dave ...?....I worked in the cafeteria kitchen upstairs, first washing dishes, then pots and pans (you got more for that: $1.40/hr.!), then cooking for breakfast.... Roll out of top bunk (those dorm rooms were too small to break the bunks into separate beds...we tried... man, that was Spartan accommodations) at 6 a.m., stagger up the stairs, make my own breakfast, then cook hundreds of eggs for everyone else, all done at 8 a.m.

A lot of very outstanding teachers (i didn't appreciate it at the time.... Greatest impact: a prof in the music dept. (his father had helped develop the Esperanto language,, I recall), whose love of music was absolutely contagious. Thank the gods for such people....).... In the dorm, listening to Rolling Stones, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel.... Burgeoning counter-culture.... Zeitgeist magazine... Ice hockey on the frozen river in winter, unmatched spring euphoria (my god, will it ever come?), then, back to California (UCSB) to finish school, gradually and eventually, between significant diversions....

I am on Facebook.

From a summary posted at:

http://www.nwhealth.edu/woodwinds/bios/alininger.html

JMC 1972 - 1975, BA (History) from MSU, 1979

I was in JMC from fall, 1972 to Spring, 1975. Lived in Sny-Phy. Dropped out of school in April, 1975, was ill for quite a while, returned to school in summer, 1976 and switched majors to History. Got non-JMC MSU BA in 1979, then Master's in Labor and Industrial Relations from MSU in 1981.

Am presently a Human Resources executive living in Ridgefield, Connecticut, have been here 13 years. Just outside of New York City. Previously lived in Wisconsin and Illinois working as manufacturing plant human resources manager before moving to a VP job in Connecticut. Been married 20 years, have three sons - 18, 16, and 12. 18 year old will be starting college in this fall,(2001).

Pretty boring life here in Connecticut though 2 years ago I started a second, weekend (non-paying as of yet) career doing stand up comedy in various Manhattan comedy clubs. Sort of a late bloomer in adult life. First ate chili at age 29, learned to swim at 28, started singing in choirs at 29, learned tennis at 35, skiing at 40, sailing at 45, now learning something about show business. If I win the lotto and/or am able to retire early, I plan on doing acting/comedy full time. Maybe I'll make Sears Eldredge proud yet !

My association with Columbia continued in a variety of forms: ghostwriter for the Dean of the School of Journalism, student of Japanese language culture and religion, admissions administrator in the School of General Studies -- the undergraduate division of Columbia for "non-traditional" students, and Associate Director of the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture. Throughout this same period, I have also maintained regular practice of a variety of martial arts including iaido, judo, jujutsu and tai chi chuan and most particularly, aikido, a gendai budo, or modern martial way which emphasizes strategies of non-resistance, non-aggression, and harmonization as responses to conflict.

Since November of 1998, I've served as Graduate Program & Admissions Coordinator for the New Jersey School of Architecture, a self-governing unit within NJIT, the technology and research campus of the State University of New Jersey. The only public school of architecture in New Jersey, the NJIT SOA is the fastest growing school of architecture in the United States. As a Justin Morrill alumnus, I was particularly attracted to NJIT's SOA because in addition to providing prospective architects with the technical and theoretical training necessary for professional practice, the SOA is also deeply engaged with the redevelopment and remediation of urban sites in the Northern New Jersey and New York Metropolitan area.

JMC 1974 - 1978

"I was enrolled in JMC from '74 to '78 and graduated that year. If I remember right I was the JMC student representative to some faculty-student senate my senior year.

I went on to the U of Michigan Law School and then got licensed in Michigan and practiced law for 17 years. In 1998, I went back to school, got a second B.A. in American Indian studies from the U of Minnesota (I love Big-Ten schools, I guess) and then got an M.A. in a Social Science program at the U of Chicago. I then taught at the lecturer level at universities around the Chicago area for several years.

In the Fall of 2004, I enrolled in the Ph.D. program in American Culture at the U of Michigan where I remain safely sheltered from much of the rest of the world. I guess I took this life-long learning thing way too seriously. Anyway, life has been a heck of an adventure so far, and I hazily remember my years at JMC with great fondness. I hung out mostly with Kevin Daugherty, my brother Joe, and Mike Royer. I also remember being in a couple of plays that Sears Eldridge directed."

"I'm from the MSU class of '69. We were the first freshmen in Justin Morrill College. Theresa Ann Mahder was my maiden name. My nickname was Tammy. I am married to Dale Scheusner since 1971. We have two sons. I live in Springfield, MO."

http://www.jokeman.com/

Married with 2 children, living in Minnesota.

"John McCall ... 20 years ago was working as a stockbroker for a major firm in the Detroit suburbs, and should be easy to find.  He was also very active in college governance, as well as campus theater. He graduated in '73 or '74."

"Harriet McConnell ... is living in Germany, where she and her husband run a natural fabrics import business, travelling often to China. I last saw Harriet around 1993 (?) when our families shared a vacation house on Penobscott Bay in Maine for a week."

"I'm in Boston. I went from JMC, to a year teaching English in Greece, to Harvard and came out 4 years later as an architect. I have a firm and partners and employees (www.McConnellArchitects.com). I also have been a professor of architectural history at Boston College and a lecturer at Harvard for the last 26 years, and more recently a landscape painter (http://www.JohnMcConnellArtist.com/). Also I'm a democrat, gourmand and a francophile."

Email: mcwinchest[*AT*]earthlink.net

"When I was looking for a college there wasn't much that really impressed me, except JMC, so I went farther away from New York than almost anyone I knew. It was definitely the right thing to do. While there I made great friends, few of whom I am in contact with now. I also met Becky Kobran during our fall term, and we've been happily married since 1976. Thus, going to JMC literally changed the course of my life.

When I was at JMC I did my field study at the Tenants Resource Center, a tenant counseling agency upstairs from the Unitarian Church. That got me started in doing housing advocacy, which I continued through the rest of my college years, working at the Tenants Resource Center and on two rent control campaigns. I kept doing tenant advocacy work when I went to law school at University of Michigan and when I graduated in 1979 I went to work at Legal Aid of Western Michigan in Grand Rapids. After four years in Grand Rapids Becky and I got the feeling that if we didn't make a move soon we'd be there forever, so we moved to Montpelier, Vermont, where I've been a lawyer at Vermont Legal Aid since 1983. I've continued to specialize in landlord-tenant law, and now I'm also the director of our Mental Health Law Project.

Becky and I have two sons, John, twenty-one later this month, who's a senior in Technical Theater at the University at Albany, and Adam, 17, who is a junior at Montpelier High School."

(SOURCE: Email, June 2004)

"I was absolutely astounded by your tribute to JMC. I I was in the first class and graduated in 69. ... [T]hank you so much for jogging many wonderful memories with your incredible project.

Later attended USC, 1972-1978.

I am a JMC grad, yes, I actually graduated....I think it must have been in '73, and was known as Bobbi McIvor at the time...I think I also used the aka of Eloise Roberta McIvor, originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was at JMC, off and on, from '67 to '73.

I now live in Buda Texas, just south of Austin and am CEO of the National Center for Farmworker Health.

"William M. Mechanic, Los Angeles, chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment from 1993-2000 and head of his own production company, Pandemonium Films, who received his bachelor's degree in 1973.

During his tenure at Fox, he led the studio to No. 1 in worldwide box-office gross with such films as "Titanic," "Cast Away," "X-Men," "Moulin Rouge," "Independence Day," "Planet of the Apes," "Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition," "Braveheart," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Speed," "True Lies," "The Full Monty," "The Thin Red Line" and "Minority Report." Under Mechanic, the studio also released "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace." Fox also produced five of the top 10 best-selling soundtracks in 1998. Under Mechanic, Fox films garnered 50 Oscar nominations, including five for best picture.

Prior to Fox, Mechanic served Disney Studios in many posts, including president of international distribution and worldwide video, where he grew the division from $30 million to $3 billion a year and accounted for 15 of the top 20 all-time best-selling videos. He has won numerous awards, including the Crystal Spartan Award for Excellence in the Film Industry. He serves on the board of governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and on the board of counselors for the University of Southern California Film School."

SOURCE:: MSU Today, October 18 2002
(list of Alumni Distinguished Award recipients)
 
Photo available in the Morrillite Mug Shots Gallery at this site

Additional Online Info on Bill Mechanic:
 

• April 2001 PBS interview with Bill about the film industry
   
  
• March 1998 State News article about Bill

"Carol Mechanic, Los Angeles, senior vice president of programming at Showtime Networks since 1998, who received her bachelor's degree in 1973.

In a very competitive industry, Mechanic's responsibility is to manage programming communication across all of Showtime's constituencies and is the primary liaison between the programming group and other divisions within the company. Before 1998 she held various sales and marketing positions and became the first woman in charge of a region. Mechanic began her career with HBO as an account executive.

Mechanic currently serves on the board of directors of Women's Information Network Against Breast Cancer. She also served on the California Cable Television Association board of directors, and on the boards of Southern California chapters of Women in Cable and Telecommunications and the Southern California Cable and Telecommunications Association."

(Attended MSU 1967-71; JMC)
(Major: Social Work/Psy)

Came to MSU from a small town near Dallas, TX, specifically for the JMC program. While there, I was the co-chair in a movement to make the dorms co-ed. Several clever people took the hinges off the doors between Snyder and Phillips-- however, dorms never became officially co-ed (only unofficially!). However, for a little dorm/program, we did get maximum attention from the administration for a short while (until we left for summer break).

"I felt I should write in because I just discovered the JMC site you manage and had loads of fun looking at it. Haven't thought about those years in quite some time, certainly not in such detail.

I was surprised to notice that there was an entry for me stating that I was a teacher in Traverse City. I have never even been to Traverse City so I have no idea where that came from. Or who submitted it.

What I am is an acupuncturist which I have been practicing at since 1994. Currently I am living back in my old home town of Norman, OK, cohabiting with someone I was smitten with in HS who is a professor here and looking after my 91 year old mother. Never thought I would return to this reddest of red states but am here for good reasons. Oriental medicine is a good gig for me as I am able to do real practical service to others outside of an institutional setting and feel intellectually stimulated on a daily basis.

Still wonder what became of so many of those great dreams/visions/hallucinations we experienced when we were young. Things have not progressed as far as we might have hoped I am sorry to say."

Phillips 1974-75 and Snyder 1975-1976

Graduated MSU in 1978 with a BS in Natural Resources.

"I live in Fredericksburg, VA with my husband of over 20 years, our teenage son and our Boston Terrier, Bowser.

I write and publish fairy tales under the name Kit Greenleaf, and I publish poetry and short stories under my given name. I founded and teach the Fredericksburg Writer's and Fredericksburg Poetry Workshops. My publishing company is greenleafteapublishing[*AT*]yahoo.com. I'm performing as a story teller with my own tales. It's a lot of fun. I'm even writing stories to perform at tea parties for adults. Being a folk singer at JMC continues to serve me well, even when I can no longer play the guitar.

My family and I all are recovering from Lyme disease. I am the director of a lyme and immune system support group. Email me if you need info.at kitminden[*AT*]yahoo.com. Basically, if someone is suffering from multiple immune system problems - allergies, infections, Crohn's, lupus, fibromyalgia, MS, and so on, they should be checked using the new test for Lyme disease done by Bowen Labs - www.bowen.org. Lyme is contagious through human body fluids - more often passed this way than by tick bite! So anyone can get it and have no idea. It is endemic in the US - you cen get it anywhere. Checkout www.lymesupport.org for info.

I am involved in various political issues. Still a liberal, believing in social responsibility, peace and humanhood. Still an environmentalist. Still believe that positive change can and will happen. Check out the United Farm Worker's site - there are some new boycotts. Sign up for email from ETAN to keep up on the situation in East Timor. Ben and Jerry, the ice cream guys, run a pretty good website at www.truemajority.com.

Home Page:

http://www.nd.edu/~economic/faculty/mirowski.html

"Philip E. Mirowskijoined the Notre Dame faculty in 1990 as the Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics. Before that time, he was a professor at Tufts University for nine years and on the faculty of the University of Santa Clara from 1978 to 1981. During the time he was at Tufts, he was also a visiting faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Yale University. He was graduated from Michigan State University in 1973 and received master's and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Michigan in 1976 and 1979. Since joining Notre Dame, he has held a joint appointment in the History and Philosophy of Science program, and he has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris Sorbonne, the Tinbergen Institute in Rotterdam, Holland, and the University of Modena, Italy.

Professor Mirowski's research interests include examination of the philosophical foundations of economics, including comparisons to the philosophical and historical development of physics; comparative practices of quantitative measurement across the sciences; science policy and funding; the history of economic ideas; and the impact of the computer upon economics. He is the editor of several books, including The Reconstruction of Economic Theory, Natural Images in Economics: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw, Science Bought and Sold and The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton. He is the author of several others: More Heat Than Light: Economics As Social Physics and Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science. He is also widely published in scholarly journals and is a member of the editorial boards of History of Political Economy and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. A member of various professional organizations, including the American Economics Association, the History of Science Society, the Royal Economics Society, the Philosophy of Science Association and the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Professor Mirowski also serves as a referee for the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was honored in 1998 as one of 20 economists of the "younger generation" chosen to be profiled in Michael Szenberg's Passion and Craft: Economists at Work."

Attended JMC, 1973 - 1974

I was a student in the College during the 1973-1974 academic year. I had John Jursinic, Don Dragt and Frank Ingram for Russian language,

Info Posted on Planet Alumni (planetalumni.com)

I have been doing my thing as always

Currently Living in: Mayville, MI, United States
Occupation: Journeyman Welder Mechanic
Company: Leaseway Motorcar Transport Co.
Spouse: Pam

I was grateful to JMC from the beginning because my high school grade point was marginal for MSU, and JMC was desperate for more males. I think that's why I got in. Once there, I thrived. I was not one of the movers and shakers at JMC, just part of the mix. I was a language buff, taking Brown and Belgique's intermediate French in freshman year (68-69) and Tamandl and Marti's introductory Spanish in sophomore year (69-70). I majored in French and had both Spanish and German as backups. I still speak fluent French, but never made a nickel on my language skills. I spend a year at University of Michigan in graduate French studies, but tired of academia (grad school at U of M was SO BORING compared to JMC) and decided to work in the restaurant biz for a few years -- earned enough in tips to take the modified "grand tour" of Europe via bicycle for seven months in 74-75. This also turned out to be my honeymoon to my life partner, Bob Janowski, who I met in Ann Arbor.

We settled in Denver, where I used my JMC-acquired experiential learning skills to help organize Denver's first gay community center (now lesbian, bisexual and transgender are included in the name), and served as its first director from 77-80. I also helped reorganize it in the late 1990s after it almost died an ugly nonprofit death.

In 1980, I decided I really wanted to be a writer, so I began working for a local gay newspaper, then at the local "alternative newspaper," then for respectable business and lifestyle publications. I was prolific but poor, so I got a real job writing for a nonprofit business group. Later I went on to become a speechwriter and communications advisor to former Denver Mayor Federico Pena (Clinton cabinet secretary for transportation then energy), then worked for a Denver philanthropist who become one of Clinton's ambassadorial appointments. For awhile, it seemed like everybody I worked for looked so good they climbed the ladder, leaving me to look for another job.

In the mid-late 90s, I had my own one-person communications consulting practice, working mostly with foundations. I took a job as Director of Communications with Rose Community Foundation in 1999. My "official" bio is at their Web site:

http://www.rcfdenver.org/RCF_about_staff_Nash.htm

Bob and I have an old Victorian home near downtown Denver, and we spend most weekends at our mountain home in beautiful and quirky South Park. (Yes, there really is such a place.)

I was at JMC from 1971-75.

JMC was the BEST possible place for me to have been at that time.

Keven Bridge gave me confidence and self esteem as a writer.

Jim Yousling blew my mind by opening the world of film and the outer limits of art and culture.

Sears Eldridge was a humane, compassionate theatre artist, expert in guiding and shaping young talent.

I am deeply grateful to these and all the faculty and students who shared in this great experiment.

"I must be around here somewhere!

Half Moon Bay, CA

http://www.dbtrade.com/members.htm#Noellert

"Dr. Noellert specializes in international economic analysis and trade litigation support. He supervises a staff of economists, trade analysts, statisticians and other professionals that provide economic analysis and litigation support for Dewey Ballantine LLP's international trade clients.

From January 1978 until July 1981, he was an international economist in the Trade and Investment Policy Division of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor. Dr. Noellert was responsible for economic analysis and policy formation with respect to international investment and multinational enterprises (MNE) including matters involving the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, codes of conduct for MNEs in the OECD, ILO and UN and trade-related investment problems with Mexico, Canada and Japan. He participated in negotiations on investment and trade, such as the U.S.-Canadian talks to limit investment incentives in the North American automotive industry and negotiations with Singapore on a bilateral investment treaty.

From May 1977 to January 1978, Dr. Noellert worked in the Office of the Chief Economist at the Small Business Administration (SBA). He performed industrial organization analysis related to SBA size standards and helped develop a methodological framework for industry analysis of the parameters of small business success (i.e., entry, growth, profitability) to assist the SBA loan program.

JMC '71

I'm a choreographer and dancer living in NYC. I walked into my first dance class during my years at NYU as a dare from David Block. I'm still friends with Bonnie Sue Stein. Our kids go to the same school in the East Village. Times have changed, but I hope all of you out there still adhere to a pass/fail grading system, and remain independent thinkers!

JMC '74

Now generally known as Pam Oestreicher, Pammyo, or Mom.

Attended MSU as an undergraduate from 1965 to '69; graduate student from '69 to '81, with various sojourns as shown below. Got MAs in history and anthropology, and finally Ph.D. in anthropology/ethnohistory. Married Dick Oestreicher, former chair of SDS chapter on campus in late '60s and relatively well-known radical crazy, in 1972. He published The Paper, led various demonstrations, organized the national convention of SDS on campus, led first SDS demonstration on campus (kiss-in in the lobby of Holmes Hall protesting PDA regulations). I was fired from my TA-ship in history for assisting in the Kent State strike (by the prof., not by the department - was paid all semester and never had to complete my incompletes.) Thus, I am of the same generation as the first classes at JMC and witnessed/participated in most of the same events.

Dick and I did our share of wandering about after the Justin Morrill days. Went to Arizona for two years, where Dick taught labor history at ASU and I worked as the undergraduate advisor in the College of Architecture. Then back to MSU for a Dick job in James Madison College; Dick had finished his Ph.D., and I worked on my dissertation and taught some classes for anthro. Finally, on to Pitt where Dick got a wonderful job in labor history and popular culture. I have done a little of everything. Taught some classes on Native American History; edited the publications and journals for the Historical Society of Western Penn; edited an economics journal; ran the Center for Neuroscience at Pitt (don't ask how I got that one - I still don't know); helped run a middle school mathematics education project. Then, in 1994, I junked academia to run my own business - building on Dick's and my 25-yr habit of buying and selling historic junk (photos, documents, pins, ribbons, etc.). I published a 2x year catalog of social history: women, blacks, Indians, the West, labor, the Left, the Right - well, you get the idea. It did well, but was so much work that I nearly died.

After I finished my dissertation in 1981, I got pregnant with our first kid Daniel. (Medical miracles abounded with this one.) He was pretty sick most of his early years and finally diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency at age 4; at that point, he was the size of an 18 mo. old. Daily injections of synthetic hormone for the rest of his childhood (until age 16) brought him to 5'4" and the vision of health. He now attends Loyola University of New Orleans as a jazz/music therapy major on full scholarship, bless him.

We adopted Jonathan from Peru in 1991, right in the middle of the Sandero Luminoso's most ferocious campaigns. Spent 7 harrowing weeks in Lima to get him out. He was about 4 at the time. What a gorgeous kid! Smart, funny. As adolescence hit, however, so did the aftermath of his early abandonment and abuse. He has depression, borderline bipolar, reactive/attachment disorder. Been hospitalized twice for suicidal ideation and violence. He's now getting pretty good care, and we are certainly believers in the modern meds, so things are looking up. He's in ninth grade, so we are optimistic that he may still graduate HS and go on to bigger and better things.

FInally decided to sell the business about a year and a half ago because Dick was having health problems (neurological like MS but not clearly diagnosed yet!) and our second son Jon began to have serious psychological trouble. Not working now, and it's a strange experience. I spend most of my time on Jon's situation, quilting, trying to bring a little beauty into things.

We love Pittsburgh - affordable, relatively safe, decent schools, fine healthcare. Don't imagine we will go anywhere for some time. There are plenty of chances here to work for social justice, fight unjust wars, and try to produce ethically-sound kids.

Currently living in Decatur Illinois.

I've been interested in AKC dog events and Bull Terriers since I was a teenager; and I fulfilled my field study by spending a summer with Bull Terrier breeders in England. My website is devoted to my adventures in that arena.

NOTE: Cleo's terrier site is at: http://www.nuancebullterriers.com.

I attended MSU from 1973-1977, graduating from JMC with "American Cultural Studies" as my concentration. Living at New Community Co-Op in those Jimmy Carter days of energy "malaise", I became very interested in energy policy. JMC allowed me to combined that interest with my coursework and experience in journalism and public relations - for my senior project I developed educational materials on energy conservation for MSU's agricultural college and Cooperative Extension Service.

I stayed in the Lansing area for a few years to do political and public policy work with a group called Michigan Citizens Lobby. I almost went to Bowling Green State University to pursue graduate work in popular culture, but became hooked on public policy and ultimately went west to get a law degree from the University of Washington. Following a clerkship with the Washington Supreme Court, I returned to my interests in energy policy as Committee Counsel to the Energy and Utilities Committee of the Washington State Senate. After a brief sojourn in labor and employment policy, in late 1990 I landed as the land use and environmental policy lobbyist for the Washington State Association of Counties, where worked my way to Assistant Executive Director before leaving in fall 2005.

Now with an MPA degree, I am consulting in public policy (www.publicalternatives.com) and teaching occasionally at The Evergreen State College, the West Coast copy of JMC (and a state school, no less). My courses there have JMC-like names: "Shaping Policy: Lawyers, Lobbyists and Activists" and "We the People: Evolution of Our State and Federal Constitutions."

JMC '74

Info Posted at Planet Alumni (planetalumni.com)

Sny-Phi resident, 1967 - 1970

Bill Patterson (non-JMC 71) healthcare consultant, Nashville. Married - one child.

"I am Bill Patterson, one of the bridge-playing grill rats (along with Lee Clark (non-JMC), Debbie Henry (JMC), Richard Levis (non-JMC), John Clark (JMC, I think)- most others already mentioned)."

"I found David Payson ...He is now Associate Professor at Keene State University (New Hampshire) in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Philosophy. He teaches communication and journalism.

His blurb on the Keene State website says:

David Payson earned his Ph.D. in Radio, Television and Film Studies from Northwestern University and joined the department in 1996.

Subject Areas: Professor Payson teaches media related courses across the Communication and Journalism curricula that fall into two general categories: theory oriented courses in Comunication and Journalism that explore the participation of media in the continuing dialogue that shapes social values and beliefs in contemporary societies; lab oriented journalism courses in radio and television news production.

Research Interests: Professor Payson has two primary research interests: the representation of minorities and other disenfranchized groups in entertainment television programming; the production of documentary and instructional video.

His picture: http://academics.keene.edu/comm/images/PaysonDavid.jpg"

"...owner of the Spotted Dog Cafe in Lansing was one of 18 women in Michigan to receive an award from the State Women's Commission and the Women's Bi-partisan Caucus of the Michigan House of Representatives on Women's Entrepeneurship Day."

SOURCE: http://www.educ.msu.edu/epfp/photos/mvu/website/profiles.html#abperez43

Argelio B. Perez is a consultant affiliated with a number of private and public organizations including University Associates Consulting and Training Services, the Institute for Educational Leadership, and Learning Designs, Inc. He has a diverse background in public administration with substantial experience in supervision, fiscal management, legislation/regulatory monitoring, staff development, planning, and reorganization. He is also principal of Transformations, a Lansing-based consulting firm, specializing in leadership development, organizational change, team building, and facilitation. ...

Ben has been a teacher, principal, and senior executive in urban school districts (Detroit and Lansing), city government (Lansing), and state government (Michigan Department of Education) for thirty years. He also was a senior consultant with the Collaborative Leadership Center of Michigan State University's College of Education offering opportunities for training in the change process, facilitation, and research in leadership development. Ben is affiliated with the Institute for Educational Leadership as a senior consultant in Leadership Programs and Governance...

For the past 20 years, Ben has served as co-coordinator of the Education Policy Fellowship Program, affiliated with the Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc. in Washington, DC. ...

I started at JMC in 1965 and graduated from JMC in 1969. I presently live in Potomac Falls, Virginia with my husband and 2 children.

Attended JMC 1968-1971, transferred to School of Social Work ( couldn't do double major & graduate on time), graduated from MSU 1972. [ did the marriage, mom- 2 kids, divorce, practiced Social Work on & off about 17 years]. Went back to Xavier University in Cincinnati for Master's in Health Services & Hospital Administration. I am now the Project Manager for the HRSA CAP Program with Jackson Health System in Miami, FL.

Excerpt from July 2002 posting to the JMC Yahoo Groups forum:

I guess lots of those JMC era values stuck with a lot of us. I am currently a Project Manager for the Miami, FL Community Access Program - we are an infrastructure program to link underserved populations to health care access. (In Miami that usually means undocumented). My kids (ages 20 & 24) complain about my Social Work type of values, and want to know why I am not a hospital administrator in a for-profit health care organization!

Additional notes, August 2006:

I got real close to a double PhD from Yale in Clinical and Experimental Psychology but decided I didn't like the work and changed paths but may still go back.

Have worked in an out of the music industry a lot (and still do a bit) - my wife has been nominated for three Grammies.

Have explored alterative lifestyles since JMC - polyamory and leather.

I own an awesome piece of land in Southern Utah on the Green River where we hope to build a small ranch and retire some day:

http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/116408/

I still love science fiction but have converted it (I guess like my music) into my profession. I have worked for NASA now for 7 years and hope to for the rest of my career if I am VERY lucky and avoid a wide variety of bear traps. I am the top computer person for space operations (shuttle, space station) and also working some on the computer underpinnings for our new flight system. I would like to finish my career there working on the psychology of people living on the Moon and traveling to and living on Mars.

http://pmchallenge.gsfc.nasa.gov/Docs/Biographyofspeakers/Pino.pdf

I loved JMC! Had a great time, met wonderful people. Haven't thought about it in a long time. Sears Eldridge was the theatre prof who had a wonderful influence on me. John Reid (who also happened to be my 6th grade teacher!) was a great influence. I took video production with him. Betty Dickenson sponsored me in an independent writing project in which I discovered that religion more than gender influenced my early childhood development. I was in the Russian language program in 1971-1972. Other names will come to me if I take a little time to remember.

My name then was Susan Pitts (Sue Pitts). My roommate in Phillips was Linda Slade. I was friends with John Stick, Donna and Dale Orrin, Dan Mishkin, Karen Ogle, Gary Cohn, Jack McCullough, John McColl. I remember Carrie Waara from our first JMC "T-group". I noticed that John Stick listed me under my former roommate's name: Hester Cain Bryant. My boyfriend was Dennis Tanabe. Dennis is a lawyer in Yreka California. I have run into other people throughout the years. Through the ashram I lived in Indiana, I arranged for Sears Eldridge to bring some students from Earlham College to Bloomington Indiana for a Festival of Bhutan. I ran into Art Estey who was a professor at University of North Carolina in Raleigh Durham area back in 1978 or so. I attended Hester Cain Bryant's wedding in D.C. back in the 1970's and visited her back in the 1980's several times in Tallahasee. I last saw Linda Slade (married name Ð Horn) back in the early 1990's in the Seattle area. I think that she still lives in Edmonds Washington.

My name now: Susan Marshall.
My email: Susan[*AT*]marshallconsultingllc.com.
My URL: www.marshallconsultingllc.com

If it's true that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren't there, I'd make a good case history. From every other time in my life I have photos, writings, drawings, and numerous friends and acquaintances. From my years at JMC I have two friends and some pictures of Gentle Tuesday. But it was a formative period, where I found my own little niche for the first time.

I went to Boston in 1969, neglecting to graduate before leaving. I ended up coming to London in 1971, and stayed. Since then I've worked in and around the film industry, latterly as documentary director of TV and educational films. My "filmography" makes distressing reading - AIDS, drugs, child abuse, alcoholism, rape - but I've managed to stay in work as freelancer for nearly 20 years.

In what seems like no time at all I've gone from greenhorn to old-timer in the industry, and now I fill in between films by teaching directing to the new newcomers.

Bio: Past president - Arizona Trial Lawyers' Assoc.; ATLA Sustaining Member & Leaders' Forum; Arizona State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Injury & Death Litigation; shareholder in Plattner Verderame, P.C.; Martindale-Hubbell "AV" rating; listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Representing injured individuals.

I retired in 1998 and though we still live in East Lansing we travel a lot -- China, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Fiji, Cook islands, Kenya, Egypt and frequent trips to Spain and Italy.

I still play keyboard with the Geriatric Six Plus One and on home football Saturdays you'll find me in the portable band shell at the northwest corner of Spartan Stadium. We play for two hours before each game.

I have lunch nearly every Friday with Fred Graham and John Reed. Justin Morrill veterans are welcome to join us; just fire off an email when you expect to be in town

I finished my second foreign study for JMC in Zurich, Switzerland in August, 1972 (the first was in Guadalajara, Mexico). My head over heals love of all things Carl Jung led me to Chicago Theological Seminary/University of Chicago (MA);where I was able to do graduate work with Mircea Eliade and Paul Ricouer. I also was associate director of the Chicago International Seamen's Center managing the drop in center at Navy Pier.

I returned to my home town, Grand Rapids, Michigan (actually Cedar Springs, MI) and worked as in professional and continuing education with Grand Valley State Colleges. I returned to school and got an MSW and embarked on a career in clinical mental health social work. I worked at a variety of clinics, Port Huron, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan and environs. I have been a practitioner in outpatient therapy since 1980. I spent 13 years as a medical social worker with a long term acute care hospital.

My best friend from JMC is Carol Horning, now retired from a career with USAID. I am Facebook Friends with Betsy Bree, Mark Holoweiko, Marty (McDowell) Guerin and others.

"I am am "Orginal" from JMC 65. I graduated in the winter of 70 with a degree in History with a minor in Anthropology and a Teaching Certificate. I returned to Louisville that summer to serve in the Teacher Corp. which provided me with a free masters degree at the University of Louisville and my alternative service from the draft. I taught fifth grade in Teacher Corp. and continued until 1987 in elementary school. I switched to middle school for six years and moved to the local high school where I finally got to teach in my major. I also enjoyed coaching baseball and quick-recall(team Jepordy) during my final ten years, until I retired at Christmas time of 2003.

I now work part time at the local Junior College as an advisor. Along with teaching I also owned trained and bred harness horses from 1974 until 1989. Our local harness track was bought out by Churchill Downs which didn't make it feasible time wise after that point. I was President of the MSU Kentuckiana Alumni Club for ten years and a member of the MSU Varsity Alumni Club, which has kept me in contact with the University.

I appreciate the fine liberal arts education I received at JMC and I still truly believe the University made a huge mistake eliminating JMC from campus. Along with the education the memories of great friends like Scott Braley, Al Falk, Tom Riley and Tom Baldwin all added to a special time. Playing Keyboards with 'The Off Hour Rockers" and "Pillowcayse"(The Snyder Hall House Band) with Jackie Martling was a rare experience to be able to make music, meet people, have fun and make money doing it.

Currently an MD with Coeur D'Alene Pediatrics in Idaho.

Currently a legal professional in Atlanta GA.

Ms. Rentschler practices a wide spectrum of commercial real estate law, and represents national end-users, commercial developers and individual investors in commercial leasing & sale transactions. Drawing on 9 years as Vice President & Regional Counsel for CB Commercial Real Estate (1987-1996), Ms. Rentschler continues to represent several commercial brokerage firms on brokerage practice issues and in broker defense and litigation. Prior to joining CB Commercial Real Estate Group she was a partner at Walkup, Shelby, Bastian, Melodia, Kelly & O'Reilly, a premier litigation firm.

Hastings College of Law, University of California (J.D., 1977)
Michigan State University (B.A., 1974)

The above is excerpted from Judi's professional summary at her workplace Website:

http://www.landlaws.com/attnys2.html

"In 1996, Reynolds became the Director of Broadcasting for Michigan Radio. His many accomplishments include running California Public Radio, one of the largest public radio network news organizations in the country. He has also hosted and produced reports for Michigan at Risk, a public affairs program for Michigan's public television stations. In 2000, he helped create Great Lakes Television and now serves as Executive Director. Reynolds is also Director of Broadcasting for Michigan Public Media."

Great Lakes Television Website (www.gltv.org)

"Reynolds comes to the U-M from Michigan Public Radio in Lansing, where he has been executive director since 1984, and Michigan Public Television where, as an executive producer, he created a monthly public affairs documentary series titled "Michigan at Risk" for the state's seven public television stations. ... "While building and managing two statewide public radio networks in Michigan and California, Donovan has raised millions of dollars in support of radio and television projects from corporate, foundation and government sources," said Lewis A. Morrissey, director of special projects... A graduate of Michigan State University and a former Michigan Journalism Fellow, Reynolds' background includes three years as executive director of California Public Radio and three years as bureau chief in the Sacramento News Bureau of California Public Radio. Reynolds has received numerous awards in broadcasting, including honors from the Detroit Press Club, the Governor's Arts Award and the 1994 Clarion Award from Women in Communications Inc., for the best public affairs program for "Michigan at Risk: Talking Heads." He also earned 10 Michigan Emmy nominations between 1989 and 1995 for "Michigan at Risk."

The (U of M) University Record, December 5, 1995

Hello, I was in JMC from the spring of '76 until it was disbanded. I lived in Sny-Phy for a bit less than 3 "years" (JMC field study) I'm still here in town (E.L.). Being a true JMC member I do mechanical engineering for a group in the MSU Physics-Astronomy Dept. even though my degree was in Studio Art.

I lived in Sny-Phy from Fall of 75 to spring 78.

Janet Pletcher (also on the list) is my wife and although she had friends in JMC I'm fairly sure she was not enrolled in JMC.

SOURCE: Emails of April 2004

Education: B.A. Justin Morrill College, Michigan State University University of Leningrad, Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)

I have spent a great deal of my life visiting the ruins of Asia, Europe and Africa and the stone reliefs of these cultures have been an influence in my work. The other strong influence is my love of Post Modernists. I have found in "raku" ceramics a medium, that creates the feel of "great age" and allows me to combine my love of ancient art, especially Asian, with Post Modernists color and movement to create unique sculptural tiles as well as large unusual vessels.

Entering the art world fairly recently after a succcssful corporate career and a great deal of time collecting art, I have found in ceramics a feeling of accomplishment that did not exist in my former life.

I went on to law school at American University, a career in DC law firm life, and now in-house as GC with Crowley Maritime. I appreciate you keeping some shred of our college life alive!

"Jessie first moved to NYC where we were frequently in touch. She then moved on to Washington, DC and where she worked as a office manager for a group of psychiatrists. Then on to North Carolina where one of her sisters is living."

Current residence - Lansing. MI

Career:

• Recorders Court - Detroit
• State of Michigan:
  • Legislative Service Bureau
  • Public Service Commission
  • Corps & Securities Bureau
  • Office of Financial and Insurance Services

I remember moving in to Snyder-Phillips in the fall of 1971. The ceilings were painted black, the walls were dark purple. I lived on the third floor. Men came and went as they pleased and were frequently using the shower. We asked that they announced themselves.

I remember spending a lot of time hanging out in the grill - the card players were there, there was always a group watching the road runner or Saturday night live.

The classes were thought provoking. I think I actually took a class called "what is reality" and "lying with numbers", but I became fluent in French - which was my objective at the time.

• JMC, '70
• MA in Russian, Michigan State, '73
• PhD in Russian literature, Brown U., '82

Currently employed as substitute teacher in the public school system in Ventura, California.

Previous employment includes two years as a computer programmer for GTE Data Systems (now Verizon) in Marina del Rey, Calif.

"Jon Schelke has been a high school principal in Michigan and worked for the school district too."

(Writing instructor at JMC 1966-67, 1969-78)

http://www.infinitefutures.com/aboutif.shtml

Resume:

After graduating from JMC, I attended the University of Michigan and obtained an A.M.L.S. in 1973. I married Edward Gersabeck (lived in Snyder Hall 1969 and was Jeff Thompson's room mate). We stuck around East Lansing/Lansing until 1982. I worked at the new and fledging Thomas M. Cooley Law School from 1973-1977 and then I was hired at the M.S.U. Libraries to fill in for Beth Shapiro's position as Urban Policy and Planning Librarian while she was doing her course work for a Ph.d. After that I worked at the Business Library until 1982. In 1982 Edward finally finished his doctoral work in entomology and we went to southern Mexico (Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas). Ed worked on the government's screwworm program and I was Director of the Library at Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey - Campus Chiapas. My not so wonderful Spanish (even though I studied it for one year intensively in JMC) became fluent and I am thankful to Prof. Scholberg/JMC Spanish instructor. We lived in Mexico (and loved it!) until 1989. From there we were sent back to the Washington, D.C. area where we live in Silver Spring. We have one son Alexander, who was born in 1987. I worked at the University of Maryland at College Park, McKeldin Library for 5 years. Then I took a great part time job at the Department of Justice Libraries in the Tax Library. Currently, I accepted a position in the Antitrust Division and continue using not only my legal research skills, but also there are fascinating business research questions there. Ed is involved with international programs to control insect pests - mostly veterinary/medical problems. He travels to the Carribean, Mexico, and other fabulous places.
 
My e-mail is lindaschweizer[*AT*]hotmail.com
 
- but specify in the subject JMC if you don't want me to delete your message.

"I was a member of the first class 65-69. It's great to learn about what folks are doing and to remember details about the JMC concept that I'd forgotten. ... I don't think I really realized the extent to which I've been trying to recreate the JMC experience for our students till I signed on to your website. Thanks so much."

(Email: 16 June 2003)

Sue is currently President of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies at The National Labor College.

"I was looking up some info on an old friend (Karen Sepanski) and came across our JMC MIA list. I wasn't sure if the Karen I knew is the same Karen on the MIA list--she worked in my studio in Birmingham MI for a time, and perhaps the topic of JMC never came up.

Karen (if she is the same Karen on your list) has been a glass artist of note, based in Detroit for 30 years. She also teaches art in the Detroit or Wayne County school system."

I have been an examiner responsible for Macedonian for the International Baccalaureate Organization for the past four years. I have been an adjunct professor of language and literature at Skagit Valley College, Whidbey Island, Washington state, USA, for the past fifteen years. I hold a B.A. from Michigan State University's Justin Morrill College, an M.A. in Slavic linguistics and a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literature from the University of Washington. I am the author of one book in Slavic studies, a number of shorter studies and literary translations. In addition to my academic research, teaching and writing, I have occasionally worked as a translator for U.S. AID programs for Macedonia. I have made over 10 visits to the Balkans over a 30 year period, visits ranging from one to six months, for family and professional reasons. My most recent visit was in August of 2000 for the 4th North American Macedonian Studies Seminar, held in Ohrid, Macedonia.

Education:

• Ph.D. Slavic languages and literature, University. of Washington, 1993
  
• Macedonian language and culture seminar, Skopje University, 1984, 1989
  
• M.A. Slavic linguistics, University of Washington, 1987
  
• Bulgarian Slavonic Seminar, Sofia University, summer 1986, 1991
  
• Teaching certification, K-12, Michigan State University, 1974
  
• B.A. anthropology, Justin Morrill College, Michigan State University, 1969
  
• Summer quarter Russian program, Leningrad State University, 1967

Here's the quick bio:

• MA (+PhD coursework) MSU Comm 1974
  
• 75-76 asst professor, Arizona State U
  
• 76-77 research analyst, PACE (a market research co)
  
• 77-83 senior research analyst, Ford Motor Co
  
• 83-90 market research mgr, Volkswagen of America
  
• 90-01 senior vp/partner, Allison-Fisher International (market research and consulting)
  
• 01 retired (or sabbatical) -- sold the company

(SOURCE: http://www.comm.wayne.edu/fac_seymour.html).

After graduating from JMC in Dec., 1975, I went on to earn a master's in Library Science at University of Illinois. After working just a couple of years in Illinois, I was able to move south and defrost.

I have been in Franklin County, North Carolina, since 1981. I've been the county library library director, a librarian on the faculty at Louisburg College, and am presently a middle-school librarian. I've had a really great time being a librarian (for over 30 years!) and living in a small town. I was always more comfortable in smaller organizations, so the JMC experience was great for me. I'm happy to be rooted in a community where I interact with folks of all backgrounds, and I know families over several generations. My family was nomadic when I was a kid, and I was never interested in that lifestyle as an adult.

I'm always happy to hear from JMC people.

After leaving JMC I went to University of Illinois in Comparative Literature. Finished the Masters and about half the PhD coursework when I just ran out of steam. Terrible academic job market, and the realization that I didn't like research and writing - I liked reading and talking about it with the huge population of arrogant weirdoes like myself. I never found another academic community like the one found in 67 through 69 at JMC.

There follows a period that Amy Uphaus aptly called 'career limbo.' I sold clothes, then managed clothing stores. (I know, I know) In the mid 80's the company I was with finally discovered training. It was like finally finding a new home. I trained management and sales until 1991 when they laid off our department and soon went broke. One of the highlights was doing a great deal of management training with our Japanese licensees. The most fun I've ever had while working.

Married my high school sweetheart in 1979, but ten years later we realized we were better off as best friends. So we separated in 1989 and resumed being friends.

After the layoff I was hired by the outplacement company that had been hired to assist in my search. Since then I have worked with a variety of outplacement companies as well as providing management training both as an employee and a contractor.

Needless to say this is the golden age of outplacement. I am currently working the end of the massive Nortel layoffs here in Dallas. My next planned move is to go back to academia, but as a placement director for an MBA program. Basically the same work I've been doing, but with participants who are happy to have gotten a degree instead of just having had their lives blown up.

I was one of the original class who entered in September 1965. I majored in history and worked Sunday mornings at the desk in Phillips Hall and later at the MSU Library. After graduation I married Alan Levy, a physics/psychology major I met at freshman orientation and hung around with all four years at MSU. We moved to New York, where Alan worked on a PhD at Columbia in social psychology and I worked at the New York Public Library and attended Pratt Institute. I received my MLS (master of library science) in May of 1971. I spent one year as the acquisitions librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, something my JMC career really prepared me for. Then we moved to Durham, NC, where Alan was hired to teach at Duke. I ended up being the state documents librarian at the NC State Library in Raleigh for two years, then went to Chapel Hill as the Cataloger in the North Carolina Collection at the UNC Library.

In 1981 we moved to Fairfax, Virginia, where I became the Virginia Room Librarian at the Fairfax County Public Library, a job I still fell challenged by every day. I work with local historians and genealogists in addition to the general public, students from George Mason Univ. which is right up the street, and local school kids. I have been a judge at the regional National History Day competition.I get to use my history degreein a setting I love. Who could ask for more? Alan works for the Food and Drug Administration in the Office of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. He does a lot of consumer research and statistical anaylsis.

We have two boys, Ben (24), now living in DC, and Joe who starts high school in the fall. I have been active in local historical, genealogical and library organizations along with the PTA. I even served on the Fairfax City School Board for four years.

I keep in touch with Kathy Owen Sorensen, my roomie in 226 Phillips, and Jan Swartz Wilford and Linda Taylor Hahnert, my freshman roomies in 22. I occasionally hear from Suzanne Rogers. Last summer I had a wonderful visit from my French brother from my fall 67 semester in Besancon. He teaches English and looks almost the same as he did then. I still think about Cynthia Wilford, my buddie from girl scout camp, who died of Leukemia a few years after graduation. Her cousin, Peter married Jan Swartz. And one of my high school classmates, Susan Dummer, married Tom Rau. At one point they lived down the street from my sister in Lander, Wyoming! Very small world.

Also attended University of Michigan, 1970-1972, Western Michigan University, 1973.

"I was in the Justin Morrill College Russian program and went to Leningrad State University with it. Ultimately, though, I did not graduate from Justin Morrill, but from the honors college. I am now an appellate attorney in Massachusetts with two children, and married."

My wife, Sharon Neyhus (a graduate of James Madison) and I ended up finally in Seattle. I worked for lawyers, then took a deep breath and went to work at Microsoft on a short term contract to do technical support. Sherry worked in social service agencies until she switched to working in the theater. In September 1998, we (including 2 year old daughter) moved to London for 12 months so that Sherry could do a Masters in Theatre Administration. 18 months later, we were still there. Nearly 8 years later, we are STILL here, holding indefinite right to remain status.

We have since added a son to the fold, who is now nearly 3 and absolutely MAD about baseball. Sherry is working for the National Theatre, I have just finished an MSc in Health Informatics and am working for the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
 
Photo available in the Morrillite Mug Shots Gallery at this site

Another - larger - photo of Ken morris dancing

Brief Bio on WWW:

Today I am a full-time German translator, self-employed. I remember one time in a publication, maybe the sheet, there was a claim that a JMC education suited one only to become a wandering minstrel. Actually, as a freelance translator, a few years ago I bought a motor home and traveled around, working my way across the country. I know I am a late bloomer - never had a van in the old days...

But my experience at JMC was a big support to me in raising my own child, my daughter who is now 24. JMC really let me see a big old world and not get tunnel vision when it came to my kid...

"Linda Spangler got her MD from the med school at UC San Francisco in 1985. She has a general practice in San Mateo, California."

"I got married to Mark Ludke in a local Baptist Park on graduation day, 1972, with John Duley officiating. Chris Engelhard played the flute, the kids fished and played frisbee, and I remember one little girl squatting to take a pee in the midst of the celebration, shocking my grandmother.

We went to Champaign-Urbana, where Mark got a master's degree in dance, and I got one in special education and early childhood with a really special group of people at the Colonel Wolfe School in Urbana. It wasn't long before we split up, though, and we lost touch. I believe he is now living in the Minneapolis area, but can't say for sure.

I moved back to Lansing, and spent some years being a teacher for children with serious emotional difficulties, until I married again and had two rambunctious boys. My husband, Dan, and I were active in the Catholic peace movement, and lived on an untaxable income for awhile to protest the great portion of our taxes that was being spent on armaments. Eventually we got poor enough that I went back to teaching to pay the bills, and started writing protest letters instead. In time, I left teaching to become the director of family strengthening programs for a child abuse prevention agency, and learned how much I didn't know!

So I went back to school, got another divorce, got another masters degree (this time in clinical social work), and married a Canadian who is, of course, a very nice man. Peter and I have been happily married now for 14 years, and the boys are (mostly) grown and (mostly) off on their own.

I work at the Michigan Department of Education as a consultant for health and character education (read education focused on teaching social-emotional skills and building positive school climates), have a very part-time clinical practice, and am active in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

There are pictures of my sweetie and me at:

http://www.leaven.org/upcoming.htm#Mindfulness."

Teachers:

• Betty Dickenson, loved her, she taught me to write.. I still remember her comments..
   
  
• Glenn Wright, had an independent study in writing with him..
   
  
• Jim Yousling, film, film, films, and more films.
   
  
• Tamara Harrod. French french and more French.. Je suis une etudiante du monde...
   
  
• Sears Eldridge. Sent me on a field study year to Japan, where I wrote 100 pages of journalistic blabber, which then earned me 15 credits.. what a great deal!

I remember making movies, which I still have. 8 mm. now in fragile condition. Working on environmental theater with Sears. and more...

"I recently retired early from Tulane University where I was a professor of Law and Philosophy. My research interests scattered within legal and political philosophy, and included modelling the structure of legal and moral reasoning. ..."

The URL for the full message is:

http://sysopmind.com/archive-sl4/0105/0095.html

According to an email from John in May 2003, he currently lives in the vicinity of Santa Fe NM.

A photo of John among the Sny-Phi 'Grill Rats' can be found in the JMC Image Gallery.

JMC '68 - '70, dually enrolled for the next year or so, then eventually transferred to College of Education, from which I graduated in '73 and also earned an M.A.

Manager, Testing Services
MSU Counseling Center
207 Student Services
(practically right across the street from Phillips Hall!)

Hello! My name is Bari Castle. When I attended JMC (1973-75) my name was Bari Stoner. Aubrey Marron was my room-mate, and she is still in East Lansing,involved in City politics.

My JMC years were a blur of late nights ,bagels and deadlines. I lived in the Communications Co-ordinator Office much of the time, putting out the student newsletter, and got to know most of the night-hawks when I was guarding the door as night receptionist. Highlights for me included JMC productions of "Balm In Gilead" and a Noh version of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", as well as a MSU production of "Marat/Sade". I suppose I studied too.

I left JMC in 1975 to be an actress based in California, then found myself in Canada. I completed my BA at the University of Toronto, and then continued my schooling from there. I was Ordained as a minister in the United Church of Canada , and have served churches in Alberta and British Columbia. I am now married and still a minister at Ryerson United Church in Vancouver: a left wing, gay-friendly and politically involved church known for its trend-setting ways.

During the 1972-73 academic year I edited JMC's "The Sheet," and I compiled it and distributed it with the help of many other of MSU's experimental finest. I was one of the fortunate when the draft for Vietnam ended just before my graduation. Still, I followed the pathway I had laid to the University of Toronto in Canada. While there, in addition to earning a MA in English Literature, I had the honor and privilege of wedding Roberta A. Doutlick, also a JMC student. Like some of the best things in one's life, and to my lasting regret, our marriage floundered and ended three years later.

Unable to find a teaching position, I went to work on the assembly line at Buick Motors in Flint, MI. I published a small magazine, "Gray Sky Review," and started exhibiting my photographs around Michigan (including an exhibition at MSU). Then, in 1982, as one of the masses put out on long term layoff by General Motors, I relocated to Kansas City, MO, and started a business as Stornello Graphic Design and Photography that morphed into Stornello Architectural Photography. I also continued exhibiting my personal images.

Tired of hearing about increasing illiteracy in the United States, I decided to do something about it in 1992 and went back to college to get a degree in English Education. While enrolled at the School of Education, University of Missouri at Kansas City, my professors persuaded me to continue and get a Ph.D. To make a long story short, I did the study and research to earn an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Urban Leadership and Policy Studies in Education/ Economics/ Political Science/ Sociology. It was a course of "interdisciplinary" study as distinct from "multi-disciplinary" - by virtue of five years study with Dr. Morteza Ardebili and the acquisition of a global theory (emerging out of the rigorous development in philosophy instigated by Roy Bhaskar in England).

I graduated from UMKC in 1998, taught graduate courses in the School of Education, rhetoric courses at Rockhurst University, did ethnographic research, directed a research/evaluation project of community action and drug prevention programs in Jackson County, Missiouri, and put together a summer scholars program in social science research for undergraduate students before I departed UMKC. I also published some articles, and a book, "Social Hegemony and Educational Inequality."

Dr. James Sturgeon, director of my Political Economy Seminar, introduced me to the Mondragon Cooperative Movement in the Basque region of Spain. I have continued to study Mondragon, and as the executive director of The Open Institute in Flint, Michigan, I am busy trying to persuade the city's dispossessed and distressed that there is a real alternative to poverty and rapaciously exploitative fascism/capitalism. The Open Institute is also engaged in providing social research, program evaluation, and educational services to government and not-for-profit agencies and organizations.

".Attended JMC 1967-1970 as Karen Strickland. Glenn Wright was my advisor. I graduated in summer 1970 and married Jay W. Hillis, non-JMC (lived in Snyder, roommate of Bill McGarvey). Divorced, MS in Computer Science-USC, live in Tampa, work at USF.

"Ted is many things... a husband, father, builder, musician, teacher, and purveyor of making the extraordinary seem unremarkable in his understated demeanor."

- Interview with Ted in Recording Engineer Quarterly, 2001

Ted is currently a teacher at the Upland Hills School in Royal Oak MI.

"Ted Strunck has been teaching with us since 1989. Ted is a professional musician and a professional builder. He teaches the oldest group at our school and is committed to preparing them for their next placement. The comprehensive units that he designs are large practical building experiments that challenge his students on many levels. His group has built a 160-foot bridge, a stained glass window, and a solar greenhouse. Ted has earned a B.A. and a teaching certificate from the state of Michigan. He has also earned postgraduate credits in music and writing instruction."

Jan graduated from JMC in June 1969 with a JMC major and a teaching certificate. Unfortunately, she discovered during her student teaching senior year that teaching was not for her. Little late to change things. So she graduated, got married in August 1969, and spent the next two years in Germany with her husband Peter while he finished his tour in the Army. Jan and Pete live in Sunfield, MI. She has worked a variety of jobs/careers including many years as a manager with the Michigan Farm Bureau. About 2 or 3 years ago Jan accepted a management position with the Michigan Department of Agriculture. She is Program Manager for the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program. (You can find out more at www.maeap.org if you want.) Jan and Pete have two children. Becca, another MSU grad, lives and works with her husband Robert in Columbia MO. Jake, a U of M engineer, works in California doing rocket science.

JMC '75

My name now is Steve Johgart, the last name having been created when I was married in 1981...it is a combination of my "maiden" name and my then-wife Nancy's maiden name, Johnson. I kept the name when I was divorced in '97 both because I like it and because it's the last name my kids (Sean and Abra) have, and I like having the same last name as the kids.

Recently, in an unguarded moment moment, I made a comment to one my interns about my "dark and sordid past". The next day she asked me "and what exactly is an Anesthesia House?". We always worried about Big Brother, but it turns out little sister and Google was the future.

The website brought back many warm memories of my too short time at JMC and Sny/Phi. ...

After leaving E Lansing in the spring of 72, I ended up as a surveyor in Chicago and Detroit. That kept me outdoors, fit and reasonably happy for most of the intervening years, with a detour into mechanical design for the Big Three(complete madness).

Married, 9 year old daughter, aluminum sided ranch, Grateful Dead and DIY speakers.

Currently working as a survey tech for the City of Rochester Hills,MI where I'm known for telling people "stop punching buttons, turn off the damn computer and THINK""

Email: MLTaunt[*AT*]aol.com

Currently living in Longwood Florida.

"I am the Wendy S. Thomson, that attended JMC 1968-1970. I left to sail off on my family's freighter, ended up in Miami and completed my undergraduate degree (BBA) at the University of Miami. After a couple of years I moved to Tallahassee, where I worked during the day and pursued my MS at Florida State University at night. My company moved me to Chicago prior to completing my degree, so I finished it at the University of Chicago. In 1979 I moved back to Michigan, got a job at GM, got hitched and started a family, and subsequently became a single parent. I now have 2 sons and am guardian of a girl... son #1 is 18, a senior being recruited for college football (are you listening, MSU??) Young lady is 17, son #2 is 16. I currently work for EDS and am working on my second patent. In between all of this I have sung across Italy and with the DSO (among other venues), have raced sailboats, remodeled homes, had a literary agent in New York (once upon a time), been on 3 Boards (Chairman of one of them) and have been a rabid supporter of my son's VERY SUCCESSFUL ;-) high school football team...

So you've found me out....."

"Graduated in June, 1969, a member of the first class that began in September, 1965. Married for 31 years and currently live in Morgantown, WV. As I remember JMC, that experience allowed me to think critically about the world around me and more important, to work at jobs and live my live in a way that makes the world a better place in some small way. Those days as the entering class were exciting as the curriculum was being developed yet challenging to keep pace with the high expectations of the faculty to develop academically, socially, and emotionally. That experience is part of my soul!

It's been a good run so far. Education: MA (1972), PhD (1981) in Organizational Psychology and Change from University of Chicago; PhD (2011) in modern U.S. history from West Virginia University; Career included VISTA Volunteer, organizational/management consultant, psychology professor, hospital CEO, history professor, private practice clinical psychologist. "

miketodt[*AT*]gmail.com

"Greg Turner - 1967-71 still a close friend - lives in Ypsilanti and works for the Wayne County School District as a maverick intrapreneur cum IT systems administrator."

... Deborah is currently on faculty of the Theater and Dance Department at Oberlin College, as well as at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music."

http://www.thebodyseries.com/aboutDeb.html)

A full resume (in PDF / Acrobat format) can be accessed at:

http://www.thebodyseries.com/resume.PDF

"Carrie Waara was the name I used in those days, though some called me by my given name, Carol. I transferred to JMC from James Madison after my first year, so tenure at JMC was 72-76, during which I earned an additional BA, majoring in Chinese Language. My JMC "major" was called "Comparative Cultures," a brilliant word-play thought up by Milt Powell to encompass my (extremely) multidisciplinary studies at MSU."

(Source: Email, November 2004)

From a personal summary Webpage at the Castleton State College website:

Carrie Waara teaches courses in World History, Chinese History and Culture, Japanese History and Culture, Modern Pacific Asia, Women's Studies, and History, Memory and War. She delights in the close student-faculty interaction made possible by small classes and a small campus, and believes whole-heartedly in the value of liberal arts education for the new millennium. She mentors History Honors students and others who appreciate her high expectations for students' learning, critical thinking and writing. She also believes that history is fun, and thoroughly enjoys expanding her creative use of historical fiction and film, multi-media and hands-on, interactive assignments.

She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in history at the University of Michigan, where she specialized in Chinese history, with minor fields in Japanese and European history. Her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University's James Madison and Justin Morrill Colleges included broader fields in the history, art history, philosophies, and languages of Asia and Europe.

Academic interests include women's studies and feminist theory; cultural studies; issues in twentieth-century public memory, nationalism, and war; problems of representation and reproduction in art, publishing and mass media; problems of race and racism; and globalization, modernity, and social justice....

JMC '74

Jason Wanger later changed his name to Reynolds. ...

My current information:

Jason Reynolds. I changed my name to Reynolds when I learned my father was not my biological father at all.

1225 SW 12th, #907, Portland, Oregon 97205.

orconsumer[*AT*]earthlink.net

Executive Director of the Oregon Consumer League.

Inventor: blockedwriters.com for people with writer's block.

Poet.

JMC, '75

"Field of Concentration: Classical Studies/Film

Currently Office Manager for company developing software for Labor Union dues management, dispatch, organizing, grievance and training school.

Varied employment history: photographer, AV tech, housepainter, newspaper reporter

Married, 2 children

Olympia WA"

I always attribute my mercurial skill set to my JMC experience, and I like to think my creatively all-over-the-map life trajectory exemplifies the intended outcomes of a JMC education. The longstanding recognition of JMC's value to my life is the reason I created and maintain this Webspace.

You can check out my reminiscences of JMC elsewhere in this Webspace.

JMC 1969 - 197?

John currently splits his time between South Haven (Michigan) and the Chicago area.

Photo available in the Morrillite Mug Shots Gallery at this site

When the People Power revolution happened in the Philippines, I moved to Manila and worked training epidemiologists for the Department of Health. How could anyone resist the chance to be part of a non-violent, middle class revolution? We were on the slopes of Mount Pinatubo caring for evacuees when it erupted, sending 100,000 people pouring into the roads out of town, carrying their belongings. I remember trudging through the cold rain in the northern mountains amidst the wreckage after 300 people died in an earthquake in the northern mountains. There was every kind of health problem from measles to cholera, typhoid, and we collected blood from the monkeys that carried the Reston strain of Ebola virus.

In JMC I married my fellow-JMC student, Roberta Firnhaber. Before we separated we had two children, Alex and Daniel, both of whom are now taking classes at the Harvard Extension in Boston. A few years later I married Felilia Mendoza, a Filipina who died in 1998 of complications of breast cancer. Now I live in Atlanta with my wonderful wife, Shelly Ahmann, a general surgeon and a friend for many years. She works for Kaiser and I direct CDC's international epidemiology training. I find myself a bald, graying overweight bureaucrat looking for money for new programs or visiting ones that are in need of repair.

Through it all, my friend Tom Keever, a JMC'er, has patiently pursued the theater craft in New York with care and focus that inspired me through many hard times.

"Larry began playing guitar back in his college days at Michigan State University. His first band in East Lansing was Pillowcayse, one of the most popular fraternity and bar bands around the area. They had a reputation for becoming part of the party rather than just playing at the party, which is no big surprise when you consider that the leader of the band was the outrageous Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling of the Howard Stern show. As a member of Pillowcayse and later Midnight Sun, Larry was a fixture of the MSU music scene for 10 years. When he returned home to Decatur, MI, he played in several bands alongside Ken West, including Flight and Hatz. A few years after those bands, Screamin' Bob and the Band at Hand formed and played in the local bars for around 10 years. After taking a break for a couple years, the band has been reincarnated as Screamin' Bob and the Borderlyne Band, and Larry is enjoying performing more than ever!"

SOURCE: http://www.screamingbob-borderlyne.com/Members.php