MSU Club of West Michigan
Welcome to the MSU Club of West Michigan website. Our club represents over 24,000 Michigan State University Alumni in Kent, Ottawa, Barry, and Allegan counties. Click here to find out more about us.
Steve Smith Charity Challenge 2010
We are now accepting reservations for the MSU event of the year, the 12th Annual Steve Smith Charity Challenge. Each summer this event brings together MSU coaches, star athletes, and other MSU luminaries for a great day of world class golf and an auction of amazing items that you won't find anywhere else.
Sign up today at www.westmichspartans.org/sscc2010 or click on "Steve Smith Charity Challenge" under "Events" for more information.
Back by popular demand and for one night only, four-time National Coach of the Year, Michigan State University basketball coach Tom Izzo will take to the stage for a very special evening of entertainment and inspiration, Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 7:30pm at DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Coach Izzo was convinced his sold-out 2009 performance on stage at East Lansing’s Wharton Center for Performing Arts was a one-time gig, not to be repeated. However, fans of basketball and Broadway insisted Coach Izzo return to the stage, this time at DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids.
As a Spartan alumnus, you have an opportunity to purchase tickets in advance of the general public. A special presale link to purchase tickets can be access beginning this Wednesday, February 24th at 10 a.m.
www.ticketmaster.com/promo/wxc4hk
Password: GREEN.
Izzo Goes To Broadway celebrates the “winning spirit” with an evening of song, dance and inspiration featuring Coach Tom Izzo and his wife Lupe, along with six talented performers direct from the bright lights of Broadway and loads of special guests including members of the MSU men’s basketball team, dance team, department of theatre, and everyone’s favorite mascot Sparty. It’s a must-see show, written and directed by East Lansing native Greg Ganakas (son of former Spartan basketball coach Gus Ganakas) and produced by MSU’s Wharton Center for Performing Arts. Join Coach Izzo and friends as he shows he has what it takes for basketball and Broadway with this family-friendly evening.
Tickets range in price from $45 - $85, with a limited number of $200 VIP tickets including premium seating and afterglow reception. Tickets will be made available to the general public beginning March 1, 2010 at 10 a.m. at the DeVos Place Box Office, 1-800-745-3000 or www.devosperformancehall.com. A portion of the ticket cost is tax deductible: $200 VIP - charitable contribution is $100; all other tickets - charitable contribution is $25.
Izzo Goes To Broadway is presented by Broadway Grand Rapids and the MSU Club of West Michigan. Proceeds from this performance will benefit arts education programming in West Michigan and MSU student scholarships. Izzo Goes To Broadway is generously supported by the Amway Grand Plaza, Auto-Owners Insurance Company, Fifth Third Bank, Meijer Inc., Dean Transportation, Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Gainey Realty & Investment Corp, and others.
MSU Means Business
Thanks to everyone who came out to join us on February 24th for the 15th Annual MSU Means Business. And congratulations to Michael Lindley of Huntington Bank for winning this year's award.
ABOUT 2010 MSU BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR MICHAEL LINDLEY
Michael Lindley is a 1975 graduate of Michigan State's College of Communications Arts and Sciences with a degree in Advertising. In his early career he worked for some of the country's leading advertising agencies, including Young & Rubicam and Earle Palmer Brown. His clients included General Electric, BellSouth, Intercontinental Hotels, Vail and Beaver Creek Resorts, Blue Cross and Blue Shield and numerous regional banks. In the 1990's he served as Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing of First of America Bank in the Midwest and then National City Bank as the head of Marketing Communications. For the past 7 years he has worked as Senior Vice President, Director of Marketing for Huntington Bank - West Michigan.He is active in the community, serving on the boards of the West Michigan Sports Commission, the Grand Rapids and Kent County Convention and Visitor's Bureau, the Kent District Library Fund and Inforum. Michael also finds time to pursue his writing career. His first two novels set in Charlevoix, Michigan in the 1940's and 50's have been popular library and book club selections and the first, "The Seasons of the EmmaLee", was named a #1 regional fiction bestseller in 2008. He has recently completed his third novel which should be released later in 2010.Michael and his wife Karen reside in Ada, Michigan with their two children Kristen and Chase, and their mischievous English Setter, Sage.
GRPS and MSU Band Together
On September 12th, over 100 students from Grand Rapids Public Schools elementaries were treated to an amazing day of tailgating and Spartan Football. The story was featured on the front page of the Grand Rapids Press on the Wednesday before the game. Check out the video to see which Spartan basketball players stopped by to lend their support (along with Coach Izzo).
Click here for the article
Click here for the video
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