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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
Dan Digmann
Cynthia Drake, M.A. '08
Terri Finch Hamilton, '83
Andy Sneddon
Amy Soper
Research Associate
Bryan Whitledge
Editorial Assistants
Vicki Begres
Lori Conroy
Communications Committee
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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Centralight is published four times each year by the Central
Michigan University Offi ce of Alumni Relations. It is printed by
Quad/Graphics, Midland, and entered at the Midland Post
Offi ce under nonprofi t mailing. CMU is an AA/EO institution,
providing equal opportunity to all persons, including minorities,
females, veterans and individuals with disabilities.
(see cmich.edu/ocrie). 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 is
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4 CMU Today
Scientists take to the skies to study the
Great Lakes coastal shoreline.
18 Sports
Seniors could take CMU's women's
basketball program to new heights.
32 Hidden Central
CMU's Museum of Cultural and Natural
History is home to two massive grizzly
bears. Don't worry, they're stuff ed.
34 Alumni news
The 1974 national championship football
team returns for its 40th reunion.
38 In Memory
40 Did You Know?
CMU has many points of pride.
Help us brag.
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