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  • Football Championship
    • Reliving the Moment
  • Summer 2010
    • Foresight 2010
    • Chief Diversity Officer
    • Hub for Political Civility
    • Bonnie Ford Woit ’53
    • Tom Mockaitis ’77
    • Fields Jackson, Jr. ’80
    • Nancy Williams ’90
    • The Last Word
  • Spring 2010
    • Following Phil from The Campus to Punxsutawney
    • Reclaiming La Belle
    • The Power of Computing-and Mentoring
    • Shhhhhhh! Don’t Tell Res Life
    • Heartbreak and Hope in Haiti
    • The Teacher-Scholar
  • Winter/Spring 2009
    • The Curtain Rises on the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts
    • Creating Films With Positive Energy
    • Finding the Balance
    • Expressing Values Through Business
    • Skittles? Yes! Diapers? No!
    • Illustrating the Importance of the Arts on Campus and In Our Lives
    • Making Their Mark
  • Summer/Fall 2008
    • Alex Steffen ’90
    • Pamela Sims Jones ’82
    • Ralph Intorcio ’51
    • Chemistry Grads Compete and Collaborate to Develop Treatment for Breast Cancer
    • Inauguration Celebration
    • James H. Mullen, Jr.: The Short Course
    • Meet the President An Interview with James H. Mullen, Jr.
    • The Last Word
  • Winter/Spring 2008
    • President Cook Explains “Why Allegheny?”
    • The Cook Years: A Timeline of Accomplishments and Events
    • Everyone Loves Terry Lahti
    • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About President Richard Cook
    • Al Pacino Meets Jimmy Stewart in “Bentley Hall”
    • Sometimes Even Presidents Just Gotta Sing the Blues
    • Building the Future One Relationship at a Time: The Presidency of Richard J. Cook
  • Summer 2007
    • Corps Commitments
    • Confronting a Crisis
    • Paul Zolbrod’s Unfinished War
    • Nancy Wilson ’72
    • Michael Ryan ’93
    • John Kelso ’66
    • Vicki Lipnic ’82
    • The Last Word
  • Winter/Spring 2007
    • Raymond P. Shafer: 1917-2006
    • Nedzad Ajanovic ’95
    • Cynthia Kidder ’78
    • Robert Smolen ’74
    • Yvonne Seon ’59
    • Building a Lasting, Worthwhile Future
    • Sports
    • Keeping It Green
  • Spring/Summer 2006
    • Mike Cobb and Joel Nagel ’86
    • Kim Phan ’97 Helping Governments
    • Mo Fiorina ’68
    • A Wonderful Lesson:
    • Groundhog Day Survivors
    • Unusual Combinations
  • Spring 2005
    • Traveling in the Liberal Arts Tradition
    • Videoconferencing Class
    • Study Abroad Expands Lives As Well As Horizons
  • Summer 2005
    • Two Allegheny Grads
    • Pioneers in the Fight Against Polio
    • Through All the Years
    • Learning to Learn
  • Winter 2004
    • Patricia Bush Tippie Makes a Home for Alumni
    • The Last Word
  • Fall/Winter 2003
    • The Last Word
    • Two Retired Faculty Embody What Is Best About Allegheny
    • Broadway Baby
    • Meeting the Challenges of Oxford
  • Summer 2004
    • The Last Word
    • Mr. Smith Goes to Augusta
    • A Masters Diary
  • Spring 2004
    • Last Word
    • Rock On: WARC Celebrates 40 Years on the Air
    • Campus Center Renovations Create Crossroads for College Life
  • Summer 2003
    • Lloyd Michaels The Last Word
    • Senior Projects 2003
    • President Richard J. Cook: The Last Word
  • Fall/Winter 2002
    • Alumbi Profile: Michelle Henry ’91
    • Alumni Profile: Don Anderson ’58
    • Alumni Profile: M. Roy Wilson ’76
    • Politics
    • Reflecting the Light
  • Spring 2003
    • Secret Lives of Faculty, or Professorial Passions
    • The Last Word
    • Student Novelist Explores Life’s Small, Sweet Moments

Allegheny Magazine > Summer 2005

Summer 2005

Learning to Learn
Two Allegheny Grads Both Make the Grade As Michigan Teacher of the Year Candidates
Pioneers in the Fight Against Polio Thomas Francis Jr. ’21 and William Hammon ’32
Through All the Years New History Illuminates Allegheny’s People, Places, and Spirit

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