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Thursday, January 6: Educational Studies Colloquium. Magnia George, a postdoctoral research fellow in Educational Studies, will speak on the topic, Culturally Responsive Science Education: An ecological perspective on learning and teaching science.

Monday, January 17: MLK Family Day (no description)

Thursday-Friday, February 3-4: Social Justice Symposium (no description)

Thursday, February 19: Educational Studies Colloquium. Annmarie Palincsar, Jean and Charles Wal-green Professor of Reading and Literacy, Educational Studies and Language, Literacy, and Culture, will speak on the topic, Rendering Content Knowledge and Teaching Practice in Accessible, Visible, and Powerful Ways: A study of reading comprehension instruction.

Thursday, March 10: Educational Studies Colloquium. Betsy Davis, Assistant Professor in Educa-tional Studies and Science Education, will speak on the topic, Supporting New Elementary Teachers in Teaching Inquiry-Oriented Science

Friday, March 18: Center for Profi ciency in Teaching Mathematics Colloquium. Alice Artzt and Alan Sultan, professors from Queens College, New York, will speak on Math-ematicians Are From Mars; Math Educators Are From Venus: The Story of a Successful Collaboration in Teacher Education. For more information contact Teresa McMahon, [email protected], (734) 615.9048.

Monday, April 11: AERA Reception, Montreal (no description)

Friday, April 22: Student Awards Reception (no description)

Saturday, April 30: Spring Commencement

Spring/Summer Events

Thursday, May 5: Educational Studies Colloquium. Deborah Carter, Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, will speak on the topic, Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of the Study of Student Transition to College.

Monday, May 9: Annual UM/CPTM Mathematics Education Leadership Conference. For more information contact Teresa McMahon, [email protected], (734) 615.9048.

June 3-4: Emeritus Weekend

Contact Information: soe.umich.edu Dean’s Offi ce: (734) 764-9470 Development Offi ce: (734) 764-7563

Events Calendar

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2004 - 2005WINTERContents01 Dean’s Note 02 State of the School04 Foundation and Corporation Support08 Support From Individuals10 Development Notes12 Gift Report 21 Class Notes23 Campaign Goals24 Allumni Information

Cover Note

Many faculty, staff, and students, as well as alumni, pass through the west doors of the School of Education without ever looking up.Crowning the concrete pilasters on both the east and west facades are representations of school houses, the architects Perkins, Fel-lows, and Hamilton’s homage to the purpose of the building.

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Our Annual Report issue of Innovator gives us a chance to say, “Thank you so much for your generosity. Your fi nancial support helped us to accomplish so much this year, and we’re grateful.” The Annual Report issue also allows us to take stock of our growth and progress as a learning community and as an institution, to celebrate our strengths, and to articulate our hopes for the future.

2004 fi nds the School of Education strong, with nationally recognized faculty, cutting-edge research and develop-ment projects, and talented students at the doctoral, masters, and undergraduate levels. Our ties grow stronger with other departments and professional schools on the UM campus, in recognition that some of the best work we do is collaborative and interdisciplinary. Stronger, too are our relationships with regional school districts, inter-mediate school districts, and other institutions of higher education, in recognition that the problems and issues of public education require diverse, grounded perspectives and collaborative action to address.

At the same time, like many other institutions of higher education in Michigan and other units on campus, we’ve had to engage in belt-tightening and trimming, as our state struggles with defi cit. Now, more than ever, we depend on your largesse to do the following:

-Provide scholarships for students who are determined to address the pressing issues and needs in public education-Endow faculty positions, so we can continue to retain our talented faculty-Enhance our technological capacities, so we can continue to integrate new technologies into disciplinary- focused curriculum and instruction.-Expand our capacity to share fi ndings and explore the implications of research in collaboration with teachers, administrators, and entire communities through outreach.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all the donors who are listed in these pages. We welcome your gifts!

Karen Wixson

Gifts to the University of Michigan School of Education come in many forms: good advice about our programs from an alumna serving as a co-operating teacher; a generous check from an emeritus professor; a warm welcome to join in partnership by a local superintendent, an invitation to apply for foundation funding after a presentation. Our alumni, friends, and supporters provide a steady fl ow of fi nancial and intellectual suste-nance for the life’s work of such a place: Teaching and learning. Re-searching. Tackling the complex problems facing public education for the sakes of young people everywhere.

Dean’s Note

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State of State of State of State of The 2005 U.S. News and World Report rankings placed the University of Michigan School of Education in the top 10 for the 9th straight year. Its Higher Education Administration program was deemed the nation’s best, while its programs in Educational Psychology (3rd), Educational Policy (4th), Elementary Education (8th), Curriculum/Instruction (9th) and Administration/Super-vision (10th) were also ranked in the top 10.

As satisfying as they are, rankings alone are not the measure of the School. What really matters is that, as Dean Karen Wixson wrote in her annual report to the University Provost, “this School addresses current educational problems in ways that really make a differ-ence.” For instance, the School of Education’s Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS), in partnership with the Detroit Public Schools, recently received the Urban Impact Award (pictured below, right) at the annual fall conference of the Great City Schools. The project, which began in 1998 and eventually in-volved 47 teachers and 8,000 students, focused on sci-ence and social studies curriculum and the meaningful integration of technology. The result: steady gains in middle school science achievement, and a reduction of the gender gap between female students and their lower achieving male peers.Growing synergy among research and teaching, profes-sional service and social justice has led to signifi cant progress, as measured by intellectual ferment and clar-ity of purpose.

Research

The School’s portfolio of externally funded research has grown tremendously over the past decade, with annual research expenditures totaling almost $19 million last year, and 38 of the 66 faculty involved in separately funded projects. A recent report from the Institute for Scientifi c Information ranks the School third among the nation’s schools and colleges of education for total num-ber of publications in the years 1997-2000, but fi rst—by a wide margin—in the rate of publication per faculty member. The same report ranked the School fi rst in the nation for the impact of its research. And this impact continues to grow, as additional projects are funded. For example, Professor Pat King, chair of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) is embarking upon a multi-year study examin-ing conditions and practices that affect the achievement of liberal arts outcomes among college students at 14 different institutions.

“We are proud of the fact that our research informs the great national debate about how to overcome massive inequalities in educational opportunity at all levels,” says the Dean. “Of equal importance is the fact that we prepare researchers and practitioners to provide leader

ship in developing policies and practices that can overcome educational disparities in P-16 education. We work at the intersections of meaningful research and professional practice and build communities that include people working in roles ranging from classroom teachers to school principals to university administra-tors and researchers.”

The School’s research programs also refl ect the in-ter- and multidisciplinary perspectives so essential for dealing with educational problems. For example, under the leadership of Professor Barry Fishman, faculty within the School have been instrumental in the development of a cross-unit initiative in the Learning Sciences, an emerging interdisciplinary fi eld dedicated to the study and understanding of human learning in such real-world contexts as museums or social settings, organizational and industrial workplaces, and academic or scientifi c communities, as well as schools. Similarly, Professor Brian Rowan is leading an effort to develop collaborations between educational researchers in the School and research scientists in the Institute for Social Research.

Teaching

In addition to producing research of high quality and enduring relevance, education as a fi eld within a premier public university must also excel in prepar-ing future educators. In particular, “University-based teacher preparation has received increased scrutiny and criticism in political debates about education in this country,” says Dean Wixson. “Our preparation programs refl ect the marriage of subject matter knowledge with pedagogical knowledge and skills. Although they are already among the best, we need to continue to innovate and improve.” Excellent faculty with a deep commit-ment to undergraduate education are key to this suc-cess. This year, Elizabeth Moje was named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, in recognition of her “positive impact on the intellectual development and lives of students.”

A former Thurnau Professor, Professor Deborah Ball, has assumed the role of Director of Teacher Education and is leading the School in a careful examination of its elementary and secondary teacher preparation programs at both the undergraduate and post-graduate levels, with an emphasis on collaborations with other academic units.

The School is also enriching and rethinking important components of the post-graduate curriculum. Professor Roger Goddard helped the Educational Studies program launch a dual master’s-degree program with the Ross School of Business, while the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, chaired by Pro-fessor Patricia King, is continuing development of

State of the SchoolJeff Mortimer the Schoolovercome educational disparities in P-16 education. the Schoolovercome educational disparities in P-16 education.

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the Schoolboth the established dual degree with the Ford School of Public Policy and an MA concentration in Medical Education with the Medical School.

Inspired by its participation in the Carnegie Initia-tive on the Doctorate, Professor Valerie Lee has led a group of faculty from Educational Studies in identifying aspects of its doctoral program that could be enhanced, especially the core courses for all students in the pro-gram, including the research methodology courses.

Professional Service/Outreach

As part of a public university, the School’s impact must extend beyond its students, faculty and graduates. It is not enough to create knowledge and prepare profession-als; dedicated practitioners already in the fi eld need to share directly in the benefi ts the School provides, and students need to interact with those practitioners.

Current noteworthy outreach efforts include an ongoing collaboration with Michigan State University on an an-nual Superintendents’ Institute, involvement in the state of Michigan’s Reading First grant, and the participation of our Interactive Communications and Simulations program with the Michigan Civics Institute. In addition, the School also holds summer institutes for teachers, administrators, and teacher educators in the areas of reading and mathematics, and its Community College Consortium is a renowned resource for two-year post-secondary institutions.

At the undergraduate level, the Lives of Urban Children and Youth (LUCY) Initiative, under the leadership of Stella Raudenbush, provides students with an excellent intellectual context for preparing to interact effectively in a complex world. Undergraduates have the opportu-nity to engage in the intellectual, ethical, economic, sci-entifi c, and justice-seeking challenges of contemporary society and, in particular, its urban centers. The LUCY Initiative provides courses and co-curricular activities that permit students to connect their academic inquiry and their civic engagement.

Social Justice

The struggle for social justice is, in many ways, the river into which these streams eventually fl ow. All of the above would count for little if these goals were not addressed, in terms of the knowledge generated, the content of the curriculum, the makeup of the student body and faculty, and the direction of outreach and service efforts.

The Committee on Education for Equity and Social Justice, co-chaired in 2003-04 by faculty members Steve Raudenbush and John Burkhardt, with the active involvement of graduate students, mounted a year-long innovative seminar series and a course on social justice issues in education. As Dean Wixson says, “The ultimate goals of our Social Justice Initiative are to improve the climate of the School with regard to issues of diversity and inclusiveness, recruit and retain more faculty, staff, and students of color, and align our cur-ricula with the values we espouse regarding diversity in our research, teaching, and professional service.”

The School’s demographics demonstrate the interim success of the initiative. Of the School’s 509 graduate students, 67% are women and 23% are minorities. Of 285 undergraduates, 42% are women and 9% are mi-norities. Two of fi ve faculty appointments for the current academic year are faculty of color, bringing the School’s total to seven, four tenured and three untenured.

Dean Wixson sums up the 2003-04 year when she says, “At a time when schools and colleges of education are under attack for trying to maintain the status quo rather than engaging in and facilitating educational improve-ment, the University of Michigan School of Education stands out for the progress it has made toward improving teaching and learning at all levels of education and in all settings, especially for underserved populations.”


Foundation and Corporate SupportSpencer Foundation

Two UM Education School professors involved in very different research activities received important help from the Spencer Foundation. Professor Lesley Rex, a former high school teacher and teacher educator, became an educational researcher to get answers to im-portant questions such as: How can white middle-class teachers successfully reach out to low achieving under served students of color? Through her research, she has illustrated how, with a willingness to be self-aware and to talk openly about race, a motivated teacher can cross daunting racial and cultural barriers.

“With this study, I am addressing the critical need for applicable insights into how to prepare white teachers to teach students unlike themselves,” Rex writes. Government statistics, she notes, indicate that teaching remains primarily a white woman’s profession; yet, there is little

research about white teachers in black classrooms—particularly in high schools. A $35,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation funded Rex’s research, which included working with a graduate student. Grateful for the funding, Rex points out that her study was extremely time-intensive. “I need to be in classrooms talking to students over time and see on a day-to-day basis how things develop,” she says.

For her colleague Roger Goddard, a $100,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation was a way of bridging the gap between the School of Education and the Business School. The grant will fund a speaker series for faculty and graduate students in both schools. “We’ll be bring-

ing people around the country to speak at Michigan about the intersection of educa-tion and business,” Goddard says. The speakers, key “thought leaders” in educa-tion and business, will address under-ex-plored areas of research and practice in both fi elds.

The speaker program goes hand in hand with another initiative that Goddard helped launch: a new dual master’s in business administration and educational studies. Goddard knows of only one other university, Stanford, offering such a degree, and he says that the new master’s program is drawing many applicants from around the country. Persons getting the degree might

assume such positions as assistant superintendent of fi nance or director of business management. The ripple effect of the speaker program will help defi ne a “schol-arly agenda” for the new combined program, Goddard says.

Since it began making grants in 1971, the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation has funded approximately $250 million on research aimed at improving educa-tion around the world. The foundation notes that it is “especially interested in groundbreaking and creative ideas in research.” Spencer’s founder, Lyle Spencer, established an educational publishing company, Science Research Associates (SRA), which provided the basis of his wealth and ultimately made possible the creation of the Spencer Foundation. Charles Dollard, Spencer’s friend and one of the original directors of the founda-tion, stated, “Lyle had a passionate belief in education as the modus vivendi of a democratic society.”

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Who should attend college? It’s a personal question, yes, but the answer can affect everything from voting patterns to earning potential. Thanks to a pair of grants from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, U-M Education School Professor John Burkhardt is helping the state of Michigan, through a project called Access to Democ-racy, look closely at what a college education means to its residents. “We’re trying to help transform the rela-tionship between higher education and society,” says Burkhardt, “to help higher education be more clear in its public service mission.

“The Kellogg Foundation funded us to develop a set of materials that would guide community-based discussions about higher ed purposes and the question of who should go to college,” explains Burkhardt. “With their money, we’ve been organizing

dialogues in communities around Michigan and training moderators.” High-level Michigan policy makers are involved with the study, which started in fall 2004, and will target several regions.

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Foundation and Corporate SupportA former administrator with the Battle Creek–based Kellogg Foundation, Burkhardt points out that the research project (supported in part by the two grants, which total almost $240,000) is very much in keeping with the foundation’s tradition. “The Kellogg Foundation has a long history of supporting projects that ensure that community voices are refl ected in public decisions and public policy,” says Burkhardt. Cereal industry pioneer Will Keith Kellogg established the foundation in 1930.

The foundation has continuously focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institu-

tions to solve their own problems.

W. T. Grant Foundation

A foundation that values young people allowed UM Education School Professors Elizabeth Moje and Carla O’Connor to delve deeply into topics of concern to mi-nority youth.

Although educators have long known that mastery of reading and writing is crucial to academic success, less is understood about how students approach those activi-ties, both in and out of school. Elizabeth Moje wants to give educators a picture that has both depth and breadth. Selected as a William T. Grant Faculty Scholar, she’s in the fi fth and fi nal year of a $290,000 research effort that encompasses predominantly Latino adolescents in southwest Detroit.

“My goal is to understand more broadly than one typically does in education re-search where, when, how, why, and what youth read and write,” says Moje. With that end in mind, she and a team of researchers observed hundreds of middle school stu-

dents in numerous classes, interviewed 60 of them, and followed 15 students over fi ve years.

She wants to use this understanding as a springboard for action. Moje cites published research showing that youth feel empowered if they use their reading and writingskills to “take some sort of helpful action in the world.” She and her researchers are currently engaged with sev-eral youth in preparing a photo essay on “life for young

people in Detroit”. We envision future work making a video from the photo essay. The work will also evolve into a book that may be co-authored with the youth.”

Explaining the opportunity her grant funding provides, Moje comments, ”Grants such as this are important for at least three reasons: First, this work focuses on adolescents and, until recently, few funding agencies have been interested in the learning and social lives of adolescents. Most teachers, administrators, and other people who work with youth are not able to study young people closely in multiple contexts. The fi ndings of my work allow me to develop strategies and practices that school and community-based people can use in teaching and youth work.

Second, the W.T. Grant Faculty Scholar Award allows for longitudinal research that examines youth develop-ment over time. Few studies can achieve the depth and breadth of understanding that can be achieved in a fi ve-year sustained program of research.

“Third, the Faculty Scholar Award is dedicated to build-ing an interdisciplinary cohort of scholars (e.g. anthro-pologists, psychologists, physicians, and sociologists) many of whom have begun to collaborate on related projects.” Moje, for example, is teaming with other re-searchers who study Latino/a youth in different parts of the country. This team is employing a variety of methods across a vast database to try to inform youth develop-ment and educational endeavors in a variety of venues.

Research on black students’ performance in school has tended to focus on why they underperform. Carla O’Connor takes the less traveled road of looking at how and why black students succeed. In particular, she’s examining how black students make sense of their own racial identity and how race matters in the world around them and how these perspectives affect their success both in high school and afterwards. Building on a previ-ous study, she’s following 19 students as they prepare for and undertake post high school options, including col-lege. Funded through a three -year, $323,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation, her research includes interviews, questionnaires, and audiotaped and/or hand-written journals (kept by the students).


Now in the third year of the grant, O’Connor says that her work to date has raised questions about some commonly held notions. She says, “The presump-tion is that black student’s perceive a confl ict between being black and doing well in school. Consequently, it is very

common for people to believe that having a strong black identity will detract from students, ability to do well in school. But the work I’ve done to date shows it’s much more complicated than that.” Her work shows how and under what conditions black racial identities operate as protective factors. It also reveals the ways in which the practices and organization of schools (and not the black students themselves) establish tensions between having a strong black identity and doing well in school.

An advantage in doing a long-term study, O’Connor says, is being able to examine the ways in which “racial identity shifts over time” and in response to the chal-lenges and demands students face as they change to adulthood. O’Connor is concerned with how these shifts may make students more or less able to successfully meet these challenges and demands. Such research might show teachers and administrators “how their practices might situate students’ racial identity as a resource rather than as a vulnerability.” An advantage in doing a long-term study, O’Connor says, is being able to examine the ways in which “racial identity shifts over time’ and with the student’s circumstances. Such research might show teachers ”how to engage students around identity.”

The founder of the former W. T. Grant Stores empire launched the foundation bearing his name in 1936. Its stated goal is to “help create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential” and it pursues evidence-based research efforts. Early on, the New York City-based foundation initiated a watershed study in the use of interdisciplinary research, following William T. Grant’s interest in fi nding out why some youths succeeded in life and others didn’t.

Carnegie Corporation of New York Recently, Annemarie Palincsar chatted with a group of upper elementary teach-ers, all of whom engaged in inquiry-based science instruction. What she heard—that these teachers had reservations and concerns about using text in science teaching, because science books were

so often “a mile wide and an inch deep,” with dense vocabulary and concepts, but little explanation,

or because children often set aside their own thinking to defer to the text’s authority—gave her pause. If teach-ers who are serious about teaching science are reluctant to use science texts, there are several implications: Perhaps texts can be improved. Perhaps teachers can be supported to think of ways that texts can be used to support their inquiry goals in science teaching.

The problem grows even more complicated when considering middle schools and high schools. By the time students reach secondary schools, subject matter teaching is often separate from literacy instruction. The range of reading skills among students differs widely, and the content poses greater challenges. Subject matter teachers aren’t necessarily well-prepared to teach reading comprehension in their disciplines, while literacy teachers and coaches often fi nd their backgrounds too general to address the specifi c issues within particular disciplines. With generous support from the Carnegie Foundation of New York, Dr. Palinc-sar, Jean and Charles Walgreen Professor of Reading and Literacy at the School of Education, is embarking on a project, in collaboration with UM colleagues, Bob Bain and Susanna Hapgood, to develop a new techno-logical tool that will create a shared space for middle school subject matter teachers and literacy coaches to discuss domain-specifi c literacies, focusing on digital video examples in science and history. The research and development team, which includes colleagues from UM-Flint, Jeff Kupperman, and California Polytechnic, Shirley Magnusson, will pilot the technology’s use in collaboration with middle school literacy coaches and subject matter teachers.

Foundation support such as that provided by Carnegie, which funds work that aims ‘to do real and permanent good in this world,” permits SOE faculty such as Dr. Palincsar to have a direct impact on schools and teach-ers across the country. Carnegie’s Education Division created a new subprogram focusing on intermediate and adolescent literacy, recognizing that expectations for student achievement have increased, “yet the way in which students are taught to read, comprehend and write about subject matter has not kept pace with the demands of schooling.”

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Staples Corporation

“It’s been magical,” says UM Education School Pro-fessor Frederick Goodman of an unexpected fi nancial gift made possible by his secondhand connection to a prominent TV actor.

Thanks to Tom Cavanagh, star of the former TV series “Ed”, the university’s Interactive Communications & Simulations group (ICS)—which Goodman founded and directs—is $33,000 richer. The connection between television and the School of Education started when Canadian-born Cavanagh became a “celebrity ambas-sador” for offi ce-supply retailer Staples, Inc., promoting its charitable missions. Cavanagh was asked to specify an American educational charity to receive a donation from the Staples Corporation in his name. He turned to his father, Tom Cavanagh, Sr., a retired Canadian edu-cator, long active in international educational develop-ment projects, and a longtime friend of Fred Goodman,

whom he met through their shared pas-sion for educational simulation games. “I have an incredible respect for Fred,” the elder Cavanagh said recently. “He’s just about the most intelligent and interest-ing person I’ve ever met.” So, at his father’s suggestion, the actor specifi ed ICS as a benefi ciary.

Goodman was “thrilled” by the gift. Part of it went to replace a sluggish computer system, but the dona-tion also helped advance efforts of ICS to orient young people to the potential of educational technology. Good-man explains, “For two decades ICS, a Computerworld Smithsonian Award winning project, has been offering thousands of students around the world a way to work together asynchronously in highly demanding educa-tional exercises.” One ICS project allowed several high school students from diverse backgrounds to make vid-eos of themselves, illuminating their different cultures. Another project provided scholarships for high school students to learn “how to develop software for socially responsible purposes,” says ICS project director Gary Weisserman. The students are now working with the Public Museum of Grand Rapids on using technology to reach out to potential museum visitors.

Staples, Inc., headquartered west of Boston in Fram-ingham, Massachusetts, founded the offi ce supplies superstore industry when their fi rst store opened in Brighton, Massachusetts on May 1, 1986. Today, Staples is the world’s leading seller of offi ce products. Through its Staples Foundation for Learning, Staples, Inc., has contributed to more than 150 nonprofi t groups across the nation. The foundation’s mission is to “teach, train, and inspire people from all walks of life by providing educational and growth opportunities.” The Massa-chusetts-based company also sponsors a Recycle for Education program, which donates $1 to educational charities for each inkjet or toner cartridge brought into its stores for reuse.


Support From IndividualsWith competition for charitable giving at an all-time high, development professionals must be creative in tailoring programs that maximize individual and corpo-rate gifts. Sometimes, though, there are people who just give. They give for a variety of reasons, often stemming from their own experience at the University, and they help tend the foundation from which great programs, like the School of Education, grow.

Jim Kamman, like a lot of people, had a plan when he began his degree in education. He was a member of the UM wrestling team and thought his future would include teaching and coaching at the high school level. His plan—also like a lot of people’s—changed upon gradu-ation.

After fi nishing his Bachelor’s in Education, with cer-tifi cation (’67), Kamman enlisted in the Marine Corps. During his four years in the Corps, Kamman served as a member of his unit’s legal team, and when he returned to El Toro, CA., chose to pursue a career in law. He graduated from Pepperdine University Law School in 1976, and eventually found his niche in tax law. He formed his own fi rm in 1996.

Kamman did not give up on teaching, however. He went on to get a master’s degree in taxation at Golden Gate University and taught in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California Irvine for a couple of years, and for 14 years as an adjunct faculty member in their graduate tax program. He said 50 per-cent of his students spoke English as a second language, which constantly presented challenges. “Our tax law is complex enough for our own citizens, let alone those from other countries,” he said.

Kamman began giving to the University shortly after graduation. “Just small amounts, of course, but in the last 15 years I have become a relatively large donor.” His reason for giving is two-fold. “In everything I have done, one of the greatest lessons I’ve learned—from my father, my coaches—is that you gotta put back in, you can’t just take out,” Kamman said. His giving is also based upon the belief that anyone who wants to go to the University of Michigan should be able to go. A lack of

money should not restrict someone from pursuing an education. Kamman is helping his own son pay for his education, and said he fi nds it pretty amazing that now, when you factor in infl ation, you can spend as much in one year as he spent in four years for his own col-lege education. Which is why he sees it as critical that people support education. “The state legislature doesn’t have the money, it has to come from individuals.”

One such individual, in every sense of the word, is known as “Michigan Mary.” Mary Douglas (MA, 1952) took on that moniker when she moved from Michigan to Los Angeles in 1953. “When I moved to Los Angeles, people used to ask where I was from, and soon enough I became known as Michigan Mary.” To reinforce the pride in her Michigan roots, Douglas has a vanity plate that reads WLVRN, and her phone number translates to 7UM-GOGO.

Douglas, a Monroe native, pursued her teaching career on the West Coast. After teaching elementary students for fi ve years in Michigan she spent the next 37 years in California. In addition to teaching children, Douglas also spent time teaching adults in amnesty programs for immigrants in Los Angeles, and in-service teacher train-ing programs. “I taught elementary education by day, and teachers and parents at night,” while also raising her son as a single mother.

Douglas retired to Arizona in 1990. “I dedicated my life to teaching other people’s children for 42 years,” she said, “and I continue today through philanthropy.” Each of the programs she is involved with—from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), to Delta Kappa Gamma, and the UM Alumni clubs of West Valley, Calif., and Pheonix, AZ.—has a scholarship component, Douglas said.

Support From IndividualsPeggy Herron


Support From IndividualsAlthough a regular donor to both the SOE and the Rack-ham Graduate School since she left the University, Douglas said her giving increased when she received her fi rst application for football tickets thirty years ago. “I had been giving a certain amount each year, but when that ap-plication came, I bumped it up.” Douglas is clearly a huge sports fan. Describing one weekend this fall, she said, “we went to a hockey game at Yost on Friday night, then the San Diego State game Sat-urday afternoon, watched Eastern Michigan play Toledo Saturday night and then took in the Lions game Sunday afternoon.” Phew. “I have to squeeze a lot in while I am in town because I don’t get there very often.” She predicts that the men’s basketball program will be ranked in the top 25 this year, and is looking forward to attending the upcoming UCLA-Michigan game.

One of Douglas’ contemporaries, Joan Neil (AB LSA, Ed. Certt., ’52) sees her family’s support of the University as “one small thing we can do,” to promote greater under-standing in a climate of political rhethoric that is creat-ing increasing divisiveness in this country. “I feel more strongly now, in the current political and social culture we live in, that we really need good teachers,” Neil said.

The Joan Nelson, Herbert R. Neil Jr. Endowed Schol-arship was fi rst awarded in 2003 and is a continuing endowment in the School of Education for instate tuition for certifi cation. “We thought after this most recent politi-cal campaign that perhaps the scholarship should go to someone who plans to teach social studies,” she said with a laugh.

The Neils have given to the University for quite some time. Both are graduates of the University. Joan received her degree in speech pathology, while her husband Her-bert, earned his bachelors, and doctorate in Economics. She worked as a school speech therapist at the elementary level in Michigan after graduation, did some graduate work in Rochester, NY., and has lived for the last three decades in Deerfi eld, IL. Joan Neil said that prior to initiating the endowment their gifts usually went to LSA, but at the beginning of the capi-tal campaign in 2000, Herbert

told her “it was her turn,” meaning it was time to give to the School of Education. “We talked to the devel-opment director about our options, and I really believe in education,” Neil explained, “so if we could help someone who really wants to teach, then that’s what I wanted to do.”

Her children’s experience in high school is the standard she thinks all teachers ought to strive for, and that should be supported fi nancially. “I was very impressed with my daughter’s history teacher, with her method, which stressed theoretical as well as factual information, rather than simply what my kids referred to as ‘multiple guess.’” Neil said high school kids don’t always appreciate their education at the time, but eventually they understand. “When my daughter went on to college I remember her saying that she could really appreciate that teacher now, and she went on to major in history!” Teaching that leaves that kind of an impression is what Neil and her husband are supporting through their en-dowed scholarship.

These donors play an integral role in helping the SOE fullfi ll its mission of improving and fortifying K-16 education for all students by supporting important pro-grams within the University like student fi nancial aid, professional service activities that bring today’s students together with today’s practitioners, cutting edge technol-ogy and research, and teacher preparation programs. Creative giving ideas will always have a place in Univer-sity development programs, but so too will individuals like Jim Kamman, Mary Douglas and the Neils, who just give.


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Tax Benefi tsYour gift may provide you with federal and state income tax benefi ts:

* If you itemize deductions on your federal income tax return, you may be able to deduct your contribution to UM from your adjusted gross income. In addition, gifts of appreciated property avoid long term capital gains tax. Check with your tax advisor for deduction and capital gains tax requirements and limitations for your situation.

* Your state may also allow a credit or deduction. For example, Michigan residents may take a credit against state tax of 50 cents for each dollar of their gift to UM, with a maximum tax credit of $100 for taxpayers fi ling singly or $200 on a joint return.

The School of Education relies heavily on major grants to fund much of its work not covered by the University budget. As you can see by the long list of donors published in this issue, however, gifts from individuals constitute important support for a wide variety of projects and activities, from student scholarships to faculty research.

Your year-end gift will assist these many endeavors and may help reduce your 2004 taxes. Of course, we advise consulting your own tax advisor concerning your personal tax situation. In general, however, the following information may help your decision making.

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Year-End GiftsTo qualify for the 2004 tax year, checks must be in envelopes postmarked on or before December 31, 2004 and received by the UM Gift Processing Offi ce by January 11, 2005. Checks received after January 11th will be recorded as 2005 gifts.

Another option is to take advantage of our online giving service. Friday, December 31, 2004, at 5:00 p.m. is the last day for a donor to make a 2004 gift using Michigan Online Giving. The gateway to Michigan Online Giving is found on the Offi ce of Development Web Site:

http://www.giving.umich.edu

If you’d like to discuss your gift in further detail, please contact us at (734) 764-7563 or via email at [email protected]. The School of Education welcomes gifts at this time of year and, indeed, at any time of the year. We thank you for your generous support in the past, and look forward to continuing our great work with the help of our alumni and other benefactors.

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We have worked to make the following list as accurate as possible. However, we may have made mistakes and we apologize for them and any inconve-nience they may have caused. We hope that your giving to the School of Education is a point of pride for you as it is for us. Therefore, accuracy in this is, naturally, a source of concern for all. We would appreciate your gentle corrections and reminders if this is the case regarding your name or giving.

GIFTS OF $100,000 OR MORECarnegie CorporationWilliam T. Grant FoundationDonald and Elizabeth Runck EstateThe Spencer Foundation

GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $99,999Richard E. England EstateMerritt Johnston EstateJoan and Herbert NeilStaples, Inc.

Frank B. Womer

GIFTS OF $2,500 TO $9,999Mrs. Mary M. H. DouglasFord Motor Company FundSusan C. and Thomas R. HodgsonJim and Judy KammanMr. and Mrs. William T. MuirLangley and Karen ShookKing and Frances StutzmanMr. Harvey A. WagnerKaren Wixson and Wiley Massingill

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We have worked to make the following list as accurate as possible. However, we may have made mistakes and we apologize for them and any inconve-nience they may have caused. We hope that your giving to the School of Education is a point of pride for you as it is for us. Therefore, accuracy in this is, naturally, a source of concern for all. We would appreciate your gentle corrections and reminders if this is the case regarding your name or giving.

GIFTS OF $1000 TO $2499

Abbott Laboratories FundMr. Charles J. AndrewsCol. and Mrs. Arthur D. BarondesStephen and Mary BatesJames and Carol BilbieMrs. Guido A. BindaRegent and Mrs. David A. BrandonSharon and Frederick BrubakerMrs. Margaret I. Gardner ChristiansenStuart Cohen and Susan HartmanJames E. and Wendy P. DavermanMiss Janet E. DiehlMark F. DuffyMrs. Irene D. EanesJohn W. EnglishEric and Jennifer FretzMrs. Mary Ann GreigBeverly and George GroveEdward J. and Ruth HeinigMargene HenryDiane and Jay HertherDennis M. and Marise A. HusseyVerne G. and Judith A. IstockDr. Patricia KingMartin P. KlitznerMr. William G. KringSarah and John LawserDr. Paul E. LingenfelterDr. Elizabeth A. LinnenbrinkHelen L. Mamarchev, Ph.D.Wilbert and Virginia McKeachieMrs. Lila A. McMechanDr. and Mrs. Allen MenloAlbert and Shino Moffi ttMr. F Herbert NeumanJohn H. and Catherine H. OgdenMichael and Eleanor Pinkert William and Jacqueline PrinsMrs. Mary Elizabeth ReesRockwell Automation TrustDr. and Mrs. Everett Newton RottenbergRalph W. and Jo Anne RydholmMr. Dale H. SchunkDr. Elena M. SliepcevichGus and Andrea StagerMr. Alvin J. StallworthNancy and Fred StankeRalph and Mary StevensMr. and Mrs. Robert W. TankeMiss Shirley A. TuckerMr. and Mrs. Charles H. Van DeusenStephen and Susan Schwartz WildstromJames WilliamsDr. June S. WilsonMs. Takako Zusho

GIFTS OF $500 TO $999

Ms. E. Joyce AdderleyHarvey Baer AllonHope Finegold AlperMr. and Mrs. Gerard A. AntekeierT. Gregory BarrettBristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc.Dr. and Mrs. Douglas B. BrownLawrence and Valerie BullenJack and Marian Burchfi eldJohn and Janis BurkhardtJack Stanley CarberryMargaret and Stanley CheffClifford and Laura CraigSusan J. DevencenziNancy and Thomas EvansonExxonMobil FoundationMona and Thomas FielderLeona and Leon FlissSamuel GaftDr. Wendy A. GeeMr. and Mrs. Albert F. GelhausenIone and Lowell GoodmanMs. Barbara V. GrinkeMrs. Laris Stalker GrossDonald and Dagny HarrisMr. and Mrs. James T. HegenbarthBob and Marguerite HigginsWilliam and Rebecca HorvathMrs. Virginia D. HorvathRobert and Gretchen IlgenfritzRoger and Carolyn JohnsonAlan H. and Susan Holtzer Jones

Ruth E. Kallio, Ph.D.Phyllis M. KindingerJames and Kristina KunzKatherine Kurtz and Raburn HowlandClifford and Gloria LarsenCharles E. and Madelyn P. LitzMs. Frances E. LossingJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationMr. and Mrs. Monroe D. MacphersonCynthia A. Martinez-HarnerThe McGraw-Hill CompaniesMr. and Mrs. Meryle T. MetzlerProf. and Mrs. Bernice MorseEd and Judie NarensDr. Joseph S. and Ann R. NewcombChristine J. OsterWilliam and Susan PappasThomas S. ParsonsPetrie-Bowen FamilyThe Pfi zer FoundationDr. David Ponitz and Dr. Doris PonitzDr. Doreen PoupardThe Prudential FoundationMargaret and Dale RavenMr. Hercules G. RendaMs. Winifred H. Rome, M.B.A.Rosewood Capital Management CorporationKaren and Glenn SaltsmanElise C. SchepelerCarol and Alfred SchrashunDr. Jane SchwertfegerAudrey M. SebastianJosephine and Thomas SebbenLinda Coleman ShirkeyMargo and Michael SiegelMary Phyllis and Allan R. SiegerWilliam L. and Julie Ann SkinnerMr. and Mrs. R. Eugene SloughMrs. Cathy D. SpanoRussell C. StillNancy and John StromDorothy and James SymonsDonald Tate and AssociatesTyco Electronics/Amp Inc.Mr. Stevan VanVlietGeorge A. Wade, M.D.Donald L. WilliamsDr. Jonnie L. WilliamsDr. and Mrs. James D. YatesJohn and S. Suzanne Zinser


GIFTS OF $1000 TO $2499


Jean R. AimonovitchEric and Lynley AndermanDr. and Mrs. James M. AndersonNeal H. and Elizabeth A. ArdahlRobert E. and Patricia Baer Roger and Nancy BattistellaMs. Carita H. BergelinPaul and Elaine BrubacherMrs. John CalhounMargaret Elizabeth CampbellMiss Susan Lee Canfi eldDr. Joy B. CarterMr. and Mrs. George C. CarusoConstantine and Ingrid ChamalesTherese and Richard ChouinardMrs. Mary Jo CoeDean and Carolyn J. ColePaul and Laurie CookDiane D. CoxfordJoann and William CrawfordDr. and Mrs. Robert C. CroninMargaret P. CurtinElizabeth and Kermit CutterGail and Dan Dall’OlmoMrs. Susan W. DanielsonMr. and Mrs. Arlan DanneDaniel and Anne DanoskyFrank and Marilyn DennisMr. Eric L. DeyThe Dow Chemical Company FoundationDr. and Mrs. Craig R. DykstraMiss Judith M. EbnerMr. Robert J. EdwardsDr. John EisnerRobert B. and Sara T. EvansDr. Colleen M. FairbanksPatricia and Robert FedoreMiss Elaine M. GaloitDonald S. and Laurie M. GardnerGeneral Motors FoundationJanet and William GerhardtGlaxoSmithKline FoundationDr. Joe L. GreeneDr. Patricia L. Griffi nBradley and Terri HanpeterE. F. Harris Family FoundationMs. Susan Marie Heathfi eldAlyce and Dennis HelfmanMiriam Henderson-McFall and Ronald McFallDr. James T. HeydtThomas and Patricia HillNiles and Shirley Holland

The Horner Family FoundationHiroaki and Yoko HoshinoMr. and Mrs. Brian J. HowardJudith and John HowardShirley B. HurwitzMs. Joan Lee HustedDr. and Mrs. James F. HylaIntel FoundationDavid and Joanne JacksonMrs. Margaret Walker JurchesonDon L. and Nancy L. KaegiShirley and Irving KaplanMarshall Katzman and Sarah LewisC. Philip and Julia KearneyMs. Elizabeth S. KimmelHoward and Mary KirchickMs. Shirley A. KirklandRonald R. KocanLisa and John KoegelMr. Arthur W. KonarskeDavid and Joanne D. LairdDr. William E. LakeyRory P. and Martha R. LaughnaMr. and Mrs. Sander LehrerJohn and Barbara LeppiahoLinda Levy-Carter and John CarterPaul and Lynn LiebermanDouglas and Ann LundBruce and Bertie MackMarathon Oil Company FoundationLisa M. MarkowitzRonald and Anne MarxEugene and Sandra MatscoPhillip D. and Lois S. Matthews FoundationDr. Gary Robert McClainMrs. Cynthia B. McPhersonThe Merck Company FoundationDrs. Jeffrey and Barbara MirelBarbara and J. Michael MooreDr. Helen M. MorsinkSamuel A. MullerGuy and Linda MurdockWilliam H. NaultMrs. Patricia NederveldCharles and Betty J. OrtmannMrs. Sally F. ParsonsDiana and Mark PermarMr. Donald B. Peterson, Jr.Dr. Marvin W. PetersonDr. Alex S. PomnichowskiRichard E. PopovDr. Sylvia C. PriceMrs. Ruth E. PurslowJohn and Marilyn Rintamaki

Fred and Janet R. RolfDr. Leslie W. RossSBC FoundationJudith and Richard SchiffThe Scripps Howard FoundationJon and Diana SebalyJames M. and Sue M. SellgrenHoward and Nancy SerlinDr. Nancy L. Shiffl erThomas W. and Myrtle J. ShultzJill A. ShureAlma Simounet-Bey and Wilfredo GeigelRichard E. and Patricia SkavdahlJohn S. and Virginia C. SlavensJohn E. and Beverly Allen SmithDr. Christine C. SmithMiss Adele Evelyn SobaniaFrank and Susan SonyeDr. and Mrs. Richard StaelinRobert and Elizabeth StaleyRichard B. and Nancy J. SteigerMr. and Mrs. William C. SteukLaurie and James StoianowskiDr. Clarence L. and Mrs. Oretha H. StoneFred Erwin StrongRonald P. and Janet S. StroteDr. David and Karen StutzLawrence C. and Jean E. SweetNelda TaylorMrs. Lillian R. TeitelbaumRuth E. ThomasThe Rev. and Mrs. Mark C. ThompsonTime Warner, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Jack G. TorngaMary E. Van DuyneMs. Janice G. VeenstraLisbeth and Walter VeghteDr. and Mrs. Charles M. VestOtis and Kathy WaltonJames and Bonnie L. WatsonJoan and David WeinbaumDr. Claire E. WeinsteinMs. Avis L. WhiteJean and Wilson WhittierMr. and Mrs. G. Warner WilliamsRichard V. WisniewskiMiss Nancy Jane WolfHelen and James WrightWyethThe Xerox FoundationMichael W. and Marcia W. York

GIFTS OF $250 TO $499

Georgia and Kevin AbbeyDolly and John AdamsMaudella and Don AlbrightKathryn A. AllinghamMr. and Mrs. Irwin S. AlpernDr. Richard C. AltermanMr. and Mrs. Richard M. AmbergDr. and Mrs. Martin E. AmundsonDonald F. AndersonDr. Lynn W. AndersonEthel and Richard AndersonShirley Oltman AndersonRosalind and Carl AndreasMrs. Edith Andrew-AkitaAnn Arbor Bicycle Touring SocietyMs. Pia M. AntonettiKatherine S. AntonopulosAptimaDr. and Mrs. Todd W. AresonJohn A. and Marylyn S. ArtzBill and Sue AuchMr. and Mrs. Brent AuerDr. and Mrs. Waino E. AukeeLawrence H. and Margaret A. AultDr. and Mrs. Charles H. AurandMr. and Mrs. Ralph BachLenore Lesser BacherDr. and Mrs. J. A. BakerMr. Jason R. BalcomMr. and Mrs. M. Dana Baldwin IIBonnie and Gary BallardMarilyn and Joel BamfordNancy and Roger BandeenBarbara Miller PriceJudith and Gordon BarnesDr. Joan Boykoff BaronEleanor and William BarrettJanet L. BartelmayRobert M. BartlettJohn M. and Margaret BashurRaymond A. and Vivian BassRobert H. BatesJane and Donald BattonCharles D. BeallMr. and Mrs. Harold W. BeamMarcia G. BednarshMrs. Mary Katharine BeheDavid J. and Kathleen C. BellKathryn and George BelvitchBemis Company FoundationHenry T. and Eileen C. BenedettoSara Lynn and Carl G. BennerMr. Alvin G. BensonMr. and Mrs. Dennis C. BensonDr. Rose Marie BerberianKarl A. and Nancy F. BergLee P. and Marguerite P. Berlin

Mr. and Mrs. James D. BernsteinRoger R. BertoiaRalph A. and Theresa A. BielawskiFrancis and Angela BierhuizenMr. and Mrs. Charles R. BilbyMr. and Dr. BishopDr. Barbara Ann BissotMrs. Phyllis D. BlakeDonald and Lydia BlanchardRichard A. and Audrey E. BlanzyMs. Juliane L. BlazevskiMr. and Mrs. William A. BlazoNoel S. BleierMr. and Mrs. Peter N. BlountRobert Lee BlueThe Boeing CompanyChristopher and Amy BohnMrs. Joan E. BollingFolke and Susan BomanMimi BongMrs. Blanche W. BonnerMr. and Mrs. William C. BoonstraBorg-Warner Foundation, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. BottiDr. James N. BowMrs. Mary Jane BowerMs. M. Victoria BowesDouglas A. BoyceScott and Catherine S. BoydDr. and Mrs. A. Paul Bradley, Jr.Arbrie Griffi n BradleyKaren and Paul BradleyDr. and Mrs. Carl I. BrahceJudith and James BraidDr. and Mrs. Robert F. BrammerMs. Katharine L. BrandMr. Ronald C. BraunHoward and Margaret BrayMr. Robert BreilMr. and Mrs. James M. BreskoSylvia and William BridgeCharlene and Robert BriggsKevin J. Briggs and Carol J. KarrEsther and Earl BrightMr. and Mrs. Robert M. BrimacombeDr. Lois F. BrinkmanMrs. Josephine B. BrokawMary Lee and Anthony T. BronzoArthur P. BrooksDr. Margaret C. BrownPeggie and Andrew BrownDr. Ronald M. BrownMrs. Vivian BrownDr. and Mrs. William BrownscombeShelley and Gary BruderNancy and Philip BrumbaughJean Findley Bryant

Pauline and James BuchananDr. Paul F. BuchholzDana and Edward BucknamBucyrus-Erie Foundation, Inc.Ms. Beverly Jean BudkeDr. Stephanie R. BulgerJohn D. and Barbara K. BunburyMrs. June J. BurchyettDr. Sandra Kay BurrusFrederick S. and Renee S. BursteinWilliam and Irene BushawMr. Lauren BusseyThomas and Jeanne ButlerFrank and Mary ButoracThe Rev. and Mrs. Erston M. Butterfi eldMr. Thomas A. ButtsDonald and Winifred S. BykerLee Edward CagleMr. and Mrs. Robert D. CahowMr. and Mrs. John R. CaldwellDr. and Mrs. Thomas P. CaldwellMrs. Russell Alan CallananDenise Ann CameronMr. and Mrs. Robert G. CampbellMrs. Marsha Rogers CanickMr. Peter John CanzanoKaren and Bryan CapanyolaDr. Robert L. Carl, Jr.Robert W. and Susan CarlingKevin and Karen J. CarneyEmanuel and Joan CarrerasDr. Robert Carrier and Linda CarrierMs. Priscilla S. CarrollCara and David CassardMr. and Mrs. Richard E. CassardMr. and Mrs. Thomas A. CecchiniT. Jaime and Rosa I. ChahinDr. Marsha L. ChapmanDr. Carey A. Charles-OkopnyMarilyn R. ChasteenDiane and Richard CheathamJane and Kenneth CheekMs. Barbara Hayman CherisChevronTexacoDr. and Mrs. Stuart A. ChoateDale and Joan ChristensonKi-Suck and Hae-Ja ChungMiss Nancy E. CilleyWilliam A. and Catherine B. ClarkMrs. Lottie Ritz ClarkBetsy and Lawrence ClaytonMs. Mary Evelyn ClellandDr. and Mrs. Terrence G. CoburnDonn and Mary H. CoddingtonMr. and Mrs. John E. CodwellMr. and Mrs. Charles E. CoffeyDr. George L. Cogar

GIFTS OF $100 to $249



Kathleen Cohan and Kenneth BurrellMr. and Mrs. Robert P. ColeSandra T. CollardMr. William S. CollinsComerica, IncorporatedMr. and Mrs. David R. ComfortComputer Associates International, Inc.James and James ConklinJames P. Conroy IIDr. Lynne Harris CookMr. and Mrs. Marvin CooperDean W. CostonMr. David W. CoulamMrs. Eileen M. CourterCharles and Zenovia CourtneyMs. Elizabeth R. CowanJames and Dorothy CoxRose W. CrandellMrs. Elizabeth Howenstein CraneMr. and Mrs. Thomas P. CraneMrs. Paula R. CreedMr. Wallace T. CrippsCelia Sotelo CrissDr. and Mrs. Richard C. CurryLeo T. and Josephine A. DalyCathy and Robert DarlingRoscoe and Mary Jo DavidsonMiss Barbara Jo DavisMr. and Mrs. Leonard C. DavisMs. Catherine M. DavisMs. Heather A. DavisJames E. and Joanna Young DavisDr. and Mrs. Robert J. DavisSusan L. DavisonElizabeth J. DaweMiss June DealRobert A. Dean, Ph.D.Mrs. Michelle S.P. DeblingerMr. Sidney V. DeBoerEdward D. and Joanne B. DeebDr. Elisabeth A. M. V. De GrootMr. and Mrs. John W. DeHeusMr. and Mrs. Mark D. DelayDr. Delmo Della-DoraRosemary and Allen DeLoachMrs. Helen V. DenBestenMs. Rita M. Des ArmierJanet Dettloff and John NovakDr. and Mrs. William B. DewberryMrs. Linda S. DickersonKathyrn L. DiersteinBetty Jordan DietzDr. and Mrs. W. Robert DixonJoan and Douglas DodgeEleanor A. DoersamLois Ann DohnerMs. Elizabeth A. Doman

Dr. Charles A. DominickVirginia and Robert DonaldHarold C. Doster, Ph.D.Mrs. Marilyn G. DotyDr. Donald E. DouglasLeonard and Melody DouglasDow AgroSciencesDow Corning FoundationMr. and Mrs. Carserlo DoyleChristopher and Kay DrakeDr. and Mrs. David G. DrakeSandra and Francis DrinanMr. and Mrs. David D. DunatchikDr. David R. DuncanMichele J. DuncanMr. Jesse L. Dungy IIIMrs. Barbara K. DursumElven E. and Jane E. DuvallMs. Linda E. DuvallMr. and Mrs. George C. EarlJohn D. and Ruth B. EdickWendy Jo NewRosanne and Edward EhrlichDr. Steven H. ElderKathleen and Lawrence EliasSophia Holley EllisMrs. Kathryn Y. EnrightDrs. Elliot and Eileen EntinHollie and Matthew EriksenPascual EscarenoMr. Craig M. EvansMr. and Mrs. J. R. EvansPaul L. EvansDr. and Mrs. William J. EvansMrs. Doris T. FauthDrs. William Klykylo and Dorothyann FeldisGary Fenstermacher and Virginia RichardsonMr. Lloyd C. FergusonAlberto FernandezNancy and Thomas FetteMrs. Betty Sue FeuerDr. and Mrs. A. Lawrence FincherMr. and Mrs. Richard O. FineRichard and Kathleen L. FinkRobert and Linda FinkelDonna and Andrew FisherJohn and Joanne M. FisherBarry Fishman and Teresa McMahonLois and James FitchDenis and Carol FitzgeraldJohn and Jacqueline FletcherDr. Jeanette G. FleuryMiss Linda E. FlickingerJudith and Jay FlowersFreeman and Frances E. FlynnRichard and Cassandra FoleyCecil R. and Rita M. Foote

Barbara and David FosterJoanne and Edwin FosterWilliam and Shirley FosterWinifred and James FoxDorothy and Thomas FrakerHarry C. Francis, Jr.Arthur and Marlene FrancisSandra and Steven FranckMarcia FranklinMs. Victory E. FrantzMs. Carla Holmgren FraserMr. and Mrs. Paul Tobias FreyMary Catherine FreyDr. Ann Byrne FridrichMs. Rondi Sokoloff FriederArthur F. and Anne M. FritzPaul A. and Anne K. FuhsDeborah and Marc FullerTheresa and Steven FurrJudith and Dennis GageRoger Floyd GaleDr. and Mrs. Edward A. GallagherEthan C. and Patricia W. GallowayDr. Rodolfo Garcia Z.Elaine and Joel GasidloGenevieve and Clifford GayMr. Thomas GazellaMrs. Martha J. GearhartTerry Sue GellermanSheila and Martin GelmanMr. and Mrs. Brewster H. GereLarry and Nicoletta GessBernard J. GeyerDr. Douglas F. GibbsMrs. Jayne E. Giffi nMrs. Nancy J. GiffordErica Gilbertson and Matthew HallMrs. Lindagene GilesDr. Judith I. GillMrs. Kay H. GillJohn Douglas GillesbyMs. Carolyn M. GlairMr. and Mrs. James D. GlaspieJo and Roger GlassMrs. Matiana GlassMr. and Mrs. Robert L. GlazierDr. and Mrs. Stewart E. GloyerMr. and Mrs. David M. GoelzerWilliam H. GoetzSarah and Michael GorodezkySharil and Charles GouldMrs. Inta Mednis GraceDr. and Mrs. Robert J. GrahamDr. Christine GramPhilip L. and Martha L. GrayMrs. Paula C. GreggMr. William Leo Gregg

GIFTS OF $100 to $249 GIFTS OF $100 to $249

Dr. Robert and Shirley GrekinMs. Fern A. Griffi nMrs. Elizabeth A. Griffi thsMrs. Sally K. GriswoldNorman and Marie GronlundNancy and Wesley GrubeMr. and Mrs. Robert E. GuerinMr. and Mrs. Norman F. GuiceMr. Raymond P. GuraSharon and Joseph GuytonEugene and Marylou HabeckerMary and George HaddadRobert and Karen W. HahnMarc and Andrea HaidleMr. James M. HallMrs. Mary L. HallockMr. and Mrs. Glenn W. HamburgMarguerite HammersmithSalma and Howard HandorfHanft FrideMr. and Mrs. Donald H. HannRev. Olga J. HardMrs. Dorothy R. HarmsenPamela and David HaronProf. Don K. HarrisonMs. Helen R. HarrisonJohn and Mary HarrisonRobert W. HarrisonMonica and Jeffery HarroldKathleen A. Hart, Ph.D.Richard and Ann HartzellPatricia and Fernand HayotDavid C. HeavyMs. Barbara B. HeckDonald G. HeidenbergerClaudia HeinrichMr. and Mrs. William C. HellerMr. and Mrs. David A. HelmsDr. and Mrs. Ralph HelzermanThomas and Caroline HendricksonMaxine and Peter HenningMs. Teresa A. HenrichsMs. R. Annette HensonMrs. Patsy L. HerbertJames Frederick HermanDr. and Mrs. Robin I. HermanRoger D. HerringtonDr. Roberta Joan HerterMrs. Jeanne L. HessCallie and Clarence HesterDr. Charles B. HicksMargie Green HiggsJoan and Peter HillDavid and Meryl HirschlandMiss Dorothy V. HitsmanBetty and William E. HodsonMr. Dennis G. Hoffer

Theodore and Mary HoffmanMiss Nora Martha HokeAnn Marie and Edward D. HolbinDelphine W. HollandP. Hollobaugh and Richard BalamuckiGeorge H. HolmanThomas and Joanne HolmanMrs. David HorningMiss Lois Jane HosmerWayne and Anita HoyCarolyn and Charles HubbardMr. Jarrett Theophus HubbardTeresa A. HubbellMs. Janet C. HuberCharles W. HugoMr. and Mrs. Elwin Leigh HulceDr. Ann D. HungermanMary and Dr. Warren HussDr. John W. HutherLori and Joseph HymesDr. and Mrs. Howard M. IamsIllinois Tool Works FoundationJames and Carol ImhoffMr. and Mrs. Jerry L. InmanMrs. Margie R. IrickCarol Ivory-Carline and Jan CarlineGloria Jean JacksonJanis Jacobs and D. Wayne OsgoodMrs. Julia H. JacobsonDr. and Mrs. Mark J. JaffeC. Brian and Lynn M. JamesLouis P. James, Ph.D.Paula and Harold JarnickiMrs. Katherine P. JeannotteWilliam and Carol L. JennessRobert and Elinor JereauJohns Hopkins UniversityEdward and Beth JohnsonMs. Elsie M. JohnsonPaul and Marilyn JohnsonMr. and Mrs. Donald R. JolliffeMrs. Elise K. JudyMs. Janice Anne KabodianMs. Dolores A. KaczmarczykDenise and Frederick KaltKalt-Lori Steel CorporationDr. Esther E. KamisarDr. Katherine M. KastenPerry and Bernadette KatzensteinMichelle and Jeremy KaufmanKatherine M. KehoeMichael T. and Betty A. KehoeMr. Allyn R. KehrerDr. and Mrs. Howard R. KehrlMrs. Mary J. Kellogg-BladeckiConstance C. KellyJohn B. and Esther A. Kelly

Robert G. and Judith KellyDr. and Mrs. Charles C. KelseyRobert and Emily KemnitzByrdell and Gilbert KendrickMary and Ronald KenneMs. Patricia KenneyMr. and Mrs. KenneyArthur G. KerleJudith A. KhalilJane and Curtis KimballMr. and Mrs. Frank J. KinnRoger and Cynthia KinnearMiss Betty Ruth KinstlerShirley and William KirchgessnerMrs. Dorothy P. KlintworthMr. and Mrs. Henry KlobucarDr. Stanley Gerald KneppDonald and Lillian KnodleRuth and Edward KnorringKeith D. KnowlesMs. Barbara J. KnutsonMrs. Maida E. KoenigsbergWilliam E. KogenBetty E. KohlPeter KokenakesDr. and Mrs. Robert M. KomornClaire Konikow BaumLynn M. KosinskiMark B. KotlerJoseph Krajcik and Ann Novak-KrajcikMrs. Walter A. Krause, Jr.Kevin and Karen KraushaarMarcia and Barton KregerMrs. Marjorie Jane KucherEdward J. KuhnMargaret A. KunjiRichard and Anita KurcheRonald D. and Patricia M. LaBeauCarl A. LadensackJames and Carol LadleyCarole and Daniel LametMr. and Mrs. George E. LancasterSusan and Lee LaneThe Rev. Albert W. LangleyMrs. Janet E. LaniganSusan Lapine and Donald MrozMs. Judith A. LarsonDr. William F. LasherLisa R. LattucaCharles and Barbara S. LawrenceJanet Osgood LawsonJohn Arden LawsonEllie and Bruce LedermanJohn Thomas and Anne Fiske LeeDr. Sang-Hie LeeMs. Diane C. Lehman





Jacqueline and Donald LelongMiss Miriam C. LenzMr. Gerald R. LeRoyDr. Jerome Lewis LevittHoward J. LewisMrs. Doris M. LibmanNancy and Keith LibmanDouglas C. LightYi-Guang and Sophia LinPiet W. and Jane M. LindhoutMs. Barbara S. LinnenbrinkAnne Linsdau and Walter HoeppnerMr. Keith A. LongcoreDr. Karen A. LongmanSamuel LoPresto and Charlotte KogerDavid and Linda LoveJohn P. and Connie D. LoventhalMr. and Mrs. Charles A. LowenhauptMr. and Mrs. James R. LozelleMrs. Regina Cullen LuginbuhlRalph Q. and Elsa LundJohn Walter LundeenMary Ann LundquistNancy and Richard LuteyJohn A. LynchMerrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc.Drs. Carla and Gordon LyonMiss Marjorie J. FunkM. G. A. Investments, Inc.Catherine Wollenberg and Richard MacDonaldThomas and Marjorie M. MackenzieDr. Susan M. MadleyDr. Martin L. and Jane M. MaehrDoris and Charles MagennisCathy Mancino and Stephen VosillaMiss Mary Lou ManorDaniel R. MantheiWilliam and Linda MantheyMargaret J. ManzDr. Theodore J. MarcheseJames G. and Lisa A. MarciniakJohn F. Marcum, Jr.Mrs. Margaret G. NielsenMilan and Zelma MarichDr. and Mrs. Edward T. MarquardtPatricia and Paul MarshallArland F. MartinMrs. Elizabeth MartinMrs. Ferne W. MartineauMasco CorporationNancy Ann and John W. MasonDr. John Paul MatheyMr. Robert A. MatthewJohn and Wanda MaturoMr. and Mrs. Robert MayerMr. Paul and Dr. Lynne Supovitz MayerDr. Harriette P. McAdoo

Mrs. Carol J. McCarusLon and Marian McCollumDr. Julie E. McDanielCarolyn and Walter McDonaldMs. Mary Ann McGovernMr. and Mrs. Robert D. McGrathKatherine McGrath-Miller and Bruce MillerReginald McKenzieWarren D. McKenzieMrs. Marilyn McKinneyMr. John C. McMillanMrs. Mary A. McNamaraDr. and Mrs. R. Charles MedlarDr. John MeekerMs. Gail A. MejeurDr. and Mrs. Glen D. MellingerMs. Marion Charvat MelodyDr. and Mrs. Cameron W. MeredithMs. Katherine MetcalfDavid and Donna MeyerMitchell and Lai-Ming MeyerMs. Joanne E. MichalskiJohn and Grace MikulichPamela C. and John E. MileyDoris Miller and Fay GoetzDr. James L. Miller, Jr.LaMar and Deborah MillerLawrence and Phyllis MillerMrs. Linda M. MillerMichele Rosanne MillerDr. Wayne E. MillerFrederick and Vonetta MillsMrs. Margaret R. MinnichKathryn A. and William H. MoellerMr. Carmelo MojicaMs. Eileen M. MoloneyB. Michael MomanyMr. and Mrs. Ralph MonsmaPatrick and Cory MontaganoJ. Roger and Kathleen MoodyCarol and Michael MooreSidney L. MooreWilliam K. MooreWilliam and Elizabeth H. MooreMs. Rachael E. Moreno-DelcampJ.P. Morgan Chase FoundationMrs. Joyce T. MorganGail Edith MorrisonMrs. Mary C. MorseKaren and John MotzVan and Mildred MuellerKatharine I. MullaneyMr. Douglas G. MurdochCaroline and Anthony MurrayEdward R. MurrayMr. Preston G. MurrayMs. Mary E. Musat

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Daniel and Maureen WebsterRuth Schleh WebsterMrs. Marjorie S. WeilMarjorie and Richard WeilerMs. Lois N. WeinbergMs. Michele A. Weipert-WinterMs. Anna Josephine WeiserSteve and Karen WeissRobert and Sandra WeitzMs. Sherrie Ann WeitzmanDr. Nancy B. WessingerMarcine and W. Scott WestermanJanet and Douglas WhitakerMrs. Phyllis L. WhiteMs. Mary R. WidrigMr. Marshal D. WiedDr. Philip A. WigentMrs. Maureen H. WilberdingMr. and Mrs. Gary L. WildeRuthie and Van WileyMrs. Chris R. WilhelmJohn G. WilhelmDr. Rowena M. WilhelmMr. Chris L. WillardDavid and Monica WillardJeanne and Booker WilliamsIla and John WilliamsStephen Williams and Susanne SpiegelMrs. Nancy A. Willie-SchiffHoward and Jessie WillsonWendy and Joseph WillsonMrs. Carol Bain WilsonMs. Karen M. WilsonDr. Nila WilsonDr. and Mrs. Richard F. WilsonLynn G. WinklerHaydelle and Harold WithrowMark Anthony WojciechowskiLynne and Mark WolfWilliam and Mary L. WolskiDr. Daniel R. WolterRussell B. WoodMartha Hill WoodsonMr. and Mrs. Jack A. WrightG. Richard and Kathryn W. WynnSusan and Robert YatesLouis and Lily YenM. Nina and York YochumJudy and J. Patrick YoderMrs. Mary Ellen YokieMiss Betty E. YonkersJames T. YoungBetty and Anthony ZanottiDr. Joseph S. ZapytowskiDr. Maryann P. ZawadaSeymour and Loretta ZiegelmanFrances and Arthur ZimmermanDrs. Paul and Barbara ZitzewitzKenna S. and David M. ZornW. Tom ZurSchmiede Foundation

Dr. David Aussicker (PhD CSHPE) is vice president of St. Joseph Health System Foundation. St. Joseph Health Sys-tem is the nation’s largest nonprofi t healthcare organization with corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. Aussicker is a former faculty member and administrator at Tulane Univer-sity, American University, and most recently, Old Dominion University.

Betty (Holbert) Beard (PhD 1985) has completed a six-month (2003) Fulbright award in Malawi. Her work concerned the care of vulnerable and orphaned children. She hopes to return to Malawi in 2005 to continue studying community based orphan care programs. HIV/AIDS is pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. She adds, “On a happy note: our sixth grandchild arrived in 2004!”

Virginia Walcott Beauchamp (BA 1942; MA 1948) was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 2003.

J.D. Birchmeier (BS 1965, MBA 1974) was selected as “Outstanding Science Educator” in 2000 by the Metro Detroit Science Teachers. Now semi-retired, he has taken advantage of the extra time to begin writing curriculum for Michigan Virtual High School, an online mode of education. He won an award from ISTE in 2003 for Human Space Exploration, wrote “Astronomy for High School,” and co-wrote “Earth Science.” The latter contains signifi cant Michigan geology content.

Dr. Polly (Pauline) Buchanan (PhD 1990, Adult & Continuing Education) was promoted from Associate Dean to Interim Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Eastern Michigan University until August 2004. She has served on the faculty in Hotel and Restaurant Management for 19 years, and has since returned to her position as Associ-ate Dean.

Richard M. Campbell (MA 1972; PhD 1975) has been Elected Trustee of North Harris Montgomery Community Col-lege District, 2004-2010.

John Kevin Cox (BA English 2000) has been chosen to serve as the English Department Chair at Grosse Pointe North High School.

Barbara R. DuBois (BA 1948; MA 1952; Certt. 1952) has published two poetry chapbooks in 2004: “A Greek Suite,” and “Country Style.” She writes regular book review columns for the Socorro (NM) Public Library newsletter, the Friends of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge newsletter, and the Socorro newspaper.

Richard Ellis (PhD 1991, CSHPE) has been made Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies at John Brown University in Arkansas. Earlier in 2004, he participated in a strategic planning session at Northwest Arkansas Community College led by CSHPE professor Dick Alfred.

Eddie Fergus (PhD 2002) has had his doctoral dissertation published in September 2004 by Routledge Press. The work is entitled, “Skin Color and Identity Formation: Perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation among Mexican and Puerto Rican youth”.

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Dr. Richard Louis Behrendt (PhD 1980 CSHPE) will retire on June 30, 2005, as president of Sauk Valley Com-munity College in Dixon, IL, after almost 19 years. Prior to this presidency, he was president of Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, IL. Before these positions he served as dean and vice president at community colleges in Nevada and Maryland, and at a university in Indiana.

Dr. Margarito J. Garcia (PhD Curriculum & Instruction 1984) has been appointed assistant professor of education at Sul Ross State University’s Rio Grande college in Eagle Pass, TX. Among other varied past teaching assignments, he has taught at Michigan State, Indiana University and the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as at the University of Michigan Flint campus.

Kay (Kelcher) Ferrando (BA in Education) with her husband Jon, had her third child on May 18, 2003. Isabelle Ashley joins Emily (5) and Jackson (3).

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Class NotesKendra Hearn (AB English Ed 1993) in December 2003, was appointed Director of Curriculum for the Lincoln Con-solidated School District (Ypsilanti, MI.)

Paul Krieger (BS with certifi cation 1986) has just pub-lished “A Visual Analogy Guide to Human Anatomy.” The book is a unique stand-alone supplement for which Krieger is both author and illustrator. Sample pages can be viewed at the Morton Publishing website: www.morton-pub.com. Krieger has been teaching at Grand Rapids Community College for the past 13 years.

Jane Birdsall Lander (AB Ed, English) is an educator, writer and nationally exhibited artist. She is project manager and co-author of the St. Louis Public Art Curriculum Kit, a national model for object-centered, integrated curriculum. Birdsall-Lander organized a consortium of ten regional not-for-profi t arts organizations that, along with the Educa-tion Council, provided funding for the project. The kits were distributed to the St. Louis area teachers and educators who served on the Teacher Advisory Committee for the kit, as well as given to other educators, schools and universities. In addition, the kits are available on loan through the St. Louis Public Libraries, the St. Louis County Libraries, and can be viewed and/or downloaded as a .pdf fi le at www.ci.clayton.mo.us/main/publicart.asp

Mel Miller (AB (LSA) 1971; Certt 1971) was presented the Special Service Award from Macomb County Bar Association in recognition of his promotion of legal and judicial fi elds within schools. He coordinates a number of civic programs, such as the Macomb Lawyer-Teacher Partnership that brings lawyers and judges to upper elementary classrooms; assists with the Macomb Law Day Program; coordinates a distance learning “Government Connections;” and assists with other programs and projects.

free, but children had to be accompanied by a par-ent. The lessons were on nature and simple horticulture. The program was funded by a grant from the James A.

Welch Foundation.

Daniel Muraida (PhD, Educational Psychology, 1988) is currently working for the U.S. Air Force in San Antonio as a research psychologist. His principle duties focus on the development and analysis of surveys on public health issues within the active duty force. He is also responsible for the development of training interventions that address Air Force public health issues. He recently returned to UM to take a course in Hierarchical Regression Models through the Sum-mer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. “The course was great,” says Muraida, “and the Ann Arbor summer was as beautiful as ever.”

Michael S. Nykos (MA 1959; PhD 1970) has been appoint-ed by Colorado’s Governor Owens to a four-year term on the Board of Trustees, Colorado School of Mines. Also in 2004, he was also elected to a two-year term as president of the Board.

Joann Ozog (MA 1969) was selected by NBC Chicago-affi liate Channel 5 to receive the Jefferson Award for her outstanding volun-teer work on behalf of the Polish Museum of America. Among her accomplishments are the museum’s annual Polish American Heritage Month program and art contest, annual Old Fashioned Christmas Wigilia programs, and participation of the museum in the Polish Con-stitution Day parade. She has also been an ac-tive and successful fundraiser for the museum.

George Osenko (MA 1955) has served education for 38 years as a teacher and principal in Charlevoix, MI.

Sam Muller (MEd 1971), a retired teacher, last summer worked in a six-month program as a Genesee County (MI) Naturalist. He planned and put on many programs for children ages 7-12. The program was

Laurence Peters (PhD, English and Education) currently directs the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium (MARTEC) at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Jeanne Judson Prentice (BA in Ed, 1940) and her husband, Clifford Jack Prentice (BS 1941, Aero Engineering), celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on August 5, 2004. She had served as Class Secretary of her graduating class.

Judith (Kazdan) Silver (ABEd 1970) has been married to Ian Silver for 34 years. They live in London, Ontario and have three children: Melanie (32), married to Sean, with two sons, Duncan (5) and Connor (2), living in London, Ont.; David (28), married to Alexis, living in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Laura (25), teaching English in Japan. Kazdan completed a pre-master, in school librarianship in 1989, a masters in Library and Information Science in 1995, and currently runs her own business doing internet management and consulting.

Steven Skalka (EdD 1994) is participating in Fulbright Educator Exchange for school administrators, during the 2004/05 school year,. In October, his exchange partner, Stephen Kings - Headmaster of Churston Ferrers Grammar School in Brixham, England worked here at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, MI. Skalka will be working with him at his school in Great Britain during March 2005.

Jan Stephens (BS in Elementary & Special Ed 1963; MA in Special Ed 1966) retired in 2002 from Ann Arbor Public Schools after teaching emotionally impaired and learning disabled students for 27 years. Now she spends her time with duplicate bridge, the stock market, travels, and her six grandchildren. She is planning her next big trip to Scotland and Ireland.

Irene (Clutter) Stocks (BA and Certifi cation, 1946) says, “Life is exciting!” That comment encompasses a family of 12 children and 31 grandchildren with her husband, Charles Portt; graduate degrees from Oberlin, Vanderbilt, and Ash-land and Trinity College; a career as a minister for the United Church of Christ serving in Ohio, Michigan, New York, California, and Pennsylvania; occasional substitute teaching; and service as minister-in-residence at Vanderbilt and fellow at the Chicago Theological Seminary. By the time this issue is published, the couple will have retired to Molokai, HI.

Olive Wade (MA, 1962) has had the Boone County (IN) Retired Teachers Volunteer Certifi cate named for her. She has also received the Clock Award from the Indiana Methodist Children’s Home in recognition for her community service as a retired teacher.

*Elaine Vetenge-Wright (BA 1958) died in May 1997. She was married to Wilbur I. Wright, a 1955 UM alumnus.

*John W. Walcott (MS 1948) died in February 2003. He was the brother of Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, noted above.

Nancy Louise (Kubanek-Casmer) Woolworth (AB 1954, AM 1959) has written 16 articles and one book in history and anthropology. For 15 years she wrote environmen-tal impact statements for federal, state and local governments and private fi rms. She is currently writing a book on effect of Euro-Americans on Dakota Indians, 1659-1863. After obtaining her Baccalaureate in 1954m she became a substi-tute teacher in Dearborn Heights, MI until 1960; then again substituted in Minnesota classrooms from 1982 to 1990.

Christie (Kleinlein) Youngblood (ABEd, 2000) has completed her third year teaching 8th grade physical science and American history in Romeo, MI. In 2003 she married Terence Youngblood and the couple had a baby, Caleb Ter-ence, on Mother’s Day, 2004.


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Mary J. (Fisher) Schuttler (BA and Certifi cation, 1983) received her PhD in Theatre from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Spring 2004 and was promoted to full professor at the University of Northern Colorado, also in Spring 2004. She serves as the coordinator of Theatre Education.

Barbara Pachter (AB Ed 1970) recently published her seventh book: “The Jerk with the Cell Phone: A sur-vival guide for the rest of us” (Marlowe & Co.). She is a business communica-tions consultant and teaches business etiquette, assertiveness and confl ict resolution in a business setting worldwide. Her website is: www.pachter.com.


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Campaign GoalsOur programs of research, preparation, and outreach are unique for their multi- and interdisciplinary emphasis.

Undergraduate and graduate preparation programs refl ect the marriage of subject matter knowledge with teaching

knowledge and skills, and research programs refl ect the multiple perspectives that are so essential for dealing with

today’s education issues. Our vision for professional service involves a conscious interweaving of teaching, research,

leadership and service that makes a difference to teachers, administrators, and communities locally, nationally, and

internationally. Faculty and students have strong disciplinary backgrounds and the School is actively engaged in col-

laborations and joint programs with a variety of educational agencies and many other academic units on campus. As a

result, we provide the best preservice and inservice preparation in education leadership, research, and practice avail-

able anywhere. The University of Michigan has been a leader in education since 1879, when it founded the country’s

fi rst professorship in the art and science of teaching. Our vanguard position as a leading School of Education gives us

both the privilege and the responsibility of setting a course for the future. We are poised to meet this challenge head-

on. Together we can work to unite teaching, research, and professional practice in the service of the public good,

investing new hope in education, and charting the course for another 125 years of global educational leadership at the

University of Michigan.

Contributions are needed in four areas:

Student and Programmatic Support, Faculty Support, Technology, and Outreach Initiatives. Your help in these areas will enrich and enlarge the learning experience of School of Education students, and our children.

Board of GovernorsThe Education Alumni Society Governing Board (EASGB) is a group of committed SOE alumni who have been elected by their fellow alumni to serve as a liaison between the School and the larger alumni body. A constituent group of the Uni-versity Alumni Association, its agenda supports the agenda of the Dean and the School through outreach and fundraising activities.

Nominations for election have been closed for this year. The ballot will be online after January, or in printed form by request.

One of the annual projects sponsored by the Education Alumni Society Governing Board is to recognize excellence in the profession through Distinguished Alumni Awards. Each year the Awards Committee of the Board of Governors solicits School of Education alumni to propose names of peers who have made signifi cant contributions to society, their profes-sion, the School of Education, or the Education Alumni Society.

The deadline for submitting nominations is August 1. Once a slate of candidates is identifi ed, one or more may be selected by the Awards Committee appointed by the Alumni Board of Governors. Awards will be conferred at the fall or spring awards ceremony of the School of Education.

A nominee for the award shall be a person who has demon-strated through his/her service to education that he or she has made signifi cant contributions to society, his/her profession, the School of Education, or the Education Alumni Society. Among activities considered worthy of recognition are the nominee’s scholarship, teaching, research, and/or contribu-tions to the literature. Areas of contribution relative to the Education Alumni Society’s “Distinguished Alumnus/Aluma Award” shall include, but not be exclusively limited to, hu-manitarian, legal, fi nancial, and similar concerns.

The deadline for submitting nominations is August 1. Once a slate of candidates is identifi ed, one or more may be selected by the Awards Committee appointed by the Alumni Board of Governors. Awards will be conferred at the fall or spring awards ceremony of the School of Education.

The Distinguished Recent Graduate Award honors living graduates who have demonstrated exceptional professional achievement or outstanding personal leadership or service early in their careers. Candidates must have graduated at least fi ve and no more than 15 years prior to nomination.

Planning AheadEmeritus Weekend is an annual gathering of alumni, usu-ally at the 50th anniversary. This year, however, on the 3rd and 4th of June all alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago are invited to come to the Four Points by Sheraton Ann Arbor hotel for programs related to SOE activities, meals, and entertainment. A registration form will be in the Spring 2005 Innovator as well as online.

Fall Gathering is a yearly event that brings together School of Education alumni from all over the country to celebrate their connections with the School. Alumni get a chance to re-connect with current and former faculty, students and each other in a festive setting. After food and fellowship, the day culminates with attendance at a Michigan football game.

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