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U-M community celebrates the power of a gift
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A string quartet of U-M graduate students played Mozart on
the Rackham Auditorium stage as several hundred faculty, students and
friends and family of entrepreneur Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. and playwright
Arthur Miller took their seats for a 10 a.m. Friday naming ceremony
for the planned Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center and Arthur Miller
Theatre. "The world saw Arthur Miller through many lenses; we
will always see him, first and foremost, as a loyal alumnus," said
U-M President Mary Sue Coleman, who praised Walgreen and Miller for
demonstrating the power of the Michigan Difference, along with Avery
Hopwood, who created a writing awards program (Miller won a Hopwood
for his first play). Top: Arthur Miller's son
Robert Miller and sister, actress Joan Copeland, accept gifts, flanked
by Regents Olivia P. Maynard and Katherine E. White, Coleman, and Regent
Andrea Fischer Newman. Clockwise from bottom left:
Walgreen's grandson and State Sen. Liz Brater display a State of Michigan
resolution honoring his grandfather and Miller; Copeland
performs selections from Miller's "Timebends: A Life," and "The
American Clock;" Robert Miller reads from his late father's
letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee refusing to testify;
William Bolcom and
George I. Shirley perform the aria from Bolcom's operatic adaptation
of Miller's "A View from the Bridge." The 97,500 square
foot, two-story center is under construction just north of Pierpont
Commons. It will house the 250-seat Arthur Miller Theatre and also
will be home to the Department of Theatre and Drama and University
Productions. It will feature classrooms, rehearsal spaces, a scene
shop, costume shop, sound studio and faculty offices. It is scheduled
for completion in summer 2007. Photos by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services.
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10:00 AM October 17, 2005
