In November 2021, Bell reached an agreement with Lion, an Australian-based brewer, for the sale of Bell’s, and Bell officially retired from the helm of the company at the end of 2021. Upper Hand Brewery, a sister company based in Escanaba on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, opened in 2014. He was also recognized in 2010 by Kalamazoo College with its Distinguished Achievement Award, which honors those alumni who have achieved distinction in their professional fields. In 2010, Bell was honored with The Brewers Association Recognition Award for his innovative brewing and dedication to the industry.

With popular and award-winning beers like Two Hearted Ale, Oberon and Hopslam, Bell’s Brewery grew into one of the largest craft breweries in the U.S., distributing to 43 states. in 1985-one of the earliest craft breweries in the Midwest. Bell ’80, founder of Bell’s Brewery, Inc., will be welcomed as Kalamazoo College’s 2023 Commencement speaker on Sunday, June 11.īell majored in political science at K before going on to found Bell’s Brewery Inc. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement.Alumnus Larry J. In this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the '80s. Now all those questions and many more have been answered. What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child? Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years: Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic.

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