For decades, the College of Music at Michigan State University has offered high quality, diverse, and accessible music performances, activities, and lectures to the entire community, and the 2023-24 season continues that trend with variety, exceptional talent and expertise, and performances in acoustically beautiful and intimate venues on campus.
Eric Olmscheid has been selected to serve as executive director of Michigan State University’s Wharton Center for Performing Arts. Olmscheid currently serves as director of programming at Des Moines Performing Arts and will assume his new role at Wharton Center on June 22, 2022.
MSU remembers alumna and former trustee Barbara Sawyer-Koch
The Michigan State University community is remembering alumna, trustee emerita and philanthropist Barbara Sawyer-Koch, 72, who died March 6, 2021.
Born in Menominee, Michigan, Sawyer-Koch was retired from the Michigan Department of Treasury. She earned her master’s degree in public administration in 1990 from the College of Social Science and served on the MSU Board of Trustees from Jan. 1, 1979, through 1994. Her husband, Donald Koch, a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Letters, preceded her in death in 2018.
The pair were members of the Wharton and Landon giving societies, supporting MSU over many years and in many ways.