CONNECT WITH MSU
MSU Admissions
MSU offers admissions presentations and tours most
weekdays May through August. Learn more at
admissions.msu.edu .
• Green and White Days
July 23, 26, 28, and 30 and August 2
These programs have an open-house format that
includes presentations from all MSU colleges as
well as residence hall tours. Also offered are study
abroad and career services overviews, Spartan
Marching Band sessions, Honors College presenta-
tions, and tours of Breslin Student Events Center.
• Programs for Prospective Freshmen
May–June
Mondays and Fridays
Program begins at 1 p.m. with 2 p.m. walking tour
(no program May 31)
Florine Mark: MSU friend and fan
Weight Watchers franchisee, motivational speaker,
careers in teaching,
media personality, author, and Michigan State
psychology, medicine,
University advocate—all are roles Florine Mark
and business.
relishes. And all reflect Mark's people-centered,
high-achieving, bold approach to life, which includes
giving generously to MSU.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Program begins at 1 p.m, with 2 p.m. walking tour
(no program July 5, 23, 26, or 30 or August 2 or 31)
• Programs for Prospective Transfer Students
May–August
Wednesdays
Program begins at 1 p.m. with 2 p.m. walking tour
(no program July 28)
MSU Hillel
Do you know students attending MSU this fall?
Connect them to Jewish life on campus by sending
each student's name and e-mail address to Robyn
Berkowitz, director of engagement at MSU Hillel, at
robyn@msuhillel.org or calling (517) 332-1916. Learn
more at msuhillel.org .
VISIT US ONLINE
Catch up on the latest from MSU
msu.edu
Watch MSUToday shows
msutoday.msu.edu
Explore giving opportunities
givingto.msu.edu
Learn more about alumni participation
alumni.msu.edu
MSU. It grew them up,"
she says. "MSU was so
"When you take one day at a time and believe in
open for them to try new
yourself, you can accomplish anything. I think
things, and it really
everything about MSU is consistent with my
challenged them."
philosophy," says Mark, who recently was on the East
Lansing campus to speak at the MSU Alumni
Association-sponsored Kaleidoscope: A Day for
Women. "MSU is a very diverse university and open to
all groups of people. I so appreciate the way they
teach."
Her family's MSU alumni
ranks will grow soon: a
granddaughter is
studying veterinary medicine at the university. "She
loves every moment there and she is thriving," Mark
Mark is the largest franchisee of Weight Watchers
throughout Michigan and Ontario, Canada. Her career
has been marked with many distinctive awards and
accolades, including the 2004 Neal Shine Lifetime
Achievement Award from Operation ABLE of Michigan
While Mark, who with her family has supported
MSU's Jewish Studies Program and College of
Osteopathic Medicine, admits that her family
provides a compelling enough reason to give to MSU,
her reasons run deeper.
and the 2003 Entrepreneurial Visionary Award from
She believes the diversity of people and culture at
the Women's Business Center in Washington, D.C. She
MSU has the power to motivate and to change the
was honored in Monaco as one of STAR Group's 50
course of people's lives, which, in turn, makes an
Leading Female Entrepreneurs in the World in 1999.
impact on the world.
Mark's ties to MSU are strong. Her late husband,
"MSU offers more than just basic knowledge. It is a
William Ross, was an assistant professor in the College
place for learning about life," Mark says. "It is always
of Osteopathic Medicine who instructed medical
wonderful to learn about others and their religions
student preceptors in his practice, and four of her five
and their likes and dislikes. That is how we achieve
children are MSU alumni, with their degrees launching
peace." 0
SPARTANS WILL.
Help us tell their stories.
With nearly 500,000 Michigan State University alumni, faculty, staff,
and students all around the world, the Spartan community's stories
are as widespread as their impact.
MSU Spartans are making a difference—in ways both big and small—and whether
it's leading a big business or teaching small children, we want to tell their stories.
Visit spartansagas.msusedu to learn more or to nominate an MSU Spartan who
is doing something noteworthy.
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UNIVERSITY
Your comments are welcome: write to Michigan State University,
302 Olds Hall, East Lansing, Ml 48824-1047 or call (517) 355-7505.
MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer.
Florine Mark
says. "We are all in love with MSU's wonderful campus."
International and currently operates Weight Watchers
July–August
Mondays and Fridays
Program begins at 10 a.m. with 11 a.m. walking
tour
(no program July 5, 23, 26, or 30 or August 2)
"My children prospered at