a doorway. The window was stored in the attic until the rector, JoAnn Kennedy Slater, discovered it while taking inventory of the church’s historical treasures in 2001. “The panels were beautiful and they
were just lying around,” recalls Slater. “With St. Luke’s long history of being good neighbors with EMU, we decided the Pease memorial window needed to be put back in service.” With the help of two members of the
St. Luke’s congregation—EMU Associate Professor of History John McCurdy and Marcia McCrary, an amateur historian and
president of the Genealogical Society of Washtenaw—Slater approached EMU about donating the panels in honor of the 100th anniversary of Pease Auditorium. EMU’s Vice President for Operations
and Facilities John Donegan and Director of the Convocation Center Mark Monahan fi rst saw the panels in October 2014. “Donegan decided right away that
we had to do something with them,” says Monahan. EMU physical plant employees created a box to transport the windows and two former usher annexes in Pease were retrofi tted as display cases, all in time for the anniversary.
“So many students, faculty and staff
have walked through our doors, including Frederic and Josephine Pease,” says Slater. “We were so glad we could honor their memory by donating the windows.” The top and bottom panels of the
original window are on either side of Pease’s main lobby in their custom-made cases and a plaque in the lobby describes their history. The center panel was donated to the EMU historic preservation program and may eventually be installed in McKenny Union, says Monahan.3
—Laura Lyjak Crawford
Donald Loppnow Named Interim President
Donald Loppnow, who served
Eastern Michigan University for 40 years as professor, provost and interim president before retiring in 2014, is again interim president of EMU. Loppnow will serve as interim
president while Eastern conducts a national search for its 23rd
president,
which is expected to be completed this spring. His appointment will continue until the start date of the new president’s appointment. He replaces Interim President Kim Schatzel, who was named president at Towson University. “When it came time to consider
the best person for the interim presidency, we did not have to look far,” says Mike Morris, chair of the EMU Board of Regents. “Don Loppnow is a proven leader with a steady hand, and is extraordinarily well respected among our campus community as well as in the greater Washtenaw area. I am pleased he has agreed to step into this role and I know he will continue the excellent work initiated by former President Susan Martin and former Interim President Kim Schatzel.”
Loppnow was interim president from 2007-2008, prior to the appointment of President Martin. He also served as acting president for several weeks in 2004. He has held many positions over the years at Eastern since joining the University as a professor of social work in 1974. He later served as department head of the School of Social Work and in other administrative capacities as assistant to the president for strategic planning, associate vice president for extended programs, provost, and vice president and executive director of the EMU Foundation, among others. “Eastern Michigan University has been near and dear to my heart for more than 40 years,” says Loppnow. “I
am pleased to be asked to step in to help guide the University forward in the months ahead. I am fortunate to be surrounded by talented students, outstanding faculty, an eff ective and experienced leadership team, and staff who make Eastern an outstanding institution.” 3
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