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LAWRENCETHE VALUE (AND VALUES) OF

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As you consider your future at Lawrence, we have assembled for you a few things from our past—specifically articles that have appeared over the past year or so in Lawrence magazine.

We chose these particular pieces to give you a feel for what we value at Lawrence—as well as the value of Lawrence.

There’s a lot to read in here—from the inaugural address of our president, who recalls the early days of Lawrence back in the mid-1800s while looking to the university’s future, to pieces about our recent (and not-so-recent) graduates—so we’ll say little more.

But before we go, we’ll leave you with this:

As you’re considering the potential value on your investment in a college, we are confident that you will find few (if any) colleges that offer such a highly individualized, student-centered and ultimately transformational education as Lawrence University.

We trust you’ll find it’s an investment worth making.

Be well and do well,The Lawrence Admissions Team

Editor’s Note: Kate Frost joined Lawrence University in April 2014 as our first-ever Student Success Coordinator. Kate is a strong advocate for “growth mindset,” a concept developed by Carol Dweck at Stanford University: “in a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point.” She brings this approach to her work with Lawrentians to help them tap into their strengths—especially when they question them most.

A freshman student stopped by my office the other day. He was clearly distressed. He told me he felt overwhelmed by his transition to college. We spent about an hour together, and he shared with me the challenges that he has been facing since arriving on campus. He misses his family and the support network he had back home, he battles doubts about his ability to succeed in his courses, he worries about his finances, he has begun to wonder if Lawrence made a mistake by admitting him and he feels certain he is the only one on campus who feels this way. About 30 minutes into our appointment, he took a deep breath and relaxed into the chair. Things appeared to be less dire than he had imagined. We discussed all the resources available to him on campus, and he made plans to utilize the services of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Diversity Center and the Counseling Center. As our time together came to an end, I asked if he was feeling better. His eyes welled up. “I’m just so glad something like this exists here on campus.”

My job as the Student Success Coordinator is a particularly rewarding one. Since I arrived on campus in April, I have worked one-on-one with about 75 students who are dealing with a wide variety of issues that stand between them and success here at Lawrence. The majority of those students are now connected to other resources on campus that are helping them to overcome the obstacles that have been keeping them from reaching their goals. I have had the pleasure of watching several seniors conquer serious challenges and walk across the stage to receive their diplomas. I have shared the excitement of a handful of Conservatory students who battled through significant performance anxiety issues and completed major milestones

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO STUDENT SUCCESSBy Kate Frost, Student Success Coordinator

in their programs. Two athletes are back at practice this term after working to improve their GPAs.

A number of freshmen worked through a difficult first year and decided to return to Lawrence with a renewed sense of commitment. What a privilege it is to be present for these victories!

I received a note a couple of weeks ago from one of the students I had met with regularly in the spring. When we first met, she was experiencing profound writer’s block as she worked on her senior project. She expressed a deep sense of hopelessness, and, as devastating as the prospect was, she contemplated not finishing her degree. However, after a few weeks of difficult work in my office, she did finish the project. She graduated with honors in June. She wrote to let me know that she is contemplating applying to graduate school now, and she felt she had a whole new perspective on her academic life. “Knowing that support was available gave me so much hope,” she wrote. “I’m so glad this resource was available to me.”

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Frontier: A State of MindThe Inaugural Address by President Mark Burstein

Editor’s Note: In July 2013, Mark Burstein became Lawrence University’s 16th president, after serving as Executive Vice President at Princeton University for nine years and at Columbia University in several senior positions for 10 years before that. He was inaugurated in October 2013.

I start today humbled and energized by the trust you, the Lawrence community, have placed in me. I will do all that is within my ability to fulfill this trust. After four months together I also know I can count on you, students, faculty, staff and alumni of Lawrence, to do everything in your power to move this wonderful institution forward.

Let me begin at our inception.

With a $10,000 commitment and a direction to look south of Green Bay, three Methodist clergymen, Smith, Sampson and Colman, set out on a journey to found a college. Declared a territory in 1836 when its total population reached the 10,000-person threshold, Wisconsin was in the midst of a land rush. The area these three men explored was populated by Native Americans and anchored by European settlements at Fond du Lac and Green Bay. The Fox River itself provided the major transportation artery, a key food source (wild rice—which grew at its riverbanks) and a boundary between settlement to the southeast and untamed land to the northwest. Steamer service on Lake Winnebago would not be introduced for another 10 years and the upper reaches of the river would continue to be navigated primarily by Native American dugouts into the 1850s.

Although Amos Lawrence’s correspondence focused frequently on land transactions and the possibility that the new institution would “improve the neighborhood of my own land,” these three clergymen—especially our first president William Sampson—believed that Providence had brought them to this task and provided a unique opportunity to have a lasting impact on their community and the world. Describing this extraordinary opportunity Sampson wrote about “the importance of this work in a republic like ours where sovereignty is vested in the people and the perpetuity of our civil and religious institutions depends on virtue and intelligence. “

Of course our founders did not agree about everything. Lawrence tried on numerous occasions to dissuade the clergymen from their attempt to establish a coeducational college with both men and women sharing classrooms. But,

letter after letter on this topic was ignored by Sampson and his colleagues.

Once the college was founded, conditions were primitive. After arriving, Sampson spent his first day clearing brush to create a field for construction. Only Henry Colman moved with his wife and daughter, while Sampson waited for a year to bring his family, allowing time to build the first house in the area. Soon after the founding of the college, Reeder Smith, the third of our trio, parted ways with the trustees. To honor his wife, Lawrence decided to give the town that began to form around the college his wife’s maiden name: Appleton. They later decided to change the story, suggesting it was named for her uncle ... right before they asked him to endow a new library.

In short the dynamics of our founding, including resource constraint, human ingenuity and the importance of excellent leadership, continue to be themes that shape the university today.

Despite these challenges, in 1857, 10 years after our founding, Amos Lawrence wrote to his wife during his only trip to Wisconsin that this college “will stand in future generations and be a blessing to the country and the world when we shall have crumbled away. It is a great and good work, and I am glad to have a hand in it.”

The story of our founding brings to mind Perry Miller, whose work, Errand into the Wilderness, I encountered during my freshman year of college. Reading this book confirmed my decision to major in history and it posits a theory that has two central tenets. The Puritans of the 1600s immigrated to New England to create a “city upon a hill” a phrase coined by John Winthrop the colony’s first governor. The colonists on this errand encountered an environment unknown in Europe, a vast wilderness. This combination of religious calling and pioneering in a vast unknown natural world gave rise to such central values of American culture as democracy, religious tolerance and the centrality of education.

Frederick Jackson Turner offered a similar interpretation of American history in a paper he presented in 1893 entitled “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” Turner had a personal connection to the frontier and to Wisconsin. He was born in 1861 in Portage, Wisconsin, the piece of land used to haul boats from the Wisconsin River, gateway to the Mississippi, to the Fox River the primary connection

to the Great Lakes. He writes in this paper, “American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities ... furnish[es] the forces dominating the American character.”

The same combination of religious errand and rough, natural, frontier environment described by Miller confronted our own clergymen founders at the liminal moment in our history, and propelled them forward. In their correspondence and writings one sees that their experience in a territory that was trying to become a full-fledged state reinforced their conviction that increasing higher education opportunities in Wisconsin would strengthen democracy. Frontier life, which meant that all hands were necessary for survival no matter what your gender, could also have reinforced their belief that the university must be coeducational, even though only one example of a college for both sexes existed in the 1840s and their benefactor did not support this then-radical concept.

Now, how do we, at a time when the Fox Cities-area has a larger population than all of the state had at our founding, sustain this creative sense of an institution on the frontier—the frontier of knowledge, social acceptance and learning? Like our founders, we also live in an uncertain world, on the boundary between what is known and what is new, where different ideas and concepts intersect, and new possibilities exist. For us, as it was for them, such a situation is critical for individual growth and for a thriving learning environment. How can we use our founding narrative to sustain this state of mind? Can we find a way as a community to rejoin Sampson and his band, struggling to lift up an institution in an environment full of the unknown? As Lawrentians I believe this is our birthright and our distinguishing characteristic.

We know how to fully embrace the frontier, the unknown, the radical, the unexpected—because we have done it before.

For some, a frontier implies both a clear sense of what is core or central and an understanding of what is on the boundary of one’s physical land, intellectual concept or experience. Of the many questions I have received since my appointment last December, the one most frequently asked is why have I chosen to leave the east coast and my home, the Princeton community, to join you here. Since the moment David and I first visited Appleton over a year ago, I have grown to love three central aspects of Lawrence: We are a community that offers a rigorous academic experience filled with personal attention from a dedicated faculty.

We do not tailor this experience only to the academically gifted: we open our community to the intellectually engaged. Thus for most Lawrentians, time at Lawrence is truly life changing.

And we sustain an environment focused on learning and community. This focus permeates everything we do and are.

I believe that if we can sustain these three distinctive core strengths and if we can take inspiration from our founding on the frontier—this state of mind, of human discovery, learning and community values—our university, “a great and good work,” will continue to make important contributions to this nation and the world, and will thrive for the next century and beyond.

Thank you all for joining us to celebrate Lawrence, our past, present and future. ■

“The dynamics of our

founding, including

resource constraint,

human ingenuity and

the importance of

excellent leadership,

continue to be

themes that shape the

institution today.”

Watch videos from Inauguration Weekend at:www.lawrence.edu/info/offices/president/inauguration

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Major: EnglishTerry Moran is never far from the pulse of world events. During his extraordinary career in broadcast journalism he has covered the Supreme Court, served as ABC News’ chief White House correspondent and followed the presidential campaign of Vice President Al Gore. In addition, he has anchored World News Tonight Sunday and was one of three co-anchors of Nightline. Before joining ABC Moran was a correspondent and anchor at Court TV.

In 2007 he received a Peabody Award for reporting and anchoring an ABC documentary about AIDS in black America.

About a Lawrence educationI carry my Lawrence education with me every day in the work I do. I did get the journalism bug at The Lawrentian. First as a reporter, and then I ended up editing the paper and I knew it was just something I very much wanted to do. I liked the impact you could have doing a good story. The other thing, more broadly: I think a liberal arts education, the Lawrence liberal arts experience, opened my mind and heart in a way that made me a better journalist. There’s no question about it. And it made me understand that the stories I uncover and the problems that I encounter in the world have context. They’ve got historical context, they’ve got racial context, they’ve got all kinds of context, and that’s the natural line of inquiry of a liberal arts Lawrence grad. I know that my approach to things is informed by what I learned at Lawrence, both on the paper and in the classroom.

The rewards of a residential liberal arts educationA residential college experience like Lawrence has is an adventure unlike anything else you are going to have the rest of your life. Here you are with a thousand or more people your own age, you’re at the peak of your intellectual curiosity and openness, your physical and athletic energy and desire, and you’re thrown together in the classroom and the community. And Lawrence in particular has this beautiful community where people really do share their learning and their lives with each other in a very special way. There is nothing like it, and it is of enormous educational value that can’t be replicated.

The Lawrence DifferenceWhat I always thought Lawrence does better than any college I’ve ever heard of is that there is an earnestness in the learning and in the inquiry at Lawrence. In other words, people really want to learn, and they want to teach, and they want to share it, and they want to bat it around. It’s an incredibly vital intellectual experience, unencumbered, for the most part, by a lot of the extraneous social or societal pressures. There’s something really special about the way teachers teach and students learn at Lawrence. I have never heard or experienced it anywhere else. It’s genuine.

Terry Moran ’82ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent

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Maria DeLaundreau ’13, an ecologist and forestry corps member with Minnesota GreenCorps, is spearheading efforts to regenerate cottonwood tress in the Mississippi River floodplains.

DeLaundreau recently led 60 volunteers who planted 2,500 cottonwood seeds, 300 lifestake cuttings and 300 seedlings in Lilydale Regional Park in St. Paul, Minn., and a National Park Service island in Minneapolis, Minn.

“Cottonwoods are important in the floodplain because they do a lot of really fantastic things there,” said DeLaundreau. “There’s a certain synergy: They are the preferred nesting tree to bald eagles, they help honeybees stay healthy, they improve fish habitat and reduce erosion.”

A 2011 survey by the National Park Service found no new cottonwood trees in the floodplain forest. DeLaundreau hopes her efforts enable the trees to regenerate and join the forest. If successful, her methods will be used to cultivate cottonwoods in other stretches along the Mississippi River.

A native of Manitowoc now living in Pasadena, Calif., Neustadter was recognized in 2011 with a Primetime Emmy Award for a score he wrote while still a Lawrence student for the PBS American Masters documentary John Muir and the New World. More recently he has composed scores for the 2013 documentary The Thingmaker, the short film Ballad of Poisionberry Pete and the 2012 feature-length film Tar. He also wrote original music for Duracell’s national Powering Smiles ad campaign, which was ranked in the top three holiday ads of 2013.

In June, Lawrence honored Neustadter with the college’s Nathan Pusey Young Alumni Achievement Award. After earning a bachelor of music degree in voice and violin performance, Neustadter earned a master’s degree in music at Yale University in 2012.

Lawrence welcomed Neustadter to its board of trustees this fall.

“As a graduate of the conservatory, I look forward to working with Dean Brian Pertl ’86, who continues to lend his extraordinary leadership and unique views on the arts to the entire Lawrence community.

“I also look forward to working with President Burstein,” added Neustadter. “His passion and commitment to the future of Lawrence is obvious, yet he remains honest and realistic about the challenges at hand.”

Garth Neustadter ’10

DeLaundreau got her start working in floodplain and bottomland forests while a student at Lawrence. She spent one summer doing research with Don Arnosti ’79 at Audubon Minnesota through Lawrence’s LU-R1 program.

Maria DeLaundreau ’13

ABOVE: Researcher Maria DeLaundreau ’13 next to a floodplain cottonwood

Photo: National Park Service

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CHIAO-YU TUAN

Majors: Math-computer science, psychology

Next step: Software engineer, LinkedIn

Why LinkedIn is a good fit: It’s the right size. It’s not a giant company where you get lost in the crowd but it is big enough that there are a lot of things going on and opportunities to learn. I love the culture of work hard, play hard. LinkedIn has a great reputation for how it treats its employees, and the people there are very nice and genuine. It’s also right in Silicon Valley, which means a lot to new engineers like me who want to be right where everything happens and in the heart of technology development. I’m fascinated by how much technology can do and I enjoy building things. I’m very grateful for finding something I’m excited about which also happens to be a booming industry.

VALERIE KESSIE

Majors: Environmental studies, French

Next step: Public relations and communications intern, MicroInsurance Centre

Why the MicroInsurance Centre is a good fit: I really appreciate it when employers trust you with delicate work. Even though the MicroInsurance Centre is like another class for me, the amount of responsibility that has been given to me is mind blowing. It is a work environment where I get the chance to learn about the statistics of different countries, intense research methods, as well as learn about the contribution of micro insurance to alleviating poverty in the developing world. I started this internship last October, and I can still attest to the fact that I am learning more and more every day!

EMILY HOYLMAN

Major: Biochemistry

Next step: Pursuing a Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy

Why becoming a pharmacist is a good fit: A career in pharmacy offers a unique combination of patient-oriented work and scientific expertise. A pharmacist gets to use the technical skills of a scientist while directly interacting with patients, placing that work in a personal context. I first became interested in pharmacy school as a junior in high school. Biology and chemistry courses have always been my favorites, and I think that studying medications is the most exciting point of the intersection between those two sciences. I chose Michigan because its program emphasizes primary research, leadership in the field and professionalism toward colleagues and patients.

ZACH SIMMERING

Majors: Economics and French

Next step: Sales and Internet marketing assistant for Trooclick France SAS

Why Trooclick is a good fit: Majoring in economics and French, I can’t think of a more perfect role than this one. This start-up company developed an automated fact-checking app that verifies news websites in real time. Within my role, I will identify potential customers, draft commercial proposals, complete market research and draft sales reports. I didn’t expect to find something like this until later down the road, so I’m overjoyed to be applying my skills and interests right away after graduation.

To find out what other members of the Class of 2014 are doing visit www.lawrence.edu/admissions/why/next-steps-2014

DANIEL O’MAHONEY

Major: Government

Next step: Inside sales consultant, SinglePlatform

Why SinglePlatform is a good fit: SinglePlatform is a small company, formed in 2010. It has seen huge growth. In 2012 it was acquired by Constant Contact. When I was reviewing the company, everyone mentioned how it still had the small ‘start-up’ feel to it, which was important to me coming from a small, close-knit community at Lawrence University. A majority of what I will be doing is sales presentations and, having taken courses that were speaking intensive, not to mention the heavy encouragement to participate in class, I am very comfortable giving presentations in front of all types of audiences.

CLASS OF 2014 SNAPSHOTS

From the Summer 2014 edition of Lawrence magazine.

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Five Lawrence University students have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships and will spend this coming academic year in locations throughout the world with English teaching assistantships and research fellowships.

Fluent in Mandarin, Katie Blackburn ’14 will spend 11 months as an English teacher working with Taiwanese seventh and eighth graders on the island of Kinmen starting in August.

“I’m looking forward to interacting with the people and learning about this different culture,” said Blackburn, a linguistics and Chinese language & literature double major. “I’m excited about getting to know these people and hopefully make some connections in ways I wasn’t able to on my previous trips to China. This time I’ll have a full year to get to know people.”

Beginning in September, Helen Titchener ’14 will spend the 2014–15 academic year as an English-language teaching assistant in a secondary school in Berlin, Germany. As a Fulbright Scholar, Titchener, a German and English double major, will also have a chance to further explore her other passion—opera directing.

“I’ve had a little experience with the opera world through some internships. Germany has some really great opera houses, and you can get really cheap tickets, so I’m hoping to take advantage of that,” said Titchener. “By the end of my fellowship, I should know if I want to pursue ESL or opera.”

Inanna Craig-Morse ’14, a government major, will embark on a nine-month project beginning in August to expand on previous research she conducted on Indian women’s political efficacy and their power to effectively lead others.

“The impetus for this project is why so many of the cultural factors we expect to contribute to women’s political ambitions don’t seem to be present in India,” said Craig-Morse. “I want to look at what factors enable women to enter politics and their belief that they have the capacity to lead others. The hope is to better enumerate what factors can promote more women to get involved in politics in the region and beyond.”

After spending the fall of 2011 in Vienna on an off-campus study program, Abigail Wagner ’14 will return to Austria and spend a year in Vienna teaching English and conducting research on Austrian folk music.

“Finding out that I actually get to go back, do research, teach and spend more time with people I’ve come to respect and appreciate, I just can’t describe that feeling,” said Wagner, a viola performance and general/instrumental music education major.

Beginning in October, Elizabeth Perry ’14 will start her eight-month appointment as an English teaching assistant in Reutte, Austria, thanks to receiving a United States Teaching Assistantship through the Fulbright Commission of Austria. With no prior formal teaching experience, she sees her appointment as an ideal launching pad to what she hopes will be a career in music education.

“Someday I would love to teach at Lawrence or a school like Lawrence,” said Perry. “I definitely model my pedagogy on what I’ve learned from my professors here. I’d love to teach within a liberal arts environment. I have a feeling I won’t be able to help myself but to bring a little bit of my liberal arts experience into the classroom next year. It’s a tradition I hope to continue throughout my teaching.”

2014 FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSWATSON WINNERTony Capparelli ’14 was named one of 43 national recipients of a $28,000 Watson Fellowship for a wanderjahr of independent travel and exploration outside the United States on a topic of his choosing. Beginning in August, Capparelli will embark on a 12-month immersion in Celtic and Scandinavian music and folklore, spending time in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

“While I currently look at this world from a distance, learning and exploring what I can on my own, to immerse myself in the places where the Celtic and Scandinavian music began will allow me to discover new magic in what has already been an important part of my life,” said Capparelli, a piano performance major. “I expect my musical ear will be opened to new sounds and colors, and my sense of the importance of this music and its magical light will blossom and grow.”

UDALL SCHOLARZechariah Meunier ’15 was one of only 50 national recipients of a $5,000 Udall Scholarship. As a Udall Scholar, Meunier will travel to Tucson, Ariz., in early August to participate in a five-day Scholar Orientation, where he will meet with environmental policymakers and community leaders as well as other scholarship winners and program alumni.

“I’m looking forward to collaborating and networking with environmentally minded students from all disciplines as we endeavor to find sustainable solutions,” said Meunier, who is double majoring in biology and environmental studies.

Meunier cofounded Lawrence’s Bird and Nature Club and was co-president of the Ecology and Conservation Organization. Zech also won a Gilman Scholarship through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study rainforest degradation and conservation in Madagascar through Lawrence’s off-campus study program.