Centralight

How does the shoe fi t? Calendar By Marcie Otteman Grawburg, '87 Executive director of alumni relations Because CMU was established more than 120 years ago in 1892, it isn't a rare occasion that we stumble upon a little historical mystery. In the most recent case, a shoe was discovered in the crawl space in Warriner Hall. It's a man's shoe, circa the 1920s or '30s. And the weirdest part? It is fi lled with cement. You read that correctly: cement shoes under our administration building. We can't help but wonder, was this part of a bygone campus tradition? Did someone put the shoe there as a practical joke? A way to christen a new building? I know that many of you enjoy a good mystery, too. I enjoy receiving your notes fi lled with fond memories of Central, often accompanied by black-and-white photos and your questions about "Whatever happened to …" – the buildings, professors and classmates you remember. Together with CMU's Clarke Historical Library and the Museum of Cultural and Natural History, we try our best to track down answers to your questions. And more often than not, we learn about a new chapter of our institution's history in the process. In this edition of Centralight, we are introducing two new features that will run in every issue. "Hidden Central" will explore a side of CMU that most people do not get to see (this past winter, we climbed atop Warriner to get the full history of the chimes). We delved into our archives for the most captivating historic photos for our new back-page feature, "Do You Remember?" We hope these will spark your curiosity and allow us to travel together for a moment through our long, proud history. For those of you with nagging questions about those larger-than- life personalities you remember from campus throughout the decades, our story "Where Are They Now?" will help to answer a few of those questions. We enjoyed tracking down Dick Enberg, peace activist Cathy Courtney and President Bill Boyd. Thanks for taking the trip with us down memory lane. And if anyone's missing a cement shoe, you know where to fi nd it. 3 centralight spring '14 you know where to fi nd it. you know where to fi nd it. June 6 CMU night at Comerica Park 7 CMU day at the Detroit Zoo 13 CMU night at Great Lakes Loons 18-20 Grandparents U, Mount Pleasant Campus This is a small sampling of the many alumni events throughout the United States. Please visit alumni.cmich.edu for a complete list. April 5 Opus XVII, Grand Rapids Christian High School, Grand Rapids, Mich. May 10 CMU commencement ceremonies, CMU Events Center, Mount Pleasant campus

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