Category Archives: Winter 2010

The Banta Bowl might not sound like the most romantic of venues, but for onetime offensive lineman John Bachhuber ’94 and student athletic trainer Mary Dercks Bachhuber ’92 it worked wonders. There began an LU courtship that resulted in the couple’s wedding just weeks following John’s graduation. After Lawrence, John established a successful career atContinue Reading

Lawrence’s More Light! campaign continues its upward momentum. Despite a difficult economic climate last year, alumni and friends of the college added an impressive $21 million to More Light! bringing its total to $125 million. Now, as the More Light! campaign officially enters the second year of its public phase, its focus is shifting fromContinue Reading

Executive Director of Alumni Relations Jan Daniels Quinlan ’74 left Lawrence on November 30 after more than 14 years of service to her alma mater. President Jill Beck praised Jan for her diverse and meaningful contributions to the college, saying “She has enabled generations of Lawrentians to reconnect with their alma mater because of herContinue Reading

When she attended opening convocations at the University of California, Irvine during the late 1990s, Jill Beck contemplated the unintended message new female students were receiving. The convocations were revealing, she recalls, as almost all of the convocation speakers were senior administrators and, most notably, they were all men. With a 10:1 ratio of menContinue Reading