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Executive Editor and Executive
Director of Alumni Relations
Marcie Otteman Grawburg, '87
Editor
Cynthia J. Drake, M.A. '08
Graphic Designer
Amy Gouin
Photographers
Robert Barclay
Charlotte Bodak
Peggy Brisbane
Christiana Kurtz
Steve Jessmore, '81
Evanne Lehrke
Melanie Maxwell, '03
Writers
Rick Haglund
Terri Finch Hamilton, '83
Kyle Kelley
Morgan MacDermaid
John Regenfuss
Maria Schmidtke
Editorial Assistants
Vicki Begres
Lori Conroy
Communications Committee
Jeff rey L. Benjamin, '86
Kevin Campbell, '74 M.A. '76
Kevin H. Richman, '93
Vice President of Development
and External Relations
Kathleen M. Wilbur
Associate Vice President
of University Communications
Sherry Knight, '86
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800-358-6903
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Michigan University Offi ce of Alumni Relations. It is printed by
Quad/Graphics, Midland, Mich., and entered at the Midland
Post Offi ce under nonprofi t mailing. CMU (an AA/EO institution)
strongly and actively strives to increase diversity within its
community (see cmich.edu/aaeo). Copies of Centralight are
distributed to alumni and friends of the university who are paid
Gold Members or donors to CMU. A virtual edition of the magazine
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