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A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina e March 7, 1978 PAUL REID ESTABLISHES SERVICE AWARDS Two $1,000 awards for "distinguished. service" by faculty and administrative staff members have been established by Dr. Paul A. Reid, president emeritus. The awards program was announced last week by Chancellor H. F. Robinson. The awards will be made annually under terms of a gift by Dr. Reid and will con­tinue "in perpetuity, " Dr. Robinson said. The faculty and staff awards are the second major contribution made to WCU by Dr. Reid since his retirement as WCU presi­dent in 1968. In 1975, he gave Western Carolina $50,000 to provide for student scholarships. The first awards under the 1978 gift will be made this spring, Dr. Robinson said, Dr. Reid, who has homes in Pilot Moun­tain and Clearwater, Fla., was WCU presi­dent from 1949 to 1968, leaving the office for about 18 months in the 1950s to serve as assistant director of the State Board of Higher Education. When the announcement was made, Dr. Reid said ."after spending 17-and-a-half years of my professional life on the cam­pus of Western Carolina University, I have a continuing interest in the institution and would like to assist in a remote man­ner in its splendid service of preparing young people as constructive and profes­sional members of our democratic society. '!t is my hope that the establishment of these two awards in perpetuity will provide both incentive and reward to fac­ulty and staff for distinguished service in behalf of our young people." He said the earlier gift of $50,000 for scholarships for students from his home county of Surry "has been of such financial help to many deserving young r persons (11 this year on scholarships), that I &~ motivated to make further gifts by establishing these two awards." Dr. Robinson said Dr. Reid's latest gifts "will be among the most important made on this campus. This recognition for faculty members and administrative staff persons will contribute a great deal to the Univer­sity's on-going program of encouraging faculty and staff development. We are extremely grateful to Dr. Reid for his generosity and for his sustained interest in and support of the University." Selection of the award recipients will be made by a nine-member committee including faculty, administrative staff, and univer­sity trustees. THEATRE PRODUCTION TO HONOR MISS NIGGLI The George s. Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy "The Royal Family" will be the first annual Josefina Niggli Theatre Production when it is staged here March 13-18. The play, a rollicking and biting satire on the Barrymores, the "first family" of tne American stage, quickly became a classic after its opening in 1927. The WCU production will be ~he first in a series of annual University Theatre pro­ductions to honor Josefina Niggli, WCU professor emeritus of speech and theatre arts. "The Royal Family" will be directed by Michael L. Genebach, with the assistance of B. Anne Stump. Ticket prices are $2 for adults, $1 for students and 50 cents for children. Reservations are available by calling 293-7491. The production will begin at 7:30 each n~ght in the Little Theatre. Alexander Woollcott called t:.e play "one of the happiest evenL~gs ever I spent.in the theatre. " -2- SUMMER MATH PROGRAM FUNDED A WCU faculty member will be giving a hand to a group of North Carolina high school students with superior mathematics skills this summer. Dr. David B. Teague, associate profes­sor of mathematics, was awarded $17,890 by the National Science Foundation to conduct a six-week Student Science Train­ing Program in Mathematics beginning June 19. The 35 mathematically gifted students who participate in the program will be selected from high schools with inadequate senior-level math programs. Dr. Teague received B.S.E.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from North Carolina State University before coming to WCU in 1968. WCU NURSES STUDY RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT Western Carolina University faculty members Vivian L. Deitz and Mable s. Carlyle were selected by the Southern Regional Education Board to participate in a federally funded research develop­ment project. The two are among 78 nurse researchers from 49 Southern colleges and universi­ties recently picked for the project. They attended workshops on laboratory and clinical teaching strategies and clinical performance evaluation in Atlanta during January and February. Mrs. Deitz, an assistant professor of nursing, holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Florida. An assistant professor of nursing, Ms. Carlyle is a WCU graduate and holds the M.N. degree from Emory University. COMING EVENTS Storyteller and musician David Holt will lead sessions on "Appalachian Music Story­telling" March 8 in the Cherokee Room of Hinds University Center at 3 p.m. and in Room 104 of Killian Building at 7 p.m. Veronica Nicholas, candidate for part­time commissioner of Jackson County, will speak on "Women and Politics" at 7:30 p.m. March 8 in the blue lobby of Scott Resi­dence Hall. Dr. John Borkowski, head of the Depart­ment of Psychology at Notre Dame Univer­sity, will lecture on "Teaching Childr~n How to Think" at 8 p.m. March 8 in the Natural Sciences Auditorium. Two WCU faculty members will perform a recital of music for flute and piano at 8:15 p.m. March 9 in Hoey Auditorium. Dr. Alexander Lesueur, flute, and Dr. Richard Renfro, piano, will play works by Haydn, Pendleton, Petrovics, and Persichetti. Admission is free to the public. STAFF POSITION VACANCIES Open for applications through one week from receipt of The Regorter in the Personnel Office. APPLY AT THE PERSONNEL OFFICE (Located in the Steam Plant) A State Application Form must be com­pleted and at least two employer references received in the Personnel Office by the date indicated above. The supervisor(s) will not select the applican~s to be inter­viewed until the vacancy(ies) has closed. Minimum state and university employment requirements are applicable to all posi­tions and are available in the Personnel Office. WCU is an AA/EEO employer. MUSEUM CURATOR, Highlands Biological Station, available for summer months of 1978 only; $3.23 per hour; BS degree in biology/botany/zoology. STAFF BOTANIST, Highlands Biological Station, available for summer months of 1978 only; $3.10 per hour; University training in botany and ecology. CHI:D SCREENING SPECIALIST II, Masters degree in some field of human services, starting salary of $11,064; available April 14 , 1978. HOUSEKEEPING ASSISTANT, Maintenance & Operation, starting sal., $5,820; ~ood physical condition. SECRETARY (III), Math ano Music Department, starting sal., $7,476; 44 CWPM req. A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff e 0 of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina March 14, 1978 MISS NIGGLI TO BE HONORED AT THEATRE GALA SATURDAY Friends and former students of Professor Emeritus Josefina Niggli will gather here March 18 to honor her and to establish a fund in her name to support a visiting scholar and student scholarship program for the WCU theatre. The event will culminate with the final performance of "The Royal Family," a WCU Little Theatre offering that has been designated the first annual Josefina Niggli Theatre Production. A Dutch treat luncheon with Miss Niggli will be held at noon March 18 in the Mary Will Mitchell Room of Brown Cafeteria. At 2 p.m. visiting scholar Tom Patterson will discuss the rewards of college-university theatre in the WCU Lit~le Theatre. The annual production will honor Miss Niggli in recognition of her distinguished career as playwright and teacher and her singular contributions to WCU and its theatre program. The gala performance of "The Royal Familyn will begin at' 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Little Theatre. Miss Niggli will be the guest of honor at a reception immediately following the production at the Top of the Stairs restaurant in Hinds University Center. "The Royal Family," a rollicking and biting satire on the "first family" of the American theatre, the Barrymore clan, quickly became a classic after its opening in 1927. Written by George S. Kaufman and 'Edna )?erber, the play was revived successfully on Broadway last season. Alexander Woollcott called it "one of the happiest evenings ever r spent in the theatre." The WCU production will be directed by Michael L. Genebach, with the assistance of B. Anne Stump. The cast will include Peggy McNeil Dawson, Leonora Forrister, Tim Dickenson, Shelia Turn~r, Ralph Hamlet, Armando Erba, Diana Marshall, Tonya Lamm, and Steve Way. Also, Keith Brooks, Ken Stikeleather, Carl Gifford, Greg Lyt le, Michelle Parkin, Randall Longshire, and David Nutt. Set design is by Beth Thomas, costumes by Glenda Hensley, Lighting by Mike Geneba~h and Steve Fryar, makeup by Diana Marshall, and sound by B. Anne Stump and Robert Brown. The play opened Monday and will be performed nightly through March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theatre. Ticket prices are $2 for adults, $1 for students and 50 cents for children. Reservations are available by calling 293-7491. PICKERING CHOSEN AS FACULTY CHAIRMAN Dr. c. Thomas Pickering has been re~elected chairman of the Western Carolina University faculty. Dr. Pickering earned. bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Ohio University at Athens. He is a past president of the Western North Carolina Association of Early Childhood Educators, is faculty adviser for the WCU chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional edu-cation fraternity, and is recent author of "Helping Children Learn to Read." Before joining the WCU faculty in 1970, Dr. Picke~ing taught in the Johnstown, Ohio, elementary schools and was school psychologist in the Athens County schools. Dr. Pickering was a member of the faculty a~ Ohio University in 1969 and at The Ohio State University in 1973~74. DR, JODY PICKED FOR ACE FORUM Dr. Marilyn M. Jody has been selected to attend a nation-wide forum on advancing the role of women in higher education systems in Washington, D. c., next October. The forum is part of the American Council on Education's National Identification Program for the Advancement of Women in Higher Education Administration. The second in a series of forums, the October meeting will aim at increasing the opportunities for women to play vital roles in higher education administration, strengthening the network of people inter­ested in bettering women's place in higher education, and making women currently in administrative positions in colleges and uni­versities more visible to their colleagues. Dr. Jody, coordinator of the WCU academic advisement program and professor of English, was selected to attend the forum because of her "strong record of accomplishment as well as potential for continued leadership in higher education,'' according to Emily Taylor, director of the Office of Women in Higher Education. A member of the WCU faculty since 1967, Dr. Jody received an A. B. degree from 2 the University of Kentucky in 1953 and a Ph.D. degree from Indiana University in 1969. A veteran of the classroom for 18 years, Dr. Jody is active in many national, state-, and university-wide organizations with a broad range of interests~ Academic matters, Appalachian folklore, remedial and compensa­tory programs, feminism, faculty government and politics are among her interests. As a person interested in improving academic advising services to students, she will present a program on WCU's Counseling, Advisement and Placement Center at a national seminar in Philadelphia in May. The seminar is sponsored by the American College Testing Program. Dr. Jody was elected secretary of the North Carolina Women's Political Caucus at that organization's seventh annual convention, held at Charlotte in January. Her interest in compensatory education ,programs--those aimed at underprepared students-~led her in January to a Southern Regional Education Board institute in Atlanta with the theme, wDevelopmental Education: Why? What? How?" Also in January she was named to a steer~g committee of the General Administra­t~ on of the University of North Carolina for evaluating compensatory education programs. Dr. Jody served as vice chairwoman of the UNC Faculty Assembly in 1973-74, and she has served on numerous WCU committees. The National Identification Program is a three-year project funded by the Carnegie Foundation, the EXxon Foundation, and the Johnson Foundation. TUBING RACE TO BE HELD SATURDAY The ice on the Tuckaseigee River has melted and the eighth annual Western Carolina University tubing race will finally get under way at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 18. The race, originall y scheduled for February 25, was postponed because the lakes th~t feed the Tuckaseigee were frozen. Five women and 13 men will leap into the Tuckaseigee at Dick's Gap Bridge on N.C. 107 to rush through Keener's Rapids and finish two miles downstream at a steel span bridge. First prize in Saturday's race is $50, second prize is $25 and third prize is $15. The race, sponsored by the WCU University Center Board, is free to the public. NCAEOP BAKE SALE A SUCCESS The WCU local chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educational Office Personnel took in $726.79 in a series of bake sales during February. Purpose of the sales was to raise funds for a $300 scholarship. The chapter has agreed to donat e the remainder of the proceeds to the Margaret Spilker Fund. The amounts raised and sale coordinators, building by building, are: Purchasing Betty Pressley $ 11.00 McKee Sharon Enunons 72.28 Killian Mary Parsons 90.65 Forsyth Linda Sutton 93.40 Stillwell Ann Ball 133.45 Belk Audrey Clayton 14.00 Engineer's Office Norma Coggins 29.53 Reid Gym Helen Woodard & Marie Baughn 94.35 Bird 1st floor Beulah Lindsey 78.10 - , Bird ..... 2nd floor Scott Dorm Debby Sims 102.25 Audrey Cox & Helen Bradsher 7.78 Bonnie McCUrry, president of the WCU chapter, said, .. Our organization wishes to express sincere appreciation and thanks to the WCU faculty, students, staff, and administrators for making our efforts such a success." She credited cooperation, teamwork, and spontaneous enthusiasm among office personnel with having produced the chapter's "most successful fund-raising campaign ever." COMING EVENTS "Isadora," a film starring Vanessa Redgrave and based on the life of dancer Isadora Duncan, will be shown March 15 at 7:30p.m. in the ninth-floor lobby of Walker Residence Hall. The film is part of the "Free to Choose" series sponsored by the housing office. Admission is free. The Western Carolina University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi will meet Friday, March 17, at 3 p.m. in Killian 218. Items on the agenda include election of officers, selection of initiates, and · plans for the initiation. All Phi Kappa Phi members are urged to attend. PRE-RETIREMENT CONFERENCE SCHEDULED On April 3 the Retirement and Health Benefits Division of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System will conduct a pre-retirement conference in the Cherokee Room of Hinds University Center at 9:30 a.m. Western Carolina University employees who deal with retirement matters and employees who are 60 years of age or older, or who are otherwise eligible to retire, will find the conference will provide complete information as to procedures in the retirement process; eligibility for retire~ ment; calculation of benefits; selection of optional payment arrangements; designation of beneficiaries; completion of forms; eligibility requirements for Social Security benefits; hospital-medical coverage; and, 3 other benefits avallable to retiring teachers and State employees. rnterested persons should contact their supervisors early so that arrangements can be made to attend this important 2 1/2 hour conference. NAMES IN THE NEWS Maynard Adams and Jerry Cook (Industrial Education and Technology) have been awarded Teacher Educator Internships through the State Department of Public Instruction. The internships are desi~~to enhance vocational--teacher education in North Carolina. Interns will spend time in Raleigh with the State Department of Public Instruction, visit local education agencies and classroom teachers, improve understanding of industrial processes, and tour selected post-secondary vocational~technical programs and teacher education institutions in the state. Perry Kelly (art) presided at the annual N. C. Art Education conference Feb. 23-26 at Atlantic Christian College. Dr. Kelly will serve as a North Carolina delegate to the National Art Education Association annual conference in Houston, Texas, March 17-22. He is currently serving a two-year term as president of theN. c. Art Education Association. John Bell (associate dean, Arts and Sciences) attended a conference on the First and Second Reconstructions in St. Louis Feb. 15-17. Philip Wade (English) read a paper, "The Assassins: Shelley's Philosophical Farwell to Godwin," at a meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, at Winthrop College, March 3rd. Robert Teel (speech pathologist, Speech and Hearing Center) and Roger Cook (audiolo­gist, Speech and Hearing Center) have recently conducted three one~ay workshops. The pair discussed techniques for screening speech, hearing and language for the pre­school child with Four Square Head Start Program teachers and staff, covered hearing impairment in the aged and speech problems cf stroke patients for senior citizens of the Mountain Project Nutrition Program of Macon County, and led an in~service program on problems of school~age children for speech therapists of the Pickess County school system. Ray Menze (Art} conducted a two~ay workshop in pin~hole photography for elementary, secondary, and college-level art teachers at the annual North Carolina Art Education Association conference at Atlantic Christian College February 24-25. Robert Bland, Ted Bugg, and Jackie Crinion (.Library) attended a workshop on serials cataloging sponsored by the South­eastern Library Network February 8-9 in Atlanta. 4 Torn O'Toole (History) is the associate director of a $60,000 Fulbright-Hays Group project, .. Faculty Developnent Seminar on Modernization Theory with Focus on Francophone West Africa," granted to Dr. Robert Mundt, political scientist with the Program for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The project will allow 15 professors from institutions in the Appalachian Consortium and the South Atlantic States Association for Asian and African Studies to spend six weeks in Francophone West Africa as part of a broader comparative study of Southern Appalachian and Third World development already begun by the project leaders and others within these organizations. Wilma Cosper (Horne Economics) attended the annual meeting of the National Council of Administrators of Horne Economics in Chicago February 15-17 where she made a presentation entitled "What Are My Biggest Challenges As An Administrator?" She was appointed to the Committee on Publications and will serve as editor of the NCAHE Newsletter in 1978-79. Robert Bland (Library) has been appointed to the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the North Carolina Library Association. Jandhyala L. Sharma (Finance) presented a paper entitled, ~sensitivity of Beta and Ridge Regression .,.. ... Same Empirical Evidence;" at the American Institute for Decision Sciences, seventh annual meeting of the Western Regional Conference, in San Diego, California, March 2. .. - Sal Nerboso, a review of Hugh Heclo, 1\ Government of Strangersr Executive politics in'washington," in Choice, February 1978. . 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) A State Application Form must be completed and at least 2 employer references received in the Personnel OffL::;e by the Date indicated above. The supervisor(s) will not select the applicants to be interviewed until the vacancy(ies) has closed. Minimum state and university employment- requirements are applicable to all positions and are available in the Personnel Office. WCU is an AA/EEO Employer. BIOLOGY RESEARCH WORKER; Available immediately; $2.80 hr. LABOR CREW SUPERVISOR; available immediately; beginning salary $8,172; demonstrated supervisory ability. COMPUTER OPERATOR I; one year of computer operations experience or two-year assoc. degree; available 4/1/78; beginning salary $8,904. COMPUTER PROGRAMMER I (2), four-year degree preferably in data processing; available 4/1/78; beginning salary $11,064. HOUSEKEEPING ASSISTANT, Maintenance & Operation, starting sal., $5,820; Good physical conqition. SECRETARY (III), School of Ed. & Psy., starting sal., $7,476; 44 CWPM and shorthand req. PERMANENT PART-TIME CLERK-TYPIST (II), Insti·cutional Studies & Planning, starting sal., $3,282; 38 CWPM req. SECRETARY (III), CAP Center, starting sal., $7,476; 44 CWPM req. •--..., •r A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff e or of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina March 21, 1978 JOSEFINA NIGGLI HONORED Western Carolina University's first lady of the theatre was honored Saturday night, climaxing a six-day run of "The Royal Family," the first annual Josefina Niggli Theatre Production. At an on-stage ceremony in the Little Theatre Miss Niggli received the plaudits of friends, former students, and fellow theatre people. A 1977 WCU graduate in speech and theatre arts, Jessica Phelps, read a tribute written by Douglas Reed recognizing Miss Niggli's contributiqn to the WCU theatre program, which she served from 1956 until her retirement in 1975. Chancellor H. F. Robinson presented Miss Niggli with an album filled with congratula­tory l etters from well-wishers who could not be present, and D~. James E. Dooley, vice · chancellor for development and special services, announced plans for establishing a Josefina Niggli fund to bring leading actors, dramatists and directors to the campus and to award theatre scholarships. The ceremony marked the end of a series of tributes to Miss Niggli. Following a lunc heon in her honor Saturday, Tom Patterson of the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill addressed theatregoers on the rewards of college and university theatre. Miss Niggli came to WCU to teach after a distinguished career as playwright, novelist, and poet. Born in Monterrey, Mexico, to American par ents, Miss Niggli twice had to flee to the Unit ed States during Mexican revolutions. Her early education was provided by ner mother , who was a concert violinist. Miss Niggli finished high school in San Antonio , and became interested in writing while a student at the College of the Incarnate Word, She won prizes in the National Catholic College Poetry Contest and the Ladies Home Journal College Short Story Contest. She became active in writing for the theatre, and found her way to Chapel Hill, where she worked with Samuel Selden and Frederick Koch. She was awarded a master's degree in 1937. There followed writing careers with Twentieth Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer in California and teaching positions in Britain and the U. s. Miss Niggli has published numerous one­act plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, and textbooks. "Mexican Village," a book of stories published in 1945, won rave reviews. Her novel, "Step Down Elder Brother," was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1947, and her "Pointers on Playwriting" is a popular textbook for drama students. Before coming to WCU, Miss Niggli taught at schools and theatres in England, Dublin, France, Mexico City, Chapel Hill and Greensboro. BUSINESS INSTRUCTOR AWARDED CMA A WCU instructor of business has joined an elite group. James W. Carland Jr. is one of only some 500 persons in the United States to have been awarded the coveted Certificate of Management Accounting (CMA) • Not only that, but he passed all five sections of the difficult CMA examination in his first sitting, a feat accountants describe as "practically unheard of . " Carland, who is now an instructor of WCU business courses in Asheville, has a broad background in business and civic activities. He was employed by the Bank of Asheville from 1972 until 1977 . In 1975, he was appointed as manager of the commercial loan administration department and in 1976 was elected as vice president of the bank. A native of Hendersonville, Carland is a 1965 graduate of T, c. Roberson High School. He holds the bachelor 1s degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and the master of business administration degree from Western Carolina University. Carland formerly served as a part~time instructor at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute. He also is active as an independent consultant in management and financial matters for small businesses in Asheville. A member of the Asheville Jaycees, Carland has been active in volunteer work for the United Way Campaign, the Heart Fund, Boy Scouts, YMCA and YWCA. He has been involved in the Young Bankers Division of the North Carolina Bankers Association and has given more than 200 lectures on economic literacy for that organization. INTERNSHIP APPLICATIONS DUE Applications are now being received by the Career Planning and Placement Office in the CAP Center for an eight-week congressional internship in the office of Congressman Lamar Gudger. The internship, open to qualified junior and senior students, is scheduled to begin August 28. Typically, a congressional intern in Rep. Gudger's office starts in the Asheville office for two or three weeks, with grass-roots contacts in the 11th Congressional District. In Washington, where most of the eight weeks will be spent, the intern may do background research for bill preparation, speeches, news letters and press releases. The intern also may monitor committee hearings and floor action in the House of Representatives and report on them to Rep. Gudger, Other duties may include assisting with constituents• requests and correspond­ence. Applications should be turned in by Frida y , April 7. Students interested in internship, for which academic credit may be earned 1 may obtai n further information from t he Planning and Placement Office Coordinator, Larry Bixby, who also is director of the Intern Program. VOTJNG PROCEDURES EXPLAINED April 3 is the deadline for registering to vote in the May 2 primary. Any eligible person may register to vote, change voting precincts, or change party affiliation at the Jackson County Board of Elections Office in the County Courthouse between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The office will be closed Easter Monday. Any one who cannot go to the office during those times may register to vote by making an appointment to go to the home of the registrar or a judge in his precinct by April 3. The name and telephone number of any precinct official may be obtained by calling 586-4330, the Jackson County Board of Elections Office. Any registered voter who will be out of the county between 6:30 a.m. and 7130 p.m. election day may go to the Jackson County Board of Elections Office and do a "one-stop" vote by absentee ballot. The deadline to request an application for absentee ballot voting is 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 26. A member of the family can request that an absentee ballot be mailed to an eligible voter who is either enrolled in an institution of higher learning or on active duty in a branch of the military service. An eligible voter who because of sickness or disability will be unable to vote either at the polls or at the .Board of Elections Office may request an application to vote absentee ballot by mail. To be counted, completed absentee ballots must be in the Jackson County Board of Elections Office before Monday, May 1. NEW YORK ARTIST TO VISIT Fritz Bultman, ar artist with a reputation as a draftsman, collagist, painter and sculptor, will visit WCU April 3-7. An exhibition of his drawing s and collac;·.c will be displayed in the Chelsea Gallery of Hinds University Center April 3-28. Bultman will be the guest at a reception at 3:30p.m. April 4 in the gallery. At 8 p.m. April 6 he will lecture on ''The Relationship Between Ar ·- and Craft" i n room 104 of Belk Building. ~~e l ecture wi l l be free to the public. Bultman has received both Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, and has had numerous one~man shows in New York since 1947. His work can be found in many private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rockefeller Museum, the Minnesota Museum of Art, the Gutai Museum in Osaka, Japan, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. During his stay he will meet informally with students, lecture on his art, and give workshops in drawing, painting and ?Culpture. His visit is sponsored by the Department of Art under the WCU Visiting Scholars Program. NAMES IN THE NEWS -3- J. Karl Nicholas and James R. Nicholl (English) attended the Southeastern Confer­ence on Teaching English in the Two-Year College in Nashville, Tennessee, February 16- 18. Robert Terry Hoyle and James R. Nicholl (English) attended the spring workshop of North Carolina English Teachers Association in Greensboro March 10~11. Dr. Nicholl is a director of the association. Vijaya Samaraweera (History) was a discussant at a seminar on modernization and dependency at the University of Georgia at Athens, February 13. He also took part in the Southeast Regional Seminar on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Gatlinburg, March 11-12. The State Board of Education has appointed Sara Montgomery (coordinator, transfer programs) as a member of the North Carolina Community College Accreditation Screening Committee. The appointment is for a vacancy that expires July 1, 1978. Perry Kelly (Art} has been invited to serve as a juror of National Scholastics Art Awards in New York, March 29~31. Scholastic Art Awards is a regional and national awards competition of high school students for prizes, recognition and scholarships. Dr. Kelly also has been invited by the N. c. State Department of Public Instruction as the representative from institutions of higher education to serve on a committee to write statewide objectives and indicators for art instruction at all grade levels, Tom O'Toole (History) has received two ?ulbright~ays grantsc a Group Project grant for a Faculty Development Seminar in Modernization Theory with a Focus on Francophone West Africa, and a Senior Lecture­ship at the National University of Zaire, Lubumbashi Campus. Howard R. Harlow (Management) served as a pre-publication reviewer for the third edition of Behavioral Concepts in Manage­ment, by David R. Hampton, recently published by Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. PUBLICATIONS John Bell, a review of Denominationalism, edited by Russell E. Richey, in Methodist History, January, 1978. J. Richard Gentry and Edmund H. Henderson, "Three Steps to Teaching Beginning Readers to Spell," The Reading Teacher, 31 (6), March, 1978. Constance Head, "Alexios Komnenos and the English," Byzantion, XLVII (1977), pp. 186-198. 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) A State Application Form must be completed and at least 2 employer references received in the Personnel Office by the Date indicated above. The supervisor(s) will not select the applicants to be interviewed until the vacancy(ies) has closed. Minimum state and university employment requirements are applicable to all positions and are available in the Personnel Office. WCU is an AA/EEO Employer. CONTRACTS AND GRANTS OFFICER: accounting graduate or equivalent with one year of experience preferably working with contracts and grants; $5.82 hr. ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY (V), School of Nursing, Health Sciences & Services, starting sal., $9,300; 44 CWPM, office management experience or education and shorthand req. SECRETARY (IV), Graduate Office, starting sal., $8,532; 44 CWPM and shorthand req. SECRETARY (IV), Academic Services, starting sal., $8,532; 44 CWPM req. SECRETARY (III), Computer Center, starting sal., $7,476; 44 CWPM and shorthand req. CLERK-TYPIST (II) , Curriculum & Instruction, Cherokee, starting sal., $6,564; 38 CWPM req. • -4- e 0 A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina March 29, 1978 PAUL A. REID DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS TO BE GIVEN THIS YEAR The first two $1,000 Paul A. Reid Distinguished Service Awards for faculty and administrative staff members are expected to be made at the May 6 faculty-staff dinner, and tentative criteria along with preliminary plans for the selection process are being announced in The Reporter to give as much advance notice as possible to all interested persons. A nine-member selection committee, provid­ed for under terms of the gift by President Emeritus Paul A. Reid, has been constituted in keeping with provisions of the gift. The committee is scheduled to meet April 3 to begin its work and is required to complete it not later than one week prior to the awards dinner. Since that will leave less than a month to complete the nomination, screening, and selection processes, preliminary steps have been taken under the leadership of Chancellor Robinson--himself not eligible for either award--to put machinery in motion. Committee members are Dr. Tom Pickering; ex officio as Chairman of the Faculty; Professor Jennie Hunter and Dr. Gary L. Pool, elected by the Faculty Senate; Doug Reed, director of public information, elected by the Administra­tive Council; Dr. Jim T. Hamil ton, h,ead of the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, elected by the academic department heads ; Mrs. Sarah c. Kiser, administrative accountant, appointed by Dr. Robinson in con­sultation with the vice chancellors; and three trustees, elected by the board at its March 2 meeting : Jack E. Abbott, former board chair­man; John A. Gloyne; and Richard B. Wynne. The tentative sel ection procedures and cri teria for the awards will be reviewed by the selecti on commit tee at its April 3 meeting, but many of the members have been involved, as they were named, in helping to devise the documents. The committee is expected to circulate to all members of the faculty and staff the criteria and selection procedures, as finally established. The tentative criteria provide that "nominees for these awards shall be evaluated on the extent and quality of service that contributes to the general welfare of Western Carolina University and enhances ~ts reputation as a regional institution of higher education." They also provide for the awards to be based on service during the year of the award ·as well as the "sustained cumulative and substantial nature" of efforts over the years. Under terms of Dr. Reid's gift, as approved by the board of trustees eligible faculty members are those in full-time nine or 12 month EPA positions, excluding academic department heads and those positions included in the administrative staff category. Eligible for the faculty award also are the professional librarian staff (EPA or SPA holding the Master of Library Science degree or its equivalent). Eligible for the administrative staff award are all persons holding EPA administrative positions in the chancellor's office, academic affairs, business affairs, development and special services, student development, and all persons in SPA positions who are exempt from the overtime compensation provisions of the State Personnel Act. The selection procedures, prelimina~ il y announced here, provide for the selecti on committee to elect its own chairman and other officers it deems necessary, and to establish a schedule by which it will complete its work. Principal elements of the procedures include: --Nominations will be accepted from students, faculty, staff, trustees, alumni, and friends of the university. The selection committee -2- itself may nominate persons for consideration. --Nominations must in written signed form, including the nominee's professional rank, position, or title, and a statement describ­ing the nominee's qualifications for the award, relating these to the criteria. --Nominees will be informed by the selection committee of their nomination and asked to provide written acceptance of the nomination, a resume including details of service related to the criteria, and the names of two persons (excluding Chancellor Robinson, President Emeritus Reid, and selection committee members) familiar with the service activity and achievement of the nominee who are willing to provide information to the committee. --The committee will make the final selections for the awards and inform the chancellor no later than one week prior to the May 6 formal presentation. FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED Thirteen WCU faculty members have been awarded Faculty Research Grants for 1977-78, The grants, announced by Dr. Aaron Hyatt, dean of research and graduate studies, were awarded on the basis of significance, design, cost effectiveness, feasibility, and potential for future funding. Those receiving Faculty Research Grants, with the titles and brief description of the project, are: --Lewis Cloud and Robert Pittman (Adminis­tration, Curriculum and Instruction) , "An Attitudinal Study of Teacher Perception of Student Self-Perception." Areas of con­gruence or lack of congruence between student­teacher perceptions will be identified before being used as a guide in preparing a curriculum planning model for secondary schools. --A. Michael Dougherty (Human Services), "The Helpfulness of Three Counselor Responses as Perceived by Incarcerated Males·" Ciient peer group ratings will be used to determine the effectiveness of counselor responses among different personality types of incarcerated males. --Steven R. Gold (Psychology), "Imagery as a Self-Control Skill: Learning to Increase the use of Inner Processes." An attempt to evaluate whether the ability to daydream can be developed by reinforcement or whether specific training in the use of imagery is needed to help people increase their fantasy life. --Paul Haberland (Modern Foreign Languages), "A Study of the Literary Group Known as the Grazer Gruppe, Located in Graz, Austria." A delineation of the interrelationships, in­fluences, and common interests, and an analysis of the contribution of the foremost literary group in German-speaking lands today, based on interviews of the most talented members. --Patrick G. Morris and Donald R. Pfost (Sociology and Anthropology) , "Survey of Communities in the Eight Western Counties of North Carolina." The beginning of a long­term intensive study of the major types of communities found here, describing the contemporary cultural life of the region in an attempt to understand the changes taking place and to assess the relevance of regional subcultures to American culture at large. --James M. Morrow Jr. (Human Services), "A Study of the Relationship Between Vocational Maturity Attitudes and Vocational Personality Types." An assessment of the CMI and VPI, providing data to develop strategies for group career counseling, considering different vocational personality types and different levels and categories of vocational maturity. --Kilman Shin (Economics and Finance), "A Performance Evaluation of the Option Market ••• A Statistical Analysis." A pilot study evaluating the option market. --Judith M. Stillion (Psychology), "An Investigation of the Relationship Between Androgyny and Cross-Sex Empathy." An ' examination of the relationship between androgyny and cross-sex empathy using the Bern Sex-Role Inventory and the Affective Sensitivity Scale, exploring a new method for measuring empathy among college students. --James w. Wallace (Biology), "A Chemical Approach to Fern Phylogeny: Flavonoids of the Osmundacease, Schizaeaceae, Stromatopteridaceae, Gleichenceae and the Hymenophyllaceae." An attempt to intitiate a chemical approach for better understanding fern phylogeny. --P. Gary White (Earth Sciences), "Preliminary Investigation of Man-Induced Changes in Stream Characteristics in the Tuckasegee River Basin." A .:-tt.;.dy of recent land use intensification with a comparative analysis of the expected natural conditions of stream sedimentation and hydrographic behavior versus the actual man~odified conditions. --Hubert L. Youmans (Chemistry) , "A Solventless Process for Making Sucrose Esters." A feasibility study to develop a topochemical process for eliminating the solvent, thus eliminating the toxicity problem. Faculty Research Grants are administered through the Office of Research Administration. The amount of each award was not announced. ENGLISH CONSTABLE TO SPEAK HERE The chief constable for the English county of Kent, Barry Newton Pain, will speak on "Police Administration in Great Britain" at 7 p.m. April 3 in Forsyth Auditorium. Pain was educated in Birmingham and joined the Birmingham City Police as a constable in 1951. From 1965 to 1967 he was director of the Home Off ice Detective Training School. In 1967 he was promoted to superintendent, and later appointed staff officer to Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary. In 1968 Pain was appointed assistant chief constable in the Staffordshire Constabulary and took charge of all three departments of the force. He was appointed chief constable of Kent in 1974. -3- Pain is visiting this country under the auspices of the International Criminal Justice Speakers Consortium at the Criminal Justice Center of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. The speech is sponsored jointly by WCU's Visi ting Scholars and Criminal Justice Programs. LINEAR PROGRAMMING IS LECTURE TOPIC Shan Manickam (Mathematics) will speak at a mat hematics colloquium at 4 p.m. April 4 in Stillwell 309. Hl.s topic will be "Explicit Solutions for Li near Programming." Dr. Manickam holds bachelor's and master's degrees f rom the University of Madras in India, and received his Ph.D. degree from the Uni versity of Toronto. He joined the WCU facul t y in 1969. The lec~u re will be free to the public. SYLVA AUTHOR TO BE HONORED Educational media students will be celebrating National Library Week (April 2 - 8) with a talk by Sue Ellen Bridgers at 8 p.m. April 3 in Killian 104. Mrs. Bridgers will talk about the writing of her book, Home Before Dark, which was selected by the American Library Association as one of its notable Children's Books of 1976. Mrs. Bridgers, wife of Sylva attorney Ben Bridgers, is a graduate of Western Carolina University. Following the talk there will be a reception honoring Mrs. Bridgers in Killian 264. The public is invited to attend. A GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE NOTE The Superintendent of Documents has announced a call for redemption of all out­standing Documents Coupons. All persons having coupons should either use them or re­quest that they be redeemed before September 30, 1978. Requests for redemption should be sent to the Superintendent of Documents, U. s. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. c. 20402. It is recommended that amounts over $25.00 be sent via Registered Mail. Upon receipt, a check will be issued for the redeemed coupons. "WOMEN AND THEOLOGY" PROGRAM SET Two female seminarians currently doing internships in the Cullowhee area will share their experiences and discuss the issues of women in theology at 7:30p.m. April 5 in the lobby of Buchanan Residence Hall. The program, free to the public, is part of the Free to Choose series sponsored by the Housing Office. NAMES IN THE NEWS Robert D. Foss (Sociology & Anthropology) and Wanda F. Mull, a 1977 WCU graduate, presented a paper entitled "Sex Role '!'racking in Children's Occupational Aspirations" at the Alpha Kappa Delta (National Sociology Honorary Fraternity) Sociological Research Symposium in Richmond, Virginia, February 16-18 . John w. McFadden Jr. (Administration, Curriculum and Instruction) and Chris Martin (Instructional Media Services) presented a program entitled "A Model for Slide/Tape Programs" at the spring conference of the North Carolina Learning Resources Association March 16 at the Royal Villa, Greensboro. Joan Lesueur (Administration, Curriculum and Instruction) and four of her students will participate in the Storytelling Festival sponsored by the North Carolina State Library on the Capital grounds in Raleigh April 5. Ellerd Hulbert (History) has been named as a regional editor for the Association for General and Liberal Studies "Newsletter." Two works by Kilman Shin (Economics and Finance)--"Death Penalty and Crime" and "Inflation, Stock Price, and Housing Cost"-­are now available at the University Book and Supply Store and at Hunter Library. Both are published by the Center for Economic Analysis at George Mason University. -4- Michael Costello (Sociology and Anthropology) has been selected to receive a Senior Lecture­ship grant from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation to teach sociology for a year at Xavier University in the Phillippines. Sverre ("Sandy") Sandberg (Hunter Library) will be starting a wine and party shop called "The Grapevine" in the East Sylva Shopping Center with an expected opening date of April 15. The shop will carry a selection of imported and domestic wines, mixes, cheeses and other party foods. Sandberg, a native Norwegian and a 1976 WCU magna cum laude graduate, formerly operated a wine retail store on Martha's Vineyard. 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) A State Applicat1on Form must be completed and at least 2 employer references received in the Personnel Office by the Date indicated above. The supervisor(s) will not select the applicants to be interviewed until the vacancy(ies) has closed. Minimum state and university employment requirements are applicable to all positions and are available in the Personnel Office. WCU is an AA/EEO Employer. UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE ASSISTANT; available summer 1978; prefer experience as a teacher or counselor; $3.44 hr. HOUSEPARENT; available summer 1978; prefer experience in residence life or counseling; $3 .• 93 hr. UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE SUPERVISOR; available summer 1978; prefer experience as a teacher or counselor in a school; $3.93 hr. HOURLY CLERK-TYPIST (II), available summer 1978; Summer Program for Gifted Students, $3.16 per hr; 38 CWPM req. HOURLY HOUSEKEEPING ASSISTANTS (2); available summer 1978; $2.80 per hour; Good physical condition. HOUSEKEEPING ASSISTANT, Maintenance & Operation, starting sal., $5,820; Good physical condition. GENERAL UTILITY WORKER (Greenhouse Worker), Maintenance & Operation; prefer 1 yr. grad. Horticulture and 1 yr. experience greenhouse work; starting sal., $6,564. SECRETARY (IV) , School of Technology & Applied Science, starting sal., $8,532; 44 CWPM req. SECRETARY (III), Horne Economics, starting sal. $7,476; 44 CWPM req. RECREATION WORKER II; available summer 1978; skill in, or experience in, teaching physical education; $5.09 hr. CLERK-TYPIST (III), Registrar's Office, starting sal., $7,476; 44 CWPM req. TRUCK DRIVER1 available summer 1978; Prefer valid N. c. Bus Driver's license.