FROM THE EDITOR SUMMER 2016 | VOL. 13 | ISSUE 2


EDITOR Darcy Gifford


This Life Before My Eyes


EMU historic preservation program helps me see my own community for the first time


Many of my evenings are spent on the front porch of a turn-of-the-century


Victorian-style house in Adrian, my adopted hometown. Te inviting, wrap- around porch overlooks a well-traveled street. A low, decorative railing outlines the perimeter of the porch and, in July, is adorned with red, white and blue bunting. To me, it is a postcard of small-town Americana. I sit on white wicker furniture with a small group of friends, including a few


EMU alumni, and discuss everything from politics to health to pop culture. We watch cars zip by, many traveling over the speed limit and too many showing off their sound systems. Families push strollers past. Two overzealous Corgis protect us from skateboarders and squirrels. From this vantage point, I feel as if I can see the entire town. So imagine my surprise when, while sitting on that porch, I read a local


newspaper story describing field work that Eastern Michigan University historic preservation students were doing on the very same street. Tis is how I learned that my hangout spot is only about 100 yards away from a piece of Michigan history: the Governor Charles Croswell House, a brick, two-story Greek Revival house built in the 1840s and once home to the 17th governor of the state of Michigan. Te house is a Michigan Historic Site and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Te historic home is


on the same side of the street as my hangout —separated by two homes, one business and an intersection. Yet I had no clue. About 20 EMU


historic preservation students spent a week at the site in late May, working under experts in furniture making, masonry, documentation, collections, materials conservation and paint analysis. Te goal is to leave the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter—the owners of the home since 1927—with a more complete record of the home and its history. EMU students have done this type of field work before, at the Fayette Historic


Town site in the Upper Peninsula, the Goll Homestead in Ohio, and the Campbell-DeYoung Farmstead near Traverse City. Tis time, though, I could walk to the site and feel the impact of their work. So thank you, EMU students, for preserving a piece of the place that I call


home—and for helping me finally notice what was right in front of me all along. —Darcy Gifford, editor


ART DIRECTOR Sue Shine


CONTRIBUTORS Quinn Alexander Chris Azzopardi (BS06) Linda Hass Lon Horwedel Sheryl James (BBA73) Geoff Larcom Randy Mascharka (BBA85) Jeff Mortimer Jeff Samoray Leisa Thompson Mary Ann Watson


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PRESIDENT Patrick J. Barry Jr. (BS71, MA73)


PAST PRESIDENT Gregory Sheldon (BBA96)


PRESIDENT ELECT Marques Thomey (BS00)


SECRETARY Matt Mortier (BS09, MA12)


PARLIAMENTARIAN Ruth Halsey (BS01, MBA12)


TREASURER Niklaus Schillack (BBA98)


DIRECTORS Amanda Bennett (BS05, MA12) Tom Borg (BS79, MA09) Thomas Charboneau, Jr. (BBA76) Linda Edwards-Brown (MLS86, MSW95) Sarah Fall (BS07, MA10) Randi Glaza (BS10, MA13) John Godre (BS67) Michael Gomez (BBA82) George Harrison (BS67, MA72) Lucas Langdon (BS03) Jasmine Lee (BSW09) Jenita Moore (BS93) Chad Newton (BS96, MS11) Paul Nucci (BS94) Jacqueline Page (BS95) Andrea Poplar (BS89) Gabriela Salagean (BS15) Mauricio Silva (MS03) Claudia Young (MBA02)


EMERITUS DIRECTORS William Malcolm (BS76) Vicki Reaume (BS91, MA96) W. Fred Roberts (BA56, MA68) Harold (Bud) Schimmelpfenneg (BS68)


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