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• Appraisal of Artwork at Sage Uncovers Valuable Treasures
• Two More ANAC Institutional Representatives Announce Retirement
• Many ANAC Member Institutions Are Completing Capital Construction Projects
• Valparaiso University Fell to Yale University
• Finally, a Trip down Memory Lane at Saint Mary's College of California

A year long search through the brownstone buildings of Russell Sage College at The Sage Colleges has turned up a remarkable trove of rare antiques and art pieces in places as unlikely as basements, maintenance garages, and attics. The total worth is placed at nearly $1,000,000, including a neoclassical portrait, valued at $500,000, by British artist John William Godward that hung in a residence hall for sixty years. The decision to conduct the audit occurred in 1997, when the college was preparing its master plan, as a way of reconnecting with its past in planning for the future.

ANAC Chair Elizabeth Ivey, Provost at Hartford, has announced that she will retire as Provost at the end of the 1999-2000 academic year. She will return to Hartford during the following year to assist with preparations for Hartford's regional reaccreditation and to work in an area of one of her first loves--science education and encouraging women to pursue careers in science. Betty succeeded Zeddie Bowen as ANAC Chair in June 1998. Her low-key and clear-headed leadership style will be missed.

Douglas Steeples, dean of arts and sciences and ANAC institutional representative at Mercer, has also announced his retirement at the end of the current academic year. Doug indicates that he will continue to live in the Macon area where he will be able to stay in touch with Mercer and ANAC. Doug is cherished by his ANAC colleagues for such contributions as stout-hearted defense of liberal learning, flawlessly argued contrary positions on points of ANAC doctrine, and early morning bagpiping over hill and dale at Saint Mary's College of California during the Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute.

Students returning for fall classes at Drury College were greeted with a new technology center named Springfield Hall whose 110 high end computers (500 MHz with peripherals including zip drives, lazer printers, and over-sized color scanners and printers for graphics and architectural drawings) will be available for student use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The new building houses a mailing center (similar to Mailboxes, etc.), a Kinko's style copy shop, a "cyber" café and a larger café, and four computer labs. Drury also dedicated its new Quasquicentennial Plaza (ellipse with two fountains) in honor of donors to the college's quasquicentennial campaign at the termination of Drury Lane, the college entrance drive which has also been beautified.

Mercer University is completing the renovation of its hallmark Administration Building, a centerpiece of many construction and renovation projects as part of the five-year, $126 million Mercer 2000: Advancing the Vision Campaign. North Central College has just completed a new concrete 5,500 seat football and track stadium that will also house classrooms, offices, locker rooms, and assorted athletic facilities. Many ANAC members are constructing new science and other academic buildings, athletic facilities, and residence halls whose completion will be reported in the Bulletin as news is received.

On the gridiron on Saturday, September 25, in the famous and historic Yale Bowl, but the early Autumn trek to New England was memorable for a Valpo contingent of several hundred students, faculty, alumni, friends, and university officials. In commenting on the game, President Alan Harre noted that the contest was even in the trenches, but that the Yale athletes were "too quick at the skill positions."

Remember that famous 1959 photograph of 21 Saint Mary's College students crammed into a phone booth? Well, the famous photo by Joe Munroe appears on p. 76 of Life magazine's October "Great Pictures of the Century" collector's edition. Them were the days!