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Wes Dick, History Department Recognizes Retiring Professor Geoffrey Cocks

Wes Dick (left) and Geoff Cocks at Albion College's 2016 Commencement
Albion College’s current longest-tenured professor, Wesley Arden Dick (far left), offered remarks about longtime History Department colleague Geoffrey Cocks at Cocks’ May 5 retirement reception in the Wendell Will Room of Stockwell Library.

Teagle Grant Connects Albion Classes with Other Liberal Arts Colleges

Marcy Sacks, professor of history, Albion College

Marcy Sacks, professor of history, Albion College
Albion College and five other Great Lakes Colleges Association institutions are coming together to design and teach hybrid courses, with an emphasis on digital teaching, thanks to last year's $335,000 grant from the New York-based Teagle Foundation. This semester, history professor Marcy Sacks (left) is collaborating with a counterpart from Hope College; in the fall, exercise science professor Heather Betz will team up with a faculty peer from DePauw University.

Mallory Fellows Bower, '10, Helps a Museum Prepare for Takeoff

Mallory Fellows Bower, Albion College Class of 2010

Mallory Fellows Bower, Albion College Class of 2010
The recipient of a highly competitive Andrew W. Mellon Foundation internship in conservation, Mallory Fellows Bower, '10, spent much of this past fall in Washington, D.C. at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture as it prepares to open its doors later this year.

Albion NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet

The Albion branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Upper Baldwin Hall on campus

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Photo includes;(l-r) Robert Dunklin, President, Albion Branch; Mae Ola Dunklin, Executive Committee, Albion Branch; keynote speaker Michgian State Representative from Detroit, Sherry Gay-Dagnogo, Albion College history professor Wesley Arden Dick, second-vice president, Albion Branch and Master of Ceremonies for the 2015 Albion NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet.and Sherry Gay-Dagnogo's mother, 

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