NATIONAL, STATEWIDE AND METRO DETROIT MEDIA
Alma College Announces The Creation Of The Center For Responsible Leadership.
- Detroit News, January 1, 2006
“Students Clear Debris, Earn College Credit.”
Alma College students were among those who traveled to Mississippi to participate in community service following Hurricane Katrina.
- Biloxi Sun Herald, Biloxi, Mississippi, January 19, 2006
“Money Or Not, Woman’s Charity Endures.”
Alma College alumna Nancy Stockham continues to operate her charity, GRACE, at the age of 74.
- Flint Journal, January 19, 2006
“You Don’t Need To Sit Around Or Mope.”
Clinton Charles Jr., who “worked his way through Alma College in the school cafeteria, “wins the W.W. Plummer Humanitarian Award. He is a human resources manager at Gordon Food Service.
- Grand Rapids Press, January 29, 2006
Alma College Graduate Mark Young Named Director Of Six Sigma Lean Solutions For Supply Chain Solutions.
- Supply and Demand-Chain Executive, January 30, 2006
Alma Alum Christopher Trebilcock Elected To The Board Of Directors Of The Detroit Institute Of Arts Founders Junior Council.
- Detroit Legal News, January 30, 2006
LOCAL AND REGIONAL MICHIGAN MEDIA
Local Students Plan To Attend Alma College.
- Traverse City Record-Eagle, January 10. 2005
- Port Huron Times Herald, January 18, 2006
- Tri County Citizen, Chesaning, January 22, 2006
Local Students Named To Alma College Honors List.
- Ile Camera, Grosse Ile, January 13, 2006
- Clinton County News, January 22, 2006
Local Stories About Alma College Alumni.
(These listings typically include job promotion announcements and casual mentions of an individual’s alma mater; they do not include wedding, engagement or obituary announcements).
- Saginaw Township Times, January 4, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 8, 2006
- Grand Haven Tribune, January 12, 2006
- Kalamazoo Gazette, January 15, 2006
- Holland Sentinel, January 15, 2006
- Greenville Daily News, January 18, 2006
- Deckerville Recorder, January 18, 2006
- Flint Journal, January 22, 2006
- Muskegon Chronicle, January 25, 2006
Local Stories About Upcoming Exhibits, Events And Performances At Alma College.
- Saginaw News, January 19, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 26, 2006
- Hastings Banner, January 26, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 28, 2006
“Tracy Reflects On Alma College Tenure.”
Page 1 story focused on President Saundra Tracy’s five-year anniversary at Alma College. She comments on living in the campus residence, working out daily in the recreation center, community involvement, and developing a strategic plan for the College.
- Alma Morning Sun, January 1, 2006
Former Alma Student April Lacroix Named Canada-U.S. Fulbright Fellow.
- Kentwood Advance, January 3, 2006
“Distant Replay…20 Years Ago.”
Local athletes honored at the Alma College 1985 Volleyball Awards Banquet.
- Saginaw Township Times, January 4, 2006
“Alma College Hopes To Train Leaders With Integrity.”
Page 1 column by Saundra Tracy about the College’s goals for 2006 and beyond. Column focused on the Posey Global Leadership Initiative and the Center for Responsible Leadership.
- Alma Morning Sun, January 7, 2006
Feature Story On Local Band “Taste This!”
Band member guitarist Paul Woolcock has a degree in music performance from Alma College, “and if someone mentions a musician he’s never heard of he’ll go home and learn everything he can about them, just because he’s that crazy about music.”
- Flint Journal, January 8, 2005
Choir Director And Singer Will Nichols To Perform.
- Alma Morning Sun, January 8, 2006
Alma Plans Martin Luther King Jr. Events.
- Alma Morning Sun, January 13, 2006
Local Student Initiated Into The Epsilon Beta Chapter Of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.
- White Lake Beacon, Whitehall, January 15, 2006
“Harbor Beach Native Joins Alma Elite Status.”
Colleen Wruble is inducted into Alma’s Athletic Hall of Fame. She is quoted: “Alma provided me with a well-rounded experience. It enabled me to obtain a great education while competing on two successful teams and still allowing me time to enjoy the social atmosphere of a small school…At a bigger school you can get lost in the shuffle. Sports are not your life at a school like Alma. You still have time to do plenty of other things and enjoy them all.”
- Huron Daily Tribune, Bad Axe, January 16, 2006
“Legend Of A Poet.”
Feature story on the annual Robert Burns tribune. Quotes Mark Starkweather: “This is the 15th year that we’ve held a Burns’ dinner here at Alma College. Our goal is to celebrate the life of Burns and Scotland. It’s a great experience – everyone is invited.”
- Alma Morning Sun, Time Out entertainment section cover story, January 19, 2006
“Indoor Kids At A Loss Outdoors.”
Lauri Lowe, outdoor educator at the Forest Hill Nature Center, instructs future elementary education teachers at area camps and parks, including the Vestaburg bog area in Montcalm County owned by Alma College.
- Alma Morning Sun, January 22, 2006
Gratiot County Communication Foundation Offers Scholarships.
The Robert W. MacDonald Memorial Scholarship for Journalism Education is available to all Gratiot County graduating high school seniors and Alma College students.
- Midland Daily News, January 22, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 23, 2006
Faculty Members Ed Lorenz And Murray Borrello Respond To National Media Editorials Calling For An Easing Of Restrictions On The Use Of DDT.
Their joint response will remind people of the pesticide’s negative effects on the environment and to wildlife.
- Gratiot County Herald, January 20, 2006
- WSGW radio (Borrello interview), January 25, 2006
Alma Awards Scholarships To Local Students.
- Oscoda Press, January 25, 2006
No-Contest Plea Entered In Fatality.
Ohio truck driver with multiple sclerosis pleads no contest to vehicular homicide after a crash that killed Alma College graduate Emily Van Dyke in 2004. (AP story).
- Battle Creek Enquirer, January 26, 2006
- Lansing State Journal, January 26, 2006
- Alma Morning Sun, January 26, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 28, 2006
“Keeping Music In The Family.”
Saginaw author, organist and former Alma College instructor Edward Soehnlen performs.
- Saginaw News, January 28, 2006
“Gratiot Bestows Top Honors On Four.”
Last year’s Order of the Tartan winners, Alma College professors Murray Borrello and Ed Lorenz, presented a slide show that announced Doug Yarnell as this year’s winner of the top award for Alma. The awards were presented at the annual Gratiot Chamber of Commerce dinner in Ithaca.
- Alma Morning Sun, January 29, 2006
STORIES ABOUT ALMA COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Alma College is mentioned multiple times daily and hundreds of times every week in conference standings, national polls, statistics, schedules, predictions, game results and previews. The following list is only a sampling of news items on Alma College sports teams and athletes. Stories about Alma athletics appear in nearly every issue of the Alma Morning Sun and Gratiot County Herald and are not included here.
- Detroit Free Press, January 4, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 4, 2006
- Detroit Free Press, January 5, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 5, 2006
- Holland Sentinel, January 5, 2006
- Flint Journal, January 5, 2006
- Muskegon Chronicle, January 5, 2006
- Adrian Daily Telegram, January 8, 2006
- Kalamazoo Gazette, January 8, 2006
- Detroit News, January 8, 2006
- Muskegon Chronicle, January 8, 2006
- Monroe Evening News, January 8, 2006
- Port Huron Times Herald, January 8, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 8, 2006
- Grand Rapids Press, January 8, 2006
- Allentown Morning Call, Allentown, Pennsylvania, January 10, 2006
- Detroit Free Press, January 10, 2006
- Huron County Press, Bad Axe, January 11, 2006
- Grand Rapids Press, January 12, 2006
- Kalamazoo Gazette, January 12, 2006
- Detroit Free Press, January 12, 2006
- Muskegon Chronicle, January 12, 2006
- Monroe Evening News, January 12, 2006
- Flint Journal, January 12, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 12, 200
- Jackson Citizen Patriot, January 15, 2006
- Detroit News, January 15, 2006
- Jackson Citizen Patriot, January 15, 2006
- Flint Journal, January 15, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 15, 2006
- Midland Daily News, January 15, 2006
- Battle Creek Enquirer, January 15, 2006
- Adrian Daily Telegram, January 15, 2006
- Port Huron Times Herald, January 15, 2006
- Monroe Evening News, January 15, 2006
- Grand Rapids Press, January 17, 2006
- Battle Creek Enquirer, January 18, 2006
- Grand Rapids Press, January 18, 2006
- Sewickley Herald, Pennsylvania, January 18, 2006
- Huron County Press, Bad Axe, January 18, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 19, 2006
- Monroe Evening News, January 19, 2006
- Muskegon Chronicle, January 19, 2006
- Grand Rapids Press, January 19, 2006
- Holland Sentinel, January 19, 2006
- Grand Rapids Press, January 20, 2006
- Midland Daily News, January 20, 2006
- Detroit Free Press, January 20, 2006
- Tuscola Advertiser, Caro, January 21, 2006
- Holland Sentinel, January 21, 2006
- Grand Rapids Press, January 22, 2006
- Muskegon Chronicle, January 22, 2006
- Midland Daily News, January 22, 2006
- Flint Journal, January 22, 2006
- Detroit News & Free Press, January 22, 2006
- Lansing State Journal, January 22, 2006
- Monroe Evening News, January 22, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 22, 2006
- Port Huron Times Herald, January 22, 2006
- Grand Rapids Press, January 23, 2006
- Holland Sentinel, January 23, 2006
- Holland Sentinel, January 25, 2006
- Holland Sentinel, January 26, 2006
- Cadillac News, January 26, 2006
- Monroe Evening News, January 26, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 26, 2006
- Muskegon Chronicle, January 26, 2006
- Detroit News, January 29, 2006
- Lansing State Journal, January 29, 2006
- Muskegon Chronicle, January 29, 2006
- Flint Journal, January 29, 2006
- Monroe Evening News, January 29, 2006
- Saginaw News, January 29, 2006
- Owosso Argus-Press, January 29, 2006
- Monroe Evening News, January 30, 2006
