March

NATIONAL, STATEWIDE AND METRO DETROIT MEDIA

Alma’s Percussion Ensemble Performs at Notre Dame Jazz Festival.

• Elkhart Truth, Elkhart, Indiana, March 2, 2006

Alma College is listed in the “Baccalaureate-Arts and Sciences” category of the new Carnegie Classifications.

• Chronicle of Higher Education, March 3, 2006

“Colleges, Universities Need to Produce Responsible Leaders.”
Columns by Alma President Saundra Tracy.

• Midland Daily News, March 5, 2006
• Lansing State Journal, March 5, 2006

“College Students Lend Spring Break Energy to Hurricane Relief Efforts.”
Round-up story includes a paragraph on Alma. “Nearly 100 students and staff at Alma College…engaged in service projects in Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida…”

• AScribe, the public interest newswire, March 9, 2006
• CollegeNews.org, March 9, 2006
• Detroit Free Press, March 11, 2006
• PNN Online, nonprofit news resource, March 13, 2006

Douglas Haesler, Former Warren Principal and Alma College Graduate, Dies at Age 74.

• Detroit Free Press, March 16, 2006

“Leadership Focus of New Center at SVSU.”
Op-ed piece by Saginaw Valley professor James Randall Johnson. Column directly acknowledges President Tracy and Alma College’s Center for Responsible Leadership: “We applaud President Tracy and Alma College for their initiative.”

• Midland Daily News, March 19, 2006

“Putting Parents in Their Place: Outside Class.”
Too much involvement can hinder students’ independence, experts say: “The Parent Program at Alma College in Michigan takes a comprehensive approach at orientation, complete with scripts that allow parents to role-place. A problem is presented and parents are asked, ‘Tell me what you’d done already to solve this problem,’ said Patricia Chase, director of student development.”

• Washington Post, March 20, 2006
• Canton Repository, Canton, Ohio, March 25, 2006
• Detroit News, March 25, 2006

“Metro Detroit’s Most Powerful and Connected People.”
List includes Alma board member Glenda Price, president of Marygrove College.

• Crain’s Detroit Business, March 20, 2006

Stephanie Burns, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dow Corning Corp., Is Alma’s Spring Commencement Speaker.

• Chronicle of Higher Education, online Gazette, March 30, 2006

LOCAL AND REGIONAL MICHIGAN MEDIA

Local Students Plan to Attend Alma College.

• Frankenmuth News, March 1, 2006
• Alpena News, March 4, 2006
• Owosso Argus-Press, March 9, 2006
• Tuscola County Advertiser, Caro, March 15, 2006
• Lansing State Journal, March 15, 2006
• Midland Daily News, March 20, 2006
• Detroit Free Press, March 23, 2006
• Hastings Banner, March 23, 2006
• Oscoda Press, March 29, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 30, 2006
• Bay City Times, March 30, 2006

• Lowell Leger, March 1, 2006
• Iosco County News Herald, East Tawas, March 1, 2006
• Newberry News, March 1, 2006
• Sanilac County News, Sandusky, March 1, 2006
• Oscoda Press, March 1, 2006
• Arenac County Independent, March 1, 2006
• Gladwin County Record, March 1, 2006
• Grosse Pointe News, March 2, 2006
• St. Ignace News, March 2, 2006
• Manchester Enterprise, March 2, 2006
• South Lyon Herald, March 2, 2006
• Minden City Herald, March 2, 2006
• Missaukee Sentinel, Lake City, March 3, 2006
• Bay City Times, March 4, 2006
• Lansing State Journal, March 5, 2006
• Tri County Citizen, Chesaning, March 5, 2006
• DeWitt/Bath Review, March 5, 2006
• Roscommon Herald News, March 5, 2006
• Lapeer County Press, March 5, 2006
• Brown City Banner, March 6, 2006
• St. Joseph Herald-Palladium, March 6, 2006
• Gladwin County Record, March 8, 2006
• West Bloomfield Spinal Column, March 8, 2006
• Gaylord Herald Times, march 11, 2006
• Holt Community News, March 12, 2006
• Jeffersonian, Croswell, March 12, 2006
• South Haven Tribune, March 12, 2006
• Livingston County Press, March 15, 2006
• Lapeer County Press, March 15, 2006
• Munising News, March 15, 2006
• Newsweekly, White Pigeon, March 15, 2006
• Mount Clemens Macomb Daily, March 15, 2006
• South Haven Tribune, March 19, 2006
• Port Huron Times Herald, March 22, 2006
• Livingston County Press, Brighton, March 22, 2006
• Saginaw Township Times, March 22, 2006
• Huron County Press, Bad Axe, March 22, 2006
• Alpena News, March 23, 2006
• Ogemaw County Herald, West Branch, March 23, 2006
• Grand Haven Tribune, March 24, 20066
• Jackson Citizen Patriot, March 27, 2006
• Coleman Tribune, March 29, 2006

Local Stories About Alma College Alumni.
(These listings do not include wedding, engagement or obituary announcements).

• Saginaw News, March 5, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 12, 2006
• Manistee News Advocate, March 15, 2006
• Big Rapids Pioneer, March 17, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 23, 2006
• Livingston County Press, March 26, 2006
• Midland Daily News, March 31, 2006

Local Stories About Exhibits, Events and Performances at Alma College.

• Saginaw News, March 2, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 4, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 5, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 16, 2006
• Milford Times, March 23, 2006
• Lansing State Journal, March 23, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 23, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 30, 2006

Local Optimist Student of the Month Plans to Attend Alma College.
Alma has awarded Stephanie Haeussler the Dean’s Scholarship.

• Manchester Enterprise, March 2, 2006

Alma’s Matt Saffarian Will Direct Youth Soccer Clinic.

• Saginaw News, March 4, 2006
• Midland Daily News , March 5, 2006
• Saginaw News, March 11, 2006

Judge Leopold Borrello, Father of Alma Faculty Member Murray Borrello, Retires.

• Saginaw News, March 5, 2006

“Task Force Wants Tests on St. Louis Water.”
Panel discussion at Alma College included Professor Murray Borrello and other area leaders.

• Alma Morning Sun, March 5, 2006
• Alma Morning Sun, March 6, 2006

“Different Isn’t Bad, but Bullying the School Board Is.”
Column by local newspaper editor brags about her daughter, Tanna Lounds, who graduated from Alma College with honors.

• Lansing State Journal, March 5, 2006

Alma College Hosts Youth Swimming Meet.

• Saginaw Township Times, March 8, 2006
• Midland Daily News, March 12, 2006
• Tri County Citizen, Chesaning, March 12, 2006
• Gaylord Herald Times, March 15, 2006

Lisette Hoeltzel of Clawson Receives Research Grant to Study Native American Women.

• Royal Oak/Clawson Mirror, Royal Oak, March 9, 2006

Clare-Gladwin Career Tech Center Offering College Day.
Alma, other colleges scheduled to attend.

• Clare County Cleaver, Harrison, March 9, 2006
• Midland Daily News, March 15, 2006

Alma College Choir Performs at Grosse Ile.

• Grosse Ile Camera, March 10, 2006

Former Alma College Basketball Player Ron Lude Named to Local Hall of Fame.

• Kalamazoo Gazette, March 12, 2006

Alma Students Participate in Intercollegiate Honor Band.

• Big Rapids Pioneer, March 14, 2006

Alma College Student Andrea Reeves Named Queen of Scots for Alma Highland Festival.

• Alma Morning Sun, March 19, 2006

Local Students Initiated Into the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority at Alma.

• Grand Ledge Independent, March 19, 2006
• Frankenmuth News, March 29, 2006
• Shepherd Argus, March 29, 2006

Local Forensics Teams Advance to Regional Tournament at Alma College.

• Cheboygan Daily Tribune, March 22, 2006

Will Nichols Judges Local Musical Artistic Award Competition.

• Frankenmuth News, March 22, 2006

Local Student to Work at Alma Cheerleader Camp This Summer.

• Holland Sentinel, March 23, 2006

Alma Students Display Artwork at Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson.

• Ortonville County Line Reminder, March 25, 2006
• Marshall Community Advisor, March 29, 2006

Bruce Dickey, Former Coach at Alma College, Is Interviewed About Sportsmanship.

• Midland Daily News, March 26, 2006

Alma Student Danielle Creguer Receives Discovering Vocation Grant.

• Huron Daily Tribune, Bad Axe, March 27, 2006

“Caledonia Grad, Barlow Trophy Nominee, Sets Pathway at Alma College.”
Story features local student Cameron Ray.

• South Advance, Byron Center, March 28, 2006

“Down Memory Lane.”
Five years ago, local student plays basketball at Alma.

• Cass City Chronicle, March 29, 2006

Kristi Trinkle of Manchester Nominated for Alma’s Barlow Trophy.

• Manchester Enterprise, March 30, 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