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Both sides are ordered to pay their own legal costs in the deal. Interplay retains the publishing rights to Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics
until December 31, 2013 - when they will also transfer ownership to Bethesda.
"While we strongly believe in the merits of our suits, we are pleased to avoid the distraction and expense of litigation while completely resolving all claims to the Fallout IP," said Robert Altman, CEO of Bethesda parent Zenimax. "Fallout is an important property of ZeniMax and we are now able to develop future Fallout titles for our fans without third party involvement or the overhang of others' legal claims."
The legal battle first began in earnest in 2009, two years after the 2007 deal which saw Bethesda buy the publishing rights for the IP.
Bethesda then sued Interplay for allegedly breaching the terms of the 2007 agreement by publishing the Fallout Trilogy pack, containing Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics, claiming that the company should have sought its consultation on packaging and marketing to avoid confusion with the recently released Fallout 3 which led to many customers complaining about mix-matched developers.
At the same time Interplay was asked to work on and develop an MMO with the Fallout IP under the stipulations that they could raise $30million to fund the game within a two year period, and have started on an alpha build of development; these conditions were not met.
Interplay retained its rights over the first three games in that case, but the issues over an MMO continued to be contested in and out of court for the next three years.
In 2010, Interplay president Eric Caen claimed that Bethesda could have bought the rights to the entire IP for $50 million at the time of the deal, but the publisher had refused. Caen also insinuated that Bethesda had expected to obtain the rights through litigation all along.
Now to summarize; Interplay only has the rights to their original games until 2013 and then they'll surrender the rights to Bethesda. Bethesda now has the reigns over the MMO and the proverbial ball is in their court.


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Foursquare Rolls Out Visualizations of Your Check-Ins, Sponsored By Samsung
Foursquare has partnered with Samsung for My History, a new feature that will provide users with infographics based on their check-in histories.
The individualized heat maps are branded with Samsung's logo for its latest high-end smartphone the Galaxy S4 and features a tab titled "The Next Big Thing" in which users can receive recommendations on places to visit based on where they've checked in before. The partnership is worth seven figures for Foursquare, according to an executive familiar with the terms.
Foursquare declined to comment about the specifics of the financial arrangement. Samsung did not immediately return a request for comment.
Foursquare users can access My History at foursquare.com where they can watch their entire check-in history -- which dates back to 2009 for the app's first users -- unfold in fast forward. A play-pause button at the bottom of the screen allows to users to stop the experience and note certain behaviors such as distance between subsequent check-ins and when they checked into a certain location. The infographic can also show users how much times they spent in coffee shops versus bars among other comparisons.
My History is the latest instance of Foursquare incorporating more advertising into its service and allowing marketers more access to its location data. Foursquare is currently running an HBO-branded Game of Cones contest in New York City, for example. Whichever of the participating ice cream shops accrues the most check-ins by June 21 will be awarded the "Iron Cone" a la the Iron Throne from HBO's "Game of Thrones."
Samsung began working with Foursquare at South by Southwest (SXSW) this February when the electronics manufacturer promoted Samsung charging stations on the app.
Ads for My History will appear within Foursquare once the company rolls-out its "post-check-in" ads in the coming weeks. Those ads will be served to users once they check into a specific location.
Foursquare has recently been under pressure to prove it can generate revenue that will justify its $760 million valuation. The company earned $2 million in ad revenue in 2012, but has started developing new ad products this year -- including paid Foursquare promotions for small businesses and letting marketers use its data to target users elswehere on the web.
My History, then, is not just a way for Foursquare users to understand their own habits, but a glimpse into one of the ways Foursquare can package its users' location data when pitching marketers.


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NEW BEDFORD — The Rotary Club of New Bedford and The Salvation Army lost a dear friend this week.
NEW BEDFORD — The Rotary Club of New Bedford and The Salvation Army lost a dear friend this week.
Alan Freitas, president of the club, and his wife, Joy, have been ringing bells for red kettle donations across SouthCoast since Alan joined the club in 1990. But their collections started spiking in 1998 with the birth of their newest family member, a golden retriever named El Dorado, or Dorado for short.
"We saw a huge uptick in donations," Alan said after The Salvation Army's annual Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon on Wednesday. "He loved it, and the kids loved seeing him there."
"Kids would come up and ask us if they could pet the dog. We said 'sure, he'll love that,'" Joy said. "They would put some change in the kettle and pet the dog."
For the past 15 years, Dorado joined his "parents" at Stop & Shops on Kings Highway, Fairhaven and Dartmouth, as well as the Fairhaven Walmart and other retailers around the area. Alan and Joy take shifts manning the kettles as part of the Rotary Club's mission to support The Salvation Army.
"I remember pulling up and seeing the dog with them. It was wonderful," Salvation Army Maj. Gilbert Parkhurst said.
SouthCoast shoppers may not recognize Alan and Joy; they dress as Santa and Mrs. Claus to add some fun to the bell ringing. But they will always remember the gentle golden retriever with reindeer antlers or a red scarf helping raise money for The Salvation Army. Dorado, 15, died Monday.
Alan took the podium at The Salvation Army Wednesday as a representative of the Rotary Club and tearfully told the crowd of more than 100 about Dorado's 15 years of bell ringing and what he meant to the family.
Hours before the luncheon, the couple got a call that Dorado's ashes were ready. Alan held the ashes, in an inscribed square container, as he addressed the crowd of more than 100.
"We're going to put a picture in it," Alan said after the luncheon. "He'll always be with us."


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Increasingly, disputes arise over patent rights, and these disputes frequently lead to litigation. This course will explore the nature of patent disputes ---- how they arise, the issues involved, and how they are resolved. Students will follow an example of a patent dispute from its inception to its resolution. Topics to be covered include (a) initial communications that frame the dispute, such as license demands, cease and desist letters and responsive communications; (b) pre-litigation investigation to provide sufficient grounds for asserting a patent infringement claim; (c) pre-suit negotiations to attempt to resolve the dispute; (d) alternative dispute resolution options; (e) preparation of a patent infringement complaint; (f) defenses to patent infringement; (g) written discovery, including electronic discovery, applicable to patent infringement cases; (h) depositions in patent infringement cases; (i) preparation for a Markman hearing in which the Court will decide the meaning of the patent claims alleged to have been infringed; (j) circumstances warranting a motion for summary judgment; and (k) trial strategy. The course does not assume any prior knowledge of patent law. Accordingly, the course will provide an overview of patent law issues relevant to patent disputes. Prior completion of, and/or concurrent enrollment in, Civil Procedure is strongly preferred. Prior completion of, and/or concurrent enrollment in Evidence and/or an introductory course addressing patent law is desirable, but not required.
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Pivotal Game
While it is early in the season, today's game is pivotal. The formula for a championship team is to win a series. The Brewers and Phillies are 1-1.
It is also pivotal in that Cole is on the mound again. Needless to say, he's the ace and we need to get him in a groove.
It is also pivotal in that today is day 1 of playing three straight games without some sort of interruption. Hard to get into a rhythm with the schedule and events we've had.
Team leaves after the game for Miami and a three-game series against the Marlins who just got swept in three games by the Pirates. Back home Monday for three with the Nationals.
**There were five shutout games in the majors yesterday, unusual. A total of 16 pitchers were used.
**Five more home runs were hit in the new Yankee Stadium.
**Phillies starting pitchers have allowed a home run in each of the 13 games.
**Raul has an 8-game hitting streak.
**Phillies pitchers have allowed the fewest walks in the NL and the most home runs in the majors.
Trivia Answer
How many cheese steaks did Larry Andersen put away during Tuesday night's rain-delayed game?
"Only two," laughed LA.
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I think Larry only managed two because they would not send him beer to wash them down with :O) Poor guy. Ha!!
those homers will kill ya…keep repeating,'it's a marathon;not a sprint!'


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The work of International artist Dinara Omarova captures the authenticity and rawness aspect of freedom. Every stroke of her brush seeks to connect with the world, heavily influenced by nature and emotions at their most unspoiled.
An aspect of this quest for freedom is found in her paintings of the female figure. Depicted as a silhouette in powerful poses with bold strong lines, the woman is restituted her natural beauty and power beyond the restrictions and alterations of the modern world.
Silicon Valley in California, USA offers this resident artist a fast-paced innovative canvas. Her native Russia brings in exotic design styles and perspectives. Her signature style, the 'chameleon', is an abstract art form which uses metallic and gold colors. The name reflects the way its composition allows it to change colours throughout the day.
For Omarova, Art is a language that reconnects us with nature, with each other and with ourselves. It is the capture of a flow of emotions that embrace all aspects of life. She uses a variety of mediums to convey this expression. These includes but are not limited to acrylic paint, pallet knives, brushes, molding paste, different types of gel and metallic acrylics to create 3D effects.
Dinara Omarova's artwork has been exhibited locally in Silicon Valley and beyond, notably lately in San Francisco. It has been showcased as widely as hotel exhibits, galleries, festivals, and corporate event.


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Microsoft Is Making Mark With Surface
One nice surprise in Microsoft's quarterly results Thursday were sales of the company's hardware, especially the Surface tablet.
Surface, Microsoft's first homegrown computing device introduced 15 months ago, got off to a rough sales start, but has started to find traction. Microsoft's news release for its fiscal second quarter ended Dec. 31 said revenue from Surface more than doubled from the quarter ended in September to $893 million.


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+0 votes Birdman Bill Freund › May 3, 2012
+0 votes Tom Lowman › January 7, 2012
Good quick little course if you don't have a lot of time and are in Junction City. Course is not well-marked, but not too difficult to figure out. Baskets are a bit dated, but adequate. There are no markings of any kind showing where to drive from. In the absence of tees, stakes depicting the leading edge of pad (like at Riley's Conference Center course) would be nice. Decent little course, but suffers by comparison to the other quality par 3 courses within 5-15 miles.
+0 votes Josh Prasek "Pricecheck" › January 7, 2012
The course is short but has a good layout. There is no marking for any tees so we just used the basket as the line. Having at least stakes in the ground with hole numbers would be a great addition.
+0 votes Alan Fox › August 15, 2013
It was a fun course.... but no tee signs or worn down patches of grass to know where to tee off from


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Interesting picture here. This guy has tree trunks for legs. Seems that would be a good thing for holding the line as a DT in the 3-4. His strength is apparently his strength. I find it somewhat interesting TT went for a guy who admits his conditioning hasn't been great and by extension, someone who allegedly takes plays off here and there. This strikes me as one of those picks TT make where he likes the potential in a guy and has the faith in his coaching staff to develop the guy well.
As far as need, I didn't see a huge need for a DE. But maybe TT saw this guy's strength and figured he'd be a natural as a 3-4 DE to hold the blocks/hold the line allowing our LBs to make plays.


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Square Enix was really weird about Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix at the Tokyo Game Show. Kept saying it was a "video work". We're sure there's going to be game in there somewhere, probably a lot going by the footage here, but just how much, we won't know until Square stops being so weird.
Anyway, here's the project's debut trailer, which had previously been shown only on the floor at TGS.


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The Vegetarian Option: Katashe's
Dining out meat-free.
If you ride the 5 train almost all the way to its northernmost stop, and get out at Gun Hill Road, you will find yourself surrounded by Jamaican and West Indian restaurants and grocery stores. Walking past the eateries hawking chicken, and markets offering such popular cuts of meat as "cow cod" (look it up), you might dismiss Katashe's as just another store, and one that doesn't look particularly well-stocked. In the back, though, you'll see a variety of patties piled up in a hot box. Behind the counter you'll see some steam trays, and you'll get a whiff of allspice. Ask the counterman what's available for lunch and he'll gladly lift the lids up to show you.
Katashe's has a rotating menu of vegan Jamaican food that they serve out of those trays. On the day of my visit they had cabbage, tofu, greens, and soy barbecued "ribs". You can get a small plate for $7.99 or a large for $11—I went with the large. After filling up the aluminum container, the counter man asked if I wanted any "carbs"—in this case, fried plantains and large slices of fried yam. There were two plastic patio chairs sitting next to the counter, with no table. When I asked the counterman if there was a place nearby where I could eat outside, such as a park, he encouraged me to take one of those chairs outside where I could sit and eat.
I'll go clockwise from the bottom right of the container. Steamed cabbage with carrots could have used a bit more salt, but was delicious when mixed with the tofu. That firm tofu was roughly chopped and cooked with lemon and spices. The collard greens (hiding under the crunchy yam slices) were also lacking in salt, but again they were a good mix with the final item, the barbecue soy "ribs". This was the real star of the show: heavily spiced, nicely seasoned, chewy and firm and slathered in a delicious sauce. In the center are the slightly sweet plantains, providing a nice counterpoint to all of the savory food. Throughout all of the dishes were whole sprigs of thyme I had to pull out while eating; this felt almost like a home-cooked meal.
I also got a couple of the Jamaican patties. At $3 each these would make a substantial snack. On the left in the yellow crust is the soy "meat" patty. The filling, which was piping hot even 20 minutes after coming out of the heating tray, was surprisingly creamy and rich. The patty on the left was filled with a mix of greens and tofu, similar to what was served from the steam trays (complete with whole sprigs of thyme). This brown crust, which I believe was whole wheat, was much tastier than the yellow crust. I prefer my Jamaican patties to have flakier crusts than these had, but they were still delicious. I washed everything down with a bottle of pineapple ginger juice ($1.50), from Grace Tropical Rhythms. It was the perfect accompaniment to the meal.
Although jerk chicken is probably Jamaica's best-known food, it actually has a rich tradition of vegetarian and vegan cooking. Ital cuisine, characterized by the lack of animal products and the use of all natural, unprocessed ingredients, is one of the characteristics of the Rastafarian religion. The idea is to purify the body, but if the delicious food at Katashe's is any indication, it's hardly a sacrifice.
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GVSU History
L. William Seidman, widely recognized as "the father of Grand Valley State University," was interviewed for GVSU's 50th Anniversary Video History Project shortly before his death in May of 2009. The Grand Rapids businessman, who became an economic advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, chair of the FDIC and head of the Resolution Trust Corp., among other national positions, recounted his attempts in the late 1950s to gain community support for a somewhat radical idea. He proposed to establish an independent, state-supported, four-year institution of higher education in West Michigan.
"We started having meetings with all kinds of organizations," he remembered, "the labor unions, the various luncheon clubs, anybody that would listen to us … I would come in and I would take out what we used to call a recording machine, and I would play 'High Hopes.' You know, the song 'High Hopes,'" he continued, describing Frank Sinatra's Top 40 hit of the day, "the ant moving a rubber tree plant? Then we would tell them about this (college proposal) and ask them for their support. We did that for about a year. I must have gone to hundreds of meetings."
Seidman and his team of community leaders had reason to set their hopes high. Following the end of World War II in 1945, the birth rate in the U.S. began to rise dramatically, peaking in 1957 with 4.3 million babies born, compared to an average of about 2.5 million per year in the decade before 1946. Those babies would begin to reach college age in the early 1960s.
Attitudes about higher education also were beginning to change. Returning soldiers took advantage of what became known as the G.I. Bill, which, among other benefits, provided funding for education and training for war veterans of every social and economic background. Although the original bill's funding ended in 1956, the U.S. government had started taking a closer look at higher education and its implications for the country. President Harry Truman appointed a Commission on Higher Education in 1946, which produced a lengthy report recommending a dramatic expansion of educational opportunities, proposing a national goal of having one-third of the young men and women in the U.S. graduate from four-year colleges.
Advisors to Truman's successor, President Dwight Eisenhower, also believed there was a national interest in higher education, warning that with the launch by the U.S.S.R. of earth's first man-made satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, America risked falling behind the Soviets unless education in science and math improved. Congress passed the National Defense Education Act in 1958, providing $1 billion for college student loans, scholarships, and scientific equipment for public and private schools.
Michigan legislators were anticipating the impending tsunami of baby-boom college students as well. Beginning in 1955, a succession of appointed congressional and citizen committees resulted in the hiring of Dr. John Russell, Chancellor and Executive Secretary of the New Mexico Board of Educational Finance, to direct a survey of higher education needs in Michigan. Fourteen publications resulted from Russell's work, but the most important conclusions for West Michigan were identification of the area as "the most likely location for a new state-controlled college," and the recommendation that a new institution of higher education be created, "with its own administrative organization, fiscal structure, and program of offerings."
The 1958 Russell Report conclusion was critical for the Grand Rapids area, where for several years a debate had been brewing over educational needs. The Grand Rapids Public Schools had already been dealing with the baby boom. New elementary, junior and high schools had been constructed, and by 1956 enrollment at Grand Rapids Junior College was up more than a third. A special committee was appointed by the Board of Education to study the need for higher education in the area. It became clear that the options were a state-supported independent institution, a city college supported by the Board of Education, a cooperative venture with the state and the Board, or a branch of an existing state institution.
Both Michigan State University and the University of Michigan had maintained extension centers in Grand Rapids for several years following the war, and there was activity by supporters of both for the branch option. A group of MSU alumni had progressed to the point of suggesting a site, interestingly quite near to the present Grand Valley's Allendale campus, on M-45 (then M-50) closer to Grand Rapids. The University of Michigan group's primary goal was establishing a medical school.
Thanks to the conclusions of the Russell Report, and the agreement by community leaders that it would be best to transcend rivalries, the option of an independent, state-supported, four-year college was soon adopted by almost all involved. L. William Seidman, a 37-year-old partner in the accounting firm established by his father, had been active in the earliest efforts to establish a new, local four-year college. In late October of 1958 he joined a group of nine other men, including both U of M and MSU alumni, to form the Committee to Establish a Four Year College (CEFYC).
A complete history and analysis of the events leading to the founding of Grand Valley, including the formation of the Committee to Establish a Four Year College, can be found in a 1963 doctoral thesis by Marinus Matthuis Swets, who later was a long-time professor and dean at Grand Rapids Junior (later Community) College. Read A Study of the Establishment of Grand Valley State College.
It was not, perhaps, the most advantageous atmosphere for such an ambitious undertaking. After 13 years of post-war growth, the U.S. economy had hit its first recession since the Great Depression. Unemployment was up, auto sales were down, and by April 1958, 20% of workers in Detroit were out of a job. The state of Michigan was facing a budget deficit of $100 million. Not the best of times to propose a new, tax-supported state college. But Seidman and his team went to work, hitting the pavement to speak to business, labor, social, cultural and political groups across an eight-county area. In newspaper accounts of the day, Seidman's mantra was repeated over and over: "There is no place in the state where the legislature can buy as much education for its dollar as here."
The CEFYC, often meeting in one of Seidman's favorite haunts, The Peach Nook at the Pantlind Hotel, was successful in attracting wide support for the proposed new college. Editorials and columns supporting the idea appeared in newspapers throughout the area, and by the beginning of 1959, more than 30 organizations had signed on in support. Preliminary work also had been done to establish a larger citizens committee to undertake the long process of making the project happen.
In February of 1959, Seidman and the CEFYC applied to the Grand Rapids Foundation for funds to collect data on the need for higher education in the area. $7500 was granted, with the stipulation that the study be under the direction of the Michigan legislature, and completed by the end of the year. Although no state funding was involved, it took four months of political wrangling to gain legislative approval. The CEFYC didn't lose momentum during the process. They proceeded with identifying likely candidates for a Citizens Advisory Committee, and distributing 12,000 questionnaires to parents and students in second, tenth and twelfth grades.
House Concurrent Resolution No. 28 of the 1959 Michigan Legislature passed on June 4. The CEFYC had all its ducks in a row. Almost immediately the legislative committee appointed to oversee the project approved the hiring of Dr. John X. Jamrich, Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Michigan State University, to direct work on the study that had already begun.
Jamrich had worked with John Dale Russell on the 1958 report, and had been in constant contact with Seidman and the CEFYC since its recommendations had been published. In an article Jamrich wrote for the GVSU History Department, he said that MSU had volunteered his time to work on the survey until his formal appointment in July of 1959. It was a canny move, considering that both the Grand Rapids Foundation and the Legislature, despite their dithering, had stipulated that the survey be completed by the end of the year. Nearly 10,000 questionnaires were returned. "Suffice it to say," wrote Jamrich in his 1997 article, "that the data indicated then, as is true now, that this area was and continues to be a vibrant economic, cultural, business, agricultural, and industrial area, capable of supporting an additional college and benefiting from its presence."
The House Resolution also required the appointment of a citizen's advisory committee, "to assist, and to report its findings and recommendations to the 1960 Legislature." Seidman and the CEFYC had been working since late 1958 to identify people in the 8-county area who would be most effective in realizing the dream of a new college. They solicited community leaders from labor, education, business and finance, service clubs, the farm bureau, PTAs, and many more, coming up with a group that included 52 from Kent County, 11 from Ottawa, seven from Muskegon, five from Allegan, three from Barry, four from Newaygo, and one from Montcalm. This group would not only help in the campaign to convince the legislature, and the West Michigan community, that the college was needed, they would provide the basis for the army of volunteers who brought the dream to reality.
James H. Zumberge, John Russell, John X. Jamrich, and George T. Potter on the steps of Lake Michigan Hall.
Read John X. Jamrich's entire report, "A New College: A Report to the Legislative and Citizens Committees on the Eight County Study of Higher Education Needs in Allegan, Barry, Ionia, Kent, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, and Ottawa Counties, December 1959."
By the end of 1959, hopes were again soaring for the success of the fledgling college. At a November 30 meeting at the Peninsular Club in Grand Rapids, Jamrich presented his highly favorable report to 75 members of the Citizens Advisory Committee, area legislators and other invited guests. On December 30, The Grand Rapids Press ran a front-page, banner headline story reporting that Seidman expected to break ground for a new college in 1961.
West Michigan Congressman Thomas Whinery had agreed to introduce legislation in the House of Representatives, and did so on February 22, 1960. The following day, Seidman and other committee members met with area legislators in the office of Governor G. Mennen Williams to brief him on the project. The Grand Rapids Press reported that in the meeting, Williams commented that the college might need some millionaires to succeed. In a later exchange of letters, Seidman and Williams regretted that the comment had been so widely publicized.
Whether the somewhat offhand comment had an effect on the legislators or not has been debated. The upshot is, that when House Bill 477 proposing the new college was finally passed, it contained several significant amendments. Most important to the Grand Rapids cause was the requirement that before the college could receive a charter, the Board of Control must raise one million dollars by means other than public taxation, and secure a suitable site. Governor G. Mennen Williams signed Public Act 120 of the 70th Legislature of the State of Michigan, Regular Session 1960, into law on April 26.
A million dollars. Depending on the method used for comparison, that would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $10-$15 million today. No capital fundraising effort that large had been undertaken in West Michigan before then.
But the community was ready to go. In September 1960 the Grand Rapids Press reported that the Grand Rapids Foundation pledged $50,000 to get the ball rolling. Before the Herculean task could begin, however, a legal entity to receive the donations had to be established.
In October of 1960, Governor Williams announced his selection for a nine-member Board of Control, as required in the legislation. Five had been recommended by Seidman and the CEFYC: Edward H. Frey, President of Union Bank of Michigan and the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. John Kistler of Grand Haven, former president of the Michigan Federation of Women's Clubs and chair of the Adult Education Committee of the National Federation of Women's Clubs; Dr. Arnold Ott of North Muskegon, President of Ott Chemical Co.; Dale Stafford, Editor and Publisher of the Greenville Daily News, and Seidman himself. Williams, with counsel from state and local democratic leaders, added Kenneth Robinson of Grand Rapids, Director of Region 1-D, AFL-CIO; James Copeland of Greenville, President of Security National Bank of Manistee and Wyoming State Bank in Kent County; Dr. Icie Macy Hoobler from Ann Arbor, a nationally recognized biochemist; and William Kirkpatrick of Kalamazoo, President of the Kalamazoo Paper Box Co. They were sworn in by G. Mennen Williams in his office in Lansing on October 17, 1960 and convened their first meeting there. Seidman was, according to the minutes, elected chairman by a "unanimous and enthusiastic" vote.
Board members left to right back row : Edward J. Frey, James Copeland, Dale Stafford, William Kirkpatrick, Icie Macy Hoobler, Kenneth Robinson; left to right front row : Arnold Ott, Grace Kistler, and L. William Seidman.
Many buildings on Grand Valley's Allendale campus are named for founding members of the Board of Control.
The Board moved quickly to establish the new entity. At a meeting in the home of Bill Seidman at the beginning of November, they planned a contest to name the new college, and accepted the donation of office space by Union Bank, at the corner of Pearl and Monroe in downtown Grand Rapids. On November 22 the Board met in their new office and appointed 109 members to the new Citizens Advisory Council, many of whom had already served on the former committee which advised the Jamrich study. A list of Council members, chaired by Grand Rapids attorney David E. Dutcher, can be found in the Swets thesis referenced above, pages 158-161.
It also became clear that professional help was needed to begin organizing the new college. Bill Seidman had had conversations and correspondence with representatives from many of the state's universities, and they were approached to loan administrators to assist in the initial planning of the college. In early 1961 Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Western Michigan University and Wayne State University, as well as Grand Rapids Junior College, all loaned consultants to help with planning while a search for administrators was conducted.
The Board agreed on the need to hire professional administrators to coordinate planning for many crucial areas. Fortuitously, at the same time, Dr. Chris DeYoung, Dean Emeritus of Illinois State Normal University, was living in Grand Rapids temporarily following his marriage to a local teacher. A native of Zeeland, Dr. DeYoung volunteered his services in late 1960 to help the fledgling college, and served as coordinator of the consultants team until April of 1961. He was compensated for his services by the Board at a later date.
A flurry of meetings, dinners, conferences, reports, recommendations, and correspondence in the first quarter of 1961 resulted in principles and suggestions for site selection, fundraising, president and faculty, curriculum and many other aspects of the new college that would have far-reaching effects that continue to be felt at Grand Valley State University fifty years later. (Exhaustive detailing of this process can be found in the Swets report, Chapter VI.)
Even before the legislation enabling the new college was passed, rivalry for its potential location was heating up in the 8-county area. A committee had been appointed as early as 1959 to begin looking at potential campus sites, and area communities were quick to come forth with proposals and rationales for locating it within their boundaries. Grand Haven offered 150 acres of duneland along its north shore; even Whitehall, far north of the center of the 8-county area, came up with a proposed site in 1959.
The most serious early contender was a parcel of land donated to the city of Grand Rapids by Jacob Aman, who requested that it become a park. That was somewhat problematic, as the land on M-45 was several miles west of the city limits. Several city politicians saw the opportunity to turn it over to a new college as a solution. The issue became something of a football in city politics, however, while several other attractive proposals were floated. A group of enterprising citizens in Allendale, a small community about ten miles west of Grand Rapids, actually secured options on land along the Grand River they felt was supremely suitable for a campus. A Grand Rapids architect designed a 13-story "Tower of Learning," to be located in the center city in an area slated for urban renewal. A group of Marne residents also were taking options on land near their community northwest of Grand Rapids, near what was to become Interstate 96, and Wyoming, southwest of the city, proposed a former industrial site.
In early 1961 the Board of Control appointed an official site selection committee of 36 members, chaired by Circuit Court Judge Fred N. Searl and Richard M. Gillett, executive vice-president of the trust division of Old Kent Bank and Trust Company. By February, 20 sites were under consideration, from Lowell to Muskegon, from Wyoming to Whitehall.
The committee quickly narrowed the field. On February 15, 1961 they announced that they had chosen five finalists: Aman Park, Allendale, downtown Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, and Marne. Two communities scrambled to add their proposals after the deadline, Muskegon and Rockford, and the committee added them to the final consideration list. On March 10 the committee met to review its work to date. All sites had been visited and evaluated, and two were chosen as top contenders: Allendale and Marne.
Letters, telegrams, phone calls and petitions began to fly. The newspapers had a field day with recriminations and counter arguments. Backers of the Muskegon site were especially vehement, putting political, social, corporate and union contacts to work for their bid, and even taking their case to a committee of the Michigan legislature. But in the end, the central location of the Allendale site, unanimously recommended by the group of university consultants, as well as its physical beauty, won the day. Arnold Ott, the Board of Control member from Muskegon, told The Muskegon Chronicle that although he had been leaning toward the Marne location, after flying over the Allendale site he felt the "beauty of it could not be bought for a million dollars."
On Friday, April 7, 1961, the Board met into the wee hours of the next morning considering the selection, and on April 8 at a public meeting at Grand Rapids Junior College, announced that the Allendale site had been chosen.
The 876-acre site on the Grand River once included Blendon's Landing, a 19th century logging settlement long since vanished. Cut by ravines, the land slopes up sharply from the river, with several large areas of buildable terrain. The natural beauty of the campus would become a touchstone for the college community, even as, in decades to come, it began to expand into many of the areas which so hotly contested its initial selection.
For more information about the natural and cultural history of GVSU's first site, see the "Environment & Architecture" sidebar.
Although the legislation enabling the new institution of higher education for West Michigan refers to the entity as Grand Valley, there was not universal agreement that the somewhat bucolic moniker was suitable for the high aspirations of the new college. Bill Seidman, in correspondence cited in the Swets thesis, leaned toward something along the lines of Kent State, variations on the names of the constituent counties, or Michigan College at Grand Rapids.
At the meeting of the Board of Control in early November 1960, Greenville Daily News Editor and Publisher Dale Stafford was appointed to organize a contest among area schools to submit proposals for a new name. The prize offered was a four-year tuition scholarship to the new college.
By mid-January of 1961, more than 2500 entries had been received from approximately 1500 people. Among the most popular suggestions were: Wolverine State (59); Vandenberg (44); Wolverine (31); Wonderland (23); Great Lakes (19); Lakeland (16); Ko-mi-ban (many similar entries also were based on names of the area counties) (14); and 10 each for Arthur H. Vandenberg, Lake Michigan, Southwestern Michigan, Water Wonderland, and Western Michigan. Some suggestions had that mid-20th century ring of optimism: Learning for Life College, Bright Future, Bright Purpose, Bright Tomorrow, Dream Fulfilled, Paradise Gates, Peace, Utopia. Others set an idealistic academic tone: Athena, Cogito, Delphian, Octavo, Pallas Athene, Theta, Vade Mecum, Vale Vista.
Marinus Swets, in his thoroughly notated thesis, provides the entire list in Appendix XXVII.
In the end, nothing presented a more attractive alternative to the Board than the all-inclusive Grand Valley. In his Video History Project interview, Bill Seidman noted that "we decided we wanted a name that really sounded much more like an institution for the area that it was in."
Five people had submitted the name Grand Valley State College (a slight amendment to the HB 477 name Grand Valley College), so their entries were put in a hat and the winner selected. Frederick H. Brack of Grandville, age 20, was already a senior at Michigan State University. He designated his young sister Marianne Lovins, age 7, as the scholarship recipient, and in the fall of 1971 Marianne became a freshman at Grand Valley.
VI. Million Dollar Mission Accomplished
The issues of site and name for the new college drew much public attention, but at the same time the more crucial issue of finance was being quietly pursued by some of the area's most influential movers and shakers.
The legislation enabling the new college in the spring of 1960 stipulated that a million dollar nest egg must first be raised, as well as funds for a campus site. Bill Seidman told The Grand Rapids Press in October of that year, "We are the only college to start with no assets and a million dollar debt."
At their second meeting, November 1, 1960, the Board of Control decided to organize the fund drive themselves instead of hiring professional consultants, and named Union Bank President Edward H. Frey as finance chair. Drawing on the strengths of their members, they also put Kenneth Robinson in charge of organizing support from the union community, and James Copeland was asked to establish the fundraising program in counties outside Kent County.
Much of the task for the group was to convince their peers in the area that the new college was necessary, and would be a good investment.
And there were some who needed convincing. There were objections on economic grounds by those opposed to increased taxation. Others questioned whether the state was obligated to provide higher education opportunities to students of limited academic accomplishment (a prominent Grand Rapids woman resigned from the CEFYC because of that belief). The Muskegon area, smarting from their unsuccessful bid to locate the campus there, was not forthcoming in financial support. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce president was quoted as saying the "so-called shortage" of college and university facilities existed only in the minds of those who wished to see the Federal government take over the responsibility of managing and financing higher education. Luckily, the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce, and its president, Edward Frey, were wholeheartedly in support of Grand Valley.
More than 5000 donors pitched in, with contributions ranging from $1 to $200,000. The Grand Rapids Press on April 29, 1961 announced that contributions from members of the Kent County Medical Society and the GR District of the Michigan State Nurses Association brought the total to $1,010,000. Along with generous individuals and businesses, many organizations collectively supported the effort, such as the United Auto Workers, the Michigan Education Association, and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The Grand Rapids Foundation (now the Grand Rapids Community Foundation), made a mid-April contribution of $150,000, bringing their total participation in the effort to $200,000, more than eight times any grant they had to that date given any individual campaign. It matched another $200,000 gift that had been given anonymously.
Bill Seidman remembers trying to raise $1 million for the new college.
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Many individuals worked long and hard to raise the staggering sum. But, according to Swets, in conversations regarding the effort Bill Seidman strongly emphasized the role of Richard Gillett, by then Old Kent Bank President. "He just went out and got 25 of the best fundraisers in the community and went to work," he said.
The legislature's requirements had been met. Governor John Swainson had proposed funding the new college in his January budget message, and on June 2, 1961, signed a higher education appropriations act that provided $150,000 for operational funding for Grand Valley State College for fiscal year 1961-62.
Grand Valley was now a reality -- the first new four-year institution of higher education to be established in Michigan in 60 years. In his concluding section, Swets writes about the unique role of the new college. "Seidman … stated that they had done research on the establishment of new institutions of higher education in the U.S. and that they had been able to find no new college that had been established as GVSC had been established within a quarter of a century. There had been branch colleges and several municipal colleges, scores of community-junior colleges, many private colleges converted into state-supported colleges, but no new institutions such as this one. And this occurred in a community that has been labeled the stereotype of the arch-conservative, arch-reactionary community. Their success refuted the gloomy prophecies of local seers and seem to belie the statements made by those who had pointed to the inhibiting factor of a conservative or reactionary community."
Expectations for the new college were high. It was up to the hard-working group of supporters to take a deep breath, marshal their forces, and plunge into the next step: hiring a president and establishing a curriculum.
The first officer of the new college, Philip Buchen was profiled as Today's VIP in the Grand Rapids Press, July 1961. Buchen would go on to serve as White House Counsel during the administration of Gerald R. Ford. Buchen was profiled as Today's VIP in the Grand Rapids Press, July 1961. Buchen would go on to serve as White House Counsel during the administration of Gerald R. Ford.
VII. The Right People; The Right Program
The Board of Control, as usual, was prepared to move immediately when their appropriation was approved. They named Philip Buchen as the first officer of Grand Valley State College, to serve as chief executive beginning July 1, 1961 while the search for a college president proceeded. Buchen, a law partner of U.S. Representative, and future president, Gerald Ford, had served the Board as volunteer attorney.
The Board also voted to purchase parcels on the Allendale site and to rent office space in the Manger Hotel on Michigan Street at Monroe in downtown Grand Rapids (later called the Randall House and then Olds Manor). The new office was "modernized with imaginative, unconventional methods that combine to give it a forward look," according to a Grand Rapids Press article July 27, 1961. This also included modernist sculpture and paintings, in keeping with the up-to-the-minute ideas envisioned for the new college. A furious debate in the newspaper's letters column about the merits of modern art ensued, foreshadowing the major role Grand Valley would come to play in the artistic life of West Michigan. Check the "Arts at Grand Valley" sidebar for more details.
Bill Seidman, Grace Kistler and Arnold Ott were appointed as a search committee charged with finding a president for the new college. A salary of $25,000 was proposed. A field of some 50 candidates was identified, and the position was first offered to a dean at the University of Michigan who had roots in West Michigan and had been assisting the Grand Valley group with curriculum planning. According to Bill Seidman, after Dr. Roger Heyns had accepted the job, he was offered another position he preferred (Heyns became Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan in 1962 and Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley in 1965). He asked to be released from his agreement with Grand Valley, and Seidman said that the stipulation they made was that he would assist them in continuing their search. Heyns was told, "We want to interview the top five candidates you have at the University of Michigan," Seidman remembered in his 2008 interview, "the ones you usually hide when recruiters come along."
To transport early staff and other officials between the business offices of Grand Valley downtown and the Allendale campus site, a VW bus was donated by Peter Cook of Import Motors, Ltd., above right with Phil Buchen.
Heyns complied, and in February of 1962 the first president of Grand Valley State College, James H. Zumberge, was appointed. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Dr. Zumberge was a popular professor of geology at the University of Michigan and author of a widely used textbook. Only 38 years old, he had little experience in college administration. He was an internationally renowned geologist, and had led two expeditions to Antarctica, the first in 1957-58 during the International Geophysical Year, and a second two years later. Dr. Zumberge was appointed a delegate to the fifth IGY conference in Moscow in 1958, and a mountain in Antarctica was named for him.
One of the things that attracted the Board committee to Zumberge was his philosophy of education, closely aligned with the principles set out in the Russell and Jamrich reports. The new college would be targeted to a broad spectrum of potential students, and bold ideas about education would be embraced. In an interview with the Muskegon Chronicle, Zumberge said "We don't feel fettered by any previous program or system of ideas. We have to be bold in our moves and bold in our thinking, otherwise we'll be no different than the other nine state-supported schools."
Others in the West Michigan area were already agitating on behalf of their own bold, if somewhat retro, ideas. A group had formed, driven by the concerns mentioned above that providing higher education opportunities to students of limited academic accomplishment would not be a wise use of state tax dollars, and that it would dilute the prestige and tradition of excellence of a college degree. In July of 1961, the group, calling itself Grand Valley Citizens for a Better College, formulated ten principles which were published in The Grand Rapids Press, among them liberal education, enduring truths, intellectual discipline, and avoidance of vocationalism and highly commercialized programs of athletics.
President Zumberge inspecting construction. Read biographies of GVSU's former and current presidents.
Although the ideas of Professor Harry Jellema were rooted in classical forms of education, he was one of the most popular teachers during the early years of the thoroughly modern Grand Valley State College. "Far more important than what the individual happens to think about this or that," he wrote in a pamphlet on education, "is the mind with which he thinks." Dr. Jellema's dedication to the ideals of liberal education still resonate at Grand Valley today.
Prominent in the movement to define the new school's focus, and a member of the citizens' group, was William Harry Jellema, founder in 1921 of the Department of Philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids. He later chaired the same department at the University of Indiana, but returned to Calvin and retired at the mandatory age of 70 in 1963. He was hired first as a consultant to Grand Valley, and then as its first faculty member.
Jon Jellema, the son of Harry Jellema, joined Grand Valley's English faculty in 1972 and became Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs in 2005. In an article about Grand Valley Presidents in the Winter 2007 issue of Grand Valley Review, he wrote that, "Zumberge's strong credentials and academic reputation lent instant credibility to the foundling institution and helped attract a strong, albeit not very diverse, group of faculty."
In an article for the Fall 1995 GV Review, Dewey Hoitenga, who became a professor in the philosophy department at Grand Valley in 1965, quotes a letter written by Zumberge to Jellema's family at his death in 1982. "Harry Jellema began his second academic career at GVSC when he became the first professor that I engaged for the new college. He was the reason that we were able to field an unusually good faculty of fifteen to start things going. His presence set the level of quality that I was looking for."
Whether one or the other was more influential in the academic foundation of the new college, Zumberge and Jellema were definitely a powerhouse duo. Along with Bill Seidman, the fourth person to have a profound effect on the development of Grand Valley's first curriculum was George Potter. A graduate of Oxford University's Oriel College, founded in 1326, Potter was a strong advocate for the collegiate societies formed in venerable English universities, emphasizing a common curriculum of classic liberal arts. Potter was hired as President's Assistant for Academic Affairs in 1962, and became Grand Valley's first Vice President of Academic Affairs in 1966.
In a report written by Zumberge in 1964 describing the formative years of Grand Valley, he gives an account of a meeting he convened in June 1962 at Hidden Valley, a private club in northern Michigan. The weekend curriculum conference included Zumberge, Seidman, Jellema, and Potter, as well as Buchen, Grand Valley's new librarian Stephen Ford, and consultants from Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. Their goal for the weekend was to answer one question: what shall be the freshman program of instruction at GVSC? The pressing need was to produce a catalog with defined course offerings to begin recruiting faculty and students. The decisions made that weekend would have far-reaching consequences for the fledgling college.
The group decided to establish a foundation program in which all entering freshmen would be required to take nine courses, three each in the three 11-week quarters of the academic year. Each course would carry five credits, and students would also take a non-credit course in physical education. The proposed curriculum included courses such as History of Greece and Rome, Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Problems of Modern American Society, Frontiers of Science, and Foreign Languages 1 and 2, with choice of French, German or Russian. (The complete listing can be found on p. 14 of the Zumberge Report). Grand Valley would be strongly committed to undergraduate education and avoid the professional schools and graduate programs that dominated other regional universities.
Dr. Anthony Travis, who joined the Grand Valley History faculty in 1971, has written extensively about the college's early years. In an essay for the Grand Valley Review Fall 1995 titled "Community Pragmatism vs. Academic Foundationalism: The Beginnings of GVSU," he traces developments in American higher education across two centuries, and the conflict between those who were committed to a 19th-century classic liberal arts college model and the more contemporary idea that tax-supported institutions had a responsibility to the community to provide professional education in areas such as business and education. "The first ten years of Grand Valley State College … were dominated by two philosophical paradigms that competed to test which would form the academic culture of the new institution," he wrote. "The first of these I have termed 'community pragmatism' and the other 'academic foundationalism.' During the first ten years of (GVSC) these two educational philosophies were in creative tension."
There was another conflict for the idealistic group who were urging the latter model. They were under a mandate from the state legislature to keep costs low and enrollment high. The curriculum they proposed required intensive faculty-student contact, with small group discussions and tutorials in the classical education vein as the hallmark of the institution.
The Grand Valley Review: Vol. XIII, Fall 1995, titled "Experiments in Education: The Early Years at Grand Valley," contains essays, recollections, vignettes and musings about Grand Valley's early years.
A definitely modern solution was proposed for the dilemma of how to inexpensively provide a faculty-intensive program to a large number of students. Bill Seidman had become interested in the earliest stirrings of information technology. He proposed an innovative system of audio-visual study carrels. Professors could tape their lectures and other materials, and students could dial up the tapes in individual carrels, greatly increasing the efficiency of student-teacher ratios.
Grand Valley's pioneering system of education technology drew national attention. Though it did not work as planned, it laid the foundation for sophisticated use of information technology as an important aspect of education at Grand Valley (the University is regularly named among 'America's Most Wired' in 21st century publications).
The expectation of large enrollments also presented a problem for the planned curriculum of individualized liberal arts education. George Potter, drawing on his experiences with small, relatively autonomous college societies within England's large major universities, designed a system in which new academic complexes would be created for every 500 students admitted to the college (later increased to 1500 students). They would share common facilities such as the library and science labs. The decentralization plan set the stage for what would become Grand Valley's famous cluster college era.
The decisions made that weekend about curriculum and campus organization would not only inform Grand Valley's development to this day, the vision of the group would find physical form in the architecture being conceived for the Allendale site.
The idea that the physical structure of the new campus site and buildings was integrally tied to the academic vision was evident in the decision made in September 1961 by the Grand Valley Board to hire the newly formed firm of Johnson, Johnson and Roy of Ann Arbor as chief consultants for site planning of the new campus.
The firm's principals included a landscape architecture professor at the University of Michigan, William Johnson; his brother Carl, and Clarence Roy, both practicing landscape architects. In a 2003 monograph about the firm, which became JJR, author Fiona Gruber quoted William Johnson in a statement of the firm's philosophy that still resonates on the Grand Valley campus today. "In most cases, the leading element shaping community is thought to be architecture, while open space is relegated to a secondary role. Properly understood and crafted, open space can often assume a primary position, well before building programs are defined. Open space can form the basis for a development strategy."
The firm moved quickly to propose a site plan that emphasized the deep wooded ravines and narrow plateaus of the campus overlooking the Grand River. James Zumberge, in his 1964 President's Report on the formation of Grand Valley, wrote that the firm had just one directive: that the planned academic program would be best served by groups of small general purpose buildings. "The site planners used a distinctive feature of the campus terrain to achieve the … objective," he explained. "Each plateau is ideally suited for the building of two clusters of general purpose academic structures constituting one of the collegiate units of the master plan."
The first land purchase for the new college took place on the farm of John Van Huizen (in photo on tractor). Also pictured are attorney John Daugherty, second from right, and Marinus DeYoung, right, a leader in the Allendale business group which promoted the site. Also pictured is Mrs. Mary VanWestenberg, 94, widow of the original settler of the land who took title to 80 acres on 42nd street in 1903. According to the GR Press article, the college paid $32,000 for 99.5 acres, which included a house and a barn and other buildings on the core site of the planned campus.
In November of 1961, the Board selected architects Meathe, Kessler & Associates of Grosse Pointe to design the college's first buildings. They were confirmed at the December 15 meeting, and within a week, William Kessler and Carl Johnson had set up a design shop in one of the old farmhouses on the Allendale site, spending hours walking the land and staying in a nearby motel.
It was an exciting time for architecture, mirroring the enthusiasm and drive of the era of President John F. Kennedy and the post-war confidence of America. William Kessler had been a student of Bauhaus icon Walter Gropius at Harvard, and had been attracted to Michigan, along with Philip Meathe, to join the firm of noted Detroit iconoclast Minoru Yamasaki. They were a part of a movement to transcend the international modernist style that had produced a popular backlash against mathematical, sterile exercises in concrete and glass. Their designs for Grand Valley's first buildings reflected new concepts about flexible space, interaction with the environment, and innovative use of materials and technology.
The plans for the new college's first buildings incorporated upright arched supporting columns made of cast concrete that came to be known as "concrete trees". Masonry walls between the columns were to be faced with split Michigan fieldstone, adding to the impression of living structures growing from the ravine-edge landscape.
The architectural design and site plan of Grand Valley's first buildings earned national attention, including several articles in Architectural Record. Check the sidebar section Environment & Architecture for more details.
In the spring of 1962, Grand Valley was asked to vacate its downtown Grand Rapids offices in the building which was slated to become Olds Manor senior housing. An army of volunteers -- cleaners, painter, plumbers -- descended on one of the old farmhouses on the Allendale campus to transform it into a new campus office. The college's Public Relations director, Nancy Bryant, and buildings and grounds superintendent Don Lautenbach, even planted a vegetable garden behind the old farmhouse, foreshadowing the renewed interest in local food that is sweeping the campus as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
All the pieces were in place for the new college officially to break ground. On August 28, 1962, dignitaries gathered for the ceremony. Thoughtful and idealistic speeches were made, including James Zumberge's description of the design of the new buildings as "the marriage of the bride of beauty with the groom of function." Governor John B. Swainson hit the button to trigger a dynamite blast to break the ground, literally, at the site of the first new building. Nothing happened. He hit it again, and again nothing. In the archives of Grand Valley is a file of memos from Zumberge preparing for the event, including a detailed back-up plan for thoroughly cleaning out a barn to be used in case of rain. But there was no back-up plan for the failure of detonation. After a half-dozen tries, the Governor good-naturedly gave up. Master of Ceremonies David Dutcher announced, "Let us consider the ground broken," and proceeded with bringing the august occasion to a close. As the spectators and participants were dispersing, the dynamite finally ignited with a stupendous blast, prompting cheers from the crowd and signaling an auspicious beginning for Grand Valley's new home.
Grand Valley is fortunate to possess a portfolio of work by internationally renowned architectural photographer Balthazar Korab, documenting the design of its first academic buildings. View photo gallery.
Volunteers clean the farmhouse that would serve as the first Allendale office for the new college.
Although there were some other glitches in the construction process (as was and ever shall be), including delayed bond sales and ill-timed workers' strikes, the stage was set for the first students to arrive at Grand Valley State College in the fall of 1963.
In the first brochure developed to describe the new college, ("Behind the Door," see above for link to archived copy), the prospective student body was characterized: "The college will be searching for able surprises -- students with a talent for creativity who give promise of rising to the challenge of an imaginative college program."
That description might also have served for the men and women brought to remote Allendale to teach these "able surprises." In his 1964 Report of the President, Zumberge described the first faculty hires. "They saw an opportunity to participate in building a sound academic program in an atmosphere unshackled by tradition and unhampered by an existing 'old guard' faculty," he wrote. "That the first GVSC faculty looked for such opportunity is, in itself, an indication of the caliber of people who were attracted by our fledgling school. They realized that their contributions to the success of the college would be important."
Glenn Niemeyer, who would become one of Grand Valley's longest-serving academics, remembered his arrival in a 2008 Video History Project interview. With a just-earned doctorate in history from Michigan State, he said there were many openings for faculty across the country, many new and experimental ideas in education. But Grand Valley offered something else that attracted him, "the opportunity to craft a history curriculum … There was a kind of excitement," he remembered, "the fact that we were beginning a university."
Grand Valley's first communication to prospective students, The Story Behind This Door, February 1962, could only depict the proposed campus in sketches and diagrams, with an outline of the curriculum and the proposed tuition costs.
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In the fall of 1962, the first students were accepted and enrolled. It was not an easy task for the small staff charged with recruiting them. "Because GVSC was established to fill a need created by more students clamoring for a college education," Zumberge wrote in his 1964 Report, "it is paradoxical that we were not deluged with applications. But there was a reason for it. Students who could afford to go away from home to college were not likely to list Grand Valley as their first choice. And most students who could not afford to go away to school were inclined to select an institution of established reputation in the area before taking a chance on a new, non-accredited college whose physical plant was still on paper."
Zumberge and his tiny admissions staff canvassed the area's high schools, attending College Night programs, talking to parents and potential students. He embarked on a vigorous fundraising program to establish tuition scholarships, and solicited letters from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University stating that they would accept GVSC credits in transfers, prior to accreditation. He even hosted luncheons for high school counselors and principals, "hammering away," as he put it in his report, "at the virtues of the tutorial system." He concluded that it was this feature that finally won the sympathy and support of the counselors.
"My friends thought I was a little crazy," said Diane Paton in her 2008 Video History Project interview. Then Diane Hatch, she was the first accepted applicant to enroll at the new college. She describes being picked up in the college's VW bus with friends from Muskegon High School for a tour of the campus, which at the time was just a model on a table in a farmhouse, in the middle of cornfields.
By the fall of 1962, several dozen pioneer freshman had been registered in a garage on Lake Michigan Drive. The surroundings may have been improvised, but the college continued its innovative approach by becoming one of the first in Michigan to employ IBM's new punch-card computer technology to register students. After a winter notable for very cold weather and heavy snow, and a flurry of construction in the spring and summer, the new college was ready (just) to open in September, 1963.
X. A College in the Cornfields
In May, 1963, the first faculty meeting was held in the Allendale Township hall. With only 15 faculty members in 11 different subjects, the group organized informally into three divisions: humanities, social sciences, and sciences. None of the technology that was planned to assist in the faculty-intensive teaching program was ready for use, but the group agreed to the outline developed in the earlier curriculum sessions. Students would meet in large lecture groups of 90-100, break into smaller discussion groups of 10-20, and meet with professors for tutorial sessions of no more than 3-5.
By the end of the summer, more than 200 students had enrolled, and in August the college threw them a welcoming party, a "hootenanny," according to Diane Paton, including singing, hayrides and a barbeque.
A more solemn, if somewhat steamy, atmosphere pervaded the second floor of the theoretically air-conditioned Lake Michigan Hall on September 26, 1963. Opening ceremonies for Grand Valley State College assembled students, faculty in academic robes, parents, donors, and members of the Board of Control in what was the dining room for the college. "No event such as this had occurred in Michigan for nearly sixty years," wrote Zumberge in his 1964 report, "and we all felt at once a deep sense of humility and exhilaration at the thought of being part of this important endeavor."
Opening ceremonies for Grand Valley State College in September 1963.
Because of the problems with weather and construction delays, only Lake Michigan Hall was completed to welcome the 226 members of the pioneer class. But, ever plucky, all made do with what was at hand. The library, which had been a priority for the new President, was on its way well before opening day to establishing an impressive collection. Head Librarian Stephen Ford had been working on acquiring books for over a year, operating out of a small private house on the campus site. By the time they moved into temporary headquarters in Lake Michigan Hall, a staff of seven had been appointed and nearly 10,000 books had been catalogued. Business and administrative offices remained in the remodeled farmhouse, and faculty members doubled up in makeshift office space. Some of the problems were alleviated at the beginning of winter quarter, when Lake Superior Hall was completed in time for occupancy right after the Christmas recess.
The pioneer class rose to the challenge of creating student life on the new campus. A student government was formed and a student charter drafted. Physical Education, a requirement in the curriculum, was limited to outdoor track activities and shooting baskets in the hayloft of one of the old barns. A few showers were installed in one of the farmhouses. But the seeds of Grand Valley's longest running sport were sown before opening day, when racing shells for the rowing competition known as crew were purchased with a fund organized for that purpose by Grand Rapids businessman Mike Keeler. A crew house, nicknamed "Muscle & Corpuscle," opened in November and athletes began to train for what would become the college's debut in national intercollegiate competition. During the winter a ski club made use of the rolling terrain of the riverside campus, and a variety of inter-mural games were organized.
Also in November, the first student newspaper, The Keystone, published its first edition. Editor Elaine Rosendall wrote, "This is your paper; not the theorizing tool of the faculty." President Zumberge added a column enumerating his conception of the role of student newspapers, describing it as a "...forum for expression of student opinion and editorial comment." Somewhat presciently, if erroneously, considering events five years later, he concluded, "It is in this last role where many newspapers published by college students eventually end up at odds with the administration, faculty, townspeople, and parents. I don't think this is inevitable, however..
Students and volunteers unload racing shells for crew competition.
Grand Valley State College was on its way. In August 1963, a foundation had been established to receive gifts, donations and bequests for the benefit of the new college with Richard Gillett as its first president. The Loutit Foundation of Grand Haven contributed $300,000 to help construct a science building, the college's most significant gift to date and beginning a tradition of community support for growth that was to help the new college blossom over the next 50 years.
But not before some intense growing pains, and radical rethinking of almost every initial premise the founders had developed. The times, as one bard so famously put it, they were a'changing.
A contest was held to design an official seal for the new college. 60 submissions were received from nearly two dozen entrants, but the winner was, it was reported, an anonymous design found in the college mailbox with no postmark. The $100 prize was donated to the GVSC scholarship fund. A vote among students chose school colors of light blue, black and white.
Above from left, GV's first administrator Phil Buchen, with artist Gerald Mast, center, and Grand Rapids Art Museum director Walter McBride, judging the entries.


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Tagged: Daryl Boston
Game 1: The Pale Hose (7/13/2013)
In our continuing effort to have Kellan see all 30 MLB teams play a game live, on July 13, 2013, we planned to attend the Phillies game vs. the Chicago White Sox. As American League teams go, the White Sox are right up at the top of the "Teams I Never Watch or Think About" list. So it was practically like we were all going to see them play for the first time.
The game started with a little confusion. It was scheduled as a 4:10 Saturday afternoon start. But the Friday night game the day before was rained out. So our game was turned into Game 1 of a Separate Admission Doubleheader (the worst kind of doubleheader). The problem was figuring out what time the game would start and the gates would open. Late Friday night, I pulled up an article about the rain out on the Phillies website. But what I didn't realize at the time that the Phillies' website linked me to the White Sox website, which is based in the Central Time zone. When I read the game was going to be played at 2:00 on Saturday, I didn't realize it was 2:00 p.m. Central, or 3:00 p.m. Eastern. The Phillies twitter account was thoroughly unhelpful I might effort to figure the situation out. Harrison Tishler, however, had all of the answers (and once I realized I had read a Central time zone-based article, I finally believed all of Harrison's answers).
Anyway, we met up with the Tishler men (no, Tami) outside of the LF gate. Unfortunately, due to the doubleheader, the gates only opened at 1:10…
…, normally they would open at 12:40 for a 3:10 game.
Because the gates opened later than normal, the entire stadium opened at once. So we wasted no time in heading over to our beloved pizza wedge:
When we set up in the pizza wedge, there were two groundskeepers working on the Phillies mound in the bullpen (which is pretty standard two hours before game time at Citizens Bank Park). Very soon, Harrison and Seth Tishler arrived on the scene. I asked Seth (and he agreed) to watch the boys for a minute while I ran up to the concourse to fill our water bottle at the drinking fountain. When I returned to the pizza wedge approximately 60 seconds later, Kellan had a baseball in hand.
Turns out that Kellan dropped his glove into the Phillies bullpen. One of the groundskeepers retrieved it and tossed it up to Tim. When Tim caught Kellan's glove, this baseball was tucked inside Kellan's glove.
Thanks, Groundskeeper!
At the time, not much was doing on the field. But there were signs of life. The White Sox were getting ready to take BP:
See number 17 in there? That is White Sox coach, Daryl Boston. Lemme tell you a little story about him…and about these two guys in the bright orange:
The Tishlers went off on their own as White Sox BP was set to get started. Shortly, Father and Son Orange Shirt showed up on the scene. See the empty seat in front of Kellan in the phone above? That's seat number 3 in the pizza wedge. Tim, Kellan and I were taking up the corner spot plus seats 1-3 (our standard operating procedure at BP at CBP). There were zero other people in section 101. There was hardly anyone in all of RF. But these guys came in an camped out in seats 4-5.
They were nice enough folks. We chatted a bunch. But I was not a fan of getting crowded in the corner when the rest of RF was essentially empty. But the dad was gung-ho about getting his son a baseball from the bullpen (I explained that no one would be in the bullpen until around half hour before game time).
Anyway, eventually Daryl Boston wandered out to RF. He was in front of section 102 or 103 and he was hitting baseballs against the OF wall with a fungo bat. I could see his "17" on his back. Just then, the Dad in the Orange Shirt was flipping through one of the little booklets that lots of MLB teams give out that are full of info about the team and the current series, etc. It looked, to me, that he was looking at the White Sox roster. I looked over at the booklet (yeah, in an empty OF, the guy was so close that I could read the booklet in his hands) and scanned the "coaches" portion of the roster. There it was: No. 17 = Ron Wotus. [FYI, Ron Wotus is a coach for the San Francisco Giants, something I did not learn until much later].
As "Wotus" started walking toward LF, I called out, "Hey, Ron, Fungo!" and I flapped my glove. "Ron" immediately tossed a baseball into the air and tried to delicately fungo the ball to me. But it fell short. He tried again. It fell short again. Then he walked over and picked up one of the balls and tossed it up to us.
Thanks, Ron! (I mean Daryl!)
As you can imagine, Boston's reaction to my "Hey, Ron, fungo!" request did nothing to dispel my thinking that Boston was Ron Wotus.
A few minutes later (while we were still waiting for BP to start), "Wotus" finished chatting with some White Sox in LF and headed over toward the "bucket." For all the way across the OF, I once again yelled, "Hey, Ron, FUNGO!!!"
Once again "Ron" immediately looked over at us, tossed a baseball in the air, and blasted a pop fly high in the air toward us. But it was off line…and it was hit way too hard. There was a guy at the top of the bullpens along Ashburn Alley and I was certain it was going to plunk him in the head. I yelled, "HEAAADS UP!!!!!" (I yell that a lot at MLB games because lots of fans don't pay attention). Anyway, the ball slammed off of the ball wall of the visitors (upper) bullpen, just below the guy on Ashburn Alley and it bounded down into the lower bullpen elevator. Sort of like this (minus this Tishlers and other people standing around):
Later, Matt Lindstrom walked by and I told him about "Ron" hitting the fungo into the elevator. He tried to get it for us, but the elevator was locked!
(By the way, you might be wondering why they have an elevator in the bullpen at a major league stadium, it's because they put a bunch of the equipment into roller carts and then raise/lower them on the elevators. Otherwise, they would have to carry everything up and down the stairs.)
A little bit later, these two gentlemen played a part in our afternoon's activities:
Number 40 is Ramon Troncoso. He was the only guy out in LCF not hiding his jersey with a pullover so he was the only person whose name I knew. The other guy? No clue who he is.
Eventually, I decided we should try to get a ball for the Kid in Orange. I ended up calling out "Ramon!" when he fielded a ball near us and, when he looked up at me, I pointed at the little guy. Ramon tried to toss the ball to the kid's dad, but he tossed it too high. It sailed over him and I caught it and handled it over to the Orange Guys.
A few minutes later, the other guy in the picture above tried to toss a ball to us, but threw it over us and the Dad in Orange caught it and handed it to us. Then I proposed something that seemed quite logical to me: I caught the ball from Ramon Troncoso, the Guy in Orange caught the ball from the other guy, why don't we switch balls so we have the ball I caught and the Orange Folks have the ball they caught? He thought my logical was sound. And so we switch balls. And we ended up with the ball I'd previously caught from Ramon.
So, thanks, Ramon…and other guy.
The Phillies ultimately came out and started playing catch in RF while the White Sox were hitting. We decided to take a break from BP. We headed to the concourse to play some "Games of Baseball":
When we returned to the pizza wedge, the Tishler were there:
We hung out for a bit and then went and played some more "Games of Baseball." When I figured the pitchers were starting to warm up, we headed back to the pizza wedge again. Turns out, we were too late. Warm ups were in full swing and our buddy, Jesus Tiamo, had already tossed out a bunch of baseballs. We headed to the end of the second row…
…and Tiamo couldn't resist those two Mariners fans' cute little faces. He went and grabbed another baseball and tossed it to Tim.
Thanks, Jesus!
Wanna see something cool? Check this out:
That's White Sox catcher Josh Phegley standing at the top of the stairs in the visitors' bullpen. Right after Jesus tossed the ball to Tim, Phegley headed down the stairs from the visitors bullpen to the Phillies bullpen. When he hit the landing at the Phillies bullpen, he called out to us, and he tossed us a baseball. In the picture above, you can see this baseball in Phegley's right hand!
Thanks, Josh!
Before the game started, we headed off to get some ice cream. On our way, we stopped by this misting contraption:
This is the only game we've ever seen this thing at in Philadelphia. It's a good idea. The kids loved it. Not sure why it wasn't there more often.
We decided to go with a banana split, because bananas are healthy, you know? I addition to two full bananas, our banana split featured ice cream, caramel sauce, white cream and maraschino cherries. When I said I wanted cherries, Tim protested – he doesn't like them. I said, "Don't worry, they'll just put 1-2 on it and I'll get them out of there quick for you."
Well, I was wrong. Our banana split featured TWENTY-ONE cherries!
Check out this beauty of a sundae…
…and our long walk two the place where the boys wanted to eat the sundae:
Cherries, anyone!?
The game started while we were out in the RCF concourse eating ice cream and then playing more Games of Baseball. The Phils jumped on the White Sox early, scoring two runs in the bottom of the first inning.
While the boys were playing the games, I realized that "Bull's BBQ," which is between the running game and the trivia game is named after Greg "The Bull" Luzinski. One of the MyGameBalls.com photo scavenger hunt photos for this season is a picture of you eating a food item named after a player. I'd been looking for such a food item all season and I'd never thought about Bull's BBQ. I'd never been there before. So I checked out the menu. Almost every item is named after The Bull! So before we grabbed some food for the boys and headed to our seats, I grabbed a "Bull's Pulled Pork Sandwich"
Check out Tim (top left below), eating a big bite of the Bull's Pulled Pork Sandwich in our seats:
And check out those great seats! I should note that this game was our last game before Kellan turned 3-years-old. It was his last *free* game at Citizens Bank Park. I scooped up these two aisle seats in section 102 on stubhub for cheap the morning of the game. And it ended up that the people with seats 3-6 were missing a seat mate who had to skip the game. So they didn't mind having one of us sit in seat 3. Kellan wanted to hang out in the aisle the whole time, and watch the players in the bullpen. Section 101 and 102 are Citizens Bank Park are some of the coolest seats around.
Here's a random action shot of Alexi Ramirez:
And here is our view of Citizens Bank Park from our seats in section 102:
In the bottom of the third inning, Jimmy Rollins ripped a single to LF:
It was the second Phillies hit of the inning, but the White Sox wiggled out of the jam.
In the fourth inning, we headed over to the kids' play area…
…and the kids did a whole lot of playing:
We were in the play area in the fifth inning when Alejandro De Aza hit a 2-run double to tie the game up at 2-2.
In the top of the sixth inning, we left the play area and , we decided to head up to the upper deck for a while. We walked there via Ashburn Alley. Just as we made it to the back corner of the bullpens, Conor Gillaspie hit a sacrifice fly…
…and Adam Dunn scored the go-ahead run for the White Sox.
So we headed up to the upper deck, and we ran into something odd on our way:
There were a whole bunch of nuns up there.
Here was our view from section 428:
Check out Dominic Brown's curious positioning in LF:
In the bottom of the seventh inning, Darin "Babe" Ruf, blasted a solo homerun…
…to deeeeeeep CF. That tied the game up at 3-3.
While the Phillies fans were excited about their team tying up the score, Tim and Kellan were excited about something else:
See that red arrow up there? That's pointing at one of the steel beams holding up the light towers along the 3B side of the stadium. When we are up in section 428, Tim and Kellan often spit seeds down the middle of the light towers. On this day, while doing so, Tim and Kellan found some animal tracks on the beam. We couldn't tell what kind of animal it was. But the tracks looked like they were the size of maybe a cat or a raccoon. It was pretty odd finding the tracks and imaging animals climbing around inside the stadium.
With the score tied in the 8th inning, we decided to head back to our seats in section 102. But when we got there, there were a bunch of empty seats in section 101 (the best section in the ballpark). We grabbed some seats in the third row. When an usher standing at the bottom of the stairs saw us, he told us to move up to the front row.
If you insist, sir!
This was our view heading into the top of the ninth inning:
So we've been listening to a lot of classic Metallica on our game day drives this season – mostly Master of Puppets, some Ride the Lightning too. On the way to this game, we listened to Ride the Lightning. When Jonathan Papelbon headed to the mound in the top of the ninth inning, I was a proud father when Tim pointed out that his entrance song (For Whom The Bell Tolls) was one of the songs we listened to (and discussed) on our car ride down to this game.
During the top of the ninth inning, Kellan focused on making silly faces…
…and monkeying around with his bro:
After the final out of the top of the ninth inning, the Phillies cleared off the field, and then came the rain, and the tarp, and a rain delay.
Up in the concourse behind section 102, we met up with Harrison and Seth. Check out these colorfully dressed guys:
The Tishlers volunteered to help us earn some points for the MyGameBalls.com photo scavenger hunt. I had noticed that the upper deck in LF was almost completely empty, and there was absolutely no one in the three sections closest to CF. So we all headed up there in the rain for this scavenger hunt photo:
We all headed back to the pizza wedge as the rain let up. I always enjoy getting a photo of the infield tarp pulled out to the outfield wall. Like this one:
After a 41 minute rain delay, the game resumed, and Tim shook the rain off his wet hair like a dog (well, he might have used his hands a bit too):
The Phillies should have won the game in the bottom of the ninth. Kevin Frandsen lead off the inning with a single. He took second on a Darin Ruf's follow-up single. Braves pitcher Nate Jones then balked Frandsen to 3B and Ruf to 2B with no outs. But the next three batters couldn't get it done. Carlos "Chooooooch" Ruiz flew out to shallow LF. Lance Nix struck out swinging. And Ben Revere ended regulation play with a line-out to RF.
So we got some free baseball. Remember, this was the first game of a separate-admission doubleheader. After a 41 minute rain delay, fans were already lining up at the gates for game 2 when our game headed into extra innings.
J.C. Ramirez pitched the top of the 10th inning for the Phillies.
During the bottom of the ninth inning, Ramirez warmed up right behind us in the Phillies bullpen. At one point, Ramirez uncorked a wild pitch to Jesus Tiamo. It kicked off the back wall and ricocheted out into the grass in front of Tiamo. They grabbed a new ball to finish Ramirez's warmup session.
After Ramirez was finished warming up, Tiamo tossed the ball up us:
The ball was so exciting and the game so long, that Kellan drifted off to sleep in the tenth inning with the ball snug in his glove.
Thanks, Jesus!
Ramirez held the Pale Hose scoreless in the top of the tenth. But…
…not in the top of the eleventh.
After recording two quick outs in the top of the eleventh, Ramirez gave up a triple followed by an RBI double followed by an unearned run scoring grounder to short.
The Phillies mustered one run in the bottom of the frame, but that was all she wrote. The White Sox won 5-4 in 12.
After the game, we got a Cook Boys photo…
…before heading to the gates and pushing our way through the in-bound crowd.
We drove off into the sunset…
…on our way home while the Phillies began their second extra-innings game of the day!
2013 C&S Fan Stats
|17 Games
|18 Teams – Mariners, Royals, Phillies, Red Sox, Rays, Orioles, Yankees, Dodgers, Reds, Nationals, Marlins, Pirates, Blue Jays, Twins, Tigers, Mets, Brewers, White Sox
|31 Ice Cream Helmets – Phillies (jumbo) 3, Phillies (normal) 2, Red Sox 2, Yankees 2, Orioles 4, Nationals 2, Pirates 2, Blue Jays 2, Tigers 6, Mets 2, Reds 4
|82 Baseballs – Mariners 11, Royals 4, Phillies 14, Rays 2, Orioles 7, Dodgers 1, Umpires 7, Reds 9, Nationals 1, Marlins 4, Pirates 1, Blue Jays 2, Twins 3, Tigers 1, Mets 3, Yankees 2, Brewers 2, Red Sox 6, White Sox 3
|10 Stadiums – Citizens Bank Park 2, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Camden Yards, Nationals Park, PNC Park, Rogers Centre, Comerica Park, Citi Field, Great American Ball Park
|32 Player+ Photos – Oliver Perez, Lucas Luetge, Hisashi Iwakuma, Carter Capps, Daniel Nava, Alex Wilson, Andrew Bailey, Pedro Ciriaco, Mike Carp 2, Koji Uehara, Will Middlebrooks, Joel Hanrahan, Jonny Gomes, Alfredo Aceves, Clayton Mortensen, Rick Anderson, Tom Gorzelanny, Joe Savery, Jonathan Pettibone, Carlos Ruiz, Charlie Manuel, Justin DeFratus, Ryan Howard, Ben Revere, Larry Anderson, Gary "Sarge" Matthews Sr., Kyle Kendrick, Ryne "HOF 2005" Sandberg, Michael Stutes, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Rowland-Smith
|10 Autograph – Hisashi Iwakuma 2 (English & Japanese), Carter Capps, Ryan Hanigan, Jesus Tiamo, Mike Carp 2, Ryan Rowland-Smith 2, Felix Hernandez


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Actually, this new holiday is pretty easy.. At least so far. I spent yesterday afternoon on my Druid leveling up her cooking via the new WoW Holiday, Pilgrim's Bounty. I'm not going to go into the holiday here, since there is plenty of news all over the internet about it, but lets just say that in general, it's not too bad .. 🙂
I got Fyra's cooking to 300 easily and did a few of the other quests to make back the money it cost to buy the materials, etc.
Later that night, I got to drag Fhuun, my priest, through ToC 25 and Ony. He got a new ring and bracers. The bracers are DPS, but I'm not complaining. Actually, I think the ring is too, but it was a big upgrade. I need to check out if I have enough emblems now for another piece of gear.
Tonight I think we're going to try playing around on the PTR, if it is up and working. They were doing some maintenance.. If you happen to get on, look for us in the "Twisted Nether" guild on Broxigar, alliance side. Laters!