JAMES MADISON

S C E N EA newsletter serving James

Madison College

alumni, students, faculty ,

staff, and friends

http://www.jmc.msu.edu

Second Conference on

Race in 21st Century

America

April 4-6, 2001

Sponsored by

James Madison College and

the Midwest Consortium

for Black Studies

See page 11 for details.

James Madison College’s 2000 Fall Founder’s Circle Event, a luncheon featuring ZbigniewBrzezinski, was attended by 180 Madison alumni,students, faculty, and friends. Brzezinski,former national security advisor to President Carter, spoke of important foreign policy issuesfacing the United States in the next decade.

The first James Madison CollegeHomecoming Tailgate Brunch was a bighit with alumni,students, and facultyalike. Case Hall food service staffprepared lots of good food,seasonedwith lively discussion among partici-pants.Plan to attend next year’s brunchbefore the MSU vs. Iowa game onOctober 13, 2001.

Former Presidential Advisor Visits Madison

Madison Hosts First Tailgate

Help us meet the

Porteous Challenge

before 2001!

See a message from

your JMC Alumni

Association president

on page 3. Zbigniew Brzezinski with Madison Dean Sherman Garnett.Photo courtesy of Annie Blakeney, State News.

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As my one-year anniversary atMadison has come and passed, I wouldlike to review with you where we are onreaching out to alumni, friends,and thelarger community, as well as inform youof changes under way inside the college.

From the very beginning, I havesought to build on and to establishexternal programs in alumni affairs,public outreach, and development thatmatch the excellence of what goes on inthe classroom. This year is meant toprovide a pattern for these programsthat will engage the imagination andcommitment of alumni and friends andgive Madison a greater public servicerole in the surrounding community.

In terms of alumni and public out-reach, we have had a very successful fallsemester, building upon past traditionsof the college—like Founder’s Circle—and adding new events to the mix. InSeptember, we began what I hope willbe an annual tradition of a reception inthe Detroit area.I had a wonderful din-ner with alumni from Cleveland laterthat same month. We held our firstannual homecoming tailgate in October,bringing together over 60 alumni, facul-ty, staff,and students. I also look for-ward to receptions this next semester inWashington, D.C. and Chicago, wherewe can bring together old and new fac-ulty and former students. We are alsoworking with the Alumni Association ona spring reception on campus to honorour faculty and reconnect alumni withtheir teachers. I would like to see thesealumni events become something youcan count on in the years ahead.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Founder’sCircle appearance to a packed house onOctober 16th was also a great success.This was a major event, but we are alsobringing to campus a variety of speak-ers, ranging from Burton Gerber, aretired senior official in the CIA, to agroup of Madison students and alumniinvolved in state and county politics. Tohear Mark Grebner explain Florida’svote counting troubles was one of the

highlights of the year. I would encouragemore alumni to come back and speak atthe college about the major issues theywrestle with in their careers. Such talksare academically rich, but they alsostretch the career imaginations of stu-dents.

We are also beginning what I hopewill be an extended outreach to selectedsecondary schools in Michigan. We aredeveloping close ties with theInternational Academy, a high school inBloomfield Hills. Our Mott-funded pro-gram of mentoring and academicenrichment with the Flint schools is offand running, headed by ProfessorLouise Jezierski. I hope to have a similaroutreach program working this nextyear with a Lansing area high school.These programs pay a debt I believe weowe as a land grant institution to stu-dents in high school now, particularlythose in areas where a sense of what col-lege is and the opportunities it providesneed strengthening. We are also workingwith the Urban League to identify andencourage college-bound minority anddisadvantaged youth.

Our development efforts continue,with Rocky Beckett (IR ’86) stepping inas development director in October. Ihope to have the first fruits of thePorteous Challenge—a major renova-tion of the library—completed by nextfall.

There have also been changes inter-nally. The faculty and I have agreed todismantle the political economy field in

Sherman Garnett

From the DeanConnections

favor of a new specialization that willpreserve the “socio-economic” approachto public policy questions that goes backto the founding of the college. There areregrets and problems with dismantling afield, and the process will be car ried outslowly over the next several years. Boththe faculty and I have moved in thisdirection,not to kill off a program, butto find a way to make the contributionit makes more viable. Three tenure-stream searches are under way—tworepresent new permanent positions atthe college. MSU Provost Lou AnnaSimon has agreed to provide an addi-tional new tenure-stream position nextyear. With all these and many otherchallenges,I am lucky to have the veryenergetic Mike Schechter serve as chairthis year of the Faculty AffairsCommittee.

Perhaps the most important thingsI’ve learned during the past year—orrather remembered from a somewhathazy 1970s—are what a special placeMadison remains and what a specialgroup of alumni and friends it has. Letme wish all of you the very best of thecoming holidays and a Happy New Year.

Sherman Garnett, DeanJames Madison College

I need your help. As we updatethe JMC Web site, explain the collegeto foundations and other donors,andwork with prospective students,wewant to be able to convey both whata Madison education is and what ithas meant to its graduates over theyears. To do so, I would like to collectparagraph-long statements fromalumni reflecting on their time atMadison and what it has meant tothem in later life.I would like to usethese paragraphs in our outreach to awider public.If you are willing,please send me your thoughts andreflections.A selection of these willalso appear in future issues of thenewsletter.

Sherman GarnettGarnetts@msu.edu

As we beginanother year, Iwould like to takethis opportunityto recognize thecontributions anddedication of FredHeaden (JMCD‘78), out-goingboard member ofthe James Madison College AlumniAssociation (JMCAA). While on theboard, Fred served not only as president,but also as an alumni representative ontwo separate dean search committees.Fred ’s pre s en ce wi ll be missed , and it is myh on or to thank him for his many ye a rs ofs ervi ce to the boa rd and the co llege.

I would also like to welcome alumnusTerry Langston (SR ‘92), who joined theboard at our annual meeting inSeptember. Terry is currently a develop-ment officer with Olivet College (Olivet,Michigan), focusing on corporate andfoundation relations.

Porteous ChallengeThe JMCAA will tackle several key

issues this year in addition to our tradi-tional programming. Perhaps the mostimportant is the board’s commitment tohelp the college seize upon a fantasticopportunity: meeting the PorteousChallenge.

As detailed in previous issues ofJames Madison Scene, MSU TrusteeDavid Porteous has committed tomatching contributions to the collegeup to $100,000 for improvements to thecollege’s facilities. As many of you know,Case Hall has served as home to JamesMadison College since it began in 1967.De s p i te the best ef forts of its ded i c a tedhousing and mainten a n ce staff, Case Ha llis showing its years. Meeting thePorteous challenge will not onlyprovide the immediate benefit of

James Madison College

Alumni Association Board of Dir e c t o r s

Christopher Iamarino, President

Bryce Sandler, Vice President

Jeff Williams, Treasurer

Laura Casey, Secretary

Board Members

Lance Boldrey

Sean Britton

Ed Dougherty

Frederick Headen

Chere LaRose-Senne

Christine Long

Scott Settle

Scott Wolfson

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Iamarino, ’91

ALUMNI SCENEChanging Faces and Meeting Challenges

renovating the college’s aging facilities,but will also demonstrate to universityadministrators that Madison alumniremain committed to the college and itspurpose.

If you have not made your gift to thechallenge yet, please join me and sendyour gift today. Contributions of anysize are welcome and will be matchedone to one.A pledge form for thePorteous Challenge is available on page14 of this issue. Contact the JMCDevelopment Office at 517/432-2117for further information.

Constituent GroupsOur second key issue is to review the

creation of JMCAA constituent groups.Madison alumni in several citiesthroughout the nation—such asWashington, Chicago, and Cleveland—have occasionally expressed an interestin developing local chapters of theJMCAA. The development of a defini-tive plan regarding constituent groupshas been difficult because local interestin the structure, role, and purpose ofsuch groups has never been fullyexplored or clarified.

I invite those who are interested insharing their ideas and views on poten-tial constituent groups with the b oardto contact us by e-mail by using the fol-lowing dedicated e-mail address:jmcaa2000@yahoo.com. Commentsmay also be forwarded to the boardthrough Kim Allan via the college’sadministrative office (allank@msu.edu).You may also post comments on theJMC electronic bulletin board found atwww2.jmc.msu.edu/under the “alumni”heading. Your input will be invaluablein assisting us resolve this question.

New Faculty/Alumni ReceptionThe board’s third major effort this

year is a new addition to our event cal-endar. Look for upcoming information

regarding a faculty-alumni reception tobe held in the Lansing area this spring.The reception will offer Madison alum-ni the opportunity catch up with profes-sors whom they remember from theirdays in Case Hall as well as an excellentchance to become reacquainted with thecollege and other alumni.

If you live outside of Michigan andcannot attend the spring event, pleasebe aware that the college holds periodicreceptions in cities throughout thecountry as schedules permit. Look forannouncements in James Madison Scenefor upcoming receptions near yourhometown.

In closing, I urge you to get involvedin the activities of your JMCAA andyour college.

Whether through a financial com-mitment to the Porteous Challenge or apersonal commitment of involvement inone of the many Madison events,thecollege needs and values your support.Only through the commitment of itsalumni can the college achieve its fullpotential in responding to the chal-lenges placed before it.

Christopher J. Iamarino(JMCD/IR,‘91)

As always,the JMCAA welcomes anyideas, suggestions,or input from our mem-bership. Further, if you are interested in vol-unteering with efforts such as Law Night,phone calls to prospective students,or otherevents, contact Kim Allan at (517) 353-3381or fill out and return the form elsewhere inthis newsletter.

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UPCOMING

JAMES MADISON COLLEGE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

E V E N T S

January 24, 200 1

Alumni dinner in San Francisco

with Dean Garnett

January 2 7, 2000, 2:00 p.m.

JMCAA Board of Director’s Meeting

February 22, 200 1

Alumni reception in Chicago with

Professors Zinman and Zoninsein

March 2001 (date to be determined)

Alumni reception in Washington, D.C.

JMC Admissions HasAmbitious Schedule

As the leaves fall and the seasonschange, high school seniors are eagerlyapplying to college. James MadisonCollege has been busy reaching out tostudents of all ages to inform themabout the educational opportunitiesavailable in our program.

Madison College representatives havetraveled extensively throughout the stateand nation to inform high school coun-selors, prospective students,and familiesabout our unique program. We haveattended numerous college fairs and vis-ited high schools in Washington, D.C.,Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston,and numerous cities in Michigan. Inaddition, our four College Visit Dayshave been very popular and enabledprospective students to meet faculty,staff, and current JMC students as wellas attend a class.

The college also co-sponsored twoprospect meetings for minority studentsin November. Together with the MSULyman Briggs School and the MSU

Honors College, we hosted an information session at the DetroitUrban League, which attracted eightyprospective students and family mem-bers.A second prospect meeting tookplace in Flint.

Madison has also worked to increaseits outreach to high schools, middleschools,and grade schools. The collegewill host more than 200 fifth g rade stu-dents from the Rochester, Michgan, areaas part of a program to educate themabout the democratic process.

JMC Dean Sherman Garnett hasbeen working to establish relationshipswith high schools throughout Michigan.This fall we hosted twenty students andfaculty members from the InternationalAcademy high school in BloomfieldHills, Michigan, for the MadisonFounder’s Circle Lunch. Madison alsosponsored a presidential debate at theInternational Academy moderated byProfessor Constance Hunt. CurrentMadison College students representedthe presidential candidates and spirited-ly debated numerous issues includingforeign policy and education. More than250 juniors and seniors attended thedebate, forcefully supporting each repre-sentative. In conjunction, JMC studentsalso spoke to seniors about the role ofthe media and third parties in electioncampaigns.

As the admissions process continues,Madison will ask many alumni to assistour efforts by getting in touch withadmitted students. During January andFebruary 2001, Madison will be contact-ing all admitted students. CurrentMadison students and alumni will b ephoning students and parents to discussthe edu c a ti onal opportu n i ties ava i l a ble inour program and fully inform stu den t sa bo ut the uniqu eness of our co ll ege .

Scenes from the first JMChomecoming tailgate,October 2000.

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A LU M N I N E W S

1970s

Randall Smith (JMCD ’73) joinedNFO Worldwide as president and chiefoperating officer in April 2000. He willbe working primarily from the NFOcorporate offices in Greenwich,Connecticut. NFO is the sixth largestmarket research company in the world,with revenues approaching $500 mil-lion, and has operations in nearly 40co u n tri e s . Smith was most recen t lyem p l oyed by In form a ti on Re s o u rce s , In c .

Frank J. Gaskill (JMCD ’74) wasnamed associate professor of manage-ment at Fort Hays State University inHays, Kansas. He was previously anassociate professor of management atDelta State University in Cleveland,Mississippi. On June 10, he marriedCa rla A . Ranii of P i t t s bu r g, Pen n s ylva n i a .

Steve Ormond (IR ’74) is a manag-ing shareholder for Kupelian Ormond &Magy in Southfield, Michigan. He previ-ously worked in the Office of GeneralCounsel for General Motors. Ormondreceived his J.D. from William and Maryin 1977.

Marilyn Darling (Ethnic, psychology’75), president of Signet Consulting

Group, which focus-es on creating learn-ing strategies fororganizations in thefor-profit and not-for-profit sectors, hascompleted a study ofthe U.S. Army’sapproach to opera-tional performanceimprovement.“From

Post-Mortem to Living Practice: An in-depth study of the evolution of theAfter Action Review” looks at the evolu-tion of the Army’s best practice and theexperience of civilian organizations thatare attempting to adopt the practice.Darling also participated in this year’sNational Security Seminar at the ArmyWar College. Darling is chairperson ofthe James Madison College Board ofVisitors.

William Hamilton (JMCD ’77) wasrecognized in a staff achievement awardpresented by the National Association ofLegislative Fiscal Offices (NALFO) to

Darling ’75

the Michigan House Fiscal Agency(HFA) for his work in producing the17-minute video Money in Motion:Michigan’s State Transportation Budget.The video, used to inform legislatorsand the general public, provides anoverview of the transportation budgetand identifies issues related to rewritingAct 51, the statute that controls statetransportation appropriations.Hamilton is the HFA analyst for trans-portation issues.

Tim Soave (Ethnic ’78) is the chief offiscal services for the Oakland CountyDepartment of Management andBudget. He is also a member of theBoard of Directors of Michigan FinanceOfficers. Soave holds a Master’s ofPublic Administration from OaklandUniversity.

1980s

Eric Petrie (JMCD ’80) and his wife,Mary Schulz,announce the birth oftheir baby daughter, Eve, who was bornOctober 25, 2000.

Ed Coppola (IR ’81) is now withZurich U.S. Political Risk, a companythat provides political risk insurance tocompanies worldwide that are investingin emerging markets. Coppola previous-ly s erved in po s i ti ons at the Ex port - Im port

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Bank of the United States,the OverseasPrivate Investment Corporation, and theWorld Bank.

Mark Grebner (Urban ’81) was re-elected as an Ingham County(Michigan) Commissioner.

Kevin Rushton (IR ’82) has joinedProxicom,an Internet consulting com-pany, and is working in Detroit,Michigan. Rushton previously workedfor PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

James Mauro (IR ’83) is currently amember of the Board of Directors forthe Hubbard Law Firm in Lansing,Michigan. He previously worked for theU.S. Department of Treasury as well asthe Office of Chief Counsel (legal coun-sel for the IRS). Mauro graduated fromCooley Law School in 1987.

John Sharood(SOCEC ’83) hasbeen elected treasur-er of the OpenServices GatewayInitiative (OSGi), atrade group dedicat-ed to the creation ofopen specificationsfor the delivery ofmultiple servicesover wi de - a rea net works to local net work s

Sharood ’83

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and devices. Sharood previously servedas vice president and chief financial offi-cer of Invensys Appliance Controls andas vice president and general manager ofInvensys Network Systems.

Herman Marable, Jr. (Urban ’84), anassistant county prosecutor, was electedas Flint (Michigan) District Court judgein the fall election. Marable,a formervice president of the Flint NAACP, isassigned to the family support divisionof the prosecutor’s office.

Jay E. Austin (JMCD ’85) and Carl E.Bruch (eds.) have published TheEnvironmental Consequences of War:Legal, Economic, and ScientificPerspectives (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2000). Austin has recently relocat-ed to Portland, Oregon, and is affiliatedwith the DC-based Environmental LawInstitute.

Kevin Manning (IR ’85) marriedMariah Barile at the Grand Ledge(Michigan) Opera House on August 26,2000.

Susan Sandell (JMCD ’85) is an ana-lyst for the State of Michigan, Depart-

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ment of Environmental Quality. Sheassists local governments in accessingmore than $30 million in grants andloans for environmental cleanup andbrownfield redevelopment.She alsoplans training for more than 250 staffonce or more annually. Sandell was pre-viously an environmental consultant forthe Michigan Council on Environmen-tal Quality.

Eric Schertzing (JMCD ’85) waselected Ingham County (Michigan)Treasurer in the fall election.

Kelly Carson (IR’86) married VirgilEugene Sauder onAugust 5, 2000 at theAssembly MennoniteChurch in Goshen,Indiana.

Scott Dueweke(IR ’86) has beennamed vicepresident of

MerchantOnline.com, a leader in pro-viding secure credit and debit card pro-cessing for the Internet. Dueweke previ-ously held the same title withCardservice International. After earninghis International Relations degree from

Madison, Dueweke was appointed bythe Reagan Administration to the U.S.Department of State, where he served asliaison with the Soviet Embassy duringrelief efforts for the Armenian earth-quake; liaison to the U.S. Congress; andspokesperson for the U.S. Agency forInternational Development.

Richard O’Keefe (IR ’88) joinedThree Bond in March 1999. He previ-ously worked in Japan in ProductionPlanning for KTI Semiconductor, a jointventure of Texas Industries and itsJapanese partner, Kobe Steel, where hewas the first non-Japanese employee inthe history of the company. He alsoowned his own restaurant/bar, La Verite,in Hi m ej i , Ja p a n . O’ Keefe received a mas-ter ’s in intern a ti onal managem ent in 1991f rom Thu n derbi rd ’s Am erican Gradu a teS ch ool of In tern a ti onal Ma n a gem ent inG l en d a l e , Ari zon a . He marri ed Kei koFujita on Septem ber 2, 2 0 0 0 .

Timothy F. Sheridan (Urban ’88) hasjoined Plunkett & Cooney as a civil liti-gator in the firm’s Grand Rapids,Mi ch i gan of f i ce . His practi ce focuses onthe areas of a uto s , prem i s e s , con s tru ction,and product liability defense. Aftergraduating from James Madison

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College,Sheridan served as an admis-sions counselor at Adrian College beforereceiving his law degree from theUniversity of Toledo College of Law in1993. He also served as a clerk for JudgeDaniel L. Sullivan of the MonroeCounty (Michigan) Circuit Court.

Kelly Ann (Breuer) Weist (Urban’88) and her husband, Jeff Weist, gavebirth to their first child, NicholasMichael, on August 27. The Weists cur-rently live in the mountains outsideDenver, Colorado, where Kelly has herown lobbying business.

1990s

Mercedes G. Alonzo (IR ’90) recentlytook the position of assistant attorneygeneral for the Environmental Unit ofthe Connecticut Office of the AttorneyGeneral. Previously, she served as anattorney for theConnecticutCommission onHuman Rights andOpportunities. Shewas also chosen byTemas magazine asone of the notableHispanic women of1999, partiallybecause of herhumanitarian mis-sion to Honduras toassist the victims of the tragedy causedby Hurricane Mitch.

Richard W. Barnes,Jr. (IR ’90) is aninternational sales and marketing repre-sentative for UPS. He completed hismaster’s in international business at theUniversity of South Carolina in June1997. Barnes married Maeve E.O’Conner, M.D., of Columbia, SouthCarolina, on May 20, 2000.

Mike (IR ’90) and Sandi (Hewitt)(MS ’90) Dean had a baby girl, Kirsten(“Kira”) Bailey, on October 1, 2000.Sandi was director of admissions forJames Madison College in 1995-98. Sheis now an academic adviser for theMichigan State University HonorsCollege. Mike is a food service supervi-sor at MSU’s Owen Graduate Center.They were married in July 1998 and livein Lansing, Michigan.

Sharon Lowery (IR ’90) is currentlyserving as a witness liaison officer forthe United Nations International

Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda. Loweryreceived her M.A. in developmentalstudies (with a specialization in womenand development) from the Institute ofSocial Studies at The Hague,Netherlands in December 1994.

Christine M. Grand (POLEC ’91),formerly of the Defender’s Office ofWayne County, Michigan, has openedher own practice in Farmington Hills,Michigan. Grand specializes in criminaldefense, including drunk driving andtraffic tickets. Recently, she was reelectedto the Prisons and Corrections SectionCouncil of the State Bar of Michigan.

Joseph J. DeVito (IR ’92) has joinedthe law firm of Butzel Long as an associ-ate in the Detroit, Michigan, office,where he specializes in securities regula-tion and transactions; mergers, acquisi-tions, and reorganizations of business

entries; general businessand corporate law mat-ters; technology start-ups;and health-care-relatedregulatory and corporatematters. DeVito is a grad-uate of the Wayne StateUniversity Law School.

Kendra Howard (MS’92) served as the mid-Michigan coordinator forAll Kids First! (AKF), acoalition of child advoca-

cy, civil rights, and education groupssupporting the constitutional guaranteeof a free public education for allMichigan children. Their goal was thedefeat of Proposal 1 on the Michiganballot in November 2000. Howard tooka political leave from her position as leg-islative policy analyst with the MichiganHouse of Representatives DemocraticPolicy Staff to work with AKF andretu rn ed to her po s i ti on after the el ecti on .

Melynda Neal (SOCEC ’92 ) hasjoined the Columbus, Ohio law firm ofChester, Willcox & Saxbe LLP as anassociate. She previously served as judi-cial law clerk to the Honorable Dana S.Preisse of the Franklin County Court ofCommon Pleas for the past two years.Her practice concentrates on the area ofcivil litigation, family law in particular.Neal is a member of the Columbus BarAssociation’s Family Law Committee.She received her J.D. in 1995 fromWayne State University.

David (IR ’92) and Ruth Skidmore(IR ’93) are the proud parents of theirfirst born, David Bartlett Skidmore,born April 19,2000. Both Skidmores,who are attorneys in Grand Rapids,Michigan, graduated from theUniversity of Michigan Law School afterworking for the Alaska State Legislature.

Amy Huffman Egloff (PE ’93) isworking as the director of StaffCo ll ective Ba r gaining at We s tern Mi ch i ga nUniversity. Previously, she worked as thecompensation manager there.

Dave Hutson (IR ’93) is an assistantprosecuting attorney for OaklandCounty, Michigan. Hutson received hisJ.D. from Valparaiso University in 1999.

Aaron Payne (PTCD ’93) is inPhnom Penh working with the Com-mission on Human Rights as a writerpreparing English-language documents.

Deano C. Ware (MS ’93) is a lawclerk with Riley, Hurley, P.C. inDearborn, Michigan, and working onhis J.D. at Wayne State University. Hepreviously was a law clerk for JudgeLangford, 6th Circuit Court, and a reg-istered representative for PrudentialInsurance. Ware and his spouse have anine-year-old son and a two-year-olddaughter.

Mark Cunningham (IR ’94), shownnext to a portrait ofJames Madison in theBlue Room adjacentto the South Porticoof the White House, isan appellate govern-ment counsel at CoastGuard Headquartersin Washington, D.C.As a collateral duty,he serves as a militar yWhite House socialaide assisting withstate dinners, billsignings, and otherofficial receptions.

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (IR ’94) isteaching at American University inWashington, D.C.

Karen (Provancher) Kostbade (IR’94) graduated cum laude from WayneState University Law School in May2000. She works in Grand Rapids,Mi ch i ga n , as re s e a rch attorn ey for theMi ch i gan Co u rt of Appe a l s . She marri ed

Alonzo ’90 with vice presidential candidate Senator Joe Lieberman (CT)ealier this year (2000).

Cunningham ’94

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E rik Ko s tb ade , a mechanical en gineer, lastyear in Grand Rapids.

Christine Long (MS ’94) will marryBen Roeder in June 2001. Long is theeconomic development specialist for theCity of Farmington Hills, Michigan,andis enrolled in the Master of UrbanPlanning Program at Wayne StateUniversity in the College of Urban,Labor and Metropolitan Affairs inDetroit. She also serves on the JamesMadison College Alumni AssociationBoard of Directors. Roeder will graduatewith his Master’s of Education fromWayne State University in spring 2000.

James Robinson (IR ’94) was recentlypromoted to supervisor of NewPrograms and Initiatives for theHumanitarian Grants Program Divisionof the Rotary Foundation.

Alice Fleming Townley (SR ’94) is aUnited Methodist minister with theCenter Park United Methodist Churchin Three Rivers, Michigan. She wasordained as an elder in June 2000.Townley has her Master of Divinityfrom Duke University. She and her hus-band, Mike (MSU ’94), had a baby boy,Jonathan Oliver, on April 22, 2000.

Hollis Copeland (SR ’95) joined theMuch Shelist law firm as an associate.She is con cen tra ting her practi ce in intel-l ectual property, e - com m erce , and healthc a re law. Copeland previ o u s ly served asassistant gen eral co u n s el for a Ch i c a goa rea start-up In tern et com p a ny. S h ecom p l eted her J. D. at Loyola Un ivers i ty,Ch i c a go, S ch ool of L aw in 1999.

Robin D. Gross (IR ’95) is currentlyworking as an attorney for theElectronic Frontier Foundation in SanFrancisco, California.

Victor Perez (IR ’95) is an associatein International Tax Services for

PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Miami,Florida. Peraz received his J.D. fromUniversity of Florida Levin College ofLaw in May 2000 and was admitted tothe Florida Bar in October 2000.

Terrisca Ray DesJardins (PTCD ’96)is a senior consultant for HealthManagement Associates in Lansing. Sherecently completed and published astudy for the Robert Wood JohnsonFoundation on best practices in man-aged care programs for the Medicaidpopulation across the United States. Sheexpects to complete her master’s inhealth services administration from theUn ivers i ty of Mi ch i gan in Decem ber 2000.

Alex Shire (PE ’96) has joinedMorgan Stanley’s Investment BankingDivision in New York City, where heworks in the Media Group focusing onbroadband technology. Previously, heworked for USB Warburg’s InvestmentBanking Division in the Global EquitiesDivision.

Brian Harvat (IR ’97) is currently anaccount manager for Alcoa Inc. inSouthfield, Michigan. He previouslyserved as a sales representative forReynolds Metals Company.

John E. Hill (IR ’97) is an intelligenceanalyst, 1st Lieutenant, in the U. S. AirForce,based at Langley Air Force Base inVirginia. He served four months inOperation Joint Force, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina. He is currently working onan MBA at the University of Maryland.

Maggie Janes (IR ’97) is currently liv-ing in Brooklyn, New York, serving as ahealth educator at Mount SinaiHo s p i t a l ’s Ado l e s cent Health Cen ter.Janes is certi f i ed as a New York pre- andpost-HIV te s ting co u n s el or. Previ o u s ly,she served as a U. S . Pe ace Corps vo lu n teerhealth edu c a tor in Ca m eroon , Af ri c a .

Amanda Sloat (PTCD ’97) began atraineeship in the Executive Secretariat

of the European Commission in October2000.She will be assisting with t h ere s e a rch for and wri ting of Pre s i den tRomano Prod i ’s Wh i te Pa per onG overn a n ce . She wi ll also receive her Ph.D.in po l i tics from the Un ivers i ty ofE d i n bu r gh (Scotland) in Decem ber 2000.Her thesis title is “S co t l a n d ’s Role in theEu ropean Un i on : Ex pect a ti on of Mu l ti -Level Govern a n ce among Po l i tical Elite s —An Actor- Cen tered Approach .”

Lynn Spangler (SR ’97) received herJ.D. from the Case Western Reserve Schoolof Law in May 2000, receiving the Duvin,Cahn & Hutton Labor Law Award and theAnderson Publishing Award for work inthe Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic. She hasaccepted a position as an associate at thelaw firm Janik & Forbes, a civil litigationfirm, located in Cleveland,Ohio.

Salim Bhabhrawala (IR ’98) receivedthe Master of Arts in Global Finance andTrade from the University of Denver andwas awarded the Presiden-tialManagement Internship. He is working asan intern a ti onal trade analyst for the Bu re a uof In tern a ti onal Trade for the U. S .Dep a rtm ent of Com m erce .

Beau Kilmer (IR ’98) earned theMaster of Public Policy at the Universityof California, Berkeley. His thesis dealtwith drug addiction and rehabilitation.Ki l m er works at the RAND Drug Po l i c yRe s e a rch Cen ter in Santa Mon i c a ,Ca l i forn i a .

Lennon Kraus (IR ’98) was promotedto first lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Aaron Shafer (IR/PE ’98) is in his lastyear of law school at Yeshiva University,Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,studying international intellectual proper-ty and is currently working in corporatetax at the firm of Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C.

Kevin Simpson (SR ’98) expects tocomplete his M.A. in curriculum andteaching from Michigan State University.Simpson previously served as a staff assis-tant to Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and helped write curriculumfor Flint’s Mott Foundation.

Jennifer (Corse) Thornburg (PTCD’98) and David Thornburg (MSU PoliticalScience ‘99) were married on September2, 2000 at the MSU Alumni MemorialChapel. Both Jennifer and D avid are stu-dents at Th omas M. Coo l ey Law School inLansing, Michigan.

Laura Carter (IR ’99) is now eventsdirector for Student Programs for

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Relocation Assistance, Inc. in Farming-ton Hills, Michigan.

Michael Cyran (PE ’99) is a humanresources representative for DelphiAutomotive Systems.

John R. Girdwood (PTCD ’99) is acommunications consultant forE.D.S./GM OnStar in Troy, Michigan.Previously, he was an intern for a staterepresentative.

Jeff Lemons (PTCD ’99) expects tocom p l ete his master ’s in laborrel a ti on s / human re s o u rces in May 2001.

Sarah Lively (IR ’99) is attending lawschool at Northwestern University,Chicago, Illinois.

Phuc H. Lu (IR ’99) is attending lawschool at the University of Iowa.

Sharon Milanowksi (IR ’99) has joinedthe U.S. Air Force and began attendingAir Force Officer Training School inAugust.She will be trained as an intelli-gence officer.

Robbyn Singer (IR ’99) was recentlypromoted to program coordinator for theHumanitarian Grants Programs Divisionat Rotary International Headquarters inEvanston, Illinois. The Rotary Foundationhas created a new initiative to help dealwith avoidable blindness in developingcountries,and she will be working onavoidable blindness grants from aro u n dthe worl d . Grants have foc u s ed on provi d-ing intra - ocular lens su r geries to cataractp a ti en t s , enhancing optical equ i pm en t ,a n dproviding Bra i lle machines to those in need .

Jonathan Stein (IR ’99) is an associatewith PricewaterhouseCoopers in Detroit,Michigan. He previously served as a taxstaff intern for General Motors.

Jennifer Sykes (SR ’99) and GavinMcLaughlin (IR ’99) were married onAugust 20, 2000 in the MSU AlumniChapel.

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Paige Lee (IR, PE ’00) is a paralegalwith Baach Robinson & Lewis, PLLC inWashington, D.C.

Joe McHugh (IR ’00) is currently serv-ing as a campaign director for the Repub-lican Committee of Oakland County,Michigan.

Judy Milanowski (IR ’00) (twin sisterto Sharon, above) has also joined the U.S.Air Force in the Officer Training School.She was a mem ber of ROTC while inco ll ege.

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STUDENT SCENE

Five MadisonStudents Nominatedfor Major Awards

Five James Madison College studentshave been nominated by Michigan StateUniversity to compete in three majorscholarships.

Catherine Chen (IR/PTCD), LukeLantta (IR/PTCD),and Kathleen Romig(SR) have been nominated for theRhodes Scholarship. Kathleen Romigand Andrew Krepps (IR) have beennominated for the Marshall Scholarship,and Kathleen Romig and ShondaGilliland have been nominated for theMitchell Scholarship.

The Rhodes Scholarship sends stu-dents to Oxford University in England.The Marshall Scholarship sends studentsto the British university of their choice.The Mitchell Scholarship provides fund-ing for one year of graduate study in anydiscipline in the Republic of Ireland orNorthern Ireland.

JMC/Case HallDesigns Float forHomecoming Parade

James Madison College and Case Hallteamed up to create a float based on thetheme of MSU’s 2000 homecoming:Friends and Family Forever.

Everyone in James Madison and CaseHall was encouraged to participate inthe construction of the float and to walkin the parade. The Detroit Tigers“PAWS” also made a special appearanceon the float.

Three Madison students were mem-bers of the homecoming court: JuniorEmily Ballenberger (IR), senior MelissaGreen (PTCD), and senior EricStoddard (PTCD).

O T H E R S T U D E N T N E W S

Madison freshmen Sandra Amble, of Davison, Michigan, and Greta Stahl, ofShelby Township,Michigan, have been awarded the Alumni DistinguishedScholarship from Michigan State University.

Recent Madison graduates Elizabeth Fletcher (SR ‘00) and Lauren Gratz (SR‘00) have been accepted into the Teach for America 2000 corps.Elizabeth’s positionis in New Orleans teaching an English curriculum, and Lauren’s position is inChicago teaching a bilingual curriculum.

Madison student Anjali Vats (IR and Psychology) held a benefit art show fea-turing her original paintings in August 1999 that raised more than $10,000 towardsthe Lupus Scholarship Foundation. Anjali created the foundation specifically tolend financial assistance to college students with lupus,as well as college students whose parents have lupus.Anjali was diagnosed with lupus,a chronic disease ofthe immune system, at the age of four. Since then,Anjali has suffered bouts of illness, including extremelyhigh fevers,inflammation of the sac lining of the heart,shingles,and a bone infection.

Anjali has continued to maintain an excellent aca-demic record and participate in a variety of extracur-ricular activities. She plans to hold a second fundraiseron January 21, 2001 at The Detroit Country DaySeligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills,Michigan, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. In addition to the art exhibition, a cultural pro-gram will include Indian classical dance and folk dance choreographed by well-known Indian dance artists, as well as western dance and music.

Anjali Vats

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Pamela Aronson (JMCD ‘90) hasjoined James Madison College as a visit-ing assistant professor teaching in thesocial relations field. Aronson is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department ofSociology at Indiana University. Herareas of specialization include sociologyof gender, sociology of family, socialpsychology, sociology of the life course,social movements, qualitative methods,and feminist theory and methodology.Aronson received her M.A. and Ph.D. insociology from the University ofMinnesota in 1998. Her Ph.D. disserta-tion was on “Coming of Age in the1990s: Women’s Identities, Life Paths,and Attitudes Towards Feminism.” HerM.A.dissertation was on “The PoliticalPersonal, Too: Processes and Meaningsof Political and Feminist Identities.”

Mohammed Ayoob has been invitedto present at the International StudiesAssociation’s February 2001 conventionin Chicago at which a session will bedevoted to his work on Third Worldsecurity. The theme of the convention is“Inequality in International Relations.”Ayoob’s presentation will be “Inequalityand Theorizing in InternationalRelations: The Case for SubalternRealism.”

Adrian Burgos,Jr., has joined JamesMadison College as a visiting assistantprofessor teaching in the social relationsf i el d . Bu r gos is curren t ly a doctora lc a ndidate in history at the University ofMichigan. His research areas includeLatino/a history, African American his-tory, U.S. history post 1850, SpanishCaribbean history from the mid nine-teenth century to the present, sportshistory, and American culture. Hereceived his B.A. in history from VassarCollege in May 1993 with a senior thesis

FACULTY SCENESecond Conference on Race inAmerica Scheduled for April 2000

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The second Race in 21st Century America,sponsored by James Madison College andthe Midwest Consortium for Black Studies, will continue the conversation about racethat began in April 1999.

Last year’s conference attracted 1,500 registrants fromaround the country and brought to Michigan StateUniversity some of the most important scholars on the topicof race in the United States. A selection of papers delivered atthat conference will be published by the MSU Press in April2001.

The theme of the second conference, to be held April 4-6,2001, is the political economy of urban America. The aim isto examine the intersection of race and public policy in thetwenty-first century American city.

Outstanding individuals representing racial/ethnic andideological diversity will par ticipate in six keynote events andsome twenty panels. The latter will include topics such as“Residential Segregation and Racial Inequality,” “Race and the Criminal Justice System,”“Detroit and Los Angeles: Toward the 21st Century,” “Music and the City,” “Reparationsand Racial Justice,” “Racial Classifications and the U.S. Census,” “Race and Sexuality,” and“Urban Education.”

Jointly sponsored by James Madison College and the Midwest Consortium for BlackStudies (MSU, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, andCarnegie Mellon University), the race conference is broadly supported by the MSU community.

The conference is free to all MSU faculty, staff,and students but everyone is requiredto register. All others must pay a registration fee of $100, but it will be reduced to a nom-inal charge for students and low-income individuals. Registration information can beobtained by visiting the Web page at http://www.jsri.msu.edu/raceconf/ or contactingJames Madison College.

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Jezierski Completes Study of HUD’sService to Hispanics

James Madison College faculty member Louise Jezierski has com-pleted a study of El Paso, Texas, a part of a six-city research project,“The Study of Determinants of Hispanic Participation in FederallyFunded Housing Programs,” funded by the Office of PolicyDevelopment and Research at the U.S Department of Housing andUrban Development (HUD) and contracted through the NationalHispanic Housing Council. Other research sites include Chicago,Washington, Miami, Philadelphia, and San Juan.

The project includes a comprehensive analysis of the factors that affect Hispanic par-ticipation in federally funded housing programs and recommendations of best practicesfor improving HUD’s service to Hispanics. Jezierski’s research,in collaboration with

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Literary Journal. He is working on theforthcoming book “Forest Beatniks” and“Urban Thoreaus”: Beat Literature andNature.

Swarna Rajagopalan’s book State andNation in South Asia has been acceptedfor publication. In it, Rajagoplan com-pares the perspectives of elites from threeSouth Asian communities that have asecessionist history, seeking to under-stand the conditions of their acquies-cence to the states (India, Pakistan, andSri Lanka) within those territorialbounds. Rajagopalan’s book Re-distribu-tion of Authority: A Cross-RegionalPerspective (coedited with Jeanie J.Bukowski of Bradley University) waspublished in May 2000. The book of sixessays compares nine cases in whichauthority within the state has been eitherdevolved or centralized,and draws fromthe cases a set of explanatory factors forthis process. In October 2000Rajagopalan served as an election observ-er for the People’s Alliance for Free andFair Electi on s , a Sri Lankan NGO.

Michael Schechter delivered the open-ing address,“International Education inHigher Education,” at the MidwestInstitute for International/Intercultural

Education’s Inter-national Workshopat Kalamazoo ValleyCommunity Collegein August 2000. Heis also serving as theexternal evaluator ofthe institute’s three-year grant from theU.S. Department ofEducation to further

internationalize the curricula in many ofthe institute’s 70 member institutions.

Kate See and Linda Racioppi contin-ued their research on gender and thepeace process in Belfast, Ireland duringsummer 2000. The focus of their researchwas the European Union Special SupportProgramme for Peace and Reconciliation.In August, they presented “EngenderingEthnic Accommodation: The VoluntarySector and the EU Peace andReconciliation Program in NorthernIreland, “at the annual meeting of theAmerican Sociological Association (ASA)in Washington, D.C. See and Racioppialso article published “Ulstermen andLoyalist Ladies on Parade: Engendering

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in 1997,and his B.A. in Russian andEast European Studies from theUniversity of Michigan in 1990.Herron’s main research and teachinginterests include comparative politics,research methods,and public adminis-tration and policy.

Thomas Jankowski has joined JamesMadison College as a visiting assistantprofessor. He is a Ph.D. candidate ineconomics at the American Universityin Washington, D.C. He received hismaster’s in economics in 1999 from theAmerican University and his bachelor’sin economics from Eastern MichiganUniversity. His dissertation is titled “TheEffects of Participation and GainSharing on Productivity: The Case ofthe Pacific Northwest PlywoodIndustry.” Jankowski’s teaching interestsinclude workplace participation, com-parative economic systems, labor eco-nomics, post Keynesian theory, radicaland new political economy, macroeco-nomics, institutional economics, mone-tary and financial economics, and envi-ronmental economics.

Jonathan Marks presented the paper“Jean-Jacques Rousseau andConscience” at the annual conference ofthe American Political ScienceAssociation in Washington, D.C. inSeptember 2000. Also in September,Commentary published his review ofAlan M. Dershowitz’s The Genesis ofJustice. Polity, the journal of theNortheastern Political ScienceAssociation, recently accepted his article“Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michael Sandeland the Politics of Transparency,” due tobe published next year. In October, theWeekly Standard published his review ofJames Davison Hunter’s The Death ofCharacter.

Elizabeth Morrison has joined JamesMadison College as an assistant profes-sor. Her teaching interests include nine-teenth- and twentieth-centuryAmerican literature, cultural studies,t h eory and history of s c i en ce and tech-nology, the business of publishing, anddevelopmental composition.

Rod Phillips will join James MadisonCollege as a full-time, tenure-streamfaculty member. Phillips published“Collecting Evidence: The NaturalWorld in Tennessee Williams’ Night ofthe Iguana” in the spring 2000 Southern

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on “Baseball’s Introduction to theCaribbean.”

Kathleen Burrage has joined JamesMadison College as a visiting assistantprofessor teaching writing. She receivedher Ph.D. in American studies fromWashington State University, her M.A.in English from the University ofWashington, and her B.A. in Englishfrom Gonzaga University. Burrage’sareas of interest include American liter-ature and cultures, writing across thecurriculum,nineteenth-centuryAmerican literature, language and cul-ture, American literature, Americanstudies, race and culture in America,women writers, prison literature, andpopular culture (including film).

Sherman Garnett spoke on the maintrends in Russian foreign policy at aNational Defense University

Roundtable inWashington, D.C. inSeptember. InOctober, he was thekeynote speaker at aConference onUkraine sponsoredby the University ofOttawa. His remarksfocused on Ukraine’spotential as both a

strategic partner and strategic problemfor the United States. Garnett is author,together with Alexander Rahr and KojiWatanabe, of the recently publishedTrilateral Commission study The NewCentral Asia: In Search of Stability. Asummary of the book’s key policy rec-ommendations appeared in the fall2000 issue of Internationale Politik.Garnett and Robert Legvold (ColumbiaUniversity) will co-direct a project onKazakhstan and its strategic significancefeaturing an international conference inAlmaty drawing upon experts and poli-cy makers from Russia, China,Uzbekistan, the United States, and theEuropean Union. Conference presenta-tions will be published.

Erik S. Herron has joined JamesMadison College as a visiting assistantprofessor teaching in the political econ-omy field. Herron received his Ph.D. inpolitical science from MSU in August,his M.A. from MSU in political science

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Unionism in Northern Ireland”in thespring 2000 issue of the InternationalFeminist Journal of Politics. Their article“‘This We WillMaintain: Gender,Ethno-Nationalismand the Politics ofUnionism inNorthern Ireland” willbe published in theJanuary 2001 issue ofNations andNationalism.Additionally, thechapter “Engendering Nation andNational Identity”was published in AtHome in the Nation: Gender andNationalism (Sita Ranchod-Nillson andMary Ann Tetreault, eds.; Routledge:2000). See also served as program organ-izer of an official session at the ASAmeetings in Washington, D.C. titled“European Continental Reorgani-zationand the Social Division of Labor.” Hercontribution on Northern Ireland will beincluded in the second edition of TheOx fo rd Ha n d b ook of Wo rld Pol i ti cs (JoelKri eger, ed . ; Ox ford Un ivers i ty Pre s s ,2 0 0 1 ) .

Ken Waltzer published “EastEuropean Jewish Detroit in the Early20th Century”in JUDAISM(summer2000) and delivered the paper “American

Jewish VisitorsConfront theRemnant: Travelersto Europe after theWar”at the MidwestJewish StudiesAssociation meetingat MSU inSeptember. Duringsummer 2000,Waltzer led the MSU

summer program at Hebrew University’sRothberg School, where he led 14 stu-dents and taught on “Modern JewishExperience.” In October 2000 headdressed a meeting of the associatedeans of the Big Ten/CIC on the subjectof general education in the university.

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Professor Edith Barrett of the School ofUrban and Public Affairs at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington,involved economic and demographicanalysis, in-depth interviews with com-munity officials and leaders of commu-nity development organizations,andfocus groups with El Paso citizens.

Latinos in sunbelt cities face differentissues from those living in northern oreastern cities. In the case of El Paso inparticular, Latinos are the majority pop-ulation (69.5%) and are fully integratedin the political, economic,social, andcultural life of the city. Hispanics pro-vide leadership in the city and the coun-ty. The majority of residents in El Pasoare bilingual. There is almost no resi-dential segregation of Latinos in themetropolitan statistical area (MSA). Nocensus tract in the county has fewerthan 10% Latinos; 93% of El Paso MSA’s95 census tracts have at least 30%Latinos; and 76% of the tracts have atleast 50% Latinos.

Raymond Telles, the first Latino toserve as mayor of the city, was elected in1957. Now, Hispanic leadership is welldeveloped in government and civicorganizations of the city and in the cor-porate sector. Hispanics head most citydepartments and agencies, including theDepartment of Economic Development;the Department of Planning, Researchand Development; and the El PasoHousing Authority. Community organi-zations and nonprofits are anotherimportant source of Hispanic civic lead-ership. El Paso has supported affirmativeaction and minority set-aside policy inhiring and contracting.

The strategic location of El Paso,which has strong connections historical-ly, demographically, and economicallywith Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, supportsboth large native and immigrantHispanic populations. Despite thebooming border economy with Mexico,the employment base for El Paso hasexperienced erosion,especially manu-facturing and assembly work.

In 1990, 26.8% of residents in El PasoCounty lived below the poverty line. InOctober 1999, El Paso experienced dou-ble the national unemployment rate at8.4%. Unfortunately, wage gaps and a

changing economy, as well as pasturban renewal and highway construc-tion, have made the lack of affordablehousing a long-standing crisis in themetropolitan area. The housing situa-tion in the city and the county reflectsboth the fast-paced population growthof the city and the lower-than-averageeconomic condition of the city. The lackof available affordable housing and lowincomes contribute to inequities inhousing affordability and home owner-ship.

One grassroots response to the lackof affordable housing was the growth ofcolonia settlements, especially in the1970s, outside of the City of El Paso butwithin El Paso County. Colonias areself-built and unregulated housingdevelopments located in unincorporat-ed areas, primarily in agricultural areasor desert plains. Colonias are locatedthroughout the entire Rio GrandeValley of Texas but are concentrated inthe upper valley around El Paso and thelower valley around McAllen andBrownsville. Similar settlements arelocated on the Mexican side of the RioGrande.

Although no exact data are availableon the number of people living in colo-nias in El Paso County, the U.S. GeneralAccounting Office (1990) estimated the1989 population to be around 70,000.While finished lots in incorporated bor-der cities cost from $10,000 to morethan $20,000,unfinished lots in unin-corporated areas could be purchased forbetween $3,000 and $12,000. Residentscould secure a “contract for deed” witha $100 down payment and would pay$50 to $100 per month for a typicalmortgage contract for ten years.Although the deed for property oftencame with a promise of infrastructureimprovements, once the land was sold,many devel opers ign ored the pled ge forw a ter, s ew a ge , uti l i ty con n ecti on s ,p aveds treet s , and other nece s s i ti e s . Re s i den t sh ad to haul water, ga s , and firewood overu n p aved roads and dunes for many ye a rs .

For years the colonias were under nojurisdictional building codes, and thedwellings tended to be substandard. ElPaso Interreligious SponsoringOrganization (EPISO), founded in1977,has been active in mobilizing

DEVELOPMENT MATTERS

New Scholarships to BenefitMadison Students

The Marjorie Lewis-Goodell Scholarship has been established through a deferred giftfrom Sumner and Irene Bagby honoring Irene’s mother, Marjorie Lewis-Goodell, for-merly a professor in American Thought and Language at Michigan State University.Professor Lewis-Goodell’s career affirmed her belief in the benefits of a broad and rigor-ous liberal education that recognizes the link between public and private endeavors. Thescholarship is established with the hope that recipients will feel an ethical obligation tomake their own gifts to James Madison College in the future to continue to attract andassist the Madison Fellows who follow.

Burton Gerber has established the Burton L.and Rosalie P. Gerber Scholarship tobenefit worthy and capable students enrolled at James Madison College. The purpose ofthe scholarship is to provide assistance to students who have shown, through academicexcellence and diverse outside activities, that they have a commitment to public service,with a goal of joining one of the foreign affairs agencies of the United States,an interna-tional service agency, the military services of the United States, or a career in interna-tional law or international trade.

Mr. Gerber received his B.A. in international relations from MSU in 1955. He wenton to a distinguished career of 39 years in the Central Intelligence Agency. He recentlyvisited East Lansing to speak to Madison students and faculty about the “Ethics ofEspionage.” The first Gerber Scholarship will be awarded in the fall of 2001.

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Development Director

Once every year you have an opportu-

nity to make a difference in the future of

James Madison College. The college is

grateful to the alumni and friends who

have generously provided the extra

resources to make JMC stronger.

During the next few months JMC

alumni will be asked to make their annual

commitment to the college. You may

receive a letter from Dean Garnett or a

phone call from a student asking for your

financial support. We hope that you will

consider making your most generous gift.

The college’s top priority is improving

the student common areas and college

offices in Case Hall.MSU Trustee David

Porteous and Joan Porteous have made the

lead gift to fund the project. They will

match gifts of any size up to $100,000 in

total contributions. The renovation of the

JMC Library is the first phase of the proj-

ect estimated at $130,000.Please support

the Porteous Challenge during the annual

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Over the last 30-plus years JMC has

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CHANGING FACES AT MADISON

Genevieve Blischke, JMC academicadviser since March 1999, has leftMadison to move to Pennsylvania withh er hu s b a n d .

Deanna Edwards (SR ‘97), academicadviser, has taken on additional respon-sibility as coordinator of DiversityProgramming. Her responsibilitiesinclude assisting JMC staff and studentswith initiatives geared toward increasingminority representation in the studentbody and faculty andsupporting theinclusion of moreracially and cultural-ly diverse activitiesas part of the col-lege’s academic,cocurricular, andcollaborative pro-gramming.

Pamela Martinezjoined the Madisonstaff in June as faculty secretary. She hasbeen working at MSU on a temporarybasis since August 1999 in such depart-ments as the Laundry, Admissions,andthe Center for Integrative Studies in theArts and Humanities. Martinez, who haslived in St. Johns all of her life, is mar-ried to Reuben Martinez and has threechildren—Andy, 18; Kyle,12; and Savannah, 8.

Ragan Royal, director of develop-ment with James Madison College forthree years, is now the director of devel-opment for the School of Business atWayne State University. We wish her thebest of lu ck and thank her for her con tri-buti ons to Mad i s on .

Rocky Beckett (IR ‘86) has beenappointed new director of developmentfor James Madison College. For the lastfour years, Beckett has been the assistantdirector of development in the Collegeof Agriculture and Natural Resources atMichigan State University.

“I am excited about the opportunityto come home to JMC and work withDean Garnett and the college to advancethe JMC mission. I received an excellentundergraduate education at Madisonand MSU, now I have an opportunity togive back and help future generations ofstudents through my work in develop-ment,” said Beckett.

Beckett grew up in Ada, Michigan,near Grand Rapids. He first arrived atCase Hall as a freshman in 1982. Hiswife, Julie Thomas-Beckett, is a graduateof the College of Nursing at MSU. Theylive in Lansing with their two children,Aaron and Elizabeth.

Before joining MSU development,Rocky worked with two Lansing areanonprofit organizations, the HavenHouse and Habitat for Humanity,Lansing. Rocky enjoys staying in touchwith current events, being a husband,parent,and active member of the MSUfamily.

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colonia residents to demand electrical,water, and sewage services, and theyhave gained statewide recognition of thehousing problems among El Paso’sLatino population.

Specific regulatory gaps in countyresidential developments have produceda clear problem for creating up-to-codehousing in colonias. In 1989, the state ofTexas finally passed legislation prohibit-ing the development of subdivisions inborder counties without adequate watersu pplies and sew a ge servi ce s . Federal ini-ti a tives under HUD spon s orship movedto coord i n a te funding for co l onias thatworked in tandem with state ef fort s .

In 1990, the U.S. Congress passedlegislation that required states borderingon Mexico (Texas, New Mexico,Arizona, and California) to set aside aportion of the state’s CommunityDevelopment Block Grant (CDBG)money specifically for colonia projects.In 1999, Texas set aside 10% of itsCDBG money. This HUD-sponsoredmoney is managed by the State of TexasOffice of Colonia Initiatives (OCI),which is under the jurisdiction of theTexas Dep a rtm ent of Housing andCom mu n i ty Af f a i rs (T D H C A ) . Perhapsjustifiably so, OCI has focused onimproving the infrastructure in thecolonias, primarily water.

For comparative purposes, theNHHC reports focus on specific HUDprograms: Section 8 Project-based andTenant Vouchers/Certificates, Section236 and 202 projects, CommunityDevelopment Block Grants (CDBG),and HOME Investment PartnershipPrograms. The El Paso report alsoincludes HUD’s Colonia Initiatives proj-ects. HUD will soon publish the sixindividual city reports and an overviewreport.

Madison AlumNamed JMCDirector ofDevelopment

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