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May 9, 2005
It was just another day at the track in the 1980s. School of Public Health facilities manager and Ann Arbor native Jimmie Kennedy traveled to Florida to compete in the sprint car division of modified car racing. He recalls one opponent who stood out among the drivers because of his age. “He was just a…
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April 25, 2005
After a boyhood bout with polio, Mark Taylor learned to make repairs to his leg braces in his family’s dairy barn in Idaho. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) “I’d use bits of old leather to fix parts or if a rivet broke on my braces I would find an old nail in the…
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April 18, 2005
There was a time when jumping from an airplane had zero appeal for Michele Pushies. U-M secretary Michele Pushies has logged more than 600 jumps since getting the skydiving bug from her husband, Dan. She’s joining the Misty Blues women’s skydiving demonstration team, and hopes to be part of an effort this June in Chicago…
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April 11, 2005
Judith Dinsmore, a secretary for nine years at U-M-Flint, is known as the person to look for when it comes to applying to the University. She enters applications into the database, writes admit letters and coordinates the schedule for U-M-Flint counselors who visit with graduating high school students. (Photo courtesy Judith Dinsmore) What many people…
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April 4, 2005
It’s in the flu medicine your doctor prescribes. The mulch heap for your garden is packed with it, too. It’s tossed in with the $25 insalata di funghi at your favorite Italian restaurant. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) It’s fungi, and for Pat Rogers, collection manager for fungi and lichens for the Herbarium,…
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March 28, 2005
If you dial the telephone and tell the operator you don’t know the name of the person you seek, you may hear a click, if not a slam. (Photo by Marcia Ledford, U-M Photo Services) That is unless you are calling U-M operators such as Benisa Anderson, an Information Technology Central Services (ITCS) employee who…
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March 21, 2005
Susan Rowe spends her weekdays keeping the U-M-Dearborn government relations office running smoothly. After work—and sometimes during her lunch break—she’s focused on a different office. (Photo by Jennifer Sroka, U-M-Dearborn) Rowe is one of six Wayne City Council members who oversees budget and services for the small, 20,000-person community in western Wayne County. Serving her…
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March 14, 2005
The smell of dried bones and dusty fur peppers the air as you enter Steve Hinshaw’s office. Tucked away between rows of file cabinets filled with thousands of skulls and skeletons, he sits at his desk organizing genera or updating databases. Steve Hinshaw displays the bones of three animals cleaned by beetles in the Museum…
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March 7, 2005
By day, Robert Pichler is a safety analyst for the U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). By night, he plays with fire—fireworks, that is. Robert Pichler holds a demonstration fireworks shell showing the inner components. On a real shell, the inside would contain tiny stars made from gunpowder and charcoal composite that create fireworks’ shapes and…
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February 21, 2005
A glass of rum welcomes all visitors to the Dominican Republic, a Spanish-speaking nation in the Caribbean that is blessed with pristine beaches, warm weather and an easygoing atmosphere. The capitol, Santo Domingo, is an old city abuzz with activity. Professor Maureen Tippen, left, and Rebecca Pettengill, right, volunteer every year for a medical mission…
