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The CMU Biological Station on Beaver Island’s new $3.8 million academic center was dedicated July 14, but that wasn’t the only thing celebrated during the festivity.

Jean (Chisholm) Ryan, ’47, shares what it was like to be crowned CMU’s first Homecoming royalty in 1946 and how much those four years of college meant to her.

William Shephard, ’76 MA ’81, had no idea that he’d continue to build on his Marching Chippewas memories after graduation. But through his two sons, he has.

How CMU’s reopened campus museum helped to change the career path of a recent CMU graduate

Enjoy looking at seven decades of Homecoming Court tradition.

Keeping up with the Joneses ...Football Coach Butch Jones returns to CMU after two seasons at West Virginia University. Jones, who served as an assistant at CMU from 1998-2004, brings experience and enthusiasm to the 2007 Chippewa team.