WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

KALAMAZOO, MI

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Western Michigan University (WMU) is a public research university located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Founded in 1903, the university has an enrollment of nearly 24,000 undergraduate and graduate students and offers more than 200 academic programs. WMU is spread across four campuses in Kalamazoo: the main campus, the Parkview Campus, the College of Aviation and the Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine.

WMU is known for its strong academic programs, which include the Haworth College of Business, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Health and Human Services, the College of Education and Human Development, and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It is also renowned for its many student organizations and clubs, including the Student Association, the National Student Exchange, and the Student Senate.

The university has a long tradition of excellence in athletics, having won several Mid-American Conference titles in football, baseball, and soccer. WMU has also produced a number of professional athletes, including football players LaMarr Woodley, Louis Delmas, and Greg Jennings.

WMU is committed to providing students with the best possible educational experience and offers a wide range of services, including academic advising, career counseling, and tutoring. WMU also offers many resources for student success, such as the Disability Services Office and the Center for Academic Success. The university is dedicated to providing a welcoming environment for all students and offers a number of student services, such as student housing, dining, and recreation.

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY is a Arboretums, Botanical Gardens, & Nature Center in KALAMAZOO MI. US MID #8402600972

The museum is classed as BOT (Arboretums, Botanical Gardens, & Nature Centers). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin).

Richard with Lantern It's Dick's birthday today; he'd have been 70 years old. But he passed away about a decade ago.

This photo was taken by our father, Roger Dinda, and was scanned from an Ektachrome slide dated June of 1960.

Merry Christmas! Joey and Debbie and our neat presents, 1954. Photo by Roger Dinda, scanned from a slide processed by Detroit Color Laboratories.

Birdsong, cows calling, corn growing, and graves resting This video clip from the Cressey Cemetery mid-morning on Wednesday the 9th of August records the quiet space in the shade on a warm day. Near the middle of the clip, near the middle of the frame, there is a narrow outhouse (or privy) for the convenience of burial yard visitors. The humble design for the living is one more reminder of the contrasting requirements of the living and the dead.

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Dead at age 23 in February 1862 While conventionally a lifetime is seen to begin and end with the headstone dates, in actual practice there are many who know the person across a much wider span. If the oldest person to hold the newborn was 80, then the baby has physical connection to a person who lived decades before the baby's own day of birth. Likewise of a newborn that the person touches when in old age: stories and photos of that connection will be given to the little one so that the old person who eventually dies will persist in those stories and photos. In total, then, a long-lived person's human connections reach back into time before birth and extend a generation or more after death, as well. Thus a life is bigger than the days spent breathing; rather, it is something like 200 years.

This photo shows one Ezra Brown, aged 23, whose time on Earth was much shorter, though. Judging from the other ages of those buried in the surrounding land, death came in many ways and at many ages. A long life was not an expectation or entitlement necessarily. Reflecting on names, headstone styles, and longevity offers a point of contrast and comparison to one's own days.

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609 Village ST, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Built in 1875

915 Grant ST, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Built in 1917

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952 Grant ST, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Built in 1895

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MID #	8402600972
Name	WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Alternate Name	WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Classification	Arboretums, Botanical Gardens, & Nature Centers, , Midwest
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	386007327
NTEECC	B43
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201206
INCOME	0
REVENUE	0
LAT/LONG	42.267, -85.611921
CODES	FIPS State Code: 26 FIPS County Code: 077 US Census Tract: 001200 US Census Block: 3012