2011

Alma College in the News 2011

A sampling of Alma College news items, gleaned from newspaper clippings, Web searches and conversations with campus news sources and compiled each month during 2011.

The most recent month during which Alma College is mentioned in the news may be found at this site. Previous months’ notices may be selected from the list below or navigation menu at left. The navigation menu at left also offers archives of previous years’ mentions.

— Compiled by Mike Silverthorn, director of communications, (989) 463-7290.


 

Frank Knox’s accomplishments are extraordinary: From fighting alongside Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders and publishing the Chicago Daily News vice presidential candidate in 1936 to Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Through it all, the 1912 graduate stayed true to his Alma College roots. His portrait adorns the conference room in the Reid-Knox Administration Building.

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Graduate Profile

Sara Swanton

Sara Swanton
Graduation: 2009
Major: Integrative Physiology and Health Science

Check her pulse, swab her tongue or test her reflexes. Sara Swanton ’09 graduated from Alma College diagnosed for success.

“I got unique experiences through the performance lab and the anatomy lab that I could not have gotten elsewhere,” she says. “Alma prepared me so well for the program I’m in now. A lot of the classes I’m required to take, I’ve already taken at Alma.”

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