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Homecoming 2008
A Fellowship in Learning
Celebrate Kalamazoo College's tradition of a "fellowship in learning" at Homecoming 2008 with various activities designed to reconnect you with faculty, students, and new campus initiatives.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Add a Bonus Day to your Homecoming Weekend!
8:00 pm
Study Abroad 50th Anniversary Celebration
Stetson Chapel

Kalamazoo College's tradition of excellence includes a respected study abroad program, where students become "at home in the world." Alumni remember this experience as one of the most transforming of their lives, reflected today in a lifelong love of travel and often partnership with the Peace Corps. Tonight's program launches "K's" golden anniversary of study abroad, featuring guest speaker, Dr. Josephine K. "Jody" Olsen, Deputy Director, Peace Corps. For more information about Dr. Olsen and a list of additional study abroad celebrations throughout Homecoming Weekend, visit www.kzoo.edu/aluminfo/SA08.html.

Friday, October 24, 2008

10:50 am – 11:40 am
50th Anniversary of Study Abroad Convocation
Stetson Chapel

Join faculty, staff, and students for reflections on “K’s” 50 years of Study Abroad.  Dr. Josephine K. “Jody” Olsen, Deputy Director, Peace Corps will give the Convocation address:  “Study Abroad and a Global Citzenry.”  Special guests include our visiting study abroad resident directors, Andre Heintz, Sheila Klaber-Mendoza, Anne von Thaden-Schmidt, Franz Rexhausen, Alison Kreuzer, Maurice Faure, Wenda Focke, and Ian Fairnie. To learn more about the emeriti foreign study resident directors, click here.



5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Farms to K Social
Nelda K. Balch Playhouse Lobby

Enjoy local food, as you learn from faculty, staff, and students about Farms to K, our campus local foods initiative fostering service-learning and sustainability since 2005. For more information visit http://www.kzoo.edu/farmstok/. For more information on the panelists, click here.

7:30 pm
Alumni Awards Ceremony and Dessert Reception
Dalton Theatre, with reception in Lobby, Light Fine Arts Building

Distinguished Achievement Award - Harold Decker '67
Distinguished Service Award - Amy Courter '83
Weimer K. Hicks Award - Marigene Arnold, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Sociology
Athletic Hall of Fame Awards - Andy Bradford '90, Sean Mullendore '93,
David Curren '78, the 1956 Men's Tennis Team, and the 1990 Women's Soccer Team.

Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Gotta Get a Guild!
Guilds Event
Dewing Hall 103

Get "Guild-ed" this Homecoming Weekend. Launched in January 2008, the four charter Guilds (Business, Health, Justice and Peace, and Sustainability) have enjoyed early success. Opportunities abound for on-campus and on-line involvement. Add your expertise to the growing Guild networks around business, health, justice and peace, and sustainability, by becoming a member during this interactive session featuring comments by current student and alumni Guild members. If you're already a Guild member, bring a friend who's not yet enrolled! For more information, visit guilds.kzoo.edu.

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Additional Event to be announced!
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Department Coffee with Current and Retired Faculty and Staff
Arcus Atrium, Weimer K. Hicks Center

Visit with current faculty and staff, as well as your favorite professors from days-gone-by.

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Cultural Psychology of Arab Muslim Societies
With Dr. Gary Gregg, Professor of Psychology
Upjohn Library Commons Room 311

Gregg has published numerous book chapters and articles based on the subjects of cultural and social psychology.  Most noted is the scholarly work that serves as the basis for his two recent books:  The Middle East:  A Cultural Psychology and Culture and Identity in a Muslim Society.  In true Kalamazoo College fashion, Gregg lived in Morocco and Egypt for periods of time totaling five years in order to conduct the research.  Gregg is the recipient of the 2008 Florence J. Lucasse Fellowship Award.  This award recognizes outstanding achievement in creative work, research, or publication, and is in honor of Florence J. Lucasse, Class of 1910.    It is made in recognition of her long and distinguished career as a teacher.



3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
College Update with President Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran
Dalton Theatre, Light Fine Arts Building

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
A Primer on the Financial Crisis
With the Department of Economics and Business
Dewing Hall 103

We are in the middle of a global credit crisis.  Please join Dr. Patrik Hultberg, Dr. Ahmed Hussen, Dr. Hannah McKinney, and Professor Charles “Chuck” Stull, Department of Economics and Business, for a panel session.  A brief introduction to the current financial situation will be presented, followed by a Q&A session.