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Brad Henion with Keith Guy, Mike Moll, Scott Seifferlein and
Barbara Horn; Alumni Director Jeremy Mishler with new Golden
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(L-R-) Brad Henion with Keith Guy, Mike Moll, Scott Seifferlein and Barbara Horn; Alumni Director Jeremy Mishler with new Golden Eagle members Dwight Chisholm and Fred Williams.
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The Big Rapids Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center was the site of the 2007 Alumni Association’s Spring Reunion Banquet and Awards program held this past May 3. The annual reunion honors the achievements of Ferris graduates and provides the perfect opportunity for friends to get re-acquainted.
Alumni from the class of 1957 were inducted into the “Society of Golden Eagles,” while returning alumni from the class of ’67 also received special recognition.
In addition to honoring two new Distinguished Alumni and recognizing four other Ferris alumni with Pacesetter Awards, the Alumni Association awarded graduating seniors Marshall Gladding and Kevin Roberts with the John and Sue Bradac Above and Beyond Awards for their service to the University as students.
Pacesetter Awards
As varsity basketball coach at Muskegon Heights High School, Keith Guy (EHS’88) has been Regional 4 Coach of the Year, Muskegon Area Coach of the Year, racked up three district championships, two regional championships, made it to the state championship game and posted a career coaching record of 78-11. Seven of his players have gone on to play for Ferris State University.
Guy is also a student advisor at Muskegon Heights and serves as a Muskegon Heights city council member. He was just 25 when first elected, making him the youngest person ever elected to the city council. He is also a YMCA board member and former board member of the Muskegon Area Urban League.
While at Muskegon Community College, Guy showed his leaderships skills early as men’s basketball team captain, a position he also held during his playing career at Ferris.
Guy is married to Ferris alumna Kiesha Fox.
Barbara Horn (O’98), received the American Optometric Association’s 2006 Young Optometrist of the Year award last year at the AOA’s national meeting in Las Vegas. Horn was also named Michigan Optometric Association’s Young Optometrist of the Year at their 2005 annual meeting. She received the MOA’s Key-Person award in 2003 and Student of the Year award in 1997.
Some of Horn’s many civic activities include providing free eye care and eye wear to Hurricane Katrina evacuees, providing free eye assessments to all infants 12 months and younger as part of AOA’s InfantSEE program, taking part in a volunteer optometric service mission to St. Lucia and providing free eye care during the 1997 Special Olympic World Winter Games.
Horn is co-owner and president of ExpertEyes Family Eye Center and Optical in Washington, Mich. She and her husband, Michael Weisgerber, have four children.
At the 2005 Super Bowl XL game in Detroit, Department of Homeland Security protective security advisor Mike Moll (EHS’93) was tasked to write the aviation threat assessment for the event. As a result, the increased Temporary Flight Restriction surrounding that high-profile game became the standard for all future Super Bowls.
Moll has a combined 20 years of security experience including risk analysis, security surveys and emergency action plans. In addition to his work at Super Bowl XL, he was the main point of contact for the DHS during the Gerald R. Ford presidential funeral in Grand Rapids.
Additionally, Moll is a member of several state and regional security committees and was recently elected to Ferris’ Criminal Justice Alumni Advisory Board. In 2005 he helped represent Ferris in the FSU vs. Detroit Red Wing Alumni Hockey Game.
Moll lives in Grandville with his wife, Dianne, and children Kyleigh, Brayden and Brielle.
Scott Seifferlein (B’00), owner and president of Seifpro, LLC, provides expert golf instruction including use of state-of-the-art video analysis software in his capacity as PGA director of instruction for Mines Golf Academy, which he founded in Grand Rapids. His expertise landed him in the pages of Donald Trump’s book The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received, as featured instructor.
Along with James Lusk, he established the Lusk/Seifferlein Golf Team Scholarships at Ferris in 2006.
Always a competitor, Seifferlein’s playing accomplishments include being West Michigan PGA chapter champion in 2000 and U.S. Open local qualifier medalist in 2004. He played on the Ferris team from 1997 until 2000.
Seifferlein and his wife, Mary, also a Ferris graduate, live in Walker. They welcomed their first child this past spring.
Distinguished Alumni
Prior to attending and graduating from medical school at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine as the recipient of the Fred L. Mitchell Award for Excellence in Osteopathic Diagnosis and Therapeutics, Dr. Kurt A. Barrett (EHS’71) was captain of both the 1969 and ’70 Bulldog football teams. He also was MVP of the school’s first unbeaten team in 1968 and was drafted by the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League in 1970.
Today, Barrett is an osteopathic physician and surgeon who has practiced in Athens, Mich., since 1977. In 1980 he was elected chief of staff at Lakeview General Hospital in Battle Creek, and also serves as chairperson of the family practice department and director of family practice residency. He has been a speaker at professional and educational meetings as well as service organizations, on radio and local cable TV.
After uncovering the cause of several family members’ struggles with unusual medical symptoms, Barrett published his book Are You Sick of Being Sick? which focuses on gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD.
The Battle Creek resident and his wife, Ann, have four daughters.
As health policy advisor to the Indiana Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning, Emily (Cramer) Hancock (P’76) is involved in developing long-range plans to manage access to mental health drugs, among other high-profile initiatives.
Her lifelong interest in the therapeutics of disease management for older adults led to an appointment from Indiana Gov. Frank O’Bannon to serve as the pharmacist on the state’s Prescription Drug Advisory Committee, which developed Hoosier Rx — a prescription plan for low-income seniors. Among other awards and honors, she was named Indiana Hospital Pharmacist of the Year in 1995.
In addition to her work with the IOMPP, Hancock serves on the board of directors of the University of Indianapolis’ Center on Aging and Community, the advisory board of the Indiana Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services, and is also a member of the Indiana Prescription Drug Advisory Committee.
She and her husband, Bruce, established the Cramer Family Endowment at Ferris in 2006. The endowment fund will provide support to the Michigan College of Optometry and College of Pharmacy.
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