| Summary: | The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues. A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina March 2, 1984 HFR CALLS FOR BRIDGING GAPS In separate speeches last week in Asheville and Waynesville, Chancellor H.F. Robinson called attention to a gap between public universities and public school systems and to another gap between WNC counties and the rest of the state. North Carolina must bring WNC nto a position of parity" with the rest of the state and nation, he told an economic development conference in Asheville. Two essential goals, he said, are more and better jobs and high-quality appropriate education. These goals, he said, "reflect the most pressing needs of this region" and "the longstanding desire of the residents of WNC to participate more fully in the economic growth the state is enjoying." The mountain region has had significant developments in transportation and improvements at all levels of its educational system, he said. "Our needs now are for support and promotion of economic development in bringing industry to the region. While progress has been made on this front, there remains a considerable gap between this region and the rest of the state." Regional unemployment during periods of recession, he said, is due in part to the dependence on textiles as a major employer. Seasonal employment in travel and tourism add to the problem during the off-season. Most of the unemployed are not prepared for current advances in technology, he said. Dr. Robinson is chairman of the employment opportunities committee of WNC-Tomorrow, a co-sponsor of the conference. Speaking to educational supervisors from District 8 at the Western Regional Educational Center, Dr. Robinson called for "new and innovative approaches for narrowing the gap between public schools and universities." At the top of h is list was a "tripartite arrangement between universities, public schools, and parents." He said, "We need to develop a much closer partnership and working arrangements between university faculty and administrators, Regional Center personnel, superintendents, principals, and personnel for the various schools." These arrangements, he said, should include monthly meetings and joint seminars to tac kle problems between higher education and public schools. Public schools, universities, and parents should work together, he said, to determine the most effective role of each in the development of future teachers. Some areas to explore, he said, are model schools, advisory panels, and rotation of university and public school personnel. EVENTS CROWD MONDAY, TUESDAY SCHEDULE The week will open with several events of general interest. Pianist Eric Larsen, praised by critics for his brilliant technique and fine musicianship, will perform in recital Sunday, March 4, beginning at 2 p.m. in the Music-English Recital Hall. The program will include works by Bach-Busoni, Beethoven, Crumb, Liszt, and Debussy. Following the recital, Larsen will teach a master class to interested piano students. On Sunday through Tuesday evenings, students in the department of speech and theatre arts will produce and direct a series of eight one-act plays. Curtain is at 7:30 each evening and admission is $1. Sunday night's plays are "Crisis" and Jules -2- Feiffer's "Crawling Around." Monday's are the three one-acts comprising John Patrick's "Love Nest for Three," separately directed. Tuesday's playbill features "Wine in the Wilderness," Tennessee Williams' "Moony's Kid Don't Cry," and Chekhov's "The Proposal," A memorial tribute service for Josefina Niggli, professor emeritus of theatre who died in December, is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday in the Music-English Recital Hall, An interesting program will highlight her many achievements as a teacher, a director, and a writer of national reputation. The University Forum topic Monday night, March 5, is 1984, the 1948 novel by George Orwell receiving so much attention this year. The film 1984 Revisited, produced by CBS News and narrated by Walter Cronkite, will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Natural Sciences auditorium. In the film, Cronkite asks whether Orwell's vision of society with no freedoms was a parody of what was happening in Europe in 1948 or a prediction of the world to come. Cronkite demonstrates how many lives today are frighten-ingly close to those in the novel. On Tuesday night, the 54-voice University Chorus and 39-voice Concert Choir, both under the direction of Robert A. Holquist, will perform in concert at 8 p.m. in the Music-English Recital Hall. The program will include works ranging from Mozart's "Ave verum corpus" and Palestrina's "Adoramus te Christe" to spiritual and folk selections. As a special feature, the choir will perform Egil Hovland's "Saul," a 20th-century piece in which dramatic speech accompanies choir and organ. A new exhibit in Chelsea Gallery will open with a reception Tuesday afternoon at 3. Paintings by Carolyn Sanders-Turner of Beckley, W.Va., and W. Alex Powers of Myrtle Beach, S.C., will be on display in a watercolor invitational through April 5. Ms. Sanders-Turner attended the Chicago Art Institute and has a degree in fine arts. Her work has won more than 50 awards and is represented in over 700 corporate and private collections. Formerly a computer programmer at Cape Kennedy, Powers began his study of art at age 27 and now divides his time between painting and teaching in his studio school. He has held 38 one-man shows, won 43 awards, and served as juror for 25 exhibitions. ANNOUNCEMENTS NCAEOP WILL OFFER A SCHOLARSHIP to an undergraduate business major enrolled full-time with a strong academic record at Western. The award will be not less than $500. To qualify, an applicant must be a North Carolina resident, must have been enrolled here for at least two semesters (or have earned 32 semester hours), and must have a cumulative QPR of 3.25. Applications are available in Forsyth 130, the dean's office in the S chool of Business. They must be returned to Kay Hill, 217 Robinson Administration Building, by March 15. WESTERN'S BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILL MEET Thursday, March 1, at 10 a.m. in the board room of Robinson Administration Building. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Darrel D. Colson. "Aristotle's Doctrine of Universalia in Rebus," in Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science , December 1983. Finn-Aage Esbensen. "Measurement Error in Self-Reported Delinquency: An Examination of Interviewer Bias," in Measurement Issues in Criminal Justice, ed. Gordon P. Waldo. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1983, pp. 59-70. Nancy Carol Joyner. "Mary Lee Settle's Connections: Class and Clothes in the Beulah Quintet," in Southern Quarterly, 22 (Fall 1983), 33-45. NAMES IN THE NEWS WILBURN HAYDEN (head, Social Work) attended and presented a paper, "Social Workers and Political Action," at the third annual conference of the N.C. chapter, Eastern District, National Association of Social Workers, which met in Chapel Hill Feb. 11. ALBERT L. FOSTER (director, Physical Plant) recently served as a judge for the American Institute of Plant Engineers' "Best Plant" competition and toured the UNIFI yarn tex-turizing plant in Yadkinville, N.C., which happens to be ru n by a WCU graduate, David Hutchens, who is plant engineer. On the basis of Foster's written report, the judges chose UNIFI's plant as second-place winner in the large industrial plant category. First place went to Bell & Howell in Chicago. A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina March 9, 1984 TRUSTEES TAKE ACTION ON PERSONNEL, CONSTRUCTION MATTERS The Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center under construction at Western is more than 40 percent complete and appears on track to open in spring of 1985, the university's board of trustees was told at its quarterly meeting March 1. "The project appears to be back on track," WCU Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs C.J, Carter told the board in a campus construction report. "Barring further delays, the facility should be ready for occupancy for the 1985 spring commencement." Dr. Carter said the project is six to seven months behind the original schedule for three primary reasons—weather conditions last winter; delays in fabrication and delivery of structural steel for the building; and the necessity for additional site preparation work. All the steel previously tied up in bankruptcy proceedings is now on site and in the possession of the general contractor, Noonan-Kellos Co. of Augusta, Ga. The contractor expects to have all the structural steel in place by the end of May, according to Dr. Carter's report. Dr. Carter said Noonan-Kellos' plans include double construction crews that would work two full shifts and seven-day workweeks during the spring and summer months. In other building and construction matters, Dr. Carter told the board that a project to repair the exterior brick of Belk Building, expected to cost some $269,000, must now be expanded because the internal steel framing, to which the masonry will be secured, is sprayed with asbestos. Dr. Carter told the board that the required asbestos removal operation would cost some $300,000 and that a request for the needed funds has been presented to the state budget office. Chancellor H.F. Robinson expressed regret that these expenditures would not enhance the building functionally or i ncrease its space, but he also expressed gratitude that funds would likely be available to correct these deficiencies in the building. In other reports, the board was told that the number of freshman applications to enter WCU are still well ahead of last year, up as much as 12 percent, and that processes for reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education are continuing. Trustee Robert L. Edwards of Mars Hill was appointed by board chairman Wallace N. Hyde to the SACS steering committee, and the board learned that the NCATE visitation team would be at WCU next week. In a series of personnel actions, the board announced the appointment of two new faculty members and one staff member, announced nine faculty promotions, and reappointed 37 faculty members. New faculty appointments were Peggy K„ McGauhey as assistant professor of nursing and Dr. Ellis Duane Davis as associate professor of criminal justice. Linda R. Patton was appointed programs coordinator in the office of continuing education. Faculty promotions were, from associate professor to professor, Gordon Bartlett McKinney and James Eldridge Smith; from assistant professor to associate professor, Frank Thomas Prochaska, Max Moise Schreiber, Bruce Barrie Henderson, Eleanor -2- White Lofquist, Joe Eugene Beck, Vivian Lundy Deitz, and Noelle Link Kehrberg. Reappointed to the faculty were: School of Arts and Sciences—James Addison, Russel Bachert, James Epperson, Wilburn Hayden, Robert Holquist, Jerry Jackson, Carol McKay, and Virginia Sweet; School of Business—William Brunsen, Janet Dye, Deborah Edwards, Thomas Kindel, Terry Kinnear, Diane McDonald, and Stephen Owen; School of Education and Psychology—Charles Bowen, Calvin Dale Carpenter, Michael Smith, and Hedy White; School of Nursing and Health Sciences— Franklin Carver, Martha Chovan, Scott Higgins, Barbara Larson, Pamela Shuler, and Carol Stephens; School of Technology and Applied Science— Davia Allen, Aaron Ball, Ellis Davis, Andrew LaTorre, Cherie Lee, Michael Lee, William Medaris, William Miller, and Sandra Skinner-Annable; Hunter Library—Deborah Babel, James Lloyd, and Deborah Thomas, The trustees adopted resolutions expressing sorrow at the deaths in February of former trustees Hazen Ledford of Bakersville and Modeal Walsh of Robbinsville. NEW AWARD ANNOUNCED AT SERVICE LUNCHEON At the university's annual service awards luncheon last week, WCU honored employees with more than 970 collective years of service to the state and university, and Chancellor Robinson announced a new $500 competitive award. The new award, called the WCU Recognition Award for Support Personnel, will be given for the first time June 30. Dr. Robinson said he hopes the award will be pre sented hereafter at the annual service awards luncheon. He said he would appoint a committee immediately to formulate guidelines for the award. Dr. Robinson presented awards to 94 employees during the ceremonies and recognized Western's three nominees for the Governor's Award for Excellence—Beth K. Fields, James W. Waldroop, and Edna S. Waldrop. NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR'S EXCELLENCE AWARD were (left to right) Beth Fields, James Waldroop, and Edna Waldrop. Others honored, by length of service, were: Twenty-five years, Virginia Clark and Mamie B. Tate. Twenty years, Thomas A. Blakley, Glenn Hardesty, Harry Howell, Mim Matus, Deane Rager, Helen Swayngim, Faye Taylor, and James B. Wood. Fifteen years, R.B. Adams, Walter Aldridge, Gordon Ashe, Willie Bryson, William Buragarner, William Crawford, Zernie Dills, Charles Estes, William Farmer, Sherry Fox, William Fox, Troy Frizzell, Bleaka Howell, Priscilla Jones, Howard McNeill, Rufus Ray, Grover Stephens, Steven Webb, and James Winiarski. Ten years, Virginia Ashe, Annie Ball, Dorothy Bell, Deborah Blazer, Jo Ann Canipe, Janet Childers, Linda Darden, Mary DeVane, Kenneth Dills, Harry Duke, David Duvall, Harrison Frizzell, Charles Gibson, Joe Ginn, Minnie Jackson, Yorke Jander, Shirley Kool, William C. Martin III, Elizabeth Matthews, Annie McDonald, Norma Medford, Martha Niles, L.G. Painter, Joseph Rogers, Arlene Stewart, Linda Sutton, Judith Tyra, Leona Warren, Patricia Williams, and Gayle Willis. Five years, Charles Ashe, Wanda Ashe, Sam Beck, Roy Benedict, David Carpenter, Lorinda Casey, Kenneth Cook, Charlie Cope, Ron Core, Mardy Davies, Morgan Deitz, Sheila Frizzell, Bill Guillet, Phoebe Hall, Jimmie James, Judy Jones, Daniel Lorey, Susan MacDougall, Jeff Martin, Margaret Masson, Christy McCarley, Merijane Minor, -3- Raymond Nicholson, Brenda Oliver, Polly Penland, Mylie Ramsey, Barbara Rice, Patricia Rogers, Janice Smith, Charles Stephens, Linda Stephens, Patsy Thornton, Carl Watson, Connie Wikle, and Deborah Zaccarine• MIME DUO TO APPEAR HERE MARCH 21 The experienced and well-traveled mime team of Dr. Tom and Seus, with a reputation for being highly entertaining and s ubtly theatrical, will perform in Jackson County public schools and at Western March 19-21. The three-day residency in Jackson County is being sponsored jointly by WCU1s Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions Series and the Jackson County Arts Council. Four public school performances are scheduled— on Monday, March 19, 9 a.m. at Smokey Mountain School and 1 p.m. at Fairview School; and on Tuesday, March 20, 9 a.m. at Scotts Creek School and 1 p.m. at Camp Laboratory School. Wednesday evening, Tom and Seus will perform for the general public at 8 p.m. in WCU1s Hoey Auditorium. Tickets for that performance are $5 for adults and $2 for non-WCU students. Western students with valid identification cards are admitted for $1 and LCE Series subscribers are admitted by presenting membership cards at the ticket office. All the programs have been made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Southern Arts Federation, of which the N.C. Arts Council is a member. Programs by Dr. Tom and Seus include original pieces that range from slapstick to subtle mime and reflect the many faces of human experience—creation of the universe, vanity, the ups and downs of male-female relationships, video game addiction, and extraterrestrial beings. They bring mime with a twist and use live music and commentary to connect short mime sketches. Tom Pierce and S eus Edwards began their partnership in 1979 after having performed with other mime troupes. Pierce, a self-taught clown who began performing for schools, churches, and fairs at the age of 12, studied mime and theatre at Florida State. He toured colleges, nightclubs, and theatres across America with mime C.W. Metcalf, then artist-in-residence at FSU. Pierce later operated his own mime school in Tallahassee. Seus Edwards is an accomplished musician and dancer who later studied mime with Pierce and Metcalf as well as Avner Eisenberg, Ronlin Foreman, and Mamako Yoneama. She is a graduate of Bennington. Both are members of the Screen Actors Guild and have worked in television commercials, children's television, and films. They have performed in numerous theatres, festivals, schools, and colleges in the U.S. and made a 40-day tour of the Far East including Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. BELK GALLERY OPENS NEW EXHIBITION An exhibition of works by Ian Hornak, who has been hailed as "right at the top of the list of romantically descriptive painters today" by New York Times art critic John Canaday, will visit the art gallery in Belk Building March 19 through April 13. Sponsored by the department of art and the LCE Series, the show will include Hornak's watercolors, prints, and drawings. It will open with a reception at 7 p.m. March 19. Hornak will come in April to speak in the gallery and to judge the annual student art exhibition. Born in Philadelphia and educated at the University of Michigan and Wayne State, Hornak is a full-time artist with an extensive record of art exhibitions. His paintings are represented by the Fischback Gallery in New York City and his works are included in many public and private collections such as the Corcoran Museum, Xerox, Citibank, and Indianapolis Museum of Art. "Ian Hornak exacts the dream from reality, intimacy from observation, and mystery from representation," John Gruen said in ARTS magazine. "A hint of awe or of a special solitude akin to a romantic sensibility always impinges on the apparent reality of Ian Hornak's paintings." Hornak's landscapes, said to have descended in spirit from the visionary art of 1 9th-century German romantic Caspar David Friedrich, are technically allied to contemporary neorealisra. Some have called his landscapes "dreamscapes, even though painted with realism." -4- ANNOUNCEMENTS A SPECIAL SUMMER AND FALL SEMESTER REGISTRATION for faculty and staff who are currently taking a WCU course or courses will be held at the Registrar's Office on Friday, March 30, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Materials and permits may be o btained March 19 and 20 from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on second floor, University Center, or from the Registrar's Office after these dates. Faculty and staff not currently enrolled who wish to take a course summer or fal l terra must first be admitted/readmitted by the appropriate admissions office. KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR FRIDAY'S SCIENCE FESTIVAL is Dr. Mitchell Rambler of the Life Sciences Division of NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. His topic will be "High Technology—The Management of Natural Resources" and the program begins at 9:30 a.m. in Hoey Auditorium. Students from area schools will be judged on projects, research, and general knowledge of science during the day. PRERETIREMENT WORKSHOP APRIL 9-16 All university employees are invited to attend a Preretirement Planning Workshop sponsored by the Personnel Office. Five one-hour sessions chaired by active and r etired persons from the university community will cover a variety of topics. All sessions will be held at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the Dogwood Room of Hinds University Center. FINANCES I (April 9)—retirement plans, savings, and investments. FINANCES II (April 10) —Social Security, Medicare, State Retirement, and health insurance continuation. LEGAL (April 11)—wills, trusts, and estate planning. HEALTH (April 12)—nutrition, exercise, aging effects, and safety. HOUSING (April 13)—changing locale and renting or owning housing. LEISURE (April 16)—volunteer activities, second careers, and education. Interested employees should contact the Personnel Office (7218) to reserve the dates and times they would like to attend. NAMES IN THE NEWS JAMES NICHOLL and JIM ADDISON (English) went to W inston-Salem Feb. 27-28 with Arthea (Charlie) Reed of UNC-A to represent the Mountain Area Writing Project at a meeting of directors of the N.C. Writing Project from across the state. The third annual Mountain Area Writing Project, to be directed by Drs. Reed and Addison, will convene at W estern July 9-August 3 under the joint sponsorship of Western and UNC-A. Open to public school teachers in any discipline, K-12, the institute is affiliated with the National Writing Project. LEN A. SCHAIPER (Human Services) and EDWARD J. KESGEN (Therapeutic Recreation) recently conducted an in-service session on "Testing for Learning Strength—Implications for Experiential Education" for 43 Haywood County special education teachers. DOTTIE TATUM (Elementary Education and Reading) presented a program, "Support for Children in Crises," for Phi Delta Kappa here Jan. 25. She also presented "Doing the Best with What We Have" for 250 members of the WCU Panhellenic Council Feb. 16. ROBERT HOLQUIST (Music) has been active as a judge for the choral section of the N.C. Music Educators' Association. He has judged solos and ensembles of high school vocal students at Pfeiffer College (Feb. 10-11), Warren Wilson College (Feb. 16), and Greensboro College (Feb. 18). He is choral activities coordinator for NCMEA. JIM DAVIDSON and JIM ANDERSON (Trio Programs) presented a workshop, "Prescription: Group Counseling - No Bad Effects, Cost Effective," at the regi onal meeting of the Southeastern Association of Educational Opportunity Programs Personnel Feb. 15. VIVIAN DEITZ (Nursing) was a panel participant at the 7th Annual Nursing Research Lectureship Feb. 13 at H ampton Institute in Hampton, Va. The keynote speaker was Dr. Martha Rogers, a noted nursing educator and theorist. Ms. Deitz's presentation on the nursing curriculum at Western, which is based on Dr. Rogers' theory of unitary man, was well received. JOE SCAGNOLI (Music) conducted the Concert Band at the 34th Northwest Regional All- State Band Clinic at Appalachian State University Feb. 24-26. A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina March 23, 1984 MOUNTAINEER'S MOUNTAINEER VISITS WESTERN The name Petzoldt is not exactly a household word, unless your house happens to be a tent at Grand Teton, Wyoming, or a base camp on the Himalayan peak K2. In mountaineering circles, Paul Petzoldt is known not only as one of the world's greatest mountaineers, but also as the mountaineer's mountaineer. The man who has been on campus this week is a legend in outdoorsmanship. At 16, he hitchhiked to Jackson Hole and announced with a friend that they were going to climb the Grand Teton. Many of the locals thought they were crazy, shook their heads and proclaimed cowboy-style that they "hadn't lost nothing up there." In bib overalls, cotton shirts, and cowboy boots, with serious cases of hypothermia long before the word was known, Petzoldt and friend managed to get to the top. "And by the grace of God and luck, barely returned," says Petzoldt. Therein he began a quest to do things properly out of doors. Nowadays, his "sliding middle-man technique" for crossing snow fields, his belay signals, his "Wilderness Handbook," and other innovations and wisdom he has shared make him internationally known. During his 76 years, he's been a guide, author, lecturer, educator, and conservationist. He still climbs, he still teaches, and he still is quick to enter the fray headlong if it involves learning about or protecting the outdoors. "We've produced a country full of gung-ho specialized experts, many of whom are outdoor idiots," Petzoldt said in Backpacker magazine. "Some youths today, being led into the wilds, think backpacking is related to suffering and diarrhea, blisters, wet blue jeans, fatigue, cold, bad food, and narrow escapes. Searches, rescues, serious injuries and fatalities due to faulty leadership happen too often.perhaps less than 2 percent of wilderness users have the basic judgment, knowledge, and skills to do the thin gs they are doing with safety, comfort, and without harming the environment." He not only talks about these problems, he has dedicated many years to doing something about them. He founded the National Outdoor Leadership School and the Wilderness Education Association and now serves as executive director for the l atter. Petzoldt has been at Western both as a visiting scholar and to prepare for the National Standard Program for Outdoor Leadership Certification that Western will host through its parks and recreation management program May 13 through June 9. The summer certification program is one of three national programs in WCU's 1984 International Outdoor Leadership Institute. Also scheduled are the American Youth Hostels Leadership Training Program (June 16-30) and the American Forestry Association Wilderness Leadership Training Program (July 6-August 6). Petzoldt's program is an experience-based, college-level curriculum designed for persons pursuing outdoor-related professions and leadership roles in the outdoors. Certified graduates are expected to be able to teach others how to use and enjoy the wilderness with minimum impact, safely lead others in the wild outdoors, exercise good judgment in a variety of environments and conditions, and demonstrate a basic standard of outdoor knowledge and experience. -2- WESTERN HOSTS SOCIAL WORK CONFERENCE Social Work Month is the occasion for a conference March 30 sponsored by the department of social work at WCU to update social workers in many different fields on issues affecting their work. Keynote speaker Dorothy (Dee) Kiester is the former assistant director, now retired, of the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill. She will speak on "Celebrating Social Work: Past, Present, and Future" at 9:30 a.m. in Killian 104. Providing background and update on the Social Work Certification Act will be the WCU department head Wilburn Hayden, Jr., and William G. Henry, Clerk of Superior Court in Haywood County and chairperson of the N.C. Social Work Certification Board. Workshops by regional professionals will deal with children in crisis, alcohol and family treatment, preventative health intervention, leadership, difficult clients, and intervention in domestic violence and emergency room crises. For more information on the conference, contact Wilburn Hayden, ext. 7112. CONCERT BAND TO PERFORM HERE MARCH 30 The WCU Concert Band, under the direction of Joe Scagnoli, will perform on campus Friday, March 30, as part of its preparation for the spring concert tour. The 8 p.m. concert in the Music-English Recital Hall will be part of high school Honor Band activities here next weekend. It is free and open to the public. Major works to be performed by the concert band include "Second Suite in F" by Gustav Hoist and H. Owen Reed's "La Fiesta Mexi-cana." Faculty member Alex Lesueur will be featured in the Saint-Saens flute solo, "Airs De Ballet D'Ascanio." Faculty member Stephen Lawson will perform Mozart's "Concerto No. 3 in E-flat." Other compositions will be selected from such composers as Alfred Reed, John Philip Sousa, Karl King, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Dr. Lesueur and Lawson will travel with the band. On Tuesday, April 10, the Concert Band will inaugurate its tour with another program in the recital hall, and the following day perform in concert at Pisgah and Mt. Airy High Schools. The Mt. Airy performance is a memorial concert in honor of Jonathan Pruett, a former band member who was killed in a car accident last summer. The band will play in Statesville and Newton the following day, and will conclude the tour with a concert at T.C. Roberson High in Skyland April 13. The 71-member Concert Band has performed in 40 North Carolina High schools over the past five years. Last November, the band performed as the feature ensemble for the N.C. State Bandmasters Session at the N.C. State Music Convention. PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE TO PERFORM The Western Carolina University Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Mario Gaetano, will appear in concert Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in the Music-English Recital Hall. The ensemble, comprising seven university students, performs contemporary music written specifically for percussion instruments. Featured on the program will be two ragtime compositions dating from the 1920s for xylophone solo and marimba quartet; an aleotoric work (chance music) by Barney ChiIds with faculty members Maxie Beaver, saxophone, and Jim Buckner, trumpet; and a work by Lou Harrison, "Canticle No. 1," based on a philosophy of primitivism and using novel percussion instruments such as flower pots, wine bottles, lead pipes, brake drums, and swiss cowbells. Other works by Fisher Tull and Gen Parchraan will also be included on the program. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Mario Gaetano. "Song of the Libra," a 10-minute composition for unaccompanied vibraphone. Ft. Lauderdale: Music for Percussion, Inc. Jennie Hunter. "Teach Accounting Students to Communicate Effectively," in Business Education Forum, February 1984. Constance Head. "John Wilkes Booth, 1864: Prologue to Assassination," in Lincoln Herald, 85 (Winter 1983), 254-262. George Maginnis. "Developmental Programs at WCU," in Reach, N.C. Association for Developmental Studies, Winter 1983-84. 3- ANNOUNCEMENTS DO YOU HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS AROUND AND ABOUT WCU taken during the '70s and '80s? The Office of Public Information is seeking to enlarge its collection of color slides and other photographs that illustrate the campus and WCU activities—students, athletics, classroom shots. The office would like a chance to review what you have and is open to negotiation on acquiring them. INTERESTED IN EXCHANGING WITH A COLLEAGUE at another university? Next week The Reporter will contain a survey to find out how much interest there is in the National Faculty Exchange Program, a non-profit network supported by the Exxon Foundation. More than 75 institutions, from Alaska and California to Florida and Connecticut, now participate. WCU would specify direct exchange (discipline-to-discipline) or oneway placement. Duration may be from a few weeks to a year. Teaching new courses, expanding research, observing different programs, and revitalizing professional life are the opportunities. Assignments might be in teaching, administration, consultation, observation, or any combination thereof. Salary and benefits would continue to come from the home institution. UNIVERSITY FORUM WILL PRESENT HUGH MORTON, owner of North Carolina's number one tourist attraction—Grandfather Mountain—at 7 p.m. Monday, March 26. An active member of WNC Tomorrow and a proponent of the law to control ridge-top development, he will show slides related to his concern about the future of mountain lands and resources. HAVE YOU TOLD CONTINUING EDUCATION WHETHER you want to change your listing (or add a listing) for the WCU Speakers' Bureau? It's not too late if you act right away. ARE YOU A PARENT? If so, you are invited to a free "lunch and learn" discussion Tuesday, April 3, with Sylva psychologist Dr. Jerry Coffey. Discussion of love and punishment will be included with the topic "Bringing Out Your Child's Best." Bring a sack lunch to Cullowhee Baptist Church from noon until 1 p.m. Child care will be available for $1. FOREIGN BOOKS AVAILABLE IN HUNTER LIBRARY were recently augmented by a small circulating collection on loan from the N.C. Foreign Language Center in Fayetteville. The current selection represents titles in Hindi, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, French, German, and Spanish, but books are available in some 40 different languages. The collection is housed in the browsing area of the library and includes fiction, biography, and recent history. For further information about the collection, please see or call Nan Haberland at ext. 7274. NAMES IN THE NEWS TOM CONNELLY, JR. (dean, Nursing and Health Sciences) will give an invited paper, "Allied Health: The Evolution of Diversity," in a symposium featuring human resources in quality medical care at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. The symposium is part of the center's Centennial Series. SCOTT MINOR, STEVEN GOLD, JOEL MILNER, and CHRISTOPHER LEONE (Psychology), three staff persons, and seven students will present eight research papers at the Southeastern Psychological Association meeting in New Orleans March 29-31. Titles and authors are as follows: "Self-statement modification versus distraction in the treatment of test anxiety," Edith A. Hillman, Scott W. Minor, Steven R. Gold, and Jeanne C. Andrews; "Daydreams and change in self concept," Jeanne C. Andrews, Steven R. Gold, Scott W. Minor, and Edith A. Hillman; "Behavior of adolescent males in a video arcade," Scott W. Minor and Patricia A. McCoy; "Child Abuse Potential Inventory construct validity," Ruth G. Gold, Eleanor Jones, Joanne Robitaille, Kevin R. Robertson, and Joel S. Milner; "Incidence of neglect in mothers of failure to thrive infants," Joel S. Milner, Kathy Ayoub, Ruth G. Gold, and Kevin R. Robertson; "Causal attributions for outcomes: A schematic processing view," Crystal Coone and Christopher T. Leone; "Locus of control and attraction: A person by situation analysis," Christopher Leone and Leon Cox; "Convergent and discriminant validity of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory," Kevin R. Robertson, Ruth G. Gold and Joel S. Milner. DONALD L. LOEFFLER (head), JIM EPPERSON, RICHARD S. BEAM, and JIM WOOD (Speech and Theatre Arts) attended the Southeastern Theatre Conference's annual convention in Arlington, Va., March 8-10. Dr. Loeffler presided over a panel of debut papers on theatre history, theory, and criticism and presented a paper, "Attracting Majors to the B.A. Theatre Program." Dr. Epperson -4- and Wood heard auditions for scholarships. All four faculty members manned an exhibit table and talked with potential WCU theatre majors. Four STA students attended the convention and were interviewed for jobs; Kevin Hoffman accepted a summer contract as costume assistant for The Lost Colony. W. GLENN HARDESTY (director, Student Financial Aid) attended and was co-presenter of a paper, "Use of the Small Desk Top Computer in the Aid Office," at the annual conference of the Southern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, which met in Atlanta Feb. 19-22. HAZEL McCRONE (Housing) recently received a Service Award from the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers at its annual conference in Nashville. Her "outstanding work, devoted efforts to make university residence hall life a good experience, and personal interest in dealing with individual students" were cited. Also attending the meeting were staff members RON DENNIS, LISA SONS, and SUE MacDOUGALL. RANDY RICE (director, Housing) has been selected to management staff at one of the three Olympic villages for the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, Calif. He will assist with the village at the University of Southern California, where he was formerly director of housing. He assisted in the feasibility studies there when Los Angeles first considered hosting the games. DEBBIE ZACCARINE, ARLENE STEWART, BROWNWEN SHEFFIELD, JIM ANDERSON, and JIM DAVIDSON (TRIO Programs) attended the Southeastern Association of Educational Opportunity Programs Conference Feb. 13-17. In addition to the workshop Anderson and Davidson presented (reported in our last issue), Ms. Stewart conducted a workshop on training tutors to teach study skills. Davidson also organized North Carolina's student competition in the regular Scholar Bowl held during the conference. C.J. CARTER (vice-chancellor, Business Affairs) was a member of the visiting committee, appointed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, to reaffirm regional accreditation for The Citadel this month. GEORGE MAGINNIS (Elementary Education and Reading) presented a session, "Teacher Made Computer Programs," at the state meeting of the International Reading Association in Winston-Salem March 1. PERRY KELLY (Art) has been named by the N.C. Art Education Association, which he previously served as treasurer, presidentelect, and president, to coordinate its 1985 annual conference in Asheville. He also is exhibiting three fiberworks, one a kimono made in the Japanese rice paste resist technique, in the Triangle Weavers annual exhibition in Durham. An exhibition of his photographs will open in Odense, Denmark, May 1. Dr. Kelly will tour The People's Republic of China during May and June. In the summer, he will teach art appreciation as an invited visiting professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Kelly's recent activities include demonstrating various basketry materials and techniques for Camp Lab students, giving slide/lectures on fiber arts at Lawndale and S helby high schools, and organizing a group of 19 WCU art students who will return to their former high schools during spring break to tell students, teachers, and guidance counselors about Western. Some will demonstrate skills and others will show work accomplished at WCU. MILDRED LANE IS EOP OF THE MONTH The WCU chapter of the N.C. Association of Educational Office Personnel has chosen Mildred Lane as its EOP for the month of March. Mildred has been an assistant in Hunter Library for more than eight years. A native of Tennessee, Mildred lived in Florida for many years and for 18 years worked in the public library of Delray Beach. During World War II, she worked for the Army Air Force in Boca Raton. In the NCAEOP here, Mildred has served on nominating and program committees and has coordinated the bake sales in the library. Mildred and her husband, James, an instructor retired from STC, had three sons, two of whom are still living. The family used to camp in North Carolina before moving here, and Mildred loves the outdoors. They are members of First Presbyterian in Sylva. A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina March 30, 1984 NEW DEVELOPMENT CAMPAIGN FEATURES FACULTY In response to a large gift from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, Western's Development Foundation is launching a new campaign to provide an endowment for special faculty projects and activities— endeavors that aim at the achievement of academic excellence. The program is called STAR, for Supporting Teaching and Research. It is designed to enable the faculty to pursue projects and activities that require resources beyond normal operating budgets, especially those involving experimentation, risk-taking, and innovation. During the early weeks of April, the STAR committee of faculty and administrators will schedule meetings to i ntroduce the program throughout the university. In anticipation of the university's centennial in 1989, the Foundation is encouraging pledges of $100 per year for five years. Donors at that level or higher will receive a special pen and pencil set with the STAR insignia, and all donors will receive a certificate of recognition. The chancellor has agreed to make funds available from appropriate resources to match gifts during the initial campaign up to $15,000, thereby establishing a substantial endowment, and the interest will provide funds to be awarded by the office of academic affairs. "STAR thus offers," says the introductory brochure, "every faculty member at Western Carolina University a unique opportunity to create and put into action ideas for more effective instruction, to seek new levels of excellence in academic pursuits, to develop resources that enhance the educational experience, and to foster at Western an ideal environment for learning." FACTS ABOUT THE NATIONAL FACULTY EXCHANGE This week's Reporter contains a survey to determine WCU interest in the National Faculty Exchange Program, a non-profit network supported by the Exxon Foundation that gives educators the opportunity to teach new courses, expand research, observe different programs, and revitalize professional life. Some facts about the program: 1. Open to administrative staff as well as faculty. 2. Activities may include teaching, research, administration, observation, or consulting. 3. Duration of an exchange may range from a few weeks to a full year. Typically, a teaching exchange is for one semester; other types are for one or more months. 4. Placements are made at member institutions (see below). 5. Each institution may specify whether a direct exchange (discipline-to-discipline or staff-to-staff replacement) is essential, desirable, or unnecessary. Indirect exchanges are more readily arranged, one-way placements permissible. 6. Financial arrangements are simple: home campus continues salary and benefits; any additional financial assistance is provided at the discretion of member institutions. NFE does not offer stipends or grants. A $15 application fee is required for each applicant. 7. A local campus coordinator will be available to assist with preparation of -2- applications and to facilitate transportation, housing, etc. Specific housing arrangements are the responsibility of individual participants. Questions? Call Ben Ward, Instructional Services, Hunter Library, ext. 7197. Charter Member Institutions (1983-84) 1. California State College, Bakersfield 2. California State Univ., Los Angeles 3. Colorado State University 4. Drake University 5. Eastern Connecticut State University 6. Eastern Montana College 7. Georgia State University 8. Humboldt State University 9. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 10. Indiana TJ.-Purdue U. at Ft. Wayne 11. Montana State University 12. New Mexico State University 13. Northern Arizona State University 14. Norwich University 13. Oklahoma State University 16. Oregon State University 17. Pittsburg State University 18. Rhode Island College 19. Rochester Institute of Technology 20. South Dakota State University 21. Southern Oregon State College 22. State University College at Buffalo 23. State University College at Cortland 24. State University College of Arts and Sciences, Potsdam, New York 25. Towson State University 26. Trenton State College 27. University of Alabama 28. University of Arkansas, Little Rock 29. University of Idaho 30. University of Minnesota at Duluth 31. University of Montana 32. University of Nevada, Las Vegas 33. UNC-Charlotte 34. University of Northern Colorado 35. University of Northern Iowa 36. University of South Dakota 37. University of Tennessee, Knoxville 38. University of Wisconsin-Green Bay 39. University of Wisconsin-River Falls 40. University of Wyoming 41. West Chester University 42. Winthrop College 43. Wright State University Prospective New Members (1984-85) 44. Adelphi University 45. Alabama State University 46. Alma College 47. Anchorage Community College 48. Bowling Green State University 49. California State Polytechnic Institute 50. College of Mount St. Joseph 51. College of St. Thomas 52. Emmanuel College 53. Fairfield University 54. Great Lakes Colleges Association 55. Indiana University 56. Jamestown Community College 57. Keene State College 58. Lander College 59. Lycoming College 60. Murray State University 61. Paine College 62. Rollins College 63. South Dakota School of Mines and Tech. 64. State University College at Brockport 65. State University College at Plattsburgh 66. Trinity College 67. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 68. University of Kansas 69. University of Maine at Orono 70. Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst 71. University of Nevada, Reno 72. University of North Dakota 73. Western Illinois University 74. Western Washington University 75. Wichita State University 76. York College of Pennsylvania (More institutions likely to be added.) THIS IS HONOR BAND WEEKEND AT WCU Western's fourth Honor Band weekend March 30-April 1 is at tracting 90 outstanding high school instrumentalists from throughout North Carolina and surrounding states. The Honor Band, selected by WCU music faculty and conducted by L. Howard Nicar, director of bands at Vanderbilt, will perform in concert Sunday at 2 p.m. DISCUSSION OF NOBEL WINNER'S WORK PLANNED The WCU International Studies Club is sponsoring a seminar on The Road to Serfdom, a book by Friedrich A. Hayek, who was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974. His thesis is that extended collectivism and democracy are not compatible. The seminar, set for 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in the Catamount Room, will feature participation by a number of faculty members, including Duncan Tye, Harry White, Bill Higgins, James F. O'Connor, Bill Latimer, R.S. McMahan, Ed Price, Gordon Mercer, and Gerry Schwartz. INTEREST SURVEY FOR ALL WCU FACULTY AND STAFF NATIONAL FACULTY/STAFF EXCHANGE PROGRAM A nationwide faculty/staff exchange program has recently been established, with headquarters at Indiana-Purdue University in Fort Wayne. (See fact sheet elsewhere in The Reporter.) In order to determine whether there is sufficient interest at WCU to justify the institutional membership fee, we need an indication of how many of our faculty and staff are potential participants. Please complete this form and return it before April 13 to Ben Ward, Instructional Services, Hunter Library. The reverse side is pre-addressed. If you have questions, call Ward at ext. 7197. 1. Yes, I am interested. (Name and department) 2. I would be interested in the following types of exchange activities. (Mark all that apply.) a. Teaching b. Administration c. Observation d. Consulting e. Research f. Other (please explain): 3. I'd prefer an exchange placement at the following institution(s). a. No preference. Many locations would be acceptable. b. My top three choices from list of current & prospective NFE members are (list institution numbers from list in Reporter): 1. 2. 3. c. I prefer an institution not on the current list (please specify). 4. The best time for me to begin an exchange would be the term indicated below: a. Spring 185 b. Summer '85 c. Fall 185 d. 1986 or later e. Anytime 5. I'm likely to be interested in an exchange of the following duration. (Mark one.) a. less than one month b. 1-2 months c. one semester d. summer only e. the academic year f. other (specify) 6. If all other conditions (location, activity, timing, etc.) were appealing, I'd probably be willing to pay the following expenses (assuming that my salary and benefits could be continued by WCU). (Mark all that apply.) a. $15 application fee b. Transportation c. Food d. Housing e. None of the above Ben Ward Instructional Services Hunter Library -3- ANNOUNCEMENTS FACULTY AND STAFF ARE INVITED TO BACKPACK in the nearby mountains April 6-8 on a trip sponsored by the CAP Center. Students are also invited to participate. Call 227-7170 or go by Bird 108 by April 3 to register and obtain more information. RETIREMENT CREDIT: Service credits may be purchased for periods when an employee had interrupted service or approved leave for educational purposes prior to July 1, 1981. Creditable service may be purchased at any time by a member who (1) returned to service within 12 months after completing an educational program, (2) subsequently completed 10 years of membership service, and (3) makes a lump sum payment equal to the full actuarial liabilities created on account of the additional service. For more details, call ext. 7218. THE SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONTEST FOR high school students of French, German, and Spanish will take place in the Grandroom Wednesday, April 4. Faculty and students of the WCU modern foreign language department will host the four events, which begin at 10 a.m. The first event will be a music contest in which the students will sing and dance, the second an art contest, the third a College Bowl contest, and the fourth a contest on reading comprehension in the three languages. Visitors are invited. SELF-HYPNOSIS WILL BE OFFERED ON CAMPUS in April through Continuing Ed. Dr. J. Claude Evans, marriage and family counselor, will teach introductory self-hypnosis Saturday, April 7, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. in 104 Killian, and "Advanced Self-Hypnosis" the following Saturday, April 14, at the same time and place. Each course costs $35 and carries 0.5 CEUs. Hypnosis can help people change undesirable habits to have more contentment, the course description says. A FILM AND LECTURE SERIES ON APPALACHIA begins tonight, March 30, at Warren Wilson College with a program on Cherokee archaeology given by David Moore of the office of North Carolina History and Archives. The five-week series at 7:30 p.m. each Friday in Jensen Lecture Hall on the Swannanoa campus will include programs on mountain music with John and Byard Ray; on the Civil War in WNC with WCU1s Gordon McKinney; and on mountain agriculture, coalmining women, and modernization in the region by Ron Eller, author of Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers , nominated for a Pulitzer. VISITING SCHOLAR AN AUTHORITY ON FRENCH Claire L. Gaudiani will be on campus under the sponsorship of the department of modern foreign languages and the Visiting Scholars Program Monday and Tuesday, April 2-3. The public is invited to hear Dr. Gaudiani speak on "Crisis in American Education—The Case for the Humanities" in McKee 101 at 7 p.m. Monday. Earlier that day, she will visit French classes and talk with students and language faculty. She will speak on "Careers in Foreign Languages" with interested students and on "Writing in Foreign Language Courses" with faculty members. On Tuesday, Dr. Gaudiani is scheduled to confer with a number of humanities faculty members and administrators. A specialist in 17th-century French literature, history, and philosophy of science, she is writing a book on the impact of the scientific revolution on French literature of the 17th century. She is also the author of a book on the cabaret poetry of Thdophile de Viau and another called Teaching Writing in the FLL Curriculum. She has recently completed a third on management and curricular design called Strategies for Development of FLL Programs and has written articles on 17th-century French poetry, foreign language pedagogy, humanities education, and management in higher education. She has held research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Center and received project grants from the NEH, the Exxon Education Foundation, the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations, the Christian Johnson Endeavor Foundation, and the Southern Education Foundation. Dr. Gaudiani taught French at Purdue University, where she won teaching awards, and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 1981. She has served since 1979 on the NEH national board and consults for the Exxon Education Foundation, currently directing the NEH-Exxon project "Strengthening the Humanities through FLL Studies." She has consulted at more than 150 colleges and foreign language departments. She is currently assistant director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at Wharton, where she is involved with curriculum development. NAMES IN THE NEWS CONSTANCE HEAD (History) was a visiting scholar at the University of Delaware March 12-13. She presented two lectures and a seminar session on MJohn Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Assassination," and she took part in the filming of a videotape program on the same subject. DAVIA ALLEN (Home Economics - Child Development and Family Relations) presented the program "Optimizing Unity in Blended Families" for the SACUS (Southern Association on Children under Six) Conference in Lexington, Ky., March 9. LUCY PULS (Art) received a purchase award for a sculpture titled "First Three" in the 12th Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists at the Fayetteville Museum of Art. JIM WALLACE (Biology) has been elected a fellow of the Explorers Club, a selective international professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and scientific exploration in diverse fields. Members include several Nobel Prize winners in such areas as astronomy, biology, biochemistry, and medicine. Dr. Wallace's election was based on his long-term studies of the chemical constituents of plants, specifically relating to fern evolution. The author of more than 80 scientific papers, Wallace has conducted field work in New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Hawaii, and the Arctic tundra. CHERIE LEE (Home Economics) is co-chairman of the Institute of Business Designers Rally to be held April 9-11 in High Point. MICHAEL LEE (also Home Economics) will speak on non-residential design. The 72 WCU students attending will represent the largest student delegation there, and seven have entered the competition to design offices for a large stockbrokerage firm. Several people nationally known in the field will speak at the conference. LOUISE CREED (Hunter Library) attended the annual meeting of the Art Libraries Society, North America (ARLIS/NA) in Cleveland Feb. 19-23. As secretary-treasurer of ARLIS/SE, she met with other regional officers to discuss trends and plans for next year. Ms. Creed and her library colleagues DEBORAH THOMAS and MARY YOUMANS attended a workshop on serials management sponsored by the UNC Library Association in Chapel Hill March 6-7. JIM ADDISON (English) attended a Conference on Writing Assessment, sponsored by the National Testing Network in Writing, at Florida State University in Tallahassee March 7-9. Dr. Addison's participation was funded by a university microgrant. WILLIAM R. LIDH (Art) has submitted slides and brief descriptions of Western's print-making curriculum and artworks for a lecture and workshop, "Teaching Printmaking in the USA," to be held at Amersfoort Academy of Art in Holland during April and May. Western is among a dozen colleges and universities to be included in the presentation by Tom Hammond, University of Georgia art professor. During March, Dr. Lidh has had 16 pastel drawings on exhibit at Louisiana Technical University in Ruston. JAMES B. WOOD (Speech and Theatre Arts) presented "Period Costumes and How to Use Them" at the North Carolina Theatre Tapestry in Asheboro March 24. SUSAN BAUMANN (Hunter Library), a member of the coaching staff of the Balsam Judo League and a teacher of judo in Sylva, Cashiers, and Cherokee, has been appointed to the c ollegiate judo subcommittee of the National Development Committee of United States Judo, Inc., the governing body of the sport in this country. Her committee has as its purpose the research and development of collegiate judo in the U.S. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS J. Karl Nicholas and James R. Nicholl. "Types of Writing," in Writing: Readings and Advice, ed. Enno Klaramer (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984), pp. 125-126. S.R. Gold and S.W. Minor. "School Related Daydreams and Test Anxiety," in Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 3 (1984), 133-138. Finn-Aage Esbensen. "Net Widening? Yes and No: Diversion Impact Assessed through a Systems Processing Rates Analysis," in Juvenile Justice Policy: Analyzing Trends and Outcomes, ed. Scott H. Decker. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1984, pp. 115-128.
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