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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…
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June 12, 2006
Sally Gonzales has seen everything, from flooding caused by rambunctious students to clothes with original sales tags discarded at move-out, as she tends to 1,200 undergraduates at South Quad. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) “We’ve had a few floods caused by residents playing ball and hitting a sprinkler head, causing major damage,” says…
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May 22, 2006
The moving frenzy that accompanies graduation is over for another year, but U-M Moving and Trucking Garage Senior Supervisor Thomas Heller and his crews still are taking 6-8 orders a day to move desks or file cabinets, offices or entire departments, laboratories or machine shops, even elevator power plants. (Photo by Lin Jones, U-M Photo…
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May 8, 2006
Romance novelist Susan Charnley is a U-M secretary by day, searching for files, editing papers, formatting Web pages, greeting guests, and more. But the wife and mother of two grown sons, who holds a doctorate in English literature, also gets favorable reviews from critics and grateful fans for her novels. “There was something that happened…
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April 24, 2006
Serving with the Navy Customs Battalion QUEBEC in Kuwait, Warren Noone, like many people in the military, welcomes items that remind him of home. (Photo courtesy Warren Noone) Imagine the excitement when Noone, a Department of Mathematics staff member, stumbled across an especially familiar piece of graffiti painted on a wall in Kuwait—”M Go Blue.”…
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April 17, 2006
“I don’t know what we are having for lunch today, but I can tell you what we are having in two weeks,” says Holly Downey, dining services supervisor for the Lawyer’s Club. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) For 82 years prospective attorneys have eaten meals in the Club in the Law Quadrangle. And…
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April 10, 2006
According to musical choreographer John Luther we should spend our lives becoming, and you could say he’s doing his part. John Luther has choreographed the popular musical “Chicago” twice, including this winter 2003 performance at the Stagecrafters Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. (Photo courtesy John Luther) “As humans, we are supposed to be continuously growing,”…
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April 3, 2006
On the sixth floor of C.S.Mott Children’s Hospital there is a room where injured, ill and traumatized children can escape their afflictions. A dress-up castle, a play kitchen, a pool table, an air hockey table, video games, a leather couch, computers and a myriad of board games are available for children in the Activity Center,…
