About The Department
The Alma College Percussion Ensemble performed at the prestigious Centrum Jazz Festival, an international festival in Port Townsend, Wash., in July 2007. Alma was the only college group invited to perform. “It’s a huge honor,” says faculty director Dave Zerbe. “You can’t apply to perform there; they seek you out.”
Graduate Profile
Bruce S. Fraser
Graduation: 1976
Major: Chemistry
Bruce S. Fraser has used his chemistry major to pursue a variety of career fields.
Now a software engineering manager with Lockheed Martin Corp., the 1976 graduate continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and moved to Los Angeles to be a salesman for an oil and petroleum company.