| 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. APRIL 7 PROCLAIMED ROTC DAY AT WCU Governor Hunt has proclaimed March 31 through April 7 to be "ROTC Week in North Carolina," and in emphasizing this proclamation, WCU will observe its first ROTC Day Saturday, April 7, 1979. The day's activities will begin at 2 p.m. at the Belk intramural field with a review followed by a fa ncy drill team competition. There will be a ranger survival and mountaineer exhibit, and equipment displays will surround the intramural field. The days's events will culminate with the first WCU Military Ball, complete with customs, colors, courtesies and tradition, a special dinner and an evening of dancing. Brigadier Gen. Hubert M. Leonard, deputy adjutant-general for the State of North Carolina, will be the after-dinner speaker. The ball will begin at 7 p.m. in the Grand-room of Hinds University Center with dinner being served at 7:30 p.m. A few tickets, at a cost of $7 per person, are available and may be reserved by calling the WCU Department of Military Science at 227-7438. COMING EVENTS Dr. Arthur Weiss, director of University Affiliated Center for Developmental Disabilities at the University of South Carolina, and Mrs. Aileen Weiss, head of the Speech and Hearing Program at Military Dependents School at Fort Jackson, S. C., will give a series of programs at WCU March 22-23. Their visit is sponsored by the Department of Human Services and the Visiting Scholars Program. Dr. Albert F. Gilman III (Mathematics) will discuss life in Bulgaria at 7 p.m. March 19 in the Natural Sciences Auditorium. Dr. Richard Graham, an expert in music therapy, will present a series of lectures March 19-20. All of Monday's lectures, at 9, 10, and 11 a.m. and at 1 and 2 p.m., will be held in the Music Recital Hall. Dr. Graham will speak at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday in the Music Recital Hall and at 4 p.m. in Room 104 Killian Building. ANNOUNCEMENTS Early registration for Fall Semester will be held by appointment March 28 and March 29. No appointment is necessary for summer registration on March 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Advising is by appointment in the CAP Center from March 5 through March 26, and in departments from March 20 through March 26. Payment of fees for fall will not be due until the last of July, and a statement will be mailed to the home address. Five on-campus short courses have been scheduled by the Division of Continuing Education. Basic Jewelry Making; Quilting; and History of World War II will begin March 20. Archaeology of the Old Testament will begin March 22 and Disco Dancing will be taught beginning March 23. Information on times, locations and fees may be obtained by calling 227-7397. A pre-retirement conference for faculty and staff planning for retirement will be held in the Cherokee Room of Hinds University Center from 9:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. Jim Holland, personnel director, has recommended an article in the Feb. 26 issue of U.S. News and World Report as excellent reading material for all employees and especially those who are near retirement. The article is entitled "Will Inflation Tarnish Your Golden Years?" -2- BQQKS DUANE H. KING (adjunct professor, Sociology and Anthropology) is the editor of a new book, The Cherokee Indian Nation, published by The University of Tennessee Press. Two chapters in the book were written by Western faculty and staff members: "Cherokee Planters: The Development of Plantation Slavery Before Removal," by THEDA PERDUE (History) and "William Holland Thomas and the Cherokee Claims," by RICHARD W. IOBST (Mountain Heritage Center). The book traces the troubled history and the changing culture of the Cherokee people. IOBST and PERDUE are two of twelve contributors, each with a specialized point of view, who examine the life of the Cherokees, their attachment to their land, the hostilities of the eighteenth century and the rapid economic progress of the tribes during the early nineteenth century, the forced removal of the Cherokee from their territory, and their condition today. Of particular regional interest is the treatment of "the truth behind the legends." This treatment is suggested on the dust jacket: "Tsali's death was murder, not voluntary martyrdom; the proud Eastern Band of Cherokees actually traces much of its ancestry to enfranchised "Citizen Indians" rather than to romantic refugees from the Trail of Tears; far from spurning white customs, Cherokees have tried desperately for over 200 years to accommodate their ways to the whites who have steadily encroached upon their land and traditions." Dr. King is director of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee and editor of the "Journal of Cherokee Studies." PUBLICATIONS TOM O'TOOLE (History), "Historians of Africa as Teachers and Experts," Network News Exchange IV #2, pp. 18-19. JUDITH M. STILLION (Psychology) recently completed a chapter dealing with children and death in a book entitled Dying - Facing the Facts, edited by Hannelore Wass. The book is scheduled for publication by McGraw Hill Company, Spring, 1979. REVIEWS SAL NERBOSO (Political Science), a review of Frederic V. Malek's, Washington's Hidden Tragedy: The Failure to Make Government Work, in Choice, XV (January, 1979). NAMES IN THE NEWS TOM O'TOOLE (History) was a respondent to a paper at the Southeast Regional Seminar on African Studies meeting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, February 17. He also attended a steering committee meeting of the Independent Foundation, an organization of returned Peace Corps and Vista volunteers on February 20. ROBERT RIGDON (Human Services) delivered three lectures at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, February 19, 20, and 21, on the subject of "Sexual Fulfillment in Christianity." The lectures were tape recorded and are on sale by Jack Buford Studios, 1226 Sayles Blvd., Abilene, Texas 79605. THEDA PERDUE (History) delivered a paper entitled "The First 'Urban Indians': The Growth of Towns in Indian Territory" at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society in Memphis, Tenn. February 21-24. JACK MANOCK (Research Administration) was elected chairman of the newly-organized North Carolina Local Government Data Processing Center board of directors February 20 at a meeting held in the Land-of-Sky Regional Council offices in Asheville. PAULINE C. RICE (Office Administration) has been elected Secretary of the Faculty. PERRY KELLY (Art) will preside at the annual workshop conference of the North Carolina Art Education Association in Raleigh March 15-18. The conference will include art media demonstrations, discussion groups, the annual meetings and nine art media workshops. During the conference, the president will make the annual awards for outstanding service to art education. KELLY has been nominated to repr esent North Carolina institutions of higher education at the Art Career Regional Conference of the National Art Education Association in Atlanta, March 30-April 1. The Reporter welcomes items from faculty and staff on their professional activities. Information should be submitted at least one week prior to publicat ion date to Mim Matus, Office of Public Information, 207 Belk Building. The A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina March 22, 1979 SHOW TO FEATURE FOUR SOUTHEASTERN ARTISTS "The Regional Painting Invitational," featuring four Southeastern artists—Anthony H. Rice, Herbert Creecy, Annette Cone- Skelton, and James Herbert—will open with a public reception at 7 p.m. Monday, March 26, in the art gallery in Belk Building. Anthony Rice, currently an assistant professor of art at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, will lecture at 8 p.m. on "The Evolution of My Painting and Sculpture and the Impact of American Folk Art" in Room 102, Belk. He also will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Cherokee Room of Hinds University Center on "James Hampton, a Black Visionary, and Edgar Tolson, Kentucky Woodcarver." His lectures, sponsored by the Vi siting Scholars Program, will be free to the public. The paintings will remain on exhibit until April 12. HISTORIAN WILL PRESENT SEMINAR/LECTURE Princeton University historian Dr. Lawrence Stone will present a seminar and lecture at WCU on Monday, March 26. The seminar, beginning at 3 p.m. in the Catamount Room of Hinds University Center, will deal with Stone's research interests and methods in early modern social history. At 8 p.m., Stone will speak in the auditorium of the Natural Sciences Building on "Love and Marriage in 18th Century England." Both programs, sponsored by the Visiting Scholars Program, are open to the public free of charge. NASA SCIENTIST TO SPEAK HERE MARCH 30 Dr. George D. Sands, chief of the scientific and technical information programs division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center, will speak on "Science Results from the Viking Mission to Mars" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in the Cherokee Room of Hinds University Center. The program, which is free to the public, is sponsored by the WCU chapter of the Society of Physics Students. At 10 a.m. March 30, Dr. Sands will discuss "Viking—A Planetary Adventure on Mars." The morning lecture, to be given in Hoey Auditorium, will be the keynote speech to draw some 450 high school science students to the campus. MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP PLANNED A two-session Management Development Workshop designed for supervisors of State Personnel Act (SPA) employees will be offered by the Personnel Office on Tuesday, March 27, and Tuesday, April 3. The workshop will cover work planning and performance review programs required by the State Personnel Division. It also will cover recent revisions in the State and University salary administration policy for SPA employees. Two groups, each limited to 25 pers ons, will be scheduled for a two-hour session on March 27 and again on April 3. The first group will meet from 9-11 a.m. and the second group will meet from 2-4 p.m. A list of persons planning to attend and indi cating a choice of time for each session should be sent to the Personnel Office as soon as possible. -2- FACULTY RECITAL SERIES CONTINUES Four area musicians will be featured Thursday, March 29, in an 8:15 p.m. program in the Music Recital Hall. Mezzo—soprano Joyce Farwell will perform duets with horn player Robin Dauer. She also will be accompanied in several selections by pianist Barbara Dooley. Maxie Beaver will perform on the clarinet. There will be no charge for admission. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Chelsea Gallery, Hinds University Center, is featuring a "Functional Weaving Exhibit" through April 6. Alice Mathews (History) will present "Women: A Historical Perspective" in the Lunch 'n Learn series March 27. The program will begin at the noon hour in the Mary Will Mitchell Room, Brown Cafeteria. The Faculty Senate will meet at 4 p.m. Monday, March 26, in the Cherokee Room, Hinds University Center. A new course entitled "Mainstreaming Handicapped Students" (SPED 520) will be offered next spring and fall semesters, according to Larry B. Grantham, head of the Department of Human Services. It is designed for interested persons outside the field of special education. The current mandate is to educate exceptional students in the most normal situation appropriate. Many potential teachers are concerned about the skills and attitudes required. The course, which has a curriculum base, is designed to help students at all levels to understand the law and to apply its principles in a practical way. A study tour group led by David B. Harrison (coordinator, Interior Design) will depart Atlanta on May 3 and visit London, Paris, Munich, Venice, Milan, Florence and Rome before returning on May 31. The interior design course in the history of architecture and furnishings carries three semester hours of credit in Home Economics 355 and is open to college and university students and faculty, qualified high school students, public and private school teachers, and adults interested in continuing education. Further information may be obtained by contacti ng the Home Economics Department. Deadline for application is April 3. If you're planning for retirement in a few years, you will want to attend the preretirement conference at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 27, in the Cherokee Room, Hinds University Center. The conference will be conducted by State Retirement System personnel. "The Ugly Duckling," a play for children by A. A. Milne, will be performed at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 24, in the Little Theatre. Admission will be 50 cents. Sponsored by the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts, the play also will be pe rformed at Brevard Elementary School, March 22; Fairview Elementary School (Sylva) and Pisgah Elementary School, March 23; Valley Hill Elementary School (Hendersonville) and Cherokee Elementary School, March 29; and Viewmont Elementary School in Hickory, March 30. Betsy Farlow (Music) and Alice Mathews (History) will lead a group in a three-week study tour of music and history in London, Salzburg and Vienna, June 25-July 15. Six hours of university credit—three hours each in history and music—are available for an additional fee, and Continuing Education Unit Credit also is available. Further information is available from Globe Treks Inc., 410 Fifth Avenue West, Hendersonville, N. C. telephone 693-0724. Area 12 members of the North Carolina State Employees Association (NCSEA) will have a booth at the 441 Flea Market on Saturday, March 31. If you have items (other than food) that you would like to donate, please contact Norma Coggins (7442), Bonnie Hooper or Virginia Clark at 7334, Sara Kiser (7285), Mim Matus (7327), Millie Wilson (7436), or Ann Ball (7438). These persons will have boxes in their offices in which to place smaller articles and they can arrange for the larger items to be p icked up. Anything you wish to donate will be appreciated. The next University Forum for Contemporary Issues scheduled for April 2 will feature Dr. James L. Sundquist of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D. C. He will speak on Congress and the Presidency" at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Natural Sciences Building. Co-sponsor for this program will be the WCU Student Association for Government and Legal Affairs. Admission is free. -3- TOM MALLONEE TO BE HONORED University friends of Tom Mallonee, a WCU graduate and trustee, will have an opportunity to participate in a dinner March 31 honoring the retiring district assistant to Congressman Lamar Gudger. The dinner honoring Mallonee on the occasion of his retirement will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in the S & W Cafeteria in Asheville. Dr. H. F. Robinson, WCU chancellor, is serving as chairman of the Jackson County committee named to help promote the dinner and to receive contributions from Mallonee s friends wishing to take part in a retirement gift. Other members of the committee are Paul Cowan, Andy Wilson, Conrad Burrell, Cecil Brooks and Doug Reed. University staff and faculty members wishing to take part in the gift may leave contributions with any of th e committee members. The dinner on March 31 will be $4 per person. Reservations may be made with one of the Jackson County committee members or by calling Lynda McCracken by March 27 at 1-800-452-2821. BOOK REVIEW Theda Perdue's book, Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society 1540-1866 (Reporter, January 18, 1979), is a significant contribution to the understanding of the Cherokee story. The publishers, University of Tennessee Press, say this about the book: "Prior to the arrival of Europeans, war captives—slaves—contributed nothing to the Cherokee economy. During the colonial period, however, the Cherokees actively began to capture members of other tribes and were themselves captured and sold to whites as chattels for the Caribbean slave trade. Also during this period, African slaves were introduced among the Indians, and after intertribal warfare ended, the use of forced labor to increase agricultural and other prod uction emerged within Cherokee society. Theda Perdue here traces the history of slavery among the Cherokee Indians as it evolved from 1540 to 1866, indicating not only why the in stitution changed, but how it affected these Native Americans and their total tribal structure." "Well aware that the institution of black slavery was only one of many important changes that gradually broke down the traditional Cherokee culture after 1540, Professor Perdue integrates her concern with slavery into the total picture of cultural transformation resulting from the clash between European and Amerindian societies. Her acute analysis and readable narrative will provide the reader with a new angle of vision on the changing nature of slavery and Cherokee culture under the impact of increasing contact with Europeans." NAMES IN THE NEWS DONALD L. LOFFFLER (head, Speech and Theatre Arts) as president of the Southeastern Theatre Conference presided at that organization's 30th annual convention in Atlanta February 28-March 4. Some 2,000 delegates attended from the 10 states in the Southeast, plus representatives from theatre groups as far away as Vermont and New Mexico. Other WCU faculty members who attended the conference are OSCAR PATTERSON III, who served as auditions chairman; CAROLYN RAUCH, who served as adjudicator for the secondary school festival; and RICHARD BEAM. BARBARA CAPPS, ELEANOR LOFQUIST, and BILLIEE P. PARKER (all Elementary Education and Reading) attended a workshop on "Facilitating Language Arts Through Developmental Education" at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro February 21-22. The workshop was sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board. MAXIE E. BEAVER and ROBIN L. DAUER (both Music) appeared as featured soloists with the WCU Symphonic Band on its annual spring tour March 12-14. The Band is directed by JOSEPH R. SCAGNOLI. TIMOTHY L. EAVES is assistant director. NANCY P. DIXON (Special Education), RICHARD S. CRADDOCK (head, Elementary Education and Reading), and BETTY L. SIEGEL (dean, Education and Psychology) presented two workshops recently on "Mainstrearning the Educationally and Physically Handicapped: A Self-Concept Approach." The workshops were held in Memphis, Tenn. on March 31 and in Nashville, Tenn. on April 7. PAT ALT (Speech and Hearing Program) recently presented a half-day workshop for special education staff members from the Haywood County School System. The focus of the workshop was on the Goldman-Fristoe Auditory Skills Test Battery which is used to measure such auditory skills as perception, attention, discrimination, memory, and sound/symbol relationship, particularly in children. JOE LINER was honored on the occasion of his retirement with a coffee held in the Bird Conference Room March 9. He served the University as Laundry Manager from 1962 to 1972 at which time the laundry was closed. Since 1972, he has supervised the coin-operated laundry vending services. He and his wife, Louise, reside at 106 Monte-Vista Drive in Waynes-ville. ALICE MATHEWS (History) and NANCY JOYNER (English) attended a workshop on "Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective" at East Tennessee State University February 20. The workshop was part of the grant from the Modern Language Association which has provided for the course, "Images of Appalachian Women," currently being taught by Professors Mathews and Joyner. NANCY JOYNER (English) presented a paper entitled "The Appalachias of Vladimir Nabokov and Thomas Wolfe" at the Tennessee Philological Association, which met at Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn. February 22. BETTY L. SIEGEL (dean, Education and Psychology) delivered the major address of the last general session of the Southeastern Conference of Elementary School Principals in Columbia, S. C. February 24. Over seven hundred principals from seven states attended the three-day conference. On March 6 DEAN SIEGEL served as the main speaker for the Women in Education Conference in Greenville, S. C., sponsored by the School District of Greenville County. BOB RIGDON (Human Services) spoke to the Future Homemakers Association State Convention in Raleigh March 10. His subject was "Recognition is Beautiful." ROBERT STREMBA (counselor, CAP Center) presented a workshop, "School of the Future: A Teacher Training Simulation," at the national convention of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development March 4-7 in Detroit, Michigan. VIVIAN DEITZ and ANNE RAMIREZ (both Nursing) are teaching a six-week short course entitled "Basic Child and Health Care: Parenting" at Barnardsville Elementary School in Buncombe County. The course is designed for parents of infants or older children, prospective parents, or others in the community who care for children. PUBLICATIONS ROBERT E. STOLTZ. "Competency Testing and the Strengthening of Teacher Education Programs: Current Experience of One State." Excerpts from a presentation to the Southern Regional Education Board Legislative Advisory Council, December 8-10, 1978, published by the Southern Regional Education Board. STAFF POSITION VACANCIES Open for applications through one week from receipt of The Reporter in the Personnel Office. APPLY AT THE PERSONNEL OFFICE, located in the Steam Plant. SECRETARY (III), Home Economics Dept.; $7,608; high school graduation or equivalency, one year office clerical experience and pass typing test at 44 Net WPM. SECRETARY (IV), Academic Affairs; hiring rate, $8,664; high school graduation and two years clerical experience preferably in an Academic Affairs Office; pass typing test at 44 Net WPM. GENERAL UTILITY WORKER, Physical Plant Department; hiring rate, $6,684; completion of grammar school. One year experience in performing a variety of manu al tasks. Must be able to follow oral instructions and have valid driver's license. The A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Culiowhee, North Carolina March 29, 1979 FOUR VISITING SCHOLARS SCHEDULED FOR FIRST WEEK IN APRIL Visiting Scholars in art, psychology, geology, and business education and office administration will be on the campus next week. James McMullen, a highly-acclaimed designer and illustrator, will visit and lecture to several art classes during a two-day stay, April 2-3. He will present a lecture for the general public at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2, in Room 380, Belk Building. A former director and vice president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, McMullen now works for his own organization, Visible Studio, Inc., of New York City. He has produced illustrations and designs for magazines, record jackets, book covers, posters, advertisements and TV animation. A series of his paintings of people in a Brooklyn discotheque, published in "New York Magazine" with an accompanying story by Nik Cohn, became the basis of the film "Saturday Night Fever." Dr. Richard Bootzin, a Northwestern University psychologist, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 2, in Forsyth Auditorium on the subject, "Self-help Techniques for Controlling Insomnia." On Tuesday he will give two separate lectures, "Evaluation of Residential Treatment Programs for Socially Deficient Youth" at 11 a.m. in the Cardinal Room of Hinds University Center, and "Behavioral Treatments of Insomnia" at 2 p.m. in Room 264, Killian. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Bootzin holds master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and a book, "Behavior Modification and Therapy: An Introduction." Dr. Willard H. Parsons, consulting geologist and specialist in volcanic rocks, will present two lectures Thursday, April 5, in the auditorium of the Natural Sciences Building. At 3 p.m., a talk for the general public will be on "The Eruption of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii." A lecture on the "Mineral Resource Supply Program for Japan" will be presented at 6 p.m. for the benefit of the USI 393 class on Japan. Parsons' research on volcanic activity has included extensive field work in New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii, Iceland, Italy, the Azores and Central America. In 1978, he served as a visiting professor at the Institute for International Mineral Resources Development of Japan. Professor George A. Wagoner, head of the department of business education and office administration at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, will be the featured speaker at a special luncheon meeting of the North Carolina Association of Educational Office Personnel (NCAEOP) April 4 in Brown Cafeteria. He will speak on "In Search of Professionalism." Following the noon luncheon, he will meet informally with persons who have an interest in the Certified Professional Secretary (CPS) program. At 6 p.m., he will meet with business and office administration teachers and graduate students in the WCU conference room, Phillips Administration Building, UNC-A campus. — 2— "ONCE UPON A MATTRESS" OPENS MONDAY The Department of Speech and Theatre Arts will present the light-hearted musical comedy "Once Upon A Mattress," based on the medieval fairy tale of "The Princess and the Pea," on April 5, 6 and 7 in Hoey Auditorium. Directed by faculty member Carolyn Rauch, performances will begin at 8 p.m. nightly. Admission will be $1 for students, $2 for other adults, and 50 cents for children. Reservations may be made by calling 227-7491. SIXTY-FOUR EMPLOYEES TO BE HONORED WCU will honor 64 employees for service ranging from five to 2 5 years with a luncheon and awards ceremony on April 2 in the East Wing of Brown Cafeteria. The annual event, which recognizes service to both the state and the university, is open to guests. Cost of the luncheon is $2.75. Collectively, the employees honored have compiled 605 years of service. CIML WILL SPONSOR WORKSHOP A day-long workshop on how to install water-saving devices and alternate wa.ste-treatment systems, their advantages and disadvantages, will be held April 4 in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. The workshop, beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 3 p.m., is for septic system installers, county sanitarians, consulting engineers, local and county planning staff, and potential home builders. Evaluation of current options for alternate sewage disposal and actual instructions on "how to" installations of specific types of systems will be covered. Contact Susan Smith at the Center for Improving Mountain Living (227-7492) for further information. SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM OFFERED A four-session program designed for small business owners, managers and employees, as well as those who would like to learn more about owning their own business, will be sponsored by WCU and the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce April 5-26 at the Cherokee Western Steer. Participants will meet one night per week for four weeks. Individual topics will be Managing the Small Business, April 5; Legal Aspects, April 12; Records, Accounting and Bookkeeping, April 19; and Marketing Sales and Advertising, April 26. Instructors will be Ben Bridgers, Sylva attorney and tribal council attorney for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians; Ed Lindsey and Bill Manck, from the Center for Improving Mountain Living; and Dr. Howard Harlow (Management), Jennie Hunter (Office Administration), and Dr. Gene Vosecky (Accounting). The registration fee, including all tuition, refreshments and instructional materials, is $40 per person, with reduced rates allowed for two or more enrollees from the same firm. Contact the Division of Continuing Education at 227-7151 for further information. NCAEOP MEMBERS ATTEND STATE MEETING Seventeen members of the WCU Chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educational Office Personnel (NCAEOP) attended the annual state conference in Winston-Salem March 8-10. Coordinator for the conference was Ruth Shuler (Chancellor's Office) who worked with the Board of Directors during the 1978-79 year in planning and arranging the three-day meeting. Bettina Hall (Management and Marketing) served as Chaplain during the conference. Certificates were awarded to 151 participants in the Professional Standards Program, a voluntary program of self-improvement. Those from WCU receiving certificates were Ann Ball (Military Science) and Patricia Pickett (Speech and Hearing Center). Highlights of the conference were a keynote address by Dr. Samuel Halperin, director of the Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, D.C., and a speech by Speaker Carl Stewart of the North Carolina House of Representatives. A panel of five North Carolina legislators discussed bills now under consideration in the General Assembly concerning educational office personnel. Other speakers were Dr. Norman Hall, president of the American Association of School Administrators; Mrs. Millie Bennett, president of the National Association of -3- Educational Secretaries; and Mr. "Bones" McKinney, former Wake Forest basketball coach, now a commentator for Atlantic Coast Conference basketball games. A musical-jazz ensemble from the North Carolina School of the Arts performed at the banquet. Also attending the conference from WCU were Rita Warren, Elementary Education and Reading; Mildred Wilson, School of Arts and Sciences; Kandy Tucker, Biology; Jeanne Nienhuis, School of Technology and Applied Science; Sarah Riser and Virginia Clark, both Controller's Office; Deborah Sims, Academic Services; Linda Ashe and Kay Carden, both Academic Affairs; Barbara Salisbury, School of Education and Psychology; Jo Mulcahy, Continuing Education; Helen Woodard, Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; and Lucy Meyer, Payroll. SOLAR ENERGY EDUCATION DIRECTORY AVAILABLE The Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) has announced the publishing of the f irst "National Solar Energy Education Directory." The 300-page publication is a comprehensive up-to-date listing of solar-related courses, programs and curricula offered at nearly 700 post-secondary institutions nationwide. It is a result of a survey conducted with the cooperation of SERI, the Department of Energy, the Office of U.S. Congressman George E. Brown Jr., and the Congressional Solar Coalition. A copy of the directory may be obtained from The Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. The stock number is 061-000- 00210-3, and the price is $4.75. NAMES IN THE NEWS JOHN A. DAVLIN (visiting assistant professor, Speech and Theatre Arts) was among the speakers at the annual convention of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System in Washington, D.C., recently. He spoke on the subject, "Creativity in Radio Programming." Other speakers included Nicholas Johnson, former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, and California Congressman Lionel Van Deelin, who is heading an effort to rewrite the Communications Act of 1934, the law which currently regulates all broadcasting. More than 1,400 college broadcasters, including six WCU students from the staff of radio station WWCU, attended the convention. ERIC POOLE (Sociology) received the M1978 Outstanding Paper Award" of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences during its annual convention in Cincinnati, March 14-17. The paper, "Discrepancies in Cynicism Levels Among City and County Police Officers," was presented at the Academy's 1978 annual meeting in New Orleans and was published in Criminal Justice Review (Fall 1978). The $250 award was sponsored by the An derson Publishing Company and was presented by its president, John Mason. During the meetings, Poole chaired two sessions on "Quantitative Research in Criminal Justice": "The Construction of Prediction Scales" and "Problems in Measurement." TOM 0'TOOLE (History) participated in the International Forum II: Africa, at Old Dominion University, March 24, speaking once on "Teaching About Africa in American Schools" and again on "Ethnicity and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa." On March 26, Dr. 0'Toole lectured on the to pic "Our Proud West African Heritage" at the Taste of Africa evening sponsored by the Organization of Ebony Students at the Baptist Student Union in Cullowhee. UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES RECEIVES MANUSCRIPT GIFT Dr. Gordon McKinney, associate professor of history, has donated typed manuscripts and galley proofs of his recently published book, Southern Mountain Republicans, 1965-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community (Reporter, January 4, 1979), to the University Archives. The publishers, The University of North Carolina Press, say this about the book: "One of the most persistent sterotypes in American history has been that of the independent, ignorant, violent, and poor southern mountaineer, living in a static and isolated society. Coexistent with this stereotype is the contradictory view that these mountain people can best be understood as "victims" of predatory outside capitalists who destroyed the self-sufficient mountain economy -4- and culture. While historians and commentators may disagree on the forces that shaped mountain life, they all appear to share the belief that the people of Appa-lachia are somehow unique — different from all other Americans. The seemingly unusual political history of the mountain people is an example often cited. Unlike most southern whites during the Civil War, the mountain people resisted secession and often fought against the Confederacy. After 1865, many joined the Republican party and remained the only large group of white southerners in the party until the 1950s. "Gordon McKinney's book fills a large gap in the history of the region by providing a detailed, balanced, and deeply researched narrative study of the appearance and growth of mountain republicanism. His research in primary documents and local newspapers gives the account of an immediacy frequently lacking in historical studies. Although the story is told in terms of the changing fortunes of the mountain Republican parties, the data presented illuminate many facets of the social, economic, and political history of Appalachia. The author also provides extensive statistical analysis of political developments to buttress his arguments. "Among the author's principal findings are that the impact of the Civil War and the absence of blacks, rather than economic or geographical factors, were responsible for the persistence of Republican voting patterns in the Appalachian community. Even more significant is his discovery that mountain republicanism was the conscious creation of politicians in a five-state region who shaped their party to conform to local political conditions. This major contribution to Appalachian studies convincingly dispels the mountaineer stereotype originally prompted by mountain Republicans for partisan purposes and sustained over the years by popular writers, scholars, and local interest groups." PUBLICATIONS JOHN M. BAKER. "A Note on Compact Operators Which Attain Their Norm." Pacific Journal of Mathematics, to appear. JOSEPH B. KLERLEIN and A. GREGORY STARLING. "Hamiltonian Cycles in Cayley Color Graphs of Semi-direct Products," Proceedings, Ninth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, to appear. EARL MARWIL. "Convergence Results for Schubert's Method for Solving Sparse Nonlinear Equations," SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, to appear. TYLER BLETHEN. "Bishop John Williams's Recantation of His Holy Table, Name and Thing, 1638," Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 29 (1978). EDWIN G. VASSIAN and Ludvik 0. Urband. "Reactions on an Aromatic Heterocycle Containing Nickel: Electrophilic Substitution." Inorganic Chemistry, 18, 867 (1979). STAFF POSITION VACANCIES Open for applications through one week from receipt of The Reporter in the Personnel Office. APPLY AT THE PERSONNEL OFFICE, located in the Steam Plant. FIVE (5) HOUSEKEEPING ASSISTANT POSITIONS, Physical Plant Department; hiring rate, $5,928; good physical condition. 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