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Estate of Jacqueline Maag

Christy MacDonald, Class of 1986

Dr. George A. MacDonald, Class of 1986

Drs. Bindhu Madhok & George Strander

Sue Marcos

Michael A. and Laura J. Marmorstein, Class of 1982

The Ruth Ellen Marmorstein Collection was donated in 2005 by Michael Marmorstein, Class of 1982, a sales representative for the Glenn Bennett Corporation. The collection is named in honor of Mike's mother, Ruth Ellen, the creator of the collection. Ruth Ellen was intensely interested in research surrounding the Holocaust and its survivors and conducted interviews with survivors in the South Florida area. The Ruth Ellen Marmorstein Collection consists of over 900 volumes of print material, including some serial publications, related to the Holocaust, Jewish history, World War II history and biography, and Holocaust survivors.

Mike Marmorstein, right

On October 24, 2006, the library commemorated Mike's gift by way of a plaque dedication in the Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center. Later that evening Moe Arvoy, Director of Media Relations for Albion College, recorded an oral history interview with Mike in the Wendell Will Room of the Stockwell Memorial Library. The interview was free and open to the public. As a result of the gift, the entire Holocaust library collection, a total of some 9,000 books, will be named after Mike's mother. An endowment has also been created to support future collection development.

David B. Marschinke

Thorne J. Matteson, Class of 1998

Fredric A. Maxwell

Dr. Ben R. Mayne, Class of 1958

Lynn A. Mayne, Class of 1960

Drs. James McCarley & Judith Lockyer

John A. McDonald, Class of 1950

Lois J. McDonald, Class of 1949

Tracy W. McGregor (1869-1936) and the McGregor Plan

Born in Berlin Heights, Ohio in 1869, Tracy McGregor came from a family of philanthropists. With his father's death in 1891, McGregor left college for Detroit to take over the operation of a mission for homeless men, the McGregor Institute, that his father had founded. The mission was closed in 1934 when the federal government took over care of the homeless during the Great Depression, but not before the McGregors had fed and sheltered nearly 700,000 men. Through his work at the Institute, McGregor became one of Detroit's most influential citizens. He helped to form the Provident Loan Society to offer loans at reasonable rates and organized the Thursday Group, which met weekly to discuss community problems. In 1925, he and his wife, Katherine, began the McGregor Fund, which made its first grants in 1931 to support the care of the indigent and the sick and higher education. McGregor was also a great collector of rare books in his later years, specifically Americana. His collection of which was donated to the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia following his death in 1936.

The McGregor Plan was administered by the Committee on Americana for College Libraries of the American Historical Assocation, headed at that time by Dr. Randolph G. Adams of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.  The object of the Plan was to help college and small university libraries acquire rare Americana, which otherwise they would not be able to obtain.  The principle upon which the Plan was operated was that each participating college would contribute $500 to the resources of the Committee, which was then matched by another $500 given by the McGregor Fund of Detroit, a monetary gift of Tracy W. McGregor.  The resulting $15,000 was established as a credit, whereby each college would buy from the Committee $1,000 worth of rare Americana annually.  The Committee distributed the books at cost and assumed the overhead, including transportation and insurance charges.

Francis McIntee

John H. McKendry, Jr., Class of 1972

Marilyn McTaggart, Class of 1946

Duane Mead

Marion Meilaender

Robert E. and Karen Reed Messing, Classes of 1972 and 1970

Wolfgang Mieder

Bradley S. Miller

Janice L. Mills, Class of 1956

Dr. Peter T. Mitchell, Class of 1967

Edward John Moeller

Mr. David G. and Mrs. Alice Wiley Moore, Class of 1973

Christopher D. Moore & Ms. Stacy Davidson-Moore

Joanna Moore, Class of 1963

Dr. Keith Moore, Class of 1961

Timothy M. Moore, Class of 1977

Elmer L. Morehouse, Jr., Class of 1955

Joanne M. Morehouse, Class of 1956

Zulema Moret

Deborah L. Morse, Class of 1980

Audrey J. Murray, Class of 1946

Betty Myers

Julie R. Myers

Dr. Perry W. Myers, Jr.