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Life University celebrates its 35th anniversary

Maria DiDanieli   

Features Collaboration Profession

Feb. 4, Hayward, CA – On Thursday
January 28, 2010, the Board, administration, faculty, staff, students, alumni
and friends of Life University participated in a celebration of the 35th anniversary
of the founding of Life Chiropractic College,
now Life University.



The celebration
was especially important for the Life community-including the extended communities
of the Life DE Meeting and Life Chiropractic College West as well as for the ICA-as Drs. Sid and Nell
Williams participated in the Founder's Day events for the first time since Dr.
Williams' retirement almost 8 years ago.

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The
focus of the event was on the totality of the history of Life.

 

Dr.
Riekeman began by letting all those attending know that they would find what
they wanted and take away an experience to bolster their viewpoint, but the
reason everyone was gathered was to be true to Life's history and to allow a
spirit of healing and recovery to be advanced.

 

“As one
of two surviving faculty members from January 1975,” says Dr. Gerry Clum,
current president of Life
University, “I was
pleased to sit in the audience along with life-long friend Charlie Kalb and
enjoy the walk down memory lane. It was very gratifying for Charlie and me to be
warmly acknowledged as the "Day One" faculty members. It was even
sweeter to be greeted by those who were our students decades ago. It was
comforting to see everyone a little grayer, a little rounder and a little
wiser.”

“It was
also wonderful to see Michael Schmidt, D.C., who assumed the presidency
following Dr. Williams' resignation, be recognized as the person to whom fell,
in many ways, the toughest duty of all during those fateful times. It was Dr.
Schmidt who managed the wind-down from a budget of $50 million to less than $10
million and the associated layoff of hundreds of employees.”

 

“As Dr.
Riekeman, noted,” continues Clum,  “each
person who stepped in filled a crucial role at a critical time that, absent
their contribution, the University would not be here today.”


Source, "The Latest Stuff" newsletter, by Dr. Gerry Clum, February 1, 2010, Volume 10, Number 3



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