Alan Poe Suits

 


The Dean's Community Council of the MSU College of Arts and Letters
Alan was founder and first president of this support group for
Michigan State University

 
Playwright Arthur Miller
One of our speakers in May 1989

 

The Celebrity Lecture Series at Michigan State University
presented by the Dean's Community Council of the College of Arts and Letters
It began in 1989, and we brought famous authors to speak on campus. The speakers included Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Arthur Miller, E.L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Maya Angelou, Jacques D'Amboise, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Tony Hillerman, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Judith Jamison, Philip Roth, Derek Walcott, Terry McMillan, Margaret Atwood, Edward Albee, Isabel Allende, John Updike, Jane Smiley, Garry Wills, John Irving, Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, David McCullough, David Halberstam, and Sherman Alexie.

 
Dean's Community Council's Trip to Rome
Alan created the DCC's International Travel Program
Groups went each year to another country:
England, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey

 
Dedication of "Cassiopeia" - November 1997
A bronze sculpture by Nancy Leiserowitz
l to r: Tom Downs, Alan Suits, Mayor Mark Meadows, Bette Downs and Nancy Leiserowitz
One of a series of three outdoor sculptures placed under the direction of Alan Suits

 

609 Belmonte Circle - East Lansing, MI
Built in 1965 - Designed by architect Robert Mattern




609 Belmonte Circle in Summer
The Morning Glories at the right produced
over 200 blossoms some mornings



Belmonte Circle in Winter 

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Anti-Iraq War Rally in Lansing, MI - February 16, 2003
Jane in Red Coat

Chance as a Pup
He's an Aussie born September 2001