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Donors Leading the Way Through Level Up
Explore the stories, experiences, and impact of donors who are investing in students, programs, and the next generation of the community.
Room to Practice
Isaac Epley ’27 took Lawrence’s inaugural How to Practice course as a first-year student in 2023. As he begins his senior year, he still draws on ideas he first encountered in that class. A piano performance major with an emphasis in collaborative piano, Isaac spends much of his time making music with others. He accompanies […]
Jeff ’72 and Debby ’73 Fox: Helping Build What Comes Next
It started, of all places, in the Viking Room. The fall of 1969 saw the LU football team, where Jeff Fox ’72 was a second year guard, spend more time on the road than on campus. Several of the football players decided one night to meet some of the new first year students. Jeff had […]
A Family Legacy, Built on Lawrence
Shirley Spangler Steiner ’59, a vocal pedagogy major at Lawrence, still watches concerts online. She follows campus news, tracks what’s happening, and has done so long after her own time there. Her daughter, Janet Steiner Stevens ’82, went to Lawrence. Her grandsons went to Lawrence. Their wives went to Lawrence. And if the great-grandchildren have […]
Randy Mangelsen ’00 | The Kind of Connection That’s Unique
Football brought Randy Mangelsen ’00 to Lawrence. Rick Coles, the head coach at the time, reached out to Randy’s high school coach looking for players who could meet the university’s academic standards, and Randy’s name came up. “I grew up in a very small town, with very small schools,” Randy recalled. “Twenty-six kids in my graduating class. Even Appleton seemed huge to me at the time.” Still, Randy knew he wanted […]