The root meaning of philanthropy is love of humankind, and it is philanthropy that will power the entire operation of Kalamazoo College from this April 6 to the end of the term. That day, Tuition Freedom Day, marks an important divide in the funding of the Kalamazoo College learning experience. In any given academic year, the costs of all that has transpired before Tuition Freedom Day were covered by tuition; what comes after is covered by gifts to Kalamazoo College.
Tuition covers about 76 percent of the costs of a K education, according to Laurel Palmer, director of the Kalamazoo College Fund. “Tuition Freedom Day is a symbolic day marking the point in the academic year when tuition stops paying for a student’s education and support from donors takes over.” Even more important, the day “is an annual gratitude event to celebrate K’s generous donors,” added Laurel. “Their gifts make a K education possible.” During Kalamazoo College’s last fiscal year, alumni, parents and friends of the College gave more than $2 million to the Kalamazoo College Fund.
On April 6, the College’s fifth annual Tuition Freedom Day, “our goal is to have students write 750 thank-you notes,” says Laurel, “which will be mailed to alumni, parents and friends who gave to the Kalamazoo College Fund in support of scholarships, faculty excellence and the College’s greatest needs.”
Kalamazoo College is Michigan’s 2016 Engaged Campus of the Year! Michigan Campus Compact (MiCC) recently announced K’s selection for the honor by a team of national reviewers at MiCC’s Awards Gala, held at Michigan State University’s Kellogg Center in East Lansing.
K students, faculty, administrators and community partners represented the College at the 2016 Michigan Campus Compact awards ceremony in Lansing.
The Engaged Campus of the Year Award recognizes an institution of higher education for exemplary commitment to the education of students for civic and social responsibility; genuine and sustained investment in community relationships; and a commitment to service learning and civic engagement opportunities for students across all disciplines.
In particular, the award is a tribute to the work of the College’s Center for Civic Engagement. Through service-learning courses and student-led programs, the CCE has engaged more than 5,500 K students in long-term, reciprocal partnerships to foster academic learning, critical problem-solving, and a lifetime of civic engagement while strengthening the community. “The students have worked with thousands of community residents, some 50 different organizations, and in more than 30 different community-based courses,” says CCE director Alison Geist.
K senior Mallory McClure ’16 accepted the Innovations in Community Impact award for K’s Swim for Success program.
Kalamazoo College also earned an MiCC Innovations in Community Impact award for its program Swim for Success (SFS). The Innovations Award recognizes creative and measurably effective approaches to community problem solving. SFS is a swimming program for local children that takes place on K’s campus three evenings a week. It is a partnership between K and the City of Kalamazoo led by Civic Engagement ScholarsKevin Ewing and Mallory McClure. More than 20 K students are involved as tutors or swim coaches in the program. Kevin and Mallory are both members of the college swim team and are also coaches in the SFS program. K students also provide tutoring onsite one hour before swimming lessons begin.
In addition, Susmitha Daggubati ’16 received MiCC’s 2016 Commitment to Service Award for students. The Commitment to Service Award recognizes outstanding students for their commitment to service. Students are chosen specifically for either the breadth or depth of their community involvement or their service experience(s) and the demonstration of meaningful reflection of those experiences.
K senior Susmitha Daggubati ’16 received the MCC’s 2016 “Commitment to Service” award.
Michigan Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university presidents who are committed to fulfilling the public purpose of higher education. The organization promotes the education and commitment of Michigan college students to be engaged citizens.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that four Kalamazoo College alumni have been awarded 2016 Graduate Research Fellowships. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. GRFP fellows are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
The four K alums are Amanda Mancini ’14, Jared Grimmer ’15, Patricia Garay ’11 and Monika Egerer ’13. Mancini, Grimmer and Egerer majored in biology at K, Garay majored in chemistry. For the 2016 competition, NSF received close to 17,000 applications, and made 2,000 award offers. Mancini will focus her research in biological anthropology, Grimmer and Egerer work in the area of ecology, and Garay conducts her explorations in the neurosciences. All four studied abroad at K and in different countries–Mancini in Ecuador, Grimmer in Spain, Garay in Costa Rica, and Egerer in Thailand. Congratulations, Hornet science graduate students!
National Science Foundation 2016 fellowship grants will support the graduate school research of four K alumni in ecology, neurosciences and biological anthropology.
Congratulations to the following Kalamazoo College students, who achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or better for a full-time course load of at least three units, without failing or withdrawing from any course, during the Winter 2016 academic term. Students who elect to take a letter-graded course on a credit/no credit basis (CR/NC) are not eligible for Dean’s List consideration during that term. Nor are students who receive an F, NC or W grade for that particular term. Students with incomplete (I) or in-progress (IP) grades will be considered for Dean’s List upon receipt of the final grades. Dean’s List recognition is posted on students’ transcripts. Kudos to the entire group of more than 400 students, and good luck in Spring Term, 2016.
Kelsey Adamski
Michelle Alba
Allegra Allgeier
Luis Alves-Diniz
Suma Alzouhayli
Steven Andrews
Ryan Andrusz
William Angus
Elizabeth Arellano
Lauren Arquette
Meredith Ashton
Max Aulbach
Juan Avila
Alberto Ayala
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Dalbyeol Bae
Jennifer Bageris
Sonal Bahl
John Bailey
Katherine Ballew
Julia Bartlett
William Bartz
Jade Beauregard
Hayley Beltz
Katherine Bennett
Hannah Berger
Madelyn Betts
Kevin Bhimani
Sean Bogue
Serena Bonarski
Jacob Bonifacio
Maria Bonvicini
Kennedy Boulton
Jonathan Bowman
Riley Boyd
Emily Boyle
Erin Brown
Heather Brown
Molly Brueger
Thomas Bryant
Andrew Buchholtz
Hayley Buckhout
Matthew Burczyk
Janice Burnett
Mary Burnett
Erin Butler
Thaddeus Buttrey
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Francisco Cabrera
Alexander Cadigan
Robert Calco
Abigail Calef
Mackenzie Callahan
Kalyn Campbell
Dorothy Carpenter
Charles Carson
Katherine Cebelak
Rachel Chang
Ansh Chaudhary
Sirui Chen
Tapiwa Chikungwa
Belinda Chipayi
Heeseong Cho
Jennifer Cho
Youngjoon Cho
Kanwal Chowdhury
Joseph Cleary
Christopher Coburn
Annaliese Collier
Cody Colvin
Margot Couraud
Dejah Crystal
Brian Cunningham-Rhoads
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Sejal Dahiya
Connor Dalton
Christina Dandar
Elan Dantus
Justin Danzy
Roger Darling
Natalie Davenport
Steven Davis
Kathryn Davis
Ximena Davis
Robert Davis
Kevin Davison
Sophia Davis-Rodak
Hadiya Deas-Richberg
Ricardo DelOlmo-Parrado
Clare DeLong
Samir Deshpande
Green Dickenson
Anthony Diep
Margaret Doele
Miranda Doepker
Mikayla Doepker
Guillermo Dominguez-Garcia
Amelia Donohoe
Rachel Dranoff
Kellie Dugan
Elizabeth Dulski
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Emma Eisenbeis
Rachel Ellis
Ian Engstrom
Melissa Erikson
McKinzie Ervin
Michelle Escobar
Lucas Eshuis
Amanda Esler
Andriana Evangelista
Angelia Evangelista
Fiona Evans
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Alex Fairhall
Jessie Fales
Michael Faust
Maria Feijoo
Leah Finelli
Marie Fiori
George Fishback
Natalie Fisher
Matthew Fitz
Emily Fletcher
Joshua Foley
Delaney Fordell
Hannah Frame
Christopher Francis
Rachel Frank
Ian Freshwater
Maria Fujii
Lydia Fyie
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Owen Galvin
Joana Garcia
Marlytt Garrido
Brett Garwood
Charlotte Gavin
Sarah George
Carina Ghafari
Camille Giacobone
Sarah Glass
Samantha Gleason
Abhay Goel
Gil Gonzalez
Emily Good
Monica Gorgas
Emma Gougeon
Konah Gourlay
Natalie Gratsch
Andre Grayson
Lydia Green
Claire Greening
Ellie Grossman
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Kyle Hahn
Griffin Hamel
Maverick Hanson-Meier
Eric Hart
Kelly Haugland
Evan Hayden
Mara Hazen
Stephanie Heard
Kaiya Herman-Hilker
Yessica Hernandez
Kyle Hernandez
Moises Hernandez
Mitchel Herr
Jamie Heywood
Sophie Higdon
Adelaide Hilarides
Megan Hoinville
Daniel Holtzman
Roger Hood
Meghan Horal
Logan Horejsi
Daniel Horwitz
Elise Houcek
Claire Howland
Pornkamol Huang
Robert Hudson
Patricia Hunter
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Sadie Jackson
Jaehoon Jang
Eric Janowiak
Dongkeun Jeon
Kourtney Johnson
Emily Johnston
Joseph Jolly
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Claire Kalina
Kamalaldin Kamalaldin
Sharat Kamath
Amira Kamoo
Elyse Kaplan
Spencer Kennedy
Christina Keramidas
Khin Oo Khin
Benjamin Kileen
Min Kim
YoungHoon Kim
Andrew Kim
David Kim
Dahwi Kim
Savannah Kinchen
William Kirchen
Sai Klein
Hannah Kline
Emily Kozal
Katherine Kreiss
Emma Kristal
Hannah Kruger
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Lauren Landman
Robyn Lane
Madeline Lauver
Phuong Le
Stefan Leclerc
Joo Lee
Madeline LeVasseur
Kelsi Levine
Yishi Li
Hyunyn Lim
Xiang Lin
Kate Liska
Sara Lonsberry
Brandon Lopez
Chenxi Lu
Nicholas Ludka
Riley Lundquist
Liam Lundy
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Alicia Madgwick
Megan Malish
Sarah Manski
Nicholas Marsh
Cydney Martell
Elizabeth Martin
Sophia Martin
William Marx
Madison McBarnes
Nicolas McCabe
Eliza McCall
Belinda McCauley
Mallory McClure
Alexander McDonell
Abigail McDonough
Miles McDowall
Ian McKnight
Molly Meddock
Jordan Meiller
Molly Merkel
Lucy Merrill
Franklin Meyer
Samuel Meyers
Joshua Miller
Zach Miller
Christopher Monsour
Jacob Mooradian
Madison Moote
Diana Morales-Perez
Aliera Morasch
Blanca Moreno
Chloe Mpinga
Emma Mullenax
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Olivia Nalugya
Jacob Naranjo
Laetitia Ndiaye
Annie Nelson
Phuong Nguyen
Hung Nguyen
Naori Nishimura
Rosemarie Nocita
Skyler Norgaard
Mackenzie Norman
Brooke Nosanchuk
Andrew Novetsky
Fernando Nunez
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Emi Okamoto
Josiah Olah
Colleen Orwin
Alexandria Oswalt
Ty Owens
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Dylan Padget
Dana Page
Nirmita Palakodaty
Anthony Palleschi
James Paprocki
Jisung Park
Kayla Park
Arju Patel
Khusbu Patel
Elizabeth Penix
Marlisa Pennington
Jessica Penny
Madison Perian
Lauren Perlaki
Emma Peters
Miranda Petersen
Caroline Peterson
Julia Petroff
Katherine Pielemeier
Julia Plomer
Sarah Pobuda
Henry Pointon
Maren Prophit
Erika Pueblo
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Yuanyang Qu
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Arianna Raemont
Samantha Ramsay
Farzad Razi
Joshua Reuter
Sydney Riddick
Sep’tisha Riley
Megan Riley
Cecilia Ringo
Benjamin Rivera
Skylar Rizzolo
Sophie Roberts
William Roberts
Madeleine Roberts
Scott Roberts
Marion Robin
Lilia Robins
Jakob Rodseth
Anna Roodbergen
Justin Roop
Peter Rossi
Jeremy Roth
Stefanie Roudebush
Wendy Rubio
Timothy Rutledge
Keigan Ryckman
Matthew Ryder
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Rumsha Sajid
Amber Salome
Tanush Samson
Garrett Sander
Christa Scheck
Anselm Scheck
Katharine Scheck
Maison Scheuer
Ashley Schiffer
Ashley Schmidt
Cameron Schneberger
Grady Schneider
Eleanor Schodowski
Aaron Schwark
Jacob Scott
Aunye Scott-Anderson
Madalyn Seveska
Sharif Shaker
Yu Shang
Chase Shelbourne
Sonam Shrestha
Brandon Siedlaczek
Kaylah Simmons
Danielle Simon
Mantar Singh
Alexander Sitner
Claire Slaughter
Margaret Smith
Benjamin Smith
Grace Smith
Alexandra Smith
Bailey Smith
Octavia Smith
Austin Smith
Logan Smith
Erin Smith
Meagan Soffin
Cassandra Solis
Mariam Souweidane
Federico Spalletti
Sophia Spencer
Quintin Sproull
Evan Stark-Dykema
Alex Stosur-Bassett
Matera Stuart
Thomas Stuut
Michelle Sugimoto
Xin Sui
Kyle Sunden
Maya Sykes
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Lily Talmers
Kiyoto Tanemura
Abigail Taylor
Audrey Thomas
Derek Thomas
Natalie Thompson
Mateo Tobar
Jane Toll
Alayna Tomlinson
Carolyn Topper
Camila Trefftz
Kelly Treharne
Minhkhang Truong
Ngoc Truong
Lydia Turke
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Kaela Van Til
David Vanderkloot
Zachary VanFaussien
Elisia Venegas
Julia Villarreal
Connor Vogt
Anh-Tu Vu
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Raoul Wadhwa
Evelyn Wagner
Brigid Walkowski
Sarah Wallace
Maya Wanner
Mary Warner
William Warpinski
Jacob Wasko
Connor Webb
Ailih Weeldreyer
John Wehr
Cameron Werner
Caitlyn Whitcomb
Zachary White
Alex White
Joshua Whitney
Hans Wieland
Carolyn Williams
Natalia Wohletz
Sarah Woods
Madeline Woods
Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. Christa Scheck ’17 won third prize for her speech, “Translating Japanese Into English: the Problems of Literal Translation.” Senior Jamie Heywood took home the Consulate General Prize for her presentation, “Experiences of a Homosexual.” And junior Ke Sheng was cited with an honorable mention for his speech, “Japanese Cellphones.” K’s participation this year was marked by two firsts: the first time in K’s history a student placed in the top three; the first time K students won multiple prizes in the same year, taking three of the total of five! Pictured are (l-r): front row–Yilang Qiu ’18, Jie Xu ’17, and visiting international student Naori Nishimura; back row–Assistant Professor of Japanese Noriko Sugimori, Ke Sheng, Crista Scheck, Jamie Heywood and Consul General Mitsuhiro Wada. This contest is organized by the Japanese Consulate General of Japan in Detroit and is sponsored by, among others, Delta Air Lines, the Japan Business Society of Detroit and the Japan Foundation.
Kalamazoo College honored 32 soon-to-graduate students with its prestigious Senior Leadership Recognition Award. During the course of the last four years these individuals have distinguished themselves as athletes, student workers, admission volunteers, resident assistants, civic engagement scholars, social justice advocates, teaching assistants, artists, writers, musicians, LandSea leaders, tutors, mentors, translators, lab assistants, officers and members of student organizations, departmental student advisors and research assistants. They have made Kalamazoo College a better place for all. They have, in the words of one nominator, “bridged worlds and forged connections” with their particular gifts and shared love of humankind. Pictured are (l-r): first row–Victoria Orsorio, Lizbeth Mendoza Pineda, Samantha Luna, Shannon Haupt, Yessica Hernandez, Elizabeth Fiator; second row–Honey Sumon (not an awardee herself, but a close friend and guest of one of the recipients), Susmitha Daggubati, Kelly Trehorne, Victoria Najacht; third row–Pornkamol Huang, Elizabeth Tyburski, Chloe Mpinga, Alexis Martin-Browne, Kelsey Adamski; fourth row–Immanuel Greene, Sarah Woods, Hadley Harrison; fifth row–Elizabeth Lenning, McKenna Bramble, Katherine Clark, Francisco Cabrera, Natalie Davenport; sixth row–Daria Lewis, Takumi Matsuzawa; back row–Nana-Yaw Aikins, Olivia Cares, Robert Hudson, and Justin Danzy. Not pictured are Michael Allen, Kevin Ewing, Mallika Mitra, and Lauren Seroka. (Photo by Tony Dugal)
Hornet volleyball alumna Bridgett Blough’s Tom Pesto Melt, with the Organic Gypsy truck in the background
Bees and their honey have nothing over this Hornet and her spud.
Bridgett Blough ’08 grew up in a farming community in rural Coloma Township in Michigan eating potatoes with most every meal. Good locally-grown food was a staple on her mama’s table.
On January 12, Blough took her love of potatoes to the Spud Nation Throwdown at the Potato Expo 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she won the prize for the best potato recipe by a food truck chef. Blough is the owner of The Organic Gypsy, a food truck and catering business in Kalamazoo and Portage. She also teaches yoga at K.
When Blough began her education at Kalamazoo College, she was drawn to a first-year seminar taught by Amelia Katanski, associate professor of English. The seminar was called “Commitments,” and it was there that she says she learned about the commitment farmers make to their land and to the people who eat their produce.
“That first-year seminar tied it all together for me,” Blough says.
In the Spud Nation Throwdown, Blough prepared her entry on stage with two other finalists—Heather Banter, chef at Circle City Spuds in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Daniel McCarthy, chef at Tato Heads in Columbus, Ohio. Each contestant prepared his or her most creative and flavorful potato recipe. For Blough, that was her Green Tahini Potato Soup. She used Southwest Michigan-grown organic potatoes, onions, and garlic.
“This is about our local food system and how people like me are working with farmers to create healthy food, improving the local economy with each meal and working toward eliminating food waste,” Blough says.
Blough first prepared her special soup recipe for members of her SOUPer Club last fall. The SOUPer Club is a CSA (community supported agriculture) offered through The Organic Gypsy to a membership that includes faculty and staff at Kalamazoo College. Members receive a quart of homemade organic soup each week for six weeks for $65.
This week Sara Stack ’15 will break from her study of insects (she is working on a master’s degree in entomology at Purdue University) to travel to San Francisco and present a classics paper at the 2016 annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). From insects to classics!? Therein hangs a liberal arts tale, vintage Kalamazoo College.
Stack’s paper–“Princess, Prisoner, Queen: Searching for Identity and Agency in the Life of Kleopatra Selene”–is one of only four undergraduate research projects selected for presentation at the AIA meeting.
Selection was nation wide and very competitive,” said Senior Instructor in Classics Anne Haeckl. Stack wrote the paper for Professor Haeckl’s Junior Classics Seminar, which provided, said Stack, “an amazing opportunity to explore Selene’s life through the lens of intersectional feminism.”
Kleopatra Selene is one of history’s forgotten women, mentioned only marginally (if at all) in the history- and world-changing story of her famous parents, the Roman general Mark Antony and the last queen of Egypt, Kleopatra VII. Theirs was a story that crowded the stage of the entire Mediterranean world of their time, a story that has inspired countless historical and literary interpretations from Plutarch to Shakespeare to a recent bestseller biography by Stacy Schiff.
“I’ve always been very interested in history, particularly dynamic historical women,” said Stack, who majored in biology and religion. “Kleopatra VII has been a particular favorite of mine since childhood; my favorite book is a 1000-page novel called The Memoirs of Cleopatra. Because I’m so familiar with her mother, I’ve been aware of Selene for a long time, but I started to wonder about her as a historical figure in her own right.
“The most interesting part of my research was how strongly Selene’s political agenda and identity were influenced by the events of her childhood.”
After her parents’ defeat by Octavian (later the Roman emperor Augustus), Selene became Augustus’ prisoner and political pawn. He marched the 10-year-old girl in his Egyptian triumph through the streets of Rome as a symbol of her fallen dynasty and conquered nation. He gave her to his sister to raise and later arranged her marriage to Juba, king of Mauretania (today’s Algeria). “As the queen of Mauretania she very clearly identified herself as a Ptolemy (her mother’s royal house) and a Hellenized Egyptian queen,” said Stack. “She commissioned coins in her own right, not just in conjunction with her husband, and portrayed herself with the imagery and titles of her mother, Kleopatra VII. To me this indicates that she never forgot her heritage or her family, and used her power to maintain their legacy.”
Haeckl had equal praise for Stack’s research paper and for the liberal arts ethos from which it took wing. “At K we value the breadth and depth of academic course work and the Senior Individualized Project. It’s hard to find a more dynamic example of that than Sara, with her curiosity and hard work in biology, religion and classics.”
Stack’s biology SIP studied the effect of the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that kills ash trees, on the biodiversity of a family of beetles known as Carabidae. “I really enjoyed my SIP research, and it was ultimately what made me fall in love with entomology and got me into graduate school,” said Stack.
She obviously also enjoyed her classical research. “She unified and analyzed through a feminist lens the scattered corpus of ancient material culture and texts relating to Selene,” praised Haeckl, work that yielded a new and original understanding of Selene’s “increasingly empowered agency and self-identification as a North African queen.”
Haeckl also presented research at the AIA annual meeting. Her work posits a specific identity (the Emperor Caracella) of a painted limestone statuette depicting a falcon-headed human figure in the armor of a Roman imperator. Haeckl’s paper, “Caracalla as Birdman? Proposing an Imperial Identity for the British Museum’s ’Horus in Roman Military Costume,” explicates the iconography of the statue (Horus was the Egyptian falcon-god) in terms of both the public image Caracalla cultivated (as an ordinary Roman soldier and latter day Alexander the Great) and a specific visit Caracalla made to Alexandria in 215.
Theresa Tejada ’10 won the episode of the television show JEOPARDY! that aired on Tuesday, December 22. Her one-day winnings totaled $21,599. She defended her champion status, albeit unsuccessfully, the following day. Two episodes of Jeopardy seems a fitting tribute to a liberal arts education. On her championship day Theresa’s major in classics came in handy for the Final Jeopardy category: “The Ancient World.” The Final Jeopardy answer: “Dedicated to a female, it’s among the few of the seven ancient wonders whose ruins you can visit.” Theresa got the question: “What is the Temple of Artemis?” She even provided the location, Ephesus, the ancient Greek city that is today a part of Turkey. Perhaps Theresa’s study abroad in Athens came into play with that extra information. Theresa’s liberal arts breadth was on display and indispensable. In Double Jeopardy Theresa found the second Daily Double on the board in the category “Arts and Culture” under the $1,600 clue. At the time, she led the returning champion by $1,800. She bet $2,000 and won! The answer: “Because it has six units called iambs, the poetic line ’Thou art unseen but yet I hear thy shrill delight’ is in iambic this.” Theresa’s correct question: “What is hexameter?” Perhaps she had a literature class at K. Among other categories rewarding a liberal arts background on the day she won: Geographic Features, 8-Letter Words, Double Up On Your Countries, Oscar Nominations, and Christmas Songs and Singers.
Turns out Associate Professor of Classics Elizabeth Manwell managed to watch both shows. “Two really wonderful moments for me,” wrote Elizabeth. “Theresa won the game her first night on the show, in part by answering a final jeopardy question about the seven wonders of the ancient world—a topic she worked on for her Senior Individualized Project in the classics department. The other occurred the second night—-Theresa spoke of an influential Latin teacher, Steve Rosenquist, who taught her at Cranbrook, and who also taught for us for a couple of years. He died recently—-and hers was such a lovely tribute to him. She’s a super young woman!”
Congratulations to the following Kalamazoo College students, who achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or better for a full-time course load of at least three units, without failing or withdrawing from any course, during the Fall 2015 academic term. Students who elect to take a letter-graded course on a credit/no credit basis (CR/NC) are not eligible for Dean’s List consideration during that term. Nor are students who receive an F, NC or W grade for that particular term. Students with incomplete (I) or in-progress (IP) grades will be considered for Dean’s List upon receipt of the final grades. Dean’s List recognition is posted on students’ transcripts. Kudos to the entire group of nearly 350 students, and good luck in Winter Term, 2016.
Madison Adams
Tyler Allen
Allegra Allgeier
Steven Andrews
Lucas Arbulu
Elizabeth Arellano
Lauren Arquette
Meredith Ashton
Max Aulbach
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Dalbyeol Bae
Zoe Barnes
William Bartz
Jade Beauregard
Grace Beck
Hayley Beltz
Christian Benedict
Katherine Bennett
Hannah Berger
Kevin Bhimani
Abhjeet Bhullar
Zoey Blake-Mark
Allison Bloomfield
Sean Bogue
Jacob Bonifacio
Maria Bonvicini
Riley Boyd
Chancellor Boyer
Emily Boyle
Allie Brodsky
Erin Brown
Sarena Brown
Molly Brueger
Thomas Bryant
Hayley Buckhout
Matthew Burczyk
Janice Burnett
Mary Burnett
Erin Butler
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Alexander Cadigan
Mackenzie Callahan
Kalyn Campbell
Angel Caranna
Charles Carson
Lee Carter
Rachel Chang
Madeleine Chilcote
Emiline Chipman
Heeseong Cho
Qynce Chumley
Josefina Cibelli
Christopher Coburn
Kate Colebrook
MaryClare Colombo
Cody Colvin
Quinton Colwell
Dejah Crystal
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Steven Davis
Sophia Davis-Rodak
Hadiya Deas-Richberg
Joanna Dell’Olio
Ricardo DelOlmo-Parrado
Lynette Desjarlais
Kaitey Dettmann
Mikayla Doepker
Guillermo Dominguez Garcia
Amelia Donohoe
Johanna Drentlaw
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Meredith Edwards
Emma Eisenbeis
Tiffany Ellis
Anna Emenheiser
Rachel Epstein
Jonathon Ernest
McKinzie Ervin
Andriana Evangelista
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Alex Fairhall
Jessie Fales
Mario Ferrini
Elizabeth Fiator
Stephanie Finnern
Emily Fletcher
Delaney Fordell
Monet Foster
Maria Franco
Rachel Frank
Ian Freshwater
Maria Fujii
Lydia Fyie
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Owen Galvin
Brett Garwood
Charlotte Gavin
Sarah George
Joseph Giacalone
Camille Giacobone
Sarah Glass
Samantha Gleason
Beau Godkin
Abhay Goel
Emily Good
Monica Gorgas
Natalie Gratsch
Claire Greening
Jena Groshek
In Hye Gu
Caleb Gurd
David Gurrola
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Nora Harris
Hadley Harrison
Kelly Haugland
Mara Hazen
Kyle Hernandez
Natalie Hershenson
Samantha Hicks
Sophie Higdon
Adelaide Hilarides
Louis Hochster
Shelby Hopper
Meghan Horal
Andrew Horton
Taylor Horton
Daniel Horwitz
Elise Houcek
Claire Howland
Jason Hugan
Briana Huisken
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Dongkeun Jeon
YanYan Jiang
Katherine Johnson
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Claire Kalina
Kamalaldin Kamalaldin
Amira Kamoo
Kyle Kane
Elyse Kaplan
Gwendolen Keller
Samuel Kepes
Christina Keramidas
Benjamin Kileen
Sean Kill
Dahwi Kim
Min Soo Kim
Savannah Kinchen
Sai Klein
Hannah Kline
Julia Koreman
Katherine Kreiss
Julia Kresch
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Mackenzie Landman
Gabriela Latta
Madeline Lauver
Zachary LeBlanc
Da Bin Lee
Omar Leon
Sarah Levett
Hyunyn Lim
Gordon Liu
Giovanni LoGrasso
Sara Lonsberry
Brandon Lopez
Francisco Lopez Jr.
Jordan Loredo
Nicholas Ludka
Cameron Lund
Liam Lundy
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Alicia Madgwick
Eleftherios Manopoulos
Cydney Martell
Elizabeth Martin
Sophia Martin
Deziray Martinez
Takumi Matsuzawa
Kelsey Matthews
Madison McBarnes
Karly McCall
Belinda McCauley
Abigail McDonough
Ivy McKee
Daisy McLaughlin
Molly Meddock
Molly Merkel
Vanessa Merritt
Franklin Meyer
Hannah Meyers
Samuel Meyers
Shannon Milan
Taylor Miles
Sarafina Milianti
Myranda Miller
Sangtawun Miller
Suzanne Miller
Zach Miller
Jamie Misevich
Mallika Mitra
Ethel Mogilevsky
Jacob Mooradian
Alejandra Morales
Aidan Morley
Amanda Moss
Christopher Muir
Emma Mullenax
Justin Murshak
Nkatha Mwenda
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Harsha Nand
Jacob Naranjo
Laetitia Ndiaye
Hung Nguyen
Phuong Nguyen
Viet Nguyen
Lionel Niyongabire
Rosemarie Nocita
Skyler Norgaard
Mackenzie Norman
Brooke Nosanchuk
Andrew Novetsky
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Josiah Olah
Michael Oravetz
Eli Orenstein
Eli Orenstein
Colleen Orwin
Alexandria Oswalt
Ty Owens
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Nirmita Palakodaty
Maxwell Palese
James Paprocki
Kayla Park
Andrew Parsons
Arju Patel
Khusbu Patel
Kaeli Peach
Elizabeth Penix
Marlisa Pennington
Jessica Penny
Lauren Perlaki
Emma Peters
Caroline Peterson
Bradley Popiel
Tulani Pryor
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Yilan Qiu
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Arianna Raemont
Sydney Riddick
Cecilia Ringo
Skylar Rizzolo
Ramisa Rob
Scott Roberts
Lilia Robins
Megan Rochlitz
Katherine Rogers
Rebecca Rogers
Anna Roodbergen
Jeremy Roth
Timothy Rutledge
Keigan Ryckman
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Rumsha Sajid
Amber Salome
William Sargent
Mason Sarosi
Anselm Scheck
Christa Scheck
Katharine Scheck
Austen Scheer
Maison Scheuer
Ashley Schmidt
Eleanor Schodowski
Aaron Schwark
Madalyn Seveska
Ruhma Shahid
Sharif Shaker
Chase Shelbourne
Tianqi Shen
Ke Sheng
Muneeb Siddiqui
Sharon Situ
Austin Smith
Bailey Smith
Benjamin Smith
Erin Smith
Grace Smith
Logan Smith
Margaret Smith
Kathleen Sorensen
Federico Spalletti
Maya Srkalovic
Petra Stoppel
Ellen Stormont
Thomas Stuut
Mengxi Sun
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Lily Talmers
Abigail Taylor
Sophia Taylor-Havens
Ani Terterian
Audrey Thomas
Derek Thomas
Natalie Thompson
Noah Thornton
Carolyn Topper
Camila Trefftz
Kelly Treharne
Dakota Trinka
Sydney Troost
Lydia Turke
Elizabeth Tyburski
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Eva Ugelow
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Kaela Van Til
David Vanderkloot
Taylor VanWinkle
Travis Veenhuis
Elisia Venegas
Anh-Tu Vu
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Raoul Wadhwa
Evelyn Wagner
Jacob Waier
Sidney Wall
Timothy Walsh
Jacob Wasko
Micheal Watson
Connor Webb
Ailih Weeldreyer
John Wehr
Cameron Werner
Caitlyn Whitcomb
Alex White
Zachary White
Joshua Whitney
Hans Wieland
Raphael Wieland
Jordan Wiley
Carolyn Williams
Kiavanne Williams
Natalia Wohletz
Madeline Woods
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Mingyue Xu
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Kimberly Yang
Brent Yelton
Seo Ho Yi
Lily York
Adre Yusi
The root meaning of philanthropy is love of humankind, and it is philanthropy that will power the entire operation of Kalamazoo College from this April 6 to the end of the term. That day, Tuition Freedom Day, marks an important divide in the funding of the Kalamazoo College learning experience. In any given academic year, the costs of all that has transpired before Tuition Freedom Day were covered by tuition; what comes after is covered by gifts to Kalamazoo College.
tuition stops paying for a student’s education and support from donors takes over.” Even more important, the day “is an annual gratitude event to celebrate K’s generous donors,” added Laurel. “Their gifts make a K education possible.” During Kalamazoo College’s last fiscal year, alumni, parents and friends of the College gave more than $2 million to the Kalamazoo College Fund.
