Albion College is pleased to announce four recipients of the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award, along with three recipients of the 2019 Young Alumni Award. A dinner and ceremony in recognition of this year’s honorees is scheduled for Friday, April 12 in Baldwin Hall.
The two longtime supporters of Albion College are driving a new fundraising initiative to make a pair of dreams a reality on campus. The first is a newly expanded fitness and student activity facility at the site of the current Dow Recreation and Wellness Center. The second is a new or renovated competition facility for the teams that currently call Kresge Gymnasium home.
An award-winning author and an environmental researcher will offer a wealth of ideas during Albion College’s 2019 Elkin R. Isaac Student Research Symposium. Natalie Dubois, ’97 (pictured near left), will present the Isaac Alumni Lecture on Wednesday, April 17, while Make Your Home Among Strangers author Jennine Capó Crucet (far left) will deliver the Symposium Keynote Address on April 18.
One of the iconic figures in Albion College athletics as a student-athlete, a coach and an administrator, Frank Joranko passed away March 8. The 1952 alumnus was a nine-time Britons letter winner (four in football, four in baseball, one in basketball) who returned to Albion in 1973 and coached two MIAA championship teams in football and nine in baseball. Joranko also served as athletic director for 16 years and was an associate professor of physical education.
With nearly 20 years of experience working with students in a higher education setting, Detroit native Leroy Wright has been named Albion College’s new vice president for student development and dean of students. Wright, who has been associate vice chancellor for student affairs at Appalachian State University in North Carolina since 2016, will begin his duties at Albion on July 1.
Former President George H. W. Bush died Friday, Novemer 30, at the age of 94. On May 9, 1987, then Vice President Bush (pictured with Albion College President Melvin Vulgamore) delivered the Commencement address at Albion College.
Albion College’s Division of Student Affairs received two grants last week, totaling $71,030, from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Campus Sexual Assault Grant Program. A grant of $41,030 will support campus sexual assault programming, including the Green Dot Bystander Intervention program. Another grant of $30,000 will support upgrades to the Campus Safety security camera system, including the installation of additional cameras.
Alena Farooq, ’18, Kate Hao, ’99, Paul Huth, ’77, Madison Kase, ’18, and Brian McPheely, ’78, are the newest members of the Albion College Board of Trustees.
Less than a month after a landmark biography of Betty Ford hits the shelves, its author, Lisa McCubbin, will participate in Albion College’s annual Joseph & Donna Calvaruso Speaker Series. Her visit is scheduled for Thursday, October 4, at 7 p.m., at the Bohm Theatre in downtown Albion.
A new clinic intended to improve access to medical services for both Albion College students and Albion residents is expected to open early next year on the ground floor of the College’s Munger Place Apartments in central Albion. The plan stems from a partnership between the College and Marshall-based Oaklawn, which is expected to transfer medical services in early 2019 from its current Albion office at 300 B Drive North to Munger Place at 301 E. Michigan Ave.
