Artman Elected to NAIA Council of Presidents
resident Rick Artman has been elected to represent the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) on the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Council of Presidents. Siena Heights athletic teams compete in the
NAIA as members of the WHAC. The Council of Presidents is the governing
body of the NAIA. Artman was elected to the Council by the chief executive officers of
WHAC member institutions and will serve a three-semester term, from August 1, 1999
through December 31, 2000.
Interim Director Named for Battle
Creek & Kalamazoo Centers
usan Strupulis ‘95 has been named interim director of the Siena Heights Kellogg Community
College Center in Battle Creek and the Siena
Heights Kalamazoo program. She replaces Zadie
Jackson, who had served as center director since the
Battle Creek program was established in 1992. Strupulis, a master’s degree candidate in agency counseling
at Siena Heights, has worked at Siena’s KCC site for
almost four years, most recently as program advisor in
Battle Creek. Also joining Siena’s south central Michigan staff is Margaret Lyons, who is the new program
advisor for both the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo sites.
From the
Heights
17
Names and Faces
In the upper corner of each page of Reflections
is a student, faculty member, staff member,
graduate, friend, or Trustee. All have made Siena Heights their university. How many faces
do you recognize? The answers are below.
2. Brian Burkardt ‘99 friend
3. Rick and Joan Artman at the Benton
Harbor commencement
4. Associate Professor Tony Scioly
5. Dan Sagert, adjunct professor of psychology
6. Associate Professor Mary Griffin
7. The late Sr. Eileen Rice
Honored by Name:
Scholarship Gift Offers Unique Honoring Opportunity
resident’s Cabinet level gifts ($1,000 or more) offer Annual Fund donors
an unusual opportunity to honor a special person, program or organization.
Contributors who designate gifts in support of student scholarships may name
“their” scholarships. Individuals often name scholarships for beloved family
members, friends or professors. Corporate donors frequently attach business names to
their scholarships.
A recent Annual Fund gift provides a special example: The Toledo custom millwork
firm of James Parritt and Associates chose to name its scholarship for the son of a
company employee, a courageous teenager living with cancer.
Troy Simon, 15-year-old son of company office manager Belinda Simon, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma almost two years ago. Since then, he has met each painful
treatment with a positive spirit, handling setbacks as challenges and celebrating successes with a smile. “Troy set out to conquer this thing and conquer it he would do,”
said his mother. Family and
friends supported Troy. Classmates even organized a fundraising dance (see photo).
Despite all the obstacles, Troy
maintained an 4.0 average this
year as a freshman at Central
Catholic High School. The
future remains uncertain, but
“thanks to everyone’s prayers,
Troy’s relentless spirit and good
medicine, our lives are back to
normal,” Belinda said.
And thanks to James Parritt &
Associates, Troy’s courage will
inspire the Siena Heights recipient of the Troy Simon Scholarship.
8. Associate Professor Trudy McSorley
9. Laura Biro ‘99 with Professor Peggy
Treece Myles
10. Management Division faculty Carliene
Palmer and Donna Baker
15. Darren Carter ‘99 and Ali Shakoor ‘99
after the Kente presentation in Adrian
16. Cheri Brown ‘99
17. Doug Hebert ‘99 and Angela
Maplethorpe ‘99
18. Amanda Sill ‘99 and fans
19. Jennifer Hamlin Church, Associate VP of
Communications and Constituent Relations
20. Former class president Keith Rusie ‘99
and a friend
21. Benton Harbor graduate and friend after
the Kente Ceremony
22. Metro Detroit Assistant Dean Patricia
McDonald and a Metro Detroit graduate
23. Angela Helmuth ‘99 at a Dairy Queen
restaurant in Argentina