On the Cover

Features

An intimate connection

Love, CMU style

Departments

Letters

Take Five
Jeff Daniels visit
Jesse Jackson visit
Brain research
CMU volunteers
Real estate

Discovery
Driving distractions
How seals relate

Sports
A championship year
Jones named new coach

In support
Education building
Faculty learning
Opus gala

Maroon and Gold

Alumni in Action

I Am CMU

About the magazine

Mission statement:
Centralight publishes to provide alumni and friends of Central Michigan University a straightforward, accurate and lively view of university programs, people, issues, and events. It seeks to connect and reconnect those with an interest in the life of the university.

Centralight strives to be a thought-provoking, absorbing, personal, attractive, substantive and elevating communications channel for the enjoyment, continuing education, and stimulation of readers. It demonstrates to readers that the university is the sum of its people - from administration to faculty, researchers, alumni, students, and staff.

Centralight is published quarterly by the CMU Alumni Relations Office and mailed to about 28,000 homes across the country. If you're not receiving the magazine, consider making a gift to the university.   Centralight is mailed to all donors, so your gift to CMU earns you the magazine four times a year.

The CMU staff members who worked on the winter issue of the magazine include:

Executive Editor
and Director of Alumni Relations
Mary Lu Yardley, ’90 MSA ’92

Editor
Barbara Sutherland Chovanec

Photographers
Robert Barclay
Peggy Brisbane

Writers
Lindsay Allen, ’00
Scott Davis
Cynthia J. Drake
Cindy Hales
Scott Rex
Heather Smith, ’05

Graphic designer
Stacy Simmer

Communications Committee
Kevin Campbell, ’74 MA ’76
Darcy Orlik, ’92 MSA ’95
Shirley Posk, ’60
Judy Smith, ’65

Vice President of Development
and Alumni Relations
Michael Leto

Associate Vice President
for Public Relations and Marketing
Rich Morrison