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CLASS
OF ’73
An
Artist’s Life,
Set to Music
The
brief life of German Jewish
artist Charlotte Salomon was so infused with music that, as composer
Gary Fagin C’73 explains, “She actually writes into her paintings a
text, that these paintings should be viewed accompanied to the tunes
of x, y or z.”
Continued...
CLASS
OF ’75
Sports
Is the Story
Fred
Bowen C’75 is an attorney
with the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington. However, he is better
known—to children at least—as the author of the best-selling AllStar
SportStory Series. His books cover baseball and basketball and are
intended for readers ages 8-12.
Continued...
CLASS
OF ’87
In
the Cards
Archaeologist
Dr. Robert Fitts C’87
began collecting Japanese baseball cards almost a decade ago as a diversion
from the drudgery of Ph.D. work.
Continued...
CLASS
OF ’75
Dom
Sweet Dom
When
a delegation from Vladimir,
Russia, came to
Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, in 1989 to sign a sister-city agreement,
Dr. Ronald Pope Gr’75 served as an interpreter for the occasion. “Out
of that,” recalls the associate professor of Russian politics at Illinois
State University, “I wangled an invitation from the Russians to observe
their local elections in March of 1990.” Continued...
CLASS
OF ’64
Dry
Idea
Most
people would have looked
at these 67 acres
in the California desert—covered with dilapidated sheds, crumbling Styrofoam
and an abandoned, 5,000-gallon ethanol still—and seen one giant mess.
Architect Stuart Resor C’64 saw an opportunity.
Continued...
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