Alumni

DBusiness Magazine

From its origins as the Briton Rhythm Squad in the mid-1990s to today, alums and current members of the student organization line up for a reunion at Homecoming.

The retired Detroit-area psychologist and educator will join fellow 2021 and 2020 Alumni Award recipients October 23 during Homecoming.

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 Albion’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation and Community Celebration coming up on January 30, Rosemary Smith Zander and Denny Kime, both from the Class of 1964, share their recollections of August 28, 1963, when they took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and listened firsthand to one of the seminal speeches in U.S. history.

“Not only were they champions on the football field, but these men went on to become champions to me in my life,” writes Detroit dentist Darrell Williams, ’77 about the 1976 Britons. “On December 5, 2014, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Needless to say this news took my wife and me by surprise, as it does most people, and it shook us to our very being. We were devastated, but we knew that a battle would have to be fought to overcome this disease.”