LAKE FOREST COLLEGE
Spectrum Magazine
Fall-Winter 2010
Chicago Calling
New program
will keep students
in the Loop
for a semester
CAREER BOOSTERS
HOMECOMING 2010
FILMMAKING SUCCESS
Spectrum
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE MAGAZINE
Fall-Winter 2010
volume 38, no. 2
issn: 1078-179X
associate vice president of
Communications
and Marketing
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Editor
Janet Franz
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Contents
From the President
Dear Foresters:
Features
Technology is playing a more integral role than
ever at Lake Forest College. This past summer, the
College invested in and rolled out an exciting new
campus website aimed at attracting new students,
an Intranet site that streamlines how we do
business, and a revamped alumni gateway. Read
our latest news and information on the College’s
new website (www.lakeforest.edu) and share your
memories, catch up with old friends, and learn of
alumni events and volunteer opportunities on the
alumni gateway (www.forestersforever.com).
5 Career-minder
Lisa Hinkley, director of career services, talks to Spectrum
about the challenges students face in today’s job market and
how alumni can help.
6 Foresters Helping Foresters
A big benefit of going to a small college like Lake
Forest is the connection it provides to all alumni,
faculty, staff, students, and parents. Saying
you’re a Forester to another Lake Forest grad can
sometimes be the key that gets you in the door
to a job interview or a coveted internship. At the
same time, Forester employers who hire Lake
Forest grads know they’re getting people who are
well-prepared for the working world. In this issue,
we look at several successful alums who have
hired, mentored, or offered internships to current
and former Lake Forest students.
Connections with alumni offer benefits to students looking to
snag a job in these tough economic times.
By Janet Franz
9In the Loop
New program will give students the opportunity to learn,
work, and explore while living in the heart of the city.
By Janet Franz
The cover story for this issue discusses a new
program starting next fall in which students spend
a semester in Chicago taking classes and gaining
experience through internships while living at
Hostelling International Chicago, a beautiful
residential facility in the Loop. Called “Lake
Forest College in the Loop,” the program is tailormade for students eager for an intensive Chicago
experience.
Homecoming, Reunion, and Family Weekend this
year was full of superlatives – one of the biggest,
best, and most fun ever. Many of the weekend’s
festivities took place at the new Sports and
Recreation Center, including a grand opening of
that gorgeous and well-equipped facility. Those
who couldn’t make it to campus that weekend
were able to follow the events on Twitter. You can
see photos and learn more in this issue.
Also in this issue, we say goodbye to two very
dear members of the Forester family: Frederick
Morgan “Buzz” Taylor Jr., beloved friend of the
College and husband of trustee Barbara Olin
Taylor; and Frank Farwell, a lifelong supporter
and 52-year trustee. We will greatly miss them
both.
Best wishes for a happy and safe New Year.
Departments
1
From the President
2
Sheridan Road
10
Class Notes
16
In Memoriam
On the cover: A view of Hostelling International, which will serve as home base to students in the
new semester-long off-campus study program in Chicago. Photo courtesy of Hostelling International Chicago.
Photo at left: Faculty folk music group Fast & Cheap: Rand Smith, associate dean of faculty and director of
the Center for Chicago Programs, on guitar; Jim Cubit, director of Library and Information Technology, on mandolin; Bob Morrissey, assistant professor of history, on guitar; Cynthia Hahn, professor of French, on acoustic/
electric bass guitar; Don Meyer, professor of music, on ukulele; and Richard Pettengill, associate professor of
English and theater, on guitar and Irish bouzouki.
Stephen D. Schutt
President
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ore than 5,000 alumni, parents, students, and friends came to campus for Homecoming, Reunion, and Family Weekend October 8-9, 2010. Nearly
every event packed record attendance – from the football game, where more than 1,450 Forester fans (and a few fans of the other team) walked
through the gates, to the sold-out Reunion dinner and dance that night. Student groups came out in force to show their Forester pride, pulling together 35
floats for one of the longest – and by most accounts most spirited – parades yet. Twitter was a prominent feature, too – people tweeted photos, videos, and
encounters with old friends to #lfhc1010 throughout the weekend.
Save the date for next year: September 30 - October 1, 2011.
On the Web
View Homecoming photos at www.lakeforest.edu/spectrum.
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10 years of art
by Karen Lebergott
{ Sheridan Road }
New books by 3 Lake Forest College faculty members
Cynthia Hahn
Outside-In-Sideout is the latest work
by poet and French Literature and
Language Professor Cynthia Hahn.
The poems in the chapbook, which is
divided into two parts, were written
over several years and served to help
Hahn cope with the sudden death of
her brothers in 2002 and 2003, and
then the gradual loss of her parents
due to Alzheimer’s disease while in
her constant care.
Karen Lebergott — Ten-Year Survey
2000-2010, an exhibit of paintings
by Associate Professor of Art and Chicago painter Karen Lebergott, was
recently shown in Lake Forest College’s
Sonnenschein Gallery.
Lebergott’s work explores the relationship between map-making and historical perspective, the clouding of memory
through the recording of seemingly
immutable fact. Using the formal
aspects of mark-making, map-making,
and the practice of applying pencil and
paint strokes to a surface, Lebergott
pushes viewers to confront the variability of memory. She uses obscured layers
of paint, thick-stenciled patterns, and
pentimenti — alterations in a painting
showing how the artist changed her
mind in the process of creating it — to
layer form and color as a record of
the decision-making of each piece of
art and the elusive nature of historical
memory.
Lebergott’s work has been exhibited
at national and international galleries in Chicago, New York, and Berlin.
Karen Lebergott — Ten-Year Survey
2000-2010, curated by Frank Lewis,
was originally shown at Lawrence
University.
“For me, poetry served a strong
outlet, both for the grief and for the
intensity of savoring moments that
come with encountering
daily reminders of our mortality,”
said Hahn.
"Drain is a post-American postapocalyptic novel of excess, at once
hilarious and brutal, with all the over-
the-top energy and weird delight of
a psychedelic cartoon,” said Lance
Olsen, author of Head in Flames.
Drain, 240 pages, was published in
June by TriQuarterly Books and can
be ordered from borders.com and
amazon.com.
Holly Swyers
Outside-In-Sideout, published by
Finishing Line Press, can be ordered
through finishinglinepress.com.
Davis Schneiderman
In his new novel, Drain, Associate
Professor of English Davis Schneiderman imagines Lake Michigan
mysteriously emptying of water in the
year 2039. As fires burn in the barren
lake bed, three factions — religious
cultists, a giant corporation called
Quadrilateral, and a group of punk
pirates called the Blackout Angels —
battle for power.
After observing Chicago’s Wrigley
Field bleachers fans for years, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Holly
Swyers has written a case study
about this community of baseball
fans. In Wrigley Regulars: Finding
Community in the Bleachers, Swyers
uses a qualitative approach to
explore the traditions of these rabid
Cubs fans, such as scorecard-keeping,
seating distributions, and superstitions that create the community. Her
research — much of it obtained firsthand, Swyers being a Wrigley regular
herself — helps answer the question
of what conditions and behaviors
help create and sustain a community
feeling.
“Wrigley Regulars provides a very
sophisticated analysis of community
and then examines it using a provocative, compelling, and unusual case
study about baseball,” said Robert
Elias, author of The Empire Strikes
Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign
Policy and Promoted the American
Way Abroad.
Wrigley Regulars was published
in July by the University of Illinois
Press and can be ordered from
amazon.com.
By the Numbers
2,375
People who “like” Lake Forest
College’s Facebook page.
179
Followers of the College on
Twitter.
5,227
Attendees at all 2010 Homecoming
events combined.
12,956
Visits by faculty, staff, and students
to the new Sports and Recreation
Center during September.
$125,000
Amount in Class Gifts the Reunion
Classes of 1960, 1968, 1980, 1990,
and 2005 have contributed to
date — and the gifts keep arriving.
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Varieties of vegetables harvested
over the summer from the
environmental studies department
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For alumna, first feature
film is a real thrill(er)
Sports Roundup
Fall 2010
FOOTBALL: 2-8, 2-7 MWC (t-8th)
Tailback Brock Stenberg ’11 ran for 738
yards in the year and 2,294 in his career,
the third-highest total in program history.
WOMEN’S TENNIS: 12-4, 3-2
MWC South (2nd)
Lake Forest was the runner-up at the
MWC Tournament. Melika Celebic ’13
was 16-2 on the year and successfully
defended her conference title at #1 singles.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: 11-8-0, 7-2-0
MWC (2nd)
The Foresters made their eighth
consecutive appearance in the four-team
MWC Tournament. Becky Esrock ’13 led
the squad with 13 goals and 32 points.
MEN’S SOCCER: 12-6-0, 5-4-0
MWC (5th)
Lake Forest outscored its opponents 46-22
on the season. Mahir Mameledzija ’14
finished with a team-high 13 goals and 32
points.
CROSS COUNTRY: Women 6th, Men
10th at MWC Championships
Sarah Peluse ’13 placed 10th at the
MWC Championship Meet two weeks
after setting the program record with a
6-kilometer time of 23:23.
Hanelle Culpepper ’92 had longed to be a movie director since she was in high school. But
when she arrived at Lake Forest College, her practical instincts prevailed, and she wound up
graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in economics and French.
Although she went on to enroll in an economics PhD program, the tug toward filmmaking
became too hard to ignore. So Culpepper dropped out and moved to Los Angeles to attend the
University of Southern California, where she earned a master’s in Communication Management
and got involved in multiple student and independent film projects, “taking on every possible
behind-the-scenes position to see how it all worked.”
Now, after 10 years spent making PSAs, cable TV episodes, and short films, Culpepper also has
an award-winning feature film, a supernatural thriller called Within, which premiered in July on
the Lifetime cable channel.
Directing Within — about two 9-year-old girls, one who sees evil spirits that compel their
“hosts” to do bad things, and the other who is manipulated by the spirit of her dead older
sister — was a thrill, said Culpepper, who optioned the script because she liked its main character, Rachel, and thought the story “was smart and held a greater message about the world at
large.”
“Every day I got up and was so excited to be going to the set for my first feature,” said Culpepper, who particularly enjoyed the chance to work with the young actresses, who were in almost
every scene.
The movie, which won awards for best film at two horror film festivals, was a departure for the
director, whose previous projects were dramas and comedies. More a thriller than a true horror
film, Within doesn’t have much blood or gore, she said, and, fortunately, “there’s a significant
chunk of the horror audience that likes more sophisticated films.” Next up for Culpepper is a
genuine horror movie, Clementine, about a 15-year-old girl who is an outcast at school until she
gets some help from a 19th century ghost.
Culpepper admits to still loving economics, and would have relished the opportunity to work
for the Federal Reserve Board if she had stayed on that path. But she also feels proud to have
become one of the few African American women directors to have done a feature film.
“I’ve invested so much time in the movie business,” she said, “and I plan to stick it out until
they usher me out of Hollywood!”
Within will be available on DVD in January.
VOLLEYBALL: 14-17, 6-3 MWC (t-3rd)
The Foresters reached the four-team
MWC Tournament for the first time since
2007. Mandi Mulliner ’11 finished third
in team history with 315 career blocks.
Find the latest sports scores at
www.goforesters.com or follow on
Twitter @ForesterScores.
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Photo by Karen Harley
On the Web
Photo by Jeff Meier
{ Sheridan Road }
In The News
On September 1, Ahmad Sadri,
Gorter Chair of Islamic Studies,
spoke with Jerome McDonnell,
host of the Chicago Public Radio
program Worldview, about President Obama’s speech on the end
of the official U.S. combat role in
Iraq. Sadri said that in the speech,
Obama was “stuck defending the
war and highlighting its meager
dividends.” He noted that Iraq is
left with “an uncertain future, an
unworkable political system, and a
hopeless civil war still looming.”
The book Wrigley Regulars: Finding
Community in the Bleachers, by
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Holly Swyers, was featured
in the Chicago Tribune and the
Chicago Sun-Times and on WGN
Radio, WGN-TV and the WXRT
blog. On August 26, in an in-depth
radio interview with Milt Rosenberg
on his Extension 720 WGN Radio
program, Swyers discussed the mix
of folks who make up the regulars,
their shunning of one of their own
for scalping tickets to “outsiders,”
as well as their out-of-the-ballpark
socializing, which includes attending weddings, funerals, birthday
gatherings, and Cubs conventions
together.
The $7 million scholarship foundation Grace Groner ’31 created
to benefit Lake Forest College
students was featured in the August
issue of O Magazine in a segment
titled “Deals of the Centuries: A
brief history of smart bargains and
big payoffs.” On October 6, the
Chicago Tribune ran a story about
Groner scholarship recipients who
gathered at “Grace’s Cottage,” the
modest Lake Forest house that she
also left to the College, to honor
their benefactor. The story noted
that the cottage has been refurbished so it can be used, at Groner’s
request, as living quarters for two
female College seniors deemed to
have made outstanding contributions
to campus life and community service.
Q& A
WITH LISA HINKLEY,
DIRECTOR OF CAREER SERVICES
IN THE CAREER ADVANCEMENT CENTER
Lisa Hinkley has worked in the career services field for eight years, including
two years as Lake Forest College’s director of career services. Having started
her professional career in Michigan, she is all too familiar with what it takes for
job hunters to thrive in tough economic times. Spectrum spoke to Hinkley about
the challenges students face in today’s job market and how the College’s many
programs that tap into alumni’s career knowledge and connections can really
make a difference.
Spectrum: What types of services
does the Career Advancement Center
offer?
HINKLEY: We help students and
alumni with all steps of the career
development process — from clarifying
interests and goals to achieving them.
Over the last few years, we have been
improving partnerships with faculty,
staff, and alumni to integrate career
conversations into the fabric of the
student experience. Career conversations are happening as early as the
admissions process and continue
throughout students’ time at Lake Forest and beyond. More specifically, we
help with career and major exploration, internship and job search tactics,
plus networking and doing graduate
school applications. I think we help
students define and articulate what
their Lake Forest education means in
ways that help them to get the best
possible outcomes.
Spectrum: This is a tough atmosphere for students looking for jobs.
What, if anything, are you doing
differently now?
HINKLEY: About two years ago, we
completely re-evaluated the way the
center functions and made many
changes in an effort to improve the
career support for students and
alumni — and there are more changes
to come. Last year, we saw 36 percent
more students and alumni for individual appointments than in 2008;
the average number of students participating in career-related programs
also has increased. It’s important to
me that we do our very best to help
as many students and alumni as we
can. Sometimes it’s tough to manage
the demand, which makes the support
we get from alumni volunteers that
much more important. With over 70
percent of jobs never getting posted,
the power of our networks will be the
most critical factor in our graduates’
continued long-term success. We’re
working with the alumni board to
build industry-based networks that
will further improve our ability to connect alumni to one another and to
students with similar interests.
Spectrum: Which of your programs
help achieve this?
HINKLEY: Foresters Helping Foresters
is the umbrella name for Lake Forest’s
dynamic network, which includes a
diverse set of initiatives that support
alumni, faculty, staff, students, and
parents sharing knowledge with each
other to help each other grow and
achieve goals. Some of the programs
are highly structured, like speed networking, the mentor program, and
the etiquette dinner, but Foresters
Helping Foresters is more than the
big, splashy programs. We’re teaching
students about relationship-building
as a normal part of life — instead of
as an attempted quick-fix tactic to use
when they want something — and
encouraging community members to
be connectors. Some of the structural
changes include creating a new kind
of volunteer application and improving quality usage of LinkedIn.
Spectrum: I imagine that alumni
benefit from these opportunities as
well, right?
HINKLEY: Absolutely. Alumni who
help students are also developing
their own networks and teaching
skills; sometimes mentoring also helps
us question old assumptions that
may need to change. While there’s
definitely something that just feels
good about giving back, I’ve also
heard stories of one-time mentees
helping mentors to land jobs later in
their careers. I think sometimes people
forget that today’s young professionals will become tomorrow’s leaders,
and it’s a very small world.
Spectrum: You also provide information on graduate education. Are
you finding more students investigating grad school as an option these
days?
HINKLEY: We seem to be holding
fairly steady with the rate of students
(about 20 percent in each class)
continuing immediately to graduate school. We encourage students
to understand their motivations for
going to grad school, which probably
decreases the number of students
who see it as a good tactic for deferring entry into a competitive job
market. We already send many graduates to top schools, but we want to
do even better. Last year, the College
formulated the Graduate/Professional
School Committee, whose charge is to
help more of our students and alumni
get into the best graduate schools
they are qualified for. We also just
signed an agreement with Princeton
Review that provides students and
alumni with test preparation support
at reduced rates.
Alumni can help by ensuring that
we have an accurate record of the
degrees they have earned and by
indicating on the volunteer application
that they’re willing to share insights
about grad school with current students or fellow alumni.
Spectrum: If you had to give one or
two tips to students looking for work,
what would they be?
HINKLEY: Seek your passions and be
honest about what you’re willing to
do to achieve your goals. There are
plenty of people to help you clarify
and get what you want, but only if
you get in the game. Success takes
persistence.
On the Web
For more information on how alumni can
help,Spectrum
go to www.forestersforever.com.
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Photo by Eileen Ryan
Foresters
Helping
Foresters
Jill Terzakis ’88 (center), who started an internship program when
she worked at a financial advisory in Chicago, speaks with a couple
of Lake Forest students.
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Connections with alumni offer
benefits to students looking to snag
a job in these tough economic times
Although she majored in English
literature, she discovered after taking a secretarial job at a municipal
bond finance firm that she was
really attracted to the world of
finance, and was good at it. She
went on to get her MBA, became a
vice president at Scott Balice Strategies financial advisory in Chicago,
and now is pursuing a PhD in Public
Administration at the University of
Illinois at Chicago while teaching
there and as an adjunct professor
at Lake Forest College.
A senior-year internship with Courtney Wright '88 at CDW Merchants turned
into a full-time job for Matt Patek '07.
By Janet Franz
When Courtney Wright ’88
was starting up her visual merchandising company, CDW Merchants,
five years ago, she needed staff,
but she also needed to watch her
budget. That’s when she thought
of a way to turn her dilemma into
a win-win situation — for both her
and for Lake Forest College.
“I couldn’t afford to hire a bunch of
people at the beginning, so I called
the College and was able to get
great support with interns,” said
Wright. “I thought, can we bridge
the gap and match up our needs?
I could teach the students some of
the things that people taught me.”
And so began a rewarding relationship: CDW has gone on to host half
a dozen interns from the College.
It’s such alliances with alumni —
whether they’re able to connect
students with internships, serve
as mentors, or take part in such
programs as speed networking —
that can make the difference for
students looking for a leg up in
today’s challenging job market.
“Networking is more important
than it’s ever been. The statistic
we hear a lot is that 70 percent
of jobs are never posted,” said
Laura Matthews, Mentor
Program Coordinator for the College’s Career Advancement Center.
“It’s important for students to
learn networking skills, and alumni
can teach them. And they also
can point them in the direction of
someone who’s hiring an intern.”
The Career Advancement Center
currently has about 600 alumni
volunteers in its database. Whether
they sign on for a yearlong commitment as a mentor or a four-hour
stint at a networking event, alumni
play a crucial role in the Foresters
Helping Foresters initiative as they
guide students along their career
path and help them make contacts
that could result in a job.
“It’s about tapping into that source
of knowledge,” Matthews said.
“Alumni have leveraged their liberal
arts education and translated it into
a successful career, which is what
we’re trying to get our students
to do.”
Jill Mason Terzakis ’88
certainly can speak to that goal.
While at Scott Balice, she started
a formal internship program —
which requires interns to track their
accomplishments weekly in order
to build experience to put on their
résumés — that had brought in a
dozen Lake Forest students (and 18
others) by 2009.
For Elizabeth Chevalier ’07,
who majored in international relations and economics, the internship
was a great introduction to public
finance, a field she previously knew
little about. “Jill was aware where
students wanted to grow, and the
assignments we were given gave us
the opportunities to do that,” said
Chevalier, who went on to work for
Scott Balice for three years after
graduation. In addition to having
interns perform administrative tasks
and tackle research projects, Terzakis advised them on how to manage themselves professionally in the
workplace, Chevalier said.
Terzakis also has consulted with
hundreds of Lake Forest students,
many of whom have enrolled in the
business courses she teaches, about
their résumés.
“I find that students have a hard
time translating the real guts of
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their class experience onto
a résumé, so I talk to them
about the types of things that
employers might be interested
in,” Terzakis said. “I give suggestions on formatting, content
order, and ways to demonstrate
computer skills. For instance,
it’s more effective to show how
they used Excel to run statistical
analysis on XYZ project than to
just list Excel as a skill on their
résumé.”
“It’s a very different hiring market today, but that doesn’t mean
it’s impossible to find a job,”
Shadle said. “I’ve found that
students who are serious about
what they want to do and have
some direction end up finding a
spot they’re looking for. But they
have to be persistent and use all
possible resources. The mentor
program is a fantastic resource.”
As a Lake Forest senior, Matt
Patek ’07 took advantage
'I really see it, first and foremost, as an easy
way to give back to the college. But it’s also
afforded me an opportunity to stay in touch
with how it feels to be a student looking
for a job.'
— Mark Shadle '84
For Terzakis, whose husband
and sister also are Lake Forest
alumni, helping students get
started on their career path is
one way to show her commitment to the College. The same
holds for Mark Shadle ’84,
who has worked in the public
relations field for his entire
career — currently as managing
director at Zeno Group in Chicago — and has been mentoring Lake Forest students for the
last 15 years.
“I really see it, first and foremost, as an easy way to give
back to the College,” Shadle
said. “But it’s also afforded me
an opportunity to stay in touch
with how it feels to be a student
looking for a job. I’ve found that
perspective really helpful.”
As a mentor to students who are
interested in advertising, public
relations, and marketing, Shadle
has “tried to open doors” and
has sometimes been able to connect his mentees with an internship opportunity or a job at his
firm or at another agency.
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of the multitude of resources
available to students at the
Career Advancement Center. He
got help with his résumé, went
through mock interviews, and
secured an internship with CDW
Merchants, Wright’s Evanstonbased company.
“My goal was to get a job out of
it — wherever I got my internship,” said Patek. And he did:
After his semester-long internship, Patek was hired on full time
at CDW, and he worked there for
a year as an account manager
and salesman before taking a
leave to work in Australia for five
months. Once back in the States,
he was hired again, this time as
operations manager, serving as
the liaison between vendors and
the sales team at CDW, which
makes visual props and decorative elements to help clients
such as American Eagle Outfitters and Restoration Hardware
market their merchandise more
effectively.
Because the company is small,
Patek was able to take part
in important meetings, travel
to Las Vegas for a trade show
and learn things he never
would have learned at another
company. And now Patek is
mentoring a Lake Forest College
student of his own: intern Lisa
Carpenter ’11.
But internships are just one
piece of the job search strategy in today’s difficult market,
according to Wright. “These
seniors are going to have to
work themselves in such a different way than previous classes.
They’re going to have to network
harder and show up on their
A game every day, every time,
every hour to get a job,” Wright
said. “Meaningful work experiences have to happen early, from
the teenage years on. It can be
by working in a warehouse. The
key is getting to know lots of
people.”
And that’s where the Foresters
Helping Foresters network can
be such a benefit, Matthews
said. “Students say that the
relationships they’ve been able
to build with mentors have been
so valuable,” she said. “Alumni
enable our students to have
those high-level conversations.”
For his part, Shadle said he feels
fortunate to have met so many
energetic and enthusiastic Lake
Forest students while volunteering as a mentor, and he often
keeps track of their successes by
reading Class Notes in Spectrum.
“They don’t realize that I’m still
a cheerleader for them,” he said.
“I feel that I now understand
how professors must feel when
students graduate and they hope
to see them succeed.”
To find out how you can help,
contact the Career Advancement Center: 847-735-5235 or
[email protected]. •
How alumni can
help their fellow
Foresters
• B
e a mentor — either
as part of the yearlong
mentor program or
by providing one-time
advice.
• A
ttend speed
networking sessions.
• J oin LinkedIn and the
Lake Forest College
Alumni Group.
• H
ost a student for job
shadowing.
• P ost jobs and internships
to the Online Career
Center (www.lakeforest.
edu/careers).
• L et hiring managers at
your organization know
about the value of a
Lake Forest education
and encourage them to
post positions with the
College.
• C
ontact the Career
Advancement Center
with other ideas and
options that you have
in mind.
• T he best way to start
is by completing the
volunteer application (go
to forestersforever.com),
which also lets staff
outside of the career
center know about
ways that you’d like
to contribute to the
community.
Lake Forest College in the Loop
Students to learn, work, and explore while living in heart of Chicago
By Janet Franz
During his first two years at college, Alex
Gilbert ’12 found himself hopping the Metra train
to Chicago every three or four weeks to attend cultural events or sight-see downtown. But it wasn’t
until he lived in the Loop during an internship last
summer that he felt he really got to know the city.
“Visiting is completely different than living down
there. Because you’re close to everything, you
end up doing so much more,” said Gilbert, who
obtained his internship at the Metropolitan Planning Council through the Kemper Scholars
College faculty at the hostel, and the other half in
classes at such Chicago schools as Roosevelt University and Columbia College.
“The purpose of the program is to close the
distance between the students and Chicago,
and to take advantage of the cultural richness of
Chicago,” said Rand Smith, director of the Center for Chicago Programs, which organizes trips
downtown, provides information on city events and
brings Chicago speakers and performers to campus. “We’re going to be leveraging our proximity
to the city and making that part of
the educational experience at Lake
Forest College.”
Each semester, the coursework in
the Lake Forest College track will
have a theme. First up, next fall, will
be American Studies, with Associate
Professor of English Davis Schneiderman teaching the class “Hidden
Chicago: Culture, Class, Conflict”
and Associate Professor of English
Judy Dozier teaching a course tenLake Forest students take an architectural boat tour on
tatively titled “Black Metropolis: A
the Chicago River.
Study of Black Life in Chicago.” The
Spring 2012 program will have an environmental
program. “You go to bed and then get up in the
studies focus.
morning and do something else.”
Uncovering bits of Chicago history that might be
Next fall other students will get a similar chance
overshadowed by tourist attractions is among
to immerse themselves in city life — and skip the
Schneiderman’s goals for his class. He contemtrain ride home — when Lake Forest College kicks
plates delving into subjects as diverse as the
off Lake Forest College in the Loop, a semesterChicago Defender newspaper’s instrumental role
long opportunity for students to take classes, parin attracting African Americans from the South to
ticipate in internships, and check out the city while
Chicago; how the city is constantly rebuilding itself
living in the heart of the Loop.
as one structure comes down and another rises in
Each semester, 35 juniors and seniors will be
its place; and what can be learned from the evoluselected through an application process to take
tion of the sites of Chicago’s two world’s fairs.
part in the program, during which they’ll reside
“I’m thinking of it as a field course,” Schneiderman
at Hostelling International, a 550-bed hostel at
said. “Almost every week we’ll be going someWabash Avenue and Congress Parkway, while
where, and by being there it will be completely
interning at a Chicago organization for two credits
immersive. We’ll be oriented in the classroom, and
and taking academic coursework, also for two
tests will be in the classroom at the hostel, but
credits, in one of two tracks: half of the students in
we’ll be seeing the city by foot and by L.”
an interdisciplinary program taught by Lake Forest
Students in the Roosevelt University-Columbia College track will be pointed to courses not generally
offered at Lake Forest, Smith said. And while the
academic and internship portions of the programs
will be top notch, “the real thing will be living
down there.”
The agreement with Hostelling International calls
for Lake Forest students to occupy the seventh
floor, living four students per suite, which includes
separate bedrooms plus a shared bathroom,
kitchen and lounge area. (A few double bedrooms
may also be available for students at a lower cost.)
Peter Rivera-Gonzalez, Lake Forest’s director of
residence life, has been working on communication, programming, and security issues with the
hostel, which previously housed 100 Columbia
College students. He also will hire a full-time resident director who, along with a student resident
assistant, will support the students and sponsor
field trips and other social activities.
The opportunity to take engaging coursework,
intern at top Chicago companies, and live right
downtown “is an interesting way of having a
‘study abroad’ program, but not so far away, in
a world-class city that’s got everything to offer,”
Rivera-Gonzalez said.
Based on his own 10 weeks as a city dweller, Alex
Gilbert thinks students in the Lake Forest College in
the Loop program will find it a big departure from
living in Lake Forest. “It opened my eyes to the
city,” said Gilbert. “I saw it in a way I hadn’t seen
it before.”
First-year students in Professor Cynthia Hahn’s
Globalization and Cultural Encounters course visit
Chinatown on a class trip.
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1952
1 Frank Mohr had the catch of
a lifetime this summer: a 54½inch musky caught on a Hayward,
Wis., lake while vacationing with
his wife, Life Trustee Jean Whyte
Mohr ’52.
1955
Gail Olson Folkers reports she still
works as an appraiser and auction
services professional at Dale Folkers
Auction Service in Elkhorn, Wis.
1956
2 In June, Sig Gissler and his
wife, Mary, took a 10-day driving
trip through the west of Ireland.
He writes, “We loved the green
valleys, the tidy towns, the stone
fences, the cordial B&B culture, the
tasty dishes, even the sheep in the
road.” They are pictured in front of
Ashford Castle.
1964
3 Charlie Mitchell (left)
and Tom Collett ’78 joined
16 other golfers in the "100 Holes
for Hope" challenge in Eden Prairie,
Minn., in June. They played in
support of Peace House Africa, a
boarding school for orphans and
vulnerable children in Tanzania.
Charlie and Tom invite all
Foresters to visit the website
www.peacehouseafrica.org
for more information.
{1973}
Phi Beta Kappa member and Olympic swimmer Diana Nyad
was recently featured in the New York Times and on Good Morning America for her plans to swim from Cuba to the U.S. without a shark cage.
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2
3
Siri Beckman finished a job
as artist-in-residence at Gould
Academy in Bethel, Maine, just in
time to prepare for a residency at
the Grand Canyon National Park.
She invites you to visit her website
at www.siribeckman.com.
1966
Marc Apter of Annapolis, Md.,
recently retired from St. Mary's
College of Maryland, where he was
vice president of public relations for
the last 10 years, and has since
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5
opened Image Power Inc., a PR and
marketing consultancy. He “enjoys
the additional time” with his three
grandchildren, Ben (3 months),
George (2 years), and Henry (4
years, pictured with Marc).
Barbara Rich Dick at last has a
new job as gallery director for the
Franklin Street Arts Collective in
Chapel Hill, NC. She welcomes
photos and notes on the alumni
website: forestersforever.com.
1968
John Posniak, of Alexandria, Va.,
after four decades as a federal
law librarian, retired in 2004 and
is now traveling and translating
at international conferences and
classes in Europe.
Jean Baur has just published a
new book titled Eliminated!
Now What? Finding Your Way
from Job-Loss Crisis to Career
Resilience. You can reach Jean
at www.jeanbaur.com.
1969
5 Mary Camper-Titsingh of
Roosevelt Island, NY, a retired
librarian, has published The Man
Who Kow-Towed, a historical novel
about her ancestor Isaac Titsingh,
who opened the doors for the
Dutch East Indies Company to
trade with several Asian ports in
the 18th century. You may reach
her via her publisher:
www.petruscamper.com/titsingh.
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6 Lake Foresters Carl MaultsBy,
Suzanne Zuckermann Werner '69,
and Juliet and Stanley Wolf '69
gathered for the 25th anniversary
season finale of MaultsBy's
Rejoicensemble in June 2010, at
the Church of St. Mark, Brooklyn,
NY. Also in attendance, but not
pictured, was Louis Meyi '69.
Jay Ukena of Wadsworth, Ill.,
was elected Circuit Court Judge in
Lake County, Ill., in 2008. He is
pictured with his son Matthew ’03,
wife, Karen, and son Mark on the
day of his installation.
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Suzanne Zuckerman Werner
has just published the book
Snapshots, an account of
living with her husband Dave’s
depression and suicide. The book
is available on Amazon.com.
1970
In May, George M. Goodwin
received an honorary doctorate
from Hebrew Union College, the
Reform Jewish seminary in Los
Angeles, in recognition of
his scholarly studies of American
Jewish history.
Timothy Sheard has published a
new novel, his fourth, titled Slim
to None: A Lenny Moss Mystery.
1972
Mark Hertzberg, director
of photography with The
Journal Times of Racine, Wis.,
ran into Hasan Hakeem ‘73
(pictured) while on assignment
at an immigration rights rally
in Kenosha, Wis., where he is
Chaplain at the Kenosha County
Jail. (Photo by Mark Hertzberg ©
The Journal Times)
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{ Class Notes }
9
1978
10
11
Howard Fredric Molen, of
Mamaroneck, NY, invites fellow
alumni when in New York to
“drop me a shout out.” He can be
reached at 914-698-6363.
1979
Rita Garry cheered on her
husband, Jack Garry ’79, as he ran
his first marathon, on Cape Cod in
October.
1980
Douglas Doolittle writes that
the semi-annual “George's East
Extravaganza” was celebrated this
year at his home. Pictured from left:
Richard Thompson '80, Lindsay
Brown '81, William Oelsner '79,
Seymour Knox '78, Doug
Doolittle '80, Larry Corning '79,
William Picoli '78, and James
Hettrick '80.
9
James Moeller of Washington,
D.C., has written a book of essays
titled Public Works & Potomac River
Pollution: The New Deal and the
Blue Plaines Advanced Wastewater
Treatment Plant. It’s available at
www.apwa.net/bookstore.
1988
Courtney Doherty Wright’s
company, CDW Merchants,
was awarded #968 on the Inc
500/5000 annual list of Fastest
Growing Privately Held Companies
in America.
1992
John R. Stieper III is Director of
Education at The Cove School in
Northbrook, Ill., where, he says,
“all of our students are given a
unique opportunity to shine in a
very special place.”
1993
1995
Stephen Vignocchi, the College’s
associate archivist, pulled many of
the photos for the documentary
Make No Little Plans: Daniel
Burnham and the American City,
which aired on PBS in Chicago on
Labor Day. The photos are part of a
large collection of historical photos
donated by Ted Bennett III '71
and Marcia O. Bennett.
Chicago designer Nate Berkus
premiered his new show, The
Nate Berkus Show, nationwide in
September.
1994
1996
Allan “Al” Van Deweghe writes
that he is currently serving in
Afghanistan for the U.S. Navy.
10 Renée Stephenson Reiling
married Robert Reiling on
September 4, 2010. Renée and
Margaret Bruha married Georg
Huber in April 2010. They
honeymooned throughout Portugal
and Germany, and now live in
Gurnee, Ill.
Rob reside in Park Ridge, Ill., and
are enjoying married life after
being together for over seven
years!
1997
11 Kimberly Leniek Zielinski
and Max Zielinski ’96 are proud
to announce the birth of their
second child, Madeline Marie,
on December 19, 2009, and that
3-year-old Alexander enjoys being
a big brother.
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1998
Jeremy Hartley married a
classmate from Columbia
journalism school in June and is
working as an editor for Dow Jones
Newswires' Greater China Desk
in Hong Kong, where he handles
copy from reporters in Beijing,
Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei.
2000
12 Elizabeth Liebschutz-Roettger
and Bart Roettger were married
on March 14, 2009. Pictured
are: Samantha Holdridge '00,
Diana Forman Campbell '00,
Melissa Glynn Varlioglu '00,
Natalie Hartung Domaleski '00,
Derek Domaleski ‘99, the
bride and groom, Deena Hartley
McCauley '01, Ann Liebschutz '97,
Emily Holmes Nordstrom '99,
Katarina Soderstrom '98,
and Goran Skosples '00 (not
pictured, Admissions Officer Andy
Campbell). In June 2010, the
couple welcomed Future Forester
David "Davis" Grayson Roettger
into their family.
Evan Jackson writes that he
and Tristan Brandon ‘03, Mark
Dryfoos ‘01, Marija Kovacevic
‘01, and Lenny Wahlberg ‘02,
who together comprise the board
of directors of Idle Muse Theatre
Company, completed a production
of “Sherlock Holmes: The Final
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Adventure in Chicago,” which
was awarded "Recommended"
status by the Joseph Jefferson
Committee.
Josh Molton of Chicago is
showing his artwork at Zia Gallery
from Dec. 17 through Jan. 29. If
you can’t make it to the show, Josh
hopes you check out his work at:
www.ziagallery.net/artists.
Michael Richardson and
Shannon Sobieski Richardson
'01 welcomed their son William
Robert Brosnan to the world on
November 19, 2009.
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2001
Tracey Dralle and her husband,
Dan Drees, are happy to
announce the birth of their
second son, Austin Paul Drees,
on September 24. He joins his big
brother, Brandon (2½ years).
2002
Kyle Eichenberger
and Kelly Murray
welcomed Colwyn Murray
Eichenberger to the world
on July 29. Also, Kyle ran his
second Chicago marathon
on October 10.
In August,
Jenna Hammerich
graduated with an MFA from
the University of Iowa's
Nonfiction Writing Program.
Neil R. Nicholson has been
named assistant professor of
mathematics at North Central
College in Naperville, Ill. His
research interests include topology
and knot theory and their
relationships to graph theory and
lattice points.
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2003
Kara Schonrank Adams returned
to the College in September to be
the new annual giving officer in
the Department of Development
and Alumni Relations.
2004
15 Dan Berry is stationed in Basra,
Iraq, in a cavalry scout unit. He
recently was part of a mission that
escorted about a dozen American
dignitaries in Basra to the grand
opening of the Basra Children’s
Cancer Hospital.
2006
American Studies classes while on
campus in September.
2007
17 Janelle Balcerzak and Brian
Grochowski were married on
June 26 in Milwaukee, Wis. Guests
included bridesmaid Kendra
Casey '07, DeAnna Bauer '05,
Kevin Jarvis ‘08, Jenna Harper
'04, Stephanie Metzger '04,
Beth Pier, and Karen Hermann.
2008
2009
Charlie Alves is currently on tour
as the head video engineer for the
brand new first national tour of
“Blue Man Group.”
18 Sarah Monroe and John Joyce
were married on July 24, 2010,
at St. John's Lutheran Church in
Wilmette. Elina Dilmukhametova
'08 was one of the bridesmaids
and Sarah’s sons, John and David
Barriger (pictured with Sarah), were
ring bearers. Sarah gave birth to
Gavin Leslie Joyce on August 23,
2010. The happy family resides in
Wilmette, Ill.
Grizell Gonzalez Toledo and
David Toledo, from Highwood
Ill., were married on July 12, 2009,
and are proud to announce the
birth of their daughter, Olivia, who
was born on July 7, 2010, in Lake
Forest.
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16 Alexandra Haynes and
Michael Sollberger '08 were
married in Kentucky on August 7.
The couple, who met in Professor
Robert Holliday's spring 2005
computer science class, now lives
in Washington, D.C., where Alex
works for the federal government
and Michael works for the World
Bank. Other Lake Forest alums
at the wedding included Jacob
Sollberger ‘08, Meredith Roholt
Shaffer ‘05, and Mario Atteo
‘08.
Sharon Richter has co-founded
Wonder Years Centre of Excellence,
which provides educational and
economic opportunities for people
in The Gambia. Sharon shared her
story with students in two African
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{ In Memoriam }
Virginia F. Frederick MLS’99
Lake Forest, Illinois
May 31, 2010
Richard G. Wilton ’56
Libertyville, Illinois
July 26, 2010
1930s
John J. Whipple ’57
Ft. Worth, Texas
July 24, 2010
Paul G. Lavery ’35
Palos Heights, Illinois
August 24, 2010
Wellington S. Smith ’36
Joliet, Illinois
July 2, 2010
1940s
John J. Rouser ’40
Brighton, Michigan
May 20, 2010
Betty A. Webster ’47
Chicago, Illinois
September 4, 2010
Robert G. Ericksen’48
New Glarus, Wisconsin
August 7, 2010
Hans J. Zwang ’48
Coalinga, California
July 19, 2010
H. John Beglen ’49
Sonoma, California
April 28, 2010
Patrick H. Moran ’49
Brookville, Ohio
June 12, 2010
1950s
Dan’l H. Brush ’51
Wilmette, Illinois
September 12, 2010
Roy A. Moller ’51
Northbrook, Illinois
August 14, 2010
Dietrich C. Bauer ’53
Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
August 7, 2010
Gerald A. Parker ’54
Phelps, Wisconsin
August 12, 2010
Frederick D. Montgomery ’56
St. Charles, Illinois
May 23, 2010
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Friends of
the College
John T. Bucklin ’58
Prospect Heights, Illinois
July 26, 2010
Charles C. Walther ’58
Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin
May 27, 2010
Scott Welford ’58
Mishawaka, Indiana
August 14, 2010
1960s
Judith Fremd Pyle ’63
Norcross, Georgia
May 29, 2010
Miriam Stone Schoenberg ’63
Highland Park, Illinois
June 20, 2010
Dale Coe Schultz ’68
Kenilworth, Illinois
May 2, 2010
1970s
Charles S. Collins ’72
July 9, 2010
Marcie Fisher O’Neill ’75
Stamford, Vermont
July 1, 2010
Richard F. Schwermin ’78
Wheeling, Illinois
July 3, 2010
2000s
Allaina L. Wilson ’03
Portland, Oregon
May 4, 2010
Robin Fox Radzik ’05
Mooseheart, Illinois
June 14, 2010
Frank Farwell
November 21, 2010
Frank Farwell, 88, a devoted
trustee and supporter of Lake
Forest College for more than
half a century, died November
21. He was raised in Lake
Forest, where the Farwell
family has longstanding ties to
the community and the College.
His great-grandfather, John V.
Farwell, and great-great-uncle,
Charles B. Farwell, were two of
Lake Forest’s earliest residents,
and Charles served as the College’s Board Chairman from
1890-1896. Frank first joined
the College’s Board of Trustees
in 1958 and was named a Life
Trustee in 1989.
A 1944 graduate of Yale University, Frank married Jean (Campbell) Farwell just days before
he left for military service as a
First Lieutenant in the Army Air
Corps during World War II. After
the war, the Farwells had four
children: Marion Farwell; Susan
(Farwell) Houston; Edith Farwell;
and Francis C. Farwell, III. Jean
Farwell died in 1999.
A partner for 50 years with
William Blair in Chicago, from
which he retired in 2006, Frank
actively maintained his family tradition of civic service to
the Lake Forest community. He
served as Lake Forest Mayor
from 1984-1987, and his tenure saw the launch of CROYA,
the acquisition of the Ragdale
Foundation property, and the
revamping of Lake Forest's Lake
Michigan shoreline. Frank also
served as President of Lake Forest Open Lands, Commissioner
and Chairman of the Illinois
Nature Preserves Commission,
and as a member of Lake Forest's Market Square Committee,
which oversaw the rehabilitation
of Market Square.
Greatly interested in the
College’s students and their
success, he will be deeply
missed by the entire College
community.
Frederick Morgan “Buzz”
Taylor Jr.
October 29, 2010
Frederick Morgan “Buzz” Taylor Jr., 79, a devoted supporter
of Lake Forest College, died
October 29 at his home in Hobe
Sound, Florida. He was a retired
chairman of Aqua-Vac Systems,
a manufacturer of robotic poolcleaning equipment in West
Palm Beach.
As a young man, Buzz excelled
at sports and attended Princeton University on a scholarship.
He was an All-American defensive back at Princeton and his
ability in track and field almost
took him to the 1952 Olympics.
He also was a longtime volunteer with the United States Golf
Association and served as USGA
president in 1998 and 1999.
Buzz, whose name is memorialized on the F. Morgan “Buzz”
Taylor Track that circles the
interior of Lake Forest College’s
new Sports & Recreation Center,
was the husband of trustee Barbara Olin Taylor. In addition to
Barbara, he is survived by four
sons, Frederick Morgan Taylor
III, John F. Taylor, Spencer O.
Taylor, James W. Taylor, and their
respective families.
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