The Reporter, April 1976

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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. The Reporter April 1,1976 A Weekly Newsletter JLvi for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University WESTERN *TG BEGIN GRANTING BSHS DEGREE Western Carolina University will begin awarding the bachelor of science in health science degree at its spring commencement this June, The new degree program, which was given planning approval by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors in 1973, offers concentrations in two relatively new and rapidly expanding areas of health concern— emergency medical care and environmental health. The heart of the emergency medical care option consists of two courses in emergency medical care, taken when the students are juniors. The courses, which lead to certi­fication as an emergency medical technician, include some 140 contact hours, ten of them in a clinical practicum in the emergency room at C. J. Harris Community Hospital in SyIva. Many schools offer a similar EMT course, often as part of an associate degree program, but program coordinator Garland Pendergraph doesn't know of any other program leading to the BSHS degree. "Our students take a variety of courses designed to expand their knowledge well be­yond what the average EMT would be expected to know," Dr. Pendergraph said. The courses include extra work in anatomy and physiology, psychology, and community health. Students also learn medi­cal ethics and legal considerations, pharmar cology, and environmental diseases. The environmental health science program is intended to prepare students to plan and evaluate programs, supervise subprofessional personnel, and develop standards and methods to improve our environment. The program offers a core of professional health science courses with additional concen­trations in biology, chemistry, geography, geology, sociology, psychology, economics, business law, accounting, or mathematics. Each student will be able to design a person­alized curriculum to suit his own professional development. Program coordinator Charles Schneider said he expects the degree to be of unusual value to students because of the many options available. Dr. Schneider also noted that there is an increasing demand for persons trained in environmental health and that the only other similar program in the state is at East Carolina University. Most employment opportunities are with local and state health agencies, food and drug agencies, and environmental protection and health education agencies. Employment also is available in health care institutions and private industry concerned with industrial health hazards, Dr. Schneider said. The new BSHS degree will be the third degree program offered by the WCU School of Health Sciences and Services, which was organized in 1970. Other programs in the school lead to the bachelor of science in medical record administration and the bachelor of science in medical technology. FORMER SENATOR SAM ERVIN TO SPEAK HERE Former U. S. Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. will speak April 5 at 8:15 p.m.- in the Grand-room of Hinds University Center. The program is sponsored by the Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions Committee, and is free to WCU students and subscription series members of the LCE. Admission will be $2 for others. A native of Morganton, Ervin served in the U. S. Senate from 1954 until his retire­ment in 1974. He is perhaps best known for his role as chairman of the special Senate committee for the Watergate investigations, and has been a consistent champion of First Amendment freedoms. He also served as chairman of the Govern­ment Operations Committee, the Select Committet on Presidential Campaign Activities, and of Senate subcommittees on constitutional rights, separation of powers, revision and codifica­tion of the laws, and others. He was a member of the Judiciary and Armed Services committees, In the Senate Ervin sponsored a consider­able body of legislation, including the -2- Criminal Justice Act of 1964, the Law Enforce­ment Assistance Act of 1965, and the Military Justice Act, Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, and Bill of Rights for American Indians, all in 1968. Before entering the Senate, Ervin served as judge in Burke County Criminal Court and N. C. Superior Court, and as associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and of Harvard Law School, and has been a member of the N. C. Bar since 1919. Ervin has been awarded honorary degrees from 18 American colleges and universities, among them WCU, UNC-CH, George Washington University, and Boston University. He is permanent president of the UNC-CH class of 1917, and has served as a trustee of both UNC-CH and Davidson College. ART EXHIBIT OPENING WILL FEATURE APPALACHIAN CRAFTS AND MUSIC The opening here of a major exhibition featuring photographs by Doris Ulmann and Appalachian coverlets and musical instru­ments will be combined with a three-day series of musical and crafts events celebrat­ing Southern Appalachian culture. The exhibition, which will open Monday, April 5, in the art gallery of Carol Grotnes Belk Building, will run through May 1. It consists of some 63 quilts and coverlets, 20 hand-made musical instruments and a selection of photographs of the region. Three musical events will be held in con­nection with the show's opening. John Jacob Niles, the man Time magazine calls "the dean of American balladiers," will present a con­cert of love songs, nursery rhymes, carols, and ballads Tuesday, April 6, at 8:15 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium. Monday, April 5, from 1 to 4 p.m. Homer C. Ledford of Winchester, Kentucky, will dem­onstrate his dulcimer-carving technique in the Belk foyer. At 7 p.m. Ledford will par­ticipate in a "sing-in" of Appalachian songs in the auditorium in Belk Building. Jean Ritchie, who has been called America's best-known traditional singer, will perform Wednesday, April 7, at 8:15 p.m. in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. An opening reception will be held Wednes­day, April 7, at 6:30 p.m. in the art gallery. Willa Mae Pressley of Cullowhee will give a quilting demonstration before the reception in the Belk foyer, starting, at 6 p.m. Awards totalling $550 will be presented at the recep­tion for the best quilts and coverlets made prior to 1900, from 1900-1970, and since 1970. The makers of the best-made and best-designed musical instruments also will receive awards. The photographs in the exhibition have been selected from the collection of the John C. Campbell Folk School. They were taken throughout the Southern Appalachians during the summers of 1929-1931, when Doris Ulmann and John Jacob Niles toured the mountains, often staying at the Campbell school. The exhibition and related events are sponsored by the WCU Department of Art, with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 2-4 p.m. on Sundays. All of the events are free to the public. CAPC BEGINS COUNSELING SERVICE Raymond S. Ledford, director of the Counseling, Advisement, and Placement Center has announced a temporary plan to provide limited counseling services during the spring quarter, noting that the center has not yet hired its professional staff. Dr. Jim Morrow (Counselor Education) will have four advanced graduate students available for student counseling on a regular basis and will closely supervise their work. The grad­uate students will advise on such problems as vocational or career plans, study habits, and personal and social adjustment problems. The services may be obtained by students through direct contact with the center or by referral from faculty or staff persons. The center's extension telephone number is 170, and persons making referrals have been asked to notify the center at that number. Ledford said the services are available now and urged members of the faculty and staff to help make students aware of them. He said the center hopes to announce by June a more comprehensive and permanent plan for providing counseling services. SENATE NOTES by Cliff Lovin On several occasions in the past, I have alluded to the good job the new committees are doing. In this column, I would like to detail some of this work. It is good news to -J-everyone that one of our most active commit­tees in the past, Building and Grounds, is continuing its work under a new chairperson, Professor Dennis McKevlin. The work being done presently to beautify our campus owes a great deal to this committee which has worked with Mr. Gary Parrott and Mr. Jim Gulp in this endeavor. Another committee which continued to operate during the fall and is now func­tioning under a new chairperson (Professor Charles Schroder) is the LCE Committee. The minutes of the committee feature lively de­bates on the relative value of different kinds of entertainment. The Athletic Committee has already met three times under the chairmanship of Dean Jim Hamilton. They have discussed the Southern Conference application, the new baseball field, and the budget for 1976-77. Other committees which have already been active are Faculty and Staff- Benefits (Professor Fred Hinson, chairperson); Traffic and Security (Professor Pelham Thomas, chairperson); Student Affairs (Professor Gary Poo^, chairperson); Health and Safety (Professor Marjorie Baker, chairperson); Academic Affairs (Ellerd Hulbert, chairperson); Continuing Educa­tion (Professor Patsy Scott, chairperson); Admissions, Readmissions, and Retention (Professor Retha Kilpatrick, chairperson); Library (Professor Eleanor Lofquist, chairperson); and Long Range Planning (Professor Gerald Eller, chairperson). Two committees, which are new to the Senate com­mittee structure, have begun operations— International Programs (Professor Wilma Cosper, chairperson) and Welfare of Experi­mental Subjects (Professor Joel Milner, chairperson). The minutes from the meetings of these committees verify that the operating struc­ture of the faculty governance system is now working and that issues which are im­portant to all of us are being discussed at the committee level. I would encourage any-. one who feels one of these committees should take up any matter should get in touch with the chairperson. It is only as matters are discussed by committees that recommendations to the Senate are developed, and the faculty is really involved in institutional govern­ance. COMING EVENTS Dr. Karl Heider, professor of anthropol­ogy and chairman of the Anthropology Depart­ment at the University of South Carolina, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in Forsyth Auditorium. His topic will be "Sexuality and Energy in a New Guidea Tribe." The lecture will be preceded at 6 p.m. by Gardner and Heiderfs "Dead Birds," a film about tribal warfare ill New Guinea. The presentation, sponsored by the WCU Visiting Scholars Program, is free to the public. The Piedmont Brass Quintet will perform a concert Thursday, April 8, at 8:15 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium. Organized in 1973, the group now includes Mary Lazarus, principal trumpet; John Woolley, trombone; John Sizemore, tuba; Gordon Campbell, French horn; and Ned Gardner, trumpet. The group has performed widely in the Carolinas and beyond, and will make a two-week tour of Italy this summer under the auspices of the North Carolina School of the Arts as part of that institution's summer residency program. The performance is sponsored by the Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions Committee. Admission is free to WCU students and subscrip­tion series members of the LCE, and $1 for others. Dr. Ira Konigsberg, professor of English, who teaches classes on the horror film at the University of Michigan, will speak on the sub­ject, "The Vampire in Film and Literature," Tuesday, April 6, at 7 p.m. in Forsyth Audi­torium. The lecture will be followed by a showing of the 1958 film, "The Horror of Dracula," and a question and answer period. Dr. Konigsberg is the author of two books and numerous articles, and is currently work­ing on "An Anatomy of the Horror Film: A Study in Fear and Anxiety." On April 7 Dr. Konigsberg will discuss narrative technique and Restoration comedy during sessions with WCU faculty members and students. His appearance is sponsored jointly by the WCU Visiting Scholars Program, the English Club, the Department of English, and the Film Conspiracy. There will be no charge for admis­sion. SUGGESTED BICENTENNIAL READING WITH THE FACULTY Titles in this month's American Issues Forum, a Bicentennial reading and discussion program, are as follows: April 4, The American Family—"Little Commonwealth," by John Demos; "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder; "Black,Boy" and "Native Son," by Richard Wright; "A Death in the Family," by James Agee; "Sunrise at Campobello," by Dore Schary; "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "Gather Together in My Name," by Maya Angelou; "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry; and "The Future of the Family," edited by Louise K. Howe. April 11, Education for Work and for Life—"The Peabody Sisters of Salem," by Louise Hall Tharp; "The American University," by Jacques Barzun; "The Catcher in the Rye," by J. D. Salinger; "Growing Up Absurd," by Raul Goodman; "Autobiography of Malcolm X," by Malcolm X and Alex Haley; "Manchild in the Promised Land," by Claude Brown; "Death at an Early Age," by Jonathan Kozol; and "Who Controls American Education?", by James D. Koemer. April 18, "In God We Trust"—"A Religious History of the American People," by Sydney E. Ahlstrom; "Religious America," by Philip Garvin and Julia Welch; "Protestant, Catholic, Jew," by Will Herberg; "Inherit the Wind," by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee; "Law and Attitude Change," by William K. Muir Jr.; "The Secular City," by Harvey Cox; "The Occult Explosion," by Nat Freedland; and "Sun Signs," by Linda Goodman. April 25, A Sense of Belonging—"Roll, Jordan, Roll," by Eugene Genovese; "The Invisible Man," by Ralph Ellison; "A Nation of Strangers," by Vance Packard; "Tally's Corner," by Elliott Liebow; "House Made of Dawn," by N. Scott Momoday; "On Becoming a Person," by Carl Rogers; "Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?", by John Powell; and "Nobody Ever Died of Old Age," by Sharon R. Curtln. Books in the program are available on a special Bicentennial shelf in Hunter Library. CORRECTION "Calendar" for the week of March 28- April 3 incorrectly shows April 2 as the last day to drop a course with a grade of "W". The last day is actually Friday, April 9. Clifford R. Lovin (AIDP) served as a member of the visiting accreditation team for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools for Coastal Carolina College at Con­way, S.C., February 17-20. He also attended a meeting as a member of the Council for Higher Education of the Western North Caro­lina Conference of the United Methodist Church at Pfeiffer College on March 3. Chemistry and physics faculty members have presented the following papers: Hubert L. Youmans, James R. Rush, and Van H. Brown, "Oligomerization of Indoles," Polymer Section, 10th Middle Atlantic Reg­ional meeting, American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, February 25; John J. Manock and Frank Settle, Jr., "Computer-Enhanced- Modules for Freshman Chemistry," Southeast- Southwest ACS Regional Meeting, Memphis, October 29-31, 1975; Ted McElroy and John J. Manock, "Evaluating Multiple-Dimensional Integrals by Statistical Methods," Southeast- Southwest Regional Meeting, October 29-31, 1975; and John J. Manock and Ted Moody, "Teaching Chemo-Physics to Future High School Chemistry-Physics Teachers," The First Chemi­cal Congress of the North American Continent, Mexico City, November 30-December 5, 1975. Bob Mason (Health Sciences) has been appointed to the Advisory Committee of the North Carolina Project on Child Abuse and Neglect. The Project, headquartered in Chapel Hill, has developed a series of con­ferences throughout the state to increase awareness of the problem. Plans for a symposium in southwestern North Carolina are underway. Steve Mirman (Speech and Hearing Center) attended a health services council meeting for the Macon County Program for Progress Headstart on March 23. He also attended the N. C. Speech, Hearing and Language Association meeting March 25-27, and chaired a session on new diagnostic techniques in audiology. Gary White and Steve Yurkovich (Earth Sciences) attended the Geological Society of America joint Northeast-Southeast meeting March 24-28 in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. White presented a paper "Some Observations on the Origin of Rock Glaciers," and Dr. Yurko­vich presented a paper entitled "The Petrology of the Corundum Hill Alpine Peridotite." GOVERNORS APPROVE LONG-RANGE PLAN THAT INCLUDES NEW SCHOOLS, DEGREE PROGRAMS FOR WCU Authorization to establish a School of Technology and Applied Science was given Western Carolina University by the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina at its April 2 meeting. Western Carolina also was authorized to reconstitute its School of Health Sciences and Services as the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. The moves are part of a comprehensive statewide long-range plan for higher education approved by the Board of Governors at a meeting in Chapel Hill. The University also was authorized to plan two new master's degree programs—art and art education—and a new undergraduate education degree—special learning disabilities. The long-range plan projects an authorized enrollment at WCU by 1980-81 of 7,220 full-time equivalent students, which would mean a head count of approximately 8,500. The enroll­ment projection is subject to annual evaluation. The new School of Technology and Applied Science will include the present departments of industrial education and technology and home economics. The Board of Governors1 plan said the action will "establish a more appropriate admin­istrative organization.and will aid the institution in its efforts to develop a more effective working relationship with the state's community college system." The present industrial education and technology program will be transferred from the School of Arts and Sciences and the home economics program from the School of Education and Psychology to form the nucleus of the new school. In the reconstitution of nursing and health sciences to form a School of Nursing and Health Sciences, the present nursing program will move from the School of Arts and Sciences to join with programs now being offered by the School of Health Sciences and Services. Development of a technology and applied science school has been a major objective of Dr. H. F. Robinson since he became WCU chancellor in 1974. A proposal to create a broadly-based technology program to serve Western North Carolina won federal endorsement last year when a $1.7 million institutional development grant was awarded to WCU by the U. S. Office of Education. Part of the grant will help support the school during its first years. Dr. Robinson said the new school will greatly enhance the effort of the university to stay in the forefront of rapid changes in the field of technology and home economics related areas. "Such a school," he said, "will increase educational and career opportunities for all of the students and contribute to the total advancement of the mountain region. As a con­stituent institution of the university system, we intend for Western Carolina to continue -2- its pioneering efforts in helping students to realize their full potential. As a result of the new school, students will have a better opportunity for exploration of meaningful careers in industry, home, and community." Western now offers industrial education and technology courses in a wide variety of fields including woods, drafting, design, metals, power mechanics, electricity-electronics, ceramics, crafts, photography, printing, construction, and industrial plastics. Industrial arts education is a four-year degree program for preparation of Industrial arts teachers. Industrial technology is a four-year program for special training in business, management, and Industrial processes. The present department also offers a master's degree in industrial education. The present home economics offers specialized instruction in general home economics, clothing and textiles, child development and family relations, foods and nutrition, home ec education, interior design, housing and equipment, family economics and management. Dr. Robinson said the new school will consider expanded or new programs that could Include construction, electronics technology, mechanical engineering technology, clothing and textile merchandising, and nutrition and dietetics technology will be developed. A major mission of the school also will be to provide continuing education programs in both technology and home economics at several off-campus locations. Purdue University will provide technical assistance and guidance to the new school. Purdue advisers have begun work with WCU to assist in the formulation and operation of the new school identifying outstanding professors from Purdue or other universities who will serve as visiting professors at Western. They will help with program development, workshop and mini-course instruction, and faculty improvement seminars. The technology programs also will provide advanced training for industrial personnel. To assist graduates of technology programs from two-year technical institutions throughout the state, the University, Dr. Robinson said, will expand offerings in the various areas of technology so that those students, "can follow a baccalaureate degree pro­gram which will help supply the needs of business and industry for technically proficient middle management personnel." Dr. Robinson said the strengths of the two-year institutions, complemented by the broad technology program at WCU, "will constitute a unique arrangement to meet the needs of the population in and beyond the University's primary service area." Dr. Robinson said that development of a major technology and applied science program at WCU "will support the broad mission of the institution. The establishment of this new school is long overdue in a region where so much technology is evident and in a University that has long placed emphasis on certain aspects of technology and home economics." The new organization for nursing and health sciences is the result of a period of study and consultation under way at WCU for the past year. The new structure, Dr. Robinson said, will provide a single administrative unit for all health-related programs at WCU "without sacrificing any concentration and focus of each of the existing programs. This structure should allow us to grow with programs, students, faculty, and services in a manner that would not otherwise have been possible." The new school will offer degrees in nursing, medical record administration, medical technology, and health sciences. Dr. Robinson said the combination of the degree programs under one school should result in "less duplication of effort and greater economy and should enable the Institution to develop greater effectiveness and efficiency in its cooperative arrangements with hospitals and clinics in which students take clinical training. "In my opinion," he said, "this move by WCU will be most important in enabling us to more effectively cooperate with the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) in Asheville and provide the educational program so necessary in the expansion of the health services in this area. Continuing and strengthening the already close working relationship with AHEC should further advance the educational programs in nursing and health sciences on both the Western Carolina campus at Cullowhee and in the Asheville area. Establishment of the school should lead to much closer cooperation with all of the agencies involved including AHEC, the hospitals in Asheville and throughout the western region, and Western Carolina and the University of North Carolina in Asheville." The plan states that "Western Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Asheville shall cooperate in the future development of the baccalaureate program in nurs­ing offered by Western Carolina University and in future planning of health education programs. These cooperative arrangements will serve to strengthen programs in both institu­tions and to provide more effective educational opportunities to citizens in the Asheville area." Dr. Robinson said that steps toward organizing the two new schools will begin immediately. Each school will be headed by a dean, and advisory committees to assist the Chancellor in their selection have been appointed. Professor Patsy Scott (Marketing) will serve as chairman of a committee to engage in a search for the new dean of the school of technology and applied science. Other members of the committee are Maynard Adams (head, Industrial Education and Technology), Wilma Cosper (Home Economics), John McCrone (dean, Arts and Sciences), Arnold Nielsen (Industrial Education and Technology), Joyce Shaw (Home Economics). Also, Ronald Blackley, Martha Lentz, and Jane Smith, all WCU students; and W. L. Christy (Northwestern Bank), Harvey Haynes (A-B Technical Institute), Jeff Muskrat (Cherokee Indian Agency), Arnold Robinson (Dayco Corp.), and Dave Robinson (Square D Co.). Royce Woosley (head, Chemistry) will head the search committee for the school of nursing and health sciences. Other members of that committee are Cal Chandler (VA Hospital, Oteen), Clatie Collins (Health Sciences and Services), Joe Creech (Academic Services), Sharon Farley (Nursing), Helen Hartshorn (Health, Physical Education and Recreation), Don Morgan (C. J. Harris Hospital), Rebecca Pitts (Nursing), Hoyt Ponder (Developmental Evaluation Center), Martha White (Nursing), Sister Jeanne McNally (General Administration consultant), and-Ruth Finch, Judith Coyle, and Marcia Westhoff, all WCU students. ARSON SUSPECTED IN JOYNER FIRE Authorities are investigating the possi­bility of arson in a fire that damaged Joyner Building late Tuesday night. The fire, which was confined to a paper storage area on the building's ground floor, was responsible for several thousand dollars' damage, according to university officials. Some university records stored nearby were apparently undamaged. Students working in the building sounded the alarm after smelling smoke at about 11:10 p.m. Volunteer fire departments from Cullo­whee and Sylva fought the fire for about two hours before extinguishing it. A broken window at the scene of the fire and a scorched bulletin board in another part of the building prompted university officials to call in the State Bureau of Investigation to help determine the cause of the fire. Built in 1913, Joyner is the university's oldest building. It houses the WCU Office of Traffic and Security, student publications offices, and part of the university's music department. FACULTY TO ELECT OFFICERS, DELEGATE Faculty officers will be elected here Tuesday, April 13. Nominees for the position of chairman of the faculty, the highest elected office cm the campus, are June Benson (Health, Physical Edu­cation and Recreation), Alice T. Mathews (History), and Thomas Pickering (Elementary Education). Nominees for the position of secretary of the faculty are Gary Pool (Chemistry), Jane Schulz (Curriculum and Instruction), and Judith Stillion (Psychology). Faculty members also will be electing one delegate to the Faculty Assembly of the Univer­sity of North Carolina system. Nominees are Andrew Baggs (Political Science), Guy Burch-fiel (head, Administration and School Personnel), and Wilma Cosper (head, Home Economics). COMING EVENTS Dr. Justine Rozier, extension family resource management specialist from N. C. State University, will conduct an educational meeting on the subject of estate planning April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 104 of Carol Grotnes Belk Building at Western Carolina University. The program, which is open to the public, will present basic information about the con­cept of estate planning. It has been scheduled by the Jackson County Agricultural Extension Office in coop­eration with the WCU Department of Home Eco­nomics . Dr. Nathan Azrin, president of the Asso­ciation for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, will speak at 8 p.m. April 12 in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center on the topic, "Recent Behavior Therapy Developments in the Treatment of Retardation, Alcoholism, Unemployment and Marriage Conflicts." A graduate of Boston University, Dr. Azrin served as research assistant under B.F. Skinner at Harvard University in the mid-1950s, working with aversive conditioning, teaching machines and programmed instruction. With Skinner, he was instrumental in founding the "Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior," and subsequently became chief editor of that publication. Dr. Azrin has served as president of division 25 of the American Psychological Association and president of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, and is currently president-elect of the Midwestern Psychological Association. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Contribu­tion for Application in Psychology Award for 1975. His lecture, which is sponsored by the WCU Visiting Scholars Program, is *free to the public. Dr. G. Ledyard Stebbins, eminent plant evolutionist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Davis, will speak at 8:15 p.m. April 12 in Forsyth Auditorium. Dr. Stebbins holds the bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees from Harvard and formerly taught there and at Colgate before joining the department of genetics at UC-Davis in 1935. Dr. Stebbins will speak on the subject, "An Evolutionist Looks at the Future of Man­kind." He will deliver a second address at 8:15 p.m. April 14 in Forsyth Auditorium on "Chromosomes, DNA, and Plant Evolution." Both appearances are open to the public without admission charge. Dr. Stebbins has a worldwide reputation in the field of plant genetics. He is a former secretary-general of the Interna­tional Union of Biological Sciences and is a former president of the American Society of Naturalists, the Botanical Society of America, and the Society for the Study of Evolution, and has been a leader in the National Academy of Science, the Genetics Society of America, and the American Philo­sophical Society. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science and the Leopoldine German Academy for Researchers of Natural Science. There will be an open house honoring Dr. and Mrs. Taft Botner April 13 at 3 p.m. in Killian 218. All faculty and staff mem­bers are invited to attend. Ambrose Braselton, coordinator of physical education for the Ohio State Department of Public Instruction, will address the WCU Physical Education Majors Club April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Reid Gymna­sium. The meeting, which is open to the public, will include a talking demonstration on participation in physical education. Braselton's visit is sponsored by the WCU Visiting Scholars Program. He also will meet with physical education classes April 13-15 to discuss health education, physical education for the mentally retarded, motiva­tion, and curriculum. The Reporter April 20, 1976 A Weekly Newsletter aJL» for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University THREE COORDINATORS NAMED TO STAFF OF CAP CENTER The Counseling, Advisement and Place­ment Center (CAPC) at Western Carolina University—part of a five-year, $1.7 million federal grant awarded to WCU last year—has moved a step nearer full opera­tion with the appointment of coordinators of counseling services, academic advisement, and student placement. The three are Dr. Thomas Westcott, coordinator for counseling, Dr. Marilyn Jody, coordinator for academic advisement, and Larry Bixby, coordinator for placement. Their appointments were announced by Chan­cellor H. F. Robinson. Dr. Westcott will be responsible for beginning a comprehensive program of coun­seling services, and will supervise four full-time counselors. Currently assistant professor of counselor education at Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Westcott holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from that institution, where he has taught since 1972. He has served as consultant to the Pennsyl­vania vocational rehabilitation and employ­ment security bureaus. He is a member of the American Person­nel and Guidance Association, the American College Personnel Association, and the American Psychological Association, and has published articles dealing with drug abuse prevention. Dr. Jody is now a WCU associate profes­sor of English. As coordinator for academic advisement, she will work closely with admissions, orientation, registration, and academic affairs offices, and will super­vise a full-time advisor and between 10 and 12 part-time faculty advisors. She also will oversee the university's tutorial services and remedial programs. Dr. Jody served as editor of the WCU self-study during 1972-74, and was chair­man of the Inauguration and First Founders Day committee in 1974. She is a former vice chairman of the University of North Carolina Faculty Assem­bly, and has served as secretary, executive committee member, and chairman of the consti­tution and rules committee of the WCU Faculty Senate. She also has served on numerous university committees. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Dr. Jody holds the Ph.D. from Indiana Univer­sity, and has taught at UNC-Charlotte and the University of Alaska. Bixby will have major responsibility for career planning, and will establish a program of career instruction and a career library at WCU. A former placement advisor and assistant to the associate dean of students at the Uni­versity of Georgia, Bixby holds bachelor's and master's degrees from that institution. At Georgia he helped to create a career counseling center and taught job hunting skills in a career development course. He also has produced handbooks and slide presen­tations on job hunting. Bixby is a former headmaster at Surry County Academy in Virginia and Cleveland Day School in Tennessee. The three coordinators will report to the CAPC director, Raymond Ledford. GOVERNANCE DOCUMENTS APPROVED The University's basic governance docu­ments, on which faculty committees and admin­istrative officials have worked for many months, have been approved by the General Ad­ministration and Board of Governors of the UNC system. The tenure and promotion policy was approved by the Board of Governors at its April 2 meeting. Copies of this document will be placed in the offices of department heads and deans and in the library. The Constitution and bylaws, as presented to the general faculty on April 25, 1975, also have been approved in Chapel Hill. Speaking of the approvals, Chancellor Robinson said "we are very happy that these important documents have been approved and that we now have a clear set of policies under which to work. I especially want to thank Professor Ed Nelson and his com­mittee for their work on the tenure and promo­ -2- tion policy and Dr. Jody and her committee for their work on the constitution and by­laws ." NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY TO PERFORM The North Carolina Symphony, under the baton of John Gosling, will perform April 29 at 8:15 p.m. in Reid Gymnasium. The program will include Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture "Romeo and Juliet," "Escales" ("Ports of Call") by Ibert and "Symphony No. 5" by Shostakovich. The program is sponsored by the WCU Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions Com-mfttee. Admission is free to WCU students and subscription series members of the LCE, $3 for other adults, and $1.50 for students. INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES DIRECTOR NAMED Kenneth L. Wood, associate registrar at the University of California at San Diego, has begun duties at WCU as director of institutional studies and planning. A graduate of Louisiana State Univer­sity, from which he also holds the master's degree, Wood formerly was an assistant registrar and instructor at LSU. Wood also previously was a data processing consultant to the College Entrance Examination Board and a marketing representative with IBM. Wood reports to Chancellor H. F. Robinson and is responsible for coordinat­ing a range of activities involved in institutional planning. He has been placed in charge of institutional space allocations and long-range planning. The Computer Center reports to him, and currently a search is under way for a new director of the center. Wood served in the U. S. Navy five years and holds the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve. MATH CONTEST ATTRACTS RECORD NUMBERS More than 550 students from 43 WNC junior and senior high schools will take part in WCU's sixth annual High School Mathematics Contest, to be held April 29 in Hoey Auditor­ium. The students will compete for top honors in four contest divisions—algebra I, geom­etry, algebra II, and comprehensive. The five highest-scoring contestants in each division will be awarded certificates of merit, and plaques will be presented to the three senior high schools and one junior high school whose students earn the highest average scores. In addition, Chancellor H. F. Robinson will present scholarship awards to the top winners in the senior level comprehensive division who elect to attend WCU as freshmen. The contest awards presentation, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium, is open to the public. This year's contest has attracted the largest number of schools and students since the Department of Mathematics began sponsor­ing the event in 1971. Fifty-four mathematics teachers will accompany the contestants to the campus for the contest. Contest chairman is Ralph Willis, WCU assistant professor of mathematics. DR. GARNER TO GIVE FORSYTH LECTURE Dr. S. Paul Garner, dean emeritus of the College of Commerce and Business Administra­tion of the University of Alabama, will pre­sent the annual Forsyth lecture April 21 at 7 p.m. in the Forsyth Auditorium. His topic will be "Current Developments in International Business," and the lecture will be open to the public and to students. Dr. Garner is a past president of both the American Accounting Association and the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, and has served as the U.S. delegate to the International Congress on Management 16 times and to the International Congress on Accounting eight times. He has conducted special educational assignments in several countries for the U.S. State Department, the U. S. Council for Inter­national Progress in Management, and the Inter­national Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Forsyth lecture series was started at the dedication of the School of Business build­ing in 1971. The late Mr. W. Frank Forsyth, for whom the building was named, was a promi­nent banker and public figure in western North Carolina until his death in 1970. Dr. Garner's visit is sponsored by the WCU Visiting Scholars Program. SPIDER EXPERTS TO SPEAK Two leading authorities on spiders will lecture here later this month as part of the Visiting Scholars Program. They are Dr. Herbert W. Levi, Alexander Agassiz professor at Harvard University and curator of arachnids at the Museum of Compara­ -3- tive Zoology, and Dr. Raymond Forster, director of the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand. Dr. Levi will give an illustrated lecture on the biology of spiders, "Life on a Thread," at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 27, in the Cherokee Room of Hinds Univer­sity Center. He also will present a seminar on his current studies of the taxonomy of orb weaving spiders at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, in the faculty Lounge of the University Center. Following Dr. Levi's Wednesday after­noon presentation, Dr. Forster will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the lounge on "Southern Hemisphere Spiders." Dr. Levi is well known as a scien­tific writer and has published more than 100 articles on the taxonomy and evolution of spiders. Dr. Forster currently is spending a research leave in Dr. Levi's laboratory at Harvard and is a world authority on the spider fauna of the southern Pacific region and is completing a multi-volume monograph on the spiders of New Zealand. The appearance of the two scientists is sponsored by the Visiting Scholars Pro­gram and the Department of Biology. All of the sessions are open to interested persons without admission charge. SENATE NOTES by Cliff Lovin One committee, in which the faculty always seems to be interested, has been very busy lately. Within one week in March, the Admissions, Rentention, and Readmissions Committee (Professor Retha Kilpatrick, chair­person) met three times for a total of 14 hours and 15 minutes. The last meeting was for a marathon eight hours. They reviewed 46 petitions for readmission (half of which were denied) and acted on a new retention policy. Very often we fail to appreciate how much effort and time some of our col­leagues put into their committee assignment. The members of this committee deserve our appreciation for their commitment and hard work. We are in the midst of the first regu­lar elections held under the new Constitution. I would like to report for the Committee on Nominations, Elections, and Committees (CONEC) that all persons, except one, nominated for these positions and the ones to be voted on the following week accepted the nominations. This represents, I believe, a real sense of interest in and responsibility for faculty governance which will make next year the best year we have ever had. The next Faculty Senate meeting will be on April 21. The major issue of that meeting will concern the general education require­ment under the semester system. A general faculty meeting has now been scheduled for May 5. At that time, the Chancellor will report on the budget and the long range plan which was recently approved by the Board of Governors. Other items will probably be added when the Executive Committee of the General Faculty meets to prepare the agenda. If you would like to suggest agenda items, please let me know. NEWS BRIEFS Larry Terango (director, Speech and Hearing Center) will speak here April 20 at a Continuing Medical Education meeting for phy­sicians in the State of Franklin area. The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in Moore Hall and is one of a series of Continuing Medical Education meetings for physicians held the third Tuesday of each month under the joint sponsorship of the Mountain Area Health Educa­tion Center and the WCU School of Health Sciences and Services. Dr. Terango's subject at the April meeting will be "Speech, Hearing, and Learning Dis­orders ." Walton R. Teague of Elon College has been elected 1976-77 president of the Student Government Association. Teague serves on the student advisory com­mittee to the Chancellor and is president pro tern of the Student Senate. Formerly, he was president of the University Center Board. Teague will be sworn in May 24. As stu­dent president, he also will become an ex officio voting member of the WCU Board of Trustees. The Department of Speech and Theatre Arts has completed its second annual children's tour. This year's production was "The Stolen Prince," by Dan Totheroh. The tour was set up to perform at elemen­tary schools in the area. This year the tour­ing show was performed at Fairview, Pisgah, Bethel, Candler, Pisgah Forest, and Brevard -4- Elementary Schools. The performances were well received by all audiences. The play also was performed on the WCU campus March 28 for children in the univer­sity community. The Personnel Office has announced the i implementation of a new (SPA) staff orien­tation program involving the use of color slides and sound to portray employment and fringe benefit situations at the University. The orientation of new (SPA) staff employees for February and March was delayed until this new orientation program could be fully developed and implemented. There will be a general faculty meeting May 5 at 4 p.m. in the Grandroom of Hinds i University Center. Two Cullowhee residents were among the ! winners in the exhibition of Appalachian coverlets now on display in the art gallery in Belk Building. Josephina Niggli won a $50 prize for a velvet quilt made before 1900, and Juanita Eller received an honorable mention for her 1972 quilt depicting the flora and fauna of Southern Appalachia. The show, which includes musical in­struments and photographs by Doris Ulmann, will remain on display through May 1. TUBA OR NOT TUBA? A new Western North Carolina chapter of the Tubist's Universal Brotherhood Associa­tion (TUBA) has been organized on the WCU campus. According to the group's members, TUBA is a worldwide fraternal organization of tuba and euphonium players dedicated to advancing the image and literature of the tuba and to helping to unite the efforts of tuba players and enthusiasts. Faculty ad­viser is William Bryant, WCU assistant director of bands. The group's first project will be a symposium for high school and college tuba and euphonium players and band directors, to be held at WCU May 21-22. WITH THE FACULTY Bert Wiley (Music) attended the national convention of the Music Teachers National Association March 28-April 1 in Dallas, Texas. Wiley is the current president of the North Carolina Music Teachers Association. Max Williams (History) was one of the speakers in "The American Experiment," a series of bicentennial forums sponsored by the Bicentennial Committee of the N. C. Library Association and the N. C. Humanities Committee. Dr. Williams lectured on "The American Reality" March 9 at the Transylvania County courthouse, March 16 at the Haywood County courthouse, and March 23 at the Nanta-hala Regional Public Library in Murphy. Jeffrey W. Neff (Earth Sciences) attended the 21st annual meeting of the Midcontinent American Studies Association March 26 and 27 at Lake-of-the-Ozarks, Missouri. The program theme focused upon the history, cultures, and peoples of the American mountain regions; Dr. Neff served as chairman of the Conference's opening session, "Culture and Identity in the Southern Highlands." Michael Jones (Philosophy and Religion) has been awarded a grant of $1,000 by the Council for Philosophical Studies to partici­pate in an Institute on the History of Ameri­can Philosophy at Haverford College in Penn­sylvania, June 27-Aug. 6. John McFadden (Curriculum & Instruction) represented WCU at the N. C. Learning Resources Association's spring conference in Burlington March 24-26. Dr. McFadden participated in a panel discussion on the topic of "Higher Edu­cation Inservice Training for Community Colleges." Bob Mason (Health Sciences) has been appointed to the Emergency Medical Services Council of Western North Carolina, a group which provides assistance and encouragement for the development of comprehensive emergency services throughout WNC. Robert Stoltz (vice-chancellor, Academic Affairs) spoke on "What Does Quality Education Really Mean?" at a luncheon meeting of the College Board Workshop Sessions for North Carolina Educators in Greensboro March 29. Nancy Joyner (English) served as a visit­ing scholar at Old Dominion University March 18-19. While there, she presented lectures on "Federalist Feminists" and the attitude toward women in the novels of Faulkner and Hemingway. The Reporter April 30, 1976 A Weekly Newsletter amam for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University WCU TO OFFER ARMY ROTC THIS FALL Approval has been granted for establish­ment of an Army Reserve Officers1 Training Corps program at WCU, it has been announced by Brigadier General James F. Cochran III, commander of the First ROTC Region, and WCU Chancellor H. F. Robinson. The program initially will be estab­lished as an extension center of the Clemson University ROTC detachment and will begin registering cadets this spring for the 1976 fall quarter. The program will be a collegiate course of study that complements any academic major selected by a student. It will be open to both men and women who are enrolled as full-time students. The Army ROTC program is divided into a Basic Course and an Advanced Course. The Basic Course, which will be offered at WCU starting in the fall, is taken during the freshman and sophomore years. During this time, a student is under no military obligation. Instruction during these first two years introduces ROTC cadets to manage­ment principles, national defense, military history, leadership development, military courtesy, discipline, and customs. After completing the Basic Course, WCU students will become eligible to enroll in the Advanced Course for their junior and senior years provided they have demonstrated officer potential and meet Army physical standards. Academic credit will be granted for all Army ROTC academic course work. A WCU grad­uate who also successfully completes the ROTC program will earn a degree in a regular academic field of study and an officer's commission in the Army. Capt. Fred Brown of the Clemson ROTC detachment will be on the campus May 3-7, the week of academic advisement to discuss the ROTC program with interested students. Capt. Brown will have a display table at Hinds University Center and will be avail­able throughout the week for discussions with students. He also plans to be on the campus during pre-registration for fall quar­ter, May 11-13. At other times, further information on the program is available from Joe Creech (director, Academic Services) in Bird 209, or John Bell (History). FACULTY SENATE CALLS FOR 16% RAISE A resolution calling for a 16 per cent across-the-board pay hike for faculty members at North Carolina's state-supported universi­ties has been approved by the Faculty Senate. The resolution calls on University of North Carolina President William Friday, WCU Chancellor H. F. Robinson, and UNC-Asheville Chancellor William Highsmith to campaign with the General Assembly for the increase. The resolution thanks the university ad­ministrators for their roles in assisting passage of the recently approved bond issue for capital improvements in the UNC system. "Whereas the development and improvement of faculty quality is also essential in the future development of higher education in N.C.," it says, the Senate urges Drs. Friday, Robinson, and Highsmith "to put forth their power and persuade the General Assembly to grant the faculty an across-the-board salary increase of at least 16 per cent." The resolution states that faculty sala­ries have dropped at least 16 per cent in real purchasing power in the past two years. It also notes that the central adminis­tration under President Friday "organized and conducted a statewide media campaign" in sup­port of the bond referendum, and that Chancellors Robinson and Highsmith worked for passage of the bond issue in the western part of the state. Faculty members and other state employees received their last pay raise in July, 1974. Most legislative discussions on a pay raise thus far have centered around a possible five per cent increase, effective July 1. The resolution was introduced by Salva-tore Nerboso (Political Science.) -2- AWARDS FOR SUPERIOR TEACHING ANNOUNCED Two new awards to recognize and encour­age superior teaching at WCU have been announced by Chancellor H. F. Robinson. The Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award will be granted to three faculty mem­bers who have served at WCU more than two years and who are nominated by both faculty colleagues and students. Nominations for this year's awards have been received from students and faculty members and are now being studied. Each award will consist of $250 in cash, a $250 Patrons of Quality Scholarship to be awarded in the name of the disting­uished teacher, and a $500 allowance to be used by the honoree to increase his teaching effectiveness. The Vice Chancellor's Instructional Improvement Grants will be used to support projects designed to improve the quality and effectiveness of instruction in a course or group of courses. The grants, to be awarded by Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Robert E. Stoltz, may be used to purchase supplies or equipment, acquire part-time help, or sup­port travel. Up to four such grants may be made each year, in response to proposals submitted to Dr. Stoltz. Deadline for this year's proposals is May 15. Award recipients will be announced at WCU's annual awards dinner June 5. REMINDER There will be a general faculty meeting May 5 at 4 p.m. in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING? The University maintains an automatic-answering telephone with a recorded message about selected activities on campus each week. You can find out what's going on by dialing extension 421 or, from an off-campus telephone, 293-7421. GRADUATE TEXTBOOK SYSTEM CHANGED An administrative change in the Univer­sity's textbook distribution system will have an impact on faculty members who teach graduate courses. The old Book Exchange has become the Book Rental Department of the University Book and Supply Store, formerly known as the University Supply Store. Faculty members teaching 5000 and 6000 level courses this fall and in the future should place their orders for textbooks with the University Book and Supply Store, where graduate students will purchase their books. There will be no change in the procedure for graduate students taking 4000 level courses. COMPUTER CENTER ADVISORS NAMED A 12-member Computer Center advisory com­mittee has been named by Chancellor H. F. Robinson. Kenneth Wood, director of institutional studies and planning, is chairman of the new committee. Members are James A. Ballard, Mrs. Clatie Collins, Joseph Creech, Glenn Hardesty, Dr. James Hunter, Dr. Aaron Hyatt, Dr. Charles Martin, Clyde Martin, John McCracken, and Dr. Ermel Stepp. The director of the computer center will serve as an ex officio member of the new group and will be its executive secretary. Currently, Dr. Larry Morton is serving as acting director of the center. Dr. Robinson said the committee will be concerned with general operating procedures, computer hardware, projects and priorities for work to be accomplished on the computer, and establishment of general policies concern­ing the center. COMING EVENTS Dr. James Ashely Donaldson, originally scheduled to speak here April 12-13, will give two separate lectures on Monday and Tuesday, May 3-4 in Stillwell 309. Dr. Donaldson, chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Howard University, will speak at 4 p.m. Monday on "Semigroup Methods in Applied Mathematics and Differential Equations" and at 11 a.m. Tuesday on "Elementary Perturba­tion Theory and Asymptotic Analysis." Both lectures, sponsored by the Visiting Scholars Program, are free to the public. Dr. Donald P. Ely, professor of education and director of the Center for the Study of Information and Education at Syracuse Univer­sity, will speak at 7 p.m. May 6 in Forsyth Auditorium. -3- His topic will be "Instructional System for the Secondary and College Classroom." Dr. Ely received his undergraduate degree from State University College for Teachers in Albany (N.Y.) and his master's degree in education and Ph.D. degree in communications and psychology from Syracuse University. A member of the Syracuse University faculty since 1956, Dr. Ely also has served as visiting professor at the University of Colorado and Arizona State University, and as Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the Univer­sity of Chile, Santiago, Chile and Fulbright Professor at Consejo Nacional de la Univer-sidad Peruana, Lima, Peru. He has served as consultant to several agencies of the U.S. Office of Education and to numerous colleges and universities in the U.S. in the areas of definition terminology, learning space design and nontraditional study in higher education. The author of several books including "The Changing Role of the Audiovisual Pro­cess in Education: A Definition and Glos­sary of Related Terms" and "Technology- Education," he also has published widely in educational journals. He serves on the editorial boards of "British Journal of Educational Technology" and "Education." The lecture, sponsored by the Visiting Scholars Program, is open to the public without charge. A faculty recital of flute and piano music will be presented by Alexander Lesueur and Richard Renfro at 8:15 p.m. May 6 in Hoey Auditorium. The program will include flute works by Cyril Scott, Demersseman, Borne, Godard, Doppler and Robert McBride. Dr. Renfro will perform a group of piano rags by Scott Joplin and James Scott. Dr. Lesueur, a former member of the Atlanta Symphony, holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan. He has been an associate pro­fessor of music at WCU since 1968. Dr. Renfro, who holds the doctorate from Columbia University, joined the WCU faculty in 1950. He served for 15 years as head of the department of music. The recital is open to the public without charge. WITH THE FACULTY On Friday, March 5, R. M. Rigdon (Admin­istration and School Personnel) spoke to a gathering of Christian School Administrators in Atlanta on the topic "Preparing High School Students for College." Tom 0'Toole (History) conducted the African section of a two-day workshop on the teaching of world history for the Department of History at Appalachian State University, March 26 and 27. Lewis Suggs (History) delivered a paper entitled "P. B. Young and the Lily Black Movement of the 1920s" to the Virginia Social Science Association at Christopher Newport College of William and Mary in Newport News, Virginia, on April 3. Larry Terango (director, Speech and Hear­ing Center) was invited to attend the recent North Carolina Conference on Children in Raleigh sponsored by Lt. Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr., Secretary of Human Resources David T. Glaherty and the North Carolina Medical Society. Guy Burchfiel, (head, Administration and School Personnel) has returned from a ten-day trip to Colombia where he served as an admin­istrative consultant to American schools in Barranquilla, Cartagena, Medellin and Bogota. The consulting service was provided under the auspices of the Southern Association of Col­leges and Schools' Latin America committee of which Dr. Burchfiel is a member. Fifty-one WNC school administrators attended a weekend retreat April 2-3 at Wolf Laurel. Funded by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the retreat was sponsored by the WCU Department of Administration and School Personnel and coordinated by Joe Walters, Mil Clark, and Guy Burchfiel (Admin­istration and School Personnel). Tom 0'Toole (History) presented a talk entitled "African and American Misconception of Africa" at an African dinner held at the I Intercultural Center of Warren Wilson College April 9. -4- Ermel Stepp (Administration and School Personnel) presented a paper, "Policy Deci­sion Systems in Educational Research and Development: Criteria for Design Adequacy," at the Joint National Meeting of the Opera­tions Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences in Philadelphia April 1. Charles Stevens (Political Science) presented a paper entitled "The Use and Control of Executive Agreements" at the annual Peace Science Society meeting at Duke University. He also presented a paper at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association at East Carolina University April 9. Perry Kelly and Ray Menze (Art) attended the National Art Education Asso­ciation's annual conference in St. Louis, April 11-14 during which Dr. Kelly served on a panel for a discussion on "Content in Art Education." Dr. Kelly has recently been elected to serve on the board of directors of the North Carolina Alliance for the Arts in Education and attended a board meeting for NCAAE in Durham April 14-15. He also recently assisted in jurying the Elementary and Secondary Art Exhibition for Buncombe County Public Schools and has been awarded a certificate for outstanding service for his continued service to Buncombe County Schools. Lewis Suggs (History) read a paper titled "P. B. Young, John Mitchell and the Lily Black Movement of the 1920s" at the Behavioral Sclehce Conference in Washington, D.C.WApril 25-26. Sal Nerboso (Political Science) addressed the residents of Carolina Village in Hendersonville on "Congress and the Presidency" April 15. Barbara Mann (Student Development) attended the Southern Regional Orientation Workshop April 8-9 at Memphis State Univer­sity and served on the Planning Committee for the 1976 National Orientation Directors Conference. Laurence French (Sociology and Anthro­pology) presented "The Role of Baptist Fundamentalism among Three Racial Groups (Cherokees, Blacks, and Mountain Whites) in Southern Appalachia"; and (with Max White), "The Eastern Cherokees and the Archaeologist: The 'Vulture Culture' Confronted" at the an­nual meetings of the Southern Anthropological Society in Atlanta. Dr. Hugh A. Matthews (University Health Services) addressed the Waynesville Rotary Club April 16. Donald L. Loeffler (head, Speech and Theatre Arts) attended the quarterly Board of Directors meeting of the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Greensboro April 24-25. Dr. Loeffler is Administrative Vice President of SETC. Kathleen S. Carr (Speech and Theatre Arts) was elected President of the North Carolina Forensic Association at the NCFA State Tourna­ment in Raleigh April 24-25. Bert Wiley (Music) served as chairman of the North Carolina Music Educators Association Western District Piano Festival on April 10. Judge for the event was Lance Flowers of Bob Jones University. Harold Westlake (Speech and Hearing, retired) spoke at a banquet at the annual con­vention of the N.C. Speech, Hearing, and Language Association in Greensboro March 25-27. Mary Louise Woerl and Steve Mirman (Speech and Hearing) chaired sessions of the convention, and David Blalock (Speech and Hearing) and Florence Sumner (Curriculum and Instruction) served on the convention planning committee. Others who attended are Esther Seay (Speech and Hearing) and Tom Scanio and Yvonne Saddler (Curriculum and Instruction). Mrs. Sumner is president-elect of NCSHLA and Dr. Scanio serves as state membership chairman. Andrew Baggs (Political Science) was elected secretary of the N.C. Political Science Association at its annual meeting April 9 at East Carolina University. Michael Jones (Philosophy) will partici­pate in a conference on "Business's Role and Responsibility in Society" June 6-17 at Catho­lic University. Funded by the GE Foundation, the conference is sponsored jointly by the Department of Philosophy at Catholic University and the School of Business at Columbia Univer­sity.