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Executive Editor and Executive Director
of Alumni Relations
Marcie Otteman Grawburg, '87
Editor
Betsy Miner-Swartz, '86
Managing Editor
Robin Miner-Swartz
Graphic Designer
Amy Gouin
Photographer
Steve Jessmore, '81
Writers
Cynthia Drake, M.A. '08
Terri Finch Hamilton, '83
Andy Sneddon
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Editorial Assistants
Vicki Begres
Lori Conroy
Communications Committee
Rebeca Barrios
Kevin Campbell, '74 M.A. '76
Tom Wrobec
Vice President of Development and
External Relations
Kathleen M. Wilbur
Associate Vice President
of University Communications
Sherry Knight, '86
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4 CMU Today
Students packed Finch Fieldhouse to hear
entrepreneurial advice from a "Shark."
34 Hidden Central
A new exhibit in Bohannon Schoolhouse
and Gerald L. Poor Museum commemorates
CMU's role in World War I.
36 Alumni news
Sen. Robert Griffin, a distinguished CMU
alum and a longtime public servant, died
April 16 at the age of 91.
38 In Memory
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