Alumni News
November 07, 2012
Outstanding Leader
Diana Hernández (BA '85, Communication; MA '05, Family and Consumer Sciences), Western Michigan University's director of the Division of Multicultural Affairs, was one of five from Michigan to receive an outstanding Hispanic leader award during the annual Cesar E. Chavez Commemorative Dinner in early October. The awards program were sponsored...
November 05, 2012
In Search of New Brews
Fred Crudder (BA '00, English) is Beverage Director for Taco Mac, a restaurant with over 25 locations across three states. Tacos? Maybe. Beer, sports, and chicken wings? Definitely. Recently, Crudder was featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for his 'unusual job,' which is to seek out new beers for Taco Mac...
November 04, 2012
Pursuing the Dream
Joshua Weiner (BA '99, Communication Studies) is the co-writer and co-producer of 'High Road,' a character-driven film with some big names. Although the movie was originally set to be about a road trip between Chicago and Detroit, several constraints forced Weiner and co-writer and co-producer Matt Walsh to set the...
October 30, 2012
Executive Chef — at School
Shaun Robinson (BS '97, Food Service Administration; MS '05, Career and Technology in Culinary Arts) loves his job, and he's great at it too. As an Executive Chef for Chartwells at Kalamazoo Public Schools, Robinson is responsible for a number of tasks. "I train staff on culinary and safety skills...
October 22, 2012
30 Years Later
In July, Susan Stapleton, Dean of Graduate Studies, was contacted by a graduation auditor about former student and alumna Louise Schuster (BS '68; MA '69, Teaching). Schuster was preparing to apply for her second Master's degree from WMU—she had earned a BS in 1968 and her first MA in 1969...
October 17, 2012
Mainline Energy Consultants
Estes Parker (BS '06, Mechanical Engineering) and Dan Baggiani (BS '07, Civil Engineering) are co-founders of an energy consulting firm in Pennsylvania. They founded Mainline Energy Consultants in 2011 as an LLC with one other non-Bronco partner (Christian Sorensen) after working in the industry for several years. "We were having...