(SOURCE: Keven Bridge, July 2002)

"DICKINSON, PH.D., LIZ "BETTY" East Lansing Her friends knew her as Liz, although she was born Betty Powell on June 22, 1927, in Lansing, MI. Liz died December 17, 2001 at the age of 74. She called East Lansing home for all of her 74 years. It was here that she raised her family and to which she returned following her worldwide travels. Michigan State University employed Liz, in 1967, as a professor of English and Psychology. She earned her doctorate degree from the Humanistic Psychology Institute of California. She later became a highly regarded trainer and practitioner of the Fedenkrais Method. Her gentle hands and generous heart comforted many in her private practice. An indomitable spirit and an insatiable quest for learning characterized her life. Her many friends and adoring family never failed to grow in her presence. Liz gave generously of her knowledge and love to everyone who had the privilege of knowing her. ..."

(SOURCE: Obituary  Lansing State Journal, 19 December 2001)

(SOURCE: MSU Alumni Magazine, Obituaries section, Winter 2003)

(SOURCE: Email from a William Felosak)

According to the Social Security Death Index record, Michael G. Floersch was born on 30 December 1950 and died on 21 August 1999. This is the only Michael Floersch listed in the SSDI, and his record shows his SSN was issued in Michigan.

Given the 1950 birth date, it's likely Michael would have entered MSU / JMC in 1968.

- Editor

(SOURCE: Email from widow Anne (Goatley) House, August 5, 2003)

"James L. Goatley, 48, professor of natural science, and a member of the faculty since 1960, died in a Lansing hospital Nov. 19.

A native of Tell City, Ind., Goatley received his bachelor of science degree in 1953, his master of science degree in 1958 and his doctorate in 1962, all from Purdue University.

He came to MSU as an instructor, becoming professor in 1970. From 1968 to 1971, he was a member of the faculty in Justin Morrill College, serving as associate dean and acting dean at the residential college.

He was author and coauthor of a number of lab manuals in natural science and chapters in science textbooks. He was a Danforth Associate.

Goatley belonged to the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, a science honorary, and History of Science Society.

Survivors are his wife, Anne, and five children, all at home..."

"Lon Graves died of AIDS in the late 1980s. He was featured in a Time magazine article early on in the epidemic. There was a photo spread, "mug shots" of those who passed away from the virus and I was surprised and sorry to see him included. He was a flight attendant, which is a job title that was repeated often in the early years of the disease transmission as public health folks tried to explain how the disease was hopping around the country.

He was a delightful guy, and the first person I ever heard use the expression "Shit or get off the pot", which amused me no end, especially since he was quoting his mother."

Thomas was a professor of English at Northern Michigan University for thirty-three years. and a friend to everyone in the department. He is survived by his two daughters, Sarah Hruska Olson and Anne Hruska; a grandson, Elwood Olson; his fiancee, Jessica Straczowski; and his fiancee's four sons, Quincy, Julien, Vincent and Reuben Schultz."

(SOURCE: Northern Michigan University English Dept. website)

Photo Available in the JMC Image Gallery: Faculty & Staff page

Lenny was killed in an automobile accident in 1988.

Lenny Isaacs Memorial Scholarship
(Clarion Writers Workshop)

Betty enrolled in Justin Morrill in 1966. She graduated as Valedictorian at Chippewa Valley High School in Mt. Clemens, Michigan that year. At MSU, she worked as an RA in Phillips Hall. She was involved as one of the writers of a pamphlet on Birth Control that was distributed free of charge. She was one of the founders of the "Listening Ear", working many nights taking calls. Betty got her Phd. at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill."

(SOURCE: Kevin Fulton, June 2002)

Death Notice: "Leonhard Klimenko, '64, M.A. '66, of Williamston, Nov. 27, 1995, age 59."

Allan started JMC at the same time I did, fall 1969, and I think was there two years, then dropped out."

"As best as I can recall, Mark attended JMC from the fall of 1968 through spring of 1969. He transferred to Univ. of Michigan and graduated in 1972. He got an MA (English) and a J.D.from Univ. of Virginia and an LLM from Univ. of Florida. He was working as an attorney in Nashville, TN, at the time of his death. He had been divorced and left no children."

Richard and I started JMC in 1967 and I think he graduated in '71. He was in the Russian program and he was originally from Oklahoma. The state and date-of-birth seem to match up.

I knew him well enough to try and find out whatever happened to him, but I had neither seen or heard from him since the early 70's. Regrets for the bad news."

- Keith Fleeman, June 2002

"I was Richard's freshman roommate. Met each other in the last orientation session. Since he knew what bean dip was (a southern thing back then), knew we had something in common. He was from McAlester, OK, took Russian and was very bright-- probably him."

(SOURCE: Keven Bridge, July 2002)

Charlie Scheef's Memorial Webpage

- Linda Schweizer, June 2002

"Beth died of cancer a few years ago (PBUH), a great loss to the entire MSU community and lovers of literature and liberty the world over.

Any memorial condolences can be sent as donations of funds or materials to the Beth Shapiro Collection at the MSU Library which stores and makes available to scholars political literature and ephemera from the '60's and after.

This amazing collection includes just about every flyer ever handed out on the Bogue Street Bridge or anywhere else on the MSU campus from about '65 on."

- Tom Dale Keever, June 2002

Detailed Obituary
(Rice News, Rice University)

Friends of the (MSU) Library Endowment:
Shapiro American Radicalism Fund

Paul Buehrle

Rick lived in the JMC / Sny-Phi environment by choice, and he was both an enthusiastic and welcome addition to the JMC milieu of the time. We shared a room in Stalag 17 (3rd floor center, Snyder) during the 1971-'72 school year (the same period as his portrait in the Image Gallery). He was very much into the nether reaches of science, serious stereo technology, and good music. His father was a manager (?) of a radio station in Miami, and Rick would regularly receive shipments of new and wonderful albums no one had ever heard of. I'll never forget the night he gathered a bunch of us in the room, cut off the lights, and introduced us to Beaver and Krause's In a Wild Sanctuary.

Rick succumbed to a rapidly-propagating cancer in early 2002.

Randy Whitaker

(SOURCE: MSU Alumni Magazine, Issue #25, Winter 1997)

"I believe that the Nat Sci class that he taught in Fall of 1969 was Nature of Physical Theory."

(SOURCE: Kathryn Pinkus-Cohen, June 2002)

"I took Nat Sci classes from both Dr. Marvin Solomon and Dr. James Trosko. The years in question were 69-71. ... I can't remember exactly what Solomon's class was, but I remember him as a very warm and humane kind of guy, somewhat older that most of the faculty at JMC."

(SOURCE: Justin Morrill College Course Descriptions, Fall 1972)

Tribute to Herman Struck
(John Schroeder, State News, September 1998)

She practiced corporate and tax law with Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, National Bank of Georgia, and Sumner & Hewes before accepting a position as a law professor at the University of Mississippi, where her students voted her Outstanding Professor of the Year. After three years there, she was persuaded to return to Atlanta in 1988, where she spent the rest of her career teaching at the Georgia State University College of Law in the areas of corporate, tax, and securities law. While on the faculty at the College of Law, she also served as its Associate Dean from 1991-93, and served as a visiting professor at the University of Florida and the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. She authored several books and articles, principally in the area of tax fraud. Twice voted Professor of the Year by her students, she was also respected, admired, and held in great affection by her many friends and colleagues.

She is survived by her partner, Ellen Taylor, and their two sons, Adam and Ben Taylor.

- Bob Walter, June 2002

NOTE: Although the Spring 1973 graduate listing gives Chris' name as 'Christopher William Thor', my memory concurs with Bob's in remembering Chris being cited back when as 'Christian' rather than 'Christopher'.

Cyn was a friend of Lynne Rich, Suzanne Rogers, Linda Taylor, Kathy Owen, Lesley Purcell, Debbie Diadiun, Liz Parr, and Lori Zesch (who transferred to Cornell after one year) and many others. Cyn and I had met as sixth graders in camp, stayed friends through high school, and really enjoyed our time as JMC students together. She lived down the hall from me in the "terrace" in Phillips as they called it. (It was really the basement). We all moved upstairs for our second year and enjoyed daylight and looking out the windows. Many of us sang with her in the MSU Chorus under Gomer Ll. Jones, whose daughter, Beth, was in that inaugural class. I still think of her today and feel sad that she had such a short time in the world. She would have done great things.

(SOURCE: Justin Morrill College Course Descriptions, Fall 1972)

Glenn succumbed to a 'fast-moving cancer' (- Fred Little) in 1986.

R. Glenn Wright Memorial Scholarship
(Clarion Writers Workshop)

A photograph of Glenn Wright is available in the JMC Faculty / Staff Image Gallery.

He was in the first JMC class and was the first JMC student I met when I arrived at Snyder Hall in September 1966. He went to USC and did grad work in film, then returned to MSU to teach at JMC before returning to LA for good.

When I was going to be in LA with a theater tour I called the magazine he was editing the last time I saw him. When I asked for Jim the man who answered said, "I'm sorry. He's no longer with us." I asked if they had any information about where I could get in touch with him and he paused. He asked who I was and I explained I was an old friend from college. He then explained that when he said "He's no longer with us," he meant it in the permanent sense and said he was sorry.

You can find more info at:

• http://www.theoretical.com/jimy.html

• http://www.theoretical.com/yousling.html

- Tom Dale Keever, June 2002

When I arrived at JMC good movies were hard to find and we were pretty much limited to the latest Hollywood fare at "The Campus Theater" or the slightly more adventurous films, often foreign, at "The State."

All that started to change when Jim Yousling, Barbara Rosenbaum and a small group of other JMC students started "The MSU Film Society," the first such club on campus, and began renting films and showing them in campus lecture halls that were available in the evenings after classes.

I still remember Jim Yousling fulfilling a long-cherished dream, walking around the campus in a gorilla suit to advertise that week's screenings of "King Kong." The newly possible past-time of watching several movies a day all weekend came to be called "yousling," yielding the back-constructed verb "to yousle."