50th Anniversary Book Special
ONE Northwood: The First Fifty Years
On March 23, 2009, Northwood University turns fifty years old! Arthur Turner once told me, "We always knew it would happen, but we sure didn't know how." Well, now we do, and this is how.
Award winning author/historian Dr. David Richards has written our story well, and we invite you to share it in the written word as you did in real life. You'll encounter the characters you remember, the ideas you recall, the values that made your college special, and its graduates who are among the most successful business professionals of our age.
At an alumni special price of $19.95 per copy you will relive The Northwood Idea in vivid prose and the history that came both before and after your time. The book is a soft-covered keeper you will treasure.
It begins with free-enterprise as the idea that built Northwood, the importance of never underestimating the power of women (and how they can empower an organization), along with the improbable story of how a world that hardly needed a new college embraced the one that not only predicted the freedom philosophy would replace totalitarianism world-wide, but taught you and others how to do just that.
The story of our growth to multiple campuses will be enhanced by remembrances of how the Adult Degree Program was made vital, the story of the growth of the DeVos Graduate School of Management, and the history of the extraordinary growth of international programs the world over.
Our unique curriculum, the quality leap of the past several decades and the unique directions our new leadership, guided by President Keith Pretty, are all included.
But the essence of Northwood is our alumni…and so it is in this book. The core of the book is twenty-five short chapters by grads…each telling an individual Northwood Story from an individual life forever changed by Northwood. It's your story about your college in your words. Email us at historybook@northwood.edu and we'll reserve your copy.
Dr. David E. Fry, President Emeritus
