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C O O K L E A D E R S H I P A C A D E M Y Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University 1 The Hauenstein Center’s Cook Leadership Academy is a one-year leader development program for 40 Grand Valley undergraduate and graduate students. The program is co-curricular and cross-disciplinary -- this year representing 50 different areas of study -- and provides numerous opportunities for students to expand their horizons and engage their community. Cook Leadership Fellows take part in four core programmatic elements: The Wheelhouse Talks, Leader Lens, Guru, and Muse. They gain access to Hauenstein Center events and receptions, high-profile community events, and professional training from Varnum Consulting and the Center for Community Leadership. They have been face-to-face with four U.S. presidents, two vice presidents, four secretaries of state, six state governors, numerous business and nonprofit executives, multiple Pulitzer Prize winning writers, the world’s most decorated academic, and a Grammy Award winner. Alumni are in the nation’s capitol, our state’s capitol, and are leaders in dozens of communities across Michigan and the United States. The Hauenstein Center’s Cook Leadership Academy is located on the 5th floor of Grand Valley’s downtown DeVos Center. Call us at (616) 331-2770 or find us online: gvsu.edu/hauenstein/leaders facebook.com/groups/cookleadershipacademy/ Cook Leadership Academy Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University

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Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University 1

The Hauenstein Center’s Cook Leadership Academy is a one-year leader development program for 40 Grand Valley undergraduate and graduate students.

The program is co-curricular and cross-disciplinary -- this year representing 50 different areas of study -- and provides numerous opportunities for students to expand their horizons and engage their community.

Cook Leadership Fellows take part in four core programmatic elements: The Wheelhouse Talks, Leader Lens, Guru,

and Muse. They gain access to Hauenstein Center events and

receptions, high-profile community events, and professional training from

Varnum Consulting and the Center for Community Leadership.

They have been face-to-face with four U.S. presidents, two vice presidents, four secretaries of state, six state governors, numerous business and nonprofit executives, multiple Pulitzer Prize winning writers, the world’s most decorated academic, and a Grammy Award winner.

Alumni are in the nation’s capitol, our state’s capitol, and are leaders in dozens of communities across Michigan and the United States.

The Hauenstein Center’s Cook Leadership Academy is located on the 5th floor of Grand Valley’s downtown DeVos Center. Call us at (616)

331-2770 or find us online:

gvsu.edu/hauenstein/leaders

facebook.com/groups/cookleadershipacademy/

Cook Leadership AcademyHauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University

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Academy At a GlanceThe Cook Leadership Academy, a premier leader development program at Grand Valley State University, is dedicated to raising a community of authentic leaders for the 21st century.

Cook Leadership Fellows

Take the lead.

Cross-disciplinary students in the Cook Leadership

Academy. Chosen competitively based on:

Character

Involvement

Leadership potential

Portfolio of achievements

Motivations

Aspirations

The Wheelhouse Talks

Build community at the helm.

Talks by a distinguished cross-section of leaders where

fellows:

Engage with local and community leaders

Collect perspectives, models, examples, and values of leadership

Learn about their community

Create a shared vision for their community

Leader Lens

Challenge your perspective.

Intimate gatherings, where fellows:

Explore leader ideals and ethical perspectives with Hauenstein Center Director

Gleaves Whitney

Tell their stories and test ideas

Engage, advise, and coach one another

Guru

Consult collective wisdom.

Mentor program, where fellows:

Access the advice, guidance, and expertise of community mentors

Intersect with mentors at live events and in a dynamic, personalized, online environment

Tap into -- and contribute to -- the program’s collective intelligence

Muse

Find your spark.

Reflection-based, authentic leadership program, where

fellows:

Explore their personal narratives and fundamental

values, goals, and motives

Discover their strengths and weaknesses as leaders

Envision their futures and

hoped for legacies

All four programs are grounded in (1) culture and resources unique to Grand Rapids, Grand Valley, and the Hauenstein Center; (2) academic research into identity-based, events-driven leader development emerging from Harvard University, U.S. Military Academy, University of Nebraska, University of Washington, and University of Michigan; (3) best practices at more than 100 premier and benchmark colleges and universities; and (4) a decade of experience and feedback from advisors, mentors, and Cook Leadership Fellows.

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ParticipationCook Leadership Fellows commit to fully participating in a nine-month slate of events, including orientation and the Academy’s four core programmatic elements: The Wheelhouse Talks, Leader Lens, Guru, and Muse. They benefit from numerous opportunities to engage each other and the community.

Monday August 20 2012 7:45 AM 4 PM John Ball Zoo CLA Experience

Tuesday August 28 2012 6-8 PM 340 Bicycle Factory Orientation Option #1

Wednesday August 29 2012 8-10 AM 230 Bicycle Factory Orientation Option #2

Thursday September 6 2012 5:30-7:30 PM Goodwill Industries Fall Mixer with Mentors

Wednesday September 12 2012 11:30 AM-1:30 PM UICA Wheelhouse Talks: Bill Holsinger-Robinson

Wednesday October 10 2012 11:30 AM-1:30 PM UICA Wheelhouse Talks: Yang Kim

Wednesday October 31 2012 9-11 AM 340 Bicycle Factory Leader Lens with Gleaves Whitney

Wednesday November 7 2012 11:30 AM-1:30 PM UICA Wheelhouse Talks: Frederick Antczak

Wednesday December 5 2012 8-11 AM 340 Bicycle Factory Muse: Strengths

Monday January 14 2013 5:30-7:30 PM Varnum Winter Mixer with Mentors

Wednesday January 16 2013 11:30 AM-1:30 PM UICA Wheelhouse Talks: Kerri Reinbold

Wednesday February 13 2013 11:30 AM-1:30 PM UICA Wheelhouse Talks: Troy Evans

Wednesday March 13 2013 9-11 AM 230 Bicycle Factory Leader Lens with Gleaves Whitney

Wednesday March 27 2013 11:30 AM-1:30 PM UICA Wheelhouse Talks: Leann Arkema

Wednesday April 10 2013 8-11 AM 340 Bicycle Factory Muse: Values

2012-13 Cook Leadership Fellow Calendar

Located in downtown Grand Rapids. Locations: Bicycle Factory (Grand Valley State University, 201 Front Avenue SW), Goodwill Industries (455 Grand Avenue NE #1), John Ball Zoo (1300 Fulton Street West), UICA (2 Fulton Street West), Varnum (333 Bridge Street NW)

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DiversityCook Leadership Fellows -- our students -- are a select group of mostly faculty-nominated students who distinguished themselves from an extremely talented pool of applicants.

They are diverse in every sense of the word. This year’s group includes twenty-two women and twenty-three men who are diverse in culture, religion, political viewpoint, age, and experience. It includes forty-five students with majors, minors, and graduate work in fifty different disciplines. It also includes two students from other states and six foreign born students from Canada, China, England, Kenya, and Libya.

ServiceOur students are extremely service-oriented. Almost all 45 regularly serve in their communities and in local service and charitable organizations. One

served with the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan. Another served with AmeriCorps in New Orleans, Houston, and Denver. A half-dozen others have devoted multiple school breaks to missions and service in multiple regions across the United States.

Four of our students were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country. All four combat veterans served in Afghanistan, all earned commendations, and one was awarded the Purple Heart.

ExperienceSeveral of our fellows have already had extensive professional experience. Three have founded business enterprises; one directs the Center for Community Leadership; and one is a senior pastor, adjunct professor, published scholar, and winner of multiple national grants for research in chemistry and aquatic biology.

Six of our students have significant study abroad experience in multiple countries, and twelve speak multiple languages fluently.

Leaders Then & NowOur students had an auspicious start in high school. The group includes one valedictorian, one salutatorian, four class presidents, two student paper editors, and seven athletic team captains.

Cook Leadership Fellows are active on campus. Four have been president or vice president of the Grand Valley Student Senate. Ten are presidents or vice presidents of student organizations, and three have been presidents of fraternal organizations.

Three have served as resident assistants in dorms, nine are in the Frederik Meijer Honors College, and fifteen have earned leadership awards on campus.

Fellows At a Glance2012-13 Cook Leadership Fellows

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Hannah AndersonMathematicsGVSU, BS ’13

Mohamed Azuz*Communications, Computer Information SystemsGVSU, BS ’14

Elizabeth Balboa*Journalism, Biomedical Science, Writing, Religious StudiesGVSU, BA ’14, BS ’14

Lindy Barnes*Marketing, Advertising and Public RelationsGVSU, ’13

Austin CallowayPolitical ScienceGVSU, BA ’14

Michelle ClancyBiology, Nonprofit Management and LeadershipGVSU, BS ’10, MPA ’12

Michael CnossenInternational RelationsGVSU, BA ’11

Max Corning II *Allied Health Sciences, Speech Language PathologyGVSU, BA ’13

Kristofer Cortez *Music, College Student Affairs LeadershipGVSU, BA ’11, M. Ed. ’13

Evan Crain*Finance, Operations Management, AccountingGVSU, BA ’13

Austin DeanBusiness Administration, FinanceGVSU, BA ’11, MBA ’13

Abigail DeHart*Philosophy, Classics, BusinessGVSU, BA ’14

Mohammed Ghannam*Biomedical ScienceGVSU, BS ’14

Danielle Gore*Business AdministrationGRCC, BBA ’13

Justin GrayNursing, ManagementGVSU, BA ’12

Ann HartliebPsychology, SpanishGVSU, BA ’12

Nicole Horne*Chemistry, Aquatic BiologyUM, BS ’94; GVSU, MS ’12

John Iott*Business Economics, FinanceGVSU, BBA ’13

Jepkoech Kottutt*Biomedical Science, Women and Gender StudiesGVSU, BS ’15

Joshua LungerPolitical Science, Public AdministrationGVSU, BA ’12

Jarrett MartusFinance, ManagementGVSU, BA ’12

Kelly McCurdyInternational Relations, Middle East StudiesGVSU, BA ’12

Heidi McPheeters*Social Work, Third World Development, Nonprofit LeadershipCalvin, BS ’05; GVSU, MPA ’13

*denotes first-year Cook Leadership Fellows

2012-13 Roster

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Nathaniel Mehmed*Geography and Planning, Environmental StudiesGVSU, BS ’12

Andrea (Schedlbauer) MiedemaPolitical ScienceGVSU, BA ‘13

Juliana NahasNonprofit Leadership, Psychology, French, MusicGVSU, BS ’08, MPA ’12

Jordan O’NeilNonprofit Management and LeadershipGVSU, MPA ’13

Stephanie Ott*Spanish, East Asian Studies, Nonprofit LeadershipMSU, BA ’08; GVSU, MPA ’15

Xinyi Ou*Anthropology, Sociology, Women and Gender StudiesGVSU, BS ’15, BS ’15

Jennifer Oza*Integrated Science, Elementary Ed, College Student AffairsGVSU, BS ’12, M. Ed. ’14

Joseph PresuttiFinance, Business EconomicsGVSU, BA ‘13

Nicholas Ryder*Hospitality/Tourism, Business, Nonprofit AdministrationGVSU, BA ’12

Genevieve Sabala*Sociology, Literature, Social Work, Nonprofit LeadershipGVSU, MSW ’11, MPA ‘13

Darris Sawtelle*Liberal Studies, Legal Studies, PhilosophyGVSU, BA ’13

Shane Scherer*Political Science, Public AdministrationGVSU, MPA ’13

Alma-Jean Setter*Business, Public Administration, Nonprofit LeadershipAquinas, BS ’08; GVSU, MPA ’13

Lindsay StoykaBiomedical Science, Mathematics, WritingGVSU, BA ’12

Patrick Tedham*Management, Real Estate ManagementAquinas, MM ’12

Trevor TenBrink*Political Science, BusinessGVSU, BA ’13

Noah Thelen*Business Finance, PhilosophyGVSU BS ’15, BA ’15

Matthew VanderWindt*Psychology, Social Work, Nonprofit LeadershipCalvin, BA ’12; GVSU, MPA ’13, MSW ’13

Victoria VanDragt*Liberal Studies, PhilosophyGVSU, BA ’12

Brett WardropNonprofit Leadership, Business AdministrationAquinas, BA ’95; GVSU, MPA ’14

Kristine WildeboerAccounting, Instructional Design, Adult and Higher EducationGVSU, MA ’08, MA ’09, MA ’12

Marykatherine Woodson*English Literature, College Student Affairs and LeadershipDePaul, BA ’11; GVSU, MEd ’13

Crossing DisciplinesThis year’s Cook Leadership Fellows represent 50 different areas of study and all eight colleges at Grand Valley State University. They speak different disciplinary languages, and their career aspirations vary dramatically. What they share is a desire to lead and serve, to be significant in the lives of others, and to be transformational in their communities. They have the opportunity to discover and be inspired by each other’s talents and passions. Where they collaborate, they will spark a powerful and creative intersection of ideas from diverse cultures, disciplines, and industries.

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Hauenstein CenterRalph Hauenstein:

A life of leadership and service

Ralph Hauenstein has lived an extraordinary life that exemplifies the service and leadership Grand Valley State University seeks to inspire in its graduates. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1912, Mr. Hauenstein moved to Grand Rapids at the age of 12 and has called Michigan home ever since.

One of his earliest memories -- he was five or six years old -- is of handing out candy to doughboys leaving their midwestern homes for the battlefields of France. As a twelve year old boy scout, he assisted Civil War veterans from the Grand Army of the Republic meeting in Grand Rapids. They arrived in Grand Rapids by car -- and by horse.

His service to our nation began in 1935. That year, at the age of 23, he sensed that war would break out in Europe and inevitably involve the United States.  The next year, Mr. Hauenstein was commissioned in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant and became commander of an all-African-American Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Michigan. Already as a young commander, he demonstrated a far-sighted commitment to civil rights by expanding the opportunities of the African Americans with whom he served.

After two and one-half years on active duty, Mr. Hauenstein returned to civilian life and became city editor of the Grand Rapids Herald. In December 1940, one year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he returned to active duty. During the Second World War, he rose to the rank of colonel and served under General Dwight Eisenhower as chief of the Intelligence Branch in the Army's European theater of operations. In 1945 he was among the first Americans into liberated Paris, war-torn Germany, and Nazi concentration camps. The destruction caused by warring dictators and militant ideologues steeled in him the resolve to work for

MissionInspired by Ralph Hauenstein’s life of leadership and service, the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies is dedicated to raising a community of ethical, effective leaders for the twenty-first century.

better international relations and peaceful solutions to conflict.

After the war, Mr. Hauenstein saw opportunities to build bridges between the United States and a Europe devastated by war. He went into international trade and partnered with European enterprises to provide goods and services to consumers in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere where democracies were struggling. A risk-taker, he underwrote a modern bakery in Haiti, providing jobs for hundreds of workers and thousands of individual distributors at a difficult time in that nation's history. He also set up a school in Florida that taught people from developing countries how to run a fully-automated bakery and provide good jobs in their local economy.

During the Eisenhower administration, Mr. Hauenstein served as a consultant on the President's Advisory Commission.

By his own admission, Mr. Hauenstein has never retired. At the age of 100, he works almost every day and is active in numerous causes. He served as an auditor at the Second Vatican Council in Rome, was part of the team that supervised the first free elections in Russia, and contributes to numerous charitable causes. His philanthropy has benefited a variety of organizations devoted to medical research and to education. At Grand Valley, his generosity made possible the founding of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, whose mission is to raise a community of ethical, effective leaders for the twenty-first century.

COL Ralph Hauenstein:“In the 20th century, I saw with my own eyes the worst that leaders are capable of. In the 21st century, I want to encourage the best leadership possible so that the world will be better for my children’s children.”

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On the eve of 100th birthday, Ralph Hauenstein shares his secret that helped win World War IITed Roelofs | Grand Rapids Press

March 10, 2012

GRAND RAPIDS -- There are so many milestones.

Helping win World War II. Backing a young Gerald R. Ford in his first run for Congress. Donating seed money for Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies. Leading donations for the Hauenstein Neuroscience Center at Saint Mary's Health Care.

And so how does turning 100 rank for Ralph Hauenstein?

"I get around pretty well," quipped Hauenstein, who will reach the century mark March 20. "It's not much different than turning 99."

It has been a long and remarkable run for Hauenstein, a Grand Rapids Central High School graduate who built several businesses and left a considerable philanthropic imprint across West Michigan. But he was mum for decades about his role in the Ultra project, a covert Allied operation that cracked the German code and and helped turn the tide of war.

Indeed, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower called Ultra "decisive" in the victory over Nazi Germany.

Gleaves Whitney, director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, said Hauenstein's name is rightfully familiar to West Michigan residents for his many community contributions. Whitney said his part in World War II is far less well known.

"People just don't know all the capacities in which Ralph has led. In World War II, he played such a key role, but it took a while for it to trickle out."

After serving in the U.S. Army in the 1930s as commander of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Michigan, Hauenstein rejoined the Army in 1940 and rose to the rank of colonel and chief of intelligence for the European Theater of Operations. Upon his transfer to London in 1943, Hauenstein found himself at the center of the intelligence operation that helped win the war.

The key to Ultra was a small coding device called an enigma machine, which the German military used to encode messages before transmitting them.

Unknown to the Germans, the British had obtained an enigma machine from the Poles in 1939. That helped the Allies design a computer that could imitate the enigma machine and decode intercepted messages.

At an estate outside London, teams of code experts deciphered intercepted messages. Once a day, the

messages arrived at Hauenstein's London office along with an officer to brief him. Hauenstein combined the Ultra intelligence with information from informants, prisoners of war and other sources to form a picture of what the enemy was planning, then passed that information on to command officers.

Hauenstein was a crucial figure in convincing Hitler and his generals the 1944 D-Day invasion of France would be at Calais, not Normandy. Operatives concocted a fictitious army, the First Army Group, complete with plywood airplanes, rubber ships and inflatable tanks.

"It was absolutely critical" for the success of D-Day, Hauenstein said.

Details about the Ultra project were kept secret until 1974.

"We were told, 'Never talk about it.' " Hauenstein said.

Hauenstein met Gerald R. Ford in the 1920s as they grew up a half block apart in Grand Rapids and then as football rivals, Ford playing as captain and center of the South High School team and Hauenstein a skinny wingback for Central High.

Hauenstein graduated from Central in 1931 and married Grace Byrnes the following year. The couple eventually had three children. Grace died in 2007.

After the war, Hauenstein joined a group of veterans backing Ford for his successful 1948 run for Congress. They kept in touch throughout his political rise and after Ford left the White House in 1976.

The Ford family asked that Hauenstein be part of the honor guard for the 2007 funeral procession for Ford in Washington, D.C., a service Hauenstein called a "great honor."

Hauenstein went into business and owned several companies, including Werner Lehara Inc., which made equipment for the food industry, and which he sold in 1980 to APV Baker Inc.

Decades later, Hauenstein turned his focus to the leadership qualities of the presidency as he helped found the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies with a $1 million gift in 2001. Among its aims is training a new generation of leaders through exposure to examples of presidential courage and local, state or national leadership figures.

"We are really training young people to be great leaders. It's phenomenal, these young people," Hauenstein said.

At about that time, Hauenstein had a conversation with Saint Mary's CEO Phil McCorkle about the need for improved treatment for Parkinson's disease. Hauenstein's father had died of that disease.

"Let's do it, " Hauenstein said.

In 2009, thanks to a lead $2 million gift from Hauenstein, the $60 million Hauenstein

Neuroscience Center opened. It is focused on neuroscience treatment with clinics for Parkinson's disease, stroke, brain tumors,

epilepsy and spine and neuro-trauma management.

"The things they are doing there are really quite incredible," Hauenstein said.

In 2006, world rock star Bono was featured speaker at the annual dinner for the Economic Club of Grand Rapids. Hauenstein was feted at the event and gave a brief speech himself, thanking those who "put their faith in a simple man from Grand Rapids, Michigan."

It left an impression.

"What a cool cat," Bono said. "Who's the rock star here tonight?"

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Gleaves WhitneyDirector

[email protected]

Brian FlanaganAssociate Director

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Welcome!All of us at GVSU’s Hauenstein Center look forward to working with you.

Adam BradwayCommunication [email protected]

Kathy RentOffice Coordinator

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Liza Van BurenEvent Planner

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