alumni Class Notes 2000s
Andrew Brodie (BBE00, MA06) is the principal of Flat Rock High School in the Flat Rock Community School District.
Greg LaLiberte (BS00) is a credentialed counselor of mental health at Houston Area Community Services in Houston, Texas.
Barton Bund (BS01) directed Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentleman of Verona” for the Water Works Theatre Company’s tenth annual Shakespeare in the Park event in Royal Oak.
Todd Hoffmeyer (BS01) is the new director of business development for Williams & Williams, a real estate auction house in Tulsa, Okla.
Darnie Sizemore (BFA02) is a career counselor at the Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Fla.
Chris Nordwall (BBA02) won a national award for his company’s chocolate cake liqueur. Piece of Cake Liqueur Co. took the award at the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America’s 67th annual Convention and Exposition.
Kelly Overend (BS03) is the development associate for the Hebrew Day School elementary facility of Ann Arbor.
Nathan Schneider (BS03) is attempting to climb Mt. Everest for the second time, after achieving 94.7 percent of the world’s tallest mountain in 2005.
Tamra Fisher (BBA04) has joined Teach for America, a corporation of national college graduates who pledge two years of teaching at public schools in low-income communities.
Allison Nichol (BS04) has graduated with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Mo.
Joel Przygodski (BS04) is an English teacher at Adrian Middle School in the Adrian Public School District.
Jessica Bartlet (BFA05) will have her thesis work exhibited in the Blue
In Memoriam: Thomas Fleming (MA68)
from 1994-2003, died Nov. 4. He was 77. In September 1991, Fleming was named
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Michigan Teacher of the Year while working as a secondary special education teacher in the Washtenaw Intermediate School District. His career, devoted to the education of incarcerated youth, brought him national recognition as a Milken Scholar and as the National Teacher of the Year Award winner in 1992. For the latter effort, Fleming was presented the Golden Apple Award from then-president George H. W. Bush in a White House ceremony. In 1993, EMU granted Fleming an
honorary doctorate of education. That same year, he was appointed special assistant to the provost at EMU. In that capacity, he represented the provost in a variety of activities on campus and in intercollegiate affairs. “From the time I first met Tom
Fleming nearly 40 years ago, three things were clear,” said Ron Woods, Professor of African-American Studies. “He understood that he was a witness to a unique moment in this country’s journey toward equality. He realized that this required a special commitment from him to advance that journey. He had a burning passion to absorb intellectually all that he could to explain the past and inform the future.” Fleming was born in Reading, Pa., and
homas Fleming, a former special assistant to Eastern Michigan University’s provost
as an attendant at the Pontiac and Ypsilanti State Hospitals, graduating from Detroit Bible College in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in religious education, and was licensed
Thomas Fleming
raised in Detroit by his grandparents, Gordon and Carrie Bell Starks. He attended the Detroit Public Schools until he was 16, when he quit school to join the National Guard. He served in the U.S. Army for six years, with tours in France and Germany. During this time, Fleming discovered a deep desire to learn to read in order to understand the teachings of the Bible. Fleming returned to the United States determined to complete his education. He attended night school, earned his G.E.D., and enrolled in the Detroit Bible College (later renamed William Tyndale College). At the same time, he began working with
teens in his Detroit neighborhood and formed a boys’ club at his church. He worked
for ministry. While working with troubled adolescents at the state hospitals, Fleming became interested in the special needs of this population. He continued his education at Eastern Michigan University, graduating in 1968 with a master’s degree and teaching certification in special education. In 1970, Fleming joined the High Scope
Educational Research Foundation, serving as field consultant to schools in Chicago and New York City. In 1972, he became a teacher on the school program staff of the Washtenaw County Juvenile Detention Center, where he eventually assumed the responsibilities of head teacher. In that capacity, he worked for more than 20 years with hundreds of delinquent and neglected youth, teaching them history, government and life skills. Survivors include his wife, Diane; two
sons, Malcolm Fleming and Kevin Fleming; a daughter, Sharon Wimberly; a sister, Vivian Fleming Boykins; and five grandchildren. —Ron Podell
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