Reflections Magazine Issue #47 - Winter 1998 | Page 2

Alumni Briefs Inside President’s Message ................................... 3 2 Giving Report ........................................... 4 Class Notes .............................................. 24 Reunion Notes ........................................ 28 And the winners are... Recipients of the 1998-99 alumni awards are: Mary Duggan Cassabon ‘48, Outstanding Alumni Award; Jean Agnes Klemm, OP ‘44, Saint Dominic Award; and Tarianne DeYonker, OP ‘70, Sister Ann Joachim Award. The awards will be presented this spring as part of Alumni Awards Recognition Day. For further information about the Recognition Day program, or to nominate candidates for 1999-2000 consideration, contact the alumni office at 517-264-7143. Alumni directory planned for 2000 Siena Heights has engaged Publishing Concepts of Dallas, TX, to produce and publish a new alumni directory for distribution early in the year 2000. The directory will be Siena’s first since 1988. The University will work closely with Publishing Concepts, gathering current information from graduates of all Siena Heights centers. Watch the mail for your first survey— and don’t miss your opportunity to participate in this valuable networking tool. Questions? Call 1-800-982-1590 or contact Publishing Concepts by e-mail ([email protected]). Alumni info: on the web and in the (e)mail If you haven’t visited the University’s web site yet (or recently), check out Siena Heights in cyberspace (http://www.sienahts.edu). Encourage prospective students to visit us, too; our web site offers an on-line application for admission. Coming soon: an on-line directory of alumni e-mail addresses. If you’d like to be included in that directory: (1) contact us now via the webmaster e-mail link on the web or by e-mailing the alumni office at [email protected] or (2) wait until you find the first short list on our site and respond through the link provided. Letters to the Editor “As I read the Reflections newsletter, I pondered the changes since I left in 1973. I have sent many students to Siena over the years, including a daughter, son and daughter-in-law. All three are teachers, and I’m proud they graduated from Siena. The worry I have is that the standards just are not the same. ...the old lessons of the nuns have served me well. Your newsletter showed many of the old guard; how many do you have teaching like that today? The name change—was it worth it? Don’t forget the non-trads (non-traditional students) and remember that progress does not have to trample the best practices of the past.” John B. Irelan ‘73 Pittsford, MI “The Siena newsletter is very interesting. Blessings. I loved the pictures of former faculty — Sister Benedicta Marie, in particular.” Margaret Gleason Flanagan ‘44 Milwaukee, WI Alumni Weekend ..................................... 40 Alumni Board President Judy Lavelle ‘58 Vice President Debra Parish Spann ‘89 Past President Mary Hellner Lash ‘88 Board Members Amanda Adams ‘97 Donna Kisner Baker ‘84 Petrina Biondo ‘72 Diane Moro Deveau ‘70 Elizabeth Dolan, OP ‘46 Cindy Doyle ‘72 Joann Phillips ‘93 (LMC) Earl Reber ‘88 (LMC) Lawrence Richardson, Jr. ‘76 Susan Strupulis ‘95 (KCC) Honorary Member Sr. Marie Irene Miller, OP, ‘36 Reflections Staff Editor: Jennifer Hamlin Church Assistant Vice President for Communications and Constituent Relations Graphic Designer: Richard T. Mertens Publications and Public Relations Specialist Photographers: Steve Ott, Communications Specialist Marty Dwyer ‘99 (cover photo) Student Assistant Lad Strayer, Lad Strayer Photography Ray Casey, Ray Casey Photography To order your Siena Heights University memorabilia, call the Siena Heights Bookstore at 517/263-6606. VISA and MASTERCARD accepted. Deb Carter Dean of Off-Campus Academic Affairs Other contributors ©1998. Siena Heights University. Reflections is published by the Communications Office at Siena Heights University. Send correspondence to: Office of Communications, 1247 E. Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI 49221 or phone [phone] or e-mail [email protected].