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The Reporter, May 1997

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  • The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Mate
  • The Reporter News from the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Award winners named at annual convocation May 8, 1997 Now on the Net World Wide Web users among the WCU faculty and staff can find interest­ing and useful information and services at the follow­ing sites on the Internet. (For each address, do not type the final period.) Mid-Atlantic Creative Non-fiction Summer Writers' Conference - Tracy Kid­der, Tobias Wolff, and Gay Talese will be featured at this August meeting in Baltimore. To learn more, try this address: www. goucher.edu/~cnff. Summer Programs for Kids and Teenagers - Looking for someplace for your child to have a good summer experience? Here's a searchable index from the well-known guidebook folks at Peterson's. The address is www.peter sons.com/summerop/ ssector.html TechKNOWLEDGEy Consulting - "Teachers Helping Teachers Teach with Technology" is the subhead on this list of resources. It includes curriculum links, planning aids, and a library of freeware and shareware. Hit home.earthlink.net/ ~paulgardner/. Chancellor John W. Bardo {center in photo) presented the university's Paul A. Reid Distinguished Service Awards and other top honors on May 2 at the annual spring general faculty meeting and awards convocation. The Reid award for faculty went to Dr. Cliff Lovin {right), professor of history, and the award for administrative staff went to Malcolm Loughlin, associate dean of continu­ing education and sum­mer school. Each recipient was presented a plaque and a $1,000 cash award. Other top awards were presented as well. See photos inside. Additional major awards recognized at the convocation included the UNC Board of Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, won by Dr. Robbie Pittman, professor of administration, curricu­lum, and instruction; the Beyond the Classroom Teaching Award, won by the Department of Eco­nomics, Finance, and International Business; and the Scholarly Develop­ment Assignment Awards, received by Dr. David J. Butcher (Chemistry), Dr. Cullowhee, North Carolina Denise Heinze (English), Dr. Stephen Jarrell (Eco­nomics, Finance, and International Business), Jon Jicha (Art), Dr. James Nicholl (English), and Dr. Rita Noel (Business Ad­ministration, Law, and Marketing). tCitizen-Times, publisher will speak at commencement Virgil L. Smith, president and publisher of the Asheville Citizen-Times, will deliver the primary address at the university's spring commencement on Saturday, May 10. The 2 p.m. ceremony in the Ramsey Center is open to all. A total of 772 stu­dents are candidates for degrees, pending exams and review. Smith came to the Citizen-Times in 1996 with twenty-five years of experi­ence in newspaper man­agement. He began his career at the Sacramento (California) Bee and served as a key administrator in the Gannet Pacific Group before being named to lead the Asheville newspaper. Among the winners accepting awards presented by Chancellor John W. Bardo at the May 2 annual spring general faculty meeting and awards convocation were these (clockwise from right): Christine Stevens, associate professor of clinical laboratory sciences, winner of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award; Dr. David Shapiro, professor of speech pathology, winner of the University Scholar Award; and Barbara Carter, director of the University Writing Center, which received the $10,000 Support Award of Excellence. KKKo|ecUoprepare online "vitual tours if UNC sy stem campuses. vrtoursI. You will need Apple suu^ „ ou plugin to do your VR instailed (this site" Wildacres reminder Faculty members who have not signed up to attend the annual Wildacres Retreat are encouraged to join in by calling Beth Bowser at the Institute for College and University Teaching (ICUT). Dates for this year's retreat are June 2-5, and the theme is "Sights and Sounds of Appalachian Culture." Speakers will include Gloria Houston, North Carolina writer and teacher and WCU author-in-residence. Call ICUT at 227-7278 for more information. The Reporter regrets... The "WCU Notes" section of the April 21 Reporter said that the On-Farm Productivity Enhancement Program is directed by the Mountain Resource Center. The program is actually directed by the International Programs and Services office. Also, "Introduction to Fly Fishing," a Mountain Heritage Center Program reported as scheduled for May 22, instead took place April 22. The program will not repeat in May. May 8,1997 • T he Reporter t & , !L WCD Calendar May 9-30, 1997 Q^fQ Friday, May 9 Baseball, Cats at Old Dominion. Norfolk, Virginia, 7 p.m. (227- 7161) Dedication of the William Newton Turner Lecture Hall. Ground-floor lecture hall, Natural Sciences Building, 3:30 p.m. Reception follows. Open to the public. Saturday, May 10 Commencement. Ramsey Center, 2 p.m. Baseball, Cats vs. Old Dominion. Norfolk, Virginia, 7 p.m. (227-7161) Sunday, May 11 Baseball, Cats vs. Old Dominion. Norfolk, Virginia, 1:30 p.m. (227-7161) Monday, May 12 Instructor course for outdoor professionals, taught by the Wilderness Education Association (WEA). $890, with graduate credit available for an additional $270. Through Monday, May 26. Sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education and Summer School. (227-7645) Sunday, May 18 Elderhostel, "A Photo­graphic Mountain Adventure"; "Past and Present Cherokee Soci­ety"; and "Biltmore Estate, Yesterday and Today." For people fifty-five and over. Sponsored by the Division of Con­tinuing Education and Summer School. Balsam Mountain Inn, Balsam. $250 resident partici­pants, $125 commuters. Through Friday, May 23. (227-7397) Thursday, May 22 Baseball, Cats at NCAA Regional Tournament. Through Sunday, May 25. (227-7161) Friday, May 30 Workshop, "Becoming an Outdoors Woman." Sponsored by the North Carolina Wildlife Re­sources Commission. Includes instruction in canoeing, motorboat operation, marksmanship, camping, fishing, fly casting and fly-tying, map and compass reading, archery and bow hunting, outdoor photography, outdoor survival skills, and camp cooking. Through June 1. (227- 7397) May break hours University Fitness Center Monday-Wednesday, May 12-14 Thursday-Sunday, May 15-18 Monday-Friday, May 19-23 Saturday-Sunday, May 24-25 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Closed 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Closed Summer hours Hunter Library (Monday, May 26-Friday, August 1) Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-ll p.m. Friday 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.—5 p.m. Sunday 2-10 p.m. Now showing Exhibitions: "Migration of the Scotch-Irish People" and "Going Places" (a historical look at travel in Western North Carolina). MHC, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 2-5 p.m. Sundays. (227-7129) "My Community," quilts designed by elementary-school students. MHC, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 2-5 p.m. Sundays, April 25-May 11. (227-7129) Key: HFR - H.F. Robinson Administration Building; HS/CF - Hennon Stadium/Childress Field; NSA - Natural Sciences Auditorium; RAC - Ramsey Regional Activity Center; RH - Recital hall, Coulter Building; UC - University Center. Submissions: This is the final issue of the Reporter for the sprin°g semester. Publication will resume in the summer. Send news items and calendar notices to 1601 Ramsey Center. Also, items for the elec­tronic bulletin board on campus (cable channel 39) and for the university's calendar on the World-Wide Web (httpJl www.wcu.edu/cal.html) should reach 1601 Ramsey Center at least three days before the event in question. The Reporter • May 8,1997 \J WCU .A OTES • Dick Cameron (Stu­dent Development) has been elected to the execu­tive board of the North Carolina Association of International Educators. He will be the organi­zation's counsel for foreign student affairs for three years. He also will plan and direct a yearly gov­ernment- regulations workshop. • Dr. Marilyn Feld-mann (Education and Allied Professions) is a member of a current board of examiners' team for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). The team is reviewing teacher-education programs at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Feldmann recently chaired an NCATE team at Southeast Missouri State University. • Dr. William Harn (Human Services) pre­sented a workshop titled "Child Language: Issues and Answers" in Marquette, Michigan. The workshop was sponsored by the Upper Peninsula Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Northern Michigan University. Attendees were speech-language pathologists from across Michigan's upper peninsula and Northern Michigan University students majoring in communication disorders. • Dr. Lewis Hershey (Business Administration, Law, and Marketing) is the author of several new lecture packages to accom­pany college textbooks. Two of the packages feature electronic slides for PowerPoint presenta­tion software, lecture notes for instructors, and pages for student notes. These packages are for Marketing (fourth edition) by Lamb, Hair, and McDaniels; and Managing Human Resources (elev­enth edition) by Sherman, Bolander, and Snell. Hershey also has created electronic slide lectures for three sociology texts: Stockard's Sociology: Dis­covering Society; Brinker-hoff, White, and Ried-man's Sociology (fourth edition); and Kendall's Sociology in Our Times. • Dr. Jerry McKinney (Criminal Justice) pre­sented a paper titled "Voices from Within: Native American Women in Prison" at the annual conference of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sci­ences in Louisville, Ken­tucky. McKinney will continue his research in Montana in the summer. • Dan Southern (Health Sciences) received the statewide Hematologist of the Year award from the Carolinas Clinical Connec­tion at a recent meeting in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The award recognizes professional achievements and contri­butions to education in hematology. The Reporter is published by the Office of Public Information. Mail notices and changes of address to the Reporter, 1601 Ramsey Center, or send them via e-mail to JPRICE. 1,600 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $229.15, or $0.14 per copy. Western Carolina University is an Equal Opportunity Institution. The Reporter Office of Public Information Publications Unit 1601 Ramsey Center Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID CULLOWHEE, N.C. PERMIT NO. 1 May 8,1997 • T he Reporter

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