Leading the Charge Toward Revival

By JOHN L. PULLEY

When its hometown was on a collision course with economic disaster, Western Michigan U. stepped in to help

In this college town of 77,000 residents, naming a new president to lead Western Michigan University's 35,000 students and staff members is big news.

But so is an announcement by the region's biggest employer that it will lay off up to 1,500 people.

So it was that on May 4, 2003, Judith I. Bailey, the new president, and Pfizer, the world's largest drug company,

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