In 1967, two guys from New York City loaded up a 1967 Camaro and headed for the great uncharted wilderness (for New Yorkers) of the American Midwest and a land called Indiana. They came to launch careers in architectural education and to move on.

They never left.

Thirty eight years later, it's the end of an era. At the end of the semester, Marv Rosenman and Tony Costello will retire. Each dedicated a career to CAP that has stretched nearly four decades and 3000 students in practices around the world each. Many of you have benefited from their teaching, mentoring and encouragement in professional life and now we want to send them off in a style fitting of their contribution to all of us-an honorary roasting!

So mark your calendars, make your reservations, and prepare to join others in telling your favorite Tony and Marv stories. Come back to CAP the evening of May 4 and say a final farewell on this great evening with two of CAP's finest!

5:00pm Reception
6:00pm Dinner

RSVP by April 27 to Cheryl Duffy, cduffy@bsu.edu, (765) 285-1902.  A minimum donation of $50 per person is suggested.  This gift will be equally distributed into scholarship funds selected by Tony and Marv.  All checks should be made payable to the BSU Foundation.

April 14, 2005
I value the lessons learned from both Tony and Marvin.  And I remember my first interview with Marvin in the old Quonset huts way back in 1968 (whether to be an engineer or an architect)  I'm poorer and happier as a result!  It was good advice.

April 13, 2005
While we had relatively little direct contact in my time at Ball State's CAP beginning in the years 1982 and 1983 and ending (after several detours!) in the years 1991 to 1996, I thought it important to let you know of your lasting positive impression on me. An impression and influence that will remain for many years to come. I can only hope that as I begin to gather the knowledge and experience that you have gathered and shared with others that I might be able to make as much of a positive contribution to our environment. You truly stand as a living example of a fine professor and a fine architect. You should be proud of your accomplishments. And, while I will not attend your retirement ceremony, my thoughts will be with you. It will be difficult to imagine a ceremony that will truly be able to capture what you have come to deserve over your many years of devotion to both the profession and to those learning the profession.

April 12, 2005
I can remember Marv getting rather upset sometime in 1980 when one of the other departments refused to lend him equipment and he found out that it was just going to sit in a closet instead - he ranted and raved and pulled strings so that we got the equipment ! If I remember right it was for the China trip slide presentation where we showed 1500 some slides in a 45 minute show with 16 slide projectors synchronized to the sound track and the CAP had only 12 projectors and Marv had to go begging - what we would have given to have power point - but it didn't exist back then. This story is just one of many that shows how Marv always fought for his students and the CAP.