Posted on Sep 17, 2008

 

A small Board of Trustees committee made up of veteran investors has nearly doubled the College’s endowment during the last five years by employing a more aggressive and, at times, riskier investment strategy.

The Investment Committee, chaired by David Henle ’75, has helped grow the College’s endowment from $245 million in 2002 to more than $400 million today. The annual rate of investment return for Union’s endowment during the last five years has ranked in the top 15 percent of a group of 247 peer institutions, according to the Wilshire Associates Endowment Universe. The growth has vaulted Union’s endowment well above the average among peer institutions but still below colleges like Hamilton College and Middlebury College.

Union College magazine recently spoke with Henle, who worked at Goldman Sachs for 25 years, led its private wealth management effort for nearly 10 years and today heads the investment firm DLH Capital. The interview covered specifics like smart endowment investment strategies and how they connect with broader topics such as the College’s Strategic Plan and improving alumni giving.

“For a college the size of Union, I think that the expertise that is embodied in the Investment Committee is as good as any college in the country. This committee does very substantive work that reflects directly on the future of the College,” Henle said.

Q: Why is endowment growth critical to Union’s future?

A: All of us on the Investment Committee know how critically important the endowment is. Said simply: The committee understands that colleges like Union live and die by the amount of resources they are able to bring to bear. And resources are a function of money. Whether it’s scholarships or faculty salaries, these types of things are dependent on resources, and resources are dependent on the endowment.

Colleges like Union should be focused on trying to attract the best and the brightest students, in part, by giving them some amount of financial support. To attract the best student body, Union must mitigate the burden put upon students upon graduation. To do that, we’ll need to steadily build up the endowment.

Q: What investment strategies have helped grow Union’s endowment?

A: We have taken a more aggressive equity exposure, which means we have taken our fixed income down over a period of time. Within that more aggressive move toward equities, we have also embraced alternative managers, namely, hedge fund managers. That has been the biggest change and it has created a better dynamic for us.

Different asset classes have different risk profiles; for instance, if you just own cash, that’s not a volatile asset but it will also have the lowest rate of return. On the other end of the spectrum, you have highly illiquid private equity investments that are expected to provide significant returns. The Spring 2006 issue of Union’s Accolades magazine, featuring a story about the David L. Henle Merit Scholarship for exceptional students.

So, part of the committee discussions revolve around the questions: How are our assets allocated? Do we want them in alternative equity management products like hedge funds or in private equity? Such discussions are the building blocks of the endowment’s risk profile.

Once we’ve agreed on an asset class, we select which individual managers will represent Union’s endowment in that class. That’s where we spend a majority of our time.

The committee believes Union can be somewhat more aggressive in its investments. We are taking intelligent risk and we are doing so because we understand that the endowment can afford to take a long-term perspective. It can endure a greater amount of short-term volatility.

We have a team of people on the committee who are tremendously effective.

Q: What role do alumni play in growing the endowment?

A: I think the College can do a better job staying connected with alumni, beginning from the day that they graduate. We are trying to create in them more of a sense of wanting to give back to the institution.

Alumni participation is critical, in my view, to how the endowment will likely grow or not grow over the next five to 10 years.

And I believe that some amount of endowment giving is based on confidence in how that money will be managed. And to me, it seems obvious that the more confidence that those people have in how those resources are being managed, the more likely they are to give.

Q: Why do you give your free time and investment expertise to help Union?

A: I love the College and I have always felt a sense of wanting to give back.

Second, my background has been in the investment world and I’d like to think that I bring a certain amount of expertise and knowledge base that can be helpful in the investment process. That’s why I am engaged to the extent that I am. It’s both a matter of wanting to give back and taking a real sense of enjoyment and satisfaction out of doing it.

I feel the College has some powerful momentum right now. I think President Stephen Ainlay is terrific. He is a doer. He’s a catalyst. He’s connected to students. And he’s passionate about Union.

Also, I think the Board of Trustees Nominating Committee has done a good job of bringing in board members who have fresh ideas, who care about the school, who are engaged. I think the College has been gathering more and more momentum every year since I began serving as a trustee in 2004.

That momentum ultimately translates into whether or not people support the school. The simple fact is: If people take pride in Union’s reputation— everything from its athletics to its academics—and they feel the College has momentum, they’ll be much more likely to give. The endowment’s growth is one sign of momentum, and it’s a critical piece of maintaining the College’s top-tier reputation.  

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Posted on Sep 17, 2008

 

Teaching photography

During a frantic two-day stretch last spring, Nancy Borowick ’07 got several immunization shots and drug prescriptions to protect against diseases like typhoid, meningitis and yellow fever during a two-month volunteer trip to Ghana.

The immunization push is chronicled in one of the first entries in Borowick’s trip diary. Today she is trying to script the last entry: raising money to help the village of Mowire build a well that produces safe drinking water.

Borowick’s volunteer trip, organized with help from Kids Worldwide, began in late March and ended in late May. Borowick, an organizing theme major at Union, taught photography to a grade-school class of 15 girls and boys in a rural village located in central Ghana.

“I taught photography to children in a culture where confidence and individualism are frowned upon. I wanted to give these kids a chance to express themselves in a way never allowed,” Borowick said.

Ghana, which is about the size of Oregon, is located on the west coast of Africa and has a population of about 23.3 million. Roughly 55 percent of the nation’s labor force works in agriculture, with major exports including cocoa, rice and bananas.

At Union, Borowick spent a term abroad in Barbados and completed a senior project on the growing Guyanese population in Schenectady. The term abroad and Guyanese project were, like the Ghana trip, attempts to submerse herself in a different culture and emerge with a meaningful story, Borowick said. That was the essential element of her organizing theme major, which was focused on representations of culture and identity and incorporated coursework in anthropology, visual arts and modern languages.

“After finding success teaching photography to children during my term abroad to Barbados in 2006, I decided to try it again in Ghana. The majority of the children at the Triumph International School had never been near a camera before, let alone been able to touch and hold one,” Borowick said.

Borowick today lives in Manhattan and works part- time at a photography studio as she pursues a career in photography. She is raising money and, with help from Kids Worldwide, hoping to funnel donations toward a new village well. The current well is dry and villagers must walk two miles for potable water.  

For more: Contact Nancy Borowick at nancyborowick@gmail.com. She recently held a photography exhibit and a fundraiser at Home Sweet Home, a bar and lounge in New York City co-owned by Nadia Koch ’06. To see more of her work, visit www.nancyborowick.com.  

 

Aiding Ethiopia’s orphans

Amelie was elated. Her parents, Danielle Marquis ’01 and Bryan Cudmore ’99, had just completed a wooden playground in the family’s yard and set her free to play.

Amelie, now 2, was adopted in April 2007 from the Toukoul orphanage in the Ethiopian city of Addis Ababa. When the couple traveled there to finalize the adoption, they were struck by the needs of the children. So, when Amelie’s playground was completed a few months later at their home in Colorado, Marquis thought of the orphanage.

“‘Oh my God, there was no playground,’ I said. We felt really guilty. These kids have nothing. We decided at that point that we should start to help,” Marquis said. “I knew I wanted to do something. When we showed up at the orphanage, all the kids knew why they we were there. We felt awful. It just breaks your heart. You can’t adopt them all, yet you want to do something to help those left behind.”

With help from a cadre of other mothers who adopted Ethiopian children, Marquis formed Ethiopian Orphan Relief, Inc. The nonprofit seeks to improve the lives of Ethiopia’s orphans by selecting specific and attainable goals. Ethiopia, located near the upper east coast of Africa, has a population of more than 78 million and has recently battled widespread malnutrition and high rates of HIV infection.

While waiting to finalize Amelie’s adoption, Marquis and Cudmore rallied family and friends to raise $5,000 for a care center for HIV-positive children at Amelie’s orphanage. The center will open later this year and will house one of Ethiopian Orphan Relief, Inc.’s first formal projects: a playground.

Marquis’ next goal is to raise money to aid construction of a facility in Addis Ababa for orphaned teenage girls. That project is being led by another nonprofit, Children’s Heaven, which supports girls whose parents die of complications related to AIDS. Orphaned teenage girls are a vulnerable segment of Ethiopian society, because they are at a higher risk of sexual assault or rape, and thereby more susceptible to acquiring HIV, Marquis said.

“It’s a boatload of work. We’ve got some talented moms on our team, we’re really lucky. In fact, I am leaving for Portland, Ore. today for a board meeting with other moms of Ethiopian orphans. Most of our children lived at Toukoul, many shared cribs. It’s just something we’ve always wanted to do,” Marquis said in mid-August.

For the past seven years Marquis, who earned a law degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, has run Marquis Athletes, a sports-management firm that matches former athletes who are motivational speakers with corporate, non- profit and educational engagements. Husband Bryan Cudmore is a sales representative for Abbott, a large healthcare company that makes prescription drugs, medical products and nutritional products. The family, including son, Brayson, born in May, lives in Evergreen, Colo.

Marquis, whose father was adopted and always considered adopting, credits a Union term abroad in Athens with further influencing her decision. During the term, Marquis saw poor families begging for food near a student dining hall.

“I vividly remember walking out of our dining hall in a fancy area of Athens. We’d walk out and there were always moms with babies, and some of the kids appeared to be injured. They were begging for food,” Marquis said.

For more: Visit www.ethiopianorphanrelief.org to learn more or to contact Danielle Marquis. Join Ethiopian Orphan Relief, Inc. on Nov. 8, 2008 at Flash Studio near Denver for an Ethiopian art show, sale and fundraiser to benefit the Children’s Heaven project.  

 

Raising their voices

An October 2007 New York Times story inspired a group of women in the New York City metropolitan area to act. Today that group, including Elissa Hecker ’95, has raised nearly $200,000 and garnered international attention to aid victims of a brutal rape epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The story’s lead sentence reflects the disgust of a Congolese gynecologist who was last year performing as many as six rape-related surgeries a day. Reporter Jeffrey Gettleman describes unimaginably violent rapes carried out by armed groups of men, largely formed in the wake of a deadly civil war, that roam lawless regions of the country. Although a peace agreement was signed in 2003 after five years of civil war, violent militias persist and are made worse by widespread malnutrition, disease and political unrest.

“Many of us read the Times story. One friend in particular wanted to do something to help the victims of the atrocious crimes. So she called Jeffrey Gettleman and he put her in touch with various people who are involved with the issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Hecker said.

In the last year, Hecker and her volunteer colleagues formed a nonprofit group called Women of the Congo. In addition to raising money, the group participated in a U.N. briefing and attended a session of the U.N.’s General Assembly. The roundtable briefing dealt with causes of the rape epidemic, ways to help the victims and avenues for justice. Experts at the briefing said 40,000 women reported being raped in 2007 in the Congo, which is just less than a quarter of the size of the United States and has a population of about 67 million.

So, for Hecker and her volunteer colleagues in Women of the Congo, the stated inspiration is simple: “We believe that we can no longer turn away in horror, but must raise our voices in defense of these women who struggle daily to protect themselves and their children from unspeakable atrocities.”

The money raised will be donated to playwright Eve Ensler’s organization V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day will aid UNICEF’s City of Joy, near Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, which will be a safe house for survivors of sexual violence who cannot return to their families. A donation will also be made to Avocats Sans Frontières, an international nongovernmental organization of lawyers and legal professionals that protects the rights of vulnerable groups and individuals. The Women of the Congo group will be featured in the October issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. The group was featured in several local print and radio news pieces.

Hecker is the principal of her own law firm, which focuses primarily on copyright, trademark and business law. She is also on the Editorial Board of the New York State Bar Association’s Journal and the editor of the bar association’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal and is editor of the book Entertainment Litigation, Know the Issues and Avoid the Courtroom. Hecker also regularly organizes and participates in pro bono causes.

Hecker and several of her friends, including Laura Grund ’96, are sponsoring women through Women for Women International, an organization that helps individual Congolese women survive and thrive.

At Union, Hecker was active in student government and was a part of several student volunteer groups.

“Union helped make me realize just how fortunate I was to be able to experience an excellent education in a beautiful environment. It made me want to give back even more to the community, and to help others who may not have had my opportunities,” she said. 

For more: Visit www.womenofthecongo.com or contact Elissa Hecker at eheckeresq@yahoo.com.

 

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Posted on Sep 16, 2008

David Muller of the Mount Sinai Medical Center will address “Caregivers and Care Providers Coping with Death” on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.

He will discuss three cases that illustrate many of the challenges and blessings that the dying bring to those who provide care. Co-sponsored with the Community Hospice of Schenectady, the event is free and open to the public.

Muller is associate professor of medicine and chair of medical education at Mount Sinai and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He received his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai, where he also served as chief resident.

He co-founded and directed the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, now the largest academic physician home visiting program in the country. 

For more information about the program, contact Carol Weisse, director of Health Professions Program at Union, at weissec@union.edu, or call 388-6300.

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Posted on Sep 15, 2008

A number of campus programs scheduled in the next few weeks are designed to increase awareness about death, dying and end-of-life care.

 

GUEST SPEAKER: David Muller of Mount Sinai Medical Center will address “Caregivers and Care Providers Coping with Death” on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. He will discuss three cases that illustrate many of the challenges and blessings that the dying bring to those who provide care.

Muller is associate professor of medicine and chair of medical education at Mount Sinai and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He received his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai, where he also served as chief resident.

He co-founded and directed the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, now the largest academic physician home visiting program in the country. 

Co-sponsored with the Community Hospice of Schenectady, the event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Carol Weisse, director of Health Professions Program, at weissec@union.edu, or call 388-6300.

FILM SERIES: A Wold House “Death in Film” series will offer a look at how different views about death are captured in popular films on Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. A light dinner of soup and bread will be served. The schedule:

Sept. 30, “The Bucket List”: This Rob Reiner comedy is about two men, portrayed by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, who go on an adventurous road trip together after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. (The film is produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment, whose president is Alan Horn ’64.)

Oct. 7, “Two Weeks”:  Four adult children return home to handle the final care and arrangements for their dying mother, played by Sally Field.

Oct. 14, “Ponette”: This French drama captures a young child’s unique perspectives after the sudden loss of her mother.

Oct. 21, “Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself”: This Danish black comedy features two Scottish brothers, one who is chronically suicidal and the good-hearted sibling who is left to care for him.

Oct. 28, “Harold and Maude”: This 1971 cult classic, a black comedy, follows the relationship between a death-obsessed 19-year-old and a life-loving 79-year-old widow.

Nov. 4, “Death at a Funeral”: Chaos erupts at a funeral when romance, jealousy, in-laws, hallucinogens, dark secrets, life-long yearnings and a spot of bold blackmail collide in this British black comedy.

Nov. 11, “The Last Lecture”: Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor who recently passed away at age 47 from pancreatic cancer, became known around the world from his videotaped “last lecture” and the book based on his advice about living a full life.

COMMUNITY SERVICE: Many Union students are volunteering at the Joan Nicole Prince Home, a local comfort care home that provides a safe, comfortable caring residence for terminally ill patients in need of a home during their final days. For more information, go to www.joannicoleprincehome.org.

Several members of the community are also training or have trained to become hospice volunteers through Community Hospice of Schenectady, and a number of students will be volunteering at Camp Erin, Upstate New York’s first weekend overnight camp for children who have lost someone close to them. For more information, go to http://www.communityhospice.org/

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Posted on Sep 15, 2008

ALASKA AS CLASSROOM

The article “Alaska as classroom” (p. 4, Winter 2008) caught my attention. While a psychology major at Union many years ago, I took an elective course in mineralogy. I was pleased that Dr. Edward S.C. Smith, the department head, encouraged me to change my major to geology, but I did not.

I do not recall geology field trips being as lavish or adventurous in those days. We mostly traveled to the Adirondacks; trips to Batchellerville and Olmstedville. Our young instructor knew the locations of mother lodes of quartz, biotite, muscovite, tourmaline, chrysoberyl, etc. Students who did not own a car, such as myself, would ride with him in his vintage vehicle. I remember well how he carried one or two gallons of used crank hose oil in the trunk to add, as needed, on our trips—most of which was generally used.

I am writing mainly to say that I missed any mention of a classmate, Crawford E. “Jim” Fritts ’48, who became a geologist. Years ago I read an article about Fritts. The article reported that he was working for the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska when he drowned. An Alaskan mountain was subsequently named Fritts Mountain in his honor. Although we were no more than classmates, I still remember our banter in the mineralogy lab and his lighthearted, friendly manner. News of his untimely death especially saddened me.

Gilbert Holtz ’49

Gil lives in Fishers, N.Y.

Editor’s note: Crawford E. “Jim” Fritts ’48 drowned on July 4, 1972 after his canoe was overturned in Alaska’s Kogolutuk River during a mapping expedition in the Brooks Range near the Arctic Circle. In 1975 a mountain in the Angayucham Mountain Range was named Fritts Mountain in honor of the pioneering geologist.

 

GENETIC COUNSELING

I read with interest the Winter 2008 edition of the magazine and was surprised to see the article (p. 37) about cancer “previvor” Elizabeth Marcotte ’89, who carries a BRCA gene mutation for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.

I am the director of Cancer Genetic Counseling at the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Conn. Elizabeth’s story is quite typical of the challenges, choices and struggles our patients face on a daily basis. Genetic counseling and testing allows patients to learn which cancers they are at greatest risk to develop, and to drastically reduce their risks of developing and dying of these cancers, a fate so many of their relatives were not able to escape.

As you can imagine, this is an active area of research and clinical practice, and we are always looking for young, talented students who are gifted in both biology and psychology to enter the field.

Thank you for bringing Elizabeth’s story to light.

Ellen Matloff ’91

 

REMEBERING HENRY SWANKER ’31

In the Winter 2008 issue of Union College magazine it was noted that Henry Swanker ’31 (p. 44) had passed away. My recollection of Mr. Swanker goes back to 1943, when I was a senior in Nott Terrace High School.

At that time, I took a pre-flight aviation course with him. It was the most interesting course I ever took in high school. We learned principles of flight, calculations of lift, drag, wing design and spherical trigonometry. The last was for purposes of navigation. I was fairly good at math but envisioning myself flying, perhaps hundreds of miles from an aircraft carrier, tumbling around in some melee and then finding my way back to the carrier sans radio guidance, sort of cooled my ardor for naval aviation.

Swanker was a cool guy and always was a sharp dresser.

Don Boink ’50

Don is a retired optometrist who lives in Cape Cod.

 

TEACHING ETHICS COVER IMAGE

As I understand ethics, good is derived from knowledge and evil is the child of ignorance. This presumption caused me to pause a moment when I looked at the artwork chosen for the cover of the Spring 2008 alumni magazine captioned “Teaching ethics.”

My interpretation of the art suggests a person faced with a choice and no information on which to base their decision. Doors and a wall block all knowledge of the roads ahead. On Page 5 in the subsequent depiction, where the subject has chosen a path, we are to assume the left was the ethical path as it did not take our subject off the cliff.

What is truly frightening is the likelihood that what may well be chosen out of our subject’s ignorance is the evil path. The path on the left may ultimately lead to uncertain truth and that on the right, just over the hill once thought to be a cliff, to enlightenment.

Although a poor rendering of ethics, I fear this depiction is perhaps something worse. It may in fact be an accurate representation of the external forces that work in concert with self-interest, relief of guilt and a desire to be accepted to produce rationalized, rather than ethical, action.

My experience at Union taught me to see truth from objective observation through the limitations of my own subjective lens. I am very pleased to read about the efforts to bring ethics to bear in all areas of study as now, more than ever, collectively we need to choose the path away from that cliff.

Michael Palmer ’86

Michael is systems engineer for IBM’s executive computing organization.  

 

A PROFESSOR’S LASTING IMPACT

I was delighted to read the piece in the Spring 2008 magazine about Professor William Murphy (“A lasting friendship,” p. 12) and his political activities. Professor Murphy inspired in me a lifelong devotion to English. I well remember his introduction to our study of Gulliver’s Travels, to wit, “Gentlemen (we were all men then), we will now read the greatest novel ever written.”

My most cherished memory is how Bill introduced us to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. He maintained that poetry should be read aloud, especially when written in a strange language, in this case, Old English. So, in his beautifully modulated voice, he delivered:

“Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / The droughte of March hath perced to the roote…”

Without any class requirements to do so, I committed the first 18 lines of the prologue to memory, complete with Old English pronunciations, a commitment which remains with me to this day.

Eliot Loshak ’53

Eliot is a U.S. Navy veteran and lawyer based in New York City.

 

My wife and I had brunch with Bill Murphy and his wife, Tottie, in December 2006. And just last month, Bill sent me the text of a 1902 ad offering an original Gulliver’s Travels for 10 pounds and 10 shillings. My original copy of the book is now in the Union College library and I feel very fortunate to have donated it in Bill’s honor while he was present at a small ceremony.

In my freshman year (the year Bill ran for Congress), he did his best to flunk me out and after he was unsuccessful, I think I took every course he taught. As you no doubt can tell, Bill has had a significant influence on me throughout my life.

I once interviewed former U.S. Rep. Sam Stratton for the Schenectady Bureau of Municipal Research in the City Council’s chambers while his kids (one of whom I assume is the current mayor) ran around playing. I guess if you live long enough, you will pick up something like Union College magazine and have a Forrest Gump-like experience.

Fred Emery ’54

Fred is the founder of The Regulatory Group, Inc., a Washington, D.C. consulting firm specializing in federal regulations.

 

REMEMBERING GAIL GEORGE

I was saddened to see the notice of Gail George’s death in the Spring ’08 alumni magazine (In Memoriam, p. 47). I was sadder still that so little was said about her involvement in campus life in the early days of co-education and her rightful place as founder of Union’s dance program.

I arrived as a freshman at Union College in the fall of 1972—the third class of women ever to be admitted. Union was a much different place back then. At the height of the women’s movement, Union had little understanding of why we were there. (I remember a classic recruiting poster that read something like, “women are cute, funny and now, admitted to Union College!”)

The gym was off limits and there was no locker room for women because the planners didn’t think we would use it. Having been an activist and feminist in high school, I felt strangely out of place on the ivy–covered campus.

There was one exception, located on the second floor of the Arts Building, Gail George, an arty, beautiful woman who lived in a geodesic dome and held improvisational movement classes. The floor was bare plywood and tough on the feet but the classes were pure joy. Gail had a small but dedicated following and as the classes grew, so did our interest in mastering technique. New dance teachers were recruited, but we continued to dance on that bare plywood for my four years.

I understand that Union today has a well-developed dance program and that the plywood floor has long since been replaced. Gail George is to be remembered as the free spirit whose love of movement brought dance to Union College.

Claudia Schlosberg ’76

Claudia is a lawyer, consultant and the director of policy and advocacy for the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists in Washington, D.C. She is still dancing.

 

REV. SHELDON JACKSON

I was pleased to read the article on the Rev. Sheldon Jackson, class of 1855 (Spring 2008, “Our (other) man in Alaska,” p. 48).

I was years ago a student pastor at a small church in Lake City, Colo., one of many churches Sheldon Jackson and his associates organized throughout the Southwest. It is estimated that he helped organize hundreds of congregations before beginning his ministry in Alaska.

It was his desire to become a minster serving as a missionary in other lands, but his health prevented him from serving abroad. He was sent to Minnesota and expanded his ministry into the Rocky Mountain territories, eventually becoming responsible for missions of the Presbyterian Church from Canada to the border of Mexico during the years 1869 to 1880. Jackson’s letters offer a wealth of information regarding the expansion of our nation into the Rocky Mountain territories.

Rev. Jackson deserves far more recognition, particularly when it relates to his ministry in the Midwest and the Rocky Mountain territories. The magazine article touches on part of his accomplishments, but more could be written. Sadly, there is little or nothing about Sheldon Jackson to be found in books on the history of the United States.

Rev. Delbert Wemple ’53

Rev. Wemple retired in June after 26 years as pastor of the Center Lisle (N.Y.) Congregational Church

 

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