Where in the World Is Blue? – Winter 2017

Photos from our alumni around the world.

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Show your Michigan pride! During your travels around the world or around the block, don your Maize and Blue or Block M and snap a photo. Then email it to [email protected]. Include the graduate years for all alumni appearing in the photo and a description of the location. Due to the high volume of submissions, we cannot guarantee your photo will appear in the print magazine; however, all submitted photos appear on the Michigan Alumnus website. We publish only those photos submitted by Alumni Association members.

Mackenzie Melvin, ’11, at the finish line of the 2017 Stockholm Marathon in Sweden. The final leg of the race was a lap inside the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

There's no town too tiny for Doris Rubenstein, ’71, to explore. The town of Bridge of Allan, Scotland, added one enthusiastic Wolverine to its 400-person population on this day!

The Champion (actual surname) Family–Greg, ’90, Alice, ’64, MA’67, Jen, and future Wolverines Connor and Ella–show their U-M support at Margerie Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, with Canada bordering just beyond to the north.

Dave Swan, ’80, DDS’84, and Lynn Swan, ’79, MD’84, MDRES’87, representing in Rome in June 2017. They were in Europe meeting their daughter and current U-M student, Elizabeth, who was studying in Granada, Spain.

Chuck Guzak, ’06, and Rachel Prior, ’08, first met at the Michigan vs. Penn State football game in 2006. In this photo, they visit the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland. The next day, they got married!

Bill Sharfman, ’64, spent a little time this summer being the northernmost U-M alumnus in the world.

The “Jolly Roger” (Wolverine-style) flew high on this visit to Little Harbor on Jost Van Dyke of the British Virgin Islands. From left to right: Marlene Vitasinski; Harold Nelson, ’74, JD’77; Debby Wachter; Bill Garber; Luann Garber, MPH’80; Sally Wachter, ’73; Mark Wachter, ’72, MA’73; and Doug Wachter, ’74.

Joe Coletti, ’93, put rivalries aside to work alongside Lisa Gates and other volunteers at the San Antonio Food Bank following Hurricane Harvey’s landfall in Houston.

Hailing from Los Angeles, 107-year-old Harry Steinberg, ’35, MD’36, still enjoys working as a ceramics artist in the studio attached to his home. While at U-M, Harry and his identical twin brother earned letters on the gymnastics team. Perhaps that’s the secret to his longevity!

In September, Anthony W. Echols, ’91, MBA’95, JD’96, and wife Marijata C. Daniel-Echols, ’92, MPP’96, PhD’01, took Wolverine pride to Stonehenge.

Mark, ’87, and Suzanne VanderKlipp walked among the rock formations of Flowerpot Island in Tobermory, Ontario, Canada.

A “Kalish Klan” gathering in Syracuse, New York, before watching the 2016 U-M vs. Ohio State game. Back row (from left): <strong>Randy Kalish, ’73, MDRES’83; Elizabeth Schultz Kalish, ’79; Paul and Lauren Kalish Front Row: Molly Kalish Eymann, MHSA’10, MPH’10; Timothy Eymann, PhD’13; and future Wolverine Eleanor Eymann

The Cronyn family, visiting the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. From left to right: Tim, ’85; Mary; Erin, ’16, MACC’17; Jack, currently a U-M student.

OB-GYN residency classmates were proud to “push through the pain” at a 10-mile marathon in Boulder, Colorado. From left are Laura Morrison, MD’99, MPH’00, MDRES’04; Mary Ellen Wechter, ’96, MDRES’04; Katie Goralski, ’94, MDRES’04; and Jessica Lalley, ’95, MDRES’04.

Marc, ’81, and Sharon Schramm, ’81, on their last night of a visit to Tel Aviv, Israel.

Valerie Edelman Gordon, ’93, and her Wolverine-fan son, Noah, took in the Grand Canyon after biking 25 miles of the South Rim in April.

Ron Breining, ’73, overlooking San Sebastián, Spain, in 2016.

Two-time NCAA swimming champion Alex Vanderkaay, ’08, MSE’10, and his wife, Elizabeth, ’08, explored the waters of Maui, Hawaii. Their shell-wearing friend may not have graduated from U-M, but he certainly shares their pride.

Avi, son of Eric Feldman, ’02, may be on the path to becoming the next great Wolverine football coach when he grows up and returns to Ann Arbor!

Atop Croagh Patrick Mountain in County Mayo, Ireland. From left to right: Sean Proctor; Robert Kirkland, ’73, MA’75; Carol Kirkland, ’72, MA’74; Dan Kirkland, MS’04; Erin Kirkland, ’14; Joseph Kirkland, JD’03; and Kerri Kirkland.

Aurora Sevilla, MA’57, celebrated the University’s bicentennial at the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.

In Khiva, Uzbekistan, local students eagerly joined a photo with this group of traveling Wolverines. From left, on the stairs, are Nancy Hopwood, professor emerita of the U-M Medical School; Jim Patton, ’66; Rosemary Cook, ’66; and Liz Patton, ’66.

It was an a-maize-ing birthday weekend in Chicago for Briana Stuart, ’13 (center), as she celebrated with her friends Maya Williams, ’12 (right), and Shakina Russell, ’11, MHSA’14, MPH’14.

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