Knox College seniors Lindsey Turnbull and David Han have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships, among the nation’s most prestigious awards for international postgraduate study. Turnbull and Han are the twelfth and thirteenth Knox students in the past 13 years to receive Fulbright Fellowships. Thanks to the fellowship, Turnbull will conduct genetic research on malaria in the African nation of Malawi; Han will teach and study in Korea.
Lindsey Turnbull“Fulbright applicants are asked where they want to work, and I picked Sub-Saharan Africa, in the biochemical field,” Turnbull said. “I want to do something that will be helpful to the country where I’m working. Hopefully researchers can create better medications, based on what we know about genetics, and possibly come up with a vaccine.”
A chemistry and biochemistry major from Edmond, Oklahoma, Turnbull built her research skills in a College Honors project on the effects of alcohol on the immune system. Turnbull’s other activities have included swimming and membership in the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
Following orientation this summer in Washington DC, and at Oxford University in Great Britain in the fall, Turnbull will spend between six months and a year at the Blantyre Malaria Project in Malawi. After completing the term in Malawi, “I may go to graduate school, but I don’t know right now,” Turnbull said. “I expect my experience in Africa to change me in some way, and I’m open to that.”
David HanHan leaves for a 13-month fellowship in Korea on July 5, 2006. “I’ll be teaching English in a middle school or high school, and doing a research project on voting patterns among young people in Korea,” Han said. “I’m interested in the level of voting among Koreans aged 18 to 30, and whether there are any similarities with Americans in the same age group.”
In addition to his teaching and research, Han has strong personal ties to Korea. "Both of my parents are Korean and came to the U.S in 1964. “I was born in America, and this will be my first time outside the country,” he said.
Han, who previously attended Pasadena City College, is majoring in political science and minoring in business at Knox. He also has participated in Student Senate and water polo. “When I get back from Korea, I plan to attend law school,” Han said. “I’m interested in corporate law or possibly working on a political campaign, as an attorney, speechwriter, or fundraiser.”
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Stephen Colbert to Receive Honorary Degree
At its 2006 Commencement ceremony, Knox College will award
an honorary degree to Stephen Colbert, star of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, who will
also deliver the Commencement address to the 2006 Senior Class. Shirley
E. Barnes, former U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar, and Jimmy Wales,
founder of Wikipedia, will also receive honorary degrees.Commencement will be held on Saturday, June 3, at 10 a.m. on the South Lawn of Old Main. The ceremony is free and open to the public; priority seating is given to the parents and families of graduating seniors and special guests of the College. A transcript of Colbert’s remarks will be posted on the Knox College Web site following the ceremony. Read more . . .
A Note from the Editor
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Student News
Senior Challenge Achieves Goal—Three Weeks Early!
On May 9, 2006, the 2006 Senior Class accomplished a feat
no other Senior Class has ever achieved—they passed the 90 percent
Senior Challenge participation mark three weeks before Commencement! To
date, the seniors have raised $19,864 in gifts and
pledges, more than doubling the previous Senior Challenge record of
$9,194 (set in 2004). Despite such accomplishments,
the 2006 Senior Class is determined to keep building the momentum and
to raise more than $20,000 by Commencement. Read more information
on the
2006 Senior Challenge . . . Men's Golf Team Claims Midwest Conference Championship
The Prairie Fire men’s golf team won the Midwest
Conference Championship (MWC) with a three-day total of 931—13 strokes
better than second place Monmouth College. Senior Mack Foster ended his Prairie Fire
career with the individual title, beating Lawrence’s Joe Loehnis in a
playoff. Junior Ryan Meier finished
in third place, while junior John
Hawkinson, sophomore David
Marquardt,
and first-year Kevin Conte all
captured
top-20 finishes. The championship marks the 28th in the program’s
storied history, including 19 of the last 25. Read more . . . Cole Selected Golden Apple Scholar
Knox College sophomore Maureen Cole has been selected a 2006 Golden Apple Scholar. Cole is one of 100 high school and college students selected by the Golden Apple Foundation, a state-wide organization that awards scholarships and teaching internships to outstanding high school and college students who plan to teach in Illinois. Cole will work for five weeks during summer 2006 at a public school in Chicago and will do additional observation at a school in the Chicago area during summer 2007. “I’m excited about the program,” Cole said. “It’s a great opportunity for future educators.” Read more . . .
Trujillo Wins Essay Award
Julio Trujillo says he entered Knox College four years ago with plans to major in creative writing, but after taking one class—beginning fiction writing—he changed his mind. Now a senior, Trujillo majored in anthropology-sociology, minored in journalism, and developed into an award-winning writer. Trujillo, from Denver, Colorado, is one of six winners in a state-wide writing competition sponsored by the Associated Colleges of Illinois (ACI) and the Dr Pepper/7 UP Bottling Company. The “Road to College Success Essay Contest” drew entries from students in 24 ACI-member colleges and universities throughout Illinois. Read more . . .
Campus News
Knox Hires New Athletics Director, Campus Safety Director
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| New Director of
Athletics Chad Eisele ’93. |
“Chad brings a wealth of experience as a successful coach and athletic administrator at other institutions, including one that’s in our academic and athletic conference,” said Lawrence Breitborde, dean of the College, in his announcement of Eisele’s appointment. Read more . . .
Knox also hired Galesburg Police Chief John Schlaf to head up the College’s Department of Campus Safety. Chief Schlaf will begin his new position in early July. “Chief Schlaf will bring a new level of professionalism to Knox College,” explains President Roger Taylor ’63. “His nearly 40 years of experience in law enforcement and public safety will provide strong, effective leadership for our campus safety office.” Read more . . .
Psychology Study Receives National Attention
A study exploring the relationship between men, guns, and aggression, conceived and conducted by 2005 graduate Jennifer Klinesmith, along with Knox psychology professors Frank McAndrew and Tim Kasser, recently received a blast of national attention. The study, conducted last year on the Knox campus, found that handling guns increased the men's testosterone levels, which in turn made them act more aggressively later in the study. Coverage of the study appeared in newspapers across the country, from the New York Times to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to the Los Angeles Times. It is also scheduled to appear in one of the nation’s leading psychology journals, Psychological Science, in July.
Renowned Dance Choreographer Visits Knox
Renowned choreographer David Dorfman taught a series of
free, public workshops, “Community Outreach: Arts in Action,” for Knox
students and the general public on April 24-29, 2006. “The
workshops focused on ways to develop the arts
curriculum and how to create connections among arts organizations and
community centers, and then offered some hands-on experience in
teaching
an actual class,” said Jennifer Smith,
instructor in dance. This spring’s workshops were the first phase in a
two-part residency program. Read
more . . .Knox Hosts First Pan-African Conference
Knox hosted the conference “Pan-African Dimensions in the 21st Century” on May 5-6, 2006. The conference, which was free and open to the public, featured a variety of speakers and performances, including Derek Greenfield, professor of sociology at Saint Augustine’s College; author and activist Ewuare Osayande of Philadelphia; physician Mardge Cohen, director of women’s HIV research at the Core Center in Chicago; and Jeff Baraka, who performs in Chicago under the name “O Type Star.” Fred Hord, director of the African-American Cultural Center at North Carolina State University and founder of the Black Studies Program at Knox College, was the conference’s keynote speaker. Read more . . .
Alumni News
Bob Lindsay ’73 Elected to
Board of TrusteesWest-Central Illinois auto dealer Bob Lindsay has been elected to the Knox College Board of Trustees. Lindsay, a 1973 graduate of Knox, is owner and president of Lindsay Automotive Group. “Bob speaks with convincing passion about the power of his Knox education. He will be a great spokesman for the College,” explains Knox College President Roger Taylor ’63. Read more . . .
William Colby ’77 Publishes New Book on Right-to-Die
William Colby ’77, who represented the family of Nancy Cruzan in the first right-to-die case heard by the United States Supreme Court, recently published Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America. Unplugged explores the legal, social, and personal repercussions of recent, astounding advances in life-extending medical technology. Colby presents an eye-opening historical overview of how organ transplants, break through procedures, miraculous machines, and the fate of three young women—Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terry Schiavo—blurred the line between life and death.
“. . . few possess Colby’s engaging style and judicious insights,” praises Publishers Weekly.
Owen Muelder ’63, Rex Cherrington ’73 Help Create New Underground Railroad Map
Owen Muelder ’63, director of the Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad (UGRR) Freedom Station at Knox College, along with fellow Knox alumnus Rex Cherrington ’73 and Galesburg resident Brenda Patterson, has put together a new map of the people and homes that supported the UGRR movement in the Galesburg area in the first half of the 19th century. The map is on display in the Galesburg’s UGRR Freedom Station on the Knox College campus. Read more . . .
Come Home to Knox, October 12-15, 2006!
Hotel reservations are going fast! Don’t miss your chance to catch-up with old friends, attend classes with current Knox students, cheer on the Prairie Fire, and much more. Make your reservations today! And don’t forget to look for your 2006 Homecoming Brochure in July, outlining all of the weekend’s exciting events.
Alumni Notes
Shyla Slobodkin Wollman ’46 was recently honored by the Girl Scouts of Racine County, Inc. in Racine, Wisconsin, for 60 years of service. Wollman was honored with a 60-year membership pin.
Julian Rimpila ’62 was recently recognized by the American Medical Association for his recruitment efforts in 2005.
The Stuttering Foundation recently awarded Millie Culp ’71 first-place recognition in the category of “Columnist” for her “Workwise” column that focused on how people who stutter can succeed in the workplace. Culp also featured Knox psychology Professor Frank McAndrew and 1997 Knox graduate Megan Milenkovic in a column devoted to “The True Colors of Gossip.”
Rick Hader ’81, aka. Myron Noodleman, was recently featured in a story about his performances at minor league baseball games in the Alabama’s Montgomery Advertiser. Look for a profile of Hader in the next issue of Knox Magazine.
Lance Krajacic ’82 is the executive vice president and chief lending officer at the recently-opened Bank of Birmingham in Birmingham, Michigan.
Artist Megan Williamson ’82 will be featured in New York’s Nabi Gallery exhibition “Secret Gardens,” which celebrates the delights and mysteries of spring. The exhibition will run May 4-June 17, 2006.
On June 5, 2006, Keith Belzer ’85 will be featured in an episode of A & E’s American Justice. The episode, “Facing Life: The Retrial of Evan Zimmerman,” details the story of a man whose conviction of murder was overturned with the help of his attorney, Keith Belzer.
Anna Leahy ’88 is editor of the collection Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project, which was published in November 2005 by Multilingual Matters. Other contributors to the collection include Knox alumni Mary Cantrell ’86, Rachel Hall ’86, and Audrey Petty ’90. Leahy also worked with Douglas Dechow ’91 to co-author two articles about the representation of WWII in aviation museums. The first essay appears in the recently published Bombs Away: Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan, and the second essay will appear later in 2006 in the journal Curator. In addition, Leahy’s poetry chapbook, Turns about a Point, is scheduled for publication by Finishing Line Press.
Brian Tibbets ’96, a Latin teacher at Monmouth-Roseville High School in Monmouth, Illinois, was recently featured in Galesburg’s The Register-Mail. The article discussed the resurgence in student interest in the Latin language at Monmouth-Roseville High School.
Ander Monson ’97 won the prestigious 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for his book Neck Deep. Monson will receive a $12,000 advance for the book, which will be published by Graywolf Press in February 2007. His recently published book Other Electricities is a finalist in the New York Public Library Young Lions Award for the best novel or book of stories by a writer under 35.
Kate Tummelson ’97 has received excellent reviews for her performance in Clash by Night at Chicago’s The Artistic Home Theatre. “Tummelson exudes from her pores the yawning ache and terrible longing of a woman who realizes she doesn't love her husband . . . utterly devastating,” praises Time Out Chicago.
Trial attorney Brian Skaret ’98 is prosecuting 10 foreign nationals who have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami, Florida, on charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and alien smuggling. Skaret works for the Domestic Security Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Julie Landsdown ’98 served as captain of the award-winning moot court team from Valparaiso University’s School of Law. Landsdown, and three other teammates, won first place for their written argument in the East Regional Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Read more . . .
Monica Marsicek ’00 recently released the premier issue of her new magazine Ecological Home Ideas. The quarterly magazine showcases practical and beautiful home remodeling and building solutions that are environmentally-friendly.
Jason Powell ’00 and Mary Morales ’02 will both star in the Milwaukee professional premier of Patrick Marber’s play Closer. The play, produced by RSVP Productions, will be performed in the Astor Theater and runs June 15-17, 19, and 21-24, 2006.
Rubaiyat Khan ’02, who is a senior staff writer at New Age, the daily newspaper of Dhaka, Bangladesh, has a story included in the book From the Delta: English Fiction from Bangladesh.
The film The Forgotten West Vincent Singleton ’03 will be screened at the upcoming Hollywood Black Film Festival in Los Angeles on June 17. Singleton currently studies cinema at Columbia College in Chicago. He brings the story of one of America’s Buffalo Soldiers—black regiments, primarily Civil War veterans, who fought in the Indian Wars in the American West from the 1860s through the 1880s—to the screen in his short film. Read more . . .
Faculty & Staff News
More Great Reviews for Hellenga’s Philosophy Made SimpleAfter receiving outstanding reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Review, and the Chicago Tribune Book Review and on NPR, Philosophy Made Simple by Robert Hellenga, George Appleton Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of English, received yet another outstanding review in the April 16 edition of the New York Times. “Robert Hellenga’s sweet and lovely new novel . . . [moves] us with pathos and pleasure, [startles] us into wisdom,” praises Rebecca Newberg Goldstein in the review. The book was also listed as an “Editor's Choice” in April 30’s New York Times Book Review. In addition, Hellenga’s fifth novel, The Italian Lover, will be published by Little Brown in 2007. It tells the story of making a film of The Sixteen Pleasures, Hellenga’s first novel, from six different points of view.
Roy Andersen Visits Saudi Arabia
Roy Andersen, Timme Professor of Economics, visited Saudi Arabia from March 7-19, 2006, under a program sponsored by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. Andersen, an expert on international economics and co-author with Professor Robert Seibert ’63 of Politics and Change in the Middle East, now in its seventh edition, says of his trip: “It was a study trip with the aim of increasing bilateral understanding. We met with government officials, heads of ministries, and business leaders in three cities—Dhahran, the headquarters of the Saudi Arabian national oil company; Riyadh, the Saudi capitol; and Jiddah, a commercial town on the seacoast.” Read more . . .
Faculty & Staff Notes
Associate Professor of Theatre Neil Blackadder’s translation from the German of Maxim Biller’s play Cold Cargo was presented in a staged reading at the Segal Theatre Center in New York, as part of the series Dis-Location and Re-Invention: International Plays about the Experience of Immigration. Blackadder introduced the play and participated in a discussion following the reading, along with director Ari Edelson and Marcy Arlin, artistic director of Immigrants’ Theatre Project.
The poems “Fungus Considered” by Monica Berlin, assistant professor of English, and “Father of the Bride” by Robin Metz, director of Knox’s Program in Creative Writing, have been included in the new book Manthology: Poems of the Male Experience, published by University of Iowa Press. The anthology also features numerous poets who have presented their work at Knox, including Ralph Angel, David Baker, Marvin Bell, Robert Bly, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Stuart Dybek, and Kevin Stein, among others. Berlin and Metz will read from Manthology on June 13, 2006, at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa.
The article “Le tombeau de Narbaduc: les souverains sarrasins dans le cycle du Lancelot-Graal,” which is a study of Saracen rules in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail Cycle, by Carol Chase, professor of modern languages, was recently published in the book L’Epique médiéval et le mélange des genres. A second article by Chase, “Les prologues du Lancelot-Graal dans le manuscrit B.N.F., fr. 112,” was published in Le Moyen Age. The article presents a study and an edition of prologues added to a 15th-century version of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
Rodney Davis and Douglas Wilson, co-directors of the Lincoln Studies Center, as well as President Roger Taylor ’63 were recently appointed to the Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, which will oversee the planning process for the February 2009 commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. Wilson also appeared on the panel “Abraham Lincoln and Presidential War Powers: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives” and delivered the paper “Who Will Write This Ignorant Man’s State Papers: Writing about the War Powers” at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
John Dooley, associate professor of computer science, served on the conference committee and was a session chair for the 37th Annual Technical Symposium of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education in Houston, Texas, on March 1-5, 2006. He attended a planning meeting for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education’s (NITLE) Software Engineering Summer Internship program on March 31–April 1, 2006, in Georgetown, Texas. Dooley will serve on the conference committee for the 11th annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education in Bologna, Italy, and will teach in the NITLE internship program in June 2006.
The article “Wild Delight: George Harkins and the Economy of Nature” by John Haslam, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, was recently published by Artline.
Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas by Karen Kampwirth ’86, associate professor of political science, was recently reviewed in Contemporary Sociology.
Andrew Leahy, associate professor of mathematics, is chair of the Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Frank McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, was named to the editorial review board of The Journal of Environmental Psychology, which is the leading journal in the field of environmental psychology. He is co-author of the articles “The Mating Strategies and Mate Preferences of Mail Order Brides,” which appeared in the most recent issue (May 2006) of Cross Cultural Research, and “How do we decide whom our friends are? Defining levels of friendship in Poland and the United States,” which was published in the most recent issue (April 2006) of the Journal of Social Psychology. Anna Rybak '03 is co-author of the article on friendship in Poland and the United States.
Bruce Polay, professor of music, performed in recital with cellist George Atanasiu on May 2, 2006, in the Faculty Recital Series at Rowan University in Glasboro, New Jersey, where Atanasiu is professor of music.
Associate Professor of English Natania Rosenfeld’s lyric essay “Bird Visitations” appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of Seneca Review. Her article, “Less Light: The End(s) of Aestheticism in Pater, Ondaatje, and Sebald,” appeared in the April 2006 issue of the journal Modernism/Modernity.
Peter Schwartzman, associate professor of environmental studies, spoke at the University of Chicago on April 19, 2006, as part of the university’s Earth Day celebration. His talk was titled “Why Seemingly Small Things Matter.”
“Limitations of Leasehold Forestry for Poverty Alleviation in Nepal,” a paper by Christopher Thoms, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies, was recently accepted for publication in the journal, Society and Natural Resources.
Advancement News
The End is Near . . .
The end of the fiscal year that is. Thanks to everyone who has made a gift to Knox this year. If you haven’t already done so, please consider making your gift by June 30, 2006 And remember, every gift counts—whether it be $10, $50, or $100.
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