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'Magnificent gifts'
Wilma and George Leonard '27 bequeath $5.8 million to Macalester;
Professor Dorothy Dodge leaves $1.6 million fund for college
Macalester recently received two major gifts, the college announced
in May.
Wilma Fox Leonard and George Leonard, both 1927 graduates and longtime
benefactors of Macalester, left the college $5.8 million. George
Leonard, a businessman, died in 1991 at the age of 87. Wilma Leonard
died in February at the age of 99 (see Spring Macalester
Today).
The first of three generations of their family to attend Macalester,
the couple created 13 endowed scholarships which this year benefit
26 students, made the lead gift to the college's natatorium, which
bears their name, and were among the college's most active fund-raisers
and boosters. Mrs. Leonard also recently made major gifts to the
renovation of Wallace Hall, a research fund for students and the
Alexander G. Hill Ballroom.
Most of their gift will go to the college's general endowment fund.
The rest will be split between the George P. & Wilma Fox Leonard
Athletic Department Endowed Fund, the Tom Leonard Fund (in memory
of their deceased son) and the Wilma F. Leonard Endowed Scholarship
Fund.
In the second gift, political science Professor Dorothy Dodge set
up a special fund from her estate valued at $1.6 million, with the
proceeds benefiting Macalester. The fund will support scholarships
for four women political or social sciences majors annually. Dodge,
who died in 2003 at the age of 76, taught at Macalester from 1955
to 1996.
"These magnificent gifts from the Leonards and Dorothy Dodge
exemplify their long-standing support of Macalester and their understanding
of the importance of stewardship," said Macalester President
Brian Rosenberg. "The Leonards were committed over many years
to making a significant contribution to the college and its students.
George was fond of saying that his many contributions were a way
of repaying the $125 annual scholarship he received as a student.
"Dorothy Dodge was an outstanding and innovative faculty member
for many years and I can think of no better way to remember her
than a scholarship for political science students in her name."
Festival Chorale ends
Symphonic chorus has been part of college for more than 30
years
The Music Department has announced the discontinuation of the
Festival Chorale.
The group, which has been a part of Macalester for well over 30
years, combined community singers and students to create a symphonic
chorus of 100 or more voices.
"Macalester Festival Chorale had a distinguished history of
memorable performances under its founding director, Dale Warland,
and also under his successors, Kathy Saltzman Romey, J. Michelle
Edwards and Robert Morris," Professor Marjorie Merryman, chair
of the department, said.
"Unfortunately, in the last several years membership has fallen
and budgetary pressure has intensified, making the organization
increasingly difficult to run. The Music Department is hoping to
create new ways to involve our dedicated community of singers and
music lovers, whose presence on campus will be sorely missed.
"As the choral program reorganizes, Robert Morris will be leaving
his position as director of choral activities, and he plans to pursue
his active career as a composer and as music director of the Leigh
Morris Chorale," Merryman said.
"The position of choir manager and publicity specialist is
also being eliminated, but Martha Davis '83 hopes to continue her
long association with the college in another role," she said.
Macalester's 16th president
'Our success is best measured by the lives our graduates lead,'
Brian Rosenberg declares in his inaugural address
Here are two excerpts from President Rosenberg's March 6 inaugural
address, entitled "Transformative Power: Macalester's Mission
and Purpose." For the full text, see www.macalester.edu/inauguration.
On the nature and purpose of the liberal arts college:
There sits in my office a whole shelf of books dedicated to defining
the aims, values and virtues of the liberal arts college. I cannot
hope here to add anything of novelty to a subject about which so
many have already said so much. Since some truths, however, bear
repeating, and since being a college president means in part learning
to embrace repetition, I will reiterate the point that the sort
of college of which Macalester is a stellar example is, in the words
of Steven Koblik, former president of Reed College, a "distinctively
American" institution, as American as our particular form of
democracy, our historic (if currently embattled) emphasis on inclusion
and our tradition of social mobility.
Indeed, I would go so far as to argue that the centrality of the
liberal arts education in America is in part responsible for the
preservation of our characteristic political and social institutions,
since that education, more than any other form with which I am familiar,
is aimed at producing the sort of citizen without which those institutions
cannot flourish. The liberal arts are nothing less than preparation
for the condition of freedom and evolved, I believe, as a defense
against the descent of freedom into chaos and misrule. If this seems
an overstatement, consider that the liberal arts model, like the
society within which it was formed, rests finally on a belief in
the transformative power of ideas, the necessity of collaborative
action for the common good and the importance of individual self-determination.
Macalester's "Statement of Purpose and Belief" begins
with the declaration that "At Macalester College we believe
that education is a fundamentally transforming experience...[and
that] the possibilities for this personal, social and intellectual
transformation extend to us all. We affirm the importance of the
intellectual growth of the students, staff and faculty through individual
and collaborative endeavor." Substitute "citizenship"
for "education" and one has a reasonable working definition
of American social and political life in its idealized form.
It is no accident that American colleges and universities began
by the early 19th century to distinguish themselves, in mission
and structure, from their more specialized, more exclusive and more
orderly European forebears, or that Thomas Jefferson chose to memorialize
himself not as the third President of the United States, but as
the author of the Declaration of Independence, the creator of a
state statute on religious freedom and the father of the University
of Virginia.
On other days, and in other settings, I will talk about the practical
utility of a liberal arts education; on other days, and in other
settings, I will provide statistics that document our success in
sending students on to graduate and professional schools and to
distinguished and rewarding careers in a variety of fields; on other
days, and in other settings, I will talk about the rigor of our
majors, the value of our general education requirements and the
seriousness with which we take self-assessment.
On this day, and in this setting, I want to state clearly my belief
that a liberal arts education has as its goal the promotion of a
depth of thinking and a breadth of spirit not subject to easy measurement
and that to define our mission in terms that are too utilitarian
and too quantifiable is to concede the ground we should most vigorously
defend. Our success is best measured by the books our graduates
choose to read, the philanthropic causes for which they labor, the
things they build and re-build, the positions of leadership they
occupy, the children they raise<em dash>in short, by the lives
they lead, for which a liberal arts education is of course not wholly
responsible, but to which that education surely and richly contributes.
To a culture preoccupied with short-term benefits and uncomplicated
answers this may seem evasive and old-fashioned, but it is true.
Let me return again to our "Statement of Purpose and Belief,"
where we define the goal of developing "individuals who make
informed judgments and interpretations of the broader world around
them and choose actions or beliefs for which they are willing to
be held accountable. We expect them to develop the ability to seek
and use knowledge and experience in contexts that challenge and
inform their suppositions about the world." We do not and cannot
always succeed, but we are wholly clear about our goal of educating
individuals to think critically and creatively, to respond with
intelligence, composure and empathy to unanticipated challenges
and changes, and to shape, through their work and ideas, the civic,
intellectual, artistic and moral life of our times. Anyone who believes
that this mission has become outmoded, that the world is less in
need of such individuals than it once was, has not, it seems to
me, been paying much attention.
On the history and character of Macalester:
The desire at Macalester to provide an education comparable in quality
to<em dash>yet different in character from<em dash>what
is provided by the finest colleges in the land is palpable and powerful.
From the beginning we have tried mightily to balance the goals of
excellence and access, of national visibility and local distinctiveness,
of creating programs of the highest quality and making those programs
available to a population less privileged than might be found at
many of our peer institutions. For many decades, and especially
since the mid-century presidency of Charles Turck, the college has
taken a resolutely internationalist perspective, even at moments
when such a perspective has been unpopular, in the belief that world
citizenship, and American citizenship, are forged most strongly
in an environment that embraces a wide range of global viewpoints.
We were among the first colleges to address openly and explicitly,
if not always deftly, the opportunities and deep complexities of
social and cultural diversity. For years this college has, more
than most, attempted to wed what historian Hugh Hawkins has termed
a Socratic approach to the liberal arts as philosophical questioning
with "a Ciceronian emphasis on civic duty," building bridges,
and not erecting barriers, between intellectual and political life.
Decade after decade, year after year, we have aspired to play some
role in the formation of individuals equipped to imagine, articulate
and inspire us to live up to the noblest ideals of American and
global society.
These are good goals, difficult goals; we do not always succeed
in reaching them; yet the fact that we continue to pursue them even
in the face of substantial challenges is testimony to our seriousness
of purpose and reason enough to see Macalester College as a resource
worthy not just of preservation, but of enhancement. Those of us
charged with the stewardship of this college<em dash>by which
I mean both those of us who live and work here today and those who
have benefited from the work of the college in the past<em dash>should
feel not merely obligated but privileged to help advance its historic
mission.
Perhaps the most striking feature of our past at Macalester is the
extent to which we have throughout our history been enacting, on
an institutional level, the transformative process we attempt to
inspire in our students. Put simply, the history of this college
is a case study in the value of perseverance, flexibility and aspiration.
It took eleven years from its nominal founding in 1874 for the college
to enroll its first class of students; during virtually every decade
from the 1870s to the 1970s the college was faced with the very
real threat of financial exigency and even, at times, with possible
collapse. One is tempted when reading the story of Macalester's
first century to say of it what DeWitt Wallace said of the story
of his father: "this is a saga essentially of suffering, acute
and prolonged."
Yet time and again suffering was met with determination and threats
of demise were turned into opportunities for institutional evolution.
Throughout it all our students were educated thoughtfully and rigorously
and a community of learners was created and nourished. Macalester
has been hurdling obstacles for well over a century and has been
reinventing itself almost from birth: in 1893, when a drive to establish
an endowment was launched and the college opened its doors to women;
in 1947, when in the wake of the Second World War the college embraced
a new vocational emphasis; in 1961, when the so-called "Stillwater
Report" signaled a turn toward a stronger liberal arts orientation;
in 1992, when the full impact of the largesse of DeWitt Wallace
became clear and the college was granted the opportunity to aspire
to a new level of national prominence and academic excellence.
That it has managed to do this without ever losing sight of its
core mission, and that it has arrived at the start of the 21st century
as one of the pre-eminent liberal arts colleges in the nation, as
one of the handful that can aspire realistically to prepare the
best and brightest students for positions of national and global
leadership, is a truly remarkable fact. Truly remarkable. It is
also, I propose, the foundation upon which the future of this college
will be built and an example and challenge to the Macalester community
of today.
So let me conclude my remarks and formally initiate my presidency
by asserting with the deepest conviction that if one believes those
things to be strongest that have been most sorely tested, those
goals to be most precious that have been most doggedly pursued and
those institutions to be most lasting that have fought most tenaciously
for their values, then one must be optimistic about the future of
Macalester College. The current version of Macalester, the version
created for us by the efforts of our predecessors, is still in its
youth, and I am excited and inspired by the prospect of witnessing,
of playing my own small part in shaping, its maturity.
Professor's arrest sought
Politicians in India line up to condemn Jim Laine's book on
revered Hindu king
Authorities in the Indian state of Maharashtra are seeking the arrest
of Macalester Professor Jim Laine for statements in his recent book
questioning the history of a revered 17th century Hindu king.
Laine's Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India was released in the summer of 2003 by Oxford University
Press. The Indian translation of the book was banned by the state
of Maharashtra last January when a riot began outside the Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute in Pune, India, where the religious
studies professor had conducted some of his research. Members of
the mob tarred the face of one of Laine's colleagues, whom Laine
thanked in the preface of his book. (See Spring Macalester
Today.)
"The riot was not spontaneous combustion," Laine told
the Mac Weekly. "It was a carefully
orchestrated event for political purpose."
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who first came out against
the banning of books, now supports the actions taken against Laine
by the Maharashtra government. "It becomes competitive patriotism,"
Laine said. "[The politicians] are all lining up now to condemn
the book."
The book takes a critical look at the construction of stories about
Shivaji that have been introduced to mainstream Indian culture.
The most contentious chapter, "Cracks in the Narrative,"
highlights points of the story that have historically been excluded
in order to maintain a positive image of Shivaji, Laine said. In
the book, Laine considers "unthinkable" thoughts, including
that Shivaji's parents might have been estranged because they never
lived together.
For now, Laine will be unable to travel to India, where he has made
a least a dozen visits conducting research. "It's been my whole
scholarly career," he said.
Urban studies
The faculty has voted to reconfigure the current urban studies major
as a concentration and house it in the Geography Department.
The current urban studies major requires students to complete a
14-course sequence, including a focus in history, geography, economics,
sociology or political science, six courses related to urban studies
and a senior seminar.
The new urban studies program will require students to complete
a major in another department and a concentration, which geography
Professor David Lanegran '63 said will allow students to focus more
on the discipline of urban studies. "The requirements for urban
studies will change more on paper than in reality," Lanegran
told the Mac Weekly. "Essentially
the current major is a concentration."
There are currently 22 urban studies majors and most chose to double
major. Ten of these majors are geography majors.
Hispanic studies
The Latin American Studies Program will be housed in the Spanish
Department, starting this fall. The Spanish Department will be renamed
Hispanic Studies.
The faculty approved the idea in March, after a forum in which faculty
and students discussed the new arrangement. In Macalester's new
academic structure, an interdisciplinary department must have at
least two full-time equivalent (FTE) core faculty in order to offer
a major concentration.
"We do not want to be reduced to a concentration or a minor
or something like that," said Jim Stewart, professor of history
and director of the Latin American Studies Program. "This gives
us a kind of institutional viability<em dash>what changed
is that Latin American studies has moved from a more marginalized
position to a more centralized position."
"Latin American studies didn't have enough faculty to continue
to be a major<em dash>it needed a house," Spanish Professor
and Chair Toni Dorca said. "It makes sense that Spanish would
provide this house<em dash>it's a practical movement. It's
going to give Latin American studies a chance to survive and a chance
to do better.
"It's more a housing than a merging," Dorca said.
At the forum, Stewart said that Latin American studies would not
be incorporated into the Spanish Department. "There will always
be an independent steering committee," he said. "No one's
going to mix the agenda of Spanish Department business with Latin
American studies business."
Teachers, scholars, mentors, friends
Three longtime faculty members are retiring; a fourth, Jack
Rossmann, is entering Macalester's phased retirement program
Edouard Forner, Music
In 1970 Edouard Forner came to Macalester with an M.A. in music
theory and composition from Stanford, and a diploma in conducting
from the Vienna State College of Music and Dramatic Arts. For six
years, he was chorus master and conductor at the Stadttheater in
Rendsburg, Germany. In over 30 years as a teacher, he continued
his own study, working with many of the great composers and conductors
of living memory including Nadia Boulanger and Pierre Monteux. In
1962, he received the Leonard Bernstein conducting award at the
Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Festival.
As professor and director of instrumental activities, Forner directed
Macalester's Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Band. He taught classes
in advanced instrumental conducting and electronic music, and he
served as department chair from 1990 to 1995. As music director
and conductor of the St. Paul Civic Symphony since 1970, he leads
one of the great community orchestras, bringing a wide range of
symphonic literature to the public. In 1996 he took the Civic Symphony
to Nagasaki where a "Sister Orchestra" affiliation was
established, and the response of the Japanese audience attested
to ability of music to transcend historical and cultural divides.
Asked about pinnacles of his career, Forner recalls a particular
Mahler concert and a performance of Stravinsky's Firebird, but also the extraordinary friends and mentors he has
come to know and cherish, most notably his wife Jan Gilbert, composer
and Macalester faculty member.
Currently, Forner is immersed in programming for the next two seasons
of the Civic Symphony and looking forward to another summer working
with a friend, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, near Cologne, Germany.
Roger K. Mosvick'52, Communication and Media Studies
For 51 years Roger K. Mosvick contributed to Macalester as a student
and professor in one of the longest legacies on record. He has been
a highly valued teacher and colleague, an energetic chairperson
and a recognized international communications consultant.
After graduating from Macalester in 1952, Mosvick received his master's
in speech communication in 1958 and his Ph.D. in organizational
communication in 1966 from the University of Minnesota. Thereafter
he completed a post-doctorate program at Brunel University in London.
Although he has taught at international business sites and at the
Universities of Minnesota and St. Thomas, Macalester has been his
lifelong vocation.
In the 1960s as director of debate he developed a large program
that laid the foundations of Macalester's national prominence in
forensics. For 20 years he chaired his department, and as a Faculty
Advisory Council member he helped guide the college through the
groundbreaking years of the Expanded Educational Opportunities program.
Among other professional activities he served as chair of the Applied
Communication Section of the National Communication Association.
Mosvick's influence on the field of communication continues through
the 4,500 students he has taught, many of whom are now prominent
in the field.
His 40 years as a consultant to companies such as 3M, IBM and Honeywell
provided his students with an ongoing study of real-life communication
practices as well as rich data for his co-authored text, We've
Got to Start Meeting Like This!, now translated
into French and Chinese. In 1995 Mosvick was recipient of the Macalester's
Thomas Jefferson Award, and in 2000 alumni endowed an annual prize
in critical thinking and a scholarship in his name.
Bernard Solomon Raskas, Religious Studies
Bernard Solomon Raskas was already an esteemed rabbi and Talmudic
scholar when he joined the Macalester faculty in 1985. He earned
his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1945, and in
1949 he was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
There he also received his master of Hebrew letters, and in 1975,
his doctorate.
For 38 years Raskas served as senior rabbi at Temple of Aaron in
St. Paul, where he remains rabbi laureate. He is the author of Seasons
of the Mind and the trilogy Heart
of Wisdom, and author or editor of many other
books and articles. For 20 years he wrote a syndicated column for
the Anglo-Jewish press. He has also published numerous reinterpreted
rituals for Passover and Rosh Hashanah that have enriched those
observances for many.
Raskas taught classes on ancient and modern Jewish life. He was
the first Jewish chaplain at the college, and the curator of the
permanent exhibit, "The Ten Commandments in Ten Versions."
He served on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and many
local boards including the Chamber of Commerce, the Human Rights
Commission and the Boy Scouts. He has chaired three campaigns and
is permanent consultant to the St. Paul United Jewish Fund.
In 1985 Raskas received the Agus Award, a tribute to his scholarship
from the Rabbinical Assembly. In 1988 the Jewish Theological Seminary
named him a Distinguished Alumnus, and in 1997 the United Hospital
Foundation honored him with its Service to Humanity Award in recognition
of his hospital chaplaincy.
His students, however, are likely to remember Raskas not for his
honors or degrees, but for his profound and sincere interest in
their ideas and their lives.
Jack Rossmann, Psychology
Jack Rossmann's career has encompassed three major components
of higher education--research, administration and teaching. Rossmann
earned his B.S. and M.S. in sociology at Iowa State University in
1958 and 1960 and his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University
of Minnesota in 1963. He came to Macalester in 1964 as director
of educational research and an assistant professor of psychology.
In 1977 Rossmann was selected an Administrative Fellow of the American
Council on Education. He then served as Macalester's vice president
for academic affairs from 1978 until 1986 when he turned to fulltime
teaching, serving as department chair from 1989 to 2000.
Rossmann recently completed a year as president of the Minnesota
Psychological Association. He has also served as president of the
Minnesota Conference of the American Association of University Professors,
which honored him with their Sloan Award for his support of academic
freedom and shared governance. In 1990 the college presented him
with the Thomas Jefferson Award.
Rossmann is coauthor of the book Open Admissions at the City
University of New York and has published numerous articles in
professional journals. He has served on the boards of the World
Press Institute, United Theological Seminary and Twin City [now
Minnesota] Institute for Talented Youth, and as chair of the board
of trustees of Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul. He has chaired
over 30 accreditation teams for the North Central Association, and
he will chair the college's self-study committee as it anticipates
accreditation review. He plans to continue his ever-popular surveys
of the 25- and 50-year reunion classes, and he and his wife Marty
will further their joint research project on the family. The Rossmanns
are the parents of two alumni, Charles '86 and Sarah '88.
Teaching, staff awards
Psychology Professor Eric Wiertelak received
this year's Excellence in Teaching Award. The annual award recognizes
a Macalester faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching
through classroom instruction, student advising and educational
leadership. Wiertelak has taught at Macalester since 1993 and directs
the Neuroscience Studies Program. His citation calls him "an
outrageously successful teacher" and "a creative innovator
in pursuit of ever more effective teaching strategies<em dash>e.g.,
use of Web. In fact, you have become nationally known for your successful
innovations and are a recognized leader in undergraduate neuroscience
education."
Biology Professor Mark Davis, who has
been teaching at Macalester since 1981, received the annual Thomas
Jefferson Award for exemplifying the principles and ideals of Thomas
Jefferson. Davis is an ecologist who has received national grants,
including several from the National Science Foundation to study
the effects of fire and climate change on prairies and oak savannas.
Davis' courses "are rigorous, but always highly enrolled, and
you have developed innovative pedagogy with emphasis on fostering
students' written and oral communication skills," his citation
reads. "Your highly effective role in the classroom and your
committed mentoring certainly contributed to your choice as the
1995 Minnesota College Science Teacher of the Year. In short, you
exemplify the teacher-scholar, and it is not surprising that many
of your students have gone on to careers in ecology and environmental
science in government and academe."
Donna Thordson, executive assistant to Macalester's vice
president for administration and treasurer, received the Staff Outstanding
Service Award. A staff member at Macalester since 1982, she "has
been one of those quiet unsung heroes who make a real difference
in the quality of Macalester. She has provided outstanding service
with a positive attitude to students, staff and faculty," her
citation says.
Spring sports review
Track & field
Kirsten Fristad '05 (Rochester, Mich.) and Koby Hagen '06 (Minneapolis)
won individual championships to lead the way for Macalester at the
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference track and field championships
at St. Olaf College. Fristad repeated as MIAC 400-meter intermediate
hurdles champ by winning the finals with an NCAA Division III provisional
qualifying time of 62.76. Hagen won the 1,500-meter championship
with a 4:43.82 mark. Fristad also added a second-place finish in
the 100-meter high hurdle finals with a provisional qualifying time
of 15.02.
Both Macalester teams moved up one spot from a year ago, with
the women placing sixth out of 12 and the men finishing eighth out
of 11 teams.
The Scots had four second-place individual finishers. On the men's
side, Alex Wise '07 (Knoxville, Tenn.) was second in the pole vault
(14-8 1/4) and Ssebbaale Sseremba '05 (Tutume, Botswana) placed
second in the triple jump (46-2 3/4). In addition to Fristad in
the 100 hurdles, the Mac women received a second-place finish from
Susan Brown '07 (Kingston, Jamaica) in the triple jump (36-11 3/4--NCAA
provisional qualifying).
The Macalester women had three fourth-place finishes. Colleen Schramm
'07 (St. Paul) placed fourth in both the triple jump (35-10) and
100-meter high hurdles (15.13) and Francie Streich '06 (Lincoln,
Neb.) took fourth in the 5,000-meter run (18:29.86).
Baseball
The Scots rebounded from a rough season in 2003 to play some good
baseball this past year, finishing eighth in the MIAC at 7-13 and
13-23 overall. That's more than twice as many wins as last year.
All-America second baseman Joel Brettingen '04 (Minnetonka, Minn.)
shattered the school record for most career hits and was ranked
among the league leaders in most key statistical categories once
again. He finished as a career .400 hitter. Outfielder Mike Merrill
'05 (Lititz, Pa.) enjoyed another big season and led the team in
runs scored. Andrew Percival '06 (Seattle) and Marc Rodwogin '05
(Marlboro, N.J.) hit over .300 while Liam Bowen '06 (Silver Springs,
Md.) and Cormac Seely '05 (Stockton, Calif.) led the Mac pitching
staff.
Women's water polo
Macalester won the Heartland Regional championship for the sixth
time in seven years to earn another trip to the Collegiate III national
championships in California, where the Scots closed out a 10-19
season by taking seventh at nationals. Jackie DeLuca '07 (New Preston,
Conn.) was named to the all-tournament team at nationals and set
a Mac school record for ejections drawn in a season. Hayley Campbell
'04 (Goshen, N.H.) became Mac's all-time goal-scoring leader and
on the season led the Scots with 53 scores. DeLuca added 51 goals
and a team-leading 41 assists. Heather Lendway '06 (St. Paul), Cassie
Hartblay '06 (Amherst, Mass.) and goalkeeper Elena Bulat '07 (Madison,
Wis.) led the defensive effort, while Kate Larson '05 (Rockford,
Ill.) was third on the team with 38 goals.
Women's tennis
The young women's tennis team kept getting better and better as
the season went on and toward the end came very close to picking
up some MIAC victories. Back-to-back 5-4 losses in April to Concordia
and Hamline preceded a good MIAC tournament run which saw the Scots
nearly pull off upsets over St. Benedict and Concordia before going
down to narrow defeat. Sarah Crangle '04 (Piedmont, Calif.) did
a good job holding down the No. 1 position in the singles lineup
for the second year in a row. Erin Case '05 (Ann Arbor, Mich.) led
the team with a 10-12 singles record<em dash>mostly at No.
2 and 3--and Christy Hagstrum '05 (North Oaks, Minn.) was second
on the team in wins with eight on the season. Hagstrum went 6-8
at No. 2 singles.
Men's tennis
The Scots were forced to play without several key regulars for much
of the season and finished with a 3-16 record. Jake Depue '04 (Springfield,
Mo.) capped his second year at No. 1 singles by posting six wins
on the season. Teammate Eric Brandt '05 (Menlo Park, Calif.) led
the Scots in singles victories with seven, while Depue, Nick Werth
'06 (Bloomington, Ind.) and Alex Hiller '04 (Madras, Ore.) posted
six wins apiece. Mac's No. 2 doubles team of Tobin Kaufman-Osborn
'07 (Walla Walla, Wash.) and Chris Yost '07 (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
combined to register a 5-2 record on the season. The team suffered
narrow 5-4 MIAC defeats to both Bethel and St. Olaf and went 2-3
on its spring break trip.
Softball
Under new head coach Tom Cross, Macalester played some pretty good
softball this season. Veteran leadership from an outstanding senior
class helped the team defeat traditional conference power St. Mary's
for the first time in eight years and sweep Carleton for the first
time in seven years. All-Conference third baseman Caitlin Adams
'04 (Monona, Wis.) enjoyed another fine season and was among the
league leaders in home runs and slugging percentage. Kat Sprole
'05 (Des Moines, Iowa) was the team's top hitter and Lisa Bauer
'04 (Woodbury, Minn.) had another solid season at the shortstop
position. The battery of pitcher Alisha Seifert '05 (Mahtomedi,
Minn.) and catcher Chris Soma '04 (Kiester, Minn.) was dependable
once again.
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