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October 9, 2006
Dr. Arwulf Arwulf already had been hosting the wildly creative “Face the Music” on U-M’s student-run WCBN-FM for 12 years when he was hired as an audiovisual technician by the University in 1992. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) “We work long days, sometimes 11 or 12 hours, to screen films and facilitate lectures…
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October 2, 2006
When Maxine Solvay was 16 years old, she bought Yogi Berra. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo Services) Not the baseball card, but the actual 15-time All-Star. The Mets wanted to hire Berra as a manager, so they put him up on waivers for $1, a formality to ensure no other team wanted him as…
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September 25, 2006
Ask Shelly Hoffman what her favorite part of performing is and she’ll tell you it’s making people laugh. She says this is also the most difficult part of putting on a show, but humor comes easily to the cheerful co-founder of Adrian & Enid Inc., a comedic theatrical troupe based in Flint. Shelly Hoffman (right)…
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September 18, 2006
The smooth sound of plucked harp strings tends to make U-M Health System patients “melt into their bed,” says Bedside Music Program harpist Julie Hussar. Photo by Melissa Dyer But late summer-early fall isn’t so relaxing for Hussar, who doubles as harpist every weekend through Oct. 1 at the Michigan Renaissance Festival. At the festival…
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September 11, 2006
There was a time when Washtenaw County Fitness Ambassador Kristin Romelhardt, who joined Gov. Jennifer Granholm for the 5-mile Mackinac Bridge walk/run on Labor Day, wasn’t so active. Then, something changed. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) “I don’t think it was anything monumental other than both my mother and grandmother had cancer and…
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September 5, 2006
A party-line telephone system was cutting-edge technology at the U-M Biological Station near Pellston when Tony Sutterley, now building and facilities senior supervisor, began working there in the ’70s. (Photo by Photo By Karie Slavik) The station also looked different. “The exterior of a lot of the cabins were a type of tar paper and…
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August 14, 2006
“If you sit there and don’t smile and don’t laugh, your day is long,” says John Pittman, a 30-year U-M employee who holds the unique job title of Venetian blinds cleaner. Pittman, a father of six, also serves as Huron High School assistant wrestling coach and helps takes care of his mother who lives in…
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July 24, 2006
Greg Meyer was a star on U-M’s mid-1970s track and cross country teams before he won the 1983 Boston Marathon—and he remains the last American man to win that event. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) But when his Grand Rapids home was broken into several years ago and several running keepsake items stolen,…
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July 10, 2006
Most students are gone for the summer so the dorms are dead, right? Not if you ask South Quad cafeteria staff who last month cooked and served enough spaghetti, buffalo wings, shrimp linguine and other dishes to satisfy 1,100 hungry football campers—all within the 45 minutes scheduled for nightly dinners. Football is the most popular…
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June 26, 2006
After football games when forgotten purses, umbrellas and coolers share dumpster space with empty drink bottles; during spring move-out when discards fill dumpsters to overflowing; and six days a week around campus, no matter the season, Waste Management Operations Foreman Samuel Moran and his staff keep University grounds tidy. (Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo…
