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A Weekly Newsletter tor the Faculty and Staff e or of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carol ina April 11, 1980 TICKETS FOR "THE MIKADO" ARE AVAILABLE Tickets for "The Mikado" go on sale Monday April 14. Jointly produced by the music department and the department of speech and theatre arts, Gilbert and Sullivan's popular light opera spoofing Japanese culture will be presented April 18-19 at 8 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium. Temple Smith will be the music director and Thomas Tyra, head of the department of music, is preparing and will conduct the orchestra. Robert Holquist is the chorus master. Playing the Mikado of Japan will be Michael Jones. Nanki-Poo will be played by William Johnson, Ko-Ko by Peter Ambrose, Pooh-Bah by Graham Blunt, Pish-Tush by Mark Delk, Yum-Yum by Saundra Hendricks, and Katisha by Margaret Davis. Tickets, availab~e in Room 123 of Stillwell Building, are $1' for children, $2 for stu­dents, and $3 for other adults. For reser­vations, contact the box office at 227-7365. BLOODMOBILE TO VISIT CAMPUS NEXT WEEK The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be on campus for three afternoons next week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, April 15-17, from noon until 5 p.m. The blood--whether whole or separated into its components-- is used for patients in Sylva's C.J. Harris Com­munity Hospital and 37 other regional hos­pitals served by the Asheville Regional Red Cross Blood Center. The Bloodmobile visit is sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega. The entire donation procedure, which in­cludes medical screening and a short rest period with light refreshments, takes about 45 minutes. Eligible donors must be be­tween the ages of 17 and 66 , weighing at least 110 pounds. COMMUNITY CHORUS PERFORMS MEMORIAL CONCERT The Western Carolina Community Chorus will sing the Brahms "Requiem" Sunday, April 20, at 3 p.m. in the Music-English recital hall. The concert is dedicated to the memory of Dr. David Daniel, a respected pediatrician who was a charter member of the choral group and a faithful singer in the bass section until his recent death. Daniel practiced medicine in Sylva for 30 years and enjoyed the respect not only of the children and parents associated with his pediatrics practice, but of his peers in the medical community. He was a volun­teer medical missionary to Bolivia, Liberia, and Vietnam. Active in the First United Methodist Church, he sang in the choir and was a lay leader and member of the adminis­trative board. On the district committee of the Daniel Boone Boy Scout Council, he had received the Silver Beaver Award. Soloists for the memorial performance will be Gail Reneau, soprano, and Robert Hol­quist, baritone. Barbara Dooley and Henry Lofquist will perform the two-piano accom­paniment. The chorus is directed by James E. Dooley and is jointly sponsored by the WCU Fine Arts Center and the Jackson County Arts Council. Friends of Dr. Daniel and the Daniel family as well as the general public are invited to attend the performance, which is free. NCAEOP WILL HONOR BOSSES APRIL 15 National Educational Bosses Week is May 18- 24, but because of our semester schedule, WCU members of NCAEOP will honor their bosses at a special luncheon Tuesday, April 15. The "Boss of the Year" and "EOP of the Year" Awards will be presented, and Bill Scott, University Legal Counsel, will speak. VISITING SCHOLAR TO SPEAK ON NUTRITION Mrs. Sara Sloan, director of the school food and nutrition program in Atlanta's Fulton County School System, will present four lectures at WCU April 15-16. A well-known health nutritionist, Mrs. Sloan pioneered Fulton County's program which eliminated refined sugar in school meals for children, the first system in the nation to do so. The NUTRA Breakfast and Lunch Program has received wide ac­claim. It features natural whole foods that are low in fat and salt and contain no artificial coloring, additives, pre­servatives, or refined carbohydrates. Under Mrs. Sloan's leadership, student lunch participation in the Fulton County program has increased from 61 to 87 per­cent. All of Mrs. Sloan's presentations, spon-. sored by WCU's Visiting Scholars Program and open to the public free of charge, will be held in Room 104 of Killian Building. Her lectures on April 15 will be on "Better Food for Better Learning" from 3:30 until 5 p.m., and "Nutritioning for Health" from 7:30 until 9 p.m. On Wednesday, April 16, after an informal reception from 10 until 10:30 a.m., Mrs. Sloan will discuss "From Classroon to Cafeteria--Practice What you Preach" from 10:30 a.m. until noon, and from 2 until 3:30 p.m. MANAGEMENT EXPERT WILL SPEAK APRIL 16-17 -2- Dr. Richard M. Hodgetts, professor of management and acting department chairman at Florida International University, will lecture here April 16-17 under the sponsor­ship of the Visiting Scholars Program. Both lectures are free to the public. On Wednesday, April 16, Hodgetts will speak on "Social Issues in the Post-Industrial Society'' at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Forsyth Building. He will discuss "The Practicalities of Getting Published" with interested faculty at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in Rooms 320-321 of Forsyth Building. An informal reception will follow at about 3:30 p.m. ENLIGHTENED CONSUMER GETS CASH FROM TRASH The "Coupon Queen" of Columbia, S.c., will be in Cullowhee, Sylva, Franklin, and Ashe­ville April 17-18 giving talks and appear­ances sponsored by WCU's division of con­tinuing education. Mrs. Cheryl Pevehouse, called by the Wash­ington Post "a near-fanatic coupon-clipper and refund-requester," can walk into a supermarket, select groceries, and collect a profit at the cash register. She once selected groceries valued at $47.65 and collected 11 cents when she checked out. Another time she purchased $11.95 worth of groceries for $2.55 in cash, then mailed in coupons that brought her an additional $9 in cash or product refunds, making a profit of $6.45. She edits an ever-growing newsletter called "Cash from Trash" and will net close to $30,000 this year. On Thursday, April 17, Mrs. Pevehouse will lecture in the Mary Will Mitchell Room of Brown Cafeteria from noon until 2 p.m. Ad­mission will be $5. The cafeteria line will be open and. those who wish can bring their lunches. At 3 p.m., she will conduct a free shopping demonstration at Bi-Lo's in Sylva's Jackson Plaza. From 7 until 9 p.m. she will lecture in Franklin at the Macon County Community Center, and admission is again $5. Mrs. Pevehouse will be at Ivey's in the Asheville Mall for several free mini-talks from 2 until 4 p.m. on Friday, April 18. She will lecture from 7 until 9 p.m. that same day in the elevated lecture room at Asheville-Biltmore Technical College, which is co-sponsoring her Buncombe County visits. Admission will be $5. STAFF POSITION VACANCY Apply at the PERSONNEL OFFICE, Room 330, UA/HHC within 5 working days from the date of this publication. HOURLY EDUCATIONAL/DEVELOPMENTAL AIDE II POSITIONS (Subatitute Teachers called in when Permanent Teacher• are abaent); Child Development Center; $3.50 per hour; grad­uation from high achool or equivalency and one year of experience working with children, developmentally diaabled, or blind popula­tion aa appropriate for the job (volunteer, mother, babysitter), or aaaociate degree in mental health or child development program; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A GRANT-FUNDED POSITION, e or A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina April 18, 1980 CHANCELLOR OUTLINES STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN ADDRESS TO FACULTY Western Carolina University is making major advances in academic strength and regional support, Dr. H.F. Robinson said April 9 in a "state of the University" report to the faculty. Robinson said the quality of instruction at WCU is higher than ever and that Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores for entering WCU students have risen in the face of a 10-year national downward trend. An accreditation study by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction of the WCU School of Education and Psychology has just been concluded, he said, with the teacher education program receiving high marks. Western will soon open a building on the Cherokee Reservation for its resident-credit center there, he said, while in Asheville it is improving programs that it launched there nearly half a century ago and has continued to offer without interruption. Robinson acknowledged a recent report by the University of North Carolina at Asheville in which the Asheville institution proposed establishment of a graduate center. He noted that Western began its Asheville program Sept. 1, 1937, when it also began out­reach instruction in Franklin, Murphy, Sylva, Spruce Pine, Burnsville, Marshall, and Brevard. Today, with nearly 1,000 students enrolled in its Asheville program, most of whom are in graduate programs, he noted that WCU's programs in Asheville have grown tenfold. In tracing the development of the Asheville program, Robinson said a number of changes have been made since he became chancellor in 1974. These, he said, "indicate the cooper­ative work with UNC-A that we want to continue." As the major UNC system institution offering graduate-level work in Asheville, Western Carolina, Robinson said, in keeping with a directive from the central UNC administration in Chapel Hill, has given a number of undergraduate programs to UNC-A, "and this was con­sidered appropriate and important in the strengthening and further development of the ergraduate programs at UNC-A." He noted that the nursing program in Asheville is structured to allow students to enroll as freshmen at UNC-A and move into the WCU program the junior-senior level. technology, he said, WCU is expanding, with cooperative programs with Asheville-Buncombe ical College. In this venture, WCU will be offering the junior, senior, and master's evels of ·instruction. He said WCU expects to continue to offer the master's in business administration in Asheville, also. WCU and UNC-A, developed with the assistance of t!em President William Friday, "is efficient, effec­e of state funds in the offering of higher education committee meets regularly to handle any problems ·culties that may be experienced with the two needs of the people." s method of operation will continue with frequent nistration of the university system as we work ationships between our two universities." Development Foundation in fiscal and that total Foundation assets of Quality scholarship funds drive he said. Mountain Living and its director, center has obtained $1,114,238 in pr.ojects aimed at improving the economic reEresents the university at work, serving the ~AZZ CONCERT IS SLATED NEXT FRIDAY The University Jazz Ensemble will perform in concert Friday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in the Music-English recital hall. Under the direction of Mario Gaetano, the student en­semble will play music of Chuck Mangione and old standards like "Funny Valentine" and "Autumn Leaves." There will be no ad­charge. IS SET FOR APRIL Three one-act plays will be presented Mon­day and Tuesday, April 28 and 29, in the Li ttle Theatre at 7:30p.m. Tankred Dorst's "The Curve," adapted to WNC setting and dialect, makes its u.s. premier with this production. Lewis John Carlino's "Usea Car for Sale" is a melodrama set in the Midwest. Robert Anderson's hilarious comedy "I'm Herbert," part of his collec­tion "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running," is a poignant look at an elderly couple who border on senility. Directing the plays are students Randall Longshore, Lee Reed, and Henderson Gille­land, assisted by Morris Phifer. Acting in them are David Hecht, Mark Hipps, Kevin Maurer, John Davlin, Wally Eastland, Charles High, Katie Ryle, Alton Richardson, and Michelle Bryant. A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff e or of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina DELIGHTFUL OPERA IS THIS YEAR'S MUSICAL PRODUCTION As the final production of the 1979-80 play­bill, the music department and the speech and theatre arts department of WCU will present Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Rated as the most popular light opera of any type, The Mikado combines comedy and melodrama into a farcical representation of Japanese culture. One of its well­known songs is "Tit-Willow." The show is under the direction of Carolyn Rauch. Set and costume designs are by These Cullowhee Cub Scouts (Pack 914) found an item of interest among the weapons dis­plays and exhibits that were part of the excitement on ROTC. Day here last Saturday. Ellyn Brannick, and the lighting and tech­nical director is Richard S. Beam. The show runs April 18 and 19,· Friday and Saturday, at 8 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium. Tickets are priced at $3 for adults, $2 for students, and $1 for children. They will go on sale April 14 in the theatre office, 123 Stillwell. For reservations call 227-7365. MUSIC FACULTY RECITAL NEXT THURSDAY The evening series of faculty recitals at WCU will continue April 10 with an 8 p.m. program in the Music-English recital hall. The free program, sponsored by the WCU department of music, will feature Mario Gaetano, performing two pieces for per­cussion; Robin Dauer, French horn; Larry Herman, trumpet; Richard Koshgarian, trom­bone; and Dr. Robert Holquist, who will sing four German songs. Gaetano will perform a Japanese work for marimba and one of his own multiple per­cussion pieces. Dauer will perform "Entrada" by Otto Ketting and two short pieces for horn and piano. Lisa Hunt, a WCU music major, will accompany him. Herman will perform two works for trumpet and piano, and Koshgarian will perform unaccompanied trombone musico ' These three faculty members will also per­form as the Brass Trioo FACULTY TO MEET NEXT WEDNESDAY The WCU General Faculty will meet at 3 p.mo Wednesday, April 9, in Forsyth Auditoriumo Please note that the place has been changed from previously released information. TENTH ANNUAL BLUEGRASS CONCERT APRIL 12 Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Chubby Wise, and Mac Wiseman are among the headline acts who will be performing in Reid Gym April 12 as WCU hosts its lOth annual bluegrass con­cert. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the program also includes Asheville's Marc Pruitt and The New Day Country Band, Larry Watson and The Country Time Band, and Stoneybrook. Admission for the concert will be $5 for non-students, $3 for WCU students, and $2 for children under 12. Advance ticket locations are Pick 'N' Grin in Asheville, the Music Saloon in Franklin, and Hinds University Center~ The concert is spon­sored by WCU's Last Minute Productions. Stanley performs "old-time" bluegrass that is considered much less "gaudy and slick," as the traditional fans say, than much of Nashville's new bluegrass sound. Born in southwestern Virginia, Stanley learned to play banjo from his mother. He and his guitar-playing brother, Carter, formed The Stanley Brothers in the early 1940s. They set out to play on local radio stations and wound up playing the world before Carter died in 1966. Mac Wiseman, also a native Virginian, is another of bluegrass music's almost legend­ary figures. Wiseman has performed from the mining camps to Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, from NBC to BBC, and is one of the founders of the Country Music Asso- .. ci~tiql\. - ,;• ·' .. •' INTERNATIONAL DISPLAYS AT HUNTER LIBRARY The International Student Organization's displays for the week of April 7-13 at Hunter Library will depict Britain, India, and Venezuela. The displays are part of a month-long series of displays the ISO will construct in Hunter Library in preparation for the organization's April 28 International Festival in the Grandroom of Hinds Uni­versity Center. Other countries to be featured in the l ibrary displays include Indonesia, Nepal, and Colombia (April 14-20), Mexico, the Bahamas and Africa (April 21-28) . Last week's displays were on Ireland, Jamaica, and Brazil. -2- RENOWNED GUITARIST TO VISIT WCU APRIL 8-10 Guitarist Ron Hudson, whose musical career began in a remote mountain Indian village in northern Guatemala, will be performing and lecturing here April 8-10 under the sponsorship of the Visiting Scholars Pro­gram. He is now recognized as one of the world's leading guitarists, with past per­formances in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Latin America. Hudson's concert material includes original music as well as selections from Bach to Simon and Garfunkel. He has spent the past four years transcribing the first movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for guitar and is premiering the composition on his U.S. tour. He will present a recital Tuesday, April 8, at 8 p.m. in the Music-English recital hall. On April 9, Hudson will meet with a WCU Spanish conversation class at 9 a.m. in McKee Building, and at 10 a.m. will meet with combined Spanish, French, and music students in the recital hall for a discus­sion of Spanish guitar .. music, composers, and writers. After an 8:30 a.m. meeting with guitar students in the bandroom on April 10, Hudson will close his visit to Western with a 6 p.m. presentation in the audi­torium of the Natural Sciences Building on Guatemalan music and literature. Co-sponsored by · the ~ departments of music and modern foreign language, his presen­tations are free to the public. NEW EXHIBIT WILL OPEN IN CHELSEA GALLERY A collection of 20 prints and paintings by Chapel Hill artist James Boyd Gadson will go on display Wednesday, April 9, in the Chel­sea Gallery of Hinds University Center. Running through May 9, the exhibit is open to the public free of charge. Gadson is a native of Allendale, S.C., and a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He is currently an assistant professor of art at the University of North Carolina. He has exhibited in some 19 one and two-man shows and was commissioned to do two murals for The Guild House in Phil­adelphia. -3- ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION TO BE AIRED WUNC-TV is among a number of university television stations that will carry a tele­conference on higher education issues spon­sored by the American Council on Education. The program will be broadcast by closed circuit satellite on April 8 from 3 until 5 p.m. The program, produced as a teleconference to reduce travel costs, includes the fol­lowing speakers: Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance­ment of Teaching; Martha Church, president of Hood College; Carl Kaysen, vice chairman and director of research for the Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education; and J.W. Peltason, president of the American Council on Education. SPECIAL OLYMPICS TO BE HELD APRIL 26 Saturday, April 26, has been designated as 1980 Special Olympics day at WCU, and more than 400 youngsters from Haywood County west are expected to compeLe. Gathering at 9 a.m. to begin a schedule of activity that includes competition in track and field, swimming, soccer skills, and frisbee throwing, the Special Olympians take their sports seriously, with emphasis on doing the best they can--and always finishing the competition. Since the Special Olympics inception c:ftv·WCU in 1972, Western's Student Council for Ex­ceptional Children, Physical Education Majors Club, and the health, physical edu­cation, and recreation department have jointly sponsored the program. The stu­dent groups and campus fraternities have raised monies each year to send one to three busloads of Olympians to the state competition. Additionally, the WCU chapter of the No7th Carolina Association of Educational Off~ce Personnel (NCAEOP) has contributed by pre­paring and serving refreshments to the. Special Olympics group each year, an~ ~n 1980 has donated the proceeds of the~r February bake sales to the program. The $640.20 gift will pay for the state regis­tration fees and award ribbonso MOUNTAIN AND COAST COMMUNITIES WILL MEET Students from North Carolina high schools about as far apart as possible are going to prove Rudyard Kipling was wrong when he wrote, "East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet." WCU has been working with the Western Re­gional Education Center, which is coordi­nating the experiment, TVA, the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the u.s. Soil Conservation Service in plan­ning an experimental interchange of high school students from the mountain community of Stecoah and the coastal island community of Ocracoke, 435 air miles apart. In spite of obvious differences, the schools and communities have much in common. B~th are isolated, rural, and economically disad­vantaged. Both are in similar states of development with similar problems. Both are close to large federal land areas--Stecoah to the Nantahala National Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and TVA's Fontana Dam and Reservoir, and Ocracoke Island to the Cape Lookout National Seashore and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, of which the island is in fact a part. Students at both schools are already pre­paring slide presentations on their com­munities to be given when they visit. They will also prepare written reports on their thoughts about and impressions of their visit. These reports will try to relate the past to the present and project the future, with particular emphasis on en­vironmental issues, the relationship of various federal lands to both areas, future development, and the quality of life. Par­ticularly, the planners want the partici­pants to understand why lands were set aside and how they are and will be signi­ficant to the natural history of the U~S. Special goals are to help students become informed, participating citizens in their communities and to work toward solving the problems of educating in the small school. Not only students but also principals and teachers, as well as families with whom the visitors will stay and their communities, will exchange ideas in their visits. The Stecoah group will visit Ocracoke in April, and the Ocracoke contingent will return the visit in May, each numbering about 20. NAMES IN THE NEWS J. ROGER BACON and FRANK T. PROCHASKA (Chemistry), STEVEN P. YURKOVICH (Geology) and FREDERICK W. HARRISON (Biology) are working on research projects which have received grants from the National Science Foundation. One grant, for $24,956, is to purchase equipment for graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry, being investigated by Drs. Bacon, Yurkovich, and Harrison. Methods developed will be used for trace metal analysis of natural aquatic samples from the surrounding area. The second grant, of $8,100, will provide equipment for infrared and visible-ultra­violet spectroscopy of molecular ions and chemical intermediates in inert gases. Dr. Prochaska is doing this research by matrix isolation, the only method by which infrared and visible-ultraviolet absorption data can be obtained for molecular ions. ELLYN D. BRANNICK (Speech and Theatre Arts) conducted personal interviews with Jerry N. Rojo and Jim Clayburgh, two environmental scene designers, in New York City and Storrs, Conn., as part of a research project March 10-14. JIM MORROW (Human Services) was recently elected president-elect of the North Caro­lina Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. He was also elected -4- to the executive council of the North Caro­lina Vocational Guidance Association and appointed to the Vocational Development Task Force Committee of the Division of Vocational Education, N.C. Dept. of Edu­cation. PHILIP WADE (English) will deliver a paper "English in the Eighties: Once More into the Breach, Dear Friends" at the annual meeting of the College English Association April 9-12 in Dearborn, Mich. MIKE DOUGHERTY, DAN SADDLER, and JIM MORROW (Human Services) attended the 1980 annual convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Association March 26-29 in Atlanta. Dr. Dougherty presented "Research in Cor­rections: Inmates' Perceptions of Three Counseling Techniques. 11 Dr. Saddler and Dr. Morrow presented "Preparing Teaching Modules for Workers Engaged in Helping the Disadvantaged and Handicapped." HOWARD ABADINSKY (Criminal Justice) pre­sented a paper "Oppoxt·.lnity Theory and Or­ganized Crime" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences March 13 in Oklahoma. He also spoke on "Crime and Criminal Justice" at the Asheville Jewish Community Center March 25. His book on organized crime will be published in Aueust bv Allyn and Bacon. WCU Chancellor Dr. H.F. Robinson, far left, was one of four university leaders recently sworn in as members of the U.S. Board for International Food and Agricultural Develop­ment (BIFAD). The four men were adminis· tered the oath of office by Guy Erb, deputy director of the International Development Corporation Agency, and Joe Wheeler, acting deputy administrator of the Agency for In­ternational Developmento Taking the oath with Robinson, from left to right, were Dr. E.T. York, chancellor of the Univer­sity System of Florida; Dr. Peter McGrath, president of the University of Minnesota; and Dr. Clifford Wharton, a returning mem­ber of the board who is the chancellor of the State University of New York Dr. Robinson was named to a three-year term on the board by President Carter in January. STAFF POSITION VACANCIES Apply at the PERSONNEL OFFICE, Room 330, UA/MHC, 'Nithin .2., working d2.y ~ from the date of this publication. GENERAL UTILITY WORKER, Physical Plant Department; hiring rate, $7,020; requires one year experience in the performance of a variety of manual tasks or minimum of one year experience in ornamental horti­culture, floriculture, nursery manage­ment and/or landscape construction. Preference given to applicants who have completed a two-year horticulture program. Requires a valid driver's license. A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff e or of Western Carolina University Cullowhee. North Carolina April 25, 1980 THREE WIN CHANCELLOR'S DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD Donald C. Wood Jennie L • . Hunter William R. Latimer Chancellor H.F. Robinson presented WCU's highest honor in recognition of superior teaching, the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, to three faculty members Monday as WCU honored its top students and faculty members at its annual Awards and Honors Night. Donald C. Wood, assistant professor of industrial education and tech­nology; Mrs. Jennie L. Hunter, associate professor of office administration; and William R. Latimer, associate professor of political science, were presented the awards during ceremonies held in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. The awards consist of a $250 cash award, a $250 Patrons of Quality scholarship given in the name of the honoree, and a $500 allowance to be used by the honoree to increase teaching effective­ness. INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS AWARDED Three projects, selected to receive Vice Chancellor's Instructional Improvement Grants by Dr. Robert E. Stoltz, vice chancellor for academic affairs, were announced Monday at Awards and Honors Night. The grants are given annually to projects specifically designed to improve the quality of instruction in a course or series of courses. Projects chosen and their sponsors are "A Proposal to Evaluate Business Com­munications," Mrs. Jennie L. Hunter; "A Macrophotographic Supplement to Teaching General Botany," Dr. James W. Wallace, professor of biology; and "Improving and Upgrading Instruction in the Industrial Education and Technology Department Through the Application of Computer Technology," a team effort involving Aaron K. Ball, assistant pro­fessor; Dr. Jerry L. Cook, associate professor; Robert L. Dalley, assistant professor; and Don C. Wood, assistant professor, all of the Department of In­dustrial Education and Technology. SANDQUIST AND SCHREIBER WIN SGA AWARDS The Student Government Association has named Dr. Kathleen A. Sandquist, assis­tant professor of speech and theatre arts, as the outstanding university female citizen and Dr. Max Schreiber, assistant professor of economics, as the outstanding university male citizen. The awards are presented annually at Awards and Honors Night. AASCU URGES AGRICULTURE FUNDING FOR MEMBERS Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Agriculture on behalf of the American Association of State Colleges and Univer­sities (AASCU), Harold F. Robinson, chan­cellor of Western Carolina University (NC), urged Congress to earmark funds for competitive research grants in agri­culture for non-land-grant public insti­tutions. Robinson said that although AASCU insti­tutions are eligible for USDA research grants, and have research capabilities, the awards almost always are made to land­grant institutions. To remedy the situa­tion, Robinson requested that five million of the FY 81 appropriations for the research grants be channelled to AASCU­type institutions. Carter's budget re­quest for the program is $25 million. Robinson also suggested that special con­sideration be given to support of re­search efforts which hold promise for recruiting and encouraging minority stu­dents to pursue careers in the food and agriculture sciences. Regional work­shops to assist public institutions with proposal development and preparation also were requested. AASCU also supports funding for Section 1417 of the Omnibus Farm Bill of 1977, which would provide fellowships for fac­ulty and students in agriculture and the food sciences and funds to strengthen and enhance such programs. --AASCU MEMO/April 11, 1980/pages 2-3. AUXILIARY FOOD SERVICES HAS NEW MANAGER Jack A. Haney Sr., a native of Canton, has been named manager of university auxiliary food services at WCU. -2- Formerly food service director for Servomation Corp. and Wometco Enterprises Haney was trained initially in the culi­nary arts in Newport, R.I. He also holds a degree in business management from Watterson College. He and his wife, Rebecca, a native of Stockton Springs, Maine, have two children, Jack Jr., age 10, and Sabrina, age 8. WCU TO HONOR 77 EMPLOYEES Employees with a collective total of some 740 years of service to WCU and the State of North Carolina will be honored Wednesday, April 30, with a luncheon and awards ceremony in the East Wing of Brown Cafeteria. Chancellor Robinson will present the ser­vice awards at the 12:30 p.m. luncheon. The luncheon and ceremonies are open to anyone wishing to attend. Employees being honored are guests of the universit Lunch for others attending is $3 per per­son. This year's annual event will honor 77 employees with service ranging from five to 40 years. ANNUAL NATURALISTS 1 RALLY SET FOR MAY 3 Three different trips have been planned for this year's Naturalists' Rally Saturday, May 3. Jim Horton will be at the First Baptist Church parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to lead his group on a long (14 mi.) walk down from Newfound Gap to Smokemont. Lunch will be at Charlie's Bunyon. Dan Pittillo will meet his group in the Forsyth Business Building parking lot at 9 a.m. for a drive-and-stop trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway to Pisgah Camp­ground and possibly on down to the Pink Beds. Mike Tove and Harry LeGrand will be at the cafeteria at Fontana Village at 6 a.m to lead a group on a drive-and-stop bird­ing trip in the vicinity of the Village. They will concentrate on wood warblers. Contact Mike Tove at the Biology De­partment (a week in advance) if you are interested in a group cottage. If you're interested in any of the trips, plan to bring your lunch and some rain gear. Jim Horton (Biology Deparment) may be contacted for further information. MUSIC FACULTY TO HONOR DR. RENFRO Members of the WCU music faculty will present a recital Thursday, May 1, at 8 p.m. in the recital hall of the Music­English Building in honor of Dr. Richard M. Renfro, WCU professor of music who will retire at the end of this academic year. A public reception will follow the re­cital. Dr. Renfro joined the music faculty as head of the department in 1950 and re­mained in that position until 1969 when be returned to full-time teaching. Performers at the recital will be Alex Lesueur, Edgar vom Lehn, Betsy Farlow, Richard and Ann Trevarthen, Henry Lofquist, and the WCU Brass Trio, com­prised of Larry Herman, Robin Dauer and Richard Koshgarian. APRIL 28 IS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL DAY WCU's 52 International Student Organiza­tion members will offer the opportunity to experience their countries and cul­tures Monday, April 28, when they swap their blue jeans for native costumes at WCU's annual international festival. The free festival runs from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the Grandroom of Hind's Univer­sity Center and will include booths representing nearly 30 countries or re­lated organizations. Members of WCU's international community, comprised of some 21 different national­ities, will prepare representative dishes to be served at the individual booths. During the lunch hour, from noon until 1 p.m., the festival will feature live entertainment. Included on that program are Jamaican, Greek, Korean and English -3- folk dancers, the Camp Lab School clogging team, and music from the WCU Jazz Ensemble, APPALACHIAN ISSUES FORUM TO BE HELD AT ETSU "Industrialism: Business in Appalachia" will be the topic of a three-session Appa­lachian Issues Forum to be held at East Tennessee State University on April 30. The forum is being co-sponsored by the Appalachian Consortium, Inc., ETSU, and the First Tennessee-Virginia Development District with funding from the S & H Foundation. All sessions are open to the public. At the first session, 2:15 until 3:15p.m., Dr. Ron Eller, assistant professor of history at Mars Hill College, and James C. Cotham III, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Devel­opment, will present their ideas on how industrialization has affected social institutions and political life in the Appalachian region. From 3:30 until 4:15p.m., Commissioner Cotham and the panelists from the evening session will meet informally with faculty members from Consortium institutions and other interested persons. At 7:30p.m., a four-member panel consist­ing of Judge Ed. E. Williams (1st Judicial Circuit Court), Ruth Ellis (president, Mountain Empire Bank), Eller and Cotham will look at "Future Industrialism in Appalachia: Growth and Qualities." For further information, contact Martha McKinney, Executive Director, Appalachian Consortium, 202 Appalachian St., Boone, NC 28607, 704/262-2064. DR. SARAH LOU LEEPER TO LECTURE AT WCU WCU will host a spring conference on early childhood education May 1 and 2 with Dr. Sarah Lou Leeper, a nationally known con­sultant in early childhood education and author of the textbook "Good Schools for Young Children," scheduled to present several lectures and the keynote address. The conference, to be held in Hinds Univer­sity Center, will begin Thursday, May 1, at 8:45 a.m. with a general session and includes workshops, informal talk sessions with students, teachers and others, a teacher-made materials exhibit and the keynote luncheon address by Dr. Leeper for conference participants and the general public. Dr. Leeper's luncheon topic in the East Wing of Brown Cafeteria will be on the "Dynamics of the Young Child's World" at 12:30 p.m. The second-day activities include guest lectures by Dr. Leeper to WCU child development classes and ele­mentary education student teachers. The conference is sponsored by the de­partment of elementary education and reading in conjunction with the Univer­sity's Visiting Scholars Program. Call 227-7108 for further information. DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR WCU EMPLOYEES Carolina Tire Company in Sylva has ex­tended the following discount prices to all WCU employees: a 10% discount on appliances; a 20% discount on tire pur­chases; computer balancing at $2.25 per wheel instead of the usual $4.50; tube­less valve stems at $.75 instead of the usual $1.50; and free mounting for all new tires purchased. ANNOUNCEMENTS The University's central steam plant will be shut-down for required annual maintenance and repair of the boilers May 12-26. With the boilers inoperative, heat and hot water will not be available to campus buildings. For this reason, it will not be possible to provide housing in University residence halls or food service in campus dining facili­ties during this time. * * * The Faculty Senate will meet Wednesday, April 30, in Rm. 320-321 Forsyth Bldg. * * * The University Choral Ensembles will per­form at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in the Music Recital Hall. There is no charge for admission. * * * "Helping Patients and Families to Actively Live With Cancer: A multidisciplinary workshop for helping professionals" is -4- the subject of a workshop to be held Thursday, May 8, in the Mountain Area Health Education Center lecture hall, 501 Biltmore Ave., Asheville. The workshop is open toRN's, LPN's, physicians, social workers, health educa­tors, ministers, and other helping pro­fessionals. The registration fee is $15 per person which includes dinner and materials. For further information, call 704/258-0881. NAMES IN THE NEWS GORDON McKINNEY (History) has been awarded a $2,500 summer research fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He will use the funds in his research for a biography of Henry Blair (1834-1920), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire who spon­sored federal aid to education legislation that would have been especially beneficial to the South. In June and July his work on the project will take him to the Harvard University Library, the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord, the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Evanston, Ill., and the Library of Congress in Washington. STAFF POSITION VACANCIES Apply at the PERSONNEL OFFICE, Room 330, UA/MHC within 2 working days from the date of this publication. PAI~TER SUPERVISOR, Physical Plant Department; hiring rate, $10,836; 4 yrs. journeyman level experience in interior/exterior painting of buildings, fixtures, and equipment, Prefer skills in mixin~ paints, matching and blending colors, and drywall finishing. Accepting applications until position filled. FACILITIES ENGINEER, Physical Plant Department; salary commensurate with experience; 4-yr. degree in electrical or mechanical engineering. Recent experience in the operation and maintenance of buildings, building equipment and utility systems. Supervisory experience and sound mana~ement background are essential. Applications accepted until position filled, HOUSEKEEPING ASSISTANT, Physical Plant Department; hiring rate, $6,228; good physical condition, (2) PAINTER POSITIONS, Physical Plant Department; hiring rate, $9,924; completion of grammar school and 2 yrs. progressive experience in preparation and painting of interior and exterior walls.